Dungeons and Daddies - [BONUS] Shadowdark One Shot - Trial of the Slime Lord

Episode Date: January 14, 2026

Will leads the Dads in a good old fashioned dungeon crawling RPG. There's an ooze-worshiping cult, unending darkness, and a gelatinous cube. What's not to love?This episode contains Profanity, Violence, and Sexual Content.Patreon heard - and SAW - this first. If you're interested in getting a peak at the map visuals that the team uses throughout this one shot, you can find a video version, edited by Daniel Kim, on our Patreon.Kelsey Dionne is the creator of Shadowdark and Jordan Rudd is the author of Trial of the Slime Lord.Annissa Omran is our Content ProducerAshley Nicollette is our Community ManagerKortney Terry is our Community CoordinatorEster Ellis is our Lead EditorTravis Reaves, Omar Romolino, and Brian Fernandes provide Additional EditingGet in contact: https://www.dungeonsanddaddies.com/contactThe story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Happy New Year Daddy fans. We've got a surprise treat for you to kick off 2026 and help you like the wait for season four go a little bit quicker. Last month, I sat down with Freddie, Anthony, and Beth to play an incredibly cool TTRPG called Shadow Dark created by Kelsey Dion. This is a nasty, sweaty little old-school dungeon crawler where life is cheap, traps are tricky and these skeletons are spooky as heck, so you know perfect for our typical brand of dip shittery.

I will get into all the details in the episode itself, but one thing you should know is is that we had such a fun time doing this one, that we will definitely be doing more. We might even let Matt play next time. So if you're craving more shadow dark, which you will be by the end of this, because as I said, this is a super fun one, go out over to patreon.com slash dungeons and dads

to become a subscriber to our Patreon, and you'll be the first to know when a new episode of this series hits. All right, let's get into it. Dungeons and Daddies is a rowdy, horny, violent podcast for grownups. Content warnings can be found in the description. Welcome, dear listener, dear friends. to Shadow Dark RPG.

This is an old school renaissance game. This is a new type of RPG that stripped down bare bones, just like it was back in the day when Gary Gygax and his boys and gals, non-binary pals were slinging dice. Smoking dubies in the 1970s was this kind of fucking heat. And what's crazy, dude? What's crazy? What is crazy, is that the imagery of this, bro,

they haven't even seen the, post 9-11 Lord of the Rings movies. Like, what would they even imagine, dude? They're gone off the shitty Ralph Bakshi stuff. Oh, my God. All the fucking art, and this is like the nastiest little nasty boy. So nasty, dude. Dark little berserk-ass fucking pencil sketches of fucked up guys, dude.

Dude, everyone's got fucking tight-ass glutes, dude. Men and women alike. Those glutes are flexed. Glutes are flexing. It was an old school age, and we're going to kick it old school tonight. So basically, yeah, Shadow Dark is a modern RPG that seeks to emulate the classic 80s dungeon crawling feel where characters are super vulnerable and squishy, death comes fast and furious, get ready for

goblins and skeletons and fucking creepy notes and traps and tedious puzzles. I'm very excited for this. This is a thing that we've played around with some of our other things, like the idea of disposable characters. So I'm always a little bit interested whenever these sorts of things show up. If you enjoy what we do here or you want to hear more similar stuff, we did a one shot of Electric Bastion Land a long time ago, which is also part of the OSR, the old school Renaissance sort of style of game.

Limited rules, high lethality, low fantasy. Is that where I played Puddin? Yes, that is correct. Yes, if you want to hear Puddin back for this adventure, Beth. I can't remember Puddin. I'm sorry. I'm so old now. I mean, she was pretty much the voice.

And you sort of found the rest as you went, I think. Beth, your activation phrase is Fokin'nit. Fucking mint. There she's back. There she is. She's back. So we will be playing Trial of the Slime Lord, which is designed by Jordan Rudd.

I'm going to start by reading the prologue in the book. They were crawlers, and so they dared the lost halls of Shadow Dark. And they were roommates. They went down through the old trap door in the rusty mug cellar, greasing the owner's palms with a few silver drems. Wait, is that the currency drems?

Drems, that's right, Freddie. First came the spiders. Prickling legs, burning fangs, they descended on the silent threads from the dark, high ceilings. Krieg finally burned the skittering devils to hash with blasts of magical fire. The carved stone walls grew denser, darker. Iragha almost lost her head to a side snapping out of the wall. It was Rilina who found the hidden door beneath the demonic statue. And so they went deeper.

I gotta give you credit, you're giving a Dark Souls Pervert NPC. Yeah. Can you skip to the sex scenes of this erotic novel? The work stone turned to damp cavern walls, distant hisses and screams, echoed in the pitch black, and leather-winged abomination swooped in with hookahlins, tearing at Jorben's shield and flesh. That's right, Jorben's here. Fucking Jorbins! But the treasure they found, dusty gold coins stamped with forgotten.

An emperor's fat rubies dangling from silver jane's glittering swords plucked from the hands of moldy skeletons. Ew. Soon the torches grew thin. The wounds grew numerous. The magic grew weak. The crawlers had met their true foe. It was about them never slowing, never sleeping, never ending. It was the shadow dark, and the fight had only just begun.

Bravo, well. Hey, bravo, bravo, well. I just like having fun with it sometimes. The mood is set. The mood is set. I'm so immersed right now that I've donned my VR headset and pulled up a tavern environment in VR chat so that visually I can live inside. You're the fantasy universe you weave with your voice. This is a level zero gauntlet adventure.

So what a gauntlet adventure is in this game is you can start with a level one character as like a class like fight man or wizard. It's just like there's four type of guy. But a level zero character is just like a random townsfolk person. and you run a gauntlet by basically having a bunch of NPCs ready to rock, and then you run them through this trap-filled hellhole dungeon, and whoever survives by the end is your player character, like maybe going forward in a shadow dark campaign. That's fine.

So, you know, you always have to have like four or five guys ready because they're going to be fucking biting the dust left and right. I sent you guys a thing with a PDF. Did everyone get a chance to create characters? Yes. Yes. I think I found it very interesting that one of the default character sheets you can pull out is four level zero characters that, like, they know going in that like, hey, some of these

motherfuckers are going to die. But the bodies at the floor. For completely random characters, completely random names, ancestors, backgrounds, alignments. And we're just going to do it like we've never seen the 2001 Lord of the Rings before and that we've never heard of a little operation called Critical Role to walk us into it. The Macquarie's never picked it up. I have my four characters ready to go. Okay.

I will note, three of them have one HP. Yeah, welcome to the party, pal. That's how it goes in this fucking game. Wow. Yeah. What if that was the thing? Everyone's like, what's a thing that you could do though, though, do one HP of damage? I'm like, what if that's all you have?

Yeah, bro. If I got hit sufficiently hard, that's one HP. Well, it's kind of like, what if you had one shot? Oh, God damn it. If you guys need a little help getting into character, I have found a random motivation generator. Random motivation. So we can do that if you want. Does that apply the day-to-day life or what?

I need that for my life. After running, I went and just scrolled for like a long time. I know. I was like, what am I doing? And I spent probably like a half hour to 45 minutes on TikTok today. And that's, I don't know where I am. Two quick wrinkles I wanted to note up top. So one thing is that the entire game takes place in initiative order.

So even when we're not in combat, we go in rounds. And you guys are going to be describing what you do. It sounds a little weird at first, but once you realize you're doing so much exploring in dungeon, that kind of turn base actually kind of works. Also, there's a map. We're playing off a map. Just everyone knows. Oh, yes.

You're going to be hearing us referencing a map. I'm doing a full-on virtual tabletop fog of war-ass fucking dungeon crawl map for these goofballs. The other thing is light. So light in the shadow dark is a very valuable. resource because bad shit happens when you find yourself in pitch darkness. You guys start with one torch and I'm going to be setting a one hour real time timer. And at the end of that hour, the torch goes out. And if you haven't found another torch by that point or found a way to acquire more light,

you're going to be in trouble. My character starts with a torch. Should I delete that? No, no, no. That just means you have an extra torch. That's fine. You may have an extra torch. You may have some other gear.

Everybody starts with a random bit of first level adventuring gear as well. Everyone in life starts with random bits when you think about it. You don't get to choose what your bits are. But only a solid few commit to the bit. All right. Well, on that note, let's commit to the bit and begin trial of the slime lord. So we start with all of you are villagers who have been kidnapped and thrown by cultists into a pit. I'll let you explain as we introduce your characters one by one.

kind of what you were doing when a bunch of cloaked dudes. This is just like Beachyville, dude, a bunch of cloak guys in Bison mask jumped up on you. Well, not Bisona masks. They've got fucking slime masks. I don't know what that means, but they have a slime mask. So some guys in slime masks came up and balked you on the head,

and the next thing you knew, there was some hustling and some jostling, and you found yourself on a stone floor next to a bunch of other scared, shitless little wiggly, wiggily villagers, some of whom you know, some of whom you don't. So you're sitting in this, On this floor, the walls are glistening and slime slick.

There's a round chamber and in the middle of it, a single torch lies on the floor, sort of flickering shadows up on the wall. The sound of running water echoes faintly through a foreboding dark archway to the south. Words carved into the archway read, welcome to disillusion. Feet escape or feed Raka-Uku. Wow, man, fucking puzzle all right. Say that again. Welcome to dissolution. Escape or feed Rakauku.

Oh, okay, okay. And so with that, we'll start. I'm just going to, until we get in combat, I'm just going to do initiative. I'm just going to go on the order on my screen, which is Anthony, Freddie, Beth. Okay. Anthony, you're up first.

Paint us the picture of your first fucked up little man here. His name is Rima. He is an elf who just wishes to farm on his farm. He's a livestock farmer, and he's lawful, whatever that means. I follow the. rules. Remar, your goal is to answer a call to adventure, which maybe this was. So there you go.

My father tried to keep me on the farm, but I wanted to go join the rebellion. He wanted to keep me on for one maximum two more seasons. And I said, no, uncle. You can mess around with your friend when your chores are done. All right, so we've got Remar the elf. Oh my God. We're fucking doing it. We're finally doing just straight up fantasy D&D shit. All right. Remar, what, you're up for So what would you like to do? I would like to examine the message and maybe try to search my mind or the minds of my friends to see if we know who Roccal Lucu is. Oh, I like that.

Give me an intelligence roll. So I roll at D20 and I add my modifier. Indeed, just like in that other game we play. I got a 14. So you have heard through tales and whispers in the dark and through the strange dreams. that seem to call to you yearning for adventure that Roccauku is the one and only the fearsome slime lord, a being of pure slime who slithers through the darkness and has a cult of followers who worship him.

And 100% they're into it sexually. They got a weird slime thing. 100%. They started listening to those ASMR slime videos and it escalated. It just went from there, dude. First you start with the tutorials then. They're looking up slime tutorials. Yep, yep.

So you've also heard tell that those who survive the trial of the slime lord are granted a boon from the slime lord himself, those who do not wander the halls as the unquiet dead. Doomed to serve the ooze for eternity. That is what you seem to recall

about the slime lord. You know quite a bit. Guys, we have a chance to get some boons. Wait, who am I looking at? I can't see in the darkness. You must describe yourselves verbally. A figure steps forward. into the light and comes face to face with you.

And it's Freddie, who's your character? My character is, a lot oomelots in this one. A, umlaut, S-E-U-Lout. So I think it is essay. Essay. Okay. Yeah. We're doing the voice, right?

Um, my name is Esce. Oh, God. I don't know how I got down here. I was just walking along when all of a sudden, everything went black. I'm just a human urchin with a dream of one day getting out of this hole. That's a very specific. This literal hole?

That's a goal that I think we all just recently got. Well, it's kind of a new dream. Oh, man. Okay. Essay, what would you like to do? Hey, guys, what's this bag over here? I guess I'll open it up. So this bag is actually the same.

It's not there. Don't ignore that. I was... What the fuck? My inversion is ruined. The bag disappears. Hold, no, no, no. I got you. I got you.

I got you. I got you. My eyes must be playing tricks on me in the dark. Oh, thank you. Who's that over there? And I prod the supine figure as I tripped over on the way to the illusory bag.

And the supine figure beneath you stirs and rises and we behold. Bath, are you playing? I'm playing Uthrogg. She's a half-org with God's blood. She gets closer to the fire and is like, okay, get ready with me while you've been kidnapped by a goofhole. First off, just want to say thank you to everybody who commented on my last click-clack, everybody who sent in mail.

It took me a long time to get it, but I do read each and every one of them. Oh, they sent you chain mail? Yes. I think she must be a streamer, one of those people who sit by streams and narrate their lives out to the river. Yes, every thought is very important and needs to go out into the world. Oh, and she's twitching. I think that Uthrog will run full speed south. That's smart.

I mean, kind of that's what I was thinking about doing is like just poking my head out of the archway. Okay, Slay. All right, as you poke your head out of the archway, this is very important. Who is holding the torch? I think I am, I'll grab it and be like my ring light because it creates this lovely ring around my face. Great. You can move your little guy to the salary. Wait, what's it say up there?

I don't want to be Raka-Uku food. We better keep going. Oh, mighty, Freddie. So you see this sort of slimy stone hallway continues out, and you also see one-inch-one, to the east and two entrances to the west from your current location. Okay, Missy Elliott. Okay, so yes, Anthony, it is your, or rather, Remar, it is your turn. Remar is going to step forward with his club at the ready,

and he's going to step next to the closest door, step to the side of it, and push the door open with his club, like a SWAT member trying to breach a room. Slice the pie, Remar. So, Remar, you push this door, which is slice. slightly ajar, and it creches. Oops.

It's just a door. It reveals inside this sort of small cluttered room. You see piles of garbage in detritus, haphazardly heaped against the walls and corners. There appear to be a few useful items mixed in with the trash. Several sticky, humanoid-sized footprints mark the floor. Going where? Just around, just kind of around the room.

Just kind of scooting. They're just all to hang it out. You get the feeling that like someone frequents this room, but they don't appear to be here now. Uthrog should probably set up her tripod to record while she goes in to like do record her walking in. Good call. Good call. You got like all those jogger YouTubers. You got set up further up and then get yourself running past it.

The jogger, yeah. I'm in awe. I'm in awe of hiker and joggers. Uthrog had like three really damaging spears, but she just broke the spearheads off. off to make a tripod. Yes. Uthrogg's going in, sounds like. Yeah.

Anthony's open the door. Uthrogg's going in. Essay, what are you doing? Well, Uthragg has taken such initiative here that I get off through the side of the door and I go, sure is brave. Couldn't be me even though I'm a street urchin, even though I'm pretty used to piles of garbage. But you wouldn't catch me dead going into a room like that. So you're going to wait in the hallway.

Yes. Uthragg, you've entered the room. I will allow you to do something in the room. you would like to. I think Uthrogg's going to scour the pile of stuff for anything useful and she's going to be like

today I'm going to, I'm participating in a cleanup at the beach. I was not paid to do this and I brought this metal detector brought to you by Harbor freight. Yep. So I will be scouring

and seeing what we can find. You're going to get to roll twice on the rand gear table. Oh, that's exciting. Give me a 1D20. Eight. You find 60 feet of rope. Wow. So go ahead and mark that down on your character sheet. You have a taut 60 feet of rope right now. It's not dirty, but the words feet and rope next to each other.

Todd also doesn't help. God, taught. And then you get, yes, you have 60 feet of tot foot rope. That sounds like the name of somebody's brother. Hot foot rope. Hot foot rope. That'll be your next character. Yeah. And then you can go ahead and roll again if you would like.

Okay, I will. Let's see. A 16. 16. Ooh, you find a chair leg that could be used as a club if you wanted to. Or you can do whatever you want with it. A chair leg. Okay, good to know.

I will yell back at my fellow travelers. You guys, if you want to, I. can boost your videos by, if you grab onto this rope. I do need to improve my brand. There could be some good cross-promotion we could do with you in my livestock. We could have you do some really unethical videos that seem cute involving my animals, but in actuality, you're pretty fucked up. So it's been two turns, which means it is time to roll on the random encounter team.

Will there be wolves? Well, let's see if you guys for there. I think there are wolves in this dungeon. somewhere. Oh, that's awesome. Random encounters. Random encounter. Okay, I rolled a four, which is, ooh, as you are exploring the room, I guess, no, both, neither of you have entered the room. It's only Earth Rock. Earth, Uthrock. Earth, Uthrock. Earth Rock. Earth Rock. Earth. Earth. It's only Uthrog who discovers as she's scoching through the room, a slime puddle on the ground. And it's like sort of multicolored.

and there's something sort of like intriguing about it. It's intriguing slime, if you will. It's a really cool looking slime. It really scratches an ASMR itch by looking at it. It has a real nice sticky, ekey texture for you. You know what? We're going to find something to be the marker for our slime. Nice.

POV, you discover unknown slime. That feeling when. Gosh, so good at content. That feeling when there's slime on the ground. What does it sound like? Would you put your hand into it? it. It sounds great and I'm really hot, so a lot of people like that.

Where did it go? Well, it's really struggling. Oh, my God. Hold on. Is that Flom? Is that Nickelodeon's Flom? It's going to, hold on, I'm going to shrink it down. So this is our immersive.

If you guys want to come back and do stuff with the slime, I want you to know where it is. So there's the slime right there. Nice. So, yes, you found slime and you found piles of junk. What would anyone else like to do anything in this room? You have 52 minutes of time on your torch left.

Fuck, no. This is, this is so unproductive. We out. Right. In that case, we're back at the top of the initiative. It's a Remar's turn. Well, the old breaching clear works pretty well last time, so I think I'm going to mosey on down, tapping my club against the ground in case there are any pressure plates, and I'm going to

move over here and do pretty much the same thing. Okay, so we're going to I don't know, Anthony, this is a T intersection that requires both operators to clear at the same time. Covering! And I just hold out my club. So you're going to the east and then you're going to the west essay? Is that the plan? Yeah, yeah.

Okay. All right. So I'll let you guys do that. Make sure you stay away from the walls. Bullets can funnel in from the side of the walls. Remember. This is actually something we learned. Slow is smooth and smooth as fast.

And you want to stand a little bit off from walls, parallel walls, that's all. Okay. They miss to the side. It can ricochet and just follow the path of the wall. That makes sense. All right. Whoa.

So much map data, dude. I'm going to reveal what. Guys, you're going to want to see this. Everyone's like, when do these characters die? I got good news and I got bad news. We've got company. Anthony, as Remar rounds the corner, you behold, the fetid pool. A dank natural cavern with a low ceiling.

The stench of rot wafts off of a pool of fetid water collecting in a shallow depression. The passage to the north is filled with dirt and stone piled nearly to the ceiling. So yes, you see a big, gross, yucky pool. Oh, I know all about shallow depression. Dang, dude. And then Freddie, meanwhile, you behold the statues. So as you turn the corner, actually, wait a second. I feel like you can't see that well because who's got the leg?

No, it should be a single. I want the lamp. Who's, you've got the lamp. Oh, yeah. All right. I mean, no one. Come stand next to us then. Okay, well.

I will say Beth. Okay. Beth can use her turn to sort of flitter about between the two of you so you get a glance at both rooms. We'll say that. Yes. I'm going to be more careful about this. Okay. So, yes, Freddie, you see this narrow.

hallway and at the end of the hallway you can just make out three large statues in the middle of this stone room. Three lumpy and misshapen statues near the east wall of this room cast ominous shadows. Each one depicts a humanoid figure undergoing some sort of slime

related trauma. The sound of running water echoes from the northeast passage. How many of those can there be different types of slime related to draw? Just from left to right, what you describe, please? Okay, excellent. So the statues appear to be made of some kind of chalky, pale green substance.

They hint at the dried slime. So you see from left to right, a man half covered in slime that dissolves the flesh from his bones. His arms are raised in exultation, and there's a joyous expression on what remains of his face. A plaque on the plinth reads, the first offering is flesh. On the second statue, the upper half of a skeleton rises from an unidentifiable puddle. Its arms are also raised and its jaws hang open.

A plaque on the plinth reads, second offering is bone. Read me the plaque on the plinth. On the third statue, you see a waist-high pile of ooze with three depressions suggesting a face with empty eyes and a gaping mouth. A plaque on the plinth reads, the final offering is all. Okay. So that's what you see.

You see a gross pool at a room with some weird statues. We're back at the top of the turn order, and what would Remar like to do? I'm not interested in this shallow pool room. I'm going to, I think I'm going to, budge up with essay and maybe I'm gonna try to head into this room like properly okay

you could perform an action in the nothing happens as you enter the room it's all chill in there okay you can uh there's a what would you you can look around like what would you like to do in the room I feel like I wait for Uthrong with the torch probably okay sick

I just you guys want to say you all enter the room you all enter the room that's fine yeah okay so you're all in the room now the room is fully lit Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And yeah, what would you guys like to do? Break all three statues, obviously, right?

You're going to try to break the statues. Should we? I'm going to hit the far left statue with a crowbar. This is your sign to go to a rage room in Los Angeles. Okay. I refuse to be intimidated. And I slam my crowbar across the face of this grotesque creature. All right.

Give me, I think it's an automatic hit, but give me a roll for dance. Well, Crowbar actually is in the weapon, I don't think. Okay, just give me, let's see what a club is. A club is 1D4 damage. Okay, so three damage. Oh, that's pretty good. Okay, so with this hefty whack, you crack this skull across the head of the man half covered in slime.

And it's pretty old, and it's, again, it seems you've made of this chalky green substance. It almost seems like hardened slime, and it just pops off. Like, you manage to just like take a good solid whack to it, and the thing cracks. Maybe not the first adventurer to try this, and it knocks off. It doesn't do anything, but when the head shatters on the floor, you notice on the floor the torn page of a journal, like sort of lying on the ground next to where the stone shattered. What could this be? Oh, if only I could read. I'm going to bring the light closer. Do you guys pick it up? Yeah. We look at it without touching it. Oh, I want to pick it up. Okay, you pick it up. That's fine.

Nothing bad happens. Now in 60 years, you may be entitled to a class action lawsuit. Mesothelioma, dude. Yeah. So you see sort of text from this torn page is sort of like a partial sort of page of text. It just says you up? It says you up. It says hasn't come to that.

The first two offerings are bad enough, but I don't think we could live with ourselves if we made the third offering. besides what living things could we find down here? It's a puzzle, dude. It's a little spooky space station what happened here. So yes, you have you found a clue. Friggin puzzles, dude. Fucking puzzles, dog. All right, what do you guys want to do now?

So this area up here, is that like a proper passage that's open that I could like peek around the corner? Yes, that is. Yes, you can go look around the corner there. All right, Rimar's going to look around the corner. So there's a little spot on the far side of the room. Remar's moving to a passage at the northwest corner. and is peeking down a hallway. And as you scoge down the hallway, Riemar, you behold...

Uthrog, the torch is burning. I'm getting cold. I guess we'll have to use each other's body warmth to stay heated. So Uthrog, as you scoot down the hallway, you see the drain. It's basically this big circular room, clear, cool, knee-deep water circles around a rusty grate in the floor. Roots dangle from cracks in the sagging stone ceiling. And then you see a passage.

further on to the southwest. Is it a water coming from the southwest or is it just coming from the direction I came from? The water is flowing from flowing in from the southwest towards the drain. Okay. Guys, I found some water. Maybe we should follow that to its source.

Wait, it appears to be some kind of puzzle in this room. The first offering is... Wait, was it? What are the offerings again? It's... I just assumed they were the statues. I don't know. The first offering is flesh.

The second offering is bone. The third offering is... all. No, that's a good idea. We should check that out. I agree. We could. Let's not continue looking for shit. Or one of us could like cut ourselves a little bit and get off, peel off a little bit of flesh and stick it on that first. What about? What about? What about? What about?

What about what? A little, a little fingernail, a little hangnail. Just a little, a little skin off the tides. A tinyest bit of flesh. Yeah. A callus. Give them a callus. A bit of flesh, no more, no less. Okay. You're going to put some flesh on the flesh thing. Yeah. So Riemar has a hangnail, and he picks at it for, I'm going to say 20 minutes. No, he just picks out it 20 minutes for 20 minutes. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we have to roll on a countertable 15 times. And he's going to pull it off and it's going to take some of his thumbskin with it.

And he's just going to sort of slap that thumbskin onto the statue, the first statue right here. Okay. Nothing happens. Okay, cool. What about throwing it into the pool? I don't know. We might also run across like a proper place. where we do the, the, the, the, sacrifices.

Okay, I'll let you go first. Okay. Here I go. So what are you doing? I'm just heading into, waiting into the pool. I'm waiting into the water area.

Okay, into the knee, uh, the knee deep drain. Okay. So yes, you, uh,

step into this knee, deep water. Uh, there's a, again, there's a great in the floor. And nothing seems to happen. He got wet,

you know, uh, you're not holding the, you're not holding, uh, Beth is holding the torch, right? Yes. Yes.

. Okay. I'd be careful with that torch around the water. That's all I would say. Oh. But yes, you, there's this rusty drain beneath you that the water is. Wait, I'm sorry I said, oh, like I didn't know what would happen. I do know what happened when fire means water.

So, yeah, there's like a sort of drain in the floor. And then, yeah, you can, if you want to, you continue, you can continue following this water to the next passage to the southwest. Yeah, dude. What are Uthragg an essay doing? I think Uthrogg takes the chair leg that she got, and she uses part of the rope to tie it onto the bottom of the flame so that the flame is like longer and it won't touch the water. You're going to use the rope to tie the chair leg to the base of the flame stick. Oh, okay. So you've got like a longer torch now.

It's like an ACOX. It's on a torch. You've unlocked attachment. I like that. Why does your chair like have a weed leaf on it? Okay, very cool. Are you guys going to continue? You guys following Remar?

What's going on? Yeah, we're following Remar. To our doom. Do, do, do. I'm going to hug the side of the wall and move forward into the open doorway. Okay, six, six, six, six. So as, what an incredible smell we've discovered as you do so. Please tell me that dripping sound is one of you.

Freddy stop. Yeah, it's us. Why is this not? Come on. Will's ability to unlock certain parts of this map is truly the real. There we go. The edge of the seat. Oh, my God.

So you have arrived at the pool. And the first thing we're going to do is roll on our encounter table once more, dear friends. Yes. Yes. But what happened last time? Do we encounter nothing? You got so you found slime, dude. We found slime, lest you forget.

So you see, oh, God, this is for fucking. a group of 1D4 rats scurries past you. So let's see how many rats scurry past. Two rats. Oh, yuck. Gross rats. If one of you would like to catch one.

Ever tell you guys a story when I booted a rat outside the Ralphs in downtown Los Angeles? No, what do you mean? I was walking out. I got street parking spot. Just grabbing some late night stuff. Walking out, full open-toed sandal situation, by the way.

Walking to my car. And like, I saw a rat and I quickened my. my pace and in doing so, the rat scurried between my legs and I just fucking like the timing of it was not intentional at all, but I straight up yeated that rat down the sidewalk. Like, oh no, good 15 to 20 feet. And I was like, good. And a guy saw it and clapped in delight.

Yeah, I would actually love to see that in the wild, I guess. So like, you know, listen, everyone dreams do come true. Always stay believing, you know what I mean? Well, these rats scurry past you. And if one of you would like to catch them, it's a DZ-50 check to do that if you would like to. Rats, why is it got to be rats? As the rats scurry past,

you find yourself in the pool, which is different than the feted pool you saw earlier. This is the cool pool. Oh, this is the cool, cool, cool, cool. I did take the feted pool's tour at Hearst Castle. I want to shout out to cool pool for giving us tickets. season past. The water in this large circular chamber moves over large bones

allitering the stone floor in a slow but steady current. The ceiling is low and cramped. Do with it to what you will. Hmm. I think we should turn around. I think we should turn around. I think the only way out is through. I'll never die.

I'm going to walk in. So I'm here today to explain the sunk coffee. Falscy. So Rimar is headed into the water. So yes, you see water flowing into this chamber from the south. Uthrog is also heading in. What are you doing, S.A.? Are you just going to see how this plays out first?

I'm going to see how this plays out, dog. Okay. And I'm going to just slowly back towards the drain behind me. I hope a fucking tentacle comes out of that thing and annihilates you. I hope there. I hope, gee, you guys go ahead. I'll watch the back. I got bad news for you.

You're on the right side of the frame and the camera's moving to the right, but we can kind of only see you and things in front of you. Kind of cold and dark back here. As you hear essay whimpering in the background, the two of you, your more immediate attention

is drawn to a bubbling noise within this pool. As a translucent ooze lurking in the water rears up with a mighty splash and decides to attack you. So we're going to go ahead and roll initiative. So everyone just to give me a D20 roll and add, I believe, your dexterity modifier to it.

14 plus minus 2, 12. 12. Let's see. I got a 2 plus 0. 6. Uthrog has a 2 and our translucent ooze is going to, oh, got a 6 as well. so we will say that the oo the ooze is going to go after remar. Okay, so this thing burbles up out of the water.

I say it is your turn. Your way to the back. Oh, no. Get out of there, guys. Guys, look out. It's right in front of you. Is that all you doing? Just when I thought this day couldn't get any worse. Oh, boy. Okay.

Remar, what are you doing? Rebar's going to go, oh, oh, no. And Riemar is going to start retreating back into the corridor as much as he possibly can within one turn. How far are you into the room? I put myself like there. So I like sort of got, I took like three steps into the room and then hug the wall to the left to the west. You were slicing the pie fully. You were slicing the pie.

Here's some who's. Here's some ooze you can use. He's not that big. Don't worry. All right. So, yes, you can go ahead and run. That's chill. You can run.

But you can't hide. from the ooze. Does it say what your move speed is, Anthony? On your turn, you can move up to near for your move out. Oh, right, because this does like near far. Okay. Wherever you are. So you can go near.

Just go, you just scooge back a little bit. That's fine. You can run. So yeah, go ahead and move your token so we can keep track of you. But yeah, we'll vibe that out as near. It is now the ooze's turn and the ooze is going to attack poor Uthrog. Thank God we don't have only one torch and it's being held by the person right next to Jesus.

This got, this got, and this, this is going to get dark real fast. I should have just done the dick moving, like, as I went back, like, taking it out of With Throg's hand. Taking it, dude, you should have just taken it. Be like, this will, this will conceal you in the darkness. He'll never fight you now. I'm doing you a stealth-based favor. What's your AC, Beth?

My A.C. is 10. Okay, so the ooze swats at you with a, with one of its pseudopod tentacles, but it's just splashes the water next to you and misses. Aha. And it is now your turn. You want to hear about how this bitching me fell out? It's kind of long, but it's full of suspense. Well, I've got a question about the ooze.

Yes, go ahead. Is it like a thick ooze or is it like a bubble? It's a thick ooze. Oh, okay. I guess I will try to run then. And you're running back where you guys came from? Yes. Okay, sick.

is now essay's turn. Ess is going to run straight back even further and grope around for the entrance into this room. Okay. Riemar, what are you doing? Remar is going to head back in the same direction as essay and shout, we got to push the statue into the, we got to blockade that hallway. Oh, I like that.

Interesting. All right, it is now the slime's turn. The slime is going to catch up to Uthragg and take another hit. Oh, no. All right. You said your AC's 10? Correct. Okay, so he got, the slime got a 17.

So the slime is now going to hit you for 1D6. It hits you for four damage. I'm dead. You are now dying. So, yes, this thing smacks. You hear the wet sound of a pseudopod slapping poor Uthragg straight into the ground. Give me a 1D4 roll, Beth, plus your con modifier. Okay.

Let's see. One, two, four, three, minus one, two. Okay, so that means you have two, in two rounds, you will expire. You will cast off your mortal coil. In the meantime, if either of you feel like braving the water, you can try to stabilize her health. Surely, surely the torch has fallen into the water at this point. Yes, the torch has fallen into the water,

and you are now plunged into darkness. What would you like to do? Well, essay is going to keep running. Okay. And I think guided by the light, perhaps, that was streaming in from the top of this very dark. He's just going to run until he reaches the end of the next thing, which is the curve of the hallway. Yeah, we'll let you say you scatter and stumble or grope your way through the darkness. And yes, you find yourself.

Yeah, we'll say you run smack into that wall. Remar, what are you doing? Honestly, I'm going to follow the sound of him smacking his face against the wall. Okay, great. It's like echolocation with another person. Yeah. As you were doing that, you hear horrible splishing. and splashing as this thing stalks its way towards you.

And then you clonk into essay in the middle of the dark hallway. Hey, watch where you're going. We gotta stop meeting like this. Jesus fucking Christ. And the two of you... What happened to Uthrog? You hear just sloshing, grumbling, oozing sounds, sort of like crawl right up to the water's edge.

And then there's just silence and pitch darkness as you waits and waits. but nothing seems to come. Oh, cool. Okay, can't leave the water. Excellent. Uthrog probably counts as all three sacrifices, so we definitely beat this puzzle. Yeah, Uthrug's been flesh and bone end life.

Yeah, so there. Remar was, did you have another torch? I believe that was a thing? One of my other characters does. Oh, one of your other, oh, good. Yeah. Okay, so we have two bozos stuck in the darkness. Here's what we'll do.

Should we just like, explore each other's bodies? Well, there's nowhere else to go, but you're a little warm. Riemar, you're shivering. Oh, you're shivering too. And then as you... Remar, get out of those wet clothes. You'll catch cold.

That's a good point. But what are we going to do if the ooze gets us? We should be as oily as possible, so it's going to not be able to get a grip on us. Do you have any oil? No, but what's this, this slime on the... On the, on the, on the, oh, it's getting warm when I touch it. Let me try. I don't like this.

You're right. I do, I do have herpes. I do, I do have that, though. I have an idea. I have an idea, actually. You ready for this? Well, I want to make our way back to where we fell down. Like over here.

Mm-hmm. And then I want to use an item that I have, which is grappling hook to escape. You're going to just try to escape from. the from the dungeon now. I have a grappling hook. Okay. So you've decided to go back to the first room. You've stung... Correct. You're going to stumble your way back to the darkness, uh, through the darkness of the room you came in. Yes. And, uh, you're going to try to use a grappling hook to escape. Yes. Okay. Uh, there is a stone. They dropped like a stone cover over the thing they threw you through. So like, I don't know what you're trying to grappling hook your way through.

But you can search around the room to see if there's like a way to escape if you want. It's going to take you a while. I'm going to take some. Hold on, real quick, real quick. Yes. It's just dark now, right? Mm-hmm. All right, hold on. We're fucked.

Is there any sunlight coming in from like the thing they fucked up? From the thing that who fucked up? Sorry, they put the big stone over the thing they dropped us down into. Is there any sunlight coming through a crack or anything like that? We'll say there's like a wisp of light so that you can, yeah, I'll throw you a bone and say that, yeah, you can, you can make disadvantaged checks to examine that room. Okay. Here's what we'll do.

As you guys come back to that room, you stumble your way through the darkness and you manage to, by hook or by crook, sort of grope your way across each other and through the stone stone floor back into the room. And you see another survivor waiting there. As the door, as the thing slams shut once more ahead of you, you see this glimpse of light as the above you. And you are able to kind of cast around the room for a split second before the room, plunges into darkness once again.

And there's another survivor waiting there. You get a split second glance of. Beth, who do they see? They're looking at Roar Grog, um, pathwork, scout. noticing a theme. Lawful. Roarog is also an influencer,

but he, um, specializes in getting people to like him. Okay. I get a good vibe off this guy. I want to roll the motivation of Roar Grog. Okay, give me a, give me a role. We should introduce our new friend to our old friend. Yeah, D10.

I got a 10. Hey. Roarrog's goal, Roarthrog. What was it? Roar Grog. Roar Grog. Roar Grog. Roar Grog's goal in this crazy world and this crazy hell-strewn life

is to make a difference. Yeah, and that's why he's trying to influence people to like him. It's just a second influencer? Yes. All right, so you get a glimpse of Roar Grog the influencer, and I will allow you guys to make a... Roar Grog. Roar Grog.

Hey, I'm so glad you guys are here. Do you want to see something really cool? Yeah, but you guys are... You're shivering. You're so cold. You look pretty dry. That's too bad. I'm real dry.

Yeah, come here. Perhaps you could help warm us up. Absolutely. Go ahead and move my icon onto the other icon. Just stacking the thing. As you guys are rubbing each other down, we're going to roll on the encounter table again. Because now that the light has gone out,

we roll on the encounter table once per turn, not once per every... That's crazy. That's cool. Oh, right. Roalcrog, do you have a fucking torch? I only have a 60-foot robe. I have an idea.

If you kill me twice, then probably a guy with the torch will replace me. I could never do that. I just met you. I don't even know if you're like me yet. Hold on. That's crazy that they throw down a guy and he's like, oh, good thing I had this torch. Okay, so as you guys are all just,

feeling each other up and is rubbing each other down in the middle of this room. Remar son, what's this? You hear the sound of just like, just, it sounds like frying bacon, like just slowly getting louder and louder from somewhere. This is a horror game now. Yeah, somebody peaking. Someone's frying up chicken, dude. You can't, you can't tell, it's just getting louder and you hear like the tittering of the

cultists above you and they're going. going like, ukoo, rocka, uku, rocka, rocca, uku,

as this sizzling sound gets louder and louder. Then you can almost hear something breathing, something big

and wet, breathing, getting closer and closer and closer to you. I want to give a shout

out to breathe right nasal strips that have loud of the same closer and closer to us.

All of my septum to get less close to itself. Closer and closer to a great night's sleep. And Rakauku, the giant, the slime lord himself,

is going to roll to see which one of you he's going to try to gobble. Wait, you got Rakauku in here now? Damn, I've never met a celebrity before. I think that's what happens when you take too long on only the first three rooms of what is probably a pretty big dungeon is the boss gets sick of it and comes to you. I'm zooming out and I'm noticing that we've only uncovered

three rooms. Yeah. Everybody's sound off one, two, three. Who wants to be number one? Who wants to be number two? One, two. I'm three then. Okay.

Roccoo is going to attack Remar, who I guess is probably on the outside of the sort of polyamorous groping that's going naked polyamers groping that's going on in the middle of this. I feel like we're in a triad situation, but yeah, I'm probably the one that's chasing. Also, I want to be clear. I want to be clear. My background was, my character's background was urchin, was an urchin.

This character got it all. You know what I mean? Prior urchin hood. Oh, my God. It's a cube. So, yes, the gelatinous cube oozes its way through the door. Go ahead. It comes out with a satisfying.

Give me a strength check, Riemar. Happy to. That is a eight. So you were engulfed by Roccoo. Feels kind of good. Nice. This was my plan the whole time. Holy.

He has skeletons. skeletons inside him. What? That's cool. Okay. We all have skeletons inside us. Holy shit. I thought about that way.

Holy shit, Beth. Slow down, Beth. I know. Beth, it's Halloween. Halloween already happened. We got it's Halloween. Okay. That is too spooky, Beth.

That was a surprise round. So we'll go ahead and start combat. Excellent, dude. I have such a good move. You're ready for this? Yeah, we'll just use the previous initiative order. But Beth, go ahead and give me a dexterity roll for Roar Gog. Mm-hmm. Let's see here.

Fuck, yeah, dude. That's a three plus two, so five. Oh, sick. Okay. And then, oh, Raqauku got a six plus zero. So he's got a six. All right. All right. So, essay, it's your turn. You just see, you see, although you still can't really see you just hear Remar get engulfed by a big cube of necrotic slime. So I'm not going to head to that. I'm going to hold the wall and then run as hard and as fast as I can pass. I'm just going to try and reveal as much of the map as possible for my future selves. You can't see, dude.

I can touch the wall, though. Okay, so you're going to just try to touch the wall. You're going to try to sense memory. And you're going to call it out. I'm just going to hold my hand out and just touch my left hand against the wall and follow it. And just follow it, dude. All right. So what's your moves?

I'm going to run as fast as my little legs can take me, my puny human legs. I have low decks. I have six decks. Give me a dexterity check to evade Raka-Uku. We'll say he's big, but he's slow, but he is definitely in the dark. So normally I would give you advantage to kind of evade him because he's like pretty, it's just a big cube, but you're not going to get advantage because it is bitch black in here. So give me a dexterity to roll to see if you can get around Raka-Uku to get to the door.

My dexterity roll is a four minus two. So you run into, you run into Rakauku and, let's see. Full speed, by the way. Full speed, full speed run into Rock. Do I bust?

Now here's the question, do I bust out the other side? Yeah, is there a Freddie-shaped hole going through this fucking cute? Do I come with enough? Give me a strength check. Brother, I hate to tell you,

essay has got a negative two on strength as well. Okay, give me the roll. Give me the roll, baby. Oh, eight minus two. That's a six. You are also engulfed in Roccoo. Hey, long time to see. Yeah. Remar, it's your turn. It's a DC12 to try to escape. Okay, dokey. Ooh, one. Not natural. It was a two, and I have a minus one in strength, but it is a one.

So you fail. It is now Roccoo's turn. Racaucco is going to flex itself. Just basically goo on you guys. It's touch attack. Hotto hits a golf targets each round. So that is a touch plus four, a 1D8 plus in golf. Okay, so yes, he's going to hit you guys for 1D8. I'll probably be fine. So he hits you both for 2 HP. Oh, no, I wasn't fine.

I have 1 HP. I'm dead. You're dead? I double explode inside. So you guys both dissolve inside Roccoo. Like instantly, dude. I straight up cross dissolve. But now we're one.

It's like when you mix sand together at a wedding. We can never be extricated from each other. It's the most intimate thing either of you have experienced. It's too bad that your brain cells have completely melted by the time it's happened. That's so sick. Imagine it's like exploding out like every atom. And it's just like, oh, yeah. Probably feels dope.

Just scattered in there. It is now Roar-Grog. The Roar-Grog, the half-ork scout, Laffles turn. You've, these two-you-got-this, these two hot boys who you thought you maybe had something going with have just been consumed by the cube. What would you like to do? You feeling left out? What am I of an influencer with no followers? I don't know how to go on.

I'm going to run. Okay. Which direction would you like to run? You know, can I just try to go like around? Dude, the essay move. What a, listen, game recognized game, the essay move. All right. Give me a, give me a dextal.

Unless you have some clever thing you'd try to do to give yourself advantage or some sort of like edge here. What would you like? Otherwise, you're just going to rock a dexterity to roll to get past Rocca Ooku. Beth, go the other way. What? The other way? Go the other way.

It's that kind of outside the box thinking that makes Freddie such an asset to this team. Yeah. Oh, man, I might do it. And then let's see. Like that, dude. What do you think about that, Will? I'm going to spin. Oh, I took you.

I'm sorry. I'm going to spin. wrap myself up, spin really fast, wrap myself up in all this rope so that maybe the gurgle frog won't recognize that I'm a person. Or you'll just be ribbed for his pleasure. Yeah. Or you can like let you, you can like shed the rope above you, you know? Yeah. They get stuck. I've rotated your token. Oh, it's like in chair company when he takes a shirt off. So I'm sorry, what? You're going to, so you're covered in rope now and you're going to run through with the rope on? Okay. Yes. Yes.

Think about it. Huge move. Huge move. So you can do that. Huge meta move. Go ahead and give me your... She's going the other direction. That's advantage for sure.

She's going to the other direction. That's true. Yeah, because think about it, well, like, think about it. The cube just got hit by me. It's like, oh. You know, like... The cube for knowing for having a specific direction it can face and not being an omnidirectional shape.

I'm just saying it felt impetus. It's like a plant. You know what I mean? Like, plants grow. towards water, a light, you know? So it's like a cube that's, it's meant to like eat things. It'll grow, it'll move towards things that touch it. You essentially are saying it's going, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum,

and that it's distracted. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Give me a, give me your dexterity role, Beth, and we will give you, you know what, for this ingenious idea, I will use, I will give you a luck point, which allows you to re-roll your role, but then you have to, you have to commit to what you rolled. Wow. Okay, I'm going to use the luck point to re-roll a D20. Did you roll it once first?

No, no, no, no. You use it after. You use it after you roll it once when you don't like it. Yeah, I rolled a nine and I didn't like it. So then I rolled a five. Oh, shit. Hell yeah. Hell yeah.

You are also caught in Raka-Uku. It is now Raka-Uku's turn. But would you change your mind if I said I have a plus two to dexterity? So it's actually a seven. Ooh. What would you say then? Old school, best school. Yeah, use the rope.

Use the rope. Beth, shed the rope. Shed the rope. That's like just like we plan. Here's what we'll say. Here's what we'll say. First, I'll give you the same deal I gave you Freddie.

You've run into this thing. Now give me your strength role to see if you're able to Hulk through Rakauku or if you get stuck in his gelatinous slime. But she's powered by rope. I have a feeling. I'm going to be stuck in his gelatinous slime. I'm thinking I'm going to be slime.

I'm thinking, yeah, I'm thinking I'm going to be in slime. I rolled a one. Okay. This was Shadow Dark. Thank you so much for joining us. Oh my God. You guys made it three fucking roofs into this thing. What happened?

That's exciting. Yay, good for us. I was so, I wanted to bring in my boy Thakdur. Because he was a chaotic novel, which meant that I could have done the clock strikes twin. I was so excited because my next character's name is just Eric. Okay, here's what we'll say. If you guys want to keep playing Shadow Dark is that Matt can show up to and add some Matt energy to it. We can keep doing this until you guys beat the Level Zero dungeon.

How about that? Next time, Eric and the Joker, I guess. And who's your next character, Anthony? The guy with a torch? No, my next character's name is Joel Ram. And he has 10 iron spikes. What the fucker? What?

He's just holding 10 iron spikes in that. I had 10 iron spikes too, but I couldn't, I was going to throw them like ninja cow drops. Next time on Shadow Dark, trial of the slime lord. We'll see if Eric and his pals can survive where our previous heroes did not. Stay tuned and maybe Matt will show up as well.