Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - Vox Machina Ep. 82 - Deadly Echoes

Episode Date: January 10, 2022

Vox Machina has made their way to the mysterious island where Raishan is hiding. But the island itself may be an ancient and terrible death trap! With special guest Patrick Rothfuss.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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But, and Pike is still in New York, but in trade, we do have Rothfis joining us this week via Skype. Continue the journey of Carrick along with these crazy kids. So thank you for joining us, Patrick. Look at his beautiful office and all of these little al bears. So many al bears. So many al bears. It's beautiful. Cool. So before we get into the games tonight,

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I miss you too. Oh, thank you. Oh, stop it. Next thing I want to announce is there's a convention coming up in February called Anime Milwaukee, or Milwaukee, February 17th to 19th, in which me, Marisha, Travis, and Laura will be in attendance as guests. That's right. So come join us for awesome critical role panel.

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That would be awesome. That would be awesome. Look for a bearded fellow with sunglasses and a hoodie. That's the convention. Well, cool, thank you guys so much. Now that our announcements are done, let's go ahead and dive in. Tonight's episode of Critical Role. And welcome back.

Yeah, it was a great countdown. So... To bring us into this story and get you guys up to speed, the adventuring group of Vax Machina had been battling the Chroma Conclave, a collection of ancient chromatic dragons that had terrorized the Taldori countryside, ruin a number of the villages and cities, their leader, Thoradak the Cinder King, lording over the capital city of Iman for a number of weeks at this point. In order to prepare themselves to this battle, they've traversed the plains and all across the world to acquire vestiges of divergence, these powerful artifacts, and upon acquiring them and gathering

allies, they made an assault with the help of these allies upon the city of Amman, defeated Thordak the Cinder King, and after making an alliance with one of these conclave members, Raishan, the diseased deceiver, to aid them in this battle, they ended up battling Raishan as well within Thorak's lair beneath the city. Reishan nearly annihilated the entirety of the group of Ox Machina, kept it bay only by them summoning one of their allies, Jamans Sa'ord, the powerful brass dragon and secret leader of the city of Ankarel. Enough of a threat to push her away, Raishan took the corpse of Thordak, apparently via teleportation as well as two of the eggs that remained in the layer

and vanished. Upon wrestling your way outside of the layer itself, you came upon a number of allies who had fought their way to the center of the city, as well as Patrick's character Carrick, who had brought a number of his ragtab. Adventures from the city of Western to aid. Kerik joined you in your return to Whitestone and has now agreed to aid you in your search for the current whereabouts of Raishan. Through the use of some rather rapid scry magic

and the dragon's expent capability to defend against it at the time, you found the location of Raishan, apparently a distant island to the far south in the Lusidian Ocean, one that once was the layer of Thordak before he was sealed, and before that apparently belonged to a necromancer named Opash. You have then spent the evening in Whitestone, or I guess now the day, since you slept through the day,

in White Stone preparing to rest for a coming conflict, giving chase to Rishon in hopes of stopping whatever her plans are before they come to fruition. So that is when we dive back in. So all of you guys have had a full night's rest. You're back up to your full hip points. You regain half of your spent hit dice. Spells are back.

I know we had a few characters level. We had Scanlan level, Percy leveled, and Pike leveled. It's over for Pike, but it won't stick if she wants to not have that be it, right? Yeah, sure. Well, it's fine. It's a cleric gave access to all the cleric spells. Oh, because she doesn't have to choose one, like a ranger? No, no, no.

That's kind of the benefits of, like, the cleric and the wizards. is they have a larger breath of spells druids as well to choose from them. That's great. Well, you'll never run. We're gonna pick power word killed Green Dragon. Yeah, Power Word killed Green Dragon or for eighth level spell. She's taking PowerWord kill. Wow. Green Dragon.

Specific. Can she do that? No. No. Okay, I was just saying, is that a lot? What? For her? You don't know. Yeah.

All right. All right. So if you guys want to get your any attention tunement changes you want to situate for the coming party company move. Yeah. I would like my boots pack, and I've been sort of dreading this moment. Can I have my boots back? They look so good on me. Have you noticed?

It's all I've noticed for the last 24 hours. Right? I mean, they are beautiful. I was just, we probably would have killed her yesterday, but I was so distracted by her. good you look in the boots. I know, I know, I know. Yeah. I mean, like, really good.

Strategically, I think I can actually do more, and I think I'm more likely to get a little more bang for my buck out of thing. Oh, really? Yeah. Strategically, you can do more than me. Never mind, I'll use the sword. No, no, no, no, I'll give them to you. I'll give them to you.

Yeah. That was as painful as I imagined it would be. Um, Well, could have been worse. Yes, it could. Percy, would you like this sword back? You know? Or anybody.

What, sword? Yes, sword. But it's a dragon killing sword. I know, but... Is that what I had originally? I just, I'm better when I'm maneuverable and I feel like I'm going to get one swing in and miss and go to waste. Jeez. Who needs it?

Can then I raise it here? I will admit if I get within striking distance, I'm probably... Can I see it? Sure you can. Pass it over. Pass it over. Here's the handle. All right, well.

Proper handling technique. Maybe. That's how you can do. What? Really? Yeah. I'll have it. Should I do?

Good. Yeah. Should I do? You guys also have taken some time to inspect the other items that you receive from the Pesgerna. Oh. Get me out of this bed situation. Give me those.

Give me those. Maybe they're in those. Cahillas. Okay. Maybe that. What does I say? This is a hammer. This is a hammer.

There's a hammer. I like a warhammer. I like a warhammer. What? Warhammer? I was asleep. No. Hold on, I'll pass it over to you.

I'm not going to read it, Keeney. Okay. Chapter one. Okay. Okay. Wait, the Dwarven Thrower, this is the Warhammer. You gain a plus three attack bonus. Bonus to attack and damage rolls.

It has a throne property. Normal range of 20 feet and a long range of 60 feet. When you hit with a ranged attack using this weapon, it deals an extra 1 d8 damage, or if the target is giant, which a dragon is 2D8 damage. Actually, you're an actual giant. Oh, is a giant. Never mind.

Immediately after the attack, the weapon flies back to your hand. Another one of those secrets she was telling them about. Yeah, it's Thor hammer-ish. It does require attudement by a dwarf. Oh. Oh, does it say that? What if I've got a dwarish beard? If you have the belt of dwarven kind attuned,

you can't attune to the handle as well. But only under that condition. If you unattune one, if you untune the belt, you have to unatune the hammer. And you have to give Matt $20. I'm so happy about that. Yes, that is well. I forgot that on the card.

I'm gonna open up like a weapon expo. This is amazing. I may drag something from you. I don't mean my. You're human. You're human. Similarity is notable. is notable.

I noticed you haven't actually given me the boots back, and I just wanted to remind you to give me the boots. Oh my God, let me find a fucking piece of paper. Jeez. It's very important. I'm also going, oh, you go. These boots might be maybe good for our wonderful cleric. These are boots of elbeenkind.

While you wear these boots, your steps make no sound. We're fearless of the surface you are moving across. You also have advantage on dexterity stealth checks that rely on moving silently. Oh, my gosh, but I don't know what else. I don't know what else Pike has a tune on. Well, that one I don't think requires a tune man. Pass him over. Pike will.

Yeah, you don't have to attune to it. They don't need a tune to it. No. Wow. I'll write them down on her. But she will not have her boots levitation or any other things. Or not she won't have her sprinter's boots.

Sprinter's boots will be replaced by those. And suspenders. Well, you know, what are the chances that she's going to need to bolt, Probably more than sneak around, probably? What if? That's a choice to make. Yeah.

Okay, here's a question. Can she have the boots on and then right before the battle put on the Sprinter's boots? 20 minutes. Spinter's boots do require attunement. And it's not like you can attune them and then take them off. I have to double-check the card from her.

I don't know if they do. Sprinter's boots are pretty clutch for Pike. Yeah, they're pretty clutch, especially after the last time. I mean, we're going to move around. We're going to brawl. But we're going stealthy probably in before we can. It's up to you. The process of a giant armored gnome to like change out her boots is going to be, it's not like a quick, it's not pressing an X button in your inventory.

It's like changing from one pair of ski boots into another pair of ski boots. Essentially, yeah. So be mindful of that. Minor thing I'm going to attune the Death Walker's Ward to necrotic. To necrotic. Yeah. Okay. Well then, how is your stealth? Percy. I have wonderful. I have spider boots.

Oh, you have spider boots. What about you, Grog? Huh? What's your question? Sorry, I'm drooling all over this fucking hammer. Are you still, are you still wearing the same boots that you made for yourself? Yeah. Is that okay?

I'm wearing the boots of feral leaping. He's got a leaping boots. Is that a thawhammer? Is that what that is? It's pretty fucking close. Apparently I throw it, it comes right back to my head. If I had like a frenzied rage in three attacks, would have like, whoop-wpach, whoa-pah, like a giant yo-yo. Technically, yes.

I'm taking this one. I get it. Oh, my God. How far can you throw that thing? 60 feet? 60 feet. Well, it's 20 feet, and then 60 feet is the second range increment. So if it's longer than 20 feet, your attacks are a disadvantage.

So on the beach. But if I do a reckless attack, is it a normal roll, and then everyone gets advantage against you? I love you right now. If these two tables weren't in our way, there'd be some mad love on camera. Love the dice that rolled that treasure hoard. Oh, it's all over the bottom of the table after the show. Yeah. Manage.

Is anybody else the one and two attuned me? I would like to attuned to this. The Dwarven Thrower? Yes. Okay. Not the Blood Axe. Okay, so the Blood Axe goes away. Dwarven Thrower's out. He's really tried about it. Cabals, Dragon Slayer, animus.

So just to you're aware, the dice roll in that is a D-8 to do damage, supposed to a D-12. Oh. That doesn't sound as cool. I must think. I'm going to do my circlet, my antlers, as always, ring of protection, Spire Complex. Okay. Just to chime in out of character, I know we picked up the dancing sword, which could act as an autonomous fighting thing. But I don't know who has that or who has slots available to the tune.

That is, Grog has that actually. Grog has every weapon ever. Is an attunement thing? You have to tune to it, yeah. Northrop gumming. You're a fallout character. Very slicky. It's, um, I make all the weapons.

But yes, Grog does have the sword. Do you have an extra spot care? Bro. To attune? I'm going to show my age here. You know, I have only occasionally done fifth edition. Back in the day when I got used to playing, we never attuned, our weapons. You only have two things attuned.

So you're good. You do, you can't. Yeah, so I'm relatively easy in terms of like what magic items I have. I could have it and set it loose at the beginning of combat if nobody else can. Yeah. I'll just, yeah. Okay. Okay.

So Grog pulls the sword out from the bag of holding, and as he kind of reaches and it sends it towards you, you feel the sudden like, almost like a sudden burst of headache in the back of your mind, and you kind of stop for a second, Grog, and you look at the blade, and there across the metallic sheen of this gorgeous scimitar, you see this image begin to almost seep through and look at you. It's this female-like face, very faint, a reflection. Female setting. But the teeth are fanged, and you're fangling.

you see what looks to be almost like a swirl of snakes around the outside. At that moment, you feel that burst of headache in the back of your head grow extremely strong, and you drop the blade out of your hand, and you guys watch his Grog falls to his knees, just clutching the sides of his head. The sword as it hits the ground, it clacks, khing, ptching, the blade almost immediately rusts and turns into a dark, dull metal. The gems crack and turn to dust, and what now lies there is an inert weapon. What the fuck? What did you do?

Grog? Well. Ow! Is it? Oh no, did it turn you really, really, really stupid? That really hurt, and it's still hurting. Grog, how many fingers am I holding up? Square.

Well, he's fine. Oh, he's dumber. Oh, no. The magic sword bid me. That really hurts. That's awesome. What happened? What happened?

What happened? Is it just because it's only meant for you? Kerrick, do you still want it? I, do I have any idea what, like, was this thing rejecting me or pissed that Grog was, like, abandoning it? You get the sense, just because you've seen a few things like this, that this was actually an inherent curse within the blade, and it just took a moment to dig itself into Grog. Oh, no. But the source of the curse is expended, and Grog, you are permanently at minus $2 your saving throws.

Correcting my mistake from the card last session. Oh, shit! This is the deck of many things. This was me completely either misreading or mishearing it last time. The curse of the internet, let me know that that was the card drawn. I want to make sure that we stick to what was drawn. I do have a problem with the headache. Could we maybe like bargain to get the headache removed?

Because I'm really happy first. I have Tylenol, but it requires attunement. I need BC powder. I think Grog has a way to get rid of headaches. Can I also say, like, no one's gonna ever try to get away with anything here, because we know we're being watched, like, fucking, you know, people are watching like hawks. Who's what? I know. Everything is going to be seen.

So, oh, shit, the camera. So, wait, there is minus two to all of his saving throws? Yes. Permanently? Well, until a god takes it away. No, I'm not visiting those stupid gods. No, go talk to the Raven Queen. It's a curse.

Sarenrae. Maybe she can greet a restoration. Yeah. Pickles. Stupid sword. Geez, me and swords. Pikes. It's really not doing well.

Yeah. Pike, can you take a look at your buddy? Well, I don't know if I know that anything's wrong with him. Oh, I just get the crazy ones. Grog, do you have a headache? Normal. Grog is clutching the side of his head. Grog just, Pikes just came up to you and asked you a question.

What did she say? Do you have a headache? Do you have anything? Do you have anything? to help with it? Well, I can maybe do, like, a cure wounds? Or, um. But I'm not wounded, it's just a headache.

Do you have cure a headache? I don't think so, but I can pray to Sarenrae if it would help. I don't know. Is that my league? I mean, maybe. Yeah. Um, can I, is there anything I have? What are you talking to me?

What do you want to try? Pike is just universally cute. universally cute. She's like a kigaroomy. If you wear it, you're just automatically cute. You're just misty cute. Is there, would I know what she know what to do? Greater restoration. To try and help her to all? If it's a curse, I mean there are a few things that can usually take care of a regular curse,

but she doesn't understand the nature of this curse. Okay. I can try to do like a, I don't know what level of greater restoration is. greater restoration. It's a fifth-lock tail. It's really, it's only a headache. I'll be fine. Are you straight? Yeah, we all just healed. I'm fine. I mean she's used greater. Let me know if you need anything though. Oh right, yeah, I will. Thank you, Pike.

You're welcome. Like, coming into this fight, down two on all saves. We're gonna kick some ass. Oh, down two. That's... If you have a, do we have anything that's sitting around that's not a tune, though? I mean, we can gift you something. Pike got that. that cloak that the fucking HOTUS glued to my flesh off.

That's true. That's what I think what she did. Grog, if you want, also, you can have my ring of protection, which is a ring of protection plus two, and it gives you plus two to AC until all your saving throws. I was gonna wear, but I could wear the cloak of displacement instead. I'm not a real big jewelry fan. Do you have to attuned to it?

Yes. No, I don't want it. Okay. Thank you, though, Kingley. That's very sweet. You're welcome. It's a little bit of a girly ring, so I understand. She would have anything that's not a tune that we can lend. She knew something was wrong, and she tried. You're full on attumments, though, right?

Yeah. You're full up. Okay, okay, okay. Then Pike's going to try to do greater restoration on Grog. Okay. So as you guys are having finishing this conversation, Grog and Keyleth, Pike walks up and lifts out or holds her, holds her gauntlet out, her giant, awesome monster ogre gauntlet, as it begins to suddenly emit this bright, white, vibrant glow.

As she touches the front of your forehead, kind of beckoning you to bend down to try and get rid of the headache, you watch as the healing energy surges through your body from head to toe, and as it passes through you, the light fades. The spell is spent, is a fifth level spell she used, and the headache remains. Did it do anything for my guess? for my gas?

There is no divine magic that can do anything about that either. Bitch, you need to worship the goddess of Beano. It was worth a try, though, because that would have been helpful. I cannot find my card for my... What? Ring of Lightning Resistance. It seems to have vanished. It's different.

I don't know where it would have gone. Do we have anything else that we can lend for a team? I didn't say the last time, but trinkets out of it. the necklace. Yeah, do you have any magic healing on you at the moment? Actually, you know, a character is kind of standing around, just, you know, it's like he's buffing a little bit of the rust out of his, like, off-the-rack chain mail. You know, I, and he's trying not to look like that kid who showed up at the rich kids party.

But, you know, out of character, I will say, if anyone has anything just kind of into, like, that they're not using in terms of protection. I'm like, I'm reasonably geared up. I'll be able to go in and hit. No, no. Are you, are you, anybody that has anything in the bank, I can probably make use of it? Are you wearing armor? Is chain mail.

Okay, so the braces of defense wouldn't work. No. You want to lend them? Yeah. With the cloak work? Yeah. It wouldn't replace his armor or cloak? No.

Are you okay with that backs? Are you okay with that backs? Kerr, we have this cloak of displacement that's pretty awesome. Yeah, it's made from the flesh of like a flying manor-type thing, and it makes you really hard to hit. And I, now this is a loner. It's actually made from the flesh of a displacer beast. I know that. Oh, okay.

But you describe me like a mandorove. I also have a very precious ring, which I would love to have back from you once we've killed this dragon, but you will not be seen if you wear it. Really? Yeah. I would put that to good use in the coming fight. Okay. I take the cloak and I throw it over him. You got to tweet it to him? Or text it to him? Whatever. And I slapped the ring down into his palm. Do you have a picture of the ring? A picture of the ring? Like it's a ring of invisibility. It's just ring. Do you have a thing? No? Just a legendary ring. Yes, I have a thing. Just a legendary ring. Just a legendary ring like a do. Oh, do you can send it to him? Yeah.

It won't let me text photos. My phone's being stupid. Just note, the ring of invisibility, you remain invisible until the ring is removed, until you attack or cast a spell, or until you use a bonus action to become invisible again. If anyone has anything better to give him, we can. No, that's really good.

That's a bad ass thing. Hey, Siri. All right, cool. Remind me to ask Patrick Rothfus for my ring of invisibility back once the dragon is dead. We're good. All right, there you. Thank you, Siri.

Assisting to indie games. Indeed. And something. All right, so, and what else do you guys want to prepare, if anything? As you wake up, come to consciousness. We should have a Heroes Feast. Yes, we should.

Is there anybody that can do a Heroes Feast? Pike, how are you looking on Feasts? Huh? Is anyone else? I mean, if Pike wants to prepare Heroes Feast, Pike can. Can Gilm? No.

Gilmore, that was a one-timey thing. Gilmore can't do it. Gilmore can do it a lot. Gilmore had a few items that basically turned into a hero's feast, but he lost his shop. Oh. Okay. Okay, okay, okay.

Then Pike can do another, what level is that? Heroes' feast. Is I believe six level, I think? Yes, it's a six level. Six level. Okay. Why we have a feast, do we want to fight something? Yeah.

It's breakfast. It's the most important meal of the day. You're right. You marked it off? Why should it not be the best breakfast that we can have? Okay, so we all have a Heroes Feast. All right, so Mark. Salary Man's?

Your diamond that you recently found in the Horde marked off. As Pike prepares a long wooden table, summoned through divine magic that contains a fantastic meal of all the classic Western comfort foods instilled with the power and guidance of Sarenre as you spend the additional hour to eat and drink and gain the effect of the spell.

You become immune to poison, immune to fear, and you all get an additional 2D10 to your maximum hit points if you want to roll that, Laura. For Pike? Yes. And for Scanlan. Well, it's for everybody. Everybody gets this amount.

Oh. That's not bad, that. What was that? That's 15 added for everybody. So everybody gets 15 additional hit points. Thanks. 15. And I'm assuming Trinket is eating

and Allora is eating. Yes. It can feed up to 12 people. So yes. That would be care as well and allura and keener. It's a save against, and we get an advantage on what saves? Fear and poison. Well, you're immune to poison.

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Yes. All righty. Oh, I and I attuned, by the way, my bracers of archery are attuned again. Okay, you retuned your brace airfare? Gotcha. Cool. All righty. So.

Should I do a scrying eye, see if I can still find Raichon? Yeah, but what should you scry on? Can you scry on like Thorac's body or something? Because she would have it right next to him. Can I? We have the ball. It's other a creature or location. Or location.

Can I... Well, if right now we're pretty sure that they don't know that we know where they are. Do we want to risk that losing the surprise? We don't. Do, can... If I scry on her cave, would that tip her off? in the cave of Opo? Opash. Opaish.

One way to find out. Opash's laboratory. Only one way to find out. I'm of the opinion that we, it's, personally, I think it's safer to know what we know now and go in, because if things... I mean, I can always teleport us there and scribe there. Right.

That way it's only minutes. Yeah, minutes. As far as you know, when you create a sensor at a location, creatures that can see invisibility can see the actual the scrine location of the orb itself that you create the magical orb of which your vision appears through. Oh. Shit. But that's the only thing you would have to consider.

That's a massive thing to consider. Unless she's in like perma bubble bath world. I think we should just go. I think we should go too. Oh geez. What do you think? I'm so nervous. I know. I'm not.

I'm feeling strangely positive. Negative two players? Would you put that piece of wood down, please? He's eating wood again. We need to get him another salt lake. I do miss my salt lake rock. Can I keep an eye out as we walk around for another salt lake rock? Make a perception check.

Don't make me do that. Sound those things, make. Thirteen. That's your dice and a subwarfer. You find a few separate pieces that would look like quartz-like rock that just kind of line the sides of the road and the exterior garden of the castle and upon trying each one Not as salty as you'd hope. They're generally just bits of white stone or a rock Oh Grogh that's that's that's that's car

Road let him lick it if he wants it's gonna make him happy Is it close to salty could I confuse it with salt? I mean you get like a hint of salt but it's gone after the first leg Is anyone more shiny than the others? After looking at a few times, it gets a little shiny, or yeah? I am a great source, and I will keep this new stuff. Okay, so go ahead and mark three quartz rocks. Like palm-sized? Roughly, some are a little bigger.

The center one is a little bit like a basketball size. Bag of holding, you got new occupants. Yeah, yeah. That was the first thing I did when I got this all right. Just filling it with rocks. It's like dry, poo. Don't join his collection. Frogs, drag and poo.

This is the world's greatest wall part in this fucking bag. I'm tall. Ox and. Trollviks. Can we put a greener in there? This is a collection of pet rocks. They are. I think our bag needs a greener.

All right. As you guys are preparing, Kima and Alura, catch up to you guys. They've gathered their materials and they're prep for battle. Kim is fully armored and kind of, you know. Does she look badass in like her full sorceress armor? Oh, Allura? Yeah.

Paint a picture. Paint picture. What she looked like. Yeah. She's an upper, you know, middle class girl. She's still, she's wearing one of her many ceremonial robes that she does for, you know, presentory, Tal'Dore council work. But you see she has a hood up over her head. Her hair braids are both kind of tied together behind her neck so they don't get in the way. You've noticed that there is some really nice jewelry that's adorning the side of her neck. The staff that she carries with her usually is relatively simple, but you see now that there are a number of of ruins, kind of carved in a spiral along the sides of it. You can see a number of rings

that she previously wasn't wearing that are on, and her face is hardened, and you see that she, where normally she has this kind of air of keeping the room, you know, almost a teacher or parental type presence in the area. There's kind of an intensity and darkness to her face that you haven't really seen before, not since at least the attack on the city happened. Work. Work. Allura. All right.

And Kiva. Oh my God. Oh my God. All right, guys. So they've arrived. Sorry, not sorry. Sorry. Her staff kind of clinking across the stone floor of the castle.

All right. Have we put all of our affairs in order? Yes. Well, I hate when you put it that way. The feast, too. Feast, too, right? They come in towards the beginning of the casting of the feast, and they eat as well, yes.

It's a buffet. It's a hero's buffet. Yeah. It's not God. So, how best should we arrive if you have the ability to bring us through the tree, or I can teleport us there? Is it the same difference? What power?

How much energy? How much energy do you use when you teleport? As far as the advancement of spell strength, a teleport spell in its own right is the seventh sphere of magical incantation. Hmm. Then let me go with our transport via plant, which is more of like the six, you know, level. Sounds like a wondrous idea.

Yeah, you know. Worst case scenario, we can camp for the night if we are victorious and spent. Yeah. I love camping. Yeah. It looks like a very pretty island. Let's make sure that one of the gate stones

is left here in case one of us has to make a mad dash. Give it to Cassandra? Give it, obviously. Keep it in Cassandra's care. If somebody comes back, you know everything has gone horribly wrong. Kimmy kind of wraps her and takes the stone from your hand and goes, all right, I'll give it to her. Be right back.

She just kind of jogs off. You hear the tch-ching-thing, the armor She disappears up the stairs. Her the boots. Something bad I call. She wants her. This is true. She wants to close it up.

So. Yeah, yeah. You know what, when Kima comes back, I'm gonna give her the elven boots. Okay, so when she returns. So she's not so clanking. She takes him and is like, not really my stye.

If you don't want them, I'll wear them. I mean, I like them a lot. I'm just saying you're loud. I'll take him. And you all wait patiently for the next six minutes as she unbuckles and pulls off the rest of her lower armor and gets the boots on. That don't match at all. No. And you can see it gives her a twinge of disappointment. Wouldn't have pegged her for straight laces.

Yeah. It's like different tiered armors and warcraft. Yeah. She's wearing greens. So what's the worst? She sits her Doc Martin's over here. The expansion just came out so it was like all epics and like one green it's better than the rest. I'm like, oh, damn it.

It's the worst. Professor Hoffing. All right. With you all gathered there, Allura Hutz de Love kind of nods. Keeleth, lead the way. To the sentry, then? To the sentry. Very well.

Let us hope that you return here tomorrow, Victorius. She swirls around her cloak kind of spinning around her base as she follows suit after you. Keeleth, and the rest of you make your way, marching down the front of Castle Whitestone. the white stone to the center of the town, where there you see the faint elements of green bloom now growing across the tree from where once it was bare. The season bringing in the sense of spring and summer that had been kept at bay for a while. And for you as well, Percival, this is the first time in a long time you've seen the sun tree showing that growing kind of life. I quietly sneak up and give it a good kiss.

Aww, I see it, and I'm like, you know, I know him. I can put in a good word. Really, we talk all the time, he never mentions here. What? What? I'm gonna let that go. Thank you. I could be a discussion.

I'm not going to do that right now. We'll talk later. Are you ready? All right, so what are you focusing on for the receiving end of this? I'm assuming I found a tree that was kind of close to her cavern that's big enough. With the second shrine that you did the Lura, which was just specifically the island of this gun, you did see a number of trees not far from the kind of rocky protrusion, the small

mountain that seemed to be the place where this laboratory is in. Okay. So yes, you can choose one of those trees you saw to be large enough to do it. So Scanlan hasn't stops us before we start. For the record, this is a terrible idea and we have no plan. Just putting it out there. I'm with you. This is a terrible plan and we're going to die. You seem different.

I'm fine. I have a cold. I don't feel well. I'm taking something for it. Sing me a song. Sing me a song right now. I'm not singing. I try to stealthily sniff Scanlan. Does he smell like? Well, first roll a stealth check. Yes, yes, yes.

Don't ever say the word. Okay, 14. 14. The not stealthy at all, Keelith slowly approaches you. You see her, you make eye contact, and yet she still slowly crawls up and begins taking a big whiff on your shoulder. Ah, so nervous.

There once was a barbarian named Grog, who had the IQ of a log. of a log. Keep going, but now you're excited and I just made me lose my. Oh, that's great. Does he smell like the incense that they smelt from him before? No. He smells of frustration, disappointment, and worry. You smell like a sad man. All right, let's go.

All right, so do you go ahead and cast the spell? Uh-huh. I say, to the Sun Tree, I say, You caught my eye, and I did have your new haircut. I have a new one, too. Okay, let's go. I can't pass a trace on all of us before we go through the tree. Okay. Oh, that's a good call.

So as the shadows pull us around your bodies, your legs, your knees, your feet, you watch as the front of the sun tree suddenly splits open to reveal the pathway through across to what looks to be a partially ruined jungle. You all step through the tree quickly before the portal slam shut behind you. And as you guys emerge, looking about, you can see what looks to be a lot of heavy, you dirt and earth that there's spattering of sand throughout, and surrounding you immediately you can see there are different trees throughout this kind of, what some points are a lush green jungle in the outside, and the further in you go you watch the trees of all withered black. A little ways over the tree line, you can see maybe a quarter mile off what looks to be

the top of the mountain that a brief instant of your first vision and your scribell lend you towards. Does it look like the blight of the trees is getting more concentrated closer to the top of the mountain? It looks like to be, it's a radial effect from the actual mountain, yes. Does it look like fire damage or something else? You want to go and take a look? Yeah. Make an investigation check. Yeah, yeah, yeah, stand back. Mine is too. Um, um, you can't recall the color really that they've become, but it's not alive.

Someone peed on these trees, all of them in a big circle, get out like that. Grog, is this what happens when you pee on trees? Is that not normal? We should talk with Pike, or we get home. Make sure you're okay. Is she here?

Oh, do you need me to cast another greater restoration No, his bladder infection's fine. Okay. It can keep. It can keep. It takes a wish spell to get rid of that, unfortunately. He's been in every brothel of Taldore is the expected. This is true.

Not just the drug bog. He and scatling. Can I, oh wait, did he find anything out? Did you find anything out? No, you didn't find anything. Can I do a nature check? Sure, go for it. These trees aren't alive.

That should be a little tactic. Fancy though. Well, that's good. That's good. Okay. As you guys going to walk kind of through, it's not a very, very dense jungle. We want to keep quiet as we do it. Okay, so make stealth checks as well.

We have passed without a phrase? Yes, we do. So plus $10 your stealth. Natural 20! Poo-Poooo! Pew-Poo! Only it mattered right now. Piu-Poo-Poo-Poo!

All righty-a-natured, and natural 20 for Ulura. Oh. And actually, can't... Oh. Scanlan. No, so that's what she gets a . I rolled the disadvantage for Kima, and it was like 16 and a 4, but then she had the boots on, so the first one sticks. Yeah.

24 for Pye! Nice. So stealthily, you guys quite, would you roll? I rolled 33 and Scanlan rolled 31. Scandlin rolled 31, so. Grog? 13. Plus 10?

Yep. Okay. With the plus 10? Yep. Yeah. How do you do that? Okay. Well, as you guys, Kara, would you get

14 for me. Okay. Plus 10? Where would that plus 10 come from? From pass without a trace. It's a spell that she'd cast on all of you. Then I am at 24. There you go.

Okay. 38. Nice. 37. Oh, my. Take a victory last. Oh, so as you guys kind of fan out in this. Oh, hello.

Now boarding Star Tours. Microsoft Outlook. As you begin to weave your way through these trees, as quiet as you possibly can, Kieluth, you kind of step by and run your fingers along some of these withered gray and black fronds and branches. And all of these trees look like they had the life force

pulled from them. Almost like a very, very rapid starvation or thirst took them. But what's interesting, is a lot of these trees are near petrified and have been this way for a very long time. That was going to be my question. It's not a recent occurrence. So like the petrified forest in Arizona?

Kind of, yeah, but a sadder version, if that's possible. They're all like, mm. No, that's sad. Oh, bad tree. What do I know about Opash and the crimes and what sort of tinkering? You don't know that much. I mean, the fact that you knew the name

and a little bit of the history was even impressive by, the standards of everyone here. What little you do know is that he was sent away specifically because of his inquiries and how far you can reach with necromantic magics

and lost history from the Age of Arcandum. Okay, that's good to know. The Age of Arcandum was the epoch before the divergence, before the calamity hit. And not a lot of history exists about it. A lot of it was destroyed either during the battle or people destroyed it thereafter to prevent us from, you know, reusing what led to that sort of conflict. But Opash apparently had gathered, or at least was in the process of trying to recover some of that information.

So these trees have been dead for, like, hundreds of years. Hundreds of years, yes. All right. So the scarring does not seem recent. Nope. And there's no new scarring. There does not appear to be any new scarring that you can tell. It's not what you've seen so far.

That's very good. That's a good sign. Do I see any sign of tracks or anything? Dragon tracks. Go ahead and make an investigation. Dragging of giant carcasses or just, you know, footprints. Yellow dragon crossing signs. Advantage because it's a dragon.

If it's dragon related. It is dragon related. Natural 20. All righty. There are no dragon tracks. Mother-pop. What? She licks a tree as no dragon has been.

No dragon is... I bet there's other tracks, though, that I totally missed, because I was looking for dragons. Yes. I'm gonna, can I look for anything other than dragons? There won't be at advantage. Just go over it. Just really want to use that. I really want that 20, but I don't get it.

And this one is not as good. Is this an investigation? Perception? Yeah, this would be an investigation for you, kind of like sitting down and getting close and looking throughout the dirt. 11. 11. You do find tracks, but they're scattered, and they're scattered, and then you're just, you're and they're small feet.

Looks like some indigenous creatures or wildlife that exists on this landscape. Okay, but they're all little. They're all little, yeah. Okay. Okay. Cats. As you guys push through,

Allura kind of looks up through the boughs of the dead trees and while you were preparing, I did some research on this island, and it seems that there were an indigenous people that lived here before Opache came. The thousands that made seaward trade routes to the north and the west. And when he made this as home,

the indigenous people were never heard from again. Oh my God. It is believed by many who ever sees that this land is cursed and is to be avoided for that reason. This forest, one of the superstitious points of that reasoning, there are a few that come through hoping to scatter or find things from his lost whereabouts or his own hoard or treasures he may have garnished in his time. But a few of those return as well.

Well, if Ryshan came her, then who knows what horrors actually do exist on this island? It's possible that she found some of his notes and built upon them. There could be anything. Did you read if the island was trapped? or any type of arcane presence on it? Well, I mean if this was the layer of a necromancer, an entity that is both selfish and driven towards the personal power and advancement

of their own narcissism, I can imagine that they are very well protected with their secrets. Now, the fact that this abode was taken by Thorac before he made reign upon the southern side of the continent, Who knows what happened to Apache? Thorac made this his abode. Yes. Up until he began to wander onto the continent of Tardorei.

Interesting. Is it, I'm just playing some conjecture in my head. You have a powerful necromancer, there's any possibility that he could have found a semblance of unlife unlife of Opash wandering around and bent him towards his will, that we don't know how that gem got into his chest in the first place. We don't know how any of this happened, and that's just too much we don't know yet. We have to find the cave.

The gem we created, me, Kima, Drake. As far as we know, if any of her stories he believed, Trishon, was responsible for the rituals that embedded it within Thorak's chest on the plane of fire during her time with the fire Ashari. Once again, as much as we can believe. As much as we know. There's just a lot we don't know. Well, just be careful. Press on. Just keep an eye out. We're keeping eyes out for anything that looks different than normal jungleness. You and I head out like 20 feet ahead of everybody and check the traps as we go.

All right. Investigation checks from both of you guys, if you don't mind. Investigation or for, yes? For looking for traps, specifically investigation. Yeah. 26. 18. Okay.

Pushing forward, you guys. I'm looking for not just, I wasn't just looking for traps. I'm looking for anything that looks out of place in the forest because I don't know what kind of traps I'm necessarily would be set by something like this. Okay. You know what I mean? Sure. In a very lower, Bailey. How much can I get out of this is all?

get out of this is for all time. I know, I know, I know. I'm just messing with. So as you guys push forward, you, Vax noticed that the furthering you go towards this mountain, the trees still dead, gray, are even further withered, and many of them have just turned to ash and dust. And the closer you get the actual tree line grows thinner and lower, as it seems like the closer gets to the mountain,

they'll be a rift of most of their strong. structure. You do, Vex, catch as your brother is moving forward, he is stepping towards a section of the earth and sand that has slightly different texture, ever so slightly from the rest, and he's about a few feet from stepping into that space. Vax! Do to do. Stop! There's some weirdness on the ground. I feel like that's something, I feel like it's something. So there's, you think something's up on the ground there? Yeah.

I mean, what do I do at this point? What do you want to do? You look down and you kind of do I detect. Don't you see it? It looks almost like. I'm gonna take a closer look is what I'm gonna do. It looks like the difference between sand

and slightly damp sand. The coloration is just ever so faintly darker. Now that you're looking, you can tell. Now that I have context. Context is key. Yes. Always. Yes.

Can I push it? Okay. Is it quick sand? Do I find a trap if I'm looking closer now? with her added. I mean, it looks different from the rest. There's no mechanism there. There's no, you don't see a pulley or a.

Maybe it's magic. How far, how much of it looks different or odd? Is it avoidable? Yeah, it's avoidable. It's like a 10, 15 foot kind of oval area. Hey everyone. Yeah. Let's just not step on this dark patch.

How about that? What? Because I think it's like magic or something, Grog. Like good magic? Like bad magic. What kind of? bad magic. The kind that would kill us all, or maybe let's...

Yeah, that gives you a really bad headache. We don't want a headache. As we go. Similar sort of things. Continue. Okay. Now that you've identified that, you've come across a few more patches, and they seem to grow more dense as the trees grow more withered and gone, until you get to a point where you can now see the base of this mountain.

Can I do like a... Can I, from a distance, can I maybe do like a nature check? Are these almost like siphons, like wells, where he was sucking the life force? Make a nature check. Or maybe like quicksand? This could be all the quicksand you were promised his children. I know, right?

Oh my gosh. Always quicksets. These kids do not appreciate the reason. It's so a big part of my childhood. Why did I never find quicksand? 22. 22. These are less siphons.

They're more what looks to be, it's a phenomenon known as Hollow Earth, which is when subterranean caverns go into collapse. Sinkholes. It can create a sinkhole like phenomenon, but hollow Earth generally is based on some sort of magical release, an explosion of magical energy beneath the Earth that causes, even though there is no space, it erodes the Earth from its magic presence, whether or just completely disintegrates or destroys portions of the Earth, it leaves this very, very unstable portion of ground. So it's like a magical quasar that kind of like blasts out. You're not entirely certain what it'll do, but it's not good.

I take one of my new salt lick rocks and I throw it in one of the little sandy pools. Okay. As you take the rock and throw it into the sandy pool, it just kind of lands with a little bit of dirt being kicked up around it and it's just there for a rest. Oh, magic, huh? Real scary. And then? Would the rock tell you if it was having a headache right now? How would it tell you that? I have a psychic connection with my rock.

You also wail a little. The rock then goes and just falls underneath and you can see a spot of the ground perfectly shaped like where the rock was that is now just. Told you it's dangerous. I actually did that. It's magic. Good job, Grog. Yeah. Don't step there.

You figured it out, Krog. Good job. Leave it to me. Contention for my imagination. Are the trees wilting or do they seem like there was a bit of a black, are they, are they, sh-tricking? They're not leaning a specific direction. Okay, so there's no pattern to it. Yeah, and it doesn't like there were leaves or anything blown off of them. It just looked like they gradually just died rapidly in place.

It seems like the close we get the deaderick is. Can we see the mountain that we're getting to? Yes, you can. And you guys maneuver around these spaces to get to the base of it. And it's a moderate-sized mountain. It's a large-sized mound. It's nothing impressive on the outside. It's maybe 600 feet tall at its apex.

It's more of like a large rocky mound. Two matter horns. Make perception, share. Natural 20. Oh, shit. There's nothing in here. Why don't I keep trying to sit? There's in the bank tonight.

30 is what I rolled, but that's not as good as a natural 20. No, it's not. Yeah. But 30 is still good. What's your bonus to the perception? Perception, yeah, is 12, so 32. Okay, so close. You guys being at the front of the party anyway.

Your perception bonus is higher than mine? When did that happen? How did you just notice that? That was my perception. That's all we got. As you guys, school for being ahead of the rest of the party, you glance across the surface of this. And most of the rock follows the familiar pattern of tectonic shift

that's broken and cracked in places, but it's been over hundreds and thousands of years just settled into its natural state. there is one section of rock just maybe 200 feet from where you are landing at the base, where it looks like the texture, the natural lines of the rock is in a different direction. And upon you heading in that direction,

you can see now what it appears to be is a large rock, very large, maybe 20, 30 feet wide, that is jammed into an entranceway. I perceive a rock. I got a rock. I got a rock. Kind of. There are a number of strange holes, kind of peppered over the surface.

Like big holes? About the size of a larger than a gold piece, each hole. Oh, does it look like it could be like things could come out of it? Possibly. Check for traps. You have to check it. You know what Gilmore would do. I want to check it.

What is that in it? How many flash corner? 25 for investigation. Investigation, okay. Well, do I need to roll since he's so good? Might as well. What if it's a one? Ooh.

No, 24. Damn. Okay. Got your water, Matt. Over your lunch, over your lunch on. Oh, thank you, sir. So, are the rest of you guys following up behind them? Just wait a way, wait a moment, be careful.

No, hang back for a second. Okay. There will be things to hit, short. Between the two of you glancing, you notice that each one of these holes actually a, it's a pierced intrusion up in the rock. Something very quickly jammed itself into the rock to create this hole. And they're clustered in places. And you, with your experience, these claws are respective to the size of a very, very, very large dragon. And it looks like different, some of them are more weather than others. This boulder has been placed and pulled back and placed many, many times throughout the years.

Wow. It's probably too heavy for us to move, but Grog, do you want to try? I don't know if we should move it. Well, how do we get in if we don't open the entrance? We could nothing else rather than moving the whole boulder, is there a way we could just get enough of a crack to get in? I can stone shape it a little bit thinner. Oh, dig. I like that. Yeah, just so that if the dragon tries to run, they have to move a giant boulder would be really convenient.

Oh, good call. That's true. Does it look like there's, am I there? I'm not there yet. You guys are hanging back. Right behind us, but. Okay. I'll, I go up.

Is there like a crack that looks like it can kind of just whittle it away that's kind of already started with the boulder? The boulder is larger than the entranceway that it's jammed into. And you're not entirely certain what the inside of this cavern mouth is. If it's just a direct, you know, intersection point, or if it's a gradual influx, you can just try and push through at one of those points, if you'd like. Can you just put a hole in the middle, like, right in the center of the boulder on the ground? Or would it be easier to scrape across the side?

I don't know how shaping works. I only have a limited amount of space that I can carve out, so I don't know how the... I don't know that the bolder might be too thick, but if I do it at the seam line, I should be able to do it. So I kind of want to do it at the seam. What? Do we want to take the first entrance that we find? I mean, is it really one way in, one way out,

or if it's just like a trap? It's a very elaborate. Does someone want to check for traps? We already tracked and checked. I checked this rock. They did not appear to be trapped. Just a very, very heavy rock. Me and like run a perimeter,

like do any recone on any road. We'd have to run around an entire mountain. Does it look like there could be any other entrances? I mean, you'd have to go around the entire mountain? How long would it take if I flew around? Yeah. Oh, maybe full speed, a hour and a half, two hours? Fuck that first, open the door.

All right, cool, cool, cool. Let's just shape a boulder. Do I want to scry on the inside or are we just going in? Do I want to scry and see if she's there? there? Yeah, because this accounts for you, like, flying, stopping, checking, flying, stopping, checking. You can't just check for traps while going by at 50 feet around. I'm scrying on the inside. Going to scry on the inside.

Are you going on? Are we just going in? Yeah, we're doing it. I think we just go in. I mean, what are we going to see that's going to make us change our mind? We have not guessed. If she's not there. We haven't guessed what bullshit.

Can you detect dragons? Oh, I'm going to try to detect dragon. Yeah. What the fuck? That's better. I sit down and go, mm. It's almost like you can't please me. You have a headache too?

Oh my god. Such a headache. We're all gonna die on patient zero. If I'm up by the Boulder two, I will do, I don't have a huge range, but I will do divine sense. Okay. I can detect all manner of stuff up to 60 feet. Yes you can, all righty.

Nice. So using your divine sense, uh, let's see here. Okay, so you spend your time just focusing, making sure there's nothing either in or in the immediate vicinity of the rock or boulder that could be of a celestial fiend or undead nature, while you spend a spell slot to do your primeval awareness. Yes. So yes, you do sense what appear to be three sources of dragon life force within the space, roughly in the direction of this mountain and below.

That means they're alive. They're here. They're here. She's still here. And I think the eggs are okay, because I can still feel like this. Oh, Jesus, they're still alive? I think so.

Oh, God, damn it. For long. Oh, God, okay. All right. I just did it within a mile. So, is that okay? Was that within a mile? Um, I believe it's.

Or did I need to spend longer? For that one, it is for one minute per level the spell. And it's within one mile, six miles, if you're in your favorite terrain. Oh, so I am, because it's like woods, right? Wooded? Not wooded anymore, so it was one mile. But yeah, it's, so you know at least they're within a mile. Okay, well, that's big.

That's huge. Okay. All right. So this is happening. Does anyone need to do anything else before we do? I have to go take a poo. I have to pee too. I have to be so hard.

Scanlon often. What's that in character? It's both. I'm so nervous. Okay. A little bit of both. A little bit of both. Okay, sorry.

Oh, sorry. I feel bad about that. So what's the plan, guys? Like, oh, we're gonna go in, let's go in. Does anyone need to do like a thing? Does any pike? I mean, I don't know. We're gonna have to like go through.

Get in. Yeah. And it'll last for a minute, so I feel like we're gonna be in the caves longer than. Okay. So we're still stealthing. Wait, actually, can I pull a vexasar real quick? Yeah.

Yeah, can I talk to you just real fast before we? Me? Yeah, like a little further away, like in private. Don't go. Don't watch the brush from the sink. Strong. I'm already seeing someone. No, I know.

Listen, I hate to like beat a dead bush, horse, cow. I hate to beat a dead cow. Cows, cow. But like, I really did like that little magic thing I found in, What little magic thing, do you? When we were looting and stuff. Yeah. And like, I've been really worried about you,

and I know how you like to bargain, right? So I thought maybe I could trade you back for what I found. And I have this little parapet of wound closure. And you'd be dying so much, right? And if you wear this and you die, you immediately stabilize on your next turn. And I figured that'd be like a good trade. Do I have to attune to that, Grog?

No. You're lying. It's a big word. I don't really know what you're saying. I really loved it. I mean, it made like a magic sword when I touched it. Grog, and then it gave you a headache. Yeah, but I can deal with a headache. Look, I won't. I just, I found it, you know.

Grog. Oh God. What? This is awful. Come on. No, it's so bad for you. You won't die. You won't die.

It's only because I'm looking out for you. Oh my God. I'm still waiting all over again. This is when people want their boots back, when people want their decks back. Don't compare the boots of that deck. Are you kidding me? It is technically mine. I found it. You did find it. Technically somebody else's you found out of the cat.

You're already a catman. What do you care what he says? Grog, you have to promise me you won't pool anything from it. All you can do is hold on to it. to it. That's all you can do. You can't look at anything. You have to keep it in his little pouch. Okay. I'm not there. I'm not there. Yeah, I don't look at anything. I keep it in his little pouch. I don't pull anything. I promise. So you know in Guardians of the Galaxy when he gives him that little ball at the end? Yeah. Can I do that? Can I give him a pouch? Here's your

Here's your cards back, but don't look at them, Grog. They're really dangerous, all right? You want to trade? Yeah, give me the necklace. Okay, there. I take the cards. Okay. So what are you giving them? A little pouch. A little pouch.

That's the shape of the deck of cards. How do you make the pouch the shape of the cards? It's maybe not that good of a pouch, but it's Grog. What are you giving me? Make a sleight of hand, check with disadvantage. Okay. Oh man. Yeah, everybody saw it immediately, just so you know.

Well, obviously, but it's growing. This is really bad. He's gonna be able to tell. Nine. Go ahead and roll perception check, Groh. Me? You? Well.

Mortal combat. Six. Yes! The trade is complete. She hands you your deck of cards. She takes her parapet of wound closure. Oh my God, I've been so much trouble. I'm so proud of you.

I like to think that there's a live kitten in this couch. If you pull the right card. You saved the party, but your marriage is in jeopardy. I know. At what cost? He's so mad at me. He's so mad. It's really good that he's sitting over at the other table right now.

I'm going to get the wrath of this. I know. We have him. I can feel the heat emanating right now. So feeling satisfied that you're imploring a Vex and the trade you've made, your shiny package of happy cards are back in your possession, but you promised, at the moment at least, to not look at them.

To not look at them. All right. She's right there in front of you, yeah. Wink, wang! Thank you, Vex. You're welcome done. Seriously, though. They're really, really dangerous.

No, I know. They're really special. I won't look at them or anything. It means a lot. I don't find a lot of great things. I did find a couple rocks earlier, if you want like. Oh, they're yours. Okay. Are you sure?

You're not gonna try and steal that shit too? No, I won't. I promise. Okay, cool. Let's go kill a dragon and I jontily and cheerily walk back to the group. He looks happy. What was that about? Oh, he just, um, I just gave him back his cards as all. So happy to be reunited. I'm so proud of you.

Oh, God. All right, so what are the rest of you doing in the meantime? You got a little bit of sweat on your forehead fix? It's such a human jungle. We zoom in on the single-lott drop. I guess we're leading us in, I'm she'll give them. I'm waiting to sculpt a hole in the door. Okay, so using stone shape, you can,

a section of stone number, than five feet any dimension and form it in any shape that suits your purpose. So, you can make a small passage as long as it is no more than five feet thick. The wall and the stone are both thicker than five feet. You can begin to make a slight passage way. You can see, you can create enough of a crack with your spell as it completes. Just mark off your fourth level spell, but as you create it, you do manage to pierce and and you can look into the darkness of the tunnel behind, but through full use of the spell,

you create this kind of tunnel intrusion into the side of this mountain, and you only get that much of opening before. Son of a bitch. No, this is an excellent start. All right, and in Splunker Keyleth mode, I'm looking through the hole with my dark vision. What do I see?

With Panar, please. Keeleith, in the descent. A bitch! Is it? That's a one. What do you see, Kili? You just got James Francoed. It's so fucking dark, you guys.

Wait, oh, can I, how about I try- Oh, oh, oh, no, no, no, 20 days or whatever oceans? No, no. What if we light an arrow, and can I do an Oracle arrow through the hole? I kind of shimmy out and say, Vex, go in the hole. Okay. Okay. All right, so you pull back the arrow, you fire it through.

The arrow, go make an attack roll. I'm getting dead. Natural 20! You fire the Oracle arrow at just the right angle where it doesn't hit any of the walls. It just arcs off straight before it eventually begins to curve. What you do is as you pass along with this arrow with your dark vision, you can see down the tunnel there is no light source.

It is, there is a layer of untouched dust all across. the ground and like an interesting texture, the further in you go. And then eventually about 100 feet or so in, the tunnel begins to curve to the left and descend before the arrow lands and sticks into the rock. They're kind of splintering a little bit, and your vision now sits there with the arrow. There doesn't appear to be any movement.

It is silent in pitch black. Okay. And nothing had walked. It didn't look like there were any tracks. It was just heavy dust. From what you can see, from the arrow rushing past it, yeah. And that gap is just this much? It's about that big. And does it go in like that, like a long tunnel of that,

or is it like, could I reach my arm through? You can meet your arm through, but essentially it's like the edge of the wall of this tunnel, and the rock were kind of jammed together, and she punched through just enough to push past where the rock and the wall had hit, and it created this slight opening, but there's still a bunch of stunter in the way.

Yeah. It's okay, if there's options. A shimmy out. Okay. It's just a tunnel. That's good? Yeah, it's a long tunnel. Our tunnel.

That means we could make a little bit of noise getting in here, maybe. Potentially, right on, I think, has rather good hearing, but if we make a lot of noise, it might echo down. Do we have no way of keeping silent, do we? We don't have any way of, do we want to try. We have. Try like what you said.

I can always, worst case scenario, burn another fourth level. to finish this off. For a doll? You can always do that. You've spent more wrapping a door for. Yes we have. I don't have to spend anything.

I just beat the shit out of the door. You're our last resort at this point. Oh, but you do have siege gutlets, though. Oh, I do, yeah. I actually have those, like no one's taken them from me. Why do you say that right now? How is that relevant to the conversation right now? I just mean like they're mine, you know.

Of course they are. I don't see what that adds to this. They want. They don't work from me, they speak to me on, you know. I've always said as much. Yeah, I've also do. Do you have a relationship with all of your inanimate objects? I try to work on it at night.

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Like, yeah, like a blade of grass can break a block of concrete. What? I'm doing some monk shit, all right? Look at space. Okay. Yeah, a blade of grass can break a stone face. There's no spoon. There is no spoon.

Okay, but no, all right, go with me. Okay, you know how like plants can break stone when they grow through? If I do a druid craft can trip and try and grow some plants through this hole, will it kind of maybe help crack open a bigger hole? Can you fast forward a thousand years? No, creeper.

No, creeper. Okay. No, I was proud of that. Okay, I shimmy back out and I say, no, apparently that takes like a thousand years. Okay. You want to go punch some shit? Hold on for one second.

I know you can move this stone. If it allows you to only move certain parts of it, could you like use the stone that you can shape to effectively carve out a chunk that could be pulled out? like make a very thin, narrow, like just move as much as like a finger's width around,

and then we could pull that out instead of just pushing it all away like clay. I mean, it could be, but so one spell's already been spent. So it would just be another spell to be another spell. But it would work. It would be another spell, but that would be just two to get in as opposed to like endlessly throwing spell after spell at this. Well, Grog has siege gauntlets, so he could potentially do some damage to the rock. But it would be more than a bit of a bill.

One second. Percy, I have a nutball idea that maybe you can turn into a better one. And I pull out. I pull out the oil of etherealness that I've been carrying for ages. The what of wetness? This is goop. You rub it on yourself and you become ethereal for an hour. I was right there with you. But I can't do it. Why?

I'm too, it's not enough to cover me. It's too stressed. It's just won't make its way. Or Pike could do it and could walk through the rock. And then do what? Look around, see if there's anything to... I don't know, that's why I prefaced it with saying it was a shitty idea, and I spoke to the brain

to see if he could come up with something better. We looked for a switch, right? It's a giant rock. It's a boulder. With hand holds on it. It's a fortress of solitaire. Can I look for a switch? Make an investigation check. If I solve this.

Oh my god, it's such a waste of time. If it works. 19. Oh, well, minus. 17. 17. Looking around as they're having this conversation, There's no switches, but you do see finger holes, like big dragon-sized finger holes, like something grabbed

and jammed this boulder in there. And I actually want to kind of take a look around too, because if this is a naturally formed rock, a naturally formed opening, this is not like a cork in a bottle. There has to be some parts that don't fit really smoothly. Have we found the best place to make our incursion, or maybe up on the top? Is there an opening? Is there any...

This can't fit snugly into this unless it's been shaped for that. We have... Oh, we can now get enough of a hole to make a lever and move the boulder out a little bit, get us all in, and then drop it back into place. In theory, we have this hole now that's big enough for, let's say, a magical weapon that can't be destroyed. And we can just apply as much pressure, put a bunch of other people, pushing on the other side and see if we can open it up enough to get in and then let it close behind us.

How would Bigby be in this situation? Bigby would be an upper level spell? I don't want to burn that right now. Grog. Do you want to try and use some of your basic mechanics of physics? Some leveraging? I don't know what that is, but I will assault this stone with the quickness. Do it. Don't assault it. Don't insult or assault it. Don't insult it. Don't insult or assault it. If you could just... There's no joy in either. I know. I know. This one isn't for you, though. Let's try, okay. Who's got a magical weapon?

That's very long. If you can just... Kema? Kema. If you can take Kema's sword, pry open a crack, let us slip in. You ask Kema for the Holy Avenger. I'm not taken out. Well, don't you have the dragon sword? Yeah, no. You ask Kima for her sword. See how that goes.

Kima. Yes. We're thinking about building a sword. building a giant lever. Could you put your sword in that hole and help us pull very, very hard to see if we can move this boulder? Will it damage the sword? In theory, no. In theory. It's a magical sword. Can you break a magical sword with pressure? You ding it, you pay.

That's fair. Oh, I don't think it's... I'm gonna do it. So I'm going to try and build this lever. All of us are going to put pressure in the other direction. We're going to try to put pressure in the other direction. We're going to try to try and have as many of us moving this thing just a couple feet, not far. Yeah. Just far enough to make an opening to get as many of us in as humanly possible. All right, so who's doing the leverage?

Pikes. Probably here. Definitely. Pike. Okay. Well, the size of the sword, at most, it's going to be one person assisting the main person who does it, which would be pike assistant. Grog, Grog.

All right. All right. So as the rest of you guys go to the other side, Grog, I want you to go ahead and roll a strength check. The ninth check. Pike and Grog, Pike and Grog, Pike and Grog. And with advantage because of Pikes' aid on this. That's stature. That's better. 23. 23. Okay. As you guys get on the other side, before you even start getting into position,

Grog already begins to pull back on the sword. You watch his, Kima keeps glancing over his shoulder like, mm-hmm, waiting for it to just snap. But the large rock, the boulder, kind of, begins to shift, ever so slightly you watch this dust and other small pebbles begin clatter down the outside of the rock. You all get on the side and all together as a group. Everyone else makes strength effects. We can use the rod of immobility to brace it if we do. Brilliant. Oh, that's a great job. We have two of them now. Oh, that's such a good idea. We will use it and we have we have holes drilled in the stone by dragon feet. We can just wedge it in there.

Yeah. That's a good call, you guys. Wait, we're all doing a strength tracks? 12. Just straight strength? Straight strength. Straight strength. Straight strength? 17. 16.

All right. Scanlan. Do you want pikes? And Scanlan. To do what? To help profit out? Scanlan rolled a four. Okay.

In character. Okay. So you managed to get about a foot and a half. Drink and a half. 18. Okay. Triggins also pushing as well. There isn't a whole on the surface area here to really aid.

It's more than it's mostly on you grog. And you manage to get about a foot and a half wide before you pull out the removable rods and Kerik. And anybody else wants to help, you manage to jam them into two of the finger holes. And as soon as they lock in, you can release the weapon and the, it's just enough to hold it in place, though it is slowly moving it. Go fast, fast, fast, fast, fast, fast. Each rod can come in. only hold 8,000 pounds.

What? Go, go, go, go, go. Mind you, it's not holding entirely loft. It seems to be holding okay for now. I immediately throw Wispah through the crack and bam through it. Okay. I scoot. You guys all pull through, Kimmer immediately rushes

and grabs the sword. You guys charge into the darkness. Can Trinkie get in or do I need a baffim in the necklace and baffim and you can do that. You probably have to do that. But you guys all do get inside the tunnel. The boulder does appear to be stationary. Should we leave it open or should we take the rods?

We might need to get out in a, I'm going to skush your hand. What a wonderfully convenient way to close, and it also means that the dragon will not be able to open the door. Okay. If it's wedged. It's wedged, shut. She could turn into a person,

and she can also teleport. Let's not forget that. Okay, well, let's just fucking keep walking. Yeah, okay, let's keep going. It'll be fine. All right, just let's remember to pick those up on a way of. Yes.

If there's anybody left to pick them up. You guys now stand in the 15-foot wide, about 12-foot wide, about 12-foot but tall tunnel entrance to this mountainside. As you saw before, the floor itself is a layer of dust. There's a heavy smell of ancient rot and stagnant water in wet earth. The rock walls of the pathway are kind of just rough,

but appear to have been intentionally carved for purpose more than any sort of presentational element of it. There's no wind. There's no movement. of air, everything in here has been, at least in this portion of it, still and untouched for quite some time. As you guys push forward through this tunnel to where it begins to make it slow descent. You guys, all right? Checking, checking, checking. Doo do, do.

Okay. For investigation? Oh, this is investigation. Oh, investigation. Oh, I thought you were stealthing. Oh, was that a stealth role or an investigation? That was an investigation. Yeah. Well, that's what I told. Okay. Yeah. Two. Ducks shit, 11.

Okay. And we'll have to make, we'll say make new stealth checks since you guys have from out of stealth and you're not going back in. Okay. But as you're moving down the curvature of the tunnel, Vax, you notice that there are amongst the dust and pebbles of the floor small pieces and chunks of other material. Most of them very small, maybe, you know, anywhere from like a pebble size to the size of this dye or the size of this dye or a little larger, and they're different than the rock. They're a lighter material and almost porous upon close look

as you kind of take one and look at it. Scanlon and Keyleth, come up here, please. Do you know what that is? You've seen this before, actually, in subterranean place once before, though it was a large fielded at the time. There are a number of scattered shards of bone just kind of scattered and cracked and broken across the floor. Not a very thick map, but just just,

here and there, peppered throughout the walkway. These are dead things. This is bone. Yeah. You also do notice upon looking at a few of them in the ground now having the context, a lot of them look blackened. A lot of them look like they've been charred, burnt.

Hey, Kieleth, when you did the scrying thing, how long did it take to get down in the tunnels? Was it a lot of tunnels before you got to the laboratory? Like in terms of my vision? Yeah. You don't know. It's like you're at this point, and then you're there.

So you have no idea. It's less than a mile down, I know. It kind of rushes past you really fast and it's a little disorienting, I don't know. No traps. No traps at the moment. No. Should we all stealth?

Do you think that these are just here so that people step on them and it makes noise? Are we already stilted? I thought we had to re-rule stealth. We did. Oh, I did. Oh, I did. You didn't. Can I do it? This is some CSI shit.

You guys are going stealth, right? Yeah. Roll your stuff checks, please. 30. 30. Yeah, still plus 10. Oh, that's still good. Okay.

35. 34, and then Scanlon. 30 total. 28. 25 for Pike. Great. Oh, God. Nope, sorry.

Okay, Abe. 18 for Scanlon. Stealth roll? Did you do stealth, Kerak? 29 for me. Great. Awesome. Perfect.

You guys continue progressing down this curving tunnel. It goes into a very, very mild descent. Can I do, I want to do a quick check. This is some like bones type shit. Can I see if these bones were charred recently? Or once again, if these bones have been there for a long time. I know this is like some weird carbon dating shit. Make a nature check on this, actually.

Make a nature. Yeah. at least of how fire against bone, which is... Ooh, that's good, 28. 28. Okay, yeah. So understanding, especially like the pyrra and noticing the difference and just experience of natural animals and creatures that have been cooked

to be eaten and the effect of the fire on the bones that are left behind, these, this bone charring is not as ancient as perhaps, say, the trees that have withered, but they aren't, you know, it's their years old, at the very least, if not longer. Years old, if not longer. Yeah, there's a layer of dust on these bones as well that shows that they have been untouched for a short time.

Okay. But wait, was Thorac here over a year ago? Yeah. Could have been, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, all right. You don't know. He was here for a long time.

He was here before he got the thing, right? Yeah. He made this his layer after. avoiding death from Jamon Saour and Ankurrel, and then recuperated here from what you know, and then kind of made this his domain for a while, and then pressed northwarded Tal'Dorei, which is where... And that's when Elora and her team encountered him is?

Correct. That's when Thorac battled Raichan and began the beginning of the formulation of the conclave. That's when Thorac destroyed by Rodin and, by proxy, their mother. That's when all that went down. While we're quiet here in the dark, I pull Pike over to the sign. Pike? Yes.

I have a bad, uh, will you take care of my sister? You have that one thing that you do. I don't know what it's cold, but if she falls down, she gets back up again. Do you know what I'm talking about? Is that the death ward? It's a thing, I talk to Sarah and Ray,

and then she protects them for a little, bit of time. Would you do that to my system now? Feels a little selfish, but sure. You didn't think of it. I thought of it. I mean, if you want me to do it. I do, I do.

Sure, what? I walk up to me. Okay. Yeah. Can I guess Pike will cast Death Ward on Vex. Okay. Yeah. But that's, okay.

So it's a fourth level spell off pipe. Yep, got it. And for the next eight hours, Vex is death warded. When you brought down to zero, you ping up to one. Okay. Here's the math on it. Okay. Sure.

It's kind of like buying Starbucks with the company Amex. I know. It feels a little weird. I'm not going to lie, but. It's just strategy, man. Uh-huh. Game strategy. Good flight line.

Well, it's done. And my sister. is a little safer than she was before, and y'all go fuck yourselves. So easy when you have the pin code. And cast this one, this one, this one will love me. Wait, wait, Pai's just going to cast it, it's fine. Yeah, it's totally cool.

Out of character, Matt pooped out this new feature to dying, and she's on her last fucking string, man. No regrets. Move forward. To be fair, I'm still toying with it because it's one of the things that I'm kind of adjusting as we go. Well, you said it and the spell is cast. That's not true at all.

You freaked everyone out, Matt. Oh, I can keep it if you want. No, no, no. Don't worry about it. You're literally wearing the creeper shirt. You have to be careful about you say. Ah, God. You do what you want.

It's a role that I'm working with. I may have jumped the gun and releasing it at the time as I'm working on the campaign guy, but one of the resurrection rules, I was deciding the DC. I think five per death is a bit intense, so it might adjust it more to be a two. Just because I was thinking in the long term of campaign, like your character might die a lot more between levels of 1 and 20. Oh, sure. And then it gets a little insane, so I'm working on it. Okay. Listen, I love my sister, okay?

She's still closer to death. We don't want to die. Mind you, she's so close to death. This is the one world work. She's prone. Just to ask a little bit, as we're going down here, I don't know how everyone else is geared up, but I'm kind of vanilla human here and not that equipped to see in the dark. Yeah, in fact, currently Percival and Carrick are blind.

Oh. Like pitch black blood. Wait, light your little dagger up. All right. And actually, you probably just hear Carrick say, I am sorry, but at this point, I can't see. Who's so? Oh.

I pull out the, well, I'm always holding two. And one of them is I pull out the flame tongue dagger. And I wave a fly away. This fucking nat. And then I hold it so that carrot can see. No, okay. No way. We might die.

So try it one more time with me. Irish wristwatch. Just once more before we die. I dreamed about this last night. It's a tough one. It's a hard. It's a really hard one. Irish.

Yes! Yes! Irish wristwatch. Yes! There you go. There you go. Well done. Okay.

I feel so much closer to you now. Let's fucking do this. Okay. The dagger, which emits flame on it, is the equivalent of a candle. Yes. So it helps, he can see about 15 feet beyond you, and that's it. Well, actually, what I'll say, as soon as I say, are we okay with light, or are we trying to keep it as dark as possible? Because...

Too late now. A little bit of light. There's a candle. There is now a candle light, a flame licking the edge of the blade that is being held a lot. So light is being shed now in the tunnel. There's not a lot. You know, we can put that out and they could just like grab onto each one of my arms.

Yeah, I could, I go and find Percy. Okay. And I link arms. Oh, geez. Hey, Kerr, you want to cuddle? Actually, yes. Yes. Hey, back, put that light out.

All right, so Kerik, there's a moment of quiet in stillness in the darkness as you feel the ground beneath you shift ever so slightly. Boom, boom. Heavy footfalls approaching you as suddenly a large, muscled, somewhat sweaty arm just curls around the outside of your shoulders and pulls you close to Grog's torso.

Lucky, though. It is one of the most comforting things I have ever experienced. It's like hugging the stom and messy land. I love it, I love it. We're about to die. No, no, no. Okay, I kind of guide Percy as we go through.

So you guys making your way down this slow grade beneath. Still looking. Okay. Being stealthy as fuck. Yes, you make incremental checks as we go. Eventually as the grade continues downward, you begin to see the hallway open up ever so slightly, and what was once just kind of somewhat rough rock walls, begin having slight shapes or details to them. It's still hard to see. Dark Vision is,

you know, you still need a little light to make out like fine details or things at a distance, but it does help you at least make out the basic shapes and things ahead of you. You look and see what appear to be small shelves or alcoves that are now beginning to show up every 20 or so feet as you progress down. Shelds or alcoves? Like little bits of rock that jump out. Okay. That look like they're either bowels bolted in or crafted on top of it. And you see small little cubbies almost, little outcoves that are kind of put into the rock as well. Hold your little dagger up to it. I'm going to see what it is.

You sure? Yeah. Okay. Make perception check. Pretty good. That is 29. Okay. You kind of glance in the first one to your immediate right, which is a small shelf outward, and you see what appear to be a number of dust-covered cluster of candles. that have long burn and melted into dripping wax that pours down the side of this alcove. That's it on that particular shelf.

Careful. Maybe keep it out and just keep an eye out. It's hard to see down here. We can look at these after. No, I just, I mean for traps. Okay, so you're starting for traps now? Constantly. Okay.

Go ahead and make another investigation check with the disadvantage. Okay. Because it's dark. See, if you pulled your dagger out, it wouldn't be so bad. Good suggestion. Still a disabonage? If his dagger's out? I'm gonna double check here.

It's kind of a frustratingly broken ability in some cases if it's just a universal thing here. I'm gonna pull out the flying carpet. Mm-hmm. I'm gonna walk over to. So you can see in dim light within 60 feet of view as if we're a bright light and in darkness as if it were dim light.

So you have about 15 feet that you can kind of see. out in front of you in straight darkness. If you have your dagger out, you can see pretty decently for 60 feet, is how it works. But if it's gone, I can see 15 feet at it? You can see kind of shitty in 15 feet, like as if you have shuddle out. All right, all right.

I'm going to give the, oh. So regular checks if the dagger's out. Correct. For at least 60 feet for you. And this is investigation 18. Okay. Nothing seems to catch your attention. As you continue pushing forward, you see more and more of these shelves. Are you looking at each one as you go?

Yeah, right now I am. Okay, as you glance past, another perception check. Hey, Grog. Brood. So you have this flying carpet? 22. 22. Okay. You can see on the left shelf it appears to be a humanoid skull that's up on top next to two more candles, one of them more melted than the other, but the other.

the wax kind of drips past. There's a shelf across the way, on the opposite side, that appears to have a couple of small books that are put up at the side and looks like a small wooden box. Is the box trapped? The one investigation chip. That is a 22. The box does not appear trapped for what you can tell. Nah, fuck it. Put it in the bag of holding.

I don't. Okay. Continue walking? Mm-hmm. Looking for traps. Okay. Come back. The, as you continue keeping your eye out in front of you, the next shelf comes across

looks to have some sort of a mummified raccoon-type creature that is kind of propped up. Not taxidermine by any means. It just looks like it's dried out. It dried out in a sort of standing position or at least is leaning against the wall on the platform. Oh, like some weird Pompeii shit? Kind of. that way? Like, I literally have a friend who has that on this wall.

Groke, would you be able to use a flying carpet in battle to get up to a dragon? I've no idea. It could be useful. Kerrick, do you have something want to say? Yeah, I'm just going to, you know, blind as a bat as I am, I'm going to use divine sense to see if I can sense any undead, smart. Correct. There's kind of a long list.

I do know corrupt was mentioned in there. It's a road date. In there. If you were the titles of those books? For the specifics. He, earpiece, listening to your vague description of things. I assume that we're using our ear pieces of appropriate thing. Thank you for retcombe.

Okay. Yeah. Thank you for reconna. I would have read them if I could have. And I would have asked if I heard you. I'm not Grog. Grog would have read them. He just would have made up words.

You do sense. Do sense that there is some sort of an undead presence in your vicinity care, though you do not quite know what its nature is or its direction, there is something undead near you. Oh, Jesus. She didn't bring Thorac back, did she? Sure, she did.

We're gonna fight an undead dragon. Do I get a sense of like, is it just, yes, it is present, I don't get any sense of direction or intense? I'm assuming this isn't my first rodeo, like everybody bumps into skeletons early in their career. Correct. I would say it does not appear to be any extreme, yeah, it does not appear to be of like an extremely powerful undead presence. You can't tell of size of direction by any means, but it's not like all of a sudden there's a litch ahead of you or some massive, you know, arrival of orcus. You just sense something around you that is an undead energy.

undead energy. A giant's like how close around us. Can you sense that? I mean this could be crypt shit on the sides. I'm going to focus a little more on the ground. Okay. You guys all continue moving forward? I did ask about the books.

He asked me to the apiece what the books said. Could I read them when I saw them? Are they? What language is here? Common, elvish and abyss? You do not know of the title of the books. Titer Buns in 30 days. It's the only title I saw.

Sorry. I'm sorry. Okay. Looking for traps. All right. Roll another investigation. 25, okay. You continue to push forward.

There is no trap set. You do look ahead and see what appears to be the pathway is now showing stonework at times, almost like there are slabs. Elements of a tunnel that was once better constructed than one exists, but is either eroded away or elements of small collapse have kind of covered what was once a very, very ancient form of architecture. As a precaution, I'm going to, as much as I can, stay to the stuff that looks natural or fucked up and not civilized.

Okay. Oh, hold on. So I'm sorry. I just found my specific description. It does say I sense type and location. It does say that. I'm totally missed that. So long as it's not behind total cover. Gotcha. Okay. Then you sense there is something. You know it's from one of the wall areas, but you cannot see, and your one single bit of light source is ahead of you in the tunnel. But you do sense there, one point as you're walking, it is to the left of you. Okay. I say there is an unclean thing here. Well, fuck, I'm sorry. It's just not a priority to be. I mean, I'll put my arm down off his shoulder,

I grant him at least that. It's not you, there's some undead thing here. And I say it's off to the left, to my left. Oh. Left end of the time. But I don't know what's around here. Can we see anything on the walls that looks like a door or anything? Are you stopping?

You two are moving ahead of everyone else. You guys are probably going to good 15, 20 feet ahead. Do you want to move back with them? No, no, no. If Grog can check it out. Can I look to the left just off him saying that because of the belt of dwarven kind, I have dark vision? You do. I glance off to the left, you can see upon that shelf unit there. There are the two candles and the singular skull set on the shelf.

The skull. Don't fucking touch the school. I start to slowly make my way over to the skull. Okay. God's damn it. Carrick, you feel Grogg to slowly step in the direction that you've pointed out to him. Is this the direction? Yes. Are we getting warmer? Yes, it is, it's over there.

Okay. I'm not bringing my hammer out, but my hammer is ready. Okay. What does the skull look like? It looks like a human skull. Anything shiny about it or jewel? No, it looks kind of dust covered. You can see what looks to be, the bone itself appears to have a hint of black

and soot or some sort of a darker color to it. Like it's been slightly singed. Candles look like candles? Candles look like mostly melted candles. Kurt, I hate to rain on your parade, but I only see two candles in like a human skull up here. Partial undead thing, do I know, again, obviously nothing is trying to like eat our faces off here,

but can you turn an undead thing into just like a watcher or a trap? or a spy or a trigger. Make an intelligence, or make a religion check. Make a religion check. No, it could be watching through the skull. Care bear. Your brilliant care.

You know, that's about a 12. Okay. Not my best. Best that you can understand is, you know, undead magic can raise dead, it can control dead. You have heard stories of undead or the use of them being more situational, as opposed to just roaming zombies, but that's as much as you can call off top of your head. It's been a while since you've been adventuring. It could be a century.

The specific stories are a little too foggy. Security campus. Yeah, it could be a security camera. Is there anything past? Actually, I say, give me the skull, and I'm just reaching out blindly in his direction. All right, I grab the skull and headed to. Okay. Okay.

And then I'll use Divine Sense again. Is it this? It is. The skull is the source of the energy. It is not currently moving, reacting, or having any sort of smash it. Sort of reaction being held by you. I say, anybody mind if I wrecked this thing?

No, I do not mind at all. Not mind at all. Thank God there's someone else in this world with my sort of thinking. What are you doing back there? Rick what? If it's a spy, yeah. Hold on, I grab my earring and I say, care found a human skull that has some undead vibes vibrating out of it. Okay. Yeah. But it's not doing anything. Do you mind if we destroy it? He's already holding it? Yeah. Well, I mean, anything's gonna happen, we're probably fucked already, so I don't know. Actually, where's Kima?

Actually, yeah, it's a good point. What is your guys marching order, by the way? Like who, I know the... Twins are in the front. Twins are in the front. Oh, good. Don, I think it's you and you and care and then me and me and... I think the Twosier and Keeleith and Kerr. Grog and Kerr.

Keelith and Percy. Keeleith and Percy. Ash and Scanlan. Ashen Scanlan after that. Puygens, yeah. Yeah. It's fair. Do you have Trinket in your, out of the necklace, right?

Out of the necklace. And then probably Akema and Lura back with Trinket in the back. So they're kind of holding up the rear and keeping an eye behind as they go. I think destroying it might trigger it? I mean, okay. I'm kind of for leaving things alone as we go through here, Percival. I mean, we can leave it alone. Are you with Grog?

What if we just turn? I could do sacred flame on it and it would do radiant damage to it. What if we turn and just face the skull so it's looking into the corner? Sure. I mean, I think it's not looking at us. Dicking with it in the first place might have already ruined us, but yeah, let's just set it down, turn it around. They're like worried we're gonna like kill ourselves.

Can you just put it back but face it towards the wall like it's in timeout? Sure. I'll, everybody got a spare sack, I'll stuff it in the sack and point it towards the wall. Nice. Okay, so you pull out the extra, kind of a heavy burlap sack. You throw the skull in there, tie it, tie it, tot, and set it back up on the shelf facing away from where you're standing. Underestimate the power of burlap. We should have come down in the tunnel wearing like panty hose on our head, so Rush out of known.

Next time, just thought it was a college prank. That's a brilliant idea. Yeah, we should totally invest in those little panty hose eggs. Delta Lambda again. Again, sneaking in. Every time. I don't know about that to say that correctly either. Continuing onward,

they're watching going into the next length of the tunnel about another 50 feet or so. Trap, drop, drop, drop, drop. The room opens up and you can see that stonework eventually takes the entire floor. And the chamber opens up into what looks to be almost like a hexagonal shaped chamber that ends at a large, iron door. It fills the entirety of the chamber and it seals off any progression

from that point. Vexagonal. Make a perception check. Okay. What? It was a vexagonal. It was a vexagonal. Vexagonal. Should I make a perception check too since I'm up near him? Sure. Twenty-two. But it's not, it was a fifteen.

Okay. That, never mind. So a fifteen total? Yeah. Okay. As you glance you can see in the center of this chamber, there looks to be Okay, yeah. There stands a pillar of dark green marble, about 10 feet, 15 feet away from where the iron door is. And what looks to be a roughly forged bowl of iron that is imperfect and is bolted to the top of this pillar. On the top or out the side of the top? Like resting on top of it. It's about maybe, say, five, six feet up. And there is a platform that leads up to it. Maybe if you were standing onto the little kind of dyes around it,

it'd be about chest-tight to you. How tall is this chamber completely? The chamber's whole height would be about 25 feet. 25 feet. You also see off to the right what appears to be another shelf that contains a very, very large leather-bound tome, and it looks to be a cold iron brazier that is unburnt, but has a bunch of dry tinder in it. Oh, God. Oh, come here, come here. What? There's a tradition of using a fire to.

There's some shit. There's some ingredients in that ready to go. There's ingredients? Yeah, there's something in that Brazier over there that she hasn't burned yet. Can I get a little light in here just for a second? I'm holding. Okay, we have back.

Oh, I can do light. A tiny bit of candle light. You can see about 10, 15 feet around backs. Okay, so I can't see the mechanism on the door. And you do not even know there's a door there. Okay, that's fair. For the best, it would just get me.

I mean, would it be helpful if everyone could see? Take a look around. No one else is in this room, yeah? We're just coming into it. As you approach, the half-elves with dark vision kind of do like a little. You can't make perception checks. You do it. I'll do that, and I'm also going to do divine sense here at the gate.

Don't fuck me, Gil. This isn't. Oh, thanks, Gill. That's not bad. Perception? Yes. Right? 26.

60. Okay. There does not appear to be anybody else in this chamber with you, and from your divine sense, you do not sense any undead within 60 feet of you right now. I'm sitting there. Can I look for invisible dragons? No, okay. Within 60 feet?

Wait, what? So light? Yeah. Should we light it up? Nothing within 60 feet about it? Wait, one second. He doesn't sense any undead within 60 Peter. That's the range of his...

Right. How far from the gate to the far side of the room? This is the first question. Well, the doorway you mean? I'm at a gate and you... That leads... that blocks us from going in? Is that correct? No, you're entering this chamber and then the opposite side of the room,

there is a large iron door that prevents you from progressing beyond that doorway. In between you and that door, there is that kind of raised platform, the pillar, and the iron bowl. And then to the right and against the wall, there is the... the brazier and the plaf, the shelf with the singular tome. Does it look like how when we enter the chamber, that it looks like a door would come down or something when it opened up into a chamber? Is there a gap, like a crack that something could slide down out of

right above where we are? Like this will turn into a good desk chamber? Glancing up based on your perception rolls, you don't see anything that would dictate any sort of exit or entrance way from the ceiling. And in addition to everything we see, do we see Levers, do we see panels? Do we see anything on the walls in this room? No, there's standard stone, old stone mason. You can see chunks that have broken off and just fallen over the years.

There's a couple of small cave-in areas where it looks like rocks have just stumbled in as the general shifting of the island has caused elements to fall loose and tumble in. Kielaith is going to go ahead and light up her fire hands. Okay. Oh, thank gold. That gives a bigger radius, a comparable torch light to Kieleth. And now, Kerik and Percival, you guys can both have a much better view of the room. You can see now this iron bowl on top of this pillar in the center. You can just make out the large iron kind of wall or door on the opposite side, and a little bit of that, the brazier and the tone.

Do I recommend, I've built a firelock mechanism for a door before. Would I recognize this as being a set of fire in a bowl and that might open the door? Make an intelligence check. I built one for the Raven Queen Temple. Go Percy, go Percy, go. Intelligence sex? Yes. That's, with my new intelligence level, that's a 19.

19. Best you can glance here, I mean it's possible, but it's possible, but, you can glance, but, you can, you can glance here. This. It's magic. You don't know. It's, it's, the room itself is ancient. The construction, there is nothing that appears to be mechanically attached. So if it did, it would be a magical. Possibly, yeah.

If that was. Yeah, there's no chain, a pulley system visible at all. The doors, and where the door hits the seam of the room, it looks very smooth. Can I go and look in the bowl, the bowl in the middle of the room and just, like, look and see if there's a residue of anything in it? Sure. I will just say that when the lights came up, Carrick kind of, you know, he'd been leaning into Grogh, maybe more than was entirely appropriate or well-looking him.

He kind of stood up a little better, like on his own. Right. Luckily no one saw you because of that ring. Oh, yeah. 26. Okay. As you look down into the bowl, you can make a bit more. You can make out what looks to be a very, very faint, long-dried residue, just at the very, very bottom of it. Some sort of a liquid that was once in there that has since just dried up entirely and left this very, very faint, just a slight shift in texture other than the hammered iron.

No color change or anything on it? No color change on it. Not that you can really tell, no. You're just looking into this dark bowl with a little bit of light source. Well, I don't know. Should I touch it? Do you have something sharp to just scrape some off and let's taste it? I'm like a stick. While she's doing that, I'm just going to quietly extend my wings now.

Okay. Your wings activating my boots. Oh yeah, I get out like a lock pick and scrape it to see if I can. Oh, shit. They're pretty cool, aren't they? They take up a lot of room, though, so they do. No, they don't. They go out and they can go slend him to my back. Yeah, as they're having this conversation, you're looking and watching as this small half-alf rogue that you've had a few encounters with suddenly just sends this pair of large, just, you know, jet black, raven-like wings that fire from his shoulder blades and slowly fold behind him.

They don't work, he just does that to be an asshole. I don't know my shirt. Soul of cosplay prop. It's just, yeah. It's all it is. Possible to get an animator. It strikes a bit of a figure, doesn't he? No, it's very attractive. It's very obnoxious at Labrature. I heard first of all say that.

Get it. Scratch, scratch, scrape, scrape. You scraping the... Yeah, just to see what the residue is. Okay, it scrapes up. It creates like a small, almost like a dried powder type substance. Uh-huh. Can I?

What color is it? It's like a dark burgundy. This is fucking blood. Can I taste it? Yeah, it has kind of an iron-like. Does it taste like? Oh, it's so blood. Oh, you're so right.

Maybe we just bleed into this bowl and the door will open. Tempting. It's necromancy? Mm-hmm. Jesus. How much? How much? Interesting.

Do we recognize the architecture of the door, And also I want to take a look at that book. What is the book's language? What does it look like? I'm not picking it up yet. Yeah, don't touch the book, Percy. Okay. The leather tome, which is kind of lean up against it.

It has no text on the cover and no text on the spine, but it is big. It's about that big. No. So it's like a to tomb. No. No. Groggy, you want to go over and check it out?

Yes. Okay. It appears to be a thick leather. It's hard to tell on this light if it was made from tanned hide or tanned flesh. But it is old. As we're watching Grog, I just lean over and say, you know you're criticizing the size of my wings.

You are walking around with a Persian rug, a broom, and a long bow strapped to your back. You know, I've tried to give this rug to someone else, but Grog didn't want to take it. And then I come up and I say, Can I pet your wings? I've never pet them before. There's things going on in this room.

You hear this heavy sigh from Allura behind you, She's like, ah. I'm just, this is my first time actually adventuring with you. I'm sorry. This is our method. We're going to see if we put the PDA in the bowl. We'll see if that'll open the door. Don't get me wrong.

It just reminds me of my old days as an adventurer and I forgot just how ridiculous we were. So. Is there still like Tinder under the brazier? He's rolled. There's like the iron brazier and there's a lot of dried inside there, yeah. Well, we do have samples of blood in theory in the bag of cooling.

We've got dragon blood. I'm going to get out a file of dragon blood. Oh, geez. You've caused a feedback. Here she comes. She's coming. We are spinal tap. What is it?

I'm sorry. I put the dragon blood away. Are there any holes up in the ceiling that I can see like there were in the last game? I have the seriousness. There we got it. Did you not appear to be any holes in this area? No. Okay. What should I do?

I've also got other kinds of blood. Let me see what kind of blood I've got. Is the book trapped? Have a look. Is Kimling? 24. 24? Yeah.

Okay. Looking at the book, are you like taking it off the shelf? No, I'm looking at it, man. Looking at it. It looks like it is just resting against the wall. The shelf unit is not trapped. The book itself does not appear to have any sort of connection to the wall. You can see the pages.

themselves are weathered, old, stained, but intact. Is anyone near me? Currently, I mean, Percival's like a step or two behind you. I'm like holding onto the wing. I push back slowly with my wings. Just get like 15, 20 behind me. It's not that big of that. I'm gonna bring it to you.

I'm gonna try to take this fucking book off, okay? I'm gonna go down, I don't want you to go down as well, all right? Are you about to die right now? Back. Oh. Vax. Back, Simmons. Hi.

Mm. I love you. I know your name on my good days. Grab it. Grab it. Grab it. Grab it. I take, I get back about 10 feet, and I take my wing, and I scooch it on the show.

Oh, wait, you know what? As you're saying this, the book. Perfect. and hits the ground and kind of scatters open. Oh, it's open? It's a fucking book. It opened? Oh no, someone knocked it over.

What's it? Okay, so you take the dagger and you kind of place it over there. You don't recognize the text, and you try and focus on it too, and you don't recognize it either. The more you look at the text, the text gets smaller and smaller and smaller until it's been microscopic. It just looks like just a mess of symbols and details. It's weird. It's almost like as you get closer, the perspective keeps shifting away from you. where you cannot actually make out or read the text in the book.

How's it feel? Yeah. I'm going to flip, gently, with a gloved hand, flipped a couple pages just to see if it's just text, text, if there's any. As of right now, it looks like there is just text as you go through, and every page seems to have the same sort of reaction where the, as your eyes try and focus in the low light,

you know the text just gets smaller and smaller and just avoid comprehension. I'm going to flip to the front really quickly as you know as a title. There is a title, and as you look at it, the title itself seems to be blurred and obscured and begins to shrink as well. It's like trying to put on a pair of reading glasses that won't focus. I know that feeling. Laura, will you have a look at this? All right, she comes up and just looking at. Kerak, what are you doing? I'll actually bring out my hammer. And assuming that I can kind of get close to the book as well.

Yeah, you guys kind of gather around it. It does the same thing for me? As you get close and look, yes. The same thing, your vision doesn't seem to focus in the text. The pages seem to just hide from. Are we okay with more light? Yeah. Kind of looking around. At this point.

Okay, and then I'll effectively, I'll activate the hammer. Okay, you guys, as he holds his war hammer in front of him, you watch as the head of it, the spike in the back and the front. There is no head. It's just kind of a bar of iron that he has. Yeah. Until he holds it up and then the head of it kind of comes into being as just like an artifact of radiant light.

Oh, that's cool. Oh, is like a awesome movie? So what would have been the back of the hammer, the front of it, is, like I said, missing entirely, and it just blazes forth with radiant energy, like a giant glowing, metallic end of a weapon. I also like to think that it makes a noise like a lightsaber, but that's just... No, I got as it happens. Nice, nice.

The room is now much brighter, and you can see kind of the details of the stonework around you. The mustiness seems to almost back away instinctually from the radiant light itself. It almost warms the air in its vicinity. It smells like strawberries. That's me. Some very weird strawberries, probably. He's very special ones. And as the light hits the pages, the pages go almost blank. The text just shrinks.

away to the point where it looks like there's just tiny, tiny dots. I think I've solved this. What? Let's extinguish all the lights, and someone with low light vision has to read it. Okay. Grog? Yep. That's...

No. That's fine. That's not funny. Sure, yeah. Extinguish all the lights. I want to go over and see if I can read it. Yeah, give it a vex. Snip off the hammer.

Okay. The head of the war hammer just flickers outward, leaving just the handle behind. I wasn't very little. You go ahead and look at it, and the text is more legible there on the page, but it's still blurred to your vision. I think I need glasses. This is blurry. Do we have anybody with perfect night vision? Perfect night vision? 20 night vision?

Well, I can't see a thing. I look nothing for you? No, it's blurry. It's still blurry. I look over Vex's shoulder, maybe, I don't know, anything. I know Prime Warrior? Same circumstance. It might be the way too nice. Yeah.

Maybe if you put something in the pot and set it on fire by that light, you'll be the Scandland goes up and looks at it. What's Scudgingly. Crudgingly. Scalland and Glendon says, oh, it's fine to me. I know your problem is. Oh, really? This is fucking...

No, I have no idea what's on the pages. I'm just messing with it. Sorry, guys. I thought we figured something out. That's actually a really good idea. Dear Grog, maybe we should light the brazier. We should light the brazier. That or we raid the cabinets we passed.

Alura, who's the, you're wanting to light the brazier with your hand? Oh, I don't know. Who's doing what? I was lighting my hand. I can do it. Bring light back. What's what? We're bringing the light back.

Okay, so the room fills with light once more. Carrick, you can bring your hammer back if you'd like. We're basically all running around the room in circles. Yeah, I guess it's just charging around. Are we going to light this brazier? Yes. Keyleth goes up and just sticks her flaming hand right down into the middle of the brazier. Okay. Your hand hits the top of the kindling, at which point the wood catches, and there's a slight flash as the extremely explosive materials that were within the brazier detonate.

Oh. causing Percival, Allura Vax and Vax, who are also reading the book nearby to all have to make a dexterity saving throw. As a sudden, It explodes with the force. Do I make a dexterity save as well? You don't make it. You just take the damage since you were around zero. Yeah, that's fair. God damn it. To be fair, I was right next to the book as well. That's right. So you go ahead and make a dexterity saving throw as well, Kerik.

That'll do. 22. 24. Okay. 16 and a luck blown. Okay. Kerak, what did you get? Evasion, though.

You have three. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Everyone but Kerrick made the saving throw. And it will.

So Kerrick and Keelith, you both take 32 points of fire damage. Oh. That's fine. The rest of you take 16. 32. That's why that blows my 15 points, which leads me with 12. I start breakdancing and doing the worm underneath the bottom. One of six.

Geez, all right. The luck wasn't blown because the other role wasn't one. Oh, so there you go. Did you see that? I did, but everything's like really right now. Your ears are ringing from the blast of the impact. The brazener just, all the metal is just bent outward and ruined. Yeah, I've just got the let up shades of a bunch of people going like that.

As Kila turns around, you can see just her hair's kind of blown back a bit. Shit. That's like an old cartoon character. This has happened to me dozens of times. That was awesome. If Rajon didn't hear us before, she potentially heard us now. Well, at least now we don't have to try and stealth anymore. Let's, uh...

Is the door open? I'm sorry if I'm speaking loudly. No. No. The door is not open. The door is not open. We need blood. God, damn it.

The book's fine, I assume. The book's fine, I assume? The book has burned entirely. Okay, good to know. It is destroyed. That's awesome. Is it? Who cares about books?

And you see Alura, who also, who made the save, took some damage, is often back, is kind of chuckling to herself and goes, well, I think now we know the purpose of the book. What? That dick book. No fucking way. That's, is that it? It was a trap? It was well played and

Curse beyond the one who thought that up. Pour some blood into this bowl and see what happened. Do I recognize the smell of whatever they used to ignite that, or is it more mystical in nature? It was a sort of mixture of extremely flammable liquids. It was not a black powder basis. Okay, I was just curious. Yeah, no, it was not.

All right. Well, let's try and pour some of the dragon blood into the bowl and see if that does it. Does what? Opens the door. Opens the door. Let's blow a vial, see what happens. Dragon blood. It's so expensive. Can we just knock it down?

No, what else is... I have bascalisque blood, black dragon blood and white dragon blood. Let's try bascalists and work our way up. They're like 7,000 gold each. Yeah, I know. That's why basilisk is better. One basilisk, bye. Okay. So as you kind of uncork and let it flow into thick, kind of syrupy it hits and pools,

A moment passes, two moments, nothing. Fuck. I pull out my opal dagger and just cut my hand and drip it in. Okay. The baseless blood that's still in there, you kind of bleed into the baseless blood and it kind of just pulls in the center of it and you watch the blood that you just drop

gets pulled beneath the surface of the baseless blood out of sight. Creepy. Is the door opening? From the few drops of blood that you've got it, put in there, it is not open. It's like a kill-something sort of situation. I think of, kind of like reaching out and like, like, dun, don't do. There's a lot of things in the world that shouldn't have your blood.

Oh, well, shit. Especially something clever enough to lay a trap like that. It might be clever enough to trick a bunch of people into handing over blood. How far is it to the door? From the pillar, about 15 feet? I'll walk over to the door. Okay.

I'm going to go with grog. Punch it. Do we just, can I? Yeah. Do you mind? You guys work on your thing, I'm going to work on another thing. I'm going to go over to those other shelves. I'm going to see what the fuck is up there.

I go with Percy. I do that. Sorry, I'm starting the shelves. I'm going to go to the other shelves. I'm going to take a look at those books. The door begins to shift. shift. There's a slight shaking sensation as the bowl itself begins to glow and the Basics blood begins to sizzle and burn away, almost like it's being pushed to the outer edges of the bowl with just the singular drops from your blood kind of resting in the

center. The room begins to shake a bit and you watch his dust. That had been, you know, long side of the ceiling kind of begins to slightly cascade from above you. The metallic door lifts up and reveals the opposite. It's open? It's open. Never mind. You do take a point of damage from the blood that you lost. Okay.

No, not even kidding. So you guys are just like just started to push out of the room, at which point you begin to hear laughter. Oh, fuck. Cackling. Multiple sources laughter. And you watch as down in the distance on each side of the hallway, from where you came and where you're going.

These little sources of light suddenly spark up. Pike immediately casts. No, no, no, not that. She casts the other thing. Shouldn't she? It's on bed. Holy aura. Holy aura? All of us.

Okay, what does that do? I wrote it all down. Hold on, hold on. It is within a 30-foot radius where everybody is. It sheds a five-foot radius of light on everyone. Everybody gets advantage on saving throws. Enemies who are attacking have disadvantage on everyone. Feans and undead who do melee attacks

have to make a constitution save or be blinded. Okay. Holy shit. All right. So, yeah, that's on yourself, and it creates a 30-foot radius around you. We all hugged a pike. Yeah.

As you guys all see these sources of light hovering towards you, towards you the cackling getting louder and louder from the source just out of view, Pike grabs her holy symbol and slams her hand down under the stonework in the center by where the pillar, as it hits, there's a Tz-ZZZZZOVSound as the vibrations from her impact kind of shift through the ground. You feel the ground itself grow warm with radiant energy as a giant circle of ancient, radiant ruins begin to connect, intersect, and within that circle, you all kind of rush in, and as you do, you feel the warmth of that protection come over you.

As you all kind of gather with your weapons at the ready, you see now the sources of light as roughly four floating, flame-wreaths skulls come rocketing in from each two from each side of the hallway, cackling along the way. And we're going to take a break. Oh! What? Flaming- Sculls?

Flaming-wreath? Flaming-wreath? Scoles. Yes. Just floating towards you. towards you. You get the sense that one of these may have at one point been contained within a bag. Guys, it's fine. My 10-year-old son destroyed one of these recently. We're going to be fine.

You have a firecracker outside. All right, so we'll be back here in a few minutes. We're going to go ahead and take a restroom break. And we'll see where this next chapter is. Welcome back, everyone, to Critical Roll. Back from break, the party just found themselves immediately surrounded by large floating flaming skulls in the center of this hallway going towards Sacramencer's sanctum. I need you all to roll initiative, please. Who? Get it right up, Rock. Get it on. Get right under Detroit, Rock City.

It's the Kiss Army. Damn it. Hold on. Let's do it on there. While they're rolling their initiatives, we had a winner in the chat room for a wormwood, Zeberwood Complete Dice Tower system right here, as well as the awesome one thing from Wormwood here. They have a nice of leather band as well. The winner is Hartman underscore, by the way. Congratulations, Harman underscore. I think you have Zeeberwood. Zeberwood is, I believe, is the one that I...

It's quite delightful. So congratulations. We'll get this to you, ASAP. That might be... All righty. So, getting initiative scores here from people. 25 to 20. Oh, wait, we're rolling initiative?

Yes. Jesus. Fuck me. That's cocked. Oh, that's awful. Because you have one. Natural 20. It is.

All right, so. Why can't I have these when it really makes sense? 25 to 20. 22 total. So 22. 21. 22 for Scanlan. Whoa.

Scan's always a real. You rolled a natural 20. Me and Scanlan, Nat 20 brothers. For Scanlan who's out here. That's awesome. So back and Scalindler at the top. Crying gaming me? You don't know.

All right. You're not right. All right, 20 to 15. 16. 17. 17. Percy. Hux.

Hugs. 15 to 10. Me. 14. All right. Just out of curiosity, do you allow people to delay their action to act later in the turn? You can hold an action, meaning you still take your turn, you still move, but you can hold your action for a trigger. Okay. Like, I will hold my action to attack if something comes in range, or I can hold my action to cast a spell when a certain creature does something. But you still take your turn. You don't move the turn order. What pike roll?

Pike rolled a nine. What a pike at the end? Kerrick, what'd you get? A one. Oh, no. Oh, Kerr. Number one. Number one. Pike? Nine. Who rolled one?

Care. It's okay. You inked her down there. We still like you. All right, so. The term is Anchorman. That was the other one of the end. I like it. All righty. So at the top of the round, as these skulls, are beginning to find their way in towards the cavern towards you, as you've all circled around Pike in the center of this chamber here. I would like Scanlan and Vax to go first.

All right. After you, Scanman. I'm going to turn in, is, I can turn myself invisible. It's a level three spell. You can. I'm going to turn invisible and back up against the northern wall in the corner and see if the skulls notice. Okay. So Scamlin is going to go Invisible, and then back up here. It's the second level as well. Alrighty, second level. And I'm going to hold my action to see if, until I find out whether or not. Oh, invisible is my action.

Invisible, casting the spell is your action. Is my action. All right, I'm going to back up and yeah. Okay. So you're back up against the wall there. Yeah. Okay. So that's your turn. Vax. Can you point to where I am in that scrum?

You were right there. I'm going to move to the opposite wall that Scanlon just went to. So over here? Yeah, and I'll fly ten feet in the air. I'm winged, so I'll be ten feet in the air as well. Okay, I'll put you up on here. And I'm going to huck a pair of daggers at, I hope this right way, the one on this side that's closest to you.

Right here. Yeah. Okay, go for it. Oop, that's shit. And then the second one. And the second one. Well, that was a 14. Don't ride it off. It was 15 that first one.

That's true. It was a 15 and a 23. Both hit. E! 15. I flung shit. All right, so first one is with Whisper. That is 4 plus 8 is 12, plus psychic damage, which is 19 for the first hit.

And from the Venom dagger that I'm throwing next, that is 4 plus 6 is 6. 10 total. So 19 points of damage total. Awesome. Yes. All right. That's the end of my turn. All right. That brings us to Keyless. Oh dear God, and you're going to say that. Hang on, hang on. I'm looking up the parameters of the spell. NBC L-M-M-O-M. What happens when he hit him with those daggers? Hmm? As both these daggers slam into the skull, you watch as the flames themselves that are kind of wreathing around them, the skull just ducks out of the way, but the blitzes out of the way, but the blitzes It still catches and scrapes across the side of the bone,

and it kind of has to right itself, but then it gets right back into the place it was. It's taking damage, and you can see portions of the bone are starting to crack and break, but it's still, you know, still holding itself aloft. Did it his little jawbone go, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, not yet, it's not his turn yet. It doesn't sound like a bill door?

It's an action, the chatter. I'll get you, he, man. You boob? You boob? You boob. You boop. And he prays. Oh my God, do I appreciate.

Anyway, um... Oh, internet. Never change. Oh, Lord. For a revolution. Is that you doing for your action, Keyleth? Huh? She's singing.

No. I got inspired? No. What are you doing on your turn? Okay. Did you stick on in your ears during the break? Sorry, I got... It's okay.

You're right here currently, Keyleth. Um, okay. You're next to Allura, and you have Carrick to your your other side. Which direction were we heading? You were heading this direction. The giant gate was here and then it lifted up and then all the skulls swarmed in from that side. There's only two right now? There's four. There's two on this side. Two on this side. Okay. I'm going to cast moonbeam on, hmm. Let me do this one, that guy. Does that make sense? So it's 120 foot. It's a concentration spell up to a minute, and it's a five-foot radius,

40-foot-high cylinder. It causes searing pain, and it takes 2D10 radiant damage after a Constitution saving throw. Okay, concentration saving throw on each of these guys here? It's a five-foot radius. Okay, so you're going to hit one. If you hit there, here, you can hit them both. Can I? Yeah. Then I do that. And I do that. All righty. And they, that is a 16.

Fail. And a 13. Fail. They fail on both of those. It's fading up in that judge. Ooh, that's good. Both average. Six plus seven is 13.

13 points of damage to both of them. Yeah. You know, just a little bit of radiant damage. So as the beam kind of blurs it from the sky, you see the white, you know, it's a radiant damage. The white, radiant nature energy kind of burst around them, and the flames seem to subside for a moment as the one that's already been damaged by a Vax almost stumbles to the floor and picks itself back up. Its flame kind of flickering more so than the allies around you. Then in your turn, Kelia, you're going to stay where you are going to move. I'm on the, are we on the carpet? Are we all on the carpet?

No. We never quite happy. No one's been on the carpet. We never did that. Nope. Then I will back kind of a way towards me and towards this southeast corner. Over here? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Thank you. South, yeah. Southeast. More south? No, no, that's right. That's right. Okay. That's good. That is your turn? Mm-hmm. All right. It is now the flame skulls turn. Yeah, yeah.

Well, the shoe is on there the foot. So, all four of these skulls, you watch as the flames kind of swirl around the head, pour into the skull itself, and for a second, The second, the flame almost goes dark, as all of a sudden the eyes burst into angry fire. The mouth grows extremely bright, and a single red beam streaks forth from the jaw to the center of the room. Four of these beams, in different directions here, followed by four simultaneous familiar explosions. As four separate fireballs rock the room's center. Fireballs. Fits.

Uh-oh. We're gonna die just from fucking... Two! Fire balls! Wow. So, everybody. Yeah, you guys clustered right there. We didn't get a chance to man.

I know. There's a... This is the room. Well, no, you guys all said you're all gonna back in around Pike and you haven't had your turn yet. Yeah. It's also still the room. I know. I know. This happens, guys. Sorry. Like, where else were we gonna go? It's a huge explosion.

Not knowing or seeing where Sam went. where Sam went, they all focus here, which will affect. That's a good sign. It will affect everybody. So I need everybody to make four dexterity saving throws. Wow. Now mind you, everyone except Scanlan or still Scanlan? Everyone except for Scanlan. And everybody's got advantage on every single one of those roles. Because of the spell of the pipe. Wait, dex throws?

All saving throws you have advantage on. Four saving throws. That's amazing. All right. You crazy motherfucker. Oh, that's better. God damn, that's the same number. You're trying to beat a 13. A 13.

How many do we, oh, we have to roll it each time? Yeah, for each one. Okay, 15. That's crazy. That's just a really crazy. A natural 20 on my second. Uh, 18. We're trying to beat a 13?

Trying to beat 13. Oh, wow. Okay. I cleared all of them. Cleared all of them. Great. Evasion. Wait, I got to do them for Pike.

Mm. No rolls for Scanlan. Okay. Dump-a-dum-dum-dum-dum. Do I have to roll for Trinket, too? You do. Oh, God. Everyone was there.

Okay, Pike saves two and fails two. Vex saves all. Okay. These little disembodied bastards are... Trinket only saves against one. I mean, you can. Okay. What are these called? Even with advantage?

Even with advantage. It's her magic power. Trink. I could just constantly, I didn't add anything. Oh, well, he had a plus two. So, Grog. Yeah, I failed the first two, succeeded on the second two. 10, 10, 21, 21.

Okay, so you take 76 points of fire damage. Sweet, Aeneas. That's amazing. Save, save, save. Okay, so you take. Jesus, what is that God for the heroes? That's 78, right? Or Grog, I said 78, right?

You said 72. Sorry, 72. That's not working. That is not working. That is 50, I'm sorry, 48 points of fire damage to you, Percy. Did you save from all of them? Yeah. Same.

17, natural 20, 14, 18 for my rolls. 42 points of damage? 24, six, seven. Wait, wow. How much? Sorry, I'm some of those. Yeah, it's okay. Sorry, this is a lot of fireballs and a lot of rolls right now. Sorry, so Percival, altogether, if you made all the saves, it would be these.

It's a mild asbestos in the curve. Made it polyester. 36 times fours. We'll say for the sake of this and the ease of the damage here. Uh, take 56 points of fire damage, Percy. How much? Sorry. 56 points of fire. 56?

If you saved against all of them? Yes. If you saved against all of them, 56? Yes. Okay. Shouldn't I have taken that? You technically would have taken, yeah. No, you took 70 because you...

I fell two. Oh, you've been, sorry, you failed two, so that would be... Okay. And that's with a net 20? You've taken 88. Idiot. Oh my Lord. With the Nat 20, you still take half damage?

Yeah. So how many did you get, Kila? I saved all of them, so I'm at 50 hit points. And he's like, fuck. Okay. Kerik. How many did you save? I did.

I made all of them. Okay. So the advantage. Yes, Kerik. So you take 56 points of fire damage. Jesus. I saved all of them with evasion at zero, yeah? Yes, you take zero.

Yeah, flattened against the ground. Yes. You just ducked out of the way. Yes. I saved against against us. all of them. Fifty-six points of fired image. So I'm at 57 hit points now. Okay. Pike, failed two? She failed, so two of them, yeah, so 88. 88, but half that because she has fire resistance, so 44. Thank God, okay.

That's good, that's good. And then Trinket only got one, so he's in my necklace. All ready. Luckily, luckily. You can bring him out and heal him in a minute if you want to. That brings Alura through her barrier and extra hit points. That brings her to. Okay, there we go. Then Kima also failed too. So she took. All righty.

If I'm still hugging Grog, can I use him as partial covers? Going forward, you can, yes. From the curling flames of the arcane blasts, unfortunately not that much cover from that. However, they all then go ahead and scoot back towards the wall out. The Holy Radius itself is starting to affect them. So this one is starting to back up this direction. And these two are going to go ahead, and this one's going to curl around the fallen stonework and land there. That is going to end their turn. Yeah, we are. Yeah. It's a box of kill.

Now it brings us to Percival's turn. Get up in their face. I am. irritated. So which was the one that you were shooting at? That's this one that's almost dead. What's the one that's almost dead? Yeah, the one that Matt just touched. I'm gonna start with him, and I'm going to, just to be a dick. I'm gonna pull some dead eye and a sharpshooter on this one. Get out of the box. So I'm gonna start with him, taking a shot with animus.

Animus? With the animus gun, which is with the sharpshooter on is, is 26 to hit. Yeah, that hits. Okay. Roll damage for that. That's, sorry, I'm a little out of it. What do I need?

I need one of eight. Oh, I'll use this one. It's pretty good. I'm just counting my dice. That's nice. That's 17, 27, 27 points of damage plus two points of psychic damage. Okay. As you take your first shot, the one skulls

is trying to duck around the partially crumbled wall, You catch it right before it goes behind cover, and as your bullet hits it from the side, the skull just explodes and shatters into a burst of flame and broken bone, expelled and extinguished from the battlefield. Fucking dick. Next shot. Do you get a grip point?

You get a grip point. Oh, I killed it. So grip point back. Boom. Actually, I'm going to spread another grip point for the same shot. So yes, that's... These aren't living creatures, are they? Are they? They are not.

I'm going to just switch to the one. That one? Yeah, I'm just going to switch to that we're not flanked by the Flaming Jungle Moe. The same Shark Suiter, same thing. Same attack, 26. It's? It's not as good, but it's okay.

22 points of damage plus six points of psychic damage. Okay. Nice. All righty. So this shot impacts and it sends it kind of hit. sends it kind of slamming into the wall, and it writes itself back in its position, but you can see noticeable cracks across the bone cranium of it.

And a little bit of fire kind of poking through areas where it's starting to come apart, but it's still keeping itself together at the moment. I'm gonna take another shot at it. Sharp shooter, but not with the dead eye. Pew, pew, pew. Pew. Not as good a shot, 16 attack.

16 still hits. That'll do. Kill it. Kill it. That's 20 points of damage with four points of psychic damage. Kill it. That does it. That skull is another blast echoes through as the gunshot goes off.

You watch as the secondary light source from that side of the hallway just is immediately extinguished. That hallway goes dark once more. The two glowing lights untouched on the area you came from still standing. I do a quick, quick reload and I run up the wall to that way, but to an angle. to an angle? Yeah, I'm gonna perch up there. Okay, we'll say. Oh yeah, I get the, good, thank you. Fuck me.

We have a... Tengloylus is becoming your paperclip for this battle. Yeah, right? Did you know? It looks like you're trying to right. Just like two seconds, I'm so sorry I meant to mention this before. And it wouldn't be relevant if everyone has made like eight saving throws or rolled eight saving throw dice.

dice, everyone close to me because of my aura of divinity gets a plus three because of my charisma bonus. That's true. I would not bring it up after the fact if that was not just such an ungodly buttload of damage. Doesn't affect my roles. That would affect your roles. You'd get plus three to any of those. Yeah, so it didn't help grog. Pike is the only one that's near you that would have gotten the benefit. That would have gotten Mike up to one of, she would have I've failed one of them. So take 22 points of fired damage off. Or no, it would be half that.

Be 11 points. It would be 11 points. Take 11 points off. That's just saves, not on attacks or anything. Correct, just saves. So add 11 points back. Yeah. I said all mine.

Yeah. But wasn't, did Grog roll tens and he needs a 13? Is that what you roll is your final rolls? 10, 10, 21, 21. Yeah, that would make 13. So that would have made 13 roll. So yeah, that would have. You would have saved on everything.

Two saves, maybe. So if you saved on all of them, how many points of damage did you take? All of them would have been 56. 56 total. Got it, 56. That week. Trinkett still would have failed three.

Just to put that out there, he rolled so poorly. Even with the plus three? Even with the plus three, Trinkett would not have gotten up to 13. Thank you, care. You know, I've been led to believe that bears had a more affinity with dealing with forest fires in general. Like, I feel that it's just, this is definitely a problem. definitely a problem.

Somewhere Santa's laughing. Oh, poor drinket. He's good at climbing trees. Is he bald? He's good at cuddles. Do you have a bald bear? He's good old little singed hair. He looks like those little tiny microscopic creatures.

Percy, that into your turn? Percy is that into your turn? The tartar grapes. Tartagraves. Tartagragraves. Oh, I'm up. Yes, it's you. Okay.

You're right there. I'm going to shoot them. I'm going to shoot the one. The one closer to you. Okay, there you go. Water bears. That definitely hits. Okay.

Chizu held over water. 16 damage plus three lightning damage. Okay, got it. And then fuck me, I hunters mark him. Okay. He has been. That was the saddest hunter. That was the saddest. Hunter's marked.

You don't have to. I attack him again. Okay. I guess. Natural 20. Hey! Well, there you go. I was going to say, somehow a skull was giving you shade,

and now he's not good. I'm not about a raise, and yet I can feel it. 20 plus eight lightning damage plus eight hunters' mark. I don't get to kill anything. Because you double all your dice, right? It makes me feel like. You double the dice. Genuinely feel bad.

So it's 20 plus eight. Plus another eight. Plus another eight. So 28 plus 8 lightning damage. Yeah. That secondary arrow happens to just hit right on the suture at the side of the skull, and as it hits, the arrow cuts through and causes the skull to crack in half, and you hear this kind of

shriek, and the laughter fades as it pulls back and the flame just flickers out, and the two pieces of bone just clouted at the ground and kind of break across the stone. Nice. Nice. I move away. away from him into, on the opposite side of Percy. Okay, so this way?

Yeah. 30, you can get about there. Okay. All right. That ends your turn, vex. Grog, you're up. Ah! Run at the last remaining skull. Okay.

Kill it. In a range. 30, 50. You get right up to it. I'd like to play T-ball, please. Okay, go for it. With this new dwarven thrower. Should I try throwing it, but.

Too late for that shone. Wifflewreckle, great weapon master, please. Go for it. Rage? Rage. 33 minus five. 28? That hits.

Okay. You don't add the extra D.8, because you only get that when you throw. Right. Shit, wait. Yeah. 31 minus five is 27. 27. 26.

26 damage. No, I'm sorry. The second hit. 26 to hit. Oh, I see. What was the damage the first one? I didn't do it. I didn't do it yet. Okay. Sorry. Now I've got it. What in the fuck is that? Welcome to D8's motherfucker. Oh no. That's a six. That's a six. Okay. When raging, so... It's barely a six. It's barely a six.

Okay. You slam across the side of the skull. It slams against the side of the wall where you hit it and as it kind of writes itself, you go with your second attack, which does hit. Roll damage for that one. What the fuck is that? It's a... It's a number. 19. 19 hits. Oh, it's 19 damage, sorry. Yeah, 19 damage.

That's, uh, I'm a . You slam it again. This time it kind of falls to the ground and picks itself back up the flames, brightening once again, the anger as its jaw kind of clacks open. Oh shit. Coming towards your face. Is still life? Yeah.

There is it. I don't have a third attack. Yeah, he's not frenzy. Oh, I'm saving it. With a bonus action. Bonus. Can I attempt to use my boots of furl leaping and leap to the wall? to the wall towards you.

He's going to like, ah! The suddenly senses that an all-powerful beauty on the outside of this just leaps towards that actually. It breaks through the wall. You're watching of all things! Does I just grab your mini and slam it into the ground? No saves. Staypuff March fly-line. Not like this.

Not like this. I just want to leap towards the wall that way, so I'm not the same line. So go make your athletics check. Okay. Since you are raging, you have an advantage on it. Oh, cool. I don't need it. It's 26. Okay, so you...

Lord. There you go. I expected you to die. All right, this is Alura's turn. She sees currently at the moment that the heavily damaged flame skull and there's nothing else in the vicinity. She has glances past, steps over, past. Karen can kind of says, uh, shall you or shall I?

You're too kind. And with one hand on her shoulder and the staffy the others, she kind of just thrusts it forward and you watch as four what looks like small beads of arcing energy go rocketing out from the top of the staff, and skis, arcing around each other as they swell with power and force. Dush! Dush!

All slam multiple times into the side. The magic missiles dealing Five, ten, fifteen, four fours in a row. That spell is dependable. Twenty, four fours in a row. Wow. Yeah. And that's not quite enough to finish it.

He's really strong. He's kind of slamming into the sides of it. How is this skull so strong? It's taken 59 points of damage. You watch as it as it. I forgot to add ten to last. To each roll. Do you each roll?

Well. I mean you could add 20. Yeah. Yeah. So we'll say, given that circumstance, I'm gonna... Sorry. It's okay. We've been playing for all five years.

They have one hit point last. Terry, she got him! Yeah, they have one hit point left. So as the four missiles slam into the side of the skull, the final one hits and its jaw gets blown off as the rest of the skull just turns to ash against the stonework, and slowly rests across the side. the combat coming to an end in that moment. Good times, guys. Every week, every week for two years. We've been playing this game every week for two years.

It's going to be amazing when we're level one again. We go, I hit it for three points. We're like, yay! Yay! Oh, can I run? We came from that way, right? Came from this way, yes. Can I run that way? Run!

This way? This is a death trap. Girl, what are you doing? What are you doing? Where are you running backwards? I came from the other way. No, you came from, you went this way. I wrote the other way.

Okay, so Grogg just goes bolting through, past all of you guys into the currently unexplored. Wait, I started flying with him. Grog, grog, grog, we don't know that everything has been bucked up for that, but you just wait a second. Trick for traps, check for traps. At the edge of the map? Wow.

You were learning. Yeah, he just caught him as he moved past the partially collapsed part of the wall where the one skull was trying to happen. Pike, do we have maybe like a group heel? Cause I'm half hit points after flaming night raiders. Yeah. I'm gonna check the tracks pass where that gate was.

Okay. 20 or 30 feet. Okay. How many of those did you fail? I passed all of them. One with a Nat 20. Oh. You're at half your hit points?

Look, man. We can't all be grotto. The Barbarian. Do we want to, I mean, okay, here's the thing. We all keep charging in that spell that we just did. Lasts for a minute. Thought Raichon was around. She was not.

So we've got less than a minute left on that level eight there. Or. That gives us advantage on all saving throws. Which, actually, not to think about it, I need you to roll four concentration checks on that one for Mike. So for four constitution saving throws, Constitution saving throws. You know what? They did.

They did a good job of keeping us from all dying just then, though. Yes, they did, yes, that was not wasted. At advantage. So here we go. Ooh, natural 20? 18, 19? 11. 11. 11. Oh, plus three. Yeah. Okay, so she maintains concentration, but you have about roughly 50 seconds, 45 seconds.

We go right now. Like, we won't be able to get to. to get to her in a minute y'all. Is there anything in front of me as I look at my 19? Okay, so as they're having this conversation, you kind of push past, you don't notice anything trapped, but about maybe 30 feet from where the iron door was. Yes.

As you're scoping, the floor just turns to darkness, and as you peek over, you see now a set of stairs are descending. But no traps. Do we want to keep moving, or do we want to pause? If we take a rest, we can rest up and heal. of a short rest right now so we can top off. Okay, let the spell go then. Yeah.

Yeah, hit dice. Okay, yeah, we use our hit dice because we all got half of them back. How much, how long? Short rest. Short rest is about, and it's anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour. 30 minutes to an hour. We could scry and see if Reschon totally knows that we're here.

Six seconds. You can scry. Unless there's some sort of like big healing mojo, but like I am really good. Yeah, let's just use our head. I mean, I can burn a mask your wounds and heal us. We haven't even fought the dragon yet. All right, that's the thing.

For all we know, we fucked ourselves with that skull earlier. So it wouldn't matter. So it wouldn't matter. I don't know. We're here. Yeah, the bell's been running. That was going to happen. Yeah, we're good.

Let's take a... She's a smart woman. The least we can assume is that she knows. We have not smart as yet. She's probably already bathed out, y'all. You can find out really easily. That would really suck. Oh, yeah, while we're resting, I'm going to detect dragon.

detect dragons and see if she's still around. Okay. You sense the same three dragon presences. Okay. In the vicinity. Same spot. Wow. All right. Okay. That's something. Yeah, baby. Barbarians. Tell us all your secrets. So you add, okay. Plus four. Nine times a day, please.

Okay. For you guys using your hit dice, you get Scanlon's Song of Rest. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so what is that? Which is... It's an additional D12 on... Song of Rest gives one D12 healing points. Oh, that's good, that's good.

On top of... On top of whatever you healed, you then get an additional D12. Look at that 12 right there. That's fucking sweet. Plus 12, plus 1D8, plus... Sorry. We're not... Plus 1D12, right?

He adds a 1D12. You want to roll? Come on. Big money, no way. Nice. Nine. That's overall. No, just overall.

Nine, three, hit ice. Wait for my first one. Do we go back up to Heroes Feast hit points or not anymore? Yeah. We do? The Heroes Feast is an addition to your maximum hit points. 55 hit points with this D12 monster. Oh my God, I rolled so good.

I'm just one below where I was. Which is what? So a hit point? 235. 235 for Grog. Percy, where are you at? I'm still rolling. Where did my marker go?

I don't know. You can use mine. I went all the way back up to my... To your maximum? Yeah, to my max, so 1.15 is what I'm at now. Okay, Vax, you didn't take any damage. Carrick, what are you at? I'm still rolling. Okay, no worries.

I'm rolling really shudely. Yeah, I'm not doing great. And Scanlon helped out with that. He did. When the blight has come, and the land is dark, and your health is down to 23 HP. Oh, that's good, man. You're doing great, though.

That's great, though. That's great. That was good. I mean, we're missing the high soprano tonal quality, but yeah. Can't do it. Can't do it. Wow, I'm down a lot. Three, five, six. I'm going to burn my last few hit dice.

Yeah, fuck it. I'm at 140. I'm not at the top of my peak, but I'm at 95. I'm at 95. Is it possible? God, do I want to have instructions on how to run Scanlan. I'm debating how to best do that? Oh.

Oh, no, no, no, I went up to 117, because I forgot I got the extra 15 for... How to... How long does inspiration... Do a bump or anything? I'm to be, well... Would he do a bump right now? You probably would, wouldn't me?

I was going to say, according to the instructions I was given. Probably. But like... Fikes back at 115. Well, that's the thing is I don't want to... I want to make sure I can do this in a way that's not going to take away anything from him later. Is he...

Wait, hang on, wait. I feel like he texted. Did he? No, no, he didn't. No. I feel like you'd do a bump right now. He really, yeah, no. I'm gonna try and- A number. Give him another.

How many bumps of stew, do you have left? One. Save it. Would you do it for after Rai-Shan or before? Before. Before, I think, too. Yeah, no, I was given specific instructions. I think you would do it before, too.

He's gonna push a little forward up to the stairs, get away from the rest of the group. That'll be going up to where Vaxes. Oh, then he's going to push a little far back and just sort of. So Scanlan in the corner. Territory here. Wait, Scanlan gave us an extra nine hit points.

An extra D12. Yeah, which is nine points. Nine. Nine? I'm higher than 117 then. I'm one. There you go. Whatever.

One twenty-six. 126. Yes. So is one hit of suit left? Yeah, he's going to get himself quietly away. I think he's had it packed already, so there's not going to be a big, a lot of he's just going to hit really quick. It feels so weird.

Yeah, they're just like the proxy do this. Oh, geez. Yeah, it's right. It's right. Okay. It feels so dirty. Go and roll a Constitution saving throw for a scale. Oh, fun.

Are you going to do it? D20. D20. I'm not going to sully it with my good dice. I'm going to use one of my crap guys. Gave us some weird instructions. Actually, do I have, this is, I guess, the most stoner die I have for this.

So let's, okay, Constitution saving throw? Yes. It's fun. Just straight constitution. No. 19. Oh, saving through. 19.

19. All right, great. As Scanlan takes the flute and takes in the fumes of the charred burn sued, the familiar burn and chemical flavor kind of fills his lungs and as he exhales, this kind of fine brown smoke emits from his lungs and his vision clarifies suddenly and he feels this. elevated sense of energy and power in his mind. For the next hour, Scanlan has one sorcery point that he can spend as if the sorcerer metamagic class, and has access to the extended spell metamagic ability. What? What?

Do you know what that means? Okay, one extended spell metamagic. I have a theory. So what is that bias? So he has one point period that he could ever spend One sorcery point. Correct. I'm at 140 right now. Wait, how do you spell sorcery?

How do you spell sorcery? SOSC. So much to process. He sold sorcery. I know my brain is made. And basically he can spend it to double a duration of a spell as he casts it. He can double.

That's the only thing within reach of one sorcery point, right? Well, that's, that's, the Sude gives him access to a specific metamatic. Metamagic based on the color of the Soud, and he gets a point. The more you use to get more points, the higher the DC gets, and the closer you get to overdosing. Right. I love it.

This is the worst thing ever! You could theoretically die by doing this. Hey, man, it's just another version of Craven Edge. I mean, here we go. No, it's great. This is weirdly weird. Yeah, except I had it all under control. Sure.

So, okay, wait. He can double the length of one spell. Yeah, a single spell that has a duration. You can use that sort of control. The advisory points to double the duration of that spell. The duration of one spell. Correct. And that's like it could be, wait, okay.

So if it says one minute concentration, it can be two minutes concentration. What if it's one action, can it be two actions? You can do it back to back? Booboof. No, no, no, no. The duration, not the casting time. Those are different. The duration is once you've cast it, how long it lasts before it expires.

Right. So like a one, something that's an effect for one minute. So like a mansion we could have for two days. Yes. A two day mansion. A two day mansion. A two day mansion. Actually, no, it says specifically as part of the MetaMagic ability, that it cannot, it can add a maximum of 24 hours.

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All right, so I did. I did this. We got this. So we have one sort of double. Okay. Yeah, we're good. All right, all right. Okay, well. Holy shit. All right, let's, uh. I found nothing in the further area. No, no traps. You came to the edge of the stairs. The stairs that lead down for about 20 or so feet and then progress an even path and

then disappear below what your visual is able to see from above. Keelith is going to just before this short rest, it's going to give one cure wounds to herself. Okay, go for it. Just top me off. Kierre, is your hammer still a glow? If you want light, I can do light. I want to know if it's a glow right now. Did you have a chance to pop it out?

It probably is, unless somebody told me to turn it off. Okay. So I figured it was probably still on. Yeah, it's still currently being kind of the central source of light in this room. How far down the stairs do I see from where I am? From where you are, you can see all the way to the bottom of the 20 feet of stairs. But then the roof of the tunnel cuts off the rest of the path. So you have to go down further to look out where it goes.

Keelah is at 116 hit points. Cool, got it. Put that out, please care. Okay, I snub it. I'm going to go stealth, and I'm going to go down to the bottom of the steps. Okay. And I've already checked for traps. Oh, no, I didn't up to this point, so I'm going to check for traps.

Okay. Stealth first. Stealth first. Which is 25. Am I still under Pass Thought of Tris? No, because she cast. 25, okay. And then traps? Natural 20 for the...

Nice. You make your way down the stairs into the next bit of the hallway. No traps. Okay. Zero traps. The stonework here now is getting a little more refined the further you go. Waiting for like goonies. And as you look out the hallway, you have another 25, 30 feet of this 20 foot wide, 20 foot tall hallway before it. hallway before it seems to just end and drop off. And you can see what looks to be a gap and another wall

about 25 feet across from that. Okay, so hallway goes a ways, then there's nothing. And then 20 feet past that. A wall. A wall. So gap and then a wall? Yeah, looks like it goes down or up. You have to get closer to get more detail.

I keep meeting to build something for something like this, and I just haven't had the time. Oh, you know what, darling, don't worry. Sorry. On the earring. You can use the carpet. Team, there's... It's so refreshing.

There's a passage down ahead of me. There's no traps, I don't think. So let's walk up there. Yeah, catch up with me and then pause, and then either I or my sister and I will move ahead. And then just let us know which direction you think we should head vex. Of course. Did you mean Vax, or did you mean Vex? He meant Vex.

He meant Vex. Because people make mistakes. mistakes a lot. They do, they really do. I know I do. I applaud. That wasn't a mistake, though. We look very similar. Love you Matt. All right. I know you're talking about Trigke. That was for Vex. Vax. Which one? Well, well. Shringen can use his own hit dice to heal if you want to do it.

Okay, then he healed himself while we were rested, but he's in the necklace so that we can fly if we have to. That's fine. Okay. But yeah, so, you can go heal them up. Baxter. You move ahead? Yeah, I'm going to create to the edge. Okay. As they start catching up when you hear them stepping down the stairs behind you, you come up to the Now what you see is a 25-foot circular almost cylinder. There is a ceiling maybe about five feet above you,

and nothing there. What you do see is about a three-foot wide spiral staircase. That just leads down and down. Staircase. And you cannot see where it ends at the bottom. Is it a staircase where I'm forced to walk, or is it stairs on the walls and empty space down the center of it? Empty space down the center of it,

and it's just a, a two and a half, three foot wide staircase that goes along the edge, and that's all you have to lock out. I'm gonna float out above it and look down and the cage traps down the cylinder. Okay. Why don't you tie the endless rope to yourself so we can pull you up if you're on cultures?

He has wings. But they're only out for an hour, dear. 18. 18, okay. As you kind of slowly drift down, keeping your wings, you kind of just hover further down. them, incrementally 10 feet at a time, looking around, looking on the stairs. Don't notice anything trapped. It all seems pretty standard. The stones are old, they're

a little smooth at the edges. What were once kind of, you know, very, very rigid and square protrusions from the stone, some of them are a little rubbed off, the beaches from whether. Out or near the bottom, doorway passage? As you get closer to the bottom, and as you get about roughly 100 feet down before you actually reach the bottom, but you begin to see, below you, there are right in the center of the spiral downward a cluster of four-foot-long kind of deep brown and maroon-colored iron spikes that are all just jutting upward in kind of slightly off-kilter directions. And there is a very, very heavy pile of splintered bones and long-limamified dead corpses that are currently just kind of piled up.

at the base of these spikes, some still impaled, many of which are just slowly kind of rotted and fallen apart from around them. Over the earring. I didn't see any traps going down, but there is some bloody spikes down here and some dead things. So Vex, dear, could you load everyone onto the carpet

and get on your broom and go down and just float down to the center and leave the stairs alone? Of course. Does the carpet can fit everybody? The carbon can carry 600 pounds. How heavy a you go? That's roughly four people or a grog. Or a whole pound.

Or 800 pounds. So it's like a- Grog in one person. I'm north of 450, so. Yeah, like Grog and maybe two people and- Okay. Hold, I'm gonna come up. So I can get Scanlan.

You currently have 10 people traveling with you. So here's an interesting thing. We don't have an immovable bar anymore. We left those both outside. Yes. All right, that's fine. Let's. What's at the bottom of the stairs?

Can we drop people off and go back again? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can come up for Pike, bring her down. We can just take a minute to. Shuttle. We can shuttle bus. Or use a rope. Or use a rope.

Shuttle bus. Shuttle it will do. Yeah. And is what around the spikes, or is there a safe portion of the floor? A safe landing point? There is a very, very, like they kind of where the outer trim is of the stairway.

The stonework itself just travels around it and then underneath the stairway, there is a small opening that leads into a further passageway. Is it safe to walk into the passageway? Give me a sec. Pretty sure we should just take the stairs. Pretty sure we should just use that brazier and then.

I will avoid cardio. ...investing for traps for that passage down under the spice. Okay, I mean just glancing around the archway, it's not a closed doorway, it's just an archway. And then a dark tunnel beyond that does not appear to be trapped. All right. Best I can tell, it's okay. I'm not 100% sure, but there's dead people down here, so I just want to I want you guys float down the middle. Let's get this done.

Let's get Grog first. Okay. I'll fly back. I'm going to grab Scanlan on the broom. You grab Pike. I'm shooting up, yeah. Okay, and then we'll take the gnomes and frog down and then come back up. I kind of want to move as fast as we can.

Yes. We got it? Do we get everybody down? Wait, so you guys, who's doing what? Okay, you guys just threw a bunch of stuff at me right? I flew back up. Alright, you flew back up. We take the gnomes down.

Yeah, I've got, I want Pike. I want Pike. I want Pike on my. Boom. Okay. I take my little drug-addled buddy. Not that I know that, and I float him down, and I plant the gnomes down together. Okay, so you have Scanlan, you have Pike.

Yeah. Okay. You guys enter the center area and begin coasting downward. You notice a faint blue glow above you in the ceiling. A little... As you glance up, you watch as a glyph begins to slowly... Dispel magic. From Scallon.

Dispell magic. From Scanlan. From Scanlan right now? Yeah. Okay, have Scanlan go ahead and roll an ability check. I don't like the one. A what? Ability.

An ability check? Okay, I will admit, I have no idea what I'm doing. And for this, I would say because you can't cast as a reaction, and this would tend to be a reaction as it's already being triggered. I want to have you go ahead and roll an initiative check. Is this a spell tack a bonus? Huh?

What, what? What ability check? This would be a charisma. So it would be plus six and plus two. So is it's a plus eight to whatever you roll, but first, I need you to go. Go ahead and roll an initiative. Initiative check.

Because technically, you would not be able to do this, this is not a reality. Okay, you're weighing. His charisma plus his proficiency bonus. Where's his? Not for the ability to check and spell magic. 19? That's 17. So yes, go ahead and roll a D20 and add eight.

D20 and add eight. Oh, that went four. Big money, no whammy's! 21. 21, okay. As he, shrieks uprook, uprook. Shrieks upward and releases the spell. You watch as the glyph that was glowing.

Rock glyph. You don't have to turn on the blue light. Rock glyph. Oh, shit. I mean, come. You don't have to give our bodies to the spikes. Love you, Sam. Love you.

That was good. That was good. That was good. Oh, felt good. There's a police up in here. Channel. Blip! No.

Brought it all the way back for you. Okay, so you guys managed to continue down. We're flying. You place both of the gnomes at the base safely by the spikes. Oh man, I plant him down like him a big fat kiss right between the eyes. Oh, you fucking beautiful boston. What was that? Sam, Scanlan.

I have no idea. It just looked dangerous, and I figured that's better safe than sorry. Do you think it's broken now? Can we get other people from... Sure, they'll be fine. I fly back up right away. Keep this train moving. Get.

On the carpet. I grab chemo. And I bring chema down. Okay. Grog and Allura can fit on the carpet, right? Like just me or thing. She is a wafer theme? If it's 800 pounds.

What are there? Me and somebody else? Or just me? You want other person to call her girl. Okay. Okay. Then, oh God. Maybe can you take, when you fly back up?

fly back up. I'll go with you because I'm fine. Oh, God. So I have options. Is chema down? You go ahead and begin to carry chema down without an issue yet. Could I go back up and get Percy? Yeah. We have Kare and Allura and Kila and You said Kema. Sorry, Allura. Okay, so you grab her over down. Bring her down below. I hope this is all right. Okay. I grab Percy on the broom and come down. Okay.

Okay. Okay. I feel like he's gonna, wait, there's like a, I pause. before we go down the stairs, because I'm like, there was this blue light that happened before, and Scanlan made it stop. No, no, we saw. How do we not let that happen this time?

If nothing happened, did we make it down and nothing happened? Most of you have made it down. Carrick has not yet come down. Who hasn't made it down? Yeah. Have I made it down? Keelph hasn't made it down yet. I thought you already went down on the carpet, no?

Nope. Grog hasn't made it down. So you've carried everybody by Grog, Kerak, and Keelith. Okay. I mean, whatever the time is needed up. Yeah. Move up, grab Keeleth, bring it down. What's going on with the blue light?

It doesn't seem to be... It's done right now. Just done right now. I just grabbed up the Carrick. It burned to dispel, didn't I? I marked it. Can you carry? Carrick's pretty heavy. I need you to make a strength check.

Sure. Best one ever, 21. You're so strong! You've been listening for a little. It's a bit of a strain with the weight of his honorer And, you know, getting up in his ears versus your tiny, you know, half L frame, but you do manage to bring down without issue. The Raven Queen said to regards. Good one. All the boys in this adventure.

Yeah. This is Jerry's best day ever. Somebody's got a coupon for a back missile. Welcome to box. Welcome to box. You seem tense. That's what we pay you in. I owe you.

I owe you. All right. Cats make biscuits. What a bear's make. We just kill ten minutes doing all that shit. But. Making pizza. Is it just me and Keyleth?

Yeah, she's the two of you up there right now. You want to ride the carpet of you? You brought Keyleth down, so it's just you. Oh, okay. I just, first I stand on the carpet. You get on the carpet. I say lift. The carpet takes you off the grass.

You get a little, you get your, kind of get your. Vex is sending me to babysat. Not like a pro. And I go and grab the edge of the carpet, and I go, okay, and I try to go down. Okay. You go into a pseudo-nosedive. It's thrilling and scary at the same moment. And you, as you're going up, Grogh goes, shh, past you. Oh. Oh. Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. And it just barely coasts past the spikes and lets you find on the side.

Yay! Nice. It's about the speed of like the children's rides at, like, at Fantasyland at Disneyland, right? It's just like that... A nice... Yeah, it's not super fast. Magic carpet can go about as fast as a person, especially the size. The smaller they are, the faster they are.

This is a very big one, not that fast. All right, backs does a barrel roll, heads back down, lands, and let's stop moving forward. Again, do a barrel roll. Do a barrel. All right, stealth, traps, still, vigilant. Indeed. Vigilance.

For stealth, it's a 28, and investigating for traps. Ooh. That's a one, and I'm not gonna use my luck on it. I love you. I'm not. Yeah. Seems clear.

We're good. Okay. I am badass. So as you guys, wings. We have reached the bottom of the cylindrical chamber. You follow the suit, one by one, which by the way, just so I know going for, what's the marching order right now? Vax.

Front. The front. Come by Grog. Yeah, baby. Grog, where are you at? I'll be behind the twins. All right, so. I'll also be, I'll be behind Grog.

Yeah, you are. Okay, there's Karen Grog there. Percy, where are you at? Like another hen. I think probably maybe if Scanlan and Piker in front of me, and then I'm probably hanging back with Kima and Laura just sort of ready to, because I want to be at the distance of anything anyway. And trinkets.

I can't see shit anyway. You can't see shit. The trinket is out now? Trinkets still in my necklace. Okay. There you go. He's healing in the neckings. Okay.

So, Jeva, oh, Jeva, oh, Jeva. So, Jeva. So, Jeeves. So, Jeeves. All of it's both. You get out. That was pretty good. I'm just going to stay on the broom and just kind of very close to the ground, but not touching the ground.

Okay. Are you close to me? Yeah, I'm behind you. The hall is probably 20 feet wide and not 15 feet tall as you push forward. The walls are chiseled rather roughly, and about 30 feet. And about 30 feet forward ahead of you. You can see it ends at a cross section of what looks like a very deep ravine,

both above and below. There is a chasm, an underground chasm here that stretches both the right and left, though you'd have to get at the very edge to kind of really see how far it goes. It's about 60 feet across to the other side, and you can see what looks to be another entranceway to another hallway, and there is a taut rope bridge

bolted to each side. We should just use that. Totally. You first. That was saved. Jeez, we just blew so much time on that fucking stairwell. Guys, in Latin, Jehovah starts with an eye. It's a leap of faith, a leap of faith.

It should have sent it to the marks, brothers. He said chisled rather rough immediately thought of Brad Pitt. Should we, how long until your wings start working? I don't know. I guess. Zoinks. Soinks. Your wings went out before the battle and you took a long rest.

Your wings are pretty much done. Oh, I thought you said 30 minutes for the wings? 30 minutes to an hour, but then you... Yeah, I thought we're cutting it close. Like it could be five or ten minutes at this point. Between riding everyone up and down, I'm letting you know right now, Mr. already flying everywhere, your wings are about expended. All right.

Should I stand on the ground? That's up to you. Do you want to keep flying until they're gone or do you want to sit there? I'm going to fly to the other side of the bridge right now. Okay. I'm going to go with him. On my broom. Okay.

Um. Oh dear. Hmm. So you get about five feet out before the wings go. Over nothing? Yeah. Looking down, you see darkness and there's a few stalactites that kind of I throw a dagger at the other side.

I throw a dagger at the other side of the chasm. 60 feet sharpshooter into the side near the top. Whisper. Okay. Go ahead and roll. This is why I went on the broom. I was going to catch you. Make sure you're hearing the brun there actually over the bridge.

As an attack. Oh shit. You're attacking the, just like the wall above or the edge? Like there's a cliff facing me, right? Yes. Yeah. Just at the rock wall. Get a rock.

Stop. Uh, 20. 20. Okay. The dagger hits the edge. And you appear right at the edge of the cliff. Okay. You try and reach and grab, make a dexterity saving through it.

Come on. 22. Okay, yeah. So you grab and get up. Get up on the other side. Jesus! Like the minute the wings disappear, you do that. You didn't even really fall for a moment.

You're just kind of... Vex, you're floating across, and it feels strange going across. There's no wind, but the broom is acting extremely wobbly. And the way you normally control it and kind of maneuver around, it's just, you feel almost drunk, but you're not. You're like, this is just not acting properly. I'm going to turn around and go back to the. Okay, so you head back?

Oh, good. All right. That was weird. It doesn't feel right. Okay, I'm going to grab onto the bridge. I'm going to test it. I'm going to step to see if it's real and checking it. Okay. You take your hands there holding it and you kind of put your foot out

onto the wood and it's sturdy. Sturdy, it's strong. Seems like it's going. Yeah. You're a bastard. Can I, I go up to the edge of the rope bridge that Percy is now standing on. Yeah. I lean down on the dirt.

I cast Druidcraft. Can I craft some vines to kind of help reinforce the bridge? With Druidcraft, you can create some small vines that wrap around it, and it might help in some regard, but not a lot. Druidcraft is very limited can't. Yeah. So I'm going to grab one end of the infinite rope, and I'm going to hand the other hand of the infinite rope to someone who's staying.

I'm going to, I think that I pose a good chance of getting across this safely. I'm going to make a run for it. Are you literally going to run? No, I'm going to walk gingerly. So you're going to make a walk for it? I'm tying the rope. That may be one of the smartest things you've ever said.

I don't actually have retort for it on any level. I don't know why, what is retort? Okay. It means if I die, you win. That's a gun, I think. I'm going to tie the infinite rope to myself and hand it off to Grog. Oh, God, I'm handing it to Grog.

And I'm going to start gingerly stepping out into the, onto the bridge, being very careful, and checking with each step that it's real and looking for weird glyphs or signs or anything out of the ordinary. Okay. Yes. Be careful.

Make a dexterity check. As this happened, Scanlan sings, Hey, Percy, you're so fine, you're so fine, you blow my mind, hey Percy. Hey Percy! Hey Percy, you're so fine, you're so fine, you blow my mind with your gun. With your gun.

That would be dead. And then he gets a point of inspiration. All right. So you get your D12 inspiration. That was really nice. Thank you. I feel like I have the same Woody repartee as Sam Regal.

I would stop there. Woody, Woody Reparthe. Okay. Okay. Now just smile and make the smile speak of Manhattan. Yes. Daxertity saving throughout. Okay.

Ah, that's not bad. That's a six, that's a, I cannot, I can't, I can't, I can't. That's really good. All right, so you, as you start stepping out, you feel this kind of shift in the space and you just grab onto the edges of the. I'm also using my boots and I'm gluing them to whatever,

like, like, yeah. And as you glue the boots, there, that's really what solidifies you in place. And you're still there on the bridge without a problem. Are things just getting weird out here? It just feels weird. You can't quite understand what's transpiring, but it just feels weird. Alara, it felt like almost I was drunk as I was flying across that. Do you know? I don't think it's drunk per se. It's just you're not used to flying in that direction. And she kind of points out towards the ravine. And you watch as Percy is kind of holding on to the ravine feet solid, his hair is just, you're not used to flying in that direction. And she kind of points out towards the ravine. And you watch as Percy is kind of holding on to the ravine, his hair is just, he's just up. Gravity is flipped.

Is flipped? Well, this would be fine. Okay, is gravity flipped? As you hear this conversation, it seems that way, yeah. I'm going to spider climb. I'm just going to use my spider climb boots. And I'm going to make my way with the rope. You do so.

Totally fine. Make it across the way. And kind of shivers a little bit, or kind of shifts beneath your feet, kind of being pulled upward from your wall. You guys watches the bridge that was once taught, is now kind of arcing up and following Percy as he moves across. His weight kind of pulling it up over.

That's cool. So can I try flying out there knowing the gravity shifted? Does it feel okay to fly out like that? As you fly out and kind of, you know, spin yourself underneath to respect it. Yes, you do actually manage to fly, kind of essentially barrel roll across and manage to make it across to meet your brother without an issue. Oh, I didn't want to go all the way across. I just wanted to test it so I could help bring other people across.

It might be hard to, I mean, like, we've got now a third rope. We can literally just clip people to the rope now. Yeah. Pool dancing, but in space. Upside down. We can use the rope we just made as a, like, as a clipped rappel rope now, can't we? Like, that's the thing that we can do. Potentially?

So, we want to do. If everybody wants to try and cross, we can actually, like, we now have an unencumbered piece that we can use to do. Where do we get... Oh, like that scene in Inception? Oh, one, don't. Yeah. No. Don't shout, Rog.

That's a bad idea, Grog. You are very hefty, and the gravity turns upside around. This probably spikes up there. Grog, did you see how I barrel rolled on my broom? Yeah, do I twist in the air? Yeah, you should just do the same thing on the carpet. Wait, what if he took the carpet and hung off the bottom of it on the first side, and then as he made his way over, he'd be all right.

You know what I mean? I don't know. I don't think this is a bad idea. Vax and Keeleth, as you guys are having this conversation, something catches the corner of your eye and you watch something and just go, just whizz past. Oh shit.

Like from the bottom of the ring to the top. We saw that. We saw that. You saw something quickly, just go back. Can I get a better look and I look and see if I see it again? Try to figure out what we saw. The three of you guys make perception check is you kind of come up to the edge and look. Oh shit.

26. 14. Is this related to dragons? This is not related to dragons. Then that is a 20. I don't know, 21. 26. Okay. Best we go.

All right. So you're kind of seeing little things just right out of the middle of the light. You can see just something shifting above and below you. You guys have a little bit of you. You still can't quite see, like the length of your dark vision is too far for you to see. for you to see what is below you or necessarily what's above. Can I, as a quick reaction, grab out, like grab the rope bridge?

Yeah. Okay. So you're still off the side just holding out of the bridge? Grasping, yeah. Okay. You are beginning to watch what looks to be figures, humanoid bodies. Oh, I have a theory.

Just kind of tumbling past, one of them kind of hits the edge of the bridge, and keeps spinning off and just disappears in the darkness. I have a weird theory. I'm going to grab, what do I have that I can do this with? Yes, Percy? But they look like spirits falling upwards? You watch a couple more go by, and they are nearly skeletal bodies. Falling upward.

But as they watch a couple more go by, they're limp somewhat, but still moving as they scoot past. Oh, Jesus. Just get across here. I'm going to use divine sense now, just to confirm. Okay. You have to wait about a minute or so before one comes close enough to hit the sense, but there is an undead energy that passes past.

And both you and Kerr both kind of have this moment from across the ravine from each other seeing this. I'm gonna try and... That's me to you, man. Try and clock them see if it's the same bodies over and over again if it's an infinite loop of falling. An infinite loop of falling. Okay, so I want to get a good. I just get a good look at one of them as they go by and see. It's a gift.

Six seconds. Oh, oh. Three or four more stumble pass. And they're getting more and more rapid. We should probably go. They're different sizes. They do not appear to be the same bodies. Go, go, go, go, go.

I pick up Pike and try to barrel roll across. Okay. You got. You got. As you're making it across, three more from tumbling up. Two of them too far away, but one of them does kind of reach out with his arms as it temples past you and kind of swaths out

to try and grab you. What? I need you to make an acrobatics check. You got this. Oh, you got such a bonus. Come on, I know, I know, girl. Such a bonus, huh? Such a bonus.

Look at Matt's face. Look at his face. Oh, fuck now. No, come on. Such a bonus. No, come on. Such a bonus. Do they both make that roll?

She's the one driving the broom. She's having to try and maneuver. I was about to interject and I know that I didn't make that fast enough, but at some point I would already like to be moving to interject in this. Right. As you're watching them start going across, you get a step out onto the bridge. I'm not going onto the bridge. I'm pulling out my gun and trying to, and like I see that. Oh wait, doesn't wait, Pike has a thing that it like she can help people with their, their... War God's blessing? That's an attack roll. That's a attack roll.

Sorry, war gods don't help you survive. They help you kill shit. They do. I was going to start skeet shooting at some point, so I understood. But before we get to that, yeah, then you. So the creature grabs you and essentially grapples you in the moment. And as that happens, the momentum of pulling you up causes the broom to kind of shift out of whack, and you begin to careen at a slight circle. I need you and Pike to both make you and Pike to both make strength-saving throws.

Oh. How far away is this from? They're about 30 feet from you. What about from Keyless? About the same, because you guys are on the other side of the ravine. Do hers? She's got a plus four on strength. Correct.

Nine for me. Nine for you? 13 for Pike. 13 for Pike. 13 for Pike. Yeah. So, Pike's on the broom with you. Yeah.

You get grabbed and yanked off the broom. Pike manages to hold the broom, but currently Pike was not the current driver of it, and so she's clutching a broom that is just floating to gravity watches. Both Vex, sorry, yeah, both Pike and Vex go from careening off to tumbling upward into the darkness above. Are they both attached to the broom? No, Vex is pulled off the broom.

But she's still tethered. She's still tethered, yeah. So both of them are just kind of like, kind of spinning in this. A gleam shot. Bolo. Right now the two of you can make an action. All right, my first action, I'm trying, I was just pulling to try and

and skeep shoot and do a sharp shoot with bad news to hit the undead that had grappled her. Go for it. And I assume I have to spend a grit to get him to let go to shove him off. About to shove them off? Okay. You are, because of the nature of the rapid movement, you have a disadvantage on this attack. Okay. You still have that inspiration, right?

I still have that D12 inspiration. Oh. Oh. Maybe they have like Bigby's hand go, boom. Matt, watching this, I'm going to pull Whisper out and wait and watch for to see my sister falling through the air. And if I see her falling, I'm going to throw the dagger at it. Okay.

She's falling. Down or up? Up. I'm watching him and I'm watching her. And if she goes, it doesn't. How far away is she from me? Right now she's about, she was about 30 feet out from the ravine. And now, to link upward.

She's about 50 feet from you. 50 feet from me? 50 feet from you. Because he's on the other side, correct? If you fanf out. Oh, for fuck's sake, really? Nothing? Worse than nothing.

Miss fire. All right. Keelh's going to go, seeing Percy and Missfire. Kieleth is going to grab a grasping vine. I'm fucking clear it right now on the side of the wall and she's going to go for that broom. Because both Pike and her are still grabbing onto the broom, yeah? And I'm throwing whisper at Vex. Okay.

The vine, unfortunately, only has a range of 30 feet. You said she was 30 feet. She's 30 feet out, like in the center of the ravine, and is now 15, 20 feet up in the air. Can she not hit the wall, get a vine off the side of the wall? The opposite side? Maybe. I am holding a 60-foot range to the spell plus the 30 feet from the grass from the vine, right? Or is it 30 and 30? No, we're not tethered.

They just fucking went for it. I thought you were still grabbing on to the cethered to the broo. To the broom. Oh, you're tethered to the broom? Yeah, that's what I knew. Don't whisper, because the broom won't be able to support me, you and Pike. I'm going for the broom. You broke to the broom.

All right, never mind. Come on, man. All right. I'm trying to work all the things. I'm letting you guys do a lot of things really fast. I have six more moves I want to make right now. I'm working with you, so please bear with me on this. What?

Yes, yes. You're like a loan officer. I wouldn't recommend doing that. I won't give you a chance to even do it. Don't lick it. Don't talk the DM. I want to sell you this house, but there's some things we need to go over. things we need to go over.

So, I'm going to ask you, Keyleth, to go ahead and make just a general dexterity check. Oh shit. Just general dex? Yes. What? This is how fast you're able to chant a spell, which requires an incantation and the release of the spell's effect,

thus summoning the vine and causing it to lash out. This is just a general base DC. I need you to go ahead and just roll and add your dexterity modifier. You got it. You got this. I love you. I love you. That was a natural 19, so that is plus my decks, which is plus two, so 21. Okay, with that, a vine. Don't hot, don't hot, don't hot the game! Stop! Stop! I mean, I mean, ha ha ha! I mean, ha! So as bad news misfires, you watch as the front of it just, this burst of black smoke bursts outward and this look of utter horror on

Percy's face. Kielth rushes out in grabbing the edge of the rope bridge to get enough of a reach out there. You watch as her hair lifts up and part of her body against the just drift upward, but she holds on and reaches out with the staff and using the strength of her force of will. At the edge of the stone above the ravine cracks open and suddenly you watch where there is no life. A piercing flash of dark green shoots outward. A vine freshly grown from the edge of the stonework. Reach reaches out and grabs wrapping around the broom itself and holding it tot. You watch the vine and the entire group kind of shifts upward. You're suddenly pulled, you're still grappled by this undead zombie-like corpse, and Pike is currently clutching onto the broom as hard as you can as you both impact at the end. With your weight and the creature's weight, I now get to see if the...

Vine holds? Well, not the vine. The vine magically holds. It's the chain that attaches you to the broom. Holy shit. Oh, Jesus. Yeah, okay. So that holds you. It goes Todd. You're held there. The creature is still clutching you right now. Are my arms restrained? Your arms are held to. Yeah, you're like, ugh. Actually, because you're still held there, I want you to go ahead and make another acrobatics check. Sturges and doingens. Sturge and doggins. Holy fuck. Acrobatics, that's Pike. Your acrobatics. Acrobatics. 25. 25. So it does not make, it does not

progress into restraint. You're just still grappled, still holding on to you. Okay. But you manage to swiggle out of its grasp as it's trying to kind of pull you in, and it's starting to try and bite into you. Oh, God. As you glance upward, now that you're drifting, kind of dangling roughly 60 feet up, you look up and you can see what is the top of the ravine. And it is a writhing mess of hundreds and hundreds of undead corpses that are all reaching out for you. There are different boned claws, all extended, like, trying to just pull you towards them into empty air as you dangle looking up into that. This is fine.

My God. Everything's okay. Everything's fine, you guys. At which point, the vine pulls the broom, Pike, you and the creature up towards the edge of the wall. So you're still 30 feet up, but you're all slamming to the side of the wall now, and the vine is just holding the broom hot against the edge of the rock. Can I take out? No, I love you.

You're amazing. Can I just take out, I just have a dagger. Can I like pull out my dagger and like try to jam it up into the zombies like under his chin? Go for it. It's going to attempt to bite attack you by the way. Okay. Which does not do with the two.

What do I add to it? Just getting into armor. It's like, gnaw, gnaw, you're gnawing on the leather. Oh, it's all zombie droolie. No more, no, no more. I am really bad at regular attacks. What do I add to this? You add your dexterity.

Okay, oh, that's good. And your proficiency modifier. Okay, so that's good. So it's plus ten, I think. So 20. Okay, yeah, so you jam it with the dagger. Go ahead and roll damage. So it's 1D4 plus your dexterity modifier.

Oh, plus my dexterity. Oh, I didn't roll 20. I rolled a... It's a D4 plus five is what you're rolling for damage. Three plus five is eight. Eight damage. Okay, so eight damage. You jammed the dagger up into its kind of jaw and throat

and it kind of go, eh, and slaps it out of the way. You can see it's damage, but it's still holding on. The creature is now like grabbing onto you and slamming you into the wall. What is Pike doing? Is she just holding on to the broom right now? For dear life? She's going to attempt to actually what she would do in this moment would be turn undead. Because that's what clerics do. I didn't even see that spell. It's not a spell. It's a chamber of divinity building. Oh shit. Yeah.

Yeah, it's channel divinity, but I think it's, I couldn't do it from the edge of the pit. No. It's 30 feet. Yeah, you have to be closer from there. Keep fighting. Keep smiling. Okay, so it has to make it saving through versus her. See, which it does not make.

So as you look over, the zombie's biting at you, and you're currently trying to jam at it. Pike, who's holding under the broom, grabs the symbol of Sarenrae from around her neck and looks up and just closes her eyes for a second. And as they flash open again, there's no pupil. It's just as white, bright, vibrant. vibrant, radiant eyes. This kind of small shockway of burst off her and you watch. The zombie goes, and just turns into ash and disintegrates. This body just tumbling and chunks and pieces up into the ravine above you. Wait, so I would look down at Pike.

Yes, and then up at where the zombie went. Pike is below. You're still holding under the broom. You're amazing! That was amazing. High level turn on down. This was a mistake. How do we get down? Up. I don't know. Keylet! Kylith! Where's the carpet? Where's the carpet? The carpet's not what we need.

I'm going to... Is there a bonus action right for... A few more corpses start tumbling up. The rope, the rope that is currently tied at the other end of the ravine where they're currently, like, they're currently above us, right? Yes. They're about 30 feet above you guys on the opposite side. I'm going to try and reverse repel with the rope with the other end of the endless rope. Also, as a bonus action, I can...

switch the direction of the vine to lash out at the same creature as a bonus action. So can I like grasp a vine and kind of hand them off and stare, step them down? No, the vine is attached, like at a base. It's almost like it grew out of the ground. So what grasping the vine allows you to do is you can, wherever it's base down, it pulls it to it. Right. It just says until the spell ends, the spell ends, you can direct the vine to lash out at the same creature on my bonus turns. Right. But it doesn't do damage. What it does is it just grasps and pulls towards

it. So what you can do is each turn you can change the target. If you change the target, it's going to release the broom and they're both going to tumble up. I don't want to do that, but I can't change the origin of the vine. Not without cash in this bell again. I'm taking, I'm going to reverse repel. I'm going to reverse Batman. Okay, so you start reverse repelling up the side. What's everyone else doing? Where's Grog in the flying carpet? Grog, Carrick, and Keelith are all still on the opposite side with Kima and Allura. They're all on the other side of the ravine stuff. Get off the rug. Get off the rug. Now, please.

I'm not on the rug. Isn't anyone on the rug? No. Where is, that's why I asked. No, the rug is still with them. It's on the other side. The rug has come across. It is not coming across. It is not coming across. The rug's a terrible idea right now anyway.

Look, I can't get on the rug, sir. One of you louder people, will you go get those two, please? The reverse, oh. I'm just, I'm heading my, I'm going to go. I'm heading my, I'm going there super fucking fast. Okay, so you repel up the side. While they're holding on there, one more corpse kind of temples up past, it's going to attempt to. Can I, with, no, I can't do that.

I'm like, I'm like floating basically. So if you hit it, I'm like, falling and just being held onto a room that's being held on to the world. Right now, you could try and, if you were to try and take a shot, you could try it. It would be a disembate. advantage for all your attacks?

I'm going to try to, any zombies are undead that come near us. I'm going to try to shoot them and like at least ricochet and get them like blipping. One comes tumbling past. What are you doing, Carrick? If nobody else on this side is getting on this carpet, then I will. Okay, so Carrick hops on the carpet and it begins to lift up off the ground. Can I get on it as well and still maintain the concentration on my grasping vine? Yeah. Why would you do that because you got to put two people on that carpet?

What? We're trying to put them on the carpet, right? No, no, no. But then separate for me. If the weight is that you're a thousand pounds or whatever the fuck. They can hold four or five people. A lot of people can get on it.

It's 600. I'm trying to hold the concentration on their grasping binds so they don't get fucked. Right, right. Yeah, I'm just making sure we have enough work. And try and get a catch. So I'm going to get on the carpet. You know if you get hit by something that falls.

That's true. All right, so it's Carrick and Keyleth, both on there. I have advantage on concentration checks these days. Allura. Oh my God. Hang on. I'm coming. Yeah, no.

That's the thing. Percy's on his way to save us, so you guys just try to hold on to that carpet. And get across because we need people to pull us back. Also, grasping finds on a concentration spell. It's a bonus action. No, nope, it's a concentration spell. Allura, watching this happen, grabs Kima and Dimension Doors across to the other side, sets Kima aside, and just stays there kind of waiting carefully.

Snellin does have dimension door. He does. He could do it for himself. He's going one way. and one other person of equal size? Yeah. Which is only Pike. And Kima technically, but Kima's already made it across. That sucks because Scanlan could have taken Kema.

Scanlan also has a plan if you guys are about to really fucking die. He's going to be these Kemp. All right, so you're just waiting. Carrick and Keelew are going across? Are you guys going just directly across or are you going towards Vex? I'm going, I'm aiming, well, if they were to fall, I'm heading wherever below that is. Okay.

Toward them to offer support if they lose it. and also ready to turn undead if a big cluster of these things come towards us. I'm maintaining concentration while floating next to care on the carpet. All right, so you guys, as the carpet heads out, you're hearing the conversation before Carrick, you barrel roll the carpet and begin heading upward to float underneath where Pike and Vex will be. As you get heading upward, it's funny you mention that. What were singular bodies tumbling upward are now groupings. Four or five almost chained together like these six. small balls of just limbs and bones and gnashing,

zombified teeth, begin to just f f f f f f f f upward. One of them slams into the bridge and kind of scatters out, sending a number of bodies, kind of just spinning outward and broken arms and limbs from the impact. The bridge itself kind of cracks a bit, and you watch as the center of it is still being held by a rope,

but it is currently not really walkable without holding the rope to get across. You can use the rope just to steady yourself on the carpet. One of these clusters starts making its way upwards towards where the carpet is. Fuck. How far are they from me? Can I use, if I'm steering the carpet, can I dodge away from this? Because even if I turn it, they will have velocity. Correct. You have not driven a magic carpet before.

I would ask you to go ahead and, let's see, for this, make an intelligence. Jesus is my co-pilot. Yeah, I know. Go ahead and make an intelligence check. Just a straight D20 plus your intelligence modifier. The first fucking character I make where I lowball intelligence. Oh. I know that's a... That is in just straight?

Well, plus your modifier, whatever that is. Like my proficiency modifier? Your intelligence modifier. Oh, yeah. No, that's an eight. Okay. So moving this. across, you're basically watching this thing just come careening upwards and you're trying to shift out of the way to maintain momentum and have this not impact you, but both of the nerves of what's happening, the unfamiliarity with the change in gravity and not running

a carpet before, you move out of the way just as it slams into the upper corner, causing the carpet to shift in quake. Oh, man. Can I push Caliph hard enough to get her to the other side? You guys were heading upward, so if you were to kick her off, she would probably still arc upward at this point. You guys are essentially, in theory you're below the ravine if this is normal gravity. How close are we to- You guys are about 30 feet across, because the movement speed of the carpet is, if I recall, from what I told you, right, it was 30 feet?

Yeah. So we're not close to you. Pike and Bex. Not yet. You're halfway there. The second my feet hit, just so you know, the second my feet hit the stone of the upper wall, I'm gonna hold on, I no longer have to repose I've got the spider, I'm gonna double dash towards them with the rope. I'm like not even, it's like it's, so as they get hit, Percy has just made it up the wall to you and Pike. It's just got up the side. I'm just tying them to the rope. I'm just, double dash got you there. Yeah, got me there. If Kerr's kicking me off, I'm reaching for Pike in the broom and still

trying to maintain concentration while trying to reach for those guys. Okay, well, first and foremost, first and foremost, oh man, this got really complicated. Okay. I love it. It's great. I would like both Kerr and Keelith to roll strength-saving throws to maintain hold on the carpet. How far are they from me? They're about right now, 35, 40 feet. You get a plus three, by the way. Yes, you both.

I do? Yes, you do. Yep. From being just near him. That's awesome. He's so awesome that when you near him, so awesome. Palatins, man.

And I'm on the very edge. Hey, you. As close as I can get, right? 14. 14, okay. Care? 23. You both maintain your grip on the carpet.

I will say for the sake of this, Keyleth, make a concentration check. Yeah, sure. Because it's just it's... I have my advantage because of Forecaster, yeah? Yes, you do. That one's a Cox. You just need to beat a 10. Okay, yeah, I beat that 10 with a 26.

Yeah, so you maintain concentration, maintain hold of the carpet. The carpet writes itself, the corpses go spinning upward into the abyss above. The carpet has now spent the rest of its turn getting into position to guard you and Pike, just in case it's necessary. Oh my God. So you guys are in place. Percy, you've tied the rope to Vex. I'm holding on to everybody,

and I just have been yelling, pull! What? I've got them on the rope. Pull the rope down. That's you. That's you. And who else is on that side of the- Right now it's Kima and Alluret as well.

Yeah, as many people who can just start running out that way. You guys all grab the rope that's currently affixed to Percy, hopefully you've been holding this whole time. I'm usually- I didn't know there was a rope. There's so much going on. Come on. My spider walk can be able to actually just maintain everything

and just keep everything and keep an eye out and just try and safety spot everything. Okay. So you go ahead and start pulling the rope. Kimman Allura help out. With, allura's not being much aid, unfortunately, but Kima is. And if we're technically below them,

I'll just fly the carpet up towards them and elevator them up if I can get below. Okay, cool. So now we have Carrick and Keyleth. Kieleth, are you releasing the vine? Because it's currently what's holding them against the stone wall. Are you grabbed onto the carpet? They both have ropes they're grabbing onto from Percy and they're being pulled below.

I let go and can I switch to a gust can trip to try and push us down? Gus cantrip is not going to be strong enough to push any one of your weight. Cantrips are very simple. I rolled on 19, so 21. 21, good. So between you and Kima, you both begin just hand over hand pulling the robe as it's kind of, you know, taught up against the edge and upward. Vex, Pike, you both begin being pulled upwards and care. You're kind of lifting with Kila, keeping that source. You guys get right to the very

edge. You look down as you see this one cluster of what looks to be maybe 20 or so bodies comes up, not as a ball, but what looks to be almost. like a giant skeletal hand made of smaller corpses, is tumbling upward and reaching its outstretched, large, maybe 15 foot wide grasp towards this carpet. Oh my God. I turn, I do channel divinity on that ship. Okay.

So what is your save DC for your spell DC? That is, Rock's back here. Grog's still on the other side. And Scanlan. Oh, no, this is perfect. 14. 14, okay.

I'm pretty sure that's right. Can, uh, just second, real fast. So for your channel divinity here, it's eight plus your proficiency bonus, plus your charisma modifier. So eight plus, that'd be seven plus. 15? One.

There's the one. 14. What's your proficiency do you want? You're right, you're right, 15. 15, yeah. All right, cool. So with that, come on. This is a really cool setup, Matt, though.

It's really awesome. It's really fucking badass. It's a pain in our ass, but it's really awesome. It's really cool. No, you're painting a picture. The visual of it is amazing. I'm enjoying this quite a bit. Dead bodies, falling to the ceiling,

skeletal hands, you know, reaching up. Yeah, no. This is cool. Okay, so. This is definitely a Brendan Fraser movie. Yes, for sure. As soon as you stepped down on the bridge, your heroin up, or the middle one of road.

It's like a, it's got a hoo-ha. It's got to be a pretty short descent. As this giant skeletal hand reaches upwards to basically scoop up the entirety of the cluster, everyone, gather right at the edge of this ravine, the carpet kind of pushing them inward, it's almost gonna sandwich the party into the palm of this. You watch as, Kerri, Clutching

the edge of the carpet reaches up from beneath his armor and grabs his own holy symbol, clutches it firm in his grasp and looks upward, shouting a whispered word that doesn't reach anybody's ears but the ones that it's intended for. And as it does, you watch as a piercing bit of light jettisons in an downward or downward direction from your perspective towards this hand. And as it reaches out, it's outstretched zombie fingers, it bursts. And as it does, the hand is scattered outward in a small shockwave. All the bodies once linked are now sent into separate, disparate spinning corpses that all kind of reach out helplessly as they all go scattering past upward and disappearing into the ravine above. Holy crap.

With that final push, you all get down onto the opposite side of the ravine, safe and sound. Oh my God. Yeah. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I grab you and give you a big kiss, a big sexy story. Still tied up, make out kiss. And say, hey, well done not passing out this time. Hey, thanks. Good for you. Thanks for saving you, though.

You know. Grog and Scanlon go waving from the other side of the ravine. I untie the, the, the, the, the, the, the broom and the, yeah. Don't tie at all. I'm going to be attached to it. And I go over to Percy and I say, smitten. Smitten. I slowly start shoving Kila back towards the ravine.

No. Okay, okay. Okay. So Scamlin's arms crossed and still kind of his eyes are very wide and he's kind of looking around. Scandlin's with Grog. Yeah, I know. This is the Grog. Yeah, we're just kind of watching the fucking show.

So, uh, what do you think? I think we'd just leave him. Yeah, you're right, let's go. Yeah. You watch the Scamlin and Grog turn around and start walking back from where you guys came. A hand around Kerik's neck. Can't I blame them. Pulling him in.

Thank you. Thank you. Fucking thank you. That's, uh, so this is just pretty much a... This is just pretty much a Tuesday for you guys, right? No. It's more of a Thursday. This is a Thursday, man.

This is a Thursday. I give care a big hug. Thank you. Thank you. Saved the day. A giant impact is behind you. Another sphere of these corpses slams into the bridge, causing it to snap and go limp, now hanging against the upper portion of the ravine.

Well, okay. How are we going to get the last of these kids? There's still a rope. Well, I have any question. So I take one of my five empty jugs out of the bag of holding, and I go to the edge, and while they were up there doing all that shit, I look down and I just throw it straight down as hard as I can. Does it immediately go whoop?

Yep. Upwards. That's a bit of an arc. Oh, no, wait, wait. You want to pee, don't you? What? I see a G-F, and I grab just whatever, some rock or something. I try to throw it straight across.

Okay. Go ahead, make a strength check. because it should fall at first, but if this is 50-50, it'll fall and then fall the other way, and it'll go right across. Right. If you did a jump, you would go, boom. Right.

So I've got a great idea. As you do it, it goes down, and then arcs up and then falls. To get the arc right. Well, this is, this is, I've got a great idea. You grab the end of the rope that's still tied of our endless rope. On the count of three, Scanlan's going to jump on your back. On the count of three, they're going to make a running jump,

and we're going to run all of us holding like a giant game of tug-of-war and just see if we can pull. if we can pull them across like a kite. I will pull you all into the cavern. I thought everyone was over. No, we saw it too. Scanlon and Grog? Son of a bitch, all right.

Well, if you tie yourself to the rope, too, no matter what, we'll be able to pull them in. Yeah, you'll at least be tethered. Okay. Can't somebody fly the carpet back over and then, like, can't Pike fly it back over, and then she and Scanlan can bam over, and then I can just try and make it across in the carpet?

Well, I could go over on the fucking broom again, dear Lord. No. How about the bodies? Are they still flying? They're still going past. And it's like a singular ones here and then every now in like a cluster.

The thing is, can you, can you? Grog in the necklace and bring them over. Grog, can you backpack Scanlan? I'm a backpack. Yeah, and then what? And jump really hard. Chain of return? And we pool?

Chain of returning is the, what was the range on that? 40 feet or is it 60 feet? It is somewhere. I got a crazy idea. Doesn't have a range. What? I want to say we have it set at a 30-foot range, but it's a big weapon.

I'm down with that, 30 feet. Are you attaching it to your hammer? No, I'm not attuned to that. I've got the little hammer. What's I'm saying? Oh, sorry, the hammer, yes. So yeah, that has a furthest range of 60 feet. How far across the caliber is it?

60 feet. Can you attach the chain of returning to the hammer? You may not get essentially attach it to anything, I think. I feel like I could go back over. Sorry. I know, I rolled a one, though, you guys. I mean, it was real shit. How much time?

How much time has it been? How is past? Yeah. I'd say you've probably had a good minute, a little over a minute, since the very beginning of this endeavor, probably a little longer. Given time to look over it since it happened and, you know, converse about what to do. It's my grassy. If we have a rope tied to her, we could bring her back if something bad happened.

Totally. Totally. I'm okay with that. All right, cool. Attach a rope to me. I bamptrink it out, so my necklace is empty. Oh, wait. And then I go, I take off across the chat. Well, we have two of them. Are we just going to do it twice? Scanlon can get on the broom. Oh, and Angkor can get in the necklace. That's very clever. I want to fly back over. All right, so. Heart pounding. This was terrifying. I'm sorry. Sorry, buddy. You can jump onto the broom, steal yourself. I'm also going to anchor this rope also to trink it, so there's like extra weight.

Yeah. Trinckley allows that anchoring to happen. All right, you guys feed it. I'm going to be ready. You barrel roll across. Yeah. Across the way. I want to try to time it so I like avoid those

as many as I can. There are, there's a small cluster that comes by and a couple of individual bodies on this side to make two dexterity saving throws. Okay, cool, cool, cool, tight, tight. Here we go, here we go, here you go. Tight, tight. Natural 20.

Oh, what's up. And that one's totally fine too. That's a 29. You just whip past out of the grass, you hear the clacking of bones. I think it was a natural 20, like, steal jewelry from one of the band. Yeah.

That's a nice necklace. You give like a top gun high five? Exactly. Exactly. Like, like, who could have? Yeah. Lick your hand and spanks. Make it across the other side.

There you see. Scanlon waiting, arms crossed, foot tapping at an accelerated rate. Grogh waiting, like finding another face to throw, and all of a sudden you watch as Vex comes just screening across and eventually writes yourself back up to your position or hair kind of falling normally flat to her side. Oh, hey guys. And I give her a big high five. You don't, because you're on the opposite side. What? No.

She made it one way. She's got to come back to the other way. Man, Celith, you are. Kieleth, high fives from across the repeat. Hi-five! There you go. Wait a minute, are you saying this story only exists in our imagination? Hey, Grog. Do you trust me? No.

Do you want to get in this necklace? Sure. He knows. Notify memory. Back into the Matrix. And then Scanlan. So Grog, you'd, a familiar sense. sensation once you're back in that chamber I described to you once before. Yeah.

And Scannon, like, I want him to like affix himself to this broom, like really tie him on here. You go to get to the broom and he just latches on to the side of your leg and he's like, I'm fine here. I still tie some rope around. I've got the rope of entanglement. I can at least wrap us up. You actually magically restrain him with the rope and takings. And so he's kind of bound in a spiral fashion to the actual broom. as you're on top of it. Making it across the other side. Okay.

At this point you watch as another corpse kind of tumbles past and kind of looking downward, not a hand, but what looks like a giant face emerging, built of various pieces of zambified corpses and bones. Jeez. The mouth kind of opening almost to try and swallow you as you zoom over that way. Make two dexterity semantics.

The first is against the singular zombie, lower DC. Is she within 30 feet of me at this point? She will be in just a moment. First one, she's not, second one she will be. It's her and Pike? No, it's her in Scanlan. The first one is, I add my dexterity. Correct. Or whatever your dexterity saving throw is, which I think.

Okay, that's a 26. First one, you zip past out an issue, and that's when you look down and notice the giant face coming out. Wait, wait, she's a 13 feet of me now? She's now getting into 30 feet. I'm blessing her. Okay. Scanlan is also inspiring her.

Okay, that's good. That's good, though. This is a, 27. 27. The mouth comes up to try and slam shut around you, and as it comes up, you just arc out of the way you guys watch as the jaw begins to close. And just as these jutting pieces of broken bones, skulls, and shoulder blades that kind of make this weird makeshift mouth of this entity begin to close and slam shut. You watch as the broom just barely catches out of the top of it, arcs downward, and makes it across the way without impact. Just as Vax finishes his

blessing spell on her. You've all now made it across safely to the other side of the ravine. Now I give her a high five. Woo! Woo! I'm on Ty Scanlan and Poo! Grog out. Okay. Grog, you're released from the... Slow clapwork. Triggum, it runs up to you and like, who...

Turs a look at the side of your face. If you do, you know, anything in 60 seconds... That really seemed very easy. I don't see what the big deal was. You want to try again? I know that you're considering it reasonably. Don't put these ideas on it. So, what are you guys doing? We're all on the side.

We're all on the other side. All right, these goonies. You push forward, rough. Check for traps. Check for traps, okay. Keep an eye out. Give an eye out there. Thank you for catching my sister.

Thank you. I mean, it's no big deal. Yes, it is. Thank you. Checking for traps. Good, okay, hope you rolled well. I always rode well on this, 18. Because I rolled a one again. Oh, wow.

You're welcome. It's better now than a moment ago. I know, right, yeah. All right, so as you guys push forward into this dark chamber now, the humans, I imagine you still have your Warhammer out for light, Carrick? Yes. So you have enough of a radius we can kind of make out the scenery and such, which for you, as you progress forward about 45, 50 feet further down this path, you see

It looks to be like a small structure built into the ground, almost like a multi-tiered statue of some kind. And you hear it sounds like a very faint bit of trickling, rushing water. Statue of a what, please? You're not quite sure yet. As you approach, you look at it. It appears to be a fountain, like a small structure that contains what would be a bowl for water, and then a central, smaller tier that opens up into a smaller bowl and kind of a jagged edge to it. It looks a little sinister. And at the very top, it looks to be a humanoid face that stretched into this ghastly horrified expression of terror and gasp. From its mouth is pouring a small

trickle of water, but it is upward. And it's just spilling onto the ceiling where it's just pulling and then separating into a It cracks. Oh, God. What of the shit? The path continues past it. It's just in the center of the hallway. It's going up, but we're not.

Correct. We're just not light enough. We're not close enough. Or we're not in the same, we're not in the area of effect yet. I reach down and I kind of grab a little pebble. Okay. And toss it towards the fountain. Okay.

You toss it in the fountain pebble and kind of clinks in the fountain. The fountain is empty. It is just dry on the inside right now on each of the lower tiers because the water that is being poured from this face is just trickling upward and hitting the ceiling. This steady constant stream. Pupil. Pupil. Stone the temple into the fountain, it just kind of comes to rest inside. What's on the ceiling, just a flat.

What looks to be, it's just a stone ceiling and the water is just hitting in one particular spot. Roll a perception check. 16. Okay, you glance up and a little bit you can You can see with your dark vision, the water appears to be impacting something that has a different surface than the ceiling stonework. It's smoother, shinier. It reflects a little bit of light. How high roughly is the ceiling? Can we talk?

It's about 15 feet up at this point. Also, is it a dead end? No, the path continues past. I'm just straight. Going. Oh, God. Well, well, hmm. I mean, we could pull a bunch of water in the fountain. I don't know if we should touch the water that's coming out of the fountain. I think it's coming out of a petrified human that's been turned into a mystical source of water

is the vibe I'm getting. Oh, I just meant to pull water out of the alchemy jug. I'd like to move. Like into the fountain? Yeah. Along the outer edge of the room, checking for traps ahead of me. Okay. So Vaxington used forward?

19. Okay. So you're going to coast ahead, keeping an eye out. Mm-hmm. There are no truceing. traps, but you do sense that there is some mechanism involved with this fountain. I'm going to stop where I am then. Okay.

I'm going to walk up the wall towards very gingerly doing my best to check for traps or anything unusual towards whatever it is of the water's hitting on the ceiling. Okay, make an investigation, Jerry. Oh, that's a natural 20. As you walk up the edge. Right in the O. What's your actual perception bonus in that? My perception, with my perception, that's 28. perception, it's 28. Okay. You make up at the top and as you kind of glance in, you can see,

there is some sort of a green emerald-like gem that is embedded into the ceiling that the water is just trickling onto. Do I recognize the green emerald gem as a, it's a green gem, or is it a green, is it, is it, is it residualum? Residium. No, no, no. It is not residualium. It is not processed white stone. It is a, it is an emerald like gem, though it is imperfect. It is not, you know, a jeweler hasn't cut over it to make it a beautiful gem. It is a little rough. And the water is hitting, like, that gem? It's hitting the gem, and it's kind of just pulling around it and then sifting into cracks and, you know, being drawn. I'm feeling the urge to fuck with this. I'm really hoping someone tells me not to. Probably just wait. Wait, half a minute, half a minute. Okay, I'm going to edge. towards it gently, and I'm actually, this is going to sound weird, I'm going to spit at it to see at what range my spit

decides to move towards it. That sounds all right to me. Okay. So you spit at it and you spit still kind of arcs like downward normal gravity and then it hits the water and just gets caught up in the water rush. Okay, so it's just the water itself that's being. Something maybe in the fountain? Can I do an investigation, like can I do a closer look on the fountain? Yeah, make an investigation check. Man, I hate investigating. What's the light like? There is no light other than the source of Kera's hammer. 20 total on the fountain.

20. 20 on the fountain? Okay. There is, best you can tell, some magical source. This is connected to something. You're not entirely sure what. No gems? I don't see any gems? I mean, there's no gems based inside the actual fountain itself. There's something magical about the fountain.

Yes, it is. There's a magical essence to it. We can try. Would anyone mind if, I'll do it if no one else wants to, can you catch some of the water in a, in a jar or container? Yeah, if you want to, you can pull out a glass. I kind of look around, I'm like, I don't want to scrub anything, but I'll just catch a little in a bottle. Once it's in the bottle, does it still pull upward? Once you pull it in the bottle, it rests back into regular gravity. And does it just smell like regular water? It smells very stagnant, hard water-ish, like Pirates of the Caribbean, or it's a small world.

Gross. I guess you get fired? Yeah, yeah. It's not the clearest of Arrowhead. Okay. It's cold. We can have Scanlan do it to spell magic on it. Yeah.

Let's... To spell the fountain. Or the gym? Or I could carve the gem out of the ceiling. I'm standing next to the gem. I can pry it out of the ceiling if we have to. But that means you have to touch it. I might have to touch it. What can I see down the way I'm looking? You looking ahead, the tunnel continues, and you're starting to see more and more of the essence of reclaimed stonework. You can see, like, whereas previously this kind of ravine natural, semi-natural tunnel that's kind of pushed

forward, the walls begin to get more brick laden. It's looking more and more like a really, really old, for lack of a better term, temple or a structure where you can see there was care put into its design. Okay, so the statue's in a semi-natural chamber. Yeah, and the further in it comes more like that. Correct. Correct.

I might run down to Grog really quickly. Do you have a spare jar or a jug that I can borrow with quickly? I do what you want for it. I just want to borrow it for like five minutes and I'll give it back. What you got for trade? Nothing at the matter of thing. Is that an ascot you're wearing? Yes, it is. I'll take that.

It won't even fit around your neck. I don't care. I want it. You don't have to tie an ass off. I want to be dignified. I can teach you later, Grog. Oh, that alone. That's adorable. adorable. It's Europe World War II. I tie a bow under his. I tie a little Dickie's first day of school

Christmas bow, and I take my little pin and I pin it on him. Here's your jug. Thank you. Magic point. And I go walking back up and I have a theory that maybe if we cover the green gem that might do with things, so if we start to cross and everything goes weird, I'm going to cover the green gem. Hey, for science. For science. For science. But let's try and leave this room without doing anything, maybe.

All right. Besides what you're doing. Well, I'm not going to do anything unless something happens. How is this really? 15 feet, 15 feet. Okay. Hey, Grog. Yep.

I don't know if it comes to that. Don't worry about it. I'm going to scooch forward to the other side. Looking for traps. Looking for traps. Okay. You continue to scooge forward? Stay with Grog and Percy.

I'm in between. Okay, so you guys stay back there? Yeah. Okay. Kim and Allura stay back waiting for you guys to scout as well. Yeah. Okay. You guys make stealth checks again? I'm scared of all my dice right now. Just, oh.

It should be there. Eel. 30. 17. Okay. You guys begin to very, very slowly make up ahead. And you watch as the path ahead of you begins to Well, the ceiling begins to grow higher and higher, and the hall begins to widen open a little bit, and it begins to split in two directions. All of a sudden, the tunnel breaks into two different paths with the ceiling rising and it growing wider on each of those paths as he presses forward.

You're starting to see portions of it are still the cavern-type field, but once again, you're seeing more and more sections. It looks like all these walls at one point were carved stone, and had a specific purpose, and then overtime, once again, portions of it have kind of fallen to disuse or ruin. So nothing, the fountain did nothing? Currently not, yeah, no. Bucket Duck, we've got a fork in the road. What do you want to do?

Let's bring everyone towards you now? Is it time? Well, there's nothing immediately dangerous appearing. I'm going to focus on dragons again and see if I can figure out which direction they are. I'm going to go last, because I'm up here, and I'm just going to like the circle of the green jam. We don't want to pull anything. into the phone? I don't. We did nothing to this thing that's right here,

magically pouring water out. It might just be the equivalent of a big red button. I love buttons. The world loves buttons. It's up to you, Grog. You have a jar of unending water if you wanted it. Next. The sources are still ahead of you. They're still present and still kind of in the direction

you guys are facing. Do I know which fork they're down? That direction. That direction. I'd also like to use my last instance of divine sense here at this fork in the road. Okay. The 16-foot radius on there.

No, there's no sense of anything undead, fiendish, anything. So let's steal. Nothing? No. Sway? Not where they currently are, no. What are you guys doing? I'm waiting for everyone else to...

I'm circling to the other side of the green, yeah. Are we all gathering up at this fork in the road? Yeah, if everyone's gonna cross the room. Okay, so you just move on. Okay. You guys continue and gather at the edge of this fork. You can see a very, very faint bit of light coming from both sides of the fork, just like kind of just glancing off a distant opposite cave wall.

Both have a light? Both have very, very faint bit of a light. source, two of you guys make, since you're up front first, make perception checks if you could. Bob Kiss, for me. 24. 24. Glancing both ways for you, it splits off, and they both seem to curve around in almost like a rejoining direction, or at least they get close to it. Like the split, is less of a split and more that there is just a large column of earth that splits what would be a wide path.

Looks really dark down there. Two paths eventually seem to join again. And there's a little bit of light coming from the other source, apparently on the other side of whatever this pillar would be, or at the other side of each of these different paths. That is just barely reflecting off of the cave walls enough to give you the essence that there is light further. Okay.

Oh. Well. Should we all trot along or should we send us down? Trap? You want to look for traps? Yes. There's dragons still in there. in there.

Yeah. Just ahead. Just ahead. This could be it, although we thought it could be it, twice at least. Do you want to split the party, half the one way, half the other? No. That's on. No.

If the water were running, which direction would the water be running down? Like if the fountain filled, this is just, I'm trying to conjecture. I feel like the fountain is going to irritate me for the rest of the goddamn night. We can dispel magic the fountain. We've got a skill in the... It could just be a skeleton. I feel like this could be a water canal that we're looking at right now. I could also get rid of that gym.

We have options for dealing with that fountain. Do it. Well, I mean, if it's itching. I will say a lot of the things that we've touched have been put there to hurt us if we touched them. Tusha. But also the skull that we left behind ambushed us, so it seems to be a horse apiece

in terms of a pattern here. A horse at peace. I figure I think if you made it this far, that you've not touched several things at this point, so. Right. This is so obviously a, well, I know. I mean, if it's just a trap,

then it's just a trap, and we avoided it, and we moved on. All right, look, we've got two identical passages. Do you want to flip a coin? Or can you see any benefit to either side? It looks like they come back together. Yeah. This is just a giant separation thing. I'm going to flip a coin.

Oh, but I have an actual coin. Do you? Pull it out. Where are those coins? Come on, Treasurer. What are you doing? We're picking a passage. Well, they're going to figure out if they're going to do something else.

Are you catching up with them? I'm, yeah, I'll start walking towards them. I hanged back with grog. Okay. Grog. Oh, shit. I just feel like, I don't know. Nothing more sad than an empty fountain.

You have a problem. What do you want to do? You want to fill it with water? Yeah, I feel like that's what a fountain does. You look. Okay. I mean, look, if you came across an empty fountain, that kind of a worthless thing. Do you think a full fountain would help our case in this instance?

Pretty right. Are we going here? I don't know. We can try it. Do you want to fill the water? Yeah, kind of. All right. I support this endeavor if you want to do it.

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Well, Laura, like, it's just an empty fountain, right? Like, it's got to have a purpose. Right. Do you know what the purpose is a good or a bad one? Uh, I never really get that far. I already survived this far on that mindset. That's surprising, but do what you will. Just, oh shit, I have a theory now.

Never mind, I don't want to fuck with it anymore. Well, Allul, you're all smart with magic and stuff. Why is this horribly terrified face spewing water upwards on an emerald in the ceiling? Hmm. She rolled good. She takes a moment and kind of steps forward and looks at it. Let me see one of your jugs.

Yeah, okay. What do you want for it? I hand her my jug. She takes it and kind of sets the jug right in the stream and releases it, and the jug kind of sucks up and essentially covers the gem and the water kind of just spills across the sides. And then what? Huh.

I think my theory was wrong. What? Oh, I'm not there. What's your, okay, hang on, what was your theory? Maybe we can do a process of elimination. I was trying to, and you hear in the distance behind where you guys came from. I'm moving right now. It sounds like...

Collapsing tunnels? Many, many, many, many, many things falling, cracking, impacting. Hey, Laura, good theory. Let's run. We are running towards Vax. It just reversed the gravity in the ravine. Which as Carrick says this and you all look back, you watch as hundreds and hundreds and hundreds. and hundreds and hundreds of bodies fall. Of bodies are now tumbling back down

into the ravine below from where they came. Oh, shit. Turn down the one. Burr-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b. That was so white right now. That was amazing. We can make it whiter. So white.

Don't make this any whiter, please. Yim-y. We get enough shit for our show as it is. I say we take the left way, Okay, now, I may play Dungeons and Dragons on the internet, but now I'm embarrassed. Let's know, moving it is the water. Now you found my shame button. The water is still going up and it's still kind of careening and falling through the cracks.

It's not like a very strong stream, it's just this, you know, like a small faucet turned on, and it's all just just ching up word and disappearing, but that gem being currently blocked seems to have had an effect on the rigging behind. Okay. Good to go. Good to go. I'm not going to go. I'm going to go. I'm going to go join you guys.

Are we going to the right? Are we going to the right? We're going to the right, but hold on. Same marching orders before? Yep. I'm going to go a little bit ahead, 20 feet ahead, look for traps. He wants to be? I don't, but I want to check for traps.

Stealth and traps. Stealth and traps. You're still in the same stealth wall you have. Okay, great. So traps, investigation is 18. Okay. Floor doesn't appear to be trapped as you kind of cooced forward around the outside. Check the ceiling.

I look at the ceiling. Sealing! It looks like a ceiling. It's about 25, 30 feet in height throughout this chamber. Okay. And as we move through this passage, what do we see as we get closer to the end? As you curve around, you notice that the rocky walls become just stone. You see these gray-bricked walls that begin to turn. As you turn around, you see A faint light source from a series of candelabras that mark the edges of this square-like chamber. There are two distant cages in the far corners that seem to bear some sort of slumped, unmoving bodies inside them. Cages. There are two pillars that hold the center of the room that appear to be just strewn with carvings and glyphs from top to bottom, surrounding them entirely.

Two large-scaled crimson eggs lie placed against one side of the wall, seemingly untouched, and on the right-hand side of the chamber at the base of one of these cages, you see a withered and long, dead corpse of Thorac the Sinder King, folded and sagging. You see a tome propped against a bookstand on the far end marked by a singular page where a series of bookshelves and chains line the walls of this apparent laboratory. You see at the current open tome across the way, arms crossed and reading quietly a tall female with dark green hair and silver shimmery-like skin facing away from you. I'm gonna pick up for that next week.

Ah, Newman. Yeah. Because it is late. Oh, that is late. Patrick, you can join us for Skype next week? Or in LA? Oh, yeah. Actually, I am coming out to L.A.

It's an issue of how quickly I'll be able to get to Pax afterwards. Oh, shit. Because I'm doing Pax South after my L.A. trip. I'm really hoping that I will be in your neck of the woods Thursday night. Tight, tight. But if not, if you want me around for the finish, I would happily Skype in from San Antonio or wherever that is. Dude. We'd love to have you. We could dual Skype it, maybe.

Awesome. Well, let us know. Please do. I would be delighted. I would be delighted. Thank you for handling Skype so well. It's not easy to be on the other side of that camera. It's so frustrating. It's certainly not as nice as being up close and personal with y'all, but I'm just glad that I have not experienced vast technical eras, yes, eras.

Vast technical eras. We're glad to have you. Yeah, man. Thanks so much. Thanks for saving us, Kerr. Yeah. Thanks for me. It was a delightful amount of mutual saving. And as always, don't forget to tune in for Talks Machina on Tuesday night with Brian Foster.

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