D&D is For Nerds - Cult & Roses Chapter 4: A Sunken Temple

Episode Date: June 20, 2026

After learning more about worship of the ocean deity Ehellia; the Cult of Salt and Sail "dedicated" to her; and the Cup of True Passage, a sacred relic for Ehellia worshipers that the cult is literall...y willing to kill for. Tyke Baphammer suggests they steal the relic as a bargaining chip with the cult, Ephraim Red explains the Monty Hall problem to their companions, and Sticks sends her beloved fish companion Twigs to scout an underwater temple. Are our heroes wise to act so antagonistly towards both friend and foe? Find out!If you want to hear more of Ellie Morris and Henry Shields go check out the Hell or High Rollers Podcast!And if you're still wanting to pledge for the Jarren's Outpost Board Game you can right here! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Fairburn Point is a city famous for two things, fish and coal. It is famous for these two because that is all they export, because people born in Fairburn Point tend to spend their entire lives here, and people who travel to Fairbarn Point don't tend to leave. It is also the only major city in the nation of Kandor to not be connected via the King's Road, which is how they prefer it. As far as they are concerned, fish and coal goes out, And in exchange, nothing disturbs their solitude.
Starting point is 00:00:32 A temple priest steps forward. If you have any questions, if you wish for a baptism, I can help you. We are here to have Plymerton baptized. Yes. Okay. If you want, you may, you know, think a little, take in the atmosphere. I will show it off to you. It shows the vibe.
Starting point is 00:00:52 Great. Come, come. Pause upon seas, takes you from like station to station. Most of what they do here is blessing people before they go on a journey But there are other ceremonies There are like regular baptisms like for children being baptized into the church There's like they perform kind of rights of the dead as well here as well It's not as busy as AOR was but it you know there are a few people here
Starting point is 00:01:18 Is there anywhere I can see a chalice of any kind And if I can't see one I'll just ask this guy Yeah, whatever you don't see a chalice no Yeah um Because of you're blind You don't find You get no... I'm touching everything
Starting point is 00:01:31 I'm touching everything My hands are just going crazy I was given to understand that there was a relic of some kind that I was quite looking forward to seeing A sort of chalice You look for the cup of through passage Yes
Starting point is 00:01:46 That's the one It is reserved for very special events Oh I see It's my birthday I imagine that Would that be enough for I'm afraid as much as I would love to help you with this, a birthday is not enough.
Starting point is 00:02:03 We have replicas that we use in regular... I must admit, I know very little about it. Well, what true passage that makes me think of, you know, I mean, I understand the whole point of Ahealier's journeys and such like, but is... It has a strong connection to Ahealia. It is a cup of seawater from her personal domain, waters that she herself, lives within. It is said that one who touches the cup
Starting point is 00:02:31 or who drinks, I should say, sorry, from the cup can see Aheelia and travel to her domain. It is you must understand this cup of true passage. It is not in every temple. Well, there is only the one.
Starting point is 00:02:47 Yes. Do any of you drink from it? No, it would be terrible sacrilege to drink from the cup. It is for perhaps prophets and are king priests only. I heard there was a perhaps a murder or a death
Starting point is 00:03:03 here somewhat recently. Paul nods very sadly and says, yes, a poor girl was found here, yes. What were the circumstances under which she was found? I know not. The guards came and took the body before anything before we were able
Starting point is 00:03:19 to, and not that we would have, obviously. You alerted the gods to the body? Yes, of course, instantly. It appears the poor girl drowned some murder, I must assume. Yes, yes. And the chalice, you keep it under lock and key, I presume. Yes. Lock and key.
Starting point is 00:03:32 Yes. Whereabouts? It's not of interest. I'd like you're making conversation. You're just curious? Beneath the temple. Underneath the temple, there is a submerged level where the priests. Oh, wow.
Starting point is 00:03:46 Yes. Underwater. That's interesting. Yes. That is interesting. Pose gets very excited. It starts telling you about how they go about living underwater. It's like a lot.
Starting point is 00:03:57 a lot of magic and then some prayers and then with a bit of Ahelia's own energy they're able to breathe water whenever they want. So there's like a sub-temple that's all aquatic. Pause then goes into like this long diatribe about
Starting point is 00:04:13 Ahelia and worship of her. You get the impression that if you don't stop pause, pause will not stop. Oh wow, okay, okay. Who was... There was nobody working here when the body was found? We were below in the sub-level,
Starting point is 00:04:30 guarding, obviously, the chalice when it occurred. This level here is closed at the night. And so this level is closed and yet... Well, somebody broke in. A locked door can only stop someone who does not wish to break a locked door, I suppose.
Starting point is 00:04:47 Yes. Who has the keys out of curiosity? Any of the priests, many of the acolytes as well. The keys are not difficult to acquire if you are a person of ill repute. I don't want to stop Paws. I want to keep him going and just get a full blueprint of the temple.
Starting point is 00:05:06 Paws doesn't want to talk about blueprints. Paws wants to tell you. Paws wants to prophetize. Okay, he's trying to convert us. Do we ask if he knows Eugene? Yeah, why not? Okay, I'm going to hold up the picture. Have you seen this man?
Starting point is 00:05:21 Paws gives you a very sad look and says, I knew him. he is not dead but he was a regular here I think he was looking for perhaps some spiritual guidance at points in his life I fear he fell in with a bad crowd
Starting point is 00:05:39 What crowd? I almost wish not to speak of them but they are a cult a sect of Eelia The sale and salt They follow a person called the drowned prophet
Starting point is 00:05:54 who says that they, first off says that they are dead, claims to not be the living, but claims that in drowning they met Aheelia and hear her voice. I would not put much by that, but they are a doomsday cult. They believe that the land has been tainted. This land, specifically, Fairbairn Point, has been infected by something and that Aheelia must wash it away. they were a lot more active a while back.
Starting point is 00:06:26 There is a town south of here called Sonson. That is where they were based. Oh, okay. That's good to know. A terrible thing happened to Sonson, though. There was a magical explosion being nearly all of the town was wiped out and most of the cult with it. But weeds... They have resettled here in Fairbun Point.
Starting point is 00:06:46 Weeds tend to regar. Well, not in Fairbun Point. I promise you that. If they are still, if they have their tendrils here, they extend them from somewhere I know not. But if you are looking for Eugene and you, well, I fear the cult might be involved, Sonson would be a good place to begin searching. Okay. Well, they wreckage off.
Starting point is 00:07:08 You recognize my eyes, I say, and I like... They are pretty. I see it around town sometimes. It has come upon me recently for reasons I know not. Oh, you did not do this intentionally? No, it was an accident. Accident. Perhaps with a helio we could fix you.
Starting point is 00:07:28 That's not like a threat. That's not like I'm going to wash a taint away from you. You believe that Paws upon C's genuinely doesn't know what you're talking about. Okay. So he's just... Fixed the state of my pupils. Yes, if you wish to... If this is an affliction.
Starting point is 00:07:47 Yeah I believe Okay No, best not But thank you for the awful Okay If you want to know more of the cult Perhaps you can speak
Starting point is 00:07:58 There are knights of carsory They are Evil Magics hunters They came I understand They came to town not too long ago The Harbourmaster Could tell you more
Starting point is 00:08:10 Okay That's great All right Are we done here I believe so I think so Well, we need to get Plymerton baptized. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:19 That went out of the window, didn't it? Why did these? Do you get baptized? Sure. Well, we got to keep up the ruse. It'd be weird to do it and then just leave. We wanted people. I think we need to keep up this.
Starting point is 00:08:31 I'm getting baptized. All right. You get baptized and you receive a charm. You get a helia, you feel the sea itself is at your back. You feel like the sails of your ship. fill with wind and you are propelled forwards towards your destination. You can re-roll one time anything. Oh, nice.
Starting point is 00:08:55 Hell yeah. Anything specifically to do with hunting down the fish cult. You feel like a healier gives you a purpose or invests in you a power to stop these people. Okay. Wow. Nice. A healer's on our side. That's nice. That's lovely. It's a really nice feeling, actually. Lovely. Okay.
Starting point is 00:09:14 Before we leave, we try and get effort them to drink from that cup. You know what I could do? I could send Twigs down. That's true. He could go on a little mission to just get a sample. Search for the club. Okay. Go on.
Starting point is 00:09:31 Can we just quickly? Okay, I'm going to brief him quickly. Twig. All right. Twigs. What are you need? I explain what I need him to do. Do you remember that?
Starting point is 00:09:39 Can you repeat that back to me, Twigs? I am going to go. He's going to die. It's good enough. It's good enough. Okay. And he's, I just like slip him through some kind of drain. Biggest bag I've ever been in. All the world's a bag.
Starting point is 00:09:53 Twigs swims away. And with no way of contacting Twix. Oh, shit. Should I even tied some kind of thread? You should have tied his drug to him, yeah. Oh, hey, what are you going to do? We'll find him again. Yeah, we'll get him back.
Starting point is 00:10:06 Okay. Got a lovely big bag. Yeah, exactly. Had to the Harba Master? Yeah. Yeah. I can sir. You head into.
Starting point is 00:10:13 the Harbourmaster, you, Habermaster's office slash house. The man himself is sitting at a huge, like, thick book. Sitting behind a desk, you wait in line for a little bit, but then when you're in front of him, hang on. Aubayard. What was that? No, wait, how do you do it? The New England accent. That's what I want for him. Harba Yard. Habiard. How can I help you? I-O-Y-O-Y-O-Y-O-Y-O-I-O-Y-O-K. How can I help you? We're looking for, well, I mean, we're looking for the Sultan-Sale cult. We're looking for this man. Never heard of them.
Starting point is 00:10:54 Hold up, Eugene. Yeah, we hold up the picture of Eugene. Never heard of them. What? It's gesturing it, Eugene. How much? Name a price. For what?
Starting point is 00:11:04 For information. I don't know what you're talking about. Does he seem genuine or is he robbing me? He seems genuinely unhelpful. Okay. You don't want to talk to you. We are lawyers. A traveling band of lawyers.
Starting point is 00:11:20 You do not wish to cross us. You got something to put it in the book? You can put it in the book. Otherwise, you can leave. What are we? What? Put it. The book in front of him.
Starting point is 00:11:30 I should not last in a word. I'm saying. Do we wish to log anything? I mean, not. I wish to log that you're rude. Unhelp. man. I'll be sure to write that down. I don't think you will.
Starting point is 00:11:42 I don't think I will either. What was the name of the tobacco we spoke to? Pause upon C's. We're here on behalf or on the instruction of pause upon C's. What do you want? Just looking for information. About Eugene? I don't know this person. Okay. And the cult of Salem salt.
Starting point is 00:12:03 And perhaps the Knights of Carceret that have come in recently. You say the Knights of Carcery. You two don't pick up on this. But, and it's crazy you don't, because Tyke, his salt and pepper eyebrows go so high, they disappear into his hairline. Never heard of him. Well, not never heard of them. I don't know what you're talking about. No Knights of Carcery have been through here.
Starting point is 00:12:29 That is a bold-faced lie. Oh, Ho-ho, Ho-ho-ho-ho. Zone of truth. Cast zone of truth on him You lie to me I ruin your life If you cast zone of truth He's gonna be upset
Starting point is 00:12:46 Yeah he might not even know what you've cast He just knows that you cast a spell Yeah He gives like a very shocked expression And then he says Nope He says just because you cast a spell Do I need to get the guard in here?
Starting point is 00:13:01 No no no No, no My cantries Don't worry about it What's your deepest darker secrets? You ever cheat it on your wife? You tell the truth. I don't know if it affects the castor actually.
Starting point is 00:13:16 Yeah, that's a great question. The zone of truth? Are we all in the zone now? Well, you two definitely it could affect. That's very funny. What's our deepest darkest secret? Yeah, yeah. Just don't say anything.
Starting point is 00:13:27 Just don't say anything. You create a magical against deception until spawns a creature that... Yeah. No, you... You tell the truth. All of us. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:13:36 You say, instead of, you try to say, I'm just practicing my cantrip, but what comes out actually is, I cast God, go to the truth on you. We're all in to tell. We're not really lawyers. We're messianist. You don't have to keep going. Stop talking. I dropped to my knees and I say, the fish, twigs, he was my brother.
Starting point is 00:13:58 I accidentally casted him into a fish when I was six. Oh, my God. Stop talking. I have to talk. I'm sorry. Gotta get it out. It feels so good, to be honest. I think perhaps it's time for me to contact the guard.
Starting point is 00:14:15 It is. It is. He says that, and then all three of you hear a scream outside the Harbourmaster. You put that guard call on hold and then we'll leave. That's not a lie. Sure. It's just a thing I want. You step outside and you can see that there's a huge crowd
Starting point is 00:14:33 around the temple of Ahealia. Oh, no. Oh, well, what the fuck of that fish do? What did he do? It's in there, murdering people. You, if you walk over it, absolutely. You can see pores upon seas out the front of the temple lying in a pool of their own blood.
Starting point is 00:14:51 What? Uh-oh. There's a bunch of guard here already, and you can see they're arresting a man covered in gore. Okay. Is Polk here? Polk? Hise or lows.
Starting point is 00:15:02 Loz. Loz? Okay, I am going to open The highest door Okay, reveal to you that it is a goat Okay, change to Mids Mids, yeah Polk is here
Starting point is 00:15:14 Damn it. Mottie Hall does it always work That's the trick of Malti Hose And he spots you immediately Fuck Okay, okay Oie, you're nicked No Fuck, okay, we gotta
Starting point is 00:15:27 You've got more important things to deal with Polk Oh It's a bad look for the town guard for the head of the town guard to arrest some people who were just asking questions when there's a dead man on the steps of the temple. Some sort of disagreement or whatever.
Starting point is 00:15:42 Just move along. Disagreement between who? I don't know. These people. That's the worst town guard ever. The one who did it and the one who's dead. Right. Oh, okay, well, shall we...
Starting point is 00:15:55 What, a dwarf nearby you starts muttering, like... I don't know, that's fucking true. And then he wanders away. Let's follow this guy. Hey, hey. Fellow dwarf. Yes. Hello.
Starting point is 00:16:07 Hello. You don't see many dwarves around here. You don't. They don't like dwarves around here, I think. He says. I know, I'd watch the same thing. Where are you from? I'm from the forge rock aisle.
Starting point is 00:16:17 Lovely. Yes. My name? Oh, gosh. Well, my name, of course, would have to be James. James. Yeah. James Stone.
Starting point is 00:16:28 James Stone, it is. James Stone. What did you're thinking about all that? Murdery? Well, wasn't a disagreement. Guy didn't say anything. Just drew his sword and killed that poor priest. Oh, he saw it did you.
Starting point is 00:16:41 Yeah. Who did it? The guy they arrested. Who was it? Do you know him? No, he's just, I don't know. He was muttering to himself. Did he look like this?
Starting point is 00:16:50 I hold up the picture of Eugene. No, you saw him. You know he's like Eugene. He was a man. Covered in gore, I noticed he was. Well, that's pores. Sorry, he doesn't know, pause. Another mistake by Adam
Starting point is 00:17:02 Oh that was the poor priest he struck down But you don't know who the guy is No I know it wasn't a disagreement Just a random dream Yeah I just walked up drew his sword and killed the person Oh no Okay What is going on here?
Starting point is 00:17:15 Yeah Okay well if we are to see I mean Talking about fucking flowers Okay The drill Oh there is Flower based
Starting point is 00:17:23 Okay So he was a rose man He was a rose man But I mean Pause upon C He's He's not a member of the Sultan sale. He is presumably guarding the chalice they want, right?
Starting point is 00:17:38 They want to get that chalice. Yeah, it's true. Okay. Are we heading to Sanson? Sonson? I suppose we have two sort of avenues we could follow. Yes. You're right.
Starting point is 00:17:49 If they've killed Paws-upon-C, then the next step would be to break into the temple and to get the chalice. Maybe we want to stop. I don't know. Maybe that would get us closer to finding Jocelyn. or Jocelyn is in Sonson somewhere and the best port of call for us would be to head to Sonson and try and track it.
Starting point is 00:18:07 If Sonsonson's is destroyed as they say then probably it's not going to be terribly hard to find a hideout of cult members. I feel like Sonson, I feel like Sonson's a good bet. We want to be active. We don't want to be waiting for them to move. We want to moving ourselves. Although I tell you what, somewhere in the back of my head
Starting point is 00:18:24 I know Jocelyn's deep underwater. Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's probably somewhere. Somewhere underwater, but you're right. Unless she's in the temple. Can I try and contact twigs? How would you like to do that? Shouting. Put your head on the water and scream.
Starting point is 00:18:41 You, walking around at the edge of the water, and near the temple, the temple's near the edge of the water as well. You are called for twigs. Yeah. Hyes or lows? Hyes. Hyes? All right, I am going to open the Lowe's door and tell you that it's a goat. Guys, I don't know what this is.
Starting point is 00:19:00 I don't understand it at all. So it's an old... So it's an old game show, I think, possibly called the Monty Hall problem, or run by again in Monty Hall. And the way it worked is three doors, okay? Behind one door is a car, behind two doors, the other two doors are goats. Okay. He says, pick a door, and you pick a door and you open it, and he says...
Starting point is 00:19:22 You don't open it. No, sorry, yeah. He opens a door to reveal a goat, and then he says, would you like to stay with the door you picked or open a swap door and mathematically, logically, or whatever, statistically, it's better to swap, even though it feels like it doesn't matter at all. And so we've started to institute that into for some reason, the way we do highs and lows. I guess because we think it's funny. It is. No, it is. It is much more entertaining. Now I'm with you with the goat thing. So, you said it was a goat? Yes. I'm going to switch. All right. Are you sure?
Starting point is 00:19:54 I've never been less short You gave me such a panicked look I am sure I'm going to switch Yeah do it You're going to switch I am I'm not going to switch
Starting point is 00:20:09 Don't switch Stay where you were I am going to stay But what are we striking you there I can't even remember where you started No you know what I'm going to stay You're going to stay
Starting point is 00:20:17 Yeah All right You calling out Immediately you hear I'm right here I'm right here Relax. Relax.
Starting point is 00:20:25 He didn't even go anywhere. He's developed a lisp. I always had a lisp. Twigs! Twigs! What did you see? I was like an underwater temple. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:37 Did you bring back any water from a fucking chalice? A what? It's a lot to ask about things. It's true. He doesn't have pockets. Did you see a girl? I'm going to ask. I'm going to describe Jocelyn.
Starting point is 00:20:52 Oh, Jocelyn. Yeah. Long daughter. Yeah, there were women down there. Okay. Anyone, women that looked like this? Who? I don't think I have a...
Starting point is 00:21:03 We don't have an image. No, we have a picture. No, it's not going to happen. They probably would... You know, they would have shown you like a family painting. You know, you can describe Jocelyn if you... Okay. I'm going to describe her to my fish.
Starting point is 00:21:16 I don't think so. Okay. Am I asking too much of you, Twigs? No. Okay, good. You can invest more. more responsibility. Okay, really?
Starting point is 00:21:25 Okay. Yeah. Okay. I'm ready. Put me in the big leagues. Okay, great. No, you're on your way. Yeah, give me a weapon.
Starting point is 00:21:35 Okay, great. What do we have? I'm going to give you a twig. Thank you. Okay, we can either go to Sunson. Yeah. Or we can try and break into this temple and see what's going on down there. Well, the only way we could do that is if we had the ability to breathe underwater.
Starting point is 00:21:51 Which we do have a dagger that lets us do exactly. But permanently. For the rest of our lives. But you know, like, who's to say what's permanent? You know? We undid it once. In this life. We did undo it once.
Starting point is 00:22:01 That's true. We don't all have to go down there. I think it would be worth getting the dagger. Oh, do we have the dagger on us? Yeah, I have it wrapped in class. Just in case. It's probably going to come in handy. Now, twigs, I say, to the goldfish.
Starting point is 00:22:15 The people underwater in the temple, did they seem in distress? With people. You mentioned some people. Where? No, no. Do you recall where you just were? The bag? No, between the bag and now.
Starting point is 00:22:31 Don't think that was me. I think he's boring this plan. Okay, Twigs. A sweet little fool. Does anyone want to volunteer to breathe underwater for the rest of their life right now? You know what? I mean. You and you and Twigs could go and live in the sea together.
Starting point is 00:22:48 Yeah. Put me in. I'm ready for the big time, could? It's up to you because it really takes you out of the rest of this quest. Well, you know, I mean, look, if there's an ancient poison that can do this, there must be an antidote, right? Yeah, probably, probably. We don't have it. I take the dagger.
Starting point is 00:23:07 You know what we can do? We can send you down there. You can try and get the chance. You can find out what you can find. Come back up and we'll put you in a big bag. Yeah. And we'll carry you around. I like the sound of that.
Starting point is 00:23:20 I'm deranged. Okay. Get that dagger out. Get at the back from the back? Well, good. So we're by the entrance to this underwater part of the temple, right? There must be some exit along the coast. Twigs, a goldfish, was able to get in and out.
Starting point is 00:23:38 You could ask Twigs how they did that. Yeah. That's probably a good idea. That presumably is a way in. Yeah. Okay. Well, should we do this? I think we're too tempted not to.
Starting point is 00:23:49 Okay, should. Okay. I'm, Dag is coming out. I'm just... Wait until we found the entrance. I already liked it. It's a bit late.
Starting point is 00:23:56 It's a bit late. As soon as the blade touches your tongue, is that where you... Is that what you... Is that awful? Yeah, okay. As soon as the blade touches your tongue... Push her in the sea.
Starting point is 00:24:06 We opened the bag, the fish's bag, and put your face in it. Oh, good idea. In seconds. Okay. That... A lot of people freak out. When you put the bag
Starting point is 00:24:17 over her head, a bunch of people think you're trying to kill. No, no, no. I'm doing a thumbs up. She's fine. I'm good. I'm signalling it's fine. Okay.
Starting point is 00:24:28 Let's get me into this temple. Now we're commissioned to this. Yeah, I mean, we got back out of this. We'll start walking along the coast, trying to find, asking Twig, trying to make Twig remember where the entrance from the coast back into the temple is. That's probably an answer unfair. Look at it. It looks too obvious to not have one.
Starting point is 00:24:47 We look. We look. I mean, because there's so much kerfuffle with the temple, we could probably just sneak. in and like find a pool or something. There is still a bit of a kerfuffle happening. Yeah, absolutely. Maybe we try that. Yeah, people are distracted.
Starting point is 00:25:00 Yeah. Let's sneak into the tent. Okay, great. All right. You're head in. He's looking for something. Yeah. All right.
Starting point is 00:25:09 You walk into the temple. You look around. There is like a door that has a big sign that's probably something like a sign over the door, something like priests and acolytes only. And you would assume that probably leads you downstairs. Okay, great. Let's go for that. Is there much security around that door?
Starting point is 00:25:27 There was, but with the kerfuffle happening outside, with a simple stealth check, this could be so easy. I'm sure. Upon this role, so much hinges, all right? Good, good. Yeah. Good. All right, yeah. No, you're fine.
Starting point is 00:25:42 Okay. You approach that door. You can see that the door, and this maybe strikes you as a little odd, but I don't know. if it's odd enough that you don't take this opportunity. You could tell that this door should normally be locked, but it's not. Okay. Interesting. You push it and it opens easily. Great.
Starting point is 00:26:01 You see, there is a small, you might call it like a break room almost, where when the priests aren't working, they might be here taking, like, eating food or taking like a little rest or just whatever. There's probably a table with some cards at it or something like that. And then, just past it, you see a set of stairs stone and wood. and wooden stairs that descend down just into water. Okay, this is looking good to me. I'm, yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:26 Off you pop. All right, sticks. We'll stay here, I guess. Okay, I'm diving in that water. As you step into the water, you first off, lose the charm of Aheelia that gets spent. But as you get to the bottom, you can see you're in a hallway with several doors that lead to various different places. You have no idea where you need to go, but as you feel the charm leaving you,
Starting point is 00:26:50 A current just moves through the water and then a bunch of doors close and one door opens. Yes, okay. All right. Interesting. That's where I'm going. Love how Aheelio was immediately just like, what the fuck are you doing? I was on your side and you tried to rob me straight away. It's for the greater good.
Starting point is 00:27:11 She's going to understand. Okay. Moving through the underground underwater, sorry, part of the temple, you step into a large octagonal room. There are several steps going up to a plinth. The steps take you out of the water. And on that plinth is, you see, a ornate golden chalice, and you can see that there is water inside it.
Starting point is 00:27:34 There is above you, on the ceiling of this, there is a mirrored surface that looks like you're staring into some deep, dark part of the sea. this doesn't feel like when you were standing on that plinth, that was kind of ominous. This feels more just kind of chaotic. Like you're watching the sea sort of like roiling in upon itself. If Stix feels that just looking at the sea is calming or peaceful or a bit scary, whatever Sticks normally associates with the sea, that's what you get from this. Not inherently ominous.
Starting point is 00:28:12 Okay, so I think she likes the sea, so she's probably going to have a nice time. Well, I'm going to wade up to the cup. And I think I'm going to go, well, I'm going to just go to pick it up. Yeah. But as I pick it up, I'm going to very quickly replace it with the teddy bear that I took from Jocelyn's room. Just in case there's kind of a weird system. Yeah. So I'm going to do that move very quickly.
Starting point is 00:28:37 Okay. You, I'll roll to say how well you do it. You do it really well. If there is some sort of pressure-based, some sort of. You definitely don't trigger it. Or you wouldn't have triggered it even if there was one. You're not sure, though. Okay.
Starting point is 00:28:51 All right, you've got the chalice. You can see it's full of salt water. Okay. I'm taking it. I'm taking it back. Now, yeah. How are you going to take it through? Because you're out of the water now.
Starting point is 00:29:03 Yeah, okay. So if you step back into the water, we just accidentally get rid of all the magic fucking seaman. Okay, so yeah, I'm going to take, so I have the, um, okay. Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to take the bag that... Fish was in.
Starting point is 00:29:21 Fish was in. Twigs. Yeah, twigs. Yeah. I'm going to empty that water out. I'm going to empty in the magical... Putting the fish in the cup. Yeah, the fish is going to go in the cup.
Starting point is 00:29:32 I'm going to switch the water. Smart. Okay. Yes. All right. So the water in the cup is now in the bag and you've got an empty cup. Empty cup. Well, no, with twigs and the water.
Starting point is 00:29:45 was in the cup. Okay. All right, I see. Yes. Okay. Yeah, sure. But then I guess he's going to just swim out as soon as that.
Starting point is 00:29:50 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that's fine. That's fine. It's not a big value. You'll follow you. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
Starting point is 00:29:55 Because it's the water from the cup that's the important bit. Yeah, exactly. It's just a cup. Yeah. Okay, great. I think. I've got, let's,
Starting point is 00:30:02 let's do this. I'm going to. You go back under water and you, oh, you had to do that very quickly. Because as soon as you, you can't breathe. Let's not forget this. One quick. Quick switch. That water didn't just have twigs in it.
Starting point is 00:30:19 It also had you. Yeah. That's true. You, yeah, transfer the water into the bag. Then you go back into the temple and you make your way back. Maybe as you make your way, as you're making a way through the temple, you can hear one of the doors, someone's hammering at it, but the door stays firmly shut. You get the impression that you are being protected. Oh my God. Thank you so much. Wow. Okay, great. Great. Can I see... No, that's fine. I'm going to go. I'm going to leave.
Starting point is 00:30:52 Okay. Yeah, probably clever. Get me out of here. Now, here's the question. When you arrive at the steps leading out, I guess you just scoop stuff in the chalice and put your face in it. Yeah, exactly. Exactly that. Yeah. Okay. Perfect. You put your face to the chalice to climb up the stairs and you are reunited with the rest of your party. I'm holding up the... You don't realize you could have left the chalice. You don't need the chalice.
Starting point is 00:31:18 Which is the important bit. Well, we don't know that, though. Yeah, but also now you can breathe through the chelis because, I mean, otherwise you... I need water around my mouth and nose to breathe forever. You have to steal their holy icon. Yeah. Yes. Okay.
Starting point is 00:31:32 All right. Guys, that felt right. Okay, we've now got a bag... That felt good. Guys, that felt good. Got a bag of magic salt water. Yes. Shall we wait any...
Starting point is 00:31:42 Waste any time talking about it or just get in there. Let's head to Sonson. Okay. Let's do it. Or are we drinking the water? I think we're drinking. What? Why else did we do this?
Starting point is 00:31:52 I don't know. Let's start. Let's be cautious and start with effort. It's so funny how much adventurers or D&D players in general appear like toddlers. You're so confident that you have no idea of why you're doing it. You say there's a thing to get. We go, what we go. Of course we're going to get it.
Starting point is 00:32:15 Ephraim, you look, sir. I'll have a taste. I'll have a taste. You drink from the... A taste. The same amount that I've had of the poison of the blade and of the black alcohol.
Starting point is 00:32:26 And I think we'll end it there. Thank you so much for joining us. If people want to hear more of you, where can they do that? We have a podcast called Hell or High Rollers, which is set in D&D Hell, and there's multiple sequel series to that. You can find us on all podcast platforms.
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Starting point is 00:32:59 Great. Incredible. Thank you. Cool. Thank you so much.

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