0:33 You are summoned to Black Staff Tower
0:35 immediately at the behest of the Black
0:37 Staff herself. Time is of the essence
0:40 and your skills are in dire need. I task
0:43 you, Forscree, to travel to the far
0:46 south to the land of Ch. Brave the
0:49 dangers of this unbridled wild land.
0:51 Find the lost city and the location of
0:56 this soulmonger. Lando Ch ahead.
0:58 The guards release you and kind of throw
0:59 you out onto the street a little bit.
1:02 Just how I planned it.
1:04 And you're all escorted out of the tent.
1:07 Uh 100 gold lesser. No moss. Okay.
1:07 Okay.
1:10 But I know what the moss looks like.
1:12 And uh should you see in the wild, you
1:13 could probably gather some yourself.
1:17 That's all I need. Worth a hundred gold. Damn.
1:18 Damn.
1:18 Can I uh
1:20 Mom and dad to the rescue?
1:21 Would I would I have a sense of like
1:24 inventory that would be good to take on
1:25 this expedition that I could share with them?
1:25 them?
1:27 Lots and lots of water. Clean water.
1:28 Clean water. Yes.
1:31 Um, what about things like like healing
1:33 or you know particular weaponry
1:36 or a manticor that could share or or
1:37 beasts that are best friends?
1:40 Uh, I mean you you you gather if if you
1:42 were to try and and put up enough money,
1:45 you could probably purchase a singular
1:47 smaller traveling dinosaur.
1:49 Um, that probably would come from the uh
1:50 people who professionally race. That's
1:51 why it's so expensive. You're
1:53 essentially taking one out of their
1:55 ranks. Um,
1:56 but even then,
1:57 and in my do I have a sense that that
1:59 would actually be helpful
2:01 for fast travel? It would be as long as
2:02 you can keep it under control.
2:04 We wouldn't be very stealthy though.
2:05 No, you would not be.
2:06 We would not be stealthy.
2:06 Good question.
2:10 Yes. Boat or foot. What's the best way
2:13 to get or dino to the temple?
2:15 The I I know our path does follow a river
2:16 river
2:18 for some sections. So, we could speed up
2:20 our travel if we wanted for a for a section.
2:21 section.
2:23 Okay. But we'd have to get a boat there
2:25 or make a boat or find someone a boat. Yeah,
2:25 Yeah,
2:26 the river does exit. Yeah. Oh,
2:28 it does. Okay, great. So, we could take their
2:28 their
2:31 You do know that the waters are quite treacherous.
2:32 treacherous.
2:35 I bet with pirates,
2:37 the river pirates, not so much. It's
2:39 more the indigenous creatures that live
2:41 within and directly around the waters
2:42 that could be an issue.
2:43 Well, what do we do about getting clean water?
2:43 water?
2:45 Uh, there are people here that sell it.
2:46 They they boil it and
2:48 and we should take a pot and lots of
2:50 wood so we can boil.
2:51 That's recommended. Yeah. that on Naked
2:52 and Afraid. Mhm.
2:54 Mhm.
2:56 Yeah. Right. Or that one.
2:57 You know, uh
2:58 uh
3:01 Chelt's number one rated television.
3:05 Naked and Afraid. Chel
3:06 water. It that it's not too expensive
3:09 here. Um I'd say for a total of three
3:11 gold pieces, all of you get enough water
3:15 to fill your water skins and uh a couple
3:16 of additional water skins per person.
3:18 Cool. Um, as well as getting the
3:20 supplies, like it's just a single metal
3:22 pot that can be Yeah,
3:22 Yeah,
3:23 you all are front.
3:26 I'm doing the treasury report right now.
3:27 We got
3:29 I'm doing the treasury report.
3:31 We're down to 496.
3:32 All right.
3:33 All right. Well,
3:34 let's hit the road.
3:35 Let's do it.
3:37 Woo. What time of day is it?
3:40 Uh, I'd say it's probably later afternoon.
3:41 afternoon.
3:43 Is that a bad time? I don't need armor.
3:45 Break of break of light.
3:47 Well, is it going to help you at all?
3:50 I don't know. Arm class 15. No, I'm
3:53 fine. It's okay. I do a lot of crawling.
3:56 15's pretty good. All right. Uh yeah,
3:57 you were saying
3:59 Yeah, I think maybe uh start at break of
3:59 dawn, break of light.
4:00 I think you're right. All right,
4:01 All right,
4:03 good. Okay, you guys find a tavern for
4:06 the evening easily enough uh for the
4:09 five of you to rest. Uh that'll come to
4:11 for morning food and evening stay. We'll
4:14 put it in five gold
4:16 as our dragon born CFO. Awesome.
4:18 Awesome.
4:20 I think uh we should really look into
4:22 some mutual funds
4:24 market account.
4:26 Something that just acrews slowly.
4:29 Don't take big risks.
4:32 Few shares of red clay.
4:34 All right. So we crashing and then
4:35 hitting the road.
4:37 You find your evening's rest. The next
4:40 morning, um, the whereas the previous
4:43 morning you arrived near the ocean, uh,
4:46 the hint of the water cliffside breeze
4:48 was mingling with the humid hot air,
4:50 you're now on the jungle side, and you
4:53 wake up realizing how much of a sweat
4:55 you were sleeping in. And the stickiness
4:57 in the heat itself just is more imposing
4:58 than anything you would expected. The
5:00 insects are also out in for full swing
5:02 today. And as soon as you exit the
5:03 outside of the in where you were
5:11 It's not It's not pleasant. Um, you push
5:14 southward just beyond the final exterior
5:17 walls and barriers of Port Yanzaru, and
5:18 you find yourself immediately stepping
5:20 through an incredibly dense, tangled
5:24 land of green vines, colossal ferns,
5:26 uneven hills, and twisting trees that
5:28 thrust upward to create a clustered
5:31 canopy of branches.
5:34 Uh, the heat is perpetually pushing down
5:37 on you. Uh, the sounds of numerous
5:47 You hear them repeat in the distant
5:49 echoing treetops, unreally certain of
5:51 where the source is, and your eyes
5:54 constantly dart around for any possible
5:55 looming creature paying too much
6:01 attention. Um, you travel on for about
6:04 uh 30 or so minutes through this,
6:06 keeping very very careful watch. Are
6:08 you're heling this, I imagine. Go to
6:18 Surviving hard as hell.
6:21 No one survives like me.
6:25 Um you uh first and foremost you come
6:28 across uh one kind of open glade area
6:30 that is part of this path naturally and
6:31 out of the corner of your eye you can
6:33 see one white little glint underneath
6:35 the uh the moss undergrowth and you can
6:37 see what appears to be bone sticking
6:39 through. And immediately as you kind of
6:41 take in the scenery, you notice the
6:43 shapes that the moss have grown over uh
6:46 are in the shapes of bodies.
6:48 And you decide this is probably not the
6:50 best direct path to take and you escort
6:52 the group around.
6:54 I'm mom arm everybody and just kind of
6:56 pull them on the other path.
6:58 Perfect. Take it. What were you about to
7:01 say? Uh you did say moss. Is that the
7:04 moss that we need or is generic moss? Yeah.
7:06 Yeah.
7:11 Oh, there it is. Uh, that's a seven. No,
7:13 that's a that's a six.
7:14 Uh, it's hard to tell from this distance
7:16 before you can get a a great look. Uh,
7:19 you're dragged away
7:22 by a very very strong woman.
7:24 I said this way.
7:27 Um, so you continue to guide them uh
7:29 forward for about another 20 or so
7:31 minutes uh just along the outskirts of
7:32 the river. You can hear the water
7:35 trickling as the uh river makes its way
7:36 southward. Um
7:38 it's not in sight necessarily.
7:40 Uh if it's not in sight, you're kind of
7:41 keeping it preferably. You're afraid if
7:43 you get too close at the moment at the
7:45 very least. Um you know that there are a
7:47 number of flying primates that tend to
7:48 cluster in this vicinity.
7:50 No, I don't like that.
7:52 I know what they are.
7:55 Fought these things before.
7:57 They bite.
8:00 Oh, I've heard about the monkey bites. Continuing
8:02 Continuing
8:04 southward along the uh the river uh
8:08 Turiki. Um you all of a sudden stop in
8:10 your tracks as you hear this
8:20 and a crashing sound echoing far away,
8:22 hundreds and hundreds of feet away, but
8:24 enough where you
8:25 in front of us or behind us?
8:27 Uh it's I'd say it's more adjacent. It's
8:28 it's west of you
8:32 currently. And you you're not certain
8:34 what exactly the source is of this, but
8:35 it seems big bigger than the
8:36 psychosaurus you saw earlier
8:38 and something that immediately gives you
8:41 the instinct to move a little faster.
8:43 T-Rex like
8:46 you don't know. You haven't really any
8:47 such creatures.
8:50 We stop. Um is there any place I can see
8:54 that's maybe um like slightly more
8:55 dense? It's like maybe there's a game
8:57 trail or someplace we could kind of hide
8:59 or get, you know, if it if it were
9:01 coming our, you know, in any ways our way.
9:02 way.
9:05 I can ask some leaves.
9:10 21
9:12 21 uh at a quick glance, you look, you
9:16 see there is uh a portion of uh soft
9:18 ground at the base of this large thick
9:19 tree with the roots all kind of twisting
9:22 and jutting into the floor. Um, and it's
9:24 a little out coat that's kind of pressed
9:25 into it. Um, and there are a number of
9:27 vines that hang over and you figure if
9:28 you were to all it's big enough where
9:29 you all can kind of cluster in there if
9:30 need be. Cool.
9:31 Cool.
9:34 Um, and stay fairly I do one of these,
9:37 you know, like proper and we all kind of
9:40 if you want I lead everyone to this
9:41 little hideyhole. Okay.
9:42 Okay.
9:44 I'm with it. I'm having fun.
9:46 Uh, I would like you all to make stealth
9:47 checks, please.
9:49 Is there a disadvantage for plate armor?
9:52 Uh, oh yeah. Um, I'm gonna say that out loud.
9:52 loud.
9:54 I have advantage on that.
9:57 I'm gonna make uh hidden step and
9:59 turn invisible. Okay.
10:00 Okay. So,
10:00 So,
10:03 yeah. 19 + 12 for me.
10:04 Was it 20?
10:04 20 for me. 26.
10:05 26.
10:08 Crummy and worse. Six.
10:10 Six.
10:13 I turned invisible with a power, but I
10:14 still got a two there, so I don't know.
10:16 Okay. Well, you're invisible, though. Okay.
10:18 Okay.
10:21 Uh, eight.
10:25 Okay, you guys stay inside ever so quietly
10:26 quietly
10:29 except for our
10:31 quietly was right around me
10:34 and Troll. Um, so the majority were
10:38 failures. So, as you're you're
10:41 quiet and backing into the space, you hear
10:50 crack and another cracking sound. And
10:54 you watch as a tree kind of falls not
10:56 too far from you. And as you glance just
10:58 over the red edge from the little bit of
11:01 sight that you have over this hillside,
11:03 you watch some heavily armored entity just
11:05 just
11:08 Oh, lumber by its back. There's a series
11:10 of these heavy thick plates with little
11:12 uh ridges like teeth sticking out the
11:14 sides. You Its head is kind of sloped
11:17 too low for you to see. And as it just
11:20 begins to pass ahead, you watch one
11:23 large maceike tail kind of
11:31 It stops and turns and looks over in the
11:32 direction of the al cove you guys are
11:38 I know. In the most dire of
11:41 circumstances, I will try to make this a friend,
11:42 friend,
11:44 but I want to make sure that we're going
11:45 to die first. Okay.
11:46 Okay.
11:48 Cuz I don't want to jeopardize the these
11:51 two stealth stealthy dudes over here.
11:52 Okay. It it glances over in the
11:54 direction. Uh what are you doing, if anything?
11:55 anything?
11:57 Um I mean, does it look intent to devour
11:59 us? Can I glean that?
12:00 Make an insight check. Okay.
12:03 Okay.
12:05 That's good. Uh, what's my insight? So,
12:07 that's 17.
12:11 Um, it looks like it's in a defensive
12:14 position or like it's it's it's it's
12:17 walking through um not with murderous intent.
12:18 intent. Okay.
12:18 Okay.
12:20 More than scavenging.
12:22 scavenging.
12:23 But it seems like a predator.
12:26 Uh, no. Uh it and this creature even
12:27 looking at it is with a little bit of
12:29 the head you see as it glances back at
12:32 you. It's its teeth you can see are more flat.
12:33 flat. Okay.
12:34 Okay.
12:35 Does it look like it's more or less
12:48 Um tail giant armor and dinosaur. It's
12:50 just looking for a moment and like see
12:52 it kind of makes a few sniffs in the air
12:53 with its mouth open to kind of get
13:00 and continue stomping away from you. Okay.
13:01 Okay.
13:03 It paid it noticed you but it didn't pay
13:04 much mind to your presence.
13:06 Good. Good. I wasn't about to waste that
13:09 spell slot. So,
13:10 um Okay.
13:11 All right. Continuing forward. You want
13:12 another survival check?
13:19 Nine. Okay.
13:22 Okay. So,
13:24 So,
13:25 uh you continue to lead them down the
13:27 outside of this path. And you can see
13:28 the canopy grows thicker and thicker the
13:30 further in you go, the further away from
13:32 civilization you travel. The vines are
13:34 now dangling in clusters and you having
13:35 to push past them in certain places
13:38 where they get more and more dense. Uh,
13:40 brightly colored flowers are now
13:42 beginning to show up on the edges of
13:43 these vines and protruding from the
13:45 roots and the outside and the soft
13:47 underbrush of the jungle shifts with a
13:48 creaking squish sound at certain
13:50 elements where the water has gathered
13:54 from a recent rain. Um
13:57 you the it turns from kind of a friendly
13:58 looking jungle at certain places to a
14:01 naturally beautiful place and and while
14:03 familiar to you uh the rest of you who
14:05 had expected this well you you've seen a
14:07 lot of this too but this particular area
14:10 of the jungle uh the river is is
14:13 extremely vibrant. Um there are a number
14:16 of large beautiful colored uh flowers.
14:18 You see two very large plants that are
14:20 like these these beautiful uh petal-like
14:23 elements. as you noticed them. Uh, I need
14:24 need
14:26 Oh, no. Hell yeah.
14:26 Fun question. Uh,
14:28 Uh,
14:30 let's see. I need
14:32 these are bad.
14:34 Bad flowers are going to murder us. Jamila,
14:35 Jamila,
14:37 Troll, and Collia. I need you guys to
14:39 make wisdom saving throws.
14:41 I was almost killed by a plant in Charmore.
14:43 Charmore. 18.
14:44 18. 18.
14:46 18.
14:48 Uh, that's an ad 20.
14:52 Yeah, boy. What? Wise as
14:55 Roll high.
14:56 That's good. Go, man.
14:56 man.
14:59 Okay. You watch as one of these plants
15:03 suddenly pulses and a spore cloud
15:05 kind of spills out in the area and the
15:06 three of you feel your vision go a
15:08 little dizzy. It's a very sweet smell.
15:11 Uh it's it's it's tasty to the tongue.
15:15 Um but you kind of shake your head,
15:16 close your eyes and step out of the
15:19 spore cloud uh out of the the exterior
15:23 radius and uh you get the sense that
15:24 maybe the beauty of this particular area
15:26 is a little dangerous and you begin to
15:27 notice you've now stepped in the center
15:28 of this area and there are a number of
15:30 these plants around you now. Oh,
15:31 Oh,
15:33 we've learned something today.
15:35 Light them on fire.
15:38 That sounds like a bio.
15:41 Uh uh can we recall how close we were
15:42 when it
15:43 shot us?
15:44 It you guys have stepped about 20 ft
15:46 from it when it went off, but it looked
15:48 like it started going off before you
15:51 even like you began stepping as it shed
15:52 the pollen cloud around.
15:54 It would not be possible to just stay
15:56 out of range of these things. Or
15:58 it's possible you could try
16:00 like ninja laser thing.
16:03 We need to go around.
16:05 Um yeah,
16:06 from this distance cuz you're you're not
16:08 too far from it. There's like the small
16:10 uh stamon type cluster in the center of
16:11 the flower that the spores were shot
16:14 from. You can see uh a bunch of the
16:17 empty pockets where the pollen was are
16:18 so that one is
16:19 that one seems to be spent at the
16:21 Oh, yeah. The spent one. Well, but then
16:22 how would I know if I
16:25 if it de like if it if it if it
16:26 Well, it would though.
16:29 How far into this grove are we can we
16:31 see the exit? Uh currently at the
16:32 moment, I mean, it's not it's it's a
16:34 it's a a grove in the sense that like
16:36 you maybe have a 15 20 foot area that
16:38 isn't dense trees and it continues for
16:41 another 15 or 20 feet, but there are uh
16:42 several of these plants around the
16:45 exterior of it. I'd say five total.
16:47 Okay. So, it looks like even if we even
16:49 if we get out of this, there's probably
16:50 more of these things outside of it. Okay.
16:50 Okay.
16:52 Make an intelligence check. Okay.
16:54 Okay.
16:55 Bad. Real bad.
16:56 It looks real safe.
16:58 just walk right through like, "Oh,
16:59 there's plenty of space ahead of us,
17:00 behind us.
17:01 We got this."
17:02 What about setting them off using
17:04 something like throwing a rock or Right.
17:05 Right.
17:06 You get a shot. Sure.
17:08 Sure. Okay.
17:08 Okay. Yeah.
17:09 Yeah.
17:10 So, it takes you a moment to reach
17:12 around uh the floor and you kind of pull
17:13 underneath some of the brush and you
17:15 grab a small piece of stone
17:17 towards the closest one that we haven't
17:18 activated yet. Okay.
17:18 Okay.
17:20 Uh just go and roll and do 20. Okay.
17:24 13.
17:27 13. You throw it and it lands in the
17:29 ground next to one of them. Doesn't seem
17:31 to react.
17:32 They're smart.
17:35 Shall I throw Should I throw a hand axe
17:37 at a far one that we're out of range
17:40 from and see if chopping, you know, see
17:41 if I can hit the stem and
17:43 Yeah, try it.
17:43 Try it.
17:45 Here's just a thought.
17:48 I remember them being very strong.
17:51 What if I turn into a giant mole and dig
17:54 us out the other side? That's dope. I
17:56 love that idea.
17:58 Oh god, I'm going to do that. Okay,
17:59 Okay,
18:01 I'm going to transform into a giant mole
18:02 and just go a
18:05 kind. You guys step back and you watch
18:07 as as uh as as T-roll closes his eyes
18:10 with a smile and his form expands with a
18:12 flash of greenish blue energy and you
18:15 watch as he becomes this very very large
18:18 furry very blind snub-nosed null. A mole
18:21 that's like adorable.
18:23 adorable.
18:25 He begins digging and it
18:26 you're going to be here for a while. It
18:29 it's it it doesn't speed through.
18:31 Is it like the bugs bunny? Like a little
18:32 mound all the way
18:34 kind of even slower than that. It's like
18:36 you watch him just pull through the dirt
18:37 just kind of shooting out the back of
18:38 it. It kind of catches hitch a little
18:41 bit in the face the side. Um
18:42 I love it.
18:44 You wait there for a good 30 or so minutes.
18:45 minutes.
18:47 I'm tired. before on the other side of
18:49 the small grove. You watch the dirt
18:51 begin to rise and
18:55 and you watch as a large mole emerges
18:57 from the opposite side tight.
18:58 tight.
19:01 And I I do a claw claw,
19:03 but he's blind to him. Go for it.
19:03 The opposite.
19:06 Yeah, it's somewhere in the tree. Okay.
19:08 Okay.
19:08 All right.
19:11 Let's go. Yeah, we'll climb through.
19:12 Is it big enough for all of us?
19:14 Uh, it's big enough for all of you. you.
19:16 It's It's a bit of a tight fit.
19:19 66 285 would play at the end.
19:21 So, I'll say I'll say for the purposes
19:23 of this, go and make a strength check. Okay.
19:28 23.
19:31 23. A little couple moments where you
19:33 feel the armor kind of snag. Yeah.
19:35 But you push through, but not in a way
19:36 where you think it'll alter any
19:37 structural integrity of the tunnel
19:39 that's around you. And without issue,
19:41 you managed to call out the last one of
19:44 the troop and emerge from the large mole
19:47 driven hole in the fourth floor. Thanks.
19:48 I'm gonna stay a mole, I think, for a
19:51 little bit.
19:53 We put a little leash on it so you don't
19:53 walk too far.
19:54 Leave it around.
19:57 I can smell you guys. As as you emerge,
19:59 uh, you can see there there is one of
20:01 these plants right by where you exited,
20:04 but it has been long decaying. It died.
20:07 Um, and from where you emerge from the
20:08 ground, you actually seem to have upset
20:11 what appears to be a pile of bones or
20:13 somebody who had befallen to whatever
20:15 this creature's intent was
20:17 uh from the ground. You can see shreds
20:19 of of uh clothing and and various
20:20 belongings that were just like grown
20:22 over in the forest floor.
20:23 Should we see what
20:24 Can we search it?
20:25 Yeah. Search them.
20:34 Six or nine? That was
20:36 9 + 1 10
20:38 10. All right, then. Uh, you take a
20:39 moment to kind of sift through where the
20:42 where the corpse was. Uh, you find the the
20:43 the
20:46 kind of sickly greened skull that's just
20:48 been kind of partially taken by nature.
20:49 Toss it aside. You rumage through the
20:50 belongings. You can keep the skull if
20:51 you want. It's okay.
20:53 okay.
20:56 Uh, you find uh 65 gold pieces. Nice.
20:57 Nice.
21:00 Uh, you find uh 17 silver pieces.
21:05 Oo. and uh a very very rusted shortsord.
21:09 Very old. Um a pretty much entirely
21:12 dissolved with but shreds of like
21:14 studded leather armor like dissolved
21:16 like mostly just eaten away by some sort
21:18 of acidic
21:20 uh presence. Um and a pair of boots that
21:22 are untouched. H
21:23 H
21:25 untouched. You need some new boots.
21:26 I have been walking around this.
21:28 Well, and also but they could be special
21:30 boots. Do they seem magic?
21:31 Yeah. Can we do a
21:32 an arcetic?
21:33 Can I use a
21:37 I'm not an arcan ring of detect magic.
21:38 Yeah. Like if I
21:39 What does it say on the item?
21:42 It says allows wearer to see in normal
21:43 and magical darkness. See invisible
21:46 creatures and objects. Autodetect visual
21:49 illusions. See the original form of a
21:51 shape changer transformed by magic. And
21:53 see into the ethereal plane. Maybe not.
21:55 So it doesn't see that.
21:57 But you do see through space apparently. Good.
21:59 Good.
22:02 120° radius.
22:06 That's a lot.
22:07 Figured out his power.
22:08 When do we get that?
22:10 I have identify. Can I uh
22:11 Yeah, you can do that. You can cast it
22:13 as a ritual. Allow him to use the spell
22:15 a moment. Take a moment to concentrate.
22:18 And it is indeed magical.
22:18 Hell yeah.
22:20 Um apparently aided someone in the past,
22:22 but not well enough. But you find
22:24 yourself a boots of elven kind.
22:25 Hey, I got those.
22:27 Nice. Boot Brothers.
22:28 There you go.
22:29 I don't.
22:31 Okay. I just got high five over.
22:33 You have the boots, please.
22:36 I got spider slippers. I'm good.
22:38 We don't have cool shoes yet.
22:39 Give us time. Give us time.
22:41 Give it time. Give it time. Nice.
22:43 The girls boot sisters. The girls got boots.
22:45 boots.
22:46 I forgot I'm a lady.
22:48 You're a lady.
22:49 And a beautiful one. Thanks.
22:50 Thanks.
22:52 Which way from here?
22:53 Could it be?
22:55 Quick question before we move on. Do I
22:58 have a sense of how um how many days how
23:00 long it takes to get to the city? As far
23:00 as I remember,
23:02 the city's going to take you a few days
23:05 of foot travel. At the very least, um so
23:06 there's going to be a number of points
23:07 where you have to camp or find safety or
23:10 areas to um you traveling for a few hours.
23:10 hours.
23:12 Can hitch fit into my old boots?
23:15 What are your old boots?
23:16 Just regular boots.
23:17 That's really nice of you. High
23:19 High wedges.
23:21 wedges. Espadrils.
23:22 Espadrils.
23:24 I'm good. Thank you. I appreciate that
23:26 very much. I look man, I got straight up
23:28 crocs that help me climb up wall.
23:31 Um, so you continue forward. Uh, you're
23:32 leading on this one.
23:33 Yeah, I'll keep leading.
23:34 Make another survival check. Okay.
23:35 Okay. Okay.
23:36 Okay. Sorry.
23:38 Sorry. 13.
23:39 13.
23:44 13. Okay. Um, you travel for an a few
23:47 hours longer. Uh, the noonday sun
23:48 crosses past overhead with the glimmers
23:50 of it you get beyond the jungle canopy
23:54 at top. Um, you hear the waters getting
23:58 more and more uh dangerous. You hear
24:01 from off the side the the the river of
24:03 Yeah. You you you glance over the side
24:05 and kind of get a small look off the
24:06 distant banks and you can see you're
24:09 hitting an area where the waters uh
24:11 travel down cuz the water runs from the
24:12 center of the island out to the city.
24:14 So, it's like it's actually be traveling
24:15 in the direction of the city you just left.
24:15 left.
24:18 Well, I'm glad we didn't take a boat.
24:20 Fair enough. rapids.
24:20 rapids.
24:22 Yeah, it would have been an up an
24:25 upstream circumstance the whole time.
24:27 Yeah, actually we took a boat home.
24:30 Yeah, we should take a boat. Yeah.
24:32 There'll be a boat at Omu.
24:35 There you go. Um,
24:39 you continue forward uh managing to
24:42 avoid a few more of these large brightly
24:43 colored plants that you've previously
24:45 encountered now that you know for the
24:48 signs and the coloration. Um, at one
24:51 point you guys stop and you you drink
24:55 some water and take a snack and
24:59 uh t- you hear this distant high-pitched
25:06 do I know
25:10 that particular sound? Well,
25:11 no. Actually, from your experience,
25:13 you've never heard that sound. It's it's
25:16 high. It's It sounds almost birdlike. But
25:18 But
25:20 and am I hearing this because I am a
25:25 mole or because I am in this particular
25:26 area of the camp?
25:27 You're hearing this because you just
25:29 have a generally higher perception than
25:31 the people that are around you.
25:34 You're making me blush. Um.
25:37 Okay. And uh I'd like to communicate
25:38 that to the team. Sure.
25:38 Sure. Okay.
25:39 Okay. Squeak.
25:40 Squeak.
25:42 We need to be very careful.
25:44 A big one. Can we tell where it's coming
25:45 from or can you tell where it's coming from?
25:45 from?
25:46 Wait, what do what do you know about there?
25:47 there? Okay.
25:48 Okay.
25:49 What is it? A monkey.
25:52 There's a race of birdlike creatures in
25:55 the chalk jungles.
25:58 They When I was here, they answered to a
26:01 Medusa. I know they're evil. I know they
26:03 report back. I think we need to be very,
26:12 At this point, you can hear dozens of
26:13 other high pitch trees like this
26:15 starting to arrive in the distance. And
26:17 you glance up and see these shadows,
26:19 these winged humanoid figures that kind
26:21 of swoop past.
26:23 You've heard this before.
26:26 Um, they're known commonly within the
