So yes, you're inside one of the passenger cars of the Pallitrios Express on its way to Tigamura The Deserted Grasslands of Barbella pass you by you leave behind the stout palm trees and regrowing crystal deposits that populated the lands of Pallitrios and On board the train you have your now traditional non magical cart, which I can show you guys now has Normal wheels thanks to last time As you took off the tracking sigil that was on it, which also disabled the floating crystals that kept it, you know floating in the back And Yeah Butterscotch and efficiency your two horses are taking a rest in one of the other cars full of hay One of the few other souls aboard are the human conductor a couple of engineer helpers and a cook behind the counter of a bar And I can show you guys The train proper now Whoa on the train you're on the train and outside the windows you can see as well Quarensia the life tree off in the distance Oh, there it is. Why would anyone travel any other way? I Don't know I we might find out soon The option to get a top the train I think Necessary I'm not looking into it. I've been finished streaming last time. I was like wow Joe This is so great. I can't wait till we have to have a high speed fight on top of a moving train And you were like, what why would Why would bad has ever happened on a train? Listen viscerally had a map and you didn't have any combat there But yes, this is the train layout you can get on the roof of the train as signified by this, you know secondary roof part of the map You can find your horses back here in the hay that they are munching on your cart his cargo in the back in the caboose And there are beds as well over here and a bar being run by an elven woman a bar You say a bar grabbing a drink words grabbing a drink anything in particular or would you like the surprise special I Would love the surprise special the surprise special will require you to run roll a d100 Yes Whoa And these are on the house indeed as you are the first passengers on this train ever and the benefits of being pilgrims So with an 89 let's see Okay, so You get a cocktail that seems to be Kind of looking like you're staring into the black the center of a black hole with lights kind of swirling all around it And you need to make a wisdom check Fritz look what I got throw it back my brain starts hurting I Can taste all of space and time okay, so You know that this you you taste this and it's quite a bit tangy So here's what it's supposed to do If you had failed this You know what you taste it and for a brief moment you feel invincible You feel as though you could take on the entire world But then just as soon as you finish swallowing it the feeling fades completely and you realize that it was just a flash in The pan what were you thinking of course you can't take on the world the world's too dangerous and scary But it was still a tasty drink nonetheless I always feel like that all the time.  Yeah, okay. Oh, oh another D 100. Yeah Yeah, the same was for the drink Not too far away. Yeah, okay good grouping so word You take She hands you this mug what looks to be ale very frothy The bubbles rise up and almost tip over if you weren't so quick to chug it down to make sure it doesn't spill over the bar Okay, and as you finish drinking it you feel a little bit itchy kind of around your chin area As the rest of the party starts to see that you're growing hairs Word starts to grow a beard over his kind of draconic chin Cool, I've changed my mind about trying Do I look dashing Is it like really patchy did I get like a mustache?  No need to shave it off I'm surprised that this wasn't the same drink as last time, but I can't say that I'm disappointed I Get up. I'll take myself and my mustache and I'll go give the horses some snacks You get it unfortunately, they do not have any lemonade aboard but they take it into account just take the rum Yeah, she gives you a rum. They Kind of write down on a note that make sure to have non-alcoholic drinks Okay, I'll walk over and I'm like I got you a pink chin Who oh? Thank you. So yes word you go to give the horses some treats and you can see that they're enjoying their time They're just kind of hanging out and eating the hay and they do Appreciate your company coming in you see that when you like give them I presume I don't know just like some sugar cubes or something. They just kind of Hand a little bit. I bought a week's worth of like sweet fruits and stuff for them. Ah, yeah And such that's right Yeah, they seem to very much appreciate your company and What is it but or scotch the lame horse has grown very fond of you as you've been attending to her leg for quite a few times and They know that I've just always been distinguished I go up to butterscotch, and I'm like don't tell anyone but you've always been my favorite companion to travel with and then I go over to Efficiency and I say the exact same thing Stop gaslighting the horses I'll say your care and bond with butterscotch means that you can use if butterscotch ever is in combat Not saying that she will be but if she ever finds herself in combat You can use a bonus action to give her simple commands, and she will understand you Okay, cool. Thank you. Thank you No, it's been dislodged it's over. It's all over the place So yes, you guys have quite a bit of time to kill on board like Mario paint Can I read my I have a book I still have my book can I read? What is the name of my book? I have it right now lost in a drift Oh, no, no, it's just a romance novel. Sorry. Sorry I'm trying to group your mustache with your word. You got a stick still.  We have to get it to get it figured out unfortunately I don't think I can you're just gonna have to alt move yourself every time. I'll keep redrawing it. It'll change slightly Yes, you do have that tasteful Romance novel lost in a drift about two veteran airship captains who find themselves once again I'll just be leafing through it. Oh Just leafing through okay. Oh, no, sorry. I guess by that. I mean, I'm just I'm going to be reading it Yeah, I'm gonna read I Want to roll a D 100. Yeah, you want to try a drink? Yeah, let's try a drink roll me a D 100 92 dang All our good rolls going. Yeah, we're killing it right when it's not necessary. You get a very tall glass of something it's called the hook and slider and It doesn't look a little sippy. Oh When you take a little sip you notice inside There is some Bits of creature you can't quite tell what it is But something that was once living is no longer living but apparently sitting in there as if it were You know like a like a lemon or something, but it's definitely some sort of animal flesh Well, so it's just like a piece. It's not like a full little guy in there. No, no It's just a piece. All right circle of life. I guess and Yeah, give me a constitution save con save. Yay Huh, I probably save okay. Yes The taste is definitely something meaty which you would not expect from a drink However, the next time you have to make a dexterity relating skill check i.e. sleight of hand stealth Acrobatics you have advantage on it. Oh sweet. Let me just note that down And the elven woman is surprised at your ability to stomach this drink She knows that it's an experimental one more popular with with kind of goblinoids than more, you know Non-goblin oids, but surprised that you are able to hold it down. I don't want to know what that implies Cool All right, I think I'm gonna build a trivia Goblin oids in this world are known are well known for their hearty meaty dishes They're very protein focused cuisine.  I think we're hanging out Hang on All right.  There he is Good old boy names about you for letting me toot that horn. Oh Absolutely glad to finally be able to hear the names Byron and I'll be your conductor for this trip And might I just say it is an honor and a privilege to have been selected by the good dragon himself As well as having the pleasure to deliver you to the next destination. Well, it's a rare treat Oh a big fan of the the saviors of Satya Massive fan I should say in fact Say I couldn't bother you to perhaps maybe sign a sign something for me. I Would be more than happy to hear he hands you his little wrench and Gives you what looks to be like an etching wand Heck yeah, that's byron B. Y. R. O. N I just write God King word all the way up one side of it So I recall that word can't read I try and like convey the idea by drawing a picture of myself and I'll scribble it out Be like those scribblings are for me. Oh Well, it is quite an honor mr. Word and So how y'all like in the trade it's luxurious I Had our best people working on it I Look up from the book. I get a question you're are you driving this thing? Do you need to be is someone at the wheel or the brains of this sir? Oh, yeah I'm the head and I make sure that it's running smoothly, but I got a couple of helpers whenever I need to take a walk around and check in on my passengers Don't you worry your little heads? So how fast is this thing supposed to be going like when are we gonna get there? Mighty fast. We'll get there in just a couple of hours compared to a couple of days that it would usually be on foot That is good to hear in why If for something that's that efficient, I mean, why is it that this mode of transportation fell out of favor with the rest of the Country he crosses his arms and sighs and looks down a very familiar look about that you've seen ever too often whenever speaking of a certain province well It's that Now I'd never speak ill of someone so high in power, but that Lord Nicholas to hero He has done a lot of lobbying to make sure this thing doesn't get up and running for whatever reason He says that it'll mess up the Precious economy that they've got going in the balance of commerce or whatever, but I Say to hell with that. We're bringing people closer together faster And this man is just thinking about lining his pockets.  Everything I know that it's moving and that'll get us there in Two three two hours. Ah learned scholar. Are you give me a? Give me an intelligence Okay, just a flat intelligence It's so beautiful What You make word Word sort of like puffs out his chest and like raises his chin and he looks around inspecting the vehicle And he says well obviously we're seated on a bunch of little bugs that run really fast on the rails And I know that the dragon when he did his little thing He just scared him and made him go real fast and each of these carts I think they're connected by some kind of like hard dirt You can see Over to the engine room and this does something really important I think it has something to do with the bar. Maybe it like has all the drink recipes in it. Oh Well, I am I'm I'll let you know now mr. Word I'm shaking in my boots that you're getting ready to steal my job I'll like points of the I'll try to get the weight of the bartender's attention And I'll be like point-a-word trying to indicate to like cut him off It's no shame sir not knowing stuff here I'll show you a few things and he actually takes you to the engine room Anyone who wishes to follow as well, and he's gonna teach you how to use the train Wait, that sounds like it might be important later You're close enough. I think I'm curious about the tree He said like I'm just gonna say that I didn't know anything I thought I was like spot on finish my drink if you want. Oh, that's all right. I'll just I'll watch it But yes seeing as you do lack the knowledge about the train He is going to teach you in case of emergency how to operate the barest essentials of the engine and As he is explaining it I'm gonna need everyone who's participating to give me an insight check on based on how much you can understand What he's explained it's a check Okay, cool Guess I'm a train fanatic all right amongst amongst you all not only do you understand his Instructions to their fullest extent you actually come to some ideas of how you can improve the train Make it more efficient some more potential like ideas and such to add even me didn't consider yes, even well Try to do but like you combined the party now understands how to operate without much trouble But the input really came from Fritz and word. I guess I've worked before boats trains You know same difference. I think Lara was like oh, this will be cool. Oh, that's way more buttons than I expected Look you just need like a little coffee maker here with like a panini press There'll be more efficient in terms of you'll get more work done you won't be The coffee maker goes here Yeah, the helpers are like yeah, yeah, yeah and a vending machine could go there That helps the economy Yeah, Byron is actually impressed at your guys's quick ability to pick up on information conductor Fritz think about it. I Imagine Fritz is like well if I think of the air is water There's still like restraints and restrictions this is work on boats with this work for you And then they start info dumping about boats and then I'm like why are boats and trains so similar It's just like we're really out of character really smart information about ships Yeah, you guys learn just basic basic how to operate it you Learned that it doesn't actually run on coal like other trains that it runs on Either arcane crystals that are found in paletrios kind of similar to coal except without the same kind of you know Output it exhausts ambient arcane energy out instead of you know the traditional Soot and smoke As a substitute because it runs on arcane energy a blast of magic can actually Propel this thing a little bit as well if it's running on fumes So it it's not it has there's nothing to do with like spiders of Beatles Unfortunately, not though that does sound quite exciting Word tries to hide his embarrassment Honestly word. I would think of large centipede would be more efficient anyway I thought that you know because centipedes are just a bunch of beetles in a row.  I Just hope that y'all stay inside when that happens Hey, it would lose us a barrier It would lose us the barrier for a few hours while the catalyst has to cool down, but it's mighty handy in a pinch a Talon graces the lever but does not pull We're still working on trying to make sure that it's a thing that we can use regularly But for now it's one and done until we can get better repairs and upgrades to this thing But this is just a test run this will give us more information that we need that will help us fix it up in the future Count me as excited and ready to pull that whenever something goes down. Hopefully it don't come to that But once again welcome aboard. I'll make yourselves at home Thank you And if you ever need anything, I'll be up here with miles Sweet All right, you learned about the train and its magic barrier So anything else you guys wish to do in your spare time When you guys are coming Yeah, I was gonna say when you guys when you guys are coming back in I'm likely I'm going through the book. I'm like, do you guys learn about the bugs or? Surprisingly no bugs are involved. Yeah, it turns out this model doesn't really benefit from a bunch of beetles I was wrong. It's just this model. Is that what they told you?  Oh, yes Famously intelligent based casters druids are Oh, okay, sure You know that This thing so what kind of information specifically are trying to recall like or well figure out so so my hunch is that The fact that the crystals on the back blew out was an intentional bit of like booby trapping because Dispel magic is only supposed to target a single effect and So it seems to me like whoever designed to this Perhaps was a Obviously a skilled major artificer or something like that, but also specifically designed it so that if the Rune were dispelled it would hamper our ability to make progress potentially alert them Like I I want to know how much trouble we just got into basically. Yeah, like any alarms or whatever with an arcana with an arcane check of 18 you like that you are for sure You're certain that that is like the truth that whoever made this Definitely wanted to keep track of you and if they no longer could keep track of you They wanted to make sure that you had trouble like this basically confirms your theory that you know that that the crystals holding this together And the arcane sigil meant to track you was bundled together on purpose Great what for whatever reasons? Potentially who's to say but you know that that was a deliberate design embedded into this thing Hmm and whoever may have put that Probably would know that that tracking is gone now as well and would be a bit. Yeah I would assume at minimum that they wouldn't if they're not getting updates on our location anymore. They probably can guess Yeah, that arcana is high enough that basically I'm confirming. Yes, that's exactly what happened Perfect. I guess I want to give a cart one more once over just in case I missed any other suspicious little bugs Old words talk of bugs had me a little worry But yeah, yeah, no searching it over using the lamp of true sight as well You don't seem to find anything else that thing was very deliberately hidden with an invisibility spell of some kind Okay, the only one really great Seems to be bug free Fantastic then Maybe I'll maybe I'll check efficiency with the lantern too You know just just cuz We also got in from from what's his face, so you check efficiency and you see that there is an invisible branding, you know how you know we can physically and animals and True as Recognizable as it can be you can see that the brand is the same kind of sigil that you've seen on Lucy's one The house best hand branded right on the butt of this horse my goodness My condolence is efficiency It's not like a it's not another magic tracking device as far as I can tell is it no I'll let you keep that arcana check for this no It is just like a magical brand something a lot easier and less painful for the animal Alright, that's better than yeah great. Okay, cool. Yep All right, well Pat then I'll go back to join the others at the bar when you do and Time time goes on you guys hang out for a bit and You hear a familiar voice from behind the bar call out to you and his name is Jack The dust passes us by But ever so do I remain vigilant pilgrims I'm actually scared right now I think she was formidable around It sounds like she's she's outside or behind the bar behind the bar She's like crouching you can see that The two bodies poke up as a humanoid dressed in red and armor as well as a dog Just full of hair leap up behind the bar standing on top of it Tizai la destructora the destroyer and my hellhound El Coco Your doom is imminent and now there is no escape The bartender is Reacting how she the bartender just like puts two hands above on her mouth and oh my goodness It's la destructora healthy Kind of acting it out badly of course Oh, how many people are in on this? Everyone but us the conspiracy is everywhere Okay Yeah, I'm hucking my mug you hug your mug and she catches it midair And gently lays it on one of the shelves that one's on me The only thirst that can quench me pilgrims is your doom No You know she points to you buck bugbear Hold on let me put I know I'm putting the book away hold on Yes La la destructora You truly wish to know who I am after our last encountered you disrespected me Yeah, I Would not well I would do anything to learn the true identity of our sworn rival Rival I would have gone with nemesis but not nemesis never nemesis nemesis don't disregard the dog Not disregarding the dog nemesis Then Face me one last time pilgrims, and I truly truly mean this hold nothing back Show me what you are made of Yo, can I do insight it are they serious about what they want us to do because I feel like they've done this before you can Give me an insight Yeah You know that this time la destructora is serious She wants a real fight. I like to look back at Fritz and We got And you can see the elven lady just kind of pulls a wand and la destructora jumps from the behind the bar up kind of in front Along with el coco and el coco is just gonna get in one of the seats and watch And The elven woman pulls a wand that seems to put some kind of arcane barrier over the back of the bar So as to not break any of the drinks Okay, that's all I was worried about and I'm gonna need everyone to roll initiative Most of my high-power things are a little collateral damagey We're out of very nice train Hold on It's okay, it's the train is sealed there we go and la destructora you notice that she doesn't have her old spear She pulls out a sword a Great sort of some kind is it also made of cardboard? It is not this looks like a genuine sword made of steel Oh shoot, I'll take out big blind if that's what you I'm like looking back at Lara and word and Fritz like Guys, I think this is serious.   I'm going to cast I'm going to cast hail of thorns All right And Okay, unfortunately That shot is not going to hit as she parries the crossbow bolt out of the sky with her with her sword I'm like, yo nice very and That doesn't waste your hail of thorns though because your hail of thorns is the next time you land an attack So that will keep going until you do Where was she when we had to do that pro wrestling gimmick in the Colosseum we're repeating it. I still have my stuff Yeah, that's yeah, I've got my my acolyte mask. All right, you do have two attacks remember Oh, I thought because I used to spell I don't get two attacks. Well, your spell is on a bonus action Yeah, you have two attacks per Right she Parries the first one the second one Kind of lodges into her shoulder and the hail of thorns. She's gonna have to make a save on and the hail of thorns goes off just into various different parts of Kind of around her doesn't hit anybody else, but it's an additional damage And she just kind of holds her sword in a defensive position She seems as though she hasn't flinched at all Despite the fact that she just took a crossbow bolt to the shoulder Strong and that's my turn and it's a turn. All right, La Destructora gets herself ready and She lowers her sword down in a kind of horizontal pointing motion El Coco is not my only companion I hope you are ready to taste the might of the light and she is going to cast spiritual weapon She summons a bright Long sword great sword rather very similar to the one that she's holding that appears between fritz and word and It is going to slash at you fritz Unfortunately it does miss you do dodge. I mean fortunately for you. Anyway, you dodge out of the way And La Destructora is going to hop up onto the seats stepping kind of over them all and passing El Coco giving him a pet as she passes by and Stepping over the the seats and tables and comes over here and it's going to slash at you buck I need to finish my drink first And I will allow you this privilege for it may be your last slash slash and you buck Okay, and both of them are going to hit Okay, and you are going to take oh You're going to take a 14 damage. Oh Geez, she takes two switch slashes at you that you are a little bit exhausted by And slashes that seem oddly familiar to you Not only that but laborer this is a very familiar situation to you as well You've also encountered someone with a massive sword who stay stood by you almost towering over you as well Yeah I'm trying to remember but I don't think really yeah, you have I yeah. Oh, yeah, this is an easy memory actually It's really very obvious. Anyway, it's bucks turn no I will All right, so let me I should have taken that sword pull up the chains Let me rage let me pull out one of my Cards here. I'm trying to figure out how to open up the the wild surge table. Give me one sec Here we go should be it Whoo shadowy tentacles. All right. Hey So I will Only choose I won't choose the dog. I'll just I'll just choose her. Okay Well, all right I will gain six to temp HP. Okay the tentacle lashes out But she just tanks it Oh It kind of whips her in the chest, but she doesn't move. She's still as a rock Can I try to Wait, hold on. What is the what is the spell safe DC actually author? 13 13. Okay. Yeah, she makes it I was like she she rolled on 18, but I'll just make sure just in case I will let me let me just do Doing two attacks on her right two attacks. I'm not gonna attack recklessly for the first one Okay, first one 17 17 as well. Yeah So first one hits and then I'll do Okay Yeah, both of those hit as you push push bash her left and right kind of both side to side And she almost loses her balance off of the top of the chair actually what you get for showboating. Oh I can push her so she's going to oh I'll take apology because I've got the the crusher feet so I can move her five feet to an unoccupied Occupied space. Okay, so can I just like push her over like down here on the table? Yeah, if that's possible. Yeah, you push her onto the table and she what let me make her make a dexterity saving throw because he's got to keep her balance Yeah, she does she kind of steps on one of the kind of decorative Just kind of little napkins on the table. Unfortunately, it flattens it but she's able to hold her back. No I'm gonna say let's have this battle Somewhere a little more interesting and then I'm gonna try and How much movement I think I have 40 feet of movement 50 50 feet of movement. So can I how do I get up on the roof here? It's gonna have yeah, I know but I'm trying to figure out so we go out here But there are two doors to side doors here Oh, okay, this dark gray is just like the side of the train with railing and you can climb up to the top It takes no additional movement as there is a ladder so 40 so and it would be so that would be so I can be here with my movement. Oh, can you? Well, I have 50 feet of movement. I have if you do have 50 then yes Yeah, because I have What's my trade? I think I have the Mobile feet. Yeah, I have the mobile feet. So I have 50 feet of movement Yes, okay. Well then She is going to use a legendary action at that time And she's gonna chase you down. I accept your challenge And she's gonna use her reaction to move and chase you down don't get too cocky I'm gonna I think I think actually I have five more feet so I'll move there She isn't able to make it all the way though, but yeah, she does make it outside. I don't know why this thing says square here, but That's an attack of opportunity for me though. Is it? Yes, it was on the table. Do you get an attack of opportunity and hey, is that also an attack of opportunity for me? I never use it. Oh So I get advantage with this because I have pack tactics and lay row was next to her. Oh, I think sneak attack is once per turn Yes, I do I get so I don't get that on a reaction or let me see.  Oh my goodness.  Yeah, she's running out the doors that she actually kind of like bashes into the wall a little bit Kind of bumping into stuff as she's running out huh Just stumbling a little bit being slapped about by two people Oh, I wonder if Elias knows about this. Yeah, but yes word Oh She shouldn't have challenged God King would and I like doth all of my things I Like a cartoon character who leaves their eyes behind for a couple seconds Shoot, I can't quite get around there So I'll I'll use this is I guess like half cover and then I'll try and do just a short bow attack on her Okay, I Can't reach her. Oh nice. All right.  I don't have any crazy bonus actions. Okay. Oh Lay rock. I must ask a bigger. All right the geometry of this fight has confused me somewhat She's on the outside of the train now. Yes, she is so the dark is like the outside of the train where the railing would be You know where you can gotcha. Um, is there like an openable window at the booth that I'm currently in Yes, I would say all right I'd like to I'd like to crack it open and I'd like to stick my hand outside and cast call lightning Oh my god, she said we shouldn't hold back Finishes finishes tea Well, she needs to make a DC 14 deck save and I think she takes half if she fails Let me check that if she succeeds, you mean.  Um, okay I'm gonna say we don't need to paint the area of call lightning because it's big enough to cover the train Basically the car that you're in. Yeah, is it is now is the lightning gonna get off the metal and hurt me at all? I don't know So this big massive rod of lightning just zaps down from the sky boom right on her And you just hear kind of under her breath.  I'm not the one who said don't hold back. I know but oh my gosh pilgrims these days they grow you different now. Oh Thank you. All right. That's my turn All right fritz your turn Lyra scary question around. Yes. Do you think I could fit through that? There's a door right here if you want to go. Oh, I didn't realize there's a door right there I didn't draw my mistake, but yeah, there is a side door there. It would be so cool to jump out the window and fly up I don't know if you want to be racing the train Let's you do it with an acrobatics check. Don't even open the window just burst through it Do I do I try to be cool? I I feel like I've got to put on a performance with them, right? I'm jumping out the window. All right acrobatics Oh, please. Oh, no, don't die. We're going so fast It'll take you a day to get back With my acrobatics, you try to fly you try to You try so you could possibly fit through the window it's a tight squeeze, but you just boop into the wall Just like a bird. Yeah, you don't take any damage, but you do You can't quite fit in one swift movement. You're gonna have to take the normal way around Okay, wait, how much movement so that was The walk of shame Yeah, you can use your action to dash if you want to just like I'm trying to work out where like what is considered the way up So basically this light gray that's like just an abstraction that this is the wall of the train essentially You know like and these blue things are the windows that are facing inwards I will cast Trying to make a 3d space of a 2d world is a What am I Baldur's Gate 3 so hey the video game Baldur's Gate 3 what the hip Oh the one that one D&D wait. I forget. What does dash do again? Dash doubles your movement speed. It costs an action though. Oh It uses your action to move your movement again basically I Will do Dash instead of long strike because long strike would take up a spell slot. Okay, even though it's an action Yeah, all right. So you have 40 movement left if you wish to yeah, just oh slide open the door and climb up So this in total was 70 movement.   No, never mind you because you know because I hit land Yeah, right Could you still have a bonus action? Yeah, you know what hail of thorns ready for the next attack Yes, I don't cast it until it hits right yeah Oh, well you can cast it now if you so wish but it doesn't go off until you hit you hit I'll just cast it now. Okay, so good All right now it's la destructora's turn and She looks back in the train and just calls out el coco attack and el coco looks over at you Leira and just goes formidable and She is going to command the Spiritual weapon to go up to you word and it's gonna try and slash it Oh, yes, and it's gonna slash at you once and you gonna take Five damage Okay, I'll go ahead and reduce that to all right. Yes, hold out your dagger to parry Our the force of the swing does still hurt a little bit La destructora is going to climb up The ladder and you can see she's huffing and puffing up I'm getting too old for this Oh, she holds up one finger In front of you buck just like just give me a moment Oh, and she's going to give a chant and she's going to cast healing word on herself Well now I feel less bad about hitting her with lightning and You she just takes a moment to get a breather Okay, I'm ready and she takes her great sword to take a couple of more swings at you buck. Okay, okay.  I was going to say There you go And she kind of looks at the sword looks back at you buck.  I love that five plus. I can't tell what the Let's see There's no there's no weapon dice to roll so I don't think Are you proficient with on arm strikes? I Don't know if that's a thing that you can be I'm proficient in all weapons modifier plus four Yes, okay, yeah Okay, so just so be five damage was how much it would be and then I don't know another five because it's crit I like it's up to you. I'm not rolling double dice, so it well Oh, that's the thing about on arm strikes is they don't roll dice unless you're a monk exact But they just use their strength modifier, so I'm just gonna save the strength modifier is doubled So it's just a free free ten nine.  I Want to say as well that because it's because I have the crusher feet And I did a it's still bludgeoning damage that I'm doing so I still it's it's advantage on attacks against her until The start of my next turn So it's not knocking her back. Oh, no, I do knock her back five feet. No So you do have a second attack I'll let you get that one off before you knock her if she is she look Or does that do they look like they're like still up like are we still they still want to keep going they look pretty rough Here you can you can call it here if you want I never surrender I pun I'll punch them again Punch them again with advantage Yes, yes, yes, yes, sorry.  I won't I will choose not to do that I'll keep them on the roof with you Okay, and but can I can I move them back here because I have bug bear art so I can still hit them Yeah, you push her back. She's a little dazed and she is going to Use a legendary action To fall on the ground dramatically. Yay Well done, you have for the final time defeated la destructora. I'm gonna get the sword Oh boy, I'll grab the sword and I'll walk over I'll put the sword to their throat, but I think like cool style, right? Yeah, but cool style I'm doing it. I'm doing it too intensely and the layer is like no do it cool Stage fighting stage fighting now. We'll you have your training That's correct and now we will finally learn your true identity Well, I'll pull word up All right, I must reset before you do pilgrims. I want you to know That was the most fun. I've had since my last pilgrimage Oh I'll move the sword and then reach a hand out to help them up she takes her hand and pulls herself up and She kind of waves an incantation over herself You can tell that it's some kind of disguise self of some kind But it's just things holding the cardboard together as they all kind of fall apart the various pieces of her costume Disappate and her helmet is removed to reveal a very familiar Seder face. Oh my gosh No way You I'll give I'll give them their sword back. I can only assume Elias knows about this Well Yeah, yes, I bit him farewell before I left Satya Why That's what I was gonna say why why are you doing this? This is like a game for you Well, it originally was before I found out that things are a bit more serious than I anticipated but After losing to you all I realized that's well I'm not pilgrim anymore and After so many decades. This was the first time I wasn't going to visit all the provinces and Well, I just couldn't keep myself away So I took a bunch of my savings Planned out my trip to see all of Elinthe one last time and don la destructora who was Someone that we encountered in one of our pilgrims in a few years past But so was so what infamously incompetent that she became some somewhat of a running joke amongst people of Elinthe La destructora was real and you stole her bit So so there's been a lot destructora for other pilgrims Well for me once a long time ago, but More of a roughie took it down and you took a name. This is fascinating Which one of us will have to take up the mantle let's get let's get off the top of the train now I'm also I'm very nervous that I did it for the bit, but I want to get down now Great showmanship you must have picked up a few things from the bowl of the new the sky I Was just I really just thought to myself What would word do in a situation like this and just fall I gotta go get my hat a dangerous game to play Never never do that ethically Yes, you can see that she is very much enjoying herself. She has grinning ear to ear at seeing you guys once again.  I mean, I'm sorry. I hit you. It's so hard and oh, yeah I've been doing this for how many decades now. I don't even know but um I think it was good. It was a good show of your strength and honestly I was hoping that you'd kick the snot out of me. It's an honor Yeah, I almost cut your heel like wide open. Ah, that's all right. You can walk I I did a little bit of the same. I do apologize for the secrecy Uh, I just always love the classic evil villain roles in theater Oh, yeah, I know what you're talking about and she looks over at me. I'm wearing my bandit mask Feathered hat.  I love the outfit Thank you. I do too But yeah, I also wanted to check in regularly to see how my successes were doing I wasn't really expecting you to have a rough time with the blot on the way to polytrio, so honestly Yeah, do you know about like that the big like eight foot tall one that we had to fight? Eight foot tall No, it could like talk that one only ambushed us when we were for the most part alone or dealing with pirates I've definitely encountered a few large Kind of clumps of loss, but never really tall ones Can't say I'm familiar Do you think it found us because of that tracking sigil I think it found us because we were carrying the hearts. Oh, we took care of the tracking sigil. That's all right So that's right. They keep fighting going after you. I'm a little present from trevisseta. Yes. Well, I suppose we'll have to stress test that It's possible. They just don't like me for some reason That could be true trevisseta Well, it is good to see you all alive at the very least And not too hurt We've definitely lost a few pilgrims in the past So this is the best case scenario as far as I'm concerned Oh, that's if we ever go six feet on the week home right back up that No, well, we felt we fell down a pit and now we're back above grass That was considerably further than six feet. I'm sure a necromancer can do the same But I don't know if I would be happy about that Me neither Yeah, some clerics can't do It is rather strange that we've been encountering the blood rather more aggressively than it seems any prior pilgrim has Seems so They're usually just there sometimes just as weathered is sometimes there but not in concentrations like this And I don't suppose it's ever shown any sign of intelligence before either never not to me in my travels But here maybe it's because I'm so here let's have a chat Come sit with me and she calls over el coco who just kind of gets on the chair And uh kind of leaning over, you know the backwards sit where like the the back of the chair is in front And he's got his paws just hanging over the top Oh fantastic Well, there's not enough space for all of us to sit in the same place.  Well, I hope we don't have any other combat encounters because I'm not moving out of this chair But how has your trip been pilgrims aside from all the trouble has it been fulfilling revealing? Yes, it's been enjoyable I reckon I have to say Yeah, the majority of what we faced. I don't think is anything close to what I expected It is rather more political than I anticipated and also the dragon's hearts aren't even hearts Oh, yes from beginning to end not one of them just has like a little beaten thing that we hold Disappointed No a little bit. Yeah Because I figured you know once we got everything done I could eat one I'm pretty sure that is illegal Oh, yes, then I didn't even say that word is very concerned about legality Oh, yeah, it's more important to me than um Porridge It's been a bit of a strange journey the um Yes, the conflicts we faced have been rather different than I anticipated as well a lot more politics and uh Inviting that we seem to be stumbling into I I tend to try and keep myself out of those as much as I find it hard not to care But I have a feeling that it's kind of a point recently You went on the last one didn't you I was yes 10 years ago Was anything crazy happened in with trevissetta back then well 10 years ago was when uh lord tejero was sworn in Actually, and he's made quite the massive strides in just a decade Granted he was a businessman beforehand and he owns uh His own inherited tejero steelworks, which makes a ton of coin off weapons and armor He supplies to both his private military and the nation as a whole so It's not like he wasn't without power before he became a lord An arms dealer wonderful indeed Honestly, that's how he gets away with a lot of what he does He's got a lynch linchpin and a majority of the resources the kingdom needs Especially with a blot running around in his territory So he gets to boss everyone around and there's not much we can do unless he accuses anyone of wanting to keep him and check Uh in of regicide or something not that he's a king that goodness, but honestly he sure acts like he is Well, he does seem somewhat vested in our journey going At least somewhat smoothly. He offered us aid gave us a cart that until yesterday it was being tracked magically, but Why am I not surprised?  There's no a linty. There's no coin to be made Well, that's some comfort anyway But it's enough about that look at you you're halfway there I suppose we are I just know for certain that folk back home are cheering you on I Guess we never really um We really never really uh took the time to celebrate that fact. I mean we're halfway there You are I think it's worth to celebrate Yes, perhaps it is Yeah, it almost feels uh Faster than I expected Yeah In the moment you don't consider it so but when you look back on it It's all done and then it's over Try to cherish it while it lasts But what will you all do once this is over? Usually people go on this pilgrimage looking for something hoping that you find it, but either way I To be quite honest the final ritual of the life tree is quite anticlimactic considering all you've You're made to go through here, but once you're done. That's sort of it You save the world and life moves on so what's your plan after that? Well, I don't know about you guys But I'm gonna take the route through one more time and say hello to everybody again And then get some stuff going. Hmm. I'm sure they'd be happy to see you. You've made quite the few connections on your journey I'm sure Yes, the minions left in various cities Oh, I've only made half of them. You do also have that bar Yeah, that's true. I'm waiting to hear back from that I wonder if you'll bother Well, I mean I hadn't really um considered After um, I guess maybe maybe I'll just have to give that more thought That's all right. You don't have to have it all figured out right now Right and I don't um, so I just I'll That's a good question and I'll think about it. I should be frank. I've had more fun and felt more alive doing this than I have in the years so I'm kind of I guess Disappointed somewhat that we're only halfway through for as much as we've gone through but I'm sure I'll There's always going to be another adventure or something afterwards. So, uh, you know Yeah, I mean just look at me. I'm lucky the pilgrimage gave me some notoriety But I think that just comes with the familiarity of doing it so many times People practically know me on a regular basis now all over at lindsay I could do whatever I want really fame comes with its benefits And that's what I'm looking for.  I suppose in the middle of the journey. It's hard to see beyond the end of it but I've become increasingly suspicious of what we've been told of the blot and I would like to understand it better So perhaps I'll find some way to investigate once we're done I do hope you fare better than the previous pilgrims a couple of other ones wanted to Delve further into the blot and it nearly ate them up Then I also hope I fare better than the previous pilgrims Yeah, some of them aren't as lucky as I am They barely get recognized like your mentor Shemaya She completed two pilgrimages and people barely know about her trips and again, she probably made it that way on purpose That does make sense But there are others too has I wonder who has the record for like fastest fastest pilgrimage Oh, no word advanced speed running Oh, that reminds me dragon hearts any percent. Oh dragon percent that reminds me that was another reason I wanted to come along in this trip was to check in on one of the pilgrims of the previous pilgrimages Goliath by the name uh last name uh carmen She helped me in my last pilgrimage from 10 years ago, but I haven't really heard from or about her since we parted ways I see where is she? Do you know? Uh, probably in trevisseta. She's a regular city guard there actually So I'm guessing she was just busy with her duties, but still I do worry for her Yeah, I hope she's alive being in a place like trevisseta Yes, just trouble. We're gonna So are you are you planning to head that direction after The plate that are sorry the train stops or I'm not sure I could stop Honestly one more time. I'll probably just send a letter once we make it to tigamura Oh, uh question action. What do you know about a place called theosia? Diocia. Oh the old kingdom Well No as much as anybody else really For a long time. They try to conquer linty from I don't know Maybe a few hundred years ago a thousand years ago. I'm not quite sure I can't really pin down the date But they were a rivaling kingdom Try and conquerors and imperialists something along those lines And they tried to conquer the entire continent actually before they were destroyed under their own weight and the blot And their history just ended like exactly a hundred years ago Maybe not exactly ended but there there are probably some remnants of them around somewhere in old theosia But that place is too dangerous to do any sort of investigating I'm sorry. Did we just learn that the ancient empire crumbled only a century ago? She said a few centuries ago a few okay. That makes that makes a little more sense. Yeah okay She can't quite recall whether it's like a few centuries or a thousand years Okay, uh, it makes a little more sense than like three generations. There's potentially like elves alive that remember this That's what I was thinking because all of polytrios was like built Way after after that. Yeah, polytrios is only about a hundred years old Yeah Well, we've done a little preliminary investigation and the story seems like it may be a little more complicated than that, but It's too early to say It I remember in my vision. There was no blot in that war like at all right there wasn't No, it was them versus elinthe Yeah Do you anything do you know anything about trevisseta's dragon? Oh, I don't know if we do Do we I've been to trevisseta before you have been to trevisseta. You can give me You can give me perhaps like uh, that was her asking the question as well I think I've maybe botched up my accent But Perhaps you can give me a history check, uh buck Wow, oh my god, that's a dirty one. That's not a natural one. It's dirty. That's a dirty one, baby. That's impressive So I don't remember. I don't remember. I had a tumultuous time in trevisseta. So I don't really recall Yeah, I was focused on other matters You know that trevisseta certainly does have a dragon Yeah, trevisseta, they got one of them dragons that I heard about. Yeah Uh-huh You don't have to give me anything on a one job. Yeah, I promise you don't yeah. Yeah. Yeah, she's just like not uh-huh Well, you might recall that her name is pavita I don't recall that Well, uh, she's a very nice lass uh quite young for a dragon Actually Oh, dear. Um, but she's friendly charitable even Quite a surprise considering her home What was her name again? Pavita, P-A-V-I-T-A Well, we've recently encountered a dragon that is rather lacking in political control over his own territory. So Perhaps she's in a similar straight Perhaps She protects the place They're regularly from blot and even monster problems as there is quite a large population of fauna around the place But to the point it's fairly routine to see her out fighting something else She even helps inside the city as well as the province has no end to internal issues muggers riots Whole spell slinging battles and shootouts going on in the streets sometimes But pavita always shows up to deescalate things and i'm thankful for that How idyllic No wonder they wish to spread their reach over the continent I I did the dragons used to have more control No, it's always been a check and balance thing since uh someone so powerful also having political power could Have potential problems that come along Because well Who's to stop them? Yes, we wouldn't exactly really go into trevissette if Nicholas was the dragon after all No I my heart does go out to the people of trevissette though. Don't get me wrong. There's there's good folk there. They've just been Drinking from the well so much that some of them can come across a bit abrasive They're water people.  It's still part of alinti and I do do still love it I just wish the people there had better luck, you know Maybe you'll be able to make some change there where I haven't It's possible. We'll need to see what the nature of the problem is very much so But on the plus side it sounds like getting the dragon heart might be the one easy part of our journey through trevissetta Oh, yeah oftentimes trevissetta's both the hardest and easiest thing because the hard part is being in trevissetta The dragon heart is usually pretty easy See povita's so up to her neck in chores and things that she often just gives it away. She's way too busy to give you a trial Well, I wouldn't yeah, it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. I don't think a nice change Well, the dragons get to set the rules on how their heart is given I'm sure we could find some way to help her Of course, I'm sure she'd appreciate it Well, I'm hurts. Um, I'm gonna go I'm a good job on that front Sorry about that here. Let me help you and she holds up her hand and she's going to cure wounds you for about 28 hit points 28 Does anybody else need some healing I've uh got a few saved up specifically for this I got a little scar on my hand. Well, here you go. She hands you a potion of healing Okay, I'll pocket it And actually as a matter of fact she is going to heal everyone at least once so I didn't take any damage I took two I took a lot of Yeah, just pour just pour him on the buck. Yeah, she'll give you the potion and also heal you for full word Um, okay.  She just gave me a band-aid and a kiss.  I apologize. I just feel like if I'm gonna If we're gonna get into the city, I want to make sure I'm rested for it. That's a good idea We're going to the other place first, right? Tripisetta is later Yeah, but it's still a little city the Miura. Oh, all right the nice one Oh, they've got the best little adventurer's guilt. You're going to love it Oh, we actually don't like know anything about this place, but we know it's not trevissata, which is very uh It's a win an hour book. Yes. Yeah Hi, it's actually a pretty nice place as influenced by trevissata Matter of fact, I feel like if trevissata could tone back a bit of its I don't know trevissat anis. It could be a very very nice province And I think Trigamura is proof of that you'll see But yes, you guys if you wish to make a have a short rest You may Yeah, I won't get any spell slots back. But why not? Okay, so you guys passed the time waiting, uh, just a couple of hours along your trip to Tigamura As you as the various trees and grasses pass you by Uh, this word is is word performing a thing. He's humming to himself humming to himself And you guys enjoy the company of your old friend jade previous pilgrim of sachia and reminiscing about times and hanging out Buck Has a little bit of a nap you guys can roll You guys can recover whatever resources you may have from a short rest if you if you need to And uh as time goes on you hear Byron's voice over the intercom calling out to you the whole of the train Attention passengers. We are nearing our destination just about half an hour out and we'll be there Thank you for taking part in the Wait, what the hell's Ron roots everybody brace for impact and then the entire train Shakes and bangs but it keeps going and just for a brief moment You see the windows just kind of completely black out something rushes past. Oh a large figure We smack the blot blob Oh, i'm standing. Fuck. Do I need to roll? Actually, yes, everybody roll a dexterity saving throw.  Do I get advantage? Yes Oh, okay, i'm fine. I have advantage on dex saving throws against effects that I can see so can I roll? Yeah, you know what?  All right Mostly what was that okay? You might want to brandish your weapons. I think we got a fight on our hands No, oh goody And you guys hear kind of plopping sounds and banging sounds on the roof of the train cars One that you're all too familiar with you got to pull the lever like right now You're right and he goes to open the door and you can see a figure swoop down and pick him up No That's not what I meant and you can hear screaming in the engine room.  It's pretty impressive all right, so You guys look outside and you can see the various blot hawks And blotlings Rounding the train and when you look at the back of the train covering the caboose is a massive pile of it No our cart. Oh my god. Oh my gosh. It's a little bit much. Oh, no So that's what we just ran through the horses. Oh, that's too many.  Oh no, I'll try to go after him Uh, should I I can fly. Oh, yes, you should probably go after him. Yeah Okay Blot didn't roll great either And I'm gonna make it an eight because fritz you have a higher dex All right, first up his word. Oh, I'm pulling that lever and blowing that whistle Now do keep in mind. He instructed that it is going to zap anything outside of the train That includes Byron right now. Thank you for your sacrifice. No Are you still gonna pull it?  Yeah, kind of attacking the helpers as well menacing the guys I forgot the helpers were innocent comes in high fives the lever and leaves I just wanted to blow the horn I can't really get in there. Uh, I guess the horn is unguarded a short bow Okay short bow, uh, that one is going to hit the little blot group right here And it's not the most durable thing as bits of its slash around and uh as it's still latching on to the halfling Shoot.  Yeah. Oh, yeah Uh Still has it for me. Let me reload. Yeah. I'll make it a 10 whatever you roll Yeah, I think that's gonna be my turn though. Just the move and the whistle the attack Uh, well, yeah, you gotta add your initiative back. Oh, okay, there we go. I reloaded it I'll make you a 10 Wait a minute.  What am I saying? Does jadei need to roll wax finger Uh, I'll have jadei go when the blot goes. That's the designated pc initiative. Got it. Got it. Got it Well Fritz your turn Do we get as many dashes as we want as many? Yeah dashes an unlimited resource. You just got to spend an action to do it Okay, so I get 70 movement.  Yeah, and I will say as well like the start of the sky starts like Um Here not where you are hold on. You can't really see that. Oh, it's less far than we thought Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I would say that it starts from here So you could reach by in this turn. Yeah, so if you say fly up five feet, you would be here Just for convenience sake of like using the map. Okay, cool And then I am going to But where would that put me would that put me right next to him? Yeah, pretty much. I think yep Oh, and I still have my hail of thorns from the last time because I didn't get to do it.  I'm gonna say it's a I'll I'll allow it Oh, sorry. I didn't realize. Oh, it's okay.  So I used one of my three third level spell slots for the day No I was hoping I could cast misty stuff on him, but I can't um, yeah, I'll just end here then All right I'll say as a bonus action you can try to like Pull him, but it's going to be an athletics check. I would I would like to try to reach out to them Okay, give me an athletics Come on baby Pretty good How The blot clock clutches Strongly on him as you're pulling and pulling and with all your might unfortunately You're not able to pull it out of the hawks clutches and you can see that it's gripping into him as well It's kind of holding him by the shoulder and you can see it's blotty claws kind of punctured in Stop That's so gross Next is the blotster. He's receiving out cheese Uh these blot above your cart are gonna try and start eating through the roof What? There's a door. There's windows Would you prefer them that you threw the windows? No They're just gonna try and go the most direct route and you can see You can hear kind of a Sizzling sound as uh, they haven't eaten all the way through yet But they're doing the same in this cart as well And the blot hawks are going to swoop down By the door Try and snatch up anybody else they can find or dashing That's going to be the blot's turn for now. This one actually is going to try And fly away with Byron And fritz you have an attack of opportunity on it Okay, um if I attack this close with a crossbar, I'm fucked. Um I'm imagining I'm like trying my best to hold on to him. So I'm gonna talon strike. All right talon strike Whoa So I'm like I'm holding him and I just sweep my foot up. All right.  Let's go and now Byron is in your arms Okay, cool or rather your other free talon your arms are Mighty thanks pilgrim try to not wiggle too much Still as a stone All right, if you guys can get inside before the next blot's turn Well Okay, whatever we can yeah today is going to spend her turn trying to help out the helpers And she opens the door slides it open word you see and she is going to cast a guiding bolt Whoa, you know and just like she pulls her sword points it towards this blot and few Just a blast of light shoots it through Kind of the little slit window Yeah, and just nothing but goop left over splattered all across kind of the wall out the window And she looks to the warforge helper. Are you all right and the warforge just like shakily uh, just nodding its head And she just looks to you word and gives you a little thumbs up I give her another thumbs up and uh El coco is just barking menacingly out at the blot Great next buck it's your turn All right, um, do I think that the horses I mean like I I don't want the horses to get I gotta go save the horses Come on cowboy. It's your whole aesthetic Let's get here. So that's 10 15 25 Uh, and me going to do a rage. I think Going into a rage Let me find the vile surge and let me roll it Okay six Plus one ac Oh, you get an aura of an ac bonus except you're not here anybody Give my horses a bonus to their armor. Well, so it's while I'm raging. So while I'm within so let me add a 10 foot radius to me There we go 10 foot. There you go. Oh, you got it. Yeah, you guys can see that right? Yeah, we can And then I will do a swing one a swing along Let's do a swing one It gets caught on the door As uh the the hawk the blot hawk dodges out of the way and it gets a little lodged your next attack will be at disadvantage Okay, as you need to pull it free. Okay. This it doesn't matter the second one You slam down as this thing is kind of taunting you and you just splat it in one hit Nice. Nice. All right. Cool. Cool. Cool. All right. Got 25 feet of movement still. I will go over here And this I can't remember if this is efficiency if this is Okay, I'll try can I I guess I've already used my action I don't know if you'll end bonus action. I don't know if I have enough like movement Action to like free it or anything but probably not if you saw my movement. Oh, she's not bound or anything Oh, I thought they were come this way come on come nice nice girl Uh, I'll try it.  That's such a rare role. Why won't it let me do it? Okay, you can see they're a little bit spooked, but you're able to corral them to like follow along So they want to try and get them follow you for the next turn If you need you need them to Yeah, I'm gonna try and cool. Can they fit through like to this other? I just don't want them to be in the back because that's where the the goop pile is Yeah, they can just about fit through the door. They could squeeze through if they're careful Okay And I would say with that with that animal handling. Yes Okay, okay.  You don't have to do this But if you can hold an action to pull the lever as soon as fritz and Byron are back inside That would probably be real good It's the play Cool cool beans because that means I don't have to do that. Uh, I'm going to once again, uh Lean out the window And I'm going to cast my second call lightning of the day Which has a 60 foot radius We are gonna have to paint this one where you want to do it. I'm trying, uh, but I I fucked it up Help Let's see that might be 60 feet. It's pretty big. No That is about I measured basically each of the train cars is 60 feet long Please help me kill this circle because that's not where I want. Okay. Okay. Okay Thanks. I I do want it to cover both of these train cars basically. Okay. Um, so I This is a little closer to what I wanted Yes, so cool three-dimensional effect on that not what I wanted it to be, but that's okay. Select it. There we go. Thank you.  Um Uh, yes, and for my first strike, uh, I just gotta pick one of these guys. Um This is so excessive. Uh, let's just go for Uh, this little fella just sneak in between the train cars and uh, let's just put All right, so uh make a save It doesn't matter Even if they make that save there zapped to bits great Wow, all right, uh, yeah Oh and for my bonus action, I am going to shift so I get a little more mobility and some Temp HP. All right. So yep Word at your turn. There is still one little blotling in the engineer's room Yeah, I think I will do exactly as suggested. I'm gonna hold my action to pull that lever Okay, the moment our friends get inside It's Yeah, I think that takes up my primary action. So I'll scoop right here Uh, I'm safe to go into the circle, right? Yes, uh, it'll only strike you with lightning if I ask it to okay, uh, we're doing the exact same thing we did before i'm dashing in Dashing in okay, so we're gonna. I wanted to we're gonna cut the movements by 20 if you are going down Uh, I don't want to go past that blot because I think it might attack me. I'm going the same way I came in Right, yeah at the side door Through the side door And I'm going to land here. Okay He can climb down himself. Yes, you let him down and quickly go through Uh, the door and you are safely inside word. You may pull the lever I do pull the lever word You pulled the lever Yes, I do pull the lever And just as propose a massive bright blue arcane energy covers the train Whoa, whoa, got it and it zaps pretty much all the blot That is now on top of the train just into bits and goop Yeah And let me just All the ones kind of in between the train cars are safe though I'm bummer That's right So I'm just gonna delete them and they stop eating through the top The uh, let's see the massive blot kind of let's go of its grip somewhat Until there's just a little bit left However, you guys do here a loud thud Oh boy Oh boy I'm trying to delete those little blot links. Just pretend those little blot links are not there Okay, but buck you hear a loud thud above your car Uh-huh, and now it's the blots turn The massive blot is still attempting to keep its grip, but just barely you can see that the uh, lightning is just kind of zapping it from the back you can hear crackling noises and Buck above your car you hear the creaking and bending and shattering of metal As the massive humanoid blot jumps down between the two horses and looks at you with its bright glowing singular eye Make a wisdom save Ah Oh My goodness It tries to peer into your brain and you see flashes of A life that is not familiar to yours, but before you're able to recognize anything You shut your eyes and shut it out.  There we go. There we go. It's hard to grab the other tokens because the um The barrier is like the entire map Gotcha so back So these hawks are going to come inside this one is going to flank you buck Is going to try and take a bite out of you uh-huh Oh, I got a 15 ac now It is not going to be able to puncture as it just like tries to bite into your arm But you completely shrug it off.  I've got your ac on Uh, a sheet that I can see don't worry.  Love that.   Oh god Well, let's keep going. Well, we'll mark down. Tell me. Yeah You you take 18 piercing damage as there is a blot hawk that kind of spits at your direction 18 Piercing just a flesh wound Just a flesh wound you say and this one is going to swoop down and try and claw at today And it does get a nigga Oh, no Ooh, and she is going to look pretty roughed up as well Now by a bit of clawing from this boy Today is going to try and swipe back at it. Hey, it's too fast. It dodges out of the way Um, and this one is going to try and pull The halfling outside of the train this blot that was harassing it And it's pulling it out pulling one of the engineers as they are trying to hold on for dear life Oh This one is going to fly into this cart to see if there's any people there or not Now El Coco the main character is kind of whimpering in fear. Yeah. Oh, no.  All right. Uh, let's start with attacking the little one. That's right by me Let that bad boy Just want to try and splat it. Do you like the Batman notebook punch? Oh, yeah, just smashed in one hit completely Squished that's what he did Now can I like Oh god, can I like Try to tell the horses to go through? Yeah, you can command the horses. They're definitely gonna try their way to go through I mean, I know this is here, but I don't want I mean I I know I know this thing is not concerned about the horses. There's a horse moose in the sleeper car They're gonna try and squeeze pass at your command and panic as well They're able to get this far. This one is is going to be in the middle of the uh, kind of between cars pathway Technically could trample that thing It could if commanded to do so I'm too far away. I think And I can't command it. I would say you can give me an animal handling check as a bonus action So kind All right. Yeah, you command butterscotch to just trample through. Is that what you do? Yeah, both of them. I mean if I can tell them to just like Yeah Get us far away from Nice Our hooves at the uh Oh, wow, you actually got I'm just clicking them.  All right Get them butterscotch those legs are huge as they stop and stop and stop and efficiency as well Can you get me a roll for efficiency? Oh, yeah, heck. Yeah, since you already have the like the apple lucid thing up. So I don't have to do it All right. Wow. Okay, and hooves actually it's plus three no matter what they vote.  I feel like that's efficiency. Yeah, exactly Joe, is there some sort of maybe release mechanism between these uh between These two cars or like a way I can let's say I'm going to give you an investigation check If you can pass the investigation check you can unhook the car What a way to lose the cart. Okay, you're looking around you can't find it Oh, no, we need the lantern Yeah, this will unhook your cart with the uh Lantern of true sight just so you know, so that's why he repaired it for free I really think that like I know guys, but I just feel like with this huge blot blob on us like I just don't think Oh gosh, we can always business boys. Yeah Uh, we can always we can detonate the shield and it'll do damage to the stuff on the outside Uh, so that that is a that is a recourse that we could do before unhooking the later car, but I don't know The tree site is such a valuable power to have But I I just I'm very I won't do it yet But because I can bluff I'll stand is this the bulwark between This thing and but I'm gonna get messed up by this thing or it's gonna grab and eat me And then we're gonna have to decide whether I'm more valuable than the car So who do we like more guys? Let's make Can we add a lantern of true sight in trebisetta? Well, I don't know who you like more buck or the cart I don't know. Does buck read us the power to see invisibility. He does not. I'm certain of it Um, I will my what I want to do is but I won't this is I think maybe one of those decisions that Has to be a party one and I don't want to make without the party's approval I want to slam my hammer down and try to like decouple this Could you mage hand it? Word can't mage hand the true side lantern from three cars away. Yeah, I'm way too far away I'm definitely once I take this thing out. I'm gonna try and do my little scuttle rush to get there But just we'll see Yeah, I will say I will say detaching the cart will be a party decision since it's something that's all of you guys's property That would be my vote to do I'm giving a certain circumstances. I want to leave it up to to fel Um, like just my vote because I don't word would be mad no matter what But I think he could get over it. I don't really I mean we're still gonna be walking around elinthea. Just We'll get a new cart. We have our horses more than enough. I would vote. Yes. Buck's life is worth more than a lantern Poi. Thank you very much I've like I've tried to like homebrew stuff before where I was like, oh, I look at this thing True site and it's like true site is so busted You cannot give true site his ability to anybody and now I'm like, we just have a lantern that doesn't But ultimately I framed it I framed it in an unfair way for red because I know it No, no, the thing is ultimately I love the character decision And I'm not gonna you're gonna say I love the character. I think this is more fun All right. I'm gonna I'm gonna slam the hammer down because I do have another attack action Okay Okay, slam your hammer down. Give me an a give me an attack Uh attack attack attack. Can I do it recklessly or no? I didn't do it on the other one, but I don't know if you have let me find it I don't think you can because you I don't think I can you're right. You know where the release hatch is you're just hitting around 27, okay, you hit it and you can see the cart that's 10 damage 10 damage Just kind of you can see that it's like loosening a bit wherever you hit it Uh It uh You might just break this thing off rather than find the release hatch Okay But that's my turn and I'll stay there. All right. Layra your turn. There are plots coming in Yes, um So you're gonna need to tell me if I can sneak a lightning bolt down through the door or if that's not cool I'm gonna say because it's such a powerful spell and it's such a big area. I'm gonna say yes Thank you Open so yeah, I could imagine yeah marking through All right, it just comes down does a little 90 degree angle. I'm gonna aim at this bad boy if that's cool Let me just pull up rules is written Um Each of your turns until the spell ends you can use your action to call down lightning in this way again Yeah, it's like witch bolt, but actually good Wow, yeah, okay.  You can potentially survive this actually if it makes the save And it is a come on. I just had this uh dc 14 dex save. Yes Okay, it actually makes it this time, but it's looking very roughed up as this lightning arcs into the door and zaps it Okay, uh, and I let's see I think I have Uh, uh, yes as my bonus action. I'm going to Uh spend two bomb of the summer court dice to heal fritz Uh, let me just roll this twice Uh, oh great.  Yes, and you just healed three, but you also gained two temp hp. So total it's like five Total it's like five. Yeah, it's not not my it's not my not my best round all the things I want to do are actions Anyway, uh, yeah, I'll stay here and defend el cocal All right word your turn. Oh boy. Um, I'm gonna scooch over and try and lace Uh, just an arrow shot through to take out that blob I've been working on. Okay. Show me arrow Now if this lands and it does it does count as a sneak attack because the engineer is an ally and it goes right in and Boom dead. All right. Great. The halfling is free and gives you a little salute as they are shaking I take a bow And I will use my bonus action to dash risking the attack from this thing. Uh, that was five 10 15 or I guess 15 20 25 30 35 40 And I'm there I'm gonna get a tack for opportunity from that guy you are and it is going to slash you on your way in Okay, and you are going to take Nine slashing damage and I'm gonna need you to make a constitution saving throw These things are beefy for how little they are before that happens I'm gonna use my gem of blades To uh once for short rest when you receive damage from the source within 10 feet of you I'll spend my reaction to deal half back to it. Okay, so it'll take four damage Okay, you deal half back and it like as it goes to Claw at you you can see the claw as soon as it hits you and you do feel the pain It's claw just like kind of splatters You okay. It's a con save you said con save. Yes Gods be with me Oh no, they don't like me Okay, you can feel kind of a stinging sensation. You are poisoned No Not again That's not good. It's been poisoned Fritz That boy is boy I'm going to At this one and hope the heloforms doesn't hurt her because I still have it on Okay, it depends on helo thorns is wording Let me that is going to hit and that is going to kill that blot as you fire into it and she's kind of just holding it at bay But an astray bolt just comes in and kills it before it gets too close to gnawing her face How to show you the wording It should be show in vtt when you so I can smell Oh, wait, that's not it. Whoops. They were one other one. Yeah No, they know our secrets Uh each creature within five feet of it. So today is going to have to make a dexterity saving throw You know what? I believe it. Yeah Uh apparently not this one as she takes the full brunt of the thorns that kind of spread out and uh kind of like Jab into her a little bit And she it's only a one d10. Uh, I don't think it got rolled. Oh, yeah roll it How much it's about to look for the damage. Yeah, fine. Okay. Who thought it's not so bad And a few thorns kind of lodged into her and she just goes ah, is this because I kept that secret No, I'm sorry. No, I understand Have the silly thing in reverse Okay, today is going to go check up on the civilians and just help them in and heal them up She runs into the engine room pull them aside This block she's a paladin or something right? She's a cleric Oh, never mind. She did a guiding bolt early. She did a guiding ball. I don't know. I don't know what paladins are capable of I've only played one after level like three A lot of similar stuff So I don't blame you for thinking so uh, this one is kind of uh Barely holding up it's crawling and it's going to try and go up to attack you lehra seeing as you were the one Who zapped it so it's going to crawl up on the just got here chair All right, let's go.   Yep. Yep poisoned Disadvantage on attack rolls Now I'm just gonna have to strike everybody with lightning more.  All right, you're fine operations. Just strike everybody with lightning is a go Uh, this one seeing what's going on in there is going to try and spit at you word And it's gonna miss This one seeing as you're blocking the way buck the uh, the big humanoid blot just comes by Reaches out long goopy hands into your car And you can see that it starts to cover it in this blackness And it starts to shake and shake and shake and shake the rest of the train as well No heavily i'm gonna need everyone to make a dexterity saving throw As this thing is trying to vibrate the entire train Do I get something for Oh, you have advantage from that drink Oh, yeah, I do I don't get anything for being a cat, but I do get it for being drunk. Hell yeah Thanks goblin drink with unspecified meat particles in it Everybody except fritz succeeds. So you are all fine fritz.  Okay with this decision Yeah It sounds like you're not like you can say we're not and I would just try no no no it's it's funny Like this is like it's a loss, but it's not like a worse loss than you getting eaten by the blot would be No, I'm going to say at least my horse snacks are back in that cart, so I will be mad at you Okay, you slam down and you break the car free As and when you do you see the barrier I haven't drawn anything for this but the barrier quickly covers the car that is attached to the locomotive as the rest of it slowly Kind of fades away in your vision and slows down And the humanoid blot is standing there staring at you buck stalwart And you defeat the blot but lose your car in the process No I'm sorry No, that's left All of a sudden the train is moving much faster Is blah Isn't there one straggler there's two there's two oh two Oh, yeah, so, uh, I still have an attack. Hold on you do. Uh Yeah, and I can get there. Yeah You run past the horses up to one of the blot hawks. Oh, yeah, you squish it easily 14 damage.  Yeah, you don't even have to roll anything if even if you rolled a two this thing It's got one hp. These things had 10 They're glass cannons and you zap it as it's actually getting ready to go and scratch el coco And el coco kind of back into a corner a little bit whimpering, but then a lightning comes in Zaps it And it explodes and el coco goes back to is it strong stalwart self Barking at the remains of the blot Yes As good a heroic origin story as any Congratulations, you fended off the blot from the train Good work team True sight land turned my beloved If that fairy guy shows up again, we're not gonna have any way of knowing Well, we'll do what we can Can you explain something to me Oh wait, we could try to retrieve it at some point Maybe it is just gonna be on the railroad tracks eaten by blot I don't know we're gonna have time for that Yeah, the blot shows up like like we're like we'll be invisible and sneak up on it And it like pulls the true sight land turn out of its torso No This train is owned by someone. I'm sure they'll try to retrieve the hot rest of the half of it I'm sitting down Yeah Byron like after he settles down a bit. Well, uh, I'm not envy in the cleanup crew Can you give me a hand? Oh, yeah, of course. Thanks for saving me by the way.  I'm just glad I didn't drop. Yeah Oh And the team's alive. We're all alive. I think that's what's important Yes, all right. Let's get some healing in everybody I'm actually good today also comes in and just like is everyone all right That's kind of hard um Yeah, I'm gonna uh Drop a I'll come in actually. I'll drop a cure wounds on uh fritz Jude goes to check in on el coco eight points back. Oh my rage will end. Let me get rid of this Oh good work everybody This is everybody all right for the most part The word goes back and like opens the door to see the missing carts And he turns around and kind of does the soy face But he's like angry about like the pointing Jake Buck Do you want to explain something to me? Where's the door? Yeah, sure Where's our cart? Well The the back half of the train was covered in And essentially Entirely covered in the blot and I was one of the delicious snacks and rations And delicious snacks and rations I just thought that because I was 1v1ing the giant one-eyed King of blot. Oh, it's back Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, and I did what I had to to protect us. I didn't know how much I I made a split decision Okay, I understand that we will all come to regret this decision, but uh For now and he just kind of strides up to you and then it holds out a little talent par You owe me two gold for those snacks And you can hear buck kind of just in your brain and four blankets Buck can hear that? No, sorry word word. You do. Oh Oh word here's four blankets. Here's Uh, I don't have any blankets. How about six gold? How about six golden then you bring me the blankets later? I'm going to give you six golden. I will try to remember to bring the blankets In the meantime, can I borrow your poncho? No, this is my I This is my poncho. I can't I've used it to cover my body with I am putting a mental note There's blankets in the in the resting car. I mean you think you want me to get this negative six blankets There's if you're if you need blankets for the horse there They couldn't be by more blankets In fact, I think they're closer to the blankets that they have now than in the previous car I think I may very well go get them Okay, so it's just six gold. It's just six gold, man And you don't get these blankets back. Okay.  They weren't my blankets Word you hear kind of in the back of your mind another voice That was a good attempt boss. We'll get him next time Who's speaking to me right now currently that's that's the begonias, right? Yes, non stop begonias Okay, why why do you need blankets though? Oh? I think they can be pretty I'm always fascinated with mortals artistry I like the blankets. All right, but all right have Adam.  Perhaps Okay, have fun figuring that out. I like they all yours your little pocket re-uke is just weirdly positive Yeah For now we hang out he can have some blankets they might go missing I took six gold out of my and I out of my inventory for you. Yeah, okay. That's why I thought thank you damn nice You're your character decision tax Look, I'm sorry I I will I'll use the rest of my money to try and get us a cart in the next city I just feel like it's just a cart and I know it was helpful and I'm sorry I was kind of up against a wall that thing When I it tried to as it had done in the past tried to enter my mind and Spoke to me. Are you still hearing it now? I'm not but I think what it called us maybe was pretty interesting. It called us the betrayers Hmm A narrative is forming that I don't particularly like No, I don't remember anyone in recent history that betray I don't think it was about you specifically It could be No, it was plural. That's right, which means you're all in on it I haven't been in on many things that narrows it down significantly Today kind of comes up beat that as it may I think you made the right decision book You kept us all safe and a cart is just a cart. You can always get a new one Hell's here a pigeon and she puts a pouch down of 10 gold I spent quite a lot on this trip a lot of my savings actually Transportation wasn't cheap, but I'll spare what I can and Considering there's a major adventuring guild in tigimura. Perhaps we could make a little bit more money for you Yeah, you've always looking for work That would probably be wise especially if we uh Don't have a cart to sleep in on the road anymore. It's fine. It was the correct decision. We must simply plan Yes, it does sound kind of interesting. I haven't been put to work in I don't remember Fritz you had something also for oh, yes I'm just gonna like go up to buck and I'm gonna put my I guess I technically have hands.  Like are you okay? I'm quite tall myself Okay I'm just like This party has only one short king And his name is only there's only one short boss in this party I'm I'm fine I The the concern wasn't as much for me as it was for all of you all on this side of the train It would have been much more difficult without the um Force field thing That I turned into a bomb Oh, yes, we could still blow that up. We probably shouldn't do that Yeah, you did the right thing to protect the hearts Yes Speaking of all the hearts still accounted for we're all we're all good. Oh check your pockets. They're all still there just as you remember Okay Maybe maybe I'll be more clear for the three of you. Um, I guess this today and Byron to a lesser extent, but if this thing Just takes the hearts. I mean obviously that's important, but I I'm not trying to see you or anyone else get hurt on our account And so Byron, I'm sorry that that had to happen Byron steps up when I said this was a privilege I mean it. We all knew what we're signing up for and don't you worry your little head We're part of this. We're all in this together saving Lilinthi. It's our job. Somebody's got to do it Definitely I think this guy's got a better View of what we're doing than we do sometimes And you hear a little whistling sound from uh From the engine room and Byron, uh looks back and it looks like our job is going to get a little bit easier As you guys slowly head towards Tigamura now in sight over the hills Yay, you're now in the next city and the next leg of your journey That is going to be where we end today's session Yeah That was awesome. Yeah, I'm sorry, Joe about that. You did all the retrawing of the car. It's cool. It wasn't it wasn't that bad It wasn't a lot of maybe Maybe the cart will come back one of these days You'll get a new cart with blackjack and courtesans Honestly, I'm exactly same model Just color shape it. Yeah, just change the color I'm glad that we're going to be able to to like rough it in the dangerous wilderness a little bit more You know, we've really been lacking in random encounters so far. Yeah, it's blot or nothing in this house Who knows what else you could run into