High Rollers DnD - Baldur's Gate 3 Cast play D&D #2 (Part 1) | High Rollers Presents: Shadows of Athkatla

Episode Date: September 26, 2023

The Origin Party are split as they explore Athkatla and uncover more of the mysterious dark magic curse! HUGE thanks to Larian Studios for making this possible! Support the High Rollers and get early access to podcast episodes and more on our Patreon: www.patreon.com/HighRollers Dungeon Master - Mark Hulmes Gale Dekarios - Tim Downie Astarion - Neil Newbon Lae'zel - Devora Wilde Shadowheart - Jennifer English Karlach - Samantha Béart Wyll - Theo Solomon Narrator - Amelia Tyler Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pickaxe. reintroduction to who you are and who you're playing. Real rapid fire round. Go! Starting with Theo. My name is Theo Solomon and I'm playing Will Ravengard, the Blade of Frontiers. Hooray! My name is Samantha Bailt and I'm playing Carlite, the Demon's Bane. Boo! My name's Jennifer and I'm playing Shadowheart. Wheeee! Jennifer and I am playing shadow heart hi I'm Debra wild and I play lazy love crash clear no introductions needed I'm wearing exactly the same clothes I make

no apologies I'm Tim Downey and I playing playing Gael Dacarius, the Wizard of Waterdeep. Boz, thank you very much for joining us once again as we continue and hopefully wrap up our little adventures here in your second game of D&D for many of you. Some of you are more experienced, but for some of you it's your second ever game. Very exciting. We are also joined by, I'm just going to have a sticker head in because there's no intro for this one. But we are also joined with i'm just going to have a sticker heading because there's no intro for this one but we are also joined by another special friend who are you um i'm amelia tyler i play the narrator of Baldur's Gate 3. And you will see me in here later, but just not right at the beginning of the episode. I'm going to go over here and watch. Go back to your chair. Go back to your stalking chair.

So, let me give you a little recap on what happened in our last episode. You are all travelling, you are all traveling through the wilds of the sword coast you had made camp and when you awoke in the morning your companion and the sort of one that you know your destiny is connected to these these mind flare tadpoles connecting your minds and somehow being prevented from transmorph transmorphing and seromorphosis uh tav this champion this warrior that you've been traveling with or mage um was afflicted by some strange spell that was overtaking their body um and you knew uh thanks to some detective arcane detective work from gail you detected that it was coming from very very far away it was very rare

and powerful magic and then you were suddenly attacked by these strange uh spirits and and glass knights and strange amalgamations, like experiments gone wrong. You managed to fight them off, and with a little aid from Elminster, you learned a bit more that the source of this magic, this spell, was coming from a place called Athkatla, a city in the nation of Arm, far to the south. Elminster teleported you to the city of Athkatla, and then you have arrived and split off in a various number of ways to try

and locate the source of this magic put a stop to it, save Tav and then return to Baldur's Gate to complete your destiny as we know because we're all playing the game and we all know where it's going to go eventually but you have to get back everyone dies

just as a little point of warning there may be some minor spoilers for things that happen in borders gate 3 especially in act one uh especially with the various characters and things like that um but hopefully not too much uh so we can jump right into that as well um and that my friends is where we're actually gonna pick straight back up uh no big fancy intro this time because we are uh gonna pick up with some of the cast after you've split off i believe we have gail and will uh had sort of done a little bit of research cast some spells to try and track down this source of magic maybe learning about the kind of powers that are in play here in the city and where they may be able to help you uh still in the city gates

district um but will uh but uh gail sorry had snuck off to do some sneaky arcane magic which is very naughty in this city we then have um asterion and carlack having headed to the docks uh perhaps pursuing some illegal allegedly allegedly nefarious contacts uh to maybe try and inquire what they may know. And then finally, the oddest gal pal date of all time, we had Lizelle and Shadowheart head to Joaquin's Promenade, a trading market where they've encountered the Adventurer's Mart, the weirdest and budget adventuring shop in Faerun. They've met the imp, Bing Bong. And they

harassed a gnome into learning more about what was going on in the city. And ended up buying two tickets to a tourist attraction. Yay! Since we did you guys last, we're going to come back to you guys in a little bit. But I want to pick up with some of our other groups.

Especially Karlak and Asterion um you guys make your way into the docks district of afkatla the docks are sealed off by large towering stone walls you can see that they the docks themselves slope all the way down with these kind of ramps and stairways that lead down onto the surface of the coast and you can see that the river flows out here as well and it is immense there are ships with huge mast sailing ships everywhere a wooden jetty that kind of surrounds the southern portion of the city really like a huge chunk this peninsula kind of sticks out and drifts off into the sea. And you can see warehouses. You can see very fancy, rich, upper-class housing here. You can see taverns.

You can see entertainment establishments, shall we call them. Gambling dens, brothels, that sort of thing. Gentle person's club. Gentle person's club. You can see traders. And it's very bustling it's packed with people um and when you guys arrive you encounter a site which i think the two of you would probably be somewhat familiar with having grown up as a sort of street urchin in balder's

gate i believe carly and then asterion having lived in a bustling city and knowing the right types of people um when you arrive uh you, you are witness to a chase currently taking place. You see, dressed in a sort of purple hood, kind of wrapped around a very, like, kind of homemade, maybe, like, knitted, a dwarven girl. She's maybe about 14, but you can see the stocky frame of a dwarf. Big, curly ginger hair. looks like it might be dyed, kind of like spilling out around her, like out of her uh guards like kind of like you know wearing breastplate and carrying halberds are like yelling after her there's a man and a woman um and they're chasing after tin pot kind

of lid helms like stop girl and like you won't get away with this this time and they're chasing after her and the dwarven girl is like hopping over things kind of assassin's creed style sliding um but as she kind of is about to reach near you guys and maybe looks like it makes a mistake uh a cobblestone in the street comes loose and she goes tumbling down, kind of rolling into this thing, slams into a cart and seems to be quite badly injured. Just a bad fall, basically. And it looks like these guards might quickly catch up on her. And she kind of looks around and she's like, hey, any help here, please? And she's kind of like looking around to the bypasses like for anybody to help her but a lot of people are like like

turning away like you know aiming not to help up so what do you guys want to do anything or is this you try to avoid attention I'm going to I feel like you know adventures long enough and we're similar ish not so much people we're both sitting yes so I'm gonna sort of like look from what we're watching and sort of look at Carla can just give a little knowing nod eyebrow raise everybody discussed obviously we've we've discussed we're here to do what we're here to do and this looks like me so we're gonna sort of do that so we both know almost in the church is there anything like a big basket or like a

wicked but something like that oh absolutely that would be yeah there's like you can see that like you know this is a docks after all there's likely fishing boats and things like that so there's like baskets full of like kind of oily like uh kind of almost like long eel-like fish um they're scattered around everywhere there's also crates but they're like nailed shut but they look like they're full of like trade goods they'd be full of like you know packing straw and stuff like that i want to quickly just scan around see if there's like an open something yeah is that that i'm gonna i'm gonna sort of go to the point there yeah and then what i'm gonna do is as well as we assume that we know what we're talking about i'm gonna walk past carlac and the girl and and

mindlessly sort of wander towards where the guards i know will be coming and just affect the the fop thing and just try and get in their way basically sure sure sure no physically I mean okay great so in that case let's and then Carl what do you think in fact actually I think I'll actually cut this one this time yeah I'll just do what he's going yeah I was just going

and it looks like there's a couple of choices like if you wanted to tadpole at tad or whatever what's tad what's tad it looks like there's a couple of choices like it's way too bad or whatever what's what's that yeah you have seen this girl like it's there it's made these gestures you've got a couple options if you want to find something to put her in you can either basically empty out one of these wicker baskets full of these like oily kind of fish or you could try and rip off the lid of one of these crates which yeah like yeah probably is gonna totally do it for me an oil and child yeah she's kind of got

like this kind of like lilac colored dress like big thick leather boots up to her thighs but like in like this big hood of white purple light knitted kind of like cloak looks almost like a rogue's hood if your grandma made it basically obviously and she's like limping it looks like she's twisted her ankle and she's like trying to like get away people moving away from her people are just trying to ignore it she's trying to blend in but like people are just like well we don't want to get into trouble basically if there's space and whilst you're doing your thing and i'm walking past just as i sort of walk past the girl is she looking towards where carlick and i are yeah she's like kind of like she's like looking around she's like please I swear

I didn't do anything wrong like they're just after me for no reason and she's like limping around I have thieves camp yeah it is a secret yeah there's a lot of like cocky saying of like you know like you know like oh like you'd say something like oh yeah so he fell down at the fish market means just like what did job go wrong and so look at the weather looks like it's gonna be overcast in a second yeah what I was gonna do is see if I can catch her attention by using these counts on those lines by indicating to carlac eyes and girl look at my right all right sure so

there's a couple of things to play it the thieves can't you don't need to make a roll for just something you could just do and I would say let me roll make a little roll here she's a dummy what is your passive perception as a star? My passive perception is 13. 13. It's enough. Like, you see she definitely clocks you, and she thieves-cants back to you just with hand signals,

almost like sign language. Yep. She will thieves-cant back to you like, I don't know you, but I don't have a choice. I'm going to... And, like, something like that. I might have might do the part good luck yeah yeah she scowls and like returns it to you but she starts limping towards carlack um meanwhile you're gonna try and like intercept these guys and kind of like distract them or like

keep them in the way i'm not gonna notice them because they're beneath me yeah yeah but i'm going to make sure they accidentally get in my way sure Sure, sure, sure. Physically. I'll let you make a choice on this one, Neil, and then we'll come over to Carly. You can either give me a deception check, which is like when you're trying to lie in deceit and things like that. Yeah. A performance check because you're playing the role of a fop and you kind of want to play into it.

I see that number. No. Okay. Let's know. It's like this. Yeah. Or I would say maybe acrobatics, like you kind of try and bump into them without them realizing kind of thing i'm going to try i think about plus five in acrobatics i want to try

acrobatics sure so this would be more like kind of almost like pretending to like drop your hanky and be like oh yeah yeah yeah yeah or pluck a flower yeah but trip them up at the same time yeah i'd say yeah give me an acrobatics roll. Okie dokie. And I'll say that this is like, these are the veteran guards. This isn't going to be super easy, but they're not the elite of the elite,

so it's not going to be too tricky either. Can I add something? I mean, you tell me. Add a flavour. I have a cantrip called Minor Illusion. Yes. As you are a high elf. As I'm a high elf.

Thank you. I am. minor illusion yes which as you are a high elf thank you i am uh i just need a piece of fleece or like lint or something well the way i always do it is that basically like things like material components they're good suggestions if you want to use the idea that i have pocket lint yeah like little pocket lint yeah sure i create a sound or an image of an object within range that lasts for duration the illusion then ends if you dismiss it as an action or cast it with again creatures use action to examine the sound they'll determine it is an illusion yeah and successful intelligence check against your dc yeah if creature discerns the illusion for what it

is illusion becomes faint so i don't want anything they want to touch or investigate i'm going to do it is illusion becomes faint so i don't want anything they want to touch or investigate i'm going to do an added thing so before i get in their way i'm going to create illusion of a bird like a pigeon just going and flapping straight through them like almost about to hit them yeah and then like duck or seagull seagull going i'd say yeah yeah if that can give me some kind of birds and they will do that seagulls will come for you like that so I live in Bristol I know what they're like um yeah no absolutely I'd say like the minor illusions you don't need to roll you just create the illusion it flies towards them give me this acrobatics Jim Jim the seagull flies in give me the acrobatics with advantage because these guys are

gonna try and duck out the way and that's gonna give you an easier chance to try and not all right so that is a 15 plus folks this is an excellent uh example of how to bullshit your dm everybody uh neil's giving us a master class natural 20 on bullshit oh wonderful it's a 15 plus five it's 20 and the second one just for shits and giggles is 11 so nice yeah so dirty 20 um perfect yeah you easily kind of bump into their way you kind of trip one of them up one One of them, the woman kind of whips around almost to be like, what the Yes.

What the fine weather we're having today, my lord. Is it? Yes, yes. You do realise that these are, the bullshit name I came up with, the label I went with. These are the such and such from Neverwinter, and they're almost irreplaceable. What are you doing, running around like this?

Chasing a thief. I don't see a thief, do you? And look around. They're going to look around. I'm going to cross my fingers and look at Carla. Great cinematic moment as the camera pans around for us to then jump to Carla. So, Carla, you see this kind of, like, she makes some weird gestures towards Astarion, and then starts limping towards you.

And as she gets closer, she's like, Your fancy friend better be fucking right. And just is looking at you like, well, what's the plan kind of thing. I'm going to hide her in a crate. Yeah, so you just turn around and like, I don't want to. Just going to tear this thing off.

Let's do it, we've got a second. Great, give me an athletics check on this. 17. Nice. Plus 4. Plus 4, 21. I think we did it. athletics check 17 nice plus 421 one-handed the nails go flying sorry but you rip this thing off she like checks and it's big enough for her to fit in and it doesn't look like it looks like maybe it's like transporting some like soft something soft like silks and things so she just does no hesitation jumps in it yep just strike a casual pose just voguing and then we see it's not comfortable she did another one and then we see exactly that as the guards look over they're like what what and they're like scanning around like no she was right

that she was right here and then the other one's just like come on she must have disappeared into the crowd i'm so sorry more we are in a pursuit uh do we have give me your name and number hang on a second i'm done with you yet all right very good sir name and number they pull out like these little tin badges they have as they do that i'm gonna still go and then come back in sure yeah and they give you these little tin badges with numbers and they tell you their names I'm gonna take out some and I'm gonna pretend I haven't put some on my head and just sort of do this yes I'm taking this down yes

well then now look sharp here I'm gonna keep them waiting until I finish with you sharp? yes yes my lord now don't do it again very good sir

otherwise it'll be your ass absolutely sir especially you we wouldn't want to sit opposite you no absolutely not sir get out of here fuck off all right thank you, sir. All right, scamper off.

Great. I'm gonna start whistling as I walk back to Carla. Nice, nice. We're gonna jump back to you guys. I'm gonna jump around the table so we can kind of see a bunch of people. Will and Gale. You guys finish, you finish reading your book,

Volo's Guide to Ath-Katla. Gale emerges from the shady alley that he disappeared into yeah and and yet do you guys want to head somewhere so with Gales the tech magic you don't get any sense of this like foul magic yet but you know you've got a concentration but it is only 30 feet range so it's not a huge radius. So whereabouts, what do you guys think you wanna do next? Will, where have you read that might be useful to go to

that this lot aren't there already? Something like that. That's a sentence. I want to head, put those words together in the correct order. It's been a long day. You should be fine. I'm still doing this 10 minute thing.

It's quite tiring. Looking at our map, I believe we should head to the Kald Wizards. Sounds good. Mm-hmm. Let's do that. But we need to find out how to get there, so. Yeah, well in the book it would tell you

that the Kald Wizards are stationed in the government district of Vathcatla. It means you have to cross the bridge, but it's on the other side. It's in like the rich of the upper city, they call it. It's like the rich part of the city. And yeah, you can just cut past the bridge and head that way. I'm going to head that way, yeah. The cowled wizards. Perfect. You guys begin making your way

there. You pass through the river district and head onto the bridge. As you reach the bridge's gates, you can see that there are these rows of soldiers wearing right and wed red and white heraldry um and they've got halberds they're kind of lined up and there is a like they kind of stop you and just say like toll for the bridge two silver two silver per person kind of like you know you pay a little toll you see that other traders and that are doing it you're let out onto the bridge i'm not gonna make you mark off two silver you've got plenty of money you guys make your way down and you can see that on the bridge think of like the ponte vecchio it's

this kind of beautiful like long bridge but it's huge there's even this enormous temple um and you see this has this golden sphere for the top of it like a dome and there is the statue around sort of like late like lounging on the dome kind of propped up against it is this beautiful female figure with this flowing hair and although it's been made of gold the gold has been mixed with something to make her hair bright red like this kind of fiery red that's catching the sunlight as it hits and the temple is made of white stone and it spills down and you can see this uh emblem of a woman's very fine feminine face with this red hair spilling around it is like on the front of the temple and there seems to be some sort of gathering outside

you can see dozens of kind of merchants and upper class looking citizens lower class looking citizens as you see what appears to be sort of like an impromptu fashion show is being taken place and you can see people going into the temple. There's like little stations, like stone, almost like a kind of like, um, uh, you get the fountain for the holy water in a church,

but these are like little makeup stations and they have like attendance, like doing people's makeup and hair for free off the street. People come in, they get a haircut, they get their face washed, they get their makeup done. Um, they get like,

you know, but look, there's baths. It looks like, further in and things like that. And, yeah, it seems to be some sort of temple of beauty as you go to pass it. Can you tell me both your passive perception scores?

So at the very bottom of your sheet, I believe, it should say just above. Oh, yeah. Ten. Ten for Gale, okay. Ten for me as well. Ten for you guys as well. Perfect.

This is going to be good. Well, I'm going to, in fact, I'll roll this in front of you guys. 15. Good. So, yeah, you guys pass the bridge street. You see that this festival is called something. It's called the Day of the Adoring Eye. You begin to overhear people talking about it like, oh, happy Day of the Adoring Eye. You begin to overhear people talking about it like,

oh, happy Day of the Adoring Eye to you, blah, blah, blah. You see an attendance like come up to you, a very beautiful elven woman, long blonde hair, perfectly straight in this kind of like chiffon style robe. And she says, soon as blessing upon you, gentlemen, may I interest you in haircuts or some cosmetics or anything from the temple today's service is free as a celebration of the adoring eye or is there anything else that

lady firehair can help you with today uh we are looking to speak to the called wizards and she see our face sort of blanches oh my um well, the cowled wizards are up in the government district, but I'm afraid that there's been rumours throughout the city that they are not accepting visitors and they're not seeing people with questions. There is apparently some important business that they've been dealing with, I'm afraid. Is it important? It's very important and I do have some money on hand if you could potentially give me any more information

about what they're discussing. Straight to the ground. Or, or. Love, love, love the energy. Or we could either maybe use some magic. i just thought this is going to be fine yeah go on so either we could do either charm said person look how many cards he's got in front of him i know i think tim is just like yeah i've got all these cards i don't want to do this yeah um still got magic going on around.

I guess I'm not sensing anything still. So, yeah, I'd say when you detect magic, you're not picking up on that foul kind of like the same essence you saw around Tav. What am I getting? Am I getting anything? Yeah. We should hope so. This elven woman in front of you and the temple behind.

The temple radiates enchantment magic. You can tell that at a glance. There are many different types of magic going on in this temple but the woman in front of you there is a mixture of illusion magic enchantment magic um all about her person um you aren't quite sure of the effect of it but this woman is radiating like these elements of magic to her um and like you you definitely notice obviously it's me speaking but this her voice is so melodic and soothing and her appearance is flawless like she looks like you know picture perfect out of a book and you can see that most of the priests and priestesses the men and the

women all have very similar like just they look just wonderful but also different shapes and sizes like you know this is a very lots of different types of beauty and how beauty can be personified at this place you know different body shapes different sizes um different genders different styles different fashions but everyone just looks happy and they have that radiant glow about them you know um so they radiate that and she's like yeah i mean could be very suspicious Sounds suspicious. Yeah, I mean, could be. Very suspicious.

Not overly trusting of this whole... Sure. Situation we find ourselves in. Is Gael actively saying to Will, like, whoa, hold on a minute, as he's trying to bribe the lady? I think so. Okay. I think we just need to just...

Pay heed. Just take a step. Okay. Just have a moment. I don't think anything is necessarily what we think it might be i see well i must say as well that it is very generous but you do not need to give us money it is fine we're happy to exchange information freely i'm afraid that i i know very little about the situation

with the cow wizards it started perhaps a week ago um they began to close their doors it was around the same time that there were reports of these kidnappings. In fact, one of our own priestesses has gone missing. She was taken from the temple a few days ago. We've been petitioning the wizards and the guard to search for her, but to no luck, I'm afraid. You mentioned something about things not being right. Did I hear that correct, sir? Yes, do you know what? It's this old hair, and I hear you're doing haircuts and a bit of, you know, spruce.

You can't possibly want to cut it. It is glorious. It's the split ends. I just want a little bit off that, maybe a beard trim. You do your magic. Gail. I'll tell you what,'m gonna give you advantage on this next roll because that's a good line can you but I would like you to make a deception check for me please this is you are you are

actively betraying your intentions and beliefs so this is the deception skill check on your skills yep what bonus do you have that's one a plus one so you're gonna give advantage you roll twice take the highest that's 13 that's 14 yeah it's 14 roll her insight and see if she picks up on that nope in fact she is totally taken in by Gale you see that this elven woman looking at the hair the kind of regal stance of the wizard she's like i would be personally happy to attend to any of your sort of needs or desires for today um we could start with a rinse and get out of those dead ends with perhaps perhaps a facial scrub that would be lovely will's own you know what else completely distracted by the mission

know what else bear with bear with my companion here the temple of lady suny is more than welcome to have any travelers in it and perhaps you could ask some of the others around i i will provide you what information i can but um yes come with me and she'll lead you you in and she'll probably gesture to many of the attendants, whoever you want. They'll come in and it's literally like a haircut, a shave if you want one, facial scrub, a little thing. And you see this is the goddess Sunni.

She's the goddess of love and beauty. And this is just a service they provide the city. Anybody can come in and get a haircut and get cleaned up and that's part of her ethos is that everyone deserves the chance to feel beautiful basically and so this is really lovely thing we did very well in going this way you've got the sense of it because we're gonna then jump head to these guys as we leave Gale and Will having... Oh, spa treatments. Yeah, basically little spa treatments.

Like battling popcorn monsters. So, Leisel and Shadowheart, you guys are travelling to the Adventurers Mart and you have been sold two tickets to the Ballspawn Narrative Experience, a living history event of recreation and fun. Recreation and education, sorry his bing bong still he so i think that he's not cold like hugging onto you anymore but like he's holding your hand like a little child like and just as a point i don't know if you've ever seen an imp they look like a little red devil baby like he's like got like little tiny horns he's kind of got like a big head a little body these little black wings like little bat wings

Little pudgy arms and legs and he's just holding on he does have like a little outfit Like it's kind of got like a little bow tie like a greeter like you might get But he does it just has like a little bell on the hat Yeah, I've been barely spring bong since we took a small break yeah I've been barely spring bong since we took a small break he's like holding your hand like this and he's just sort of like and he's just quiet he's happily just going wherever you go so yeah it's a little family outing uh-huh shadow hearts do you release the imp why I thought going to come on this adventure with a shadow heart we can barely manage the others let alone an imp baby he might be helpful I'm keeping him Luzelle

exactly you guys make your way in and the gnome behind the thing kind of points you in the direction there's a little small alleyway and it's like posters of these kind of like you know these images of this bigger can't tell whether it's male feel fighting against this horrible looking demon kind of creature some various companions around their side all the ballspawn experience by adventures mark you make your way down and it leads you into basically a room with a portal like a kind of archway door with a magic portal in it as you arrive you hear a voice and as you step up close to the portal you hear a voice that says you must gather your party before adventuring forth as you kind of all in position the door is shut

and the portal ignites and opens and you can step inside so you guys step inside the pool i suppose we should absolutely might be useful you step in um and you uh appear in a chamber um it is full of kind of like metal catwalks above a dark chasm and you can see that there are these hanging cages that would have been suspended in this room above the chasm itself um you can also see as you arrive you kind of move out of this archway um into this kind of space next to you there are two of these cages with humanoid looking shapes in them but you very quickly especially shadowheart with your perception because i believe your passive is 15 perception you quickly realize they are not real people they are animatronics they're like clockwork people

dressed and painted like skin colored wood um and you see a um an elven druidic woman in green with like white hair and a staff um and she kind of looks very bored and robotically is kind of twisting around and then you see a big muscular man bald of head with like a purple streak over one eye um and he's got a little tiny stuffed hamster, like a little fake looking hamster in his hand and he's kind of like and they appear to like

be making noises but you can't hear them from where you are. The catwalk chamber moves down, it looks like there's two side chambers, like one that splits off to the side and one that carries on straight ahead of you. So we can choose between going down? You can splits off to the side and one that carries on straight ahead of you. So we can choose between going down... You can go off to the side or you can carry straight on. It looks like there's a corridor, like a stone corridor that leads straight down.

There is like a little side room. Like it looks like there was once like a door. It's been opened up and now contains like some sort of side chamber. And then there are these two like clockwork automatons to the side of you that are thing. And Bing Bong is absolutely like wants to go and see the little automatons. He's of you that are thing and in bing bong he's absolutely like wants to go and see the little automatons he's just like he's like walking towards them i'll go with bing bong you coming fine sure uh you you approach them and you begin to hear uh the sort of woman is like nature's servant awaits and just is turning around and you see a

plaque uh the hydra jahira uh former companion of the ballspawn kind of thing um and it kind of turns to you and says i am jahira i am one of the high and basically goes into a speech about who they are the next one along is uh swords not words go for the eyes but and just repeats these phrases over and over again and you see a little plaque that says minsk and boo former companions of the thing and tells a little bit about their story how they were captured by this mage called John Irenicus they were kept here the ballspawn was a prisoner blah blah blah kind of story and then big box like I kind of like points at them and then sort of like chats away but then gets bored it's like looking

around like what next that's it he just wanted to check out the cool people that's it that was all that's all he wanted to do like don't think that this imp is by any means gonna help you in any way I don't mind I know I'm just going where he's going where he's going we should take the other the main card yeah yeah yeah you begin making your way down to the corridor and it turns into like an L shape that turns off to the side it leads you through a chamber with an arcane like magic looking machine almost like a like a piece of like a generator like a power generator but with crystals and runes and sigils instead of mechanical parts there is uh there is illusions of lightning blasts like a

piece of like a bolt of lightning bounces around the room it passes through you harmlessly like an illusion bing bong scared he's like and he like jumps up onto your back when he sees it coming um and then you make your way through into the next chamber which is almost like a cave and you see that there was once this large space where like one of these clockwork figures would have been, but it's been torn to shreds. And you now see that there is this kind of tattered remnants of a genie-like figure, and it's been ripped apart.

And there is a huge bloodstain that drags off further down into this tourist attraction. Follow the bloodstain that drags off further down into this tourist attraction. Follow the bloodstain, right? Always. The corridor leads out of this room and eventually you come to a crossroads. The bloodstain drags down and goes off to the left there is a chamber to the right and then a door uh leading further to the north um but as you get there you see that the blood is clearly something was dragged this way um it's almost leaving that streaked trail as you go down um if you reach that crossroads and look into the chamber to your right you can see the remnants of like a clay creature like this big hulking it would have been you know maybe like 10 feet tall it would have

filled the corridor in the chamber and it too has been like ripped apart and like left scattered around the place uh but the bloodstain goes off to the left instead so it looks like something follow the blood keep following the blood okay all right can we leave bing bong finally or must we take him with us you see him he's like licking the blood off the floor he's like yeah reminds me of someone all right now i start to have a bit more of an appreciation for this i knew you'd come around. If you guys are going to follow this trail of blood, I'm going to have to pass it over to my narrator.

Her instincts were correct. And you all died. Roll initiative. No, I'm joking. Right. The trail of fresh blood is streaked across the floor and leads into this chamber. Right. Each vessel is filled with a bright blue and green liquid and contains malformed creatures and twisted puppets of old experiments suspended in the fluid. A plaque reads, Below the largest of these disgusting displays. At the far end of the room,

the trail of blood leads to a section of wall that has swung aside, revealing another passageway. Dun-dun-dun. The dun-dun-dun is from there. They're like, improv that, you know? Shadowheart, it seems there's something wrong here. Something very wrong. Perhaps we should go down this secret passageway absolutely lazelle you read my tadpole mind uh as you guys begin to descend further down into this thing i'm going to jump back and sort of like bounce around and things like that for you guys

yeah like bounce around and things like that yeah carlac and asterion so you guys successfully kind of helped this kind of girl escape um and you basically after a few minutes you hear like a did you hear that oh yeah yeah you kind of like gods of guns yeah there are gods like around but none of them are like they're like patrolling yeah I mean this you could probably get around safely in the crowd now that those two who are chasing her have gone but like yeah like they're there they're always guards present like there's never a policy to like now I'm gonna open the yeah you just hear like she's kind of like lying on her back like kind of like got her hands like behind her head and she's gonna go and she's just like she looks up at you like well took your sweet time but I'm real grateful for you for the save there and

it's sort of you know didn't expect it and she kind of saw uh thieves camps back at you esterian just sort of like a fellow uh fellow shadow walker would probably be what she says like yeah so i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna clock that but then i'm gonna do the sign of uh you owe me okay and i want an introduction okay um she kind of like glanced around she looks at you and then she looks at like, you have no idea what we're doing, do you, sweetheart? I'm connected to him psychically. Oh, that's handy. That's a real nice trick. Okay.

And she kind of like looks around and she says like, well, I figure I owe you at least an introduction. Like, what do you want? You want to meet the Shadow Thieves? Yes. I'm starting to get a man who's going to look at Carl like, really? This is what we have to a shadow thief I know I know one of them I know I know one of the council members I know one of the heads in charge she's real nice she's rich she's the Name? Her name's Imowen.

Imowen. Have I heard of her because of Baldur's Gate? Definitely have heard of her. Okay, all right. Oh, oh. She's a friend of mine. Oh. I'm training to be a Shadow Thief just like her.

Close the lid. No. No, no, no, no. One moment. We've got the psychic now. Yeah, so Imowen, I think, might be quite useful. However, you might be the best person to talk to

her, kind of. Sort of the whole me thing, you know? I don't know. They had a bit of history with My Kind. So, might be best if you put on your best. Red tiefling on fire. Well, that's a good point.

Okay, fuck it, we'll just do it together. You, you know, don't put me back in the box. I promise I can get you a meeting with Emma when I promise. Now. Okay, okay, follow me. And she'll like climb out and she'll be like, you really don't mess around do you? And she's like, I'm Lorraine by the way. Is her neck a bit sore? Huh? She was doing this yeah like she kind of like she's got a limp as well yeah oh no yeah i'm starting to feel a bit peckish okay okay just definitely okay we'll go via a tavern or something yeah she kind of she can she's got this thick dwarven kind of like dyed ginger hands and she brushes it aside when she rubs it and that's where you glance like the very pristine looking kind of neck.

Is she limping? Yeah, she's got a sprained ankle so she would still be limping and stuff like that. We need to help her a bit so we can move along the rounds. Oh, you can't touch. As we do that, I'm gonna look around. Is there anything like I could fashion into some rag of a mitt, something? That doesn't set fire when I put this on. Fire retardant.

Like an eel she can put on her hands like mints or something like that roll a d20 for me well eels aren't necessarily flammable they're oily and stuff they're not that kind of oily you could put your hand in a giant eel if you want Karlak that's your choice um otherwise we could go and we could make a little splint or something for her

just get a stick I mean she could get on her own or she could lean on you oh let's get a stick I mean she could lean on you she's pretty capable like she's young like she'll limp but like yeah good point you guys can find that no problem that's not a big deal um you that crate that you already broke and just snap a piece of it off like there you go i guess that'll do um and she can only little uh she takes you to a nearby inn called the five flagons um and she kind of leads you around it's actually in the bridge district so she leads you onto the bridge she talks her way past the tall guards and leads you onto the bridge district um and she takes you in there and she goes up and you can see that like the the bodyguard who's this big like barrel chested orc like not a half orc like a full orc and he's got these thick

like kind of like dreadlocked hair tied back you can see that he's just rippling with muscles we're talking like proper like weightlifter like bodybuilder kind of build um and he's like on the front and he just like he like looks down at her and he's like oh causing trouble again little runner and she's just like no i ain't doing that hank and she's like i'm here to i'm here to meet i'm i'm seeing my friend um and he just goes like still can't believe a little squad like you was friends with him and he goes like he goes like like nods in and he like looks at you two and he's just like and i think like he clocks you both and he kind of is giving you that kind of like hey don't cause trouble in here kind of thing like especially like probably to carlack like sizing up the size but he still like looks at you as darren and i think like kind of like peers at you a little bit and kind of size you up and

you kind of think this guy actually maybe isn't the type to be taken in by the whole foppish thing like you look he sees that he like looks at your arm you can see he's looking at your hands okay um in in perfect perfect orcish yeah i'm going to say oh i know so you're the perceptive type yes well then you know that my friend and i are not to be trifled with he just looks and back in orcish he says you are correct but neither am i let's not cause trouble for each other perhaps agreed okay and he like nods he's terribly nice actually yeah yeah oh really yeah it's like she he kind of like looks he smiles back his big kind of like big orc tooth and stuff like that he kind of smiles back and he's just like yeah he's kind of nods he's like he like lets you in uh and he probably looks at you carl i use the charms he probably would

look at you carl i can like get get the right uh get the red fire beer it's the best one appreciate it mate no problem uh and he like lets you in uh you guys uh lorana the little dwarf girl leads you in uh she's she's like okay you two wait by the bar I have to go let her I had she has to check in if you know I need I can't just bring you up to see her right now but you wait by the bar I'll go and let him know that you're here can I make an insight check to see whether she's actually doing that or she's yeah fucking off because if she is I want to keep an eye on her absolutely can we do an insight check no no you're doing it okay because i'm thinking about the pint

you can see it just big frothy mugs like people are handing them out they've even got like a little magic thing which is like frost the beard uh i rolled a 19 plus 120. 19. i will tell you this, Astarion. You do think she's going to do what she says, but there's definitely kind of like, and you're a rogue, and you've got training in the kind of shadowy arts. This is very much a, she's going to let this person know you're here, they're going to scope you out,

and then they're going to decide if they're going to meet with you. It's very much a kind of like, this is like a heads up in case you're trouble. This is insight, so I guess it doesn't work in perception. I just always want to scan around the bar to see who is working amongst the... Oh, I'm not even going to make you roll for it.

Like, I'd say about a third of the clientele here are probably like... Definitely guild members. Shadow thieves. Okay, that's fine. I'm just going to clock exactly where they are around the bar. Yeah, for sure. Maybe stand a tiny bit closer to Carlo. Yeah.

Sure, sure, sure. And like, they're definitely, you would pick up, they've noticed guys they're kind of cute but there's no trouble they just came in after a few minutes you enjoy a great beer and the guys just the bartender hands over and uh you know you wait for a little bit like they kind of take a long time to serve you but when he does serve you it's just like uh on the house apparently uh we're welcoming travelers today yeah and it's a big bit it's like a big frosty pine basically um and a big tankard um and uh for you he just turns out says what could i i figured this one uh hank hank suggested the the red fire so what would i what can i get you Oh something full-bodied and red

he because he has a bit of a thing yeah he looks you he says like would sir care for a special special drink a nighttime drink I think so my does have a preference for sauce where we might have sourced the the vintage from Oh something I don't know why didn't you surprise me what's what's the uh daily special well we have something uh it is uh ethically procured shall we say uh from donators uh who provide a very succulent human organic is it darling okay all right takes the fun out of it but sure why not try anything else and he comes back with a suspiciously red looking glass of wine yes it says wine yeah and there's something about that where you're like

why would they have this here yeah i've already already aware of it yeah yeah but eventually you guys are yeah like you uh the lorana comes down and says like okay boss boss wants to say okay there's no way of testing to see whether or not this it's pure wine or if it's why that's been altered I don't know is a way that we can do that ah I feel like drugs and things like that you and being like see if you're gonna get it i just want to go like actually the way i'm going to do it is just like a little bit like that just like just take a tick on a little tip i heard it before i thought it i think we all heard it like for sure i'm just just laughing a bit do you like a little bit of it just to make sure uh that's a 14 plus my what is it you said medicine i'd say medicine that's 15. 15. yeah no you think this is fine there's no drugs literally just down no no do it like

you did it before yeah so i start laughing that's gonna be clipped and put on tiktok we have enough problems you've got no hope no i'm going to keep up the pretence and daintily well you guys are taken upstairs uh and uh lorana leads you up into a room um it's a very well appointed but not overly so it's like a comfortable room there's a big desk with like books you can see a well stocked library a-poster bed are there any other exits apart from the door we just came in uh none that you can see oh um but there is uh there are windows but they're boarded yes uh you can see that they're closed and they're nailed

they're like nailed shut yeah i've got a car it's fine um and inside you see a young half-elven woman, maybe in like her 20s, early 20s, mid-20s, purple cloak, kind of like the little dwarf girls, but this one is a proper maid cloak, like really nicely made. Ginger hair kind of cut a little short. And yeah, she's just like working at the books and she turns around and says, Hey, well, you wanted to see me? You wanted an introduction to the Shadow Thieves, I hear.

Good afternoon. You're invited. Invited. Oh, good. I'm going to step forward. Sure. And say, thank you. It was very civil.

Should we cut to the chase, darling? I appreciate business when it's straight to the point. I've got a lot to do, but you two definitely sparked some interest. Okay, so out of character, what do we want to talk about you're the one that knows the thieves no I know that what do you think the best sort of course they know what's going on yeah it's really fun out because the kidnapping thing we heard earlier they're gonna know something then you've got the corruption yeah yeah okay all right we'll start that. So we need some information

as one guild, paid up guild member to another. We've been hearing that a lot of disappearances, but we also have a bit of a sticky problem. You see, one of our work colleagues has a particular problem with a certain very powerful and very ancient magic.

We were assisted here, I let's say by another equally powerful magician however we are trying to uncover the source which appears to be tethered in this city that makes sense based on what's happening okay well I appreciate directness thanks for giving me the details I'll tell you. If you're looking for some sort of magical source of power, and, I mean, something's definitely going on in this city. We've got people going missing. A lot of the cowled wizards are currently out of action. We don't quite know what happened, but...

About that, is there somebody we could do this sort of camp for cash, speak to about what exactly is afflicting them? I mean, for sure, if you can find that out, I'd love to know. I'd happily pay for the information myself. All we know is that a few days ago, maybe a week or so, a number of them just collapsed, haven't woken up since. But you're interested in helping this friend of yours, and we've got some business.

Recently, I had another old friend, shall we say. They prefer to keep their name out of people's mouths, so let's call them Moonraiser. Moonraiser was doing a little job for me. They were trying to investigate the same thing you were. The kidnappings, the strange source of magic, the cow wizards. I haven't heard from them in a few days, and that's not like them. The last I knew, they said they had a lead down in Joaquin's Promenade. Apparently something to do with

a shop, a trader there, something that stands out. They said that they were going to investigate and send word back, but that was a few days ago and I haven't heard from them. And the name of this establishment? They didn't say. They just said it was... They are a little strange. They're not used to living in cities, so they just said it was an odd place, is what they said.

All right. Apart from this, has any of your people been kidnapped? Yeah, one of them. A really good thief by the name of Morton. He went missing a few days ago. I don't like him. He's a cruel, mean son of a bitch, but he's a good thief and he's loyal.

But he went missing. And he's not the only one. We've had a bunch, but Morton was... And what are you doing about that? Trying to find them, but I got a bad history with some parts of this city, and so I've sent people out, but either they go missing or they don't find anything. So if you can send you down there and you can find... Moonraiser was my best shot.

I mean, trust me, I put the best person for the job, but it's not like them to just go missing like that. Seems we are... Objectives are aligned. Seems that we've been hired. So, with this in mind, may I... Hired is a strong word. Maybe mutually aligned. Is the, um...

Is the Guild Concierge available? We find ourselves needing perhaps a little bit more of a robust... robust outfit for this evening's soiree, so to speak. I mean, depending on what you're looking for. I can put you in contact with some supplies, yeah, for sure. I'll just absentmindedly go chink with the clink, clink, clink. Yeah, yeah, yeah. With the coins in my hand.

Clink, clink, clink. If it's equipment you're looking for, I can point you in the right direction. If it's bespoke tailoring, shall we say. I know a few people in the right direction if it's bespoke tailoring shall we say I know a few people in the city what do you think darling something in her arms perhaps yeah it's to look indeed yes we're all talking about the same thing right well I suppose our business here is concluded and we should head off to Joaquin's whatever it is. Rest?

Joaquin's Promenade. Promenade. That's where my mates just said they were heading and that's the last time I heard from them. There's other points of business. I mean, like I said, you're very interesting people and a group of six companions teleporting into the city gates and splitting off all around the city does get back to my ears

i think and she looks over and in the doorway um you see a human man maybe in his like 40s he looks more like a carpenter um he's even wearing kind of like an artisan's kind of gear but he looks in and he goes he like whistles and he says yeah they're moving in on the temple of sunni i think they're looking for their friends uh they've been chasing them ever since uh one of them got caught doing magic um everyone looks over to you it's like i think you better head to the temple of sunni just down the road one of your friends is about to get in a whole heap of trouble oh god all right you enjoy a most relaxing hair

will and gail uh you it's a wonderful facial scrub, maybe a little manicure as well. And you have a delightful time. You find out that the elven woman who's been sort of attending to you, Gael, her name is Sister Althea. She's been like attending to you. She's a priestess of Sunni. Tell me about it. Tell me about it.

I know. There's so many stories like that in this city. Oh, many. You should. We really should. Oh, bad day. You should. We really should, perhaps. Do you like wine? Do I? Yes, please.

Oh, we should go. I know a fantastic place up in the temple. Blah, blah, blah. And there's, like, this kind of thing. Will, like, I mean, like, who would, like, will, like, you know, there's all these different priests and priestesses that you could go to. Like, you've been probably enjoying the same things. Or would will basically excuse

himself and be like no I want to try and like get a move on like have you joined Galen yeah I'm trying to make haste with Gail yeah in that case as Gail is quite distracted this point can we'll make a perception check for me yes so this is d20 plus your perception skill 12 12 you you notice maybe i think with a 12 you notice just a tad too late but you do notice there is a kerfuffle at the entrance to the temple as you hear a couple of priests just like please this is a holy day we do not want any trouble but when you hear some things like this this is cowed wizards

business out of our way priest and you see the same wizard in the green robes and the gold master of the million robe sorry and the gold mask are flanked by a couple of guards, kind of step in, and they are like, find out! Find that one! I detected his magic in the city gates. And you see that he has, like, a crystal ball, and he's

got a crystal ball, and he's looking, and almost like, he's holding it up and examining people, almost like they're checking an an ID basically Like looking for someone's face and you immediately know it's Gael You catch a glimpse of just this fine cloth of brown hair A flash of purple on like the little scrying ball

But what's happened is I've had a shave, I've had a haircut And my robes are being washed and I'm wearing something else. And right now, that's the only thing that is keeping you from being discovered. Exactly. You're like, mid-shave, you've got the foam over here, so maybe it's like half done. And you're like in the robe, your robes are hanging to the side, and they are like scanning and looking around. But you've got maybe like, maybe Gale's current situation has bought you a few seconds. What does Will do?

I'm gonna say to Gale Gale Gale Sorry Cucumber water We need to get out of here now really yes yeah you look over gail as like will's kind of gesture you're like what's the big deal and then you see this like force of the count wizard making its way through

examining and your detect magic spell is going crazy like you can sense the immense magical power of these people but not right the source of the spell but not it doesn't look like these whoever this cow wizard is doesn't look like they're involved but it does look like they're on the hunt for you well it's happened before well what are we going to do I can't help but imagine that Gail's robe is like one of those really silk kimonos it's like completely open at the front it's way too short something's happening so yeah is there no oh this place is like there's almost like you guys probably have like moved back in like gail's having this spa treatment and there's like steam

from like a roman's bath back here so there's like a little bit of like mist there are people milling around um and there's definitely like there's columns you could try and sneak out of here or you can try and distract these guys and buy gals some time there doesn't look like there's really any exits apart from like the big main exit maybe there are like tucked away in the eaves and the sides but you've not seen them this mist is obscuring your vision a little bit as well so yeah I'm going to go and speak to them they're wizards I'm gonna speak to the wizards okay they see you and let's just say like do you have businesses and we're searching for someone

I'm gonna ask them. Who are you searching for? A fugitive they've been using arcane magic in the city and they show you though We do not know their name But this is what they look like and he shows you spins this orb But it is a perfect almost like image of Gale like a headshot like a kind of like, you know Is it like his cat's face? No, it doesn't have that but yeah, it does have that kind of like g like a kind of like you know it doesn't have that but yeah it does have that kind of like gormless kind of like like somebody's printed it

in 3d it shows you this they look like this have you seen them I'm going to say I saw that man running in that opposite direction okay give me a deception skill check okay a deception skill she's in your list of skills so what we roll in with yep plus three plus three my bad hmm 14 plus 3 17 I'm gonna pose this with his insight see if he can pick up that maybe there's something else going on here okay that's natural one he turns around he looks at you and he's like, Kelp wizards appreciate your support. And he turns around and he's like, guards, that way! And they just gesture and thing, and they begin scanning around,

running off in that direction. They're probably going to realise pretty quick that he didn't go that way, but you've definitely bought yourself enough time to get out of there, basically. So is that what you guys do? You want to book it immediately? Or gail like you know is there anything else i think i'm just going what did i miss yeah you're back in your room now putting my beautiful boots back on they're clean amazing maybe we should ask someone in this like wow that was close does this happen often?

What's been happening? Yeah. Well, you really impressed Sister Alfe. She kind of got the charms for you with your role. So she'll look over to you and say just like, unfortunately, yes, they are quite oppressive of any arcane magic use. We have to be very careful.

Luckily, the churches are protected, but if you need a quiet escape, I could help you. Oh, thank you. Yes, of course. That would be lovely. I can weave a temporary enchantment to disguise you and then simply make your way out and head out. Or I could cause a distraction. What do we do?

I think we should take the disguise. Let's do that. Let's take the disguise let's take the disguise well I can only perform it on one of you should I perform it on yeah and she'll kind of like oh she kind of looks over you and she'll weave her hand and you actually see that Gail it kind of retains your facial shape but you become this red-skinned tiefling with these like curved ram horns your outfit changes to be more like a mercenary soldier's kind of like chain mail with like a bandolier like a big greatsword as she weaves this illusion over the top of you and there's this moment where you see like it takes a second for her to kind of align them over each other so that they perfectly match up so there's this kind of shimmer and then she concentrates and then the two lock in place and you can see she's concentrating out this is a spell she has to maintain concentration on but

she's like i will be able to keep this up until just maybe the edges of the bridge district but not too much further um and then she kind of like gestures to you but yeah it basically kind of looks like a tiefling gale, but with longer hair and this kind of almost military, mercenary looking outfit. Kind of matches a bit more like what you wear, Will, that kind of like, you know, the brigadine and stuff like that. You kind of look like a pair of sellswords kind of thing.

That's a good look. Very pleased. And yeah, she gestures like out to the temple and you can see that like you know people are making their way out i'm gonna use this opportunity to escape and just get out all right yeah you guys make your way out you begin looking you can see the cow wizards and their god the cow wizards actually the cow wizard himself flies up into the air you see him levitate his robes kind of flapping as he takes like a bird's eye view and he's like scanning around looking around trying to see perhaps where you were

trying to gesture or where like gail might have gone um as you guys leave it's at this point probably carl i can stare and if you guys were like gonna run after and try and like get involved um you guys enter in like exit the five flagons and after a few moments you see will and a weird tiefling guy that he's with like some sort of other soldier are they like if they're like running we can like run alongside them and go hi will good you made it oh thank god you got rid of gail who's this where's who next yeah and you're like we've got a lead let's go unless there's anything you guys want to do I just call access hey soldier who's

your friend sorry this is yes yeah very kind of Geralt of Rivia style armor and then these big kind of curved wall that's like darker yeah probably it sounds like yeah very much I'll both your street Gail any reaction or just sort of despair I'm just gonna keep my eyes on the ground Just keep just keep moving. Hello. Hello Yeah, that'd probably be it yeah you get clued in on the boots right that's how the game is given away she that'd probably be it yeah you get clued in on the boots right that's how that's how the game gets given away she didn't disguise it probably need to get out of here right to make this because

we've only got a little bit of time i would love to basically jump ahead a little bit and we're gonna have the four of you eventually find the adventures mark find out about this thing and as you reach the adventures mark gail that is when you'll detect magic spell you begin to hint the tent the the sort of like you begin to get the the the slightest element of that unfound that foul magic that sort of unnatural magic but only because you've detected it before you think if you hadn't examined to have so well when that spell was like on them you would not have picked up on this you get like faint traces of it and it leads you into uh the uh the adventurous mark ballspawn experience um which is where you guys are in fact we're gonna jump back over to you guys now

um just to kind of uh wrap up this first part you guys uh enter that passageway that secret door that you had found in the back of this cloning vat room uh and it leads you down uh it there's a stairway once you move down the passageway there is this long spiraling stairway and the blood trails down it and the blood eventually begins to kind of like obviously whatever was being dragged it has run out of blood or it becomes like more spattered and sort of like you know it's bleeding less profusely um so it becomes less and less um still enough for you to follow as a trail but becomes less and less and it looks like bing bong like like after tasting it like can follow it like a like a like a like a bloodhound almost like kind of he's like told you he was used to puts his finger in it big bong and then like that

makes his way down uh it seems it seems like very thoughtfully kind of processing it um you eventually emerge into a long stone corridor with magical crystals embedded into like the walls you hear strange arcane machinery uh that's behind the walls embedded into it this heat and vibrations of something thrumming nearby. You also pick up Shadowheart, I think. And, Lazelle, what's your passive perceptions at the bottom of your sheet? It's an 11. An 11.

So you don't pick up on this, but Shadowheart does. You spy that a number of traps would have been set up in this corridor, but they've been disabled. Somebody has come in and has already disabled several of these traps um you see like trip wires pressure plates um magical arcane wards that would have like probably you know tried to blast you with magic but it's all been disabled um and then eventually you come across a crossroads in this kind of corridor um it splits off to the two side chambers um and on a path that leads to like where you can see this dungeon sort of collapses like some sort of earthquake or something has dislodged the earth and broken it away and then you see another section of the dungeon a bit further on

but as you do as you reach the crossroads you can see one of them has a door that has been ripped open like it looks like it's been burst open um there is signs of combat because inside a room in this to the side of this corridor you see a number of dead creatures you see a number of demons um a few creatures called methods which are like elemental kind of like flying uh conjured earth and magma and things like that um as well as one of those glass knights that you fought before and it's all broken into pieces but you recognize the face and the shield and inside this chamber you see a lot of this arcane machinery but you also see a kind of shimmering opaque dome and it seems to have sprung up from a ward on the

ground and inside the dome is a very injured looking drow elf. So these are the kind of purple, dark purple skin, white haired elf. They appear to be wearing this kind of green cloak. They're kind of nursing their side. They look pretty badly beaten up. They kind of look over to you as they kind of turn. And you see a very handsome male drow elf. It's kind of lavender eyes and kind of dark purple skin. And he just looks over to you and he just sort of says perhaps I have some rescuers to

thank perhaps I beg your assistance and he kind of like looks out and speaks very softly and like very intensely as he looks at you but that point is where we're going to end this first half of the episode. Wait, what? What? The D&D nerd has triggered. Oh my god, my character doesn't know this, but I know who the fuck that is.

And with that, we're gonna go to break and we'll see you in part two. Oh! Yeah! As we try and wrap up this little adventure. So we'll see you in a few minutes. Take care, everybody. We'll see you then.

Bye-bye.