High Rollers DnD - Altheya: The Dragon Empire #7 | The House of the Rose (Part 1)

Episode Date: January 9, 2024

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and get all that kind of good stuff and that's gonna be it. We are gonna jump straight in with a recap and then jump into today's game. This story began in the village of Burnell, a little trading community nestled beneath the Obsidian Mountains and well positioned near the Imperial Highway. A stopover for travellers going to or coming from the Empire's great capital city of Kelskaris. In this quaint and pastoral village, a group of five strangers met. Gruffydd, a wild-heart fisherman with dreams of becoming a knight. met. Gruffydd, a wild-heart fisherman with dreams of becoming a knight. Ophelia de la Rosa, a traveller from a distant land with a skeletal assistant. Rowan, a gentle giant with a love of stone and music. Daisy, a seemingly simple local girl with voices in her head.

And Xanthias, a dragonborn haunted by nightmares and with unusual magical powers. Brought together during an investigation for a group of escaped criminals, this party worked together and tracked them down to a nearby mine, fighting off strange creatures drawn to gold and gems. They discovered the criminals were involved in a strange plot connected to a magical rod, an evil and heretical goddess, and a local mine foreman. With the monsters slain, the criminals captured or killed, and the rod stolen at the last moment by a scrupulous tiefling, our newly formed party were free to leave the village of Burnell and make their way onwards to the town of Ashen Rest, with gold in their pockets and a signed favour to be presented to the regional duke.

Having befriended a few of the soldiers, and with the local law enforcers suspicious of some of them alongside them, they travelled the road south, fortunate as they soon found themselves under attack by a pack of gnolls, vaults born created by the proto-magi long ago and now loose and wild in the world. Surviving the attack, their journey continued, and at last they arrived in the prosperous town of Ashenrest. That is where we pick up today, my friends.

Yeah. It is overcast, but fair weather. And just to give you a little reminder of what the town of ashen rest looks like as you guys were coming in from the road the northern road through north vale you see a town in the distance that is surrounded by a pretty prominent stone wall sections of the city elevated up onto hills but the whole uh but a small city, large town sort of size. But behind these walls, you can see numerous beautiful buildings with cream-coloured ashtone and red tiled roofs.

Many of them are several storeys high, and in fact, you can see prominent towers all reaching up, almost as if competing with each other. Trees trying to reach the tallest canopy and be seen from behind the city walls. You notice that there are magical braziers amongst the walls with many of these towers. And the city itself, even in the early morning light, you can see that some of these towers have glowing lights, magical lights that seem to be prominent throughout Ash and Rest. And it seems to be a very populated, busy place. Coming up, you do find that part of the city is spilled out of these walls. And a small district has formed outside the North Gate, full of smitheries and tanneries and other kind of buildings and businesses that create smells and sounds that might be unpleasant in the city itself. And you were given the name of this place. This district is called Greyforge,

and it kind of represents the outer skirts of Ashenrest. Stepping through the gate, which I believe you met one of the knights of the realm, one of the duke's knights, Sir Gryold, Stelae, a dwarven knight. You made your way inside, and inside the town, as I described, many of the buildings are multiple stories high, so it has this kind of, like, penned-in kind of, not, like, claustrophobic, but, you know, you are going through these streets with tall buildings on either side of you,

that kind of very medieval London where they have the big, tall, two-, three-storey buildings, and then everywhere on the horizon you look up, you can see these big tall towers from place to place. There is also, of course, the Ducal Palace, the Dominus Ignarum, up on the hill, the large Duke's Palace. And then on another hill to the north, you do see a very large religious looking building, a beautiful abbey, sorry, cathedral made of ash stone and obsidian. And in fact, I can show you guys. We got a map? Oh!

Wow, nice. We're looking at a map. So, this is gonna be your player map, so this is yours. On the legend, much of it has been left blank because you do not know what these points of interest are. I have labeled some of the points of interest. That is not to say they are the only places of interest in Ashen Rest, they are just some of the more

prominent ones, maybe more as we go along. The map will expand and you will get to add things to it. Well, it's more that we might add on new places that you guys discover. If you meet an NPC and you wanna know to add things to it. Well, it's more that we might add on new places that you guys discover. If you meet an NPC and you want to know where they live, we can put that down and map things out and stuff like that. Thank you very much. Is that Greyforge up there?

Yes, so this is Greyforge here coming in through the north gate. So you can see you guys are basically making your way down this main street here. And you are accompanied by soldiers, Bliss and Cade and many of the other soldiers that you were with, kind of have given you a brief overview of the layout, which is why we're going to have this map here. They've also pointed out, if you remember,

they briefly mentioned a couple of taverns, as well as a place called the House of the Rose, a baths that you could go to. So I've actually labelled those on the map for you. So you have these main streets here, these three main streets, and then lots of kind of spiraling streets off of it as well. The House of the Rose is listed here as number two.

This building here. I'll do it for as long as Sam zooms in. Is that based on Typhine? It is, in fact, yeah, it's St. Typhine. It is a shrine to St. Typhine herself. And then we also have one of the... You already met Doug. We did, yeah.

We have one of the taverns called the Grumpy Hog, which is just off the Central Plaza here. Yeah, Clever Toad. And then the Clever Toad, I believe, is number 16, which is down here by Riverside. And whereabouts is the Enticing Devil? The Enticing Devil, I forgot I told you about that one. I forgot to...

I retconned and removed that. They just closed. They just closed down. I am actually going to retcon that one, just because I needed more things. Sorry, what is that one in the central plaza? That is the central plaza, yes, the Market Plaza. And yeah, this is, if you guys want,

we can move this around, like it doesn't have to stay there, and you guys can pick it up and move it around. But that is your copy to make notes as you wished. So what was it that we were intending? Because obviously we need to go to Dominus Ignarum at some point, you want to see the Duke. The intention wasn't that we're going to go straight away. We stank, we need a rest. that's not good first impression no yeah maybe

some new clothes maybe new clothes so we were going to go to did we decide which one we were going to go to probably going to go for a bath a feeler was quite adamant yeah for bathing but we do need somewhere to stay you're right one of them was kind of like rough and ready the clever toad is definitely uh cheaper and is down by the docks it's a little bit more well i say docks it's like a river kind of like um barge kind of uh dockside um the clever toad is definitely gonna be a bit cheaper uh it's not off the main central plaza but it probably will be a bit rougher it will probably not be as good quality uh the grumpy hog which is right on the central plaza is is kind of tailoring itself to travelers and visitors does mean the prices go up a little bit because they know they're in a prime

location but it is large um and we can say that you guys are kind of moving down towards the central plaza as you're having this conversation. The Central Plaza itself is quite a large open space. You can see that in the very middle of the Central Plaza there is a large fountain with several statues. All of you would recognize the Dragon Empress. The Dragon Empress does not have a set appearance. It is often an artistic interpretation of what she looked like. The Dragon Empress had a magic about her

that made it hard to perceive her or remember exactly how she looked. So records of her and art of her is often left up to the artist's feelings and impressions of her. But in this case, she is depicted as a majestic full draconic form with 10 horns sprouting from her head, majestic wings,

and painted with a kind of, made from like an iridescent crystal, so it kind of shimmers with all different colours, not just one. The other statues appear to be of red dragons, as well as several knights, perhaps famous cauldron knights here as well. Ignaris.

He's not a knight no i'm duke ignarius yeah dude the duke ignarius is the regional duke yes um and you can see that the plaza throw names in he's okay he wants to get good boy points the plaza itself imagine that kind of really classic, if you've been to places like Florence or Frenzy, that kind of big open space, statues, big fountain. And all around the outside you can see shops and restaurants and diners and cafes and things like that, all kind of on the outskirts.

And it is busy. There's entertainers. You can see there's jugglers, there's people like musicians, dancers, all kind of performing out on the streets. And there's bigugglers, there's people like musicians, dancers, all kind of performing out on the streets, and there's big crowds of travelers and visitors and locals as well, all kind of milling about the place. You do see a beautiful sign of Dominus Ignorum,

and you can also see that the Grumpy Hog is quite a large tavern. It's actually two buildings conjoined, and it's multiple stories. It's like three floors tall and it is definitely large enough to accommodate many many travelers and visitors to the town but looking at it from the plaza how busy are we talking i mean busy enough that like yeah if you go at like a peak time like lunch time it might be hard to get a table but like in terms of like rooms and things like that there must be you know you know Oh, okay. Easy enough to probably find a room for the night. Most people probably wouldn't stay overnight in a tavern unless they were merchants or travellers

and things like that coming through the town. Hmm. But yeah. And yeah, I'll throw it over to you guys. You guys can converse. I just want to kind of set you up that we are currently in the central plaza. There's all sorts of commotion going all around you.

And yeah, have conversations, figure out what plans you want to do. I can't believe we met. A real knight. I know. I didn't expect that, well, I wanted to be just on the road. Look at my paw.

It's still shaking. Shivering. It's shaking. Look at my hands. There's an earthquake. He was shaking. Look at my hands. There's no quake. He was marvelous. Look at the ground. Absolutely marvelous. Very resplendent.

Very regal. I want to be that one day. I think you will be. You will. Yeah. This was. Did you need a letter? You said you needed letters.

I can write a letter. Oh, recommendations, yes. Yeah, oh yes. Character reference, letters. I can write a letter for you. Oh, recommendations, yes. Oh, yes. Character reference, yes. I'll work on that right now. I think that's what I need. I won't ask, but... You don't have to, Gruff.

You don't have to. I'm going to write one for you right now. You're a good girl. Daisy will start to try and walk and write at the same time, so you might have to steer her in the right vague direction. Because she's gonna be- Literally like a dad steering a toddler. She's gonna be super-

And on the top of the head, just tilting every now and then. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, what do we think about this place to stay at? It'll be more expensive, quite busy. This'll do, I suppose. Well, we could look at the other option first before we commit.

We could. The other option was a bit cheaper, apparently. Okay. Oh, no, no, no, no, do the first one then. But quieter. Could be quieter. Usually quality comes with expense, right? Well, that's true, however, in a place like this, Usually quality comes with expense, right?

Well, that's true. However, in a place like this, they probably boost the prices, even though they're exactly the same quality. Shrewd. Exactly. I admire that. I'll go have a look. Okay.

And come back very quickly. Are we going to the House of the Rose? Yes, for a bath. Should we do that first before we start mingling with the locals? I think we should make a good impression first if we're going to start talking to people. Not a bad idea. Okay.

Do they give discounts if you smell a bit better? Looking around, how put together is everybody? Any stinky adventurers like us? There would definitely be a case of, and I think I've mentioned this before, in Caldra, the culture of Caldra, pride is a big thing. It's kind of influenced by the red dragons who rule the region. Their natural pride kind of has an influence on the

citizens here, kind of magical influence. And so people in Cauldred generally take care of their appearance. Doesn't matter what kind of, whether you're poor or rich or whatever, you know, if you're a poor farmer, you still take the time to make sure your hair is clean and washed, your clothes are in good repair, they're not messy or broken. Even if you can't afford luxurious fabrics, you still dress the best you can. Mostly everybody that you can look around, if they look cauldron, they are very well put together. You might see a couple of travelers here and there

who wear sort of more kind of like woodsman or like, you know, kind of ranger-y, wild-like looking garb, and they look a little bit messier. And it's not that anybody's turning their nose up or anything out, but they stand out. And the same with probably Gruffydd. You would definitely stand out, I think,

just because you have a bit more of a patch together. Like, you know, as long as something works in Iceheart, it's okay. As long as it's, you know, well, in good condition and it works. It's well-worn. Yeah, that's okay. And lived in. Yeah. As long as it does the job, in good condition and it works well worn yeah that's okay yeah as long as it does the job right that's the most important thing um there's no such thing as uh was it there's no such thing as bad weather bad clothing exactly um so yeah gruff with kind of stands out a little bit daisy fits in perfectly because you are from cauldron you are a cauldron you daisy looks and probably you see a lot of young women

dressed in a similar style, that kind of bodice, skirts, or trousers, like tight-fitting trousers, tall boots, that kind of thing. Ophelia looks totally within place as well, like very well-dressed, the armour is very intricate and detailed. Xanthius as well, even though kind of simple,

has that kind of... But, you know, you have richer elements added to where you can. This is where Tom goes, how dare you? No, no, I think Xanthius is also, you've lived in Caldra for a long time. On the very border. On the border, yeah.

It's still Caldra. There's some elements of it. So I think Rowan and Gruffydd, you two are the ones who stick out a little bit. Kind of similar to these travellers in green and things like that. And you have a feeling that they are from Mistwald, the Green Dragon's province,

which is not too far from Condra. But we're also not caked in mud and dirt and stuff. It's just that we've had a five day travel. You've been on the road, yeah. You're probably a bit stinky, you've got blood, you're not blood, you probably have a bit of blood, and a bit of gnoll blood and mud on your boots and on your cloaks and things like that.

You're definitely, you need a wash at a time. Mouth. In your skin, yeah. Out of interest. Yes. From the Greyforge Gate to where we are now, how long did that actually take to? Probably about sort of like,

how long would it take to kind of travel down a big, long high street in somewhere like London? Like 30 minutes? Okay. Like, would you say that's, you know, 40 minutes? Depends how many tourists are pushed out of the way. Yeah, yeah. But like, you know. Would you say that's, you know, 40 minutes? Depends how many tourists I've pushed out of the way. Yeah, yeah. But, like, you know, it's a long street, you know.

Okay, so from, like, end to end, it's about an hour. About an hour. I'd say that from the central plaza, you can get anywhere you really need to, like, under an hour easily enough. So, like, if we did want to do a heckin' explore, we... Well, we could. It shouldn't take too long.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Okay. Rowan? It just looks like you're about to say something. Always. I wasn't sure. We are right next to the Shrines of Typhoon. It's worth checking out.

If they'll clean our clothes, make us smell nice, then wonderful. I put up my armpit. He starts gagging. Okay, maybe I should have a little wash. Percival had flesh on his face before he did that. I was going to say, Percival probably, when you do that, is probably coming up to you with a rag and he's trying to dampen the smell a little bit.

Or maybe he's holding something up to Ophelia like a smelling salt or something. A little pomander of perfume. It's that bad. Wow. I mean, keep in mind, Rowan has been on the road travelling for a longer time before as well.

Same with Ruff. Yeah, Ruff, yeah. We're the stinky boys. Yeah, you are the stinky boys. Stinky boys. If we have a quick glance around the plaza, are there any shops or things that we can just see from where we're standing? What are you looking for?

Maybe something to outfit our friends in furs here. Right. In slightly more cauldron clothing and things like that. I'm all fur. I'm getting shaved. You're not shaving me! No! I'm not going to...

If we take Gruff to the baths, is it going to be like when you put a cat in water and it's a little bit skinny? Clawing onto the sides. We'll see. We'll find out. Yeah. And then when he comes out, he's like...

Excellent. I am not going to go and label every single shop because a lot of shops aren't going to tailor to unique individuals and heroes. There are places to get clothes, but they're not. They're kind of very basic or they're not that different to anything else. If you want to get nice clothing, there is not anything near the plaza, but there will be probably something here in the town.

But you might need to ask around, get some directions, get content to different places. While we're in the central point, is there anywhere that's like an immediate that way would be where the shops are or something there this is a very trade-based town because it's on a really big trade road so there's shops and places everywhere okay and there's all these little side streets and probably some of the better places aren't going to be direct you know if you it's very touristy if i say that this central plaza is like, you know, it's all a shop that sells like cauldron

souvenirs. Restaurants, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's very much like, you know, figures of cauldron history and stuff. From the plaza, I'd say the things that really stand out to you like visually looking around

the Grumpy Hog Tavern, because it is massive, and it's got a symbol out front of a kind of like a pig, but a very man-like pig's face in a frown, and he's holding a pair of beers, and he's like, I'm making a face. And that's like the sign, like the swinging sign out front, right? Incredible. The other things that you see...

The picture. That's funny. The other main things you see is there's a number of towers that rise up, so they're very easy to see. You see this one here that I've labeled as number five. On the way down Great Gorge. Yes, you would have walked past it. You passed by this incrediblelooking tall, tall tower,

one of the tallest in the city. This one and number six are on, basically they're kind of equal heights, but you can see that there's definitely a competition to like, you know, there was like a, you know, who's gonna make it taller, and then somebody built it to match it. Maybe it's like slightly a little bit taller.

Yeah, exactly, right. Looks like a Battenberg. But the one that you passed here, you don't know what it's called, but it's a impressive tall building with a large magical crystal at its peak, which is illuminating. You have a feeling that when the sun goes down,

that will shine quite brightly as a beacon all around. And you can see that there are dozens hanging off of this tower are lots of other smaller magical lights um and there is a a sigil on the door in front of it and it was very well guarded like it looks to be quite a quite an important looking building at least but the guards weren't wearing the du's army uniform. They looked like private guards. Okay. This tower here, number six, which I've labeled, again, you can see it because it rises up so high. This is a marvelous stone tower with a spiraling design,

and it seems to have crystals that capture light and almost project faint images of a draconic shapes, as if like a dragon is maybe coiled around the tower itself. And again, it has elements of the Empress, this dragon. It looks almost like it's meant to represent the Empress herself. And it is beautifully engraved, a masterpiece of stonework, this tower. You would also notice walking down this building here. Next to the Grumpy Hawk.

Number four is another shrine. This one you would recognize symbols of Saint Abrenau. Saint Abrenau, who is one of the saints, one of the ascended saints of the religion, known for the study of magic and mathematics, as well as systems of record keeping. And it seems to be like a public library, maybe with a records keeping department as well.

And you would actually see the name of that building, this one here, number four I believe, is the House of the Quill and Scale. Do you want me to start annotating the thing? If you would like to, by all means. Yeah. If we're getting names of things. Yeah, absolutely.

House of the Quill and Scale. Number, absolutely. House of the Quill and- Number four is the House of the Quill and Scale. You can just put the House of the Quill on if it doesn't reach. Is that like a thing? Like every city has a House of the Quill and Scale? Probably not every city. And again- Franchised.

Ashenrest is a small city, very large town, and it's very wealthy. So you have a feeling that probably all of the saints, or the main saints, have a shrine here, but it's probably not something that every town would have something like that. Cool.

And we didn't have a name of five and six? No, not yet. You don't know the same. Is that scale like dragon scale, or? Scale as in scale of weights, yeah, scale. Yeah, same thing. Double meaning, maybe. It's know the same. Is that scale like dragon scale or? Scale is in, scale awaits, yeah, scale. Is that the same thing? Double meaning, maybe. It's spelled the same.

It's got the meaning. Oh, I see, yeah. Yeah, scale is in scale, yeah. And quill, writing quill. Is it hill? Dead bird hill. Yeah. And.

Spoilers. Which time? We're all dead. Which one? There is, and then finally, the last one which you guys can see, obviously you can see the Ducal Palace and things like that. Number nine on the map over here is a weaponsmith's, it seems to be.

Oh, okay. You can see like a very, but we are talking like beautiful shop front, kind of like a Harrods of a weapons store. You know, like it's got a beautiful display with like filigreed full plate armor in the window. It's got like, you know, red velvet kind of plush interior looking thing. Almost looks more like a fancy like wine store.

There's no like weapons like on racks or things like that. You know, if you peek in the door, it actually doesn't have any weapons on display, but there is, you know, staff there who are talking to, you know, mercenaries travellers and things like that. Do they have the prices in the window? There's no prices. You can't afford it. There's no prices. By inquiry only.

But it is exceptional work. Too exceptional for my blood. It does look quite expensive. That's a saying in culture. Blood. Yeah, I think you probably see Gruff just looking longingly at it as we walk past. Just like, especially the plate armor.

Just like. One day. How does it compare to the knight's armor? Garbage. No, no, no, as in this is probably like the armor that you saw Sir Gryold wearing on the door? Very similar kind of. This is like top quality stuff.

Do they do like parchment drawings of Sir Gryold? No, carry on. You can, it might do. Go into one of the souvenir shops, see if you've got one. I mean like things like historical, like famous, famous knights, you don't know how famous Ser Gryll is.

He is a knight of the realm, but you don't know if he's like very well known or famous and things like that. But I mean, you know of Ser Isabel. Yeah, Ser Isabel is a knight that you know very, very well and is known throughout the empire as well in song and story. So there aren't any posters on some of the stores

like, I'm Sir Gryold and this is my favorite store in... Not Sir Gryold. There probably would be... That's rubbing. You probably would see in those little souvenir shops, there are statues of various knights, mostly cauldron ones, although there's probably very famous ones

like Sir Isabel who is known across the Empire. There's probably little Sir Isabel statues and figures, and especially for the kids, you get a little action figure or something, a little wooden doll. Yeah, things like that. If Gruff sees one, he's losing his mind. Like, he's just losing his mind. You just met the real thing.

Yeah. No, but have you never heard of Sir Isabel? Oh, Sir Isabel. Sorry, I thought you were talking about Grey Old. This is Tom talking, not Sam. It's very obvious. He'll do the voice, guys. He'll do the voice.

I'm not role-playing right now. All right. So, yeah, I know I'm doing a lot of speaking because obviously it's a brand new place. No, I mean, it's a big time. Scene setting. Describing a lot of stuff. I love it.

Yeah, and this is a big, you know, this is a pretty, like I said, it's a small city, but for you guys, it's pretty big. Like, especially those of you who have been traveling around, so like Gruffydd and Rowan, probably not been in a place this big before. Ophelia, this is probably what you would expect. This is like one of the smaller kind of cities.

This is comparable to what you're used to back in Osseous. Cool. Yeah, this is like a small city, like a provincial lord or something, like a major priest or priestess might run, like, a city like this or something like that for one of the houses. Normally, like, the houses would each have a representation in a city this size. Nice. Yeah.

I've been to Kelskaris recently, but even that was, like, a rarity. Yeah. I think Daisy said that you've never been to anything like that. You've mainly stuck to villages and small towns and things, yeah. All from humble origins. Literally everybody. Yep. Okay, should we check out the bathhouse?

Yes. Yeah, Rowan's got his arms pinned to his sides now. Yeah, that's for the best. Yep, definitely. Definitely for the best. I'm really sorry, guys, I had no idea. No, no, no, it's okay. No, it had no idea. No, no, no, it's okay. No, it's my bad.

No, no, no, we'll get you all sorted out, all cleaned up, and then you'll be fresh as... Have I been stinky for days? I'm so sorry. No, no, no, no, it's okay, it's okay. It's something that I suppose it helps to be aware of in this setting. It's good to let people know.

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. And now we can get you cleaned up and you're all ready to go and make a good impression and we can get our... Does that mean I made a bad impression? No, no, no, no. We haven't even seen anybody yet. No, I meant with you guys.

Oh, I honestly haven't smelled a thing. But then Gruff lifts up his own arm and there's a distinct fishiness as well it's rowan has like an earthy smell it's not the worst but it's very fun with gruff there's a bit of a fish it sticks to the fur is this someone cooking let's go quickly sure yeah you guys make way. You move your way through the streets, move across off the main plaza, passing the various entertainers and things like that. And you come across, you make your way to the House of the Rose,

a beautiful building decorated with statues and other artworks depicting the Tiefling or Tiefling, Tiefling Saint, Saint Typhine, as well as various acolytes, statues and art of children as well, and symbols of beauty and love. You can see that the main building is this kind of large structure. It seems to be large enough to maybe have separate floors, different parts. There is also a side building attached to the House of the Rose. And you can see outside there is like a small little outside garden and a garden in the rear of the whole shrine as well. But you see children playing,

not too many of them, maybe sort of half a dozen, six, seven. And they are being sort of like escorted around by a priestess wearing robes and a priest as well, a human, who appear to be their teachers or caretakers or perhaps parents. And they're sort of like gathering them around, playing with them as you go up there. You do see that there are several people kind of approaching the shrine and being turned away. There's a bit of a queue forming as well that kind of is going out of the door. But you make your way up. There are steps that lead up inside. And as it enters, you enter into the main chamber.

And before you is a beautiful statue of saint typhoon herself depicted as this uh not a typhoon but a succubus a full succubus demon um but in these beautiful robes holding children in one arm uh delicately sort of offering the other almost as if inviting someone to come up and and you know join her for an embrace um you can see that all around there are desks with mirrors and you can see little ointments and hair treatments and things like that, all kind of scattered around the main temple. Imagine like a beautiful church sort of main kind of chamber, but instead of pews and things like that,

you have a bit of a makeup kind of counter, like a Sephora almost built into it. And there are acolytes and priests and priestesses who are you know brushing people's hair or you know helping them apply makeup or lotions you can see that there also seem to be several rooms that are private rooms and you see people come in they chat to one of the priests or priestesses they take them by the hand they move off into one of these rooms um and there seems to be some sort of service that's being offered um tea tea absolutely um uh and yeah there's a bit of a hustle and bustle you don't immediately see the baths you can see that there is an open door that leads out into a garden in the back which seems to be people relaxing it's just open to the public um but yeah you guys uh

you guys enter it's just a freebie just to come in here and just chill yeah so you see that there is a large kind of um there is like a large central uh probably not like a bowl or anything like that there is probably actually it'd be a member of staff there's probably a dwarven woman um and she has like silver earth skin sort of embedded into her neck like like little dots, almost like piercings. And she actually has like a box, like a collections box. And as people come in or as they go up and use the services and things like that, she goes up and speaks to them and they make a donation and then she goes off and things like that.

So there seems to be, it's free, but donations are very much encouraged. Sure, yeah, yeah. You do see that two figures at the back of the temple who seem to be speaking to a group of citizens that have gathered around near a set of doors that lead, a set of stairs that lead down, you do see two more prominent figures. And you can probably tell by the way they're dressed

that they are the leaders of the shrine. In this case, they would be referred to as Reverend Mother and Reverend Father. And they are both wild hearts of rabbits. They have the rabbit ears. They're more humanoid, so they have the big, long rabbit ears, kind of like tufty hair, little tails and things like that. And they are dressed in these very beautiful robes.

The woman's is very low-cut. The Reverend Father's is sort of very exposing, of a very sculpted physique. You can literally have, like, you know, has his abs, you know, on display, his arms very sleekly built. Very, very sort of sensual alluring kind of vibes to them. But they're having this hushed discussion

with these people that are gathered, and it doesn't quite look like everything's right. Like, people are sort of asking them, and they're sort of kind of muttering to them and sort of ushering them away and things like that. You can see that the Reverend Mother has a long-stemmed pipe as well, and she occasionally takes a suck on that and blows out a fat vape. There is a bit of a fat vape.

From one of those long-stemmed bronze pipes, basically. Cool. Why are you the way that you are? Listen, we've got to make it so that he can visualise it, right? If it's not a Sonic Adventure reference or vapes or SpongeBob SquarePants, he just won't understand. He's a zoomer. Big SpongeBob fan.

SpongeBob? Yeah, huge SpongeBob fan. Huge fan of SpongeBob. No, I mean, to clarify, I'm getting really strong visuals from this entire place. I'm getting really strong Mark's likes rabbit people. Boobs. I rolled races randomly.

Did you? I did, I did. For all of my NPCs, they rolled randomly. D1, rabbit. Mark default. No. D1 to Rappid. Mark D. No. D1 to D100, up to 80. Rabbits. It's like, we'll have a rabbit again. Peasant.

But no. But yeah, very, you know, I'm sure you've got the strong visuals. As you guys enter, you do see a human young man, probably in his, like, 20s, very perfectly kind of coiffed hair, looks like it's been, like, coated in, like, an oil and then, you know, styled. Very slight makeup, like, around the eyes, like a little bit of blue, kind of a little bit bronzer, cleanly shaven.

We'll just come up and say, ah, day's blessings to you. Friends, is there anything I can help you with here in the House of the Rose today? Oh, thank you, yes. We are looking to have a bath, a little freshen up. We've just been on the road and we're looking to just pamper ourselves. Oh, yes. I'm so terribly sorry.

The baths are currently out of service at the moment. No! I'm so sorry. The Reverend Mother and Reverend Father are currently discussing, we're hoping to have it resolved as quickly as possible. Do you have a time frame? I'm so sorry. Do you know when? I'm afraid that they've, there's an ongoing problem.

I'm afraid I don't know how long it will be. We can offer other services. We can offer, you know, cleaning, we have wash basins for cleaning faces and hands and feet and things like that, but our unique baths, our hot springs, are unfortunately not available. I mean, that might have to do for now.

Just very quick, is that good enough for you, Ophelia? I wanted to let my hair down a little bit. If you wanted, you can speak with the Reverend Mother and the Reverend Father, but I'm afraid that I don't know much more than that. They might have more information. I believe that we are currently trying to hire somebody with the skills necessary to make the repairs.

What skills do you need? Well, I really couldn't say. It's not really my area of expertise. I could take you over to the Reverend Mother and the Reverend Father, Madam, if you wish. Yes, yes, please. Of. Yes, yes, please. Of course, of course, please. Are all of you together? Yes.

I think we're all looking for similar treatment. Of course, of course. And just the baths you were looking for, did any of you require the use of a communion room or any of our other services? Oh, no, that's all right, thank you. Of course, of course. Well, you are always welcome in the House of St. Typhine, whatever we can do to assist.

But yes, come with me. And he would gesture and sort of lead you over. And as you get closer to the back of the House of the Rose to the temple, you begin to overhear more snippets of the conversation, like, Reverend Mother, when will the bath be? Well, you know, I've been, it's been days, and the rejuvenating waters, you know, I feel my skin, you know, things. And you see this older kind of dwarf is kind of speaking to her.

And the bunny woman, who's quite tall, she's probably like six feet tall, and she kind of like leans down. She's like, I am so sorry, my dear. We are desperately trying to get it fixed as soon as possible. You don't happen to know any artifices or those with skilled in magic, do you, my dear? He's like, well, I could have someone look into it for my... If you wouldn't mind, you sort of overhear these conversations approaching. The young acolyte will just say, Reverend Mother, Reverend Father,

some others to speak to you about the baths, I'm afraid. And they see they turn on you, and there's a bit of a sort of like a, oh, again, sort of like a source of exasperation as they do. I appreciate you've probably told this story a hundred times, but yes, we were hoping to use the baths, but apparently they are not working. Are you all right, my dear? It took a long time for you to say that.

I was expecting you to interrupt. No, no, it's all good. Oh, my dear, you've clearly not been to a Shrine of Typhoon for some while. It is our job to listen, not to speak over. The man, the male rabbit sort of wild heart will kind of step forward, and she's just like, Sister, please, please. No, it's fine. I'm so sorry. Yes, we have had to explain it a few times today,

but unfortunately we are having an issue with the baths, a problem that we need specialised skills to resolve. We are desperately trying to get it done as quickly as possible. Is there nothing else at the temple? I must say, I've not seen any of you around before. I know most of our regulars. Travellers. We just came from Burnell. Welcome. Oh, from Burnell, yeah.

Burnell, is that the little place to the north? Yes, that's right, sister, yes. Well, I am Reverend Father Danderley. This is my sister, Reverend Mother Aurel. Welcome, welcome, travellers, to the house of the lover. I'm Sister Ophelia de la Rosa. Oh. Welcome, welcome, travelers, to the house of the lover. I'm Sister Ophelia de la Rosa. Oh. Yes, lovely to meet you.

I'm terribly sorry about your bath problems. Is there anything we can do to help? Sort of takes you in for a minute, and Aurel, the sister, kind of like looks you all over as well, sees a few of you carry weapons and you have sort of strange accoutrements and she kind of, perhaps. You haven't got any experience dealing with spirits,

like water creatures and things, have you? Is that what's... Carry on. You're okay. Are you doing fine? Are you all right? And she comes quite intimately close and just puts her hand on his shoulder.

Are you sure you're all right? It's been a long travel and... Oh, poor thing. She almost starts to stroke your head. Unless you pull away, she's like, oh, you poor thing. It's strange, but I think I just need a good, relaxing bath. But if it's water...

You know what? Well... Just stop. Just stop. The pair basically usher away the other people that they were talking to, who seemed to be just disgruntled citizens basically asking about it. They usher them away and sort of take you, bring you all into their confidence. Yes, it began a few days ago.

We have beneath the temple are the baths. We draw up water from the heated springs, geothermal springs down below. And we have a number of magical fountains that draw the water up and also add sort of a very subtle enchantment to help with rejuvenation and relaxation and that sort of thing. A few days ago, something is going wrong with the magic, and the water itself is sort of coming to life. And it's not harmful, it's not causing pain, but it's very aggressive, and sort of... It began sort of just disrupting people that came down for the baths,

creating a very unrelaxing atmosphere. And so we sent a few of our acolytes down, they were able to disperse these spirits quite easily, they're just water and it doesn't take much to disperse them, but then they would come back more aggressive, more sort of disruptive, and now we can't even get into the bath chambers themselves, the spirits just immediately blast with water, send you flying, that sort of thing, make it almost impossible to do the repairs. It's not dangerous per se, just troublesome. We've had our first show of aggressive creatures on the road.

We dealt with some terrible gnolls on the way in. Oh my goodness, it would be nothing like that, my dear. Nothing so dangerous or deadly. We just need people who have the right sort of skills, I suppose, to overcome these spirits and fix whatever is wrong with the enchanted fountains. Do you believe the source of these spirits to be... We don't know, that's the thing, my dear.

Okay. Yes, I'm afraid that, as my sister said, we just, we don't know. The fountains have worked for years. We've had, the temple has been around for hundreds of years, long before me and my sister took over. And they've never had this sort of problem. We don't know what's caused it. But clearly something

is disrupting the magic or causing these spirits to become agitated or some such. We've been trying to hire someone to investigate it, see if they can detect what is wrong with it, but it's just been quite tricky to pinpoint someone. We can do this for you. I mean, we would be ever so grateful if you could.

We'd be more than willing. Normally we ask travellers for a donation to the temple to use the baths. Of course, we would let you use them. If you were able to solve this, you'd be more than welcome to use them. And, well, I'd be happy to provide some of our services sort of pro bono, I suppose, sister. Oh, yes, of course. Obviously not on a permanent basis,

but if there was something you needed, we would return the favour. I'm afraid we don't have much coin to pay you with. Everything we get, we funnel back into running the orphanage or running the services that we provide here, but... I think we're all in agreement. We're just happy to help. Oh, that's very kind of you. And she's obviously looking up at Rowan, who is much taller than any of them here,

and she just smiles sweetly at you, like takes your big hand. It's like, that'd be so lovely. Sorry. Is he still trying to keep his arms by his side, though? Yeah. Is there something wrong? I'm just a bit stinky.

Oh, please, that's not a problem at all. We'll all be cleaned up soon enough. I'll stand back. And she smiles. I mean, you can make an insight check if she's faking it or something like that. She seems unperturbed by your stinkiness. 17. Yeah, she know, your stinkiness. 17. Yeah, she feels, she seems to be very comfortable.

Like, does not, even, like, your dirty clothes, like, there's mud and things under your fingernails, shows no sign of, like, disgust. She's like, hold your hand. And it's, like, gently kind of, like, just, not, like, patting it, but there's something very motherly about, like, her behavior. It's very tactile.

The brother doesn't seem to be as physical, but he's always smiling. He probably would compliment Daisy on your bodice. He'd be like, I love the flowers, darling. They're beautiful. Thank you, thank you. I sewed some of them myself. Oh, yeah, they've done a wonderful job.

It's very complimentary. Probably finds something to compliment each of you about, whereas she's a lot more physically affectionate. Stop. Yeah. Yeah, it would probably just be like, probably for Xanthius it would be like, scales look impeccable. Don't do that.

Just beautiful. Xanthius, sorry, for Gruff it would probably be like your mane would just be like, oh, this is so wonderful. How do you keep it so fluffy? We have a perfect oil for this. This would go wonders with it. I don't wash it. Yeah.

Oh. Natural oils, sometimes the best. Oh, he turns around and throws up. It's just... I have interest. When we were on the plaza, or even now that we're just in the city, is everyone we're seeing cauldron, or are we seeing people from Iceheart?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Probably places like Iceheart, because it's so far away, probably not as common. I'm a rare being. I would say, as you were traveling through the city, the most common places are like, you would have seen people dressed in the customs of the Suncrest Isles, Mistwold, Gildai, and maybe Urdaskir, which is the Black Dragon province.

Gildai being the Gold Dragon province, and the Suncrest Isles being the Bronze Dragon province. The Azar Step, Iceheart, probably are a little bit too far away to be common. There's probably one or two, but like Gruff, like would definitely probably are a little bit too far away to be common, there's probably one or two, but like Gruff, would definitely stand out a little bit. I think if you saw anyone from Iceheart, there would be traitors, like kind of.

Yes. Traitors. Traitors. Take them down. Yeah. But we, Swampy is like. Swampy is like. Or traitors and things like that. Yeah, yeah.

But for like Rowan and Gruff, it's not like, they've come into this town, they are filthy. No, no, no. There are other people who've been on the road for a long time as well. It rained like a couple of days ago. You're just weary travelers. You've just been traveling.

Nobody's like, egads. And that's also not the Cauldron thing. They know that people get, it's not like a culture of like, no, you must be clean all the time. It's just they expect you to take pride in your appearance. Okay. The way I see it, it sounds like a fun way to have a bath. I suppose.

It's one way. I did mention that these creatures are not dangerous. And these are our baths, and we take a lot of effort to keep the waters as clean as possible and things like that. So I would have to ask you to remove things like your armours and clothing and things like that, as if you were normally going there. We'd like to keep it as clean as possible.

Now? As Roland starts taking off his jerkin'. Well, it doesn't have to. We have changing rooms as you go down the stairs. There are places to change and things like that there. I mean, obviously, if you're not comfortable taking off your clothing, but dirty armour, there's certainly

no need for things like weapons or things like that, I'd imagine. I suppose you could take them if you needed them. I would prefer to keep my clothing on, please. And I have some magical ability. I might be able to identify.

I think that's the tricky part, is we need somebody who can identify what maybe the problem is, and also perhaps fix it. I will do my best. Good. Well, if you think that you have the skills, we'd be more than welcome to reward you for any assistance. I think between all of us,

we might be able to find something. Or at least get you in the right direction. That would be wonderful. Would you... Are you free now? Is this something... I mean, the faster we can do this, the better for us, I'll be honest.

I mean, we were hoping to have a bath. Yeah, I'm looking at Ophelia. I just wanted to have a bath. I don't think anything can happen until we have a bath. No. So think anything can happen until we have a bath. So this is of pressing urgency. All right. All right, very good. Well, if you follow me then,

Dandily, you'll be all right managing things up here. Oh, yes, sister, not a problem, yes. Let's get this fixed as soon as possible. We've got people waiting for the baths. And he'll just merge out into the thing, goes around, shakes hands, seems to be a very friendly kind of guy. Whereas Aurel will basically lead you down the steps, and as you're going to go down these stone

steps, very kind of softly lit. Imagine that kind of spa feeling where they have like the soft kind of glow, like lighting. There's like almost faint illusory music that's playing that you can hear as you go down there. And you can see that there are little chambers for like more treatments, and then also big open changing rooms. They're not gendered. It is just one big open space here. But there are storage chests for you to store gear and things like that

as well. So as she leads you down there, if any of you do want to take off any gear or store things before you go into the baths, this is the place to do it. I need to go and get something. Oh, okay. That's a really big mini.

I wonder if it comes with, you know, those horrible little mesh pants you get at the spa. You have to put a little cap on it. Oh yeah, the disposable ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Rowan is putting that on if that's the case. Really like thin towel. Yeah.

I'm gonna put on those like gloves. What are they called? They like scrape off the exfoliation. Oh, the buffy gloves. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm gonna tear one of you apart. That might actually just brush. That's true, yeah.

It's like a brush glove. Oh, maybe we should get one of those. Yeah, it's like when you do the cat grooming. Well, I was gonna get the cat tongue thing. Oh, okay. Oh, no. You can go to town. You can lick the cat.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, no, no. You'd love that. I mean, he won't say no. You got ourselves a map, baby. It's map time. Oh, how fancy. I have to move the PTZ a little bit.

How unclothed are we talking? Yeah, does this establishment come with tiny little mesh pants? There would be, have you seen the little Japanese loincloths? They'd probably be something like that. It's like a sanitary thing. So there would be a little pair of, you know, an underwear that wraps up the top for women or for

folks who ever like, you know, there'd be something, yes. Nipples. Rowan is down to that. Sure. He's got a little loincloth. Tiny loincloth. Just needs pants. And flip-flops. Even smaller on you.

That keeps his flip-flops on. Keep your flip-flops on, sure. Okay. Graft's immediately naked. Sure, yep. Why would you care? Why did you let him move? Why did you let him move?

Why did you let him move? You weirdo! Katie, maintain eye contact. What are you thinking of that? Immediately naked. And he's got a leg behind his head. And a leg behind his thigh. But yeah, I mean, it makes sense, right?

Gruff wouldn't care. One, he's a druid. Two, he comes from a culture where they are very, I don't know, like, comfortable. They just share long houses. They sleep in piles. You just have a bit of a sauna. An ice-hard sauna, you know?

You go in the sauna. You go in the sauna. And you've got to be naked in the sauna. Everyone gets to be naked in the sauna. It's okay. I do imagine a sauna-like culture, like the Swedes and Norwegians and Finns. I'd say that that's something Kaldra and Iceheart have in common

because they both have geothermal-like areas. A lot of the other places in the Empire don't have that as much, whereas Caldra and Iceheart have that a lot. So actually, that's a common thing. You're like, oh, yeah, hot springs, saunas, totally your vibe. Yeah, as soon as the word hot spring was mentioned,

Gruff is immediately more interested. Yeah, like he was resistant to a bath, but you said hot spring, and he's like, I'm there, okay, let's go, naked, let's go in. If anyone is looking uncomfortably, he would probably be like, uh, and look for this loincloth, I don't know. Sure.

I mean, this is entirely optional as well, like Aurel's not demanding it. I'm role-playing this! My eye line is perfectly like 90 degrees the moment that happens well kim i think it does mean you have to roll it oh no no i'm joking i'm joking you don't have to you absolutely don't have to it's a good 30. now rowan hasn't got naked yet but you have a reputation you have to do it lucius never got naked and rolled he no you didn't you literally rolled you rolled i rolled but i wasn't because i was naked seven wasn't it i think it was you got naked for something someone got all over the place

it was in his pants or in that case then i think it's time for the row and roll it's a big one this is huge do you want to use the dress make it bigger do you want the big that's the point we didn't do christmas we can do that after this role because you can't add it to this role fate has turned on you i guess you could i don't see why let's see this in the rules well no it would be a spend them to to get something but i think i want to just get the big two twin is a big moment this is a huge moment. That rolls a lot at once. For those who are new, if you're new to all fair, it's been a tradition in every campaign

that Chris Trott rolls his penis size. And that's something he's always done. I did it for Raynard. Did you? I did, yeah. I got 19. I think I did it for Juto. Did you?

Okay. It's respectful. It's, you know what, it's an eight. It's a respectful eight. It's average. For a half giant. Yeah. I mean, yeah, that's the other thing,

is we have to remember, here's a yacht eight, so it is a half giant's eight. It's not going to cause me any problems. No. No tripod incident. I think that if it had been a 10, that would have been perfect,

because we would have had 21 and a 10. I'm too scared. So I'm like, in terms of range bands, to me, that been a 10, that would have been perfect because we would have had 21 and a 10. I'm too scared. So I'm like, in terms of range bands, to me, that's a 10. It's an average, which I think is fitting. Other sunglasses. Right. But yeah, just to clarify as well, this looks like the temple has multiple bath chambers down here.

For the purposes of this, if you can solve one, we'll just say that you can go around and do the others because you know what you're doing. But the first one is the one where you've got to figure stuff out. So I'm not going to run the encounter several times, but there are several of these bathing chambers down here to accommodate all the visitors who want to come in. They all have the same...

Similar fountains. Yeah, they all have the same fountains, the same problem. Okay. All right. Anything else from anybody else before you step inside? Well, for me, I'm not... My gloves are still on. Maybe I'll take off, like, the cloak and any...

Keep your shirt and... Over the top stuff, so I'm not, like, just going to come out of here with all my clothes, like, wrapped around me, soaked. So a little bit more bare bones, but okay, covered, okay. I feel like Daisy has layers to her outfit, so she'd take off all layers. You'd have the linen pants and the linen little dress.

Yeah, she'd have a little slip dress kind of thing. Pantaloons. Yeah, little pants. Sure. Little pantaloons. Bloomers. Bloomers. I think Ophelia would just do the full wrap and pants combo

yeah she likes a bath like baths are a pleasurable thing in Osseous and it's just part of her culture to indulge in as much pleasure as she wants she got her hair up in a towel

I think she'd just have it fully down like the plait's taken out like she's just fully ready to embrace whatever this is yeah I suppose in Osseous it'd be more the kind of, like, private baths. Like, the idea of a communal bath is probably a bit sort of like,

ooh, this is a bit strange, but, like, the idea of, like, a private bath is, like, very common in Ossius, yeah, for sure. Does Percival wear the little net pants? He doesn't have... I don't think he's been advised to stay in his robe, though, because he freaks people out. Yeah.

Just leave him outside for this. Could just leave him outside. Do you want to just leave Percival outside? I think I'll been advised to stay in his robe, though, because he freaks people out. Yeah. Just leave him outside for this. You could just leave him outside. He doesn't need a bath. Do you want to just leave Percival outside? I think I'll just leave him outside. Sure. I mean, Percival takes care to wash his robe when he can get a chance,

so he doesn't stink. He's been out in the rain. He's pretty clean. But he himself, he doesn't really need a bath. All right. Bones don't sweat. Gruff is absolutely taking his staff though, because he is never separated from that staff.

You wanna do a staff roll? We talking about the same thing here? No. Oh. So, I'm just gonna move you guys. Get your mind out of the gutter. I'm a wholesome boy. I'm a wholesome boy.

My assumption would be that Gruff, and probably actually, it sounds like Rowan would probably be the first ones in. Yeah, we're ready to go. Just burst in the door open. Blowing cloth. Oi! The clothes that they walked in with are like attached to the door,

so before the door, they're clothed through the door. We'll have Percival just outside the door so he can still see in and things like that. Oh, nice. You guys enter this chamber, and like I said, it's got that soft underglow lighting, kind of that soft, dull, orangey, golden glow

coming from torches, magical lights, it seems to be, in four corners of the room. And when you step inside, you can see basically like a little relaxation chamber, like an underground bath. You can see there are tables and chairs. There are benches. There is a large fountain in like a circular pool

that is almost like bubbling. It's like a little jet whirlpool bath kind of thing. And then there are at the far edge, pouring into the main bath itself are these kind of wall-mounted fountains that are pouring the water in. Heavy scent of like a lavender and herbs. It has that kind of very beautiful kind of, like, floral smell.

There is this hot steam. Very, very beautiful. But the second that you guys emerge in, you begin to see water sort of coalescing into shapes in the room itself. Mmm. begin to see water sort of coalescing into shapes in the room itself. Rub roll. And that is where we're gonna roll initiative.

Oh, first initiative of the year. No biggie. Aggressive. Oh, was our first roll of the year? Oh, God. No, it wasn't. Why'd you say that they were aggressive? I said that they weren't deadly.

Well, you said aggressive. I said that they'd be aggressive, yeah. Maybe not spell. It's a bit green, a bit mildewy. Well, my first roll of the year, hang on. Oh. Oh, dear. Oh, no. Let's retcon the year. Oh, no. no that's retconned the year one go-round Daisy 22 Xanthius to know three gruffers nine Fifteen. Ophelia. Oh, same as fifteen.

Nice, bro. What's your dex modifier, Ophelia? My dex mod is plus two. What's yours, Rowan? Mine is plus zero. All right, so Ophelia will go first. I'll actually bump you up to sixteen. And then our magical water.

Yes. So, then our magical water. Yes. So yeah. Smart water. You guys emerge in, it is smart water. It's got electrolytes in it. You guys step in and you can see the three magical fountains are this kind of alcove looking thing here,

this one here, and then this kind of one in the central whirlpool area down here as well. All of them are definitely, you can see like runes have been inscribed into them, very beautifully carved. They are pouring water in, pulling it from this underground geothermal spring, pouring it into the baths.

And there is a distortion in the air around all three of them. But the water itself pulls itself to life, almost kind of taken on amorphous shapes. Not humanoid shapes, just kind of like these strange shapes. This one looks more like a kind of coil, like a tentacle almost. And they are rising up.

Don't know what they're gonna do. Can't tell their emotions or anything like that. They are just water. But we are Daisy to go first. Why me? I do keep in fact, if you were wearing any armour, please remove it from your AC as well. You have to mentally take that off. Oh, yeah!

So your AC, if you're not wearing armour, is just 10 plus your dex. Think I'm still good then. 10. Just keep that in your head. Because, in fact, actually, I'll try and write it down, because I think I'm going to need to remember. Why is my armour so light? I don't think I'm wearing 11 anyway to remember. Why is my armour so low?

Mine's just aesthetic. So, 11, Gruff? Yes. Santheus, what's yours? 11. Daisy, what's yours? 13. 13.

Filya, what was yours? Just standard dex. Yeah, 10 plus dex. 10 plus dex. Mod. So, 12. Yes. All right.

My brain broke. That's right. So yeah, Daisy, this is what you see before you. Okay. I will... step around towards the one at the back corner. Five, ten. Yeah, I guess...

Is it doing anything when I'm walking closer to it? So, yeah, you can see it's beginning to distort its form and it's beginning to churn and roil. Like, it's... But it's hard to... It's water. Yeah. It doesn't seem... You don't know what it's going to do. Remember, this is all happening simultaneously.

Hello. It's not their initiative yet. Hi. Just going to have a look over here. Can I try and get close to the actual, like the wall, wherever the mechanism or anything is? So when you step here, Daisy,

at this point, its reaction takes off. And as you get closer, it... and surges water at you. I need you to make a strength saving throw for me, please. That's going to go well for me. Ooh.

Oh, no, I thought that was an 18. No, a 12. A 12 just barely fails, unfortunately. As the water hits you, it's like a jet of water pushes you back. Five, 10, 15. Xanthius, can you make a de like a jet of water pushes you back. Five, ten, fifteen. Xanthius, can you make a dexterity saving throw for me? Sorry. Point the blast.

Natural one. All right. The two of you go sprawling and land prone, basically on the floor next to each other, as Daisy, you are blasted by this water. As the water hits you as well, like, it is warm and pleasant, but it's... you can almost feel that there's this, like, rejuvenative kind of, like, lovely...

Normally, if you soaked it, it'd feel lovely. But it almost seems to be too enhanced, and your skin feels really slippery. And, like, as you try and stand up, your skin is so smooth as it's been exfoliated so much that you're like, what? And you can barely stand. If you try and move on your next turn, you have to make an acrobatics check

to try and move around. As you are, you've been exfoliated. You have the condition exfoliated. Exfoliated. I don't think that's on D&D Beyond. It is not on D&D Beyond. No, you will have to just remember you are, you have one stack of exfoliation.

Oh, that's brilliant. All right. Okay, I'm just going to set up, and now her hair was lovely and curled, and it's now just, she just looks sopping wet. Yes, it's just like straight. Yeah. Your speed became zero for the rest of the turn, by the way.

So when you got blasted back, you got knocked down, and then your speed becomes zero. Sorry, dead fierce. Sorry when you got blasted back, you got knocked down, and then your speed becomes zero. Sorry, Dead Pierce. Sorry. All right, so Daisy, unless there's anything else you want to try and do on your turn? Just do it with your reaction, okay? I'm on the floor.

I don't know what to do. In that case, we go to Ophelia. I'm just going to let it happen. I think Ophelia's going to try. So this one has used a reaction. Okay. I'll go to the same one again. Okay.

Can I try and do an arcana check on it let's see so as you get past this one because you're doing this as it gets blasted by daisy it doesn't have a reaction left to do this to you um so yeah you get up to it yeah you can absolutely make an arcana check do you want to do arcana on the water creature or on the fountain um on the fountain okay give me an arcana Ten. Ten? That is enough for you to discern that there is something, like an errant magic in the air, which is disrupting the magic of the fountain and is causing this creature to reform.

On a ten, I will tell you that you think if you destroy this water, you think it's very easy to destroy. Like one solid hit will probably disperse it, but it will just come back almost immediately and probably be more aggressive. And it might be able to like be stronger or it's DCs and things might go up and stuff like that. It exfoliates your skin right off.

To fix this, you think that sufficiently, basically somebody can use a spell, like a first level spell, like a first-level spell, make a check, and they can try and disperse this malign magic which is influencing the fountain. By spending a spell slot and making a spellcasting check. Can I relay that back? Yeah, absolutely. It's basically the idea of, like, there's some sort of malign magic.

I need somebody with magic to come and disperse it, basically. Yep. You know enough that it shouldn't be too much to disrupt it, but you've got to get close. You have to be within five feet of it to do it, basically. Yep. Yep. You know enough that it shouldn't be too much to disrupt it, but you've gotta get close. You have to be within five feet of it to do it. Okay. And this thing is gearing up, ready to, it looks like it's turning, ready to blast you with water.

Can I keep it distracted on me? So try and keep within its range and keep it focused on me while someone else goes up and does the- But it was your action to do the arcana check i'd say so you can either like move around and then just try and be another threat or it might be annoying for it sure sure sure yeah distract it yeah sure okay do you wanna so do you wanna like attack it or are you just trying to be like hey hey look at me look at me look at me like yeah sure sure sure okay all right well i'll make a check i'll make a check on its turn

to see who it's attacked i'll do like an insight check or something for it all right okay that was a philly's turn um rowan rowan thuds up with his slappy big feet to the edge of that water just to the edge there not up to the feeling here yeah that sounds really important and i'm going to do it right away. I dip my hands into the water and start cleaning my armpits. Okay. I'm getting right on it. Don't worry, Ophelia. So your action is to wash armpits. Great. It's so soft and smooth. The smell just immediately goes. Oh, it feels lovely. Just, you know, you wish you could always just soak in it. Like, it's just, yeah. But scrub away,

easily done. Six seconds, both armpits done. Fantastic. Damn. Six seconds. All right. After Rowan,

it is Gruff's turn. Fuck, thank you. Gruff will do the same. No, Gruff will, I guess the reaction has gone off that bad boy, hasn't he? It does seem the same. No, Gruff will... I guess the reaction has gone off for that bad boy, hasn't he? It does seem to be. So I guess let's all clump up in the corner

and do what Ophelia said to do. 25, yeah, 25 feet. The water, by the way, is difficult terrain to move through. If you get into the pool itself, water is difficult terrain. So you get to this one. So this is, for you will be a wisdom so it's just d20 plus wisdom that's it um and you're looking to be dc13 currently uh that's a 13 plus plus your wisdom modifier three yeah so 16. so you kind of come up there and you being more attuned to the natural energy and primal magic which is a druid source of magic there is definitely some sort of malignant force and it's not primal magic you know

that you're not sure what is causing this but you reach in and the stone and the water and you can almost feel that heat below you and the water itself and calling on the energy of the elements you are able to kind of almost cleanse it almost bringing like a light to burn away this malignant energy. So mark off a level one spell slot, or a spell slot that you have, as you, yeah, watch the magic burn away from this fountain. That fountain is now cleansed. The creature doesn't immediately disappear from that fountain,

but that fountain is now cleansed of whatever was disrupting it. Cool. One down. Yep, that's it for me. I just thought I could do a bonus action, but I can't. So I guess I'll relay the success of that to whoever's listening and not washing their armpits.

All right, okay. The water's turned. This one here is gonna make a check to see if it can tell that Ophelia's basically trying to keep it distracted. It's failed, so it's focused very much on Ophelia. It is gonna use, however, unfortunately for you, Ophelia, whilst it is focused on you, it surges like a wave,

and she's actually 10 feet wide, and it's actually gonna catch the three of you. So I need Rowan, Ophelia, and Gruff to all make strength saving throws, please. Strength saving. 14. 14's a success. 12.

12 is a failure. I did it on my iPad. Physical dice. 11. 11, that is also a failure. So Gruffeth, you managed to kind of plant yourself down, focusing on this magic, and you are not washed away. But Ophelia and Rowan, you both are exfoliated.

Exfoliated. I sit up, ready to stand up. There's a big pile. This is now a pile. You are all on top of each other, just like, you're all slippery except for... He's a half giant and I'm just like... I'm at the bottom of this.

So you are at the bottom, which you are going to need to make a check to clamber. They are all exfoliated. They are all exfoliated. Between limbs and arms and stuff, you just see Rowan's head like this. That always smells after you. You smell great. Get on me. As this big column of water kind of like just disperses all over you.

I like to imagine... If Ophelia is way too close to Daisy, she's going to get freaked out. Gruff, you get an attack opportunity. If you would like to take one, as this creature is going to surge back towards its friend. I like to imagine this is because of like,

I don't know, Gruffith's sea legs, and like his kind of used to tides a little bit, and he's just looking at you guys like, landlubbers. Just wait until you get exfoliated. I'm actually not going to attack. No, I can do, there's a cantrip I can use but it's I Don't have anything that is like why is it something shape water?

Shape water I would say if you would like to use that as a sort of I mean What would you do with it like imagine you have the time the reaction to try and make an attack? But instead you're gonna use the cantrip. What would you do with it? Good question. I just thought it sounded fancy. Okay, well maybe not now, but that could you can definitely use, like, feel free to be creative with this one. There's no danger. Unless you get too exfoliated.

It says that you can freeze the water provided there are no creatures in it. But it is a creature, so. We'll find out. You can try it on your next turn. Alright. So that is, this one's gonna go. These two, as there's no immediate threats, they are actually gonna conjure big clouds of steam

that completely surround these two areas and fill it with this thick, thick mist, like the fog cloud spell. So there is now a giant fog cloud around here. Peering into it, basically you can't see inside the cloud at the moment. Shoot. I'm not going anywhere. Can't go anywhere.

Alright. Amazing. So that is the water. So it brings us to poor Xanthius. Rowan, thank you for wearing the underwear. The loincloth just is on my face. I for wearing the underwear. The loincloth just... It's on my face. I want to get out of this pile. Sure, give me an athletics check with advantage.

I will find, with advantage. Because they're all slippery, they're all exfoliated. Okay, I got a plus one to it. Natural 20. Yeah. Someone moved just a little bit and I... Like a bottle rocket. I will let you stand up for free.

Thank you. Wits out. I thought you were going to just like a seal. Also, my deepest apologies to those who've acted. We forgot because we didn't do it at the start of the thing because it's been a while. The Crucible. Because you guys might want to spend Crucible.

Yeah, a D6. I will say that... A D6 from everyone, please. ...is unavailable for me for this turn. Is it three up, isn't it? It is a one, two, three, I get one, four, five, six, you guys get one. I have so far never gained one.

I will never gain one. So I'm assuming that's two for me from this side. Three for Katie, one for me. Five. A five. Thank you, Kim. Five one for me okay five five thank you five so you currently have four crucible diet to spend remember people i remember you can look at them uh you've got your sheet on what they can be spent on. I want to see the continued crucible, like who gained, who lost, because I feel like this side of the table is always... I've always lost.

Three is like 50-50. I've only lost one. This is my second good one, I think. Yeah. Okay. Of all the episodes we've used. I have never done a good one. Well, you can use it if you want to, Xanthia.

Okay. Yeah, it's fine. Well, my plan is they are made of water, they are steamy, but they could be steamier. Oh, God. So, I mean, they are also in fog, so I want to just shoot a burning hand at these watery creatures. All right.

So I'll move as close to... How deep is this water in the middle? It's pretty deep, so like I said, once you get away from the ledge, any squares here are difficult terrain. So you would go five, 10, five, 10, 15. I'll go to what would be the edge of the fog cloud then. So that would be, so you would be,

basically be next to this guy if you did. Okay, I guess I can't actually see him now, right? This guy, just barely, it's like a 10-foot thing. However, he did get his reaction back, and as you move closer, Xanthius, I need a strength save. Strength save. I don't want to get... Because I'm going to get blasted into the pile.

How is it lining up this well? Because you move. I'm using the feed dice. I don't want to go into this pile. So, sorry, just a regular strength. Strength saving throw. Oh, good God! 12, which is not a success.

Ah! Exfoliated! Well, there's your fake dice. I'll take that. I've got that. That goes to your side. It's now what, 3 and 3? 3 and 3. Perfect! So as you run up, channelling this flame about to burst out your hand, this thing just blasts you with water and you...

It's like a counter-hammy-harring me. Yeah, they are very much doing that. Burning hands gets countered by their water blast and you are now exfoliated. Damn it. Stack of exfoliation. All right. Daisy, we come back up to you. So you can stand up. You can stand up for free.

Can I? It's moving where you have to make the checks i thought i was in the pile uh oh no because xanthius was at the bottom so i'd say that it's although she would now be at the bottom no that's true actually yeah that's so yeah give me enough that's true that's true very good point you're at the i forgot you fell back on top you need to remember the order of this pile so it would so it would then be rowan next then ophelia because rowan was behind ophelia oh that's right that's a nine so you uh i'd say it costs you half movement to get out of the pile i don't know if daisy would be able to get out because that's true to be honest she's not very strong just to come to it that is on top rowan would try at least a plank you know

yeah I mean you fail that's what I'm thinking so it will just cost you half movement to get out so you've currently got 15 okay yeah what I might do you can dash don't forget as well as your action is instead of if I'm if it's gonna be too slippy to get up I might try and like commando crawl my way along okay so you want to stay in the general direction of that way okay yeah I'd say you don't have to make a check and also because you're slidey you don't get any extra movement but you can just sort of wiggle avoiding you can't come on to crawl Just a commander crawl. Avoiding the leg movements. You can't commander crawl through water.

Well, you'd have to swim. No, I'm not going in the water. Yeah. But I want to go around towards that fountain. Oh, this one? The one that's further away. Yeah. 15.

And then I'll dash. So then you dash. Dash like that. It's like faster commander crawl. So do you want to go round or are you going to go into the fog? I'll go around for now. Okay.

You slide under a table. I might stay under the table until the fog clears to be honest. You want to stay under this table? I'm going to just stay there. I like it there. There's good. I'll put you on top just so we know you're under it. Okay, so you slide

under the table and it's almost like once you get moving, you're so slippery, you just kinda keep going. It's like there's no friction. You stop moving, but you keep. Well, it's either that or I get up, and you know when you slide on your socks on the kitchen floor, and you just. Yeah, that's exactly it.

Would you like to do any action? I'm gonna retcon him to say that I do the sock slide. Sure. Thank you. I'm gonna slidecon him to say that I do the sock slide. Sure. And slide. Sure. I'm gonna slide on the beat. Sock slide. And then crouch under the table.

And the sunglasses. Action. Would you like to do anything as an action? I mean, your hand are a table. Do you want to hide? No, see, the thing is, I know that you need magic to do these things. To actually fix it, yes. So I don't know if I can actually fix anything. I don't think I can.

Could I try and ask Nim? You can try. Could I ask Nim and say... You tune in. There's like a laughter going on when you kind of tune in. Oh, damn. That's cold. Don't laugh at me!

It's a little funny. It's a bit funny. Unmuted comms just to laugh at you. That's what you do to me on Discord all the time. If you get me close to the fountain, I will try, but it sounds like, from what Ophelia said, it sounds like magic is needed, but maybe we could distract one of these creatures, let one of the others get close to it, or something.

OK, fine. I guess, so I still have a little bit of movement left then. Yeah, you've got about like 10, 15 feet. Basically, I'm just gonna go towards the fountain and try and make it use its reaction. Its reaction on you? It will do, yes, it's a strength saving throw. These things aren't thinking,

they're just reacting to whatever comes, like whatever threat. 14. 14's enough. So, all, yeah, no, you'll be fine. So you kind of commando wiggle crawl your way through. I will say you are slippery, and this is a strength saving throw. So, I'm going to roll this.

And then we'll see if that... If I get a one or a two, you're fine. A two, you're fine. And I'll spend that, so you get a point back. I didn't... Oh, yeah, I did. So you get a point back, but, yeah, you still managed to save. So even though you're slippery, maybe it's like you grab onto the ledge of the bath

or something, like, oops, as it's blasting you with water, and you are not affected, so you would cause it to use its reaction, but you are unmoved. And I'll just, yeah, I'll just grab onto the edge of the bath and go, just so relaxing, someone come and help. Ophelia, then Rowan next. Of the bath and go, just so relaxing, someone come and help. Ophelia.

Ophelia's going to rage. Okay. Because she's just, she's mad. She's just like seething under Rowan and this pile of people. You're currently under Xanthius. So you're, it's currently Rowan at the bottom. Stand up and rage, I fly off. She's just like, she's embarrassed. She's like,an at the bottom. Stand up in rage, I fly off. She's embarrassed.

She's like, I've had enough! I want a bath! So you stand up, because you're quite close to the top, so I'm going to say you stand up for free. And then she's going to use her spider climb ability, and she's going to get out of the way and walk up the wall. Now you are exfoliated. Yes.

So I need an acrobatics check. Acrobatics. Oh no. Nat 20! Yes! Oh! Woo! You're like Sonic as you run up the wall. Like where are you going?

I think she's gonna go behind the other two water spouts. Yeah. This is a wall here, by the way, so there is a wall here. I think she's going to ready an action to dodge out of the way if they fire at her, and she's just going to shout abuse at them. Okay, so up here, you're currently on the wall up here, and you're just shouting abuse at these things and readying yourself if they try

and blast you yes okay sure i would give you advantage on any saving throw because you're taking the the readied action so you are currently up here um and for the purposes of this we'll say that your rage won't end if you don't take damage because it's not a damaging encounter we'll just All right, Rowan. Rowan's going to get up. Yep. He's going to walk over to behind Daisy, if possible. Acrobatics check, please. You are exfoliated. Sleepy.

I am exfoliated. That's a two. Oh, no. Plus one, three. I'm about to be elbow dropped on. Whoop! She just... That's my move. That's my move. That's my move.

So now it will cost you half a movement for you to stand up. So it'll be like five. So you've got ten feet of movement left. I'll try and... Acrobatics check, please. I've got this. Seven, eight. Whoop!

You're like that guy on the ice who is just eternally slipping. His legs are so wide. Yep. Exfoliation, by the way, goes at the end of your turn. So if you get to the end of your turn and you don't get another stack of it, it goes away. So yours is gone now, yeah. So is Ophelia's.

Rowan's hand with the geometric patterns is going to ripple with green energy, and he puts both hands into the ground, and he closes his eyes for a second, and they open, and they're also green energy, and from the ground, he pulls, and you see coalescing in magical energy a huge mattress.

What the fuck? What do you mean? What? I wasn't. I believe you're using that ability. So it has to be a five foot. So it's a five foot mattress. It's 10 foot.

Oh, it's a 10 foot. You can do up to 10 feet, okay, all right. College of creation. College of creation. 10 foot by what, like? A 10 foot space. Yeah. Why a mattress? And Rowan was like. But it is made of creation. College of creation? Ten foot by what? Like a mattress. Mattress. Why a mattress?

But it is made of stone. No, no, it can be of any material. It can make a non-magical object. Okay, that's awesome. You create a mattress. Any non-magical... Holy shit. It has, yeah, yeah.

There's some limitations, but yeah. In this case, yeah, you have a mattress. And it looks like Rowan is seeing who's going to get blasted next. Okay. Oh, is seeing. Okay. All right. And it looks like Rowan is seeing who's going to get blasted next. Okay. Oh, is seeing. Okay. All right. And I can't do anything neutralised, but he's ready to catch people. You've made a mattress. All right.

He's ready to catch people if they get blasted towards him. Okay. Sure. Well, after Rowan, it is Gruff. I'm so sick. Yeah, I love it. I mean so confused. I love it. I mean, yeah. Gruffydd, you are unexfoliated. I'm unexfoliated, right, yeah.

Join us over here. This one has used its reaction. This one has not. So has this one, yeah. Oh, it's dead now. We are exfoliated. I just want you guys to know that I have the spell Create Destroy Water, and I really want to use it,

but I know that it will not help the situation in the slightest. The destroy water spell won't help us in any way. Because they'll come back. There is more water being pulled up from underground. But it would temporarily, maybe. They will come back stronger than before. And you guys can't even stand up at the moment. How much can you destroy, though?

Can you get rid of this whole... 30-foot cube? As if there's no water, it actually all keeps coming up, doesn't it? It might buy you time. It might get you a round of no water. Would it get rid of steam? I mean, because they're creating the steam, right?

So if it gets rid of the water, then it gets rid of the steam. But it could get worse, and they're going after me. Get rid of all the, then it gets rid of the steam. But it could get worse, and they're going after me. Get rid of all the water in my body? Oh. Yeah. It's like a dehumidifier.

If you sit near a dehumidifier, you get really thirsty. Just to check, you are outside of the fog, right? The bad guys in tuxedo. You're on the wall outside of the fog zone. I've never seen that. Daisy is in the fog zone. Yeah. I'm in the fog.

What are you doing? It's a great reference. Carry on. Uh... I'm gonna destroy the wall. What are you doing? It's a great reference, carry on. I'm gonna destroy water. You could also try the shape water as well. Oh, okay, you want us. Well, I'm not convinced by the shape,

because it's a cantrip, right? Yeah. And it's a five, how big are these boys? Watery boys. They're like five feet, they're like humanoid. Five feet? Like size, they're like medium creatures. Okay, in which case, can I?

And I would say they are not technically creatures. The water has been animated. Okay, because it says you can freeze the water, but there are no creatures in it. You want to freeze them solid? Freeze the ones... You can choose one with shape water. Let's go for the one on the fountain where Daisy is.

This one? Okay. Yeah, so I will... It is line of sight within 30 foot, and I can freeze the water for an hour using shape water. Provided there are no creatures in it. I will have the creature make a saving throw. Just to see, I'll have it make a constitution saving throw.

That is gonna be 1560. So unfortunately I believe that's gonna beat your save DC. Cool, that's a people. So you freeze part of it, but it seems that it almost, because it's hard to be 15, 16. So unfortunately, I'll be with that. It's going to beat your save DC. Cool. That's a people. So you freeze part of it, but it seems that it almost, because it's hot spring water,

it almost seems to like heat itself up and kind of slow, you know, you're not able to freeze it enough, unfortunately. Do I have enough allowance from the kind and wonderful and glorious DM to walk over to Xanthius and pick him up. I mean, you have enough movement, yeah. Yeah, can I pick Xanthius up? 10, 15, thank you. You've used your action, though. Yeah, I've got bonus action.

I mean, you can spend one of these. That's a devil's bargain. That's in the rules of the crucible. Devil's bargain. I will devil's bargain pick up sweet Xanthius. He's so slippery. I will Devil's Bargain pick up Sweet Xanthius. He wants that fake dice. He's so slippery. For podcast listeners, Mark has three Crucible dice,

and we have three. So you pick him up. He's so slippery, though, but you've got fur. You've got a good grip. You managed to pick up Xanthius. Thank you. Thank you. You could just, like, push me.

Push him in the vague direction of somewhere useful. Curl him. Is that the end of your turn? Curl him, can I curl him? Not this turn. Bounce him in the mattress somewhere. That's the end of my turn. All right, okay.

What's the wowder doing? Oh, they're gonna get the reactions back as well. They do get their reactions back. This one is gonna slide over here, and Daisy, because you're the one closest to a fountain, I need a strength saving throw from you, Daisy. As it's gonna come after you. Nope. Oh.

Exfoliated! Can someone come over here? So you are blasted out of the fog cloud. These things don't need to see, by the way, so they just come up to you and just. Nobody can physically move. Is it like a spray of suds and bubbles and stuff as well? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's why you're getting so excited. It's like a slip and slide. I'm gonna roll under the bench and just lie facing the ceiling, fed up, and wait for someone to come and help me. I do smell good. So frog. So good.

So, Ophelia, it's gonna try and blast you, but you did take the dodge, so I'm gonna give you advantage on your strength saving throw. Oh, grody. I do smell good. So frog. So good. So Ophelia, it's gonna try and blast you, but you did take the dodge, so I'm gonna give you advantage on your strength saving throw. Oh, grody. You prepared yourself. I am prepared. I have a two.

Oh, 16. 16, enough. So the magical nature of your undead lineage, your vampire lineage, you're clinging to the wall and it blasts you with the water, but you manage to dodge and resist it and you are not pushed off the wall and it blasts you with the water, but you manage to dodge and resist it, and you are not pushed off the wall as you remain there. The fog cloud does also move with it.

You are now in the fog cloud. All righty. That was pretty good. The other one by the fountain is not going to take any action this time because it's not any threats nearby. Xanthius. So those ones took actions. So do they have...

That one. They all technically took actions. There just nothing was... That one. They all technically took actions. There's just nothing was nearby for this one. Yeah, yeah. I want... Rowan, give me your arm. Gruff, push me. Are we allowed?

Yeah, I mean, what's the hope here? I want to be... I want to be launched. I want to be launched, slingshotted towards that fountain that Daisy was next to. Oh, this one? If they throw me with enough force to also slide across the water,

just like Skiv you did, then no, I'll go for the one that Daisy was near. I'll give up my reaction to do that. Yeah, sure. So you're going to help propel him? Yeah. Same, all right. So what I'd say for this is you get thrown over.

These do have their reactions back, but I'm going to give you advantage on the saving throws. Yeah. Because they're being propelled. Because once I get to them, I go down to my knees. So give me two strength saving throws with advantage. Two strength save with advantage, plus one. That's a 19 on the first one.

First one's a success. And a... That good, huh? Good, good. His skeleton came out. I got a 11. So which one was it that hit me? So as you move past, you get basically point back.

So you go flying onto this table. You're there now. As you get past it, back, exfoliated! The speed at which I went towards that. I got pinballed back. Well, as much as that is the end of the round, it's the beginning of a new round, unfortunately, we are in the middle of this high-stakes

combat. We're going to go on our first break. So that's going to be the end of part one for this episode. We will see you in part two. Take care. Bye-bye. Exfoliator! I'm so excited.