That scene with Quill... spolers... I'm a mother and I could imagine how it would feel to think my child had died and then find out they were so ashamed of their failure that they would think they couldn't come home. AND I also suffer from some limiting medical issues that have me struggling with depression and guilt that I am not good enough. That scene hit me hard. Tears. Very cathartic in a way.
@@christopherbrown9188 True, but at that point he was missing and presumed dead, so knowing that he was injured but alive would be initially happy. From a parental standpoint or at least mine, it would be like thinking your child died in some sort of terrible military training accident and then finding them years later with a prosthetic limb that they have already adjusted to using and they are already healed and living their life but they thought you would be more disappointed about them failing to make the cut in training and not being a service member than just being happy they were alive and wanting to help them heal. Like he dealt with all that physical stuff and also the emotional stuff without her.
I wonder if Trott plays Lucius so excited to meet Petal because he has experience Sentry's memories of Petal and understands just how she feels about her. I mean, Lucius is excited for any of his friends to experience a reunion with their family (which is heartbreaking because he can't) but he actually has memories of Petal as well through his interactions with the matrix.
Your comment brought tears to my eyes when referring to Lucius’ inability to have a family reunion. Just really hit home. He doesn’t pity himself though, he’s genuinely so happy for his friends that they have family...
Small thing, but I loved the peak "behind the curtain" when Mark and Kim were discussing the details and description of the representatives from her homeland- awesome to see the DM and player collaboration on the worldbuilding in that way, you don't always get that with D&D, and you love to see it.
Oh, how the turns have tabled. Sentry's life was in danger because of who Petal was (ie a princess), and not because of who sentry was( a random guardian) but now Petal's life is now in danger because of who Sentry is (a thorn in Calus' side) rather than her own identity ( a random Horizon citizen as far as everyone knows).
Episode Start at 0:04 Announcements at 1:08 DUN DUNS at 4:30 Recap starts at 5:30 Recap ends at 8:20 Break start at 1:39:14 Break ends at 1:46:29 Gameplay ends at 3:01:21 Ending donos at 3:05:40
quill is always comparing himself to other people and i dont know why. 2 seconds later "look at nova she is a good child why can you not be more like nova."
I really loved quill, nova and Aila this episode I thought they all had some pretty good moments. Lucius also seems a bit more comfortable expressing anger and frustration and it was nice to see him go off like that. Also the whole thing with petal made me tear up a bit 🥲
Hey quill, remember that time when you used a magic spell, that can send a message to anyone in the world? And you sent a message to Arval and he didn't know there was a 25 word limit so, you had to send another one to let him know about the limit? And then you sent another message to sky-prince aridan and one to lucias's nanny and like 8 other people in one day but didn't send one to your mom? Do you remember that? Because I do. How about that time when you could use that spell every day and didn't? Anyway, has anyone seen the waiter with those little cheese squares?
Hey N3kr0n15m have you ever heard of depression, have you ever stopped doing everything because you just can't do it anymore, have you ever realized how terrible it feels to think your family care not for you. if you have had this then feel free to share it with other people but it can happen to everyone.
i know im late commenting, but every episode of this i watch i am amazed by the emotion that Mark puts into his characters, i have never seen a better story teller, people rave about Critical Roll, but this is amazing stuff. Keep it up guys i applaude everything you are doing.
I’m really glad Aila got to have a solid story moment in this episode! I get why it’s not necessarily the “main” character arc but it’s really fulfilling to see her find herself and her clan
Ok but if Pixar actually animated aerois though. Although I have a hard time picturing them animating when quillik pointed a gun at brookstone and said “ if you stand down now , I can show you where your son is and he can have a proper burial, otherwise * loads gun* like father like son”
Please tell me Siaska configured the world engine to create these elves in memory of alfheim because she couldn't save them, so she gave their legacy a new chance to live on amongst the wild elves. That would be so sweet
I like this idea. Maybe less of a defence mechanism, more just that it's still running Alfheim.exe in the background and dedicating reserve power to creating new wild elves. But then, why only frost ones? Why are fire ones so much rarer, and why are there no other lightning ones? Aila was found out in the woods too, how'd she get there if not the same process as the others? Maybe Valkyrian wild elves are reverse-abducting kids, hoping to give them a better life on Aerois? Maybe they can get through the cradle because they're babies, or because wild elves exist on Aerois and can be let through? Naw, I like the World Engine theory better
Holy! Aila is godly as hell! 25 strength alone is wow; but also 20 dexterity! And 18 constitution as well...amazing..a stat block like that at lvl 14 especially you'd think there would be a legendary action included in there lolol
Honestly I love seeing all the NPCs and all the interactions. Especially that person seeing Quill (Love that character already!) and everything else. Still don’t like the Dragonborn but at least that has been addressed. Can’t wait to see what happens next!
Mark: “... way taller than a human man should be, at six and a half feet tall...” Me: *looks at my dad and my closest friend who are both 6ft6 and narrows eyes*
Spoilers That is the second time that Lucius has proven how easy it is to manipulate the dragons. They are arrogant and emotional. He, without even trying to, got them to the point of near violence toward a valuable ally. Both here and back at on the Vivec. If Lucius can get that response from them, imagine how easy it would be for a master tactician like Starbane. Should Lucius have done so? No but it does show that the Dragons are not as high and mighty as they say they are.
You can be high and mighty and emotional. You can see this displayed well in both sides of the American parties. You can claim to hold the moral ground as an adult and be right in doing so, and still be as emotional and petty as a petulant child.
Great character development episode for everyone, Nova the most in my opinion because she had some serious guts to stand up and talk to the humanoid ancient dragons like I felt impressed and inspired that I was clapping for her by her gutsy actions because if I did something bad that caused some misunderstandings I probably wouldn’t have acted as Nova did here, she grew/develop in this episode I love it. Especially getting to know Quill’s family was fun and learning more about the other elves’ clan with their elemental storm powers and a slight clue on how it originated in Aerois even though it was not much. I still have the fear either there may be a spy or one of the empire’s soldier may be recording conversations because the surprise attack on the Tasadar must succeed if Aerois needs more time to unite and build up their forces as Tiangong revealed that Aerois has no chance unless they unite and find some way to build their forces quickly. Like these special guardians here below. Lost Lore of Aerois Part 1 (fanmade, also there's so much detail that I extended the comment to the replies section below because I couldn't comment because it was too long) The will and notes of an unknown artificer from the events shortly after the sundering, Special Guardian Units: I have finished the designs for a few special forces units composed of unique guardians in a total of 4 designs and 4 more lead designs that serve as the leaders of these 4 special units. I have made these guardian designs in order to prepare for another attack that may come in the future by that tyrant Kallus Starbane. Although the cradle is powerful, I have studied Siaska and their children for my entire life and I hypothesize that their great power has limits and if that is true then the cradle will fade eventually. But there is a problem, these guardian designs are as I say “special” so they need to be built with strong metals in order to live up to their name as special guardian units. I have prayed to either Hesper or Elana as they are the smartest children of Siaska for a special metal for these special guardians and I hope they will be answered soon if not now then in the future. Right now the sundering caused by Atelekis has disrupted the landscape of Aerois thus causing the loss of the Guardian Prime residing in Volcanus which is now unknown who also has the power to give life to born new guardians and reset their lifespan. I pray this will of mine to be found by anyone in Aerois and complete my work, find special metals for these guardian designs, and find the guardian known as prime to give these empty shells life to prepare to defend Aerois again in the future from another invasion. Special Guardian Units Design1: Sentinel Knights Leading the Sentinel Knights: Guardian Alpha The Sentinel Knights are designed to be capable fighters and have spellcasting abilities being able to enhance their offensive and defensive capabilities. Eventually, they will adapt to learn how to be quite resilient to enemy spellcasting abilities. (Example: Paladin Oath of the Ancients/Fighter LVL 2 with both the protection and dueling fighting styles) Their weapons are two battleaxes and a shield, the battleaxes are specially designed to be able to climb vertical surfaces of castle walls or hulls of ships serving as exceptional infiltrators. The leader of this unit called Alpha stands out amongst the Sentinel Knights because of their large stature of being 7ft while the Sentinel Knights are 6ft 5 in, as well as the design of having 6 arms and 6 eyes. Alpha is designed to be a master of all versatile weapons with its flexible arms. Alpha is able to equip multiple shields and its arms and hands can transform into the following: longswords, warhammers, battleaxes, and shields. (Requires bonus action to change any number of hands and arms into Alpha’s desired weapon) The weapons Alpha can wield can transform into any of the 3 weapons or shields that Alpha desires to wield. Although Alpha doesn't have spellcasting abilities and damage resistance from spells like the knights, it does have great resistance to avoid spells or magical effects. (Alpha can make multiple attacks based on how many versatile weapons it’s wielding on each arm. If it hits a creature with its longsword it does an extra d8 of damage, if it hits a creature with its warhammer the creature must make a STR saving throw or be knocked prone, if it hits a creature with its battleaxe it’s instantly knocked 15 ft away from alpha, using the axes’ special design of being able to climb vertical surfaces to grapple and throw the creature away.) If Alpha is ever too damaged to fight offensively, then Alpha is able to turn its entire body into a very large shield that only large guardians like smashers can wield. (When wielded in shield form the following creature gains +5 AC (+3 shield) and magic resistance meaning advantage on saving throws against spells and magical effects.)
Special Guardian Units Design2: Predators Leading the Predators: Guardian Beta The predators are similarly designed like the forge guardians but have much more mobility in both air and ground as well as having greater firepower. They can also be stealthy and blend into the environment like chameleons. They are designed to be crossbow experts and have the following arsenal: two hand crossbows, two arm blades where they can stealthily neutralize enemies, and just like forge guardians wield a ray of fire (flame lance), and just like their ray of fire the predators’ crossbows and arm blades are flame enhanced by their chassis furnace and red elemental gems. The leader of this unit Beta is built much larger of being 6 ft 3 in. while the rest of the predators are 5ft 8 in and not only does Beta have much more firepower but because Beta contains more firepower Beta can also transform into a giant hand crossbow wielded by large-sized guardians. When Beta is in its hand crossbow form it takes a moment to charge and fires two shots and I believe that these two shots are able to take down a single airship in one go. (Example: Guardian Beta hand crossbow, takes an action to charge before firing two shots, +11 to hit 16d6 fire damage, when it hits or misses, everything within 40ft except the targeted creature if it was hit must make a DEX saving throw or take 8d6 fire damage or take half on a success) Beta also has enhanced defenses to defend itself against ranged attacks with its deflecting kick. ( As a reaction, Beta can increase its AC by 5 from 3 ranged attacks that would hit until the start of its next turn.) Special Guardian Units Design3: Castle Crashers Leading the Castle Crashers: Gamma The Castle Crashers are built with a very unique spherical body with four crab-like legs but still have regular arms like a guardian just slightly larger and an almost square-like head, 10x larger than cannonballs. With a sphere-like body, the Castle Crashers can completely retract their arms, legs, and head and become a sturdy ball and can roll around. Now for the main reason why they’re called Castle Crashers. The large guardians commonly called smashers that have the main weapon of a large spike ball and chain where instead of a spike ball they can attach these Castle Crashers in their sphere form and they’re able to launch these Castle Crashers towards an enemy’s fortress like catapults and over the castle walls and cause some havoc on the other side so the enemies will have to face attacks from both flanks. Also, because of their dense sphere body, they barely take any damage from being launched or fall from a great height (fall damage is reduced by 100) and they are also very resistant to nonmagical damage (have resistance to nonmagical bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage). Not only can they be launched by smasher guardians but they can also be launched out of special cannons and they will mainly target enemy airships and that means when fired at the hull area they can breach and cause havoc inside and if they sense the airship is going down, they can simply go into their sphere form and go overboard receiving minimal to no damage from the fall and so they can be repaired and reused to take down more enemy airships. Now for their main weapons, they will use these ranged weapons that the invaders had, these things called firearms they will use as their weapons they can also use their sphere body to run over some enemies with their heavy body. Now for the leader of the Castle Crashers Gamma, he will be designed with a stronger body, 20x larger than a cannonball, and more firepower than the other Castle Crashers and with its stronger body it is immune to damage from falling or being launched. He can also be used as a weapon for large guardians like smashers to use (count as a +2 martial weapon with a reach of 15ft and it’s based on the creature’s stat of what the attack bonus will be and its damage will be 4d12 bludgeoning damage+creature’s STR mod and it counts as a siege weapon that does double damage to buildings.) Special Guardian Units Design4: Overhauls Leading the Overhauls: Guardian Delta Overhauls are master repair guardians and they all have a magical compartment in their chest (imagine Wall-E chest compartment) that has an equal amount of space to a bag of holding that stores spare parts needed to repair guardians, all their sizes and models vary so they can be identified what specific guardians they can repair quickly. The fingertips of Overhauls can become any type of tool needed to repair guardians. The skills of Overhauls are that they are able to repair a severely damaged guardian in approximately 10 minutes if there aren’t any interruptions and have the right amount of spare parts. Now for the leader of the Overhauls Delta has a design of being noticeably the shortest Overhaul being 4ft 7in and from a short design, Delta is able to move and repair more quickly than any other Overhaul and has 3x the compartment space for spare parts as well as have the knowledge to repair any type of guardian since the models vary and each specific model can repair a few specific guardians and not any type of guardian like Delta.
Sentry playing out the classic overprotective parent bit on Petal. Strangely enough, instead of pushing Petal away from Sentry as is normally the case, Petal seems to want Sentry to be overprotective. Does this mean Sentry and Petal will travel together and live happily ever after or will they discover that ripping Petal away from the life she had in Horizon and getting her to stay on the Storm Chaser was a bad idea since she is now in a ship that literally barely survived a meteor strike with the promise of more to come? Additionally, does Petal truly want to come with Sentry, or is it a rash decision being made on the spur of emotions on seeing her long-lost guardian and she will regret her decision later? ( Like running away with you Sig Other that your soooo in love with only to break up later) Lastly, Petal is a grown woman now with her duties and responsibilities, it seems that Sentry is just barging into her life and leaping back into her role of guardian and caretaker. It almost feels like she is treating Petal as if she were still a little girl with no regard for her independence she has gained as she grew up.
These Dragonborn are not good for my health. I almost popped several blood vessels launching into an imaginary rant that exposed all of the flaws in their behavior, their arrogance, hypocrisy, disrespect, contempt, and megalomania before I had to take a deep breath and remind myself that none of this is real and I'm arguing with no one about nothing.
I had a whole thing planned out for the first meeting way back when. Mark made it clear that they were one or two comments away from taking a swing at Lucius for even proposing the idea that they could be manipulated. I would have pushed it to a fight and then pointed out that they were easily goaded into violence against an ally with valuable intel on the enemy. If it was so easy for the storm chasers to manipulate them, imagine how easy it would be for a master tactician like Starbane. Then I remembered that I wasnt there and sulked a bit when they backed down from the dragons.
LORE DUMP , HELL YA, im going to remember exactly 0 of these names, any of these people could show up in 10 episodes from now and iim going to be sitting here like "whoooooooo ?"
The characters always try to be so diplomatic. The dragonborn boarded the storm chasers threatened them and tried to hold them hostage. They then forcefully installed a known spy on the ship. the pcs have no problem or counter argument. The storm chasers had no obligation to inform the dragonborn of anything.
I would like to bet a single dollar that at the end of Altheya, Starbane shows up, and connects the campaigns. The dragons in Aerois being descended from the ones in Altheya
So Nova has 2 mums now right? 😂 Also my god the dragons... I so hope they get their asses whooped. Ambassador my ass Vis was a spy clear and simple, the Dragons didn't deserve to know anything they were doing 😤
Hey, Guys! Love your stream, and of course your story! I'm new to Twitch and live-streaming software. Wanted to ask: how are you managing to live-stream multiple remote video feeds through one program?
Would have loved: Quill: 'Can I tell what they're saying?' Mark: 'You can read lips can't you....no.' Quill: 'But my massive throbbing perception and lip reading.' Mark: 'Well they're Draconic humanoids, semi-reptilian.' Quill: 'So?' Mark: 'Reptiles don't have lips' I know that would only make labial and possibly labio-dental (p, b, m, n etc..) not present and therefore allow lip reading, but it made me chuckle.
Aila: cuz you didn't tell us your mum thought you were dead Me: what about that time? Ya know....when he did die and nova asked him via help from scaldie....and he said his family already think he died...? Yea that time- Edit: it's in my brain permanently now. Ever since it happened
Oh my god, I know it’s just a campaign but I cannot even begin to say how much the dragonborns PISSED ME OFF Fr they’re talking about trust and all while literally sending one of them basically as a spy, while they themselves keep secrets too They want everything but don’t want to give anything in return I was SO pissed off, ‘cause I feel like the party could’ve gotten so much more mad at them for everything but the context didn’t allow them to They didn’t have to apologise for anything, except maybe the violating of their airspace when they first met, that’s all
1:37:20 ...Then Lucius you should've said that's how their side was interpreted because yes that is a valid criticism and something they didn't admit fault for despite Nova admitting fault on her end. But just being passive-aggressive and not mentioning your true issue won't repair any of the relationship. Like it'd be fine to say hey, upon reflection we're now not sure if this is the way you meant it but to us at the time it seemed less like you were giving us an ally on our ship so that we had a way to relay information between our two groups and more like you were demanding under duress that we accept a spy onto our ship or else there would be consequences, with other consequences arising depending on what else occurred on our ship. Again despite if it was meant like that or not that was how we interpreted it, maybe down to our own inexperience, but I think you can see how our main interaction with you basically seeming to be nothing but threats didn't give us a positive opinion. And we are sorry for how your agent was treated but we didn't really know how to react to what seemed to be presented as a threat from someone we felt should be on our side which unfortunately lead us to become more suspicious of you too.
Knock Kock Who's there? The interrupting DM. The interrupting DM wh...... MARK HULMES STOP IT! Lol, joking. It's hard to do a game over video chat but I really wish these folk could work out a method of not talking over each other all the time. Another great episode.
As much as I love the audio quality and the pizazz of livestream, they really need to be in person to have those body language cues of who is about to speak. This episode was crazy hard on Mark though, he had so many NPCs he was tracking in his head I don't blame him for not being able to listen as intently as usual.
Nova uses her sword as a divining rod to point her in the direction of more pieces. How are random people supposed to find pieces that could come in almost any form in a massive mountain range?
@@ngocdwong I really don't understand how either of those options are supposed to help random mercenaries find a piece that could come in nearly any shape in a massive mountain range.
@@alstonjacobs4934 what ship schematic? She's having Arvil pay a bunch of mercs to go search a random mountain range. Tiangong detected a shard when they were closer mercs won't be able to do that. Shes basically saying go search the rocky mountains and see if you can find me a particular dagger.
they're planning to do so after telling everyone in their meeting about their planned attack on the Tasadar with the Wings of Ishtar but I have a fear that there may be a spy or some kind of sensor listening in onto the meeting so hope nothing happens so I hope they only organize a small elite group to serve as reinforcements on the Tasadar attack if they want to save Valla quickly.
This is me being horribly pedantic and no one asked but I’m pretty sure warlocks don’t pay component cost kinda one of the whole points of being a warlock
Nope they still do, the big thing with warlocks is that most of your spell slots come back on a short rest and the eldritch invocations. You still need to pay spell costs
@@codyreed717 He's got a point with Lawful Evil though. If you've ever had any dealings with OSHA and worker safety regulations in particular, Lawful Evil isn't a hard sell. People were perfectly happy to house their workers with barrels of radioactive material, to the point where a specific law had to be written to prevent storing radioactive waste in workers living quarters. As soon as the law was written, they stopped doing it. In general people in this country are willing to be absolute bastards, so long as there isn't a document somewhere telling them they can't.
Love how Trott just interrupts people with the dun duns when he's annoyed at what they're saying lmao he's got too much power
To little power. He should be able to do what he wants
Literally laughed out loud at that. I'm sure it was done in good fun.
That scene with Quill...
spolers...
I'm a mother and I could imagine how it would feel to think my child had died and then find out they were so ashamed of their failure that they would think they couldn't come home.
AND I also suffer from some limiting medical issues that have me struggling with depression and guilt that I am not good enough.
That scene hit me hard. Tears. Very cathartic in a way.
The only other thing I could see is his mother fretting over his arm and eye/face.
@@christopherbrown9188 True, but at that point he was missing and presumed dead, so knowing that he was injured but alive would be initially happy. From a parental standpoint or at least mine, it would be like thinking your child died in some sort of terrible military training accident and then finding them years later with a prosthetic limb that they have already adjusted to using and they are already healed and living their life but they thought you would be more disappointed about them failing to make the cut in training and not being a service member than just being happy they were alive and wanting to help them heal. Like he dealt with all that physical stuff and also the emotional stuff without her.
I wonder if Trott plays Lucius so excited to meet Petal because he has experience Sentry's memories of Petal and understands just how she feels about her. I mean, Lucius is excited for any of his friends to experience a reunion with their family (which is heartbreaking because he can't) but he actually has memories of Petal as well through his interactions with the matrix.
Your comment brought tears to my eyes when referring to Lucius’ inability to have a family reunion. Just really hit home. He doesn’t pity himself though, he’s genuinely so happy for his friends that they have family...
Oh right, I'd forgotten about that. Good point, he HAS 'met' her before
17:54 I thought he said 'gonna have to counterspell that one' and it made 100% sense
Small thing, but I loved the peak "behind the curtain" when Mark and Kim were discussing the details and description of the representatives from her homeland- awesome to see the DM and player collaboration on the worldbuilding in that way, you don't always get that with D&D, and you love to see it.
Oh, how the turns have tabled.
Sentry's life was in danger because of who Petal was (ie a princess), and not because of who sentry was( a random guardian) but now Petal's life is now in danger because of who Sentry is (a thorn in Calus' side) rather than her own identity ( a random Horizon citizen as far as everyone knows).
Episode Start at 0:04
Announcements at 1:08
DUN DUNS at 4:30
Recap starts at 5:30
Recap ends at 8:20
Break start at 1:39:14
Break ends at 1:46:29
Gameplay ends at 3:01:21
Ending donos at 3:05:40
Luscious: we aren’t here to have petty grudges *only you*
Me: O.0
BIG OOF when I got to this XD
quill is always comparing himself to other people and i dont know why. 2 seconds later "look at nova she is a good child why can you not be more like nova."
I really loved quill, nova and Aila this episode I thought they all had some pretty good moments. Lucius also seems a bit more comfortable expressing anger and frustration and it was nice to see him go off like that. Also the whole thing with petal made me tear up a bit 🥲
Start of Dragonborn moment: 1:20:18
Part 2 1:36:45
Hey quill, remember that time when you used a magic spell, that can send a message to anyone in the world? And you sent a message to Arval and he didn't know there was a 25 word limit so, you had to send another one to let him know about the limit? And then you sent another message to sky-prince aridan and one to lucias's nanny and like 8 other people in one day but didn't send one to your mom? Do you remember that? Because I do. How about that time when you could use that spell every day and didn't? Anyway, has anyone seen the waiter with those little cheese squares?
Don't forget that until more recently he had been a disaster physically and mentally. He probably wanted to but wasn't in a state to tell her.
Hey N3kr0n15m have you ever heard of depression, have you ever stopped doing everything because you just can't do it anymore, have you ever realized how terrible it feels to think your family care not for you. if you have had this then feel free to share it with other people but it can happen to everyone.
Can’t wait for the chat with Qills mum about he did technically die then got resurrected...
"We thought you DIED!!!"
"Well no, but actually yes"
That is a thing that I would bend over backwards to hide from my mother.
"Were you killed?"
"Sadly, yes... But i LIVED!"
Sad the tritons were not included in the meeting, would be a good time for Baroness Eryn to get her trident back.
Thought the exact same thing!
I'm now imagining Lance the triton merchant being on the sky city and really freaking out.
i know im late commenting, but every episode of this i watch i am amazed by the emotion that Mark puts into his characters, i have never seen a better story teller, people rave about Critical Roll, but this is amazing stuff. Keep it up guys i applaude everything you are doing.
Missed opportunity. Everyone in one room? QUILL ASK THE EYE WHO THE TRAITOR IS.
I’m really glad Aila got to have a solid story moment in this episode! I get why it’s not necessarily the “main” character arc but it’s really fulfilling to see her find herself and her clan
I love that everyone is just searching for the answers to their questions, but aila just waits for her answers to inevitably fall in her lap.
Quill's mom being Spanish makes so much sense. Spanish is the only language I can think of where "Qui" is pronounced "Key".
Ok but if Pixar actually animated aerois though. Although I have a hard time picturing them animating when quillik pointed a gun at brookstone and said “ if you stand down now , I can show you where your son is and he can have a proper burial, otherwise * loads gun* like father like son”
@Dirge Blackstar they’d still have to change dialogue I think
Unbelievable that I have a decent recollection of that event and not remember this terribly awesome line
God DAMN the Stormchasers give me second-hand social anxiety. thank you Aila, for being a delight
Vortinzar is definitely working for Kalas, I thought it when we found out how loyal Ganas is, then seemingly confirmed by Nova's old teacher.
This was such a solid RP session. All credit to Mark and his excellent world-building.
Please tell me Siaska configured the world engine to create these elves in memory of alfheim because she couldn't save them, so she gave their legacy a new chance to live on amongst the wild elves. That would be so sweet
Next time they come to gusthaven, they'll find an inn called "the secred basement"
Ooh that is a good name for an inn tho
It looks like a storage room with a hidden trapdoor to the inn below. And that inn also has a secret trapdoor with a secret basement.
"The safest place is with us"
~thinks back to how many times the ship exploded, among other calamities~
That doesn't sound right...
@Dirge Blackstar Yeah but he had parted ways before the airship. The airship is a death trap :P
Mark is an amazing actor. He is good at channeling that mom energy.
Could it be, the world engine. Creating theses elfs as a defence mechanism to protect itself and the world its helped forge.
probably since it was from aelfheim
At least Aila isn’t, considering her vision in the astral sea
Like holding their souls in like the matrizx and releasing them at random when it can.
I like this idea. Maybe less of a defence mechanism, more just that it's still running Alfheim.exe in the background and dedicating reserve power to creating new wild elves. But then, why only frost ones? Why are fire ones so much rarer, and why are there no other lightning ones? Aila was found out in the woods too, how'd she get there if not the same process as the others? Maybe Valkyrian wild elves are reverse-abducting kids, hoping to give them a better life on Aerois? Maybe they can get through the cradle because they're babies, or because wild elves exist on Aerois and can be let through? Naw, I like the World Engine theory better
Holy! Aila is godly as hell! 25 strength alone is wow; but also 20 dexterity! And 18 constitution as well...amazing..a stat block like that at lvl 14 especially you'd think there would be a legendary action included in there lolol
And yet she still complains about not being good enough... Just goes to show that raw stats don't mean as much as people often make them out to be.
I just noticed how beautiful Mark’s eyes are
ahhhh those beautiful eyes
I know right?
You only just noticed? I've been appreciating his gorgeous eyes for forever lol
Oh.
Honestly I love seeing all the NPCs and all the interactions. Especially that person seeing Quill (Love that character already!) and everything else. Still don’t like the Dragonborn but at least that has been addressed. Can’t wait to see what happens next!
Good job not spoiling
Sexy Bunny is back, The Dragons are near, Death is probably imminent, and QUILL HAS A FAMILY?!?!?
Novas symbiosis with Tiangong gets mah tears going every time 😭
Mark: “... way taller than a human man should be, at six and a half feet tall...”
Me: *looks at my dad and my closest friend who are both 6ft6 and narrows eyes*
Omg there better be an epic battle between Tiangong and Tianwrong! 😂 Can't wait!
Also, Mark really does make a great mom
Spoilers
That is the second time that Lucius has proven how easy it is to manipulate the dragons. They are arrogant and emotional. He, without even trying to, got them to the point of near violence toward a valuable ally. Both here and back at on the Vivec. If Lucius can get that response from them, imagine how easy it would be for a master tactician like Starbane. Should Lucius have done so? No but it does show that the Dragons are not as high and mighty as they say they are.
You can be high and mighty and emotional. You can see this displayed well in both sides of the American parties. You can claim to hold the moral ground as an adult and be right in doing so, and still be as emotional and petty as a petulant child.
So sad for Nova. The twinkle in Nova/Kim’s eyes when they were introduced to the representatives of Vortensar only to be Brookstoned from the reps.
High rollers always makes my day
Clear skies! What a great episode.
1:04:26 Start of best moment in episode. That was also some phenomenal acting.
Great character development episode for everyone, Nova the most in my opinion because she had some serious guts to stand up and talk to the humanoid ancient dragons like I felt impressed and inspired that I was clapping for her by her gutsy actions because if I did something bad that caused some misunderstandings I probably wouldn’t have acted as Nova did here, she grew/develop in this episode I love it. Especially getting to know Quill’s family was fun and learning more about the other elves’ clan with their elemental storm powers and a slight clue on how it originated in Aerois even though it was not much.
I still have the fear either there may be a spy or one of the empire’s soldier may be recording conversations because the surprise attack on the Tasadar must succeed if Aerois needs more time to unite and build up their forces as Tiangong revealed that Aerois has no chance unless they unite and find some way to build their forces quickly. Like these special guardians here below.
Lost Lore of Aerois Part 1 (fanmade, also there's so much detail that I extended the comment to the replies section below because I couldn't comment because it was too long)
The will and notes of an unknown artificer from the events shortly after the sundering, Special Guardian Units:
I have finished the designs for a few special forces units composed of unique guardians in a total of 4 designs and 4 more lead designs that serve as the leaders of these 4 special units. I have made these guardian designs in order to prepare for another attack that may come in the future by that tyrant Kallus Starbane. Although the cradle is powerful, I have studied Siaska and their children for my entire life and I hypothesize that their great power has limits and if that is true then the cradle will fade eventually. But there is a problem, these guardian designs are as I say “special” so they need to be built with strong metals in order to live up to their name as special guardian units. I have prayed to either Hesper or Elana as they are the smartest children of Siaska for a special metal for these special guardians and I hope they will be answered soon if not now then in the future. Right now the sundering caused by Atelekis has disrupted the landscape of Aerois thus causing the loss of the Guardian Prime residing in Volcanus which is now unknown who also has the power to give life to born new guardians and reset their lifespan. I pray this will of mine to be found by anyone in Aerois and complete my work, find special metals for these guardian designs, and find the guardian known as prime to give these empty shells life to prepare to defend Aerois again in the future from another invasion.
Special Guardian Units Design1: Sentinel Knights
Leading the Sentinel Knights: Guardian Alpha
The Sentinel Knights are designed to be capable fighters and have spellcasting abilities being able to enhance their offensive and defensive capabilities. Eventually, they will adapt to learn how to be quite resilient to enemy spellcasting abilities. (Example: Paladin Oath of the Ancients/Fighter LVL 2 with both the protection and dueling fighting styles) Their weapons are two battleaxes and a shield, the battleaxes are specially designed to be able to climb vertical surfaces of castle walls or hulls of ships serving as exceptional infiltrators. The leader of this unit called Alpha stands out amongst the Sentinel Knights because of their large stature of being 7ft while the Sentinel Knights are 6ft 5 in, as well as the design of having 6 arms and 6 eyes. Alpha is designed to be a master of all versatile weapons with its flexible arms. Alpha is able to equip multiple shields and its arms and hands can transform into the following: longswords, warhammers, battleaxes, and shields. (Requires bonus action to change any number of hands and arms into Alpha’s desired weapon) The weapons Alpha can wield can transform into any of the 3 weapons or shields that Alpha desires to wield. Although Alpha doesn't have spellcasting abilities and damage resistance from spells like the knights, it does have great resistance to avoid spells or magical effects. (Alpha can make multiple attacks based on how many versatile weapons it’s wielding on each arm. If it hits a creature with its longsword it does an extra d8 of damage, if it hits a creature with its warhammer the creature must make a STR saving throw or be knocked prone, if it hits a creature with its battleaxe it’s instantly knocked 15 ft away from alpha, using the axes’ special design of being able to climb vertical surfaces to grapple and throw the creature away.) If Alpha is ever too damaged to fight offensively, then Alpha is able to turn its entire body into a very large shield that only large guardians like smashers can wield. (When wielded in shield form the following creature gains +5 AC (+3 shield) and magic resistance meaning advantage on saving throws against spells and magical effects.)
Special Guardian Units Design2: Predators
Leading the Predators: Guardian Beta
The predators are similarly designed like the forge guardians but have much more mobility in both air and ground as well as having greater firepower. They can also be stealthy and blend into the environment like chameleons. They are designed to be crossbow experts and have the following arsenal: two hand crossbows, two arm blades where they can stealthily neutralize enemies, and just like forge guardians wield a ray of fire (flame lance), and just like their ray of fire the predators’ crossbows and arm blades are flame enhanced by their chassis furnace and red elemental gems. The leader of this unit Beta is built much larger of being 6 ft 3 in. while the rest of the predators are 5ft 8 in and not only does Beta have much more firepower but because Beta contains more firepower Beta can also transform into a giant hand crossbow wielded by large-sized guardians. When Beta is in its hand crossbow form it takes a moment to charge and fires two shots and I believe that these two shots are able to take down a single airship in one go. (Example: Guardian Beta hand crossbow, takes an action to charge before firing two shots, +11 to hit 16d6 fire damage, when it hits or misses, everything within 40ft except the targeted creature if it was hit must make a DEX saving throw or take 8d6 fire damage or take half on a success) Beta also has enhanced defenses to defend itself against ranged attacks with its deflecting kick. ( As a reaction, Beta can increase its AC by 5 from 3 ranged attacks that would hit until the start of its next turn.)
Special Guardian Units Design3: Castle Crashers
Leading the Castle Crashers: Gamma
The Castle Crashers are built with a very unique spherical body with four crab-like legs but still have regular arms like a guardian just slightly larger and an almost square-like head, 10x larger than cannonballs. With a sphere-like body, the Castle Crashers can completely retract their arms, legs, and head and become a sturdy ball and can roll around. Now for the main reason why they’re called Castle Crashers. The large guardians commonly called smashers that have the main weapon of a large spike ball and chain where instead of a spike ball they can attach these Castle Crashers in their sphere form and they’re able to launch these Castle Crashers towards an enemy’s fortress like catapults and over the castle walls and cause some havoc on the other side so the enemies will have to face attacks from both flanks. Also, because of their dense sphere body, they barely take any damage from being launched or fall from a great height (fall damage is reduced by 100) and they are also very resistant to nonmagical damage (have resistance to nonmagical bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage). Not only can they be launched by smasher guardians but they can also be launched out of special cannons and they will mainly target enemy airships and that means when fired at the hull area they can breach and cause havoc inside and if they sense the airship is going down, they can simply go into their sphere form and go overboard receiving minimal to no damage from the fall and so they can be repaired and reused to take down more enemy airships. Now for their main weapons, they will use these ranged weapons that the invaders had, these things called firearms they will use as their weapons they can also use their sphere body to run over some enemies with their heavy body. Now for the leader of the Castle Crashers Gamma, he will be designed with a stronger body, 20x larger than a cannonball, and more firepower than the other Castle Crashers and with its stronger body it is immune to damage from falling or being launched. He can also be used as a weapon for large guardians like smashers to use (count as a +2 martial weapon with a reach of 15ft and it’s based on the creature’s stat of what the attack bonus will be and its damage will be 4d12 bludgeoning damage+creature’s STR mod and it counts as a siege weapon that does double damage to buildings.)
Special Guardian Units Design4: Overhauls
Leading the Overhauls: Guardian Delta
Overhauls are master repair guardians and they all have a magical compartment in their chest (imagine Wall-E chest compartment) that has an equal amount of space to a bag of holding that stores spare parts needed to repair guardians, all their sizes and models vary so they can be identified what specific guardians they can repair quickly. The fingertips of Overhauls can become any type of tool needed to repair guardians. The skills of Overhauls are that they are able to repair a severely damaged guardian in approximately 10 minutes if there aren’t any interruptions and have the right amount of spare parts. Now for the leader of the Overhauls Delta has a design of being noticeably the shortest Overhaul being 4ft 7in and from a short design, Delta is able to move and repair more quickly than any other Overhaul and has 3x the compartment space for spare parts as well as have the knowledge to repair any type of guardian since the models vary and each specific model can repair a few specific guardians and not any type of guardian like Delta.
Quill's mom and Lucius' sass at Dragonborn are highlights of the episode
11:50 already crying great fkn sht lads, great game, great roleplay, makes me look forward to my own games
Tom, you're killing me.
Is it just me or does Mark have a thing for bunny people?
Oh he 100% does 😝
... doesn't everyone?
@@T3hIluvatar If they don't they should
I started watching Aerois later on so when they first ran into Sanaa in Ironwick I was like, "So Mirko?"
high rollers makes me happy. Praxis Val.
I bet the phrase Praxis Val will later become Praxis Valla if Valla will take on the responsibility of the empire after her father in the future
@@o.d.d.5437 yesssss I hope so
Sentry playing out the classic overprotective parent bit on Petal. Strangely enough, instead of pushing Petal away from Sentry as is normally the case, Petal seems to want Sentry to be overprotective. Does this mean Sentry and Petal will travel together and live happily ever after or will they discover that ripping Petal away from the life she had in Horizon and getting her to stay on the Storm Chaser was a bad idea since she is now in a ship that literally barely survived a meteor strike with the promise of more to come? Additionally, does Petal truly want to come with Sentry, or is it a rash decision being made on the spur of emotions on seeing her long-lost guardian and she will regret her decision later? ( Like running away with you Sig Other that your soooo in love with only to break up later)
Lastly, Petal is a grown woman now with her duties and responsibilities, it seems that Sentry is just barging into her life and leaping back into her role of guardian and caretaker. It almost feels like she is treating Petal as if she were still a little girl with no regard for her independence she has gained as she grew up.
These Dragonborn are not good for my health. I almost popped several blood vessels launching into an imaginary rant that exposed all of the flaws in their behavior, their arrogance, hypocrisy, disrespect, contempt, and megalomania before I had to take a deep breath and remind myself that none of this is real and I'm arguing with no one about nothing.
I had a whole thing planned out for the first meeting way back when. Mark made it clear that they were one or two comments away from taking a swing at Lucius for even proposing the idea that they could be manipulated. I would have pushed it to a fight and then pointed out that they were easily goaded into violence against an ally with valuable intel on the enemy. If it was so easy for the storm chasers to manipulate them, imagine how easy it would be for a master tactician like Starbane. Then I remembered that I wasnt there and sulked a bit when they backed down from the dragons.
I had one for the lion eterna that sentry sometimes wears as a cloak.
I was sitting there yelling at a tv 2 plus years later.😅
Aila confirmed a delight
It's high rollers o'clock. Let's go!
The recap isn't over yet and I'm sobbing already :'''''''''')
LORE DUMP , HELL YA, im going to remember exactly 0 of these names, any of these people could show up in 10 episodes from now and iim going to be sitting here like "whoooooooo ?"
Seeing how the titan killer was made so quickly as soon as they discovered etherium, I think that etherium has something to do with the world engine
Spoilers
Quills meeting with his mother broke me. I swear y'all were laughing and i was just there crying in a corner
WOW! Mark is impressive
The characters always try to be so diplomatic. The dragonborn boarded the storm chasers threatened them and tried to hold them hostage. They then forcefully installed a known spy on the ship. the pcs have no problem or counter argument. The storm chasers had no obligation to inform the dragonborn of anything.
Seems like the ones powering the storm heralds are Thor, skaði and either Loki or surtur. Assuming they are all Norse.
NPC bouqet! Really awesome episode!
I would like to bet a single dollar that at the end of Altheya, Starbane shows up, and connects the campaigns.
The dragons in Aerois being descended from the ones in Altheya
The real MCU (Mark's Cinematic Universe)! I hope not, though, keep 'em seperate.
Sooo excited for this one.
If yall could have playlist that have the full campaigns as well?
i straight up was wheezing and cackling through the intro.. trott is too funny lmao
Vision vs White Vision moment with Tiangong and (probably purple) Tiangong
So Nova has 2 mums now right? 😂
Also my god the dragons... I so hope they get their asses whooped. Ambassador my ass Vis was a spy clear and simple, the Dragons didn't deserve to know anything they were doing 😤
Hey, Guys! Love your stream, and of course your story! I'm new to Twitch and live-streaming software. Wanted to ask: how are you managing to live-stream multiple remote video feeds through one program?
How did they not say how they brought Quill back from the dead
Would have loved:
Quill: 'Can I tell what they're saying?'
Mark: 'You can read lips can't you....no.'
Quill: 'But my massive throbbing perception and lip reading.'
Mark: 'Well they're Draconic humanoids, semi-reptilian.'
Quill: 'So?'
Mark: 'Reptiles don't have lips'
I know that would only make labial and possibly labio-dental (p, b, m, n etc..) not present and therefore allow lip reading, but it made me chuckle.
Aila: cuz you didn't tell us your mum thought you were dead
Me: what about that time? Ya know....when he did die and nova asked him via help from scaldie....and he said his family already think he died...? Yea that time-
Edit: it's in my brain permanently now. Ever since it happened
Oh my god, I know it’s just a campaign but I cannot even begin to say how much the dragonborns PISSED ME OFF
Fr they’re talking about trust and all while literally sending one of them basically as a spy, while they themselves keep secrets too
They want everything but don’t want to give anything in return
I was SO pissed off, ‘cause I feel like the party could’ve gotten so much more mad at them for everything but the context didn’t allow them to
They didn’t have to apologise for anything, except maybe the violating of their airspace when they first met, that’s all
Social anxiety squad, form up!
Love High Rollers!
TROTT IS SO SALTY ROFL
And this is all part of the dream spell,,,syke! Now Starbane knows all
1:37:20
...Then Lucius you should've said that's how their side was interpreted because yes that is a valid criticism and something they didn't admit fault for despite Nova admitting fault on her end.
But just being passive-aggressive and not mentioning your true issue won't repair any of the relationship.
Like it'd be fine to say hey, upon reflection we're now not sure if this is the way you meant it but to us at the time it seemed less like you were giving us an ally on our ship so that we had a way to relay information between our two groups and more like you were demanding under duress that we accept a spy onto our ship or else there would be consequences, with other consequences arising depending on what else occurred on our ship.
Again despite if it was meant like that or not that was how we interpreted it, maybe down to our own inexperience, but I think you can see how our main interaction with you basically seeming to be nothing but threats didn't give us a positive opinion.
And we are sorry for how your agent was treated but we didn't really know how to react to what seemed to be presented as a threat from someone we felt should be on our side which unfortunately lead us to become more suspicious of you too.
Yasssss Nova, queeen!!!!
Why does sentry not say anything something like ‘ the guardians are waiting for me to return but until that. They are all send to city of glass .
Oh dragonborn you tsunderes! You know you wanna trust the storms chasers UwU
What do you like to think about? Everythink.
Starcaller Nevarine? Am I detecting a reference to TES 3 Morrowind?
Caught the live stream but watching the video tooooo
hunt for the shard as a one-shot?
Knock Kock
Who's there?
The interrupting DM.
The interrupting DM wh...... MARK HULMES STOP IT!
Lol, joking. It's hard to do a game over video chat but I really wish these folk could work out a method of not talking over each other all the time. Another great episode.
As much as I love the audio quality and the pizazz of livestream, they really need to be in person to have those body language cues of who is about to speak. This episode was crazy hard on Mark though, he had so many NPCs he was tracking in his head I don't blame him for not being able to listen as intently as usual.
@@laurenwoods3609 That's true, it was a ridiculous amount of NPCs to mentally manage.
Nova uses her sword as a divining rod to point her in the direction of more pieces. How are random people supposed to find pieces that could come in almost any form in a massive mountain range?
having other pieces of Tiangong and working for sexy Starbane
@@ngocdwong I really don't understand how either of those options are supposed to help random mercenaries find a piece that could come in nearly any shape in a massive mountain range.
@@jimw7723 if she gives them the ship schematic then all they have to do is gather the weapon in the centre of the room she says it should be in
@@alstonjacobs4934 what ship schematic? She's having Arvil pay a bunch of mercs to go search a random mountain range. Tiangong detected a shard when they were closer mercs won't be able to do that. Shes basically saying go search the rocky mountains and see if you can find me a particular dagger.
@@jimw7723 she literally said I can give you a schematic of the ship and Arval responded 'stuff like that will help, but don't worry about the money'
I LOVE PETAL
Tradors Guild being America
Bloodviels being Russia
BIRDMOM
Ah yes *LORE*
Arosian defense summit =ads ????
I'm catching up
What happened to rescuing Valor
they're planning to do so after telling everyone in their meeting about their planned attack on the Tasadar with the Wings of Ishtar but I have a fear that there may be a spy or some kind of sensor listening in onto the meeting so hope nothing happens so I hope they only organize a small elite group to serve as reinforcements on the Tasadar attack if they want to save Valla quickly.
Crying over qillek's ... Spoiler ...
Mum xxx
The two dislike came here for poker and we're confused
1:45:53 I have that same dream.
2:32:13
1:04:55
3:12:56
Daddy Biden, just amazing, very funny! Lol
This is me being horribly pedantic and no one asked but I’m pretty sure warlocks don’t pay component cost kinda one of the whole points of being a warlock
Nope they still do, the big thing with warlocks is that most of your spell slots come back on a short rest and the eldritch invocations. You still need to pay spell costs
Who disliked
Starbane and some of his people.
I hate how Katie always says “i’ll let the lightning crackle” as if she’s constantly having to hold it back conciously.
America is chaotic good change my mind
Chaotic Neutral. Don’t sell us as more than who we are.
@@goggledgoon3342 ea there's an argument to be made
I'd argue Lawful Evil. I hate this imperialist country that won't pay for education or healthcare.
@@nickp359 sounds like communist talk to me
@@codyreed717 He's got a point with Lawful Evil though. If you've ever had any dealings with OSHA and worker safety regulations in particular, Lawful Evil isn't a hard sell. People were perfectly happy to house their workers with barrels of radioactive material, to the point where a specific law had to be written to prevent storing radioactive waste in workers living quarters. As soon as the law was written, they stopped doing it. In general people in this country are willing to be absolute bastards, so long as there isn't a document somewhere telling them they can't.