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Thorn Vale
Thorn Vale is a lanky stoat with jet-black fur, white fur where his scars are, a scar from forehead to nose tip and piercing yellow eyes, and his card reads Reluctant Cult Leader. BE E1·00:21:00 His followers, a nomadic band of stoats and other woodland creatures called the Lukura, know him as the Conduit. BE E1·00:19:48 BE E1·00:23:36 His two lieutenants are the Beacons Olliver and Teedles, and a huge badger listens only to him. BE E1·00:20:51 BE E1·00:22:10
Thorn is Viola's husband and the children's Uncle Thorn, and he leads the Lukura. BE E1·00:29:07 BE E1·00:25:23 BE E3·00:12:42 After a natural 1 on Survival he slips into a vision of the Blue and wakes to the dust storm. BE E1·01:05:02 BE E1·01:05:34 He tells the Lukura to rally at the Red Warren. BE E1·01:08:24 At the hill he apologises: "I should've pressed the issue last night." BE E1·01:42:39 In the bear he hits for 19 damage with Zephyr Strike, finds a glowing blue field in the spine, then bites the blue brain and passes out holding Viola's paw. BE E2·01:02:43 BE E2·01:03:01 BE E2·01:39:13 He levels up. BE E2·01:46:02
He tells Lila he started the Lukura to study the Blue, and in a memory sees two tall yellow creatures and a pointing hand that lunges before lightning pushes through it, the origin of his scar. BE E3·00:10:41 BE E3·00:47:42 He finds Olliver and Teedles and breaks down crying with Olliver, then sees through a pigeon a second, blue sun to the north and pitches the family on following the Light. BE E3·00:56:47 BE E3·01:36:31 BE E3·01:47:14 At Last Bast he is struck by lightning while dashing ahead of the elk and turns the herd with a natural 20 Persuasion. BE E4·00:43:46 BE E4·00:44:40
He takes Lila and Jaysohn to scout, hears Lila's confession and drops them at Education. BE E5·00:36:06 BE E5·00:53:20 BE E5·01:00:26 He tells Viola "we stay and fight." BE E6·00:46:09 Later he saves Jaysohn from the reactor pit with his Thorn Whip, then threatens him with love if he jumps off one more thing. BE E6·02:14:30 BE E6·02:21:09 In the pit fight his attack deals 23 damage to Kiran, the Director, enough to finish them. BE E7·00:54:25 BE E7·00:55:26 The Director dies after whispering "they are coming. Good luck." BE E7·00:56:16 Afterward Jaysohn finds Ava has no heartbeat. BE E7·01:32:59
He visits Olliver, now a police officer, and gives a speech to Bennett, then works with Tula and Quentin and finds the human woman Dr. Tara Steel with Viola. BE E8·00:59:51 BE E8·00:47:09 BE E9·00:06:11 BE E9·01:35:14 In the finale he casts Motivational Speech on the family, calls down lightning on Phoebe and later delivers a speech to the humans that is broadcast to the world. BE E10·00:26:24 BE E10·00:50:12 BE E10·01:35:53 BE E10·01:37:07 In the epilogue he points at Lila and Jaysohn and cries "I was a prophet the whole time!" BE E10·01:50:39
Character sheet — Burrow's End
Burrow's End sheet of Thorn Vale (played by Jasper William Cartwright). Only what is said in play or shown on the on-screen stat cards; dotted values are derived from spoken rolls. Values shown are the latest up to your chosen episode.
Skills
- Acrobatics: +5 BE E1·01:09:32—
- Performance: +9 BE E3·01:33:56—
- Persuasion: +9 BE E8·00:47:23—
Features
- Reluctant Cult Leader — Title on the character card, next to Ranger (Fey Wanderer). BE E1·00:21:10
- Lightning bolt on the bib — Draws a big lightning bolt shape in charcoal on his white bib. BE E1·00:28:00
- Tree marks — Marks the trees with anything Olliver or Teedles might recognize, so they can follow the family; keeps marking the trees with the same symbol as the group moves. BE E1·01:29:57 BE E1·01:34:41
- Favored terrain — In his favored terrain he asks to scan the floor for tracks. BE E2·00:25:29
- Favored Foe and Dreadful Strikes — Marks the bear as his Favored Foe, hits with Zephyr Strike on himself and uses Dreadful Strikes for extra dice: 19 damage in all. BE E2·01:01:28 BE E2·01:02:22 BE E2·01:02:25 BE E2·01:02:44
- Bite of the blue brain — Bites the blue brain; the DM calls for a Charisma and a Wisdom saving throw (which one is his is not said), he says 11; he watches his wife drop, holds on a little longer, then surrenders to the Blue and falls unconscious. BE E2·01:38:35 BE E2·01:39:11 BE E2·01:39:13
- Memory of the pointing creature — In the memory he pushes his essence out at the creature in fury; the DM narrates that it reached out and pointed at him toward a second pair of reflective sockets, and a lightning bolt burst through its hand. He was struck himself and Olliver and Teedles dragged him to safety: the origin of his scar. His Strength save in the memory is nine. BE E3·00:45:42 BE E3·00:46:35 BE E3·00:47:42
- Proficiency doubled in favored terrain — Checking his sheet, says his proficiency bonus is doubled in his favored terrain; the Survival total becomes 13. BE E3·00:41:34 BE E3·00:41:37
- Strange symbols — Describes the writing Olliver and Teedles found as strange symbols not dissimilar to what stoats use to communicate; later holds it up and tells Lila to focus on the symbols. BE E3·01:13:33 BE E3·01:20:40
- Actor feat — Uses his Actor feat to mimic a bird to call one toward him; the Performance check is made with advantage. BE E3·01:32:49
- Slowed — Says he has no bonus action because he failed the save, and takes two attacks on the Director. BE E7·00:53:30
- Frightens Speaker — When a creature within 120 feet succeeds on a save against being charmed or frightened, he can make the caster charmed or frightened of him for a minute; Speaker's fear spell is resisted and Speaker becomes frightened of him. BE E7·00:45:10 BE E7·00:45:14
- Zephyr Strike fails — Casts Zephyr Strike as a bonus action; the DM says the stoat in the gas mask sucks the wind from his lungs and the spell takes no effect. BE E7·00:30:46 BE E7·00:31:04
- Secret kept on Dr. Steel's condition — Asks Dr. Steel not to repeat what he tells her; Persuasion with advantage, 19. Dr. Steel says she will keep the secret "as long as it does not threaten the lives of the people I care about". BE E9·02:01:08 BE E9·02:01:20
- Channel Divinity: maximum damage — Calls down a lightning bolt on Phoebe's head with Channel Divinity, taking maximum damage instead of rolling four d10; the DC is a Dex save of 16, Phoebe makes it and takes 20. BE E10·00:50:12 BE E10·00:50:45 BE E10·00:50:53
- Wrath of the Storm — Uses Wrath of the Storm as a bonus action after being hit; a bolt of lightning hits the attacker, who misses a Dex save (DC 14 said) and takes 11 lightning damage. Jasper took 28 from the hit. BE E10·00:52:11 BE E10·00:52:23 BE E10·00:52:29 BE E10·00:52:34
- 69 hit points at the start of the fight — After being hit he says he started with 69 hit points and does not have that anymore (Viola's player had just said 69 for Viola); he does not call it his maximum. BE E10·00:52:44 BE E10·00:52:46
- Epilogue: prophet — Jasper's epilogue, pointing at Lila and Jaysohn: he was a prophet the whole time. BE E10·01:50:39
Spells
- Guidance — Casts Guidance on himself before a Survival check: a total of nine, but the kept die was a one. BE E1·01:04:48 BE E1·01:05:02
- Speak With Animals — Asks to cast Speak With Animals on himself to understand a creature better. BE E1·01:39:10
- Zephyr Strike — Casts Zephyr Strike on himself as a bonus action: thorns grow down his arms, an extra d8, advantage on the attack, and extra movement after each attack. BE E2·01:01:28 BE E2·01:01:55 BE E2·01:04:32
- Pass Without Trace — Casts Pass Without Trace on himself under a bush; his Stealth is a plus 19 with it and the total is 22. BE E3·00:15:20 BE E3·00:16:46 BE E3·00:16:57
- Beast Sense — Touches a pigeon and casts Beast Sense to see through its eyes. BE E3·01:34:49
- Thorn Whip — Has Thorn Whip ready to yank Jaysohn out of trouble. BE E4·00:35:43
- Thorn Whip — Uses Thorn Whip on the closest of the running children; the attack is a +6 and the d20 shows 14. BE E6·02:14:30 BE E6·02:15:59 BE E6·02:18:29
- Charm Person — Grabs the Speaker by the lapels and casts Charm Person; the DM answers with Counterspell, caster not named. BE E7·01:27:42 BE E7·01:27:51
- Hunter's Mark — Uses his bonus action for Hunter's Mark on the Speaker, vines marking them with a tiny lightning bolt; advantage on tracking them. BE E7·01:28:49 BE E7·01:29:00
- Enhance Ability — Casts Enhance Ability (Eagle's Splendor) on himself for advantage on Charisma checks before meeting the human. BE E9·01:40:08
- Healing Word — Uses Healing Word for the first time as a bonus action on the human woman; d4 plus the modifier four, seven points back. BE E9·01:41:16 BE E9·01:42:02
- Motivational Speech — Casts it on everyone for one hour: five temp hit points, advantage on Wisdom saving throws, and advantage on the next attack after taking damage. BE E10·00:26:24
- Lightning bolt (spell not named) — Summons a huge lightning bolt on Phoebe's head; he says the only card he does not have is Call Lightning, so the spell is not named. Dex save 16 for half, maximum damage with Channel Divinity, 20 after her save; he keeps concentration. BE E10·00:50:12 BE E10·00:50:33 BE E10·00:50:45 BE E10·00:50:58
- Daylight — Casts Daylight on the front of the truck when the humans are 60 feet away and closing. BE E10·00:36:38 BE E10·00:36:42
Items
- Charcoal — Takes charcoal to draw the lightning bolt on his white bib. BE E1·00:28:00
- Writing with strange symbols — Olliver and Teedles find a piece of writing with strange symbols on it and Thorn holds it up for Lila. BE E3·01:13:33 BE E3·01:20:40
By episode
BE E1: The Red Warren
- Card: "Reluctant Cult Leader", he/him, Ranger / Fey Wanderer, Level 4; AC 14, Str 10, Dex 16, Con 12, Int 8, Wis 16, Cha 16 — 00:21:00
- Looks: "pretty lanky, quite long stoat with jet black fur", white fur where the scars are, a scar from forehead to nose tip, piercing yellow eyes, a white bib on which he draws a lightning bolt in charcoal — 00:21:00, 00:28:00
- Called "the Conduit" by his followers; "the leader of this sort of cult" (GM) — 00:23:36, 00:26:20
- Deception "Dirty 20" to dodge talking to the badger; hands the job to Olliver — 00:22:50, 00:22:59
- On the badger: "does that thing where he sort of stares at you, and you have to take a full second to be like, are you going to eat me" — 00:22:12
- With Viola: "Fearful is a sort of default, so perhaps." — 00:27:51; wants to move: "I really feel like perhaps we should be moving soon." — 00:28:13
- Wisdom save 10 as he drifts into memory; a flash of Blue — 00:29:55, 00:30:07
- Sends two stoats with Viola: "Viola doesn't go anywhere on her own." — 00:34:19
- Survival with Guidance on himself: total nine, natural 1; Wisdom save skipped by the GM — 01:05:02, 01:05:25
- Vision of the Blue: scars, blue flowers, "making eye contact with something massive" — 01:05:34
- Orders Olliver and Teedles to rally everyone at the Red Warren; Intimidation with advantage, total 22 — 01:08:24, 01:08:43
- Acrobatics against DC 16: "I rolled a two for a total of seven." — 01:09:32
- Luck check "High" 17 finds Viola; Constitution save 9, takes five damage — 01:20:49, 01:21:37
- Asks if he recalls the dust's effect on creatures; History or Arcana, "That's a 16, for a 15"; picks Arcana as "more in his wheelhouse" — 01:27:22, 01:27:34, 01:27:43
- Marks trees with a sign Olliver and Teedles will recognise: "anything that Olliver or Teedles might recognize" — 01:29:57, 01:34:41
- Investigation 3 — 01:37:45
- Animal Handling with Guidance, Bless (from Viola) and Speak With Animals on himself: 21 — 01:38:58, 01:39:10, 01:39:31
- Apologizes: "I should've pressed the issue last night. I hesitated." — 01:42:39
BE E2: Bearing the Scars
- Card: "Reluctant Cult Leader", he/him, Ranger / Fey Wanderer, Level 4; armor class fourteen, strength ten, dexterity sixteen, constitution twelve, intelligence eight, wisdom sixteen, charisma sixteen — 01:00:46
- On the creatures: "I've seen them be pushed back by this force, this lightning, this magic, and all of us possess it in some way, shape, or form." — 00:06:48
- Asked how many monsters he has repelled: "One, probably, kind of." — 00:07:30; after Olliver: "Yeah, there were probably, yeah, probably two. Probably two." — 00:07:34; "[whisper] Thank you, Olliver." — 00:07:37
- Wants to move to higher ground: "we have an excellent tracker to help us get to that higher ground." — 00:09:20
- Mother-in-law: "I really think I made a breakthrough with your mother." — 00:15:53
- Apologises to the Beacons: "I owe you both an apology." — 00:18:34; "I've already been responsible for the death of so many" — 00:18:41; "I can't lose anyone else, least of all you two." — 00:20:49
- Farewell to the Beacons: "Brighter than the sun, swifter than the wind." — 00:20:56; gives Teedles Guidance — 00:21:01
- Says the Blue and lightning are one: Aabria: "you 100%, like, you understand that this is the same thing." — 00:24:17
- Arcana 14 — 00:21:53. Tracks check 24 with Tula's Help action: the area is a bear's "stomping grounds" — 00:25:56, 00:25:58
- Orders cover: "everyone, low to the ground and cover yourself with some moss" — 00:27:07; stays on the ground — 00:27:43
- Initiative 7 — 00:30:43. Enters the bear, casts Zephyr Strike on himself, hits with Favored Foe and Dreadful Strikes for 19 damage — 01:01:28, 01:02:10, 01:02:22, 01:02:43
- Medicine 17: finds a "trickling little stream of cerebral spinal fluid" glowing blue — 01:03:01, 01:03:04
- Wisdom save 22 against the roar — 01:03:44
- Bites the blue brain; saving throw "An 11?" (ability not named); falls unconscious holding Viola's paw — 01:38:35, 01:39:11, 01:39:13
- After the fight: "Could we please get out of the bear?" — 01:46:24; "I can literally, I can see it starting to decay." — 01:46:32; lays a hand on the bear's snout: "brighter than the sun, swifter than the wind." — 01:48:00
BE E3: A Second Sun
- Card: "Reluctant Cult Leader", he/him, Ranger / Fey Wanderer, Level 6; armor class fourteen, strength ten, dexterity sixteen, constitution twelve, intelligence eight, wisdom sixteen, charisma sixteen — 00:16:35
- To Lila: "I never had any designs or ideas of being like your father." — 00:08:47; "I believe that their one weakness is this Blue." — 00:10:41; "That's why I started the Lukura." — 00:10:41; "I need you to keep your head on a swivel" — 00:11:10
- On the creatures: "Hairless, yellow, sort of big, reflective eyes." — 00:11:53; after Lila's goodbye: "I'm doing it! I'm being an uncle." — 00:12:34
- To Viola: "I need to find Olliver and Teedles." — 00:14:49; "Don't worry, no one's going to see me." — 00:15:18; casts Pass Without Trace under a bush — 00:15:20
- Stealth, plus 19 with Pass Without Trace, die 3, total 22 — 00:16:46, 00:16:49, 00:16:55, 00:16:57
- Survival to track: tries "Guide" on himself, rolls 10, with doubled proficiency in favored terrain 13 — 00:40:17, 00:40:52, 00:41:37
- The memory in the blue flowers: "I think I just push my whole essence out towards this creature in blind fury." — 00:45:42; Strength save "Nine." — 00:46:35
- Survival with advantage 23, finds the pair's tracks — 00:49:35, 00:49:55
- Surprises them: "What are we looking at?" — 00:50:39; "Head on a swivel, Olliver." — 00:50:45
- Intelligence check "I have a minus one", total 6 — 00:51:57, 00:52:02
- Delegates the carving: "Hey, this is what a leader does. I delegate." — 00:53:18; "I missed you and I'm glad you're alive." — 00:53:37
- "Truly the one thing I'm doing successfully today is pushing all of that emotion down." — 00:54:57; Dexterity save DC 17, "I think I got a 13 in total." — 00:55:50, 00:56:04; then cries with Olliver — 00:56:47
- "I failed immediately, you know what I mean?" — 00:57:07; "There's this kid Jaysohn, and he's better at survival than me, and I'm a frigging ranger!" — 00:57:27
- Tricks Jaysohn away from Teedles: "Hey Jaysohn, I think I just saw, what's that over there?" — 01:07:48
- With Lila: Help action on her Investigation — 01:13:57; on her Arcana: "So focus on the symbols." — 01:20:40
- Scouting from a tree: "I'm going to go up a tree for, you know, 20 minutes, maybe." — 01:30:44
- Actor feat bird call, stealth 22, performance 12, persuasion 16, Beast Sense on the pigeon — 01:32:49, 01:33:20, 01:33:53, 01:34:24, 01:34:49
- "I can see there's the sun. There's a second source of light. It's blue." — 01:36:31
- Survival 26: "Brighter than the sun, swifter than the wind. Thanks, pigeon." — 01:40:26, 01:42:11
- Ava vs Thorn on instincts: "Well, I'm a stoat, and I wasn't born in the same place that you were, but I have a very different set of instincts." — 01:42:50
- Long pitch to the family: "I truly believe this is the way that we keep this family safe." — 01:47:14
- To his Beacons: "You have no obligation to me if you-" / "Shut up." — 01:52:33, 01:52:37
- "Stoats contain multitudes, okay?" — 01:55:42
BE E4: Last Bast
- Card: "Reluctant Cult Leader", he/him, Ranger / Fey Wanderer, Level 6; armor class fourteen, strength ten, dexterity sixteen, constitution twelve, intelligence eight, wisdom sixteen, charisma sixteen — 00:13:46
- "They built it above ground. That's a weird move." — 00:02:57
- Gives Lila the Help action on Investigation — 00:03:51
- To Teedles: "Could you do the head on a swivel bit for me?" — 00:16:15; "we need to endear ourselves to these other stoats as quickly as possible" — 00:16:26
- "perhaps we show more stoat-like instincts if we go in through a stoat entrance" — 00:17:26
- "Jaysohn, let's just make sure we ask before we eat." — 00:19:06
- Argues for asking the owners: "Whereas if we go and ask them, then we get like as many of these rabbits as we want." — 00:23:12
- Ava asks him about animals; he mentions "this one badger. He was particularly grumpy." and says seeing through animals "seems to be a particular skill that I have" — 00:27:58, 00:28:28
- Follows Jaysohn: "I'm only five feet slower" — 00:34:49; "Thorn Whip ready to just yank him outta there." — 00:35:43
- Perception 25 while scouting the herd's path — 00:42:51
- Dashes, is struck by lightning and reappears 30 feet from the shale — 00:43:46; Persuasion natural 20 — 00:44:40
- Helps Tula's Insight by talking hunting with Bennett — 01:33:19–01:33:27
- "Quite an impressive organization that you have here." — 01:27:27
- "But each of us are uniquely gifted with the Blue." — 01:27:44
- To Bennett: "Squadron, I like that word." — 01:29:22
- At the catwalk: "no jumping." — 01:45:16; after hearing "Human": "I knew it." — 01:46:24
- "Is there a place to read?" — 01:50:39
BE E5: Protect the Light
- Card: Reluctant Cult Leader, he/him, Ranger / Fey Wanderer, Level 6; armor class fourteen, strength ten, dexterity sixteen, constitution twelve, intelligence eight, wisdom sixteen, charisma sixteen — 00:36:24
- Guesses at Ava's eye: "It might have been the elk. It might have caught her, maybe." — 00:07:09
- Wants to study the Blue's use: "I want to go and investigate the Blue and see if everyone can do this or if everyone has access to it." — 00:09:36; to Jaysohn: "I'm going to go see if other kids jump off stuff too." — 00:10:22
- To Viola: "Freshen things up a little." — 00:12:03; "I'll see what we can do." — 00:12:06
- Secret mission for Jaysohn: "I've got a really special, super cool task just for you." — 00:37:02; "Do not tell your mum, please." — 00:37:59
- With Teedles: "It might be good to establish a structure. Who is answering to who?" — 00:41:03; "Teedles is one of the ones helping with our secret mission." — 00:43:22
- After the mint: "I'm so ill prepared for this!" — 00:44:41
- Welcomes Lila's confession: "Hey, look, this is a safe space. Say what you need to say." — 00:53:20; Deception 27 — 00:53:25
- Consoles: "Lila, there will always be space for people as bright and intelligent as you." — 00:57:20; to Jaysohn: "I could probably do with another Beacon." — 00:58:47; offers a handshake: "No, you grab hold of my paw. Paw on paw." — 00:59:46
- Hands the kids over: "If you could direct me to Education where I can drop these two off for the day?" — 01:00:26; "I'm honestly just going to take a quick five minutes to take a breath." — 01:06:58
- On Lukas: "What the hell? There's three of them." — 01:41:18; "Troubling." — 01:41:43
- Gives the Help action, recipient not named, to the kids' attempt to talk Lukas back (rolls 7 and 5): "I'll give you the help action by being like, we definitely won't tell your mum." — 01:45:17; "Simon! Please!" — 01:45:36
- To Tula: "I was parenting." — 01:46:30; defends the kids' wish: "If we're in the dark, we know nothing, and if we know nothing, we are not safe." — 01:58:40
- Casts Pass Without Trace on all — 01:55:40; stealth 33 and 34 — 02:00:41, 02:04:32
- During the argument: "we cannot start panicking now and running around telling thousands of stoats that something terrible is happening." — 02:17:45
BE E6: Reactor Charlie
- Card: Reluctant Cult Leader, he/him, Ranger / Fey Wanderer, Level 6; armor class fourteen, strength ten, dexterity sixteen, constitution twelve, intelligence eight, wisdom sixteen, charisma sixteen — 00:32:42
- Lies awake over the Light: Jasper says the idea "that the Light was made by the humans I think has fundamentally rocked his foundations" — 00:32:35; to Viola: "I'm just thinking about yesterday. Tensions got a little high." — 00:34:00
- Apologises: "Me pushing back on you in that moment wasn't... That wasn't fair because it was coming from a place of my own fear" — 00:34:17; "I don't know what life that would be if I couldn't say your name." — 00:36:20; "So we've gotta check out this Reactor Charlie, right?" — 00:36:33
- Asks Viola for a decision together: "If the time should come where a decision has to be made to run or stay, that it is our decision whether we run or stay." — 00:39:39; "But I cannot lose you." — 00:40:51; "It will always be our decision, Viola." — 00:41:16
- After the Perception 15 he smells the musk on the three — 01:07:19; Insight to read Tula's hint about a walk — 01:08:55; suggests "a little morning clean" — 01:11:01
- Speaks with his back to the entrance: "I believe that you're being tracked." — 01:16:20; explains marking rabbits: "It's a similar smell, and it's very intentional." — 01:19:35
- Perception 19 at the Beacons' nest — 01:32:28; "I have reason to believe that my family is being tracked by Population Support." — 01:34:13; "it wouldn't be the worst idea for us to have someone on the inside." — 01:35:42; "But no risks." — 01:35:59
- After Tula's decision: "I just say to everyone, nobody argue. Let's just go." — 01:39:45; "To the forbidden place!" — 01:40:03
- Casts Pass Without Trace on everyone as they head out — 01:42:47, 01:43:32
- Initiative 8 (wins the reroll after a tie with Viola on dexterity) — 01:49:59, 01:50:17
- Proposes the body be thrown in: "Is there a universe in which it behooves us to throw the body into the, to see what happens." — 01:58:34
- Pulls a tile with the Blue and reveals the human skull — 02:10:54, 02:11:13
- Saves Jaysohn with the Thorn Whip (+6 and Bless d4 = 4; Box of Doom; d20 = 14) — 02:14:30, 02:17:06, 02:18:29; Jasper: "I genuinely was like, about to start to start crying." — 02:18:59
- Threatens Jaysohn with love: "with all the love in the world, if I see you jump off one more fucking thing," — 02:21:09; "I'll kill you." — 02:21:09
- "It's what families do." — 02:22:22
BE E7: The First Stoats
- Card: Reluctant Cult Leader, he/him, Ranger / Fey Wanderer Level 7, Cleric / Tempest Domain Level 1; armor class fourteen, strength ten, dexterity sixteen, constitution twelve, intelligence eight, wisdom sixteen, charisma sixteen — 00:07:04
- Dives after Viola: "I'm diving after her, grabbing hold, and grabbing hold of the wall." Athletics 13 — 00:07:00, 00:07:09
- Perception: a natural one (Aabria: "Natural one? Amazing.") — 00:17:19, 00:17:25
- Positions himself between the family and the door — 00:18:44
- Round one: moves to the Director, casts Zephyr Strike as a bonus action but "you feel almost as if the wind is sucked out of your lungs. The spell takes no effect." (Aabria) — 00:30:46, 00:31:04; claws 17 (miss), miss again: "I did rock up and do nothing." — 00:31:18, 00:31:59
- Reaction: Speaker's fear spell is resisted; Thorn's feature makes Speaker frightened of him — 00:45:14 (Speaker's roll 11 — 00:45:08); Jasper: "the Last Bast just crumbling into the ground as humans start ripping it to pieces" is the image he sends — 00:45:34
- Slowed; attacks the Director: 14 and a miss (value not said); a reroll of one attack gives 18 (hit), Favored Foe and Dreadful Strikes, 23 damage — 00:53:37, 00:54:13, 00:54:25
- Survival 15 reveals the wolf acts on Kiran's orders; sweeps Kiran's legs and claws their face; Kiran dies — 00:54:56, 00:55:38, 00:56:16
- Tries Charm Person on Speaker ("This ends now!"), Counterspelled; talks with Speaker; Hunter's Mark — 01:27:42, 01:27:51, 01:28:49
- Insight 19 on Ava — 01:32:57
BE E8: Five
- Card: Reluctant Cult Leader, he/him, Ranger / Fey Wanderer Level 7, Cleric / Tempest Domain Level 1; armor class fourteen, strength ten, dexterity sixteen, constitution twelve, intelligence eight, wisdom sixteen, charisma sixteen — 00:42:38
- To Ava: "I think this is something that's emerged as you exited the water. I could tell that something had changed." — 00:04:58; has been staring at Tula and makes eye contact with Lila: "You see it too?" — 00:07:52, 00:08:05
- Insight on Tula: 21; Jasper asks to make one because Tula "has a particular track record of masking all of the truth because she doesn't want to worry or upset people." — 00:11:37, 00:12:11
- To Ava: he went to "that same field which Tula describes" with a crew of trained hunters, and "that cloudless thunder tore through us like we were nothing but a blade of grass." — 00:17:41; "There was nothing that we could do!" — 00:18:07
- "We have made a choice. This warren is without its leader, and we now have to rise to the occasion." and "we have a responsibility to every stoat in this warren to have a plan." — 00:20:04
- Perception 16 — 00:21:12; stage-whispers that someone is coming — 00:23:53
- To Bennett: "I want to be clear. I don't want to leave. I want to stay and fight by the side of every single stoat in this warren." — 00:31:21; "I understand, and I am ready to take responsibility." — 00:31:55
- Speech on his failure: "I started off this journey thinking that I was the leader that knew everything, and that blindsided me to something horrific." — 00:43:15
- Second speech on the four First Stoats: "why is there not more than four stoats that have lived longer than 20 winters, lived longer than four winters? I see no one else." — 00:45:01; Persuasion 26 (first said "36", then "I have a plus nine, and that's a 17"; "I pull back to a 26.") — 00:47:09, 00:47:23, 00:47:46
- "Thorn has not said no to the hats." (Jasper) — 00:46:38
- Insight "Dirty 20": Aabria shows that Bennett's eyes narrow at "20 winters": "These four stoats, not quite right." — 00:48:16, 00:48:19
- Gives Viola the Help action and Guidance (a d4) for the attempt to teach Ava — 00:51:34, 00:51:43
- Deception against Tula's insight: rolled a two, total 11 — 00:52:55
- Visits Olliver in the yellow corridor: "I can't do this in front of the family" — 00:57:45, 00:58:57; asks Olliver to speak his mind — 00:59:42; lets Olliver pin him (Jasper's description): "Thorn literally flies in and just lets Olliver beat the shit out of him" (Jasper) — 01:01:08; "As Community Support, if you hear anything about how people felt about the First Stoats" — 01:02:26; "I think you know what to do. And I'm going to leave." — 01:03:57
- At the lab: "has there ever been record of a fifth First One" — 01:35:03 (he adds "perhaps a she"); Speaker's last words: "that was the last piece of information they felt it essential to impart on me." — 01:36:17; "They did this. They cleared out the warren." — 01:37:03
- Asks about the experiments: "the orders to perform experiments on certain animals. That came directly from the First Stoats" — 01:38:26; theory that the First Stoats "were themselves victims of experimentation with the Light" — 01:43:16; "And as Dr. Wenabocker said, we are very sneaky." — 01:44:42
BE E9: Human
- Card: Reluctant Cult Leader, he/him, Ranger / Fey Wanderer Level 5, Cleric / Tempest Domain Level 5; armor class fourteen, strength ten, dexterity sixteen, constitution twelve, intelligence eight, wisdom eighteen, charisma sixteen — 00:05:42
- "To have Beacons, you need to be Conduits. Are you ready to be Conduits?" — 00:02:26; "It means you get to tell everyone what to do." — 00:02:31
- Goes to Quentin to learn what is useful against the humans: "I'd just love to know what you have worked on" — 00:06:38
- Remembers the first humans: "they had this sort of yellow skin, no eyes. They didn't look organic in the way that we do." — 00:07:56; sees the photo: "Oh god, worse than I imagined." — 00:08:46
- Asks Tula: "Do you think there's a universe, a world in which stoats and humans are not adversarial?" — 00:11:12
- Wants security: "What we have is, we have the element of surprise." — 00:14:56; proposes to "tie them to a chair" — 00:17:05
- To Quentin: "This is good, this is good." (of the Human language discovery, "It is a lot, I know.") — 00:14:01
- Says it all comes from working out "how to be a father in this moment" — 00:18:19; "Put them on a leash or something." — 00:18:38
- Survival check 25 on the second sun; Aabria adds Last Bastion as favored terrain — 01:17:00, 01:17:07; "it feels like a bad idea to not have eyes on this human" — 01:19:23
- Proposes making his own Blue light to scare the humans: "I could almost generate my own Light, my own Blue" — 01:20:28
- Intelligence check on the camps: "Okay, four." — 01:33:42; stealth 13 — 01:35:12
- Casts Enhance Ability (Eagle's Splendor) on himself — 01:40:08; "My name is Thorn." / "This is my wife." — 01:40:22, 01:40:24; uses Healing Word for the first time — 01:41:16; d4 plus modifier four, "seven points back" — 01:41:56, 01:42:02
- To the human: "Please, don't panic, because I know that if it was me in your position, I would probably be panicking." — 01:39:41
- To his family when MeatWolf arrives: "Ava, please! <…> Jaysohn! Arms down! Or so help me god, I will put a leash on you!" — 01:44:15
- "Dr. Steel, before we go into lots of sharing of information <…> we need your help. There is more of us." — 01:47:41
- Asks the human not to repeat what she learns; persuasion with advantage 19 — 01:56:36, 02:01:08
- Dr. Steel gives the family a way to reach her: "You can find me on channel six." — 02:04:05
BE E10: Evolution and Revolution
- Card: he/him, Reluctant Cult Leader, Ranger / Fey Wanderer Level 5, Cleric / Tempest Domain Level 5; armor class fourteen, strength ten, dexterity sixteen, constitution twelve, intelligence eight, wisdom eighteen, charisma sixteen — 00:50:20
- "Dr. Wenabocker is the problem now." — 00:08:04; "That's what I said. But they seem to resist the idea." (on tying the humans to chairs) — 00:08:35
- On the idea of faking a meltdown: "That's what I was thinking." — 00:10:52
- To Dr. Steel: "If there was to be a big, blue light show right above where Reactor Charlie is, would that be cause for perhaps pause?" — 00:18:00
- "they will wipe us off of the face of the earth before we even have a chance to talk" — 00:21:10
- "Still getting used to time but should we say 10 minutes and then go?" — 00:23:21
- Plans to run Truck as a decoy: "Drawing all of the humans' attention to us in the truck and away from Last Bast." — 00:25:03
- Huddle: "it is the joy and honor of my life to call myself a member of your family. We have to do this because if we fail, this will be the Burrow's End." — 00:26:03
- Casts Motivational Speech on everyone (Jasper: "This lasts for one hour. Everyone gets five temp hit points"; advantage on wisdom saving throws; advantage on the next attack after taking damage) — 00:26:24
- Tells the stoat leaders: "That's the point to start fighting back." — 00:30:23
- Spots the humans from the roof of the truck (survival 25) and casts Daylight on the front of the truck — 00:35:41, 00:36:42
- Initiative 24, tied with Viola — 00:41:37
- Lightning bolt on Phoebe, Channel Divinity for maximum damage: "I summon down a huge lightning bolt right on top of Phoebe's head" — 00:50:12; 20 points after Phoebe's save — 00:50:53
- Is hit by the soldier's fire (natural 20; 28 piercing) and answers with Wrath of the Storm: 11 lightning damage — 00:51:26, 00:51:34, 00:52:29
- Speech to the humans: "there is nothing that you won't do for those that you love" and "if you will allow us, we would like to carry on loving" — 01:35:53
- Persuasion with advantage, Guidance and Lukas's bardic inspiration: 25 — 01:36:38, 01:36:46, 01:36:52, 01:37:03
- Epilogue (Jasper, in the stands, pointing at Lila and Jaysohn): "Brighter than the sun, <…> swifter than the wind. I was a prophet the whole time!" — 01:50:39