Legends of Avantris - Shadow Over Gauntsmouth | New Player D&D 5e One-Shot: Part 2

Episode Date: February 4, 2025

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Welcome to Legends of Aventress. Professor Azray. Steps in and tells you all to shut the fuck, Asher, Asa. Oh no, I think I see ruins! Oh, we found it! Oh, hi! This is a first! Thank you for pointing it out to me, even if you didn't say it. I can see it now!

Wait, there, there's bits... Oh, that is ancient dragon-bone... This is ancient metallic dragon bone architecture. Nah, you almost... You almost had Krah. Had you in what sense? Although you are, you are a chromatic in scale, you must be able to appreciate the historical significance.

Oh, it's much deeper than appreciation. Oh, I'm glad that we're on the same page then. I mean, the, the, the city of where, I can't believe I can't even if you're any of this fucking name. Nozari. Nozari. The city of Nozari was an incredible port thousands of years ago. It is the fleet that crushed the dragon-born, the Black Dragonborn fortress.

Of where now is what we now call under two islands? Professor, I know this is the culmination of what you've been looking for, but I also, I don't know if you can see it yet, but the path ahead seems very treacherous. I don't think we should rush forward with the ruins ahead of us. I lean in a little bit close to the professor and say, No, please, Professor, lead the way. I will leave the way.

There is so much undiscovered history there, that if we had not known about these flowers, no archaeologists would have been able to look at that expanse of unpassable marshland. We are probably the first advocate this close to Nazari. Are we at the ruins then? you're starting to get closer and closer. All of you now are seeing bits and pieces of what seemed to be a city sunk into the swamp.

I look, I look G, G, right in the eye, and I say, Okay. Please, please, follow the professor. I fly five feet off the ground. You do that? No. Okay. You follow as you see,

as you begin to start passing bits of, of columns, collapsed walls, these stone bricks, and you make your way through this long, winding path as you realize that this was a massive city that stretched across well into where it is now this marsh. And as you make your way through the path, the the clusters of stones start to get more and more and you're to see the actual

foundation of a building as you continue to make your way through you see as you make your way back towards the sea cliffs something emerging in the distance as the marsh dips

the dark gloomy clouds almost nearly conceal the sun you see up ahead a structure where the marsh dips and nestles up against the sea cliffs. And Professor Azaran's eyes widened. That is where we're headed. I believe that everything I know, that is the center of the city. And it believes that we are heading directly towards us,

and we may be able to even... arrived without being swallowed up by the marsh. Are you all prepared? Krah thinks as long as the professor goes first, Krah's ready. Oh, this march, it's been no trouble at all. I'm ready to march our way there. I can sense that you're feeling a little bit, frustrated, and I might have some words that will help you.

If we do face that foe there, you can know that you're avenging the lives of all of those black dragons that were slain due to this city. Oh, miss. way you're getting there is with the leadership of the professor. Miss Willow, you again proved to be the most wise of all of us, thank you. Quite literally, yes.

I'm thinking 20 wisdom is that right. That's right. Oh, Professor, no challenge has stopped us so far, none will. And I believe that we will be able to uncover so much lost history. And I mean to, to, to learn more about their ancient practices. And I do know that there was an incredibly powerful female bronze dragon that led this fleet. She called herself the rising tide.

And it is told in legend that the... She was the one that dealt the killing blow of the horrible, vicious black dragon, Bokragool, the putrid doom. And she was the one that brought him down and allowed for the fleet to land on the island. to land on the island. Undisturbed. Why do you use such language? I was literally going to ask you the same question. We've all tried to help you,

and I've tried to quell our copold friend here. But you try his patience with every word you say. You know how he feels about the Black Dragon's like. You can choose your words a little more carefully and try to show a little bit of respect to those of us that are leading you. I don't mean to offend. I apologize. Professor Azarin, he looks genuinely regretful.

I apologize. I just, I'm, I'm just, this is just historical knowledge, it's a settled history. We all know what, looks, what horrible, dark things have been done, but I, I, I, I won't hold my tongue, I apologize. I just, I just, I just, when I think back of the, such incredible battles and, and, and great civilizations that I would never be able to experience, I, I, I, it, it fills me with sorrow and I, I, I, I, I wish I could, could learn more than I know I'll ever be able to learn in one lifetime. O'Kra asks us that you lead the way into the ruins. I will. I will. I will go first. Oh, that sounds lovely. So this Bokragool does it have any kind of kin that still lives?

No, no, no kin. No kin at all. I believe that that Bokragoole was slain in his layer completely. destroyed. I don't know if he ever had a consort. There's no historical record. Shows any offspring. On YouTube, watch Legends of Adventures Episode 10 to see the Tomb of Bacragul. And you can also see his offspring. Which I hate you so much.

What is? Does the action of offspring? Watch the episode. I guess you'll find out, mate. As far as we know, no, no, there's no offspring. No, there's absolutely no historical records of Bokreel ever-bearing children. I must say with the power of that black dragon, we are all better off. That foul creature never spawned. We are better off. We are better off.

Are we at the ruins now? You are approaching as you see this structure kind of rising up. If the lot of you continues to try to provoke Kroll, I'm not going to help you in these situations. Who's trying to provoke the dracking drives? You know how you feel. I'm not trying to provoke this guy. I would just like to meet a black dragon in Gloria. gone back.

That's right. We'd like to test our strength. Ah, gee, you mispronounce being eaten. What? I'm not sure you misspoke, but I'll get your meaning. I don't think I misspoke. Do you want to fight me? Krah is not very good.

Krod does not understand common. But Krod definitely misunderstood what you were trying to say. Oh, if the black dragons are anything like the green, he'll go down like a sack of potatoes. They're not. Well, it seems like they might be. They're all dead, so... Let us... Let us go.

Brag for killing a sick green dragon. I'm sure that elsewhere, there are plenty. I'm sure there are powerful black dragons out there. Kron knows. Krod knows they're close. In the ground. Well, there's no historical evidence or proof of that. But maybe, I hope to maybe discover that at some point.

But for now, let us... stay on our path. Our path is not with the black dragons of old, but with the bronze. And if it's true that this Casagos is nearby, we may be able to meet this good nature, then he may be able to help us and bestow upon us some sort of boon. Could you imagine to meet a dragon? I would very much love to. Professor, you should let me go first.

No, no, no, no! No, let the Karaki go first. I have some experience, some more experience than these two. This, this, this large, Craigslaying two green dragons. No, no, no, no, no, he has not done nothing but speak here of the dragons. No, he does not go first. No, I say he goes first, this Karaki which translates to Ranger for you folk the kids.

Big Glawley. He's led us this far. Blast me, no. He looks like a dragon himself. He can lead us to the dragon himself. It does make sense that one that looks like a dragon would be the first to encounter the dragon. I think that checks out.

I think that checks. He looks. He looks like a dragon, but just not like one. No. Well, sight is the first impression. Ventis, what do you think? Master Vintas! Viches!

If he wants to go first, we should let him go first. Master Vintest! You say he's right! Well, if we all agree, Vos, please lead the way and do what you do best. Even the size he agrees. No, Mr. Ventis, no! Kroff, you must understand that I'm paying all of you. We can't let the professor go first.

We're protecting him. That's right. To have been paid oaths going for. That's the faintest. No. Leave the way, boss. All right. So we're at the really...

Yeah. One from front of you. No, no, no. I'm going to use premeval awareness. Okay. To detect if there's any, uh, aberrations, celestial, dragons,

elemental, feigned, or undead, within a mile with me. Does you literally name everything but? dragon. Okay, I was going to suck in the shit. That is the most worthless skill ever. None of those things are going to be

in the dragon layer. I guess I'm going to use a spell slot for this. You do. You do. I have never used, so if you watch our campaign called the Fawall, I have used it many times, never to any effect. No, because you always

are there any Faye around me? Yes, you are in the Faye a lot of Bricko, so there's a thousand. Oh, an FAUD is a thousand

gentlemen. Your brain is assaulted with information. Get home darned. Sorry. Please make you,

you use private awareness. Jesus. I'm like you're knocking my coffee over. Use a spell. Yes, you cast a spell.

It's just as I sense them. So, does it have a range? A mile. A mile. Okay. So as you approach.

$1,000 you and underneath. You place your hand on the soft soil of the marsh, and you channel your experience with dragon kind. You think back to the days in Neckback, where the great wars of dragon, the dragon born, and you've seen and you know what the effects of a dragon arm. And you channel the power of nature,

and as you center on yourself, you feel the present. presence of a dragon. A thousand fifty, choose words. Oh, fuck. But none of those other things? Wait, wait, you sense what? Oh, all of them?

Or just, I think you choose one? No. It says, I sense all of them, yeah. It says whether, it says, uh, as an action, you spend one ranger's spell slot per minute, per level of spell slot to sense whether any aberrations, celestial, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, or undead are present. But would he be able to distinguish between them? I guess that would be my question, right? Every time Grickler's used in there, I haven't been anything but forever.

Like between you and the dragon? I don't know. That's what I'm asking. It doesn't reveal the location or number of them. So you would know the type, for sure. But what if there's more than one type? Are you able to distinguish between them? You basically be able to say, like, I sense that there are dragons, say, and on bed here.

He just doesn't know how many. So not where they are. Okay, so just if they're, I know they're within a mile. Apologies. I was thinking of the Revised Ranger, which points the direction and it's only your favorite, which is why I was confused. Apologies. So, you channel. You sense... What's Maya who does the other one. Got it. You sense a dragon. It's clear as day in your mind's eye, however, you get an additional presence. And it's very clear that you also sense the foul presence of fiends within a mile.

only if he tells us. You may choose to or choose not to divulge to that information to us. Okay. Yeah, so I'm going to obviously tell everybody in the party that there's at least a dragon, at least one dragon. No, you don't know a number. You don't know a number.

No, but I know that there are... You think at least one. Okay. So I know that there's one, and there could be more than one. Are you saying this at last? Yes. Good a character. How would that have... How would Barr say it? Come on, Karaghi, spit it out.

What have you found? Professor, I'm sensing dragons in the area, but I'm also sensing the presence of something darker. Some feet in it. There are fiends present. Fiends? Dragons, you say. Professor lead the way.

Wait, hold on, gee. You and I have slayed a few fiends in our travels together, isn't it? We've slain quite so many things. I've lost track. Oh, let me update my folks. So let me check your... Can I track the dragon? Check your grudge book, Bargram.

I would say, make, if you want to track. Because I have, it is, dragons are my favorite animal. They are. I get a bonus to tracking them. How does that work? Survival checks. Survival check?

Do you have advantage on survival checks because of it? It was a speed. Advantage on survival check. Yeah, roll another dot. Roll another. And a seven. Oh, boy. Not great.

Not great. Yeah, I didn't say it was good. I just had a bench. 13? 13. That's not bad. 13. As you feel the power with that knowledge that you have, you start to look for the signs,

and you realize that where you start to kind of track, and it seems like the direction of where you think a bronze dragon might be is towards the sea directly near this stone structure that you're approaching is. You're heading on the right direction. We're heading back towards the sea. You're heading back, so you've gone out, and now you're heading back towards the sea as where the marsh dips in in elevation

would have been hidden to anything except for those in the sky. This remnant, huge massive stone structure that... that is made of the same stone as all of the the structures poking out of the swamp as far as you can see. And it's towards the cliffs that this large structure is. And it seems as if that'd be, if you were tracking a dragon, that would be in the direction.

All right. So, fiends, you said. Fiends. What were they want? What would they be fiends doing in a dragon bone ruin? Well, whatever it is we've killed them all is in that right, lads. Things are no challenge for us. That's right. Well, Bargrim and Willow, keep your gods near to your hearts.

We will need to call on them. I hope we shan't have to call on Fultus. I believe that with your power, all of you, we'll be fine, but we cannot turn that now. I won't... I wouldn't begin to even... Intercane the idea of calling on Fultus. I don't believe that he's a true god. I don't I think it's something much darker And it's not it's not the kind of thing I'd want to bring into something like this Jantia is the goddess of life

Rejuvenation and if she wills it we will succeed this day Master Vinty stay near willow I agree You see there's a little there's some fear and he seems to be a bit resolved from that comment Well, let us go. You must not turn back now. The long line of Azran's will not end to this day. And I, there's so much more I must learn. And you make your way through as you then dip down, as the marsh almost slopes down towards the sea,

as this large stone ruin ahead of you gets larger and larger. and as the long, tall walls, seemingly still holding its structure. Nearly miraculously, after the thousands of years that it seems to have passed since it was built, you see that the path of flowers leads directly to a stone archway with a heavy stone door.

Move the map. Oh, fool! So is this as intact as, like, let's say, the Green Dragon Temple from session, whatever? It's more intact. Okay. Oh, wow. I would say it's more intact. Here?

Right there. Are you moving? No, no. No, you said don't move that stuff. Oh, yeah. Well, just the doorway. Just the doorway. So look, it's a mini-stone?

The door is closed, so. So the door is closed. To the right and the left. You see these strange stone pillars rising up, and they seem to be surrounded by rink of these strange polished stone that actually is coated in... It looks like bronze. And the bowl by each of them also coated in bronze. As you approach, you see that there are strange letters carved into the archway above.

Professor Azarin is looking up at it. This is a first... We are discovered for the first time in modernity. Do you understand the historical significance? I can't say that I do, but we're here. Craw, Craw, can you read those words? Nah, Master Vintas, I'll try! It isn't your chronic.

You can read, though. What does it say? It says. Well, can Craw read, though, is the question. I can read your chronic, yes. Thanks, Willow! I'm making an intelligence save and throw disadvantage. It's a fair question. I'm kidding.

You've got like negative force. I don't know two languages. I'm going to silently look over the ruins as well and read them but not tell anybody. Okay. So both of you see this. Just so I know if he's lying. Got it. Because I don't trust his little lizard. You do that.

And so you read and it says only those truly bronze of scale manner. I turn to Mastaventis, and I repeat exactly that. Only those... What was it? True of bronze of scale, man.

Bronze. Didn't they say it was a brass dragon that was living here? No. He's brass. He's brass. The dragon is bronze. Gotcha. Some be dragons.

It's hard to keep drag. You think that it means? Well, my fears that if we don't have some kind of bronze dragon born with us, We're not going to be able to end up these gates. That's impossible. We won't let that stop us. You don't have to stop us. It's like a wall.

It's like a cave. It's basically a cave, right? It's basically a structure. So it's heading downwards, and you're seeing that there seem to be the remnants of like this large structure. It seems to be the remnants of a temple. Solid stone walls. Very, very, very thick.

As it rises up above you. What do you think that means? Can anyone sense magic to see if there's a conjuring or a spell on the door? I can detect the magic, yes. Let's see. Oh. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Look at this scasi, being used to-in-you-fiel again. So take 10 minutes to cast as a ritual, because we're not in a hurry.

Right? So you get basically a free spell to see if you can detect magic. Take the time to do it, right? Just tell everybody it takes time. Okay. Okay. Yeah, it'll take me about 10 minutes. I can detect all the magic on this door. Within 30 feet of me. So, you see, you see Ventis, Abintas, glow with his green, and you actually sense a strong magic coming from the door.

And it seems to be from the school of transmutation. as you also get a magical sense from the pillars on either side of you. And that seems to be of a evocation. Oh, fuck. Okay. So I would reveal that to the party. Okay. The door in...

Transputation. The pillars have evocation. I'm not sure what any of that means. Can you translate? I cannot. Transmutation is something that changes one thing into another. Evocation is damage magic. That's like fire.

Okay. So you would be able to say that evocation is dangerous, right? It's something we want to watch out for. Yeah, so we probably shouldn't touch the bronze columns. They might be dangerous. Wait, wait, Master Vintis. You don't mean to tell cry that you can't disable this. The greatest rogues you ever exist.

Are there traps, I would think? Eskazi like yourself would be able to disarm whatever traps lie in White. What did you call me? I didn't call you anything. I called him Eskazi. My apologies. Sadly for us, it's not one of the

spells that I prepared for today. I can't dispel it, even if I tried. I can't dispel it either. Let me see if I don't think I can dispel it either. Either. No, I cannot. Do you think that, We must do something with these pillars to gain access.

What? The pillars seem dangerous. I don't know if we should be touching them. I got evocation magic off of that. Perhaps we could look at the pillars without touching. How does that sound? I'd like to look at the pillars and see. Yeah, I would also investigate the pillars.

Yeah, make an investigation check with you. Terrible. Or no, no, he makes it all help him. I got me. So, run out of damage. I got a nine. A nine. Is this in the fourth time it's been just one?

You take a look at these. It's only plus one? Or is it Arcana? No, it's... It's investigation. You rolled a four. I got a plus five on investigation and I rolled a four. Well, it was an advantage.

The first roll was an eight. No, it was a three. Oh, I thought it was a eight. Oh, yeah. So you take a look, and it looks like these strange copper, or strange brass plaintiffs. bronze flames, I apologize, on these pillars look like they, it's been well preserved and they kind of hum with this strange magic to them and it looks as if they would be able to to possibly conduct electricity and you look down as well and

it seems as if the base of each of these pillars is is there's a little bit of a gap from an opening, as if they can, maybe able to be moved. But that's about what you get. So we can move the pillars. We, that's all I got. They can be charged by electrical energies.

Ever we, what you gained? Yes. A vint? Yes. Vintz, that's what you said. I do believe that's... Electrical energy. That would follow along with what we know about

the bronze dragon. I'm certainly no stranger to electrical energy, but I can't promise anything. Well, who can make electrical energy from the innate power? I mean, I don't think I can. I can do it. I can do it sometimes. Oh, we own all elements. I can make electricity.

Oh, you can't, you know, you know what, Bertie, I don't think I've seen you make electricity yet go on. Roughly how wide. What is that? The large is about 10 feet and it's huge... Ten feet. 10, 10 by 10. 10. Okay. Out of character question.

You can actually produce electricity? I have a spell. It's not like a cantrip. No, I'm just, I'm just, well, yeah, of course you can. You can do whatever you want. I'm just curious if you can actually produce electricity. I have a spell called Thunderwave that generates a... That should be...

That would be... Oh. But you also know that Broms Dragon Warner are related to Thunder as well. Oh, I can say. Okay. Craw can do it. Well, it's thunder. I mean, I don't know if...

Why don't we draw straws? How does that sound? Crawl laughs at all of your puny brains. Well, I'll trust that G could make a fine bit of lightening with the damage. Which kind of works. I think that there are two pillars and two people that claim they can do it. So why can't you do it simultaneously? That's a brilliant idea.

Why does one have to go above the other? No, no, no. No, no. It's nothing. It's not about anyone being better than anyone else. I'm just talking about... What was it? Lightning? True lightning is all I'm saying. I think the little lizard thinks he can do it. Let him try.

Yeah, let's let the track he draws flail if he can. What's the distance between the two pillars? 10 feet. Yeah, 10 feet. Oh. Only if you want. Only if Master Vint might tell me to do it. Can we move them closer to each other?

No, no, no. They're very, yeah, they're very... Struck in the dirt. So this thunder wave is not... Why, is that made it? I don't know. The spell would say what kind of damage it is. I believe it's force, but I could be wrong.

I believe it's thunder damage. So it would be thunder, but it would not be lightning. Oh, yeah, okay. Yeah, it's not... I don't... Krah does not presume. Krah only hopes to help. I say you give it a try.

I know it's... potentially not gonna be lightning damage. Well, if Master Vint tells me to try, I suppose I'll give it to try. Go on, let's see what you got. I cast Dragon's breath on myself at a level two, because that is what it is. I get to choose the element and I choose lightning damage.

It is up to a 15-foot cone, so I cast, I breathe lightning on both of the things. Lightning on both of the... Gotcha. I'd like to stand within the cone and absorb elements. No, no, no. Gee, get out of the way.

It's dangerous. No, no, it's not dangerous. I can absorb elements. And I'd like to do so. I can do that in character. What are you to tell me in character? Yeah. Just in case it doesn't work,

I'll absorb a portion of your power and wield the lightning on the other pillar. Crease says? Your funeral. And he shakes his voodal and says, I'm sorry, it's not what you ask. But casts a dragon's breath on himself and makes an attack in lightning damage. Okay.

How much damage? I can roll. I can roll. It's 46. The Crozari's going to stand right. It's 46, Dave. Oh. 4D6.

Oh, get out. Get out of the cone. Oh, my God. So it's going to be 15. 15 lightning damage so i take half you well you can get you can roll yeah so you can so you can dodge it so yes it is a absorb so i take half but you can also oh do that so you can dodge i have to take it to absorb well no you'll take it either way so yes so decks would be 15 half of if you if you get it would be half and then half of half right so still have so roll your decks check you're good golden over 15

so you're taking half of seven which yes you take half of seven which is three three point of light and a wheel of light name. And it's a 15-foot cone, so plenty of... So, Professor Adman's talking. Everyone step back. You do not want to be injured here. And you see Craw, touches his chest, and you see crackling all around his mouth, and he opens his mouth and a zap of lightning shoots a great gap. The Ovalids. As a breath of lightning energy shoots out of his mouth. And his both of the pillars of N.G.

Who stands and he channels his match with the elements and absorbs, uh, the power of storms. And yet, you literally do this. How long do you hold that for? Till my melee attack. Tell you next week. To my melee, that's fine.

Fuck. And you absorb the power of lightning as well as the pillars. It hits the, the bronze plating, and it's so, as they glow with this crackling blue light.

And you hear as the doors start to open. As both pillars glow with lightning and they start arcing. like basically stone crazy death coils. And, gee, would you look at that

the drachy draws did something to value? Oh, I'm pretty sure. Very good. My channeling of the lightning that really cemented its effect. You chatteled it through to the door. Is that right? I believe so.

Thank good. Thank clanglinger and silver beat you were there. I'm glad you were the one to enable the opening this door. forward to your inevitable devouring. I look forward to whatever beast thinks that it can. Draghi drives, let me ask you a question. Have you ever seen a dwarf jump 35?

Finally, being frustrated with the continual bickering, Willow turns and walks off into the sunset, leaving the party to die. Professor Azran steps in. Well, let us please all steal our selves. Who knows what will count? what we'll encounter in these ruins. Thank you so much, Crawl.

I do it, I can. Maybe we can discuss cross-payment. We'll add that as a bonus. No, no fairness. Okay. Craw, I do believe that you could do with a little extra payment so you can have my portion. I am no need of it. Oh, no, no, no, Miss Willough.

Where I come from, this kind of money is not. It does me no good. No, no. I'm a lady of the harvest. Miss Willow, you are a great citizen. You may say with Vint. and the two of you can go on your way afterwards and find that dragon you so long for. Miss Willow, you must take care of yourself. You take care of Kra! Kra! Warn wants Willow to take care of Krah forever?

This is a way that I can send it along with you. I agree, your old oath gold. I mean, you've made an oath. I have no idea what you're saying. You've made an oath to the professor. He owes you the money. And with that, I'm able to give it to where I choose. I would never question where you would to give it. but just letting you know that he it's he owes you the gold in your name if if we make an arrangement that you would like to give your share to crah no

krawn vintus and if krah won't take it I would like you to give it all to ventis because I know that you continue to care for the craw that these days are numbered krah will never let's allow miss will want to die no no I won't die shantia will not allow it miss master vince no you do not allow miss No! No! I do kind of agree with Crawl. You do deserve the money. We'll talk about it. We'll talk about us at a later date. You are keeping a party alive. Upon the source is rendered, we shall have a discussion, and I will pay. Whomever, our lovely Willow decides. As...

So are we ready to enter? Because I want to prep us a little bit here. Well, I'm ready. I'll be all stealed. What do you suggest for us? I'd like to cast pass without trace on that entire party. How long does it last? For an hour. Okay. Question.

How long is time pass outside of combat? Normally. To your decision? Whatever the deal is. So the idea is if we're doing things, you can say, hey, how long has it been since X? Right? I just basically just pull something out of my ass and that's what it is. 30 minutes.

It's not a sentence, right? Okay, yeah. Welcome shot at all. Yeah. Welcome. Oh, welcome. Oh, welcome. I like your leaving kitty.

That's quite adorable. Are we stealing through these ancient ruins? I think we should have there are fiends about. Quiet. We don't have to. There's only last for an hour. That's to five. So everyone makes a stealth chat.

Stealth chat. I'm only already. I'm only, I'm not a disadvantage. I roll three three. Oh, crap. Cross very stealthy. 31. Do I roll this at a bag or?

No, no, just you roll it. You add your stealth and you add 10. And you had 10. I guess like a 5. 32. I rolled the 14. Where you roll the 14? I rolled the 3 plus 1 and his

baths without a trees gives me a whopping 14. Oh, Byver. You've never been one for subtlety. No, I've never taken kindly to the stealthy times, but at this time I will attempt my best. The 14th are not. I will be noticed by no one, except for Master Vint.

Well, no, you folk are a burglary, stealthy, stealthy, type. Is that I resent that she'd say that about me. I've never been a thieving kind at all. Oh, I don't mean the thief. I mean, he's the scasi. I mean, you're just natural. I feel like I should be offended. No, no.

So yes, use the translation. Translate, everybody's stealth check. 32. 14. Skazi means thief. 19. That total? Stealth checks?

27. 27. 35. 31. Okay. Wow. As the doors of this massive

ruined structure, you're not sure what it is. Stand open. Professor is all in a roll. He is fine. He does fine. He does fine. He does fine.

The professor's like, oh, everyone, they're all fiends and dragons about, literally. everyone, I will say at the back, keep an eye out, but let's make our way. You make your way into a long, narrow corridor

heading downward. You feel dampness in the air as you enter the corridor going down. Hear the slight dripping of water's condensation trips as the corridor goes downward in darkness engulfs you. How dark? What? How dark?

It is... Natural darkness? It is getting pretty dark. It is the natural darkness. Not magical. No, no. Okay. Basically without...

So I mean to stop you. You're endorsed. As you make your way and you start to see that your eyes and just... I don't know who has natural dark vision. This guy right here. I actually don't know. As a change thing, I would think you might. It would tell you in the features and traits.

I believe... Yep, click them. Click that. Can't see a single thing. Are you? and I do. I believe everybody else is not. You see Professor Azran

reach into his briefcase of holden. And he pulls out a torch. He strikes from Flint and Tinder and lights it. The torch lights up. Providing lights up. Well, I may not be much in a fight, but I at least can provide you some light.

So you can see what we're up against. Oh, that's right. Biong can't see in the dark. Let's get a little bit more. Oh, and I mimic it into my palm. But control flame it into the palm. Some fire jumps from the torch to G's claw.

Yeah, claw. As you basically have two torches making your way through. And let us reveal a little bit more. You make your way through. Yes, it could, yes. I mean, it's up to the DM, right? What? Well, the fact that we are using an open flame to see

could ruin our pass-allot trace. So let's just use one. guy for now. But you guys literally can't see, right? So the question is, is it better to see or be discovered, right? You know, it's up to the DM. To answer, to answer Hazard's question. Is this, what's going on? Is this just a wall? So in the spell, that's without a trace, it does enshroud us in shadow, so that probably helps mute the light a little bit, but it's really up to the DM to decide based on our stealth roles. What would be nice in? It's also visibility. On this map, are we just walking down?

Are these squiggly, like, walls? Those are all walls. It's rough ruined into the earth. We're just like he's a phenomenal artistry. And I mean, it's really rough and rough. He's very, like, I wasn't sure if this is a corridor. No, that was like a mud trail, right? Yeah.

Yeah, that's a front of, because it's like, yeah, I just don't know what the... You make your way and you see a narrower, smaller, of this off-scale, a smaller door that it seems to be made of stone plated in bronze ahead of you. A small handle with a large keyhole is before you. As Mr. Asran holds the torch, and G. has his flame. Oh, sorry. And it seems to be a very simple stone door.

And that's right here. Yep, just push it a little bit. There it is We are We are just Just to just say We've just one guy for now This is the whole game

Why don't you check this door again This place seems to hold Many secrets Last best event is Just be careful Because it's known That these tombs might be Dangerous

And because you are an arcane trickster You can pick locks using your mage hand That's right. We've seen the Scasi invisibly used these tools for 30 feet away. Oh, it's very cool. It is very cool. You gotta give it up for Master Vintus. Oh, I agree. I'm not... He's very challenging. I would like to pick the lock with May change.

Okay. So, um, so you're going to... Okay, everyone get back. And you all get a 30 feet back as Vintis, uh... Waves his hands and a... glowing green hand appears and it looks like a dog's paw

a brown dog's paw with black spots in a couple of the fingers are some snacks and it's hard to read but it says soupy stabby

some kind of treats and it said like soinx man and zoar as it as it grabs these tools and it makes its way towards the

would you let us through for a Scooby Snake? Holy fuck. And then, Professor Azarin drives away in the mystery. It is Moniac. No, he isn't a Monniac. No, it's a Four Fiesta.

Mr. Aspen has a Ford Fiesta. I drive my mother's four wingstack. Fuck. I hate everyone. Make a dexterity check add your proficiency, because you are, or whatever, whatever your pick lock. Decks plus proficiency.

Is it double because of long? He's a technical. traps first. Oh, are you making an investigation check first? So you're making an investigation check. Okay. Yeah. That's pretty good. Very good. Uh, 24 for investigation. The door seems to be locked as you're investigating this wall and you feel with your innate magical ability, you feel like this is trapped. Magically or? It seems to be a combination of magical and mechanical. Mechanical, okay. Okay. So I would warn everybody, we need to step back 30 feet.

and continue to unlock it. Go on, Schazzy. Please do it all, everyone. Master Vintas, please be careful. We're 30 feet back, we're good. I've raised the earth in front of us, giving us a shield. Okay. So you do that, so you raise, you're just enough

so that Vintas can see, but all of you can duck down behind. And I'll raise my great throng in the world. You hear, you can get the earth, my prune. Is that what you call your penis? You like it if it was, but no, it's my shoes. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

While our party is dissolved into nothing, yeah, that's fine. Make a, uh, a pick lock check. Is that like? Yeah. Eight plus, what, dexterity? Light of hands, right? It's going to be, no, for lock picking is just deck checks plus proficiency. 12 plus what?

I don't know what my proficence. Plus, what's your dex bonus? Four? Four. So 16 plus proficiency is three. Yep. So 19. 19.

So you see this green hand with thief tools, inserting the tools and it's working with incredible dexterity. This magic hand is working. And then as soon as the thief tool enter, you hear it as lightning shoots out, directly in front of the door, which would have zapped anyone that tried, but you're able to get enough, you're far back that it has as no damage, as you hear the door unlock. And your mage hand floats back. Master Vinsus, that was amazing.

Well done, Skazzi. I knew there was a reason that we kept you over there. Well done, well done. We met in Ansu, who showed me his incredible ability, and that's why, I mean, he was the first one, in my expedition. Can I also push the door with the mage hand? It can only push five pounds. No, his mage hand is different.

Oh. What does it do? Let us know. I mean, the door's not too heavy, yeah. This is the short answer. I just don't know what the door weighs and what you can push. I mean, do you have a wait for the door in mind? I mean, if it's made of stone, it's more than five pounds.

Right. So the question is whether or not his mage hand can push more than five pounds. I don't know. It increases me. string. It doesn't. So as your Maytan goes to grab the handles unable to move it, seems to be a bit heavier, but your Mayhand, you know, is more dexterous than it is strong. And you can do that on a bonus action, by the way. Okay. So, Professor

Azran says, gee, would you mind floating this? He said he said a match hand. He taps as a massive stone wall this in between you guys and the door. I walk up to the stone door and I push forward and the with control Earth and then... It grows... The stone crumbles. That magic is so cool. The earth crumbles and it's all of you in front of the door.

It says, well, I suppose I'll do the honest. Right. He grabs the handle and he turns it. And this large... You hear it... grinding stone as it opens and you see

and you hear as soon as he grabs it, he stops as you hear this low guttural voice coming from behind. He stops. Behind us or from behind the door? Low guttural in voice. What language does everyone speak?

Chaconic in common. I speak Eric Cochran, Oren, common, and draconic, actually. Haspeak common, duolish, and the foul languages of the green skins. Oh, and undercombe. Undercommon. I got, uh, you can speak all languages. If I cast it like that.

I got draconic, um, common, uh, elvish, um, giant and primordia. And I have half wing and Sylvan. That's right. I have common undercommon elvish nomish and another one is it? Is the death metal band's finger behind the door? It's low-go-oh-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.

as it seems to be chanted. Holy fuck! Gnomish elevation under common. As... And he... Could be. He holds it. Or fiendish.

I don't know what that means. I'm stage whispering now. What's we do? Does anyone understand what they're saying? No. No. Cod does not know what's happening. Willow.

You said that you could understand any language. Is that right? I mean, that's true, but I wasn't prepared for this. So I didn't take it today when I was trying to... My goddess. Oh no.

What are we gonna do? I vote. We send the very brave VALS ahead of all of us. I completely agree. Oh, Miss Willow, I know you're so smart. We certainly didn't come this far to turn back. Let him go in alone. Agreed.

We'll shut the door behind him. Agreed. And we just wait. Agreed. I don't choke away. He does seem brave. He does. I don't chirk away from any challenge.

I mean, he could go first. but I'll come up behind him he's looking for a challenge show me your moves did you still throw like 40? 32 oh yeah wait are we going off the stealth rolls that we had with oh yeah wait I'll go first

he just got an extra stealth one no no he's got super we voted for vast to go first well Vaz is the world It was nearly unized The translation, he's the ranger, is what I'm saying, but in my Dwarven tongue. Help me know when I need to translate in any moment. I think I should check this out.

We wanted him to go first in the event that he was encountering a dragon. Because none of us understand what's being said. It's probably not a dragon. Speaking draconic. So we only hope that. Vaz gets he, I mean, goes to check out what happens first. But I'm very stealthy right now. But gee, we need your tea.

But, well, that's true. Good boy, have you seen this firebird stealth through the wilds of cocky? I sneak up, open the door, and slide in because I'm a halfling and I have no fear. You do that. And Professor Azran barely notices you nut. He's holding it. I can walk through space in someone larger than me. me so I just walk right between his legs and you just you kind of just nudge it open he

doesn't even notice as you walk in and you see a circular chamber ahead of you okay let's move it and either side yeah on is that uh I believe in the birdman as well Rose Moss pocket you see a chamber four large pillars seem to hold up this space the whole thing is dripping with moisture At the center, there is a large pedestal atop what seems to be a stone structure that seems to be fit for holding armor. You're not quite sure. On the walls, you see great carvings and basfries all around of great draconic shapes, both dragon and dragon. and full dragon and dragonborn. However, they seem to be

completely besmirched and ruined by marks of blood and strange black markings. Horrible writings all over it. At the center of this room on either side of this pedestal, you see two creatures. Wow, fuck.

They are fish-like in appearance. They are large. Would you say nightfish-like? Not night-fish-like. Murlock? They are fish-like in appearance

with long, slithering bodies coiled beneath them, almost like eels or snakes, hanging fishy tendrils alongside their mouth, large fins, each with two arms, no legs to speak up. As they raise their hands... They don't have legs. They don't have legs.

Like, Naga? They raise... They're Naga from war. As they waste their hands As their hands glow with this horrible smoky magic and above them a smoky cloud appears as he he'd be very focused on this. But I get the idea

that these are the fiends that he was able to sense. Why don't you make an arcana or religion check? I would say both would be fine. Black smears I fathom that we're deep in the ground. Well, no one besides Willow's there, right? Yes. So we're still bickering. Oh, God.

Bicker, bicker, bicker. Wait, where did that grumbone go? I would say, with that, you would get the sense that these are not fiends. And being from this area, in this general area, you would probably recognize these as marrow. Oh, shit. As one is. Mero. Do I know what kind of creatures there is?

They're monstrosities. They are creatures from the deeps that are very very very fiends. Evil, they're very much not fiends. However, there's a very fiendish look to all the markings that are desecrating this chamber, and there is a very fiendish energy to the magic, and a very fiendish sound to the language that they are chanting. I'm just going to kind of... Are there any like boulders...

What did you say? Sound to the language. The sound to the language of the speaking. Are there like any boulders around here that I could, like, slide behind? There are large pillars that you could... Yeah, so I'm going to... I'm going to creep behind that and I'm going to use my halfling naturally stealthy and I'm going to hide behind it. Mega, because it's one size larger than me.

But I still think that I should go first. Natural running. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Bha-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-m-a. Also 24. No, plus-4. Okay.

I'm not within 10 feet of you, so. 30 feet. 30 feet. Oh, it's 30 feet? No, 34 stuff. If I'm within 10 feet of him, right? Within, like, 60 feet or 30 feet. That's fine out.

Yeah, you're like, you lose it if you're away from him. 30 feet. Yeah, so you're within 30 feet. Yeah, so 34. Okay, so they are all chanting. As they do this, you hear from a noise come from the cloud above them. And it's a horrific droning buzz that seems to be. emanating from this as the smoke

starts to coalesce. I'm just going to watch them. I would also like to run into the room. Like, stealthy behind this pillar. Got it. And I would like to know how are you going to RP that? Yeah.

How are you going to RP that? So who's going to go first? You don't see me or me. Right, right. You don't know. Bobram, I think that it should be me. So time out. If you're making a decision, you have to make a decision based on

you do not know that she's gone because you didn't notice. Which is fine. You can do what you want to do, but you don't do it based on what she's doing. Well, the door is open and I can hear. No, I opened it just slightly and snuck in. And she's small. Yeah, I'm only three feet. You're allowed to try to do the same thing, but you don't know that she did.

You haven't noticed she's gone. But I can look around. At any point, I can notice she's not there. Only if you're actively looking for it. Is there any reason that you would be? Whoa. If you're actively engaged in conversation with, this smelly dwelt.

I'm a falcon bird eyes and suddenly were less people. I'm just saying. There's a difference between meta knowledge and what you're looking for. So the thing that's fair, right, is that he wouldn't have necessarily noticed her leave. But he might after a certain amount of time. I would say that. When I just said, hey, who would go first, he might look around and notice someone's gone. It has to be rationalized.

That's all I'm saying. I think that's fine. Yeah. I feel good about it. You want to roll of perception check? I would say. Yeah. perception track and we'll see if you notice that I would have said that my passive

perception would have made me notice that she was missing no perception is lower than what my stealth was right gotcha yeah she's super stealthy 30 something it's 20 22 I would say that you would with everyone there and you're all looking trying to figure out what to do that you would notice that someone is missing from your party yeah yeah I was that happening yeah send this guy's he he's old sneaky like yeah I'm very sneaky I'd like to get in there and potentially see what's going on. Okay.

I want to see what's going on. So, okay. Then give us the signal, and let's go. Do you allude us to the... Guys, I hate to break this to you, but it's just the three of us out here. I think everyone else has gone into the...

Six! Six of us! There are five of you. Six, including Professor Azad. It's just... Can it count? What was the number? Six.

Clause's not good as math, but seven minus one is six? No. No, no, no. Only Miss Wilson. Hello is missing. He's about to leave. He's in the room. He's about to have.

Wait, you're saying that we're missing one? We are indeed missing. Where did the grumboggy go? Well, always forward, never backwards, is what the ancient ones always say. Try a match and she's being done. Oh, wait here. Oh wait here. Cut me now and safe.

The mast event. Please be careful. I'm gonna sneak in. Okay. You see the same thing, these fish-like creatures. fish-like creatures, these marrow, all chanting as the buzzing, droning. It's louder. Say that loud.

I got 36. 36. As you sneak in me, they all seem to notice here. 46. No, yeah, 36. 36. Sorry. Yeah, I can do math.

So you go to the other pillar. Yeah. Okay. And you don't necessarily see her. No. You don't know. You're focused on your own thing. Yeah.

I want to look at the walls at the markings. Yeah. And see if I recognize them from Necromancy 101 at Anzu. Uh, Megan Archonish. Did you say necromancy and Anzu? A full of love. Not to you, Bogram the Smogrom.

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While I'm talking, I just want to go right in. I think that they can probably hear you breathing from out here. Well, the energies are trillion in dimension, though. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I forgot. You should probably stay out here and protect the professor. The stealthy of types make our way in. Balls you've already gone in.

Yeah, I've already gone in. Oh, well. Are you going to fight or are you just going to hide? I mean, you've got a stealth. Do I have to stealth check again? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Anytime that you make ball,

up to you. Depends of what you're trying to do. You want to just barge in, barge in. I'll walk in and just like kind of check out the situation first. Let's go stealth again. That would be nine plus five plus ten. Oh, yes.

I forgot. Passed without three. It's pretty fucking busted. 24. Yeah. You managed to go in there. And what do you... And people's like, go, go, go, go. Bargroom?

I forgot how that worked. Once more onto the breach, old friend. All right, let's do this. And I'll throw the door open and it's not trying to like... Not throw the door open, but... After you, friend. And I will follow G out. Don't mind if I do.

Making a disadvantage stealth check. Another three. Okay. 14. As you do this, you finally hear as the door flies open, the massive cloud above them starts to materialize and where the cloud once was the buzzing, it's louder and louder echoes around the chamber. As you then see a figure appear and materialized from this horrible smoke, it's this large buzzing insectoid creature with a long pointed proboscis flying with these horrific four massive wings, large bulbous eyes.

And it seems to be this horrific, demonic taint around this insectoid creature. I'm immediately going to cast a magic circle directly around it. If it is a fiend, it cannot leave the magic circle for ten minutes. How long is the cast time? A magic circle. Do you also have to have a vision? One minute.

So I'm going to immediately start doing that. Okay. So we're starting to do a minute. So we're starting to do a minute. Do you have vision on it? Yeah, I can peek out from behind the rock. Okay. Okay.

So as you do this, you're all skitting in the room after a minute passes, the Magistrate's go, it lights up and all of these creeps are surprised by you and their own or Rural Initiative, they are surprised. Oh, fool. Why is that an advantage or what is... I got a natural one, but I'm a halfling. No, so you're just... Just one.

17 plus two. Seven. 17. Okay, so hold on how long. I rode 12. 20 to 25. Oh, I wrote 12. Is it just put, but it's what?

Oh, so it's an hour actually. It's just plus 5, right? Yeah, it's 17. Okay. Uh, 20 to 25, anybody? 20. 20. 20.

17. 19. 19 for Vaz, and then G. Wow, very fitting song. Yeah, very fitting song. Yeah, very fitting. Name that tune. 10 to 15.

10 to 15. Uh, I got a, 15. 12. And then Vince, we get? Seven. Okay. They're going to go.

Professor is staying back. I'm going to roll for the Mero. They are going to get a hot 11, which is lower than Bargram. Monsters 1, and then I'm rolling for the Chasmay. Who's Devers? I know. Yeah. Devers.

Yeah, we just can't see who's there. Let's crawl over there. Yeah. Well, I just saw there was a paper. It's me. 19, G? 17. 17.

I got a 17. Vaz got a 19. Okay. As this demon is looking like this. And it is droning loudly and loudly. It's so horrific. And it doesn't like, it doesn't contain it. It can't leave.

The magistrate, like, it can't leave. But it's not like totally encloses it and like, totally neutralizes it. Um, it has a 10 foot radius, 20 foot tall cylinder of magical energy center on a point on the ground that you can see what you can see what. on the ground that you can see within range. Glowing runes appear wherever the cylinder intersects with the floor or other surface. So it depends on how tall the seal is. When you cast the spell, you can elect to cause its magic to operate in the reverse, preventing a creature the specified type from leaving the cylinder and protecting targets outside of it. Okay. How big is the 20 foot radius? It easily encircles now. Can we attack into it?

You can, but you attack a disadvantage. Oh. Okay. So the medical circle. So basically, we're just taking him out of the final. We wouldn't know that we attack this advantage. Correct. Yeah. a magical circle with blowing rooms. However, you're able to hear the whole droning

of this creature. It easily encompasses it. It doesn't affect the other two because they're not of the type of. Craw, you are up. I'm still, I'm not in the room. So I turn to the professor and I say, ah, farewell to do, professor.

I must find my master. And I head to the room. Please do. Please do. So I'm going to head five feet in. And am I able to easily see there's no obstruction? Yep. So then I'll move five,

10, 15, 20, next to Vint and I will say to him, Ha, Master Vint, I found you. Hang on tight! And I cast haste on him. Okay. So you channel the black jaconic magic and suddenly Vintz, you feel the incredible quickening magic

of your companion and you have haste. Okay. What does I do? Boss, you're up. I will be happy to tell you. All right. Um, my,

like right? Oh, you're this source. Yeah, yeah. Dexterous and you get an additional action and you get in time twice. Cool. Yeah, so you let it fucking rip. Right, it doesn't,

it doesn't have to be any. So what is the magic circle of flesh? Is it like clearly a barrier around this? Yes, it is clearly a barrier. So sound is able to pass through it. It's magically, it's magical and it's, yes, you can visibly see it. Okay, so as, as this buzzing, however,

you were able to hear it. And so it's so it's so horribly cacophomous and vile. You need to make a saving throw. A, what saving throw do you need to admit? Bosca's? Yes. A cotton saving throw, constitution.

Okay. Seven plus three, ten. Ten. That passive. And you hear it and you're able to steal yourself. It's so maddening and awful. But you're able to shrug off just barely, this horrible droning. I would like to use a bonus action to cast and snaring strike.

Got it. it. You channel this nature magic and vines wrap around your glave. And I'd like to attack the, what are they called, marrow? Mero, yeah. The number one on the right. So you got to run up to him. Nope. Longbow. Oh, so you pull out your longbow. So it wraps around your arrow and you pull out your longbow and you fire.

Okay, so for hit, we got 16 for hits. 16 hits on, yes it doesn't have the arrow. Okay. And for damage, I get one, seven damage. Seven damage. The arrow fires and it pierces into the marrow. They all turn to you, completely surprised by this as this massive demonic insectoid creatures

looking at you angrily. Okay. Now I'm going to- Number one, number one is what you hit, yep. Which are their numbers? Are they on there? One, two. One, two, and the boss.

Okay, okay. Biggub boss, yeah. Biggub boss, yeah. I'm going to move here to the left side and use the second attack on the other one. Okay. You're going to use your blade? Yep. Okay.

So the arrow flies in, and he's making a strength saving throw, right, on the elbow? For the... For number one, right? Yeah. Uh, it gets a strength. It's going to be 20, so it succeeds. It's blind to whip out around the arrow. It means to rip out of them as it tries to the strength.

Okay, make an attack. How is it going to work for him switching weapons? Oh, he just has to drop them, right? You can drop the long bow. So your long bow has to stay here. And that means you cannot switch back to your long bow and you can't either way. I just throw it a 20 on it.

Okay, you crick, yep. That's a crick. Fuck yeah. And then 10. So you just can't, you can't switch back to your long bow unless you pick it back up. So you'll get it up from the natural point. Hey. Gotta give it up.

So we have seven, eight, and 13 slashing damage. Bye, 14, 14. Bye. Thanks for hanging out. So we get... Thanks, Rose. Crits never miss unless you're a clear of the grave and then the D&D, or the D&D. So we got 14 damage on the road.

As you shoot one, then you drop your longbow and run up with your gleeve and slice into it. On to number two. Okay, so we got, the one on the right's got, what, six damage or eight damage? And the other one's got seven damage. Is it seven, seven, fourteen? Okay. Okay. is their turn, but they're surprised as they are unable to act with as you just burst in on them.

Gee, you're up. Bargram, did I ever tell you that they call me the furious phoenix of Yulon? No, I don't think you ever did tell me that, but that sounds bad ass as hell. It does. Well, let me show you why. And I cast Agonazars score. I'm sorry, I cast. Phoenix punch. There you go.

There you go. Agonazars. Well, Phoenix Punch. And I fire off a flame Phoenix from my talent fist straight down. How many feet? 30 feet? One, two,

three, four, five, six. Yeah. It's all. Okay. Each creature in a lot of us make a deck saving throw. The middle one's a disadvantage? No. I don't think for saving throws now. Nope. It's just if you're trying to be do melee attacks against the bearded-of-can.

Okay. 15, 16 on number one, 15 on the demon, and then a 19. So they all pass. They all pass. So you see G who run up and he punches forward flame spirals out of his flaming fist. And you hear the cry of the falcon as the phoenix shoots out of the fain Oh, com! Oh, it's from Phoenix fans?

Oh, Phoenix! Um, max damage was 10, so I think everyone takes five. Everyone takes five damage. The fire swirls around and these flapping wings fire forward as they take five. However, it still scorches this demon, but the flames do not seem to be affecting this quite as much as you would expect. Who is it? That's the middle guy? The boss is the demon?

Yes. Okay, okay, okay. Okay, with that is Willow's turn. I am going to cast a spiritual weapon. Got it. Hell yet. And I'm going to try and cast it into the sphere, which means after all of charisma saving throw to see if it can get in there.

Got it. And it's not going to. So what is the small fizzle? It's totally not. No, no, it doesn't. Yeah, that's just the ten. It's just nothing can get in there except for things that are magically conjured or like a teleportation in there.

But to do it? But to do it, yeah. So it'll, it'll... appear here instead of in there. So you see a glowing orange autumnal-looking scarecrow holding a sight appear and it swings in. It's not able to get through this magical circle around the buzzing demon.

However, it manages to slice in toward the marrow. So it's going to make his attack against that guy. It's going to be a 14 to hit. 14 to hit on the marrow. barely and that's nine points of force damage okay as it slices in this this creature lets out of gutter as he gets sliced on number one nine points got it and then I'm going to cast Toll the dead on him as my action okay and he's wounded right yes he needs to make it with some saving throw please with saving throw that will be

ba-ba-ba six okay he failed you hear the toying of church bells and bells bringing in the harvest, and tries to cover his head as blood starts to pour out of ear holes. 18 points of necrotic damage. Jesus Christ. Got it. Okay. Barker, you're up. Alright, is there enough room to run past this pillar without having to go around?

Is there this spot here? I would say, probably not. Get it right. Whoa! Whoa! Oh, everybody does it matter does it. I would like to run up and attack the... So first I would like to cast shield of faith on myself.

Yep. No, actually what I'll do, instead of that, I'm going to cast Hunter's Mark. Got it. On number one. And I'm going for two attacks. You channel the power of your hatred and fury onto this marrow. So the lower, the first one hits, the lower one is a 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 to hit. 12 to hit on the marrow, barely misses.

Okay. So I hit for 1, and so I roll a D6, and I roll D8. So 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 damage. 12 damage. 12 damage, your metal slaces into this marrow, 12 on number 1. Yep. Okay. It's looking...

Oh, no, you cleat into his chest. Oh, shit. That's falls on the ground dead. Well, okay. Yeah. I'm saving my stelf, then. Wow. Jesus.

Okay. That's it. That's it. Okay. They are now the large demon is surprised as well. Vinges your own. You were hasted. Yes.

I would like to make two attacks on number two. You do that. One thing. To move up first. Sword or bow? Bow. Got it. You pull out your bow.

Oh, as long as you're, yeah. As long as you're all of us, it's fine. Sorry. I misunderstood what you're doing. We got a surprise round. It's 25. 25. Yeah. It's a sneak attack and then 22 on the attack. You're unseen attackers, so you remember your advantage. Oh, so if you're unseen, then roll advantage. You make it a credit. Roll again for the first one.

Okay, no good. And roll again for the second one. Okay, that's fine. As long as you want to roll though, and just get that correct. although he's getting critical. So the first one has sneak attack. Yeah, so 3d8 plus my, or 3d6 plus my, or 3D6, I'm hiding, so Shlyde is an unseen attacker? 11 or 12 16. Huh? That's for attack rolls. Yeah, I'm talking about my 20 damage told the dead. Oh, yeah. I'm kidding, I'm not. I'm going to go. I mean I can't be on that.

So 25 total damage? 25 total damage. The arrow you find a weak point in this, uh, in this marrow, the arrow flies in, it hits it, it is looking, it's looking rough. Is anyone after Vintas? Prong. Oh, is my turn around? No, not, don't you... Oh, that two both attacks? Yeah.

Okay, so you fire, ban, ban, and it's looking very rough. Blood is pouring out of its creature, cry rough. In the holy fire of despair! And I cast fireball on number one. Okay. You do it. Dexcating throws. Is it disadvantaged?

finish no so it's a deck saving throw for for number one and number two if I cast it here Voss is spared but you're not oh no yeah Bargram's gonna be in there being it good I'm gonna cast it here I think I think he's spared right Bargram's not but boss is spared well I don't like Voss but Bargram's getting the heat here oh no so 17 should guess did it on me I got I don't care to resistance to fire Yeah, well, fuck off. That's gonna be top.

Well, it's one or the other, right? Well, if it's directly on hand. You can pass it like that. That's fine. I don't care. One of them is getting hit, right? That's fine. There's no one to not hit both of that.

That's fine. I got a 22. You pass. Two greasures? That's going to be two, that's going to be 12, plus five is 17, plus. Plus six is, I'm sorry? 23.

Okay, then I'm gonna, just remember these were threes and fours. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna keep the six, I'm gonna spend a sorcerer point. I'm gonna re-roll the two, the two, the one, and the three. Can I borrow these six? So it's gonna be 18 plus eight is what? 24, 26, 26.

Plus four is 30. 30 points of damage to these two, and half to barren. As the marrow gets completely incinerated, The demon passes, it dodges a lot of the end, it seems to be resistant to fire. Oh, right. Did he take, yeah. Well, I hit him with my phoenix punch and he was resistant. And I wouldn't know that.

And I wouldn't know that. And then half 15 is eight. So it's eight points of damage. Wow. Holy cheese. You round up for damage? You round. You round.

It doesn't. Seventh. Seven. Yeah. And I spent a sorcerer point to do. So the fire, a fireball erupts out and it seems to be buzzing and really. Oh, actually also make a con saving girl, please. Me.

Yep. I ain't gonna be good. Oh, I'm gonna go. Oh, I'm gonna go. Yeah. 12 plus con is, oh, plus 5, 17. 17. So you manage to be more off the buzzing.

As it is buzzing really crazily. Vaz, you're up. Alright, I'm gonna cast Hunter's Mark, Mark on the main guy. Yep. And then I'm going to... This is out of here, right? Yes.

Okay. Yeah, for now. What is that? That was the range of my fireball. Oh. Just to manage up who was getting hit. I thought that was the... Oh, that's you.

Yeah. And I'm going to... Can I hit him from there? Yeah. Yeah, okay. This is a dance, though. Yeah, because he's in the prison. Yeah, well, I'm going to do it again.

Anyway. So I'm going to attack him. Yep. That disadvantage to roll twice and take the lower. 11. Plus what? That's plus your sleeve. Plus your sleeve.

Uh, plus nine. So that's 20. Yeah. 20. That's pretty good. Okay. And I'm going to roll for damage. That's 10.

10? Okay. And I roll an extra D6 for the Hunter's mark, which is a three, so 13 damage. First hit. 13 damage for the first hit. 13 damage for the first. first head, that hits.

Okay, and then I'm gonna go for the second hit. So, disadvantage again. Yep. We have four. Oh boy. And four plus 11, 11 to hit? 11 to hit? 11 to 15.

15. 11 misses, but 15 to hit. Oh. No, it would be 11. 11 hit, it misses, however, as you swing in the magic circle, kind of giving resistance against your blade. I need to make a positive-a-fraving throw, please. Okay.

16. Okay, that passes. You may have to react against it. Okay, Vaughn, you're up. Can the creature roll against that or is he just trapped in there? Just trapped in there. Oh. Provided he is of the... Monsorses. Yes. Yeah, it's the bad guys.

It's the bad guys. It keeps them from being able to do whatever melee attack. Monsters 2. Do as long as we stay out of his range. Well, Monsters 2 is just the big bad, right? Yeah. This is a whole lot. So can you remove Monsters 1?

Oh yeah, good that. Could you, and so it begins to drone louder and louder and louder as it just blanket the whole room. And everyone can constantly keep your throat, please. It's the only thing that craw's good at. Can I borrow a D20? Oh no, Crawl's two, which is a seven. Which means I have to maintain constraints for your haste. With this?

What is this? What is this? What is this? If I fail, you can't just flop it like that. If I fail, you will lose your next term. There were 11. 16, 11 passes. 11 passes.

11 passes. I got 11. I got 11. 11. I got 11. 14. 14. So you see Craw, the droning overcomes you and it's so much you fall unconscious.

No, no way. As you fail. Wait maybe like zero. Hit points on Christ? You're full. So what happens with my concentration? Instantly fail? It drops.

Yeah, it drops. Luckily, magic circle is not concentration, so for an hour he's still in there. Yeah, but we lose his turn, I feel bad. What, you lose your whole turn? No, you lose your turn. No, because I hasted him. So I lose concentration, which means he is exhausted on his next turn. Okay, yeah.

So you fall unconscious from your buzzing. That's the, and G, you're out. It would have been nice if you've gotten more than one hit in with it, man. I'm sorry. I got two. Oh, demon. That happened to you? Just, yeah.

Oh, I think you're saying you're having all of us. No, no, no, no, no. The DC was 10. Gotcha. Gotcha. Gotcha, got it. I roll a seven. And by that, I mean, I rolled it too.

What about the professor? He's outside. Yeah, he's not in the door. Gotcha. Well, we opened the door. Did we close the door back? He closed the door. Yeah, so when the spell ends, you can't move or take action. Can I fly, like, this way?

Can I be here? Yeah, you can. Like through here? Okay. You fly forward. You fly around. Oh, demon. You have caused my, my small friend, Craw, to fall unconscious, but I'll be a bit.

pay you back with the energy that he gave me earlier. Is it magical sleep? And I hit, uh, it's a magical, it's your unconscious, you're not asleep. Okay, all right. And so you can be woken up either with damage or by someone waking you up. Got it. A venge crawl with the lightning he gave me in the doorway. Okay.

With my corner saps. What? Disadvantage. I don't hate that at all. I ain't mad at you. Wait, wait, what? Oh, two? Okay.

Oh, big, and I would have, one, or two. Which is an auto fail. I would have yelled out to you that you don't want to be in his range. Like the entire point of the magic circle is so he can't move towards you to attack or suck your blood or whatever. If you're next to him, he can still get you. No, I'm just saying you can move out of the way of him. All right.

You can back up again. Yeah. Do I say an opportunity hit here? Yes. Can he not come out? He can't attack me out of the court. He can an opportunity attack you. He just can't follow you out.

Oh. So if you like ran up to him and ran away, he would get him. an attack on my opportunity. So if you had the ability to disengage as a bonus action or something that would help you. If you don't, you just have to stand there and probably be attacked. Okay. Well, all right.

Realizing that I was not capable of piercing this shield, I back up one space? Opportunity attack? If you went up into that attack. I went up to him. So he's going to shoot at you towards you with his proboscis as he is going to hit you. he is going to hit you, as it spears into you, it stabs into you with his progops, it is going to deal. Oh, Lord.

Is he disadvantaged though? No. 150, yeah, he was inside the range. I hope not. So, I don't know if you knew this, if at any point in time you take more than twice what your current hit points are, you die instantly. Oh, okay.

Just so you know. No, I thought I thought it's... 14 points of piercing damage as it sucks into you, and you're gonna take this much in the crop. Max plus current. You take more than max. Don't die if they just do my pit points? No, you fall unconscious.

And then 11 points in a chronic damage. And it drains... Yeah, 25 points in total. And it drains your blood, which horrible sickness overcome you. But if you take your mask off your current... Oh, wait, can I not cast a spell as a bonus action? It depends on it.

So if you want to get in the rest of your attacks on that, because you already... Then you didn't want to back away. That's fine. What? What? So if you wanted to... If you can't... bonus act is a spell, you want to finish out your turn doing the melee and all of that, that's fine.

Well, I mean, I already backed up and took the damage. Well, let me just... I think the spell is just a spell. Wait. It'll tell you 1A or B.A. It's 1A. Yeah. So, how many attacks did you get on him, Mace?

Just one. So you still have one attack that you... So essentially what you should have done here is you should have done your first attack, your second attack, and then you can bonus attack, and then you back. I think we can say that you can add those attacks. So, because you... You, it's not like you would have known that. That's the entire point of us teaching you, right?

So get your second attack and your bonus attraction attack. Then you move back here. The damage you took stays, we're just doing the attacks afterwards. Does that make sense? Yeah, okay. So get those attacks out of the way, so you get your full damage that you should have and win that.

All right. So I'll second attack. Oh, five. They're plus five, plus what? One four hundred. What's the plus eight? 12? It barely misses again.

So you can then get the punch in. Bonus action. 10. It's 18. 18, that hits. Okay. So DAS hits with an unarmed strike, which is 1d6 plus bludgeoning, but it also triggers the lightning that I had built up from Craw's lightning breath.

So what of bludgeoning? 11 bludgeoning and 1 lightning in an additional. Okay, so as you punch in, it zaps this creature, and it's doing a little bit of extra damage, and you punch it, you manage to get away, and it's draining your blood, and then with that as well as it's kind of extra damage on light. Ooh. I am going to, I was actually wrong about my magic circle. Because it's not a teleportation or extra dimensional travel, I can put my thing in there. Oh, fuck.

It is going to be in there, and it is going to try and hit him. On saving 3rd? Wait, uh, D20? Yeah. Uh, 11 doesn't hit him, does it? No, or not 11. 13. That's not.

Biggards. 10. 10. You barely managed to resist the drone in. Um, and then I am going to cast, um, I'm going to cast a healing word on G. Okay. Shumtia be praised. And I'm going to throw some healing at him.

Got it. Yes, it is. dwarf prickiness it is and he's gonna get 10 points of feeling you into a 10 points if you want to kind of hold that when it gets back from okay so you say as a bonus you say I mean just a fragrance or something yeah yeah okay okay is that it okay okay make a constant saving throw for me please barber and you're up 13 I believe 13 that passes versus the horrible drooling of this demon I can't say I have a specific grudge against giant demon flies but I hate demons

It's transfer hunter's mark And I get a Wait, what? Uh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 10 for the first attack. 10 for the second attack. And misses. You swing and swing.

This man is being, this magic circle disrupting her attacks. I would like to, so live, 10, 15. And remember, it's already his reaction, so it can't, I'll be a chance to attack. Um, I'll still stand. So it hits you.

Cool. Okay, with that, it's Vince's turn. Oh, Consaving, Thornt. Unfortunately, Vint loses his movement and action for the term. Okay. So you feel exhausted from the magic dropping of you. Can you make a con-saving throw, please, why? DC's 10.

She healed you for 10. You're good. Okay, you feel totally fine. You barely notice the drone in with this feather demon. Craw, you're up. I'm unconscious. Um, conscious. Com says making another con-saving throw.

Nine. Nine. you still are unconscious as you can be woken up. Oh, that's it. Yeah. So how do we wait and want? Can we walk? You have to use an action to shake them or do damage.

Yeah. Okay. Voss are up. Shoot you, buddy. I'm going to. I'm going to use, what's it? Slayer's prey on the main dude here. Okay.

And channel your monster slaying abilities. Then I'm going to attack. Okay. Do that? It doesn't manage. So 5.14? 14 misses. Okay.

And I'll target up with the second attack. I haven't fallen asleep yet. I'm exhausted. That'll be 15. 15 barely hits. Barely hits. Alright. So I roll 1 D...

Interesting. 10 and 2D6. It's a very fairy tale. It is very fairytale. It is very fairytale. 10 damage. 10 damage. As your, I believe it's fair to hell.

As it slices in, the glave, slashes its flesh. Blood kind of splatter from its horrible. Did you roll it disadvantage? Yes. I'm sorry, that's actually wrong. He should be rolling at disadvantage against us. Okay.

So I can either put it around us, and then things at disadvantage attacking through it at us, or I can put it on him, and it still protects us. He just can't move. That's okay. Willow got a little confused.

Sorry. We should be rolling it a disadvantage? No. He should be rolling at disadvantage against us. Because the magic circle still protects us, is what it says. Is that my first? The one to take you down from him or inside the circle? The first roll before it was like a... No. You can't get you in the circle. No one can get into the circle.

So I roll for another damage straight. Okay, so I do... We'll get the two more line. Okay, so we get ten and then on top of ten, I do another. So I can either put it on the damage. On Earth, I can put on a fiend celestial air. And if you want to get in there, you have to be a magical means. So he could miss these.

Okay. Constantly even go through his mouth. But that's considered an interplanar. So you have to roll Constitution save to see he you get it. Otherwise you can't eat it. And he can't get out. And so he is able to hit Bargram and he's rolling in disadvantage with his proboscis. So he's going to...

He still hit me. What? Oh, you say he's attacking him. He's attacking him. All right. Alright. Disadvantage though, right? For him to hit, yes.

He's in that team. No, that misses. The Kvaskis shoot in and minutes to block it with your your axe. Okay, that's his turn. Gee, you're up. My azz-kazak, you mean. You're Oz Kazak. Gee, you're up.

Okay. Let's give this one more shot. And I go up to him. Oh, whoops. And you are not disadvantaged. Yeah. Oh, wait. Not disadvantaged this time.

Mikey, I didn't add my extra damage to him. What do you want? What was that? For my life. It would have been 12. Got it. 12.

So I did 25 instead of 13. Okay. He's looking fairly rough. 12. Do you have a prison? He also can't charm, fright or possess any of us. Got two separate attacks.

Each one is plus six. Gotcha. Hit him the first time. Uh, 18. Hits. Okay. Quarter staff. 8.

8 damage, yeah. Okay. Follow up hit. It's like a bunch. 25. 25 hits, yep. 8 again. Okay.

He's looking rough. And then my unarmed strikes. He's looking quite rough. 24. 24, that hits. Well damage. And it's a D6. Seven?

Wait. Yeah, seven. Seven. He is barely hanging on the light. hanging on the light as you smash him twice with your quarter staff and kick him in the face. He's looking very rough as he's trapped by this magical circle looking very, very, very close there. Okay, I just spend a key point and hit him again.

Okay, you do that? Oh, B. Definitely hit him. Five. Six. How are we're going to do this. Oh, he had one hit point left. Baby.

He had one head point left. It's enough. Uh, how would, how would you do this? How would you do it? I think, I don't think. What is it? He's like flying? He's like this horrible, buzzing, like, mosquito flying.

But also, he's a hotbed. Like a ragged cage. Let him have it, man. Just your wildest imagination. Seriously. I'm thinking. Yeah, is it okay? I'm with fire.

Whatever you want, literally. Just do it. Say it. So I hit him the Khorstaff the first time. I flip it around, put it on my back. sliced from him for that second hit. And then the last hit after he's like staggered a little bit, I take a sip of tea and I breathe fire on him.

Fuck yeah! Fuck yeah! You are smashing, smashing, smashing him. And this circle he's trapped, he's looking angrily at you. As this horrible fiendish creature has been completely nullified by the gods. And he's a sitting duck in this demon and you smash and smash and you're like, put it back and you see a fire erupt around the town and

flames incinerate although he is resistant to fire it doesn't matter as flames incinerate this is the horrible droning drops and this creature falls to the ground dead can we take a minute to talk about how

fucked up it was from from 30 to seven points of damage that's all I want to say that's nuts wait what happened When I fireballed his ass. I got 30 points of the answer. I went to seven. It was like, okay, cool, man.

And then I'll fall asleep. I'll take a nap. No big deal. Crawl nap. Right before I hit him with the flame breath, I say, out, did I ever tell you guys about the time? I learned this move from the dragon of the West.

And then I drank the tea. Oh, I think you did. That was a good one, though. Fucking savage. All right. And you get a quiet returns to the chamber. and crawl. Should someone wake up?

I would have immediately run over. It was my turn next. I would have run over and you. You awaken to the flowing red locks of a halfling looking over you, shaking you away. Ms. Willow! Good morning. Oh no, crap.

Go out of sleep. Miss Willow, are you okay? I'm alive, aren't I? I didn't take a single look of damage. Oh, Crawl is very grateful. Master Vince! Master Vint! Are you again? I'm like crawling over exhausted still? I'm good.

Craw has not used that spell before. And Craw apologizes Venus, Master Vint. It's all right. I was behind the pillar. I also took no damage. I'm sorry. Welcome back to the land of the living, Craw. Oh, thank you, G. Thank you.

Maybe if you have some tea to spare? Oh, yes. I brood, I brood just for this moment. Yeah. Oh, car. Who's a hell of a drug is in a thing? I can use a bit of caffeine. Oh, Mr. Vin, tear.

Everyone their own. Everyone their own. Well, so Azrague, and the door slides. He's he can leave, gin. Is everything all right? No, please. Professor, come in? We still insist that you lead the way. Oh, very well, Kraw. Of course I would love to come in.

And he enters in. Presser Azran opens the door and pulls it shut behind him. As he looks around, he sees the corpse of the two marrow and the insectoid demon. And he says, by the gods, what's happened to you? Well, we killed everything. Let's continue. Oh, ho! Ho! Oh, Asbrand. Let me tell you, it was no challenge at all. Let's continue. If we're going to continue,

are you guys going to argue for another 15 to 20 minutes before we leave the room? Do I once again have to sneak ahead? Was it 15, 20 or somewhere in between? I think it was probably 10 to 12. You know, gee, I think you probably right on that. It's possible, you know what?

I think it was 15 to 20. You know what, I think I slightly disagree. So I'll grumble about it. next hour. He pulls out his book of grudges and writes Eric over over the boy. Oh, why is grudgeoned and sarah? He said 12 to 15.

I think it's 13 to 16. It's going to in the book of crudges. And Professor Azaran steps up and he looks at the chamber and he sees all the bas-release of these draconic figures. iconic figures all along the walls. And he sees, you see a number of closed doors directly ahead onto your left and to your right. And he eyes them, he sees that,

you see that all of the walls have been defaced by these horrible markings, blood and in this strange black echo, horrible writings. And he looks up ahead and there's a strange pedestal right next to the corpse of this bug demon and he steps up. He can't go in there. Towards it.

I'm just letting you know he can't touch it because of the magic circle. It's a 20 foot diameter. Is that a fiends or you can humanize go through? Once I put it, it's there for an hour. So even though he's dead, you still can't get more than... But is there only blocks... It blocks of feats of creatures?

No, you can either trap a fiend in it. Or block them out. But once it's there, you can't get into it. God. So if I had put it around us, then a fiend can't, or well, anybody technically can't hit us. Or maybe it's just a fiend. I think it's a fiend can't hit us. Nothing, we have to wait an hour for it to go away. No, no. Did we kill it? Can you disperse? But you can't walk in. So he will, I will read it to you. He approaches it.

I think she could drop it, though. It's not concentration. Okay, there you go. So once I cast it, it's there for an hour. one of the more of the following type creatures, celestial's elemental, spay-thens are in dead. The circle affects a creature of the chosen type in the following ways. When you cast a spell, you can elect to cause its magic to operate in the reverse direction

preventing a creature the specified type from leaving the cylinder. And then it also says that you cannot willingly enter the cylinder by non-magical means. If you try to use teleportation or interplan to travel to do so, you must first succeed on a Christmas saving throw. So to get in... We got our boy. We got our boy cross.

That is if I did it in the normal version. I did it in the reverse, which means if we were to enter the cylinder to get him, we would have to do the magical means. Ancient armor within the barrier. What? The ancient armor within the barrier, the only one that can reach it. You think Krah can pass through Miss Willow's a barrier? I have no idea, but I'd love to see you try. He tries, go on and give it a try.

So, from what I'm reading it, I will say that it just prevents the fiend from leaving it. It doesn't prevent human noise from getting through. So... Crosses get fucked! So... Because it's... I cast it in reverse, but not regularly. So, yeah, it's reverse as in...

Which means that whatever is inside... Preventing a creature of the specified type fiend from leaving the cylinder. Yes. So it doesn't prevent people from getting in. I'm saying, so the reverse, which is the three things, where normally it be the creature can't willingly enter, it becomes we can't willingly enter.

No, so the idea is that you can either protect yourself from fiends coming in or you can prevent a fiend from getting out. I don't think we're... So it's all targeted. So I'll... I'm just going to say that it's targeted. It's towards fiends. It can prevent either a fiend from getting in or from a fiend from getting out. And so...

Understood. That's my understanding. We can walk in. Either way, it doesn't happen. So, Professor Azran steps up to the platform and looks. And you now are starting to kind of the calm... returning over this chamber. As the, you see that there's a pillar that's at the center

that seems to be a resting place for something that is, that to be something to be rested on top of it. But there is nothing there. Seems to be in the shape of a... So it looks like there's an altar. Was it? An altar. Wasn't there...

Was it a armor there when we walked in? It looks like a place where it may hold armor. Oh, okay. As you look at it and... and it looks like it's a place where a helmet might reside. And the, as you look at it, you see that there is a number of writings all along the strange pedestal that up and down, and I guess you both would be able to read this.

Drukonic? I agree with Drukonic. It's the three of you that could read. It's intercomic. And it says that here lies the eyes of the abyss.

A great relic that had brought the destruction of many metallic dragon-born ships. This is not okay. I will... I can read this, correct? Yeah.

I will whisper that to Massivint and... Is it okay if I let Miss Willow know? Yes, yes. And then I let Willow know the same thing. And I whisper it to her. Okay. I do.

So you now know this. As Professor Azaran is looking at this pillar, and he's dotting things down. I'll calmly explain the writings to the group. Okay. Okay. So are you saying that there was a helmet called the Oz of the Abyss? If these writings are to be believed,

it there was a helmet of the abyss that caused great reckoning to the ships of... Of these bronze dragon-born? Of the bronze dragon-born. In what way? How could it possibly take down a ship's a simple helmet? Your query is as good as mine. Well, it is clearly no helmet here, so perhaps we'd... just move on. There are three doors out of this room.

They are, there are, yeah. What do we think? Do we just continue onwards? Does anybody have a helmet they'd like to put in there and see if anything happens? Almost never been any friend of mine and only slows you down. I have no helmet. I'll take off my helmet and I'll put it in and see if... Cravissibly... You take off your helmet and you press it up. on the top. It seemed that whatever this helmet was was considerably larger than your

Dwarman head. And it just rests on the top. And nothing happens. It doesn't sink, it doesn't sink like onto the... It just rests on top. Do any of our head seem big enough to fit a helmet of this size? I would say that the closest one would probably be... Make an intelligence job. At advantage. 18 plus 2 20 20 you get the sense that it's probably in the shape of

Vosses Ed and it seems maybe a little bit larger than his but that would be the closest too bad I'm not worried and Professor Azran steps up and he looks around at all of this

and he says he has a sketchbook open and he's wildly jotting down notes he seems to be sketching everything that he sees. As he is looking at, this, this seems to be a bit of powerful artifact was stored after some climactic battle. As he's just jotting down feverishly. Can he read the ruins around the room? Can he read draconic? Or the, it's not draconic? The ruins aren't what the room is for, like carvings and stuff, like in the wall. Just like drawings in the wall. No, carvings.

Oh. Yeah. So, yeah, they're basically, yeah, they're bass release, which are these incredibly elaborate murals telling the story. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. And directly, you see that it's all,

they've all, however, been just marked up in these strange writings of these horrible markings in this horrible language that none of you can read. All right. Asran, this is your journey, your search you know the most about this temple with three ways out of this room where would you like to go ah cry doesn't want to be presumptuous but cry agrees with G professor has his ran should lead the way well i mean i i assume we have we have three

separate options here he goes up to the each door and they seem to be the same make style, one on the left, the one on the right, the one directly ahead. As he is jotting down furiously, and he looks, and he, there are, there is a number of marks across each of the door, and one says to the left, for the holy. In Draconic? The one directly ahead says, For the arcane. The one to the right says for the private. I would ask, are there any markings to determine what the, what, which door is for what? Like, where, like, what, like, does this door go to the bathroom?

Does this door go to what? Like, I don't know what those markings say. So I would, I would be asking, is there any markings saying what these doors lead to? All seems very cryptic to me. Are you really, really, what is the same group? What do our drachy friends say? I begin to survey the room, inspect the doors closely. Azran not seeming to have a clear idea of where he would want to go.

We have three options out of here. The left door, the door over here, seems to have an inscription around it that says, for the holy. Oh, that's like me. That is like you, Bargham. And the, uh, and Willow. Willow, correct. Blah, blah.

And as you say that, I'm already starting to walk down that hallway. Center, before we choose any, the, the, the, she's gone. Are you gone? She's the center most doorway for the arcane. And I'm, I'm going to hide behind something in stealth, so I'll tell you what that is. And the, the doorway over here, uh, for the primal reeds above it in Dracomac. Is there anything on the door we came through? Like the same kind of inscription on the door.

Not the real total thing is not seem to have anything. It seems to be a general entrance to this chamber. Well, perhaps we go down the Holy Door, the Holy Path in case, I guess what I've known that you would have left. Perception. Yeah, I said, like, as he said that and looked towards the Holy Thing, you would have seen my little half-ly body trotting down the hallway. You see, you see her trotting as the...

Because it was once I got in there, they did myself. As the door opens and you're trotting down the hallway, and you see a large heavy door stone but it's cracked slightly open what was your stealth roll 22 22 dang so you are creeping down you're not gonna slide into the crack door and see what or not can we just reveal all of that that those two pieces of paper should be enough I think once you're fighting you lose pass without trace I don't think you maintain that but I don't know I use something else well I don't know I think one even if you are

the effects if you make an attack do you lose it no no well you can do the effects of it but the effects of it but as long as he's still concentrating on it we could then stealth again and do it but if you use another concentration spell you did okay so it's like prayer slayer slayer slayer prayer what what spell did you pass either way oh you walk down this whole way you slip into the door and as you step forward. You feel that there's this shimmering light despite there being no light source. And you feel a sense of holiness wash over you. It's not the same kind of feeling that you feel when you pray to Chantilla. But as you step in, you see ruined, crumbling. I don't have dark vision.

Correct, but this light seems to illuminate. very faintly, this room in the shimmering light that kind of makes the whole room glow. And this deep into a ruin like this, you would have not expected as you see that the light is it not quite silver, not quite gold, but the strange platinum would be a color that you would use. As you see ruined pews and benches and places of worship, as you see once again more reliefs. smaller than this one. Is at the far end you look to your left and you see

a large altar. A figure sitting above it, resting on it. A large head of a traconic shape. This beautiful

metal plated in this statue. And to directly above it is one of the relief, something glints and catches your eye. One, two, three, four. Almost shimmering like sapphires, four blue gems in the bas-relief directly above this trachonic head statue on the altar. I'm gonna go straight up to it, completely ignore the gems in the bass relief and just start

making an altar to Shantia around it, like pulling out of my back, my pack with, you different things and I'm just going to sit in there and pray. Okay. You do that. Well, is it a helmet? Or is it a head? I didn't care. Is it a head of a dragon?

It's a statue. Oh, yeah. So it's not like a helmet. But this is what he described to her. So you're not in the room. Well, yeah, just so I understand. Totally. I just wanted to make sure that you weren't asking about this altar.

You were asking about that one. Right, right, right. Okay, cool. I'm on the same page. And so you pick out things like fruits and vegetables and very, some gourds. Yeah, some gorge. gourds and that kind of thing, you place it around, and you feel like this is an incredibly

holy place, and you take the opportunity to immediately try to channel with your God here as these gems glint above you. That's what I'll do. Okay? So meanwhile, in the room, I'll say, it looks like the room key went down the hallway. Shall we all go in a sister? Well, nothing's ever spoken to me quite like the primal forces of the elements. So this doorway over here draws me.

But I don't think we should split up. This place has not been kind to us so far. I agree. I was going to agree as well that I don't feel that I need to be going down the holy. I should be going down the arcane. I agree with Mr. Vint, Master Vint, while I am concerned about Miss Willow, I do not feel holy. But, I mean, I think that should we really split up at a time like this?

They're demons afoot or some kind of things and strange fish creatures. These are just woods carved above the door. You don't have to be holy to go in. Unless you do, Vint, would you care to explore the arcane natures of these doorways? Last defense, that may be a trap. Just be careful. The trap to detect magic on the doorways? That seems like a good idea to me.

I'm going to detect magic on... The Arcana doorway? As the wise one say, always detect magic on the doorways. Something Felix forgot. It's just impleasant. So 20? 20? So as you...

you are you going to Can you sweep all doorless? Got it. So as you are sweeping your detect magic you feel a lack of glow around the

holy door. And then on the next one the arcane it pumps and it seems to be evocation. The next one you arrive at nothing. The prime of the primal. There seems to be nothing there.

You do, I will say you do get a latent sense of residual magical harm from all of the etchings. On the large, bass reliefs all around the room. But nothing powerful enough to really denote the school of magic. Okay, so the two side doors, I didn't get any magic from. But from the arcane door I did get magic from, which seems kind of apropos. Arcane. Well, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with heading through the Holy Door then. Why don't we follow our comrade and stick together?

I... I won't leave Miss Willow alone, so I'll follow. All right, let's go. I'll stay here. We go down there. All right, you're a funeral. Someone needs to guard up. As we all cross the threshold, though, cry very carefully sticks one foot across the threshold to see what happens. Okay, you step your way into it.

Your toe, you're expecting to erupt into holy fire and you do not. Willow and Kraz coming! Is it going to fight it in? And you see Willow, she is kneeling in prayer, at least currently not paying attention as she's surrounded by fruits and gourds and vegetables and the like. And you arrive and you see that there is... We can all go in. You see the same, yeah.

And Professor Azran is looking around and saying, this is remarkable. Just to find a structure that's still standing and has so much still preserved is completely unheard of. And he is marking everything down as he follows you. He seems to be barely paying attention, just kind of mindlessly follow him as he's jotting everything down in sketching. And he arrives at the... You all arrive, and you see the same thing that Willow had seen. Well...

So we see a draconic head statue? You see a draconic head statue resting on the altar. It seems to be made out of stone but plated in some kind of shimmering platinum-looking metal. And you see the ruined benches and pews and stone slabs where individuals might come in worship.

And you see a number of bas-reliefs all around the side. Is the professor with us? Yes. He's right behind this schedule. Correct. Do any of these... Is there any... Is there any draconic text on the walls

that we can see? Beyond the bas-reliefs? It seems as if there's no text on here. But however, as you investigate, you see that there is a story being told along the walls of this bas-relief. And it starts directly ahead at the altar. As Professor Azran finally blinks and he gets a lay of this room, he walks up and he sees the four glimmering jewels. and he immediately makes his way towards it.

And you can see that there's some cracks along the side, and it seems to be a little loose. As he walks up, and he says, this is remarkable. And you see that there is a figure of... There are the shapes of these dragon-born figures, humanoid and draconic. and they seem to not have the features of a bronze or brass like vase, but have curved dark horns similar to Krah.

They seem to be black dragon worn. Wearing a helmet by the sea cliffs, as massive draconic turtle-looking figure erupts from the sea. and every corner are blue gems like glinting sapphires and Professor Azran is looking up

at it with wide eyes this is incredible and as you get a chance to look around and whoever would like to make an investigation check to see I don't want to make an investigation check but while no one is paying attention Krawl wants to take one of his daggers and try

to pry a sapphire out of the wall make a dexterity check. Well, make a slap hand check to see if anyone... It's very high up. Or not very high up, but high up for you. Well, that's fine. I mean, if it's within feasible reach... If I can't even reach...

No, you would not be able to reach it. Then never mind. Yeah. So it's, like, probably at, like, this height for a person of... Okay. So you'd be below it. Got it.

And... What was the check? Oh, perception? Misstigation. Oh, no, I don't care. 18? 19? 18.

11. 11. 11, okay. So as you look around, you see a story start to unfold. You see a city, and it starts to start. Do I also say that he kind of guides you through. Oh, okay. You see a story of a city, a dragon boar. He looks similar to the one with all of the gems, black dragonborn, in a swamp. the low-hanging boughs, committing dark rituals, and eventually in their grasp is this helmet with four eyes. And you see that this was used to call forth great dragon turtles out. And these massive creatures from the elemental plane of water would emerge forward and destroy entire fleets of the enemy. Dragonborn, prominently the bronze. And then it shows a great bronze fleet

with several bronze dragons, perhaps adult agents. Oh shit. And a massive battle. Thousands of Dragon War, dozens of dragons, the dragon turtles, all dead. But a massive ship destroyed and shattered. The helm, the eyes of the abyss, recovered. You see that the helmet and its gems separated, stored away so it can never harm any dragon-borne chromatic, or metallic dragon-borne fleet ever again. And it is in this holy place of Bahamut where no evil can tread, sanctified ground, where

Bahamat watches over eternally. So do we get the impression that this temple is the guarded? is guarded by Bahamah. Yeah, that's where we are. The little, the chamber that you're in. Okay. Does this sound familiar to you, Professor, this whole story of

the dragon war and dozens of dragons and hundreds of thousands of dragon born dying? I mean, I've heard of many great battles, but one that matches this description, I may be able to place by that to research all of the great

naval battles of the thousands of years of draconic history. I don't know about this battle, but if this helmet and these gems are capable of summoning the dragon turtles from the great elemental plane of water, I don't know anything of them except that their fury and power is terrible, and we can never allow them to erupt into this plane again. Crah should not be in this chamber. Cora will go wait in the main hall by the altar. And we'll slowly back out. I fly up to the gems and see if I can eat them out. Make a dexterity check.

16? 16. You fly up and you put your claws into them and you try to nudge and it doesn't seem to budge at all the gems. However, the slab itself, the basterleaf that it's on seems to nudge a little bit. And Professor Adan puts up a hand. Hold on. This could be a profound

archaeological importance. Give us a hand. Everyone. All right, all right. Of course. I hope my talent's in, and Bargram grabs my feet, if that's a height thing.

I will help in any way that I can help the professor. Azran reaches down from the bottom and tries to dislodge. He has some of his tools. if he's gently sneaking this metal tool up behind where this stone slab was fastened. Like taking the whole... The whole bas-relief, the whole slab.

And... Let me support you if I can. I want to support the weight of the basrelief if he gets it off. Okay. I would say whoever else is assisting, could you please make a dexterity check? Me as well? Yeah, I'll do one. 20.

Okay. So, six. Eight. Eight. You manage to all of you work together. It looks like it's going to fall, and you manage to catch it. As you're all holding this large, fast relief, slap. These four rubies glimmering, or sapphires, glimmering and glinting in a strange platinum light.

you see the professor open his briefcase and he closes it, opens it again, and it seems to be this huge space. As he holds it open as you all grabs, here, slide it in here, I'll be able to research it at a later date, but we don't have time with these horrible demons, these fiends, and these creatures,

we cannot allow them to take this. As you say, and I will help him put it in his briefcase. Okay. So you help slide in the slab into the brief as it disappears. Does it have the gems on it? Yeah. It's got the four gems.

The four gems are on it, and it slides in. He closes it, and then opens it again. It looks like his normal briefcase. And he closes it again. And he says, well, we know that there's foul business afoot. But I feel like we cannot stop. We must find additional secrets here. I agree.

Do you think this, is there anything? else of importance in this room. I don't know if I'll look around and see if there's anything else... Make an investigation. Worth walking. You look around and it seems to be that those four sapphires were really the only thing that was the important thing here. I'd like to walk up to the skull and try and lift it on the altar.

Okay. You do that. Make a... You make an athletic check for me. 19. It says plus zero, but if it's a strength check, can I use my dexterity? No, no. So it's just a straight check. Yeah. So 19. So you heave this statue ahead of the platinum dragon up. And you, I would say at this point you realize this is probably a statue of Bahamas. And you're able to heave it up. It is very heavy. Made of solid stone and plated in this beautiful glimmering platinum. You're able to lift it.

Dude, is there any reasonable thought that I would think that this could fit on the thing in the other room? Uh, I would say that it looks like something, it's meant to hold a helmet, and it seems to be missing. Oh, okay. This thing seems like it is, uh, is more mis-stained. Unrelated. I just let it drop. Okay, you place it down gently. And, uh...

You see that? Just to flex on me, you know? You place it down gently. Had to do it too. Professor Azran, this is incredible. He's sketching the entire rest of the room, and he

looks around and says, well, there's a reason why these demons were here, these marrow were here, summoning horrible creatures. That's right. Oh, do you think there any more? I'm still drawn to the arcane door, so I want to go back out. Okay. I feel like

we've got what we needed here. Why don't we go on? Has anything happened in the main room, or I'm just sitting there alone. You're a little... I'm sitting there. I've been there with you. Yeah. Crock came back. I sure hope there are more.

The first couple would no match for us. I think I was in the other room when Crock came back. I would immediately ask him what happened in the other room. Okay. And then I would describe the Bats release that we saw and how there was a depiction of the war and the dragon turtles and the difference between the, you know, the different types of dragons and say basically, Croc, Krod's not belong in that room. Krak came back here.

I wouldn't, I would tell him exactly what I saw. Yeah. Okay. So you do that. The rest of the group comes and joins you. And Professor Azran is looking around and sketching and he says, well, everything we needed in this temple of the Bahamat. Just as a point, I'm going to ask somebody else just because I don't trust Krak, just to make sure

the story checks out. The professor fills you in on everything. It all sinks up. I want to push through this door. Okay. As you place your hand on it, it homes with energy, it seems to be locked. As you're unable to open it. And I will step back 30 feet and use mage's hand and try and unlock it.

Okay. Once again, I raise an earthen shield in front of us as well. Okay. We're all huddled behind. Make a clarity check plus everybody. Yeah, huddle us behind. Oh boy. 7.10.

10. What do we know? Again, we're not under duress though so you know we're trying again. As it, you hear a loud rumbling and voice. He might still be praying. The lightning strikes out from the ceiling. What's the radius on that? You're far enough back.

That nothing's happened. But it seems as if, from your approximation that this mage hand doesn't seem to be, it's not hitting the same kind of tumblers that the, that you're used to from the other door. It seems as if there's some other, some other reason. Huh. That this isn't working. Vint, friend, are you struggling with the door? There's no shame.

Don't, don't you dare insult Master Vint. There's no insult, Gra. I'm merely asking a question. This door is different than the previous door. The tumblers are different. There's some false sets that I need to get through. Can you just try again? I'm going to try again.

Okay. Try again. Eleven. The lightning continues to shoots down again. I'm going to try again. Okay. Can you just keep trying it? I mean, we're not under duress.

I mean, there's no reason to, right? So, even though it's working, you're, you finally feel like you would have it. Doesn't seem to quite do the trick. You feel like, and once again, it shocks. There you go. I can't pick this lock. Master Fins, what do you mean? I look at the door to see what I believe it's made of.

Okay. Make an investigation check. I mean, there seems to be some magic in here that's preventing me from unlocking this door. Not that I can't unlock it. As you look at it... We will figure it out, Nesit. You see that there is... It's made of that same heavy stone that the rest of this temple is made out of.

Okay, I walk closer to the door within melee range of it, and I place my talons on it and I attempt to sense the earth within it to see if I can sense the lock and use move earth to unlock the door. Does move earth? Is it unworked earth? I believe. So look at the spell itself and it will tell you what kind of earth that you can move. Because if you like take earth and you make bricks out of it, then you can't move that earth. Because it's been worked.

I guess you. I guess you. Plus, the door, or the lock is probably not made of earth. Yeah, my guess is the whole thing is stone, and then there's some sort of magical locking mechanism, but that is meta-knowledge. I'm guessing outside of the game. As far as I know, you're not a metal bender.

Yes. Yes, he hasn't gotten that far. So I said, as far as I know. You choose a portion of dirt or stone that you can see within rain. that fits within a five-foot cube you can manipulate it in one of the following ways and one of the ways is you can cause shape colors

or both to appear on the durer stone spelling out words, creating images or shaping patterns. So that sounds like you could draw on the stone to me. And I can change the tumblers. You can certainly try. Or just remove the lock in general. Yeah, I can shape it out of a lock to no longer, well, you can try.

That's the beauty of D&D. So what are you going to try to do? I'd like to press my palm to the door, sense the elements of, I'm guessing, earth in the door. It's made of a heavy stone. To see if I can unmold the lock using... How much health you got? Boss?

How much health you got? Right now? Total? Total. 58. That ain't enough. That's what I'm going to say. I'd like to see if I can unmold, effectively render the lock useless.

Like, it could, like, bar its ability to lock us from opening the door by unmolding it. By changing its shape to not a lock and, like, mud. Can you read this spell one more time? Yeah, yeah. I just want to make sure that this is 100% of it. I mean, it was not, like, you choose a portion of, choose a portion of dirt or stone that you can see within range and that fits within a five-foot cube. You manipulated in one of the following ways. and the middle one

is if you choose a if you target an area of loose earth you can instantaneously excavate it move it along the ground deposit it

the second one is you cause shapes colors are both to appear on the dirt or stone spelling out words creating images or shaping patterns so yeah

so I would say that as you try this you're able to make the surface of it start to change very slightly but as it's roughly hewn

a stone door, you're unable to change the nature of the lock. Okay. Professor Azran looks and says, well, there's that door over there. This is the primal. We couldn't...

Hi, that's a good idea. I mean, you're all about the primal elements, aren't you? We don't... Look at this door. We don't need a stupid jewel. Let's go to the next one. Add this door to your book of grudges. Oh, you're rubbish. Bargroom, I don't like...

Let me add that to the Damash Kro. And then I take them back off my belt. Oh, do. I go to the doors. I do. I go to the build that constructs. It's impressive there's more than one door that you are brushing me. Oh, believe me. There was a vault door that wouldn't open

and there was lots of doodens. There was another duel that was keeping out some gruby that somehow the lock got picked. No one knows how. And countless dwarves were. slowed anyway this door is going in my book of grudges all right I'd like to go in this door okay the primal one the primal one but I want to be very wary for like Indiana Jones style traps like rolling boulders and arrow shooting off the wall okay specifically make your

perception check please okay are you standing next to the door well yes you go up to yes I'm not perceptive so 10 oh may I may I may I what You don't sense any traps. You don't. You don't. All right. I've been there. All right.

I'll go in. Okay. So as you try to listen, you don't really hear much. As you press your hand onto the handle and it opens. You hear, oh, that's Mr. Azran's eyes widen and the door opens. And you hear the rumbling of thunder. and you see flash as you push ahead and we can remove all that. Wait, how much? Like this? Like this fur? Okay.

Yeah. Oh. Oh. Got. Yeah. You see you look inside this room. Sorry. And the door's not in the lock.

No. And... Not this one. As you... This door is blown in the book. You look ahead. This door is okay by me. And you step inside and it looks like they're...

You hear the sound of... of a thunder friend you see the flashing of lightning you hear the lapping water and as you step in you see a chamber that seems to be very natural looks like a natural cave and up above you you step inside you almost feel the the gust of wind these you feel like the storming clouds about you hear the flash of lightning above as you look over to your right and it's a strong there is the lashing of water almost looking like the sea thrashed about like the middle, like you're in the middle of a great storm. But the, well, I'm not in there. But from what you described, the, the ground is solid. This is a raging storm. The whole ground is solid. But it seems like in the strange natural pattern.

With a strain, it does not seem to be rain. Okay. It just almost seems like you're the sounds and sights of a storm, but it kind of similar to the faint, the platinum light that was shining in. It seems like this strange magical sense over this chamber as well. Well, I'm not one for the Pramil elements, but I'll trust my good friends, the Karaki and the Krosari, and I'll follow them through the tunnel. Gee, you better not be leading me astray.

Oh, the elements speak very loudly in here. I love it. Can you control them? Perhaps to our benefit. The elements are very intense in here. Normally, yes, but probably not now. I will have her look around the room to see if there's anything of value in here

we can discern or use. Make a perception check for me. And Willow, would you make a religion check at advantage, please? All of us make a perception check? Those that are in the room that wants to look around, yes. Seven. Seven.

As you're sitting there praying to Shantia, you feel a warmth inside of you. Well up, seems to be shimmering down on you from this platinum light. You feel like there is, you look up to the altar, and you feel like there is a glint of the sunset at harvest time on this platinum-plated statue. and you feel like Shantia is telling you that there's some kind of significance of his head. Okay. The rest of you. Is she still back from the first room? Yes.

I imagine that you're still playing there. Yeah. And you do that. And so what was the present of the six of everybody? I didn't go in the room. Oh, I didn't go in the room. Okay. Fourteen.

Sixteen. I'm proficient. I'm proficient. Yeah, that already added that. No, that's, wait, does it? Yeah. Did you roll? Whatever that number is, is what you add.

Yeah. So that already includes your proficiency. You double your proficiency, though. Wait, that doesn't include that? For his feet, anything that he's looking around for, because he's an Eric Okra. Why wouldn't it include in the number? Because it's only for sight. So if it's anything else, listening or whatever.

It's like years or, yeah. You do your brother. 14. 14. 14. 14. And what do you get, boss? 12.

12. 16. 16. So, the, and what do you get, sorry? 14, 14, okay. So you're all looking around, and both of you don't really see anything. However, Barger, as one flash of the strange lightning above you cracks, you see a glint of something beneath the water. That, through this turning sea, is it? Cool. And you see a glint of something just,

catch in the flash of the lightning. My good friends, if you would look with me I believe there's something glinting down there in the water. Do you see that as well? Bargerm, I do believe you are correct.

I see it now that you pointed it out. Well, I'm glad I'm good. Thank God I rolled a 15 of higher yesterday. You know what you see. Such a thing as a typical,

I'm guessing I'm hitting with a 16. Anyways, I'm not much of a swimmer with all of this heavy armor in my ars, uh, my Oz Kazak and my throng. But perhaps you two could dive in and collect whatever shimmering down there might be of archaeological importance for the professor. Professor Azran sketched then.

As he's sketching fevers and, how is this even possible? There's a, And he coweres at one of the crashes of thunder and the arcs of lightning across the sky that do not seem to ever leach beyond the ceiling. Seeing Professor Azarin walk into the room, I'm going to turn to Master Vint and say,

Ah, master, do you mind if I go take a look? If you feel like you want to, yes. So I want to just kind of just sheepishly follow Azaran, but not go all the way through. But seeing him go through, want to get closer to the hallway. Got it. In the doorway?

Yeah, like, like, there. That's perfect. Because I want to, like, I'm following him, but I'm not, I'm not on, like, with him. Vintas, real quick. Could you please, I want to say that since you're staying in the room and you've been looking around, could you please make an Arkanah check advantage from your time investigating this door, please? Come on, motherfucker. Investigation.

15. Arcana, right? Arcana. Arcan. Also 15. Okay. So, um, as. as you go in to join them

you are stepping you realize that you try to come stand back but as you're getting closer to this door Vintas now that all of the chatter and bickering of your companions is subsided only Rillo and Vintes really enjoying the quiet now

as you step forward you realize that on either side of this door on the floor there's a strange flash of the stone you place your hand down and you feel like there is an illusion on either side

and there's an illusion on either side there is a circular illusory indentation not much deeper than probably about six inches each of them seems to be circular and you've realized on either side that there's

an illusory stone floor on top of each of these indentations you now join the rest of your compatri that are in this chamber. I might have something that can shed a little more clarity on what's in the water

without diving into it in a lightning storm. I knew you had the tools to deal with this movie. Are you sure you don't want to dive in? I walk up to the water's edge and I cast shape water which allows me to change the opacity

of any liquid I can connect with. To make it completely clear. Do you have to touch it? Please say yes. What's the range? What is the range? I probably have to...

Please say yes. I mean, it's 30... Wait, wait, wait. Range is 30 feet. Oh, fuck. Oh, no, I mean, that's a good thing, guys. That's a very good thing. I mean...

Yeah, and it's just 30 feet. But then I can manipulate within a 5 foot feet. Then that means you can stand back. You stand back. You don't have to stand around the wall. Unless you want... to. I would have gone to

the water as an element I would have gone on the water's edge or Tai Chi the shit out of this thing So you Tai Chi you see uh gee

slowly moving his talons and his wings with the ends with the ends flow and like a water bender you see his hand glow in this swirling water as his hand

finally reaches out and the shimmering darkness of the water below suddenly becomes crystal clear and all of you see the bottom of this chamber thrashing about the ocean, you're able to see a glint as the lightning flashes. Bright white pearl.

However, it's inside of a beautifully sculpted statue of some kind in the shape of a huge giant clam. With a, that seems to rest on the bottom. Do we all see this? There's only four of you in there right now. How deep does it look, please? It's 20 feet. All right, so well done, G. I knew I could count on you.

What are you just dog right in there and collect it? I think I've seen you swim once or twice before. Not well as I'm an aerogobra. But it's stupid, I've seen ducks all the time on you, basically a duck. Oh, you make a strong eye. of no counter to the Doug comment. You're really bringing me around. I think I'll just have to think about it for one more moment.

Yes, okay, I'll dive in. I'll be right here by the wood. In case any kind of beast he comes out of it. Just, just be ready. There's no way this kid in for me. Tell me what you're doing. Can you talk to Mike a look towards Tyler, straight at Tyler. Boom.

G-d dies. One can't be able to old. These snacks, one can only hope. Roll for death. Is it too late to take water whip so I can

secure it apart? Yeah, it is way to wait. It is way too late. What are you doing, G? I've got my own rope if you'd like to just hold down. You have a rope?

I do. I've got a whole Explorter's peck. You've been holding out on me. I think. You've got a rope this whole time. Perhaps you know what?

Have you gone? That one time we could have used the rope to great success? Have you gone to the water yet? Have you gone into the water yet? No, well, no, not now. No, I have not gone into water yet. I got an action that I'd like to do. Okay.

I want to pull out one of the two trollheads I had from the beginning. And, uh, okay. If the troll heads come back to really help us out, I'm gonna lose it. I'd be like, thank God what's not. I want to throw it into the water. Okay. You throw the trollhead in the water. It lands with a splash, and it gets thrashed about in these rough churning waters,

and a wave erupts and just wash it to the troll head back. Just back out? It was bobbed around as if you threw a sever head. A standard severed head in a water. Correct. Does it disrupt or change the clarity of the water that may. has as long as you're

maintaining the spell it maintains it's not but once I change you pass it it's changed

oh there it goes for an hour okay it actually it actually says it it actually says

specifically that it has to remain changed for an hour there you go unless otherwise stated I put the rope out

tie it to my waist and I'll hand G the other end and I say at this point Krah has gone down the corridor and is peeking

around the corner and watching this travesty about to unfold G G into the storm as if compelled by a chat if that was a thing. Tarr this around you waste and I'll take good care of you and I'll just pull you out if anything goes wrong.

How many hip-boy chef? I've got plenty, don't worry. No, no, no, the number. Out of character. Out of character. You wouldn't know that. Out of character. I'm just saying, no.

As I go back to stand with the professor, just in case like... No, he's standing way back almost like up against the... He's like, I'm going to go back with the professor. But as I do, I pull G aside and I say, don't forget the head. Okay, I tie, I tie Bargram's rope around my waist, which the other is tied to your hand. It's hard to you. It's right to me. And I say, elements guide me.

Does you mean elephants? No, I don't mean elephants. Oh, my fault. I mean, the elements. And I die into the water. Okay. You see G leap up and dive in the water. Can you swim?

Actually? Like any other, like anybody else. Not like super well, but I'd assume like some sort of diving bird. I'm gonna need an athletic check for this. Kingfisher. Like a duck. Well, that's a great role there, maize. I don't know, well, let's just say, I don't know.

I won't any swim contests? Well, let me read my luck. You're not in a swim contest. That you know of us. Well, I'm not worth of that show. So three. Three. No Michael.

You see, G. dive in. Gee, you feel like you're a master of the elements. As you dive in, you spread your wings. And the water is so rough. You smacked against the stone wall. And, like, you're going to be taken. Holy fuck.

Ah, damn. Wow. Five points of bludgeoning damage I roll horribly. I say it sounds like you rolled a lot of knives. Yeah, no, a bunch of ones. You should imagine, G.

This is ridiculous. And you smash and you're as you walked up on Barberon. As the water careens me towards the earth, I make it a very soft wall. And I just collide with sand

and take five points of bludgeoning damage. Also, you can cut that in half. Oh. If it's soft sand, yeah, if you have that, ability, I would say now. Well, I don't know.

That's just why I only took... Okay, that's fine. Fine. We'll say fine. We'll say fine. That's fine. Yeah, yeah. Okay. As... G. washes up on at your feet. Well, that was not a good idea. Well, would anyone else like to try or should you try again, buddy?

From the back corridor, having watched all this unfold, you hear a soft voice Here's some triagland Oh, drachia, are you Are you, oh, not Drachiazah You're at Drachydras You're from the swamps You can swim surely

No response You hear nothing in response I mean I'm literally like peeking around the corner You might go to see me You can probably see me Yeah but like I'm not responding It's like you're muttly from wacky race Yeah exactly

Yeah Um, all right, well, um, what about, uh, you're kind of a primal type, aren't you? I think you can swim. Before, before we're any further. What, um, we, why, we know that there's a pearl down there. Why are we trying to recover it? It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the helmet or the sapphires or the great elemental dragon turtles. It's just

a burl. Wait. Did he get the troll head back? That already washed up on your... That already washed up. The troll head was there the whole time, right? Come on. Oh, I shouldn't I put any faking you the first time. Do it! I'd like to take the same troll head and throw it towards the ceiling. You do that, it gets zapped by the lightning. Okay, that's my one way. And it falls down as a horrible business.

And it's just gone. Okay, that one... No, it's there. It's just a horribly rotting, fried. You smell fried troll flesh. Oh, now I'm gonna keep it then. Okay. Why would you do such a thing?

We shouldn't go up there. I had no plans to, did you? Well, he jumped in the water. Well, you try jumping in the water. Well, I had no plans to do that. Well, then... Ah, I could use with the jumping of the water plan! All right, Croll, why don't you come on out and why don't you try to jump in the water?

No response. All right. Can we... How big is CRO? CROS? Oh, tiny. I'm like three feet tall. Can we toss them in?

I'd like to walk up to him, try and grab him, and then come back to the water and toss a man. It would require a strength check. Mine is minus four. I'll strength check. Before I throw them in, if you allow it and all of this passes in my favor, I'll tie the rope to him that's on Bargram's other body. I would say if you see him coming, you could just bolt in the other direction. Well, I'm very out.

So it's up to, it's up to Mace, what he wants to do, what anybody wants to do, but I am just, I am literally poking my nose around the corner. I want to walk towards the doorway and say, oh, man, that water thing really did not work out. I'm going to casually just, well, I got you. And then grab Krah. So if you think that would work. So I would say that if Krah saw G walking towards him, He wouldn't suspect anything until he saw a quick moment, but keep on out of high decks.

So why don't you, why don't we do an acrobatics contest? You're more than welcome to try to grab me, and you're stronger than me, but I'm quick. Yeah, I'm court too. We're going to do an acrobatics class. I'm an air acrobatics. So just straight up. Heads up. Or acrobatics.

Oh, wait. That is, you're lucky. That's one of the ones I'm not proficient in. Okay. Well, that's one what was I am. I'm in decent here. 17. 14 plus 8 and I am proficient

so you're able you are faster than I am so you may grab me do the thing that you do on your dog I'm gonna grab it like oh another no no master fit master fit I'm screaming I come running I try to do on tag me when she has something in her mouth yeah it's going to be okay we just really need to try and get this and I think I can throw you hard enough so you

rock it straight at the pole and then Bargworm will rip you back out it's like fishing drop it drop it drop it I secure the rope around Kra's body you do that and as hard as I can muster all the strength of the elements course through my body all right I'm sorry I want to I want to stop G here for a second. And I want to direct Craw specifically

to tell us why he doesn't want to go in the water. Or if you don't tell us why, we'll throw you in. I think that he's, you're already just going to chuck him in. Well, you can ask you a question.

Yeah, I'd like that. You're just going to restrain me against my will as a free creature. Yeah, God. I would follow us to live in that line. Uh, gee. He seems to want us to go in, but he seems to not want to go in himself. Kra, would you care to explain?

Ah, it is true. I would really love my hears of this. And I throw him straight in the water. All right, so my only question would be. My only question would be. You may answer as to begin any way you want. I will. How much time would I have to react between being tossed and hitting the water? I would say you would probably have like maybe two seconds.

So you'd have your reaction. You would have a reaction. Reaction is not good enough. I was like, I'm serious. What are you trying to do? What do you try to do? No, I don't have spells that I can cast as a reaction. No, I would say that you would have, he's throwing it.

I would say you wouldn't use an action as your, and you've been grappled. This whole thing is like an, uh, at least six seconds. All I need is a bonus action. Yes. Easy habit. As soon as he lets go of me as I'm flying through the air, I misty step away. And I pull out my knife and I begin to cut the rope from my waist. As soon as he says, the rope is fault.

Oh, even better. So I appear from here 30 feet away. And by that I mean back by Master Vint, and I start screaming and yelling, Master Vint, they tried to kill me. Before he starts screaming, I just seem to disappear. But you just killed him, I get him. He's gone. He's gone. Oh, no, there are you.

You hear Cosmo echoing through Why would you do that? I really thought it was going to work. Let it be no no, had nothing to do with him. He did hold the robe, though. I may not trust him, but

that was a bit extreme. Well, why don't you dive into the water then? Let's not be rash. Come on, Peraki, let's go in. I agree. But, Vos, you look like you're quite the swimmer. You're very strong and the strongest of the whole party.

That's right. You're stronger than Margrim, I would say. Well, listen. I would say you would have a stronger swimmer. No, he certainly did. Perhaps the strongest swimmer, that's fair to certainly. Also, fuck all of you for that bullshit. That's all I'm going to say.

Fuck off. Maybe, maybe. But if you didn't like my ass, he would have been like Tulsa, maybe. Yeah, no, he used that as to question. You'd try and stop it. You wouldn't know. that I wasn't actually trying to down. But I know you as an asshole.

Anyway, you fuck. Meta-knowledge man. Okay, who's diving in? Who is diving into the water? Not me. Buzz? I can't swim. That's fucking bullshit.

You need me to walk in and Oh, right, all right. If Krah can just misty step out of my clever agile traps at any point in time I'll just try and dive back in. Can I just walk up to the water and may take in the pearl? It's...

You would be able to reach in and you see this green shimmering hand to this crystal clear water and you grab onto it and it seems to be heavier than five. Okay. Okay. Just checking. I'm going to go back to the other door now. How about this? Try again and combine your bird-like agility,

fly in the air and do one of those dive motions that I've seen so. like a pelican. Like a pelican, that's exactly right. Oh, the only thing I'm worried about is a very intelligent friend. Vaz. But when I heard all this screaming. It's absurdly loud.

I would say the moment I heard it, I would have walked in. I want to walk directly between G's feet and immediately start swimming towards the pearl. Okay. You see dive in, make an athletic shake for me, please. no I throw the rope I don't take it 11

11 you manage to not get smashed against the side of this thing however it's too strong for you to make your way through

as it seems you managed to end up back just sitting as this wave kind of washes you you know when you kind of get hit by a wave at the beach and you get washed back

a little bit I'm honestly not quite sure why the professor brought all of you with him. You're all a bunch of scourty cats. It's not like it's that bad. It's just waves. It's just water. Willow, you just tried to go in and got crashed back onto the shore. I didn't get crushed.

I didn't take any damage. I'm hard for the phone. Oh, you did, and he's bigger than you. I'm a tiny little hustling. I weigh maybe 35 pounds. I've already dove in, was crashed into the rocks underground and spit back out under the shore. From back, again, the same corner, the same corner.

You see a little black snout, poke out from around the corner. Krah believes that Willow is most brave. That's it. Are you, are you questioning my bravery and my strength? Krah has been questioning since day one. Jay, hold this, and I pull the other end of the rope, and I start trudging down in the water.

I raise Earth knowing that I could never support Bargram's weight, and I tie the rope around the rocksaw that I've just created on the shore. You do that. And I'm going to hope to... Bargroom! The rocks under the water. Wise ancient sayings, I'm always telling you is a real thing. Don't go in there.

He's literally like, like, waded down by his wall to walk in a white of space suit. Oh, wait, is it a slope in? No, he just, you just drop off. So he, yeah, he's just, is there a slope or is there a, no, it's straight off? Then I got, I just. Make an athletics check. So an advantage.

I also run up to the edge of the water and use control water to try and calm it where he went in. Okay. I'll say that that's part of the advantage. Okay. 19. 19. Oh, baby. My boy.

There he is. You see Varger reverse psychology. You literally just jump in and he sinks to the ground and you're, you're, you're, beard is floating all in your face as you literally pired to the Caribbean walk along the ground and you see directly in front of you

this statue of a beautiful beautifully carved massive clan with a pearl inside. I'm going to go reach down and pick up the whole thing, the whole clan. It's been a nice-knowing

bar room. At advantage. natural 20 you can't give it up 27 you can't even channel you channel your dwarfed and you lift up this

a whole statue of this clam how the fuck you're gonna get to the surface oh I got them don't you worry don't you worry you were just worried about being able to and you pick it up it's in your clutches

I'm gonna start walking while still grumbling towards where I jumped in you do that how long can you hold your breath That's a great fucking question. I use control. I use control.

What? While grumbling? Number of minutes equals to calm up. Yeah, while while grumbling? Are you not spending air that way? You can't moth.

I use move Earth to push the pillar I've created backwards to raise the rope out of the water so I don't have to lift him. Okay. I would say you do that and bargain, you could make one more athletic check, please. 16. 16. So you see G, get down into a sturdy horse stance and punch forward, and this pillar of rock is the rope is tied around, slides back, and you see a huge splash as a drenched bargram is dropped onto the ground, holding this large statue of this clam.

Well, this wouldn't be the first time that cram was wrong. so you shy so worthless and Willow, you see how brave I was? I'm going to look directly at him and I'm going to say is there a reason that you need the pearl or did you just do something stupid for no reason at all? No, I'm well.

That's what I said before we took it in the second time. That makes my beard tingle with self-doubt. You know what? I'm going to assume it was of archaeological importance. I'm gonna turn to the professor has right. Is this of archaeological importance?

I'm gonna turn to the professor and say, yeah. He seems like an idiot. Can we get a chord that makes my beard tingles? Oh, that makes my beard tingles out. That makes my beard tingle. Oh, that makes my beard tingle all the way. Oh, the moonish way. Professor Azran steps up and ends this fucking challenge.

Holy shit. And he said, oh, of course it's fucking significant. Of course it's significant, I think. This is the ancient to McGuffin. Oh, of course. This is the, it's the neck wand. The guff wand. The guff wand.

And the in line. Okay. Bring it down. Bring it back. I need to recover. Okay. Ooh. Sorry.

As Mr. Azran steps up and he's sketching and you see these wide swoops as he makes the grooves in this large clam as he leans forward and begins to note, look inside the shell of the clam. And you look and you see a number of

markings. Who can hear can read primordial or one of its dials? One of us can. I can read all. I can read all elemental. Is that primordial? Yes. Yes. I can read all elements of that. So two of us. Yeah. Just you?

Yeah, I'm specialized in primordial. If you have a language, you can read it. Both can read it. Right. There's a difference between the language and having it as like a thing. So just double-check your languages, but yeah. Yeah, you're good. Oron, which relates to all elements.

It's one of the dialects of... There you go. Then I think just the two of you. So both of you can read it. And as you see that the... Professor Azarin is sketching in as he's looking at these markings, And you realize that this clan is made out of this beautiful blue stone. And as you look and you read, it says,

this is of the elemental plane of water itself. May the power of the plane that brought the eyes into existence, keep it protected. May the plane that brought the eyes of the abyss into existence also keep a protect. So his eyes are in the sketching out. Oh, oh. Oh, no.

He understands. She comprehends. So this pearl thing is still inside the clams? It is fastened very firmly, it seems, inside this large clam statue. And you see that it has a circular base. Can I dislodge the pearl? Make a dexterity check.

While he's doing that, Would it be dexterity or strength? I think dexterity usually for that sort of. Make a strength. It's a pen. Are you trying to like kind of dislodge it with a tool or are you kind of rip it on? Roof force it. Make a strength, yeah.

All this is all happening, I would just like to use my pearl of power to regain a spell slot. Okay. Because it takes an action. Yeah. You try to heat it out and it seems like, and you get a little zap as you try to rip it out. and you're going to enjoy five points of lightning damage as you try to rip it out and you get a little slight zap I care for it while this is happening I explained oh the I tell them the the inscription on the the clam about the elements protecting the the helm of the of course the eyes of the abyss yes yes I couldn't have said it better myself

What the fuck? You could not have certainly, Professor. So let us get us into the antechamble, and we can reconvene. Yes. And he immediately leaves and he goes towards you. Vintess, what have you found out? I'm putting both in my hands under in the illusions. You do that, and you're...

You see Vincis. What are you? What is it? Arms be one? Probably not quite wide enough. It's the door, right? It's... So it's...

I'd say you'd barely be able to reach. You see his hands halfway disappeared. He's right on the ground. His hands... He'll literally... Oh, what's doing? Oh, what's up, guys? Isn't it a change that he just makes our vlog?

I don't know. That's how that works. You make himself a taller, man. You mean the human over there? The Simplungi. Master Vintas, what did you do it? I just wanted to think. what would happen.

Can I feel anything in the... It feels very smooth. What are you doing, regular non-arm stretching human? I was seeing if there was like levers in there that I have to pull at the same time because the door opens. What are you doing?

Why didn't you just master Vintas ask for help? You guys seemed busy. Vintes, we were very busy doing important archaeological work. I was true. I was teaching Bargram how to fish. That's right.

Can you fish at this point? Yes, yes. What have you found in the dirt there, sir? It's very smooth. That's all I got. Oh, nothing else of importance in those weird illusory ground circles around the one door we can't get through. Oh, okay.

Master Vintus, you surely must have something up your sleeve. Can I make an investigation check on the inside of, the illusion underneath it? It's pretty good. It's pretty good. 21. As you investigate it,

you look around and you feel like this perfectly smooth stone base and as Bargham heaves this statue of clam, you see that the base seems to be the exact same size and shape as this as this indentation

in the base of the clam. Okay. And the dragon head was also circular. At the bottom, yes. I think we need both of the statues to open this door. Master Vint, you are truly a genius.

Oh, wow. You really are my being no longer tingles and self-doubt? This is exactly what I was meant to do. And I will place the clam into this seeming illusion. I can't wait for Miss Willow to give you more self-doubt. Bargerman, Baz. You come with me to the Holy Room. I moved that statue once on my own.

I think the three of us could bring it back here and place it in this circle. Wait, did you tell us that... Yes. Okay. We could place it in this circle to activate this. I can't wait until the dumb one trips and falls with it. Now the best part is they're all wondering which one is the dumb one. Without hearing that second part.

So I hear the first part, but then he was for the second part. I didn't hear the second part. Which one was... Who's the dumb one? What do you think he means? Professor Azarad, and he was down saying, I think I have an idea what you mean.

As he's sketching out. Does he mean me or? Oh, Bargham, I don't think he means you. I'll have you know my intelligence is great. I've studied all the great grudges of history and can recite them. From memory right now, quiz me, go on. and quiz me right now.

No, no. What is the greatest grudge in history? Oh, I can't choose one greatest grudge. There's at least a thousand greatest grudges. All of you can't put them. Pick one. I'm quizzed it right now. No, what?

I'm proved my intelligence. What is the greatest grudge from the draconic and the troll wars? Oh, the draconic troll wars. Well, let me tell you, that was when... I would like to challenge... I'd like to challenge Bargram to a contest, of intelligence. By playing rock, paper, scissors.

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