0:33 so everyone welcome to force gray both
0:36 old players and new happy to have you
0:38 with us alright so we're gonna go ahead
0:39 and go do some character intros here for
0:42 you guys so we can get a bit of an idea
0:45 of both your visual and personality
0:46 descriptors I will go ahead and start
0:48 over here with blue car she won't tell
0:51 us about hitch all right guys I'm Luke
0:53 harsh I play hitch I'm a sixth level
0:56 robe I was fifth last season but how
0:59 about that's an experience and I like sandwiches
1:00 sandwiches
1:03 I'm chaotic good so I ruffle some
1:05 feathers but then I smooth them out
1:09 again and I'm I steal Joe hi I'm
1:12 Joe Manganiello and I play Archon he's a
1:16 red dragon born paladin who was lawful
1:18 good for his first three levels until he
1:21 hit third level and he was sucked back
1:25 into the dark world of chromatic dragons
1:28 and became a worshipper of Tiamat and
1:31 now I am roving the countryside with my
1:34 new beautifully painted mini Thank You
1:37 Nathan Stuart we want to zoom in on that
1:39 a little shot of that he's wearing
1:43 Steeler colored armor he likes teams
1:49 with lots of Super Bowls if you haven't
1:53 gone to project al-hakam and seen the
1:55 newest episode of celebrity indeed you
1:56 should and sign up for your membership
1:58 there we can watch catch up on old
2:00 episodes of critical role but you can
2:02 watch my episode with Matt Mercer where
2:08 I tamed a Manticore named Jango who is
2:10 actually back in the basement of my bar
2:13 chained up right now the burning cube
2:15 which is in my my regular game I
2:17 couldn't bring him along because he's
2:19 too dangerous because Nathan Stewart is jealous
2:26 awesome well I also about your character
2:29 yeah I am Jamila and I am human and I
2:30 was traveling with my parents in the
2:32 tracklist see we had a shipwreck just
2:34 off the shores of Colts I washed up and
2:37 I was raised by the local people there
2:39 so I know a lot about jolts but I really
2:42 longed to like leave the island and get
2:43 to the mainland because I've grown and
2:47 it's like super strong incredibly like
2:49 confident woman who could just like you
2:52 know destroy anyone an arm-wrestling or
2:54 thigh crushing you know things like that
3:00 so you know good person have around I'm
3:02 a barbarian you know so if things get
3:04 rough I'd get a little enraged but it
3:06 should be helpful hopefully most of the
3:09 time awesome he's much was a little bit
3:12 a little bit okay let's see
3:16 so I'm Dylan I play a Tyrell tall guy
3:20 he's he's a furball druid he's six level
3:23 and he circled the moon because I like
3:29 it to transform he is very naive despite
3:33 being very old for a furball he wanders
3:38 around on geriatric feet and he prefers
3:41 to turn into things like giant moles or
3:45 porcupines or toads of that sort
3:48 he is neutral good so generally he
3:51 believes in the good in people until
3:55 it's ruined by the rest of his party so
3:57 perfectly right what does a little bit
3:59 clap yeah
4:01 I'm Brian Posehn I'm playing Calliope
4:06 she's a six level bard half elf I'm
4:09 super charismatic as you can see yeah boy
4:10 boy
4:14 okay got a good entertainer obviously I
4:16 have a repaired name sir stabby wound
4:21 bringer the fourth and I look like Becky
4:27 Lynch from the WWE with an eyepatch
4:31 super kick-ass so let's go ahead and
4:33 dive into the story beginning with our
4:37 existing members of the team us that's
4:39 that that's a month months have passed
4:42 since the last of them at this moment
4:44 dusk takes the skyline of Waterdeep the
4:46 sprawling the city that stands the
4:48 height of civilization this side of the
4:51 sort of conceit taverns and shops glow
4:53 from within the shadows street lamps
4:54 flicker and illuminate the evening
4:56 clientele as they shift through the
4:58 darkening streets the sound of carts and
5:00 hooves clapping stone accompanied by
5:03 energetic chatter and the music of some
5:05 distant street Buster within the warm
5:07 noisy interior of the gray Griffin
5:10 tavern the doc ward of Waterdeep hitch
5:12 and Terrell sit at a table over empty
5:14 cups and a hand of cards a rather
5:16 perturbed looking sailor sits across the
5:18 two of you glaring over his own hand a
5:20 respectable pile of gold coins already
5:22 stands piled between the three of you as
5:24 Calliope returns to your table with
5:26 three fresh flagons of some dark amber
5:27 ale one for each
5:30 but the Sailor in question as you
5:40 approach the accelerators you glare
5:44 material what do you have let's just say
5:46 he takes five more coins throws them in
5:51 the pile I've got enough to call called me
5:59 what are we playing for this I'm gonna
6:01 say go ahead and just roll out to d6 to
6:18 d6 y is dice it is seven seven he shows
6:19 his cards it's a little bit better than
6:27 your hand turns to hitch so mr. diem
6:29 because I'm hitch and I got those
6:34 sleight of hands I have sneakily gotten
6:37 a better hand okay
6:39 devious means I'll say go ahead roll to
6:48 that's a 2 and then roll again okay go
6:50 ahead and roll a sled a hand check it's
7:04 so as you as you look at your your card
7:06 hand and kind of grin over to your
7:09 compatriots across the table you went
7:11 back and slightly or you think slightly
7:13 slip behind in 20 or side pocket is at
7:16 which point the sailors arm immediate
7:17 which differ in clasps your wrist goes
7:19 what do you think you're doing
7:22 it trying to cheat me boy he stands up
7:23 and pulls a blade from the side and goes
7:25 we've got a cheater in the tower
7:39 hey make a deception check 1111 Plus
7:43 which relies deception plus 6 1717 you
8:10 actually not at all dammit mm-hmm fine
8:12 give me my cards fashioned he starts
8:14 stooping the gold over as this happens
8:16 the doors to the tavern flip open and
8:18 the music that surrounds you can it's a
8:20 little dim you see localized people
8:21 around you kind of glanced over at the
8:24 sudden loud burst of noise you see there
8:27 at the entrance a cloaked figure
8:29 commanding presence a middle-aged woman
8:31 with an expensive-looking purple robe
8:34 cloak wrapped around her shoulder with
8:36 one side of it bearing the symbol of a
8:37 white hand its fingers pressed together
8:39 you recognize this attire immediately as
8:42 one of the watchful Order mages and
8:44 protectors of the city the ones that
8:46 you've done some dealings with before
8:50 when you were first brought to vision of
8:52 Audra the din of the tavern continues
8:53 get more silent as this imposing figure
8:57 has arrived it whispers around and the
8:59 woman approaches me today to your table
9:01 he tosses a scroll found in black thread
9:05 in the center of the wooden coins hitch
9:09 fly p0u are summoned to black staff
9:13 tower immediately at the behest of the
9:15 black staff herself I recommend you be
9:19 on your way she turns around and exits
9:22 the tavern there's a small pause well
9:25 that was convincing very convincing
9:31 see how it supporting us finish scooping
9:32 up his coins
9:34 well good luck with that like stuff
9:36 right here she's quite a handful
9:39 anyway drinks are on you and he gets up
9:43 walks away I'd like to I guess open the
9:47 scroll check it out all right as you
9:50 open the scroll it is a summons to black
9:53 staff tower immediately it is written
9:55 pretty straightforward in the classic
9:59 D&D version of caps lock come here now
10:02 and it is you cannot have a stronger
10:03 sensation if this has to be taken care
10:07 of you take a couple last drinks of the
10:09 fresh flagons that were brought by
10:11 Calliope and make your way out into the evening
10:12 evening
10:16 streets of Waterdeep beautiful well
10:17 first I had played don't stop believe it
10:25 on the lute a jovial atmosphere is
10:28 brought is everyone I mean even in favor
10:29 and everyone knows don't stop believing
10:32 like this is this is this just crossed
10:34 planar when it kind of sync the out
10:39 of it you you've been there once
10:43 oh yeah after you were your encounter
10:47 with strata man's corpse and the the the
10:49 collapsing Castle you were introduced
10:51 and inducted fully into force great upon
10:53 return how long is the journey from here
10:57 to last F box f tower it's maybe 20
11:01 minutes on foot oh good yeah it's in the
11:04 sings in the same city okay so you guys
11:05 make your way down the familiar path of
11:06 sword Street you approach the looming
11:09 dark image of black staffed out obsidian
11:11 black and unnatural in shape it's
11:13 seemingly almost invisible against the
11:14 black night sky where it not for your
11:17 keen vision you specifically we show the
11:18 guards the gate that summons you are
11:21 given and you're allowed entry the gate
11:23 shifts open and these who Steffie on the
11:24 perimeter walls of the grounds you see a
11:27 familiar old man in blue gold clothing
11:29 pacing with almost manic energy
11:31 this is doorman the clerk of black staff
11:33 tower and his face lights up as soon as
11:34 he sees you approach as he rushes up oh
11:38 you've come thank you thank you um the
11:40 black staff is waiting for you please
11:42 if you don't mind German you look great
11:45 good and I've embraced German tightly my
11:49 love yeah aren't expected but thank you
11:52 no it's like slowly pushes you away from
11:55 this form there has no time for such pleasantries
11:55 pleasantries
12:03 they're very awkward man any charges
12:06 inside the tower and as you come into
12:07 the interior it leads you up the winding
12:09 staircases that spiral up towards the
12:11 upper chambers the interior is
12:13 impossible in structure you can see
12:16 shelves that layout over 20 foot drops
12:17 you can see doorways to know where you
12:19 can see places where you're not even
12:21 sure how you approach one of these
12:22 hallways or entryway switch from the
12:24 exterior the tower it looks like it's a
12:27 pretty solid cylinder but it seems to
12:29 almost stretch out in limit limitless
12:31 expanses beyond some of these windows
12:34 it's it's very unnatural interior in its
12:36 construct only evil people live in
12:39 places like this like good guys live in
12:41 houses are you thinking that or saying
12:49 that eventually you're led to the upper
12:51 chambers which is adorned in a multitude
12:53 of ancient tapestries depicting mythical
12:56 stories of ferren's history and then
12:58 standing across the stone floors massive
13:01 glyph carving is a diminutive woman with
13:01 olives skin
13:04 short black hair and piercing indigo
13:06 eyes she walks towards you accompanied
13:08 with her rhythmic clacking of her silver
13:12 shod staff against the floor the staff
13:14 is slightly black him as if by suitor
13:16 antiquing and a top of it lies a large
13:18 axe head in the shape of a snarling wolf
13:23 with green eyes this is vash a black
13:26 staff and your boss as forcefully as she
13:29 approaches her voice rings out Forrest
13:32 gray and I appreciate you making haste
13:35 time is of the essence and your skills
13:36 are in dire need
13:39 what business you haven't finished we
13:41 here can attend to for you from my task
13:44 requires your immediate attention
13:50 something is very very wrong in family
13:52 we began with omens of darkness in the
13:55 dreams of dinners then reports came from
13:57 high clerics across the realm of failing
14:01 resurrection magic magic that grants the
14:06 soul another chance to live zombies or
14:11 just bringing some of the high masked
14:13 Lords back from a once terrible demise
14:14 to live once again
14:17 they're discovering the magic that
14:20 brought them back is now dwindling very
14:23 powerful very good very righteous
14:26 entities within our own city are
14:29 beginning to deteriorate at a pace that
14:41 so the 1% for now but imagine you being
14:45 one who claims the the ability to
14:47 restore life to those who have been
14:50 harmed I dabble what if that was her
14:55 erupt from your druidic heritage had no
14:57 more impact on the lives of those that
14:58 needed it most
15:02 I would look a lot older hmm perhaps
15:06 this may touch you as well you now
15:09 understand through this
15:11 we made a tenuous alliance with the
15:14 Harper's we've learned that the the
15:16 positive energy that suffuses however of
15:19 nourishes most divine magics has become
15:25 chopped diminished siphoned souls of the
15:27 Fallen are not passing on and instead
15:31 being pulled and fed to some terrible
15:34 end a device that we've only been known
15:38 as called the soul there's so longer
15:42 we've found has supposedly been hidden
15:43 somewhere along the dense jungles of
15:46 chopped buried beneath velocity of all
15:52 war I task you for scrip to travel to
15:56 the far south as the land of Choate find
15:59 a guide to ensure safe to travel
16:01 brave the dangers of this unbridled
16:07 wildland find velocity and the location
16:14 of this soul monger and then destroy it
16:23 have heard that entities and individuals
16:27 heroes of old and I mean no offense of
16:32 greater esteem than you have a travel
16:35 thickness jungles are not returned so I
16:41 leave it to your guidance and judgment
16:43 as to whether or not you wish to seek
16:45 further just a location of this should
16:52 suffice now we have come into contact
16:55 the individual who seems to have
16:57 stumbled upon and barely survived an
17:01 encounter with the possible structure in
17:05 underground tomb of some kind that may
17:08 contain this soul monger a sitting the
17:09 looming figure that at this point you
17:12 hadn't noticed stands up from a small
17:17 stool you see a heavily armored dragon's
17:20 scales skinned figure step four with
17:26 heavy footfalls an imposing Dragonborn
17:31 red of body large nasty-looking axe at
17:39 one side this is our car my old friend
17:41 to see you again
17:52 the accompanying false gray you will do
17:55 your best ability to show them through
17:57 the dangers you've already braved and
17:59 hopefully survive return with the
18:02 information that you've gained so we can
18:04 better understand what we're up against
18:09 so just a question you want to gather
18:12 information about the subject not have
18:16 us destroy it because I mean if it's
18:19 robbing people of their good abilities
18:24 is it inherently bad I don't think you
18:27 understand the weight of the dangers
18:32 this wealth of faces fair very fair and
18:35 she you know she looks to be a young
18:37 woman but there is an ominous presence
18:39 and a force and personality that is just
18:41 frightful when she bends it towards you
18:44 as a specific individual you cannot help
18:47 me I want my brown pants even those
18:51 might not help you but her expression
18:52 softness yes
18:55 I understand you are capable but I wish
18:56 not to send you to your doom
18:58 you were already facing many dangers out
19:01 there in the jungles if you find the
19:04 information where it resides and you are
19:06 certain of how to get there
19:12 return if you feeling brave well may the
19:15 gods look PI upon you I come up behind
19:18 her and put my arm gently around her she
19:21 takes the staff and slams your wrist and
19:22 the point where your hand goes numb
19:24 immediately you hear a snarl from the
19:27 wolf's head on the staff just gonna tell
19:29 you it's gonna be okay we're gonna be
19:36 fine I appreciate no problem ouch um
19:39 well if we're going into this dangerous
19:42 dangerous on this journey is there
19:46 anything you can give us any magic will
19:49 be provided with some supplies I have
19:50 also chartered a ship that is ready to
19:52 leave at the first light of dawn called
19:54 The Horizon star
19:57 captain Juicin will see you to the city
20:00 of Port neon Zara to find some mate and
20:05 from there you'll be on your own good
20:07 luck my chosen as you guys completely or
20:11 evenings preparation arrests somewhat
20:13 intoxicated and to a mild hangover in
20:18 the morning the sunshine and kind of
20:21 somewhat cloud imposing gloom of the
20:23 morning and water deep greets you to the
20:26 docks where you find the ship before you
20:29 the horizon star captain Juicin greets
20:31 you on board you are shown to your
20:33 chambers and troy thereafter the ship
20:36 sets sail southward towards the
20:40 cognitive child during this time it's a
20:42 little over a week's worth of travel and
20:46 the weather itself is spotty at best
20:48 about four days in a storm against to
20:50 blow through the waters been chopping in
20:53 number of you probably have to be
20:55 careful about staying close to the edge
20:59 of the boat but thankfully the crew that
21:00 one is this shipper very experienced
21:02 they made this journey a number of times
21:05 and without any major issue you make it
21:08 towards the outskirts of the the actual
21:09 comment and the very distance across the
21:12 horizon even get to see the top of child
21:14 begin to break this dark shape in the
21:17 distance about midday or so at which
21:20 point you hear above the voice and the
21:30 Crowsnest yell out no no Joe dead friend
21:33 I'd I couldn't help but notice you look
21:35 a bit out of place here and shoulder my
21:38 right we're looking for someone someone
21:40 who knows these jungles did you happen
21:43 to know anyone well for all is
