Legends of Avantris - Beneath Dark Wings | Ep. 10 | Maze of Mysteries: Part 2

Episode Date: August 14, 2024

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Hey man, welcome to the legends of a ventress. I'm Tawakomanoi, and you're listening to Beneath Thark Wings. Here's basically what happened last time. You notice that there seems to be very subtle, but the remains some kind of foul, rhodged pestilence or disease. Iris, this isn't good. Why is that, darling? This is necromancy. So you're not coming along?

No, absolutely. I can go in this engine. I don't care how to sneaky eyes. I am. They're gonna take one look at me and screw me up and all Holnhard and I had a good talk to talk. We lost the lots of good man and woman yesterday. And I would like to offer a token to each of you of my sense that may be able to help. Do you have any idea, Holmhart, what the fuck is happening out there? And I've seen what the Horn Legion is doing. I know where they're going. They're heading the Zentra. If you find any other

members of the 13th order please make sure that our land and our world is safe. Is that the name of the order? You had kept that secret up until that point? Yes. The seat of the road and you see uh march-hating regiments of Korvachian. Three weeks are going to pass. Oh. This is the place. Whatever's in there, it's going to hold a lot of answers. And you see a long, dark tunnel and you hear...

you hear Lo chanting. Uh-oh. A cloaked figure, but on his head is, looks like a dead bullhead. Oh, gross. The horn king gains the power of flame. The ashen bull gains an army. Zentra will fall. The dark prodigy will fall.

Malibals will be ours. The sacrifices bring fire. Raise your weapons, brother. They're all raising. their weapons. And as they're saying, like, the sacrifices in this labyrinth, and then you start to raise their weapons. And as you kind of see that there's a flame kind of looking around it. Is it just these four creatures? Just those, yeah. Do they all look like bullmen or like they all just, oh, apologies, apologies. And then beneath him are three heavily armored. Guards me

of some kind. And with these large weapons and large shields on each of their shields is the same symbol of the knotted effigy with the crown with the horns. And on painted behind him is that same symbol. As you start

to see that there's now, there's torches, all of this and they don't know this yet, but you are facing this speaker. Is it a humanoid with a bull's head on? Yes. Okay. Yes. They all seem to be humans. The three humans need to be humanoid just wearing

helmets that are shaped light bulbs and this speaker, this mouth of this god or whatever, is wearing an actual dead, the bullhead on his, on his head. Hey, uh, guys, he just said some crazy shit. Do you mind if I kind of fuck with this? Are you guys ready for them in combat

here? I suppose now or never. We need to stop them whatever they're doing. One second. Divine sense again. Is it going to clang my shield if I try to cast it? If I'm presenting my holy symbol? I would say if you're trying to do something, you know, like there'll be some light and try to make a slight of hand check, if you want to do it's stealthily. But it is something that...

I mean, it's a sense. You open your awareness to detect such forces till the end of your next term, you know the location of any celestial feet or undead with the 60 feet of you that's not behind. Well, I would say either way, you don't, you don't notice anything. Okay. And any place or object that's been consecrated or desecrated, do I feel like to, By via spell. As with the hollow spell, so it doesn't have to be necessarily hollow. But she's in the same.

Yeah, no, I don't think there's any desecrated one. Okay. You're getting a sense for this whole place is pretty profane. But there's like nothing, there's no specific sense of anything that's especially profane. Do you want me to go with you? We're not, I'm not going to, I'm just going to cast a quick spell and see if it goes right. If not, then let's just all, let's just all just go in there and pokey, pokey, stab stab.

I'll got your back. You actually would notice something. There is an altar that's built around this platform that has these rusty crowns and skulls and weapons and iron weapons and you see a large glave on one side. Was it an actual glave or just like a drawing of a glaive? No, no. On this altar that you remember that they're having weapons and crowns and like remnants of body parts and stuff. Yeah. On the ultimate you would see in Miss Crow's Crossing.

Oh, okay. So this is a similar thing. So not like the drawing. Yes, exactly. And they seem to be referencing something going on in this labyrinth that's greening fire. All right, everybody. Hold on to your butts. I follow your lead. I will cast enemies abound, third level enchantment on the primary dude. Oh, geez. Right here. Okay. He has to make an intelligent save of DC 16.

And then hold your breath. He gets a 12. It's a 12. He automatically succeeds if he's immune to being frightened. I don't think he is. He's not. Outstanding. On a failure, the target regards all creatures it can see as enemies. Each time the target takes damage, it can repeat the save. He chooses targets at random, but he now regards the three people in front of him as enemies.

Oh! I lean forward, and I just very quickly to use my magic, I pull my viol out. do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do that oh Derek are we each able to do something since they haven't seen us yet or is it like kind of the one-off I think I just did something horrible and they all turn to you and they all turn to you and It's fucking Jurassic Park All the rafters. All of a sudden,

there's this sense that washes over him, and he looks down at the three figures, and all of their swords have now ignited from this chanting and the things that are going on in his labyrinth. And he looks down with fear, and he cast a spell

on all three of them. And you see all of these dancing lights erupt out of his hand, and they all look around like, and then I'm going to make some saves. She's engaged as far. Yeah. Yeah.

Derek. Incredible. I love guards. Are you doing the running man? Oh, I love firehouse. Are you doing the running man as Caprice right now? Yeah. In the reality of this world, I'm doing the like.

So, so they all get completely incapacitated and fall to the ground with a gnomic pattern. And he looks and like, oh, and he looks at you, oh, you've done this. And then I need a little furniture. Yeah. Yay! Yay, get advantage! Oh, not balanche! So you go five and six.

That was okay. I guess that's all. Oh, well. Terrible initiative. Oh, 23. I'll take one. Yeah, thank you. Thank you for thinking of me.

15. Oh, let's see. Here. Felix, where do you have? I tied with Hersia, so I will go first if Hersh is not back, and if she's back in time, I'll hear him. You get 11. 11.

You got 11, it puts you above Felix. Oh, really? Really? Yeah, Hersia and I both got tense. Oh, fantastic. So, that's exactly where I like to be. As this bullheaded creature, he looks at you and he, he says, as you have done this, you are interrupting all you can understand this. You have interrupted our ritual and you have turned these non-believers.

And he's going to try to attack you. Tell what are you doing? I am going to run my full movement, which is... Who did brought one of these assholes? 40 feet. So, one, two, three... I'm sorry. You're like right here.

I can let you move. I'm sorry. Four, five, six, seven, eight. Hands off. And I'm going to... Let me just me just check my features. What did you order my menus? And incapacitated until someone gets them.

What did you get for? Initiative Jack? I love it. 11. Oh, gotcha. I am going to pull out my boomer. At the right with Hersha. At the main guy?

Oh, I'm not. I'm a plus, I'm a plus six to it. I just rolled a five. Uh, 21. 21? Oh, that hits, yeah. Four plus three is seven. Okay.

And so I think that clashes to the ground. It does. So you run up and you see these creatures. They're all holding their swords and their incapacity. Their swords are still flaming, but they're on the ground. As their kind of their eyes are rolling around, and you pull out your boomerang and it flies it hits him in the head the bull head on it on his head so it's a little bit and I'll check a javelin at him how much damage was that oh sorry four seven damage seven damage okay and then you pull out a javelin to chucking

oh almost was good uh that would be a 12 12 uh 12 does not have okay monsters one what what are you all or the run, by the way? 20-something. Cool. Is a Monsters one's turn? These are- When I cast a spell on? Yeah, no, these are the incapacators.

Very good. Let me see how we can. Just making sure we're all doing what's right. Do what's right. No, they don't need to make the safe. So they are just, wha-ha-ha-ha. And with that, it's Luffy's turn. Oh, it's my turn.

I am going to run up. What is my movement? My movement is 40. 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35. You can get to one of those two. I don't want to hit them, though. Do we know that hitting them would be bad? Yeah, you said that they're something until they're all.

But that's meta knowledge, right? You don't know that unless you would be familiar with the effect. Which I guess I wouldn't. Right. So I think it's a question of, would you hit the guy doing on the ground? If there's a guy who's like literally paralyzed on the ground, would you think, oh, I should hit that guy? That's your question to yourself. Yeah.

So then, yeah. So then just act. So then I would move just to one back then. I would kind of move up behind you and be like, ooh. Okay. You go, go, boom. As you run up behind Felix, Iris, you're up. Not Felix.

Oh, Iris. Are you going to do an action or anything? Dash or anything. Yeah. Okay. I think what's up. I would look at Caprice. I would look at Caprice.

What do you want me to do? Well, the don't hit the main guy. Whenever he takes damage, you might snap out of it. I just wanted him to fuck up the guys in the front. Do you want to me to attack them? I mean, if we think they're evil, go for it. Okay, I'm going to cast Toll the Dead. I'm going to move forward a little bit and cast Toll the Dead on number two.

The one that's over here close to the wall. So dry. Yeah, I believe it's 60 feet. It's so dry. It's a wisdom. It is a wisdom. It's okay. We're in combat and he is kind of only...

So it'd be 2D8. So it'd be 2D8. Hey, that's me all the time. Yeah. Yeah. We just bought a... Humidifier. It's helped a lot.

Sitting on it's so good. Oh, they're so good. 11 points of damage. 11 points of damage. It's been aged from fat to me. I'm sorry. You guys hear the gong of the of the Nudus has told the dead.

It racks his brain, snapping him out of the hypnotic ability as number two. And he starts to get right himself. We gotta kill these guys fast. Okay. It's his turn. So he is going to... He has to make a target

by random. This is the last for a minute, but I cast on him. Number one? Yes. Yes. Okay. He can only pick whenever the creature chooses a target it must choose at random from among the creatures that can see within range. If an enemy provokes an opportunity attack, the creature must make a bad attack. Okay, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

It's all rolled the eight. There should be nine of us. Nine of us. But he can't see Felix. Oh. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. He sees, uh, toa. Okay.

Oh, not towa. He looks at you and he says, um, he says, you are not, he's gonna, he's gonna slow, you are not worthy. for the Colt of the Horn King and you need to make a saving throw. Me? Yes. Just want to roll 20. Two is saving throws, actually. He's gonna do it twice.

I'll just hear. Eight. What kind of saving thrones? Yeah, yeah. There's him. Eight, which is probably a fail. So it's eight and ten, so twelve and ten. Two on each, so twelve and ten. Okay.

Move on. Sorry, buddy. Oh, no, I'm good. Oh. Oh, okay, you're right. No, I shouldn't give them the empty hand. that empty pan sorry well no something like that's gonna be 13 points of psychic damage okay oh mark yeah 13 points like a psychic damage is you feel the knowledge back in your brain because he has no allies he's like these old as cool love shit that I had

planned okay it's like the kind of thing I appreciate it buddy hey I'm gonna go into the corner which one as quickly as I can back this far yeah got if I can reach that far yeah it's right um okay that's pretty good I will I will funk number two with a hand crossbow attack he's the one at top right yes you will number two is the hand cross uh that 100% hits that's going to be 23 to number two yeah okay 25 uh yeah it hits uh and then that's going to be uh that's going to be eight piercing damage to him okay um fire off your hand crossbow and it gets him in it and he's like he's still on the ground right and uh four

my shit okay that's great that's I shouldn't I shouldn't care about that too much I need to mark down the crossbows bolts that I use you know I turn to toe and I'm like sorry about that big guy you got this buddy though I believe in you and I'll give him an inspiration okay you do that number 13 damage one inspiration yeah I have 13 and I haven't sprayed here okay Felix Trump I'm gonna move five 10, 15, 20. And then I'm going to firebolt number one. And I'm going to move pretty much next to Caprice so I can get the line of sight on him.

It's 120 feet, so I should be good to go. Hey, buddy. It's a plus 8 for hit. Oh, 9. So 17. 17 on the... Number one. The big boss man.

Yep. That's going to be 2D10, I think, and that's it. On hit, takes 1D10. Sorry, I'm not used to playing my... wizard. I think these are tens. These are tens. Yeah, just two D-sack. Oh, four. Not good. Felix. Felix, you reach in and grab your dagger. I think so. He was just, he was asking plus anything. I think it's just too d-10. Yeah, it's a cantra. Yeah. Okay. You shoot the bolts out. He made another intelligent save against the DCs. Bang bang! To see if he loses the

company. There's a one inspiration. Oh, sweet. Another intelligence saving dog. he gets a 14. He fails. Okay. So he still regards everyone as an enemy.

Okay, cool. With that, his service room. I didn't get your message about not attacking him. I yelled it out loud. Yeah. How far by.

Do you know that though? I mean, like, as your character, are you aware of what that spell does? It's not his spell, it's his spell. Oh, that's what spell does. We can have that conversation later, but generally, yeah, I feel like you know how the magic works and that, like,

a person would be, would be charmed in this way until they took damage. I feel like I would understand that. Got it. Yeah, I mean, Sylvie's told you guys when you hit something that she charms that if you do it, it would be right out. So did I misunderstand that then? I thought you had said don't attack the small one.

No, you said don't attack number one. All of them. When it hits it, it fucks it. The reason why I... For one. Like, if I hit the smaller one, it hits a... That breaks... I charmed this dude.

For all of them. For him. I charmed this dude. He charmed these three. Right. So we... So if you break the big one, you break all. If you break a small one, it's just him.

Yeah. Okay. Which one are I not attacking? Well, that's okay. We're just going in at this point. They're already really fine. So just kill as fast as you can in the apartment. It's whatever you think you would do, right? It's just a character call.

Okay. Your character sees this guy up. These guys are like incapacitated and this guy's confused as hell. So it's up to you. I think I could use by action and by movement to get to four, right? It's nine squares. It's a friend. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. At least my bonus action to, to actually. of eight thunderous thighs. Hell yes. So I rocked to him

intimidatingly as I'm staring down and I'm prone to the ground and I slap my thighs together a couple times, taunting him to get the fuck up if he dares, and that'll be my turn because I used my action. You just sprint. The claiming that you're used to hearing

and the rattling of the chain nail is silent as she's running forward and she smacks her thighs together and you hear a loud clanging of an anvil, and there's a swirling thunderous magic that is swirling around Dakota. Okay, Titoa, you're up.

I will... Number two is up. Well, she's prone, so... One and a four are not up. Three and a half. I'm just gonna walk right up to this other guy. You guys are fucking... Also, Joa, you took 13 psychic damage.

I'd record them. And you have inspiration from me. That's right. Okay, perfect. I'm going to get him into my tribal trance. Okay. And I will attack twice. You do that. A, not a 20, but a 18 hits. And then higher than that. Okay. So, serious. I will roll.

Mm. Nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fourteen, fifteen, fifteen, seventeen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty one, twenty-two, twenty-three. Twenty-two-eight damage to number one. Oh my God. Jesus Christ. So you see Toa runs in his channels. And he just see the kind of faint wisps of these tribal animal spirits kind of swirl around him.

And he just gets an incredible focus. And it's not at all like the rage that he beat the shit out of, or tried to meet him. And you hear, see, bams, bans, doosh, doosh, the bullhead flies off of him. And you just see this old man with this kind of wrinkled face looking at you, at you lose just pure hatred in his eyes and so he needs to make two saving throws he alive one box yeah and six boat he fails both so he's crazy that is mind blowing to me he's zero 16 right that's pretty good that's hard to be 16 yeah plus you're in it in a bit that's tough to beat on the man um I I if I have an opportunity

I'll yell out see you can knock them out uh as number two where's number two by the two is the one who's not He's gonna run to the first target that he sees, which is her job. And he's gonna get up and his flaming sword. And he is going to... He's gonna look at you with his bonus action and just channel this like... And you hear like this loud, as you feel hunter's mark. Oh, oh, too.

As he's going to swing his sword. His long sword. What a hunt. And there's just two attacks. 20 and... 20 and... Uh, question three. Fence in D6, that wouldn't be too bad.

That doesn't want. Fireballs can't print. It doesn't not. I didn't know if it was a one of the other than it. Oh, it's a saving thing. It's just like evasion. They can just, ah, fuck. And you do you do.

So is fire, different from slashing for you? No. I think I'm just, it's poison. Yeah, the road crits are so tasty when I get them. It's like, because even right now I'm only 5D6. Uh, you know, uh, you just, it's just, you're just, You see, perjans, deep points, your armor gets slashes, the fire burns around, and you take 26 points at the Oh.

Which one? Which one? I was like, I was going to ask him. I have to roll concentration. Oh, so. For first hit than the second hit. Okay, yeah. I'll separate that.

Didn't even think about two. Oh, big ass die. Because I really well on this one side, but the other one jail. I think either way the DC would be 10, because if it's 26, right? Or it's half of the damage of the nervous high. Right. You have to be over 20 for single head. All right.

I just. should pass cod that's 14 and then another one's two 14 and the magical four so I dropped thunderous size so the thunder's magic disappears from me from Dakota as he is standing there angry with his bull helmet okay with that that was his turn and you kind of feel as he's hitting you that the hunter that is his hunting bloodlust for you in allowing him to strike him harder than he normally would. The rest are all just fucked, so we'll do. Okay, so I would just rush up to number one in front of me

and I would whip out my spoon and just kind of whack, fwack, nobody likes a bully. Okay. Hey, hey, thank you, thank you, thank you. Let's get it. Oh, we got a fucking high school. Uh, That one is a 24 and that one is a 14.

A 14. 14 misses. Okay. So that is 1d6 plus 5. Ooh, that ain't good. That's 7 damage. So number one, you punch and you remember your advantage, he goes out on the ground. Oh, I did not do a damage.

So just roll again for each. Yeah. Just in case you get the 90-20, yeah. Okay. So one would have been. a 20 but not a natural. No, you're just rolling for the Natty. Yeah, you hit either way.

I don't know. No, no. So one hits anyway. So one of your spoon hits as he's on the ground. And how much? Both of them should have hit, right? No, so both should hit with the advantage. Okay, so I'll take it for a second one.

So it's a little bit for both. And how much of all that? Yes. It's going to be an 11. Um, so the first damage was, what did I say? An eight? An eight and 11. So 19 total.

So you just smack him and smack him again as he's prone. Okay, and then I'm going to use a key point to do Fury of Blows and just kind of wail on him. Yep, he just beating him on the ground. Hipman. Whoops. What is Fariade, basically? You can do two attacks on one. Yeah.

So you basically do two more attacks with their unarmed attacks. Two more unarmed? Okay. Are they both advantage? Yeah. We're looking for Natty's. So 16 plus 8 is 22. Oh, that's 17.

Twenty-two. Right. Coming to the average 20. Coming to the stage, natural 20. Thank you. There you. So the first damage is going to be 10. 10?

Okay, just smack them down. She doesn't die out. Second damage is going to be. The team is the threat? Yes, so 25 total on the orange attacks. Dang. Just barely. Yes.

Smack, smack, and then just do you get it. And then just duching, he kind of pulls his head off and he just boosh and his secret sitting snap as he, his neck snaps. You just like one shot, chaot him. Hey-h-ha-ha-ha-ha. Because he ends him. Damn. Hach-a-cha-cha-cha.

Exactly. No. No. Ha-ha-ha-ha. Hi. Hi. Hi. I am going to move forward a little bit to the wall here, kind of like halfway between, along the

wall, but halfway between Lofti and Caprice. Hey, like up front of me or like just like against the wall closest to us to the girls cross in here the other direction. No, against the wall closest to the girls. There's a line that shows a wall. The classic, yes. That's what I'm saying in front of us. Yes, and then like halfway between Lifty and Caprice.

So like here. Yes, right about there. And then I'm going to cast Bain on the three of them. They make a Christom saving throw all for. All three of them. They all are live. Okay, so we're going to do two of Warriors first. That's going to be Bertadishol and fail.

That's going to be natural 20 plus whatever. So that's, so number four fails, bane. And then big guy, that's tops. Big guy fails for him. You took this on the . So, big guy, he's a big guy and he gets bained. And then, so yeah. And then I think that's all I'm doing.

Okay, so as Iris runs up in the darkness and you hear this, another kind of like a gong, the rate echoes through this chamber and you just see these kind of shadowy bindings emerge from the ground and sort of wrap around two of them and it seems to be constraining quite considerate. And with that it is number two.

Nobody cares who I was until I put on the bull match. And I... Of course, of course. Oh, boy. So I need to roll. him again. Yeah. Okay. Uh, if you, yeah, he failed. He only, he only gets the save when he takes damage. It's the nightmare of that. So one, two, three, four, five, six. So good. Yeah, it's really it's my only third level spell. And I chose it because it's fucking bonkers. He looks at you

Luffy and he says, oh, that's so good. You've done nothing. He was not strong enough for the cult. Only would you get this. You should blah blah blah. And uh, you need the She was saving throws as he cast vicious mockery on you. I don't know what he's saying. Does he still have your thing on him? Yeah. Yeah. He took for a random. What am I doing?

Sorry. I just wasn't sure we still have it now. What did she need to roll? Was he saving from? Two and one? No, just once, right? Two, two. Oh shit.

One is 11 and one is 16. 16 passes. So the 11, you'll be taking four points of slagic damage. Whoa. That's pretty great. Okay. That's all he can do. Oh, I am.

I'm going to maintain concentration, and I'll take a shot at two, I guess. I'll use my bonus action to load, because I have to load my fucking hand crossbow, because those aren't OPEA's shit, as everyone assumes. And so I'll just pull to hit him, and that'll be a 20 to hit. And that'll be a... That's cocked. Let's do it like that. That'll be a seven points of piercing damage to him.

points of Pewianamus, you plinks him through his arms. So it's not a bonus section to load, you just can't do it twice in the round. Yeah, that was gonna say that. Oh, yeah? Yeah. So if you have a bonus action. I have a bonus action. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Doesn't take a bonus action. You know what? Seven points you blink him. Um, let's do-bba-bo-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb.

Luffy, that was a really good job. Why don't you, see if you can be the big spoon on that guy and give you inspiration. I always like to be the big spoon. And he is looking pretty rough as he's going after Ursa. This kind of savage rage. He's glories closest to him. I finished my turn with yelling out, See, we have to knock out the old man. And then continue.

Pretty strong. I'm going to use my can trip to hit number two. 10 plus 8 is 18. Hits? Barely. Six. Six points. It's almost a nine.

Fire bolt hits him and sending him. He's looking pretty rough. Is that my turn? Okay. Cool. That is the first turn. Of the two in front of me, which one is, is what prone are they both?

So the guy, he's cursed and he's veined and prone, and he's not doing anything. The guy who just attacked you and, like, just chunk the shit out of you, he's looking really rough. Okay. He just got blasted and hit with the crossbow bowl and, you know.

He just got it. All right, I'll take one hit at him. By flail. Flail. That'll be 16. 16. It bashes off of his shield as you almost get him and tush.

Wow. 17, right? Was his same scene? Yeah, yeah. Wow, that's good. So I'll try again with my extra attack. That will miss. I will use my bonus action to try to shove him.

Okay. So that's athletics. Okay, athletics check. So he has to beat at 11. That'll be 21. Oh, sorry. So red-fucking turd. fucking turd.

He's a big bull warrior, right? He's a big old shields. So he just, doosh, and he just frothing as he's looking at you. This is wild animalistic rage in his eyes as he is looking at it. You might be good guys. Bad roles, y'all, bad roles. I'll tell him, you're up. Wait, so this guy just being is all that means.

He's pain and he has been damaged. And you still have my infarition. Okay. I will just simply attack twice. Oh. One's a... You can't undo... Yeah, it's a natural one, it's a natural one.

Okay, yeah. The other one's 20. All right. You stumble and you miss as it smashes the side of the stone wall, breaking some of the imagery of the... Of the mural. 11 damage.

11 damage, as you've smashed into him with 11 damage, he's still hanging on there. He's pretty hardy. There's some kind of ethereal strength this old guy. And he's gonna make a good state, intelligent saving throw. That's correct.

And that's going to be three. Crazy. Wow. Yeah. I love this spell. It's about standard. And so it's his turn. I still have to choose at random.

Yep. Okay. Then he's beened. Wait, no, that's, uh, hold on. Moses is one of those guys. Yeah, the little guys. So he is just going to keep trying to slice away in Hershey. Which one?

There are two of them on her job? Two. Yeah, the other guy's on here. Yeah, number two is the one he's up still. That is going to be a fail, and then the other one is going to be a 17. And minus a D4. Oh.

He's banned. He's not named. I thought you said the one on the ground was bained. The two is a town. He's around for two. Okay. I roll it for two. Gotcha.

So the other guy's not doing anything. Two is what you call it. So he is going to get miss one, get a 17. That is not hit. So he, you just, you just, Just like Ahi did you, you block both of his attacks with your shield. Fuck you. And the flame of the sword is kind of like heating your face and it's almost damaging you, but you're managed to keeping it back.

Yvesa. Oh, it's a me. Um, so the one that... It's a me. You're a Lofi. The one that's here, what does Bain do again, like for my purpose? He's minus to Roles, right? Yeah, minus a D cord of saving throws and attack rolls.

Yeah. Yeah. So you have a better chance to hit him. Ha-huh. Okay. So I'll just come around ahead by speech. spin out and I'm just gonna like whack down. Look on the ground? Yeah.

He is, he's prone, so you will wake him up with this, but you are engaged. I'm all your time here. Uh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. What do you guys think? Are we feeling a natural 20 on the next the band roll? Uh, are we willing to put our money on the table and call it?

I'm not. So 24 to hit. 24 hits. Oh, I'll put like two chips. Oh, I'll just two chips. All right, I'll match your two. Nine damage. Nine damage.

He comes two out of, his confusion and he is now angrily looking at you. Oh, he's reading fire. Okay, and I'll say, oh, you mad, big boy? And I'll just jab him in the face of the spoon again. All right, natural point. Is he still? He's still on his turn.

Okay, he's 26 to hit. Yeah, he can only call Rich. They have seven damage. Seven damage. You bop him in the face, it was kind of through his helmet. Bop him. Bop him.

Swip them. Twist it, twist it. Stop stopping. Okay, you're not gonna use any fewer gloves or anything? No, I don't think that. Cool, so you bop them in the face. You kind of break twice? No.

I attack twice, yeah. You can't hit. For a free hit. Oh, I do. Okay, I'll hit a more time for a free hit. And it's at advantage. So I'm just here down. Pull it.

Oh, I'm already again. So another 20. That'll hit, cool damage. Damn. Okay, so that'll be another 10 damage. so I'll just kind of like flip the end of the spoon and be like, you're gonna smack him in the face. You flip the end and you just get to dash him in the face.

Okay, with that, it is our turn. I'm going to, all of them have been damaged, correct? Correct. Number two, I'm going to toll the dead. It's a wisdom save. That's gonna be a 19. That's it. Okay, so you hear you kind of gone and you, he managed to shrug it off with his pure rage.

Uh, bub-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-uh. It is the big guy's turn, and he's a big guy, and he is going to look at you and he has to just roll. I'm just doing this. Alright, rather than you choose at random. Okay. Uh, that's going to Felix. As he's going to, uh, look at you, and he is going to... Of course it is.

Uh, he's going to say, Oh, keep standing in the best. back there week one fire is stronger than you can wield I didn't quite catch that and you can actually and so he's got something about fire being two wisdom saving throws please uh oh oh that can't be good wisdom savings there was never good for feeling it'd be all right so my wisdom is just plus the two right yeah I fail both okay so you take a nine points of seven I'm numb oh do to see yeah so it's uh I

I still feel both because one's only 11. Highest was 11. Yeah, you feel like. Yeah. So it's nine total? Yep, nice, it feels like a camera. Ah! Ah!

Yeah, no, it's, uh, my brain! Okay, so the words, rack your brain, the same kind of demonic voice. That is Precio's turn. Oh, Caprio. Um, I'll yell it again. Um, hey, maybe we can get from information from this guy if we just knock him out.

Uh, and I'll reload my crossbow another bolt and I'll take another shot at number two. Okay. And that'll be a point of two to hit. And that'll be, that's maximum damage. That looks like 11 points of piercing to me. 11 points of piercing, you plinking, but he just deep in his armor,

he spits up blood. He is barely, barely hanging on. Oh, really? Okay. And that was my bonus action. Does that everyone feel all right? Yeah? Yeah, so far, darling.

Really? This thing smells bad, but I'm okay. Uh... Alright, that's the end of my turn. Okay. With that, it is a few weeks' turn. Alright, so after just having my brain racked, I'm gonna tuck and roll and pop up and fire off a...

A frostbite at the Bade guy. So you have to make a Con 16 save. Con 16 save. Fides Bade. 16 for the Vides. Crosby work. It's going to be 12. So when he fails, he takes 2d6, and on his next weapon attack, he is disadvantaged.

Number two? No, the guy who's bained. So he gets... Number four. So he gets a minuses, or whatever. We're going to hear that, yeah. So yeah, I'll just roll forward, and then I, like, shoot out like a cloud of frost that he, like, he slows down. Like war in the world?

Six points, yeah. Oh, yeah. A blast of this just dead. of this just deadly false kits and unable to avoid him. He's slowed. And he just starts, like, you know, when you're starting your car, you're trying to open up the car door or something,

and he's just trying to bring himself free of that. So until my next turn, any weapon attacks, number four makes, will be disbandaged. Okay, got it. That's great. Got it. Just, sorry, just the new next attack. No.

Yes. He was prone. Yeah, because not until his next step. Okay, got it. Which will an effect. Yeah. Correct. It wasn't a range attack, was it?

No. I mean, it was, but it was a same thing. Not an attack. Okay, so it was the same. If it was an attack, correct, it would have an disadvantage. Yep. Okay, I'm going to smack him. The probe guy.

Fuck him up. With advantage. So 18. 18, that will hit. He takes seven points of bludgeonate damage. Seven points. He smacked on the ground, and he's still barely hanging on. All right.

I would take my second attack on the other guy. Two. Number two. Number two is not advantage. Fuck him up. That's at 18. Oh, he's over. Okay.

I'll stay by the device fight. That's going to be two plus five, so seven bludgeoning? Seven bludgeoning. You smash the coat down and cracks his helmet and splatters his skull inside. And number two is finally dead. Wait, no, number three. Which one? Two.

Two. Two. Two. Yeah, he's finally dead. Oh, dude. Oh, dude is proed. If people are proed, can they take attacks at you? for opportunity? Yes.

Is it damaged? Okay, that's fine. I will walk past him. Actually, I don't... Walk around and make it between them. Can I get between them or is there a platform? Uh, I don't even be able to be able to like two feet. A step up. Okay, can I have bonus action? Try to shove Big Bad? Uh, yeah, yeah. That's how it works. It's my shield bastard. Yeah, as long as you attack, you can use Boundtack. Yep. Uh, so that'll be a contest.

Oh, it's 13 for straight. Try it but not the Prode. Minus a D4. Oh, no, it's a contest, not a saving throw. Contest. That'll be a 12. 13. Okay, barely.

He's fucking proud! Let's go! A run up and you shove your shield into it. He hits the ground hard. And breaks it. And so, our crash, Prone bone. I like it.

He's prone bone. With that and his toaster. Brood. So the Goodwin theme song fills the room until it feels really inspired he's gonna literally just try to end this remember what I said it goes to wrong ever uh that's gonna be a hit

there's gonna roll both attacks first and that's another hit so one two yeah no one needed inspiration it's crazy uh what do we got a six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve uh plus 14 is 20, um six. For both rows or individual? So you smash

him and smash him on the ground. Effortlessly you're like, ah, and it's like, paving in his or his heavier armor, kind of made a heavy leather, and he's spitting up blood. He's looking very, he's looking weak. All right.

Okay. With that, it is Monsters 1, which is the guy who's proxing to stand up and he's beenamed. And, um, one that just he's going to turn to the lifty and he's going to just he yeah he's going to channel hunter's mark on to you and he does that right it's not yeah he's on his heart too notice action move it is this a baili attack yes I'm gonna impose disadvantage

which one's doing this my shield or two I think no the one four's already disadvantaged oh so the first one he he's gonna hit and all of a sudden he's gonna hit and then all of a sudden he's easily able to dodge out of it. Nice. And now he breaks out of it, right? Yep. So the ice breaks. Yep.

And now he's going to swing again on lifted. All right. I'll oppose disadvantage on that one. So he's disadvantage on this one. And mine is a D4. God, those poor guys. Let's get walloped. We must have the most debuff oriented party of all time.

Yeah. He gets a 12. He gets a 12. Fuck yeah. And so it looks like he's going to hit. And then her just sticks her shield up and it clangs off. protecting lucky so after he you know lunges at me or whatever I'm gonna just kind of like swing back with like a foot and like to try to smack him in the face okay what's that called okay sorry go ahead a whole swing and foot the old swing and foot move like is that an ability you have a reaction

no it's just kicking I'm kicking it's a non-armed detaute oh okay sorry I'm just giving some flavor I like to share I mean I didn't know if it was like you're doing all round house and smack in the face I don't know that you might move so Oh no! Terrible. You accidentally kick her in the face. Yeah. Oh, I'm so sorry. I just protected you. Oh, no, more. That's the face is a gold.

I steal myself against that embarrassment and I say, I'm trying to punch him in the face anyway. Oh, that's bad too, but 17. So you barely hits. Okay. To number three, right? Or number four. To whatever the one, the little one. Okay, so that's 11 damage.

11 damage, you bring your knee up, you hear loud, and you fall to the ground down. Excellent. And then as my bonus action, I want to make an attack and jump on the big guy and try to like pin restrain him. Can I do that? So you already use your actions, so you can't grapple. Oh, I can't. Yeah, so you've got full action.

He's already pro- He's pro-in with the trine-graple-and. He's prone and he thinks everyone's a nightmare. Were you missing a token? How's he looking then? I lowered the. Okay, because they were stuck together. Oh, yeah, no. I found it.

I found them, imagine we found number three. I had already, I print more token generally than I need. So does the big one, like how's the big one look? You look at her off. Okay, I'm gonna just kind of brace myself and let my turn pass. Remember, you can you not. Big thighs, sit on him. What, not only thing?

Okay, well, make a non-leafloor attack is a bonus action on the big one. Put him on the head with y'all's food. Is he prone? Yes. After being shelved, it's horrible to be cursed.

Don't kill him with the spoon. Oh, Terabad, Terrabad. Two and three. Yeah, 11. Despite that, he's like,

he managed to dodge out of the way if he punched down. He's gonna smack him on the nose and then back up. Okay. Bad. Irish, bad.

Um, I would know that I would have to make a normal attack, too. I'm going to hold my turn. Okay. So you, I'll hold their, seeing that he's surrounded and pretty fucked. You'd have to make a normal attack to,

da-ta-ta-ta-ta. I would have to, a spell attack, you can't do non-lethal. Oh, okay. And I'm not gonna get close enough to. Do you want to do something? No, I'm just going to pass it. Okay.

So, he's gonna get up and there's a still kind of, he's himself up, and he needs to choose at random, because this is bullshit. Oh, wait, he would have taken, if he took any damage, he would have made another intelligence. So, yeah, twice by two. Yeah. Both of those at a D4.

Minus D4, the best one will fail. 16. Fuck, the vein drops it. So he is still, he would have made it, but the vein just buried. On me, you're on me. And he's still fucking bonkers town. So there's six of you, someone roll V6 now.

And that's gonna be a Caprice. Who? He stands up. And he, he, he, He's just going to be like, fuck this charm. Sorry, it's a bunch of bullshit. Hey! Two with saving throws.

That's going to be a 19 and a 10. 19 and 10, 19 passes, 10 fails. So you're going to take five points of second damage. I accept. As your brain is wrapped. Ah! I'm pretty strong. Do you have to roll a concentration?

Yes, I do have to roll concentration. concentration. Thank you. I never remembered a roll concentration. How does that work? It's a 10. It's a con-saving throw. 10 or half of the damage, whichever is higher. 17, so I'm fine. So I maintain concentration on the spell. I will... What will you do? I'll move next to Felix on his right side. Yep. And I'll reload my bow, but put it away. And I'll be like, I think that's got kind of done um uh toby you you still feeling feeling inspired right yeah yeah

i'm still good hi yes he's me oh my dear can't you see them bloody uh huh my nose uh are you feeling all right there heard you're not feeling good you feel bad okay i'll see your oral burn marks oh you're like slashes and fucking bull war i'll be like fucking heal! I'll use a healing word at yeah, I'll use it at first level, that's fine. I can't remember

but it gives you... It's 1d4 plus your... That was really bad, and I fucking... Healing word at first level is 1d4 plus charisma. There'll be a nine points of healing damage.

Wow. Those words feel very magical. I roll a four, so... So I can make a melee attack to yeah okay so I'm gonna use my movement to move 30 5 10 15 20 25 30 I'm going to pull out my dagger okay and I'm going to make a melee attack yeah yeah wow wow he's not prone though right he's front he's front all right well it's 23 yeah damn good hit 1d4 plus 3

whoa seven seven you uh you uh take the back of your dagger you smack him across the faces he to fly off he's barely hanging on powered by pure rage and then I I'm assuming oh he's fuck yeah well okay well I put myself in moral danger yeah trying to end it okay tell you up oh oh oh no hurt no sorry yeah uh can I nod lethal attack for the flail all right I'm claiming that now let's say you bought one back boom that'll hit 23. That's a D8.

With six bludgeoning. Six bludgeoning. You just hit him on the head and his eyes kind of roll back and he collapses onto his little raised pedestal. There you go. I'm gonna immediately put the dagger back in my coat. Okay, you do that. Okay.

Are we out of code? Wow. Damn, oh, wow. Damn. Wow. Okay. I want to just walk over to the other bodies and drag them away from him. Okay.

Just like in a heap. I'll start tying him up. Okay. I will assist him. I'll roll decks advantage. That'll do it. 1920 to no, 22. You tie him up very intently, and he seems to be very tightly bound, as a herd of drag the corpse's way.

I think that if this guy's going to wake up in the near future, then we should. We should ask him what he's up to, why he's here when he's doing this dark, deep, weird den full of traps. I think that there's a lot of questions we could ask him. That's why I wanted us to just knock him out. I mean, is he going to answer any, though? I mean, I might be able to suggest very strongly that he answers. Oh, I see what you're doing. Yes, I like.

I did notice that that glave that he got over by the altar is a desecrated, consecrated sort of item. So I would just... Did you feel that in your heart? The whole altar. Just the glade? Yeah. Oh, okay. You felt that in your heart?

Yeah, I divinely sensed it. Oh. Does that mean that we need to do anything, like take action right now? It just means that there's bad juju in that area. Just maybe be careful touching it, but it might not hurt to destroy it. That's exactly my point. Should we destroy the bad juju glades? Alter, but yeah, we can do that.

Oh, okay. Is the altar something we can destroy or is it like a, like it built around it? It's built around it, so it's a stone altar around and even placing things like, crowns and skulls and weapons and things like that. Well, I'm comfortable, if we think we can make a progress against pulling down this altar, I'm all four. I'm not a fan, but I just see like we could take a five-minute rest or a 15-minute rest here and just sort of get our wits about us.

And then when this guy wakes up, we can question him for the rest of this crazy maze labyrinth right here. What do you guys say? I don't think that idea. I can start beating down the altar I like file I like kickstaff so I just like you know Somebody should not be aware

Of the amount of noise we're making Do you think destroying the structure For one potential stability issues And two potentially calling people to our location I feel like we've made enough noise As it is Yeah it's a big fight It's up to you guys

We should probably search the bodies I think at least disrupting this altar is probably okay Let me let me spare the time. Let me see what's in these bodies. I will search the bodies. Okay. So, I'll make your own education check. I take this dice are heavy.

Yeah. Are we taking a short? Investigation 19. So you guys. ShareRuss is an hour. You find gold. And there's a lot of gold on the guy that you have bound up. In total, you find 1,266.

Oh, shit. Someone want to divide that by six. I will do it. What thousand... Does you fall? Like, 1,66. I think that's invisible. Oh.

Okay. Everyone experiences 211 gold pieces. Wow. Great experience. Um, and you find a strange gauntlet on this person that has a iron, or a red ruby on the palm of it. Interesting. A red ruby gum.

Hmm. I will put it in my pack. Okay. You're speaking short rest while we're waiting like to kind of week. Well, I was asking. Are we doing after us? That's what I asked the gang. I didn't know if we, it's an hour.

Long time. Are we feeling all right? I feel like. Believe it or not. The last time I spend is a stink, the better. Let's accelerate. I don't think we should take a short rest. All right, I'll pick the sky up, but let's just carrying with us.

When he wakes up, he wakes up. Is there going to take on the altar that we should take? If he starts screaming, though, when he wakes up, you kill him. We can't draw the entire labyrinth to our location. All right. I'll kill him in stone. And you have him on Tonsas and you are making your way back to the labyrinth. He's bound and gagged.

Yes. And we're just going to make our way back. Toes falling him. Leave the way, Felix. Yeah. Good joke. I think we're just representing the party with my mini. I'm not actually going to be in the lead here.

Did we inspect the alter area at all for like... Oh, we tried to disrupt it was what we had talked about. Yeah, you'd just start it a little bit. I mean, there's no books or anything. It seems like just like the crowns and the skulls and the weapon. It seems like a very savage. I'm satisfied. It's just that's a good.

I'm satisfied. So we can go. So you got to go all the way back the way that you came. Holy shit. All right. Look. That's really far. Maybe you're going back here.

Yeah, but look. I'm saying then all the way back to this. All the way back to. Yeah. Right. The way back to here. Well, we never went in that little room. Yeah, I know.

I'm trying to. It's just an odd shape. So I'm gonna fast forward us. Let's bring the map. Matt camera. Go in that room. Yes, yeah. I would go in that room.

Voting that we go in the room. We're gonna go in this room here. Okay. Oh, we do. Okay. Oh, we can just remove that. Yeah. Do we need a reinterested?

The one that's under the map camera, if you want to go to the paper. If you're planning on selfie, then yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. That's right. We're refeeling.

We're refeeling. I am not very selfish. Nine. I'm bopping along. I'm telling it with my stealth checks. 18. Another 20. 29.

Got to give it up that natural point. Nine. Got to give it. I'm banging on walls. You're banging on the walls. 11. I think it's Heria. Toe and Herja are in front.

Normally? I'll take the third place. I'm right there too. Yeah. Towa, Herja, Felix. Two by two. Yeah. As you make your way, you arrive,

and you turn the corner around this dead, at her and tell him you make a perception check please yes 19 um if it's been more than if it hasn't been more than dead men it's your inspiration 11 inspiration oh yeah real quick boom d8 oh shit oh shit no nice uh 16 16 so both of you walk and you just see a dead end and as you're stepping both of you notice a slightly off-kilter plate And you stop.

And then you look up and you can see basically just a very small, narrow dead end with all of these little pock holes in the sea line. So we can see the dead end and there's nothing down there. There's nothing down there.

It's just dead end. So you stop. Hold on, guys, stop. There's nothing down there and it's just some kind of trip. Well, let's move on then. Yeah. Okay.

You make your way to have a choice that you have. Oh, another choice. Do we? Yes. So move slide that one. I see what you're saying. So like either this room, can we tell it's a room by like peeking in without stepping in here? So actually I will say as soon as you come here. Oh, sure as you stop. So right up here, back up here. Okay. You'll you'll go a little bit further. And as soon as you round that corner, keep going a little further. As soon as you round that corner, I, I'm going to keep the perception checks that you guys made. And six remember and and you hear. And you hear. And you hear. a faint language of chattering. Is it like humanoid talking or like mottes talking or like

sounds like something talking? Do you need to know what languages we speak? Who speaks infernal? I call, I kind of recognize from the muttering of earlier's and I call you forward. Not a question for me. That's not good. 14. 14.

You listen in and you clearly hear a mutter in infernal. And you hear it and it's coming from the room right around the corner and it's low enough that you can't make out the words. It's definitely infernal, I can't make out the words. I'm just, do I get a sense of tone for the 14? I would say impatience. Frustration.

Well, you know, here's an idea. What if I were to become unseen and sort of sit down there and see what I could see? Yeah. Just if things get bad,

make sure you tell us and we'll come out swinging. Fats and prayers. All right. All right. No, that's that, that's fair. This is on thoughts. No more regret, by the way. Good job.

Oh, excellent. It must have been a ramp thing. No idea. Well, we'll see. It may happen again. Now listen, everybody, I can only become invisible if no one is looking at me. Oh. It's a great movie. All right.

All right, so everyone turn your back. Is that the real thing? I'll just cover my eyes. Can I insight check him? Yeah. Very trusting. Nine. Deception.

It's just a stupid thing to say. Like, obviously I'm going to cast invisibility at myself. Yeah. But with a nine, I guess, with deception, the lowest I could possibly get is I get 23. This is very honest, yeah. All right, all right, I burnt your eyes. I cast invisibility on myself. I turn around mud and myself, like, that's not even how magic works.

I have no reason to down. With them not seeing, I, myself. You boop yourself and allow me to... I keep doing myself. I can do nothing. Thank you. I do nothing. The ladies still look great.

Okay. So, you sneak, you sneak your, poke your head around the corner, completely invisible. He's just here. And... No one sees that. No one sees that. And he walks you.

walks, you, Caprice, you walk around. And as you turn the corner, you see a room with a number of tables on the far sign. That's in here? And you notice, yeah. And you notice that there are three figures in this room. And

they are very clearly not human. There is one creature that is standing with his arms folded, crossed, just staring at a pair. And this creature is tall, greenish skin, strange barbs all along its hands coming from its face. It looks completely monstrous.

And then on a table, you see these strange pieces of magical-looking parchment that have hatchmarks and drawings on them and the like. And you see two creatures that are discussing over this. and one is a very small creature probably about like no bigger than like no bigger than this and it is has a long tail two horns it almost looks bull-like

but it's very clearly this alien monstrousness to us to these big bulging eyes and it is talking to a creature that has that is that is fleshy and pink that is covered in all of these spines that has kind of a long

snout with no nose and a long, fleshy tail also covered in spines. I will put some minis. It's too late to go home. So here are the two creatures discussing. And they are on the far corner. So the far corner?

No, the guy. I don't know if we can now. Yeah. Show them. And then straight ahead of you is this creature on yeah and then he's yeah and he's just what he's is he watching the two of them or is he watching the door he's watching the door yeah so he's watching the door and he's egged in the other corner actually like up here yeah and he's folding his arms and uh you can make

self-it-with-advantage right because you're not you can be seen i'm invisible so i don't know if i even need to make a though just but with advantage i will very quietly move forward with a 21 stealth. Okay. As you approach, they do not seem to notice you. I will very quietly approach the table and see if I can read the scrolls on the table. Okay. As you approach, you hear the infernal, you're speaking. And the one is, the little one is telling me, I don't know why they have. They're being delayed.

I don't... I don't know. The plans. He looks fairly nervous. As these other two creatures, they seem to be... The other two creatures seem to be at odds with a small one on the table.

Ah. And the other one with a long snout, the large maw of teeth, and says, like, I don't care. We brought you the plans for these machines. We demand what we were promised. And he's like,

They must be delayed. The military has been highly active. And they're kind of discussing, as you make your way in Crawlph, they don't seem to notice you. You're creeping very slowly. Go first. And you see on these tables, these large documents that are scrolled up.

And they, you've seen blueprints before. These look like designs for, machine very vague machines but like there's also strange magical incantations and summoning processes with this. It's this strange horrific combination. They have

these they have schematic they have these designs and drawings on them to kind of show these full machines and these look like massive hellish artillery machines of war. And it seems

as if these two creatures, or at least this one creature with the spine, has, they've come to provide that and work with, work with this smaller creature representing another force that's allegedly going to bring us. But, meaning we get the sense that he owes something and it's late. He owes something to these two guys in his sleep. I will take one more glance around the room to see if I notice anything of interest before I start to make my way back. The creatures in the room, and the large schematic blueprint thing that spreads right across all of these large,

like, rickety tables is definitely the things of interest. Okay, I will sneak back out and make my way back to the group. Hey guys, sorry, just this is Caprice. I know you can't see me, but I am invisible now. I explain to them what I've seen in as much detail as I can recall

based on your descriptions. Do any of the, incantation summoning magic room stuff that he mentions mean anything to me. I don't think he would just tell you that we're incantations. So it wasn't able to reach right. Yeah. So when you didn't do you didn't. They're like ruins.

I didn't copy him down. Of course. No, that's helpful. Fine. Thank you. Um, I, I, they seem really invested in the whole, the whole situation. Now listen, I have this ability for quite a while. Um, I'm kind of inclined to just sort of continue booping along.

If you guys want to take care of these guys in this room, that's great. But I need to leverage this magic as much as possible. I've only been doing this for a few minutes. I'm gonna make my way around the hallway and continue to explore. I, while I think avoiding confrontation is probably a good thing, do we think that there might be any value in destroying these blueprints? I mean, I can burn them instantly. I think that we should destroy them so that they can't use them,

but I have mending, and so we could always put them back together if you rip them up. I mean, we could just steal them in that case, but we'd have to kill the people in the room. I'm not against that. They seem particularly. evil. I mean, any any beast excluding myself that speaks infernal should be killed. I've got plenty of juice in the tank, if you know what I'm saying. I'm good to go. All right. I love your tank juice,

but I'm going to continue on my way. Yeah, no, I just think that I'm going to split for just a hot minute, and I will be back and I'll be back in like, I'm not going to give myself more than 10 minutes. I just want to run down the next few hallways. And unless I hit on a horrible gas trap, I think I'll be fine. Do we think that the five of us can take these three

creatures out. Yeah, they look puny. We should probably focus on like crowd controlling them so in case they try to make the move. Well we can just make sure they don't leave the exit. It's a small room. I think we can handle it. Do you two want to take the charge? We might be able to take them my surprise. They don't know we're here. All right. Sure. Since we didn't take a rest, correct, before we go in, I'm just gonna pump all all but one of my lay on hands into me and heel for 24 hit weights. I'll give you guys a hand as I make my way around the corner, but then I'm going to dart around and see if I can explore a little bit more in my invisible state, all right?

Don't do anything too risky. I'm just going to create a distraction, and then when you run in, you guys will let be dealing with them dealing with a distraction instead of them seeing you and there would be immediate conflict. What do you think? Yeah, I think that's fine. All right. I'm going to run past the door.

the doorway and start to make my way up this way. As I pass through, I'm going to randomly throw one of my first deck of illusion. Okay. How does that work? I believe that I throw a card in total random. And let me just quickly give this a

true shuffle because I put them in order not realizing that when you pull from this deck, you have to deal it at random. You can't choose what an illusion is going to do. Is this not a countless casting a spell? It's an action. It's an action. It's an action. And And invisibility, I do not believe, is concentration. So.

Invisibility is concertation. Well, it's not going to break my concentration because this is an action using a magic skill. So, um, one is an item? Yeah. Pick a card. Any card? I would be honored to. Oh, my gosh.

All right. And let me pull up the actual stats. All right. What do you got? King of diamonds. Oh, that seems big. All right. I throw a card into a 30 feet.

from where I am. 510, 15, 20, 25, 30, right onto the table. And all of a sudden, an arc mage is summoned in the center of the room. And the mage apprentice. He's got like a and made. He's got like a little boy with him. He's got like a little kid with him. They will appear and I don't know if I get to command the illusion, but they act how they would. So that's up to you. And that'll be burned. That feels so good. Isn't that the most satisfied feeling in the whole universe? They're Derek's cards.

Oh, God. We're all like, Mike. Is he a droplet? And then I continue running around the corner, and I'll let them deal with that shit. Okay, so I assume we hear them talking about. Oh, my God, that, like, chaotic nature is just, like, choking. So, you run by, and you throw it as turns, and you're like,

Oh, wizard! my little windbreaker! And then a little boy's like, I'm here too! And they all go, like, what? And then we go, let's go! And I'm bum-rush in instantly. I run with him. Incredited.

So usually, after Jack, real quick, just to... Just to me? Yes. Oh, yeah, my pleasure. So, it's a... It's an illusion. Now see here, my boy! That'll be at 12.

A 12. A 12. A 12. and that fails and they're all just like what and you all get a surprise round yeah everyone will finish it or yeah everyone will finish it oh we're all furnished for you but oh we're all 21 son of a gun my issue is poopie 18 uh the mainz 22 damn i got a 12 wow i am very spoiled playing vandras yeah very spoiled yeah i'm so spoiled playing frost you have no idea when

spoils it's like man okay 20 to 25 not this guy somebody got 20 25 you got 20 shit 23 is you guys yeah she got 23 oh 23 okay 15 is 20 okay 15 is 20 18 19 for iris sorry 21 for me it doesn't matter because I'm just leaving but oh yeah 18 for herja so it should be Lifty Irish Hersia's Lifty Irish Hersia and then Felix and to what you got I got 12 you know I'm I love. Okay. And then let me roll for these.

Spine. I love surprise rounds. Me too. It's the boose. So how does that work? You get one attack, not your normal, like, round of that. It's not a surprise round, but we call it colloquially a surprise round because all of the monsters

that you surprise are surprised. And the surprise condition means you can do nothing on your turn except end surprise. So basically I get like one attack. You get a free attack. Every it's a full round. There's a whole turn, but they don't go. That's what a surprise man does. Yeah, it's business.

It's status in that. It's not, it's not a surprise attack where you get advantage. You just get a free turn, basically. Yeah. So he, like, so he rolled. Sometimes I would like, oh, shit. Like, listen, if you look, he rolled, they rolled better initiative than us, but they don't go.

They don't go. So cool. So there is this like, Rizzo, we go on here, blah, that you burst through. the illusion and start unleashing whatever it is. Let's it. You're hell. Okay. So which one looks like more measly than

the others? The one, the little little guy. The blue one. The blue one. Oh, they're all number one. How come you all this thing? I'll go to blue number one and I'll just kind of break through the illusion and jab him in the face with my spoon. Do you want

to just be focused on one, like not be between them both? But yeah, that's Sure. Nattie one. And I like trip over my spoon. The illusion trip show. Yeah. You like burst and then you missed first time. Yeah, I miss that.

So my second attack and then I'll just also make my bonus attack on the same guy. God sakes. So a second one probably misses that's 10 and then 27 to hit. 27 for your fist hits. God. God. Man, you're all like shit from that. I'm sorry.

Six. Um, as you run through, miss, he's so small, he's like, eh, and he's like, dodging your spoon. And I'm just like, and he's like, he's trying, you can tell her, like, and he's trying to like, he's trying to go invisible and you just punch him like, and he looks like, really, booping really hard on the nose. Yeah. Like, you want to point of damage. Damn.

Okay, Irish, you're up. Um, I'm going to cast hold the dead on that one. Okay. That's a wisdom saving throw. saving throw he catastrophically fails and he's already damaged yes it's a d-twill Mike it happens when you lean in or move closer oh so I'll just stand back here sure okay I apologize seven seven and um as he as he gets punched he's like I'm getting still and he's like okay and he's like one arm turns into

the back he's like trying to transform and he just falls onto the table then oh shit he tried to fucking transform holy shit what you don't what the dude by the way Well, this happens. He's in tow his arm, right? Toa's holding him. Okay. He has her shoulder. But he's bound and gagged.

So even if he wakes up, he'll, I would say if you're fighting with a guy in your shoulder, he'll be a disadvantage on everything either. Well, I might put him down. I'll use my weapon while he's on my shoulder, right? So I'll put him down. He's bound to it. He's going on, right?

Okay. That is version. I'm going to run up to the other dude. Okay. Make my attack. Wing guy. He starts to try to take off. Burke?

Nine. Nine, that misses. He dodges out of the way. Ten, that misses and he dodged out of the way. He flaps out of the way. He's trying to take flight. Bonus action, trying to shove him. Okay. Fuck is in my dice!

I rolled a four and five and a one. Is it a stone dice? No. Well, this one's a stone dice. This one isn't. I normally normally wrong really well on that one. Let me know if you need a new dice. We've got dice jail.

Yeah. You want some? Yeah. I think you just shot somebody with a rubber band to do the gesture. He is flapping around. out of the way trying to take flight here. It is, okay, do define weapon attack? Is that bites and claws?

Like for a creature like this that isn't wielding a weapon, if it makes a weapon attack, is that counted as a bite or a scratch or whatever? The frostbite says the next weapon attack. Yes. Then I am going to reposition over, I guess, one, two, three, four, five, six

and try to frostbite the one that is engaged with her. So it's a Dex 16, I'm sorry, con 16 save for you. Natural one, but yeah. So he is disadvantaged on his next weapon attack and takes seven points of damage. Seven points of damage. As the frost of what's getting crackles around this creature. I'm just really getting my to Toto Rookie over there.

As it does, however, the frost seems to not be as effective as you were hoping. It doesn't seem to damage as much. Well alone, you're already suggesting that you use the old man to boost your AC by 2. to boost your AC by two. Okay? I like that idea. Okay. It's like all got in front of me.

It's your turn. Chew. I would like to, I'm gonna change my plan. I'd just like to drop him. Drop the old man at the feet of Iris. Okay. Just keep an eye on him.

And then I'm gonna run up to the back end. Still unconscious. And I will just attack twice. 20. Oh, 20. Yes. Gotta give it up. Gotta give it up.

18. 18? Okay. So I'll do the first. They could have quit first. Not bad. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 14, 15, 18, 19 damage for the first attack. You're a magic weapon?

I do not. Okay. So as you smash it breaks some of the spines, but it's not, it's not hitting them as much possible. I don't know. And then the second attack's damage will be... Matches you said? Yes. where if Toa hits him, he would notice like, oh, that's weird.

Yeah, I would say, yeah, that's fine. 10 for the second. 10 for the second. To hit or damage? Damage. Okay. So, once again, it's not doing as much, so it's kind of... Oh, shit.

Well, I'm clinging my target. Okay. Coming into Burnwood, no more. Okay. With that, it is... It is Monsters 1 turn, which was the guy that's dead, and so he's warren dead, and then the... The up next one is the small guy, and he is going to just,

he's gonna meet, look around and he is going to, he's gonna flap his wings, and as he's passing by, he's gonna attack Hirshah twice. Or he'll be attacked. Number one. He is disadvantaged on his next weapon attack. Oh, you're right. So he is going to do one, he's gonna fight into you once,

Virja. So that one's disadvantaged, yeah. Okay. And that critically fails and just horribly just bucked, and then that breaks off the ice. And then this one is going to hit. Okay. And this is going to deal.

Hershai tried. Six points of piercing damage. And then he's gonna fly, pass, and then stab you with his tail as he flies past here. Dang. Where's you going? That's the 17. 17 misses. Is he going past me?

He's going past him. He has fly by, so he's so fast and you're not able to get him out. So which direction is he going out of the room? What? So none of us. How far? How far? 5.10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 30, 30, 40. Yeah, that works.

Well, that was very well done. And he's flying out of the room. He's like, I didn't sign up for this. As he starts flying out of the room. It's a living. Lift you're up. What is my speed? My speed is 40.

Oh, yeah, fucking kill back, bitch. Yeah, I'm gonna be like, hey, little fucker, come back. And then I'll make, I'm gonna like run at him spinning my spoon above my head and just like attack him. Like two right off of that. Like the devil stick? Who wants a piece of the chair? Imagine if I used a beer like. So, I'm sorry, my brain is 21 and...

There's the mood! We'll see you're asking. Keep going. Bing, bong. Are you seeing both hits? We're touching nerves. It did make me more hungry, just talking about it though. So 15 damage from the first two.

15 damage, you um, boosh, and you knock, and you notice that your spoon is still, is not hitting as much as you would like. Uh, 15, so defined by it. Okay. Okay, so he does not. He takes damage, but it's just not as effective. Do you get a bonus action? Yeah, I do.

I'm like, what? And I'm gonna hit him with a bonus attack, like jab him with the best dude. Yeah, 24, probably. Okay. And seven damage more. Seven damage more. As you're bashing him,

you starting, like, despite your damage, your attacks not really being as effective as it normally, would be starting to like start flying a little bit more radically and he's looking bloody. Okay. Okay. Iers are up. I'm going to turn around and I'm going to toll the debt on him. Okay. So it's a wisdom saving throw. Okay, so he misses or he fails. Do you help? No, I got it all. Four. Four points to finish. Yeah. And you hear a calling and he's And you are hearing It seems to do a full bit of damage there.

Yeah, I imagine. Oh, my body. As it starts to get more, he's more wounded. Okay, hers. You're up. God, he sucks, man. Run. Kill him.

Can I get with 25 feet of movement? Five, 10, 15, 20, 25. The path is kind of blocked. 510, 15, 20, 25. 510, 15, 20, 25. 10.5, 15, 20. That puts you here. Would that be a possible attack ring?

I would say, yeah. I would say you can swing around. The DM is going to give it to you. You might as well. I could scooge a bit. All right, I'm going to try and hit them with my foil. That is better. 17.

17, I will hit. He's a magic weapon. Yeah. Oh, shit. And I'm going to dump. a first level divine smite into that. Okay. So that's another 2D8.

I love divine smite. So this is, that is four bludgeoning. And then this is 11 radiant. So as soon as you swing your codet, it's flapping away, Lifti's weakened it, it's flying erratic leader, and Iris has followed up, and he's starting to fly even more, you swing down your, you hear the clang of the hammer on the anvil and it charges up with holy fire

and you smite this creature and his body's completely disintegrates. Yay! Nice, good hit. Nice, good hit. Very good. Very good. Movement. Yeah.

I do have a bonus action. I will cast a shield of face on Towa. Okay. We'll beat a molten, orange, shimmery, glowing shield appears around Tawa. And with that, it is the barb gentleman's turn. And he's... The barb gentleman will pass it out.

Spind is dead. So the numbers of the monsters don't correspond to the number of that. Correct. Yeah, sorry. I should have done that. That would have been really nice. Toa is right in front of them. He's just going to start attacking. He sees both of those guys dead. He's going to swing around with his barb-tail. You get a 14 and he's going to miss.

Doesn't be the piercings is just hide. line. Uh, if you can't cut off. One of his claws is going to hit you, Joe. Five points of piercing damage as the barbs of the claw hit you. That's it. That's all you can do.

Okay. Feel the trouble. I am going to again cast Frostbite, which is a con 16 save on your part. That's gonna be max. So on a failed save, you just take half. Oh, no, no, no, I'm sorry. Oh, no, I'm sorry. I think it's just a fail on the same.

Yeah, no, you pass, so you're just going to just go. Yeah. So the ice starts to conform around me to force it off. And it throws me. Attack twice. 15. 15. Yes, barely. Okay, then both head. 27. 27 points of damage. You're just smashing way.

You're both just fighting for your lives in this corner here. And you're just, it's not doing as much, but you're whittling them down. Lifty's turn. All righty righty. So I have 510, 15. Okay, so I've got plenty of movement. I'm going to roll. rush up there, just again, like wildly spinning my spoon and like battle crying.

Ah, I'm spinning your spoon, just smack. Yeah, I'm just all revved up and don't seem to know why. So I will move up here and make two attacks with this spinning spoon. Yeah. Oh, this is 18 and 25. 1825, both of that. You take one for him. 19.

sack him with your spoons and he's just you're whittling away the occasional spine breaks off his devilish hide is still kind of staying resilient but you're moving down okay so bonus attack i'm just gonna swing it one more time and like i don't know fucking jibbin in the chin or something uh you may want any soft you come up with an uppercut you full damage eight okay okay um i yours you're up um i will told the dead him okay uh save the pro That is gonna be a fucking 13. Okay. No, three.

Oh, 12, pardon me. Three points of damage. Yeah. And this seems to kind of wrack his brain. Okay, it is for his turn. This. All one up to him. How does he look?

He's looking fine. I mean, a lot of you are just bashing with weapons that aren't magical and, you know, and it's, he's releasing a lot of it. He's pretty sturdy. Um, 17? 17 hits. Okay.

I'll save my device. 10 bludgeoning, that's magical. 10 bludgeoning. Your magic weapon, it's just as a splash. And it seems to do the full thing. 24? Yes. 5 bludgeon?

Okay. And then bonus action to knock him prone. Okay. 11. 11, he can succeed. As you try to knock him prone and he just stands his ground, staring, he knows he's trapped, he's fighting for his life here. And for this, he's just, he's going to be able.

He's going to swing his tail at Toa. I'll impose disadvantage if that doesn't hit. Fails. He's going to try to then claw both Persia. Disadvaj, because he's marked. Oh. He's going to fail that, he's going to claw Lifty. Also disadvantaged. Perfectly failed, so he's missing everything as you just horribly mark.

Felix dropped. I'm going to try to cross by him again, so just Khan D's 16. What was that? Kahnty is 16. Oops. That fails. So he takes nine damage and he's just a bad at his attack. Nine damage.

So the frost seems to kind of crystallize around him, but the damage, his flesh is not as affected by this cold. Uh, okay. Interesting. Hmm. Weird. That is weird. That is weird. Most serious distance.

Ooh. Cool. Must be some kind of like icy monster. Okay. Good dress. Uh, no. Tohria. All right. I will attack twice.

Okay. A, I don't have inspiration, do I? No, so one's 20 something, the other one is 5 plus 8, 13. 13, 13 misses. Okay. One attack hits. Four, so six, seven, eight, nine, and eleven damage. Eleven damage, is he missed one, he blocks him with his arm, and then he swings again and manages to smash off some more.

But he's, he's getting rough. Okay, it is, uh... is uh, what's your turn? Back to me. Okay. Um, so still, I'm gonna not spin. Um, I'm gonna make like, I'm gonna holding my spoon, but I'm gonna like elbow, like multiple elbow attack three right in a row, just alternating. Natural 20. Wow. Uh, 11. Damn. We've been wrong well in there. And the third one would be a 27. 11. So quick, the other one hit. 23. Nice. Uh, was that 23 damage? as you're just bashing and bashing and punching and you're just all kind of

of being like that scene from Sean of the day girls taking turns whacking on him yeah he's looking rough he's looking very rough iris you're up told it at him told him okay reason and he fails it's a eight two two he clutches his head and he's uh he is uh very very uh he's getting weak uh harser you're up trying to make this non-lethal Uh, hits 24. Okay. Um, six, legending. Okay. You smash him, he's looking very weak.

Alright, next hit, natural 20. Hey! Natural 20! Yeah, you max damage, by the way, this was an eight. So, uh, 18. Is it non-lethal? Yeah. Okay.

If you deem, that is non-lethal. I think that if you declare it to be non-lethal, as you swing it around, He's looking really rough and you're loud crack and the eyes roll back and you now have an unconscious devil. I sell. We don't have our infernal speaker and we really shouldn't be collecting bad guys. Well, I don't know. I just figure if you guys wanted to interrogate you.

I'll run over to the table that he described with the blueprints on them and see if I can read them in any substantial way that might be magic related. Okay. Go up and make an archa check. I would love to. I have to check my Arcana, I know that it's high. Oh, you should probably change the music. I was like, I'm fine with it. If this happens, no, I know.

I'm not so like with it. 23 for Arcana. 23 for Arcana. You take a look at these, at a lot of these, um, ruins. And some of this you actually recognize that this is a, that there's a, that there's these infernal machines,

that these massive things, that there is assembled. assembly that is being done that is done through a process of what's the summoning school Conjuration conjuration and trade mutation and that it is a highly magical it's it's in it's in the languages but you recognize some of the symbols and you recognize some of the things but if you can't piece it together but you're definitely clear to you that's what I'm going to roll up the blueprints and stick them on my pack okay so you can't take I don't know how much there is no there's like there's there's there's

three large, large ones that are just kind of all based on different parts of it. And you roll that all up. And you now have an unconscious cult guy and an unconscious devil guy. Should I carry them both? No. I don't think so. We choose which one we murder right now. We kill the devilish one.

I mean... Why is that one? He's not going to give us any information. How dare you? We can't risk it. If he gets away from us, he does anything that we're not expecting. Then he lets anyone know that we're here. To be fair, we can't even talk to him.

The only person that can talk to him is... Caprice isn't here. He'll come back. He's like, it's the next womb. We'll find him. We don't know where he went. Or he's dead. Right.

So yeah, what's Capriese doing right now? Okay, so while you debate, I was one of sure if you were done inside on that. So, Caprice, you were sneaking down. Caprice, as soon as you walk down there, you walk through and you hit a dead end. Mm-hmm. I need you to make a Peption check as you're welcome.

Let's go with a 14. A 14. Unfortunately, you do not see this as you step on a plate and a large, a large, massive, glade, paint from the ceiling drops and slices towards you. I need to make a dexterity saving throw place. Mm-hmm. Uh, 27.

27. Easy, busy. Holy heck. So you manage to dodge out of the way, but you're still sliced on your side. You don't take the full glade, and you're going to take this much in slashing damage. Do you get a bonus to straight deck saving there? I'm proficient. That's like plus seven.

Yeah, I've got a bunch of shit. All right. Opie, Opie. You're going to take seven points of slashing damage. Okay. And... That sucks. And you are still miserable, but it was the pressure of that.

And so you hit that trap and it is a dead end on all sides. I don't see anything with this dead end? Nope. It's another one of the dead end with the trap. I'll turn around avoiding the trap. Okay. And I will return. And I assume by the time I get back, the combat's over.

Oh yeah, it's a dead end. Okay. Yeah. probably so as you get back I would say yeah probably the combat is over and you very carefully padding the walls and all that but it was a quick combat and it ended very quickly and so now you get back they're debating currently on how the how it was to do with his death i'll boot myself in invisible hey guys um i kind of got a little cut back there it's a dead end it's dangerous for the glaze how are you doing i kept one to lie for you and

because you want to attack to him, but they might want to kill him anyway. Oh, thank you. I think you should talk to both of these guys. When we just take a rest, just a little bit and mechanically maybe take a short rest while we talk to these guys. I'll talk to them before we take a short rest. Or while we're talking to them, who's talking. I want to bind the devil guy if I can. I don't know, like physically how that would work.

Does he have armor on some kind? He does not. He has like a thorny high. I would say you can try to bind him, but it's very, but it's very, you can try to bind him, but it's very difficult. I'd say you do it disadvantage, you might take some damage doing it. There's a bit. Spikes. Yeah. Okay. So, disadvantage. Dax. Do you want to do anything this? I'm going to try one bite. Eleven. Eleven. You tried it. It's very difficult. It seems pretty loose. And you're going to take

three points of piercing damage. Ooh, that's not firm. As the, uh, the, the, uh, the, the barbs, uh, slice of your ear, piercing in your hands. I'm just doing that while I time up. Watch out for the bars, man. It's kind of how to do you should have done it. It's different. And, um... It's like very fringy.

So how does that sound or should we just keep carrying them with us? No, I think we need to deal with these problems right here. As soon as we have two unconscious dudes, we're not going to be able to stelt their way through this labrum. I agree. Let's wake them both up or wake one up and then the other and see what they have to say. And if we don't like what they have to say, then I can make nightmares in their head. Are we actually shaking a sure arrest?

What do you have? Talk to him beforehand? No, we're going to talk to him, and then we're going to decide if we need a short rest. Well, this is out of my real house. Does someone step up? I'll just sort of grab the old cult guy. Everyone's kind of smack them away if I can.

He looks at you, and his eyes are just immediately, that he looks confused, and his eyes immediately narrow and he still looks like this animalistic feature. Hey, friend. How you doing? What's your name? I'm a... My name is Caprice.

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And don't forget to snag all the extra goodies like dice, miniatures, plushies, a tarot deck, and more. Thank you. He looks at you and he says, you should have kill me now. You should have killed me back then. You should kill me now. You get nothing for me. Well, you want to be dead. We certainly like that.

Oh, yeah. We can certainly make that happen, but we want to know what you know. Why, why are you doing what you're doing? What's up? What's going on down here? Yeah, I will tell you nothing. Is he a humanoid? Yes. I'm gonna charm him.

Okay. Spell save DC 13. Wisdom? I don't, I still don't know, but sure. It doesn't tell you in DEN, Bion. Oh, don't tell me. What's the thing? That's crazy.

I will Google five. What are you using? Eyes of Charming. It's Charmed Person. Charm person. It's gotta be whiz. It has to, right? It is a wisdom.

I'm saving through. Oh, that's the item you thought. If you click on the spell that it lets you cast, it should pull it up for it. It doesn't like bring anything else. It's bolded, but it's not linked. Yeah. It is a charmed person, though.

Quiz. Swiss. Okay. So, he gets a, uh, 18. As your, your goggles kind of flare and, uh, he seems to be,

despite being chain fucking charm, the whole fight, he seems to resist that. It's a blokeen. I told you all's a blokeen. Well, let me see if I've got any jazz that I can play. I guess, I mean, if he wants to die and he won't tell us anything, then he isn't part of a cult, so I mean, I guess it was foolish of us to expect we get any kind of information.

Yeah, I mean, it's been a while, I'd be happy to let you snap his name. I mean, I couldn't someone else do it. I could spend some energy juice to suggest he might actually tell us everything he's been up to down here and why he's here. That's up to you, friend. I trust your judgment. Hey, buddy. Why don't you tell us a little bit as much as possible? Why you're down here, what your ritual is all about, and what your ultimate goals are?

I'll spend a second level spell. Flod for suggestion. You will make a wisdom saving throw. Do you see 16? That will be natural one. Plus three. Okay. Unless he's immune to charm.

He's not. Okay. I magically influenced the creature that can hear and understand me, which he can. It's a reasonable course of action. He, on a failed source, he pursues the course of action that I described. So I want him to tell me all of this, all of the secrets. He looks at you and he tells you. he's going to gloss over

once again charmed and he says we are the cult of the horde we give glory to our horde god mm-hmm uh-huh

we are calling the army we are calling forth and forth power of fire power of the nine hells join with the power of the abyss no that can't be good why would you do something like that

that seems very unreasonable I just don't know why anyone would be motivated to do that. The death, the death of all in the city. You're talking about Central there? The death of the dark prodigy, the death of nine hells. Do you know who the dark prodigy is? I know the dark prodigy she is our quest. He is your quest.

Do you know her by any other name? Would you not? Hmm And is the horn king And the horn god The same broke He's our god He's the horn king

Okay Answer any of these fine people's questions What do you got? So he's not He's not charmed He just will do What you originally Asked him to do

When you cast him Yeah But we can't like Question it I mean I turn of phrased it as You'll answer any of our questions I'll remember that next time

What did you phrase it as And the suggestions That wears a plan Oh. Suggestions spell wears off. Okay. What are you doing for retirement? Do you get a pension?

Who is this? My point over to the other unconscious guy on the grab. Um. It's good idea. I know suggestions are poor off. I'm just wondering if you'll answer. His eyes kind of turning those at you with hatred. I will tell you nothing came me.

Well, you already told us plan. Well, you already told us plenty. He might as well just spell it. I will not. Well, we could either torture him or we could just coot-a-rah. What do you guys feel? I don't think we need to torture anybody. Why don't we just leave him tied up and he has stopped to this?

No. Oh, okay. I said we just kill him. This is far, far too dangerous to just leave them. We need to make sure we tie up any loose ends. I don't want to just murder and cold blood, but this is, this is evil. This is purely evil. I mean,

He's obviously doing terribly evil things. Make it swift. So if you don't want to do it, that's fine. I'll do it. But, you know, you just, you got their strong hands. You just, you know, finish him real quick. He's just pretty strong, too. That's fine.

If hers is feeling like it, you know, he gets splashes head like a melon. You got that sweet-ass flail you got there. That sweet-ass. Or I can sit on him. Not a bad way to die. I'll do that. I'll walk over to him. I'll straddle like the back of his shoulders and I'll try to like crack his neck and kill him instantly with like a twist of my between the thighs.

I would say with how weak he is, you just grab him by the thighs. Couldn't draw him in a very interesting lie. Wow. That was false to the ground. His eyes and he collapses. Caprice will remember this. That was unique to say the least. I'll like close his eyes and pull up his arms and just.

Word in prayer and... I point to the spiny one and I say, this guy seems a bit more dangerous as well. Yeah, I'm not going to put my thighs around his neck. No, I wouldn't suggest that. I don't even know if we want to wait for him to wake up. Do we just want to take care of this right now and move on our way? I feel like we've got about as much information as we can out of this, out of that guy.

And this place seems large. We could be here a while. I'd like to keep moving. Yeah, I only kept him unconscious because you had disappeared and he spoke a language you understood. So I figure if you wanted to interrogate him, you could otherwise. Oh, he's? Yeah. He does.

We don't understand. He's a devil. We just don't know how long it might take to roused him. Did he seem like he was of the same kind of leadership quality as this old guy? He seems like a bodyguard. He was just hard to tell. Yeah, I mean, he's just standing there. He was just kind of threatening.

I don't love the idea of killing him, but I feel like if we just do that, then we can move on. What do you guys think? It's fun. We learn. I cast all the debt on him. Okay. We could put it to an anonymous vote. Wisdom save.

And yeah, he fails. And as soon as, as soon as he does that Irish weeks or can, you kind of hear that familiar, and all of a sudden, although he was in college, he's like,

and then his eyes at this gross dicker a seat out, and his jaw hangs out and his tongue and I'm going to look at all of them, and I'm going to say, what on earth is wrong

with every single one of you? Do you not hear, and see what we are getting into here, and you're standing around trying to be just to two people who are hoping for the destruction of innocent lives in a city, not miles from here. You don't know how many innocent lives are dying as we speak in here, and you want to give justice

to these devils and this disgusting human and I'll kick his body. What the hell is wrong with all of you? We're just trying to learn some information, that's all. And the time for learning that is done, there are people who may need our help. knock it off. You're all a bunch of idiots. Now let's go. And I immediately storm out of the room.

Pretty sure that's what I was saying. But all right, let's keep going. And so, Iris and you make your way back to the entrance of this labyrinth. Yeah, we're back to literally square one. And you all arrive there. And there are several more pads to take. Four more pads. Do they still smell the same as they did before? I would say you can sniff it with your cap nose and yeah they say they smell the same. Um, I would actually have you make a another perception check with a snap.

We're back at the penis. Back at the old... 12. 12. 12. Um, I would say that you smell a bit more and it smell with a smoke scent is a little bit stronger. From which one? From three and four. Yeah, three and four. Okay. Whatever they're doing down there, it is increasing, at the very least.

I think we need to go. More expanding at the very least. We're right here at the entrance. Does anyone feel like popping out and talking to ravioli, or should we just continue on our way? He would let us know if he needed us. He was gone. I mean, he ran off into the woods. Oh, you're right.

Okay, let's make our way. So let's just flip a coin, three or four? Let's just go see. Three years. The next one. I'm with loose three over here. Okay. So with Lifty.

and three we slide this over and the main main boss of soy sauce and duck sauce. Mm-hmm. Oh, soy sauce. And you can continue this way or this way. Do you guys want any of this stuff? No, thank you. No, thanks. Not really second anyway.

I'll drive that ducks off later in there. We just keep heading towards me. Okay. You move up? Yeah. And you move to the right. Slide that over very slightly and yes, so you move up, you see that there's a dead end there and it's pretty easy to see and You zoom up around and move it slightly a little bit more

I think we're gonna need to move okay then you realize that there's two ways you can take you left to right Do you seem different anyway like smell or sound wise make your perception check what we're like to I will do it okay Sounds good. Irish sniffs and sniffs. 16. 16.

You smell sniff the air, and you're getting two distinct sense. To the left is the smell of a strong musk, and the strong sense of death. The scent to the right is far snow here. I still feel like fire is going to lead us to living beings. I don't know about going towards the death smell,

but again... I agree. I think that we can... If they're doing some terrible ritual burning things, we try to stop it. Very quickly, while I was away, I would have noted that, like, I would have come back to the original cock that I drew and drawn, like, a not-this-cock

and then continued to indicate that, like, that entire avenue is explored, and just to do that. Okay. So you have a chalk. With a chock chock. We're going to go towards the fire. Yeah, let's go.

So you make your way down and you, as you start to, who's in the lead? Toa, probably, Herzio and Tau and Tau are you to make a, I think all of you make... With lifting the back. You want his one. Slightly, yeah. It's difficult. difficult. Jesus. 23. 19. 12.

I get an 11. Okay. And as you make your way and towards this hallway you go down and further and further, you start to hear a strange whimpering sound and it's almost sounds like the sound of a fussy infant. Oh Jesus. That's, you know, it's a room. It's a room. And so... Do you feel a whole room? Yeah.

Oh, it's a room connecting your other hallway. Okay. So as you enter this room, it's very dark. And this kind of strange smell hits you. And it's not good and you kind of hear it. What does the smell? And you see a number of baskets on these long tables. Oh, I hate it.

and they all seem to be empty except for one in the darkness you see strange shifting motion on the farthest of these baskets. And it's like... It's dark, we can't even see with dark vision. No, you can see it with dark vision. But the basket's high and it's filled with like a straw. But we can't see them.

Oh, oh, the movement is coming from the basket. Okay, I misunderstood. I'm gonna like push past and rush up to the basket. You rush up and you look inside and you see a human infant. squirming, fussy, kind of looking, looking distraught. Does it look normal? I'm going to, seeing her pick up the baby, I'm going to roll over. I'm right behind it.

That was super quick. Roll over. Huh? Once he's the baby, I'm going to go over to examine it. I kind of fell out of my hand, but what did you something to make? So an initial attack for you? Lifty, give me the child. Okay.

And it is 23. 23. You check the child and it seems to be a normal human baby. And it seems as if it's not in the best shape, but it's relatively healthy, surprisingly. I want to check the other baskets while they're doing that. Okay. Make an investigation check. Can I help him?

Yeah. Oh, there we go. 15. As you and Persia poke around, you find, you dig around and you find the occasional small doll rattle, little scraps of clothing. This isn't good. If this infant begins to cry, it's going to, they're going to know we're here. We just, we can't leave the child, but this isn't good. This is not good for us at all. No, it's not good because we don't know how many infants were in this basket when we spent all that time. wondering whether or not we should kill those foul beasts. I mean, we already know they're sacrificing children. This isn't the first we've seen this.

It's only a matter of time before we find another one of those iron bull furnaces. I'm going to get into my pack and grab like a bag of string or a ball string and I'm going to like, is it sleeping or does it seem like it's just... It's kind of like falling in and out. It's like sleepy. So I'm going to like give it to hold on to and then I'm just going to hold it against myself and like purr a little louder to kind of. to kind of coax it into falling asleep.

Keep its arms across his chest like this and really hold it by the butt. I'm good at this sort of thing. Do you want the baby rattle that I got in the very first session? I would love it, please. Oh, yeah, here you do it. I'm literally moving. A baby rattle, which you assume to be baby Thomas's from Ms. Crosse Prossing. And it takes it and kind of clenches it and then with some coaxing from Iris.

I put the rattle in my pack. That's just for later. I don't want it rattle when we're in here. Coaxing with Iris, the baby gently. Do you bring it with us? I'm not leaving it here. So we either bring it with us. Would you leave me here with it?

Let's bring it with us. You just stand in the back. I planned on it. Yeah, keep like 10, 13 feet back. Someone should be back there with her. Why don't you stay back and I'll lead? Sure. My speed is quick.

Should someone come on me? I could make my way to you. Losing her. More than likely quicker than them. I will be. Okay. Iris, as I would like you to make a perception check, this will be ear or, or, or, or, 16. As you're doing this, you start to hear an echoing through the hallway behind you.

There's someone coming up behind us. And the stench of, of this, this musk, this, this, this, this bestial livestock scent. And it's, was it, what I recognize is the same one that I smelt down the other hallway? I believe whatever was on down the other hallway is on its way. Does it look like we can hide behind the basket? There are small tables and the baskets are like yating. It would be very difficult for all of you to hide. Time to go.

Around the corner, everybody. Let's keep moving. So it's coming from the way we came. Yes. Yeah. Presumably from the way we didn't check. Yeah. Got it.

Okay. Based on what Iris was perceived. Smelling as a kitty. Meow. Okay. So as you make your way through, you hear the, sorry, of course you to rotate some of these bad ways here. You can give me some of the loose paper, it's that don't matter.

That is perfect. So you make your way and as you make your way down to the end, the smell, you actually start to see smoke billowing out from down around the hallway. You see the glow of orange and yellow and red fire. Can I smell the smell the smell. of burning flesh? Make a touch and check. Um,

24. It does not like burning flesh. They're burning some kind of flesh down here. It's got to be one of those furnaces. We can try to put it out like we did last time. At least slow them down, but I'm concerned about what's coming from behind us. As am I.

We have to keep moving. We got to go forward. Is this another path? Yeah. You can pull the rest of it off. What is all this? Yeah. Let's just peak.

Let's just peak. So you're making you say you can pull off. So you peek into the room and you now see the source of this light at the center of this room, a massive brass statue, bull-like in appearance, not too unlike the mural that you saw in one of those chambers. a raging furnace inside its belly. Arms raised up to the sky. An open, roaring, bull mass that almost looks like a helmet.

Fire raging out, a large pit with stairs leading up to it. Where the flames is inferno just raging. and then small little windows with metal grates just going all along the body of the statue and it's sitting there at the center of this room where the smoke is building up and you can kind of see these very small vents

heading upward where the smoke is somewhat billowing up towards and there's no creatures in the room that we can see I just mess with I just look at Iris and I'm gonna put it out I think you should so I move forward and I cast ice ice knife on it. Just like I did the first time. Okay. To try to quench it.

Everybody around the other side of the statue. Everyone around the other side of the statue. Yeah, I'll follow. Yeah, so I'm going to basically just ice knife this thing as many times as I need to. Okay. To put it out. So you run up and you as soon as an entry into the room and the understand what's going on. You ice knife and how does that work? I mean, it's just an attack roll. It does, it shoots an ice knife and then explodes into ice all over the place. You make an attack advantage, please. Okay. 16.

16. It does. It flies into the furnace and it hits and explodes and the fire starts to... And how is the end up to that? It would be 1d10 and then plus 2d6. Okay. All that. 8.

Okay. I can do it again if it doesn't look like that's enough. So as you throw it, it explodes and it turns to water and starts to like down to the sum of the fire. But it's a raging inferno. It is duller. As soon as you do that and explodes, you hear, and then the head of the statue turns to you. Oh, fuck.

And it moves down, where it was sitting, stands up. Oh, Jesus. This massive brass statue with a raging inferno in it, turns to you, and it starts to move. His eyes blaze. I yell, I made a mistake. And we're all behind him. We're all behind it.

Oh shit. Oh my god. Jesus, my rolls have been so bad. I'm in three. Okay. I'm assuming hitting the same of the fireball would be a bad idea. You don't know life. Yeah, no fire.

So, uh, it... Let me get this, let me get this. And I'm not feeling too great. So, uh, I need 20 to 25. Uh, 24. 24 or sorry 23 I'm 13 19 15 15 19 15 15 feels increased yet 11 I got a 7 uh replace me with herja I was 19 I don't know her shoes or did we get five oh fine oh wow I think you just grabbed me instead of your brutal okay and as as it turns to you

You kind of see its large bloated belly as these creatures made of ash and smoke appear and form. They have flapping wings and these almost juvenile light faces as they swarm and fly around it. So messed up. And with that, I need to roll a mission for them. And do we get Togun for this purpose? We do. And so you put our phones in the room. I would be, I would be back in a corner somewhere.

We all would be in that corner. Yeah. I was in front of you guys. I'm just saying I would be... Everyone else would be where my... And I would be as close to the wall as I could possibly do. And then these are pretty... You can just put it around.

That's intense. Where did you want to be anything? As close to the wall, like in the very, very corner as possible. Put them around one. Oh, dear Lord. Oh, are you sure you discounted these money? Okay. Thank you.

I can't really... I can't reach, so... Move more. Do you get it, by the way? You want to be over here? I was in front of it. I had to be in front of it to try to gossip. I would put them in a circle around instead of all on your side.

You don't want to do it. It was fine. Thank you. We put some next to us too, right? Yes. Exactly. And thank you. You want to also jump in there too.

Okay, cool. So this creature, all of these smoke creatures flat out around Iris. You're there. This massive brass statue is looming ready to attack. I'm going to hold the baby in one hand and then with my other hand I'm going to reach up and cast mass healing word on all of us okay oh fuck yeah it's not much but it's enough uh seven hell yeah seven help seven so you everybody you call on the power of the new this and all of you kind of feel you kind of hear this low bang of like the jackal as this is a shimmering golden light uh shimmers over you and you all feel a little bit

a little bit healthier. Thanks. I'm then going to use my regular action to look at him and cast toll the dead. Okay. It's a wisdom save. Got it. That is going to be a 12. That fails. Okay.

Those are six. There's my eight. Fourteen. Necronic. As you seem, you start to see it, start to react, but given it, this is not a creature. Flesh, is not doing as much as you expect as it doing 14. damage you have? Yes. Okay. Oh wow. That was the main one. Yeah. Okay. Me? Yep. Uh, look to you, sorry. Okay. Um, so I'd move around here to number four

and make two attacks with the, uh, with my spoon. Yep. Uh, so that's a lot. It's a 27 and a 19 to hit. Both hit. Oh, Bobbs. That's a lot. 10, so 17 damage. 17 damage, okay. You run up and your spoon, are you getting a little guy or the big guy? Number four. Okay, yeah, you, you, uh, on to which guy, 17 damage, you smash into it, a puff of smoke and ash kind of puffs in your face, it's still alive. It's still a lot, okay. Um, so using my, my bonus action, I'll just kind of like knee it as well. To number two, right? Yeah. No, number four. Oh, number four. Um, um, it's, uh, 22 to hit.

Hits. Nine damage. damage and that's enough as you knee it and explodes into puff of ash. Thank you, Bia Nuno, that's really nice. I'm gonna use a key point for patient defense. Okay, okay, so you do that and you patiently defend yourself and you're ready to go as it turns and looks at all of you. It is going to turn and it sees you running up and it walks to you, and it walks to you, Luffy, and it raises one of its arms

and it's going to slam down on you. That was gonna hit, and you take, where the fuck is my D-10? 15 points of bludgeoning damage. So do I get the dodge action there? Yeah, oh, does it dismanage? It's, I took patient defense. Yes.

Right, so. Oh, never mind. You may, it's a dodge out of the way, as it slams, you have you waiting, and it slammed out of the way. However, is then going to turn and you see if the belly starts to blaze up and it is going to shoot right towards Horde Hesja.

As a blast of fire, I need Capri's Hergia and not known at Taua to make a deck saving throw as a blast of fire explodes. 18. 18? 18. Yep. I'm behind them, do I need to make one? No. 20. Decks save, so I might be able to use shield master here.

You should be able to. Uh, 10? 10 is unfortunately a fail. But so you will take, wait, hold on. So both of you take half of this. Cabrason me? So, 10. 18 points of fire damage.

So you're gonna take the full of that for a jump. Okay. And both you're gonna take half, so nine points of five. Nine points, and I cut that in half because I have hell's resistance. Yeah, there you go, and it blasts. And that is its turn. Totally right. out. Do these guys seem like they would be,

like, are they actually made of fire? These ones are like made in ash and smoke. So they can't, like, or I guess does it feel like we can put out the fire to any of factors? It's sort of... I would say that you could certainly try, but this is like a massive living construct. Well, what I'm going to do

is use my movement to... left. One half, two, three. Pretty good, which one? I'm going to get here. Here? You run up with your mall ready to go. I am going to... What do I want to do? Yeah, I'm going to try it. I am going to then pull out the conch shell that I've been carrying this whole time. Oh shit. And I'm going to blow into it. And from it is a huge wall of wind.

is going to extend, and I just wanted to go like right here, if possible. How does that work? So, so a line of strong wind is 60 feet long and 10 feet wide blasts from you in a direction you choose for the spell's duration.

Each creature that starts his turn in the line must succeed on a strength-saving throw will be pushed 15 feet away from you in that direction falling in the line. Any creature in the line must spend two feet of movement from a one movement or one-footed moves when moving closer to you. the gust disperse

gas or vapor and extinguishes candles, torches, and similar undividing flames in the area. It causes protected flames. Does those with lanterns to dance wildly and has a 50% chance to extinguish them. As a bonus action on each of your turns before the spell ends, you can change the direction in which the line blasts from you.

Well, I would say, roll percentile die. Holy shit. I would say roll percentile die. Okay. If it's that big of a fucking blast to win, Iron flask, iron flask. I'm fucking 53. 53.

So as you see Toa pull out his column, and he blows and this, I'm holding my hat in my cloak. Is this like going right past me? This blast of wind blasts this creature. And it, and you see, the fire get completely doused inside. And- Oh my god, good job.

We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. And as soon as that happens, the fire goes out in his eyes. And it waits a second. And it then lifts its head back up. And moves and it moves and it much slower. rate still fighting but incredibly

incredibly weakened and doused of that infernal flame it looks like just as soon as the fire was doused was crackling and crack crushing in the in the in the bronze statue nice okay we're two yeah I'm in sort of blast of being just is constantly going in that in that line okay okay okay If that is a restart. Well, that makes my life a lot easier. I will take a swipe with my rapier against the guy right in front of me. I don't know the number.

There's a little guy. Six. I will take a swipe at six with a 23 to hit. Swipe at six or 23 to hit? Yeah. Okay. That hits. Yep. And that'll be a eight piercing damage for him. Eight piercing damage. Okay. Okay, it pierces in with your rapier and it gets him a little bit, but he's still flammating.

All right, then, you know, what are you going to do? How do you feel on her, Joe? Are you feeling better? And with the word better, all healing word at second level. Better. That'll be for her. Do, do, do, do. Twelve points of healing.

Ooh. Thank you, kindly. And that'll be the end of my turn. Okay. That is its turn. And then so the two, the creeps are going to go. Two are going to fly at Felix. One is going to fly to her and the other is going to fly to Luffy.

Hold on. One and six need to make strength saves. One and six, you make strength saves. Okay. That is going to be a 13. A 13. A 13 and three. 10 to 3.

So which one failed? Six or one? We'll say six failed. Okay. So he's pushed back 15. feet. Wow, la, la,

V, let's go. No, it goes that way. Towards, yeah, towards, where are you? Oh, okay, so one, two, three. Yep.

This one goes to Felix. This one goes to Felix. Probably. Yep. And then one's going to go to Herja. This one's going to go to Luffy.

And it needs, what do I need to do to move? What's their movement? What's their movement? Their movement is a 35. 35. Okay.

So they can move 15 feet. So can one get to Felix? If that's the piece? Yeah, we only move like once. Yeah, so one is gonna move towards Caprice. So he can, he can flip. He's gonna flat towards Caprice.

Okay. Come on, buddy, right? No, this one is not in his flap away. Yeah, I'm not back, but it can then fly. All of his moving back. He all lines to get back. And so, and they're all going to, um, one is going to use its breath and blast

Lofty, uh, uh, Caprice and, uh, Toa. Toa. We're probably... Toes the dwarf. Are you talking about number five? Yes. He's gonna blast those three.

Okay. Oh, yeah. And so I need a deck saving throw. Wee. Natural 20. 19. 23. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

That's five in it. My rolls have been garbage. It's been really, really, really icy fire tonight. It's almost gets in your eyes and you're able to all dodge out of the way and you're not blind it. Uh-huh. Two are going to clawed. at Felix. Let me know that if one hits, I'm going to use

shield, but if not, I'm going to be a 13. That's a hit, so I'm going to use my reaction to shield, which then sets my bonus AC The shield shines up and blasts, and the other one's going to claw at you, and that is going to be a 14. And so both, the shield blocks both.

Caprice, one is, that one's going to blast Herja, Caprice, and Toa. So I need all of you to make a text saving throws. I already did 19. No, no, another one. Another one? Yeah. Which one's lasting? Uh, that. Yeah. Oh, sorry, my apologies, it's 24 now. If it's lower than 10 in your mind. 15? Yes. This is Dex?

Yep. 15. 15. And once again, if the plastic is not lying, and then another one's just gonna claw at caprice. And horrific and fail. Okay, that's their turn. Uh, Felix, drop. All right, um, oh, this feels bad. I am, oh, oh, Jesus, this feels bad. So, Spell casting at melee range is disadvantaged? No. It's spelled tap, then yes. Any other spells not.

Shit. It's just disadvantaged? This is terrible. I feel like I'm in really deep shit here. I am going to actually cast thunderwave on the two in front of me. Nice. It is con 16 save on your part. I don't know you can do that.

Brang. Yeah. So 1 plus whatever. Khan, that's going to be 13. Both down. So they both. fail and then I do 4d8. You've been killing it.

4d8 damage. And so let me start by doing that. And they'll be pushed 10 feet away from me. So let me do the damage first. Four, God, my rolls have been so bad. And then 8 is 12. So 12 damage to each. They get pushed 10 feet away from me.

And it admits that thunder's boom audible off to 300 feet. So basically it's going to run. rattle down the hallways and everybody's going to hear this thunderous boom. Thanks, feelings. What numbers are those, by the way? One and two. Yeah, it's just 12 points in the years. That is the most miserable level three spell

I've ever cast them on entire. And you knock them back to 15 feet, right? 10 or 15? Did you get a 10? 10. Yeah. And you blast them back and you hear a crack of thunder and feel as you stick up your hand and you hear push.

And they're looking rough. Can you knock them both into the wind? Is that possible? It's just 10 feet back from me. I mean, I would have had reposition and I would take it. opportunity and all the shit. So back from you could have been like there.

And then he would have been tricked back that way. I think that's fine. Whatever. Okay. And then I'm gonna use my movement though to move away because they're not near anything else. I'm just gonna. Keep an iron on the corner.

Or the, yeah, the eye down the corner of the bull you out. What did this? How are you rolling? I'm gonna make attack on three. That's exactly what I do. Nine. Nine.

Nine. missing misses? Uh, 15? 15 hits. Oh, nice. Max damage. 10 bludgeoning? 10 bludgeoning, yep.

It smashes in with Dakota and it blasts, it kind of flaps around. It's all alive. They're only, yeah, okay. And then I will try to bonus action, not get from it. 17 athletics? Oh, 17 athletics, okay. For number three.

for number three. Oh, that's gonna horribly fail. It's slaps to the ground and is not prone with your shield. Yes. Which one is that? Number three, three. Okay. Okay.

Iris, you're up. I am going to calm down the baby because it's screaming now. Oh, good. That's three months. So I'm screaming and squirming in your hands is this horrible thing. Yeah. So I'm just purring at it, trying to calm it down. And then I am going to, as a bonus action, I'm going to cast

spiritual weapon. Okay. And I'm going to put it... I'm going to put it so that it's going to hit the... Not there, because it can be in people's spaces because it's spiritual weapon. So I'm going to put it between the guy next to Lifty and the big guys, so it'll hit both of them. Okay. Yeah, so it should be right there.

And then, yeah, I'm going to attack with it. Okay. Oh, you see Iris prey and then this shivering, magical croaking flail join at once, appears and swings into attack somebody. 17 plus 8, so 25. Which number? Both the big guy and number five. Big guy number five, okay.

Big guy number five. And they're both going to take nine damage. Oh, is that AOE? Yeah, it hits anybody within five feet of the weapon. Oh, shit. Oh, a creature, you're right. Yeah, so I'll do big guy. A big guy for nine damage.

Nine damage. It smacks in, you hear a lot of crack as it takes the full damage. And then as my bonus action, I'm going to use Toll the Dead. Okay. Nice. As my action, because that was a bonus action and that was a spell. So I'm going to use Toll the Dead then on the other one. And that's a con save or a Wisdom save.

That's a whiz? Mm-hmm. He's even damaged? Big guy? No, little guy. That I just did five? Five. Five has not been damaged.

Okay. Let's get closest to you, has been. So it's gonna be 2D8. Everyone has been damaged now. Nine times of damage. Necotic damage. As I hear the gault-r-r-r-ha-ha-ha, they're kind of making this like a juvenile, really unsettling noise,

these smoke monsters. Okay, uh, lifty. How's number five look? They all, they all look like they've been, They've been damaged, but like five just my hand. All of them, all of them look more damage than five. Okay. So I'm gonna like see her spiritual weapon.

I'm gonna like throw a wink over my shoulder and be like, thanks girl. And then I'm gonna whack it twice with my spoon, number five. This is a little good. 13 and 27. 13 for the little guy? For number five, yes. Number five, yeah, both.

Nice. That's good. Roll the games is the first one? Huh? Roll one damage first. just in case that you hit something else. 10 damage. 10 what?

5 or 5? 5 is not enough. Yeah, it's still alive as you hit it. 6 more damage? Okay, 6. You smashed it out of there and it disappears in this cover. Okay, cool. And then I'm gonna spend a key point and I'm just gonna like start wailing on the big dude.

Okay? You're just start crunching this and all of your, all of your attacks can be hitting it. Do I need to rule for? Yeah. Okay. I mean, I was confused. Lots and lots. 27. 23.

Hits. Good bowl. Damn. Wait. 20 plus 16. Yeah. Okay. You just are bashing it in this iron.

Now the fire's gone out. Its metal seems to actually be brittle. As it is beginning, it's starting to crack. It's starting to spread over the hole. You look as if it was going to make that belly attack and its fire is out and it cannot do that. cannot do that. And so it is just going to make two slam attacks that seem to be far slower and far less accurate. So this guy must really like pogs. Which pog?

Slam attack. You know, you've got to use a slamer to try to flip the pogs. Does anyone remember pogs? Yeah. It's got to stop. It's going to try to slam. That's going to be 17 to hit lifty still. There's a whack-wable.

17 to me? Yeah, that is. We'll show you after the sats. And that will be 14 points of bludgeoning there. It's got like marbles, but with paws. I know marbles. And then it's going to slam down with the weakness of, on Toa, and is going to, it's going to miss, it's smashes its fist down very slowly and is unable to do anything else without the flame there.

And, okay, Towa, you're up. Keep that flame out. I will... 2028 anymore. I will... That'll be rough. I don't be rough. I'm gonna move here.

It works. Meaning that I'll potentially propose an opportunity at all. It is a natural one. Okay. I will use my bonus action to redirect the wind in this direction. Yep.

So that it gets all of them. Okay. Um, good one. How long can you get for? Uh, a minute. Nice. Well, I will add. And I will attack twice.

On the old big fella. Yeah. Hey, big, that's not very good. 16. 16 hits. And a 14. 14, uh, that misses. Ah.

Mm-hmm. Uh, 7. 12 damage. because you are smashing into it. It's starting to crack and split. It's the metal, it started to kind of cave in with each of your heads. Yeah, I can not see.

Okay. It is, very good start. Yeah, I'm just trying to see where I'm at here. I were just here. If I were in front of you, this guy's prone. Five and 15, I would not be able to get it. What happens to the wind with allies? Well, no one's in it currently, but anybody that's in it.

Okay. So you shouldn't cross the wind. Well, I don't want to cross the stream, certainly. God damn it. That's what I meant to say, it's dyslexic mine. I will make a... Dear, just stole your joke. This guy's prone.

Who's prone? That guy's prone. Delicious. And the guy's looking weak, Mr. Firebelly. He's looking damaged. He's looking damaged. All right. Seeing that we've already crossed the Thunderwave threshold.

and we don't care about how much noise we're making Felix. I mean, Curvis. I will... Purvis, is that what we call? Yeah, we're going to put in Purvis. He doesn't like it, so it's funny. And I'll kind of thunderwave myself, pushing into, I think that's six, and then also the big dude.

Okay. Are you going to move? I'll see where I mean. I'm just going to hit both of those guys in that cone. Coney Way. And I guess I'll cast it at, I guess I'll cast it at, I guess I'll cast it at a second level, why not? And that'll go, for both of them,

Constitution Saving throw is DC-16. Cons saving throw for the big guy is going to be 15. The little guy is going to be a 19. Okay, so the little guy succeeds, which means he's not pushed and takes half damage, but, oh, it's a straight 2D. Oh, that's hilarious. So 15 points of thunder damage.

The guy who succeeds doesn't get pushed, doesn't get pushed, and takes half of that, but the big guy gets pushed 10 feet away from me. Ooh. Okay. This point? Yeah. You hear a lot of push, he gets pushed back as... How does this affect number two, maybe it? I would say it pushes you not out of the way.

Which way would you? Which way would you work? Yeah. Okay. We don't get opportunity to write because... No, no, it's not his movement. Because he's blast. And the number 60s half damage, right?

Number six if they succeeded? Number six takes half damage, so I guess that would be seven. And so 15 to the big dude. And all of these guys are all damaged, complete split damage across the board. We're looking all rough. Okay. And I'll say to Herja,

um, uh, normally I sing a song, but you just go do your thing. You're doing fine. and that'll be an inspiration for you. Okay, bud. Thank you. Okay, so you do that, you feel inspired.

It's the monster's turn. One's gonna fly towards Toa, the other one's gonna fly towards Persia as this massive creature kind of last. So the number one needs to make a saving through. Strength saving through. That's gonna be 12. That fails. Okay, so move him diagonally two squares.

Here? Okay, yep. Okay. Number two is going towards Toa? Yeah, is that in your stream? Yeah, that's gonna be, no, that's not. Okay. Uh, it, once he gets, he did start there. So yeah, he, he, okay, so he flies up.

Uh, this guy is going to try to fly, um, he is going to see, uh, he's going to be half movement in, in that one. And so there's a 10 foot diagonal way towards, he's going to try to fly towards Felix. I mean, he'll get there. One. So one, two, three, four, five, six. There we go. Nope, nope, nope, you can't get there. So he's there.

Nope. Nope. No, no, no. Sorry, you're both counting. I just went with it. It's fine. And so we're gonna do one claw on Caprice. And that is gonna hit.

I'm gonna impose disadvantage. Okay. I didn't know if he was right next to me. That is gonna be 16. Yeah, still hits. Okay. Fuck. Thanks, thanks, that's all right.

That's gonna be four points of slashing damage. Oh. One is gonna attack Totoa. And that's gonna be a 20. It's gonna slash into you for six points of slashing damage. And then one of the other ones, ones are up. Is there anyone that's up? This one's prone. Okay yeah. It's gonna it's gonna fly and then you can take the little thing off and it's going to that's

gonna be a 20 to hit. To me yep yep why are we that's gonna be six points of slashing. Okay. So six ones are slashing? Okay. A few of the Trump. Pause what are you doing for a second? Yeah. Pause because we're uncertain creating sound noise. Okay. I think you're just And you took damage, I don't remember how much. You took damage from number two. How much? Six. What was the AC?

What did you roll? I will get 22. Okay. I'm just going to cast a major armor on myself as my action. Okay. So you hit yourself and you feel like your AC is higher and you feel a lot of luckier. Okay. First of you go out for like eight hours.

Can I listen just to see if the hoops are getting closer? maxing. Or that would require an action to just hear if I hear the hooves getting closer? I would say that if you want to make a seven to five action, yeah. Okay, I will, which of the two looks weaker? Six or three? Or looks more bloodied? Six. Okay, I'll make an attack against him. That'll hit him at 24. That'll hit you. There's five legending? Five legending. You smash it and it is barely hanging on. Oh, yeah.

Man, it's got to go up for that natural 20. Yeah, got to go it up, got to get that. Seven bludgeoning. So you smash it out of the air as it explodes into smoke. All right. And then I'm going to bonus action, try and knock this guy prone again. Okay. So 10 is my flags.

Okay. 10, it's going to be a six. Yes! Okay, it falls to the ground once again. Prone. Okay, it's a problem. With that, it desires a start. I'm going to use my bonus action to whack the guy that's right in front of my spiritual weapon with my spiritual weapon.

That's a 20 to hit. What are you? What number is? Two. Two. Is it a one or seven? That's a one. Six points of damage.

Six points of damage. You smash into it. He's looking rough. Okay. And then I am going to use my action to cast, um, toll the dead on him. Okay. Wisdom safe now.

That's gonna be a 10. Fails and he's damaged already. Number two, right? Yeah. He's got, a five damage. It's enough. It's enough. And it's same.

as it cries and spoons. Nice. Okay. So with that it is, who's turning that? It is, look, see. She's still gone. Oh, no, no, I'm not. I just wanna see if I can move it to.

I think he has a bonus. Only, oh yeah, as a bonus action, because I can do it every turn regardless. So I'm gonna move it on top of the big guy. Okay. You get flies over the crooked flay out towards the big guy. Okay, work you're up.

Okay. So I'm going to kind of lunge towards this guy. I'm going to, like, plant my spoon and like... There's a thing here. There's a graft. Motherfuck. Is it what? You can get through.

This is when you start. It's the wind. Yeah. If you don't start in it, it's just difficult terrain. Yeah. You can walk through. So it's only half speed. Yeah, half speed.

But you can walk up. It wouldn't be like there. If I start my turn in it, what happens? You get blown back. You get blown back. Or if you fail. If you fail strength tech, it's purely a movement thing. And that's if he doesn't redirect it on his turn before it's your next turn.

Okay. So I'm gonna lunch forward. I'm gonna sort of like plant my spoon and then like double kick like up in the air on the guy. I like it. It's 27 and 18 to hit. Both will hit. Very nice.

So that's gonna be 17. 17. Oh, he has a total? For those two attacks. How's he? He's looking rough as you smack, smack and you're smashing, you're like crack and it starts a split and you kind of arc is the whole metal station starting to split.

Okay, and then I'm gonna spend a key point for two more attacks on an arm attacks on a bonus action. And I'm just gonna like flick him with my fingers. Okay, very powerful. Wow, two 15, double 15. Isn't that one in 400? That's right. Wow, I don't be consistent.

23, 23. That's the young Midori. Yeah, move. And so 15. I don't know. Oh. Oh. He literally does.

Yeah, I'm just like, I'm fucking flicking him. And I just feel like he would just be so annoyed that the like the last little bits of pain would just like, I hate it. And then he crumpled. I hate it. So it seems this creature, it's, it's sentient. It's still a construct, but it's, if you could see. frustration, then you would,

then it would definitely be frustrated. It's getting aggravated, it's not being able to move as quickly as it would. And you find this large crack and you just go, and then just, and it's just split, and it cross all over the statue, and then it goes like, ah, and it just collapses into

into it. Yay, that's great. Bring, right. Got it. Give it up. And there's one still shadow creatures that's still going. You are two, right? Two, right?

I do, yeah. The dice are. Yeah, one is prone. What is prone to the other one? So. What do I have? You would get advantage on the prone one. If you moved over to me.

I don't think I have any, I can't do any more attacks. Oh. Yeah, I'll just, I'm gonna say right. I'm even gonna back a little. Yeah. And with that, the creature is dead and can't go. So it's turn. Nice.

Seeing Felix dangerously close to the spooky hallway where we know a big evil bullman is. I think I made a drama wrong. One, let's say one, two and a half, three and a half, four and a half, five and a half, six and a half. So here. And then I'm going to use my movement to dash here. Okay. And I peel around. Do you guys to see anything immediately?

There's up a check. 15. 15. You don't see anything immediately, but you start to hear the echo of footsteps. Okay. I can't do the holes. I have more movement, so I will go here. I'll go here, and I will redirect the blasts directly in front of me.

Okay? And you redirect it and the wind just bows to your command. You're the wind waker. And with that, it is resuscertained. I'll move up to the prone guy and attack him with my rapier at advantage. advantage. Okay. Which number is me? That'll be... Three. Three. Um, 23 to hit. That'll be a nine piercing. Nine piercing. It's very rough as you stab it on the ground. It's not there to be bonus action or anything?

Um, I will, uh, I'll make my way a little closer to Cho. Okay. So I move five, so get me 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, that's fine. Okay. Okay, you do that. This one flies up. It's going to immediately attack Urja, and that'll be a 22 hit. And that'll be five points of slashing damage. And the other one is going to get...

Oh, I need the train and save and throw against the one in front of Toa, and it's going to fail. It's going to get knocked back. The Bha. And it is going to just turn and attack. Caprice and he's going to order to miss. Good. Okay. We got a few. I'm going to cast Frostbite on the one that's remaining. Or I guess the one that's next to Caprice. Get over here, buddy. Five. Is the number or the con saving throw? I rule the five. Oh, okay. Yeah. Six.

So it's one of the damage to number three? Which other one, next to Greece. One. And then disadvantage on his next attack. Okay, he, the cold starts to settle in, uncrusted on his wings, he's flying slowly, kind of slowing him down. Okay, hurried we got. I'm gonna whack this guy. 24.

What? Five legending. Five legending. Okay, to number which one? Three. Number three, five bludgeoning, and you smash it with a koda and it explodes in ash. Hell yeah. 10, 15, 20, 25. Second attack on the other guy. Wrong.

20, non-natural. Okay. Five legending. Five legending. And it looks very weak. Bonus action shove. With a 13. I was going to fail. I want to pulse the ground and chrome. Yes. A court. Okay.

I'm going to move my spiritual weapon and I'm going to whack it. Okay. Wack it. 18 plus 8. Oh, it hits. Anyway. Yeah. Like it could be a crit. It wasn't.

And it's a D-A-E-E. Um, 11. So as it felled down onto the ground, and as you see, this is kind of floating, cook and flail, is the shimmering teal magic, and it was like, and it was, like, and it's cooed-de-grosset. Nice. And it explodes into ash. And then quiet, uh, settles over the room, except for the crying, uh, the crying, uh, the baby starting to like cry a little bit and Iris is is doing whatever she's doing

with it guys I we might still have company behind us yeah we should figure out if there's any other way in or out of this room you all immediately run down here and look this way I just stand next to him okay I'll join the corner okay so you all do that and I need both you make a time in checks I'll join him okay all three of you then 19 21. 21, okay? 21.

You start to hear the, this echoing, it's kind of hard to tell how far away it is, but it is starting to get a little bit louder. And I'll just spell the wind. Okay, it dispels. Lofti, can you help me take a look around on the walls and see if there's like any place that we can hide? Yeah, I don't fly.

Or like any secret doors maybe? Is there any way to tell like how long it's going to take until I get here? Do we have any kind of ice? idea about that. Probably, if it would, it getting to the infant room, it could take maybe like a minute. I'm gonna use my action to regain a spell slot with my power. Okay. So, uh, you know, a channeled power of your earrings and it, it fills you with a sense of magic and you feel like the blessings of anewis, you can, you can use more magic. I get the past life joke on the sudden. Old Iris and monster campaign.

had up her water. I got you. Before was you from Canon. It only took you six hours. Yeah. So Lufty and I want to run around the room and she wants to help me like pad balls. Maybe that's a huge of her.

What an advantage? Figure out if there's any secret doors or places we can hide her. Oh. Uh, 15. 15. As you're making your way around, you're padding around and you're starting to feel the stone

and all of a sudden you hit, one and it kind of crumbles and gives and you hear like a climb of metal. Oh shit. And you see one brick has fallen out, but there's a large metal square where this brick left. It seems to be of a similar mate to the hatch that you enter. Is it look like it's covered by more bricks? Is that what you mean? Yes.

So the whole rest of it, it seemed like it goes to continue. Okay. I'm going to jump over there and like help her start pulling. I'm just pulling bricks off. Yeah, I'm just pulling bricks like, like ramming into it, trying to get it to crumble faster. Okay. Guys, be cool.

Be quiet. I've got an idea. What if I just show up like the old man and then and then run up to the thing and I just tell him that the whole plan is bust and then he should be on his way. Don't stop digging. We need to get out of here, but I think that if he just got around, then it would be ideal if we could leave out the way we came in because then maybe ravioli might be coming in the wood behind us and if we go out some other exit. I love you, but this really isn't the time.

And I'm just like, I'm just like, all in ass. Go on and try it. We'll try to open the sky. At least it's a second way to get out, even if we don't leave right now. All right, if you hear my agonizing death, then just leave. And then I run, I start running down the hallway towards the steps.

Okay, so you guys start to pull over the bricks. You are running and as you're entering towards the infant room, you see a shadow start to cross around the stretch. As I see the shadow, I will, Pop myself, was the old man more than or less than a foot taller than I am? I will not say that would be the case. I will make myself look like the old man that we captured. How did you do that?

Disguised self. Okay. So you disguise self and you do that and you suddenly see this and all of a sudden this turn is you see a massive monstrous bull creature. You saw something similar in Miss Cross crossing. Seems to be a massive minotaur with his huge glade. Yay. With his massive horns.

And, but its eyes are red and its mouth seems to be kind of filled with bits and pieces of flesh rotting and otherwise. And you can just put him down. Gross. Okay. Is he in the baby room? He's turning the horn to the baby room. And he sees you standing there and it stops. Oh, immediately interrupt him and say, uh, it's a, uh, it's in the baby room.

in abyssal, I'll say the sacrifices are complete. Our day is done. We can rest now. Fuck. Oh, fuck. Make a persuasion check. And I will make an

insight check. It's damn good. Guys, it's not good. That's a pretty good roll. It's good text, too. 25. Hold on. Insight, insight. I'm so scared. The suspense.

I got a 23. And it kind of sniffs and said, and it speaks to you and starts to grunt. And it, what language do you say that by the way? I said it in abyssal. And it responds in a missile. As it says like, and he says, where are the others?

I was the one to deliver the sacrifices today. Very quickly, I'll say that much is true. Our in abyssal, our sacrifices had to be accelerated because we believe that our area has been compromised. I'm sorry that you did not get to taste blood today. Slowly like his dumb bull eyes. by being a massive monster, he's still a cow, kind of like lays over for a bit and

tilts his head. And he looks disappointed if a horrific demon, the demonic creature can look disappointed. And, uh, turns and he nods. He says, you are the speaker of the horn god. I will return to my layer as he stops off into the fog. Into the fog. Oh my god. And as soon as he turns the corner, I'm like, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. And I turn around and I run back to the fucking room as fast as I fucking can.

Amazing. You run. We can have had a pie. Everybody got to have a hard for the bar. God damn. As you do that, you actually also find hanging up. So you start to, the bricks start to fall away

as the ash and the smell of smoke drop. You see the little plumes of chimney that are up, and it's too small for any of you to fit through. But, however, you're starting to pull away, and you notice this little, this metal hatch that seems to be fully formed and beside it is a little outcropping. And hanging on the side of this outcropping seems to be a pair of these dark lenses

that are hanging on a strap alongside of it. I'll take a look at the lenses. I'll pick them up. Okay. You grab them and they seem to be, you know, these dark lenses, you put them over. I would say you would immediately be able to tell you can see better in the dark as soon as you put them on. Excellent. I would say that that would be a thing. Cogby tonight. Essentially.

Who's standing like close-ish to me? I'm right next to you. I'm gonna like toss them to you and keep digging. And so eventually there's this little outcropping and I would say in your investigation check, you dig through the pieces of metal. And you see that this furnace, although fire was blazing out, deeply inside, it was too tall to see,

are these two large rubies that you're able to easily pry out of the ruined metal statue that was cooled so intensely by the blast of wind. And you are now standing before a large metal hatch. I would have, like,

having pried those out, just tossed them over my shoulder and like kept working at what I'm doing. Okay. And so like I'll just kind of check the latch to see like if it's locked or, you know, if it was kind of like the other one, if it. I would say that you lean down. There's still that same kind of metal handle.

And you give it a tug. It doesn't budge. And seeing her throw those rubies, I would immediately go over and grab them both and put them in my pack. Okay. You sprint over. Well, I have the baby. The baby.

Not being careful. Okay. you're very carefully like you can see like her what a wasteful genocent oh my god and I put it in my pack and and you do that don't ever have a genocene parent little baby thing little baby thing and uh and i would just be keeping watch so i guess whenever so i can't lift the hatch open but it doesn't appear to be locked as it's not that you can tell can i help her like does it seem like you should try you should probably draw him I use this a budget.

Oh, okay. Well, I wasn't sure if it was locked. Athletics. And I just be twice a week. That's great. It's a roll, you threw it. Do you still have that inspiration I give you? We'll do that.

That's a D8? That's the D8. Nice. 6-8, 8, and 14. 14. I would say you start to lift it up and it starts to budge a little bit with a, and it slams back down.

It's very happy. There's no window or anything like the seeds or the seat's on the other side. No, no, it's fully metal. At this point, you see an old man who you recognize to be dead, turn in the corner, and I immediately address all of you. Everything's going to be okay. I mean, hey, hey, everybody. I'm sorry.

I think I convince the giant bull man. Very similar to the one we, you know, it's not important. How fast do we get out of here? Because we could be super fucked at any time. That depends how much help we have. Maybe talk and help? This thing is very heavy. Let's go and I go over and I will attempt to lift it.

I'll help him again. Okay. As you do that, roll with advantage, Felix. You, I need to make a percent check. Oh. That's a dark, natural 20. And you start to hear very faint footsteps. Oh, boy.

Coming down the whole way around the corner there. Different from the other footups. They see very soft. soft and slow and gentle. Oh, shit. I, someone's coming. I will, give me one second.

I roll, the 20. Oh, 20? Yeah. You, with her just help, both of you, and it clings and holds into place. But I,

I want to say, it's different this time, and I'm just readying to wait to see what it is. Okay. And praying that it's Ravioli. Okay, so as you make your, you,

you see, and you just see a shape from the corner, Oh, thank Chef Wardi. And is R. It is for happy only. That which is actually

partially my intention. Ravali turns the corner. He seems to be roughed up a little bit. As his half elf, his slighter half elf frame kind of turns the corner and he's running a hand

along the wall. And he's obviously reading the magic. chalk that you have. Seeing it's him and that he's potentially slight wounded, I'm going to run to him and say, Are you okay? We're here, we're here. He sees you and he puts it.

Thank goodness you're alive. What the fuck happened here? I start to fill him in on things that we saw and the fact that we still need to be quiet and move towards the exit because there are creatures that are still alive and they've been distracted by Caprice and I tell him about the fights and blah, blah, blah, and get him into the room with everybody else. Let's move, though. Let's move.

Okay. Good idea. He turns the corner. You see Felix and Rivali turning around the corner. And Rivali looks beat up, not quite as beat up as he was when he arrived at the lodge. But he joins you and he says, like, it's well worse than I think. We need to, can we get this, go through here and get this closed? We're trying. It's open now, right? Yeah.

And our students look outside? You open it The clangs open and you see a dark tunnel That goes out to the dark Does it look like this door can be closed behind us I mean I'm just gonna leave with that terrible bull creature behind us Yes, the door will be all right I told him to go back to his layer and he seemed like yeah, I'm just gonna go hibernate for the next six months

I think we're good Was there anything in this room we should take a look at first? That might be important like the blueprints we found earlier Maybe you guys can make yourself useful and look around I mean, do you think, I mean, we've obviously disrupted what they're doing here, but leaving at least a bit of it understood. What do you think? I mean, what's, what's, what was our major goal just to learn something here? Tell me what you learned. I pull out the blueprints that I mean.

I've already mentioned them, but I pull out the blueprints. I lay them on the ground, and I turn to toe and I say, make sure this door is closable again. And as I'm explaining what I found and I'll interject with the occasional story bit where I think that the story needs some additional meat on the bone. you know, that sort of thing, but also specifically how I can add the few moments that I experienced privately when about the group, what I told the Beast and also what I noticed when I was invisible, that sort of thing. Okay, so you tell the story, he's sitting down and Felix and Mavala across each other and says, okay, let's, first of all, let's get inside, let's get in the tunnel.

And so guys, you alter the tunnel and he sees like these hinges and he points to YouTube to to you just like, can you smash those and get that close? So we, all right, can you not push it back open? What do you mean? We close it, we can get back in if we need to, if we just push it. Yeah, I'll close it, yeah, with the intention of not. Yeah, okay, so you get into the last door and you're into this tunnel again, similar. All of the brickwork is gone, it's all back to his natural tunnel.

And it closes with a clang. And he listens, he sits down and Felix, he listens, he listens, he sits down, and Felix, he if he looks a story as he's uh as he uh points over to sky take a look at those blueprints absolutely and i hand them over he grabs it and we're going to be here for 10 minutes um doing this i'm gonna cast prayer of healing i don't say that's a thing hell yeah i'm gonna start to rest okay we'll use the one thing you can start to rest i'll just sit down and think about what i'm I'm done. So you all sit down and you're all resting and he's looking over.

20 points of a line. Wow. Everyone? Yeah. Holy shit. I don't need it. Thank you. You see you're all that kind of like taking the back and it's his wounds and he's like,

thank you. I appreciate that. You're welcome. I saw part of one of these. Like in this, in this tunnel or before this? No. When I went to scouting, I got. Far too close.

Stupid and reckless. So they're building these things now. They have... Prototypes? At least part of it, at least... At least the beginning. We were hoping that if we took these, it might slow them down,

but if they've already started, then maybe they can't complete it without these. They were debating quite a bit. I don't know if everyone else understood that or if I communicated that at the moment, but they were really insistent about, like, the what-for's and the what-nots about those stuff.

diagrams. So if they were debating about them, I don't feel like they were feeling success and construction in their heart. They were trying to figure things out still. Do you mean this you saw something exactly like this or like this is a part of something like you've seen a separate part of a bigger plan that this is all the It's huge skull furnace on wheels parts of it. It was It was whole I didn't think that they could build anything like this. This is more than the Korovaki military that these were savage beastmen, that these are just creatures of the forest. I think we need to throw assumptions out the window. I mean, at this point, there have been so many surprises around every corner. I wouldn't be surprised if they actually had built some sort of insane moving wheeled skull furnace thing

that was designed to crash into the side of the capital and burn down one whole side so the demons could pour in without issue. Well, it may be similar to what they were doing here. and this furnace thing is to throw in the bodies. Oh. Or sacrifices. Is that more, more body sacrifices? Was we able to sacrifice anyway?

We did see the furnace back at the room we were previously. No, no, I mean, when you were trying to talk. Yeah, we saw that big furnace. Outside the church, yeah. Yeah. So we're seeing a repeating thing here. They're just all kind of different, but this one was more sentient and it could move.

So it's not to say that they weren't trying to feed this thing. and then it could have been a weapon. I think you're really onto it. I think that actually might be exactly right. Well, what do you suppose we do? I mean, do we know where this tunnel even goes? I'm glad that you're here with us now. It's nice to have some backup,

but I assume we need to keep moving. We do need to know where this goes. Because this tunnel holding these hatches are big enough for even the biggest of their minotors and ogres to fit through. couldn't fit the giants, but who knows would actually be leading to a vantage point that could be a good place to infiltrate there. I don't know. I never would have thought they'd be that calculated in any turns, and he says, remembering that you had mentioned that there were creatures that were seen to be at odds.

And the murals. And he says, and he thinks, and he says, so it looks like is our deduction that we're looking at devils and demons working together in this situation is that very strange

or Capriest do you know what I know I would make a history check I hope that it's a good role it is of acceptable quality 18 you would know that they're different and you would know that it's very explicit

and that like you know even Teethlings and Golthaca would take offense at being called names. And that, but as far as like them working together, you were kind of never really into like a whole like dark work. And so you were more into music. So it's difficult to tell. I've never heard anything like it, honestly. Well, I mean, I feel very concerned that we're just going to leave.

Potentially, maybe there are more babies somewhere in there. Or more captured people are just, without having been through the whole thing. I just worry that we're endangering someone by moving on. I agree with you. I think the problem here is that even if we do find more people to save, we don't know where this tunnel goes. And if we have to carry along five to ten more people,

I'm running out of the ability to protect myself and you guys, let alone a host of 10 people who can't defend themselves. If we knew of a clear way out of here to get these people to safety, I'd say, fine. But if we go back and we waste more time and more resources, dealing with a creature that Caprice outsmarted, we should continue on. I know, I think that we've discovered a lot here. And I trust our guide to point us in the right direction. And I just don't think that we can waste the time.

I should have told him to leave. If I've been smart in the moment, I didn't outsmart him. I just happened to look like a guy. If I just told him to leave and then we would have been able to explore with impunity. But right now it's just sort of like, Well, you know what? If we took an hour and we had a short rest, I feel like we could kind of tank the guy. I mean, we've experienced, you guys all know the beast that we faced. That was the, that was the thing that totally like, see the scar?

I mean, you remember when that happened. When we very first met, that was a very tough fight. Well, we've learned a lot right since then. And we could maybe take the guy if we really had to clear this station. Well, how about this? Let's, I'll let the idea of just finding it with these tunnel goes. Why don't we proceed while trying to rest, just go slowly, and just take this tunnel where it leads. And if we find out where it leads and it's a safe place to go, perhaps we just turn back, open it up, and try to rescue anyone that may still be alive.

I believe that if there was anyone else in there, that what Caprice found out from that beast, he would have found that out in it as well. if there were more people to be sacrificed, that beast wouldn't just go back to its home. It had a thirst for blood. It would have gone to the other sacrifices. I haven't thought about that. That's exactly right. That's right.

All right. Well, we can always come back, but we should press on to figure out what you do. Let's fair. That's fair. Full steam ahead. Let's do it. Very well.

I think that anyone else that would be still alive in here, what kind of state would we find them? It's a miracle that we found. child that is seeming at heart. And we think that he points back to the hatch where you come from. That was the fate of all the infants that we assume that there were. Now that we have a moment to pause for a second. It's a human baby? Yes. Okay. And it's a male child? It seems to be yeah. Okay. Now what are we going to call this little guy?

you do not get to pick names. I hear what you call Felix. Well, that's different. No, it is not different in any way. I think I could think of a really sweet name for this kid. No. I mean, I feel as a thing, but I think we call it not our problem

and just get it out of here. I don't agree with Luffy on this one. You don't mean them. Makes it harder. Okay, that grips me out a little. Maybe we should name it. I'm with Revollli here. Just out of curiosity.

What gets out? You've seen a lot of horror and death and war, have you? I've seen many things. You don't know what I've seen. I think you look at it incorrectly. There's nothing wrong with death. Death is natural. It doesn't mean this child shouldn't have a name.

It doesn't mean that should it, should it, the gods choose to take its soul and it passes into the afterlife, that someone, even if it is just me, thinks on of its name and of it for the rest of my life. A legacy is... tantamount to immortality. I am all for the gods deciding are threads of fate.

But I would not say any God that I would respect because I... Punch an umbrella. That any God worth following or respecting for an ounce will send any soul to that fate.

No, I do not believe. that they would. And I agree with you. That is neither here nor there. The idea of not naming an infant because death may be on the horizon to me is terrible. I will name him Felix.

Oh, Christ. Because I'm sure they were both dying. I'm kidding. I'm not giving it a name yet. It's okay, little. I don't be confusing. It would. Little human, continue to sleep.

We will name you later. I'm going to pat it back. Should we go on then? Absolutely. That's our plan. Do I break these hinges so that it's, I guess they could just bust right through it, but... They could rip it off the hinges.

If they want to follow us, they will. The less that we... There's going to be an absolute field day in there when they find out what's happened. If we at least leave it there, make it harder for them to get through. All right, that's fine. Let's go.

Let's go. And as... You go a walk and talk. And you, I would say you'd benefit him for short rest. Yes. You're a lot of tunnel. It was deeper and deeper. Should I have a song of rest?

Yes. If you want to sing and walk. What does that do? If you use a hit die, you can roll an additional D6 and gain more health. Just once. Just once. Just one for every hit. I'll sing.

Oh, the bitter winds are blowing in, and I'm already missing the city. Strega's cold and I've been told we're gonna have to endure this kind of weather I'm certain in time our enemies will find that they're defeated and we've captured that weird ass crown I'll be your troubadour and sing you a tune if you'll be my friends and my party too no I'm not asking much of you just fight little darlin's fight with me oh oh and now all of a sudden little human is fast asleep oh thank you thank you any time my pleasure Caprice little human is sleeping it's the first time he's

calmed down all night I'm gonna call him Lorenzo please do not his name is little human you and your back down you find that the the labyrinth the goggles are this with the uh i don't think i cost them to you yeah and you know but i have dark vision and you don't know if i don't have the got one is Derek i don't know if i can wear these okay oh you have two pairs of goggles i do or you have glasses no you can be if you can be if you can be attuned to all three you can swap them as necessary i mean like i'll hold them for now you can be like the whole light of you can get them here yeah yeah but i can cast dark vision Like the nitrate light where did we get this gun was it was on the old guy that you guys know

I think that based on the fact that I've had a chance to study this you could you use this to like sort of scorch somebody real hard Once per day if anyone isn't interested in this I'll hold on to it but I just thought I throw that out there What? What is it? For an action you can cast scorching ray once a day. Oh, that's I pass. All right. All right Well, to sort of cross where we do it, I'll just, and I attach it to my left wrist. So as you're walking, Ravali talks about what he was up to. And he's walking and talking. He gets kind of healed from the short rest and from the song at rest. And he says, I got, like I said, I got too close.

I saw the army that we've seen several times in our journey here in the three weeks that we could travel together but there's far more than I could have guessed there you know we thought that it was just the ogre tribes and the hill jihad tribes and the ogre clans of the highlands but there's more clans than that there's more clans than that there's uniting the giant kin just with this gift, just with the promise of power it seems. And the military discipline is unlike anything that I've seen. I've been fighting them in my entire life. But these are our regiments. They have some kind of chain of command. These aren't a bunch of savage barbarians.

thundering into villages from the woods, slaughtering people and taking their things, wrecking dark altars, and power that they had, the fire, the hell fight, these prototype machines of war and furnaces and these horrible effigies. I have no idea what they're planning to do with it, but it's very clear. I don't know what they're planning to do with it, but I think you hit the hell nail on the head there, buddy, when you said that there's been a change of leadership, I remember the taverns that I used to enjoy at Galtiga,

and the difference between the good taverns were whether they had good management or not. I suspect that this transformation were the unity that we're seeing, this new organized ability to go from place to place and actually pursue goals without infighting and all the rest of the friction that's held them down for so long. I think we're talking about one guy or some guys that are all making some concerted effort and really laying down the line. and I think you're right. Almost militaristic as if the military might be involved.

Some military. Who's in which? The Corps of Hockean. And even that's the biggest question. Why are they not raising the hair to do not anything? And then the reason why I almost die if I didn't have my dust of disappearance was I stole this. It was a small group, and I thought I wouldn't be detected.

Pulls out a parchment. He said I wanted to get the full, unpolluted story from you all before I showed you this. And he pulls it out. And there is a very cruelly drawn map of the clothwood that sprawls

over much of the country and there are some points that have excess over them and he

he hands this to you Felix and he says to you realize what this is and make a history check with advantage of please oh Jesus you can do it I can do it I won't be proficient in history

I am. My history is actually banging. 20. It looks to you like every X, every point you see the rose and there seemed to be X on small towns

and you see an X on Miss Cross crossing. And it seems to to, it seems to, there are a few dunts that are no longer X-D out or that are no longer X-D.

Okay. And it seems to be as of everything kind of around towards Zensur and all of that and in the opposite direction of where you were coming from all through the clockwood are dots that

are marked out on the map, but not X-Dow. I find, had to guess I'd assume that you were pointing out almost an origination point because why would they start one way and only go one direction if they had started before you don't understand what I'm saying I do I don't so could you maybe elaborate the idea here is if you take a look at the map the X is they only go in one direction tell so so we have to assume that they wouldn't have just skipped all of these towns they would have

originated here and moved to this direction and simultaneously or I'm sorry systematically destroyed and ransacked these exes, but left all of them behind untouched. So we can almost make the assumption at this point here is where something started. And I don't know, wait, so the point, Miss Klausen was the first one? No, but that's in the sense that basically that the path was going back from Ms. Kro's Paz. Swords, the generation, the clock went around Khorvah, around Zanchot, and then out, and then it's going towards and then it's

towards crossing and then it's towards that heading so you guys were heading it was heading towards the coast of west west so like pass past where you were heaven I just think that there's a reason why

it's odd to me that only certain directions would be X out you know what I'm saying? Yes so it means that if we went out back there, perhaps you could investigate where this all started? I mean, that would be God, I must...

Like five weeks worth of traveling. Oh, what it says here is that it's... So rather that it was spreading towards Ms. Gross crossing, past the direction where you cross it. So allow me to... I guess I'm not. Yeah, sorry. Yeah, I don't think I get it either.

Just draw on here if you want. I'll go on here. Just pretend this is a finish a map here. We're getting a little bit of that goes. Oh, sorry guys. It's so random. And so, like, you know, let's say this is like generally Corvacia. This is Corvacia.

Here's Entra. Here's Zentra. Here's north. Here's north. So, thank you. So you guys, like, met on this crossroads, like here. Or, like, rather, like here. And you basically went over the mountains,

and you're basically heading here, right? To Zentra. To Zentra. And so, like, it looks like there are towns, spotted all over that are Xed out, X'd out, X'd out, X'd out, X'd out, and then you see Mitzkos crossing here, Xed out, and then there are a few dots behind it, behind it, as if it is spreading out in that direction. Does that make sense?

As though it's coming from Central. So I guess that's my question would be, right, my question would be how do we know, well, I guess I'd just have to say it in character, how are we, how do we know the direction that it's spreading, though? I mean, there's no, nothing saying that it's not spreading towards Zentra, right? I mean, do we know for sure? Well, there, we don't. We don't.

But it just seems like they've tackled all of these towns around Zentra. But either way, we have at least some, some idea of an origination point. We do. We do. And that is what concerns me the most. Is it what, if there was some systematic operations, demonic, demonic, devilish operations, why would they feel comfortable starting in the most heavily populated,

heavily militarized, heavily watched areas in the entire country? Yeah, I guess you'd think it'd be the opposite that they'd start at the perimeter and worked their way in. It's pretty clear I think that Iris is onto something. That's what I thought was happening. I agree.

That's even more alarming. I knew that they were trying to keep the peace, but I had no idea. I mean, there's so much to do. So my concern is this. What if the little X's are not locations of towns, but locations of things like this labyrinth we were just in? What if they're the places they're taking the infants

and potentially the women from the towns that are around it, the little dots, and they're taking them to these forges and sacrificing them? What if this isn't the only one? Because if you remember, on the map that we found that Ladisir, this place was marked with an X. I'm sure it's not the only one. Yeah, we know it. Yeah. And we know that there was a forge in Miss Crow's Crossing.

So what if this is telling us these are all of the towns here, but anyone with an ex is a place you can go to leave your slaves and or your, yes, your slaves are stolen. So we happened to find some when we rescued Nora, but they were more than likely in route to one of these exes to be sacrificed. I mean, it's hard to say. We do know that these bull creatures don't stay in one place for very long. Is that right?

They know. They don't. I mean, historical, I mean... But I guess we don't know, because they're... I tell. What the hell do I know anymore? What the hell do I know? I've been asking myself the same thing for weeks.

And, I mean, I would have said that they are savages that keep to the deep forest. And they used to for years. They've always been... They've always been in Koropaki. I've always been in Shriga. They were one of the original threats of... of the people here on this continent. And now that this is happening,

and all only these poor towns that seem to have less context with the outside world are the ones being targeted. So it's only going in one direction, like with a line straight out. Yeah, at least in that direction, yeah. It seems to be that situation.

And maybe not necessarily straight line. No, straight line, but it's a... It's sort of a snake that's kind of like sneaking from. Yeah, too. You know the thing that really sticks with me is the difference between what we experienced when we were first fighting together against the beast men who had been transformed by some kind of like disease, right? You guys remember the I apologize guy? Yes, of course. And then when we witnessed at the top of the butcher's bluff, when we saw people physically being transformed, those felt like two different but similarly connected things.

I'm not sure I put the pieces together. I mean, again, you're right. You're on to something. And it goes back to the fact that, you know, I made an assumption about the military, you know, eradicating these people who had this beast plague and then realizing that it was an illusion and then finding out that it wasn't an illusion.

So we've got multiple layers here of things that we don't know about, that we don't have enough information about. The fact that it seems to be originating from Centra? That is very disturbing. I agree. That could mean that the military is super on board with this whole thing. The whole country is just this crazy

sacrificial pot that they're just going to wipe clean and do whatever they want with. But didn't that guy say that Zentra will fall? Are they originating all this stuff from Zentra? I'll need to go back and destroy it later. He did say that, but that might be part of the plan. Right.

If they just need humans, there's a lot of humans in Zentra. There's a lot of humanoids in Zentra. There's plenty of sacrifice. Yeah. I think we're not going to make heads and tails of this until we learn more. At least I won't. Felix, you're way smarter than I am, but... I just want to make sure we've got all the puzzle pieces in front of all of us at the same time. I think that we're all on the same page as far as the confusion and what mysteries lie in front of us. Are we still heading to Central? We have to. I mean, even if even if even if even if, even if

if our original goal of alerting somebody isn't going to work anymore we still need to go and find out if that was the origination point and i still think that there could be clues that lead us in in a better direction if it's enter is a big place and even if even if the military is behind this not everybody will be we'll find people who are who don't believe in the military who are against the military nobody's going to just let this happen are we still walking the tunnel What is it? Super long tunnels. It seems to keep going and going and going and going.

What were the name of the woman and her daughter that we met in? Rosalina. Rosalina and Olma. And what was the name of their little wife? Thomas. Thomas. Who? I can't hear her.

Yeah. I looked at my notes and I just wrote down girl, boy, and mom. Yeah, you literally could have said anything and I'm like, oh. Oh, yeah. All right. We'll stick to the plan, but. But I'm getting really skeptical that we have anyone to trust in this in this country. We don't.

Again, you're right. Look, I barely even trusted you people. It's taken me a long time to understand that you don't mean any wrong. I thought we're in the city because that was going to be walls and safety. It sounds like when we get there, we still can't look at anybody. I never guaranteed that. I'm hoping to find information about where my brother might be. And yes, I was hoping we could alert somebody.

But even if that's not the case, there's nowhere else we can go. Do you have any kind of clout in the city? It's all. Depends on what kind of clout you mean. I mean, just anything, getting us, you know, just helping to say people. I was born in Central. That's good news. Will you, you won't, were you born in Zentra, Felix?

I don't think of a base, do you? No, I wasn't, I was not born in Central, no. You look like you've, you have some training, don't you? I know that. Especially with everything that's going on, you're not going to like to hear this, but I was once part of the military and I went AWOL. Academy boy. They're actively looking for me, and I was, you know, just trained to be a wizard. Well, with the connections I have, they hopefully won't be able to find you or us.

That's fantastic. I mean, I'm doing everything I can to be undetectable, but, you know, you know what they're capable of. I hope you guys weren't hoping for high society living. I'm always hoping for high society living. Yeah. Tom and I've been... We've been living in shit, more or less, for the last maybe three, four months. Yeah, we're used to sleeping in the dirt.

I'm not, but that's fine. That's why I have Lufty. Yeah, I'm pretty used as a dirt. You know, keep get on top. You don't have to worry about dirt. It's more of the company we'll be keeping. You all are farming modest. Oh.

We'll be fine as long as we can help these people. If there's any way we can save these people, we can do it. I agree. And I understand that I need a pledge to Homehart and the conclave. But this takes for more priority. And he'll understand that I am gone for a long time. what it takes if I even do ever come back. This is far bigger than

whatever he has going on. You don't seem very convinced with the whole mission of your own claim. I do. I believe in destroying evil. I believe in ending the lies

of the horrible beast that would ruin the lies of all the poor people that live here. It wasn't for people like me, the hunters, the one that killed the beast that lurk in the dark, Korovacchia would not stand. This content would be done in heaven.

I believe that is a good cause. But it comes to a point when if we're focused on spending our lives in the highlands pecking off ends and large, dangerous boar, threatening peasants, while death marches on the center of civilization. after Zentra what next? You mentioned that they said that

Zentral was just a stepping stone of some kind that was beyond the scope of the city? I mean, we someone mentioned the Zentra will fall where did we hear that? From the Colfus. The Vester will fall yeah. He mentioned it as we were

meeting up to him and also he reiterated it when we were in characterating. Right, right. Yeah, so we did mention it. Yeah, so we did mention it. Yeah. So anyway, that I, Homeheart is a good man, he's a fool, but he's a good man. And I appreciate everything he's doing, but I may not know his full story, just like he doesn't not know mine. So maybe I'm being too harsh, but this is important to me.

And I think it's very, and maybe it is bigger than any of us can possibly imagine. Maybe everything that we all have experience, the attack on the lodge, maybe it's all connected in some horrific way. And then God's help us. We're doomed. There also seems to be a repeating theme of fire. And I think it's related to these furnaces. If we can find a way to snuff out that resource, whatever they're using, instead of just human sacrifices, of course. But like, if it's coal or some nearby thing that they're, they need.

need to start the fire, you know, as much wind, uh, wind is going to be a resource on our side. You know, you're an Air Genasi. I'm not saying that like we need to contact your people or anything, but that seems to be their greatest weakness. It's adorable how little she knows about Genozy. Like you have a bunch of little wind genies that do your bidding. Yeah, I wish I did. No. She's useless. That's the only people I have. Useless. We could be your people.

We are people. She's not going to find it better than us. I like that. I could have people. I haven't had people before. You're not talking about. You had me. You said you hate me.

No, no, you've had me. You don't need other people. You've had me. And you also need to apologize for that time that you told her, that you loved her because that was just, that was a lot. lie and it was not true. Of course you didn't because you don't feel that way. Of course.

Of course you don't. I was. What did you just say to me? I said, of course. That's what I thought. Yeah. Rivali. I, I, I want.

Is it Ravali or Ravoli or Ravoli or Ravoli? Ravali. We'll say Rivali all the time. I, I, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, right. I said, Gravali. No, call him free with this so bare ass. Freewing? Freeway?

Call on them Freeway. That's kind of cool. Do you have a ranking? Like, are you, uh... Captain's a captain. Captain? Captain. So, well, I...

Listen, I... My brother's missing. And that's a big part of the reason why I went AWOL. And I'm looking for him. And I have, I have reason to believe that the military may have him. And if it turns out that the military's working with these people or with these, with these creatures, then... And you're going to do everything you can to save these people and stop them, then... I'm gonna do everything I can to help you.

I have a lot of making up to do. I've done a lot of bad things and I gotta try to set things right. And if this is about saving humanity, then you can count me in. I appreciate that, but it's going to be a dark. You walk down if you are all prepared for this. This tiny life is proof of that. The fate that you all saved him from is proof of that. Are you all truly prepared to walk that path?

I've got nowhere else to go except find my brother and stop this. You all prepare to do what it takes to keep the people of Korovakia and strugan the world to keep their freedom. Is this like one of those trick questions where we say yes, we're prepared? You'll be like, no, you're not prepared. So when we answer like, no, we're not prepared, you're like, ah, finally you're prepared. I'm not a monk. Great answer. Great answer. Look, if they catch me, I'm dead anyway. I'm basically a dead man walking.

I'm in. Yeah, I've got my own business here in Stringa, but I want to see this thing through. Let's do this. We got it. I want to spend more time looking at these forges next time we get close to one. With my dad missing, I'm wondering if... he's got anything to do with this. This is just my paranoid thinking

and probably because it's been a while since I've heard any news about where he's been and I'm probably just, you know, swallowing, drowning in my, and my obsessive thoughts. But, you know, if he's being told against his will to help build these monstrosities, mechanical, you know,

he's a well-known expert in Yona. Is he like Jammini? Would he just do this for like, alcohol I well I don't think so I don't know no probably not yeah I would say no he's a man of dark shit right yeah I mean for a beer yeah I mean like you might I know what the fuck I'll literally sell my soul for a beer no big a beer baby yeah beer baby he's a businessman but he's an honorable businessman I would hope that he would know what he's getting yourself into it but if this is devils and demons and

he signs some kind of contract and it was binding and it was like, oh, we're going to kill your family and your wife and your daughter. If you don't do this, like, I wouldn't be surprised if this was kind of got tricked into it or against his will. But again, this is just my obsessive thinking and a lot of forge stuff is happening. And I just feel like I should have spent more time looking at that. Broad statue, but it's sorry. I'm sure we'll cross another one soon. So the statue is where we got the rubies from.

So we did go through the statue. Yes. But it was all busted up. I didn't like instead the creation of everything. No, that was the goggles. Oh. That was hanging inside the outcropping thing, inside the hatch. Okay.

And so we all have our own business and obviously this is not, this is not like commitment. We may be the only hope of the, of preserving the wings of freedom for the entire civilization. We're not going to call it the wings of freedom just because your name is free wing, all right? That just seems too convenient. I was being poetic. I mean, you're literally a bar.

Don't you have an appreciation for something like that? This guy's so cool. I can't even appreciate how cool this guys. I like very like slyly give toe a fistball. Well, you know those guys that system would read. dead and stiff because I'm free as a wing is that too meta but it was a little meta I don't know about that one we we at least for now we're the only people who know the true threat so in in that

response and with that being up we are forming our own squad at this point What? You mean, like, like we've, we've got a squad? Yes, too. I've never been a part of a squad before. The rest of mine died. It sounds pretty cool. And you're going to be a cool captain? If you think I'm worthy. We should, yes, yes.

We should definitely have a name, and I think that we should pick our own captains. Daryl? I've worked for a volley. Me too. I've wrote for a volley. As long as we all chose Rivalry. I mean, anyway, it's very cool. Very cool.

It's very cool and very legal. The boys are very strange. Yes. You don't quite understand this weird passion they have for this man. I'm feeling like a lot of strange energy going back in Fosier. Yes, significantly more than I've seen them be passionate about anything else. Yeah. I told us this guy.

probably five eight so he's not a foot taller than I am is that a five eight you're definitely taller than I'm not taller then uh small man they like him a lot yeah he's not that small I'm taller than he's he's as tall as all of you I'm five 11 as tall as all of you so no he's he's taller than me at least from perspective you all look more left the same high. I appreciate it, we don't need to discuss this.

I am not your, all of your own free individuals. I'm not going to, this is not military. This is more of, like we have our squads and our ranks within the conflict. We,

we make an oath and we do what we can for each other to support each other's lives and safety. But we understand that everyone is their own free individual. That seems fair. So does that be the name of our group?

Three individuals? Or we just don't name our group. Not with Iris. All group need a name. I mean, if we eventually become famous for all our deeds, we're going to have some say in what people call us. Otherwise, they could just name us. Well, my name is Iris, so I'd prefer if you call me Iris.

Right, but if they refer to the group as a whole, all of our deeds put together. What? We're just going to call that, Iris? Of course. I don't want any recognition or name acknowledgement from anyone anywhere. They'll literally kill me. I mean... Well, that's the point.

They wouldn't know you as Felix. They'll know you as part of the group. We... Squad. Look, this is something we can talk about later. We have a lot on our hands. I mean, Wings and Freedom sounded pretty bad ass. Yes, for Bands album.

You're kind of right. I mean, that sounds kind of cool to me. But then it's like, oh, well, the leader's name's freewing. But maybe that's the point. Maybe a whole group is poetic. Anyway, we can discuss... We can talk about it later. I only found fun with this creepy tunnel leads.

As we continue to walk, I lean over the toe and go, I thought it was a good idea. We can work on it. We can convince Caprice. He can convince everybody else. I suggest... I'm not going to ask for commitment. But it'd be nice if all seven of us

who trust each other to listenly. See this. from yeah I mean I trust you all it's just this is this whole thing is just kind of a bummer and I mean I haven't I don't know you know I'll go along though because I haven't been to the city before and I'd like to see that but I feel like I anubis would want me to continue along this path and Luffy it would mean a lot to me if you'd stay with me of course and I think your daddy would very much like me to come too.

So I be here. Well, my father would actually not care if you were there. He would just want to make sure I was okay. So as long as I had six other people, that would include free bird here. Then it would not matter whether you were there not because I had six people. I was just saying I would like you there.

He wouldn't care. This just came to me. He just wants me safe. What if we, what if we name ourselves? Leonard Skinner. Leonard. Is that a Glyan? No, I mean, I'm not.

I think I heard it once from one guy, but it's always stuck with me. Leonard Scenard? Yes. That is terrible. It sounds like foreskin. Ew. Never mind. I'm taking it back.

Can we talk about this later, please? Yes. What's foreskin? You know what? I'm actually going to know that. Secret tunnel. Secret tunnel. Secret.

Secret. Secret. Secret tunnel. And with that, you continue. And you walk, and you walk, and it's hours, turning to hours. As the tunnel seems to have no end. Wow. And if you feel like you walk from Ireland,

as the passage that you're walking through is... I'm going to stop everybody. How many hours has it been? It's probably been like two, three hours. Okay. My concern, though I don't believe that this should stop us, is I have a feeling we're going to. going to exit in the city.

I turn to our captain. How, roughly how far were we from this city when we entered this hatch? We were a few miles per the map. Ravali looks at you with this grim sense of acknowledgement

and life unsettlement and unsettlement, whatever, of the unease as he just gives you a nod and he looks at all of you as we should keep going. I thought we were trying to get to the city. We are. We were just not hoping that this secret tunnel that lies in this labyrinth where they're sacrificing people would have a direct link to it, thus confirming our theory, that there are people in the city, probably with high power who are utilizing these street people. But that's fine.

Yeah, who built these tunnels? Why are they here? Why do they connect to seemingly nowhere? Are there more than one tunnel? I have so many questions. I had no branching off from this main tunnel so far in the last three hours. Let us continue. Let us.

And it continues forward until you finally see, you feel the elevation start to rise up. And you walk up higher and higher and you see up ahead very faint rim of light around a large rectangular, a rectangular outline of light. very faint though if you get closer and closer you realize that the back of a hatch large metal hatch very faint

thin line of light coming around the outside can we hear anything on the other side make a reception check gladly that's terrible

it's a What happened? I don't hear nasty. It's very difficult. You can kind of hear that there is, it seems to be quiet. Well, seems good to me, let's go. Is there any way we can find out what's on the other side of this door using all of your abilities? I can open the door. And I have the ability to enter into the room afterwards.

I also have the ability to open the door. What about before we open the door? I'm just worried about what if there are bad guys around the other side of this door? duel. Well, I mean, you know, I might be able to open the door. Yeah, I think we should lift it a little bit. Have somebody peek under and see what they see on the other side. That way, we're not making a shit ton of

noise, but it's a little bit of noise. I think the second we even touch this door and start to open it, we're going to elude everybody on the other side. I say we just open it and be ready to fight. I'm with you. There's really no other way around this. You don't know what something is out of this door. We have a kid and we have a child with us. I'm gonna stand to the back. Okay. I reached down and I was trying to...

Oh boy, my boy. You're gonna push it. This isn't like the back of a tavern or something. Uh, 24. 24. Use a drink. As you heave it and you feel a tiny bit of resistance. As soon as you heave, you hear a loud,

um, a bull. As you will throw the, uh, the, the, uh, hatch open. And all of a sudden, hey, kind of starts to knock down bales of hay as a straw starts to kind of hit your face and you look around and you're and you look

and you finally get your bearings the very faint light of being in a stable with several bulls actual bowls and cats lifestyle and the faint light is is kind of peeking through

the slats of this building and it's kind of illuminating the whole thing. And as you step inside, you hear the sound of voices and footsteps and like the rattling of carts and the light from outside. And Rivali kind of looks at all of you and he looks around as this is stable. He walks forward and there's this little side door. You see that there's a large double barn door and there's just a wooden pretty side door. Then he just grabs the handle and opens. And as the door swings open, you see a bustling city street of Zentra. And that is for one the session. As we do that, I wrestle it down at the baby and she'll go, well, welcome to Zentra Thomas.

And she'll hold him close to her heart. Very nice. I thought we agreed that Lorenzo was got to be the name. She completely ignores you and walks out. featuring Antonio And that's where we'll end up That was really awesome Holy crap That felt like some old school D&D with the fucking map and shit This is the first time

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