Legends of Avantris - Edge of Midnight | Ep. 10 | Pound of Flesh

Episode Date: July 9, 2024

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Welcome to Legends of Aventress. I'm Lefika Nightbourne and you're listening to the mysterious edge of midnight. Let me show you what happened last time. Maggie McDuff, I saw her running in the woods. Seconds after the fire hit, the way that everything is littered here, you lose your trail. That Mother Midnight has not been apprehended. It is clear she hides among them.

And all these people, they're just going to listen to him again until everyone ends up dead. erect what appears to be a permanent gallows. Knights abound, open the gates. You then begin to notice that they do appear to be writerless. You do not need to report this to the Archbishop. Oh, she is probably an inch taller than you. Protagning his friends in every witch fight, he is a knight named Mary is.

You have reached the mind here to be two dozen horses. And where there should be hooves pawing into the ground, you see human hands. The only thing more loyal than a knight is his trusted steed. So then that begs the question, is a knight turned into a steed twice as loyal? Our protagonists in this horror story are about to find out, as they meet all that remains of the Templars who made the simple mistake of having a sense of duty and honor, and not abandoning their doomed conquest of the first sign of trouble. Will the damn here night be so foolish? Only one way to find out. You have entered an area of the forest that you know to be immediately before the mines that you were

headed to in search of the Knights Templar that had gone out to attempt to reopen these mines now that the threat of Mother Midnight had so foolishly been called off. And it is here that you see what stands before you. The forms of more than two dozen knights formed into sickly horse abominations. Their skin stretched unnaturally into the long

haunches of what appears to be like the horses they had rode in on. But no horse hair adorns their body, just the soft pinkish flesh, human flesh. Their faces pulled, taught, and elongated into the head of an an equestrian-like creature.

You watch as they all look toward you. They call out with unusual and unnatural sounds. None of them are forming real words, but it sounds like they're begging you, pleading you for help. The only one that was able to make any sound at all you could clearly see by the mustache that still adorns his upper lip. The guard captain, Sir Marco Voldo, clearly calls out to you. to run, to go back.

What do you do? I immediately affix my shield to my back and draw my sword in two hands and begin to approach the first creature. The first creature is night captain, Sir Marco Holden. I put my sword to its neck, and I look him in the eyes, and I say, I am so, so sorry for this.

You see his head tilts up to you, and you see that he blinks twice, and a tear begins to roll down his face as he lowers your head and knuzzles into the side of your sword. You will be avenged. No, no, no, no, hold on. What the fuck are you doing? I am putting these horrific abominations of life out of their misery. Well, how do you know what it is? Can't be turned back. Huh? Yeah, stay your blade. All around you, the sounds of groaning, painful moans and whales from nearly anywhere

between 24 to 30 of the other night's tempwether out here, are almost so loud that it's sickening and deafening as they make this guttural noise, attempting to speak, but not able to use their new, their new horse-like voice boxes. I mean, I don't know what the fuck this is. clearly it's a fucking hang but it's a thing maybe if we killed a hag

he'll be right as frail I'm gonna look the captain in the eyes again and say do you want me to send you to your guard you hear a pained guttural moan erupt out of

its throat as its tongue falls limply to the side of its mouth clearly a human tongue not a horse-like tongue at all. And you see that the teeth inside of its mouth are clearly human teeth. As it looks up towards you, its eyes filled with sadness. Roll a roll in inside check. You can see with the way that Sir Marco has been placing his neck up towards the blade that he clearly wants this horror of a life to end.

I draw back and swing as cleanly and fastly as I can to sever his head from his body. Roll to attack and roll for damage. I somehow missed the stationary horseman that would like to be murdered. 10 to hit. 10 doesn't. No, 10 doesn't have. It could have hit, but just. I mean, yeah.

Let's give Sir Marco. I don't know how I could possibly miss. If he's presenting himself, is it advantaged? Sure. I will say yes. Yes, that would make say he's not because he's not trying to run away. Number three. Okay, now I'll twist that one, I guess.

Natural 20. Oh, my God. Get fucked, stationary horse, man. No, wait. Um, yeah, I guess I won't smite him. No need to, right? Well, that depends on whether you want him to survive this slash. Oh yeah, fuck that.

I'm gonna absolutely murder this. Be the nearly headless serve. We might need to smites, who, who. I think they're pigeons. Okay, I'm gonna smite his ass too. I hope we've got 24 more smites. I got a few. We're all right. Uh, let me just...

Abby wants me to use a twist of dread to negate the nap time. Oh, that would be really brutal. No. I've got a lot of brutal shit coming up this session. I'll give him a win. I apologize. I forget what my actual... I think it's 2D8s, plus 1D8.

Nope, so 2, so 4D8s, 2D10s, 2D10s, 4D10s. That's gonna be six plus seven is 13, 14, 15, 22, 25, 30, 35, 42 points of damage. In one quick motion, you watch as Marius raises his blade towards the heaven and calls on the light of Lathander as he brings it down and equips, quick sweeping motion.

You're able to cleanly slice the head from this creature. And it takes a second before the wound separates. The light from Sir Marco Voldo's eyes goes dark as his head with a loud thud and a

squish hits the ground. The body stands there for just a second rocking back and forth on the strange human-like legs, two hands at the front, two feet toward the back where who should be. And as the knees begin to buckle, you see movement in the hole at the neck. As centipedes begin to spill forth out of where the head had been severed, they crawl down the body and begin to burrow into the earth as the body falls splat into the earth.

Help me! And I moved to the next one. I begin to strike. Pull out my gun, my voodoo gun, and I'm going to try to shoot the centipedes with Eldridge Blast. If I can. Sure. just looking on an abject hair holding my hat to my chest. I have no idea what else to do or something. I presumably hit. It's a 20. That is.

Two damage. You were able to kill one of the centipedes. You let out a blast as it. You see it severs as part of it is, explodes towards the center. Its body twitches as the life slowly leaves it. The rest of them burrowed deep within the earth and disappear from eyesight.

The rest of the human horse hybrids in this air, though they jumped for a moment at the sound of the head hitting the earth, you watch as slowly, almost mournfully, they all begin to walk toward you. Oh no, do I really have to do these? I am just, I am going and everyone I can, I'm going to hack, hack, and just start severing heads. I roll the sleeves up to try and part of me clean in this dirty business and I'll pull out my Chakram and I will join you and start to see if I can make us clean a cut for the other horses. Just the two of you. I would be helping as well in each that I would approach. I would kind of gently trace a runic symbol on their chest and in the cleanest, like,

painlessest, most painless way, try to help them. I'll help too. I do not. The four of you make your way, you move slowly at first, and then with haste, realizing the absolute horror of this situation and what it must look like to these once nights. Yesterday they had been men. You had met some of them. Some of them had spoken kindly to you. And they look at you with eyes, filled with sadness, but a silent resolve knowing what their fate is. ever until the end and it takes about 30 minutes for you to finish bringing the

last night to peace do we see additional psalpies every single one of these nights as you as you put them to eternal rest you see as their bodies fall limply towards the ground out of whatever orifice they can find a centipedes spill forth and begin digging through the earth I will say with the amount of time that it took and the things that you're doing, it's easy to see that though these centipedes are far larger and far more grotesque, they don't appear to be monstrous in any way. They just seem to be some sort of, they seem to be real centipedes that have maybe been twisted

by the magics that are going on in this earth, but they're not, they're not monstrous beasts in any way, nothing more than centipedes. You're going to be sick. You all stand in this outcropping before reaching the mind, and the ground around you is a dark, red, and brown soaked with the blood of the knights as all of their bodies lie limp now. We can't. We can't. We can't. I always, I mean, we only been at once, but that Sir Marco fellow was, he was a real stand-up gentleman. He was a good man. and they were all good man to the end.

Good men to the end. Return them to the earth. We may not have time to make a grave large enough. Would they fire suffice? I would agree that we burn them. Probably my choice. All of their ashes will go to the earth. They'll be purified.

And they will no longer be these horrific mockeries of life. We can also. commit to coming back here when our duty here is done and make sure that they are given the proper barrier later if we leave them now. I won't leave without attending to... I used to say, I'll say we burn them because if we bury them, we go in there, we killed a hag, we walk out and it's all just normal human parts. I don't think we'll feel too good about that.

It's burn them so we don't have to know. We don't have to find out. I'll help with that. I just... Them poor night, fellas, and gals. I'll start dragging bodies into whatever kind of pile, perhaps in more of a clear spot of the forest. Yeah, I would help.

Yeah, drag them as well. I would say it'll take you another 30 to 40 minutes to collect the pieces of these nights and find a spot with some dry, some dry underbrush and leaves and create a pyre, But you're easily able to as you pile all the bodies together and you set them ablaze. You have a small ceremony, but you don't know much about these men.

A few of them you'd talk to. Marius, you're familiar with the service of a night. You have a few things to say, but for the most part it's quiet. It's silence in honor of the lives that they had lived. and horror the way that they had died. And as the flames consume them, you watch for just a moment to see if that glint of purple will appear in the flames, but it doesn't come. Stays the bright reds, oranges, yellows, and whites of a true burning fire. The morado, I wish I could have no new better.

I will not forget you. What's next? I've seen all a fucked-up shit in my life. That's the most fucked up thing I've ever seen. Whatever's waiting for us inside the God-forsaken mine. It's going to pay and burning justice. Well, I don't want to be that fellow, but 24, 30 nights, two dozen. And in there and whatever is in that mouth,

did that to him. What chance do we have? I don't care what chance we have. We're going to avenge them and we're going to defeat whatever horrific abomination did this. The nine hells are too good for that creature. We came here to kill witches. None of us can leave until it's done. There's no turning back.

Well said. Well, yeah, of course. We're genuine heroes and that's what genuine heroes do. Sir Gallant Knight please do lead the way. I will have cleaned the blood from my sword by this point, re-uped my shield, and I will proceed towards the entrance of this mine. You make your way out of the area of the forest that you had pulled aside to burn these bodies, and you make your way back towards where you had discovered the knights.

You know that the mine was just to burn. just through the tree line there. And you walk quietly together as you make your way through the underbrush. And then out into the opening that you have seen before, you've walked past this when you made your way to the hut that was the place that Keziah Jenkins lived in. And as you make your way out into this area, you see the tracks, the mine that slowly dipped down into it.

But something has changed here. The last time you had been here, the mine had been completely boarded up. But now, most of those boards are gone. It is very clear that the knights had gone in to the mine. It's now staring out at you, almost like it's waiting for you. And as you stand here looking towards the almost pure blackness of the depths within, and you all feel a strange crawling on your skin. You swat at your arm, feel like there are spiders,

or centipedes, or scorpions walking across your body, but when you look, there aren't. And it stops. You move, you feel a sickness in your stomach. That feeling again, you look down and nothing. You all feel it. Do I see anyone else with those gestures? Yes.

Before we go in any deeper, should something like what happened to those Templars happen to me, it's my permission to take my life as well. Understood, and I agree, seconded. Same goes for me. Well, same does it go for me. I'll turn into one of them, kill the fucking hag first before you put me down. Do you think that... She can do that to me? Don't know.

powerful magics, we should assume that we're all vulnerable. I'm considering what you've told us about yourself, I imagine she might have a different faith for you. Worse. Hags, my experience, are not as bad as these, but so much worse, but if we, if we, if we, if we, if we, if we, if we, we, if we, we, if we, we, if we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, I guess we'll just do it again. That's right. took part in a ritual in the house to break those magics should be on the lookout for anything that

seems like it might be a relic of power the hag is hiding down here anything that we found in the books any of the symbols that I showed you anything that looks familiar well Virgil you keep an eye out too what's going in

pumpkins on all these dancing lights to attempt to illuminate as we go. You begin to approach the entrance to the mine and you are, you feel the stench hit you like a wall. Not a scent of rot like you would expect, but it smells almost like body odor, old sweat, feet, unwashed flesh. And it takes a moment for you to

regain your composure, but you steal yourself against it. As you make your way into the first, you make your way into the entrance of the mine. You can go ahead and remove the fog of war. Just all of it. Are you sure? I don't see why. I mean, sure. I think the allure of it. Okay. Yep. That, that's good enough. You can remove that, that other black piece. Give me a second. I'm going to play different music for this place. You can hear me whispering quietly to myself as I make my way down into the mine, um, whispering prayers to my goddess. You make your way into the first chamber and here you see that this was clearly at some point a gold mine.

You can see the dark, um, you can see the carts piled full of rock and rubble all along these metal tracks that go this way and that. the walls themselves glinting in the light of the pumpkins look fairly normal at first glance and it's quiet here except for the sound of skittering you listen and there was definitely something that just moved off in the shadows to the side as you look about you see that this entire first area is strewn with books and papers of some kind here and there Not all over the place, but you do see that they peek up out of the dirt, as if knocked over or left haphazardly or in a rush. Pick up whatever piece of paper is closest to me and just see. Roll investigation check.

I would do the same. Perhaps a toll. Sure. Whatever looks the most substantial. Sure. Good money. A role investigation for me as well. Kelsey, you look around and you see.

bits of paperwork. It looks like there are notes here about amount of gold that was taken out on a certain day, shift changes, people who worked here. These appear to be bits and pieces of mine ledgers that would let you know just the overall workings of this place. What did you get? 16. 16. You look around and you do find a few books here or there. Some, most of them actually empty. It looks like they are ledgers of a similar pined that would have at some point, as the mind continued to work, have been filled up. But nothing different than what Farron found. As you continue to rifle through them, however, Farron, you begin to start seeing some of the paper that looks a little less old, the newer pieces, talks of sickness, the deeper that people went into the minds. and how they're going to deal with it.

What do we do about it? How do we resolve it? Miners going mad. And then finally, you discover a large sheet that details closing of the mine. Mine to close immediately. All miners to evacuate. And there is no date on this, but it mentions that at some point there was a collapse in one of the tunnels.

And a large portion of miners had been trapped within. that they had attempted a rescue mission, but any that went down started to suffer similar sicknesses and similar madness. They could hear the screaming and the begging of the miners on the other side of the rubble, begging for their freedom, begging for their help. But eventually, the town of Cyril decided to close the mine without rescuing the miners. Too many were getting sick. I left them in here. Drops. Intentulate South. I don't think they could get him out and see them out. Seems like they tried, but they just were getting sick.

All of them. How long ago was it? It doesn't say. Does it say how many were trapped here? A few dozen. A few dozen. I vaguely recall someone we met mentioning how long ago the blind was closed. Do I recall that memory?

I would say anywhere between a decade to two. In any, would there have been like a layout or a map of like previously dug time? Um, roll another investigation check. Uh, oh, you root around in another pile of papers looking for anything that looks like it would fold out to make some sort of map. And you don't find a map, but what you do find is a large insectoid leg as you move one of the papers aside. But the leg doesn't end with a long talon like you'd see on a centipede. It ends in a hand. As it reaches out and grabs onto your finger, it pulls itself up out of the muck,

and you see that same large, small, dog-sized creature that you had seen before coming out of Keziah Jenkins' house. As it pulls itself up out of the muck, it looks at you and lets out a small, squeaking laugh as it darts very quickly against the wall into almost darkness. Jericho, your pumpkins shift into the shadows, and you see that though you had assumed that the walls here were nothing but dirt

and rock, there is clearly flesh. A large, postulant tumor is formed on the side of the wall. And as this creature climbs up it with its 100 humanoid hands, it turns back and looks at you and smiles as it wrenches open and dives inside. Furtugat!

Oh, geez. Oh, geez. I would point and also attempt to use magic to damage it. Please do. It needs to make a wisdom saving for him. I'm just fucking shocked. I'm sure I miss. I'm sure I miss.

I would as soon as it releases me, I would say that back. It succeeds. Miss Farron! And I'm going to go run over and, are you all right? I'm all right. Just scared me. It startled me as well. You.

Lethika. attempt to do magic on this creature, but it is, it is so tricksy and virile as it moves this way and that, and you're unable to, to find magical purchase on this entity. I'm going to remember your name and I'll call you crummy. Briggs. Nice. You utilize, you, you let loose a magical blast from your, from your voodoo gun. And you don't find purchase on this centipedal creature, But you do blast into this tumor-like protrusion on the wall, and you watch as a bit of red liquid and jelly-like substance pops forth from it. And where this gaping hole is, where you expect to see inside, you begin to see forming the shape of a crooked mouth with rotting teeth.

The mouth opens and speaks. You killed my sister. I know it. And you've come to play. Stinoga wants you, and Stenoga will have you. Yeah. So it's literally like a mouth talking.

So it is, think of a disgusting cyst or tumor on the side. of a wall that you have popped open and where the hole that had been leaking fluid was, it formed into a disgusting haggish mouth that is now speaking to you. Like a burst boiled

full teeth. Yes. Yes, or an abscess. This is why I drink. Aaron was right there, right? Mm-hmm. Are you covered in verse boiled? Yes. In a disgusting reddish bloody pus. It's like Nickelodeon. It's your clarifying. You're welcome. It's Stenoga or Stunoga.

It's S-T-O Stanova. Sto-N-O-G-A. And it was Vesla. Hmm? Vesla, yes. Sunoga. Messlok. Interesting.

What a fuck are you? It's S-T-O-N-O-G-A for chat, have you asked. Does the mouth stay there? Yes, the mouth stays there. Does it respond to me. Don't shoot it again. I'm sorry.

I didn't hear what you were saying. I was funny. What did I scream? Where the fuck are you? The fuck are you? Miss, I'm like to. Oh, you'll, he'll, Find me deep below.

There are many things for you to play with. Come and find me if you dare. We will. This will be your last day on this earth. We're coming for you. Good. Then I'll see you soon. I should run the mouth.

Okay. Roll to attack. Immediately docking cover. I missed. Now, what did you roll? 12. You don't hit into the mouth, but you do hit another spot on this abscess. I need you all to roll a constitution saving throw. As the stench in this room begins to, begins to affect you, that same feeling that you had outside,

that feeling of sickness in your stomach, that feeling that there is something seriously wrong begins to build up in the very pit of your stomach and you can feel bugs and and insects crawling on your flesh where you can see none and you feel a strange allure to this place. Something that makes you want to delve deeper to explore further. Let me know what you all rolled.

23, because I got a natural 20. Feeling real good tonight. 18. 50. Natural one. Oofta. 13. I think we twist.

I just said, would you like to twist. Yeah. I would. Huh? Hmm? No, sure. What were you going to do? Go ahead, you can twist it. I just want to twist it.

That's okay. Yeah, we're once twist it. We have a good about. I'll keep my on, you DM. Just don't want to crawl my asshole. That's what he's word. A two! It's true.

It's too. Mace, I need you to roll a 1B6 for me, plants. Rip my sphincter, that's all I said. I think I'd have him roll another twist. Good luck, Mace. The last time Nikki made me roll a one six, I was paralyzed from the waist down. The fuck you're doing it in my dice. I got six.

I'm going to need something a little stronger than water. You watch as you all stand there feeling almost woozy with the scent of unwashed flesh and body odor as it billows up out of this pulsing abscess on the side of the wall. And where the teeth had been, you watch as they begin to sink into the flesh and disappear. All that's there now is a leaking, throbbing, pussing boil. As you all stare into it, your grim, you feel a pain on your back as one, two grotesque arms sprout out of the side of the upper part of your shoulders and begin to flail around wildly and at odd angles. You hear the sound of your Grimm struggling. You all turn to look at him and you see that these grotesque arms do not necessarily look humanoid, but almost like a mix of human and insectoid.

And they are doing whatever they so choose is they flesh wildly around on you. And that is all you know about them for now. Do they appear to be hurting him, like actually trying to rip him apart? They don't seem to be actively trying to rip him apart, but you do see that they appear to have a mind of their own. What's happening? Something's wrong. Hey, Yogan.

Uh-uh. You're all right. Got the trouble then. Is he all right? Put your fucking eyes down. I'm going to summon the cutlass in my hand and mid-swain. I'm going to stay as still. I'm going to stand as still as I can.

I'm going to try that to cut at least one off. I guess you would have missed my mom's date. I have my meditate. That's barbarian. I meditate. 21. That will hit your grim, yes. I meditate.

Gotcha, yogi! Here we go! That is what? Bring me peace in the mist. I don't want, sorry. You can't damage. You raise your cutlass up into the air. You throw it up, you watches it spin,

you catch it, you slice one of these arms off, the one on the left, and with a sickening, with a sickening almost like suction, you hear the blade break through the flesh and bone as the arm shakes and moves and drops limp on the ground. A large hole is formed on the back of your grim shoulder. And you can see the bone move this way or that

still as if it should be attached to something. And then with a loud pop and a slurping noise, you watch as two more arms begin to grow up out of the hole. You now have two arms on one side and one on the other. As they begin to flail and move. No more, Briggsie. All right, all right. Don't panic. Don't panic, children. We cannot be asking rashly. Are you? Tell us it's you.

I've got fucking arms growing out of my shoulders and not my normal arms out of my normal shoulders. Are you in pain? Like coming out from behind the team still? Does it hurt or am I just? It doesn't hurt, but you feel like you are. not in complete control, and that there's probably an additional effect that you aren't aware of as of yet. All right, all right, we're going to fix this. Don't worry. We're going to get you back to normal.

As long as you can stand and fight, and you're not actively dying on us. We're going to fix this. They don't. I don't. I don't know. I'd stand there for like five to ten seconds and try and stand like relatively calmly and just see there's flailing wildly and that and that stops or changes? They eventually stop, but you notice that they'll do random things, like pull at your tombstone and then let go. They scratch at each other. They're very, very tall, so occasionally they'll run their fingernails against the ceiling of this place, and bits of flesh and dirt will fall down and land in your...

Do you have hair? I got a hood? Land on your hood. Nice. That's what I wore this. It's even like the right color. It's pretty good. That's right.

I wore green. And in your beard. Yeah. What does this smell like? It smells like body of hair. Why would you ask that? Unwashed flesh. She just really wants to get the immersion right.

You, Gugram? I'm sorry for asking this, but can I lend you a hand? Okay, I swear that's the last one. That's the last time. I know I shouldn't make light of the situation. I would have taken out my water, like, uh, pouch and splash them on my face to get the like boil pus off of me and I think we ought to bind you one or two but the the arms I mean that's not a bad idea

or I mean hear me out what if we try again and we cut both of them off no but then right when it happens we like like colorized it like serious chapsed what he's proposed we cotterize it with oh I don't you have some sort of like oh yeah I'm not going to brand, Yorbram. It's fine by me. No. I don't think it will help. We're dealing with magic still we don't understand.

I mean, actually get poor in case, like, then four on one side, and it's just not a big. I mean, I've got the... I would walk up to the side of him and kind of, like, just at the edge of what I think that wingspan of the arm would be, like, snap next to it and see if it reacts. Okay. I would like you to roll

a dexterity saving throw. Stop picking up stuff. I know. Stop fucking with everything. I'm just curious. I'm a curious. What is? What's this?

18. No. 20. Okay. You walk up around to the side of Yorgram and you snap in an area that you know that this entity could or these arm pieces

could reach you. And as you do, They do seem to react to the sound as they swipe down at you, but you're able to lively dodge out of the way and they find purchase on nothing. I think we should find him. I don't want to indulge or condone horrible multiple insectoid arms, but do we really want to antagonize it while it's so close to Juergen's head and his neck and all of his vitals? No, that's great point.

We need to be careful. We need to fix this as quickly as we can. The fastest way to doing that is finding this hag and killing her. I think we move quickly. There is a chance more arms will sprout, given the creature we just saw. Try not to get any of the walls or ceilings on you. To bait. Fucking hate plugs.

Well, great. We're going to kill her. Easy, peasy. Just like the last one. You're fine. Which way do we go? and if we see that damn creature again, remember what filthy jaspid did does.

Don't underestimate it. Kill it if possible. I would like you to all roll perception check for me, please. Do you think this one has a silly name, too? Oh, I fail, whatever it is. Do I think that's what? Yikes. Me too.

I got a nine, not very good. I thought it was a... We learned it, didn't they? So good, Scooby-Doo. You made up one. I thought we made like, we're gonna call him. We called it, Ikey, E. But it wasn't his real name.

He was, he knew his name is Ike E? I think his name is Synthopeeth. I got 12. 16. I got a nun. 23. You 14. Farren, you listen with Briggsie mentioning with Briggsie mentioning where you should go next

or whoever said it. And you listen. You try and tune in to the nature around you, though this is unlike anything you've ever been in, you're still from the earth, especially deep within the earth is a place that you would find yourself familiar. And off to the right, in that small alcove, it sounds like, is that the whimpering crying of a newborn infant? In here?

Do you all hear that? No. No? Hear what? It's a child. A little one. baby. How could that be? You can hear it crying, can't you? I hear it. It's just down there.

I listen for us. Oh, now that you say it, do I hear it? Once she points it out to you and you're listening in that direction, you all can hear the faint cries of what sounds like multiple infants. It must be an illusion, the trick. Agreed. You're right. I mean, we have, we must check it out. We have to go deeper into this, this mind, but I

read, almost anything we see down here is unlikely to be read. Why is it a trick? Why would that be an infant down? I mean, the last time we saw ghosts of kids, they were real ghosts, and real fucking kids! There's no reason why there would be ghosts of infants or infants in this area. The Templars were here. Must they've taken them for sacrifice.

Exactly right. Well, yeah, all them kids. Did we hear stories of kidnappings? I think we do. I think we do. All right, we have to go quickly. Are there natural forms of illumination? Are we walking into a darker and darker mine?

Hunker and darker, but you do have your dancing lights and they seem to be effective in here. It's not a magical darkness. It's just a cave with, or it's just tunnels, a mine with no light sources. I did not put that together when you started saying, and I was just like, I guess he's just saying that. Oh, pumpkins.

All right, time to go. So stay with me. Let's go. I would... Open me in the back. Sorry. I would just kind of like tap my staff on the ground and kind of glow blue for a second would come down to remainal cast a symbiotic. I'd take it to me on myself.

When you tap the ground, you hit another boil. Now you have 40 arms. Congratulations. Let me go first. I don't want these arms to be at anyone's back. Fair enough. stay at Hodge length? Yes.

Yes. That's pretty funny. You aren't so damn funny. I bury you. I apologize, you. I use humor as a coping mechanism, especially when I'm a feared. So how would we navigate this map to get to infant counts?

So it is towards Andy. Yeah. Uh-oh. Oh God. We're entering this room. Okay. Okay. Do we want a one token or party it up?

Up to you? Well, we'll party it. Okay. So Jericho's in the back. It's Yorkerment the lead. Then Marius is behind. He's got a shield to the arms. I made the map big enough to party it.

So I'm firmly in the middle. I'm in the back. I'm definitely. Where do you want to be? I feel like I would be towards the front because I heard him would be trying to guide. I'm sure Briggs would be happy to get closer farther away from Yorberman in his arms.

All right. Then I guess we'll begin to go this direction. I'm going to just kind of rotate us a little bit. As you make your way down this next tunnel, at first it's darkness, but then you begin to see the pulsing green illumination. And it is, as you get closer, brighter and brighter. And as you make your way into this cavern, you hear the sounds of babies wailing and crying louder and louder and louder.

in the green light getting brighter and brighter, and as you step in, silence. Sounds of the crying stops, and you're surrounded by a cavern filled to the brim with the same strange, glowing bioluminescent mushrooms, growing out of the walls and out of the floor and patches, so thick together that it's almost as if they're stacked

one on top of another. And a sound, a strange skittering sound for just a second. An illusion. We should go. Are these same mushrooms that we've been found in all over the place? Do they appear to be? They appear to be exactly the same mushrooms.

They're all the same. These, however, are they growing? They appear to be growing. You imagine that with your connection to nature and fungus specifically, that you could spend some time with these and learn some more about them. I'll be where they're getting them from. And I'll bend down to a patch and try to investigate them.

You may all want to cover your mouth and I tap my mask. Oh, go on? Yeah, I would just reach in and pull out like a red cloth and tie it to like a bandana around my face. Tom fame. No, no, no, no, no. I put a little needle and thread. I take the bandana off. Me and you, we can just...

I'm gonna stop breathing. Look at this! It's... Boop, boom, boom. I've been so long, I just don't even think about it anymore. Oh, I, I, I take the bandana back, and I just tuck it back in my pocket, and I just begin to stop.

We'll all be very quiet over here while you breathe all over the mushrooms. I'll take a dirty rag out of my pocket. You guys are the only two mouth breathers. I got a mouth and out of my heart, so it's like a genies thing. I would like you to roll a nature check. I forgot that I'm in bed, basically.

At advantage, because this is something you're familiar with, our mushrooms. nature use. Mm-hmm. Are we pausing to review the mushroom? 16. Yeah, she's, I don't know how much time will take. I'd like to just, I mean, you don't have that answer for this, but I'd like to just enter my mind palace and see if I can recognize anything like

is a barbarian creature. See if I can recognize anything that feels like it's pulling at the edge of my mind, or if I can recognize any kind of like additional presence. Okay. Uh, roll a perception check. perception check. What did you get? 16. Looking at these, you can tell that these are much more mature than the ones that you

have come into contact with. And they're actually significantly larger. It seems like the darkness of this cave and maybe something specifically about it has almost twisted it a little bit. But you look in towards the roots and you see that the roots are digging into the walls themselves and almost pulsing, almost as if these mushrooms are drinking something up. But it's hard to tell. And I will say you do notice that though they are the exact type of mushrooms, there's something

different about these that almost a taint to them that you did not see on the other ones. And I'll say it's enough for you to know that though they are the same mushroom, the ones that you've seen have clearly not come from this mine. Oh, interesting. Your Grim. Attend, that is enough. Oh, no. Farin is staring specifically at these mushrooms, inspecting their roots and their caps

and everything about them, almost blinded by the bioluminescence of them, that she doesn't notice what lurks just beyond. But you do, as you turn and you look towards these things, and you're familiar with walking through the mists and walking through darkness, and you almost blot out the light as you look behind the caps. And at first you can't believe your eyes as you see what appears to be the face of a small infant, but not just one face. Two, three, four. These mushrooms look like they're almost stacked one on top of each other, but they're not. They're spread apart and it's a thick, dark fur, an almost arachnid spider-like body with the face of a

child, and I need you all to roll for initiative. Shut the fuck! As all of a sudden these entities begin to skitter and move, they've seen you. And as one of their mouths open, it lets out a wail and a cry, the cry of an infant. You move forward and you trip and you see that littered about the ground mixed in with these mushrooms

are piles of children's bones. Very cool. Very cool and very legal. I know what to play. and so all around you coming off the walls, I need you to spread out these six tokens, please. And you can show it to the camera. Baby spiders.

Baby spiders. You might have to put your hand behind it to focus it. Would I be able to use my reaction movie screens like that? Oh, I turn to auto focus. That's pretty horrific. Oh, really? Oh, that's disgusting. It's like from Toy Shore.

It is. Oh, it's like a little... Yeah. How did you want to do? Just all around you, they're coming off of the walls. Like the edges... Yeah. I don't think these are that.

Yeah, you would be in the center of the room. Yeah, you would be in the center of the room. It's just not a lot. We got to do this for real to these guys. I'll say, yeah, it's weird. How do I do combat in this campaign? What the hell? How do you do what?

Combin? I'm gonna' 1. I'm ready for the shit like 15. 20 to 25. I, no. 21. Nice.

Was that a no on me getting a... Huh? What a... 15. 10, 20. 10, 15. 14. 5 to 10.

Oh, that's 16, I'm sorry. What did you get? 14, so... I was looking at my spells. You literally, you literally. said, I'm ready for initiative, Nikki. You're the best in the present ready for initiative. Breezy and Faron,

what did you get? Five. Four. All right. All right. You watch as these entities, these babies or these baby-headed

insects begin to make their way off of the walls, popping out from behind these bioluminescent mushrooms. Their soft downy baby hair, still present on their heads and all over the entirety of their bodies. I told you this was a disgusting fucking campaign. I warned you. As they, you look as their eyes are puffy and red from

years and years of crying as they wail and cry as the tears drip down their face. And they all make the move to move towards you. And though these infant-like creatures should not be old enough to have teeth, these do sharp fang-like incisors. And they all make, um, incisors. And though these are, and you can see that they clearly look like they could lap up blood if they wanted to. And your Grimmond is your turn. I would strike, well, I would swirl my shovel out very quickly, hook the lantern towards the end of it, and then strike down towards one. And as I'm striking, mists would erupt kind of out from around me.

You might see race kind of swirling through them. and my eyes will kind of turn like a smoky white and slight drops of almost like freezer smoke will come off the edges of one of this. As I strike the shovel down towards whichever one kind of like left towards Farron. Or just this one. Two. Okay. Number two you say? Which one?

Give me numbers. Two. Number two. All right. Roller attack. And I think what's the, gosh. Oh, I think I just said normal a time. It's an eight, so there's that.

An eight and that misses. Oh. You got two of this? No, that's my only attack. I passed to the monsters. All right. Unfortunate. They are, they are still up on the walls.

They are all going to move. watch is almost in unison, almost as if with one brain they move together as they skitter 15 feet down and every single one of them, there are six of you and six of them, each of them is going to leap onto you. Um, yes, it's very fun. Also, your groom, don't feel bad. I need you all to make strength saving throws for me, please. Strength?

Yes. Usta. All of us? Yes. Oh, actually, your grim, I need to roll a D10 for me. Oh, crazy. I need to twist it. That's...

Please, God, let me twist it. I mean, I have a pretty good chance to pass. I feel like I just don't really shitting. I got a two. Plus five to my strength. The first thing was a strength saving throw? Yes, and I also need you to make a D10. Okay.

I got a 12 for the strength saving throw. Okay. We'll be in it together. And a three on the D10. Okay. D10 is good. Nothing else happens there. Let's it was never been knocked out.

Everybody's strength save. I fail. 13. 13. 14. 14. Oh. What's yours?

Oh, so yes, Marius and Jorghum, you are both knocked prone. Damn it! As these entities jump onto your chest, for both of you, yours are going to, because they've knocked you prone, they are able to consume flesh as a bonus action. And since they have tactics, they're gonna do them at advantage. But the silver lining is you hear two arms breaking when you land on your back. And then you hear four more wrong.

And so on your grim, it misses on Marius it hits. Tight. And it is going to, so do you want these tokens like on top of our tokens? Yes, please. Five piercing damage. And then I need you to make a Constitution saving throw. Sweet.

Don't fail me now. I'm proficient in that. I think, oh, I'm pretty sure I. God damn it. It's wisdom and charisma. Oh, just kidding. I knew it was one of the seas. Can I use a reaction as a result of this?

I don't know why I went back. Give me a second. Am I to use a reaction for this? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, still got a 19 though. All right, so you are able to shrug off most of the necrotic damage as it bites into you,

but you do you are going to take three points of necrotic damage. as it begins to feast on you. Now all of them are going to make attacks against all of you. Oh. Chills. Yeah, that would be really strong. Yeah, that's really good.

Yikes. That's just difficult. Yeah, that's actually really good. Who has number one on them? Your group. No, no, no, okay? Briggs. I'm sorry.

Yours misses everyone else's hits. Oh, dear. As they're going to make their claw attack and they are going to do, I'm just going to roll the damage for everyone because it makes it easy. Now I can roll it separately. Whoever has number two is going to take six points of slashing damage. I'm still trying to get my reaction up in there. Whoever does number three is going to take eight points of slashing damage. Four is seven points of slashing damage.

Fica. Five is five points of slashing damage. And six is seven points of slashing damage. There we go. And that is their turn. What's your reaction? As soon as I see number two, it has some strength saving throw.

You would see my kind of like a surge of blue for my halo of spores. Just tell me how that works, because I don't remember. Sorry. Reaction, you have to make a con saving throw. Oh, con. When I see it, or it moves into a space,

within 10 feet of me or starts its trigger. And what does it do? Damage. Okay, cool. So it got a 12. Okay, so it will take. And that's number two? Number two will take six necrotic damage.

Wow, that's actually a good chunk. It is blasted with the spores that erupt out of you and you see that it recoils back as it takes the damage and that is what happens. Sick. But that is their turn. Can I stand up? Yeah, you can.

Even with this thing on you? But yes, you can stand up. And then, well, I'm going to stand up for sure. I'm not going to lay out. Then, can I attack it if it's on my body? Yeah, I don't see why you couldn't. You do what he is like? Get the sword.

Yeah. Get the sword. I'm going to attack on it. This is on number five. Okay. Hey-ya. 21 to hit. That hits.

Miraculously. Pretty good damage. Really good damage. Twelve points of damage. Amazing. You slice into it and it does a significant amount of damage as it severs some of the limbs from this entity. It's still able to hold onto you as it looks up at you with its infantile face and it begins to wail and cry in pain. Quiet, vile creature. Fire damage? I forgot that I had an actual weapon. I apologize. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. It's been so long.

Can we take like a two seconds? Yeah, remember the ones that I... Oh, okay, okay. They're not like legit. You don't get your legitimate vestige upgrades until your next level. I think it's just next to 2D6. I don't know where it is.

I think it's just 2 to 6. So actually that's gonna be 20 total damage. Nice. You slice into it and it looks up at you and it cries and wails as your sword blazes with a holy fire and you watch as the eyes go milky white and it falls from you. Dead. Thank you. Sorry. I'll remember next time. I got to put these in here. Jericho. Oh, oh gosh. I will um, I will look at the, uh, I am going. So are they all on my friends?

Okay, so one on each of us. So I'm going to say, well, will everyone cover you? I'm gonna play a little, I'm gonna put these kids to bed. Oh, that was dark. La-laby and good night, and I'll a string of power cord, and I'm going to use Thundercloth on all of them. And so they all need to make a Constitution saving. I think that hits all of us too. I believe we're not exempt from that.

You're not. Oh, yeah. I'm a little busy to close my ears. They fail. I don't think I should get over you. It is a DC 15 It's a cube, it's not radius. They decide which ones you get.

At least they succeed. Oh, is it? Right? Thunderweeb? No, that a clap. And did you say it's six, it's what? 15? 15 con. Yeah, 15 Khan.

The only one that fails is number one. I met it. Number one. So it's no damage that they succeed in four thunder damage if they pass. So we fail, we get four, take four damage. What's saving the con? Con. 15?

Yep. Yep. And then I am going to not Martin Spire anymore. Wow. Caprice is very disappointed in you. I have a feeling this is a big mind. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh yeah, you're not sure. I really didn't want to burn a fucking smite on the damn horses, but I got convinced it. I got talked to him. It's the right smite. It is Leithicester. It's cool, yeah. You leth out a wave of

of thunder and you all dealt with whether you got thunder damaged. Oh, sorry, sorry. I did. Yep, I took my name. I passed. Jericho lets out a wave of sound. And most of these, of these insectoid infants drown out the noise with the sound of their wailing. But one of them seems to succumb to the pain as it tries to cover its ears with its long spindly legs. are they on my friends adjacent to me yes they're all on top of you five's dead okay the only one who doesn't have one attached to them is marius um even though there's one attached to me can i struggle forward or am i grappled no you're not grappled okay i'm going to seeing the other spiders and knowing what i'm going to attempt to do i will move forward so that i can get in range of the spiders that are

attached to jericho and briggsie and you'll hear me whispered one of those silence prayers to Sharr. And word of radiance, not radiance, word of darkness, let's call it. Bursts out. They need to make one, four, and six. Need to make a Constitution saving throw. You can customize your spell names too.

I didn't do that. It's the word of instant diarrhea. One in six fail, four succeeds. Okay, that means that The ones that fail take. Spels. Craveenna. Every little bit?

The other ones take nothing. Yeah. Wow. It's alien though. One is better than Maybe I should speak up. You watch as two of them seem to be affected by what you're saying, but they continue to scream and cry.

Faron. I just continued to whisper. What? What? I would, using primal savagery, my nails would sharpen and extend just a bit and kind of with it on me, I would sharp, like push my nails into it and try to shove it off with me. Making it tough that way. And what number is this? It's on you fair.

Number two. And that would be a 24 hit. Oh, that hits. That hits. 10 necrotic damage. Okay. I'm sorry. Four acid damage and six necrotic damage.

Okay. That's meaningfully important. Okay. You see, no, you see that the necrotic damage doesn't seem to do as much as you would expect. Okay. Okay. Let's see. And.

All right. I love it. But it does seem like it takes a significant amount of damage. as you rend into its flesh. You're not able to throw it from your person, but it does recoil a little bit, though it still hangs on. Okay.

Briggsie. Oh, fuck, there's so many legs! And then it's right on me, I'm gonna with one of my nails, I'm gonna draw a cross on its head and cast hacks. Hell, like, I just basically like, I'll just summon the cutlass above me and just let it drop.

That's like that. He Garens. Yeah. Damn. What number? Number one. Is 11 and hit? 11 does not hit.

What are they like? Dave, you just grab their head and summon the hammer. With that, your grimace your turn? Oh, one will attack again. I'll do a reckless attack. Which one are you attacking? The one that's all my person. Three.

Three. Let us go. Let us go. Let us go. Let us go. Let us go. Roll a D10 for me, please. Okay.

Okay. I can't wait to continue this adventure, but Senta, you revive. Okay. You recklessly attack into this thing and you do how much damage. Oh. Nice.

Six. Plus raging. Um, damage. You slice into this entity. It lets out a painful moan. As you cleave into its stomach, you see bits of its intestines exposed, but it is still holding on, and it is their turn.

They are on you, so they cannot leap. They are going to make their, and none of you are prone, so they are going to, they are going to clawing to you. to claw into each of you. Two take. All right. Roll it save. It fails.

So what is it? What does it take? Four. Reprodite. So two. Gotcha. All right. It takes the damage and it looks like it is barely hanging on, but it is holding on strong.

One is going to hit on Briggs. Two is going to miss on Farron. Hit with a what? Was like a 19 plus 4, so 23? Yeah. Three is going to 19 hits on Yorgram. Uh-huh. Miss on whoever's number four.

Lathica. Perfect. I'm trying to write your names on Tom. And then miss on Jericho. Oh, gosh. You can call me Miss Lethika. So, Briggs, you are going to take... Eight points of damage, slashing damage. Farron, you were also going to take eight points of slashing damage.

And your grim, you were going to take four points of slashing damage. Oh, nice. And that is their turn. They will actually climb down you five feet and then spin around you 10 feet. And that will be their movement. So they're still at your feet, but they're on the ground. So should I move them to an adjacent square? Yeah, sure.

I'm sorry. What is it? They're attempting not to take opportunity attacks. Oh, I see. They're not like attempting to, like they will if it's the only way for them to move. Um. I think they're good. But.

Okay. But they're no longer on us. But they're no longer on you. All right. My trip? Marins. Uh, I'll strike number four. Damn, 10.

Hold on. Crit fish on your grum? You just roll another 20. Oh. No. No crit. Oh, yeah. Okay.

They keep us off. I forgot to assign homework. I'm going to stare at the one that is, this jerk crawled off of me, and I'll say, I really hate to do this to a poor infant, but I guess I have to melt your brain, and I'm going to use mine slumber.

And that's an intelligence saving for him. Ooh. Well, I have a negative 3. So 12? Yes. It fails. I forgot we didn't add mine sliver to... Probably aren't many. The D&D.

I need to roll. I think it's one of these six. It should be on R.S. It's 26 psychic damage. It's five psychic damage. All right. And subtract 1E4 from the next savings throw it makes before the end of my next turn. Okay. It takes a significant amount of damage.

You see as it tries to hold onto its head, it's thrashing this way and that, the damage to its mind clearly driving it mad. Let the guy. I'll turn and I'll get up my chakrama, my circular blade and I will very dexterously swing down and achieve like a cheated position almost and slash across only a foot of buckle ground

trying to get all of its legs off. Okay. This is the only one that looks like it's been untouched. The one that's on me? Yes. Yeah, because it saves from my whispers. And I meshed. I'm in fault too, Derek.

One damage. Why don't I know what I was a I? I roll it on a D12. One damage. That's right. I roll one like four times tonight. It's all I good, though. Those things happen, you know.

Natural one. Cute. Let's go. Let's go. Okay, my turn, right? Mm-hmm. Um-hmm. Um,

Boie fight. They spot. Let's like that fine. I think we're all right. Um, I would again, um, still with it, still with my, my claws extended from the primal savagery, I would, uh, slash out again at number two. Okay. 13.

How that hits? 14. 14. Forty. Or like this. Necrotic and three. That was exactly what you needed. You reach out with your claws and though this thing is climbed down off of you,

you reach down and you rend it across the chest and you see as its head falls back limply and it collapses to the ground as it bleeds out in front of you. I would take a moment and just absolutely gutted by it and then turn around to face. Briggsine. Brugniss again. Yeah! And I'm going to attempt trying a different D20.

That's gotta be good this time. Come on. 15? Godheds. Let's go. Nice. Two words. Food you gun.

15 points of magical slash. Nice. It had 14 health. Wow. So as you summon your voodoo gun above its head, you watch as Briggs's cutlass appears in midair and falls through the air directly into the fontanelle on the top of its head and slices straight through

impaling it on the floor below. What's a fun? The soft spot on a baby's head. Oh. I'm gonna, I'm good, no. You asked. You asked. I'm good, I'm good, I'm good.

I'm good. I'm just assumed it. It was like a cool. Gorghum. Just, it's cool. I will, now that they've crawled off and kind of reestablish themselves, I will attack number four near my comrades. Coombrate, they're all, I'll attack it recklessly, for goodness sakes.

Oh my 21. That misses. No, it does hit, but I need your old D10 for me, please. Where do you keep putting it? Oh, there it is, right there. 10. Okay. That's what the zero is, right?

That's not zero by chance. Yep, all right. And you're attacking number four? Yep. All right, tell me your damage. Um, you'll hit me your damage. 14. You slice into this with your shovel and you nearly,

you nearly slice it in two, but it is still holding on as it, you see as two of its, um, its insect like arms or appendages try to hold its insides into it. But it is still holding on as it moans and cries. And it is their turn. The three that are remaining are going to leap. Number three, the one that was on Yorgrim, is going to leap onto Marius.

That's good enough. The one that was on Lethica is going to, leap towards can is it 15 who's it 15 oh it's going to leap between lethaca me and Marius okay that's going to leap towards lethaca no no it was on lethaca it's going to leap towards you your grim and then the one that was on Jericho who's next to Jericho Bricksey it's gonna leap to Bricksey I need you to make a strength saving throw for me please everyone who left on yes let me know if you get 13 or if you get 12 or below.

I got 12. 26. You are prone. Um, and it is going to immediately make its consume flesh attack on you. It would be advantage on us, right? Because we're prone. Oh. It's a back shot.

And they both actually miss, so, because the highest I rolled was a six. So they're not going to consume your flesh, but all three of them are going to make their claw attacks. So the first one is going to make their claw attacks. So the first one is going to... going to be on Marius and that is going to be a 17 to hit. Miss. Next one is going to be on your Grimm. You're in advantage.

I know. And that is going to be a 14 to hit. Um, 17's my IC. And the next one's going to be on Briggs and that's going to be a 15 to hit. Nope. They missed all of their attacks. And four. Stupid baby spiders.

The con saving throw. Get out of here. And it rolled a three. So it is going to be a five, a hot five. Get it. It'll take two. Necrotic? Necrotic. So it'll take one. So, so four. Yeah. I'm sorry. Oh, you rolled a four. So it takes. I rolled a four, so it'll take it.

Okay. Thank you. That was good. Perfect. It takes it. But it seems to be, it seems to be doing okay. Marius. I stand up and I attempt to kill number three. Sond of a bitch. I miss. We warm it up in this goddamn, I can start off way hot. That's my problem.

That's my problem. That's my problem. I started off too much. I got arms coming out on my back. You mean, you got problems. It smells a little bag. Yeah, well, they're not attached to you. Well, it is attached to you, actually.

All right, you get it. Do any of them look rough? Yes. I mean, or untouched? No, they've all been damaged. The one that looks the weakest is the one that's hanging on to your room. You're going to say, oh, you're going to get something on your back, I mean your front, and I'm going to swing with my sickle. Something else.

And I am going to make an attack action. Oh, that's actually going to hit. That is going to be... That is what every part says when they hit. That's going to be 20 to hit. That hits. And is this one look weak? It does.

I'm just gonna send it. That'll be, oh, five, that'll be, hold on. That'll be three points of slashing damage. It has five hell. Oh, hold, it had five. It had five. It had five points. That's what it's like, oh, damn.

That's like the second or third time you've killed the exact amount. But you didn't. It is still holding on. It looks like it is struggling. That's my turn. That is your turn. I'll this time get close to Jericho. Oh, I'm fucked.

I just want to make sure. If I stand here, am I five feet within Briggszie and Marius? I can't tell. If you're here, yes. It's like, they're like, he's diagonal. I want to stand within distance so that perhaps I was speaking to lowly before. The Lady of Law sends her regards and I let out a divine word for the purposes of... I love cold.

The Song of Sorrow. Thank you. And it's con? Yes. Wisdom. My apologies, which means they're... The highest I rolled was a 14. Okay, they both take, and I've vanished that.

Which numbers? Six and three take in the form of radiant damage. Oh, six points. Big money. Six points of gradient damage! Those two baby-like entities, or baby like insectoids, are blasted with the radiant energy. Number three looks like it is barely holding on.

Seven, or six still looks the strongest with seven head points, because I ruined it and said it. So three, three, three is still alive. Three, three and four are both barely hanging on. Fair. That's four look. Like it's, you know, like it's, you know, It's taken some damage, but not nearly as much as the others.

Like a baby spider. To join the golden corral on my chest. You know what I mean? It's like you join our feet. I might be perfect. You can't. I get that's a problem. I got some promise right here.

They all open their mouths and the room is filled with darkness. You all die. I believe it. I believe it. We hit their rage timer. No. I would extend my hand out towards number four and like at my fingertips would be sort of the illusion.

It would start to look as though my like my fingertips in the end of my hand were beginning to yellow and crumble into dust and I would blow through, blow that towards number four and the illusion would end obviously the hands would be there. Well that's what you think, but your hands actually do begin to from. Not again.

Nice. And you said this is number four? Yes. And that would be effectively poison spray. So a con 15 saving throw? World a natural 19 plus two. Do we all have to make that? No.

Do I have to make that? It's a single. No. No. That's nice. So nothing happens. Okay. Gingie.

These guys are, they're trucking you. Pretty beefy, bitch. Fucking get off me! And I'm going to attack the one that is on me currently. Okay. That's gonna hit. Problems that we can't roll higher than seven. Apparently.

Nice. Big money. I should use cycling grades, but 17 points of damage. I really wish we could use our twisted. Number, number. That'd be incredible. Number six? Yeah, what about it? 17. 17?

Yeah. It's still alive. No, you absolutely are. You absolutely obliterate it. As you are you using voodoo gun or your blade? Use the blade. Use your blade to slice, your cutlass to slice through this entity.

It cries out at you as the blade meets its midsection as you slice into it and it falls over completely dead. Do you these look really weak? Yes, the only two that are left are very, very weak. I'm gonna hobble over. She's fucking disgusting, but, and I'm going to pick the one that looks the weakest. Okay, that's number four.

I'll use hungry jaws. Oh, I took that away from you. Hungry? No, I'm bad, I'm sorry. We were talking, I threatened to take it from it. No, it was opposite 20? That all is. How do you know?

He still tests. Oh, he doesn't know. You don't know. What is, what did you roll? 14 plus a whatever. Oh, yeah, that's fine. That's fine. Yeah, that hits. So let me make sure,

let me just check my actions real quick. Classic Rich doing a death roll. And then I think it's a D-6 with my hungry jaws. Nice. And it's six max damage, so six. You bite into it and you rip the flesh from its chest. Its eyes go milky white as its head lulls to the side. Also dead.

The only one that's still alive, clean to Marius is number three. Okay. All right, help me. Help me. Just shovel flat against my chest. I look down at my chest and Briggs's like just collapsed this like spider baby that was connected to my chest in his mouth. And with these arms coming off. And with these arms coming off me and all like the ceiling on my head, I'll just be like, it's disgusting.

And I'll move over towards a comrade. and go straight for a shovel directly into his chest recklessly. I trust my armor. Try and hit this. Just like, you collapse my lungs. Oh, man, that's got to be a hit. Maybe not.

14? That hits. Oh, let's go. I need you roll you 10 for me, please. I got them. I kept all my important dice in front of me. Please don't decaditate me. Four. And 13 points. You slice into this entity and you are able to sever. You slice down between Marius's chest and this entity severing all of its limbs as it tries

to cling on to your friend. And in doing so you watch his blood spurts out of all of the severed portions of its limbs as it wails and cries, its eyes roll back in its head and it falls dead on the ground. Oh, nice shot, Jodrim. Is everyone okay? Yes, I'm all right. The room begins to shake a little. As the mushrooms puff and you smell that same putrid stink of unwashed bodies,

a feet of armpits, of disgusting, stinky breath. I need to alter a constitution saving throw except for your grim. If you get a six, please re-reiber. roll. Sorry, no. That's for something else. I don't care for, right? 20! You did too. Look at you. 21. 13. We got twists. Yeah. We got my text and drinks on. God, that was worse.

Fated. Yeah, okay. What was it? Meantly. Nine. Jericho, Farron, I need you to roll a D6 for me, please. If you get a six, please re-roll. And if you get the same number,

one, be re-roll. Four. Four. Oh, my. Jericho re-roll for me, please. See? One. I played another. Actually, we can ignore the four.

Oh, God. We're safe, and nothing bad happens? We get out of the cave live. Immediately you feel this strange pull, Baron, towards Jericho. Jericho, you towards Farron, there's just something drawing you closer and you can't seem to resist it. Almost like a smell, pheromones or something. And as you touch, your bodies begin to fuse together.

As Jericho, your right arm and Farron your left begin to twist around each other as you hold hands this twisted abomination of an arm now joining you right here at the side. Your hips fuse in together. you are now one and the same person. Some Junjiito shit, man. Jesus Christ. I'm going to have horrific fingers. Do I still have my brain or is our brain? Your brains are the same, but you will now,

you will benefit from the same movement, and your speed is actually halved because you're benefiting from each other's movement. It's hard to coordinate. It's like a potato sacriac. It's very difficult. Yes. It's just spread out over two turns.

So you're like this horrific flesh metal abomination. Yes, their body fuses with someone who also lost this role. Although she doesn't seem to freak us out because of the fair moon. It's freaked me off. Or doesn't? As you wind together, there's almost a sickening, yes. But then as you fuse, you look down and you realize you are now attached to Jericho and that strange, that strange almost compulsion, you are able to shrug off and you are horrified by this. This is absolutely terrible.

You do not have use of one of your arms. But Jericho, you have a friend. It's true, a permanent one forever. You'll never be alone now. Oh, gosh. Is that permanent? Are you guys, are you okay? What happened?

Tell us if you want us to kill you. And why is the answer, yes. I'm going to try to like, Like, does it hurt if I try to pull us? You can try. Oh, we're actually fully, you're like, you're like, you're like, it's not like, it's not like your arms, like,

it's not like your arms like this. Yes, they're literally like twisted together. Yeah. Okay. Okay. You guys are hollabred. It's like something, it's like something out of Hellraiser. Jericho fain's horror, but secretly is like,

yes. Oh, no. Oh no. Oh, no. No, no, this is not permanent. I don't know what came over me, but... We're stuck. We're views like this.

I'll look right. Is everybody else okay? Yes, for now. We have to keep moving. We have to undo these things. Too better than me, y'all. Maybe we can cut it out, cut it apart. Didn't work well for me.

I high-fived the second hand on the left shoulder. And even then, if... If Derek would be all right, we wouldn't be able to stanch the blood flow. But you'd surely die in minutes. Oh, Faron, it's not so bad. I guess, I guess I got to ask, how's your, how's your picking? I mean, I can. You even cast spells?

I can fret. I mean, I'm fredding. I'm just going to turn and kind of dragging him behind. Oh, no, hold on. No, no, no, no, let's go. Although you're both pretty real. I don't know what you're like, he's like, I would like you should. I would like you all to roll a perception check for me, please.

I do not think my magic was like. No, everybody. Yes. Oh, 17. 12. 10. I'm so distracted by my doing. 17 is not bad.

18. Okay. Jericho, Marius and Lathica, as of Farron begins to start pulling you towards the entrance to this room, the bioluminescent mushrooms pulse as it appears that they drink up something out of the walls, the very foundation of this place. And you hear a sickly, poppy, and almost like a slither. And as you turn to look, you see the very far end where an outcropping of mushrooms had been.

Now sits a putrid, disgusting abscess, bulging, undulating. You stare at it for a second. As slowly a small slit begins to appear as a mouth forms on this thing. You'll be my pets You'll be my toys How did you like my little fun house You love it Don't you

I don't personally care for it Can you Can you unfuse my metal flesh From Farin's bony flesh You'll come to know it You'll come to like it They all do down, down, down, down.

You'll find me, and when you do, Mother Midnight will love me most of all. You took out sister number two. I will be sister number one. Tell us, tell us what we're gonna kill you. Oh, yeah. I'll, I'll have strong words with you. now when I

Get him on the back Bitch If you are Oh Oh Oh Oh Sorry

If we killed Sister number two Then that would Make you Sister number 3 Or you would Already

Shut You filthy mouth When we are through with you You will look like a dropped pie I

I love that And you see As she Licks around her mouth Let's go This long disgusting green tongue begins to lick around the mouth, and you see that the lips themselves

are cracked and bleeding. I will have the love I seek. Mother Midnight will want me to be one of her true daughters. Not with these parlor tricks. These are not parlor tricks, you wretched filth. I've done all the work where my sisters sit around. Vesela and her putrid little house. All she had to do was feed the thing below. And wicked sister number one, spending time in the lap of luxury and Cyril.

Fuck her! I have done all the work and Mother Midnight will see. I will reign supreme. Now, we'll play my games now. Hmm, is it time? Should my little one come out? Slippery Oswald? Hunt them.

and you'll watch as this horrible, pusulent tumor spits out pus and blood and the mouth reforms into nothing as it pops and explodes all over you. All right, we need to be on our guards. We already know there's at least one more fight ahead of us, and the two of you are going to have to somehow coordinate in combat. Farron and I are thieves together.

For the sake of combat, it's not. going to affect your combat you can continue to do what you would normally do there is there are other things that may come into play I said we'd have to move together you have your speed is halved and you were disadvantaged on decks and decks and uh checks and saving there we go that's what I'm talking about you're going to have to work together whichever one of them no they'll take their initiative separately on decks and we need a saving throw in checks together so they're good... Okay.

Well, I guess it's a good thing that you have them long, gross nails. You're primed for pig and banjo. Look, now that Jericho's fused to somebody else, don't fucking mention the word heat miser to him and all, okay? Look, he's gonna go off in the song. I don't even know what that means, but I won't say it. Fine, flying. My bag has turned, I'm cleaning my mask off of the bullet-lip burst shit. Were they real kids?

Who cares? I think they were at one point. Wizzy's right. We did what we needed to do. We need to continue forward. We will continue to slay and destroy any horrific creatures of the night that dwell here.

And as far as I'm concerned, we put down those poor gods around outside. It's put down every other fucking thing in his fucking gold mine. That's right. If this mine is anything like the house, everything was beyond saving. by the time we got there.

All we could do was give them proper rest. All right. Probably Gortos takes them back. I guess these boons are probably real kids' boons. Are there? Mind carts? Yes. Hmm.

Can we get a Scooby-Doo chase go? I would say you could get into them, but they've been down here for a decade, maybe two, and their wheels are significantly rusted. Oh. I was really hoping we could wheel like a DKC2. I would say you may be able to get one of them going

and get them in there and wheel them through. I don't know how effective it's going to be. I mean, it doesn't sound like we need to though. We can just walk. It's not like one of us is forward. No, you're just a, your speed is at. That's a bad. It's very difficult.

Her legs are. But I'm imagining that you're not going to be running through this place. Or it's legs fuse too. It's the whole side of it. Your entire hip and down through your thighs are all fused together. Oh, wow. No, we're like, like, actually just fully fused.

We need to proceed. Real quick, I just want to put it to the group. Are we thinking Farroko or Jaron? Jaron excites me a syllable. How does a, how does Virgil feel about this? Oh. Didn't we leave him out? I guess he was here.

Oh, no, I don't know. Well, my intention is. I think he can sense that, because he should be able to sense that you're fused with something. He's not fault. You hear a lost to the doorway. If a horrible nightmare crow could laugh from outside, you hear him laughing malevolently at my last fortune.

He's not shuffling his feathers and being like, that's fucked up. All right, gang, we're one room in. And who is she to? Wait, did we get? you said Slippery Oswald. Did something appear when she said that? Nothing appeared that you saw, but she did say for Slippery Oswald to, to begin the chase to hunt you. Slippery is the part of the name.

Yeah. Slippery Oswald. So now you have filthy Jasper and Slippery Oswald. It must be her little pet, the thing with all the hands. Or familiar. Sounds like a fucking familiar name. I'm going to, uh, uh, uh, virtual check out for visions

that's actually his voice in his hat I love bugs I love you're okay as long time viewers will enjoy this or only us the same viewers two or 2018 well

I guess I guess we got to figure out how to do this So maybe should we do like a marching tune? I could do a little bit of a rap. I think you should just follow my lead. Left, right, right. I'm not going to march with you, Jericho. Oh.

Just let's go. Oh, gosh, okay. I'm sorry. I'll start to pull in, but then immediately like, chirp us both. Oh, go ahead. Struggle and struggle, and then I'll finally do that. I have a mechanical spell question. Sure.

If I were to cast Fog Cloud on a person, would it travel with us. Falk cloud is not. You have to move it. Can I move it? If I'm constantly, no, I think Falk Cloud, you're basically somebody in an area and then the cloud just hits there. But can't you move, you can use actions to move it. Only if it says in this spell. No. There's not like darkness where you cast it on like an object and it like follows that object. Oh, you can do that with their course? Nice. Okay, that's good. All right. Okay. That's good. All right. Okay. it. Yeah, it even says, uh, wind of moderate or greater speed disperses. Okay. I don't need to know all about how it can't work.

I just know. A simple yes or no. Yeah, it should answer the question. Sounds like you do need to know how it doesn't know. No, I don't. It can't look for all of these forwarding reasons. It's a conjuration spell. The components are verbal and semantic. Well, is there, Why are these mushrooms down here? Thurne, what are you fighting? We all got attacked to look at the mushrooms. Yates.

We destroy them. We don't know. They seem similar, but something is a bit different. They're obviously bigger and older. He said older. Yeah, they seem like they've been growing for much longer. They've been here for quite a while. So maybe, you know, to hang what was burned

and a witch that was burned, because I, Jenkins, maybe she was up to that good, growing these evil mushrooms. I don't know what's different about them. Have they looked a fucking sane? Have we seen them doing that? You did. You saw that it appears that their mycelium, their essentially roots that go down into the earth

seem to be drinking up something. They're feeding on something. Minor blood. Oh, do you think that they're feeding on the horrible hag flesh? What are the walls? Fungus. Is that a mushroom's natural diet? Is that what here's power and all of that glide that you spray around?

And looking around, you can see that the walls aren't completely flesh. There are bits of flesh and and pusulence here and there, but the walls are clearly that of a mine. and littered throughout the floor, though you see the bones of children clearly spread around this floor, you also see pickaxes and mining gear. And this at one point clearly used to be a mine. Whatever has happened to it and is happening to it is clearly happening after the fact. Yes, Briggsie. Is there any glint of maybe minerals left here?

Not in this. Not in this room. otherwise. You're in for a lot. They built all of this, but they keep glistered. This is bar of the gold. How many I am for any bits of glinting gold bits? Okay. Roll an investigation check and well I don't like now because I'm just saying I'm going to use that to determine what you find. You see a bar of gold crying like a baby.

20. Okay. Thank you. It spends. I suppose Virgil thinks Hag flesh is mighty tasty I won't eat on a mushroom We're doing the same It wouldn't surprise me

These mushrooms are feeding on the blood Of the innocents that have died here This is a place of death We know about the trapped miners We know about all of the workers The innocents that have been led here to die I agree That blood soaks these walls

Wall so we keep going We've killed our fucking hag And we'll get the fuck out of My voice is slightly elevated when I lean forward and say, Yes, let us make our way. And then I... Oh, you... Lefika's projecting into the monographies.

That's not what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to get everyone to huddle. She's using misdirection. Lethika's not whispering under a breath six feet away. Now the supplies is ruined, I'm leaving. I don't have to turn her up all on five decibels. I will lean in, oh, oh, sorry, sorry, Farron.

I lean in all five of my arms drape around that. That is what happens. And two diso arms on my end. Actually, your gram, you. I do not let you get that close to me. You do feel this happen, but you also feel on your hip, a lone hand begin to begin to.

begin to protrude out of the side of your hip, just up to maybe mid-way. Don't you say hand? Yeah, a human hand protrudes out. Midway along the, this part of your eye, which I can't know. I know one of the arms was going to go in your pockets. I was there watching here.

What were you saying, Ms. Let us also not forget what Marius told us about his meeting with the High Inquisitor. We are also looking for something. keep your eyes open. All right. Let's move on. And I will lead the way through and out into the main hallway.

Because he's in the... There's the same to. There's the same token. You make your way out of the room that housed the mushrooms and back towards what you imagine to be the main area that will lead deeper into the mine. And as you get towards this section of the mine, just inside of the main cavern from where you originally spoke to the strange hag beneath the earth.

You find yourself in another open portion, another cavern. And as you look around, this one feels more mine-like to you. You can see the tracks that lead deeper in. You can see mining carts here and there, mining gear, flashlights, pickaxes, and Briggsie. in one of the mining carts you see the glint of a layer of gold. Raw gold still adhered to the rock itself, but gold nonetheless. But the thing that immediately catches all of your eyes is that hanging up on the walls all around you in this portion

are a mask, or masks that you've seen before. Masks that you had seen over the face of Keziah Jenkins, that strange wooden mask that she had met you with when she came out of her hut. Do we go deeper? Yeah, you are basically, there's, there you see two mining carts. You're basically right there in the area with the two mining carts as it wants out of it. Yep. When I collect ready gold, I might think is still in the mining cart.

Yeah, you could find about 10 pounds of rock that have gold. In them. In them. No applause. Occasionally you bite into the rock and you will break a little cyst and it will ooze into your mouth. But you are able to put 10 pounds of golden rock into your... Oh, that's my inventory. Ten pounds of pussy golden rock.

Yep. Coming right up. How do you spells pussy? The same way healing potions tastes in the vantras. Anyway. And that is what you see. Remabry when we defeated Keziah Jenkins and went to, like, grab and remove her mask, it just, like, came off.

Nothing, like, had it didn't explode and kill you, but I think that you had to, it didn't explode and kill you, but I think that you had to use, you had to use strength to remove it from her face. It seemed very clearly attached. Well, we either did a really good thing or a really bad thing. Really bad thing. This seemed to be the options. What do you make of all the masks? I think was that Ms. Jenkins wore this mask?

Would I have seen anything like this before? Yeah, you saw it on the face of... Before that in my pre-horrifying life. No. I mean, I'm sure you've... You've seen wooden masks, but none that looked exactly like this. Okay. Well, the hag here is either collecting them or giving them out to people who might be working for.

Lethika, you're Miss Mask. Just because I wear a mask does not mean I know the dogma or context of these masks. Are they hanging on the wall with the rest of the mining equipment? Yeah. You see that there are coats and overalls and things like that hanging on pegs on the walls as well as pickaxes and flashlights and headgear and interspersed throughout all of it you see these masks hanging I don't think that the head they're about dozens of them you don't think that they're not trophies that's what worries me I think it's simple equipment

things that the miners are going to wear I would say it's very clear that these are not related to the miners I can even reach into my bag that they're they're interspersed and hung on the walls but they're they're not mining equipment I see ignore everything What concerns me is if these are trophies, because Zaya wasn't criminal after all. But if these are her accolades, or people who follow the hag, then the jury might still be out. I mean, this looks like fucking hag-bees. They're mass on the walls or in a horrible hag mine. I mean, it seems pretty clear to me.

probably some sort of effigies, some sort of vestige worn by, you know, the worshippers over their coven, of the hags, you know? Right. I don't know. I, in a way, I hope that you're right, which means that we didn't condemn an innocent woman to death. No. I'd like to reach up and pick a mask down. When would you ever read?

You look around and you find one that's fixed. fairly low hanging. It's almost in line with what appears to be a clothing rack with miners' jackets and hats and stuff hung up. You reach up and grab one of the masks. I need you to make a wisdom saving throw for me, please. I also want to point out as you make this wisdom saving through. This is the grappiest you've ever been in any session. I touch it. Oh no. You didn't play with Hazel. Humble bad police.

I'm a fucking pile you get. I'd like to trip the small child and steal their candy. Steal their pie. She's an inquisitive deer. I mean... That's a seven. What did you ask me to do? Wisdom saving, true.

That's what you're a ice game. Hey! Fourteen. I would like to use a twist of fate, or twist of dread. Oh, exactly. It's only to get better. Maybe. So she just realized.

Odds are, it'll be better than the last one. 19. You... Plus seven. 61. Who is standing next to you? Or who is the closest person? She'll.

Oh, wow. I need to use to them. What's up with that mess, Miss Farron? Oh, I need to make... I need to make a wisdom saving throw. Pull it in on. Let me see what happens to me. Oh, plus two whiz.

Oh, that'll be... A 14. Your highest was a 15, yeah? No, she got... My highest was 17. It was a 15 and then a... She got a 17. Oh, and then a 27th.

The first one, the first one was a 14. Okay. Yeah, okay. No, so you feel the pull from this thing, but both of you are easily able to... to avoid... You feel almost like a pull towards your face. Yeah, no balls.

You won't put the... And I don't think twist of dread improves your role, right? It can only make it lower, right? I wouldn't. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah.

So it's not like, it's not like if you roll in 19 afterwards. Like, oh, I got a 19. It's a situation. Oh, you're crazy. It's essentially a disadvantage. Yeah, at you roll 20, I crit this. Okay. Oh, I was really excited for Jericho, Jim Carrey style.

Smok it. Anyways, what are you doing? We just wanted to look at it. It might be... No, it feels weird. I shouldn't have picked it up and I'll throw it. You attempt to, but you can't let it go. Like it's stuck to my hand, or I'm like...

You attempt to throw it, but for whatever reason, your hand won't open, and you just hold on to it. I can't let it go. No, maybe if I take it. What do you mean? Don't touch it. Do I feel possessive over it or no? You're beginning to. Oh, now that looks mighty fine.

Yeah, and I guess so is Jericho, because he's within five feet of it. Oh, no. I just, I just think I should follow along to it, and we should be careful with it. But moments ago, you said you couldn't let it go. That's concerning. We shouldn't take it with us. Well, if we can't split, I guess I'll have to get by out. I'm going to grab another mat. I need you to roll wisdom saving throw for me, please.

We're going to make it, we have, there's 150 more feet of this goddamn body, and it's fucking cat in the hat in this face. thing one and thing two and now I'm just balancing plates and shit you immediately reach towards the side there are dozens of masks on the walls and it's easy to find another one

and you are feeling covetous that Farron has the mask that should end of both of you and you reach up and you grab one and you immediately look towards it and all of you watch as as Jericho holds this mask

and out from the back side of it, reaches out, spindly arms, and pulls around his head and sucks the mask to him. And as it fuses to his face, you watch as the arms move back into this thing. And now that you're looking at it, now that you see what happens, you see that this is not a mask made of wood. This is a mask made of some kind of flesh that is almost camouflaged as wood. Think of face-huggers. And Jericho, inside of your brain, you immediately hear, They are wicked.

You will do as I ask. You will do as I require. Kill them all. And that is what you hear. Do I hear that through his? You'd, no, because you don't have the same, you don't have the same brain. Okay.

And you all watch as this thing fuses to his head. All right. What have you done? You're okay. What? We shouldn't be messing around with things we find on the walls here. We just want us to look at it. Drop the mask.

Ferran put us down. No, I wanted it my own. I wanted my own mask. I need you to make another wisdom saving throw from your place. Can we wait to touch stuff until after we killed a fucking hag? You put 10 pounds of gold rod from there. You put the... You put the...

You just the break in your mouth. There's a big difference between the... touching the previous position of the right. You feel that pull and you, as you're looking down at it, you can see the movement inside of this thing. This is clearly not, it is clearly in the shape of a mask, but it is clearly a creature. And you see that it is pulling,

that you are pulled towards it almost possessed, but you're able to shrug it off. And you know you at this point, if you don't find a way to get this thing out of your hands, you will eventually succumb to its pull, and that you will need the help of your friends to remove this from you. Jericho has clearly lost it and it's wearing it. I have an idea. Come on and get close. What? Come here, come here. Jericho, get in. You need to take that mask off your face. Take the mask off and we will.

I know I know how to take it off But I need your help. Come here. What, how can we go? I mean, I'm staying like five feet away from you. I mean, I would just like you all to do me a favor and shatter. And I can't shatter in the middle of all of us. We're going to die in this game.

We are going to die in this game. I can't. I just don't feel a little bit of sense. No, this is literally entirely only your fault. Literally only. We're all, Gravy Farron. Yeah, what's the, what's the same? Constitution. 15.

I don't think I'm going to get lucky a third time in a row here. Con's not really where I'm good here. Come on. Come on. Give me one more good con saving throw. Me too. Come on. Fuck.

I need to roll 12 or higher. I fail. Got it. I failed. I'm taking a shitload of damage. You'll take half of this if you pass. 14? No.

15. Oh, shit. I pass. Gorghum, do you pass? Yeah, sorry. 23. So that'll be six plus seven. It's 13 points of thunder damage.

Or half. Or half if you succeed. Oh, half of me. Six. Six. Six. Is there any other effect, like drone, knockback, something, something? No.

No. I guess it's a non-magic object that isn't being worn or carried. It also takes damage if it's in the spell area. All my teeth fall out. Um. So I'm also going to take that damage. Oh, I guess I need to make a save. No, I choose to fail.

No, I'm not trying to kill myself. You wouldn't try to kill yourself. I crush a natural 20. As soon as I'm hit by this, I would immediately unarmed strike like punch Jericho in the head. Okay. Or tap two. I might miss.

Yeah, roll a hit. This is the sport that is D&D. And I'm not going to make you do initiative for all of this, because... Fuck, I get a natural one. I punch Farron in the head. Actually, you know what?

I will say that you do. Because they refuse together, so rule damage on the air. It's just six damage. It's just straight six damage. I would, I mean, if we can, I would also, as he goes in to hit him, I would try and, like,

tackle the two of them down if I can. I'd like to try and plant my shovel into the mask that Feren is holding in her hand, like, plant it to the ground, and then rip the bandana off my face. and try and grab the one that's on Jericho and just like try and really as hard as I can. All right, do a strength contest to see if you can tackle them. And so both of you roll.

And we'll take whichever one of your roles is the highest. I'll immediately do a hand motion and hex cherokee. I got 10. Okay. Come on. It would be 13. Wow, you are able to wrestle them to the ground. and I'm going to say I'll have you do another

you want to tell me what you wanted to do with a mask So I'm going to like plant my shovel into the mask that's in Farrant's hand and then grab the mask that's on his So I'll say you can plant you can plant I would say you can plant your shovel into the mask that's in Farrin's hand with that and you feel as he as he slams the mask down to the ground with his shovel that it is wrenched from your grasp

and you feel that compulsion completely leave your body. You no longer feel like you need to hold onto or keep this thing. Oh no, you lost your mask. Let me grab you another one. You are on the ground. But you are on the ground.

I'll say you're going to like pin his arm to the ground or not. So you will have to do I need I need you to make a strength saving throw to see if you can get the mask off of them. Oh, your disadvantage on strength checks.

Because it hex. Oh. Oh. Oh. What was this? String. Saving throw? 14. Nice.

14. It is not enough. So you attempt to pull and pull and pull, but you cannot seem to get it. Help me get this. At one point, it feels like you're about to, but you can see as more tendrils reach out from the top and and dig into the, I guess not flesh, but the, be his face and pull it closer to the mask. After you're going to all over again. You imagine you were very close.

After missing Jericho and punching Farron and regaining my composure and standing up, I will stumble over to where Yorgram is and attempt to help him. Okay. I will say you can roll, whichever one of you wants to, you can roll at advantage. Am I able to act after he failed? Yes, you are.

I will say, well, you know, you know what's really great, You were gonna, I once killed a nor can I watch Virgin and eat his eyeballs. I put my head on his wind-plice. Isn't that great? Intelligent saving throw. 17 for the strength.

Okay, well, let's do the intelligent saving throw to see if you die. 10. What is that? 10. So you take three damage and you also need to remove D4 from that saving throw. What?

You need to remove D4 from that saving throw. 17 minus one. D-4. That's fucking. You're going to roll a D4. and hope that you still get above like a 15. That's so fucking great. That's so fucking good.

Because we're going to have to try again, and he's going to keep asses. Goddammit. Son of a bitch! Can I twist? Why do you keep rolling high and my bag? Can I twist something? You can twist the D20. You can try to roll higher than, no,

there's a 15% chance that you would get higher than that. No, we roll a 10. It gets plus 7. We're going to twist it. So if he twisted. So if you rolled a 10? Yeah, yeah. I thought he rolled.

I rolled a 10 for my strength. Sorry, better than a coin flip. Let's twist it. We're twisting. Yes, absolutely. Which one are you rolling? You're straight. You're 20.

Yeah. If it's at advantage, you don't twist both? I don't think so. That's not how we usually do that. Holy math. Fuck. So just get higher than 10 and we're golden. Virgil kept me another math.

Yeah, I think so. Eleven or higher. That's a good idea. Zee Zee. That's a very good idea. Fuck! We fail? I'm cool.

Which means we would just try again. But he would have more time, I suppose, to do whatever he'd like. It's gonna sliver in my brain and get arms on my back. What in my side? Yeah, I would just, I would help him, I would help your. I hate to say this. Take it from him. But Virgil makes up stories about how all those orcs

on your tombstone died and I laughed once. I guess mine sliver. As he says that, I would reach over and say, you know, take it from him and grab his arm. Intelligence and, uh, I would cast hold personal. on him. Intelligent saving I will let you do the whole person

after this mile slimmer. I will choose to fail it. Oh, actually? That hurt my feelings. That hurt my actual feelings. That would have stunned me, man. Just roll one or another

fucking three. Okay, that's fine. You take one point at another point is like, you're gonna roll with advantage and this time you're gonna get higher than an 11. That's all we need 11 or higher. You need 18, 19 or 20, I think.

I think the default. That's what I'm saying. So an 11 or higher gets us there. Right. I feel good. about this one. I'm very strong. 19, 19, plus 7, 26.

I punch my fist straight into Jericho's face and shatter the mask and half. No, it's such a casino screen. I will say, yes, sure, you do. As you and Marius attempt to do this, you punch forward and your fists collides with Jericho's face and the mask, and you are able to snap the mask in half.

You see as the tendrils of this creature that is this mask begins to start reaching out and pulling itself back together. But you are able to tackle him and begin to rip it off as you still want to cast hold person. Not if the mask comes off. They are able to pry the mask off. And it is broken so you can immediately throw it without having to roll a save

because they are trying to mend the mask back together. I'm so sorry. Jericho, what was that? You feel your mind begin to clear that, that voice of the hag that you have heard inside the walls of this place no longer controlling you and telling you, forcing you what to do. You could have killed us.

Are there any masks within arm reach still? Yes. My hand will disgustingly detach from my arm and float over, and as I cast match, Mache Hand. And I just started putting all of the masks off and, like, down the hallway, totally as far away from Jericho as I can. Okay, roll a sleight of hand, please. There's something wrong with them.

I shouldn't have touched it. It calls to you. Mechanically, it's Magerian. Yeah, that's fine. Mechanically throwing them still make sound, whether it's thrown by a mage hand or your hand. Twelve. Okay.

Um, you, yeah, you begin to throw these as you all communicate together. I'm gonna like, get up and grab my sword and shield and, what came over you? Or your wits your own. Speak, Jericho. I think I may have made, I may have had a lapse of judgment. You lost your mind. Was that, was that Virgil or was that the horrible gross hag in the mind that didn't sound like Virgil?

He has a fancy accent. I trust the masks. When you touch them, they call to you. Did I see what I said? You wouldn't know out loud? Yeah, he did. It was very disrespectful. Oh, no.

It was very hurtful. I mean, look at him. He's pregnant. They go tees in his eyes. Oh, no. My eyes are glasses. We must make a greater effort to not end up like the Templars. Yulgram, I am so very sorry.

Stop right there, Jericho. The ground begins to pop and, bubble beneath your feet as you watch as one hand, two hands, three hands begin to climb up out of a crevice between two rocks and you see the disgusting form of slippery Oswald as he climbs. Huh? 97 hands, 98 hands, 99 hands. One hands, two hands, three hands, four hands, five hands, six hands, seven hands, eight hands,

hands, nine hands, ten hands, eleven hands, twelve. Yeah, yeah, Ritzisd, consult you know, 14 hands, 16 hands, two legs. Into an end, oh, all. But you watch as he climbs up out of this crevice and turns and looks towards you. A tongue slips out of his human-like mouth and darts from side to side, almost lizard-like.

As he backflips, you see the underside of his belly, he sinks into this fleshy mound behind you. And once again, the mound begins to grow and turn into this giant, pushtral-sized abscess on the wall as it opens up and you see a mouth. I get a good 20 feet away. I'm immediately back up. I'm just like, fuck this shit. You're playing with my toys.

Oh, you humanoid are so easy to manipulate. Do you like you? Kit? Do you like being one of mine? I am not human, you imperceptive bitch. And you feel the mouth twitch. You see the mouth twitch for a second. You can be angry all you like, but your fate is the same either way. I'm already spoken for for hags.

I got three of them, even though they're dead, and buy a weird crow. So I'm not emotionally available. I'm sorry. I know what you did to my sister, and it bothers me not, one less in line. Now, you think you'll be able to take me,

but... What does your other sister look like? You know not how strong I am. No, no, we have a good sense. I tried to kill my friends, and I'm fused too deep. Now, breathe in, deeply and succumb to me. And you watch as the mouth fades away again

and it bursts, the room is filled with a sick, disgusting, a scent of rotten eggs and decaying flesh. I need you all to roll a Constitution saving throw, except for Jericho, Farren, and your grim. Even if you don't breathe. Even if you don't breathe. It reads out from, damn.

Come on, come on. Is the mouth gone? Yes. Please, please. I don't want to be fused to Briggs. Yes, I got a 19. I love big casino, Andy. I will not fall today. Chicken dinner!

Briggsie? 14. 18. Okay. Briggs, I need you to roll a D6. If you get a 1 or a 6, if you get a 1 or a 6, re-roll, please. Don't do it. Oh, your poor chunk. to Chunk Mangrove.

What's a yacht? Crunch. It's a yacht. I call him crunch. Yeah, chunch. That's the best. You smell, or the fumes fill this room, and you smell them for a second

as you begin to rotate your blunderbuss on your hand. As all of a sudden, it becomes a no-bones day. The arm in your main hand goes limp at your, your side as the bones within it completely disappear. One of your arms is complete jelly. It's like in Harry Potter when Gildreoy Lockhart removes his bones and it's nothing but a skin sleeve. Pause for one second. You said it becomes a no bones day like that's a thing. Yeah. It's a no bones day. Noodle. Noodle has no bones. That's not a thing? Yeah, it is. You here has a no bones day. It's like, it's internet thing.

Oh, really? Yeah, so there's this person who has a pug named noodle, and every day they get up and they try and write noodle. And if noodle stands up, it's a bones day. If noodle immediately falls back down and goes to sleep, it's a no-bones day. I didn't know if I was prying too hard into like Richard's character's backstory or, I don't know.

People that watch the year before now, they'll be like, what the fuck is that? I only just learned about it at this table. I was glad I explained it. Maybe don't edit this out. Yeah. Yeah. It is a no bones day.

As your main arm, your trigger arm, is now, um, is now, uh, just a skin sleeve. What's the matter? What is wrong with you? Oh, my hand! It doesn't work. What do you mean it doesn't work? Are you suffering from some sort of paralysis?

I guess so. I think I'll bring doing some of those spool things and now I can't use me left arm. You can still swing with the right. Exactly. I could still swing with the right, but I mean, I use me left one too. I mean, this isn't good, is all I'm going to say. No, what a severe advanced.

I mean, I've a failure so by that. But you don't need to say it like that. And you watch and you see that, that Farron and Jericho, their legs have begun to twist and where they had just been combined at the, at the hip and the thigh. their calves are now fusing together and beginning to twist. I'll pull my voodoo gun out of my left.

Oh, no, it's, because my left hand is currently detached as may chan. So I'll just, I'll float my hand over and I'll pull it out of my belt and it'll just float next to me. So I'll still have my right arm and my hand will be floating with the gun. And I'll say, okay, this is, I like something. And it'll just be a stump for my left arm is. Briggs, I hope you are right that when we defeat the hag, we can undo this magic. What happens if this spreads and it goes to your legs

and you can't walk anymore? Well, whatever you do, don't put me down. You kill a hag first. Let's see if you write where you are and come back for you. I mean, I don't know what choice I have, unless you're going to carry me. You're going to drag me? Well, I think that we should just hurry.

Let's get it worse over here, too. And, uh, Yorghum, you see that that hand is now, um, full elbow. hand coming out, but you see that it is, it doesn't seem to be functioning properly as it opens and closes and it tries to work, but the bones haven't fully formed inside of it as it's continuing to grow. And then I'll say you also notice that on the side of your leg there is a bulge there, but you can't really see what is forming just right above the knee on your left thigh. It's a lyepooh. Got a bit of a skeeter by there, Mr. Yorkeye.

It's not getting any better over here either. We have to kill this hag and quickly. Medias, I saw you back up when the voice reemerged. Please stay with me. All right, I just didn't want to be covered in any more disgusting fluids for want of this happening. And I just, like, pick up his arm and let it drop to the ground. Is all this still happening even with our faces covered?

Mm-hmm. Stay strong and may our gods be with us. And I start to lead this horrifying pack. Is that what I'll do it? Any guy that's out there, my name is old Jericho Stix. You can call me Jericho. Most folk do. If you and mine just kind of, you know, go the other way.

You hear the voice of a drunken Loxidon from the head. Oh, wait. Laughing. It didn't work. Didn't work. Well, I don't think Prion is going to fix this for us. We've got to keep moving. All right.

And you do. You begin to move forward in the darkness until you come up against what appears to be at first sight an obstruction in the cave, a cave-in of sorts. You listen. I need you all to roll a perception check. Oh, we read about this. 17. perception you say gosh I'm terrible

annoying oh perception that'll be a 25 anyone who rolls a 15 or above will hear the sounds it sounds like men help us

help us the walls have caved in get us out of here come on get us out of here man and they're yelling and pleading we're tired we're hungry We're hungry because it's out of here. And as you get closer and closer to the rocks, you realize that these are not rocks.

They're chunks of flesh and body parts. Bits of skin and hair, sinew, bone, muscle. As it obstructs the only way deeper into this cavern. So we're at this like... Yes. Cated. Yes. It is right there.

The miners, I think, the, and by that I mean the workmen who used to work here, not children. You mean the world? Yes, I think what you read us in the papers you found when we first entered. That's right. This must be it. How did we get through? Well. Can we just blast it open or?

We give them the same dream and we gave the knights. I shudder to think that they've been trapped here, alive in some amalgamous mass. 20 years. As terrible as it was, I still feel more right that we did the captain and his templars the justice they deserved. No doubt. Fair, and I don't want to turn into a horse. Jericho, do you have the ability to break things with your instrument again like you did attempt us? Oh, do you want me to blow apart the meat chunks that are restricting our way?

You've used it twice before me, and I see its ability to destroy is significant. You destroyed those stairs in the mansion, and you almost destroyed us. Well, it's right. It's worth a try. I've got to get through here. I guess I could. Unless we have a better idea, magic may be the only way through. I can go. say looking at this, you imagine that this is just flesh. It could be hacked through. All right, let's get started and you'll see my left hand float up and start like grabbing

handful of flesh. Oh, just deem it out. Oh, it feels disgusting. It's warm. Oh, it's, it's warm too. I guess every few seconds I'll snap and point and hold the dead. I would just start hacking at it. yeah, I would use two hands and have my shield on my back and just start hacking at this. And you begin to, and you are, by the time you're done with it, it takes about, I would say, 15, maybe 20 minutes for you to hack all the way through it with all of your force. You are all covered in blood and viscous bodily liquids. The scent of urine is building up in this place. as you make your way finally through the last bit

you hack into it and you hear the crack of bone as this flesh mound falls away from the ceiling and you find a couple of steps down into what feels to be some kind of a natural darkness the Jericho's pumpkins flit this way and that but are unable to illuminate the darkness here as you all begin to hear

Wild creature, I'm sure. It sounds like it's echoing all around you. You hear the sounds of crunching echoing through this part of the cavern. We have to proceed. There's no turning back now. It's real dark in there. We have to go. There's no other way but through. That's right. We have to move.

you you three four uh stay between marius and i let us go uh do you want me to like take like lead the back i think one of us should be in the back and one of us should be in the front and you can open up some of the map you should there should be a big open cavern this podcast is brought to you by our patreon become a patron today at patreon dot com slash legends of aventry and gain access to tons of exclusive perks, including a monthly movie night and a weekly Patreon exclusive camp aimed set on the high seas, Shroud over Saltmarsh. You can also go to The Crooked Moon.com to pick up your own copy of our first published supplement, The Crooked Moon, a folk horror tone for Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition.

And don't forget to snag all the extra goodies like dice, miniatures, plushies, a tarot deck, and more. Thank you. see anything. Sorry. Don't touch anything. It's pure darkness. I am just going to keep my pumpkins, like I presume I can mentally kind of sense where they are, like just right in front of my face in case there's any chance I can see anything. You have them floating in front of you and you know that they're there, but they shed no light around you. But you can all smell faintly over the stench that assails your nostrils. You can smell that faint bit of pumpkin. So you know they're there.

That's pleasant. I would just try to listen for those sounds to see if we can get a better understanding of where it's coming from. I know you said it's like echoing everywhere, but I would just try to like hone in on it and see if I could discern. I think we should keep moving. Stay close together. Yeah, as we proceed forward, I would just try to listen for the sound. You listen and it feels like it's coming from right next to you. You could reach out your arm and touch whatever.

whatever it is. I shouldn't have asked. I'm gonna say like in a low, I have a feeling the thing is very close to us. It feels as though it is all around us. I'm gonna try this. I'm very afield. Can you keep up this one string?

I'm gonna hold this down this string. Just pluck it. I don't know if you should try anything. Maybe we should just keep going. Quick. Should I pluck it? Pluck it. Pluck it.

Pluck it. Poying, and I'm gonna cast a spell magic on magical darkness. If possible. Do you have to roll for it? I don't know. Is it a third level? What level is it?

It's a third, darkness is a third level spell? Then it just immediately doesn't, right? You hear the twang and you hear, you hear it echo all around you. And as you, as the darkness immediately snaps away, you find yourself in a big,

open cavern. And all around you are these, you can place these all around you. All around you are the, almost here are some more some emaciated white creatures their mouths dark black maws their eyes sunken in completely black cavernous and empty some of them gnaw on what appears to be skeletons or not skeletons sorry centipedes as they're chewing away at the flesh of these centipedes others amarius right next to you you see as it

is literally standing right in front of you as you're face to face with this thing, all of them snap their heads in complete unison and look at you. I need you all to roll for initiative. Oh, bring the darkness back. Bring the darkness back. When the darkness back. Oh, boy. Well, you guys enjoy combat. I'll be taking a nap until the end of the round. Let me know what is my turn. Stand with me, Marius. There are 12 of them. Well, that's not good. How do I do anything on Malli? Smokes. Yeah, I don't think we have 12. There should be.

Oh, yeah, here we go, sorry. Oh, here are more. Those are horrifying. They look like how many. These. Did you order to see it is clearly, you are clearly able to see that these appear to be some kind of remnants of the miners

that had been trapped in here, those that had not been used as flesh abominations by the hag that resides deep within. It's a nightmare. It's a nightmare. It's sensitive. Okay, okay. 20 to 25.

This is fine. 20. 25? 21. 15 to 20. 15. 15. Cool. You said 15? 10 to 15? 14.

You watch as all of these things snap to attention and begin to shamble towards you. You see that many of them still have the remnants of the centipedes that they had been devouring. That was the strange crunching sound that you'd heard where their teeth piercing into the carapace of these centipedes and popping the individual sections of its abdomen as they were chewing on them. But they're all now turned to you as they go into attack Jericho.

You are not caught off guard by this as you do whatever you're going to do. That would make surprising the narrative sense. I'm going to just be the... Turn the dark back on, to the dark back on, to the dark back on! I'm just gonna get a shatter once more here. And I think if all four of these on the wall without- If pus and gold come out, if I'm leaving.

Yes, I'm gonna get these four. What numbers? Three, twelve, ten, and four. They need to make a constant saving throw. Hopefully I don't cause a cave in, actually. I'm not not dispeated. Okay. Broke the stairs, came to seven.

What is there? What number do they need to get? 15. Okay, they fail. That is going to be 18 points of thunder damage to all four of them. You immediately annihilate those four as you let thunder crash down around you.

You do feel bits of the flesh above you fall and splatter into your person. It doesn't cause a cave-in, but you are hit by bits of flesh. They'll die. Those four do. I mean, that was a mega nuke. There was a lot of damage.

They squeal out in pain as you, as they're essentially ripped from the inside out as they burst. And I will just do like some little ditty. It is their turn. Yeah. They are each going to move up toward all of you. And they're going to try and get two on each of you

if they can. And if they can hit fair in there. they can essentially hit Jericho. I mean, they can get two on everybody except, well, except one pair, right? Jericho and Fair, yeah, except Jericho and Farron. There's only eight left. So they can't get to Jericho and Faron? They easily can, right?

They walk up, yeah. But they're only eight left, so. Okay, so they'll find the closest four and attack those four. Okay. And are any of those Jericho? Yeah, sure. One of them is Jericho. Okay, so that one will roll normally. Oh, that's D12. One of them will roll normally on Jericho. That's going to miss. The other ones on or on who? One in 11 around for me. So Lethika, who else has them on them?

Nine on Marius, eight and two on Briggs. Five and seven on your grim and, oh yeah, 11 and one on the one. Okay. And because you haven't had a turn in combat, they are auto-crites if they hit on the four or on the three of you. I might be fucked here. Have you heard it? Can I use my reaction? What is your reaction? The halo, is it a halo sport? Halo. So is it a reaction on something hitting you? No. When they enter 10 feet. Okay, so which ones would be within 10 feet of you? Six and nine, I'm assuming, or nine.

Okay, so those two, yes. So let's do that really quickly. Okay, I don't, I can only do one creature, so I will do nine. Okay. And it is just four because my symbionic entity has dropped. So it is three necrotic damage. And it has to roll up. I'm glad I weighed out four of them.

And it is a wisdom. Um, con. Yeah, so 11. So you let out a burst of spores and it inhales as it bites down on the head of a centipede. And as it inhales the spores, you watch as its skin begins to wrinkle and desiccate and it falls to the ground. Deb. But the one, there's still one on Marius, yes? Oh yeah.

The one on Marius 11. 15 hit? No. So that doesn't hit. I don't know. Natural, well, they've, so two crits on Briggs. Two crits on Briggs? My A.C. is 19.

I got a natural 20 and a natural 19. Plus four. So that'll get rid of one of them, but it won't get rid of the natural 20. Because that's an auto crit. Yep. And then the other one, the highest is a 16 for your grim. 17, so you see. So that is one crit on Briggs-Z as it goes in and it is going to, it is going to hit in.

Very cool feature. I like this monster a lot. Yes, wicked. 13 piercing damage as it bites into you. Okay. Oh, sorry. Actually, that's more. It's actually 25 piercing damage. For one attack? So it was a crit, so it's 2D6 plus 2. And so the first roll was a 6 and a 5 plus 2, which is 11, 12, 13, right? Okay, yep.

Plus the two additional dice for the crit and I got two sixes. So it's a plus 12. So that should be 25. Oh, so it double crits? What? Its normal hit is 2D6. I forgot to use the crit. So I rolled two more die.

I'm down. Oh, no. They've got broadswords. It's got a gun. As it, it bites into Briggsie. And that is all of their turns. Your Grim. Briggs, are you OK?

Yeah. Your chunk. A chunk falls off of them. I did see. I did. It's hard for me to see. Is this breezy? Yeah, it's briszie.

Yeah, it's brink. Can I hit this one closest to him, too? Yeah. That's a melee range. All right, I'll activate the mists once again and strike out at the second one. I'll do it recklessly. Yeah, dude. Maloney.

17. 17 to hit. The other E.C is 12. Okay. And it will do... Which number nine, or which number is this? Two. two, this would be two.

If you hit, you automatically, they only have one hit point. Got it, got it. So you were able to slice into it as you watch it fall emaciated to the ground. They're talking with great sorts. You need to roll a D-10. You do need to thank you. Can you please roll a D-10 actually?

Thank you. Rich. And gain stayed. Can you cast a can't trip with your action and they first one's called your honor. You go in to make the strike, but the arm. on your body, take control.

And I need to roll a D6. Two is... Lethika. You are going to move forward and you are going to make that attack against Lethika. So go ahead and roll damage. Did they grab my shovel? Yes.

I knew it. You go up like this and you're like... And you feel as they swing your shovel towards your friend and not a foe. So you will roll your normal attack against Lethika. Shouldn't have reached. Oh, thank God. I saw you're rolling. We're all good.

I forgot. I can't do damage. I am shocked. Eight. Damage. You rolled a one, and I take eight? So you take eight. You're also, oddly enough.

Wait, something else happens to you, I think, when I rage. Disadvantage on the attack that's not against you. Yes, you're disadvantaged on any attack this on against me. Okay, that's fine. As the specter, as the specter, as the specter's right. Would it, if the arms take it, would it apply my rage, McAil? Okay. Well, yeah, they are part of you. Oh, well.

All right, well. So the arms are raging too. Briggs. Did they give my shovel back? Oh, that's right. It's my turn. Yes. What the fuck? Banaged.

Wait, is that race? Is that only racial? Because I'm a zombie! What? Yeah, that counts. 17. Wait, what? Dude, that's actually crazy. Oh! Yep, yep, yep. So that's a success.

No, no, better. Oh. Wait, there is. Yeah, you're a damage on death saving through. Dude, that's crazy. I don't have that. It would. I would.

Was it need as poison damage? damage. What? Was any of this poison damage? You've got to spell called. There was a great sword damage. You mean for their for their bite? I told you what their bite was. So same sort of illusion that was on my fingertips before I'll extend my hand out towards number eight and blow that spores. Which one? Number eight. If he fails, he does. Oh yeah. So it's a safe. If he fails, he does. Oh yeah. So it's a Con saving through. Seven plus zero.

He does. He blew spores towards this number eight. It inhales and you watches it as it begins to shrivel and desiccate and fall to the ground dead. Ooh.

Blessica. You're grim. Keep those things under control. Briggsie. You will know this night. And I will cast Healing Word. That's pretty good.

That's going to be one of these. The Jim Jams, I'll roll that in a moment. They're obviously not dying anymore, and then I'll step forward. And I will invoke my goddess, but you will not know this day. And I will cast on one, 11, and 7. They need to make a wisdom saving throw.

11. They all fail. They all take two points of damage. They all burn in the radiant darkness of Sharr as you watch as their white flesh begins to sizzle and pop as it burns in the darkness. It's like starlight. And the shadow.

Oh, nice. How is we here? Oh. Marius. There are two left. After watching everybody like real and, you know, things are going on. I lift my shield up and I say a prayer to Lethander

and say, we are not alone. And my shield will glow gold. And golden like rose petals will. float down around everybody and anybody who's under half health will heal as I use my channeled identity 10 hit points

Wow That's fucking yielding Wow Did the cap when I hit half or do I just It does not affect you if you have more than half your headpoints No but if you're under half you'll heal the full amount Oh I do I do I do I do

Very good That's my turn That's a great great turn Jericho Oh yeah it is Oh, gosh, I'll look at the one in front of me and I'll say, oh, gosh, I'm going real dark. It must have been a real terrible existence to slowly wither away and starve to death

with nothing need but gross centipedes. Your body was warped and you lost your humanity. And I guess mine's liver. On which number? I was ready to play, and I'm just like. Which number? Which number? No, it's going to fail.

Roll the natural sex. I don't know. Five is still alive as it shambles forward to whoever's closest to it. And it doesn't have pack tactics anymore. It is advantage. I attacked recklessly. Perfect. So just so you know. Thanks. Great. So it is going to hit. And it is going to do two D-s-s-s-25 points of him. 11 points of piercing damage as it slices into you. Oh, it's slices? It bites into you, yes.

It's piercing. Ooh. Uh, five if it's halved? Yep, round down. Choose one to make her con. Well, there's only one left. There's two. No, I've been marking them off.

Only five should be alive. Oh, yeah, yeah. And it rolled a two. So immediately, after going in and biting onto your gum, a puff of spores, appears around Farron and you watch as it chokes and coughs on the floating spores in the air and it falls to the ground dead Silence begins to surround you I want to do an avanderson chill if there's a version of that fire or darkness, but we'll do that during the adventures and chill

oh that's very cool you mean really bad and you silence Silence begins to envelop you. And after staring into the cold, lifeless eyes of what decades ago would have been just simple Cyrillian men who worked here for a living, feeding their families, bringing gold back to Cyril, lives all lost this mine, trapped here, warped and twisted by the hag that awaits you deep within this place. As the smell from deep within, assails your nostrils your nostrils. yet again. I need you all to roll a Constitution saving throw for me, please.

Come on, come on. Please. I've been on fire this time. My twist. Oh, only the people who have not succumbed to it. Oh. What did you get? That's a fail. Lethica, I need you to roll a D6. Yeah, DC goes up. Is my arm still paralyzed? Yes, your arm is still paralyzed. Or it's a no-bones arm. Bones arm.

No bones are. No. Lethika, you all watch as the magical darkness has been dispelled and the dancing pumpkins provide light in here as all of a sudden Lethika's neck begins to twist and arrive and elongate one foot, two foot, three foot four. The weight of her head and her mask, the neck no longer able to hold up as the neck slumps over and her face shifts on her spine and writes itself. You now, your neck is curved like this.

Instead of your face pointing down, it's now pointing straight forward like a horrible, fleshy, creepy creature. Dr. Seuss' character. That's a good thing that I can do this. Yeah, you can. And that is what it looks like. Marius throws up.

Mary is, so far, you were the only person unaffected by the horrors in this place. I just lose it. I absolutely just lose it. I look around for the pussie cyst. You do, and you've seen nothing. I'm not feeling yourself. Can somebody help me up?

I will, I'll run over to you, and as I pick you up, I say a soft prayer to Lathander, and I give you eight points of lay-on-hand's healing. Stand, my friend, and brace yourself. Fakes that. Is it even all right? Lathica? I have been corrupted like yourself, Farron.

Yikes. We have to be getting closer. This has to be the end soon. We have to end this. For what it's worth, Farron, and I think we're starting to get the hang of this and we're working together. Excuse.

Do we have done the rest? Should I not have gotten rid of I was just really a fear I could use They've let us alone and keep eating them Centipedes It's certainly possible I think they might have

We just need to be careful Don't have act on fear Or impulse or anything else We all talk together Before we do anything So do we keep going Oh I worry that if we sit here

How do we all feel These These It's my eavesma's going to get worse. Thicker, more dangerous. I just, I don't know what to do. I don't know if we get afford the time. What do you think?

I feel like one of those long horses you hear in exotic tales. That's what? The long horses with spotted bodies. Giraffes. Long horses. What, like a weird horse? Like a weird, gross horse? What? You mean a giraffe?

That's what that is. They're not called long horses. Who taught you that? I don't know that name. No, I mean, they don't know nothing like horses. If they do, they have long legs and they have long necks. Oh, you have lads? Okay.

Are you a hoarse? I think it's safe to say, we're all feeling pretty fucking horrible. You, you, you, you, you've got, I'm like the iron spider. You've got a really long neck. You're fine. I don't notice any difference in you. You guys are really bad, too. Stepping out, fresh air outside's not going to save us.

Killing this hag will. I think I'm being consumed like a twin. I think I'm the weaker one. I think I'm fair and definite. When it comes to the rules of nature and the laws of survival, I'm just me. She's going to have virgin as a female. Good luck.

Good luck. If you're gonna do that, man. Can we what you make for, Virgil? And I'll like, I'll smack. I'll smack the keys will be clang, clang, clang. She did the thing where she goes, For your sake, I hope you never find out. You hope him you were saying.

I was saying that our only path is forward. If we want any chance in reversing what's been done to us. Yeah, I'll be off. I'll think. I guess you can pull me. Let's get this to fuck over way for. Let's just see what's next or listen, and then we can make a call as to if we should take some time to rest.

I'm not feeling too great. I'll take a few steps forward. Last guy, you should take up the back. I'm worried with your current vantage point. You won't be able to see much. It seems that I could be walking in the back and still see at the front. Also, just real quick,

nose, well done getting that fucking reference. Yeah, I guess I would take a few steps towards this hallway. Roll a perception check. I perceive nothing. Twist it, no, you're twisting it, pulling out of the culprit. Why have you been twisting? I believe my perception checks happen at advantage. Thank you.

Marius, thank goodness your God protects you. It's from a one to a 20. You listen. You listen, you listen and you hear what sounds to be the rushing of water somewhere deep below. And the sound of skittering many, many, many legs. I think that horrific familiar might be up ahead. There's no backing down now, right? One leg, two leg, three leg, four legs, four legs, five legs, six legs.

All the rest of you prepared. At the best we can possibly be. Well, you're the only one. You're the holy yourself. You got to charge onwards from areas. We'll catch you. I will do everything in my power to make sure that no one here dies today. Vrixley, how do you feel?

I mean, I'm definitely better, thanks to a few of them. Lepander and otherwise. But, I mean, one of those guys did like almost half me health. if there was like a mechanical thing to just health and hit points. I mean, we're talking like almost one shot by just like a minor who's been decaying for 20 years.

Well, with the light of Lathander or Marius's lady friend, regardless of whom it is, we'll be fine. That's right. That's right. I'd say unconvincing of myself.

I still have some of my mushroom tea, if any bit. need some health. I'm going to give myself six points of way on hands healing as well. Okay. There's like six left. What's, I mean, what does that do? Is that long?

Does it make feel better at all? Meaning if I drinks me a muffin tree. Yeah, that's right. It'll help you. It'll bolster you. My hand flutes over. Oh, the goofy one. So I will, um...

Wouldn't it also have no bones in it? It's a mid-chat. Well, it has bones, but they're not very, like, you know, it's just sort of like... It's got no bones. but it's like magically fortified. Yeah. The arcane energy.

If you were trying to use the hand from your no bones hand, that would just be a limp mage hand. You'd have to use the hand from your good hand. It's like holding up a cup of tea with a balloon. You don't get to somehow think your way out of this. Just let me. I flip a switch on my shoulder and just

air dryer. Yes. I had a slump thing that did that. It was fucking awesome. Fuck yes! My hand detaches from the mist that floats over. I'll hand him a small

wooden cup filled with like a murky brown liquid and I'll just kind of as I hand it to you, I'll graze your fingers and cast a carolans on you. Oh. I don't even need to drink this, I guess. No, it's rude not to drink.

Here we go. you'll see it like spills out of my ribs a little bit. It gets on the floor. We can't even really taste it, can you? No, can't taste it? Damn, girl. Why are we healing so good? Ooh, why max hell?

You're not rolling well otherwise. We got to roll it somewhere. Oh, I feel nice. But anyone else likes them. Thanks for brushing your fingers. If it will, I'm feeling okay, but I would enjoy some tea if it will. will not weaken you for the coming fight.

I think the implication is not weakening. If you feel... Well... Then I think we will be okay. As long as we do not face in the animated guillotine, I think we'll be all right. All right.

Are we ready? Steal yourselves. Stay close to me, and I will do my best to protect everyone. Thank you. Roll of perception, check-in advantage for me, Marius. I'm gonna go, I don't feel like plucking up. 23.

Perfect, thank you. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, and I cast cure wounds on myself. As I, if you know the reference, why it's relevant, let us know in the comments. I'll give you the other half of the calzone that knows we'll eat. And with that, Marius, you begin to lead the way into the next section, so you may uncover the map. and you travel through a small corridor out into an open chasm

all the way down at the very bottom and you find yourself in front of what appears to be a large chasm deep within this place and it is hard to see what is down at the very bottom but from here you can clearly hear the rushing of waters what appears to be

a deep a deep wellspring of water, water that probably travels all over Fulsants. This is clearly so deep. It is probably the waters that are bringing the disease and pestilence from this cave to every single place in this area. And as you listen and look down,

you don't just hear water. You can hear what sounds to be the movements of millions of centipedes. Andrew, helpless. I cast purify chasm water. Looking ahead of you, you see that at once there had clearly been a bridge here, probably used during the mining of this cave for gold. But now it is dilapidated and broken,

the wooden slats hanging limp against the side of the chasm, the rope completely eaten away. The only way over. is to jump. Do we, are we able to roughly gauge at the distance? It's about 10 to 15 feet. One of the jump rules? Because my strength is like, I can jump like a thousand feet or something insane. Looks like we're gonna have to jump.

Yeah, I've got no problem. Jumping. Well, couldn't you just like walking on the wall over there and the point of this wall? Yes, but I'm very strong, so I'm going to jump. I want the spectacle. Are we actually using the jump rules or am I going to have to roll like a... So you're going to... So you would have to roll in acrobatics or in athletics.

I think athletics for me, for this... You can choose. Old vampire. Yeah, I would definitely choose athletics because that's the one not I'm proficient in. What do we think? I think we can all just make it across. I mean... I have no concerns in my own, but...

Dragonless... One long with me, I don't know. Maybe we could throw you. I was going to suggest it. Same thing. Great minds. Together. Probably throwing pretty far. Let's attach a rope first.

Oh, that's a good idea. I suppose we should get them across first. I start to, I bend down and I dig out. Do I have rope? Let's find out, shall we? And... Lefaca? I mean, not lepica. Farin. I'm attached to you and you don't know my name.

I'm sorry I like if Scarecote could blush He's truly Jericho's shooting embarrassed And I feel like I don't want to be a whole I know I'm just a hunk of wood And metal and straw

And burlap and a horrible Gross crow demon But I don't want to be the Anchor around your neck And I'll just do I'll do I don't get a levitate on myself. Does that work on pits?

What the hell? Yeah. And so I'll levitate 20 feet in the air. Oh! Now they're like a balloon. Oh, God. How can we make us more horrible? So what I will say is,

levitate doesn't make you fly. It lets you levitate off the ground. the ground is thousands of feet below you once you get over that cas up. No, now she can jump and I'll just be like... So what I will say is instead of being disadvantaged on your jump, it'll be a natural jump. Okay. So I can... Because of the levitate and you'll make the jump. Okay.

I actually think that's going to be quite helpful. You feel as hard to be... I'm miscalculated. Your hat begins to slowly lift from your head. I've seen Woola Wonka in the jogging. seen Willa Wonka in the chocolate. I love to love. I need you all to roll a Constitution saving throw, and by you all, I mean Mary us.

Damn it. Can I pull it out one more time? Come on. Come on. Lathander, don't fuck me. Those were two very conflicting statements. I was in Mary Poppins. I get it.

I get it, too. You feel the energies of this place begin to overcome you, but you are able to shake them off, only barely. I steal myself. Quickly, we have to hurry. It's getting worse. Just walk the wall, then get the rope on the other side. Okay, fine, then fuck you guys. I run really fast, they run along the wall and I get to the other side.

There is no wall on the other side. There's a subterranean river, and it just keeps going. You imagine, I mean, you could run along the side and see how far you get, but... No, I'm good. Just run down a thousand feet and then up a thousand feet. Into the water and the centerpiece? Yeah. Into the darkness.

So who's going to jump first? I'll do it. I don't have any rope, so I could go first. All right. You don't just start jumping, and then somebody dies they die. Merth will leaps. Whenever you make a long or high jump, you can roll a D8 and add that number to the number to the cover.

That's kind of sad. Because I'm a dear person. Sater. I don't even network. I don't know why I did it. I got a 20 and a five. Let's go. So I see.

You are with Jericho floating at your side. You run back and with your fawn legs or your Sater legs, you're able to rush forward and leap easily over this, over this chasm. You feel for a second like Jericho is going to pull you down, but he remains light at your side, almost like a balloon. and you are able to land safely on the other side. As you land, though, your feet sink into the ground, popping a boil that is right at your feet

as you are completely covered in pus and blood and a foul stench. Nice. This is almost really good. Does it do anything bad or just makes me stinky? It just makes you really stinky. Oh, we're stinky now. We really cannot get any worse

No, it really could. Well, now that you said it, I'm sure it will. Let's see who's next to jump in the darkasm above the setting. I believe that I am next to cut, and I will attack the jump at her. Wait, should we toss over a rope for you? Do you have rope? I should assume I would have rope. I made the assumption as well, but it was not in the way.

Did he start with regular imagery? You started with whatever he started with. pack did you start with? I didn't start with any pack. I didn't start with any pack. Not all packs have rope. Sure. I have a backpack and rope. Okay. If you have rope, have been 50 feet? I have rope. I have rope hemp in 50 feet. There you go. And you have rope. Well, I didn't know if I just put that in there or if I was allowed to. No, that would have been your pack. Did you put it in part of the character creation process? You put it in the pack? No, you probably pick your pack. You have rope. What are you going to do? I'm going to take some rope out awkwardly with one arm and uh let's okay catch it and what are you going to tie the other end of the

rope to look around there's uh there's a there's a there's a rail tied to any of the boards that are nailed to the ground yeah okay what she said you do that so you're now holding one end of the rope and the other one is tied to the uh the portion of the bridge i'm not good at knots i'm sorry Over than under Oh So I'll tie that Just be careful when you land It's a little

Goopy over here We'll take the other side of the rope Quickly working around my waist As tightly as possible Tie it up And then with enough slack to give myself Good run I will leap off the edge and over to the other side

Can I twist that? Yes. Yes, you may. Please God do. Nope. Oh. But it was so good. But it was so good.

Lathica, you run and you leap into the air. I'm not used to my long-more neck. Yeah, exactly. You're not used to the long neck that is now sprouting from you. And you make it to the other edge for just a second, but your feet slip on the clearly, the clearly mush-like texture of the flesh, not ground that is right here at the edge, as you begin to slide and fall down into the cavern.

You fall 20, 30, 40, 50 feet, and you feel your insides pull as the rope around your waist pulls against the tautness of the bridge up above. But the bridge is two decades old with no repair as it completely gives way and you begin to plummet. Another 10, 20, 30, 30, 40 feet and then all of a sudden you feel something catch you digging into your flesh feeling all along you

and you look around this isn't a magical darkness and it takes a while there is light below you you can now hear the rushing of the water as it moves past it is not too far from you you can see scorpion or it's not scorpions why i keep saying that centipedes coating the length of the walls not too far below you all over swimming in the water and you realize that you are being held up by strange fleshy hands protruding from the walls as they wrap themselves around you and you look into into the length of the cavern wall and you see that almost almost like jutting out from it appears to be an absolutely monstrous gigantic centipede as it begins to move you one. hand after the next up the length of it as it is moving you to the other side and you hear in your

mind almost as if these hands are imbuing you with some kind of telepathic magic you won't die here you have to meet my children as some extension of this hag will not let you drown here today as this strange centipede in the form of the wall begins to move you back up and toss you over. You will, however, take six points of piercing damage as they're not, they weren't like the hands of her familiar where they were human hands. They were like the centipedes, like talons.

And as it moved you all the way up, almost like a ladder, was piercing into you and causing harm. Yeah, like if you've seen Labyrinth and she's got the helping hands, you want to go. It's just like that. but with the centipede instead.

This is not the end for Cheratica. The good news is your head was like over the branch the whole time, so you're just having casual conversations. When I initially jumped and fell, I like the idea that I grabbed onto the edge of the bridge and you could see my super fucking long neck stretched out into the rail. I was like, fly, you fools. Who's next?

Instead, I stand at the now collapsed bridge cliff edge on the other side. I will say you do look down and you see that that form, that gigantic centipede is now gone. It looks like if someone were to fall at this point, there would be no helping hands to help them up. I'll hook my neck over the cliff and say, you will regret this. It should be the point where I probably roll one now. We can hope so. Who's next? How are you feeling about this? You're going to be all right?

No. What choice do I have? I mean, unless you're going to sit around for like an hour. Can't you teleport short distances? I'd have to sit around for an hour. Oh, that's where you're up. The rope is still around. Yeah, but it...

Glad that it was waste. But it was loosened and probably... There's like a dangling piece of wood from the other end, yeah. Throw me to fucking rope and hold on to this time. It's exactly right. We've got three of us over here now. You can't be much. You're mostly rotten. I'll use the plank as ballast to toss the rope over to you.

Do we catch it? Yeah. I am going to... For the sake of brevity, yeah. I'm going to fly. Here, float me over, and I'm going to try to basically float over the chasm. Just keep your footage. Because you two are attached, that wouldn't work.

That's true. Oh, well, I'm going to stretch out my arm. I'm going to fashion it to myself. you better hold tight and I'm going to jump. All three of us are holding under the road. When I'm going? Athletics or athletics? You should be okay.

Don't tie yourself at the fiery end of the rope. Not yet. It's 32. Everyone fails. I'm about to miss. I roll the 14 and I'm going to go out, and I'm going to add a three to that. Nice.

That's a 17 total. You are with the help of Mr. Crossroads. You do feel yourself slipping and falling backwards. You see the chasm below you, but you are able to, it's almost as if a friendly hand pushes you forward, as you lunge forward and you are safely on the other side. All right, Jorghum. I will hopefully see you on the other side.

Good luck. With an unnaturally deft amount of speed, I run at the cliff and hope I don't trip. 17. You are able to rush forward. watches. Marius gets down, even though he is, even though he is weighed down by the plate armor that he's wearing, and natural inhuman speed overtakes him as he quickly and gracefully leaps over to the other side. Does he make a sound when you land? No. No sound. Just quiet. I will back up and run towards the edge with a totally normal amount of speed.

If only I didn't have this tombstone, yeah. Barely any convenience. What is it? Oh, yeah. Yeah, look at you go. You are able to rush forward and jump over the arms on your back, the foot that's now appeared on your thigh pushing. I told you that there was a lump there on your thigh.

A full foot has started to form from your thigh. It's pushing out at your pants trying to break through the fibers and they're flailing trying to knock you off balance but you are able to you are able to safely make it over to the other side all right well I guess well made it might as well proceed you proceed you do I wonder how far in the templars made it yeah I would say you would probably guess the entrance way and you make it down to You begin walking through a dark cavern that twists its way up and around, and you can keep going until you get to the cavern on the next side, right before the color starts to change. There you go. You make your way in, and it is dark, but the dancing lights, the pumpkins illuminate an area around you. And for the first time in this place, you feel almost a sense of calm, a sense of quiet, but the smell is getting worse here.

The smell of sweat reminds you so much of the room that you almost drowned in in the crooked house. The smell of body odor just billows up around you with every step that you take. The smell of pus is becoming all too familiar. I need you, Marius, I need you to make a Constitution saving throw. This is absolutely no way I get this for like a sixth or seven time. Hey, you know. Come on, Lathander. We've got it ready to go.

Come on, Lathander. Help me. I once watch someone roll forward. natural 20th in a row. 16. I think I finally failed one. That is not enough. I need to roll a D6 and let me know if it's a four, roll until you get a four or five. Or just flip a coin. Coin flip that? Yeah, that's fine. It's less fine. Okay. That's fun. Okay. Two, two. Four.

I'm not saying you purchase us. Yeah, you're absolutely going to merge. You were going to hate me. I'm so sorry. What else? You know, do? You turn towards you are leading the way, and the light is reflecting off of the beautiful, shining metal surface of your armor, and you turn to say something to your friends,

and they all see that covered, from head to toe, you were covered in, like, ugly, popping cysts. I'm a leper now. Red, disgusting, gross cysts that pop and ooze with every motion that you make. As your armor rubs against your flesh, they pop and more sprout up. The smell is nearly overwhelming, so much so that it hinders your movement. And you will find out what happens during combat.

I'm sure I'm just going to be stuck. That is not good. That is what is happening to you. And I will reveal an avatrous and chill what the one was that nobody got. But you are able to move forward as you all witness this. you see that Marius has finally succumbed to the aura inside of this cave. As you make your way into another cavern, it's dark here at first. Then you begin to see bits of bioluminescence, a strange, red and purple bioluminescence appear on the walls.

A dot here, a dot there, a dot here, dot there. And then you hear the slithering. and you see the hands begin to pull itself up out of the crevice as the horrible, horrible face of the hags familiar looks at all of you, and it smiles, and it dips back down into the fleshy surface along one of these walls, and where it disappears, you begin to see the flesh grow yet again in a way you're familiar with, until a tumor-like, pusulent bulb sits before you, a mouth begins to form on it and open. as you hear the hag speak. I will make Mother Midnight love me. My wicked sister will pay.

Go love, resting away in Cyril like a princess. We will see which one of us wins me yet. What I do to you will make Mother Midnight love me the most. Third and second, no more. Stinoga will triumph. But now it's time for you to meet my children. Tell them that mommy says hello. And all of a sudden, the room will erupt in light.

As you see from the corner of the room, three large, horrifying, shambling monsters begin to rush towards you. The first that you see is unlike anything you could ever imagine. It appears to be 20 torsos formed together, the top ones still containing the head into a human-like centipede that rushes towards you out of the darkness. It's movements undulating this way and that. The torso's not fully working in unison. You can take that and pass that around. As it tries to move, but it's so difficult, only one of the torsos containing a head.

and then following behind it, you see where all of the heads went. One giant torso, all of the heads protruding from every single portion of it. Lopsided and twisted, they all look at you and smile and gurgle, none of them having the ability to speak, but the disgusting noises that they make are more than enough

as their mouths froth. And finally following them, the last child. of Sonoga. Oh, I might have given you the wrong one. This is the head one. The final one. That's so much worse.

The final one is the rest of the body parts, arms, legs, noses, arms, legs, additional torsos, feet, hands, all amalgamized into this gigantic form as all of them skitter out of the darkness and head directly toward you. And that is where we'll end the session. Oh, my God. Look at this shit.

Oh, that's bad. The heads is really gross. I don't know which one's more... The first one's pretty bad. They're all pretty fucked up, cows. I'm horrible in my augmentation. Jesus! I think it's one, two, three in a real careful.

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