Legends of Avantris - Ring of Chaos | One-Shot with Matthew Lillard: Part 1

Episode Date: November 11, 2024

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Welcome the Legends of Aventriss. Hello and welcome back to Legends of Aventriss. Today we are inviting you to join us on a very special one-shot. We also have a very special guest here at the table, the one and only Matthew Lillard. Now, I know you might be a little camera shy, but this is world-posome. I am so nervous. Don't worry. Don't worry.

Today, we are here to play a special one-shot based on the brand-new board game that is being kickstarted by Beatle and Grims called Ring of Chaos. Yay! Oh, yeah! Very, very cool. So, I wanted to give Matthew the chance to talk a little bit about the game. Tell us about it. Well, first of all, we are here because you guys have changed the dynamic of kickstarts

for people doing kickstars for doing big games. Oh, thank you. And we met you at Game Allcon and, you know, quite frankly, I didn't know the game. And we walked over. And in meeting you, I was like, those are good people. Aww. Thank you. In that moment, we started talking about, can we do something together?

And I am super happy to just share a table and to be here. And sort of this moment of you guys supporting our Kickstarter is super powerful for us, because we are a little Kickstarter and you guys are the granddaddies now of the space. It's humbling. Somehow. We were like, I was like, we should do something together. And then I literally just, not being boozy, but I wrapped the movie on Monday. I'm like, what are you going to say?

Oh, wow. Cool mom. I love the rap party to come here. But it was this moment. I was like, where do you guys live? I'm like, D.C. And I changed all my plans to fly to D.C. We appreciate that.

And to come and sit at this table. And the idea is that tonight, we're going to play an adaptation of 5E. adaptation of our game, which is sort of, it's called Ring of Chaos. It's, so we have a company called Beto and Grims. We've been in the space for five years. We make high-end premium box editions of Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, Critical Role. And we have a lot of cool stuff coming out.

We have a new TV show coming out, called Fast to Perform Kill Kill, which comes out probably when this is released. We premiere on the 16th. So we have a company with five people. We have been best friends since we were 20, since we were 21 and we're all over 50. And I think one of the things that I'm attracted to

is how you guys are connected. You know, we've been sitting here for an hour eating pizza and wings. Yeah. The fellowship that you guys share is very similar. Andy always says best friends win championships. Yeah. That's one of the pillars.

Yeah. That's true. That's true. So anyway, so we created a game called Ring of Chaos. The idea is that the Earth has sort of revealed this ring of chaos. And if you control the ring of chaos, you control the gods of chaos.

And so all these adventurers, monsters, and humans, and elves, and all these adventuring groups come. And if you win the ring of chaos, the world is yours to sort of control. So that's the game. It's a card game. It's a board game. And it's a very strategic game.

It's sort of loosely blazed. We love the game, a bang, which is this Italian game. And so we basically interpreted the idea of that for Dungeon Dragons and 5E. And so we are doing this Kickstarter. We just hit 2,000 backers, right? That's right. Literally the last.

Which is super fun. So tonight is about adapting this. Thank you for taking the opportunity to spin this tale for us. I'm super excited to be in amongst you and playing and sort of honoring our game and sharing space in this community, which is awesome. Thank you.

It's gotta be a blast. Look, this is your own. That's my, I think that's my catchphrase. The eyebrows are silent. I love that. Did you know my eyebrows are very well? So, the one shot that we're playing tonight, called Ring of Chaos, is going to lean heavily on the themes and the lore of the game. Thank you for being here. Thank you for being here.

Thank you for having you. And we're going to have a great night. Thank you. Let's go. We're going to win. If we get a game, we're going to win the game. That's bad ass, all right? That would be amazing. I'm going to get a fucking... I hope we get so loud we wake up your mom and dad.

I'm sure we are laughing. We can get air-at-haw- Sirono. They're used to it. Let me ask you a question. Is there any at-home rules I should know about before we start? We do rapid quaffing, bonus action drinking a potion.

Rapid quaffing? Rapid quaffing. If you're into it. Maybe. Maybe. Yeah, yeah. If you happen to have a potion, you can take it with a bonus action

instead of a full action, would be a mechanical team. I think the biggest one is rule of cool. So if you're trying to do something, it sounds really cool, you run it by me. Even if it doesn't fit within the rules, if I think it's cool enough, I'm gonna let it go. Oh, I love that idea. Storytelling first and foremost.

We're back on the story. The adventurous array. So as you built your character, we don't use the standard array. We like to beef our characters up a little bit, so we have a different set of numbers that we use just so that we feel more heroic. I wish you had told me that. We can fix it real quick.

I'll just bullshit every role. It's gonna be great. Oh, I hit. I hit. What was the number? Trust me. I have, we should have probably dealt with this before we started it.

This is all editable. I'm playing the harp. What am my, what's my name again? Jotis. The gifted harbinger. Yeah. Which is one of the characters in the game. Yeah.

But I just took basic a rachasa. But I just took basic a rachasa. We're selling it to Tabaski. Do you have the numbers? Tabaski. Yeah, so you can use, basically it's exactly like standard array. We'll just give you different numbers to plug in. So instead of it being like low numbers, they're higher.

Yeah. You're just put this already. Just plug those in whatever stats you want. Okay, good. And then do any magic items or any sort of, I have a basic mace chain and a shield, which I am happy to rock with. We also have a basic mace.

For now, that's what you will be rocking for. There will be. opportunities. Oh, what's the class of? Are you the least moderate? I am a cleric of light. Nice. A monarch of life.

No, I am a clear. That's a lie. I lied to you. We just started and I lied. You already. I am a cleric of peace. Peace. Oh, nice.

I love that. I love that. I looked into that. Thoughts of prayer. Thoughts of prayer. Now, have you heard, this is in your normal campaign? These are normal characters?

Sort of. They are flavored. character but not the like the mechanical characters. So like the voices will be the same that we do. Personality. Personality. But we've all the clown in the game? No.

No. No. Close. We've got gear. You don't want that. Yeah. Nothing would be done. He's going to be quite ridiculous. We're making a brand risk for Ring of Chaos. True chuckles. Listen, that's Beano and Grimm's 101.

Okay, hey, next time. How many campaigns do we have represented? Like five? We almost got all of them. Yeah. No. Oh. Which?

Icebound. Curse is. So Stradonia Prime Flash Route. Gary Goodberry is neutral. Which Light and Witch Light. So we're missing Edge of Midnight. We're missing Edge of Midnight and Star Dust. And beneath our wings.

Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I'll put cell except. So really, depending on when MPCs happen to appear, it might just be Stardust. There you go. I mean, it's just the . A robot puck.

What are you doing here? All you have to do is go, I feel like everyone should play with these scores. Yeah, I think so do. It's really good. Yeah, it makes up really good. We believe in playing heroes, you know, and so you have to have a little bit of a little boop.

A little boop. And not taking a feet at level four feels bad, so having to waste it on them. Yeah, it's fun to be able to take a feet early and kind of like flesh out your character theme and flavor a bit more. Our campaigns also last in eternity. We're on episode 40 something of Wishlight,

and we're level five. I was like, you don't know. Not like that's off on Witchlight. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you run Strad? Yeah. Oh, I'm running Stroud now. I love it.

It's probably my favorite module that was Wizards ever released. We heavily homebrewed the end of ours, and I ran with a female Strad, Strad. Strad. And it was so fun. It was so fun. The only campaign that we have

on our podcast. It's done, much of the chagrin of all of our fans. It's also the campaign where it ends with them all crying, like babies because they're so dramatic and intense. I just, I didn't want to do the whole, you know, Straud comes back over and over and over again. I wanted to finalize the whole thing, yeah, yeah. So we did that, and now Barrowie exists in our world

in a different way. Oh, pretty sweet. Whoa, whoa. Awesome. We ready to go? We ready. I'm ready. Ready.

We won't have an intro for this one, so it's just gonna jump right into it. That's fine. Roll for interest. You gotta say, join us into something. I don't know you literally playing. And the tungled. The temple of chaos has been revealed.

Existing only is a dark rumor for centuries, this ancient seat of chaotic magic has been rediscovered. Within is the legendary ring of chaos, a tool of unmatched potential that allows its wearer to summon the chaos gods to do their bidding. Adventures, leaders, heroes, and villains have converged at the site of the temple, all longing to claim this newfound power.

For whoever wears this ring will reshape the world for good or evil. And that is what has brought all of you deep into the jungles of chalk. In an expedition led by the renowned archaeologist Clayton Azram, along with the promise of adventure and gold, the draw of such unimaginable power that comes with claiming the ring of chaos

is hard to ignore. Clayton has guided you here following the instructions of a mysterious letter he received, providing direction to the newly revealed temple to the newly revealed temple of chaos and warning of its many dangers, including competing parties of adventurers and the temple's guardians.

You make your way through the thick jungle brush, the sounds of colorful birds, clicking insects, and howling monkeys surround you. After pushing aside hanging vines, a sun inlet clearing is revealed to you, though your vision is blurred by the tropical haze. As a soft breeze blows down from the nearby mountains, you see the silhouette of a stone structure in the distance.

And now I ask you, what is your name? What do you look like? Why did you agree to risk your life and limb to help Professor Clayton Azran find the ring of chaos? And lastly, and most importantly, what is your catchphrase? Oh, yeah! Go around the table. Do we explain the catchphrase?

So in the game, there's a catch phrase. So at the end of every turn, you have to say your catchphrase. And that's how you signal the turn is over. And that has nothing to do with anything. Other than we thought it was awesome. It is awesome. It's gonna be awesome tonight. It's gonna be awesome tonight.

So we'll go around the table. We will start with Derek and we'll head around if you want to give us your name. What do you look like? Why did you agree to come on this, why did your character agree to come on this journey? And then finish it off to signify the end of your turn with your catchphrase.

Tonight I will be playing Morning Frost, a Tabaxi psionic wizard. He uses his mind fowlers in order to shape reality and defend his friends and attack his foes. And I am a tiger-type tabaxy. You can see the orange fur and black stripes on my face and on my arms. You can see my tabaxy hands. You can see my school bus yellow eyes. And you can see that I'm wearing... That's the most incredible...

description ever. It's an inside joke. I'm describing Tiger the Tone. Tony the Tiber. And I am wearing a green robe that flows all the way down to my shoes, where I, you can see I keep to myself a bit with a mysterious, a bit of a sash, that sort of thing. But it's the most prominent thing you would notice

upon a first impression. Why am I risking life and limb? Well, because I share the passion for knowledge that Clayton Azran and I both seek, that promises of untold knowledge, promises of secrets, and promises of learning about the nature of reality itself, perhaps. I would risk life and limb for that,

for I am a very curious to backseat. Damn you, fuck. And my catchphrase is, let us proceed. Am I going next, y'all? That's how I end my turn. I love that. So good. Tonight I am playing scrim, stab-a-scotch.

I am a goblin, about three, three and a half feet tall. Green skin, the clothes that I wear are kind of patched together. I kind of look like a little bit like a hobo, rambling, you know, moving around, never staying in one place. Conman, never worked an honest day in his life. I'm a rogue as well. My subclass is the Phantom Rogue, because at one point in Scrib's life, he came very close to the brink of death and came back with these phantom-esque powers. Still a renowned thief wants to risk life and limb for the gold that was promised by Professor Clayton Azran. and is just looking for treasure.

Scrim will do just about anything for a little extra coin. And because I'm ending my turn, Scrim's stab-a-scottes catchphrase is, I'm six four and I wrote for UC Davis. Oh no. Is that in one of the way? He's like four or two.

No, I got out of actually three. Yeah, he's tired of getting picked on. You know, he's actually, he likes to think that he's six foot four. And he's like big and muscular universe for UC Davis, but he's actually just at three-nine. UC Davis is canon now, right? Yeah, no, it was.

It's one of the schools in, on-DICO. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Hi, everybody. Gary Goodberry here. I'm a half-wing. I'm stout. That's actually in the race description.

And I like to grow Goodberries at the Goodberry farm that I work with my wife. I'm wearing a wizards outfit, but it's green. So I'm not a wizard, I'm a cleric, I'm a life cleric, and I use good berries. I'm a big fan of the sports team, the mighty trunks, but it's tree trunks of this universe. Oh, geez.

And you have Parkinson's. You're gonna find a cure. We'll find a kid. With the ring of chaos, you can do anything. I can do anything. And anyways, you know, the reason why I'm here is, Is that one of the other questions? Oh, the reason I'm why I'm looking out of the screen.

I'm wearing glasses. I'm a known of the short. Well, I guess I'm probably shorter than screen here even. I don't row for UC Davis, but I'm here because my wife said I needed to get a hobby and get out of the house. And I also thought my good berries could go to use. And my catchphrase is trunks win. Trunks win.

Trunks win. Trots win. Spit all the way across the street. There's a long stick going back back. Yeah. That's good. All right. I'm going to be playing Hazel.

Hazel. Hazel. I'm a wood elf. I'm about, close to six foot, but who's counting? And I've got red-brown hair, freckles across my nose. And I basically just came on this journey for Professor Asran because he told me that there's a special treat out in this jungle.

You can't get it anywhere. It's awful sweet. It's awful good. God, I can't wait to get there. I'm so hungry. You're mostly seeing me eating snacks along the way. I've always got a little something in my pocket. And my catchphrases, oh, that's terrible. Well done that treat, is that from the film Joey, uh, in the chocolate breakfast? How do you do? My name is Professor Clayton Azaran of Miss Hallery University, and this is my expedition. Although we do need a cool team name, so I want you all noodling on this. Oh, that's right, right. It is, of course.

I am a late-40s, early 50s human male. It's definitely shorter than six feet. But a very large top hat to compensate. I carry a magical case with me that has a, my family's crest engraved on the side. What does a quest look like? It looks like a top hat with a fancy a arm. Good, good, well. It's in the arch.

And the reason why I would risk life and limb for Clayton Azran and his expedition is because it's me. It's me. It's because he's me. And finally, my catch frame. catch phrase for this one shot is. That reminds me of a puzzle.

Oh, nice. Yes, yes. Well, fuck, I guess that's my turn. I'm Gideon Cole. It's train engineer for hobgoblins and only worked for them because, well, they didn't let me go. It's like for a

bear. You're damn right. You're damn right. But they pay you even less. And I've been on the run. ever since and well I've linked up with here Clayton Professor Azran because you know I don't know anything about intellect like my friend Frosty over here but well it promised me booze and money you know anything else that's good. Oh barbecue's fair ribs. Oh barbecue's fair ribs as much as you can eat. Good berries. Which for me is a hell of a lot. So that's why I joined up

with this expedition. And in my turn, I'd say that my catchphrase is, well, shucks outy. I think I'm all fired up. I'm a mania and I'm a mani and old fire genocene. That's good. You're going to write that down. You're for sure going to forget it. I'm writing it down. I'm all fired up. I need a piece of. I got. I'm playing the gifted arbinger. Jotiti, who is, oh, geez, thank you so much. That's not a pen or a . Half of them don't work.

It's a fun moderator. They work mostly. I am, for today's purpose, I'm playing a Tabaxi, a cleric of Peace. I am here because I am deeply in love. Oh, deeply in love. With one of the people on this expression. I am, please be me.

It's so hard to, I cannot let them out of my eyesight. I cannot let them walking in the world, unprotected. So I is a cleric of peace. As the gifted harbinger, Jotiti, I am here to protect thou, or thou, or thou, or thou. Oh, all that. Me, I hope it's me. Please.

And so yeah, so I'm playing a cleric of peace. I have a catchphrase and my catch phrase is, Lord, I love thee. Oh, saucy. Now I have to write it down. Here's the bad one made you sit up that has to play. I love this, because this is like some Kaiser-Sose shit. I love the.

My goddess is Shantaya. I was gonna go with Hes-Dia because Hesty is best to it. And that got shut down, so it's a half-ling goddess, and she's got good berries. It's not the cream with it. Unbelievable. Anyway. Yeah, but we, I, as I show up,

in the morning before we show up, before we go on the expedition, I gather everyone together, and we hold hands. Oh, we hold hands. Your hands are so soft. Those are yours, yes. Let us, let us pray, let us God on high, bring us together, let us find the ring of chaos, and let us bring it into our control.

For if we are to fail, the world shall forever fall into darkness. We are called upon in great measure to save the world. Nothing short of that. God eager done. And women and booze. And the great power that comes to me. Well, thank you. I'll pray to that.

Let's all have some good berries. And that is how you begin your journey. You travel a great distance to make your way eventually to the jungles of chalk. And it is here that you spend an ample amount of time traveling through those jungles. Guide after guide leads you as far as they can until you acquire a new one and travel deeper in and deeper in. and eventually you're left to your own devices is no one will travel this deep into the jungles where you're headed.

The entire time we're going, I'm casting thaumaturgy, and I'm casting like the sounds of angels as we walk through. The sounds of angels are playing in a tree tops. That's not overwhelming. It's sort of like this calming sense. It pierces through the sounds of the jungle ruckus

that is filling up this jungle. Occasionally a soft wind will blow through and it will carry with it and even louder sound of these angels as you boom up the thaumaturgy. Thank you for not nagging me. And at first- Do you like the sounds of angels? You know, take it to leave it, you know,

it's been, oh, oh my, you're convincing me, you're changing my mind. Not them lift your spirit. Okay, I will attempt to open my heart, I suppose. Greater powers. This is what I seek. Yes, straight of powers. Your open heart.

All right. Yeah, we all have open hearts. I kind of looked at giddy. All right, yeah, sounds good, thank you. I'm gonna make this session like 12 hours. We got time. We're not gonna stop you. We're not gonna stop you.

That's fine. My favorite part. Yeah. Sorry. And you have time. You know that you have about, you imagine, based on the time that you've traveled, the letter that Clayton has in his possession,

that indicates where this temple has come into existence in the world of a ventras. You imagine that if your calculations are correct, and you are very smart. So your calculations are most definitely correct. Quite right. You have about half days. travel before you reach the jungles that immediately surround this temple.

You are heading out the very early part of the morning, the crack of dawn as you begin to make your way. You've traveled for a while now. You're all comfortable with each other. You have become accustomed to your quirks, your interests, your differences, and a lot of the things that surprised you in the beginning no longer surprise you as much anymore as you begin to travel. Is there anything you'd like to do before you reach your destination?

I've been thinking about this question of what we should name ourselves. Should we come across others with perhaps their own adventuring names? Oh, you're right. You don't know it was like a bunch of idiots that didn't come with the name. And I will say you read in the letter that you would be met with other adventuring bands. Their names, some names had been mentioned in there. And they were pretty cool. And you might feel a little bit down on yourselves that you don't also have a really cool name for yourself.

Come on, guys, we've got to step it up a little bit here. I mean, like... But what do you have in mind? What are we doing? What was wrong with Team Fire Punch Squad. Hey, hey, hey, I had that phone. I was with you. We can't all Fire Punch.

It doesn't make sense. Only you do that. Well, I mean, you know, it's as long as one person does it. And then we're a team. I mean, the name rights itself. It makes it sound like you're the leader. And I feel like we should all have equal, uh, say. and how the gang, the name comes together.

Fire punch, you know, fine. Well, whatever, all right. Maybe if we all say a word at the same time, and the words that stand out in this moment may be the beginning of our team name. Who like a kernel? I love it. The sound of angels booms out around you,

almost making what Joe Titi is saying more impactful to you. I'm convinced. I'm in? You are gifted. On the count of three. Was that we're going to go on one or go or? It'll be one, two. Like a true goblin.

We're ruining everything. One, two, three, go. Okay. First of all, close your eyes and find the word that you choose to speak. Oh, I have a chance. You have it? Yeah. All right.

My, ma. All right, and say it loud, and we will all agree on what the word is. Ready? Yeah. One, two, three, go. Good bear. I didn't hear a single word. I didn't hear a good berries.

Goodberry. Oh, so that's it? I did hear good berries. That's the beginning. So we're not just the good berries. No, God, that would be horrible. It's like Firepuncher, only he does that. Well, I said bumbleberry.

How much different that? Oh, that's true? That's true. That's so crazy. I also mentioned a fruit. I said banana hammock. Okay. Oh, I don't know that.

But I heard you use the name banana hammock outright. But I do think fruit, maybe we build on the word fruit. Oh, that's a good... What did you say? What do you say? I said Team Top Hat. I said, Team Top Hat. I thought he said Team Tom Hanks.

It's very weird. Very weird. He was great cast who's so tiny. I enjoyed him in the Hall of 13. It was terrific. How about Maverick? How about the Mavericks? That's not bad.

In the name of screws. Um, I like the Mavericks. I like the Mavericks. I like the berries. Mavericks of? Mavericks of? The Mavericks of Good Berry. The Mavericks of Top Good.

The Mavericks of Top Good. I think someone's already got that. What about mavericks of goodness? As in Goodberry, as in knowledge through, the mavericks of goodness. We are chariards. We are seeking to do, we are coveting the real chaos to save the world.

For goodness, definitely. Absolutely. Yeah, we're all real good games. We're very good, yes. Are we not? Well, I mean, we're clear. That's why you hired us because you're all such good folks, right?

Yeah, good is relative. I'm just here to help steal this thing. I'm gonna get it back into the right heads. Yeah, I thought there's what we're doing. The good hat. The good haves. Yeah. Yeah.

I believe that's- I'm in. I like it. Maybe. Oh, goodness. I like it. Well. Well.

Professor, what do you say? I will acquiesce to you and your decision. I live this up to you all. I mean, I usually just go with the Azran expedition. That's not very cool. That's not very leadery of you. So that's why, yes, we're gonna be the Mavericks of goodness. I like it.

Asron. Yes. It also. Also, berries are there. And can there also be something about breakfast? The name's getting kind of long. You've got to be able to shout. Oh, without crunch, crunch berries.

Yeah, yeah. The berries are in there with the breakfast. It starts to get a little. No, no, it's fine. The breakfast berry buddy mavericks of goodness. Breakfast berry buddies mavericks of goodness? It's kind of a lot in the house. Breakfast berry, how are you going to get that into tattoos?

I do too long. A wide lower bag. He's very sad. The Maverg's of goodness seems to have a ring to. I think you're right. Let's do it. All right, Mavericks of goodness, folks.

All right, everybody. The Mavericks of Mavericks are on three. On three, one, two, three, Maverg's on. Mavericks are you much terrible line. Sorry. Barry, you really ruin everything. Oh, I'm sorry.

Thank you very much. I usually don't get out on adventures. Now that that's over, let us proceed. And that is how you became the Mavericks of Goodness. The Mavericks for short. But you all, with this newfound name, this newfound kinship, once again, continue your journey deep into the jungles of chalk. It is a hot and humid day as you travel through these treacherous jungles.

Parts, untravelled by any for hundreds of years. At least not until this temple appeared. You know you're not the only one seeking the ring of chaos, but for now it feels lonely. The jungle's empty all but the sounds of the wilderness around you. Travel hour after hour until it's around the time you would expect to see the temple come into view. Frost, maybe you sneak ahead, make sure we are not being put upon

by somebody from the front. I believe you're speaking to scrim. Scrim. Scrim. That's what I call it. No, I know it can be confusing because I normally speak to you in your mind. Cross, come, stand next to me. Come next to me.

Come next to you. Your hands are also quite soft. Thank you so much. I'm still happy to sneak ahead, you know, even though you don't remember my name. Sorry, it's fine. It's all right, it's all right. It's fine. The professor was going to tell me to do it anyway. Mr. Stabber Scotch, do you mind scouting ahead? not in case, you know, to clear any traps that may end with your demise.

Just, you know, see if there's anyone cool up ahead with a cool name than we have. Uh, fine. Yeah, I'll go scout ahead, but I just want to get one thing straight. You mentioned that there might be other people around. Are they trying to kill us? Well, I hope not. I didn't sign up for that.

From a certain point of view, they also want the Ring of Chaos. This is gonna come down to violence? Well, perhaps we can all work together, and then once we achieve the right, achieve the ring, we backstab them and them as the ones. All right, all right, fine. Professor, we were the Mavericks of goodness.

I think I know Mavericks break the rules, but isn't that going a little far? We'll break the rules that it is good to get the ring. All right, all right. Well, maybe we can just punch them in their backs. We don't have to stab them so hard. Fire, punch them again. Well, maybe we're on fire this time, you know?

If it happens, it happens. Sometimes you can't control the release. Scrimmed here. I'm gonna give you 100 ball bearings. What? And the end is whistle if you need to signal them. I can't hold all these ball bearings. Oh, damn it.

I guess it's good if we get. No, come back. I run after the ball bearing while I scout ahead. You do. I'm gonna have you roll a survival check at disadvantage. Survival. Oh my god. You were very distracted by the 100 ball bearings.

My little was in nine, so I got a 12. That's not bad. That's not bad. You chase after the ball bearings, and they distract you. You imagine that you have missed some tracks here and there, but you need to collect all of these. Frost will not be happy if you don't return

with all 100 of his ball bearings. And you are lucky that you are so tenacious when it comes to this. As the final ball bearing continues to roll, you find yourself spilling out of the underbrush in the jungle here, and you are at the top of a hill looking down into an open canyon where you can clearly can clearly see the ruins of a temple.

Me, temple. The temple you had been looking for. And from this vantage point, as you scout around and look, you see the movement of the trees, clearly animals, moving about through the jungle itself. But you do not see any other band of adventures. You feel, at least from this point, that you have a clean shot down to the temple itself,

the entrance before you, covered by growing vines as it peaks out of the jungle, clearly having not been there until recently. I would shout to the rest of the group and let them know that I found what I believed to be the temple. I found it! I found it! I gave you a whistle.

Oh, oh. Tropical birds fly out of the canopy of trees. There's a huge, you hear monkeys. I cast silence. Quickly, all of the noises of the jungle's quiet, and there's pure silence. Are you crazy? This is the group you put together.

This is the group that you, Clayton, have chosen, this goblin with a whistle. I'm off in the jungle wondering why the whistle stop working. It was all I could afford within our budget. I mean, it's, you know, I'm working on a grant from the university and, you know, Mr. Goodberry has lots of debts to pay. And a clerics, frankly, more important than a rogue. Why, are you paying them?

Can we keep this between us? Hey, in suits, good sir, if the goblin continues to put the entire party in jeopardy, he must be, we must rid ourselves of it. Oh, you're in silence! You're in silence! You're no idea. Matthew is saying what everyone in chat has been saying for a while. Joe, Chit, I'm glad that you said it before I had to. No.

I mean, it's definitely going to continue, but that's half the pun. 80% of the time we get into find this. You're saying that we... You're saying that we... Get rid of him. This is that we are talking about the future of the world. Oh, great. And this knucklehead, this scrimm, this beast of burden should be gone.

He's not without skills. Every time I send him away with 100 ball bearings, he brings 100 back. It's remarkable. What else could we ever pass to gaspon? Listen, I don't like the way you're talking about scrim, right? And I won't have any part in killing him unless... I believe that my research is so excellent

that we must be the first ones to this temple. By at least weeks, we have plenty of time to go inside, to collect the ring, and leave before the next name, the next group with a really cool name finds this place. Well, to be fair, I mean, a rogue is a classic part of a party. We'll be unbalanced if we lose them, and I know we already have Hazel, but if she dies, then we'll be fresh out of a row. So it's always good to have a backup.

That's true. Do you know what I mean? All right, all right, all right. I understand. and look as a clerical beast. I was gonna say. I was gonna say. It goes against my better angels. It goes against my better angels.

It's a suggest that you think. But in sooth, in sooth, good son, yes, he is a fucking problem. I haven't been with him for four minutes. We've been exon positioning for weeks. I don't disagree, but how down after this is all over? Maybe you can get him to fuck him. follow your peaceful ways by force.

We are the Mavericks of goodness. So in this moment, I will not cast my creature. I will not cast upon him, but I will also not watch his back, for if he falls into a pit of death. Yes, then let him be. So we're not the Mavericks of murdering those

No. Let's hit your name to that. I must take her name to the average of those. I must take a moment to reflect what I said here, but it is clear when the person I am in love with is not straight. Let's not protest your books. You know you might you protested too,

dude. I assure you, he's so tiny. I have a tiny creature. It's not my tiny creature. All right. I remove the mother. They spell that cast, which I regret. regret casting, though?

Oh, Frost. It's a take a full rock. Your whistle's broken. I'm giving it. I've won't know. 98, 99, 100. They're all there. I know, I know.

I found everyone. Oh, hey, you found the temple too. Yeah, it's right down there. Did you find any traps or dangers? No. Did you look? Yeah, kind of, a little bit. I was looking for the ball bearings,

and they didn't land in any traps, so I think we're all right. That must be completely safe. To the temple, let's go. It's probably fine. Did you find any other than them parties down there? No, no tracks, no nothing, no danger, just old scrim and the whistle.

You seem a little down, Trent. Well. No, I don't ask him about it. He likes to elaborate. This is good. Let us proceed. Don't ask him about it. He likes to him about it.

He likes to him. I rejectedly drag my feet as we walk towards the double. What's wrong, friend? Eh, no, now Frost doesn't want me to talk about it. I'll elaborate. I sit there waiting for you to elaborate. Uh-huh. Uh, uh, say the thing.

Let us proceed. Well, you know what always cheers me up when I'm down with the dumps? What? A good berry. Oh, thank you. How many of these should I be eating? You fed me like, I'm 20 today.

Oh, you went one, too? If you. Oh, thank you. You'll be fed for a whole day, never two minutes. You'll be like my 20th one. Is my liver in danger? I mean, I really regret the choice I've made

with the group I'm trying to do. As we have now been here for 30 minutes talking about blue berries. I, I, Clay, get your group in order, good sir. The ring of chaos is before us. Please, Mom's Fawrower. All one. To the temple!

Thank you. To the temple. You can tell us later, it's fine. To the temple. It's definitely your kidneys, to the temple. We are the mavericks of goodness.

We are the mavericks of goodness. We are the maverick's goodness. That nobody can't do that. We've got to find the ring of dayhouse and kill all the world. It's better to love the angel music. We have to work on a battle song. We'll workshop that after the ring, after the ring. After the ring.

I had a good friend. As you journey through the valley, the temple ruins grow larger and loomed taller with each passing minute, until you were standing directly before it. Built into a mountain cliff and surrounded on both sides by dense jungle foliage, a single arched entrance seems to be the only way inside. Directly above the entrance is a relief carving that confirms you're at the right place. Carved into the ancient stone is a jagged star with eight points, at the center of which is an unblinking eye with a vertical pupil. The mark of chaos welcomes you to this long-lost place. And through the gloom beyond the entryway, you see a large statue of a sphinx, shockingly well-preserved for how old the ruins are.

Then you discover why. As soon as you begin to ascend the large stone steps, a rumbling echoes around you as the sphinx turns from stone to flesh and stares at you, unmoving and unblinking, with an appraising expression on its face. What do you do? This is it. Is it supposed to do that?

Oh. The Mark of Chaos. Should we put our tokens on the? Oh, gosh. Yes, please. All right, put us up. Here we go. Are we on the steps?

Put us on the steps. We're probably already up on the steps. Oh, that's, this is me. Yeah, we got you there. This is my favorite. When only the best we'll do. That's right. Let's get the map camera over here.

Oh, yeah. We're all wearing heavy armor, right? We're the beefy bull is. We're in front. Is this supposed to happen? Clayton, come on, talk to us. What's going on here? Well, I figured there may be a sphinx, but not an actual sphinx, more like just a statue of a sphinx. It used to be a statue. Now it's an actual sphinx. Now you must speak to it. Come on. How do you do there, young sphinx? Well done. Strong and open. Strong and no notes. No notes. No notes.

The sphinx, which is in a sitting position, Rears up and stands on all fours as it looks at you, its tail twitching, its eyes moving between each of you. Before it finally looks directly at you, Clayton. It arches its back and lets out a loud yawn, looking lazily about before finally speaking. For you to enter my temple, you must answer my riddles three. But beware should you answer

are false you will pay dearly. Oh. This is hard. Did you say riddle? That reminds me of a puzzle. I think of the riddle's a type of puzzle. I hear to stay my catchphrase. I'm stuck in a little box. I can't know. You are. Perfectly suited for this moment.

If you miss the riddle, we all die. So God you go dead. Go with God. This could result in our deaths if we get this riddle incorrectly. So nobody to speak out of talent. Sprout. Sprout. Sprout. Is there any way, I mean, maybe work with Frost on this one a little bit? No, no. If I get it wrong, we all die, is what I'm trying to say. No, no, no, no. We all agree.

Scrim would, like, that's what they were scrabbing. Yeah, scrim would definitely, like, hide behind, like, a pillar on the only, yeah, and, like, peeking over around the corner. Where's Frost? I'm right here. I'm a screw. Yeah, I'll come Tiger Bell. Oh, yeah, yeah. Come back.

Tegger Betty. Tregor. I might need your intellect that is profound but slightly smaller than my mind. That's what I'm trying to say. We're together on this. Don't get us all killed. Come up with an answer. I will listen to the riddle, and perhaps I can give you a clue inside of your mind as you answer. Okay, I see what's going on. Fucking struck my lightning. The rest of you are safe and far away. Five, you know what, solidarity proves.

Yeah, from behind the pillar, I say, don't worry, we're right behind it. You know what, we're like, 50 people. Clayton, don't worry. Pop out from a pillar. If we die terribly, we'll just all die. together. At least you and I will. You know, I believe in you, Clayton. You've always been a good chum and a great boss. I'm going to give you guidance. Oh, I'm supposed to say that. Hey, you're double guided. No, I'll let you do it. I see you do it. Well, thank you. Thank you for that, Gary.

Oh. I don't know. It's the first time you haven't called me Mr. Goodbeer. Are we at first name faces? Then we might die in five seconds. I figured if it was a time, it's now. I don't think you have to worry about that. Master Sphinx, riddles three, you say. We are prepared. Then step forward and may we begin.

Clayton, Fawares. Yes, get it. All the time forward. As that happens, I'm going to start to try to move around a little. I'm going to keep like on this edge. edge. I'm going to start to move maybe for a flanking position in case things go back. Roll a perception. Oh, great. Okay. Good. Oh, and I didn't mention this to you, but you all have inspiration. The stories you told about your characters and all of your catchphrases and all of that.

What's a twist. What a twist? That's my catcher. There you go. You need one too. Preception, right? Yes. Oh, nice. Okay. So, 22. Oh, nice. Wow. Thank you. Apparently the scores do count. I will keep that in my mind.

Thank you very much. Mm-hmm. Clayton, as you step up to the Sphinx, she sits down on her hind paws and she watches you carefully. And eventually she begins to speak. I have a tail but no body. I have a head but no brain.

What am I? This is not my strength? Oh. Tail but nobody, a head, a brain but no head. A head but no brain. I have a tail but no body. I have a head but no brain. What am I?

Oh. Coyne. You speak out loudly. Oh, shh. The sphinx turns from Clayton to you, Joe Titi. Oh, that's is correct. Oh, you're your script. Nice one, Joe T T T T's.

Whizzles don't got nothing on you. Yeah. I almost said, lettuce. I think I'm gonna say hello for my! In your mind, you would have heard a, and I just look over at Joe T.D. I don't know.

And I end with my catchphrase, Lord, I love you. Let us proceed. Clarence are smart. Who needs wizards, wizards. Clareg bros. That was one of three. You're still alive. All right. Well done, Joe T.T.

Let's hear the next one. Can I just say it for the record? Yes. There is no negotiating or talking about it because you just say things and all of a sudden they look at you. So be careful if you're going to

say something impromptu. Apparently that counts. I agree. Let's all be entirely quiet unless we feel we know the answer. Oh, I'm really impulsive. I know that. You're right, he's a problem.

We should have gotten rid of him. Just don't say anything. And after she's done, speaking her riddle, unless we're certain. I'll try, no promises. Maybe we all gather together. I'll say Clayton. Maybe we all gather together and present one answer

in one voice. Yes, as one group. Yes, because we are the matter. The last time we did this, I shouted banana hammock. It's not looking good for us. Well, you don't know. That could be the answer.

If you shout banana hammock, that would be the last thing you ever shout. At least we're never here. Now we're all in range of a single lightning bolt. So we can all die together as well. We are one group. Yes. Mavericks die together.

Hopefully not. That's good. How old dollars can't just answer the questions together. You know what I'm made? What the hell? What's the hell? Let's be the smart guy. I don't know if that's a rule.

His thanks looks to all of you. Oh shit. If you speak my name, you break me. What am I? Quiet. She turns to you. Oh no. That is incorrect.

Oh no! Ah! You know you can speak with your brain, right? Only to one person at a time. And she turns her head. It was very close, though. And you have decreased by one level. Oh, shit!

Here's a thing. Scrim, whatever I answer is. Did you answer next? So we're in a group, right? We're not screaming. So she did say that was very close. And his answer was quiet, which maybe in silence, break the silence.

Could we have a moment, please? What is the riddle again, please? If you speak my name, you break me. What am I? Speak my name, break me. I don't feel as good as I would. You like add your feet alone? I don't feel as good as I did a moment ago.

Your head is it's smaller as it is like. Cross has had a stroke. Your legs or your muscle tension. God, cross. Whatever you do, just don't look in like a mirror or anything. You're not gonna like it. You're not still. You are still. Wonderful. Thank you.

You're not dead purpose. No. I'm sure if we can care of Gary. Scrim just wants to get in here a little bit. All right. We have to focus. What is it again? If you speak my name, you break me.

What am I? Promise? No. I have liked your ID. We're sure it's not quiet? No, but he said, but tell what he said, No. And look at him.

Maybe he just says, I'm agreeing with that. What did he say? He said quiet. I was trying to say quiet because it was going to be really cool. I knew the answer, and I... But you used the wrong word. No, I didn't want anyone to speak up,

so they wouldn't get the wrong, so they wouldn't. No, it quite literally would have been the coolest thing you've ever done if you had just shouted silence instead. I made a mistake. You really dropped the ball bearings on this one. One, two. We move frost into the corner.

We pick up frost, and we put up. In the intro. Who thinks that answer silence? I'm there, I'm with you. I think it is. Say it, then. Me? Yes, Chris.

In the time. I kept you and I'm giving you guys every time. Silence. I step back. She turns to look at you. She rears up for a moment. That is correct. Oh!

We did it. Wow. Never didn't have it. Never didn't have it. Ho. thought the scrim was smarter than old frosting. Wow. That is impressive.

You redeem yourself from your earlier blunder. That simply is not fault. That's not true. We gave him the answer. He was a meat puppet. But what I'm right? He had to agree. He had to agree to it.

You know what I mean? Someone had to step forward in front of the scary sphinx. I think that's very brave. I volunteered. Well, does. Frost, you did okay. That's the lovely. The largest flip thing I've ever seen by like.

That's my Godhouse and chapstick. Listen, Sarah. Thanks, it's new. Next to the Flintstone push pop. Hey, yeah! We're looking at shotgun jump. It is. It is.

One more. One more. We got this. Once again, she looks between all of you. Once again, she looks between all of you. What can run but never walks, has a mouth, but never talks. talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps. Oh, no. Andy knows this one, but scrimm, way too stupid.

It's a, um. Don't say it. Well, to be fair, he already took one for the team. What's another level? It's fair. Better than any of us. Wurt full strength, to sacrifice him. It's a, uh-huh.

A river. A river. Oh, I'm a river. One more time, please, Mistress, Sphinx. What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks. Has a head but never weeps. Has a bed but never sleeps. And you think it's what? I will stand for. Oh, my hero.

Mistress Sphinx. Jotita, you don't have to. It has. Clayton. We still have trust of me. It is, it has been an honor to battle wits with you, and I'll start to step forward. It has been an honor to, where am I, oh, to have a little wits with you. Our hope is that in this moment we have justified our presence here and our quest for the Ring of Chaos. Indeed.

The answer to your final riddle mistress is River. That is correct. Oh, well done. Nice job, John. She, once again. She, once again. That question, you don't know what I'm here? She looks between all of you.

You have shown your intellectual prowess. Some of us, yes. Most of you have. You may enter. And as she turns, she motions towards the stone wall behind her. And you watch as these stones begin to shift and change and where there was no entrance previously,

an entrance appears there now. And as she motions to you, in that direction. You watch as her body starts to change, the flesh of the sphinx begins to turn to stone again and then crumble into dust. Oh, damn. Well, that sucks because we really want

this door to close behind us. It's open now. And it is as you say this, Joe T.T.T. That you hear something behind you, a rustling in the grass. And you immediately hear the sound of something whipping through the air as you reach up and you grab a dart

as it almost flew straight past you aimed directly towards Frost's chest. Not on my watch. Whoa! As you turn around, I love thee. As you turn around, you immediately are able to see with that spectacular perception score that there are clearly four figures

lurking in the underbrush. As they notice that you have seen You watch as these four figures leap out, clearly preparing to attack, but now a little more hesitant. They are all dressed in a dark garb. You see the one that leads them has a large brimmed hat as he saunters forward looking at all of you. And he looks at you for a moment and you see a smirk as he notices the dart in your hand. Well done, well played. We were just laying in wait for you to accomplish these riddles

so we could take what is rightfully ours. The ring of chaos shall be mine, my friends. You wouldn't dare stand in our way. We are the Den of Thee. Oh, that is a group from Kroo Amazing. And the one and only Mad Eddie, and you would not want to face me in Come that.

Oh, my friends here. And you watch as they all stand behind him, they saunter up to him. You see two women at their flank. You see a mass man standing towards the back. They all look very menacing, their hands lingering near their weapons as they all look towards you. So it seems like we should be able to come

to some kind of a chord. You let us through, you go back from once you came, and no blood needs to be shed here today. You beat us to the temple, how? Well, quick, we're smart. We have street smarts where you read in books. No, most of us don't do that, all right? So get the heck out of here.

And you had him, any points to scrim. What? What about me? Your bowl bearings. Those are frost ball bearings. You dropped them daily, your tracks were easy to follow. Ah, damn it. I should have known. Frost, you gotta stop giving me the ball bearings.

I don't want them. Okay, here's a hundred cult drops. You won't drop these. Well, Eddie? Ed, can I call you Ed? No. Is it Ed, Ed, or Eddie? It's mad Eddie.

It's very funny. He is beginning to look very mad and very Eddie. Why don't we just share the rig of power? No, that is not a better one. Are you an idiot? You don't share. Share the ring of power. It will be mine.

You will stand down. We will come to blows. Oh, I think you're outnumbered, sir. You may think so, but you are outmatched. Oh, there's the rough. That is what. Mad Eddie, we present a challenge to you. Clayton, mind if I step in.

Please. We will take our greatest hero amongst us to go one on one in battle with your greatest hero in your group of idiots. And the winner takes the temple. And the winner goes forward, and those that lose shall retreat forever. It's quite a gamble.

Take the option or not. He turns to the rest of the den of thieves, and you hear them mumbling. By they mumble, we should mumble. They discuss, you may discuss. I think his head may be bigger than yours, God, these caltrops are like burrs in my skin. I can't forget the caltrops for one second,

I can't forget them all over me. We got the dead of these, or unprolopless, like. We have the numbers advantage, but maybe we're during the one-on-one we can set up a plan and then an ambush in case. If it's going bad, yes. Scrim, you know, I'm the champion.

No, maybe it's terrible. Well, you know. Well, you know. He's very strong. He knew a fire punch, everybody, bud. Do you, are you afraid? No, not even a little bit. This guy? This chunk?

Can we not buff him? Can we not give him the advantages he needs? He looks buffing us already. Would that make us not good clerics? Listen, good berries. Do not trifle with the ideas of right or wrong in this moment. I like this cleric, man. It's all about cheating and killing people.

How do you eat it? And who do you like food. Eat food, have a healthy diet. Yeah, he did decide to wear a cake. It's a little goat. I think you cut his fucking head. I think you cut a fucking head off. Separated from his damn shoulders.

Yeah, I think, oh, I think I could get, yeah, we got the tools for the trade, you know what I mean? I volunteer myself, but I feel somehow diminished. You look like an empty Capri, son. A Jew, you're gonna drown in a puddle of your own drool. You're gonna drown in a puddle of your own drool. What's saying? You fast, Eddie.

Eddie turns to all of you, and he raises his hand and silences. You see one of the people that travels with him is a lithe woman with a crossbow. He responds to her, Rosemary knows not the time. I do accept this challenge. And he un-shees his rapier,

and he points it towards all of you. And who shall be my challenge? Not it. Well, can we have Can we maybe have like 10 minutes? Or one minute? We just need one more minute to... I decide.

To get the caltrops out of my skin. Yes, yes. Our friend fell into some of my caltrops. I cast. He's not the champion, though. Don't believe, about that. We may all take one minute to prepare for battle. Once the minute's over, your champion will step forward into this open entryway, where the sphinx has disappeared, and we will do battle. The winner will take the temple.

The loser will go back from whence they came to Miss Hallory University. Oh, never mind. It's an hour cast. You don't have to make it personal. It is personal. The ring of power shall be our, the ring of chaos shall be ours.

Beaten by Matt Eddie. Oh, that's embarrassing. We're not going to get beat by then, Eddie. Gideon's going to cut his head off. Get hit. I'm going to cut his head off. Professor, all right. Just be cool. And I'll just hide somewhere and shoot him up without him.

If things go wrong. Yeah, just so we're all on the same page. We all just gotta jump out and stab him, right? Yeah, everybody, we go one round and then y'all leap in and just start stabbing. All right, no, right. While this warms up, Frost, start taking the cow traps out of my skin.

This seems somehow antithetical to the Mavericks of Goodness that we agreed to. He cheated and he started it. And it's a fucking red name. Really? Hey, shot a dart at Joe Titi, man. You can't let that fly. That's true.

He wasn't trying any fair fight. The Mavericks of goodness, the goodest thing to do here. Let's fucking kill them. We are certainly not the pushovers of goodness. Let's go. Because you're such a maverick, I know you can handle the crunchy goodberry. Oh, man. It's like a pistachio goodberry.

It's got a shell. Oh, this is my favorite one. Here you go, buddy. You have shield of faith. Oh, nice. You can't even shell it. You don't even do shell it. You have plus two AC. Oh, yeah.

That's more AC. All right. All right. As long as I come, Nothing can go wrong. And right before, I think the minutes up, I will put my hand on Gideon, and I will cast Aisd. Oh, shit. Oh!

Damn. In this moment, I put my hand upon your forehead. I bog your nose, and I gently kiss your mouth. I cast, um, I cast, steamy. God's like, wish that would make. Will, Chuck, I think I'm all fire! No, I love me. No, I love me.

No, I love it. Transylane. I cast, um, I cast, um, so, so, bless, um, so bless, um, so bless does, uh, three, three, uh, three of you within range you get one d four a see you get whatever target makes an attack roll or a saving double before the spell ends the target can roll and deep work and add that number okay okay amazing so the three of us that I'm going to cast on are my fire genocci friend Clayton as our leader yes of course that's my if you fall we all fall I'll increase your bonus

And then Frost. Mm. I know that makes no sense. But I want you to know something. Yes. You are blessed. Lord, I love it. You keep saying these words, thank you. I wish you would stop drooling.

My apologies. I'll use a mage hand and a handkerchief will come up. That's good. So impressive. He's very talented. He's very talented. All right. So that's that's a man. That's not, that's what I did.

I got him written down. So Gideon, Flayton, and Frost like, preparing, I'm going to slip back into the pole. This is going to be the worst example of the game ever if you die. No, no pressure. No pressure.

No, she's Gideon. No worry. He's the man. It's easy. It's easy, right? It's got it to say in the chain. I've got some tricks way, way up my sleeves. Heasles hiding in the jungle foliage.

I have slipped back as a wood elf into the jungle. foliage and hidden myself on the leaves. Yeah, I look your little mouse. That's not a close. I'm a wood elf. All right. What the fuck? Okay, Gideon, I believe in you.

I believe in you. I grabbed my giant two-handed broad sword off my back, and when I started with just a Henley and Workpants on a pair of suspenders, now I have the holy power of the ages of multiple lords, and I don't know, some other shit really ripping me up. I'm ready to cook this guy clean and ham. With that, Gideon and Matt Eddie make their way

into onto the platform that leads towards the entrance of the temple. It seems like the Den of Thieves are playing fair, at least for now. I need you to roll for initiative. Hey! Come on, dude. Just lie to her, lie to her, lie to her.

27. I'm kidding, it's a 14. Oh, okay. Well, Matt Eddie gets to go first. Oh. Whoa. That's big. When he used his rapier, I say, that's not a sword.

This is a sword. Let's say a sword. You both step up, and with a flourish, Mad Eddie lunges towards you very quickly. He, even with the cape that's weighing him down in the jungle, why would anyone wear a cape in the jungle? Stupid. But it's cool, though.

It moves with him in a way that's almost super, as he moves one way, the Cape whips him faster around, and he is able to zip around you and lunge into you far quicker than you had expected. He is going to attempt to make both of his attacks on you, and he is going to hit with his lowest is 16. 18 is my AC because of my aegis of the god. Clemowers!

Clemrose! It's all the power of Chiltern. Do we have a mad, Eddie, to combat? Oh, yes, shit. Here he is. Thank you. Ha ha! He does have a very cool hat, Clayton. He does have a very cool hat. Actually, if you would not mind,

could you place the rest of the Den of Thieves just around? They are watching as this is happening. They're on the stairs. He, jeering. It is his first turn, so he actually gets it, advantage because you have not taken a turn. You get the natural 20. Oh, he's cheating.

His first hit. Wait, hold on. Gids him to him. Did he get him? Do you want? Oh, hold on. I need to roam my dice. I haven't done that for today.

Oh, come on, come on. Oh, no. I don't think you're going to work. No, he gets a natural tour. Wait, as this first attack happens, I've kept one of the caltrops on me. and I have caught it in my invisible psionic hand. And I have gone around behind him

without anyone noticing, so focused on the fight. And I'm just going to stick it right in the side of his neck, distracting him. A slide of hand, please. Okay. This is actually silvery barbs, I'm just flavoring a spill. I still just see if anyone notices. Okay, okay.

Let me go with 13. 13, okay. Okay. So with hopefully successfully pulling that, off, I will cast Silvery Barbes and as the first time you have disadvantage on this attack role.

I will say because you're not currently in the initiative, so he would have gone first. It won't be for this round. It will let it happen for next round. I was trying to... If only you were like... You watch as he... Real quick, DM, I'm so sorry. Can I use my cloud room

to change the course of his attack to himself? Is that a reaction? It says that I can do that. Is that a reaction? Yes, it is. It's one reaction. I can take the target of his tag. Yeah, I mean if you could do it.

All right. The manacles that my, all my forearms were up as the steam will pour out. And as he moves in quick, I'll go to grab his wrist and redirect his rapier into his help if I can with his natural play. Let's go! You can drop as quick as your name, you son of a bitch! That's how it's time. Matt Eddie whips around very quickly,

moving almost like the speed of light. At one moment, he reaches up and he smacks the side of his neck, and you hear him call out, Mosquitoes, it's actually your silvery barbs. As this distraction gives you enough time, Gideon, to take your manacled hands and twist his wrist slightly as he aims the rapier directly towards you, but you flip his wrist around,

and he stabs himself directly in the same side of the gut. He lets out a loud yell as he takes a significant amount of damage. What an idiot! Nice job, Jackass! He really is a man. Oh, nice rolls too. The stomach wounds the worst dead, then, so all right. The pointy end goes into your opponent, dumbass.

As he takes 15 points of damage. Wow. You see as he, his face goes pale as poison begins to seep into. Oh, he seems to be able to steal. He seems to be able to steal himself against the poison, but he does look flushed. He begins to sweat. He is feeling very wounded.

He rips the rapier out of his side, brandishes it again, and he's gonna go in for a second attack. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. 18 plus six to hit. Oh, yeah. Well hit on this one, all right? Yeah.

Ain't nothing to do about it. and you are going to take nine points of piercing damage, and I need you to make Constitution saving go place. Oh boy. You have blessed though, you have plus four to it. Oh, yeah, yeah. Hashtag Bloss. Do I take less damage on a piercing?

Con save? Yeah. No. And then a D4 on the save. You probably will need it. You probably will need it. What's going? Plus five.

Yeah, he's good. Oh. Four. 16. 24. Nice. You are easily able to withstand. You feel the poison as it seeps into your bloodstream, but you are a genocce of fire,

and the embers that naturally burn inside of your body completely evaporate the poison as attempts to take hold. Hell yeah. And you take the wound, but you are unfazed as you make your attack on Eddie. You hear the rest of, you hear the rest of, you hear the rest of, you hear the rest. the rest of the den of thieves, a call out and hiss.

They do not seem happy by this first round of combat. Yeah, I eat steel and shit nerds for breakfast, fast, Eddie. He gets the hell out of my feeling. I looked at Gary, but what the fuck does that mean? I don't know. I can never understand his cowboy speak, but it sounds real times.

Yeah, you can shit fast, Eddie. I want you know what's mad at him. Oh, not fast, Eddie. Look. Yeah, well, you're gonna go down like your name says, mad, I guess. What is he used to? It gives you an extra attack, it doubles your speed.

Extra AC. Two extra AC. But if the concentration drops, you lose the whole turn. But I'm just, I'm chilling. As long as you don't get me going to go. Two extra AC, sorry, 20, 20 AC. Okay, so 27 for the first hit. Oh, wow.

Natural one to the seven. You have inspiration. Oh, alright, I can. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is that fucking moment. Okay, okay. Uh, 17. That hits. Nice!

And then, idiot Eddie. Oh, 27 again. That misses. Oh, shit, the 17 hits the 27. What the hell? Yes, they all hit. He seems, even though he didn't take the full brunt of the poison, you can see that he's slowing down.

His skin is sallow, his forehead sweating from his totally. I told me shit. He looks like he ate something that didn't agree with him. I've been there, friend. Yeah, it's called a sword. You morrow! I still can't believe this.

I'm like looking at the rest of the party. How did this happen? You played yourself, Eddie. You played yourself. Well, that's not have bad. After I moved the rapier in to strike him into the stomach, I grab him by the wrist and I hit him with a striking headbutt as he reels back. and I grab my great sword and swing down twice,

landing two more hits. I deal 10, 15, 21, 2, 26 plus 15, 41. 41. By the ring of power. Chaos, shit. 41 points of damage. Hey, Eddie, you got a little something here. And he does. Blood begins to spruce.

Yeah. Shit. Got him. He reaches up and smears the blood across his face. His nose is bleeding profusely. You watch as he spits out a couple of his teeth. He bends over wretching. He is severely wounded.

You hear the rest of the Den of Thieves begin to mumble amongst themselves. What do we do? Do we help him? And they stand back. Eddie is not in a place to communicate with him. They don't know what to do without their fearless leader in this moment.

Well, shucks, and I'm just getting all fired up! As Eddie stumbles forward and once again attempts to make his attacks against you. I have a 20 AC. You have 20 AC? Yeah, he has a 20 AC. With the power of friendship and the Mavericks of Goodbeard. Even at advantage, he does not make his first hit.

And it is, a 20, he said? 20, 20, 20, 20. 18. So he stumbles forward and once again, his rapier, You hear it as it slices through the thick, humid air of the jungle, but it is unable to find purchase on you as he is severely wounded and is distracted by the caltrop in his neck. Hey, that's dry.

They ain't dumbass. Jesus. 26. Nice. Back in. That's a little grave, Gideon. End this. Oh, well.

literally the way to do combat, just buff one person. Finish him! Sweat the leg, put him in a body bag. And 24. So two hit, one misses. Oh, presumably. Oh, wait, so what was the miss? The middle one was like 13. That misses, that misses.

10, 6, 17, plus 10, 27. How do you want to do this? No! He had 22 hit points left. I said, no, you missed the bitch. And then I take my ground. I mean, I was just killing this guy? Yeah, I take my great sword.

You have three cats that's saying. What the hell shucks? And here I am just getting all the fire down. He's the thing. I cleave my great sword down and cut him from his left shoulders straight through his stomach and clean in half. Yikes.

Your great sword slides through him. It is warm. The heat from your body traveling through the metal of the blade, warming it up, and just like a hot knife through butter, your blade slices through Mad Eddie, completely cutting him in two. As the rest of the den of thieves let out a shocked gasp, before any of you have the opportunity to turn on them,

they dart back into the jungle. Nice! They want to take their chance with the wilderness over fighting whatever it is that you have in your power. And if you write returns to this place as you have felled the first of potentially many other groups, challenges that face,

that await for you in this temple. I'm Gideon, you turned the den of thief leave into a spring roll. Yeah. Let's check the body, yes? No. You may have magic. You've earned that magic.

Or perhaps clues. It is logical. Yeah, I mean, he had to get in here somehow. I guess he checks scrim. I just want his purse. We loose the body. Roll an investigation check at advantage as people are helping you. I call it out.

That's not my. I look at scrim and it's like, Don't grow near that damn body. Don't even grow. I will look, I will look, and I will dig the out whatever lute yet. I will also investigate the body. Are you helping me? I would be happy to help.

I'll look at his hat and into his pockets. This is completely unreasonable. Watch out for that sort. I think you had it, poison or something. I'll check the entrance. I'm gonna watch the entrance. Make sure nothing comes out. Perfect.

Can you, I have, I have, I have, I'd like to use my inspiration. You also have your portents? You have your portents. I do, but I want to save my porthes. What's the point? So as a divination wizard at the beginning of each day, he rolls two D-20s, and he gets to save those numbers,

and he can replace a roll at a later date with one of those two numbers. Any D-20 roll, though. So he could mess up the DM, or he can help one of us, or it's pretty cool. Divination wizards are kind of lost in a good way. I just rolled two threes. 17. You step towards the now the corpse of Mad Eddie

and you begin to rifle through his belongings. You find a pouch containing about 120 gold pieces. Useless. You find the rapier that he had on him was, it's a very fine blade, it's a plus one rapier. Nice. The hat itself is also interesting as it thrums with magic. It is a hat of disguise.

And lastly, you find, Or next you find seven potions of greater healing. Oh, I'll take four of them. Lastly, at the very bottom of his satchel, you find an exact copy of the letter that you carry on yourself. Worded in the exact same way, on the exact same parchment with the exact same script,

and sitting directly next to it is a small statue of a bat. This is the exact letter that I received. Say again. Did you have a bat? No, I did not receive a bat, figure. Have we been set up? This is curious. This reminds me of a puzzle. I mean, it is something of a puzzle.

Perhaps the bat is unrelated to the letter. They called him Matt Eddie. Perhaps he was a little batty. Oh. Wow. Did you get a figurine of some other kind of animal? No, I did not. Curious. I wonder, maybe he stole this from some other temple or ruin. Oh, keep an eye on it. Does anybody want this other shit?

I'll take the goal. Healing, Pushing. Yes. Just what you're going to throw it out. Yeah, you earned it. Listen, Drake's all meeting that, alright. All right, dear. Well, play, you did well.

All right. Listen, if we are to meet other people on this adventure, That was a good recipe for success. Yes. Well, hopefully then maybe we're, that's it. It'll just be them and us, and we killed them. And we could go at our leisure. What do you think, folks?

I suddenly hope so. The power of optimism manifesting? I mean, I didn't have to do anything. It was great. Yeah. I thought I had an exclusive in on this ring with that letter, but here, I mean, it's the exact same, it's almost like an exact copy.

Where did you receive that letter from, Clayton? Clayton. Where did I receive that letter from, DM? You weren't sure. Did it just show up to him. I don't know. What it came from. It's like the invitation. But you had heard, you had heard whisperings

about the appearance of the temple. You knew that it, you knew of it. It was something that you had studied. And there were, there were parts of the letter itself that made it very clear to you that there was truth to be told. truth to be told in the letter itself, as well as an incredibly large coin purse attached to it. Someone of great importance had sent this, and they did very clearly have the money to back up their word. That if what appears to be the truth that we are the first here, Clayton, perhaps we travel forth post haste.

For if we are to assume that others are behind us, right now it seems that we have been back. Let us travel forward. I hope so. Joe Tidi, I think that's a logical deduction. We should move. Let us proceed. I'll go grab the body that's dead, and I'll try to, I'll drag it with us to get it out of the way.

So that people have to try to figure it out. As we get through that threshold, I'm going to look around to see if I can figure out of the way to close this door. You roll a perception check for me. Okay. Ooh, 14. Pretty good roll. Stand by, sorry. You can't believe I'm level five.

Oh, plus eight. All of you make your way into the door that opened up after you answered the three riddles for the Sphinx. And you stand back, Joe T.T.T. and you inspect the outside of the door. You look for any loose stones that may be pressable buttons or things of this nature. And you eventually notice that there is a small hinge

at the base of the torch to the left side of the door. You reach up and you pull it down and as you do, these stones begin to move and see. Nice. Oh shit. Well done. The hop, Joe goodness. Jotiti.

Build up, Jotini. Jotini wins. The hob and Joe goodness. You know what's getting through that stone door? Unless they're a stone puncher. Oh man, any of those levels. Those left, that's for sure. And it is here that you hear the sound of running water as you make your way through the hall and enter the next room.

Its recessed floor is filled with shallow water and at the center stands a tall stone obelisk covered in carvings. There seem to be other doors going deeper into the temple, but all of them are obscured by sheets of falling water. At the pointed top of the obelisk are unsettling carvings of four figures with leering faces, almost as if they are malevolent gods foreboding your doom in this machete. in the misshapen forms that approximate a snake, a toad, a fish, and a bat. At the base of the obelisk on each of the four sides are very clearly carvings that resemble weapons.

A sword, a staff, a bow, and a mace. And if you could replace that map tile with this one. Nice. Well done, dear. And I marked the cardinal directions. Snake toad fish bat. Snake toad fish bat. Sword.

Sword. A sword, staff, bow, mace. Oh, staff and maize. North is this way. I was looking for the covers. The sword. No, there's a snake, a fish, a toad, a bat. A sword, a staff, a bow, and a mace.

So in the very top of the obelisk, you see the creatures. And it's not a toad. It is a foreboding creature that resembles a toad. As if some sort of creature was trying to take on the image of a toad, a bat, a snake, et cetera. et cetera. And at the very base of the obelisk, corresponding you'll have the,

I can actually tell you, the north you have the snake, and at the bottom you have the sword. On the south side of the obelisk, you have the toad on the top and the mace on the base. You have towards the east side, the fish on the top and the staff on the bottom, and on the west side, the bat on the top and the bow on the bottom. Is there any connection?

I'll pull the bat relic out and see if I can. It looks very, very similar to what you see at the top of the album. One of the connections again, it's bat. Bat and bow. Bat and bow. Bat and bow. Sand west side. Bat and bow.

Fish and staff. On the east side. Toad and mace. On the south side. And snake and sword. Is it a big sword? Is it a big sword? It just looks like a sword.

You have a sword, Givian. Yeah. Pretty cool, too. It is pretty cool. And looking around, is there any place near the bat where the bat would actually be able to fit into the obelisk? Oh. As you inspect the obelisk, it's very clear that it is completely solid.

You do not see any recesses. I won't even make you roll for that. You can't see any recesses. You check along the base where the obelisk sinks down into the pool of water just to see if there any alcoves or hidden mechanisms and everything is completely smooth. Can we tell how deep the water is? It's about a foot, maybe a half deep. Okay, so it's like a pot, like a,

it's just a, it's a recess area. Are we in the water or not in the water? To get to the obelisk, you have to wade through the water. So we're like knee deep. You're like knee deep. You're like just spake for yourself. Depending on who you are, yes. So I'm doggy paddling around.

So, like, half deep. Half deep. On the same side as the bat, if I look at that door, is there anything around the door that looks like a bat or again looking for some kind of, I don't know, insert or some kind of, you know, something that the bat would make sense in that, in that door. Looking around the room, the stone is once again smooth. It is so smooth you couldn't even fit a piece of parchment between the stones. themselves. The only thing that prevents you from being able to make your way deeper into any of

these rooms is the quickly flowing sheets of water that are flowing down in front of them so quickly that it seems near impossible to make your way through them. Yeah. So if I grab my shield, I always travel with a shield, and I try to like slam it in there to like create a shield where the water comes crashing down. can we see inside. So I'm going to take my shield and kind of like smash it through and try to withstand.

Roll a strength saving throw. Okay. That's not great. That's not great. Probably a 12. A 12 is not bad. You are able to wedge your shield up. Oh, it's 10.

Sorry. I don't get your fault. I said probably. You're dead. 10 will be rule of cool, I like this idea. You're not gonna be strong enough to hold up the water with your shield for too long. Not even long enough that it would allow the rest

of the group to glimpse into this room, but you head towards the north entrance and you use your shield to block the water for just a moment long enough for you to look into a large room that has no exits. The only thing that you see is a large, is a large green stone image of a fish head. That is carved out of this green stone

and affixed to the wall. There are two steps that lead up to it. But aside from this, you see absolutely nothing else in this room before the water flowing as quickly as it is nearly breaks your arm as you're trying to hold this shield up. You have to go wrong before my arm breaks. You do let it go, but you're feeling the pressure in your shoulder as you notice that each of the eyes glow.

One eye is glowing golden, the other one is glowing in orangeish red as you let your arm down and you are pushed backwards from the flowing water. I fall down, a splash down in the water, but I've seen something. All right, Joe TGee-T-G. Whoa. Frost. Yes.

I am okay. Thank you for asking. Clayton, the room beyond has caught, cotton glowing eyes. It's a fish hat. A fish hat looks a lot like a cat. It's a catfish. It's a catfish.

You know what I mean? And rammed up in a little bit of potato match. Group of gap bites. Did you say fish? Yes, indeed. Curious. Why is that curious? No, no, no reason.

No reason. Perhaps the sword. Let's investigate the soul. What do you think? Can I do an perception? Can I do a perception check? Yeah, absolutely. That seems suspect as shit. Right. The paws and the grabbing of the whiskers seems totally bullshit. Yeah, so I'll have you roll an insight check. That's what I'm looking for. Yes, come on. Big money. 23! I look at him, I'm like, crazy! Why do you care about a fish in your pockets?

I keep everything in my magical case, of course, but I just, a fish, I mean, it connects to this obelist. What did you roll? What did you roll against him? I rolled a four. You go ahead and answer. I've not been truthful with all of much. Whoa, my room.

My eyes have followed. I move to be the immediate leader of this room. I know. Bad maverick. Bad. Let me explain. I'm not like. The mavericks of goodness and also could cause it have. Not lie to your friends.

Hey, that's pretty good. All right, come on. I've been lying for the last five minutes. When I said I did not receive a relic. I did. I received a relic in the shape of a fish. How do I? I mean, we asked you point blank. You just had to say yes.

I wasn't sure in case we meet any other parties. I didn't want to let slip accidentally. And I'm like, look at SRIM. Ah, I won't stand for this. Again, it's your fault. Everything is your fault. Well, it seems like a lot of deflection claim. It feels like you've been caught in line.

They're not very friendly. And that worked pretty good, man. I was ready to blame Scrim. We should blame Srim. Well, damn it, now I'm back on the Scrib Thream Trim. This is someone. Someone is pitting us against these other groups. Yes.

With the letters and the figures. Mm. And I don't know why. If you let us in, I don't know if you saw, but I did pretty fucking good with the riddles. Maybe you trust the people you travel with. You're right.

How are we to be a band of goodness? You're right. You cannot even look us in the eye and tell us the bloody truth. I think this is a great character growth moment for me, Professor Clayton Nazareth and Salary University. A leader of this expedition. You always say that, and then here we are again,

and you've lied. I've only turned over five or six new leaves throughout the course of this expedition. I've only known you like a year. Frost, I ask you, what should we do with him? Should we kill him? Me? Yes. You've lied to the group. The group has a decision to make, a very important one.

I don't know that Frost has the mental capabilities answer that question. He's down a whole level. No, no, no, no. A bastion of strife. I feel better. I feel better. My edict's gone.

I may be somewhat diminished, but. Clayton is a sharp mind. I believe that he meant to help us find the ring and that concealing the fish was part of a plan that he thought would work. It was, I think, a good intent, even if it was a bad thing to do. Mm, misaligned.

I have a concern that if others receive this letter, It's very possible that we weren't for first, and we may encounter others. Well, we have something that they don't have. We've got two statues now, right? Presumably the other parties only have one. That's twice second place! That's right.

And if they're all only four, then maybe there are just two groups. We have the fish and the bat, connected to the staff and the bow, east and west. Can you reveal your fish? What? We have asked them.

What are the weird question? Show me a fish. It's really inappropriate, Frost. Show me a giant view. Right in the middle of something. Show me your hammerhead shark. If you could just pull out of your fish right now, I think that we need to experiment with it.

Nice. It's the whale shark. It's just the whale shark. You guys even hear yourselves? Unbelievable. I want you to put your fish in my hand so that we can experiment with it. What?

I warn you, it's slimy. All right, I regret leading this time of a scene. Well, just say, I'm going to, as, I'm really disgusted. I actually find this moment, not the sexual innuendo. No, no, you're fine with that. That's totally cool. That's fine. That's fine.

I was an athlete once in high school. I understand. Come on erotic joke. Listen, I find it repugnant to be lied to. I find it, look, as a cleric, I'm the harbinger. of... What's my name? Peace.

Peace. You're the talent. The gifted harbinger. The gifted harbinger, yes. I'm the gift of harbinger. And I'm going to walk away from the group. Yeah. And I'm going to take Clayton from here on and all.

I do not trust you. And this is unfortunate. On behalf of this group, if we cannot work together, we cannot walk as one, we cannot survive. So in this moment, you have to be able to survive. So in this moment, you have a lot of this moment. to earn my trust back.

And I'll storm off through the water and slosh through. I'm gonna watch the door, because now I believe there are two other groups coming. You make your way, you slosh through the water, and you make your way towards the door that you had peered through, and you lean back against the wall. You're very frustrated as you watch what happens here, and your eyes dart back and forth between the east

and the west entrances, and you keep your ears open for any sounds of anyone else traveling. within this place. Roll a perception check at advantage. 21. 21. Oh. All right. 21's a high. Oh, I'm like, damn, double 21s. All right, I will keep that in mind.

Thank you. All right, I gotta be honest here, guys. Look, he's right. Clayton, you messed up. But I'm also a little conflicted because he was advocating for my murder earlier. So, you know, six to one, half a dozen in the other. I don't really know where to go from here. Things are tense. Joe Titi, I understand where you're coming from. We all feel betrayed and hurt.

But are you at least a little sad about it? Can you apologize? Well, I guess I could. Why don't you do that right now? I'm sorry that I had this information. I believe it was for a good reason. For if this was public knowledge and we encountered another party, they happened to learn that through means outside of my control. They would have the upper hand.

I believe that's totally just. logical and reasonable. Would it be helpful if we all told the secret about that chance that we lied in the past? Like before I was using Gary's Goodberry's nose clippers to trim my ass heads. And I didn't tell him. What?

You know what if it's not like shit. So Gary, I'm sorry. See how that works? Well, I forgive you, Scrim, because I believe in forgiveness. I believe that no one should be defined by their worst day and their worst mistake. That's very kind of you. But now also I kind of feel bad about the whole situation.

Well, I think we all should feel bad. We should all be friends together and not be arguing. The fate of the world's instinct. The rig of chaos is going to cause chaos or something. I don't know. If we let it give him into the hands of that, imagine a bad idiot got his hands on it. It'd be doomed for all of us.

We'd all be having to wear capes and stupid hands. Something who knows, even worse. So we got to stop him. So you got any other stanchies we don't know about Mr. Azra? No, just the one. And now we have the two. and then are two remaining, presumably. Maybe there's 10 of each for all we know.

I'm still holding my hand out. Oh, right, Curio. And I'll wave my hand and my case will float up and open up magically. And it is as this happens that, actually, I will roll the D8. You hear the thrum of magic as this entire temple, the chaos that is building within this begins to warp

the temple itself. As the chaos spreads out all of you feel it overcome you. I need all of you to roll a D100 for me please. Oh, no. Because I got a one so that affects everybody. I got a 92. 84.

Anybody tell me how to do this. You roll two details. Frost, what did you get? And which one goes first? So this is 44. Derek. 97. 97?

Whoa, 84. 84, thank you. Oh. 23. 33. 38. I refuse to roll. Kelse, 73.

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Wow. That sounds like a blessing, not a curse. I know, I was waiting for the as a. Yeah. We will find out if Scrim dies. What do you mean if? Gideon. You begin to pulse with a dark black and purple magic. The flames that, the embers that crackle in your beard,

to turn to a dark purple instead of a red, instead of an orange, as necrotic magic bursts out from you. All of you will take 1D10 necrotic damage. Ouch. Shit. All of us? All of you. Except for you.

Do we roll it ourselves? Yes, rule it yourself, take the damage. And you will regain hit points equal to the damage they took. Oh no. I lost three, so you gained three. I lost two. I lost nine. I lost nine.

That's nine. I lost nine, 18, 27. I'm doing it. Eight. 27 plus eight. 235. Do you get temporary points? Uh, no.

Damn it. Good try. Ah, he's even more attracted. You were all blasted by this necrotic energy. Ah! You didn't know. Clayton's your fault. It's the fish statue, it's the fish statue.

It's twangip close to me. Pick, pick one of your companions. Well, shucks, I feel great. We'll choose the gifted harbinger. You look towards your Tabaxi companion, and in a fit of chaotic madness, you let loose a, not a fireball, you let loose magic missiles at fifth level. Oh my God!

He's not gonna trust any of them. It's game over. It's chaos. I guess I'll look that up. Fifth level, that's a lot of D4s. I was just rude, really. It might be. You need some?

Hold on. It might be like 7 D4s. Magic Missile. You know him to be so happy to give them to the time. I mean, if you need them. If you need them, I got them. I mean, if you guys don't like something, just tell me.

You love this. We love it. All right, I need, uh, there's two more. That was one of my, uh, my repeat watches. I'm gonna grab D4 right here. Why you're doing my D4? Oh, yeah. From his own pool.

Uh, seven, You're all like hot fire. 12, 14, 14 points of fourth damage. That's good. Jote, I try to grab Jotidi's hand. Oh, oh, almost good. You are trying to console them if he walks off. It's gonna be okay, Jotie.

You feel the missiles slam into your body as you were thrown backwards, slamming into the wall. The chaos magic consumes you as well, and all of you see that same purple and black magic black magic begin to throb and pulse within Joe TT, as all of you once again take 10, 1D10, oh my gosh. Oh, good.

Oh, good. Six. Oh, Joe Tice heals, though. Let's go in order from Derek. Hold on, let's start with Derek boy this way. Three. Three, six is nine. Eight is 17.

Two. That's 19. Nine damage. That's 28. Seven. 35. 35. 35.

You heal for 35. Oh. I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me. I'm not sure. Just exploding on. Well, how this happened? Lord, I love thee. Thank you.

Chugs win, trunks win. And as you say this, Clayton, into existence popping around you, one, two, three, five flumps appear around you. They seem happy and excited to be near you. They move in towards you and rest on your shoulder. They make these cute squeaking noises as they fly up under your hat.

It's quite obnoxious, and you can't seem to get them to remove themselves from your body. What are they? Flumps. They're like these adorable fay jellyfish. They're very cute, but they're quite obnoxious. Oh, how do you do? Oh, actually, no.

I mean, you're cute for a second. You open your mouth and one of them flies in and you just spit it back out. It does not taste great. But for this foreseeable future, you are encumbered by flumps. Oh, fuck. Cumbered by flumps is my number one. Cumbered by flumps.

It's an encumbrance of flumps. That's really funny. Hazel, please pick one of your firemenists. Not it, nodded. Do not look me in the eyes. Hey. I pick Gary. Roll a D4, please.

Me? No, Hazel. Pick my flumps. One. You turn and you look towards Gary Goodberry as he is telling this tale, you're not distracted by the flumps. As the chaos magic infuses your body

and two rays of poison shoot out from your eyes like you're a horny toad. And, um, yeah, hornet toads spit blood out of their eyes. It's really creepy, but I'm doing poison. because they're also kind of poisonous. I didn't know that was fun. You were poisoned for an hour.

Go! What's it happening? Oh, sorry. It's all in my eyes. And as this happens, you watch as Gary Goodberry's skin turns a vibrant blue. Whoa! You turned out too!

Oh, God, is he as fixiating? But you're not really! He's reading Gary. He's not too many good letters. Let her go. I am a cleric. It's fine. What is that? We have his position covered in the group. What just happened?

It's good to know. What just happened to all of us? We just exploded. He's nice Gary, Goodberry. He was a good companion. He didn't lie to people. I'm trying about to. Oh, wow, Gary, you're looking pretty rough.

This is awful with the poison and the novas and the act. I feel pretty good. Nothing happened to you, yeah. It's kind of strange. Well, you were blasted by horrible purple magics. multiple times. Oh, Scrim needs one. You're right.

No, he's got one. If he dies, he automatically re-end his. Yeah, I just feel, I mean, I'm a little beat up, but I've been worse, I feel all right. It's kind of weird. I stab him in the heart. Oh. I know, I don't.

I don't. I know, I don't. That was a joke. Could you stab these cute things in the heart? I wouldn't hate that. Oh, don't do that. No, we're not going to hurt your flumps. It is all right.

Don't know. I knew it. I knew it was coming. Get in. attack the sword or something. We gotta move on or else we're all gonna explode and tear each other apart. What's happening?

I don't know. If the sword moves us forward, I'm grabbing. It is around this time that the humming and the thrumming of this temple begins to subside and all returns to quiet. Oh, goodness. That was a lot. Good to the obelisk, the sword that's

to pick you all the arborists. Yeah, yeah, I know, I got it. I'm up at the obelisk right now. My hands are wrapped firmly around the sword, and I'm bawling. Is it an actual sword or is it just like, Oh, Jase. No, it's a carving.

It's like a hieroglyphic. It's a carving of a hieroglyph. Do sword-ass things in front of it. I don't fucking know. I grab my sword and I spin it behind my back and under my breath, I say, and to see if anything happens. As you stand in front of this face of the obelisk

and you wield your sword before it, you watch as the depiction of both the animal at the top and the sword at the bottom begin to glow with a soft white light. Nice! Well, hell, I'm going to work! I can't believe that was! That's amazing!

Where did you get the sword? I just have a sword. Oh, you had a sword? Well, I have a sword. Oh, my bad. It's just my sword. He has a great sword like you have a basic mate. Right. It's no coincidence that there are four sides to this obelisk,

and there are four classes represented amongst us. Claric, fighter, wizard, and what's the other one? It's rogue. Oh, you know, I left my bow at home. You don't have a bow? No, I'm daggers and then little shorts swords. You know, look, I got little arms. What do you expect me to do with a bow?

It's bigger than me. That's true. Fight from far. I like to get in there and stab them sometimes bite their ankles. So what are the other, what are the other icons? Yes, we have the, the snake, the toad, the fish, and the bat,

connected to the sword, the staff, the bow, and the mace. I have a mace. Oh, I have my mace. I have this club. I've got my mace and my shield. I'll get up to the mace side and sort of do my, like, your victory pose. Yeah, I'll go through like, you know, the key thing.

I will go through my, every morning I wake up before dawn. Exactly. And I do a ritual of like, Mace, Yeah, and attuning to your, my craft, your craft, my craft of death and bludgeoning. And peace. Peace and death. If you want peace, prepare for war.

You stand on the south side, directly opposite from Gideon. As you do your victory pose mason hand, and when you are finished, the final flourish of movement, you watch as the symbols, both the animal, on the top and the mace on the bottom begin to glow with a soft white light. Hell yeah. Yes.

Stand back. Somebody's great. Get hit with magic missiles. Everybody, you gotta run up and do a victory pose in front of your side. I can do that. We'll get on up there. I'll fling my long bow out from behind me

and do my approximation of what I think Sailor Moon might do in a cartoon and go, da-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na. And I'll string my bow. the obelisk. All the lights go out. The splashing through the water is a beautiful dance as you do these motions.

And in your final pose, as you hold the bow string tight or taut, you watch as once again the animal on the top and the bow on the bottom illuminates on the west side of the obelisk. One more left. That leaves wizard. That leaves Wizard. I hope neither of you left her staffs at home.

I carry my staff with me, thank you very much. You use a staff? Well, when I reach into my back pack. Oh, you're reaching to your pants. It was right there. That's not a staff. Those are just tent poles. What are you doing?

Just a moment. I'm gonna make a staff. Oh, it's collapsible? Well, play for us. Without you, we are lost. Thank you. It's always good to be prepared, I always say. And I will assemble a staff. Look at him.

I can't believe I left my mace in my other pants. As he does this, I say to everyone, I think we should find the four corners of the world. Let us be prepared for whatever's to happen. If this obelisk comes crashing down, if a door opens, if the water starts to flow freely, we need to be prepared. If anyone explodes from the chronic magic,

I'm going to step away from all of you, but we'll all be ready. Anyone who's not doing a big, great dance. Oh, yeah. So we've got four people around the office. I'm back in the way. So yeah, Europe, you're in the corners. And then there, and Clayton can be in the corner.

Yeah, all right. Okay. It's pretty good. Stavs are so three-ledding, you know. Very second age, I agree, but actually, that isn't a good point. The staff is really just a symbol. Perhaps, let me just try something.

I'll reach out with my mind. And without a staff, I will push into the symbol of the staff, and I will try to read its thoughts. I will try to pierce the veil. I will try to go into its mind and see if that is, the staff is a representation of my wizardly power rather than the need for an object. All right, Frost, you lost more than a whole weapon.

And how do you endeavor to do this? Well, they just had to sing like Sailor Moon and stuff. I mean, I know, what 90s media are you pulling on, all right? Thunder, Thunder, Thunder, Cat, with my mind saying Thundercats, how? You know what? Five. Thank you.

You do, though the obelisk does not have a mind for you to read, you attune yourselves to the magics of this place. You can feel the innate arcane magics that infuse every stone in this room, in this temple. And you are able to attune yourself to this obelisk. No need for a staff. It's not about the weapon that you hold, but the magics and the power that you wield. And as you do this, you all watch as Frost stares forward, almost completely still, as every breath that he takes is attuning to this obelisk before both of them illuminate the soft white glow.

And as they do, a wave, thank you, I wish I could do those noises. As you, as this happens, the entire room begins to hum with magic, and then you hear the rumbling as the obelisk itself begins to sink into the ground. And as it does, it doesn't disappear fully, but the pyramid cap on the obelisk is the only thing that remains. As all around it, you see greats revealed as the water begins to rush down into the space between the obelisk and the floor, the walls where the waterfalls were keeping you from being able to exit, they begin to slow.

And you realize that the doors on the left and the right, the east and the west, were simply mirages. There's nothing but stone behind them. The one to the north, however, is no longer blocked. And you're able to move forward a deeper into the Temple of Chaos. Nice!

That comes down. Oh, Mavericks of goodness, strike again. I'll lower my hands and shift them into my robe sleeves. Let us proceed. Trucks win! Trucks win! Out to the next room! To the fish head. Lord, I love thee.

Thank you. You all make your way forward. Clayton, did you see as, as we proceed, I said Clayton, your group has accomplished so much, and yet your tongue is held still. You have not a kind word to give. I ask you, what kind of leader is this? He lies.

He does not provide encouragement, strength in the group. Kill him. You really should have been in Cursus Ferdane, yeah. I am not saying to kill him. I am just challenging, and perhaps you are not the leader you believe you are. The words, it's not leadership. Is this a mutiny you suggest?

There is not. It is a challenge. to you all. Well, could I pose a question? Yes, love. What do you have to offer us? Because really I only came along because he had promises of, you know. Money.

Money. Treasure. It was gold. Treats. A recommendation. I ask you this. Other than you who will resurrect if you die. The rest of that, to chase nothing but money.

Isn't the stuff of legend. Isn't the stuff of heroes? It is not the medal to win the Ring of Chaos. It's true. You have to have more than that. That's true. You want words of encouragement? Well, if we can win this Ring of Chaos,

I will double all of your pay. Wow. Double? I will double it as long as I survive. And we get the Ring of Chaos. Frost. I will always have your back. Just know that. Thank you.

Others may not. I'm not doing this for money. I'm not a political. I'm doing this to find the ring of chaos and learn its secrets. Yeah, me too. It's powers. You never really gave thought to what it would mean

if we found the ring. That's a really good question. Clayton, what are you planning on doing this thing? There's a question. What are you going to do? It belongs in a museum. Why? It needs to be studied, protected.

I will place it in the greatest, It'll be housed for eternity. So it won't fall into the wrong hands. Exactly right. Azran wing of the Misty Tumoury Museum. Wow. That's more protected in this place. There it is.

Yes. Yeah. Of course. I mean, look at this. Fast Eddie almost broken in here. I mean, if anyone like fast Eddie can just waltz right in. He was bad at you. Yeah.

Now, Indians got me off. Cheers. Listen, let's continue forward. But I'm just saying. I expect more I'm the leader. I agree. You need to really, you need some self,

some shadow work. Maybe start some therapy. Yeah. If you don't. Say thank you once in a while. People will just look at you in fame. All hat. That's fair.

That's really, very much. This is my expedition because I funded it and I decided to come here, but it's not like I'm the leader in the way that Hannibal's the leader of the A team, you know what I mean? I'm not like a commando, you know what I mean?

It's not like my style. Well, if you think a bunch of nerds are gonna keep this thing out of the wrong hands, like Mad Eddie, and his Mad Squad, get a mad Eddie. The guy you cut in a head! His name wasn't Fast Eddie? No! Oh shit! I called him Fast Eddie right when I cut him in the house!

All I'm saying, we made really tougher customers than the guy to Zoro Costume. I'm saying, I've come twice. It's just... I'm just getting right. We've been... What's more intimidating than the guy in Zoro Kro Costa. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying.

Now they're gonna be worse. Gary, I think you may be on to say. We head now north into the wing of the snake. Towards the fish. No, we. The fish and the bad doors were illusions. We're heading north now into the snake corridor unless I misheard our dungeon mistress.

No, you're heading north. If you want to replace that tile with this one. Ooh, a new time. As you enter this small chamber, you see You see the statue of an enormous misshapen fish head carved from a dark green stone and affixed to the wall. Both of its eyes hum with glowing energy, glowing in two different colors.

Its right eye pulses with a soft golden light, while its right eye radiates with chaotic orange and red light. This is exactly what you remember saying. And it was described to all of you. It matches the description perfectly. And as you look around the room, once again, you see that all of the stone, the statue itself affixed to the wall, the fish head, is almost seamless.

There's not enough room between the wall and the fish head to even slide a sheet of parchment. The stones that create the floor, the walls, the ceiling are all meticulously crafted together and perfectly smooth. There is nothing else in this room that you can see. You know, Joe T.T.T. You're right. You all have been doing the heavy lifting. Let me put my own life at risk.

I've been spending months studying that fish relic, and I believe there may be some connection. So stay back. Wait, do you honestly think that, like, it might take your life? I mean, I think any one of these rooms could take our life in an instant. Oh, so you're thinking more of a metaphysical level,

not like literally. You're just like, just in case maybe this is your turn to step up. That's what you're- Well, I think if I walk up there and I take 10 magic misses to the face, I might die. I'm a wizard. After all. All right, well, you know, hey, good luck.

I go up to you and I grab your ear and then wiggle my fingers in your ear, and you have guidance. You feel like a tinge of energy that starts a cascade around your ear, and you have a sense that you are imbued with guidance. I feel at peace, Jotiti, thank you. Good.

Let the leadership shine in you. It's very intimate. Yes, it was. You should see what I do for blast. I want a free song. It is delicious. Well, I don't think I'll be that intimate, but I think I'm gonna maybe say,

eat up, good berries are good, I guess, mass healing word on everyone. That is. That's pretty good. That'll be nine points of healing. Oh. To everyone. They got me exactly to Max.

Nice. Does anyone else down? I'm good. Specifically, Frost, are you all right? I'm feeling good. How are you? Are you all right? I'm good.

Well, hang on. I'm going. I'm good. That brought me back up. Tip top. How much was it? I'm probably bad. Nine.

Nine hit points. Oh. I am. I got blasted to shit. Do you do? A heel? No, I heal and I heal others. Oh, because I'm a life clarity.

You probably need to get rid of that poison, though. Oh, I am poisoned. You are poison for an hour. I'm still blown. And you're blue. This guy's something about to rest out. You got to rest out. Well, we got used to that very quickly.

You know, I'm- I'm keeping my spirits up. Gary Blueberry. Gary Blueberry. Well, I'll rebrand a Gary Blueberry. Good Blueberry. Shouldn't it be, with alliteration, shouldn't it be like Barry Blueberry?

Barry. No, Fralls. Barry, Barry. What do you say? It's only in New Jersey that has a distinction. I heard you say Barry. Very good berry. That doesn't work.

It's Barry. Barry Blueberry. What are you saying? Barry the good berry. Barry Blueberry. So let me explain you. In this mythical land of New Jersey, they pronounce Barry and Barry distinctly.

Two different words. The name and the fruit? Yes, exactly right. It's like this Mary and Mary and Mary. It's actually three different pronunciations. I didn't even think of the name. I thought he was talking about like a bear, like as if he enjoyed the qualities of being bear-like,

you know? He was bear-eary or berry. We're so far up from the room chaos. Let us proceed. You were going to step forward and be a leader. I'd like to see this. I pull out a little, like, I pull out, like, My hands go like this, I start to watch you through these hands.

I waved my hand over the ground and I'll say, send some aconis, and I will cast, detect magic. And as I approach, and I want to sort of investigate, if I can, and see if any of my research about the fish rings true here. You begin to cast this spell, and it takes hold, but as it does, once again, the temple responds, the innate chaos magic within this place begins to thrum and shoot out. Two.

I refuse. Derek, I need you to roll at you 100 place. Good boy. But that's my name. You didn't mean to say that, right? I do. Oh, that's cocked. Let's give me some 49. 49, you say.

I did a whole drop. You feel the chaos magic infuse you. You all watch as. as you can see the magic in this place swirling through this room as it all shoots directly towards frost. And it pierces into his body as he is wrapped with chaos magic. You open your mouth to speak, but no words come out.

Only beautiful pink bubbles float up out of your mouth. Oh. Oh, that's kind of nice. He's a fucking obo-bloom. Oh, oh. Oh, and I just turned to do blueberry. It's actually really long-construction. Oh, wow!

And I read from the beginning of the session. Ah! The temple chaos! It's all been a ruse. We all got a golden, the letter was a golden ticket. Oh! Thanks, social crisis. So you were unable to talk. You just...

For the next minute, he is unable to speak, and he just blows bubbles out of his mouth. I don't know that we have to see this as a bad thing. Well, I'm more aware that there's like, you know, some horrific side effects or something. Like, all of us gonna happen. Well, and so far it was just the one of us. Last time everyone exploded in the crazy magic.

Everybody, but scrim. I'm all right, I'm good. Everything's fine, I'm all in one piece. We just never quite know what's going on with you, you know? And as they're having this conversation, Clayton, your latent magics infiltrate this room in a way that you begin to see it clearly. You look towards this fish head and you see the creation

magics that one of these eyes has. the destruction of the other. Yes. And you think back towards your study on the fish head. And though you didn't learn anything about the specific statue that you held in your hand, you had read tales of a room, a potential room inside the Temple of Chaos that could create and destroy magical items, if one was brave enough to retrieve

that which they sought. Oh, false alarm, gang. What is it? This is magic's evoking the tenets of alchemy, reconstruction and deconstruction. It creates and destroys, perhaps. Oh, first I'll say, stay away from the destruction one. It could destroy anything that we throw in there.

Should we just test something? Does anyone have anything random? Oh, I have a good bear! Yes, I don't really contribute in this book. All you hear is like a, and I have like 100 cult drops. I'm gonna throw a Goodberry up into the eye that he says is the eye of destruction. You do this.

The Goodberry flies through the eye that is both red and orange, and you watch as it is incinerated. And you have a sense of emptiness within you. You feel that you only had the ability to do this but once. Oh, I love you. Oh, shucks.

Don't destroy anything carelessly. I feel like I'm just blown a great opportunity. But I'm willing to take the sacrifice because this reminds me the cycle of life at death, like Chantaya would want. All right, stand back. By goodness, I'm a clear. Let us see what creation does.

Oh, no. What are you doing? What are you doing? I will put my life at risk. I'm sure. Yes. I will prove to you. that all of us, not just me. The greatness of Clayton, Azran,

and the Asran expedition, is justified. And I'm gonna reach up and try to like, I don't know, summon or use or call upon the creation magic and see what happens. Thinking back to your research, one of the things that stood out was that there was a significant importance on bravery and taking that which you sought.

And you do attempt to pull from it something, but it begins to be clear to you that you are going to have to reach into the eye and attempt to retrieve. Oh, no. You watch as Clayton sinks his arm into the eye. You all watch as the eye expands around his hand, his wrist, his elbow, he is shoulder deep inside

of this fish, of this fish eye, and you are able to pull something from it. Rollad D 100. Roll high or low? High. Go high. Straight 50. 56.

You're gonna grip of arrows. I mean, I mean. There's only seven of them. The feathers are bench. It's one of those broke right now. You reach in and you pull out at first, First, it comes away with ease, but you realize very quickly that what you're pulling

from this is nothing small. A four-foot-tall mirror is pulled out of this thing that swirls with the faint images of creatures within it. You have found yourself a mirror of life trapping. Wow. What? Do I know what that does? When this four-foot-tall mirror is viewed indirectly,

its surface shows faint images of creatures. The mirror weighs 50 pounds, and it has an AC-11, 10 hit points, vulnerability to bludgeoning damage. It shatters and is destroyed when reduced to zero hit points. If the mirror is hanging on a vertical surface and you are within five feet of it, you can use an action to speak its command word and activate it. It remains activated until you use an action

to speak the command word again. Any creature other than you that sees its reflection in the activated mirror while within 30 feet of it must succeed a DC-15 charisma saving throw or be trapped, along with anything it is wearing or caring. In one of the mirrors 12 extra-dimensional cells, this saving throw is made with a very advantage if the creature knows the mirror's nature and constructs that seed on the saving throw automatically.

An extra-dimensional cell is an infinite expanse filled with thick fog that reduces visibility to 10 feet. Creatures trapped in the mirror cells don't age, and they don't need to eat, drink, or sleep. A creature trapped within a cell can escape using magic that permits plainer travel. Otherwise, the creature is confined to the cell until freed. If the mirror traps a creature but its 12 extra-dimensional cells are already occupied, the mirror frees one trapped creature at random to accommodate the new point. prisoner. A freed creature appears in an unoccupied space within sight of the mirror, but facing away from it. If the mirror is shattered, all creatures it contains are freed and appeared in unoccupied spaces near it. While within five feet of the mirror, you can use an action to speak the name of one creature trapped in it

or call out a particular cell by number. The creature named or contained in the named cell appears as an image on the mirror's surface. You and the creature can then communicate normally. In a similar way, you can use an action to speak a second command word and free one creature trapped in the mirror. The freed creature appears along with its possessions in the unoccupied space nearest to the mirror and facing away from it. This mirror has 10 cells used.

Oh my God, but you don't know their names, you don't know the command word. Is the other command word? Not currently if you attuned to it. You would automatically learn the command word for the sake of this. and the ability that you use to learn more about this. As you hold on to this, you realize

that in this moment you have a choice. You can choose to keep this. It's basically a white elephant. You can choose to keep this. Give it to one of the members of the party. Or you have one opportunity to destroy it and select something new. Oh, a mulligan.

You're reaching in. I'm gonna look closely at the mirror. And each person can only destroy one thing. Oh, you haven't pulled it out? Oh, shit. No, he has pulled it. But I wanted to make a Superman too Joe. You don't get to keep it in there.

It's pulled out, it's in your possession. You can either destroy it, keep it or give it away. Oh, my God. I'm carrying this effortlessly. Oh my God. This is a magic item. Presumably we can all pull from this. How did you do that?

It is very rare. It is very rare. I just, you walk up and you have faith. You reach in and you pull it out. Do you like ask for a giant? mirror? No, I didn't ask for anything. I think it was just totally random. I have something in my mind's eye that I would like. What are you going to, before that, before whatever little thing comes out on your mind? What are you doing with

the mirror? Are you going to keep it? I don't. No, should I keep it? Is it safe? What would you do with it? It looks like it weighs a ton. What are you going to do it? He's going to come back with it. It's unwieldy. I feel like we can really I've sold a lot of problems for that thing real quick. I think so too. I mean, but we'd have to trick people and they'd have to fail for the same pros. I think I'm going to keep it.

I like it. Oh my lord. It's handsome. It's a little heavy, but I've got it. Oh, okay. It's a beautiful morning here. No, it's fine. Yep, I'm going to carry it.

You're just gonna carry a 50 pound, four foot tall mirror. No, this is, this is fine. Just you'll have to direct me where to go. Morning Frost gets your attention as you're carrying it over, and he's going to start doing a ritual. And you can see a cyanic hand sort of coming out of nothingness into existence just through the use of his thought alone.

And then you see another hand, and they join hands. And you can see one grab the wrist of that, and then grab the wrist, and grab the wrist, and grab the wrist, and grab the wrist. He'll spend 10 minutes producing a floating disk. Nice. They can carry up to 500 pounds. And then he waves his hand forward.

You can speak now. It's only a minute of your bubbles. Oh, it was only a minute? It was only a minute. You can use this floating disk to carry your mirror around. Oh, sweet, a lute wagging. Let us proceed.

Don't bring it! Gently. Do you think you'll turn me unblue? I mean, anything can happen. It's an eye of creation. Well, if Scrim has something on his mind, why doesn't he stick his hand in neck? You think of it.

I will. And if you pull it out, we know that we have some control. And for the record. Joe T. T. My dreams are very big. I'm six four, and I'd go for UC Davis. And I run up. Yes! Stop me! And I jammed my arm all the way in, and I am thinking very deeply in my mind's eye about what I want. Okay, roll it you a hundred. I want to get a hundred. So bad, and I hope it's just whatever I want.

It's the wish. Oh, 20. I think it's just a nine. It's a nine. I was so close to a lot. It's a 900, oh wait. I got a nine. You pull out. You pull out. You pull out. You pull out. You pull out. You pull out these beautiful, black, fluffy house slippers. Ha! Oh. Well, not what I was thinking, but they look pretty comfortable. They do look very comfortable, and as you feel the fur on them,

you realize that it's not the type of fur you would normally expect. It is the type, the way that it feels reminds you of one of the times that you'd encountered an incredibly large spider. that these are clearly spider-fur slippers. They are boots of spider climbing. Wow, nice. I mean, these are pretty comfortable, but I kind of want to try again.

Push your luck. Screw them, what's got into you? I say, big money, big money, no amy, no amy, stop. And I throw the slippers, I throw the slippers straight the eye of destruction. You want to say your bathroom. And I immediately jam my hand back into the eye of crew. and say, come on!

The most goblin thing ever. Please roll in that. I got a 74. Okay. Can you imagine I have the same slippers? Damn it, how much? That would be amazing. This is bullshit.

I could have put those slippers to good use. You didn't think to... Oh, I forgot I could have given them away. It's all about you, Scrim, every time. As you pull out a large rod... I just wanted to be something horrible. I wanted to be like you get a big stone. A fixed to the tip of the wand affixed by thick vines

is a small wooden toad. As you hold this and look at it, you have seen something like this before. This is a wand of polymorph. Oh! I think I'm going to keep this one. And I like tuck it into my waistband, between my jacket and my waistband.

Nice. I'm gonna keep that one right there, and I'm pretty happy with what I pulled. It wasn't what I was hoping for. What were you hoping for? Well, ever since I was using that whistle, that Frost gave me that stopped working, I was hoping for a new whistle

in the shape of a tiny little weiner-mobile. Oh. Oh. A weiner whistle? What's a bea-mobile? You know, like imagine a giant hot dog with wagon wheels, only it's a whistle. And it works, unlike the whistle that Frost gave me.

Well, shucks. That's kind of a big ask. Really? You didn't say your dreams are big, and you got for UC Davis. I was just kind of thinking about, yeah, I was a whistle. I didn't think it was that big. Anyway, I was gonna keep my wand.

As you pocket the wand, something you didn't notice the first time, you begin to notice now, the mouth of the frog has slow, or the mouth of the fish has slowly begun to open. Oh. taking these items as having an effect on this room, and you imagine that should you all choose to partake in chaotic creation, that you may find that the mouth itself

creates the doorway to the next room. You know, I've been watching this mouth, and I think that it's opening slowly as we take things from the eye here. Through the process of K2, I'm not going to do it. You're so close. You're so close. You're so close.

You're so close. You're staring at things mouths? What's gotten into you? I reach it. Why are you always noticing stuff on that? 14. 14, you said. Terrible. You pull out a beautiful circlet that has moats of red light

all around it. It's a circlet of blasting. It's very pretty. Are you gonna keep it or go back in? Well, I'm no blasting company. I'll probably, unless you want it. Would you be interested in a circle of blasting? Not even a little. Then go in for yourself.

Good choice. That sucks. You should moan him. You imagine that should you step away. If we wish hard enough, T. I see, I see. Let me go in one more time. Yes.

I will whip the circlet into the eye of destruction, and I will reach in and feel around. See, doing that, I will go up and rub his ear. Give him a, I'll cast guidance on him. I know it's not a skill check. I will let you use guidance on your role if you should choose to. Oh, awesome.

I could get 104. 77. I feel really good about 77. Really? Do you want me to roll a D4? Yeah. Well, you can see what it would be and decide for that. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I like that.

That's very cool. A 77. It's still 77. No, I'm saying you can see what the roll is, and then decide which number you want to take. A 77 or a 78? 77. 77.

What I will say is they're the exact same thing. Oh. Okay, thank you. I tried. Oh, that feels very fun. That was good. How's rubbing too hard? Next up.

You don't touch. You reach out and you pull out an incredibly long sword. Whoa, hey. Oh. Who's such good mind work? Did you see him take the weight? It was so good for us. You pull out what is known as a dancing sword.

Oh. You can use a bonus action. to toss this magic sword into the air and speak the command word. When you do so, the sword begins to hover, flies up to 30 feet and attacks one creature of your choice within five feet of it. The sword uses your attack role and ability score modifier to damage rolls. While the sword hovers, you can use a bonus action to cause it to fly up to 30 feet to another spot within 30 feet of you.

As part of the same bonus action, you can cause the sword to attack one creature within five feet of it. After the hovering sword attacks for the fourth time, it flies up to 30 feet and tries to return to your hand. If you have no hand free, it falls to. to the ground at your feet. If the sword has no unobstructed path to you, it moves as close to you as it can,

and then falls to the ground. It also ceases to hover if you grasp it or move more than 30 feet away from it. Dancing sword, made in a furnace for, I think this is actually has your name written all over, Gideon. I wasn't going to say anything about it, but if you're handing it over, I mean,

I would take a dancing sword, because in the end of the day, dancing's all I know. Nice. As you take the sword, Gideon, you feel a connection to it, and the toad door begins to rise up. You feel like you could reach in and pull out a new item. Oh.

Great. This is like D&D porn. It's all magic. Like you need another thing, you don't like the thing you get? 37, a little to the left here, perhaps. 37, you say. I'll give him a little guide. This time I'll grab both ears,

and I'll be way gentler this time. It's very soft. That's what I was hoping for. I'm gonna go for a 40. Nice. Oh, yeah, that's exactly this one. Thank you, Joe Titi. Lord I love thee.

You, you, you reach in. Oh my. And you know the moment you feel this, that Gideon is going to regret his sword choice. Oh, that's unlike. As you pull yet another sword out from within this fish head, but this one is wreathed in flame. Wait a second.

No, no, hang on. I know so many other things are dancing. Hang on. The infamous sword, Flamedong appears within your hands. Frosty, I have never asked you for anything, please. All you know is dancing. No, but I know fire too, Frosty. morning you asked me, are you gonna finish that?

No, oh God. The frog. The frog giveth him the frog. I don't fight with swords. If you want it, you may have it. You feel that you would be unable to give the sword to him. He has already claimed and attuned to an item. No, hang on, hang on.

Frog, frog monster. It's a fish, go there. A fucking fish! No, it looks like it's weak. It looks like it's maybe it's a malamation of a fish and a frog, and it's maybe a monster. If you hold a sword in each hand, even though this one's a broad sword and this one's a dancing sword,

I can hold that one in my mouth. By the magic of the fish, I don't think that I could give this to you unless I shoved it into your belly. I literally just sheat that it. You don't have a sheet. You literally put the sash in my room. You're closed on fire. Oh, put them out.

Oh, God. Could Gideon destroy the and then use that mulligan that Frost to use? Or can Frost's Muggan again? He could try. Uh-oh. Oh, oh, no. I don't know if I'm gonna skip it.

You can try whipping that dancing sword into the I'm. You don't use swords, man. Let's level with each other, all right. I agree with you. But I feel that I physically and magically can. You cannot give it to you. You cannot give it to you. I'm bound by the fish mouth.

Unless you destroy the dancing. Huh! I'm into you! The sword wits through the air and pierces into the destructive eye, and you walked it as it shimmers out of existence. It bursts into glittery magical particles, and you feel like you could take the sword from from.

Oh, my God. He gets one mulligan. You are so benevolent. Here, catch. But now you have nothing. You have nothing. Now you are lost. Now you are lost.

Well, the thing that I really wanted was thrown into the eye of destruction in the beginning of this sex exercise. You feel like that. You could reach it and pull something out. It's a moolp. No, he used this mold again. You are literally the nice D-W.

You have to be kidding me. What did you get? You rolled a fucking Hyundai. Oh, it was fate. Wait, maybe I want this one too, alright. Have you never rolled a Weinerhunt in my fucking life? Weir whistle. I've been playing this game for fucking forever.

Weiner whistle. Oh my God. Okay. Is it a Weiner Whistle? No. This is rare air, everybody. Did you win? Did you really just roll that?

Yeah. Yeah, he saw the whole thing. You reach in and your hand closes around his sphere. Oh, my God. It pulses with energy, so powerful, you feel like he could almost consume you. As you pull it out, you look at this two foot diameter black sphere. Inside, this two foot diameter black sphere is a hole in the multi- hovering in space and stabilized

by a magical field surrounding it. The sphere obliterates all matter it passes through and all matter that passes through it. Artifacts are the exception unless an artifact is susceptible to damage from a sphere of annihilation. It passes through the sphere unscathed. Anything else that touches the sphere but isn't wholly engulfed and obliterated by it

takes 4D10 force damage. What is that? Be careful. Be careful. The sphere is stationed. until someone controls it, and you do. Oh my, my. If you were within 60 feet of an uncontrolled sphere,

you can use an action to make a DC-25-Incharkana check. Oh, my God. On the check, it levitates, it becomes yours, but it's already yours. The sphere comes into contact with a planer portal, such as that created by the gate spell or an extra-dimensional space, such as that within a portable hole or a mirror.

The GM determines randomly what happens using the following table, so I'll keep that up. Wow! That's terrifying. Clayton, now is the time for leadership. Frost in sooth is not capable of that kind of power. He must put it back in the room. I wield not swords.

My mind is my weapon. Joe T.T.T. This is in good hands. Joe T.T. leaves the group and never comes back. I want you know. In all, Clayton. Is that what I think it is? It is.

Indeed. Can you not feel it in your very bones? It is a sphere of annihilation. But it is within my power to control. Imagine choosing a black volleyball when you could have had a flaming store. I like, I pull my robe up and I'm like, T-T-Din-Din-N-N-N-A-ha. Oh, my God.

Tate! It cannot stand. Why can it not step? Because no person should have ever rolled the hundred. Clayton! Insooth. If you're the ring of chaos, that could be more powerful

the very ring itself. Yes, Clayton? Let's trade. Ah! I'm not in trade. I will say, you realize that you would not be able to trade. You are now attuned to your item. Frost could trade the sphere to someone who is not attuned to an item, such as Joe T.T. I am here.

I am here. Please don't get it. He'll kill me. He'll kill me. Don't get to do you. Frost can not destroy it, because Frost has already destroyed an item. Frost turns. So the only way to destroy it would be to trade it to someone and use their ball again to destroy it.

Yes, Joe T.T.T. It is not within your realm of intelligence. To hold such power on this plane. It is the stuff of gods. When we are finished with our quest to find the Ring of Chaos, I will annihilate the sphere of annihilation, but we need it to get through this temple. It's like surrounding me like Dr. Manhattan.

All will be well. We are mavericks of goodness, Jotiti. I believe that very much. He's not the Georgia. That is the very power of the force itself. I don't believe it. God is real. And he's a tobacco scene.

That's very funny. That's very funny. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, geez. I wonder if you get two of them. I mean, just roll a D-100. Oh my God, please.

Please. A 30. Oh, it looks like a, oh my God, I look like 100. Holy shit. 30? Yeah. You pull out a dark black cloak. It swirls around you and affixes to your back very quickly.

You have pulled a cloak of the bat. Oh man, I made fun of Matt Eddie for his kid. And that my friend is called humorous. I'm extremely open. What are we going to do? I guess I gotta start fighting crime. I end the night and such. You're blue.

You're gonna get it, right? Huh? I can't mold it, right? Because you have already destroyed. Yes. You destroyed a goodberry. You destroyed a goodberry. A goodberry is technically a magical item.

so yes. Oops. Did I? Gosh. You look like grandpa from the Munsters. No, no, no, no. No, no. With that, we have, the door is almost to a point

that you feel like you could get through it. There are only two of you left without items. So Titi, do you want to go or should I? You go. I will continue to. to work on Frost. Okay. I'm sorry.

And convincing you. I can defend myself to, T.T. We can stick together as a group, I think. Okay. Now I'll reach up and reach into the eye. Please don't get me anything weird. You get the bag of endless pie. I got 79. Is that how that?

That's good. 79? You pull out a staff. Well, let me actually open another one because I should keep the form of annihilation. You should. Jesus. We're gonna speed run this thing.

You can pull out. It seems. You pull out a staff, a magic quarterstaff, the staff of power. Oh, man. Thrums through this staff. Oh, wow. It has a lot of stuff.

It has a lot of stuff. It has a lot of stuff. You don't have to read it all. So I'm not going to read it all. But you imagine. I can tell you right now, I'm keeping this. A sorcerer, a warlock, or a wizard would love this. As though it's the only that can attune to it.

Oh, boo! Will. Do you want to trade? You can't trade. You can't trade. You can't trade. Destroyed. No.

No. I'm not allowed you, I promise. Oh, bummer. Well, this tip's totally useless. It's totally useless, and I'll chucking in. Oh, my God. I just got this stupid multi-glass, molding glass. I will throw it into the eye of reaching again.

29 this time, I'm 29. You reach out, or you reach in, and as you find your hand grasp onto a soft velvety fabric, as you pull out a dark blood, cloak of the bat. Is that really? Put it around my back and flack my arms out in the wind.

You're like a gang. Bad bruce! Let's go. We are so cute. We are the bad, folks. He must give it back. He cannot walk about him. That kind of power. Everyone knows it. It was his fate.

It was... He was... he's fate. He's destiny to hold that hope, and perhaps I could study it and learn more about it. Well, and at the end of the day, who's gonna argue with him? I mean, look at this. We're fucked. There's nothing every must have to do, even all six of us combined.

We are fucked. We are absolutely fucked. Don't listen to them. Don't listen to them, fear. What are we gonna do? Just try to take it from me. I'm gonna ask him my son. Celine is gonna annihil us.

It's in the name. It does what it does on the tin. It's like flying around me. You will not give it back. You will not trade it, you will not give it back. Is that true? I don't believe I have the power or two. I'm compelled to keep the sphere.

You could trade it to Joe T.T. He's the only person you could, because he's the only one without a magical item. What reason when I destroy the sphere? It's beyond your power. If you grab one, can't you grab an item and then decide if you want to trade it? Maybe you can't entice it with the deal.

Once he has an item, you can't trade. I'm begging you. I'm begging you. How can I be sure that you would destroy this fear? We will destroy it when we are through with finding the Ring of Chaos. I don't think that's true. When you rule the world, you rarely give it up.

All right. That's the way you wanted. But we are the Mavericks of good. That works of good. And we used it for good. We are about to, we are about to ruin our name. Are you sure? Are you sure?

Are you sure? Are you sure? Are you sure? Are you sure? Let me just think about it for a moment. Hey, Dick from you, I'm going to know. Yes, I'm quite sure. I attack.

You're attacking you? I attack you? I attack it. I don't want to end this about it. I'm going to end this is a mistake. All right, 78. You reach in and you... Cloak of that.

Clue of that. It's a cloak of the bat. You find yourself your hand attached to a hilt as you pull out yet another dancing sword. Oh, put it back in. You destroy it very quickly. That is very well. You destroy it quickly.

Been there, done that. It's either hundred or nothing. Ah, Shiza, 45. 45. 45. You reach your arm back in and you find, you find, you find, Golden pickle.

You got a golden ticket. You find your hand wrapped around the base of a staff. A staff of healing. Oh. Oh. I will be there to heal those that you destroy. I don't think you can heal anything with a big circle-sized hole right in the middle of it's just like this.

Well, no, magic beats magic. I believe in it. Mavericks are good. And with that, you watch as the mouth of the fish statue as it completely opens, and the way is no longer, your way is no longer blocked. and you're able to make your way deeper into the temple. Frost as the new leader of the script. Yes. I'm sorry, what?

I thought you said no, no, no offense. The new leader of the whole world. I will follow you. What is your choice? Yeah, the guy with the freedom of annihilation is the leader's place. I mean, what are we gonna do? Professor, he's right. I'm not what's here in the back dude,

the back duo. Yeah. What did that do? Yeah! Can you be Robin? Or can I be Robin to you, bad man? Yes. Can we trust you?

Right on the cages. We're gonna workshop it. Oh, wait for me. I don't want anything to change just because I got a fear of annihilation. Oh! We're on the same box. We're all still in the same box. Mavericks of goodness.

Listen, even though you now look like ends to me. It's all the same. What's our theme song? We forgot the song. I've forgotten the song. I agree. Nothing should change. I'm still the leader of this expedition. Regardless, what shrinkets we may have uncovered along the way.

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