High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: One Shot | Infernal Asylum #2 (Part 2)

Episode Date: October 25, 2018

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Check the description of this episode to see all the great stuff they have to offer, including a code to get 25% off your digital purchases. In the final part of this one-shot, the party break into the nurses' quarters and find the source of all this madness. Hello and welcome back to the infernal asylum. Our intrepid group of players, they are just about to open the door to the nurses' quarters. How do you guys feel about your survival chances

round about now? 10 out of 10. I mean, I got Jerry. It's just a lich, right? Just a lich. Liches get stitches. I said that before the break. Wasn't a break.

Yeah. We laughed though. They were making some lich jokes the whole break. Yeah. Liches get stitches. Watch Smack the Lich Up. Smack that lich up. Yeah. Got 99 problems but a lich ain't one.

Whoa! Nice. Nice. It's going really well. Are we ready? We'll just like, quote song lyrics out until he dies. Or shame. Yeah.

Rap battle. Yeah, rap battle. Anyway. Continue. Welcome to High Rollers. So, you open the door to the nurse's quarters. And you see quite a plain room, actually. It's a circular room.

No, it's not. It's a rectangular room. Or a trapezoid. I didn't say a trapezoid. Or do you? You see a rectangular room with three thin trapezoid. I'd say a trapezoid. Or do you? You see a rectangular room with three thin dormitory beds, a simple closet.

Closet? Closet. Oh, it's a mimic. A rug. A threadbare rug. Are there any carpets in here? The room, no, there's a rug.

But is that rug on carpet? No. I know you researched It's on stone okay um and the room itself actually looks barely used what you hear though fear especially because um bernard likes you um you feel, again, another faint tug on your hair, pulling you to the far side of the room, and then again you start hearing this on the wall. Through the wall? It's that way. Right, okay, I think the ghost is insane too.

Can I approach the wall? Mm-hmm. Is there anything weird about the wall? Do a little mime act? You notice actually that when you get to a certain point on the wall, your hand goes through it. Don't like that. That's weird.

Okay. Right. Well, that's the way to go. Yep. Oh, no. I can't see. Hold my go. Yep. Oh, no. I can't see. Hold my hand. No.

Guide me there. No, I can't. Please take me, Skrull. No way. Take me. No. The lich is going to eat us. No, what are you...

Now's the time of passion. What? Come on, let's do it. Right now? No. We'll use the orb. How? Oh.

No. No. Bernard. No. No. Bernard's impatient. We have a goal. Bernard, Kim, same thing. I play many roles. Okay. So I guess...

Is it only one part of the wall that does that? So as you kind of feel around this back wall, it's solid, solid, solid, hand goes through, hand goes through, solid, solid. Okay. There's enough for two hands to go through. It's two hands wide. It's not very wide, is it? Or maybe door-sized.

We're trolling. It's like a door. Door-sized. Door-wit. For a human, though. Yeah, for a human. I can't go through. I can't go through.

It's too big. Can't go through. End of campaign. All right, who wants to go first? That's too big. Can't go. You stay. I go.

No following. Who wants to go first? Skull does. Skull does. Skull does. Skull does not. Where are you going? Ah, I'm going through the veil.

Where though? So you're just gonna walk? I'm gonna put my hands in. And I'm gonna put my hands in. And I'm going to put my head in. Your head pops up. Against a solid black door. Oh. Door.

So there is a door here. But there's no handle. But there is a circular pattern of runes where the handle should be. That's glowing white. That's going to take us about ten years. Does anyone read runes? I can try.

Nope. Bernard. Are they in dwarvish, elvish, or goblin? Oh, I do speak. I have two questions. One, does anyone have dispel magic? Nope. No.

I should look at my spells. Yeah. I'm looking at you, Tom. I am not a spellcaster. I'm going to cast Suggestion. I don't have it. I thought one of you guys had Dispel Magic. Okay.

Cool. Interesting. I've got Counterspell. Second question. Where is the key? I have it. Is it visible? It's in my bra. Okay.

By my knees. Burn it. Do you know how to get through this? Wait. He was about to go. I rummage by my knees in my bra. Oh, God. How long have you had... Where did you...

When did you get a key? I took it. From? You're not the only detective here. Who did you take it from? I can't remember. I'm senile. Okay.

You remember it was from one of the patient chests in the dormitory, and you found a secret compartment in the bottom of the chest. I have no idea where I found this. Right. So this just could be a random key. Put it near. So the white crystal on the end of the key starts glowing, and in response, the circular runes on the door of the key starts glowing and in response the runes, the circular runes

on the door start glowing as well. If you touch it together, door opens. Wait, where? A little pat on the back for the medium. Pat me. I'm going in. So you step into the room. Could you just put that on top? Just line it up. Layers. Layers. Layers. Upon layers.

So that line is where you just walked in. The long line. So we didn't see the whole room. You saw a rectangular room. It's not trapezoid shaped at all. And now you see a trapezoid shaped room, a larger room, filled with green smoke, which appears to be billowing out from a bronze cauldron on one side of the room.

This is Halloween. Barely visible through the haze are three rocking chairs, several workbenches, a spinning wheel and a rusty cage in the corner. Towards the back of the room, you make out a huge archway made with clear quartz crystals set into the wall and they glow faintly. Bernard! What would you like to do? Bernard! Why rocking chairs?

Bernard, what's going on? You can't speak to me, I need to ask yes or no questions. Why the cold? This is very strange. Is that cage the one you see in your vision? Is it similar? It is not, but if you're looking at the cage, you notice that there is a humanoid figure

slumped in the bottom of it. Is someone... Okay. Humanoid figure. But it's because of the haze, it's difficult to see. Is the haze over the whole room? Yeah, so there's a low layer of this kind of green smoke, probably coming up to about your shin, mid-shin.

Bernard, is this stuff gonna hurt us? Bernard, come back! The ghost didn't follow us in. Bernard doesn't know. Bernard, are you here? Yeah, he's here. He doesn't know. Bernard, were you here? Yeah, he's here. He doesn't know. Bernard, were you confused and you don't know?

Thanks, buddy. I'm going to step into it. I've had a long, fruitful life. Could have been a bit more frisky at the end, but here we go. Step out into the haze towards the cage. So you walk... As sexy as I can so the skull's watching. You walk sexy towards the cage.

Creaking like wooden floorboards. The haze billows up around you. Probably makes it a little bit sexier because it, you know, blows you a bit. I look back. Blows you. See if he's watching. God damn, I think it's working. Blows you.

See if he's watching. God damn, I think it's working. You walk up to this cage. So it's the kind of red, that one there, the red circle. And it is a huge rusted cage with a heavy padlock on the gate. And you see a naked figure cowering under a blood-stained blanket. When you look at this thing, you realize it looks oddly familiar. It seems half-formed, but has a snout and the beginnings of a tail and dragon-like features,

but it's cowering under this blanket. It looks like a half-formed bear strout. What? What the hell is going on here? Took the scale. Took the scale from me. We are not getting paid enough for this. Uh, hello? Little dragon creature, hello?

He just huddles under his blanket, and he looks at you, and you can see that while there's a snout forming, it's actually solid. Like, it's completely sealed. There's no actual mouth yet. It's forming. Can you hear me?

Does it look like a female, a male? It looks like a male. A male. It's clearly, it's clearly bare, but half formed. You can see scales, some are formed, some are kind of merging out. Some of his arms and his body are just still bare, like misshapen clay. And yeah, he's just a strange... You don't know what this fucked up shit is. Why, why, why, why is he... You can speak to me, I'm not a threat. I don't think he can speak Oh yes probably not

You can all see this right Yep Bear's freaking out You have a little brother I don't think it's a brother I think it's just another me I think it's an experiment It's gone awfully wrong

With one of the poor victim patients. This is awful. What was the this? So that circle is like the huge archway. Archway. Towards the back. Did the Lich King Lich do this to you? Can you nod? So, actually, the thing looks at Bear and kind of... You hear it kind of grunting like... Like that. Hi. And it tries to reach towards you, but you can see because it's malformed, like he can't quite walk yet, he can't quite propel himself properly,

he can't stand up. Should I stop? Should we not go? Should we stay? He tries to reach for you. Hi. And then points at you and points at himself. Yeah, you look just like me.

Yeah. Yeah. We need to understand because we're trying to help. A scale was stolen from our dear friend here, my son. And he points at his chest. And it was used on you. And he turns, and you can see that there is a perfectly formed scale, bloody scale, on the back of his neck.

The lich did this to you, the warden, the nurse? Nurse Ransom? He nods his head furiously. Was the warden there the nurse nurse ratcheting he nods his head furiously was the warden there? just the nurse? he shakes his head just the nurse. where did this happen? down? he points

here? here? and points at the cauldron you were put in the cauldron? you were born you came out of the cauldron? You were born. You came out of the cauldron. You were born. This is really lovely. Were you anyone before you were?

Okay. The clone, it looks like, no, clueless. It's panicked. It's scared. Right, okay. Are you able to get out of here? You're looking at this thing and

he's not very mobile. He's barely formed. I don't think we need to worry about this. I think we need to look at the bigger picture. Well, the bigger picture is that, well, does the lich know about you? It just, it

shakes its head, and you can see confusion. I don't think it knows the lich. Do you know who the warden is? Never seen her. It just, it keeps shaking its head like I feel like, right, I don't want to step on your toes, although I'd love

to. I believe the nurses, potentially Nurse Ratched, is doing things the warden may not suspect is happening. You're not stepping on my toes. I reached that a while ago, yeah. The clone is kind of wildly waving at Bear, and it's just pointing at Bear's head and his head like just pointing can you read my mind

no and it's he's just trying to communicate he's pointing at his head and at Bear's head I think I think this is can see what I've seen? I think this...

Is your name Bear Stroud? Right. He not. I think this is an exact replica, or will be, of you. He will be. He's seen everything I've seen. Do you remember? Wait, do you have the same memories? Do you have the same memories?

He points at Bear, and he points at medium-sized. And then crosses his fingers. Right, he knows that you're... Mother and son. Yeah. In this strange roleplay, it became a reality. Is he a cross of us both? What?

No. No, he just knows. You have the same knowledge. This is for all, he just knows. You have the same knowledge. This is for all intents and purposes. He has the same knowledge that you have. And that's this. He headbutts. It's his little headbutt.

Oh, I'm sorry. And wipes his head. Okay. Okay. He head. Okay. He knows, okay. This is quite the revelation. Well... So if this is not the experiment that the liches wear off,

then what the hell is it? This is something that no drachmas... There's more. They must have gone through this. I heard a noise. He's pointing towards the arch. Bernard! Did they guess where they are?

Yep. Alright. This guy knows. He knows. Hey, what do you want to do with you? Leave him here. He looks scared. As soon as you mention that, he's scared. He grabs the blanket and covers himself up.

I don't think there's anything we can do at the moment. Are you growing? Becoming more fast-rout? As you look at him, you can see actually, he's still slowly like, if you look at his arm, scales are becoming more and more defined on his arm.

Muscles are kind of filling in. And he still looks weak, though. His legs are still a kind of weird mess. He can't stand up. He can't hold himself up properly. And he's still... The snout, still there's no formation of any kind of like mouth or nostrils. Well, within some time, there's gonna be two of you. Are you doing work for the nurse? He shakes his head sadly.

Do you work for the... And then points at his mouth. Or lack of. When you are fully grown, will you be doing her bidding? But for now, you are working for the ordinary gentlefolk. He kind of looks confused and then shakes his head.

Sorry, nods his head. I think we need to go through the arch. Yeah. And figure out what they're doing. We'll come back. I can break the lock. Would you be able to come find us? When you grow up.

He looks down and his legs are like shrugs. He looks terrified. Okay. Like absolutely terrified. I don't think he'd want to come find us. Well, would you? I think he's safer here, knowing that he's not been tampered with. True. The nurse finds out

that his lock's been broken. He shrinks at the mention of the nurse finding out. He's like, okay. Something bad might happen to him, so let's just steadily carry on, I believe. As far as Bear Stroud 2 is concerned, we weren't here.

Yes. And the same for the nurse, but... He hides his eyes. Okay. Okay. Poor little bear. Look at you, all malformed and malnourished and unable to speak. Cute little thing. You're looking at something that is covered in a thin membrane of blood and mucus.

Yes. And that's rapidly changing before your eyes. Cute little horn. If you listen carefully, you can probably hear the crack and click of bones coming into play. Push. Yay. It just looks at you completely confused and frightened. Very tight.

And just slowly points towards the gate. We'll come back for you. Thanks for not ratting us out, I suppose. confused and frightened. And just slowly points towards the gate. We'll come back for you. Thanks for not ratting us out, I suppose. I mean, thank you. You can't say anything. When you do get a mouth, you shush. Please. He holds a finger up to his snout.

I'm confused who to thank. I'm confused as well. This is so hard. Let's just go. confused as well. This is so harsh. Let's just go. Let's go. Let's go. Okay, so we'll go the archway. Is it?

It's the archway. Again, as you approach it, you see that the key that Medium-Sized is holding starts glowing again. And in response, the archway, all the quartz crystals on the outside light up. Now I do remember where I got this from.

It was in a chest in a hidden compartment but it was in the dormitory which leads me to believe that one of the people possessed it or knew of it. One of the patients? Yes, why would it be in the patient's dormitory? You're probably keeping an eye on them.

Whose chest? Probably a fake patient. There was a secret compartment underneath and some other things on top, like a pen. And? That's it. They're probably just keeping an eye on the patients in there. Why would they put a key to such an important thing

with the patients? Because they don't think that the patients are smart enough to figure that out. Were there any letters in there? Maybe? Do I remember a letter? There was a writing kit, yeah. So there was parchment and ink and then the pen that you found. And then there was also a book, although there were... She's doing it!

It's her! So you might have found this in Felicity's chest. A key that leads us to this entire thing. Absolutely. Oh, hang on a minute. Are we not following the wrong thing? This bear, too, did not see the lich. Or maybe... No, I think

this is the only place that we can go. There's nowhere else in this building that we haven't been. The lich could have been invisible. Oh, true. Invisible. You haven't been in Warden Lich's office. Oh. Warden Lich's? Warden Faust's office. It was a lich.

Or the kitchen. I think this is the creepy place to be. To be honest. There's a bear clone here. And the key. It's probably where the dodgy dealings are. Potentially owned by Felicity Brown. Yeah, I don't trust this girl.

Yet. We could have been duped here. Bernard, have you duped us? Thank you, Bernard. It's very emphatic. I'm sorry for doubting you. Bernard wouldn't doubt us. He's a nice ghost.

Through the archway. Come on. Sooner we get this done, sooner we can leave and go home and get money and never come back. Ever. Ever. Or we can die.

Or that. Either way. Let's go through the arch. Unlock it. Ever. Or we could die. Or that. Either way. Let's go through the arch. Unlock it. Before I lose any more scales. Oh, yeah. Keep an eye on him. Any cold breezes, you let us know.

I will. Good. I mean, bear. Are you holding on to your scales? All of them. Yes. Every single one. Podcast listeners, bearers, holding hands against his head firmly.

You have a little brother. Anyway, archway. I do, yeah. Archway. So the crystals have lit up. Archway. Is there anything that appears in the archway, or is it just... Do you...

What do you do with a key? Just move close, holding it out. It starts... Both the crystals on the key? Just move close, holding it out. It starts... Both the crystals on the key and the wall start lighting up even brighter. Is it the same colour? Yeah, they're both white. They're all white. So there's white quartz crystals in the wall,

and the tip of the key is a white quartz crystal. Okay. What choice do we have? We do not have one, clearly. Why do we do this? It's not worth it. Put the key real close. So if you touch it to the wall,

then this swirling mass of light appears, and you get a cold blast of air. It hits you in the face, and immediately get a cold blast of air. It hits you in the face and immediately it's cold. Your breath starts to mist and you can see, you actually see frost leeching out onto the walls around the crystals. This is the ice. Bear, are you trying to stop your breath from being stolen? I'm trying to stop everything from being stolen.

Okay. Okay. Okay, they can't take your temperature. I hope not. I think they can. Okay. I'm going to step through there. Step through. Be wary of mirrors.

Yes. Look out for mirrors. Oh, yeah, the vision thing. That should be important. Okay, so you all step through? Yes. Yes. Okay. The governor of the land. Oh yeah, the vision thing. That should be important. Okay, so you all step through? Yes. You step through and you feel this shock of cold just hit you and pass through you.

You take a sharp breath and you walk out from another wall and you see a dark corridor in front of you. It's very dimly lit with a few torches and sconces. And you notice that actually the walls seem quite slimy. Hmm. Lovely. There's a real stench down here of rot and sulfur. Good times, good times. There, it's fine. You can uncover the scales. Let's be honest. If he's going to take...

He's got one. It's fine. I'm going to be sick. Okay. It's okay. Let it all out. As long as the slime is not flammable. So is it just door that we came through? Then empty.

So it's a wall, and then you see the same arch of white crystals on this side, and you kind of walk out into this corridor. And there's just a straight shot? Straight. And there's a door at the end? There is no door. Not that you can see. It's quite dark.

So is there torches on the wall? Could I maybe pick up one of the torches off the wall? Yeah. It's quite a small one, so even though it helps you immediately, but it doesn't really penetrate the dark. No, yeah. It's only a little bit. Can I cast See Invisibility?

You don't see anything. Cool. It lasts an hour anyway. What you do see is at the end of the corridor, you see a humanoid figure standing. Right. Just at the end of the corridor. What, just after I cast that?

You can't make out what it is exactly, but you can tell that there is a humanoid shape at the end of the corridor. Only him can see that. All of you can see it. It's not... I would like to clarify... Not the invisibility.

It's not because of the invisibility. Does it look like the lich? Are you going closer? Or holding out the torch to light it up? You? You hold out the torch and you see

it's quite short, but it's a woman. You can make out a woman. She's wearing a long, sort of Victorian-style dress. Oh, no. With a silver locket around her neck. Trying to cough away from my microphone. Okay.

Do we just say hello? Hello, dearie. Okay. What are you doing in such a dank cave as this? She calls out to you softly. Hello, friends. Yes. Come.

Come with me. And she smiles at you. And it's a beautiful smile. Who are you? You know me, detective. Okay. That could be Felicity. Felicity.

Come. Come. Follow me. And at that, she starts to walk. So if you imagine it's like that, she walks down the left of this T-junction. Oh, God, okay. Well, look, I found her.

Job done. That's creepy. What are you doing here, Felicity? Felicity? She's gone. Come. Well, I guess we follow He says I guess Yes

Okay let's go You'll be fine Fun Fun And hey Bernard are you coming with us? You hear nothing Damn it we lost my friend

Oh no I like that one Let's go I guess Let's continue forth You hear nothing. Damn it, we lost my friend. Oh, no. I like that one. Let's go, I guess. Continue forth. We carry on. Oh, Felicity. So if you're following her,

so you walk down these corridors, and again, they're the same. It's almost like a warren. Like, she seems to go right, then left, then straight. But you notice that these corridors, they're thin, they're covered in this slime that just oozes down and starts dripping on the floor. This stench

of sulphur is getting stronger and stronger Do any of you want to roll any checks or anything? Like take a real good look at her? Yeah I can I I could look at her. Yeah, I can't. She's going to get some water. Yeah. Oh, sorry, I've got this. I don't want to hear it. Um, I...

And every now and again, she'll stop and she'll call to you, Come, friends. Come. Yes, yes, we're coming, dear. Follow me. Very slow. Can I make a...

Can I cast charm person? I cast Charm Person? Uh, yes. You may. Uh, and I'm gonna do that at level two? Uh, no. I'm gonna do it at level three. You're crazy. Fuck it. You're a madman. Oh no, that's dumb casting at high levels.

Okay, yeah, I cast it. So it's a wisdom save... of 13. You cast the spell. Uh-huh. And it's like nothing happens. Okay. She just smiles at you beautifully and just gestures to you.

Come, follow me. Where are we going, dear? Come. I have a lovely tea party for you. Tea party? Lovely. I love tea. Sounds great. What is on these walls? I don't know what you mean.

It's slimy walls. And she just keeps walking, gesturing. She might be a ghost. Just putting it out there. She might be dead. We can see this one. Would you like to roll a perception or anything? I mean, I've still got C, Invisibility.

There's nothing that you see with C, Invisibility. There's nothing that's coming out. There's nothing that seems to be invisible or crowded. Yeah, I feel like it's pointless in inciting her. Can I have a look at her and anything she's carrying or anything that's on her person? 18. 18 on perception.

Troy, what did you get? I'm doing a 15 to see if there's any shimmers or translucency to her, any ethereal form. Okay, you don't see anything. She appears to be solid. She appears to be human. The closer we are now, does she look like a healthy... Yeah, and you can see her breathing.

You can feel a warmth. Like, if you reach out and touch her, you can feel a warmth to her. And she's a solid, living, breathing human being. Crazy child. As far as you can tell. You see, when you're 18, you notice... So she's wearing this long Victorian dress with kind of high, rough neck

and a sort of a small train at the bottom of her dress that kind of... It covers her feet a little bit. But you can see her feet when she takes a step forward. You notice a strange, thin tether running from the base of her dress outwards towards where she's walking. A tether, like something, like a magical kind of looking? No, so it looks fairly solid, like physical. Right. But it's a long line that's just going off from underneath her dress, where her feet are, into the darkness where she's walking and leading you towards.

How did you know I was looking for you, by the way? I know many things. I get told many things okay and uh by who just come with me please it's ever so lonely down here and she keeps walking um and you can see now that she's actually standing in the entranceway to a room what if we don't what if we just don't follow you? Oh please. Who's in there? My friends. It's time for the tea party. And then she walks into the room and into the darkness. I've seen the tether on her foot.

What? She's got a tether on her foot, taking her there. I don't like that. It's almost certainly going to kill us. I feel like we've been lured to our doom. There's no need for tea. It's midnight. Or she's trapped and someone's using her. That too? And she's tied to this string like a puppet.

Dearie, we don't want tea. Oh, please. I don't think you're alone. I think you think you're alone. I think you're lying to us. Please. I made ever such an effort, and you just hear this voice coming out of the darkness.

She's in this room, and you can't quite see what's in there. Who's telling you to bring us in there? My friends. Who's that? Come, meet them. But you said it was lonely dearie come hey uh why don't you uh try and see that locket that was on her see it yeah with the ball locating object does that okay object does that work for something that you've not touched or like... If I've seen it before within 30 feet of me, I can locate it.

I don't really know its surroundings, I just know where it is. Oh, I thought it was the surroundings, okay, don't worry. I mean, that's what I got before, but... Okay. The real spell. Fair enough. I just gave him some spooky little backstory. Yeah, fair enough. You can do that again if you want. Let's see whether or just gave him some spooky little backstory. Yeah, fair enough.

You can do that again if you want. Let's see whether or not you get a spooky little backstory. Probably not. That's, um... We don't really have much choice. The other thing you notice

is that it stinks of that, that really, that sulfuric smell is strongest here. There's something in there, I believe. Oh yeah, she said her friends were in there.

And I think it's part of that tether. I imagine that might be her friends. Some sort of monstrous creature? A friend. That's been created, maybe from the cauldron as well? Probably. I don't want to go in there, but... It's my poker fish.

How do we... What? How do we get past it? There's no other way. Wait. There's other... Maybe this... This key. What?

Maybe there's other keys. Well, she had a key. That's her key. Yeah, maybe the warden or the nurse has a different key to a different place. Oh, right. She had a key. Oh, right. She had a key.

Oh, right. She had a key. Oh, right. Oh, right.'s her key. Yeah, maybe the warden or the nurse has a different key to a different place. Oh, Richard, she had a key. They knew that you were coming looking for her. Yes. So they planted a key in Felicity's box so that you would go looking for her. I see. Okay. All right. Well... So that we'd die?

Probably. You're probably luring us to use our souls. Are you whispering this conversation or having it out loud? I'm whispering. It's the bad guy's voice. Theater whispering. Hello! Well, I guess...

What choice do we have? Walk into the trap? Are we already in this creature? The walls are quite slimy. Let's leave! I want to leave now! Bad news! Oh no!

Okay. Well, in that case... Well, in that case, there's really not much we can do. Let's go forward. What if I light it on fire and it has to spit us out, right? We're still in here. I'm opening the door. Okay.

What door? What door? The metaphorical door to your doom. I thought she walked through a door. She walked through an archway, so there was an open sort of entryway into a dark room. Yeah, an entryway. A dark room.

Fucking throat. I walk through the arch. You're going to walk through the arch? Yeah. Oh entryway. A dark room. Fucking throat. I walk through the arch. You're going to walk through the arch? Yeah. Oh, no. You stand at the entrance to a large, circular, domed room that is dripping with slime. Felicity stands in the middle of the room and is facing you, and she has the same smile on her face. It's quite dark in this room.

The stench of sulfur is overpowering. And you can hear this sound of movement, but it's strange. It sounds like something's writhing and moving in the dark. Like internal organs or something.

Is there any other way to go? Is this the arch? So when you were following her, you noticed that there were other pathways that branched off elsewhere and stuff like that.

It was quite maze-like, but she took a sort of left-left-right straight. Oh no. Okay, Felicity. I'm here. No tea party. Come closer. Into the middle? Come, my friend. What about that thing that's, I can hear it moving around. What's your AC? 11. Oh no. From out of the dark, you see this slimy tentacle just lash out and slap towards you. It strikes you.

Four points of damage. Okay. Okay. Four points of damage. Okay. Can you please roll me a wisdom saving throw? Oh, good. That's what it does. 11. That's not high.

It's got Felicity under the control. You... Oh, man. you hold on a minute I am dead no you're not dead you're not dead not yet darling not yet

you feel this tentacle like wrap around the side of your face and you feel a wave of dizziness

and your eyes sort of roll back in your head and you have a vision you have a vision of the day Marjorie walked into your office and said I need your help yeah

and then like that the tentacle rips off your face doing you four points of damage. Yeah. And then that memory's gone. You don't... You saw it and then it was gone. It was like something just cut that out of your head.

So I have no recollection of Marjorie or Felicity? You have no recollection of Marjorie or her giving you the mission to find Felicity. But do I know that the tentacle thing hit me? Yeah. Oh, well, that was unpleasant. Hey, everyone, there's... A horrible, scary thing. Yeah.

Can we leave now? Yeah, I'd like to leave. And probably at this point, you would see, given where the tentacle came from, go back, you would see it starts to move forward. I say move. I mean, it slides forward. This writhing mass of limbs, faces with their mouths open in unheard screams you notice the

odd bone ribcage skull ensconced in this ooze it's dark red mass of quivering you don't even know what this liquid is you can see through it and it's sliding towards you and as it does more tentacles come out. And one of these things, this tether that was on Felicity's ankle, leads back into this horrible mass. Oh, God. Okay. Does anyone know how to break a magical tether? I imagine it's magical.

It's also linked to that thing. We need to get Felicity out of here for some reason. I can try and use Jerry. Smash it and let go. Jerry. Yeah. I smash you with Jerry.

Is there anything on the other side of the room that can be seen? You can see the faint glow of quartz crystals forming can be seen. You can see the faint glow of quartz crystals forming an archway. And it's the other side of this thing, this mass.

Oh, God. Okay, so there's the way out, at least. Felicity, do you want to come with us? She's not going to say anything. She's under control. Break the tether.

She stares at you. She's like, silly detective. This is me. And walks backwards into the mass. And as she does, she dissolves in front of your eyes into this mass of liquid and ooze. That's gross. Imagine, like, you know, Indiana Jones when he drinks from the wrong cup and his flesh dissolves into his muscle and then his bone.

Just tapping it. She is nothing. But if you look, you can see her face still smiling in the body of this creature. I don't think we can be friends, frankly.

It's moving towards you. Let's run. Let's run, let's run. Let's get a rain. Roll a little bit of initiative, I think. A bit of initiative. Roll me an initiative and I'll answer your question. Roll me a little bit of sexy initiative.

Oh, that is a sexy initiative. Katie. Ten. Tom. Seventeen. Trot. Seventeen 17 what's your and Rihanna's higher than yours let's be honest what's your next plus 1 13 damn it it's the same well okay we'll just we'll just decide we'll out. Every round. Yeah, so you can see that it's a circular domed room, and this thing is kind of sort of near the back,

and the doorway is behind it. So you probably could run around the edges, but you'd have to... It probably might lash out a little bit. I can set it on fire. It's quite large. Ooh. I can still try and set it on fire. It's quite large. I can still try and set it on

fire. Any mention of fire? So first is either Trot or Tom. Oh, well first I mean. I'm going to spend my turn saying no after you. Not really. You're going to spend your turn doing that. No, I'm not, but I'll say that Trot can go first. Thank you. Unless you want me to go first? No. Okay. Danke.

I'm going to go as far as my little 30-foot legs can go, skirting around. However, on the way way I'm going to cast Ray of Enfeeblement Upon the creature It's a ranged spell attack I'm going to do that now That's a 17 to hit

It hits That hits On a hit the target deals only half damage With weapon attacks that use strength until the spell ends So I assume it's tentacle uses strength as its modifier. Nearly weapon attack bludgeoning, so yeah. Yes, half! Half.

At the end of each of the target's turns, it can make a constitution saving throw against the spell. All success, the spell ends. Thank you. So I would say that you make it actually a fair way around, so you imagine it would take another 30 feet to get to this gate. Okay. And it's still sort of moving into the middle of the room,

so it's absorbed Felicity in. Tom, what would you like to do? I would like to cast Suggestion on the creature. Why? Why? Why? And I suppose it can hear and understand me. Is that... Does that come under charmed? It doesn't, does it?

Suggestion is just like, I suggest you... It is charmed. It is charmed. Creatures that can't be charmed are immune. So I'll say to her or it sorry

uh you're gonna let us get out of here Felicity the blob the blob that was Felicity carries on

moving towards you okay would you like to move um I will stay where I am and just... Can I dodge as a bonus action? I can't remember. I'll just stay here.

Sure. Dodge as an action. You've gone the other way. I've already done an action to do a thing. Unless you're a rogue. No, no. I'll stay here. Okay, Rhiannon. I action to do a thing. Unless you're a rogue. No. I'll stay here. Okay, Rhiannon? I can't do anything else.

I'm going to follow medium-sized, but while I'm doing that, I'm going to brief-fire at the creature as I run round it. Nice. So, each creature must make a DC 12 saving throw, take two D6 on a failed save and half damage on a successful one. I failed. You failed. Roll the six. 2d6. Two sixes coming up.

Two sixes. Oh, five sixes. You rolled disgustingly. So 11. Nice. Nice. Nice. So, as you run past it to join medium, you breathe this fire out towards it. It shrieks, and you can hear these moans of almost several voices at once,

and you see the faces that you can in this blob. You can see them kind of react in horror like they start opening their mouths and screaming. It almost moves away from you. It seems frightened of fire. Oh, it doesn't like fire, guys.

It's the thing from John Cullens. It's the thing. It's the thing from the thing. Too bad I's the thing. It doesn't have, like, the... It's the thing from the thing. Too bad I couldn't use that once. Before a short rest. Damn. Well, it worked. I've done it now.

It also, yeah, it now has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks. And has half damage, too. Is it on fire? No. Damn. I have an oil flask. I mean Yeah

Next up is I'm scared of the idea of oil Yeah Hello I would Is Bear Next to it then

Like right next to it or I mean it It kind of fills the space enough that yeah you're just but all just by it scurrying around the outside of this room so I would like probably within five feet I would like to run up to it slash it with my rapier and then disengage and keep running. With my bonus. So if you make me an attack roll. Command.

No, wait. 24 to hit? Yeah, that will hit. So, and it gets sneak attack because I've got an ally within. Oh, rogues, man. Forgot how fun that was. Just get all the dice. So that was a one.

That's great. So that's four. Fourteen damage because I rolled like shit. But then, yeah, I'll use my disengage to run on. Mm-hmm. Yeah, so I'd say you'd probably get to about the same space that these guys are in. You're probably within about 30 feet of the gate behind.

So this thing kind of, it reacts to the way you guys are attacking it. It's frightened of the fire and kind of moves away from it. Again, you feel the rapier go into it, this blob and this ooze, and probably a little bit of ooze comes off onto your rapier go into it, this blob and this ooze,

and probably a little bit of ooze comes off onto your rapier as you go past. It looks at DI's skull, and it lashes out again. Well, actually, now, how could it look? I don't know. It seems to look like it. It's got many faces it could probably look. So the faces actually move towards one side, and now there's like a cluster of faces and they're all staring at you. Okie dokie.

Another tentacle lashes out towards you, but I have disadvantage on attack rolls. Thank you, Leanne. And half damage if it hits. I think it's not the half damage I'm worried about. Oh, I rolled an 18 and 17. Yeah, so that total is... That's just the advantage to hit. So she'll still hit. I think that does it, actually.

Yeah, I hit you a little bit. So what have I forgotten this time, Kim? You forget who you are. Please can you take another four points of damage? No. You forget that you're not sexually interested in... Damn. Can you please make a wisdom saving throw?

Ooh, that was good. 21. Okay. Again, you feel this tentacle that hit you try and dig in again but knowing kind of expecting it now you managed to kind of go oh no and resist and it the tentacle flails away I know what memory they were trying to take no okay back up to the top tron Tom I would like to go first because I have an idea now great Back up to the top. Trot and Tom.

I would like to go first because I have an idea now. Great, can't wait to hear it. I am going to try and do a suggestion again. No, I've got two oil flasks. And I'm going to, as I'm walking towards the thing, I want to create a line of oil along the floor. Okay, why don't you wrong me? As in, if it was to be on fire, it would make a wall. Like, yeah.

I kind of want to say sleight of hand, but that's not really... What do you guys think? If he's able to just pour oil on the floor, that's pretty easy. Yeah, okay, as an action. It says I can just, you can. So yeah, it costs as action, yeah. So if you do that and, yeah, make a line going towards these guys, I guess.

Yeah. Yeah, anything. So that's your action and your movement. Can I light my lamp? No, you've already had an action. So I would say that's a bonus. Would that be a bonus to light your lamp? It's kind of an action as well.

That's an action as well. It sounds action to me. I can do it next time. That's cool. Don't forget, by the way, you have a regular healing potion. I haven't taken that much damage yet. I'm still fine. I'll try harder. Corrupt the archway. Put the key next to it.

So again, the same thing happens. Both the key and the crystals glow and whoosh! This swirling vortex opens up and you still feel the same kind of cold and frost starting to leach out onto the walls. Come everybody! Through the archway!

I'll be the last to go through. I have to hold the archway open I assume. Rhiannon? I'll be the last to go through. Oh. I have to hold the archway open, I assume. I'm going to me. Rhiannon. I would like to give this bad boy a smack in the head. With, yeah. With my halberd, please.

Cherry, yay. With cherry. Make me an attacky roll. I shall. Eleven. Live Jerry, yay! Live Jerry! Make me an attacky roll? I shall. Uh, that's 11. Uh, ba ba da ba da da. Equipment. Equipment. Which one's that?

It's on that tab that has the key. Oh yeah. Ba ba ba. Nope, nope, where are we? Hello? Hello? You did a million damage. What am I looking at?

Probably. Is it my strength? Oh yeah, plus seven. Yes. So, 87. Oh, that's a lot. That's a lot. That's a lot. That's a lot. That's a lot. That's a lot. That's a lot. Hello, you did a million damage

Yes, so 18 that hits yeah way and then 110 Six So tender Six Okay. So 10 damage. No, just 6. 6. I thought it was a d10 plus 4. d10 plus 4. Oh, yeah, 10. No? Yes.

Yeah. Yes. Because you rolled a 6. Yes. Yes, it's 10. d10 plus 4. Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you, Math Tom. And I guess you're going to move up to the gate? Yeah, I'm going to move up to the gate. Katie? So how far? So 30 feet from the gate. So am I still beside the... Mm-hmm.

Blah, blah, blah. Okay. Yeah, that. Okay, I'm going to... This is not close enough to attack an opportunity on you guys because it kind of like

schleps in and out. Schleps? Okay. I hate when things schlep. It schleps. So I've got a crossbow, so I'm going to take a pop at it and then run to the gate. Make me an attack roll.

And is there someone within five feet of it? Seven, maybe? No, it's only a 12. Well, if it's not attack of opportunity range, then no. It's only a 12. I probably screwed that up earlier. You do not hit. No.

So I just keep running. Are you moving up? Yep. Yep, yep, yep. Okay. It's go. So seeing that you are all moving... Is it shitting itself

over the oil? I mean, I would say it probably hasn't noticed it. Okay. Sorry, I should have said

schlepping itself. Schlepping itself. Thomas, can you make me a wisdom saving throw, please? Without the attack? Yep. 13. No.

12. Even better. 12. I should have said 13. I think most things are 13 I just want to work out I should have lied I just want to work out

how much of your life I take from you I want to work out how controlled you are how big is this maze I've just dropped you into in your mind as you start moving towards the gate,

you hear Felicity's voice call out to you, please don't leave. It's ever so lonely down here. And as you turn around, you see Felicity's face appearing, trying to form again, and it's just her face at the front of this thing. And she looks beautiful. Why would you leave her?

Why would I leave? Why would you do that? She's still in there. I can still help her. Also, she is hot. You have been charmed by Oh, so she is hot. You have been charmed by this creature. Oh, no. Man, I can't wait to swap that.

And for the purpose of... Do I notice that? I guess you would notice it, yeah. Because he would stop in his tracks. Yeah, I guess I just stop my tracks. I'm, like, enthralled. Counterspell. Mmm, tasty.

Casting Counterspell. It's a reaction reaction so I can do it on your turn and it's fourth level higher I have to make an ability check but third level below it works it is It is a... What do you have to do if it's above third level? Fourth level. Make an ability check. It's above fourth level. I have to do a DC check.

No, it breaks. Yep. You're with me, you bastard! You're so beautiful. Oh, God, I wasn't talking to you. Really? What? You used creature instead of this?

I don't... Get in. Really? What? You used creature instead of this? I don't... Get in the fucking outfit! I can explain. So that's your reaction? Yes. So it's still both of your goes? Okay, so... Because it charmed you on its go?

I will, as I'm moving, light the lamp somehow. I guess I've got some form of thing that lights that. Do you have anything at Tinder or matches? You've just got a lamp. This is like a default exploration pack, right? It must come with something to light it. Yeah, a tinderbox. Yeah, there should be a tinderbox.

I don't do that because I don't have a tinderbox apparently. What? Cool. So I've just thrown this oil on the floor and said, you know, one day... One day! And I will run towards the portal and do the same as medium and just hold the... Well, I guess I haven't got enough to get through to that. So you haven't used your action or bonus action

because you couldn't light the oil so I would say you can hold action before you jump through I will hold action to jump through You could say hold action, I will jump through when everyone else does Would you like to do the same shot?

With my correct pack I'm going to light the tinderbox. Why don't I have one? Turn your back. Throw it over your shoulder. I'm saying I don't have one. Very sassily throw it onto the oil. Okay. You better believe I've got soap, though.

I'm guessing there's a curve, like, so it would have curved to the side. So, yeah, this thing will shriek. like so it would have curved to the side so yeah this thing will shriek and again all the faces sort of recoil away from the fire and it tries to move away I would say roll me some damage roll me what did you do for your damage I did damage 2d6 yeah okay so I'd say two... It was two flasks though, wasn't it? Yeah, but that was just to make the line all the way round. I would say roll 2d6. Eight. I'm trying to take my man, you bitch.

And I imagine... And you can see Felicity's face in there screaming as well. Everyone through the archway. Rhiannon. Yo, yo. What would you like to do? I would like to go through the archway. Rhiannon. Yo, yo. What would you like to do? I would like to go through the archway, please. So you'll go through the gate?

I'm going to go through the gate. Okay. So you just run through the gate. You feel that intense cold and then you just open your eyes to blackness. Katie. I'm going through the gate. You're going through the gate?

Again, same thing happens. This thing Open your eyes to blackness. Katie. I'm going through the gate. You're going through the gate? Again, same thing happens. This thing is gonna try, is gonna try and move back towards you two and seeing you as the one who lit it, is gonna try and attack. Lit. Good God, no.

I rolled a seven and a two. Which on its advantage is a two plus. Yeah. No, so it tries to swipe out at you, but you're the other side of these flames, and it just can't get through the flames. I do the splits. I don't know.

Okay. What would you guys like to do? So it's back to both of you. I'm going through the archway. And following that, I will also go through the archway. Okay. So we're going to keep burning. No.

What? Do not do that. It takes a moment. From the noise of the fire, the stench of the sulfur, this horrific thing that you saw in front of you. You are suddenly away from all of that in this blackness and you suddenly just take a moment as silence just drops on you. As you get used to the darkness, you see that you are inside what looks like a hollow pyramid. The walls and the roofs are on a slant and they join at the top. Silver sand covers the floor. In the center of

the room is a dark pool of silvery liquid that just gently moves and swirls. Floating above this is a frame. It looks like a mirror, but instead of glass is a circular mass of silver and blue gas. It is freezing in this room. You start shivering immediately. So the whole asylum has been cold. This is freezing. It feels like you're in the middle of an ice storm. You notice that in the top of this frame that's hovering is a deep blue crystal that's shaped like a heart, banded with black obsidian. And as you listen, you start to hear these whispers fill the room. You can't quite make out what they're saying, but there's just an endless whispering. What would you like to do? Does this seem to be the source of all the problems?

Leaky pipes? What the hell is it? Air conditioning. Isn't this what you saw earlier? Yes. Something like this. Yes, you all laughed at me. I think we should destroy it.

Well, what is it? I don't know. I don't have any weapons. You just gesture. Carry a big, bad halberd at it. Destroy it. Can I? Give have any weapons. You just gesture. Can I walk? Try a big bad halberd at it. Destroy it. Can I walk forwards and look in the mirror? So it's not quite, it's like a mirror size,

but instead of glass, it's a swirling mass of silver and blue gas. Okay, so I can't see anything. So there's no reflection, there's no glass or anything. Or anything through it even. Well, I'll try. Yeah anything. So there's no reflection, there's no glass or anything. Or anything through it, even. Well, I'll try. I'm not going through it, hell no. I don't want to die. Who says you might die?

A big swirling mass of mirror stuff. I mean, you just fought a big old blob that was attached to a lady. What's logic in this place? Screw it. How do we get out of here? Is there any other archways in this place. Yeah. Destroy it. How do we get out of here? Is there any other archways in this room?

No? Not that you can see. Is that one behind us? The one that you came through, yes. Okay, good. Whew! Okay. Someone needs to do it.

You can do it. I believe in you. Do we we need to destroy it we don't know what it is but it's not anything good no it's freaking cold too my nipples are so hard you don't notice that you do now you're if any exposed skin is covered in goosebumps, it feels sharp. Like the air is sharp in here and your teeth start chattering. It is cold. Ended. I don't think that destroying anything is... Can I have a look around and see if I find anything else? There is nothing else in this space.

Hidden, like through the walls. Are there any walls that go through like the other place was? Son, it's time to step up and be a true dragonborn. When have I not been stepping up, Dad? You remember Javelin in primary school? You were so good at it. Now throw that hell a bit like a javelin. Write that crystal in the top. You can do it. Throw it like a, throw that halberd like a javelin. You could do it.

I can give it a go. You don't have to. I mean, you're your own man. I am my own man, Dad. Stop getting on my case. I'm sorry. I'm very overbearing. I understand that now. I feel like we both grew in this depot.

I'm fucking freezing in here. Do something. We can't talk to it. There's no warden. I will take my halberd and smash it. I don't know if that's the solution. Where did they go? They must have, is it a gateway?

I'm going to throw my unlightable lamp at the thing into the mist. Make me athletics check. Yeah. That's a natural 20. Give me a better one. Natural 20. Oh, nice. That's how I do it.

I throw it into the other hand. You throw the lantern at this thing and as it hits where the gas is swirling Dead centre. it disappears to the other side. In the silence that follows

you suddenly notice so there's a pause as nothing happens and then the swirling in the gas starts to get faster and faster and faster. And then an image appears. A man stands there, tall. He's so tall. His skin is crimson. He wears a robe of black and white. You see behind him the air swirls, almost forming wings. And he has cold, piercing blue eyes and black hair. And he stares at you. Who are you? Oh, I'm the ice cold, but I think...

Why have you disturbed me? Why did we... disturbed me What We found ourselves here investigating do you know who I am Do I Romy History religion history religion two two you have you you are frightened you have in and in this kind of state because he has such a commanding presence you are terrified and your mind just races you have no idea who he is but you can tell he is powerful. Uh, uh, are you the... are you the warden? I am Mephistiles. I am the Lord of Carnia.

Oh, wonderful. I don't know what Carnia is. And what sort of deal have you made with the Warden Faust? A clever one you what God here is. And what sort of deal have you made with the warden fast? A clever one you are. He is. Something I would expect of a wizard. How dare you.

It's like exposing me. Like the mass magician. I see all. The warden. He works experiments for me. A very curious mind, much like my own. He sends me souls. He powers this gate.

Oh, lovely. It's a shame. Because your time is up. Throw it. Throw it. I found my halberd. Throw it now. You want to throw your halberd? I do, yes. Maybe in a tack roll? I have a shit final action saying. Your time's over. Go. Throw it. The halberd. Throw it.

19. 19? Yeah. Your halberd. So you're throwing the halberd. You're going to lose, Jerry. I'm going to lose, Jerry. Is it at the crystal or is it at him?

Yeah, what are you throwing it at? At him. At him. Yeah. Yeah. It flies through the portal. And he simply gestures. Oh, shit.

And it glances. So you can see it goes through. Yeah. But he just gestures and it glances off of him to the other side. Jerry! How curious. No! Wait, is it on the other side?

Is it on the ground on the other side? Yeah. Oh, you can just pick it up. In the back. Oh, okay. Cool. That was the warden. A bear.

How laughable. The warden. Now he offers me something. He offers me a gateway into your world. Oh, you can come through. That's awful. Oh no, what do we do? Shit.

I have an offer for you, and he looks specifically at medium-sized. I grow tired of his reports. They bore me. I thought he would be interesting, performing his little experiments on how to turn you pitiful mortals into creatures. How to walk their minds and their spirits.

I grow bored of this, however. But you, I sense power in you. I make you an offer. Join me. Join me in one of my laboratories and I will end this experiment what will I be doing in your laboratory serving me research into the dark and unknown arts Will there be more victims of this realm? There could be.

Get the halberd, bear. We're done with this. How are we through the portal? I've gotta walk past. I've gotta walk past. So you're gonna try and walk through the portal? No. It's going to be interesting if you do anyway because it's floating above.

Yeah, it's jumping like... Is it in his realm? No. Or is it through the... It's in his realm. Oh, it's in his realm. Yeah, that's fucked. That's gone.

You could go get it if you want. No, I'm okay. You are at a disadvantage, dearie For the only way For you to interact with us is through this Frame And if that were to disappear Why, that would be awful, wouldn't it? You'd have no one to do your little experiments with

You misunderstand me Shit! Foolish idiot. I have thousands of experiments running on thousands of planes. This is but one. How many do you have on this plane? I am the one asking questions

here. You bore me now. I offer you one last chance. I will end this experiment if you join me. Or perhaps I shall end it anyway. Clearly the warden has lost control. Yes, I mean, what did he really gain for you? A couple of lanky, sharp-teethed things? Not really your style.

My dear, you were not listening, were you? No, I do phase out a lot. He was using his phylactery to open this portal, a permanent opening between my world and yours. Yes, but what about

the experiments? Yeah, interesting, weren't they? Right. Now I know how to torture you mortals even more when I make your world my own. Right, I see. But you've grown bored of him. And I have grown bored of you. But you can't come through yet, right? Do you join me or are you staying? Could you come through and join me? Or are you staying? Could you come through and ask me? He reaches forward.

And as he does, you see, coming out from this portal, this gigantic clawed hand starts reaching out. And it's huge. It's about as big as the portal that comes through and it starts coming towards you you can't quite fit can you i am done this experiment is over and he reaches around grabs the blue crystal heart and just yanks it backwards and as he does so energy explodes out from this

portal the portal itself closes in an explosion and the walls start crumbling. Oh, Jerry's gone forever. Time to go, everybody. Is there any other... Do we see any other way out now?

There's no other way out. We need to go. We need to leave. Just the way back past the thing. Sprint. As the walls start shaking, and you can feel this can feel this disruption this mass explosion and this discharge of arcane energy just exploding out you hear in the distance a scream and it it numbs you to the core it it hits that primal button in your body that just goes, oh, that's not good.

It's a scream, no! And in front of you, a circle starts to appear, a pure circle of light. Is that where that liquid silver was? No, just to the side. Okay. And from it, this explosion of light comes out and tranquility appears. Quick! Hurry! Hurry!

You've got to come! Hurry! Absolutely. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Okay. You want to stay here? No. Hell no.

We're going with the angel lady. Here we go. There's my tranquility go. Let's go. Here we go? Yeah. Okay. You step into her circle, and she makes a signal, and you shut your eyes and reappear outside of the asylum in the forecourt where you walked in.

She's like, thank God I found you. I felt that. I felt it. I felt the power. Did you? And then you notice that the ground starts shaking. The woods, the trees start cracking and falling

and the asylum starts sinking into the ground. The building splits in half and starts sinking into the floor. How did you find us? Hi, dears. I may be rather naive, but I took something of yours rather naughty of me. So, yes, I found the teleportation magic. But that's how I found you.

I could sense where you were. Rather, I got the idea from you, actually. I was watching you. While you're locating with your orb. Rather smart, wasn't it? You're perfect. Well, I tried not to. But I knew something was going wrong.

The warden, the nurses, they started scrambling when they realised you'd gone missing. So I knew something was up. Has everybody escaped? Was there an evacuation? I managed to get a few of the patients out. It's all I could do. As soon as the nurses and the warden, they went. I don't know where they went, but they disappeared. I couldn't find them.

Half the guards decided that was it. They were panicking, panicking about something, about the ooblecks, something like that. And then the warden, he screamed. And then he just, he dropped. He made a pact with the bad demon. Yeah. Well, I managed to get as many people out as I could.

And then I thought I would try and find you. And thank goodness I did. And as this is going on, you notice that the asylum itself has cracked in half and is sunk fully into the ground. You see a group of patients on the other side with one of the other guards with Hardy just stood there. And he's kind of looking like, what on earth? What the bloody fuck is going on here? This is way above my pay grade, right? And there are bewildered patients the other side of this gulf that has now appeared. And you notice that actually for the first time you feel warm.

for the first time you feel warm that it's not cold anymore that freezing air that you felt before has gone and that is where we will end oh god I feel like that was like the alternative slightly bad ending

yeah there were several other things that could have been done I went like there was a few things I couldn't quite squeeze in if we did went like, there was a few things I couldn't quite squeeze in. If we did a three shot, there was a few other options. Well, we've got no idea what the ooblecks. So the thing that attacked you as Felicity is from Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes, and it's called an ooblecks.

Ooblecks. And it's a very... Horrible monstrosity. It's basically, so the thing that you saw, Felicity, was a simulacrum. Oh. So this thing has the ability... I'm just trying to find a picture of it. It's basically an identical copy of something.

Yeah, it has this ability to consume your memories. And the more it consumes, the bigger it gets. And then it becomes powerful enough to basically, yeah, form a simulacrum to lure more people to your doom. I see. So this is what it looks like. Gross. So I had you up against an adult.

That's gross. Which is that. And then it turns into an elder. And they start off as little oozes. Lovely. Lovely. Tiny is that. And then it turns into an elder. And they start off as little oozes. Lovely. Cute little ooze. Well that was fantastic.

So I apologise if it was a bit rushed at the end. No, that was great. I was hoping you'd make a deal with the devil. Yeah? Instead. Usually happens. As soon as you told me you were a wizard, I was like, yes, I needed a wizard. Yes, thank you.

Yeah, it's excellent. My plan is coming together. I guess I never explained to Marjorie what happened because I don't remember her anymore. Exactly. You won't remember? So the more he would have feasted on you, the more... I'd like to think that fear would have gone and collected the money for it.

And incidentally... Since you don't remember Oh yeah, you do The warden was turning patients into a variety of creatures called the Sorrow Sworn So if you see here Sorrow That's gross I actually, and they all have different traits Again, Mordenkahn's turn of phones is great, I love this book

It's like King's dreams in that book. Her horror dreams. I had an underground forest that would have been filled with these guys for you to fight. Underground forest? How much did we miss? Quite a lot. It's only two sessions.

What was fair to you? I took elements from this from Tomb of Annihilation. Yeah. And in that, in Tomb of Annihilation, there are the Soan Sisters, and that's what the nurses were. They were night hags that formed a coven. And in the room, so actually in the Tomb of Annihilation, there's three little figurines that appear as well, that are like little voodoo dolls that appear.

And they would have told you a lot, but we didn't have enough time. But the idea was that they made a clone out of you. And if they had enough time, so I rolled for time passed, they would have interrogated it as to what you were. Because it was a perfect clone, it would have been a perfect clone. So it would have had your memories. Then they would have found out that clone so it would have had your memories then they would have found out that

you guys were all there to investigate and they probably would have done something they would have sent you straight to the laboratory

but I was rolling for time and it didn't it wasn't quite going fast enough that was good fun yeah no Rogue's Gambit

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