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Arc 6 · Frostbourne · Episode 47

Road Rage

2026-05-25 · 2:03:25
The road to Odysia comes with complimentary frost maggots, some unsolicited vehicle upgrades, and a bridge the party was really hoping to avoid.
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What Happens

The party takes a long rest after the mammoth encounter. The Gearheart's interior transforms overnight -- metal seats replaced by warm mammoth fur, ivory knobs and dials appear -- apparently a response to the mammoth blood. After losing most rations to frost maggots infesting their packs, the party hunts for food with limited success. They reach the bridge to Odysia and encounter a toll blockade run by desperate highwaymen led by an Eladrin named Salleth K'born, whose theatrical posturing unravels when Logran trips him and leans on him with his hammer -- causing Salleth to spectacularly disintegrate. The terrified highwaymen clear the bridge. In the furs, the party finds a letter from Tormont K'born disowning Salleth. The session ends with the party crossing the bridge and heading into Odysia next session.

Characters Present

Logrhyn CragbornNythera RhyelithRuby PettigrewChimera

Locations

Wilderness road (day 3 of travel toward Odysia), Bridge to Odysia (chasm crossing with frozen river on one side, waterfall on other), Odysia (destination, arrival next session)

Notable Lore

The Gearheart physically transforms in response to blood fed to it -- mammoth blood produced fur seat covers and ivory controls. Jesse appears to be alive/conscious inside the Gearheart, communicating faintly. Chimera has a prophecy warning him to avoid bridges or he will die -- revealed this session. The bridge to Odysia has a chasm on one side and a partially frozen river on the other. Salleth K'born was an Eladrin over a century old who had apparently never used his magical abilities in real combat. The letter from Tormont K'born confirms the K'born family as a significant Eladrin clan. Frost maggots are microscopic larvae that infest food stores rapidly when temperatures rise above freezing.

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Let's do that thing. We're going around the table and introduce ourselves. I'm Jason. I have nothing to celebrate going around the table starting with Jasper. Hey, everybody. I am Jasper. He, him. I play Ruby Pedigrew, the half-org, Gearslinger, Adept. Jasper, keep it as a whole. tumble since 2012. Jameson. Hi, this is Jameson. If you're hearing this, this is a recording. I'm not here. It's being expertly lined up in editing post. Important to note, if you see me, that isn't me. I play loggering, is a daughter, Marshall. These are becoming more David Lynch like.

They are. I love it. It's crazy. backwards. Yeah. And we like, are we going to, if we let this slide, like, Jameson just keeps phoning in his, his whole performance and just. And just. Like, we let it happen this one time. It's going to keep happening. Yeah. I'm worried for DragonCon. I don't know how that's going to play out. But we're going to do it, I guess. You know, he's going to give us a recording. He's just. going to give us a speak and spell. And then we have the press the letters. Right. I think I can get what I need at Jameson with eight canned responses.

I can. That's probably. We can remix it. And Ian. Hey, celebrate this. I'm Ian. He, him, any. And I play chimera, the Tiefling Warlock. And last certainly not please, Susan. Hi. This is not recorded. I am here. And my name is Jameson Alcorn, but my pronouns are he. I'm not playing Locker and Crack for the Torben Marshall. I don't know what to believe anymore. The old old heroes that Susan got to me. Or there was a body switch. Which means that she got to me. Yeah. That's great. Was that Jameson at the game store? Or was it? Might have been Susan. I mean, I was there, guys.

Yeah. Exactly. I think we have enough data to know we should not play outside of Sunday nights. We have enough data to know. I can't imagine what this is like to edit. Thank God I don't edit these. But my name is Susan Spinae or pronounce you here. I'll be playing next there. I have a Calvin Rugg assassin. Done. Sure. We got through it at least. Sure. And I think it's a great time to stop for the night. Yeah. Guys. You have nothing to celebrate. You got no car. You got, you barely have a car. It is kind of beat up. And we are about halfway to Odysia. I am assuming. After the events with the Wully Mammoth, we're stopping for the night.

We're getting a long rest in. I'm sure. I feed blood. Yeah. Okay. I want to how. Okay. I wanted to. I wanted to. I have a table for this. Because we have not fed it. Non-people blood. It's a human. Why would we give a people blood? I thought we gave it. Has received people blood. I thought we gave it some Yetty blood. Well, that's what we're talking about. Yeah, but that's humanoid. Now we're outside of even human. Oh, yeah. We're in mammoth territory, right? So like, do me favor. Give me a D100. I'm going to see some. Susan. Oh, okay. Specific. I'm the blood giver. If that's been happening, whenever that is, this has got to be, Ruby's been been paying a close attention to the gear heart. 79. 79.

Well, I think in both times that this has happened, it's been, you look over and you're like, stop that. No, stop. She's acting a little bit more worried about the gear heart as if, if you're just paying it at all attention, as if this were, you know, like another party member. Like, she's being a little bit more, this is not a piece of machinery. This is a friend of ours. And our friend requires blood. And that makes her uncomfortable. But she also understands that maybe, just maybe, the friend might appreciate that or want it. It's complicated. Do you think if we give it enough blood, it'll like reconstitute, you know?

You mean... Like if we put enough in that, say, a Jesse needs. It'll you know, grow a new one. Grow a new Jesse? Yeah. I'm just spitballing here. I don't know how any of this works. You're the only one who could and you're saying that. I'm sorry. She's just disgusted at all of this. Always. I'm sure this is like a thousandth time that stuff has come up like this. I'm just spitballing. Yeah, I feel like it's chimera and ruby like every once in a while, he'll like, yeah, they'll like lean into each other and be like, do you think? And they're just like trying to let him.

How do you think he feels about? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. What if he doesn't care? What if he actually loves this? I don't know. Stop it. I don't want to think about it. Okay. 79. 79. 79. 79. So behind the scenes, there is a reason this is happening. And by the end of this is happening. We're going to be able to make a chart and show you. It's like, oh, this blood results in this, this, that's like. The seats in the gear heart. You're going to get this thing flipped over after a bunch of slushy blood is kicked up on it. You're eventually going to like push this thing over.

And you're going to notice all the sheet. The actual seats. are, it almost looks like their seat covers, like big shag mammoth fur covers all over them. Like it's very 70s all up in there. The benches are gone. There's a bed in the back of the corner. It rotates. Yes. Circular. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, is it immediate? Is it like that or is it after the rest? Like, is it like when we wake up the next day? Like, how do it? It's an instant kind of thing. I would imagine this is as you sleep. Okay. Like it's slowly, I mean, if we show like time lapse photography, it's like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like it's just, you know what I mean? They're just, they're just very, very warm. Kind of smell. Oh. Can I smell damp? Yes. So Ruby's got some little spray bottle of something. When everybody wakes up, she's already more. working with the gear heart as usual. She's straight. Like too much, right? She's going to back up and look at the thing. She's going to have a kind of disgusted but also confused look on her face. And if like come here, it comes up to her and like, what now? Yeah. She'd be like, I don't hate it. It's the thing. It's kind of got like a feral vibe almost.

I'm digging it. It's kind of. Yeah, it's kind of mountains. you know? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. What do you want it to smell like? I might be able to help with that. Oh. Just not. This, yeah. Mammoth wasn't really on my bingo card, honestly, for smells, but... Gamey. What about... What about whiskey? I could do with a little bit of that, but something smoky. You got it. Camarral spend some time in the morning. Prested digitating. a smoky whiskey flavor around the seats. Got it. Yeah. Not like spilled whiskey. Yeah. No, no. Not like... At the bar at the end of the night, kind of a smell.

Yeah, exactly. No, no, no, no. Tobacco and... Yeah, New Orleans Uber. Yeah. Tobacco. Yeah, tobacco, leather, caramel, little vanilla, labdom. I think... I think that would be a very ruby. Yeah, with all the leather. straps and buckles and I feel like this is kind of her. So the fabric inside is definitely going to pick up smells. Like it's just going to like easily. Now I say that and it sounds terrible. But it's it's, you know, it's got a covered. Kimeris stinking it up the right way. It's going to be great. It famously has stomach problems is the thing. So. We never know because it's a thing.

It's all in that armor. I'm going to say you make it smell like smoke and whiskey and lagering. Just wherever he is, just gets up and gets in the car and closes the door. I live here now. I'm home. The next time you get in, right, the next day, you're going to get in. And you're starting to gear hard up and you're going to go to put it into gear. And all the knobs and dials are now made of polished ivory. Oh. Oh. Again, she'll, she's probably not going to mention anything. People can notice it. But at this point, she's just going to shake her head and just roll with it.

But also, she's like, that's badass. Kind of. Like, I can never. ever make all that. Told you. It likes the blood. It's just what likes the blood is the thing. That's the part that creeps me out. She's going to look at chimera. He's like looking at the stuff and he and he's just talking out loud and he's like, I wonder what other animals we can do with this. No. No. No. Oh, do I say that out loud? What do you think the harpies would have done to it? What's a Medusa? Is the Medusa humanoid, though? Yeah. Yeah, Medusa's humanoid. I don't know who that was, but they let me know.

No, just to work. Oh, hello. Oh, hello. I want an animation of that of Kymirah. That was Jesse. Oh no, it's starting. There's more communication happening in Camara's head. You want a new patron? It's Jesse. I don't know. But generally speaking, Ruby is enamored by all of this because in a way, it's almost like, not that she's given birth to. That's a little too far. But like that she's, this new thing has been. in here because she spent so much time on it. And now it's almost alive and doing its own thing and kind of growing up and changing and evolving. And that's really interesting.

And maybe is kind of playing on some of her more motherly instincts. But at the same time, it's kind of creeping her out because she's not sure, is this the Gearheart? Or is this something happening to Jesse and it's terrible? And she can't really find that line. and there might not be that line. Logrin is pretending like nothing has changed, by the way. No mention of any. Let's go. What are you guys doing? Fluff is surrounding him. He's very much like cozy in the nice furry seat, but he is acting like he does not feel cozy. Nothing is different. It's the same stark metal bench that we built.

James, give me a travel die, please. Okay. This is the recording. Here we go. 64. 64. So, so another few days are going to go by. And we're moving. Right. And for a lot of this, you get to look out over the ocean. And you very rarely get to an elevated position like this where you can see out, notjust where, uh, where everything's frozen and everything, but There's actually a lots of As you're kind of taking this in. It's like, man, okay, this is pretty beautiful. You're going to smell something. And it's just about the time one of you reaches in to grab some rations.

You're like, okay, like, I need a, I need a protein bar, something like that. And it smells like rot. There's a horde of bugs. Now, these are frost maggots. Frost maggots are very adaptable. And the second they get to anything approaching what we would consider a room temperature, they spread like crazy. The larva is almost microscopic at first. And they can infest all of your packs. Pretty damn easy. So here's what I'd like. I need an animal handling or nature check. And we're shooting for 15. This is a group. This is a group exercise, gang. Wait, so these are inside one of our packs inside the car?

Yes. Oh, my God. What is that? Ugh. Ew. Oh. What is it? Animal handling or nature, correct? Or nature. Either one. All right. Are we all rolling? One at a time. Yes. So this is. is a group challenge just like the others. So we're looking for more successes than failures. Sorry. Stakes are fairly low here. God. Oh, God. I'm going to throw up. I'm a old to three. Oh, God. Oh, what did you do? What did you do? Oh, got these man with stakes. They're full of maggots. God, dang it. Jasper. Okay. So Ruby's going to slam on the brakes. Oh, God. She's going to open up the door. Yeah. Who's ever bag there in?

I assume it's Loggern. He'll just hurl the bag out the door. Just the whole bag. Yeah. Oh. There's our money on that one? 17. We got Logren with a total of three animal handling. Ruby with a 17. Uh, Susan. What are you going with? It's the higher modifier. Animal handling. Okay. It's with a plus two. Okay. So, Nykira is going to see any crumbs on the floor and try to push them out as well. So it's just not anywhere in here. Hmm. Uh-huh. Shit. 14. So close. Ian, we need to tie this up at the very least. Come on. Animal handling. Oh, shit. Well, check all the packs. They could be in anything.

Everything. That's a 10 total from chimera. So I'm going to roll a D4. for you guys. Oh, it's a four. You guys lose a total of six rations each of you. Now, that causes a problem. Because beyond the stakes, if you harvested stakes from that mammoth, which I don't remember you saying, you wanted the tusks and stuff like that, like just, just like reagent type stuff. You're out of food. And we got to do some hunting. Logrin has 14 rations left. Oh, yeah, because you're holding my rations. Yeah. I don't think we've been taking them away each time that we, because it's three days at a clip.

It's true. How many days we've been traveling? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Okay, so he's got 4 left. He takes away 6. Right. No, after the 6. He's got 4. Oh, after the 6. Yeah, he had 20. When we left. Well, then that means. You each have one ration. If you're... We've got plenty of time before we get it to a Disney. I don't carry everybody's food. But yes, it is probably done. You are carrying my serious because, remember, I have no room in my pack. They ate all your food. I'm sorry. You just get a stare. Everybody out. Seriously, we can't let it stay like this.

And she'll look at it come here. like just work your magic. Oh, God. She looks like she's going to like dry heave. The smell. Clean it like you make it smell like whiskey again. Oh, God. Yeah. He's trying to do, at least on the packs, like. Leather, anything, roses, I don't care. It kind of smells like someone had like a sandwich wrap on a hot summer day, ate half of it and then left it in the car on your lunch break. And then you get back out. Yeah. After five or six hours, like, no, the mayonnaise. And you know what I mean? Like it's that kind of thing. It's going to stop the real for a while.

Right. That lettuce, that baked in the sun, lettuce smell. Like, yeah. Or roasted. Or whatever. Or whatever. Like here. Nighteara pulls up her face mask. Yeah. So she's not smelling this. Okay. It's not the real. What if I'm done with this. Everyone is done. Kimeri, you're rations now. Yeah. Well, we can see, we can, are we close enough that we're right there? You said, this is beautiful. There's water. We're right next to the water. No, no, no. You can look hundreds of feet down off a cliff. Okay. That's what I see. Out of the question. I mean, unless we have a very, very long.

Jumping. Right. Fair enough. I don't think we want to catch those. How much food do we have left? Now we need to take stock. Okay. What do we got? I don't think I've ever carried rations. I don't even have. Do you have food? I've been carrying all the food. I just take things out of his pack. So it's whatever logger's got. I thought every one of you had brashions on you. This is incredible. Why would we have rations? I literally. asked you to hold my rations because I didn't have any more room. I thought that's what we all knew. Logren has the rations. Was I the only one that asked him?

Yes, yes, you were the only one. Have I been eating your food? She looks at Nithera. I'm really sorry. Oh, it's fine, dear. But I think if I'm counting correctly, takes it out of it, Ologren's hands. He just throws his hands. I'd be like, what? We only have enough. We only have enough. left for one day. Okay. How long can we survive without food? I mean, we're in the wilderness. Why wouldn't we just hunt? Excellent question. That's what I was going to say. But yeah, it sounds like a lot of words. Well, wait, actually, I was about to say, I'm looking at this group.

Which one of you would be the hunter? I guess it'd be in Aethera, but she's really much. much more of hunting things with, you know, plans and motivations and lives. I'll just start making lots of noises and have things come to me, I guess. I don't think that's how hunting works. All these. Loverblowing is done. So. Yeah. I feel like we would have gone through this before, though. Like even Logger and Ruby in their travels or something. It's a built-in travel activity. Isn't there? There is. Yes. Here's the thing. Let's try that. If you, if you, well, Okay. I do think this is applicable.

Because I as a DM, I don't like to bog down the game with red tape. This is why rations have never come up before because you're rarely on the road that long. We spent 18 and a half years in Esterol. So like, it's just that you, there's food everywhere. There's stalls. There's fruit. There's vendors. There's stuff. And bonzos. I just say, there's no fruit. It's John. It's Bonzos. So, like, you guys, I just assume, every time you leave or enter a city, you're restocking. You know you have to. You know you have to drink. The only time we have to worry about is in situations like this for something freakish occurs.

That being said, if you really pay attention to the way things have happened on this journey, food has fallen into your lap. Things like wolf steaks. and things like that. Not fall into your lap. Attacked you violently and then you eat them. Now that you're in a car, you guys are skipping a lot of that. So now it's like, oh, like, I think this might be the first time you guys have to actively hunt. Like, it's possible. It's been a while. It's been a while. It's been a while. For sure. Question. Are there berries nearby? Are there berries? Are there berries? Well.

I bet you there's some berries around here. I mean, if push comes to shove, I guess we could eat the maggots. God, stop it. We're going to go hunting. Oh, my God, stop. Don't want to cook them? No. She is going to actually turn over and just dry heave. Just finally. Don't attack it again. I have some drugs. we can use. Sure. We got to eat something first. I can knock you out for a few days. It's true. Is it? I could. I could eat rations of he's alcohol. That's pretty good. We could do that. All right. So, so essentially, I need the hunter. It's got to be. It's got to be nice there, right?

Who is? Survival? Yeah. You're much more of a, you're a city assassin. You're much more of a like, yeah. My survival's three. I'll do it. Yeah. Ruby's a three. Oh, you've got a five. Oh my God, Kymir. Kymira. Kymra. I mean, we can go over the mechanics of it. It's because I have a very high wisdom. because I wanted insight to be very high. And I guess survival is wisdom. In my head, in my head, the way I think it is chimera is used to fasting to like make his body look sexy. So that's what. It's not really about hunting. It's about like being able to survive starvation.

So I guess we cut to like chimera out hot. hunting? No. No. No. He would objectively, or technically, he would be the better person to do it in so many ways. But we're like, which one of us should go out and look at camera, he's like, absolutely not. I'll make it. Yes. And it's kind of like a hidden skill that he's never going to unlock. No, he's taking the maggots on the ground. Be like, we just eat these. It's like, God damn it. Yeah. We have food. It's right here. This is why you're not made of abs. It is. It's protein. Yeah, it's pure protein. I'm on that maggot diet.

Lockren, give me a survival check, please. Yeah. Everybody's bickering, and he just kind of racks his gun and goes, all right, now we're back. So, here we go. Survival check. That's an 11. Well. I do survive, right? Oh, yeah, you're fine. Oh, yeah, you're fine. So, good news, bad news. Logrin is so slow that a deer wanders by not realizing that he's a threat. Because it's almost like a statue just kind of like out in the world. And you point your gun and vaporize this deer. Just blower. There is almost no usable meat on this deer anymore because its entire abdomen is missing.

It actually falls apart in two. It's like head and ass. Yeah, it is. The entire middle section of it is gone. So what you guys hear, we're folding in after it disappears because it takes them a while to, you know, disappear in the woods. But you hear the loudest shotgun blast, which you know is him. And then you hear that distant just, fuck. And then my fear is going to look for. group. Maybe I'll try. I'll try. I mean, there's some usable meat here, right? I can take the two halves. Yeah, you take the buckshot out of it after. There's something in there. I could, I could try to scare them out and right into your hands.

Okay. Give, okay. Night Thayer, give me a survival check with a D4. Okay. Which is kind of cheating compared to Logren. Well, he wanted to take care. Then, oh, no, you're going to die. Oh, wow. I still do better than Logren. Importantly, it's a 12 instead of an 11, so you win. Yes. We can call this a success. In that, whatever you did, whatever animal got in your way, between that and the two halves of deer, there's enough usable meat for each of you to have an extra ration. Oh. Okay. I have to imagine. I have to imagine. You. You just stab and maybe don't stop stabbing or it's so Like, it's just Or I take out the boat.

I have a bow. But in a true nice era of fashion, she somehow skewers through and like eviscerates it. Or you're so, you. used to coating your blade in poison that you cake the ear. It's like, oh, don't eat any of this, guys. This would be very sick. Yeah. For nothing. Yeah, she starts to cut the meat and she sees it's black and then she's like, why? Oh, yeah, don't eat this. Forced it. Sorry. Just the flat looks from everybody else around the fire. What do you mean? Don't eat it. These two checks, I think you guys spend about seven hours out here hunting and killing.

And you know, you're going to get a long rest. And we're ready for another travel die. Well, like, it's, I'm assuming any time that there is usable meat in the area, even road kill, you're like, okay, I need to. And chimera rolled a fucking 20 for survival. I just wanted to see what it would be. I just wanted to see what it would be. Those maggots were edible. And then here is the fullest. Yeah. You just got to pop the heads off. That's the toxic part. Yeah. I'm not bad after that. Yeah. It's like wiggly rice. He's just doing Timon and Punga over there. Yeah. If at any point in this journey, we do get near like a river or a river or if at any point in this journey, we do get near like a river or towards the ocean or anything like that, Ruby would, would. want to try her hand at fishing or us to try our fishing.

Sure. We're not there yet. There's a mechanic for that. We're not there. Nice hero would say after we're sitting there looking at our bounty, well, this should last us two days. And looking at the map and the clip we've been traveling at, that should put us right at the bridge, which would be a good place for fishing. At that, Ruby would look at Logren. He's just shaking his head. You guys are like fish? That sounds fun. Sort of. Yeah. Fun. Yeah. Okay. I'm into it. I think it's really high bridge. We probably shouldn't stop on that the car is very heavy. It just depends on what's going on with the gear heart.

That's what I'm worried about. Well, we can just... We don't have to fish on the bridge. On the bridge, we can fish on the bank or something, you know. And I have a feeling time here. would be really good at fishing. So the bridge would be great for him. I'm good at everything. Ruby has to stop looking at Lugger's all time. Luggan rolled an 11 deception check. He doesn't want to be. I have a passive 12. Okay. What's going on? Something weird about fishing? Yeah, it's worried about fishing. I'm afraid of fish. That's the, I didn't want to tell you guys. I never knew that.

Thank you for being vulnerable. I'm not vulnerable. Don't let anybody ever say that. Look at me. Didn't we go fishing at the first leg of our trip? Yeah, no. This happened. I had a bad dream. I don't want to talk about it. Oh. You don't know the deception. Keep on making it. Ruby just starts driving the gear heart if that's what's happening here. Oh, no. You had a bad dream. I thought you said you don't remember your dreams. It's a six, by the way, everybody else. We're not supposed to get you near a bridge, chimera. She's just staring straight ahead. Lager visibly deflates.

Okay. I'll bite. Why? Why? Yeah. I wish I knew. Lager and tell him, it's the, our friend back at the church. She was like, it was like we were talking to like a living crystal ball. Like she could see anything. She knew everything about us. And that's the one thing she said. said was just careful with you and being near a bridge. I don't even remember the details, but I don't think she had any. It's probably better if we just don't do anything related to bridges for the rest of our lives. That's kind of what I'm thinking. What did she say happens? What happens?

What did she say? And didn't we pass over a bridge? on the way here. I feel noticed I really haven't done it. Well, I mean, the only way out of Esther Holt was that giant bridge. That was a little one that didn't count. We went real fast too. It was definitely not that bridge that she was talking about. It was a big bridge. Also, to be honest, we didn't really have much choice because we had to get out of that city. What we do have right now is a choice. How are we going to get over the river to Odysseia? Hey, he's got a lot of tricks up his sleeve. Let's just see what the gear heart can do.

What happens? What's supposed to happen? What did she say happens? I don't think you're supposed to. I don't think it's something. No, we're supposed to. I don't know how prophecies work. We're not supposed to talk about it. I'm pretty sure the rule. She just said, avoid bridges. Because chimera, and that was it? She said you're going to die. Come here. What? What? What? How? How? I keep asking questions. I get nervous. This is what she said. Do I, do I drown? Do I fall off? There's a mob. Struck by like a mob. Why? There's a cryptic vampire. lady. She went into a whole fugue state while she was talking about it.

We didn't get a lot of details. That's just what she told us. She was kind of nuts. She was cool, but she was kind of nuts. Who knows, right? I mean, some of these things are like dreams. Okay. Well, I guess we just have to avoid all bridges with... That's what I was saying. Exactly. Bridges at all. Like, at all. Well, then I guess we're going to have to kill some fish and get some blood on this car because we have to pass that river. long science. And then Ruby's like, that would be really cool. I like that we've skipped the scientific method. And it's like fish blood guys, we're going to get gills.

I mean, mammoths gave us mamma seats. I guess, yeah. Like, fish blood give us amphibious vehicle. I follow the logic. Yeah. But she's still driving, but she does put her hand back once more. You know, she's done this before, but put her hand back to get, she's like trying to get like, Kymera's hand. Like, like grab my hand, grab my hand. She's like, it doesn't matter though. We're not going to go over bridges. Don't worry about it. Okay. I don't know how we can do that. That's a lot to think about. I don't know what to do. This is what we weren't going to talk about it, but you guys kept pushing.

I'm not afraid of fish, by the way. That was a lie. He's not. Really? No. But this is why sometimes when we don't want to talk about something, now you know, and now it's worse because you know. Well, I think at the very least, Guy Merritt should have known. Yeah. I agree with that. If we didn't cross any bridges, then it would be fine. But now we got to be with him every second for the rest of his life to ensure that that didn't happen? Well, if we find a bridge, then maybe, yeah. But what if Kimer found a bridge by himself? I can't imagine why that would ever happen.

Yeah, I'm not going looking for him. Certainly now, for sure. What? That looks. I have a, okay. Okay, I have a question. We all can see the map. Yes. Yeah. A very next travel die is taking us to a bridge. Are we avoiding the bridge? Because that's going to make things difficult. Well, we can get to the bridge, but we don't have to go over it. We can maybe see how to get around it to see what else there is to do about it. We don't know. We don't know. In this, I could tell you. I wish we knew somebody who knew anything about this land or maybe even created it in such a way that they would know these details.

But unfortunately, there's no one like that. Yeah. Wait, a Bree, in the edit, tell us. Tell us the answer. So, mountainous. So, mountainous region. They don't put a bridge there for no reason. There's a chasm and a frozen river on one side of it and just a big open chasm on the other side. There's a waterfall. So let's roll a travel die and then I'm going to ask you guys some questions. Uh, Ian, give me a travel die, please. Oh, that's apropos. Hey, why are there rainbow fish all over there? stream. You were talking about fish. I wanted to set the move. There's a mantaray.

I'm trying to look at the fucking map. There's a mantaray swimming in. You want the rats? Because we can give you rats. I give you rats. I mean, there's so big. It's like you hate Wimsy. I fucking love Wimsy. None of my mouth. Wait, who hated Wimsy? Oh, it was Ian. Ian. He hates Wimsy. I just hate sprinklers in grocery stores. That's what set you off. Oh, my God. That's what brought down the wrath. Okay. Yeah. Vague moisture. Yeah. All right. Okay. Prog rock band. All right. 42. Fucking hell. Okay. So we're going to make it to this bridge. we're going to be out of food. Let's get some fish.

And then when we got them, got them on top of the car. The water is not frozen, is it? Like much of the water around here? Like, is there a place we could cross that isn't a bridge? Does that count as a bridge? I hate this. You're right, Lagerin. It is worse. It's worse now. Okay. Yeah, thank you. That I can't update. The ninth of a moda, yeah, I can't update the calendar right now and I don't know why. It's frozen. So like the river there we can easily walk across. Yeah, let's talk about that. So if we zoom in, I mean, Let me paint you guys a picture. Because we're going to get to a point here where you'll be far enough away that you're going to have to start making a decision.

Like you look at the map, it's like, all right. So you were heading south. On the left-hand side of this bridge would be a waterfall. There's obvious water movement. And that means that while a good portion. of the river is frozen. There's enough water movement that it isn't solid. So driving the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of pound gear heart over that might not be the best idea. So what you could do is venture up into the mountains and look for a frozen bit of the river that you could travel over if you want to avoid the bridge that much or take the bridge.

Those are your options. Are there any mobs on the bridge? Do you want to drive up to the bridge to see what's what? I didn't know how close you wanted to get. I didn't want to like a suit. I feel like we've got to assess it, right? Yeah. Let's see if there's any decisions. Let's see if there's any mobs around. Yeah. I wouldn't call it a mob. There are definitely people on and near the bridge. And it looks like they have it blocked. off. I almost asked for a perception. One of you has an 18, so you're fine. So you're going to spot about nine people heavily cloaked.

They're dressed for winter weather. One of them is dressed white furs, like very clean looking. The others are kind of like not mangy, but it looks like they've been out here a while. Does that look like a mob? I don't see a mob, but it has the potential to be a mob. This is the baking versus roasting thing. What makes a mob? Is it just a number of people? Is it demeanor? Is it action? Torches. General on ease and anger. Okay, I'm not saying we should, but could we kill all of them? Does that? Yes. We could. If they're gone, then there's no mob. But is that the thing that makes the bad thing happen?

Like, this is what there's, she's driving me crazy in my head. She's still in there talking about this thing happening. And I don't know if everything we're doing is making the bad thing happen or if we can get around the bad thing. Well, I will say generally killing a lot of people does cause a mob. Hmm. Okay. Well, I'm glad we're exploring that. I have a question. I don't know how I don't know how much legs this has. I'm a how probably not. Well, there's nine of them so that would be like 18. I'm going to say it anyway because I've already spent enough time him and hon over it.

I have a can'trip called Ray of Frost. Could I spray some on the water and freeze it a little bit more? enough to support a vehicle. I'm getting a no. Okay. All right. No can't trip is going to do that. Who do you keep talking to? Is cold got there? At this point, I have lost track, girl. I don't know. I don't know. What would Ruby? I don't think we're like driving right up to the edge of the bridge. I think this is we're scouting this out a little bit, right? From a distance. It's like... It would be hard to spot. They're not hiding. Yeah. Maybe I'll just stay in the gear heart.

And we can find out what they're doing here. Like, are they waiting for a tiefling to come out? Are they waiting for... You know. Is it someone they're looking to get revenge? John. Are they feeling particularly bloodthirsty? Those kind of things. My theory will turn to Logan. I think the bridge is our only option. How about you and I just go out there and see why they're waiting on the bridge? Well, hold on. If we drive really fast, they'll probably just move. That might be the thing that makes something bad happen. All right, all right. We'll go talk to them.

Let's just go talk to them. Let's just go talk to them. fine, fine, fine, let's go on with it. As you start walking away, Ruby's, you know, turning off the gear, whatever, you know, like powering it down and it's keeping it warm. But as you go, she's going to sort of stick her head out of the hatch and be, ask him if they've got any snacks. That's actually a good idea. Okay, yes, she's not wrong. I'm kind of hungry. All right. Looks like we're trudging. So give me an approach here. How are you? Are you just walking right up? Like hello fellow travelers? How are you doing this?

Yeah, just know nothing at all that says that we are worried that you might kill one of us. There's just a very casual, howdy neighbor. You know, like he'll wave when we're still too far away to shout. They'll make sure that they see us and we see them. This conversation, like, even from our point of view, could just be like, hey, make sure you get to the side so we don't run you over. Okay, bye. Yeah, just kind of open it up, be like, we're going to be bringing our carriage through. So you want to, it's a little wide. You want to stand to the side. So it very much looks like they've set up like a toll situation.

Like, the closer you get, it's like, oh, it's one of these. So what's interesting, though? Both of you give me a wisdom save, please. Oh, yes. 15. Five. Okay. That's part of 15. Yeah. So, as you're approaching, it's like, there's nine of these guys out in the middle of nowhere. this is a bad racket. Like you're calculating the odds. It's like how much are you making in a week? This can't be worth the effort. Like even this is just bad. The margin's way too slim. And you're split it nine ways? He kind of does like the side's peak tonight there. And he's like, I think that might be idiots.

Okay. What are we going to do? What do they do as we get? closer because we have shouted to them by now. Well, a few of these the more rough and tumbled mangy-looking ones. You're going to kind of see them. Their eyes look a little desperate, a little bit. And one of them, the one in all the crisp white first, is kind of lounging back against the bridge itself. The hood very much. Like it's, while it is keeping their face warm. survivability-wise, it almost completely blocks out any vision. So it is not practical. But neither is having bright white furs. So like it's odd.

So the main G-ones are are going to start to kind of like move over to you. There's like three of them. You're looking to pass through? I mean, it's not. Why else would I be on a bridge? I guess is my question. The guy who responded is going to speak to one of the others. I also want to be over here. You're going to hear a mumble. I think they are stupid. No. Larkin just gives it knowing like, mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. It's a thing. It's a thing. That sounds like a. Yes. Like, he steaks kind of coming back at you very confident. You took the question very seriously. Yeah. That's correct.

Yeah. So if you want to go ahead and just go to the side, like I said, the wagon's kind of wide. So I don't want to run over anybody's toes. You're going to have to pay the toll first. We need to. We need to look through your backs. Oh, yeah. We're actually exempted from the toll. I didn't know if you knew about that. He said they're exempt from the toll. Yeah, it just means we don't have to pay it. Okay, that is what accept means that didn't. Okay. Okay. All right. Why? Because my partner here is related to. to a bunch of people there in Odysia. And they said that we don't have to pay the toll.

He's right, my friends. You don't want to go up against the Eladret. Now do you? Can you give me a deception? I'd love to. And I don't assist, because I am proficient. I got the deception three with the D6. Okay, here we go. That is an 18. Hmm. Oh. Okay. All right. Okay. Okay. Uh, he seems distraught. And that desperation is really kind of, like, seeping out of them. Like you get the impression that you're the first people they've seen in who knows how long. So I want to insight not just him, but the guy in the white furs as well. I just want to see if it lagging can get an understanding of what the op is here, you know?

Sure. You know what? Give me. Yeah. They haven't spoken. So it's a little tough. But like, let's see if General demeanor. 15. So this person is going to look up eventually. And look up enough so that you can kind of like, you can kind of get a look at their eyes, kind of hawkish, kind of like narrowed looking at you. They look a lot thinner and leaner than these other bruisers. You know, these other guys that got clubs and, And some of them are mangy looking and, you know, matted and stuff like that. You know, man woman doesn't matter. Like they all just kind of.

And then this person, Chris Whitefers, clearly leader, right? It screams, leads, leader. Also screams, I don't want to get my hands dirty necessarily. But there's one more weird thing you're picking up. And this is, this is, I think, the thing that would stand out the most. The way they move is very theatrical. like they don't just look up it's like it is very it is very blue steel it is very like it's like fuck is wrong with you theater kid calm down that's not a slur Jameson some of my best friends are theater kids listen I am you are correct you are correct some kind of right response so okay so How many of these guys that aren't blue steel are there?

Eight other guys on the bridge? Okay. So Logran will be like he'll kind of assess this and he'll look around and see if you feel like he's taking in the, the con here. These are some type of highwaymen. So he'll motion. Are these all humans? Do they seem like they're all humans? No. No, no, no. There's a mixture of folks. It's a variety. They're not a latrim, though. No. No. Maybe a ladder now. That would be the only one. You haven't got a good look at him yet, but it's like this motherfucker. There is, you don't want a profile, but. What? Yeah. What? If you were bet, man.

So logger and after he takes this in and feels like he has a good read on what's going on, he'll kind of motion for what the two guys he's talking to to, like, hey, I don't tell you something. They'll come in. Now they're like, oh, they must know the, they must know people in the city. Oh, shit. We don't want to get Trump, that type of thing. Yeah. So they'll come in. Yeah. It's like, all right, listen, don't tell the rest of the guys. I'll give you each a silver piece. Okay. But I'm also going to tell you this for free. Your boss there is holding out on you.

That's all. Do with that what you will. There's a to you. There's one of him. He's holding out on you. he's eaten good he's taken care of something to think about and he'll put a silver piece in each one of their palms so in a world like theory that is kind of like giving someone a quarter for the gumball machine like it is it is a nice gesture but it's like I thought a silver piece was worth a lot more than that I mean, we usually deal in gold for the most part. So, like, it's, you know, so if you break it down, I'm doing a whole thing about it. It's not like insulting.

It's like, yeah, go buy yourself a pack of gum. Okay. Well, I mean, what is the, what is the fiscal equivalent of hand in the means like a $20 bill? That's what we're going for. I'd say like five gold. Okay. Yeah. So that's what we do. That's the effect I want. It's like, it's not going to buy a house, but it'll get you a hot meal, you know? Right. Yeah. No, like, five gold would get you like a meal, some place to stay for a couple of days, like, get yourself a bath, that type of thing. Like, it's, you know, like, remember there's inflation. It's been a hundred years.

Like, it's, right. Price of gas is 419 right now. Let me complain in front of the guy from L.A. about gas prices. Yeah. Every time Ian goes home, there's some fucking guy dressed in only belt. Step away from the guzzaline. Like, it's just every time. It's kind of great for Ian, but he still has to fight for the guzzling. I love it, but the fight is exhausting. So give me a deception check, please. I can assist by being there. Do I get a bonus for grease and palms? Give you a stop for lost one. Okay. That's going to be a 19. So these guys will take the money, obviously.

And they're kind of look at each other like, they're confused more than anything. Right? And after a couple of minutes. A full couple minutes. Oh, not minutes. It's like, okay. Yeah. Just a good time that that that that that that pure white figure is going to kind of like kick off like they were hanging out on the bridge very much like a kid at the high school gym kind of like trying very hard to look nonchalant like oh there's girls coming like type of thing you know what I mean like that's sad like you know so um kind of like folded arms get to kick off and and kind of like saunter on over But there's a lot.

I wouldn't call it swagger. There's a lot of hip and shoulder movements. And like, it's, it's, it's kind of a runway walk a little bit. A little bit. Yeah. A little bit like showing off. Like a little bit. Okay. And. Go ahead, please. As we see him walking up, night here, is going to lean down the log in. I think he might be a lizard person. I think Loggerin will be like it's allowed enough for the two in front of him to hear. They might be a lizard person. I think you're right. This is how who men's walk. Study only the sassiest of people. Well, that's how you walk when you have a tail that you're hiding.

It's not to be cool. It's just to be like. Trees like a dark. Like that? I'm imagining that run where they go like this. He made it across the river no problem. He made it across the river no problem. Because his life is a hand like. So, so kind of walk up and then with a flourish like take off his hood. And this is clearly an aladron. We're talking platinum blonde, slick back hair. Kind of like large eyebrows, but like shaped. Like, almost like, it takes great pride in those eyebrows. Like those things are quaffed. Do we have a problem here? Trying to sound tough.

Like, trying to sound like the opposite of a problem. We were just talking about how much. you guys are going to have to move out of the way so we could get our carriage through. I was just telling them if we run over anybody's toes, we're going to feel bad. This person is going to look over to his associates. Did you check their bags? And they're going to instantly, like, instantly, like, they look afraid of him. like, like, deeply afraid of him for some reason. And they're going to kind of like sputter. And they said they don't have to pay because they know they know.

And it's going to hold up. Is it just like, hmm? He's giving you Ruby Rod energy from the fifth element almost. Like a little bit. Like it's like, it's like. Jesus Christ. Like, you know what I mean? Like. And just kind of like, like, like he could force shove them away. Just a little flick of his hand. And they're like, okay, okay. This guy's going to take out the most beautiful silver knife. But he's going to hold it. Like someone who has never held a knife in anger. Like, never used it to do. Are you going to make me penetrate you? Let's roll this section not to laugh.

I think that's a main character attempt not to laugh. This person's looking at you. Like that is the most serious thing anyone could have ever said. We lost Ian for a second. I just don't know. Like we're holding it together. I don't know what the DC was. years on the continent. It's like, I can't imagine anyone ever. Like, I didn't think that was a series of words. So, but they are like holding. Yeah. Holding this knife. Like, it's like, and now I have threatened you. You know what I mean? Like very much like almost playing with it like a drummer plays with a drumstick at no point.

Like flipping a butterfly knife around, but it's not a butterfly knife. It's just. Yeah. It's just, yeah, he looks like a fucking doofus. Like a conductor. Yeah. So long as like, listen, I don't know how it works where you're from, but where I'm from, if you draw a knife on somebody, it's because you're going to use it. So I'm going to give you one chance because you didn't know to go ahead and put that away. Otherwise, I'm going to make you eat it. I want to keep that one. It's just a nice knife. She's going to take your knife. No, I mean, it's just like it's a nice piece of cutlery.

It's not even like a lethal. It's like really nice. It's silver. At the very least, we could have used silver in the past already. It's going to come up again. We did just spend money on a silver knife, but this one's nicer. It's like when you go into town and you buy stock and then the first piece of loot you get is exactly what you just bought. The expansion drops. And all of a sudden, your purple will look like greens. Yeah, you're requesting greens all over again. So here we go. We've all played wow. So there's going to be just a moment where like a look of like almost like, almost like, like give me an insight both of you, please. 12.

Nine. Nine. Okay. I think at 12 at the very least would get like it, like, his eyes kind of go white. Like, how dare you? Like, just, but like just for half a second. Like, like, how dare you speak to me like that? Like, you know, it's not how you get this usually goes. No. But you're not sure if it usually does anything. Like this could be, like, it's just so weird. So I'm from the slums of breath. I know what to do with a knife. Not an ounce of believe a bit. No insight check required. It's like, oh, fuck you are. I wish Ruby was here for this. Actually, Lugrin says that in character.

He looks at the night there and he goes, I wish Ruby was here for this. Come here would love him. Well, I guess we can drag his carp kiss back over the side and we can reenact it for them once we're done here. What's your name? Well, hold on. Okay, hold on. Hold on. Forget violent. Like, just it, there's, there's probably a, okay. He's too close for what he is saying and doing. But I'd say there's like six feet. Social distance. You know? But like, just it's, like, he's going to not change tact, but just kind of like, almost in an I want to speak to your manager voice, what's your names?

My name is Greg Bonzo. This is my sister, Mary Bonzo. Kind of name is Bonzo. It's a very popular one, turns out. We have a very successful chain of restaurants. I know that. You're getting the sense. This is like thinking like rich people eat ditties. Do you know what I mean? Like you're getting it's like, oh, you've never heard of, oh, no, you've never eaten anything fried, have you? Like it's, you know what I mean? A funnel cake would destroy you. Like it's, you know, like it's, you know, like it's, you know, like it. I'm more dirt digger. Come again. Could you spell that?

Open your bags. And I won't have to slice you. Oh, that's better than penetrate. Okay. Is it? Oh, I did say Kimera's name and he has an earring on, so he probably is hearing us at this point. It's like, oh, oh, oh, you got to hear. Like, just. Cut to Ruby and Kamira. Yeah. And he's like, oh, and now. What else? What else? What else is? Gossiping over like a radio. You got like a ham radio. Yeah, yeah. Should we just let him try? Looking down to Longren. So Lagerin looks to these other two goobers next to him. Are they like squaring up beside him? Are they confused about what's happening?

Are they standing on our side? Like what's going on with those two? I like, okay. They look very much afraid of him. but also deeply confused. Because whatever they're afraid of, it isn't what he's doing to you. Like, I don't think this is what made them petrified. But like, he seems to have a lot of confidence. So they're more just like, I don't know, maybe he has a different way of doing it. Maybe he'll show. I don't know. Like, I can always learn new things in thuggery. Like, you know, just. Yeah. So I look at the two of them. be like, hey, you guys might want to take notes here.

And then he'll look at the guy and be like, all right. Just take your shot. Go ahead. Now it's his turn to because, like, are you sure? This, it's going to hurt. It's going to hurt. Like, he's trying to like talk himself up, but almost like convince you. Yeah, and Lagerins just kind of like, it's a good thing. I really like pain. I'm not kidding. Like, I'm going to do it. Well, you better do it because I'm getting impatient and then I'm going to do it. No, I'm going to do it. And it's like he's trying. He's trying to take a swing. Um, he has a negative to. He has a negative to. strength modifier.

Oh, man of culture. Oh, my God. Quistler. Kimer. He just took a swing at Logren. Oh, he's swinging on him now, Ruby. See how that goes. Are they okay? I had to look in. I wouldn't worry. So he's got this gorgeous, like, It might be ceremonial. It might be decorative. It might be whatever it is. It's not for stabbing. And he's going to come right at Logren. Now, to his benefit, it looks like he was aiming for the face. Smart. But I... But... You get the sense that in this person's world, it was to depriti you and devalue you, not to hurt you. You know what I mean? It's not like, oh, it's like Robocop.

Just aim for that fucking face. Like, everything else is armored. We don't want to. This is like, oh, I'm going to cut your pretty face. So he is. Thanks, you have a pretty face. Here's the thing. Loggerin does have a pretty face. It's not. Just look and ugly man. We can all see it. Like, it's fine. It's a handsome fellow. He's very nice. I mean, chimera gets the accolades. But like, you know, we're a very handsome troupe. All of that. That's true. I think all of us are quite. Yeah. Something. He does. He does not hit your face. Nowhere near your face. He's going to, the blade's going to kind of catch on your chest and bounce off.

That was a warning shot. All the confidence in the world. You're holding your wrist too stiffly. What? Your wrist, it's too stiff. You have to be able to be flexible. That's the point of knife fighting. And I'm going to step up and show his form. Like, loosen and really go with the movement like this. There would be a moment where you're holding the knife and he's not. And just like holding, like, take his tie off, his watch is gone. And then you give the knife back to him? Yeah. So like this? Like. A firmer, but yeah. Yeah. All right. Now go again. Try it again. You can do it.

Come on. He's so confused by all of this. Okay. It's getting worse. Oh. Okay. Okay. That hurt my wrist. Yeah. This is your fault. All right. You'd tell me to do this. And that hurt my wrist. You're a ad teacher. While he's grading, Margin's going to attack, but he's going to use the half of his hammer to, like, hit the back of his knee. Can I just like... Yeah. So I think what I want to do, I don't have it in front of me... There's a roll of crit. But there's like a trip maneuver. Yeah. I want to knock him prone instead of damage him, basically. Oh, sure. Knock down? Yeah, we'll do that.

It's not. I don't know. I almost do. don't want you to spend the exertion points. Like, it's fine to it. But like, it's not going to be hard. Oh, yeah. Knock down if you trip or push you. Yeah. It's just a basic maneuver. Yeah. We got a 15. That's fine. That'll just hit. No, it's absolutely fine. So while he's actively berating, like, and getting very uppity, you're going to trip. And trip him and he's going to fall flat. on his back. Yeah. So what he's going to do is Logger's just going to lean over, rest the head of the hammer on the middle of his chest, and just kind of like lean casually on it.

Just a little bit of his weight. But that's a lot. There's a little bit of his weight. You're going to hear all of his ribs crack, cave in, and he's going to go, and he is going to fold in on himself and just Like, snow is going to be displaced as he is gone. Well, I didn't expect that to happen. Everyone else is like, what did you do? I did exactly what I intended to do and I'll do it again if you guys don't get out of the way. What he said. And Longrad has like wide eyes looking at night there. like, what did I do? Looking around. What in the sky? It's just the clothes.

The furs are left over. But what it sounded like was he died in agony. And yeah, just gone. Just gone. Yeah. Very. Yeah. No. The last second of it looked like, like, like almost spectral, like a ghost. And just, like, and just gone. kicks up displaces and it's just the empty furs laying there. These guys are going to freak the fuck out. It's like, all right, all right. Okay. Okay. Like, to them, you just vaporized a man. Like, it's no effort. You let him try to stab you twice. You guys are demigods, maybe. Like, they don't, they don't know. They're gone. What just happened?

What just happened? I'm there with Ruby. I'm like, he's gone. I don't know. He's just gone. They're not narrating this very well. Ruby has not caught any thread. She keeps asking questions. She gets it. No idea. She could never tell the story of what happened based on whatever you're saying. It's a thing where someone keeps reacting, but doesn't give you information. Oh my God. It's what. Like, she tells me. Like on the phone. One thing I do want to mention is that, and this is true, I have a whole spreadsheet of all of these switches and labels. There's a switch called He'll Never Know, that she has.

And it opens a small hidden compartment under Chimera's seat. This is from the beginning. This is from early on. Didn't make it up. It actually holds emergency snacks. And this would be like candy bars. This would not be. Rations. Sure. But if at some point, if we keep cutting back to them listening to, he's saying what's going on, they've got like four or five candy wrappers. They're just like, right. Just totally not hungry. Number one. And number two, if you did say that, like, he's just gone. What? What's got? I don't even. She will kind of lay on the horn. meep meep meep me that's the sound of uh you guys better just move those furs are for you you guys can keep those gone oh they're gone no no no no they're gone and they have not only are they got they opened up the bridge they opened up that where the little log thing is like they're terrified that you guys might be like fucking dragons or something like that what just happened is a whole other.

So, let's say, whatever was up with this Eladron. He was a skilled, spells person or a wizard, whatever. He didn't use any of that with you. He was trying to be tough for whatever reason, right? They were afraid of something. Casting magic takes time and effort and energy. It's not something we just go, boom, and people fucking explode. You tripped him, leaned on him, little. And all of his bones forfeited. Like, for a All right. Well, I mean, Longer's like, I'm never going to understand what just happened. Let's get his stuff and get back in the car. And he'll like wave for the car to.

Is this stuff cursed? Ooh. I love that your first instinct is this. Well, get his clothes. Like, it's such a weird. Nice. It's nice. I mean, he had that dagger. Who knows what else is just carrying? Probably got some gold on them. Dagger's still there. All right. Strap in. I think we're heading in. We're going to go quick, all right? Okay. Camerra like gets like hunkers down in the seat. Like, like, like, he's up. Yeah, he puts his head up over his head. Yeah, get down. Get down. Get down. Yeah. And she's not going to. like blast through. She's going to very carefully slowly get towards them until she can see log around waving her on again.

Yeah, but gone. But she's not barreling through. But she'll get there. I mean, when you get to the point where we were standing, I think we just get in the car, right? And then she'll be be having 10, 12 feet around. It'd be like, okay. But is it like, okay, what is you really go. Like it's a David Blaine thing. Yeah. You just kind of like. It was pretty fabulous. So it's like, oh man, maybe it's like a bit. Yeah. You might think that. Can I get a dexterity saving throw, please, from Jasper? Absolutely. Or do you want Ruby to do it? Do you want one for me? Is that for me personally?

It's really. Yes. No. What's your modifier? Oh, negative. Just negative. You said deck saving through? Yes, please. Got it. Hey. That'd be a 25. 25. So you're kind of weaving around. There were there were like things all over and you're kind of kind of. There were barrels lined up. at certain intervals on the bridge. And there are wires running from each barrel? You're going to drive to the other side, not touch anything. But those barrels are probably filled with some sort of explosive. As Ruby is doing this, I mean, she is, and I add a D4, she gets a daily D4 for any.

Your role, right? This is her hyper focus. She said, I got this. She's like, I'm 100% have got this. No problem. And as she's going by, she's driving by, she's, again, hyperfocused, very calm and collected. She's like, that's the fire she was talking about. No doubt. She's just pointing. Fire? Yeah, there were like flames or something when she mentioned it. I think. I don't know. Maybe I dreamt it. But yeah, those are definitely. in the show trail off. It's just. Slight acceleration for like after you're over the bridge. If you go through these ropes, these, these furs, right?

Mm. You are going to find a bit of gold. But not as much as you think. You're going to find a few bits of parchment. including a letter address to Salleth K-born. Essentially, mocking and then disowning. And it's signed Tormont K-Born. Tormond K-born. It comes off like a father disappointed in their son. It's like you are. are a fucking idiot, your disgrace. It goes into, it's like you've been alive for over a century. And you have done nothing but brought shame to our family. Like really goes in hard. And man's gonna point. Your ribs soft. Like it just goes great.

Your son of mine's got soft ribs. The Achilles heel where you just explode, with any amount of pressure. That's what I'm. I cannot stress enough to you how much of a bitch you are. Any amount of pressure. I'm just going. That's so mean. She's like that's a manufacturing error, dad. My chest never came in as all I'm saying. And I was a boy. You could leave on it. It's even a little bit. They wouldn't get it. Hammer's axes. It didn't matter what kind of weapon. There's long bear in chest. We're going to be joists. When you think about it, ribs are really just chest joists, anyway.

And my kid had none. You had no, joists. Joyce is a chest. It's the four of us. It's the four of people. It was joyous. I'll tell you. Mendeslis and joyless. I've got a lot of good episode titles that I'm right now. Joyiceless is one of them. It could be joyless. Now I have to fight them. Like I have to prove it wrong. Yeah, that's going in his vocabulary. I think it's going to be. Oh, man. He's going to get to the mountain and be like, get your joyous ass out of here. Instant mob. You have got a single choice in your body. Guys, I think it's a good time to stop for the night.

And the beginning of next session, we're rolling into Odysia. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Hell happened. I have no idea. I don't know what I expected that to do. I think of it. I love having something planned out. And then when it happens, everyone just goes, not like shock. Just like, wait, really? Like, just. Certainly he misspoke. The man is gone. Yeah. You're being figurative, I'm sure. Agony, then gone. That's the sound effect where he goes, up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cut off. Yeah. It just like lingers. Yeah. It was in my daily doom scroll today. Because my brain was off. I was watching a video.

Somebody getting like a deep muscle like sports massage. And the guy was like he was cut and he was like screaming in pain from this massage he was getting. And the guy doing the massage was like, this is actually scientific reason why this hurts. I don't know. Like because of he's like, what is it? He's like, it's because you're a bitch. He kept just doing it. It's really good. It's super good.