Welcome to Critical Hit a Major Spoiler's Dungeons & Dragons podcast. Once again, we are back.

We're back. We're back in the Springwood. Hooray for us. Hooray for the Torquotones. Hooray, Akiro's welcome.

Yeah, I am. Let's see. Oh, well, let us continue our adventure then shall we?

What game have you been playing for the last four years?

All right. So, uh, Orem, Cat, Randus, Torquotrell, find themselves walking down a path, a clear path

without too many scary, nashy plants back towards this ruling grove. And they are approaching it

from the campus side towards the entrance that Trell knows about, you know, to get into the big

brambly mess that covers the university without having to then go on to get like really hungry and

then get caught in mouth. Probably in a different order. Yeah, I guess it's different.

So, um, as our heroes approach the school, you notice that a big wedge has been cut out of that

kind of big brain-shaped bramble just kind of a big triangle that, you know, looks like it was

you know, essentially seared in a very precise way and then just dropped.

Does it look like an entrance or an exit?

Um, it looks like a doorway like it looks like it was deliberately there so that something can

get in and out. And it's, you know, it's not huge. Um, but even Torquot can walk through it

comfortably. And we walk through. All right. You walk through. You are on campus.

Um, nothing seems really different. The crystal arrays are still there and they're still

functioning, but it's pretty clear that the bramble isn't recuperating like it did before.

Um, things seem to be slowly moving or at least not progressing anymore, as far as the problem

with plants around here. Are there any people? Start calling for, you can see. Hello, Mr.

Arthur and Spud. Nobody, nobody appears immediately, but, um, I mean, you guys are kind of on the

edge of campus. Sure. Start making our way down towards the central, the main, the central

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