High Rollers DnD - Altheya: The Dragon Empire #24 | The Iron Crows (Part 1)

Episode Date: June 4, 2024

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And we're excited to be there. All right, with that, let's run the intro and we'll get into the game. Yay! Welcome back to Althea the Dragon Empire. Our heroes are now reunited, with Ophelia having completed her journey in the Greylands and earning another chance at life, and Rowan and Xanthius free of their curse,

the party turn their attention to the events that occurred over the last few days and back towards the mystery of the Lamplighter's Guild. With the information that there are catacombs below Brightshadow Cathedral, Rowan strikes upon an idea to go to the Stonemason's Guild and see if they have plans of the town that could help. With Gruff alongside, they learn that Ashen Rest has they have plans of the town that could help. With Gruff alongside, they learn that Ashen Rest has an old set of sewer tunnels that run alongside the Cathedral's catacombs. Descending into them, a pair of cleaner slimes sneak up on our party and catch

them unawares, erupting in a short but rather slimy conflict. With the slimes defeated, our party press on towards their intended destination and perhaps some answers. And that is where we pick up this week. You have just defeated these cleaner slimes, gelatinous cubes, if you want to know specifically the monster they're based on. And you are in these very narrow, quite smelly but dry old sewer tunnels. They extend onwards.

This is where, if you guys wanted to take a short rest, we didn't check in last week, if you guys wanted to have a short rest or if you just wanted to press on. Yeah, how's everyone looking? It's Rowan that needs to... I think the big boy said... Yeah, he's not very good. How's everyone looking? It's Rowan that needs to... Take the big boy's head. Yeah, he's not very good. How's everyone in mind, spell slot wise?

Just, I thought you were gonna say, how's everyone that matters? Wow. I can't reset them unless I have a long rest. Same as you. I only have one spell slot, because this is also following the ritual. Yeah, we've already had a fight, yeah. I only have one spell slot. Because this is also following the ritual. I have three.

So I've got cantrips, I've got some banging cantrips. I've got no healing cantrips. I'm not too bad with spells. When do you recover your... what is it? Oh, you've got no healing left. No healing cantrips. Yeah. You have spell slots. I have three spell slots.

That's not too bad. There's a feature where you ignore going to zero, basically. You did that already. Stubborn Endurance. Stubborn Endurance, yeah. Stubborn Endurance is a long rest, I believe. It's a long rest, okay. That's a good one.

It's 2 OP. It's a short rest. It's very strong. Don't forget, you do get some HP back on a short rest if you have hit dice to spend. That's true. I'm going to need it because I'm on five. All right. Maybe we should have a short rest if you have hit dice to spend. That's true. I'm gonna need it because I'm on five. All right. We can short rest. Maybe we should have a short rest.

You also, I believe some of you did buy vitality potions which would give you temp HP as like a potential as well. Obviously you don't have to spend them now, but just options that you have. I have one, you have one? Yep. Yeah. So that's an option.

It's a bonus action to drink yourself as well. Yeah. Drink yourself. Drink yourself. Drink yourself, silly. So is the plan to take a short rest? Which is weird. I'm just going to have a brief lie down. Okay, I did see you.

Planking, horizontal on the floor. He's out. He did go fully inside one of those clear slimes. And then I got blasted by ice. And then the ice hit the fire. Rowan's also been doing a video game crouch walk the entire time. That's true. The calves and the thighs and the back are really, really stuffy.

I'm such a great arse after this. Yeah, you're solid. Rock solid. Your thunderclap is going to be so much stronger. Can I get out of grid? No. Aww. How's everyone else looking?

I'm fine. I was sandwiched between the rest of the people for safety. Raff, how are you? 22 out of 35. Do you wanna take a short rest? Sounds like potentially, yeah. But Rowan's taking a short rest anyway. I mean, if you're taking a short rest,

everyone can technically take one or not if they want to. Don't forget Rowan's Song of Rest as well. If you do spend any hit dice, you get an extra d6 of HP. For one dice? It's just one d6. No matter how many hit dice you spend, you get an extra d6. I've only got two hit dice left from my previous short rest. Do you get it if you don't spend hit dice?

No. Okay, you have to spend one to get it. You've got from my previous short rest. Do you get it if you don't spend hit dice? No. Okay, you have to spend one to get it. You've got to take a short rest. Okay. Yeah. Good, I'm going to need it. All right, I'm back up. Cool.

Haru's Ophelia. Ophelia's fine. Yeah. You've got like rages and stuff left. Belly taken a scratch. But for you as well, being with your new warlock level, your spells come back on a short rest for you as well. Nice. Your spell slots come back. So if you do, so it's for you,

it's worth taking a short rest, even if you've got HP, because you get your spell slots back. Awesome. I have spent two hit dice, I am at full HP. Yeah. Same. Yeah. I'm back. Same, but not fully full.

Not fully full. But I'm feeling a lot better. Good, good. All right. You spend an hour, it is an hour for the short rest. Let's make it heroic. You could do, you do have that ability reset. You could use a heroic short rest if you wanted to.

There's not any slimes wandering around, is there? None, I mean, I wouldn't be able to tell you until you took the short rest. That's true. Are you setting like a watch? Is anybody going to scout or, you know, keep an eye out for any dangers?

Roman just sits up like fucking under... Well, you're taking... Yeah, you're taking a short rest, so you are... I'm short resting, so I'm doing nothing. Exactly.

You can be conscious while you're short resting, so... Yeah, if anybody wants to scout ahead or move away or do anything during the short rest. I feel you can scout ahead

with a dark vision. just have a look around. Not a quick look. Is there anything in the vicinity? Yeah, sure. You spend a bit of time wandering around, just moving ahead of where you were, doubling back on yourself, checking behind you. You don't see any more signs of those slimes. You don't spot any when you're moving around.

It seems that maybe those two were... You don't think that they're supposed to be down here, right? These are the old sewers. You remember being told that these are the old sewers? It's the new sewers that have these cleaning slimes getting rid of all the filth. They maybe got in here somehow and, like, stayed trapped down here or something like that.

But, yeah, you don't see any more signs in the immediate vicinity of any dangers. You guys spend a long rest. Rowan may be strumming his lute for a little bit for the Song of Rest. Horizontal. That's what the kids call it. Wow. And you spend an hour.

Nothing happens. You enjoy your short rest. It would be you're kind of approaching like late afternoon not that you can tell we assume yeah you assume

like you know how many hours you've been down here but yeah it would probably be about late afternoon at this point do we still have your light Daisy yeah

okay how long is that is that just a free third? It's a cantrips. Oh, right, okay. You can just keep it up every hour. Cool. Yeah. Daisy's light is the only light source you have,

which is about 20 feet of bright light and 20 feet of dim light after that. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I lost my lantern. Wave the dagger around in your general direction. You left it somewhere. Okay, ow, ow, ow, it's bright. I was happy. He was in those caves with the... Cut my nose off. The naughty things.

So, when you sit off, could I have your order of who is first? Are you going to keep the same order you had last time? Yeah, Gruff probably, because he... Because last week I rolled that ridiculous, like, what, 26, 20? Yeah, yeah, the survival check. Yeah, you've got a very strong mental map a gruff of these old sewer tunnels and where you're going so i'll go first okay great do you

know how close we are you are not far like maybe i mean these are expansive like moving across the town you know if you were going across the town you've got big open streets it's a lot easier traverse these narrow tunnels you're moving at half speed, maybe like another hour of travel, and then you'll be in the area. Because they twist and move around, you have to kind of go around places, and it's not a straight, direct path there. He says that, but in a Welsh accent.

Oh, hello. Yes, it's always twisty and windy, and you've got to go around there. You know, I'm moving at half speed because I'm crouched like I'm old. Hello, my name is Gruff, I'm from Tremoro. A little village. A little village. Called Tremoro because the little village helps.

Little village. Called Tremoro. Does anyone know any good songs? He's the only wild heart in the village, he is. Anyway. No, I'm a bard, what the fuck? I don't know any good songs for the perfect ring of purpose this time. I'm a bard. What the fuck? I don't know any good songs for the perfect re-imperfect tunnel. I'm going home.

You set on your way, making your way. You know, these narrow tunnels, there is maybe a point, I'll leave it up to you for your characters to decide, but you've spent a long time now in these quite tight, old sewer tunnels. Like, they're stable, they're very well built built there's no risk of them coming down on you but this is a very tight space gruff and bro and you're you're crouched over hunched up moving through them um whether or not how that wants to affect your characters i leave to you but you only have this this radiant magical light providing illumination gruff leading the way.

After about an hour, you come to a strange turn because for the first time, it's no longer right angles and straight lines. You come to a diagonal. And Gruff, you know that this is the diagonal part of the old sewers that runs diagonal to the catacombs. They had to be built this way so that they didn't overlap into the cathedral. And it's not far far maybe 20 feet down

on this diagonal where you immediately see something in the light and you can see that a part of the wall has been broken down and then rebuilt connecting the two connecting the two. And there is maybe just a faint flicker of torchlight coming from within the catacombs that is being illuminated as you turn down, allowing you to see it, even in the dim light of the far reaches of Daisy's dagger. They must have used this sewer as well as the catacombs.

I've also forgotten, once again, it's fate. We've got to work out fate pools. Fate time! Fate time. Hey, watch this drive. So, d6 from everybody. This is a little custom home rule that we use to generate a pool of fate. Hmm.

D6 from everybody. Katie, I'm going to assume that is a dice for me. A three. A three. That's a dice for me. I've got a five, which is a dice for me. A three. A three, that's a dice for me. A three. I got a five, which is a dice for me. A dice for you. Cinco.

Oh, another dice for you, thank you very much. I got a one. It's a dice for me, thank you, Chris Tron. You're welcome. A five. A five, it's a dice for you, and then, oh, I rolled it. A six, another dice for you.

Three and three. No, four and two. That's what I said. You idiot! Moron. Boo! I'm sorry, guys, I'm sorry. You blundering boob!

Imbecile. All right, Jesus. That is so much I can take, guys. But yeah, just to generate, so you guys currently have four points of fate. Don't forget you can spend them on ability checks, attack rolls, or to do fun creative cool stuff. I feel like any time Rowan talks, it's right in my ear, because you're hunched down as well. It would echo and reverb down here. It's like really unwanted ASMR.

Yeah, he's breathing behind me as well. You can hear my tongue. Is Rowan a mouth breather? No, I hope not. You're the one who would get most offended by this. If Rowan's like that, I'm gonna end his character. Could you RP that for me? Hell no.

It goes right up to that mic there. Hell no. So yeah, imagine you have a diagonal corridor. It's about 20 feet down. You see this opening in the, what I guess would be to you, the left-hand wall, so northern wall, we'll call it. There is this kind of breach into another corridor. And it does look like there's an elevation change ever so slightly as well,

like maybe a slight slope up into the catacombs. But it's definitely, you know, from your distance, you can't tell any details, but you can see that clearly, like, there is a connection between the two of them. But you would need to, yeah, at this distance, not really able to tell much different. You're looking at it in dim light.

Can I use survival or something of that light to see if there are any noticeable footmarks and paths that have been used to go between the two? You would need to, I mean, yeah, if you want to move up, I'm assuming at this point you've just seen this at like 20 feet, 20 feet ahead. I might suggest that to the team. Sure, I mean, you guys...

Like, look for... Xanthius. Yes, Rowan. Can you hear me? Yes, like, very well, very clearly. Thank you. Can you pass it up to the front? Pretty sure they can...

What is it? Don't. Stop. Licking your lips, Rowan. I'm not having, like, lips to ear. Oh. Did you put your name in the goblet of fire? No, you just shout that.

How did you put your name in the goblet of fire? It's the only way I'll accept it. Such an inside joke, sorry. Yeah. He explained calmly. Such an inside joke, sorry. He explained it calmly. You should carefully see if there's anyone on the other side and whether they've been using these sewers to get through.

Graf? Just as a thing, I do have your passive perceptions and stuff written down, so if there is, you would pick up on it, I think, with those, I will tell you, obviously. Groff, we need to move forward. Rowan wants to see this closer. Well, anyone can. Anyone can, in fact, is what he says, loudly into my ear. I don't know why I'm repeating my saying.

I don't know whether to stop this or just let you keep going. It's quite fascinating. Is it? Good. Is this careful, Groff? It wasn't very well. Tom, is this how Xanthius is saying all of this? Because it's quite loud. I want to check, you know, obviously. It's loud enough for Groff to hear.

Okay. And you're what, three ahead of me? It's definitely like Xanthius' voice is echoing. Like through these, you know, stone corridors. Everybody, you might want to bloody well keep it down. Language. Sorry, sorry. Rowan wants to move forward so we can examine.

What was it you were looking for? Evidence. Evidence. Evidence. Evidence. I'm moving forward, but be careful. We don't want to attract attention. We don't want to attract attention.

We don't want people to know we're here yet. What's she saying? What are you saying? Sorry. Keep quiet. Are we near the end yet? It smells so bad. I know, but we need to be quiet.

Gruff is saying be quiet. Are we near the end? Do you whisper your voice? We should look. Why do you get so high-pitched when you whisper? Why did she go high-pitched when you whispered? Because it doesn't travel as far. I know the base travels further.

So if we do a high pitched when you whisper? Why did you go high pitched when you whispered? Because it doesn't travel as far. I know the base travels further. So if we do a high pitch, I know it won't travel so far. Very smart, I think, I don't know. I think it's very smart. Okay. I would like stealth rolls from everybody.

I'm going to not give you disadvantage because you were trying to be funny for our Twitch stream. We're making content. At this point onwards, I'm going to be clear. Loud talking that is above a whisper will impose disadvantage. Stage whispers, everybody.

For the podcast, but in character, loud speaking will carry. Okay. Stealth, you say? Oh, what up? Hey, what up? 20. Six.

I'm going to count this as a group check. You're moving together. So 20. Six. Six. 15. 15. 20.

20. Not 20, 22. 22, okay. So it's a majority. That's the best we've ever done. Ever. I think that in the... Even at level 20. in the universe of it,

in the actual in-character element, Xanthius is maybe speaking a bit loudly, like is not used to keeping his voice down, and that's the lower stealth check. But the group of you do kind of like move through. Obviously Daisy's light can't really be hidden that well. Are you keeping it up, Daisy? But like you're going to need it to see.

But you are quiet as you move. But I'm a little small. You are a little small, but that light's a bright light. But I'm a little small. When you get to the breach in the, between the catacombs and the old sewer tunnels. I will put the light off when we get to the... Oh, okay.

Yeah, because there is a light in there. There's a torch in there. It's flickering torchlight, so it's all in dim light. You guys are all in dim light at this point. I know some of you do have low light vision, which will help you in low light conditions. For you, Ophelia, with your dark vision, you can see everything kind of clearly in that black and white,

but you lose all the color, basically. Everything's kind of muted and desaturated for you, but you can see pretty clearly, details-wise, up to the 60 feet. Yeah, you find that the wall between, the stone in the wall between the catacombs and the old sewer tunnel

has been quite... You know, it's been connected. Like, stones have been removed and then a cave or a tunnel has been quite, you know, it's been connected. Like, stones have been removed and a cave or a tunnel has been cut. It's not very long. Like, it's maybe five feet of rock that's been cut through to connect the two. But, yeah, that's what you guys find. Anything more, you'll need to make rolls if you want to learn more information.

But you can see that it leads into. You don't hear anything. You don't hear anything. You don't see anything. There is, like I said, a flicker of torchlight in the catacombs, and that extends diagonally that way as well. North and south, we'll call it. Do you reckon dust would collect in a place like Asuwa? Presume so.

There's like air ducts way back, right? The wind would pick stuff up. It was like dried dirt and old sewer matter has dried and crusted here and stuff like that as well. Well also it depends if those slimes picked it up or not. That's true. Cleany, clean slimes. That could change all of the assumptions. This area, because you've seen what it looks like,

the slimes clean into it perfectly. This doesn't look like the slimes came to this area. So something's collected here over time. Yeah. So I was going to suggest, if we look at the stones that are being moved and put back, if there's any dust collected on them and how recent that would have been as a result,

if there's been a very recent... So you want to see if this has been a recent excavation? Yeah. Cool, give me an investigation check from Rowan. While he's doing that, can I look for tracks? Yep, you can. That'll be a survival roll. Two? Rowan, you look...

This is very well-worked stone, clearly the work of people who know what they're doing. You have no idea how recently this was done. I can't tell. Big dust. 16. 16 on a survival check. Spent everywhere.

So Gruff, you take a moment, you kind of get down low, examine the ground, and you can see that there are tracks, several tracks. You can tell that they are coming and going in between the catacombs and here. You can see that they lead into the catacombs and then lead out, and then they go further into the old sewer system, but they also go further into the catacombs and then lead out and then they go further into the old sewer system but they also go further into the catacombs as well. You can tell with that survival check that there were several human-sized individuals,

a couple of small like halfling or gnome-sized individuals or children, like young human children and at least one dwarf, maybe two. Okay. What? You, with that roll of a 16, you can follow that the tracks lead further into the sewer tunnels and the catacombs, but you don't necessarily know.

Once you get to a certain distance, you lose the tracks. You can't follow them any further. And the ones that are going into the catacombs are they coming out from the catacombs? It's all crossed over. It's like coming and going. Did we say the guy who was missing, Morris? Did you know if he was a halfling or?

I don't think we ever asked. Why do I get the feeling he was a dwarf? Yeah. I thought he was a dwarf. No, he was a dwarf, yeah, because we checked his rooms. D do I get the feeling he was a dwarf? Yeah, I thought he was a dwarf. No, he was a dwarf, yeah, because we checked his rooms. Dwarf, yeah, he was a dwarf. A party of either children or gnomes. And there is dwarf tracks here as well.

Yeah, at least one or maybe two. Dwarf tracks are kind of harder to tell because they're mid-sized between halfling and human, but they're deeper because they're like mid-sized between halfling and human but they're deeper because they're heavier set. But it could just be a human in like heavy armour with small feet. Do you know what I mean?

Tiny child. Hard to tell. Can I spider climb up onto the roof of the tunnel and just keep an ear out in case anyone comes in? Yeah, the tunnel isn't very high so it's like probably... Like all fours, like scrambling. Yeah, the tunnel isn't very high, so it's like probably...

Like all fours, like scrambling. Yeah, you're kind of on all fours scrambling. Like, the tunnel probably isn't much taller than like five foot five, five foot six, so anybody taller than that was kind of hunching and craning their neck. So you go up on the ceiling and you're like, like on all fours. Excuse me, bump heads

with me. Sorry, us. What's the plan here? I'm just keeping an ear out in case anyone comes into the catacombs and then we can scoot back inside. I mean, you're now upside down, like face to face with me. Hello, Spider-Man face.

Her head's stayed in the same spot. Just run up there, because it's circular, right? So you're like, Just hair all in your face. Grudge, just. This scene in Spider-Man felt very different. all in your face, grudge. This scene in Spider-Man felt very different.

Okay, what did you find, Gruff? I found that there are several tracks, a couple of humans, a couple of small, maybe halflings, maybe gnomes, maybe children, and a couple of dwarf tracks. Didn't you say that Morris fella was a dwarf? Yes. You think they might have come through here? It looks like it.

Did you say a couple of dwarf tracks? Yes. One, maybe one. It's a bit mucky because they're coming, they're crossing over. There's no, like, you know, oh, this person definitely went this way. It's all crossing in and out.

Any sign of struggling? Not really. I mean, based on that survival roll, you can't tell that, but that might be more of like maybe another survival check or an investigation check to see if there was any kind of a struggle or anything like that here. Not that I can tell. Okay.

I'm at a loss of what I can do here. Anybody can make any check, even if you're not good at it, remember Can I look and see Can I see if there's any writing or anything on the walls that might look for thieves' camp Yeah, you look around as you spend some time

You've recognised some of the symbols that the criminal sort of criminal elements and you know pickpockets and things like that occasionally leave you've learned you know your wanderings like you and nim have picked up on things here and there of things to avoid you don't see any sign of any kind of writing or inscriptions or anything like that but while you're looking give me give me an investigation check. 12. 12? Yeah, you don't see any sign of writing

or anything like that. The only thing you can tell is that whoever made this, like kind of took these stones out, clearly was very skillful, like some sort of artisan. Like these haven't been like broken away with pickaxes and hammers. These have been very carefully removed, and the tunnel's been carved with very skilled hands.

Somebody who clearly knows how to work stone and maybe has some training in architectural plans or something like that. I will relay that quietly to the group okay somebody somebody of intellect and uh trained in like an as an artisan somebody's taking great care to to do this so it doesn't look hasty doesn't look hasty doesn't look like it's been blasted you know it's not being used like you know like i said no c-caps, hammers, no explosives. Very secretive. Someone like a lamp lighter. Or potentially.

Or a stonemason. Also suggests there was no urgency, meaning that this was all planned ahead of time. All this has been doing the rounds multiple times. This is a common route, maybe. Unless it was done magically? That'd be quicker. You'd be the one to know.

I wouldn't know what to look for, but. Well, you have more of an affinity with magic than most of us. Okay, I guess I'll look at the wall to see if I can spot any sigils or like. Daisy's already looked. There's no writing or symbols or anything at all. No, it's all just plain stone here.

Looks pretty mundane to me. You would need something like detect magic. You need spells like detect magic to determine if there are magical auras and things like that. Residue of spells, that sort of thing. It might just be time to start dismantling the wall and going through. Oh, it's already, it's open. It's not being replaced, like it has been left open.

There is light coming through. I thought it was just for little gaps. No, no, no, this is big enough for a person to walk through. Great. I say we go through. Follow the tracks then. For some reason, I also thought it was closed. Maybe because you two don't ever listen.

It's also, we don't listen. I think it's because we don't listen. The fact that everybody else was just like, yeah, no, it's open. So, yeah, you see that there is, yeah, like I said, there is this connection. You can just step through. Light's coming through from the other side.

It's deadly silent. Gareth just step through. Light's coming through from the other side. It's deadly silent. Grafith will step forward. Okay. Yeah. As quietly as possible. And move into the catacombs of the cathedral. Catacombs. There's a slight incline,

you know, maybe five foot, four foot sort of like incline that you go up. You step out into Torchlight. You can see that the catacombs themselves are lit by iron torches in sconces, like old-school flaming torches. These aren't everlights. These are actual hand-lit kind of torches in very well-made metal sconces. They're spaced sort of every 30 feet or so,

so the corridor is quite brightly lit. sort of 30 feet or so. So the corridor is quite brightly lit. You can see that the corridor extends diagonally to the southeast. It also goes to the northwest and then quickly turns directly north as well. The passageway to the southeast, that diagonal, continues on for some distance beyond the light that you can see. It seems to go maybe 80, 90 feet, and then it turns to a corridor leading to the east.

Which direction did we enter the sewers to find the wall? Are we going in a certain direction? You were also going southeast because it's a parallel diagonal, but you came from the west, so you were heading east, took a diagonal, and now you're... My intuition is we continue southeast, because that would be the route. Do we have...

So Rowan and Gruff went to check the blueprints of the catacombs and the sewers and all of that. And you've got a pretty strong memory of that. I don't think you saw the tunnels of... Oh, you did see the tunnels of the catacombs and the sewers, yeah. So you have a pretty strong memory of both, Gruff. So if we were to be like, OK, Mark, I would like to look for, I don't know, a tomb or...

Yeah, there's several along this diagonal. There are several rooms that are all where they keep the ashes. Like, they keep them in urns and they put them on pedestals and, like, in alcoves and things like that. Memorial shrines. So I guess, like... There are three of those rooms along this diagonal. Okay. If I was to say, was there a space, like, a larger space where, like, multiple people could be in it?

Yeah, the third room down is a larger shrine tomb. Okay. So it would have space for people to be in it. Yeah, the third room down is a larger shrine tomb. Okay. So it would have space for people to be in there. Good place to start. Yeah. So one place we might be looking for is where these missing lamplighters are being held, or I don't know, maybe have taken themselves

or something like that. A meeting place, maybe. So maybe a room that is quite large, if I remember from when we looked at those maps, down here. Just to clarify for Graf, did you mean a place just in the catacombs or in both, by the way? Like a place large enough in the old sewers as well,

or just in the catacombs? In the catacombs. In the catacombs, okay. Catacombs. There might also be, much like this wall, another expertly hidden nook or something from the catacombs that leads into a secret room. So we should be on the lookout behind things or... Secret rooms.

Secret rooms. Okay. But we can start in that big room. What does the secret room look like? Eden, you can't see it. It's a secret. So I'm looking for something I can't see? Yes. That's been expertly

made without a hint or trace of its existence. Is this anything that you'd be able to detect? No. At all? Not even interacting with stone? Maybe. I've seen you do that. If I've, if I'm given enough time. Okay. Right. If I see something that I can't you do that. If I'm given enough time. Okay.

If I see something that I can't see, that I'm not meant to see, I'll give you a shout. Please do, but not too loudly. Not too loud. Okay, I'll give you a sign. Nice. So, Gruff, you lead them into that corridor now, heading to the southeast, following that diagonal along. You mark two doors.

The doors are beautifully made they're inlaid with um not quite silver it would probably be like a polished steel um decorations depicting melia and pyrrhus and the scions several of the saints as well are depicted mainly saint death ear the blind skeletal faced arch archer watching over the dead. There are symbols of flame. Volcanoes feature prominently as well, which is very cauldron, as burial, cremation, and volcanoes have a strong, and fire has a strong resonance in cauldron.

The first two doors you ignore. You know that they lead to slightly smaller rooms, maybe too small. But the third one is definitely larger. The doors are double doors. They are closed, and they look like heavy stone. You do not, there are just handles, you know, in the doors. You do not see any sort of like clever opening system or anything like that. They look like they just open.

Can you hear anything in there? If you'd like to make it active, if you wanna try and specifically listen to the door, you can make a perception check. Can you hear anything in there? If you'd like to make an active, if you want to try and specifically listen to the door, you can make a perception check. Anyone can. Natural 20. Plus six.

Natural 20. So 26 total. 26 as well. That's important because it adds to the, you know, extra five. I'm in the room. But I'm not in the room. But I'm in the room. But I'm not in the room. But I'm in the room. This feels great, right? Rough.

You strain your wild heart, Leonin senses. And you cannot hear anything beyond this door. It sounds dead quiet. What you do hear, and only because you got a natural 20 and you got 26, plus 25, 25 or higher, back in the old sewers where you just came from, the faintest sound of like scrabbling, like little claws or something on stone, like a rat or like a little creature, like a beast was like on stone.

And you can barely hear it. There's a moment where everyone kind of goes silent, nobody's even breathing, and you just happen to pick up on it. Only because you have these super heightened senses being a wild heart. It's Ophelia. On the ceiling.

So I can't hear anything in this room. Okay, good. But I can hear something in the sewers. It sounded like it was moving away as well, like back deeper into the sewers, the way you were heading. What, behind us? If we think about this,

if people at Lightbringers, for example, are wishing to use the cathedral, and thus the catacombs, to get somewhere else, this would be the starting point. They'd use the wall to get into the old sewers to get somewhere else. We're going the wrong way around. So we should go back? That way? And go further in the sewers, perhaps. Okay, that's further away from the dead people, so I'm quite happy with that. They're all ashes and things now.

Yes, but we've seen her in any way. I want to get whatever that thing is. I'm worried. And Gruff just starts moving to where he thinks he heard and tries to track. You can try. This is gonna be very difficult. And Gruff just starts moving to where he thinks he heard and tries to track. You can try. This is going to be very difficult. I literally only gave you that sound because you got a nat 20, 26. Nat 20 is not an automatic success, but you got such a high result.

I gave you that. I'm going to tell you now, this is going to be a very high DC to try and locate that thing again. Because it sounded like it was moving away. And by the time you step back in through, because you have to go all the way up the corridor, out and back into the sewer tunnel, this thing is going to have, if it was moving,

it would have at least a round of movement away, so it's going to make it pretty tough. But roll it and see what happens. There's some fate. Am I rolling? Perception. If you're trying to listen for it, perception. If you want to try and track it, it would be survival.

I've got a six in both, so... You're using fate as well? I'll put my light on as well. She's using fate. Okay, you'd like to spend a fate? Absolutely. Okay. Yep.

No. I rolled an eight plus six, which is... 14. 14 plus one, 15. 15. Unfortunately not. Whatever plus one, 15. 15. Unfortunately not, whatever it was has moved off already. All I will tell you with a 15 is you definitely heard it basically head south from this junction.

The old sewer tunnel you're in heads southeast for a moment, and then it turns and heads straight south after that. Okay. I think we've lost it, but... There's all manner of vermin and things down here. Well, there isn't because of the slimes, so I'm worried that it might be something like a spy or something,

something reporting back to someone. We should... Look, let's move. There's nothing in that... I heard nothing in that room. Let's go open the room, at least see if there's anything in there. If we've been spotted, we may as well move quickly. Yes.

Let's go. So you want to go back into the catacombs and go to that room you were listening at. Okay. You make your way back in. It's about round. You get to there. You go to push open the doors.

I mean, they have handles, but they are locked. There is like a section for a key and things like that. You know, these are locked chambers. Damn it, I had the option for... Knock. Spell, knock, yeah. Didn't pick it! Smash it in? It's heavy stone, it would be very difficult to break.

Possible, but difficult. Any locks? There's literally a lot of locks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah. It's part of the handle, it's like a key lock, basically. I could try and pick the lock? Yeah. Maybe? Yeah.

It's basically Dex plus Proficiency, because you've got Thieves' Tools Proficiency. Rowan's going to stand guard by the hole in the wall. Okay, so you move back to that hole in the wall. Stay stationed there. Alrighty. So it'd be... Dex plus proficiency.

So it'd be a plus six. If you don't have expertise in it, which I'm assuming you don't. No, what, sleight of hand? No, it's specifically thieves' tools. Yeah, you can take expertise in Thieves' Tools for things like locking, picking locks and disarming traps and stuff like that.

So it'd just be dex plus proficiency. You wanna fade it? What? You wanna fade it? All right, do it. What are you looking at? 14. 14.

14 is not enough to pick the lock. It would be DC probably 15 on these. So you get close, but it's just taking you some time. I'd say with a 14, you're close enough that you could pick this lock, but it's going to take you like 10 minutes. Like if you just keep trying it, you think you can get it, but it's going to take you 10 minutes minutes. Like if you just keep trying it, you think you can get it, but it's going to take you 10 minutes basically. So you will succeed eventually.

It's just a bit of a tricky lock that Daisy's struggling with. While Daisy's trying with the lock, can I try the room like one back? Yeah. You go back. It's the same thing. They do have these stone doors. They are locks. They would kind of keep all of these locked just for making sure nobody comes in

and defiles the ashes and things like that or tries to rob them. There's maybe some riches or some of them might be worth something. It's unfortunately locked. You can listen to it or do anything anybody else wants to do. Can I have a look around at some of the burials

and just read some of the descriptions on the urns and things like that. Yeah, well, there's no urns directly in the corridors, right? The urns are stored in the rooms. But the doors do have things like inscriptions written on them. It looks like the smaller rooms that, like, the three that, you know, are on this diagonal, the two smaller ones are what they would call, like,

communal burial chambers. So you have, like, you know, and on this diagonal um the two smaller ones are what they would call like communal burial chambers so you have like you know and on the doors are written the names of families and individuals who are laid to rest here um has their dates of their deaths and their births and things like that and there's a bunch of different names you know these are all cauldron ashen rest locals um the larger room is what's called a family chamber, and it's for the more affluent, wealthier families. They normally will have a whole room here that their family is laid to rest in. This room in particular belongs to the Dios family. D-I-O-S, Dios.

The biggest room? Yeah, the big room that you're currently looking at, the Dios room. Okay. Does the name ring a bell? Does anybody know of this Dios family? They must be important. Xanthius, you might have vaguely heard of the Dios family. They're just wealthy merchants.

They run... Anything in Rust End? Probably not in Rust End. They probably... They would be... They live here in Ashen Rest, but their businesses operate in the main city of Feros. Okay.

They operate in the big city, basically. Right. Go ahead. If I fail an ability check... Oh, you've got your knack. ...using a skill I have proficiency with, I can roll a d6 and add that to the check. Do you want to do that now?

Can I? Because it's the first time I've done this. Yeah, it's the first time you've done it, and you forgot you had that ability. You need to remember it moving on next time. A three. Okay, a three. But it would have been a 17, which is enough.

The d6 was 15, right? So we'll say that you spend some time, and then Nim is... I think this is a good point of like explaining what this ability would be like as you are trying to do it and you're kind of getting frustrated like you're not kind of getting it you feel nim's essence kind of connect with you and for the first time flow out of your mind and more into your body and you almost feel this tingle down your arms, in your veins,

and you feel like your fingers, not against your will, but almost being guided, like lift this one, move this hand, do this, as Nim is going to lend her experience, or their experience, sorry, to what you're doing. And that's where the knack comes in, right,

of Nim's experience kind of leading it to you. And you hear a click, and the door is unlocked. But this is still after a small period of time. A kind of leading it to you. And you hear a click and the door is unlocked. But this is still after a small period of time. A couple of minutes. Enough time for Gruff and Rowan and Ophelia to do their stuff and then we catch up to it. Yes! Sorry, I've not done it successfully yet.

Wait, you've got the door? Yeah. Quietly, I say. Not loudly. Okay. Good job, Daisy, well done. Rowan. Yeah, they they are big they are heavy um but the doors you push them inwards uh they slide open there is a bit of a grumble and a strain

um and as you open it it leads into the interior of a very beautifully kept ornate looking burial chamber uh there are two large um well one is like an altar and then one is a statue um seems to maybe show the uh founder of the family like the progenitor and then there are alcoves around the room in which these ornate beautiful gold and silver some of them have rubies and sapphires inlaid into the burial urns are stored in these chambers you can see now why maybe this was locked up there are inscriptions written

on the altars, written in a sort of local cauldron draconic so unless you can read draconic you don't understand it I think I do yeah, well you would, as a dragonborn you would I do indeed so it well, you would. As a dragonborn, you would. I do indeed. Yeah. So it's basically just a kind of

an imperial prayer of prosperity. It's kind of a thing that would be said by dragons who wished for wealth and power and affluence and things like that. So if I read it out loud, it would be something that everyone else would recognise? Yeah, those of you who are kind of

more ingrained with like city, I don't think like Gruff would because I don't think Tremor is like a very like businessy town. It's quite rural. Rowan maybe has heard it in your travels. Daisy would have heard it in cauldron towns and things like that. It's like a blessing. It's like asking for a blessing from the dragons

for good fortune, basically. Good fortune and wealth and things like that. And obviously this family believed in that for their wealth and prosperity. It says here they were straight up chalking it. No. Oh, you're going to get a DM slap. It does not say that.

I'm vetoing that quite hard. I know they say yes and, sometimes you say no. It's more like no Tom. No Tom. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Regardless of yes and, it you say no. It's more like no Tom. No Tom. Regardless of yes and, it's no Tom. That's actually just an improv rule. Yeah.

That's allowed. I'll be honest, yeah, you open this up, there is no sign that anyone else has been in here for some time. Rowan is taken aback by the majesty of this beautiful stonework. And all these rubies. Gold, silver. He's welling up. I know, Rowan, it's a shame they could make their dead as well.

No, no, I said what? What? I don't know what I'm crying. I said you're not crying about that? No, the beauty of the gems and the choices of rubies and the exquisite carving of the stone itself. Look at that statue. Yes.

Beautiful use. Yes. Such a shame to be locked away. Yes, I agree. It should be seen by everyone. What was that about? Cremation? It just feels like a shame.

So much wasted potential. Never mind. It's what you do in Elmera, so... Oh. Sorry, there's something over there I'm not going to go to. Rowan, can you hear anything in the vibrations of this invisible room that I can't see that I should be seeing? Now, if we're worried about time,

I can sit here and attune to the environment, but it'll take me some time. Is it worth spending time? It looks like no one's been in here for... No, I don't think this room in particular, but... Oh, bloody hell, I don't know what I'm doing down here. Do you think we should go back to the sewers? That's my thought,

is they're using the catacombs to get into the sewers, and that's their secret tunnel to a different location. Secret tunnel. Through the mountains. Through the catacombs. I'm just worried that whatever that thing I heard was maybe reporting, and so they'll be bringing someone in, and they might come through the sewers, through us, if we go back out.

But if we go through the catacombs, we can maybe go back up. It might be less criminal... ..if we're not in here right now. Oh, by the saints and scions, I've just done something incredibly immoral, haven't I? Technically, I did it. Oh, no. Yes, scions, I've just done something incredibly immoral, haven't I? Technically, I did it. Oh, no. Yes, we're very much in a...

Oh, right, everyone out. Everyone out. Xanthius, don't touch that. I'm not touching anything. I'm paying respects. That's why we're here. It's not criminal to pay respects. It is in this room.

Tell me you know them. Tell me you're paying respects to this family that you know. I've not... Well, I've not met them. I've heard... That's the wrong answer. Oh, no. I. That's the wrong answer. Oh no. I, that's my dad.

On the shelf. That's right. They're, wow. No, no relation, no idea who you are. Let's just. Let's just leave. Walk out of here, lock the door, and continue on. You have the locket, you didn't break the lock, did you? No.

Okay, good. Let's just... It would be another check to lock it with your picks if you want to try and lock this door. I can keep watch down the corridor if you want and listen out if anyone is coming down through the catacombs. I mean, if you want to. It's just that if you did want to try and lock it behind you,

it would be another check. No, but if they find us down here with an open room, oh, we're going to be in so much trouble. I'll try. 25. 25, yeah, with a flick of the wrist, Daisy's able to pull it back, and with her picks, lock it. OK, Daisy, now we are locked in the room.

No, when you get out. When you get out. No, I'm not going to be that stupid. One hour of oxygen. That's stupid. So you leave the Dios family burial chamber, or the family sort of, not burial chamber, because you're not buried here.

It's like a mausoleum. It's like a remembrance. Where are you going now? It continues to the southeast and then it seems to head east, or you can go northwest back to the joining tunnel, and then it heads north as well from there. Where are you heading?

Rowan suggests going back to the sewers and continuing down the path that we were on. Okay. That's Rowan's suggestion. Go towards the noise that Gruff heard. What was the direction the trail was going? South-east. South-east. But it went both ways.

You lost the trail after a few steps, but it basically went into here, and it went into the sewer tunnels, yeah. That's the thing. I don't want to go towards them, because I think the noise is bringing more trouble towards us. It might also be the place that we're looking for, though. It might also be the place we're looking for as well.

We could split the party. No. That's a great idea. We're in a series of interlocking corridors. Do you know what we're good at? Corridors. Yeah. So let's split the party.

I think so far we're displaying real aptitude for corridors right now. Let's all individually split up. So it's six one-person parties. No, that's good. And then we can cover every compass point. Yeah. Old cat coons, old sewers. And we have no way of communicating with each other.

No way of communicating with each other. I'm going back to our haunted edit scene over there. Okay. So let's just one by one. Are you first, Gruff? Oh, I'm the one with healing spells. Get the fuck out of here. Let's, yeah, let's go, I guess, towards the...

See, now you said separate, yeah. You can just say we're going to go back into the old sewers. And then continue south. And then continue south, following the noise that Gruff heard. Following the diagonal, the way we came in. Just continue down. to you south, following the noise that Gruff heard. Following the diagonal, the way we came in, just continue down.

Yeah, you make your way back into the... to the tunnel that's been bridged between the two. Can everybody make a perception check for me, though, please? Just as you begin making your way back towards that tunnel. There it is. Oh, God in heaven, have mercy upon my soul. What did I do? 17.

What did I do wrong? 17. 23. 23 for Gruff. 12. 12 for Ophelia. 11. 11.

Two. Two. Gruff and Rowan, as you are basically stepping through back into the old tunnels... Can you just turn my monitor back on? It's turned off. It's okay.

As you are stepping back into the old sewers, you hear, coming from the north in the catacombs, you hear quite a heavy metal door sound, and you hear heavy, maybe armoured footsteps beginning to sound louder and louder. People coming. Heavy footsteps, armoured. You hear that as you are.

It's quite distant, but growing louder. They're here right now. Do we go back the way we came? Because they're going to come into the catacombs, right? So do we... I don't remember seeing any other exits from the sewers. Someone is following us, though. Or they've been sent out.

Or being surrounded on both sides. Maybe. One set or multiple? It would sound like at this point, one... No, it would sound like uh at this point one uh no it would be multiple coming from sorry in the catacombs the north uh the corridor that you've not gone down yet uh which seems to extend quite far um in the catacombs uh above you basically to the north so we're not behind you not from the way you just came so we could So we should go back to the sewers. Not behind you, not from the way you just came. So we could go back to the sewers. Yeah, yeah, you still can, yeah.

This is like something else, yeah, there's something else going on. It could be Ser Grylld. I doubt it. How many do you say there were? There's several. It's hard to tell exactly how many. 23, I would say Gruff can probably tell

that it's maybe three or four sets. It's not worth the risk. That's not so griot. I don't think so griot would have brought... Does it sound like so griot? Nice try. Nice try. He'd know.

No, he wouldn't. I'm going to give you a second here, otherwise I'm going to take it into a new round. So you move back into the corridor. You head a short ways about 10 feet to the southeast. It turns south, and then you follow that 20 feet down to a T ways about 10 feet to the southeast. It turns south and then you follow that 20 feet down to a T-junction leading east and west.

Where have we been before? I'm sorry. This is all don't worry about where you've been before. This is all a new direction. Like you're going in a new direction. I've been here before. I'm just going to give you like east and west. I'm tracking where you're going. Like unless you guys want to draw a physical map out yourselves,

if Daisy wants to sit there to try and draw out a map, you can do it. Can I? If you want to try and draw one out, yeah. If we were to try and head to city walls, like if, you know, if we were trying to... Yeah, Gruff could probably work that out. You probably want to...

If you wanted to head straight to a city wall from where you are, the best place to have gone would have been north, because that would have been the shortest distance to the city walls, because they're quite close to the cathedral. Otherwise, you want to head south a bit, and then either go all the way south or start heading back west, which leads you back into the main center of the town. Okay.

That's if you want to go to the city walls. Groff would suggest the city walls, because maybe people are trying to get out of the city. I don't know. Yeah, agreed. So... South. So...

Which would be... Right now you have east and west is where you can go. You've headed south and I said that you came to a T-junction and you're going east and west. But remember that this is a bigger space.

Like, to go south you might have to go east or west and then turn south. So can we go whichever one would backtrack us again? We don't know. Let's go east. Like, right now

you just need to tell me where you're going. I'm like... East feels good. So you want to head east? All right. So Rowan, sounds like Rowan's leading the team at the minute, right now, you just need to tell me where you're going. I'm like... East feels good. East. So you want to head east? All right. So Rowan, sounds like Rowan's leading the team at the minute, right? You're up front.

Yeah. So what's your current marching order? So we've got Rowan at the front. Rowan. Ophelia can go behind Rowan. Are you still on the ceiling? Yeah, we can be on the ceiling. You could, like, be walking in a spiral.

So we have Rowan, Ophelia, because it is five feet. It's narrow. There's only room. It's single file. I think you're in the middle. Daisy in the middle. Is that what Tom's done here? No. God, no.

No. Not at all. There's not a single universe in which my map is correct. What if it is, though? After Daisy, who's going next? Xanthius and Gruff. So Gruff is at the rear. So?

So right now, Rowan is in the lead. So he's basically going to be choosing the direction unless you tell him another way to go. So you head east from where you are currently, Rowan. It heads about 20 feet to the east, and then it turns once again in a diagonal heading southeast. You pursue that for about 40 feet, and you come back out into a junction which heads east and west.

If we keep going east, it's a bit more south than it was. This is so confusing. Yeah, it's even beginning to... I'm just seeing a spiral. I don't know where we started. To even... East sounds good. I can't even try and make that...

If that's east, then let's keep going east. I mean, these aren't quite labyrinthian, right? Like, these are all just five foot narrow corridors, like, there's no landmarks apart from the entrance where you join the catacombs. That's where I don't know... I could have done it from there, like, where we joined the catacombs. From there, it went southeast ten feet, headed south twenty feet, and then that was the first junction where Rowan went east from.

East, and then we went south-east. So you went east for 20 feet, then you went south-east for another 40 feet, and now you're at another junction heading east and west. That is looking vaguely right. Show me. Do another diagonal heading south-east, because you've gone down there. South-east. Yep. Yep. My dyslexic brain can't cope. Well right now, Rowan, what are you doing?

Your choice, Rowan. Like that. This is all over. Right, yep. And then there's a corridor going east and west at the very bottom, so just draw a straight line. I trust in my boy Roro. Roro, fight the power. Let's keep going east. Yeah, east. East.

All right, you head east about 40 feet. Again, all plain stone, really not much to distinguish anything. And then it is a sharp turn heading south, so a right turn, an L-shape heading south. That extends, you travel that, following it for about 40 feet, and then it becomes a cross junction,

so it becomes east and west and further south. I just keep going south, right? Okay. You head south. South, right, or south? South. Okay, south. You begin making your way south, Rowan,

and then you feel something at your knees tug as you hit a wire. No! The wire gets pulled. I'm going to ask all of you, basically at this point, you can either use a reaction, I will let you move five feet, or do something simple like drop prone, lift your shield up, or do something. But you basically, Rowan, you pull, you feel something yank like a wire, and then there's like a moment

where something's going to happen maybe. You've hit a trap, basically. Shit. Okay, I'm going to use my creation ability. Is that a full action? Yeah. It has to be a reaction or something very simple like drop prone, five feet of movement, lift your shield up, something like that.

I'm going to just hit the dick. So you go prone? Yeah. Would Ophelia's dangerous sense have helped in snagging that? That triggers when you make a saving throw and stuff like that. I'm like four back. Rowan drops in front of two people in front of me. I don't see shit.

The thing is, the axe slot where it's going to come out is actually at Xanthius level right now. That's an interesting trap. Yeah, it cuts you perfectly in half. But only the person four back from you. Yeah. Not you. The wire has like a delay system, so they thought that they'd start running.

But for the other direction. You start running away from the track. Yeah, so Rowan, Trot, you're actually right. Rowan is five feet ahead of where the wire was, because by the time you've pulled it and realised, you are the next five feet from where you were. So you're five feet beyond where the wire was, basically. That's a long wire, because five foot is me.

Well, it's five foot across the tunnel, basically. Right. So imagine it's across, Rowan's hit it, and he's moved forward as it's been pulled tight. It's like a trip wire. I get that, but I'm saying moving five foot forward and being unaware that a wire is on you. It came loose with him.

He's pulled it with him. He's not tripped him. It's actually tugged something and something's come free and he's now pulling the wire with him. It's also just an elastic band. It's not actually a tramp. It's just an elastic band

that slaps the person behind down. Pee-ah! So Rowan hits the deck so you go prone. Anybody else doing anything? Moving back. So you, basically you would jump into, with Xanthius, so you go prone anybody else doing anything? moving back so you basically you would jump

into with Xanthius you'd jump into where Xanthius currently is because he was behind you I'm in the middle right? yeah yep if you're jumping back

I'm turning against the wall well I'd say that you can share the same space you can basically huddle up next to each other and you can jump back so Daisy jumps back and joins Xanthius Gruffydd I'd say that you can share the same space. You can basically huddle up next to each other and you can jump back. So Daisy jumps back and joins Xanthius.

Gruffydd, anything? I want to move back as well, but I don't know if it's too much. Can I grab Xanthius and pull him back with me? Throwing around like a rag doll. I would say you can grab Xanthius. You wouldn't be able to grab Daisy because she's moving at the same time, but you could grab Xanthius and pull him back.

Yeah. Oh, Daisy. Oh, Gruffydd! And then Othias. You wouldn't be able to grab Daisy because she's moving at the same time, but you could grab Xanthias and pull him back. Yeah. Oh, Daisy. Oh, Gruff! And then Ophelia. You're coming with me. Man. Oh, I'm gonna be, I'm behind Rowan, so I feel like I'm gonna be whatever this is.

You are where the tripwire was. So can I spider climb Scrabble forward behind Rowan? Like, follow Rowan forward. Follow Rowan. So you'd be in the same space as Rowan. Yes. So you only get five feet in this. All right, so you'd move to the same space. On the ceiling.

On the ceiling. He's flat on the ground. You're flat on the ceiling above him. That's the only chance you get to, like, squeeze in the same spot. So what happens is, as Rowan tugs that tripwire and it comes loose and pulls with him, you all make these movements as you hear this

very rapid fuse burning sound, and you see these flash lines of fire go from the space where you were to the two five stone flagstones currently underneath Rowan and Ophelia, and where Daisy was before she jumped back. Oh. You see something explode under the stone,

causing stone and metal shrapnel to blast upwards into Rowan and Ophelia. Into my belly. Oh, God! I need Rowan. You're going to make dex with disadvantage. Ophelia, you get dex with advantage because of danger sense. Danger sense.

So Rowan, unfortunately, going prone. Screwed you there, unfortunately. Not that you had any way of knowing. Grenade! Nat 20. Oh, very good. With disadvantage. With disadvantage.

Just finish shooting up from the ground. 19! Okay, because Ophelia's like above Rowan, right? Yeah, well, I'm kind of giving the danger sense. It's a big explosion, by the way. Okay. Well, it sounds like the person who had disadvantage has somehow managed to succeed yeah whereas the one with advantage 15 15 is good 15 is a success 15 is a success okay okay

21 21 is a success 21 is a success so i just take the glass i imagine that rowan manages to roly-poly. As he hears this explosion, you just roll to the side, which shields you from something. You're going to take half damage still. Ophelia, you manage to basically, like, like a cat that's been scared, just like, leap away, but he does still catch you.

A cat that's seen a cucumber. Yeah, but that's how I imagine it, for sure. Hackles up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you're going to be taking half of this damage. Oh, God. So, that's quite a bad roll for me as well. It would have been eight fire damage, so half to four. Lovely.

And then it would be one point of slashing damage that's already halved, and one point of bloodshed. Really terrible damage roll from me. What a garbage trap. So, the trap, it looks like it was maybe the stone impacted some of the blast. It was meant to shatter it and send it up as shards.

Maybe it wasn't powerful enough. And you do only take, that would have been a total of six points of damage halved for all of you. As you throw yourself aside, the other side effect is this is very loud. Yeah.

Yeah. There is this horrendous smell. Yeah. Yeah. There is this horrendous smell. Oh, God. A smell that Ophelia, you cannot help but remember. There is the stench of demon about this. Whatever explosive, there is something demonic about this explosive. Ophelia immediately rages.

Just, ah! Demons! Yeah, you feel the blood pump. You're, the heartbeat thuds in your head. Senses tighten, alert, full alert. And you see, and like, you can see that underneath you, Rowan, like, as your senses flared, Ophelia, that there is this kind of dull red Icarus residue in the stone.

It looks like, and It looks like a part of the flagstone was hollowed out like a basin and filled with this stuff. And then when it was ignited it exploded. And it happened to the one behind Daisy. Luckily, you jumped backwards because that...

It's just frozen. Is everyone okay? I imagine ears are ringing, like... Yep, ears ringing. I'm probably actually still holding Xanthias. Between us three and you two, I guess there's just this explosion. It's dark, thick smoke.

It's acidic. It kind of burns your nose and your mouth to breathe it in. It doesn't do damage, but it's horrid. It's acrid. It stinks of those smoke demons. Like, the stench of it is intense. It's a smell that none of you will forget. Rowan, are you okay, Ophelia?

We're on the right path. We're okay. Are you okay? Yes, I think we managed to just escape it, but... Can you get through to us? Yeah, the explosion has damaged some of the roof, but these are very well-made sewer tunnels. The explosion did some damage to the roof,

but you can get away through. It's not like collapse the tunnel or anything. I think they might have heard us. Wait, we need to keep moving then. We're also very much on the correct path if they're laying traps like this. What caused it? What triggered that thing?

It was my foot. You stepped on a... A wire. A wire, okay. We need to watch out for wires. Maybe your light will become in use for Daisy. My ears... I wish I could do what you do, Amelia.

She's on the roof. Well, I'm still hurt, but it's okay. We'll carry on. Do you need any healing? I can provide you some. No, no, I'm still hurt, but if it's okay, we'll carry on. Do you need any healing? No, no, I'm okay. I'll survive for now. All right. This tunnel stinks of demon.

We've lost the element of surprise. All we can do is have haste. In the light, you can see that about the corridor continues for basically 40 feet south, and then it turns hard to the west. And at that point, I'm going to go get something. Demon tunnel! Demon tunnel!

Who thinks it's donuts? He's getting donies. I think it's donuts. What a kind guy. Thanks, Mark. I think that's my favourite thing. You can give this curtain for me. Yeah, so that you don't get donuts all over the ground.

Yeah, I don't want to get clubbed. Because he's got a double handful of minis. Tasty mac donuts! That's not a donut. Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. That's not a donut at all. Oh, hi. Oh, I'm glad that there was a short rest before this.

There's a giant crossbow on that. Yeah, there's two. Oh, boy. Arbalests. Technically, they're obelisks. Obelisk? Tell me more. No, I won't.

We should not have come down here without having a long rest. No, well, yeah. Well, no. Well, no. Well, yeah. Turn back. We could just leave. Peace out.

They think we're dead now. We can take a long rest. They ain't coming down here without setting off their own traps. Lovely. So. Where are we on this map? Can you, like, take a long rest? They ain't coming down here without setting off their own traps. Oh, boy. So... Where are we on this map? You're not on there quite just yet. Okay. Imagine that this corridor up here, once we've got it up on the map,

so there is a corridor kind of connecting to, and Gruff, you vaguely remember this from the map, maybe like an old small cistern, And it connects to this part, so imagine that you have a corridor running north here, and then it turns and joins this corridor alongside here. I didn't have enough space or dungeon or Dwarven Forge to build it out for me.

Sure, yeah. Obviously your characters can't see exactly what's inside just yet, but for the sake of it, I'll let you guys... The explosion had a certain amount of reverb that I was able to echo the entire room. You are not Daredevil. Or Sam Fisher or anyone else who has sonar technology.

Okay. One day. But yeah, by the time you reach the bottom of that corridor and you can peer sort of in down this way, yeah, it only takes you a few seconds, like 40 feet, if you guys just rush straight after the trap basically went off, maybe a round of you guys recovering from it, you would be able to get to the bottom of this corridor and sort of stare in.

You can definitely hear that there are people in this chamber, can't see them yet. Are they? Oh, they definitely know we're here. Is it like the noise of people? You. Moving and ready to scramble towards us or? All you hear is like movement.

You can hear like shuffling around. Maybe you hear a like steady. Well, what do we do? We made ourselves known with an explosion. I guess we may as well announce ourselves. I'm just gonna put you guys up in this corridor here, but we know that you're not here just yet. Can I, um...

I'd like to use the scroll of sending. Okay. To send a message to... I was gonna say Sir Gryhold, but I'm like, is there anyone else? I'm gonna send a message to... I was gonna say Ser Gry'old, but I'm like, is there anyone else? I'm gonna tell a dude. No. Gry'old's good.

Well, there is a roll you have to make because you cannot cast third level spells yet. So let's, before you decide, well, no, decide who you're gonna send it to first, and then we'll roll. And what the message is. So I was thinking Ser Gry'old, but then I'm also thinking about the High Authoritor,

because we kind of did leave a message for Gry'ald, but... High Authoritor was the one that gave you the scroll. Yeah. The message we left for Gry'ald was Catacombs, so unfortunately we're not there. Yeah. And I feel like the High Authoritor can just send everyone. Oh God, although she's probably tied up in bureaucracy.

While you have a think about that, I need to go up to something else, actually. I just realised. Griot's got our backs. What? Griot's got our back. What do you guys think? Do you think Sir Griot?

I think Griot. He's like... Aramina Willithorn. He's stationed to help us. We also know... Are you intending on telling them where we are? Because I don't know where we are. Yeah, and that's the thing.

It's like if you were to... Because Mark's going to be like... East, south, west, south, east. Exact instructions. I'll be like south, south, east, south, south, south, west, south, south. Did you hear that explosion underground? Yeah, we're there. You can see the pavement up there just go...

Yeah, that was it. You probably have an entry point there. We're there. You can see the pavement up there just go poof. Yeah. We probably have an entry point there. Go down there. Was anyone launched into the sky? Where was our entry point that we came in? It was behind

it was just a If they go into the catacombs and go to that wall the diagonal wall and just follow it south Yeah. East

East a lot and south a lot. You keep going east and south. Any east and any south. We never went west unless we had to. And if you smell

any demon ichor, go towards the screaming. Go towards the screaming. Yeah. You don't make fun of my east to west map directions. No, I'm making fun of myself.

If we want to give directions, that's all we have. So, decided who you want to send sending to? Sir Gryhold. Okay. What is the message? 25 to? Sir Gryhold. Okay. What is the message?

25 words, right? 25 words. Okay. Help. We are in the old sewers. Entrance through cathedral catacombs. There are

demons here. Don't trust Ilkara Sunsword. Two words left. Kiss. South. East. You've got seven words left. Oh, seven words left.

So that, yeah, okay. It was, because this is 20, and then there's another four. All right, there you go. So don't trust Sun Sword. Luckily, that's one word. Sun Sword. It's a title.

That's correct. People here. You don't have to use's correct. People here. You don't have to use all 25. Bring everyone. Everyone. Go towards screaming. Nice. Oh, wait.

No, no, no. Take that back. I need to say it's Gruff, right? I need to say who it is. You can choose not to if you want to. So, take out the bring it, everyone. So go towards screaming Gruffud. Hello.

Tremoro. Gruffud from Tremoro. All right, well, let's see if that message even goes through. So this is a d20 plus your wisdom modifier, which is? Plus one, I think. No, plus four. Yeah, plus four. You need 13 because it's 10 plus the level of the spell.

You're using fate as well. Can I use a fate? No. It is an ability check. I feel like you should be able to use it. I will allow it. I will allow it. Daddy allows it.

Papa fate says yes. You get a d6 extra. So highly likely you will get it. Daddy allows it. Papa Fate says yes. So you get a D6 extra. So highly likely you will get this. Yeah. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. The Fate clinched it. The Fate clinched it. Well, I mean, it was DC 13, it sounds like.

So 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, no. Oh, yeah, so the Fate was, so you got a good nice high Fate roll. Nice. So you pull out the scroll. The scroll you got a good, nice high fate roll. Nice. So you pull out the scroll. The scroll is destroyed upon use. There it goes. Thank you.

You may have your cheat sheet back. I have a lighter if you want to burn it. Not here. You send the message and you feel the magic gruff as you pull the scroll out. You read, you connect with the stones, with the earth, with nature, the source of your power, and almost like the words spill out of your mouth,

like vines, and they touch the stone, and then like snakes, they begin to weave their way through, finding their way up, heading towards Sir Gryold. Cool. The spell has connected. How long it may take him to get here or do whatever you don't know

as the rest of you are kind of lingering about so this corridor is about 40 feet so you are at the far end right just around the corner and we can just hear you can hear like shuffling

I think at this point you would hear a voice give me perception checks hey you never know you might roll high oh 18 19 20 i might roll high 24 14 for daisy 2 2 24 24 for gruffith tom 15 15 for Rowan? 18. 18. Ophelia and Gruffydd, you hear a very, you hear, they're trying to be quiet, so you only just pick up on it, straining your ears in the silence, but you hear a rather commanding voice just say,

cover the corridor. I need to burn, I need to burn Morris's head. I need to burn the notes. They can't know what he's planning. Do they literally say Morris or did you write that down? They would say the dwarfs. Right. Yeah, they would say, so you hear this voice just say,

I need to burn the dwarfs' notes. Part of the contract, we can't leave any evidence. That's what you hear. By the way, I'm a criminal. My name is... Right now, you're around the corner. You haven't seen into this room yet. You don't quite know what's down there.

I mean, we know they're about to block the corridor. I say we charge forward. You said cover the corridor. Cover the corridor, but also, we don't want to start burning notes. We've got a Russian down here. Move forward everyone. In charge.

We need to intercept now. Right. Rowan will start rushing forward. I'm going to shift some stuff because they had some time. Rowan cast Spider Climb. Nice! Skiz. It's like a skittery noise. Grogh turns into a giant spider.

Oh. Just us two on the ground. Xanthius lays an egg. Oh my god, this blue tag is just sticking to everything. It's slime now. But that's good. That's blue tag. I want it to come away when I want it to come away.

This episode is sponsored by the stickiest blue tag. It'll stick you. Thanks, Blu-Tack, for making immersive dungeon environments. Fuck you. So it's just me and Daisy. Normie's on the ground then. You don't actually cast Spider Climb, I know.

I will just rush forward. Basically. Doesn't sending let them respond? Yes. Yeah, once, yeah. It's just another 25. I mean, keep in mind, this is all happening in like six seconds. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It might take Sir Grielder a minute.

Give me a minute. I need to get my trousers on. Give me a minute. I need to get my trousers on. That's 11 words. I'm straight up talking it in our room. No! Don't do that for him! And by it, haha, well, let's just say, and then the words run out.

Right. What does he say? So... What did he say? Uh, what is the plan? So assume, let's basically, in fact, let's roll initiative. Because these guys know you're coming. I think the idea is to break in.

Yeah, just go forward. But we don't really have an idea of which way we're going to delta split the moment we get in there. You're going to be in shock by a crossbow as soon as you go in there. No, I'm running in really fast. Like Sonic. Faster than the eye. Yeah?

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Don't. Do not. If you've got too many people to roll initiative for there, just take a couple of them out. Yeah. That's my hot DM tip. That's a great tip. You can find more of Kim's tips.

This tip's called dude removal. Dude removal. Are you stressed by having too many NPCs to run? Too many dudes at once. Imbalance it, have less. Just have less. I can't handle all these dudes. Get rid of them.

Have your encounter. He's still rolling. Daisy. 14. He's just added more. Xanthius. He has. I've completely forgotten.

Oh, fuck this guy. He's given it all away. He doesn't have any initiative ready. 14, bruh. Daisy will go first between the two of you, I'm almost certain that she has the higher dex. Gruffydd. 16, bruh.

16, Rowan. 17, bruh. Ophelia. 10, bruh. Okay. Okay. Luckily, their initiative is so fast that they take their turn before we even charge in.

Oh, nice. That would be quite funny. I mean, they were aware of us. They were aware of us. All right. Well, Rowan, you are first. Remember, you are 40 feet down. So this is 20 feet.

So you're 20 feet further down. So it's 40 feet to get into this room, basically. 40 to get into the room. Yeah. 40 to get into the room. Yeah. So 30 feet will get you basically to... I'm going to remove everybody for now. So, Rowan, if you're the first to act, it would get you to...

Excuse me. These sewers are dusty. Yeah, they are. 10 before the end. Yeah. So I can't really see into the room. What can I see from here? From here, you would see,

the first thing you would see is the second you reach there is a blast of fire from something across the way as a readied action as this guy mounting this turret-looking device. A flamethrower. It is not a flamethrower. It is like a burst of fire and then some sort of solid projectile, like a gun,

is fired. I'm being shot at. That is a 21. Yeah, that's a great buy. 21. Macy's 11. You need to get better AC. Get told.

That is gonna be... Oh, God. I'm not repeating what you said. Nine points of bludgeoning damage and four points of fire damage. Oh, boy. For 13. You also notice that as this projectile hits you, it explodes, and everything around you, the five feet around you,

would have been blasted by some of that force and fire. It's like a concussive flaming projectile hits you and erupts around you. Two explosions. Are we going to be in and out of our element? Should we maybe just... That was a readied action. So as you finish your movement, that goes off.

I'm going to use Stonestones Endurance for that, because that sucked. Okay. I mean, someone did just fire an RPG at you. More like a sniper rifle, like one of those anti-tank sniper rifles with explosive rounds. Jeez. Okay.

I mean, good turnaround. Yeah. Good turnaround. I think they're the good guys. Would you, what are you, were you a roller? Yeah, we could just. I think they're the good guys. Would you, what are you, we're rollers? I think we're fine. I think we've got nothing to hide. What are you looking for there, pal?

I do 12, struggled there. Nine, take 11. Didn't do beyond the little search bars in front of everything. Lovely. This is why physical character sheets are sometimes better i'm gonna do it yeah so you reduce it by 11 um uh so that was at the end of your movement you can i see the thing that shot you do it was this guy so you see uh a mercenary like a

no nondescript you can see maybe just barely in the light. This room is very well illuminated. There are these hovering, glowing lights. You can see a metal crow badge, like a lapel pin. But he's wearing leather armor, or kind of like breastplate and leathers. And he's on this, not crudely made, but it looks experimental looking.

It's almost like a crossbow turret, but it's like a gun. The mouth is almost shaped like an open demon's mouth. And this guy's behind it, and he was waiting for somebody to appear in this corridor. And as soon as he saw you, bam, he took a shot. You can see that this is like a dry cistern. It was once an old cistern. There are these columns.

It's elevated with a lower floor. And you can hear the sounds of other business going on. Would you consider a steel shield is worth less than 80 gold? Yes, it would count as a shield. We're going to use performance of creation to create a steel shield that's of medium size. It's like as a shield. We're going to use Performance of Creation to create a steel shield that's of medium size. Oh. It's like a tower shield. Okay, yeah, I'd say you can create a tower shield with it.

So that will give you... What I would say for that is it will count as a normal shield, so plus 2 AC to you if you're wielding it, but I will say that you can basically provide cover to somebody behind you. That's what I'm going to do. Yeah. Basically is...

Is that an action for you to use what I'm going to do. Yeah. Basically is... Is that an action for you to use? It will be an action. Okay. And there's a... Well, I've used a spell now, so bonus action healing word wouldn't be a thing unless you... Well, music creation's not a spell.

It's true, it's a feature. Yeah. So you can cast healing word. I'll healing word myself. Okay. For 1d4 plus 4, which is 8. So on top of your healing, yeah, it should four plus four, which is eight. So on top of your healing, yeah,

it should be pretty good. Should be right. So you go in, you get slammed by this, this powerful projectile, music of creation, you feel the thrum, the harmony, the vibrations, and you create this metal tower shield in front of you, almost drawing some of the iron maybe left in the stone walls like this, pulling it together to form the shield.

And then with healing energy, you send that into yourself. And that is going to be your turn, Rowan. Cool. We will just quickly run through this, and then we'll go to break. Gruffydd, you are actually up next. So I'm all the way at the back. So you are basically another 20 feet. You're 30 feet behind Rowan over here, basically.

Okay. We'll say that you guys are kind of grouped up together, right? I'm not going to worry about the order. Great deal I can do from back here. I'll shout. Careful, Gruffydd. They have very dangerous spells or something in there. And big weapons.

Bloody hell. Um... Use my shield. Oof. I will cast Armor of Oak and Thorn as my bonus action. Okay. Uh... So you watch as the green life energy forms around you,

you're forming your knight's plate. I can't really get through to do anything, can I? You could action dash. Don't forget, you can always use your action to dash. Would that get me in the room somewhere? That gives you another 30 feet of movement. So imagine that you could either be next to Rowan or just behind him at 25, and then you'd get another 30 feet of movement.

You'd probably get into cover if you get in there because there's like pillars. So at the moment you're next to Rowan. But then I wouldn't know that there's a second person in there, would I? Yeah, this guy you don't know he's there. I've put him on the map, but...

Yeah, let's be stupid and run into the room okay uh there is that you can see there is like a wooden barricade there are like boxes and crates and things like that it's gonna be difficult terrain did you just say as well to use your shield yeah or yeah i just cover could i um yeah could i use rowan's shield to kind of move it He's using it right now. He's using it right now. So you'd have to basically be behind him, and then he gives cover behind you. Okay. If you're charging forward, though. Yeah, if you're charging forward, you're not going to be anywhere near him.

Yeah, I'll be nice and just charge forward. So, look, yeah. So, 5, 10, 15, 20, because it's difficult terrain, and then you'd hop over. Can I go, like... So, as you hop over, ready action goes off. Yeah. Also, this bit of the stone is loose

and you feel it give way underneath you. So two things are gonna happen. I'm gonna need you to make an acrobatics check in a minute to see if you tumble down there. But also, you hear another roar of bang as this other fellow on this turret fires at you, basically, with a ready action. No.

That wasn't, was it? It's good for you. Oh. I rolled a three. Okay. These turrets are prototypes, and they have a roll called Misfire. Oh, no. If I roll a one, and this accounts to anybody using them, by the way,

if any of you get on them. If you roll a one to a five, they explode and do damage to the wielder and one to five yeah oh my god yeah they're very experimental very pretty yeah this guy takes does it still fire forwards or no no it just blows up uh so this guy he only takes eight points of damage i'm afraid um lucky glance at the other one would be like oh sweetie can't wait to take my shot yeah i'm so excited bang and it just goes off in his face the turret is destroyed oh oh yeah it's once it's destroyed it's done and this guy is like like smoking and coughing like ah he's like screaming that dwarf and his stupid machine he's like cursing and cursing his name um as he's like cursing and spitting but yeah gruff you feel that a Morris make. As he's cursing and spint.

But yeah, Gruff, you feel that. I do need an acrobatics check, though, for that loose bit of flooring. So would I get advantage, because I get advantage on saving throws on being knocked, prone, pushed, or pulled. Yeah, I'd say you do. Yeah, I'd say you get that for this, yeah.

Oh, it doesn't matter. I rolled a one and a two. Oh, so unfortunately, even with the armor of Vulcan, the stones literally under your feet, this place is quite old old and it gives way, and Gruff, you stumble and fall prone down here, basically. And that's going to end your movement speed.

We just hear like a bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody, bloody You can see a much more sort of, he's wearing breastplate, he's got this long leather coat, shaved head, cutlass in his hand, and he is basically gathering together a bunch of papers on this desk where there's like a treasure chest, and you can see a barrel of something next to him, and he is pouring oil all over it. And he sees you, and he's clearly about to try and destroy whatever is there.

But that is your movement, your action, and your bonus action, I'm afraid. On the ground floor. Yes, it's this guy. Oh, I couldn't imagine you could see him. You can see him, yeah, there is a little man just here. So three dudes total. Two on turrets, one on rope.

Now you can see. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I guess if Grog can't see any more, then yeah. Maybe. Although she did just... There are things like, there are areas of the map like over here and over here that nobody can see. The fog of war is not fully lifted.

Okay. Basically, yes, true. Alrighty. So just to rush through some stuff before we go on break, it is unfortunately the mercenary leader's turn. Right. He looks over and he just, he kind of shrugs. He's like, sorry about this.

It's nothing personal, just business. And he will basically pull out like a tinder box and he sets a fire going. Damn it. I thought it was a prototype tinder box. Not quite. You see he purposely

does that. He then moves 5, 10, 15, 20 and as he does he pours the oil in a line to this barrel. Oh shit.

5, 10, 15, 20. Hey, you like fire. I do. I'm a big fan of it 20. Hey, you like fire. I do. I'm a big fan of it, actually. Daisy ain't going in. He pulls back to the pillar. He finishes pouring the oil. It was his action to use his tinderbox.

He moves back. As a bonus action, he will use his command. I have to spend a fate, which will give you guys a fate, but he will use his command bonus action. He points up Lewis, and he points up to the guy who got blown up. He's like, stop mucking around with that dwarf's toys. Get your bow out. Shoot this wild heart.

He points to you, Gruff. And you see the man sort of like, yes, boss. And he's wiping his face. He pulls out a crossbow, and he's going to take a shot at you, Gruff, with this command ability. Okay. That is a 25 to hit, I'm afraid. No, just glances off.

Oh, 24, my apologies. Tough chess. Yeah, no, that definitely misses. And you are currently prone, right? That means this becomes a savage shot, which means it does some extra damage. Doesn't he have disadvantage? What for? If Gruff is proneuff is proud for being not these guys they have a special thing they're like picking on gruff because he's prone right now yeah it's their sharpshooter yeah basically um

you correct another circle dance thank you thank you uh it going to be 17 points of damage, though. As he picks up on the fact that you're prone, a part of your armor's exposed, and he just gets this perfect, it's basically a sneak attack. As long as you have certain conditions, he can get a sneak attack. So you feel this bolt, like, dig into you.

I like to think that everyone in the corridor just hears this cry of pain that's like half a roar. Like, it's basically a pained roar. Yeah. Love it. I'm not going to do that because... Like Mufasa, right? Do the roar!

I can hear it. Do the roar! And I think that's a good point where we should go to break on that with this roar just echoing through everything. Wow. But yeah, and it has... I want to make a point. I have not forgotten about the sending spell. This has literally been six seconds. Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. First round, yeah. Wow. But yeah, and it has, I want to make a point, I have not forgotten

about the sending spell. This has literally been six seconds. Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. First round, yeah. Yeah. All right, we're going to take

a quick break here, everybody. We will see you in part two. Thank you so much for joining us. Take care, bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye.

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