Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - Vox Machina Ep. 107 - Scaldseat

Episode Date: January 11, 2022

Vox Machina decend into the heart of an undersea volcano to find the forge of the gods.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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and can't listen to a count off-screen when we're going to go live. But I appreciate the effort, guys. You know what I heard me say Scaramucci? I fucked up. I did. No. I did not. Don't do that. His life's hard enough right now.

All right. Anyway, bringing this back in. Thank you for joining us. We'll pick up here in just a minute for the actual story. But first, we have some quick announcements. Hello, bye. No, not Siri, announcements. Come on.

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I just was educated. I feel like that. Yeah. All right, moving on. Laura, we had some updates you said as far as merch goes. Merch and she's playing with her giant trash bag of dice. That is ridiculous. I've just finished organizing you guys.

Okay, so. I just wanted to give you guys some updates on some merch items. Those amazing posters, they will be sent out in like a week, I think. Yes, they will be sent out on like a week because they're in the warehouse now, ready to get shipped. And then the aprons, I've gotten a lot of messages asking,

like, where are the aprons? And the reason that they're not shipped yet is because we ended up selling so many that the manufacturer didn't have enough cloth to make the aprons. So then there was a backlog of that. So they're done, and they're about to get to the warehouse so you'll be getting your aprons in like a couple weeks.

Because you know, critters. So that's solid. Also, we have these awesome necklaces. Also some other stuff. Thank you. Nice and vague. Things are there. Yes.

Thank you, Laura. You're welcome. Let's see you next up. Gen Con Live, we are at the tail end of any available tickets for the show. So if you haven't got one yet and you're still planning to be around or near Indianapolis for Jen Con and want to come see, get it quickly. We're about to close that out. So looking forward to seeing everyone there who's coming. It's gonna be fun, and based on,

depending on the next couple of episodes, I'm real curious to see where it ends up when we get the Gen Con. So it is, it's gonna be a canon episode. Oh, it's gonna be the next episode. What if it ends up being like, our finale? What if we all die at the live show? If one of us dies like tonight,

do we just not go to Gen Con? Yeah, pretty much. We'll put you in the front row. Oh, gosh. Watching from the audience. No, no, no, if you die, we will lower you from above like an angel, like on the fly reel. What have you on like the Peter Pan, like, wire set up and just... Just sending you across the audience.

I want to get down! I can't feel my legs! Sam pukes on the average. Make an acrobatics check. Go-Prove. It's going to be Sofa King, right. Sofa King. Sofa King.

Sofa King. So far, yeah. I like we all assumed it was going to be Sam that was dead and flying above the audience. All right. So also the Critical World Podcast, we just have up to episode 30 now available. Wow. The next batch went up. So those of you who are coming on the podcast audio version of our crazy story, those episodes 21 to 30 are available for you now. That's incredible. Yeah, it's incredible. Yeah, it's incredible. Talks Machina, once again, it's on Tuesdays. We have a discussion about this episode next week. And on Tuesday at 7 p.m. Pacific with our wonderful host, Brian Foster, on Twitch and Alpha. Looking forward to see you guys there.

That's the one that they're off, though? Are they off next week? I think they're taking a week off, no? The week after? Both. Both. The week after Jing Con, we will be streaming the panel that we did at Jen Con.

We don't know anything. But I feel like Brian is going to be in New York for Ashley's birthday right now. Oh, right. So, not next Tuesday, but the Tuesday after. Wait, no, I thought he'll be back by then. Nope. No?

It'll chime in on Twitter. One of both will be cosplaying as Brian Foster. Follow Talks Mocking on Twitter for updates about what's happening next episode. We'll have... We'll know at the break. We planned this out way in advance. Last couple things. Saga So Sundry, the final episode of Dread is now up on Alpha.

You can see the finale of that crazy, crazy ride. Yeah! It's so good. It's so good. It's scary. And we got our first Suggas So Sundry tattoo, and it's beautiful. I saw. Amazing.

Gorgeous. I love it. Yeah. Somebody got a tattoo. It's amazing. It's legit. I watched a show with the Lifesman. Good.

We didn't have that option. And also the new episode of Celebrity and D is up as well, where I got to Dungeon Master wonderful John Bradley. You may know as Sam Tarley on Game of Thrones. Also had our wonderful guest, Laura and Liam here joined us for that. It was a lot of fun, so check it out. And then I believe our last announcement is today is the birthday of one fabulous fabulous Goliath Barbarian. Once a year, y'all.

Travis Willingham, happy birthday, buddy. Happy birthday, baby. Which means I can't die today, right? Where's the cake? I know. It's in my stomach. No, there's no cake, y'all. But where's the cake?

Oh. Really, man. I mean, like, that was awesome. I have a little cake eraser. Do you want the cake eraser for the game? You eat it. Hang on. Where is it? Is it?

In the meantime, guys. You're happy birthday. Look at that, it's a little cake. It's a little pike cake. Oh, and on that, enjoy your cake. Oh. And let's bring us in tonight's episode of Critical Role. Welcome back.

You didn't say anything. No, you didn't. I was waiting in. There was absolute silence. Wow. This is where it's like to have respect. No. 107 episode. I know. It's all it took. It's all it took. It's all it took. And it's the last time it'll ever happen.

Just leveling you into a false sense of security. I figure. All right, so anyway, last we left off, Vox Machina, in facing the terrible threat of Vecna, return to physical form, sent you all through this conflict to seek audiences with the number of the deities of Exandria. After getting blessings and fragments of the essence of three of the gods, you discovered that Vecna had completed the ritual of seating and ascended into godhood. However, discussing with Ayn, the knowing mistress, it will take a little bit of time for him to both understand the extent of his power to claim his domains and expand beyond just his current condensed avatar form, so time is of the essence.

Not to mention that in order to claim the full strength, there needs to be a showing of power and faith. something to gather attention in faith from the masses. So with that information, you also imbued upon Grog the ability to blacksmith and Percival, the knowledge of the construct of these divine trambles, things that could possibly be used to seal, and have been used previously to seal a god, as killing them is a very, very difficult and dangerous thing. You, thank you for that. Retrieving this information, you discovered that the place for these can be crafted is called the Core Anvil,

once belonging to the All Father, the deity of construction, design, and craftsmanship. It resides beneath an underwater volcano known as Skald Seat, off the shore of a city called Shorecombe in Issylra. You also had a fantastic little run-in with Vecna recently, taunting you all. Taunting you all. Last we left off, you had found yourself in Vasselheim, went to the Trial Forge to speak with Earthbreaker Groon, discovered what would be required to attempt to make contact with Cord.

And you made communion with the Raven Queen, and in declaring your complete faith in her, she offered a piece of her essence to give you the third seed seed in which to make it a third divine trammel. And with you all falling asleep within Scanlon's magnificent mansion, you cast true polymorph on yourself to take the form of a plan of tar and did whatever you did in that form as you all went to sleep that evening. Except that while he was checking out his junk in the mirror.

Heavenly junk. Heavenly junk. He shut the door behind Keeloth and I. I think we should go another couple of days in silence. Has it been days? It was like an eternity. I knew that you are angry and I am just, I'm sorry. I was angry. I was very angry. And maybe if we had this conversation yesterday, even I might be yelling at to your face right now. But it's hard to be angry at Bravery and selflessness.

I mean, we've kind of always had the problem of you having one too many ladies in your life, right? Hard to compete with God. I've done a lot of stupid things in my life. I've never had any regrets, really. I do now. I know the chance you took on me. And I've confirmed your worst fears, and then some.

It's not your fault. Regardless, I am sorry. and I regret that I am not outright dead already and that you have to stare at this walking pantomime of a life in front of you. But grateful for the time I have left to look on you. And I am grateful to fight for your future. I'm grateful for that chance you took on me.

I wouldn't take it back. You taught me how to take chances. Can I ask you a question? What exactly was the deal? that you made with the Raven Queen? Was it when we slew Vecna or defeated him? I have a feeling semantics are becoming increasingly more important.

She offered me a way back, and it was the only way back. I wasn't coming back. Not after that, not without her blessing. And even if we found a way, you wouldn't take it to reverse the deal. I'm not asking, I guess she's confirming. I don't want to leave, but there are some things

that I will not test. I do have faith in her, and I have faith in you and what she'll do. It's fitting, really. You can protect that plane. I'll be here to protect this one. I mean, if these past few days have taught us anything, it's, death isn't the end.

I just don't want to forget. If Sprigg could forget the names of his, party members that he died alongside well they died along he ran never mind what's going to happen

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Hey, I'm fucking cold. Will you give me how good? Yeah. It's the weirdest thing, by the way. You being cold. I mean, it's just something to get used to. Clever closer. I'm just gonna crawl into bed. Okay.

Go to sleep. Both of you curl up and fall asleep. The morning comes. You all come to consciousness within Scanlan's magnificent mansion. A fine breakfast of various grains and oats and quinoa. Beans. So good. Oatmeal.

What do you mean? It's actually really good. It's making me really hungry. What is that? What is a lentil? Is it a leaf? Is it a bean? No one really knows, to be fair. The water of God's green earth is it either here. I don't understand.

Lentils are here to punish us. Really? Yes. We have done something terribly wrong, and now we must eat. It makes sense like an hour from now when I get punished in the loo. We are punished by that.

Sorry. This head gold mixed with crying is bad. He gets you right. You got gold? Yeah, it's rough. That's what happened to me that day. That's what, Woody. No?

It's the worst. Well, your voice is super sexy tonight, so that's good. Smelly again. The monkey glows. What are they feeding you? All right, so as you finish your meals in the morning, prepare yourself for the actions of the coming day.

What do you wish to do? I don't know. Are we going to this volcano under the water? I mean, yeah, right? That's where we have to go. We need to be able to swim. And we need to be immune to poison. Yes.

So if we have a hero's feast, that'll take care of one thing. And I have two chalises, Because we never used the one. We should save at least one for a certain fight. You can make us breathe underwater, right? Yes, I can. Up to... All of us? Mm-hmm.

Even drink it? Yeah. And Pike? Well, Pike at this point. I was like, I've... Oh, God. Yeah, don't forget that. I can prepare the feast for you guys.

That way you don't have to spend a spell of yours for it. Oh, yeah. As you guys are on this mission to go make this out, while I can be help, I think I need to stay here for now to shepherd both the people in my temple of the Everlight, with whatever words I can keep them calm under this chaos in the city. Oh, Pike, what would have Vasselheim has attacked?

Then I can let you know. I also have ascending spell prepared, so if anything happens, I can let you know immediately, as long as you're on this plane. It's so convenient. That's what clerics are here for. I hate what is happening. She kind of punches you in this shoulder.

Can I have something of yours, like, at least until we see each other again? I get so, like, I get... Of course, Scrock. And she kind of comes up to you and, um, let me see your axe real fast. Ooh, the blood axe. Yeah. Oh, no. She takes it.

Very Poppins head. I was trying to go. I mean, it is. I mean it is, amazing way. Now I'm right, right. She has it and takes a little bit of her fading blue hair at the tip, and she just carves off a little piece of it, hands the axe back to you, and very deftly,

kind of braids it into a small braid, ties it off, and hands it to you. Don't eat it. It's the sweetest thing ever. No, but seriously, don't eat it, please. Oh. That's really kind of creepy. Well, I mean women...

Grog. No. No? No. I'm tired under my necklace. Okay. Please be safe. And if anything happens, I'm going to let you know as soon as possible.

Oh, man, it's going to hurt not to have you with us, though. You guys will be fine. Better we save our strength for whatever is out there. Yeah, and if Basil Homer's attacked, you don't go save and sit you all by yourself. Seriously. I know what you're like. I know what you're like. Why would I steal a fun from you?

That's what I thought. Okay. Bye, bye, bye, bye. Wait, no, she has to prepare the hero's feast before we say goodbye. Hi bye. So you hand her the chalice and she prepares the feast within the mansion. So what a little bit of, for some of you may have been an unsatisfying breakfast this morning is quickly taken over by the fantastic tastically tasting feast of such a holy spread.

Yes. Taking the hour to eat it, all of you guys get the benefits of Heroes Feast. So, it's kind of plant on. There is a bowl of lentils for those who may want it. I had some. It is untouched. Oh.

All right. So as the Heroes Feast says, Immune to fear and poison and advanced on wisdom checks. We roll two D-10. I have a question for us everyone. I'm going to roll two D-10. Do you guys want food now? I'm going to wait to the break.

What's that? Do you guys want food now or you want to wait to the break? We'll take a slightly early break in the long break. Two nines. That's lucky. Okay, there's good. It's 18 additional hit points. Can we generate?

Yes, yes. It's the actual maximum of your hit points for the next 24 hours. the next 24 hours. So keep that in mind, folks. Yeah. Yes. How long do your inspiring speeches ask? Oh, that is an excellent question. How long do my speech out? I think it's until the next. Said Harvey Firestein.

Said Catherine Hepburn. I'm just complete my armamenting. Sparring leader, last, well, a creature can't gain temporary hit points from this feat again until it is finished a short or a long rest. So you just have temporary hit points until your next long rest, essentially. So can I double up on that? There's more hit points? You can, it'll be temporary hit points on top of that, yes.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it lasts for what. We're probably not going to fight anything, though. Since my voice is completely shut and I don't want to do a speech. Do a speech? Yeah, but we need it. I am going to do an interpretive dance. dance of us swimming through the volcano and then fighting and then grog forging the

narration through and all that shone Oh my god Wow that happened I'm amazed that took over 100 episodes. I've been waiting for the Interpreter's dance for a long time. How many did we get from that? So everyone gets 18 temporary hit points, right? Yeah.

Is that max goes up 18? No, no, temporary hit point. And then you have 18. So as soon as you take damage, they go away from the temporary first, temporary never come back. Okay. Then you have the maximum hit point bonus. Okay. 18 max up and then an 18 on top of that that goes away.

But do I get sneaky damage or is it also a critical hit? Alright, we kill me. Raven Queen take the way. It's a chain-mailing me off the layer. All right, so as you guys are all sitting there watching Keeleth dance while she eats, while you're eating, it's a unique display. You're prepared for the rest of your day. Pikes is goodbye to everybody. Gives you hug.

We love you. We love you. Will you do me a favor and just, will you get word to Kaylee somehow? I can do that, yeah. Just tell her dad's okay and safe. saving the world again. She goes, done. Oh.

Hey, Pike. Oh, wow. Hey, Pike? Yeah. Can you, uh... Long ago. Probably, yeah. Jesus.

Can you also do one of those to Terry? Right. But don't say Dad's okay saving the world again. That won't make any sense to him. No, no, no, no. Tell them we're all the lie. Tell him we love him and that we're okay. We're all okay.

For the time being, yeah. Especially Scanlan, he's probably really concerned. concerned. You see it's a secondary, like very dull kind of flash of release of energy, the fingertips that she finished. We're doing this now. Are we doing this? There you go. You have food now. We're doing live. Can I just have one slice of breakfast pizza?

What is the breakfast? Jesus. He's the chef. He's like he is. Pello, can I have one slice of breakfast pizza please? This marker sucks. Here, try one of my eyes. Marker sucks balls.

So, Plike makes her way towards her temple. That's better. You guys are still in Scanlon's mansion. What are you doing? Okay, I guess we should exit the mansion. And then, and then. You should do your little. Are we traveling?

And where are we going? Do we just plane shift to? Oh, oh, oh. Above the water? Is that over to the volcano? How do we do this? It's a bit away from Vasselheim, if I remember. I did find, I did see a tree, right?

That was near the town. Yep. So yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so once we're there, do we know exactly what we're doing? We're diving down into the volcano, forging some trammels. And the volcano is underwater, is that what the stick is with it? Yes. It's on the floor.

And you can notice it because across this open, clear ocean, there is one column of black smoke that emit. So it's an active volcano that we're diving into? Underwater. Yeah. Solid, essentially. Extreme heat. One question. I have the infinite blessings of Aune's knowledge. I am a holy man. However, I'm not exactly clear. Do we need those little peas to make these trammels? Yes. Yes. And we have three of them.

Three! One. We're not going to get more of these before we forge the trams. I don't think there's time. Yeah, remember, like Delilah, was already down there. She was in like tunnels underground, right? Somewhere. We don't know if she's at this forge. We don't know if she's there. We don't know if she's there.

The vision that had, she was top side and there was snow. She was coming out of Tharambhal. Like tunnels that brood beneath the city of Thar and Pah. And she was like coming out. She had both of her eyeballs back. and was like, ooh, it's chilly. Enjoying the winter. And to regularize?

Yes. To regularize. Yes. But do you, what, why do you think she keeps coming back? Is her? Oh no. What? What?

What? You're just nervous about everything. Is that what we've come to? I just don't know. Maybe she made a deal similar to the deals we've made. I would assume so. But with Vecna. I would assume so.

I mean, if Gobbs can give me. their blessing, then why can't she have one? I love you. We should really tip like 10%. I know at least. 10%? You know, be really generous. Look at this.

You guys. You're amazing. So like, yeah, so we go, right? Do we go to the shore and then out into the ocean, like on a ship or, yeah, is that what we do? We go to the shore and then we climb up the volcano and then we dive into the volcano. The volcano is underneath the ocean. But there's smoke coming up.

underneath the ocean. Yeah, like a trail of black, sooty, bubbly goodness. We've only talked about it for four hours, it's okay. There are... I can't make there the trouble coming out in the water. No, not even close. No, it's at the bottom of the ocean. There are volcanoes underwater.

And this one, it's less like, just like, burning smoke more than it's the sulfuric gases and poisonous fumes of the various reactions and chemicals and pressure beneath it coming out. The other scenes are Titanic. Titanic, Jesus, is love bowl. I got it, I got it. Okay. Mm-hmm.

So. How do we get there? Go to the shoes. Well, I have a tree. I can get us to the set. I can get us there. Okay. Let's do it.

All right. So, if you have things gathered, you all find your way. I imagine there's, it's not too far of a walk from the Raven's Crest to a tree that's functional for the spell. It's on a southern border. of the quarter that holds the birth heart

and the orchards and various trees there. So you find yourself a suitable tree, you gather yourselves, steal yourselves. There is still, now that the morning has come, the tension in the air of Vasselheim and the word that spreads of some sort of looming threat, though sourceless and directionless, most of the people here are,

definitely has built this air of fear and rush for preparation that surrounds you. As you find the tree, Keyloff. Have a question? Sorry. Did Pike come with us to send us off? I'll say, sure. She walks you guys to the tree. Paul, you know you have that, what's your call? You put on me one time, the death ward.

Should we put it on one of us before we go, just in case it's super dangerous, you know, one of the squishier ones? Yeah, I can put it on the... Does someone work death ward? So like if you go down. Just fax. Yes. No, he's already.

I think he's at Percy, right? Pass. You. You. Oh my God. Flip for it, Jesus. We do. Oh, yeah.

Oh, God, they do. Oh, God, they do. Flip for, heads of town. Bull department shoes. Yeah, come on. Boulder Partment cheers. Mm-hmm. One time.

One, two, three, throw. Oh. You. I'll take it. I can give it to a few people. Oh! Thanks, Pike. That's convenient. That's going to tap out my spells there.

So I have to save some for sending just in case. Yes, of course. Those two. Mr. and Mrs. Dirolo. Okay, so only last for eight hours, so travel quickly. Okay. Mr. and Mrs. Alia. Thanks, pardon.

I just, I followed my help, just in case. You two? No, nope, nope, nope, nope. I'll like a little danger in my life. Is this gonna be like the Cracken fight? Are we gonna be underwater fighting again? What? I hope not.

You went there. We all fucking died because you went there with us, Scanlan. I hated you at that moment. Nope, he did not. Water under the bridge, water under the crackin, we're on this right horizon. As you guys are arguing, she leans forward and beneath her breath finishes the incantation of the death ward and you, of Exal, you feel the, It sounds like a soft clinging of gentle metals for you,

in the back of your head and as it hits, this kind of warmth hits your chest and then sets in and it doesn't quite fade. It's like there's just, it's like having a localized blanket held to your sternum. Nice. Who else would like one? How many does she get?

I'll say for the purposes that she can muster four. Whoa. Scammon. How many does she get? Scamler. How many you get? Do you want one? Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah, sure. If everybody died, if you die, I'm gonna be really upset. On my birthday, come, what are the chances? He's got that whole barbarian that knocked me down, I get back up again thing. He never let it down.

I got the fuck back up again. We're basically God. You're absolutely God. That's why he would be a rogue barbarian. All right, so for those four that have marked it, you have death ward, which lasts for eight hours. The first time you dropped to zero hit points, it brings you to one, and then the spell fades. Right. Okay.

All right, so Pike sends you off of the wave, and you all step to the tree. You feel the transitional kind of burst of energy as the juridic magics pull you from one living source to another, and you all emerge on the outside of a tree that's barely wide enough to sustain the doorway between the two. As you all kind of gather on the outskirts, you turn around, you can see the somewhat leafless living through the winter, but not the prettiest tree you see. and the doorway portal closes behind you. Glancing around you, there is a light snowfall, and you can see slush and snow gathered, dirty, along the edges of the streets. You are on the outskirts of the city of Shorecomb. Population-wise, it can't be more than a few thousand

people at most. It looks like there is a very healthy fish trade. To the immediate right of you, You can see there's a cliffside, maybe 200 feet off from the edge of the town, where there are carts going to and from, and you can see the large crane that seems to be carrying large containers and large nets filled with caught fish from the bottom of the cliff side. People around noticed you all emerge from a tree, and you can see about four or five of the various peasants and working folk just kind of stopping their tracks and stare at you. Frozen. I know it weird, right?

Really weird. Hi. This way, James. And he grabs his little kid's hand. The kid just kind of slack jawed watching you and grabs them off to the side. People start walking again and still kind of glancing over their shoulder. They go about their business. But keeping a very, very close side of people that just bamped into the town. Maybe I should have found a tree less in the center of things.

No, I'd rather go ahead. It's not easier. It's on the center of town, thankfully. It's still off to the side. But you did catch the eye of a few folk at least. I mean, you still transported us. a long way. That's commendable. Yeah. How would one go about finding out if you're being watched via magical means? Is there a way to do that other than if one is not a

magic user, is that just a perception check to? No, that would be, there were actual spells designed for that. Just checking. Sorry. Are there spells designed to mask you? Mm-hmm. Yeah, I don't think any of us have them. To mask you from Scrying? Yeah.

So people can't see us. Yes. Do you know of anything like that's coming? I've heard of such things, but I don't currently have one. Cool. Oh well. I'm just curious. Good question. I mean, yeah, because Vecan is fucking watching us. Right now? Right now. Yeah, all the fucking time.

We should. Mm. Yeah. Good, right over there. Do we take a boat now, or do we like find some dolphins and ride out majestically? majestically. Can we see where it's coming? Are we like on the water? Let's make it happen.

Yeah, can we make our way to the shoreline? Okay. It's a couple hundred feet to get to the edge of the cliff. And these are sheer cliffs that drop off for 150, 200 feet or so before it hits very, very hard pebble beaches. These aren't sandy beaches. Right. I stop everybody. Say, be careful.

It looks like it could be a thousand feet, which is deceiving. You know you're only talking to yourself, we all know. I'll get any... I'm good, thank you. Holy word, I'm good. So it's long. I'm like, we got to actually watch... So we're on clips facing the ocean right now?

Yes, you guys are at the end of the cliff. You look down and there are the rocky beaches there. There are a number of large docks that jut out from the rocky beach. And you can see there are about five or six, varying degrees of the... varying degrees of rickety, winding wooden staircases that are built into the cliff side that lead from the top edge of the cliff down to the beach below. And you can see a lot of workers are currently hauling large sacks and small crates and boxes, things that, you know, are too small to bring on the large kind of winding cranes that they have on the edge as well.

And there's ships coming, their ships going. It looks like this is a decent trade stop for ships, or for cities along the shore side here on the Silra. What do our elven eyes see? Can we see the smoke? Make a perception check. That was a Legolas reference in case you're on. I'm not familiar with that reference. A perception check? Yes.

20. 20. Glancing out at this distance, because the sky itself is very cloudy, very gray. It's a very gray day. It's cold, it's chilly, the wind's blowing. It's very faint, but it's enough to the point where snow is falling. There is a very, very faint mist in the distance, either a storm is coming or a storm is passed. That's preventing you from seeing any sign of a glimmer of the smoke, so you're not entirely certain the direction. Can I tell if the storm is coming or if the storm is past?

Make a nature check. And there are people about? There are people about. And some of them are just passing, not paying a mind. A few of them stop and glance at these very well-dressed, very dangerous-looking figures that have now just walked up and look out past the ocean, but no one's broaching any conversation. They look like they're more making a wide berth or keeping it very untrust

eye on you as they walk past. That's true, it's doing interpretive dance again. So what did you get? I'm a motherfucking human barometer. What's your own? Natural 20. Oh shit, okay. Yeah, it's really, I'm really good at the check.

You get the sense that a lot of the snow that was on the street when you got there and the slush was from a storm that recently passed. And the clouds and the fog that you see in the distance, it looks like it's blowing away. That's good. You that, little girl. Okay. Strangely, no little girl's working at this. No little girls working at this dock. However, the person you did see that look at little girls

actually like what looks to be a, just a generally short fella who has a wrap over the top of his head, a swollen cheek where it looks like he might have some sort of a tooth infection who spins around? It's not a bonnet, it's a crusty-looking fisherman who's going to little girl? Oh, my bad fella. Sorry, as you can tell, we're not from around here. Visiting, yeah, a couple of questions.

One is there's a volcano just off of this coast somewhere, right? Do you know where it is? Could you point to it? Was that affirmative or surprise? He points out of the ocean. Is he pointing in a general direction? I look where he's pointing. Can I see anything?

No. I meant. Are there boats for rent for hire? Shifts. Trady? Yes, I mean. All right, thank you. I think that's all I needed from you, okay.

I pull that a piece of gold. Do you know where the volcano is? Yes. What, I think I'm a dog? What is this kind of treatment? Do you want to make some gold? Yes, I'd love to make some gold. Then can you tell me where the fucking volcano is? There we go. Straight questions. There we go. He kind of rubs his swollen cheek side. He can see his teeth are kind of graying and yellow,

and there's a little bit of blackened decay at the edges, but he kind of grins a little bit at the side of the gold. If you eat a little more than paltry sum, so. Paltry sum? Here. How much gold do you see every day? I pull at another piece. Is this enough? Make it five and introduce you to my dark smet.

One. All I want to know is about the volcano is. But you're not looking for a ship to read, right? Like you said. No. All right, people's that way. And he points out, he's out. You see a kind of glances over, he kind of lines up where you could see a couple of larger rocks

that are kind of breaking out from the shore surface, maybe 20 or 30 feet out from where the Pebble Beach ends and meets the water line. He's kind of lining up his arm and you got like about five miles. Five miles. Hey, use your elven eyes, see if you could see it. Yeah, I'm gonna look real hard with thousand feet, half. I was kidding. Plus that hot elephant. It's too hard to see right now. Can we just like, you know, sped ourselves out? Well.

We might want that later. I mean, we could. We can. We can. We should run a ship. If you just get a ship, then when it's all over, we have a way out. Otherwise, we'll walk in five miles underwater. I mean, I would rather save my eighth-level animal shapes in case we need to bail. All right, here's three more gold. How about that introduction?

That I can much. Press the coins in a little pouch from the side and kind of buttons it up and locks it. Alright, follow me. What's your name, young lady? Fena. Fena. Pleasure to make your acquaintance. You as well, lass.

I love. I love Fina and my silence. Leads you guys back down one of the winding stairs. and you have to wait at certain moments. There are certain areas where it's switchbacks and it's open more of a, you would think it's a platform for looking out, but it's more for letting people get past and for the pathways up and down. It gets kind of narrow on the actual things. But eventually you make your way down to where these docks are, and there are three large buildings that are kind of the hubs of most people checking in, checking out.

They have a number of docksmen that are keeping tabs on what's going in and out of the dock, and materials are being shipped in, taxing those that are using it temporarily, general business in the vicinity. He leads you over. Okay, I'm going to introduce you to scent. She can write you something at the least. Just I recommend not letting that one end. She has a thing against the smaller folk. Really? I'm being racisted against? Yes, you all.

Look, I'm not. You seem like a very fine lady. Tush. That's too-sha. But I just, I know Senthwell, and you want to make a good impression. Just maybe keep her outside. You're not the tallest yourself. Sturges at the lower back and you see, with a couple of cracks and snaps, the hunched man gets about four or five inches of height and is almost cresting about vacancy.

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Fuck it. Fuck it. I'm not disguising him just because of what he looks like. Fuck that. Wait a second. Are you standing up from me? Of course I am. I would like to argue he just disguised himself for a solid year, though. I don't care.

That was a different reason. And if your fucking doc mistress is such a bitch that she won't give us a good deal because of him, then we'll find someone else. Fair enough, I would also recommend you lower your voice. We're right outside of her door. What's your name? Senth. Senth. I mean, it's really easy.

I don't mind putting on the hat. I feel like expediency. I mean, it is kind of the principle, but do we have time for principals? We always have time for principals. We always have time for principals. When we come back, we can be terrible. We never have before. Why start now? I mean, I like principles, but I don't think you should do it.

Let's stand on principle. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Are we done here? Oh, you're still here, yes. Good day. Thanks for your job.

Don't be a dick. Hoples off and makes its way back up the stairs. So you come outside of the, This one, Doc Hub. Senth. It's a modest two-story building. It looks like it has a watchtower, a second story, and the bottom floor is much larger.

The door is currently closed. The wood looks a little sea-rodded a bit. You can see the edges of the wood are curling and kind of just dark and perpetually damp. Little bits of green moss and various fungus are starting to gather at the very edges of the building. but it seems to be standing and has been there for a while. No.

Knock in the door. A voice in inside goes, ah, come in! You got this, but I don't know why I made this out back. That's okay. As you push the door open, glancing inside, you know, there's general gray, dull daylight coming from the cloudy sky, but there are also a few oil lanterns that are hanging in different places.

You can see stacks of like maps or other heavy pieces of parchment that are curled up and tied off in sections. There are small crates, most of them empty, but are scattered about the entranceway here. And as you enter the building, you watch as a very tall, thin, lanky female half-orke spins around across the room with a singular kind of monocle that is very, very intense to make one eye look really big over the other. It spins around. The sides of the head shaved and the rest of it just slicked back against the head with like a little bit of a, I want to say, like a light brown shock against the black to one side. Dressed fairly nice, but you can see the clothing at

an immediate glance is nice up front and then just tatters at the bottom. Spins around. Yes. Whoa. We were hoping to charter a ship at great expedience to about five miles after the coast to the plume of smoke in the underwater volcano. You watch as the one eye, moving independently than the other, glances. and looks each of you very quickly up and down, and then slicks back into place and goes, that can be arranged, yes.

Excellent. So, how long would you wish to charter this ship? Three days? I think three, it's, yeah. Probably be less than that, but three days, sure. Do you have a crew? No, we would need to. Can we see any of us sail?

I can. Not if we want to live. We would like to charter a crew. True, just also to maintain we're going to be doing a bit of underwater search and rescue. Very well, then. Will that be possible? Yes. Great. Wonderful.

Three days rental including a crew on board. That'll run you approximately 150 gold pieces. I'll require a just to be in case you lose the ship or don't return with it. An additional 500 just to hold in case you lose the ship. Hmm. So a grand total of 650 up front, 500 to be returned upon your return. Of course, do you have something to sign. I'm sure Percival can draw something up. Oh, but of course.

I would not dream of allowing such a thing without a paper trail. That will do. Follow me. Quick contract is drawn up. You take a glance over at Percival. seems very thorough, but nothing beyond what was requested. And basically just, if the ship is not returned, all money is forfeit. When the ship is returned, a very, very intense

investigation and perceived state of the ship is going to be requested from an appraisal to see if any damage is taken. Yeah, it's essentially like one of those seedy car rental places that, the contract says they will ding you for every damage. How much two ships are more? I don't know, but I'm... Six hundred. I feel like we've rented a ship before.

No, no. But it was far less than six. It was far less than this, but at this point I'm just sort of saying, let's blow the money. I mean, I agree. But an entire ship I feel like would be more than 600. Oh, no.

If we survive this, then we can come back and have those. We priced it out once before. It was like 30,000 before a shit. Yeah, so she's, yeah. Maybe it's a shitty ship. That's fair. I mean, we, that's fine. That's fine.

I'd prefer a shitty ship if it's cheaper. Slaps the, who slept the contract down in front. Have we a deal? Very well. Would you take this as a deposit? I give her this platinum bracelet with the sapphire that I have. No.

It's just we'll get it back when we return the ship. Oh wait. Maybe you should have meant that in the contract. The one eye is still looking at you, the other one is kind of from the bracelet. I find this acceptable in our agreement. But wait. It just occurred to me. as I was handing that over.

We need platinum, don't we? Yeah, we do. That was platinum, isn't it? Maybe we'll just do gold instead. Sorry, can I have that back? Sorry. Smooth operator. Flings it back.

Fucking. And there is an expression of like, of course. Of course a gnome would do that. If this is a telltale game, we would say, her hatred for gnomes deepened. That's fine. All right. Immediately puts it into a small shelf, writes down some marks on it.

Very well, I will show you to the shore shanty. Follow me, please. Oh, it sounds elegant. Shanty's like a fancy name for like a mansion, right? Yep. Leads you out to one of the far-end docks. And there are a number of decent ships, some larger fishing ships, some faster travel ships, some long boats.

You see one kind of galleon. galleon-sized ship that's just left and taken away on the far end, there is one of the shittiest tugboat-type-sized boats you've seen in a while. Scalind, you've seen boats like this, and they're largely used for either relatively cheap and relatively quick messenger services, like a courier ship, if you will. That's about it. Do we need a bigger vessel? I have a feeling you don't believe this ship will make it back, do you? Well, that would not behoove me.

I wish to keep my ships in talk with her safe. Of course. Yeah. She's got a high-ass insurance policy on this bitch. Clever. The crew is included. Go say hello. Hope to see you back in a few days. Whips around and walks her way back to the...

Did you see her eye? I didn't move. How does that happen? She seemed very pleasant. Yeah, how does that happen? Fenno was talking about. Shall we away? Do we need to make any preparations before we go? I think we're ready. Do we have all materials we need?

We did, did we get the platinum for the bank, if I recall? I'm trying to remember. Yeah, yeah. We'll say that that was that was your intent last time. You made the conversion of platinum. We would have platinum. Let's meet the crew. Let's meet the crew. Yeah.

Oh, boy. How many grew old there? There are three. Two of them appear to be the crustiest kind of barnacles of... The gentleman that you met earlier, Fena, looks like the brother of these two that made it. That really just lived the life. Both of these men that are inside there are playing cards, kind of hunched over the table. can't be younger than their early 60s.

One of them has a big, thick, gnarled white beard that darkens at the tips, which you can only imagine, as most hair tends to get lighter, the tips means it's crusted with stuff. They're both wearing general seafaring garb in just, you know, tattered clothing. They're muscular, their skin is very, very tanned. One of them is wearing kind of like a heavy-knitted cap. It kind of folds back onto itself and rests on the shoulder.

with the side, and they're both like playing cards. They just look over. I guess he's time to work. Takes the card, they pulls him up from the table. All right, where are we going? You strapping young lads are taking us out to the volcano. Yeah, scold seat. Both look at each other.

All right, let's wake up Shanty. Santee? Shanty. Shanty. Santee. Santee. The boat is the sea shanty. But the captain is Santi.

Captain Santi of the shanty. That's what I was thinking. Sanky Trolls. Technically this is Captain Santee of the Sea Shanty, or the Shore Shanty. Wow, the Shore Shanty. Yeah, it's a mouthful. Captain Santee of the Shore Shanti?

You love it. You watch as this larger gentleman walks over and just slams his fist on this small, like a wooden, Like a wooden, my brain isn't working. I think a hatch, a hatch in the ground. We got customers. You hear this rustling beneath and all of a sudden the hatch slams up and barreling out from underneath. You see the drunkest, most unshaven, unwashed, gnarled Goliath

you've ever seen. Whoa. No facial hair, but it looks to be like bits of frizzled dark hair in the back, which is interesting. Yeah. Most, very few glats grow hair. Now what's interesting about this too is the size isn't as large as you, height-wise, but width is about matching yours. So this is like a bowling ball of a Goliath. Yeah, a little tank.

Kind of like, steps up on the top. Yeah. Yeah. Only taller. taller. Yeah, a large Danny DeVito. Kind of, actually, yeah. A large Danny DeVito.

That's a good point. But if like Danny DeVito also was doing like Iron Man competitions for a number of years and then let him set goes, so like he has like the bulk of the muscle underneath, but then just, go, go, go, go, go, yeah. Doesn't say a word, just looks at you all, and then walks out under the deck of the ship. Awesome. Great. Can I look down into the hatch where it came from? Yeah. Yeah.

Can I see anything? Make perception check. Point B. This is just what we need. Two. It is dark, but you can smell the rum. There's rum down there. Down there, there's rum. Well, we have five miles out of us.

Good old five miles. We have five miles. Who cares to know what our responsibilities are? We'll be able to get, how long would it take to go five miles on this fabulous ship? Give me a shit. Well, one of the two older gentlemen that were there, the one that knocked on the hatch, goes, sticks his hand out the side of the doorway. Give me two hours, three hours.

No, no. I'm gonna go fix with that. I'm gonna, whatever, you know what I'm saying. Sure, I'm a phone. You haven't even left the doc. Yeah, like I like the . They pull the sail up, they get everything ready, they go ahead and undoctor. They go ahead and undock from the dock, pull up anchor, and the general wind, because it's

cliffside here, the wind is pretty strong right here at the base, so immediately the sail billows open, and the ship takes off and they begin to curve in the direction loosely of where you were pointed earlier. After those initial winds, I can't take them and keep his going for a little bit. I'm going to keep an eye on where, you know, 10th, 10, the little guy said, the volcano was. It's crazy. This is like... And try to make sure that our drunk captain is taking us to the right place.

After all, we are going on like a three-hour tour. A three-hour tour? Actually, it should be only about a half an hour now. Oh, for some of my own. Appreciate the sound effects. If we're going on a three-hour tour, if we're going on a three-hour tour, I demand to know who's Gilligan, who's the same. Millionaire and his wife? Oh, oh, nice.

The movie star? No, Ginger. Ginger. Well, then there's the professor and Mary Ann. Professor. Professor. Yeah. Professor.

Yeah, Professor. Or maybe the professor. So maybe the professor? Would you be Thurston Hau? I don't know. That would be thirsty. Yeah. And I'm a million and a nice.

Yeah. Actually. Yeah. You're Marianne, you're professor. This is going to be very helpful against Beckett. That would make sense, awesome. You're the crazy monkey on the island that just kind of fucking shit up. All right.

That was the weirdest side. As you set sail, the wind picks up. Speed is enhanced. And you gather this rate, probably under two hours. You probably make it to the destination with the help of the Areshares. I hope it's a second level spell, dust of wind. Yeah. Yeah.

Toss the tiny ship. So as it guides on, the Captain Santee just stands at the front of the ship just glancing out. It's kind of like just giant square jaw, just kind of knussel right into where the pecs kind of meet up. Beneath the thick, like, sweater that's almost like hanging off the arms at this point. No cap kind of balding head with a straggly hair in the back. And just kind of looks off in the distance. The rest of the two are just kind of sitting back where there are various jugs of some unsubbing. I've seen liquid, just keeping tabs in the sail, and it's a very leisurely, lax-a-daizal energy on the ship.

How many feet, I guess, is this ship from front to back? Front to back, I'd say it's about 25 feet. Oh, my, crammed on this. Yeah. This is a time. It's a shoebox. It's like 25, 30. Is there any faster on this?

Is there no way to go faster? Captain? Captain, you say this captain? Do you go out to this volcano often? Mm-mm-mm-mm. Mm-mm. Howie. Santee is so wise.

Why do you say that? He sees the sea. Look at him. We can all see the sea. Santee of the shanty sees the sea. Santee of the shanty sees the sea. Santee of the shanty sees the sea. And points out and you glance in the direction of where Sansa,

direction of where Santee of the shore shanty is, and you can see there's in the distance line of dark that is rising out of the ocean. Shanty of the shore shanty, you found it. You've found it. Santee on the shore santi spotted. I will throw something. The smoke. Do you think shanty of the shore santi sell sea shells? Surely not.

Rugs fall everyone. Follow everyone now. God damn. Quickly enough, you begin to approach and you can now see what was a thin column is now a fairly large billowing stream of dark fume that just you can see as the waves get kind of larger and larger the further out you go with certain swells. Some of it breaks out and it kind of chains and snakes upward based on how it's finding its way to the surface. Eventually you get kind of within maybe 30, 40 feet of where it breaks the surface there, and the sails are

let loose, are falling to loose and tighter on the bottom, anchor is thrown off the side, chain is let down, and then eventually the captain turns back and... All right, should we... Well, hold on just a fuck, gee, hold on. I saw you drop anchor. Do you have an idea of like how deep it is here? Glances over the side. Very deep.

Is your chain long enough for your anchor to hit bottom? Cool. I'm sorry, do you? Do you talk ever? At this point you hear, as soon as you say that question, the two other older, gnarled gentleman on the ship go, I'm just staring at you. Spits in the ground before you. I see you're also skilled in interpretive dance. You're very good. The ship will be gone when we're going.

No, no, no. No. No. You know, I didn't want to waste time on the known business. Let's just go on. Down. Let's do this. Wait for us for. Water breathing. Three days.

Oh, and drink it. And drink it. Poof. All right. I had him in the necklace because it was such a tight little boat. But now he's out. All right. With that, you all have water breathing.

Do you all? 24 hours. Oh, wait. Can he swim? He's good. He did it before, right? Yeah. I mean, he's good at swimming as, you know, after the crack and fight. He's an expert now after the crack and fight.

The crack and fight. What? I'm so glad I don't have to do that. You just do it for me. It's telling us. You guys make your way into the water? It uses alter self to give herself the gill hands and the wet fingers. Okay.

That was cool. Cool. All right. Yeah, I do a proper paddy entry into the water. Perfect. As each of you make your way into the water, you can smell, by the way, the fumes are going to be here. It's not, you know, because you see the dark color, of it, you immediately envision, or at least instinctually prepare for the smell of like fire smoke or a fireplace. As soon as it hits you, it's a very acrid, sharp, metallic smell with hints of sulfur and other chemicals that burn the inside of your nose and sinuses immediately.

In the water, going up our noses. Well, this is just the proximity of being this. Just being near, you can smell occasionally as the wind kind of blows through, but a whiff gets to you. But you all make your way under the surface and begin to swim down, following with your vision, where the source of this dark column of fume is. Do we have visibility? That's all right. 40 feet? 60 feet?

So you had about 60 feet or so before it gets a little murky. I think I've still got one more charge in the flashlight, if I recall. Okay. So. The red light? Yeah. All right, so you guys make your way down below. Who's leading this?

I should get a marching order for underwater, by the way. I'll go ahead. All right, so Vax is the front. I'm useless, and Percy's kind of useless underwater, so. Extremely useless. Percy has the light too, so take that in the middle. I'll be with Percy kind of more up front. All righty.

Sorry, then the hack on camera. Just behind basketball. Fastball. All right. Frog? What should I be? You're sinking faster the most anybody. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

How about are you on the down weighter system for whoever's in the front? Like, I'll just hold onto their ankles. Drinket in your necklace or something as well? He's swimming in. Okay, so Trinket's trying to keep up next to you. Scanlan, where are you? I'm probably next to Percy. All right.

All right, so you guys begin making your way down. Can we breathe the water just fine. as you descend 40, 60 feet, 80 feet. I'm equalizing. Yeah, okay. Well, you're breathing water, it's not necessarily. Really, your ears wouldn't pop still? We're in Paris in the abyss right now.

Oh, right, okay, cool. It's funny, you just mentioned equalizing, and I can't help it, like, I'm going to try it myself now. Quick question, like in space, can we talk underwater if there's no air going through vocal chorus? Cool. Oh, good. We can't communicate. Is that check?

I'll say because you have the earring, you can maybe get, you know, it's a little garbled, but you can hear it a little bit. It's like that game we all played when we were growing up. Like, tried to... Yeah. Flashlight check? So you can make out the gist of things, but, you know, how fast you're talking, it could be hard to hear.

It's getting darker and darker the further down you descend, and the water gets murkier and mercury. It also gets warmer. Stop peeing, Bex. I was waiting for it. Do you call me Bex? Backs. And I said sorry at the same time, so I'm peeing right now is what I'm saying.

It's good. It leads you into it. Descending further and further, the only visible light that you have is the one that Percival is now shining below. And as it goes through, you can see it reveals about another 40 or so feet ahead of you, and then as you pass over it,

suddenly become shorter and then longer again as it comes and hits the smoke. And you can see the smoke and the fume now, it's like, it's billowing up at a rapid pace, and the water's getting hotter and hotter to the point where it's, right now, it's starting to feel like a sauna. Oh, we didn't think about... We didn't think about fire or just going to... About another 20 or so feet, and it's hot enough to stand, but it's getting really uncomfortable. And with Percival's light, you can see the bottom. You guys all land there at the bottom of the ocean. It's so dark that outside of Percival's

light and the glow around you, you only see the very outline of each other from the splashback of the light as he kind of projects it around from the front of the gun. Does anybody have any light? I can light up my flame hands. Or underwater. Underwater. But it's magic. I thought it doesn't matter. I will say you get a little bit of there and it's like fighting against it. It's a very faint glow. You can see where Keylet is, but it doesn't add any light to the round. rest of this right there you are.

Max. Where we go? Do you see anything? I don't know. Hey, this. Blah. Blah. We really need to, like, say stuff, though, because no one's going to be able to understand us.

Yes. That's wonderful. Do you see anything around us? Make perception check. Yeah. I may join in on that since I have a flashlight. 28. Oh, that's about the .

You guys have both have disadvantage on this, by the way, because of the lack of disability. 28. Gannon, don't you have any, like, dancing lights or anything? 21. I can make a fireball, but it'll probably go out really quick. You don't like have a dancing light cantrip or some shit like that? Gl-d-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l. All right.

So, you glancing down, you can see you guys are standing on what looks to be a rising, an amazing upward cone, the top of the volcano, here at this point, where you can see all the ground below you is not, especially immediate around where the water, or the at least the fume is gushing out, it is porous, dark rock. There's no soot, there's no soft surface that you hit, there's no usual bottom of the ocean you expect, that soft kind of sediment. Yeah, no sediment. It's just hard rock. The force of the vent seems to be pushing any of the sediment off, and it just ascends slowly around you and then disappears into the darkness. You can see a number of small, strangely enough, with the heat of the surrounding area too,

you can see little bursts of color within the porous rock. And with a quick glance of X, you can see there are what looks to be bits of plant life, like colorful pinks and purples that are kind of slowly pulled into the porous rock on the outside of these vents. Oh, cool. You can see a very, very faint, below in a couple of places the rock where it looks like there is still some sort of very, very hot, very slow pressurizing molten rock that is cooling slowly. It looks like there's this, this constant slow battle between the ocean water and whatever's forcing upward.

Do I see any? Do I see? Don't please. It sickens me. It sickens me. It pains it is. Are there any other pockets other than the main pressure point or that might be a smoother entry point? Right now, like where it's emerging, these jets of extremely hot fume

that are just building past you. It looks like there's just one concentrated opening at the moment. As you walk around, it looks like it's not one central column. It looks like there's a number of fissures that are like smaller fissures that are all clustered around this area. It's just hard to see the separation because so much of it's just kind of mashing into one giant column as it emerges. Okay. All right, so it's like hot water and gas coming up. Yes. If I theoretically wanted to do a control water. spell and like reverse the water inwards. Could we like go in through one of these tunnels, through one of these fissures? You can certainly try. I hate that phrase.

You got the death war go for it. I'm more thinking for all of us. I don't know how else we're going to get in. Can you make yourself like a fire elemental and it won't damage you if you go, or will water fuck with you? Oh, water will fuck with you as a fire element. I could be water elemental, though. You could. Should we walk around the volcano? Is it massive?

You don't know, because your visibility vanishes by about 40 feet away from you. And we're just seeing little glows in the distance? You're seeing little glows within the actual areas where the fumes are spewing up, and... Little bits are coming down where the smoke is emerging. where the smoke is emerging, you're seeing every now and then a faint glow that appears here and there. Is there anything, are the faint glow is repetitive, like they're coming from the same place over and over again?

Yeah, it looks like the glow is stationary, it's just the smoke obscuring it as it passes by and occasionally gives you a glimpse. Let's head towards the glow. Yeah. Yeah. We're looking for tunnels. Yeah. There are tunnels that exist already. Yeah.

It might just be magna. And also if we see anything resembling an air bubble, then we know that something appropriate is well. If we want to wait a few minutes, I could do a commune with nature. Oh, yeah, do that. Oh, well. Can we do that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, I'm gonna be like, underwater tea party, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

and do a commune with nature for a little bit and see if I can find, oh, I get like five, three questions. I want to find any easy tunnels that might be going into, manmade tunnels that aren't going to make us alive. Yeah. Any dangerous creatures in the area. Any dangerous creatures in the area. That's good. In the Hanville.

Yeah, solid. Good questions. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Okay. Because of the nature of this, the radius is limited to 300 feet because it is considered a somewhat underground, not out in the open setting, but. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 300 feet.

All right, so you take the minute and concentrate beneath, and with that all of a sudden you feel your consciousness extended to the rock and stone, the various forms of plant life that have made home around the outskirts at the top of this volcano's caldera. So, your questions are? Are there any man-made tunnels that will grant us access into the volcano without burning us alive?

And where are they? And where are they? I asked two questions. Well, is not important. How about any tunnels? Are there any tunnels getting into the volcano? You feel the sense of the rock and the surrounding material. you'll guide your attention, very focused,

into the center of where that fume is erupting. So we gotta go in the top. Okay. Okay. Oh. If the anvil is probably too far away at this point, what about these little, if, yeah, it's probably not right here at the top. What about these little colorful plant-y things

floating past us? Are they going to sting us and paralyze us? Should we find out from nature how far down in the magma it is? Yeah, where's what the location of the Anvil is? I'm afraid that 300 feet. But maybe it'll know how far away it is, even though it can only, does it work that way? It probably have to be within 300 feet. It's like within 300 feet, I can sense it.

I can like see the area. Oh, okay, okay, okay. Said the fantasy heroes. Yeah. What about dangerous creatures? Hossil creatures, hossil creatures in the area. Hossil creatures in the area? Dangerous hostile creatures.

Okay. How many more adjudice creatures? Adjutants, can I throw in there? Hissie. Irritated, peach, mental, person. Starving. What is it like? Too harm, ill will.

Judgmental. Okay, terrain bodies of water, prevalent plants, minerals, animals, or peoples, powerful celestials, fay, fiends, elementals are undead. You do get a very faint sense of faint elemental movement. You're not quite sure what that pertains to specifically. but it is moving just outside the radius of your sphere of understanding here at the top of the volcano. All right. Okay. And it is moving slowly through rock.

Rock. So we need to go in the top, yeah? Or through rock. You can make tunnels, right? Can make tunnels. I would prefer to do that than go down the barrel of the shotgun, but that's just me. Are we concerned if I start... Travis, can you do?

Can you say that with your finger flapping on your mouth, please? No. No. Are we concerned if I start boring tunnels into the side of this? The magma will stop pouring out. That magma and pressure will just start releasing out the side. I'm just saying. He's just saying.

Vax swims down towards the cone. And I think the last time I talked about the Death Walker's ward, I had set it to fire. So we'll say fire. Okay. You had all that time on the ship. Resistant to. Is my mantle helping with the heat?

Yeah, the heat isn't bothering you as much. Bothering you as much. It helps with extreme heat as a general weather type. But if you die, but like intensely dangerous heat, like fire or anything, it's not going to help you with that. So you just dive into the center. Yeah, I forgot. He's like a crash test done.

Does he, does it? We'll worry about that later. You watch his Vax just disappears into the liquid. The pressure is. is a lot. I need you to make an athletics check first. The pressure is a lot? Yeah, because it's pumping. Athletics. Natural's 20.

Oh. You swim down into the darkness, and it's just, you're using your sense of balance to try and keep tabs on what is up and what is down, because once you dive into the middle of this pillar, you see nothing. And you begin to just swim down, feeling for that where the gravity is pulling you and the force against you and use that to get your bearings.

I know it's probably fuck all, I'm going to pull out the flame-tonged dagger and try to use it as a shi-ass. You can faintly see a little bit of it there. You do take three points of fire damage as soon as you enter the water, reduced to one. So you manage to push through and descend about 15 or so, 20 feet, suffer another six points of fire damage. It can reduce to three. I need you to make another athletics check, please. Oh dear. As you're pushing further and further down.

Black of the day. Oh, not good. Same thing. Just a six. A six. It begins to push you up. You lose a little bit of ground. You take another one point of fire damage. Oh, no. But you begin to make up and you get part way down. You get another 40 or so feet down into it you think. Still unable to really see anything. Occasionally you see a glint of that light that you saw before, a little bit of glow. You take another three points of fire damage, reduced to one. It is a lot of heat. But you continue to push further, make another athletics check. The third one? 20. 20. Pushing along.

Still making your way down. Making your way down. You get probably another 80 or so feet before it seems to curve off a little bit to the side. The force of the water begins to shift a little bit. You take another three points of fire damage. You begin to see that the water. to see a faint bit of that glow that you were following earlier, and as you kind of head towards it, the heat gets more and more intense. And you begin to kind of push past some

of the smoke, and you can see right there, it looks like there is just a glowing ember of rock, about maybe five or six wide, five or six feet wide, that is just molten rock that is slowly cooling as it's being pushed faintly out. But the force of the water curves off to the side, and you continue to swim away from where that glowing ember is and following the of where this push of water is. They're the worst. Take another two points of fire damage. Yeah.

The temperature is not letting up. You have no idea. You continue to swim. Further down, further down, further down. Make another athletics check. 16. You're slowing down a bit, but you're still getting ground. You also take another three points of fire damage.

This is getting hard. And even your form, you're getting a little tired. Okay. I mean, go against this force, and you're not quite sure where this is going to lead you, or you're not going to stumble across just like an opening where it's fine to walk. You're just continuing to swim down a superheated.

Just a little bit. Just a little bit. Okay. Make another athletics check. Okay. Not good. That's a seven. Okay.

You push back about 15 feet or so, and you take another three points of fire damage. I'll just go with it up. Okay. You ride up. Before you can get entirely out of the column, take another three points of fire damage, and eventually, poof, emerge from the side of it.

Uncomfortable, but. Back into warm piss water instead of boiling hot. Yeah, which comparatively is much more comfortable. Yeah, yeah. Nope. What'd you see? I mean, you can't really understand me though, can they, right? Like, it's all shitting.

Are we gonna understand? You have the earring on it. I'm not gonna do it. It goes forever. I don't, I think we need to look elsewhere. I don't think all of us are going to make it down. What if I'm controlling the currents? That one helps us to where it's rock.

It was getting hot as hell down there. I don't know, I mean, maybe a quick look around the perimeter of this thing. I didn't find anything. Well, 300 feet, it might be felt. We don't even know what the core angle looks like. We have a broom. We're not gonna muscle our way down. It doesn't do anything and it flies.

Does it not work under water? I don't think. I can try. I mean. But it flies. I mean, no. You can certainly try. We also have a fine carpet.

It'll just say it. It's really wet. We're either drooding our way in or looking for another way in somehow. Maybe we just try. How long did that take? I'd be habit by Benairi Diva. I have an idea.

Okay. What if I could make us a tunnel straight down the middle? Would the heat kill us or would the water tamped down the heat. Like if I could make like a 10-foot wide tunnel all the way through down. With no water. It might make another exhaust board for the heat and the water. That's what I'm saying. I'm afraid of the pressure.

The pressure of what? Once it comes up, it becomes rock. Right? Oh, I see this. There's more underneath. You didn't see tunnels, right? You didn't see tunnels in the sides of the volcano. No, no. He couldn't see anything.

We're not trying to go down. We're trying to find the tunnels. What tunnels? What tunnels? There were tunnels there. Both personal and scandal, make an intelligence check, please. Just a straight intelligence check. Whatever you roll plus your intelligence mod.

Eight. What was it? 14. On this discussion of burrowing deeper within, if there were any places where you could walk that were not completely filled with water per se, the minute that you exposed it, it would begin to fill with water. to fill with water, which means you would have to think of a way to either plug it or just stay wherever water exists within the system beneath. Right. And I don't know if we're trying to get to the inside of the volcano shaft.

Our water breathing lasts for 24 hours. Yeah, yeah. No worry about left. Let's roll around a little bit, see if we can see anything else. Maybe we can, like, go around the perimeter and see if we can find some sort of entrance. Some magical looking entrance. Scanlon, you're burrowing. Mm-hmm. What exactly what means are you using for that? Magic?

Tushay. Sorry, Miley Cyrus. There's a chance the core anvil could be made of molten rock, right? Yeah. There's nothing that says it's like a not dangerous, totally cool to be around piece of thing. I have a feeling that's exactly what it is. It's gonna suck working around that thing. Sorry.

I'm not worried about it. No, it's fun. But we've got to find whatever it is. We don't even know where it looks. What's like? Do you know Percival what it looks like? Did you see it in your mind's eye? No.

You only have the construct of the actual tremble, not the animal. Yeah, when I was getting the upload from Morpheus, did I see what the core anvil might look like? Did you see yourself like, like, I'm just hammering and like Rambo 2, Montau's music is playing? More of that. Okay. Scanlan. Yes.

Okay. Can we tag team this? All right. I can be a burrowing. Monster. Okay, what if you burrow and I do like push the water away and then you yeah control water. I can push it away and if you do that and maybe we can go all get in and maybe I can throw up a wall. All right. I can burrow you can deflect water and stuff. Through the mountain, through the volcano. Instead of down the top like he just did.

Whatever you want. Okay. From the side. Or I can try and control the currents and suck us all right through down the top. I kind of like control the currents. I don't know. How, but the currents can't go down because stuff is coming out. I control water as part of control water. I can reverse the currents. You can't control the lava coming up. No, it's just water and gas and pressure.

Oh, it's just gas. It's not lava. You can also part water, don't forget this part of this too. Huh? You can also part water. Part water. I can also part water like fucking Moses. Or redirect flow or create a whirlpool. These are all things you can do.

Okay, let's try it. I'm waiting to get to Kim Carnes. I'm really excited. What were you thinking? Were you thinking of umber-silling this shit? Are you going to be a black dragon dig your way down? I was going to become a purple worm. A purple worm.

Oh. They're excellent at burrowing and are big and could make a big tunnel. Are they resistant to water and heat? No, but they're stacked with hit points. That's also, that would be one of your top level spells, yeah. The topest. Well, let's not do that just yet. All right.

Let's control current and see if we can fucking do it. All right, with some light this time. I'll also say, uh, Walk. Walk at perimeter. See what happens. All right. All right.

So I'm always excited. I mean, we can still walk the perimeter if you want. We got 20, a little under 24 hours. Yeah. Let's walk the perimeter. Do a little walk the perimeter, and then we're ready. We're going to jump down and we'll marry up. Okay.

So you guys are going to make your way around kind of spiraling on the outside of this. Looking, using the light. Okay. What are you looking for? I'm looking for other expelling gases, interesting plant growth, lights. Speak friend and enter.

Anything that looks not natural. Caves. Okay. Everyone who's looking to make an investigation, Investigation. Natural 20. Yes. Oh, minus two.

14. It doesn't matter because she just got a really good 10. All right, beast. As you guys are glancing about over the next 10, 15 or so minutes, just swimming around and keeping an eye out there, Keelith, with your glowing hands and kind of like cruising across as you head down, you find... Doing currents.

You can feel a couple of other small. couple of other small changes in the current. Less of a fume release, more than there is a warmer area of water in a small area, and you find there is a pressurized jet of just water coming out of one side, one section, maybe about 25, 30 feet down on the side. Yay! How big is the jet? How big is the jet? That's maybe about three feet long on one side, about a foot long the other. It's kind of a fissure. A fissure.

So we get through it? Yeah, can grog fit? No. Okay. What? Can Trinket fit? Three feet? No, Trinket or Grog another of them can fit.

Damn. Most of you guys have to squeeze through, and it's as hot as the water that was coming up at the top. Is it made out of stone? Can I call this earth? Can I call this rock? It's considered a rock. It's volcanic rock. So move Earth would not work.

Let me look at the spin-hit. Yeah, welcome. You are bad, you're good at string structures. You're going to punch a volcano? Dirt, sand, or clay. So, I'm going to say no. I wasn't sold on the idea, too. You can't transmit the rock into dirt or sand to give us a more.

If you have the means of doing that, you could. I have transmute rock. Then? Or we could let Grog go first. Let's just say, let's just say, let's say, let's say, Grog punch a volcano. Do you want to punch a volcano? Kind of.

Teach it to say your name. Roll a strength check. Save my ratings, bitch. Don't you get advantage because who's your daddy? Only if I'm raging. I'll give you advantage on this because I'm trying to remember this. Because volcano punch.

Hey! Oh, uh, 26. Because you're gauntlets. Don't you get advantage because you gotlets? Well, again, no, they also give me advantage, but they do give him siege, which means double damage against structures. Now consider this in natural structure. Okay.

So you rear back, and as you do, you guys watch as a couple of the, kind of, the, you haven't really watched him use this type of power in the dark before, and you watch as the faint bit of a few yellow ruins kind of glow as he pulls back and then slams into the side. You watch his rock breaks and kind of bits of the volcanic rock break off and get to tumble down the sides. He punches again and punches again. As you do, watch the water flow. You feel the warmth to come up. You immediately take six points of fire damage from the heated jet in front of you, but as you slam it one more time, part of it kind of gives away underneath as one side it begins to jet up. You can watch us, looks like there is some sort of a, what looked to be,

a gap or some sort of an air pocket that collapses inward, and the water begins to fill it immediately. Oh no, let's get in quick and then cover it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We go fast. Go go, go. Go in. Okay, you guys are all fighting against the current. Well, did you see there was an air pocket? Well, there was an air pocket. It was. But the stone as he punched it in, as soon as it collapsed inward, it was away from where the jet was.

It's a very interesting thing to try and describe here in a theater of mind scenario. Trying to go through an outward jet to this caved-in air pocket. Essentially, you've opened up where the jet is, its strength has kind of diminished a little bit at the surface at this point. And you've watched, as you punch it in a little bit almost a chamber below, that was so. in air chamber, collapse inward, and ocean water is just rushing into it right now. Okay, okay. Let me control water with the currents, and can I redirect the current up and around us to allow us to get in? Okay, so control water, bless you. Nice.

Control water takes, yeah, it's an action to cast. So as soon as that happens, you watch that, you finish the spell and as the ocean water begins to rush in. It immediately pulls back out, and you can actually stop the current that's blowing upward and heated water. now is held in place and you can look down below. The water is just a slightly shimmering barrier, and there is what looks to be a small air-filled chamber below. Yeah, we're going in. Yeah, pushing the water, kind of parting it, giving us a little.

Can we fit through whatever hole there is? Actually, looking down inside, it looks to be roughly 20 or so feet wide on almost any other side, and it looks to be there's a small still pool that is just there on the ground. It's a small air pocket that's the hour. Yeah, I go in after. The world of sun.

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Yeah. But not while casting this spell. Like instant. Like instant. All right, all right. Push the water, wall of stone. As soon as the water pushes away, it begins to pull back in immediately. You can hear the rush of the ocean, suddenly oppressively darting downward to fill the space where you are. And then with that, you watch as volcanic stone stretches out and slam shut.

You're now in a pitch black room. I have a light. Except for the surface of his light and the glowing of Keylet's hands. Yay, which are brighter now because we're not in water. Mimsy-Mids. Oh, my ear's cocked. That was amazing. That was fucking sick. Yeah, you punched a volcano. You did not.

I heard it's doing. Goals versus the volcano. Here's an interesting bit, as you guys have this conversation. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. You're talking, and sounds are happening, and everything's fine, but breath is hard. Uh-oh.

Oh, oxygen. Air pocket. Or poison? Air pocket. All of the air in here is poison. It's poisoned. There is no oxygen in this room. Oh, cool. Cool.

There is that pool of water in the center, about maybe like four foot wide, and you can see it's kind of bubbling a bit, like whatever the fume is that's filled the space here. I'm going to put my face in it in green. How is a Feast factor into this? Heroes Feast, doesn't that card? Not poisoned.

You're not having toxic shock in dying right now. But you just cannot, but you're suffocating. I'm going to put my face in the water and breathe. It's not affecting you. You're fine. Oh, because you don't breathe. You're already dead. Weirdo.

Yeah, put your face in the water and breathe. Tell us what. I'm putting my face in the water and attempting to take a breath. It's the bubbling of air there is the same fume here. There's no, I'm even, I'm just trying to like use the water breath. Oh, the water breath itself? You put it in the water.

The water you can breathe. Okay. Oh, great. So anytime we need a breath, we just breathe. Okay. We might start getting a little loopy if we stay out here for too long. Okay. Max, will you look for anything that looks like a core envelope? I'll stick my face, like the...

I take a breath and I start looking for a door or any way out of this... Out of the chamber. I'm going to open the light. Investigation check. Flamed tongue daggers out so I can see the... Not on your posture. ...outherstitch, out in the air, head in the water.

18. 18. You go in and take a breath and you look down below, especially with the light and the lamp that's going around, you can see where this... This is happening, this is a little bit of pool is another small tube that just descends further and curves away out of sight. Is it wide enough? for all of us to fit through?

Well, from what you can see before it curves off, it looks like it could probably fit everybody. Hey! There's a tunnel down there. Really? All right. I'm going to tap the light into it. Just to take a look down.

Looking down, it does. It's a curvature off. It looks like at one point there was some sort of an escape, or at least that jet that you originally found earlier. Part of it got locked off, and while the jet of water continued, the opening here kind of got covered with some sort of liquid rock. and created this pocket. But you can swim down there, who knows where it leads, but it does not appear to have any sort of a forceful jet or any... So we are, it's a tube. We're in one of the cow's stomachs, but there's maybe more, okay.

Control water lasts up to 10 minutes, so if we want to commit to this, I can help jettison us there. You have to cast it again though because you lost concentration. Why? Because you made a wallstone. You made the wallstone. the Wallstone. We decided early on that Wall of Stone was instantaneous and permanent. That's permanent in concentration. Yeah, okay, I'll let you go with that. Oh. Because it wasn't Pathfinder.

Yeah. Do you want to get rid of the water though because that's what's allowing us to breathe? Houseruling it. No. The water is just happens. The what, us breathing water is good for 24 hours. But if you get rid of the water, then we're not really thinking. That's what we're breathing. Yeah, but it's all poison water. But she's going to jettison us. I'm gonna control water, I'm gonna jettison it with a current. I'm not gonna keep it over. Go for it. Okay, now we're just random actress.

Let's take it a little slow, because we don't know what we're coming up to, though. I don't wanna like jump full force into like, you know. It'll be like Lacey River. You know, something like that. Leave the way, Don. Well, how the spell works is, if you maintain concentration for the whole duration,

it becomes permanent. For the whole duration. For the whole duration. For the whole duration, just 10 minutes. But I haven't done that. because I've already jettisoned this one water. And now I'm trying to use the remaining. It's fine.

It's fine. Don't worry about it. Let's just go in the water. Okay. Okay. I follow him. Okay. So you guys begin making your way. Although Percy should technically be at front

because he's got light. So Percival goes first followed by Vax, then Vex, then Grog. Is Trinkets still swimming along with you? Trinket is behind Grog. All right. And then that's Scanlan and Kieleth at the very end. All right. You guys dive past under the water. It curves. And you can see there's a faint light source in the distance. Does it look dangerous? This curves below. It splinters downward and then curves up slightly, and that's where the light source is coming from.

Yeah, of course. Air pocket. Boop, boop, boop. I'm going to go stealth. Yeah. Make stealth check. Yeah. Do your Navy SEAL shit. That's fine. That's good. Come out of the water. Eyes open. I know like 34. Wearing seaweed. 34? All right, you think you're pretty stelfled.

Oh, shit. I think you're pretty stealth. All right. I know. Go upward, yeah. I was going to say. As you get up, you see a familiar orangish-red glow, and as you see the surface of water above you, as another, looks like an air pocket, you emerge, look about, and it looks like there is another tunnel here. But there's a faint glow. It looks like there's a faint glow. It looks like there's a faint glow. It looks like there's

There are small veins of cooling volcanic rock in this area, and the tunnel continues, like, actually it's like a ground that you can walk on that continues down and curves out of the way. The walls are cooling? I just turn to the group and... Can you see by the light of the magma? You can see fairly with your... With your Elven Vision, yeah, and with your dagger. So, you begin to walk on the surface.

The surface is cooled. And it's very, very hot in here, but not painfully so like when you dove into the Caldera itself. You walk down about 10 or 15 feet, and you see it's now breaking off in various directions. You can see small pockets where it closes off. Areas where it looks like whatever air or gases were trapped up when parts of the volcano would expand and pressurize upward, It would trap these areas, but you see areas where liquid rock are like spilling into and creating small pools, and it continues to descend, almost like a curved spiral around the way. So there's a walkway, but there's also lava.

Very faint trickles, like I'm like a little tiny bit. And cool slowly on about 20 feet at this point, so right? I am going to go around the bend. Okay. Continue quietly. You go around the bend and you can hear faintly what sounds like the rushing of of water muffled, you're not that far away, you gather from just spatial awareness as to where the heavy pressure of the water that was forced upward, you can just faintly feel the vibration.

But as you curve away, it gets dimmer and dimmer, as you spiral off further away from the center of this volcano, and it continues to spiral downward, this natural air pocket cavern, it splits again into a small opening where it's just settled, faintly orange glowing with spots of black molten rock that is slowly cooling. Split you were saying? The path curves around the way and it splits into two pockets of this cooling rock.

And then maybe about a five foot leap to continue downward. Over lava? Your favorite? You're so bad at it. I don't know. I'm going to double back to the group. Okay. I think we're already starting to like make our way out.

It goes a little further, but I just didn't want to, sure, go too far on my own. But I'm going to get separated completely. So come up a bit and then we go a little bit further. Can we walk on it? Is it going to burn our little feeties? I'm not really a good test. Do we need to fly? I don't think so. Okay.

Up and over. Yeah, let's go up there. We follow backs. All right. Can we like, can we like, can we like, cast locate object on the anvil or like, don't you have something that sends a direct path to an object?

Find the path, but I think I have to have seen the object before. It would also burn my last sixth level spell. I could do it, but you have to be familiar with it. Being told about it doesn't count, does it? I mean, I don't have enough information, I'd say, to do that, yeah. So you guys all emerge from the water to gather up with the facts? I'd like to lead them to where that jump is. Okay.

As you all take a deep breath under the water and get to the surface, you make a test breath and the air in this pocket is still poisonous and breathable. So you guys are going to have to take a deep breath under the water and hold your breath as you make your way down that tunnel. Oh, fuck. Were there any other pockets of water along the way? Shit, get back in the water.

I'm going to solo go where I wasn't intending to see how far it is to get to the next bit of water. You said it was a jump over over, over, Like my. Yep. Do you, does your creepy undead brain remember how long it takes before we die if we don't breathe? Do you remember that? There's a lot of...

I walk away from her. All right. It's a decent jump to get over the... It's not a hard one necessarily. Yeah. But I want you to make an athletics check anyway. Ooh, better use one of my looks for that. That was a one.

Ooh! Six. Six. Uh-oh. Burn, baby. Total six. Yeah, total six. Oh no.

Already used luck, it's done. Why does this always happen to us? I don't know, but I love it. You run and make a leap and you're pretty sure you made it. Yeah, you made it. Good. But one foot right into it. The same foot?

Is it the same foot? It's the same foot. Yeah! Thankfully your armor is set to the service of it. Oh! Okay, that's right. That was just early on. Just early on. Wow, and yet, vaccine sweat in it.

No. No, not anymore. I can't tell you, never have to regrow before. Does your Raven Queen regenerate lost footsies? What would have been 56 damage is reduced to 20 entire damage to you. You pull out what has, it burns and burns. It burns and burns. I'll not again. Kick it off.

You keep walking around. You keep walking around the curvature, and it's about, it takes about two minutes or so of two minutes of brisk travel to get around the corner where you can see another pool of warm water. Two minutes. Oh, boy, how are you gonna hold up? Okay, so I see water, and I shove my face down in it

and breathe it, who knows, who knows with me, and I go back to where I burn my fucking foot, and I go into the earring. I'm not gonna fucking jump over that shit. and tell them what I saw. Yeah, two minutes so deep, deep fucking breath. Yeah? And then just when you see me, run towards me and follow me. Broome. Yeah. All right. Grog? Are you good to run and jump over some lava?

Nope. Cool. So, as you guys are aware, you can hold your breath for a number of minutes equal one plus your constitution modifier. One plus your constitution modifier. Oh no. Oh no. And what if you have you helped? Awesome. Okay, okay, but you were on foot. If I'm on the broom, like, shoo- then maybe it wouldn't take as long, potentially. Well, you were making a careful path if you were to like continue to dash,

like full dash run. It'd be close, but you can try it. Okay, I'm gonna put Trinket in the necklace. All right, trink it in the necklace. You wanna get on the broom with me? I've got the boots, so I was gonna use my boots. Anybody scanning? Yes, please. All right.

You know, it's just a thought, but I do have the big ass jug that can make like a big old thing or like portable water. Water. Sick! Wait, wait, what? Wait, we're like waterboarding ourselves. Well, you can breathe in that shit, right?

We take our head next to the jug and just go, boo- We won't be able to see. Can we put up, can we fill our head in that jug? Can we put out? Yeah, you can. So you just carry the jug, and as long as we stick our head in the jug every time we need to breathe, How big did they have chug?

You're in chis. Not everybody at once, but you guys, it's about that big around. I will say that seven more times. We'll space them out. We might run out of water, though, because we're breathing it in. No, but you're just, if you're breathing it back out, you're just recycling it. It'll get a little less oxygenated. How long does a fish live in a fish tank?

You're right. You're big fish. The biggest. Do you want to do that? Oxygen. Yeah, let's try it. Salt water or fresh water? Fresh water.

Or wine. Fresh. Fresh. Fresh. So I take out the Alchemy Job and I say, fresh water. It fills with fresh water to the surface. Try reading it. I'll be under water right now? We'll take it out of the water. Get out of the water. I stick my head in it. Can I breathe? Yeah, fine.

It works. It works. I'm holding it above the water. Oh, smart. Here you could do this with a non-magical jug too. Oh, yeah, we just could have carried water in a jug. We don't have a jug. We don't have a jug.

We don't have a jelluses. We do have an extra chat as I can just go. That better be a fucking cheese chalice. You know what? I'm going to just take the fancy chalice and just... Okay. All right. I'm going to use a breathing jug. This is the funnest work around.

The head. I love it. I love it. So. It's a water bomb? Essentially. Essentially. You guys are gravity bonging your way through an underwater volcano. If that's not box mocking, I don't know what it is. It's so many problems in my life. It's the solution to like half our problems.

We're going to try to water bong every combat scenario for the rest of the campaign. I was just looking at it. I was like, fresh water, vinegar. Oh. All righty. So. Don't you drugs, everyone. As you guys make your way around the way around the water, the way, this, to the combination of that druid spell and strangely grog's ingenuity, you

guys have bypassed a fairly serious situation. You make it down around the curvature of the tunnel to where that small lava jump is. Anybody who wants to make that leap, go ahead and make an athletics check please. I just got on the room and we just fly on it. All right, broom is fine. I activated my boots and walk around, not a problem. Yep, and I use my mantle, which I constantly They forget that triples my jump distance. It does, so go ahead and make an athletics check. You're mad.

Oh, because you can like wooched. That's not great. Acrobatics? Athletics. Oh, that's better. That's better. Uh-huh. 15.

15, yeah. You just coast over. It's like a soft neo jump, you know, not quite that far, but you just coast to the land into this side. How old what did you get? 21. 21. You guys all make it across that little stretch of molten rock without an issue.

an issue. You continue around the way, Vex and Vax, as you guys are making heavy footfalls and kind of making some distance, you begin to feel like this rumbling on the ground beneath you. Oh, shit. I think there's something burrowing or an earthquake. Earth elementals. Potentially. Or volcanic earth elementals. Everybody holds still for a moment? I cast a baseloader trace on all of us. Okay. Tight.

Dope. I would like all of you to make a stealth check right now. Oh, I think you barely thought that in. Barely. That's plus 10. Plus 10. 31. All right.

34. 34. 40. Wow, 25. That's my favorite thing. I'm sorry, guys. Oh, no. Plus 10.

16. Oh, okay. That's a little bump, um, something. I'm sorry. I don't have a feeling. How about trinket? Crot. Everybody's still.

The rumbling stops as you all kind of quietly just stand still. You begin to get bold to take a few more very, very faint steps on the ground. No. The rumbling continues and gets louder and louder. I'm going to go to break. Oh, everybody's good on! I'm hungry. I'm hungry.

All right, yeah, so we'll pick up from that rumbling here at the end of the break. We'll see you guys back here. in just a moment. We have quite the giveaway today. We have a complete, sported tamarind, complete Dice Tower system. Three pieces from our friends at Wormwood. Yeah, this is actually, this is Percival's wood type. It's nice with the leather interior from our friends of Wormwood. One lucky winner is going to get this to enter this. Find your way to the Twitch chat. And when requested during the break, go ahead and enter the word volcano.

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Yeah, that was making up for the beginning of the game. All right, so. It looks like the main trick. We have a winner. In the chat, we have Johnny 2x40 is the winner. Congratulations. Johnny 2x40. The Nova will contact you shortly to get your information, and I'll get that shipped

after to you ASAP, sign about the cast, so congratulations. Where did it come from? I loved it so much. It was amazing. All right. So, as the rumbling continues to grow and swell, oh, you all hold yourselves in place. You hear the crumbling and crashing of stone and rock. As front of From the side of the hallway, right next to where Grog is standing, maybe about a foot and a half in front of him, you watch some large pointed object just pierced through the wall, maybe about nine feet tall or so, just go out sending dust and rock spilling out. And there's a faint orange glow from what appears to be some smooth armored head to some large creature with a toothy mouth that opens up and As it bites down, you see rows and rows of teeth that are glowing orange as bits of molten rockers spilling out the sides of the mouth. It's like 2006 is the core. Yeah.

Sort of. I hope it's better than that. No. No. You recognize the shape of the front, especially you Percival, as you spend some time with a creature of a similar shape. Is it a purple worm? It's like a purple worm? No.

Because it has two art big. muscular trunk-like arms as it kind of out in front. Oh no. Bullet? But it has no eyes. It just has the solid armored front and what looks to be like heated edges where the plates meet. It seems to be some sort of elemental infused or variance of the boulette that you encountered before. And as it breaks through and stops, mere inches from Grog.

Oh, Jesus, God. Turn that. Oh, Tartre. It's a Venni-Tor. Happy birthday. Yeah. Across the way, you hear a lower rumble again and it goes, stomps the ground, and you watch from one of the other walls jutting from what looks to be a smaller version.

And in a second, emerges two children. You both emerge going, as you're all just standing there, holding perfectly still. perfectly still. They can't see us. We'll just stand still. They'll be fine, right? Jurassic Park rules. The attack. They can't specify. Can you do anything with the rain? One of them turns around, and so it's walking slowly towards the direction that Grog is. The large mother then turns Grog and you kind of have to lean back as it

the nose sweeps past and is facing right in your direction. You can see these large holes in the front of its armored snout and go, the mouth slightly cracked. It's opening curls back into this, you can almost imagine it to be a grin. Quietly going to a rage. You are not my parents. Well, as none of you have done anything at this point in time, I need you all to roll in the shit. Oh, shit. That's what it was.

There. I heard you saying it too. You should have done it. You should have just done it. What? What? Something. Oh, for fuck's sake.

No. God damn it. No. Every time I do it. Look at that. Look at that. Oh, like a sneak attack? Yes.

Fuckers. So grog who has stopped here was the last to leap. Keelink made it all the way over here. Over here, we'll... Trinkets in the necklace. We were on the broom. Room over here. Might still be able to do it.

That. Were you? I was near the lead, so you'd be on, over here, stealthing behind this rock. What a great door. This is really cool. Oh, God, it's huge. Grogha! Little baby, boliti.

It's huge. No, I didn't call it. Do we remember what its weaknesses were? I know it takes half damage. He's got heavy damage, I think, two non-magical physical attacks. He's got heavily armored skin. Other than that, I don't know.

Ooh. Did a new light just pop on? And another light? There's a little bit of variation there. For a red lava effect in my eyes? Into your eyes, Sam. That's why I do this. All right, so initiative order, 25 to 20.

Oh, 20. 20 to 15. 17. 19. 18. Ooh. Does it realize that anybody but Grog is there? You don't know.

We could have potentially. I bet you still can. All right. And you were 17, you said? 17. All right. Here we go. This is going to be fun.

All right. 15 to 10? 13. 12. My lowest possible initiative. Aww. Do you roll a one? I rolled a one.

All righty. So top of the round, as all of them seem to shift it in the direction of Grog, who is now quietly raging. Mea. Vex, you're up first. What do you want to do? I'm going to... Oh, God.

I'm going to try to hit it with a lightning arrow. Which one? What do you mean? What animal? There's a mama and two babas. I'm gonna try to hit the one that's breathing on grog. All righty, so go make your attacks. Yeah, provoke the thing with its teeth closest to him.

I'm just fucking over there. But it knows you're there. Does it? Maybe it doesn't know I'm there. Plus I get a sneak attack on it because it's your right next to it. It's true. And I'm in a hunter's market. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

I say, uh... She says to you. says to you. 25. 25 hits. Lovely. Okay, so if that was a third level, lightning arrow, then that means I get 3D8 lightning damage in addition to my regular damage,

or is it just 3D8? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Roll the attack is normal, the target takes 4D8 lightning damage on a hit. Oh, and every creature within 10 feet make it a step. Charity saving throw. Come get this. Yep. Okay.

If I cast it at a fourth level, so no. So it's just third level, yeah. So it's 48 lightning damage. Okay. So we made the attack roll, it hit. So it takes that. Wow. Really?

Eight nine, plus... Grob, make a dexterity saving throw, please. Thank you. I have advantage on those, but I won't need it because that was 19. 15. So that, it doesn't actually do my regular arrow attack damage. It's just, wow. My spells are useless compared to my regular attacks.

21. 15 damage. All right, so 15 damage, and then 2D8 to grog. Roll 2D8, and you take half that because you made your save. 19. It's right on the paper, negative 2. Sorry. Oh, 19, yeah.

You still made your save. Yeah, so what's the damage? Five. Five damage, do you grow? Thank you. Five total, or that's half? That's five total. All right, so you take two points of light here.

Not too bad. So I'm gonna try to hit it again then with... Lightning arrow, yeah. Well, no, no, you... Interesting point of order, you did... Lending arrow is a bonus action. Oh, no, hunter's mark. Oh, okay.

No hunter's mark. Oh, so I did hunter's mark, no. Oh. Oh. I just am never gonna do spell attacks ever again, because they're worth this for me. So no hunter's mark, but you hit it with the lightning arrow. Okay.

Next round, you can worry about that. Okay. So that's your first attack. You have your second attack. Okay, then I'm gonna attack it. Go for it. With a regular ass arrow that does more damage probably, natural 20 than a fucking lightning arrow. Bosh.

You do not do your sneak attack damage last round, so if you wanted to do sneak attack damage on this, you can. Okay, lovely. Which means you also double the sneak attack damage. Sweet. 7.14 plus 8 is 22, 24 plus lightning damage. 24 plus 5 is 29 damage with a regular arrow. And that's with the additional sneak attack?

Yes. Oh, no, I get two sneak attacks. Plus another four, so 30, you know, 29 plus 4, 33. Sneak attack that, bitch. 33 points of damage to it. Do I take that too? No, that's regular. So as you release the flighting arrow, slams into it, kind of like, kind of like shoots the direction where it came from,

and as it seems to open up its snout to smell, you fire a second arrow into its mouth, and it kind of starts riding in place as it does. It shakes and you feel the ground kind of just quake in your presence and a few rocks kind of from the ceiling. And the children kind of join the whale, and they all turn in your direction. You do anything else on your turn?

Can I get on my broom? Yeah, you get it. I get on my broom. I get on my brew. That's all you do? Uh-huh. All righty. Grog, you're up.

Oh, I am, huh? Mm-hmm. At the beginning of your turn, the heat emanating from this bullet that's right next to you is rather intense. You immediately suffer from just proximity to its searing body. Eleven points of fire damage. Whoa. How much? Eleven points.

Just from knowing the guy. That's not bad, yeah. Are these monsters or beasts? Guilty by association. These are considered monstrosities. Okay. What is the, how tall is the area that we're standing in? The top of the cavern would be about maybe 10 feet.

Nice. 10, 12 feet. With my 10, 12 feet. Yeah, I'm gonna make both of my attacks at Mama Bear. Yeah, because I gotta move. Either I move and it senses the non-stealthy meat. Yeah, fuck it. I'm just gonna take both of my blood axe attacks at it with the first one, great weapon master.

Great weapon master. Go for it. Yeah. Not reckless. 21. 21 hits. Just barely. Okay. That's awesome. 26. 36 points of damage. 36 points of damage in their first hit. Not bad.

The axe cracks into the side of its body and you see the armor kind of crack a little bit where it hits. You can see the axe free. You can see the blood kind of pour out as it spills and hits the ground. You can see the actual blood in their body is super. overheated as well. Ooh, that's a problem. Okay. Okay. They're like Xenormor.

They're like Xenormous. I'll take the second strike as well. Great Weapon Master. Not reckless. Okay. Not reckless. That's shit. That's going to miss, I think.

Yeah. 20. Oh, really? No, no, no. We're learning. We're learning things. 15, because I said Great Weapon Master. It's minus 5.

That misses. Yeah. Somewhere between 15 and 20. This is one time you do swing and it hits, but the angle of the axe plate, it hits edge of its head, like plated armor and scrapes off the top with a shower of sparks off at the side, no damage. I'm sorry. And I use my bonus action to rage or not? Well, you were quiet, yeah, so you're beginning to quietly rage.

Fair enough. Ends my turn. You want to his move? No, I'm right next to it. Scanlon, you're up. Get away from the line. Thoughts, comments. Boy, man. I don't know what these things can do. I will step forward a little bit.

Super tanky. Super tanky. Like 10 feet, five feet? That's good enough for now. Okay. I'll just keep going. There's lava. Careful.

Thanks. There? Sure. I will inspire Grog by singing the customary birthday song of his people, which goes like this. Happy, happy, happy, happy.

Happy, happy, happy. They're very simple people. Happy, happy, happy, happy, happy. Ah. You sang that minute, Mom, Mom, but I have a moment. And then, as practice, I'm going to become my beautiful angel self

and transform into a naked planetar. Oh, shit. Oh, wow. I assume I lose my poison, I lose everything, right? I lose my hero's beast, I lose my, no, my poison. Because I'm a different creature. So? It's still in your blood. I don't think so. Is this true Polymore? Yes. You get it back when you're not to you instead of fault.

It'll say, it's a shape change, like you absorb your armor. You have a right? to have a planet-targ figurine? Oh my god. Guys. I bet her, I'm gonna feel really shitty about this. Magic the Gathering Puzzle quest. Did I mention that you can find out more at Bitley slash Magic Roll? You did, actually.

Capital M, capital R on that, by the way, guys. Visit it right now. Friends of the show, they need your support. That's right. You know those first-generation black lotus cards can go for like $30,000 depending on their condition. And. Is it like the Alphas file with the blackboard?

Yep. Band cards. Matt is really looking for this thing. In the meantime, let me just tell you some other amazing magic gathering cards. You know, I think you could probably sit it aside and forgot to do the actual bag. However. Jace the mine sculptor. I've actually performed the Jace the Mines sculptor.

It takes three friends to really pull it off. Naked singularity. Oh, the card. Not a sexual position. We'll say for the purposes. The present guard is definitely a sexual position. For the purposes. Because it is the same, it's a large creature, right?

It is. We will use old, good old Doty, as the current size of your I can't touch my miniature. Yeah, you feel good. It's good. You'd be there, because otherwise you'd be stepping in the lava. Oh, okay, thanks. But yeah.

So that's it? I think that's all I can do. You can continue to move if you want. Oh, that's interesting. As that guy, can I move more? Well, you've moved maybe... Most of my movements. 15 feet.

Okay. So do more space. I'd say you probably have, at his flying speed, maybe a third of his fly speed left. That's another 40 feet. So there is that. All right. Well, then you guys got this well in hand.

I'm going to fly to the other guy. So he's going to get an attack on me? This guy here? Yeah. As I fly high high. If you fly to him and you're kind of gliding above right now. No, I'm going to go to the furthest guy. Over here? Okay.

Yeah. So you're currently floating above the lava, it's not affecting you. As you fly by, because you're flying, no. I will say the mom billet does not notice you pass, not get an attack of opportunity. I'm the girl. Essentially.

All right, that ends your turn. Yes. Vax. Okay, click the boots. Hunter's mark on Mama. So what's, all that's left, all this left is dagger, daug-dag-dag-dag-dag-dag. So I'm going to do sharpshooter throws with the three daggers that are left.

Okay. Okay. Am I within 60 feet? I think I am. You are, yes. All right, so negative five on attacks. The first one is total shit. The second one is 17. 17 does not hit. And the third one, ricochets off the blue.

23 on the last. That does hit, yeah. Okay. So because girls, right there, it is sneak attack. Mm-hmm. One, say it is nine plus, that is 10 plus this. 13, 18, 18, 24, 30, 33, 35, 36, 37. And because it was a sharpshooter attack, it's 47.

Oh, good. Nice. Great, so that one actually seeing the glow of the the slight crack in the armor that Grogget left, the dagger just disappears inside the slight gap, and you see a sph-ch-ch-ch-ch-of-sup, like super-hot, thick, viscous blood spill out and hit the side of the rock and then cool

and darken as it does across the side of the cavern wall. And then for movement, watch this shit right here, folks. Oh, there you go. Boom. Wow, you can move yourself. Cool. All right, that ends your turn? Yeah.

Did it feel weird to have somebody else moving the people? No, it felt awesome. Did it. I didn't have to do a damn thing. All right. So that being the case now brings this two. Oh, in a hundred's mark. Yes.

Six. Lowly. Nice, additional six damage. Ow. All right, so infuriated. It's now starting to stop in the middle as it's hitting. The lava is starting to splash up around it. The babies.

This one right here is only, I can only make a bite attack right now. I can't make a leap. Because you're too close to it. But as you rush towards it, It seems to like sense your presence from the movement of the wings, keeping you aloft. And the baby's going to and lash out towards you. That is a 18. It does not hit.

It does not hit. As it snaps out towards you, it's saliva, seeming almost like spray, like superheated liquid. Cross. Doesn't attack you at all. Well, that got you. Doctor Manhattan, in the house. The other baby says watches you by going to go running paths. running past. It's going to go ahead and make a deadly leak.

Deadly leap. Is it 15? Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, God. He's dead. He's dead. That was the case half of you guys would have been dead a long time ago.

All right, I need you to make a strength or dexterity saving throw, your choice. Dexterity. All right. An advantage because of the boots. So that is a 27. 27, okay. So you're not knocked prone, but you do take 19 points of damage. Oh, no, easy. Attempt either.

Bludgeoning and slashing. That's just one after attempt. You are pushed five feet out of its space. What was the total on that, Matt? There. 19. I forgot about the fire damage. All righty.

That's the two babies turn. That's the two babies' turn. Keelith, you're up. Okay, battlefield changed a little bit. So instead, can I do a chain lightning? K'KK'K'omf out of the staff and hit all three of those motherfuckers? Starting with the Big Mama branching off to the two other dudes? I could say you could do that, yeah. Yeah, I do that.

All righty. It's 10-d-8. My phone has died, so I'm going old school. And it's a dex. Do we need this? I think. I think it's a dexterity saving throw, and it's 10D8. One, two, three, four, five.

Does anyone want to lend me their D8? I can just roll this twice. I'll just roll this twice. I'll just five here. You have five there? Okay, okay, okay, okay. Oh, there, I see it. Well, Ashley Johnson, okay, okay, okay, okay.

Okay, okay, okay, okay. It's fine. Nope, nope, and no one makes their save. They're a big hulking thing. Does he like the Furcher's. Skadao! Okay, I get to re-roll ones because I'm a bad ass. You got a bunch too.

Yes, let me get. And this is a, no, that's a 10. Ooh, that's good. Okay, okay. Five, four and four is eight. So that brings this to a 13. Another, wait, four and four and eight. That was right, right?

Yes, yes. So you're 17 now. 17, plus another four is 21, plus another five is 26. plus another four is 30, plus another six is 36, plus another 16 total. So 36 plus 15. 52 points of damage. Oh, yeah, 52.

You got another one here. Oh, 52 plus another seven, so 59. Nine damage against all three of them. So as you stand there in the middle and watch one of them leap past and like pounce onto your love as he's pushed out of the way, and you see Grog now kind of facing off with this giant gnashing mouth that is just spilling forth. It's like super hot liquid, the lava glowing in the distance. You're having a flashback so the last time you dealt with lava. You concentrate for a second and release the blast of energy as it arcs off, slamming in each of them.

You see them shaking quiver, their muscles tensing as they shriek in the middle of the cavern. And kind of stagger backward, hurt, but seemingly still pulling up. All right. Percy, your turn. I'm going to activate silence. All right. So that's up. Charge diplomacy.

I'm going to give it a little rev with my bonus action. And I'm going to, oh wow, can I actually reach? I can't quite reach, but I can get close. I'm going to head in that door. I'm going to head against that wall and start climbing up that wall. Are here? Yeah, like up there. Just put me up there.

Just put me up there. I'm like the monoglass. Yeah, there we go. Okay. Here's your D.A. Is all you're going to do the turn? That's my action, my bonus action, and my movement. All right, that's your turn.

All right, now it's Mama Bullet's turn. Mama Bullet. Mama bullet. It turns towards, or has been facing Grog this whole time after taking the dagger and watching you run past, seeing Ruby leap. And the arrow. You still right in front of it. Attack you.

That is a natural 18. On an natural 18, this is important. So there's a total of 31 to hit. Let me check. Yeah. So that's 45 points of piercing damage, halved. We'll say 22, plus 13 points of fire damage. And you are swallowed. On an attack roll of an 18 to 20, it swallows the target,

and literally I rolled a natural AT. What happens if you... It's always me. It's always me. Apparently, man. What happens if he died? Never mind. You know, I'm going to find out. We have done this before.

We have done this. You are blinded and restrained currently. Okay. Blinded and restrained. Purple worm. All right. All right. All right.

Oh, man. Oh, man. It's not much your fault. It's not. Shiza. Oh, shiza. Goes right up into melee range with Keelot, who blasts. Keeleth who blasted it with the chain lighting before.

Girl. Okay, that brings us to the top of the round now. Vex, you're up. Okay, I'm gonna attack it with, I'm gonna hunter's market, and then I'm gonna attack it with an arrow. Go for it. Bramble shot.

How'll have that go again? Bramble shout. Catherine Haprow. 25. Oh, can I do sharpshooter and do minus five to hit plus 10 to attack? Generally, you have to decide that before you roll your attack. Okay.

You can't just add it on like, I rolled well, can it also be? Right. So I'll say no, not for that first attack. Okay, well then this one is a bramble shot, and it's 25 to hit. That does hit. Okay, cool. That's five, plus eight is 13, 14, 15, 15, 15 plus sneak attack and lightning damage, 15, 19, 23, 25, and then,

Then 48 piercing damage. 32. All right, 32 points. And then he has to make a strength saving throw. That is a 20. Then he does succeeds. Okay. So as the arrow slams into the side, the brambles reach around, and you watch as these thorny vines

that wrap around the body suddenly begin to blacken and burst into flame. And actually, by the proximity, the brambles actually begin to burn to cinders and then break off the body as it storms forward. Go. This time I'm gonna try it as a sharpshooter. Do it! Okay. You're up next rug.

Natural 20! Holy shit! All right, that'll hit. Bramble shot! Do I have to say that before or two? Well, bramble shot is to see if it hits or not. It's not loose if you miss. If you hit, you can say ramble shot.

So yeah. Yeah, the same way that Divine Smy might be done. Divine smile can be done. Okay, cool. All right. All right. That's it. Okay, I'm gonna roll on my dice and then double that and then I'm gonna add my extra things.

How about that? Okay, do that. It's usually how you're supposed to do. Oh, right, all right, man. Okay, so 11, 14, 20, 23, 25, 50, that's easy. 58, 60. 60. 60 points of damage with one shot and secondary saving throw.

Oh, plus 10, because it was a sharpshooter. 70 points of damage with a single arrow. You didn't add your sneak attack damage a second time, did you? I did not. All right, that is nasty. It actually rolled a natural 16 plus six for its strength saving throw, so it's not affected by the bramble. However, it is looking rough.

The second arrow hits to the side, and you watch as it streaks, it pieces of the armor kind of fall off to the side, and you can see the striations of its muscle, and where the muscle tissue is, it's dark, but at the seams, it's glowing orange. I didn't add the hundredth mark damage. Well, only extra two damage. Okay, there you go.

Next two damage. But now it's bleeding everywhere. And wherever it's walking and see it's thrashing about, it's just spilling off this heated liquid that's just pouring out of its wounds. That end your turn? No, I'm gonna move. Where are you moving?

So he doesn't know I'm there. I'm gonna fly to here. Okay. That ends your turn? Grog, you're up. First things first at the start of your turn, because you are swallowed by the mom. You suffer 42 points of fire damage. Oh, God!

I think he's grog. Oh, it has to make Constitution saving throw to see if it spits him up first, actually, because he did more than 42 points of damage. Or 40 points of damage. That is a 22, yeah, it's fine. Wait, no, 25 DC. No, it does not. So you do not take the damage because she didn't have damage with that crit hit arrow that it holds. That vomits you up.

You are prone, though. Happy birthday! Bagel! You're only in there for a moment. Yeah. I would have burned you, damn, that would have been a good 42. So Grog just gets bombin it up in front of me? Yep, just bop and he's like, there's steam and...

Every fucking time, aye. You smell like shit. File of burning placenta, right? To Grog, he's your turn. I'd like stand up. All right. Jump into its throat. Jump back in.

And I would like to smash my Titan stone knuckles together and cast in large out. Okay. And with that. I get some fire resistance. Good God, damn. Big Rock. Yeah!

Whoa. What is that? He swole. Have we, I don't think we've seen this. That's been at every time. Yeah, every time. Oh, so we have to see it. So far away, yeah.

Always so far away that you've never actually looked at it. Oh, grog is scary. Put me down. Look, I'm sorry, you're scary. Okay. Could I do reckless great weapon mask? Yes, you minute. Which is something Travis would say.

Put me down. Put me down. There's something Travis would say. Good, minus five, 26. Yeah, that hits. Nice. 37, 37 on the first. How do you want to do this?

Yes. Yes. We got babies still. Yeah. Happy, happy, happy. Happy birthday. After it just finishes the moment, you get off the ground,

just like feeling the sizzling of its salivary liquid on your body. You sing the song to yourself as it writes itself. Its mouth opens once more, and as you bring the axe down, down on top of its head, you crack the center of its armored plate. At the top of its head caves in and you watch as the eyes just go dull,

and the body collapses and falls to the ground on moving. Its body is still there, though, because it is very big, loses about two feet of height as it collapses, and it's still blocking a large portion of that hallway right now. Right. So that's your first hit? Good deal. You still have half your movement still, because you used half of it to get up from prone.

Right. So try and push them out in the way. Just jump over. Yeah, just vault over him. Yeah, I'm gonna just b-d-dowl, over the side, hardcore part-core. Yeah. One hand up. The Duke boys just sliding over the hood of the car. Are you using your boots or just making an athletics check as part of your moving?

Yeah, let's use the boots. Yeah, Farrell leaping. So go make your athletics check to... Fair. That's going to be a 26. All right, so you leap where? 27. To, uh, towards you.

Towards his left. Okay, so... Yep. All right. And I'll move up. You have 25 more feet, though. Oh, I do, don't. Yeah, because you're a fucking burbary.

There you go. You can use your piece. Oh my god. Can I get around here on the ground? Yeah, you could. You will take... You make acrobatics check to see if you can avoid the lava as you do that. Yeah, yeah. I'm kind of big. I wouldn't do it. I'm making acrobatics.

An athletics. 16. 16. You just barely make it around that corner like, curling around. Nice. So yeah, you don't go foot first into lava like somebody else did earlier. I'm now on the beginning of grog, be like, I get over here.

From there, that's about where you can get right there, yeah. I'm great there. Okay, that's the end of your turn, Grog. Scaling, you're up. All right, as my holy self imbued with the holy power of whatever I am, I just sort of float up a bit, draw my great sword that I always use to attack,

because I'm awesome, and just bring it down real hard on the head of the thing. on the head of the thing. Okay, go ahead and roll for an attack. So you're not naked? Are you naked with a sword hanging from your hip? Are you like? He's hitting it with a stick.

No, I'm naked with a sword. I've got a belt. I'm naked with a belt. Tight. He's Mr. November. That is 21. 21 hits. Okay, the baby's don't have quite as hard to armor.

So as you bring the great sword down, you strike with this large swipe of bright divine, radiant energy, and as it slams into the top of its head, it explodes with radiant power. Do I roll or do I use these stats? No, you roll, you roll damage. That's it for me. Okay. So 4D6 plus seven slashing. Oh.

712, 18 plus 7 is 25. Correct. Plus I need 5D8. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Use mine. They just did very good. Yeah, that's five. Yeah, dude.

Playing it our form is messing around. Ooh, these are all bad. Oh my God. Well, you didn't shake them, you just put them down. Yeah, that's what I do. That was the shadiest roll ever. If you did that in Vegas, they'd be like, oh no. The pit boss over here disapproved.

So, plus 14. So that's 39, right? 39, yes. On my first attack. Okay, so first off, before I forgot earlier, Grog, you did take another seven points of fire damage from just being the proximity of the corpse, which is still emanating heat, by the way. So starting your turn near that.

Because I have resistance from the enemy. Right. Well, at the top of your turn, you got that. Got it. You did not enlarge inside. And you also, as your planetar form, did take 10 points of fire damage and your proximity to that one there as well. So mark that.

Okay. However, you, with that first strike, slammed down and cleave the head in half. You watch as the baby's head just, you're taking 49 damage before from her chain lightning. Oh, that's right. And so with that second hit, whack, it just kind of and falls to the ground, no longer moving. There was only one currently living child on the battlefield. All right, well then I'll say a silent prayer for the fallen and then fly backwards, super fast to the other one.

Yes. And attack again. Okay. Yes. Maybe you can make it a pet. Nope. Not anymore. Oh, 18. 18 still hits.

Oh, hey. All right. Oh, look at all these crazy things. Five, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, plus, that's not very good. plus... It was 12 plus 7. That's right. 19.

So 19 damage. Plus, 6, 7, 15, 16, 17, 18, 18, 19. Whatever I just said. Is that 19 plus 19? 19 plus 19. Okay. 34. 38 damage.

Oh, thank you. That kills it, yeah. So you hack one down, dart across the way with your blade screaming in the air. It actually kind of cuts through the rock as it sparks across the ceiling with what little space you have, your wings open, swam down to the second child and watches its armored body, cracks open. The radiant blast expands and bursts when the blade is actually dug a few inches into its form, causing you to destroy it from the inside of its armored shell. You watch as its body kind of inflates for a second and then falls limp as smoke begins to pour from its wounds. Wow. So, with that.

I look like they'd be standing on you for that. Yeah, yeah. You guys have trickle on me a little bit. Wow. Wipeed out the current danger in the battle. I feel like there's more coming. No, no, no. That was it. We definitely solved everything. We're just traumatized. And we are, I mean, the core is just gonna, the anvil is gonna float up.

It's very hot. From the micama. It's so hot. I'm so. I'm so. There you. So. I put my leg earlier this week.

I pulled my leg earlier this week. Moving up and down kind of sucks. It's rude. So as you sit there in the silence there for a moment, just hearing the occasional of the nearby lava that fills the nearby hallway, you don't feel any further rumbling. And there's just the heat emanating from the corpses

of these three magma bullets. What do you do? Can I look around for anything that resembles an anvil or a shelf or something that one might whack a doodle on? Can make an investigation check? Watch me knock this out of the park. Let's be more of a perception check for this one. This is less of like searching.

That's better. Still shitty, 11. The pathway still continues to descend and curve around, but that's it. The pathway still continues to descend on around. Wow, very observant of you grow. Descended around. What? Copy that.

Can we see now because of all the glow coming from? Does it have a glow? Yep. Well, the area in here, most of you, aside from Percival, can see decently in low light anyway. Or, you know, dark vision. We'll eventually have to. It's only been about 25 seconds, but we do eventually have to breathe. Yes. Oh, I use my chalice.

Okay. Oh, yeah, yeah. Pass the junk. What about me? You, as a plaintiff, let's see here. I think I'm dying. What? Why? I don't know. I think I probably need air. Nah. Hmm.

Well, you have a pretty high con bonus. You could hold your breath for seven minutes. I'll do that. See how our fair. Do you still have Heroes Feast? No. Are you a me of poison? No, you too. I don't think I too.

I'm a new body. True Polymorph. You absorb your gear, but you don't benefit from it, but it doesn't say anything about you not benefiting from abilities. Previous spells and bonuses. That's an interesting point. Interesting point. So I'd say that you probably wouldn't have much of the issue. Correct. Okay. Huh. Interesting.

See, it's off there. Oh. But we're like along the path to the water that I saw. The target's gear melds into the new form. The creature cannot activate use, wield, or otherwise benefit from any of its equipment. But it doesn't say anything else other than equipment. Thank you, Lindsay Lohan. That one I'm with you. You're very welcome.

Oh, wow. Yeah, no, okay. I'll up. I still can't breathe. No, you still have the same effect earlier that she put on you, so you still have the water breathing. Oh, so I can breathe some water. All right, cool.

Not that you need to. Sure. You're flying in here, the small space you have. Sure. And being a large creature, like the fact that you flew across, you were only maybe a few inches off the ground as you darted over. It's only about, like, 10 to 12 feet tall,

and you're about maybe nine feet tall. And you're 12 feet tall. So you're like hitting the ceiling? Yeah, you're having to look forward. I'm going to start peering around the corner with the flashlight. We're under two minutes away from the water that I previously made it up to and didn't go into, correct? Correct. You're maybe like 40 seconds away from it. Okay.

I'm going to head that way. Good-oh. You guys dart around the corner and follow to the next pool. You have your means of passing water around and keeping yourselves viable, but the path continues to curve and almost like a haphazard spiral. It curves around, and then if you continue to watch as it passes, it even out and then goes into a fairly steep decline, like a 45 degree. Pardon, decline. Should I try flying down though? With the brew? With 30 seconds away from the water. I've already gone this way and come back to you guys.

So, I mean, unless something has jumped in the hole while I was gone in that time, I've already covered this ground. This is further than you covered. Oh, okay. Like there's the pool of water you saw, and then if you continue around that way, you can see it curve. As you glance around and it descends at a steady deeper. There's, the pool of water is just a pool of water. It's not another. Yeah, it's a small little. It's not another way.

I'm going to recast, pass without a trace on all of us. P.S. Okay. Just in case there's more rumblings. I can follow you down there too, so I've got my boots on. Okay. Do twins want to scout?

Yeah. Sneaky snake. Okay. The pull of water, by the way, if you glance down and look past the surface, it does have a cylindrical tube that needs to be feeding the liquid into it, but it's much smaller. It maybe gets to about that big of a pinching point.

before it vanishes out of sight. Of your hands? Oh boy. Yeah. Of like the pool. But continuing down the path of the tunnel as it curves around and then goes into the decline, it continues and maintains its width of about 15 to 20 feet on either side, and you glance down the decline and it looks like there's a portion of the ground that opens up and glowing molten rock kind of slowly drips and dribbles down for about 40 or 50 feet. I'm going to cast detect evil and then wordlessly speak to you all. Oh, in our brains? I like it.

And say, brothers and sisters. Oh, no. Allow me to guide us by the spirits of my religious faith down into the depths of this hell place. While he's talking, I turn to my sister and go. Are you still use Scanlan just in another body, or are you really like? Yes, my child. Okay.

Bohners and wings, cool. I love that song, Boners and wings. Bones and wings. It's weird that you're nine feet tall, but your penis is still a cube. That's my choice. So you can recognize me. Dr. Madhaden, but the opposite. If I die in a fight and you have to go to a lab and identify the body, you'll be like, oh, it's him, it's him.

And they shall know him by his cube. Sorry. Yes, leave the way, if you can. Leave the way. So you just glide down your own way. The air is extremely warm. You feel as it passes by you. Holding your breath at this point, because you are not near any.

source of water it looks like, you're not carrying one with you. You glide down rapid speed, past the lava, which eventually comes and cools to this clump, this small mound where it seems like a recent kind of hole it punched out of and then begin to dribble down and it's been cooling and kind of causing this extra layer on the tunnel. Everything here seems to be in this weird state of flux. You continue past it and it just drops into a tunnel below, maybe about 20 or 30 feet wide and just descends downward. Straight down. Straight down. I'll go down a bit. Okay. You descend about 30 or four feet and this cylinder-like tunnel comes to a halt. It stops. Am I detecting any evil? You are not detecting any evil.

No. Do you have dark vision in this form? It says true sight. You have... Oh, I have true sight. You don't have dark vision. You have everything vision. You're a predator vision. They also speak every language. Really? Yeah. And given that case, as soon as you land, you look up and you can see across the rock here, there is one portion of the wall that is smoother than the rest in like a somewhat concave, almost like a perfect square across the opposite side.

And you can see in there these very, very faint ruins or glyphs that are pressed into the stone. Part of it has been untouched for quite some time. What do they say? Do they say anything? Is it writing or is it just symbols? Because you can read any language, right? Yeah. Citizen of the world.

Languages all. Yeah, okay. This is the most irritated I've ever seen. That's just like. Planetar, not Ion? This is how you must stay always. I agree. Glancing at the glyphs here, they don't appear to be a, there are roots of magical arcane glyphs here,

but whatever enchantment there was here is very faint. It's more about the message or image that is sent here. And it is an exit seal. It is a final word of those that utilize the space within. And it translates to hear the crafters halls lay dark. the means of making the worldender gone. Allhammer protect us all. Here are the half-years. The all-hammer, make a religion check. Well, the all-hammer was... Oh, whatever's whole remains dark.

Looking. Religion. Remains dark. I don't know. I just make a wisdom check. Eleven plus, I haven't spoke of... Yes. And you were calling that information.

This isn't me. Yeah. No, but it would be... You have this information in your mind, I'll say, based on the... As long as you don't remember it, but you remember it. It'd be an intelligence role. The Allhammer is one of the prime gods, one of the deities, of family, craft, and construction of fine, important things. It's the patron saint of all craftsmen, blacksmiths, forge masters, artisans, and from the information you received from Ayoun, the last

the creator of and last user of the Coranvil. So is that the Allhammer lies beyond or something like that? Is dark? No. It's basically the, it was an exit phrase placed on this door for the last person who was in this. Here the Crafters hole remains dark, the old hammer, blah, blah, blah, that's all right. Watch over us. Some about watching over us.

Parking in rear. Watching, yeah. Validate free parking. Before you leave, yes. Before you think of it. Yeah. Objection hammer are closer than they appear. I'll fly back and report to the rest in my pristine body, my pristine hairless body.

And that is what I saw. That was just all in our heads. We just be speaking in our heads that whole time. Impress is Barabarella. I mean, I think that's what we're looking for, right? Yeah, let's go. But it was a bit of a flight down, yeah? That's okay. We have.

Carpet. Hold on one second. I'm back to being pristine. This is... So just so everyone here understands, just imagine, between most conversations here, there's somebody just doing that into a small jar of water. Come on, mommy, oh. And it's all, like, cloudy now from everybody. Yeah, it's just getting bits of food.

How often does it re-up? Can you re-up that jar? Oh, God, it's like nasty bonner. You're just motorboating a gravy bowl. It's like a host trough. Just hair. It is getting a little thick. Oh, God.

Should we head down there? It seemed like you could pass through that door. Oh, I didn't turn the door. You didn't try to go through it. Heroes of the lands. It's all right, we can find a way. It's just a door. We'll be fine.

Yeah, we're buried in history of doors. Let's go. Let's do it. All right. So who's doing what to get down there? I'm walking down there. The motorboat on the comic book. On the side.

What did you say for you? Flying down with a broom. All right, flying with a broom. Do you just hover around that? Does anybody else need to ride? Do you need to banff your wings out or do you want to get on the broom? I'm going to save those. I'll get on the broom.

I'll get on the broom. Lovely. Let's go. Kids on the carpet. All right, so. Yeah, I'll take the carpet or whatever. All right, so it's Grog and Kiel's on the carpet. You two on the broom.

Yes. You flying. We're good. The rest of you guys descend down the 45 degree gray to make it past where the lava seems to have stopped and cooled and to collect and thicken up. Eventually you find the area where it drops off into darkness below, this cylindrical tunnel. You guys make it down the 30 or so feet where it stops and you, it takes you a moment based on where Scanlan points you towards, but you can kind of make out the ruins he was mentioning.

Percy, you're the only one who can read them. It's more of that. All right. What is it, what does it say? What is it? It's sort of a, uh, shops closed. Well, can we reopen it? No indicator of that.

It was essentially like a, all right, keys locked up forever. Bye. What do we do? Bless this seal. Bust through this shit or undo it? Do we have a way to cancel the Cianaut? So it's quite literally like a family business, we're closed, retired, bars in front of it. You get that sense.

The forge was made by and for the use of the Allhammer, and the Allhammer is locked somewhere on his own plane across the other side of the Divine Gate and has been for 800 years, so. And we've got a God-made doorway in front of us and something made, you're not sure. Something made door, right? And natural rock around it, or is everything carved? Natural volcanic rock. It's still that same kind of crumbly, porous, black stone. Well, let's, uh, want to touch the door, see if it's got to... Okay. It feels like the rest of the surrounding stone. There's no obvious mechanism for opening it.

Make an investigation check. Can I pray to uh... Pelon? Ugh. Ugh. That was bad. Yeah, that's awful. No, sex. No current sign of anything...

Anytime I look for anything worthwhile, I just sort of stare at rock going, huh. That's me. That's me. I found rock. I'm just gonna pray to pay a law. I don't know if it makes a difference. What are you going to pray for? I'm going to say, well, we are here at a doorway.

I don't know if you speak to the Allhammer, if you know anything about this. But if you have any way to help us get through this, now would be the time trying to do, you know, Good work here. For you. For all of mankind. What about your bean? Oh, yeah, yeah.

Well, I'm going to take the bean out and stay all that shit again with the bean in between my hands. Actually, I'm going to whisper it to the bean. Okay. Because, you know, it's part of them, sort of. Can you hear the ocean? Ocean beam.

Ocean beam. Okay, putting the words and thoughts out there, like you said, prayer is still a foreign thing to you that you're still learning to do. That's why it was so good. There's no words that respond, but you do get a warm sense just kind of pushing you forward. You get the idea from whatever guidance, Pilar is sending your direction, and you can

translate from your only recently somewhat faithful heart that you're on the right path. but that's as much as you can muster from the conversation. Thanks. I mean, I don't want to, like, jump the gun, but I did punch a volcano today. This door, probably not too big a tuna for me to fill out you know what I mean? Yeah, give a shot. I mean, unless the runes say, like, if you punch, melt you will. Yeah, you will collapse.

You will collapse. No, nothing at all. It just seems like it's just clear. Are they glowing runes? Are they magical runes? Do they seem like the magic? This is an interesting point I should have recalled. Grog, are you still in your large form or not? Yeah. How did you use the graphic carpet to get across? Oh, shit. That carpet will not carry you in your large form. Oh, good point. Yeah, so... You're little. Or you could have, like...

Just sled down maybe. Oh yeah, could you stretch to your side and he does like a ninja warrior shit down the tube? Well, we don't know why the passage. Well, that's what I mean. The passageway heading downward would probably be somewhere in the neighborhood of between like 15, 20 feet, yeah. That's nice. What if, like, a Wonder Woman sort of situation where you p. Because you got the siege gauntlets on? How long a drop?

What's he on? Well, the drop wasn't the issue was the 40 feet of lava that was curling down. Oh, is lava? I mean, you could fly down and then like, Put me in the necklace, if you want. Yeah, sure, that's what I did. Pop, drink it out, flew back up, grab grow. Okay.

Just from a logistical standpoint, I recall that was like. Hmm. Yeah, good call. So, what are you guys going to do? Are the ruins glowing? Are the ruins not glowing? No, the runes aren't glowing. You get the sense, Scaling, that it was less that they were glowing more that your true sight revealed the presence of some sort of...

To me, everything's glowing a little bit. You are a little Neo in the Matrix in this new physical form. form. Is you with your own? Tell me why so is sort of what I'm getting from you. You see Aura's. I mean, I, if he doesn't see it with his true. I'm going to just take the sunstone like out of its little container and really light up the room and just sort of, and just illuminate the whole room now.

Okay. Is that like a doorknob or anything that looks like a seal? A keyhole or a device. Make an investigation check. Yes. Thank you. Somebody. 18.

22. 22. We're asking about with the help of his light as well. And you can see, like most of the rock is just kind of, it's jagged and broken in places, and as you kind of feel the edges, some parts flake off relatively easy. When you get to the section of where that rectangular piece of the wall is that the glyphs are put across, it looks like it's a little smoothed over, like someone, you know, smoothed it down to make this intentional seal. but there's no sign of any sort of keyhole or a handle or anything that...

You can push it. Let's just try being polite first. I will knock on the door. Heavy stone. All right, fuck this. I'll just try and push the door tall, like either in and to either side. Make a shrink check. Go, you go.

Go, strong jock, strong jock. Go. Go strong jock, strong joe. Oh, 17. You inspired? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Are you that shit? Are you that's fine?

Is he that's right. Oh, it is? Yes. Oh, shit. Awesome. 26. 26. Much bad.

You jam your hands into the wall and then push. As you push and shove, your fingers are like grinding and breaking the actual stone until they feel something metal. It goes from like crumbling stone to a metallic surface. And as you kind of pull your hands back a little bit, you kind of pull your hands back a little bit, you kind of pull away these giant chunks of volcanic stone, the actual ruins and glitz breaking around your grasp, and you can look inside and see what looks to be like hammered dark metal on the other side. You then put your hand in and shove as hard as you can, and with a very, very faint grinding, you feel it give about an inch, than another inch. And then eventually

it gives out suddenly, you watch as the entire square structure. Falls inward with a slamming echo sound that just echoes again and again down what appears to be a stairway that disappears from view about 20 feet ahead of you. Check for traps. You got it. We'll do. Natural. That's not my favorite. No, that's not my favorite. Natural 20 doesn't mean you succeed. He's right, yeah. Tom, it's 18 for me. All right.

Both of you glanes throughout the initial... What do you roll in eyes? Through the initial steps into the hallway, which is now just littered with broken rock for the first 10 feet or so. With a platform, where the large rectangular metal structure that fell over it. No signs of any traps, no signs of any sort of tweaking with the floor walls for any triggers. You do notice that the metal, the surfaces here, are a texture of rough hammered metal. You can see like the series of small indentations, like all these have been hammered into place.

And the occasional looks like the seams where these large, metallic wall slabs would be have a thin little placed bar over those as well. You've gone from like central volcano, just natural emerging and expanding rock and lava to a place of very intense, intended construct. Or very like this is right. Yeah. Would my greedy eyes know what kind of metal it is? Um, make an intelligence check.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, no. Oh, no. Just pewter everywhere. It's all plus. Intelligence. Investigation? It's memory phone.

Mm-hmm. Well, this would be just an intelligence check. Just a straight model. Oh. 10. 10? Bed in a box. You're not entirely certain of the metal.

It is a dark kind of dull slate gray. A little darker than that even. And elements of the edges appear to be almost red, almost like a rust or ruddy color. But you don't recognize what type of metal it is necessarily. necessarily. I'm stealthing on the steps. I did cast pass without a trace on all of us again a while ago,

but I haven't done any. Ooh, natural 20. I even marked it off after the fight. Okay. You roll National 20 on? Yeah. Using a luck. So you are, you've used three luck.

Three of my four, according to your campaign guide. The campaign guide was something that was for other people to use. As sort of an insight. Sort of an inside joke for the previous. You are my Dungeon Master. More than three luck. Okay. However, as you've embraced.

Well, that was my third, not my fourth. Yeah, that was just third. That was my third. Right. I'm saying for the purposes of the guide being released, and you're embracing your fate-touched nature, and the extremely dutiful adherence to the law of your Raven Queen.

Sure, I'll give you a faint touch additional fourth luck. Oh, he's throwing you a bone. Wow. Wow. She heard he said, I have seven luck. He doesn't have enough. He likes you. Because he knows that. Liam bought the book.

Yeah. I did buy the book. I bought the book, too. I bought the book too. What do I get? You get an awesome angel dick. You get an awesome angel dick. You're a one inch cube because I'd love.

Really gross. Angel Wang. To two inches. Angel Wang, by the way, is a good band name. Angel Wang. All right. Speaks on. I'm going to fly over to Max and just wordlessly say to her, be honest. Do you think I'm more handsome like this or as normal scammon? Be honest. I'm going to think in my head, scatman's the best. Be aware that at As a divine being, I can sense any lie. I mean, you're fucking hot right now, all right? But I love you like you were. You're always my favorite when, you know, you're just yourself.

All right. Thank you. Turn my little naked butt to her. So this hallway that you guys have pushed through now, it's about 20 feet wide. 30 feet tall and these long ceiling gradually curves to an apex point, almost like two adjoining sides of a roof, and it just continues to progress forward and then descends with the staircase. Are the walls hot to the touch since they're metal? You put your hand out and feel it, and yes they are. The wall, it's not like, but your hand

can rest for a few seconds before you have to remove it. They're very hot. Hot beach. We progress forward into the room. Down to the surface. wherever the stairs lead. All right. So, you leading? Yeah, I'm like 60 feet ahead with my 47 stealth right now. Right, okay. So as you begin, first thing you notice, the steps, the long steps. Okay. They are about three feet wide each step.

God-sized. So you're having to like step, step, step, step, leap down a few feet. Continue again, leap down a few feet. And each of you are doing this. Who here does not have magic boots? I mean... I mean, I just part of my armor, if that's not boots, then... It's probably just the front guards, huh? You want my boots for me? Yeah. I don't.

You're flying, you're fine. But I've got... I proved that I just said I was on. Correct. So you're fine. You as you're walking, the ground is very hot. And you can continue to move your feet in a way where it's not too bad, but you get the sense if you were wearing normal boots and not the usual, like, Ashari-made.

leather setup that you work on, they would probably be melting across the metal floor here. Arizona blacktop. You want to hop up on his room? Oh, I'm just, I'm just, big strides. Big strides. All right. It looks awkward, but does it? No, stay there if you don't. I try to look more normal while still taking big strides. It's not working.

Good job. No. No. So cute. All right. All right, so the steps, I mean, the air itself now smells of very caustic fumes mixed with the smell of burning coal. But there is oxygen now in this chamber. You can breathe. There is enough air to like, actually get a lungful here and there, though it is still thin. And there is still the toxic fume here that had you not have the Heroes Feast, you'd be having a rough time. But you're not having to constantly dip into the the jug anymore.

Did we all growl just that? It's just the sound of the... That was you? It was me. Did it come out of the speaker? You don't know. That shit scared me. That shit was too loud and from a weird direction.

I got a haunted house for a second. I was like, who... I cannot wait to get to Halloween Horonites with you again. Oh, you're making him. Fatal flaw. Hey, now I'm quit. Well. You are. You are quick. That's why we leave you 10 feet ahead of us.

You're the best jump scare. One of these days you're gonna break someone's nose. Oh no. It's gonna be great. It's gonna be glorious. Anyway. Big man, come. As you descend the staircase, you ahead, make a perception check.

Use your pillow die. Hey, that's good. Perception you say, 27. 27, okay. It's a lot perception. You continue down for, about two minutes or so, and even glancing ahead to the edge of your visual range here in the darkness, because there is no light source below at this point. The stairs are continuing,

continuing and continuing, and you have no idea how long it'll go for. But you begin to sense as you're walking and you hear this faint, kind of rhythmic bassy rumble of a low, nearly inaudible drum-like beat, deeper than any sound you've really, you've really, you've heard. heard, just quaking the ground ever so faintly. You just can very faintly feel it. You kind of get down and move your fingers to the ground. And for the moments before the heat gets there, the next time you hear you can feel a very faint vibration, only because you were very perceptive at the moment. Is it exactly rhythmic? No, precise? I'd say with your high perception check, you can tell that yes, it is precisely rhythmic.

There's some sort of god-size machinery ahead of us. I think we're getting close. Did you lose your earring because you're an angel now? No, it keeps all this stuff. No, it gets absorbed. I don't have the equipment, but I don't have the ear. But I can talk to you telepathically. How about Italian, darling? Oh.

Ninth level. Stop being creepy scandals. Scandle with nine-level skulls. I sense my hour is coming to an end soon. You guys are about 20 minutes out, both you and Grog, before you lose your forms. Okay. Technically. 10101, 1,0, 1.

Speaking Morse code. Another 10, 15 minutes of descending these stairs that seem to go on and on and on. And you guys are starting to hear this, but it is getting steadily louder the further down you climb, fax. You begin to see along the metallic walls. occasionally shapes in the metal. And you glance over and back and look, and you can see carved from the metal looks to be like humanoid armored warriors,

standing about 10 or so feet tall, larger than normal. Their poses vary. Some of them are like on the side, some of them are attacking, some of them are just defending. There's about every 25 or 30 feet or so they'll be one on one side or the other. Are they standing free? carved from the wall.

No, no, they're like from the wall. They're drawings or they're like, they look like three. They're reliefs. They're like, you know, metallic reliefs in the wall. That's a metal Medusa that turned in the metal. Made it the same metal it looks like as the walls are around. I'm going to quickly inspect one. Make an investigation check.

Yeah. I'm just throwing terribly. It's like some... Nine. Nine. I want to look at them too. I mean, I would totally. I want to fly up on me.

Okay. I was gonna say it and then he said it. He's done to be Gallum that will come out and fight us. Investigation? Yes. 22. 22. Glancing around the seams, these appear to be just reliefs in the wall. There is no deeper seam and the proportions are flattened.

They are designs in the wall. Okay. But it's... Does the style or... style or indicate anything? The craftsmanship is extraordinary, the detail. Like the, you can, the only, because you rolled so high, like you can tell that these are just reliefs in the wall,

but up until that point it looks like the detail on the nooks and crannies are so microscopic, you can see texture on the skin almost, like pours carbon. It's immaculate, it's artistic, the level of detail put into these. Beautiful. Grog. Frog, do you trust this? Too much.

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Are you pointing? The reliefs, the people in the wall? Okay. You know, it was a hypothetical question. Right. Like, do I trust the art? I'm just... Just to be safe, and I cast... freedom of movement on Grog. Okay. Just in case. I think we should stay.

I'm pretty stealthy. So loose, so free, so much movement. So that lasts for an hour. Great. I'm going to be stealthy. I don't want to be noisy. Always stealthy. Okay, well stealth, please. 32.

Okay. So what is the marching order here, please? I don't actually marching order here, please. I don't actually march. taking a lead on this one. All right. Okay. We have five minutes left or less?

You're pushing about 10 minutes or so at this point. I think five to 10 minutes actually. Yeah. Yeah, you said 15. I just love walking on the wall. I could just stay like this forever. So I'll be in the middle of the group walking the wall. So beautiful.

You look over and scowlons just going. Everything is so symmetrical. I'm actually going to have a lot. I'm gonna hang back. Okay, so Vax's a little behind. It's Percy and Grog up front. I'm gonna go up behind Percy. Yeah, I'll be with Vex.

All right. I will fly up next to Grog and put my healing touch hand on his shoulder and heal him a lot. 31. Awesome. Do you heal 31 hit points, Grob? Oh, plus three, 34. There you go.

And you're also freed from any curse disease or blindness that you have. Wow. Just FYI. I'm also going to dump 20 hit points of lay on hands on my own damn self. All right. Wait, is that like, um, ding to your saving throws considered a curse? It is a curse that can only be broken by a god. If he fucking brings it up to a god.

If only we'd met it, probably. He doesn't even realize he has it. I tried to talk to Paylor, but people would be able to. but people are like, no, don't talk to pedo. What are you fucking talking about? What are you talking about? So, Grog continuing the charge forward, taking the steps. Eventually you begin to see a source of sunlight, faint orangish red light.

Your initial instinct, based on your previous travels through here, is molten rock. It's a very similar orangish-red color from this distance. As you descend, step upon heavy step, upon heavy step, you watch as you can see what appears to be a square orange opening below, as in the hallway, the kind of pointed hallway that leads you down comes to an end and the stairs descend into a chamber. Would Trinket's little feet be hurt if he was on the ground? Do you want to put Trinket out of your nickel? Well, I figure I I would have tried to put him out when we got in the tunnel, but if his feet were hurting, I would have put it back in. I'd say Triggott's not comfortable. Yeah.

Okay, I'll keep him in that. Okay. So, as you descend, Grog, the staircase continues below as the hallway comes to an end, and you find yourself descending into the center of a massive hexagonal chamber. The walls climb about 25 feet on each side of the hexagonal size. There's one flat wall ahead of you, and you assume probably one one behind that you cannot see it from your current perspective on the staircase. You can see that the walls are still made from the long plates of intricate hammered metal, black and red tinted with dust and rock and whatever other materials were forged into the actual metal. The support girders of dark red metal marks the seam of every wall plate like when you first

entered the hallway above. Centered of the chamber ahead of you across the wall that you see there, there is a glowing pit of heated coals about 15 feet on any side that marks the floor before a giant metal wall with two X-shaped crossbeams that hit the corners of where that wall begins on each side. And in the center where they meet, you see a raised relief of what looks to be solid gold, bolted there that surrounds an opening of something. some kind. So there's a space in that golden relief. What's the floor look like from here there? Other same surface?

Same metallic surface. Any seams, which is smooth? No, for the floor in here, it would be fairly smooth. How high off the ground is that relief? It's 25 feet to the ceiling, and it's halfway down, so it's about 12.5 feet in the center. So it's from the ground you'd have to get up to see it. I move closer towards that. Okay. You walk up, you come to the very bottom

of the last step, leap onto the ground, walk forward to the edge of where the coals are there at the base of your feet. You glance up and you can see and make a perception check. Hold on. 17. Whoa! You glance up and you can see the relief of solid gold. The opening in it is triangle shape.

roughly one foot across from point to point, like that. It is, comes into a triangular point. And it's about that size. It's about a foot, and then a foot, and then a foot. I think you're supposed to stick your hand in it, Grog. Is it going to leave? It's just the triangle shape where there's nothing else around. Yeah, it's almost, it's like a weird, kind of a rough circle,

and the triangle is carved into the center of it. The two walls, immediately to the right and left of that, I remember the Hickshoggle kind of pulls back to each side. You see two more of those metal warrior reliefs that you saw earlier in the hallway. The coals, and the coals are in a circle around. The coals are in like a square section, a 15 by 15 foot section of the floor in front of you,

that leads right up to the wall with the giant X meeting the seams and the relief. I mean, not up to Tony Robbins' shit, right? Does it look like anything supposed to go in the triangle? Does it look like a keyhole? It looks like a gold relief that has a triangular hole in it. That's all you can see. I mean, can we see how deep the hole goes?

Do you have to get close to it on my broom and look at it? All right, you fly up above the holes and the heat emanating from the coals below you're extremely hot. You can see it kind of warping the air above it. So you can have to kind of protect yourself a bit and squint the eyes, and you swear you can smell the scent of burning hair. You get up close and you can see the relief,

perhaps some sort of triangular pyramid-like shape would slip into it. It looks like all the corners eventually converge to a point on the interior of it. Is there anything else in the room besides the two reliefs on either side that we can see tools? Do you guys want to walk around the back of the staircase? As you guys move around the back of the staircase, the wall on the opposite side of that relief contains a third armored warrior relief embedded in the wall. You can see there are four pillars

right along the side of where the staircase descends that contain bolted in large braziers that contain ever-burning flames, just flicker and give that orangeish-red glow similar to the coals that you saw embedded in the ground as you arrived. And then on the the back side of the staircase and the column that held it aloft, you see what looks to be, you recognize it immediately, Grog, strangely, because while you've not cared or understood what these things are before, suddenly you know what it is. You see what looks to be a large metal, looks like a well almost, but there is a furnace built into it and a number of tools that hanging to the side, small like tongs and heavy leather

gauntlets. This is a smelter. Do we see anything around the room that looks like it could fit in that pyramid shape? I'm going to cast, again, detect good and evil, and just do a swoop around and see if I sense any creatures or magically consecrated objects. Okay. Excuse me. You swoop around the room, you detect no evil.

You detect them actually consecrated objects. And at that point, the spell is about to fade or become permanent. Oh, big choice, big choice. You mean like you'll stay like that forever? You can't undo it? You're not in his mind. Yes, my child. I will drop the spell. Okay, and with that, a smaller Scanlan form appears, the planetar angelic form of vanishing,

and he drops about four feet and lands on a... His feet on the ground. I feel my back. I'm back. I'm back. A moment later, grog, your form drops as well. You revert back to normal grog size. Still massive.

So much more hands. So we're supposed to smoke the platinum, right? Melted down. And then we use our magic beans to make the prime trumpets. Do I understand how this triangle works? Is this part of the... This triangle does not at all... not at all resemble any of the designs that you had imbued upon you.

I'm going to hop up to take a better look at it as well. Okay. So you walk up the side and look into it, and you can see it's a triangle, and then pushing inward, all the points converge on the inside. Where it would fit a pyramid structure, about one foot on each side, corner to corner? And then the point at which they connect is at about a quarter size, or would you say? The point where it connects it goes to a complete point. Complete point, okay. And that relief is in the middle of two

Cross beams? Yes. So you couldn't like push the cross beams over and lay it down? Well the cross beams are bolted to the actual wall. Okay. So yeah. It's not something we have to lay flat. Did you say there were two metal warriors? There were two metal warriors, the right and left, and then one on the back wall. And are they separated from where we are by hot coals or can you walk right up to the only the only hot coals are the ones that reside directly beneath the relief? Okay, so I'm gonna check one of those out. Okay, make an investigation. See if it's any different than what we pass on. And usually there were three warriors?

Yes. And we can get to the smelter right now, or it's beyond the crossbeams. The smelter is on the other side of the room behind the staircase. The actual. All the shit we need. 24. 24. You approach and look up into the warrior. You can see the three of them are all in the same stance. They're all standing square.

They all are clutching a long, great sort of one hand. The other appears to be just open to. either receive something or hold a lot of something that's not there, and they're all facing forward. I'm shooting my wings out as I don't come to it. Okay, your wings arc outward. Looking ahead, you can too see the armored helmet that adorns its head that kind of normally would pincher it to where the nose is, and you can see the pores of the face. The helmet just comes to, it's just one big domed curve on top, and where a face would be, there is no face.

There's just the outside of the head, and what appears to be a similar, trying to be. similar triangle gap in the face that's smaller than the one in the relief. You glance over quickly to the other warrior and the third, and all three of them are faceless, instead having an empty triangle that disappears into the face. Goes inward just like the big one. Yes, but they're smaller. Okay. While he does that, I stand in the middle. Are the three warriors triangulated? Like if you were to draw out a triangle between them? In the hexagonal room, yes, they would be.

In the same shape? It seems to be, close enough at least, based on the construction of the room, the chamber. What do the reliefs have in their hands? Weapons? Yes. Two of the three of the . No, they're all great swords,

but they're also part of the relief embedded in the wall. Okay. In one open hand. In one open hand. One hand is holding it, it's kind of embedded in the wall, and the other one is just open to the side, but the relief is all embedded in the wall, and you can see the triangular opening.

The only thing that darts inward is that vacuous shape in the face. Precisely, the sort of details that make us very nervous. Yes, that's where I'm not gonna die because they can't figure out. Because we can't figure out how the triangle works. We just sit down like, five. Is there a triangle on the floor?

Any patterns on the floor? Make an investigation check. Is it active right now? Is it hot? Is it? Yeah, I mean, the colds are cooking and there's a. The smelter is, it's low, but it's burning. What if we have to make something triangular? Yeah, to fit in those things.

13. But we don't have an edvin. It doesn't appear to be any. The floor is pretty solid. There's no real detail that catches your attention. Let's stop smelting. Yeah, might as well. All right, what do we feel like?

What if we take those beans and put them in the little triangle holes? I don't know. We're in their hands. We're in the hands. Well, the hands are like, the statues are in the wall, and you can just see the outer shape just barely protruding from the wall.

So it'd be hard to place something in the hand. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We switched it out all the gold for platinum. Okay. So, and in Basenheim. Yeah. So let's start the smelter at the very least. Okay, so the bellows are there.

They're big old heavy bellows and grog. You know exactly what to do. It's a really strange phenomenon to be like, I've never done this, but it's second nature. And you just begin to get that forged to well and burn. And brightly, you can see the flames and the coals heat up from dull red to a bright orange to a white at times. And as it heats up, you have the tongs,

but what smelt in? Yeah. Melt in. Can I walk around to the, I'm gonna walk across. We don't have like a mold. You get the sense here that smelting is the heating and liquefying of metals, one to remove impurities, and two, to then pour into a mold in which when it cools the metal makes the shape of whatever the form.

Can I fly up to the circle on the wall, on the crossbeams? Does it come off? You reach out and you touch the gold relief. It's built into the wall. Oh. It's like a smooth, shiny, polished gold, but it's not moving at all. We can't find anything that makes a triangle shape, a pyramid shape in the room. That just means the crossbeams have to go.

The faces of the statuary, so I'm going to, maybe we should prod that. We might as well start prodding things, just nothing's going to happen if we don't prod them. I'm going to crawl up to one of the statuary, the swelters, and see if the helmet comes off or if the face is removable or I'm going to start tinkering. You reach up and kind of like grab the side and kind of feel the side of the face and kind of reach into the inside of the gap in the triangular void, if you will. Let me see you go click, isn't it? No, you mean the finger slide in. It does come to a vanishing point. I mean, it comes to a point like the larger relief, but it's once you look inside and get a little bit of a glance with a little bit of light that's in there, The shape on the inside of it is different. It's imperfect and messed up. It's hard to see what it is, but it's not a perfect triangle like the rest. Also, immediately you guys see there's a flash of orange light that completely surrounds the exterior of the warrior.

And the two of the warriors, their entire outer line glows of bright orange. And with that, you instinctually step back. I step up. Or step up, as all three of them step out of the wall. Unlike the ones you saw previously that were pressed in and relieved, these have a little more dimension to them, and a majority of their physical form was embedded backwards into the wall. They all of a sudden, DZH! Come storming outward, giant great swords swinging in front of them

as they all immediately, the heads creepily with the open, triangular void of where a face would be, spin to one of the nearby individuals in their space. Maybe we have to kill them and then smelt into them. Smelt into their faces. I'm into it. Don't destroy their faces. That's where we'll pick up next time. Because it is almost 11 o'clock.

They're facing the army of the faces. They're sailing across the sea. Santee. How tall do they? How big would they? They're about 10, 12 feet tall. They're made out of metal, and they're made out of metal. They're made out of the same metal material looks like at the walls.

They're golembs. They're gollums. Gullums. Constructural. of some kind. Those crossrooms, do they look like they're structurally integral to the room? No. They're like, they're bolted against the far wall and it looks more ornamental, or at least there seems against that back wall to hold the relief there, or at least that's where the relief is placed. You get the sense that with more inspection, you get a better feel, but it doesn't look like immediately it flashed, it's integral to this design.

Cool. So, we'll pick up right at the beginning of those large large large metallic creatures emerging from the walls in the ensuing conflict next week. In the meantime, thank you guys so much for joining us on the next crazy step of our adventure. We'll pick up birthday now. Happy birthday, yeah.

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