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[SPEAKER_06]: Hello and welcome to Adventures in Aurelia, a podcast where five friends sit around the table and record themselves playing Dungeons & Dragons.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm Caitlyn, I play Tempest, a water-genocie Ranger.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm Kristen, I play Aerial, and an Asmar Divine Soul source source.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm Shantel and I play Canina, a teafling sorcerer.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Kristen, I play Rim, a human paladin.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm Damien, I'm the Dea.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I'll shout out the morbid podcast and Elena Arkart, who is one of the hosts of the morbid podcast because her second book just came out.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's called The Butcher Game and it's really good and you should read it but you should read the first one first which is called The Butcher in the Ren.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, a lot about meat.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, the butcher of the buy you a different kind of so he serves alligator Human the other other white meat.
[SPEAKER_01]: Kill man this episode We'd also love to give a shout out once again to Daniel Lee who with this point is like the artist of adventures in a really a
[SPEAKER_01]: from the last couple episodes we did.
[SPEAKER_01]: He did art for the saber that Rem drew off of Alanon's Hift and then stabbed him with.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we got the three versions of that done by Daniel and also the episode following we had a
[SPEAKER_01]: something new for Daniel.
[SPEAKER_01]: He did a like concept art sketch for us that was designed after like a blueprint drawing for the modifications to the cart that Canina requested.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we've got like the in-world sketch of what the blacksmith that Canina talked to was just like, hey, here's the design of what we're doing.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's art of concept art.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it was a new type of thing for Daniel.
[SPEAKER_01]: I reached out to Daniel just to say, hey, do you have any artist friends that would be interested in this?
[SPEAKER_01]: And he's like, me, it's not something that I've done before, but it's something I would like to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll give you a good deal on it if you let me try it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, dude, I love working with you, like working with you, you come out with exactly what I'm looking for.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're super good on giving us multiple drafts of things.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think it turned out awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's kind of like stage one of what we're working on for a multi-part commission of the battle wagon.
[SPEAKER_06]: The battle wagon!
[SPEAKER_01]: And hopefully, by the end of the year, we'll start working on the next stage of that commission and we'll get art of the actual battle wagon, not just concept art of the new edition.
[SPEAKER_01]: Previously, on Adventures in a Relia, Albert leads everyone out of the vault, having taken care of the shade and learning a bit more about how it is connected to Ariel and the Spear.
[SPEAKER_01]: As everyone is being escorted out, a few of them have some questions for Albert before they go about their days.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ariel and Kineena had out to the town to get some supplies, make some custom orders, and Kineena let's Thorst Egg know that the guild is going to come by to bless the Iron Casc.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tempest goes off to find something to eat before her individual meeting with Albrick, while Rem starts going over maps and takes notes for their upcoming journey.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we're going to pick things up today.
[SPEAKER_01]: About 6 p.m. on the 13th of monon.
[SPEAKER_01]: We know that tonight, Tempest is supposed to be meeting up with Oberyn because when he suggested leaving in the morning, she was like, I'm not a morning person, so he is planning to meet up with you to head out this evening for, as he called it, an initiation.
[SPEAKER_01]: Over in, we also, I believe, Kanina is supposed to be meeting up with Mistress Berry tonight after receiving a letter.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, if there's anything the party would be like to do, you guys it all started to like re-congregate at the Guild Hall as Evening started to approach.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if there's anything you guys would like to do before we move on to the the couple scenes for tonight
[SPEAKER_03]: I think Ariel's plan was to get food, and then prepare for getting up in the morning and heading to the farm to get a new horse, and I think she wanted to see what Ariel's was doing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Any horses do you need?
[SPEAKER_02]: Princess is staying behind, so we need at least one more.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, Princess is staying behind, so we need one to take with no name to pull the cart.
[SPEAKER_01]: Princess is going to the glue factory.
[SPEAKER_03]: No.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's spending a lot of money to try to ensure that doesn't happen.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, what can you not know who best to present the rid of deeds to, like, of the things?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'd listen back to some of our episodes, but I can't remember and I didn't listen back far enough to see if we did already do that on a previous session.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's one of those, uh, before a year and a half ago type things.
[SPEAKER_01]: for what Kanina could think of.
[SPEAKER_01]: I imagine that she would default to the guild masters.
[SPEAKER_01]: There is the possibility that you could just present it to the person that handles reception for them, or to the like to Susanna or Roger at the like entrance to the guild hall because they kind of are
[SPEAKER_01]: the quarter masters for the guild itself.
[SPEAKER_01]: I suppose it depends on how personal can you know wants to make having that info passed along.
[SPEAKER_02]: as much as she's loved, but I think she also just wants to get a past on and I guess this evening then, depending on who's at the desk if a night shift is taken over or not, Canina would take any documents of our travels and the rid of deeds that we got from some of the people that we did favors for and present them to the receptionist.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, uh, this is the receptionist at the front of the Guild Hall or the Guild Masters area.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, yeah, Canina will take the rid of deeds and documents of our travels to the Guild Master receptionist to submit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, uh, what is this thing happening?
[SPEAKER_02]: This is just a written verification of the deeds that we performed while out adventuring.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wanted to make sure the guild masters had these records.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so just a note to pass along to the guild masters.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can take care of that for you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, perfect.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you so much.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then Kineena will be off to go get dinner before her meeting with Beery later.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so we have Ariel is making her way to get dinner.
[SPEAKER_01]: Can you guys making her way to get dinner?
[SPEAKER_01]: Last that we had touched face with Rem.
[SPEAKER_01]: Rem was hanging out in like the main area of the Great Hall, annotating notes and going through journals and stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is Rem still just hanging out, going through his own paperwork and everything?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, rims basically just doing what he can to try to plan.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's checking maps of the known areas and planning out like a route that will get them there fairly easily over the known dangers or difficult terrain.
[SPEAKER_00]: But also you don't try to get there in a relatively quick manner.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then he's reading accounts of people that have traveled in the area just so he knows what their library will see or come across.
[SPEAKER_01]: So obviously with where the guild hall is, Rem knows that you guys are going to be needing to sail out of here to kind of start your journey.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the best kind of main place to be heading to is you're going to sail from Riven, down south to the large city of Thumeria, which is kind of the capital city of the region of Corinthia.
[SPEAKER_01]: which is the like region that is directly south of you guys and you've already had the guild master sent message along that you're going to need some provisions for your journey which you're supposed to be picking up in roads which is kind of a a it's a hubtown that grew from being a cross roads for the region because of its distance away it's about a day's
[SPEAKER_01]: So, it kind of naturally grew as people would stop there on their way in and out of the city.
[SPEAKER_01]: From there, what Rem can see looking at kind of a map of the area, though, the favelet itself isn't really documented.
[SPEAKER_01]: you do know from talking to the guild and doing some research that it exists in an area of mountains called Dunamis' Ring, which is largely to the north of roads.
[SPEAKER_01]: Roads is kind of going to be your last stretch of relatively civilized travel before you're starting to take a more wilderness
[SPEAKER_01]: upwards of a week or two because you're no longer going to be traveling on main roads.
[SPEAKER_01]: As far as reading accounts of the area, you know that people that venture too far to the north out of roads in the direction of the favel, either
[SPEAKER_01]: disappear and are not heard of again, or they come back and sort of our raving like a mad lunatic over the things that they have seen because the favel is a area where it's an area that is very close to like the mystical realm.
[SPEAKER_01]: of a really a it's home to creatures that do not exist as far as you know outside of the area and from what you can tell based on what you've read it's a heavily guarded secret of sorts.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, rims basically going to note down the stories of people that have gone missing or people that have come back, you know, raving lunatics, and then he's going to basically just, you know, annotate down to try to talk to anybody he can about the traveling and try to prepare his best he can for everyone.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then what does tempest do as things start to transition to evening?
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, I think when we last left off I was headed to like go get my bag sort of set while everyone else made their way back and I don't think it was spoken but I think we're sort of subconsciously going to meet up for dinner so getting my pack ready
[SPEAKER_06]: Just in my room with the basic, you know, what I would normally take out with me, get my bow ready, wearing my my letters, and then head down to find everybody, let them know, hey, I'm heading out.
[SPEAKER_05]: Tonight, for my initiation, let's see.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so Ariel and Kineena are down in kind of the mess hall as tempest.
[SPEAKER_04]: No, I'd leave it up in my room until after dinner.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so tempos comes down to the mess hall with Ariel and Kenina getting their dinner.
[SPEAKER_04]: Where's Ryan?
[SPEAKER_01]: Remas in the Great Hall, working on annotating maps and going through journals.
[SPEAKER_01]: So far, he has shown zero interest in stopping to eat or anything.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's going on 12 hours.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Kineena will, you know, after spotting Tempest entering the hall, I will wave her over.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sure, we have our food and a little bit of a table and a nuke somewhere.
[SPEAKER_02]: Kineena will also share the news of her adventures that she's going out on tonight.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to be meeting with Mr. Speary tonight.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hmm, a private meeting with the guilt leader indeed.
[SPEAKER_05]: That what?
[SPEAKER_05]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, I'm sure I'll find out more details as we go up.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, I will be apparently going out and doing my initiation for the naturalists killed.
[SPEAKER_06]: Ooh, with an open.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, he wanted me to go out in the morning with him, and I said, I'm not really working person.
[SPEAKER_06]: So, I can definitely get tested that.
[SPEAKER_06]: So, he asked if tonight was okay, and I said, tonight would be fine, since we're planning on leaving soon.
[SPEAKER_06]: I have no clue what I'm getting myself into.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, I'm sure you'll be in good hands.
[SPEAKER_06]: Good luck tonight.
[SPEAKER_06]: Thanks.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll just sit in there eating listening.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'll just...
[SPEAKER_03]: Her mouth is full, she can't speak.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think after we've all eaten a bit, a canine will make up like a plate for Ram and go bring that to him.
[SPEAKER_02]: She can track him down.
[SPEAKER_02]: In the exact same spot that he's been all day long.
[SPEAKER_00]: Big maps in front of him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Big stuff down, drop pictures.
[SPEAKER_02]: He ain't a well.
[SPEAKER_02]: After finding him, because she would probably check the last place she saw him.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's easy to find like a turtle.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think after traveling with you so long, she probably would have an inkling that you kind of get absorbed into certain knowledge things.
[SPEAKER_02]: So she'll give you a pat on the back and be like, Hey, Ram, I brought some food for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Still at it, huh?
[SPEAKER_00]: Almost done.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, let me know if there's anything I can do to help.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to be out with Mr. Speary tonight and Tempest is going to go have a meeting with the natural skilled apparently to do her initiation.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Ariel is just going to be hanging out, so.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, hopefully everything goes well with you tonight.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm sure Tempest will verify and her initiation.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hopefully, I'll go well and this will really help solidify her goals for the guild.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll catch you later.
[SPEAKER_02]: Can you now go get what little preparations that she feels like she needs to do, done before she meets with Mr. Spirion?
[SPEAKER_01]: Given that you guys ate together, I'm imagining that Canina essentially got up, got a second plate of food and took a taram around the time that Tempest would have gotten up and headed up to her room.
[SPEAKER_01]: So what does Ariel do?
[SPEAKER_03]: Ariel's realizing that she wanted to say some things, but was more interested in her food at the time, because she was so angry and everybody left, and so she's gonna go up to her room and write letters, and put them in like under the doorway of her friends.
[SPEAKER_03]: To let them know of her morning plans and just be like, well, for Nina's be like, hey, I know you get up earlier than I do If you want, you can wake me up to work out I really need to go get that horse So I'll probably want to leave in the morning.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you want to join me, you can and then for a tempest It would be like, hey, I don't know if you're gonna be awake when I need to go
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, but if you smell the bacon and you wake up on time, I'm gonna go to a farm to get a horse.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you want to help pick it out, uh, feel free to join me, and then, for Rem, it'd be like, hi, I'm going to go get another horse in the morning, not sure of your plans, but that's what I'm doing.
[SPEAKER_03]: and she writes Ariel at the bottom of all of them.
[SPEAKER_02]: The town shift.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hi.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hi.
[SPEAKER_00]: Greetings, human.
[SPEAKER_03]: She does, she's still unsure of how to, because she has that little bit of a crush, but she doesn't, he's kind of grumpy man too.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so she's not like, she was kind of a dick.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's not sure what to do with, like,
[SPEAKER_03]: It's very brief what she says to him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Alright, so Tempest goes up, grabs her pack, and where do you go after you grab your pack?
[SPEAKER_06]: So then I guess it sounds like Tempest would, you know, lock out of her room and bump into Nina who is across the hallway and also headed in the direction of the guild masters.
[SPEAKER_06]: So we'd head over to the receptionist who we don't know the name of.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry, when I stopped by earlier, I forgot to grab your name.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've had many interactions with me without ever wondering what my name is.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know, and I just realized how rude that was.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: What is your name?
[SPEAKER_01]: My name's Laura Lye.
[SPEAKER_02]: Laura Lye.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nice to officially get your name.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm Kineena.
[SPEAKER_02]: But Tempest and I are here to meet a couple of the killed masters.
[SPEAKER_02]: We have some meetings paired.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm meeting with Mr. Speary and Tempest is meeting with Obron.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, let me take a look and go make sure that they're ready for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: She unlocks the door and walks into their meeting chambers and you hear the door close behind her.
[SPEAKER_01]: And a few minutes go by and she comes back out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, they are ready for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Go, she pulls the door like holds the door open and waves you've on in.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you very much.
[SPEAKER_01]: you're welcome and you hear the door close behind you is sitting in the guild master's meeting chambers is Bery and Obern.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're not even sitting at the like long table that you're used to them sitting at because it seems that Laura lie.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just went and got them, so Tempest, you see that Oberin is standing kind of in front of where you see him sitting previously.
[SPEAKER_01]: He has a long hooded like forest green cloak on.
[SPEAKER_01]: You see a big draped over his shoulder.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's got two short swords at his hips.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can see that behind one of them, he's got a crossbow that is like hung by a loop off of kind of the back of his waist and draped on the outside of his cloak is a quiver and a bow.
[SPEAKER_01]: A tempest, are you ready to begin our travels?
[SPEAKER_06]: This is ready as I'll ever be!
[SPEAKER_01]: Good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, let's make our way out of the city.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good luck to Canina and over in kind of is saying this as he's walking towards you and he kind of gestures as he walks towards the door in front of tempest towards the door.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you, sir.
[SPEAKER_02]: And she'll kind of give a quick wave to both of you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Good luck tempest.
[SPEAKER_01]: He gives a little like head nod bow toward you.
[SPEAKER_06]: See you in the morning.
[SPEAKER_06]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_01]: Assuming that we're back by morning, that is.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'll see you eventually.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he follows.
[SPEAKER_06]: This is just like, why not, like, what am I getting right up into?
[SPEAKER_01]: And like, as the door closes, Tempest just here's a good luck.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Kineena, UC Berry, standing closer to the door that you know leads deeper into the guilt master's area, like their private.
[SPEAKER_01]: area, uh, she is dressed in her gild-colored, like, flowing robes that are kind of cut off at the shoulders so that the, the, like, sleeves wouldn't get in the way of her fire magic.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, are you ready?
[SPEAKER_02]: Can you know, trying to just bouncing on the balls of her feet or just like, ready is all that ever be?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, at least that makes one of us.
[SPEAKER_01]: What do we up to tonight, Mr. Speary?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you remember that, yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: We've been doing some studies on it.
[SPEAKER_01]: We know a little bit about what they are.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're the dragon bonds.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we're gonna do some experiments with you involving it now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that sounds intriguing.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you've told us about this connection that you seem to have with the dragon ever since you touched Fiac.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to see, we're going to rent some experiments about what this could really mean.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I know I talked to Ariel a bit about seeking counsel with her guardian co-sane because I know in some of the lore that we've heard the gods were responsible for locking away the dragons.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I was wondering if there might be more information to learn about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and you seem to have a connection to this dragon since you touched the axe, even without
[SPEAKER_01]: having the axe, with having the axe locked away in the vault.
[SPEAKER_01]: You still seem to have some sort of connection based on what you've told us.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: So where I just come with me and she like unlocks the door into like their private study area and lead you down the ladder into the floor of the vault.
[SPEAKER_01]: and you see her similarly to what Werna has done before dismiss the barriers that are blocking and kind of along the way while she's doing this, like, given the connection that you have even without having the axe in your possession.
[SPEAKER_01]: We just want to see what happens when you have proximity to the axe.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, well, take a deep breath and just be like, I'm definitely willing to try As far as I know, like you said the connection seems to be a bit deeper than just physically handling it Except for the first time which seemed to initiate that contact so yes, that that's what we're going to try to figure out a little bit more about what Rem go ahead and roll me a perception check 18
[SPEAKER_01]: You're sitting there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you eat your food after cleaning a dropped it off?
[SPEAKER_01]: He just kind of nibbled on it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, it's been probably about 30 minutes since Kineena dropped food off and went upstairs.
[SPEAKER_01]: And as you're reaching for another bite of food, you just happen to notice that tempest is leaving with Oberyn, the guild master for the naturalists guild.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're walking towards the front door and out of the guild hall.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, look up and nod to tempest.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tempest.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well perception.
[SPEAKER_01]: Woo!
[SPEAKER_01]: Twenty-two.
[SPEAKER_01]: As you kind of walk by the quartermaster station of the Guild Hall with Oberyn, you're kind of given a look over your shoulder as you're leaving the Guild and happen to see Rem.
[SPEAKER_01]: Give a bit of a nod in your direction.
[SPEAKER_06]: So give them a little salute.
[SPEAKER_01]: So Tempest Oberin leads you out of the Guild Hall and you guys make your way around the edge of the light craftsman's district towards the exit gate to the north of the town of Riven.
[SPEAKER_01]: The so Tempest, how did you find yourself in this predicament?
[SPEAKER_06]: We're calling this a predicament?
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, being drawn into suddenly a member of the Guild of Adventures, it doesn't seem like something that you were seeking out for yourself, but it does seem like something that you're willing to embrace.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know that Kenina has been pushing you, but how did you get here?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah well Mina has a lot to do with it.
[SPEAKER_06]: I was a crew member on the whispering winds, which the rest of this gang chartered to take them to Port Narsal.
[SPEAKER_06]: Um, on the way there, Nina did what she does best, and befriended me, and kind of convinced me to hop off the boat, which I hadn't done in a while, and see the world a little bit.
[SPEAKER_06]: And uh, she said dragons, and I was intrigued.
[SPEAKER_01]: I see, so at this point it is something that you are partaking and willingly.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, yeah, I'm not being held against my will anymore.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you have any sort of goals or things that you see yourself doing as a member of the Guild of Adventures?
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, I, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just, I've never really found a good place for myself.
[SPEAKER_06]: I've done a lot of floating around.
[SPEAKER_06]: I got into a little bit of trouble.
[SPEAKER_06]: You know, then it was on the boat for a while and just kind of settled into boat life.
[SPEAKER_01]: I see.
[SPEAKER_01]: My role here is, I mean, aside from the fact that I bring in members that have a more nature-driven state of mind, I spend a lot of my time away from Riven itself.
[SPEAKER_01]: I keep track of pretty much the entire Christal Valley.
[SPEAKER_01]: I keep things mapped out, I help where people need it, I keep an eye on the wildlife of the area, and that kind of brings us to tonight.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: About a month ago, I came across something abnormal.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm normal, how?
[SPEAKER_01]: One of the ancient grizzly bears of the region started to become unnaturally aggressive.
[SPEAKER_06]: And naturally aggressive.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, it started to chase out the other wildlife of the area and seem to only allow things around it when it came time to it.
[UNKNOWN]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: Are we going to go hunt it down?
[SPEAKER_01]: We are going to investigate further.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: If it means hunting it down, then it means hunting it down.
[SPEAKER_06]: Gotcha.
[SPEAKER_06]: So more aggressive than a normal bear.
[SPEAKER_01]: In your travels, have you ever seen a mother bear protecting her pubs?
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, now imagine that same situation without any comes.
[SPEAKER_06]: So, just very territorial.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now multiply that situation by two.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh boy.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a small area of forest to the north that has basically been entirely cleared out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Except it's taken, it is, it's domain at this point.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, and we're going to go check in.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: And see what sort of, uh, I'm going to see how you hold up, um, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Make sure that you are cut out for the lifestyle that you are about to lead, especially knowing a fair bit about what Canina has involved in.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is kind of an introduction for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, you were there for the Grimfang situation.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: I helped with that.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is giving similar but different fives.
[SPEAKER_06]: So is it a nana dead?
[SPEAKER_06]: Grizzly.
[SPEAKER_01]: But different fives.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's it?
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, gotcha.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're gonna figure that out.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, let's go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you guys have been walking this whole time.
[SPEAKER_01]: I, I, I, I, this this is condensing the conversation that you guys have over the many hours of travel.
[SPEAKER_01]: Got it.
[SPEAKER_06]: many hours whole year.
[SPEAKER_06]: Tempest is doing our best to keep up.
[SPEAKER_01]: You said you were a night owl?
[SPEAKER_01]: Canina, as you guys enter the main room of the vault, Barry walks you towards Fiac.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is sitting floating above that pedestal.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you can almost see the magical barrier around it and Barry mutters a small incantation.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you can see that shimmer that was around Fiac fade away.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, I don't you go forward and grab the X.
[SPEAKER_02]: All righty, Kneena, walks forward without hesitation and double hand grabs the X.
[SPEAKER_01]: You grab the X and pull it down off the pedestal and you immediately found yourself pulled into the mountain top clearing with joy times.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you have the X again.
[SPEAKER_01]: or you give in it to really me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, I have still yet to fully secure it for travels, but it is now in my possession.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am working on it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now that you have it, do you intend to form the bond?
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Kenny and I kind of hesitates out of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Bond, do you want me to become like one of the other dragon bonded weapon wielders?
[SPEAKER_01]: I assumed that that was your end goal with getting the axe back.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is its purpose.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_02]: Would that grant me any benefits as to securing the axe?
[SPEAKER_01]: Once you have bonded with it, it will be your axe.
[SPEAKER_02]: What does bonding entail?
[SPEAKER_01]: It entails a trial of sorts, a bonding ritual.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is the way that the riders finalize their bonds with our straggins.
[SPEAKER_01]: And though Fiatk is broken and has not yet been made whole,
[SPEAKER_01]: I can feel through the connection that we have together, and the fact that there is enough of the old dragon bond magic within the axe, to have created the ceiling between us, and the toiling the axe again, as once again brought you here, that I believe the bonding can still take place.
[SPEAKER_01]: Doing so will give you a way to tap into a bit of my power while also bringing the two of us close here.
[SPEAKER_02]: You say it'll bring us closer.
[SPEAKER_02]: Does it give each of us power over one another or
[SPEAKER_01]: in its current form, I do not think it will.
[SPEAKER_01]: When the dragon bonds were complete, a bonded dragonwider was able to make use of their bond to almost become one with us.
[SPEAKER_02]: Canina, well, does she still have the axe in its form while she's there in the mountainside?
[SPEAKER_02]: Or is it basically just her?
[SPEAKER_01]: At the moment, it's just you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I think I need to look down on her empty hands, and...
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that as you specifically look down and concentrate, you can almost see a shadow of the axe that you're holding.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, it hasn't been pulled into this dream scape with you.
[SPEAKER_01]: But your connection to it in the mortal realm, as you focus solely on like yourself and you're expecting to see it in your hands, you see like an after image of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, she wants to be cautious, but cautiousness has never been her strong suits, and though she, like, reflects upon the details of Ren, like sensing good and evil and being able to sense that the axe radiated evil and whatnot.
[SPEAKER_02]: Keenina doesn't think of herself as evil or being someone who is easily victimized by it.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I feel like with this opportunity to tie the axe to something that like herself that she feels like it would better be tied to her than to someone else because she I think she knows that if she doesn't go through with this bonding that Doiton will just find someone else.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I think Canina will feeling that faint Remnant in the mortal world.
[SPEAKER_02]: She'll just grasp it firmly and be like, Yes, I'm willing to do this bonding.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then you have my blessing.
[SPEAKER_02]: She'll look him squarely in his big yellow dragon eyes and just be like,
[SPEAKER_01]: He looks back at you and for the first time since you have started to have these visions with Doyton.
[SPEAKER_01]: You see him close his eyes and lean his head down and you can tell that for a dragon of his size and being that he is bowing at you.
[SPEAKER_01]: What is it about to happen?
[SPEAKER_01]: is he not entirely under my control?
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you wish to bond with the Ark?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Kineena, go ahead and roll me a constitution saving throw.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hehe, hehe, hehe, hehe.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I think it's a little bit to roll the Kineena ice for this.
[SPEAKER_02]: That is a twelfth.
[SPEAKER_01]: Kineena as you grasp more firmly onto Fiyak and begin the bonding ritual with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: The scene that you were in with Doytan abruptly fades away.
[SPEAKER_01]: You find yourself standing on worked stone flooring and as you look around, you see that
[SPEAKER_01]: go ahead and roll perception.
[SPEAKER_01]: 19.
[SPEAKER_01]: You are first alerted by the sound of a hammer clanging onto steel.
[SPEAKER_01]: And as you turn to face that direction, you see a glow coming through a door way nearby.
[SPEAKER_01]: The glow reminds you of like a forge, a firelight.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will start approaching the sound of the hammer clinging.
[SPEAKER_01]: As you make your way through the doorway, you find yourself in a room that has a lava flow running through it.
[SPEAKER_01]: and what looks like a lava-heated forges and the sound of the hammer draws your attention over to it and you can see an ancient has to be at least 250 years old, beard and hair like long, braided hair are completely white and they are hammering against what you recognize to be the
[SPEAKER_01]: You see the dwarf stop for a second with his hammer blows and the metal of the axe is reheated again with a blast of fire from a red dragon that was standing nearby.
[SPEAKER_01]: After the last few blows of the hammer, shape the beard of fiock.
[SPEAKER_01]: The dwarf holds up fiock, inspecting it, and he hands it off to a little bit over six-foot tall human male.
[SPEAKER_01]: with long somewhat wavy, shaky, black hair, who's standing next to this dwarf, shirtless, you can see that he is a very fit and muscular man.
[SPEAKER_01]: He grabs hold a fiat, and you see him look over his shoulder, and it's almost like he makes eye contact with you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Kneena will, uh, instantly brighten up, and just be like being at him, and just, hi there, I'm Kneena, what's your name?
[SPEAKER_01]: You take two points of fire damage.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ah, by take one point since I'm resistant.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you are resistant to fire, you take one point of fire damage.
[SPEAKER_01]: You see this man, look at you, and you open your mouth to speak.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you find yourself no longer standing in the dwarven forge.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're in what appears to be some sort of draconic shrine.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're standing where you can see like a protected, not quite a cave, but it's a sculpture of a dragon's open mouth and head.
[SPEAKER_01]: that the space inside of its mouth is like a cave, and standing in this cave opening.
[SPEAKER_01]: You see the same man holding fiock in the state that you recognize it right now, standing with a ancient elven figure, and across from this man is the red dragon that you recognize as being
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't make out any of the words, but you can, you can, like, hear what you would assume is Elvis, from the Elven figure that is standing between this man and Deuton.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you, you see, Deuton kind of bow his head,
[SPEAKER_01]: as a red glow starts to erupt from the center of his chest and as he lifts his head up you can see that like the center of his chest is glowing a bright vibrant red color and the elf steps in front of Doyton and places his hands on this red space and his hands push
[SPEAKER_01]: And he withdraws them, holding a small red orb.
[SPEAKER_01]: And as the Elven Man turns with this orb in his hand, you see the man lift up FIA.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the elf places the orb inside of the grasping clock.
[SPEAKER_01]: Take 10 points of fire damage.
[SPEAKER_02]: Canino wins a bit, but she's trying to keep her eyes on the scenes playing up before her.
[SPEAKER_02]: Role me a constitution saving throw.
[SPEAKER_02]: 17.
[SPEAKER_01]: As you kind of clenched your jaw wencing in the pain from a burning sensation that you don't know where it's coming from, the scene in front of this dragon shrine fades into you now standing on a desert plane.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're on the outskirts of a ruined desert city, standing on sand.
[SPEAKER_01]: Behind this figure that you now recognize from the previous two visions that you have been shown, he has his back to you, but the fact that he is holding fiock down at his side is immediately recognizable to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: He turns to you, go ahead and roll me an insight check.
[SPEAKER_02]: 17.
[SPEAKER_01]: As he turns, you can immediately into it from the look on his face, just this, this look of pure hatred and this scowl deepens as he sees you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Who are you?
[SPEAKER_02]: Was I able to actually get my name out the first time, or did he that?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, okay, that never got it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Can you know we'll look at him with no malice interface whatsoever?
[SPEAKER_02]: She'll just be even say, I'm canina.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why are you following me?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not really up to me, I'm being shown these visions.
[SPEAKER_01]: Visions.
[SPEAKER_01]: I could feel you chasing me everywhere I go.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can feel that you're after Fiyak aren't you?
[SPEAKER_02]: I am.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am currently looking to establish a bond.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're here to take him from me and he starts stepping in your direction.
[SPEAKER_02]: Kenny Newell braze both hands and take a step back and as far as I know the fjock that I am after is not currently in your possession.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you not see as he raises it in front of you that I am the wielder of fjock?
[SPEAKER_02]: Can Nina still have like a faint remnant trace of her self-holding it back in the material world?
[SPEAKER_02]: Not right now.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hmm.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do see that you're the current wielder.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't bear you and he ill will, but I'm associated with Doyton, and he has asked me to become the bonded with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was made for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Doyton is mine, and he strikes in your direction.
[SPEAKER_01]: You take five points for fire damage, reduce debris.
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