Dice Shame - 2-27 | 'Knock at the Door'

Episode Date: March 2, 2023

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I'm going to intimidate you, but I'm not coming closer. I only have two weapons, and they're both cool as hell. Jack's got eyes for this kind of thing. Just hold on to this. Maybe it needs, like, an object, to interact with. How big is the armor? I'm seeing double. I was running, and I'm exhausted now. Can I make the middle ground argument?

And you know, another thing about all this... It does sound cool. It's going to go bad for you. You don't want to get into Jack in something archaeologically interesting. Well, let me help you get into that room if you want. You can either act like a fool and get your head ripped off. As he looks at me, Dorn just nods in agreement. You're going to die.

Welcome back to Dice Shane. This is Season 2, episode 27, knock at the door. MVP this week is Retro from our Discord. Retro's been around for a while, and somehow we missed you. I blame the Zenthal. Anyway, thanks so much for joining us, Retro. Thanks, Retro. Divisor is a forthcoming sci-fi horror series by me.

I've yet to release details about it, but listen after the credits for the audio from a teaser that I recently released. Follow at Divisorcast on Twitter and Instagram for some announcements that will be coming very soon. Ooh. All right, shall we do this? Yeah, let's play some D&D. Woo!

Henry was giving us pointers on how to be better parents tonight. Oh, no. And the one that he gave Harlan was, Daddy, you need to change your clothes more often. Oh, shit. Oh, yeah? Hold on. Hold on.

He's getting roasted by a child, Harlan. Yeah, he was to roast. Now, can we clarify a point here? I don't know. Will it make the story better? So it doesn't sound like I'm saying it to counter. Please defend my honor. Joe.

He changes his clothes often enough. He doesn't smell at all. Jesus. That does not sound convincing. It's tolerable. Henry's saying this because we give him a hard time because we always say, oh, we'll carry your stinky feet. So he's just looking for stuff.

Also, he hides his favorite clothes underneath his dresser instead of putting it in the laundry hamper. To know where they are. Again, well, they're dirty. I change my clothes. Exactly. Every single day. If anything, I'm too clean.

Yeah, that's true. If anything, I should be stinkier. That's a good topic to start on. I mean, how smelly are you? I think changing clothes every day is like too much personally. Oh. And let me step back. Wait, underwear too?

Pants don't need to be changed all the time, right? I agree. And things like sweaters don't need to be changed all the time. Shirts, the things that touch your sweaty parts, like shirts and your underpants and socks, those need to be changed. Agree. I agree. Unless.

Unless. Rob's waffling, though. Rob's looking up into the left. No, no, I wasn't waffling. I was, I was thinking, I had two thoughts. One, just about the framing of that is like, clothes or to protect the world from your grossness, not to protect you from the grossness of the world.

Interesting. Was the sort of vibe that Alex was putting out there. And I'm here for that. Cloth thing. I mean, I agree with it. Interesting. But that's a good point. I didn't think about that way.

I'm just going to finish that, my thought, though, sorry, with. This is really important. If, like, okay, and I'll explain, I'll give it back up. When I go to work, I wear, like, work clothes. This is good in true material, actually. Right? But when I come home, I'm only wearing these clothes from like five till 11, right? So those socks.

So each clothing has an hour usage as well. The time that you're closest to children who are known to be particularly cleanly and hygienic creature. Yes. Hmm. There's sticky little hands. Socks, sometimes boxers. get two wears. Yeah, like last night I wore this sweater to trivia and I came home.

And I wasn't wearing it all day yesterday. And I came home and I even changed out of it. But then I put it on today because I only wore it for two hours yesterday. It's totally clean. I have a little mini laundry basket that I have beside my other laundry basket. And that's just for clothes that I wore once that aren't dirty that I can wear again. But they're too dirty to put back in with the clean clothes. They're not dirty enough to go in with the dirty clothes.

That's the hook on the door. We've got a little hook on the door to the closet that, you know, you hang stuff up that you're like, I don't want to put that away. It doesn't feel right to put it back with the clean, clean stuff, but I'd wear it again. The hook on the door or the chair in the corner, right? The chair in the corner of the chair.

Anybody got a chair or a couch or something in the corner? I try not to do the chair, but. I banned the clothing chair. We don't do that either, but I do have a secondary longer. Because we don't have a room for a chair. Let's be honest. If there was a chair in the corner, They'd be closed all over it.

True. All right, let's play a D&D. Anyway, that's not even an intro. We can't do anything with that. We can. Let's hop on it into the game. The sound of far-off laughter echoes from down the hallway, interrupting your investigation of the gnomish statue.

And Red, like, holds his hand up and, like, tells everyone to shush for a second. I feel like we have a universal language between all of us besides knowing looks that when shit gets serious. because we've been on knife edge long enough. We must have some signal that we do. It's a knowing look. Yeah, but the problem is if no one's looking at me, the knowing looks aren't good. So he just makes that sound.

And Doran looks. And then he gives a knowing look and he points up the stairs to the sound of laughter, which I imagine now that I pointed out, we all hear. Everyone knows how when you point at a sound, it gets louder. No, but when you notice, when you like, and then you stop. Yeah, the sound echoes. around it's it's coming from the east but because of the echoey stonework it's hard to know

how close it is dorin in a very um unit officer way puts his finger to his lips and then he points at the bull's eye lantern and he makes like a hand motion to like turn it off nice veranda just cranks the dial and the flame diminishes and then extinguishes yeah and uh i think red castes pass without trace. Cool. Comes up around us and let's move up. We got the momentary drop on them. We might as well do something.

Fran, do you want to wait here with Kieran until we see what's up there? Okay. Yeah, I'll just be right here beside this statue. And she tries to kind of like tuck herself in beside this known statue. That's not a statue. The goonies? If anything happens, Kieran can get my attention from anywhere in this place. come running. Red, give her that knife

you found. She already has my ghost dagger. Do I have to give her this too? I forgot if she has a weapon. She's got everything. Look at it. She's fucking blinged out. She's like completely covered in weapons. God, I give everything to this woman. A weapon donated from everybody. I didn't give her ship. Yeah, Marie, we know. You wanted to give him my dagger. You're holding a sickle and you're

like, Red, give that to her. And you know another thing about all this? And your flower knife and you've got like... I only have two weapons and they're both cool as And a stick. You have a stick. Yeah, the stick's sort of crammed in the back. I have this dagger in my bow. So anyways,

Veranda, and Doran pulls out his dagger and he's like, just hold on to this. Thanks, Doran. Then I walk over and take my ghost dagger back. Fine, I'll take this back then. Are you guys done? What do you mean done? You know, you're getting on my nose.

All right, let's go. Where are you talking to? None of your business, let's go. Okay. You stealth. the stairs. Yeah. The four of you working together well and keeping silent.

How you described that? Despite the evidence to the contrary. Despite everyone actually being super loud, thanks to Reds pass without trace, you do okay. Hey, I have it so that I can be quiet. At the end of the hallway, your path heads north and south. And I walked toward the direction of the laughter. Okay.

Do do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Is that for a honey, I chunk the kids? Yeah, it sounds like it. Moving up the hallway, you hear the low mumble of people speaking quietly. Someone curses and you hear the clatter of metal on stone, as if something's been dropped. You peer around the corner to see three humans gathered around a doorway on the north side of the hall. There's another doorway opposite, closed. The humans appear to be in the middle of trying to get the other door open.

Are they armed? Do they look like bandits? They all look like Nicholas Cage. That's right. Nice. I can't get it open. They're trying to get the Declaration of Independence. Red turns back and kind of gives the hand wave of like the back and forth,

come see, come saw, kind of like, how do we want to play this? You know, they're not attacking. We don't usually attack until. We just fell into a hole. They maybe know where the door out is. We could just ask them. Yeah, that's what I mean, I was doing with hand signals. But yeah, it was like a nod.

Give them hand signals. See how they respond. Maybe we should enter. with like a, hello, you know, like a clearing of the foot. Yeah, I mean, that was kind of going to be Red's play. I was just kind of, he like turns, he's kind of like, like, what do we think in? And he sees Jack being like shaking his head like, nah, like, we don't need to attack. Doran kind of like stomp's his foot.

Okay. So that's one for each, Marie, tiebreaker. Lives are in the balance. Mari's willing to, to chat with him. But she is also very ready to cast entangle. Cool. And then, and then Red probably gives the signal to like hold. Mm-hmm.

Right? Because, like, why all of us, right? And he just kind of like holds, he stands up, and I guess Red would walk out. Sure. I mean, arguably, I'm the most charismatic if it goes that way. And the most handsome. Well, I didn't want to say anything, but... And the softest.

And I'm the strongest. So it's best if I stay out of sight. And I am certainly here as well, so... I like books. Who is this a book? Yeah, Red walks out. Well, hello there. Oh, we have company.

I should say you do. Just falling through the sand pit, have you? Yes, same as you? Yes, unfortunately. Where's my manners? I'm Ravinia. This is my husband, Clevon, and here's grinning Bradley. Oh, is he grinning?

He is, yeah. So it's not just a clever name. Nice to meet you. My name is Red Handed Robin, and Red goes up in his voice as if he's going to introduce the rest, but he doesn't. A pleasure to meet you. I'm happy to find you down here. I was a little worried, to be honest. I fell down here and I didn't know the way out.

How long ago have you fallen down? We haven't seen sunlight for about three days from what we can surmise. We were on our way to Loudwater from Lorke, and one of our less intellectually endowed companions suggested traveling this veil as a shortcut. Oh, geez. No way to talk about your husband. I'm going to roll insight on that.

Sure. Oh, no. Did you roll? Oh, go ahead. That's a natural one. Red, this is a charming woman. Oh, shit.

And you think that, you know, it would probably be in the party's best interest to help them out. Well, no, I wouldn't go that far. I think Red would help them out. That's a lie I would buy, but I'm still not going to sell them out until I'm for sure, for sure. So Red takes a step toward. Did they have lights?

Or are they? They do, yes. So Ravinia is a short woman with shaggy brown hair and calloused hands. She's got her arms crossed over her chest with a confident, easy expression on her face. Her husband, Clevon, is busy at the door. He barely looks up at you red to give you a once over. and grinning Bradley, true to his name, has terrible teeth to match. He leans against the stone wall and leers at you,

hand on the hilt of his scimitar, and his other hand holding a torch. Well, let me help you get into that room if you want. Would you? Of course. And Red tucks right up between them and walks towards the door. Any chance you've had a good look around? No, I just came in and started hearing some of the laughing, and I came up this way. have a good time here.

Hey, it's best two. It's pretty spooky down here. It is. I'm hoping maybe we can put our heads together and figure this place out. He's the hope. I mean, ultimately, I'm fortunate because I can see in the dark, but I guess the three of you need the light. How fortunate. Yes, just take a look at this door. Clevon, give it a break. And he stands up and sort of harrumps, turns away from the door. This door is square. It's made a very dark, almost black metal, and there are five square indentations, one on each corner and one in the

very middle. There's no obvious keyhole, but there's a small handle on one side, and you can see the stone around the door is scraped up, where Clavon's been trying to gain purchase for a pry bar. Ah, you're not going to get in that way. Hey, funny that you fell down here with a pry bar already. Oh. Well, and how many torches does it take to burn for three days? Did you say that out? No. Jack, shut up. Shut up, Jack. Remember we talked about your muttering? He's doing calculations in his head about the number of torches. One torch lasts so many hours.

Part of any adventurers pack. I hear that. And Red will take a look at the lock and I guess he'll try to finagle it. Yeah, I mean, there's no keyhole. There's no obvious lock on this door. Can I roll investigation on it? Sure. I feel like there's this whole silent skit that's happening around the corner.

Yeah? Fifteen. Yeah, you can't figure out how to open this fucking door. Well, what about this door, Red Points to the South? We've three other companions resting in the other chamber, Priestley, Shea, and the fingers. Oh, there's a whole bunch of you. Yes, actually we had a seventh with us, Jody, but she was eaten by the slime in the crop room to the South. Have you been down that way?

The what to the what? The crop room to the South. What's a crop room? Just what I supposed had been happening here in this strange place. There's weird plants. You think they grew weird plants down here? I don't know. You all are pretty silly to think that they would grow plants underground.

Don't you know? Plants need light. Oh. Meanwhile, Doren's like shaking his head. Mari's like, plants? Why didn't you try to get back out the way you fell in? Oh, it's just not possible. We did try. To grow up. Fair enough.

Red stands up. I don't have an answer for getting behind this store, but my friends do. I'm not alone down here. Sorry, I should have said. But my friend is a wizard as well as my other friend. Hey, hey, everyone, come on down. I'm down here. Red calls out.

I took the lead. A scout, are you? Duren sort of runs back up the hall and then, like, quietly, and then back down the whole ladder. Did you say you're down here, Red? Down here. Winking at Mari and Jack as he passes by. The part that gets me is the vision of, like, these people seem fairly modestly dressed.

They've got like a crowbar or a torch or something. fucking Doran comes in gleaming like the golden god of like the best ass dwarf armor with this huge like spectacular dwarven axe like this god of battle just fucking avengers oh yeah marries got like a glowing sickle you say this a lot and i think i need to officially make the record clear because you said this a lot and it makes sense when we're magic somewhat only my bow is magic on me but beyond that dorin's breastplate is covered in grime and filth there is no way that thing looks gold anymore. And I don't think we've ever described the axe. And then Jack and Red and Mari all wear more or less plain clothes. Red's only metal on him is a breastplate which is under kind of a muddy leather thing and he's got a paldron.

We're really not that blinked. If anything, we'd probably like more like bandits than heroes because we're usually pretty grimy. I've only ever said it about Doran who's wearing and wielding literal legendary pieces of equipment that have been written about me. Yeah, but that means nothing to the. normal person, especially one that doesn't take care of it the way Doran would. Jack's got eyes for this kind of thing. Orks putters got like

grass on her. All I mean to say is I don't think that someone would see like if it was brass, you know, if it was polished and if it was like, like if he was going to the end of Star Wars scene and he was getting a metal print on it, it would look amazing. But we're talking about Doran's sleeping in this thing and fucking bathing this thing. You do have a cloak of useful items. Yeah, but it's just got patches on it. Can I make the middle ground argument? I mean, it's your armor. You tell us what it looks. like yeah you know what like like i think we're dressed more like battle ready adventures than

the normal person like far more yeah i mean i've got my shoulder what are those called paldrons pauldrons that's right i so i've got the paldrons i've got you know uh maybe a little bit of the brass chests showing as well as like you know gauntlets and heavy boots and like we all kind of look like very experienced adventures marries and like a like a woolen toggle coat she looks like she wandered in from the bay no you have new crab armor your crustacean yeah but we're still in winter you look like it's not under your coat under my coat how big is your coat it's how big is the armor would be you think the armor would be on top of a coat no i think it's like it's like a holloman would be fitted and you'd have a cloak or something on top of it i'm imagining it comically large

like she's a hermit but regardless the reason i'm saying it the reason i'm saying it is because if we did look to flashy, I think red would have made a point to be like, hey, your dorn iron fists, people are hunting you, let's buff the shit down, let's dress down. Like, even if we do look, even remotely adventurey, I would try as much as I could to hide that as often as I could, because that's not a thing that we really want, especially in deception, it wouldn't really help if we're trying to be cool. At the end of the day, there's a vibe from head to toe battle armor made out of magic metal. There's a vibe, sure.

There is certainly a vibe. There's a vibe shift when he walks in. There's certainly a vibe with the four of you that you all know how to take care of yourselves. How about that? Yeah. So you come around the whole corner. Slow motion with music playing.

You see them. Hi. Oh, hello. There's four of you. Hi. And there's six of you? I'm sorry? There's six of you?

Dorn, you were too far away to hear that. that. I mean, I can't count. I can't count. I'm seeing double. I was running and I'm exhausted now. Sorry, he's not good at counting. How many of there are you? Just the three of you? Darn. It's only three of them. But there are three in the room. Good guess. No. Oh, that's four and three and three. That's ten. She rolls her eyes. So what are you doing?

We fell in, I'm sure, much the same as you. And as we have little knowledge of the creatures that must have constructed this place, we're having a hard time finding the way out. I'm pretty sure it was gnomes. Yeah. This place is like a thousand years old. It's super interesting. And what makes you say that?

Well, just because I really leveled. I'm an archaeologist by trade. I think you said wizard, but I prefer archaeologist just because it's my passion. Well, is there any chance that you would know how to open this door, Mr. Wizard? I mean, there's always a chance, but it's a slim one. I don't this this stuff is all beyond me it's why I'm really loving it here all these like gears and stuff no one's just thinking in a different level of reality hey that's true have you tried knocking Mari just leans over very quiet and just

whispers if anything goes bad get that torch out because she overheard red saying something about like yeah I was thinking the exact same thing yeah yeah put that torch out because they won't be able to see in the dark yeah um I'd like to roll a perception while Jack's kind of I'm gonna say distracting them sure what are you perceiving rolling earlier i want to see how like honest they're being that's insight i'm sorry um because i'm rolling something different than can i re-roll no would you roll absolutely not well at least insight gives me an extra one that's 12 i rolled it um yeah these people seem totally on the up and up okay and uh i mean they they definitely have weapons on them one of them's sneering at you like uh you're

something he just wiped off the bottom of his shoe at me But apart from that... Excuse me. Can I bore that torch for a second? I just want to take a closer look at this door, and the light really helps sort of discern finer details. There might be some part of this weird gnomish mechanism. Sure.

And he gives it to you. Perfect. Oh, your voice is so creepy. Is that grinning Bradley? Is that smiling Johnny or whatever? Grinning Steve. Grinning Bradley. He's like, my mama gave it to me.

Creepy. I'm Jack. Nice to meet you. He stares at your hand. Can I investigate this door? Yeah, investigate it. Let's do this. 16.

Mm. Yeah, you can't sort it out. Try knocking, Jack. I knock on the door. Nothing happens. Did anything happen? I don't think so. It just, you know, vibrated an expected amount.

But it's good to test every hypothesis when we got the time. Yeah, hi, hi, you know, is there an obvious keyhole on the door? Or is it, it's another one where it's not clear how these things work. Maybe it needs like an object to interact with, you know? like a key. That's not a bad point, although I don't see a keyhole. No, no, like a scroll or something.

You're like hold it near it and it activates. I pull the key out of my pouch that we got from Doran's cousin, and it's got a tuning fork kind of thing on the end, so I strike the tuning fork end, and I set it on the door on the other side, just to see what happens. Rob Deobald, Mr. Somebody.

Wow, no, don't tell me. Jack, you begin to hear a series, of vibrations. Stop it, stop it, quick. It seems like the door is responding in some way. Oh, it's singing back. Red walks over and mutes the fork with his hand. Ah, that didn't seem to work either.

Roll deception. I'm going to use, do I have inspiration? Did we decide? I don't know, you got to tell me. You're the one who's keeping track. Well, I'm pretty inspiring. Red walks up, and he puts his hand on the tuning fork trying to deceive them. I'm not done.

And he fails. are the three. I'm not done. Hold on. I think I'm onto something here. I don't think it was working. No, no. I think, is it Jack?

Yes. I think you have something there. Where did you come upon that key? Jack is laser focused on the task at hand. He's really not in a talking, because he's now trying different places on the door to see if it rings differently, sort of trying the places where there might be a mechanism.

It could shake loose, something like that. Yeah. As you continue your investment, you realize that the metal of the key is very, very similar to the metal of the door. Mm. And as your inquisitive tappings hone in on these five square indentations, you hear it make the notes of a chord. Oh. Okay.

And so now Jack puts the key away for a second and uses a minor illusion to make that chord at the door to see if that is the vibrations of the music that open it up or if it's the actual key itself. Mm, you make the cord happen, and it sounds beautiful, but the door does not open. Interesting. Ravinia turns and opens the door to the south, and she says, I think we have something here. Come on out. And she rouses her other three companions. Meanwhile, red turns to a blank place on the wall, reaches in the bag of holding, and pushes this orange rat against a random stone. Damn.

just leaves a greasy orange mark on the wall just drops the rat back in the bag you just hear like squeakie-sque noises yeah uh i don't know red's gonna head down to the far end of the hallway stand by marie in the corner okay this was a bad idea i don't like that there's this many people yeah too many i think i've almost got it daren is at the ready he's like prepped himself mentally for battle in case shit goes

down. Nobody's getting a jump on him. Man, gnomes are so cool. Have you guys seen this a thousand years later and this is still working? And he's watching Jack's back. Jack, you feel the prick of a dagger at your spine. That's a mistake.

And Ravnia purrs in your ear. It seems like you have quite a few interesting things that could probably be very helpful down here, Jack. And it seems like you've got quite an interesting approach

to finding friends Doran says as he's got his axe out we doing this Jack stands up Hey now Excuse me Presumably you're down here because you think you're gonna find

some great treasure or something Or maybe just like stabbing people in the back before you have all the answers That seems really like your type But I really hate it There's something cool down here And you're spoiling my moment And yeah you don't want to get him

Jack in something Archaeologically interesting It's going to go bad for you. Just put your dagger back away. Take about two steps back and let's figure out what this place has to tell us. But don't, don't end your lives here over something like this. Let's not spill blood. I've had about enough of people like you telling me what I need to do in my life.

Here, here, sister. Clearly we have a single object that is useful down here. And that's it. So, you can either act like a fool and get your head ripped off, or we can work together, we can split whatever fun things we find down here, and we can leave. Are you saying that from 30 feet away? I'm just yelling it. I'm yelling it across this fucking room, but it sounds cooler. I'm going to intimidate you, but I'm not coming closer.

No. No. Are you trying to intimidate her? Let's try to intimidate her. Roll an intimidation check. Let's see if you can de-escalate. Intimidate I rolled a four

Oh come on A four? I didn't do shit Sorry guys Like yeah You take it It does sound cool It's much cooler

If I had ruled something less shitty That's a very interesting approach I'm going to decline Thank you Instead If you'd like your friend To have any use

Of his legs In about five seconds I'm going to ask all of you to put your weapons down on the ground and go back down the hallway. Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on, everybody. Just take a breath, all right?

Look, we all clearly are a little wound up because we're in tight corridors. Look, all we want, all Jack wants, is to open this door right now. You're making him feel very uncomfortable, and Jack doesn't like to be uncomfortable. Now, one of you will at the very least die. Because there's four of us

I'm going to guess we'll take out more But one of you will definitely die Are all of you okay with that That you're ready to put your life on the line right now Because I'm going to peg you right between the eyes friend So you're trying to intimidate all of the followers I'm trying to persuade them Like I'm factually saying

We may not win but one of you are going to die Okay That's just numbers Someone here is going to go down Are you willing to risk that When we're willing to play along You can roll with disadvantage happily.

19. Okay. The one who's kind of closest to Doran, he kind of looks disheartened. And I lock eyes with him and I say, I'll take you out first. I promise that. Unless you stop,

your leader here from sticking a knife in my friend's back. And as he looks at me, Dorn just nods in agreement. You're going to die. There's really not a question about it. What Ravnir does isn't,

and I can't, She's her own woman, so... Doren shouts, okay, Zulkin, the joke's up. All right, you got us. Is this a Zulkin? Holy shit. You know what? You know what?

You'd see a glimmer of recognition on her face. Zulkin. You know Zulkin? Him again? We worked with him a bunch of times. Look, we're all friends here. I don't know if I describe him as a friend. No.

We're friends. Look, this is all getting real. A snake, maybe. We're all one-upping each other with cool lines, but this is getting too much. Let's drop it down a few pegs. Look, no one's going anywhere. She has her knife to Jack's back,

and she pulls her sleeve back, and she reveals a tattoo of a winged snake. Yeah. And then she looks at you expectantly red. I pull up my sleeve, and I show her the exact same tattoo. Nice. Because I have a masquerade tattoo. As does Doran.

And Don, show yours, too. And I pull my sleeve back, and it's like one of the sailor ones on my forearm. Yeah, what you don't see is the action we take to move the tattoo as we're pulling up our sleeves using our one action for the day. She drops her knife away from Jack's back. Listen, you'll have to excuse me. There was no way I could have known. Hey, look, as in Tarum, we're meant to not trust at first. But we also are meant not to be stupid.

So let's all take it down. It's a good thing you guys pay well, right? Never work with you. He wanted to be a harper. Oh, please. Don't even joke. The stories about them are so much better. Put the knife back in his back.

She sheathes her blade. Let's see what's behind the door then, shall we? Yeah. And the whole group, the tension is just melted away. Murray's like, should I get a tattoo? Is this a thing I need to be doing? We had tattoos twice You should have got it

I know Aw Well you were here For the second time Yeah you didn't invite me though Doran come give me a hand with this You're invited Yeah

Doran shifts up Next to Jack Excuse me Red Whispers tomorrow And he's like Jack's about to explode Watch Cover your ears

Brace yourself I give you the knowing glance And I put my hand In your arm And we explode And thunderstep the fuck out of here Okay, Rob, you explode with Doren tailing you. No, I love that feeling.

How much damage do you do? Yeah, I, Jack does not love having a dagger at his back. These people scream the kinds of thugs who tried to come in and take over the copper cup from Torin. It's just in every way pissed him right off. And so he takes all the magic he can, thunder steps at the highest possible level he can, and adds all that extra alchemical jazz to it, which is going to be five D-10 Thunder damage and 2D10 forced damage to all of them.

Nice. You can roll that all together. It doesn't matter which is which. By the big boom. For 37, if they fail their save, they're looking for Constitution saves. Is it just everyone who you are within five feet of? Ten feet of. You also take out Red and Mari. No, no, it's 10 feet of the space I left. So we're good. I decided I was going to roll all of these checks individually, I didn't roll a single one higher than eight. These people suck. I'm shaming this dice.

It's been a little while since we've shamed on the podcast. For shame. Gen dice. Shame, shame, shame. All right, how much damage do we take? 37 thunder and force damage as they get pushed against the far walls than they can. Yeah, everyone but Ravnia fucking died. She's mine

And red fires at Ravenia As soon as the dust clears Smile And he lets go of the arrow Nice It does it that very cool thing Where it sails really close to Mari's hair And it like slices by

And it blows by Oh yeah That's pure shit Oh yeah 16 Yep Nice You do you hit

Hits her right between the eyes Damage 15 damage Yeah She goes down Hard like a sack of potatoes and the four of you are alone in the hallway again. Hmm.

You know, I felt icky just showing that fake tattoo, but really smart thinking, Red. Hey, it was you saying Zolk, and that made me think of it. It was teamwork through and through. Yeah, yeah. Sorry, they stuck a knife in your back. Yeah, I'm just mad at the, thanks for having my back, guys. Oh, well, of course.

I'll be honest, that was kind of scary. That one guy had a nice scarf. Hey, you can still get it. I could. I could. It's got some brain on it. maybe not red steps over the dead bodies and brain and stuff and just like so did you actually figure it out it seems like some sort of weird musical chord thing it's it's all vibration and jack strikes the tuning fork end of this key again and presses it against the five spots in the door and plays that lovely chord and hopefully here's something go clunk you do as you hit each of the notes sequentially on this door You hear a click, and the door slides sideways to disappear into the wall.

Ahead of you, you see a room full of strange metal crates. I'm picking up good vibrations, sweet. That's good. It's a great song. Yeah. No. Thank you once again to our wonderful Patreon supporters, Alexander, Amanda Kitchener, Anne, Artistic Witch,

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Why are you doing this to me? Why? I need to try again.