High Rollers DnD - Traps of the Ancients (Part 1) | Altheya: The Dragon Empire #58

Episode Date: April 8, 2025

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Pickaxe. Theos Oregon, Daisy Rowan Percival, Sister Ophelia Gruff of Theft-o-Morrow. We were singing Nobody Starts the Fire earlier. Rowan didn't start the fire. We'll figure the lyrics out. Hi, welcome to High Rollers. It's High Rollers time. It's High Rollers time. It's High Rollers time. Get those dice and ready your dicks.

I don't know. What? It's High Rollers time, baby. It's High Rollers time, baby. I'm your Dungeon Master Mark Sherlock Humes. I always get Tom. It's always my most deranged off the cuff. I'll say like some weird sexual thing, and I really get Tom with it's always my most deranged, off the cuff. I'll say like some weird sexual thing

and I really get Tom with it. Ready your dicks. The joiner. I'm your Dungeon Master Mark Sherlock Humes. Joining me this week we have, we've got Rhiannon and Kim. My dick is ready. Ah, good.

And then on the other side, we have Tom and Katie. Grab your dick, it's time to roll. Could you reckon we can work that into like a new catch phrase? He rolled a nat 20! Oh my God! He rolled a nat 20! I need to grab my dick more. Do you reckon we can work that into like

our new campaign slogan, you know? No. Critical roll have, is it Thursday yet? You know, we can have, grab your dicks in your d20s. None of this is making it into the board. Only if we even it out and we get some vaginas in there. Oh yeah, yeah, that's fair. Equality, come on now.

Equality, equality, that's for sure. I'm not gonna... Ready? No, I'm not, I literally nearly launched into a whole thing where I was gonna be like, ready, you... No! It's gonna be awful, it's gonna be awful.

We're not doing that, we're not doing that. We're canceled, that's it, we're done. Didn't make that 10 years. No, welcome everybody. Fun game of Hyros. As you can tell, no trot this week. Unfortunately, he's off busy in a field. He's off in a field doing a LARP.

Being a wizard. Yes, which you heard all about, Menus Fate, but there'll be another one, hopefully. As long as it all goes well right now. If you do have many's fate and you've had a great time, tell people about it. Yeah, do that. Make it more. There you go.

Well, you'll be there now. Because that'll be beneficial. Yeah, they're there now, yeah. But when they watch this on YouTube. Now I can catch up. Yes. Or catch up on podcast. What?

Podcast, you say, you mean the place in which we have every month over 100,000 hours listened to? That's the stuff I heard earlier, which is a lot of hours. That's a lot of hours. That's a lot of hours. But Tom, also I love the YouTube shorts that we do. Do you? And I love watching them on YouTube shorts

and sometimes we post them on TikTok and Instagram, but like I kind of wish that when I was listening to music, I could watch them somewhere else. Why? You can, but why? Why? Well, I upload all the shorts to Spotify now. There aren't, you can watch shorts on Spotify now.

You can do that now. You can do that. I don't know. Who needed that? You can also leave comments on Spotify now as well. What? Yeah, leave comments. And I read them all.

Engagement. Yeah, I get emails every day about... I will screenshot the best comment on the podcast and put it on someone. Have you ever looked at one of these? And I will do something with it. I'm looking at it now. Where can I find... Right, with that...

You've got to test this feature. But I'll tell you one thing about music that I do love. I like mute... you. Yep. But I'll tell you one thing about music that I do love. I like you. Yep. I love you. I love you. Tom, Tom, I love you. I love you.

I love you. I love you. I was going to take over, but I can't. No, you can't. Go ahead. Also want to thank, we've mentioned this in like the breaks at the end of the episodes, but the last couple of episodes, we have had some delightful new custom-made music.

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And we hope you've enjoyed it. Let us know if you've enjoyed all the Prada Majra music in the episodes as well. I believe Spotify Soon TM. Soon TM maybe. Soon TM. The other Althea music is on there at least. Yes it is. You can listen to the other Althea music.

Nice. That is it for announcements and things this week. Cool. Cool, in that case let's just jump on in. Grab your dick. ["The Last Supper"] Welcome back to Alfea the Dragon Empire. Deep within the proto-Majai vault called the Prism, our heroes sequestered themselves within

the former housing chamber of the Galowak and managed to secure themselves time to rest, before continuing to explore the strange alien facility. Hopeful for answers and perhaps even trinkets and prizes to take home, they unlocked a chamber that contained verdant growth and foliage, as well as deeply unsettling group of hybrid insectoid creatures that called themselves the Family. Disturbed and suspicious, the party avoided a confrontation and locked the family back within their chamber. Another chamber marked as the living armory contained a device that seemed to house

some sort of magical armor. Tempted by the protection it would offer, Sister Ophelia stepped into the machine where she was suddenly restrained and horrifying creatures broke free of containment, attacking the party. With the creatures defeated, Ophelia was released after a strange armored beetle was embedded in the back of her neck

and conjured forth a suit of thick, chitinous, carapace armor. The rest of the prism, its treasures and secrets, however, remain to be explored. Couple of things before we jump into the session. First things first, remain to be explored. Couple of things before we jump into the session. First things first, let's do fate. Fate! Yeah, all right.

Just a couple of fates. Do a trot roll and roll it in a dice tray. He's not here, so he doesn't get one. Sounds trotty today. Oh, actually. Oh! Oh! Oh!

Sounds like quite a few blues. No. Oh. Well, let's start with Katie. I got three. That's a dice for me. I got a four. That's a dice for you.

Six. A dice for you. A six. A dice for you. Wow. It's been a while. Finally. Big money, big money, big money.

A five, a dice for you. A six for me. I mean, it's also like where you guys are exploring, there's not a lot of ways for me to spend it, so make sure you use these for like saving throws and ability checks and stuff like that as you need them. The second thing, and you guys know that I do this and this is for the ones at home,

because like sometimes as a DM, you have a week and you spend a bit of time thinking about something. And I do want a per, what? Percolate. Percolate. Percolating. Percolating.

He's been percolating. I've been prognorating. He's been prog-on-ing out. Oh dear, oh dear. No, it is, I wanna do a very, a sort of, a slight retcon. We're not gonna change anything that happened, but I said that the armor that Ophelia got was a relic. I'm actually gonna change that.

And it is just gonna be a magical suit of armor, it is not going to be a relic. Having looked at the rules for it and had looking sort of like the relic distribution in the team and what items had relic, I was like, do you know what, I'm actually gonna change this. So it is just gonna be magical armor.

Still functions exactly the same, still embedded, still drains hit points and things like that, but it is now just a... A presence? There is a very minor presence. Okay, just a little bit. Sort of lingering, sentient, whatever this creature is, it is clearly alive,

but it is not a deeply thoughtful creature. What if it's like Clippy, and it comes up and gives you a little wind piece. Hi there. I see you're trying to write a CV. Do you want some help with that? Well, this would be like Armored Clippy, so it's like, I see you got hit. Would you like some help with that?

Yeah. Try not to get hit, moron. Like, make the sword hit the armored bit. I see, you messed up again. Yeah, so just a very slight thing, it's still magical, but Phineas still has it, but just not a relic. Right, okay.

And that I believe is where we left things off last week with this, from the back of your Necrophilia, you feel not a painful experience, but a rather unusual and pleasant one, as this chitin sort of spreads, or almost like a kind of liquid or an oil setting over your body and then hardening into this musculature, almost plating.

I think I mentioned if you've ever seen the comic Witchblade or the Guyver, the old manga, an anime, the Guyver, very similar to that. This is like a bio-mechanical armor, almost, as it spills over. You are now, I have added it to inventory and I've equipped it to you and you are attuned to it, which has boosted your AC significantly.

I wanna take a peek. On your new character sheet, which you should be using. 2024 one. Wait, don't tell me you've been using your old character sheet this entire time. This is my 2024. It's not on there? No.

Weird. Well, you can search for it anyway. It's not on there? No. Weird. Well, you can search for it anyway. It's called Living Armor Scarab. Living Armor Scarab, cool. And you have your Psy Amp now. I have my Psy Amp, but I don't have my Cloak of Check. All right, so maybe I forgot you forgot the Cloak of Check.

The Cloak of Protection, that was plus one. Plus one saving throws. Saving throws, yeah. But yes, you all see this happen to Afidah. You see her stood there. In some cases, the armor has gone under anything which is sort of away from the body, so satchels, pouches, belts, even maybe some of your clothing as well.

Anything that's significantly away from the body, it kind of goes under. Anything really close to the body though, it would overlay. So maybe the base layer of clothing and things like that, but any kind of drapey fabrics it ignores, as it forms half-plate armor. Damn, okay. And this other guy is, we killed him, didn't we? You did, yes, yes, the two creatures are dead.

Their bodies writhing, even posthumorously, there is a sort of twitch and spasm to their bodies as the two tentacles on their shoulders, the humanoid parts of their bodies remain still, but these tentacles are almost like pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft, pfft until eventually they still not moving. And that is where we're gonna pick back up this week. Grim. Bloody hell. Rowan is going to be awkwardly traumatized enough

to the point that he's going to be very quiet. Yes. But when called upon can act as normal. I will from the end of the corridor because I'm still in the main room. I was trying to, well, when everyone left, I wanted to close the door. Yeah.

Is there anyone left in there? Is everything okay? What's happening? I think they're taken care of. They're wiggling a little bit, but I think they're dead. Do we want to leave that room? Ophelia, are you okay? I would like to leave the room.

Let's everyone out. We can reassess. I can open this door again. Let's just everyone come out. Ophelia, can you walk? I would like to leave the room. Let's everyone out, we can reassess. I can open this door again, let's just everyone come out. Ophelia, can you walk? I can walk, my neck is so itchy. Oh, I wouldn't. Can you see it? Oh, oh, oh.

What's there, what's there, what's there, what is it? Don't touch it, you'll make it worse. Oh, don't scratch it. Are you, is the armor quite, are you discomforted by the armor's presence? I think it's just the, the fact that there's like this other body on her. Like it's, she's so used to just having her around.

Does Ophelia think I want it to go away? I think it's just, yeah, it's like, it's making her brain itchy. That kind of thing where it's just like, oh, I don't feel right, there's something on me. Like, like, like you feel like there's like a, like if you get the sensation, there's like a spider on the back of your neck

and nothing's there. So do, but does Ophelia have the thought of, I want this to go away? Yeah, I think so. So when she has that thought, the armor recedes. Oh! And you feel it snap back into the scarab, which is, you can still feel like a cool stone

on the back of your neck, like a cooling rock. And as you reach up, you almost feel its wings kind of flicker as if the beetle is still like... Ooh, ooh, it's moving. I can feel it. Hi. Yeah, that's it. Hello, my name's Greff.

Sorry, I was just introducing myself to you and your friends on the back of your neck there. Are you aware that you've got a golden scarab on the back of your neck now? I am now! It would be like a dark silvery gray. A dark silvery gray scarab. Just to make it clear for Arn.

I'm very much aware of it now. Yeah, it's, Gruff will just touch it. It's very hard, like, yeah, it almost feels like you're touching a piece of steel when you touch it. But there is, like, as just touch it. It's very hard, like yeah, it almost feels like you're touching a piece of steel when you touch it. But there is like, as you touch it, the wings almost like, look. Oh, I felt that on my neck.

And it's like, you can see movement, like this thing is clearly alive. For game purposes, by the way, as an action, you can don or doff the armor. So you can basically instantly, so it takes like a few, yeah, and it activates basically. It's ordinary, like what, five minutes? It's like five, ten minutes for like,

play armor basically. Pretty good. So it's like a, so but you have, all you have to do is mentally like, command it like, armor, you know, get, arm it, come here, like, and it comes on. Armouron!

Power Ranger pose. Very cool. Armouron! Power Ranger pose. Woo-woo! But yes. Sister Ophelia, you feeling okay? That doesn't hurt, does it? It hurt when it went on me. It just feels kind of itchy and like crawly. It's weird. It's not moving anywhere.

It's some, like I'll kind of, like try, like gently try and pry, like, gently try and, like I'll kind of, like try, like gently try and, like, gently try and pry. You put your claws, or it doesn't react to you putting your claws around it, and then you pull. Gently, but very. You pull gently, and you see that this thing is like borrowed into the flesh,

and it goes in quite significantly, like there is a kind of very sore wound around it, and maybe you can just briefly, with your passive perception, glance at its legs, go in and probably attach to the spinal cord. Aw. Yeah, right. I'm not going to touch that any further. Um... Why?

Is it bad? Always some... You would definitely get the sense of like, you know, Gruff's only gently pulling on it, but you would almost feel a sense of feeling of like, discomfort from this thing on the back of your neck. Like, it does not want to let go. Yeah, he's hanging on in there. I don't really want to make this any worse.

Okay. You just put your hair down, you know, and pretend it's not. You just put the hair down, and just cover up, isn't it? Shh, shh. That's it, I'll just, I'll just. Oh! Oh, come on, how bad can it be? Let me take a look at this.

You have a look and go. Once Ophelia's looking away, I look to the others like, ooh, ooh, and then you turn back. Yeah, oh, you know what? Tiny, tiny. It's not that bad? It's not that bad. It's not that bad. It's a great look. Do you wanna give me a deception check,

as an Theism? Let's sort of for a bit of fun, make an insight roll there. Can I have all of my d20s back, please? Oh, I have a thief. Hehehehe. That one? No.

Hahaha. It's good. It's perfect. It's good. Oh, it's terrible, doesn't it? It looks so bad. I won't lie to you, Ophelia. It's really borrowed in there.

It's a bug in your neck. Oh, was this a mistake? Oh, Sister Ophelia, does the armor seem to protect you further? I am rather pleased at that development that you will be more protected. But where's it gone? You had armor, now it's just this thing. Well, when I said I wanted it to go,

or when I thought about it going, it came off. So maybe if I think about it. You think and yeah, it spills out. You, watching it more closely, the wings kind of open up and tiny kind of like insects like sprawl out, covering up, and then they solidify and harden into the kindness material. up and tiny kind of like insects like sprawl out, covering up and then they solidify and harden into the kindness material, almost like nanobots,

but like little bug versions, like. As it forms this. Okay, do you want the helmet on? Yeah. Wow, all right, okay. It feels, it completely obscures Ophelia's face, leaving an almost insectoid kind of like, pair of horns.

Oh, that's so. And Ophelia, but to you, very storm-like, it's clear, it's see-through. Like, you're like as if there's nothing on your face. You can feel like something around your ears and around your neck, but your face is completely free. And your breathing, it's not fogging up, like glass or anything like that.

But you know that there's something there. There's maybe a very slight haze, as if you were very close to a piece of glass. I feel just like touch. Oh, this is so weird, I can see my hands! How? That is, I can't see you at all. You look very intimidating. Especially with like still the black and red like robes

that are underneath the, oh sorry, over the exoskeleton now. And I think that like, cause it's half-plate like, maybe your sword arm is still partially exposed, like parts of your legs are still exposed, things like that. It isn't a full suit of plate now, this is half plate. So it's mainly like the torso, like a big long tasset along the leg, like an armored boot up to your thigh on the other side,

one big gauntleted hand, the other one maybe only a partial gauntlet. Yeah. Well can you still move in this thing? It looks quite... Quite good actually, I'll take my sword out and give it a few like swings. Wow, this is incredible.

You know what, I think this might be worth it. And it's not hurting, you're not in pain, you don't feel anything weird. It's a little itchy, it's a little like, like a caterpillar or something, you know, like just... Can you hear a voice from the vault? Hello? Vault? Yeah, don't hear anything.

No. That's Andy. OK, so it's not the same thing that Gruff has then, at least. Hello? Everyone's got stuff attached. I don't. Well, you kind of do. No, it's not attached to me, Xantheus.

It's just on my arm. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. And you've got Nym. No, I'm in denial about this whole thing. No, I'm the only one without a hidden friend. I've got my rocks. He does have his rocks. His best friend, the rocks. Um, Ophelia, you do feel that presence.

There's almost sort of like pleasant sensation of comfort. Sort of like, whatever this thing is, it's quite happy to be present. Wait, I'm feeling. It feels quite nourished. I feel happy. Oh great, fantastic quite nourished. I feel happy. Oh, great. Fantastic. But I don't feel happy.

Okay. You're not happy? Why are you not happy? The gestures. The bug. Oh, you can feel its emotions? I think the scarab is happy. Well, I guess it's quite out of beat to be being used,

being useful. I suppose so. Well, let me try this out. Okay. be being used, being useful. I suppose so. Well, let me try this out. Hey, Bug, you're a disgusting little nightmare. Why would you say that? I want to know if you can really feel the emotions. You get a sense of amusement. The Bug is amused.

Oh, this is weird. This is very strange. No, that's weird. I don't need to know when the bug's happy or when it looks sad. Listen here, Scarab. You look after my friend, Sister Ophelia, okay? Yeah. The feat you get a sensation of satisfaction

and sort of excitement. The bug is excited. Can we give it a name? Because the bug's not really great. Scarab, that's not what I do. Would you like a name? Little bug friend. Well, it really depends.

You want to keep this thing? Well, I don't, I think having, giving it a name would make it feel a little less horrifying to me, the fact that it's in my flesh. That's, yes, okay. Daisy's got her hand up. What do you like, yes, yes?

Can we call it Stanley? Stanley? Stanley. What's the brand? Would you like to be called Stanley? I just thought it would fit. Stanley the Scarab. Roll a d20. It doesn't, there's a sense of like, it doesn't love it, but it doesn't hate it. Daisy's got her hand up again.

Maybe something armor-related. It's on the fence. Okay, this better be good. Steven. Okeydoke. hand up again. Maybe something armor related. Okay, this better be good. This is even. Okey doke. Steven. Okay. Is that- Really doesn't like Steven.

Does not like Steven. Do you have any ideas, Ophelia? I mean, first of all, have you got an idea of names? An idea for a name? I've never been asked such a thing before. Oh, well, I mean, this would be a perfect opportunity to try something. Somebody let Daisy speak before she wets herself.

It's gonna be something like Kevin. Sebastian. Sebastian. Sebastian. Again, it doesn't mind it, doesn't love it. Very neutral. I don't think I've ever had to be creative before, and I don't know. Where did Percival come from?

I don't know, it's just a name I've always carried. Oh, okay. So you didn't name him Percival? I didn't name him Percival, no. He was assigned that name. I'm not sure, perhaps the Countess, or perhaps a previous servant of the Great Father. Right Daisy's got her hand up again.

Benjamin the Bug. It prefers Benjamin out of. Benjamin the Bug. It prefers Benjamin out of all of the ones that have been said so far. But not 100%. It's not 100%. Not 100%. But Benjamin's closest that it's like so far.

Daisy, you get one more and then that's it. Bob. Bob the Bug. This one I'm gonna roll publicly. Ha ha ha. Eh, it's an 11, it's like, again, it's like, it doesn't mind it, but he doesn't love it. Right, how about we get on with it,

and then maybe inspiration will strike us as we get around. I think Stephen was the best. Can you take it back? Oh, sorry, yes, yes. And I'll concentrate on moving me up. Surely it's best to keep it out for... At least so I can see your face, please.

I'll take the helm off. Okay, yeah, you take the helm off. Hands free. Okay, that, you take the helm off. Wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh- Okay, I'm still like yelling from the corridor. Is there anything else in that room, by the way? Lot of tentacles. Yeah, like some of the other specimens that were in those glass walls, when the creatures broke free, like the eyeball has like flopped on the ground. Good idea.

And you can see that the pupil is like looking around, like it's not still, it's the eyes looking around. The tentacles are kind of... It's not still, it's the eyes looking around. The tentacles are kind of... There's like a weird virus-like thing which is almost like using its little tendrils to like move, kind of like the venom symbiote. Like...

Very slowly, doesn't seem to have too much ambulatory. If it comes anywhere near us, I'm whacking it. Yeah, no, it's actually going towards the dead body of the thing that you killed. Oh, right. There's something happening here though, I don't really fancy the look of it. Okay. I'm just gonna move this body, hold on. I'm gonna move the body away.

Which way? I don't know, just away from the... The venom? Yeah. Eddie! Hello, Mrs. String! I would like to eat them. Yeah, you can pick up the bodies, you can drag them away. The symbiotes and the organisms here are not moving quickly.

They don't have real ambulatory systems. You guys all leave. Do you want to shut the doors, Xanthius, to this place? Before I close the door and I'll conjure a flame, a produced flame, should I stop those things in there? I just don't know. This is the kind of place where I'm like, is it gonna make it better or is it gonna make it worse,

you know? Like if you flame it, is it going to burn to a crisp or is it just gonna get stronger? Well, it is moving extremely slowly. It's just I'm worried about the eventuality that that thing moves from that room to the family, you know? And imagine those things with that thing on it. Can he get through the door?

Do you think? I don't know. Right, I'm gonna move these bodies out into the central area. The central area. So that if you close the door, it's on the other side of the door. Okay, yeah, good idea. All right. I'm, look, I'm going to turn around and if you blast that thing with a fireball, I'm not gonna say nothing. Gruff condoned fire.

We're in the bad place. I just said I wasn't gonna pass comment. All it takes for evil to survive is for good men to do nothing. No, yeah, you guys move the bodies out. I have another name! Yes, Bruce! Bruce, Bruce the Bug. The best one so far.

Bruce is the best so far, but I don't think it's 100% there yet. Bruce. I'm basing this very much on a scale of, does it beat the other roles? Does not mean that it loves Bruce. Brucie. But it liked it better than the others.

Brucie. Brucey bonus. Look, if you make it nice and human and normal, then it's not as weird. I do see the logic. You guys bring the bodies out. Xanthes, do you actually send a fireball in? No, I'll just close the door. It can't get through the light.

Which orb do you hold up? I'll break it. Which orb do you hold up? I hold up the orange orb. And you will the door shut. I will the door shut. A wall of light emerges and seals off that room. The green tube in the middle,

is that still powered? What did I need a green orb? Orb. You have a green orb and a red orb, don't you? He had a red orb that he used the yellow rod on to make it into an orange sphere. Do you have a greenish sphere? It's always been powered.

You would remember that even like when you came down here, there was the green lighting was inside it. Right, okay. You just know that as long as you have a green orb, I can get that. You can basically use that to cast levitate on anyone with you and then you can go up and down in that space.

As long as you can only cast Levitate in that psyllid. Okay, so are we going up? Well the only other door is that prismatic one. But I don't know how to make that color. There's... Big Priz. Well we tried Big Priz on it I think. Well I don't think you try it.

Big Priz doesn't seem to open doors though. No. You said Big Priz on it, I think. Did we? I don't think you tried it. Big Priz doesn't seem to open doors, though. No. You said Big Priz. It was incorrect usage. But you did know that Gruff asked what was in the chamber you were just in, and you heard it through the Siam, what it was. You could try and find out what's in there

or how to open it or something like that. Right. What's the name? Vermilion Orcs... Vermilion Orcs are nine. Right. Vermilion Orcs something like that. Right. What's the name? Vermillion Orcs of... Vermillion Orcs of Nine. Right. Vermillion Orcs of Boyot. Nine.

What's in this door? What's behind this prismatic door? Door identified. Primary project. Threat level, high. Oh! Right, we don't... I don't wanna go there. We don't wanna go buying the store.

Project Chimera is not ready. Right, it says Project Chimera. Project Chimera? It's not ready. What a great father. Do we know what a chimera is? This is one of those ones where like, traditional fancy monster, never heard that in old fairbanks.

What's a chimera? Look, it's a name I've never heard, and it's in a dungeon, a vault full of monsters, and it's not ready, and it's primary, I don't want to know, I don't want to find out. Oh, it's probably a horrible combination of so many different creatures at the same time. What would be the worst combination?

I would say probably lion, snake, goat. Very... Rooster. Rooster. Bunny, rabbit, goat. Very... Rooster. Rooster. Bunny, rabbit, ferret. Fire stote. Fish. Tyrannosaurus Rex with shark arms.

I don't know what a Tyrannosaurus Rex is. Oh, if you never, they have them in the Azar steppe, actually. Oh, right, okay. It's a thunder, Liz, it's a thunder beast. Oh, right, okay. And with what arms? Shark. Shark, okay. Which would be, you. Oh, right, okay. And with what arms? Shark. Shark, okay.

Which would be, you would know, there are natural sharks, but sharks tend to be servants of Orjanya, one of the Embered Goddesses. I totally know that. Well, I think you would know that as Gruff, because sailing out on the sea and things like that, obviously you don't go deep waters enough

or things like that, but there are stories of, again, it things like that. But there are stories of like, you know, again, it's one of those kind of deep sea beasts that like, well, you know, that's- It's a deep sea beast, you know what I'm saying? One of O'Djanya's servants. I think the worst combination might be Obsidius with Obsidius's arms and Obsidius's head. That's not really a combination, that's just Obsidius.

You're right. Yeah. What a horrible timeline we have in. Either way, look, this door is prismatic and it's that's... I don't know. I just feel like if all these doors are mixing with colours and prismatic is mixing with all the colours, we don't want to go here. No. Our business is elsewhere. Yes. Okay, well hopefully we can find some way to stop whatever that project is

before we leave this place. But either way, I don't think we're getting through there anytime soon. Hold on a minute. A million orcs are such and such. Nine. What do you need to complete this project? You wouldn't get a response to that. It's not talking to me. Okay.

Okay. Did it say, what was it, authorisation or something? It just didn't respond. It's just not talking to me. Which it has done. Sometimes when you ask it questions, it just doesn't respond to you. You know, it would have been really helpful if it was like, oh, the blood of a wild art or, you know, a tale of a...

We don't want to hear that. We don't want to hear that. We don't want to know that. We don't want to know that. We don't want to know that. Well, I do want to know that. I don't want to know that. Because they're not staying the hell away from us. I think we should just assume that that is what they want. They want all of us to be a part of that,

so therefore we should leave. Green. What? Green tunnel, shoot, let's go. Oh, you want to go up? Yes, well, I can do that. I've got this thing. I can take us right up there.

We still need to find something that'll help. Me? Yeah. Yeah, so far, we've had a lot of things inserted into people and not a lot taken out of them. Yes, I like putting things in other things. Too much going in, not enough going out. Yeah. Talk is a problem.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So we can, let's take a look at the other floors. We've already seen one of the rooms upstairs. You'd only opened the, you've only seen inside the blue chamber. We've already seen one of the rooms upstairs. You'd only opened the, you've only seen inside the blue chamber.

We've uncovered them on the map because you went into similar rooms, but all of these other rooms you've not been into. All right, everyone, stand in a circle in this thing. Avoid the body on the ground. Do we not want to go see the family one more time? No. Absolutely fucking not.

Can you see through the door at all? Or is it completely? I would say there's an ever so slight, like opaque vagueness to them. I imagine that. And you just see lined up, close to the door as they can be. You see these very faint silhouettes,

and one of them keeps just skittering along the bottom. And they're just stood there as close as they can. You can't hear them, you can't see any detail, but you know that they are there waiting. It's not right. No, it's not right at all. No, it's really hideous. Anyway, everyone circle up.

It's good. But it's not right. It's not right. It is not right. All right, avoid the body on the floor. Yep. Everyone here? Everyone ready?

Do you want to do a per se? You're so close to me. My cable keeps body on the floor. Everyone here? Everyone ready? Well, Percy, you stay close to me. My cable keeps getting on my chair. Yes. Okay, so I feel like I can just, similar to another spell I know, just, we'll start to levitate, okay? You'll feel very strange. You're gonna feel like your stomach will drop for a second,

but then it'll be totally fine. Now, we wanna go just in the middle floor, right? Not to the very, very, very top. No, middle floor, I think. Okay, back to where we were. Up seas. Yep, you go in and yeah, it's just instinctual holding the orb.

You step in as people join in with you. You can basically use the levitate spell on them, or you're on yourself. You send people up to the mid level. Because it's levitate and not fly, there is a little bit of an awkward where you have to almost lean over and pull yourselves to the edges and stuff, or push each other

to get close enough to it. I understand, yes. Everyone form a line, let's go! But you easily can reach back to that mid-level. You can see that it goes up to the top level as well, but you do reach this mid-level. Okay, okay. Well done, boyo.

Thank you, thank you. I'm really using my brain today. So now we've got, so as I recall, the blue is the only one that's open other than the entrance door. So you have two yellow doors. Two yellows, two purples. And two purple doors, yes, correct.

Okay. Which one? Now do you think there's a simulat- What was the one with the beds in it? The blue. The blue corner. Blue one, yeah, this one up here. We don't need to think about that one, we've been in there. North, east. Unless anyone wants to get a little-

It's been alright, you know. Has it really? You haven't really heard anything new? Well apart from the voice in my head telling me to go up. That's just terrible. Which you've resisted every single time, right? Yes. Good. Although we are up now, and it was your idea to go up.

Gruff just gives a little creepy smile. Viable. Okay, so, now the real question is, how do yellow and how do purple? Well, you've got a yellow rod, haven't you? You've got a blue, red, and yellow rod. Yellow's easy, turns out. Yellow's really easy.

Yeah, really easy. Now, last time, when we went down into that door that's similar to the one downstairs, that was where we found... Frieda. Frieda. Do you think it's a similar thing to up here? It would be the south west. Well, they didn't say that downstairs

was the high threat stuff, the dangerous stuff, so it probably wouldn't be... Why don't we ask the things? Yeah, maybe find out what's in that yellow door over there. Hello, Vermilion Orcs or something, rather. What is behind the yellow door I am looking at? And you're looking at the southwest, this one. Yes.

Research, sorry, resource storage. Resource storage. I like resources. I like storage. A weirder takeaway from this. Well, it's good for organizing, but things have to be in a specific place. She does have a lot of stuff. Do not strike me as an organized person.

Oh, the houses of Osseous are very organized. She's so organized that she puts things away and can't find them again. Yes, but Ophelia... Sister of Ophelia de la Rosa. Osseous would 100% have a kind of Ikea-like system. Where everything would like, ah, I see that you have the Schnurgles shelves.

And it's like they use them for bone storage, you know? But then in the House of Blood, oh no, we keep our blood in the Schnurgle. You don't wanna mix up blood types, terrible. Does everyone have a hell-like labyrinth to go through? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That makes sense, yeah. That makes sense. Yeah, it's awful.

We've got a labeling system for the schnurgle. You can see us at the services of the church. It's very... Everybody's all orderly in a queue and a line. It's lovely. No chaos. It's a little handmaid's tale sometimes. Very nice. Just rows of people in their robes like... There's a piece in the organisation.

Everything goes in the calax. Everything goes in the calax. The schnurgle. Sorry, the schnurgle. Schnurgle. My bad. Plywood coffins are very cheap, you know. We're gonna end up getting sent a bunch of pictures of people's calaxes now.

And just be like, check out my schnurgle. She'd like a cowl. I'm gonna be fan of the schnurgle. I wanna see everyone's schnurgles. That sounds weird to say. Right, open the door! Right! Well, should we ask what the other ones are?

Okay. And we can also just find out a little bit more. That one. Storage, storage is good. Resource and storage. I like the elements of surprise. What about this purple one? Purple one.

I don't like surprise, surprise is very bad. Hello, Vermillion, Orcs, God, I don't know. It's nine, how many do we have? What is behind this purple door that I'm looking at? And yes, it's the next one. Alchemical lab. Alchemical lab. Ooh, no, that sounds awful.

What is behind the yellow door I'm looking at now? It's the next one. That one is testing arena. Nope. Oh, testing arena. Nope. Oh, testing arena. No, not that one. Sounds fighty. That does sound extremely fighty, the arena.

What about that purple one? What about the purple one? What's behind the purple door? Not the one. Subject stasis. No. Subject stasis. We're avoiding their room.

That's where they wanted me to go. Okay, so not now. Right, okay, so we'll keep you away from that one, at least for now, but there might be some subjects, recent subjects that we could get out of there. You do know that the people were going missing around this area, that's why Squire Pascal was sent here and why Nika Sandra came to find you in the first place.

Could be that they could still be here. Maybe. They're the family now. Oh no! All the other creatures that the family were eating. Yeah. Okay, well let's start down here with the yellow door. You don't have yellow ball.

How do you make a yellow ball? I need to, what do you think is most important? We're not going, oh, actually, we'll keep the green one for now just in case we need to get away. Yes. Does that make sense? Good idea. So green, I'll keep that one.

The orange one. So you go up to the plinth. Spherical indentation to Rod Slots. What do you do? All right, I'll put the orb in first. Drains of color. Yellow keystone. Yellow keystone fills it with yellow.

Orb out. Orb out. Keystone, perfect. Yellow orb. It's important to get it, because there are things that you haven't uncovered yet about this system that might trigger, so. I've played enough simulation games

that this kind of stuff is like... You're like, I love it. I fucking love this stuff. Okay, make a prism then, bitch. Me pick ball, me put thing. I get thing, take ball. Red keystone. Put the yellow in.

Turns it orange. Orb out. Yeah. Keystone out. Put the blue one in. Yep. Orb in. Turns it black.

Completely fully black. That's like when we found it. Or about, what do you think this one does? Well, we found one like that. Well, I know, but do you think it... I'm gonna try this on the yellow door. Nothing happens. Can you imagine though?

Anyway. But there might be other uses for it elsewhere in the system. Keystones out, orb in. Drains of color. Yellow, keystone. Adds yellow to the orb. Orb out, keystone out.

Perfect. Yellow. You got yellow orb. Green orb, yellow orb. I could, I'm being fully serious right now. I could do that all day. Because it's that little dopamine hit in your brain of like, me make yellow ball? Yeah, color. Yellow ball. I know what everyone else at the table is thinking. They could not do that all day. Because it's that little dopamine hit in your brain of like, me make yellow ball, yellow ball. I know what everyone else at the table is thinking,

they could not do that all day. No, but I'm interested to see how far you can take it though. Yeah, so I want the next one. I wanna max it out. I just wanna know when the achievement unlocks. Yeah, get every color, yeah. You've got, you study painting and stuff, don't you Daisy? So, well, but Daisy does, Daisy knows painting.

So there is a little bit of color theory here. Basically, when you try to add blue to an already mixed color, it made black. In the sense that if you mix too many paints and colors together, it will eventually just become a blacky-brown gross color. And you know that you have these three primary colors and then like orange, green, and purple

are all like secondary colors made from mixing of the primary colors. So you think that black is like, it can't be more than black. Like black is like, there is no prismatic color. You can't make a prismatic orb. Can you imagine? Yeah.

All right, either way. Yeah, what's the glitter option? Yeah, can we add like some? Yeah, can we add some? Maybe you can find the sparkle rod. There's not a rod in the magic. Sparkle rod! Anyway. Open the door.

Yellow door, we would like to head towards the yellow room. Resource storage. Resource storage. How bad could this be? So. I mean, I can't guess pretty rough. It leans into a 30 foot long corridor made of the same smoky glass that you've encountered everywhere through this vault.

As you make your way down, I'll move you guys on the map in a second, you enter a room the same dimensions as Frieda slash the Galawax chamber, but this one contains a large sphere of the same smoky glass. And looking inside, there is an opening at the front that seems to lead into a carving corridor

that actually almost goes up and along the wall and spirals into the dome itself. You can see inside the dome, sections of the walls of this twisting corridor, sections of them have hollowed out shelves covered in glass. Call them by their real name. No, these aren't schnuggles.

These are just normal shelves. All right, noted. Shut up, so you did not find schnurgle on the web. Yeah. Um. To the Hipporizing history immediately. What you can see is that in these small alcoves, and you imagine that there's more if you were to go in,

but your kind of eye line of this corridor kind of cuts off as it twists around onto itself, and you lose sight of where the corridor goes. There are things inside these shelves, strange bars of metal, odd looking plants, very similar in fact, you remember when you were in the comet inside the Volum Vault, when you were making the Void Star Ring,

you had these glass spheres that you could move around, and they had silvery metals, strange woods that you'd never seen before. Very similar materials to what you saw there, but these are just in accessible kind of outcoats. For the purposes of this, if you can't imagine it in your head, this is basically leading into a sort of maze,

a very simple kind of maze, but you can see that gravity does not work the same in the dome, because if you were to walk along it, you would eventually start walking sideways and then upside down. Oh, sweet. And it would like curve in on itself. We're in an Escher room. It's kind of a bit of an MC Escher in that like,

yeah, the gravity inside the dome is different, so you are always walking on the floor, and it would like curve in on itself. We're in an Escher room. It's kind of a bit of an MC Escher in that like, yeah, the gravity inside the dome is different, so you are always walking on the floor, but it means that like the curves will go round and in on of itself. For the purposes of those of you who are watching, obviously, podcasters, you kind of, there is a map here which kind of displays how it works,

because the corridor does split into a round, so it kind of backs in on itself. Cool. Yeah, that is what you see. I will move your miniatures whilst you discuss what you'd like to do. Okay, so it is like something we can pretty easily walk into and start.

Seems to be. Kind of reminds me of the stuff we saw in the Volant Vault. Yes. The old voice started. Oh yes. Kind of reminds me of the stuff we saw in the Volant Vault. Yes. The old voice started. Oh yes. It's me, Rowan, hello. Is there any way to identify what's in these shelves at all? I don't wanna start.

You would need to get further in and start looking. There is one, actually I didn't label which way these faced. Yeah, you can see one slightly to your left. You can see one just before it curves around. The others seem to be further in. You can't really get a good look at them. Yeah, like I said, you can see weird, strange metals. You can see resources of whatever these protomanagers use.

There's definitely resources being stored here. Thank you for that, Gruff. Okay. But there's no like big crafting... Device. Device thing. It's not like that. No, do you remember the big like metal thing that helped us make something before?

Your Tormaton. It made the void starting. Yeah, that's nothing like that in here. Do you think maybe we should start trying to pick through this, see if we can identify any of it? Sure. Maybe we split up and go left and right. Yeah, I'm gonna need an order here,

because it is narrow, like only one of you can walk in square, it's only about five feet wide. It is quite tall, probably Rowan's height tall, but it's narrow. So yeah, which way are people going? You've got a left and a right. I'll take left, and maybe I'll try to identify any of these as they come up.

30. If it's right, Ophelia, do you think Percival would be okay staying in the Coral with Pascal? Oh yes, yes, Percival. I am more than happy to do that. Of course, if Sister Ophelia wishes it, of course I will stand here with the gentleman. Thank you, Percival.

Of course. You're doing a really good job. I mean, I might stay out of here as well, everyone, if that's all right. Okay, it's all right. Rowan, I've got a really important job for you. Yes? A really important job. Okay, Gruff, I'll do it.

Could you look after Squire Pascal for me? Absolutely, of course. Thank you. Not a problem. Has anyone noticed? It sounds like Rowan needs to take a shit. No! That's quite a lot.

He wants to pay to die at that point. So Daisy, Ophelia and Gruff, where would you like to go? You can team up if two of you want to go one way, two of you go the other way. I will go to the right. You're going to the right? I'll go with Gruff. Okay, five, 10, 15, 20.

Oh no, we've left. Okay, now it's twin. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25. So you're just behind, and then Ophelia and... Daisy's just being very cautious and staying really close to Gareth. Sure. Nice to see you again.

So, look, have you got any more of that? Oh yeah, I've got like half a bottle left. We can take a little bit while they're looking around. Half a bottle? Yes. Last I saw, we had an hour and a half, we had a bottle and a half. An hour and a half.

I think it was half a bottle. On bottomless brunch. It was a bottle, I don't know. Very interesting. I've had a couple of sips. I'll do Ophelia and Xanthias first, and I'll come over to Daisy and Gruff. Xanthias and Ophelia, you look into this first alcove,

which is on the outer wall. Looking in, it looks like it can just open, like you can sort of just press your hands and reach through sort of the space to grab whatever's inside. You would find that there is a sort of scattering of strange, herbal-looking plants here. There are also large, kind of bundled logs

of a very odd looking, almost blue wood within here as well. And one thing which immediately draws on, I think especially the two of yours eyes, is a large, looks like something that a quite a big figure might wear, like a gauntlet. Gold, with a kind of clawed hand, and it is burning from within, studded with rubies,

and garnets, and obsidian, like gemstones. And it has this strong, overwhelming scent of fire and brimstone. Please cut this home right now. Does it? But it doesn't look like, it almost looks like, there's not an ins, like looking at it,

you don't think that there's like, this is a gauntlet you wear. It's almost like a severed hand almost. But it's solid, there's no blood. They're where she's injured, sit. But there's no blood or anything. Never that. Scarabs, no, no, no.

It almost looks like, I would say it's like decorative, but like, or it could be from some sort of construct or golem or something like that. Ophelia, all I've got here is like, what looks like pieces of wood. Yeah, I've got herbs and bits, but wait. What's... Sort of piecing apart.

I don't recognize much of this, Ophelia. What is it? Something very shiny, Xantheus. Shiny, you say? Let me just get a sense of things. How much gold is in this room? Are we low? No, you need to put your tongue out.

Well, you can count gold pieces. I don't know if you know the worth of something like this. Not the worth of something, but you know, just in case. I would say that you could definitely take the herbal plants and the wood, and you think that those would be valuable things that you could sell, like to wizards or mages and things like that. Blue wood, I know who would like that.

There's definitely a lot of mages and people like that. Because it's blue. It's who would like that. There's definitely a lot of mages and people like that. Because it's blue. It's blue, very good. And natural. The- Organic. The golden hand. Damn. Xenthias, give me an arcana check.

Okey doke. Oh, it's my investigation. No. This is more knowledge about what it might be from. I see, okay. I saw a trotter's up in here. Connor. Oh, just a seven, I'm afraid.

A seven, yeah, you don't really know what this might be from. It might be from some sort of construct, or maybe it's just a decoration, like an enchanted decoration, but it is clearly magical. There is like a magical fire within it that's kind of in between the joints. There is almost like trails of smoke coming off its fingertips.

There is intense heat and the smell of it. Now this is glorious. This is probably very valuable to the Riot buyer. I'll go to reach out and touch it and then I'll pull back for a second. I want to do a double check. Is there any crown steel in this thing? How would you know that?

How would I know indeed? There's not like a... You don't get any sense of like steel in this thing? How would you know that? How would I know, indeed? There's not, like, a... You don't get any sense of, like, desire for this thing, no. You don't think this is crown steel. It might be safe enough. Just be careful. I don't know what it contains. It could be, I don't know, we don't know about this place.

It could be, like, a monster in disguise. Oh, you think it's gonna have, like, eyes or something? Yeah. And all of its fingertips? That'd be grotesque. Ah, that would've been a great idea. Why didn't I put mimics in here? Ha, damn. Hang on, guys, give me a minute.

Your armored little bob, whatever it's called now. Bruce! Does it, oh. Is she on the ceiling? Where'd that come from? It came from everywhere. You guys would look up and Gruff and Daisy are like above you. Like you're twisting down.

How did you get up there? They've twisted up as they've walked along. Oh wait, are we on the- You're both set on- Could it look like when he looks up, Gruff's about to tap him on the shoulder with his staff? You're too far. Like you're, maybe with the staff you could reach down,

like, or you know, for you it'd be reaching up, because to them they're up to you guys. You two are looking up and they're up there. How did you get up there? How did you get up there? I'll look back. Whilst you have that conversation. What position is Rowan in?

Jeez, hello. Well you guys, when you look back to Rowan, to you, you've almost lost track, because you're down looking up at this curve. So Rowan's kind of on the side peeking in, You've almost lost track, because you're down, looking up at this curve. So Rowan's kind of on the side, peeking in. And then to you guys, he's on the other side. Rowan's freaking out, guaranteed.

Daisy. Hi. When you go to your window, we go off just before this interaction happens. You guys would see in your little shelf alcove, this one just contains one thing, kind of shards of it scattered around. And Nim is immediately like, little one, that cannot be.

That is Luxon. That is something from my realm. As you see these chunks of crystal that are the most, they are this beautiful golden, like ever so light in golden color, but like see-through. And it's almost like they've caught the sun itself within. And there's a faint effervescent glow to them, different sizes, and you can even see

that one of these chunks, what you thought was like a chunk of it, has been forged into, it looks like it was like maybe a broken piece of blade, and the blade has been snapped off, and the blade has been kept. He's playing into the shards of Narsil here as well. And it's just. That is my, the legions, we make our weapons,

we use it to fuel spells, war machines, everything. It is formed in the Lucent Peaks. What is it doing here? Is it safe? Should I take it? Oh yes, it's quite safe. Is it good? You would need to find someone who knows how to work it. In the Celestial Legions we have smiths and mages who construct our devices from it.

I don't know it myself, but I've used it. It is a very powerful weapon. The last thing I remember before I came to your realm was they had been attempts to replicate the weapons of the Helian Pit, the fiendish firearms like the one your friend recovered from the Servants of Devils long ago. They were trying to replicate that using Luxon, but Chariots, but Trebuchet's Ballista, we formed everything from it, walls of our cities, mages used it raw as components for celestial spells. It is, yes, I mean, it will have great value,

if nothing else, to, I'm sure, someone on your world, but if you could find someone to work it, I think that they could use it to construct something. Gruff, Gruff, Gruff. Hello. Gruff, Gruff, Gruff. Nim says that this is really important, it's a celestial thing, and it's like, why is it here? All right, could you say that again,

but with more words in it? I said all the words I have, I don't have any more in my brain, I ran out. You said the word thing a lot. Thing. Right. Stuff. Thing and stuff. So this is a thing that's stuff.

Stuff, good. Good, okay, right. Nim likes it. Yeah. Right. Why here? Well, because these proto-magi buggers collect things from all sorts of realms.

Me take. I'm just a bit cautious. Okay. Because I want to know, maybe Xanthias would know. And that's probably when you look up He's up there. And you reach out with the star, the Pope, Pope. How'd you get up there?

How'd you get up there? How'd we get down here? I don't know. I'm down. Where are we? Like, Xanthias. Yes? How'd you get up there? How'd you get up there? How'd we get down here? I'm down. Where are we? Like, Sathias? Yes? I'm just a bit worried that these things might be alarmed. Can you do something to see if there's like some kind of magical field or something?

Sorry. That's a bad joke, man. It's a good joke, but yeah, bad. Thank you, the door is alarmed. I can maybe, I could, last time I used Detect Magic, I almost went blind. Everything is magic. Everything is magical, but I might be able to,

I'll try it again with my little glasses. Very fetching. Thank you. Just gonna charge to cast Detect Magic. I'm just gonna check if I actually have a charge. I think you reset them because you had a long rest. Oh, yeah, okay. Did you identify once, I think.

Yeah, it's a D3. I gain one. But I do have a charge spare to, yeah, Detect Magic. Obviously, everything is very magical, but you're not blind, you're not blind. And it's enough that you can concentrate, and you would see, there is a very slight, faint magic aura about the herbs and the wood in your window.

Not enough to be like a magic item, but this is clearly a magical resource. The hand definitely is magic. Not maybe in a magic item sense, but in a, what I would call an arcane essence, or a planar essence. I love planar essences. Yeah, and you, I would say with the, your training, you've been examining and artificing

and you've been building your workshop, you think that this, and this will kind of make up for that arcana check you made earlier, you actually think that this hand, this gauntlet, is from the Primordial Isles, which is the Elemental Plains. And specifically, you think that this is an Ifrit's hand or gauntlet or something. It is connected to a fire genie, an Ifrit, basically.

One of the ruling class of the Primordial Isles. And would be a pretty strong essence of magical fire, or just a very valuable magical thing to sell. You might be able to take power from it or use it in some way. Yeah, he ain't selling it. Okay, Ophelia, that thing, the other thing, oh, it's so bright.

That is very magical. That is extraordinarily magical. Okay. Oh, elemental planes. Oh, sorry, I need to look away for a second. The herbs and the wood, you think, might be connected to the Feywield, the planar realm of the Feywield.

These look like natural resources that have just been harvested and are sort of imbued with the origins of it. Looking around though, you don't think that, you can't see like any runes of warding or alarm runes or anything like that you can see naturally. If you'd like to, you can make an investigation check for me to search for any kind of like, prime traps.

Can I look for traps? Yeah, you'd be looking for more mundane ones, but yeah, absolutely, yeah. Same thing, investigation. Natural 20 and a natural one. Perfect, so, the glass is coming in there. Investigation, search for traps. 12.

12 total. I mean, yeah, you look around, you can't see like any pressure plates or like switches or tripwires or anything. You know, you are not necessarily magically trained, so you're looking for physical traps, right? You're like trying to see if there's like changes in air pressure.

You can't find anything, nothing that Daisy finds. Same for you, Xantheus. You looking around this alcove, keep in mind this is just a search for this alcove, you don't see any signs of magical traps on this. You don't see any ruins of warning, you don't see any kind of alarms, you can't see anything.

You do think that there is more to be found within this dome, but whether or not that has protections, you don't know. Okay. But this is fine to take. You genuinely think that this is okay to take. I'm like, crouched down, looking at the bottom of these shelves.

Ophelia, can you just tell them that I can't see any traps right now, but oh, can you try not to mention that we have actually already taken some stuff out of the shelves before I take the traps? Okay, just mention the traps. Oh, the herbs. So write down anything you guys are taking, write it down.

So if you would like to, you can write down a freak gauntlet, or whatever you wanna put herbs, crumbs. So write down anything you guys are taking, write it down. So if you would like to, you can write down ifrit gauntlet or like, you know, whatever you want to put it down as. I'm taking the herbs and wood. Yeah, so put down fey-wheeled herbs and wood. Ifrit gauntlet, get. Luke, get, all right. It looks fine, I don't think there's any traps, by the way.

I think you're safe. Take care of your leisure. You can put down Lux and Shards. There are multiple, but they're, Nim would tell you that they would probably need to be all used together to have any real value. Like, selling one off by itself is probably not gonna do a lot.

Their value is the fact that there's enough here. Looking at the amount of shards, probably enough to make like one good weapon. Maybe a bow or a sword or something like that if I wanted to. Very cool. Cool. Yeah. Or a shield maybe at most, a push. I guess I wouldn't know this because I haven't seen it yet, but...

Or something else maybe. Is there, what would it take to make it? Is it like just a blacksmith type thing or...? No, you need a, for this you need a celestial blacksmith. You need an actual member of the, or somebody trained by one. You need somebody who knows how to work Luxon. Easy.

Because it is a. How hard can that be? Yeah, I mean, there are ways for you to get this stuff. I don't wanna talk to the person that you're telling me about. They're not the only way. There are other ways. You go to somewhere like Kelskares and start asking around and be like, anybody know where we can find some plain old stuff?

People will know. It's okay, in the stasis chamber, the first person will see. Hello there, I'm a celestial blacksmith. Look who's aboard. I smith your metals. Well, this is just perfect. If you plan on going to the administrator level,

I'll fix your arms. Tell me you'll find my wife, she's great at removing crown steel. No! I should do it for free! She was last 20 years ago to a dungeon north here here. Yeah, no, it's not gonna be that one, unfortunately. But yeah, make sure you write down the hats and shirts.

No traps, nothing happens, like you guys take the stuff out of the shelves, no problem. They gave us one for free. Not feeling good about it. No, me neither. But this is, this would be very helpful and it's really good and Nim says it's very valuable and maybe I can make something really nice with it.

Oh, that's really good, I'm really happy for you, Daisy. And a connection to your celestial friend there. Would you like to move further into the sphere? Do these passengers join up? That's the thing, on the map, they look like they do. They do, but you're at the top and bottom of it. Right, okay. And then it kind of splits off again

and you kind of double back on each other, so you're kind of looping around each other the whole time. It does look like there is a single chamber in the middle and you will meet back up there. Right. Does it reach a point where they're so close together that if we both jumped we could high five?

Yeah. We're doing that. When you get to the center that would be the case. Fabius! Daisy? High five! If we go on that. No!

So when you get to here I just need to know which way you guys are gonna go from here, left or right, Xanthias? Oh, it splits again. Oh, actually no, so you'd go around, so you'd actually be going around this way, you and Ophelia. Okay. And then Gruff and Daisy would be carried up past here.

Yeah. Okay. The next set of shells that you guys come across, in this one, and it looks like these have been emptied, like these would have been once filled with stuff, but now a lot of stuff has been taken. Gruff and Daisy, you would find basically rows of silvery metal bars that crackle with faint lightning.

Ooh! I love that. Five of them, in fact. Wow. Xanthius and Ophelia, you find two large, I almost, not quite fist-sized, but palm-sized diamonds set on golden holders.

And there's multiple of these, it looks like there were many kinds of gemstones once here, but these two pristine diamonds. Are they diamonds? They look like real genuine diamonds to me! And these are, Ophelia, you know jewel craft quite well from your studies and what you, you know your hobbies back in Osseous.

These are very well cut, you know, very, very high quality diamonds. You would estimate these to be worth about 500 gold each. I don't know what these are worth. 500 gold. 500? About 500 gold. 500? About 500 each. You would not see diamonds this fine on Osseous.

We've come close, but. Really? They are incredible. What if we just didn't tell the others about this, you know, just between me and you? What the fuck? Is that this I can see? Okay, we found some diamonds.

We found diamonds. Very pristine diamonds, apparently. I have no gold left, no. Zanthius, I can see you! Okay, we found some diamonds. We found diamonds! Very pristine diamonds, apparently. I have no gold left, so. Let's keep them safe for now. Whose fault is that? I'm just so generous. And giving. Okay, let's just keep one each,

just in case we... I wouldn't mind if you gave me a diamond. Oh, rats! Do you wanna take them? Sorry, there was two of those. Two diamonds, so if you wanna take one each, you can both take 500 GP diamond. Well if Xanthius has one, there you go Gruff! There's a diamond!

Well are you sure? I was just going to say actually, it could be quite useful because, you know, just in case things go really bad, there's a spell I can cast. Well there you go! It needs a diamond. Grab it! It's safer in your paws anyway, I'd only probably wreck it.

I know what I'm like. Are you sure? Yes. Cut back and she's somehow made it a fricking hat. Exactly, I made a hat out of it. A pair of sunglasses. It would look great. Oh no, diamond sunglasses.

Just a massive ring with like a massive diamond on it. What do you think of this, Elana? I got engaged, Elana. It's because it's palm sized, it would like be sticking up. You also can't lift your arm. You just punch windows. Oh, shit.

I've upgraded, Elana. My new lover tricks me well. Raph, are you going to take the metal as well? Uh... Five bars of metal. Lightning, crackling lightning. Yeah, I have the other stuff. Do you want to take the metal?

I could pass it. I'll pass it. Do you trade? You are a team, you guys can just share things. I'm sharing it right now! Oh, it's fine, okay. It's just whoever wants to put it in the tree. Something to save it with others than other things.

I mean, I might be able to... You take the five bars of lightning, I'll take the diamonds. Oh, these are cool, okay. So yeah, put it down. For now, you don't know what these are. Well, I guess maybe if Samtheus takes a look at it. Give me another arcana check, actually.

Yeah, it depends how long we're actually taking getting around this thing. Well, I'm assuming that you guys have taken a bit of time and like sharing this stuff out. Sorry, arcana. Yeah, just give me another one and see if you know a bit more about this one. Not one, this is.

You have no idea what these are. So just put down five bars lightning metal or something like that. I'm looking at the diamond still. He's blinded. And then, if you guys carry on, you would basically meet back up with Xanthias and Ophelia and step into a sort of central chamber.

Oh, okay, this is good, okay. You are now all together. Rowan, you okay? Well, you're together, but like, Ophelia and Daisy are like, to you they're almost on angles. Oh, I see, right, yeah. So you're kind of all around each other, but what you are surrounding is,

in the middle of this dome, floating in the center is a ball of liquid metal, and when you approach it, it kind of ripples and opens up. Ooh, watch out for that thing. When it does, you see that there is a sort of pocket within which contains a kind of crystalline wand made of the same sort of crystal that you've seen around this place.

But this one is elaborately carved and sculpted. You also would recognize a spell stone, because you acquired some from the Volumvault. There is a spell stone in here, and then there is also another glass clear sphere, like the ones you've been using. Oh. Is this the key to the prison? Three spheres, I don't know.

But it's clear, right? It's clear currently, yes. Is my Detect Magic still, it would be 10 minutes. Yeah, yeah, I'd't know. But it's clear, right? It's clear currently, yes. Is my Detect Magic still, it would be 10 minutes. Yeah, yeah, I'd say it's still up. Can I, I mean obviously, probably magic, but is there an idea of the School of Magic that any of these things are giving off? There would be Transmutation on the spell stone.

Okay, no, it's a transmutation spell stored within. The wand also has transmutation magic about it. And the Glossphere doesn't. It has the same as like all the others, basically. Okay, that is another one of those spell stone things. It might have a brand new spell that we've never seen before. Oh. So...

All right, let's just be a little cautious here. Right. Yeah, seems too easy for this place. Yes. I was thinking of using a Mage Hand to... to grab. Plug things out. Yeah, I don't know about that goo. Looks rather like that little goopy thing in the armory, armament. Yeah, does it look similar to the?

No, no, no, sorry, I think I've described it wrong. Imagine a perfectly metal sphere, like a perfect metal ball. Okay. And when you guys approached it, the surface rippled, and then it opened up as if a hole in the sphere appeared. Like kind of like Mercury. Yeah, exactly like Mercury.

I'm with you now, I'm with you. Was that gruff? I'm with you. Sorry, this place is really messing with my head. Yes, I'm just a bit cautious, this all seemed a bit easy. It has, it really has, but again, I am not seeing... And I...

I was looking everywhere for some traps, and I have not found a single thing. Unless I did it again here, but... Well, should we use a Mage Hand, just in case? Just in case. Yeah, right. Oh, wait, you're not using your thing, are you? The device.

Well, I might as well, and if I don't... Well, but maybe, I don't know if using it like, you know, crown steel, if it might... What if it gives me the authorization to take things from here? Good point. Okay, okay. You could give it a go.

Or it could be like, what's this subject doing now to quarantine? Probably that. Also that. Let's try. Give it a go. Give it a go. Yeah, that's what you do. I will use the side chip to summon a Mejhand.

So it doesn't summon a Mejhand, this is, remember, this is basically, you get like a kind of minor version of telekinesis, it just works like Mejhand. So this is like Gruff holding out his paw and like willing something to like come towards him. Come here, you bugger. Yeah.

What are you using it on? Uh. There are three objects you have to, you know, you can't just get all three of them at once with the Mage Hand. The, what should I go for first? I was thinking the orb. Go, the orb, we have plenty of orbs.

Okay. The Spellstone bugger. Okay. You. Oh,llstone Bugger. Okay. You... Oh, he's made a face. Feel it flying up into your hand. You have the orb. The metal ripples,

and then you, the whole dome goes red. Yep. As pieces of, from the actual walls themselves, you hear a kind of drip sound, and two balls of liquid metal appear, and you can hear them rolling through the dome. Yes! Gruff, what was that?

What was that noise? How was the sound of something quite bad coming towards a certain alarming speed? Okay, you look out. Where you kind of stepped into the central chamber, this ball is now rolling. I need everybody to roll initiative. Grace!

Should've gone for the orb. Daily. Oh, not too bad, not too bad. I will roll for Rowan. Rowan. Percival and stuff like that are well. Spicy. It's time for Jolene Kors, tension music.

Here it comes. Oh my God, it actually is. I can't believe that worked. It looked like Alexa. Well. Xanthias. Oh. D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d- 14. Rowan, I will roll. I'm just gonna, I'm not gonna look at it, I'm just gonna give him whatever I rolled. 16. Ophelia.

21. Well then Percival, please. Nine. Nine. All right, Ophelia, you are actually up first. Okay. I'd say that, yeah, these would have moved a little bit as the initiative was rolled. Yeah, Ophelia, she will...

I think she will Rage and run up to the entrance and Ready in Action for when those balls come into our chamber to strike them. You Rage, five, ten. And you just want to end your turn there and Ready in Action. Okay. Alright. The. All right. The balls. Yes.

Are gonna move. Five, 10, 15, 20. So this one is on. 30. The inner track. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Yeah, there's one on the inner track, one on the outer track.

They also switch between the gravities. Like they seem to like, form a cast, almost like, kata-tunk, kata-tunk, kata-tunk. Yeah, we're on like an inner circle. There's a circle around us that's the inner chamber, and then the circle around that, which is the outer chamber.

Yes, and these balls are basically rotating between the two, and even though you guys kinda came around and you doubled up on each other, these balls seem to have possessed the ability to just go between the two, and even though you guys kind of came around and you doubled up on each other, these balls seem to have possessed the ability to just go between the two as they need to. Okay. So basically, for the purposes of this,

it doesn't matter which way you go, these things know if you're there or not, and they will just go to whichever version you're on, right? So you might be able to think of a creative way of getting around them, but for the purposes of this. Ophelia, one basically rolls behind you. If it moves again, it's going to move through you. Like this thing is massive. It fills the inner chamber.

But you're ready to actually, because it's right next to you, you get to make an attack. Is it metallic in nature? It is exactly like the ball in the middle, so like a silver ball of mercury. Can I attack recklessly? Yeah, sure. Will do. Absolutely, you can. of Mercury. Can I attack recklessly? Yeah, sure. Will do.

Absolutely you can. 11, 17. Yeah, sure, that hits. Oh, I don't like that. Sure, whatever. Doesn't have stats because he doesn't need them. I mean, it has stats now. OK.

OK. 8 slashing damage. 8 points of slashing damage. With Verasty, right? Verasty, yeah. Okay. Eight slashing damage. Eight points of slashing damage with Verasty, right? Verasty, yeah. Okay. Second strike. No, don't do a second strike. No, because you readied an action, so you just get the one this time.

You strike like you kind of thrust Verasty into it, and you kind of sense that you feel all that kinetic force as you throw it into the ball. The ball surface just ripples, and the force, the kinetic energy is absorbed into the ball. Ah! That is the ball's turn. We go to Rowan on the out, oh sorry,

Xanthias actually first. This, the out, oh sorry, Xanthius actually first. This, the orb, is there any indication of the direction they're moving? Like do they, the minis have the sort of trail behind them? Yeah, I'm basically having them go, sorry, I will, I will. Yeah, they are basically going in a clockwise to me direction kind of thing. Okay, and does the, I don't actually know

if this orb can come into this room. If it does, we're gonna be like... It didn't, it looked like it went past, it didn't look like it could come into this middle chamber. Cause I almost want to... Also the orb in the middle chamber, I think, did I say that it closed up? That's error on my path, it is still open.

So the glass sphere and the wand are still accessible. Yeah, cause my thinking is, we've triggered you a lot. Let's just get more things. But I want to grab Ophelia and pull her into this middle sphere so that when this or does move again, because we don't know when it's gonna move again. Is Ophelia resisting that in any way?

I haven't resisted. No, so in that case you can just grab her for free and move her half speed, which will drag her into this chamber. That'll be your action. Oh, that's my action. And I guess grabbing something from the middle. Oh, I'd let you do that for as a bonus action.

Why not? I'm gonna make more balls happen. I look to the others? I look at the stuff? But here's the thing. You've seen me use the minis of these balls before. I've only ever had two. I couldn't possibly have any more, could I?

What kind of madman would go out and buy more balls? Hard cast listeners, he's lying. I, I. Or, I feel like I've only ever seen two of this mini. There can't be more. There can't be more. I, I, I. But also, there's a wand, there's another glass sphere,

you might need it. Stuff. Just in case... This man has a bank account and he's willing to use it. Just in case Gruff does have authorization, I will put a hand on Big Priz, and I will reach in to the wand to pull the wand out. You pull the wand out.

And I look around. Nothing happens. I look to wand out. And I look around. Nothing happens. I look to my friends. I shrug. End of turn. End of turn. All right, you hear Rowan like, ah, there's a big ball!

Thank you, Rowan. They want me to do anything! Is it his turn? This is his turn. He does nothing. Unless you want to yell at him to do something. I don't, that's the thing, I don't know. There's also, like, these balls make no sound.

Like, there's no like, they're just like, it's like, do you remember the prison of the old TV show where the ball chases you? I was thinking that, yeah. Rowan, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe silent images or something so the balls go after that and not us. Okay.

Keep the image moving on the opposite ones that we're on. He will cast a first level spell and cast a silent image and try and make an illusion. Yes. They're hovering, right? Very close to the surfaces of the walls and the ground. They're also massive, so they pretty much fill the corridor. Right.

Like a wall of- There is a tiny gap at the top that you might be able to, like Daisy might be able to squeeze through it at the very top, basically. Providing that they don't- You're thrown through this entire- Well, assuming they can't change their elevation. Oh, yeah.

But yeah, that is gonna be Rowan's turn. After Rowan, we have Gruff. Hello. Hello. There's just one entrance to this central chamber? There is just the one. Just the one. Right by Ophelia currently. Okay, I would like to, excuse me, sorry,

position myself in that entrance. In the entrance or outside? Not outside. Okay, so basically swap places with Ophelia. Yeah. Yep, you're getting thrown around. And I kind of just want to like, barricade, like just be a barricade

and like get my shield out. Okay. Hunker down. So block this. In fact, I might even extend the shield using the, because it's the. It might work, yeah. So extend the kind of extra flanking on it.

Uh-huh. It's bonus action, I believe. Yeah. I kinda wanna... cast Entang... Entangle on the outside of the corridor to see if I can catch this thing in it. Why, Entangle is a massive area of effect. And if you put it outside this corridor, it's gonna hit you guys and everything. Right, okay. Um...

So remember, like, area of effects, you can't sculpt it unless you have a special ability that lets you sculpt it. Can I... Devil's Bargain, maybe? I want to basically just position, like use my action to position myself so that when that thing, presumably to Gruff, tries to roll in here with my shield on my, I was gonna say strength, not very strong, but I just want to try and repel it.

Like, yeah. I will let you spend a devil's bargain. If it does that, you will have that effect. I make no promises, that's what it will do. I don't want you to feel cheated, like, oh, you made a mistake. It can like change its elevation, and it looks like it can go between

the upper and lower elements to it, so it might be able to move. It could very easily just jump into this room. It's not the worst thing. Could I try and, like, you know, lift the shield, if it moves? Oh, absolutely, if it tries, so you can try and do something with it, yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, like, just elevate the shield. But I, yeah, would you like to try? It doesn't hurt to try. I'll devil bug it, devil bug it-a-diddly. Okay, one fate I spent. And hold my action to just try and repel this thing and catch it on the shield. Daisy. I don't know what to do. Okay, one fate I spent. And hold my actions, just try and repel this thing and catch it on the shield. Jay-Z.

I don't know what to do. How much do we have above our heads? What's the distance between? In this middle chamber, you very little. You are basically stood around a ball. Imagine you're all kind of like in a 3D space around the ball. When you go out into that corridor,

there's like, it's like eight to nine feet tall, the corridor, so like Rowan could have fit into it, like fine, but you guys, for Daisy, there's like a good four or five feet above your head. But above the ball, there's like maybe, I would say like two feet of space above the ball. space above the ball. Okay.

There's still an orb. Orb? There is the glass sphere still inside the cocoon. The cocoon. The egg. I don't think I can, I don't think. So that one is on, you said that that one's on the track. Because there's two tracks. So it's on the outer ring just outside this chamber.

There are two tracks, but it looks like it can jump between the two at will. Which one, so right now it's on the one where the gap is above it. Yeah, sure. Not below it. Sure, yep. It's on the one where the gap is above it.

If I went onto the other track, would it then have the gap below it? Don't know. It might change, it might drop down to the other track and come after you, it? Don't know. It might change, it might drop down to the other track and come after you, you don't know? What, you're thinking of just mega dashing out? You could try, you've got plenty of movement. You don't actually know how fast I've moved,

or at least I didn't. You would've seen they would've moved about 30 feet. Yeah. But that's, they might be able to speed up, they might be able to slow down, you have no idea. Yeah, ball. Ball.'s, they might be able to speed up, they might be able to slow down. Yeah. No idea. Ball. Ball. Ah, yeah.

Can I try and do that? I basically wanna try and use my fast movement and my nimbleness to try and like... Scoot out. Get on the track that lets me slide under it and like just dash and see how far I can get. I would say to do that, give me an acrobatics check. But you would have to commit to doing it before you roll.

You'd have to be like, yep, I'm gonna try that and then acrobatics to try and do it successfully. If you fail the acrobatics, what that would mean is like, the ball has enough reaction time to maybe like catch a piece of you as you're like, trying to get like, it'll, you know, it'll catch you as you're trying to get away, basically. Okay.

I will do that. Okay, all right, acrobatics check please, and then we'll do your movement. Is that, that's kind of cocked. Have less things in your dice tray. It was in the corner! At least it's not a crystal. It's true.

Can I use some fate? You can use one fate, yes. 14 total. 14 total is not enough, I'm afraid. You still get to move, but it is gonna basically tap you as you go, which is gonna be like you failed the saving throw against it. Okay.

You're gonna take some damage, in fact, and it will be slightly enhanced as some of the kinetic energy absorbed from Ophelia's attack is sort of reflected into you. So don't hit me. So that would be how much you did, eight points of damage. Yes. That'd be, you take 19 force damage. That sucks. But you slide out and take 19 force damage. That sucks.

Ugh. But you slide out and you get to make your full movement. So that'd be five, 10 movement at the moment. So you can go 15, 20, 25, 30 gets you out into the outer corridor. Oh, so if you did a dash, I think you're out of its range. You'd be able to maybe get out completely. Yeah, basically wanna do...

Yep, because you get 30 feet to here, and then that's your move action, then action dash, five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, and then you could then cunning action bonus action, five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Man, you just zip around the entire... Daisy just almost slides, it does like... So as Daisy goes to run past this thing,

you watch as it almost seems to sense and lock onto her and it drops and just as you're sliding out of the way, it wings you as you're about to escape and you feel just this, boom, force of energy ripple through you, but then you're just running. And you see this one right behind you as at the end of your turn, these things take another turn, Daisy.

And this thing would have chased you around. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40. Give me the Gruff, Xanthias 30, 35, 40. Give me the Gruff, Xanthius, and Ophelia. Can you all make intelligence checks for me? Just straight intelligence. At the end of my turn, just say, don't hit it, I think I just got punched because of extra,

because Ophelia hit it hard. It absorbed it. Noted, okey dokey. Sorry, it's fine. Justed, okie dokie. Sorry. Wait, so. It's fine. Just straight intelligence. Straight intelligence, okay.

Yeah, I'd say. Not like insight or. I'd say you could use insight actually, yeah I'd say I'd allow insight as well. Okay. Someone had to find out what they did. Well no, it might not, don't know what you're on. 18.

18, okay. 10. 13. 10, Graff, you're the only one, you pick up on this because you watch them go past. They don't come in this room. You do notice they're speeding up. Oh fuck.

The longer you delay, the faster these things are getting. Like they're speeding up as they go round. You also get the sense that basically if they touch you, you take damage. You have to make a saving throw and stuff like that, but yeah, but they are speeding up. This one is now, there is now one right outside to the chamber door.

Yeah, there's no escape right now. As that is, the ball's going, Percival! You could still score. Sister Ophelia! Percy, would you mind escorting dear Pascal into the central chamber, please? Things are going a little bit, um... As you wish, sister Ophelia.

Strange. A little bit. Thank you. Come along, Mr. Pascal. Just sort of leads him off. Aw, he's so cute. Like takes him, takes him. This skeleton in his black armor and helmet.

Come along, sir. Like takes him along. But yeah, so Percival's turn will be done doing that, which leads us to Ophelia at the top of a brand new round. In fact, actually, do you know what? That's the perfect time to take a wee break. Oh, we already did. A wee little break, but what a lovely little predicament

you've found yourselves in. What lovely treasures you've acquired as well. Nice puzzle this is, a nice puzzling character. Very interesting. We will see you in a short five a nice puzzling character. Very interesting. Very interesting. We will see you in a short five minutes after our break. See you then in part two. See you in a bit. Bye!

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