Critical Role - C2E76 Refjorged

Episode Date: August 29, 2019

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SAM and LAURA and LAURA and LAURA and LAURA and LAURA No! It was extended. Ugh. Celeste, we left off. The Mighty Nein, along with their new ally in Rhaeny, had made their way from the city of Uthodurn to the city of Rosohna to pull in a favor with the Shadowhand Essek to bring them instantaneously

to the mouth of Mythboro, where there supposedly lived a white dragon, one capable of enchanting the mithril that you had melted down and hoped to once enchant it as ice flecks to be utilized in reforming the shattered pieces of an ancient magical sword that you've slowly acquired through your adventures in this campaign.

Upon delving into the cavern, battling yeti, hiding amongst the shadows, making your way towards the ice tunnels that led to its lair, you let it out with an ice spider queen used as bait. However, the item you wished to retrieve was dragged into the lair, and you found yourselves having to distract, stealth in, steal, and escape,

which you barely managed to do, as the dragon proved to be far more formidable than you had ever expected. In those heightened moments of intensity and through a extremely on-point Caleb, we're ag ghast. He's a mouthful of a loony. Sorry, I'm getting over a head cold.

Almost through. Of course. You manage to step through the teleportation circle, leading you back to the city of Uthodurn, where you all crashed out into the center of the Vellum Steeple, to the surprise and confusion of all the various members within. And that is what we're picking up today. So, Mighty Nein, as you all,

sweat pouring down your faces, breathing heavy, the adrenaline pumping through your veins, crashing and stumbling onto the hard wooden floor of the interior of the Vellum Steeple. You can see the candlelight flickering around you, the countless, countless rows of books and scrolls and desks that got knocked over as you made your way in here,

storming through, the nearby librarians and archivists looking at you, confused. What would you like to do? Oh, don't mind us, sorry. This was done under duress. Apologies. We have a deal with Master Ava, so we're cool. To the glass blades that heard the commotion

rushing in with armor, hey, what's going on? Please excuse the smell of feces, that's just us. Hey. You remember us? We have an arrangement here. Then you make a loud whistle. A few other members of the Steeple

make their way towards you, including the familiar sight of Kermit the Frog. Kermit the Frog? Hey guys, welcome back to Uthodurn. Chief Auditor Kinash. Oh, what a cutie. Chief Auditor.

It was good. Yeah. That's right. He's like, mm-hmm, we're going to die. Yeah. The chief auditor, which you briefly saw when you first came through, as well as the scribe warden, Recia,

come rushing into the space. The scribe warden raises a hand and tells the guards to calm down a moment before looking over and, Well, you've certainly made a returning entrance, haven't you? Yes, it was eventful, to say the least. Good, I'm glad your patronage has already come

to be useful, and the patronage is appreciated, as she gives a nod towards Beau. Dear Jesus, worth it. So, I would kindly ask you to leave so we can clean up the mess you've left, unless you have other business? Oh no, I think we're good here, we're good. We're just leaving.

Very good, then see them out, please. The glass blades make their way to flank you. Wait, do we leave a mess? You look around, and two of the tables have been knocked over as you guys arrived. There's a scattering of parchment and books. Now the spine's open. Who put the tables in the teleportation circle?

They weren't in the circle, but when everyone ran through, the momentum carried and you ran into the table. Well, there's just four fucking places. There should be clearance, really, because you're going to be... It's like a strange place to put a tower of champagne glasses.

The Scribe Morden just graciously accepts the comment and goes. Just saying, Fire Marshall comes through here. It might not be the last time that we come in in this sort of manner, so you might. I would very much appreciate you maybe not roughhouse quite as extremely upon your own. We will try, but sometimes dragons come after you

and you have no choice. Also, maybe you want to polish the floor because there's blood all over it, and I'm sorry about that. There is. Someone please and two of the other librarians rush off to go grab some cleaning supplies. You can see the squeamish look across her face.

Sorry! Funny the things you stop noticing after a while. Anyway, please leave. Thank you. You got it. Bye. You guys make your way out of the Vellum Steeple, back onto the streets of Uthodurn. That was very hectic.

Did we have everything? Yeah. I think that went really well, personally. I'm looking so excited! Yeah, look at that! Oh! What does it look like? It is blue is what it looks like.

You see the Mythril material, which looked like a sparkling silver-ish type, almost gunmetal coloration to it initially, with elements of flakes and light in it. Now has this dull bluish hue, almost like these ice crystals have been embedded within, but there is no change in the actual material of it. It just almost seems to hold these faint specks

of light blue energy within. It is cold to the touch, like your fingers begin to go numb just clutching it in your finger. Feels good. We made it, we did it, we made the ice flex. That was an incredible sight, watching a giant fuck-off owl,

and then, I mean, that dragon was right behind you. That dragon was, shh. Who the hell is this? That dragon was mean. Way bigger than I thought it was going to be. Are you down? Do you need healing? I may need to take a nap or heal. Hold on, let me see how many spells I have left. I think I've got a good amount.

Before that, I want to Healing Hands myself to restore nine hit points. I was going to say, if everyone has a second, I'm going to cast Beacon of Hope on everybody. Ooh! It gives us max healing. So you don't have to even roll for healing. Hold on, I might have Mass Cure Wounds.

I don't know how many spells I have. All right. Look at all these fences. You know what else might help right now? The drink. Oh yeah, you guys would do that. We should do that. That sounds good. Is a drink.

Oh. Is a drink. Is a drink. Oh. Is a drink. Is a drink. Oh, he said ze drink. Well, you know, sometimes you're like, you know, it's just conversational speech. Sure, sure. I'm not saying that's not as good.

Anything is. I know a place. There's the Broken Stool Tavern, we've been there. Is that where you typically go, or do you have a specific place that you prefer? If we want to go somewhere where we can just like, mm, we should go to the Tumbled Tankards. The Tumbled Tankards.

I'll do Prayer of Healing at, Oh, thank you. I'll do Prayer of Healing at, yeah, I'm going to do Prayer of Healing at level three so everyone gets, 16, 24, 29 points of healing to everybody. Oh, that feels so nice.

I can see, I can fight. I have a bit of a streak going. I am unscathed. Well, you were hiding in the hut the entire time. No, no, no, no, not hiding, he was holding down the fort. He did a great job. I'm sorry, HQ was holding down the spot. Right, you gave us the best place to escape to.

Thank you so much, Caleb. That was the kind of teamwork that we needed to be showing from day. That was so good. Everybody was doing their best. And we were super stealthy. It was great, I mean, it kind of couldn't have gone better.

I'm sorry that you almost died. But you did it. And also, we didn't get any scales for Oomi. Oh no. But you know what? I did get a couple of extra trinket items. He had time, because I was grabbing the med roll, and she had time.

Sorry, sorry. Do you think that Oomi would like them? Are they souvenirs? Oh, you know, but. I mean! Well, they're very personal to me. I was up there. Oh my gosh, here, I'll do something. I'm going to use my paint,

and I'm going to draw a white dragon scale with my fancy paint. Okay. Whoa. Can you do that? You go ahead and draw what looks to be, based on your brief interactions with the dragon, what looks to be a white dragon scale. You're uncertain as to the quality of the scale, whether it matches the hardness,

but it definitely appears to look like what could be a collectible white dragon scale. Beep beep. Now he won't be mad at me, thank you! I'm going to tuck it into my cleavage. Tell him not to blacksmith with it, though, because it's not... No, no, I'm going to tuck it into my cleavage. Tell him not to blacksmith with it, though, because it's not... No, no, I'm going to put it in a special flower crown

for him, and I'm going to make sure that he wears it. Perfect. Yeah. That's good. Silly downside. One of the downsides of sitting next to Sam is that I don't get to see what is on. It's not that good. It's a real winter. It's a real, I'm going old school today.

So what's the plan, guys? You're going to see Umi! We're tankard, but wait. Side note, Caleb, I have some items that maybe you should identify. We can do that while we have it. Yeah, let's walk and talk. We're walking. You have booths? It is placed to have booths.

Booths? Like to sit in? It It is place to have booths. Booths? Like to sit in? It's a place to speak. Those booths. Das booths. Yeah? We went a week without the accent, now we're all on it.

I've never been so glad to see it. Accent has changed so much. The cold got into my sinuses. It affected me. Yeah, there's a really cool place that I like to sit all the time, and I sit there, and the bartender knows me, so we can go there.

Yeah, let's go. Let's go. Where everyone knows the name. Make sure that you don't pick fights with anybody in the bar. Aw. Never. Just in caseies. They're all very strong.

Why is that? Just the people in there are very? Everybody is very strong. Oh is that? Just the people in there are very? Everybody is very strong. Oh, okay. Stronger. Everybody is! Is it like a fighting bar? I mean.

Not that we would object. Like a cop bar? Is that what, like why is it so? No. A superhero bar? No, let's just all be on our best behavior. Because it's filled with friends. Best behavior time, let's go, everybody!

I bet it's the glass, I bet it's the arm, yeah. The glass blade's bar? It's a cop bar. We're going to a cop bar. Cool, they'll all have mustaches. It'll be amazing. Let's go. All righty. Following Reani's lead, you are brought further

across the deliberation disk until eventually, a little ways out of the Burl Burrows, which is this region, this neighborhood of the area, you come upon what looks to be a really seedy-looking dive bar, hidden off in a far corner. Dark wood and stained stone and masonry hold it up. At first glance, it almost seems to be Dark wood and stained stone and masonry hold it up.

At first glance, it almost seems to be an abandoned warehouse, except for the faint bit of interior light that's coming through the one open window and the doorway, which has no door, it looks like. Big sound of house music. Sorry. Approaching the interior, you can hear a faint tune as what looks to be a very, very old dwarf

is sitting there with a fiddle and is staring no particular direction, either enraptured by his music or unable to focus on anything that's not within five feet of him, but is pretty decently skilled at it. The rest of the chamber, it's maybe 20 by 25 feet total size, and of the four tables that are there and the two booths that are in the far corner,

it looks like there are three other patrons, all the grizzled. They all look like they want to be left minding their own business, and they all turn and stare directly at you as you enter. Are they in uniform or anything? Not glass blades. Oh.

I want to immediately walk in and go, Vani! At which point you see, around the edge, stumbling outside of a corner, holding what looks to be a freshly tapped keg and placing it on the counter, you see a dwarf, dark-skinned, salt-and-pepper mop with a head of hair, well-trimmed goatee that reaches his sternum at its point,

looks over and goes like, Ooh, hi! Rennie coming! Immediately dash over there. Comes over and gives you a quick little shoulder hug and is like, ah, welcome, welcome! Bonnie, I brought friends. Ooh.

Yeah. Okay. Hello. Yeah. Okay. Hello. Hello. What was this young man's name? Vani. Vani. I'm Von Braga. You can call me The Watch. The Watch.

Anyway, that's a motley crew. But I mean, I wouldn't expect any less, I suppose. We went to an ice place and we found a dragon and we escaped and we barely lived, but we lived and now we're back dragons! She was an owl. Oh, sure. All right, then. Strangely true.

Yeah. Totally. She was a spider and an owl. Yeah. It was pretty awesome. It's currently not at the same time. I can see why now, you're friends. Yeah. Well, come sit down, drinks, what you looking for? We got root mead, we got some... Well, come sit down, drinks, what you looking for? Um.

We got root mead, we got some... Have you not had root mead? No, I haven't, I would love a root mead. That's just root mead. Is it alcohol or milk, please? Otherwise. Anything but milk. Or milk.

With maybe some chocolate melted in it, if you have it. I'll see what I can put together. Excuse me, Beauregard had a question, though. Yes? Is the root mead alcoholic? It's mead, of course it fucking is. Well, there's this thing in root beer, and it's not always alcoholic, so just pardon my... Why would they call it root here? That's stupid.

It really is. That makes no sense. Never thought about it. False advertising. Seriously. I think it has to do with the process of brewing it, I think. Yes, it burns off, yeah. It's very interesting. All right, Root Maids all around,

except for some goat's milk with maybe some chocolate in it. Oh, two goat's milk with chocolate. That sounds exciting. All right. Give me some time, I can probably pull that together. And what do you want? Three glasses of root meat, please, and a glass of wine,

and a small side of ale. Is that just for you? Yeah. Wow. Is that like a sampler flight, or? No, I'm celebrating. Wow. Is that like a sampler flight, or? No, I'm celebrating. What? Wow. That you lived your fight with the dragon? Yeah! Yeah!

I mean, I'm already plastered, and that seems excessive to me. I tend to find that alcohol doesn't work that easily, so I got to drink a lot of it, so I'm going to drink a lot of it. I'm with you. I'll have the same thing, please. Two of those! I don't know if alcohol works.

I take it back. Moral high ground has been lost now. Let's see, full back there for everyone. That'll put you back about, I say, full spread. Let's call it a solid gold, how about that? I'll take care of that for everyone. Celebration, after all. Vondbraag heads off, takes a little while,

and piecemeals the drinks to you as they come. The root mead's easy to bring out, the milk takes a bit of time, and is prepared. It's not the best you've had. It hasn't been stirred very well, and the chocolate's congealed a bit and fallen to the bottom, but with a little bit of additional heat,

maybe you could muster it. I think besides what thaumaturgy is for, it's really just to vibrate the... Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like an electric hand mixer for hot chocolate?

Yeah, exactly. And your dive bar flights eventually find their way to your table. I give them an extra gold as a tip. Oh, 100% tip. Takes it and lockets it. And what you looking for? Um... Do you have any of those cupcakes that are at the,

I forget the name of the bakery, but they've got the black mouse cupcakes, and do you have any of those? You're looking for cupcakes? It's off their stone forge. I don't follow. That's the bakery. Oh, Vani, we're just here to sit.

We're not here for a job or anything. Okay. Yeah. Says, ah, all right then. Fog is the gold. Well, thank you. Oh, you're welcome. I thought he was asking if I wanted anything to eat. We can get cupcakes after. Awesome.

What was he asking? We do eventually have to do a look for some residuum, for the refined residuum. I mean, we know where it is, but at some point we're going to have to start thinking about what's the best way to go about getting that while we wait for the sword to get finished. What's it mean about a job?

Yeah. Oh, well, Vani, you know, he's, he kind of looks after people that do things for money sometimes, you know. Is this a superhero bar? Is he your agent? No. Is this a? bar? Is he our agent? No. Sam Lial's my agent.

Right. Well, we do things for money on occasion. Well, you should talk to Vani sometimes. Vani, they do things for money sometimes, too. That's very true. Might I remind everyone that we already have an assignment if we wanted. We do. Yeah, we just steal stuff.

Don't laugh at me, Fjord. Well, this hot chocolate's giving me hiccups. I'm getting so drunk over this. Maybe we could use some of that good grace to maybe figure out how we're going to go about that. I got to admit, I've never actually, I don't think I really know much about stealing things. Why are you hitting me?

What a question. Keep tailing your stuff. Oh yes, while we're talking. But do it super secret. Wig is shedding on your call. We slide over to a booth in the corner, wherever Reani's favorite little spot was. Sure. You find a corner that's, yeah.

I mean, it's hidden as a booth would be. You're still in eye shot of any other patron in the chamber. They're all definitely keeping one eye by the strange cluster of colorful individuals that have made their way into the interior. Of note of these three individuals, anything that really jumps out other than probably looking very dangerous?

All of them? Two of them are dwarven, one male, one female. They both have heavy scars visible both on forearms and face and neck area. Cloaked and just generally suspicious looking. They just have that look about them where you're like, oh, I would definitely not let them walk behind me when I'm trying to go home at night,

that kind of a feel. These are rough and tumble looking dwarves. There is one elf who is on the further edge who is looking at you, but also, for what little bit of details you can make out, looks to have a thin, almost like a pencil mustache, and looks very drunk and is trying to make eye contact, but is missing by about a foot.

Move it. It's a target we've never seen before. You'd think I'd remember a pencil mustache. Those things are like... Hard to forget. That's like a, yeah. Crack out the glutes, yeah. Stealthily and slight of handy, give my two items to Caleb and whisper,

can you identify these at some point? I'm going to keep an eye out and make sure none of these shady characters are trying to make a play for our loot. You got it. Make a perception check. Do we want to maybe have some of you? What the fuck was that roll? Sit with your backs.

It was super cocked is what it was. I'll sit at the back of the booth. Okay, we'll move on. 17. All right. We're making a people wall to shield him as he's working. All righty. So I pull out the book, slap it down,

start cross-referencing, and it's three items? Two items. Two items. There was. One is a beautiful gem that's like different colors. Rainbowy. Yeah. Oh my gosh. And the other was a cold to the touch vial. No, no, no, the other was a chainmail.

Chainmail, that was cold. Oh, cold to the touch chainmail, that's right. Though now that you pull it out, it's a little warmer. You get the sense that the cold of the touch may have been the metal being embedded in nearby ice when you procured it from the tree. But yeah, using Identify on each? Yeah, 30 minutes later.

30 minutes? Oh, unless I have it, I can't remember. I thought it was 10 minutes each. I might have it, I meant 30 minutes all told, sorry, I misspelled it. Ja? Ja, ja, ja. Oh, ja.

No, I don't have a misspelled word. Oh, ja. It's pronounced, it's a hard J. I It's pronounced Jah. It's a hard J. I don't know why. It's a hard G. Excuse you. Oh, God. While he's doing that,

is there anything you guys would like to handle while you're drinking? Yeah, a half hour in. Or are you just drinking? Yeah. We can start making some plans for the rest of our... Okay, yes. So we have this ice flex stuff. We need to go back to Omegard Smeltborn

and give it to them. But then there was this other mission. What was the other mission? I have a very important question. What? Yes. So I thought about what you were saying about if you steal for good, then it's not bad. Is that this situation?

Because I asked Samuel when we went to sleep in the snow, and he didn't say anything, but you took from the dragon, but the dragon was mean. Right. So does that make it okay? Oh, yeah. Of course. The dragon was trying to kill us. We were looking for things that could save our lives.

And help all of the world. Yeah. Caleb pops his head up and says, think of it not so much as stealing, it's more like liberating. Which is good, right? That's right, yeah. Because the dragon, he didn't own those things to begin with anyway. So the dragon was bad because he stole them,

and she stole them, and taking it from the dragon means that we were doing the good thing. Yeah. That's right, yes. They would have sat there and done nothing, but for us, they're little deposits in the side of good. So if we take this ring, but Madam Ava's mean to me, but she's not bad, but the people that took from her are bad,

so we have to take it back to be good? Well, and the thing that we're going to get from the ring is very good. What are we going to get from that? What are we going to get from back to be good. Well, and the thing that we're going to get from the ring is very good. What are we going to get from the ring? What are we going to get from the ring? The residual. Right! Is that stuff good? Yes.

If used by good people, which we are. Which you are. Like me. You're good. I like Pinky, Pinky's good. That's right. Yeah. I wouldn't be doing it if it wasn't necessary

to move to help, to benefit, honestly, everyone. Right, and you're helping Umi, who's good, so you're good. Exactly. We're very good. I got it. This is all in the service of the Wild Hunt. And the Traveler.

And the Traveler. Who's the Traveler? Oh my gosh. Another good one. You haven't heard of the Traveler? No. Is the Traveler good? Do you have 45 minutes? He's the coolest guy ever. I want to know so much about the Traveler. Let me give you a pamphlet! You have a pamphlet?

Yeah, I made them earlier. Did you paint this? Yeah, I'll be up for it. It's so pretty. Thank you, I really like it. The first letter of each sentence is bigger than the rest, it's fancy that way. I'm going to save it for later. Okay, okay, okay. I'm going to read all about it.

Oh, please do. He's super cool and awesome, and he would just love you. I'm going to fold it up, I'm going to tuck it in my cleavage. Okay. Everything goes in there. I was about to say, that's an important purse. It's nature's pocket.

Damn right. All right, so. I have a holding bag. I have a holding bag. Cleavage of holding. Well, I got a claymore in here. Perfect. So, continue to converse for a bit.

The alcohol definitely kicks in for all of you. You get a little nice buzz, but you two get particularly drunk by the time you finish your identify spell. Yeah, okay. Where we at? Well, I can barely lift this one, and he dumps the elven chainmail across the table.

No, it's not that heavy. It's actually pretty light. It's not 55 pounds? Oh, because it's elven? Mm-hmm. Ooh, this is so heavy. Caleb is very weak. This is just as good as it gets.

This is finely made, and it's light for some and will protect you better. So if anyone wants it, it's not for me. But it has light chainmail? You have to be able to wear chainmail. Question. Yeah. You put him in the bubble because you said that he can't do things?

Shucks. Whoa. He can do many things. He's an excellent public speaker, can be intimidating when he wants to. He's very good at accents. Do you need any more of this protection? Should we put it on him?

It's not seeming like a problem. I mean, you're a good candidate for it, Fjord. Sure, yes, I suppose if no one else wants it. He also looks good in a flower crown. He can do that. That's fair. I think I lost it while we were fighting with the dragon and all the hubbub.

Could you make me another? Yeah. I'd like to draw a flower crown while this is happening. Easy enough to do. The dark, stained, beer-sticky table that's in the middle of this tavern suddenly begins to sprout flowers and buds, and as they begin to fill the space,

this micro-bush, you begin to pluck and weave, and easily enough, done. Once I'm done, I just place it on his head. It's better. It really ties the whole outfit together. I put extra green ones in there. Oh, I can see. Because I feel like it brings out. No, the contrasting colors are really nice.

It really brings out the emerald in the skin. Right, yeah. I feel like purple is also kind of a cool color. Let me see, because mine's studded in armor, so maybe it's better. Well, I've got a little, you know. It's beautiful. While they're looking, what else did you find?

Well, this color for stone is very interesting. Again, not for me, because I don't have a good throwing arm. This is good for stone is very interesting. Again, not for me, because I don't have a good throwing arm. This is good for one use. Oh. This, chucked into a dangerous situation, will dispel any arcane hazard or magical problem that we encounter, to an extent.

Dispel grenade? More or less, yeah. It's so pretty. Yeah, but one and done with it. Aw. Who's got the best arm? Can we just turn it into a necklace or something? Pretty sweet arm. Both seem strong.

Go ahead, Smith and Wesson, let's see them. Maybe we should have a contest to see who's got the sharpest arm. Yeah, let's try. An arm cutting contest? Anyone else who wants to? I want to try. My elbows are very pokey. I'll try. So you's try. Anyone else who wants to? I want to try. My elbows are very pokey.

So you should try. You should try. Let's all try. I'm having a weird fear of being left out, so I'm going to try. I'd like to re-craft a vine ball for them to throw, and I'd like to hold it up and go, Throw this one! Okay, I'm going to set up some tankards in a carnival style. Yeah, yeah, a pyramid. Bonnie, do you mind if we use the bar for a contest? I don't know, it's real busy right now.

And he points, there's nobody out there. He's like, sure, fucking go for it. Yay, thank you! What? I'm curious as to what you're thinking of. I'm going to toss it over to Fjord. All right, so what are the rules? Got to get it in the center cup?

I'm actually throwing this or something else? Is this beer pong? We can do a small ball. Small ball? Yeah. All right, then I'm going to take it back. Recraft? Recraft into a small ball. Nice.

Ready? Yep. You got it? Good catch, Fjord. Where am I throwing it? I'm going to set up a tankard on a stool. On the other end of the... Maybe we should set up a few. Yeah, whoever can knock over the most tankards

in ten seconds. That doesn't make any sense, because you have to run and get the thing. When it counts, it's only going to get one throw. It should be whoever gets the closest on one throw. That's like the falls of the carnival. Whoever can throw it into the tankard. Into the tankard? That's a great one.

Knocking off the tankard. No, no, no, but if you have to arc it, that's a little skill, that's finesse, I like it. It is literally now beer pong. It's beer pong. Yes, we're doing beer pong. We're inventing beer pong. Cannon!

Meat pong, meat pong. Meat pong! Root meat pong. Root meat pong. We're inventing beer pong. Kaden! Meat pong, meat pong. Meat pong. Root meat pong. Root meat pong. Oh my god. You are excellent at catching projectiles. How are you at throwing them? Yeah? Who? Who are you talking to?

Who are you talking to? Eye contact. You, Caleb. What? Beauregard. I'm so confused. Beauregard. Me. You were not looking at me in any fashion. This is episode 76.

I never have eye contact with anyone when I am talking to them. Am I good at throwing things? You did last week. You were so attractive. I agree. Yeah, I'm pretty good at throwing shit. All right, so we set up one cup across the room,

and another one where we started, and that way we can just throw back and forth and see who gets closest. Great. All right. The three other patrons are confused by this scenario. It seems to be the most rambunctious space they've been present to in a while, but gather in a far corner and you can see them quietly

beginning to make wagers with each other. I was going to say. So who's doing what first? I'll go first. I'll take the, is the cup ready? Is it ready? Cup's all set. All right. How high is the ceiling? Is it low, medium, are there rafters?

Are there? There are rafters in the most basic sense of the form. You see two crossbars across the way. Nothing hanging low? No, no, no. Actually, it's three oil lanterns that give all the light in the interior of this entire space, so it's pretty dark.

All right, I'm going to give it a little side arm accident try and put a little loft under it. Okay so it's pretty dark. All right, I'm going to give it a little sidearm accident try and put a little loft under it. Okay, it's a throne. I'm saying for the purposes of this, the ball can be either strength or dex, your choice. Oh, both suck anus, so, you know, let's go dex. Great.

Six. It goes wide and hits the far corner. Yeah, captain! Sorry, my hands are sweaty. Knees weak, arms ahead. All right. Long spaghetti. Mm-hmm. Bringing it back.

I'll go fetch it. No, no, somebody has to go over there and fetch it and throw it back. I'll go. Why? Yeah, we're playing back and forthies. I'll go over. Frumpkin goes and brings it and throw it back. I'll go. Why? We're playing back and forthies. I'll go over. Frumpkin goes and brings it back and will continue to do so.

Carrying it in her mouth. I'm tossing. All right, strength of dex. Dex. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, check or? Just add your dexterity modifier. Am I still drunk? Yes, you are.

Technically, it's an attack roll, so you don't have to. Okay. Then it's still nine. Nine. I don't think it's nine. Nine. Much like Robin Hood split his own arrow, you throw it in the exact same corner that Fjord did with no improvement.

Hey! Good group, boss! Yes, grouping! Almost surprisingly accurate for the wrong direction, but well done. Frumpkin goes ahead and retrieves it, in the mouth, drops it. Thanks, kitty cat. Come on, Beau.

Strength of dex, add your modifier. Dex. Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy. Can I hit the iPad? Hang on, that's heavy, that's a heavy one. Oh no. Are you throwing this into the backboard of your eye? That's how he did it.

Bad shot. Oh no. 10. 10? Wow, I'm glad this doesn't count for anything life-threatening right now. This one actually hits the tankard, but it hits the very edge of the rim

and then bounces off, so it's the closest anyone's gotten, but definitely not within the actual gap. Just trying to get closest. Here we go, here we go, here we go. Come on, Jessie. I'm only expecting way better. Mead creeps up on you. I'm up.

Get it, get it. Yeah. Strength of dex, your choice. Right in the hole. I'm going to go dex. Wait, no, I'm going to go, yeah, dex. Put this ball in the hole. So add your dex modifier, not your saving throw.

14. 14? You go ahead and lob the small sphere of condensed, tangled bits of vine, and it actually enters the cup and slowly rolls and almost tumbles back out, but then stays within. Oh! What? Nice! She hasn't been drinking. Just because I got to try this one.

All right, all right. Going for dex. Oh! 11. 11. It hits the corner and circles a bit before it spins off and doesn't land inside. That's fair. So close! Well, there we have it.

Wait, did everyone win? Are you competing as well, or no? I mean, I don't want to keep the stone, but I can try. Yeah, why not? Okay. All right, wait, everybody threw it. I know you didn't throw mine, I should've thrown mine. Well, you won. Hey!

Uh, uh, uh. Strength or dex? That's 15. 15. Inside the cup rests directly, almost a swish, not quite. It does hit the edge of it. She's going to be fucking dead. I did it! Good backspin. I did it! I did it!

Good call. Wow! Excellent. Wow. Well, I guess you get to keep it, then? No! No, no. We don't want you? You should give it to Umi. Do you think Umi would like it?

Well, I never want dragon trail for only. I think it's in safe hands with Jester, and she'll use it expertly to get us out of some arcane shit. Reani is a superhero. On the other hand, it's not. She doesn't need help, she's a superhero. On the other hand, that chainmail might be a perfect gift.

I do have Dispel Magic already, so I feel like somebody else really should use this. Someone like Raymie? How far are you able to, Jester? How far out are you able to dispel things? That's a good question. Probably pretty far, but maybe not that far. Can we give it to Beau, because Beau is strong?

Sure. I mean, I'm stronger than Beau. I don't want to brag or anything, but I am really fucking strong. But if you can dispel magic, then you already have it. And I can do it up to 120 feet, which really is pretty far. Beau smacked a yeti in the face and it died.

This feels like a consolation prize. Am I being pitied? Yes, absolutely. Do you want it? Yes, thank you. I was trying to help. Good contest, everyone! Four.

Four items. Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Yes! Boom! We need to get your Rolodex stamp. We need to do the weakolodex stamp. We need to go meet Fitch's. Oh shit, no! And just like that.

Three items. Giveth and he taketh away. But I think that the chainmail might be a nice gift. Certainly, yes. Oh, I just put it on, but I can't see it. No! Just put it back on. I can explain. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Just put it back on. Do you need it, Caduceus?

I'm fine. Okay. I've got it. Yeah, really? You can, oh wait, do you need it? I mean, it's better than my armor, but I don't need it. Keep it, keep it, keep it. Okay. We have the White Dragon Scale.

We have the Dragon Scale. He'll be happy. All right. All right, let's plan. Was that another? Let's, uh. All right, let's plan. Is there another? Let's go deliver the goods and then we'll talk about the next step of this mission. Okay.

We'll go to Omagurd. Lots happened today. Snurrburg. Okay. Are we ready? So, you guys go ahead and make your way back to the Anvil of Smeltborn. Actually, Caleb waits until everyone walks out

and looks across the room at the cup and pulls out a little wad of batshit. Oh! You didn't do it? No. 16. Oh! Bloop!

Nothing but mug. That was beautiful. Frumpkin saw it, and that's all that counts. And Frumpkin won't tell anyone. Frumpkin keeps all the secrets. Laen that night speaks with animals. So what happened when we left? Let me tell you, girl.

Shit was crying. All right. So you guys make your way to the Anvil of Smeltborn outside of the Morden's Mantle Temple. You guys good? Any questions? Just about armor class. Okay, got you. Because I put on this, and it's AC 14, and I took off my studded armor,

which is AC 12, but my armor class didn't go up. Because the higher tiers of armor don't allow as much of your dex modifier, possibly. Oh. But it's shiny. Here, Reani. I think you should use this train now. What's your dex bonus?

Plus four. Your dex bonus is plus four? So yeah, there's going to be a limitation to the dex modifier the armor will allow, unfortunately. Dex modifiers, man. Yeah, she rolled some crazy stats. There you go. Okay, thank you. I'm going to give it to Umagorn.

As you approach the exterior of the Smeltborn Anvil, you can hear the clanging of metal against metal, familiar to the last time you were here. However, as you enter, you do not see Umagorn in the forge. Instead, you see Deilin as she's in the process of hammering what looks to be some sort of

a small metallic object of some kind, holding it with tongs and lightly tapping it against the side of the anvil. Off in the corner, you see with a big mug some sort of steaming liquid, and currently in the process of thumbing through a book, you see Umagorn, hair a bit disarray, dirty brow, glance up and go,

Ooh, I've overturned already. That's faster than I expected. What have you not left yet? Guess what? We lived. We killed a dragon. We didn't kill it. Dead. Chester! The only thing left is this one dragon skin. We lived. We killed a dragon. We didn't kill it. We killed it dead. Jester!

The only thing left is this one dragon scale. Make a deception check. One. Umagrond goes, Right, well, congratulations on taking down a dragon. Thank you so much, we're so hardcore. I'm blown away by your skill. Did you actually go? We did, guess what?

And I fish out the scale, I'm like, I got you a thing, and then I hold up the chainmail, I'm like, we got you a thing, and we got you a thing! He puts down what you can see now is coffee, and it sloshes on the side of his mug, goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, are you serious? Um, I take some. So many.

Well, the mithril. That makes sense. He holds it, it's like, ow. We see him moving it from hand to hand as the cold temperature of it burns his fingers. He looks up at you with a look that just says, how are you holding it so easily? Then sits down at the table and looks it over.

I'm going to be perfectly honest. This is the first time I've actually seen this. He sits around the table and looks it over. I'm going to be perfectly honest, this is the first time I've actually seen this. This is really impressive. I've only read about this material, so it's... You can work with it, right? I have all the notes for it. Notes? Right? Yeah.

Yeah. You're sure it's blue enough, based on what you've read? It better be, we're not going back. I know. He takes it and holds it in his hand. I'm pretty sure that's good to go. Do you need to take it to the anvil,

or is it going to be okay to do it here? Do you need? Oh no, this needs to be forged where it was originally reinforced. We're going to have to make a trip to the Cinderest. We should get that. We should get the stuff. We should get what we need, then.

The glass before, yeah. Refined Isidro. Yeah. Next stop. What's that? He was abbreviating, or truncating, or don't worry about it. What else are you holding there? I have a scale and I have chainmail.

Oh my god, it rhymes. Gifts! Is this? It's elven chainmail. That's beautiful. Wow. I was going to keep it, but then we were like, oh my gosh, Omi probably needs it more than anyone else.

He could probably use it. I mean, I could look at this and maybe just from inspecting it and doing a bit of research, I can look to maybe make a similar type armor. Oh, good, yeah. I haven't quite spent too much time researching the old ways of elven smithing, kind of sticking to my lineage,

but maybe it's time to cross over a bit, huh? I mean, there's plenty of elves here. They would probably be happy to patronize your shop. You see him jangling it in his hand and he holds it like, ah, it's very light. Tosses it over his shoulder and looks at the scale. That's pretty. Lighter than I expected.

Do you like it? It's very nice, thank you. Guess what, guess what? I didn't die. I'm proud of you. Thanks. Don't go and do that again. Don't push it. I'm proud of you. Thanks.

Pats you on the shoulder. Do you have a lot of experience making other protective items? Armor, things that might keep a newly squishy person a bit less squish? He's talking about himself. Can you help him not be squishy? Or anyone else with an attractive face and squishy characteristics? Also, DM, I have a question. Chainmail on the book says you need a strength of 13 to wear it.

Is that true for this chainmail? Yes. Well, if it says, hold on, what does it say specifically? I don't have it anymore. Even if you are not proficient, proficient with medium armor. Right. Would you like to read the paper?

Yeah, it doesn't say anything about, it's still 20 pounds. Still 20 pounds. 20 pounds is still less than that is in the book, if I'm correct, right? What's the weight of Elv? 55 pounds. Yeah, so that's way better.

So I would, that doesn't make much sense to me. I'd say the purpose of Elven Chainmail initially is that it's meant to be much more lightweight and probably would not have the same strength requirements, in my opinion. Okay. So he could wear it? That's how I'm ruling it in my campaign. Yeah! Hey! Don't have a nose. Randy's wearing it.

Don't. So we gave it away, but you could use it. I could possibly use it. Nott suffers 14 points of damage. Oh no! In exchange for everybody being very nice and helping us get the ice stuff, could we possibly make armor for these squishy people?

I mean, I can make armor. I have armor already made. It depends what you're looking for. You need splint mail, you need a... I mean, I make chain mail fine. I think it's wild rings and I've got three bits back here, but I mean, to be honest, this is best and better than what I can make.

I'm not an enchanter. Well, I'm a little curious about what, like, plate mail might look like, something that would actually, you know, protect. Well, that's all I can do, but, and he looks you over. I mean no offense, I don't know if you've got the physique for it.

Oh. He points over in the corner and you see hanging on one of what looks to be four different wooden armatures, almost like a torso, there is an upper part of full plate mail with beautifully crafted large shoulder spaulders and guards that go up past the sides of the head.

It's just gorgeous with chain underneath, as well as the interior, what's called the Gambian, whatever it is, the cloth material between the skin and the armor, it's beautiful. Looks heavy as fuck and very cumbersome. Right. I think what he's saying is that you need deltoids and traps to even just to keep it on your form.

I mean. Because you don't have any of those, it will just slide right off. If I'm being honest here, and I appreciate the gifts you've given me, but if you're looking for armor to protect you, and I've got no use for this other than to resell it, really. I feel awkward taking something back from you, but you know, we also-

You're not taking it back from me, I'm giving it back. I mean, if you're looking to keep yourself alive and you're going after dragons and some shit like that, best not get yourself killed, and he throws the chain back to you. Is that something you can use? Anyone can use it. Caleb could use it.

I could use it. What are you doing, Caleb? You're so little. Do you not have armor? I do have the Mariner's Brass Plate. I start to take off this purple cloak and another inner layer, and I start to slide into this thing. Ooh, it's quiet.

Ish. It's quiet-ish. Yeah, when I caught it, it didn't make much noise. When I put the coat on over it, it's muffled. You can't hear it. I mean, I can hear a bit of it, but. I can hear it a little bit. You can hear and see it.

Is it comfy? Do that again, tempo chess. Boobies, boobies, boobies! It does it every time! It's so strange, the elves are boobies! It's so mysterious. Their ways are foreign and wonderful. Those elves.

Those elves have their priorities. So the idea here is, depending on who decides it, with Chainmail, it does give you an AC of 16 base. Yeah. No dexterity bonus. Yeah. So you lose any dex bonus. That would bring me to 50.

Yeah. Does that help you? Really? It's 16, but no dex bonus, so I would be at... Wait, wait, wait, it's six, yeah. That would put me. 15 or 16. This would be higher than I've ever, ever been with AC. Does mage armor put you at? I go 11 normally, 14 with mage armor.

Gotcha, so that'd bring you up to 16. Wow. With mage armor. Whoa! Enthusiastic yes. Probably the most defended mage in history, I think. Wait, is it a chainmail or a chainshirt? Chainmail. Chainmail, yeah. And what's it say on there, particularly?

Oh, chainshirt. Chainmail, and under it, it says chainshirt. It's a chainshirt. It's called chainmail, but it is a chainshirt. So that's different. Sorry. Chainshirt is 13 plus dex. That's better.

What's your dex? It is 13 plus dex. It still That's better. What's your dex? It is 13 plus dex. It still gets me to 14 without Mage Armor. Take it. So it is still an improvement. But it's an improvement, it's a plus one enchantment, I believe? Yes. Yes? Correct, which bring it up to a 15.

15. Oh. Happy days are here. I'm Mr. Frodo. Let us in on your chain Chainmail's a heavy weapon. Sam! Everyone gets this rap. Full of a juke, yeah. Sorry, sorry.

Alvin Chainmail is a vestige of all duty, indeed. Dex Monofilm, yeah. Armor's always weird to figure out. That's fine. Indeed. Oh, he's so happy. Yep. Yes, I am. It's nice. Thank you. It refracts the light in a weird way.

Can I have this disco wizard quality to you? Shh, shh, shh. Yeah. Holy jeez. That's why I was confused with the strength earlier. I was like, there's no strength requirement. The chain mail there is not changed, sure. Sorry for confusing myself and I'm sure a lot of you. Anyway, he's like,

I mean, I don't know how soon you're looking to go, but we have to pack a bit. Looks back at Daelin, who's still working, and walks over to Daelin and gets her attention from the middle of work. She looks up and wipes her forehead, looks back and sees the rest of you, smiles and waves her little waifish elven smile.

Umi signs to her a bit and she signs back, sets down the tongs and nods and walks over and starts packing. Umi's like, well, we have one last bit of business. What's that family name again? She's my assistant, so she's going to have to come with me. Oh, of course. The least help I can get.

We were going to go to the Tumblecarves. Tumblecarves? They're the ones with the red ring. Where are you going to the Tumblecarves for? Have you heard of them? Yeah. Are they dicks? Yeah. Stuffy-ass fucking noble family bunch of bastards.

Everyone will find it. Noble. Oh. We needed to retrieve an item for Ava? Yeah, and they told me that if you take something from someone that's bad, it's good, so it's okay. That sound, maybe. Look, if you're getting tangled in with those folk

and Ava, just don't mention my name. All right. We can do that. I don't really know how to pronounce your name. What kind of business are they in, out of curiosity? To be honest, I don't fucking know. It's not my business. Just not well regarded. I don't mean any offense, but like,

I was going to say offense is a strange term, but there's certain castes in the city where the nobles are well known for their affiliations. These folk, well, there are. They're bound to be into some strange stuff. Strange? Like, arcanely strange? Collectors. Oh.

They tend to send out servants looking for odds and ends and tend to show up suddenly mysteriously knowing about things that just made their way into town for sale or strange collectibles. They're very in the know. Yeah. They're going to have so many things. They're going to have so much to show.

I bet they're going to have traps, though. Hands in your pockets when we go in. I don't ever steal things. I do. Has there been any rumor of criminal activity that they've been involved in? Smuggling? I have them the foggiest.

Tumblecuffs can keep to their own. I think I've only walked past maybe one or two of them and they just look like right pricks anyway. Would I have any knowledge of that? You can make a history check. Okay. Question. Does this crew run with that one bad faction

that's name is escaping me? You don't? No. You haven't really had any interaction with the Tumblecarves at all. I may have heard the name once, but that's about it. 21. 21. Because it's Uthodurn,

and you spent most of your life in the Empire, I'd say you may have read the name in a book once in just a paragraph talking about the the Diarchy of Uthodurn and various noble families in power. But you've heard of it, you know it's a legitimate noble family. You know that they've been part of Uthodurnian society,

installed for probably ten generations or so. So they're old blood. Okay. That's ten Dwarven generations, too, which is, we're looking at probably been involved since a few centuries after the Calamity. So they've been around for hundreds of years as a noble family.

That's the best that you can make up. That's something. Okay. I mean, we're going to be okay. We've got a good plan. Or we're going to have a good plan. I mean, I think if we got stuff back from a dragon that almost killed us, we can get stuff back

from a bunch of nobles. You're no wrong. With that comparison, I think you're on a roll. Just don't be stupid. Is it bad that the nobles scare me more than a dragon? No, I'm actually having a lot more tension, feelings of tension. We have some experience with that sort of thing, though.

Our group. Yeah. Apologies. Before your time. Oh. Yeah, and Beau almost died wrapped up in a carpet. No! Yeah.

I could see that. Okay, no carpets for Beau. Yes, no dying by ruck. Well. Different kind. Oh my. Yes, Beau. I mean, wow.

Pray to a ruck monster. Little Laura, then just dunk. I can't remember, are you above me or below me? I don't think you're below me on the screen. I can never remember. I think I'm below you. All right, fist bump. That was good.

Ooh! That was so smooth. So proud. Just to clarify, we need to go reclaim, liberate from these nobles because we need refined residuum glass. Yes. My bag of residuum glass. Yes. My bag of residuum is not good enough.

We already tried that, right? We did. Okay. We need the crystals that Ava has. We're sure that we will get refined residuum glass if we complete this mission. Yes. You're shown a sizable quantity of it by Ava. Okay, then where do we go?

Reani? Do you know where to go? Well, you probably haven't been there, but you ask Umi if you want to, and he goes, if you're looking for them down the Liberdisk, go for the Demerant Circle. There's a bunch of wealthy families that live in that space.

I'm pretty sure they're about there. It's like a three-story home. Back wall shaped like a wedge, like the front of a ship. Crystal windows. They've got three-story balconies? Yep, they've got a balcony that's three stories high. Single level house! Three-story?

Three-story balcony. It's definitely built in the 70s. Shag carpet? Yeah. It's got one of house. It's definitely building the seven. Shad carpet? Yeah. It's got one of those recessed den bits. By the way, Umagorn, what time is it right now? Mm-hmm. At this point, you guys have been out for the day.

You just returned. I'd say it's pushing into the evening, probably. Especially if you guys have been drinking for a bit, it's evening, it's evening. Question, has it been the two evenings since I talked to Archivist Zarzarkivis? Algarzarkar? Zarzarkar.

Dimitri. Yes. When we talked about meeting up and talking about the moon. Meeting up at the IHOP? Oh yeah, the Denny's parking lot. Denny's parking lot. Yes, it would have been two days. So that's tonight? Because we did say that you guys had a night's rest,

though I think it may have gotten a little muddled between episodes, because that happens occasionally. But before you went to the Myth Burrow, exactly. It's like comic strips. We did say you guys took a full rest beforehand. So that would put us at two days. So that would be tonight, theoretically. That would be taking place.

If you wanted to follow up on that. If I wanted to do that, okay. Your call. All right. Would anybody like to sleep over at my house before we go? Sure, can we sleep? We had a long day, and I can make,

I don't know, hot chocolate. Can you fit all of us in your? Well, we're going to have to smush, and maybe we can all just sleep out in the den, and we can light a fire and tell stories. And build a pillow fort? But you guys are welcome to stay over and then you don't have to pay in fees.

That's nice. Yeah. Yes. Okay with that. Would we sleep now and then get up in the middle of the night and go to the temple carves? Or are we going to check it out before we go do this? Well, we should get a look at the place.

We should check it out first. Let's walk by there. It's just been a long, I know that we had a long journey, and if anybody wants to just take a rest. It's about a 30-minute walk from Rior. So we go, come back. Let's go check it out, and then go hang out at your house.

And we can get cupcakes on the way back. Fuck yeah. All right, so following the instructions, you head towards the Demerant Circle and the Liberdisk. Looking around, there's a few homesteads that definitely stand above and beyond the others in the vicinity. You see a handful of them. It's interesting, in this one section,

amongst the large tunnel that forms the auger-like spiral of the entire city, in the Demerant Circle, there is a whole section of the wall where you can see tunnels are carved into the side with staircases that switch back and up, and at certain locations there, you can see elven abodes that are four or five stories that are built into the rock. Because they're built into the rock,

they're designed in odd shapes that shouldn't be, shouldn't form a homestead. It's almost like, imagine a Swiss Family Robinson tree house, but halfway built into a rock with no tree. And so there's a number of these, and almost like some of them appear to have been competitively designed and expanded to try and outdo each other.

Those are above. On the base floor, you can see what look to be mainly the dwarven estates of the different noble dwarven families. Keeping an eye out past one that has its own thickly built subterranean garden that is surrounding its home, you do find one area where there's an alcove

that pushes in further than the wall of the cave. There, sitting in that space, you see what looks like a wedge-shaped three-story home, matching the description you've been given. You can see this wedge as it protrudes and meets the front of where this alcove begins. There are windows and doors on each side, and there are balconies that set up on either side, the third-story balcony itself being the most grandiose of it

with chairs set above it and lanterns, hanging of the lanterns are currently out. There is no light from the interior. You do see, in a glance over there, would be two guards patrolling the exterior of the house. Not glass plates, they're not official. They look to be probably privately hired to keep an eye on the house. Not glass plates, they're not official. They look to be probably privately hired to keep an eye on the estate.

What you do see from the windows, the texture is crystalline, not smooth. They're almost meant to obfuscate any sort of interior imagery. The wood frames of the doors and much of the structure itself, smooth, well-made, everything here is very beautiful. It's not grandiose in size,

comparison to other homesteads here, but what is there looks to be meticulously placed, designed, and a lot of care has been taken in the details. So that is what you see before you. Wow. Are there any roaming animals, like cats or dogs or birds or goats or any just animals about?

Drow. Drow. Rhinos. Right. No rhinos. Ah, damn. There are occasionally birds that find their way down here, either accidentally. Okay. There are a few subterranean birds that nest

within the city, but they're usually on the top side. They're usually hanging up in the... Volition? The volition disc, the top disc. So I don't see any... None in this area. Mice? There are mice.

There's mice, there's rodents. Oh yeah, there's all sorts of voles and other sorts of rodent-type creatures that exist both on the natural interior of the city and off of whatever scraps fall from people that live here. One beautiful thing you do notice about this area, too, the stone pillars here that normally hold aloft the overarch of the walkway on this end

have been carved to look like trees. They have these thick striations that head up to where, as opposed to just these large stone structures, everything here has an extra layer of decor consideration to its design and construction. Rainforest Cafe? Yes, exactly. There's an animatronic gorilla

who keeps repeating the same motion. That's an alligator. You do also see numerous glowing hanging glass lanterns hung amongst a lot of these tree pillars with little arcane firelight motes that sparkle around the outside of it. It's like ours. It is like ours.

Looking straight up at the cavern roof over this area, too, it appears to be enchanted or painted or you're not quite sure, but for being subterranean, it almost looks like a starscape. There's thousands of tiny little pin lights that flicker in and out.

This vicinity has been designed to feel like you're more outside than the rest of the interior. That's so romantic. Sorry, DM, you said that the Tumblecarves building is not built into the wall, it's standalone on its own. It's built into an alcove within the far wall. The base of it, yeah. And the guards you said they were patrolling,

are they ground level? Ground level, yeah. Okay. And you said the mice, are they nearby? Like, are they by our feet? I mean, there isn't like a perpetual cloud of mice around your feet, but mice and rodents do live in these areas, so if you were to search for one

or find a way to try and evoke one, you could probably. May I search for a mouse? Sure, go ahead and roll a perception check for me. Actually, nature check. Actually. All the checks. Sorry. Yes, perception. Perception, okay, should I keep that roll? Yeah, keep that roll. Okay, that was a six.

Six plus eight? Oh, wow. 14. Damn. 14. Okay, it takes you a little bit of time, but eventually you don't find a mouse, you find mouse droppings, which leads you to a number of small dug holes nearby the base of what looks like one of the small guardhouses. You can probably tell there are a number of mice

that live within or underneath this guardhouse. What about bats? Are there bats down here? Make a perception check. Oh. 17. 17. Glancing up amongst the higher area of the tree-like pillar and the roof area where the flickering lights are,

you glance up and focus with what little light there is, and you notice there are hundreds, upon hundreds of bats that are all dangling, that are just now starting to wake up. You can just barely hear the squeaks as it's now pushing into the nocturnal period of the night, and elements of this bat cluster are beginning to come to consciousness

and prepare for an evening's hunt within and outside of the city. How smart were those bats when you were talking to them before? They can get the job done. Do you think they would lose track of what they were doing and start eating a curtain? No, I think that they'd probably come back

and then forget whatever they told me, but they'd remember enough. They would remember that they were supposed to go do something. Yeah. Okay. I'd like to cast Speak With Animals. Okay. And are we in the sideline of the guards?

Probably. You're not at the gate staring at them. So you're like some loiterers that are just wandering through a richer neighborhood than you all should probably be in by their standards. So I'd like to, hello, Bat friends. Okay. They're over 100 feet above you,

so a whisper is not going to reach them. You have to find some way to. Can somebody help me get their attention? I can throw my voice a bit. Yeah, I can turn into a bat and go talk to them. I can, oh, I can't. I can throw a bomb. No, no, we don't want to hurt our bat friends. You have had a short rest while you're out drinking.

Oh, half? Oh! You guys spent a good hour or so in that tavern. Then just kidding. Why don't we both go up as bats and go see if we can get some friends and then we can fly into the house and see where the ring is. Okay.

Do you think they would notice that a bunch of bats were in their house? Maybe. Hmm, okay. Let's think of a scenario. But what if we were bats, and then we went in through, is there a fireplace? Is there a chimney on the house? No.

Is there a? You don't see a chimney at least, which is generally, I mean, some of the buildings in this subterranean city do have chimneys, but they don't just open up and then fill the interior space with smoke. A lot of them seem to, the places that do have chimneys,

have them built near pillars and then merge with the pillars, and you assume the pillars themselves probably continue a flue that eventually sets out of the mountain, which, now that you think about it, when you approach the city, you saw a series of these eventually sets out of the mountain. Which, now that you think about it, when you approach the city, you saw a series of these small plumes of smoke rising off the mountain.

Those all appear to be the exits of the gathered collective chimneys of the city. Fucking cool. Going down through a chimney and rolling the dice on which exit goes down. Yeah, party pachinko, let's do this! What could possibly go wrong? The windows that you described,

they appear to be embedded stained glass type of thing. There's no window entrance or latch? From the ones that you can see at the front, make a perception check, actually. Okay, actually. Now, you know this is a perception check. Okay. 19. 19. They do appear to have latches. Okay.

But they are interior latches. Okay. They latch from the inside and they're basically just dual windows that open outward, but they are currently closed and latched on the other side. But the windows themselves, it's less like a stained glass. The glass itself is uneven and is developed to look beautifully rough

and also obfuscates what is in the inside. You can see shapes maybe from the inside. Shower glass. Kind of, yeah. How far away are we from the house right now in number of feet? At this moment, you're probably about 150 feet away. All right.

Let's hide and turn into bats. I like this idea. Caleb, Caleb, Caleb, Caleb, Caleb, Caleb, do you want to hide and turn into a bat with us and we can all go look in the windows? They are very slow creatures. Not slow, but slow. I'm just saying to Fly, I don't need to go in right now.

We just want to check out the house around it and see if there are any openings on the back side or anything. Just to bring up the old shit, we've been a bat before, and it went piss sideways. That was a moth. That was a moth. Right, sorry, they're all the same to me. Okay.

No, we actually, I think we were bats at one point, too. I thought it was outside of the hobgoblin with the sword and then the bat. No, that was him off. Didn't you turn into a bat? My bat friends helped us with the dragons. We were bats in campaign one. That's what it was.

We've had good recent experience with bats. So what if we turn into bats and we go talk to those bats, those bats can help us, and then collectively we all as a bat family go and look in windows and there's power in numbers. Or, what if, I also have an idea, what if we just turn into a few bats, go check out around the house,

see if there's any way we can sneak. Can do. I can turn out of a bat and paint a doorway for them. Also, I do. I can turn out of a bat and paint a doorway for you. Ah! Also, I do have a very rare item that allows you to stick a dagger in a keyhole, turn it, and it locks the door, and nothing else can open the door

except for the dagger you all gave us. So the guards couldn't come in. Right. Unless they set the door on fire. Well, they would have to step through that. They'd have to, in order to set the door on fire, they'd have to set the whole house on fire. That seems to, that's nice.

Counterproductive, really, in the end. Do we want to do a stakeout and see if we can see the tumble carves entering and exiting? We should just do a little stakeout right now. Don't go in and do it. We do this all the time. No, we're not going to go in. We're not going to go in.

I'm going to turn invisible. No! I do think we should turn into bats and just go see what we see. Yeah, step one, we bat around and get the lay of the land here for this building. Do bats have bat vision? No, they have no vision.

They hear the sound. Well, maybe bats aren't that bad. Which is fine, they can see through access. Echo location is a... They can see. Okay, okay, okay. Don't side-shame bats. Yeah, they get around just fine.

They're good. Their voices are bouncing back and forth. So that's step one, and then step two is we need to watch this place for a considerable amount of time. Fjord and I and Caduceus will start the watching. We'll turn into bats. And then what are you? Whatever you want me to do.

Do you want me to be a support? Do you want me to be invisible in case you fall and I can catch you? I don't know, what do you want me to do? No, just stay here with everyone. All right, I'll just stay here. It's fun being a lookout. Is it?

No. I'll probably say I'll stay here and then I'll just go in anyway. Classic. I set Frumpkin on her shoulders. Classic Nott. And smile at Nott and then think telepathically to Frumpkin, keep an eye on her.

On me? You didn't hear anything. And then I cast Fortune's Favor on the Bat Squad. So one, two, three. All righty. Bat Squad. Okay, so you each have one reroll for the next hour. Awesome.

So, what are you doing? We're going to hide. It's all three of you? No. All of us are going to hide across the street, right? Look chill, but we're going to. So you guys keep low key, like a couple of high schoolers

hanging outside of a Ralph's parking lot at 2 AM, totally inconspicuous. What time is it, around 2 AM? No, no, no, no. You're in the cusp of evening. You've just now gotten to the night, so it's the equivalent of 8.39 PM, I think. So maybe let's wait until all the bats

start to really wake up, and then we'll do it, so it makes it normal. Is there anywhere for us to watch the house that is not terribly conspicuous? Yeah. Right. Actually, it'd probably be a little bit earlier, because you guys did sleep in the dragons in Mythboro before going into the chaos,

so after coming back about midday, drinking, you're still pre-dusk. It's still relatively early, actually. Oh, okay. Comparatively. So there are no bats flying around now? They're starting to. It's getting towards dusk. Okay.

Not changing that on you. Okay. Question. Not changing that on you. Okay. Question. Bat intelligence. Are they smart enough, if we were to ask them to do a thing, they would remember to do that thing? Maybe, it depends on how complicated the ask is. Okay.

You know, they're creatures. They aren't extremely stupid. Right. It's not a worm. But complicated things might escape them. But a simple request may. Possibly. Cool. If it wants to.

Fuck. Great odds. Two odds. Stoked to do it. Yeah. Take it as a chance. To Caduceus' question, though, is there a rooftop or shady alleyway? Or a park with a bench?

Yeah, someplace that looks like we could sit and be inconspicuous and watch. There is a subterranean park at one of the road, the cross-section of one of the nearby neighborhood roads where you can see in the center there, there is a small circle that has two stone benches that look to be two leafless trees

that upon approaching, you see are actually carved. They're carved of marble. That looks like branches, but they're smooth and they bend and wind. It's a really beautiful art piece that sits there in the center. It's a little fake garden sitting space.

It's nice. We have a pretty good view of the gate and the Tumblecarves estate from there? It's about 150, 200 feet away from you, so it's a distance, you can see it, but you don't have an amazing view of it to remain inconspicuous. If something starts happening,

we can just get up and walk that direction anyway and keep going. Okay. Okay, cool. So you guys go ahead and situate yourself there? Kind of, yeah, on the edge. Okay. On the edge. I can practice my ollies if we Kind of, yeah, on the edge. I can practice my ollies

if we're going to be teenagers in the realms. Wow. Oh my god. Perfect. We're looking for... Kind of just that butterfly knife you bought off eBay? Whoa, bring it back. Only just a rainbow butterfly knife, like one of those horrible metals.

Oh yeah. We're watching. Ashley will learn to use some butterfly knives. That is an insult to Ashley Johnson. Ashley Johnson, this world's best secret badass, man. Yeah. She will cut a bitch. Cool.

All right, so you guys arrange yourself inconspicuously at the crossroad little courtyard space. The rest of you are becoming bats. Yes. Out of sight. Are you? All right. Caduceus, are you becoming a bat? No, I'm just making the bat hands.

He must have been involved. Oh, okay, no, they're real stupid. Yeah. Okay. I was like, I put it in wild shape by mistake, so no. Yeah, so you are three bats. Bruce, Tim. Making your way. Yeah. All right, what are you doing as bats? Bruce, making your way.

All right, what are you doing? As bats. As bats, we're going to fly over to the house. You maintain your full intellect as well. Yeah, we're real grown. Your mental scores remain the same in animal form because of Wild Shape. Can I speak to other bats as a bat? Well, you cast Speak for Animals.

I did Cast Speak for Animals. So you still have that, yeah. So before we go over, I'd like to fly up to the bunch and see if there are any awake. There are. There are? They're waking up and the equivalent of what you hear is like, oh man, I'm hungry, breakfast anyone? Yeah, let's get breakfast.

All right, Steve, you okay? Oh, I'm still groggy. Like they're just, they're getting out of their long night's sleep and they're starting to get that stomach rumble. It gives me bats. Yep. There we go.

Hello, friends. Hello. Hello. Ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho. I have a quick question for everybody who's awake currently. Tell us, slow down. What was that? Oh, sorry. I have a question. Okay.

Do you know anything about the people who live in the house? No. No? Shit. Have you seen people leave recently? I mean, it's been a few days. Oh. If I brought you back food later,

could you help me with something? Maybe? The other guy's like, well, food. Do you like bread? I like bread. They both look at each other and hear that and go, I like bread? I like bread. They both look at each other and hear that and go, I like bread, I like bread. They seem to be more interested in chiming in as a group

than actually considering how much they like bread. I bring you lots of bread for a favor. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. My friends and I are going to go into the house. If anything looks bad,

like, not them come in, squeak loud. Forever home to a piece. And then you get bread. I like bread. I like bread, I like bread, I like bread, I like bread. Make a persuasion check. Fuck.

I feel like advantage with a rube. You have a rube here. Sure, I'll give you advantage right away. I'll say fuck. That one's better. Wait, what did you say, persuasion? 12? 12? 12? 12.

Oh yeah, you could. You got a third reroll if you really needed it. Third reroll if you wanted to use your portion favor. I'm going to use the pink one. All right, she's using it. Ooh, 13. Okay, all right, hell yeah. Oh, he said hell yeah!

Hell yeah. You concentrate for a second as you stare at them and you watch this small little poof of gray energy as the fragment of possibility, time-space bends briefly, magic that shifts the very fabric of the cosmos. It's extended. And you add a wink.

The bats go, Sure, right? Yeah, yeah, we, okay. Yeah, yeah. Good use. Yeah. Yeah. I like bread. I like bread. I like bread. Nature goes cops. Nature goes cops.

You convince a bunch of bats to eat carbs. Yep. Thank you. Fucking up their paleo diet. Damn. It's all right, it's cheat day. They're welcome to the bread. There you go. I just say, thank you, friends.

The bread will come later. Okay. Okay, okay, bread. Okay. I fly back to Jester. I was hanging out there with you. Oh, you are? Okay. Oh, gosh, I got you. You go to join them and realize

that they're both joining you, and you circle for? Okay. Oh, gosh, I got you. You go to join them and realize that they're both joining you and you circle for a minute. Oh my god, oh, right. Hi. Do you think that the three of us could have some of the bread now? I don't have any bread on me. Oh, but you promised bread.

Bread after. Where are you keeping the bread? Oh god, are they just as dumb as bath? Well, yes. You still have your personalities. Oh god, are they just as dumb as Pat? Well, yes. Oh no! You still have your personalities. You still, you're not, it's not quite a moth scenario here. You have enough intellect to like,

to know how to recall basic elements of your goal in fact. Yeah, and smart enough to ask where the bread is. That's valid. Valid point. Should we go do something? We look in the windows. We're looking at the building. Okay.

And looking for bread, let's go. Shh. I'm just kidding. You all make your way down to the house. There are the three stories. There's a balcony at each story. There's the top story is the larger balconies. Where are you going?

I'm going to go on the topmost floor. I'm going to fly around the back of the house and see what's going on back there. I'm going to go to the roof and look for bread. Okay. Perception check. Perception check. Investigation check. Using the bats. Oh yeah, using the bats, fuck.

Well, you use your wisdom. That's true. Use your wisdom plus the bats. It says perception plus eight. Sure, we use your wisdom. That's true. Well, no, you use your wisdom plus the badge wisdom. It does perception plus eight. Sure, we'll go with that. Wisdom, wisdom, 13. 13, okay.

13. Do we have a bonus? Plus one. Plus one, 12. Okay. Pretty good. You, Jester, look around the top area around the back of it, and the building is built

up against the interior of the outcrops. There is no back end, it's merged with the wall. You also see no other entrance on the side, and you go over, other side, no other doorway. There are the windows on the balconies, and there's the front door, and it appears that those are the only ways in. You glance within the top balcony, and you can see there is that window, what you thought from that pack perspective was a window, up close you can

see is a window that splits into a door. So it's like three panes of glass, two that are about that big and about dwarf in height or so, and the center pane is an actual glass doorway with what looks to be a handle on it. Can I see through the glass? Unfortunately, no. With what looks to be no interior light and the way that the panes are refracting,

you can't make out any details with the perception roll of 13. On the roof, since it's in an alcove, can the elven houses see down to the roof, or is it protected? Is it inside a... You can see there's maybe one with a view of here that's further out. Because it's mostly protected, it cuts off the perspective of any of the higher houses, other than ones that are more affixed to the far pillars.

Okay, and then how much of a distance is it from the ceiling to the roof? It's maybe 15, 10 feet. Not a wide gap, but a little bit of space. Okay. You find no bread. Also, you described this place like the Flatiron Building, right? Just like a cake wedge? Similar, yeah.

It's like, it's rounded, there's a big cavern alcove. It's built into the back of it, and it rounds out, and then comes a wedge at the front of a boat. Oh, so the front of the house is? The front of the house points out towards you, yeah. So if I'm the alcove backing, and this is the cavern entrance,

and the rest of this is the city, it builds out and comes to a pointed wedge, and there are balconies at the three floors. And while looking for bread, can I see from the top if the back of the building is connected to the back of the cavern? It is. It is, okay. No bread, though. No bread, I'm sorry.

With my keen hearing, can I try and hear anything on the first floor, like hear into, like press back, ear to door, to see if I hear footsteps? Sure, make a perception check. Ah-ha, with advantage. Duh, 19 plus eight. 19 plus eight. Listening in, you do not hear any nearby footsteps, no.

As there is no bread up here, I'm going to start to look and see if there is some sort of door or entrance on the roof as well. Okay, make an investigation check. That's a one. That's a one. But I lose a fortune's favor. Okay. That is a 20.

A 20, okay. You do see what looks to be the outline of what looks like some sort of a hatch. You're not sure if it opens up or opens in, but you do see what looks like the outline of a hatch. That's probably where they're keeping the bread. Is it on the roof? Are we on the roof? I am on the roof. Are you on the roof?

I'm right next to you, so I think so. I'm very stupid as a bat. Hello. Hi. I'm going to. They're keeping the bread in there. I see them just flapping and not doing anything, so I go up and join, and I'm like, have you found anything? We found the bread.

There is no bread. No, but there is underneath this trapdoor is bread. Oh, there's a trapdoor, that's good to know. Okay. We should go back to the others and tell them that we found a door. If we turn into us ourselves right now, we could open up the thing and get the bread out now.

But we have to take a nap first. Think about it for a moment. Having a fit. We are very tired, but the bread is right there, so what is- No, no, no, no, no, no, the bread's in my house. The bread's in my house. That changes everything. Let's go back to the others.

Okay, okay, okay. That's what I thought, that's what I thought. Okay, come with me. You're fucking wild. What do you mean? It's for us. Let's do the right thing. So Beau, you're saying that if I slide my front foot forward

while I'm kicking up the back, it will make the board just flip up a little bit? Yeah, you have to shift your weight backwards and have to really go for it. Three bats arrive. Hold on, I've been waiting for this. Ah! Why are you hitting us?

Why? That's way more than I've ever hit you. This purple bat is hitting me. For the rest of the campaign. Blue, blue, blue. Blue. I'm going to Unwild Shape. Okay.

Nope. Oh, there's still one more. You do one point of damage. How many hit points does the bat have? One point. Jester emerges. Bat form. You bitch slapped Jester back into existence.

You slapped the blue out of her hair. You slapped the white light out of her hair. You slapped the white lights out of her hair. Welcome back, what'd you see? We found a latch on the roof. It was a latch. It was like a door. Some sort of a hatch. Yeah. A latch hatch door. A latch hatch door on the roof.

There's no back to the house because it backs up to the rock, but if we could get up onto the roof, it kind of blocks the view. Guards up there? No, and I didn't hear or see anybody on the first floor, and it's dark, so. The house backs into the cavern, into the rock?

Yeah. Oh, they've definitely got vaults. I also made a tentative plan deal with bats. They said that if anybody comes in or looks suspicious, they're going to start squeaking. Okay. So if we hear squeaking, we're in trouble. Is it a different kind of squeak

than their normal squeak? How will we differentiate? Probably a plethora of squeaks. Can you understand bats? We didn't get that far in the conversation. I had to promise them bread. It was very complicated. Oh, bread. Do a lot of things for bread.

Yeah, everybody would do a lot of things for bread, apparently. I'm so hungry right now. We have a tentative plan. We'll walk back to the tavern tonight. I mean, wherever we're staying. No, your house tonight. Hot cocoa.

Puddle puddle. Stop at the bakery. Are you looking at my bare midriff right now? And how it's sort of hanging over my skirt that I decided to wear, even though you can't see below my waist? Hey, man. Commitment. Yeah, if you're going to go, go all the way. Oh! No, Sam!

Oh! Oh! Okay. Was it Olivier who said he didn't feel like he was the character until he put on the shoes? Yeah. It's like that, Sam. Olivier rolls in his grave. Is it safe? No. So we'll go over the bakery, go to Reani's,

have a slumber party, and then go in through the roof. Eat some bread. Then go in through the roof. Yeah, because it's still pretty early. We could get up in the middle of the night and do this. Yeah. Hey, do you want to go talk with that other Cobalt Soul guy about the moon? The moony.

The moony guy. What are we hoping to accomplish with this gentleman? I don't know. Well, you're really selling me on it. You didn't seem like you knew anything. No, I didn't know shit. It would just be for malady's sake, I think. Or we could just blow him off.

Seems fine. It doesn't seem pressing. Mm-mm. But perhaps it would ingratiate us back into the good graces of the library here. I don't know. It's worth a shot to me. Leave a note.

Okay, you want to stop by and be like, oh man, we're so busy, let's, you know. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah, I think we could earn a little more capital at the, you know, at the library and... All right. Get into the Better Graces. Why don't you guys go ahead for your cocoa

and we'll be right behind you. All right. Okay. Should we save you a cup? Yes, please. Okay. All right, so you guys head back to Reani's house. Stopping by the cupcakes. Okay, we'll get some cupcakes without issue.

Another dozen or so of a variety pack. Let's get two dozen just to be safe this time. All righty, two dozen of cupcakes. We'll say it'll put you at 12 silver. You got it. Worth it. Worth it. Cupcakes.

Now you guys are going to meet up with Demid, or cancel, or what's the scenario? Just go to the place where I said that he would be? Yeah, the tavern. Okay. I've never seen him from a tavern. Okay, which tavern are you heading towards? It was the one that we were at earlier, right?

The Broken Stool. The Broken Stool. Isn't that what he said? Maybe. Caleb would know. I don't, but Caleb knows. No, Tumbled Tankards. Because Caleb remembers everything. Tumbled Tankards. So Tumbled Tankards would be the bar

that you guys went to previously today. Just one here. Right. That's what I thought. It is the... The cop bar. Okay. It's not a cop bar. All right. You go ahead and you wait a good hour or so.

And he doesn't show up. Well, I hate fucking waiting on people. Let's give it 30 more minutes. I'm going to get more booze, then. It's slapped on the gold, it's on me. Go get us another round. Get another round. All right.

You can always just leave a note. I don't know, we were here, so we don't seem... You know, in the meantime, the last 24 hours went a lot better than some would expect or anticipate. You know, just when I think that we are a group of irredeemable fuck-ups, we managed to pull one out of the fire.

We certainly did. I don't know, I'm up and I'm down, you know? Sometimes I think that we can take over the world. I don't want to take over the world, you know what I mean? But then I swing back and think that what we're doing is stupid, but after a day like yesterday, I feel good. It's pretty awesome. We duped a white dragon.

Oh, you did show up. Fuck. The gnome comes in. You came? He's got his coat on and he slips in. Oh, I'm so, you have come as well, friend. Her assistant, her moon assistant. Mm-hmm.

She is like the big moon, and I am the small moon behind the big moon. Just a little moon. Are you a study of rudeness as well? I am an amateur, but I try. Well, this is fortuitous, definitely. I will get some milk. He gets up and leaves to the bar.

Caleb downs his drink. I do the same. Keep that fucking guy drunk. So you spend the better part of the next 30 or so minutes conversing about what? What do you want to, as opposed to role-playing an extensive conversation of awkwardness, are you looking for any information?

I want to, no, I want to ingratiate ourselves to him and make him like us. Okay. Although, can I compare any type of the moon cycles based on any of the demon activity that we've encountered? Sure. Looking at his extensive notes and mine, is there any type of cycle that it seems to sync up on?

Interesting, interesting indeed. I need to know when my moon is coming! Best you can tell? It's true. There's two cycles. We have, I mean, Katha is the common moon cycle, and that's the great white moon in the moonlit sky. That cycle is anywhere between 30 to 40 day cycle, waxes and wanes per normal.

Ruidus is a very slow orbit. It's visible for about half the year. It takes a full year, essentially, for a revolution. It's far more distant. And Ruudas is very prominent in the sky at the moment. Very prominent, meaning you can see it, this faint little brown, maroon-type dot in the sky during the evening

is barely noticeable. The day it's even fainter, but it's there. So other than that, there's no correlation. Okay. I agree, I just want to fast track and get back to our friends, but using this 30 minutes, Caleb would just try to chat him up in a very intellectual way

and jovial way so that he likes us a lot and continues to put a good word in for us at the Vellum Steeple is my hope. Make a standard charisma check for me, please. Just him? Or does he get an advantage because I'm there trying to be nice to him? You're helping? Sure, yeah. I'm helping. All right, so that's part of the advantage?

Yeah, because she's helping you make good odds. Both check. My charisma sucks. The second one was a one, so I'll take the original 18. All right, all right. He gets pretty deep in his milk cups

and seems to be enjoying your presence. When you find the right moment in the conversation, where it begins to lull that you both abruptly, I'm so sorry, we have to go. He's like, oh, that's all right, no worries. Thank you so much for taking the time. You know where to find me. Yeah, we will see you at the steeple.

Of course, please, tomorrow. We'll see you. All right, all right. Yes. Be careful now, yeah. Intolerant. Then he leaves. I know more than I ever wanted to about the cycles of the moon.

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But Elven Chain was the armor we were talking about. So you all gathered at Reani's home, laid down for the evening for a night's rest, and the night comes to you, Reani. Oh shit. Through a cupcake-induced temporary sugar coma. Familiar.

The comfortable night darkness, restful sleep is breached by a speck of light that grows and grows until the translucent, crystalline, ethereal form of Sanliel apparates before you in your dream, a vision that hasn't come to you in some time. The wings unfurl, the calm smile of the angelic entity before you

rests and sits beside you in this dark expanse. Riny. Hi, Sam. Hello. So, what have you learned with the dragon? That sometimes you should run away from things and not fight it? That is a very important lesson. Did you see I lived?

I see that now, and I saw it then, and I'm proud of you. Thanks. Is that what I was supposed to learn? Did I mess up? Am I wrong? No. You did very well. There isn't so much a right way to do things, more than avoid the wrong way to do things, and take these lessons to heart as you learn them.

And you've made companions. You've faced a serious threat. And you've helped an old friend. Are you proud of yourself? I think I am. I'm doing you proud, so I'm proud of myself, right? Good. You should be.

But you should also be proud for yourself, regardless of what I think. I don't get it. I've guided you for some time, and I just would hate to think so much of your life tethered to what my opinion or my interest may be. But you're my angel, what do you mean?

I am. I'm not going anywhere. Oh, okay. But don't wait for me, either. You're your own woman. So I, I, what do I do? Where do I go? That's your decision to make.

I showed you a dragon, but you made the path yourself, yeah? Yeah. You can do that with other things in life. Did I do something wrong? No. Is that why you're going away? I'm not going away! But...

I just, I guess I'm scared. And that's okay. Scared is all right. Scared keeps us strong. Scared helps us know who the enemy is. And I'm still defeating the enemy, right? You have been. Okay.

And there's more enemy out there to destroy. Okay. And I'll guide you towards the things that must be brought to Ash. Promise? I promise. Okay, thank you. Of course.

I just want you to know that I trust that the guidance I've given you to this point is strong enough to lead you whether or not I'm around. If you see injustice, if you see evil, if you see the darkness that creeps into the night, and I'm not there, do not hesitate.

I promise. You're an extension of my weapon, and you've been sharpening further and further with each year. I'll miss you if I don't get to see you a lot, but I'll remember what if I don't get to see you a lot, but I'll remember what you told me, and I promise that evil will never win. I'm always watching.

Oh. Then I promise that I won't let you down, and every time you look down at me, everything I do will be for you, but also for me, right? For you are but an extension of me. Exactly. I think I get it. Your opinion is my own.

If you've learned this path as well as I believe you have, so know that these choices you make, they're mine as well as I believe you have. So know that these choices you make, they're mine as well. Should it stray, I'll let you know. But until then, take solace in that knowledge. I will. The child did not cry. Now, smite the shadows for me.

The feather trail cascades around you as the warmth of your night's rest carries you once more into darkness. The morning comes to you all. You awaken with cricks in your neck and your back from the not well-supported floor of the interior of the home. Excuse you, I provided pillows.

You did, you did. But nevertheless, the day is yours. That was not the best. That was the best night's rest I've ever had. Thank you, Reani. Does anybody want breakfast? Oh god, breakfast sounds great. Let's do that.

Cupcakes? Mm, cupcakes. I actually think I may have had a little too many last night and I feel that maybe not cupcakes is maybe the best idea right now. All right. Can you make us something healthy, full of protein? Do I have things in my fridge?

Do I have a fridge? There isn't so much a fridge. Does Squirrel have fridges? I mean, there are enchanted cold storage cases, but you do not have one in your possession. So the things that you would have would be relatively fresh vegetables, if that would be something you would acquire from a market.

You would have dried salted meats, things that are cured and meant to have a prolonged life before consumption. Mentos. Yeah. Beans, a lot, beans, a lot of roots, a lot of root-based and tuber-like vegetation. A lot of the Uthodurnian food is based in tubers. So I guess with what I have stored in the house

that's still good, I'll try and whip together as much as I can. It's very much a classic Southern, throw-it-all-in breakfast. Yeah. So the breakfast mash is completed, cooked. It's not pretty, but it's pretty tasty. So familiar Caduceus spices thrown in. A little bit of flavor on top of the reigning special.

Do a lot with broccoli. Uh-huh. Sure. Yeah. Hey. Don't eat broccoli. a lot with broccoli. Uh-huh. Sure. Mm. Hey. Don't eat broccoli. Don't eat broccoli. What is the boss? So today, we are going to break into a home, is the idea, to liberate the ring

so we can get the thing that we need to go to the forge and make the sword and do the other business. Let's do it! All right. Well, all of us are just a small covert faction. Are you scared? No, I just don't know. I think it's good to have a few people on standby, maybe, if we do something like this.

We should definitely have at least, hmm, I would say one of the two of you go in. For the message? Because you guys can send messages back and forth. What's this? What's this? I don't know. Because we can hear each other. Because you can hear each other really well with your messages that you send to each other.

I stay outside, obviously, because I am not very sneaky. Perhaps you could be a good excuse to distract the guards, get their attention, talk to them at the gates. Love to do that, back to my old tricks. Is he going to flirt with them? He's got a really, you'd call it a silver tongue. Yeah.

Are you going to marry the guards? He could probably. He didn't marry the dragon, so. He could talk them into marrying him, if he wanted to. Well, then we could walk right in the front door. Why wasn't that our first plan? That only works with one guard, though. It could work with two.

Polyamory is not something uncommon in some places in Exandria. So is this our first plan, or are we going back to the whole, like, sneaky? I like the sneaky going up to the roof. We're going in through the roof. Maybe you could fly us up there, or maybe you could bamf us up there,

or maybe a little. Though it might be good for a... Oh, I do, I have a, hold on, let me look. How many times can they bamf us, Myla? The dimension door? Yeah, I could bamf us a couple times. I can bamf me and one other person a couple times. Whoever is not being bamfed, I can fly.

Yeah, that's true. We can climb, I can be invisible and climb. A few of us can get up on the roof. Yeah. You can. Maybe I could stay on the roof and just stand guard up there. How are we going to get up on the roof? Well, I can bat myself up there.

I can bat myself up there. I can fly on Reni's owl form again. I'll just run up there. A giant owl is very noticeable, though. Yes. Just so you're aware, it is roughly five in the morning. You guys went to bed relatively early, so you can get up early.

So just letting you know, it's still the track of dawn. I was thinking we would be waking up at like 2. I didn't realize it would be like. We overslept. Yeah. That's good, though. To get an eight hour full rest. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe strike before lots of people are out on the streets and stuff.

We could go and do this right now. Yeah, be done by 10 a.m. Still have a full day ahead of us. Do you want the dagger to lock any doors behind you? It requires attunement. You need. I have a sword, it's fine. Yeah?

I could, you know. What if you need to come in? It doesn't unlock, it just locks behind you. I understand, but what if you need to come in the front door, because we need you, and you could come in the front door and make we need you. You could come in the front door and make sure nobody else does. But the guards, he's going to be distracting the guards,

hopefully. If everything turns to shit, as many of our plans do, you might need to run in the door. I'll be there to run in the door. I'll be there to run in the door. Oh, okay. I'll be there to come in the door. Oh, okay. I'll be there to come for you. Oh god.

Oh god. Come for me. Okay, let's just make, let's walk over there, okay, guys? Yeah, let's go. Yeah. All right, so. Have a plan. Do we?

This is as good as it gets. I think, too, I think we should have four people in there. No more than that. No more than that, it feels like it's getting too many people in this house. Yeah. We can do two people as bats. Raise your hand if you're bats.

You can be a bat. You can be a bat. I can Dimension Door one other person up to the roof. Not in Jester. All right. All right. Wait, what about Beauregard? Oh, you're staying with Fjord, or you're staying on the roof.

I'll climb. Is climbing a good idea? I don't think so. I think can you take two trips? I've always wanted this. What? I've just been waiting for you to offer. I can make you invisible. I've just been waiting.

Well, today's your lucky day. Beauregard Lafayette, what's your last name? I think you were temporarily invisible last session, and you broke it when you attacked the rope. Oh yeah, that only lasted for like a second. I won't squander it this time. I just wanted it super quick. Super quick.

Broken before it's cast. So who's staying behind? Kind of wish I wasn't. You want to go in? Go in. I mean, I trust everybody's plan. I'm going to trust with the plan. There is no plan. We would like to have you inside.

We can all go in. You want to go in? I'll go in. How are you going to get in? I don't know. Okay, we've got to figure that out then. Wait, Nott, how many people can you make invisible? One!

Shit. But Caleb can make one person invisible. Okay, make me invisible and make a person I carry, you can make Pinky invisible, so I can carry Pinky up onto the roof with me. You can just sneak up there, you're good. Beau is really good at what Beau does, so Beau can sneak up there on Beau's own.

And then you can turn into a bat. You can turn into a bat. I cannot turn into a bat if I am keeping people invisible. Is that true? Then you can do... I think we can only bring four people to the roof. I just don't want to leave anybody out. Oh, I'll stay on the ground. That's okay, I'll stay on the ground. But we do need-

Forget invisibility. If Fjord goes and talks to those guards, they're going to have eyes on him. We could just float up, fly up to the roof. We don't have to be invisible. Let's not mess with that. Let's not complicate the plan. He makes a distraction.

Five of us fly to the roof. That's it. Pass without a trace. Yeah. Oh my god. Can you stop that? It's five in the morning. No one's looking for birds. We're underground. No one's looking for birds, we're underground. No one's looking for birds. Well, I tell you what, I could make a group invisible

and let them make their way to the back of the house out of the sights of the guards. To the side of the house, there's no back. That's what I mean, back along the back side of the wall. And then once, and you go with, and when you're there, you let me know that they are there, and then once, and you go with, and when you're there, you let me know that they are there, and I drop it, and you are visible again, but out of the way of view,

and then I could bat it up. Let's do it. Question. And then are you going to stay with Fjord, then away as he's distracting the guards? We know when to drop invisibility and then go from there. He doesn't need to distract the guards because I will make a handful of people invisible

to go to them. Then we can all go in together and be caught together. It will be fun. We'll go to jail as a group, you guys. I won't make a distraction unless I hear shit breaking in, assuming things are going wrong. I do think we want people outdoors for problems.

Just to have another option other than flying, if I'm a giant constrictor snake, would my length be as tall as the building so they could walk up me? 30 feet. How tall is a giant constrictor snake? A giant constrictor snake, considered a large creature coiled, which I'd say...

Uncoiled. Uncoiled, I'd say that'd be 30 feet length from nose to tip of tail. How tall is 30 feet? Might be kind of noticeable, though, for us to be climbing you up the side. We could all be invisible and climbing an invisible boa constrictor. But we also could just turn out.

If we're all invisible, I'll just climb you up. If we're all invisible, we could use a roll. Roll on your shit. Do you do roll? I don't know why that came to me. No, it was a good, it was a good. So what's his plan? What's his plan for the fuck's sake?

We go, and Caleb's going to make us all invisible. We're going to scurry to the roof. We're scurry up to the roof. Okay. Am I flying? Are we flying? We'll figure it out. If you think that's best for you, I can make four people invisible. I can bring three people at once.

Yeah, so two trips invisible would get everybody out. You're going. Okay. I'll send you off and you'll message me. We have a flyer. So you're staying behind with Fjord. So momentarily, once you are back there, I'm going to turn into a bat and make my way up.

Why don't you make these four, Beau, Reani, Caduceus, Jester invisible, I'll take care of me, and we'll scurry to the roof. All right. On three, go. Beau, Reani, Jester, and Caduceus. Are we there? Well, we're walking. Why did you say on three and then not count? On three, go. Beau, we need to start introducing ourselves. Are we there? Well, are we watching? Why did you say on three and then not count?

On three, go. It was a five. That's a silent three. We're not at the house yet, are we? No, we're on our way to the house. We're on our way to the house. Okay, so you're quietly conversing as you're making your way

towards the Demerant Circle. I just want to say that this is good work. That we are doing the work of the Wild Mother. We are on a path of destiny. We are here to make a friend stronger. We're here to help me fulfill what I need to do. I just want to say I am so grateful for all of you, for what you've given of yourselves to this.

To this, honestly, this long shot, this leap of faith that we're all making is just great. And I cast Motivational Speech. Yeah! Oh! Yeah! You cast Motivational Speech? I have Motivational Speech.

I'm going to give Motivational Speech to one, two, three. How many can I do? One, two, three, she's up to five. So one, two, three, four, five. You're fine. You're wrecked. Bless you, funky little cow man.

You get five temporary hit points. Yay! Ooh. D&D John has a spacecraft. I know, you didn't like it anyway. You get five temporary hit points. You get advantage on wisdom saving throws for an hour. Wow. And if you are hit by an attack,

you have advantage on the next attack roll you make. I was like, I don't remember that from one of the books. Ah, it's from the Acquisitions Incorporated book. That makes complete sense. Advantage on what? That makes total sense, yep. Advantage on wisdom. Advantage on wisdom saving throws, and if you get hit by an attack,

your next attack has advantage. That's cool. That's real cool. Perfect. Okay. All righty, so. As we're walking, I scuttle up to Fjord. Hey, you know, if you want to,

you know, like at nights and stuff, or on a spare time, if you want me to teach you some basics, I don't know. Like, it takes a long time to train this shit, but personally, I'm a firm believer that everyone should have the basics of self-defense. Good foundation.

Totally. Right. So if you want, I always do my morning routine anyway. You're always more than welcome to join for that. I lose count after like 75 of those pushups. I don't know how you expect me to be able to hang with that. Oh, well, no, you just work up to it, man, you know? Shouldn't be down on yourself.

Right. The sit-ups I also have to do? Yeah. And the pull-ups? Yeah, when your body is your weapon, everything needs to be in tip-top shape. I tried that once. I saw and then I went and did it, and I couldn't.

My everything hurt for two days. Yeah. Like rusty hinge. That's like every day of my life. Oh, really? God, you don't show it. The pain turns me on just a little bit. I don't want anybody to laugh.

Okay. I hope that doesn't dissuade you to come work out with me. Not at all. Not at all. I will be focused at the task at hand and not at all thinking about you. Feel it, okay. No, you don't have to, don't think about it. Nope, I will take you up.

As you arrive at the crossroads where you had previously staked out amongst the stone seats within visual range of the Tumblecarve residence, out amongst the stone seats within visual range of the Tumblecarve residence. Fjord, you are staying behind. Caleb, you are at the moment staying behind. The rest of you, you are casting invisibility on all but.

Visibility on... Wait, before you do it, I cast Pass Without a Trace on all of us. Okay. And it's going to Beauregard is going, Nott is going. Caduceus, where do you want to be in this? I think I'd like to come. I've tried to.

Okay, so one, two, three. I can do it all myself, so skip me and Doreen. I'm the giant bird carrying things. You want to turn into a giant flying creature? Invisible one. Invisible giant flying creature. To pick up a bird and put them on. If you cast it, will you lose invisibility?

Not if she casts it first, then you can make it. That's why I did Pass Without the Trace first. What, what? I'll only be a giant owl for a moment. I appreciate this tree of logic. So you are attempting to turn into a giant owl in the middle of this main thoroughfare, and then you turn invisible.

You can be done, it's got to be quick. It's like a. It's so ostentatious. So, all right. No, no, no. No, no, no. Nine. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

What if, great DM, is there a back alley, shady or otherwise, about? I would say you can Wild Shape while invisible, because Wild Shape isn't an attack or casting a spell. Oh, okay, okay. Oh, that's true. Druidic ability. Thank you, strange disembodied voice. That is what I'm here for.

I heard from a strange disembodied voice that it's okay if I turn into an owl while invisible. Lots of angels out there. You're welcome, book boy. One, two, three, four. Poof, poof, poof, poof. All right. Concentrating. So the four of you are invisible.

I will also cast Invisibility on myself. I'm going to do my hand on Nott. Five members of the party have vanished. When you're invisible, can you see other people made invisible by the same invisibility spell? Nope. We're all invisible. We're touching each other. Yeah. Hands on butts.

Careful, Marisha. Careful, Marisha, careful. You know what she likes. There are some. Punch yourself. All right, so who's grabbing onto who? I've got Jessie. I've got Nott. I've got Reani. I've got Beau.

I've also got Reani. I've got Pinkie. I'm giant. Who followed any of that? Come on. Side note, earlier today when they first got up, when they first got up, Caleb, I would say, the night before, would have used Transmuter Stone as back to advantage on constitution on. Concentration?

Proficient in con saves, yeah. Okay. All right. With that, you are invisible. You become your owl form. Who do you grasp? Caduceus and Beauregard, whom you are holding. Yes.

You guys feel the shift of form. Is it you cuddling up to the owl? That's me getting prepped. All right. I, as gently as possible, pat around to see if I can feel body with my talon and try and. You cop an accidental feel. Cop an accidental feel.

Just gently scoop both of them up. All right. And then I'm pecking around with my beak to see if I can find Jester, but really gently so I can pick her up. Are you getting up there yourself? I can do it. Oh, just kidding.

Then I'm only going to take the two of them. All right, so with that, there's a gust of wind coming and flowing and lessening as you assume the owl has taken off towards its destination. Where are we all just supposed to go? Like, how are we getting up there? On three.

Are you leading the way? I'm just like. Go! Ah! So you both just start running towards the residence. All right, you do get a view. There are three guards in the exterior. There are two in the main courtyard, and there is one up on the third level balcony.

Third level balcony, okay. Correct. The two outside have crossbows slung over their shoulders and have weapons sheathed, just walking and keeping an eye out. The one on the balcony is actually sitting in a chair with a heavy crossbow across the lap, but looks to be zoning out a little. Not quite sleepy, but definitely this is a routine.

Down on the street, Caleb and Fjord stand next to each other and just after they vanish, Caleb, staring, says, last time we did this, you held a sword to my neck. Oh, that's right. Good times. Sorry about that. Eh. Control issues and such.

I wouldn't know about that. Okay. You, I'd like you all to roll stealth checks with advantage because you are invisible and you have plus 10 because you cast Past the Loaded Trace, right? So you are super fucking stealthy right now. Oh god, thank god.

You are the Nazgul. 30? With advantage? You both have it. You guys have advantage, you do not get the plus 10 because you guys are your own separate troop. Yeah. Wait, what?

Because he flew further than 30 feet away from me. Oh, okay. With the trays? Because you rolled a one and a seven. Oh my god, I rolled a one as well. Oh god, that's terrible. I got a 10 total. Total of 10?

Stop rolling, man. What'd you roll? I rolled a seven. With advantage? Mm-hmm. Plus 10? Well rolling, man. What'd you roll? I rolled a seven, man. With advantage? Yeah. Plus 10? Well, plus the owl's plus eight. Oh shit, I'm an owl!

The giant owl has plus eight to stuff. Thank god. Remember from last time we played. Oh yeah, you're right. Okay, so seven plus eight, 15. That one. That's better. Thank you, owl. That one. That's better. Thank you, Owl.

Five. Oh, jeez. With advantage, I roll two fours. Oh, buddy. What about pass without a trace? All right. I thought we had pass without a trace. Get away from me.

You were good. But we're good? 24. 24, okay. But an owl the size of a Barka lounger has a plus eight to steal. They're quiet. So you guys fly up where you're heading towards. This is the roof? All the size of a Barka lounger has a plus eight. Okay. That's amazing. They're quiet. It's very quiet. You guys fly up where you're heading towards.

This is the roof? Towards the roof where the hatch is. Okay. You head up towards the roof, and you watch as the one guard is phasing out a little bit, goes, and is just on alert. Oh no.

Hears something, doesn't quite know direction, doesn't see anything, of course, but does seem to be going from a passive, it's an everyday scenario, to being at least on some level of alert. His icon turned yellow. Yeah, this is a little exclamation point. Vring! Yeah.

Little eye shows up in Skyrim. You're not quite hidden, but you're not quite seen. You got to get hidden before he goes back. Exactly. So you guys make it up, you're landing on the roof. There's the space there, so about 10, 15 foot gap. It's a little bit of a squeeze. You're going to have to glide in and then stop.

Okay. And you're holding them? Yeah. All right. What are you going to do? To land, you got to let them go. Drop those books. You got to glide in. What are you doing? It's coming quick. It's coming quick. I'm going to get as close as I can

and try and gently drop them, but make sure that I have enough space to, you know how owls pull back and stop? Okay. So drop them knowing that I have enough space to break, emergency break. All right, all right. I'll say roll a dexterity check for me,

using the owl's physicality. Using the owl's dex. How far back is the green team from the front of the house? About 150 feet. Seven. Seven. Fuck. So I need both Caduceus and Beauregard to roll acrobatics checks,

as you are both suddenly flung from the owl at the top speed of 60 feet per round, I think it was. Natural 20. Yeah. You three-point land like anime landing, skid across without, just a rock. Caduceus, 12. 12, Caduceus

tumble a bit. You hear the guard go, What's that? Hold on. Do the other two guards seem to notice what that third guard is doing, or is it just? They do not. Okay, so the top one is the only one seeing shit.

What are the two guards on the ground doing right now? One of them is just at the front door, keeping a watch. The other is doing a perimeter patrol of the outside gates. Okay. We'll wait till he or she walks away. We're going to get to the side of the house.

Is there a gate or a fence to climb over? There is. There's an iron fence with wooden pillar, oh, sorry, stone pillars that are about eight foot tall. The gate's about seven feet tall, and about every 10 or 15 feet or so are these stone pillars between each segment of Iron Gate. Climb over?

Sure, stealthily. Well, here's the thing. Okay. Is there anywhere along the fence that we, in the split second, it looks like neither of the two guards are looking can see us? Is it a barred fence or is it a solid stone fence? No, no, it's iron bars about maybe that far apart. And there's pillars.

There are stone pillars every 10 or 15 feet that these fences go to. Okay. Forget invisibility. You can just do it? Yep. Oh god. This is really bad. Stay with that. It's going to be yeah. Forget invisibility. Just do it? Yep. Oh god.

This is really bad, stay with that. It's going to be fine. What you doing? Going to get behind the pillar. Right here, and I'm going to Dimension Doras right behind the guard on the third level. One is in the balcony? Okay. Right behind him. I'm going to prepare my weapon.

I'm going to get ready to drop down to the ground and yank him down as soon as we. Okay. So. Go. You guys hear, as you're getting ready, you hear the on the roof and the guard reacting. You're like, oh shit. That's when you get behind the pillar.

You wait for the guards to not be looking. Roll a perception check, Jester. Oh dear. 18. 18 with a quick Roll a perception check, Jester. Oh dear. Okay. Okay. 18. 18, with a quick glance, which is all you need, you find the right moment where the guards

are looking in opposite directions of where you both are. You pull in, cast a spell, and with that, you are immediately leapt in a split second to the exterior of the home on that balcony, both landing, and the guard there has just finished cocking the heavy crossbow back and is looking up at the roof and is about to head back in towards the glass door. What are you doing? Fuck him up.

I yank him and pull him back where it is not. I'm going to shoot him in his throat. Yes! Okay. That's so sad. Go ahead and roll an attack, Jester. Okay. That got dark. Well, actually, this, that's cocked.

This won't be an attack, this would be a grapple attempt for you. So this is a strength, or an athletics check is what it is. Jesus. Ooh. Yep. Athletics? Yes.

19. That's a Yes. Yeah. 19. That's a fail. As soon as you land, the guard goes, and you just grab and pull him onto the ground. It's like, and it's trying to make noise. I'm shooting him in the neck. Go ahead and make an attack. Is it a sneak attack, I assume?

Currently threatened by your ally, yes, it is a sneak attack, and surprised, so. Which means you give advantage on the attack. Oh! Oh my god! That reaction. Yes! This dude.

Oh boy. Was falling asleep. Am I in his own fucking business? I was like, okay, I sleep on him. He'll just take a nap. He'll, dead. Yep. Well, we'll see, we'll see. Yeah. I'll just take a nap. He'll, dead. Yep. Well, we'll see, we'll see.

Yeah. I mean, he's at least going to bleed the fuck out. Per shot, because it's a crit, you double the dice. Correct. 60. But it automatically shoots again. Fire again, fire again. All right.

That's a 22 to hit. Go ahead and roll damage. Oh my god. Nine ahead and roll damage. Oh my god! Nine more points of damage. Oh! There's just another arrow that goes into the throat, fucking dead, instantly. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. You can't hit me. His head fell off. I'm sorry. I still can't shoot. Look sorry. Oh my sorry. I said, I'm sorry. Oh my god. Oh my god. I'm going to pull the things out of his throat and tie a little bit of sash around his neck

so he can see the blood. Okay. And then I'm just going to make, I'm going to use some of my, I'm going to make it look like he's not bleeding. I'm going to Cure Wounds, because he's dead already. Cure Wounds doesn't get rid of blood. Just paint over it. I'm going to paint over it.

Oh! Okay. Just wrap it with something. Just make it to where it doesn't, you can't see the blood. There's a lot of blood. You just fucking shot him in the throat and killed him in one hit.

We're talking like it is blood. It's the bread wedding. But is he wearing armor? Yeah, he's wearing a simple breastplate, what looks like some simple pauldrons. And a pool of blood. He's wearing a pool of blood. You know what?

A red apron. I'm going to take his hands and his large crossbow and point it backwards like you couldn't take it anymore. No, no, no, no, no, no, because he's got to look like he's still here. He's got to look like he's still sitting. He just needs to look like he's still sitting. You want no one to notice this?

He is dead. Yeah, but if we can, we can burn his hem and just throw him on the floor. No! Okay, okay, okay. We can flip him over like he's sleeping. We can put him in a sleeping position. No, he's got to just, aw.

He's dead, we can't make him look alive. We are going pee-pee-pee with Reani any second. Well, she doesn't see it just happening. It's true. Do something, do something, do something. What are you doing, guys? What are you doing? Just leave him, man.

I'm going to pull him away from the balconies. Okay. Towards the windows and the glass door. So nobody can see. Windows and glass door. Okay. It's like a kid's room, they're like. If I look up, can anybody see onto the balcony?

Can you see it from a high vantage? No, not on the third level of this perspective and pulling away, no. Okay, then from here, I'm going to. Barrier shot. Yeah, I mean, how do we get up to the? We climb. Can we climb up to the roof from here?

It's awful slippery now. You can. So you just lean the body there by the side and you're going to climb. You need to both make athletics checks, please. Oh my god. I think I just got abs from laughing so hard. I love that it's always the person who is so adamant

that we make a complex plan that is the one to immediately throw everything out. Murder. You both are trying to find any sort of hand or foothold from the balcony and there's no way up to the roof. So we can't get up to the roof? You can see a couple of bits of the frame,

but you just don't have the strength and the leverage to actually get any sort of ground. There's windows and doors here. There's windows and doors on this level. Yeah, but they could be trapped and stuff. We could look for the traps. What are you going to do? Dimension doors? I was going to dimension doors to the roof.

It seems like an escape way, but that's all. Yeah, do what you do, do what you do. This is going to Dimension Doras to the roof. It seems like an escape way, but that's what, yeah. Do what you do, do what you do. This is going to turn into that one Black Mirror episode. Okay, I'm going to Dimension Doras to the roof with everybody else. Okay. Not inside? You guys.

I thought you guys were already out there. After tumbling for a moment and like, You should have gone inside. Landed on the roof. You hear the owl come to land, footfalls under the roof space there. There's a little bit of tumble, but you're okay. I think we're okay.

All right, so you're an owl still. You guys are still invisible. We haven't seen them yet. So tell me it was too far for you to just initially dimension door to the roof. It was too far, right? Nope. It was definitely too far.

You just killed him. We didn't, I wasn't going to, we weren't trying to kill him, we were too far, right? Nope. You just killed him. We didn't, I wasn't going to, we weren't trying to kill him, we were just trying to keep him quiet. Because he hurt you guys, he hurt them. There's no way. So, what are you guys doing? After hearing them tumble, I want to, as an owl, gently search for them with my feathers

to just make sure that they're okay. They're okay. You eventually find them later. Okay. Jester and Nott appear next to you on the roof. Hi. Um. Yeah.

This is just cherry sauce. Don't know what that means. Let's pick the lock. Where's the latch? It's over here. Check for traps, too. Caleb, what are you doing? I'm waiting to hear from my friend Nott,

who is going to message me when it was time. When it's time, when it's time. I'm going to go see if it's locked. Okay. I'm going to unowl at this point. Okay. Go ahead and make an investigation check. I do say to Fjord, though,

it feels like it's been a little long since we've heard. I smell metallic in the air, metallic liquid. No, you don't. But it is stretching out on time, right? All right. The swelling of innocence with the ocean. That all happened time here. All right. The clothing of innocent with the... Okay.

That all happened very quickly. The roof is indeed locked. The latch is locked. I will try to pick the lock. Go for it. So dexterity plus Provision to Modifier. Rough. Oh wait, thieves' tools, right?

Yeah. 17. 17? It's not opening. Can you Mage Hand it? It's not opening. Can you Mage Hand it? It's hard to latch on the inside. The mechanism is partially in the interior, so you're just unable to quite get your tool. I'm going to take my paints out.

I'm going to paint a hole. Okay. So you go ahead and paint a dark circle and give a little bit of the dimension to it. Jester, at first it looks simple and rudimentary, but the more paint she applies and darkens the ink, eventually you're like, oh, that looks like a hole. Then that section of the roof is just gone,

and there's just a hole in the roof. It's kind of incredible. That's really cool. Thanks. All right. I will take out a piece of metal wire and rub it around my lips. I don't know.

I'm going to message Caleb and say, okay, Team Alpha is going into the roof hole. The roof hole. What do you want to do? You can reply to this message. So you guys are 150 feet away from the home. The range of the message is 120 feet, so you hear nothing.

Nothing, okay. Oh shit. Don't want to play. He didn't reply. Or don't you play? feet, so you hear nothing. Nothing, okay. Oh shit. Don't want to play. He didn't reply. Or don't want to play. Maybe he didn't hear you. One dead. No communication.

Would I know that he's too far if I didn't hear a response? Make an intelligence check, actually. Five. Five? No, it's weird. He should have responded. He's hiding. God, we're so good at this.

Yeah, he's missing his place and he can't talk. We literally just had a talk about how I felt good about how things are going. Should I send a friend to go find him? If he didn't reply to me, I'm pretty sure that means he doesn't want to speak right now. Oh. Okay, well then we'll just leave him alone.

Yep. Okay. All right, well, we'll just leave him alone. Yep. Okay. All right, well, we're going to go in and find this thing. Everyone knows what we're looking for. Should we split up once we're inside? Definitely. All right. If, hold on. I don't know what to think.

Hold on, hold on, hold on. I've got this bell. Let me look at it. Two and two. Or have a locate object spell. There's five of us. The spell can locate the nearest object of a particular kind. So I haven't seen it in person,

but I know that it's a red ring, right? You do, you know it's a spiraled red metal. I know it's a spiraled red metal. So I'm going to cast Locate Object. Yes, queen. And I'm going to cast Locate Object. Yes, queen. I'm going to think of that specifically. Okay. You finish the spell.

How long does it take to cast that one? It's one action? Oh yeah. You concentrate and you can sense the direction. It's below and a little bit in towards the wall of the cavern, beyond the threshold of what the visual estate is. You gather this is beyond and deeper into the rock.

Okay, does it feel like it's, like what level it would be on? At this angle, it's hard to tell. It's one or two floors below you from the roof. Okay. So it's either the second or third level. One of the two, probably, would be better. This thing is going to be behind lock and key, for sure.

Yeah. Why don't we do this? Why don't we daisy chain it? And we'll just leave a few people stationed in places that'll wait as you run back, if anything happens, right? Maybe? Sure. Or is that terrible? I don't know. We are all invisible. Well, you're invisible.

Me and Nott are not invisible anymore. Are you forgetting? You're invisible. I don't even know. Oh, they're right here. Okay. Hi. Hi. Yeah. We can't see where you're pointing. Oh. I'm sorry.

All right, so what are you guys doing? We're going to the... Let's just go. Let's just go in. Yes. I'm going to put my head in and look and see if there's anybody in the room up below us. Okay, there is no light inside. What you're looking down into appears to be

some sort of a master bedroom-like chamber. It's relatively gaudy in its attire, dark blue in its coloring. The floor itself is a polished cerulean stone of some type you don't recognize. The bed is this garish, canopied bed with thick curtains, gold trim. The elements of carpet and rug that are set up there

are a dark gray with purple accents. The colors are completely not complimentary. It's a fairly hideous chamber, and it's elegance perceived. You see a vanity cabinet next to that. You see a mirror above that. You see a dresser, and there is a door that leads into a hallway that lines up

with what may have been where the hatch would have descended towards. Okay. What do we think, how much time do we think has passed since we said goodbye to them? About five minutes. Yeah, and what can Fjord and Caleb see from their vantage point?

Because we saw three guards, all of us. So what do we see? We see the same two guards patrolling and. See two guards patrolling. And we no longer see. One dying very quickly. You were watching. There was a dude sitting there. And one of them just vanished. Huh.

Actually, both of you make perception checks. Like a stream of blood running down the side of the house. The balcony's just dripping. Into somebody's latte. 20. 12. Okay. You just see the guard disappear. You see a brief moment of a panicked Jester, and then she vanishes as well.

So I saw Jester for a blink of an eye, and the guard's gone now, too, not sure beyond that. Correct. Okay. Okay, okay. Okay, something's going wrong. Why? Jester was there with the guy, and now the guy's not there and Jester's not there.

I see he's not there. She was there? Jester was right there, and that was not part of the plan. It's Jester. Supposed to be on the roof. Okay, okay, okay, okay. What are you thinking? I'm not sure.

I want to give it a minute. Perhaps it's better to stay out here with you, because we did not anticipate this. Oh, right, stay available? Yeah. What if the distance is too far? Let's try to get a little bit closer carefully. 40 or 50 feet. All right. Yeah. So you go get a little bit closer carefully. 40 or 50 feet.

All right. Yeah? So you go for a little stroll? Yeah. Okay, you can get up to the edge, nearish to the gate, probably about 100 feet or so from the house. Okay, I'm pulling out the copper wire. What the fuck is going on in there?

You hear Caleb message. Oh, oh, oh, yes, yes, we're inside. We had to kill a guard, but we're on the third floor. We had to what? Huh? Shh. That's not a good face. Walk with me.

We arc around the way. Nott says that they've murdered someone. They murdered someone. That's what she said. That was never part of the plan. We were supposed to make this squeaky clean. Five minutes. Where are they now?

Alcohol is a problem for that woman. No, you need to get closer. We should move towards the back of the house. Scheisse! We're invisible. Okay. What? Someone first! You first.

On three. What are we doing? Go! Brawler! It's just a peak Dungeons & Dragons right there. MATT and LAURA laugh. What are we doing? I'm still here. Right, what are we doing?

I'm free. You disappeared. But I'm still with you, Fjord. I'm free. What are we doing? I'm sorry, you fucking fool! What are we doing? I'm sorry! We are going to walk to the backside of the house. Why do we have to count for that?

Oh, well, I don't want us to bump into it. Where's? Bobby, Bobby, Bobby! You're crushing my pinky! Eins, zwei. What? Drei. And?

And I start leading him along the right side. Okay, go around the gate. I freely walk sideways. I want invisible baby walking. I don't want them to just walk and go, b around the gate. I'm free to walk, so. I'm an invisible baby walking. I don't want them to just walk and go, bink! Okay, you slowly make your way along the far side where the iron gate meets the end wall on that side of the cavern

along the exterior of the courtyard. All right, in the meantime, you guys are inside the bedchamber. Oh, Caduceus, I can see you again. Great. You can? Yeah, well, the invisibility drops on you guys. In that case, I'm going to cast Find Traps really quickly. Find Traps? Mm-hmm.

Okay, that points him out. To what range? 120 feet. 120 feet? You have a night to prep, you know? I have a night to prep. Damn. Smart. All right. I'm built for espionage today, not for healing.

That's great. Don't get hurt. Not for healing, so. Don't get hurt. We're really going to. All right. You sense a trap directly beneath the vanity cabinet. Ooh.

Trap. You also sense a trap seemingly beyond the hallway, like the door, and there's the hall beyond, and there's a trap about 30 feet beyond there. There's a trap on the other side of the door, possibly the door itself, and then another 30 feet, there's another trap.

You also sense a handful of various other traps set throughout the house on the bottom floor. The bottom floor is a nightmare, but if we go down there, it's going to be. In this room, you pointed to that vanity. The vanity is trapped, yeah. Is that something we should investigate, or do you think it would be in a master bedroom?

I feel like if I tell you no, you're going to do it anyway. No, no, I'm all ears. It's underneath the vanity. There's a trap underneath the vanity. If you're, I'd... Do you want to look at it? I don't know.

I'm very confused. I also don't really know, because I can't really see the vanity, because it's pitch black in here. Yeah, you have almost no vision at all. So I have no real idea. I just know that there, I can kind of, I have like echolocation for it.

All right. I guess I'll go over. Fearbog's just. Should I try to disarm it? Is that a thing? Or should we skip it? Why? We don't need it. I think we should skip it. What if it's hiding in the ring?

Maybe the ring's in there. No, Jester knows that the ring is down the corridor. Oh, you're right, you're right, you're right. I know where the ring is. Can you point to the direction that the ring is? And Caduceus, you point to where that other trap was 30 feet beyond. Are they pointing in the same direction?

No, Caduceus is a little off to the right. Caduceus is pointing towards the vanity, towards the base of it. Jester's pointing down the hall, in the direction of the trap that you saw. Yeah, I know, that was all trap. What's the other trap? It was the trap that way.

Down the whole trap. Are they now? The one that's 30 feet beyond in the next room, those are both in a similar direction. Okay, that's where it is, let's go. That's got to be where it is. Question. Yes? Is it possible that there's a key for something

in that other, beneath the vanity? There might be a key. Are there any other traps in here in general? Maybe they're keeping a key for it. This is the only trap that I'm reading is the one beneath the vanity, right? Currently. Goggles on. I'm going to quickly rummage through the one beneath the vanity, right? Currently. Goggles on.

I'm going to quickly rummage through some drawers in the vanity, look for keys. Watch out for the trap. Watch the trap. No, I'm not going to go under the trap. That's where I would be. Yeah, don't go near it. I'm not going to avoid the trap. You look in the vanity and you find a series

of facial powders, you find some gloves. It looks like a bunch of evening wear accessories that begins on more of just basic makeup and then eventually leads into various bits of small accoutrements for what would be a formal gown or attire. Question. Yes. Are there doors in this room leading to the balcony? Yes, there is the glass door and the glass windows

that are on the opposite side of the balcony you guys first appeared on. Can we see through them outside? You can see a faint bit of light that's coming from just the general atmospheric light of the interior of Uthodurn's street and the area around you, and the lanterns that are now lit up in the area,

but it's all diffused through the weirdly textured fogged glass, so you can't make out more than just a faint bit of light. It's refracted. What color is that glass? It's a faint bluish green, I guess you could say. A hint of teal, mostly clear, but a hint of teal to it. There's probably just jewelry or something under there. I would say I'm learning to let go of control of things.

If the trap looks like something you can figure out how to disarm and if you're feeling confident, then I'd say fine, but if you don't, if it looks dangerous, we might as well keep moving. I will investigate the trap. Okay, roll an investigation check. 15. 15. It is indeed, what you find is not the vanity itself,

but beneath it, there is a small metallic lockbox that has been slipped beneath the vanity and there's a little compartment that's pushed up and slid inside, so you can try and remove it. There isn't a trap on the space, but the actual latch on the vanity has some sort of a mechanism. It doesn't look super complicated,

but it's not a simple trap either. I think I've got this. I'll take a little nip of booze and I'll try to disarm the trap. Go for it, give it a Thieves' Tools check. 20. Backing up. 20. Ooh! You feel a spring go and you're like,

nothing happens. Ah. So the trap is? I will open it. All right. Well, and it is locked as well. Oh, Jesus. I'll try to pick the lock.

25. 25. Yes, queen. It'll try to pick the lock. 25. 25. It's a pretty tough lock, and you manage to just barely find it. The tumblers are arranged strangely, and you have to feel around for them. You haven't encountered a lock like this, but it's not entirely unlike others you've encountered. You just have to adjust the arrangement in your mind,

and you eventually find it after maybe a minute or so of fiddling with it. It opens up and on the inside you see a pile of jewelry, like fine gold and platinum necklaces with pearls and gems embedded in it. Looks like a beautiful set of formal jewelry. You also see a vial of potion that looks empty, like a glass vial,

and a letter that's folded. Read the letter. Yeah, take that. Read the letter. Read the letter. We want to read it now? Why don't we get the thing first? We'll take everything. Okay, you got it.

Reani, we're just taking this in case it's useful in the next room. These people are bad. It is good. If we find... And she, like, her eye twitches. If we find that they're good, we'll put the doll back. How about that?

Maybe there's something in the letter that says they're bad. I'll hand the letter to someone. Oh, she's already done it. So is the trap where the door is, the next trap where the door is, or is it beyond the door? Beyond the door. It, we got it. We got it. Yeah, Beau will definitely read it. Is the trap where the door is, the next trap where the door is, or is it beyond the door? Beyond the door. It's beyond the door.

Okay. Paper's blank. Bullshit. Invisible ink! It's a fucking scroll or invisible ink or something like that. And there's some sort of a, A vial that seems to be empty.

Wait, wait, wait, there's a vial, there's a vial. Can you check out the vial with your alchemy skills? I'm going to just shake the vial next to my ear and see if I hear any liquid in it. There's liquid in it. But it looks and appears empty, and you glance at it and you can see it. It's a faint, it's not even water.

It's almost like, are you familiar with aerogel? Oh, I love aerogel. It looks like there's liquid in there, but almost not. It's like a ghostly liquid. It's kind of hard to... It's totally invisible ink. For sure.

I wonder if there's... But pouring it on won't make the ink come out. No, that's the ink that's probably in this. No, I assume so, but I don't know. Maybe there's something in the jewelry. Maybe the spell magic? Yeah. Okay. Just pocket it for later.

Pocket it for now. Okay. Shall we go to the trap? Destruction. All right. I know. All right, we're going to make our way out the door. Wait, before we make our way out the door, I want to conjure an elemental cat.

No. No. Mm. Small, a small, small gopher of some sort. A small rodent. He will go first, because if any of the traps are bad and hurt us,

unfortunately, we will sacrifice this gopher. All right. Nott can also dismantle the traps that we found. But if Nott can't? Okay. If Nott cannot, then we send that one forward. Gopher goes first. What if the Wi-Fi password's on that invisible piece of paper? Sacrificial gopher has been summoned.

You go to exit and the door's locked. The door is locked in the bedroom from the inside? From the outside? It's a key lock, you're going to need to. Shit. It's really kinky. What if we, all right. If I hold up the letter in front of the lock

when you cast a spell magic, can we get a two for one deal? I don't think so. It might just be a mechanical lock. I'll try to pick the lock. Roll for it. Terrible. 16. 16?

It's not opening. I'm going to cast Dispel Magic on the... Did I discern that? Oh, on that. On the piece of paper. Okay. You cast Dispel Magic. There's a very faint wave of arcane energy, very faint, like a visible breeze for an instant,

and suddenly this ink appears across the page. Oh, read it, read it! This is the last figure. So glancing through it, it's encoded, meaning the phrases don't seem to make sense initially, but go ahead and make an investigation check for me. Come on. Do I get a bonus? Because that's my specialty.

I mean, you get a bonus as part of your class, so yeah. You get a bonus for that, here. Yes. Just investigation? Just investigation check. It is cyberpunk tomorrow. It's plus one. All right. Oh wait, no, sorry, sorry, sorry, just one.

Just one. Okay. 15. 15, okay. The series of sentences that seem disjointed, you're familiar with this type of subtext. A lot of smuggling, a lot of illegal trade, a lot of things that deal with that

are encoded through sentences in which you're supposed to pull and arrange words separately, and there is an insinuation through a lot of it. This seems to be talking about deliveries and acquisitions that have been requested. It talks about a delay to have patience. It is signed with a IJ.

I dot J dot. Dot. I dot J dot. Look for. Definitely nefarious, Rhaenys. These are bad people. This sounds like slavers to me. That's the worst.

Or even worse than that. Antique dealers? Yes. No! The markers. I doubt J. Not antiques, we're in shape. I don't want to be watching.

All right, so we're stuck in this room. Can anyone open this door, Caduceus? You said you're outfitted for stealth. Well, there's some stuff I could do. O'Reany, can you make a? Are there metal hinges on here? I could do a little mage hunt. There are metal hinges, yeah.

Is there a keyhole which one could possibly morph into something tiny and fly through it? Poss hinges, yeah. Is there a keyhole which one could possibly morph into something tiny and fly through it? Possibly, yeah. So there is a keyhole. That'd be super tiny. There is a keyhole, yeah. There's a keyhole. Don't use my last relic. Don't do it, don't do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, do it. We're stuck in a room, of course do it.

I'm going to use my paint. Oh. Ow. All right, so what are you painting? Don't you mean, oh! Don't waste too much. You could just make it this big. We can make a little crawl. We can reach around.

Well, I have a feeling they're blocked from both sides. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I was wondering, maybe I can paint a lot of rust on the hinges to where they just break, like totally corroded hinges. To where, like. You can certainly try. Do you have a dapple sponge?

Of course I do. So you hint it. You go ahead and paint this heavy, heavy rust and crack marks and breaks across the hinges. Go ahead and make a dexterity check for me. 22. The details are pristine. You would think this is all natural rust.

Incredible. The paint sets in. Man, that's a fucked door. Gank it. Roll a strength check. 21. 21. It snaps right off the hinges. The door comes out in Jester's hand. So cool. Slick.

Good music. I'm trying to use little amounts of paint. Great, we're through. All right. We'll help her set the door down gently. What about Caleb and Fjord? Are they coming in or what? I'll check, taking my wire.

Caleb, Caleb, are you coming in the room? You guys are at the edge. We're standing at the gate, invisible, watching two guards do this, right? Yep. Anything else? But that just comes through? That just comes through. Are you coming in?

We are at the gate, and the guard in the balcony is gone. You want us to come in? He wants to know if we want him to come in. Well, I have a feeling this is going to be like... Like in and out. You think it will be quick? I don't know. I hope it will be quick.

It will be all in and out. Yes, come inside if you can, but no rush. What? I reply. I don't know. Caleb replies to that message. One of us or both of us? I found both. What? Both? She doesn't have other blood to that message. One of us or both of us. About both. What?

Both? She doesn't have other blood to come in. Oh, are you on this? Do you agree, Caduceus? Hmm? Do you think they should come in? Who? Our friends outside.

Caleb and Fjord Tuff. Oh yeah, I mean, it's always good to see them. Well, uh. Both of you come in. It might be good to have stations, you know? What? As long as they're in speaking length. One of you stay a little further out,

or maybe all the way out. One of you come in and one of you. They both get on the roof. The buddy-sister man. Both get on the roof, and then one maybe is down one of you. They both get on the roof. The buddy sister, man. Both get on the roof and then one maybe is down the roof? They're not getting on the roof. You can reply to this message. What are you guys doing?

I silently tug at Fjord's hand and pull him back away from the building 30 feet, so we're not quite as close, and send my own message. You do realize that casting message is casting a spell? Makes it disappear, yeah. Is there any structure or anything? You can find a structure, but you probably get out of range. But I'll get out of range.

Your message should do it, yeah. Okay, I'm going to pull Fjord a ways away out of sight. Okay. Moving away from the building. Okay, without doing anything, I say, once we're out of sight. Okay, so they messaged me to have both of us go in, but I'm not sure how to get both of us in.

I know that I can get myself in. Yeah, no, you just go. I'll be fine out here, invisible. How long does this last? An hour or a couple more seconds when I drop it. We're totally blocked from sight from... You found a little alcove. Yeah.

Yeah, no, don't worry about me. I'll be fine. I have items and stuff. You just go. Do you want me to doing too bad? Yeah. All right. You return to visibility and are now sitting in a small alleyway off near one of the estate

storage houses, and you're just alone. Aww. Anyone around or looking? At the moment, no. It's still early morning. You turn and visit. Are you looking? At the moment, no. It's still early morning. You're turning as it were. Oh, it's morning for bread and shopping. Good luck.

Okay, you? Yeah, and I'm going like, it's a very bad day. Roll a stealth check for me. Bread. Using the the Bat's Bread Stealth. I never had that stat up, but it was plus one. No, that's the owl. Just plus one for?

I'll look, I'll look, I'll look. I'm going to roll. Hold on. Okay. What do you, it's the dex? Dex, yeah. Plus two. 13. 13, okay. Okay, one of the guards patrolling glances up and sees it and is like, notices you, but is like,

ah, fucking Matt, no big deal. You make your way up on the roof, and you can see the hole carved there. You guys make your way around the hallway. There's the trap around this side, there's another door there on the opposite side of the hallway, and you can see there is the hatch up there, and there is a ladder that is beneath it,

but the hatch is still locked inside. All right. But the trap that I was sensing. It's on another chamber beyond the secondary door that's on the other side of the hallway. Okay. Where's the ring, if you remember? It's been less than 10 minutes, I'm assuming.

So yeah, I still know where it is. All right, okay, let's keep going. Yeah. I'm going to keep an ear out. Do I hear any sounds? Footsteps, presence? Join you in that. I also want to put my hamster in front of us. So it's gone first.

Five. 14. Okay, you don't hear anything yet. The door is locked across the way. Oh jeez. Okay, okay, okay, okay. There's no traps? Not on the door. Not on the door, no. All right, all right, all right, all right.

I'll take another little nip and then. Don't drink too much. Okay. And then I'll try to pick the lock again. 26. Yes. It's just like the other one. I figured it out. You guys enter what is a small storage chamber.

You can see there's sheets thrown over, old furniture that smells dusty and musty. You can see there's a small desk in the corner, a couple of barrels. It's just a general storage room that looks to have not seen a whole lot of... Hidden doors, hidden trap, hidden anything, doors. We know where the trap is, right?

The path we're leading you to is pointing towards what looks to be a large armoire. It itself is, you know, cleaner than the rest of the furniture upon glance. Don't open it, don't open it. Are there traps? It's got a trap there traps? There's a trap in it. I'm just kidding. As you open the door.

No, no, he does. Okay, okay. I'll allow it. I'll just shoot her in the throat. Got to stop the theory of the small. All right. Don't open it, don't open it. Why? It's got traps. Oh, oh, good job, Quintus. Oh, I know.

Should I try to disarm it? I mean. If I fail, it'll go off. Check out the trap and see if it's super hard. I will see if I can locate or identify the type of trap. 28. Okay. Jesus. There is no trap on the doors to the armoire.

Go ahead and open it. Where's the trap, then? Inside. It is, however, locked. Oh, fucking shit balls, shit. All right, all right. I'm standing to the side of this thing, no matter what happens. I'm backing up a bit. I'm believing you.

I'll use my Mage Hand for this one. Okay. Stand back 10 feet and... What am I doing? Unlocking it? Unlocking, yes. 29. 29. Opens that issue. Yeah, really, they're using the same lock on all of it.

It's the same thing, it's amazing. It's unlocked. It can't be that. Okay, you open it up, and on the inside, you can see there's six different outfits that have been thrown over what looks to be a central pole, so it's just layer after layer of different colored silks or particular materials. Can you sense where the ring is still?

It's just through there. The trap is further in the umbrage. It's further in the, but the ring, though, since you have the ring, it's in the direction. How much further? Is the armoire up against the wall? It is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a door. It's a door, it's a door.

We found Narnia. We found Narnia! Time to go pet Aslan. Where is Batlub, by the way? Yes. Now. Yes. A bat flies into the chamber with you guys. Oh no. You hear, you look and you see a bat.

Hey, bat. That's Caleb Bat! What the hell are we doing? What happened? We found a secret pass at Derwin Armory. Darn it. Why were you on the balcony? There was a guard that had spotted us, so we silenced him.

We were saving everyone because he was like, oh my god, I hear people, and he was about to go and call out, and so we We knocked him out. We knocked him out. And tried to knock him out, but not accidentally knocked the shit out of him. She's going to. She didn't mean to. We didn't mean to kill him.

We were only going to make him quiet and then he died. His head partially fell off. But it was an accident, we're still good people. If you're going to kill me, can you just wait until we leave first and then you can kill me? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait.

Caduceus. Yeah? What is going on? We found a magic closet. I don't know anything beyond that. I can't wait too long, because my locale object only lasts for 10 minutes. You cast Detect Magic. Okay.

You detect, the range on that is? 30 feet? 30, I think. 30 feet. You sense a faint bit of magic towards the back of this closet. What kind? This would be necromantic. Ooh.

That's a bad armoire. Everyone's on fire tonight, man. Going to have to back up. It certainly is. It certainly is. I quickly, rapidly look all around the room. Is there anything else besides the necromantic armoire? Nope. Do I see any signs? I cast Dispel Magic in its direction. Okay. Oh, cool.

Go ahead and roll a d20 and add your intelligence modifier. My what now? Add your intelligence modifier. All right. 23. You sense the magic fade. What did you, how do you know that it was good that you just pounced? It's a good armoire.

Do you think it was going to eat our face off? Is the trap still there? I thought we'd have to cast it again, but I can't find out. The trap is still there? We don't know, actually. You don't know, are you casting it again? I don't know, you have to level that.

Second level. Sure, I'll cast it again. Okay, the trap is still there? Well, we don't know, actually. You don't know? You cast it again? I don't know, you have to level that. Second level. Sure, I'll cast it again. Okay, the trap is no longer there, but you now sense five other traps roughly about 80 feet ahead of you. There are five other traps of roughly 80 feet in this direction that we're going. Into the armoire? Yep.

Let's do it. Where did you leave Fjord? He's a ways away from the street. We wanted to both come in, but we couldn't figure out how to do it in a hurry. What's up with the clothes hanging in there? Are they cool at all? They're pretty nice robes.

Sorry. Well, look at this pretty robe. Just grab it. I just pull one and put it on the side. Why is there any sign of shit that looks like it was smuggled or illicit substances or signs? You can start to tear through the room if you want. I mean, everything here looks furniture-like,

but you can begin to do more. A staying-walk task. There's obviously better stuff this way. I've only got ten minutes for my spell. Also, as we go in and they keep saying, you know, because they're bad people, I pat Nott on the head and I go, Slavery is very bad.

I'm sure it's fine. And then I just keep walking. Okay. If she tries to kill me, will you protect me? I'll really talk you up, okay? You'll talk me up? Having seen the kind of trap that is in this room and there's a lot of people working,

I would like to investigate the room to try to figure out who lives here that they had that. Okay. The bedroom? Make an investigation check. Wait, you're staying behind and looking? We have to be open. We're going to go in. We're walking in.

We have to open the lock that's behind the door. It's a 16. 16, okay, so you start looking through. What are you guys doing? Is there a lock? It's going to take you a while to do that. Yeah. There is a lock on the back door.

Jesus, that's a fucking long lock. All right, one more time, one more time. I wonder what they're guarding. I'm going to take another little snip of booze. Don't worry, I'm okay, I'm okay. 20. 20. You just barely manage to find a bit.

This is a larger keyhole, and as such, there's more distance between where the tumblers usually hit, and there's a weird spring mechanism on the inside that you're afraid might have been attached to that earlier trap, or at least what would have triggered it. But you manage to just get it to turn slightly enough

where the latch scrapes open, and it opens up to a hallway. You have to step through, and it's a bit uncomfortable for. You have to step through and it's a bit uncomfortable for a taller person to get through. This seems to be designed for a smaller or lithe individual, but there is a hallway beyond, lightless. Can we hear anything down the hallway? Perception check.

I'm joining in that. I know, right? 16. 10. You don't hear anything. I want to send my gerbil hamster, whomst I've named Henry. Okay. Henry the Hamster. Henry the Hamster down the hall first.

Not too far. Not too far, not too far. Just a little bit of a recon. Yeah, 50 feet or so. He goes up 50 feet and stops and turns around. Do I still have Talk With Animals up? How long until it lasts? No, that would've faded. That was yesterday.

All right, I'll cast it again. Okay. Did you see anything? No. Did you hear anything? No. What a snooty hamster. All right.

Yeah, Dug, do one of those. Are we ready in case we need you again? Yeah. Okay. That was my recall. I'm going in blind, I guess, when people go head to head. You guys are all going in darkness? Animals. Just for the moment.

I trust you guys. Are we just going to keep going ahead? What's the marching order here? I'm in the middle. Nott should be in the front. I'll go behind Nott. Nott's in the front, followed by Jester. Then me.

All right, with? Caleb and Reani. Caleb, then Reani, and then Beau. Whoa, look at Reani's miniature! Yeah! Yeah! Shit, dude! Look at that.

As we walk, I'm going to cast Message to Fjord, and I'm just going to tell Fjord, listen, we're going deeper in, out of communication range, but if you see those front guards notice their fallen compatriot on the third floor, keep them distracted. You're too far, you don't hear anything. Guards notice their fallen compatriot on the third floor. Keep them distracted. You're too far, you don't hear anything. That face.

He's so stoic. Yes. All right. This is going great, you guys. You guys continue into the dark hallway. Should you send some lights or something? No sight. I've been searching the bedroom. Okay. Do I see anything with darkvision?

People with darkvision, you can see fine, but just you have one member of your team, with Caleb staying behind, and you have almost no, like there's no light in here in this chamber either, so you're fumbling in the dark. I'll blow some transportation magic and give myself darkvision then from the transportation stone. Okay.

Continuing through the hall, 20, 40, 60 or so feet, you watch the hallway open into a chamber. As you make a step, suddenly the chamber lights up. A globe in the center and the ceiling affixed to it warms and this light fills the chamber. You stand at the precipice of a pentagon-shaped room with five sides. That was a good sign. light fills the chamber. You stand at the precipice of a pentagon-shaped room

with five sides. Oh, is it a good sign? Right, lots of traps. Where's that trap? Where's that trap? Right, I don't know. As you look in the middle of this pentagram-like chamber, each corner about 30 feet from each other, end to end, you can see in the center of each of these walls,

there is a metallic case made of dark gunmetal iron with a glass cage on top of it, set like a display. There's one at each wall. So there's five total? There are five. And there's traps on each one? There's a trap at each wall. So there's five total? There are five. And there's traps on each one?

There's a trap on each one. Is there anything in the middle? There is nothing in the center. It's just that orb giving the light. So it's like the mineral room at the museum? Kind of. Glass box, glass box. It's the best room at the museum. And there's no trap in the middle?

There's no trap in the middle. That you sensed? That I sensed. You still sense the ring? It's in here. Yeah, it's... Oh yeah, is your spell working? I'd say you'd be on the very, very end cusp,

but yes, there is a box adjacent to where you enter to the left that you sense is probably where the ring is. Okay, that's a cute clutch, by the way. Yeah, it's pretty cool. All right, let's go over to it. Okay, you walk up and you can see this, all the cases are identical, though in different sizes. This one is a little thinner,

and as you look across the glass top of it, which has an iron cage based across it, the light from the orb allows you to see there is a faint silver velvet pillow and on it you can see the ring resting on it, like a display case. You gather this is a collection of some kind, a hidden vault that contains a collection.

The ring, you recognize as having the same spiraling red metal around the entirety of its band, very faint elven filigree along that spiral. You can see in the middle of it a polished oval stone of jet. This very much matches the description you were given. This is the ring. Okay.

While they handle that. I don't have any poison. Can I? Over here. Oh, you're not in the room with us. You, all the way, you're investigating in the dark. I'm busy. Looking through, it's pretty much just empty storage. Yeah. Okay.

Okay, I will abandon it and gingerly make my way into this room, this sex dungeon where they are, clearly. Okay. Can I look at the other cases? Sway Mr. Grey. What? Oh no. Look at the other cases. Right, sway Mr. Grey. What? Hell no. Look at the other cases.

Okay. You walk by. The next chamber you come across has... Okay. This one has what looks to be a leather-wrapped thick, bulbous vial with a stopper cork on the top of it. There's a Quicksilver-type liquid that rests inside

that reflects what light makes its way to the display case to where it looks like liquid silver. The next one you walk past is an old book, maybe about that big, end to end. There's no title on it. It's leather. There is some intricate design put towards it, it's like a brownish-red color.

That just sits in another element. The next one is a similar size to the first one you found, and there is another ring. This band looks like it's made of silver with a little bit of a gold line down the center. There are runes across the top, like the top of the ridge and the bottom of the ridge as well.

It's beautiful and it's just resting there on its own pillow, similar color of velvet beneath it. Then the last one of the five, you see what looks to be a wand about that long of beautifully carved rosewood. Along it, you can see all sorts of runes that spiral and then reverse spiral and then reverse spiral again. The coloration of the wood seems to shift

about halfway up from that rosewood to a dull blue to a purple, then back to the rosewood again. It's beautiful. I'm going to cast Detect Magic in this room. All right. You immediately sense multiple, multiple magical sources very strongly from each of these five cases. The cases themselves as well, though?

You detect strong magical essence from each of these cases. And the space, it could be a combination of items, the traps. You do get the sense that the types of magic you get from these. Would I know that? Yeah, sure. As part of Tech Magic,

you do learn the schools of it, and you do sense that the traps themselves are also magical. Sure. Magic traps. Correct. Magic traps. You, there is a heavy enchantment sense from each of these stations.

All enchanted. Then within the one that you're, the one that you guys are looking at here, the ring, is a very strong enchantment-based aura. The book has a strong transmutation. Book's given up the changey thing. Caleb is already standing in front of it. I figured you'd want to know.

The wand has... It's hard to pick up. It seems to shift in the moment. It's a very weird stick. Like a kaleidoscope of different schools just constantly rotating. The silver ring has a, I would say an abjuration-based essence to it. Like an abjuration vibe on the silver ring?

Yes, and the silver, quicksilver-like oil in the container, that would have a, would have a, would have an enchantment based as well. That's just some sort of weird motor oil, I don't know. Just enchantment based. Caduceus, the cases themselves. Are all enchanted. Are enchanted.

The one we, the big one is, it's given quite a glow. I have not left the book. How far are those cases from each other? The big one is, it's given quite a glow. I have not left the book. How far are those cases from each other, just for context? They're about 10 to 15 feet from each other, and they're about 30 feet across from the other ones. Imagine the five-pointed star, they're all equidistant from each other within the chamber.

Not that big a room. A room about this big, probably. Roughly, a little bit bigger than this. Thank you. Hmm. Yeah? If bad people have these things, would that be bad? I think it would be. I get the feeling this is,

I have the urge to set a fire on the way out, honestly. Yeah, can I? Should we make sure bad people don't have bad things? Should we make sure bad people don't have bad things? Should we make sure bad people don't have bad things? I think we have to be careful to take care of ourselves first. Okay. But what if we need to save other people,

because what if this could hurt other people? Yeah, I think we should possibly, what was the word, liberate some of this? Okay. Okay. I'm going to check, I want to check the entrance to this room. Is there some sort of locking mechanism

that if something gets triggered, is the room going to get sealed? Make an investigation check. Why investigation, man? Because this is exactly what you need. sort of locking mechanism that if something gets triggered, is the room going to get sealed? Make an investigation check. Why investigation, man? Because this is exactly what you need to do is try and figure out these types of mechanisms. Oh, that's good.

One. I rolled a two. Minus one. You, um... Like, you've been around doors most of your life. I mean, really, I haven't, though. I really haven't. Like entranceways. Sure.

Egresses. There have been passages. There have been a few. You're really unable to figure out if there's anything special about this one. Oh man, I don't know. When you were putting the blacklight on this room, did you see anything besides these cases? The stuff in them? The cases?

The cases and what's in them. Nothing on the ceiling, nothing on the floor. Okay, the glow. There would be a faint magical essence from the glow of the orb in this room. But nothing else, really? Is there any type of script or coding or anything on the walls? Yeah, or doorways

or patterns or writing aside from these museum cases? Make a reception or investigation on the walls. Or doorways or patterns or writing aside from these museum cases. Make a reception or investigation, your choice. Get your book and check. 21. Jesus fucking Christ, I'm supposed to be good at this and I roll shitty every time. I'm so sorry. 11.

No. It is simple, it is blank. Nothing in the chamber is meant to distract from the presentation of these objects. They are the chamber is meant to distract from the presentation of these objects. They are the center of attention. And were the walls metallic? No, they're stone.

They're carved from the interior of this mountain. Is there any type of, you said it's shaped like a pentagram or a pentagon? Pentagon. Pentagon. Is there anything on the floor drawn between the display cases? Is there any iconography? Okay.

Why don't we just break it open and take it? No, no, no. We should do the one that we're here for. Which is this one, Jester? It's this ring right here, yeah. If that one goes okay, we can talk about that book. Would I recognize any of these items from time I spent with the auditors or time I spent?

You can roll a history check. Or arcana, your choice. I show arcana to be more than one for this one. Okay. So I stay in the pits. 11. 11, you have no idea. No idea?

So I have a couple of attempts at pulling away magic from some of these cases. Okay. It's the two big ones. And then... Like dispel magic, you mean? Yeah, yeah, I will dispel the magic if I'm able to, if it's not too strong, and then my cat

will maybe give a little snip to each thing and we'll see if he survives it. Okay. Well, it started with a rainbow. I also have Henry. That's right. Yeah. Well, it started with the ring. I also have Henry. That's right. That's even better. Let's try to dispel some magic.

Yeah. Let's do the ring first. What's the worst that can happen? You want to test it out on the book one? No, we came here for the ring. All right. What's the worst that can happen if this goes wrong? We all die.

Yeah, I was going to say, alarm goes off, a giant monster comes busting out from another dimension that they've locked away. Okay, I'm going to cast Resistance on Caleb then, so just in case you need a saving throw, there's a d4 in there for you. For the next round, you mean? No, one minute.

Oh, resistance, sorry, I was thinking of a cantrip. Everyone back out of the room with me? We're going to back out of the room. Okay. I'm going to do this at a distance. How far away can I get and still see? About 40 feet. In this case, so I will stand 40 feet back

with everybody, hopefully. Yeah, before the tunnel begins to cut off your visual range. And wave my hand in the air and mutter a word or two and cast Dispel Magic on our target. Let's go ahead and roll a d20 and add your intelligence modifier. 19. 19. You release the spell, you see the faint shimmer once more

of the Dispel, like a slight distortion visually. Not the brave. Does it work? Yeah. Oh, great. Do you want to see if it is locked as well? Sure. I put another d4 on you now.

Great, I'll go over with my mage hand and try to, can mage hand investigate? No, I have to investigate, The Mage Hand can do things. The Mage Hand can use your thieves tools. Sure, so I'll go investigate to see if it's locked. Okay, go for it. 17. Definitely locked.

Okay, I'll back up. It is a very intricate lock. Fuck. I'll back up 29 feet. Can anybody help her out here? I have a d4 on the chest. Anybody else? I mean, I can, it's a saving throw, bless.

I'm going to guard the door, just in case. Okay. No ability bonuses. No, I can't. Tell you what, Nott, you're the coolest, you can do it. Detent inspiration. All righty. All right, I will Mage Hand and try to pick the lock.

I'll shoot you in the ring, I know. 26. 26. Damn. You watch as the Thief Tools gently drift over with the faint outline of the Mage Hand drifting it there as she concentrates. You watch them shift and turn.

One latch opens, but it's a multi-tiered latch. It's like three locks in one. With each one you unlock, it pulls one of the tools away. You have to push it further, unlocks and pulls it away. It's like a fractal of a lock. As you're concentrating and sweating and gritting your teeth, you can taste blood as you bite your lip, just concentrating, and then

the lid opens. Use your Magege hand again. Mage hand. I will mage hand to pick up the ring. Okay. Carrying the tools in your hand. Oh, I'll bring them tools back. Put it in my pocket.

Grab the whole thing. The ring drifts. Just kidding, grab the ring. Oh my gosh, you've got it. In your palm. Okay. What do you want to do. And it's in your palm. Okay. What do you want to do now? Put it in the bag. Should I take it and get out of here

while you guys see if you want to finish the rest of this? That's not bad. That's not a bad idea. How are you going to do that? Go all the way over here. She's the fucking coolest. I know she's cool, but this is... All right, I think that's a good idea. I don't know. Maybe hit the roof at least

so you have eyes on the outside. Yeah. I can take her. Okay. Okay. Buddy system? Yeah. Okay. Classic. Buddy system. I feel weird being away from the floor. No, but he gets left behind or forgotten.

Oh. She's just like a limo in forgotten. Oh. She just fucking Lilo and Stitch. Jesus. Jesus, Ohana. All righty, so what's the plan? We'll wait till they go up. All right, so you guys make your way towards the roof again.

And we're going to stealth the fuck out of that shit. She's taking the right. All right. Yeah. How are you stealthing away? How? Yeah. By my dope monk skills? They're going up to the roof. Oh, so you're not leaving the roof?

You're not going to the roof? I'll stealth check for both of you guys. Good boy. Stay to the back. But how are they dope? 24. All right. You got it. 15. 15. 15, you both gingerly tiptoe your way back to the roof,

climbing up through the hole, helping get Reani up, and both of you find yourselves sitting on the roof, quietly, successfully stealthed. All right, Mighty Nein, rinse and repeat. Tapia, tapia for a d4. Don't use up all your spells, because you're going to have to invisible people off the roof.

Well, we'll figure something out. Can't you just Dimension Door all of us? Just one other person. I am hoping to just use one more spell in here only. Okay. Which one is it? Which item? Of course, which one do you think? The book.

Okay. Go ahead and roll a d20 and add your intelligence modifier. 24. Fuck. You are rolling well tonight. Making up for last week's trapped in the countryside. This one's to the immediate left of the entryway. What?

So you look over to it, concentrate. Fantastic. You see a slight spark fade. Nice. Okay, okay, okay. One midnight gone. I reach my hand out and place it on Nott's shoulder and cast No.

I resist the urge. Just giving you the d4 now, Nott. Is it up to me? Yep. Yeah. I have a plan B, but yeah. I've got a plan C. Oh god. I'll take another niff of liquor.

Okay. I'm sorry. nip of liquor. Okay. Sorry. Oh, crap. And I will Mage Hand. Oh, first I'll go investigate, see if it's locked. Okay. That's a crazy roll. Natural one.

I mean. It's locked. You look at it and you're like, I mean, it looks like the same sort of arrangement as the other things there. Good place to get your natural one out. I don't see a lock, but I'll guess that one's there. I'll say with your intelligence as high as it is,

you surmise that it's locked in a similar fashion. I will cast Mage Hand and I will pick the lock. Similar 26. 26. Jesus. I will cast Mage Hand and I will pick the lock. Similar, 26. 26. Jesus. One. Opens up. Your book, sir.

Would you carry it from afar down onto the ground? Sure, I grab it. I'll bring it to him. Okay. You can already smell the musty scent off of it. What? Frumpkin apparates next to me, and I ask him to set his front paws on the book. That's a good boy.

What else do we want to do here? Take everything in our room! They're going to be so pissed, you guys. So, so, so, so, so. We need to be able to get out of here. So. I have the ability. What are you, what,

how strong is your Dispel Magic? Is it like super duper strong, or is it like level two or three strong, or is it like level five strong? Well, I could only do that one more time for one more of these. I am getting pretty tapped. I can still cast Invisibility on one person at a time.

Three times. Let's maybe, I don't know, I'm feeling like we, I feel like two is a good number. Maybe don't press our luck. I feel like we've pressed our luck. Yeah. What are the three remaining objects again? One, two, three, that's another ring.

There is the Defile of Quicksilver-type liquid. There is the silver and gold ring with the runes across the top and bottom. And there is the beautiful wand. With multicolored power. That's really hard to pin down. To squish it. I really like things that are rainbow-colored.

Wand of eternity. I also really like rings. Wow, what is that? So. A doll of ability. I can try to do what you are doing. I can try to dispel. Do you have Dispel Magic? Dispel.

Go for it. But I don't know how high I have to cast it. Just do it. Cast it. Cast it. Take a real high. Real high. D4.

I can't use, I can't. I don't like this damn thing. Oh no. Just sitting here with your fucking Dispel Stone, just like, hmm. Wouldn't that be nice? Or this dagger that just goes into a keyhole and locks it and unlocks it it's spellcasting modifier, right?

Huh? Is the bonus going into it? This will take over a pocket. Oh, right. No, so you're way in. My wisdom's really high, but. It only unlocks its own lock. Well, the DC is actually, on her, it's DC plus level.

Yeah. The DC is 10 plus the level of whatever the enchantment spell is. Yeah. Okay. You're trying to beat that. You don't know what level that is. Okay, make an ability check using, oh, so then I would roll and then...

Yeah, you'd roll a d20 and add your wisdom modifier. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Then I'm going to cast Dispel Magic on the wand one. Okay, I call a d20 and add your wisdom modifier. You guys are cleaning these guys out. They can come home at any moment. Okay. Wisdom modifier 16.

16. You watch modifier 16. 16. You watch as the energy ripple, similar to Caleb's, but it has a slight greenish tint to it as it dissipates it. Ooh, that's a different kind of energy. But it felt like it worked? Did it feel like it worked? It's a bit of Traveler flavor.

Oh. Flare. Yeah, of Traveler flavor. Oh. Where? Yeah, this Traveler was with me, it's gone. All right. I'm feeling cocky. Defold it. I'm going to take a little nip. Jesus.

I reach out and grip her wrist. Maybe we celebrate with a drink on the outside. No nips before, okay? This isn't for fun, but all right. You've nipped it up real good. Great. What do you get advantage when you drink with that? No.

Quite the opposite. I rest my hand on her shoulder. Thank you. Go ahead. I will roll to unlock with Mage Hand. 17. 17? Two. Nope.

But something clicks in the lock. Uh-oh. You don't know what that means. We should get out of here. Go, go, go. We need to bathe. Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go. I'm making our way out.

I'm making my way out. Stealth checks everybody else. Making my way out, son. On the road, trying to run, and I cast Pass the Little Train. Oh, you do? Thank you. Thank you. It's pretty good.

It's pretty good. It's pretty good. Boom, bang, boom. What was it? What fucking was it? All right, so down the row. You're not with us. No, I'm not with you, but.

Down the row? Oh, you're already there. We're on the roof. 17 with plus 10 from past entries? Nott? 39. Pfft. Jester? One, one, one, one, one, one.

22. Mm-hmm. Okay. Oh my god. You rush through the hallway, out of the armoire, into the next hallway, into the room with the hole up top. Nobody seems to notice the moment. One by one, you help each other up

and you're back onto the roof. You guys watch as the rest of your friends arrive. Cut, cut, cut, cut. We got to get out of here now. I think we stripped something. We got to go. What? We could go back and get it. The magic is dispelled. We could just knock over the thing. We could just smash through.

Something happened on the tarap. I think they know we're there. They're not here. Good thing we were staying outside of the room, huh? You killed a guard. We're not talking. We got to go right now. Don't tell Reani that. She already knows.

Okay, we got to go. You hear a voice go from echoing in the courtyard. Hey, hey. We got to check inside. As soon as, are we on the roof yet? Yeah, you're on the roof, yeah. I'm casting Message. Fjord, Fjord, we're made, we're made.

Kill the guards at the front! No, no, no! He's too far away. Oh thank god. Everybody, I can- You pull them off to the alleyway and you've just been walking around? I can Dimension Door one person

or you're staying near the house. I'm staying near the house, but I'm just talking to you. Then you may have heard that one. I'm going to grab Caduceus, because he's the biggest and it'll be the hardest, and I'm going to Dimension Door me and him. To? 500 feet away from the fucking house.

Like in the back alley, if I can see one. You don't know the city very well. I will say go ahead and roll an intelligence check for me. You have one more shape. I do. Oh, thank god. I do. Do I still have that extra luck thing? No, that was from last night.

Yep. 13. 13, okay. You vaguely remember maybe glancing out of the corner of your eye at an alleyway at one point, and you hope and concentrate on that, and both you and Caduceus appear in a shattered alleyway, inches from the stone wall, and you're like, oh.

Transmute to an elf. I have disguised self-elf. You got it, okay. Same. Same. All right. The rest of you. While we were doing that, I'm going to go peek down over the front. Are they still out there, or do they immediately go in?

They have entered the front door. Did Fjord respond to me? Yeah. Fjord, have you responded? Did I hear them? I'd say you would have heard them if you're wandering. Could I see where the guards are and if they're acting bat-cheeked? You see them heading into the house now.

Hey, hey, hey, excuse me, excuse me! Oh no. Everyone hold, everyone hold! The master of the house! They're inside the house. Oh no! They're not even listening. Like they're, they, something, something, they seem to be very much on a sudden alert and rushing into the home.

Oh god, I start looking around, like looking up on the roof, looking out, and like saying, do I see anybody of the group? Make a perception check. 12. 12? Can I pop out of the alleyway, do I see Fjord? Yeah. No, you guys are, you're way off, even if you're 500 feet away,

he's like 115 feet away from you. Is there anyone around? Are we going back towards the house, maybe? Does anyone have a mending or something where we can put this whole back together that we put in the roof? I don away from the house. Are we going our way back towards the house, maybe? Does anyone have a mending or something where we can put this whole back together that we put in the roof? I'm on the guard. The way that the city is built,

if I flew straight up, would I fly out of the city? Or is it like, do I have to go? You'd have to go all the way up to the top of the volition disc, and then up through the central hole where the entrance. Is the street starting to be populated? Are there people? Is it morning now?

You're getting pretty close. You're starting to see more people than there were earlier. A few folks are starting to emerge from their homes. It's like 630 in the morning, you would say. So it's not dead. There are a couple of people about. Like, you see two people in the streets. It's beginning.

People are starting to wake up and greet the day. What are you doing? Can you do visibility? It's just the three of you up there now. Yep. You can only do one at a time. One, two, three, four.

Or four of you guys. Oh, but you can do it. Yeah, but can you do at a time? One at a time right now. Or I could do three people, but then I'm blowing a fourth level. Do it. Three people, but are you invisible still?

I can't remember. No. No. If you make me invisible, I can carry us off the roof. Yeah. I'm gone. She's gone. I have Caduceus, we're out. It's just you guys. Then these three, not myself.

Okay. Why don't you do yourself, I'll do me. Do yourself and then yeah, don't, because we're stealthy as fuck. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. All right, so. And there's three invisible with Caleb there, and you turn yourself invisible.

Yes. All right. Reani, what are you doing? Giant owl. You take a moment, feel around, manage to grab the three of them. Thankfully, they're not the heaviest of the troop. Before I Giant Owl, can I pass without a trace? He's not like Giant Owl. I'll allow it, yeah.

Sweet. Yes. Okay, so I want to pass without a trace, all of us. So you're making that concentration in your owl form. Yep. All right. You do have disadvantage on your stealth check because you are carrying three people, but that bounces out to a singular roll. Okay, so single roll, and I get the extra 10

for Paps without a Trace, right? Correct. Okay, let me find my. So you're plus 18 to your roll. Plus 18 to my roll. Total. Okay. So. As Reani takes off as the owl, visibly from the sight of this break in entry, I need you all to make stealth checks, please.

Please, please, please. Well, you would have disadvantage. I'm sorry, because it doesn't give you advantage on the, it's just plus 18 to whatever you use. So plus 18? Yeah, to whatever your disadvantage roll is. Is Reani's cargo passed by the trace as well, right? No, because I dimension doored us.

Well, no, she cast it herself. I cast it. Oh, never mind, I'm sorry. Yeah, so you guys have it as well. So I have disadvantage on the roll, but you have plus 18 or whatever you use. 21. 21. 25? 20. 22.

Whoa! You scoot off the roof. Your feet catch and knock some of the elements of the stonework on the edge to tumble, but they fall silently into the grass below. They're like weird subterranean gardens that they build here in the more upper class elements

here in the Demerit Circle. Wildly over the city. Looking behind you, you can see now their guards are now, lights are turning on in the house. Certain window lights are turning on in the house. Who knows what else is going on in there right now, but it's behind you. I'm going to send a message to Fjord.

Okay. Oh yeah, he's still there? He doesn't see. Hey, man, you owe me money. Fjord! Fjord! I'm coming to collect! Everybody's out of the house.

Get away from the house. Get back to Reani's house, maybe. I'm not sure where we're going, but everybody's gone, just get away. Did you hear that? I'd say you would probably backtrack enough to leave the message, so sure. I'll come back for my money later.

Okay. For the purposes of expediency, I guess. You do manage to return to Reani's home to gather, safe and sound, with the items you have recovered. So, lest there's any other business, you can go ahead and return this ring. To Ava? To Ava. I'd like to know what it is before we return it, but.

Yeah, we should have identified the fuck out of this stuff. Okay, so you're casting Identify, ritually, on both the ring and the book. All right, the ring. I'd like to know what the cost is. Yeah. We have stolen valuable items from dangerous people and things twice in a row now.

That went pretty well, actually. Yeah, really, you are our good luck charm. Yay! Two things you guys need. Just trying to know. I know, Donald. But you also have the ice flex and can begin to make your journey

with Umagorn towards the forge. Yay. So when you're ready for that, let me know. I want to try and get to one moment tonight so we can give you a proper exit, as well as hit a good narrative point. So hang tight for just a short time, or guys, if you don't mind.

This ring is used to implant dreams in someone's mind. Whoa, that's dark and cool. Is there a top involved, or is it a? That's cool. Implant dreams into someone's mind? That's pretty cool. Yeah. Is there a cop involved, or is it a? That's cool. Can you plant dreams into someone's mind? That's pretty cool. Of course. Yeah.

Of your choosing. Imagine if you could put a dream in someone's mind to follow the Traveler. I mean, that'd be fucking cool. But how do we know that they haven't been using those kind of things on people already? Probably have. Probably have. In any case, giving this back to Ava

doesn't seem like such a bad thing. No. It's the path we're on, it's the path I'll walk. It's not a world-breaking item. I'm comfortable. I'll make that exchange. Yeah, let's make our way back to Ava. Yeah. All right.

For the purposes of expediency as well. Ava is extremely happy to make the trade if the ring is presented. She is excited and congratulates you on this successful mission, and even gives a bit of respect and surprise to you. But if you wouldn't mind, a trade is a trade, yes? and it even gives a bit of respect and surprise to you. But if you wouldn't mind, a trait is a trait, yes? The whole box.

The entire box, friend. You feel good about this? I do. We need that. We need that glass. Yeah. I do feel good about this. Finally. Home where you belong.

Are you going to plant a bunch of dreams in people's minds like crazy? There's a moment of Ava's eyes just shooting daggers at you and intent and goes, I have plans. But here you are. She hands over the box, which contains a sizable amount of refined residuum glass.

Oh! Can I get an idea if she's actually just a normal old antiques collector? There's no such thing. Make an insight check. Have you ever met one? These are creatures beyond. 17. Sorry, 15.

15. There's definitely a lot more going on than just the surface and strange trading post runner, but you can't ascertain more beyond that. Definitely a more tiered and involved persona. She's a demogorgon. You're not going to let anyone know where you got that, right?

Of course not. Do you think I have a successful business by providing information about my sources? You're fine. Okay. As long as you won't tell anyone where you gave the syringe. Why would we do that? Precisely.

Well, good luck, and I'm proud of you. She likes you, though. Try to do a flower crown. See if she wants a flower crown. Quickly, Jerd, craft a flower crown and slide it across the table. She takes it and goes,

you've certainly helped hobble some bad folk. Woo! Worth it, entirely worth it. Yeah. Look at that. Yeah. I look at the imps, are they surprised? They're both going. They're definitely surprised. I look up at them like, next.

Anyway, our business is concluded, unless you want something else. Oh, pleasure, pleasure doing business with you. Then goodbye. All right, so we'll hook up with Umagorn and make our way. You notice on the way, as soon as you guys leave, the moment you're exiting, she's like,

takes the crown off and goes behind you. All right, so you gather Umagorn, you gather your materials, and you begin your two-day trek to the Cinderrest Sanctum with the ice flecks, upon which your arrival, with the information and the experience you've had, you manage to avoid marauding ice giant hunters amongst other dangers in the vicinity

until you come upon the familiar mountain of Kravaraad. Entering the Dust family awaits you. It seems that Ichabod, the father of the family, has returned with his son. Let me go ahead and prepare this element of my notes as we move on to the next element in there. As well as Brumhelm, the youngest, who's a young dwarf, maybe in his teens,

quiet and shy. But Umagorn asks for help from both Kemdall, who is the keeper and maintainer of the forge, as well as his assistant, Dallon, to help as well, and begins the process of reforging the weapon. The heat is immense, and the process, Magorn halfway, or even 30 minutes in,

sweating turns to you, going, Oh, this is going to take a while. I go on off on my notes, I've got some help. I'm probably going to work through the night. But I'm excited. I'm not going to get this done, so don't mind me. Ping! Ping! You watch as the Underforge begins to glow,

and it seems that with the presence of this inspiration to create the fire and the magma seems to almost intensify, burning brighter and hotter. Not in a way that's uncomfortable, but just it's an electric sensation, like the forge itself is a living being that is as excited for this as you are. But you have an evening's rest here

within the Cinderrest Sanctum. Is there anything you'd like to do while you rest, or move on to the next one? I'm probably going to meditate and have a quick communion with the Wild Mother about precisely what is the ritual that I am to enact. Okay.

So you can finish your communion, you burn your incense, prepare and close your eyes. You sense the warmth wash over you like a breeze in the center of a summer day. You sense her presence, you sense her smile, and the images and emotions begin to fill you, wordless but understandable. What are your questions?

Do you wish me to feed just three of these into the magma? You have four large pieces? Four or five, I believe. I'd say it's like four and a half larger pieces. She says no. May I give you all of it? Yes.

Thank you for taking care of him. I remove my coat, just wearing the things I wore when I was working in the Grove. Quietly, I find a quiet space space and I take everything in the box and as close as I can get to the heat before it really hurts and I play it in there. I'll take a little damage. Okay.

And you place them within? I do. As the shards of refined residuum touch the flames, you feel a fear well up inside you, almost like you're expecting the glass to begin to melt, and most people would. Instead, you watch as they almost begin to burn, the flames beginning to catch around them.

Glass should not ignite, but flames do crawl across their surface, burning brighter than magma there. Orange, yellow, white. You have to almost wince, and about 15 minutes of this intense heat causes you to step back and just trust in the faith. Then the light begins to subside, and they've changed a bit.

The shape of them is less like a piece of glass and more like a crystal that has grown roots. The coloration which was once dark and green now is purplish in hue. It's beautiful. Mysterious. Definitely changed. To what full nature, you don't understand, but

you remember the dream you had, the vision you had, and a sense of peace and accomplishment washes over you. Can I grab it? You can take a set of the tongs from the edge of the forge that aren't in use. As you're doing this, you can see the three of them up there on the underforge in the process of taking the ice flecks and hammering it through

and folding it and pressing it in and pushing the pieces together and then refolding and re-engraving lost runes. It's beautiful, but they're so entranced by it. There's a weird energy that seems to be driving them on past the point of what a normal individual's exhaustion would take them. This forge seems to inherently instill, energize, and provide the will to create great things.

As you take the tongs and release them one by one, they are cool to the touch. I have five of them now? Or just one? There's four of them, and then there's a smaller one. It's about half the size, but they're all transformed in the same way. Like a potato that's been left in the pantry too long

and has grown the various roots that stretch out, but made of purple crystal. I'm going to gather them up and take them back to the others. Magical old potatoes. Does anyone else wish to do anything? It's about midday at this point, after our shenanigans?

We'll say at this point, it's getting close to night. Is it, are businesses still open out there? We're in the mountains. You guys are in the forge. We took two days off. Oh, we traveled out of here? We skipped ahead two days. Sorry, I was reading. I'll just read it. Sorry.

No, I skipped ahead for the purposes of, you know, not too much would have happened there anyway. I don't want to get us to the point of. Could I retroactively have dived into, kept an eye out for a paper store on the way out to get my supplies? Sure, yeah. Cool. They have supplies, they're our arcane practitioners.

I'm going to drag us down, recreating that over and over again. So then, forget that I was reading, as I'm wont to do. You seem frustrated. Fjord. Me? Yeah. You shouldn't, though, you know? I get where you're at.

You're figuring shit out. You'll figure it out. Yeah, I hope so. Not particularly frustrated, more curious. Not impatient, either, I hope so. Not particularly frustrated, more curious. Not impatient, either, I just, I want to be able to help and not hinder. Yeah, it's very clear that you're feeling a little less than, and I think that's foolish.

I don't think you need to. I think you're going to find your way again. Just give it some time. You know, this book that we got is, it's not really my thing, but you might find it interesting reading. Take a look at it and, you know, peruse the pages a bit.

If it's not for you, check with the rest of the group and see if they'd like it, but I think, I think it's not for you, check with the rest of the group and see if they'd like it, but I think, I think it's meant for you, perhaps. No focus. And I hand it over to him, and then I head off to start transcribing some spells. All right. During all of that.

All right. That's it for me. All right, anyone else? I got a bottle of whiskey and Bazzozan in case Nott flew off the handle or we haven't touched. If anybody wants to, you know, celebrate. I'll watch.

I'm in. Jass, Nott? I'll celebrate. I'll watch. I'm in. Just nod. I'll definitely sit there. Not going to drink? Mm-mm. You're not, you're drinking with me though, right? Okay, thank god. Don't want to be alone.

You're not alone, Beau. Even if I'm not drinking, I'm still here with you. I'm here with you in spirit. Thank you. Yeah, it's fine, I take a big swig and then hand it to Reani. I take a big swig as well. Yeah.

No, it's fine. Wow. Is that any word? Yeah, that's interesting. Any particular reason? Normally you're the first one to say yes. You feeling fine? Yeah, I'm fine.

It's really so good, it's okay. It's just fine. No, that's great. That's great, that's great. I'm happy to hear that. That's fantastic. I mean, to be fair, you did very, very well. You did really good's great, I'm happy to hear that. That's fantastic. I mean, to be fair, you did very, very well. You did really good.

Would've been better if I had that last little drink. You know you didn't need it, you know what we did. We got the wand, it was fine, and it was fun to get out of there in a big rush. It was a sign, we needed to get out. We could've gotten that wand, but it's all right. Nope, we don't need it. No, it's fine.

Are you sure you don't want a drink? I'm okay, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it. I just take another drink? Pass it back, pass it back. Yeah. I got an interesting idea. Do you still have that note that we took from the house? I do.

You want to play crosswords and shit? Well, I have an interesting idea. I was trying to think of a good gift to give you for everything you've done for us. Yeah, you. I was trying to think of a good gift to give you for everything you've done for us. Yeah, you. I got it. You know what that note is. What is it?

That's a supervillain. I hand you the booze and the note. Looks like they're smuggling something. Make an intelligence check. Oh, yay. Woo! 21. 21. Sweet. The initial's IJ.

Oh! Oh! Fucked! Oh! I didn't write it down, but that's the one asshole, right? The J catches your attention. Jagentoth? Mm-hmm.

Fuck. Drunkenly, I'm like, Fucking Jagentoths. Fucking Jagentoths. Wait, what? I know, I know, I know. What is that, what is that? On my computer.

They're so bad. Mackerel Jagentoths. What are they? They are these mean, it's a family of criminals, and they've been terrorizing Uhtredan, and they've been roughing up the patrons, and I've been fighting them. Yeah, we've heard of the jack and tots.

We have? We have. Yeah. I think they run amok in Rosanna. No, they run amok, I got to run down. You got to hear notes. I know I do. It's one of those 84 pages. It's in one of these books. Hang on, was it all the way back?

Zadash? In Zadash? Give me a minute. Give me a minute. What do you know about them, Reani? They are, they steal and they terrorize people in Uthodurn. These weren't the ones that brought back that go to the Savalir Woods, were they?

Well, they hail from somewhere south of there, yeah. Hang on. Those assholes. Not the ruins of Molaesmyr, but they do occasionally attempt to. Can I do a roll for this? Because I'm not searching through my notes. Well, you're a member of the Kobolds. I was going to see if you wanted to find it

and have that epiphany as a note taker. I know it's in here. I know. God, that's so hard to find anything. It was over a year ago. It was over a year ago? It's Shadycreek Run, Jagentoth's in someplace called

North Clover, the Savalirwood. It's the Cursed Woods. Slavers. They are slavers! Oh! They're slavers! I knew they were slavers. They fucked slavers! Oh! They're slavers! I knew they were slavers. They fucked with Lorenzo and shit, right?

Didn't they? They worked with him. They were the rival family that hired Lorenzo and the Iron Fox. Yep. The Iron Shepherds. They were the ones that were shipping the relics, including the first orb of Uk'otoa that you found. That's right.

That was set in the... Really should have taken their other stuff. We should have cleared them up. Hey, got a super villain. I'm, they want me so dead, but I'm going to fight them. And you've got proof now. I have proof now, and I can track them.

Thank you. Wait, will you give me one more present? Yeah. Will you come back to visit? Yeah, why else do you think I spent 2,000 gold on that teleportation circle? For books and stuff? No, we like you.

We like you a lot. Yeah, now we do. You guys are the first family I've had other than Landon. Oomi doesn't count because he's busy all the time and I'm busy all the time and Fenn doesn't count anymore, but I like you guys. We like you, too. Yeah. Pinky promise? Pinky promise forever!

Okay. Yeah. Thanks. Before all of them leave, I want to craft new flower crafts for them. Certainly. I promised myself I wouldn't cry, you guys. Aw. I know. I wouldn't cry, you guys. Aw. I know.

I know. I have one last thing I'd like to do with Caleb also. Got a second. You got to interrupt him. Yeah, you have a moment? Uh, playing words with friends, right? Come on. Yeah.

I'm going to show him the small purple crystal. What's this look like to you? What do you see? A crystal very similar in hue to you. Do you get any sense of it, what it might be? Roll an arcana check. Yeah. Balls. 13.

You've never encountered this. The one thing about it that you do notice is a transmutation wizard. Is that transmutation that happened there doesn't make sense, which means this might be a little out of your depth. Sorry. No, it's okay, that's an answer. I think I know what it is anyway.

What do you think? I think it's the head of a hero. Small. Aren't we all? Or at least aren't all of you? I won't bother you again. Good luck with that thing. All right, tall boy.

If Caleb gave, sorry, go ahead. I was saying, and you do recall that there was the, there were two parts to that vision. Yes, I do. Yeah. All right. All right. All right. If Caleb gave me that book, and it was a two-day travel back to the Kiln,

could I say that I've spent most of the trip reading it and trying to absorb its contents and just spending time with it? As part of an effort, not anything at the time. I could say you can begin to. Yeah. It takes a while to read through. I'm also not great at reading on horseback.

Yeah. This would be goat back. Goat back, yeah. You've met it. Because you're going through the mountains. Could I also try to take Beau up on some of her morning exercises on the way? Sure.

Yeah. Cool. Yeah. Cool. Does not go well in the beginning, but the effort is what counts. I don't want to make you puke. You'll probably puke. Yeah, I do, I'm puked. Uh-oh, sorry. And as I see Caduceus go off to perform his meditation,

I've seen him do that before. I don't want to bother him. Can I go off into my own corner and try to trace like a circle in the soil and... Like on the outside of the other Senkhon? Yeah, just make my own little space. Circle and sit in the soil. Okay. Try to...

The sun has set by this point, and it is cold. So you bring some furs to bundle up a bit, but you find a similar to almost the first point of communion that you made with Caduceus last time you were at the Sanctum. You can find a similar place, clear it out, and attempt your own. Yeah. Okay.

Just silently try to talk to the Wild Mother if she's listening. Okay. You close your eyes and you think. Thoughts, wishes, questions. It's cold, and you shiver a bit. You yawn. You focus. You get this strange sensation,

like your body is floating, like a sensory deprivation tank. Your sense of physical self begins to just tingle in fate. Eyes still closed. You feel these feelings envelop you like a warm bath, your body floating atop a heated ocean of gentle waves. Peace finds your mind with the familiar smells of salt and brine, the sound of seagulls in the air around you, broken surf crashing on a shore somewhere.

You open your eyes, and as opposed to the mountainside, you're looking up at a clear blue sky, not a cloud around. You try and focus, just blue, impossibly wide blue. You see something. Is it a cloud or is it... It's a face. The faint tracings of a face, eyes, a nose, a mouth, but on a scale that consumes

the entire blue sky above you. It's almost unsettling, but it's soft. Eternal. It's like a trick of the eye, but there it is. Yet you swear you see it smile. These feelings wash into your mind, your heart. Emotions and images conveying ideas and communication wordlessly, as if to say,

you have been lost. Caught in a dark current. An undertone. You have been lost, caught in a dark current, an undertow. These depths seed you with an alien wound, too deep to heal, and leave your mind a torrent, fear, love, a pursuit for self-worth.

You found my gaze through chance, through deed, through company. These waters are your home, and always have been. These waters are me, and I am them. I am the lands that rise from them. I am the trees that bind them. I am the beasts that keep them. This seed of darkness,

you look down and you can feel this black rock, this coal that has chilled within your chest. This seed I cannot heal, but I can help you carry the burden. I can free you from the fiend that feeds, if you would but protect all that is me. Will you walk my lands, swim my shores, and guide my children as one of my own? Yes. Yes, I would. The smile widens. Then embrace me. My boon is yours, and it is our nature to adapt. Come.

You feel tendrils of kelp and seaweed begin to rise from the warm water beneath you and wrap around you and tie and bind, and your heart rate begins to jump. They're still warm, but it's beginning to cut the light off as your face begins to be blanketed, and you feel yourself being pulled beneath the waters.

Do you struggle? No. Anyone else wish to do anything? Oh! Surprise, motherfucker. Wait, what do you mean? Like, Uk'otoa. Anything else for the evening? Uk'otoa in disguise.

Before that's correct. Yes. Could be. I'm going to find Reani. Oh. And I'm. Reani is drinking with Beauregard. Yes. They're both a little tipsy. You changed your mind!

No. But I've written a little note in my colored inks that my mama gave me, and I drew Reani a picture. And my note says, Life is all about balance. You can't live in black and white. Everything is a beautiful color of gray. Trust yourself.

You know what is good. Love, Jester and the Traveler. And I'm going to put that note inside my book of pastry recipes that I bought. I'm going to give it to Reani, because I know you love how to cook and bake and all of the wonderful things. Tipsily, I shove it into my belt.

I'm like, thank you. You're welcome. Then I have one last thing that I want to do. I'm bolstered by a little bit of whiskey. I want to shuffle over to Beau, and I want to, reminiscent of Hot Boy Essek, looking down at the floor, I just want to Druidcraft a little rose,

and I'll slide it over. I'm like, I'm not good at this, but you said that you wanted to come back and visit, and you spent a lot of money to come see me, so I thought that I... What? You said... You spent money so you could come back and see me,

and I'm not good at this, You spent money so you could come back and see me. And I'm not good at this, but I think you're pretty. I grab the back of her neck and I kiss her. Oh! Reani definitely responds, very drunkenly, and is super happy. You just look over at Jester. I'm out, I'm out! I'm the only one watching this right now.

I think Nott and I are watching this at this point. All of us are in this room? Yeah, we'll give you some privacy. No. Wait, what? No, we'll get out of the room. We'll take a walk. We'll what? No, we'll get out of the room. We'll take a walk.

We'll take a walk. I'll turn invisible. Everywhere we go, how does she do that? Everywhere we go. She gets so much action. I know, she's just. Like my mama could learn something from Beau. All right, you guys go ahead and take a walk.

I just grab Reani by the hip, pull her in as we walk away. I'm like a drunken sorority girl, I'm like, Yeah! Probably stumbling. Okay. Anything else, guys? I'm...

What else is there to say? Sure, I got a little minor thing. I'm exhausted from transcribing and studying all day. Have a seat. Me? Yeah, have a seat. What? I know you're in here, I saw you bamf out. Yeah, I'm right here. Sit down. I'm right here.

Yeah, you're talking at me, I know you're right there. You have not been drinking so much the last couple days. That's not, I mean, we've been traveling. Yeah? Yeah. Yeah, I watch you sometimes. You're drinking less. Yeah, just the last couple days is not a thing, though. We just haven't been in a fight.

Maybe it's okay if you're drinking less. Maybe it's okay if you are, but maybe it's okay if you stop. Are you? Or drink less. I, are we having this conversation right now? Listen, I... All right. Your family is safe. You're with people who care about you.

You're alive. Some fucker is not where we came from. And you know, you work fine when you have not had a drink, and I understand why you're escaping into it. I understand. I don't know if you do. I mean, I appreciate your sentiment, and Jester's talked to me about this,

and Fjord's talked to me about this. It's, I think, I... I don't want to burden you with my problems, but for me, listen, I view myself as, whether you want it or not, I view myself as a bit of a protector to you and, in all honesty, to the others, too,

as we've gotten closer. Well, for a long time, when we were traveling together, I viewed myself as your shield. I protected you so that you could go on your journey and find yourself and fulfill your quest. I feel like I've got to do that for everyone now, because I don't know, deep down inside, it feels like my quest might not be done

until everyone else has figured out who they are and what they want in this world. Everyone's seeking something, you know? So I feel like I need to be there to protect you all, to rescue you when there's to be there to protect you all, to rescue you when there's a dragon about to kill you and use my body as a shield, or to pull Beauregard out of the mouth of a worm,

or to catch you when someone falls with a Feather Fall spell, but here's the thing. It's really scary to do all those things with a Feather Fall spell, but here's the thing. It's really scary to do all those things and to go out in the front and to look for traps and to disarm things and to scout ahead and steal things from terrible lairs, and it's scary. I don't have...

I know you all have my back. I know you all care for me, but no one has my front. So this flask that I drink from, it's not for fun. I'm not taking nips because I'm looking for fun. If I wanted fun, I'd be in Nicodranas with my family. This flask is my shield. It allows me to do these things,

to go forward and to protect all of you. And I'm fine giving it up, as long as you people can find me something else that can protect me as much as it does. How can you protect us if you are not protecting yourself? Well, there's a bit of a trade-off, but I just worry that I won't be able Well, there's a bit of a trade-off. But...

I just worry that I won't be able, I won't be brave without it. You don't have to be brave alone. I am not. Well, I know that. Without you, not. I am traveling with you for a long time for a reason. These people are traveling with you for a reason. You are not alone, and what I am asking you to do, even though I cannot see you, is to trust us.

And we will trust you even more if you have that kind of faith in the group. Listen, I don't have faith in much at all. I don't have faith in myself either, but I do have faith in this group. It's a closed circle, and I just don't want one of the links in the chain to shatter, you know? And I am a terrible person to judge anyone,

and I am not judging you. I just have seen what you can do, and I know it has nothing to do with what is in that flask of yours. Take that for what it's worth. If you are swilling booze tomorrow, I will still be your best friend and be with you. But I would probably be scrambling one less time a day.

You know? Maybe it'll take some time. I appreciate it. I really wish I could see you right now. Yeah. I don't know. I don't.. I don't. Well, I understand, I get that.

I'll think about what you said, but... I don't... I'll think about what you've said. And I'm sorry if I disappoint you again. Not the brave. Maybe we both are messes. But at least we're messes together. While he can't see me, I'm going to take a small sip of whiskey

and slowly wipe my mouth, and then say, I'll try to make you proud. You already do. Caduceus. I think Caleb is going crazy. Caduceus. I think Caleb is going crazy. I just rolled a 28 perception, a 27 perception roll.

Would I have known that Caleb was talking to Nott for that, or? Roll a stealth check. My voice is still able to be heard. Well, you're not in the same chamber. No, no, they were just watching, though. Yeah, they were just watching me. They were far enough away, I wouldn't have heard you.

You guys have different rooms in this thing. Yeah, I'm sorry, I had assumed it was private time. I assumed it was, too. I assumed it was, too. I would it was too. I assumed it was too. Yeah. I would say that you could maybe have heard Caleb talking and maybe looked in and saw nothing. I would say that you probably. I've been trying to sit and listen

as much as possible is kind of my thing, but yeah. Right. I just rolled something because I was curious what my perception point of it. You gather there's probably a conversation going on, but you haven't looked. I think Caleb's going crazy. Yeah.

Spoilers. Why? Oh, because he's just talking to himself so much. I think he's talking to Nott. Oh, that would make so much more sense. You okay? Me? Yeah, you. Oh, yeah. Oh yeah. I'm fine.

I'm always fine. Well. Nobody's always fine. That's a lie. That's a lie, Caduceus. You do a lot. Yeah. And I don't think you necessarily get as much credit as you deserve as often as you should.

You deserve more pastries. Everybody deserves more pastries. Yeah, but you do. Thanks, Kitty says. Yeah. We'll be figuring out your travel with Kahn soon enough. Yeah, we're going to work it out. It's going to be really cool, right?

You got a good crew for it, so. Yeah. We're here for you. Thank you. Oh, thank you. You don't... I don't even know how to tell you what this is meant. I don't know, he is looking a little weird though, isn't he?

Yeah. It's a nice coat, though. Yeah, he's looking so clean lately. Yeah. Hmm. Are we really out of cupcakes? Oh no, no, I have some in my bag. Oh yeah, that's just me.

Eventually you find yourself in comfort in your own evening space, Oh no, I have some in my bag. Oh yeah, that's true. Eventually, you find yourself in comfort in your own evening space, and as you're walking back, a familiar voice comes to you and says, He's right, you know. You deserve all the cupcakes, Jester. Thank you. No. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you.

I left a dick. In lots of places, and your figure is taunting a big ancient white dragon. Never been more proud. Eventually, sleep comes to you all in various ways. Uh... Jeez. The morning comes.

And as you all slowly come to consciousness, a voice rings out amongst the sanctum. It's dawn. By the might of the Allhammer, it's fucking done! You all come to consciousness abruptly, except for you. Oh god. What? You all come out into the sanctum. You can see Kemdall is asleep in a chair. You can see that Dalen is asleep off to the side,

curled in the corner, and there is a sleepless, manic-looking Umagorn holding a single blade. Wow. You see the thick, long sword, almost broadsword type of blade length You see the thick, long sword, almost broadsword type of blade length with runes and a groove down the center, the metal silver with a slight blue shimmer to it,

akin to the coloration of ice flecks. Wow. Where the break once was, the lines are still there. The lines have been continued to almost have this marbled look to it. Nice. And he goes,

This. Tyler, Tyler! Tyler! He starts yelling, he's looking like, his eyes huge, bags under there, and he's sweating. Then she comes out and goes, Right, can I help you?

Oh, it's done? Why, I should start carving. She runs off and grabs her tools and finds a place amongst the iron strips along the walls and begins chiseling in the scribed memory, historical record of this artifact's creation or recreation amongst the other many names and stories

of what has been built here within the sanctum since its inception. As you all stumble out in your various states, you know Fjord. Where's Fjord? Hmm. He's probably just sleeping in. Yeah. I'll look around.

You'll go look for him? I'll check on him. Take a little while and there's no sign of him on the inside of the sanctum. I'm going to go check outside. You go outside, first snowfall through the night. You see the snow, soft powder, and there's a bit of a dome

where you guys had had your previous conversation. I'll brush it off. You brush off the snow and there's like, it's like a hard textured dark coloration. It's frozen seaweed. Frozen seaweed? Huh. What the shit? Interesting.

What is that? Caduceus? This is unusual. Can I go up and look at it? Yeah. It's like someone had layered seaweed after seaweed after seaweed, and it's tangled and messed like a net, and it is frozen solid. What is this doing out here?

Go, go, go. I'm going to take one of the purple crystals. Okay. And try and push it into the frozen seaweed. It pushes into ice. It's not coming through? No. Should we?

What is it? What's in here? Is Fjord in here? I mean. Is it vaguely Fjord-shaped? Is it like a puppy? No, it's like a dome, about six and a half, seven feet wide,

and it's like a weird button shape. Is Wilford Brimley in there? Probably. Hello? Are you in here? Can you hear us? Start pulling it aside. Maybe if we bring the sword. Break a piece off?

You begin to pull and tear and parts do break off. The more you break off, the softer it gets the further in until eventually it's like a soft liquid, or not liquid layer, but like an actual kelp type texture. Eventually you pull through and you find flesh. Living? Half-orc. Living flesh. Is it naked?

No, it is not. Is he breathing? You pull apart. Does he feel warm? It is warm. Get him out of here. Fjord? Pull him out, pull him out. We should take his clothes off. Why should we take his clothes off, man?

They're covered in kelp. I mean, we should probably just take his clothes off. I think we should. All right, you take off Fjord's clothes. No. No, but you pull the rest of the seaweed off of his body, and he's breathing, and you slowly start coming to consciousness.

You're weirdly sore, but sturdier. It's hard to describe. You see Fjord come awake and sit up out of the mass of tendrils. Hi. Are you cold? Do you want to get inside?

Are you okay? Yes. What to get inside? Are you okay? Yes. What were you doing in the? Why are you out here? What happened? Do you like bread? In general? Never mind. Your accent's back.

No, it's a force of habit. I'm sorry. Oh. Freaked me out for a second. What's the last thing you remember? It's a force of habit, I'm sorry. Oh. Freaked me out for a second. What's the last thing you remember? I, well, I came outside to meditate in the way that Caduceus showed me. Does he look different? He looks a little stockier. How about his teeth?

Did he Spider-Man this shit? Oh my god, did you Captain America? Oh my god! What superhero did he do? What did you do? Did you Wolverine this? He's not an overt, but he looks a little, where once there was a scrawny Fjord,

is a slightly less scrawny. Are you like, do you gain muscle that quickly from our two workouts? Kelp diet. Yeah. I'm pretty sore, actually, all over. I punch him in the arm. It hurts.

Hurts me or him? Him. Oh, sorry. Fuck. I don't know. Did I notice anything? See how much that hurts? Hurts me or him? Him. Oh, sorry. Fuck. I don't know. Did I notice anything? See how much that hurts?

A little more resistance than you're used to. Your lactic acid, god. Can't you read his shit? I can read his shit. Well, I have to flurry of blows him. We have a gift for you inside. Come inside. Maybe. Have a nice cup of tea.

Yeah, sure. God, it's fucking cold out here. Yes, we've been telling you to come inside, Fjord. Come inside. I've been out here all night. Did you do this to yourself? Look around and take stock for the first time. The nest-like circular layer of seaweed around you. Are you asking me if I built a nest of?

Yes. No. That seems to be the obvious answer. I had a dr... Uh. I did have a dream that I was back out amongst the ocean and that there was... Sea reeds.

Is he back? I don't know. There was a voice, it was a new voice. Similar to the one that I heard. Hmm. I said I would never be rid of the darkness similar to the one that I heard. Mm. I said I would never be rid of the darkness that had been left inside, but this new voice sounded warm, inviting.

She sounded like she wanted to help, if I would help in her name. sounded like she wanted to help, if I would help in her name. And I said, yes, but that was... Do something. Do what? I don't know. Just to think about something and do something. Make your falchion appear, or something. I don't have my...

Make a water sheet from her hands. I'll try to summon the falchion. Nothing. Yeah. Make water sheets from your hands. Summon the fountain. Nothing. Yeah. Make water shoot from your hands. Okay. What are you trying to do? Make water shoot from his hands.

Water does not shoot from your hands. Sorry. No demon monkey, no... Try to disguise your face like you used to. Like what? Try to. Make yourself look like Nott. I'm a big Nott!

You watch as his entire body shimmers into a larger, thicker version of Nott the Beast. Oh! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

Ah! Drop it! Big Nott! Ah! Drop it. Big nod. Ah! Yeah, that's good, that's good. You got the balance back. Okay, okay, okay. Okay, okay, okay, okay, we'll do it.

There's so much more to go. Okay, okay, okay. Wait, wait, Eldritch Blast? No. Try it, try it, try it. I don't think so. I look out over the cliffside, and I will look at Nott and say,

Eldritch Blast. Oh, yee-haw! Energy gathers within his palm, but as opposed to the dull, sickly green coloration, this has a deeper verdant tint to it as it fires out two blasts. Well, that's interesting. Stella got her groove back.

I'm really proud of you, Fjord. Fucking seaweed wraps are the shit. Umagorn stumbles out into the snow and is like, I thought everyone would be more excited, I spent all night working on this, and you're fucking writing out on me. We should go inside, what the fuck? Who took my shirt off?

Oh, I mean, oh. Yeah, let's go inside. You were wet and it was... SAM and LAURA laugh. Santa, we didn't know if we needed to resuscitate you and rub your chest. I feel well looked after. Should we head inside? The sword's finished.

Yeah, and Morgon's like, ah, it is, and he holds it up, and you can see the blade is beautiful. Well. Fjord, do you want to hold it? Well, but, Caduceus, it's your sword. No, it's definitely not. Who else here is going to use a sword?

It was waiting for you. It almost looks like water. Would you mind? This is what we're here for. There are no accidents, correct, could you say, sir? Never. Just delightful mistakes. I'm going to hand you the sword.

Embrace your destiny. Oh, look at that. That's really big. Wow. That's a lot of text. And that's where we'll end tonight's episode. Oh! Know it went a little long, but I feel like it was worth it.

Worth it! We'll pick it from there in two weeks. Awesome. Because we got a week off. Reani! Reani. You were so dope! Reani!

Oh my god. It's not the end. It's over forever. You're a terrible person. And you got laid. I know. Wait, is that canon? Yes!

They spent some time together. Oh no, oh no. Up to speculation. Up to speculation. This is the best season of The Bachelorette. You should join again. You and me, at a race. It was so much fun.

Yeah. I'm sorry I'm an emotional bitch. Girl, the internet's watched all of us cry many times on the internet. This just makes you even more a part of the family, really. Thank you, Beau. I'm going to cry so much tonight. I get a day of extra life for every tear, so that's good.

If you don't see me crying during everybody's speeches, you're going to live forever. Oh, man. We already knew that. Yeah. Anyway, thank you so much for joining us. Just you hanging out with us. Okay. I'll just live under the table, that's fine. Thank you guys for joining us tonight. Don't forget, next Thursday is

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