D&D is For Nerds - Buried Beneath #6 The Entrance

Episode Date: April 8, 2017

In which our heroes break the seal. Shane wants to put all that on the “Maybe Pile”, Antonmakes a camel based suggestion that fucks the rest of the party and Squim is the only onepaying attention ...to the NPCs.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: sanspantsradio@gmail.com 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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Starting point is 00:00:00 Sands Pants Radio, Sans Pants Plus. It's very similar to Patreon. In fact, you can use your Patreon login on the site if you'd like. But to reflect the new service, we've made some changes to the reward structure. And while the $5 tier remains mostly unchanged, for $10 a month, you'll be getting a heap of bonus content in the future. The first is titled The Plumbing Boys Play Slash Ruin Sunless Citadel, as well as suggest a topic for any of the shows in the Sandspantz network.
Starting point is 00:00:53 And for $25 a month, you get to suggest an NPC for Adam to use in future campaigns and a D&Ds for Nerds season pass, which means as soon as we have a campaign ready, you'll be the first ones to hear it in its entirety. Just head to sanspantsplus.com and sign up today. Welcome to episode six of Buried Beneath, a D&D is for Nerds adventure. I'm Joel Zammett, and I'll be playing the part of Shane Nol. I'm Michael Shanks. I'll be playing the role of Squim Norton. And I am Jackson Bailey, and I'll be playing the part of Anton de Saussure. I'm Adam, and I'll be your dungeon master.
Starting point is 00:01:27 Previously. This creature is a sinister spectral figure robed in darkness. Bloom is struggling to get out of his sleeping bag. You charge onto the Shadow's hand, and as soon as you step onto it, you realize the mistake you have made. I forgot the saying.
Starting point is 00:01:44 No, but even if it wasn't there, why would you charge in? You realize the mistake you have made. I forgot the same mistake. No, but even if it was a bit, why would you charge in? Lilith looks you, Squim, in the eyes, rolls her eyes, and then charges in. I roll back, by the way. Are you aware of what this adventure is? You've started yourself out as a funny, happy-go-lucky motherfucker. Fantasy is awesome. Fantasy is cool.
Starting point is 00:02:05 It's a blast. Provide me with what is known as a compliment. All right. I mean, you could have been useful. I could have been. Now I will be a burden. You pack up camp, having just dealt with the dreaded Shadow Sand, and set off further into the desert.
Starting point is 00:02:23 The rest of the journey, it takes 11 days, not 10 days, but it goes uneventfully. Thank God. What a lovely uneventful few days, guys. A nice few days for me to just reflect, think about the choices I've made in my life. You've been silent for four days, like gazing off into the night sky.
Starting point is 00:02:42 Are you okay, Antonio? I notice you haven't touched any of your wine. I don't feel like drinking. Man, you get drunk so much more easily now. I know, but then, like, it's over. So, on the 11th day, who's leading the formation? I will be. I will be? No, no, I.
Starting point is 00:03:07 No, I will be. Shane, you're the first person to see it probably then. You see a tiny little building sticking up out of the sand. It's very noticeable because it's white marble just in the middle of this yellow sand desert. It looks like a, what would you call it? The Greek Parthenon, is it? With those, you know, those Greek pillars. Colosseum. Yeah, a little bit like that.
Starting point is 00:03:30 It's got that sort of a style to it. Corinthian pillars. Yeah. You're the first person to see it. And you can also tell from the way the sand around it is sort of shaped. This is obviously some giant pyramid that has just been covered by sand. It's impossible to tell the true size of this place but you fancy it to be big do we know what pyramids are yeah you know it's an old elven
Starting point is 00:03:51 architecture gloom looks up from his map he's changed out his wide brim hat for one of those you know like a helmet yeah he's got like shades coming around. He's also wearing a little bit of a safari suit. I'm not going to lie. Good, good. He looks up from his map and sees the jutting out little bit. And he says, yes, yes, that's it. That's it. Quickly, we must make haste to get there before nightfall.
Starting point is 00:04:18 What happens at nightfall? It gets cold. I want to be inside. Oh, okay. That makes sense. Fail. Your surveyor, how did he arrive here no no no the surveyor just passed through and saw it marked it on the map for me okay how far away
Starting point is 00:04:31 are we from the from the structure only an hour okay all right okay that's a bad face uh you need to make haste to get there so you need to you know whip your um with my camel sue, Lilip and Gloom cannot get any extra speed out of their camels. D-cards. Shane, you are unseated from your camel. Your camel does not appreciate being whipped one little bit and so rears backwards
Starting point is 00:04:58 and you fall off the back. You take no damage but you hit the ground with... No, no, no. You take no damage, but you hit the ground with... No, no, no. You take no damage, but it's a very unceremonious and unpleasant experience. Does this camel just keep going? Hi, Zolo. Fuck.
Starting point is 00:05:17 Jack. Hi. It might be the canary to any trap. What did you have on the camel? Oh no So much The camel runs Is it running towards the structure?
Starting point is 00:05:34 God damn it Heist It runs back the way you guys Raven Feebleman Raven Feebleman won't slow it down Can I quickly try and grapple it? Oh, we know it might actually. If it gets too heavy now.
Starting point is 00:05:49 Yeah, it'll be in the people. Before you do it, can I chase it? You're not faster than a camel. The other people on camels are fast. So, you hit the camel. Oh, got him. Weakening it. Oh, wow. It starts to slow down. It's still faster than you, however. So, the two people on camels are going to need to try and catch it.
Starting point is 00:06:07 We'll catch you away with camels. You can just say that you don't want to try, though. Don't feel like you're obligated. I feel like I've let the team down too many times. Yes, use your earthen thing. That'll murder the camel. It deals damage to the camel just letting you down. No, I'll chase it down.
Starting point is 00:06:24 I'm cool with a camel. Chase it down. Running. Fuck. Actually, no, I should do it like this. Fucking camel. Piss brown. I mean, piss yellow.
Starting point is 00:06:32 I'll do poo brown. Good ass. The camel's pulling away from you guys. Piss yellow. Oh, yeah, just same colors? Just same colors, yeah. All right, okay. Okay.
Starting point is 00:06:44 So the camel is obviously starting to feel the effects of negative six strength. And it's starting to slow down. And, Squim, you're able to catch it. You grab its lead and you pull it back. Nice. Pull it back and be like, you probably can... Did you lose something? As I go off, I'll smug like.
Starting point is 00:07:02 The camel, when you bring it back, collapses. It can't carry the weight anymore. Alright then. I realise my mistake. But they have lost nothing. That's true. I like, get my gear on it. In six days time, the camel will be better again. And um...
Starting point is 00:07:19 You can lay down it on the back camel and you can ride with me. Yeah, you shift some weight around. Yeah. It's fine. We do that. I don't have that much stuff on my camel, so. And you're a tiny boy. Yeah, that's fine.
Starting point is 00:07:30 Nighttime happens like a long time before you get to the structure. It was an hour away. It took you two hours to get there. Damn. But you are in the structure before it gets too cold, I guess. The sand is still warm from the previous day by the time that you're in. This level is entirely empty. It's just one large open area except for a single stone jutting out in the dead center.
Starting point is 00:07:57 On the stone, it's just packed tight with writing. Absolutely tiny, but all over the stone. Well, if only somebody could speak elven oh shit i do do i have a look i look at the writing and see if i can distinguish what it says speak friend and enter speak friend and enter okay you can identify one you know that there are a lot of different languages here it's not not just Elven. One of the languages looks like an archaic and ancient form of Elven that you cannot read. Is there halfling, dwarven, or common on it?
Starting point is 00:08:32 I'll try and read it too. You see archaic versions of both of those languages, but you also cannot decipher them. Is there common on it? No. Common was not a language when this stone was carved. Is there a picture of the rapper Common on it? Yeah
Starting point is 00:08:47 I'm like Hey Lilip My homegirl, you're an elf You're full elf, you're like double the elf of me Can you check out what this means? She can't even tell that there's elven there Then the archaeologist goes over
Starting point is 00:09:04 I just assumed he's useless He gets to do nothing He's going to break the seal He's going to be like I don't know He's an actual archaeologist The seals again Here's a look at it And he says
Starting point is 00:09:22 Gosh it's not just one language it's many languages which a couple of you are like I already fucking knew that I go adoy and roll my eyes at Lilip and hope she does it back
Starting point is 00:09:33 hi's all those hi's she does not appreciate damn it mocking your history and her history yeah I'm double mocking mine because I'm also half human
Starting point is 00:09:43 and it's common it's not i kick some sand and annoyance well there's a lot of sand here yeah a lot of delicious he says it's the same message repeated over and over again in a lot of ancient dialects yeah he reads aloud traveler you stand upon a place known as Alapomanda, secret place in my tongue. We have taken great care and detail to inscribe this stone in every major language of our day to deliver this one message. We have buried beneath here something we are not proud of, something evil. We have used every power we can to ensure that this evil
Starting point is 00:10:25 does not escape, and we beg to you, please, do not disturb what we have buried beneath here. I say we break the seal tomorrow. Uh, uh, let's just, uh,
Starting point is 00:10:40 let's just, uh, put a, we'll put that on the shelf, maybe pile, uh, maybe, like, do you reckon, We'll put that on the shelf Maybe pile Maybe like Do you have any idea what it could be? Is that a deaf bird? It's just a warning They don't like their tombs disturbed
Starting point is 00:10:56 But trust me This one's been fairly specific There's a lot of languages And a big warning It just seems like I know I heard what you said But did you hear what you said? You know when you read a book out loud
Starting point is 00:11:10 And you're like, blah blah blah You're not paying attention, you just read it But did you read it? Gloom turns to you And for the first time ever You see something in his eyes Determination and a steely resolve How much money do you want?
Starting point is 00:11:24 I don't know if it's about money, mate. One million gold. All right. That's a lot of gold. Yeah, well, that's expensive needs. Highs or lows? Lows. I will negotiate with the university.
Starting point is 00:11:37 A million gold may be out of the reach, but I can promise you more gold than you have ever seen. This finding is big. It's very important all right gloom no matter what i say you're gonna break the seal aren't you the matter is yes yeah i figured as much look i guess you probably need some yeah i prefer to be there to fight whatever the fuck we're gonna unleash. Look at it like this, fellas. If we get down there and it's like, oh, you know, this big liver that if I pull will cause destruction, we can
Starting point is 00:12:12 in the head of him. This big what? Liver? Like a liver. Not like a liver that you pull. A liver? Like in my body? No, no, no. Like a A mechanism A buton
Starting point is 00:12:28 A buton Like a spell That if he reads out loud It causes destruction For the entire realm Oh right right right Word down there We can stop him reading it
Starting point is 00:12:40 Oh yeah Oh I get you Yes A pool If there was something A pool A pool of li. A pool. If there was something. A pool. To pool. A pool of livers.
Starting point is 00:12:48 A pool on your shoes. I guess that's where the seals would live. A pool deliver. Yeah. To break the seal. Are you following what they're saying? I can't understand. No, I'm still just like kicking sand and annoyed at Lillip for not like.
Starting point is 00:13:03 Barely paying attention. For not being a mate. Yeah. All right. Look, mate. Actually, you know what? You're the only one kind of paying attention to Lilith. You can see she has a, her eyes are wide with awe.
Starting point is 00:13:14 She seems very, not happy, but very, very like pleased to be here. Santa Harifish. I don't trust Lilith. I say quickly to my boys. You flip fucking quick that's true that's good no I mean like she's cute but like
Starting point is 00:13:33 I'm not yeah I mean I'm still going for it but give me the thumbs up what you mean I'm just like it's like watch watch your backs I know she's healing
Starting point is 00:13:42 us for now yeah I mean it's all right for now. All right, look. Yeah, okay. I guess there's nothing. You're going to do it anyway. So you may as well have some. I must.
Starting point is 00:13:54 This is the biggest find of our generation. And I've lived for hundreds of years. I turned to Lilith and I'm like, so you're like a legit elf. Like, do you know anything about this place? Do you have rumors, myths? I know neither of us would be related to the elves that once lived here. They were a very different strain of elves, if you will. They lived here a long time ago for a long time, but there was a war, I think.
Starting point is 00:14:19 Something happened and they had to do a mass exodus. Was it just elves? Yes. Our people used to dominate this entire continent. But now we are relegated simply to the sidelines. Sure, sure. Oh, I'm getting a gross vibe from that. I think to myself.
Starting point is 00:14:38 So that makes it super weird. Germany will rise again. The elves will rise. Yeah. So that makes it super weird that there is like other dialects in the seal, right?
Starting point is 00:14:54 If it was just elves, then why would it not be just elven written there? It was... It's very unlikely that any creature other than an elf made this.
Starting point is 00:15:04 This is very elven in nature or their particular brand of elven in nature. I think maybe they just wanted to warn anyone against grave robbing or something. Everyone. I thought it was important enough to warn everyone. But I'm getting a million dollars. You were not promised a million dollars. First off, two things. You were not promised a million, and you were not promised dollars.
Starting point is 00:15:29 Whatever, 100,000 gold, whatever I'm getting. All right, so you're going to open up the seal. Tomorrow, yes. First light. Do we know anything of what potentially might be down there at all? After 50,000 years? Only skeletons? Like a great evil maybe the dead can i detect magic without his knowledge
Starting point is 00:15:51 on gloom you can't detect magic without his knowledge okay wait till he goes to sleep requires you to say words and do an arcane gesture and the words aren't like what's everyone doing tonight just like sounds innocuous. And the hand gesture is kind of like opening it up in a shrug. No, there's a magical language that you must speak. Yeah, just do it while he's going to sleep. Just creep over his bed and be like, I'm just going to cast the detect magic on the door.
Starting point is 00:16:16 Yeah. Whilst we're here, I might just actually do that. Like, sincerely, let's just start. I'm just going to detect magic on the surroundings, on the door. on the door. Do you announce to anyone that you're about to do that? Hey, I'm detecting magic. Look at me. He said, picking up on Adam's cue.
Starting point is 00:16:35 So therefore they're not going to suspect it when I kind of do it under my breath later. Gloom turns to you and says, I would advise against that, my friend. And I say, oh, would you? And I cross my arms. The magic here is very powerful. Trying to see its aura might blind you. I do like my eyes. Not permanently, but it'll hurt.
Starting point is 00:16:56 Oh, well, fuck it. Let's go. And I chant the ancient inscription of Yippee-ki-yay and go for it. I do it. Well, as said, you blind yourself for like a minute. The magical orders here are powerful. Very powerful. Guys, did anything awesome happen in the last 60 seconds that I missed?
Starting point is 00:17:18 Not really. We only watched you as you reeled around the crib and everyone got out their dicks and was just like, ah. you as you're reeled around the crib and everyone got out their dicks and was just like yeah it was just uh yeah the the what are you yeah the half elf in our party got blind and then just grabbed their eyes and yelled a bit that was the last minute or so that was very sarcastic thing to say to someone who just got blinded it's only a minute you know i'm an elf i probably the half elf i probably a little light a minute to a half-elf is like what? A blip Just a blip But also in my blindness I had like a premonition of my ancestors
Starting point is 00:17:50 Being like, don't do it And so I'm a bit spooked Get out of here, man I mean, sure, I guess that happens Ah, God Grandpappy Don't fuck that dame Well, I'm here, grandpappy, no No, you're grandpappy, don't fuck that demon.
Starting point is 00:18:06 Well, I'm here. Grandpappy, no. No, your grandpappy. Oh, no, you were saying to your grandpappy, don't fuck that demon. Is that how you think warlocks happen? Yes. Well, no. And half dragons and half elves.
Starting point is 00:18:17 It's all about magic boning. Yeah. I'm surprised there's not more classes. Same with the snake people. I just assumed someone fucked a snake. Yeah. Like a wizard? Why would you think that? There are not snake people in our world. Wiz just assume someone fucked a snake. Yeah. Like a wizard? Why would you think that? There are not snake people in our world.
Starting point is 00:18:27 Wizards are horny and curious. Well, a person could, but we have no evidence that someone's fucked a snake. Yeah, but if a person fucks a snake in our world, we're not going to get snake people. Well, yeah, but we're not wizards. But in D&D we are. I've seen that documentary Zoo, and I don't think centaurs are real. I don't know that documentary. People fucking horses?
Starting point is 00:18:46 And then one of them dies because he gets fucked to death by a horse. Oh, it's a rough time. How do you get a horse that into it? Oh, Mr. Hand. Oh, Mr. Hand. Yeah. Wasn't he like an aero physicist or some shit?
Starting point is 00:19:01 Yeah, that's why he didn't go to the doctor. By the way, after this journey I'm feeling like I'm really getting to know you guys i want to reveal a personal secret which is that my my name squim is an acronym and each letter stands for something and the m on it stands for mr hands i was like gotta write it down no i'd also like to say that mr hands is also an acronym that stands for something else, because my family, we have fractal acronymous names. Every name tells one hell of a story. Boston out some nice words. Fractal?
Starting point is 00:19:31 That is good. We have a night time. Don't pick it up. Well, I mean, travelling during the day has been going bad for us. I think we're about to probably go into a dungeon. Yeah, I feel like we can just nap around here. Gloom? Do you have any books or something Today's been going bad for us. But then again, we're about to probably go into a dungeon. Yeah, I feel like we can just nap around here. Like it's gloom.
Starting point is 00:19:46 Mate, do you have any books or something about this area? There are no books about this area. That's why this writing is so important. So we're literally going in as blind as old Squim there. I like to imagine you're having this conversation while he's rolling on the ground yeah well yes of course we're going to be documenting everything as we go
Starting point is 00:20:11 shit alright that's great you stay remember stay with Anton at all times Anton will protect or vice versa who has more hit points?
Starting point is 00:20:22 let's find out you do not for real? he has more hit points? Let's find out. Who? You do not. For real? He has 14 hit points. Yeah, so you two just stay together so we can just kind of cover that area. I can just cast a spell of darkness everywhere we go and you can spend the whole adventure just like that. He's also like half of your level. He's two levels.
Starting point is 00:20:40 And neither of them are combat levels. I'm a weak lad. Naps and then head in the next day gloom gets you all to gather sort of in a semi-circle as he puts his hands on the seal which is the big stone thing in case that wasn't obvious he puts his hands on the seal and starts saying some ancient archaic and powerfully magical words i'm just shaking my head. Anton, no. Gloom, no. Squim, no. Sorry.
Starting point is 00:21:09 Yeah, neither of you know what these words are. You can hear the magic in the words, but what they could mean and what they are is completely foreign to you. After he's finished, a massive crack or rift appears in the seal, and the seal breaks neatly in two beneath it is a hole just into the ground denzel i've got a bad feeling about this gloom and lila break out some sets of rope and grappling hooks um i i use my low light vision and go to the edge of the of the hole and just see if i can make out some some anything immediately. Your low light vision allows you to see twice as far as a regular human in conditions
Starting point is 00:21:48 of low light. I'm assuming it's lowly lit in there. It's not like some techno disco wonderland. The only light down there is the light that's coming in from the hole. You can see it's a roughly square room. There's sand piled up all over the place.
Starting point is 00:22:04 It looks like sand has been slowly coming in, or maybe, you know, coming in through a wall or something like that. Hard to tell. You can see three doorways. Let me put out the little thing for you. It's happening! We're using the little what do you call them?
Starting point is 00:22:20 Matts. The platforms. So, it's a square room with three doors. Okay. And you'd be dropping down from there. So,'s a square room with three doors. Okay. So like doors coming out of either side and... Yeah. Like the left, right and forward. Three doors, one on each on a different wall.
Starting point is 00:22:34 All right. So considering the warning, I'm going to say this place probably trapped up the wazoo. So don't take any steps. Look at Anton. That you don't need... That someone else hasn't already. Yeah?
Starting point is 00:22:46 Yes, I understand. Adam? So get back a rooster. What's the go? It takes 24 hours. Ah, Mugus. I was like, just keep sending him through. Also, every time he dies, you lose experience points.
Starting point is 00:23:01 Oh, jeez. You could die doing that. Spear through jeez. You could die. Spear through his head. It's traumatic. Spear through my head. You have a mental connection. It's very traumatic when it dies. We should have brought just other chickens. You should have.
Starting point is 00:23:15 Just a whole mess of chickens. Yeah, how well. Lower a camel down. Who's got the cool spinning thing around their head? This boy. Hey, nice. That's good. I mean, it hasn't helped me fucking once, but still.
Starting point is 00:23:27 It's fine. All right. We got torches here? Yeah. All right. We'll clamber down. Yeah, I'll go first. You should have, yeah, torches in your equipment.
Starting point is 00:23:36 So you're going to climb down? Yep. You slide down. You're in the middle of the room. Would you like to explore or wait for other people? I will explore. The three doors are each made out of a thick heavy sandstone they have a like a handle or very basic looking brass
Starting point is 00:23:53 sort of latch i would say more than a handle that you could open to open and close them beyond that the room is pretty barren except for the sand. You do, however, feel this heavy just feeling. You feel heavier here. Just the smell of death is in the air. Oh, good. That's what you want. Smells like death, boys. Got it.
Starting point is 00:24:15 Sand. All good. Good. Sweet. The rest of you climb down? Yep. Yeah, well, could I detect magic down there before I drop down? I just love detecting magic.
Starting point is 00:24:25 You're just going to blind yourself. Oh, shit, no, no, you're right. I forget. I don't detect magic. Shut down the hole. No, you actually probably could, because it was just the seal, which has been broken down. So you can try to detect magic.
Starting point is 00:24:38 Yeah, it's been kissed by a rose. Yeah. Been kissed by a rose. That song makes me think about lighthouses And I don't know why It doesn't make you think of Batman forever Yeah same It should Shit we're beautiful
Starting point is 00:25:03 Yeah that's a good signal Aren't we just fucking delight? Guys, we should start a band. We should. You. The humdingers. You detect a faint aura of necromancy just all over the place. There's some other types of magic that you can detect.
Starting point is 00:25:18 Conjuration, which is summoning magic. So not just to summon a creature, but also to make water or something like that. Okay, cool. Who wants to climb down next? I will. It's a long climb down, just letting you know. That's fine. I see you next.
Starting point is 00:25:31 What did we say, mate? You have already gone down. Would it be safer because you're small to climb on my back and I can go down the rope and we go down together? Would it, Adam? Who knows? Except Adam. I'll play it safe and I'll wait for you to go down first.
Starting point is 00:25:45 All right. You get down alright. I'll wait for everyone to go down and then I will go down last. But then you're alone. Watching as just an arrow hits me. Lilip just repels down like it ain't a fucking thing. Lilip rules.
Starting point is 00:26:00 I'm back on board the Lilip train, guys. I don't trust her. She's the the best i don't trust her at all nah great gloom nearly slips but at the last minute he's able to catch himself and he doesn't fall i'm gonna climb down be at the base just to if need be catch a little child come on come on how Come on Come on How? Why? Am I just not designed for anything? I'm ready So, you need to go down 60 feet of rope
Starting point is 00:26:38 About halfway, about 30 feet You realise Not you realise, sorry You have no hands Oh no But halfway down The rope burn that you are getting is simply Too much
Starting point is 00:26:54 And you just Have to let go You fall 30 feet I'm down there prepared Already ready with my arms open up because I figured this was going to happen. How? Okay, so good news, bad news.
Starting point is 00:27:09 Good news. Good news is you can't critical on a fall like this. Does him catching me help? It spreads the damage out between the two of you. Well, that's something. So both of you take six points in damage. Guess who's on half the hit points? You.
Starting point is 00:27:26 Oh, God. You can't do anything. I'm useless. I have one last potion of moderate wounds. No, no, no. A cure of moderate is kind of overkill. I just wonder. I'll give you the cure light wound potions.
Starting point is 00:27:44 You actually probably shouldn't drink any healing right now. Why? Because it's kind of a waste for any healing. Yeah. Wait till you're down like one. Actually, you know what? Lillip, she has some level zero spells. It's only a hit point each, but she's not using them for anything else.
Starting point is 00:27:58 Cool. Good. Healed up. You recover five hit points. I'll take it. Eleven's just as good. She has one more, but she's saving that. Just in case.
Starting point is 00:28:09 All right, Gloom. There's three doors. Which one? Gloom looks at each of the doors in turn and says, I don't know. You lead the way. We're exploring this entire place regardless. All right.
Starting point is 00:28:22 Is there any markings on each one? No, they're barren. All right. For what it's worth, turning to the one wall of the room that doesn't have a door, is there anything of significance on that? Good idea. Like I said, like a map that says, like, all of these doors suck except this one. You are here.
Starting point is 00:28:41 You move aside some sand and you do see a very pretty mural. It's not of anything in particular, just a bunch of elves standing around. It's nice worksmanship, but the years have not been kind to it. Lilip, what do you make of this? It's pretty, like you. You say that? I say that. Highs or lows?
Starting point is 00:29:02 Highs. Because your love has taken me higher, Lilip. You probably evil... You notice she doesn't say anything, but you notice she blushes when you say that. You're in. I'm detecting magic in her heart. Barely a pun.
Starting point is 00:29:20 Yeah, I would say it's not even barely a pun. Which it straight up isn't anyway okay so wait wait it's a it's a mural of elves standing around just yeah it's just a nice pretty picture of presumably or possibly the um it's a self-portrait of some kind do i recognize any of the faces 50 000 years ago you would not know elves areves are long-lived, but not that long. Cool. Roll a d6. And we'll do it.
Starting point is 00:29:47 One, two, green. Five. Go to the brown. All right. We'll call that the door to your left. Yes. Cool. So you open that one, and that leads you into a short corridor with another door at the end.
Starting point is 00:30:01 Okay. All right. Everyone just wait. I'm just going to walk down the corridor. Take that damage. With my shield out. Highs or lows? Oh, highs.
Starting point is 00:30:10 Oh, highs, whatever. Okay, you step on a plate. Yep. Click. It goes in. You hear very quickly like a something in a wall happening. Yep. And then it doesn't come out.
Starting point is 00:30:23 A spear, a single spear comes out halfway but the trap is so old that it's broken all right just break that spear break the spiral clever do you now have a spear you have like half a spear hey it's something break that spear like. It's more like just a long dagger that you have. Half a dagger? Not what I said. Half a dagger is like a shaving implement. Yes? I look at the floor.
Starting point is 00:30:55 Shane's already stood on a plate that was clearly a button. Are there similar pressure pads throughout the rest of the floor? The workmanship is very good. Even with your keen elven eyes you would be hard pressed to find other ones can i can i spider walk and climb across the walls to get to the door oh clever you do that you climb along the wall you get to the door on the other end sick you spider would you like to open it i'm gonna open the door um all right you don't want me if i die tell my i'm just single, Lilith. It's fine.
Starting point is 00:31:29 And then I... Open the door? Yeah, I... There's no right decision. I mean, actually, no, I'm not. I'm going to wait because you're going to have to come across anyhow eventually. Yeah, so I just go over there and- You and Kano know what the trap's on the way.
Starting point is 00:31:46 Oh, okay. Have a look-see-in. But everybody knows I can spider walk, so. No, it's good as. When he knows the corridor is safe, Gloom comes in as well. He's super- You can tell he's very fascinated by this entire place, super curious as to what's going on.
Starting point is 00:31:59 I hand him the half dagger. Yeah? He takes it. He puts it in his backpack. Thank you, he says. No, he says. So this room is very similar to the last one. It's filled with a lot of sand
Starting point is 00:32:12 all over the floor. You can tell actually you can tell it's perfectly safe. You can tell it's super good. I'm not allowed. Black. I'll be yellow then. You can both. You're both able to work out this used to be some sort of set of living quarters you fancy not nice ones
Starting point is 00:32:32 though all of the beds here look very simple and barren well what's left of the beds i should say the years have not been kind to this place and a lot of it is rotten and destroyed we have a bit of a investigation of those beds and everything. Is there any other doors or anything in this room? No, this room only has the one door in and out. As you're searching around, Gloom comes in properly as well and he says, there must be slave quarters. Oh, fascinating, fascinating.
Starting point is 00:32:58 Can I come in afterwards? Yeah, everyone can move into this room. There he goes. Hello, I am Ursa here. You all have a little look around. Yeah. You find nothing of consequence. Gloom takes stuff from all over the fucking joint and just pockets it.
Starting point is 00:33:14 Anything he thinks is interesting. Yeah. But you find nothing worthwhile. Are there doors in this room? No, just the one that was in and out. There's nothing in this room. We get a bit of a good search for, like, you know, a gloom right. Write some notes, the slave quarters.
Starting point is 00:33:28 Yeah. He writes down furiously. All right, sick. Well, that's one more room down. Only the entire rest of the dungeon to go. And for that, you'll need to find out next time on Buried Beneath, a D&Dist for Nerds adventure. Thanks for listening.
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