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Hey friends, it's your pal Mike Shea from

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Sly Flourish here with another episode of Sly

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Flourish's lazy GM prep. In this weekly show,

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I go through steps from Return of the

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Lazy Dungeon Master while preparing for my Sunday

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role-playing game. In this case, I am running

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the Shadow Dark RPG in a campaign setting

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known as the Gloaming. Shadow Dark is a

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role-playing game made by Kelsey Dion at Arcane

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Library. It's a fantastic role-playing game. And

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Curscroll One is the book that contains

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the setting of the Gloaming. Very short

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book, very small, thin setting, but with

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lots of prompts to be able to build a campaign.

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And I have been running now a campaign, I think this is session 17. So

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we've actually been going pretty far, I would say, in

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still in that crazy dungeon that I built. last

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time, which was, and I have

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a mistake, mistakes were

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made. Let me pull up my Albert

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rodeo map so we can follow along at home. We

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are still in this great big area

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that I have deemed to be the

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temples of Kythiros and Shun. It

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turns out, so in the Gloaming,

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we have two godlike entities, Shun

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the Vile and Kythiros, the Master

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of Time. I decided to

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do some shipping and made them a

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couple that they were together, and it

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seems like one of the characters is

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a descendant upon of Kythiros and

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Shun the Vile. That's dangerous.

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This is the mistake that was made,

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is when you decide, like, you're really

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gonna incorporate characters into the

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story in Shouter Dark, what happens

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if they die? Now luckily,

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the character in question, Morrigan, has not

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died, but she's one of the only

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two that haven't died in this whole

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campaign. So that idea, and players are

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all joking about this, like, well you

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can't die now. She's like, I only

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have five hit points. And it's

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like, well you're a descendant of two gods. Like, I know,

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but it's only five hit points. So that's

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something, I'm not used to that, right?

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Like, I'm very much used to any

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opportunity that I have in my RPG

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story to tie the characters directly into

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the story, like you may be a

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descendant upon, like your mother might be

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a descendant upon two gods. And

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there's all this stuff going on, is in Shadow

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Dark, you could die three seconds

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from now. Two characters did die. We had

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two characters killed by wolves. I'll

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get into that. So what

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happens if that character dies when they have all

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of this connection to the story and everything like

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that? That's a big question, a big concern. And

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maybe the answer is they just still die. Like,

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it doesn't matter. But you could do

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stuff like maybe their spirit is still around there,

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maybe their essence goes into the knife, like, you

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know. So I have clues

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where, turns out magic items are

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more permanent. characters are. So maybe the magic

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item becomes the character. Right,

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use that explodey head gift. The magic

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items are the characters. So what

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happened? The characters were making their way, they made their

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way to this chamber here where

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they found a rift to the world of marrow

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and they found their friend Barbara the troll who

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was obsessed with it. He was kind of like

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possessed by this thing. He got hit by some

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acid from an acid arrow and when he did

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it woke him out of his fugue state and

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he was like, oh my god. And they were

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getting attacked by two marrow wolves and a dire

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marrow wolf and they started killing

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characters. One of the characters got ripped in half by

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a couple of the marrow wolves and another character tried

4:37

to go save them and got bitten by the direwolf

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and was also likewise killed and the other one and

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I think they had a voice, they

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heard a voice that said run and I

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think it was Morgan's mother's voice said run. And so

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the two remaining characters, I think it was

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two, I think it was two remaining

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characters ran and

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they as they were running back down

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here, no torches by the

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way, they heard slurpy noises coming from a

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particular hall. That was this hall here

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and they're like, hey, we don't have

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time for slurpy noises. We got other issues going

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on here. I agree. We got wolves on our

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ass. Oh and Barbara said you run, I'll take

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care of these guys. So Barbara

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the troll is like grabbing a marrow wolf and

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repeatedly punching it in the face. So

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they ran down the hall with no torches

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and as they made their way here, they

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see torchlight and the torchlight is coming from

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two new adventurers that came from the two

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new players and the characters of the players

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whose characters had died making their way up

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here and they're like, oh and I

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do the, I have this like little bit of shorthand

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around like you look into their eyes and see the

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heroic spark of fellow adventurers. I.e. let's not have a

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20-minute conversation about how you don't trust these people and

5:44

that you have to learn to trust them. I'll

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tell you players love to grab onto that and it

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is so dry and boring. So You know what I

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do is I Say in their eyes you see clearly

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the heroic spark of people that you can trust to

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join you in your adventures. Like Let's not have a

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20-minute conversation about why these characters can join your other

5:59

party even though. I don't know. This

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guy's got a shifty so you know

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Bee Jay's are so. Of the

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characters then so they joined back up again and

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they're like okay we gotta go back to Our

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friend Barbara is getting the it now eaten by

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wolves because of heroes going on and I rolled.

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I'm like I'm just gonna roll twenty sided die.

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And this is like something that I'm that

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I'm getting that I'm picking up on his.

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You know, especially in Saturn are you really

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do this and other games to the idea

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of like letting the dice tell the story

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a little bit. in this case, like so

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so even. Sadder. Dark. They.

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Have A Kelsey talks about a components called the

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Oracle By which is essentially a Euro A D,

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Six and one to three. One thing happens and

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four to six something else happens which is great,

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right? That's a really like easy, shorthanded essay. By

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the way, let the dice roll for like things

6:45

that are happening in the game. the matter what?

6:48

So. Ah, But in this case

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as like I want something with a little bit more

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granularity and something little bit more analog Sigler all twenty

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sided die and depending on what it rolls on is

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kind of how good things are going. If it was

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a one, he's dead. He got hit by the dark

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Marozas they're dragging him into marrow or something like that.

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if it's a twenty T V or he comes back

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and he's got Will felt on and is like average

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grades. and then depending on how it goes is how

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well things are going. So I think a role that

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thirteen or fourteen so such things are actually gone pretty

7:13

well. he's actually holding his own. He's been is that

7:15

desist rated. The parts of them are all over the

7:18

place, but he's a troll in the movie of. Two.

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Thousand people, the face and super they have that

7:22

I reckon I think they have to get back

7:24

there and then they were buying like only other

7:27

flipping houses whatever and the kept going on. The

7:29

global slippery noises are couple a great uses and

7:31

those great users are following them down the hall

7:33

so they get into the room with their new

7:36

fresh characters. They see Barbara Og there and they

7:38

are fighting with Barbara Og against the wolf and

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then the great uses come from behind another Freddie

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Gray's As and walls but there they they did

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and then the rolling what better for them and

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they defeated the wolves and they defeated he grazes

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and everything's good now. They. Also,

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I can't remember exactly where they picked

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it up, but they they. oh there

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was a bag. They saw her mother's

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bag. Morgan who's like now that. Star

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character the game because she saw

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life saw her mother's satchel lie

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and I was like role for

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treasure on the random satchel. And

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so she did. And I pulled up the

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treasures, the treasure tables. a poem up Now

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for fun! These. Siemens and

8:16

a treasure. Trove.

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Your tables and I set a camera. Did

8:20

I say with the seven? The Nine. Yes,

8:24

I said it was a seven to nine level

8:26

of treasure. Were just everly higher than they

8:28

are but it was like while they're busy areas pretty there

8:30

is pretty tough to. So.

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They. He rolled

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his. I had Morgan's player role

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and she rolled enrolled double zero.

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And she's like all admiral double Zero

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as he'd like pointed or camera the

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dice around all over there and look

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who and I'm like okay so then

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I'm like well a was a plus

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three weapon. I'm like let's figure out

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what this was. So we rolled on

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like the weapons table to determine what

8:57

kind of weapon it was and it

8:59

was a bastard sword. And then we

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rolled on. What kind

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of. Bonus. It had and

9:06

it had prophecy was the name of the

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bonus. I don't remember where the. Where

9:11

were the bonus? more? The bonus part is

9:13

in the book here, but it was prophecy

9:15

that essentially less you. One. Time

9:17

per day when something would hit you.

9:20

You can. You can turn it.

9:22

right? You can, you can turn into a

9:24

mess and I that's really cool. Yeah.

9:27

So here I rolled it. Emerald mail to two or

9:29

three. That was a bastard sword. A

9:31

was not cursed and the benefit was

9:33

yes, seven once per day deflect a

9:35

melee attack that would hit you, so

9:37

that was really cool. And then they

9:39

rolled the personality and it was like

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Spews Prophecy. It's always kind

9:44

of telling about prophecy and was

9:46

like so the name of the

9:48

blade as prophecy said that somehow

9:50

and I think it's another weapon.

9:52

Similar to the.

9:55

The. which nice that the the the the

9:57

which nice which was another really powerful

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that they got that was made by

10:02

both Shun the Vile and Kythiros together and

10:04

now has gone, it's like the Excalibur of

10:06

Witches, right? It's the super powerful sword that

10:08

they acquired. Well, it doesn't work in the

10:10

hands of Morgan because she's a warlock or

10:13

a witch. So it went to one of

10:15

the other characters who was holding it and

10:17

that character died and then someone else grabbed

10:19

it. So now I'm saying like the blade

10:22

and the, you know, one of the things about like a

10:24

blade that's fused prophecy is that means I have to know

10:26

what's going on and I don't know what's going on. So

10:28

I do a lot of like the, you're in terrible danger,

10:31

terrible danger lies ahead. The likelihood of

10:33

your survival is low. Thanks for all

10:36

the, you

10:38

know, useful information. So I'm having a lot of

10:41

fun with that, but it is an opportunity for

10:43

Secrets and Clues to get out. It's an opportunity

10:45

for some continuity to occur even as characters are

10:47

dying. So that idea that there's a blade called

10:49

prophecy works. So they captured prophecy, they

10:51

managed to defeat the wolves, they made their way back. And then

10:53

the question was, do they leave? Are they,

10:56

are they heading out or do they want to explore more

10:58

of this place? And I was like, for example, there is

11:00

a chamber here that you have not entered. There's an old

11:02

door and they are,

11:04

you know, they

11:06

don't know what's on the other side and

11:08

they just picked the lock and got through

11:10

and made it into the door. And that's

11:12

where I ended the adventure. So our strong

11:14

start today is what's in the vault and

11:17

I don't know what's in the vault. We have to figure

11:19

that out today. That's something we're all going to do here

11:21

together. So that was really interesting.

11:23

So yeah, the lessons that I learned

11:26

from the last game is mostly

11:28

like make sure that you don't

11:30

put too much of this story

11:32

upon a character who could die

11:34

any second. Now it didn't

11:36

happen, but still Morgan could die any second. And then

11:38

how is that when Morgan's the one that's got the

11:41

obsidian witch knife and is also like the daughter of

11:43

these things? Like what happens with that? I have a

11:45

feeling it would be that Morgan's personality gets drawn into

11:47

the witch knife and that we still have like

11:49

a Morgan and then I don't know. We'll

11:51

figure that out. But you still be dead and have to make it your character. But

11:53

then the witch knife is still lying around. So today is

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7 January, 2024. This

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is our first game of the year, the

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vault. And this is, so this

12:06

side of it was Shun the Vile's side.

12:08

Kythiros' vault is on the other side. So

12:10

this is definitely a vault of Shun the

12:12

Vile. It certainly contains treasure.

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I think we will say, and this is going

12:16

to be a four to six, but

12:19

I'm not going to roll it today. I think it'll

12:21

be more fun to roll it during the game. Like that, that's

12:23

when we're like, we're going to let the

12:26

dice kind of figure out what's there. But

12:28

what else is in this vault? I think

12:30

Shadow Dark has a mimic and

12:32

it feels like a great time to

12:35

put a mimic in here because Shun the Vile would

12:38

definitely put a mimic. So this vault has not

12:41

been opened by Morrigan's mother

12:43

who was, Gwendolyn was the

12:45

name of Morrigan's mother. So

12:47

one of the secrets we can drop right in, our

12:50

secrets is Gwendolyn. I got it wrong. Gwendolyn

12:53

never opened the vault

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of Shun. We knew

12:58

better. Hey, my mom is here. Hi,

13:01

mom. So I think like now, so she

13:03

didn't open it because she knew better. Let's

13:06

take a look at the mimic. Mimic

13:08

is a nice old, you

13:11

know, level five. So that's good.

13:13

Two bite attacks, D plus stick. So

13:16

that's cool. So it is a mimic. Is

13:19

there any other, what else would we want

13:21

to put in this? So it's

13:23

a vault, right? It's a place that Shun, what else?

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So they learned a bunch of stuff. Let's take a

13:28

look at like the secrets and clues that they learned

13:30

from the last session. They learned

13:32

about the Marrow of being in the Marrow.

13:34

Haldrein sought a way to stop Mughal Blub

13:36

but has gone quiet. They learned that from

13:38

Shun the Vile's note. Shun the Vile believed

13:40

they had gone too far. Mughal would simply

13:43

devour every world. Yes. Kithiros

13:45

thought Mughal Blub being a primordial ooze could

13:47

be used to create all new fantastic worlds.

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They were both right. They learned that. Morrigan's

13:52

mother, Gwendolyn, was here in the

13:54

temple before they learned that. Gwendolyn knew Haldrein and

13:57

believed he had artifacts required to end Mughal Blub's

14:00

They did learn that. While Haldurin worked

14:02

on a way to destroy Magdoblub, shooting

14:04

the vials sought a safe place to bring Magdoblub into the

14:06

world so they could destroy it. I

14:08

don't think they learned this. So I think this could be something that they could

14:11

learn. Haldurin went missing before he could bring his half of

14:13

the puzzle to the location. Well,

14:15

no, because this was all, this was about Gwendolyn and

14:17

Gwendolyn never came in here. So they wouldn't necessarily learn

14:19

that. Not in the vault. They might learn it somewhere

14:21

else, but they won't learn in the vault. Haldurin went

14:24

missing, Gwendolyn was burning the stake. So this is all timeline

14:26

stuff. The Knights of Saint Idris were the ones to stop

14:28

and trap Haldurin before he could

14:31

complete his own plan to destroy

14:33

Magdoblub. Gwendolyn is the direct descendant of

14:35

shooting the vial. So we learned all that. We

14:37

did learn, we didn't know that part. So

14:39

these other ones, we're gonna copy

14:42

over to our current secrets,

14:44

but they know that. I don't know if they

14:46

know that. So we keep it. But what, are

14:48

there any other secrets that they could learn about

14:51

Kythiros and Shun from

14:53

the point of view of Shun? Let's

14:56

go back to the book. Is

14:59

Shun in here? Or the unbending, the wise, the

15:01

secret keeper. He is the god of magic, knowledge,

15:03

secrets and equilibrium. So could we tie something?

15:07

I need another god like I need a hole in the head. We

15:10

already have a ton of major players here. How

15:13

do like, one thing I don't know

15:15

is like, how do spell scrolls and spell books work

15:18

in here? I don't even know if they

15:20

have any wizards. You can probably learn a

15:22

wizard spell from a spell scroll by studying for a day

15:24

and succeeding in DC 15 intelligence

15:26

check. Whether you succeed or

15:28

fail, spells you learn this way don't count towards

15:30

your known spells and you can use

15:32

it. So I think we'll

15:34

have like three spell scrolls in

15:37

here. You can put that under

15:39

treasure, right? The Shun the vial has left

15:41

three spell scroll. Or is it Shun? Yeah,

15:45

because it's a vault of Shun the vial.

15:47

So it probably has three spell scrolls. And

15:50

I like these spell scroll features. So we're

15:52

gonna roll on this one. Fill

15:54

it out now instead of during the game. Four,

15:57

stained parchment roll. Two

16:00

of those and one carved into

16:03

bone and what spells are they?

16:05

Oh look yay There

16:08

is a oh this is look at that these

16:10

random tables are great Thank

16:12

you, Kelsey Dion for putting awesome tables in here. So we're

16:14

gonna start with a spell tier we're gonna have three of

16:16

them I've decided and four

16:19

and four eight is one of them sets

16:21

a tier three a one

16:24

and a two that is a Tier

16:26

one a nine and

16:28

so two tier threes in a tier one. So

16:31

tier threes we have 10

16:35

protection from energy and Six gaseous

16:37

form. I think we already have an item that can

16:39

help somebody do gas use for I'm gonna roll again

16:41

Just cuz they already I think they already have access

16:43

to that man. I rolled ten three times in

16:45

a row five fly

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fly to Get

16:51

row five ten eight lightning bolt. There we go.

16:54

Don't like that one I'll just

16:56

keep rolling till I like the answer enlightening

16:58

bolt protection from

17:00

energy and Then

17:03

I first here Six floating

17:05

disk. So those are

17:07

on the scrolls that are in the area.

17:09

Is there but I guess the big questions

17:12

like what? That's great What

17:14

information can they learn here?

17:16

What? What

17:19

would shoot the vial have? I

17:23

mean do I want to spill the secret so

17:25

we could that that like let's see Shun and Kaitiros

17:30

Found a realm during their world

17:34

Explorations that was a

17:36

pure void pure

17:39

emptiness the destruction of

17:43

all Kaitiros Captured

17:47

it in a sphere and hit

17:49

it away. I think that's a good secret That's

17:52

a sphere of annihilation and that is the item that can

17:54

destroy mug to blob. So the Knights

17:56

of Saint Yidris I think

17:58

it might be kind of interesting. Let's see Cursed

18:00

knights who walked the path of St. Yiddris,

18:03

the unholy, the possessed. They embraced the darkness in

18:05

order to fight and cleanse the evil. If

18:07

you know, the 160-year-old St. Yiddris is still alive

18:09

within the prior encounter, bound painfully and willingly in

18:11

a magic circle to trap the mighty demon lord

18:14

who possesses him. Initiates the

18:16

order. So we

18:19

could have like a holy knight hunted

18:22

down Shun the vial.

18:25

We defeated him, found

18:28

one of her rifts

18:31

to a hellish world. He

18:34

plunged his hand inside

18:37

and became demon bound. He

18:40

then slew her, slew her, sending

18:42

her to another world.

18:45

What would have caused the falling out? Let's

18:47

see, two, four, six, seven, eight. I

18:49

got two. What would have caused the

18:51

falling out between Kytheros

18:54

and... I think the idea that,

18:56

yeah, Kytheros and

18:59

Shun never agreed upon

19:03

the nature of Magdal Blub and

19:05

it caused and it

19:08

split them up. He returned

19:10

to his obsession with

19:12

time and the creation of worlds, sought

19:16

to end the horror

19:20

he caused to so many

19:22

of the worlds that succumbed

19:25

to Magdal Blubs. So

19:29

that's a good one. These

19:31

are some good secrets. Is there any

19:34

other interesting secrets that we want to

19:36

have here? I think that

19:38

St. Yiddris found a

19:41

blade called the

19:43

Blade of the Deadlights that

19:45

he used to slay

19:48

Shun the Vile. The blade

19:50

is possessed. Horrid

19:53

spider demon. Those are plenty

19:55

of good secrets. I'm good on secrets. I've

19:58

got my strong start and my mimic. So scenes. the

20:00

vault of Shun the Vile,

20:03

and then choice, a small choice, continue

20:08

to explore the

20:10

vaults of Kytherius or

20:13

return to Acolyc. Where's

20:16

Acolyc? There it is, Acolyc.

20:19

So we can do that, and then bigger choices. They

20:22

can head to Haldren's Tower or

20:26

head to the Redthorn

20:28

Camp and the Twisted Marrow Tree. I think

20:30

those are two big, big

20:33

ones. Goals, so this

20:35

is one about their bigger goals. Find

20:37

treasures and return

20:40

them to, what's her name? Titania.

20:43

Or save, to save the gloaming, what

20:45

do they need to do? So

20:48

they need to acquire the

20:50

artifacts of Haldren,

20:53

which includes the Well of Worlds

20:56

and the Sphere of Annihilation. And

20:59

then destroy Magdalblub. And

21:01

would that stop? So

21:03

if Magdalblub is completely destroyed, is

21:08

that enough for Kytherius

21:11

to pull back Almazat and

21:14

Ungdaluk and show them, like, hey,

21:17

the world is not corrupted anymore, you don't need to eat

21:19

us. So probably

21:21

destroy Ungdaluk and

21:23

convince Almazat Magdalblub

21:28

is destroyed, and then he

21:30

won't eat the planet. So

21:32

that is kind of the longer story. I think that's

21:35

kind of the end, right?

21:37

Other goals could be destroy

21:40

the heart

21:43

of the Knights of St. Idris, which

21:45

is St. Idris themselves. Is

21:49

there any other major goal? I think

21:51

I did like a goal, the factions and goals list, but

21:53

I think those are the big ones. Does

21:56

that have a factions and goals? Like factions and quests. Oh,

21:59

yeah, so that's enough. They wanted they could. Use.

22:02

The well of world's to get mugged. a blob. Access

22:06

to everything. That would be the bad endings. Yeah.

22:08

Says are these are kind of work. So.

22:10

Let's say they want

22:12

to continue. To.

22:15

Explore that the dread ways the forgotten temple

22:18

us unique. I fear us and they go

22:20

to the Coke Zero area. I want to

22:22

have an idea of what's in the these

22:24

areas here. So wanna starting at one o'clock

22:27

which is here and going clout counterclockwise. I

22:29

on no need to worry about that, so

22:31

are we have the. Down here

22:34

the Temple doors, the hallway of chi

22:36

serious as pride trapped. Trap.

22:38

Hallway of Coffee or a sister, the

22:40

one that has like black and white

22:42

files on the floor. There's a couple

22:45

a clockwork guardians in there. A

22:47

suit of gold and silver plate mail say

22:50

plus one plate mail him and I treasure.

22:52

That. Was forged by. Force.

22:55

By soon for cake Zeroes, a crypt

22:57

of the old one spectres of the

23:00

priests and practices of soon. the vial

23:02

of of Coke Zero probably. And

23:04

they minus and stuff and the drop is

23:07

this bigger As with any to worry about,

23:09

that. So I think that that's everything that's

23:11

in these vaults here. Is

23:13

there any? I guess we could as

23:15

sort of the explorers knock. Would.

23:17

Be this far right hand side.

23:20

With. To healing potions. And. Symbols

23:22

and the treasure. A four to six

23:24

treasure. I. Think I like sports nuts

23:27

with a guy without a goblin killed by his

23:29

own trap. And sounds funny. That

23:31

would be down in there. So. We've got this

23:33

lower than the southern area of the vault

23:35

they have not really gone into. There is

23:37

a mummy and their. Wandering. Around.

23:41

Session: Forget about the mummy. Is

23:43

the big question like the had the money get back across the

23:45

bridge. I. Think it is covered in

23:47

indignant frogs. So. But

23:49

then they go on their next journey and I think we're

23:52

gonna play a while so let's see what. where do I

23:54

think they may go? I mean, that's

23:56

probably enough. Oh, there's an opportunity for

23:58

some down time and. Seems

24:00

so. Ah, Return

24:03

to Echo I click. On. Time.

24:06

They. Can spend some of their hard earned cash

24:08

and some downtime that could get him to

24:10

higher levels and then they have to make

24:12

a bigger choices. So then we'll do the.

24:15

Exploration. Of we will

24:17

do the exploration. Of

24:19

their journey to Aldrin's Tower or the

24:22

Red Soren Camp. And then

24:24

do I have anything for holders, Towers I

24:26

I, but you know suit past make say

24:28

was nice and got me a map of

24:30

those I come. Where. The map.

24:33

There. It is yea, five Canada's floating

24:35

place right? And I think it's

24:37

like sealed up. The. Idea that's

24:39

like a floating tower to be kind. cool that they have that

24:41

they have to sorta. Reach. It

24:44

right that would be kind of fun. Do

24:46

I have any idea like what

24:48

is inside? So instead of doing

24:50

it like room by room. I

24:53

don't. I think the issues that they can't get in.

24:55

Rape. Or what they have to learn. When.

24:58

They get here and maybe this is a secret?

25:00

is that holder and sealed up his tower? And

25:03

then went to go find and what was he

25:05

looking for. Yeah. This this

25:07

this is important is a good

25:09

secret. So Cauldron. Sought

25:12

the sphere. Of

25:14

Annihilation. The cast on ios. In.

25:17

An old. Crypt.

25:20

An. Old soon because I I I I

25:22

put that somewhere. The. Vile. Well

25:24

and he. This is a great big dungeon.

25:27

And. It was a place. Where.

25:30

The see seven. Mrs.

25:32

In the right spot. Via. Well as

25:34

and sixty seven. And. That is

25:36

is way way to the far way

25:39

far to the east. So.

25:41

That's good. And. The

25:43

vial well is where the Knights

25:46

of St. Louis address. In. The

25:48

Vial. Well I hear the nights.

25:50

Are here see address right himself.

25:53

Hid. away

25:55

the artifact. Case. The

25:58

Earth. Constructed. From

26:00

the world of the Void. The

26:02

nice thing for them and nights.

26:05

the thing is. Trapped.

26:08

Pardon. In. Their

26:10

well when the vile. Hundred

26:12

and sealed up his tower.

26:15

And left his familiar.

26:17

I. Need a name for familiar? Going.

26:21

A goblin name twice a day?

26:23

Seven till I am familiar of

26:25

hollering isn't an Emp? What if

26:28

we roll every creature and see

26:30

what kind of familiar it it

26:32

could be a particular type of

26:34

creature. Them. That that's that's

26:36

some fun. It's. Good or encounter

26:39

tables. And. We will

26:41

do caves deep. And

26:44

will Hundred Fifteen basement as I

26:46

could. Can be a giant leech.

26:49

Have a giant leech familiar. I'll

26:51

accept a funny. So

26:53

how do we feel about what we've got

26:56

our The one thing is so what if

26:58

they decide instead and I think they were

27:00

planning on doing this of going to the

27:02

red zone camp So it's to go to

27:05

the red zone camp in the military and

27:07

to say with their and what's going on

27:09

here. So I is this the place I

27:11

think I hadn't I hadn't changed my mind.

27:14

Is this where? Greaves.

27:17

Read Thorn the night the his have fallen a

27:19

to see it as author is such a thing.

27:21

Is this where there's summoning

27:24

under Lock the the Herald

27:26

of Amazon's. May be.

27:28

So what do we have going

27:30

on here? We have and Addicts

27:32

of St. Louis address. Greaves.

27:35

Read their own. Conducting a

27:38

ritual, To. Open up

27:40

the first marrow tree! The

27:43

arrival of under lock the marrow feet

27:45

and I think is under law. I

27:47

think under luck. Honey Wire Service

27:49

The marrow fiend under like who is only a

27:51

few moons away from erupting from the marrow tree

27:54

at the center of the camp on the look

27:56

needs protection from the nice to see address her

27:58

now and human flesh after. It's a. Obviously

28:00

the bandits did not realize they serve

28:02

as both. Their. Thirty bandits.

28:04

We could just throw that rain and

28:07

or notes so they could stop. His

28:09

arrival is under lock and the. The.

28:12

Marrow Faith. And sap

28:14

gout use turned to devour a humanoid body

28:16

to regain three d eight hit points. Who

28:18

I think they could probably add this? Ah,

28:20

the marrow feet and level eight so it's

28:23

doable. So. I think that they

28:25

could defeat. Under. Look the

28:27

marrow feet so I think that that could be going

28:29

on here. For their thirty bandits

28:31

around the area. Greaves

28:34

read don't try a couple Other did

28:36

have nights. Slick In

28:38

then there's. Night. Nights

28:41

are at level three to the probably

28:43

a couple and nights. to

28:46

half Orc and nights. And

28:48

they are. Eats. Dragon

28:51

And Thirteen Dragon. And

28:53

oh oh Lara know

28:55

that works. They. Probably have

28:57

a couple of Merrill's with the right. Of.

29:00

Give them to deform arables. For.

29:07

Five. Halo perfectly or it's. A

29:09

fry enough for me to be able to run it as we go. When.

29:13

I think I'm all set to

29:15

day. I have my notes, I

29:17

feel good, I feel like I've

29:19

got and or I'm starting. I.

29:22

Get everything I need from again today. Lot of

29:24

prep those of them as a lot of print.

29:26

Lot of stuff going on. I really need monsters

29:28

because I've monsters in my book. Really

29:31

need and B locations are gonna love to get

29:33

out. So did I follow the eight steps? Perfectly

29:35

Know. But do I really? did? I really still.

29:37

lot of the stuff Outlaw was going. Yes, you

29:39

can see my secrets are pretty extensive and I

29:41

think that that's really where I get a lot

29:43

about. Ghost past

29:45

like that and I did my locations because

29:47

we did. what does the I didn't I

29:50

didn't talk about what the well of world's

29:52

look like but they're. Funded me

29:54

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29:56

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