Episode 1: A Light in the Woods | Overlight: Fractured Paradox

Hello, and welcome to Overlight. I'm so pleased to welcome you onto this beautiful world. We're having our first episode tonight. I have a couple of announcements. First, we would love to thank the Renegade Game Studios people who made this gorgeous world, and the artists who contributed to the art to that book. It's really stunning. You can see this GM screen that has the art as well. It's so gorgeous. Thank you so much, Renegade Game Studios, for helping to make this show possible. We also want to tell you folks to go to Renegade.com to check out Overlight and all their other games. They have a lot of Tabletop games. If you check out Becca Scott's Game The Game on YouTube, you can see her playing a lot of the Renegade Studio games. So go check those out. They're really wonderful folks, and you're going to get to see this game today, too. Also, if you want to find out more about Overlight, you can check out gayconsundry.com, and there are going to be lots of articles talking about the game in the world. So, that's it. I'm going to introduce our cast right now, and then we'll get started. Cool, let's do it. Yeah, okay. Hi, I'm Rachel Seely. I'm playing Bonnion, which you'll find out what that is later. And I'm Josh Dempster, and I'm going to be playing a Tarixian, which is basically a tiny lizard birdman, so very clear and not fake at all. I'm Havana Mahoney. I'm going to be playing a Zenith monk named Tacma. Nice. Hi guys, my name is Philip Jean-Marie. I am playing Udo's, and RML from the Shard of Vale, who is a gilded laborer. All right, and with that, we will start episode one of Overlight, a light in the woods. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] Welcome back. I just want to thank Caleb Drew for that amazing introduction. I mean, you guys didn't see it. You'll see it after, or on the break of something. I felt like it was, right? We're reverberated through the promo. It is. All the colors of the rainbow. Mine blowingly gorgeous, so I can't wait for you guys to see it. But you guys thought it's awesome. Thank you, Caleb. And with that, we begin episode one. A light in the woods. The Overlight touches us all. But in so many diverse ways, it's sometimes easy to forget that we're all under the same unending boundless light. Each folk living on their respective shards, the many-legged Nova Pendra on Nova, the Zenith Order of Monks, and the Ape like Hamanu on Zenith, the bird-like tarixines of Quill, the varied Banyari of Banyan, the Harkine of Hark who are much like you and me, the masked Aurumel of Veil, and the fiery mighty Pyroi of Pyre. Each of the vast floating continents we call shards steadily moves one above the other in what we've come to call cycles. Because in this world that has no sun and no moon and no day and no night, we measure time by the movement of these shards. And in this world are the Skyborne. A small subset of folk from every shard who are able to channel the overlight to perform bold and miraculous feats. Some say the Skyborne will heal this fractured world. Others say the Skyborne are a sign that we are all doomed. But for the Skyborne, there is much to discover. And perhaps one day they'll prove all the rumors to be true. Today we find ourselves on the forest-like shard of Banyan. On the edge of the great forest, a group of three Skyborne wander admiring the scenery. At first they seem like a strange assortment of folk. In passing, one might lose themselves in wondering how and why these three came to be a trio. But once you've met them, once you've known them, you see that they are strangely suited for one another as is each shard that hangs in the boundless space once known as Sky. We have Udoz, who's tall as a reed and strong as an ox, his hands capable of turning the humblest of materials into strong pieces that are essential to shipbuilding. Though his folk, the masked appreciators of fine art called the Aramel, claim vigor as their central virtue of the overlight, Udoz is one of the few that claims another, the low but forceful red light that signifies might. We have Fennel, part small mammal, and the rest tree. Fennel's form is a duality of nature that was born on the far shard of Banyan. In the woods the folk, and in the folk, the woods, as the saying goes. Banyan is a forest land that boasts a bounty of diversity with several species of Banyari co-existing. Compassion is the declared virtue of this green vibrant land, but Fennel herself proclaims another virtue as her own, the moving, driving virtue of will. And mat, mat la huito, mat for short. Is a proud yet somewhat reserved member of the reptilian bird-like folk called the Turexians. His feathered wings held close to his body, mat's curious mind observes and records the world in his unique way. Unlike his fellow feathered folk from the jungled shard known as Quill, mat does not ascribe to the virtue of logic that his kinfolk clink to. Though he is smart and perhaps because he is smart, mat instead claims the soft green warming light of compassion as his own. And here we have the starting party. You're on the edge of the great forest of Banyan. Banyan is the homeshard of our dear Fennel. You all find yourselves here after days and days of wandering around the great forest, looking and observing and learning. You love to explore together, and now you are here with no particular direction to go in. I've been documenting all the creatures and plants that I've seen on Banyan, and I feel like it's never-ending. When you said you could show me all the life on Banyan, I thought there would be an end. Well, we're a quarter of the way through. That's so exciting and also terrifying. Terrifying. Everything here is pretty great. It's all very nice, and the people here are very nice, too. But where's this magical wood that you spoke of? I really need to get my hands on this particular wood so that I could maybe assemble a few. The earthwood tree? Yes. No. I might be hesitant to share. No. No, you cannot cut it down because if you do, you will kill us all. Not cut it, just no parts of it, too. Udo, is that why you've been hanging out? It's that I was under the impression that it would not make a good ship. Well, I mean, besides ships, just for other things, such as tools or not a good idea. From what I understand, the heartwood is a very important aspect of each Banyan culture. I mean, I've offered you can read my journal where I write down everything that you haven't expressed any interest. I can't understand why. But it's the mother tree. Okay. You cannot kill the mother tree. She gave me this nut. It's my favorite. I respect it. So I can show it to you, but I will not allow you to cut it down or take any part of it. Okay. But that's it. I will not cut it down. I will not take any part of it. Do you promise? I promise. Okay. Yeah, that's I would love to see it myself. It's beautiful. It's the most beautiful tree in the entire realms. It is the best tree that ever was planted on any of the shards. I can guarantee you that and no one would ever try and fight me. I just want to point out that you said that about every tree we've passed so far. That is true. That is still true. You're not right. Is this the biggest though? And it keeps the best nuts. That is a lovely nut. Should we head to the the hearthwood tree? Sure. Could you do me a favor and would you draw it? Could I get a drawing of it? Yeah, of course. Yes, I can lead the way. So as the tarixian Mott pulls out his scrapbook and starts doodling the hearthwood nut, the three of you go on your way. You head back down the path that you came from and you start the long journey down. To Fennell's hearthwood tree. Now the hearthwood tree is a bit of a long way. And as you said, Fennell, you've only seen about a quarter of Banyan because it is a very large, beautiful, varied landscape. So on this long journey, you are walking down and it is daylight out and again there are no days or nights so we'll say it is daylight not late or early daylight and as you're walking you come upon someone who is you see someone huddled next to a tree just off of the path you can't tell if it's it's it's gender at all but it's someone in a black hood who is huddled and hugging their knees and just gently rocking seeming to need to calm themselves and it's it's up a ways on the path you can just see the the dark figure against the green landscape panel's gonna run over immediately yeah i'm right behind her okay so you you start running down the path um and you see this person actually yes you you um see this person huddled when you arrive to them what do they do oh what am i gonna do i have no idea what Chenna is and uh what if that thing comes back and and it tries to hurt me and we can't even more separated hello hi hi my name is phenyl you can call me finna for short but phenylism fun name to say why are you so small i'm small but the tree is big the tree is big this is me these are my branches what you're the tree yeah she sort of like wiggles all of her branches all at once and they're all covered in these little like gold medallion looking leaves almost like a birch tree with a willow tree just oh that is quite wondrous i'm buying in i'm a binary oh uh well um uh uh well it's nice to be on your on your home on your shirt it's uh it's so great to be here i just wish it was under better circumstances um okay well i uh i i came here uh on on a mission from from my um zenith order of of monks um and uh and i i met a friend and we got really close and and and you things were gonna be different for me and for them and um and now they're gone they're gone because uh there was a creature there was a um you know it was it looked like a big um sort of like pig but um big tusks like two foot long tusks and they were sharp like swords and it tried to run us through and and we sort of we scattered and and i came back to regroup with this tree with chinu and and chinu's not here what is a chinu chinu's a chinu's a chinu's a hamanu oh it's my my friend my companion my my traveling companion but i don't i don't know where she went well he got a finger what does she got run through by the well we'll find her but what if we find her and she's well you can't think that way listen if she is injured then we have to find her fast but if she's not she's probably out in the forest trying to look for you right we'll find her or the darkness is taking her no you'll never come back you can't think that way listen on vanyan we don't think that way everything is possible and we can find her i promise right okay so you have um do you have a special way of of tracking hamanu or well okay um but i know where look really well this is my home shard i know this place pretty well maybe you know where that creature lives maybe maybe he's he's he's roater off into his into a secret murder cave and he's gonna eat her i don't think vanyan has any murder caves but do i know this this creature and do i know do you want to roll for that see if you know oh sure let's roll of the game what's it gonna be um actually i'm gonna have the three of you all right um this is gonna be a folklore okay three of you now three yes yes not you because you've already seen it and clearly not sure what it is first roll of the game first roll of the game okay so you got one so you got a four on your spirit tie and you're gonna success in no success two two two three three three so uh three three's in the three two so no successes um the spirit die has a four on it and i believe can you bank that oh i'm gonna have to check that later um i think you can bank that as a as in your spirit pool yes as a success um even though you did not succeed that sorry as a extra a new spirit pool die um okay so now you two will roll folklore all right gotta roll a six for a success so folklore and wisdom yes six and above is a success no success did we just ready yeah you will tell the exact same thing that anything for that i mean maybe you're in tune clearly so i get a spirit pool point for that is what you're saying is that what's happening yes that's how we're gonna operate right now and now on you you are yes oh wait three six you both were trained in in folklore and i saw the future in the best year but i can't remember its name okay great well like um yeah oh like should i just read three three six so you're gonna do three of your wisdom and one of your uh and one d6 because you are not trained in folklore so 46 total yes 46 total cool and then a spirit die i can't see it four i got a five oh so close no one and we're so unsuccessful maybe it'll just get better from here okay none of you are entirely sure based off of that description what type of beast tachema is describing but as a turexian and as a pyre a pyroid or amel or amel as an ormel from oh sorry from veil oh okay dear i know this is getting very very own labels around well as someone with might as your corvert you that's what my brain was trying to say yes um you did study some of the pyroid culture now pyre is the lower most shard um where might is the virtue and between the two of you you look at each other and you both are kind of trying to put your finger there's something for you it's something about pyre and you say that out loud and mott and fennel hear you something to do pyre pyre pyre and you mott you're bigly reminds me yeah because of your studies on as a turexian turexians are very smart and well learned there's something in your studies that you're trying to put together i feel like i've heard tell of you said it looked like a pig yeah like um but like furrier long coarse hair i giant tusks have a vague recollection of like a large bipedal pig creature coming from one of the other shards you said pyre why would it be here why on biann that doesn't make sense that's a long way to go the weather is great yes thank you for noticing but why would it be here it's a long distance to travel for a giant pig it's not often the the creatures of the darkness are on your shard no or maybe it's such an apex predator that it's just thriving here because it doesn't have any any other animals to uh but how did it get here if pyre's the lowest shard that's a long distance to travel i doubt it charted a boat on its own it might be very smart you never know i crossed the line and i apologize i haven't met this creature yet everything is very smart in its own way could it have been someone's pet oh oh that's not a good thought who would keep that as a pet well it's definitely not domesticated anymore it doesn't sound very nice and you you were you and your uh compatriot cheno was it cheno we're attacked here yeah near nearby here and and i i circled back after we've parted ways to see if cheno would meet me back at this spot um but it doesn't appear that's what's occurred do you know which direction cheno went do i i think that might take some orienting yeah um do you want to let's see what would that be as a role let's have you role well yes since you it's not a knowledge thing it's more like how aware you are when you were running right right let's i mean that could just be perception sure yeah let's say that's perception wisdom so it's going to be my wisdom which is the eight and then my perception which is d6 and then this guy actually wait no i'm going to make a perception will because yeah it's not about it's more like that's better for me so yeah it is better it's more yeah it's more about like your will to survive as you're running out of the woods and also your will to find your your friend oh one two successes yeah all right finally who on my special day so you got a luminous success woohoo so our first success role we wouldn't have had this successful role without the first three roles you guys you bless the table which I didn't mention before but this table so gorgeous oh my goodness I don't know the name of the artist but I promise next time I will know and I will say and give them a shout out but yes okay so you get two beautiful successes you got a two on your spirit diet though right yes okay so you don't get a spirit flair from that so yes you you actually look around finally you look up and you remember coming through the woods and eventually you felt like you were far enough and you got to this path and you felt safe and so you just plop down right here and when you came you crossed the the path so you know you came from across the path in that the other side there's a clear path yeah okay I think it was it must have been down this path here we came down this way and then we sat by the tree for a while before we were interrupted I would like to a light on a branch above the the clearing of the tree where this occurred and I would like to try to use beastways and potentially compassionate is it just the just to just the skill track to see if I can use my training with animals to identify the multiple tracks neither figure out where the pig went I almost called it a piglet which makes it's not adorable I mean it wasn't not cute you can be scary and cute or to figure out where because it's either going to be basically handprints on the ground because of the monofit or it's going to be like a hood yeah and so there's only be three sets of recent ish tracks right from too hard to identify great so you get up high on a tree Mott flutters up and Mott is about what is it four feet tall yes so nice giant to succeed huge he flutters out his wings which usually keeps pretty close to his body but this time you see him flutter them out in this beautiful display of blue and turquoise and red feathers and he flutters up to the top of the tree and from there he looks down in the direction that talk may point it across the path so now let's have you make that beastways roll okay beastways compassion okay so 10 to 8 here oh there you go thank you you have one success there right yep is that is that another 10 oh that's a 10 see I'm doing this stuff with you see 10 oh three success or success why what okay see you're welcome it's only down here I hope you dig I hope you legendary success at some point the GM just said I'll never get successes successes on the virtue and skill die and then a four on the spirit diet that is nuts and I hope you see well you I know if you got five you could boost it right that's your spirit flare so that is true we can we get a little lower just be prepared to spend that spirit yes okay so that was a brilliant is it really success no radiant success very good yeah radiant success so from your perch up high and you you land on a tall what looks like an aspens it's kind of a thin trunk tea tree it gently sways when you set on a top of it it's it's very slim but strong and as you sit on what if it's higher branches you look down and you you do get a sense of your compassion bubbling up compassion as your core virtue is really what drives you and this is you know what you love to do to connect with nature and with other beings and so you look down and you see like a slight greenish energy start to guide your gaze and you see three different paths three different footprints that are going throughout throughout the the forest in this direction so you clearly see the footprints that were talk maize that came here and came sat in this on this tree cross the path and the came sat in the tree and then back in the forest you see another set of footprints that does look like a four-legged hoofed type animal so it's two large hoofs that are pressed couple of inches into the ground and you see that one from your from your orientation you see that it came towards your direction with the other set of prints and then it turned back and went in the other direction and then a little bit further off quite further off you see the hamanus what you what you understand to be the manus paw prints in the ground and they match some of talk maize but they mostly turned around and ran way back over into the forest okay so I think I've as I'm perched up on the tree like my talons dug into the the trunk like occasionally my wings will flutter to help steady me but like a a smile has crept across my face because I'm just so happy to be up in the air again I'd after I compose myself I take note of the three tracks and I yell down if you went that way and the pig went that way I think I know which direction your friend chainy went in really well which way I have to go after her we don't know what happens so let's just collect and come up with the game plan because I know I would like to help you does it look like the way he pointed that thing might be headed towards my tribe no okay because you were you were heading down the path towards talk me and passed her so if you think of it the path is like this way talk must sitting on one side of the path and then the direction he's pointing is this way you are going straight ahead perfect so it's yeah it would be a different direction okay um yeah I'm I want to know what this creature is but we need to help your friend I I'm ready to throw my lot in with you I've also never seen a harmonious like but are you guys okay with you guys don't even know me so you're hearing you need help that's good enough yeah what what what does come I don't know guys what are your second thoughts about because what if we put ourselves in danger and we die that's there is that possibility every second of every day I mean I'm pretty strong and I'm all about learning experiences and it sounds like death is the ultimate learning I'm ready to fight all right I trust you guys let's do it let's go and even know your guys's names Udo's Udo's nice to meet you oh I'm talk my nice to meet you talk I'm fennel fennel mutlally weed doll we call it mutt okay great yeah that works better for me yeah mutt of us fennel Udo's yes great I'm talk talk my did I say that can I call you talk oh sure I've never had a nickname before nicknames are great and they are a sign of affection oh how do I write that down nicknames are great in this one when the two of you have this exchange you also sense something in each other and you are different folk very different folk you are a harkeen descended zenith monk so a lot of the monks are descended from the humans of this world and so essentially you are human and you as this mammalian slash tree hybrid folk very different folk but you you have us you have something shared between you and you kind of sense it we're gonna be friends friends right that is um that is when we uh you've got your favorite blanket a freshly poured drink and a cold case burning a hole in your streaming queue you're not just watching true crime you're running the investigation from the comfort of your couch welcome to murder she watched the podcast where we recap dissect and slightly over 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There is nothing we don't cover on our show, right, Jeremy? Oh, girl, you know we are famous for rabbit holes, dizzy themed games, and fun facts you didn't know you needed, but you definitely need it in your life. So if you are looking for a healthy dose of Disney Magic, check out Disney Countdown, wherever you get your podcasts. What is that? Form a bond. Oh, we're going to-- No, I already have a bond. You never had a friend before. Well, I just want to preface this by saying I already have a bond mate, and I'm-- No, we don't have a bond mate, too, of-- No, we don't have a bond. But also, we have many friends. I have two friends. Why don't we have two friends? It's a invisible bond that ties two people together. No, well, I mean, it's really the same as that. But I mean, it's kind of like that, but it's not. Friends are people that you choose to be with. Oh. It's like a family that you pick. Yeah, not by blood, but by choice. Oh, OK. And we-- what do we do together? We're at each other, near each other. This? Whatever you want. This is it. Just look for friends. Yeah. Sometimes we can draw together. I can show you all of my favorite plants. Now that you're my friend, I can show you my hearthwood nut. And I can show you my drawing of our hearthwood nut. I can show you my ship. But that's-- ship. Yes. Collecting so many friends, I'm so excited. That's a very nice nut. Thank you. You're welcome. I did drawing. And a drawing-- that's a very nice drawing of my nut. Thank you. You're all having this-- [LAUGHTER] --on the pathway. Do you want to start into the forest? Which track should we follow? And does it look like the patch-- the Hamanu tracks-- it's always what I assume are Hamanu tracks. Deeper in the forest. Do they split off from the piglet tracks? Quick call. You can't see that. [LAUGHTER] No, it's cute. You can't quite see that far into the forest. OK. But you do see that the Hamanu path of tracks go that way into the forest. And yes, you do see they seem to go into a similar direction. So they seem just about parallel. So I guess I'll lead the way from up above. Yeah, let's go find a friend. And then we can add more friends. The Hamanu's feet look like big hands. OK, that checks out. And I like-- [LAUGHTER] --I crouched down and I try to sketch the best outline of-- No. Wait, yeah. Wait, Sarah, you weren't finished drawing. I thought it was just going to be that line. I was like, that's not what they-- Oh, yeah, no. I try to-- I don't stop drawing and drawing until I think it's done necessarily. Most of them are more than one line. Right. It's not like an instant thing. I win. Right, great. This drawing is very realistic. I know it. And I quietly pack my pen and things back up. And just flutter up into a tree like, oh. So lot flutters back up into the tree line. And from there, he starts to guide you all down along the tracks that he can see from above. And so now you are entering the forest. And you-- mostly on your journeys, whenever you enter the forest, it's because Fennel has led you to a certain spot where she knows that there will be something of interest for you all to learn about and explore and for you to sketch one. So now you're entering part of the forest that Fennel is not familiar with. And so this is very-- this is new territory for all of you. You have not leading you from above, just in front of you and above. And you walk down the path. And you walk. And there's more walking. And some time passes, probably-- you see the tracks too. It's not as if the tracks have stopped. You're still following tracks for maybe the equivalent of an hour of our time. And so you get to a certain point where the tree line starts to become denser. And there is a point where as the tree line gets denser, you start to see some shrubbery just pass that and then some rockiness. So the tree basically really is in the trees and is transitioning to a different terrain? Yeah. OK. And the path-- because there are now rocks, you see that in the dirt from the forest. As it goes into the denser tree line, you still see the path, but the tracks. But you can now see that the tracks leave off because now it's rockier towards in that direction that the tracks went. I call down Holt's slope. I think I've lost the trail. Fennel, do you know anything about where we are? No, this is very unusual. There aren't very many ferns. And there's not very much moss. It doesn't really look like my short anymore. So we're an uncharted territory? I don't know it. I pull my journal out and start sketching. But while I'm doodling, I'd say we should probably stay at stick to the tree line until we figure out what's going on, try to pick up the trail from here. But it might be tough. Do you guys have any ideas? No, I have my black meditation spirit. I'm just shrinking it and growing it into my hand, sort of like a nervous tick, like an anxiety tool. It's like an anxiety ball. Yeah, I fluttered down, like, what is that? Tell me everything about it. This is my meditation spirit helps me focus on my meditations and my studies and my, you know, it helps me feel better in times like this. If you're bonded, with Trenu, are you able to sense if they're close? We're not actually bonded yet. We sort of came together under not very traditional means, not the regular way most zenith monks in Hermani go about it. So we will be bonded when we get back to zenith. But right now we're not-- and I can't hear-- I can't hear Trenu yet because of that. I can't hear her. We'll find her. And also, non-traditional is awesome. You're trying something new. Right, you're the only one who thinks that. Well, I happen to know a lot, so there. Well, she's not the only one. It's true. Well, we're a very smart party. Well, I appreciate it. Not a lot of the people for my old order or the other orders are very, very into the idea, not great, not well received. Well, I think you're cool. Cool. That's a lot of matters here. Yeah, yeah. And I know you're not alone. As a tarixian who feels closer to compassion than I do logic, I don't necessarily fit in either. Right, you understand my plates. And you said you are OK with the darkness that happens after, or maybe during, or so. You understand. I don't know if we had that conversation, but we can loop back around to it. So you are an afraid of death. The never-ending void after we're gone. When you put it like that, I'm starting to have second thoughts. It was more to motivate Udo's. It was like a bit of a tactic. Wait, how do you feel about the never-ending void? I'm still on the-- well, the never-ending void, I'm scared to death of it. Oh, no, no, no, there's no reason to be a scared of it. Just as the overlay gives us powers, so can the darkness if we let it. But you have to accept that you can't be scared of it. Yeah, the darkness can be real cool. Everything's cool. I just want to ask, guys. I just want to have my name out on every chart. People know my name, Udo's. Just like Carvot in a tree or something? No, no, no. Simple, no. But through my artistry, that's fine. Did you make your mask? It's actually handed down from a third-generation mask. It was handed down from my father's father. he was a gilded labor as well. - It's very precise. - Thank you. - You're welcome. - Appreciate it. - And so, talk of me, you are peering at Udo's mask and you start to see, nope, that's not correct. (laughing) - Wrong sound. Erase that sound from your memory. - That was scary. (laughing) - You got very dark all of a sudden. - Yeah. - I was talking about that. - You started doing masks and you were pulling to the void. (laughing) - And you're all glad to be here. - And you're all glad to be here. Thanks for joining in. - Well, my iTunes is now GMMing. (laughing) So, you are peering at Udo's mask and you see this delicate, fine detail. Udo's, what does your mask look like? - My mask is a wooden mask with ornate jewelry placed inside of it. The ornate jewelry kind of signifies the craft that my family has mastered, which is ships. And as you can see, it's ornamented and crafted to kind of look a little intimidating. That's why it has kind of an angry face. (laughing) - It's working. (laughing) - I'm very scared. (laughing) - You should find your friend. - Yeah. - Can you tell me what I would see from the tree line, if I'm up at the top, like if I'm surveying this transition to rockiness? - Right. - Is that like, what am I, what the lay of the lay? - So, because you're now in the dense part of the tree line, you can't see much ahead, but you would have to move a bit out of it. Just get to the other side of it to see what's over there on the rocky side, right? That's what you wanna see. - So, if you just fly about 25 feet from where you are, you would clear the denser part of the forest into the rocky land. - Okay, I would like to do that, but also make it clear that I'm going to stick to the tree line now that you've terrified me about the great dark beyond. I thought we were having a fun adventure. - I wanna go see you, actually. - All right, let's go. - Don't make me say I told you so. - It's all of these roots of her tree, just like an octopus. She's very fast, but it's like a tree octopus. - Like the underwater coconut octopus? - Yeah. - Perfect. - Okay, so Mat and Fennel, you're flying and you're running towards the edge of that dense tree line, right? - Fennel, we don't know what's past there. - Bye, I'm sorry to be quiet. - Fennel's running ahead. Fennel's very excited now. I've never seen this before. There might be new trees down here. - So, Fennel, you run ahead of Mat now. Mat is flying in your front of. And Fennel, you're looking way past, you're not looking down at where your roots are and your root starts to catch something and you fall over. - I'm a little turtle 'cause she's a giant tree. So she uses all of her roots and branches to roll herself and then push back up so that she's standing. - You create some sort of root hamster ball? - Yes. - I mean, she's basically a red panda, so my hamster ball is very appropriate. - What did I trip on? - Well, you see a, looks almost like a natural bedding as if maybe there was a storm and some wind that caused some vines to get entwined and it's very thick. It looks, it looks like it was made by nature. So you don't think it's an actual nest, but you sense something about it. And I'm gonna have you roll, let's see what, will you roll? - So be it compassion. - Mm-hmm. - So I need my tans. - Need your tans. Where are you, Fennel? Where are you in my book? - I don't know. - Well, there you are. - Okay. So, ooh, how about this is perception compassion? - I like that, let's do that. I get d10s and d8s. - Don't be mean to me, please. - It is. - One, two, three, four, four. - Wow. - Nice. - All right. For successes, so there's another way to progress. - That's how we roll. - Oh, sorry, is that like a joke? - Oh, there you go. - I thought you were doing a pun. - Oh, yeah, it was. - Oh, that's happening. - Yep. - That's how you roll. - I didn't know if that was like that for me. - No, just me personally. - I didn't have that Fennel. - There was something watching here who was a master at puns. They know who they are. (laughing) So, so you, after you kind of, do you unturtle yourself? - Yes. - For you still on your back? - Yeah. - Okay, unturtle. - So you flip over and you get on your paws and you look to see what you tripped on. And sure enough, there's this nest of vines that have become intertwined. And you see something moving in there. And because you got a radiant success, I'm gonna say that you also notice that in this dense forest line, a little ways off. Another maybe 10 feet away in the brush. There are little eyes looking out at you. They're very close to the ground. They're under the brush. There's maybe four or five pairs of eyes. - What's the thing moving in the nest? - What does it look like? - Oh, what does it look like? You see brownish gray fur. - Do I see any pig-like features? - No. (laughing) I'm just gonna look up and stare at mom. I'm assuming is the eyes that are watching me and just kind of crouch and try to make myself look as non-threatening as possible. Just like, I didn't mean to. I didn't mean to. And just wait, just see if it moves. - Okay, I'm gonna have you roll. Let's see, persuasion. (laughing) Persuasion compassion. Okay, all right. Just see if you can convince this animal, the mom, as you said, that you are not trying to hurt anyone. - Don't hurt me, please. - You did kick her child. - I fell over her child, I didn't get it. That's one. - What is this? - What is this, I can't see it. - It's a one. - It's only one success. - One success, so that is not a success. - Oh. - You guys betrayed me. Lesson. - Are you talking to your dice? - Yes. - Like, I've been. - You guys, dude. - You guys, I just. - And I think I'm up on the tree line up in the branches. And like, I'm just drawing things and taking notes. You know, it's like, oh, a fennel was supposed to be here, but I've done anything yet, so I'm just. - Just like, oh, it's weird. - Whatever, still, yeah, you're still. You got distracted by a little. A little, a really nice leaf up there. You're starting to sketch it. - Incredibly detailed the veins, and then I'm like, okay, yeah. - Yeah, it has lots of beautiful veins. You're like, oh, I love those leaf veins. - So what's going on in technical? - So, out from the brush, crawls one of the pairs of eyes. And it is. It's a small creature. It's about one and a half to, maybe two feet in length, long, long slender arms, and big, wide eyes, and some little ears. And it comes out of the brush, looking at you with wide eyes, clearly waiting to see what your next move will be. - Do I recognize it at all? Is this something that my. - You would recognize this. So this is called the Nitancian? - Nitancian. - Yes, it's one of the species of Banyari folk. - It's a friend. I'm gonna back away a little bit from the baby. I don't want to be too close, but I'm gonna try and. Do I know if we speak the same language? - Yes, you would know that they don't speak verbally. They're animals. So they speak through body language, and you can try to put your intention out to them. It's more of an animal type of instinct. - I'm going to back up from the kid and lay down on my back. - Okay, so that they see that I'm allowing myself to be vulnerable, and I'm not here to harm them. - Okay, so as you roll onto your back again, put literally, shown your belly to this mama Nitancian. She looks at you and she's a bit surprised. She makes the little sound that's like, "Whoo, whoo!" And the other pairs of eyes come out behind you. And you see, I think I said four or five, how many do I say five? - Five and so. - You see four more, thank you. Four more, those pairs of eyes turn into four more of these Nitancian who come up, and one of them is actually very not shy anymore. It just bounds right up to you, and it kind of like plays around with your roots and sees what you're gonna do. - I wanna play with that a little bit. - Okay, so you start to play back with it, and you're having this nice little banter with. with this nittenseean. - I mean, new friend. - Uh, I'm gonna walk up and go. - Finale, did you have babies? Why does it happen? - No, they're not my babies. No, but keep your distance. I just want them to feel safe. This is their nest and I point with some of my roots over to the little vine nest that they've made so that people can avoid it when they come in. If they're coming into the area. - Don't step on the baby. - Okay. I'll just go over here then. - I'll just go like wide. (laughs) - I promise. - Can I? - It's a tradition. - Try to use my beastways to see if I can communicate with them in some way. Maybe see if they've seen something strange run through here? - Sure. - Is it just what for two am I rolling? For beastways? - For beastways? - I'm in a roll compassion. - Yeah, mm-hmm. - Okay, all right guys, all right. - 'Cause these are your peoples from your same shard. - One success. - One success. - Okay. - Nevermind. - Oh. - I take it back. - Okay, so that was better this beer. - Am I able to use a spirit point to? - Oh. - Yes you are. - Yeah. - Let's do it. - Beautiful, use the spirit. - This is my, my, my, my player. - Oh. - Spirit flare. - Inact. - Is it an act? - Why? - Actually it is. - That didn't happen. (laughing) - So yes, this is great. So when you get an odd number of successes, you can spend a spirit point to bump it up to the next level, which becomes a success in this case. So now you have a luminous success. And so what do you say or do? - I want to try and indicate tracks are tracking and use my roots and my branches and my own tiny little paws to try and communicate. Have you seen anything coming through here? - Well, still trying to be non-threatening. - Okay, not just possible. - Okay, so you, are you still on your back? - Mm-hmm. - Okay, you roll over. - You roll over. - You kind of turtle your way over onto your side. And with your roots and your paws, you start to kind of do this on the ground to try and-- - Make pictures in the dust. - Oh, there you go. Okay, you try to draw pictures of maybe of a pig-type thing or-- - A pig with a question mark and a giant ape or as much as fennel can draw an ape, which is questionable with a question mark. - Okay. - And then just like tracking and footprints and all sorts of weird things that she's trying. - So, these five Nithensian just look curiously at you. The one who's playing with your roots stops and is looking at you making these designs in the ground, in the grass, in the dirt, and then starts making their own designs. - Anything I can make sense of or just? - No. (laughing) It's just, now the mama Nithensian sees you doing that. And she's trying really hard to understand, but she doesn't find any, she doesn't see any pattern in that. But she walks slowly, she looks at you. She sees that you're not a threat. She walks over to where you saw what you believed to be the nest and she starts pawing at it. - Does it look like the smell creature might be stuck in it? - With your luminous success, yes. You now understand that the mama Nithensian is scared because her child is stuck in this tangle of vines. - Okay. - I wanna crawl over and immediately start helping. - Okay. Now, where are the rest of you? - I was, I feel like I was kind of trailing behind you too. - Yeah, I think we were together, yeah. - Next again, next again. - But then we kind of walked up on it in the middle of that. - Okay, so you're kind of here. - We're here for a fennels instructor to stay back. - Yeah. - So I think I would at least sort of like give it to you. - I'm not touching. - Okay. - Mom, I'm gonna have you roll a, oh well, at this point, would you have noticed? - I think I heard the noises and it was the, like the hoos were sounds I hadn't heard before. - Okay. - So it was like, oh, I wonder, I wonder if Fennel got caught up. And so I fly back, I maintain height. So I can just kind of look down, like I don't wanna disturb anything. And also the longer it takes them to notice me, the longer I have to draw them. (laughing) - Yeah, nice. - I'm like listening and watching, but also I just kind of like, oh, these are new. And when it seems like you've gone in and you're starting to help, I yell down, Fenn, what are these things? - Oh, they're kind of, they're Banyari, but they're a different species. We don't speak the same language, but I think that this one's little baby is caught. So I'm trying to get it out. - Okay. - I was thinking about trying like beast tether, but I can just help. - It'll be a little weird, 'cause you'll be inside something that's pretty sentient, but if you want. - You wanna do that? - That was some shade. I'm gonna, (laughing) I'm gonna, I'm gonna float myself down and start digging with my extendable talons. - Great. - Okay. - All right, so. - It's very awkward. It's like a chicken trying to pick something on the ground, like one foot at a time. - So and as a, so Tariqsians do have very sharp talons that are a few inches long and slightly curved, right? Is that right? - Yes. I just realized that that could be like-- - Really not safe. - Yeah. - Well, notice through that, but a little alarming. - A little alarming. - It's more what I was like, oh, oh, help, fsh. (laughing) - So yes, you fluttered down from the top of the trees and the other, the nitsensian family does kind of move out of the way and they're like, okay, well, fennel has been nice. So if this is fennel's friend, they're just cautiously looking at you. You whip out your talons, a couple of them scurry away, maybe to go further, but the mama's staying right there and she has her eye on you. - And not to her. - Okay. - No wings, that'd be weird. - Of course. (laughing) - And I'm moving credibly slowly and gently. Like I have my claws extended and it just like gently dig and try to cut at the vines around it. I'm making it very clear that I'm not like, ah, ah. - All right, when the mama sees you doing that, she sees the slowness and she walks over and she gets closer now as if she's standing guard. But with her, yeah, even with her long arms, she hasn't, she's been pying and she hasn't succeeded. So yes, she's gonna let you all try to do this. So let me have you both do, now, okay. I'm gonna have you both do a skill test. - Mm-hmm. - It's gonna be, let's see, this might be, hmm. I'm gonna make this, (laughing) that's never a great sound, not a good sound. - When the DM chuckles, evenly to then this thing. - I wonder. So this, this, a tangle of vines, as you start to dig, you notice that it's very tight and you're thinking that not only was this created by the wind, but it started growing after it was all nestled together. These vines are connected to other root systems nearby. So this is a living, strong thing that you're trying to pull at. I'm gonna have you both roll athletics in might. - Mm-hmm. - Hey. - Yup, that's untrained. - Yes. - So that's gonna be 46s. - 46s for them. - It's the same here. - Okay, six, it could be, it's probably not gonna. - Yup. - I like the little cute baby weaklings other ones who like will help. - Zero's, that's zero. - You got one, didn't you? - No. - That was nothing, that was nothing. - Okay, so no successes. - Wee! - One, one, then whatever that is. - Okay. - Nothing. - All right, we got nothing, so two of you, you with your talons, Mon, and Fennel, with your own roots. You're trying to, this is a root system that's stronger than your own root. So it's kind of like if human fingers are trying to pry steel, a steel cage apart. It's just, you're not really gaining any ground at all. And the mama is watching kind of looking disappointed and but still hopeful looking down at her baby to make sure she's okay. - Can I maybe step in? Can I step in and help? Because I see that they're kind of struggling and I actually have a blundging tool, but at the, at the top of it, it's actually a like, it's a crest like blade at the very top. And at the end, it's very cone like it, and it kind of finishes like until a fine point and you have a crest and the end of it, the other end of it, it's kind of blunt and rounded. So you could swing it, chop it, cut it. I think that this type of tool will be really good and happy helping out, you know, release these babies from the vines, right? - Yeah, and you got all the damage types covered, so. You need to get hit worth set. - Yes, should we give it a shot? - Yeah, please do. - While he's doing that, can I actually use one of my curled up root to try and pry the roots away? - Yeah, so let's see. - It's our first chromatist. Oh, my God. - Nice. - So you'd like to use chromatist and you have your bludgeoning tools. So you step up from where you were standing back with Tacme, and you have your bludgeoning tool ready, and the mama's standing steady, and she now looks at you, and she's like, okay. - I just give her a look like it's okay, even though I can't communicate with her, I just kind of want to give her a knowing look that I am concerned about her kid. - And her mask does that, just gonna be fine. Well, my body language, my body language, I've had to live with this mask my whole life so I'm very good at communicating, like without words. (laughing) - Yeah. - Just by the making up expressive eyes, so can eat us. - That's okay, yeah. - I think that's like-- - Yeah, I think that's cool. - Halla. - Can that be a thing? Is that cool? - Sure. - I mean, let's make it cool. - Oh, that's just, if you're a mask in a mow, oh wow, that's cool. - Wow, why not? - Yeah, who does this mask in a mow? - I support this. - Let us know in time. - It's really cool. - Just that. - Just that. - I don't like people. - He's a scab on me. - I don't love that. - Yeah, I'm so into this. - He's a scab on me. - I'm into that. - Your mask is just real good. - This is real good. I think your body language goes a long way, and so that, yes, your mask can almost seem to change what it expresses because your body language is so humble and warm, and also your compassion role goes a long way. Because this is your fellow Banyari, and now Mott have clearly shown to help, yes, this mama nitensian is, she's still, she wants her baby out of this trap or whatever it is. But she, yes, she's watching you vigilantly, and she's not doing anything. She's just watching, okay. So now you wanna do root. All right, so now for root, you're gonna roll compassion and vigor. See, this is okay even if I shatter, so. (laughs) - While you shatter. - Yeah, I get a shatter. - You have how many-- - You have a lot of shatter. - You have a lot of shatter. - You're gonna burn your spirit pool magically. - Do you have a lot of spirit points? - I'm just gonna use all 15 of those spirits. - Oh my goodness. - Two? - All right. - And it costs two. - And it costs two, so great. So now in a chromatist, when you use, when you roll a, whatever number you roll on your spirit die, is the cost of the chromatist. So you just spent two of your 15 spirit pool points, and you had a luminous success with two sixes, two eights, actually, right? - Mm-hmm, nice. - So. So you get very tired from trying to dig at this vine, and you know when something is stronger than yourself. You know and respect all of the life forms on this shard, so you realize that you have invested by this vine. So you step back, and you get up on your haunches, and the tree is extending up above you, and at the very tips of your, you said willow tree, kind of looks like a willow tree. - Yeah, it's like a willow birch tree. - Willow birch tree, at the very tips of the ends of your leaves and branches, you all start to see a very soft green glow. And that green glow extends from the tips up to the top of your branches, and down the trunk, and it encompasses you. And as you feel this light of compassion overcome you, do you wanna describe what all this happens? Do you want me to? - The roots underneath her that she uses to walk, begin to grow longer and thicker, and they also start to, it's like the green glow pulses and radiates down towards her feet and in through her trunk, and these roots that are glowing and getting stronger and bigger, like reach into the tangle and start to pry it open, and like see you cracking an egg. - Just so you get a pretty good grip on this, and now with the light of the chroma, refracting through you in this very specific way, through your compassion and your vigor, you take hold of a section of the vines and grasp onto it. And now with Illuminous success, you're gonna be able to get a strong but momentary grip. Now, it's, you're not gonna be able to pry open, but your companions see that you have this really good grip on it, okay? - Okay, then I'll just hold it in as much as I can. - Yeah, but now you have like a solid handhold or root hold. - I think I'm gonna go in and grab it, 'cause I feel like out of the four of us, I have the most human hand. - Okay, what are you grabbing? - Okay, that's delicious. - Oh my gosh, that's super delicious. - And I'm not going to stand for that. - Wow. - Nothing wrong with some. - Yeah, he's like, "Oh, look at me with my opposable thumbs." - Sure need to work on your compassion. - Okay, far down, or is it like, you've moved it and there's the creature, or is it like a pit? - So she hasn't moved it, she's gotten a good grasp. And it's not far down. It's actually on top of the forest floor, but it's almost as if like, on the east coast or any world's with fall, you've rigged, someone has, the wind has rigged a bunch of leaves together in a pile, but this is vines, and then they kept growing and they got very dense. - Right. - So yeah, so it's not deep, it's just tight. It's tight and there's maybe two layers of vines. So it's not, yeah, it's not very deep. - So you have a grip on it, but you haven't pulled it in. - It's like, it somehow got under it. And it's, it's as if it's in a cage of vines. - Guys, okay. - Yeah. Sorry, what did you do? - But she got a grip on it, but didn't open it? - Right. She has a good grip, but before the both of them were just kind of clawing at it and not moving it up, but now there's a good handhold at least. - If only one of us knew how to use simple machines and mechanics to leverage their abilities. - I think I-- - I mean, I've got it. - I'm kind of big sick. (laughing) - Maybe I can pull it up and then you guys can pull it up with me and we can all pull it up together. Teamwork. - Yeah, should I use my weapon for this? Or do you want me to just use my hands? - As long as you're not too close to the baby. - Let me give you more description, too, to help you make this decision. So you see that Fennel's roots have gotten a good grip on this, like, no, look at this. - Look at this. - Did you just say Bernie? - Yes, what? No, I whispered it to myself and not you. - Please send. - Don't avoid. - Void shaman monk. Void shaman monk is gonna void shaman monk. - Shaman monk. - It's all about darkness, right? - You've been doing it. - Right, I wouldn't do fire. I would suspend it in the void, too. (laughing) - That's right. - Yes. - Yes. (laughing) - I'm gonna talk about how you help things. (laughing) - I'm just because you're afraid of the darkness, doesn't mean it's not helpful. - And how you respond to constructive criticism? (laughing) - Okay, but I'm right. (laughing) - So you all see that Fennel has this hand hold. And Fennel is trying to pull, and trying to pull backwards. Oh, we do a tug of war. Your legs, Fennel, are just kinda slipping in the forest floor. It's just too soft for you to get a good. And you're, even though you have a big tree as part of your body, you don't have much mass to work with. So you're just kinda slipping. That's what you see. - Should we assist? - We should. We should, however. - I say we yank on her real hard. - Can you cut the vines? - Oh wait. - Now, if I were to cut the vines, would that do any damage to the tree, would that-- - No, near where I'm holding. - Okay. - Just near where I'm holding. - I'm just afraid that I-- - I'm holding 'em up for you, so you can smash 'em. Just chop, chop. - Slice right down? - Yeah. - Just good. - Well, what if we, hear me out, what if we just help you pull a fin on and then we'll pull back the roots without having to maybe stab a child, just an idea. - Or hurt whatever this is. - Yes, that's always good, sure. - Pull me. - Yeah, like I said, it was right, yank, real hard. Don't hurt me, please. I'm very slow and a little hollow. - I can't do anything. Is my jewel dragonfly anywhere nearby? - The last time you saw your jewel dragonfly, it had found a beautiful grove that had some honeysuckle and honeysuckle is its favorite flower. - I don't want a bother. - Dude, me too. - Honey has the best honeysuckle. They're very big, and they had a lot of flavor. - So my-- - And that will be distracting. It's probably wasted, right? (all laughing) - Run on honeysuckle. - Run on honeysuckle. - Wait to me, too. - It's not my first time. (all laughing) - Drunk on. - Honey suck. (all laughing) - Little baby. - So what would you all like to do? - I guess I'll take my, I have a large staff made of the overlight equivalent of like black walnut with one singular yellow ribbon tied on it. So I think I'm gonna wrap that around, finnels. What the largest mass, if that's the, or so of, or if it's part of the tree below you, I'm not sure, but whatever I feel is the most. Most surface area. I'm gonna wrap it around that and then with both my hands sort of okay So you're getting behind panel with your staff holding you both together. Yeah for a better grip rather than just like grabbing her waist I guess. Okay So You're not using a chroma, right? You're just you're just doing of this physical task my chroma's would make everybody No, no, no, I don't think so Let's all just get crazy And then I don't know if we're able to like work together like if we could if there's a Co-op role if we're all pulling yeah, okay Yeah, so I'm gonna have you roll Athletics talk my you're gonna roll athletics vigor and then how would Udo's help I don't want to use my blade quite just yet or my blundering tool with the crest like blade I Want to first just try to help by pulling the vines the opposite in the opposite on the other side if that makes any sense Okay, I kind of have an opening Right. Yeah, try and like Yeah, why don't you two are once I want to kind of go on the other side and try to pry so I'll have you do that first as a skill test and then okay depending on How if you succeed then? That can help your okay Okay, yeah, what are you? I'm gonna do athletics and What should I do actually well you're so you're trying to pry open the lines I'm actually gonna have you do because this is more about You work with your hands, so This is kind of right up your alley to do something precise like this I want to say craft, but it's like the opposite of craft Listen to craft Technically, I'm using my hands. You're using your hands exactly. Yeah, so I'll have you to I'll have you do craft and You're crafting a hole might and athletics are okay might okay or bigger since you were gonna do athletics We'll split the difference. We'll say craft and vigor crafting is knowing how to put things together and then take them apart That is true. Thank you very much three ten three eight Oh, and is that one success? That's the success. So you have two successes there with the spirit. Oh You have two successes and a four on the spirit die, which means since you already have an even number of successes You can pull you can add that spirit point to your pool. So add one to your spirit pool or to your your ampute pool Oh, this oh, yeah, we're not combat and this was vigor anyway, but yeah Let's be want to fight all these nice creatures. No, what? So okay, so that was two successes. So that's a luminous success And now Get back in there So the two of you are you you are getting in place to pull and you're trying to find the most the most comfortable position So you're not kind of yanking on poor Fennel's tummy really unfortunate. I cut you in half So as you're right Well, so you two are kind of figuring out the physics of that and Udo steps up and I'm gonna say you do you keep your weapon slings somewhere Okay, you put it back in because you're not gonna use it for this you step up and you crouch down You're very tall and lanky, so you have to get down close to the ground for this And you put your hands into this intertangled web of vines and you feel how strong they are and you You start to pry them open and you can feel the vines resisting, but you are able to open them a bit and the little Nittense nittensey end that stuck inside there kind of pokes its nose up at you and And you are you've prided open a little bit so you've gotten it open some The nittensey and still can't fit out of fit out of the hole that you've gotten, but It's it's starting to give way Can you cut one of the roots it might get enough room? Yeah, I think I don't have a choice I pretty much have to cut it Oh, well, we're still gonna do our thing true. We're doing that was a plan for Yes, that's right. So that was that was You helped to like loosen that section of the vines we're trying to open it on both sides right so now actually So yeah, you're you loosened the point that is right next to where Fennel was gripping so yes, that does help you so I'm gonna have you hold on what do you have for me athletics and bigger athletics and bigger or I might athletics and Mike I want to swap out one of your dice because you got an assist from Udo's oh sure athletics and bigger so how about you add Athletics in my account athletics and For me I did athletics You did craft and bigger craft and then let's have you do Athletics and bigger I'm going to have you swap out one of your bigger D6 is for a That was two six. That's a D8 just just literally one. Yeah, one of the three These one of the three bigger D6. So you're gonna do one D8 and five D6 All right second half of your roll Okay, so So now that the vines are the strange little nature-made vine cave has been loosened a little bit by your friend Udo's he's he's you know shifts back to be out of the way and You now have found the comfortable way to grip each other and you just pull straight back with your staff holding you together and That grip that you had it holds and so you are able to pull the vine cage open just a little bit So now we have two small holes that the The the vine cage has opened it, right? We're gonna make one big one. Yeah, because we're in tension was I thought because I was grabbing like a section and pulling it back I thought he was So maybe he was okay, so he was grabbing so if your hands your roots were there then he's grabbing like there Maybe yeah, okay cool. Yeah, yeah, so he was on the other side So yes, you widened so now the the hole is twice as big and the little Net tension that's inside kind of like warms its nose out and now it can fit its whole head out and It's it's wiggling a little it's shoulders are still a little bit stuck though And it's trying to and the mama is now also like reaching in and trying to help Still can't quite get this little one out Get down here and help please I have hollow bones please please Paul. Please. You can see that the the vines Are already kind of like these are active living vines so You yeah, they're there's all they're still they're all growing and and you can still see them growing and This nittense and is Getting its shoulders kind of stuck because the vines are tightening just a little bit not scared really Yeah, okay, I would like to Fly down from where I am. How much how much of the baby nittonson is it's up to its shoulders now Would I be able to get Rope or like under its arms like on ins It's basically it's arms are you in this head off? So that's why I would like to get under its arms and not be like killing just pull you up by your neck poor little baby picture Now Finnell still has her grip until basically, you know we Finnell still has her grip She's still connected. So if you want to do another pull you can if you want to start hacking I might have to just start hacking start hacking. Yeah, you can see where it is now So you can avoid it. Okay, just keep in mind - you got you both got to everyone got two successes on their roles. Yeah, so It's a hard role is a hard role, but maybe got a save the baby talents don't do anything Can I do like a folklore test to see if I've heard of anything like this plant before? Sure. Yeah So Waited him in folklore You can really try Are we thinking wisdom in folklore logic in folklore? So I'm gonna say logic in folklore. Okay All right 3638. Yeah, okay. No, not that not that one All right. So do you want to use that spirit flare right away for success? Yes. Okay. Um, so you got two successes. Um. Okay. Um. Now, so my little drifts down from. Oh, wait, you were on the ground already, right? Or no, were you back up? I had it actually come down yet. She, she asked me. Oh, you were, you were digging. Yeah, I was digging. Yeah. So you, I think I gave them space when they started to crowd around because I'm like, I weigh about 60 pounds. I don't know what. So you, uh, you walk back up because you were on the ground. I'm sorry. What is it you're trying to do again? Um, I am trying to see if I've heard of anything like this creature, because it seems like we're all if fennel has an encounter anything like this. And these creatures are being attacked by like maybe somewhere we've already encountered a creature from another shard, like maybe I know something about tangling strength, like strangling lines. Yeah. So, okay. So you, uh, walk up to this vine cage and you start to look through your, um, it's not a scrapbook. It's a drawing a journal. You're a journal that you where you sketchbook. Thank you. That's the word. You flip through the pages of your sketchbook and you are something cast as your eye. And yes, you remember that you saw something similar to this. It was much bigger. Um, and this was an amazing moment that you all witnessed. You witnessed, um, actually, they were not there. This is why they don't remember those. But you, you had hung back on your journeys and you witnessed, um, a pretty large animal, um, get out of a cage like this by having basically the other animals that were there held the vines open. And the animal was able to wiggle through because it was the vines were held open at the time. Okay, um, so I can't, I would like to use beastways to communicate to the mama that we need her hands as well. And maybe the hands of the rest of them. Okay. Great. D 10. So beastways. Yep. D8 10 here. Talking to animal. That's one. We got another spirit flare. It's pretty much the same as last time. Do you want to use that spirit flare? What do you think? Use it immediately. Yeah. Okay. The reason I was so stressed out is that I have a very small spirit. So I'm already facing down all kinds of fun stuff. So if anyone was confused as to why I look so distraught, that is why understandable makes that good story. Okay. So you, um, now this is how, how would you like to communicate with the neat, neat tension? Um, I'm saying that all wrong. Sorry. It sounds great. I would like to approach her. Um, and I, like, put my hand on her hand and then, like, lower myself the ground and start to like, like, mind-scrabbling. And then I look at the, the entanglement and then look back at her to see if she picked up on the mimeing. So she looks at you and then she looks at the mimeing that you're doing and at the vine cage. And she kind of, she puts her hand on the vines like that. And then I do the same and I, I nod. Okay. So she gets it. Yeah. Okay. Um, and so I look at all of you guys and pull. Okay. So you're still gripping. We're going to just pull. You're going to get in there too. Everyone do a row. Everyone do, um, you all have done a pull row. So you're going to repeat your role. You're together. So you'll just roll for. Do I still keep that date of advantage? You give me last time. Yes. Okay. And actually, I will have you do the same role now that you, you all are. What is it in it? Um, I think it was athletics vigor. Um, mine is crafting yours was craft. Yep. All right. It is not great. Three successes. Whoo. That's great. Okay. So you got a little success. Nothing. Okay. All right. It's all good. You're still holding strong there. You got your, your chroma in. All right. One here. One, two, three. Three. That's another. Wow. Hey. That's really good. We are on a roll. A roll. Okay. All right. So, um, so that's three successes between the two of you. Um, and you still have that root rip that's holding. You have the mama knit tension gripping and you all pull, and it's just enough. And the knit tension wiggles out and scampers to its mama and all the rest of the family gathers around. You collect no. So nice in there. Five episodes later. You're making rolls. There's no point without January. It's dark like the void. Fettles. You're going to take one of her roots and just slap the rest of the roots and go, I don't like you. That's a new emotion. I don't like that. Oh, new emotion. Welcome to my world. Are you very hateful? Not hateful. Just angry. It's powerful. It's a, it's a very big emotion. Feels good. I know the tensions and emotions are running high, but should we check on the baby and make sure everything is. Yes. Yes. So you look over at the knit tension families and all six of them are united again and they're all hugging each other and, you know, pawing at each other lovingly. And the baby seems fine. The baby looks okay. Um, just maybe a little hungry probably because it who knows how long it was in there. Um, the mama in the tension comes over to the four of you who are, you are all, you know, gathered around the vine cage and she just looks up at you. And you can see her in her eyes the sense of peace and and deep, deep thanks. I'm going to reach out and go for her. Friends. I'm making so many friends. This is a really good day. We should go find your friend. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. Uh, the knit tension scampers off and you all look around and you realize that it's time for a break. Uh, I was like, what is that? Oh my God. We will be back in 10 minutes and when we return, you will continue looking for chain. We'll be back in 10 minutes. Come back. Welcome back to overlight. Y'all. Oh, is it that five or three? I mean, look at the lights. Those are dancing lights. Dancing lights behind us. I want to give a shout out to our crew for this incredible sets. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all everyone in the studio and who's not in the studio. Um, okay. So we are back from our break. Um, and last last we left off. You all had just freed the knit tension families. Baby from this vine cave. Baby, can I even thank us? Yeah. The mom. Thank you. The mom did. The mom did. Yes. The baby didn't have those manners and manners. We shared a moment. And for all you know, for the rest of their lives, this knit tension family will remember you all for this very, a valorous moment. If you all joining your powers together and you even using your chroma powers to help free this baby knit tension from a vine cage. So here you are. Yes. Yes. Absolutely. So here you are. Um, you're in this dance part of the forest. Um, now, uh, I do want to never mind. Oh, I was going to give more information about talk me, but I will let you do that. Um, I don't know which piece of it was. Spoil all my secrets. No. Yeah. Well, no. Yeah. Okay. Um, so you all are, um, in this dance part of the forest, there's a rocky part on one side. And then there's where you came from on the other side. And you saw basically use you, you're not that far from where the tracks were and are. So you still have a question? see those two sets of tracks, the Hamanu tracks, and this "piglet" as you've called it. I mean, us, we've called it that, or just like, just you. It was not. [laughter] It was people echo it, though. It was yes, and it by the way. Because he documents everything, so whenever he documents it, that makes it official. Yeah, it's long. Is that supposed to go? Other documentation of this preacher, it stames officially "piglet" because that's what I wrote in my journal. There you go. Well, I'm gonna write in my journal called "Devil Snort." [laughter] Devil friend killing. Snorty snorty. Tosca Beast. I like that I'm rubbing off on you already. What? It's been a few hours, and you're already taking, you know, your life into. You said it in our group really well. You're weird, I even get there. You just don't know where. You said we have a journal. You know, I had to document people I met during my mission and be like, "Did I get it converted?" Yes, no. It's really just a check. One of the boxes, things, but. So, you do seem to be getting along for your own. [laughter] Do you. Do we have a description of you? What do you look like? You know you're wearing. Yes. The robe. So, I am from. I'm Harkine Descent, so I'm very much humanoid as we would know it today. But. And normally, when you go through the order, they shave your head, but I haven't gotten all the way through. That's why I'm on the mission is partly to finish off my training as a monk. So I still. I still have my hair, but I'm mostly in all black loose, not form-fitting robes, and I have this large black shawl, because on zenith, it's a snow shard or an icy shard. So even here, I still feel sort of like a security blanket with it. It's just kind of. I'm always wearing it, so it's a part of me. But yeah, I'm very average height, but I'm very lean and slender, but you can't really tell what the shapeless rags I wear. So. Humbly dressed and not bald yet. Not bald yet. Yes. Okay, so you see, the three of you are taking in the presence of this zenith monk, and I believe none of you have been in the presence of a zenith monk before. So. And remind me, did you want to walk which direction were you walking in? What was the next. Twice? We tried to ask them for help. Oh yeah, they scampered off. And they said, "No, we need help." No, you stop and help us. They got what they wanted and they left. We have not come to a conclusion about where to go next. Not that we were following her friends' footprints. And now we've lost the tracks. So. I know we're not bounded yet, but since we do have that innate draw to each other, is there a way that I could maybe connect with Chenu on a more low-key level and maybe discern which direction I just think really hard. You know what? By consent. Let's see. Let's see what happens. Do you have any chroma that might help with this? No. No, all of yours are void. The void. The darkness. Crushing emptiness. I mean, if I go insane, I could see another dimension maybe, and maybe the people in the other dimension could give me some insight. Wait, is that a chroma? No, I just. Oh, okay. It was kind of fun. Okay. You're really good at this voice. Oh, wow. During this discussion. Okay. Wait, can we try. Can we try a different tactic? You and your friend, Chenu, are friends, right? Okay. This is where it can. Panions. Oh, your bond mates. Your bond. Right. Is what you called it. So we have two options. We're standing here at the end of the path, and we're looking at rocks and more wooded area. If you know Chenu, she's her bond mate. Which direction do you think she would go? And so when Mat says that, you think, yeah, maybe there is a way. We're not bonded yet, but we are connected. Our souls are connected, or they will be soon. So I'm going to have you roll an intuition compassion. Okay. Let me just make sure this chroma wouldn't work. If I just made myself go a little crazy. Just like a. Just like a. Just like a. Yeah. A social crazy. A social crazy. A social crazy. A social crazy. And if there's a way for me to help aside from just being supportive, I would like to do that. Okay. Okay. How about. So since you. Yeah, you gave that suggestion. I'll have you roll first to see if you can give an a little. A little. A little boost. Can offer her a sip from my. My flower nectar? No. I'm not going to say the whole name. It just gets weird. The flower nectar flask will call it. Uh-huh. I want to know. Oh, here. Just take a sip from my bone tube. My bone tube? Well, why didn't you say so? (Laughter) Of course, I want a sip, but. No! What do you mean? This sounds very inappropriate. Mm. Of course, I want a sip out of your bone tube. Um, I. Okay. Is it my brain? I think I. I think I could use this. Chroma. It's called the crushing emptiness. But hear me out. Okay. As a voice, Shaman, I'm drawn to the void, almost in, like, sort of, this, like, obsessive, romantic, frenzied way. And so, I think, using this on myself to call upon the void, to give me guidance, would make sense for me. And also, one of the parts of it is compassion. Yeah. So, it is about. And so, it's about my strength to. To, um, speak to the void and come back from that. But also, the compassion, I'm sort of, um, holding out to it, in a way, to convince it to help me to find my friend. This is very convincing. Um, I'm going to say, not this time, because this is used during combat. And if you use it with them as your target, with Cheney as your target, I would do it on myself. Do this on yourself. Uh. And I could still take the effect, if next we go into combat, because it does have effects, however I roll, I could still take that, and when we actually enter combat. I don't, I don't think it works as a combat. So, combat chroma. I do, um. Well, I mean, the effects of it are, like, target must reroll their next test using the worst of the two results. I think you need, like, a target, like an enemy target, to use it, though. Sorry. But the Void, I love it. Void. While she's ruminating on the Void, can Fennel just get down, like, eyeball the ground and look for some tracks? Sure. Since she knows it. Um, I am going to have euro, and you're going to be looking for tracks. Um, how about you both roll? Um, talk about your role as going to be, what did I say in tuition? Do I say that already? I don't remember. Who said that? Ghosts. I know it. Ghosts? Listen, I've talked about this for a long time. It was intuition, compassion. I think I did say it out loud. And tuition, compassion. Yeah. Um, now, hold off for one second. I think you were also going to do a role to see if you can assist. Yeah. Oh, you're going to offer your bone to. Well, I was. I was trying to figure out if there was a way for me to help productively. And I was like, oh, maybe this. Maybe this. Maybe a sip on the bone tube will calm the nerves. Yeah. But it could be anything. That was just offering us suggestions. And so I was like, I want to use the bone tube. You can offer the bone tube. I'll offer it. Is it an intoxicating nectar? Or what's the situation? It's just flower nectar. So it is both delicious, nutritious, and full of sugar. It's got all the sugar. You're looking for the boy real quick. Yeah. It's just their natural sugar. It's okay with us. That could help me a lot. Come on, that can't go down. It's not like psychoactive. I'm going to let you decide whether or not you take it. Well, that's going to. Should I decide or not? No, it's not going to make you have sight beyond sight or some other thing. Well, I don't understand consuming things that don't. I thought you might be thirsty and a little bit of sweet relief could help you calm down. Can I have some. Sure, it does. I'm not going to thank you. I'm a psychoactive herb. I have some. Nice. She better pull those out. It's like this sash. By the way. It's a sash and inside the sash are all these pockets and she just has plants. There's like 100 tiny pockets inside this giant sash she's wearing and it's just full of plants. So you've been holding out on us? I didn't know that this was what you wanted. But I found it in case you wanted to use some weird stuff. If I could use that to communicate with the void, I mean, it makes the wall center between me and it, you know? I've seen a lot of weird things taking this, so maybe. Great. My walls did start talking to me, but I don't think that's what you're asking for. So, what is this? - Are you going to take it? - Yeah, I think I would to try and open up my mind to avoid to help me find my friend. - Okay, so this is a psychoactive? - Yeah, it's literally just like a weird psychoactive plant that all the bunions take when they're just looking to party. - Ayahuasca? - Yep, pretty much. - Ayahuasca's not for parties. (laughing) - It's just so exciting. - It's being into the future. - The future. - I'm throwing up a lot. - It's very good for that. (laughing) - Okay, so Fennel pulls off a leaf from this little bunch and hands you one. - Okay, do you take it? - You're going to see some weird stuff. Just drink a lot of water. - I see weird stuff even when I don't do. What is this called? Don't worry about it. - Okay. - That's a beautiful name. - That's not it. (laughing) - Does that give me any bonuses? - My dice. - I'm gonna say this role is intuition and compassion. I'm gonna have you just do a quick test. Skill test. - A drug test. - And a drug test. - Do a drug test. - P in the sky. (laughing) - Listen, she's hippie mom. She's probably one of the dogs. - People who are like, - Shrugging, crisis. - I mean, everyone, we're not getting into that search. - I'm glad to get all the drugs in now. - We're just setting the mood. - So I'm gonna have you do, hmm. I wanna say folklore and compassion. For tracking? - Or no. - No, for planting. - For assisting me with drugs. - Yeah. (laughs) - For enabling. - Or you have to tell me. (laughs) - You have to tell me. - I don't have to tell you if I'm a void cop. - What's a void cop? - What is a void cop? - This is the void cop test, you have to tell us. - One. - One, two. - One, two. - Two. - You have two successes. - I gave you the right card, and that's the poison that starts. - Okay, so wait, wait, wait, wait. - Oh, I was rolling my, you did your straight roll. Okay, okay, cool. - It just looks like one, just one. But, oh, and I didn't get a flare, so. - So you got one, and then, yeah. - Okay, so with her roll, I will give to you that you got the baseline success. - Okay, and so you take the lead. - The thing I ate that's drugs, or I'd really be out of luck or enough. - Yeah. (laughs) - I did, I did, I did. - Dang it. - Did you get the character I made? - Duke drugs? - Wait. - Oh, wait, I was gonna do them if you were gonna kill me. - I was gonna kill him if you were gonna kill me. - Takes the belief. - And then I'm gonna sit down on the ground and enter a sort of cross my legs and sort of inner a meditative state to try and reach out to Chennai. - Great, okay. So you've closed your eyes, you slow your breath. And I have my black meditation sphere too that I'm sort of methodically rolling and doing, yeah. - So as you roll the black meditation sphere in your hands, you feel the smoothness start to calm you. You feel your entire body start to feel heavier and you recognize this as your meditative state that you've reached. And even though you're not bonded with Chennai yet, you do in a way that you can sometimes feel the presence of someone before they enter a room or you maybe it's an innate thing. You sense that Chennai is nearby. But that's it, you do sense that Chennai is nearby and you're getting a direction, you feel the direction is definitely out of the dense part of the forest and towards the rockiness. - Okay. - Can I, can the understanding to me sort of appear as like seeing Chennai's shadow? Maybe sort of, if I'm picked like I have a vision in my mind, it's sort of an endless void, but there's like a deeper darkness that sort of mimics that shape that's in a specific direction. - Yeah, okay. So yeah, when you open your eyes from this meditative state, you see Chennai's shadow as if Chennai's standing behind you. And her shadow is cast towards the direction of those rocks. - Yeah, I suggest something. There's no way that I'm gonna be able to make it over those rocks, I don't have wings. - So, talk me, do you share this with the party? - Yes, yeah. - So you say, I saw Chennai. I know what direction Chennai went. I see her shadow, it's this direction, it has to be. - Then we should follow. But there's no way that I'm gonna be able to make that trick. It's too jagged. - You can just climb. - I'm going to climb. - I don't think it's far. I don't, since we're not actually bonded, I don't think if, that we're not actually bonded that I would be able to sense her unless she was close enough, you know, so I just not that far. If we were bonded, maybe, but. - Would it be wise of us to all go? Or should we just send some people? - I think we should stick together, especially if there's a dangerous piglet running around. - I mean, you guys, I know you're being very nice, but you guys don't know me and you don't owe me anything in this, you know, you don't know Chennai at all. So if it's not something you wanna undertake, that's something I understand. - Well, I'm coming. - We've come this far. - You helped us with, you helped in a tonsil, you don't have to help us. You helped us for no reason. I don't see, we offered to help you from the start. - Right, I just, right, you're right. I just, you know, incase you needed an out or anything. - Yeah, we're friends and friends help each other. - Right, that's what they do. - Mm-hmm. - Draw pictures. - Yes, they do. - If I'm taking drugs together, stuff. - That's also true. - Yeah, also I'm very high right now, but-- - It's really, I have no role in the role focus. I get high all the time. I mean, not like that, but-- - So do I. - For my meditative states, so-- - You're gonna fit in very good with us. - What do you mean? (all laughing) - So it's that. - Oh. - Yeah. And I just like flat my wings a couple times and laugh to myself at my dad joke. (all laughing) - Yes. (all laughing) - I am the count. - When your wings flap. (all laughing) You're like a bellows for a fire. (all laughing) - This is terrible. - I know. - So with that, you guys have this very mirthful moment and you decide to walk towards the rocky part. - Okay, so you exit the dense part of the forest line. (all laughing) - Stranger things. (all laughing) - We did the outside of the forest. - I was not prepared. (all laughing) - We were gonna walk to the park. - You exit the dense part of the forest. And as you saw before, the ground just outside of the forest does start to get rocky. You see less of the, like, dark-- - Turn that down a little. - You see-- - Turn it up. - You see-- (all laughing) - Turn it up. - You see less of the dark soil of the forest and it starts to give way to, like, a harder, brown type of pact dirt. And then that gives way to the rocky, the rockiness. And as you walk, guided by Cheney's shadow, you start to see, you see up ahead, 25 feet. Now you can see it because you're not in the trees. You see what looks like a boulder. 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Sorry, the larger boulder. Oh, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. Wait, bigger shadows. Yeah, that's pretty cheap. Seven-feet tall, so that's great. On the larger boulder, so maybe indicating behind it. Is the shadow slipping under the boulder or is it overlapping it? It's kind of just over it, yeah. I don't know, it's being cast on the larger boulder there. Maybe it's covering up an entrance to a cave or we're supposed to go over it. There's some limitations to this method I'm using, so. Why don't I take a look? I'm the only one who can just leave the ground at will. Get an aerial eye out. Well, okay, physically maybe. All right. Sorry. Metaphysically. I was, you know, I'm trying to be helpful and I just take off. Okay, so Mott, in the middle of a sentence, I'm trying to be helpful. Flutter, flutter, flutter. So Mott rises above the ground and zips over to the other side of the boulder to see what's on the other side. And sure enough, you do see that there is an entrance to a cave. And so there's a larger boulder and there's the two smaller boulders next to it. And from where you all are standing, it looks like three boulders, but really it's just the backside of one larger rock formation. Beastways for tracks, just to see. I don't want to walk into anything like super terrible. And if there's no homonu tracks around here, I just, no thanks. Okay, so. Yeah, go for it, Beastways, compassion. We got a smart to Ricksy in here. Thank you. One. Two. Oh, no, that's a one. I thought it was a seven. Yeah. One seven. All right. So it's a seven. Are you still high? Yes. I told you that. Sevens look like one. Just makes you focus. So you don't see from from as high up as you are, you can't, you can't tell if there's tracks around you're just a little bit too high up. All right. So yeah, I swing back around like you, you were, you were right, whatever you did worked and there is an entrance back there. I, I'm willing to check it out, but I'm not really great in enclosed spaces. Oh, yeah, you have, you have a problem with walls. We'll see things more like I have these dumb little legs and wings and these little chicken arms is how I get around. So like it's, I can, I can fall along with you guys, but if something goes wrong, I'm basically trapped. I just heard you all these traps. I'll be trapped. I'll be trapped. I'll be trapped. I'm in. We're very short. Is this that okay with us? Yeah, I would say just perch. I'm not sure because we're going to need you for anything that we encounter. All right. So I offerly flood around, settle on his shoulder. Okay. Start preening. Make sure you get me too. It's like, oh, you're picking your clothes. Or nasters as like ticker. Yeah. You just cleaning out the edges and the mask. Great. So, Matt, flutters up and rests on your shoulder. And so now the four of you. Did you sleep away for us to get inside? Yeah, there's an entrance around the back of the rock. So. Let's go. Be cautious. Like I couldn't get a sense of what may or may not be in there. I don't know that. What? There? Gosh. Oh. He was a joke. And so final, as she did before, runs ahead. Yes, it's self-reservation. Her octopus like roots, kind of swirling in front of her and then behind her and moving the ground underneath her in the rest of you follow suit. You can't, I don't have a promise at all. So, you come around the side of the boulder and you see the entrance. And it's a pretty nice size entrance. You can't see it's dark in there. You see maybe some tinges of lightness. So. You're at the entrance of the cave. And you do see that there's looser dirt at the entrance of the cave. Mm. What's the entrance? Oh. So, it looks like there is disturbed dirt and stuff around the entrance of the cave. Like a, in like a fresh grave kind of situation or like a. Oh, it means that someone has entered or exited. Do you want a roll for it to find out more? The ones to roll. And this is going to be perception. I do think that way. I have four things spirit points guys. you can do perception compassion. I'm gonna say the rest of you can do perception wisdom. Two successes. Two successes. Oh, all right. You already have two. You can bank that spirit pool. That's a beer point. Can I do it when it's an even number of successes? Okay, because it's not gonna help you. Yeah, you already have two. So yeah, I'll, oh, sorry, you can bank it. Yeah, I thought oh, I can thank it. So I can use it as a spirit pool. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, at the same time. One success. One success. All right. Dueling roll. Oh, wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. You also take the drug. So that was four successes and a flare. So you already have an even number so you can bank that spirit point. Yes. Okay, so and oh, you got nothing. I only had one success. Okay, one success and one success. Sorry. No worries. Great, great. Okay, so you had two. Okay, you had four. Okay, so you all are standing at the entrance to this cave and you see the dirt, that brown dirt, it gets looser as you get closer to the entrance, not quite like sand, but just a looser dirt. The tarixian and the oramel, mat and udavs, you look down at the ground and you know, it just, it just looks like dirt. It just looks kind of like there. Maybe there have been like some, some tracks and animals and wind that has moved it. You with your compassion role, you don't notice anything per se, but you have a strong sense that chain is here, is here, not was, but is like this is the right direction. They smell it. You smell or you sense her. The shadow is gone, but you still have you, you just feel it. And then you with your success, you, you know this shard, you know this shard well and you know how quickly and easily the landscape can change based on what part of the shard you're in. You're not in the part that you know, but you put your roots near this loosened dirt and you look closely, you peer into it and you see something. You see another hoof, deep hoof, just one. It seems like it was, there was some wind here earlier. And then you see a partial hamanu print as well. I'm relaying that to the other three. Okay. If we go down here, I think we're in for a fight, but I think if we don't go down here, your friend is in for a very one-sided fight. We have to help her. Okay, let's go. I'm ready. Okay, Fennel's gonna walk in, but with her dukes up. All right, Fennel's got a branch. All the branches are ready, but her two tiny little paws. Oh, I love it. Fennel's are curled up into food. - Yeah, put him up, put him up. - She'll try to cry if she sees it, but that's, you know, she's trying. - This is a very willful bunyari. So yeah, she's, you know. - Oh, she can bite me. - You're like bubbles. - I'm pretty tough. - So, so, Fennel, the willful brave little bunyari goes first. And our monk who is connected to this, you know, this missing hamanu goes second, and we can go together. I think I would have, I would have more eagerness, or the same if not much more than her to get in there and find. So you both go in and the two of you follow behind? - Yeah, I just thought that I leaned down to Udo as I said. - Oh, right, you're on his shoulder. - Follow a bit at a distance. If I need space, I will need space. - Yeah, actually, bro. - Oh, how high is the ceiling? Is it really that constricting for? - It's, let's say it's about 10. - It's about 10-ish feet. - Okay, 10 feet. - But I can't, my wingspan is probably like six to seven feet, so they're exactly right at the top of the cave. - From what you see, no. - Okay. - No, you're walking in and it's a smooth top and about 10 feet. So you're pretty tall. And the turic scene is on your shoulders, but the two of you together, if you crouch a little bit, you can clear the ceiling. - Yeah, and I'm in a sitting position. - I think you're about 11 feet together, 'cause you're about seven, almost 7 feet tall. Yeah, so you just have to crouch down. You both kind of-- - Yeah, so I just, I will lay that to him. And like in the hopes that there is a more open area, but if not, if something goes wrong, I just basically fall on the floor and that's what I'm doing for that fight. (laughing) - Very useful. - Yeah, it's good. - So the four of you are now walking into this cave and it stays about this same height for about 50 feet or so you're walking down. You don't see any other offshoots. You get a little bit further down and I'm gonna have you all do a perception. - Same. - Just a perception wisdom. - Let's make it perception wisdom again, yeah. All around. - Nope, it's gonna give it a shot. (laughing) - You roll like you're dropping a mic. (laughing) - A mic drop. - It was a power for sure. (laughing) - Yep. - One success. - All right, all right. - Whoops. - Two. - Three. - Wait, before you roll, before you roll. - Sorry, I just realized something. You're good, yeah, still do compassion. - Perception. - Yeah, no, yeah, perception. - Yeah, perception wisdom. - That's the best one. - Okay, yeah. - One success, man, my rolls are, yeah, our buys. - Yes, one success. - One success. - One success. Oh, by the way, there's a mechanic we haven't mentioned or used yet, which is if you get, what is it? You can always spend a spirit point to bump up to the, to add a success to bump up to the next level. So if you have one, you can bump up to a two, if you have a three to four. - I'm gonna, yeah, you can spend the point. - I wanna spend my brand new point on that and get a four key instead. - I'll do that too. I just got one from the last. - Great, so you both had one success and now you're gonna spend to get two each. - I had, no, I had three. - Oh, you had three, yeah. - Oh, great. - This is in a seven. - All right, so, so then you, yeah, so now you have a radiant. Again, you have a radiant success. Okay, so you both succeeded. And as you're going down this cave, it does start to get smaller. And the ceiling does come down a little bit. So you start to sense, it can only be described as like, there's a glow, there's something that you feel is starting to get stronger, a glow. And this is different from Cheneu. You still feel hurt too, but there's also a glow that's drawing you in. And it feels, it's not, it feels nice. It's not ominous. You actually feel this glow and you see up ahead that there is light coming from somewhere. So there's probably some other part of the cave that's open to the outside. - So it feels like sunlight and not like torch light? - Well, it feels like overlight, the overlight. - Ah, yes, yeah. - But yes, it's not torch light. It feels like just natural overlight. And it feels pretty strong as well. You feel that like nice warm glow of overlight. Like when you're standing in the overlights and as a skyborne, you feel the power of it and knowing that you can channel it, that's what you're feeling from here. - Okay, relay that information. - Okay, cool. - So we're all feeling like comforted by this swelling of overlight in a cave? - There's like, it feels like there's an opening in the ceiling where it's coming in. - Let's go see. - You wanna go see what it is? - Yes. - All right. So the cave continues on in that main path, but then this other direction where the glow was coming from, you turn into that and it's a little bit more constricted. And so the two of you, you probably will start to hit your head against the ceiling pretty bad here 'cause it goes down slowly. You can see ahead it just keeps sloping down to it. It evens out at about seven feet. - Okay, I tap it with us on the shoulder. I have to hop down now. Go for it, buddy. - Mm-hmm. - Oh, that's a sad turn downhill. - Yeah, and just like kind of like slay lower myself down. - At least you can walk on your feet. I have to kneel down and crawl on my hands and knees. - You're right, that is more embarrassing. I was like, as I stood all the way, seven feet. - Oh, okay. You don't have to get on your hands. - You're just being dramatic. - Udo's is very dramatic. - It's very dramatic. - She is much bigger than you're saying it's got. It's got a crawl down there, for God's sake. - Yeah, so is Udo's crawling. - Well, if I don't have to, I don't have to. - Okay. - I was just trying to make Udo better. - Oh, that was nice. - That's nice. - Yeah. - Leave them. - After that. - One of those, oh, your problems aren't bad. - It's playful. - It's so fun. - So you hop off of Udo's the shoulder and you do have to crouch down more now and you all continue down this kind of hallway into the cave and the overlight grows stronger as you get closer. And now you start to see the outline of what you would see if it's kind of the edge. If there were a circle in the ceiling and the light is creating that shadow, the hard edge, you see that up ahead. And as you get closer, let's do another round of perception. - Yes. - We all rolled decently this time. - Yeah, one success. - Okay. - But otherwise, not saying. - Eight. - One, two. - Two. - Let's do it, Fennel. - One, what is this? - Two, I got two and a spirit flare. - Oh, I'm really, really well. - Yeah. - He's supposed to. - He's knowing. - You have two. - Yeah. - He's knowing. - He's supposed to. - He's knowing. - You have two and a spirit flare. - Oh, I'm really really well. - No way. - You have, one success. Okay, so once again, Fennel is, Fennel is the best. Fennel is very, you're on them. - I see everything. - Fennel is very in tune with this land. And even when she is in a place that she doesn't know as her own parts of the banyan charge, she still feels pretty in tune. As you approach this hard light that you see on the ground, Fennel, you can see up above. And you're also shorter than everyone. So you can see more in front of them. As the top of the cave starts to give way, if there's a large open space ahead. And what you see is. - Stature. - You see these spiraling light. Geometric swirls, dancing. And there are parts of the light that are still, you can't quite see, because you're not in this space yet. But you can see the edges of it. And there are all these different colors swirling. And it's something you've never seen before. - And it's in the light that's coming down from the. - It's like on the edges of the light. - I'm gonna go over and put just one of my branches. Very on the edge of it. Barely. - Okay. - So to get close to it, you have to go into this open space. If you want to go into the open space. - The cautiously. - cautiously. - Okay. - She's learned this word. She knows what it means now. - So you, Fennel cautiously routes herself over. And now you've all noticed that Fennel has been, you know, running ahead a lot today. But now Fennel is moving slowly and very inquisitively looking ahead. So you all are seeing that. Fennel, as you approach the opening of this little hallway you're in, finally you do enter this big open space. And so there is one big opening at the top. And I would say it's 50 feet tall. The opening at the top is pretty circular. It was as if it's been carved by water, that type of natural opening. And the overlight just purely runs through it or shines through it. What is coming over the edges is incredibly-- it's just something you've never seen or witnessed or knew to exist in this world. You're seeing what almost looks like a waterfall, but it's made of light, overlight. And as the light falls over the edge and into this cavern, it's filling the darker spaces with these beautiful, fractured bits of overlight that are spiraling. And if you have seen like a seashell or those natural patterns, like a fern, those things that have a very specific mathematical-- yeah, the Nazi seedings. Yeah, fractals. So the light is doing is making those types of shapes. Touch it. OK. I'm going to touch it with one of my branches. OK. So you go over to one of the corners of this outside-- the outside corners of this space. And you dip one of your branches in from above. And you feel this warm gentleness. And you get one spirit point. Oh, I'm going to step all the way in. I just want to feel it. OK. And she reaches up for branches like she's-- when she unfurls herself completely, because she's got a couple of like a foot or something of trunk underneath her tiny little legs. When she unfurls her branches and reaches them up all the way, she's about six feet tall. And she's like pseudo-photosyntheticizing right now, just light. So I love this image. So we have our beautiful-- we have our beautiful Banyari Vrthad, who is a tiny little red panda that is connected to a tree. And her willow branches, birch branches, are kind of being bathed by this fractured overlay coming from above. Gorgeous. And you feel renewed. You just get this boost of spirit. I've whipped up my sketchbook. And I'm like fiercely trying to capture what I'm seeing. And I was hesitant when I saw Fennel running towards it. But I also wanted to see if it would do anything. So I didn't tell her not to touch it. You're using me as the giddy pig? OK. You're going to do it anyway. I'm very on-brand for a Tourex. I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I'm very scientific. If I can't stop you, then I want to know what happens. Oh, Chris. A little weird from it. It looks to me fair. He's coming from a place where he hates Banyari, right? No, I don't hate that. We're friends. Well, or the Tourexian. Yeah, the Tourexian. Oh, right. So culturally. We do have, we've had some trouble with race relations in the past. And now we're friends. It's fun. We're friends. Maybe a small part of him still wants you to die. Oh, my goodness. I hope not. She starts doing this like-- there's a specific dance that her tribe does to celebrate things, where they just kind of sway. Like they're in a breeze. And she starts to do that in the light. Oh, my darling. Oh, happy. It's light. It feels wonderful. And upon seeing that you were not only not harmed, but seemed to be having a great time, I take off and try to do a little-- I have some aerial stunts just kind of stretching my wings out, because it's been a while, so I haven't just been flying. I've been hanging out with everybody. It's great. So I think that would be win lore. And then-- Only if there's Kylie Minogue. Will or might. Okay, so you basically want to fly around this-- Yeah, I want to take it in. --the cavern. Yeah. Great. And you're going to-- Okay, so you-- It's going to be bad. You crash. You look at off of the ground, having been encased in that small highway. That small tunnel. You are so happy to see it. Yeah. You are so happy to see a big open space with a tall ceiling and the light coming through. So you take up off from the ground. So go ahead and roll win lore and figure. Or will. Same die for you. But let's make it a win lore will. I'll roll my beautiful resin die to make it special. One, two. Nice. Boom. And a free spirit point, because I'm born to fly. Oh, right. And that means that-- Is it one specifically on the spirit die? Yeah. So one acts like a forer for-- Or mat-- mat-la-li-hu-tul. That's so cool. I mean, with any role for him-- And when I use this-- Yeah. Because I just love being in the air, and I do. So this was just like a beautiful, thematically tied, tight moment, where we get to display a mechanic as well. Yay. [LAUGHTER] Cool. So two and a free spirit. Two and a free spirit point. Wonderful. So, Matt, you lift up off of the ground. And you start to do barrel rolls around the edge of the cavern. And you're just-- you're also now bathed in this beautiful, freckled light. I start laughing maniacally. And you get a spirit point. For the laughter. Yes. Because you're laughing, you're wings, so you have to laugh. Yeah. Come on. Come on. Come on. Exactly. Exactly. I'm so glad that's canon, and you can change it. It's out there now. Yep. Yep. The internet has seen it. If the internet has seen it, it's just-- Yeah. Yeah. So Udo's in talk, man. What should we do? You see your two friends having a ball. Yeah, I was a little apprehensive at first. But seeing what the light is doing to them, they seem to be having a good time. What we're doing with the light. Okay. There are some-- Consent. Consent is important. Years to work. It's an okay point, isn't it? It feels pretty good right now. I'm not responding. I'm still laughing at my ankle and just feeling like-- Wipping around to the barrels. Yeah. I think I want to stretch out. Okay. You know, I've been kind of crouched over. Yeah. And this light will, yeah, do me some good. Okay. Let's jump in the light. Let's sunbathe. All right. So do you want to jump into the overlight in the center or the fractal light on the edges? Oh, man. Let's see the fractal light on the edges. Okay. So you exit that tunnel and you step into the fractal light. And you remember from when you were a child. And was it War Your Father? Yes. You remember how your War Your Father would come home. And he would go soak in a nice like a hot spring to ease his tight muscles. And you didn't realize this, but this whole time you've been very tense. And so when you step into this fractal light fall, you feel that tension just slip away and you feel renewed and you get a spirit point. Hey. Thank you. Thanks. Talk on the answer. It's so much fun. Who's creating the largest shadow in the overlight? Probably me. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's what I would do is I would go once I see Udos join it. What sort of pose are you doing? I think I'm just giving the long. You're creating a lot of surface areas. Yeah. There you go. So I think what I want to do is I'll go into the fractal with Udos. But I would take up that same meditative pose I did in the woods to find a shadow earlier. But I'm going to try and sit in his shadows. So I'm sort of partially in the over or the fractal overlight, but also partially in the shadow and sort of in between those worlds is where I feel most capable and most at ease. So I think I'm going to do that with the intention of reconnecting with that shadow lead of Chenou. Okay. So you're sheltered by the tall Udos. You're basically in his -- So if he's standing out like this, I'm sort of down at his feet. Are you -- Are you -- Is he acting like a shade, like, or a shade for you, basically? That's exactly the whole way. Okay. Yeah. Got it. Okay. So you're not in the fractal light directly. I'm thinking like it's PC. So if I'm sitting under him, you know, a good chunk of me is in the shadow, but then, you know, maybe some is fractal in all my arms or on one of my cross legs or across my -- wherever it's sort of missing his -- But I am on the edge. So would you be in the middle of where all the light is shadowing? Or are you going to be on the outside? Whatever sits me in your shadow. Okay. Cool. Yeah. All right. So you're just inside. If there's that hard, overlight that's not being reflected in the center, making a column towards the entrance. You have stepped out of that, just out of that, and are standing there. And you seeing the shadow he is creating now, kind of close to the wall, I guess. You just step right behind him and sit and you go into your meditative state, you say? - Yeah, the same I did in the woods with my meditation sphere. - Great. So you close your eyes again. You slow your breath and you start to feel, you feel oneness with this space. You feel like in all the ways that the overlight embodies the seven virtues, you feel that you all are kind of one together here in this space and it's very comforting, it's very calming. You don't feel it as strongly that you know, it doesn't completely ease you, maybe because you're not sitting in the fracture but also because you're worried about your friend. But you do gain that sense of calm. But I don't sense Cheno beyond that. - Oh yeah, do you want to roll for that? - Sure, yes. I think before you, when you rolled for it, it was like compassion and makeup perception. Thanks so. Actually, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna have you roll intuition and compassion now. - Okay, that works for me. - Oh, goodbye. (laughing) Miss you. - One success, so I'll expend, I think it's just one. Yeah, this one, so I'll expend a spirit point to make it feel. - All right, great, so that's a luminous success. Oh. You get into your meditative state. Your breathing has slowed, your heartbeat has come to a resting pace. And once again, you start to feel Cheno, and you feel her shadow, and it's here somewhere. You know it's here within this, these rocks somewhere. Cheno is here. Yeah. (laughing) It was fun. - It's fun, it's fun. - It was radiant. - Yeah, I know more. Okay, then after some time during that, I would explain to all of you, I think Cheno's here in this room, or close by in these caverns, I think she's here. - That would make sense, but if she's not, where would she be if she's not in this? - She might be further in. - There is more to explore, I think. - There's tunnels out the other side, or? - Okay, yes, there is it. You do notice that there's actually, sorry, no. So you came to the end of that tunnel. You went one way, right? Because you saw the light, you drawn to the light. And if you go back that way, there was more tunnel to explore. - Oh, okay. - But there's not an exit. - No, this isn't enclosed, except for the open top. - Well, I don't think she would have gone up there. Is she direction, I don't remember you saying that. - She can climb, we live in a mountain of shards. - Oh, okay. - She can climb, but I think, I don't know, I just don't think she would do that. Well, we should go back. There was another path we could take. - Let's go. - Okay, so you wanna go back, okay. So you all feel this, it's, you feel invigorated, you feel boosted. You leave, I did not get a spirit point. - I know. - Oh, okay, I just want to confirm. You did not. You step out of Udo's the shade and back into the hallway, right? The rest of you leave the various parts of, you know, you're doing your barriers, you had flit it down to have that conversation or maybe you had it from there, I don't know. (laughing) - I think I calmed down, I calmed down. It was like, there was a little tiring as well. - Okay, so you flit it down. And so now you all, remembering why you're here, you exit this beautiful place. Go back into the main tunnel. And who is first? What order are you all in? - I would. - You want a front, okay. Same, pretty much the same. Okay, you two can't, you can't light on his shoulder yet because this is the lower. But then once you get back to that main tunnel, that was about 10 feet, you still can if you want. But you all continue back down the direction that you had been going. You continue down that path. And you start to, yeah, you start to see that the caves, the tunnels start to branch out into different places. It starts to go kind of lower underground. Let's say there are two tunnels that you specifically are big enough for you all to fit. - Can I look for tracks? - You sure can. - Is that compassion in the beeswax? - Yeah. - Presently. - Compassion, beeswax. - Okay. - Okay. - I will take that. - I can do that. - Nope. - Wow. - All right. - Nothing across the floor. - I know it was tried too. I don't have beeswax, but yeah. - Sure. - You all can, I'll have you to do. - Yeah, I'll run beeswax as well. - Beesways and then. - Compassion. - I'll fix that. - So you're untrained, yeah, okay. - None of us know. - Wow. - Come on. - Let's go. - We're only person who's trained in beesways. - Oh, you two. - I have an innate, yeah, we both have d8. - I've got two six. - I've got two six. - I've got two six six. - Was that on a. - I have no beesways. - Ah, okay. - So what is for. - Did you roll with four? - Oh, my bad. - Yeah, you just need one. - Oh, okay. - D6 for something you're untrained in. - Oh, sorry. - Well, how about this? I'll give you one, and then if you spend a spear point. - Okay. - You can have the two. - My bad, y'all. - It's all right. - Sit up y'all. - Let's go learning. - We know you're trying to see. - If it's the worst thing you do, we're good. - Yeah, yeah. - We're basically part of the open beta test for this. It's out-efficiently, but this is a brand new system, and I'll let you know. - For us, it's our beta test. - Yeah. - Our beta test. - So who all succeeded? Oh, just Udo's then. - Yeah. - Okay. - Great work. So, Udo's, even though this is not your shard, and even though you've never been here before, and you've never met the Hamanu, you're remembering from before, when you saw the tracks, and you, sorry, you heard the description that Tuckney gave you about this piglet, this beast that had, you know, attacked them, chased them, and made them split up. You remember, now finally, it goes, "Oh, I know what it was." It's just a shovel task. - Shovel task. That's what it was. It was a shovel task, y'all. - Can you track those? Can you track those? - I don't have the ability to track them. I mean, you know what-- - I'll have you do, I want you to do another role. - Yes. - Boo, boo, boo, boo. - Now. - Shovel task, damn. - Shovel task. - Duh. - Man, forget that it was a show. It's so obvious now. - Piglet shovel task. - It's just the same thing. - Piglet's Piglet's Comet is on too tight. - Yes, it was laugh flying, so I think, you know. - Ha, ha, ha, I'm fine with it. Are you? - Very much so. I want to have you roll. You're untrained in beastwaysways, but since this is a pyroid animal, this is from your home shard, and you're now remembering. Oh, sorry, ah, goodness, like you're doing that. No, this is you study. You're basically a pyroid fanboy. - Ooh, yeah, you're like, my is your core virtue, and you're like, "Oh, those are supposed to be my people, but not." So you know a lot about pyre. That's what I meant to say. - Yes. - And so you remember from your studies. You're starting to remember things about the shovel test. I'm going to give you, for this role, I'll give you the D6 and beastwaysways. So do a full three D6 for beastways and then I'm going to say bigger. - Vigger? - Yeah. - All right. You got it. 3D8, right? - 3D6 and 3D8. - You got it. 3D6, 3D8. - And that, yeah. - Mm-hmm. - Let's go. Drop the mic. - Drop the mic. - Oh. - Oh. - Really. - Okay. - Anything? - Right. - Or if you've got any. - I mean, it is. - Oh my god. - Renew. - Well, this doesn't count, right? - Yeah. - I mean, you can do the whole thing. - Oh, just that. - Just that one. - The one thing. - Get angry. - Oh my, you did it again. - Yeah, yeah. - We roll it. - Three. - Okay. - We roll it again. - Okay. - Okay. - There we go. - Thank you. - In other successes. - I didn't get anything, but, you know, it was more for us. [BLANK_AUDIO] I'll let you keep the spirit point, but yeah, you don't, you just remember now from, yeah, from your previous role you finally hit you it's a shovel test, it's from Pire. And this, yeah, you just remember that right in this one. And I know specifics about what it does, how it, I know all that stuff. I know what it's called. You, you know that, you know that it is a very big beast. It's, it's bored like, it looks like a bore as we know a bore to be. So it is pig-like and actually, you said more furry than a pig and it does have patches of rough fur on its sides. And as, uh, talk me now, it, it makes sense to you because, um, the cemetery, it's like a curved sword like tusk that the shovel test has. So you, um, knowing that and knowing this enclosed space, you, you could, you know, know that we relay the message to them. Yeah, you have more information about physically how this shovel test might move through this space for. Guys, it, it just kind of like a light bulb, it's a shovel test. You already said that. We were all there for the first time, okay, you write it down. I did. Uh, this, this beast is not one to play with. Yeah, you don't want to play with this beast. And we need to help the front. Do you know where it would go? Well, it likes to burrow in, in caves. Okay. And, in the darkness, we are in a cave definitely wouldn't be anywhere near the overlight whatsoever. Um, it hides itself from the overlight, actually. Does it like darkness? Yes. Yes. Which is the darkest. Um, you like darkness? Where would you go in these caves? This way. Let's go. See you in a big tunnel towards the dark, dark tunnel. Well, if it's, uh, if it's a. So what we're saying is, is that the, um, uh, the pig, the devil themed, uh, pig. I think it was not snort snort snort snort snort snort. Made these tunnels. Is that what you're saying? Could be a possibility. So if we follow the smallest tunnel, that would be the freshest one because it's had less time to dig it out. Yes, but the only concern I'd have with that is that if we crawl in this small tunnel, we're pretty much going to be defenseless. The battle with the dark. Let's go for the darkest. Wait, uh, can we discern which tunnel is the darkest one? Yeah, you can. Uh, so you're looking at the two paths, right? And you're trying to see which one is the darkest one? Yeah, can I use my, uh, my meta, can I use my black meditation sphere to maybe, maybe it channels the darkness. It's drawn to, uh, darker areas or, or like shadowy parts of shards or things like that is maybe what it's more in tune with. Um, the, I mean, the two tunnels. Here, I'll give you some, some more information about the two tunnels because, um, so you can see which one is the darker one. Okay. Uh, one is more narrow and tall and the other one is lower and wider. Um, so the, the darker one is going to be the taller narrow one. Okay. And it's just because of the orientation to the entrance. Is it tall and narrow this beast? Well, no, but Chenu is, I don't think Chenu could fit through the, the, um, shorter one. That makes sense. But I'd hate to imagine the worst, but what if Chenu was in the beast mouth and. Well, that's a distinct possibility. I've brought up several times as she might be dead. So in that case, you could fit a number of places depending on how many pieces of her body had been removed or. If she's been sort of dissolved into some sort of paste that's now being carried around in some sort of bucket or. What? You really, uh, you really don't know. I don't know. Maybe we should try to avoid worst case scenarios. Udo's were going to have to talk about tact. I'm sorry, man. It's just, I'm a realist. We, we all fought that. Like, of course, and she could go down these table pieces. Sorry. I know. Sorry. Let's do one of these tunnels. Pick one. If Chenu was alive, she could only fit down this one. She was still alive and walking. Then we'll go down there. I have a, you're sneaking a suspicion that she's alive just because I am hopeful. Do you want to hear more in my series? No. No. No. No. No. No. Listen, she's got a lot of fur. Highly flammable. I'm just saying. I don't know what she's. But judging from your face is it wasn't good. I can see down the tunnel. I always say, "Hopside." No. Oh, what? Not you want to go ahead? Yeah. I'm going to. I don't think, I don't smell like cinched anything. I don't think she was lit on fire. It's just a secret. She could have been burnt somewhere else and then put in a bucket. You're a very, very darkly, really person, but we're still friends. Oh, great. I really like you. Oh. This got very weird, very quick. Hold on, the whole Neurotunnel. I don't know why I thought you. No. I've been on the ground. But it walks bravely down this narrower taller and darker entryway. And go ahead and do a perception. Perception. Perception. What do I perceive? You can perceive your death coming at you very quickly from the darkness. Oh, I definitely can. And just for context, the way that I'm picturing "Mot Moving" is the bird creatures from the dark crystal, where it's kind of like quirky, jerky and weird. Skexy. Skexy, yes. Because my body is just not built for walking. So when I do it, it looks like that. I'm a fan. It's like a giant, scary penguin, just wondering. What? It's what it is. Flare? Okay. I see, yeah, I see a six. Did I lose it? Yeah, where's the other guy? Oh. All right, so you got one and a flare. Would you like to use a flare? Yes, absolutely. Then you got two. So you notice, as it's getting darker, you do notice. It's strange, but you notice two things. You notice just partial homonuprints? Next to. Partial, which part of the. Like, what do the prints look like? It looks like maybe just here and there, just a light touch. And then next to them, you do see more of these shovel tests. Now you know that to be tracks. Okay. And it's going down. Like, multiple shovel tests. Got it. No, no, no, no. Just the one set. It has four legs, so it's a lot of them. But you can tell that it's just one shovel test. Okay. I call back down the tunnel. Like, I found piglet footprints and homonup footprints. Oh. We got to go. Yep. We got to go. Let's go. Do you see any blood? It's pretty dark yet. But something I'm going to teach you the meaning of optimistic. Because I have a sense of like a dinosaur lizard. Like, I could probably smell blood. There's almost certainly blood in the air. But I didn't want to just be like, yeah, of course. You want to check for blood? Yeah, let's do it. Okay. You can use these all factory senses for something. Why don't you use your beastways. And beasties. Yeah, we'll keep it straight. Simple beastways compassion. Okay. Even though it's, yeah, yeah. Still. Beastways compassion. Thank you. Spit layer. Wow. I'm a queen. Just how are we going to decide which shard to go to next? We're just going to drop it. I see one. This one. Okay. Did you re-roll that? Yeah. You might not. Get it. I feel like I was disqualified because I was enthusiastic. Yeah. enthusiasm is good. Missing the dice tray. Yeah. Yeah. So no, you don't smell. You, you, you don't really smell anything besides. No, nothing. It's just dirt. Yeah, so there's some. I'm sent in the air. But who knows? You're not, you can't rule it out. But you're, yeah. Yeah. So might not yet. It's like, no, not yet. Okay. So, um, let's go. Let's go. We got to hurry. Okay. You continue down this, um, this, uh, new tunnel path. And it, uh, it's dark. It gets darker and darker. But up ahead, you do see, um, But up ahead, you do see, um, another sort of opening, so you keep walking and need you all to do perception checks. Oh my glob. Wisdom perception? Yes. Wisdom perception? Oh god, nothing. And yours is the compassion. Oh, compassion's gonna work for me. Is it? Yeah, oh my bad. Can I do the regular one? Yeah, go ahead and do wisdom perception. No, but I got a spirit flare. Nice. You got a spirit flare one? Okay, out. This is a one. Okay, so I'll use my spirit flare immediately to make it too successful. Beautiful. Nice. Okay. Did you already roll? I did roll. I got one success. I did roll. I don't want to talk. Thanks for bringing it up. I'll use my my flare to make it too successful. Great. So you both got two successes with your flares. And so you two are the first to see you see the feet feet that are dark gray for and it's just it's it's it's it's it's in a sitting you can tell the foot and the leg coming from it's kind of in a sitting position, but the rest of the body is is beyond what you can see. So the the entrance opens up like that and then the foot is kind of sticking out. And you also see shovel tests with their shovel test laying on the dirt and you see a very muscular person as well. Hey, is that is that Chengyu? A muscular person. You see the foot the gray fur foot you'd recognize this is Chengyu's foot. Yeah, but also there's a different muscular person. Three people. Well, one dead pig leg. Potential. I posted a Chengyu. And whoever this and something. Well, that belongs to Chengyu, but I don't know who that person is. We have to help her. It doesn't matter. Hello. Hello. Hello. It goes down into that open way. The shovel. You can see the the shovel tests also on the other side. Raise up. Not dead. And that's where we have to end today. Oh, thank you. Overlight episode one. Thank you. We did it. I want to thank Renegade Game Studios. One more time. Thank you so much for letting us play this beautiful game. And you all should stick around. I believe Fangirling is after us and we'll be back next week at 4 p.m. to find out what's in this little call. Are they demon horned boar? I'm a large pig. And I'm like think of the bacon. That's so much bacon. Oh, literally. 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