In our last episode, Day, Whalen, and Ichabod were reunited, and Ichabod was no worse for wear, other than the fact that his flesh had become translucent at some point. The entire party then sat down rather nervously at a crystal ball to hear a prophecy. It involved a little bit of trial and error, but the prediction is that they will be the ones to save this realm and their own, and now they plan to set out. Our adventurers today are Kieran, who plays Whalen of Arbarian.
How was he doing that I thought? Max, who plays Playster of the Monk. Ah, smart. David, who plays Ichabod the Wizard.
I mean, if you've been wondering what my skeleton looks like, ta-da. Kieran, who plays Day the Druid. Why'd you just build your beans? And our DM, Hazel.
Solid, nine high fire. Welcome, fellow travelers, to Legends of Chill. Yeah, I guess you guys are out here, you probably want to get going, huh? You can just hop on whenever you're ready, and we'll head off.
Okay, yeah. You don't need to rest or anything? No, I just took a little nap, it's fine. I'm good.
Hey, we can fly out when you're ready. It's not too much further. I might need to stop once or so before we get out there. It's not too much further until we get there.
So what do you guys want me to do when we get there anyway? Am I hanging out and waiting around? Are you going to find your own way back? What's the plan there?
I think they don't know what we're doing right now. We got some time, like I said, so you've just got to figure out before we get there. I'll do whatever you want. Well, I think it would be good if you would hang out as long as it's safe for you to be there, but you would not fault you at all.
You know, give you a bad rating or anything if you took off because it got dangerous. All right, yeah, I appreciate that. Yeah. I'm not going to abandon you like that.
I think it's dangerous. I'm not really saying it's too dangerous over there, but I guess it could happen. So yeah, if something dangerous happens, you might fly off for a bit, but I'll go and I'll pop back around to check on you. That's what you guys want.
I think you feel free to circle the block. I'm just imagining this like awesome scene where we're like being flung out and it's like, Oh, no, what keen left? Oh, what are we going to do? And at the last second he like flies in and catches us and he's like, I told you, I wouldn't leave you behind.
Like Han Solo coming to the Death Star fight or something. I don't know. That is five star service right there. That is impressive.
Thank you very much. I'm happy to receive good ratings anytime I can get them usually ready to pretty good mind. Yeah, not no, not many low stars. I get low stars usually some jerk.
But yeah, I always appreciate it. Good rating helps me out a lot. Helps me get more jobs like this. Not to ever have a job like this come away out here or anything.
But yeah, I really, I really enjoy it coming out here. So yeah, it's nice. Can I do a quick PSA? Yeah, let's see.
I'm asking permission this time. I can share around backwards. Hey, guys, it's me Max. And we've all had a lot of fun here today.
But remember, when you use a ride share service, anything less than five stars might as well be a one star. So unless you hate your driver, give them five stars because come on, we're all just out here trying to get by. Great. I'll probably use that one.
That's like, like a real that's going to be the only one of the audience here. So they're going to be like, what are they talking like? This is a regular thing. No, I've used one in the past.
We should just get going because I don't want to make Hazel just do walking forever. All right. That sounds good. We just get going.
Oh boy. I think Hazel wants to do walking forever. It slows you down a bit. Listen, we can barrel right into the end of this today if you want to.
I'm ready to talk to a big driver. We got the ultimate like the double triple A team right here. We got the old, we got the new bar out of the blue. Yeah.
Okay. So they both had to leave. I thought that was one ether. Does our travel time count as a long rest?
If you guys want, you could rest up at the tower and you could move on in the morning. Sure. Yeah. Sounds good.
I'm like losing like one spell slot and five, it points down, but. Seungal 17th of Sun March it is. Hmm. Is it my birthday?
Yeah. Oh no. Can we just eat the queen on my birthday? Quite a present.
If you want to take like another month of getting there somehow or another. As long as we do it in a montage. Oh. You actually spent a month inside the tower.
Oh no. Yeah. I don't think we're going to get to anybody's birthday. Sorry.
That's okay. I don't even know my birthday. Oh, I can tell you told us let me say birthday is the third of melt. Oh, I remember I put mine on the super dramatic day that doesn't isn't on the calendar.
Let's see. Let's see. What was wailing like born on a leap year or something? On midwinter's day.
It's, um, it's like all of their, um, sun cycle holidays that fall outside of the norm. Hmm. Yeah. Playscrew's birthday is like eight months away.
Ichabod's is also in the same month as Waylands. I mean, Waylands technically isn't in a month, but on the calendar. Hmm. And how much time total have we been traveling since we left?
It's ridiculously small, like three weeks. Something ridiculously small. It's more than a month now, but it's just like, this is, it's been like three days over a month. It's, uh, yeah, ridiculous.
But that's how it's how it's worked. So let's go fight the queen. I think we can all agree that time is a social construct and worry flat circle. Oh yeah.
I saw that. What what? I heard it on a podcast. I don't know, man.
Huh. I've seen it rush for into this soup. Very chunky. Gross.
Hey, you can make anything a soup. So you fly out on Joaquin's back the next day. Hell, yeah. And you know, Joaquin talking pretty much endlessly.
Is there anything else you would like to talk about or discuss amongst each other or with Joaquin as you are flying along? I, um, would probably strike up a conversation with think about it at some point about whether Mark on found like his family or somewhere to settle down. Yeah, he absolutely did. I mean, the moment we got into the Feywild, there was something about him the whole time that he was here with us, that he kind of seemed like a being out of place.
But the moment we got into the Feywild, it just locked in his colors became brighter, his eyes became sharper. He was, you could see that wholeness kind of take hold inside him. And so when it came down to it, I knew that he'd have to stay. I said when possible, I would come back and visit, but there was no taking him back.
Yeah, that's I'm really glad that he could find that though. Like he was so sad when he was here. It's almost worth having lost you from the team for all that time, maybe. I'm sure there's a lot of reasons that it was worth it.
I'm gonna lean over and whisper to Ichabod. She really missed you, dude. She talked about you a lot. Yeah, that doesn't bother me at all.
Yeah, it would, uh, a little bit nice to have your brain a few times. That's for sure. I'm happy to lend it out. Okay, so you're flying out through the weird dark, you guys call it super wild, didn't you?
Yeah, we've been pulling it soup. It's got, there's just a whole lot of existential soup going on. I'm lightning for flight. Soup lightning.
I'm moving lightning. Yeah, so you pass by another, a number of little bits of broken off chunks of land that are just floating around. And then you see in the distance this bit of gold moving across the sky in front of you. Can I use my eyes of the eagle to zero in on it?
See if I can get more detail? You can. I don't even think you need to make a check for that really because that's just how those things work. That's right.
Yeah. You use your eyes of the eagle to focus in and you see a gold dragon, which is towing a large landmass behind it. Oh, that old thing. I will not be keeping the secret.
In fact, I probably won't shut up about it. We should go say hi. Is there any kind of scale like on the landmass or their trees so I can see that the gold dragon is say sizable? The gold dragon is sizable.
It looks just give me an arcana check. Okay. It seems like something I'd be able to do. Hey, that's not bad.
22. Okay. Yeah. It looks like it is an ancient gold dragon is very large.
You can tell by its patternation that it is fairly old. On the island, you can see that there are some structures, some houses. They look pretty large in themselves. Comparatively, would they house larger than a normal human?
Yes. Eight feet, 10 feet, 12 feet in that general area. I'm just whatever scale I can use like trees or whatnot. Can I get an idea of what kind of a size we're working with or just bigger than me?
You look like it looks like you see a few houses that look like they would house creatures about twice as tall as you. Oh boy. And houses that would house creatures probably twice as tall as that. Wow.
There aren't a lot of houses. Do I see any kind of movement on the land? Can I get an idea of what kind of creatures these are or is it no activity right now? Yeah.
You can see a few. It looks like you see two night walkers and a pit fiend. Oh boy. No, just some buddies.
I guess so far everyone in this dimension. Has been unusually nice. Yes. Remember that librarian?
He was an ice devil? Yeah. Okay. So then I should unclench.
Is that what you're telling me? Yes. I'm still wary of them, but the meanest people we found here were goats and the rats. Oh, and the Marilith.
Right? She was just mean to you. What? No, she tried to rob all of us.
That's true. So goats and rats. I feel like I need more context, but let's move on. Oh, we can give you context walking.
Let's go over there and meet those people, I say, and then I settle into explain. So we ended up in this place called Station Five. It's a big city and it's all inhabited by the creatures that have been attacking us as we move through the forest. So lots of spiders and night walkers and pit fiends and dragons and a very nice beholder gave us some driver's licenses.
So there are some strange creatures here, but they all seem to just be people. But the city is being taken over by rats, which are very hard to kill because I mentioned combat is backwards. It's really hard to hit a rat. It's almost impossible.
And they can still hit us. So you get like slowly chewed to death by rats and it's really gross and bad. So that's like the big problem here. And then also when we started flying with Joaquin, we came to this big floating cloud that was covered in goats and I talked to them and police are went over to play with them and they almost didn't give them back.
All right. So you're saying that this can only go really well. Got it. It'll go better than a small creature.
Big and scary equals small and cuddly. Okay, I can work with that. You fly closer and it's not long before all of you can see what Ichabide saw. There is a very large gold dragon towing behind them large chunk of land and there are houses and people.
Shall we stop and say hello? I think. Yeah. Why can't who is that?
Have you met these people? I've never seen these people before. I've seen a few dragons. Are there a lot of little settlements like this?
Not really not that I know of. Most people are in the stations and you know we met Jerome. Jerome's out here. But I've never really seen people walking around before.
Kind of exciting. Hey, hey there. What's your name? What's your story?
I'd like to talk to you. So are these folks. So you talking to the dragon? Yeah.
The dragon kind of moves an eye towards you and starts to slow down. They reach out with their tail and kind of like keep the island from just running into their backside. Just kind of keep it at a bit of a distance and keep it from shuffling around too much as they stop. He's like, oh, my name is Hispian.
It's strange to see anybody out here. What are you all doing out here in the middle of nowhere? We're looking for Queen Marguis. Not sure I heard you right.
We're looking for Queen Marguis. Oh, I guess I did. That's very strange. But is she near here?
Neoretically, perhaps. I mean, Joaquin seems to think so. Oh, yeah, she's not too far. She lives on an island not too far over that way.
I will try to remember to stay away from there then. Don't really wish to tangle with our Queen. It's nice to see folks. You don't have any, not infected with any rats or anything, are you?
Nah. Okay, good. Very good. I suppose if you were you'd be dead.
So that's very good. We are out here to keep away from the rat infestations. My me and my friends and family here on this island. We found the 1%.
We're just stay on the move. Try to stay away from civilizations as much as we can. Just try to keep away from the whole rat plague thing. My new home.
Let my mom know. Okay. So if you'd like to rest, I can show you around, I guess. And you see other people start to come out of the houses on the island.
I wave at them and give them a big smile. There is a Balor. There's another Nightwalker, another Pit Fiend, Dimmy Litch and a young gold dragon. But they're also kind of weird because they've got a shadowy black smoke kind of thing coming off of them too.
And it has me like, yes, these are my friends and family. This is the greatest thing I've ever seen. I'm going to use Minor Illusion to create selfies of myself with each one of them. Sound good.
Hestvian gestures at the Balor. This is Axtherian, moves on to the Pit Fiends. This is Talforth and Shin Splitter. Gestures to the Dimmy Litch.
I don't know if I mentioned that there's a Dimmy Litch, but there is. You did. Okay. This is a Flameaster and then gestures to the Nightwalkers.
That's Teladoc, Chromable. Then this here is my darling partner, Haringa. And of course, our child, Tobias. I introduce all of us as well.
And I'm like overwhelmed a little bit, but waving into my mind. Yes, a lot of people. A lot of people. And I guess I'll say like, are you like, I look around.
Are you all able to be self-sufficient on this little piece of land? Do you spend a lot of time at Jerome's? Sorry, I had to ask a dream question. I experienced the Balor step forward and say, there's many things on these islands floating around.
We go through and we find food and supplies there. When we can't, we will go to one of the stations and trade whatever we have for the supplies we need. It's not terribly often. What is this Jerome's new speaker?
I don't think any of us, we're not familiar. I'm not the best person to describe it, but there is a store run by a very nice guy named Jerome. Walking could tell you how to get there, but we stay the night there. There's like a restaurant and all sorts of stuff.
No rats as far as I know. You can buy items, trade. They're the truck wash. As you can all say, that sounds excellent.
Yeah, and walking is like, yeah, that's a Jerome and I pretty good friends. He just lives over that way a piece. He's got all kinds of things. I think these fellows here were saying that they learned that anything that falls into the, well, you guys are looting the islands, but anything that's not on the islands that's in the just floating around out there, that ends up at Jerome's place.
So he's got all kinds of things for sale and I'm sure he'd be willing to trade if he got anything good. And yeah, he's a nice fella. And I like hanging out there when I can. I travel around this place and like exploring and stuff, I'm a bit of an adventurer.
Only one who knows how to get to Margotan's temple over there and, well, I don't know. I might not be the only one, but I'm the only one I know of. And yeah, just like traveling about. And so I found Jerome over there.
Not too hard to find. There's lots of billboards and stuff. Say in, come on over to Jerome's, what is it called? Mill and nowhere stuff.
Eat, sleep and shop, something like that anyway. And yeah, he just lives out there, does trading. Not much trading because no one comes through really, but he's got them signs out. So it's not hard to find them if you just go over that way of peace.
And yeah, that's what I say. Well, now I want to meet Jerome. Maybe before we go home. I assume we'll get home by going back to station five.
Yeah, that seems like the main option. So we'll see you by the way back. That sounds good to me. I like hanging out with Jerome, Jerome's a nice guy.
And be more than happy to stop there on our way back. Guys stop there anyway because we got to stop somewhere and that's a good spot to stop. His speed is just like nodding his head, trying to take in everything that Joaquin is saying. Yes, that sounds very nice.
We'll have to remember that and stop by sometime. Anyway, if you wish to stop here, ride for a bit, I don't know that we're going the direction that you're traveling. But if you'd like to visit for a bit, I'm sure that would be fine. And if you want to be on your way, then we should be on ours.
We should probably just get going unless Joaquin wants to stop. Yeah, I don't think we really need to stop or anything right now. No, no, I'm good. Ready to travel on whenever you guys are.
There's an interest in sight series. Nice to meet you. Hispian, Experian, Teladoc, Haringa, Talfor, Sinswinner, Playmaster, Tobias. And what I said, your name was, Hubble Bubble, something like that.
I feel like Crombubble is the only one that they remember. Nice to meet you all. We sure appreciate you stopping and talking to us. And I guess we're going to get on our way.
If you're ever in the area, Station 5, I'd appreciate you coming in and see if you can talk to me for a bit. We'll be able to talk to all of you again. And if not, you know what, it's fine too. I understand.
I ever could meet you out of drones. You know, we can hang out, have a good little talk in there about whatever and whenever. And then we fly off. Close.
Yeah. Bye. Bye. Bye.
See you soon. So you leave Hispian and their island of monsters behind. That sounds like a children's series, Hispian and the island of monsters. Maybe it will be someday.
Island of monsters behind. That too. So you continue flying on and walking to kind of looking around and it's like, well, based on what I see here, it looks like we're getting pretty close. I don't think we're even going to have to stop for the night and we're going to get there tonight.
I'll drop you off and hang out. It looks like a be a bit of a trek to the temple or morgue when it is. What I remember. I don't know what else is on the island really or if there's anything.
There's a bunch of trees. That's all I know. I can't really get on it myself. Weird energy coming out.
And I tried once. I flew over there and then I immediately fell to the ground and... Oh, that sounds bad. Yeah, I had to wiggle my way back out onto the space out here.
Not much good at walking. So I'm stopping my name. Yeah, so I don't really know what's out there. I want to wish you guys a guy's best of luck and maybe I should say that until we get there.
Yeah, we can't have enough luck in this one, I think. So thank you. Yeah, I are welcome. I guess I'm fair enough.
So you guys fly on for a few hours and then in the distance you see a large island appear. So it is a large massive land which is forested for most of it. The land rises up to the center where you can see a few spires poking out of the trees and from the center spire you see this ring of energy radiate outwards from it and then fade away as it gets further out from the island. And Joaquin flies you up to the island and you can also see that there's a ring of energy that travels along the ground.
He says, well, here you go. Island is all yours, I guess. I wish you all the best of luck, like I said earlier. I hope you do all right in there and help fix this rat problem.
I already planned to do that. What I know, Morgan's pretty powerful so I don't know. Well, that's a lot to you. Thanks Joaquin.
I wish that we had, do we have a way that we can communicate with him? Like if we're about to die and we say like, hey, you can go now. Sorry. I don't think so.
Do we have something? I don't. I don't think so. Think about?
No, I don't want. Well, I suppose we can just set a timer on it. After a thousand years before not back, you can go off. Oh, wow.
Yeah, that sounds fair. I thought all right. It's gonna end up at a shower of sparks or something. I don't know.
Oh, I could, um, I could ask maybe there are animals or I look around. Like, it looks like if this is inhabited by normal wildlife. Are there rats? Oh, no.
I don't like that laugh. Give me a nature of survival, whichever one you want. Okay. I'm gonna do survival.
I got a 17. It does look like this island is probably inhabited by animals. You see some signs of them having passed through and small animals too. Okay.
So I tell him if it looks like we aren't coming back and I have a chance, I will send a messenger out to him and tell him to get out while he can. All right. That sounds good to me. Hopefully it doesn't come to that.
I hope you all will try nice and safe and sound and everything. Yeah. You're a nice guy, looking. Oh, thank you.
I try, I try, I try. And I hope you're all right. And you know, I think it's a little too spooky out there. You know, you can always feel free to come back.
Too soon before me. I don't know. I mean, I kind of appreciate what you guys are trying to do. I don't know if you can do it.
Oh, I'm kind of scared for you, honestly. But I, you know, how are you? You're done. Jeez.
Oh, I guess you, you all better get out there and go whoop or butt or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Let's go. Oh boy. Right. That's what we get.
So I'm okay. I'm fine with the other one. He says, walking off. Boy, let's go.
Hey, wait a minute. It's not like you have the, oh, never mind. Have the what? You know, the folky thing.
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