Not Another D&D Podcast - C3 Ep. 36: The Down Below (Legends of Irondeep)

Episode Date: June 2, 2023

Duck Team deals with the literal fallout of dropping a cable car out of the sky! Callie bonds with the local wildlife, Sol takes the fall, and Hardwon loses his beans. Support us at Patr...eon.com/Naddpod to get access to the after-show and a bunch of other Naddpod content! Get tickets to our upcoming live shows at naddpod.com/live.Music/Sound Effects Include:"A Wizard Tournament" by Emily Axford."Bronzebeard Baddies" by Emily Axford."All I Need is One Thread to Spin a Web" by Emily Axford."Bear Prince" by Emily Axford."Angels and Devils" by Emily Axford. "A Fairy Remembers" by Emily Axford."Microbrews Cruise" by Emily Axford. "Balnor the Brave" by Emily Axford."The Red Fen" by Emily Axford."The Ruins of Cragwater" by Emily Axford."Shadowfell" by Emily Axford.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Starting point is 00:01:53 I'm a jealous of Jake. I'm under the weather. And I'm not going up with the fucking rhyme for you. Under the weather, can't come up with anything better. Yes. Can I be petrified? for you. Under the weather, can't come up with anything better. Yes. Collibate Patrick Ho. She's not under the weather, Emma. Right, but she is the weather.
Starting point is 00:02:10 Yeah, can cold eladrens get sick? Good question, probably not. Yeah, maybe from heat. Oh, I don't know. I really get a fever there today. It's starting melting. Interesting. And then you become a summer eladren, we figured it out.
Starting point is 00:02:23 And then of course, we've got called Well Tanner. Oh, found myself and went to inspect, but it turned into a literal train wreck. It's all good stuff. Great. That's a slant rhyme if I've ever heard one. Oh, come on. Keep it.
Starting point is 00:02:36 I thought that was a great one. Because the only one that even tried it. I said it was a slant. We were talking about this. It's all about this stuff. I put in the goddamn hours, Murphy. We disrespect me like no I think I'm gang we're misunderstanding
Starting point is 00:02:49 We didn't we do a D&D court where I didn't know what a slant rhyme was but then we found out what a Slant rhyme was doing a campaign episode where we don't know what a slant rhyme is We all know now we looked it up. Yeah, we figured it out I Now we looked it up. Yeah, we figured it out that Call back Don't acknowledge that I've done things right it's not it's not good or bad. It's a type of rhyme Eminem does it all the time like saying oh, that's a rhyming couplet. And he's like, that's not a qualitative assessment on the rhyme.
Starting point is 00:03:26 It's really a category. That's an A, B, A, B. It was a callback. Yeah, gotcha, a gotcha. Anyway, check out D&D CORE. I think that's where we talked about it. Unless we talked about it on a short rest or something. In which case, you have no idea what we're talking about
Starting point is 00:03:41 right on the video. Oh, I've got a rhyme. Feeling pretty hurt by the DMF. Whoa! That's a slammer. Unfortunately, I'm not a pro. I got a headshot at Kohl! Come on!
Starting point is 00:03:53 Go for it. Let's go ahead and do a little recap. So last time, you spoke with Krugin and advisors, Zaline in a secret chapel, and they caught you up on all the problems. And Iron Man. Okay, we, but also someone, an individual kind of had a bit of a special interact.
Starting point is 00:04:14 And what is it there? Well, let's just wait for the whole recap. I feel like, okay. Okay, there he does. There's no way he'd leave it up. Okay, so yeah. Well, we're gonna kind of go back a little bit. I'm gonna do kind of the history,
Starting point is 00:04:29 the recent history of Iron Deep, doesn't it too much to do with any kind of sexual tension? What's also some of the magic indoor, otherwise? So it's it's sexual tension, yeah. Merk, sometimes you add in little like ADR bits afterwards to like flesh out the episode. And I imagine you did like a full like seeing the hard run in Zaline.
Starting point is 00:04:46 Oh, we're actually meeting someone just comes to the point. Yeah, I usually go in and add scenes and whatnot. So, hey, you guys really nearly have to go back. Yeah, if you did. Amazing. Yeah, it's cool. It's going to change the episode of episode of Epitome. I'll record something.
Starting point is 00:05:02 But I'll record something. I'll record something. I need to record that. Anyway, there's a lot of local politics going on and Iron Deep so allow me to remind you what's going on. So the bronze beards have been involved in Magitech for quite some time and have established a near monopoly on the city's technology, recently combining
Starting point is 00:05:21 with the mothership corporation. Ludwig bronze beard and his children, Mortus and Bronra are the corporate overlords, but his brother Gromdahl is their connection to the criminal underworld using the family name as a shield. However, Gromdahl was recently arrested when one of his beasts, the serpent escaped and burrowed below Iron Deep, causing tremors that wreak havoc on the city. His family wants him out, but can't do it openly, so they've been trying to supply weapons to mercenaries and low-level goons to inspire a raid of the castle dungeons. These attempts have not been successful because you stopped one of their shipments back in Ezri and sent Krugin to warn Jaina.
Starting point is 00:06:03 We are tactical geniuses. Absolute tactical geniuses. Still, the Bronzebeards have not been officially linked to the weapons. Zaline also revealed the reason Jaina is missing. She went into the mountain to find the serpent herself, but has not come back. Zaline offered some fire-resistant armor for you to follow Jaina into the molten depths, but said it wouldn't be ready until the morning, suggesting you check out Lay the Lantern to learn more about mothership.
Starting point is 00:06:32 Donning, alter self disguises as three alladrin at a Bachelorette-slash birthday party. What a weekend. Things got kind of mixed up for a little bit in there. There was a birthday cake at one point. Right. Well, they're not going to bring a bachelor at cake. Right. They go. It's a virtual or at party. Oh, birth or at birth or at birth or at birth or at. Yeah, birth or at. Yep. That's honestly perfect. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's you successfully gotten to Laylandtern, but failed to get into the VIP area. Later in the night, you saw Mordus Bronzebeard,
Starting point is 00:07:03 a mother ship agent, welcomed the original Saul, Swag Daniels, personified. Kali overheard Mordus call Swag a sucker with a detect thought spell, but Swag seems to regard the mother ship employees as friends. With no other access to the VIP section, Saul jumped to the second floor and told Swag to meet him outside. The bouncer bot chased him out, allowing Callian Hardwan a moment to enter the exclusive area. There they handed Swag the address of Krugans Chapel.
Starting point is 00:07:35 Unfortunately, Swag shared this information with some other shipguns, fearing that Patina had sent clones to kill him. Meanwhile, Hardwan overheard Bronras speaking to mortis about a plan to capture the serpent. Though you thwarted her plan to recruit the mad scientist creator, they were able to retrieve a force cage box from one of the inert automatons. Without the help of the creator, they don't know how to control the tech, but they'll try to reverse engineer it in time, for now their plan is send in Swag with the mysterious tech to cage the serpent. You circled up and followed Swag, who was being escorted home by mother ship Goons.
Starting point is 00:08:14 As they traveled down in the lower plate, you cut their cable car, send to get plummeting hundreds of feet into the mines below. Tactical geniuses. We honestly thought he'd love it. Yeah. It's great for killing people, not great for making friends. Duck team and swag were able to feather fall to avoid injury, but that's just about
Starting point is 00:08:35 where the good news ended. Having killed his co-workers, slash perceived friends, swag was not willing to hear you out and went on the attack. As you explained yourselves, Swag did the same. He revealed that he had lived in the mountains for 10 years, working with mercenaries and scraping by until he came to Iron Deep and met the Bronzebeards, finally building a life for himself.
Starting point is 00:08:57 He worked for Bronzebeard Industries until they became mothership, but held his nose because he blamed Patina Glenbottle for trapping him originally. When you revealed that you had led the rebellion against Patina, he became conflicted, he agreed that he wouldn't give away the address of your hideout, but warned you to stay out of his way when he went after the serpent, then hopped out of the crater, and that's where we are now. So, huh, you are in this dark hole next to a smashed up cable car full of blood. There are alarms going off in security drones swooping in from overhead and we have
Starting point is 00:09:30 screened her eyes. Oh, you don't want to edit this out. I was just going to ask you to walk me through the bronze beard. You know what, leave it in. They'll have a pick behind the screen. This is the kind of stuff that usually gets edited. Cool. Yeah. Well, you walk me through, so Ludwig, bronze beard, is the father of Phonra and Mordis. Yes, pick behind the screen. This is the kind of stuff that usually gets edited. Yeah, well you walk me through so Ludwig
Starting point is 00:09:45 Bronzebeard is the father of fronra and more. He's the CEO. Janus father or sibling Janus father's long dead died in camp. Everyone What is jane what is jane's relationship to Ludwig? What is and what about gromm dolls relationship? So one wig is cousins then gr Gromdall's his brother, also Janice Cousin, and Bronra and Mortis are Ludwig's kids, so kids of Cousin, so... Second cousin. Okay, so Gromdall, Cousins with Jane,
Starting point is 00:10:14 Jane, Cousins with... Okay, thank you so much. Yeah, Jane, since campaign one, when Will Helm, her father, tried to kill Gemma, or did successfully have Gemma kill spoilers for campaign one Has been at odds with the rest of her family. Yes called well Just while we're like getting everything clarified here. I thought it'd be good Jake Did you use a grenade when we were doing that speeder bike chase? I did not
Starting point is 00:10:41 Talk about bean grenades. Okay, we just talked about it. He is the feasibility of a weapon. Got a beep grenade weapon. Okay, cool. Just making sure that my inventory is correct. Great, Jake's got something. Jake's got his handrails. This is the first time we haven't talked over each other. I guess I kind of appreciate it.
Starting point is 00:10:55 Can I go to the bathroom? I do. Absolutely not. Can I get off the gas? Do the under no. I was so curious of those axelings that is. There's no way for me to not have an in. I start laughing and say, Emily, you have your anteries.
Starting point is 00:11:09 I couldn't get through the introduction without laughing about it. Okay, anyway, you've got alarms going off, security drones swooping in, everybody go ahead and roll initiative again. Oh, all right. We need damage to property. 19.
Starting point is 00:11:24 15. 14. 15. 14. Part one, you're first to act. You see a moment after swag Daniels hops away, you guys out of this kind of like emotional moment, suddenly become abundantly aware of kind of the chaos that has happened in the few seconds since you guys dropped this cable car.
Starting point is 00:11:45 You hear alarms going up ahead and then you hear buzzing and see six clockwork drones. These mechanical observation bots that whirl and click as they descend, they've got a spinning blade that lets them fly but the bulk of their body is a clockwork husk with some type of scanning orb attached to it. And they are kind of spreading out and coming down at you. And you just hear the mechanical voice of, you would recognize this as Titania, who is the sort of mothership AI voice
Starting point is 00:12:18 that's like their Alexandra. You hear her go, greetings, criminals, please stay still. So we may scan you. Greetings, criminal. Okay, hard one just, I guess behaves like he's a teenager that got caught like vandalizing something with graffiti. And I just say, cheese it, cheese it. Cheese it, everybody's the buzz.
Starting point is 00:12:40 Cheers. Yeah. So one of the, Operation Cheez It. You guys are down hundreds of feet like in a hole right now. Fuck! How do we cheese it up? In my immediate surroundings, is there are there any holes that I could dive into, crawl
Starting point is 00:12:54 under? Go ahead and give me a perception check. Eight. You look around and you guys seem kind of cornered. Okay, so we, seems like like we're gonna have to engage with these things, um. Yeah, I think we don't want any trace of us being here more than there already is.
Starting point is 00:13:10 And if we wanna like make it safely back, we probably need to destroy these scrying orbs or whatever they are. Okay, how close are they to me? They are 50 feet away. All right, I think I'm gonna hold my action until they get a little closer. Okay, cool.
Starting point is 00:13:24 Great, so you kind of bear your axe. Thank you for taking a pose. Stay still, please. I do try to make the axe cover my face a little bit. Great, so we are summer alladrens. Oh good, all right. No, no, not anymore. What?
Starting point is 00:13:38 Time has passed. We are the longest summer alladrens. This is very serious. Okay, I'm pretty fucking famous around here. Yeah, shit. So that's the thing. You can imagine that when you guys were up on that train car, probably some people did see you guys up there,
Starting point is 00:13:52 but you can probably imagine no one seeing you up close. This is a real threat, though. Right? So at initiative 17, you see the six security drones do descend and get within 10 feet of you hard one, you may make your prepared attack if you'd like. All right, I'm going to make two attacks and I'm also going to use one of my battle master.
Starting point is 00:14:14 Oh, that's right. As we get to level 10, hard one has changed his subclass to reflect the veteran fighters. Yeah, 200 years in the astral plane, you learn a few things. Yes. So I'm going to hit this robot with a distracting strike. Whoa.
Starting point is 00:14:35 That is not staying still. This is not a pose. That's right. 19 and a 24. Both hit. That is 36 damage Jesus, okay, that is enough with two attacks You can destroy two security bots with that. Oh, so I'll say the first two that come down you Do a full swing on one slash it in half pull back and with all of the weight all of the strength of you pulling the ax out of that one
Starting point is 00:15:01 Swing and hit one behind you and crack it in half and that one Explodes in a poof of magic energy and the gears just shatter and fall to the ground huge and also as For distracting strike someone gets advantage on on their next turn great I'm not gonna count of both of these things are destroyed though. No, I've let it happen on another one great So it's kind of a swarm. Yeah, the next attack on one gets advantage. Great. Okay. There's four of them left.
Starting point is 00:15:29 I'll say that two of them will go after hard one and one of them will go after each of you guys. Okay. You can make either a dexterity saving throw to try to like real quick move out of the way to not be able to be scanned or a charisma saving throw to try to like modify your appearance in some way. So hard one, give me two saves as a blue light comes up and starts scanning your face. No, no, no pictures, no pictures.
Starting point is 00:15:53 You're in a public area. I'll use it downable to try to reroll these, this deck save. Okay. 17. 17 passes. Okay. So the first one, you are able to dive out of the way. You kind of jump back, do like a backhand spring,
Starting point is 00:16:09 but that puts you right in the way of another one. You once again see the blue light go on you and go to try to scan your face. Shit. Ooh, 23 passes. You cover your face and get out of the way there. One goes after Cali, tries to scan you. Okay, I'm gonna do charisma.
Starting point is 00:16:24 Great. I'm gonna try charisma. Great, nice. I'm gonna try and like sum in the dregs of that ulti-self and bring a bit of the succulent summa allaggett back. Yeah, you see that your frosty icy skin begins to melt away and you see steam come up. No, it does, because I rolled in that one. Oh no! Okay, one scans Callie, searching, searching, ID confirmed.
Starting point is 00:16:45 It's not gonna transmit that anywhere. Okay, how quick is it transmit? One scans Kali searching searching ID confirmed It's not gonna transmit that anywhere. Okay, how quick is it transmit? If I kill it immediately we will find out Solve that is your turn to roll a save 17 17 gets out of the way whoo so you flip back out of the. But one does seem to have Callie's identity scanned. Callie here! I knitted you a balaclava. I think I'm just like, okay, positive spin.
Starting point is 00:17:11 At least my bounty is gonna be looking bountiful. Ooh, that's right, yeah. What is it? I think of the silver lining. I like this, I want this. Silver serpent lining, yeah. Murders definitely gonna drive the number up. Great, Calliei that is your turn
Starting point is 00:17:26 I'm gonna go after the one that that success Can do great unsaid unsaid Colliope petricor name recognized in system. I'm gonna fucking Smite your memory to fuck each it wanted for smuggling crimes. Okay. Thank God for the advantage because I got another net one. Oh, good. But at 25. 25 hits of course. Okay, I'm gonna do fourth-level smite. Yeah. 32 damage. You completely destroy this. I have another attack. I'm gonna go after the one that's going after hard one. Great. Thank you. 15 out of die. Okay, a few. Another 25. It's?
Starting point is 00:18:08 No, the fucking fourth level. Let's do it. I said no photos. You must deal with this all the time. 33 damage. Just sure I another one. Down to two security bots that are worrying around and trying to get pictures of hard one and salt. And fuck it, I'm gonna take out my dagger from Calder and try to go up to the last one.
Starting point is 00:18:29 That is a 27 to hit. Hey. Do a third level smite. Having a robot with an ice knife, it's the perfect crime. Please stop. Kaliope Petrocor. What are you all doing? You already have a long list of crimes.
Starting point is 00:18:43 Oh my god, I magically rolled better better that is gonna be 35 damage 35 damage kill another one There is one left it starts rattling off estimating new bounty including murder okay of mother ship employees I'm I'm guessing 10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 gold shit. We should turn ourselves in 20,000 30,000 40,000 gold shit. We should turn ourselves in That is Sal's turn shit. I had 40,000 of one I went over cool Yeah, there's one one robot left great Saul puts his scarf over his face and then pokes holes in it So he looks like an injured turtle, but it's still very visibly himself great And then I'm going to take to a text sick
Starting point is 00:19:23 And then I'm going to take to a text, does a 17 hit, 17 does hit. Okay, and then I got a 19, so that's gonna hit as well. 15 damage, 15 damage, Saul destroyed the security box. All right. Yeah, I turn and say, say cheese, and then I punch it. That's what I call cheesy.
Starting point is 00:19:44 The security drones are all destroyed. They crash into the ground. You just hear the sounds of metal. There is definitely more activity quite a scene has been caused. We gotta get some disguises or keep to the back alleys. We just gotta avoid detection. I'm a fucking made woman.
Starting point is 00:20:03 Do I know if I have anything on me that's going to be able to be tracked? You don't know, I mean, if the bot somehow has some kind of scrying ability, yeah, you can definitely be tracked. I empty out my bag for any airtags. There's no air. There's no airtags.
Starting point is 00:20:21 I'm a fucking made woman. You have that bolt pistol. Let's probably drop that But I don't know if I want to leave it gun. Yeah, let's stop with your fingerprints on it. Yeah, fuck. Yeah Should we go back to the church? I don't want to put that heat on Krugin. I don't want to lead it them to him Yeah, okay, we got a we have to find a safe hiding spot. I think I am a liability We gotta, we have to find a safe hiding spot. I think I am a liability. So you two should go talk to Zeline, give the information, get me armor, and I'll just be
Starting point is 00:20:52 fucking in the shadows all night tonight. Okay, I don't know how to feel about that. I mean, like we just got you back from those worms. Yeah, but I mean, I think it could be fine. Yeah, can you, can you cling this the shadows, but stay close? Yeah, I'm actually like really good at lying and pretending to be someone else and like not being seen So I think I could do it. Okay. Okay. Well where should we plan on meeting up then? I don't know this place is there like a place right at the mouth of a cavern or something?
Starting point is 00:21:22 Yeah, yeah hard. You would know. So there's not as much mining done now because there is all this magitech technology and everything, but there are basically old mining lifts that still operate. People use them sometimes that go down from the lower plate into the mines below. Okay, the mouth of the old mines.
Starting point is 00:21:42 I remember I used to go down there to work as a boy. Yeah, you can give her directions. You had a hard time while the drones were coming down in the immediate moment. You had a hard time kind of finding a path out, but you guys are able to dig through some debris and you do see that there is a mining tunnel that Calicut go into and she could possibly run into some trouble
Starting point is 00:22:04 but she also might be able to find the lift. Um, I'm going to give her my displacer scarf. Oh, okay. Just to give you like a little extra boost. Are you sure, Saul? Yeah, it'll help you hide your face. It should maybe help you avoid an attacker too. It'll just make me feel better.
Starting point is 00:22:23 I act really humble and then I throw it over my shoulder and do like a whole catwalk with it. So I'll try not to acknowledge how good it looks on her. I feel like it's a whole new scarf. And then I'm gonna hit you with a bardic. All right, yeah, I give her the hand squeeze. And then I say, like, okay, so this is my crazy plan for the night, just in case you get loose track of me
Starting point is 00:22:47 I think I'm gonna try to speak to the rats Find out what's going on with the seabed and have them take me to like a big rat hole poster looks concerned Or rare hard when nods like it makes sense Yeah, that's what I would do too. Great, you guys. You look for a pile of rats. Queen speed, my friends.
Starting point is 00:23:10 I'll say, I'll do a generous read and say, this is all been said within like 30 seconds, but there's more, like, there's gonna be a full army here in 10 seconds. Okay, let's go. Okay. We have to run. I'm heading closer to the caves and they're heading up.
Starting point is 00:23:25 Great, okay, so Callie runs off into the mines to find rats. And wall, Saul, you can just run up. You can just run up the wall. Yeah, I guess I'll just take some rope or something and run up and then toss it back down. Great, yeah, hard one, I'll say, I'm going to give me an athletics check with advantage.
Starting point is 00:23:42 You guys find an area where you do see more security drones Coming down, but you kind of avoid them. You run with Cali for a little bit deeper into the mines Get around to another area with like a lift that the bottom has like kind of broken up There's still ropes there. So I'll just runs up hard one's gonna try a climb. It's 25 25 you get up there quite quickly Mm-hmm, and you guys race back try a climb, it's 25. 25, you get up there quite quickly, and you guys race back, blending in with a few people that are like outside
Starting point is 00:24:11 their houses and stuff, looking up at the train car that fell from the upper plate. People are very concerned, they're whispering, do you think, do you think mothership can fix it? Maybe we need to put up a magical bubble, like they have an Esri, so this doesn't happen again. God, hard work. Fucking bites his lip, so he doesn't freak out at that.
Starting point is 00:24:30 Yeah, people sound concerned and scared, and you run back to the chapel, where you see Kruegan is waiting nervously, and as you guys walk in he goes You guys were where the fuck where's Kelly she went to talk to some rats? What are you? You know she needs to see some rats about a snake. Okay. She's she's okay though. Yeah, she's fine. Obviously I mean she's obviously I got a call that I know she's Kelly all right I got I got word from I got a message from Zaline that said some shit went down
Starting point is 00:25:06 Yeah, listen that apparently a bully wild train car went down. Yeah, no, no, yeah, I heard yeah Uh-huh. No good good both guys yet. What we needed was yeah more noise around here a little more He listen, I'm actually glad I'm not here to get recommend The round so nice. I don't know whose idea this was I know my sweet Callalley would never do that. I'm taking all the heat. We were worried that the mothership agents were going to find their way here. We gave them some intelligence because we thought that one of them was on our sides.
Starting point is 00:25:40 It was me. Oh, okay. He was already mad at us. Oh, man. Okay. Look. already mad at us. Oh Man, okay look we got word that um to a Lajrin and a bully wug sent one of the cable cars flying
Starting point is 00:26:00 Out of the sky. I don't know who saw was hanging out with but yeah We could have been any bully wug and we have we And we have information to share with you and with Zillene. Yeah, I don't know if she's around her. Well, she's not around right now, I'd imagine. And I don't care either way. I have, I would imagine she's dealing with whatever the fallout of this is gonna be right. That's good. I mean, you have time to take a shower.
Starting point is 00:26:19 Okay, if it comes up, say it was Saul's fall. I think for sure, no one is gonna be horny. For sure. Even though there's a lot of adrenaline popping through. Yeah, it makes sense. It makes sense. Yeah. Doesn't matter which version of me it was, it's my fault.
Starting point is 00:26:34 All right. Yeah. I hate to agree, but I'm not trying to assign blame here. You're making me think that maybe it's yours. I'm not trying to assign blame here. You're making me think that maybe it's your time. Let's not assign blame. But if we had to, I mean one guy took the blame. Okay, so there's actually no reason to assign it.
Starting point is 00:26:54 All right. All right. Yeah, we're saying the same thing. Water under the bridge. No one's mad at me. Let's move on. Great. Yeah. Okay.
Starting point is 00:27:05 Very good. Mortis and Bronra. They have a device that they think they can use to trap the serpent. Some sort of force cage capsule and they have Saul's clone. Not the clone. They have the original. They have my daddy's self, my older clone brother. I don't know what you want to call him But like what we call them swag Daniels. Yes, like Daniels the OG Yeah, you see Krugin looks
Starting point is 00:27:35 concerned and and thinks about it and goes Well if mothership as a way to to capture the serpent Then first off they can make themselves look like the heroes of the city. People are gonna be scared enough already. They're gonna flock to them, not only that, but who says they couldn't just let the thing out
Starting point is 00:27:56 in the castle and destroy our entire faction or just set it off in a city that they don't like. They don't even need to necessarily be able to control the serpent in any way. Yeah, and we just, we did stoke some fear with the whole train. Yeah, no, mothership is very good at manipulating people and people who are scared are very good at manipulating.
Starting point is 00:28:17 Yeah, so I'm, yeah. No, it all too well. Okay, well, I guess we're gonna need those suits. Yeah, all right, yeah, well, I would imagine Zilline's gonna be busy tonight. She said she needed the night to get them commissioned. So I will stay up and watch outside. You guys get your rest.
Starting point is 00:28:37 If anybody comes sniffing around, I'll send you guys a sign. Okay, man, I wish there was some way we could tell Gally that we're okay, or hear that she's okay. Can I like try and reach out to her in this network I've kind of found myself within? Yeah, go ahead and give me a religion or nature check. Both negative one. Great. I'll say you can add your proficiency.
Starting point is 00:29:04 Okay. Cool. Ah, 16. Great. I'll say you can add your proficiency. Okay. Cool. 16. 16. You sit down, you meditate, you feel an awareness of the things around you, you try to connect to the fungi and you sort of plant life that is thriving underground here. And you don't feel in this moment that you're able to send her a message, but you do, you don't know where she is, but you do clock Callie's presence.
Starting point is 00:29:32 You almost get a message saying she's here, but you don't know where that is. So she's okay. There's a lot of rat interference, but I did manage to locate a heartbeat. She's still alive, I don't know where she is, but she's definitely alive. It gives me an idea, perhaps we can speak to a rat
Starting point is 00:29:50 to speak to Kelly. We'll find a little rodent. Right, if I can connect to the rat network. So it's all that I will stay up for again. Saul tries to connect to the rat network. Mark Oblon would be so proud. And as that's happening, as you guys are getting ready for bed, Cali, what are you doing?
Starting point is 00:30:10 I'll say, yeah, you make your way through the mines. You follow a hard one, gave you some directions to get to a lift, to kind of the main entrance to the old abandoned mines down here. And you find yourself in these dark empty caves. The only way you can see anything is through your eladren dark vision and you do here, deep rumbling down in the cave.
Starting point is 00:30:34 And you see Foster's eyes are red and feathers are going up following something with his eyes as if you can see through the mountain. Do you see it? Where? Is it on the same plane as us or deeper? Where? Is that a yes?
Starting point is 00:30:55 Where? Wait, I didn't ask a yes-no question. Where? You are the inter-key. Where? And I like that you bring in a sense of humor when things are dark and scary. Okay. Foster looks down.
Starting point is 00:31:10 Okay. I was gonna speak with animals and talk to the rats, but maybe we can just spy the creature ourselves. Right. Let's go try to get a peek at what we're working with. Foster stays still. You'd like to stay here. We're not.
Starting point is 00:31:33 Okay, you're scared of it. Shakes his head. We're not. But you think it needs time. Nuzzles into you. You think I need time. Nuzzles into you. You think I need time. What? Oh, the bomb, sir. When I forget to think about myself, you do.
Starting point is 00:31:52 I cuddle him up and then I begin to ritual cast speak with animals and look for some rats. Sweet. How's it going, man? Everyone go call those in care and terror. What's up? It's me. Yeah, um, Kali, not hard at all, defined rats down here. So yeah, you do see some big rats going through the mines here, climbing up looks like some of them maybe go up and grab things in the city itself
Starting point is 00:32:27 and then come back down here to where it's safe for them. Okay, I want to stop one and say, excuse me, my name is Clivey Petrako. And I am a representative of the beastlings. Okay. Have you seen what is causing all this physical drama? Have you seen the serpent? Dad's friend! Dad's friend?
Starting point is 00:32:51 Dad's friend! Who's your daddy? Ha ha ha! Dad! Grumto? Is Grumto daddy? You see, skitters back. Food?
Starting point is 00:33:01 Grumto gives you food. Yeah! Can I see the food? Dad! Yeah, let me see daddy's food. Start scrambling up towards the castle. Hey wait for me! Yeah, yeah get some food and then come back here because I'm hungry too. Go ahead and give me a persuasion check. Okay, I'm gonna go ahead. I usually like to keep it for myself. Okay, well I can be very persuasive. Okay, do you have more food? I'll trade you a little food for big food. I've beans.
Starting point is 00:33:31 What? Ha ha ha. Got bonkers. Lentils. So exciting. Even refra. Oh my god. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:39 I have so much. Give me a persuasion with advantage. Okay. That's going to be 21. 21. You see, Rad goes under the, under like where the castle is, is somehow getting through like a crack in the dungeons or something like that. Comes back, I'll say a decent amount of time later.
Starting point is 00:33:59 Comes back like half an hour later. It's got like little crumbs on his face and has some kind of pellet in his mouth and scrambles over to you. Yeah, trade! Can I try to do detect poison and disease or detect magic on detect good and evil, all my pellet and detection, all the pellet. Yeah, you go into your detections.
Starting point is 00:34:23 There's nothing that crazy going on here, nothing evil about the pellet, but it is magically conjured and based on what you know about Gromdall, you think he might essentially be like a druid. He's a druid. Yeah, because he's like this fucked up beast master. So he seems to be using rats in some way and is feeding him. He looks a little swam. Yeah. That's why he's deadly.
Starting point is 00:34:56 How fucking absolutely insane that I sought you out. Okay. It's kind of perfect. I can't believe you asked us to speak to our aunt. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't.
Starting point is 00:35:10 I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't.
Starting point is 00:35:18 I can't. I can't. I can't believe you asked us to speak to our aunt. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. He's in a little little room. He's in a little, and you can get in. You have a clever creature. Hey, what sort of clever jumps does he give you?
Starting point is 00:35:28 Clever little boy you are. Go in, try to talk to a big friend. Back downstairs. Back downstairs. What's that? What's that big friend like? What a little friend's come together, trying to get big friends.
Starting point is 00:35:41 You go back to dad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can I, can I just ask like, I'm so excited to meet a friend. What, like if I was going to describe my friend hard one, I'd be like, he's brave, he fights with an axe. How would you describe big friends? Big friend, big friend has big scales and makes everything shake.
Starting point is 00:36:02 Makes everything shake. Yeah. Okay. You see see you feel a rumble on distance okay and that doesn't scare you do you know you wave bean okay well the does go through and kills a bunch of little friends by accident but I don't think it means it okay okay it doesn't mean it okay so because of your relationship with daddy your chill with collateral. Yeah! Okay. Awesome. You know what? I think, I think you earned yourself two cans of beans.
Starting point is 00:36:29 Oh my god! Do you want me to pull them on you? Please! Okay. Hard one says to Saul in bed, I hope she doesn't need all the beans. I realize that every single can of beans is in my satchel. Well, it's not like we're gonna be using these anyways. I realize that every single can of beans is in my satchel. Well, it's not like we're gonna be using these anyways.
Starting point is 00:36:47 Just starting giving, give these to your little friend. Mark, you're shivering. You could say that bean scent's a came. What? Okay. I don't have a reference point for that. I see, I covered in beans this little rat goes away and you see other rats swarm him and it looks like maybe they're all gonna eat each other They make a big bean rat king
Starting point is 00:37:10 Together Foster looks concerned Foster the scene is so fucking bad We need we need to be feet we need to be in feet. Yes, see out of here I think we just go find like a cold shadowy corner and just make ourselves fucking damn near it in the pool. Great, yeah. Hey Foster, I'm not cold, you are.
Starting point is 00:37:36 Ha, you guys hide out down there. And hard one in Saul. What do you guys do tonight? I'm laying down on some pews. Yeah, yeah, hard one and Saul. What do you guys do tonight? Um, like down on some pews. Yeah, yeah, I think Saul, like lays down, or sits down in one of the pews and kind of like looks at the... These are those like a little stained glass. No, there's geodes, right?
Starting point is 00:37:54 Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Saul kind of like stares at the geodes, like you might stare at like the night sky and just kind of like zones out a little bit. And then like kind of says, maybe the hard one, maybe the no one, I just had so many things I wanted to ask him. You want to you want to just ask me? I mean I don't know if you know
Starting point is 00:38:15 the answer but yeah it almost had them like rehearsed in my head so yeah get them off you just. Yeah, get them off your chest. Well, are there others? Have you met them? What? Are we really all the same or are we different? Like, what are we to each other? You know, he might have not had answers for you either. I think the only...
Starting point is 00:38:41 The only answer you need is in your heart. You're you. You're the only you I've met. Oh, you really are legendary. Hard one rips ass. Who can yell, keep it down in there. It's the beans talking. Can I all love, son said the bean cover to rat and just be like, I just need you to give
Starting point is 00:39:10 a message, okay? Yeah, so just go to that broken down church and tell them that your daddy is grumbed all. Okay. And I just really smear him up with the B.C. Okay, so you guys have this touching moment. and I just really smear them up with the B.C. Okay, so you guys have this touching moment, then hard one parts. You see a rat covered in beams runs into the chapel
Starting point is 00:39:34 and just begins squeaking at you guys. Whoa, it's a spirit, spirit, quick, it's a bean rat. We can roast that thing up. So, Solchars, get back it into a jar. We just hit this one. Come here, come here. Okay. It has something to tell us. I don't speak rat, but I do speak frog.
Starting point is 00:39:52 So maybe I can get a frog to translate the rat. Okay, so actually what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna hold the bean rat. It's tail is presumably covered in bean juice. Correct. I'm gonna hold it over some parchment or canvas. Because I imagine it will use its tail to write a little message to us. It's Callie okay. It's all ruins, Krueger's guests looking for paper. Go ahead. My god. Go ahead and do a roll in that 20 out of religion check. It's just a 10.
Starting point is 00:40:25 You see the rap begins nervously shitting beans everywhere? Oh, you didn't even digest them. What a waste. The waste of beans. Should we try the frog translation plan? Sure. But I will say, here's what I will say.
Starting point is 00:40:41 You guys kind of, in this insane melee that you've just had with this rat, I think realize like it's covered in beans, so it probably got them from Callie. Yeah, this is Callie sending us a message. She's gotta be, what else could be? We might not ever understand what she wanted to tell us, but maybe we don't have to.
Starting point is 00:41:03 Well, she's befriended the rats. That much is obvious. You wouldn't give the beans to anyone. Yeah, I hope it was just this one, can't. Hard one licks the rats. Easy as it's multiple types of beans there. Yeah, you taste multiple types of beans. Is that a lentil? You hear a howl like a wolf from inside the church.
Starting point is 00:41:24 There was one more thing I wanted to ask swag for mid-side the church. Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! There was one more thing I wanted to ask swag that you might actually know a little more about. What's that? What's, what's Moonstone like? The beautiful, beautiful village. Small Quaint Town, next to a lake. Great tavern there.
Starting point is 00:41:43 Really nice tavern. Great innvern there, really nice tavern. Great inn. Good people in Moonstone. I could tell you everything I know, but I think you have to go for yourself. I like that. Maybe we can meet there again someday. Or maybe we can go together.
Starting point is 00:41:58 Why not? Saul Ripsass. You guys have to pick. This is absolutely just a rat shit in hearts. Colleagues be Ripsass. What was that? You guys hear her voice? There's my face.
Starting point is 00:42:14 There's my face. It's a wiggling. It's a rumbling in the mountain. So you guys all go to bed for the night and the next morning, hard one and Saul, you awake to Krugin kind of nervously pacing around and Zaline slams the doors open, like kind of kicks them open and comes marching in. Grease is his hair down. It comes in a nice bun.
Starting point is 00:42:44 Now it matters how you present yourself. Just saying good morning. OK, good. I heard there was an incident last night. The whole city is up in arms about it. Yeah, yeah. Apparently two, Summer Aladron and a bully wug cut a cable car and killed a mothership captain and two guards.
Starting point is 00:43:01 And I promise you I will find those Summer Aladron as soon as we're done with the serpent. No, will you. Well, interestingly enough, one of them turned out to be a winter lodger named Kaliipi Petricor. Are you familiar? I'll chat with her about it. She's been acting out, I think.
Starting point is 00:43:16 She's risked, yeah, she's risked deep in rats right now. Okay. Well, I can try to make sure this doesn't get back on, I mean, Sol, you're already half compromised and Kalaiyope's compromised so I'll try not to get the word out that a legend of Iron Deep, you know, is cutting cable cars out of the sky. Thanks for calling me a legend. Listen, if you need to pin this all on me, there's actually multiple of me, so I don't know how that works with the record system, but it might overwhelm it and confuse it. So just say that Saul Bufo did
Starting point is 00:43:48 it. Zalena is Callie's name, known. Yes. Okay. Well, we did it sloppily, but we do have your permission. Sorry, I tell you. You know everything that you told Kroegen. She nods and kind of expresses the same concern that Kruegen had that essentially, even if they don't know how to use the tech yet, if there's essentially like a portable capsule that you can trap something in, then you could use that anywhere. You could put it in another city and just unleash it.
Starting point is 00:44:21 You don't necessarily have to mind to control the serpent or do anything. You just let this wrecking ball go. So she kind of just assesses the situation, nods and goes, all right, well then it is paramount that we get there first. Yeah, yeah. Is there anything that we can do to clear Kelly's name? I will do my best to keep the heat off Kelly or at the very least fog up their trail. The important thing is that you are not discovered hard one because your say, your reputation in this town is very important to to Jaina. It's very important to our cause.
Starting point is 00:45:05 Someday soon, I suspect you can help us turn public favor against Mother Ship. If the public thinks you had something to do with this, that would be very bad. Kaliope, for her own safety, this is not good, but we can find ways around that. Okay. I shouldn't go poking her head around in any taverns as herself. I wasn't joking before. If you need to pin this all on me, that's fine. People saw Callie there. There's no pinning anything on anyone. You were discovered. All right. If you need to make my picture bigger in the newspaper articles. Also, getting you caught isn't very helpful. A bully bug was seen, but there
Starting point is 00:45:49 are many other bully wugs you are not caught by the security drones. Okay, well, whatever you can do, we know our role though. Did you have the suits? I do. Your armor, as promised. You see, she presents a magic chest that looks tiny at first, but expands as she activates it, it opens to reveal fireproof equipment. Dark pieces of plate attached to glowing red body suits that give the look of lava under charred rock. Awesome. Sick.
Starting point is 00:46:17 There are gauntlets, boots, and kind of a bucket helm with a glowing red visor and like gas mask-like breathing apparatuses. Hard one tries it on instantly. Yeah, yeah, you can go put it on. with a glowing red visor and like gas mask-like breathing apparatus. Hard one tries it on instantly. Yeah, you've got to put it on. The armor is slightly different for Saul. More body suit and less armor. It won't really affect your AC. Let's you still move around the same. Oh nice. For hard one and Cali. So you kind of take Cali's suit to give to her when you see her. This is as good as plate mail, but does not give you disadvantage on stealth checks. Oh my gosh. The suits are also resistant to fire damage, and we'll stop you from burning up instantly in hot temperatures. So you're not completely immune to fire damage. If
Starting point is 00:46:59 you're literally like walking through fire, you'll take some damage, but if you're, you know, near like a fiery hellscape or something, you're not gonna like melt away. Great. Wow. All right. So she hands those over, and she goes, odd one, you know the way to the mines. I trust that you'll find General Bronze Beard and get her back here before everything falls apart. Hard one, uh, Salutes and Blinks awkwardly. He's that secret message. Or, yeah, I mean, however you want to take it or it's a casual goodbye. We're a friendly goodbye or maybe more than that, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:47:40 That's what you're looking for. No pressure either way. The legend it weren't. Let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's for No pressure either way the legend it weren't let's let's what I'm saying is I'm good You're okay, let's punt this for now So that's not a flat-out rejection. I'm flat-out rejections Heart when you got to speak with actions man. I gotta go get that serpent. I low five soul Yes, that will be highly impressed if you get the serpent and- Did you hear that?
Starting point is 00:48:07 Return Jaina Brown's beard back. All right, let's go. Until then, Zaline takes off. And as you guys go to leave, you guys are stopped by Khrugin who kind of nervously goes, yeah, so if while you guys are in there, if you see like a young,
Starting point is 00:48:33 dwarven woman in there with Jaina Bronzebeard, just make sure she gets out okay, all right? Um, what's... Hardware knows enough to not ask any questions. Yeah, what's her name? Her name is Kenna Kenna. Yeah, well, we'll look out for Kenna. Yeah, great. You have my word Appreciate you. All right. All right. Good luck. Good luck. Is there anything you want us to tell her if we see her? I don't know you you know, bringing up my name isn't gonna be particularly helpful. She sort of went the opposite way that I went in life,
Starting point is 00:49:14 kind of out of her resentment for me. Well, patch things up in time. I just want to add time to patch things up. But she's got to be around to patch things up with her. Exactly. She's a general bronze bearded squire. So, all right. I would imagine they're kind of tied together. Yeah. She's in good company. Yeah. All right. Yeah. I trust that Jane will keep her safe. I just hope that Jane is safe too. Yeah. All right. We'll get this random person that you've just described to us just somebody Yeah, I'm not very thoughtful of you good
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Starting point is 00:51:17 You won't want to take your bird dogs off, we promise you. Okay, that's it for me, Go team pants and enjoy the show. All right, let's let's go get this suit to Cali. Yeah, great. All right, sweet. So hard one, you kind of leave the way here near the edge of the lower plate. You find an old lift operated by pulleys. It looks like it hasn't been used much in recent years. There's a big lever that is covered in dust and debris. Okay, big lever pulley. I guess I want to do a perception check to see if Callie is nearby because she's going to meet us around here, right? Yeah. It's only a 10. Can I give him the help action on that? I'm looking to.
Starting point is 00:52:00 That's an 11. It's super deep. Okay, I think we just got a plunge. Let's take 11. Cool. It's super deep. Mm-hmm. Okay, I think we just got a plunge. Let's take the plunge. I mean, you're clearly the machine experts, if you wanna handle this pulley or this lever. Hard one looks at it really studiously and then just tugs it. You're right, yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:17 You tug its as you pull it, there's a loud creek as it crunches through the accumulated rust and you guys begin a shakily descending into the mountain. You pass different levels of mines, mostly abandoned now, turned over mine carts, crooked railways, abandoned equipment. When you reach the bottom, the lift screeches to a halt. This is the lower most mine that is accessible from the city at the moment. There are mounts in the walls for torches, but there are none there. There's abandoned equipment, caked in thick, thick spider webs. There is a sudden tremor that shakes the entire cave and causes debris to fall. And before you is a dark tunnel,
Starting point is 00:52:59 beyond which you can hear the deep rumbling. but before that, you see in the darkness, approaching you guys from a nearby passage. First, you see the red glowing eyes of foster as Galley and foster join up with you. All right, good morning. Can I have a summon my steep? Yes, yeah, you can summon your serpent. Okay, yeah, I think we come out of the shadows
Starting point is 00:53:25 and you see me and Foster, but then you also see between my legs the huge silver set of it. Oh, whoa, whoa. That's one snake I'm happy to see. This is the friendly one, right? Yeah. Good morning.
Starting point is 00:53:38 Did you get my message? Yes. Oh, of the rat. So you know then all of the rats are working with Grumdol. Yeah, I'm sort of like a circle of shepa. Was that not clear? It's had a lot of things. Did he not say that to you? I told him to say it. I give him a lot of beans. He was really, it was just excited to meet me I think. Some people lose their time. I just get recursive as the problem. Curthive. He was writing to you.
Starting point is 00:54:01 Yeah, this is a bad thing. This is smarter than we realized. They're working with Grondahl. So he must have taught. So Grondahl's got a network of curse of writing rats. God, we should just give up now. Pretty of scribes. It's back in call. Think of the pamphlets you can litter around Iron Teep.
Starting point is 00:54:22 God, we get word out so quickly. Okay, well, Kelly, we got you a pretty cool suit here. Yeah, it also this bean burrito. Thank you so much, but I actually ate all the beans last night. What? Ha ha ha. Ha ha, you're joking, right? I was just sort of self-suiting in an unhealthy way.
Starting point is 00:54:44 But I mean, there's still some juice in the can. This has to be a hilarious prank. Even the Fathers? They're so big! Yeah, that's a good one by one. And I only choked on two. Hard one silently accepts his face. The beaners are gone.
Starting point is 00:55:03 We're going in being less. Okay, okay, wait, can I see the armor? Sweet, I shake it out. God, it's gorgeous. Yeah. Pretty fucking cool. Is she safe? We could keep it after?
Starting point is 00:55:14 She didn't say she wanted it back. Also, she didn't flat out reject me. I was like, oh, I was gonna ask you if you started the morning with a blowy. Not a blowy, but honestly better, not a rejection. I'm not that amazing. Thanks, yeah, saw the whole thing and it was pretty amazing. Oh gosh, yeah, the sparks were flying.
Starting point is 00:55:35 Ah! Thanks, man. It's just really good to know you have something you're fighting for, right? Like which is being reunited with Saline. She gives me a purpose. Yeah. Foster looks at you deeply sad. She gives me that second-hand purpose.
Starting point is 00:55:53 I should remember to say this when I get back. Yeah. I don't know if I was perfectly eloquent this morning. I feel like I said everything I needed to, but not so much. Yeah. I wanted to. Oh. We should be writing this down.
Starting point is 00:56:04 Does anyone see a rat? It's a rat shitting everywhere. Brilliant. I'm just kidding. All right, okay. I change into this new alma. Oh, interesting. Callie, as you a winter eladron put this on, I think you see steam coming off of it.
Starting point is 00:56:20 Oh, sick. Fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff Ffff. There's one last thing we could do, foster, if we could bar your foot. So I want to take a little paint or ink and then dab foster's foot in it and give us a little duck foot. Oh, sick. Ooh. Yeah, you guys have this cool black and red armor. And now you've got a red painted duck foot on your chest plate. Hell yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:43 Hell yeah. Yeah, you guys don your masks. All right, let's do it. Just so everyone knows, like, I'm aware that, like, I think I'm going to be pretty off putting to people down there because I'm going to be not only in trouble with their legal system. I'm also going to be arguing for the life of the creature that's been destroying their town. So feel free to like turn your back on me or whatnot. But this could be the perfect way to wipe your record. If you capture the serpent and like, well, they probably won't like that you said it free.
Starting point is 00:57:18 But if we can like show that you've like subdued the serpent and then you send it on its way to another plane, that could only some big points. Yeah, I don't like words like subdue and capture. Right. Yeah. Like cooperate. Okay, that's good. Foster nods. Yeah. Are you writing this down, Rat?
Starting point is 00:57:35 No, don't like him. Listen. Okay, I'm ready. Let's see it. Okay. All right. Foster's feathers perk up. His eyes have been glowing red the whole time, but he begins walking with purpose, dumb-a-all. Okay, I follow the purposeful foils of my dog.
Starting point is 00:57:53 Where? Yeah, just waddling along. And you guys hear deep rumbling in the distance. The ground becomes uneven. You guys are kind of going up and down, having to climb a bit, up and down, up and down. It seems like part of this tunnel may have collapsed, that the tunnel above it may have come down, so you guys have to climb up a bunch as the ground is very uneven here. And finally, after
Starting point is 00:58:16 following Foster's lead for a bit, you get to a fork in the tunnel that leads off into two separate paths in the mines and you see Foster just stands looking between them and then looks back at Cali. You get the sense that Foster knows how to get to the serpent. Like if he could walk through walls, he knows the general direction but he doesn't know what's safe, what's not. He doesn't know if there's bad stuff here. There's anything. So he, like, when him getting to that fork
Starting point is 00:58:49 is kind of like, we can go either way. They're both equally far from the thing. I don't know what's coming up though. Do we see any boots like that Jaina would wear? Go ahead and give me a perception or investigation check or you could do survival. Can we all everybody out? Okay.
Starting point is 00:59:07 19. 15. Okay. Eight. Got fucker. Okay. Yes. Halle and Saul, you guys see that it looks like they went to the left.
Starting point is 00:59:18 The accumulated dust and debris makes it kind of easy to track people down here. So you see it looks like Jaina and the crew, looks like there are about four people have cleared out a bunch of cobwebs and debris to the left. And to the right, this area looks less travel. There are like thick spider webs and stuff there. I mean, like the reverse psychology is go down the spider path. But more logically, it's like if Jaina and her
Starting point is 00:59:46 people just went this way, then any traps sort of been triggered. That's true. We also know that they haven't found or fought the serpent yet, so this way wasn't, you know, a direct path, but then who's to say that this this other path isn't certain death? Yeah, I'm just gonna put my predilections on the table. I see I see the wild on explored path and I just want to fucking take it. That's not strategy, that's fucking lethal curiosity on my part. Interestingly, that's what my gut says. Yeah, so I hate making left turns. All right then. Sweet.
Starting point is 01:00:29 Let's be foolish. Okay, so guys. You guys. Yeah. Urge foster to the right, tunnel. And he begins waddling along. You guys are having to go through big, thick webs and everything. There's lots of dust this way.
Starting point is 01:00:43 You have to move rocks and everything. Nobody's traveled through here in a long time. And there's been obviously a lot of caveins and whatnot. And eventually you get to a bridge that looks like it was built by the Dwarven Miners down here a long time ago. The bis down below, just this big hole, and the bridge itself is full of rocks and debris from weeks of rocks, from like the wall above collapsing in from the tremors. So, so there's no easy way across this bridge, we're gonna have to climb. Correct. Does it look like we could cross this bridge in a minute? Yes, the bridge, the bridge I'll say is about 50 feet long
Starting point is 01:01:28 and it looks like it leads to more mines, but there's like a broken off, it looks like maybe there was a lift here that would take people lower, but that part of it has snapped off. So now this is just a dwerven made bridge that is there that is covered in rocks and it's kind of rotting. Okay, you've been in iron deep for a long time.
Starting point is 01:01:53 Do you trust their bridges? How's the craftsmanship on the bridges? If it's dwerven made and it's made of stone, it's built to last. Let's hope none of these rocks that fell from overhead compromised it too much, but I'll trust it. Okay, then I'm gonna bless us as we go across. Okay, if you want, I can go across first and tie a rope
Starting point is 01:02:18 so that just in case. Oh yeah, because you're so good at moving. Yeah. I feel like I might be the least likely to trigger some sort of bridge fall. Oh, that's such an idea. Yeah. You are quite light.
Starting point is 01:02:31 Yeah, so I'll jump some to the air and click his heels. Great. Yeah, I will proceed. I'm going to go ahead. I'll use a key point to double my jump speed. I'm just going to and like jump 24 feet out and then land on a rock. Okay, go ahead and give me an acrobatics check.
Starting point is 01:02:53 15, Saul doubles his jump, does a long jump, gets about halfway across the bridge, lands nimbly on top of one of the huge rocks, and you hear a deep creek like a moan from the metal as things begin to shift. That's good, that's just the bridge settling. You want that to happen. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. But nothing else happens.
Starting point is 01:03:23 Nothing happens yet. Okay, yes, I'll kind of But nothing else happens. Nothing happens yet. Okay, yes, I'll kind of like braces and then how does shaky thumbs up in the air. So you're 24 feet across, you're about halfway. Okay, let's say that I, can we say that I brought a rope with me as well? Sure, yeah.
Starting point is 01:03:36 Yeah, you guys have like adventures here. Yeah, I'm kind of like, I hopped over, they're holding the rope, I'm kind of like letting it string out behind me so that we can like, so we can have like a final line of defense essentially. Great. Okay, yeah, I'm just gonna like letting it string out behind me so that we can like so we can have like a final line of defense Essentially great. Um, okay. Yeah, I'm just gonna use another key point and jump the rest of the way Okay, then we have the rope and we we're good even if the bridge falls. Hopefully All right, okay, so I'll say you're gonna come just two feet short of the very edge
Starting point is 01:04:02 So give me an acrobatics check. Just don't roll a one or a two. Dude, I always come through in the class. You know me. That is a 26. Sick. You see salt jumps the rest of the way and the very edge of the bridge is more on like solid ground. So as he lands, you do see a bunch of dust and stuff puff up, but there is no creaking or anything from the bridge. But hard one, after hearing that, you've seen, you spent a lot of time in the mines and everything, you did not like the sound
Starting point is 01:04:36 of that insane creak. Like this thing is a few rocks away from collapse. Yeah, it wants to go. Yeah, can I like tie it to a stalagmite? There you go. Great. Definitely more solid than a stalagmite. Yeah, you find big like a geode here,
Starting point is 01:04:54 wrap your rope around it. Wow. Cool. And I guess we'll just do that rope climb. Little shimmy. Yeah, the shimmy. Great. You guys do a little shimmy across. I'm gonna dispel the serpent.
Starting point is 01:05:09 Okay, uh, serpent goes away for now. Five. Dispireous in a starfire. Go ahead and give me athletics or acrobatics checks with advantage as you guys climb this rope across. Okay. Shout out to the two crew, but a 19 with a grand total. Wow, okay.
Starting point is 01:05:26 That's a 20 fold. Great. All right. You guys, it takes a while, because 50 feet of that shimmy is tough. You guys are definitely sweating and feeling it by the end. Yeah, that's a good core workout. Yeah, luckily, it's almost like you're wearing
Starting point is 01:05:39 underarm or something, because you have these like cool suits on. Oh, that's good. That's good. Yeah, so you get to the other side. I sweat, but I actually feel pretty good. And you guys do successfully make it to the other side of this bridge and see more dark tunnel ahead of you. Hey, guys, look, I found an extra can of beans.
Starting point is 01:05:58 Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh. There it goes. Sorry. It's all right, it looked empty. Do I see any touches that could be lit? Yeah, you for sure see empty kind of sconces, but you also see, I'll say there's definitely pieces of wood that are there with some wrapped tape around it
Starting point is 01:06:18 that has not been lit in a long time. OK, so I'll start to use pressage agitation to light the torches so we can start seeing what's down this tunnel. Great. As you walk along down this tunnel, you see that it opens up into a larger cavern. And as you guys kind of wave the torch and get this orange glow and enter this new room, you see that this tunnel lets out into a giant diagonal shaft that looks like at one point, hard one. This would be, you know, like essentially like a lift that would take you to different areas, but it would not only go up and down, it also goes to the side. So it goes to the side, it goes diagonally, down through the mountain, however,
Starting point is 01:07:10 the rope has been broken here, but you do see there is ground, it's like this slanted floor of dirt and debris. Is it just the one shoot or are there multiple? Just the one. Go ahead and give me investigation or perception checks. 12. Shout out to the two crew, 16.
Starting point is 01:07:29 Okay, hard one. You knowing the mountain and also getting the best check here, you look at the situation and you don't recall the kind of debris on the floor, like the floor here being quite so high. And I think you deduce that some of this rumbling is essentially every time there's a tremor, there's like a mini avalanche that rushes down this thing. Okay. But it does seem like you do need to go down here to get
Starting point is 01:07:56 deeper in. It's just something you might have to deal with and be prepared to avoid. So we might have to outrun some some of these rocks slides. Okay, okay Hard one thinks back and tries to remember the last time he felt the tremor You're you do for one birdie. I like that idea. Let's wait for a tremor to go past Though we are standing right at the mouth where the rocks will come. Can we go to the side? You guys can go to the side you do run the risk of the side. You guys can go to the side, you do run the risk of this entrance essentially caving in and then you'd have to go back and find a different way into this room. I'll say you guys you're rumbling in the distance, make a
Starting point is 01:08:35 choice. I think we just dive in. Let's do it. Everybody go ahead and roll initiative as you hear it's deep in the distance, but you guys begin running down this diagonal shaft. 18. 12. 29. Wow. Okay, so you are all sliding down a dirt shaft just ahead of a rock avalanche. The shaft effectively separates the near mines
Starting point is 01:08:59 from the far mines, so you need to cross it to get deeper in the mountain. There are a bunch of connecting tunnels on the other side where you can try to make your escape. Considering you're tumbling down in a rock slide, it is hard to see anything, so you'll be making perception checks each round with disadvantage to try to find a path out.
Starting point is 01:09:17 Each round it will get easier to find a path as you cover more ground, but the avalanche will do more damage as the rocks catch up with you. Great. We're all doing the Mario 64 butt slide. Yes, exactly. You're sliding down the mountain. Great. Rocks are tumbling down.
Starting point is 01:09:32 Some ahead of others, you see that there are some like big boulders coming down and rocks and debris and old rusted metal from mining equipment and everything. At the start of the round, Saul, that is your turn. The avalanche has not caught up to you yet. I'm going to turn to hard one and say, is this what mountains are like all the time? This is rare. Okay, okay, still don't love it. Seems like hard one knows his way around this. I'm gonna give guidance to Cali and then I'm gonna be prepared to use my reaction to cast silvery barbs in case someone really fucks up great Um, you are sliding down everybody also kind of sliding down on their butts going super fast
Starting point is 01:10:09 And you are on your feet kind of turn around already glowing bioluminescent kind of ready for whatever comes at you And stuff is coming at you guys Um, everybody go ahead and give me deck saving throws to avoid the first avalanche of debris So can we use the bless? You can use the bless, yes. Oh, 24. 24. Shout out to the two crew.
Starting point is 01:10:30 Ah, okay. 18 damage to Callie, who is knocked prone. You see Callie gets walloped by a bunch of rocks. Can he use the auxiliary barbs? You can. So you reroll to save? Yeah. 22.
Starting point is 01:10:44 Nice. You see a big boulder is heading for Cali. So you snap your tongue out and destroy it, break it with a powerful key strike. It bursts, and it does do half damage to all of you. The debris does half damage if you save. So you guys all take nine, but no one is prone. After that, that is Cali's turn.
Starting point is 01:11:04 OK. Oh, I also get to give another creature advantage now. Okay, so yeah, I like dart by tongue out to destroy the boulder, swallow it down, and then I just blast starlight at hard ones. Sweet. Whoa. Okay, so hard one will have advantage now.
Starting point is 01:11:17 Yeah, okay, great. Okay, I think we should start trying to do perception, I guess. Great. So roll with disadvantage. Roll with disadvantage, okay. 18 on the first one. And 15 with my guidance. Become 21.
Starting point is 01:11:33 All right. Okay. 21 is unfortunately not enough on the first round. You guys have not covered enough ground. As you guys continue sliding around, Cali, you look around in all directions. You see a tunnel ahead of you, but it is quickly filled up with rocks and you guys need to go further down
Starting point is 01:11:48 and beat this avalanche. Callie, do you have any bonus action or anything you'd like to do? I guess I'll just load up a hard one. Take a part, baby. Well, sick. Thank you. After Callie's turn,
Starting point is 01:12:00 Callie starts sliding ahead of you hard one, wearing this hot, wearing this like lava like armor. You see steam. No, it was hot. Hot armor. This fucking hot. You see steam coming off of her. Never seen so hot. Play this form fitting. How is that all?
Starting point is 01:12:17 It is kind of form fitting because you guys are able to sneak around in it. Zaline did get all measurements. Yes, she did. And she made them just the perfect amount of snug. Yeah, hard one. You're inseam, dude. What if she carved a message into this? I didn't look at the tag.
Starting point is 01:12:35 Hard one at the dirt. I bet she did. The hard one starts removing it. Yeah. The hard one melts anything in the stitching. His head is caved in by a rock. And the stupidest character of all time, Don. I'm so immunously. I guess I'm gonna go for a perception
Starting point is 01:12:54 because with advantage I'm gonna roll it flat and I have a bardic and a blaster. Blast only goes for saving throws. Oh, okay. Well, you got this bardic. All right, let's do what happens. Probably not gonna do anything. It's only a 10. Okay. Yeah, okay. Well, you got this bardic. All right, let's see what happens. Probably not gonna do anything. It's only a 10.
Starting point is 01:13:07 Okay. Yeah, save that bardic. Okay, so you save your bardic. You are looking all around and do not see any way out yet. You guys need to basically ride further down into the mountain to find somewhere that has not been caved in. Very enough. After that, that's back up to the second round.
Starting point is 01:13:24 That's Saul's turn at the top of the order. Okay, I think I want to hold my action to just be prepared to last on myself with my tongue and intercept the path of a boulder and just like kick it away. Sick, okay, cool. Okay, after Saul's turn, that is the avalanche again. More rocks and debris, it gets harder to avoid
Starting point is 01:13:41 on the second round. Everybody give me deck saves. Dirty 20. Wait,x saves. Daddy 20. Oh, Phil, the 29. 22 actually. Great, 17. Okay, hard one, you barely pass. You roll out of the way of this debris
Starting point is 01:13:55 right before your head is almost taken off by a giant rock. Okay, I think I saw something in the stitching though. Yeah. You guys still all from just getting hit by like mists of debris and rocks and stuff. You guys do still take half, you take 11 damage. Okay, but I take zero, but you take zero, Saul.
Starting point is 01:14:15 Callie, that is your turn. All right, I'm just gonna keep trying to look for this. Not gonna do it, that is a six. Six does not do it. Six does not do it. You do get a sense that you do see like more mining tunnels that have been collapsed. You do think there are more exits coming as you as you continue going down, but you don't find an easy one to access yet. I will bonus action, Bardic Soul, up so now you're both loaded up.
Starting point is 01:14:43 And I do it by being like, how fucking hot do we all look in this fucking hot and Bartik Saul, Alps, and now you're both loaded up. Probably a stirred. And I do it by being like, how fucking hot do we all look in this fucking hot, armor? Yeah. We look so hot. I hope there's a mirror down here. I do. Cali's just constantly steaming.
Starting point is 01:14:57 Look, it's a wall of polished obsidian. We look great. After Cali's turn, we introduce a new layer action. There are boulders falling down now. Oh, boy. These things get a plus eight to hit. One is gonna come at each one of you. Okay.
Starting point is 01:15:11 First one is a nine to hit hard one misses. Next one goes after Saul. You guys have not traded your scarves yet. That is 19 hits all misses. Okay, this one goes after Calli with disadvantage and Mrs. I totally forgot, I'm so sorry. It's okay, it looks great.
Starting point is 01:15:31 It's all good. Yeah, Calli still got the scarf on, steaming, and now it's inside your suit, so I really will see you again. After the boulders, that is hard once turn. All right, I'll take a gander around, disadvantage. Disadvantage? Well, you know, that is really great. I'm not a perceptive guy.
Starting point is 01:15:48 I'm just gonna keep on. Rocks and dust in your eyes. I think we need a new strategy because I think Saul is gonna have the best perception. Okay. And of the second round, that is back up to the top of the order at the third round. More rocks coming down.
Starting point is 01:16:03 Saul, that's your turn. Okay. Okay, slide's your turn. Okay. Okay, slide further deeper into the mines. Yeah. Not necessarily a bad thing. I wouldn't say I'm proficient in perceiving things, but I'm decent at it. I'll take a gander if I can.
Starting point is 01:16:13 Okay. Gander with disadvantage. Right. Just, it's a seven, so I'm not mean to use my bar. Yeah, you're not, you're not gonna be able to see anything. Sol, you open your eyes up, you look around, they're instantly filled with dirt and dust.
Starting point is 01:16:26 Stop! After Saul's turn, that is the avalanche. New deck saving throws, as you guys are tumbling down. We are blessed. Yeah. Ooh. Dirty 20. 27.
Starting point is 01:16:38 Wow. Wow, 16. Saul fails. Saul, you take 21 damage, 21 in prone, and you two guys take 10. Okay. After the avalanche, that is Cali's turn. Okay, I want to just give a help action to Halt one. That makes sense. Okay, so you kind of stand in front of Hard one, take all the steam, and melt away some of the debris and dust that was gathering around him.
Starting point is 01:17:05 Hard one you can now do a clear look. After Cali's turn that is the boulders. More boulders roll down. First one goes after hard one, shout out to the two crew misses. Lies passed you. One goes after Saul. 17 to hit misses. One goes after Cali. Even with disadvantage still hits 15 damage. Okay. After the boulders, that's hard ones turned. Uh, okay, so thanks to Calli's health action, I'm gonna roll flat on my perception. Fucking hell.
Starting point is 01:17:37 Not worth a bardic, that's a five. Damn, still getting a bunch of dirt in your eyes and stuff, still can't see. You guys continue rolling down for the fourth round in a row That is back up to actually no new obstacle unfortunately Now you guys are falling so fast that you run the risk of like falling dozens of feet at a time Oh, so there's like ground is collapsing below you guys you guys are flying down. We're stupid stones now Give me athletics or acrobatics checks. Check.
Starting point is 01:18:07 Oh. 24. 19 for hard one. OK. Oh, are we still blessed? Yeah, we fucking are. It's still that constant. That isn't 11 for soul.
Starting point is 01:18:17 OK, I think I might use my bardic now. That's a 19. OK, all of you guys pass. You don't take any damage from this. You guys are essentially able to hop down to higher rocks that are popping up essentially skipping stones so that you're not falling dozens of feet at a time. That is back up to the start of the next round. Saul, that is your turn. Saul screams, I miss hiking! I'm not going to do a perception check with this advantage.
Starting point is 01:18:43 With disadvantage. I'm not going to do a perception check. With this advantage? With this advantage. 15, that's not gonna do it. If you had your bardic, you would have made it. After Saul's turn, Saul, you still can't see it. You see what you think looks like. It's gonna be a tunnel. And then you see a bunch of rocks just ride right over it and cover it up. Saul lifts his third eyelids.
Starting point is 01:19:04 And then his second eyelids instantly get filled with us, he lifts those, and then just a rocket. Yes. After Saul, that is the avalanche, Dex saving throws from everybody. 16. I'll use the dominant goal to try to not take this, and I won't, 22.
Starting point is 01:19:21 It's a flat 10, 23 damage to Callie and Saul. Hard one you take half, you take 11. How is everybody doing? And you guys both are knocked prone. Callie and Saul. A hard one this situation is looking bad. I have been killing my cousin. Rolling around in the dirt. I'll take that. After the avalanche, that's Callie's turn. Okay, I'm just going to... Do you have a botic still? Yes. Okay. Then I'm just going to do you have a botic still? Yes, okay, then I'm just gonna do help action for a hot one after Callie that is the boulders One goes after hard one misses. I'm rolling really bad on this dice does manage to hit Saul though Oh, Saul you take 17 damage and miss miss golf
Starting point is 01:19:59 Next one with disadvantage against Callie misses big boulder is just rocks down the mountain and flies off After the boulders that's hard once turn. Okay wipe the dust off of my goggles and I got a 10 And me you add to perception one Okay, so you're at 11 Yes, okay, okay, I will tell I will reveal it for you guys since you guys have gone Okay, I will tell I will reveal it for you guys since you guys have gone Four rounds the perception check is down to 16 if you get a five or higher You'll find a way out if not you have to endure another round until someone finds an out Okay, I'm in a bad way. Oh
Starting point is 01:20:37 Guess you might have to heal and stuff. Yeah, yeah, I'll go for it great two, okay, oh Can I use a luck point on my... On your actual roll, yeah? Yeah. Okay. Oh! That's an eight.
Starting point is 01:20:51 Not my answer. Okay. Okay. Okay. All action search. There we go. Okay. You have to use your bardic.
Starting point is 01:21:02 You have to get a 15 or higher. Yeah. 15 or higher. Yeah, the sooner higher Brutal My shit even even after squinting new new deck saving throws We are still for some fucking reason still blessed am I prone? Yeah, yeah, you guys are prone that is I fail I I also fail but now I'm happy because at least I know for a fact that this dice is dog shit. Ah, 14 fails. Everyone fails.
Starting point is 01:21:31 You guys. I'm already prone. You guys, yeah, just slide off a little cliff. All of you doesn't fit. You guys all take nine damage. Wait, falling damage? Nine falling damage, yeah, I fall. I can hit a sub with feather fall
Starting point is 01:21:45 You hit it up with feather fall. I'm gonna go ahead to try and keep my fucking bless going from this great Okay, you hit feather fall. Nobody take that nine damage. Oh nice after that new thing is added There are bigger boulders that are easier to avoid but do more damage So these guys have a plus four to head Giant rocks rolling down first ones comes to hard one guys have a plus four to hit. Right. You need giant rocks rolling down. First one comes to hard one, only has a plus four to hit, but if it hits, it's not good. It's getting worse.
Starting point is 01:22:11 22 to hit. I rolled an 18. That will hit. Okay. Yes. 27 damage hard one. Okay. Whoa.
Starting point is 01:22:20 Next one goes after Saul, not one that misses. Next one goes after Callie with disadvantage, misses. Actually huge that I have more kick-dispaced than you, as bolders fly by you guys. Uh-huh. Top of the round, that's back to Saul. Okay, yeah, I'm just going to wipe the screen on my mask and just try and desperately find anywhere we can hide.
Starting point is 01:22:40 Do you see 14 perceptions, check? Okay. Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! My face. That's just a fucking seven. Okay, it's a seven, man.
Starting point is 01:22:49 All right. So, would you want it? Look around, don't see anything. How perceptive are you? I've plus four, I think. If you hold your turn, I can help you. Okay, cool, let's do that. Great, okay.
Starting point is 01:23:02 So, after Saul, more avalanche, everybody get me Dex saving throws. Okay. Magic Lee bless is still up. It feels like a fucking joke that it is. Poof, 18. Needed that bless. Do I have disadvantage on Dex save if I'm prone?
Starting point is 01:23:16 Yeah. You got up from prone. Oh right, yeah, that's what you're up. Okay. I don't even need disadvantage that I fail. Okay. Hard one the DC has gone up. Oh, so you fail.
Starting point is 01:23:27 Great. Next day I say that's 13 plus 3, 16? 16 fails. Okay, cool. 25 damage to everybody. I'm down. No! Okay, that's gotta be taking potions and stuff.
Starting point is 01:23:37 You guys see, Kali passes out and is covered in rocks and is gonna disappear at the end of this turn. Okay, that's bad. After the avalanche has Callie's turn, give me a death saving throw. Okay. Yeah, you see Callie's unconscious body just banging into the rocks down here.
Starting point is 01:23:53 16, baby. Seen is a pass. Nice. Boulders come down. Hit that. First one, Mrs. Hard one, Mrs. Saul, would have advantage on Callie, but instead rolls flat and misses. B one, Mrs. All, would have advantage on Callie, but instead rolls flat and misses.
Starting point is 01:24:07 Boulder keeps calling. Hard one that is your turn, if that's Gar, perception check is down to DC 14, but you guys still have disadvantage. Okay, and I also need to give Callie a potion. Yeah, you gotta grab Callie. I think you can do that as a bonus. Okay, yeah.
Starting point is 01:24:25 There we go, That's a dirty 20 Just in time Fear of causing you don't worry Kelly. I found it Kelly Kelly you're not completely out of the woods yet. Go ahead and roll me a D100 Okay, do I want it to be lower? You want it to be low? Okay 40 40 okay 40 feet away You see a tunnel Callie is past that I'll say she's like five feet closer to it than you are all right the correct direction
Starting point is 01:24:55 Saul still out here So as a bonus action can I place a little healing potion on a boulder headed towards Callie a little healing potion on a boulder headed towards Kallie. Shinn. A blade shinn's boulder. Englutzy. Tiff in her mouth. Foster grabs the potion, Fah-haw. And with his bill, good team up there, Foster.
Starting point is 01:25:15 Wait, Foster. Put it on a boulder. Where? Where? Where? Where? Where? Where? Where? Where? Where? Where? Oh, it's a crazy crash. Do a healing crash into me. Be so funny. Flapping around.
Starting point is 01:25:26 Scratching to me, Dave Matthews stuff. And a hard one. What would you like to do with the rest of your turn? Can I make my way towards the, like, the mouth of this opening? Yeah, yeah, do you want to, like, grab Callie? Yeah, I would like to grab Callie. Great. You scoop Callie and you begin running.
Starting point is 01:25:40 We'll say it's basically, it's difficult to rain, but you guys are basically like falling, so you're moving at like, almost feet. So you grab onto Cali, you keep running, you can go 30 feet. Uh, yes. Great, you're 10 feet away from the exit, and now you're kind of battling to stay in place.
Starting point is 01:25:56 So you're not like falling down or anything. Go ahead and give me a strength saving throw to not fall deeper down. Mm. Shout out to the two crew, so I'll have to use fall deeper down. Mm. Shout out to the two crew, so I'll have to use a luck point. Yeah. Oh. And that is a 19.
Starting point is 01:26:11 Great. Okay. Plant your feet in, and you feel yourself being like kind of half buried here, like quarter buried. It's like up to your shins as you fight against this debris trying to get to the tunnel, holding Cali. You don't take any falling damage, but another big boulder is gonna come at you guys. Of course.
Starting point is 01:26:30 Plus, for it to hit is not gonna do it. It's only gets an 11 rolls past you. Top of the round, so all that is your turn. All right, I see a hard one having made purchase at this little tunnel exit. Yep, great. I'm going to stick my tongue out and just hit right on his chest. Sick.
Starting point is 01:26:46 Oh, yeah. You grab on a hard one, send yourself flying towards the exit, and you have enough movement to get all the way out into this tunnel like kind of safely. OK, yeah, I'll kind of scout ahead. Great. Saul safely gets into cover here. After Saul's turn, that is the avalanches turn turn new deck save throws from Callie and Harvon
Starting point is 01:27:08 Kill me 14 Okay, seven would you consider the fact that I'm being carried by Hard one to be like he's my amount I did it's a piggyback. I don't know if I specified that earlier So you want to kind of angle hard one to take some of the hit for him? I did. It's a piggyback. I don't know if I specified that earlier. So you want to kind of angle hard one to take some of the hit for him? No, no, no, he would because he failed his deck save. If my mouth, I can have my mouth. I'm gonna say hard one is not a man.
Starting point is 01:27:39 Hey, what did I ever do to you? I think it would have had to have been established if you're like, I'm riding Arden one like he's a mountain crow, man. Yeah. You guys, I've hated horses for too long. You guys, you guys take 21 damage. I'm back, the fuck down. Oh, are you still okay? I have two hit points.
Starting point is 01:27:57 Okay, all right, it is Cali's turn. Cali, give me a death saving throw. Nat 20, no. 10, what's that? That's a success. Yeah! I just want to say Cali's everything she's okay Nat 20, no. 10. What's that? That's a success. Yay! I said, Calisthenne, everything she's okay. Yay, we're winning.
Starting point is 01:28:09 That's Boulders. I'll say that Boulders not going to go for Cali because she's in your arm, so we'll just try to hit you, hard one with it. So you're going to be knocked out, so I'm going to drag your body into the outside. Mrs, Boulder misses, and hard one that's your turn. I guess hard one falls over into the mouth of safety.
Starting point is 01:28:28 Hard one you dive into the side tunnel as just a rush of rocks and Boulder and debris rushes past you guys and collapses the tunnel behind you. What happened? That's right behind me. I need to take a nap, Saul. Yeah. Hard one is covered in blood and all beat up, and Callie is currently passed out. All right. Potions all around?
Starting point is 01:28:54 Yeah, potions all. I think I need to go. I need to go night night. But let's give Callie a potion. Let's give Callie a couple of potions. You guys give Callie a potion. We set up a potion IV for Kelly. Ah, Kelly wakes up and hard one you look around
Starting point is 01:29:10 and see that you guys are in another dark tunnel, the dust has settled, the entrance has collapsed behind you and you are now deeper into this maze and you know these mining tunnels and you know Jaina knows these mining tunnels, but you have no fucking clue where you guys are right now and it becomes clear pretty quick how it was possible for Jaina to get lost in here. It's times like this I remember why I moved to the creek. You don't wanna live in a death-track moment.
Starting point is 01:29:50 It's not my favorite. It's trying to swallow you up. I like the sun, frankly. Yeah. I could go for a meet and rest. It's quite dry down here. Yeah. Our duck-air stream isn't exactly gonna fit in this thing.
Starting point is 01:30:06 No, I don't think so. Yeah, so you guys patch up your wounds as you begin to hear another deep rumbling in the distance and foster begins. Once again, eyes glowing red and plotting along into the unknown. And that's where we'll end our session. Oh, okay. I wasn't expecting the avalanche to completely kick your guys asses over.
Starting point is 01:30:34 You always kick our ass with rocks. Rocks, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Rocks, rock, they beat scissors, but they beat paper, and they beat us too. They beat everything. Hey, the real magic is that I just kept concentration on that bless the entire time.
Starting point is 01:30:47 That is true. Also, it would have been nicer if I just rolled well on the perception instead of my concentration because I'm really easily de-for. You rolled well on something, which is more than that. I think we can say for anyone else. Yeah. Just looking down at this D4, well, this is so nice
Starting point is 01:31:04 as you're just bleeding to death. Good God. All All right guys, you can hear us talk more about the episode over on our Patreon Patreon.com slash nad pod that's any ddp od don't sing yet. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it. The youth of the nation. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We are. We? I guess he's looking at his phone and he looks like he's got something to plug. He's pulling up He's just calling it over dude. Yeah, yeah Yeah, you gotta kill the mood. What do you got for us called well? I'm actually just posting on Reddit about our DM fucked us with Post on D&G core
Starting point is 01:31:42 Is he allowed to use boulders like this? Seems mean. Is my DM mean? Oh, I just wanted to plug. My friend Nisi has a cool little store where they post pictures of their art and pins and even some Sunday scrunchies that they make. If you go to Bernice, S-I-O-S-O-N dot com, you can find their stuff. Which you want to give them a plug?
Starting point is 01:32:04 Nice. And with that I think that's it for this week. I thank you all so much for listening. You can follow us all on social media there we may or may not use at T.H. Merchemy at called the Skulldwell, Adi-Exo-Demily and at your experiences, Jay. The youth of the nation, the freedom of the Shoei. I thank that for the 1080p of this show. We are the youth of the day.
Starting point is 01:32:26 We are the youth of the day. It's the end of the show, everyone, and you know what that means? It's time to shout out our benevolent counsel of elders starting with Brad D. Jeffrey S. Hussie, later McSgator, Matt N. Cutter W. Feared Owl, Daniel G. Dungeon Mama, okay, maybe a little bit sexual. Daniel, the dastardly Dame, Beardman Dan, Danny P. Vincent W. Victor T. Boundor's boy. Hoids, friend. Justin I. Ragnar Faredwind. T.J. M. Traylay the cray-fay. Christopher B. Damial R. Jordan L.
Starting point is 01:33:14 Cyborg version of Josh the Cobal. Murf refusing to objectify the orange fairy in the top hat. Princess Yarr. Michael L. Jack L. Sam L, Nicholas C, star of every film ever made in Bohemia now starring as a tin of beans in Hard One's reality show, airship interiors, Samuel B, Mike H, Alc, Smeltzer Plus, Great Value Gemma, Adam G, Tyler F, Panama James, Andrew the Druid, Haradrian, Rex Daniel the White, Diana De los Lopez, CC Lulu, Timmy R, Lucas B, Raco, it's Kevin! Calder will come cold again, Winter is coming!
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Starting point is 01:37:29 president. Meg, the male carrier of Bohumia, who has just gotten promoted due to her superb service to Simon, congrats Meg. James F, M4L, Austin S, Wayfarer has now settled into their new life in the Feyrealm S.A. Flourist, what could go wrong? Barbot, good barrel, bard, barian, and brura, meritus of Waterdeep. Mary Beth C. Malura, divotee, Garrett G. One Big Curd, Mr. D. Dana, the Daisy, Sean J Ethan B Renee the Monster Captain Gabrielle W Rinkerbell Hoops
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Starting point is 01:39:47 Hammy Bevelies, Distant Cousin, Dragon Knight 86, The Godly King, Hard ones, Hot, Hump-Gunk! Oh, that's a new one. Shelby, who accidentally traveled back to 2018 and is following the tales of the two crew to the present for the first time. Welcome! Evan S. Jake S. Pratton S. Jackson R. T3RHX. Snails the subtle sneaky snail. Oh, you know what? Snailess the subtle sneaky snail, the extra eye was subtle and sneaky. Michelle Andrew S. Katelyn D. B. N. Cax-Zombie and Blake H. Big Bef's Bestie.
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