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Hey friends, it's your pal Mike Shea

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from Sly Flurge. Here are the another

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episode of Sly Flurche's Lazy GM Prep.

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from Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master

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this case, we are running Tales of

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the Valiant, Coblepress's Tales of the Valiant, set

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Press, in the Dragon, the Marati Empire.

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much for your outstanding support. So, last

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week, the characters made their way

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through the Red Portal, and they

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got to the other side.

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Some interesting, fun and interesting

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things happened on the other

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side. We decided, I think

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last time we decided that they

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arrived at the Shrine of Sabatius,

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which lies beneath the monastery of

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ISIS. And I think we had

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a map. Let's see if I

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can pull up a map here. So

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we made like an overland map

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here. And my thought is that the shrine is

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kind of like this, you know, the shrine that

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they come out of, the whole thing is

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like they stepped through a red portal. So

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they were in one big ruined city called

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Tutakarma. They found the key that opens up

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the red portal, they opened up the red

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portal, they went through the other side and

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found themselves at the bottom of another shrine

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and have been making their way out. And I

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think, and the way we said it was that

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like, The shrine that they entered on the other

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side had not been opened by anybody on

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the other side, which means they're kind of

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the first ones through. They went through, they

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went into a chamber, and I decided at

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the kind of last minute to roll some

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random encountery kind of stuff. I rolled

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on the Tales of the Valiance Game

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Master's guide and rolled a bone naga.

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And I said, oh, that's perfect. Hey,

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my mom is here. Hi mom. They

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rolled up a bone naga. And I

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said, you know, bone naga is actually

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a perfect kind of monster that would

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be guarding the other side of the

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red portal. So the bone naga popped

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up and a big skull with like

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a serpentide body. And it was right

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around. I think it's like CR8 or CR9, so

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I was like, oh, it's going to be real,

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if they fight, it's going to be really tough.

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But they ended up not fighting it. They managed

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to convince it, like, because the Bonaga was like,

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how dare you, Dragon Empire people, the Bonaga person,

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they. The Bonaga was there to protect the

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red portal and was on the side of

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the Nureans against the Dragon Empire. So as

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long as the characters managed to convince the

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Bonaga that they were actually also fighting the

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Dragon Empire, the Bonaga was like, oh, okay,

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what do you want? And so it ended

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up working for them, saying, I will guard

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this portal and make sure that only that

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you and those you send through are able

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to go through this portal, otherwise we'll kill

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everybody else. I'll kill everyone else.

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And the character's like, great,

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we just got ourselves a

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Bonnaga ally, right? So that

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was kind of a fun

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bit. And then they are,

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I think that's where the

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session ended, was them convincing

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Pixothor, the Spirit Naga, it's

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a Spirit Naga, it's a

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Spirit Naga, not a Bonnaga,

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so Pixithor, the Bonnaga,

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and I think we gotta, we

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gotta add Pixothor to the Red

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Portal at... a nerdering in the shrine

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of ISIS. So that's cool. I

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did ask the characters, or I guess

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the players kind of decided what they

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wanted to do next. And what they

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wanted to do was they said, like,

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we want to go back to 440

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fingers. Like, they did want to catch

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back up with the money train that

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they've set. So they're going

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to head back to the 440

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fingers. It doesn't sound like they're

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going to spend a lot of

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time in nerdering, which is fine. This

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is like that tip for prep. You don't want

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to over prep everything because, you know, you could

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say like, oh, I have all these big plans

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and big quests and all this stuff and nerdering,

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and then it turns out they don't want to

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go to nerdering. And you're like, oh, all this stuff I

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prep. So I don't think we spent a ton of

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time in the last session planning some of it.

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And actually, there's a big pile of secrets. So

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I have all of these like locations and

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secrets and stuff like that and those

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are still viable. It's just I don't I

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now no longer need to fill them

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out. I thought that the characters might spend

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some time and nerder in and go

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on a bunch of quests and do a

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bunch of things while this kind of the

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you know the Bivouac army of the Southern

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Dragon Coyle armies were there and they'll still

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get to see all of that stuff on

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their way but it sounds like that their

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plan is no we want to go through. They

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could go overland through the

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mountains. And if we were doing

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it hex-based, we have kind of

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a hex thing here. Let's see.

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So Nurdarin is here. And so if

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they were going hex-based, if they

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were following, if they were following

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the, like going through the little

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mountain range here, it'd be like

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one, two, three, four, four, five,

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six, seven. It'd be about eight

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days across the land. Each one

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of these hexes is like a

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24 mile hex. So even Nurdering

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to 440 fingers is pretty far.

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My thought was that they could

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actually travel through the mountains. And there

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is a, I think what we could

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do is that if you see that blue

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line, the blue line is a lay line.

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And if we pull up the

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Midgard World Book here, if we pull

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up the Midgard World Book book,

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We have these lay lines. And we can

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take a look and see like which one of

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these lay lines is the lay line that

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they are traveling across. It looks

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like it's the dragons, is that

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the dragons coil? It's kind of two,

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there's two there, the gray way and

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the dragons coil. It looks like the

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gray way. It's kind of hard to tell

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the difference between the two. One

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of them. Yeah, I don't really

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have a great. Oh, no, it's

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listed on there, the Scholar's

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Path. So we could say that

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there's like an offshoot of the

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Scholar's Path. I presume the other

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one is called The Dragon's

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Coyle. And let's see if

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the Midgard book talks about

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the Scholar's Path. Scholar's Path.

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Strangely, Serene road filled with

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roiling clouds, peculiar trees, and

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a host of runes, linked.

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to Dragon Coyle, relatively safe

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for Dragonkin of all coins,

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much less so for furred

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races. I think, well, we're

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going to probably change

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that, make it more of a

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wild, a wild shadow road. So

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the idea is that they could

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travel through the mountain on a,

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on like a, a lesser, a

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lesser path of the scholar's path,

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a less traveled road of the

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scholar's path that could get them

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from Nurdarin to 440 fingers. in like

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two days instead of seven days. So

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not exactly like, you know, not exactly like

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as fast as a red portal, but

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that gives them like this smugglers, you know,

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a smugglers route. I don't know, I'm trying to

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think of a name for that, you know, the

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name for the path. So, you know, you can

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invent your own lay lines, you don't have to

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just stick with the ones in the book, you

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can make your own own. So, but we need

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to get ready and actually prep

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and actually prep. So let us jump

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to obsidian and we're gonna get

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my session notes and create a

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new note from a template and

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We have my dragon empire template

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and We are all set so

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the strong start today. So they

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just met they just I think

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like you know, what's the strong?

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What's the strong start a thought is

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that some great you know, could

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it be just a coincidence that

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some tomb robbers from a mercenary

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company? are

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busy trying

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to break

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through the

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strong start could be, like this

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isn't a bad one, that tomb

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robbers are trying to break in,

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well, how hidden do, like I

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would presume that the, that the,

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that the, the antechamber that the

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characters are in and making their

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way out of is very well

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hidden, or else people would have

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broken into it by now. So maybe

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they're, they hear tomb robbers trying

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to break into, you know, trying

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to, yeah, break into other in

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the shrine above. Aziz light. So

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that's not bad. Is there anything

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else going on that they could that

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they could hear about that would be

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like a strong start? Yeah, Muffle

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Voice is arguing through a

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wall. I think it's not bad, right?

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And that's like there's room to do

8:45

stuff there. It's got a little bit

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of the fun, you know, what do you

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do in the situation, right? So

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like tomb robbers breaking in. Now

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from our last, from our last

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session, we created a bunch

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of factions. I was interested

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in creating a bunch of separate

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factions. So we, and I'm gonna

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bring those in. So the inhabitants

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of Nurdering, this is a good

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secret that we're gonna pull over,

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because it's got all of our,

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it's got all of our stuff

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in it. Inhabitants of Nurdering include

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the third finger of the lower left

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hand to the lower left hand of,

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of Nechresh. D.G., who are

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bad bandits, the ghost walkers of

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the pale mother are around, the

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akinji of the southern dragon coil,

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allied with Iblin, the illustrious, the

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sharpened coin, who are mercenaries

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of mam on. So I think it's like,

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the tomb robbers are probably,

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so for fun, I don't know, well,

9:42

so let's see, do I want to,

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do want to roll randomly for

9:46

this and let the fates decide?

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Yeah, my dice, my little dice roller

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roller here. Do I want... the so I

9:53

could let the fates decide right

9:55

these inhabitants I can

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actually apply like numbers

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them. One for the lower left hand, the

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third finger the lower left hand, which

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I think is funny because it's the

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middle finger. The fangs of Digi, the ghost

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walkers of the pale mother, the kingy,

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a kingy of the southern dragon coil

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or sharpened coin. Five-sided die because

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I've got a fancy thing and I rolled

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a five. So hey look it's the

10:19

sharpened coin. It was kind of what

10:21

I wanted it to be. So I

10:23

think of like who what group is

10:25

breakingup is breaking in breaking in. Right,

10:27

and it could be like the tomb

10:29

robbers are a splinter, or like a wall

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members of the sharpened coin.

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That's fun. And that's who

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they hear, you know, that's who

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they hear above. And the cool

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situation is like the characters will

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hear them lurking about and can

10:46

decide what they want to do

10:48

about it. Do they want to?

10:50

They could fight them, they could

10:52

assassinate them, they could negotiate with

10:54

them and bargain with them. There's

10:56

all kinds of things that they

10:58

could do. So good solid situation

11:00

instead of like predetermined how it's going to

11:02

work out. If I want I can roll a die

11:04

to determine their hostility and

11:07

things like that. So we have some

11:09

tomb robbers. The tomb robbers probably would

11:11

be like a single veteran or you

11:13

know, a veteran and probably a bunch of

11:16

bandits would make sense, I think.

11:18

Then escaping. or leaving, it's not

11:20

really escaping, they're not trapped. Leaving

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the Shrine of ISIS is kind of

11:25

the next, and I've got

11:27

this like one-line description of

11:29

the location. That will work for

11:31

me, I did that last time. I have

11:34

these other like locations, Vestar's Citadel.

11:36

So Vestar is the the young

11:38

silver dragon who was a son

11:41

of Iblin, who rules over this

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place. I just watched the TV

11:45

series show gun. on Hulu. So

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there's lots of like fun inner,

11:49

you know, like, like, like, like

11:51

regent fighting against regent sort

11:54

of stuff going on there

11:56

that I can, I can

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pilfer for ideas. and the

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idea of like, you know, Vestar

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being a son of Iblin, one

12:05

of the things, and so

12:07

it's a, you know, a royal, you

12:09

know, I think that could be good.

12:12

I think these locations are

12:14

still pretty good because they're

12:16

gonna see all this stuff

12:18

when they go out. So

12:21

even though I'm never gonna

12:23

get this to fit on

12:25

one page too, because I

12:27

need these guys too. Right. I might

12:29

get rid of some of them because

12:32

they're not really going to meet

12:34

all these people, but Vestar's important.

12:37

Navarre, Red Whisper, the scout leader of

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the third finger, and who are they?

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What are they? Go to the Slyflers

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Random generator, a feature of the

12:45

third finger, and who are they?

12:47

What are they? Go to the

12:49

Slyflers random generator, oh wait. Oh, we have

12:51

the Scout leader that they might meet, and

12:54

then Melsoen Gravehart is the

12:56

halfling commander of the third

12:58

finger. Cloud Cleaver is leader

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of the fangs of Digi. I

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think we're going to pull them

13:05

out. I don't know that we're

13:07

going to need them. So I don't

13:09

know that we need a fang of

13:11

Digi. And Aethon Iron

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Chest, Aethon's a cool name.

13:16

We're going to simplify it.

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Aethon Iron Chest, the Ork

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Leader of the Sharpen Coins,

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of the mercenaries. The

13:25

Sharpen Coyne mercenaries.

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of the sharpened coin. He's the one

13:30

that's breaking into, he's leading the group

13:32

to like go, you know, they're mercenaries,

13:34

so they just want money. And they're

13:37

like, you know, we could just break

13:39

into some of these tombs and get a

13:41

little bonus. So they decided that

13:43

they kind of broke away while they're

13:45

waiting for things to happen. And that's

13:48

helping them out. So I have some

13:50

monsters. So the characters are still,

13:52

do they reach fifth level now? Or we're

13:54

going to hang on, I think we're going to hang on

13:57

to fourth level until they return to the 440 fingers and

13:59

as they, that, that. I think, you know, I

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don't want things to go too quickly.

14:03

So I think the next mark,

14:05

the next, you know, what is

14:08

it called, the waypoint, you know,

14:10

the next, the next chapter of

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their journey where they get to

14:14

level five will be returning to

14:16

four or 40 fingers. They've

14:18

done a lot though. I don't know. It

14:20

might be, it might be time like

14:22

when they step out and see the

14:24

bivouac would be the time that

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they hit fifth level. That doesn't

14:29

seem too out of hand. We've

14:31

had 13 sessions, I found

14:33

out. Is it now a good time

14:35

or is it? Yeah, I think so,

14:37

because then, like, they can face more

14:39

dangers in the caves. You know, the

14:42

passageway, I think, could be a big

14:44

deal. So if they haven't, I think

14:46

they will, I think it's time, I

14:48

think it's time they reach fifth

14:50

level. Fifth level. So then I

14:52

think we want to have a

14:55

series of caves and a shadow

14:57

road. The shadow road is a

14:59

splinter, so this is kind of

15:02

a secret, I'll put a secret

15:04

in here, a splinter of

15:06

the layline known as the

15:08

Scholars Path, layline, known

15:10

as what? If it's a

15:12

layline, it could be something

15:15

about the apprentice, an apprentice,

15:17

the footpath of the

15:19

apprentice. What are those called, like, the

15:21

deer paths and things? The ambitious apprentice?

15:24

That's kind of a fun. Known as the ambitious

15:26

apprentice. Except, ambitious apprentice,

15:28

I don't know, it sounds different. I think

15:31

it needs to be sort of like, so

15:33

it's gonna be underground, right? The splinter the

15:35

layline is gonna be underground, and that

15:37

they, when they go across the layline,

15:39

they might not even know. Are we

15:41

in mid-guard or are we traveling in

15:43

the shadow realm? And, you know, I

15:45

think it's kind of a mix. And

15:47

it's sort of an unseen path, like

15:49

the Dragon Sages know about these things,

15:51

but this one is one that's not

15:53

particularly... And I don't know that I'm

15:55

going to get too shadow-roady, other than,

15:57

you know, there'll be dangerous things that

15:59

they... face there. The sunless, the

16:02

sunless stream, that's a good one,

16:04

we'll go with that. The sunless

16:06

stream cuts through the, and is

16:08

there a name for those mountains?

16:10

Not really. I'd like to give those

16:13

mountains, the mountains that sort

16:15

of exists between Nurdarin

16:17

and 440 Fingers should also

16:20

have a name. It doesn't have

16:22

a name here according to the

16:24

book. The fallen, it looks kind

16:26

of like a fallen, the fallen

16:28

Drake. Hills, cutting seven days

16:31

of travel into two. So

16:33

we got that. So let's see,

16:35

meeting, I think, no matter

16:37

what we could do, we want

16:39

them to meet the third finger,

16:42

meeting the third finger

16:44

and learning of the

16:46

sunless stream, travel through

16:48

the sunless stream

16:50

arrival at four of FOFF.

16:52

So that's kind of the

16:54

next. Those are sort of the next

16:56

scenes, I think, that can kind of take

16:59

place. And I think that's almost

17:01

certainly, like the travel through

17:03

the Sunless Stream, they're just

17:05

probably going to get started with that

17:07

today. You know, I've prepped a little bit

17:10

more, and you can see I even did

17:12

it last time, I prepped a lot about

17:14

Nured Atoll, they never made it there.

17:16

They never even saw it. So character-wise,

17:18

I have a couple of players who

17:20

are not around. Do I remember who

17:22

Emert is there? I think Rowan might

17:25

be out. Mateo, I

17:27

think Gowdenzia might be

17:29

out. I'm not sure. We'll just

17:32

keep the whole list there.

17:34

So there any, let's see,

17:36

Amovin recognizes the, so

17:38

Amovin is a spy

17:41

and a rogue, the many factions

17:44

of the Dragoncoil

17:46

armies. Gowdenzia. Who is

17:48

a Ranger Ranger what what

17:50

would they see Godensia as

17:52

a Ranger and also had

17:54

worked previously with the army?

17:57

Can see the morale of

17:59

the arm? isn't great.

18:01

Cal remembers seeing

18:03

Vestar drinking her

18:06

fancy wine before taking

18:09

over her vineyard.

18:11

Well, we don't have to

18:13

add that, but I

18:15

was just drinking

18:17

her fancy wine.

18:20

Mateo has constructed

18:22

the keys to the red

18:24

portal and the vault,

18:26

the antechamber of...

18:29

Sabbathis. Rowan, I think

18:31

like the morale of the

18:34

armies, like sees that some,

18:36

the wear down of the

18:38

armies and knows the

18:40

dragons, the Akinji,

18:42

Akjini, Akjini, Akjini,

18:45

I call Makinji,

18:47

but they're Akini,

18:49

will simply push them

18:51

harder to protect the

18:54

air new realms to the

18:56

northern dragon coil. I

18:59

think that Cattle knows, you

19:01

know, can feel the

19:03

violence buildup in this

19:06

army. And also a

19:08

Ranger, I can tell how

19:11

easily one can

19:13

infiltrate or escape

19:15

such a large encampment.

19:18

So those are some good

19:20

character drivers, I

19:22

think. So secrets and clues,

19:25

since they're going along this

19:27

new, the sunless stream, are

19:29

there factions operating in the

19:32

sunless stream? So this is

19:34

where we can dig into

19:36

another Midgard product called Ebentides.

19:39

Ebentides is a book about the

19:41

shadow roads. Let's see if I can

19:43

find it. Book of Ebentides,

19:46

it's called. So we have sort of

19:48

different. factions, the Book of Avantides

19:50

is really kind of a neat

19:52

book, that talks about the shadow

19:54

roads and like what's, you know,

19:56

what's happening among the shadow roads.

19:58

And it has faction. and other

20:00

things going on here. And

20:03

I think what I want to

20:05

do is kind of say like,

20:07

you know, there are these

20:09

different, there are different sort

20:12

of lords of the shadow

20:14

roads. And which one kind

20:16

of runs, you know,

20:18

runs these underground realms. I

20:20

think ghouls, there is a

20:22

ghoul prince that is not

20:24

the one from Empire the

20:27

ghouls. But one on the

20:29

other side. that I think

20:31

could be an interesting, an

20:33

interesting ruler of

20:36

this land. Fun map. So

20:38

here's where we have like

20:40

the courts, the midnight teeth.

20:42

It's a great name. The

20:44

Court of Night and Magic,

20:47

of course, from by the

20:49

Queen of Night and Magic.

20:51

The Court of the Million

20:53

Stars, the pale roses,

20:55

winter's love. I thought there

20:58

was a ghoul one. Which queen? They

21:00

have fallen courts. Sorry I thought there

21:02

was a ghoul and say ghoul. Do a search

21:04

for ghoul. The Twilight Empire. The empire that

21:07

ghoul exists in the crossroads region

21:09

of Midgarten beyond, tunneling through the

21:11

mortal world, but the dark cool,

21:13

also active in the shadow realm,

21:15

and their empire is here, if

21:17

anything, even more dangerous, as it

21:19

relies on alliances with shadow dragons

21:22

and cave, a cave dragon-litch dread

21:24

dread dread wing. Their ability to

21:26

walk shadow roads and to shadow

21:28

roads. the Shadow Realm's Darakul exceptionally

21:30

dangerous. Ruled by an emperor who considers Nicophorus's

21:33

imperial cousin, and the two nations seem

21:35

to exchange ambassadors trading goods and conduct

21:37

various supporting activities. The primary difference is

21:39

that the ghouls in the Shadow Realm

21:42

have the ability to feed on the

21:44

strange trees of the crackling forests, which

21:46

means they hunt and devour humanoids somewhat

21:49

less often. So the Twilight Empire. I think

21:51

that could be kind of fun. So I think we'll go

21:53

with that. I've been looking at the wrong thing this

21:55

all time this all time. Skimming through. So the

21:57

Twilight Empire, which is from...

22:00

Book of Eventides,

22:02

a cool, cool book

22:04

by Coble Press. Darakoul.

22:06

So let's see, the

22:08

sunless stream is under

22:10

the rulership of the

22:13

Twilight Empire, ruled

22:15

by the Darakol King,

22:17

Emperor Vilmus Mask,

22:20

marketing, mercuring, that's a

22:22

hard name to say.

22:25

It's filled with dead trees

22:27

upon which. Gools devour,

22:30

the sap within. That's

22:32

kind of good and creepy. Well,

22:34

I have to have some kind

22:37

of encounters along the way.

22:39

So we could actually have

22:41

two sort of competing

22:43

groups that are fighting

22:45

here. So they can get into

22:48

a faction fight between two

22:50

different factions of

22:52

Shadow Fay groups, the Umbral

22:55

Pantheon. Oh look

22:57

at that. That's a cool looking,

22:59

that cool looking dark hole. I like

23:01

it. It's kind of fun when

23:03

moonlit glades, where bears and stuff. I

23:05

did, the problem is so I have

23:08

one player who played in my other

23:10

group and they already saw a lot

23:12

of these. So I kind of like

23:14

to grab somebody that he hasn't

23:16

seen before and bare folk. So

23:18

which queen had dealt with, tower

23:21

of horn and gold, Brooke, Winters

23:23

Love, the moonlit King, Court of

23:25

Sparrows. Pale roses. Court of the

23:27

million stars, might and magic,

23:29

or night and magic, the

23:31

midnight teeth. So the midnight

23:34

teeth are kind of interesting.

23:36

Mostly gnomes. I don't know if

23:38

they'd be operating in the

23:40

underdark, in the shadow, the shadow, the

23:42

shadow dark, shadow realms, mice

23:44

and ravens, the golden oak. Like

23:46

who else would be operating in

23:49

the under, the underworld? The midnight

23:51

teeth would be kind of fun.

23:53

The midnight teeth would be kind of

23:55

fun. I think we're gonna have, so

23:58

the midnight teeth, the blue barbers. of

24:00

the midnight teeth have

24:02

been dwelling, have been

24:05

hunting along the sunless

24:07

stream, hoping to open

24:10

up a trade road through

24:12

Midgard on behalf of

24:14

the, yeah, so they can have

24:16

like another trade road

24:18

in here. And they might

24:20

be a perfect group to

24:23

ally with. The blue barbers

24:25

all have blue hair and

24:27

dress very well. They're

24:29

all skilled. What do they call it?

24:32

Valets, barbers, art dealers,

24:34

decorated stylists, black mailers,

24:36

and smugglers. That's fun. So I

24:38

think that'd be a fun faction

24:40

they could run into down there.

24:42

But we probably want to throw

24:45

some secrets from last time

24:47

in here too. So the

24:49

regiments of the Southern Dragon

24:51

claw are bivouacked outside the

24:53

city of Notre Dame, Silver

24:55

Dragon, the investor the signing

24:57

storm commands them. That's good. Ibelin

24:59

the illustrious is heavily engaged in

25:02

the current holdings of Krypton and Rumella

25:04

taken from the seven cities. The battles

25:06

have been costly. That's important. Keep

25:08

that one. Ibelin reluctantly hired the sharpened

25:11

coin mercenaries to augment their forces in

25:13

northern dragon coil. I don't really need

25:15

their forces in northern dragon coil. I

25:17

don't really need to keep that as

25:19

a secret. People whisper of humanoids with

25:22

painted pale skins have always been kidnapping

25:24

and devouring any discussion of these

25:26

attacks. Inhabits of nerdering,

25:28

I got humanoid bandits

25:30

and raiders nearby Bivouac

25:32

of Maradi soldiers. I don't

25:35

need that. ISIS information,

25:37

Sabbath's information. Probably not

25:39

terrible. Keep that handy. I got

25:41

a problem that I can have. My

25:43

notes are going to be too big.

25:46

Two, three, four, five, six, seven,

25:48

eight. That's 10 secrets. So I

25:50

got enough secrets. So I can probably take

25:52

out a lack of cane, says which

25:54

dragon is this under? Iblin the illustrious

25:56

is the dragon that's ruling over this

25:58

area. And Iblin's son. Name Vestis

26:01

is here commanding. Vestar. Necrotic

26:03

sinkhole of the pale mother. And

26:05

these are kind of fun little

26:07

locations, which we can keep in mind.

26:09

I'm totally screwed when it comes

26:12

to page count. I'm just gonna have to

26:14

be two pages. So funny, literally the

26:16

week I talk about doing it on

26:18

one page is the week that I

26:20

have to do two pages because I got

26:22

too much stuff. I need two

26:25

fantastic locations for their exploration

26:27

through the mountains. Dead trees of

26:29

the, what are they called, of the

26:31

Twilight Empire. That's where, you know,

26:34

ghoul, like, like, fallen ghoul and

26:36

Darakoul drink from the trees. So

26:38

that could be one location they

26:40

run into, and another monument

26:43

would be good. Let's go

26:45

to our little monument generator

26:47

here. Monument, we'll make it

26:50

a monument of power and

26:52

campaign setting where we will

26:54

do the Book of Evangelides.

26:56

celestial opal nest of enervation,

26:59

all creatures, let's see, did

27:01

it? It didn't seem to,

27:03

let's do monument. Ethereal

27:05

aberrant monolith of Santir

27:08

Morosa, Our Lady of Roses.

27:11

That's kind of interesting.

27:13

Ethereal aberrant monolith.

27:15

The black fang. Let's take

27:18

a look at that. Floating,

27:20

brazier of Emperor Vilmos, masquerading

27:23

the black fang. Mark, Mark,

27:25

Mark, isn't this, isn't Vilmos the, I

27:27

think that's the one that I was

27:29

talking about? They would have arrested

27:31

the bringer of magic and Lady

27:34

of Darkness. What monsters might they

27:36

face while exploring, let's drop treasure

27:38

in, because treasure is really easy. Get

27:40

some stuff done here. They are now gonna be

27:43

Tier 2. Hey, look, dust of cheese

27:45

sneezing and choking. Acidic Eberant

27:47

Shield of Cirres de Moros and

27:49

Lady of Roses, that's kind of

27:51

funny. Some folks needed a weapon.

27:53

I wrote some stuff down.

27:55

Let's take a look. It's

27:57

time to drop some. Godensia!

28:00

need something. Denzia would

28:02

like a cool crossbow. We

28:04

could have an acidic crossbow

28:06

of it would be a

28:08

cool, a cool patron. Let's see,

28:10

we'll do, I'm just gonna,

28:12

of the hunter. One time

28:15

per day can add plus

28:17

3D6 acid onto an attack.

28:19

Which do we like better?

28:21

That for one minute it

28:23

can add 1D6 acid damage

28:26

onto attacks. Or that one shot

28:28

it can do 3D6. I think the

28:30

one time per day for one minute

28:32

can add plus 1D6 acid damage onto

28:35

an attack, onto attacks. It's a lot

28:37

of extra damage, but it's

28:39

only one time per day. That's

28:41

for Gaudensia. Cal is a druid.

28:43

Amavan has the armor of swarms,

28:46

but would probably love

28:48

a, you know, boy, everyone wants

28:50

bows and crossbows. Rowan wants

28:52

a magic battle axe.

28:54

Mateo, a mechanist implement.

28:56

Tolstoy likes wands. Emert

28:58

would like a magic bow or

29:01

magic light weapon. So let's do

29:03

a short sword. See what we

29:05

can do is item and ebbontides

29:07

and then just make it

29:10

a short sword. A glass

29:12

dark elven short sword. Oh,

29:14

what about a glass sword? And

29:16

we can add spells to it.

29:18

This would kind of be fun.

29:20

Whoops. Oh. So what if we

29:22

had a plus one, Twilight. shadowy

29:26

short sword able to suck

29:29

the magic out of something

29:31

like it's a magical void

29:34

it can cast a spell

29:36

magic once per day that's

29:38

kind of a fun a

29:41

fun sort of utility-ish sort of

29:43

item. I think that's pretty good.

29:45

So monsters, we're just gonna do

29:47

a quick list of monsters they

29:49

might run into. So I think

29:51

we can just use, let's see,

29:53

let's go to Tales of the

29:55

Valiant, and we'll go to the

29:58

Monster Vault, and we'll go to... I

30:00

don't know what I want. I'm just

30:02

going to roll random. And we're

30:04

going to go to, let's

30:06

see, underground, underground, jellies,

30:09

zombie ogres, darrows, I

30:11

don't know what I want. I'm

30:13

just going to roll random. I'm

30:15

going to roll randomly on

30:18

the list when I'm running the game.

30:20

I think we're just going to do

30:22

that. I'll bring the game master's

30:25

guide with me and I will roll

30:27

for encounters and see what I will.

30:29

See what I like and go

30:31

with that. So I think I'm

30:33

all set. That might actually get

30:36

me to print on one page.

30:38

Let's see, I'll export to

30:40

print, PDF, export, Desktop.

30:42

Oh, that is too big.

30:44

So, export to PDF,

30:46

down scale to, we'll do 75.

30:49

That'll do. It's a little tight,

30:51

but I can read it. Print

30:53

that. And I've got my notes. Friends,

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