High Rollers DnD - Traps of the Ancients (Part 2) | Altheya: The Dragon Empire #58

Episode Date: April 10, 2025

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There is still perhaps one goodie left to be retrieved, but they have triggered some sort of defensive system in a weird gravity dome marble madness trap. Daisy has just managed to escape, taken a little bit of damage in the process, but leaving Gruff, Ophelia, and Xanthius within. I believe it was the top of a brand new round with Sister Ophelia up in the initiative.

But first, for podcast listeners, because it's been a while, to describe the map, we are currently sat in a inside ring. Or you have like an inner chamber, which you're safe in it seems. Safe here. Then there is an outer chamber ring that does have like a weird gravity twist,

but the ball can melt. In 2D purposes, there is a circle around us that the ball is traveling around. And then there is an outer lane. And then a circle around that, that another ball is traveling around, and they are getting faster and faster, and we have to get out of here.

They are speeding up. Rowan and Personville and Daisy and Pascal are safe on the outside. Yes. Thank you, Thomas, for that lovely podcast recap. N-P-B-B. Ophelia. I think Ophelia is going to dash into the corridor, and I think what she wants to do is...

The ball is currently basically right outside the entrance to this chamber. You will have to do the same thing as Daisy, in that you'll basically have to make, for you it'd be a reflex save, because this thing is directly there now, to try and bypass the ball. Okay. I think my idea is that, because Ophelia's quite fast, she will keep the ball kind of distracted on her, while she tries to outrun it,

so the other two can make an escape and get out. Okay, interesting. Alright. So yeah, if you want to get past, because it, so the other two can make an escape and get out. Okay, interesting. All right. So, yeah, if you want to get past, because it is blocking the entrance, obviously it's moving at the same time, so there is a chance, but it is a reflex, a dexterity saving throw. Why do I keep saying reflex? It's not fourth edition D&D, Mark. That really locked in for a second there, didn't it?

Can I use my spider climb to go... to try and out maneuver it? God, that really fucks with the geometry of this place. It doesn't. What I will say is that will give you, I will give you an advantage on the saving throw because you can kind of use the wall to throw this thing off a little bit,

but because it does seem to have some ability to track and move itself, this thing might even be able to change the direction it's going in for you know. So I'd still say it's a dexterity, same thing, but with advantage. Okay. Beep beep beep beep beep beep.

Uh, 50. Is that with advantage? Highest, yeah. The second one's a five. That is gonna be a success, but you're gonna take half damage. I'm two and a half away. Okay.

Oh. One away. That's so frustrating! You were one away. And that's only gonna be eight points of force damage this time, I rolled pretty badly. But yeah, you slip out. Which direction would you like to go? In the way the ball is currently rolling?

Yes, I kinda wanna go... So you kind of go out onto the wall, take a little bit of damage from this thing as you touch it and it ripples, and then you begin to like run around, basically. Where do you want to go to? So you have... Kind of just it ripples and then you begin to like run around, basically. Where do you want to go to? So you have five, 10, 15, 20.

About 20 feet, yeah. And say to the guys, I'm trying to clear a path when it goes past run. I hope I can keep it distracted for you. So that is you've used 20 feet of your movement. Is there anything else you'd like to do? No, I think I'm good. I'm just gonna keep,

well, I guess if it gets close to me, can I use an action to move further away? Use a dash? Yeah. Okay. So just stay ahead of it. Just stay ahead of it, yeah. You're gonna stay 50 feet. Okay, so when it gets within five feet of you,

you want to spend 50 feet of movement and you want to take the dash action. Okay, sure. Cool. Alrighty, sure. Cool. Alrighty. Amazing. After Ophelia, it is indeed balls, as they get two turns.

So this one is gonna go five, 10, 15. Catches up to Ophelia. Your trigger attack, so you go five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 40, you're basically right behind it. It moved, where was it, it was here, five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40. As you are like running ahead of it, the two of you see that it has rolled around

and it's just about to pass by the passageway. The outer one will also. So it almost clears an entire cycle just in one movement. It does now, 15, 20, 35. Well yeah, it's only gonna get faster as well. 30, 35, 40, it goes to there. Okay so. That's the positions they were in when I did.

Yeah, so both exits are kind of, well, more clear than they were. You just need to make a saving throw. Yeah, it'd be an acrobatics now because it's right by the mansion. Oh, an acrobatics. Yeah, it was because like, I feel like I had to specifically not touch it,

whereas like for you it was like, you had to just barely avoid it. I have a plus seven to my acrobatics and I just rolled terribly. Stinky. After the balls, Xanthius. Um, uh, uh, uh, uh, I look to the wand, I look to the orb in the center

that is now housing the final treasure of this room. A clear orb. I look at Gruff. I shrug. He's gonna shrug it. He shrugs back. I'll take the clear orb. Yep. Hell yeah. Trug? He's got a trug's back. I'll take the clear orb. Yep.

Hell yeah. No alarms, no, fantastic. I pocket those. I, I, I, I, if I, so we're currently in a, basically an encased circle right now, except for the one exit. If I look out of that exit now, there's an ore that's rolling in. It's about to like, dun dun dun dun.

That's what I had in my head with Daisy. Because the ore was right behind Daisy. I like to think for the second one that I went past, I skidded past it. If I was to look around, because we're kind of oriented in a very odd way, can I see Daisy, Rowan, all those guys? No, because the walls aren't completely see-through.

That's why I was going to ask so I could assist. I'm trying to think. The walls do block vision between them. Okay, I'm going to hold back for a second. Gruff, you need to make a run for it. I've got a way to get out of here. You're gonna be fast. You ready?

Haste. Ah! Okay, so you cast as an action, you cast haste on Gruff. I cast as an action haste on Gruff. Okay, which is double speed. It doubles your speed, as well as plus two to AC as well, and advantage on deck saves. There you go, that sounds pretty good to me.

But you are, yeah, twice as fast as you were before. End of turn. I'm gonna stay here for now. Okay. My illusion doesn't seem to be doing anything! Oh, okay, sorry to hear that, Rowan. Anything else you might be able to do? I'm gonna heal Daisy, do you want me to heal you?

Okay, happy night. That was horror. You will cast a spell to heal you. Nice. Yeah, I was gonna see if I could see through them enough to assist, like, be like, oh no. Big heal! Big heal?

14 HP from Rola. What, how did you see a heal? Was that just a level one cure wing? Level one cure wing. What? I'm never gonna get over how good heals are now. Thank you, Rola, I feel much better now. That's okay. I hope the others can get out. how good the heals are now. Thank you Rowan, I feel much better now.

That's okay. I hope the others can get out. Anyway, it's Rowan's turn. They're really getting blended in there. Gruff. Hello. Hello. You're definitely sure you can get out?

Absolutely. Right, I trust you. You shouldn't. Well now I don't know what to do. Get out there. I think they're getting quicker, you shouldn't. Well, now I don't know what to do. Get out there. I think they're getting quicker. You might want to go fast. Run, Gruff.

Bull is right there. I'm just trying to decide whether or not to hold my action until Bull has gone past. Okay. Nah, fuck it, let's go. Uh, I'm just gonna run. I'm gonna use my haste. So, give me an acrobatics check.

Uh, that's a two plus... one. Yeah. Like Daisy, it does, as you drop and you start to run through, it does sort of lock on and sort of shunts you with its force for a moment. That is going to be, unfortunately, 17 force damage. But. It's not been permanently empowered,

now that Ophelia, oh, okay. Oh! It was expended, yeah, when it hit Daisy. I just rolled really high on that one. Oh, that was just really high on it. And then the one before was really bad. So, five feet of movement used. Yeah.

And then just wanna try and get out. Go. All right, five. Nine man go fast. 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Good luck, Rob! 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60. That's your move action.

I have to guess. You can still go. Because I got 35 foot of movement normally. Oh, you have 35 feet of movement. Another 10 feet. You are there. You are basically out. That's your move action.

You still have your action bonus action left. You could just move a little bit more if you want. So take dash action and then basically get out. Gruff just strolls. If you had stayed there, by the way, and this thing passed, it still would have hit you. So action to dash, get out of the way. You do also have another action you can take.

We do. Although it can only be basic actions. Dash, disengage, hide or utilize. Utilize. Utilize my spell. like to utilize my spell. No, so I can only dash. You could have extra. That could have been your dash, yeah. We'd say that the haste one is your dash.

Do you wanna do another lap? Yeah. Just. Yeah, you have your normal action left. I'm just gonna do another lap. You can, you absolutely can. No, don't reach for it. Can I cast something healing on myself?

You sure can. If you can't take it on yourself, I'll leave you to that. Just cast your... Leave me to it. But for stats, Boards, I'm going to cast a healing word at level one on myself. Okay. Daisy, anything you'd like to do? I believe in you! Okay.

I got nothing. 2d4 plus four. I got nothing. Healing word you're doing on yourself, are you? Yeah, although I kind of wish I'd done Cure Wounds. Balls. Can I change it to do a Cure Wounds? You can do a Cure Wounds.

I'm going to do a Cure Wounds. I was going to say, I'm sure you had that. I was going to do Ophelia. Ten. Ophelia, I need a Dexterity Saving Throw from you, please. Save. Can I see this coming? Yes. Danger Sands. Yeah.

Ah, Danger Sands. I turned my iPad off. Why did you do that? She hit it by accident. I hit the button. Cure Wings level 1. 19. 19 is a success. You can take half damage. That is going to be 12, half to 6 force damage. Are you raging? Force, so yeah.

Well, it's force damage. And so that was, sorry, it would go, it was five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50. 10 feet, oh real. It's increasing 10 feet around, and then this one does the same. It's getting real fast. Five, 10, 15, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50.

That is, but remember they get two turns, and their initiatives are actually quite close together. Percival, would you like Percival to do anything? He's gone out into the maze. In fact, actually, I'd say he's too far to hear you at this point, he's like out in the corridor. In which case, we go to a top of round, Ophelia. Xanthias, are you okay? Really get out of there.

Okay, yeah, Ophelia's gonna dash out. Okay, yeah, you've got a clear path there. Five, yeah, you can, with your 100 feet of movement, with your dash, you immediately get out. All right, so then ball. Oh good, ball does move, that's good to know. Yeah, five. She's gonna spin around you.

Well, that's the thing is I'm trying to see if it will just end up back where it was. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50. So basically moved five feet. 35, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50. So I basically moved five feet. Now I had, well, 10 feet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then this one will do the same thing. I think that's basically the opposite side.

I'm going to have this one. Oh! It turned around. It begins rolling the other way, because now I can sense. its direction. It turned around. Okay, it begins rolling the other way, because now I can sense. The outer track has turned around. The inner track is unfortunately blocking my path out if I was to follow it around now.

15, 20, 20, 30, 35, 40, 55, 50. The scruble scramble. It is really blocked my rebound. And just as a point, you cannot see out of the walls in between the chambers. Like it is not- Oh, and they're silent. You cannot see the guys outside. So if you have a spell that requires line of sight,

you cannot see through the interior walls. But I could, on the outer track, could I have, though? Because I think I- If you can get line of sight to it, yes. Oh, okay. But not from where you currently are or indeed under where the exit to the inner track is. Gotcha, now that kind of...

Oh. That's fucked with things. Fucked with things a little bit. Well. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25. So it would be Xanthius's turn next? 25, 30. I would have to dodge past both of them to do this. Why not?

You know, Ophelia, he told me that he had it, but I'm not sure. Yeah, he told me he had it as well. Otherwise I wouldn't have left. I'm standing at the door, ready to jump out, but I'm like... Maybe next time, maybe on the next rotation. He's there forever. I'm gonna wait until the next rotation to see if there's a clearer path somehow.

I know they're moving so erratically that it's impossible to mind-make this. Yeah. Would anybody from Rowan, Gruff, or Daisy like to do anything? There's nothing I can do, because I don't have any spells. Yeah, well, I don't know what to do.

All I can do is shout positive affirmations towards... Xanthias? You can't see him. I notice you're not out yet. It's okay. On the next one, I'm about to go. Okay. I feel like you said that already.

Okay. Five, I'm going to do this without moving the mini, because it's a bit harder for me to track. Five, it'll be five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60. Oh, okay. One exit is clear. This one I think I can do because it's a bit easier. Five, 10, 15.

The inside track is now a clear shot to the exit, or at least to the outer track. 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60. Okay. So it's my turn again? No, because the balls go again. Shit! Remember they have two initiatives. There is a perfect opportunity to go now. No, because the balls go again. Shit! Remember they have two initiatives.

There is a perfect opportunity to go now. No, don't move again. If 10. Whole person or something. 15. I can't do a person on myself. 25. You don't even need to, you're frozen.

30. That's still frozen. Yeah, a whole person is, just stand there. I'm like ready to jump out the door and then it like swooshes past. Oh wow. 55, 60, 65, 70. 70 feet now.

Exactly a turn now. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. No. Stop. 35, 40. Stop. I'm gonna block it. 45, 50.

Stop moving. I was gonna block 50, 55, 60, 70. Stop moving! I was gonna block it! That's the exact... For PodCosmas, pretty much both of the rings have been blocked. That's in the worst places they could possibly be. Next round? Xanthius, I know what you said now!

So here's the problem, Tom. I don't think you have enough movement to get out without these things hitting you. I know you do have some teleports and stuff, but you need visual line of sight. If you think you can do it. I think I can get line of sight. You might only get hit by that button, and then you can come out, get line of sight, and bam.

Well, you can also hold an action to dash. I have 30 feet of movement. With 30 feet, I want to go around the bottom of that inside ring to the exit. So the exact opposite way that that is going. Five 30 feet, I want to go around the bottom of that inside ring to the exit. So the exact opposite way that that is going. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 gets you to here. Then a dash, an action dash. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25.

Which direction? Left. Left, so your left or my left? Away from you. 30. There's your movement. I don't have Line of Sight on the exit. That's your turn. I thought I did.

So, Rowan, Graff, Daisy, anything you want to do. You currently do not have Line of Sight to him because a ball is blocking the way. Can I use my bonus action to lay down? You can, you can drop yourself in front. You currently do not have Line of Sight-trim because a ball is blocking the way. Can I use my bonus action to lay down? You can, you can drop yourself prone. No, but then you're going to lose 15 feet of movement. Can I step in the path? He also, technically, has I think disadvantage on Dexterity Saving Threat, so I'll just prone, I need to check. Hello?

Can I step in the path of the ball? It is blocking entrance into the dome. So you could, but you would have to physically like push past it and stand in the way. When it hit people, did it basically like phase right through them? Oh, it rolls over you. It like... I guess I just wanted to try and get it distracted onto me. You would have to enter.

But I still have... I still still am hasted, so. You are? Could I enter, get it to roll the other way, like towards me, and then I. You tell me, you tell me what you wanna do. I would like it if I can basically go in, get it distracted on me, and then come out again, so that basically I can give Xanthias a chance.

If you go out, it will just ignore you. If you step out of this ring, it will just go after Xanthias a chance. If you go out, it will just ignore you. If you step out of this ring, it will just go after Xanthias. You would have to remain in the dome to keep its attention focused on you. Okay, and so it goes me, balls, Xanthias. So the order right now would be you. Then Daisy would technically get a turn,

then the balls would go, and then the balls would go again, and then Xanthias, remember they get two initiatives. Oh. Yeah. So even if I step out and distract, it's probably gonna roll all the way around the ring and hit me.

Well, like I said, if you step in and distract it, and then immediately step out, it won't give a shit about you anymore. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it might even lap him, though. What I'm saying is it'll wrap around and hit Xanthias anyway. Yeah, unless you stay in here,

in which case it will follow you. Like you could move this way and try and get it to come after you, but it's probably got enough speed that it's gonna hit you both anyway. Yeah, that's what I'm trying to say, is that like my sacrifice would be pointless because it's still gonna lap and hit both of us.

Potentially. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In which case I won't. It's still gonna hit. Because there's no point. Regardless. Balls. So, this is currently, they'd speed up again,

this is the turn they speed up, so 5, 10, 15, 20, 25. 80 feet now. 80 feet, okay. 30, 35. Xanthias, I need you to make a dexterity saving throw for me, please. I'm laying down. No, you to make a dexterity saving throw for me please. And laying down. No, you still have normal dexterity saving throw. You are not at disadvantage,

but you will lose movement standing back up. So it's like sliding against the floor. It presses itself right against the floor. It seems to have enough sentience to maneuver itself. It's not like a stone ball Indiana Jones style. This is like some weird magic metal mercury ball. 13. 13 is not enough I'm afraid.

Nearly makes damage. Oh. 21 force damage, and this, as you feel this thing, like Gravitron crush you as it rolls over you. Gah. Oh. That was 30 feet of movement to get to you. 30.

So 35. It moves another. Oh sorry, it was 35 I think. Okay, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80. Remember it gets another turn. Yeah. This one now is pointless because you are outside of it, so I'm just going to leave it where it is.

I'm not going to count that one. The balls then get their second turn, because it would be Ophelia's turn, unless Ophelia would like to do anything. If there's anything Ophelia can do. I mean, you're looking into this thing. This is now just going... That's it? Have you still got it?

Go! I don't think Have you still got it? Go! I don't think that this has got it. 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 60, 70. I need you to make another clip next time. It's just low, dude. It's quite dangerous, they get sped up every turn. You guys thought we could just wait. We'll just wait.

Winded and in pain from the last one, I only rolled a seven. Oh, not as bad damage-wise. 11 force damage this time. And then you get a turn. The image of you. Ah, it now rolls over me again, but this time I stand up.

15 feet of movement. 15 feet of my movement. I shambled forward just enough. Five, 10, 15, that gives you lane of sight. I can see the exit, I bonus action Misty Step. You're out. I just like appear in front of you, just... He's not flat, but he does look like there's like bruising all over his body.

I really thought there was a way out of there that was gonna be better than that. Was that the plan? No, well. You said leave me, I've got this. Yeah, yeah, no, if anything, you're welcome. I'm so sorry for laughing. It's just ridiculous circumstance that every time you went and it ends here,

it was in the worst place. Yeah. And that was not intentional. I was just like, they increase their speed 10 feet on the second initiative every time. And then just, yes. The initiatives just worked out in a way that like, said this was like, they get two turns and then you go.

Like. Are they still going as well? They're like. They continue. They're just getting faster and faster and faster. Yeah, there is a point where they'll max out. We need to leave this room before it explodes. Yeah, I don't want you feeling any more deflated about the situation.

Oh, it's okay though. Look, I got... That's very funny, Ophelia. That's great. Thank you. If... I mean... Look, thank you for getting me out.

It's okay. Come here, boyo, and I'll pat you on the shoulder, and as I do, cure wounds. Thank you. Level me out. It's okay. Come here boyo and I'll pat you on the shoulder and as I do, cure wounds. Thank you. Level two. Level two? Which is 48. Wow. Eight, eight, six and a three. Hey!

See, sometimes I roll, sometimes you roll big heal. So eight, eight, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29. Big heel. I feel so close to good as new. I feel suddenly so good. I'm like 1% off, 100%. But I can't do anything about that last bit.

If instead of 100%, it was, I don't know, 56%, something like that. I'd be a 55. Yeah, I would literally be a 55. He actually looks slightly better than Daisy does. Yeah, yeah. Okay, but we got everything we needed. Was it worth it?

Did you get good things? Well, we think we got good things. We got another one of these empty orbs, which might come in handy. Who's to say? Maybe there's a room somewhere that requires three of these empty orbs, which might come in handy. Who's to say? Maybe there's a room somewhere that requires three of these things, hopefully. Imagine if there wasn't.

That was just like an extra item. There is a part of me that feels like... What if there was? That'd be funny, wouldn't it? The next room has just one. It's like in Resident Evil, you sometimes get an extra key. You can't have too many. What if you lost one?

What if you never found one? Worst nightmare. Honestly, losing something that I don't have too many. You can't have too many. What if you lost one? What if you never found one? Worst nightmare. Honestly, losing something that I don't have. I'll tell you what, Tom, just like a little insight, just for you, because you did suffer a little bit there. That room, blue now. Blue now? On the mini map, it's blue.

Because you cleared it. Oh God, that feels so bad. I know, I know. Can I look at the minimap for downstairs? I know, you don't want to do that. Not in the room. Oh, but anyway. Family are still pretty.

You guys. Fuck, that feels so good. You need to do that for every room. Well, we'll do that maybe in a post show. Yeah. But yeah, you guys can leave, like, you, yeah, that, you don't want to go back in there. Like those. Yeah, we're done. That silent, you just see it. like, you, yeah, that, you don't wanna go back in there. Like those,

Yeah, we're done. The silent, you just see it. Fine, we got everything. Woof, woof, woof, this spinning ball roaming around. No one's going into that room ever again, but I think we got everything we needed. This weird gauntlet thing, we got some diamonds. Yes.

Quite a lot of money in that. You got some, Got some herbs and some blue wood. Ooh, actually that might be good. Maggie would like that. Maggie would like it, but there's also, this purple room was the. Alchemical.

Alchemical room. Alchemical room. Maybe something useful in there. Ooh. Shall we go there now then? It doesn't hurt, it certainly doesn't hurt. Well, no, I just healed you. No, no, you're right.

That's why it doesn't hurt. But I could, I have, I think I can use the gold side eye once more to maybe identify one of these. Here's a stone, which someone picked up. You picked up the space stone. And I've got the wand. So which do you think is most important?

I would say the wand, I think the stone. These herbs. I think the stone is... No, because you have to go and learn it another time. Yes, yes, so shall I identify this wand and see what kind of special... Knock yourself out. Well, actually, don't knock yourself out.

No, I just tried that. It's awful. Unless you want to wait in case there's other things that we find. There might be stuff in the alchemical place. True. True. Save it for, yeah, maybe for the next day. Save it for a rainy day. Maybe for a rainy day, we might find some new things. David, Jinx. Because we need to come up with what it is. No, yeah, maybe for the next day. Save it for a rainy day. Maybe for a rainy day.

You might find some new things. Save it, Jinx! Because we need to come up with what we need. No, no, I know what it does. No, I've got it. But I think also it'd be cool when Trots hear and like. Yeah, yeah, okay. Share the spoils when everyone's here.

And also, you might find more things. That's what I think. I do like things. I do like things. So now you've got to. Things and stuff, things and stuff. This is that bit of Resident Evil where you get to go into all the rooms

that you couldn't get to and you're like, I know there's a desert eagle in here. I know there's an eagle in here somewhere. But yes, where would you like to go? Purple room. Well, you need a purple sphere for that. You have three now. Xanthius, go!

You have one clear sphere, one green sphere, and one yellow. Daisy, now obviously I know how this works. Let's say we needed a purple sphere. Mm-hmm. We start with blue, I know that much. Preventing it, Xanthes, you've already done it before! Have I?

Yeah, you've been into a purple room, haven't we? No. Don't believe you have. Have we? We haven't got the achievement for making a purple yet. Oh, haven't we? No. Don't believe you have. No. Have we? We haven't got the achievement for making a purple yet. Oh, okay, well then I just shout it at you for no reason. Okay. Enjoy.

All right, well let's use this clear one at least for now so I can keep the others. Clear or green? Clear in. Stays clear. Red. Turns red. Wait, did you say red?

Blue on the other side. Or mixes together as the two colors interject into clear sphere and it turns a solid purple. Very nice, orb out, keystone's out. You got it. I'm serious, I love that. Where does the square go? In the round hole. No, no, it all goes in this way.

Where does the triangle go? Was it Xanthea? That's right, in the round hole. That blue and red make purple, or, it all goes in this way. There's a triangle go. Was it Xanthea? That's right, in the round bowl. That blue and red make purple, or was it Tom? Let's not dwell on it. LAUGHS So you want to open the southern purple door? The southern, exact opposite to the entrance, the purple door.

Would you like to leave Percival and Pascal outside this time? Yeah, why not? Okay. Hmm. But we need to make sure nothing else is in the, why not? Okay. We can hang out. But we need to make sure nothing else is in the hallway. Rie, can you sort people out?

We are, I mean, for the, we are in the room at the moment, but we would definitely do a open the door very carefully. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. Be prepared for something to jump out. When, yes, I would like to know who is in first. I'll stay at the, I will describe what you see.

I'll stay at the front, because I'm opening the door. Okay. Dan and Gruff. And then everyone else behind. And then, So when you, I'm behind Gruff, I'm stuck to Gruff, this whole, this the door. Okay. And then everyone else behind. Yep. So when you- I'm behind Gruff, I'm stuck to Gruff this whole place.

Rowan's in the back. I'm at the back. Suspiciously quiet. When you open the purple door, very short, 10 foot wide corridor, about 15 feet long, leads into a large rectangular room, very similar to the living armory that you saw downstairs, but instead of,

this time there are four floating crystal pillars that dominate the center of the room. They have hollowed out sections like the shelves in the dome that you saw previously, and these shelves have various tubes and vials and alchemical lab equipment all within it. Almost like a rotating dispensary, these kind of floating crystal shelved pillars.

Okay. On the outskirts, sort of on the sides walls of the room, there are nine large glass capsules embedded into the walls around the edges. You can see dead looking, very clearly dead. These have wounds or limbs cut off. Maybe one's just like a partial upper torso with a spinal column.

You see dead creatures, some of which, you know, you probably recognize creatures from Ulfeia. You would see like a, maybe like an owlbear, which is, you know, part of its head and maybe part of its torso, the rest of its body missing, floating inside the glass sphere. Some creatures you do not recognize,

well actually you guys saw, encountered a couple of demons when you were fighting in Ash and Rest. There is like a, like it's got a huge bite mark taken out of its chest, but there's a preserved demon just sort of floating. This is very much the face hugger in the glass tubes in Alien, like floating there. Okay.

But you can see that attached to these glass capsules, there are tubes and devices, needles, that seem to inject into the creature, and it looks like things maybe are drained or pulled out of them. There are also plant-like creatures. There are also creatures you've never seen, really, before. Bizarre things of, you know, six-limbed insects, like giant mantises,

but with six limbs and antennae. You see a sort of twisted, not quite a dragon, but dragon-like feathered creature within one of them. Again, all very clearly dead, you know, but it looks like they are some sort of specimens. Okay. Are they all like intact? I mean, I know you said missing limbs,

but are they all like a singular creature? They've not been like, Yeah, they've not been, no, no. These are actually all just perfectly preserved as they would have been in life. As they should be. As no, no, these are actually all just perfectly preserved as they would have been in life. As they should be. As they should be, yes. Oh, what a place it is. It looks like they've been,

and anybody can give me a arcana check, I would say, or a medicine check, I would say. Either of those would work. I've got a plus seven on that. It's fine, you don't have to. The base is grotesque. I can't, I don't know what any of these things are. So weird.

How's it? 24. 24? 22. I can't, no. The two of you, very clearly, like, these are obviously creatures that have maybe, like, unusual blood or venoms or things like that, and they have basically been kept to, you know, suck the juices out of, for lack of a better word,

probably as alchemical ingredients. But also perhaps used to test, like alchemical elements as well, you know, these have probably been used to like see how their flesh or bodies would react to enzymes and alchemical elements here. It's very much a laboratory, this is like a science lab. Yeah, okay. The actual crystal columns, there's a mixture of things. Like, with your two checks, you would know

that there is a mixture of compounds, enzyme, like, you know, mixants and things like that. But you get the feeling that there probably is, like, completed potions, for lack of a better word, or things like that amongst there, but you would need to spend some time like analyzing them to try and find those, I would say. But I would say with the two of you with your checks,

you could do that for two of them. You could go up and basically like scan through them and see if there's anything usable on each column, if you would like. I will do so. Okay. I think this room might be safe. Which column would you like for us to explore.

Well, until we inevitably trigger some alarm or something like that. And it starts coming out of the walls and attacking us. Is every room really alarmed? Most likely. Okay, well let's make sure that we do everything at the same time. Same as last time, we just split up, take either side of the room. The moment something happens, the door's right there, I can shut it.

Tell you what, room wasn't alarmed. Frieda's room. That's true, but, I mean, the family's room might have been fine too. Yes, that was an absolutely normal room. That was an absolutely normal room. It wasn't alarmed. It was alarming.

But they were cells. These do not appear to be cells. These are like workspaces. Yeah. I'd like to go over to column... My brain zoned out. Right, you said you'd like to go to column... Just move, like, feel free to just move your mini. Is it the four columns on this?

Yeah, the four round columns in the centers of the room, yeah. The ones with like the little drawings of shelves and stuff like that. Go on, you choose. And anybody doing anything else? Whichever side of the room Gruff goes to, yeah, I'll take the opposite side, just because we both did the checks independently to each other.

So yeah, we'd both check out... The furthest. The furthest away from the entrance on either side of the room, and whoever else wants to join as well. Yeah, Ophelia will just have a little gander over at this one here, behind Xanthias. Okay, and you're gonna check that one, Ophelia? Daisy?

Sure, I'll check the other one. Rowan, Rowan will come with Daisy. Rowan will stand next to Daisy. Oh, don't know much about this. Don't know much biology. So, Gruff and Xanthias, you guys had already made really good checks, so you kind of know kind of what you're looking for here. You kind of, I don't know much biology. So Gruff and Xantheus, you guys had already made really good checks, so you kind of know kind of what you're looking for here.

You kind of, I don't know if you have experience with alchemy, but you know enough to be like, no, I think that's ingrid, no, that's not that, that's my, you do find something, each of you find one thing. Gruff, you would find, you don't recognize, it's in a sort of more test tube-like container, not with a cork as a stopper, but almost like a thick, waxy resin has sealed it.

But there is something oddly familiar about the liquid within, because you recognize it as being very similar to the liquid contained within the potion you got as a gift from Caliphras, the potion of true healing. So like the, this is a potion of healing like you had before, so one that restores

an immense amount of hit points and you can technically drink as a reaction if you're about to die, and that is on the pillar. It looks like it is, it's the same sort of thing, like it looks a bit different, but you're confident enough to be able to identify a potion of healing, because you've seen one before. Okay.

If anyone is close enough, you hear Groff just mutter and disperse, "'Charlotton.'" Zanthius, you see not a potion, something a bit more interesting. Okay. You see a long silvery metal tube, shut up, with almost like sliders down the side,

and each one is tipped with a very tiny gemstone. And you can see that there is clear liquid running down the sillage. One of those multicolor pens. It looks a lot like one of those multicolor pens, but it looks like it might slide out a needle instead of a pen, basically. I thought that was cool.

But that, it would require an identify spell or something to identify it. Okay. It looks more like a magic item than it does a potion. Okay, I mean, I won't take it just yet. I'm assuming you guys haven't taken anything unless you tell me you do. I will say, I've definitely seen what I want to take

from here, but let's make sure everyone picks up everything at the same time and then we just get out of here. Okay? Unless you've already picked up. No. Okay. Daisy and Ophelia, I need you guys to make investigation checks to see if you can find

something amongst all of the other ingredients and things. Rowan will help you, Daisy, so you can have advantage. Probably. Oh, help. I was too busy cursing Caliphorus under my breath. Yeah, that's fair. I think I've... No, I see...

Nothing, eight is my highest. Eight, okay. Even with advantage, damn. I rolled a seven and an eight. Oh, stink. I'm having a poopy day. What's that, O. Even with advantage, damn. I rolled a seven and an eight. Oh, stink. I'm having a poopy day. What's that, Ophelia? 19.

19, you and Rowan, you're scanning through, you can't seem to find anything useful. I'm so scared of everything in this place, I don't wanna touch it! Ophelia, you find a very small vial. Again, kind of almost looks like a kind of crystalline teardrop, with a sort of, almost like a tightened tip

that looks like you snap off and then you can drink the inside. It is a potion, but you don't know of what kind. It is a potion of some sort. As I found something, a little thing, but it looks interesting. Daisy and I can't find anything on this one. I can't see anything, I'm sorry guys.

It all just looks the same. Everything's evil. Should we just grab something randomly? Maybe. Right, what's the plan here? Everyone grab on three and run? Looking around the room, and I guess I'd be distracted mostly

by the test subjects in the things. Is there any change or any elevation in anything that just seems like the longer we're in here? I don't know. Like, is activity picked up? Are they moving? No, they're not moving, they're dead. All dead.

Okay, well just in case, Daisy, there's this silver thing here. I might check out the crystal you're looking at, but this one might be good to take here. I don't trust you and Rowan to search properly. Well, I just know this is good. I don't wanna pick it up just yet, but I can have a look at the one you're looking at, and then we can just take a run. I don't know. Okay, I'll come over, I can have a look at the one you're looking at and then we can just take a run.

I don't know. Okay, I'll come over, I'll just stand here. Okay, this thing here looks like one of those multicolor pens you get in WH Smith. What's that? I want one. I'm not gonna call WH Smith anymore. It is an alpha here.

All right, investigation check. Yeah, I don't know, maybe. Maybe. Well, I realize't know, maybe, maybe. Well, I realize now you were getting assistance from Robin. Well, you get your glass of gold tie. You got fate. You're right. And there's fate. Wow. I don't think fate will help.

I rolled a three and a one. You look, and yeah, maybe just Daisy and Robin, maybe there was nothing to find here. Like everything just looks like ingredients, but nothing of any use. You would need to be a pretty knowledgeable alchemist to use any of this stuff. You could just try and grab a bunch of stuff

and try and sell it. You know what, Daisy? There's nothing here. I knew it! Yeah, you were right. Okay, everyone just grab the stuff and go. I'll get ready to close the door. Are we doing it on a count?

Absolutely. Okay. Three, two, one. Wait, do we go on zero? Oh, fuck. Fuck. Do you actually, so did you grab something on three but Xanthias doesn't?

Or is this a bit? Have we been a bit? It's probably a bit. It's probably a bit. So you all grab the thing and then just grab it in what, like leap back? Like, what'd you do? Stop going towards the door.

Okay, great. Unfortunately, when leap back? Like, what'd you do? Stop going towards the exit. Go towards the door. Okay, great. Unfortunately, when you all grab it, as you grab it and pull it, there is, you see runes appear on the cliff of thing. I didn't check the market evidence. And changing music, go! Three Glyph of Warding spells. Oh, fuck!

This is where they are. I need everybody, well, Xanthes, you didn't grab anything, because you went to the one that had nothing on it, right? You bitch! You set me up! So I need everybody, including Rowan, who's with Daisy, to make dexterity saving throws, please. And I get plus one because of my fancy float.

You have evasion if you succeed. Or you can uncanny dodge it if you fail. I actually don't want uncanny dodges in attack row. You don't like it. What is this, sorry? Or you can uncanny dodge it if you fail. Actually, no uncanny dodges in attack roll. Yes. Yes. What is this story? Dexterity is the same as through. Oh, Rowan succeeds.

I like how we checked the other room and then just came in here and we're like, I did find that quite amusing. Yeah, this is where they are. This is where they all are. So Rowan and Daisy succeeds. You can take half damage. Nice.

Gruff. 16. Is just barely a success, so you can take half damage. Nice. Gruff. 16. Is just barely a success. You're gonna take half damage. Natural 20. Success, you're gonna take half damage. Daisy, you'll take no damage because of evasion rate. So you take no damage, Rowan will unfortunately take half. Fantastic.

This is all thunder damage as a cacophonous thunderous blast erupts. At least we were smart enough to loot at the same time. I guess. At least we've been really good at this one. It would be 22 thunder damage, so half to 11 for everybody except Daisy who takes nothing. Also, the thunderous energy shatters all of the columns,

all of the vials, everything. Oh, so we get nothing. No, the stuff you grabbed, you have enough sense to like, tuck and like protect with your body. You guys succeed on the saving throw, so you recover the loot, but everything else is destroyed. All of the stuff on the thing next to me, you just shh.

All the glass things on the wall, they crack, they burst, these dead corpses of goo, like shh. We are getting out of here right now. Let's go. Like to the north. To the north. To the north. To the north.

Please get out of here. Get out of here. Is this an initiative thing or? No, you've taken the damage here. This is just a trap, like a defensive trap of like, don't touch my shit. It's one of those basic bitch dungeon traps. We should have checked for traps.

Like at least I see those things fall out. I'm like, they're alive, we're going. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're just running out of here closing that door. Sure, okay, yeah, everyone flees. Oh, okay, okay. The speed at which Daisy leapt back from that explosion, cat-like.

Yeah, like Daisy is completely unfazed by this. You also land, stay on the floor. No, Daisy's out there before any offul. It's like this, but you also land, and stand on the floor to a circle and then catch. Daisy's out of room before any of you. I'm beside Percival. Where you been, bro? I'm ashamed. Ashamed? This is Kim speaking.

We just fell for the most basic fucking. No, we got three of the four. The art plan of checks threw me off, because I was like, we did a check, we did a check. You were looking for the thing to find, which I said. Nobody said, can I check and see if there's any traps? Or like, in the last place I even said, like, you know, oh, like, imagine there's no,

you detected magic, can you see any runes or anything like that? I was like, oh, you can't see any glyphs of warding. I specifically said, yeah. Dumb, dumb. And that's not me having fun of you, that's just like, yeah, I mean like, yeah. No, I find it hilarious. I find it hilarious.

I see this as an absolute win. I see this as an absolute win, you got three cool things. Three cool things. Three cool things. So mine's a healing potion? It is a potion of healing, I'll have the, I've got the box out there, I'll go fetch it for you. Potion of true healing. Yeah, the, um.

What do I write in for the thing? It's just called a potion of healing, but I'll get you the card, I'll get you the thing. You can have this. It's the one that basically does like a shit ton of HP and removes conditions and you can technically use it as you're about to die. It's the same one Ophelia had before.

The thing you got, Daisy, is not on D&D Beyond, just put down an unusual alchemical device or something like that. It will need to be identified. It'll be fine. Oh, that's the silver. That's the silver injector. Which is in my backpack. Definitely won't be needing that again.

And then Ophelia, you got a unknown potion, which will also need to be identified. Look at this little bottle of mystery. That's very cute. Isn't it cute? That is very cute. Isn't it cute? That is quite cute. Can't wait to never see it kept from your bed. Aw.

Daisy doesn't say that. You will never see that today. I should think it, though. If that was Katie, that wasn't Daisy. Yep. Nim would think it. I'm sorry, I cannot. Yeah, Nim definitely would.

We were just laughing at it, like, cause she went, oh, look, the potion eye, and I was like, Yeah, definitely. We were just laughing at it, like, cause she went, oh, the potion, and I was like, oh, that one. Okay, I'm with you. You know, there are times that Rhiannon has forgotten a life-saving potion. Cusco's poisoned the potion. It's weird that this happened twice.

It's why I had a nickel for every time. Anyway. Out of interest, with the gold sight eye, it uses charges, but can I use identify, can I ritual cast to not use a charge in the Gold Sight Eye? Or, okay. No. It's the specific part of the magic.

That makes sense. If you knew the spell, you could ritual it. Yeah, yeah. But the item is basically like, activate identify. It means you can do it as an action as well. That makes sense. But yeah, you can't ritual cast it from the art. Oh, did anyone else get hit by that crazy blast of magic?

No. Yes. Oof, ow, my bones. No, but it is. I didn't get hit. I couldn't find anything on that pillar. No, you never will. You sent me into a trap.

I'm sorry, I didn't know there was a trap. You sent Rowan into a trap. Why did you do that? Hey, I didn't know. No one knew there was any. You hate me. No, I don't hate you no one knew there was any. You hate me. No, I don't hate you. I don't hate you, I don't hate any of you.

Oh, that's not what you. Except maybe Pascal. Pascal is not with it enough to realize, is he? No. He has no idea. He's a bad boy alone. Yeah, okay. He's been through a tough time.

Wow. And now so has Rowan because you. Okay, look, we got what we needed and nothing attacked us except. Do we know what any of that stuff does? I know. This one will heal a lot of damage. Oh, that's good.

That's a really weird ways that I've faced that. Will it heal the damage from a broken heart? That one's gonna save a life. I haven't broken hearts, have I? Oh. Okay. Well, just mine on a daily basis. Sorry, I'm just being a bit sassy, I don't know why.

Everyone at your mother fuckers beat the shit out of me. That's true. Oh, you're still not over that, right? It's gonna take. That's why he sent us to the pit. Oh, it's gonna take a few campaigns for that bitch to get over it pretty fucking quickly. She didn't bring it up every other... I understand for that. You didn't get over it pretty fucking quick, I was saying.

She didn't bring it up every other... I understand necessity. I can't say it, though. You know what, the word is different in Althea, but I allow it. Elmera. All right. Lauren Elmera, that's correct.

Okay, well. Okay, well. So. Well, now that's a great question. Where are you right now? In the prison is where you are. Come here, come now that's a great question. Where are you right now? In the prison is where you are. Does a thing know where we are? Probably not.

I don't think it. What thing? Orcs are knowing? Yeah. Oh yeah, they've known where we are the entire time. Well, they've been tracking us this whole time. But I mean. In the world.

In wherever we are. Yeah, let's ask it. Oh. Vermillion orcscs of Oil. Nine. Where are we in the world? Where, are we still in on Ilmer? Are we in Althea?

This is an unknown designation. I don't think we're anywhere. Might be. We're nowhere. What plane of existence are we on? Ooh. We are nowhere. What plane of existence are we on? Ooh. We are currently located between the planes in the 79th Demi-Planar layer.

Apparently we're in the 79th Demi-Planar layer. I don't like it here, I want to go. Oh, of course. The 79 of them? The 79 of them, at least. Ask if, at least, ask if we were to exit here, where would we emerge? If we were to exit the, no, we emerge? If we were to exit the,

no, I don't know, it's called the Prism. If we were to exit. The Red Wing. This vault, where would we emerge? I don't know what a vault is, but it gets what you mean. You would currently exit on the Material Plane. Just says the Material Plane.

I don't know what that means. Is that our one? What material plane? Yeah, like, like, like, like, like, the knowledgeable spell casters amongst you. Anybody who's had sort of a basic in education, so I think Ophelia, you would know this as well. Like, you know that Ulfea is on something

called the Material Plane. You then have the Planes of Exist, or the Planar Realms, as they're called. That's where, like, Celestials and, you know, bad stuff comes from. Nobody likes the Planar Realms as they're called. That's where like, celestials and bad stuff comes from. Nobody likes the Planar Realms, except maybe the Great Father who has the Grey Lands. That's a Planar Realm. But you know that the Material Plane

is where Ulthaea is. The gods, sovereign and the gods, came to the Material Plane. It was kind of like a neutral ground that was hidden away and they made Ulthaea here. Or at least, that's what the story says. They gave life to a dead world. And it is said that the Proto Magi were slumbering

in that dead world in their vaults and things like that. I wanna go back to our plane. Oh, I really do as well. I've just had a worrying thought. Is it worth asking how long until this vault shifts to another plane? Hello. How long is it before this vault

shifts to another plane of existence? I'm getting smug vibes. Oh, what do I wanna do? You really just heard it like, breathe in and breathe out. Yeah. A little sassy breath it took. You're the one asking this question. Hello, yes I am.

I would like you. Oh no. To roll a D8 for me. A D8? Oh no, please say that's for years, days. Hours. Hours. It's gonna be out minutes, oh my god. Oh no, please say that's for years, days. Hours. Hours. It's gonna be out minutes, oh my god.

Which, which France, this feels like a fancy dice roll. Fuck it. Sevens. You would hear, there are approximately eight hours remaining on this plane. Oh apparently there's eight hours remaining. Oh, excuse me. Eight hours, something really got in your throat there. Was that, did you say eight hours?

Hairball. I'd like to go home now. You were just retching out, but eight hours. Eight hours, don't look. Nice hairball. Gonna try and bury it. Oh, it's in my sock. Eight hours, sorry, eight hours you said.

Eight hours. Okay, all right, okay, so we need to start moving fast. True. We still have no way of getting out, and there are still many rooms we need to explore before we even head upstairs for this Orca IX. The good news, still no security coming after us. This place is long abandoned and very underpowered.

Yes, but we don't know how to leave. No. We only have eight hours to figure that out. Well, shall we start by going to this north of Battle Arena? You know, you don't want to go to a testing arena? No. There might be a way out there. No, voice in my head.

Piss off. Oh, guys, I wrote a whole thing for the testing arena. No. Hey, not right now. You for the testing arena. No. Hey, not right now. You also wrote the family. I could have a little Peaky. You stick our heads in.

Maybe just open the door and just say hello. Let's just take a real quick look. I don't want to take a look. Wait, what was the other one? No! I'm just joking. What was the other one? I got the two of you.

Stasis. Stasis. Stasis. Stasis. You want to go into stasis before, okay? Stasis, let's check out stasis. What if we find people that we weren't missing? That's right, okay, I still have a purple.

Put that down. I still have a purple orb. You do. Let's check out the purple room right now. Let's just really quickly get in, get out. We see some people. We take them, we go. Yes?

Well, if we take them, then they may get mad. Who? Big Puzz. Big Priz. Then hopefully he can come down here, see us face to face, and tell us how to leave this cursed place. I want to give the manager a talking tip. I do!

I want to speak to the manager. This place is unacceptable to serve this here. It's kept in such shoddy condition. I know. They haven't cleaned in decades. It's actually incredibly spotless. Yes, it is. I'm just trying to find fault because it's very clean.

You know what? It's a little cold. Yeah, I think the AC is on a little too high. What's AC? Are we checking? That's a magic spell. Yes. You make your way to the north east purple door.

You hold up the purple orb that you already have and the door opens. You make your way to the north east purple door. You hold up the purple orb that you already have, and the door opens. You see another squat corridor leading into a large chamber where there are rows of floating five foot cubes in smoked dark glass, behind which some of them you can see completely still humanoid shapes. In the center of this space, there are,

I think it was 15, there's 19 of these cubes in the room. And there is a flat, there is, in the middle of the room, there is a thin pole with a flat square on top of it, with raised ridges and indentations. The sphere, sorry, the little sort of table looks like it can be tilted and moved, and it has its size raised enough where it looks like a glass sphere

can be placed and moved and tilted around it. As you enter, you see one of the four armed, more scientific looking constructs is moving between the cubes and is, it's passive, you know, featureless face seems to examine them, taps on the side, you see colored lights flash, it seems to be satisfied, it moves down, it sets another cube, and it seems to be doing

some sort of process going around them. Oh, back up, back up, back up, there's one of those things in there. Oh, we touched things, it might get really mad at us. It might do, but it's... So you'll hear this from the entrance, like in the corridor. If you don't mind, I might just lurk out here because I'm just a bit worried that that voice

wanted me to go into stasis, and I just wonder if I go in there with this thing in my chest. It might feel some kind of way about things. That's a good point. You might get another new order. I don't seem to have noticed you yet. Yet. This creature.

Yeah, so Gruff moves out. I won't move the mini, we won't have to worry about it too much. Shout if you need anything. Is there a mini for the thing? Sure, I can give you one. Yeah, there you go. I love that one right turn.

Okay. And it's kind of moving in amongst the kind of these lines of corridors of the cubes, yeah. And it kind of moves up to a cube, spends a few seconds, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, then it moves to another cube, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, and it's just repeating that. Sometimes it just stands in front of a cube

and just looks at it. Magnificent. Okay. And the stone platform in the middle is like a... It's like a table balanced on a thin pole. And there are these indentations, looking at it where the cubes all are, like these little points that almost look like

something could rest on top. And the whole thing looks like a sphere could be rolled around it, and almost maybe rolled into the slots, basically. Okay. The glass spheres, the glass cubes, sorry, are all black, so it's almost like you can barely see through them.

Just enough to see completely still figures, about nine of them in total. Okay, Daisy. You're gonna hate this. No. We need a new plan. What do you want? Well, that sentry in there, I think if it sees us,

is either going to get hostile or is it going to start, I don't know, calling alarms, things like that. My thinking. You're really good at getting into small places, sneaking around, stealthing around. Maybe you just take a quick look at every one of these cubes. Every single one of the cubes. Yes, but avoid the gaze of that thing there,

which might not be too bad. It's just going back and forth between all of these rows. Figure out what's good and what might be saveable. I don't wanna open one of these things to unleash another family in this place, you know? Well, last time, I think he's gonna see me or know that I'm there, probably. I can barely see you now.

I could help you be stealthy, I could give you some inspiration. Hello. It's even that where Roman goes in, he is extremely stealthy himself. It's true, I'm very stealthy. He did hide at that tower, very impressive. I think, I didn't see him.

True. But what's the plan? What are we even trying to do? The second we do anything, they're gonna be mad at us anyway. There might be people we can rescue. I'm just worried that something in the, one of the things in Stasis might not be Rescuable. People.

People. It might not be... Rescuable. People. People. It might not be people. We don't have to do this, obviously. I'm assuming you guys haven't fully gone, you're in outside. Yeah, this is like, we backed up the moment we saw, or at least I said. You only see the one construct.

It just, it's got those spindly kind of like, artifice-y arms, it hovers ever so slightly above the ground. You only see the one construct. It's got those spindly kind of like, artificial arms. It hovers ever so slightly above the ground. Was it similar to the... Similar to the two that you encountered in the processing chamber. The sort of nurse-y ones. Yeah. Okay.

Perhaps I could lure it somewhere while Daisy has a look. Just as an insurance, perhaps? Yes. I think if anything all it's going to try to do, at least for you, is send you over to that blue room over there to try and get you processed. We know they're not violent, I don't think, anyway. They just... They're just very pushy. Yes. Graf, on the other hand, if they see you, I think you might get... You might get pushed into stasis.

That's why I'm staying out here. Yeah. But all we need to do is just know which of these things are good and which are bad. You'd have to get right, you'd have to be right next to them so I look in and you look like, because the glass is like magic glass, it's not like normal glass and it's colored.

But I think if you get close enough, you can at least get a good idea of what's inside. Although actually with me and Big's coloured, but I think if you get close enough, you can at least get a good idea of what's inside. Although, actually, with me and Big Priz, they would probably try to send me to the lower levels, into the cell downstairs. It's not embedded in you, though. No, but everything else seems to be mistaking me for... Put the prism down, then.

Hmm? Put the prism down. What do you mean? Put it on the floor then. Hmm? Put the prism down. What do you mean? Put it on the floor here. I don't want to lose it. I like it. I like it. Look at it. Uh, if you're saying that the thing is confusing you for the, I was about to say jabberwock,

you don't know what, the Galowack, then just put it, put it down. But then it will take it. No, put it down out here. Why? You can collect it when you come back out. No, I'm saying that's a good thing, that it will be to confuse me for not something that should go into stasis.

I, it makes sense in my head. So if it's not gonna confuse you for something that should go into stasis, then shouldn't you go in? Because you've got a prism. Surely it would try and put you back in the cell downstairs. I was just trying to avoid the attention of this thing entirely, but we could all just go in. That works also.

Can't get all of us at once, right? That's true. Well, I can try and sneak, but I don't know how far I'll get because I think they just know where we're going. I believe in you, Daisy. In fact, I think so much. Blim, blim, I'm going to make a songy, balck impression. Wow. Daisy's very quiet.

I like rocks. Rocks are also quiet. I believe it's a D8 now. The ballad of, oh, where'd she go? I don't know. And if you use it on an ability check like stealth, you can roll it twice and choose which result from the bardic you would like to use.

Wow, Ja. It's a D8. Yum, yum, yum. And it's delicious choose which result from the bardic you would like to use. Wow, Ja. It's a D8. Yum, yum, yum. That is delicious. Okay, I'll go in then. Okay, stealth roll please, see if you can avoid it. I'm rolling like garbage. But this is gonna be a nat 20. Yeah, watch this.

Watch this drive. It's not, but it's not bad. But you do get a D8 as well. It's a 25 without the D8. Do you wanna win the D8? 25's pretty good. You can re-roll it too. 25 without the DA. Do you want to add the DA? 25's pretty good. You can re-roll it too. 25's a 25.

Yeah. What's the perception of this thing? That's a great question. You don't know. Zero. A million. 28. Yeah, Daisy, you sneak in.

This thing has no clue you're there. You press yourself up against the cubes, you kind of move quietly, it silently just seems to be going about whatever its business is. You spend a bit of time, like you can move around this thing, you're kind of keeping aware of where it is,

you know, being aware of avoiding it. You slowly make your way down, taking maybe, it probably takes you a good five minutes, maybe 10 minutes, as you go past each cube, peering in, trying to see what's inside. You gather that there are nine people currently held in stasis. You do think all of them are normal humanoids.

They are all, they appear to be, you see like four woods folk, maybe like the kind of people that might come from the town of Colville. You see two farmers and a young teenager who has like a similar build and resemblance to the farmers, maybe a family. And then two interesting people. You see an incredibly,

well it'd be interesting because their supernatural allure wouldn't apply through the stasis. You would see a Nalunari, a dark elf of Althea. Okay. And the Nalunari have a supernatural allure, it's a divine gift from Meileir. So when they speak to you, there's always something about them that you find beautiful.

It could be their smell, or it could be their eyes, it could be just their shape or their face or whatever. But they would to you just look like a very pleasant looking dark elf woman dressed in like merchant's robes. And then next to her is a Dwemera or a Durgar in Althea who is dressed like a bodyguard, like armored. He has like a very strange like wrist mounted crossbow

with like a blade that can like extend from it. Completely like armed, fully equipped and everything else. And they are in stasis together. And they're wearing very similar colors and have a similar symbol around their neck as well. It looks like the two of them maybe either from the same place or know each other. But yeah, they all just look like citizens of Ulfea.

I will sneak back to the group. And report. And report all of those peoples. Are they in any particular cells or is it just? Just nine of them, yeah. Yeah, you can identify them, yeah. Pick nine of them basically. Sure, I'm just gonna throw them on the table

and see where they land. There's so many in multiple cells, this is crazy. All right, um... Sure. Well, we've got to get them out. Yes. Okay, that shouldn't be too bad. That thing in the middle should hopefully control it, but...

I think he'll notice if you start taking people out. Do we... Do we do this at the last thing before we leave the vault? I feel like we can't really run about here with nine other people, and we don't know how to get out yet. We also don't know, were they awake? No, they were like, eyes open, completely unmoving,

in a sort of just a stupa. Can I? Yes. Try and just, the dark elf woman, can I try and telepathically connect with them? That is a great question, would that work? I'm gonna say, Nim says to you like, I can sense that they are alive and there, but it's not that I can't reach them,

it's like they are asleep. Oh. But they are not asleep, but I can't reach them, but it's like they are asleep. Like trying to connect with somebody who is unconscious. Their eyes are open, but nobody's home right now. Right, okay, it might take a while for them to either wake up or come to

so that we can move them, but my thinking is we could maybe get them all into the entrance of this place at the very least. Well, he said that, that, what did you call it, Durgar, sorry? Dwemera, so Dwemera is the name for Durgar in Ulfair, basically. To avoid using Wotzi terms. Okay.

Dwar, Dwar. Dwarmera. Dwarmera. You said the Dwarmera was armed, so maybe they can help. At least, you know, keep safe or. That's a good idea. Maybe, but I don't know, should we, if we have to leave soon anyway,

should we try and find a way to get out and then... Then get everybody rounded up? I'm worried... I'm worried that they might not... Some of them look like just farmers and people who don't know and they might panic. I'm worried that our exit might, you know, have to be rather immediate and we wouldn't have time to.

I don't think Vermillion, Orcs and Iron is going to be too... Get them. Forgiving, time-wise. I don't know. I don't know what this thing is. Um... It's got to be something to do with our central console in there, right? Yes. What if...

What if... OK. I went in, saw if this thing processed me, put me in stasis, whatever, you see what they do, and then reverse that. Well, I think we can... it looks like it's just using the orb. I'm worried that putting you in stasis might... Ball. Knock you out for quite some time.

We might not be able to figure it out as in you're stuck. I have another plan. It does involve sending another one of you in that's not me. Would you like to hear it? I'll hear it. Hello? What? You might actually be a good call for this. It was either your orophilia. Do what?

We know that this nurse thing will try to send you in for processing. We'll probably try to guide you to that place in order to process you. I'm just saying, load this thing out, distract it by going into the blue room with it, and then you might have that place in order to process you. I'm just saying, lure this thing out, distract it by going into the blue room with it, and then you might have the strength in order to resist all of the things trying to push you onto a table. Before you come back here, by that point,

we'll have got all these guys out here, and into a safe place. Does that make sense? Yeah, I was going to run distraction anyway for Daisy, so. If you want both of you could go to help each other to... Yes, OK. You've already helped me off the bed before, so... Yeah.

But all you need is this thing out before it even recognises that everything is gone. A grand heist. Sounds fantastic to me. A people heist. A people heist. Sure. All right, what's the plan? you tell me what you're doing. Plan?

So Ophelia goes in. Yeah, Ophelia and Rowan go in, try and lure this thing away. Hey, wow, love this place. Oh, trash, not processed. Show me what processing is. Show me what processing is. And then it hopefully leads you out

and takes you to the other chamber across the way. We can just take a little dive into the entrance room for a while, and then we just come back in and try and figure out. Start distracting all of the people. Okay. Plan? Plan. Plan.

Plan. All right. Get all in there. Afina and Rowan, you make your way in. I'll let you take the lead on this because I don't want to play Rowan. Uh, excuse me, hello? This thing turns immediately. I'm gonna take the lead on this, because I don't want to play wrong. Yeah. Excuse me, hello? This thing turns immediately. As soon as it hears you, it kind of hovers around.

Shh. Oh, I don't like that. We're looking for process. Shh. Can you? It casts Silence. And then it goes back to what it was doing before. Ophelia comes back out.

Yeah, when you get out of the room, the Silence bubble drops, because it's a 20 foot radius from around Ophelia. It just shooshed me, and it made me quiet. Oh. It won't follow me. It's not following you at all. It doesn't like-

It was telling you to be quiet? It doesn't like noise, people talking. Maybe- Why? Do you think they can be woken up just from noise alone? That sounds... Maybe it's not our style until we start messing around with it. Oh, let's stop messing around with it.

Off you go then. Alright. Follow me everyone. Alright, as soon as you step in, there's like a silent, your footsteps become silent as you're in this sign spot. They last for a minute, follow me everyone. All right, as soon as you step in, there's like a silent, your footsteps become silent as you're in the sign spot. They last for a minute at the sign spot. And it would reach the control table.

I'm gonna, before they go in, telepathy with these guys. I'll leave Roanoke, he's trots on here. Just for the sake of it. Ease, yep. Is everyone coming in? Yeah. I'm still gonna stay outside. You see the creature, okay, so Gruff stays outside

with Pascal and Percival. You can still talk to us. Well, if you're outside with Pascal, Percival will go in because he will always follow Sister Ophelia unless he's given an order. You guys step in and the creature does turn and it sort of acknowledges you. It looks, but as long as you're being quiet,

it goes back to, beep, beep, beep, boop. You can't physically speak, but you do have mental communication. Oh, good. Yeah. Easy use of telepathy. Well, this sounds good so far. Just don't speak out loud, don't make any loud noises.

We can't anyway. All right, if we wanted to. For eight hours. You're with me for a whole day. Oh, that's perfect, because that's when the vault disappears, and that's the end of the campaign. That's good, that is worth remembering that. Because I'm banging on things, just banging on the walls. You're trapped in a wall, campaign's perfect, because that's when the vault disappears and that's the end of the campaign. That is worth remembering that.

Because I'm banging on things, just banging on the walls. Oh, campaign's done. I think you're the only one that heard you. Okay, well, at the very least... We need a black orb. For the black... ...probably. You're right.

You run out. I forgot there was no orb currently in this thing. You got three orbs? I can take it and do it. It was a red room. Can I try the red? No, sorry, it was a purple one. Can I try the purple orb in there first?

So you put the purple orb on the table and like the scruble scramble machine, it kind of like, you can roll it basically. You have to like tilt the table. You need to fucking shit. But you get control of it quickly enough. The red passes over the sort of indentations and never settles.

It just doesn't, it just passes over and nothing happens. Game's rigged. It's like Tears of the Kingdom. Oh God. You switch right? Yeah. I mean, can I just put- It just invibes the vaults.

Can I just put all the colors I have in there? I've got a bunch of purple. You try all of them, yep. None of them. All right. Give me, I'll run quick. Oh yeah, sure, here take that and these three keystones. I will go out and I will.

What do you do? Katie, you are gonna love this shit. Put the orb in, which orb did you give me? The, I had a purple, I had a green. And a yellow. And a yellow, I'll give you the yellow. Put the yellow orb in. Put the yellow orb in, drains of color becomes clear.

Put the blue. Blue is injected into the sphere, it turns blue. Put the red. Red is injected in, it turns purple. Take the sphere. You have a purple sphere. I take the rods out Red is injected in, it turns purple. Take the sphere. You have a purple sphere.

I take the rods out. Okay, you take the rods out. Put them back in. Put the sphere back in. I put yellow in. It drains of color, becomes clear again when you put the sphere back in. Oh no!

I do, I... This is why I ask. It takes, and it's taking time, like running back here and doing all of this. Right, I put, put the sphere in. Clear sphere. Put the yellow. Put the yellow orb in, yellow injects into it,

you have a yellow sphere. Put the red. You put a red in, red is injected into it, you have an orange sphere. Take the orange sphere out. Take the orange sphere out. I take the yellow sphere out. Take the orange sphere out. I take the yellow rod out. Take the yellow rod out.

And the red. Okay, no rods. I put the blue rod in. You put the blue rod in. Blue is injected into it, turning the sphere black. Take the sphere out. Take the sphere out, you take the rod, you now have a black sphere and all the rods.

What a fucking rush, right? No. No? Katie hatin'. But yeah, you rush back. It does take you a bit of time doing all of this, which is counting down, but you run back and you now have a black sphere.

Thank you. In my head I say, black sphere on the thing. It sort of magnetically, you feel it like, whoosh, and when you tilt it, you now get the sense that if you hover over one of these indentations that aligns with a cube, you can cause it to lock into place. The sphere kind of magnetically like, thwunk, locks in.

Okay, in that case I will try to, there's, in the four boxes behind me, there's the third one that has a person in, I randomly rolled it. I will, while looking behind me. There's the third one that has a person in. I randomly rolled it. I will, while looking behind me almost to see what happens, I'll try to align the orb to fall into that position just to see what happens. Yeah, it locks into that place.

The sphere, the cube, sorry, lowers to the ground and then the sides vanish and a woodswoman, let's say a half-elven, sort of human half-elven, woods woman, stumble, like collapses onto the ground. Yeah, because I'm like right next to her. When she does, the construct notices and begins making its way to the woman. I, yeah, I picked that one because I wanted

to try and catch them as they fall out. Okay, yeah, you catch her as she falls. The construct, like construct comes up to you and tries to grab the woman out of your hands. Can you give me an athletics check? Athletics. 19. 19.

You hold on as this thing grips with these little spindly arms and is tugging, trying to pull it away, as you see it gains more and more aggressive, and then it is going to basically try and shove you away. But you kind of just rebuff it, you just sort of dodge to the side. Yeah, I'm trying to uphold this person

and take them out of the room. Yeah, it follows you, trying to grab on and pull this woman from your grip. Anyone that can't see me, I'm like communicating, I guess for Gruff's benefit. It's trying to take this person away from me, just use the back orb, you can open the other cells. Can I try and open as many cells as possible

so that it gets overwhelmed and it can't control however many people are on the floor? So you start unlocking everybody, right? Like, you have to almost reset the ball every time. It's like, you have to wait, it unlocks, and then you can slide it and roll it around again. But over time, I'd say like, you get like one person every six seconds.

The creature is locked onto Xanthias for a time. Did you want to do something, Ophelia? I was gonna say, can I rage and hold the Construct back? Oh yeah, like yeah, with all of you guys, and Rowan's there, he's like, get off! Like the three of you guys are holding this thing off. It is showing aggression, but it doesn't have like any sort of like attack.

It's just trying to grab and pull this thing away. And it looks like it's used magic. And it makes silences, because you guys are making noise. It creates another bubble of silence. But yeah, you wrestle with it. And Daisy, go on. Sorry, from the door, can I just be like,

everyone come to me, come to me? Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. To the people who, not to you guys, but to the people that are. Okay, so as you see people, well the problem is there's a bubble of silence, so you're trying to shout and the sound just isn't passing through that bubble of silence.

Yeah, you're kind of like doing this. So they are waking up then? The woman in your arms, she's like coming to after like 20, 30 seconds. She's like, what, like, what's happening? It's like by the time I'm at this point, I'm now at the door having carried her out. Maybe, I don't know.

Yeah, you can be there. The machine, there's three or four people the days these release, and it's turning, and it rushes towards one of them, and it grabs them, and it's trying to put them back in the sphere. By that point, other people are now spilling out. Yeah, and it and is trying to put them back in the sphere. What do you guys think? By that point, other people are now sort of spilling out.

Yeah, and it's like desperately trying to get them all, but they're all spilling out, but they're very unconscious for like the first 30 seconds or so. They're just like slumped on the ground. Ophelia, Rowan, can you guard them while they come to you? Do you want to stop the construct or are you going to guard the people?

I can start guarding the people, yeah. Okay. Just like slowly ushering them towards the end of the, towards the card. Sure. I would say there's enough of you and only one of these constructs. I think though that when it becomes clear that you're trying to stop them,

like it goes into a more aggressive attack mode, basically. And I think that's where we're going to end today. So, this thing basically turns and you see its hands and it comes towards the group of you that are clearly trying to interfere with its process. At this point, I've literally just taken a body out of Stasis. I think that's the point where it's no longer overloaded

with like, oh, something's malfunctioned, I need to put them back in, it's gone. Something is, these creatures are trying to stop me, engage. It never speaks though, the whole time. It doesn't speak like the others. So yeah, and that's where we'll end today's episode. Nice, we're saving people, nine people as well. That's not bad, feels real good.

Yeah, there you go. That's it, well done everybody. Hell yeah. Very, very good. Some treasures. This is great, this is so good. I love this dungeon. But arena though. No.

Arena though. Arena though. We can take the nine people and put nine. That's right, when Tron comes back, there'll be a majority vote to go to the arena. We do have eight hours. With that, thank you so much for watching everybody. That is gonna be it for today's episode.

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