Dice Shame - 62 | 'Take the Plunge'

Episode Date: December 17, 2020

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We got this. Whittle away, Riddle away. Jack is steadily escaping. Imagine we died here in this pitiful cavern. You asked him to be on a date? What's going on? What the hell is this bullshit chasm?

It's only 10 feet deep. We will get it. It's just a matter of how many times you guys have to throw me. No mystery here. Best luck, friend. And cast guidance on you. Wait, wait, wait, what am I doing?

National 20. Whoa. Yay! Good for you, Joe. No, no, no, no. No. Well, it's funny. No.

24 years later. Welcome back to Dice Shame. This is episode 62. Take the Plunge. MVP this week is So is 12 from Discord for asking some interesting questions about Kraloth's backstory. I've refused to answer them. Dice Shame is proud to announce our new partnership. with local Canadian dice company Little Dragon Corp. These gorgeous resin dice come in a vast array of colors and themes.

Head to little dragoncorp.com and use the code shame at checkout for 10% off your order and show those bad dice who's boss. All right, should we do this? Yeah, let's do this. Doran, the Umberhawk bursts out of the cavern floor at your feet in a shower of gravel, and you're ready for it. Just as you wind up to take a mighty swing, you're dazed by its alien form. Seeing the creature up close rocks you to your core.

And despite your best intentions, you find yourself swinging orc splitter at your friend, the wizard Jack Page. Roll to hit. An 11. 11? We'll miss. Yay! Yes.

So here you all are, basically shoulder to shoulder in this small cave. One terrifying monster at your feet, having newly tunneled up from underneath you. one more somewhere farther back in the cavern. You're a little on the ropes here, boys. Yeah. So, Jack, Doran misses you. What happens? You swing your axe at Jack,

and it glances off the major armor that he's got around his skin. Pretty spooky, hey guys? The one attack. I'm so... The Umberhulk's over there, Doran. I'm sorry, I'm so confused right now. And then the creature gets to attack.

Oh, right, yeah, that... Yeah. It doesn't just show up. No, it doesn't just show up. It shows up and tries to... Murder ego. Jack, it's going to try to claw you to death. No, not, no.

That's only a 10 for the first claw. Second claw, ooh, garbage. 13. But these mandibles, that's a 20. Oh, the mage armor holds up to all of those claws, but those mandibles get through. Snip-snap, as it were. 16 slashing damage to you.

Owry. All right. The other creature, it moves back. Coward Red, it's your turn Oh my God Red sees the one burrowing through his feet

in front of him and he sees it swipe at Jack and Doran swipe at Jack and Red for a second think maybe he should swipe it Jack just to feel part of the crew But he's like

No, that's a silly idea And he turns his bow Back down to the Umberhawk And as I lock eyes on its Terrible body I guess I'm gonna do a Christmas safe Let's cross our eyes everyone Maybe you will make an attack at Jack

Oh 20 Hey, you're great. Nothing happens. I look and I say, Not this time, bastard. And I'm going to attack it. Now, I will be rolling with disadvantage, so I'm not going to use my sharpshooter perk.

So this will be plus nine. And as a bonus action, I'm going to cast fairy fire on it first. Cool. So it's going to have to do a dexterity save. DC12 in the tightest hole. How tight is it? 17.

Damn, I say. And I'm going to take a fire at it anyway. You got this. You're damn right, I do. Natural one. Come on. Oh, boom. Or shame.

Shame. So disappointed. You have another attack, though, don't you? Oh, I do have another attack. Let me try one more time before I shame it officially. Well. Well. Well.

And that, my friends, is a two. Gale. Oh, wait a minute. Oh, it's an 11, so it still wouldn't hit. Nah. Right? Hold on. Wait, hold on.

Hold on. Hold the phone. Holding. The call you're trying to make cannot be made. Please hang up and try your call again. 11 misses. No, but it was on the other die, so I'm not going to shame it. But I'll shame the first one. Goodbye, white dye.

Your arrows fly. except there's not really like a wideness to fly into. They just clatter against the cavern walls. I'm like, I like deadpan. Look at the camera and I'm like, bullshit. What's you gonna do? Kralath, what do you do?

It's your turn. Kraloth is going to cast Spirit Guardians as a level four spell. It's concentration. Okay. And yeah, so now these wisps, these spiritual wisps, float around my head and begin whipping towards this monster.

So you're keeping your eyes like... I'm just keeping my eyes down. I'm not looking at it at all. At the start of its turn, it needs to make a wisdom saving throw or take damage. Cool. I want to cast fog, clodding, just to be a jerk. Boom! I would cancel this session.

All right, Jack, it's your turn. I look at the creature. Roll charisma. 19. 19. Oh, right. All right. Jack reaches down into his...

And he finds a, a, a, uh, oh, my God. No, he finds a caterpillar cocoon. And he has this brilliant idea and he crushes it and says a magic word and boops the thing with his, I just points at this creature and thinks really hard about turning it into a caterpillar. Oh my gosh. And it would like to make me a wisdom save thing throw, please. Are you polymorphing this thing into a caterpillar? Wow.

Wisdom save, looking for less than. a really non-poisonous caterpillar please just a really like a small one inchworm just an inchworm national 20 oh fucking oh good for you joe but no no no no this is funny 24 years later no no uh jack climbs up the rope no no no no let's Stick it out. We got this. You guys got this? Yeah.

I mean, Jack might die, but... We got this. We got this. Imagine we died here in this pitiful cavern. That doesn't stop me from climbing up the road. Jack climbs up. You don't think we're going to stop you? Doring grabs on the Jack's legs and pulls him down.

We say, yeah. Jack, how high do you climb up the rope? I will climb as far as I can, which is, I think, 15 and a half. Okay, so it's half speed. You're going to have to make a climb check. and I'm also going to make an attack of opportunity against you. Yep, I understood. Here we go.

All right, climb check was, or my athletics was 17. Okay, it's a 20 to hit you with a claw. So you're going to take 10 slashing damage. Yep. And then you get 15 feet up the rope. Nice. You are halfway there. I just like, what are you doing?

Doran, what do you do? Jack is steadily escaping. It's piecing out. Bye. I know. That's so hard. Doran, what did you do? Doran reaches up and grabs Jack's legs.

No, I'm kidding. What do you do, Doran? So is this creature still poking out of the hole? It's not poking out of the hole. It's fully standing on top of the hole. Okay, okay, okay. Then I just fully attack it. Do it.

Why did you roll charisma save first? That's going to be an 10. And you fail. Oh, my God. And you can't do anything at all this round. And you pee a little bit. Dorn lifts his axe and just goes, Buh.

Orch-Splitter must be so pissed. She's like, just, what are you doing? Yeah, right. It's the umber, hulk's turn, red. The creature's going to try to attack you. Yay. Three times. But on its beginning of its turn,

it has to do a wisdom-saving group. Yes, beastial spirit. Beastial spirit. Whatever it's called. Spirit guardians. I rolled a six. Okay, so it's going to take some damage

12 points of damage this time it wasn't that great you must have rolled bullshit I rolled two ones yeah it's always next year it's always next character

we will we will whittle away whittle away a one to hit you to hit me yeah with a claw of course and then

14 to hit you with a second claw no And then 20, natural 20. That was a natural 20. Ooh. Natural 20 on the bite. As a reaction, I'm going to turn that into a regular hit.

So you take seven slashing damage from the claw. Okay. So you would take three and Kraloth takes four or whatever? Yeah, I don't know, whatever. Correct. I'll take it less. And then with Amanda Bowles, now that is not a critical hit, and I'm so angry at you, Kralath, and you're going to die for sure.

11 slashing damage. So I'll take five, I guess. The other creature moves back into the tunnel that it came from into the darkness and disappears. Okay. Coward, come back here. Red, it's your turn.

I will look at this thing. Charisma check. Natural 20. Hey! Why not? That's what you get when you mess with the awesome boys. That's right.

And I'm going to try to cast my final use of fairy fire. All right. I'm going to roll dexterity. Yeah. That'll be at eight. Nice. This thing is outlined in a red hue, and every attack now has advantage, which means, because I have disadvantage, I am now rolling regular.

Regular ones. Beautiful. That's so good that that's on their know. Uh, 12. Nope. No. Now, my second roll, I am going to do my Colossus Slayer, and I'm going to roll without the sharpshooter penalty.

19. That'll hit. 15 damage. Well done. Hey, there's some. Beautiful. All right. Kralath, what do you do next?

Red, what's your HP at? 30. Doran, what's your HP at? 28. Oof. Mm-hmm. 28. Okay, so I'm going to walk over to Doran, and I'm going to cast cure wounds.

Nice. Ooh. As a level two. And let's hope that you heal. more than five. Me too. Not bad, so that's 14 you get back. Hey, pretty good.

Nice. Thank you very much. Jack, it's your turn. You are halfway up this rope dangling above your friends as they labor. Jack is going to climb the rest of the way up this rope. He got a 14. All right, you do it. Hot down.

We did it. Now that he's 30 feet isish away up top. He's free. He's free and clear. He's going to turn around and look back into the hole and look at this creature and hopefully not get fucked up. Yeah, I mean, you're 30 feet up, and then plus how tall is Jack? Just 5'6.

The range of the creature's effect is exactly 30 feet. Oh, that's good to know, actually. Then he's going to draw a symbol in the air and pour as much power as he can into it and pour that alchemical jazz on top of it and spend all the spell slots he can to have five darts of force flow around him, and looking like little slugs, they each slam down into this creature. Ew. Trying to splat it with its own forceful nonsense.

Mm-hmm. So 1512, 23, 2015. So those five magical slug darts drop swiftly into this dark chamber on top of the creature and puncture his carapace all over his back. And the creature collapses and dies. It was a hollow victory. Kralath walks over to the hole and he looks up and he says, Good hit, friend.

Yeah, uh-huh. You all right up there? Is everybody all right? Let's take a minute, regroup, but I think we got to hunt that other one down. Come on back down, Jack. How are you going to deal with this second creature? Sure. So you know there's at least one more of them. It was injured and it's retreated back into this second cavern, you presume, through a tunnel. I agree, Krayloff. I think we've got to hunt it down. But you know what? Now that we know there's a bit of a distance on it, you said what? You must be 30 feet up there, Jack.

Yeah, I think if you get far enough away, it doesn't affect you as much. I'm going to start climbing back down slowly. and I turn to Kralath All right, let's give him the old one too Why don't we try to find this other one You give it the path to the grave And I'll keep pulling back As long as I advert my eyes I think that we can take this bad boy down

And I think that's kind of how we want to do it really Which I think is just going to be a matter of time Before we leave enough space, attack Leave enough space, look down, attack So I don't think we really need to drop back Into initiative order for this I think you're all very capable Adventures, this creature is

You know, not... Outnumbered and outranked. It's worthless. But don't look at me. So you move cautiously into the other cavern and red and kraloth between the two of you. You managed to deal with it handily between a couple of spells and arrows.

The old one, two, bud. The old one, too. Excellent. And before you know it, you have another carcass on your hands. The night stone four. On three. So you feel after you enter this cavern that there's this unusual shimmer of magical energy coursing over your body. And that's just after you've exited these tunnels into the cavern.

Also, the cave is separated into a northwestern and a southeastern side by this chasm. It's like 20 feet across. It looks pretty deep. As chasm is generally due. Yeah. It's not a chasm. if it doesn't look unusually deep. What the hell it's this bullshit chasm?

It's only 10 feet deep. It's not a chasm at all. It's a pit. What do you guys do? I probably bet Doren that he can't jump over it. Hey, Doren. This will end well. Give you a gold piece if you could jump to the other side.

Well, I bet you I could. Well, no, I pull out a rope. I think Doren kind of looks at this, like, not even as a challenge. It's more of like, we will, we will get. it. It's just a matter of how many times you guys have to throw me. So I tie a big rope around my waist and I punch a Peyton, a peaton. Who do you punch? What did Peyton do to you? That's Kieran, not Peyton, for the last time. I tie my rope around my waist and I hammer a peaton into the smooth rock floor on our side of the castle. Do you actually think you could jump 20 feet?

Your movement is 25. That's okay. You'd have to jump your entire. Almost your entire movement. I'm still going to do it. Well, I know you will. You're definitely going to try. And you guys are going to help me by, you know. Meanwhile, can I look at anything from the corpse? Roll an investigation check.

Perfect. Hey, for the first time, that's not bad. 16. Nice. Nestled in the crevasse between two rocks lies a little pile of smooth oval objects. They're slightly warm to the touch. Red's like, wait a minute, are these eggs? And he bends down and sort of just poop, cups.

No, he sort of just examines them without touching them. Roll a nature check, Red. Happily. Can I roll with advantage? Because I know their eggs. Shut your fucking mouth. Just kidding. Yeah, that's a three.

They're eggs. Oh, I love eggs. It's just like obviously. Ew. Hey, I'm a fox. They eat eggs. I'd probably get Jack over here. Jack, take a look of these eggs, things, maybe.

I don't know. They look hard-boiled. Yeah, Jack will definitely wander over to wherever Red is calling him to. I love that. Just wander over. Yeah, as if he wasn't hovering on the outside, waiting for Red to, like, be done and wait for him. Hey, Jack, doesn't this look like the fanciest caveat you've ever seen?

Yeah. What about Amber Hulk? Caviar. You asked him to be on a date? What's going on? What? No. Believe me, no.

We've covered that ground. No, I just look like eggs. And, you know, I was just making a joke. I'm sorry, Jack. I just want you to be nice to me. What's this? And I poke the egg for the final time. Yeah, let's check it out.

I will look it up and down and see if I can tell anything about that. So there was these eggs and there's also a weird feeling in the air. Yeah, there's a super weird feeling in the air. That was the one that was distracting me. That's probably more exciting than the eggs. Yeah, I definitely. Not for me. I don't want to judge.

Feeling this weird feeling in the air is what it caught Jack's attention. He's looking around at the eggs, but he's thinking about that feeling, trying to determine what it is. You can roll an arcana check, but disguise it as a nature check? Like you're trying to care about what reds? Those are definitely eggs red. Yeah, but can I aid him, but without knowing what? So I'm like, yeah, well, I think there are eggs. And he's rolling arcana, so it's not actually an aid.

Mechanically, it's nothing. But, like, I'm, like, thinking I'm helping. Oh, yeah. What color are they? Talking about the texture of them. What do you mean? What color are they? They're yellow.

No, you guys, actually, you're all using dark. vision right now. So everything is in shades of black and white. So I rolled an 11, so 21 Arcana. This is a really strange magical aura. It feels natural to you.

You don't think that someone would have cast it. It doesn't feel like any spell that you know of, but you think that whatever it is that is in this room is probably going to give you problems with divination spells and maybe teleportation attempts. Oh, that was with her.

Thunderstep. Is there a school of magic I would associate this weird feeling with or just? No. All right. Yeah, those are definitely some eggs. Red, do you feel any, I mean, I'm going to start describing the, the, like, feeling of interacting with this, this magic. Because I know Red doesn't know magic, like intellectually,

but he does intuitively sense it. And I just want to try and see if he's picking up all the same weird things I'm feeling. It's almost like a nauseating thing. Yeah, as you look back to Red, he's already putting the eggs in the bag of holding. He's like, what? Oh, yeah. Well, my tummy does feel a little rumbly. He stands up and sort of feels the air.

Yeah, it feels like I'm being sort of, and I try to cast minor illusion. That's fine. Yeah, you do it. I do it. My magic doesn't seem effective. Roll a D20. Uh-oh. Seven.

Okay, you're good. Oh. It's like a weird bunching of the weave or a node here. Something is just a little off. I wouldn't try and teleport, which I don't know is a problem for you, and I don't know that we're going to be able to use any sorts of divination while we're here.

Now that you've learned this, Jack, roll history. I'd love to. 27. This rings a bell. It takes you a second to, like, go through the rolodex in your mind about what this might be. You have read about faresorus before and how this pervades much of the underdark. Oh. It's a natural occurrence.

Yeah, it's like the underdark bleeds weird magic shit that fucks up stuff. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Also, when a spell is cast in an area that's suffused with ferserous, you very importantly know that weird stuff can happen. Oh, okay. You guys are all gathered around. around these eggs and you look back and there's Doren with a rope tied to himself and to a Pitan. Doren, before you jump.

And he's just like, we've just entered the underdark. Great. And he just dashes towards the edge and leaps into the air. Roll athletics. Just for reference, Jesse Owens set the record for the longest long jump at 26 feet in 1935. The current record is 29 feet. But Harlan, there's, it's a chasm.

There could be updrafts. Dwarves are three feet tall, okay? And there's a magic aura. Oh, he's more wind resistant. He's got, he's like, he's like decked out of speed. It's those sturdy dwarven legs. And I'm little. Yeah.

I'm sure the, I'm sure the armor really helps too. 15. Yeah, no, Doran, you launch yourself into the air and you're feeling good about it. You're feeling good about it. You're feeling good about it. And you drop. It's like that scene in Toy Story. Yeah.

And you fall down, and then you, I mean, there's it a pendulum effect? Yes. You hit the side of the chasm pretty hard. Oh, my nose. Doren! I like dive for the rope because it's not actually tied in. It's tied. It's tied.

I'm like, ah! So Kralov looks over as this is all happening, and he's been very distracted by these eggs. And as Red jumps away, he sees the last egg on the ground. and he goes to, like, reach down, but then he's like, oh, Doran, you all right? Oh, I'm okay. I'm just down here, bump my nose, but I'm okay. Okay, I'll take a look at it when you get back up.

And he's going to kneel down next to this egg, and he's going to pull off his goggles. He's going to blink and look around. It's entirely black in here. Oh, it is dark. And then he's going to cast light just on his hand. Uh-huh. And with the benefit. of your light spell, you can tell that this aura, this magical feeling, this pervasiveness

is, it has a color associated with it. It's kind of like a dim, violet color. Now that you're shining light around, you can see this purpleness. It's kind of shimmering. And the egg that you hold in your hand is yellow. It's a yellow egg, Jack. And do I have to do a roll one D20 for evocation? You do. Eight. Now you good. Do Umberhooks lay eggs?

They do now! I shout out. That one's yours, buddy! You guys gonna hatch like an army of baby umberhuls? I want a little baby umberhulk. This is gonna go well. You know how stable we are and... So, Doren comes climbing up the rope.

Yeah, I'm gonna go over to Dorn and I'm gonna help him up from the rope. Come here, bud. That was a painful attempt. I'll say that much. And I take one end of the rope and I tie it to an arrow and I fire the arrow on the other side. Yeah, so there's an arrow just loosely on the other side

with it. Lusely. It's riven into the... Bear stone. You shooting an arrow into the cave is just about as stupid as me trying to jump across his castle. It is stupid, but it is not as stupid.

I would agree with that assessment. Hey, Red. Kralath walks over with his egg in his in his hand, and he puts it in his materials satchel. And he says, hey, Red, you're pretty good at climbing. You don't think you'd be able to climb a wall the other side, fasten a rope to a slag mite

or something that doesn't move. Here. And then, like, literally as Kralas, finishing his sentence, I've already tied the other end of the rope that's tied to me to Red. And I'm like, just see what you can do. Hold on. I fired a rope on the other side.

I did that first. So it's like in the wall. It's barely in the wall. Yeah, but I'm not doing it. And I summon my bestial spirit. I say, Stephen! Mountain goat doesn't have dark vision. But if you're going to light his way, then we're good.

Give me the goggles of night. Then how are you expecting the mountain goat to tie off a rope? Fucking goat wearing goggles. Whatever, I'll just climb across my chair. Are you sure you want to do that? I would be so afraid to go over a. chasm tied to a dwarf. Why?

I'm strong. Just on the off chance that the dwarf might yank me and we would both fall in. Back home, we used to do this all the time, except we'd have a whole troop of dwarves to throw one across. You know, we'd just tie to

each other. I've got you, I've got you, Red. I'm used to this. You could, I could push you off right now, and I would be able to hold you up. This is what I'm built for. I nervously looked to the other two. He seems confident, guys. It doesn't have a bottom we can see, right? You can't see the bottom. Yeah. All right. You only have a range of 60 feet on your dark vision, I believe. So, no, you can't see it. Kralov is going to put a hand on red's shoulder and say, best a look, friend,

and cast guidance on you. Wait, wait, wait, what am I doing? She's like looking around. It's like, the rope is tied around his waist. He's standing at the edge of the chasm. No, I backed up. Uh, Kieran, how deep is this? Can you fly down there? Of course he can. It's 65 feet. So, thank you. No mystery here. In a very smart way, Doran has actually patched this through the peaton.

And so it's sort of like a, if I do fall, it's going to pull me down, not over the edge of the chasm. Climb away, Red. All right. Let's do this. And take this. I hand you a hammer and peaton for the other side. I, like, look at the peaton and I look at the dwarf who wants me to jump across, like a psychopath. And then I head south to where the wall connects.

and I just start scaling along it because I'm not crazy. You know what? That idea never crossed my mind. Didn't even come up to me. I was like, how are you down and up? What's going on? Oh, on the wall?

Obvious. What I'll do actually is as I'm going along the wall, I'll stick some pitton along so that people can just kind of use the wall as like, you know, a side ladder rather than try to cross the chasm. Cool, cool, cool, cool. And then I'll get to the other side.

Is there still the side? the glow on the other side as well? Yes, there is. Sorry, Stephen, I say to nothing. So we rig this up where we make this rope taut so that it's like pinned up against the wall and you can literally just like hang and cross it as opposed to having to like dangle underneath or whatever.

Cool. You do it. Kralath, how do you handle your traversing this terrifying chasm? Are you afraid of heights, eh? Yeah. Oh, well, you know, I can't see the bottom. Which is good? And for some reason, that gives some comfort,

because there's just kind of this potential that'll just fall forever, and then I'll never hit the ground. Yeah. Comforting, yes. That's what I'd call it. Great. Perfect.

And then I'm going to move through to the next room when everyone's across. And the minute the glow's gone, I'm missing my boy. You bring him back. So quickly. So Red, you enter this next cavern. There's a tunnel that leads west out of here.

Bioluminescent. green light filters through the fungi in this chamber and seems to originate from moss growing on wide shells of rock that naturally line some of the walls in this chamber. There must be a dozen varieties of mushroom and fungus here, all growing in their own ecological niche. Cool. Yeah, it's just like a grove of fungus. Yeah. Red, is the phosphorus glow still around here? Nope. Perfect. Red walks over to a particularly dense pack of mushrooms and he goes, Stephen, what do you make of this? And Stephen again, like, as if he was walking for the last five minutes,

just, like, walks out of a trot, like the moss sort of sliding over him and appears at my feet. I'm like, hey, guys, Stephen knows a lot about mushrooms. Don't worry. What do you think, buddy? And I asked Stephen, and he obviously doesn't know anything. Doesn't say anything. No, of course not.

Kraloth walks over beside Red and kneels down next to him and says, you think we could eat any of these? probably not they've been on the ground for quite a while and I don't really know what's going on with all that weird glow in the other room Doran do you have a lot of experience with being underground

like did you ever live like in a proper underhaul or did you live in a house only No I lived underground for most of my life so I mean do you know what these fungus are yes and no I mean there's funguses in like everywhere right but that's like saying Where I know what this tree is Because I grew up around trees

But you do It's a fern Silver Maple We'll roll on it, coward You can roll a nature check With advantage if you like Well I'm gonna need that Because my first was a fucking three

Spruce And my second is a fucking seven Whoa Okay you don't know any of the fungus In this room Except for the bioluminescent moss Yes You know this is sometimes called

Ormu And that you don't you're able to actually pull it down off of the walls and dry it and grind it into a powder and that you can turn it into like bioluminescent paint if you wanted to. Okay. Cool. So I share that information and I do,

I pull some off the walls. You know, back home, when I was a kid, we used to pull this off the walls and we dry it and we make a paint and you could paint things and in fact our elders would paint our underground roadways with this. to help other travelers see their way through the dark tunnels.

It's a very, very unique and helpful piece of fungus. Can we eat it? I wouldn't, no. Okay. But, I mean, I'm sure you could eat it. It probably would taste really bad and not give you any nutritious value. Red tries to reach out with his mind

to that thing that contacted him. You don't contact anything. And I turned back to those and like, Dora knows this because he's part of, you know, the awesome boys. But I did get a message in my brain sickle about something. I think it was the woman who, or the creature that is trying to marry our friend the Sater. She said that she was innocent and that she was a pacifist. But I just wanted to give you a head head up. Good to know.

The more I think about this place, the less I like it. You know, I was reading a book, one of those ones I got from Nethrolet about the Underdark. There's some crazy monsters down here. Oh, yeah? They're all, yeah. Some of them are like weird funnel-shaped, malevolent, psychic crazy things called Pharam. Ooh. Yeah.

I mean, those Umberhulks were pretty scary themselves. Are they? What umber hulks? Oh, those are that way? Easy. Come on, guys. Easy sauce. Rob, I mean

Jack We've had enough stealing around here Don't... Jack, don't tell me you've started to doubt love No, I freaked out By seeing some of the stuff you read about in books And now suddenly you experience it Like the Ferris in the last room

And these glowing mushrooms here It's just different for it to be real Well, let's not forget our mission To get the Seda his bride Stephen is in Right, Stephen? All right, let's keep going, and we head on to the next room. Cool, yeah, you head through a tunnel that leads to the south.

The majority of the cavern floor here is occupied by a 45-foot-wide pool of water that is steaming gently and smells lightly of sulfur. Water drips from cracks in the ceiling, but otherwise you detect no movement. Interesting. I walk over and just sort of, I want to do a perception at the edge of the water. Sure. At least 17. Seems like a standard hot spring.

Does it seem deep at all, or sort of shallow? Yeah, it probably goes to about 10 feet, you would estimate. I wonder if there's anything in there. Stephen, take a walk. And Stephen walks off towards the moss, and Red turns towards the pool of water and goes, Stephen! And you see bubbles go,

and a dolphin just like dips its head out of the water. It's a fucking sea world over here. It does a trick. Sivan, meet Jack and Kraloff and Doran. They've met Stephen, and of course they've met Scriven, but they haven't met you yet, and I bend down and I give Sivan a little pat. Stephen is the oldest, he's sort of the most mature, it's a bit more wise. And I just say, Stephen, go take a look around down there, see if there's anything of interest.

Yeah, it swims for like four seconds, and then it pokes his head above the water and gives you a big no back and forth. Cool. Thanks, buddy. Sorry about your wife What did you do? That's an after story We need to catch her No, I didn't do it Anyway, Stephen says it's all cool down there

You want to hang out in there for a bit? Cool, let's keep going Is there anything else in this room? No, this is it Guys, I believe we should continue Moving on from this lake Okay I know it's all fun in games

But these underground caverns They tend to hold some of the darker more evil creatures. Like dwarves? Very good. Blood bloaters. You know, they swarm in the water and they'll suck all of the blood out of your body. So don't touch the water.

Don't even go close to it. It was a thing when I was growing up. You had to be very careful. Stephen looks at me like, what did you summon me into? And I'm like, I guess, sorry. Let's just keep moving. Yeah, okay. Jack's going to move through the tunnel as carefully as he can,

keeping an eye out for any traps or, like, soft spots in the earth or sinkholes or other things that might... Watching for Fontenelle. You know, catch us by surprise. But otherwise, follow as close behind red as tail in him. So you guys leave this shallow pool behind, this lovely hot spring, and you move into the next cavern. heading west steadily. Your line of sight in this irregularly shaped chamber is interrupted by a maze

of stalagmites and stalactites, but Kieran, with his keen sense of a smell, detects that there's some fresh air entering the cavern through the southern side. Kieran's sensing a breeze. This might be where Green Whistle had the cave in. Maybe we'll very cautiously head that direction. I'm sort of keeping an eye on the stalactites and this to lag mites and this stalag it's those are the ones that go sideways by the way and i head south to where kieran is i'm assuming everyone's together yeah you guys are all holding hands yes please of course as you head south continuing south and west here you end at the cave in this is the entrance that green whistle must have spoken of the southern side of the cave is

entirely blocked by a cave in of huge pieces of stone. And indeed, as you enter this cave, you hear the reedy sound of his flute emanating from beyond these boulders. Greenwistle, we can hear you. Oh, you guys, this is awesome. You made it. Yes. I mean, we haven't met your wife to Pete yet.

No, don't. Okay, so if you've come this far. That's incredible. See, I knew that I could trust you. God, I wish I had asked you sooner. The way is pretty safe. Maybe we should come back up and get a breather. We're a little bit hurt.

This is like the ultimate Tinder date. I'm so sorry. Okay, yes. Come back up. We have so much to do before tomorrow. You can have a good rest, and we should probably try to make the way clear for my wedding guests. You have guests coming.

Yes. I look to the other guys. I'm like, guys. we're going to a party Time to see where all this love leads to Thanks again to our great old one Patreon supporters Christopher Ryan Evans and Mitchell Cardwell As well as our shamers, Doug Churchman

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