D&D is For Nerds - Stories of The Greyhill Free Company I #19 Basic Roofing Errors
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                                         Previously on Stories of the Greyhill Free Company.
                                         
                                         Yeah, it's got religious significance to it.
                                         
                                         You think it'd be worth a pretty penny if you were to take it?
                                         
                                         Right. Well, I'm still worried about that curse, so I don't.
                                         
                                         With her eyes closed, she does not see what you see,
                                         
                                         as a soft light begins to emanate from the golden band,
                                         
                                         and she opens her eyes and immediately catches the light glowing off the band.
                                         
    
                                         You hear a tremendous crack, and then the light glowing off the band. You hear a tremendous crack and then the light
                                         
                                         begins to fade. As the light
                                         
                                         fades, you see that Chantel
                                         
                                         is sitting up. Does she just need
                                         
                                         to cry? That seems rude.
                                         
                                         Not everyone's a crier.
                                         
                                         You walk into
                                         
                                         like a solid jelly.
                                         
    
                                         Am I in the jelly?
                                         
                                         It's a slime.
                                         
                                         You're in the jelly. Oh, I forgot about slime. Can I try and cut my way out of the jelly? It's a slime You're in the jelly Oh, I forgot about slimes
                                         
                                         Can I try and cut my way out of the jelly?
                                         
                                         And would you like to be pushed back?
                                         
                                         Back
                                         
                                         Or to the sides?
                                         
                                         To the sides
                                         
    
                                         Alright
                                         
                                         6d6
                                         
                                         6d6, yeah
                                         
                                         6d6, that is insane
                                         
                                         Do I know flame or frost would be a bit
                                         
                                         I'll probably be flame
                                         
                                         I'll just produce flame.
                                         
                                         And I'll huck flame at it.
                                         
    
                                         I would like to attack with my halberd and duck in, duck out, duck in, duck out.
                                         
                                         Look, it's a war by attrition.
                                         
                                         He looks behind him, looks at the gelatinous cube, looks at the two of you and says,
                                         
                                         Don't let me die like this.
                                         
                                         As it slams into the wall of debris,
                                         
                                         you see just by the hairs of his chinny chin chin,
                                         
                                         Love is Blind leaps out from in between,
                                         
                                         hits the ground, rolls and stands up.
                                         
    
                                         All right.
                                         
                                         Big T, bring this home.
                                         
                                         I would like to finish him.
                                         
                                         You hit.
                                         
                                         One hit point left.
                                         
                                         You slice.
                                         
                                         The entire time this jelly had been losing consistency,
                                         
                                         it had become strung out more and more and more.
                                         
    
                                         With this final slash, it begins to lose all of its form,
                                         
                                         and it just kind of becomes a puddle and a snail trail of oozing poison and acid.
                                         
                                         I was wondering how they die.
                                         
                                         Like the idea that an ooze would just fall over is very funny.
                                         
                                         Yeah, I do.
                                         
                                         I imagine them as a proper cube.
                                         
                                         And there's just the idea that there's the alive half of like,
                                         
                                         there's the alive version of cube.
                                         
    
                                         And then on its side being a cube on its side is dead. Like coming across a cube being like, wait, is's the alive version of cube and then on its side being a cube. On its side is dead.
                                         
                                         Like, coming across a cube being like, wait.
                                         
                                         Is it dead?
                                         
                                         Oh, no, this one looks dead.
                                         
                                         This one looks on its side.
                                         
                                         How the fuck can you tell?
                                         
                                         The history of gelatinous cube is that they are a six-sided dice.
                                         
                                         So on, like, a player's mat thing.
                                         
    
                                         Oh.
                                         
                                         Because they, you know, back in the day,
                                         
                                         they didn't used to have lots of figurines and stuff like that.
                                         
                                         People were like, well, if we make one that's just a cube.
                                         
                                         So easy.
                                         
                                         Yeah, that makes sense.
                                         
                                         That's wild from an imagination-based community.
                                         
                                         Yeah, I'll cure wounds myself.
                                         
    
                                         All right.
                                         
                                         You recover nine hit points.
                                         
                                         Excellent.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         That was fun and scary.
                                         
                                         Very scary
                                         
                                         I'd like to have a little chug-a-lug of my second poche
                                         
                                         You chug-a-lug away?
                                         
    
                                         Oh right I rolled that
                                         
                                         And what would that do for me Adam?
                                         
                                         I'm so sorry
                                         
                                         Please be able to have
                                         
                                         Please excuse me
                                         
                                         I'm fucking
                                         
                                         Hi my name is Adam Cannavale
                                         
                                         And I'm fucking stupid
                                         
    
                                         You recover six hit points
                                         
                                         Who's stupid?
                                         
                                         Oh my god
                                         
                                         You walk now into the blacksmithy, maybe a little bit more wary.
                                         
                                         Yes, a bit more wary.
                                         
                                         I walk with my helmet in front of me in case of second ooze.
                                         
                                         You are safe.
                                         
                                         Overturning the blacksmith, giving it a once over,
                                         
    
                                         the one once over that you didn't give it previously,
                                         
                                         you find sitting in a chest that isn't locked,
                                         
                                         you just open the chest,
                                         
                                         inside is a set of banded male armor
                                         
                                         that you recognize from the description
                                         
                                         as the armor of ethereal manipulation.
                                         
                                         Yeah, we've got this one.
                                         
                                         That was easy.
                                         
    
                                         Do you know what it does, by any chance?
                                         
                                         It allows you to cast Mage Hand once per day,
                                         
                                         and while wearing it, you can see into the ethereal plane.
                                         
                                         Ew.
                                         
                                         Am I too big for it?
                                         
                                         Highs or lows?
                                         
                                         Highs.
                                         
                                         That's about human size.
                                         
    
                                         Maybe even, well, yes, it would fit you.
                                         
                                         Is it better than her current nothing?
                                         
                                         I believe it is heavy armor, so you actually can't wear it and get barbarian stuff.
                                         
                                         Perhaps Chantal could wear it.
                                         
                                         Oh, a little present that she has to give back
                                         
                                         Yes, well, at the end, of course
                                         
                                         I would actually assume you still have her armour
                                         
                                         Her armour is quite expensive, so she probably still has it
                                         
    
                                         She would have been carrying it with her
                                         
                                         Oh yeah, that would have been rude
                                         
                                         Well, we could keep exploring the point to the barracks
                                         
                                         Clean up those.
                                         
                                         There's also other places here you've not been.
                                         
                                         Like you've not really scoured the individual stalls
                                         
                                         and you've not had a look properly at that pillar of light
                                         
                                         coming from the whole place to the ceiling.
                                         
    
                                         The pillar of light potentially is a way out maybe.
                                         
                                         So what do we look at there?
                                         
                                         Go to the pillar of light first.
                                         
                                         Have a look.
                                         
                                         I mean we're kind of done, yeah?
                                         
                                         Yeah, but it might be.
                                         
                                         Well, you've got what you came for.
                                         
                                         Well, this will get us the quest complete, but there might be other things around.
                                         
    
                                         True, there might be more things for more money.
                                         
                                         And look, they did say, hey, if there's any other armours around or any of the magical items to return that.
                                         
                                         But, like, if they don't know and it benefits us, well, it's the best thing about an adventurous life, you know?
                                         
                                         You move through the rubble towards the light.
                                         
                                         Interesting, interesting.
                                         
                                         Can I get one of you to make the encounter check?
                                         
                                         That was a good catch.
                                         
                                         That was really impressive.
                                         
    
                                         Thank you.
                                         
                                         Four.
                                         
                                         Four? All right.
                                         
                                         You get to the giant shaft of light that dapples down from above.
                                         
                                         Sure enough, looking up, you can see that there is outside access through here.
                                         
                                         There are vines and creepers hanging over the edge.
                                         
                                         And you can even see some trees that have somehow managed to survive at such an odd and irregular angle.
                                         
                                         Maybe like there are branches and whatever slowly
                                         
    
                                         bending back upwards towards the light you can also see dangling off the side here there are
                                         
                                         several sets of ropes winches pulleys and what looks like makeshift or some sort of elevator
                                         
                                         uh manual elevator sort of mechanism. It looks ancient
                                         
                                         and old.
                                         
                                         I can pull it.
                                         
                                         Hop on, hop on.
                                         
                                         It's so high up.
                                         
                                         Will that catch you?
                                         
    
                                         You recognize it as looking
                                         
                                         vaguely dwarven in origin.
                                         
                                         It's mostly made out of
                                         
                                         metal and rope, so which are
                                         
                                         not classically dwarven
                                         
                                         materials, but you can not classically dwarven materials
                                         
                                         but you can definitely just tell
                                         
                                         dwarven origin for these.
                                         
    
                                         There's many of them.
                                         
                                         Quite a few.
                                         
                                         This would be dwarvish
                                         
                                         so I guess this was a way of them coming in and out
                                         
                                         so it was part of the original structure.
                                         
                                         Something also to say, sorry I completely forgot
                                         
                                         you could see that the roof
                                         
                                         must have fallen down
                                         
    
                                         because there is a layer of dirt covering everything down here.
                                         
                                         So it's not an elevator.
                                         
                                         It's like, or is an elevator.
                                         
                                         So there's a hole in the roof.
                                         
                                         Yep.
                                         
                                         The hole has been caused by the roof collapsing downwards.
                                         
                                         It's a very clean collapse as well.
                                         
                                         It looks oddly very circular.
                                         
    
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         And dangling over the side in addition to
                                         
                                         plant vegetation and whatnot that has just grown around here there are ropes and pulleys with like
                                         
                                         you know the sorts of things that window washers use to clean the side of yeah i don't know what
                                         
                                         the name for those are but yeah they they're made out of ropes so they've just been like thrown over
                                         
                                         the side several of them are collapsed some are still standing but out of ropes. So they've just been like thrown over the side. Several of them have collapsed.
                                         
                                         Some are still standing, but all of them look like they have been here for quite some time.
                                         
                                         So it's one of those kind of things where I believe it was like a pulley system where you had the, I guess, the platform.
                                         
    
                                         And that was, I guess, flush with the earth up top.
                                         
                                         And just over time, it was up there and has fallen in a little bit.
                                         
                                         So if we wait long enough, it'll just get here?
                                         
                                         Well, it's in theory, yeah.
                                         
                                         How long do we have to wait?
                                         
                                         Not that long.
                                         
                                         You can see the fighting here was the fiercest.
                                         
                                         So it's just like a raised platform that kind of goes up and down.
                                         
    
                                         No, it's not one raised platform.
                                         
                                         It's many small raised platforms.
                                         
                                         Yeah, many smaller raised platforms.
                                         
                                         Yeah, okay.
                                         
                                         So the series of events seems to be there was something here, more of the market area.
                                         
                                         The roof collapsed onto that market area, and then these elevators, if you will, were thrown over the edge.
                                         
                                         Many small ones.
                                         
                                         Oh, so these were more like an invading force.
                                         
    
                                         These are not part of...
                                         
                                         It looks, yeah, it looks heavily like it could have been part of an invasion.
                                         
                                         I understand what's going on.
                                         
                                         So I thought it was initially built by the people who made this area,
                                         
                                         but it's not.
                                         
                                         I guess it was what the invading forces were using.
                                         
                                         So they came from above.
                                         
                                         Interesting.
                                         
    
                                         Looks like, yeah.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         Is there any way of dislodging them?
                                         
                                         Anything down here?
                                         
                                         Any ropes that have fallen down a bit closer to us?
                                         
                                         Well, they don't look necessarily operable,
                                         
                                         but several of the elevators are still here and intact.
                                         
                                         Yeah, so we could perhaps, with a bit of ingenuity,
                                         
    
                                         get some of these elevators working and we could get up out of there
                                         
                                         and look at Love is Blind.
                                         
                                         Oh, so you look at love is blind for ingenuity.
                                         
                                         Okay, no,
                                         
                                         I see how it is. Well, you tried to put a hole
                                         
                                         in a bathtub. I don't see this.
                                         
                                         Tree Stomp does not see how it is.
                                         
                                         Love is blind looks suspiciously at the rope,
                                         
    
                                         strokes his chin, ropes, there are
                                         
                                         many, many, many, many, many, many.
                                         
                                         It's very big. Very big space.
                                         
                                         Very many of these elevators.
                                         
                                         Some broken, some not.
                                         
                                         He walks over to the nearest one
                                         
                                         that seems to be largely intact,
                                         
                                         gives an experimental tug on the rope.
                                         
    
                                         The rope snaps almost immediately.
                                         
                                         And this elevator,
                                         
                                         they're all connected by two ropes.
                                         
                                         All of the intact ones are connected by two ropes.
                                         
                                         This one is now only connected by one rope.
                                         
                                         He looks at it and he says,
                                         
                                         we could try to see if any of them work, but this one does not.
                                         
                                         Yes.
                                         
    
                                         The vines up there, could I use entangle to get the vines to grow down?
                                         
                                         Is that how that, can I use a spell in the spirit of the spell
                                         
                                         as opposed to the mechanics, Adam?
                                         
                                         Probably not, but only because it's so far
                                         
                                         away. The range of the spell
                                         
                                         I might have allowed that
                                         
                                         but the range of this spell is I think only
                                         
                                         20 feet? 90 feet. 90 feet, yeah
                                         
    
                                         whereas this distance is maybe
                                         
                                         closer to 200 feet.
                                         
                                         Love is blind. Yes.
                                         
                                         Can you just climb up and check?
                                         
                                         How would I do that? The walls.
                                         
                                         I do not think I can climb these walls.
                                         
                                         They come nearly upside down.
                                         
                                         Is that not how tabaxi work?
                                         
    
                                         Tabaxi work how I decide they work.
                                         
                                         I have decided that a climb speed is not the spell web.
                                         
                                         You can't climb upside down.
                                         
                                         But people who do bouldering do, it's fine.
                                         
                                         I could try, but
                                         
                                         if I fell, that would kill me.
                                         
                                         I'll catch you. No,
                                         
                                         I'm not going to pressure the cat to
                                         
    
                                         do something. You could if you
                                         
                                         wanted to. I've seen cats do that.
                                         
                                         He's quite a...
                                         
                                         You've seen cats do that? This, in this
                                         
                                         dwarven market square, you've seen cats
                                         
                                         climb up along the side and up to the
                                         
                                         hole that another dwarven clan punched in the roof and then climb
                                         
                                         and then see if they can.
                                         
    
                                         How about, you've seen that, have you?
                                         
                                         You don't know I haven't.
                                         
                                         Well, what about, look, why don't we test the ropes?
                                         
                                         Because we have pittance and we have rope.
                                         
                                         If worse comes to the worse, we could kind of jail rig something
                                         
                                         where you do scale the walls and pittance things in,
                                         
                                         so it's dangerous for you.
                                         
                                         So we just pull them? I'm just going to go
                                         
    
                                         around and start tugging at every rope?
                                         
                                         We've got the 100 feet plus we have
                                         
                                         50 feet. I think every
                                         
                                         member has 50 feet of rope so
                                         
                                         5, 10. You would probably need
                                         
                                         more rope than that
                                         
                                         still. I guess if you didn't have one
                                         
                                         continuous thing. Look you
                                         
    
                                         could do this, sure, but it'd
                                         
                                         take a while. That's what I'm saying. That is our worst
                                         
                                         case scenario.
                                         
                                         I'm in the background tugging every rope.
                                         
                                         No, no, no. Let's just
                                         
                                         get... Well, you get at least one.
                                         
                                         Before you realise
                                         
                                         what they're doing. You tug
                                         
    
                                         on the nearest rope, I assume?
                                         
                                         The nearest rope holds firm.
                                         
                                         It's good. It is good.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         Don't we need to test them?
                                         
                                         Yes, but you're very strong, I guess.
                                         
                                         Yeah, and then if I can do it in a safe, then everyone will be safe.
                                         
                                         Yes, good point.
                                         
    
                                         Yes.
                                         
                                         I can't go on them.
                                         
                                         I'm too big.
                                         
                                         Look, Fia, we'll test all the ropes.
                                         
                                         I pulled the ropes, so I'm strong.
                                         
                                         You are very strong, big T.
                                         
                                         I know where I help.
                                         
                                         I have skills that are utilized best.
                                         
    
                                         Yes, yes.
                                         
                                         Are waterlized, utilized.
                                         
                                         Utilized best.
                                         
                                         It's very good.
                                         
                                         Yes.
                                         
                                         It's utilized, but utilized also works.
                                         
                                         Yeah, that's what I said.
                                         
                                         Yes, it is.
                                         
    
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         Let's go and tug on them.
                                         
                                         Hey, love, let's just stand back
                                         
                                         un petit. I like that you're
                                         
                                         calling him love. That's funny.
                                         
                                         It's so good. It's very cute.
                                         
                                         So the two of you stand back. You're going to
                                         
                                         pull another rope. Do you care which one? Just the next
                                         
    
                                         one in sequence? I'm going to go
                                         
                                         anything above you.
                                         
                                         You don't want it to fall on your head. It's okay.
                                         
                                         I'll duck.
                                         
                                         Alright, give me an average of 31.
                                         
                                         31!
                                         
                                         31?
                                         
                                         Ooh, you don't want 31.
                                         
    
                                         Are you sure you don't want another number?
                                         
                                         Why, what's 31?
                                         
                                         I don't know, 31's not great.
                                         
                                         Do you want a different number?
                                         
                                         No, I want to see what 31 is.
                                         
                                         Alright, well, last chance. 31's not great. Do you want a different number? No, I want to see what 31 is. All right.
                                         
                                         Well, last chance.
                                         
                                         If you say yes, I'm going to give you 31, but you can't change your mind.
                                         
    
                                         I'm picking 31.
                                         
                                         I know you wrote these.
                                         
                                         Loyalty card.
                                         
                                         The next merchant you meet gives you a discount.
                                         
                                         Oh.
                                         
                                         Oh.
                                         
                                         I see what you've done, Adam.
                                         
                                         What have I done?
                                         
    
                                         Because I was just making that up.
                                         
                                         They're all good things.
                                         
                                         You already have that one.
                                         
                                         Yeah, the last time I picked a card, I said, let's go 31.
                                         
                                         There you go.
                                         
                                         Now you've got it twice.
                                         
                                         The next two merchants you meet give you a discount.
                                         
                                         It feels really bad to play a character with no intelligence
                                         
    
                                         and then do this when I'm not in character.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         It feels bad. but now i have
                                         
                                         two loyalty cards thank god i'm charming so are you are you gonna just pull the next rope in
                                         
                                         sequence or whatever oh yeah it's a game to tree stump the next rope seems firm as well good next
                                         
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                                         The next rope comes away.
                                         
                                         Okay, not this one. I say
                                         
                                         holding the rope in my hand.
                                         
                                         Do you just want to go around the entire circle? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
                                         
    
                                         Really quick, really strong
                                         
                                         little tugs. Highs or lows?
                                         
                                         Highs.
                                         
                                         Highs?
                                         
                                         Preparing a cure spell.
                                         
                                         You find one of the elevators looks like it's still very firmly in place.
                                         
                                         Oh, this one's really good.
                                         
                                         You give it like a really good tug and it doesn't budge at all.
                                         
    
                                         It feels very firmly entrenched.
                                         
                                         I think I could do this one.
                                         
                                         I won't, but I could.
                                         
                                         Yeah, let's.
                                         
                                         You don't think you could move it if you wanted to?
                                         
                                         As in not the elevator up and down, just the rope side of them moorings?
                                         
                                         Oh, brilliant.
                                         
                                         Great.
                                         
    
                                         This one's too strong for me.
                                         
                                         Jump in.
                                         
                                         Jump in.
                                         
                                         I'll pull you.
                                         
                                         No, not yet.
                                         
                                         So we have an exit strategy, which is great.
                                         
                                         But we still, I guess.
                                         
                                         Can I get you to roll the encounter die again?
                                         
    
                                         Five. Five. Cool. Keep going. So there's still, I guess, down there if you to roll the encounter die again? Five.
                                         
                                         Keep going. So there's still, I guess,
                                         
                                         down there if we want to explore there, and there's still
                                         
                                         the zombies up there if we
                                         
                                         need to get rid of them.
                                         
                                         Plus we still probably should check on
                                         
                                         Eola and...
                                         
                                         Tippi Cup. Tippi Cup, yes.
                                         
    
                                         We still have Tippi Cup and
                                         
                                         Eola to grab.
                                         
                                         At this point you've been away for maybe an hour or two.
                                         
                                         Do you think they finished finishing being sad?
                                         
                                         I do not think they are sad right now.
                                         
                                         No, they had to finish being sad because now it's happy.
                                         
                                         I think we were there when they finished being sad.
                                         
                                         Yes.
                                         
    
                                         But sometimes it takes a while
                                         
                                         and your whole body has to get used to not being sad anymore.
                                         
                                         Do you reckon they're done?
                                         
                                         I don't think they're...
                                         
                                         Yes, I think they are.
                                         
                                         I think they're done being sad, yes.
                                         
                                         They might be otherwise engaged.
                                         
                                         I think they're in the happiness part of life right now.
                                         
    
                                         That's good.
                                         
                                         Sometimes it takes a while.
                                         
                                         Yes.
                                         
                                         Yes, it does.
                                         
                                         I suppose it does, yes.
                                         
                                         But you think they're still busy?
                                         
                                         Yes.
                                         
                                         Maybe.
                                         
    
                                         I do not know.
                                         
                                         Then why say we have to go back?
                                         
                                         Eventually, I say we should, like, for example,
                                         
                                         you say, hop on, let's go.
                                         
                                         I would say let's wait until we get there,
                                         
                                         we're reunited with our party members.
                                         
                                         We could go back and check.
                                         
                                         We could check.
                                         
    
                                         Yes, we could.
                                         
                                         All right, then, let us do that.
                                         
                                         Yes, well, do you want to look at the stalls while we're here,
                                         
                                         or do you want to just head back?
                                         
                                         We can have a look at the stalls.
                                         
                                         Sure.
                                         
                                         I'd rather just go up and have a little sticky peek at what's up there.
                                         
                                         Yeah, well, I would prefer that we were all there together,
                                         
    
                                         because that's how, that's us getting out, yes.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         Yes. All right, so what was our decision... That's how it's getting out, yes. Okay. Yes.
                                         
                                         All right.
                                         
                                         So what was our decision?
                                         
                                         Let's go to the stools.
                                         
                                         All right.
                                         
                                         Can I get you to roll the encounter die?
                                         
    
                                         Ten.
                                         
                                         Ten?
                                         
                                         Hell yeah.
                                         
                                         No.
                                         
                                         No!
                                         
                                         No!
                                         
                                         It comes through the hole and then echoes through this entire chamber.
                                         
                                         You hear something big flying outside.
                                         
    
                                         The reverberation of its wings echoes deeply and loudly.
                                         
                                         Other than that, nothing happens.
                                         
                                         Is it the same wing kind of noise that we have encountered previously?
                                         
                                         Seems like, yeah.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         It's outside.
                                         
                                         It's not in here. And it doesn't sound like it's coming here. It just, yeah. Okay. It's outside, it's not in here, and it doesn't sound like
                                         
                                         it's coming here. Just flies past.
                                         
    
                                         Oh. You don't get to see it because you're in here.
                                         
                                         Are we anywhere near where we were previously?
                                         
                                         Like, in terms of, it's like, I guess, hunting
                                         
                                         grounds? You could, well,
                                         
                                         you were a little bit
                                         
                                         outside what you thought its hunting grounds were.
                                         
                                         Oh. Well, that's
                                         
                                         interesting.
                                         
    
                                         Well, I suppose we're away from our house
                                         
                                         Good point
                                         
                                         We're busy
                                         
                                         Is it a good point?
                                         
                                         I assume it's whatever the hunting ground was for that
                                         
                                         We filled you in, didn't we, love?
                                         
                                         I'm sorry, I get confused because you keep calling me love
                                         
                                         I forget that is part of my name
                                         
    
                                         What was the question, sir?
                                         
                                         We were told to investigate some kind of whim,
                                         
                                         and we found it.
                                         
                                         Well, we found perhaps its nest.
                                         
                                         Oh, I heard about this.
                                         
                                         Yes, I think that was...
                                         
                                         You found a dead dragon?
                                         
                                         Yes, yes, it was a gushed in half.
                                         
    
                                         And a lot of things.
                                         
                                         A lot of things, yes.
                                         
                                         Quite up high.
                                         
                                         You took my accent there for a second when you said things. Yes, things. We all of things. A lot of things, yes. I'm quite up high. You took my accent there for a second when you said things.
                                         
                                         Yes, things.
                                         
                                         We all remember things.
                                         
                                         We all like things.
                                         
                                         Yes, quite a lot of things.
                                         
    
                                         But it's quite up high and, yes,
                                         
                                         I don't know what could do that to a dragon.
                                         
                                         I've never encountered anything like that in any of the books I've read.
                                         
                                         I do not know either.
                                         
                                         At that point, we'll say...
                                         
                                         Let's say, Big T,
                                         
                                         you're scrounging around
                                         
                                         where the market stalls are. Big T,
                                         
    
                                         you grab this giant sheet
                                         
                                         covering a...
                                         
                                         You're not sure what it is, but it's maybe about as big
                                         
                                         as a cart, and you pull it
                                         
                                         off. As you pull it off,
                                         
                                         you reveal a giant blista or ballista depending
                                         
                                         if you want to be nasty or not the ballista sits on a a swivel so it can like be turned left and
                                         
                                         right and instead of having any sort of proper wheels or anything like that it's got like a
                                         
    
                                         table would have it's got four giant legs it's mostly
                                         
                                         made out of wood and the wooden legs are carved into the form of elephant's feet awesome yes i
                                         
                                         found the barista oh yeah oh our barista yeah when you start talking big t it turns as far as it can
                                         
                                         to look at you it can't turn the entire way so the wooden legs begin to move, and it starts turning
                                         
                                         around.
                                         
                                         Let's go to initiative.
                                         
                                         Don't do it.
                                         
                                         It's an animal.
                                         
    
                                         What is this?
                                         
                                         What?
                                         
                                         I say, as I guess, I assume, a harpoon in my belly.
                                         
                                         What?
                                         
                                         You got to put the shape back on so it thinks it's nighttime again.
                                         
                                         It's not a bad idea.
                                         
                                         Big T, you're first.
                                         
                                         All that's done so far is turn around.
                                         
    
                                         I put the sheet back on.
                                         
                                         All right.
                                         
                                         You throw the sheet over a corner of it,
                                         
                                         but you can't get it very far on.
                                         
                                         Why?
                                         
                                         It's easier to drag it off than it is to put it back on.
                                         
                                         The sheet is made out of canvas.
                                         
                                         It looks like this sheet was actually just the covering for a market stall.
                                         
    
                                         That's this big, heavy canvas sheet.
                                         
                                         And throwing it back on is not that easy a prospect.
                                         
                                         You get it on one of the corners, but that's about it. Globble.
                                         
                                         Um...
                                         
                                         Grab the card inside.
                                         
                                         Put it to bed again.
                                         
                                         Uh... I want to
                                         
                                         sidestep away,
                                         
    
                                         because it tried to turn to Swivel.
                                         
                                         It's, yeah, trying to turn itself around.
                                         
                                         To us, yes.
                                         
                                         It looks like it's trying to get to Big T.
                                         
                                         Oh. Um... I will try to to, yes, I will try and go
                                         
                                         I guess the same way it's swiveling, to try and
                                         
                                         grab the corner of the canvas. Alright, so you're getting to it to grab
                                         
                                         the canvas. Well, yes. You could do that and
                                         
    
                                         also, I'm assuming, trying to put the canvas back on it? Yes, yes, yes.
                                         
                                         Alright. Well, okay.
                                         
                                         There's a lot of trust in Big D right now.
                                         
                                         You do not know that is how this works,
                                         
                                         but I applaud you for believing this is how it works.
                                         
                                         Well, we work it up.
                                         
                                         As if it's not how it works.
                                         
                                         Is it an animal or is it a machine?
                                         
    
                                         As if this isn't bird rules.
                                         
                                         If you want, you can spend an action to try and assess what this thing is.
                                         
                                         Well, I'll get into position and then I'll try to assess what it is.
                                         
                                         Well, that would be instead of trying to put the top.
                                         
                                         All right.
                                         
                                         Oh, rude.
                                         
                                         No trust for big T, I see.
                                         
                                         I do trust you.
                                         
    
                                         I'm getting in position to do such a thing.
                                         
                                         I can see you thinking instead of moving.
                                         
                                         He rubs his chin and goes, hmm.
                                         
                                         I'm just going to quickly.
                                         
                                         It doesn't look like it's an animal. It looks like it's a
                                         
                                         ballista on
                                         
                                         legs that is moving.
                                         
                                         It's like an automaton.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah, you can see that it's covered in
                                         
                                         dwarven sigils and stuff
                                         
                                         like that that glow with magic.
                                         
                                         But beyond that...
                                         
                                         Alright. Then it is
                                         
                                         Big Love's turn.
                                         
                                         If you two are doing that, he's going to join in He manages to get it over another corner, the back half is completely covered
                                         
                                         No one's covering the front half for obvious reasons
                                         
    
                                         And then it's its turn
                                         
                                         It, I guess, is now facing you, Big D
                                         
                                         The winch begins turning backwards
                                         
                                         And the giant drawstring
                                         
                                         is pulled back
                                         
                                         and taut. A magical
                                         
                                         bolt of fire appears
                                         
                                         in the slot where a regular
                                         
    
                                         ballistae shot would appear
                                         
                                         and then it fires
                                         
                                         it point blank at you.
                                         
                                         Oh boy. Oh no.
                                         
                                         Good news, it has disadvantage
                                         
                                         because you're in melee range.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         Thank God I'm too close to the fire machine.
                                         
    
                                         Well, actually, yeah, it misses you completely because it can't.
                                         
                                         It's trying to aim and you're right there and obviously not trying to be hit.
                                         
                                         So the bolt fires and you feel wind rushing in between your arm and your chest.
                                         
                                         And then a rock behind you explodes.
                                         
                                         And, well, that was all it can do right now.
                                         
                                         And it is Big T, your turn.
                                         
                                         Now, try to get away from its line of sight.
                                         
                                         Can I just try and cut the rope?
                                         
    
                                         Yeah, sure.
                                         
                                         With what?
                                         
                                         I reckon a hand axe is going to do the best job.
                                         
                                         All right.
                                         
                                         Hang on.
                                         
                                         Are you asking this as in which weapon is going to be the more practical one
                                         
                                         or which weapon do I have a better hit chance on?
                                         
                                         Because my glaive has a better hit chance,
                                         
    
                                         but I feel like a hand axe in practicality is going to be easier.
                                         
                                         Well, the glaive actually does have a big curved edge
                                         
                                         and you are trying to reach around a large object.
                                         
                                         So actually in practicality-wise,
                                         
                                         so in your head, you're imagining one thing,
                                         
                                         but I am telling you that the glaive actually is probably more practical
                                         
                                         and would do more damage as well.
                                         
                                         And the halberd probably also.
                                         
    
                                         Oh, the halberd, sorry, is what I meant.
                                         
                                         The halberd has a curved edge as well.
                                         
                                         I would like to use the halberd.
                                         
                                         No worries.
                                         
                                         You hit.
                                         
                                         And remember, it's magical.
                                         
                                         I'm going to take advantage of the beautiful curved edge.
                                         
                                         You strike it with the halberd and deal 16 points of damage.
                                         
    
                                         But did I cut the string?
                                         
                                         You slam into the string, and the string reverberates.
                                         
                                         But you know how...
                                         
                                         So imagine if you've got a string that is taut,
                                         
                                         just above a bit of wood, you like swing a knife down at
                                         
                                         it now you could imagine that yes sometimes the knife would cut through the string but can you
                                         
                                         also imagine that the knife just presses the string against the wood and then comes back off
                                         
                                         just because of a lack of force or the wrong angle or something like that that is essentially what
                                         
    
                                         happens here i'm not saying don't try to cut the string, I'm just saying that the string does not get cut
                                         
                                         in this particular instance, and Globble,
                                         
                                         you can see that this thing is obviously
                                         
                                         magical. So there might be
                                         
                                         magical stuff going on here as well,
                                         
                                         you just don't know.
                                         
                                         As in, like, Big T, you don't even know this
                                         
                                         magic, for all you know, this is an animal.
                                         
    
                                         Big T,
                                         
                                         16 points of damage, Globble, what would
                                         
                                         you like to do?
                                         
                                         Love, if you could Big T, 16 points of damage Globble, what would you like to do? Love
                                         
                                         If you could grab the corner
                                         
                                         and drape it over, I could try and
                                         
                                         catch the canvas on fire
                                         
                                         and perhaps it'll just burn it down
                                         
    
                                         Is it made from wood?
                                         
                                         It is made of wood, yeah
                                         
                                         Love is blind, nods and says
                                         
                                         Yes, we can do this
                                         
                                         Okay, well you go grab it, then I will produce flame.
                                         
                                         So I'll take my turn after his turn, in terms of mechanic wise.
                                         
                                         Love is blind, grabs the top, and heaves as hard as he can, and does not budge at all.
                                         
                                         I'll help him do that, then.
                                         
    
                                         All right.
                                         
                                         So.
                                         
                                         Oh, no.
                                         
                                         I get a bad boy card.
                                         
                                         Oh.
                                         
                                         Oh, I sound coveted a bit more.
                                         
                                         Between 1 and 29?
                                         
                                         Yeah, let's go 16.
                                         
    
                                         16?
                                         
                                         Overtired.
                                         
                                         Players receive a minimum amount of healing from rest.
                                         
                                         Aww.
                                         
                                         In addition, before it actually takes its turn,
                                         
                                         I'm going to use one of my cards, Legendary Action.
                                         
                                         It gets an extra shot, basically.
                                         
                                         Aww.
                                         
    
                                         It keeps trying to track you, Big T. It fires once's gonna fire a second time all right first time's a miss hey second time also a miss
                                         
                                         two explosions behind you it can't get a good bead on you but every shot it fires you it just like waves of heat
                                         
                                         washing over you and that was its turn big t what would you like to do i want to keep trying to
                                         
                                         cover it keep trying to cover it yes all right big t you grab and heave you cover one more corner but
                                         
                                         there's still one corner of it is uncovered and because of the nature and shape of this thing
                                         
                                         you would need to cover all four corners if you wanted it
                                         
                                         to have to shoot at least shoot
                                         
                                         through the canvas like the
                                         
    
                                         where it fires out of is still exposed
                                         
                                         yeah that was big T
                                         
                                         oh no sorry it's
                                         
                                         love first
                                         
                                         he's going to try to
                                         
                                         no he can't
                                         
                                         he's maybe climbed on top of it
                                         
                                         And is like
                                         
    
                                         Globble what would you like to do?
                                         
                                         I'll try and cover it as well
                                         
                                         You managed to get it completely covered
                                         
                                         Okay good
                                         
                                         Highs or lows?
                                         
                                         Highs
                                         
                                         As soon as it's covered it stops moving
                                         
                                         We're out of initiative
                                         
    
                                         Alright well That was something Let's just leave that there As soon as it's covered, it stops moving. Yeah. We're out of initiative. Oh, phew.
                                         
                                         All right, well, that was something.
                                         
                                         Let's just leave that there.
                                         
                                         Leave it.
                                         
                                         Leave it.
                                         
                                         Good work.
                                         
                                         Might prove useful if something comes down.
                                         
                                         Well, it's a cool little pull-away trick.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Yeah, well, anything else in this market stall? Otherwise, let's probably go back to a tippy cup and yola.
                                         
                                         Can I get you to roll the encounter dice?
                                         
                                         Two.
                                         
                                         You search the entire market area.
                                         
                                         Most of the goods here have just
                                         
                                         decayed over time or been looted
                                         
                                         by other creatures or consumed
                                         
    
                                         by creatures that eat things.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         In total, you are able to scrounge
                                         
                                         from money containers and stuff like that
                                         
                                         10 gold.
                                         
                                         That's it.
                                         
                                         Oh, that's not nothing.
                                         
                                         Well, so if we can go back to a group,
                                         
    
                                         see what they're doing.
                                         
                                         We still have the downstairs big area
                                         
                                         if we wanted to keep exploring.
                                         
                                         Don't know that we want to do that.
                                         
                                         Or we can kind of just check in with the others
                                         
                                         and see what's going on.
                                         
                                         Let's go see Bath Time and Dippy Cup.
                                         
                                         You head back to the chapel.
                                         
    
                                         When you get back to the chapel,
                                         
                                         you see that Chantel and
                                         
                                         Yeola appear to be kidding up.
                                         
                                         Chantel is
                                         
                                         strapping herself into armor
                                         
                                         and stuff like that, sharpening her weapon.
                                         
                                         Yeola is doing similar, basically.
                                         
                                         Chantal nods as you approach.
                                         
    
                                         Pleasure to see you again.
                                         
                                         There's a sight for sore eyes.
                                         
                                         Welcome back.
                                         
                                         She brings all three of you into a bit of a bear hug.
                                         
                                         We embrace.
                                         
                                         She doesn't need to initiate that.
                                         
                                         Yes, we...
                                         
                                         I say, Pippicab!
                                         
    
                                         So glad that you're back with us.
                                         
                                         After she's let go of each of you for your bear hug,
                                         
                                         she kind of straightens her shoulders,
                                         
                                         gives you a square look,
                                         
                                         and each of you realize that the armor has come,
                                         
                                         the metaphorical armor has come back up.
                                         
                                         That's fair.
                                         
                                         Well, we will manage to find the armor of the ethereal manipulation.
                                         
    
                                         Chantal, you could perhaps utilize it if it's a bit better than what you're currently wearing.
                                         
                                         That's up to you.
                                         
                                         Also, there was that.
                                         
                                         It fits.
                                         
                                         Yes, it'll probably fit you better than does Big T over here.
                                         
                                         I'm too big.
                                         
                                         We also have, there was, I'm not sure if you've investigated
                                         
                                         around here, but there was that dwarf who had a lot of
                                         
    
                                         magical items on them.
                                         
                                         I don't know if we wanted to
                                         
                                         see if they could help us, but
                                         
                                         I'm of the opinion probably to leave things
                                         
                                         and let things lie.
                                         
                                         I do not wish to pilfer from the dead if we can avoid it.
                                         
                                         That's my opinion as well.
                                         
                                         So
                                         
    
                                         we have this manipulation armor, if you would like to wear it.
                                         
                                         We also have, speaking of the dead, we do have some dead to take care of.
                                         
                                         I'm dead.
                                         
                                         I worry about wearing armor that I don't know 100% the effects and uses of,
                                         
                                         if it were cursed or something like that.
                                         
                                         Of course.
                                         
                                         I don't dabble with, sorry?
                                         
                                         That's clever.
                                         
    
                                         I don't dabble with magic I don't understand.
                                         
                                         That being said, necromancy is magic.
                                         
                                         I feel like I thoroughly understand,
                                         
                                         and I'm happy to crush some undead skulls if we want.
                                         
                                         Yes.
                                         
                                         So it's just through that room there, up top,
                                         
                                         and then 11 undead I counted.
                                         
                                         So I explained to Chantal, just catch her up on everything,
                                         
    
                                         to be like, ah, yes, this is, Kobo's out there,
                                         
                                         there's a door there, it got sealed.
                                         
                                         A lot of dead dwarves, I believe, are in there.
                                         
                                         Strange that the dead dwarves in there didn't come through this way
                                         
                                         to try and go up there.
                                         
                                         You know what, it's all very baffling to me.
                                         
                                         Oh, they're dead. Give them a break.
                                         
                                         They might not know about this other hole,
                                         
    
                                         but it could only be a matter of time before they find it.
                                         
                                         Yes, true.
                                         
                                         Does Chantal know anything about the weird not-elephant we just found?
                                         
                                         Well, you can ask.
                                         
                                         We just found a not-elephant.
                                         
                                         I've never heard of such a creature.
                                         
                                         Yes.
                                         
                                         I couldn't tell you.
                                         
    
                                         Some kind of defense from the dwarves.
                                         
                                         Possibly, yes.
                                         
                                         You just need to leave its hat on.
                                         
                                         Sure.
                                         
                                         So, are we slaying
                                         
                                         some dead? I believe yes. We're getting rid
                                         
                                         of the undead there, clearing that out.
                                         
                                         And then there's upstairs we could
                                         
    
                                         try and use the elevators out
                                         
                                         or we can explore further on.
                                         
                                         I found the good ones. We should be fine.
                                         
                                         Opinions on that when we get to it.
                                         
                                         Yes.
                                         
                                         Maybe it would be worth
                                         
                                         investigating, sending someone up
                                         
                                         and then investigating
                                         
    
                                         the kobolds to see what they're doing.
                                         
                                         That's obviously a very good idea.
                                         
                                         Before we potentially plunge
                                         
                                         ourselves any further into
                                         
                                         a dangerous situation.
                                         
                                         Alright, well let's get there.
                                         
                                         I suggest
                                         
                                         probably love.
                                         
    
                                         You're very quick.
                                         
                                         You'd probably be very quick. Life.
                                         
                                         You'd probably be very good at that.
                                         
                                         Oh, sure.
                                         
                                         Send it to Baxi.
                                         
                                         Yes.
                                         
                                         Tree Stump is standing there like, oh, that's what they suggested.
                                         
                                         And everyone said, no, don't check.
                                         
    
                                         We'll wait till Chantel gets there.
                                         
                                         And Chantel's like, oh, God, we should check.
                                         
                                         Tree Stump's mouth is open and they look cut I also
                                         
                                         accept that they're probably
                                         
                                         just going to get ignored
                                         
                                         aww little big tea
                                         
                                         yes
                                         
                                         that's what I said
                                         
    
                                         well I wanted to
                                         
                                         I didn't want to like separate out
                                         
                                         I had the same good idea
                                         
                                         same good idea alright so, you did. The same good idea.
                                         
                                         So you return back to that elevator.
                                         
                                         Just another example of Tree Stump being like
                                         
                                         God, every decision I've made has
                                         
                                         been perfect. All I've
                                         
    
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