D&D is For Nerds - Buried Beneath #18 Further Complications

Episode Date: May 20, 2017

In which our heroes take bets on what is… Buried Beneath. Shane wants something that goes ‘thunk,’ Anton really likes halloween pumpkin and Squim feels nothing.Check out our upcoming lives shows and purchase your tickets for our UK tour right here; http://www.sanspantsradio.com/live/ Want to help support the show?Sanspants+: sanspantsplus.comPatreon: patreon.com/sanspantsradioPodkeep: sanspantsradio.podkeep.comUSB Tapes: audiobooksontape.comMerch: redbubble.com/people/sanspantsradio or teepublic.com/stores/sanspantsradioWant to get in contact with us?Email: [e-mail] Twitter: twitter.com/sanspantsradio Website: sanspantsradio.comFacebook: facebook.com/SansPantsRadioReddit: reddit.com/r/sanspantsradioOr individually at;Adam: twitter.com/RetroArchetypeJackson: twitter.com/AlldogsaredeadShanks: twitter.com/timtimfedZammit: twitter.com/GoddammitZammit Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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but we are looking at Exeter, Cardiff and Nottingham and then that's it. And if you're wondering why Adam is coming let's just say he's also bringing an extra set of luggage for all his D&D books. Welcome to episode 18 of Buried Beneath, a D&D is for nerds adventure. I'm Joel Zamet, and I'll be playing the part of Shane Knoll. I'm Michael Shanks, I'll be playing the part of Squim Norton. I am Jackson Bailey, and I'll be playing the part of Anton De Saucere. And I'm your dungeon master, Adam.

Previously. So I want to search and I want to look in the mirror for where it is in the room. Red is coming in at the sides of your vision. Like you just got killed in Goldeneye. You might be done, chum. You blast a hole solidly in its chest. Gore

splatters you, Shane. And it collapses onto you. Ick-a-ma-mow. Yay! We got him! One of the remnants of the paintings on the wall is basically on the wrong side of the wall. All of you feel...

I don't want to say stronger. Because you're all still incredibly... But you all do gain a level. Yay! But compared to... What was it? Eight? That's alright Twelve

I summon a swarm Just to be like, check this out This swarm is not as helpful as I thought it was It does not attack you But it will attack whatever's closest Oh shit, hey It's okay, they don't have families I'm feeling it

We've just brought them into existence Let them die, let them fight At the end of your second nap It's okay. They don't have families, I'm feeling. We've just brought them into existence. Let them die. Let them fight. At the end of your second nap, you recover ten more hit points. Oh, good. Gloom wakes up at some point and administers attention to you. Helps you bandage your wounds.

Hey, I'm up on agility too, yeah? Oh, yeah. You regain another point of dexterity. I'm going to just nap till my dex is up. That's what? Like a week or two? No, we should probably go down, though. We will add to below. Is that this fine?

Because again, we might rest. We get some health back. But again, whatever the hell's up ahead. At some point, it didn't wake up either of the sleeping party members, Shane or Anton. But Squim, at some point during that rest, you heard a loud explosion somewhere above. And I go, yikes. But nobody sees it. I mean, I guess.

But you know, it's the subtext for the next day. Open up the thing. Open up as it worked. Gloom asks, read? Yeah, read it.? Gloom asks, read? Yeah, yeah, read it. Gloom reads aloud. Traveler, the seal before you was designed to last for 500,000 years. Nothing built by mortal creature has ever lasted for one-tenth of this time.

Perhaps you know what is buried beneath. Perhaps you see this evil for yourself Apelomander, if it has lasted for as long as it is hoped Will be the last memory of our civilization What will it tell you about us? This is your final warning, traveller Turn back So, Gloom, turn back?

Gloom shrugs. There are so many people already after this. What is this, Gloom? We don't know. The most we've ever discovered about this civilization, we are discovering right now. You know what would have been a better way for these civilizations to kind of warn us?

Tell us what was down there. They're being awfully cryptic. Yeah, you know what would have been a better way for these civilization to kind of warn us tell us what was down there because like yeah they're being awfully cryptic yeah you know what i mean it's just it's just a dungeon full of hypodermic needles full of ants like stay away one of the earlier inscriptions this isn't gloom talking this is adam talking one of the earlier inscriptions did say that they were like if-ing, um-ing and uh-ing about if they should put a warning at all, if it would be better to just leave the sand barren. So you think maybe they're like, you know, there was a bit of a conversation, should we say what is necessarily under here in case someone stumbled on this and was like, oh, nah, that sounds sick. I want that. It's like a seek. It's like when you see two people talking and you're like, what are you talking about?

They're like, don't worry about it. You're like What are you talking about? And they're like Don't worry about it You're like I'm worrying about it all I live my life like that So Shall we make bets on what's in there? Let's do it

Let's do it We got gold I bet How much gold do we have? You are all going to be disappointed I'm going to let you know right now Rated years ago by Indiana Jones I will bet you 10 gold I'm going to let you know right now. Rated years ago by Indiana Jones.

I will bet you, Dan, that beneath this crypt there is a treasure. A powerful treasure that they have been putting up these warnings to try and keep us away from. And we will find it up here, because you're always bad on it. Green.

Come. So you're always bad on it. Green. I come. So you're going to bet treasure. I will bet treasure. I'm going to bet some sort of doomsday weapon. Yeah. But not living, like a sort of. You guys remember there were a lot of murals here about the ancient war the elves who made this place had with the dwarves. All right.

Maybe some kind of like something specifically to kill a dwarf. No, no. I take my impact. It's like, it's like, it's like Hellboy to the Golden Army. It's a golden army. That's my event. Is there a Hellboy to the Golden Army under this crypt? You'll have to find out.

I bet my 69 gold pieces that it's a copy of hellboy to the golden army on hd dvd on hd dvd yeah i reckon it may be some kind of like i don't know dnd a lot but i reckon it's like some kind of either this is exciting like a like a dragon lich kind of fucking demon devil bullshit oh that were like, oi, you, fuck. Hellboy 2, the golden army. Yeah. A rude devil. A rude devil.

A rude devil. A rude devil or treasure. And just treasure. All right. All right, yeah. Yes. Devil, we've got to kill. As Gloom finishes reading aloud, you turn around behind you to where the ropes you guys

climb down from above you can see the ropes that you left behind still dangling you thought you heard something and at the last minute just as you turned around you saw the rope sort of twitch a little bit as if something had touched it or disturbed it and you think you you think you heard something maybe beyond that but it was it's you know you hear a sound and you're like i I can't tell what that is. Phyllis, I think somebody might be on the same level as us. I'd like to ready summon monsters. So wait, are these ropes hanging from above us now? Are we below these ropes?

Yeah, so... In the corridor, yeah? Yeah, so down the corridor, in the next room over, the room that you started this level off in you climbed well you didn't because you had spider walk but you guys climbed down on ropes and because just the logistic try to imagine how you could have gotten the ropes down with and then still been able to climb down so the ropes are still dangling from where you were using them before yeah in the next room over not in this room currently where the seal is. Alright, well

I'm going to ready my blasted sword and shield and be like, alright, let's hurry up and get down. Yeah. Alright, do you want Gloom to break the seal? Yep. Gloom says the final spell with a tremendous cracking sound. The solid bit of stone splits in half and falls aside and you see a hole into

nothingness. Just blackness? You can't see what's down there. We've got some lighty stuff, don't we, to have a quick little look. I've got some of my flares. You crack the sun rod and as you hold it over

the hole, it goes out. We need a magical light. I have low light vision and i can see nothing yeah even with your low light vision you it's a inky blackness that you're unable to penetrate swim can you detect magic um yeah i detect magic on the on the on the on the on the i detect magic on the blacks. All right. So this is going to be an interesting check. Oh.

Hey. You detect not just no magic, but a suspicious complete absence of magic. Even when you're around no particularly strong magical auras, there's always a faint magic that exists through the world that sorcerers like Anton are able to manipulate and weave. You cannot detect even that. There is no magic whatsoever down there to an unusual degree. Guys, I feel nothing. But what's down there?

Anyway, give up on that quick. I feel nothing. But what's down there? Anyway. Give up on that quick. All right. I take a little bit of, like, rope and just, like, dangle it down and then, like, pull it up as though I'm, like, testing for oil levels in a car. The rope comes back up with particles of frost on it. That's a doozy. The rope comes back up with particles of frost on it. That's a doozy. How does our potions of injured elements work?

How long for? It's hours per level. It's roughly five hours. I see. The potion will give you. I've got two. So, Suck, who wants to have first? Oh, oh. Oh, oh. Yes, we? You summon wants to have first? Oh, oh, oh.

Yes, we? You summon animals. I do. You can control the animals? To an extent. What if we tie a rope, get an animal to climb down and climb back up, and, like, report on... Do you want to do that? Yeah, no, that sounds good.

I'll go this one, Adam, in the middle. Green? Halloween spooks. I'll go herpes. You're always late to the party. You've got to be quick. You've got to be quick. You've got to be quick, Scrim. Did you say herpes or perpes?

I said perpes. Good. But I was thinking. Scrim, now you're the one. You turn around. You thought you heard something. No rope twitching, but you definitely heard something shifting, something moving back from the room where you started.

Guys, I feel something shifting and moving. You don't want me to summon an animal with a rope around it, drop it down the hole, see what comes out? How long can they last for, those? The animals? That ape did not last long last night. Roughly about what, a minute? Five rounds? Just slightly less than a minute.

And they're a minute, so we drop him in, pull him out real quick, we'll be fine. Alright, we can do it quick? Yeah, let's do that summon the ape buddies monkeys cause I guess throw one in

see how many we'll only get one this time that's fine tie a rope around him drop him in the hole alright and then you pull him

back up yep gone he's gone gone is the like rope hole there still the rope is still there

yeah the rope is fine but is it like is it like it's got like the hole that he would have been in? Oh, yeah, yeah. It's as if the monkey just disappeared. All right.

I wonder if it's like getting rid of organic matter or magical summoning matter. I'd say magic. So anything that went down there that's magic, nothing. So is there a better way for me to test? Can I hurl a fireball from the fire necklace down the hole? Yeah, which hurl would you like to use fire necklace down the hole. Yeah, which fire would you which pearl would you like to use? The 3D6. The shitty one.

So mark off that you lost one. You take off one of the little gems. You hurl it down. And as it leaves your hand the tiny pearl, the tiny gem turns into a massive roiling ball of fire which as it hits the hole, the heat that it gives off to you guys immediately disappears.

And you definitely don't hear it hit anything. Now that people are awake, I say, ooh, yikes! And hope it goes down well. All right. I laughed. How'd that choo-choo? Gloom gives a nervous chuckle.

Gloomy. Give him a nervous chuckle. Gloomy. I give him a little nudge. All right. He doesn't like getting near you after the swarm. So... So I'm assuming it is anti-magic. Yes. I am magic.

We let that... I'm magic. Even a level of anti-magic. Anti-magic doesn't get rid of that natural weave of magic that exists throughout the world. It just suppresses it. It is is nothing there this is something else entirely is there a stone or a rock nearby like a pickup there's plenty of sand cool oh there's something about thunk if i drop it can i hear it thunk well jackson's sunrod thing if you drop that it the one that went out yeah i'll drop that yeah all right you drop that uh piss always bad right. You drop that. Pierce, always bet on it.

Green. Blue. Yeah, you see? You got to be quick. Oh, boy. It's also a game of imagination and also a race. Okay. Squim, Anton, and Shane.

All three of you hear it make a solid thunk after kind of a reasonable amount of time. So you think that it's uh like a very similar height to the last couple heights you had to drop okay no it's not a portal then yeah yeah yeah yeah shane you hear that sound and when you turn around you can see in the sand all over this place so there's a fine layer of it i'm not fine a thick layer of it all over the floor. You can see two sets of footprints slowly making their way towards you. All right. It's in the room, whatever it is.

Like from the corridor or from the hole? From where you guys started, from where you guys dropped down, but the footprints are in the room with you. We should have done something. Hang on, how far away from us? Roughly 10 feet. So if I threw a hurt fireball, what would happen?

Would I hit us? Yeah. You'd hit everyone except Squim. I have randomly decided. Just drive them both through. Can I just try and get my shield run at that footprint? You'll take a penalty to hit because while you can see the area or where you can see the footprints, you can't see the person.

Yeah, fine. All right. Do that. So you want to run through with your shield? Yeah, just slam it with my shield. Is someone here, boys? Charge. The footprints, you notice, deftly sidestep you as you charge straight past.

I'm going to go to initiative. Halloween. Cheers. Ah, now you're first. Yeah, you're learning. Winning the race. Purple. Purple, all right. What's it all about?

Your purpies, as we've established. Purpies. It is a competition. Whoever gets to pick the first die, just let them go first i don't actually roll for that if you'll notice carefully yeah listen back that's what is going on i'm gonna try and hurl this thing into the hole clever because it's kind of funny because squimmer's actually going first but i do roll i do roll sure adam yeah get them in the hole put them down throw them down the hole if they die we know it's a bad hole.

So are we in combat now? Yeah. Yes. Well, we haven't actually established those things intentions. I kind of want to be like, there's a charge. There's someone in the room. I'm like, footprints. Squim, you go first.

I sort of just want to yell out and be like, Presence, be your friend or foe. We are but a peaceful kind. We do not wish for more conflict. And then I kind of like, does somebody awkwardly chuckle when I say we're peaceful? Because like, that's a bad shit. Goodness, we are not.

Gloom laughs, but when he laughs, you get the impression that maybe he doesn't, he didn't understand what was happening. No, I mean, Gloom's really into my jokes. Gloom's really into my jokes. Gloom's chuckling. I basically try and offer the olive branch of... If this was Star Trek, I'd say, hail them. All right, cool.

The invisible figure materializes. It's a halfling. All right. A halfling is kind of a hobbit. Oh, yeah, you know. Well, we're there. Anton's a halfling. My boy.

Yeah. Oh, that's right. What? What was you? Halfling is kind of a hobbit. Oh, yeah, you know. Well, we're there. Antoine's a halfling. My boy. Yeah. Oh, that's right. You are too. What? What was you? The halfling has his hair knotted backwards in this elaborate sort of hairstyle that you wonder, really, for an adventurer, like, why do you do that? He's got a scar running down one side of the face, and he looks kind of tough. He looks like he's ready for combat.

He has a weapon drawn and a little dagger, which doesn't look too impressive, but, you know, he's kind of tough. I mean, yeah, all right. So he's a small, very put-together man. Yeah, he looks like he's been through a fight. Inexplicably, I'm imagining like a tiny Kevin Costner from Waterworld.

Sure. That's fine. I don't know why, but that'sner from Waterworld. Sure. Yeah. That's fine. Right? I don't know why, but that's what's just been... Sure. Good. And he says in kind of a gruff voice, I'm here for what's down below, what's buried beneath. Do you know what it is exactly?

Well, no, but whatever it is, it's been protected pretty well. I'm sure it's valuable. Me and my friends. How many? 20. Where is it now? Hang on. Let me roll. It's been protected pretty well I'm sure it's valuable Me and my friends How many? 20 Where is it now? Hang on, let me roll Uh-huh

Pierce Purple Halloween I'll go green Halloween is a really good dice I like Halloween a lot It looks like a pumpkin for those playing it Yes

All three of you are unable to tell if 20 is the exact number, he's less than, if he's alone, or if that's maybe just him low-balling it. There might be more. You're actually unable to tell. So where are they right now? Upstairs, he says.

Why? Waiting for me to give the go-ahead. We knew someone had come through already. Tell us your name, oh traveller. My name is not important, he says. That's a silly name. It is a pleasure to meet you. Don't do this.

We're all writing it down. It's canon. Not important. K-N-O-T-T. From where do you hail, oh halfling? Let's not bring names or places or any of that into this. Let's keep things nice and friendly. And noun-free.

You don't know me. I don't know you. You don't? We're all... What do you guys want with the whatever's down there? Well, if it's valuable, we're going to sell it. And if it's not, we'll be pretty mad. Yes.

We went through a lot of trouble to get here. I'd like to look at Gloom. You went through a lot of trouble. I think we paved the way and you've just steered through our wake. You know, the traps reset themselves, he says. Well, I do now. Right, look, I don't know what's down there myself, and I am a little bit worried that it's going to be pretty bad.

So how about this? If it's treasure, you can take, we'll come to an agreement. A bit. We'll come to an agreement. So whatever's down there, you can take... We'll come to an agreement. A bit. We'll come to an agreement. So whatever's down there, you can take some. But we are working for a university. Is that right, Gwim? Gwim nods. Yes. Yeah, university.

So we would like some of that stuff to put in your museum because this stuff belongs in a museum. But if it is something evil, something that needs to be stopped We need your help Well, tell you what

We'll wait up here You lot just chuff down there You let us know what's down there Or if you need help Maybe we'll come help you out But if we have to come help you out We got 100% share How about we strike you this bargain, okay?

We only went to, you know, investigate the artifacts, find out what they are, we made them the whole deal. Right? So the treasure, if there is a treasure, we get it for like, say, a year or two to look over it and like, you know, investigate. And then I'll always bet on this. Halloween. And then when we're done with this... Fast enough this time. It's yours.

You can take it. We have no interest in its monetary value. Oh, wow. Okay. Anton, I guess you were talking, so you couldn't hear. Shane and Squim, you both hear with perfect clarity

another explosion upstairs and the distinct sounds of combat. Sword ringing upon sword. So I'm guessing your mates aren't the only ones that are here. Well, this place is pretty busy. It looks like a man who knows the jig is up. Well, this place is pretty busy. There's a lot of people upstairs.

It's more than just... Well, you probably think there's at least three. I'm telling you there's at least five. Right. So how... Yep. One of these groups is a big old group of orcs. Don't ask me how they got here.

Don't ask me what they're doing here. Okay. But they are not going to come down here and sip a little bit of brandy and have a conversation. No, they are not. No, they are not. So how about this? You come with us down the hole and we'll split it, say, 50-50. Fuck this.

Why are we negotiating? It's three of us against one of him for now. Let him be a fucking yardstick. That's what I reckon. It's hard to have this conversation without him here. I don't care. You've got no position to bargain. Well, neither do you, do you?

Yeah, we do. You've got whatever's down there, or you got whatever's up there. Well, currently we've got whatever's in here, which is one fucking halfling, and that ain't no problem for me. Also, not important, you've also got the problem of downstairs and upstairs. You're in the same predicament as us, but a bit worse. I have more friends, he says. That are fighting orcs. First off, an intimidation check against him.

Second off, he needs to make a second bluff check. So. So. Hello, man. Always been on piss. Her-perps. Her-pews. Okay, when you, you know, when you're like, fuck, you- it's just us versus you. What's up with you, mate?

He does look very nervous when you say that. Then. Ooh. You look very nervous when you say that. Then... Squim, it's coming down to the line. He's a good liar, this little halfling. I'm assuming it's just him. I know my character's not, but Jackson knows the joke. Once again, it's hard to tell how many friends he actually has.

But you do know, at the very least, now, I'll say, at this point, you know that he's not alone. There's definitely... He seems very certain that people are going to come to help him. Look, we can sit there and get bargaining, or we can take our chances in the mystery hole. Because right now, I figure you're down here because whoever's up there is probably going to kill us all.

You're saying orcs, and they aren't the most friendlier fellas. Someone pissed off that Sphinx thing as well. It's romping around, causing some damage. We're cool with the Sphinx. We're tight with them. We have good relations with the Sphinx. He just gave us a break. I didn't piss it off either, and it attacked me.

Well, we had a conversation with him. He was lovely. Did you have a conversation? I don't think the trick here is to have a conversation with the thing. I surprise not interested. What was his name again? Norton Portent.

Not important. I hurl my grappling hook at him in an attempt to tie him up. Oh, your grappling hook and rope attached Oh, you grab the hook and rope. Yeah, my grappling hook and rope. Yes. And try and tie him up. Oh, fuck it. He's a halfling. I'm going to pick him up and throw him in the hole.

I want to dangle him in. Like the monkey. You've got two options. One, we either hurl you in the hole or two, we put a rope on you and you go in the hole. You say hello to the rope or hello to my eldritch blast. You've got three seconds. You should always put your finger against his head and be like there's a lot of bats in this thing.

Do you feel lucky, punk? Who's next to him? Probably me. I don't think anyone else approached him. Because I ran to him. Well, I guess if those are my options, you get an attack of opportunity as he attempts to cast a spell.

Sick, which I smack him with my shield. Good. Nah, with my sword. Yeah, I was about to say, well, I guess he's getting that spell off if you're hitting him with the shield. Oh, wait, spell casters. Oh, fucking that spell casting I have,

which I'm like, oi, no, cunt. Oh. Yeah. Yeah, no, spell casters. Oh, fucking that spell cast thing I have, which I'm like, oi, no, cunt. Oh. Yeah. Yeah, no, I think that just means that he can't cast defensively. Yeah. Yeah, whatever that thing I have. What do I have here? Mage Slayer.

There we go. Yeah, you can't cast defensively, which is why you were getting this attack of opportunity. Oh, sick. All right. Doesn't matter, though. You miss. Ah, bullshit.

Dang. Get down to the wire and you miss. Bull right. Doesn't matter, though. You miss. Ah, bullshit. Dang. Get down to the wire and you miss. Bullshit. He gets the... Oh. He's got to roll cast offensively.

Yep. Okay. He turns invisible again. Ah, bullshit. And then, well, he's moved. You guys can hear him like pitter-patter

through the sand. Okay. I'm going to go back to the old initiative. What does PS magical concealment? Does that also include invisibility? It would mean that

if you were standing next to him, if you knew where he was, you would still be able to hit him, so long as you know what square he's in. You've got to pinpoint the square. Cool, cool, cool. Anton. I'm gonna try and daze him. Is that a touch spell?

That's a touch spell, huh? And my only other attack is a ray, and we know what happens when I use rays. I don't know where he is. It's always his prime, you chook. I'll put Chill Touch in my chicken and wait. As you cast, as you charge, what's his name? Romeo.

Romeo with Chill Touch. Romeo turns around to you and says, good day, sir. Everyone else heard squawking. What? I have something I want to do, but this is the stupidest move. No, I won't.

I'll just drop him. I was going to just take him over to the hole. No, no. None of that. But I don't want I'll just drop him. I'm just going to take him over to the hall. No, no. None of that. But I don't want to go down a level. What would you like me to do? Go and find invisible Aflin.

Very well then. Good job. How long is this? Oh, just a couple days. This is the first time you speak to me? Everything's been delightful until now. I'd like to sit. All right, you have a sit. Just ponder.

When you leveled up, you got to speak with Master. It can talk to you now you can talk to it I thought this would be funny anyway Romeo goes looking for the halfling oh fuck yeah Romeo

Romeo attacks like a just a nothing but then blood appears So Romeo found it I'm an idiot I should have cast light Would he have glowed?

Yeah You would have known this guy Dumb cunt What was it? Chill touch? Yeah Could have been useful Jack Romeo gets him

For once in my dang life Five points of damage And one strength damage Oh good Fuck yes then it is shane's turn all right not from where the chicken attacked you know where he is all right then i'm just gonna like charge him yep sure do you actually want to use the charge ability negative two to your ac but plus two to your attack oh yeah all right fuck your ac oh good All right. Fuck, RAC. Oh, good thing you did that. These dice do not like you.

You hit. By the hairs of your chinny-chin-chin, you hit. I think Shane's got a good handlebar, like mutton chop must. It's kind of like what I'm rocking right now. Yeah. It's one of those weird things of D&D. No matter what character you're playing, I always imagine it looking a bit like you. You deal five points of damage.

So you slash at what you at first think is nothing, but you can kind of almost see just his outline from your mage slayer abilities. And so using that as a guide, you attack where you imagine him to be and you're rewarded with a big slash of blood and a throaty howl from him. Then it goes back to Squim. Hard way or the easy way? I like that you were the one who was like, let's talk terms. You were the one who was like, suing for peace, but then also like... Because I'm getting fucking sick of this bullshit. It's funny. It's good. If you want peace if you want peace prepare so do i know where he is yeah you can well you know what square he's in but you can't see him he's invisible okay because and is he is he got somebody nearby like

one of us like uh romeo and shane are both standing next to him. Okay. Don't cook my chicken. I won't cook your chicken. But I would like to... Just started the talk. Well, if I cast Earthen Grasp, is it... Like, it knows to go for... It'll go for an enemy first. Okay. But if no one else is next to it, it'll go for anything.

Okay, cool. Can the Earthen Grasp grab an invisible lad? Yeah. Oh, cool. Yeah. Earthen Grasp... It'll grab whoever he targets. Because I'm sick of this motherfucker running around in his sneaky little shit.

Get him fucking here. Can your earthen grass just, like, drag him over into the hole? Yeah. Oh, that's great. I can't do that. Damn. That's bupkis. A giant stone and sand hand bursts out from behind where the invisible halfling is and grabs him.

You hear him yell, oi, oi, oi. All right, mate. And he's grappled in its mitts. Cool. And you? I was just going to yell at him. Never mind. I'll wait till the next turn before I yell at him.

All right. He tries to struggle out but can't do that. That's his turn. Anton. Can I cast Light on him? It's a touch spell, so you've got to go out and touch him. That's fine. I'll get in amongst the hand.

Eyes or Lows? Eyes. Better Light. The hand is a little bit... Well, you cast it on the hand. Nice. Lit hand. That's a shame.

Shame. I'm going to hold my action And be like Right mate You're gonna Look not You're gonna Just calm down We can either work together

Or Well You're probably gonna die How can we tie him up Tie him up Put him down the hill Well It's your turn Squim

Oh is it I thought it was your turn I'm sorry I didn't want to Yeah I was like I'm holding my action Then it's your turn Squim Do you reckon I'll be able to tie him up Whilst he's in the hand Cause I'm didn't want to turn it off yeah I was like I'm holding my action then it's your turn do you reckon

I'll be able to tie him up whilst he's in the hand because I'm like the hand's like my boy can I be like

just you know just chill out shift the things a bit yeah sure I'd allow it okay cool well I go do that

and while I'm doing it I'm like ready to cooperate now bitch I'm gonna call an out of initiative again I'll light him

then well I have the chance just because he becomes invisible again yeah alright he un-invisibles himself he's bound up you've got him I'll light him then. We'll have the chance. Just think as if he goes invisible again. Yeah. All right.

He un-invisibles himself. He's bound up. You've got him tied up. He's not struggling or anything like that. You don't know how good he'd be at getting out. But halflings can be pretty slippery. So are there any precautions that you can take? We could stab his feet.

Oh, boy. We could just fucking cut off his feet i mean like yeah i'm against that like just can someone hit the lights please because i know it's getting very dark in here i don't want to um well i've got i've got a bit of a torture pitch to try and figure out some truth from this guy because he's been bluffing. Can I do my torture pitch? Of course. Look, don't look at me. Okay.

I've got him tied up in the rope and I put him. So I sort of like push him into the hole, but yank it. So he's kind of at a 45 degree angle. He's falling into the hole. And I also hold out my hand. It says, you know how many fucking bats are in this hand now motherfucker how many friends do you have you start talking or i start loosening this rope i'm gonna go with seaman white all right all right all right he says

easy up easy up no one needs to bring out the bats all right i got uh at least five other buddies upstairs they're uh otherwise occupied buying me time to come down here and have this delightful little chat with you blokes look tell you what new deal you all just let me go and i'll chew phone back to my mates and tell them there are some people down here not to be fucked with. Do we believe him? I see we have two options. We let him go or we drop him down zero. Let's see what that means.

I'm going to go calm white. I'll go magma red, please. Bullet is? Purpy, purpy. Shane and Anton, you both believe him? He seems like he's on the board. Squim, you don't think he's going to... Like, he's definitely intimidated by you,

but you think he's just going back to regroup and come back. Make of that, what the three of you will. He's probably going to regroup and come back. I'll leave this up to vote. I've been... Look, I've sort of gone... Flown off the handle a little bit. Squim, look, you've lost your partner. Th off the handle a little bit. That's all right.

Look, you've lost your partner. Threaten them with bats. There's no way of going back from that. So I can pull this guy back and we trust him, or we drop him down and get him to report on what's below. Mate, no matter what happens is you go upstairs, you tell your mate, stop the fuck with us, they're still going to try and come here and fuck with us. Drop him down the hood us And I'm sorry

But we need to know what's down that hole So push him The sounds of the halfling Unceremoniously falling And screaming at the same time Echo in the background What will happen next? Find out next time on Buried Beneath

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