Broken Bonds: Episode 05

September 5, 2020 (Arcadum's YouTube)

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***Broken Bonds* Episode 5** was streamed on Arcadum's Twitch channel on August 9, 2020. The group rests and after a little bit of trouble, arrived in the city of Ladrag's Rest. They started looking for information about the person they need to kill. This leads to awkward conversations, mishaps, favors, and identifying weapons.

## Summary

The party finish their looting of the goblins and set up for camp. While Lazarus and Jor Jor sleep to the side, the party sit by a campfire to tell stories. They talk about their upcoming and adolescences while P'mis sits in the corner of the tent talking to his daggers. P'mis asks how to get stronger and the daggers tell him to "*kill, doesn't matter where, doesn't matter who, just KILL*". They party finish their conversation and go to bed with nobody taking watch.

P'mis has a terrible dream; he sees himself at a cliff coast with waves hitting the side. He walks through a plain of softly white color grass and flowers to end up at a broken castle. An individual stands on top of that castle pointing at him. As P'mis goes closer to it, the flowers begin to turn red. He finally stands in front of the building and the being speaks, "seven paths, six are broken, the final is bathed in blood."

Meanwhile, Bryan dreams, because she drank the blood of a spirit seer, of something nearby in the caverns. She wakes up from her slumber and hears a soft voice outside crying for help. Bryan walks outside the tent and see that something is moving at a nearby boulder.

As she looks at the boulder, she notices blood and broken red scales leading to a goblin's hand crushed by a boulder. Bryan also notices that there is a message in Necro on the boulder saying "one less friend". She puts the stone to the side to see a flattened goblin and necklace drawing her in but she resists.

The medallion has all sorts of religious symbols that Bryan doesn't recognize but she does know one thing, this item belongs to a vampire. Bryan picks up the amulet and has a vision of a Muk Muk viciously killing the goblin, putting the message on the rock, and heading to Ladrag's Rest. Bryan goes back to the tent and tries to sleep.

The sun rises and the party gets ready for breakfast. They have a meager breakfast. Jor Jor tries to eat but Lazarus stops him because he was useless. Li'lu persuades Lazarus to give Jor Jor a meal and Lazarus agrees. P'mis devours through his meal saying he has never felt better and Remag comes next to him to reassure him that they are best friends. The party finishes their breakfast, pack up their things, and set off.

As they venture through the cavern, a fork comes upon them. Hashbrown and Li'lu immediately run south and Hashbrown steps on a hole covered in ice. A giant spider lunges at Hashbrown and he dodges it and the spider runs back into its hole. Unsure what he saw, Hashbrown looks in the hole and the spider lunges at him again. Hashbrown dodges again and the spider comes back into the hole. Hashbrown and Li'lu begin to explore left and find a pile of dirt that has no snow on top of it and Hashbrown begins to dig at it.

Meanwhile, back at the fork, Bryan and E'ar follow Hashbrown and Li'lu while P'mis and Remag head towards the other tunnel. P'mis remembers this abandonment by Bryan and E'ar and begins to complain to Remag about his hard work being unappreciated. While walking, P'mis hits a tripwire which destroys the cave blocking the way behind them with rubble.

At the other tunnel, Bryan and E'ar catch up to see Li'lu watching Hashbrown digging up a grave to a bunch of goblin corpses. They hear a loud thud and they rush back to see what is happening. While running, Hashbrown wants to show the spider he found and as he rushes to the spider, it grabs him and takes him into its den.

They look into the hole to see the spider eating Hashbrown insides. Li'lu rushes in and saves his body on death's door and E'ar and Bryan debate whether E'ar should heal him or he should learn his lesson. Eventually, E'ar decides to heal him and everybody runs to the cave.

Seeing that they are separated, Li'lu finds a small hole and takes herself to the other side where she explains to P'mis and Remag what is happening on the other side. Remag begins to shovel the rubble away and a small tunnel is made so everybody can go through. After some time, the party finds an exit with a frame made of silver. Hashbrown and P'mis scrap some silver and Remag finds the Rune of Eivas, a rune of wealth and purity, on top of the frame before exiting the cave.

In a few hours, the party finally comes to Ladrag's Rest. Lazarus drops the party at the inn with Jor Jor so that he can do his own business. In the inn, Li'lu grabs a big cup of ale and drinks it while she fantasizes about Vailen Vaskamere, the hot guy she sat next to.

E'ar looks around the inn to he a lot of hot guys and ask Bryan what to do. Bryan recites to swear their life to them and kill the person they requested for you to kill. E'ar goes to Wallace Wiltwillow and exclaim "I swear myself to you"; he then proceeds to ignore her and walk away.

Remag goes to talk to a tabaxi named Rzamd who offers him items. Remag asks what he would need for his mission and Rzamd stops. Rzamd tells Remag that Valloween is a loyal customer to him and Rzamd begins to blackmail Remag so that Rzamd does not tell Valloween.

Hashbrown, after being almost killed, begins to go to a room and sleeps. P'mis leaves the inn to find somebody to kill. He meets a person named Kai and P'mis sees that Kai is worlds away stronger than him. P'mis asks if Kai knows about magic daggers and he recommends a gnome that runs the magic shop. P'mis runs off to find weaker prey and finds a hobo. He eventually does and kills him with his daggers strengthening his bloodlust. The guards come running and P'mis escapes without being seen and runs back into the inn.

Meanwhile, Li'lu talks to Vailen and learns that he is a wizard who got white hair after mastering ice magic and likes to read his spell book. Li'lu demands Vailen to make two ice dogs and Vailen begins to put two icicles in his ears and continues reading. E'ar will blaringly call for Li'lu cracking Vailen's earplugs and he teleports away extremely annoyed.

E'ar brings Li'lu to Remag so that he can explain his predicament. They pay the ransom and Rzamd warns them how powerful Valloween is and it seems that a group of adventurers is coming to protect her. Remag gives a rod they found while looting the goblins to Rzamd to identify it and he recommends the gnome at the magic shop.

Meanwhile, P'mis eavesdropped on an argument between G'lck and Felor. G'lck is angry that Felor won't take him to his family reunion and Felor explains that her family will eat him. G'lck runs out of the room and P'mis follows. P'mis consoles G'lck and says that he doesn't need Felor in his life, G'lck agrees and goes to Felor to break up with her. G'lck leaves the inn and Felor is crying over losing the love of her life.

Back at the rest of the party, Bryan asks Li'lu what they should do with the scythe they got way back. Rzamd interjects saying he will buy it 4,000 gold but P'mis says otherwise. Rzamd is now disinterested and the party is mad at P'mis. They now head to the gnome at the magic shop to identify the items they got.

The party meets with the gnome Eqqsquizitine Buble-Schwinslow Backslashinfourth VII. Remag gives the rod to the gnome and identifies it as shapeshifter's bane, a tool that can heavily weaken shape changers like chimeras.

Bryan then heads to the gnome to identify her scythe. He recognizes it as a very valuable item and asks Bryan where she got it, and she said she doesn't remember. P'mis does remember and he starts to think about all the things he has done for the party like giving the scythe to Bryan and preventing the scythe to be sold but the party never thanks him. P'mis internalizes this anger and resentment.

The gnome says that this scythe is from the Shadowfell and offers to identify the scythe for 1,000 gold. They are hesitant to give the gold and the gnome offers an alternative. He asks the party to kidnap Gross Derick so that he can get revenge on a certain group of adventurers.

The party asks P'mis to identify his daggers but he insist to them that they are regular daggers. The party probes P'mis more but he is able to persuade the party to back off. Li'lu pays the gnome while saying his name. Delighted that his name was properly said, he gives back the payment and willing to identify the scythe.

## Featured Characters

### Main Characters

* Bryan
* E'ar
* Hashbrown
* Li'lu
* P'mis
* Remag

### New

* Noc No-lies
* Wallace Wiltwillow
* Callun the Traveler
* G'lck
* Rzamd
* Felor (played by Arcadum)
* Essy (played by Arcadum)
* Arden (played by Arcadum)
* Eqqsquizitine Buble-Schwinslow Backslashinfourth VII

#### Token Cameos

* Proctor Nollen
* Kristoph Lamander

### Returning

* Lazarus Lodestone
* Jor-Jor Jambis

### Mentioned

* Muk Muk
* Gross Derick