D&D is For Nerds - Buried Beneath #19 Chicken in Flight

Episode Date: May 23, 2017

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Now, on with the show. Welcome to episode 19 of Buried Beneath, a D&D's for nerds adventure. I'm Jackson Bailey, I'll be playing the part of Anton D'Soucier. I'm Michael Shanks, I'll be playing the part of Squim Norton. And I'm Joel Zamet, playing the part of Shane Null. As always, I'm Adam, your Dungeon Master. Previously. Traveller, perhaps you know what is buried beneath.

Apelomander will be the last memory of our civilization. What will it tell you about us? Shall we make bets on what's in there? Let's do it. Let's do it. We got gold. I will bet you 10 gold that beneath this crypt there is a treasure. I'm going to bet some sort of doomsday weapon.

Not doomsday, but something specifically to kill a dwarf. No, no, I take my impact. It's like Hellboy 2 The Golden Army. It's a golden army. You detect not just no magic, but a suspicious complete absence of magic.

There's always a faint magic that exists through the world that sorcerers like Anton are able to manipulate and weave. So I'm assuming it is anti-magic. Yes, it is. You can see two sets of footprints slowly making their way towards you. The invisible figure

materializes. It's a halfling. I'm here for what's down below, what's buried beneath. Sorry, but we need to know what's down that hole. You've pushed the bound halfling down into the hole. But we hold the rope. So you're not just dropping it, you're lowering it. We're lowering it.

He's our canary. Yeah. All right. Halfling in a mineshaft. As he lowers down into the hole, you hear him say, you know what? Fuck you guys. All right. I want to pour a potion of...

The rope goes very loose very quickly. Oh, okay. Very loose. Like as in light. Like you lose his weight. And then... Semen. Piscella.

Piscella? Semen cream. Yep. Semen cream and... Semen cream. Magla red. Yep, that's it. He goes quiet. That was the last thing he said. Like, that's it. He goes quiet.

That was the last thing he said. Like, fuck you guys. And then you lose his weight on the rope. Should we pull the rope back up? Yeah. So he went into the darkness? You lowered him into the darkness. He yelled one final expletive at you guys.

And then... Do we hear anything? No, you don't hear anything. All right, ominous. I feel like if we pull up the rope and there's nothing there, I mean, like, I am a halfling. He was a halfling. It seems like that will happen to me.

You should have lowered half of him and then pulled that up and see if he'd come back without his legs. Although him saying, fuck you guys, means he escaped. Potentially. So let's just yank up the rope You pull up the rope, it's loose, he's obviously not in it And there's frost on the... Yeah, there's a little bit of icing on the rope Can I like detect magic on this icing?

Do I, like in the same way that I can on like sort of sand Do I recognise this as like a type of frost or a... No, it just seems like regular frost. There's no magic to it. I call down. What's down there, Nott? Nott. No response? Come back. Well,

then, I guess... Well, this is a tricky one. I feel like we don't want to dive in, but also... Gloom steps up And rolls back his sleeves Lower me in Halfway Are you sure about this Gloom?

Gloom Does not look sure But he nods his head And says yes Okay we'll tie it under his arms Know what I mean? Yeah yeah I know what you mean Sure

Alright Gloom Good luck Yes Hang on Hang on Have a potion of injury element cyst Oh, nice He drinks the potion

So if Gloom doesn't come back We don't get paid What are plans? I'm right here, guys Can you discuss this after I'm dead, please? Okay, okay, okay As he slowly lowers himself in He's kind of like someone getting into a pool, almost.

He lowers himself in like that. And as he puts his first foot in, he's like, it's cold. And he lowers his feet in. Just keep reporting. But you can still feel your feet. Your feet are still there. It's a bit cold.

It's not very cold, though. It's like a brisk winter's day. All right. He keeps lowering himself in. He's up to his waist now it's just just cold and empty i can't feel anything like as in he quickly turns around in a panic like as in i can't feel just air it's just okay okay yeah yeah jealous if you want us to stop it's okay dude you need time you're in a safe place he braces himself for a moment kind of kind of like a diver before going under. He's like, all right, it's important. If I don't make it out, make sure you take it back to the university,

whatever it is. Okay. Yeah, we do. Yeah, right. Yeah, sure. And tell them to call it the gloom, whatever it is. I mean, sure. All right.

Okay, then. I like shaking my head. Yeah, we will. He can see you. He's not under yet. All right. I nod my head. Yeah, yeah.

We'll call it the gloom. Of course we'll call it the gloom. That's ominous as hell, but we'll call it the gloom. Then he ducks his head under. Oh, he says. You can... It's just a simple layer of darkness. I can see still.

Oh, where's not? I don't, I don't know. It's just sand everywhere. It's like a desert underground. Can you see my monkey? No. Keep lowering me, he says. Like a desert, like a full expansive desert.

How big is the area? It's large. I don't know. It's hard to say. There's a light in the distance. I can see everything by that light. What's the drop? It's maybe 80 feet.

All right. Can you tie me up? What, Kizan? Do you bring gloom up? Or do you have it on with, like, three ropes dangling everybody down? Wait, so gloom and Shane on the rope? No, no, separate ropes. Bring Gloom up.

No, more than two ropes, don't we? Who's lowering? I thought we were all kind of lowering. All right. Yeah. He's heavy, yeah. Yeah, you can fix the ropes to stones and stuff like that, which is kind of what I've been assuming you've been doing.

Because you're lowering them slowly, I'm assuming someone's holding the rope. Oh, well, I'll do one where I'm affixing it to a rope. Yeah, yeah. All right, cool. Do that so that these bugs keep lowering Gloom. Okay. You slowly climb down.

As you lower yourself down, you also notice as well, whatever darkness appears on this hole is just a thin layer just going over the hole. And as soon as you duck your head under, you can see. It's like Gloom said. It's a large, massive, expansive, seemingly underground desert. You can't see walls in any direction. And it's just undulating sand in all directions.

Far off in the distance, there's some white light shining so bright and it's illuminating everything around you can I see any footprints? you scan around but you can't see anything can you see any Hellboy 2's The Golden Army's? not yet that like could be Hellboy 2 The Golden Army on HD DVD

does Hellboy 2 The Golden Army on HD DVD glow? what a good subtle ad this would have been. Because if it glows, you're in a hot maybe. Does it seem like safe? Yeah. It's a bit nippy down here. Did you drink a potion of Endure Elements?

Yes. Like Gloom said, it just feels like a cold winter's day. Okay, I'm going to... Can I just duck my head under? Yeah, sure. Like get on my hands and knees and just put my head through? Imagine blizzard conditions, but no wind. It's cold, but like a human could bear it for a while.

It's freezing down there, Scrim. It's very cold. We can do it. But it's been very hot, so. Yeah, it's quite refreshing. It's a nice change of pace. We can just cuddle. Yeah. Do we have any, like, winter? I like snooging. Whatever. Don't even winter gear do.

You, like, started asking the question. Jackson started talking. You were like, whatever. Which, I know you gave up on it for unrelated reasons, but it sounded like Jackson had interrupted you, and you were like, which i know you gave up on it for unrelated reasons but it sounded like jackson had interrupted you and you're like fuck it fuck this stupid thing um rodeo well i guess we'll all lower ourselves down all right so uh yeah i i agree i'll lower myself down yeah you're not gonna spider walk it down uh no because i i feel like the room's gonna be too big for me

to go to like the edge i mean like i haven't actually seen it yet, but I'm... We've been giving you, like, a commentary. Okay, so we're assuming that I've basically seen it by the description. I'm actually, like, picturing, like, a desert, you know, like something like that. Yeah, that's right, yeah. Like, you can't see the walls. You just see more desert. So it's almost like an impossibility, like a TARDIS kind of environment.

Yeah, it kind of goes off into the darkness. Okay, cool. I calmed down on the rope as well. Alright, Sue. My favourite part. You're going to make fucking climb checks. Sorry, I was landing in the sand. Shane, did you take off your armour? Of course I did, I threw it down.

It landed on the blue. It just affects the whole very greatly. I'm going to do Shane first. Okay. Now Gloom. I don't like that. I think Gloom we were lowering, weren't we? Yeah, we lowered Gloom.

Oh, did you lower him all the way down? Yeah. Never mind then. Then it is Anton, we'll say. I always fall. What happens to your chicken? My chicken probably just gets squished in my coat, I imagine. Yeah.

No, the anti-magic shit. Oh, when you lower the chicken down, you don't notice anything different. Oh, you feel your connection with the chicken disappear. Oh. You just start talking. Oh, no. You can tell when you come down, all magical effects have nullified romeo what romeo is it just oh wait do you have handle animal

romeo is just a chicken um let me uh no, of course you don't. Highs or lows? Highs? Come in, Romeo. Romeo, come speak to me. Highs or lows? Lows.

Romeo? About halfway down, Romeo freaks the fuck out. I probably drop him, to be honest. You just drop him? In panic. Let's be real, lads. If I'm climbing down a rope with a chicken under my arm and the chicken's like,

I'm going to be like, Dead end. But Romeo... But chickens can, like, climb to safety. That's what they do. It'll glide. Romeo takes ten points of damage. It'll glide.

How many hit points does Romeo have? Why didn't he glide? He has, um, not many. Not enough. Is that an insta-kill? Romeo's on negative six. Is this okay? It's fine.

So, Gloom and Shane, you are both on the bottom. When, bang, splat. Gloom and Shane You are both at the bottom When Bang Splat Why didn't you glide mate Chickens can't glide Roosters glide to safety all the time Yes they can Not from that high

Yeah Bullshit Adam I'm gonna find you a video Of a rooster gliding Like Granted my knowledge of this is coming from Zelda, but still. Well, I grew up on a farm and we'd like, when we were cruel kids, like kind of throw the chickens into the air and then sort of watch them

as they'd sort of desperately flap and sort of, you know, slowly descend to the ground. It's not really gliding. It's more like. Yeah, flapping. It's more like trying to tread water as you're being sucked down a whirlpool. It's like doggy paddle. But in the air.

With wings from a chicken or a rooster. Because don't roosters, when they look on a farm, like the farmstead, and the rooster's at the top of the thing crowing. Yeah, it gets up high, Adam. And then it has to get down again.

It can do a little bit. I would say a chicken would fucking survive. From 12 meters? Yeah. Yeah, easy. I would break a leg at 12 meters. Yeah, but you're not flying. You're not flapping.

Neither is the chicken. It's falling with style. It's flapping. Exactly. It's flapping and I'm slowing its descent. Well, I made the roll for the chicken and it fucked up the roll. So there you go.

At a panic, I will say, look, it maybe flapped its wing, smacked its wing on the rope, got tangled and fell. Oh, man. Fuck. This road that you let down here hates that chicken so fucking much right now. I hate being questioned. Oh, no. Well, I'll give the chicken another roll, then.

No, no, no. No, no, no, no, no. It's up against the rope. It's fine. It's a dead chicken. Chicken roll. It takes five points of damage. Hey, Bambino.

And it's on negative one instead. There you go. Whilst you're here, could you re-roll for Lilip? You would not credit it, but I got a one. I didn't. I got a 14. Lilip.

Just an orc comes over, bang, dead again. Gotta. But alright, for the sake of the argument I gave the chicken another roll and it takes half

damage so it's negative one instead of negative six. Thank you. Alright. I'm happy. The chicken still hits the ground

bodily because it fell a height and chickens do not fly but they can fall with style. But dogs can look up. Yeah.

I don't actually know whether or not that's true. Arguably. Romeo why didn't you actually know whether or not that's true. Arguably. Romeo, why didn't you glide? Anyway, I hope that stretches out into an entire episode. Chicken hits the ground. Sound is splat.

Shane and Gloom, are you going to do anything about this? Try and give it a good inspection. Try and stabilize that chook, which is not the first time. Yeah, this chicken dies often. Chicken goes to negative two. You alright, chicken? Oh, I just pushed quite hard on it. Pushed a rib in and it popped out the other side. That's not good.

Maybe in a panic. For whatever reason, it's largely irrelevant. You also fall. You lose your grip on the rope. Romeo! Do you land on the chicken? You take three points of damage. Putting me at a healthy 12.

That was my max HP last time, so I'm happy. The chicken goes to negative three. God damn it. I can't lose this chicken, guys. Now Anton and I assume you're helping as well. Anton and Shane are both trying to save us. She pushes up the weight.

My chicken. I need to heal him. You pushes up the weight. My chicken. My chicken. Negative. I need to heal him. No. You're just bumbling around next to it, trying to keep it alive desperately. You're like, bandages, bandages, get bandages. Just wrap it. Oh.

What if I just, oh, no. Look, look, it's a chicken. How hard can this be? One on that one. I'm pretty sure it's, oh, never mind. Like, it's healthy. In our panic, if we, like, get up to move out of the way,

just stand on it. All right, all right. You stabilized the chicken. Okay, good, good. Tack him into my shirt or whatever. Healthy negative five. It's good, it's good. He's not dying anymore.

Hey, it ended up... Anyway. He would have died. Okay. It was died. Okay. It was good. Anyway, Squim, it's your turn now. You have not had to climb a rope in this adventure. Perhaps you're feeling anxious.

Perhaps you're worried. Should you be? Well, on the last 20 feet of rope, you're fine. Hey! No incidents for anyone else. Just me and my chicken. I land like a badass and say, keep your eyes peeled for that slippery fuck from before.

I thought you were going to be like, I land and be like, keep the change. Can I do that again? I feel the animal. Yeah, sure. I land and I say, keep the change. I really flub the line from the bet which change?

Gloom's pretty impressed Gloom's loving you are you and Gloom have you been together for a while? yeah I asked Gloom like hey so Gloom you uh no I don't okay so what would you like to do? Yeah, I asked Gloom, like, hey, so Gloom, you are? No, I don't.

Okay, so what would you like to do? Head for the light, I guess. Head towards the light, just be ready for that. Right. So just, I don my armor again. Can I detect magic in case there's a certain halfling invisible kind of marching around that I might be able to sense? Oh, yeah. How does magic work now

yeah uh you try to cast a spell but you usually you're able to draw from this inner wellspring of magic when you search yourself for that inner wellspring you can't find it it's gone no no i like can i try and cast something as well same difference same yeah same thing you look for the weave of the magic around you or the innate wild magic around you. You reach out to try and pull at it, but it's not there. Mm, mon dieu. All I am without my magic

is a rubbish halfling wizard, Morningstar. Oh, so you got weapons? Lightmace, crossbow. Morningstar, crossbow. Glass shiv. All right. I'm mad. All right, boys, let's just be prepared. You start heading towards the light? Yep. Glass shiv. All right. I'm mad. All right, boys.

Let's just be prepared. You start heading towards the light? Yep. First things first. Now, usually I make a point of establishing this very early on. I actually failed to, and it's a big oversight because it's going to be important now. Okay. So I need to know what everyone's height and weight are.

Uh-oh. Oh, right. So, halflings. Yep. So I need to know what everyone's height and weight are Uh oh So Halflings Average height is about 3 feet So give or take a couple inches 2 and a half So wait 2 feet 6 inches

I'm very sure I want it to be quite small And they usually weigh about 30 pounds um i imagine myself to be a little chubby so let's say like 30 32 something like that 32 yep uh i wrote that in for shame actually tiny but powerful let me fix that i'm very small but that's all right. So, humans will often weigh anywhere from 120 to like 150 to 250 pounds. Okay. 250 being kind of obese. Well, fat.

I figured what? Knight, fighter, kind of tough. You got that muscle weight. Muscle weight. So, whatever. So, I reckon what? 5 foot 11? Yeah.

And then, I don't know. What's muscle? I don't know. Kilos. I'm guessing like what 100 kilos of muscle would be kind of I don't know kilos to pounds

Whatever We'll go to Go to fat end What's the middle? What's the range? Mid range would be like 200 pounds. 200 pounds. Done.

All right. Perfect. 200 pounds of fucking Aussie muscle. And similar for you, Swim. So roughly the same proportions. 150 to 250 pounds. 150 being kind of thin and weedy with 250 being fat. I'm probably 180.

I imagine I'm kind of slender, kind of an elf-y, magic-y dude. Oh, yeah. And I'm probably about six foot. Six foot? Yeah. Exactly? Why not? I just want to be that extra inch taller.

No, that's fine. I think that's going to bode poorly for me. Being tiny and weightless, that's what you want. Tiny and heavy. Fuck, I should have gone real... I should have been you want. Tiny and heavy. Fuck, I should have gone real... I should have went like 2.6 and 100. So, as you make your way towards the light,

highs or lows? Lows. Highs or lows? Highs. And highs or lows? Lows. Lows, highs, lows. Shane and Scrim, you're fine as you're making your way Hooray

I mean just Gee whiz hurrah I'm in for it Anton You sink a foot into the sand Your fellows Have become stuck. Do I know about the sand?

Can I do a sand check? There doesn't seem to be anything magical about the sand. Just a lot of sand. You try to drag him up. Pull you in. Everyone gets it. Yep. You sink a foot.

You grab him and try to pull him up, but the sand underneath your feet does not give you any leverage. You just sink into the sand instead. Well, now we're both fucked. So both of you are... Hang on, wait. Oh, no. Oh, no.

I'm going to kill you both. And... I know that you mean you're going to try and get us and get trapped yourself, but I like that you just come up with a crossbow finally got him one foot one foot

gloom do you know anything about this oh highs or lows for gloom anyone gloom sinks a foot I've only got one and a half feet left I was about to say so can we still move? you can still move

very hamperedly but you can still move I'm going to try and struggle up can I pull myself out? grab my legs pull my legs off Shane and Anton you are both Pull my legs off. Shane and Anton, you are both unable to pull yourselves any farther out of the sand.

What does Bear Grylls do when he's trapped in the sand? He like shifts. There's a move you got to do. Yeah. Red. Halloween. Poopy. Slowly these dice will all get names.

Anton. Huh? You spot. slowly these dice will all get names anton huh you spot you look to you at some point you're just like looking around like what are we gonna do you scan around and you spot all around now that you're closer to the source of the light you still can't see the source of the light but all around the way to the source of the light are like here and there you spot like a hand sticking out of the sand like the face of some creature desiccated and ancient poking out of the

sand and you spot very near you guys a very familiar looking black glove poking out of the sand about child sized you have to describe it child-sized. Well, halflings are about the size of toddlers.

I mean, you're not wrong, but fuck. Okay, okay. So you're a foot down. That's like half your body. I know, that's what I'm saying. I've got a foot and a half left. Any number to do with Anton is a small number. Okay, okay.

We have to... Let's not freak around. We have a plank or something, something flat. If you lie on your belly, isn't that how it works? Isn't that for like ice? I mean, I do have rope I could throw to you guys, but I don't know if that's just going to drag me down. It is always a risk.

I throw a rope to Anton because he's the lighter one and try and see if together... Is Gloom stuck as well? Yeah. Gloom's a foot down in as well. Just go yourself. Do you have any buffing skills?

Bye, guys. You can't do magic. Oh, you can't, can you? Fuck. Yeah, I throw a rope to Anton and try and get him out. So. If we all just drown in quicksand, that's the end of the quest.

This is genius. You know how I said when Shane tried to do this, though he found no leverage underneath his feet? You try to stabilize yourself as much as you can, but when the rope goes taut for pulling, Squim, you sink a foot. Oh, crap. Okay. This is fine.

All right. Look, we can't cast any spells. No, your magic reserves are gone. Right, right. Well, I guess should we just walk towards the light? We don't appear to be sinking. We're just kind of stuck. Yeah.

We're just tampered. What if I try and real focus on just lifting a leg up? Like real focus. Just get in on that. Like kind of shift some of that leg sandal. I'm sunk. There's another foot out my arm. Yeah, okay.

You sink another foot. Dang. Okay. Okay. Okay. Everybody can. You sink another foot. Dang. Okay, okay, okay. Everybody can, don't be panic. Is it? Anton, I mean, Romeo's not.

Romeo, you are clutching. So he's with you. Do you want to let him? Put him on the sand above me. He's a chicken. He's so light. Also, he's dead. How's the lozenge?

Oh, he's dead. Lozenge. No. Also he's dead Oh he's dead Close He's a killer chuck God damn 86 So everyone I moved the board and I moved the dice So you know that's what I rolled So no one here thinks I've got it in for this chicken

Which I technically do When A chicken isn't taller than a foot surely right So no one here thinks I've got it in for this chicken Which I technically do When A chicken isn't taller than a foot, surely, right? No, sure The chicken is submerged It freaks out and it sinks into the sand I want to try and get him out But that's just going to sink me

Potentially Am I near him? Well, anyone can move to him Oh, so we can move? You can Well, very hamperedly, yeah You can move through the sand still Alright, I'm almost gonna

Alright, I Yeah, alright I'm trying to help him get that chook How's the lows? Lows Lows? Oh, God You're three feet in

Bullshit Fucking hell You get to him,. You're three feet in. Fucking hell. You get to him, though. You're there. You can search through the sand to look for him. Okay. You find him. Okay.

He's in the sand and he's freaking out. You can see him struggling and freaking out and shit like that. What do you want to do? Pick him up. You want to try and drag him up? No, don't. Don't worry about it. He's not worth it. Have we considered the possibility that we're working with like inverse dynamic gravity?

Every time we try and go up, we pull down. That's because every time we, if he tries to pull the chicken up, he's pushing himself down and there is no... Or are we talking like... So if we push the chicken down, does it push you up? That might be the seesaw logic. Why are you pushing him so well?

Shane? Yeah? You are two feet in sand. Clever boy! But you push the chicken three feet down. You are standing on Romeo. After a couple of moments, the unstableness of the chicken uh because he's you know struggling stuff like that or just stops do i go down a level

that's chilling you will lose experience points at the end of this adventure god damn it um so i say romeo romeo where for art thou Romeo? Buried in some fucking sand. I'm so sorry. Have you found him? He's, um... Lie. No. I think he's gone.

Oh, did you lie? Yeah. I guess that's... I haven't found him. You haven't told the full truth. I haven't told the full truth. I'll go Magmarad. He's killed my chicken.

You saw the actions of the body. You saw his body above the sand. You can put two and two together. I'd like to go over to him and try and climb him. Wade my way. Highs. Wade my way through the sand to try and climb him. You're two feet down.

I am? Yeah. You get through. Okay, so that's fine. Your head is poking above the sand. Wait, am I close enough to Anton that he can push me down a foot? I'll take a foot to give you

back one, because that's half your body. He's actually next to Shane now. Are you waiting for permission or just going? I'm just going. He scrambles up you. Oh, he scrambled up me? That's all right.

Can he, though? Good news, bad news. Bad news? Bad news? Yes, please. Shane, you go down three feet. Hey, all right. So you're five feet down.

Oh, lordy. Anton, you are one foot up. Okay. Guys. Shane, you're like up to your sort of high chest. Am I still holding the dead chicken? You're standing on the dead chicken. Why do I just keep pushing the dead chicken down? You're kind of standing on it.

It's hard to do that at this point. Can we... Guys, why don't we... We clearly need to push down on something. We should push down on our possessions. We could take... We've got backpacks full of shit, right? We can take that off and use that to push ourselves up.

Right? Yeah. Does that work? That's fine. Wait, hold on. But also, you said there's corpses around us. Can I do a check to see, like... There's bodies in the distance.

To get to any of them, though, you've got to move. Okay, so between around us, is there anything in the sand that we could possibly use for leverage? Or as far as we're concerned, that was very impressive elbow clicking. That's crazy. God, that was like impressively gross. I can't help it. My elbows just do that now.

Yeah, is there anything around? Like maybe we're meant to go inside? Gloom says maybe there isn't a puzzle to this. Maybe this is just meant to kill people. You have very negative gloom.

I mean it makes sense. It does make sense. So let's get the fuck out of it. We use our possessions to push ourselves up but like It makes sense. It does make sense. So let's get the fuck out of it. Yeah. We use our possessions to push ourselves up, but like just to keep ourselves... Tell me what you're using.

All of them. One after the other. You just take off your backpack and lay it down or are you using like specific items? I'm using my bedroll. I'm using my bedroll too. We don't need to fucking sleep. I pretty much only have a bedroll and a backpack

as things I can conceivably use. First off, Shane, what are you going to use? Bedroll, because it's the only thing I really have Mark it off, because it's gone now Even if you fail, it's gone And there is a chance of failure I imagine so So bedroll, is that it? For the first chance?

Yeah, just bedroll? Yeah Anton, bedroll? Yeah. All right, that's cool. Anton? Same. Bedroll and... Bedroll. Bedroll, all right. Bedroll's first. Is this going to be a sandy death for our heroes?

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