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LAURA: Yeah, let’s follow the direction that the
toad went.
TRAVIS: Yeah.
MARISHA: Cats love toads.
LAURA: I like it. It’s a good plan. This is
definitely not going to backfire. Let’s go.
(laughter)
MATT: All right. The horses pick up and begin
heading northward towards the Ustaloch.
LAURA: When we get far away from the carnival, we
should drop the guard bodies off. Push them out so
it looks like they were on patrol when they turned
into zombies. Far away from the carnival.
MARISHA: We ran into those guards that were
patrolling the lake–
LAURA: Exactly! Like a lake patrol.
MATT: It doesn’t take you too long to get to the
southern edge of the Ustaloch. You can see the
muddy lake bed that gives way to the water itself.
Number of scattered stones in the muck and
occasionally you hear the lapping of waves. The
very subtle wind flowing through in the night.
It’s about two in the morning. There’s some
moonlight in the sky. It looks like a waxing moon.
At least the one you can see because there are
multiple moons.
SAM: Wait, what?
MATT: There’s two moons in Exandria.
SAM: How did we never know that?
MATT: That was established in the last campaign.
TALIESIN: Like dogs, we never looked up.
MATT: One of the moons is so faint–
SAM: How many suns are there?
MATT: There’s one. Anyway, there’s a faint bit of
moonlight which gives you folks without darkvision
a little bit of detail that you can make out in
the vicinity. You come to the lake edge and
there’s the water.
TRAVIS: This is the best we can do for them.
LAURA: Take them out of this wagon!
MARISHA: Hang on, hang on. I want to look around.
Do I see any guards?
MATT: Perception check.
MARISHA: Big dice, don’t fail! Natural 20!
MATT: Okay. Couple things. One: you don’t see any
guards, but you do see a few hundred feet to the
west of you along the edge, you see a boat that is
about a hundred feet out on the water. You see two
figures that are in the boat. Possibly two
fishermen or two guards, but you can’t really tell
from this distance. There are two figures in a boat
a little ways out on the water.
From your current visual
perspective, you don’t see the other end of the
lake. It’s a pretty decent sized lake, but you can
see the very faint bump of a landmass that breaks
the horizon of the water.
MARISHA: Like an island?
MATT: Like an island, possibly.
LAURA: Or a giant toad sitting in the water?