High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: One-Shot | Darkest Before Dawn #2

Episode Date: July 23, 2020

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with medium-sized thinking that the room had rotated and she was stood on the ceiling and Bear wondering where on earth Bear's possessions had gone and accusing Reynard and medium of stealing

his wonderful halberd, Jerry. I guess we are stood in the middle of this game's room. It is dark. All the lights and the fireplace have gone out. It is lit by the torch that Bear is holding in his hand. You stand next to a small writing desk and a stiff armchair. And before you in the corner

sits a large chest with a large burnished mirror angled over the top of it. The sound of footsteps has dissipated for now. Books lie scattered on the floor where they were thrown at you. And, yeah, the card table

also looks rather disheveled, I think, in the scramble between Bear and Reynard. A few things have been upended and thrown all over the floor. What would you like to do? Oh, we need to get Boggins back in here to clear this up. Yes, knock for him. Oh, we need to get Boggins back in here to clear this up. Yes.

Knock for him. Also, was that Boris? Tell me to ask. Oh, sure. I can ask. Knock. Yes, knock. Boris?

That was good. There is a moment's silence. And then from the ceiling, the other side of the ceiling, you hear... Oh, what did he say? I think it was Boris. Hi, Boris. Nice to meet you. Nothing. We should be nice to them.

We should. We definitely should. Okay, well, we made a mess in here. And all the lights are off. Maybe the other rooms have lights still. Lights on. On lights. Lights. Lit lights. Should we move? Yes. We could go somewhere else. There's a hole upstairs.

Maybe we should try and go somewhere up there. Maybe we'll find more things. Well, that's where Boris was. Sure. Follow me, everyone. What a strapping of men taking initiative after being punched in the face.

So... Oh, yeah. You can go through the door. That's fine. You can go through the door. I'll allow it. So this is slightly further up the entrance hallway right yes so you uh fumble your way to the doorway um and when you open it you were almost kind of blinded a little bit by the light that floods in through this room especially as you've been

um in the darkness you are met with a sight that almost takes your breath away when you see it you enter this huge space and in the center of it an enormous mahogany staircase rises out of the center of the room spiraling up to the first floor it is flanked by two pillars that sit in adjacent corners of the room. They're intricately carved with woodland creatures at the base. And then they kind of go as the carvings arise, they turn into more mythical creatures. Dragons, owlbears, griffins, that sort of thing. And in fact, the owlbears and the dragons, their claws hold up, look as though they're holding up the first floor. However, the thing that draws your eye are these two enormous oak trees that sit in the opposite corners of the room.

It's almost impossible how they are here. They sit like gnarled old men hunched into the corners and in their branches are hundreds of candles that are melted into the branches um and they're all lit so there are pin pricks of light that sparkle and reflect off the walls and that's what why this room is so bright um the room smells of wax and bark and moss and if you pause there's a quiet sound of chittering and short flurries of movement that can be heard from the branches this is absolutely wonderful. Mesmerizing. I didn't even describe it to you yet. Oh, I sensed it already.

Oh, of course. Yes, I had a good look around in the future. Oh, right. Then I got a hacksaw. Wouldn't mind one of these trees in my garden back at home. Not on me. What a shame. Delightful though.

Maybe we should wait until the morning before you try and cut trees down. It's not our house yet. Wait until you own the place. I mean, you probably won't because you're going to go a bit crazy before then. But we'll see.

Crazy? No. I mean, look at that one. I'll point at the dragonborn bear. Where's it? Oh, help me. I'm on the ceiling. You don't know what that was like. Everything upside down.

You don't know what losing a halberd's like. Well, I wouldn't want one in the first place. Very unwieldy. Cuts your elbows off and I can't... That one's as much as mine anyway. Oh. Oh. Well, let's go up the stairs, shall we? shall we okay sunshine i think they are slowly losing it

now i can guarantee you that you don't have the mental fortitude like a mind palace like i do but you're definitely faring better than they are i think we should stick together yeah you're all crazy i'm just i'm i'm fine on my own, really. But yeah! Let's be friends! You deserve that. I did not deserve that. Did you know that your head is bleeding quite a bit?

Not mine. You're like dripping. Dodged it. He dodged it. Bare and medium. Bare, you're... Your head's, like, bleeding quite a bit. Oh, I didn't even notice. Oh, okay.

I'll just sort that out. I guess. I don't know. Maybe. It's fine. Okay. Yeah, okay, I guess. I don't know. Maybe. It's fine. Okay. Yeah, okay, I agree. The Dragonborn's definitely losing it now. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

It's completely mad. We should be wary of that one. What are we talking about? Nothing. We're talking about going upstairs, medium-sized. Well, let's do it then. Stop chattering away, all secretive. I already know what you're going to say. What are we going to say?

I don't know. Stop it, Buckland. I don't know. It just came to me. Why would I say a thing like that? Anyway, up we go okay oh sorry follow me so as you begin to ascend this enormous

spiral staircase you walk up and you become more level with these branches which stretch and reach for the ceiling. And yeah, you can see this. There are just hundreds of candles here sitting in the branches. And if you look as you're walking up, you see a little squirrel just scutter out from a hole in the trunk, give you a look, scutter back into a hollow in one of the trees.

And yeah, do you carry on up the stairs? Halfway up the stairs. Yeah, how high up is the second floor to the first one? Is it like super, super high roofs and ceilings even? Yeah. Okay. So it's probably

the second floor, the first floor is about halfway up the room, the height of the room, but the room itself is huge, like absolutely huge, but it kind of almost doesn't feel like that because these two trees are just filling the space with their branches the candles

so up we pop we're going to do a little map change everybody oh oh ding-dong Round two. Up top. There you are. Found it. There you are. Nice. So you're probably all on the stairsies. Yeah. Yeah, and as you get to the top of the staircase, you hear a horrible wheezing. It turns out it's coming from medium. And you become more level with the tops of these branches and um medium yes sorry are you sure you're not a ghost because i feel like you're you're

very close to to death if not dead already and you're making some noises i'm always close to death if not dead already and you're making some noises I'm always close to death okay oh god here I you thought you were on the ceiling before I'm just wondering if

you just didn't know look I'm very tangible see and I punch Reynard in the face again no ow full on haymaker disadvantage because you've got a bleeding head

disadvantage so you've got a bleeding head we'll take the crit sure another two damage. Why are you so good at those? Not a ghost. Definitely not a ghost. Okay, a ghost couldn't do that. Yeah, you're right. It's really good at punching,

it turns out. Very good. Yeah. I never see where it comes from. It's impressive, at punching, it turns out. Very good. Yeah. I never see where it comes from. It's impressive, I'll be honest. Thank you. So as you bicker at the top of this float of stairs, you see the tops of these branches, and you can see there are little birds here.

There are magpies kind of watching you curiously from the branches, kind of bobbing their little heads as they watch you. And there is, in fact, for such a grand space, there is actually only one door that you can see in the bottom left corner. Okay. Follow me The door opens up into a small hallway There's nothing very remarkable about it. Again, there are more

scandalous paintings here There are three doors. One to your right, one straight ahead, and one to your left. Hmm. Which one looks the least evil of the doors? They all look equally evil.

Ah. I knew it. I don't know where to go. I'll go. You pick. I could knock on each of the walls in which everyone doesn't get us a knock back. Maybe it's safer.

Now, is this a door language knock or a ghost language knock? Both. Because we want to know that we're talking to the doors to ask it to allow us in not to talk to the ghosts to say that we're trying to attack them knock on the door knock on the door

what the hell are you talking about I don't know I'm preparing for a sanity roleplay for a little bit later that's what it's going to be like there is a silence and a distant knock

ow from the room to your right Ow. From the room to your right. Okay. Sorry, yeah. So as you've entered, it's the room... This bloody room here. The north.

Okay, okay. The north. The northern room. The north door., okay. The north. The northern room. The north door. That one got knocked. The other one didn't. So? Go south, then.

Unless you want to meet them. Do we want to meet a ghost? I think we're probably going to meet them anyway. I think we're going to meet a ghost. Hmm. True. Okay, follow me. Open the door.

Okay, so you open up the door and you are met by, actually, a quite small room that is filled with shelves that run from the floor to the ceiling. Each bookcase is filled with leather-bound books. And the air feels actually quite dry in here and very, very dusty.

Your nose starts to wrinkle as you enter. And to the left of the doorway is a small writing desk covered in papers. There's an open book. There's various quills and a dry ink pot. And to the right is a statue, a statue, a suit of armor. Okay, everyone, watch out. Books! There's books in here. Terrifying. Knowledge.

I'll be able to dodge them like before. But you know. Head towards the writing desk and have a look at that book. Or does the statue start to all look at me weirdly again? Stupid statues. Maybe we could just find the deed to this place and, uh, change the name.

And forego this whole waiting till dawn malarkey. I don't think that the ghosts will be very happy if we just stole the house. I think we have to win it fair and square, otherwise they're probably gonna kill us. Or we we just stole the house. I think we have to win it fair and square, otherwise they're probably going to kill us. Oh, we could just destroy the objects they're bound to.

Okay, where are those? Well, I don't know. I'd prefer to just make friends with them. Yes? Think about it. If you win this house

then Boris is going to be helping you keep it safe like if someone comes to steal things no no no Boris is on it I'm an advocate for making friends with the ghosts well I wish you all the best

I like Boris he keeps him on my toes Well, I wish you all the best. I like Boris. He keeps him on my toes. If it was Boris that threw books at us anyway. We don't know for sure. So what are you doing? Arrange yourselves in the room as you see fit. I'm going to rifle through the desk. Yeah. I'm waiting for the statue to start looking at me weirdly.

Okay. So, Medium, you begin rifling through the desk. And actually, you find... So it's a lot of crinkled yellowed pieces of paper um some nonsense um some some little bits of mythology you know quotes from books that have been written out and circled um but the thing that catches your eye is a wrinkled uh crumpled piece of paper that when you unfurl it and look at it it has a curious little riddle upon it.

In fact, I'll show it to everyone. You may read it out as you see fit. So, yeah. see fit so yeah you reading that medium yes this book is all strange oh wait

no it's got a note it's a note it's not a full book it's about a book some sort of siblings of a diary or a journal entry someone saw an unusual book the forward comes after the epilogue the end is in the first half of the book

the index comes before the introduction what is the book it's a riddle it's a riddle I get it it's a riddle uh hmm the foreword comes after the epilogue the end is in the first half of the book the index comes before the introduction what is the book a mess written very poorly a dictionary wait wait it is

it is the index of all the words no it's an alphabetical like four words four epilogue, end is... That's it. It's a check point. Oh my god, you're right.

I can't believe I think you got that. It's a two. Well, so of that one, i throw the note okay well room solved let's leave that was fun is there is there a dictionary lying near it or near or around no doesn't this room there doesn't appear to be anything on the desk. Do you go searching in the library? Should we look for a dictionary? Yes.

Why not? I'll do the dictionary. That's where you'll find it. Thank you for that. I'll look for a dictionary okay so um while i guess uh you go and look for dictionary tom does reynard still linger by the statue i just need to know for reasons uh i mean i'm waiting for it when anyone moves towards anything of even slight importance i'm ready for the statues to light up and start ready to draw their sword again.

So yeah, I'll keep watch on the statue. How close to the statue are you? I'm like by the door, so I guess like five feet away. I think Bear strikes right next to it. Yeah, me is Bear lurking. Bear's like flexing in front of it just being like oh i could take him he's got nothing on me perfect as bear starts flexing in front of this statue

you notice actually the foot the the metal foot boot of this statue starts to rattle and shake. And almost in response, one of the gauntlets, the opposing gauntlet, starts to flex and, like, yeah, close and open and flex. Can you and Raynard, who I'm guessing is staring at this, make some sanity checks for me, please? Oh, okay. Yeah, go nuts.

Yeah. Uh-oh. Rhiannon. 15 for Reynard. Okay, Reynard. Rhiannon, roll me another d20, please. Oh, boy. Goddamn.

15. 15. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. So how would you react to this movement?

I'd probably look at Reynard and just point at him and go, Hey, look! Look at him! He thinks he can take me! Look at him! He's trying! Everyone stop moving! The statue's moving again! Go for the thing! Sure. If I manage to get the whispering right on this one. Yes, there's a little message for you, Rhiannon, on roll 20. No.

Now how would you react, Rhiannon? I like how, as well, Rhi has the highest sanity stat and she's the one who's going like mad. Second failure. You're one away from being totally insane. One away. Yeah. So what happens Rhi? What does happen?

There's so much ground! What the... Oh, no! What do you mean there's so much ground? It's all I can see. My head's fallen off. I can see the bodies right there. I'm on the... You're so tall.

I didn't think you'd be so tall for such a teenage boy, but here you are towering above me. Everyone's towering above me. I'm not used to this perspective. I'll be honest. Am I close to your head? Am I close to your head? I'll pick you up.

Don't come any closer. You are going to stand on me. Please do not stand on me. Okay, okay. I'll stand back. I just want to pick up your head. Okay, okay, okay. I'm right by the stat. You can see me, right? You can see the leg. I'm right by the leg. I'm right there. Okay. Okay. Oh wait, no, I'm going under one of the chairs. Wait, no, I'm rolling away. What? No. No.

Oh no, I'm going under. Sunshine Medium, pick up the head. I'm going. Should we step up? Oh no, I'm going under! Sunshine Medium, pick up the head! I'm going under! Should we stop him? There's no head! Bear's head is on his head. It is on his shoulders.

What's going on? You don't know. I'd tap him in the head to show him, but I can't reach it, so... Oh, oh, um... I'm out. Okay. Could you still move your body? Let me try, hang on.

And I'm straining, and I'm trying to get my arms to just wiggle a little bit. I don't get punched in the face again, do I? Punch me in the face. Again? That's three for three. Roll an attack roll. Yeah.

That's another natural 20. That was an eight. Yeah, that was late. Oh man, you are cursed by the roll 20 gods today, Rhi. Hey, I dod dodge another punch Can't dodge medium sized though First you lose your Helmet and then

You lose your own head She's going mad She's losing her head Oh wait I get it now Get it? So as Bear is screaming and panicking and

rolling like just I guess rolling around and flailing and all that the statue starts to shake again and start shake more and more violently and yeah I'm guessing you're all kind of clustered near so you've been drawn to bear

mhm mhm so Yeah, I'm guessing you're all kind of clustered near, so you've been drawn to bear. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So, Sunshine and Medium-Sized, could you make some sanity checks for me, please? So, d20 plus your mod. I need to make a second one. I noticed that one of... Sorry.

One of my racial traits is brave, and I have advantage on saving throws against being frightened. Does that apply in this situation? Go on, then. As a halfling? I don't know. Go on, then. I'm just curious. I just find it funny that I looked at my features and traits,

and it's called brave. You have advantage on saving throws against being frightened. I'd say no. It's a sanity thing, so it's not on saving throws against being frightened. Let's say no. It's a sanity thing, so it's not such that you've been frightened. It's like, weird stuff is happening. I rolled a natural 20 and I'm not lying.

Do you want me to take a picture? I'll take a picture of it. It's fine. I'm going to do it anyway, because you're not going to believe me. I'm not cheating. No, no, that's what I'm saying. do it anyway because you're not going to believe me I'm not cheating that's what I'm saying if you were no exactly I haven't had any insanity yet

noticing the shaking statue yeah well you've probably been drawn there by bear flailing around and you see the statue shaking so can you make a uh sanity sanity save for me please okay big up i'm not lying i see it i see it oh that'll be because chat thinks chat will probably think i'm lying yeah well medium size is insane. This is actually only the second failure.

Do you want to roll again? Yeah, roll again. Actually, yeah. 18. 18? Okay, okay. Like injury safe in your mind. Yeah.

I don't know whether high numbers are good or bad. Oh, God. I've got no idea. Oh, God. Oh, God. High numbers are good or bad. I've got no idea. Oh, God. Oh, God.

It's what I've rolled that might be the problem. Uh-oh. Oh, dear. Oh, dear. So, Medium, you see this. You come over to see what the fuss bearers make. The dragonborn is being weird again. What the hell is going on?

And then you see the statue rattle and shake and the arm raise up and wave and reach for you and the foot kick out. And it's terrifying. You don't understand what is happening here. And something in your head just goes wrong. What is happening here? And something in your head just goes wrong. And this is the hallucination that takes over your terrified little mind. Give me the head. Give me that man's head.

Give me the head. Pry it open and eat your... Give me your thoughts and memories. I'm going to eat it open and eat your What? Give me your thoughts and memories I'm going to eat Give it Give me the brain I'm going to eat your memories What?

What? Where is it? She's gone Is it time? Should we knock her out? Should we just knock her out and run? What do we do? I'll punch her. I think you should. I think it's time to punch her.

I'm going to start Reynard's head to try and get to his brain. I'm like pushing my medium-sized back with one arm. Better? I guess that's...

I'm going to grab's medium-sized leg. I'm going to grab onto medium-sized leg and just try and go no! No! Boom. I would say if you're doing that, Katie, I would say that's probably a disadvantage, Trot, because you now have a halfling

that is grabbing onto your leg. Oh my god! Driven because you now have a halfling that is grabbing onto your leg. Oh, my God. Driven by this need to feed on delicious brains, you barely notice as the halfling attaches herself to your leg and you lurch towards Reynard and grab his face, his head, his brains. What happened? I'm gonna use the two wands that I've got, the magic missile one and the conducting one to try and like stab him into his temples. Jesus!

You're gonna get to your brains. So you're not gonna use the magic you're just gonna physically stab him into his head like stab him in i guess that would be like maybe i don't know what role to make um i guess like improvised bludgeoning i don't know yeah i i think i feel like it would be bludgeoning right because they're not sharp enough to pierce the skin unless he really goes for it. I only rolled a three. It's fine.

Only a three. Okay. Yeah, Reynard, you are horrified as Medium starts trying to stab you with these two wands. You don't need it all. I do. It's too much for just you.

Punch. You're going to punch me off. I want to get this freaking old lady trying to stab me and eat the side of my face. Bear, what's going on with you? Well, these two are tussling. What's happening with you, Bear? I'm just under a chair.

Just like I'm stuck under a chair. And I can't get out. And all I see is the underside under a chair. Just like I'm stuck under a chair. And I can't get up. And all I see is the underside of a chair. I fall in and I can't get up. And so I come under this chair and you're all making so much noise. What's going on? Can I set Noodle the tiny snake on medium sized like there's no snake just

wrap itself around your neck or something i don't know it's not a very big snake though no yeah it's quite a small snake it's more of a distraction okay i can't go noodle of a distraction. Okay. Noodle, go! Noodle, get out! I guess it would be a strength. Oh yeah, Reynard has punched the crap. So roll damage, Tom. Three. What's your full damage on a

normal hit? That wasn't a crit. That was... Oh, it wasn't a crit. Okay. So, panicked, Reynard just lashes out and socks Medium's size right in the nose. Oh, ow. Oh, I'm so sorry. Don't eat my brain.

What's on my leg? I'll eat its brain. Meanwhile, this tiny snake. So, I'm guessing, Katie, you're still wrapped around Medium's leg, even though the snake is trying to climb. Yeah. So I guess you turn your attention to sunshine. I turn my attention to the snake and try and eat the snake's brain.

Don't you eat noodles. It's not an actual noodle. It's a snake. No. It's going to be an attack roll. It's going to noodle! It's the snake! No! It's gonna be an attack roll! It's gonna be an attack roll! What's noodles, um, AC? I don't actually know what

kind of snake noodle is, so I need to... Yeah. Because I don't know, it's a companion, so I don't know what a ranger companion snake would be. I mean, a poisonous snake has 13, so you've already beaten that. And this is a tiny snake.

Let's pick the poisonous snake. So you hit it. One damage. One biting damage. That is half of its hit points gone. Wow. So, yeah, so medium-sized just sinks her teeth, her rotten, horrible teeth, into this tiny snake.

And it flails. And you still didn't kill it. Cursed creature. Just let me eat your brains. Noodle, come back. Noodle, come back. Oh, my God. Tasty noodles! You're all mad. Not a real noodle!

It's a danger noodle. Don't bite it! No! Bear, go ahead, Bunket. Hungry for brains. I would say at this point, the hallucination recedes, and yeah Bear you find yourself lying underneath

a chair your head is back where it should be okay you two are losing your minds we need to find the dictionary that's what the riddle pointed us towards the dictionary you can go and go your own directions if you need to but me sunshine and the danger noodle oh no wait maybe not the danger noodle

uh we're gonna go do our own thing directions if you need to, but me, Sunshine and the Danger Noodle... Oh, no, wait, maybe not the Danger Noodle. We're going to go do our own thing. Did you take the Danger Noodle back? I did take the Danger Noodle back. Sitting on my shoulder now. But you are going to get us all killed. Just stroking it. I'm going to go back to looking for looking for

the dictionary. Yeah, you can search the room, but medium sized is still sort of weirdly lurching around, just sort of like so. Hold it down. I'm going to go find a dictionary. We can hit her over the head

with the dictionary. Yes, use books. Like the Harris did on us. On you three, anyway. Give them to me now. Oh, Sunshine, here's all the books. I'll just try and try and hold

medium-sized back. Probably not doing that. Give me your tiny snake's brain. I'm hungry. You're disgusting. You're horrible. You don't deserve this house. I'm kicking you out. If it's a tie, then I'm kicking you out.

Sunshine, there's no way. There's no way it's a tie, then I'm kicking you out. Sunshine, there's no way. There's no way you'd die. You would kick her out, right? You would kick her out. We have to kick her out. There's no way. She's gone insane. Yeah, she's punched me twice.

Almost three times. Oh, no, wait, that was Bear Strike. How do I look for this dictionary no I dodged that perception check perception perception how high is my perception oh wow it's fourth out

no no wait it's not quill 24 natural 20 though wow okay I think driven by this need to just get the hell like what just you're done you're done you turn and look at the bookshelves at the back of the room and your eyes just narrow in on a central bookcase and in the center of the central bookcase is um so so while the other books are quite dusty and if you've been opening them they make you sneeze this book actually looks fairly clean and very dust free as you approach um the back of the room and this bookcase

you start picking up this stench of this rotten smell that I could only politely say smells of rotten eggs and sulfur. Oh! Seems to be coming from the back of the bookcase. How books smell.

Can I cast Charm Person on Sunshine, please? Oh my god. I was about to say that the effect has probably ended. Do you think that's about 10 minutes? So these hallucinations last for 10 minutes. So would you say that's 10 minutes? Stabbing me either side of the head, eating a danger noodle.

I think they've got another five minutes in them. Another five minutes? Go ahead then, Trot. Cast Charm Person. It's a wisdom saving throw of 13. more than 18 plus 2 is 20. give me that little sneaky give it come on no you're so weird i have. Do you want a piece of bread?

You cannot have noodle. You're not eating noodle. No. Can I get up from around the leg and just jump and like swap medium sized in the nose.

Like, down. No. Like, just a swap. Do you want to hurt? Like, do you want to hurt medium? Or do you know, like, down! No! Like, just a slap. Do you want to hurt medium, or like Reynard is, just slapping her around? Or do you want to... Just a slap, just a batter out of the way. I guess.

But I have to jump and swipe to do it. If you're jumping, then I guess acrobatics? Maybe an acrobatics check? Okay. Oh no, I rolled a one! So that's four. I guess like acrobatics, like maybe an acrobatics check. Okay. Group on the snoop. Oh no, I rolled a one. So that's four. Well, you missed entirely.

And you fall, you just, yeah, you fall in a heap on the floor. You kind of, yeah. Medium is too erratic that you're just, you don't know where to like, where her face is going to be. And she manages to sidestep just as you reach and you just fall on the floor. Somebody come over here and swat her in the face. I can't reach.

And at this point I would say the hallucination lifts. Awkward. Did I try and eat all of your brains? Just there. Noodle. Bit noodle.

Awkward. Double bond with me. What? Yeah, you tried to like meat spear him. It was weird. Yeah. Like a bear scrap wood. My bad.

Sorry. Didn't mean to. I punched you in the nose. Oh, that's what all the blood is in my mouth for and from your eye yeah and my eye you need to clean that up it'll dry off

it's fine I look like a mess I've eaten a snake there's snake blood in my mouth your nose is bleeding your eyes are bleeding I've eaten a snake. There's snake blood in my mouth. Yeah, if you want to poison a snake. And you pissed yourself.

And I pissed myself. What do you take away from insanity? Write a book, Reynard. Yes, I'll pick up the dictionary. So you reach for the dictionary, but it doesn't come out from the shelf. You pull it forward, and then it sticks, and there's a clunk, and then it slowly pulls back.

Heavy book. And the bookshelf starts to swing forward. It's just a bit stuck I've lost all Lookie Found a room Oh Good job strapping I didn't Totally try to eat Your brains

Let's go No you didn't Stay away from me But do follow me I just want you on the other side of the room It stinks Sunshine is probably gonna stick with Raynard because

you know he's the only one that's not insane I'll keep watch I'll keep watch from anyone else out here we're doomed so as you cram into this tiny corridor

it's filthy. It's full of thick, sticky webs. It's very dark in here. But it's small enough that you can see to the left is a door. And to the right are a short flight of stairs that end... Well, actually, it ends in a wall. But the stench... The stairs go up.

That stench of rotten eggs and sulfur is strong here. And it gets stronger towards the right-hand side. Towards the top of the stairs. Delicious. So, stairs or door? You probably... I can squeeze in. Come on, move aside. Oh, good. Okay.

Well, we've got stairs, we've got a door. Where do you want to go? Well, I say stairs. Stairs? Not quite. I mean, they are stairs. They're not stairs, you know? Just take the damn stairs. I can't. There's a wall there.

That's what I'm saying it must be another secret have a feel around on a truck try the wall medium okay gonna try the wall the right-hand style is the Man, I really misaligned the grid on this map. Oh, well. Just slipping through the wall there. Yeah, so you are... First of all, you have to push your way through these really thick, sticky webs, and they cling to your hair, to your clothes.

It's not very pleasant as they brush your face. Just add it to the layers of crap on me. Yeah, you're getting filthy. You are filthy. You're a filthy little human. And yeah, you can see in front of you, it just appears to be a wall. It's a wall.

Oh, weird. I'm going to feel around the edges, see if there's any grooves, indentations. See if I can pass through it, because I think I might actually be a ghost. So I'll test that theory in my mind. Yeah, so you reach out and you start feeling around. around and then you notice that

that your hand actually goes through the wall but then it kind of just almost immediately as your fingers start to go through it kind of hits up against something solid I'm a ghost I called it

I told you look my hand passes to a point through here ghost. I called it. I told you this was... Look! My hand passes to a point through here. Great. Can you not go all the way through? No. Keep going. I guess I'm only part ghost.

There must be something here. I'm going to put my head in to see if I can see what's behind this. So you push your head forward, and just as the crown of your temple kind of goes through, again, like just about the same distance, your head just bangs against something solid. Hmm.

Hmm. What is this? Well, you keep trying the wall, medium, and we'll try the door. You enjoy. Bye now. I'll keep feeling around in this like illusion of something for anything

I can grip onto or push. Well, my love, you definitely find something to grip onto. About halfway up the door you find a handle. Oh! It's a fake ball an illusion I found the handle or something stiff and firm that I can twist I know she's lost it okay enjoy

where are you going I'm going to try the actual door I'm going to try the actual door. I'm going to open the door. On my side. Yeah. So I guess at the same time, you both open the doors at the same time. Tom, as Raynard turns the handle, the door opens partially and then just bangs up against something you hear a kind of um a thunk on the other side and you can't open the door any further um with the amount of pressure

that you're putting on it um you can just about see um you know kind of a dark red floor, wooden floor. And you can smell, you can start to smell this kind of heavy jasmine perfume. You remember, actually, you kind of had a similar, you smelt similar when Annabelle, when you were near Annabelle earlier. Trot, when you turn the door, turn the handle, the door, well, you feel the handle turn down and click and the door pushes open the the illusion of the wall is still in place but you are hit by a waft of sulfur like it stinks it reeks you wretch you feel sick you feel nauseous feel sick you feel nauseous

this is rancid don't go anywhere near this door we've been telling you that you smell for a while now but you won't do anything about it it's just so much worse with this door open it's a wall this is a door

you nincompoop it's not deserving door! Oh, you nincompoop. Did not deserve it. Smell the house toilet, my late husband. Rest in pieces. How long, please? How long? Okay. Well, perfume this way. Wall that stinks up there. Look, touch the wall!

Touch it. I think it might be Boris. The smell? Boris! Boris! Again, a moment's pause and then you hear the telltale three knocks coming

from where the stench of sulfur is emitting from. And it sounds close. It sounds closer than it's ever sounded before. Oh. I'll go through the wall then. I stand aside. I've opened the door just walk on through on you go

go on me? fine follow me plug your nose oh you ascend the stairs Pluck your nose. Oh. You ascend the stairs and

pass through this illusion. You think for a minute, well, this isn't possible. The lady's batshit crazy. And you almost expect yourself to hit your face against the wall. But no, you pass through, I test the waters a bit and I just walk face first.

Eh. I just go to town on that wall. Uh-oh. I'm running. Oh, we found a terrific room. You find yourself upstairs. You find yourself

in an attic space. Oh dear, dear, dear, dear, dear. Um, it is not a pleasant sight that you find in front of you. Um, no. There is

a dining table in the middle of this room. Richly decorated. A similar scene to what you guys encountered earlier in the evening. The tablecloth, the crockery. There's even plates of food, although the food is moldy and rotten, and maggots crawl across the table. Sitting in the chairs around the table are several bodies, cadavers that have been embalmed and preserved.

Their skin has yellowed and hangs taut on the bones, stretched and thin, nails blackened and torn. The hair looks strange. blackened and torn. The hair looks strange. It looks scratchy, as if made from straw. Eyes shine strangely in the darkness. And they've been posed around the table to look as though they are alive and taking part in a luxurious dinner party.

Each person is dressed in beautiful gowns and suits some of which look similar to the fashions that the laurens were wearing earlier strange magic symbols have been etched into the floor with a weird paste that gives off a faint red glow and at the far end of the room sits two simple thrones. One of them has the body of an older, once handsome man. He sits in the right-hand seat while the left one is empty. And he wears a simple crown of bronze leaves. The room stinks. It smells of rot and decay.

stinks. It smells of rot and decay. And as you enter the space, your stomach turns and roils and you can feel bile rise in your throat, stinging. Your eyes begin to sting

with the sheer revulsion of what is happening here. All of you need to make a sanity check. And the DC is higher for this one oh no but it's higher uh it's okay because i'm gonna get a natural 20 10 oh no two oh Oh, God. Oh! Fourteen? This breaks medium-sized. I've got a sixteen. I've got a eleven. Sixteen, okay.

Sixteen, eleven, and a fourteen. Okay. Oh, dear. Yeah. Trots. What was it again? Sorry, Katie? Huh? What was your roll, Katie? Fourteen. trots what was it again sorry um katie huh

i was 14 14 and then tommy you failed as well um can you all roll a d20 for me please okay 19 14 19 14

okay we all suffer we all fail 19 14 19 14 okay we all suffer we all fail three of you failed oh so bear's fine 19 so we've got 19

uh yeah bear's fine sorry uh an eight on the edge okay so tom i shall see to Thomas first.

Oh, good. Please do. Let's see what happens to Errini. Errini! On seeing this haunted room. What the hell? Pretty messed up. Yeah.

Whoever came up with this... Yeah. Seriously wrong on them this Yeah Yeah definitely It's fine It's fine RP amongst yourselves while I sort this out Turns out a lot of you Don't like the sight of this

No Okay Fair enough I got mine Uhhhh... Hmmmm... Okay, okay, alright. Fair enough. I got mine. I decided I don't want the house anymore. I don't want the house anymore. You can have it. I can just leave it to you guys. What? What? Sorry?

Sunshine! Sunshine! Sunshine! Medium? Bear! Bear! What? Sorry? Sunshine. Sunshine. Medium? Medium. Hello? Hello. Hi. Hello. Can you hear me?

My hello. What? Yes? Yes? Yes. Unfortunately, yes. What? Yes? Yes? Yes. Good. Big nods. What is that?

Not good. Yes. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're going to. This is really bad. This is really bad. We should leave. We should leave.

It's everywhere. It's everywhere. I don't like it. I don't like it. We should leave. We should just go. We should go. We should go.

No, no, no. No, no. Not safe. Not safe. Not safe. Not safe. Okay. Blood. So much blood. You want to leave? Okay. We can drown in it. There's just so much. There's so much. No, we have to go. I have to go. Go further in. No, I'm going. I'm leaving. I have to go. I have to go.

Huge people. No, not all of you. This is where I have to go. I have to go. Huge people. No, not all of you. This is weird. I have to go, I have to go. Sunshine is going to climb on top of Bear Strout's shoulders to try and get off the floor. Oh, is there something I see? No, no, no, no, no.

I need to get high up. I need to get high up. This is making me very uncomfortable. I have to uncomfortable. Please. I have to go. Please, just let me stay up here. You can go outside. No, I can't stay here.

I need to... No. Oh, my God. What's happening? Can you see the huge people? No, what's up there? What are you talking about? It's just blood. One's got blonde hair and a beard.

One has some glasses. And they're rolling rolling It's just blood It's just blood Can I stay up here? Can we leave the room? Walk out the room Yes, everyone is very quiet Everyone's very quiet

Why? Humans are controlling us Okay, medium's gone mental Sunshine's gone mental quiet everyone's very quiet strait why humans are controlling us okay mediums gone mental sunshine is gone man you've gone deaf for some reason what I've done don't touch the walls don't touch the walls bear don't touch that you're too close to the wall don't touch the wall I have not been trained enough to deal with these situations this is not a Dragonborn handbook of situations to be a part of. This is not how we do things.

Oh my god. Which is what we do, Pierce? Is that what you said? Did you say which is what we do, Pierce? I'm going to go this way and I'm going to point to the middle of the room. I'm going to go over to this... I'm going over here.

No, you're going... I'll get off. If Bear is moving further into the room, I'm going to go over to this. I'm going over here. No, you're going for it. I'll get off. If Bear is moving further into the room, I'm getting off. You found it, dear. And moving back out. No, no, no, no. Oh, my God. Go, go, go.

No. Why are you wading through it? You're wading through all the blood. No, don't do that. It's horrible. There's no blood. It's everywhere. It is everywhere.

I'm going cast magic missile what are you doing what are you casting magic missile on one of each of the people I'm gonna use my three charges to fire at the party it's a big human oh dear

um three individual bolts three bolts Oh dear. Three individual bolts, sure. Three bolts. God. Three bolts. One in six spots. It just hits, doesn't it? Does it just hit or is it an attack throw?

No, it's a d4. Just guaranteed hit. So in the middle of this chaos in this disgusting foul awful room um you see uh bear just trying to stomp away trying to make sense of this madness that he sees before him sunshine is clambering over, desperately trying to keep off the floor. Raynard is wandering around in the gloom, just kind of screaming, Hello? Hello? Why can no one... You know, just screaming at the top of his lungs. Also trying to badly lip read.

Medium-sized is babbling something about giant humans looking down, something about giant dice being rolled, strange instructions. No. down something about giant dice being rolled strange instructions and then she pulls out the wand the one that she was given earlier by the Lorenzes

and aims to fire all three of you it all makes sense as as the magic channels down the wand and reaches the tip it fizzles and bursts and slams back Into medium-sized and she is she becomes enraptured in

fits of manic laughter And she collapses Laughing and laughing and laughing and that's when the wand the carvings on the floor, laughing and laughing and laughing. And that's when the carvings on the wand reveal themselves. It changes to something completely different and then snaps and breaks. And then you hear the door slam shut. And all the door slam shut. And all the lights go out.

Oh, shit. And that is where we are going to end things for today. What, really? Oh, yeah. Unfortunately, my loves, it's come up to, we've got about 10, 12 minutes to go. And I managed to drive one of you completely insane. So me being sized, lost the challenge, has been driven absolutely mad. Obviously, if we had more time, there was more that I have planned.

So sorry for everybody out there. there was more that I have planned. So sorry for everybody out there. We could treat this as a cliffhanger and we could return to this another time. There is a lot of stuff none of you have explored because in true Kim fashion, in true Kim fashion, I massively over-prepared.

She's written a book. I was going to say, there was like four rooms on the bottom floor we didn't look at. We only looked at one rooms on the bottom floor we didn't look at we only looked at one room on the second floor and there was a lot of things you didn't find there was a lot of things that would have helped you i have had to improvise a few bits and pieces i've had to change a few bits and pieces just because i didn't want you to end in the corridor so that

little corridor actually was guarded by um a spell calledards and Wards which would have made it difficult. So it fills the place with fog, it locks all the doors with arcane lock, you would have gotten stuck in the webs. But I wanted you to get to the attic. I thought that would be a really good place to end rather than just stuck in the corridor. So yeah,

I have changed a few bits and pieces. There were things that you could find. There were there were passwords there were other artifacts around the house um don't spoil at all yes we could return i think we we will leave our adventurers one completely insane um in this room of absolute horror. Well done. Yeah, very, very cool. I hope you had a lot of fun. And a small little plug,

if you guys out there are interested in running this for yourself, I have actually written the notes up in a lovely PDF. I've exported all the maps as well. I used Dungeon Draft to make the maps. So if you're interested in running this for yourself or you want to see what other things were hidden,

it's up on my Patreon, just Nanosounds. So yeah, feel free to give a look. There's some other D&D stuff there as well. But yeah, enjoy. Let me know how your one-shot goes. Thank you. Thank you, Kim. You couldn't tell I was nervous as hell.

I'm now going to have a shower because I sweated like three pints of nerve sweat. Oh, yeah. Holy crap. You owned it. Good job. But thank you for joining us, everybody. I hope you enjoyed tonight. a shower because I sweated like three pints of sweat nerve sweat crap you owned it good job thank you for joining us everybody

I hope you enjoyed tonight be safe out there and we'll see you next week goodbye goodbye