Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - Vox Machina Ep. 9 - Yug’voril Uncovered

Episode Date: November 29, 2021

After a showdown with the Duergar Queen, the rescue of a comrade, and an unsettling message from the mysterious evil entity known only as K'varn, the party learns just what can happen when they go looking for trouble... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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from the capital city of Iman to find the missing folk hero, Lady Kima of Vord, a halfling paladin, very well known, who has gone missing while on a pilgrimage vision quest over the past year. She'd been missing for a number of weeks, nearly months at this point, and you were sent to the Dwarven City of Craghammer to find

and bring her back safely. After going to the city, you discovered that she had delved into the mines seeking some sort of extremely dark evil that was seated somewhere deep beneath Craghammer proper. In searching for her, you managed to find your way through the mines into the entrance passage into the Underdark, which is a very scary place. You've encountered a number of subterranean beasts

and creatures, some of which are unnaturally mutated or altered by some sort of magic you cannot place. Upon going through these caverns, a few battles with Duraghar, the Ashen skin, the evil subterranean dwarves, further subterranean dwarves, I guess you'd say, and encountered your first mine fliers, affiliates, which seem to have allied strangely with the Duregard. Normally, enemies by nature, they're working together under what you've discovered since is a common enemy referred to as

Kavarn. Nothing really is known of Kavarn other than it has a great power and has united these two forces for some nefarious purpose. Apparently these abominations and these strange mutations you've encountered these experiments also seem to have been created by Kavarn, though no one knows quite why or how. As you traversed down, you managed to to befriend an archinist mineflare that was cast out from the colony named Clarota, who has aided you under the intent that you would help him free as people of the slavery of Kavarn and release the mine

flayers to their own normal state of mind. And you made your way to the Duragher Fortress Emberhold, found and released Lady Kima, who underwent many, many weeks of torturous experiences to come through still firm of mind and ready to kick some ass. through a very painful battle in the ember hole. You managed to pull your party out, only a few of them turned to stone,

and with a foot burned off. And Grog being dominated and Grognapped by the surviving Queen, Durgar Queen Ulara. Whoa, everybody needs to nap. We're gonna look to be one of those child niches for you. We can just like, maybe we can get a chip implanted in him so we can try. You had like a dog chip?

So you get an enchanting that. I like chips. Yeah. Like one of those tiles you put up. on your keys so you can always be. There's actually not a bad idea. Me too good. There's an app.

A Grog Jack? There's a person who can make. Grog Jack. Whenever it gets taken, it just gives a little beeper in your part. So the party then, in trying to locate Grog's position, found their way delving past the lava fall-based element of the obsidian rock, Durigar under Dark, deeper into discovering this cursed kind of pit of undethed bone shards and glass.

Upon traversing it, the annual, encountered one of these abominations that you've seen traces of left before, this weird half, partial elven, partial tentacle monstrosity that slashed through your party, nearly killed Trinket, but was defeated by you. You managed to make your way across this bone field and discover what appears to be a camp across a number of pillars in the distance. Vax went ahead and stealthed up, looked over, and saw that there was a camp of Duragar, and apparently the surviving Queen Ulara, giving them orders, next to Grog, who is currently bolted by iron bands to some sort of a cart that they've been dragging him through this tunnel passage with.

And that is where we have left off. So. I think I've got a plan. Oh. Because I did too. You have a plan. No, I want to hear yours. So let's do them both without telling and just see what happens.

I'll roast shampoo you. I actually like this idea. It is, Kevin. It is. Keeleth can melt through rock. So if we can get the attention of everyone who's guarding Grog, she could slip through while we're drawing them out and get through and let him go in the midst of the fight. That works with my plan. That works with your plans.

My plan was to go in there and distract them while you did something. Try and ask perfect plan. I like that plan. I hadn't completed the thought because something hadn't been worked out. You were 80% there. Actually, let me tell you all that Grog is up here. You didn't know. I assumed you'd come back by the news. No, I'm still up in trading. That raises the stakes. Last week I said, come up now.

Oh, right. And I said, and I already taken off, so I'm already headed there. Well, you said come up now. Great. So we're there. It was in Tiberius. Roll a stealth check. Right. Yes. Right. Hold on, let me show you my collection of tin cans tied to my tail.

Actually, you know what? No, I'm fine. Yeah, roll the shit out of that. 20, 20. 16. 16, okay. So as Tiberius coasts up along the back portion of Vax's arrival point. Well, we're on that.

No. Where is everybody? We're on our way. Stuff. I don't know. Very bubbly. Do you notice one of the Duragar kind of looks over a shoulder and your direction.

And plan over. And begins to make a few steps in that direction. Wait, wait, wait. Who? You? Yeah, he went in anyway. And he's not stealthed enough. All right, I grabbed Tiberius by the snout

and pull him back around the edge of that rock. That's what I'm doing it. I'm just doing it. I'm just doing it. Okay. I follow my dagger out. As soon as he did that, I was like, I follow. All right.

So the Durga continues to move forward towards the edge of the rock. Okay, okay, okay. We still, can I head that way to right? The rest of you, not you, And I'm throwing a knife into the dwarf's neck. Oh, Jesus. It's coming over at all! All right, so the rest of you guys, go ahead and roll stealth.

All right. He's not waiting. We've been doing this for 30 seconds. We're already in a fight. I'm not going to stay here and wait for the door guard to walk around the corner. I was going to distract them too. This is solid, solid start. It's a classic movie moment. I'm going in. I'm like, I'm walking into the camp. All right.

Wait, okay, wait. Are you just abandoning the plan? No, we're just going for it right now. going for it right now. Oh, my God. Oh, okay. Good. All right, so the rest of you.

I rolled a nine, so it doesn't even matter. I rolled a 10, yeah. Okay, so the rest of you begin trudging in down this tunnel towards the edge. Oh, hello. Kloch and Kima are holding up the back rear end. You know, if you wait five minutes, I can at least take one out. Nope. Nope.

As Scamlet approaches, the Durga immediately turns around. Hi, Derragar. Can I think? You right up behind him, shoot me in. I turn into an earth element. All right. Simultaneously, simultaneously, as you approach, the Durgaard just looks behind, gives you a glance,

and you can see his eyes, normally kind of pupil-less eyes of the Ashy-skin Duraghar kind of are now glowing with an odd, dull green color that you haven't seen in Durga previously. And he starts rushing towards you. He's going to make a simultaneous round rushing up to you for an attack while you release your two attacks against him. And you release your dagger.

Go Twinsies! Who is Scandlin? This calls for a music change. All right, so. My first one was an ultimate fail. Okay, good to know. All right, the first Durer swings at you with his Warhammer. To you, Scanlan, that comes down with a 12.

12 versus armor class? Yes, yeah. I'm okay. You just pull back and the giant Warhammer just swings past you and you duck out of the way. Thankfully, though you're, You know, Durgar, relatively small. You're much smaller.

You slip right out of the path of the actual hammer blow. Your first arrow missed the second one, you said hits. 25. 25, definitively hits. Go ahead and roll damage. Eight. Eight damage. All right, so after he swings past Scamlin,

he ducks out of the way, one arrow just cruises over his head, and you hear cats gathering and clattering against the rocks in the distance. He looks over in your direction as the second one just grazes his shoulder. his shoulder. You can see a little bit of blibing in a spill, but it doesn't even turn his head towards the wound. He's still just glaring at you angrily. Good. Good. Good time. While you throw your dagger from behind, him not even aware of your presence currently. Okay. Do a really good job. 20 natural.

20. Yeah! First of the night. There is a magnet inside this dye. I should be, just full disclosure. Okay, so we're buying you new dice next. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. We'll buy new dice as well. Right, right. Thank you. All right. So, uh. So as you pull full tie of Perry's back, clutching the front of his snout,

keeping him quiet, you pull a dagger out, toss it in the air, catch it, and fling it at full speed, striking true, go ahead and roll damage. With sneak attack bonus. Awesome, multiple, that's great. Yes, yes, yes, he's gone. He's gone. Okay, all right, so one, that's 47.

All right, so as he turns in the arrow, strikes off his shoulder and he glares at you, Vex. He pulls back his hammer again, looking down at Scalemnon, coming down for a blow to basically bash his skull in. But you stop suddenly as you see this blade protrude from the front of his skull. His glowing eyes fade back to a dull, pale, whitish color,

and his body just slumps onto the ground as your dagger magically returns to your hand from below. Do you regard down. I nod to you. I step forward and say, is her name Ullara? Ullara, Kliara, Kui, Queen Ulara. Queen Ulara, show yourself. Step out and talk to us.

everyone hold and the rest of you are staying where you are you moving forward with Scanlan oh you're talking yeah we're doing a talking thing yeah let's step up behind him I want to step up and make him look more posing with me and Trink it behind him I am going hang on wait what do you do what I want to step up behind Scanlan with a bear behind him and make him look more imposing all right I'm gonna kind of um I'm gonna kind of link back into the shadows and turn into an earth elemental and sink into the ground. Okay.

And hopefully they don't see that happen. There's no longer Peelith. Whoa, your sheet. Fades underneath the earth somewhere, just sips into it almost like sand through an hourglass. You just vanish beneath the surface of the rock. Great way to leave a party. Steps forward, making a point to step angrily

onto the corpse of the Dura Gaur. You hear the crunching of bone and metal as she steps over his corpse. Percy you're approaching as well? I'm staying a little bit back. Okay, so about that. Yeah, about there. All right, Clonota's going to move off at the side here, and Pike is going to come and kind of get the center point where she feels the most applicable to heal.

DM? Where on the map is the queen right now? You don't see her right now? Don't see her. She's in the 10, right? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Groggw's right here.

Yo. Yo. Yo. I see what's going on and I rub my ring and I go invisible. Okay. Greater invisibility. All right. So Tiberius also vanishes from view.

You glance over your shoulder, vexed, notice that Tiberius. He's just gone, just vanished. All right, so as you shouted this out, the secondary Düragar now turns, and first I'll make a persuasion check. Oh, there. No, no, in this case, intimidation, I think is what this is going to be. Do I roll again? I'll say okay because it is a different skill.

I'd like to move to the other side of the other side of the... On the other side of that other. You get about there with this round. Okay. 22. 22. Fucking love this game. All right.

As you shout this, the Duragar grabs this war pick from his side, looks you angrily, and begins to step forward as a giant grizzly bear. And the rest of the party kind of filters up behind you in full, like, flying V formation. He puts his pick to his side and kneels off to his shoulder. McQueen! We've got company! As he does, the flaps of the far end of the tent here open up. There's a dwarf there, not a DuraGar,

but a dwarf that is standing there to the side that steps out of the way, and Queen O'Lara steps out as well. You see her angrily look off at the side. Well, then it appears that we have some business to discuss. And she needs to step past the front of the fireway, stopping right next to the fire pit, just kind of keeping a good 15-foot distance

with their arms crossed. The dwarf comes in flames around this side. And you now see, while I cannot seem to find the figure for the life of me right now to represent it, we'll use this for the time being. There is an elf also flanking her. Normal-looking elf, dressed it looks like a fine chain mail attire, long sort at the side, so there's an elf and a dwarf both flicking.

They're clearly with her. They are at her side like they're ready to defend her. They could be charmed. Like, who go-go. Queen of Lara, if I may have a wife. word, let us spare each other lots of bloodshed and just have a chat before we fight. Is that all right? Talk small, annoying creature and perhaps it'll delay the inevitable. We, uh, my friends and I, uh, have come... Hello. Hi, yes. We've come from the, uh, the above world, the, the normal world, let's say,

to your fine kingdom down here below. And we were on a mission. We're a bit of, I don't want to brag, but we're a bit of an elite task force sent in by kingdoms and kings that you probably haven't heard of way down below. But anyway, I'll spare you. Hold that thought just for a second.

Percy, go ahead and roll a perception check. Shit, it's out of the blue like that. Oh, no. 10. Oh, no. Oh, no! Wait, DM, Vax is creeping along the back of that tent and curving around.

All right. Thank you. I want you to do the earring and go to Scanl and be like, keep it simple. Will you, I mean, really? Come now. I know. How good you?

Melady. We have come on a mission to save someone, that you were held in capture. We have completed our mission. And in the melee in that, um, Havel you called the palace back there. We lost one of our own, and we would like him back. Now, I'll make it very simple,

because my fellows are begging me to keep things simple. It's a simple binary choice. You can all die right now, or you can turn over our friend, and we will probably, probably leave you in peace. I would promise, but I don't make promises to dogs. I'm moving, like, kind of behind what the killer is, but in the ground. Behind me of this pillar is in the ground?

No, no, no. Do you have a mic? Yeah, I'm very. I'm very. Oh, that's Keel. All right. So at that response, and you're noticing now is getting a better glance at the Queen too. Her normally white, pale, derogar eyes have a strange kind of green glow a shoe to them, as do the two individuals to the right and left of her.

And she just looks you square in the face. You took my king from me. Came and slayed him in his own throne room. You took something I love. I take something you love. He's mine there. You know, I'm bringing into his greater destiny. At which point, a loud, horrendous, streaking sound pierces the ears of everyone in this vicinity. As disappearing out of a ripple of energy, a once-invisible mind flare goes cascading out a mine blast in a cone that just tears through the entire group here. Scanlan, Vex, I'll pick as well, Trinket, Percy, go ahead and roll.

This would be intelligence saving throw. I'll die once I finally come back. Saving through. Yes. What is that? Roll your saving throw for intelligence. Okay. Small square near the top upper left hand. Okay. At your intelligence. Uh, 21.

All right. Do I roll for Trinket too? 16. Yes, you do. Okay. Bex. 14. Okay.

And Okay. So you double over clutching your skull as the pain is too much to you to bear and you find yourself unable to actually draw commands to your muscles and then to function. You are currently stunned. Roll for Trinket? Oh, he rolled in eighth. Trinket falls to the ground, this horrible, ooh-hmm sound. digging his nose into the actual dirt to try and find a way to escape this piercing mental agony, this psychic damage. It's pretty shitty, guys. It sucks.

Both of you guys take 22 points of psychic damage, by the way. Oh, good. It's about to die again. Who was all stunned? Borgh. P. Pike also. And Pike.

DM, I'm throwing a dagger at the clean. Okay. Now we roll initial photos. Oh, geez. Stuff this we got. Can I do something right before that? No, essentially this triggers the combat. Now this was an immediate occurrence.

Now we're going into initiative order. Okay. Like barbecue or something? What happened? Now, by my saying that, do I get into the initiative order, or does my action come out, my decision come out before? I would say for the two that didn't act this turn, you guys have advantage on the initiative role

because you guys have been holding your actions. So Tyverius, you can also have initiative have advantage on your initiative roll. Unless you guys were holding it up. 21. Nice, that's better. That's way better than a two. I don't roll anything because I'm done.

Yours done currently. So. All right, so he stole initiatives. We have the order that you go in. So. 21. All right, so. 22.

All right. Oh, are we doing this? We are. It's all my trying. Let's do it. We're in like playing. What do you need? I've got a 13.

So 20 to 15. So 20 to 15? It's sugar 10. 18. 18, all right. You got some good initiative rolls, guys. Good job. 16 here.

OK. 15 to 10? Oh, that would be 13. There we go. You play stunned well. No, no, no. Believe him here. Not a victim.

I'm like big butt as soon as I wake up. Oh, yeah. Kima also all stunned that, unfortunately. All right, that brings us to... I think it's everyone's audition. 21 over here. Yeah, everyone's there. All right, cool.

So, top of the round, Percy, you're up first. Okay, we need Earth Elemental stats if you know where they are, by the way. What is you not with Matt? Lots of manual. Lots of manual. There we go. You come... This comes in handy more often than you think.

For my eggs. Yeah. But since while we're looking that up, I'm basically going to pull my gun. I'm going to fire four times into the face of that, of that awful, awful screaming basket. Oh my god. Of the mind flare of here? The other mind flare. Okay, so you whip around, just there in your face. Go ahead and make, you're using your action search to fire two additional times you said? Yeah. Okay, wow, four four rounds. Go for an attack. Poo phew phew. First attack with pepper bars is 13. 13, unfortunately misses. Form shifts, and you can feel the psychic energy of its impressive mental force causing your hand to miss its aim with each pulled at the trigger.

All right, a fire shot for 19. 19 does hit. It's my fire shot, so that's, uh, 10. Put it on in Percy, let's go. Oh my god, this sucks. Eight points of damage. What is this out? Third attack? Third attack. Spin the barrel, get on Hepargox? Now for the 20. Get on it. So that's, thank you. Murder him. Get on it. Jump on it.

Jump on it. That's 11 points of damage. All right. That's doubled with the critical? That's 2D10 with it. I double the dice, right? Yeah. Or roll and double the dice number, but that's fine.

Yeah, okay. And now I'm going to take a sharpshooter bonus. That's, oh, that sucks. That's 11. Unfortunately, so the first one hits, the second one actually clips part of its chest, and you can see as it tries to use its psychic abilities to resist the bullet, it still pierces its chest on the side,

missing everything vital, still causing it to, sucks in the air for a moment. Terrible roll, and I'm gonna use some movement to dodge left to get out of the way of that guy. Okay, let's move this way? Yeah, I'm gonna go, yeah, about there. Okay, cool. Well, I should get out the laser pointers.

I'll bring in one. Hey, is Grog Stone? No. Brog's tied. He's held by iron bands. Brog's been hitting the piece by. He's not conscious. You guys don't know, you haven't seen him yet. I saw him. He described it to me last week. He's in iron bands held on like a cart. Yeah, on a cart.

You haven't checked. Iron bands? Yeah, he's tied down. All right. So. Tiberius, you're up next. Great. I peek over the little thing. I go, ooh, ooh.

And I threw a fireball from my ring. Okay, where are you throwing it? Oh, right, in the juicy spot of those three. Right here? Oh, yeah. Okay. In the juicy. So, as they're all sitting there, looking ready to pounce for this series of battle,

all of a sudden there's a slight streak of reddish energy in the distance, as you all are watching. It looks almost like the fire pit behind them just explodes in this giant, fiery ball of red, angry, magical fury. So go ahead, roll your 8d6 damage. 6. 6. And any more, D6. I'm missing D6. There's two more.

Let's see, that is. This 31 damage. 31 points. 301 points. Okay. Clean or Lara, you notice, as the Duregar are generally considered as it's blessed in this area as well, both her and the Duraigar make their saving throw.

They have magic resistance and eightly against it. Yeah, they're hardy creatures, no. However, the, the, the, The elf on this side ends up just being thrown at the side, and its entire body gets thrown about 20-30 feet across from just the force of the explosion landing on the ground, lifeless next to you. Oh, wow.

Brintzinder. The dwarf takes a brunt of it as well. A pierce to still be alive, but looks very horribly burned. It's kind of looking at its hands now, like, barely standing. And then I spend here two sources of points to you. For an ice knife. Before we get to that point, Grog, you also take the damage. Oh, how many points?

He's a friggin' spying, she'll be fine. Because you said you threw it in the fire there, Grog's right there. On a car. I said, did you spot those three? I knew Grog was there. Of course I wouldn't throw it there. Okay, fine.

I pointed here, I pointed here, yeah, but I thought, I don't know. He doesn't know. He's specific next time, but yeah, it's okay. It can take it. We're down all of our laser pointers. And I threw that right in the back of Queenie's head.

Okay. Throwing wet. All right, go for it. So as you coalesce this arcane energy into this blue kind of cold, freezing plume of moisture in your hand, it forms into this giant, dagged blade of ice, and you chuck it in the straight line. Go ahead and roll your D20 plus your spell attack on front.

Get it. Get some. 19. 19 does it. Sweet. With their major arm. Sweet. And then that's one beat.

10. So that's a 10. And then it shatters. And then it does two, where the fuck is it? 2d6 damage as well. Okay, to her and everyone in a five foot radius. Right. So yeah.

And that guy's like that guy's like that. How much damage? Mm. What was the same was the front ball? It was... 31. Good points of fire damage. Cool, and that's four points of damage to both.

Both of them? All right, gotcha. Well, four points damage is enough, as these shards of ice from the back of Alara's torso explode into the spray of jagged ice chunks, it just pierces continuously the right side of this dwarf, who then falls to the ground, kind of gasping at his wounds and trying to stand his feet before falling over unconscious, right there.

Please help me. And I have greater invisibility, so I'm still visible, I just peek back behind the rock. Mysterious fireball, ice tag, or source? Okay. You come to consciousness in extreme pain as your entire body is immersed briefly inflamed. I'm going to that in a second.

Vex. Okay, I'm going to use my feet cunning action for one extra action per turn of combat use for either dash, disengage or hide. So I'm going to double distance and go one, two, three, four, five. I can't see here, six maybe, seven, eight, nine, ten. Stop right here by Clorota.

Clorota. Clorota. And dagger, dagger at this jerk face over here. Right here. All right. That was stealthed, by the way. Right, roll stealth check. All right. Okay, and I'm going to use luck.

Okay, so stealth is 23. Okay. Okay, so, and he hasn't gone yet. So for the assassination, assassinate feat for rogues, if he hasn't gone yet, this is a critical hit. In theory, combat already began when he attacked the rest of your party.

So. Okay. Combat's begun. Sorry. Sorry. So no. He says if you have the jump, if you go before the person's gone,

but we can talk about that later. But they've already attacked half your party with a line blast. In theory, the battle's already gone. Okay, so Keen dagger flying to the air. All right. Oh, I didn't hit to attack. Okay, so that hits.

16 plus 27. That definitively hits, yes. Okay, so three plus two five, seven. And that is 32 plus 36 total. 36 points of damage. All right. So the mind flayer, which is, after it finishes a mine blast, you could see it beginning to eye

what its next target would be. As Percy goes running off to the side, it looks over at its three freshly stunned prey and begins to lumber towards, it looks to be either Pike or Vex. He's gonna try to suck its brain! Before it gets a chance to advance though, out of nowhere, your dagger pierces it in its shoulder. It looks down and grasps for it. As its hand tries to pull the dagger out, the dagger just disappears in a plume of black shadow energy back into your hand as you throw the other dagger.

Oh, sorry, ass wipe. Uh, okay, that is a 19. 19 does also hit. And that is a eight of damage. All right. The other dagger, the creature actually puts up a little bit of a psychic field for a second, and it stops its momentum as it does still manage to strike it, but with nowhere near the damage you were hoping it would.

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The Queen, and this Derogar here has not acted yet. All right. I'm going to just bum-rush the Queen. Yes. All right. and just dive for her. All right. Just dive full head-on, straight for her,

and bear hug her with banishment. Oh, yeah, baby! I love banishment. Okay. You know, you could cast it from a distance. No, you're supposed to be touched. Is it? Yeah, it's a touch spell.

All right. So, what's your spell D.C.? Are you, I'm using your handcon? I do most things through that. As you charge forward, you plight your enchanted hand cone and shout the incantation towards her with an angry glare. Oh, get lost! Oh my god!

Is it a DC of 19 for that? Really? Oh, my god. OK. Even with her spell resistance, she does not resist it. It's not you, it's me. Is it intelligence or wisdom safe?

Oh, ah. I don't know things. Target of playing resistance. I don't know. Where does it say? You should say what saving for you? Find it. I will do this for you.

On a charisma saving throw, or be banished. So if there's anything but a charisma saving throw, she would have shrugged it. Charisma, she does not have in spades. As you reach out, she pulls back, you can see her beginning to form this crackling bolt of energy you've seen once before in the throne room that shot out and hit multiple members of your party

once for a severe amount of damage. This would have been a very dangerous round. If you hadn't have connected with her right in the front of her clavicle, she looks at you with this look of confusion and completely caught off guard frustration before her entire form blinks out of existence and it's no longer visible on the board. Bardad.

Yes! Get the hell out of there. Do I get my bonus? I'm gonna give inspiration to Grog because he needs it. All right. So Grog, as you, the flames died down, you look over and watch the Scaling just rush up and completely, as far as you know, disintegrate the Düraguar Queen

who took you and has been 12. torturing you these past few days. Wow. With that, he looks over you and gives you a little wink and a smile. Go ahead and take an inspiration dice, which for him is now a D10. Oh, next to a good. Oh, yeah. Upgrade, yoke.

Thank you. So you now have that inspiration ice, any ability checks, any skill checks, and you're going to stay in frozen through iron bar or something. Okay, thank you. All right, well, it would be a Lars turn. Alara's turn. She's going to go ahead and him to make her saving throw. Does not make it? It's still just somewhere in some other plane. She's in a better place. Kila, it's your turn.

All right, I'm going to phase through the ground because I can. Yeah. And pop up right there next to Grog. All right. Grog, you all of a sudden, as you look over from Scanlon with a smiling face, this giant mountain of rock and earth just lumberes up out of the ground. Oh shit. And in rock speak, I say, Grog! Grog is okay, it's Keeleith. I still won't really grasp that

we have a first time doing a mental form, you're still figuring out. So seeing that he's still tied up, I'm just going to pick up the whole crate and put him over my sh- Now I'm gonna football carry him like this. Okay. Wait, is he on something?

He's on a big, he's strapped to a giant cart. And she's carrying the whole thing? Yeah. Awesome. Earth Elemental. Awesome. So you're there now. You still have about, what's the speed of?

30. 30. So you got about, say, 10 more squares. Or I'm sorry, 10 more feet, you can go. I'm gonna start football Russian that way. This way? Mm-hmm. All right, one, two.

All right, there we go. We're not being carried with this giant lumbering Earth Elemental that's just bringing you under its arm. Great, Vex. Do you make your saving throw? Oh, okay. Mm-hmm. Intelligence.

What's intelligence? Yeah, intelligent saving throw. She's be of the time. 23. 23. Using your mind, you shrug off. Yes! You're made with the ability.

That does in your turn, but you're no longer stunned, which is nice. That's great. That's the end of my turn. Do I roll it for Trinket too? Yes, Trinin' as well, thank it. Little trink is for a little mini dice. Oh, I don't think he got it.

No, he still rolled a name. Yeah, so Trigot is still on the ground, like slowly digging. His nose is the dirt. Dirk trying to find a way to . Not more damage, but currently it's just unable to function. Streaming a puny. He's dreaming of pain.

Yeah, very, very bad news. He's dreaming of sad. Okay, that brings this to Pike. Is you also gonna try to make a saving throw? Fails it, unfortunately. Pike is still now like dropped her shield, dropped her mace, and just clutching the side of her head, screaming silently as the pain is just racking her brain

on the inside. That brings us to this Duraghar, who's going to rush over to the one who just banished his queen, an attempt to, as he meets his physical form against his swell with strength and frustration, the Durgar swings at you with his war pick. That is... Oh, don't hit me! I cast a little...

What is it? Cutting words? Cutting words? Okay. So it's a 16. Go ahead and roll your... D10, ever? Oh, that's D10?

Yeah. I've never rolled a D10 before. How you have! There you got one. This is a D10? Yeah. So it's a 16. Oh!

It was a four. It was a four, so it takes that down from 60 to a 12, which does miss. He misses. So as he rushes towards you. Oh, don't hit me. He stops for a second, can confuse, like, he pushed the war to make down for a second,

like, wait, wait, oh. You gnome! He does not know why he listened to you, and it's equally frustrated with himself now as he is you. So good. All right, that ends the Durgars. turn. That brings us to...

No, no, no, no. Oh, no. Oh, yeah. This is going to be... Kima is going to try and make it. Khrasehaving throw. Kima does make it. It does shrug off. The effect, turns around angrily, holding the great sword that you gave or staring off at the... The... ...their... ...their...

...clerota, however, is going to go ahead and turn this way. Yes. Yes! ...coelice a giant ball of electrical energy into his hand and release, an arcing blast of lightning energy, towards this mine flare, who does make its saving throw. However, it's still a nice 8D6 lightning damage. Do they know each other or their friends? Not anymore.

I think that guy dated Clorote as his girlfriend. So points of lightning damage. As the blue energy arcs off and you see grounds itself on the incline of this tunnel, you guys, of heading down the mineflare visibly is like burned, charred, wounded. It looks really, really rough. That ends chlorote's turn. Kima's turned back to the top of the round. The mind flayer looks at a certain circumstance.

Puts its hands together like this, seems to concentrate. I see it, I canterspell! Yes! Yes! Well, then... Okay. All right. It's a reflex. Well done.

Ah, yeah. Yes, I am. Counterspell in this edition is so good. That's great. All right, so this would be counterspell tip of hoods. Rock, big, scissors. Big money, no way.

All right, counter spells. So, all right, so go ahead and make an ability check using your entity 20 plus 5 to it. It's no numbers. Oh, there we go. What is that? 22. 22? That'll do it.

So as this entity you've seen before, they tend to like create this small, localized portal into some other plane and then step through and vanish. You see it against a coalesce the same arcane energy. and for a moment you see a spark of some sort of door we begin to open as Tiberius steps from behind the rock, releases this torrent of sparkling arcane energy that closes the gate entirely, and the mind flare for a second looks confused before it across the way to wherever it came from and sees nothing.

Oh, so sorry. Oh, you're still invisible. So sad. It's so sad. And is going to turn tail and run. Just running? With this beep? Can I shoot him?

You ran? It's floating. It's floating. Well, yeah. They all levitating away. Does he have a goofy run? Oh. It's more, it's a gliding.

It's a, about five or six inches off the ground. Shoot him. Pursy, you're up. Shoot him, Percy. Okay, I'm going to take a step towards, is that, who's a buggering Scanlan over there? Dür. It's a Dura guard.

I'm just going to take a one, I'm going to take a shot at him really quickly. Don't hit me. Okay. Not going to hear it. Isn't it hard to see him right now? There's a big tent in the way. If you want to take a step forward. I'll take a step forward.

I'm going to continue moving. This is going to be a running shot. Don't. Don't run. As you turn, pull you're going off the side and kind of offhand fire. 18. 18 does hit. Nois. I don't like that noise. That's a... Don't go anywhere. That's nine damage. Nine damage, all right.

And I'm going to shoot again. All right. 18. 18, that also hits. Bad news. Eight damage. Bad news has not come out yet. This is just Just my little pepper. All right, so as you turn the corner, you fire once, take another step forward, go click over the next barrel, fire a second time, the Duragar, which was attacking you.

You see part of him is still burnt from the fireball that was tossed the first round. He's frustrated and anger that you caused him to somehow lower his guard on the back to the west. Shearing up for another two-handed strike down under this tiny gnome character in front of him. The first blow hits the war pick, knocking him out of his hands. He looks over confused at you as the second blast hits him right

the side of the face completely destroying this side of his head entirely. This wet burgle as the Durga slumps into the ground almost on top of you. You step out of the way as his body just puss, hits the ground. Nice. Nice. Nice sight. Where does he get such wonderful toys? I make them.

Tiberius? Um, you know, want to chase it? No, I don't. I'm going to slink my way back to all the way to the other, behind the other rock. Over here? Towards everybody. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, there you go. There you go.

And yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, do do do, do, do, do, do, I'm gonna, yeah, screw it. I'll do another fireball at the illithing going right. What do you think you're going? Okay. So, as you fired this beam over here, detonates in the distance, safely far enough away from the party, go ahead and roll damage to that fireball.

That's the minor flare that's drifting away, kind of glanced over her shoulder, You see its kind of greenish-glowing eyes go wide for a second, cartoon style. Oh shit! Can you go fireball? As you do it. I lose it.

I'm looking. All right. With its advantage against the spell, it's a dexterity save, correct? Yeah, so that's . Thank you. 19. 19.

All right, 19 damage? Yep. Okay, as the mind player is drifting away, you guys see this arc of red kind of beaming energy. off the distance, you see rocks cascade off the top of the wall, hitting the ground with a force as the entire tunnel shakes and rocks. As the smoke and the flames dissipate, all you see is this pile of blackened creature on the ground from where the mind flare wants to.

Oh, peace out! Mind gobbler. Is that everybody? Fellows, gather around. She might come back at any moment, and we should be here to surround her when she comes home. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's someone get Grog out of that thing. Oh, crap, I forgot about that one.

So, uh, where we get Grog? Well, while they're all doing this, what do you want to do? Oh, am I still chained up to the car? Yeah, you're still like, these iron bands are across your entire body. Being carried by a North Velvet.

Uh, um, excuse me, giant rock thing. Could you perhaps get me out of this? Shit. I start hiking back towards the, uh, Brog. Is Pike and Trinket still? Are they still stunned or are they better? Fliers dead. They've trucked it off by now.

Okay. Then I ran over and try to see what I can do. Laura still can't make her saving throw for the life before. Even with resistance. Can I go try to mess with the things on? Well, yeah, as you guys kind of approach, making your way up to the front and here. Hey, I'm just going for it.

Grab these very good. I'm helping. And I'll move on the other side of that rock so I can see better and have line of sight. Over here? Yes. No, no, on the that side, yeah. Okay.

All right, so as the rest of you all slowly trudge up and kind of gather around this vicinity. Rogue, are you hurt? I can't tell yet. I'm just to keep me behind this. There? All right. I'm still in this wonderful therapeutic chair.

So you go ahead and you try and pull the bars off? What are you doing? Are they bars? No, I'm running up. I'm going to pull out my lockpicks. It's a wooded car. Come on. Oh, I'm going to work in.

Okay, I'm gonna check it out. Maybe bust the wood on the bottom. Yeah, just smash the card. Oh, he can pick a lock. This one I do. Oh, is there a lock on the bars? Yeah. Yeah, there's like, there's an intricate lock.

Try that first before I like suplexed grog. All right, so the irrefellmental lumber's for presents the cart to the ground in front of you. One of the wheels kind of... Cracks a little bit in the process. A little space. Give me a little space. Let me look at this. Where is he did?

The rock thing is peed in. Trap on his bands. Okay. Good one. That is, um... She could come back at any second, hurry up! Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh. It's a 17.

She does come back. I'm switching out, guys. 17? Yeah. Okay, uh, they appear to be just general. And are there lock and traps in them? Is chicken, you start picking away? There is a lock on him, yeah. Go ahead and make your, uh.

He's like almost dead. Can you heal? Do you need? 19. 19. The band that's part way across the waist, it just kind of opens really on the hinge on the one side. Is there just one?

Yeah, just that was the one he did. Oh my god. Go ahead and make an athletics check. I mean, there's multiple bands around you. Just want to cross your shoulders, your torso, your legs, your ankles. Alright, I'll move down to the next one. Does anybody have feelings?

Oh, 25. And a 25 on my lockback for me. Okay, you get a second band. You roll 25. And Marisha, do you want to go ahead and make an athletics check as well? Or should make a straight check for you? For what? For your form, you're all left for form,

to try and pull the bands off of garage. Okay. I'm going to recommend to Pike that she do a bit of healing. Pike, can you heal Trinket? He's really almost dead. Is Pike okay? Mike comes over and is to spend a third level healing spell. She's quiet.

I failed. He failed what? Life. Oh wow, yeah you did. Strength check. Okay. Trinket heals 21. You're a weak.

Back is moving to the next band. That's a 24. I got a 25 does I not have. Yeah, between the two of you over the next few seconds, So you pick the next one and with that remaining push on you, you just force the rest of the bands off. I like so. Roggey, make it way up to your feet.

There we go. This point in time, there's a slight ripple in the space right before this fire pit and in that same place, Ullara, Queen Ullara, reappears again. Hold her! Waiting for it! Take her alive. Can I grab her?

Can we do something? Can we react to this? I'm reacting. Oh, I see it. And I cast hold person. Okay. All right, as you finish the spell, you can see this kind of glow of yellowish holding energy, almost like these mystical shackles begin to tighten around her,

and then fade unaffected. I also can release the arrow! I also cast hold person. Okay, as you go ahead and roll the whole over your attack. All right. 29. 29. Okay, that does hit.

You can see now the second center shackles spins around her. She brings her hand up like this. and they just scatter around her, resisting the second whole person. Now all the good saving throws are coming through. Can you grab her as an Earth elemental? Just like, um, uh, if you want to. So damage on these hack? A hunter's marker as well.

Oh, there you go. See I chat room? What is that? 13? 12. 12 plus that 16 total. 16 total. 16 damage, all right.

I'm gonna take a headshot with bad news. We-h-h-h-hurt. Oh, are you doing some? We need to talk. Okay, okay. I bear hugger. All right, so go ahead and make an athletics check. I'll sit.

I don't have that. I know, but so it's just a strength check then. Roll the 20, add the strength modifier as a. Ooh, that's better. 23. 23. 23. You bound up behind.

as she looks over her shoulder, like the arrow piercing her shoulder. She's looking really rough. You see the blood beginning to kind of pull underneath her robe there. Her eyes go wide with... It would be in your best interest to not struggle. At which point, the giant arms go behind her and the earth elemental lifts her off of her feet, and she...

You see her now her feet dangling angrily in the air. A couple seconds passed before she... All right. So, let's make a deal, shall we? You're in no place to negotiate. Yes, we have everything. that we've come here for. What can you possibly offer us

that we don't already have? Valid point. What purpose do I serve here? You should let me go. Let you go? I tried to talk to you and you almost tried to get us killed. Box-Markin, our purposes of here are done, but Lady Kima, she has further to go, and I am curious,

Your Highness, if you know anything about this Kavan chap or gal or thing, we've heard What is his or her name? They seem to be famous in these parts. I was wondering if you know anything about Kavan. Are you rolling persuasion for this? Yes, I am. So well.

That's a two. So bad. She goes, she kind of leans forward a little bit and then just spits right in your face. I kind of, um. Clarota, do you want to suck her mind? I tighten my grip on her just a bit. Sally, would you come up and talk to this?

I'm already here. Nice person. Which steps forward and just kind of brings his hand up. Oh, that's true. We don't need her. We just need her brain, right? Right. Yeah.

As Clodda steps forward, putting his hand out, this voice kind of echoes through all of your minds community. You know. What you know? You see his eyes flicker with a strange blue energy. Yeah, Professor X. And he's gotta eat.

And you see Olar's eyes glaze over and fill the same blue arcane energy that Clorota was briefly having drift out of his eyes. Ulara stops struggling, and the mouth goes into this weird grin for a second and just calmly says, liberation. Liberation is what it brings us. Liberation from physical limitation. Liberation from the pain of the light. She looks up, as she says that, we all shall rise. Kavarn, the guiding darkness, the sun shall hold no sway, and we shall walk the surface once again. What is all this papycock? What is Kavan?

To us, showed us how, through unification, we could be better than we ever were. I didn't ask what he did. I asked what he is. Kavarn. At which point there's a shutter in her body, and the eyes go from the strange blue color to this strange swimming. black that covers the entirety of each eye. At which point she kind of shakes for a second. Her shoulders shift and you can clutch her in your arms. As you do, you see the blackness now has that same kind of green glow

that the rest of them had, but it's kind of framing the pools of shadow that her eyes have become. Her jaw falls slack for a second and this voice comes through. There we are. I can see you all so clearly. Not me. You'd be surprised, Ragamorn. Oh, you're pretty good. Word has reached my ears.

But to see you, to look upon you is every, as my guests. I invite you. The temple doors are open. I like to see you in person. Can you be more specific? Do we go left or right? No, so specific. You're already on the right path.

Unterasured guests. Which point the blackness in the eyes begins to intensify and begin to spill like black tears from the face. Her body shudders before the back kind of convulses and then falls limp. A little bit of smoke rising from the mouth. I check her pulse. She is definitely given up the ghost.

I'm trying to hear there. Does she have anything awesome long that we can take? I wasn't going to say it. You're looting her already? I was waiting for someone else to say it. What a mercenary. It's dead, can we take her armor? All right.

Ah, man. All right, so as you guys glance around, you find, other than the usual assortment of objects, you find the armored Durigar, the emberhold make. Vaxel down is going to go pick at the char remains. pick at the charred remains of the I'm going into the tent to look. I want to check out the queen. Okay.

You go and check out the charred remains. They are charred. There are remains. There is a what looks to be about 86 gold in the body, but most anything of use has been chartered destroyed. There is the remnants of a breast plate that has burnt over that most of the mine flares use is a basic form of protection.

As you inspect her body, as the Earth's Ellen drops her with a thud to the ground. I rolled an 184 kind of, I was on it. Okay. You do notice there is a silver circle across her forehead that does give off a sort of magical aura. Shidy.

She carries on her one viscous kind of reddish potion that is familiar to you in the kind of healing of various potions you've had in the past. It is a potion of greater healing. Ooh. Yeah, we haven't used the yellow potion. Yeah. And nobody ever drank that?

No. There is another potion that has all almost a blue frosty color to it. As you take the vial from where it sits in the rest, the actual glass that contains the liquid has a layer of frost crystals around it. I'm gonna remember it this. You're the one who suggests drinking

random yellow liquids, and I'm gonna bring you a vial of yellow liquids. Make an investigation check. Can I also check as well as the, we already check the queen? You already check the queen? Yes. He's almost done checking the queen.

The elf and the dwarf that we do. I ask Pike to heal me because I look like a game of Tic-Tac-Ttoe. Okay. I know, we should check on Graeme. Oh, no, don't think of me, please. I'm only even fucking missing for two weeks. You're standing up. I'm so happy you're back with us.

But I really want to see what you're 13. Okay. Munch. Can't seem to find anything out of the remains of mind flare, unfortunately. I dropped my earth elemental form, really. Okay. The earth around your form seems to just crumble,

like a layer of rock. Hits the ground and kind of dissolves into the stone See, I told you, is Kiliv? Were you watching? Were you watching? Grog, you weren't watching. Oh, totally watched. It was amazing what you did.

Could you do it again? I, after we take a short rest. I think this counts. It is probably just a short rest. It looks like there is some traveling blankets, some furs. You do also find a small case that contains a bunch of empty vials. There is one filled vial, a very large. large vial.

That's cool. That's cool. Oh, superior. All right. Great. And you find... Oh, is that? What's that?

What's your little piece? What the hell? Everyone's a little pieces of favor. I placed a circlet on my head. What is it? What is it? You can't have it with an iron stone either, by the way.

It's one or the other. I thought it was a... It's a head slot. Like, you have to... They both can't try the same space. And for iron stones I could have up to three, and that head stone. Right.

Okay. Maybe give it to Scanlan. Scanlan, do you have anything in your head slot? Just my conning wit? I don't even know what a head slot is. It's where a hat. For the time being, I take off the ion sun, I dissipate it. Okay.

Good on. Okay. Well, can you share? This essentially allows me to... No. Anyone who wears it. Anyone who wears it? Can maintain two concentration smells for two rounds.

That's great for you. Oh, yeah. Really good for you. Wait, what was the other thing that you just took off? Could you do that chair where I feel a lot better after you do it? Hi, I'm sorry, God goes over and place some of these back. Yes, she's on. If we don't have a head spot.

As she's about to, chemo, kind of puts her aside. I've got this. Walks up and you can see this divine glowing energy fills her hands, she reaches out and touches you, and this warmth fills it. This warmth fills your torso using her lame hands ability. ability. Stop it.

Maybe Kima, a board, heals you for 30 points of damage. Oh, 20 for the day. Oh, yeah, it's good. Did I find anything on the other people? Thank you, Pima. You look through the bodies, there looks like most of their adornments other than the natural armor and weapons that they have. Nothing of particular interest. Make an investigation check. Wait, I get to go twice because it's under death.

That was great. I took one of my head dies too. Now I'm almost pregnant. 16? Yeah, you're not really pull anything from their bodies, unfortunately. However, after Kima finishes healing you, Kima walks over to the dwarf corpse as you're inspecting it. And kind of gives it a look over and shakes her head. What do you see, Kema? This is one of my companions.

Oh, no. Well, judging by the scars across his body, uh... He had already been made a thrall of one of the fillet. Most likely the one that finished out of him. He was already a thrall. There wasn't much to really bring him back at this point, I fear. Is that what they would have done to Grog? And as you guys all look at Grogna, you can see him.

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This is Mick Unplug, the voice and face of modern leadership entrepreneur, and self-improvement. Let's get started. Have we done some healing? Has healing been done? You guys get short rest if you want to heal yourself. Yes, yes, yes. This is the time for an intermission. Oh, it is? Yeah.

Is it what time is it? It's 820. I mean, it's 824. Did she abuse my naughty bits? It's just begun. Mom, I know, it feels so. It's just begun. Right in the battle. I wanted to talk to my team.

Okay. We can either talk now or we can talk after break. Let's talk about... Vax is walking off into the distance to urinate on a stalagmite or a stalactite, whatever is the one on the ground. Okay. Well, we'll leave for Vax in the bag. We'll bring them to...

Just talk loudly. Well, I don't... Where's chemo? She's like right here. Kima's with you. Kima is still looking over the body of the dwarf that's falling in time. Oh, that's a relief. Oh.

Oh. Do you know what you do? Kima, earmuffs, Kima. No, that's awkward. You want me to distract her? It's like the longest pee ever. Shocking. I'll distract her.

I'll distract her. I can, I might be better like that. Whoa. Okay. Kima, can you, can you take a walk with me? Can you take a walk with me? I would like to persuade you to take away. Don't take his money.

It's okay. Go and make persuasion. You just go and walk off and tell us. 24. Okay. Kima gives you a concern to look and goes... It's just, there's this thing on my body. I thought maybe you could take a look at it and you could tell me if it's good or bad.

Oh dear. No, no, no. Do not drop the mark. And the two of you begin to walk away for a moment, away from the party briefly while the rest of you are left behind too. Scanlan, do you have an hearing? I have an hearing. Okay. So you say I'm looking here.

I use my minor. my minor illusion to create like a purple third nipple on me that I sort of show her and asks her if it's okay Okay, things are going to be a little weird Oh Is this normal? None of this is normal I mean it's just I trust you I feel like I know you You know we had that thing back there and then

Kielit was yelling at you what was that all about? I mean it's just I trust you I feel like I know you, I know you know? I know we had that thing back there and then Kielit was that all about We're all, there are a lot of duress. Let's girl talk. Let's go on more things, people have emotions, and I understand that. It's all right. And she kind of, she pulls the leather gloves off that are part of the leather armor set

and it kind of gets to inspect you. In the meantime, you guys continue your discussion. I think we should get out of here. What? Why? Look, we've got it wrong. We've got, we've got Keeam. We came here to find Kima. That was our mission. I don't, I don't trust her.

We found her, but we can't leave without her. So I'm walking back from my pee, and I've overheard this. We were sent here to bring back Keema. And now you should abandon her? She's not going to come with us until we've killed this Karah. That's true. What's your problem with Kima? Yeah.

Well, look, she's been... She just gave me the wrong vibe up front. Okay, vibe. What did she do? She's been very rude. She's been very tortured. She's been very tortured, Keyleth. Right. But look, look, what happened.

She's brought countless, countless people down here, only to meet their end. Well, none of those people are us. Right, but not yet. They met their end because they got captured. We're stronger. You know something we don't, Keel. Look, all I know is that only a fool believes that his path is the most virtuous. See, and he's got an intelligence of six.

I want to use my... I wish I'd check on Keelip. Okay. I want to see her intentions. Ooh! Inside the group check! I love it! 14.

A 14. All right. You reached her up. Sneaky, sneaky, you do it. The whisper! The first whisper! Get back on camera! Get on camera!

Over here, over here, over here. Whisper in camera. He used to do this all the time. When shit goes down and all of his can't know, You know, he whispers and he sticks his tongue in your ear a little bit. It's really nice. I can't cheat, I can't cheat, but I really want to listen. What was that shit about?

Now I'm madly. Hey, everyone, buy a t-shirt. That was messed up. Subscribe to Geek and Sundry. Support Felicia Day. As you finish your statement as well, Kila, Clorota steps up and says, I wholeheartedly agree. She is unstable.

Cannot be trusted in her state. Look. Hold on a second. That's unfair. That's unfair. Why? It's been a long road. I know you've had a hard time.

We all have. I know we're miles below the surface of the world. We're together. We are family. And everyone here is here for you as you have been for us. Now I say we camp for the night inside this Schmuck's tent. We stay here, we rest up, sleep on it, and see how we're all feeling in the morning. We're here for you, Keelah.

And we will protect you as you have protected us. You've got a family with us. How do we know we're doing the right thing? Still invisible, I go... We've killed a lot of people, you guys. We killed a lot of people. Who in this world is without fault? Who hasn't made mistakes?

We certainly all have. We're keeping him, Kavan, from... How do we know we're not just... Interfering with issues that aren't our own? We didn't know of any of this until we came down here. And look, she wants to take the horn. She wants to take the horn. She wants to... the horn and she wants to take it back herself. The bottom line is, all of this insanity is going to bubble up to the surface if someone doesn't stop it.

All those creatures that have been coming up, Keen. Remember, think back. It has already begun and no one is here to stop it except for Voxmachana. Us. We promise we will heed your warning, but we can't run. We will heed it, though. We got your back. We made her deal. I understand you, Cloroda. and I'm on your side, I swear. But a lot of people, there have been a lot of murderers who said did the things that they did

because their gods told them to do it. Right? We'll be cautious and we'll have you to protect us. I go, I dissipate, invisible, and I poach, Kuleth. Your Highness, by the honor of all stormings, I will let nothing happen to you.

I swear it, it will fight till my death. And I have ways, of course, to get us all out of you whenever I damn well please. That's true. That's true. Do not worry. This horn can't make it back up to the surface. You guys have to promise me that. We'll keep the horn from leaving.

She wants to take it back. Why? If it's that bad, why does she want it? That may be so evil that is the surface of the world will stretch up to everything we know. And I know that you have made mistakes. I have certainly made mistakes. That is to live. There is more at stake right now,

and we are the front line. We're the only ones that can stop it. Mistakes are all right. God in darkness will blot out the light. I just hope we're not the darkness. No, do you need light? Oh, so. Is it? I'm sorry.

Thanks, Tiberius. Thank you. I'm not sure what this is. I'm sorry. There's one more thing I need you to look at. It's just, it's just, I cast polymorph on myself, giving myself a gigantic dick. And I slowly pull down my pants. Pima immediately turns around and says, okay, I'm...

And walks back to the group. What did I say? What did I say? You can't keep it in for two seconds. I just, it's my way. I mean, not that I blame you, my God. I think we're all a little afraid. I think we need to rest.

My unconscious. Let's set up camp. Yeah, let's get. Kema steps in his point is, I agree. We have quite a journey ahead of us. At which point, Clorito, Pipe's evidence is. You far from Yacht, O'Rill. Kimmer, I just wanted to apologize.

I came across too harshly the night. She puts her hand up and kind of, in a matronly way. It's honestly not a worry. War is stressful, and all of us have been there. through a lot through this experience. I understand. I've been where you've been, and it's not uncommon to question everything around you. And with good reason, that's what keeps you alive.

For you to believe every person that crossed your path, you would not have made it past your 15th season. I can assure you as best as I can, that I mean the best for all of us. I just know that if we don't do what we're here to do, Far more people will suffer than the few I've brought down here to protect me. I'm not asking for your trust. Just asking for your patience.

I can grant you that. Only if you promise to grant us respect in return. We were a little untrusting of what we were doing up front, which I once again understand, but... You caught me at a rough time. So... Same here. Well, thank you.

I'm sorry. Scanlan. What is that? Oh, this bulge down here. That's bedtime, is what that is. All right, everyone, let's go ahead and find ourselves to rest. Bravo, bravo. All right, so as everyone goes to camp up for the evening,

we'll go ahead and take a break. So after an evening's rest, taking your respective turns, keeping watch, all of you come to consciousness once more. Corota anxiously sits at the edge of the camping, so they're looking deeper into the tunnel ahead, just keeping his eyes killed with the darkness.

I check under below my belt because the spell has worn off, and I'm back down to my normal one and a half inches. Which on a no. It's pretty big. It's pretty big. It's pretty big. All right.

Thank you. Length and GER. Oh, God. What? It's like a square. Yes. You're like a crushed coat. Anyway.

Oh, my God. Anyway, as you guys, I'll eventually come to consciousness and finish cooking whatever bits of food you've managed to muster at this point in time in the Under Dark. It's donuts. Yeah, it is donuts. Under donuts. In any other food, fair way. By the way, all those who contributed to getting us food tonight, thank you so much.

Thank you. Thank you. So good. So good. Corota seems slightly impatient at the edges. Everyone's waking up and goes, come. Ahead we shall find it, york, Voreal. That's your city?

Beautiful city of secrets. I thought not people had thrown you out. Why is there eager to get back? Without the colony, I serve no purpose. I am less I wished returned. To be fair, he was only thrown out once Kavan took over the old. And then see a little spark of arcane blue kind of filter out of his fingers into the air and then a small spark.

My people consider on Nithma, and they shall have me. And if they don't. Well, yes, it makes perfect sense. Colota, I would think they would, aren't you a hero's welcome as well? If not, you have the home of us. In the forest of fungus, our destination. It begins to drift down into the dark tunnel further below. We follow.

Yeah, we follow. I followed behind him, and as we call it, I'm like, are you using, like, levitation or what? How are you, is this like how you... It's how we... Tehrout. This tentacles kind of flickered his face for a second. As you guys continued forward in silence,

Kavarn seems to be more chatty than usual, almost like the proximity. This is excitement to him instinctually. Did you mean clearotope? Did you mean clerotope? I meant clorote. He slept on the town. I was like, oh, she's driving.

He slipped up the town before and he screwed us over with a sneaky, sneaky. I know. It's been a long week. He's here. I know. Sorry. Oh no. Clothed drifts.

Um, our people, we are at structured society. We provide for each other pleasantly. Can he drifts forward again at full pace? Clarote seems... I'm worried for him. Worried for him. Yes. for his effect on the group.

I'm worried that they will do to his state. Well, the bottom line is, we have a pretty clear goal, and everything else will have to be figured out afterward. Yes. I still follow clear, and I'm like, so is it like, you do you do with your mind, or is it just like you taught it as a child to, like,

you know, levity. It's inherent, much like your gifts. It's just how we get around. Kavon, the God in darkness. I want to rack my brain to think if I've ever had any lessons or if that name has ever come up in any of my reading. All right. Let me be a history check.

Super, super history check. Come on. No, where it is. Super. That's 13. 13. 13? That's not Madi Yoko.

The name is as fresh to you as it was the day you heard it. I walk over to Lady Kima and I say, How's their great sort been treating you? She walks and she's kind of using it almost like a stick in the dirt as she takes your step. You know, it's so, it's purpose so far. I just... Leather isn't my idea of a...

Defensive. Would you fancy a trade, Kima? I have Elvin Shane mail if that would help you. I could take that leather arm off your hands. But you'll be vulnerable, won't you? No, actually, the chain mail isn't right for me. Certainly. I said she looks to you as specific playing.

Stick figure. Stick figure. It's like. Got it. We're good. Perhaps we'll find out a more modest place to swap, but yes, I agree. But in your mind. I can make you a modest spot.

Groh, are you skinning a boar over there? Yeah, that's what they call it in some countries. You summon the staples, frog. So, all right, so as you continue to press forward deeper into this tunnel network, the air begins to grow steadily colder and colder and cold. The temperature itself, you begin to see your breath a little bit in the air. I might as mistaken, is there like you're really damaged still? Like you have no, I'm

slept. You guys all slip there. Yeah, we can feel that. The scars are, because the visual scars are still there, but he's full, but he's feeling slow. As I noticed, everybody with the knowledge of medicine should try to give a whack it to some of those. No, no, no, no. No, no. Oh, you know what, before we go any further, I remind Pied Cosmetic. Oh, it's cosmetic? Vax's foot damage needs daily repair, doesn't it? It's true.

Oh, yes, of course. And she comes over and you guys take a slight break as Pike comes and sets you down. It's not pretty to look at. She's seen all right. You've seen that. Wait, what happened to your foot? Oh my God. Oh my God.

Oh my God. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. It's fine except the pinky toe. He's got a little pinky nubbin. Pinky toe is a noven now. You know, we could just just. Take care of the whole thing right now. Right.

No, that's the piece of the purpose. Not necessary. All right. Right. I'm thirsty to make me a replacement first. Make a little metal toe. That's what I say. A little metal toe.

Hi, could you hook a brother up? Certainly, she kind of sets the foot down, she begins to gather up for her two and just guessing. Fourth Level. She should have done it before we went to sleep. I, but a lot. She's not here.

Sorry, Ashley. She did it that. Okay, so that would be the equivalent of about 32 hit points. She's also one to attempt a medicine roll. Yes. Well, okay. You notice there is some progress

that is slow, but some of the burn scarring from the dip in the magma is beginning to slowly subside. Fresh skin is beginning to show. It still smells amazing. It's still pretty rough. So if you could just... It does smell amazing, actually.

Get that all. Check that. It's like a weasel on your leg. Plyrata, are we planning on going to yours? village before we go see Kavana or are we going up to Kavan first I'm confused Kavan retides within the city oh is he a mine player then I believe I mean is he is he like you I've not seen him myself I was cast out before he took his time he took my people under his spells just to be clear the temple of what

you can't list for for a for a second oh we don't know it's a Purpose city we acquire sit long before. That's good to know. That's very good to know. Thank you. He's floating forward. There, still chilly, with steadily more and more moisture. The rock walls become less and less jagged,

growing smoother from endless years of condensation, mineral trip and slow erosion, and begin to get that smooth inner cave look to the outsides of this tunnel. As we walk, Vax falls in next to Kila. Kila. Sorry. Yes?

What? What? Are you all right? I'm doing okay. Why? Everything he said last night was true. Where have you? We're having a discussion of how best to go about this.

While that happens, can I use my primeval awareness to, um, since if I see any dragons in the city coming up in front of us? Certainly. So as you're walking, you see the group kind of slows with you as you have to really maintain concentration on this. You close your eyes and you consider. You sense no sources of dragon within the radial of your ability to sense in this cavern structure. Are our feet leaving footbraids? A subtle ones. In front of a bitch, just a trace, this is everywhere.

I've missed our little flower girl. I know. What you got me? I also want to just put something out on the headsets really quickly. But we get into the city. I need everyone to promise that we're not going to enter the temple. No one rush in, no one be brash. No one make a poor decision.

We're going to wait. No matter what happens, don't enter the temple. until we've all had a moment to figure out what's happening. No one be a Yahoo. Agreed. I think it's a trap. If there's going to be a trap, it's going to be getting us into the temple. He wants us.

He literally invited us into the temple. So don't go to the temple. We walk to the temple, we don't enter the temple. So enter the temple. Go to the temple. Understood. Understood. Excellent. As at this point, you're beginning to notice,

in the tunnel of the self, the cavern is kind of, swaying back and forth a little bit with this, as opposed to a straight path in tunnel, it's being to the arc left and right. There's little pockets and crevices beginning to show at certain points. You start seeing small bits of bluish crystal jutting in small pockets out of cracks in the rock.

Did you say that there was like mushrooms, like a mushroom forest, like a fungus? Chlorote yesterday mentioned like a fungal forest. But we haven't seen it yet. Fungers. But we're starting to go into crystal caverns. Starting to find bluish crystals. which piked and makes an ocean.

Yes, I saw this in my vision too. Oh, I remember. Can I touch some of the crystals and see, I mean, are they removable? You reach out and touch the crystal, as you do. Go ahead and, no, okay. The dick move. I love it.

I love it. You reach out and touch the crystal, and it's cold to the touch, as is most of the stone wall. And you can see there's like condensation on it that kind of gets in your fingers a bit. It's smooth, except for the jagged points where the natural formation kind of juts out. You tug on the crystal a little bit, kind of find if there's any place there

that's movable and it's pretty solid in that rock wall. Does the, does it appear to be producing cold? Does it's like a cold? No, the temperature doesn't seem different at all to the air. It doesn't seem to be a source at all. It's just of the same temperature of the rest of the tunnel. Can I do a nature check to figure out what kind of crystal this may be? Yeah, sure. Are you happy, Scrooge McDuck?

Yes. Tyberius, this look like the crystals on your staff. Pretty. I take out one of my daggers. Yes, I do have dachers. And I'm going to chip away some and just take a couple of chunks. Actually, let's grab a few chunks. I may have an idea for later.

13 for my nature check? I'm put a few away from me. All right. It's all right. Throw a few into the bag of holding. Grog your accent. I will say go ahead and make an archaic check as well. Oh yeah.

Okay. 14. 14. 14? Okay. It's hard pressed to find out where these crystals came from, what their sources or what they're actually, like, if they actually are here or if they're put there for some other means. But the crystals do have a very, very, very, very faint, magical, residual energy to them.

Like, useless almost. It's the equivalent of finding crumbs at the bottom of a cereal box. Like, it's there. You can see at one point there was something. something magical about their presence or their creation, but it is long, long, long faded. Cool. See?

Are you still on warmer? I'll take, like, a few. I go Hong Kong fuey on the wall of crystals with my axe and I'll just, y-h-h-la-la-la-z-ha. Okay. Thank you. When the noise dies down, you gather shards in pieces, probably enough to fill a small bucket.

Nice. I have a small, um. You can indeed fill your small bucket, should you have one? The ship bucket? That is your prerogative. I don't, but I have a fancy robe, and I put it in there, and I bundle it up. Okay.

Yeah, I just think you could be a crystal hold on. We also have a fancy bag of holding. It's in the bag. It's all in the bag. About half an hour further down this tunnel, both Vax and Vex simultaneously notice a part of the wall to the left that is actually visibly cracked, and what appears to be almost like a narrow passage

that juts off to the left. However, there is a large boulder, shaw of the stone that is wedged into this, apparently blocking the passage. Side quest. Girl, we need you over here. What? Possibly move this very large, very heavy boulder for us.

Scandlin, you as well. Of course. I need your help. Pike. I would like to move the boulder. All right. Can I perception around it before we do it? Certainly, go ahead and roll perceptions.

It's in the pathway? It's like a side path that's been blocked. Oh, 15.5. Oh, did you see it? It was there and it was a 20 and then it went, because it was on the side. But that's okay. I don't roll on yet.

It was 20 is what it ended up as. 20, okay. But if you guys take a look, there's nothing really dangerous at all. It just looks like this rock was not naturally formed here. Of course, it was wedged in. Like it was actually placed there intentionally. 26, under strength check.

Under strength check? So as you guys are explaining, this seems to be a fairly, you know, I'm gonna finish your sets before Grogger's goes, grabs the boulder, gets underneath, and lifting with the knees. Good form. Kind of Atlas style, put the weight on the back, and... I'm singing to help him, to inspire him.

Oh, push it. Push it real good. Push it. Push it real good. Push it. It's real good. When there was a sounding, scraping a sound in a large crack, some of the rocks that it's wedged and break off and kind of tumble to the sides,

and you get the boulder free and you're now clutching it on top of you and it's very, very heavy. Oh, I use my mate's hand and I push it too. You lose your balance in the boulder as it's now shoved off of its access. It falls behind you slamming into the wall, blocking half the passage. In the passage you guys were going down immediately, you can still pass it. You should have to walk around it. And you may have tweaked something in your back a little in the process. How's your back?

I won't tell you. I roll over on my stomach and has to drink it to step on my back. I roll over and have trinket step on my back. Trinquet gets over and kind of pushes on you with a bare claws. You can see. Seriously, don't take it down. Make biscuits, trinket. Make biscuits on grog's back.

Can I look at the passageway that was opened up? You can. The passage is very, very thin. It can maybe fit. You individually, barely fit Grog when you actually go through the passage proper. It's pretty spacious in here, I think. Well, no, yes.

It's a big of smaller? So yeah, but it is pitch black, long and four, which means you guys can see, like, it's equivalent of low light for you in pitch darkness. So I'm about 30 feet ahead of you, you can see the path just kind of continues for a little bit and then kind of widens up into what looks like a small chamber, but you have to get closer.

Dangerous at all? Do you want the lantern? Make perception check. Everywhere is dangerous here. How far is the floor? About 30, 35 feet back. Great. Yes.

So. 21. Best you can tell, it just looks like a chamber and it looks like a hallway. We should be a desk. We should be a tomb. I'm gonna be so pissed at the tour. Tiberius, can you send a little light down that passageway?

Yeah, sure. You wanna shoot an arrow for all, me love? Let's do it. Okay. Back traces the arrow. You just run an other? You just gonna go down the hall? Yeah.

Still. All right. So as the light kind of the arrow shaft vibrantly bursts into bright, Tiberius created light, it arcs, slightly down the hallway, only at 35 distance, it goes pretty quickly, and then sh-d-dr into what looks like a piece of rock. Actually wedged itself into a piece of rock

before falling out and hitting the ground. Chipping a chunk upon impact. As it hits, you can see it's a small, kind of roundish oval chamber. You can see some what looks like small piles in the ground in the far end. Still hard to make out from this distance, but you're welcome to I'm going to head towards a table.

Yeah, I was right. You follow it. Six on stil. Right. You rush in. Follow up the arrow. Um. Back trap.

First thing you understand, the air smells faintly of ancient, untouched dust and mildew. Oh no. What did we just let this? You glanced at the fore, uh, to the floor and notice what appear to be six long dead bodies streamed across the ground. How long dead? Skeletal and covered in webs. Okay.

Oh, no spiders. So who's in there? Just Vax right now? Yeah. Just now Vax. I'm going to check out the very first, the closest body to the event. Okay. Go ahead and make an investigation check.

Oh, bad. That's right. 19. Okay. Well, as you kind of look across the bodies, I mean, there's nothing formal about this area. There's no, like, fine-chiseled structure. It looks like a natural formation. It just appears to have been the final destination for whoever these individuals were.

And you do notice the way they're adorned, they were an adventuring party. were an adventuring party. They were people who came down here long ago for whatever reason, and the last destination was this small cavernous space. So they're covered in webs? There are webs on them, but the webs themselves are small, natural spider, not like any small natural. Okay, so not. But you notice that each one of their skulls has a giant hole born into the bone itself from different places. They're body's out.

I'm gonna start searching all of them. Anyone else in the room? I'm gonna make my way as well. I thought we were all falling. The rest of you guys make it up with my one, and it's a small room. All of these... I'm hanging outside with Trinket and Grohl.

Okay, you guys hang outside? I feel like Pike wouldn't want us to do too much damage to these bodies. Nothing can't come to these bodies. I don't think I would have. I don't give a shit about these bodies. I care about what they can. Okay. You notice they've been here for at least 200 years, at least.

Two the bodies are male humans. There are two dwarven bodies, one's male, one's female. For armor. Look for armor. One female gnome. And one half- fork. Ooh, no. Female gnome.

Wait. Wait. What? A half-o. Half-hurt. Okay, wait. Hang on. That seemed to be listed all that off.

Two humans. Two humans, two dwarfs. I'm not even in the room. Okay, so you have to the room. Go ahead and roll. Is that one? No. Okay, hang on.

Two. 19. Okay. In looking at her, you find that, well, most of these bodies have already been, for the most part, turned over and looted. There aren't, some of them who have no armor. Like, her just either plain clothes or their, it looks like their body's been kind of tossed in taking whatever was on them off.

You do find, buried in the dirt under the Nomich female, it looks to be a pristine ruby. I wrote 90. I'm going to do an archa-check of 22. Just on the pile of bodies. Okay, I'll get in a second. You, as you're inspecting the bodies on the other side, you come across, the Dwarven Mail is still fully armored. Oh. Nice.

Actually, it has like a golden chain mail on and is clutching what looks like a metal mall. The rest of them have no armor or no weapons, but this one is still fully adorned. And you also notice that the female Dwarven corpse, while devoid of any Kutra-Mond, any coin versus belts or anything, does have kind of hidden within the bony clavicle, a little bit of like stretched, dried skin is pulled against it, a pendant that is gleaming blue.

I grab the pendant, and then I start, this looks good for Pike, so I start taking this gold chain mail armor off. Okay, what does that do? What is that doing? You pull the pendant and you look at it, and it has a very beautiful sapphire emblem. You kind of rub the dust off of it and look at it,

and you recognize this emblem. This is the emblem that adorns House Thunderbrand. Naturally. Of Craghammer. You turn it over on the back, and there's an engraving on the back that says, Forlona, my love. Lorna?

Oh, didn't he say to bring back some stuff from the dark? Yes, and this is what we need. Who's he? That name sounds right. Oh, wait. Your magic guy said to bring back some magic stuff from the end of the dark. magic step from the under. From the value of valor?

Tremaine. And that's what it is. Yeah, but the Craig Hammer. I'm not taking to use that archa contract for that. Yeah. It does, the actual, the amulet itself does have a magical essence to it, yes. I think it's just down due for our friend backup, the surface. Oh, under surface.

Oh, yeah, we have it. What is it? Amulets of the shield. Um, this, I have a picture of our, I can't, shield, doing adding plus up your AC against that attack. What does it do? It protects him. It effectively acts as a shield spell once per day.

Once per day. Oh, cool. Once per rest. Nice. It's like a magic shield. Because look, it's an instant. Yeah, it's a react. Oh, you have to be able to use magic.

No. Oh. I don't think so. But you can have it. Who has low AC that could use it? Well, I'm the only glass cannon. And have the way to do. So you go over to the armor again,

armor for Pike instead. All right, as you reach out and grab the golden chain mail on it, the cold air around the chain mail is noticeably, piercingly cold to you the touch, making Constitution save. Uh-oh. Oh, that's why it's so. Oh, no. What was it?

One. We have a natural one. All right. As you guys are all doing this, you hear the sudden, this, this, like, clenching of breath. And you glance over real fast and find Vax has fallen onto his back and his fingers are called back, and you can see this dark energy that just kind of seeps

into his body for a second. You can see his veins kind of pulsing a little bit. You feel your form, like no physical damage taken to you whatsoever, but you sense this like sapping of your strength and your breath is shallow, and you imagine this is what an elderly person would feel like. You just have this lack of energy. Right.

As you say this, Pykehrens over to you, Kima runs over, to you and they both kind of take a look at you. Um, Pike starts inspecting you using her medicine. Uh, and Kima, it's kind of look at each other. They passed a few notes back and forth, and they both kind of agree like,

well, the piece of, this, this dwarf individual when he came to his end, was not very happy in doing so left a very strong curse behind on his body. Um, to each other. Um, everything okay in there. No. Is he dead? No, no. You are considered cursed,

which means you have a disadvantage on all your ability checks and attacks. You're cursed. Is he old too? Why, how do you get rid of this? No, it's just, that's up. There are spells like remove curse. I bet, I bet Pike has that spell.

Remove curse? I don't know. Pike's not here. I don't have her. I can try it. Hold on. Nope. Nothing.

What did you touch? You touched, what do you wrap? armor was the armor was that golden armor? Let's leave the golden armor alone. I got this for you, Pike. Wait a second. Well, you get you get it still, and then .

Oh, no. Oh, no. So, I'll make him laugh. At which point, Kima steps forward and Perciv and away for a second, concentrates, and she reaches up and grabs the holy symbol of Bahamad from underneath the front of her, the leather armor

the leather armor, I've exchanged it with you. And it glows with this kind of vibrant silver light, and the light travels down her arm to her hands, to her fingers. And she places it out and reaches towards the armor. And as she touches it, she winces slightly, but you see this kind of glowing, dark, furious anger, this like face arise out of the armor,

giving off this slight whispering howl sound, this, and then dissipate. As you see the divine energy kind of dissipate, kind of dissipate and glide off her hand, she reaches over and touches you with her hand. And the curse is lifted. Oh, that was easy. Oh, that was good.

All right. She actually has that spell. I clasp Kimmer by the hand and say, that is one I owe you. That's one I owe you. She gives you a wink and says, to be honest, I just really want the arm. And then Patsy on the shoulder.

It's yours. She takes the golden chain off of the body, She plays, she tells, you're out of the room. Do you need me to create a curtain for your chains behind? She finds a crating in the room. She puts on the chain mail, replacing the leather armor, she gives back. She does take, gives you the great sword

and then takes them all from the corpse of this dwarf. But as she takes it from the body, she sits down and says a silent prayer, clutches her symbol, and as she does, she takes from one of her pouches a small bit of blessed water, and kind of tosses it across the body, the dwarf, puts it back away, stands up. All right, shall we continue?

Right, as we leave the cavern, I give one of these, the dwarven bodies. You swear you hear a slight shift in bone. Ooh. And silence left behind in darkness. Hey, did you do the armor, back? Can I have the armor? No, I can't give it to me.

Sorry, sis. Please. No, she took, she gave it back, she gave it back. A lot of reasons. No, she bore it. No, she gave it back. She put the chain mail on, she gave you the other. She's very easy reasons.

I thought you didn't want to be found out. I did. I'll take an armor off of her. Please, can I have that armor? She's holding in her hands? Certainly. Thanks. I go put it on.

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They're not taking it. Hold on a second. Too late. Too late. Let's just keep moving, all right. Let's just keep moving. I think we need to roll a brother's sister contest, die. I grab her by the ear and say, that's mine. That's mine.

That's mine. Squeezing her earloat really hard. Yeah, you two roll. Go forward. Shit. It's mine. It's mine. Is this persuasion versus persuasion?

Is this what this was? Yeah, sure. They played arm punch until one day. It's fine. It's nice. No fair. Now what does it do? I'm not fucking figure it out.

Figure it out. I don't know. Keep talking of each other. Sorry. All right, so. Sorry. It's just having party arguments right now. Apparently.

What do you look for? As you guys head back into the cavern, you move around the boulder. Grog had moved from the side crevice. And as you continue for about another 20 or 30 minutes, somebody began to pick up what sounds like the distant lapping of waves against the shore. What?

That's never good. As the tunnel begins to curve larger and larger, eventually you come around to bend, and the tunnel opens up into a humongous cavern, housing an underground lake, circling a large island. From what you can see on the edges of the wall that are closest to you, as the island disappears in a darkness about 100 feet ahead of you,

there are these blue crystals that you've seen throughout this tunnel completely covering the walls of this entire cavern. There's only maybe some places around the wall, about five, ten feet across a Libino crystal. Otherwise, it's just gray stone and blue crystal jutting from the sides. I go over to one of the crystal walls,

and I just kind of put my hand on the crystal, and I cast daylight trying to see if I can emanate it up through the dome. Okay. You cast daylight, and on the actual crystal source that you cast it on, daylight emanates from it, and kind of gives off a bright beacon of light from that wall. I wanted to, like, glow up the, like, light up the crystal. Right.

And, uh... See how far it can get it to reach up. at the top. You notice that from the, whatever crystal vein structure, some of these are connected by, some of them tend to glow in spots. But you see it's kind of localized. All this crystal isn't interconnected, is what this tells you. There are pockets here and there that are interconnected,

but there are multiple veins of it going through the entire. What kind of liquid is this lake made of? So as you approach, the hard stone surface you guys have been walking on for this tunnel begins to give way into a coarse, sand almost like a gravelly shore. And it appears to be freshwater, it's clear. The smell is a little musty but not too bad. And you approach and you can see there's just very gentle,

very soft waves that occasionally lap up on the shore, but only a few inches. There's not a whole lot of motion to the water within this cavern. Can we see to the bottom? Is it that clear? Yeah. I've got an idea. I'm going to find a small rock.

Oh, go ahead. Finish my description. So there's this lake circling this large island across the way. You also see on this side of the shore, central, there is a large stone bridge that arches over the lake and makes landfall about roughly 200 feet to the other side at the very, very tip closest to you of this island. It's about 15 feet wide this bridge, 1520 feet,

and is an immediate walkway onto this island across. You can see just faintly on the edge of this island, a glowing bioluminescent fungal forest that covers a large portion of this island's top side. The edges of it, you can see rise up into it like cliffs that have eroded over time, are kind of rather stark in places. Clorota?

Is this in any way dangerous? Clorota, as you look over, it's just sliding into the cavern. It's the closest thing you could imagine seeing a mind flare to smile. He's looking about and kind of just in response to you a few moments later, it says, let's all remember his feet don't actually touch the ground.

Do you know if there's anything in the water? He kind of glitz over you. There are many things in the water. Fish crustaceans. He points over and you can see there's this small kind of very, very pale colorless, kind of whitish gray crab that's over to the side that looks kind of weird and malformed, like one claw is kind of twisted on itself and dragging behind it, and it kind of skitters into the water.

Everyone make perception check. Yay. No. Oh, natural 20. Oh, yeah. 14. 20. Eight.

Six. One. Oh, you two. Oh, you too. As you all kind of walk up to the edge of the shoreline and you're inspecting the water and kind of feeling for it, you look over and on the far left side of the shore, you can see just below the water line what looks like a sunken boat or two.

I can't see shit. It's mystical. There's a sunken boat in the lake. Really? Shall I go get it? Down here? Clorota, why? It's a boat.

Clorotota kind of gives you a look. I do not know. Things wander these tunnels beyond my kin. We are but one of its denizens. Who's a good swimmer? Me? I'm actually really good swimmer. Me?

It's overshy. Lady Kiwis. She's. I think they want to take a look. I, um. How do you know if you're swimming? Run over to the edge of the water, and I do a swan dive.

And as I swan dive, I turn into a shark in the water. I run to the water as well, and I fucking cannonball. Okay, so Keyless form, jumps into the air, this thin life half-oven figure that then turns into this giant shark beats that just sploosh into the water underneath. A few months later, Big splashing sound.

I'm going to follow and I'm going to stay behind enough to where I can cast within hair. So do I have to get in the water also? You can. You still can't quite see what everyone's going for other than what she said. Okay. I'll get a little... I won't jump in quite yet, but I'll get to the edge.

All right. The water is freezing cold. Oh. You could swear this should have turned to ice, right now, because you've been certainly feel like they have on impact. You immediately get over that as you transform into a natural creature that is used to cold water.

Grog, it's fucking cold. Uh, um. One and a half inches, me too. Uh, huh. Um, shh. There's a medical condition for a come on. Aren't usually this many penis jokes in a session, folks. It's how to be one of those days.

Um. So, glancing down below, you get a brief view, you see it too. There are approximately two and a half boats that are made of some sort of a combination of wood and metal, like a heavily rusted iron. One of them looks mildly service, but the other one is broken with a large hole in the bottom of it. I do a lap. Okay. Go check it out.

You kind of look around. There doesn't appear any much else around it. You do catch what looks like a semblance of half-eaten corpse, a bone. that is just left partially buried in the ground. But you don't know how long that's been there either. It's just bleached bone at this point. Whatever fishes live in this landscape of picked it clean. So there's nothing in the boats at all?

Nope. Good times. Weird. Awesome. We could just keep going. Maybe he'd come back. Ask him if we can get the bridge's book. Okay.

Make a perception check. Make a perception check. I'm dead and I'm bigger over a half nap, yep. Are you sound like? Yeah, I'm going to change. Shivering. Twelve? They're a shark, right?

Yeah. Plus three, the shark. You do a couple laps, nothing really catches your eye. I take a big breath and swim down to where the giant shark is. Okay. You can also attempt a perception. That's like one out of every five games I get to.

12 plus zero. You found some boats, yo. Yay! Boots! They are broken. Booms! I go when I see the groggs underwater and I flipper him and I go up under him

and I go up under him and I Hold on. Here we go. Giant shark comes up under you and just nudges you aggressively and lifts you towards the surface. Dolphin help him a little bit? Well, you've heard of those. Never mind. I'm just going to keep on.

All right. You guys all watch as Grog is now riding a shark. Awesome. Awesome. So we ask Clarota. Right. We don't do that. Shut up.

This shark does. Clorote, is that mushroom forest? I mean, is that your home? Should we go there? Should we skip it, Clorota? Forest certainly, it's the city. Oh. I carry Grog over to the island. We call on the other side up.

There are many places of entry within this cavern. And you see, Clorota kind of concentrate for a second. And within all of your minds, you suddenly have a very clear image of this entire cavern. It's a layout. What strange shape it is, where the general overlook is. And as clear as the day, oh, oh.

You have an entire visual of the inside of this cabin piece. You guys reside down here, right by the bridge on this edge of the beach. This green represents the fungus. And this, you imagine, represents the city. The temple being central to there. We should not take the bridge. I think we should definitely go to the way.

Yeah, there's a lot of fungus to get through before the city. Why don't we, are they still down? there in the water? Yes, they are. They're still playing. Let's wait until they get back up before if we get me to see. Where are we relative? Get this down here in case you want people to see that. Uh, where are we on that? Rod, do you guys are right here? Can you pull

up any of those boots? Pull. Yeah. Pull them up, grog. Pull them up. I like it. I know you're not. I go over and I swim grog over. And can I, as a shark, give like, some, like, Sure. Push from the bottom. Gosh, sure. Push.

Sure. Shit. Fuck. Yes. I have a, I have a, we have a underwater breathing. Kid. Kit. That we bought.

We bought one. The store. There's two of them. POTION? I don't know. We bought one. I wrote two underwater breathing and didn't write one it was. Two underwater breathing biscuits.

Two underwater. Two other. Poshy. I pretty sure it was potion. I don't know. I'm pretty sure there. What type of boat is this? Pre-critical role?

You haven't had a good look at it yet. I tried to look, but I'm a shark, so I don't know shit, really. Girl, come on. Okay, so we swim up to the top, and we come back through the shore, and you're just in the water still, yes? What? What's down there? Do you need to help?

It looks like some kind of boat. Yes, that's all you got. There's boats. My perception is shit. Well, should we try again with someone who has better perception? You want me to go down there? Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to pull up one of those boats. Pull up one of those boats.

Maybe we should check out the boats first. I'm going to jump on my back? Yeah. Is that what we need to do? Oh, that's all we need to do. Okay, fine. And I walk over the thing and I just jump off into the water. Tiberius just slowly disappears beneath the surface.

It is cold. Oh, it's so good. I take out one of my bottles right before I go under. My bottle there. My one. It's an air bottle. Oh, air bottle. You see the bubbles break up the surface,

and then it's, and then it's, eventually the bubble stop. Well, could, uh, I'm curious may have drowned, you don't know. So I'm, so I can see him. I, uh, I, I just kind of swim over there. I use my tail to kind of swim. I think I'm a good swimmer.

And, uh, how far, I want to swim up to where I can see the boat. Okay, this doesn't take you too far. Like, it's maybe 60 feet from the edge of the coastline. Okay, um, is it darkened? Can I see the boat now? You can see, as long as you travel with a light spell going, which I assume you do at most point. Yeah, I still have my staff.

But yeah, you see there are two and a half boats, essentially. They're large, it looks like they were meant specifically for travel. The make, you're not quite sure where it may have come from. How large is it? I'd say it's about maybe 15, almost 20 feet from end to end. Okay.

Okay, so I noticed it and you're nudging the one that you want, right? Is what's going on? So I noticed that. Excuse me. Pull it up. Where the hell is my through a lot of it? Oh, yeah. I try and push it.

My iron stone and direct telekinesis to lift up the boat out of... So you're putting your ironstone on as opposed to your... He gave the other one to me. Yeah, I... Oh, got you. He has done. Okay. All right, so you put the awesome and you...

And I cancel a kinesis on the boat. to lift it up. Okay. And I try and swim underneath it. Okay. There's a rustle in the waves on the surface of the water. As you see all of a sudden, this bowing and splashing begins to occur. The ship begins to rise out of the sediment to the bottom of the lake.

I'm trying just to get right on the lip. It gets up. It's filled with water. You tip it on its side and spill the rest of the water out. There is still a large hole on the bottom of the boat, like from the inside. It's kind of that way. And you carry it over back to the surface of the shore and rest it gently onto the rock. Can you fit that boat in your wheel of mending? I'm on to why.

I'm going to jump back up up to the surface. Debears, that was amazing. Welcome to the surface. Can you use your wheel of mending on that boat that you just pulled up? Let's put my bottle away. Uh, I don't know. It's a good question. I mean, I don't see why not.

Percy could assist. He's got some engineering. Once, well, I can't help with the wheel, but I could repair the boat. In theory. I wanted to give it a whack before we put a boat. Can you, can you, okay, well I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I may have to send them down for more parts of both.

What are a list of things? Wow, let's try the wheel first. Telekis is still in effect currently, so if you wanted to do that, now. Bring up the broken boat. Okay, you can't see you all. Okay, spend parts. Speck parts.

If it comes back with the half boat, essentially, it's like cracked in half and part of its ruin and broken, but there is still a sizeable amount of oxidized iron, and metal and wood here that you think would be serviceable for repairs. Please don't roll a one. Okay, so I'm going to do a little tinkering

and see if I can get this fixed. Okay. Unless you want to try the wheel first. Try the wheel. So you're going to go ahead and make a tinkering check? I'll do a tinkering check first and then try the wheel. Why don't you tinkering first? Okay, just don't even.

And that's the, what do I use as my modifier? I would say this is a key point in time for a Scanlan song. Oh, yes, of course. Yes. You have Bartig Inspiration specifically for stuff like this. Oh, I do. Yes, I will inspire you.

I don't know what to sing. What's a boat song? It's like, um, yes, um, slow, uh, How does this, how does it start? I'm like, I'm not feeling very inspired. Something exciting is waiting for you. Oh, wow, how to go. I'm on a boat, motherfucker, I'm on a boat, motherfucker,

I'm on a motherfucker boat! That's all I got. There you go. I feel inspired. I'll give you D6 for that. Do you do six? Dix. Man.

Sailing takes me away to where I've always heard. Okay. That's one would be 10. Well, if it wasn't that singing. Okay. Go for it. All right. What do I add to the modifier, by the way?

Well, you add whatever your tinkering bonuses, which should be your dex. My dex modifier? Thanks. now? Thank God. 13. Okay. 13 total? Yeah, 13 total. Okay. You take a while with it. It takes a little longer than anticipated, but you have your general tools with you. You hammer away. About an hour and a half to two hours later, you're sweating, your muscles are sore, but you feel like you've managed

to get the hole, for the most part, patched. Now it's just the test it's buoyancy. Do you want to try on the mending with us? I'm practicing my sham move. Whoops, no water. Okay. My best, last, last, last, that's, last that long. Yeah. What is shabler? You want to put it in the water?

Let's put it in the water and see what happens. I start pushing the boat back in the water and I jump in it and I jump in up it. Oh, okay. So you jump in, or you push it in, you leap into the boat. It gives to the 600 pounds that are grog. It splashes a bit, it lifts, as soon as they be holding. It's leaving ripples in the water. Okay.

It's fun. Will it fit all of us, you think? Let's give it a shark. I'm gonna stay a shark. Okay. and follow in the water. Let's pile in a boat. I jump in.

Actually, can I tow them? I was about to say, we can make a harness out of rope. Yeah. It'll be less conspicuous. Yeah, you're less, no, not as much. Shock the power is far less conspicuous.

I, uh, I, uh, I saunter on the boat up next to grog and, uh, excuse me, as I open the bag holding and take out the magic carpet. And I, I hop on that. I get on the magic carpet with you. I'm rather, be a frozen agent on this one

I don't... I'm staying in the boat. Here to fight on water. I'm setting up a little gun mount on the boat just in case. Nice. Do you guys want to tie a get out the rope and...

We'll get out the rope. Throw out a loop for you to grab. I swing into the loop. Get in the boat. I just want to know which way we're sailing. Are we going west? Now we can... We've got to check it out.

Clorota put the image all in our heads. See, there's an island over on that sign. Oh, that's actually not... Yeah. Let's go to the little slides. Go that way. Vox Machina, there is an island.

There are also two small caves and... There's three small caves. Where? One, two small caves and then a path, right? Two and then rivers and paths out, yes. Do you want to check them all out? Kind of hurt. Clear out the fog of war.

Straight for the big prize. The war. Are we all agreeing that if we're all deciding to come here or here? Toward that island, like that. I think if we can go here to this little island, I might be able to do some thinky, spy-y, scrying stuff before we storm the city.

What do you mean, Keel? How about the cave first and then the island? I'm a shark, but like, um... Cave first. Cave first, and then we're going on. And then island. It's like fun. Let's go there.

It does the right cave first and we go to the island. I think when we eventually want to take the temple and kill this, son of a bitch, we probably want the shortest amount of distance on land as possible, which means coming in from the north end where Tiberius is pointing. Coming in through here, which is least resistance.

Yes, I agree. But I think we're all a little slap happy and are curious. That might be cliffs on the back end though, you guys. We might not be able to scale those. Well, what about this beach? Best you can tell about the image that was given to you,

any of the sections along the edge that have the jagged lines are cliffs. But the northwestern edge has a beach. Correct. Yes. But we're curious about the islands. Let's just not. We can enter here.

We're going to the right cave. Let's sail. Towards the island. So Votsmachina, are we going to head around the southern, southeastern edge? Yes. We're going. We're sailing. Does anyone know how to steer this thing?

I'm towing us. We're a shock power. Oh, towing. We're being towed. I'm on the carpet with you. Yes. That is impressive. All right, so you guys continue down the right side of the path.

You push off into the water, being towed. by Keyleth in shark form. As you push forward. Should we do pass without a trace on it? She's a shark. Yep. We're pretty stealthy. As you guys continue pushing.

I'll hug the far wall though. All right. You hug the far into the water. Pushing across. You find a way around. And as you begin to look up the wall, you can see once again how these crystalline structures are just spread out across this entire wall going up.

You can't even see the ceiling of a ceiling of the cavern it's so high up from your current perspective. It just disappears in the darkness. You continue following the path until eventually you come to this choke point here where the landmass begins to, you can see where the beach begins to crest down and touch the water.

As you slowly and quietly and making your way around the bench, you look over and you can see the forest indeed, they appear to be trees, but now you have a better view of it, you know, maybe about four or five hundred feet off from you right now. That bioluminescent glow, this very faint glow is given off by all the plant life, all these giant fungal trees. The roots have these strange, organic, almost like they're gripping the ground. The canopies of them blossom into these strange, almost mushroom-like appendages,

these like fungal bursts that kind of stick off the top and form the tree-like canopy. And you can see vines hanging from each of these. It's a very strange alien forest, fauna that even you're not familiar with in your travels. But it does give off this dull color, this faint light source that does tend to give a general visual view of the landscape on this island. You do see just barely beyond this point

looking across the tops of a few buildings in the very, very distance. the color of the stone from what you can make out is almost like a jade mixed with like a gray marble and you can just faintly make off in the distance one large pyramid-like structure that comes to a flattened precipice on top

on the island to your left and there is a very very faint greenish glow at the very top that matches the coloration of that same glow you saw in the eyes of Queen Olau earlier and the rest of the dynosins that were in her party. As you quietly begin to push along, you come to the point where there's the beach to your right and there's the island to the left.

The island, which kind of, it kind of comes to this incline and it drops off on the cliff on the far side. It has its own kind of encapsulated fungal forest. You can see what looks like a very, very faint bit of ruins on the beach front that is mostly crumbled and fallen. But for the most part, it appears to be fairly empty other than the, the fungal growth itself.

To the right, there is another Hebel Beach, same kind of consistency as the beach you first arrived on here. What's the stone? Are we talking Manhattan and Brooklyn, or smaller than that? Put the scale, your boat that you found, is about that big. Okay, so it's pretty big. It's pretty big.

Should we land on the beach and check out that little cave? Yes, I think that's an excellent idea. We're all very curious. All right. I'm about curious. Can we, as we're flying overhead, can I get a better look at what, if there's anything on the beach?

Yeah, as you guys kind of glide down, you look at the beach, you see the ruins, you see, even though there's no real breeze or wind in this cold air, there's like a slight swaying onto the trees that kind of reside on it. What about the little islandy cave? On here?

Yeah, yeah. Best you can see kind of looking down, it's just a plain pebble beach, kind of like an inlet there. that goes into the cavern interior of the wall. Let's get all open that, bad boy. Let's get all open. A what? Oh, the cave.

There's treasure. Yeah, it's been treasure. Ja-jah. Pirates. I got a . I'll start with the boat. Oh, I'll follow me. It's a, sure.

Should we fly in, Tiberius and just go over? Yeah, I was, I'm su low. All right, stealth and fly in. Can we do that? Is that possible to stealth and fly at the same time? You can certainly try to keep quiet while doing so. The, as the cave that actually opens up on the side of the wall within this cavern

is about, 20 feet up and about 25 feet across. So you're flying as low as you can, but you're still only about maybe 15 feet off the ground, 10 to 15 feet. All right, Steve, going in with the... Well, we're on the boat, but Grog and I want to go, right?

I'm coming. Nope. No? Nope. I'll come. I think it'll be a quick trip. All right. Are we, is the boat going up to the beach?

Yeah. Yep. Yes. All right. I scoop up Scanlan and go piggyback style like he's my son. Jump on a beach. I'm a yoga.

All right. You guys, everyone who's entering the cavern, go to make stealth check. Pretty flashy, free, flashy, natural 20. Scamble. Go, Jesus. Yes.

13. I'm in the boat, save the boat. 13. Six. Oh, no, we're getting the 27. All right. You guys, not so stealthily, we can march into the tunnel here.

You follow it as it kind of bends around a little bit, and it'll eventually it opens up into this larger space. And as you enter the room, partway through this tunnel, the scent changes dramatically. That cold kind of stillwater smell begins to give way to this terrible sulfurous rotting smell. Very, yeah, it's near septic. As you enter this room, the smell is just, you know, dreadful, and you can tell, using your light source over here, there appears to have been some sort of a struggle. There are bed rolls and sheets kind of strewn about and soiled and burned and torn across the floor. There's about, it was like three or four different beds spreads that

have just been tossed and ruined. You can see a semblance of what was a fire pit, but all the soot and ashes been smeared across the ground to the outside of it. There appears to be like a half-buried like a chest or a container off of the far corner, and you can see what looks to be four dead bodies in a not too long state of decay. You still see flesh and skin, but there's some bone peeking through, and you're all just kind of slumped against the ground.

Max, why don't you go mess with them? I'm going to use perception on the chest and the bodies. Okay. That is not that good. That is 13. I want to use my earring of whisperers right now and just, uh, you, there's some fun things in here. Crog, you're not wearing it. Someone tell Crog he might need to kill something. This looks a little, uh, dangerous.

All right. We're killing something. Be ready to run. I come running. I'm back in the chest. I take out one dagger and I just throw it at the chest to sink it into the lid. Okay. All right.

So you, uh... From always back. Yep. You take the dagger. Into the wood. Have any immediate effect? It's not one of those crazy, springy. Okay, so there's a 13 perception check,

I guess, on the chest, so I'll go try to open it. Okay. Yeah. Oh, God. Does anybody run to the back of the cave yet? Are we all on the cake? I mean, we're on the carpet. You're on my back.

And Percy are stolen in the boat at this point. But we're listening it. Scanlan's on back. I'll start running it. Yeah, I did. Well, you're in the process of stepping out of the boat at this point. As you begin to approach the chest, You notice one of the bodies shift.

Its head kind of rolls around and looks at you. Pike? And Pike is still in the boat with Percy. What? She doesn't have one of the earpieces, so she's... Someone called Pike? You should go there right now. Percy, I'm dead. All right, we're on our way.

Pike, come on. All right, as you guys get out of the boat and get a rush in that direction, you notice the one body kind of looking over at you with this weird grin. You've had a few encounters with the zombies or undead creatures that are not move this one has an intelligence to it that disturbs you and you immediately

glance over at the other bodies who are already getting to their feet where are the bodies located good thinking we will get to that at the top of our next head oh no no killing no kill yeah we're pirates I'm a sharp still yep come back Ashley no idea was Grog, you could throw a shark at something. Can you? You can toss a shark at a zombie. You can use a shark like a baseball.

You could be for like a couple minutes. For a couple minutes, right? It just goes. Yeah, sharks don't die instantly when they get out of water. It's so hard. It can like flop. Yeah. They have like sandpaper skin.

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