2025-09-14 Transcript

DM: Given that session was literally yesterday, do you need a previously on?
Shain: A year.
Aeryndel: Uh, not necessarily.
DM: Good because I haven’t had time to transcript it yet
Aeryndel: Oh.
DM: But long story short you are now in
DM: You’re now on the boat with your wifey
Aeryndel: Shia LaBeouf.
DM: Currently at dock in Dysarnia
DM: Is there anything particular that you wanted to do or is it basically just
Aeryndel: I mean there’s nothing really and I mean this is this is me saying goodbye to to every character
Shain: You notice a bag at your hips.
DM: we’re gonna go ahead and set sail and head off to Emmeria?
DM: Is there any last
DM: minute things you wanted to check in with in Discernia?
DM: Any last-minute
DM: things you wanted to buy?
DM: Anything like that?
DM: I’m going to need you to roll a d20 please.
Aeryndel: every playable character so far this is goodbye sucks um yeah no that’s it I’m
Aeryndel: I’m ready to set sail.
Shain: No, he understands me.
Aeryndel: Ah, is this the child role?
Aeryndel: I understand it.
DM: Now, natural is haughty, alright?
Aeryndel: Natural 20.
Aeryndel: Yeah.
DM: As you just begin on your journey, all is very calm and normal.
Aeryndel: Evenings.
DM: You and your fiancé have a wonderful evening, and then a morning, and then a day, and then
Aeryndel: Yes!
Shain: Wait, her son?
DM: in an evening and then a repeat for multiple weeks.
DM: As your journey just seems to be going faster and faster,
DM: you’d learn that her son has decided to go out on his own
Aeryndel: Fuck yes.
Aeryndel: I don’t have to deal with that fuck shit, Eric.
DM: and start up a new business somewhere in Ameria.
DM: Ameria.
Shain: Eric.
Aeryndel: Yeah, bro, I got a stepson now, bro.
Shain: Wait, her son?
DM: Some of the people that…
Shain: Oh my gosh.
DM: Flex didn’t read the lore.
Shain: I didn’t know about this, dude.
Aeryndel: Hello.
DM: But yeah, you meet some of the people that
DM: were on the boat previously that you kind of headed off with the the guard
Shain: It’s him.
DM: previously and everything is just going just fine.
DM: About halfway through your
DM: journey you guys kind of meet another another ship that kind of flew up
DM: besides you guys and there’s a little bit of trade going back and forth.
DM: Seemed
DM: to be a semi-regular occurrence as nobody was really concerned or suspicious at all.
Shain: Silence.
DM: But everything just went fine as your journey just continued going.
Aeryndel: Oh, yeah.
DM: You eventually arrive in Niem, a place that we have not actually been in the campaign
Shain: Okay.
DM: yet but you have visited before.
DM: It’s where you set sail to Braldnada back originally.
DM: And as such, you’re pretty familiar with the area, enough at least to know where an inn
Aeryndel: How long?
DM: is and the general way in and out of the roads, or in and out of the city.
Shain: You
DM: Is there anything particular that you wanted to do?
DM: Your wonderful fiance did tell you that her boat is in dire need of maintenance, and as
DM: As such, they can’t go anywhere for about a month or two as it’s undergoing repairs.
Shain: You could help them repair it
Aeryndel: How long is it from here to Thalasseral?
Shain: Niamh, that’s where he is.
DM: here to the Lacerille on horseback, we’ll take, hang on I can do math, if you’re on
Aeryndel: That’s going to be a while.
Aeryndel: I’m currently in Neomia.
DM: horseback slash carriage, that’ll take you 28 days.
Aeryndel: Okay.
DM: You could go faster if you
DM: like pushed your horse, and that is an option.
DM: But… hang on, I was about to say something and I
DM: forgot what I was gonna say.
Aeryndel: I guess, you know, if we have two months of waiting until her ship’s…
Aeryndel: I’m assuming as soon as her ship’s back up and going, she’s gone.
DM: More or less.
DM: Of course it’s gonna take a little bit extra time because she of
DM: of course, is more of a merchant than anything else, so she’s gonna have to restock everything
Aeryndel: Yeah.
DM: and it’s gonna take time.
DM: But yeah.
Aeryndel: Um…
Aeryndel: I guess I would suggest, ask her if she wanted to set up a, like a date for the wedding?
Aeryndel: Yeah, we have time.
DM: Oh, a date for the wedding!
DM: Whenever you kind of bring it up, she looks not hesitant, but more
Shain: Oh, no.
DM: more that her the the the idea of a wedding kind of brings back some sour
DM: memories and she just kind of asked you kind of what what you were thinking
Aeryndel: Ooh.
Shain: You did the mistake.
Aeryndel: Oh, shi-
Aeryndel: I don’t know, it was…
DM: Generally speaking, yes.
Aeryndel: I don’t know, it was f-
Aeryndel: Are weddings in Philasterole very grand?
Shain: Silence.
DM: If you’re somebody higher up, it’s generally a very grand event.
Aeryndel: Well, I’m not holding it in Thalasseryl.
DM: If you’re somebody that, you know, not necessarily part of the military or anything, you’re just
DM: kind of on your own, then it’s more of a toned down event.
DM: But given that you are the son of a very high general that now basically runs the nation,
DM: it’s kind of implied that if you were to hold it there, it’s going to be a large thing.
Shain: Oh
Aeryndel: I know that for a fact.
Aeryndel: So I would say something more along the lines of just like…
DM: For the record, I just wanted to let you know, if you did decide to go to the Lacero, the
Aeryndel: I saw that, Flux.
Shain: No
Aeryndel: I don’t know how to pull up the chat logs, but I saw that.
Shain: No, no
Aeryndel: I saw that!
Shain: No, no, no, he didn’t.
Aeryndel: Um, okay.
Shain: He didn’t see anything.
Aeryndel: I’d probably just say something along the lines of just like…
Aeryndel: I wasn’t thinking anything big.
DM: travel there and back will take a total of 44 days, but given it’s going to take two
DM: months, that’s 72 days in this world.
DM: So you’d have 28 days of cushion to do
DM: other stuff not on the road.
DM: Just wanted to mention that.
Shain: Or go home.
Aeryndel: OK, yeah, no, I just say something chill, just like friends and family only.
Aeryndel: nothing too big casual like I mean unless she wants to go big I mean I to be
Aeryndel: honest I’m gonna give her the option you know it’s you know it’s probably more
Shain: Why am I laughing at that?
DM: Um, basically she says that, um, her previous wedding was more of a, um, a just, um, small
Aeryndel: important to her about the actual design of it
Aeryndel: Oh shit, okay, okay, if she wants that, I can arrange that.
DM: quick wedding as it was to kind of, um, it was, it was more getting married out of requirement
Shain: I have made a decision.
DM: than actual love, and as such, she would like a very nice, large wedding this time around.
Aeryndel: I’m gonna tell her straight up, if you would like a bigger wedding, I mean, my home country
Shain: you
Aeryndel: does do things pretty big if you’re somewhat of my status, but just let it be known, I
DM: So long story short, whenever your father got married, you were of course not the
Aeryndel: don’t know if they will take kindly to a different race as much as I am.
Aeryndel: How big was my dad’s wedding?
Aeryndel: Off of a memory.
Aeryndel: Yeah.
DM: lives, so you only know based off of pictures and literal hearsay.
DM: But the way
DM: that he tells the story, because he was already on the council when he got
DM: married, it was almost a national parade.
Aeryndel: Um, I’ll, I’ll basically kind of just like relay that information of how how
DM: The elders did not take kindly to
DM: it, but it was a very big thing that happened.
DM: Keep in mind, because High Elves
DM: live so long and have very few children, a marriage is not a regular occurrence and as
DM: such it’s generally a very big celebration because of that.
Aeryndel: it was off of memory or my stories and then I’ll also add in the detail of like
Shain: Okay.
Aeryndel: if you want me to I can try and talk to my parents and see if they’re even open
DM: She thinks it over and says, well, I’d have to meet your parents sometime, right?
Aeryndel: to the idea of course I don’t even know if they will agree to this due to
Aeryndel: different opinions but I’ll try
Aeryndel: That is true.
Aeryndel: Is this what you want?
DM: She seems a little concerned, probably because of the, um, what?
Shain: This was meant to be Shane.
Shain: Did you just swear?
Shain: No.
Shain: What did you say?
Shain: I said it was meant to be Shane.
DM: What was meant to be shame?
Aeryndel: Me and Shane.
Shain: Shane.
Shain: Yeah.
DM: She seems a little concerned based off of the way you kind of said that they might not
Aeryndel: I mean, when I brought up the topic to my father, he seemed concerned, but he didn’t
DM: to be very accepting, but she is very enthralled
DM: with the idea of a lavish wedding.
Shain: Nothing.
Shain: Me?
Shain: No.
Aeryndel: seem against it.
Aeryndel: It’s my mother that I am worried about the most.
Aeryndel: Sorry, what did you just say?
DM: Well, I’m great with mothers.
DM: What did who say?
Aeryndel: You!
DM: Uh, she said that she is great with mothers.
Aeryndel: Oh, shit.
Shain: I don’t like the way you can do this voice really well Noah this scares me I don’t like
Aeryndel: Alright, uh…
Aeryndel: Yeah, I’ll contact them, see if I can set something up.
Aeryndel: And then, while we’re waiting on repairs and you to stock back up, we could take the trip.
DM: Sounds like a plan.
DM: I’ve never visited the last row before.
Aeryndel: Most people never get the chance to.
DM: What?
DM: Yeah, just raise your voice a little bit.
Aeryndel: It’s just his voice, but a little high-pitched.
Shain: the way you do this voice, Noah, but it scares me.
DM: Yes, queen.
DM: Girl.
Shain: No, it’s the way he’s saying it, basically, okay.
DM: Um.
Aeryndel: Yeah.
DM: No, sir, I do not.
Aeryndel: Yes, daddy.
Aeryndel: Okay.
Aeryndel: I can tell you don’t have any brother-siblings.
Aeryndel: No, sir, you do not.
Aeryndel: Alrighty, um, if that’s the case, while she is handling the procedures with the ship,
Aeryndel: I’m gonna go find a nice tree stump!
DM: Yes sir, yes sir.
DM: A tree stump is surprisingly readily available.
DM: fact it’s… there seems to be a… not necessarily a vast quantity of them, but
DM: as you kind of walk through the town you do see that there’s a uptick of high
DM: elves that are here.
DM: Through your travels there were not very many high elves that
Aeryndel: Oh, but wait, there’s high elves here?
Shain: Infatuated.
DM: were outside of the Lazarus.
DM: Most were half-elves, but there are high elves here,
DM: yes.
DM: And as such, a lot of their kind of customs have kind of leaked over, and in fact one of the
Aeryndel: Fuck yeah, I’m going to that place!
DM: areas that you find is literally, like, basically stalls with these stumps here.
Aeryndel: They got the last Aurelian Telephone Booths!
DM: They literally do, sir, they literally do.
Aeryndel: What the fuck?
DM: As you kind of walk in, there’s plenty of available stalls, just kind of dictated by
Aeryndel: This is awesome!
DM: the curtain being open.
DM: You just kind of walk in one, close the curtain behind you.
DM: It’s a pretty small thing.
DM: Think of like a changing room, but it just has a tree stump right in front of you for
Aeryndel: Yeah.
DM: you to call.
Aeryndel: I guess I’m gonna call my father first.
DM: All right, as you kind of stand on the stump and focus your mind, are you going to try
Shain: Ostapher, Ostapher.
Aeryndel: To give him a heads up.
Aeryndel: Yes, probably because he’s probably doing more paperwork.
DM: his office first?
DM: More paperwork.
DM: Everybody loves paperwork.
DM: You know what?
DM: Can I go get a drink real quick?
DM: My office is getting really dry.
DM: Okay.
Shain: So what I’m hearing is I show up to this grand wedding.
Aeryndel: Yes, you can.
DM: Uh, you know what?
DM: Can I go get a drink real quick?
DM: My mouth is getting really dry.
Aeryndel: I can also loosen it up.
Aeryndel: Pro said okay
Aeryndel: Well, the goal is to send an invite to Yin Lair the goal is to send an invite to
Aeryndel: Aragorn the goal is to send an invite to
Shain: So basically three of us, no, four of us.
Aeryndel: Pretty much every other party member that wasn’t you know a shit Lord
Aeryndel: I mean, yeah, it was you, Aragorn, Caitlyn, Sylvar, but I can’t reach you guys.
Aeryndel: That’s the problem.
Shain: You can, you just need to pray.
Aeryndel: Almighty Shane.
Aeryndel: Almighty Evarron.
Aeryndel: ANSWER MY CALL!
Shain: So, theoretically, he wants to send Shane an invitation to the wedding.
Aeryndel: And please calm down.
DM: All right, I’m back.
Aeryndel: August 28th.
Aeryndel: 11pm to 12pm.
Shain: He can just pray, because I’m technically god of the multiverse, right?
Aeryndel: Shane, if you’re listening to this, you’re invited to the wedding.
Shain: Multi-verses-es-es-es.
DM: Yes, no.
Aeryndel: I wouldn’t know, though.
DM: Yeah, first of all, he wouldn’t really know.
DM: Second of all, it’s not everybody can just reach out
Shain: Yeah, but I’m his best friend, that’s what I’m saying.
DM: to a god and actually have that god answer.
DM: Best bud.
DM: Yeah.
Shain: And I mean, I mean, if Sindel could create a goblin that was literally alive…
Aeryndel: I’m just saying, brother, I’m putting on the registry, la booboos.
Shain: Okay.
Shain: All right, it’s time to roll for my new character.
Aeryndel: Give me la booboos!
DM: Okay, I’m super sorry, um, sorry, I was just like having to switch between a bunch of different
Shain: Where’s four d6s?
Shain: Sorry, continue.
Shain: I’m trying not to be a distraction.
Shain: I’m trying not to be a distraction.
Aeryndel: I might not know.
Aeryndel: He looks like he is deep in thought.
DM: tabs of lore.
DM: Yes.
DM: Let me pull up the last row.
DM: Okay, uh, ice cream, last row and pop this here.
DM: Okay.
DM: Uh, yes.
DM: So as you kind of dial to your father’s office,
DM: he’s kind of, basically the stump is kind of in the corner of the office, essentially.
DM: and so you can look forward and see him riding on the desk before he looks up he says
DM: oh hello and he kind of goes you haven’t gotten back to me were you able to convince your
DM: the the the the sword master to make us a sword
DM: I can relate.
Aeryndel: to talk to him about that mainly he’s just so busy but I can try and contact
DM: Oh, yes, how was your journey through Gold Head?
Aeryndel: him later today and see what he thinks but I’ve mainly called you here to ask
Aeryndel: you about a certain topic
DM: Hey, did you get the maps I asked for?
Aeryndel: Oh
Aeryndel: He asked for maps.
DM: Yeah, if you remember correctly, he he basically said that nobody’s really gone through cold era, so a lot of their maps are outdated.
DM: So if you just kind of send him what you see.
Aeryndel: Oh yeah, so I said I was going to write down pretty much everything I saw and stuff, right?
DM: Just, you know.
DM: Yeah, pretty much.
Aeryndel: Oh, then yeah.
DM: Yeah.
Aeryndel: Yeah, I have those detailed notes on pretty much everything of Kaldera, of at least the
Aeryndel: path that we went towards.
DM: Oh!
Shain: Silence.
Aeryndel: And if everything goes well, I can hand them to you in a couple of months.
DM: Are you heading here, then?
Aeryndel: That depends on your answer.
DM: Okay…
Aeryndel: So remember, a few months back, I dropped that bombshell about me being engaged?
DM: Yes, yes, to, uh, what was it, uh, well, wasn’t a human, was it, you said?
Aeryndel: It was a tiefling.
DM: Yes, yes, I, I remember just well.
DM: You haven’t talked to your mom yet, have you?
DM: She hasn’t mentioned it, so…
Aeryndel: I was… I’ve been kinda dragging it a bit.
DM: Yeah.
DM: Very well, I’m sure this must be important if you bring it back up.
Aeryndel: But, so, I was thinking about making it official and actually getting married, and I wanted
DM: So, in the last rule, yes, he just kind of looks down, puts his hand on his head.
Aeryndel: to know your opinions on doing it in Thalasseryl.
Aeryndel: That’s why I’m asking.
Aeryndel: If not, I can always do it in Emmeria, and just… have fun with her.
DM: That would…that could be problematic.
DM: Does it have to be a big wedding?
Aeryndel: How problematic…
Aeryndel: Well, I mean, she would like it to be decently sized.
DM: Maybe a small get-together?
DM: Intimate family?
DM: The like?
DM: Of course.
DM: Of course.
DM: Yes.
Aeryndel: I mean, she hasn’t had one like it before, so it’d be kind of fun.
Aeryndel: You only live once.
DM: before she wasn’t previously married was she?
Aeryndel: Not like married-married, kind of like a forced arrangement.
Shain: You
DM: ah I see
Aeryndel: Yeah.
DM: well
DM: I will have to confer with your mother first before we do anything.
Aeryndel: I can bring the topic up to make you less like a target.
DM: I would appreciate that greatly.
Aeryndel: Um, like I said, like I said, um, I can easily figure something out in Amaria.
DM: It’s just like a little flash of fear in the back of his eyes of, I do not want to be the
DM: I don’t want to mention it.
Aeryndel: I’m currently in DM right now.
Aeryndel: I just landed.
DM: Well, it wouldn’t really be a good idea to get married in Ameria.
Aeryndel: Why?
DM: There’s some political tension, and if it gets out that my son got married in Ameria instead of the last real, it could certainly cause some issues.
Shain: Thank you very much.
Aeryndel: Oh well, it’s almost like I’m not welcome into my own country with my own wife at that point, so it’s like…
DM: You, of course, are welcome in…
DM: No, if I said the wrong thing, I apologize.
DM: You are more than welcome.
DM: I’m more concerned with your mother’s opinion on the situation.
Aeryndel: I mean, you both were always asking me to get married at some point, and you never specified…
Shain: We never had a talk about the birds and the bees.
DM: We never specified that is correct, but this is still…
Aeryndel: You never said that you had to be a high-elephant woman!
DM: And you’re right, we never said anything.
Aeryndel: Yeah, you…
DM: And you’re sure of this woman?
DM: I mean, the girl across the street, in the next tree over, she was, she’s still single.
Aeryndel: Oh yes.
Aeryndel: Uh, single.
Aeryndel: We all know she banged everybody in the fourth… fourth squad.
DM: This was just rumors, why it won’t be true?
Aeryndel: What do you mean it was rumors?
Shain: It’s a noon.
Aeryndel: After trading, most people heard it in the hall!
DM: That was not a single confirmed report!
Aeryndel: I LITERALLY WALKED PAST THERE AT HIGH NOON, AND HEARD THE NOISES.
DM: He just kind of looks at him and says,
Shain: It’s Elf’s Day!
DM: Anyways, just, yes, you can have your wedding.
DM: Who will tell your mother?
Aeryndel: I-I’m gonna call her right now.
DM: I would say,
Aeryndel: Is she busy at the moment?
DM: That’s what I’d say it is.
DM: It kind of, like, turns around and grabs something off the counter.
Aeryndel: Okay, I won’t ask about the scarves.
DM: Oh, she is probably at home right now, making another one of her scarves.
DM: Don’t ask about the scarves.
Shain: Yeah, Elven Scarf Fabric.
DM: I could not tell you.
DM: It’s a new monthly obsession.
Aeryndel: Is this like one of her new… hobbies?
Aeryndel: Who knows, maybe she’ll actually be happy about me getting married to someone else other
Shain: you
Aeryndel: than a High Elf?
DM: I…I doubt it’s…maybe…
DM: Maybe she’ll take that up as a new obsession.
Aeryndel: At least it’s not a Dark Elf.
DM: Last month, it was pottery.
Aeryndel: Imagine if it was a Dark Elf!
DM: You know, if that is true, you should start with that.
DM: You should start with that.
DM: That would probably ease it a little bit.
Aeryndel: Because it’s like, on every other race, it’s High Elves, everyone else, Dark Elves.
DM: But…but…
DM: Slightly wrong.
DM: It’s…it’s high elves.
DM: And then everything else.
DM: And then livestock, and then literal demons, and then literally the worst of the worst possible, and then darkness.
Aeryndel: Then Dirt.
DM: Dirt, yes!
Aeryndel: Then Dark Elves.
DM: Oh, and of course the little critters in the dirt.
Aeryndel: bugs is yeah so at the end of the day it’s really not that bad
DM: Of course, of course.
DM: Then, then the dark elves.
DM: It’s not that bad.
DM: You should open with that, see if she takes it.
Aeryndel: yeah um yeah no uh yeah that’s probably a good idea uh just also just a heads-up
Aeryndel: I mean another good news she is a her company is what what’s it called
DM: You’re not exactly positive of the name of the company, but her boat is the Gilded Osprey.
Aeryndel: What type is it?
Aeryndel: Merchant group.
DM: She’s a merchant.
DM: Direct merchant.
DM: Generally business-to-business type stuff.
DM: She deals with providing a lot of bulk goods to businesses in between the different continents.
Shain: In a second, check the stat line because I rolled something insane.
Shain: Open my stream.
DM: Also known as she’s got money.
DM: What are you talking about?
Shain: It’s not bad.
DM: Hey, yo!
Shain: I thought that there was placeholder, but I’m satisfied with this.
Aeryndel: Okay, I need to dump you, well.
DM: A better Shane Everon!
DM: That’s some pretty good rolls though, I ain’t gonna go lie.
Shain: What’s this?
DM: 18, 18, 15, 17, and two 12s.
DM: What’s your dump stat?
DM: What’s a dump stat?
DM: No.
Shain: I don’t need a dumpster.
DM: Do you know her usual route?
Shain: Anyways, back to my isolation.
Shain: Also, by the way, Shane taps into the call.
Shain: Is this thing on?
Aeryndel: Yeah, I’ll just relay that she’s a merchant, she has her own ship, the Gilded Osprey, it’s
Shain: It’s good.
Shain: Oh, man.
Shain: What?
Shain: What is that?
Shain: Okay.
Aeryndel: pretty impressive.
Aeryndel: It’s always nice to have connections with merchants.
DM: Uh, not necessarily.
Aeryndel: Do I know her, UsualRapButter?
DM: You know some of the places that she has been, which is mainly
DM: Discernea, Braunada, the Echo Peak in the Leila Isles, and then Niamh.
Shain: Silence.
DM: But not necessarily
DM: any direct routes or any other place.
Aeryndel: I’ll just relay that then.
DM: So.
DM: We’ve been trying to reach them in the Ley Light Isles.
DM: This is a very, very good opportunity.
Aeryndel: Yes.
Aeryndel: Yes, it is.
Aeryndel: Just don’t exploit her.
DM: Of course not, of course not.
DM: We’re not those pigs in Ameria.
Aeryndel: Everything must be fair.
DM: Um, but he just kind of smiles and says,
Aeryndel: Also, just a heads up, there’s a bounty on my head!
DM: This is very good news, actually.
DM: But yes, please talk to your mother as soon as possible.
Shain: It doesn’t run with Grunt.
DM: For what?
Aeryndel: Personal grudge?
DM: Oh.
DM: I’ve got four.
DM: Catch up, son.
Aeryndel: How much is your bounties on personal grudges?
DM: Uh, let’s see, last time I checked I was up to 1.2 mil.
Aeryndel: Father, I have some bad news.
DM: What?
Aeryndel: Mine’s up to 300 mil.
DM: Are you serious?
Aeryndel: That’s the information I got.
DM: There’s no way that’s accurate!
Aeryndel: Have you heard of the organization known as the Five Fingers Discount?
DM: You know what?
Aeryndel: Yes, yes, they used to and now it’s more of like murder and casinos and drugs and a lot
DM: I could’ve sworn I got a report from that somewhere.
DM: As he pulls out some drawers and files through some papers.
DM: Ah, yes.
DM: We got an informant.
DM: I believe they deal in…
DM: Shoot.
DM: Pretty much everything under the sun as far as I can tell.
DM: Mainly debt management.
Shain: What does it run with Grug?
DM: Is that right?
DM: It’s an average criminal organization number four then.
Aeryndel: of shit, except they’re pretty big, and their leader has a huge grudge on me.
DM: What’d you do?
Aeryndel: I gave her a fair wage, gave her a fair job, she was greedy and tried to sell me out, so
Aeryndel: I promised I would kill her, and then she escaped.
Aeryndel: Oh, I was the original leader of this group.
DM: You ran a criminal organization.
Aeryndel: I kinda let it go.
Aeryndel: like I was given the ownership and didn’t really act on it and it kind of
DM: I’ll pretend I didn’t hear that, and I won’t put that on paper.
Aeryndel: went haywire and I kind of just gave up
DM: But good for you!
Aeryndel: yes yeah no that’s not good probably not
DM: Good for you!
DM: Well, it certainly sets a precedent, I guess.
Aeryndel: but if anyone comes to the last row looking for me you know what to do
DM: Of course, kill them.
Aeryndel: Yes, well, not just kill them, in painful ways, torture.
DM: They’re Alzheimer’s.
DM: Of course, of course.
Shain: P. O. V. Me.
Aeryndel: Take out their fingernails and toenails one by one.
DM: Now of course, with little tiny itty bitty needles in every single spot you can fit them.
DM: Of course, you have to show it to them.
Aeryndel: rip out their blood vessels, cut off their balls, or genitalia and just feed it to them.
DM: And then…
DM: That…
DM: Decent option, I prefer the anus, it’s far more fun.
Aeryndel: You’re, like, sticking it up there?
DM: No, no, taking out the anus and making them eat that.
Aeryndel: Really?
Aeryndel: Oh, how are they gonna shit it out if they
Aeryndel: don’t have one?
DM: That’s no points!
Aeryndel: We think so alike.
DM: all the like son you just hear somebody and like in the next aisle over it on
Aeryndel: It’s clear that I’m not adopted.
Aeryndel: That would be a turn of events.
DM: their phone call just coughs it what
Aeryndel: Stunna, I’m on a phone call here!
DM: I’ve been spouting those up every so often, I think they’re true.
Aeryndel: Ah, I’m in like one of those public booths.
Aeryndel: Yeah, what’s happening?
Aeryndel: like, is people just leaving thalassery and just spreading our culture?
DM: No, I think the people in Emmeria is trying to pull us into theirs.
Aeryndel: i’m not gonna lie, it almost worked, this is kinda cool
DM: Did you…
DM: I’ll pretend I didn’t hear that.
Aeryndel: what, it’s kinda cool to say the place i grew up in, not where i grew up in
DM: Sure, sure, but…
DM: Their tactics are a bit underhanded if you ask me.
Aeryndel: Oh, 100%.
Aeryndel: I also noticed I did see other High Elves over here.
DM: Oh, no, most of them are spies.
Aeryndel: What’s happening?
Aeryndel: Are they just moving away?
Aeryndel: Oh
Aeryndel: Shit
DM: He just kind of chuckles and says, yeah, they really think they’re doing something over
Aeryndel: That makes a lot more sense now that I think about it.
Aeryndel: That makes a lot more sense now that I think about it.
DM: there in the area.
DM: Fools.
Aeryndel: Alrighty, well, uh, I’ll contact Mother and see what she thinks.
DM: The fools.
DM: Best of luck to you.
Aeryndel: It’s probably not gonna go well.
DM: I’ll just, uh, plan to stay in the office tonight just to be safe.
Aeryndel: Yeah, um, either way, I will be making a trip over there.
Aeryndel: within like the next two months and if everything goes well and we agree to this
DM: Well, I will take your word for it, I’m actually kind of excited to meet this woman who stole
Aeryndel: wedding then we can have it in the last row and have a nice time and you could
Aeryndel: meet her.
Aeryndel: She’s very wonderful.
Aeryndel: You will like her.
DM: my son’s heart.
Aeryndel: Not the only thing she stole.
DM: You did it, out of wedlock?
Aeryndel: What did I do?
Shain: Talk to your mother.
Aeryndel: Father, there’s something you must understand about me.
DM: Nope, we will end this conversation here.
Aeryndel: I’m a broken man.
Aeryndel: What’s this?
DM: Talk to your mother.
DM: I
Aeryndel: You want it?
Shain: You wuzz.
Shain: What?
Shain: Grug.
DM: Broke my heart to put that to
Shain: Okay.
Aeryndel: I’m just gonna end the call there with a grin.
Aeryndel: Alrighty, uh, I’m calling my mother.
Aeryndel: I’m calling, I’m calling her up.
DM: Give me one second, roll a d20 please, just a flat d20, it’s going to be your luck roll.
Aeryndel: uh four oh should i re-roll it should i re-roll it with my luck point oh i rolled a four
Shain: No, don’t do a dragon no
DM: Contested luck.
DM: Huh?
DM: No, no, no, no.
DM: You rolled a four, all right.
DM: For the record, in some instances where I don’t really know what I should do, I’ll have two options, one that I like, one that I don’t, and then we’ll do a contested roll to decide which one happens.
Aeryndel: Oh, oh, great.
DM: Yeah, as you kind of quote-unquote redial and call your mother, you see your parents’
DM: house in their tree, and your mother is sitting on a basically recliner, and she is just knitting
Shain: Silence.
DM: a very long scarf.
DM: The scarf has drooped off the chair and has just made a very large spiral
Aeryndel: Yeah, it’s been a while.
DM: of scarf.
DM: She kind of looks up and says,
DM: I haven’t seen you in forever!
DM: She picks up a ball of yarn and throws it at you.
DM: You called your father, but didn’t call me!
Aeryndel: I needed to ask him something specifically before I brought it up to your attention.
Aeryndel: Um, I’ll ask you on one condition, brother.
DM: Well, go on with it.
DM: Yes?
Aeryndel: Just promise not to overreact.
Shain: I already don’t like her.
DM: When have you ever known me to overreact?
Aeryndel: In about four minutes.
Aeryndel: Oh, Mother, uh, I bring you good news.
DM: Oh, you can see the future now.
DM: My son is a seer.
DM: Ha ha ha ha!
DM: Oh?
Aeryndel: I’m getting married.
DM: Finally!
DM: Is she who I tried to set you up with 14 years ago?
Aeryndel: Do I really have to say this again?
Aeryndel: You know she was banging the 4th Squadron.
DM: She was not!
Aeryndel: Her mother was banging the captain!
DM: I talked to her mother myself!
DM: …
Aeryndel: I love how it’s canon how there’s just one family that are just a bunch of whores.
Shain: Anyway, it’s.
DM: In ways, if it’s not her, then who?
Aeryndel: This is the part where you’re gonna overreact.
Aeryndel: Oh, yes, so, uh, on my journeys, I met this wonderful woman, uh, her name is Shyla, yes,
DM: Just spit it out.
DM: Shia, that sounds like a strong name.
Shain: You forgot to mention the ranking.
Aeryndel: and she’s a tiefling.
DM: She’s a what?
Aeryndel: Tiefling.
Aeryndel: Beautiful.
Aeryndel: Gorgeous.
Aeryndel: Yeah, you did.
DM: There must be something wrong with the magic.
DM: I swear I just heard you say Tiefling.
Aeryndel: You did hear me say tiefling?
DM: As in she was raised by Tieflings?
Aeryndel: No, no, mother, her race is a tiefling.
Aeryndel: Yes, you heard it right, I’m marrying a tiefling.
DM: Not a High Elf.
Aeryndel: No, not a high elf.
DM: Not even a Half Elf?
Aeryndel: No, not a half-elf.
Aeryndel: Like I said, I met her on my travels.
Aeryndel: It was kind of just a thing that
DM: What makes you think this woman is good enough for you?
Aeryndel: turned into something beautiful.
Aeryndel: What do you mean, good enough for me?
Aeryndel: I’m half of a man!
Aeryndel: I’m glad enough she was interested in me in the first place!
DM: You are more than a man.
DM: Look, you fixed yourself right up.
Aeryndel: BARELY!
DM: She just kind of says,
DM: So, you’ve been courting this woman.
DM: So what?
Aeryndel: I talked to father about it, and now I’m talking to you about it.
Aeryndel: I was wondering if…
Aeryndel: See, I just landed in Neum, and I was wondering if we wanted to hold the wedding in Thalassore.
Aeryndel: Cicero, have a great get-together.
DM: A wedding.
DM: And you’re going to, permanently, for the rest of your life, marry this woman whom you’ve
Aeryndel: Yes.
DM: known for, what, a year?
DM: Don’t you think you’re being a little… a little bit of a fool, Miss?
Aeryndel: I live longer than she does.
Aeryndel: I mean, might as well.
Aeryndel: Mother, I’ve seen things that no one should ever see.
DM: Aren’t you acting rashly?
Aeryndel: I’ve fought behemoths.
Aeryndel: I’ve almost died a lot over this trip.
Aeryndel: And, you know, I’ve realized something that I haven’t been living my life.
Aeryndel: I’ve been just walking down a path.
Aeryndel: So why not have some fun?
Shain: Realm.
Shain: No, mom.
Aeryndel: Make some good memories instead of hanging on to the bad ones.
Shain: Okay.
Shain: They’re not like us.
Shain: Real.
Aeryndel: I mean, Mother, this is…
DM: There might be a good, young, high elf girl just right in your future, you just haven’t met yet.
Shain: No mom.
Aeryndel: I know it’s hard for you to accept the fact that I am just not like the rest of you.
Aeryndel: I am different.
Aeryndel: I am…
Shain: They not like us.
DM: Fine, fine, fine, you don’t have to give me the whole explanation.
DM: We do this every time we disagree.
Aeryndel: I’m scarred.
DM: How about this?
DM: You bring her here, and I’ll judge her for myself.
Shain: I like this.
Shain: I do know her, actually.
Aeryndel: No offense, Mother, but watch your tone.
DM: Excuse me?
Aeryndel: Excuse me?
DM: Watch my tone in what?
Aeryndel: I don’t like the way you’re speaking about her, and you’ve…
Aeryndel: you’ve never even met her!
Aeryndel: Talking about harshly judging a person you’ve never even met.
DM: Gee.
DM: Kind of scoffs.
DM: Uh, roll insight, please.
Aeryndel: Oh no.
DM: Dirty talk, all right.
Aeryndel: Uh, lucky!
Shain: Silence.
Aeryndel: Uh, 20.
Aeryndel: 30.
DM: When she scoffs, you kind of pick up that this isn’t a dismissive scoff, but actually
DM: kind of a, her opinion is raised slightly because of how defensive you got of her.
Aeryndel: She’s testing me.
Aeryndel: I mean, yes, we’re not, I’m not planning on getting married in Emmeria, I’m wanting to
DM: Um, she says,
DM: Very well, but still, I’d like to meet this girl before you marry her.
Aeryndel: travel with her down to Thalassria.
Aeryndel: Like I said, we’re only like a month and a half away.
DM: Very well.
DM: I shall prepare the ceremony.
Aeryndel: Just, you know, I’ll let you know if she has any preferences.
Aeryndel: Just be nice if you could.
DM: I presume that this will be a formal, high-off wedding.
Shain: This is so real.
Aeryndel: I can talk with her, but she said she wanted to be, you know, not like your average wedding.
Aeryndel: She wanted to be kind of big, because, you know, you only get to have one good wedding
Aeryndel: in your life.
DM: She just kind of looks and says,
DM: Your father basically runs the country.
DM: This will be a very large wedding.
DM: I can guarantee that.
Aeryndel: I mean, she doesn’t strike me as someone who is mean to other people.
DM: But she is up-to-date on all of her etiquette, I presume.
Aeryndel: I can make sure, you know, do a little test, but she’s very nice.
Aeryndel: Very formal.
DM: Very well.
Aeryndel: If it makes you feel better, she is quite accomplished herself.
DM: So who would take care of the children, then?
Aeryndel: She has her own merchant group, and she has her own ship, the Gilded Osprey.
Aeryndel: Oh, f***.
DM: If you’re both out doing your…whatever it is you do, and she’s off at work.
Aeryndel: Okay!
Aeryndel: Okay, Mother, so first of all, you don’t like her, and now you want children?
DM: Well, no, I have to think of the future, because obviously you aren’t.
Aeryndel: I have very much thought of the future.
DM: You will leave this poor girl with your children as you lie dead in a ditch?
Aeryndel: I don’t know where I’ll be, probably dead in a ditch.
DM: I raised you better than this.
Aeryndel: I’m sorry, Mother, I’m testing you.
Aeryndel: Now that you’re getting defensive, I can see that you don’t hate her already.
Shain: I don’t know about this.
DM: I don’t know how to feel of this woman.
Aeryndel: But you’re not treating her like a lesser being.
Aeryndel: at least nice.
DM: I will meet her when she gets here.
DM: She kind of waves her hand and the call just immediately disrupts.
Aeryndel: That went so much better than I ever thought it would!
DM: Um.
DM: They literally are.
DM: Okay, give me one second, I have to send a DM real quick.
Shain: That went well.
Shain: I don’t know about this, I don’t know about this dragon, I don’t know about this dragon,
Aeryndel: Yes!
Aeryndel: That went well!
Aeryndel: My parents are stuck up.
Aeryndel: They’re snobs.
Aeryndel: That went well.
Aeryndel: They are snobs, bro, and that went well, dawg!
Shain: I don’t know if I like this.
Shain: I don’t know if I like this.
Aeryndel: Very good.
Aeryndel: That went so much better than I ever could have imagined.
DM: All right.
Shain: Don’t say it, Banner.
Shain: Don’t say it.
Aeryndel: That did go better, fucks!
Aeryndel: That’s like bringing your, uh, different race girlfriend to your VERY WHITE PARENTS.
Shain: Actually, I kinda know what that’s like.
Shain: I’m just kidding, I don’t know.
Aeryndel: All- Lo and behold, Julia is just black.
Aeryndel: Julia does blackface.
DM: Okay, well, as you know the call has ended, what exactly would you like to do now?
Aeryndel: I guess I’m gonna go meet up with Shyla and let her know the details of what I just had to go through.
DM: Alright, um, she, with the way that you kind of phrase it and basically, um, kind of, uh,
Shain: Let’s give it a shot.
DM: what’s the word I’m looking for?
DM: You know how somebody with very strict parents kind of flavorfully says something that makes
Aeryndel: I’m ready, I’m ready, I’m ready, I’m ready, I’m ready, I’m ready, I’m ready, I’m ready,
DM: it sound like the parents are more accepting or whatever than it actually is?
DM: You kinda do that whether you mean to or not, and she just kind of seems excited now and
DM: wants to get on the road as soon as possible.
DM: Fortunately, while you were on the phone, she had already bartered for a horse and wagon.
Aeryndel: I don’t need any any shopping no I mean on the on the way there I’d like to
DM: So you guys are ready to go if you’d like, otherwise you can leave in a little bit if
DM: you want to do some shopping first.
Aeryndel: talk to her about like if she has any preferences on the wedding or if she
Aeryndel: just wants it to be a full-on elven wedding and she just rolls with it
Aeryndel: because if she has any preferences I’ll gladly reach out to my parents and be
Aeryndel: like yeah this is one thing she wants to do see if it works out
DM: is that it be very large and that there be plenty of pictures for her to send to
DM: all of her friends.
DM: She basically says that there’s no way that they would ever
DM: actually show up.
Aeryndel: Also, like, they can’t come, it’s the Lacerille.
DM: A lot of her friends are kind of snobby like that but she
DM: would like to send them pictures almost in a spiteful ha ha ha ha lookie what I
DM: I did, and you’re still all there, all alone, all by yourself.
DM: Yeah, well, she wasn’t stressed about that in the first place.
Aeryndel: Oh, yeah.
Aeryndel: Oh yeah, well then yeah, I would say pictures are fine as long as they don’t have any, you know, details that would give other people insight to how our operations are made.
DM: She just wanted to brag to her friends.
DM: Of course not.
DM: And she does have one other request.
DM: She wants a very nice painting made of you and her in your full wedding gown and everything.
Aeryndel: I could request that.
DM: other than that she is just excited to finally be married out of love and have a very large wedding.
DM: As you kind of get on the road and begin your journeys you realize that her initial statements
DM: of only having a few requests is incorrect completely and utterly as she continuously
DM: gives you more specific requirements.
DM: Specifically these kinds of flowers, she wants this kind of
DM: colored dress, this length, this amount of fluffiness on the dress, etc, etc, etc.
Aeryndel: I’m just going to be like, you’re probably going to get along with my mother.
Aeryndel: Knowing her, she’s probably going to be the exact same.
DM: Um, let me pull this up real quick.
Aeryndel: Honestly, I would probably just say to her, you know, one thing you can do to kind of
Aeryndel: click with my parents is to just bring this up, talk about the wedding.
Aeryndel: mean it makes it like make it mean like make it worth something and they’ll
DM: All right, yeah, as she continuously gives you more of these requirements and eventually
Aeryndel: definitely think oh yeah maybe this person’s not so bad at all
Aeryndel: Here’s the requirements.
DM: you start writing them down in your book and some on like an afternoon you’d walk into
DM: the woods, find a stump, and then call back home and say, all right, here’s the requirements.
DM: about the eighth time of you doing this your mother gets a little annoyed at
DM: just the long list of requirements but fortunately she it’s just a visual
Aeryndel: As soon as that would happen, I would probably stop sending her requests.
DM: annoyance she doesn’t actually say anything or stop anything but
Aeryndel: Like, I wasn’t probably even going to be like, yeah, I’m going to call you back eight times.
DM: okay
Aeryndel: I’d probably just do it like once or twice with a big list or so.
DM: All right.
Aeryndel: Oh yeah, no, that works out.
DM: You just continue on your journey.
DM: You head, of course, first into Coloma, sorry, before just immediately heading to the Velociraptor.
DM: know from your journey that previously you took this road here, which goes
DM: directly to Colossaro.
Aeryndel: Uh, which way’s faster?
DM: Would you want to take that way again, or would you want to
DM: go down to Sackett first?
DM: Probably the one directly to Colossaro.
Aeryndel: I’d probably go that way, and if, uh, do I need to worry about anyone following me?
DM: Everybody knows where Thalasseryl is, it’s just unless you’ve been there before you can’t
Aeryndel: Everyone knows where the last rule is, they just don’t know where it is.
DM: like actually find Thalasseryl.
DM: You shouldn’t have to stress it too much.
Aeryndel: Can I get a vibe check on if, uh, how bad it would be if I asked her
Shain: Don’t trust him, don’t trust him!
DM: All right, yeah, you just, you head on your journey this way and experience very few problems.
DM: Yeah.
DM: Yeah, go right on and make that check.
Aeryndel: if I could, um, blindfold her so that she doesn’t know they’re out.
Aeryndel: Like, is that a bad thing to ask of someone I’m supposed to be trusting fully?
Aeryndel: Probably.
Aeryndel: Fuck me, dude.
Aeryndel: Do I really want to use another?
Aeryndel: I’m going to use another lucky.
Aeryndel: That is a dirty 20.
DM: already 20.
Aeryndel: Yeah, I’m not asking.
DM: You are very confident.
DM: It would be a horrible idea to ask your soon-to-be-wife
DM: put on a blindfold.
Aeryndel: I’m just gonna hope and pray that no one has a problem with it.
Aeryndel: I’m just gonna hope and pray that no one has a fucking problem with it.
DM: But yeah, you just continue.
DM: Let me do this real quick.
DM: Okay.
Aeryndel: Okay.
DM: You just
DM: continue on your journey to Vlaseril.
DM: As you kind of cross over the border
DM: between Emeria and Vlaseril, you see kind of overhead a small squadron of
DM: about five flying elves just fly overhead.
DM: You can’t really like see them
DM: very well as they’re flying really high, but you notice that one of them is
DM: definitely looking at you before just continuing their journey.
DM: As you continue
DM: your journey into Colossal, you finally hit the trees.
DM: And of course this is on
DM: day like this would be day 13 of your travels, so it’s been a while.
DM: But you
DM: finally enter the tree line.
Shain: Sorry, we’ve been having.
DM: As you pretty expertly navigate the area, you
DM: know pretty much exactly where you’re going, of course, because you’ve gone
Aeryndel: As we’re going, I am holding your hand, by the way.
DM: this way before.
DM: You find the exact tree that you’re looking for, and you find the staircase
DM: that’s kind of magically hidden on the side of the tree, and head on up towards the quote-unquote
Shain: you
DM: main city of Palazzo.
DM: Of course, as you kind of get to the top,
Aeryndel: to make it look official.
DM: previously this was basically a very open establishment.
DM: You would kind of get
DM: to the top of it and there would just be a large kind of
DM: wooden
DM: surface with a bridge connecting the next area.
DM: Instead, this time once you get to the top, there’s
Shain: Bye bye.
DM: a large kind of gate, essentially.
DM: The kind of tree bark just kind of extends to the side,
Aeryndel: I would be wearing my hood, by the way.
DM: making an entryway, with a large gate made out of the same type of wood that the staircase is
DM: made out of.
DM: There’s a High Elf Lair in full military gear.
DM: As he kind of turns and looks,
DM: He looks and says, yeah, as he kind of turns and says,
DM: who goes there?
DM: Show identification.
Aeryndel: I’ll take off my hood and be like,
Aeryndel: Ah, identification.
Aeryndel: And I pull out the crest.
DM: He just kind of looks and says,
DM: I was informed you were coming,
DM: as he kind of opens the gate and he says,
DM: you kind of hear just under his breath,
DM: really though, is he fine?
Aeryndel: If I hear that, I’m giving him the death glare.
DM: Yeah, you do hear it.
DM: He’s not necessarily trying to be quiet about it.
Aeryndel: I’m casting message in his head and I’m just going to be like, watch your tone.
DM: Whenever you kind of glare back, he just kind of glances back at you.
DM: But he isn’t necessarily too scared of you.
DM: just kind of like glares back but looks away at the last second.
Aeryndel: Howard.
DM: Your Miss Shiloh
DM: she just kind of walks through with essentially pride as she as she should
Aeryndel: She should.
DM: obviously but she is not concerned at all but you’re pretty sure that she also
DM: heard that that remark but she honestly could not care less from what you can
DM: out.
Aeryndel: W.
DM: But yeah, kind of head across the bridges going exactly where you’re
DM: familiar with.
DM: The many people that are kind of outside their homes or on the
DM: way to the market or what-have-you, you guys get many stares essentially.
DM: As you
DM: You are, of course, aware it is abnormal to see anybody but High Elves and Velociraptor.
Aeryndel: Yeah, I would go to my house first, check on things, make sure that the gnome hasn’t
DM: But regardless, you continue on your journey, heading towards…
Shain: I love you.
DM: I presume that you’d probably be heading directly to your parents’ house, or your house.
DM: Yeah, absolutely.
Aeryndel: Didn’t mess with anything.
DM: As you kind of make your way to your house, you of course get plenty more stares and glances.
Shain: Look how majorly clean this place is.
DM: hear these kind of whispers every so often of people that are just asking who
Shain: You missed it.
Shain: I love you, I love you, I love you.
DM: who is that?
DM: Why is she here?
DM: And then other people that are in the know.
DM: It
DM: appears to be a very, not even an open secret, just common knowledge of who you
DM: are and why you’re here.
DM: The the kind of nation of Guasarela is very familiar to
DM: you, but it has changed.
DM: And that’s very clear based on just the sheer presence
DM: of people in full military outfit all over the place.
DM: Previously there
DM: weren’t that many people in, you know, full military attire.
DM: You kind of head
DM: towards your house, which of course is in one of the higher, quote, higher classes
DM: a philosopher, closer to the philosopher tree.
DM: But as you kind of get there, you
DM: open your door and the person that greets you is not your friend from
Aeryndel: I was taking the scenic route, showing her around.
Shain: Let me see here is crazy.
DM: the Gnomish Mafia.
DM: Instead, it is your mother, who is sitting on your chair,
DM: finally looks up at you and says,
DM: Oh, I heard that you entered our borders days ago.
DM: Where have you been?
DM: I’m sure you have.
DM: Alrighty, let me see her.
Aeryndel: I… bring her in the door.
DM: She kind of stops for a second whenever she sees her.
DM: She… you can kind of read her as, of course, you were raised by her.
DM: you’ve lived many, many, many years with her, so you kind of know her body language.
Aeryndel: She’s in awe of her beauty.
Aeryndel: Ha ha ha ha!
DM: No, not that.
DM: It’s more that she was expecting to be able to spot a flaw or something that she could
DM: kind of point out.
Aeryndel: Mother!
Aeryndel: Really?
DM: Instead, she just kind of says,
Aeryndel: Now is the time you have to say this?
DM: At least I know what your taste is now.
DM: I had so many good offerings for you when you were growing up.
Aeryndel: Oh, what, slut one, two, or three?
DM: What about our neighbor?
Aeryndel: Oh, you mean slut two?
DM: She was not.
Aeryndel: Her father was banging the guard’s son!
DM: Her father is my closest friend.
Shain: I’m going to go ahead and do that.
DM: You believe too much in rumors.
DM: But fine, fine.
DM: What about that girl?
DM: What was her name?
DM: Uh, Kirsten something or another.
Aeryndel: Who?
DM: Back from grade school.”
Aeryndel: Oh, grade school.
Aeryndel: Oh, great.
Aeryndel: Because I remember grade school.
DM: Um, we…
Aeryndel: She couldn’t tell I was kind of worried about, you know, the war.
Aeryndel: I don’t have time.
DM: She says,
DM: Always excuses.
Shain: If I was you, I wouldn’t take that twin.
DM: Always excuses.
DM: Anyways, I apologize.
DM: I never introduced myself.
DM: I’m Muriel, this idiot’s mother.
Aeryndel: How dare you, how dare you, mother.
DM: And you are?
DM: You’re wonderful wifey, who kind of dressed up for the occasion a little bit, by the way.
Shain: me black hole.
DM: She has on a very long kind of black dress.
DM: She just kind of says, my name is Shayla, it’s a pleasure to meet you.
Aeryndel: It’s so perfect.
DM: Once again, your mother looks almost annoyed at how perfectly she executed this maneuver.
DM: She just kind of stands up and walks towards you, before kind of whispering to your ear,
DM: fine, I guess she passes initial observation, before she turns and says, well, I have many
Aeryndel: You don’t have to tell me twice.
DM: things to do, I will let you two get situated as she walks out of the room.
DM: Uh, Charlotte kind of turns to you and says,
DM: Piece of work, ain’t she?
Shain: I don’t know what you do now.
Aeryndel: But, to be fair, that actually went good.
Shain: It’s all well.
DM: Once again, that went good in your book!
Aeryndel: Yes, that went good.
DM: She just kind of, she just kind of like straightens her shirt and says of course, it’s not a flaw
Aeryndel: I hate to say it, but…
Aeryndel: She found no flaws in you.
Aeryndel: She really wanted…
Aeryndel: I could see it.
Aeryndel: I could see the urge to make fun of you, and she couldn’t.
DM: to be found.
Aeryndel: Damn right.
DM: All right.
DM: No it’s not.
DM: This is your house that you bought.
DM: All right, this is your house that you bought after the war.
Aeryndel: Anyways, this is where I grew up!
Aeryndel: No, it’s not.
Aeryndel: This is my house after I bought one in the war when I became, you know, a vegetable.
Aeryndel: You
DM: A vegetable.
Shain: I’m a mechanic, mechanic, okay.
DM: He just kind of looks and says, not much of a vegetable, not anymore.
DM: As you kind of just continue your conversation, give me just one second, hang on, I have to
Aeryndel: You tease
Aeryndel: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
DM: reference, I have to reference the lore, okay.
DM: As you kind of continue your conversation and you’re kind of giving her the tour of
Shain: Hi.
DM: the different rooms, you open the door to your main bedroom and just standing inside
DM: is kind of a transparent see-through Shane Everon as he kind of turns and looks directly
DM: at you.
Shain: Voice is like echoing
Shain: Spend some time.
Aeryndel: Yeah, yeah, it’s, yeah, it’s been some time- where the, where the hell are you?
DM: He looks a little taller from the last time you saw him.
DM: More sure of himself.
Shain: It’s complicated, but good news.
Shain: Actually not so good news.
Shain: I don’t know.
DM: Shiloh just kinda whispers here,
Aeryndel: Oh, this was, um, one of my original party members, uh, his name is Shane Everon, and
DM: Uh, who’s this ghost in your room?
DM: So long story short.
Aeryndel: uh, he’s, uh, somewhere, he went through a portal for… five months, six months now?
Shain: Dead.
Shain: I’ve been managing a multiverse.
Shain: What can I say?
Aeryndel: A what?
Shain: So,
Shain: Butter, how much control do I have here?
Shain: I can like I can do little because it’s still you know early in development.
Shain: I’m in early access, but like
DM: You have macro control in the sense that you could destroy the world.
DM: You can also cause earthquakes.
DM: But as far as minuscule control, you’re essentially locked to any spell, 8th tier or lower.
Shain: I found the bottom
Shain: You just bring it in
DM: Anything more and you’d kind of upset Mestra.
Shain: Eighth tier
DM: Yeah.
Shain: Oh my gosh, okay, I didn’t know this
DM: Of course, you are limited because you have no idea what you’re doing, and from DM perspective,
Shain: Yeah, exactly
DM: you’re going to get yoinked if you try to start doing nonsense, but you get the gist.
Shain: Of course, yeah
DM: Major illusion.
Shain: Then what I’m going to do is
Shain: Since I have the ability to do it.
Shain: I’ll just keep it simple and
Aeryndel: you
Shain: Arundel sees
Shain: kind of like this projection of the universe that I’ve essentially created
Shain: like a overview like if that makes any sense like a top-down view of like let’s
Shain: just say a location and shockingly yes it’s like but like they’re all there
DM: Thank you very much.
DM: Bye-bye.
Shain: right and it’s like you can see different people walking around you
Shain: actually see Aragorn walk around you see yourself walking around and then this
Aeryndel: What the fuck?
Shain: big like silver tree that climbs really high into the sky and like this giant
Shain: white light coming from it that’s kind of pulsating and I’ll just leave it out
Shain: it’s kind of just floating over the surface kind of by my like elbow level
DM: uh you you realize uh dragon uh he says that and there’s there’s no sound or anything uh
Shain: I say so long story short short turns out the person who I came to know
Shain: Sindel.
Shain: Or Sindril.
Aeryndel: Okay.
Shain: Actually, he’s currently with me.
Shain: Say hi, Sindril.
Shain: Oh, that’s me.
DM: But Shane, you here, bye!
Shain: He says hi.
Shain: Basically what happened was the madman himself was basically using universes to fuel alternate
Aeryndel: Thank you very much.
Aeryndel: Bye-bye.
Shain: universes that were procedurally generated to try and find his dead girlfriend.
Shain: And in the process
Shain: he… Oh, you’re writing this down.
Shain: I’m glad it’s important to you.
DM: Thank you.
Shain: And in the process he destroyed
DM: Bye.
Shain: my world, and I can’t bring it back yet.
Shain: Do you want to keep this and get rid of it?
Aeryndel: Sorry, I thought I heard a voice.
Shain: You can keep it.
Shain: Arendelle, are you okay?
Shain: What do you mean?
Shain: Oh, sorry, that was Sindel.
Shain: He’s talking about his memories.
Shain: you okay?
Shain: What do you mean?
Aeryndel: Said do you want to keep this or do you want to throw it away?
Shain: Oh, sorry, that was Sindral.
Shain: He’s talking about his
Aeryndel: Oh.
Aeryndel: I didn’t…
Shain: memories.
Aeryndel: Hi Syndrome.
Aeryndel: At least you’re not dead!
Shain: But yes, no, long story short, and then Shane just kind of claps his hands and
Shain: the whole illusion goes away.
Shain: Essentially, well, not really.
Shain: I have an
Shain: an unlimited amount of time, and theoretically forever.
Shain: The only problem is, I don’t know if I can do it.
Shain: However, yeah, you’re like the only one left.
DM: You see, um, you see R18 content of Caitlyn and Zylvar.
Aeryndel: Did Soldier die?
Shain: I mean, Caitlyn got back to her world.
Shain: I opened a portal to hers.
Shain: She’s safe back in that chaotic universe.
Shain: You know what, let me check that.
Aeryndel: Oh, gosh.
Shain: I go and breach their universe.
Shain: Oh, well, I can’t unsee that, even for someone who has the ability to change the multiverse.
DM: Uh, Caitlyn’s a she, but yes.
Aeryndel: Katelyn’s just forcing himself upon that twig boy.
Shain: All right.
Shain: Twig boy.
Aeryndel: I don’t know.
Aeryndel: Katelyn has dick energy.
Shain: For real.
DM: Caitlyn really does, don’t they?
Shain: So now, here’s what I’m gonna do.
Shain: Is this, like, too much?
Shain: Because I don’t know how hard or theoretically we can get here.
DM: Um, no, not a dodecahedron, but you can give him essentially a very magically infused sending
Shain: Could I, like, give Arendelle a Dohecahedron just to contact me?
Shain: Not like the stupid, crazy, powerful stuff I can do, but more like a, hey, I have a thing,
Shain: thing!
Shain: Yeah, I’ll make it look like a dodecahedron.
Aeryndel: you
DM: stone.
DM: More or less.
DM: Just for funsies.
Shain: Just for funsies.
Shain: And I’ll kind of make it mini so it’ll be able to be held in your hands here.
Shain: And I’ll create it, and then it floats over towards you.
Shain: So I came to say hi.
Shain: I don’t have a lot of time on my hands, which is funny, because you’d think I would.
Shain: I do want to be there for I’m assuming you’re guys’ wedding.
Aeryndel: Oh, yes, let me introduce.
Aeryndel: This is this is Shiloh.
Shain: I reach my hand as I go for a handshake but realize I can’t.
Aeryndel: She’s perfect
DM: She just kind of chuckles and says, nice to meet you too.
Shain: You’ll have to excuse me, Shiloh, I’m still learning the ins and outs of the multiverse.
Shain: Nice to meet you.
Shain: I’m going to turn over, look at Arendelle, and whisper,
Shain: dang, bro.
Aeryndel: No, I fucking know hmm
Shain: I wish I could.
Aeryndel: I just, I just, yeah, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just, it just
Shain: I can’t give you that.
Shain: Yes.
Shain: Yeah.
Shain: And I’m going to lean back.
DM: you
Shain: Well, lots to talk about, lots of things to see.
Shain: It’s easier if you just see it for yourself,
Shain: but I can’t really take you there yet.
Shain: I’m working on that.
Shain: But, at the moment, if you were to decide to ever travel the multiverse, just give me
Shain: a heads up, because I connected all branch timelines into one.
Aeryndel: Okay.
Aeryndel: Is there a universe where there’s no Dark Elves?
Shain: So, yes, if there is a universe you want to reach, just contact me there and I could create
Aeryndel: I’ll bring that up with my father.
Shain: one.
Aeryndel: He might be very intrigued in moving all of the High Elves of the Last Surreal.
Shain: The only problem with that, Arendelle, is they don’t have souls.
Shain: I’ve been trying to bargain with whoever- I don’t know who the God of Death is anymore.
Aeryndel: Ugh, don’t bring her name up in this country, specifically.
Shain: It’s been so long.
Shain: Probably the Raven Queen?
Shain: Ugh.
Shain: I know.
Shain: Oh, I’m sorry, that’s true.
Shain: This is Theresa.
DM: It’s pretty nice, it’s about average.
Shain: You know what?
Shain: This is the first time I’ve ever been here.
Aeryndel: It’s not, actually.
Shain: It’s quite lovely.
Aeryndel: It’s the second time.
Shain: It’s not?
Aeryndel: Well, this is the first time you’ve been in my house.
Shain: Oh yeah, that’s right.
Shain: Oh, this is- ah, because this is the first time I’ve been here.
Shain: I look around his crib.
Shain: How nice is it?
Shain: Does it need, like, a touch-up, a dusting or two?
Aeryndel: It definitely needs a touch-up.
DM: It definitely needs quite a touch up, it’s definitely dusty, the bed has not been made
DM: in literally almost a year.
Shain: I cast 400 tiny servants, and they all…
Aeryndel: Lieutenant Dan!
Shain: They all clean the house, and within a flash of light, everything’s clean and pristine,
Shain: And bet is made.
Shain: Mm-hmm.
DM: I just realized you could literally make individual specks of dust each be their own tiny servant.
Shain: But it crawls inside like a human being.
Shain: I don’t know.
Aeryndel: That’s terrifying!
DM: horrifying.
DM: I love it.
DM: So, uh, Dragon, from your perspective, what you see is Shane just kind of
DM: wave his hand for a second and like the, um, the kind of dust that’s just kind of right around him,
Aeryndel: Holy shi- Is this what you meant by your true power wasn’t available in this world?
DM: it just kind of starts to move as it forms almost a wave of all of the dust being pushed to a corner
Shain: Oh, I…
DM: before just getting compacted.
DM: And then some of the little dust particles go and make the bed
DM: real quick before jumping back in the pile and so there’s a little bit of like speck of like
DM: release like dense dust in the corner of the room.
Shain: This is even much for Karsis, I believe, from my understanding.
Shain: This is a level beyond most people’s comprehension.
Shain: I was strong, but never this strong.
Shain: Mostly due to…
Shain: I created an artificial weave that allows me to do what I couldn’t do before, because
DM: You
Shain: Mystra is…
Shain: Forgive me.
Shain: You’re flipping through your pages again.
Shain: You’re doing this again, Arendelle.
Shain: You’re not even writing anything.
Shain: It’s just scribbles.
Shain: I guarantee, you don’t even have the pen clicked.
Aeryndel: You
Shain: There you go, that’ll work better.
DM: you
Shain: So, yes, I’ve been learning more.
Shain: Surprisingly enough, for someone as strong as me, there’s still much more that I can’t do than I can do.
Shain: Uh, like, you know, bringing my world back, but we’re working on that.
Shain: If you ever meet the person who owns the soul of, um, my move on from the life
Aeryndel: Sorry, what?
Shain: into the afterlife girlfriend, then let me know.
Aeryndel: Who?
Aeryndel: Oh, the deer?
Shain: Remember Jessica?
Shain: No, you don’t.
DM: It’s the Lustigian plot hook that never went anywhere yet.
Shain: Uh, remember the deer we ran into long ago who was shapeshifted into a woman?
Aeryndel: Yeah, I remember the deer.
Shain: It’s blondish.
Shain: Yeah, essentially
Shain: Yeah, yeah, it was great
Aeryndel: It was so nice.
Shain: Yep
Shain: Yeah, that was uh, that wasn’t her but they took the form of that person
Shain: So this is the whole reason I actually decided to search
DM: Okay.
Shain: for a way to reverse time or to find the souls or
Shain: There’s so many possibilities Arundel.
Shain: I I feel like I can’t even describe it to you
Shain: So instead, I’m going to show it to you, and I put my hand on your forehead, and I’ll just use ThoughtStrand.
Aeryndel: It was big.
Shain: I have been confirmed with the higher-ups that that plot hook was fake.
DM: The Sneakin’ Deer was, if you remember, she could see the future and knew that you would
Shain: I don’t know.
Shain: We’ll see.
Shain: Oh, by the way, before I leave Arendelle, two things.
DM: do very great, important things, i.e.
DM: what you’re doing right now.
Aeryndel: Oh.
DM: It’s just, there was another spirit you guys were supposed to meet down in Coronado but
DM: y’all did before that was able to happen, so.
Shain: I am not necessarily omnipotent in the sense of I know what everyone is doing all the time,
Shain: But if I’m able to be here right now, then I can at least bring myself to one part of
Shain: the universe at a time.
Aeryndel: Can you kill people in this world?
Shain: Therefore, if you want any information for some certain things, I probably could get
DM: Yes, there is a window that’s open, yes.
Shain: it.
Shain: I don’t know my limitations yet.
Shain: Just be careful what you do, because let’s see, is there like a window or something that
Aeryndel: Well, don’t kill anybody in Thalasseryl, dammit!
Shain: like is opened?
Shain: No.
Shain: No, is there like a window that’s open?
Shain: Okay, do I have that like you said up to eighth level why don’t I just like
Shain: Start it use control weather or something to make it start the thunder like really bad like a thundershower
Shain: Well, I’ll give it a thunderstorm, and it goes away.
Aeryndel: If you find anything about the location of a woman named Serenity, could you please kill
DM: trying to do it, but you are able to successfully do it, yes.
Shain: So, yes, apparently I am.
Shain: What’s the last name?
Aeryndel: her?
Aeryndel: I don’t know.
Shain: Let me go sift through the universe of all 12.8 million dimensions and I’ll be right
DM: She has one, but you don’t know it.
DM: Shiloh just says, I’m sorry, did you say you can acically do anything?
Aeryndel: If it makes you feel better, she’s currently in Lemstron.
Shain: back.
Shain: I’m strong.
Shain: I lean into her.
Shain: As long as the big bad God upstairs doesn’t get angry, yes.
Aeryndel: I’ll be fine.
Shain: AKA Mistral.
Shain: okay um i feel like that was a half good thing half not so good thing but i’m i’m grateful
DM: She just kind of gets this smirk on her face that says,
DM: we need to talk later.
Shain: yes hey hey listen i’m thinking about starting my own religion because theoretically i have
Aeryndel: What?
Aeryndel: Whoa there.
Aeryndel: Chaneology.
Aeryndel: I did, but I’m not much of a religious person.
Shain: ascended to godhood think about it think about it i’m the only one at least that i know of
Shain: I can manage the time frame like I can so like
DM: you
Shain: I don’t know you can be my founder.
Shain: Actually, you know, did you get those spell scrolls I left for you?
Shain: I don’t remember
Aeryndel: I don’t think you want me starting your cult.
Aeryndel: I mean, uh, religion.
Aeryndel: Should I just go up to Warlock Wannabes and be like, hey, make your patron Shane Everon!
Shain: Hey, I mean the more power to you i’m just saying that
Shain: Technically if you still wanted to help the more you spread the word of
Shain: Whatever you want to call it
Shain: Then, be my guest.
Shain: Whatever fits the boat.
Shain: I’m not necessarily sure what power I can bestow upon people, I don’t know if I can.
Shain: It’s a really odd situation.
Shain: Wait a second, you know they’re watching?
Aeryndel: Give me my relaxed level, I’ll take a level into warlock.
Shain: Arundel, I thought it was just a game for you.
Aeryndel: No, Shane, it’s never a game.
Shain: I show Arundel Noah’s face.
DM: Wait, wait.
Aeryndel: I SHOUT SHANE, MY DICE TRAY.
Aeryndel: We’ve, we’ve gained sentience, but now it’s, when I see you, that’s fine, no, it’s, it’s
DM: Oz, what happened?
DM: I looked away for one second.
DM: What is happening?
Shain: We found out that we could,
Shain: we knew we were part of a board game the entire time.
DM: No.
Shain: Board game.
Shain: But yes, let me know about the wedding.
Shain: I have to rest for a moment because, yeah, I’m tired.
Aeryndel: That’s fine.
DM: you
Aeryndel: Thank you so much for at least letting me know that you’re alive.
Aeryndel: I…
Aeryndel: To be honest, I had a gut feeling you were dead.
Shain: I would have been if it wasn’t for Caitlyn.
Aeryndel: I’m glad to know that, you know, Kaelin wasn’t a complete asshole.
Shain: A complete waste of time?
Shain: No.
Aeryndel: I just wanted to break into that one place and craft a new leg.
Aeryndel: Is that so much to ask for?
Shain: How did that new leg turn out?
Aeryndel: Oh, it’s pretty good.
Aeryndel: I threatened a gangster with Black Hole.
Aeryndel: he didn’t know what a black hole was wait a second
DM: He’s got a meeting scheduled.
Shain: Of course they don’t.
Shain: Technically speaking, you’re the only one in this-
Shain: Wait a minute.
Aeryndel: theoretically Shane if I if I threaten somebody with the power of God can I
Shain: I forgot something.
Aeryndel: call upon you and you just appear right behind them
Shain: Depends on the hours, I mean, I’ve got a meeting scheduled with…
Aeryndel: It depends on the hours, it depends on the fucking hours, that’s it, that’s it, that’s
Shain: I mean, if you give me enough heads up notice, sure, absolutely.
Shain: Listen, most of the time I am looking for opportunities and ways to create, or get the
Shain: souls back, or rewind time to a point in which my universe wasn’t destroyed, but then the
Aeryndel: But would that be a perfect paradox?
Shain: problem is if I do that, I’m in a paradox, Arendelle.
Shain: If I rewind time into a point where
Shain: I wasn’t ever in Christallis, it means I was never there to begin with, meaning that everything
Shain: that occurred would never have happened and I would not be in the position I am now.
DM: No, stop!
Shain: Vorpal Weapon, Haunted Living Halls?
Aeryndel: reaction!
Aeryndel: Lasting impression!
Shain: No!
Aeryndel: Slideshot!
Aeryndel: I love how- I love how Butter knew Perfect Paradox
Shain: Can I just…
Aeryndel: was a destiny reference because he goes, no.
Shain: Not allowed.
Shain: But yes, I will get back to you shortly, and you take care, my friend.
Shain: If you need anything, just channel your emotion into the dodecahedron, and I have a ringer.
Aeryndel: I, I will.
Aeryndel: Yeah, okay, uh, yeah, uh, enjoy
Aeryndel: Enjoy Godhood, I guess?
Shain: I definitely don’t want it, but it needs to be done.
Aeryndel: Alrighty, I’ll contact you if I just want to talk to you, I guess.
Aeryndel: Oh, is there another one now?
Shain: And one last thing.
Shain: Every universe has a wielder of the dodacahedron, essentially.
Shain: Be careful on when you meet them.
Shain: If they’re an enemy, they’re probably—there’s another one in the world that I never met,
Shain: which is why Sindril said to, I think, either stay away from—or no, technically, Sindril
Shain: was the Mind Goblin, as you called him, but he said to stay away from Cirizen.
Aeryndel: So, Sindarin was the Mind Goblin?
Shain: Yes, he created that as a fake ploy so he could be the hero and the villain.
Aeryndel: Oh.
Shain: But now he’s stuck in my head, infused with my consciousness.
Aeryndel: Interesting.
Shain: Haha, stupid guy.
Aeryndel: So you’ve infused yourself with the Mind Goblin.
Shain: No, he’s actually human.
Shain: He’s actually Netherese, I believe.
Shain: Can I get a fact check on that, dude?
Shain: I tap my brain.
Aeryndel: WHAT’S YOUR RANGE?
Aeryndel: !
DM: All right, yeah, that was an event.
Aeryndel: Nah, he’s originally mind-gobblin’.
Shain: Yep, non-goblin, true to the heart.
Shain: So yes, just be wary.
Shain: If you need anything, catch on the flip side.
Aeryndel: Yeah, alright.
Shain: Yay.
Aeryndel: That was… that was an event?
Shain: And I just do the peace sign as the guy fades out.
Shain: Yeah.
Shain: You hear in the back of your mind, you hear in the back of your mind, I can destroy your
Aeryndel: Holy shit.
DM: Oh, somebody should have told me that.
Aeryndel: That was terrifying, I can’t lie.
Aeryndel: Okay.
Shain: world at any moment.
Shain: I’m just kidding.
Aeryndel: What the fuck?
Aeryndel: Alrighty.
Shain: Okay, okay.
Aeryndel: Butter.
Aeryndel: I guess next up on the list is me and Shyla.
DM: Of course, of course, sure, sure, sure, um, you guys have some down time, um, and eventually
Aeryndel: I’d like to chill a little in the room.
Aeryndel: Have some nice downtime.
Aeryndel: But afterwards I want to go meet up with my father so my father can see Shyla.
Shain: My father.
Aeryndel: needs to meet her too.
DM: after a while.
DM: You head towards your father’s office whom you asked your mother about
DM: previously and she basically said that he hasn’t left his office in many many days.
DM: So you’re pretty sure that he’s going to be there.
DM: you you kind of go to her office and yeah I’m sorry his office I thought I
Aeryndel: I’ll go up to his office.
Aeryndel: With Shyla of course.
Aeryndel: My perfect queen.
Aeryndel: His.
Shain: No, drag.
DM: misspoke and do you just like knock the door is closed you’re just gonna hear
Shain: Tokenizer isn’t working.
Aeryndel: I’ll knock, yeah.
DM: I can hear a voice from inside.
DM: Come in!
Aeryndel: And I open the door.
DM: He looks up and says,
DM: Oh, you’re here already!
DM: Didn’t I just talk to you a week ago?
Aeryndel: That was, that was like 20 days ago.
DM: Anyways…
Aeryndel: Father, how long have you been in this office?
Aeryndel: how many days has it been since new year?
DM: When was New Year’s?
DM: It’s been like three months.
Shain: Thank you.
Aeryndel: father, it’s been like three fucking months!
DM: Like three and a half months.
DM: He’s… okay.
DM: Then only eight months then.
Aeryndel: father, you are a neglecting mother, no wonder she’s making scarves 24-7!
DM: I don’t have a choice.
DM: Somebody has to run this country and nobody wants to do it right.
Aeryndel: Have you tried maybe asking Dareth for help?
DM: Dareth is helping, but he can’t do it all by himself.
Aeryndel: Neither can you!
DM: You know he recently got engaged?
Aeryndel: Oh, he did.
DM: I don’t know if you know that.
DM: Did you know that?
DM: Anyways, he has family duties to take care of.
Aeryndel: I think I heard something about that.
Aeryndel: It’s been a while.
Aeryndel: That’s fair.
DM: Somebody has to pick up the slack.
Aeryndel: Hopefully he didn’t get engaged to slot 1, 2, or 3.
DM: I don’t know.
DM: I think her name was Kingston or something.
Shain: You
Aeryndel: Well, I mean, luckily, there hasn’t been many rumors of her.
DM: Oh, that’s good.
DM: That’s good.
DM: Speaking of rumors, I heard your new soon-to-be wife is in town.
Aeryndel: Oh, yes, and I introduce her.
DM: He finally stands up and kind of a look of like shock appears on his face, oh, oh, as
DM: he kind of like glances at you.
Shain: What does she even look like again?
DM: All righty.
DM: Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
Aeryndel: I give him a mind-dap.
Aeryndel: Let’s just say Arundel scored.
Shain: Can you, like, do the pop-up image for her?
DM: hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
Shain: All right, I cast Alter Self at 8th level, so she’s now a high elf.
Aeryndel: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, no, that’ll ruin her, that’ll ruin her.
Shain: I’m not kidding.
Shain: That’s true, that’s actually, uh, you won.
DM: Oh, okay, I think I just was what do you mean it’s not working anymore?
Aeryndel: He’s perfect.
Aeryndel: Wait.
Shain: Wait, please tell me that’s, oh, it’s lemonade, I thought it was cider.
Aeryndel: I won!
Aeryndel: Arendelle won the endgame.
Aeryndel: No!
Aeryndel: This is, uh, this is tea.
Shain: I picked up cider.
Shain: I want, I want, I want cider.
Shain: I’m going to go get cider in a second.
Shain: By the way, tokenizer isn’t working anymore.
Shain: cider i’m gonna go get cider in a second by the way tokenizer isn’t working anymore
Shain: i’m clicking on it it just doesn’t just it’s like a
DM: I don’t understand, it’s working just fine for me.
Shain: it’s like when you press launch on test and it just doesn’t work
Aeryndel: Hey, you got a purse?
Shain: it’s not working for me at all yes
DM: Are you in edit mode?
DM: And you’re clicking on it, it doesn’t do anything.
Shain: correct i’m gonna reset token or i’m gonna reset results might be my perms
DM: I’ll fix it in a minute.
Shain: I don’t know
Aeryndel: Silence.
DM: Um, anyways.
DM: Oh!
DM: Oh!
Shain: Hmm
Shain: Oh, great.
Aeryndel: You may deafen me, but you can never mute me!
DM: Oh
DM: and she had a request for you and it was definitely within your power to do.
Shain: I appear in front of her, uh, before the request.
DM: Hang on one second.
DM: Dragon, you’re not allowed to know this yet.
Shain: Oh, okay.
DM: Long story short, she
DM: pulls out from her bag… she pulls out from her bag a soul cage that she has
Aeryndel: you
Shain: Oh,
DM: trapped the souls of 30 dark elves that she has killed since she met Arendelle
DM: and she also pulls out a long black dress that she specifically had made and
Shain: The dress, oh my gosh, yeah, I would do it, I’m just gonna look at her and go, all right,
DM: long story short she wants to really spice up her wedding by having the souls
DM: be trapped in the wedding dress so that way you can kind of see that the souls
DM: just kind of in agony.
DM: It’s basically what her request is and you definitely
DM: have the power to do it.
DM: Would you do that?
DM: Oh, it’s not.
Shain: I have a question for you, because Arendelle, he’s my,
Shain: was, still is technically my best friend now.
Shain: But I have to just be certain,
Shain: you’re not going to trap him in a dress at any point, right?
DM: This is, this is for him.
DM: I think he’ll, I think he’ll really enjoy it.
Shain: And then why is it specifically Larry, Gary, Sam, Jerry?
DM: I don’t know, they’re just the first Dark Elves I saw.
Shain: I’m going to name like all of them and I’m going to go.
Shain: Why them?
Shain: duty.
Shain: I’m certain that you and Aaron Hill are gonna get along just fine and I do
Shain: the the what is that called from oh I can’t remember the bippity boppity boo
DM: Bippity-boppity-boo.
DM: What do you mean the bippity-boppity-boo?
DM: Uh, uh, uh, Sleeping Beauty?
DM: Oh, oh, Cinderella!
DM: Oh, Cinderella!
Shain: you know what I’m talking about yep and I create the dress why can’t I
Shain: remember what’s that uh bippity boppity boo it’s from oh it’s the one with the
Shain: glass shoe does it fit why can’t I remember not beauty and the beast it’s
Shain: the other one sleeping no not sleeping beauty Cinderella oh my gosh I’m so
Shain: stupid yes it’s Cinderella I’ll create the I’ll create the visual
DM: Sure, sure, sure.
Shain: effect as when she starts walking down the aisle or just walking in general I
DM: No, no, I just sent you the image.
Shain: guess the the souls of them are going to like reach out and then like get pulled
Shain: back in you know like dr. strange when he did the yeah yes yes that’s fire
DM: She just looks very happy and says, thank you very much.
Shain: perfect and then I’ll say well thank you for contacting me I will let you to be
Shain: in your dark-held, elf-hatred ways.
Shain: Enjoy.
Shain: And before I leave completely,
Shain: I poke my head back through.
Shain: I’m invited to the wedding, right?
Shain: I don’t know if I got that invitation.
DM: Of course!
DM: I’ll save you the perfect scene.
Shain: Sweet, thank you.
Shain: I can’t sit down, by the way.
Shain: I fall right through, but thank you.
Shain: And I go away.
DM: Alright, cool.
DM: Alright, we’ll go back to this.
DM: Alrighty, I apologize.
Shain: All right, now that she’s dead,
DM: I apologize.
Shain: And because she’s dead, I’m going to take her corpse, reanimate her.
Shain: Wait.
DM: No, no, no, no.
Aeryndel: Uh, well, I was introducing her to my father.
Shain: Thank you.
DM: Nobody’s dead.
Shain: Okay, you can move back.
DM: Alright, where were we?
DM: I do apologize.
Shain: All the time.
DM: Yes, yes, yes.
Shain: My father.
DM: um as uh i’m not gonna role play with myself because that’s boring uh but long story short
DM: it was just a very much um nice to meet you he’s very impressed by her blah blah blah everything
Aeryndel: I have not.
DM: goes swimmingly um there’s uh they eventually um he just kind of turns to you and says very well
DM: when is the uh when’s the date have you discussed that with your mother yet
DM: Fantastic.
Aeryndel: Mother said she had something to take care of, but hopefully I can talk with her either
Aeryndel: Later today or tomorrow, we’ll figure out the date.
DM: Make sure to send me an invitation with a countdown of when it’s going to happen.
Aeryndel: Of course.
DM: I will definitely bring it.
Aeryndel: Oh, don’t worry, I’ll make sure day of I come into this office to let you know, because you clearly don’t understand dates.
DM: I would appreciate that, as he is just kind of thanking you.
DM: Somebody runs into the office
DM: and says,
DM: Sir, there’s something that we really need your attention with.
DM: As he turns and says,
DM: It never ends.
Aeryndel: Oh, that, that, yeah, that, that, that went, that actually went really well.
DM: And just kind of follows the guy out of the office,
DM: um,
DM: leaving you kind of just in there.
Aeryndel: Holy shit, she is perfect.
DM: Fathers love me too.
DM: um all right so what’s what’s the game plan here now ladies and gentlemen
Aeryndel: I need to go meet Dareth.
DM: for the record just a friendly reminder if you ever wanted to read the lore of a place you can
DM: literally just double click it on the map and then press visit lore page because that’s the
DM: That’s the thing I did and it’s really neat.
Aeryndel: Oh, fuck yeah.
DM: All right, please continue.
Aeryndel: Uhhh…
Aeryndel: I’m gonna go meet Dareth.
Aeryndel: I’m gonna go try and track him down.
DM: All right.
Aeryndel: I need to see what my old comrade’s up to.
DM: Sure, sure, sure, let me just make sure, okay.
Shain: I’m getting rid of all this crap.
Aeryndel: I’m glad we decided to do this earlier in the day, gives us more time.
DM: I mean, I’m super sorry about this.
DM: Yeah.
DM: Yeah
DM: That is true for season two, bro, and it’s gonna be a better season
Shain: is
Shain: Sorry dragon my fault my fault
Aeryndel: Flex, you need to get yourself a notebook like this for D&D.
Shain: I don’t I don’t have a notebook like that.
Shain: I do need one
Aeryndel: You should get one!
Aeryndel: This is the perfect time to start writing down notes because you’re getting a new character
Aeryndel: for season 2!
Aeryndel: I found this at Walmart for 7 bucks.
Shain: Well link me the one yeah link me uh link me the the amazon for that
DM: you
Shain: What is it?
Shain: Let me just look at it.
Aeryndel: It’s just a notebook!
Aeryndel: Like, it’s just a notebook that I have written down notes, and then I bought these, which are like little sticky notes to put on the sides.
Shain: Oh, so you have like tabs.
Shain: Okay.
Aeryndel: Yeah, so this is the people I know section, and then I can go down another part, and then this would be some keynotes, and then if I go to this tab over here, I have what I’m doing for Amaria.
Shain: Oh, I see, I see.
Aeryndel: Yeah, and then down all the way at the bottom here, I have it in orange, it’s like what
Aeryndel: I want to do with artifice or things, like artifice or ideas.
Aeryndel: So it’s like, I wrote down new leg and knee, flamethrower, I already did that, so I’m going
Shain: Oh, a hundred percent.
Aeryndel: to cross that out.
Aeryndel: But like, if you’re doing a new character, it’s really good to have notes, just so that
Aeryndel: you don’t have to go scrolling, and then you can kind of write down what you want to write
Aeryndel: down.
Aeryndel: Like, the way I used to write notes is I used to write down what happened in the session,
DM: Yeah, it’s definitely pointless if that’s what I’m already doing.
Aeryndel: But I feel like that is just pointless, so I’d rather write down key details of what
Aeryndel: happened, or like key details of things.
Shain: I see, I see.
Aeryndel: Well, it’s pointless for a player when you already have that.
DM: I get that.
DM: That’s what I was saying, it’s really pointless if I’m literally already doing that.
Aeryndel: Yeah, so, I just went to Walmart and went to their books, this was like 10 bucks maybe,
Aeryndel: And then, the one for Nate’s campaign is technically better because it’s a leather book, but it’s
Aeryndel: worth it.
Aeryndel: It’s honestly worth it.
Aeryndel: It also gets you more hyped to play.
Shain: Let’s see, I’m going to look dnd and then the good news is I don’t sit there because
Aeryndel: If you start writing down things, you get to understand more things and you get hyped
Aeryndel: more.
Shain: I did start.
Shain: I remember at the camp at the start of the campaign, I was taking notes.
Aeryndel: And then you stop doing it.
Shain: Only issue.
Shain: There’s so much happening.
Shain: There’s so much.
Shain: Yeah.
Shain: Let’s stop doing it.
Aeryndel: But the way that I did my notes, and I think this is the best way to do it, is I would
Aeryndel: take the first page, I’d put down a sticky note, say let’s make it people that I know,
Aeryndel: and then I would go like ten pages, so I’d give it enough room to hold all of that information.
Aeryndel: I’d put another sticky note, and then I just, I literally make it places that we’ve been.
Aeryndel: So I have one for Thalassriel, Emmeria, Judacar.
Aeryndel: If it’s like a side place, like if we’re in, let’s say we’re in a country like Emmeria,
Shain: I don’t want them, I feel bad, Cassidy wrote it for me and she made a crap ton.
Aeryndel: but we’re in a certain part, like Sacket, I will have one for Emmeria and then one for
Aeryndel: specifically Sacket.
Aeryndel: It just makes it so much easier to keep hold of what’s happening, and if I need to know
Aeryndel: specific things.
Aeryndel: It’s like, for Judicar, Aragorn recently became the savior of Judicar.
Shain: Yeah, I got you, that’s a cool idea.
Aeryndel: I know!
DM: Alright, so yeah, as you kind of look for Dareth, you kind of ask people around town
Aeryndel: Alrighty.
Aeryndel: Yep.
Shain: Actually, I went for 10 bucks, so this is not bad.
Aeryndel: We ready?
Aeryndel: Tracking down Darius.
Aeryndel: Well, yeah.
Aeryndel: Very catchy.
Aeryndel: All righty.
Aeryndel: Yep.
Aeryndel: We ready?
Aeryndel: Tracking down Darius.
Shain: This doesn’t work anymore.
DM: and you very easily find him, as apparently Dareth is a very popular person at the moment.
Aeryndel: Very charismatic.
DM: You find him in one of the government buildings.
Shain: Are you sure?
Shain: Yeah.
Shain: Are you positive?
Aeryndel: For now, yeah.
Shain: Is this one of your toys?
Shain: You don’t have to.
DM: They’re actually hanging up a new sign as you enter, literally called Veterans Benefit.
Shain: It’s broken.
Shain: Still,
Shain: if it’s from a good member
Shain: and you don’t have to get rid of it,
DM: As you enter, he turns around and spots you and says,
Shain: it’s a good thing.
Shain: It’s a good thing.
DM: Are you back?
DM: It kind of quickly catches up to you in a sense.
Shain: you
Aeryndel: Yeah, it’s been a while.
DM: He says, well, it’s been so long.
DM: Not that I’m ungrateful, but why are you back so early?
DM: You finally found a girl?
Aeryndel: Ah, f- I have come back because I’m getting married here.
Aeryndel: Yes, and surprisingly, my parents don’t hate her.
Shain: You
Aeryndel: I think.
DM: The way that you say that makes me think that it’s not someone your mother tried to set
Aeryndel: Oh no, you know the stories of all three of those girls.
DM: you up with.
DM: Yes, I most certainly do.
DM: I was there for two of them.
Aeryndel: I-
Shain: What
Aeryndel: Huh?
DM: Oh, did I not tell you your mother sent me to check in on you?
Aeryndel: Oh.
Aeryndel: No, she did not.
DM: Sorry, I couldn’t really use the money.
DM: Hey, Apes put most of it on drinks for us.
Aeryndel: Okay, then.
Aeryndel: That’s…
Aeryndel: …interesting.
DM: You never curious how I could suddenly afford some drinks right after you went on a date?
Aeryndel: You know, I really should have thought that through.
Aeryndel: That makes a lot more sense.
DM: And you never quite observed it.
DM: Anyways, tell me about this woman you’ve met.
Aeryndel: Oh, she’s right behind me.
Aeryndel: And I just.
DM: Kind of like, peers behind you and says,
DM: I only see an outsider.
DM: Wait.
DM: No.
Aeryndel: Yes.
DM: Your mother had a heart attack?
Aeryndel: You wanna know something crazy, Davis?
DM: Please.
Aeryndel: She’s already met her.
Aeryndel: And she had…
DM: And she’s still alive?
Shain: I, uh, Shayna Pearce says, yo, whoa, Gareth, calm down, buddy.
Aeryndel: She’s still alive.
Aeryndel: And not only that, mother didn’t even say a damn word.
DM: He kind of peers over and says, yeah, I can see that, I can see that, as he kind of walks
Aeryndel: She couldn’t find a flaw.
Aeryndel: You should’ve seen that.
DM: up and says, hi, nice to meet you, the name’s Dareth.
DM: Yo, what the fuck?
Aeryndel: Whoa.
DM: Yo, what’s going on there?
Aeryndel: Yo, yo you’re engaged there.
Shain: Listen.
DM: He says, no, no, I’m just being nice.
Shain: Listen, as the god of the multiverse, you know.
DM: You know, just, I didn’t mean anything by it.
Aeryndel: Alright.
Aeryndel: Anyways, how’s things been?
DM: Yes, yes, Christina, do you remember
Aeryndel: I heard you got engaged.
DM: having grade school?
Aeryndel: She’s in grade school.
Aeryndel: Oh.
DM: Yeah, the really chubby one.
Aeryndel: Well, that was back then.
Aeryndel: How about now, Shirley?
DM: 10 out of 10.
Shain: you
Aeryndel: Good for you.
DM: You should come over one evening.
Aeryndel: At least she wasn’t in like…
Aeryndel: Probably, I mean, we’re currently working on the wedding preparations.
DM: I’m sure, I’m sure.
Aeryndel: But, uh, yeah, at least she didn’t marry, uh, whatever her face was, the one right next
Aeryndel: door to us.
DM: I don’t know why your mother was out of the loop on that one.
Aeryndel: Slut number two.
Aeryndel: So still tried to hook me up with her and that did not work out.
Aeryndel: I tried telling her and she’s like, excuses, excuses.
DM: And you’re sure she’s still alive after… her?
Aeryndel: It was clear knowledge.
Aeryndel: I mean, yeah.
DM: Huh.
DM: What kind of magic did you learn on your travels?
Aeryndel: Have you ever heard of a black hole?
DM: No, I just mean, how did you convince her?
Aeryndel: And don’t say you’ve seen a hole that’s black!
DM: Yes, I’ve seen a black hole.
Aeryndel: But like a black hole, or like a… black hole.
DM: I have seen holes in things that looked black.
Aeryndel: I’m not talking about that.
Aeryndel: I’m talking about, y’know, Destruction Incarnate.
Aeryndel: Okay, remember when I blew up all of Zarasyl?
DM: Yes, I… that was quite the event, I certainly remember.
Aeryndel: Imagine that, but instead of blowing it up, it was all kind of just consumed into this
Aeryndel: ball of void.
DM: Karma.
Aeryndel: I learned something similar to that via my wizard friend.
Aeryndel: You met him, I think.
Shain: Contact me.
DM: Was it friend, was it friend?
Aeryndel: Want white hair?
DM: Oh, the short one?
Aeryndel: Yes, the short one!
DM: Yes, I remember that.
Aeryndel: Yes, he’s currently now a god of time.
DM: Uh-huh.
Shain: Multiverse
Aeryndel: Multiverse, sorry.
DM: Interesting, interesting.
Aeryndel: Wizard shit!
DM: So that’s how you convinced your mother.
Aeryndel: No.
DM: Mind control magic.
Aeryndel: No, not- no, no, no.
Aeryndel: You just asked me what magic I learned.
Aeryndel: I learned that.
Aeryndel: But no, uh, my mother was actually fairly okay with it.
DM: Yes.
DM: Well, the only way she’d be okay with it
DM: is if somebody used some magic.
Aeryndel: I didn’t abuse any- unless…
Aeryndel: Surely my father didn’t do anything, right?
Shain: Oh, I’m clear.
DM: I doubt he had time.
Aeryndel: He’s been too busy.
DM: Anyways, I’m, um, I’m really happy for you.
Aeryndel: Yeah, he’s been too busy.
Aeryndel: Yes, it’ll be in the last row.
DM: Are you holding the wedding here?
DM: Who’s?
DM: When?
Aeryndel: I don’t know yet, I still need to talk to my mother, she’s the one who’s been mainly
Aeryndel: doing the preparations, as I’ve been out of town.
DM: I see.
DM: Well, I guess she felt it above.
DM: I guess she just felt I didn’t deserve, uh, any notice.
Aeryndel: I would have called, but I was kind of trying to speed up the process of getting here.
Aeryndel: I also just thought it’d be kind of funny to surprise you.
DM: I don’t know.
DM: Very funny indeed.
DM: Speaking of surprises!
DM: Um, do you remember that workshop that you made your, uh, your arm in?
DM: I hope you don’t mind I kind of took those blueprints you made.
Aeryndel: Uh, yeah, yeah.
Aeryndel: What do you mean?
DM: Well, there’s been many people that have been injured in the war since, and I just thought
DM: Perhaps if you could repair your own hand, maybe it could be replicated.
Aeryndel: Amit Dareth, why did you do that?
Aeryndel: Those blueprints were… they’re so shitty.
Aeryndel: Please tell me you didn’t actually attach them on anybody.
DM: I know, they didn’t work.
DM: There was nobody that wasn’t already going to die.
Aeryndel: Dareth, you have to attach those to the nervous system.
DM: That’s why they’re dead now!
Aeryndel: Why did you do that?
DM: Well, could you maybe improve the design?
Aeryndel: I almost died myself trying to do this.
Aeryndel: It’s such a foolish idea.
Aeryndel: It’s a one-in-a-million chance it’s going to work!
Aeryndel: I have improved the design, but the process of applying it is the same!
DM: Why did you do it by yourself?
Aeryndel: Yes, it is painful, and it’s excruciatingly annoying to even imagine doing it by yourself,
Aeryndel: too!
Aeryndel: I didn’t trust you!
DM: You knew I would have helped!
DM: Ouch!
Aeryndel: Not to- not to handle my own- not to handle my own fucking limbs.
DM: Fair enough, fair enough I guess.
Aeryndel: I mean- also, I feel like you would have passed out.
DM: I have… Yeah, okay, that’s a fact that’s said.
DM: Yes, it’s what we did with the last one!
Aeryndel: You know you have to drill into the bone if it’s exposed, right?
DM: Or, that’s what they did.
DM: I-I-I just… Of course not.
Aeryndel: Were you in the room?
DM: No, I could not handle that.
Aeryndel: Exactly!
DM: Well, it’s your fault we’re leaving for so long and it was just conveniently left there.
Aeryndel: Oh, just even thinking about it hurts.
Aeryndel: Next time don’t steal my shit, okay?
Aeryndel: It’s not my fault that somebody needed to go to Luminevia to be the envoy.
DM: Yes, yes, I know, I know, it’s a little bit of a…
Aeryndel: I just so happen to be the best choice because I was kind of in it like in usable in the war
Shain: on this oh man
DM: No you don’t.
DM: You’re not there.
DM: But he just kind of says,
DM: oh well, it was worth the attempt.
DM: He kind of like looks around and says,
DM: we’re trying to get a little thing going here.
Aeryndel: I mean, it depends.
DM: There’s been a lot of people upset by their injuries
DM: and that we’ve done nothing to help.
DM: So we had hoped that we could replicate what you did.
DM: I mean, most are completely gone.
Aeryndel: How bad are the injuries?
Aeryndel: Are they fully gone limbs, or are they semi-gone?
Aeryndel: Most of them would die by the pain.
Aeryndel: Are these soldiers?
Aeryndel: Are they soldiers?
DM: Yeah, we’ve…
DM: Very well, we’ll file it away under some military secret or something, and claim it was a failed
Aeryndel: They would die by the pain.
Aeryndel: They would die instantly.
Aeryndel: If they couldn’t handle what we handled, they can’t handle this.
DM: experiment.
DM: It’s worth a shot, anyway.
Aeryndel: If you want me to, I can talk to them.
DM: No, no.
Aeryndel: I can tell them the dangers of it and if they want to proceed, I can…
DM: No, you’re not going to be here in town for long.
Aeryndel: I could make a limb or two.
DM: I wouldn’t want to make your life any more busy.
DM: It was worth the attempt anyway.
Aeryndel: Find me one that’s willing.
Aeryndel: I’ll make an example out of him.
Aeryndel: If he wants to try it and fail, no one will question it again.
DM: Well, there’s already been three failures.
Aeryndel: Yeah, three failures from someone who has no experience.
DM: Kind of already.
Aeryndel: Try a failure from someone who did it himself.
Aeryndel: That’ll…
DM: You know, there is someone.
Aeryndel: Who?
Aeryndel: I wanna…
DM: You actually know him.
Aeryndel: Give…
DM: He was your previous commanding officer.
Aeryndel: I…
DM: You did you did you beat me?
Aeryndel: This is why I have him!
Aeryndel: Amrod?
Shain: You did it, congratulations, you did it.
Aeryndel: I beat the DM to the notes!
Aeryndel: Yes!
DM: Yes, it is.
DM: I’m sorry
DM: Just his whole right arm.
Aeryndel: Amrod lost?
Shain: Why are we clapping?
Shain: Why are we clapping then?
Aeryndel: What did he lose?
Shain: No, it’s the notes.
DM: It was a training accident.
Aeryndel: even been battle okay well the thing is I care so much about Amrod if I if I’m
Shain: Chewing?
DM: It’s being kept under wraps.
DM: Don’t mention it to anyone else.
DM: It’s very important.
DM: What else?
Shain: No.
Shain: Chewing.
DM: It’s a very…
Shain: Amen.
Aeryndel: gonna do this he’s gonna succeed it’s a good thing but then other people will
DM: Well, isn’t that a good thing?
Aeryndel: think it’ll be easy
DM: We’ve got another one.
Aeryndel: I’ll do Amarad, the cat’ll die instantly, he- as soon as I say drill in bone, he’ll
Shain: Thank you.
DM: A cadet got his left leg chopped off
DM: just the other day.
Shain: All God’s people too.
Aeryndel: pass out.
DM: I mean, you could try.
DM: Of course.
Aeryndel: Ask both of them.
Aeryndel: I’ll work on a tea- I’ll work on the- I- the- fuck.
Aeryndel: a meeting with Amrod first.
DM: He says, well, just for the record, we already tried to make an arm based off of your blueprints
Aeryndel: I need to get his measurements.
Aeryndel: I need to fine-tune it.
Aeryndel: I’ll work on the blueprints overnight.
Aeryndel: Do we have a forge?
Shain: You have a fidget spinner in your wrist cuff.
DM: for him.
DM: Yeah, I get that now, but I’m saying you could modify it.
Aeryndel: Yeah, you see, you’re… that’s tuned to me!
Aeryndel: You gotta tune it to him!
Aeryndel: that that old design barely worked you saw me I could barely close my hand and
DM: Don’t worry, I won’t.
Aeryndel: now look what I can do
DM: Is this a fidget spinner?
Aeryndel: so just spin it it’s like a fidget spinner
DM: Uh, I see.
DM: Um, but yeah, just- just head back to the, uh, to the military depot.
DM: I’m sure that they would love to help you.
DM: I don’t know if you’ve heard or not, but you’ve been fully, um, instituted.
Aeryndel: But I’m not a part of the military anymore.
DM: You basically are a general now.
DM: Your father pulled some strings, something-something, I don’t remember.
DM: Well, not according to the paperwork!
Shain: Y’all ready?
DM: All right, we’re going to do a bit of a quick recap here, or a quick succession, because
Aeryndel: I did not ask for that.
Aeryndel: Let’s not ask for that
Aeryndel: Already okay.
Aeryndel: Yeah, I’ll go ahead over there and talk to em rod
Aeryndel: It’s gonna be a hellish month
Aeryndel: Yeah
DM: there’s no reason to roll through all this.
DM: you you kind of head back home your mother is waiting there basically she
DM: wants to drill through the details of the wedding with with Shiloh so you guys
DM: kind of split up you go to the military depot to kind of see what’s going kind
Aeryndel: How bad are these arms pain?
DM: of what your current situation is and everything long story short they made a
DM: a whole variety of arms and legs based off of your very poor blueprints, because obviously
DM: your blueprints were designed for you with your own shorthands, so there was a lot of
DM: stuff that wasn’t clear.
DM: So they made a lot of mistakes.
DM: You know how yours, like, you at least had full motion?
DM: They ain’t got that.
Aeryndel: Oh, fuck.
DM: They got
DM: maybe like 40% motion and that’s if they would even work right you see you see at
DM: least three of them where the wires were completely done wrong and would have
Shain: Why is this heavy, oh yeah, we have crap in here.
DM: caused a lot of problems.
DM: But the next day you kind of get called to a meeting
DM: with with Amrod and the cadet.
DM: The cadet’s relatively young.
DM: One glance at
DM: them and you’re 90% sure this man is going to die on the table the moment you
DM: pull out a drill.
DM: But M-Rod looks very stern.
DM: If you were to give it a rough
DM: percentage you’d estimate a solid 80% chance of survival.
DM: But yeah, you kind of
DM: talk over them.
DM: Did you want to ask anything in particular?
Aeryndel: I’m going to sit down on my table with my clipboard, and I’m going to ask him a simple
DM: Uh, Emrah just kind of chuckles and says, you don’t know pain until you’ve fought thirty
Aeryndel: question.
Aeryndel: To both Enron and the cadet, you do know this is a painful procedure, right?
Shain: Oh, no!
Shain: Oh, no.
DM: dark elves in hand-to-hand combat.
Aeryndel: I have done that.
DM: The cadet says,
Aeryndel: Okay, firstly, Cadet, what’s your name?
Shain: Careful, my love.
DM: how painful?
DM: The name’s…
Shain: I can’t remember the logo.
Aeryndel: What is your name, Cadet?
DM: My name’s Faden.
Aeryndel: Faden.
Aeryndel: Thank you.
DM: Yes.
Aeryndel: What is your… what, he lost what, his leg?
Aeryndel: How much of his leg?
Aeryndel: Is it above knee or all?
Aeryndel: Mid-thigh down, okay, so…
DM: Pretty much from like mid-high down.
Shain: I need assistance.
Aeryndel: Well, cadet, it’s gonna hurt a lot.
DM: Yep.
DM: Uh, will that hurt?
Aeryndel: It’s mainly gonna be…
Aeryndel: I’m gonna be drilling into your bones and your nerves.
Aeryndel: Have you ever had someone drill into your bones?
DM: No?
Aeryndel: It fucking hurts.
Shain: Ugh.
DM: Emrah just kind of thinks, says, I remember the last time my bones got drilled into.
Aeryndel: You see, Cadet, he has about 80 to a 90% chance of survival.
Shain: Never mind, I get it.
DM: The Dark Elves really think they got me at that point.
DM: The cadet just says, but they could get my leg back, right?
Shain: Oh, Jesus.
Aeryndel: You’re probably going to die in the procedure.
Shain: No chewing!
Shain: Thank you.
Shain: Sorry.
Shain: Sounds like I was yelling.
Shain: Anyway.
Aeryndel: It could work.
Aeryndel: Now, it all depends on your willpower.
Aeryndel: If you can survive through sheer torture, sheer pain,
DM: I mean, I could really use a lag.
Aeryndel: then you have a good chance of surviving.
Aeryndel: Luckily, you only lost your leg.
Aeryndel: If it was both your leg and your arm,
Aeryndel: that is what I had to go through, which was extremely terrible.
Aeryndel: Okay, let me ask this.
DM: No, but I did ace my torture resistance clex.
Aeryndel: What is your affinity with magic?
Aeryndel: Can you control it pretty well?
Aeryndel: Okay, well, uh…
Aeryndel: Just a heads up…
Aeryndel: These things work via magic, and your ability to use it…
Aeryndel: You don’t have to be proficient in it, but you have to be able to control it.
DM: He just says, I mean, I can do this, as he just kind of points at the little, the candle
Shain: Oops.
Shain: It’s getting really hot in here, I’m starting to feel a little bit sick, I’m going to go
DM: just kind of goes out.
DM: He says, but that’s like the most I can do, is that enough?
Aeryndel: The way he did it, was it like, a shitty way of using it, or did he have like, a pretty
DM: Very much so.
Aeryndel: – I mean, he’ll be able to move the leg, but it’ll be hard to control for a while
DM: It’s very, like, haphazard, like, he’s doing it, but it’s not great.
Shain: This one.
Aeryndel: and so you can get used to it.
DM: I really need my leg.
DM: How am I supposed to go dancing without a leg?
DM: Hey, you try dating!
Aeryndel: That is your concern?
Aeryndel: Yes!
Aeryndel: I’m getting married!
Aeryndel: Thank you very much.
DM: He just kind of says, you know, you’re going to get dated, you’re stuck on the bench.
Aeryndel: How old is this cadet?
Aeryndel: Is he fairly new to the army?
Aeryndel: It’s like these fucking youngsters, they don’t know what we had to go through.
DM: Yeah.
Aeryndel: This is like post-war, like the guys who just want to get in there for the free benefits.
Aeryndel: Alright, um, I guess if we’re doing this, uh, I’m gonna hand them both clipboards and
Aeryndel: Like, I need your consent, and if anything goes wrong, I’m not liable to any damages
DM: signature.
DM: This man has signed more documents than he would care to admit.
DM: Uh, the cadet, on the other hand, just writes out his name like super basically.
Aeryndel: or your deaths.
Shain: Are you chewing?
DM: And Rod says, best of luck killing me.
DM: A whole legion of Dark Elves failed at that.
Aeryndel: Trust me, Amrod, I know that.
Aeryndel: I know that for a fact, but, uh…
Aeryndel: Also, another thing!
Aeryndel: This procedure may not be done with any anesthetics!
Shain: Thank you.
DM: you
Aeryndel: This has to be done… awake.
DM: You said and what kind of smirks yes back in the trenches I
Aeryndel: He actually can’t do this.
DM: Know he can’t but he he should know he’s just
Aeryndel: He’s just doing-
Aeryndel: Yeah, he’s just like, back in the trenches.
DM: Back in the trenches
Aeryndel: Alrighty, uh, then I’m just gonna measure their opposite arm, and their opposite leg,
DM: All right, so you finish with that, you get working on the blueprints, and I presume you
Shain: Well good enough for now.
Aeryndel: and I’m just gonna get the dimensions out, and then I’ll go work on blueprints.
Shain: Look.
Shain: This is nice.
Shain: I know.
Shain: Good job.
DM: based it off of your current arm and leg.
Aeryndel: I want the refinement featureless.
DM: Not necessarily the full intricacies and what I’m looking for, not all the features, but
DM: the refinement of the design.
Aeryndel: I don’t want them to have grappling hook.
DM: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Aeryndel: I don’t want them to have compartments.
DM: It’s just the basic arm and leg
Aeryndel: They don’t need it.
Aeryndel: I will make it upgradable if they so desire, but that will cost.
DM: without any of the fancy stuffs.
Shain: You have the base model you pay for
DM: Of course, of course, we keep it modular around here.
Aeryndel: Yeah, yeah
DM: Worst comes worst, you could take his arm,
DM: pop on your own arm,
Aeryndel: Yeah
DM: and then smack in your grappling hook module.
Aeryndel: Yes, yes, yes, and I’ll cost an extra $3.99 a month
DM: Yes, yes, yes.
DM: Of course, of course.
Shain: 399
DM: But yeah, since you’re not really designing new blueprints,
DM: you’re just repurposing old ones,
DM: you don’t really have to roll for anything.
DM: But you kind of finish drawing it out as where you did this,
Aeryndel: No, I’ll work on this on my own time.
DM: by the way.
DM: This is kind of like in the main area
DM: that the previous high elves kind of worked on your design.
DM: So there are kind of people there
DM: as they kind of see your design.
DM: Let’s see, I know you’re getting married soon, so did you want us to just try to make this
DM: according to your designs and you can just come back when we’re done?
Aeryndel: No offense, previous work is pretty… pretty shitty.
DM: I kind of looked down.
Aeryndel: Well, if it makes you feel better, I’ll give you the blueprints afterwards and you can
DM: Yeah, I get it.
Aeryndel: have a few attempts at it, but I’ll be like, if you want to, you can look at it later,
DM: I’m sorry, say that again, I’m sorry.
Aeryndel: maybe have some few attempts at it, but if I’m doing this for Amrod, it needs to be done
Aeryndel: by me.
Aeryndel: I owe him that much.
DM: I understand, sir, that I apologize for overstepping.
Aeryndel: That’s fine.
DM: You outrank us, sir.
Aeryndel: Don’t call me sir, by the way.
Aeryndel: I’m not in the military.
DM: We just received this right here.
Aeryndel: Not anymore!
Aeryndel: Although, I’m ordering you to not look at that.
DM: You clearly outrank us.
DM: You are a high commander.
DM: Yes, sir?
DM: Because I kind of called it.
Shain: There.
Aeryndel: Don’t call me sir!
DM: Yes, commander.
Aeryndel: Oh my gosh, I’m gonna fucking kill you.
DM: I-I’m sorry, what should we call you?
Aeryndel: Just call me by my name, Arendelle, please.
DM: Y-yes sir, Arendelle.
Shain: It’s way too hot in here.
Aeryndel: I’m gonna fucking kill you.
DM: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Aeryndel: Gee, where’s the forge at?
Aeryndel: Is there a forge nearby?
DM: Through the hall, third room on your left.
Aeryndel: Thank you.
DM: I think I’m sick as I kind of turn and walk away.
Aeryndel: What time is it?
DM: At this point it would be about 4 p.m.
Aeryndel: I’ll probably start working on the the arm for Amrod first.
DM: Yeah, given that you know the procedure already, you’ve already made actually two of these.
Aeryndel: I don’t want to be
Aeryndel: in there too long because I’m so I still I don’t want to be like ignoring Shyla
Aeryndel: to do all the work but I do want to do this for Amrod at least
Aeryndel: do I have access to Mithril for this
DM: do in this area because they have the the mithril that they found underground
Aeryndel: I’m gonna use Mithril for Amrod, and Normal Shift for the Cadet.
DM: gotcha gotcha gotcha um it only takes you sorry I’ll put it this way as far as
DM: you know it should only take you about four hours to make both which would put
Aeryndel: Yeah, I’ll do that.
DM: it at about 8 p.m.
DM: if you want to do that you’re totally good
Aeryndel: And then I’ll go home.
DM: You make them real nice and pretty.
Shain: Can you fetch me something, please?
DM: Do you just leave them in the depot or do you take them with you?
Shain: Can you get a minute?
Aeryndel: I take him with me.
Aeryndel: And as I leave, I’ll hand the blueprints to, uh, to Fuckknuckle, or whoever was asking
DM: Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.
Shain: I’m not in a rush.
Aeryndel: for it.
DM: He just says, thank you, I’ll memorize these before tomorrow.
Aeryndel: You can do whatever you want with them.
DM: But yeah, you go ahead and continue on your way, as it’s kind of late at night.
DM: Most people are back in their rooms, but there are plenty of lights.
DM: The trees kind of have this, have these overhangs of branches that are kind of illuminated by
DM: some type of glowing plants that they grow.
Aeryndel: I’m just going to walk in.
DM: it’s not like it’s hard to see at all, especially with your dark vision.
Shain: you
DM: But you easily navigate
DM: through town and head to your home and you kind of hear, not arguments, but a very loud discussion
DM: between your mother and Shyla.
DM: Do you want to like try to like listen through the door or do
DM: or do you want to just walk in?
Aeryndel: I feel like eavesdropping is one way to get your ass on the couch.
DM: As you walk in, you hear their current argument
DM: is over the color of their dress.
DM: Shaila is adamant that it must be a pure black dress
DM: that she has already had specifically made,
DM: where your mother believes it should be a green dress
DM: symbolize the forest as what is, as yeah, as what’s always been done.
Aeryndel: Always done.
DM: They’re arguing very passionately to the point that they don’t even notice that you walked
DM: in the room.
Aeryndel: Are they at a table or a couch?
DM: They are currently at basically your dining room.
Aeryndel: I’ll just go in there and sit down next to Shyla.
DM: As you, uh, just kind of walk in there and sit down, uh, your mother turns to you and
Aeryndel: casually
DM: says,
DM: Well, what do you think?
DM: Should it be our regular color dress?
DM: Or this black that she wants?
DM: Of course not!
Aeryndel: Okay, uh, I feel like either way here I’m gonna get yelled at by either one of you, but I’m just gonna
DM: Just make the right decision.
Aeryndel: I’m just gonna speak the facts mother.
Aeryndel: First of all, is this a normal
Aeryndel: wedding for normal high elves?
DM: This will be an elven wedding.
DM: Anything else over my dead body.
Aeryndel: Okay, now, let me ask you this.
Aeryndel: Is it a true elven wedding if both of the people getting married are not all elves?
DM: You are a full elf.
Aeryndel: Is it a full elven wedding?
Aeryndel: I’m a f-
Aeryndel: Meh.
Aeryndel: Half.
DM: You are not half-bred.
DM: You are in full elven spirit.
Aeryndel: Yeah, but I have half of an elven body.
Aeryndel: I’m not wrong about that.
DM: Hmph.
Aeryndel: And also, with no disrespect, mother, let me just-
DM: Fine, fine, fine.
DM: She can have her colored dress, but she cannot change the floral arrangement.
Aeryndel: I look to Shyla, what is she saying?
DM: Shiloh just kinda says,
DM: Fine, I can live with that.
DM: As they both kind of look at you as though you would have something to say about that.
Aeryndel: Hey, I’m just happy that we all came to an agreement.
Aeryndel: that we could we could find common ground on this joyous occasion anyways I
DM: They…
Aeryndel: have some good news I have finished the prosthetics for for Emeraude my former
DM: Oh.
DM: Very nice.
Shain: I love you.
Aeryndel: Lord Captain
Aeryndel: okay
DM: On to the seating arrangements.
DM: Very clearly.
DM: As they go back to their wonderful discourse about the thing, we’re going to go ahead and
Aeryndel: Oh boy.
Aeryndel: Mm-hmm.
DM: skip forward.
DM: Long story short.
DM: They had very competing ideas as to how this wedding should be held, but eventually they
DM: came to a rough compromise.
DM: There will be only 800 people present in the main auditorium.
DM: There has to be, this was not up for debate, a grand stroll after the fact throughout the
DM: Velastro capital.
DM: Further, she gets to wear her wonderful black dress for the main ceremony, however afterwards
Aeryndel: That’s fine on me.
Shain: Well, that didn’t go as planned, but I love you.
DM: she must at least have some type of green accent for the, around the capital.
DM: Additionally, this was non-optional, your father is going to be presiding over the ceremony.
Shain: Huh?
Shain: I love you too.
Shain: Good enough for now.
Shain: I loved you.
DM: Lastly, and most importantly, she should not use any magic during the ceremony, as your
Aeryndel: Why would we use magic?
DM: mother considers that to be bad luck, for whatever reason.
DM: wife wanted to send off a fireball whenever you guys kissed.
DM: It would be just wonderful.
DM: Unfortunately your mother was very adamant against that.
Aeryndel: We can do that during the honeymoon.
DM: It’s just not even just a fireball, fireball, fireball, fireball.
Aeryndel: We’re fireball fireball fireball!
Aeryndel: Then again, I did, I did tell you that this is a possibility of how things would have
DM: Yeah, um, you guys finish your plans and call it a night when my mother leaves to go home.
DM: Shyla kind of vents her frustration at how controlling your mother seems to be with this
DM: whole situation.
Aeryndel: went, and if it makes you feel better, she is trying in her own way.
DM: You did, you did.
DM: If you say so.
Aeryndel: If she fully
Aeryndel: disagreed with this, we would not have even gotten to this stage.
DM: Oh, by the way, I was able to get a, um, an artist scheduled for, um, for that night.
Shain: Next weekend
Aeryndel: Mm-hmm.
DM: We just have to stand still for about an hour.
Aeryndel: It’s fine with me.
DM: Yes, you guys just go ahead and call it a night, essentially.
DM: The next morning, you guys split ways once again.
DM: You head back towards the military depot to finish working out the arm and go ahead and
DM: begin trying to install it.
DM: And your soon-to-be-wife stays back at the house, and your mother comes over to discuss
Aeryndel: Oh my gosh.
DM: even more plans.
DM: Mm-hmm.
Aeryndel: Um, alrighty.
Aeryndel: As I’m doing the arm operation, there is two people I want in the room.
DM: Okay.
DM: All right.
Aeryndel: Dareth and the cadet.
Aeryndel: The cadet needs to be there to see the operation and see if he truly wants his leg.
DM: Sure, you get everybody in the room at about 11 a.m., as everybody’s in the room and Mr.
Aeryndel: And I need Dareth so I can prove that I was right.
Aeryndel: P.M.
Aeryndel: I was about to say, I was like, this is a start to the night.
Aeryndel: You’re gonna need it.
DM: Amarant walks in with a, basically it’s a wooden, a small wooden stick about this big,
DM: and it has teeth marks in it.
DM: And he says, this is what I used to pass through my torture
DM: training.
DM: Never thought I’d get to use it again.
Aeryndel: And as he sits down, I’m gonna take out my bag of holding and I’m just gonna start laying
Aeryndel: out all of my tools.
Aeryndel: The hand screw for the drill.
DM: Oh yeah, I forgot about the hand screw.
Aeryndel: The hand screw, because I have yet to make a motorized drill.
DM: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Aeryndel: But I get the hand screw, which isn’t just like a hand screw, it has like a crank to
Aeryndel: make it go faster, but yeah, it cranks faster.
DM: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s a…
Shain: You
DM: You have gears in it, so that way…
DM: Yeah, I got you.
Aeryndel: And then I need to have all my bolts, and then I need to make sure that all the wires
Aeryndel: are good.
DM: Alright.
Aeryndel: All of that good shit.
DM: Yeah, you pull it all out
DM: and everyone just kind of
DM: sits back on the chair
DM: back on the chair and kind of clenches the metal stick and he says that he’s ready.
DM: You caught Dareth trying to leave twice now as he really does not want to stay in this
DM: room.
Aeryndel: I’m just gonna turn around and be like,
Aeryndel: Dareth, if you try to leave one more fucking time,
Aeryndel: we’re gonna have some problems.
Aeryndel: If you really want to help veterans,
Aeryndel: then you need to see the process
Aeryndel: so that you can gauge if it is truly worthy
DM: He just kind of hesitantly nods as Emerald Stinkin takes off the bandages around his
Aeryndel: of even speaking of its existence.
Aeryndel: You understand?
Shain: He lost to me.
DM: arm.
DM: And you can see that it was basically cauterized.
Aeryndel: I don’t even want to ask.
DM: It’s just kind of burnt right at the edge.
DM: He says,
DM: Word to the wise,
DM: Don’t battle a mage without setting rules.
Aeryndel: Holy shit.
DM: But yeah, I guess
DM: you’re free to start as he
Aeryndel: Yeah, the first process is the coupling that goes on top of the original wound, and the
DM: puts the metal, er, the wooden
DM: stick in his mouth and he bites down.
DM: down.
DM: Yep.
DM: Mm-hmm.
DM: I think you only did one last time, you did her hand, but that’s probably because it was
Aeryndel: way that I always did it was, I screw in from the bottom, and I screw in from the sides.
Aeryndel: So there’s one screw, one screw, one screw, one screw, and then two at the front.
Aeryndel: And then, yeah, this full arm, I just want to make sure it’s not loose.
DM: a hand thing.
DM: That’s probably just because it was a hand thing.
Aeryndel: If it’s a hand, you can kind of get away with doing one because it’s a smaller joint.
DM: Yeah, yeah.
Aeryndel: But I need to drill into the bone from both sides, and then I need to drill in from the,
Aeryndel: Maybe not two inside, but just one on the center of the bone.
DM: Derek just kind of…
DM: Why can’t we use any type of anesthetic?
Aeryndel: Because…
DM: For the record, another way to really easily do it is that any type of anesthesia might
Aeryndel: My explanation of it is…
Aeryndel: You can’t be aware of your arm unless you feel the process.
Aeryndel: That’s, in my brain, that’s one way you-
DM: Inhibit magic and because it’s controlled by magic
Aeryndel: True.
Aeryndel: But my process of it was it kind of helps alleviate the phantom pain, because you just have so much pain of it building up, that the phantom pain kind of just goes away.
DM: Um
DM: Gotcha, um
Aeryndel: But yeah, that also works, yeah, it’s both ways.
DM: Yeah, um
DM: All right.
DM: Well, I guess uh, you go ahead and get started.
DM: Um
DM: as you kind of
Aeryndel: Good.
DM: Begin to drill into his arm
DM: His kind of whole body like tenses but he does not scream or make any noise as
Aeryndel: Good
DM: he’s just sternly facing forwards.
DM: As you kind of finish the first big
DM: screw into this thing and you move on to the second one you hear a creaking noise
DM: as you look up and see that the wooden stick that he had now has a big crack
DM: right down the center.
Aeryndel: Ha ha
DM: But yeah, you go ahead and screw in the second one.
DM: And
Aeryndel: They’re tinier screws, they’re not tiny, they’re tiny, they just need to make sure they’re
DM: then you screw in the side ones, which are, I presume, tinier screws.
DM: They’re not
DM: going to be as big.
Aeryndel: They’re good.
DM: You screw in the four others, and as you get to the final
DM: fourth one, a single tear rolls down his cheek.
DM: But as he kind of back off, he
DM: kind of just opens his mouth and the wood just shatters, literally, as it just
DM: kind of falls to the ground.
DM: There’s some like larger chunks, but essentially any
DM: area around his teeth had just long since shattered.
Aeryndel: It gets worse from here, sir.
DM: Before he says,
DM: That was nothing.
DM: What else you got?
Aeryndel: And then, as that happens, uh, the way I’m gonna- I’m gonna say is the arm kinda just
Aeryndel: attaches, and it- it attaches, but it’s not active.
Aeryndel: I still need to attach the wires to the, uh, the- the screw that’s on the bone, that has
DM: The nervous system and everything to you.
Aeryndel: like the the ways you attach the wires and kind of make it flow in but as soon
Aeryndel: as that process is on and it’s on and it’s fully there I’m gonna do some
Aeryndel: stress testing first to see if I can like yank it if it’s a good connection
Aeryndel: make sure it doesn’t just have any creaking noises it twists well it moves
Aeryndel: well and then as all that happens I’m gonna flick the the internal switch to
Aeryndel: basically make everything light up the nerves are starting to form and it’s
Aeryndel: gonna be a shock it’s gonna like it’s gonna cause a whole-ass shockwave in his
DM: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
DM: I can imagine.
Aeryndel: own body of just what’s happening and then it’s just gonna form outwards
DM: Yeah, uh, as you, like, hit the switch, his whole body tenses and he shakes a little bit, as his eyes kind of roll back a little.
Aeryndel: he spasms a lot
DM: And for-
DM: UGH!
Aeryndel: That is it.
DM: Kind of gets a hold of himself
DM: But it is clear that he just barely got through it
DM: He’s breathing very heavily his arm is his arms are still shaking his legs are shaking
DM: but he’s slowly getting under control before he looks over and kind of not fearful but
DM: Hesitantly he says
DM: Is there more
Aeryndel: The rest is, you just gotta learn how to use it.
DM: He kind of just, because the arms are just kind of dangling at this point, he kind of
Aeryndel: And I’m basically gonna just be like, try feeling magic in what used to be your arm.
Aeryndel: Try feeling what used to be there.
DM: reaches with his other hand and kind of pulls it up before he just sets it down and he tries
DM: to move it a little bit.
DM: And he’s able to like rotate it, but he’s not able to get full control.
Aeryndel: It’s up to you.
DM: He says,
DM: Ugh, this will take a little bit.
DM: Yeah, you go now.
DM: As the cadet, as you turn to look at the cadet,
DM: he is over there on the chair, crying,
DM: seeing the pain that he went through before he looks up,
DM: hearing that he was called and says,
DM: Can I change my mind?
DM: Is it too late?
DM: The before M. Rod says oh, it’s too late boy
DM: you’ve already signed or he grabs them and puts him on the chair and he says
DM: This is what these newbies don’t get once you commit you commit
Aeryndel: Now Butter, when it comes to the cadet, I’m gonna go…
Aeryndel: I’m gonna try my best to go easier on him and hopefully he won’t die.
DM: Yeah, yeah
DM: Sure, sure, sure.
DM: Um…
Aeryndel: Before I commence the thing, I’m going to be like, Cadet, do you have any family?
Aeryndel: No, no, Cadet, it’s not that bad.
DM: It just kind of looks…
DM: It’s that bad?
Aeryndel: I’m just wondering, if it does go that bad, do you have family?
Aeryndel: Like a wife?
DM: I’ve got a mom.
Aeryndel: Are you married?
Aeryndel: That’s probably for the best.
DM: He died in the war.
Aeryndel: Is this your mother?
Aeryndel: Do you have a father?
Aeryndel: a father?
DM: Uh, his name was Sebel?
Aeryndel: What was his name?
DM: No.
Aeryndel: Do I recognize the name?
DM: Yeah, Liv, yeah, I could do that.
Aeryndel: He’d be proud of you today.
Aeryndel: Only
Aeryndel: if you live, so think on that.
DM: Of course.
Aeryndel: Think of your mother.
Aeryndel: You don’t want to make her a widow
Aeryndel: and losing her child.
DM: I can do this.
DM: It’s just going to hurt initially, right?
Aeryndel: No.
Aeryndel: The whole screwing pro-
Aeryndel: If you can get used to the first screw, it’s pretty easy on there.
DM: Okay.
DM: I can do that.
Aeryndel: Now,
Aeryndel: you will not die by blood loss, you’ll not die by that.
Aeryndel: You’ll most likely die by shock, if that is what is to put you down.
Aeryndel: So, just don’t have shock!
DM: Yeah, I can’t do that.
Aeryndel: Yeah?
DM: Hang on.
Aeryndel: And as I’m talking to him, by the way, I’m just cleaning off the drill of all the blood
DM: Um.
DM: I can.
Aeryndel: and all the bone fragments, and I’m just like, yeah, just, you know, just think about it.
DM: I can do this.
DM: He just kind of looks away and says, start whenever you want.
Aeryndel: Well, that’s clearly a lie.
DM: I won’t even notice.
Aeryndel: Luckily for you, because you still have part of your leg, I don’t need to do as much screwing.
Aeryndel: It just needs to go into the first couple of joints.
Aeryndel: So, yeah.
DM: Okay.
Aeryndel: Yeah, okay.
Aeryndel: And I’m gonna, I’m gonna station the connection point on there, and that’s just kinda loose,
Aeryndel: I’m gonna make sure everything’s on there.
Aeryndel: Is it cauterized, or is it like it’s been healed over time and it’s kinda done the nub?
DM: It’s healed a little bit over time.
DM: It’s a semi-recent,
Aeryndel: Well then, first things first is to probably I’m going to have to cut off some of the excess
DM: it probably happened like maybe 3-4 months ago, so it’s begun to kind of
DM: heal a little bit, but it’s not completely healed, not by any means.
Aeryndel: skin to get access to the bone.
Aeryndel: So I’ll do that first.
Aeryndel: And as I cut some of the excess skin to get it on there perfectly fine.
DM: All right, so I’m sorry, are you doing the side ones first or the main ones?
Aeryndel: I’m going to save the drill on the bottom for last, so I’m going to do only two on the
Aeryndel: sides.
Aeryndel: I feel like if I do four, this motherfucker’s dead.
Aeryndel: So I’m going to do two on the sides, the small ones, and I’m just going to, I’m just going
Aeryndel: to rip it.
Aeryndel: Yes, I’m doing two side ones, so I’m not doing four like I did for his arm, I’m doing two.
DM: Yeah, yeah, you’re doing two sides and then, um, as you kind of do the small screws, um,
Aeryndel: One on the side, one on the right side, one on the left side.
DM: there are obvious signs of pain, but he’s obviously trying to repress it, um, he, as
DM: finish with the first one he just says okay i can do that
Aeryndel: One more, one more, one more, and then we are on to the last screw.
DM: okay yeah that’s fine that’s fine
Aeryndel: Same one of that variety, okay, we’re good, we’re good.
Aeryndel: And I’m going to start on the other leg.
Aeryndel: On the other side.
DM: um once again there’s signs of him just ah like in pain but he’s able to live through
Aeryndel: I’m going to give him a leather strap to put on his mouth.
DM: it it’s not the end of the world for him okay one more right just this last one
DM: Why do I need… how would I need this?
Aeryndel: This is just for extra security.
Aeryndel: If you can get through the first two without a leather strap, you’ll be fine.
DM: Oh.
DM: Okay, cool.
Aeryndel: Remember, if you get through this, you’ll be fine, okay?
Shain: I show up and just cast regenerate.
Shain: Oh, there you go, oh man.
DM: No, you don’t.
Aeryndel: Aw, man.
Aeryndel: Aw, dang it!
DM: Oh, dang it.
Aeryndel: I give him the leather strap, and I’m like, okay.
Aeryndel: On three.
Aeryndel: And I’m gonna do three, two, and then on two, I’m gonna screw.
Aeryndel: Please stop failing these saves, butter!
DM: Alright, I think…
DM: Hang on one second, he has to make some saves.
Shain: Technically, if I’m within range of the universe, I should be able to see it.
DM: Hang on, hang on.
DM: Oh, we got a bouncer.
DM: All right, that one doesn’t count right?
DM: That was interference.
Aeryndel: as long as I get an interference roll next time.
DM: Interference.
DM: He rolled the same thing.
DM: All right, last save.
DM: Come on, man.
DM: Okay, all right.
DM: As you
DM: drill, he begins to shake as you look up.
DM: He is literally foaming at the mouth.
DM: But
Aeryndel: Can I give a plus five to a save?
DM: you’re… no.
DM: But you’re already halfway in.
DM: It’s either go all the way, you’re past the
DM: point of no return.
DM: As you keep just drilling, Dareth just kind of goes up and
DM: tries to tilt his head and tries to kind of wash out his mouth so he can still
DM: breathe.
DM: After you get it all the way in, he is still just full-on shaking before
DM: after about like 5-10 minutes of him just shaking and foaming, he just coughs
DM: Is there more?
Aeryndel: And that’s the drilling process done.
Aeryndel: All that’s left is to attach the leg and connect the nerves.
DM: Yeah
Aeryndel: That will be a shock, but…
DM: No, no
Aeryndel: It’ll be a shock, but it’s temporary.
Aeryndel: It’s not as long as the others.
Aeryndel: It’ll only last three seconds max.
DM: Okay
Aeryndel: And I put on the leg, make sure everything looks good, attach the wires, test out its
DM: Okay, do it
Aeryndel: stability, and then as long as everything checks off every box, I flick the internal
Aeryndel: switch that’s on the back thigh.
DM: All right as you put the switch
Aeryndel: Please.
DM: Last save, do you want to roll it?
Aeryndel: Let me do a plus five on this roll.
DM: Do you want to roll it?
Aeryndel: I would like to roll it.
DM: It’s a flat d20.
Aeryndel: I’ll roll it.
Aeryndel: Okay,
Aeryndel: what do I got to roll?
Aeryndel: Is there is there any benefits or is this just flat d20?
DM: He doesn’t have much in his con stat, bro.
Aeryndel: And I can’t
Aeryndel: This is a saving throw I could I could add a plus five he’s in 30 feet
DM: He is within 30 feet.
DM: You know what, I’ll let you do it on this one.
Aeryndel: Natural 20
DM: Oh!
DM: As you flip this on, he…
DM: He literally has a stinking…
DM: Um…
DM: Uh…
DM: Stroke.
DM: Um…
Aeryndel: Is a strong
DM: He has a literal stroke as he just shakes uncontrollably.
Aeryndel: A medicine check?
DM: Um, but, uh, as you, kind of, uh, make a minus check for me, please.
DM: Yeah, so we’re good.
Aeryndel: Natural 20.
Aeryndel: Medicine, medicine.
DM: Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Aeryndel: What’s my medicine handling, or my medicine shit?
DM: Natural 20?
DM: Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.
DM: Hang on, I’m not, I’m not gonna touch this, I just want you to see this.
Aeryndel: Do I have medicine?
Aeryndel: Medicine.
Aeryndel: Yeah, it’s just a natural 20.
DM: You got a natural 20.
Aeryndel: Yeah, it’s just a natural 20.
DM: He got a natural 1.
Aeryndel: Ha ha ha ha ha!
DM: But anyways, you… Man, the difference in quality, man!
Aeryndel: I know!
Aeryndel: It was so bad!
Shain: What quality?
DM: Anyways, so you kind of remember your training on how to help somebody that is currently having a literal stroke.
Aeryndel: I am your worst nightmare.
DM: and you’re he’s able to kind of pull through it and at the end he just kind
DM: of wakes up this who are you
DM: What?
Aeryndel: Does he not remember who he is?
DM: Where am I?
DM: Who am I?
DM: No, unfortunately, even after you slapped him in the head, it appears that your procedure has done irreparable brain damage to this man.
Aeryndel: I’m just slapping him in the head.
DM: As he’s called.
Aeryndel: How is it done brain damage?
DM: The nervous system is directly connected to your brain, Chief.
Aeryndel: Uh, okay, well, okay, how about he gets a re-roll on that natural one?
Shain: I actually have if I’m if I’m technically level 20 and I was
Aeryndel: He should get advantage.
DM: No.
DM: How?
Aeryndel: Uh, because Shane willed it.
Shain: Oh, man.
Aeryndel: Wait, can I cast Mending on his brain?
DM: No, Shane is not just here permanently.
Shain: Correct.
DM: I think you can only cast that on non-living objects.
Aeryndel: So I get back to what it once was?
Aeryndel: Come on!
DM: For a reason.
DM: Okay, well wait.
Aeryndel: I don’t wanna die!
Aeryndel: Fuck it!
Aeryndel: No!
Aeryndel: Fuck!
DM: This spell will single break or tear in any object you touch.
DM: Okay, that’s from Tosca’s Cauldron of Everything.
Shain: Does the brain consider it a magic item?
DM: two different defending spells?
DM: No, there’s not.
DM: It’s just Tashkogra everything has another one
DM: for some reason.
DM: Um, you know, as long as I- as I’m reading this,
Aeryndel: It’s just this object you touch.
DM: Matt can physically repair a magic item or construct but can’t restore-
DM: You know?
DM: I’m looking here, and it actually doesn’t say anything about it having to be non-living, technically speaking.
DM: But you can’t touch his brain unless you want to do open…
Aeryndel: I can touch his nervous system.
DM: Um, uh, that’s not the same.
Aeryndel: It’s connected to the brain.
DM: It is connected to the brain, but his, his darn epidermal is connected to his brain.
DM: I mean, just because it’s connected doesn’t mean that your magic will cast to it.
DM: No, don’t do this.
Aeryndel: If I must, I must, I must, I must, I must, I must touch his brain.
Aeryndel: He’s gonna be like, who am I, who am I, knocks him out, start
DM: It’s a bad option.
Aeryndel: I’m just gonna be like, um, so Ambrod, do we have a healer by any chance?
DM: Go find somebody who knows some
DM: healing magic.
Aeryndel: You think he knows how to help with memory loss?
DM: We’ve got a medic?
Aeryndel: Because the only way that I could probably fix his memory is if I drill a hole into his
Shain: Hi.
DM: Maybe?
Shain: I like that.
DM: I hope?
DM: Sure!
Aeryndel: brain and touch his brain.
DM: Don’t do that!
DM: I’ll go get someone.
Aeryndel: I know.
Aeryndel: Yeah, you could, yeah, yeah, Cadet, do you remember your name?
DM: Somebody can help, I’m sure.
DM: I’m a… I’m a cadet?
Aeryndel: Yes, yes, yes.
Shain: I like that.
DM: Cadet!
Aeryndel: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Shain: Yo, that’s a metal arm?
DM: Yo, I got a metal leg, dude!
Shain: That’s awesome, dude!
DM: Hey, you’ve got a metal leg!
DM: Are we brothers?
DM: Oh.
DM: Ooh.
DM: Where am I?
Aeryndel: I just installed that leg for you!
DM: Huh?
DM: Wow, I got a metal leg, dude!
DM: He’s gonna um he hit it and he’s out uh uh yeah Dareth um he’s technically present
Aeryndel: I’m gonna- I’m gonna reach into my bag and I’m just gonna…
Aeryndel: Hit him with anesthetic.
Aeryndel: I’m just gonna be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Shain: Menacing.
Aeryndel: I’m gonna turn around to see Dareth.
Aeryndel: Is he- Is Dareth still, like, awake?
Aeryndel: Did he pass out?
Aeryndel: What’s he doing?
Aeryndel: He’s just…
DM: He’s standing there.
DM: Lying there.
Aeryndel: I’d be like, so yeah, Dareth, that’s, that’s what I went through.
Aeryndel: Yeah, so that’s what I had to go through, Dareth.
DM: Ugh.
Aeryndel: See why I didn’t ask for your help?
DM: Yeah, that’s, uh, that, that, that, uh, that was, um, why?
Aeryndel: What do you mean, why?
Aeryndel: It’s the only way I could get my arms back.
DM: Why did you do that?
Aeryndel: I didn’t want to be half of an elf anymore.
DM: I see, I see, okay, I, I, I, I saw something, this operation will henceforth be known as
Aeryndel: I still had stuff I wanted to do.
Aeryndel: I needed to walk.
Aeryndel: I needed to wield a weapon.
Aeryndel: Are you okay, Dareth?
Aeryndel: It seems like you’ve… seen a ghost.
Aeryndel: You look a little pale.
Aeryndel: That isn’t even as half as bad.
DM: too dangerous to perform and will be classified.
Aeryndel: This is why you don’t go messing around with my shit.
DM: I promise I won’t mess- I won’t mess around with your stuff anymore.
Aeryndel: What else have you messed with, Dareth?
DM: Nothing.
Aeryndel: Don’t make me cut off your limb and put another limb on you.
DM: Nothing at all.
DM: Nothing.
DM: It’s nothing, it’s nothing.
Aeryndel: Very well.
DM: Yeah, yeah.
Aeryndel: Anyways, stay here, wait for Amrod, and hopefully we can get a healer to fix his brain.
Aeryndel: I have done my part.
Aeryndel: I’m glad Amrod’s back up to full-ish condition.
DM: Were you always this cold?
Aeryndel: And, since, hey, since they both signed the waiver, I don’t have to worry about any repercussions.
Aeryndel: I learned some things, as soon as I was out, about…
DM: Okay.
Aeryndel: The world is dangerous.
Aeryndel: Anyways, I need to go speak with my father.
DM: All right.
Aeryndel: I need to give him some, uh, detailed notes on Koldera.
DM: As you kind of leave, he’s just kind of still got that kind of like glazed
DM: eyes of what just happened.
Aeryndel: Uh.
DM: But yeah, you leave and you go to your father.
DM: Regular,
DM: I presume that you’re just giving him the document.
Aeryndel: Yeah, I’m just giving him the notes.
DM: He says thank you very much, and you just head back home as it’s gotten kind of late.
Aeryndel: Yeah, I do the same thing.
DM: Once again as you enter the house, you hear some verbal disagreements.
DM: disagreements go on for a while before they turn to you.
DM: You basically take a
DM: relatively neutral side, but kind of on the side of your wife a little bit, or
Aeryndel: I just want to retcon something.
DM: soon-to-be wife, sorry.
DM: Eventually they came to an understanding and you go to
DM: sleep.
DM: Oh, I’m sorry, they did decide when it will happen and it is scheduled for
DM: one week from now, as the timetable is a little short because she has to get back,
DM: unfortunately as well.
Aeryndel: Before we entered the port city of Niamh, I would have sent out messages to both Yinlair
Aeryndel: and to Aragorn, letting them know that this was happening within the next three months.
Aeryndel: If they could make it, that’s cool.
Aeryndel: If they can’t, understandable.
DM: You probably would have sent that actually while you were in Discernia, because it was already kind of something you planned to do.
Aeryndel: True.
Aeryndel: Yeah, true.
DM: That way it gives them time to prepare and get to Thalassro.
Aeryndel: Yeah, true.
Aeryndel: Yeah.
Aeryndel: I know Yin Lair is… would want to come, because Yin Lair was the one who originally
Aeryndel: was the… priest.
Shain: Hello.
DM: Unfortunately, we’re going to have to pause here for at least a little bit.
Aeryndel: Are we picking this back up tonight?
DM: So, as I’ve unfortunately come back to the note, so we’ll have to come back.
DM: Could we do tomorrow night?
Aeryndel: We’re good?
Aeryndel: Alright, yeah.
DM: I’m available any time after five.
DM: All right, fantastic.
DM: This has been wonderful.
Aeryndel: I will say though…
DM: I’m sorry for the kind of abrupt ending.
Aeryndel: No it’s fine.
DM: Gotcha.
Aeryndel: I will say, I do have D&D tomorrow night with Nate’s campaign, so if you’re available any
DM: Sure, sure.
Aeryndel: time after 5, we’ll probably do it at 5.
Aeryndel: Yerp.
DM: That works for me.
Aeryndel: Yeah, no worries, don’t forget to kick out the boss.
DM: All righty.
DM: Thank you, my friend.
DM: I will talk to you later.
DM: Unfortunately, I really have to go use the bathroom.
Shain: Let’s go.
DM: Uh, stop recording.