Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - Relics and Rarities Ep. 7 - Janina Gavankar in The Mystery of King Senna's Tomb Part 2

Episode Date: July 29, 2024

Having set off for the Tomb of King Senna to find the Axe of Thanian Mayit, our adventurers have run into peril. They will have to think fast to escape this deadly situation -- and the tomb -- with their lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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and you were unable to hold him as you start to fall to the ground. Anything you wanna do? Yeah, I'm gonna check. You have six seconds as you should. Oh God, I don't have anything. I throw a rope. I throw my rope down.

I don't know if you have enough time for that, sorry. We got one on, but to throw, no? I don't think so. It's a split second thing. So you fall, as you're falling, you're gonna take some of this. That's cool. I don't have anything.

All right. I told you to let me throw you. You will take six bludgeoning from banging on the walls and then you will take. Oh no. 14 piercing. You land and it goes right through the meat of your leg. Ah!

Pull it up. You pull it up to extract it and you're able to get free of the spike, but man, did that hurt. You were now at the bottom of this hole. That's it, I'm done. I'm gonna plop down and pull out my little balm and start rubbing it on.

I'm gonna wiggle my nose and hop down there to see if he's okay. She floats down so gracefully like it's just absolutely nothing. Are you all right? No! Oh. Sorry. Yeah, you are.

Okay. Do you pull yourself up? Yes. Ferris pulls himself up on the other side. So I've cast the balm of the summer court, which is my Fay ability with the, cream, but I'm putting it on the wound specifically. So I'm just gonna go ahead and use all of them on me.

So there. That's 10, 16, 17, 18 points back. Nice. And then I get five bonus speed and five bonus temporary hit points. Okay, great. So he rubs this cream on his leg, you watch him do that, and it sort of heals itself, knits itself back up.

Yeah, there's like a vapor that comes out and then back in. because it should go to another person, but back to me. I knew you could do it. Selfish vapor. Yeah. And yeah, and he, you know, his legs seems to, shakes it out a little bit, stretches.

But he's all fit as a fiddle. I'd like to throw my rope down and pull him back up. All right, so then as you're sitting there helping yourself and she's floating over this. Well, you have to land eventually. So you land over there next to him safe out of the, out of the spikes. A rope comes tumbling down over your head.

Do you want me to help you up? Before I leave, I'm gonna check that body. All right. So yes, you go over to the body. I'm weaving through the spikes. Which you're small enough to sort of fit through. Ooh.

Gotta get greedy. Yes. See, you're trying to play in sight, right? Mm-hmm. So you go look at the body. It's got a, it's got a, like a pith helmet on, like an adventurers' explorer's helmet. And it's wearing kind of, you know,

like a khaki suit with some like gear and stuff on it. like it's a true explorer. Definitely like big white bushy mustache. At one point, at one point. Yeah, yeah. Go ahead and make an investigation check if you want. I would do that to you. You have my good luck charm.

I am your good luck charm. Plus three. You're going through pockets and things like that and there's not much on them that matters to you. There's some parchment and stuff, but it's all since sort of disintegrated into nothing. What an ill-prepared adventurer. Very ill-prepared.

I'm taking the helmet. Go ahead and take the helmet. Yeah. Good idea. You've got two hats now. Two hats now. Do you always have two hats? Two hats, Ricky.

Two hats, Ricky. Two hats Ricky. Street names. Do you collect those things or something? I'm collecting everything right now. I put it back in my pack and you're down here with me, right? Yeah, yeah. You got a rope right now, you got a rope hang down there.

I'm not... He's angry. He's angry with me. Don't worry. I won't drop you like Viro Stig. I'm just gonna climb on your back. I feel more comfortable there. He's holding on.

I just feel like if he was a comely maiden, you wouldn't have dropped him. Oh, that's so not fair. I love my brother. I tripped. Fair, fair. I tripped. So you start to scale up the rope, you're holding on to it.

We say you take your time, you make it up safely, you are all on the other side. Now you have been climbing cross using your second story ability so you can do it, you're just holding on, you make it over there, and you step across and you're like, what's the big deal? After causing this chasm in the first place, yes. This hallway seems to continue again

for like another 30 feet and then it turns to the left. Okay, I'm gonna look at it. Again, I'm gonna investigate. Do you have to, do you wanna do it? Oh, sure. I should just, take it. And it's a zero, right? Yes.

It all looks very safe to you. Someone else wanna go? Someone else wanna look down this hallway? Anyone who's got better vision than I? Well, it's lit now. Oh, it is lit now. It goes all the way, yeah. I have a plus eight investigation,

but I don't know if I can investigate for traps, can I? Yeah, you can. Oh, let's investigate for traps. So she just did it and said it was fine. Okay, but. If you want to take a second look, you can add your modifier to what she rolled.

Okay, yes. This has been a pattern in relation. Yeah, so I have a plusy. Okay, so go ahead. I have a plusy. So you're adding an eight to the roll that I made here. It looks just fine to you as well. Giddy up.

All right, you guys start walking down the hall. Justing out those new catch phrases. Yeah. You walk down the hall, you keep stepping forward. You can feel it's sort of, you know, solid under your feet so far. Uh-huh. Come to the corner unscathed.

Okay. As you turn the corner. That's new. We are gonna draw this out. It's fun! So this is where you're coming from. Okay. Okay.

As you peer around this corner, the light has continued to go down. You can actually see it way at the far end of this huge room, huge hall. You can see it's actually still making its way around this huge space. As you peer in, you see a very large, very ornate sarcophagus in the center of the room,

actually lifted up. up on kind of a dais in the center of the room. There are four smaller sarcophagi lined either side of it, and way at the other end of the room, you see mounds and mounds of money, jewelry, armor, weapons. You also see hanging on the wall a beautiful axe with imagery of undead on it. That's what we need.

I don't need to tell you. We know what it is, right? Don't you dare run in there. Grab your hands. Easy, stop me. Someone hold them. Easy, easy. Stop me.

Someone hold them. All of this is probably cursed. It's a trap, but we need that axe. You also see on top of, so there's a large stone case at the foot of this sarcophagus that appears to be similar the one you saw up there. All of these smaller ones have smaller cases on top.

There are organs in there, probably. Maybe some of them are missing the jars that we have or something, we don't know. Secrets hide within plain sight, those who are bold shall profit. That's it, I'm going in. Oh, no! Tie him up.

We'll all die, and then you won't be able to spend all the money you've got. I just grab by the scruff. Okay, so how you... Can we look for traps in this room? Yeah, we must, we must. Anavella, so you've got another, you know, good 25 feet of hallway, you can

Wait, is it lit up? Yes, it is all lit up. Yes. It's not great, it's a solid 13. I should have rolled it too. Yeah. But yeah, this section looks okay to you. Are there footprints here?

You can do an investigation check for that. 19 plus 8. 19 plus 8. You look down, you do, again, similar to upstairs, you see boot prints that are very old. Shall we enter? Do we want to tell us? We need the arc, so yes. Do we need to get in?

Do we tell you what? We don't have much of a choice. I see. Footprints that are really. very old. Oh. Let's go inside. All right, let's go.

Okay, so it's, where's me. May's first. Meereus, Ricky, me. I'm here, and then she's, wait, wait, she's there. Everything seems to be the same. You're good at scaling. It's a great idea. I'm gonna look at the walls around to see if there's any

messaging or any, before I climb up there. and kind of try to get to the other side of the room. Mm-hmm. So I'm going to do an investigation check to see if I see any... You're specifically looking for, like, text. Texts, yeah. Okay, yeah, you can do investigation on that. 10.

Plus zero, right, yeah. So there is sort of different imagery and text all around. You don't, you can't read it. It's different pictographs than what you are used to. Maybe it's something more ancient, maybe it's something more ceremonial. It'd be hard to tell. But mostly you're seeing imagery of great battles, leadership, this definitely seems to be ornate.

It's less gilded and gold and glittering as the other one, but this one is sort of more in honor of. And is anything sticking out, like any of them look different than each other? Perception check. Perception check. 12. 12 plus? Yes, 8.

So 12 plus 8? Yes. So a dirty 20. Looking around, you can, you're sort of the different panels of these things. You do see one of a man who appears to be particularly princely, and he's holding an image of that axe that you see hanging on the wall as he vanquishes his foes in front of him.

It looks like looking in a mirror. It looks great. Interesting. I guess I'm climbing. Yeah. Cool. I think I'm gonna climb over to the first sarcophagus. I'll say this as well.

Just add this. There are columns. Are there anything on those columns? Again, like ceremonial sort of decorations, things like that. But I'll give you columns here. A couple of them don't reach the ceiling. So this is a very tall room, a good like 30 foot high ceiling. You don't ever reach the ceiling?

A couple of them look like they probably did at one point, but some of them have fallen apart. And you can even see there's like crumbles of those columns on the floor. I'm so nervous. I'm so confused. I'm scared. It's so freaked out.

It's fantastic. I'm super nervous. I'm climbing over to the first sarcophagus, and I'm investigating it. I gotta look at it. You're climbing like on the walls? Yeah. Okay.

Because how far are the way are they from? They're about five feet from the walls, each of them. Great. I'm gonna climb these walls and I'm gonna lean over as much as I can, sort of one of these, like, holding on. Okay. And I'm gonna look for any stuff that hopefully I can read

because I know a bit about this. Okay. History knowledge itself. Do you want to do a history check on it rather than an investigation? Sure. Okay. So you see her sort of scale the walls and she finds her footholds and her hand holds.

She pulls herself around the corner, around the end. There's even a little moment in the corner where it's a little hairy because you've got to transfer your weight in a weird way. But you get yourself up alongside that first sarcophagus. As you kind of lean out holding on, there you go, trying to see what you can see. Make a history check if you can recognize it. Two plus three. It's hard for you to tell.

Again, you have not encountered a room of this kind of grand. Yeah, it's so new. But there's so many other ones I can look at. Yes. Jump on it. You should jump on it. You need to get a closer look. Jump on it.

Just check the next one. I'm into it. You want me to jump on this shit? I'm into it. I mean, maybe you see something we don't. Okay, fine. Let's do it. At Barrel's suggestion.

At Barrel's suggestion, Rume leaps off the wall and like a cat lands on top of the sarcophagus. Wow, good landing. Wow, good landing. As you land, when you land, you hear a little scraping inside. Viros. And I'm like, and I go. Hello?

Everybody's sleeping or awake in there? You don't hear a response, you hear a... No, it sucks to be dead. And then another sort of scrape along the top. Oh, it sucks in there. Wait, Mumme, if you can reach that axe, we know that it has properties against the reanimated things. If we're going to fight the undead, it would be our most valuable weapon.

You're right. Can you reach it? I'm going to jump back onto the wall. Okay, you jump back onto the wall. Yeah, I'm now going to shimmy over to the next sarcophagi. I don't know why I'm taking this on myself. Does anyone want to follow me in the shit? Not the best scaler.

Not the best scaler. On to the next sarcophagus. And I lean over and do another history check. Okay. Hopefully this one's better. I thought you're a scale. 17. 17.

Three. 20. All right. Looking down at this, you're pretty sure that this, you're pretty sure that this This sarcophagus is of a priest or a noble, someone higher up sort of in a court of the kings of the Kekhtesh. However, as this happens, and the stone top of this one falls out,

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Shit, damn it. Yeah, good try. This step. You tried to sneak it in there. Try to sneak it in you. Oh, hey, hey, hey. Fine. Five for Viros.

18. 18 for barrel. 13. 13 for Annabella. Seven. Seven for Ricky. Emume. Nine. A nine for Moumet. All right, Barrel, as it starts rumbling forward 20 feet

and it's bearing down on Ricky, what do you do? This might be a silly question, but does it look threatening? I'm gonna call out to Ricky and say, Ricky, what? Does that creature look like it can be reasoned with? Because it goes, boop, pooh, no. Ritch is at an arm towards you. On a scale of one to ten, how threatened do you feel

to do something? Black tongue starts to loll out of its mouth as it comes blotzer. I draw Betty. Draw Betty out. And I'm gonna move forward. Come forward next to him. And strike it. Go for it.

Alright, so this is gonna be a reckless attack. So it will have advantage against me until my next turn. 17. Oh yeah, that'll hit. Okay. And then... Let's see. All right.

What it rolls. So the first attack to you. First attack is five slashing damage. Mm-hmm. I'm gonna roll a second time. Oh wait, with the second, no, this wouldn't have it, would it? Advantage. You don't have advantage on the second one,

so the reckless is just the first attack. Oh, 25. Strong hit. All right, and then. Yeah. Okay, eight. Eight damage on that one. So yes, Barrels up again, as we like,

and two good strikes with Betty right across this thing's face. However, you do feel like it does not not take everything that you want. Ah. Does it feel particularly like it's resilient? It does seem to be somewhat resilient to what you have done to it. Annabella is next. Okay, I am gonna do dissonant whispers to just terrible,

terrible pain to this undead friggin zombie. And let's kill it. What are your dissonant whispers? say oh this zombie is hearing its dad oh this mummy is hearing its dad back from when it was alive okay and it's all the oh you you should had a better job yeah you should I married better girl all the horrible things okay I didn't he was a priest wasn't he well the one you're looking at as a priest this is we don't you don't know who that is and everyone has a mother but you know what that disappointed someone or a

Mommy. So that's all you're hearing. All right, a wisdom saving throw. Here it comes. Pretty good. That's gonna be a 21. So against your 15, I think. Yeah, 15.

On a successful save that target takes half as much damage. It doesn't have to move away. Okay. How nice that you all shared today. 10. 10 damage. Nice. And I take half of that.

Yeah. Fantastic. So yes, so he kind of shakes it all but you know you you you just feel that like you were mean enough okay cool you were mean enough you weren't as mean as you usually are but you mean enough was mean moumet your turn okay I'd like to get down on the ground and I have 20 bolts in my quiver yes so I'd like to you're gonna fire on it yeah fantastic you also can use your sneak damage on this because it is involved with your allies true so yeah so go ahead

and roll your attack 9 plus 7. Is it 16? Yeah, you hit. Yeah, I hit. So roll your damage and then roll 3D6. 1D6 plus 4, 5, 6. 6.

6 plus the 5, so 11 total. 11 total. 11 total. 11 total. Okay, 11 total. So the arrow flies true and it hits him and you did a really good job of finding just the right spot to hit him. But again, you feel like it hits him and it just kind of doesn't,

what you're used to seeing the reaction you're used to seeing, it's like not. It's like not, it's about half as much as you're used to. I have a question for you guys. Next time, well, I guess everybody has to go and then I would ask this. Should I wait? No, as a free action, you can shout stuff. Great. Hey, next time we go through this process,

don't want me to keep going that way and try to get the axe while you fight shit off? Get the axe. Go ahead. Cool for the call. Strategy. There's a lot of sarcophagi in here. Is that the problem? We're going to need that axe, though.

Yes, quickly. Cool. Check for traps. Right, right, right. And I believe that it's on the other side, right? Yeah, that the axe is way at the far end on the wall on top of a pile of a. So I'm not gonna fight.

I'm just gonna, that's my plan right now. Don't worry. Okay. Because now we sort of know what these guys are gonna be. Unless they escalate, which could happen because the first one is like in his. Hugh. If one's knowing out one's jugular, we'll call back.

Right, right, right, fine. Ricky. It's my turn. It's your turn. Ricky Huckster has had enough. Oh no. He springs his hand, and you can see that there was actually a lever there that pulls a small vial out.

He grabs it with his hand, and he motions in his sleeve, pulls up, and he strikes it across this rough surface. Yes. So it sparks out, and a flaming sword erupts from this potion. And it's a bonus action. So I'm going to use flame blade on this stupid mummy. Stupid mommy. Here I come.

Eight. Eight. It doesn't work. But I hold it out in front of me. You shake it like this. It is quite fabulous. Thank you. Damn, that was so cool.

It was so cool. And you look cool doing it until you kind of freeze and don't know how to stab with it. That's what I do. You look intimidating. Just go with that for now. Yay. Girls. Fake it to make it, Yon.

Fake it to make it, young man. Faking it. You shake it in front of it. First of all, this mummy, you can see it has like lights in it where its eyes should be, and it kind of rakes over the four of you that are here, looking at all of you. You will all make wisdom saving throws.

Is this magical based? This is magically based. Great. So if you have advantage, you can keep it. 18. 18 for barrel? 10. 10. Veroes has 10.

10. 10. Annabella has 10. I have five. You were not in this. Oh, cool, cool. Just Ricky. 17 for Ricky.

Okay, those of you who failed, you are frightened until the end of its next turn. Basically that means that on your turn, you have to spend it getting as far, taking the dash action to get as far away from this thing as you possibly can. Even though I have my bardic inspiration, you wanna add that, you wanna add eight

to your role with your barric inspiration. Okay, roll your D8, see what you get. Good call. Very good call. Right. Plus three. Plus three. Three, you are not affected by this.

Nice, nice, nice, nice. You are the only one who was frightened. I haven't gone with. But because of what, this look, so the mummy raked across the four of me looking at you, those three were like, whoa, that's scary, but I'm okay. He looked at you, however you went, woohoo!

Did one of those like Jackie Gleeson jumps where both feet come off the ground? And on your turn, you will spend it getting as far away from him as possible. And a little pee came out. Just a little. That's disappointing. I'm all disappointed.

I'm gonna be something special cooked up. The rest of you are immune to this dreadful glare for the next 24 hours. The next 24 hours. It's 24 hours, so we're good. However, at the same time, after he looks at you, he's going to ball his hand into a fist and he looks at Ricky.

I got fire. Waving this little fiery sword at him and he punches straight for Ricky's face. I have a 20. Oh, that hits. That'll hit you. All right. Gosh.

You are going to take, that is eight bludgeoning damage plus another eight necrotic damage. Oh gosh. Now make a Constitution saving throw, please. I have advantage because I took the tablet. Yeah. Thank you, Seamus. Thank you, Seamus.

No, I hold a six and a four. So six, the six plus my constitution is eight. Is eight? You are cursed. No! With mummy rot. You cannot regain hit points. Oh no.

And in 24 hours if we don't cure it, your maximum hit points will go down. Can I do something? Unfortunately, you can't. He cannot gain hit points. He cannot be healed. We have to care of the... It's bad, so. It's real bad.

It's real bad. Rocky! We're gonna kill this thing. That is its turn. Up to Viros, you're gonna do some running. So you can move 60 feet as far away from this thing as you possibly can. He's displeased.

Why don't you run toward her to help her with the axe? He has to get as far, like his whole thing is just to get as far away from that thing as possible. Okay, it'll be. I'm going straight down towards the ax. Yeah, that's the direction. Yeah, that's the direction at least. Oh, it's in the back, the back corner?

I can go to that back, okay. It's in the middle of the back wall. Okay, okay. Yeah. So you can get to there. So, Verus goes, ah! It turns and runs as fast as you can down the side, just pumping it.

I mean it's fast, I mean, make no mistake, you still all go, wow, it's fast. All right. Also, just in full transparency, Flameblade is a concentration spell. It is a concentration spell. So I was injured, so I have to make a concentration check. Go ahead and go for it.

Just to see. Nice plane. Oh, yes. He keeps it. So high math. All right, fantastic. We are back to barrel. Seeing what's happening, oh God, realizing I have no magic weapons,

I place my hand upon Ricky's shoulder and tell him, it's not enough to be angry, you must learn to channel your rage. At this moment you see like sort of fire, a light in barrel's eyes. Steam coming out of the pierced no. Yeah, yeah. Hot breath, anger, and I'm gonna attempt to end this profane creature's existence. Get him. Yeah.

Get him. All right, so if I can hit it. I'm gonna use Betty, the gray axe. Oh, God, 13? That will hit. Okay. Oh, good. And then I'm gonna make two attacks, should I just roll them both now?

Yeah, just go and then 11? It hits. Oh, sweet, okay. They're pretty squishy, just bandages. A little bit magic. And these will give me plus two damage. Right, yes, because you're ready. Mm-hmm.

So I got a 15 and a 5. And then... 20, and then plus your two as well? Did you already add that in? No. Okay, so then, and on both of them, so it would be plus four. 24, yeah. Total damage. All right, great.

So again, it doesn't take as much as you'd like it to. But you slash into it twice with Betty and, yeah, significantly hurt it. It's still standing. I'm gonna also call upon my ancestral guardian for help. So the room starts to echo as you hear like a cackle. Like, ha ha ha ha ha ha. And you just see like this like mischievous little green head pop up next to me.

And you hear it say like, pull your head out of your ass and hit it harder. And then you see Barrel kind of like shake her head and be like, can you just like go away? I'm trying to concentrate. Yeah, well it doesn't seem like it. And it's going to go and then swirl around Ricky and the creature will gain disadvantage

on any attack, not against me. Okay. So it's actually going to protect all my allies. I can also choose a, I think, target also gains resistance to damage. What does that mean? Like any damage? Having actual damage but not like necrotic damage.

So any energy damage would be fine, but actual damage would be have. So weapon, weapon damage, slashing, bludgeoning. Is going to last until my rage ends. Okay. So for the next minute.

All right, fantastic. Annabella. Yeah, I'm gonna use my bag of tricks. Okay. And let's feed this thing. Let's pull something out. I gotta roll, what I roll here? A one, I roll an eight to figure out what animal it is.

Roll an eight. Pull it up. A seven. A dire wolf. Ooh. A dire wolf comes out. So, he, Annabella. reaches into her little bag.

Her eyes look just like that. She throws this cute little fuzzy pom-pom in the air. In the air, it turns into a dire wolf. Sick, leaps down onto the ground. We don't have one of those. So we're going to use Yonis's Mr. Fluffy. He is going to stand in for our dire wolf who gets thrown out of your bag of tricks

and lands on the ground about there. You feel good? Yes. Cool. Do you want to do anything else like move or command it? Yeah, I command it and I say, you listen to your mother. I want you to bite its knick off.

And then take all the dressings and run, baby, run. So that all the clothes and then it's just like mushy, like mushy bones and insides. So that the thing is standing, but then it just goes like this. That's what I wanted to do. The large dog is going to attempt to understand what all that makes. Right, right, right, right.

I speak to animals. Would you like to move? Yes, but you can move 30 feet. Okay, six squares. Cool. Onapella throws this thing out of her bag, does all of this, take it to red and it's right, and then she folds for you.

Oh, look at her like. Yeah. Does it work? Yeah, it's there. So on your initiative, I guess it can now take its turn. Yes. So what would you like the dire wolf to do? Wow.

I wanted to rip its throw down. The wolf has advantage on attack roles against a creature if at least one of the wolf's allies is within five feet of the creature. And Ricky is. Yes. So two. Two.

Chomp, chomp, five. Okay. Oh. Oh dear. With advantage though. Yeah. Poor wolf. So like a solid plus five.

Yeah. It's like a nine. A nine? So it's really cute. Aw. The dire wolf comes up and he's like, I'm gonna bite you. And he just bites the air at its feet, unfortunately.

No. It tried. Moumet, your turn. So I'd like to just run my ass as far as I can towards that axe. So you can take a dash action, which means you're foregoing your main action. You can go twice your speed. Great. It's probably 60 feet.

Okay. So my guess is that'll get you pretty much to that back wall. We can count it out, but I'll say you make it. So you run all the way to that back wall. But then also I can like, it says when you make a running jump, the distance you cover increases by four feet. True. So I'd like to jump. and then catch that wall, basically.

I don't know why I'm trying to stay on this wall, y'all, but I feel like I should. There's like mounds of money at the base of this wall. I don't want to touch that. So right before you get to the money, you leap up in the air and go to grab onto the... Yeah, I'm not trying to touch no money. Okay, I allow it.

It's cool, so we're gonna do it. Cool. So she takes off running down the, running down the aisle. Luckily, nothing sort of triggers or anything like that. She leaps over the money and grabs onto the wall like a spider monkey. Yep. Ricky, it is now your turn.

We have seen. seen a jackal, an eagle, an alligator, and a cat in sort of like a worshipful position. Yes. I'm running through like my roll-decks of sort of animals. And as I'm doing this, I'm slowly, my gear is melding back into me and everything is turning black and I become a black cat. But like a house cat, not Mr. Fluffy. Gotcha. And then I book it. My flame blade goes out. Flame blade goes out. Yeah. So you'd come down to be a little cat. Yes. Now that's a bonus action for you, right? If you book it, you will provoke. Attack opportunity.

Fantastic. Because he's not engaged with anybody else. He's only fought you and the dire wolf. He's engaged. Barrel hit him. If anyone decides to back away without disengaging, he gets a chance to swipe at you. He would have disadvantaged, though. He would have disadvantaged.

And I think I'll do that. Okay, so you're just gonna back up. It's my best chance to get out of here. He's gonna take a swipe at you with that fist as you go. So the cat has an AC of 12. I miss. She takes a swipe with that fist, but you're just wily enough to dodge and jump out of the way.

Where do you wanna go? So I'm actually going to head, I have a 30 movement speed, I'm gonna go to the second sarcophagus. No, right, yeah. It's right there, okay, cool. All right, mummy's turn. So you're still here.

He's going to, you're immune to that. So he's gonna glare at you, but you're like not having it. Yeah. He doesn't do anything for you. And instead, he's gonna move that fist right in your face. I don't think so, 11 to hit. No.

Just misses you. All right. He is gonna stay kind of locked in that. He thinks you're the most interesting thing right now. Viros, you are out of your frightened state right now. You've come to, you've gotten far enough away from it that you feel better. I've got my war hammer. I see what's transpired.

I'm embarrassed for what's happened in that round. So I look, I see you. You basically have the axon grasp. I don't need to assist you because you've impressed the group royally so far with your speed. I want to do... So I know that we've got to get this thing away from that corner. So I want to get it somewhere in the middle of the room at least

so it's closer to the arc. So we don't have to waste turns getting back all the way across the room with it. So I go with my charisma and intimidation. I go, hey, you bastard, you thought I was scared. Get over here and fight me like a man. I'm a student of war. I mean, it is, it's true.

And that's what I do. Okay, intimidation. Make an intimidation check. And it's a, wait, I've got a... Hashtag student war. It's a two plus four. See, understand, I'm coming out of this haze. So you are very intimidating, but it's a little undercut by the pee stain on your left.

From your fearful retreat. I drag a lond of ale before the journey set out. I forgot to use the lavatory before we left. And then with the disorientation, it was all a big mess. Listen, this circumstance is unusual. But yes, nice try. That's the Viroce slash Malays. Fantastic Veroz.

Barrel, your turn, you're still raging. Oh my God. Let's end these charades and shenanigans and chicanery. Your vocabulary was so impressive. Because I attacked you. Because I have disadvantage on everyone else, right? Yes. Yes.

Yeah. You only have, you don't have disadvantage against me. Right. Just on everyone. An 18 and a 13. Both of those will hit. Okay. Go ahead, take your damage.

I'm still raging, so these, though we're plus four. You're gonna get all the pluses, yeah. All right, so I got a six and a five, that's 11, plus eight from my weapon damage, that's 19 plus four, 23. Yeah. 23. Again, takes half, but yeah, you are just slashing into this thing like it's tissue paper.

I laugh maniacally as it's strange entrails fly across my face. It's really dragging. You see, yes, definitely like bandages are starting to like fall off and it's sort of, you know, it's kind of limping, it's lost a bit of its poise there, Annabella. That sucked, try it again, and let's do it right this time. Make Mama proud.

Fantastic. So I do two. Chomp, chomp. Plus five. Okay, seven. Two 17s. Yeah. Amazing.

Yeah. So you totally hit. Yeah. Merced it for me or dire wolf totally hits. I'm deaf in the theater. So roll your damage. Okay, so. 2D6.

It has to succeed on a DC 13 strength saving throw or be knocked prone because it's going full at it. Okay, so I roll these or you roll that. You roll your damage. You're gonna get the damage. 2D6 plus 3. Piercing damage. 7, 819.

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DC-13. Do you best. It does not make it. It's knocked down on the ground. So your Dair Wolf pounces on it. Sorry, Mr. Cormney. Hits it to the ground and fights in and shit. Getting all of its damage.

And shit's flying. Yeah, it looks bad. There's just like bandages and old rotting flesh flying all over the place. Can he bring me some? Can he be like, look, Mom did it? Or is that too much? He looks up at you.

He's like happily like he did something right up at you. Moumet, your turn. Is it possible to, because I'm in eyesight from the axe at this point. It's right there. It's right there. So I just want to look at it for any traps or anything that's on it. You'll make an investigation check. I need to investigate it before I grab it.

Grab it, make an investigation. Do you want to have her roll it? Oh yeah. Oh, fuck. Okay. You look over at that axe and it is, it's very ornate. It's got these old like undead symbols on it and you don't see any traps.

But I don't know. As a rogue and a bonus action, you can still grab it. You reach out, you put your hand on it, you pull it from the wall. Bad news. You hold it. Oh, God. The little pegs that it was on in the wall seemed to kind of pop back up in the wall. No!

What's going to happen? Uh-huh. These three sarcophagic eye open. Damn it! I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. We barely killed the first. What are you doing this?

I did it. I got the X! The three remaining mummies on that side of the room burst up out of their sarcophagi, their hands coming straight up towards near Ricky. I was gonna lock them. I was gonna lock all the sarcophagi. So hold on, at the same time a slab dropped

blocking this exit, and another one opened up there. You can see the light continuing down that hallway. Moumet, you have a movement. I wanna, my idea was that I would take this X and I would hit one of the columns. Okay. And it would sort of like, make a domino effect happen with all of these things.

So you can 100% move up to the column and get ready to go and it'll be on your next turn that you try that. I have to just make a decision and I think I should just, do you like the column idea? I do. Okay, so I'm gonna get closer to this column, I guess. All right, so you jump down off the wall.

And you run up to that side of the column and you get ready to hit it with this axe. But you know like I'm on the other side of the other column though, right? But you see me make that move though. Be perspective of. I just have to hope. I just have to hope this dude doesn't get up,

otherwise he could take an attack of opportunity on me when I moved. He's super dead. My donkey's eating him. Your donkey? You're donkey. You're all gonna die. We're all gonna die. We're all gonna die and it's all your fault.

At least we're in a tomb. At least you're in a tomb, it'll be good. Okay. That's your turn. You're happy? I mean, yeah. All right, Ricky. What? What would you like to do?

I don't know. Ricky with the mummy rot. So I am a cat still. You are a cat still. And has the, the, the, The mummy that's popped up, has it spotted me? Because I am very small. No, I mean, it is really literally just opened up.

I'm out of here. I gotta go. Okay. I'm gonna go around to the other side of the big sarcophagus. Okay, great. And make my way to that small circle. Yeah, right there is fine, yeah. Okay.

So that as the cat is my movement action, and I'm gonna out of wild shape. I'm gonna tap this key on that sarcophagus. Okay. Ooh, yes. Tap the key on it. The fuck, we should have been doing that to every single one. I was trying.

Oh, honey. Oh, honey. Okay. Timing is everything. So you tap the key on that. Yeah. All right. That's such a good idea.

He's done it. Mummy's turn. Yeah, mummy is gonna get himself up on his feet. I thought he would dead. Yeah. He was not dead. He's gonna get it up on his feet. He is going to punch at you.

Mm-hmm. He doesn't make it. Good. Don't get hit by these things. He tries to punch you and as it comes through, it just swishes by your face. As you able to do one of these like matrixy things. to get out of the way. Viroz.

I am going to go to the doorway, the exit, and I'm going to motion to everyone to go first, get out of here. Now I will hold the fort. It's the least I can do. Get your asses out of here. It's a good plan. Okay? So I'm holding the door.

I'm basically like the guard and I'm making sure that Annabella and everyone gets out. You can shout that. Yeah. So I'm just using my intimidation here. It's my charisma. And I'm like, come on, come on, go. Go, go. Make haste!

We should leave. All right. Beryl, your turn. Okay, I gotta hope that this will kill it. Otherwise this pillar's gonna fall on my head and I'm gonna die. Okay, let's do that then. Okay.

Two attacks? Yeah. Go for it. So I got a 21 and a 25. Both of those will hit. High math. Beautiful math. So it's still going, right?

Your rage? Oh yeah. Yeah, okay. Absolutely still going. So I got. two elevens. Okay. And then a four on top of that. I'm not even gonna do math. Okay. One swipe, two swipe. Yeah. Boom on the ground. All right. All right. Great, great, great, great, great. All right. Flipping the mummy guts off my axe, I'm then going to attempt to run your speed. All right, it's mine's less than everyone else says it's 40. Wait, these are five. Oh, these are five, right?

Yes, those are five. So you can go eight squares. Wait, how many do that? There I go. About three, four? Like one, two, three, four. And then let's do five, six, seven, eight. Okay, you can actually do, you can go one more because you can do a diagonal. Oh yeah.

So you wanna say you're like there. Sure, great. Perfect. Cool, you guys are next to the sarcophic idea. Yeah, let's retreat. Let's get out here. All right, that was Beryl. Annabella.

Okay, so as Vera's is screaming, everybody, get over here and she's getting ready and I'm looking at Mummey and I'm like, this bitch is gonna knock these columns down. I immediately do an investigation check, to see if there's traps on the other side of that door. Good car. An investigation on that. Okay, so you're gonna run up to the door

and do an investigation check. Yes. Go do it, absolutely. Okay, and that's just one D20. Roll a D20 and then add your investigation bonus. Good. But it's plus eight, 13. That's good. Okay, you look at it, other than the sort of trap

that you've already seen where these doors are connected by some sort of vine rope in the ceiling, you don't see any other traps at this door. Better out there than in here. Better out there. It seems as though it's better out there. Oh, it seems, yes, you don't, and in the 30 feet kind of coming on, you don't see anything in that particular area.

Okay, so can I go outside? You've used your motion to get to that door, your movement to get to the door, and then a check. Okay. Fantastic, that is on a ballot. You can tell your dire wolf to do something now. Come over here. It's got a 40 so it can get there.

Bumet. I am going to hit this column, and I'm going to create this domino effects. I'm assuming they're massive columns. They are, they're huge. So I'm going to basically go, boom, boom. They're all going to sort of, create a, hopefully, a gate or something that these guys are too dumb to be able to get over.

Fantastic. And that's my plan. So you are going to, because we're gonna say it's easy to hit it, it's right there, it's stationary. You're gonna make just a strength check to try to hit it with all of your might. Oh no. Guys? Well, why do I have to do a strength thing?

It's a fucking magical axe. Is there any sort of bonus? You mean you didn't get a twist? Is there a bonus? I mean, you can add your strength modifier, obviously. Which is. Negative one. Negative one.

So, you go to hit it once and unfortunately, you're just not quite strong enough to hit it that way. You can do fancy dexterous things with your bonus action though. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So if you can think of something sort of dexterity. Well, can't I just sort of like push and both legs? You wanna kind of climb on it

and give it, like, use your weight to push it forward? Yeah, or just sort of like. I will allow for that. Okay, fine. You kind of climb up it a little bit on your bonus action and use your own body weight. And I sort of like take my legs and I just kind of try to jump off of it that way.

Okay, as it falls, it does. All right, so make an acrobatics check. Come on. 10 plus by acrobatics, which is, where are you? Seven. All right, so as Annabella is checking this thing and all the rest of you are slowly trying to make you, quickly actually trying to make your way out,

you see Mu-May scramble up the side of this thing. She throws her weight into it, and as it starts to tip, she launches herself back. That way. And lands on the ground after her first hit didn't work. The column begins to fall forward. It hits all of these four columns fall to the ground in a crash, a crumble of stone all along this line.

Now behind you, it is clear. Behind me it's clear. They all fill this way. So it's all blocked off there, but it's clear that direction. I might have a movement. So I need to get the fuck out. You can go your speed, probably 30 feet. 30 feet, go.

Right, five squares. That seems like too much. Oh, not really if you can go down. Go, go, go, go. Go, go, go. All right, we're gonna go sort of out of initiative now. We're gonna give you guys a chance to do something and then I'll give my mummies a chance to do something.

We'll kinda go back and forth. So each of you, you're moving down to the hall? No. No. You need to lock this shit up. I am going to. So first of all, I'm- Can we like throw the key to each other? We could.

Or are we attuned to it? No, the key just works. Yeah, let's fucking toss this shit like it's hot potato. Well, first I'm going to down one of my potions of energy, protection from energy of necrotic energy. You got it? So I have that. And then I'm gonna turn around

and tap the big old sarcophagus with the key. Tap the big old sarcophics of the key. That's your action. Yep. So if you wanna move me. And move him in. Bhopto. No.

Not on it, no. Stay behind it, JJ. He wasn't mounted. So then I turn around and I go, who wants it? Okay, and you're gonna toss it to someone? Well, which one haven't we done yet? So right now I've only sealed the far one over there

and the big one. Okay, well, you can toss it to me and I can do this one on this end. I can't see you over the second. Oh wait, I can see you. Yes, you can. So you're taught you toss it around that collar. To Moumet, who fumbles, it drops on the ground.

But she goes in and she grabs it and picks it up. She taps that one. You've now done two of the four. Toss it. Towers it. Yeah, because I haven't gotten that one. Oh, he also fumbles it, but he reaches down, pulls it out of the dirt.

And taps which one? The one right next to us. So that's the one she just did. So you go tap the far one. Oh, sorry, the far one now. All right, so this is the only one you haven't tapped now. Okay, good. What happens now?

I toss it to barrel. To barrel. Because if we make it out, you're the last one there. You can tap that feasibly, but you should probably see us out now. Yeah. All right. So you all still have move actions as you've been throwing this, except Ricky, who moved. Everyone else does have a move action plus they're tossing.

So you want to move down? Where do you want to go? I mean, we're going out. Yeah, I'm leaving. Yeah, we're getting the fuck out. All right. Annabella moves down? I'm moving down.

All right. So everybody who can move down is going down. Right. Here, I need my stick. Moumet, you're going down as well. Yeah. All right, so Beryl and Ricky are the only one staying. Beryl now has the key.

Yeah, I'm waiting for everyone to leave before I go. Those of you who ran down the hallway, you come to the center of the small octagonal room. You can see that on the wall, there is a section of wall that has these, again, kind of rope hooks at the top, but it's a huge, heavy slab of stone. On the floor in a mosaic, you see this interesting kind of etching. It's got little ridges where all of these lines are.

You also see a set of paints. sitting next to it. We've got four colors, we've got six sides to this. So that's funny because it's sort of, if it's hexagonal, then it's not like there's a real path, maybe there is, hold on. So yes, you are out in here, you can choose to do something while they're in there.

Well, while they're in there, this is our action. Yeah, so you guys are in there, she's still, are you gonna, you're gonna tap the other coffin? Is that what you're gonna do? Yeah. You and Rickie? Well, you go, so Barrel goes and she taps. At that moment, you see all of the

these guys move 20 feet in that direction. Oh gosh, starting to come around and try to find you. So could still, if everything sort of in a color order, we can still kind of like, if there's, if it's hexagonal and there's two of everything, then there's 12, which is divisible by four. We have four colors.

If you wanna make an investigation check for a hint you can. Yeah, I'm doing that, please. Okay, you do that while I just try to think. Okay, 14 plus eight, so 22. So 22. You're pretty sure it's like a kaleidoscope, and you need every single pie slice

needs to look the same. At this point, again, you hear the drag of bandages against the wall. This moves another 20 feet. Get out of you, go. I think I have an idea. Me too. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What's your idea? I'm gonna block off the doorway once we're on the other side. How? With magic. I was gonna do the same thing. Start coloring in if you can. Go, go, I got this. I'm gonna run after them.

Slow enough to, we might actually just wanna do, Let's do this. That's not the right color. Already fucked it up. It's okay. Nothing happens when you fuck it up other than. This one's blue. At this point, you hear the scrape of bandages again as they move another 20 feet towards you.

I'm gonna run it after them. You're running in on her heels. You're right on her heels. You guys just get past. The dire wolf also comes in. You're just past that door. I'm gonna pull out a bright green flask. Gotcha.

And then dump it on the doorway. Okay. So I want the vines to grow out and mesh. Fantastic. So yes, vines kind of grow out of the stone, out of the mortar, every little like seed that was in dirt comes forward and starts to intertwine. It's covering everything up.

Again, another couple of feet forward. You can hear the scrape of bandages along the floor. Hurry up, you guys. Turing. Sorry. And then I'm going to pull out another brown flask to do Druidcraft to increase the amount of foliage that's on the...

Amazing! As you do your Druid craft, beautiful sort of flowers and leaves and vines sprout out, filling in all of the gaps, almost so you can't even see into the other room. It is so thick. Wow, that's impressive. Now you hear at the back side of that,

you hear, and raking against that side of those vines. I got it, we got it. We got it. Nothing happens on this turn from that one. So, I'm very, I'm very sure. I'm gonna reignite my flame blade, because it lasts for a last. You got it?

I have it. Yes. And I'm just gonna wait there. Okay, if they bust through, I'm readying my action to set the whole thing on fire. You hear more drags. Now there are two rakes against that stuff. One of them is able to get one arm through

and you start to see a face. I set it on fire. You set it on fire. The arm. Make an attack roll. Okay. I'm, okay. Okay.

You wanna switch? Eleven? 11 hits! Yeah! Go ahead and roll your damage. Go Ricky! Two, six, nine damage, fire damage. Nine fire damage.

This really seems to work. It lights up on its arm. And it seems to be taking even more damage than you would expect it to. It even retracts its arm. Yeah, sick of that. As it's going through. Good hit, little man.

Yeah. Okay, after another 30 seconds elapsed, the two other ones are gonna give a shot to try and get their way. through. Try me. One of them makes it arm comes through. Not on my watch. Natural 20! This one alights and even that one you can see he grabs it. He falls to the ground and a flaming heap behind you. It's still moving, trying to get up. How are you guys doing over there? Good. Three for three. Don't worry about filling it in

completely as long as you kind of, as long as you like make sure we know which is cool cool cool, cool, cool, we know which ones they are. There are. There are. There I see. Just don't worry about filling in. Pink, pink, purple, purple. Pink, pink.

Pink. There's still having his plane. At this point, the two that are still this guy's there are marked. They are going to get a chance to swipe at you while you're in there. Got it. I mean, are you standing there with him as well, Beryl? Yes.

Okay, so you'll be there. One directed at each of you. Do we still have the disadvantage? This one hits. Do we have the disadvantaged? No, he's a different guy. Oh, no. Are you sure?

Does it all creatures? Anybody that doesn't attack me? Great. So disadvantage against you. So we'll do this one. Which is good because you need it. Misses you, against you, however. Make that guy purple.

Yeah, that'll hit you. Okay. I'd like to jump in the way. Okay. I already have mummy rats. All right. So you jump in the way, you're gonna take this damage from her. I'm gonna allow that.

I have protection against the product. Okay, you do have protection against necrotic. You're gonna take the bludgeoning. Which is cut in half, Six plus three is nine bludgeoning, so you're only gonna take five of that. Bludgeoning. You're immune to necrotic?

I'm, I have, I'm not immune. Not immune? What is it called? Resistance. Okay. Hurry! Fourteen, so you will take seven necrotic from that. Oh.

So this small known steps in front of this huge half-orke barbarian just as the fist comes through trying to punch you. He takes the full blow of it, and you You see it just like, like even his veins go a little black in front of you, but his bravery holds strong. There's still some empty spaces. Oh, purple. Got it.

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So come and join us, wherever you listen to your podcasts. Whof. That was green, but just be kidding. Did you like this? Yeah, she made it right. At this moment, As soon as you've touched that last piece of paint to the color the slab flies up you see a long dark tunnel with sunlight at the end of it I grabbed Ricky and pull him up in his arms everyone else the dire wolf is hot on your heels you can see that the two mummies behind are starting to hold down

the vines in the wall no there's no time there's no time you all run as fast as you can down the hall the mummies are pulling tearing down the vines as they start to come after after you, but you are much faster than them. You reach the end out into daylight. And we got this motherfucking accident. Get out of here, get out of here, get out of. We're fine, you made it. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Hard. Fix, Ricky, can doctor, professor? You are a martyr. You continue to walk through the desert, the long walk home. Poor Ricky, he cannot reg- Where are you? Ten hit points.

Ten hit points. He can't regain it. You even see, he seems sort of feeble and can't, can't keep it together. His eyes closing off. You carry him in your arms. You carry him in your arms. Sorry?

Long sleep. Yeah, I'll fall asleep. Yeah, he falls asleep. You're doing everything you can to kind of keep him safe. I wrap him in the magical blanket. Oh, you wrap him in the blanket so he is safe and warm. I'm praying to the gods. Please don't let my little brother go.

You continue all the way back to the relics and rarities in Bellbrook. You come in, Professor Roundland immediately looks at him. She runs over, puts her hand on his forehead, and she says, Give me a moment and she goes in the back. She literally goes in the back. She comes, she pulls out, she's got a long scroll. She places her hand on your head and she begins to read whispering in your ear

and your curse is removed. Huzzah! Peace back y'all! She says, I'm glad that you are here and you are all right. That is the only one that I have. The only scroll that I have. But because of your sacrifice, I am honored. to have used it for you.

I was brave and profited. The fantastic axe that you brought. Beautiful. We'll leave this here so you can see. She tells you this is an incredible axe that you have brought back. This is a, first of all, plus two weapon. It steals extra radiant damage when you hit undead. Also, once you're tuned to it, you can use an action to sense the presence of undead.

And if they have less than 25 HP and you hit it, they make a wisdom saving throw, and they are frightened of you into your next turn. It also makes you resistant to necrotic damage while you wield it. However, it is cursed. Anyone who is wielding it experiences one level of exhaustion immediately that cannot be removed by the usual means.

But once you kill an undead for each one, you go back up a level. Oh, we should have. All right. All right, we got out, we got out. So you come back, she says, this is remarkable. I don't know how you survived. It must have been, in some part, due to Mamay

and her incredible expertise. in this area, I am sure that it was no small feat. I will tell you that we have been spending a lot of time researching these black onyx gems that came back. We do know that they are mined in this area, and I promise you that we will continue to look into it, and hopefully I will have more information for you tomorrow. Congratulations, adventures.

You are true heroes. I must say, Ricky, a lot of times when the going gets rough, you run away, and I never shame you for it, for I know that your skills lie elsewhere, elsewhere, but when it came down to the wire, you put your life down for mine. I won't forget it. Here, have some fruit punch.

No. Don't drink that. Wait a second. I'm a potions master. I don't know what it is. Glad you're all right, Ricky. Thank you, and thank you all. I'm sorry if I've been difficult.

I know that the greed comes out and... But I assure you, I've never been a part of a team like this and I just don't want to lose anybody else. Oh, I scoop him up with a big bear hug. I'm your tribe now. You can't even see him like buried within her bosom. There's just snot and tears all over him. You're right.

Mumet, before you take your leave of us, we want to say we are so grateful. And is there anything that you would like to say before you leave? I would like to say that you're all a very interesting, diverse, group of people. I've had a great time adventuring with you. And if you ever need someone to just climb things and say everything safe and then create havoc, you know who to call. Thank you, thank you. Thank you. Look, we all know there are a lot of celebrity interview podcasts out there,

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