In our last episode, the party expended a lot of resources trying to pass through as a discloud of poison gas. After a lot of trial and error, they decided to rush through with day in horse form and mark on, always ready to go one step beyond, as a Pegasus. After successfully traversing the passage, they slid down a stone slide to a river of chompy fish. Our adventures today are David, who plays Nick about the wizard.
Sure is nice of them to stay in touch. Kieran, who plays Waylon the Barbarian. You're quite a blessing. Thank you.
Theron, who plays David Druid. We could totally kick his ass about weak fields. And our DM Hazel. Okay.
Well, goodbye. Welcome fellow travelers to Legends of Chill. As you continue on, the air starts to get warmer and a little more humid. In a weird ascending into the center of the Earth way or in a weird coming to the end of the tunnel way.
18? I don't know how I answer that. We'll go with coming towards the end of the tunnel way. Okay.
If the end of the tunnel has some kind of high-humid apartment. I was thinking about going back into not being underground. You start to hear these noises of splashing water and these strange animal sounds. Kind of like lizard like hissing and bird chirping.
That seems to be coming from a bend in the tunnel ahead. Oh, and the stream's been getting wider as you've been going. Okay. Does it look like it's going to overtake the drive path or just do it there?
No, it just gets bigger. It seems like cavern time gets a bit wider as you go through. And it looks like some of the water actually is maybe below the rock, but you're not sure. Okay.
We're not going to stop. Oh my God, I have no other way to go. Yep. So you want to cast past the little trees.
But it's a tunnel. I don't think we're getting by them. But I'll be noticed. Yeah.
So you go around the corner and the water is frothing and roiling and you see quippers jumping up and along the shore you see these small little lizard-like things. I say small, they're not really small. They're about the size of a chicken or something. And they have like feathers.
Big lizard-like things. Yeah. Big lizard-like things. And they have like feathers on their tail and arms.
And I'm in to change the picture. But they look something like this. Mm. They're kind of, by people they have four legs but two of them are very small and they're kind of like arm-like in the front.
Dinosaurs. Yeah. As soon as you said something about lizards I wrote down Jurassic Park noises. So.
So you see a number of these and there's kind of like waiting for the quippers to jump in and dash their head in and try to bite at them. You see one grab onto one and drag it on the shore. And you also see that there is a, what appears to be a nest along the path. Also, you can see now that the tunnel is brightening.
Like there's some natural light coming in from the distance. Okay. I'll like mutter to the guys. Should I top them?
Or are we going to try and sneak back? Am I coming out of there? I do. I don't remember.
We'll say there are six. I think talking is a good way to start. Okay. So I go, I take a few steps forward.
I try to not be threatening. I probably also like tuck my arms like this. Like I like chicken. And I say hi guys.
I'm a human. What are you? What is it? I'm a human.
What are you? That's cool. I've never seen anything like you before. What do you want?
Me? Me and a couple of my friends just want to go by. We were deeper in the cave and we can't get out any other way. And we just, we don't want to hurt you.
We just want to leave. You're still our eggs. No. I promise.
Can I get a persuasion on that? Yeah. I roll the 19. It's 21.
Nice. If it was animal handling it would be considerably higher. You see them calm down a bit. And why is that?
Come up from the river with a quipper and help. Okay. You can come back. We're watching you.
Okay. Thank you. I turn back and I say don't freak them out but they're going to let us go by. Okay.
Okay. Okay. I'm behind my back. It's not eggs.
It's not water. It's a little bit of soybeans. No. Lizard eggs.
It's tasty. All eggs. You didn't want the fish but eggs. Thanks.
Thanks. That's a new treatment. So you guys continue onwards. I say bye.
Thank you. Don't come back. We won't. It's a hard place.
Okay. We're wrong with this. So you continue on. You go around a few more curves and the light is getting brighter.
Until you can see the end of the tunnel. It is fairly wide. The river comes out of it and you can kind of see that it continues out onto the ground level here. The closer you get to the outside, the hotter and more humid it gets.
Honestly humidity seems better than a wasteland that we were traveling through before. Like there's probably plants or something across my fingers on that one. That's getting swampier. Yeah.
That's better than the cold nastiness of the shower felt. But it also needs a distance to go. So you get to the edge of this tunnel and you see a bright blue sky above you. And in front of you the land is green and lush.
You see the river goes out and you can see that it forms a lake and there are creatures sitting on it. You see watch and see when as it looks like it dives its head down trying to get something in the lake before coming back up. We've done the winter bath and now we're doing the land before time. Do we really need to bring a tree star with us?
You notice in the sky above you? A comet. The sun is bright and hot. There are no rings.
Oh. We're in a different dimension. Or on a different planet. Or something.
Or illusion. Is it an illusion? What would that be? If you're looking for an illusion I guess Arcana?
Arcana, okay. Ninety. You look up. You don't think it's an illusion.
But what you do notice is that the rock face behind you, you see that going up and up and up until it disappears. So, you know like Misty Foggy or just, uh, it just kind of goes up beyond sight and gets Misty Foggy because it gets up in with the atmosphere. It seems. What the flow?
We're somewhere else in the sign, right? No. No it's not. There are trees and those were very palm-y looking and there's some undergrowth switching just general dinosaur environments from when you were in school.
Okay. I got these trees in hand. By giving any indication about if we're continuing on the same path or... Is that the...
Spice just walking forward. Okay. So let's do a call back all the way back to episode one. I think about you've heard about the planes.
For 24. You are unfamiliar with any planes that look like this. You can make some guesses but this doesn't match anything specifically that you've heard of. What you would guess is that this is just some strange land that is underground and somehow this environment is down here though the sun is really weird.
Or that maybe in the past somebody made this environment. But you think you didn't notice anything where you could have been passing through a plane really, though you were a stone statue for a little bit. Or whatever. So you would guess this is part of the material plane.
It's just a strange part. Can I try a history check to see if I've ever read anything about a place like this? People traveling to a place like this with these kind of creatures. Okay.
20. Yeah. You've heard vague mentions of creatures like this that have been often compared to dragons, but clearly, clearly different from them. But you don't have too much information on that.
But I've never read anything about people traveling to a place like this because this is so different from where I've lived. No. Okay. But clearly, it's been matched by somebody at some point.
Because Spike is having no trouble. Okay. Let you hear it. How hazardous do these creatures seem?
Because they're like little chicken guys, we could have handled them. So you see some creatures, they're fairly distant on the lake. And they seem to be fishing. Those are medium sized, but you can't really get a good view of them.
Okay. Can I use my goggles to get a better view of them and describe what I've seen? Certainly. These creatures have long beaks and they have like a weird flat horn coming from the back of their head.
Kind of like a muhawk. And they have large wings that are folded up. Okay. They're not flying at the moment.
They're sitting on the lake. But they look like this. A pteranodons. Fun.
And as you're looking at them and looking around, suddenly there is a large shadow that passes overhead and looking up. You see this creature that kind of looks like a pteranodon, but it's much bigger. It's wingspan. It's like 40 feet.
And you see it passing overhead. And it sees you guys. And it swoops down and it lands on the ground near you. It lands on two feet and then it brings the swings in and kind of places them down and uses them to walk as well.
And this one is a kettle cuteless. Oh. Sure. This is a huge creature.
Oh boy. Okay. Do you want to say hi? Yeah.
I mean it's obviously seen us. So I take like half a step forward and I very slowly move like my hand forward and wave. And I say hi. You're very large.
You speak? Yeah. Are you any good to eat? I wouldn't think so.
You are a little big. What are you? I'm a human. Where are your feathers?
Humans don't have feathers. The chickens are gone too far. Where are you from? I'm from...
How would I describe this to dinosaur? He doesn't know what a human is. I'm from far away. Really far away.
Do you have food? Not really. Like I go into my bag and I just show it that I have some jerky. That looks like food.
Not enough for you. It doesn't even move. Well it's already dead. It's dried out too.
So that I can hold onto it for longer. Ah, scavenge! It salted as well. Sorry.
I like it. Well that's what I eat. I'm trying to stick with it myself. Are you sure you're not good to eat?
I'm pretty sure. Do you think we can make it check at this point? Yeah make it a certain check. I rolled an 18.
No, it's probably good enough. 20. Don't memorize my modifiers. I'll help you there.
That's good. I'll have a great next time. Don't eat my food. I've been in church walking.
Okay. Walking away. Alright. I head down.
Looking for anything. I'd be good to eat. Mmm. Cool.
I would have tried to persuade it to give us a ride, but I thought that please don't eat me. It was probably the tactic. Yeah. Yeah that was a good choice.
Where are your feathers? Well, I guess that we carry on. Yep. We keep following the hand.
You keep following the hand. And do you notice something a little strange? Um, no. A little more strange.
So you guys arrived at, the sun was pretty much at the noon point of the sky. And it is already getting towards nightfall. After how long? Just the amount of time it takes to talk with that guy?
Uh, I don't want to know. I'll say an hour. Okay. Does it look artificial?
Like there's something moving the sun faster here for some reason. Does it look like somebody has a light bulb in this way? Make an investigation check I guess. Not if I can tear it up.
Stare straight up at the sun. I'll deal with my goggles. Oh! So fine.
You're squinting up the sun and you can definitely see that it's moving faster than it would at Earth. It looks like it's going up twice as fast. Do I want to make an investigation check out? To determine if the place we're on is smaller in mass than where we're normally from.
In other words, the surface area, the material, the planet that we're on is smaller. Okay, you can definitely do that. No I can't. No you can't.
Nine. Yeah, you can't. You can't tell. Can we tell if it would be dangerous to keep moving through the night when it gets dark?
Like more so than it would be normally or even just as much. Do we think that it's going to be daytime again in like three hours? I don't think that you know enough about this area what's going on to know whether it would be more dangerous at night. Okay.
So you do know that a lot of the more predatory animals on shell are not eternal, but you don't know if that follows here or not. Alright, I mean I guess we should camp. Like maybe just rest for a while once it gets dark to see if it's going to keep going that fast. Okay, but walk until.
Yeah. So you guys are going to walk for a while and then once... Once it's dark. Once it's dark you're going to hang out?
Yeah. Okay. I mean there might be a round time for you guys to rest anyway. You guys have been walking for a while.
So just to get a general idea, compare the setting that we're used to to this setting, we would probably expect the sun to go down after between seven to nine hours. And this went from noon to what five hours or fewer? So what I have and I didn't do it that great is that the sun here moves about twice as fast as it does not. Okay.
So it probably sets after just four total hours roughly. And so the daytime is eight hours long presumably the night would also be roughly. Roughly. Okay.
Or seven. Yeah. So I guess you... So I guess you...
So what time of year it is? Yeah. It's summer here. Yeah.
Where are you hoping it's summer here? Or are you not here for very long? Right. I mean we can camp for the full night I guess.
On my watch whether we're just resting for a little while or for a full rest. I want to see if I can find like a frog or something and ask it some questions. Oh man, magic items that recharge on the donut. It's reek.
I'm going to be trying to slip. Wait. Now you feel. Depends on...
They're probably tied to the sun in which they were built under. So roll to find a frog. Roll to find a frog. What would that be?
What kind of roll? Nature? Sure. Twenty-two.
It doesn't have to be a small lizard or some other small non harmful beast. It could be a chicken. Yeah. So you see you find this small lizard being small is about half the size of the raptor.
And it looks fairly similar. Except it uses all four of its lengths and its tail is less feathery and more spine-first. Okay. I say hello to it.
Hi. Thing. I'm a human if you're curious. Okay.
When it gets dark here, how long is it dark for? A long time or not a long time? Less long than the light. Okay.
That's very helpful. You're very smart. Thank you. You're welcome.
I'm not sure if there's something I can do to make you feel better. You're very big. You're very big. You might want to eat me.
I don't want to eat you. Okay. And it runs away. Okay.
So moving on to Ichabod's watch. Okay. I will not try to find a frog or a lizard. Oh.
You do anything else? I should have mentioned that I did use ritual to cast alarm at the beginning of our saddle. And then actually I'll just chat with Mark on. Mm.
It's a 40 breath time. No, no. I'm going to say to him, you know, obviously it wouldn't be right now because we want to get your back to where you're going to be most comfortable as close to whatever you call home as we can. But I think we're coming on a time where we're going to have to split up.
I just worry about your safety, the places we've been through. They very well could have killed you. That would haunt me if that happened. We have seemed pretty dangerous, but I enjoy traveling with you.
Have you guys traveled a lot? It sure feels that way. Have you ever, you know that place that whenever you met me? How I made it, how I made those trees, how the trees look like that.
That's like the, the white with the gray rank through them and all that stuff. Have you ever seen a place like that? To the best of my recollection. Have I ever seen that or even read about a place like that?
Uh, maybe a history check. So I know I've never, I've never personally been there. Damn. Nice.
So you've never personally been there and you don't know any missiles like that. I've never seen a place like that. But I feel like when we do get out of all this, I feel like that's, that's something we could find out. Yeah, I've never seen a place like that either.
But it, it just feels like, it feels like home to me. It feels like that's, that's where I belong. And so I, I always used to, used to make that place to kind of comfort myself and make myself feel better. Cause it's just, it's just, so whenever you guys came along, you guys would let me come with you.
And that was, that was great. I'm hoping maybe I could, I could find that place. Can I, can I try in our con to check to see if I've ever heard the Feywild? Sure.
21. You have the Feywild. Yeah. So I'm going to describe the reading I've done on the Feywild saying, you know, what I've seen is a great endless forest and, and rich plants that are bigger than a grown man and, and creatures beyond imagination, much like you.
And does this sound like the place you always look for? It could be. I, I'm not sure. I remember.
It was like this, this specific area of forest that had plants like this. And you say you've, you've not heard of those in the Feywild? I've never heard of anything like that specifically, but it's hard to say. It's a big place.
Yeah. I mean, maybe, maybe could be heard of things like me though, being there. So, maybe it would be, it would be good to try to get there sometimes. You know how to get there?
I don't. But I know we're going to a place that has a thinness between the plane we're in and the other planes at the very least, the dark side of the Feywild, the Shadowfell. And it may well be that that thinness also might have some entry into the Feywild. I want to keep, I want to keep traveling with you so that I can, I can try to find, find my home.
You're very welcome to. But I think I want to, I want to keep you safe from now on. So maybe we'll keep you away from the battle. When, when, if something were to happen, if we were to face enemies, what I want you to do is fly away from us and turn invisible, just keep you safe.
Okay. I think, I think I can do that. You guys are, you guys are much stronger than me. Well, we very much appreciated all you've done for us.
It's been great to have you in our group. And we definitely consider you part of this group. Thank you. I like, I like all of you too.
Play some pretty good pranks. I appreciate it. Okay. Anything else on your watch?
No, I think that was it. Okay. We have it as much. So that quests a lot.
Bring Mark on. Yeah, I have a question. I know that I want to do this. It's just the main one.
I'm so excited. Okay. All right. So we will do the first perception check for a watch.
Oh, no. You did it. Ten. That's probably good enough.
It's a bit more awesome. So the darkness is starting to fade and the sun is rising. And you hear and feel these heavy footfalls rushing towards where you guys are camped at. Uh-oh.
You hear the sound of like trees cracking and breaking. And then not far away from you. You see these large creatures. They look like triceratops because that's what they are.
You see a bunch of them just rush past, destroying trees in their way as they hurry to get away from something. Oh boy. Shit. I'm poking.
I have to mama poking anyway. Uh-oh. I'm poking day and day and day and day and day. I'm talking about, uh, I feel like something's covering.
Get up. I have an inkling. Plus I feel like you probably felt better as Shatter. You definitely felt the air shaking.
And you get up to a beautiful sunset. I mean sunrise. Dippy. Oh, it's a redder.
Is it a get my full rest? Like all the stuff I erased. You guys have a rest. It's probably not actually sunrise.
It's not probably a get my full rest. I'm not going to get my inkling at this. You have all your stuff. Oh, it matters.
Yeah. It's one thing I'm going to start from fine. You have your stuff. It is daytime.
Daytime. Yes it is. It's always daytime. Do we want to do the hide and hope?
Okay. So I will cast with our trace. And we will hide from whatever they're running from. Okay.
So you guys hide? Still checks. Yes. I always read that in provision.
Mm-hmm. Ten. I'm sorry. Twenty.
Mm-hmm. Eighteen. Uh, twenty. Yeah, yeah, twenty.
Twenty as well. Okay. No wait, twenty one. I will this time.
Alright, so you guys hide and you wait. Everybody give me perception checks. That I can do. Twenty-six.
Seventeen. I'm actually sticking my head in the ground. Okay. So day and pick-a-bod.
You don't hear anything else approaching. But you do hear the sounds of something eating rather noisily. Back from the direction that the Triceratops came from. Okay.
It doesn't seem like it's too close. Do we want to get a look at whatever it is or just... Well, we're still covered by the spell, right? Yeah, it lasts a while.
Because it won't wait till now. Time. It lasts some of it. Uh, up to an hour.
Oh, sweet. There you go. Yeah. It'll sneak around.
It'll take a look. Okay. The point of being here is probably the investigator. Sort out this whole clock thing.
There it is. Let's see how good is it for seeding. Does it make this a day because it's heating? Cool.
So that's a two. Plus, it doesn't matter. So, yeah, you guys get closer to this eating sound. And you see a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Whoo hoo. Munching on a baby Triceratops. Oh. I've got a baby, not like the old sick one.
I'm mad. Let's fight it. It went from boom to all. It does look like it has been injured.
It looks like it's been gored a few times. But it still looks like it is... For a minute. It's really good.
It just looks like she's insane. And she throws a fit. Maybe it's not a baby. Maybe it's just a dwarf tricer.
It's a circle of something. I'm not sure what. We can sneak by, not get lit. I mean, I don't feel like I'm eating to you.
We've already done that. Well, it's not really an impression you guys are traveling anyway. It's back. I'll let you guys come.
Okay. Well, we can sneak away. Sorry we're boring. You guys sneak away and continue on your journey.
And I think we will leave it there. We leave a trail of judgmental hops on day. Thank you for listening. Legend of Child is an work zone production.
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