In our last episode, the party experienced some strange time hijinks, and met their past selves, or their future selves. Luckily, it really was them, and they helped each other solve the maze master's puzzle. You join them now as they are stepping out of the maze. Our adventurers today are Kieran, who plays Whalen the Barbarian, who plays a T's angel, Max, who plays a Playster the Monk.
It's nice to help people, duh. Theron, who plays Day the Druid, nobody wants to cuddle with a big frog. And our DM Hazel. The Leisure is waiting for the magic, what are you two doing?
Welcome, fellow travelers, to Legends of Chill. Before we get back, I'm so sorry. I just realized when I got up, I put my clothes in the dryer, but I didn't actually turn the dryer on, so it's going to be two seconds. And I will do that right now.
Otherwise, I will be here literally an extra hour tonight, and I've worked tomorrow, so that's not a great option. I'd say that we should check our laundry, but I think Sara has something in the dryer. Alright. You okay there?
Huh? Huh? Now that the great old one has returned, I guess that we can know. You have exited the maze, you are in a new place that's not the same place that just keeps repeating over and over again if you step in the wrong spot, so that's good.
You've not seen this place before? And Spike leads the way? And Spike is willing to lead the way now. Alright.
I like to think that Stinky is like following Spike, like sniffing his trail. Sounds good. So it is beginning to get dark. You've had a busy day.
That's one word for it. You did a lot of living castle dungeon, and then you did this maze. So it's starting to get a bit dark. Okay, so I guess we should camp.
Yeah, fun, close to camp. One day closer to day's birthday, and everybody else's birthday really. But this is the nearest. Oh, that is true.
Every day is a day closer to one's birthday. Mm-hmm. Well, kinda. I just had like a galaxy brain moment.
So you find yourselves settling down to rest. You no longer have a tent, and the ground is still a bit swampy, so I'm not sure quite sure. Do we have like a tree's situation? Yeah, there are trees.
I think that I would want to climb up in a tree. Okay. Do I need to roll something to find a suitable tree? Like I know that for six hours I can be sleeping as a creature, but that's not a full rest yet.
So. Yes, you can go ahead and give me a survival check to find yourself a nice tree. Oh, wow. Wow.
I got a nine, which means I rolled a two. Yeah, that's really low for you. Ooh. Quite the druid.
You're looking around for a good tree, but they all seem to be knobbly and look like they wouldn't support you or be very uncomfortable or the branches are really high up and would be hard to get to. Okay. Then I'll just make camp like a pleat on the ground. Like that's fine.
Okay. Are the other two of you looking for any place special or you're just going to? I guess the driest spot that I can find. Yeah.
Okay. Why don't you both go ahead and give me survival checks as well? One of you can do it with advantage. However, you want to do that?
You can do it with advantage. I don't think we want that. I'm not better efficient or anything. Neither am I.
I've only got a plus two. Maybe we should just both roll. Just roll the roll. Sorry.
Damn. Well, I rolled a 10. Well, I got a 20. So a 22.
Double, not 20. Double, yeah. Double, not 20. Okay.
So with a natural 20, Wayland finds you a nice dry spot on ground that's not too crowded. And there is even a tree there that they would be able to climb up into. Cool. And the tree has some fruit on it as well.
Nice. Fruit. Some fruit. I want to look at this fruit.
I'll climb the tree and see if the fruit is edible. Okay. Another survival. Survival.
Yeah. That's how I got a 13 because why not? It looks like some kind of wild apple. It doesn't look like the most appetizing fruit you've ever seen, but it looks like it's would be edible.
Okay. I poke the tree to make sure it's not going to be mad at me. Okay. If I take it to apples like those other trees would have been like I poke it with something sharp with my spear and I say like, Hey, are you alive?
Tree tree is not respond. Okay. And then I fix an apples and I throw a few down to the others. Okay.
So you all have some apples. So I do not think that we've had a, well, we had that one rest in the castle, but you guys didn't set watches. I do not know if you want to set watches now. We probably do.
Yeah, probably. What order would you like to do? Watch this. I and therefore police have no preference.
I will continue to take first, I guess. Oh, as I always have. I forget. Honestly.
I usually turn into a creature for the first half of the night. Right. So I forget what I'm going to say. I think you're usually last.
That's why the encounter always happens on yours, but you and Felicia figure out your shit. I don't care. I'll take last. I'll take middle.
Okay. So you guys camp down for the night. A day. Is there anything that you want to do during your watch?
Well, I'm going to spend it as a giant frog. But otherwise, no, I'm just going to keep watch. Maybe catch some flies or something. Okay.
Go ahead and give me a perception check for your watch. Okay. 14. Okay.
You can hear the sounds of the swamp, animal noises and some bubbling waters, but nothing that makes you wary at all. And during your watch, Wayland and Play-Strick, could you roll initiative for me? Oh, oh, weird. 16 for Wayland.
18 for Wayland. 8 for Play-Stra and 22 for Stinky. Do you want spikes or roll? No, I just needed Wayland and Play-Stra.
Okay. So Wayland. Yes. You are having a dream.
I see. Okay. Okay. So you see Kai Shizura.
She's smiling and watching your nibblings play. The horizon starts to shimmer and you see a dome of energy expand outward around the town. Watching the energy field expand, your eyes are drawn toward the road where you see several skeletons carrying baskets of eggs walking into town. When you turn around to your wife, only to find the sky darkened and a headstone marked with your wife's name sitting where she once stood.
Cooper and Paige are running around the stone and as you are about to call out, they also become gravestones marked with their names. From behind you, you hear someone clear their throat. You turn around and sitting on a gravestone bearing Ichabod's name. You see your data, but something's a little different about her.
It takes you a moment, but you realize that the dark black threads that suffused or glow have faded and thinned. They're still present, but much less prominent. Also the black tears streaming down her face have a faint glow around the outer edge that they did not have before. I do not think you will mind me interrupting this dream.
It looks like it was making a turn for the worse. I would have to agree. Hi, you look better? Maybe?
I'm making gestures with my hands, but I don't know how to describe them. Less blackened? Less cajun? He's blackened cajun, they love him.
Yes, quite true. Thanks to you, really. You've been making quite excellent progress. Thanks, I guess.
So I take it there's a reason for this visit. I just wanted to thank you and of course encourage you to keep moving forward and working to clear the corruption from this forest. Hey, I have to prevent my gesture to the dream, to the gravestones. Can't let that happen.
Yes, you are on the right track. You will soon arrive at the center of the forest. Uh oh. Do you think we're ready for whatever's there?
Do you know? I don't know what that you are. It's a little unclear what is happening there. I know that there is a person who lives there and that there is a portal leading to another realm.
Right, the hands told us that. Do you have any? No, I guess you don't have anything else. I don't really, unfortunately, the portals energies are strange.
They don't belong here and it kind of distorts things a bit. Please help. I had questions. I can't remember them or find them.
She points at the angle at hanging from your neck and she says, I see you're still wearing that. Oh, wait. Isn't it the death ward? Amulet.
Shit, why did I need to ask about that? Fuck. I think the last dream you had here, your dream self, like something happened. That was weird.
I don't remember. Did you try to grab the amulet and possess me or something? I'd write with my shadow self. I made a save.
It grabbed its amulet and I mean, I can look it up. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Um, oh, you did ask the the the hags about it right after. I didn't take super awesome notes, I guess.
It just says spooky wail and dream zombie wail and says Maeve. So what I think happened is that you and another version of you both had to make a save. The other one failed it. You passed it and it turned into a zombie and then you heard it saying Maeve, which is the name of the check who created the beast with the woman head.
Oh, yep. They did the chicken experiments, right? Apparently the hags said thank you for sharing. Well, I guess I'll take this opportunity to say, hey, you know what?
You never told me what your name is. What is your name? I don't remember if you like, dodgely evaded this question or if I was just too stupid not to end in that. She has never really had a conversation like this with you before.
She just kind of showed up and said things or like this dream she didn't show up in at all though she sent it to you. And the second time you met with her was in the mind's light and she just talked in your voice there and didn't really say much then. So this is the first real conversation. Okay.
She will smile and tell you that her name is Heather. And then I definitely read that. Heather's the one that in the book. Okay.
That's something I definitely wanted to ask about. Jesus. So, uh, Heather like, and then I'll touch the symbol on my chest like the one that betrayed her mother. My mother?
Mm hmm. That was very same one. I can't say that I'm proud of that. But yes, that was me.
Wow. It's kind of why I look like this. Yeah, that would do it, wouldn't it? So why are you trying to, like not that I'm against it, but why are you trying to redeem yourself?
Versus, why me versus all my other family members? Or why haven't you talked to anyone before? Oh, well, Angelic blood is very fickle. As you've probably noticed, no one else in your family shows certain signs that you do.
You've never seen them heal or sprout weird skeletal wings out of their back or anything like that. Very true. Um, those things don't come out very often. And so my chances of redeeming myself have been few.
Unfortunately, my mother is a very kind, loving, forgiving person and has given me this opportunity. Many others would not. Okay. Shit.
That's a lot of pressure. Well, if you fail, I'm sure in a few thousand more years I'll find somebody else to help me out. I'm just, these things tend to skip ten or eleven generations. If our generations last long enough, if we have that many more generations, I mean, since now everyone's starving and dying back home.
There's that as well. I say I'd rather it not take that long. And of course, you know, that sounds rather selfish of me. But I really do want to help.
Okay. I'm going to sidetrack. Since. That last dream you sent me, do you know who Maeve is?
Because just the zombies said her name and then walked away and then we've seen that she made a mountain for the hags and caught power from them of some kind. So what's she to you? I do not know much about her. I know she created that foul artifact that you wear around your neck and I have seen a number of monsters that she has created throughout your journey.
But who she is, is a bit of a mystery beyond what you already know. She seems to be quite a vile woman, experimenting with creating monsters and enslaving people of weaker wills that appears. And wait. Oh, she made, she made this?
Okay. And why? Oh, this is supposed to put me under her control. If I die, is that what you were trying to say?
Just bringing me back? Yes, it does that. It brings you back as a strange new form of undead and then tries to draw you toward her to join her army or something. I'm not quite sure.
Oh boy. So she's something that probably has to be dull. Where is she located? If she might, if she's less of a threat than whatever is in the middle of the forest, we could take care of her first.
I am not sure if she is even still alive. The artifact that you wear is quite old. But I do feel something like her energies, but they are far distant from here. Like, still in the forest or beyond?
Beyond the forest. Oh dear. Then yeah, we definitely can't deal with her yet. Okay.
Damn, I guess I can't go home after this then, huh? I do not. Can't stay home anyway. Why do you feel that way?
I mean, someone's trying to amass an undead army and I can't just say I'm glad that happens. It's not good by anyone's standards. A noble of you and I know many do become accustomed to this lifestyle. Life of adventure.
But there is also adventure in working the land and being with your loved ones. So I'm not saying not to proceed if you wish, but I feel like there's always someone around to take care of problems and you do not necessarily need to be the one who is doing that. Except for right now. With this problem.
Hmm. Still a little selfish, huh? Excuse me. Well, I tease an angel.
Well, fine angel, but. I'm rising angel. Yeah, working on that. That seems like a good scene unless you definitely have questions.
Yeah, I think I'm good now. I just don't disagree on how to end it. I don't know how words work today. This is probably the most dialogue I've had the whole game.
Well, our time is running short, but I will be in contact in the future. All right. We'll be here to help. It's the dream fades.
So Polaischa, hundreds of goats stream down the hillside directly towards you and you open your arms to them, welcomingly. But when they reach you, instead of making contacts, they stream right through you. You hear someone calling your name and focusing your vision in that direction, you see your trainer, Dormok. Oh shit.
Writing on the back for a particularly large goat. He's wearing a mask made of iron with a hoofprint in the center of his forehead. He calls out to you saying, Polaischa, it's time for dinner. Oh, okay.
I guess. You find yourself sitting at a large banquet table, right across from you is your mother. In her hand, she is holding a sending stone. And you hear her say, no, you have to listen to me.
Look, you want to buy the blueprint stock, not the red print. The red print is going down this quarter. Of course, I'm sure. That's good.
Oh, it's just unusual for mom to be so openly doing her business in front of me. Your father jumps up onto the table out of nowhere and hands you a pico. Thanks. Your leg.
Why are you jumping on the table? Your fucking leg. This is for you, my child. He says before jumping off the table.
I don't know what to do with any of this. How's the baby goat look? So you look at the baby goat in your hands and it is very cute and you smile and then it bites you and you wake up. What the hell goat?
All right. So that was a day's watch. Oh, you guys, the whole time I was sitting there as a frog eating flies and stuff happens. Okay.
I don't remember who I was supposed to wake up, but day would. I believe Waylin. Yeah, I slap his face with a froggy, froggy paw. What is it's a fuck?
I'm going to go with my frog hand. Well, that answers my question of how a frog slaps. Yeah, just like a big wet, webbed hand to the face. Yeah, exactly.
I feel like Stinky wakes up for a second, sees that it's just you and goes back to sleep. Stinky blinked up into the tree by the way to sleep. Okay. Yep.
That was weird. I don't know what's weird, the dream or the frog hand. I like the way with my frog hand around, indicating probably that. And then I'm just going to stay a frog and sort of settle on the ground somewhere, even though I was looking for a tree.
Oh, I put Stinky up there so you would have some to cuddle with. That's okay. Nobody wants to cuddle with a big frog. I mean, I don't know.
Waylin, anything you want to do on your watch? I'm going to take out the box and I'm going to fiddle with it. Okay. I'm going to just familiarize myself with the portable forge, you know, just hitting all the buttons.
Well, hope if it's not too loud, honestly. I don't want to disrupt everyone else's sleep. But you might hear a few clangs and clatters as things get into place and I was just going to like familiarize myself with that forge where all the tools are and what's going on. But yeah, that's how we spend his watch, obviously looking up and keeping your eye out.
Right. Why don't you roll me a D6? One. So you press the first button and the box triples in length and it opens up and inside are an assortment of hammers and a small anvil and there are a few ingots of steel.
So I will then hit the second. Well, try to find the buttons again. And hit the second one. Okay.
You hit the second button and the box expands out even further. It basically flattens across the ground, but a small bit of functional forge pushes its way up from the surface below. So it's a bigger work area with a workbench, anvil, vice quenching barrels, hearthless bellows, various ingots and some molds. No.
What kind of molds? A few common molds. A few common molds. So if you need something and it seems to extrav again, it's probably there.
Okay. Third button. Okay. So the third button.
I don't think there's enough room for the third one actually. So it will start to expand a bit and then it will start reaching trees and it's like no. And it shrinks back to the second one. Oh.
No. This is loud. Is this loud? Does it wake us up?
Good question. I assume no. I would. Yeah.
I'm not going to make it wake you guys up or anything. It probably makes some noise. Sit there and fiddle the buttons and try and close. Okay.
And that will probably be all I do for the watch. Roll me a perception check with disadvantage because you're distracted by the forge. Damn it. That's fair.
Eighteen. Nice. Yeah. You keep a good look out despite playing with your box all night and excuse me while I inspect my hand.
Jesus. So yeah, you finish up your watch and it is uneventful. Is it uneventful for me too? It is not uneventful for you.
Okay. You have a dream. I don't know if you're expecting one. I was.
I don't think I can still leave anyone like the laser has got my fingers crossed. Oh, I don't think I ever give you a phone. Oh, I've never mind. You had a question I forgot to ask about mine, but we can get to that on my watch.
So day, you see a bright white light shining up from below you. And within the sight, you see a black crack begin to form. You see Ichabod standing on the other side of the crack. You hadn't seen him there before, but you know that he's always been there.
You reach for each other at the same moment, clapping hands. But as you do, you see him being pulled further and further away, despite still feeling his grip on your arm. And wrapped around your wrist is a thick cord made of multicolored yarn that has been braided together. The cord extends from your arm deep into the light, past where your vision can see.
You know that the other end is connected to Ichabod. The glow of the teleporter below you disappears and you are staring into the darkness. You feel something brush against you and you start awake. Okay.
What was the thing? Stinky drooled and it dripped out. Okay. I am going to I'm going to just say that that that's like my frog wore off in that time and I am going to like grumpily transform into a rat, like a regular sized rat and like burrow into the roots of the tree and go back to sleep.
Okay. So that was Wayland's watch and that brings us to Polastra. Is anything happening or is this the world-night oyster here? Go back to sleep.
Well, I assumed. What would you like to do? Okay. So first things first, do we have like a campfire going currently?
Yes. Okay. So Polastra will make sure that is looking good and then maybe just kind of without leaving the fire's light check around for possible extra fuel or things that might like change cool colors if they go in the fire and then after that probably we'll just start doing some like breathing and stretching exercises that they haven't really been keeping up with since they have been since they were like stuck in the castle and everything and just trying to kind of center themselves and try to maintain all their, you know, discipline and balance and stuff and not get bored and distracted because this is going to be pretty boring otherwise. Okay.
Can you give me a survival check for your finding interesting things to throw into the fire? Oh boy. 17. Yeah.
You wonder around and you find some interesting things that look like they will burn and you throw them in and you get some, you get some pretty colors and one of them kind of starts popping a bit like pop rocks or something as you throw it in. It's not super loud but okay. It doesn't make some noise. This is by the way, I was not in Boy Scouts.
I was in something else that we won't name because it's very problematically named but this was definitely me on. Now, I guess actually when I got older and moved on to trailblazers, which was like the older version of the thing and we actually were camping in the woods, I would just be like, what can we put in the fire that will do stuff? What will do interesting things on fire? Cool.
All right. And I guess does anything happen after I get bored of that and just them, you know, doing breathing exercises and stretching and stuff like that? Yeah. You can go ahead and make a perception check.
Okay. 22. Rolling good tonight. Yeah, that's really nice.
But yeah, you don't see anything that seems to be a problem or anything. Cool. Yeah. So that is the watches.
Anything that you want to do before. Oh, when I wake up, I sort of, I, I, I gask and I shout you two were going to wrestle. Thank you for listening. Legends of Child is an work zone production made possible through the support of our wonderful patrons.
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