Not Another D&D Podcast - The Rotating Heroes Podcast - Arc 1 Ep. 3: Ups and Downs (w/ DM Zac Oyama)

Episode Date: January 28, 2021

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Usually well the one time we've really done it. What did we say? We didn't introduce our characters because they were. Oh, don't we just say like, hi, thank you so much for having me. Yes, everyone give me their polite answers when I Call upon them. Hi. Thank you so much for having me Emily expert You're very welcome. Shivon Thompson Hi, Zach it's so nice to be here with you and my friends Emily and third guest who you're about to introduce. Thank you so much You again are very welcome.

Thank you. Finally, Mike Trap. Thank you so much for having me on here. I know everyone's very busy, so I just want to thank you all. See me, it's fun to speak into the wrong mic. We can all hear that it's, you're not actually gonna pick this up. It's gonna be so whispered.

I'm gonna put the two mics together like the kissing. I'm gonna whisper. whispering into his Zoom mic. Thank you all for joining. Getting quieter and quieter. Thank you so much. The comedian and Zach loved it. The editor and Zach just went completely pale.

I really enjoy what it's like. It has to be the responsible one, because he has such big little brother energy that it feels like. You know that time when you're the youngest, but suddenly your older siblings are adults, but you have younger cousins, so now you're the oldest kid.

That's sort of the energy, which I think. I feel like I'm slowly going underwater and saying, please, please. Please. Please. Truthfully, I've always surrounded myself with older siblings, so I never have to take that authority. Oh, wow.

I think I collect youngest siblings. I think as an older sibling, I just go around my life collecting youngestes to the place. Zach does have the vibe of like when you ever play like any kind of make-believe game with a kid and that something becomes very serious where it's like, hey, it's like you can't put the teddy bear over there because that's actually, hey, it's like, you can't put the teddy bear over there because that's actually, that's the forbidden area.

So we only put plastic toys there. And it's like, oh, I don't know what these rules are, but I guess we'll figure it out. But I would like to think that it makes a little more sense and I have a little more authority than that, right? I don't know. I think we're all the time. I mean, I think that the analogy is pretty fitting.

Zach, if we were all be able to do all shooting, are all logical and fair. I think if we were shooting in person, we would all be giving you nogies right now. And it's a thing that we have. Thank God for the pandemic. I think I always. Problematic message from Zach O'Yall.

And speaking of problematic messages, I think I always- Problematic message from Zach O'Yall. Yeah. And speaking of problematic messages, let's get right back into the recap of this episode. So these fucking unions are just ruining the country. Oh God. Okay, yeah, let's get back into the recap and then get into the episode, shall we? Yeah.

Yeah. On the last episode, 12 Townsfolk of Aberdeen Journey 4th into the Obelisk, where there were split into parties of three and started their tour slash multi-tiered group job interview. One team, you might call it R-A-Teen, Turbine, Astrid and Brenda Elizabeth once again proved to be inseparable or at least find enough with each other to proceed. inseparable After checking out a canteen they couldn't purchase anything from investigating some portraits

of Barnabuy and saying a deeply emotional goodbye to Galfastalhors, they embarked on a tour through the wondrous facilitator. Following Barnabus's lead, or sorry, is Barnabuy the best word for a single Barnabas trap. A single Barnabas would be Barnabas, but if it's the possessive of Barnabas it would be Barnabuses. Barnabas are in the Greek Barnaboy. Following Barnaboy's lead, they started with his- They started with his personal factory room floor, where they were confronted with the harsh reality that he's been working on a truly fucked industrial nightmare, filled with machines gone completely awry, and red-eyed robots gone rogue. The- the grew as a despicable me? Sure.

Banana. Papaya. Papaya. So, if you edit this, I can get you out of this. I'm gonna come to your house and give you a niggie. Fuck. Okay. The crew began their first impromptu test within the facilitator.

Be first to shut down their section of the factory. Our group all chose the fastest, most dangerous route to the finish line in after getting shocked, electrocuted, and set on fire. They bested the war forage for men and safely shut down all the machines all while only making a few extremely anti-union sentiments With the first task I accept the pay that they're offering then why shouldn't I work in this place? It's not fair! I like working at the weekends.

This is all good. This is all good to me. With the first task concluded, our team was first on the leaderboard, and the last place team, including our one human mop, was sucked out through tubes out of the competition for good. The remaining nine continued the tour into an eerie boardroom with a digital oceanic view where they were confronted by the great hulking frame of Numpfari, the RoboSphinx. So that brings us back to where we are now. We're in this boardroom where this RoboSphinx is sitting at the end of a table and addressing you all and says, like, clears its throat and it's massive frame, just sort of like you can see the breath come in

and out of it as it feels like, I don't know, maybe like it'll roar or something. And then it says, take a seat please. And points to a bunch of roly chairs at a big long conference room table. I immediately rush up and sit at the right hand chair. I gal up to the left. Well, I guess I'll go to the middle.

So you all take your seats. I'm trying to surreptitiously doodle this finks wall, they speak. You take a note, so I like that. Yeah, notes. And, okay. Can I, I don't know if I need to do a role for this or anything? I feel like I'd be just super and transpired the workmanship of this thing,

so just like trying to like, sitting as close as I can and like really like trying to like, look at any like gaps in like, in sheet metal, look at the wiring, get a sense of the gears, maybe like poke a pen in there. I would like to poke inspired with Turbide, and if he gets too close and attracts the attention of this thing, so I would like to do a really loud sneeze that almost sounds like a horses

witty The spinks is just like I've been notices that you're both too close to it But it's also trying to greet everyone else like there's a learner and beakin bak eyes darting down at turbine I totally forgot there's other people There's like eight other people in this room. Noah and the two other dwarves are just like... Instead of sitting on my chair, I just have one leg on it and I'm like flexing at the sphinx to make it intimidated by my massive muscles. This thing is maybe 20 times bigger than you. Yes, yes, but tiny but mighty. I also hold out by a doodle of the

sphinx angle it so maybe Bok can see it. Bok is still looking at this giant robotics sphinx that is in front of it. It's it's it's Bok is clearly entranced by this thing and they've never seen before. He plays it so cool. It's uncanny. Everyone's showing this makes a lot of respect except for you for me. Barnabas stands next to Nampari and Beams. You stood at an end of a table and you automatically deserve respect. That's crazy. I know. That's where Grandpa Brendan sits.

So yeah, it is kind of the most important seat of the house. So Barnabas is still there and he comes up and stands next to Non-Farri and Beams. He's like, so to say that I've had zero help at all would be incorrect. While I do have a lot of mechanical help around the facilitator, one of the few exceptions is a bit of a hybrid. One of the early Barnabas, the early Barnabas is? Barnabas!

Sorry. Yes, Barnabas. I found them far, I injured it out in the world and nursed him back to health with a couple of life saving upgrades. Oh, so he's like a cyborg? Yeah. It's not all that I have. It's not all that I have.

I want to be a cyborg. You should make me a cyborg. Grandpa Breddid has a pacemaker, so he's kind of like a cyborg. Hey, yeah. Oh, that's cool. I think cyborgs are pretty cool. He has his like metal beard and arms. Like, worrying and stuff.

Yeah, they're all right. They're pretty cool to me, I would say. It just kind of feels like a shortcut. Real tinkers start from nothing. Okay. Well, not far. He kind of tosses their lion mane back they're like beautiful hair out and says I guess you could say I owe these guys one Oh

Just like sort of like this like kind of like full laugh and Barnabas like smiles at him is like that's why we made him the VP of creative here at the facilitator and with that I'm just gonna let Nymphari take it away Barnabas kind of steps to the side of the room, and let's Nymphari take over. Nymphari sits forward and is like hulking frame, takes up like much of that side of the room. He uses like a mechanical hand to like,

definitely unscrew a top of a bottle of water and take a sip. The hideiest bottle of water, the biggest claw. One of those like one sip londipotus. Yeah. Mm. So how was your drive? How was your drive? Well, actually a ride.

You just rode here not not too much traffic? Yeah, I was pretty good, you know. It was a mostly road a horse, and there's not a lot of other horse-bounded individuals. So actually, yeah, there's not a lot of horse traffic. Yeah, I'm actually in a pretty similar situation to a lot of horses in terms of spaces being built for me. It's not always ideal.

I just want to ask you something on that note, because you say it's a pretty similar situation, but I noticed that there's a pretty strict no horse policy in here, but you see to be doing it okay. Look, that was, I know what sign you're talking about. Yeah, the sign that's in the front by the... Yeah, bear it by, don't be quiet behind. Yeah, exactly. Yes, yes. That's more about that actual factory floor rather than the entire facilitator.

We have some work to do. And so that's kind of why I'm here to talk to you actually. Have you ever read a hippo-grip? Have I, specifically, I don't change into other animals? No, I've met one, not Bid one. I have, I, specifically, I don't change into other animals. No, Matt, Matt would not bed would. I have, I have met all kinds of hypocrites. Astrid, we've got a table, this would talk about this later. How desperate to know. Feels like you're lying.

I'm pretty smart. No, I'm in, why would I lie? I don't know, maybe you're trying to impress that. I just not even a big deal for me that I've met lots of hypocrites. I'm impressed. I'm normal. I've been incredibly impressed. Did you touch their rear quarters?

Which are so cool. I'm so cool. So again, this is a bit of a bored meet. I feel so, because you're just having a conversation. I'm not. Right now, Elizabeth is doing that kid thing where you slowly start hunching down in your chair as to everything.

And you sit upright, Can you sit up right? Can you sit up right? I have to sit up right. Feels like you're getting lower. Maybe. Okay, well let's just, I'm just gonna launch. It's just playing with the height of his chair. It's just trying to figure out how the mechanism works.

You're so tiny. It goes from being able to barely see the top of your head to just know what's in there. I don't like that I can't see over the table But I also like the feeling when my legs are just dangling so I'm trying to find the perfect middle Hey, well, you know coming up with solutions is what we do here at the facilitator Right we're here for a job interview Anyways, I'll keep I'll keep launching into it. I'm one of my strengths is powering through stuff

We're open to getting into new platforms and new spaces here at the facilitator. I've worked here for a long time. I'm really proud of the contributions I've made to this place. As he says, this projector screen comes down next to him. He spends too long setting it up. It's input two. It's input two.

Yeah, input two, I think is your problem. I tried that. I thought, no, I think you can put one and input three, but the yellow with the red and the red with the yellow. Yeah, yeah. I'm color blind. So, well, there are many wonders inside the facilitator. I'm proud to say I've created a number of them myself. Some might say these classic non-fari hits speak for themselves, such as it presses a button on the remote for the projector. You see that weird ball that was creating the paintings outside that has a paintbrush on it. This is the brush ball.

You see the brush ball painting a huge portrait of Don Fari, the like mechanic's finks, and the portrait his hair looks extra coiffed in the mechanical parts of his body, shine extra bright. The D-domesticator, Numbfari operates a purple, honey-ish-drunk-the-kid-style machine that shoots a laser at a chocolate lab. The dog is fit with a purple beam, and after a blinding light is like a wolf

in the same spot. Oh, no! A little rain of a chocolate lab. Oh, I get in the way of the beam. Yeah. Pretty cool, right? This is a projector. It's not really there, Astrid.

I got. Common mistake. So, yeah, the projector is projecting an image, but that would not be the same as the laser within the projector image. I get it. And one of my favorites, Presses the Button again. You see Namfaray standing there with four mechanical boots on as several warforged robots around him,

fall over as like the ground shifts, little magnet boots. We saw those at the gift shop. Oh yeah, we're moving them to market. And that's the official product name, little magnet boots. Yeah, great. We've always known that. Okay.

You know, my father is very influential in the town, and a lot of people take fashion advice from me. So well, maybe it would be really good for you as a marketing thing for me to have a pair of little magnet boots. Interesting. Let's talk later, actually. So this is why I brought you all here.

This is what this specific trial is or you know stage of the job interview We're looking for new ideas and we want the next great idea person. So let's hear it pitch me Also though I have to admit I'm a bit of a stickler. I'm a bit of a hard-ass. If I don't like something I won't mens words So pitch very very carefully. Okay, I think I'm already ready. Noah raises his hand and says, What about a block of wood that you can't break with the axe? If someone throws an axe too hard at it, because they're really strong for a kid.

And I'm far he looks at Noah and kind of like grimaces at the idea and says, I don't know about that. And as he says this, he snaps his fingers and you see Noah's face look confounded for a second and a little beam of light comes from his head and starts swirling around N'Fari and turns into a little rock. His intelligence has been permanently lowered by one. So just pitch carefully again. A statue printer. For whenever you want to statue of yourself, but you don't want the bother of finding a good sculptor. Let me just get into like the mechanics of this real fast sorry I could be clear about this. I still think mine is good. Great. So you guys can pitch ideas to Nampari when you pitch a what I think is an actually good idea or if you want to make an inside a perception check

you can you may or may not get advantage and with your idea you have to roll a persuasion check. Okay, this is difficult because Brenda Elizabeth does not have good, does not read the room well. So if I am to roleplay this accurately, I will be setting myself up for failure with a minus one to persuasion and I'm absolutely 100% going to do that. Okay. Yeah, I mean, pitch away if you feel like it,

we're already, we're in kind of an interesting middle ground where we already have one extremely bad speech. So, that's sorry, your name's Noah, and Noah looks up, he was just staring at the ground like slightly stupider than he was before. Like what? Okay, sorry, sorry your name's Noah and Noah looks up. He was just staring at the ground like slightly stupider than he was before What Brenda Elizabeth puts a Incredibly rigidly straight head into the air

Yeah, okay It's only quivering a little bit Brenda listen it Okay, this is something I've been thinking about for a really long time. It's a market that has not been addressed. I think that it would be a saddle for a dolphin so that a horse could go see the ocean. I'm sorry, you're saying a saddle for a dolphin so that a horse can see the ocean. So the horse can ride the dolphin. So the horse can ride the dolphin.

Like, because a horse deserves a day off. You know, like how Bob's like to have a horse. A horse deserves a day off, people. A horse deserves a day off. Wow, what an excellent time to be in. So there's a bit of a two inventions in one. It stands up, takes out her trapper keeper where she already has elaborate doodles of this. I know that you did ask for a visual aid, but I happen to come with one.

I'm sorry. I do need the visual aid because it seems like the first invention is a saddle for horses She ride something else when most horse saddle seemingly are for riding horses Yeah, but you know how like you like to be it's like you have a job But you don't want to be defined by it. I think horses feel the same way If I may Brenda Elizabeth for too long have not horses been subjected to the saddle, for too long have horses been not been our beasts of burden, working nonstop? Are we not in favor of the working man? Should not the horse get a chance to ride a different saddle? Should not a horse get a day off? Horses are better than the working man.

I have never been disappointed by horse and I'm disappointed by working man. Jesus Christ. Hey, yeah, I agree. Ah! Okay, so... Ha! Ha! If you guys aren't good, uh...

Asher and Turbine, give me a persuasion check to be able to offer a help action. Because I got a nut 20. You got a nut 20? All right, I'll be rollin' persuasion. Okay. Ooh, I rolled it, I got an eight. Okay, so Brenda Elizabeth, for some reason, Nonfari looks at, I would think I would think

as a beast that is occasionally bounted, you might relate to the burden. Oh, Nonfari looks at this and is like, well while I'm on all fours a lot, most people know that if they try to ride me, I'll rip them in half. But you know, something about this Astrid Girls really convincing me, turbine cool it a little bit. Alright. I lower my chair. Really real.

Wow, he's just an obelisk hat now. Brenda Elizabeth, you were going to, I think you eventually got somewhere that actually is convincing and shows a need. So you won't roll with this advantage. But now that Astrid has helped you with the NAT 20, I will say you get an advantage. Okay. Okay, come on, Brenda Elizabeth, please let your doodles do it justice. I got a three in a two.

Which becomes, so a three minus one, is it? Woo! I just like listening to Brenda Lisbon pitch. It's like, I think she's doing it. Brenda Lisbon stands so tall, proud. I hate to do this. I hate to even say this, but I don't really like it. It's not really for us.

Now, far, he snaps his fingers. Oh, no. You feel something sort of tiring your brain a little bit. Like you feel your clarity leaving you as a little beam of light zips from your head and starts hardens into a rock and starts floating around. I'm sorry I said you. I chased the rock. I raised my head. Mr. I mean, uh, uh, uh, pigs, uh, I just want you to know the way you took for me.

I put everything into this pitch. Do you see how many pages I've doodleed this? It felt like fate that I was meeting you in this moment. Kid, I, um, I appreciate the effort and I know that this is not the well we're happy to hear other pitches. You just I think you might just take it let's if anybody wants to make an inside our perception check they can. Sure.

Inside our perception. Yes. I got a 12 perception. I have 21. in-site or perception? Yes. I got a 12 perception. I have 21. Ooh, okay, Turbine. You're looking at the way that Nampari's talking. They're sort of like relishing their own words.

Some of the stuff in the slideshow really showcase, like, you know, the best side of themselves. So it's something about that feels like it might be helpful going forward. So I'm down to hear other pitches. A Sphinx plushy. It just looks just like you. I would want one of those as a trend setter. Yeah, think of all the Sphinx plushies you can get. You can get Sphinx look at all cute.

You get Sphinx riding on a dolphin. You get sphinx riding on a horse riding on a dolphin. Let's kind of get away from you. Okay, sure. Well, whatever. Fuck me, I guess. Maybe you did it. I'll see you in a riddle. I would want that.

Not far away, it's like really pondering this, like really hearing what they want to hear. Roll, I mean, whoever has the best charisma maybe you should roll, or if you want to boost this in whatever way you can. I have a plus two. I have pretty good charisma, but if this fails, do I get punished for it? Is that what that works? Whoever says it will get punished for it. Oh, rolls. I got a 15. Okay, so you got the lowest score possible to have a good idea. Yes!

Beauty of the odds, let's again. Okay, you're on the board. Okay. I got something. Okay, so your group has a good idea if you think you can beat it. I'd love to hear it. Alright. Clear my throat, sort of stand on the table.

Wait, maybe you should, how about you stand on the chair and then I'll pump it. So, as you're giving us beach, you slowly rise. Mr. Nemfari, you've heard of an invisibility cloak. And when I put to you is a visibility cloak, this is a cloak, a cloak that will draw attention to you and make you look your best possible self. I want it. I don't tell him about it. We'll make it ourselves.

It will do as much as an invisibility cloak hides you, a visibility cloak attracts attention to you. So you're saying people will Want to look at me a little more. I'm saying people will have to look at you a little more Turbide don't tell how you're gonna cover it in bells My secrets I'm sorry Hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on bells. There's gonna be bells all bells. What? Oh, no shit. I shouldn't have told you bells Guys come on we can't deliver all our secrets Next we're gonna be talking about all the wind chimes on there

We're getting a little busy with it Look at still a prototype glitter and sparkly Don't tell about closer the dark Shhh, close the dark Shut up. Put it out the sun all day to make it a charge up. Because you need to be under a light for the daylight. Or I mean, just for a small amount of time.

Yeah, roll up with the advantage. And it's just that charisma rule. It's a persuasion. A persuasion check. Let's see. One is a total of 18 and one is a to let's ignore that one. It was a vantage's let's talk. Let's talk still get it I think we're locked in for ideas for you guys Raider and Binkinbunk give their presentation Raiders like so you know how sometimes in a town there's not a bully

It feels like there should be a bully. I'm not in really hard there's not a bully and it feels like there should be a bully. I'm not in the hard. This is an app called bully finder. It feels the need, social need, Ian, Binkinbong are able to get through as well. With those scores, that would put you guys in first. I'll say that the rest of the crew wraps up their bad ideas. The Dwarves crew weren't able to like top.

There were two shocks from Noah's bad idea. And they're just like, we're just gonna call it. We don't wanna, I think we don't need the job. I don't think we need the job. I like to read. I'm worried that it will affect my. I think I would like to send a really glittery or neatly written note to Noah and just say,

I feel you. Your idea was good and you are valid. This is good because Bunk will say that you're fletching with somebody else. That's a grown man. This is a grown man. Yeah, you snow it. 35, you're like,

jealous. Uh, Noah's like, takes a really long time to read it because he is now drummer. You already had like a lower intelligence too. That's a B, not a backwards D. Can you put us in those tubes?

I want to go home. Barnabas is like, okay, that sounds good. We'll send you right home and the rest of you, let's return to the lobby for the next stage of this. The holes appear in the ground again and the three doors fly out the bottom. Out of your life, out of the rest of the rounds. Now, far as like, okay, well, great ideas, everyone. I'm gonna be on vacation for the rest of the week. I'm going on a ski trip. Oh, so Mounds can ski, but they can't dolphin back ride.

Look, I know what's important about this idea to you is that you love it, and I'm never going to take that away from you. It's not a good fit for us, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't pursue it in some way. So does that mean she's like, Brenda Elizabeth is like cool to like pitch it around other places? Yeah, do I have the option to do that? He feels you can see that. That bar is like a little like,

well, I don't want someone else to have it. Like, Yeah, you know what, what's it up in the next week? What's it up in the next week? Okay, cool. Okay. I could do that, yeah. You're these with orcs.

Just walking with forks on, just constantly tripping over himself. It's like when you see a video of like cats wearing socks and they're just really not like having to do. They're going too high. It'd be more cost efficient to do two snowboards, but it would make it you question like which is it like front legs on one ski board,

or is it, like, right side on one? Yeah. Going down the mountain side. Yes, it was squeaks. Snowboards, is it, like, this or like this? I think it's one front paw, one back paw, and the others are pushing. Oh, nice.

Oh, that's good. I have to admit, I'm not a snowboarder. I'm more of a ski guy. But I appreciate what you're thinking about. Great monochrome. Good stuff. He leaves you three Barnabas, Binkin' Bonk, and Raider return to the lobby.

There's a new addition to the lobby at this point. Some of the monodrons are like putting the finishing touches on these pods. They look like Google or something where like NAP pods, but otherwise the room looks pretty much the same. Is Galfast still there? Galfast is not in here.

Okay. Galfast was here earlier, but he is not there now. Okay, okay. I immediately jump into one of these NAP pods. I will jump into a net pod as well. Nad pod? Nad pod. There's a bunch of pot in these there.

What about the way I'm saying it is making a clear. Sounds like you're saying Nad pod. Nad pod. This is the Nad pod after the Nad pod. What? Yeah, so as you approach them, you still have those bracelets on and because you had the ideas that were perceived best, you all got an additional four points. So your bracelets are now all glowing with eight points on them or eight credits, I should say. 19 is open that you saw earlier that you couldn't buy anything from and there's also these napods and you can inspect them or whatever before you use them to kind of figure out what

they do. Yeah, let's look, but actually before we do it, I think I should say to Turbide at Astrid, thank you so much for supporting by idea at an uncomfortable bobe of rejection. I thought it was good. I thought it was very bad, but me saying that in front of other people would have made me look bad, so I had to support you. Okay. I think every bad, I think every idea has a kernel of something good in there.

You can just like keep working at it. Like I think there's something there. Really? I don't think it's a kernel. I think it's a full bag of popcorn. Okay. If you wish to create a satellite, we could ride dolphins. No, it's not for people.

People have enough mouths. The boxes have none. Bunk walks up and it's like, hey, I really liked your idea, but I'm sorry. Can you explain it again? I don't think I did. Okay, so a saddle for now. That a horse would go on top of the saddle rather than under the saddle. For a dolphin.

For a dolphin. So that a horse could ride the dolphin into the sea because I never get to go into the sea otherwise. Sort of like a jet ski for a horse. Can you help me visualize it a little bit? Where are the horse's legs during this? The horse's legs are dangling on either side of the dolphins slick body. How is the detachment to the saddle?

Well, maybe you could take its bridle, the horse's bridle, and attach it to the saddle. I think this is a lot bigger than dolphins. Well, yes. I guess maybe it could be a potty and a big dolphin. Oh, you're right. You know what? This is actually the first bit of constructive criticism.

Maybe I should be doing it for baby whales instead of dolphins. Oh, it also feels like it's like a down the line problem. You know, like we could start building this, then you can figure out like the size issues. Also I mean, if it's just for if it's just for fillies and cults, which are smaller than a full-grown stallion or a bear, then maybe that's fine. They could get out their youthful desire to see the ocean and then not go again.

Like a Shetland pony, a Shetland pony riding a dolphin. Or maybe you build some device to make dolphins super big. I think my friends are calling me a little bit ago. I turned to Astorid and Turbine to say, I think that went really well. Big old thumbs up. I absolutely pick a wedgie. You see, Bob trying to talk to a bacon raider,

like clearly trying to explain it, and like, I'm just talking like, lots of hands just here. Yeah, they all look really puzzled. No one looks mad or mean about it anyway. They're just like trying to understand. Renault was best stairs at her crocs but does not feel shame. Barnabas approaches and says, I, in my way, I know I don't know if you're worried about CalFest, but he is upstairs. This room felt a little unwelcoming to animals. So I just, it felt like we have this sort of protected green area on the roof. That's perfect for like thinking or taking a break. Or I imagine if you're a

horse, it's good for eating grass. And I start updating my schematics of my like fan map of the obelisk. So like, okay, there's a green area on top, and that's what this is. He leans into Bernoulli's with the like, tell us, he's like, ass bubbles to set up some of those horse jumps for him up there. I think it's gonna be really nice.

That I really appreciate you taking Gowl-Fast as comforts, seriously. Oh, yeah, I mean, I am nothing but a host, so I'm trying to be a good host. You're nothing but a hoe? No. I said, ho, I mean I am I am nothing but a host so I'm trying to be a good host. You're nothing but a ho What Supposed to be a boss I would never call you a host. I would I'm the spectos I think it's a good thing. You're chill. What why are you talking your children?

You're a chill. What why are you talking your children? I Really shouldn't say this but you guys are my favorite and It feels like it's crossing a line for this process like you guys are you're doing pretty good Just don't fuck it up, okay You walk away like Raiders like hey Barnabas who's, Barnabas, he's like, Barnabas, ways out of him keeps walking. I have a question that maybe you're not allowed to answer,

or I could do some kind of check for it. Do we have a sense? Because all of our bracelets have been recording credits, not points. It's, oh, so this is confusing. It's points and credits. So like, it's representative of your place, but then also gives you the credits to spend.

So you're spending the credits won't like put you behind them in any way? Okay, that's it, I was wondering. Yeah, they're like separate categories. Okay. So do we collectively have like eight credits to spend or do we each have credits to spend and spending it will not reduce our place

in the orders that correct? Yeah, I think that is the correct. I think it's kind of like a bonus, right? It's kind of like here's some spending money because you're in first place, not you're in first place because you're in the most spent time? Yeah, I think that is the correct. I think it's kind of like a bonus, right? It's kind of like, here's some spending money because you're in first place, not you're in first place because you're the most spend. Yes, yes, it's not a pool between your team. Okay, so should we canter over to the cantita and see if there's anything we could purchase? Yes. It's canter to the cantina. Just to point it out, the nat pods cost four credits. I wouldn't cost four credits. Yeah, that's what I assumed.

Can I do an investigation on these NAP pods? Yeah, yeah. You guys can all roll an investigation if you want. Maybe somebody who is more intelligent than me can do an investigation. My investigation is pretty good. Let's see. I got a three. I have a total of 17.

Okay. Yeah, from what you've gleaned from it. I got a nine. This will effectively give you in the time of a short rest and it will give you a long rest. Oh, yes. So you can get all your stuff back. Yes, I would like that.

Hell yes. What are the offerings and prices at the Cantina again? So you guys wander over to the Cantina. Cantina or Cantina, either way. Or Cantina, Moss, ice, and... Listen to some jazz music. Yeah. So they have a couple of things.

They have minor healing potions, regular healing potions, and one set of little magnet boots. The little magnet boots are four credits. The minor healing potions are two, and the regular healing potions are three. Do we have eight credits altogether? Or do we have eight credits each? Each.

And you've all spent four if you do the nap pod. Is there more that would? Paraboot? There's only one pair of boots. Oh, I see. Well, obviously I buy the boots without consulting the rest of the company. Wow, I see. Well, obviously I buy the boots without consulting the rest of the team. Wow, I love your initiative, Astrid.

I wish I were more like that. Well, to the nap pod. To the nap pod. So now that you have those boots, you have advantage on decks, decks, your already saving throws on metal objects. I actually already have advantage on decks, decks, dexterity saving throws on metal objects. I actually already have advantage on decks. So maybe somebody else should have the decks. Well, I don't know if it would be an astronaut.

Wait, you have a decks advantage because of... Because of barbarian. I have advantage on decks effects that I can see if I'm not blind to death and during capacity to. Got it. Emily, how's your decks? My decks is actually pretty good. Why don't you take them? Mine's pretty good too, but I have a plus three to my decks. For my deck saves, I have a plus four, so you should take it.

The second part of it is that they also allow you to cast levitation once a day. Ah! That's immediately... Turban, you get these little magnet boots. invitation once a day. Oh. Oh. Oh. Astrid immediately. Shit. Turban, you get these little magnet boots. They're like kind of like a shiny chrome look, but it's like kind of soft like sneaker.

I also like give four credits to Astrid. Let me buy those off you. Thank you, Turban. I am definitely looking at those shoes like, if we get to a point where we're gonna levitate, I'm gonna go with the office feet. Can if I have one of them can I cast half a levitation as well?

Interesting. I think that would be like what's Yes. Yeah, I'll say if you have one of the boots you can cut cast over the ball. We're locking it in. So now there's only the minor healing potions, regular healing potions, and the little guy working there is like, I'm sorry, we still do not have key lime pie. I guess I will use my money to buy two minor healing potions, but I'll give them to Astrid because I believe

both, I believe both Turbide and I have cure wounds and stuff. I've got some healing stuff, yeah. So here, Astrid, I know that you're probably particular about what you put on your person, but if you hang on to these in case me or Turbide goes down. Yes, that's an excellent idea. I'll take a slice of key lime pie, please, and I wink at him in a way that's like, I know you have some hidden for special customers. He pulls out a slice of key lime pie. How did you know? I knew it. This is four credits. I pay for credits for a slice of key lime.

So yeah, instead of healing versions, you get a slice of healing pie. And I eat my pie in the nap pod and I get crumbs. All right. It must feel nice to be asked. So you all do your naps. You take these weird naps and these pods. like you have a weird tech job that keeps you there all day. And once you finish your naps, Barnabas enters the room again.

And stands in the center of the room, emotions for you guys to come over, radar, beacon bomb, follow them over, and you guys follow as well. And he's like, okay, now it's time for the final stage of the interview. Making it this far is a victory in and of itself will certainly keep your resumes on file I should anything open up if you don't make it further than this You'll be the first people we call people always say that there's no file for the old resumes Everyone's too lazy to keep that on hand. I've just said They just say that to qualify you

You're absolutely right and I have said that many times. There's no file You're part of the hiring process Yes, obviously I'm a part of the hiring process So you guys get like you're in this into the room and the the center platform starts rising up out of the ground like a chair This is an elevator. It's not like a chair. All right, sure, whatever. A chair of a chair. A chair of a chair. Elechaer.

I'm not beginning to wonder if hiring people is a good idea. Really back myself into a corner with these prospects. Hey, don't wonder. You pay us to wonder for you. Yeah. OK. All right. Well, the center platform continues to rise. It's like rising into the air to where he was describing

earlier, seemingly going up to the section of forest above. It's moving kind of slowly. But as he continues to talk, it continues to rise the whole time. As you approach that weird chandelier from the initial introduction of the place, it kind of scoots to the side and lets you pass, and you continue to rise through the ceiling, slowly and slowly going up and up.

Barnows continue to talk. Can I do like a check just to see if I can tell anything about the chandelier as we go past? Uh, yeah. Is it purely decorative? Is it just like a door or is there something cool? I'm a little 23. When you look at it, you definitely feel like there's something powerful with this object. You also know that it seems to correspond.

The like different elements seem to correspond to those portraits you saw earlier. Like there's like a silver one, a gold one, an iron one. Can I ask Bartibis? Excuse me, Bartibis, what does all the metal mean to your people, the Bartibi? Relovers of science in general and we just thought it was a cool way to, as much as I understand, because it started long before I was alive, started just as a way to denote yourself and kind of ceremoniously pick something that you felt represented yourself. Do any bar to buy share the same battle, or what a bar to buy uses it, it's no longer available

to future bar to buy? That is true. It is, I know, and that's why it's gold was the first and then silver and then, you know, so on and so forth with not necessarily worst metals, but different metals, if that makes sense. Malibdenum. Sorry. Malibdenum. That would be like a shitty metal to put at the end. Yeah, Malibdenum. Herbides, stop talking back to adults.

I'm just saying, you'll run out of metals eventually and probably molybdenum's towards the end right? Who gives a shit about molybdenum is what I'm saying. To be honest I actually haven't chosen a metal for myself yet so. Do you have any top contenders? Don't say molybdenum. Molybdenum is up there, I guess. Maybe copper. No, you can do better than copper. I can't, honestly. I see the way the hierarchy works.

Yeah, you really can't. Yeah, it's sort of cool. Everything else is clean. As you continue to rise, he's like, well, now it's basically time for our last task. When you work in an open concept office, things can be a little distracting. Oh, and people get sick more often too. Yeah, I mean, I'm around robots mostly,

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and with reading a book and it says, learning is cool, dude. forward with reading a book and it says, learning is cool, dude. So what was I saying? You were saying that when you work at an open concept thing, it could be really distracting. Yes, sorry, I was looking at that owl. So my point is it's important to showcase that you have discipline and now begins the final trial to see who is disciplined enough to work here.

As Barnabas says this, he holds up two shining gold eggs and throws them to different sides of the platform. The one side has Bink, Bach, and Raider, and the other side is the side that you guys are on. As he does this, large walls shoot up from the ground, encasing you in sort of your own separate arenas. You're in like what feels like a 50-foot area. This is like a huge platform that is going up. Just so I can fully visualize the space here. We're enclosed in walls and there's an egg that's just been tossed down into the center of it. It's like it's all ground level for you. Okay. And I think it's a little more confusing just because I'm creating a second arena for them.

It kind of that won't affect you at all. So I think I was still about- So you're battling us on the Charavator too, so I thought he would toss the eggs over the edge. Again, it's not a chair, it's just no other. It does look like a chair though. I guess it goes up and down, you know? Like a chair. Some chairs kind of do that.

And anyways, the final task is simple, and this is a creation of mine that I'm actually pretty proud of. Keep your mind clear while you stay on task and protect the egg. As you see the the exit in the center of the area, little tiny holes in the edge of the arena open up. And you see little iron cobras sneaking out of the edge coming towards the egg. Everybody just go ahead and roll initiative. Ooh. Ooh.

Oh my gosh. Okay. Brenda Elizabeth, come it out. Strong with her initiative roll. 17. 822. 15. You know, sometimes you roll a two and a three

with advantage, and other times you roll a 22 initiative. So. Gonna roll these snakes initiative. All right. So you're in this enclosed area. It's almost like a stop sign shaped room that you're in. Noctagon. An octagon.

I prefer stop sign shaped. What would you call an octagon if there were 12? A dope decade. A dope decade. You're in a Dodecagon, baby. Hell yeah. As these little snakes slither out, Brenda Elizabeth, you see these iron-looking cobras.

They look kind of like the stuff that was made in that previous factory room. They're like their toys. They're a little more clockworky rather than futuristic looking. Okay. But they are slithering out, eyeing that egg. So far you see three snakes. Are these, and these are coming from all sides?

Yes, they're coming from three different sides. Can I do an insight check on these creatures to see if I could ascertain what they might Like what threat they might pose sure and maybe an insight check out the egg to understand what its needs are Oh my god, I just quit I quit on my insight check Yes, yes Brindolas bit this all makes perfect sense to you. Of course, this would be the final trial.

You're looking around. You see these little cobras coming out. You see Barnabas' fingerprints all over this. He's just made a fun game. Okay, so it's not an egg and sperm analogy. It is not an egg and sperm. I've been reading some growing and changing bodies ever since I ever since my ripening and so I'm the visual is there in my head.

ripening. Look. The old Brindal Elizabeth would of course let her hormones get the better ever. But no, this is a more stable, definitely a very adult. Brenda Elizabeth really appreciates big described as stable. You know that these snakes, you're just, you know these snakes are just trying to grab the egg and get out of there. They'll probably attack you or do something

if you get in the way, but that is their goal. Okay, if that is the case, Brenda Elizabeth does not actually Brenda Elizabeth will, no, Brenda Elizabeth is not going to use what if her starry forps is turned. Instead, she's going to cast and tangle on these stakes.

Okay, I did describe it as they're in different corners, so you'd only be able to hit one if you did in Tangle. But does it look like they're coming out from different corners? Like there will be a procession? Yeah, you know what, fuck it.

I'm going to do by starting form. I'm going to go into by dragon form. Cool. Brenna Elizabeth shines brightly as a fucking dragon. No, you know what? I think I'm actually going to do so sorry about this. Sometimes when you go first, it's nerve wrecking. Mm.

Yeah. Yeah, fuck it. I'm not going to do that just yet. I'm just gonna go ahead and try and kill one of these snakes. I'm gonna cast heat metal on one. Ooh, what is heat metal? Choose a bad you factured metal object such as a metal weapon or suit of heavy or media metal armor that you could see with it rage. You caused the object to glow red hot. Any creature of physical contact with this object takes 2d8 fire damage when you cast this spell until the spell ends. You can use your bonus action on each of your subsequent turns to cause this damage again. If the creature is holding or wearing the object, it takes damage rub at the creature must succeed. It constitutes saving throw or drop the object if it doesn't then it basically said I'm casting it on the creature just to do 2d a fire damage.

Cool. Awesome. I guess yeah because there's no attack or anything it's like usually you cast it on a metal object so I don't know how it works when it's a metal construct. I imagine it wait did it say a constitution saving throw? It says if a creature is holding or wearing and the object and takes damage from it the creature must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or drop the object if it can man. Well fuck these snakes So you you cast it on one of the snakes. Yeah. Yeah, do you want to just roll damage? I guess okay with that in

Yeah, do you want to just roll damage, I guess? Okay. With the insight too. Do we know, are these purely metal snakes or these cyborgs like Nymphari? These are just metal snakes. Just six damage, six fire damage. I will say though, that you feel like more are coming, just to throw that out there.

Just 12 sides, of course. Yeah. And there's something up with these walls. Okay. Well, well, six damage and I can keep, and that glowing red hot one, I can keep doing in the damage us a bonus action. Okay, so one of these snakes has taken six damage.

He's still kicking, he's just like, you know, like his little tongue is sticking out all melty like. I'd love to pull that out. Little gount of flame comes out of its mouth looks kind of cute. Oh no are you baiting me to not fright these? Not at all no I'm honestly not. So yeah you do six damage one of these snakes next up on 20 the walls begin to shimmer and look almost like a kaleidoscope. They're like almost entrancing you as you stand in this platform.

It's hard to look anywhere, but they're everyone make a wisdom saving throw. Is this an illusion or a charm thing? Because I have advantage against those. What is confusion? Countats. Frank. I may or may not be, I am not sure. And I'll also do a quick rules check here.

I have no mcunning, so I have advantage on all wisdom saving throws against magic. Would that apply here? I'll say that this is like, this like, artificialery stuff is like, basically magic. Okay. Brenda Elizabeth, doesn't I have advantage, but she could roll a natural light key,

which gives her a 25. Sick. I just have such bad wisdom. John Pess and Cr kind of madness hypnotic pattern dominate person, dominate monster, dominate beast, animal friendship. Okay, so I don't have a budget. No problem, I rolled a six. And I rolled a 16 with a plus one for 17 with even. Okay, Brenda Elizabeth, you were expecting something

weird to happen and we're a little more prepared and Turbine, you also, you know, with your numb cunning, knew something was happening and that left you a little more prepared. Astrid, you at this point were a little bored and you're excited for these snakes to come, but they're moving a little slower than you're hoping. When the walls start shimmering,

and you see in the walls, just sort of like cool colors and lights that just sort of blend and just refract from each other, you have to roll a D8. Let me know what you get. Uh-oh. Oh, I see. Okay.

I got a seven. I'm just thinking about getting this wallpaper for my bedroom. Okay. Okay, so you use your action to make an melee attack against a randomly determined creature within your reach. Oh no. Oh no, I'm so sorry, I'm so strong. I think it's only tab-in right? Oh yeah, Turbine.

Red or little bell can be. Okay so maybe it's Turbine. And the snakes are not close enough to us to be there like at the edge of the room they have not gone. How far away are they? It's a 50-foot radius on this platform. And how big are there like traditional cobra-sized snakes? They're like a little... Yeah, they're not huge.

Well luckily for you, I haven't gotten into a rage yet. That is lucky for me. Or Brenda was a bit... Or Brenda is still leaving. How do I roll a D2? I thought turbine was just next to you. Oh yeah, I can just do Turban. I rolled a 12.

What's your armor class? My armor class is 13. Oh, I miss you. Thank God. Nice, nice. Ow! I'm just like distracted looking at this wallpaper and just swinging my warhammer just aimlessly

not really looking around. It's like in your holy something you turn your whole body to look like a sassy girl. See if the light is happening all around me. This black and white bee is happening right here. It's crazy. So Astrid thankfully misses you. Astrid. Yes. I'm not sure if this makes you lose your turn.

You don't lose your turn, I don't think. Oh wait. Oh no. No. I'm going to use this makes you lose your turn. You don't lose your turn I don't wait. Oh, no. Oh no. It uses its action to make it a lot of time. Oh, but I can still do a bonus action Then when we get to it. Yes, it's your turn. Okay. So now it is your turn. Great. I go into a rage Okay Just don't get confused. I go into a rage and I stand I'm not good confused. I go into a rage and I stand in front of one of the snakes. Like I get between the egg.

You plant your feet in the path of a snake, beckoning it forward. So I'm still close enough to the egg that I can move around, but I'm clearly not going up there. You're playing defense on this egg pretty well. Is the egg on a little pedestal in the middle of the room? Yeah, it's like on a little platform. Okay, it looks like a fancy, um, what are those eggs that people have? Like a Faber-Jay?

Faber-Jay. But you know, a little more copper and it's made of metal. Cool. Now it's the snakes turn. They're all going to use their movement to try to get as close as they can to the egg. So they're taking dash action, actions forward. Okay. Does that snake take damage now, or is it on your turn? Uh, I think it might be a bi-true. Although it, let me see. If it doesn't drop the object, it has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability check until the start of your next turn.

Takes 2D at fire damage when you cast a spell until the spell ends, so I'll use a bonus action. Cool, so they close distance. Bruno Elizabeth, I think I, yeah, I guess you would get an attack of opportunity if you wanted. Right! I think everybody gets one because y'all are all still sort of in the way of snakes. The egg. Okay then, I'll go for my Sybotar. It's gonna miss unless their AC is 10. Their AC is unfortunately not 10. Hello.

Cool, I swing wildly. I follow Astrid's lead. I'll take mine. Oh, I. Great. Yes. Ooh! Within at crit. Yes. Ooh! Within that 20.

Sick. So okay, I so rolled double dice on that. Oh, it's double dice? For a crit on a weapon attack? Yeah, so like, if it, whatever diet says you roll that twice. Okay, and then add what up the modifier is. That is not double. So that's, that's hate.

Turbine, you look at this thing that you remember earlier when you're fighting those war-forged things, you're just trying to dig into the circuitry of the shit and you stab a snake with a sword. Cool. It's still kicking though. Okay, you're right. Astrid, another.

Hold it that one. Okay. Oh, wait, you go with rage? Yes. Oh, wait, I'm raging. Astrid another Holden at one Wait, I'm raging you're right. Oh god. Are you taking a reckless attack? Yeah, I guess I'll make it a reckless attack. Can you reckless attack on? I don't think you can do it on a reaction. Okay, you can Yeah, so I Never mind then. Okay. So Astrid once again, whiffing hard. I just smash my toe with my wife. Astrid, try not to think about your wallpaper

in your hotel room. God, if I was wearing those boots. So we are entangled with the snakes. All the snakes are alive at this moment. At this moment, yes. Well, this cost me an action. Can I do a history check on these walls to see if I can understand them? I as an artificer, I can get, and see where is this, with my artificers lore, I can add twice my proficiency bonus to history checks

related to magic items, all chemical objects, or technological devices. Can I use that to get a sense of like, what's going with these walls, if there's any like special weakness? Yeah, I mean, it is what it is, like they like, okay, they create this sort of confusion effect to do dismantle them would be probably

take a lot longer than you have. Okay, you could try to do that, but you would be leaving the egg and snakes to do their thing. Do you have. Okay, you could try to do that, but you would be leaving the egg and snakes to do their thing. Do you have distance spells because you have those boots that have levitate on them? Most of my spells are healing. I could grab the egg and just hover,

but then I wouldn't be able to do a whole lot of damage. I would. I would. I would. But I, I think that's a good like, a hail marion. You could definitely do that. Yeah.

Okay, so I, I won't worry too much about that then. All the walls are doing this like confusion thing. It's not like I can just like try to break one and the wall like be like taking out a commission. Again, it just feels like it's gonna take a lot of effort to break these walls or do anything with them. Okay, it would maybe lower the DC. I'm trying to think of what would happen with it,

but I don't know that that depends on you actually effectively breaking it. Well then what I will do I think is I will, I guess it just makes a little sense to keep stabbing this snake who's already at the end of my weapon, especially because I think there's gonna be more snakes and stuff coming up, I might save some big guns for that. I think it's a good idea. I'll try to attack this snake again. Keep digging into the gears there. So roll in that.

That is a 14. That hits. Cool. Roll damage. That is nine points of damage. Three, you did eight and then nine? Yeah. Okay, you just fucking filet this whole robot. It was like a kid like eating spaghetti.

Just like do you rip your end twisting it so it just like pulls all the wires out. Oh, snakes spaghetti. Yeah, you fuck this snake up. It is no more. There's still two snakes around. Do you do anything else with your turn? Yeah, who wants bargains for anything? It seems like a baby asteroid could use it on a say big throw or something.

Yes. Sure. So I'm gonna, as a bonus action, I twist the state guts out and then pull up my hearty girdings. Just thinking, really, really, I mean it, I mean it, actually. So manying things.

He's just twisting everything. He's like doing one of those challenges little kids do on a playground where they're trying to rub their tummy and pat their head, but one is killing a snake and one is spinning a herty-gurty. So I give that part of conspiracy to you, Asyrin. Thank you. We're now back at the top of the order.

Brenda Elizabeth, your turn. Ask my bonus action I would like to activate my heat metal again on that wood. And I already rolled the damage and I got 14. Hell yes. So you did 14 damage to this guy? Yeah, 14 plus the original six. So that net snake is like climbing up to the egg

and it's already like white hot. And then it just don't scramble the egg. Don't scramble the egg. Grimaces like the cute little smile and explodes. And then acid explodes and then that concentration spell is gone. I think I'm going to cast tell me will I hurt the egg if I cast entangle around the egg? No, I don't think you will. Okay, that I will cast a tagel around the egg.

Doesn't tangled do damage? It doesn't do damage. It makes it hard to move around there and they can get stuck. Okay, cool. Crasping weeds and vines sprout from the ground in 20 foot square, starting from a point within range for the duration. The ground in this area is difficult to rain. A creature in the area

when you cast a spell must succeed a strength saving throw or be restrained by the entangling plants until the spell ends. So the one that's there has to do a strength save or be restrained. Okay, cool. So you cast that and it will roll that. Oh, that's pretty good. I rolled a 17. What did it need to roll? Uh, that's more than my... So this buff asks robot snake, flexes, dodges, somehow, this cord. It has it, but now the area around it is difficult to rain, so maybe future snakes will have a difficult time.

Do any of us have to make a save there too? You wouldn't have to do a strength save to be restrained, but it does mean that it's difficult to rain. But I'm assuming that we move faster than snakes, so hopefully it will be. Sure. That becomes difficult to rain. Cool.

You got anything else for this turn? That's all. Cool. So after your turn on initiative 23 more snakes enter the room and the wall shimmer once again a little brighter than before everybody give me a wisdom saving throw. Once again my wisdom is so bad. Oh that's gonna be a fail for bread Elizabeth. I'm doing a fail for me. Did you add your bardic inspiration or can I mean I got a full? I didn't think about it.

I got 11. Okay, everyone is confused. Everyone it failed. So on your turn, you'll have to make another wisdom saving throw or do something with your darn pretty colors. Yeah. Yeah. You know what, you're right, it is beautiful.

How do you think the things look cool in my ceiling? Is it just me here? Is this like a magic eye? I feel like I could see dolphins. Yeah, if you keep looking at it, you can see other things like through another level of it. Yeah, I honestly see, I don't want to be the dead horse, but I see horses riding dolphins in the ocean.

Wow. Wow. Barnabas is like, what does that look like? Yes, so what's happening here? You already failed the check. So roll a D8 and let me know what number you go. OK. A5.

OK, the two through six creature doesn't move or take actions this turn. So just sit there staring. Hey. Next up is Astrid, you also failed. Yep. Good. I got a five.

I got a five. I got a five. I got a five. Also sit there still. Just like it's so pretty. I know, I know I know it's like is this crazy Do you feel like you can kind of taste it? Yes, yes, I do like just by looking at it feels like you can kind of taste it a little It tastes like bubble tape, you know, yes Yes, a bubble bomb that comes out like tape. So yeah, yeah, it gets like kind of like kind of like chalky and brittle.

It's really chalky. Yeah, it's like hard bubble tape. Yeah. Delicious. Grandpa Brendan's bubble tape is always hard. He buys it from the dollar store and everyone knows that kid. He's got bad. As you are confused, you see this bubble tape grab the egg,

and hoist it off the platform, and begin to move away. Remember it's difficult to read. Oh okay. So I was already going to say that they have, they can only move half their distance while holding the egg because they're snakes. Now I can only move a quarter. So if it's taking a dash action which is supposed to be 60 now I can only move a quarter. So if it's taking a dash action, which is supposed to be 60, now I can only move a quarter of the speed of her for half. 15 feet, is that you said? It's for 20 feet. For 20 feet. Okay. Let me see. Tingle says on the ground, a 20 foot square starting from a point within range. So maybe my math is bad, but I think it moves 15 feet and with the egg. Oh, sorry my math is bad, but I think it moves 15 feet with the egg.

Oh, sorry, I thought you were asking what the range was. Oh, no, no, no, just how big the entanglement is. Yeah, the entanglement is 20 feet. Okay, so it get, like, with a full dash action, it's only able to move 15 feet with the egg. So it's 15 feet away from the center, trying to take it to one of the edges. The rest of the snakes close in on that snake and the egg. So it's 15 feet away from the center trying to take it to one of the edges. The rest of the snakes close in on that snake and that egg. So the three new snakes have

tried to join forces. Oh, what do they have to make for that string saving throw? They don't have to make a string saving throw. It's just when you cast the spell, but then once they get in there it is difficult to rain. Okay, cool. The point was to slow everyone down, also then restrain them. Next up is Brandel Ismeth. You are still confused, unfortunately. I'm confused, let me see what I do. I roll to five, I also do nothing. God damn it, I had such a good strategy to get to the play.

Oh God, we're not a wise bunch. I will say this isn't like the normal condition. You guys come out of it as you every turn, but after your turn, the wall goes. The wall goes. So everyone, give me another. Oh God, I think I'm gonna pass. I got a 17 on that one.

17 pass. Oh no, 18, 12 for six. I rolled another four. She. Oh my God. Sheesh. I rolled another four. She. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. I crit. Oh, okay.

Yeah, baby. Turbine, you crit on this. I will say because you have crit on it, you no longer have to worry about the effects of the confusion. You understand this well enough. Wait a minute, this is just lights. Yes. I can't taste this at all.

Yeah, I've crossed it by eyes and I can't see the magic guy anymore. No, I can see it. Just keep trying. Turbine, it is your turn. So how far am I from the snake with the egg? I think you're about 15 feet away from that. And I'm on difficult terrain too, right? Yeah, you could go, you could spend more movement

to kind of go around it. Is this snake been hurt at all? The one that's holding it has not. None of the snakes that are alive right now have been hurt. Okay. We're doing a bad job against these snakes. Okay, here's what I want to do. A difficult terrain that's that halves the speed, is that right?

Yes. But they're right on the speed, is that right? Yes. But they're right on the edge. They're within five feet of the edge, so you could probably get there easily. So I have a 25 speed. Is that enough to get to the snake if I get past the difficult terrain and then not have halved?

Is that what you're saying? Yeah, I think if you kind of go around it, you'll approach it from the side, you should be able to get there in 25 feet. Cool. Then I'm going to run up to this snake. I would like to try to just take the egg and levitate away with my little magnet boots.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I want to double check the wording ofpitation just to make sure that we can... Oh yeah, I have no idea if this does what I wanted to do. You can move vertically up 20 feet and remain suspended there for the... Nice. Yeah! Okay, so are you gonna use it?

Yes, I don't know if I do anything to roll anything to take the egg or if they're just dumb snakes and I can just... I can pluck it up I think it's an opposed strength check, right? Okay. Do you want to try that before you use this bow? Yeah, cuz I want to be sure I can actually get this egg before I try to fly away So I am rolling strength is that what's happening here? Yes I am very weak But maybe the snakes aren't that weak shit

I got a three oh no oh 14 so this this snake is able to hang on talking on this fucking egg I'm sure by he saw what you did to his friend and he did want to be turned into snakes spaghetti I'll let you cast a spell or do whatever else if you want. Is that too lenient? If you feel like it. No, because that's just an object interaction. OK, cool.

I think it would be. Yeah, that's what I was thinking of it as. Yeah. OK, shit. All right, how tall is this room we're in? It is extremely tall, because this is an open elevator shaft above you going up to presumably the top of the obelisk. Got it. And do we have to worry about, do you worry about this egg

breaking or just being stolen? You don't want to damage it probably? I might not do that plan then. Can I, instead of trying to steal the egg, can I just grapple the egg and try to, basically hold on to both the snake and the egg to keep it from going any farther? So a grapple check? Yeah. I guess, instead of trying to actually take the egg and run away with it, can I just try to,

yes, to hold on to this, if the snake is holding on so tightly to the side, either hold on to just the snake or hold on to like the bundle, you know? Yeah, so you can do that. I'll say you will pull the higher of the snakes. So it's up to you. Oh no!

Do you wanna make a grapple check? How close are these snakes to me? They're all right there. They're like right on top of me. Yeah, if you have some big, if you have some kind of raged damage, I don't have any area damage spells stock today. Okay, are they within a 10 foot radius of me?

Yeah, if you're right there, they should be. Then what I am gonna do, I will cast Shatter. Yay! Which, like all my spells takes the form of a musical instrument. So, it's a sudden loud ringing noise, painfully intense, or lost in the point of choice. So, I've got, what do I have? My concertina. I'm just like, hey! And that does, each creature, in a 10-foot radius sphere centered on the point must make a constitution saving throw.

So I'll make those for the snakes. Nat one, 19. 19. Jesus, seven. So two of them fail and two of them. So on a failed save, those creatures take 3D8 thunder damage and the ones who succeeded take half as much damage You want to roll that? Oh sure, so I'll roll the failed. Yeah, I'll roll the failed ones first So here's the first 3d8 for the first failed snake first roll shit

That is oh no, that's a seven out of one. Okay, that's 12 damage cool damn fucked up that snake It's all right. All right the next 3d8 that is 13 damage, okay And now these are the halftones and now these are gonna be the half ones I don't know if we marked which one is the the one that's holding the egg the one that's holding the egg I was saying took 12 okay, that's 20 damage The one that's holding the egg I was saying took 12. Okay, that's 20 damage. Oh, sorry, half, half is 10. Okay, and then the last one, roll in 3d8,

that is 16, half to eight. Okay, yeah, you badly fuck up all these snakes. They're all still alive, but all really hurt. Very sick, Astrid, you're still confused, I believe, so you're just standing there Yeah, I'm just maybe touching the wall a little bit. So you just sit there and do nothing the snakes are gonna go They're gonna try to pull the object out of the arena. They still have five feet of difficult So trap I'll say this you get a reaction to you. reaction to try to do something to the snake that has it.

Okay, what can I do with a reaction? Can I? It's just an attack. Well, that seems like the thing to do then, yeah? I guess I'll just do that. I'm trying to see if there's like any way I can buff this, but I don't think I can. Alright, I'm gonna try to hit it. 15?

That hits? Yeah! Yes! Alright. Okay. Top line is doing everything. No! Four damage?

Need to do three to kill it. So once again, I'm trying to rip this snake into pieces. This snake's forgetting grow. So like I said, they are movement is halved by carrying it. As you kill that one, another snake comes up to pick up the burden of the last one. It can only move 30 feet without the difficult terrain. So 25 feet with the difficult terrain.

It was 15 feet from the center, 25. They're 20 feet away from the edge. Okay. F- move or they are. After they are. Okay. So the three remaining snakes are sitting there 20 feet away from the edge of the room. Okay.

Or I'm sorry, it's 10 feet away because I said this is a 50 foot radius. Oh no. Oh, okay. Okay. Is it Brenda Elizabeth's turn? It is Brenda Elizabeth's turn. It is Brenda Elizabeth's turn. Okay, Brenda Elizabeth would like to cast guidance on herself

and run over and try to steal, to try to take this egg back. Sick. Brenda Elizabeth, you run into the fray with all these duplicitous snakes that are trying to take this egg. Mm-hmm. Okay. They look up at you with their cute robot eyes.

Smile. Ugh. 16 on the dice. Plus two plus two. Dirty 20. Nice. Eight on the die. Okay. Now I'm going to grab it and then then I'm gonna misty step all the way back.

Oh shit, it turns like what direction, like towards the center? Back to the podium. Wow, holy shit, you misty step. Isn't guidance. Misty step is a bonus. Guidance is a cantrip. Oh, it's a cantrip.

It's a symmetric. A cantrip. Yep. Yeah, holy shit. And I go right back to the podium and I'm like, Turbine, come here and hover. That's the end of your turn, right? Yeah, yeah. Okay.

Three fresh snakes come out. How many snakes are in their right now? Huh? There's six snakes total right now. Three badly injured two fresh. And you guys are in the center of the room. We have one more shimmering wall effect appear. Everyone make a check to see if they're affected.

Do I still have to do this with my hand? We don't. A six key for bread to Elizabeth. I roll the two, which tends into a one. I'll let you give Astrid a help at it. A help at it. Thank you. Can I ask you, do you still have that bardic inspiration? That pushes you over the edge? Doesn't look like it does. It does. Astrid. Can I give Astrid my same? No. Because I'm just holding this egg to try to pass it off to turbine. I don't have to do anything.

I just really like this little bit, but I just really like it. It's really pretty. I'm actually just seeing all the nice things she'd like to have. And once again, sitting there. Wow, the wallpaper is a metaphor for materialism. Oh, wow.

And this is a metaphor for fertilization. I don't think it is. These snakes all shake their head, like confused. No, no, no. No, I've read the grog to mature even. Turbine, it's your turn. You see the six snakes from the outer edges of the room eyeing the egg once more.

Yes. OK, cool. I think I need to know what I need to do. I just want to check the mechanics here with the little magnet booths. Is it an action to cast that levitate or is it just like that's just, like I can just click them on and do that?

I believe it's an action. Let me double check. Yeah, it would be an action. And then how does that spell work? Can I just like keep hovering there for a while? Am I limited there? It's up concentration up to 10 minutes. Okay, cool.

So I think I have the movement to just run back towards Brenda Elizabeth, grab the egg and then just float up the way for the eggs. I just, like a mother bird, just keeping my little egg safe. Cool. You get the egg from Brenda Elizabeth and float up. The snakes just look up at you.

There's nothing they can do. With that, I'll say, we'll end the combat. Okay. And just, I'm just picturing like a really low angle shot of just like really on flattering, double-salties of turbine and brand new. We'll get a shot of this. Like, wow.

No, don't take the picture, not like this. It's like the end of a rollercoaster when they take the photo unexpectedly. Yeah. So with that, you have successfully stopped these snakes from showing you the combat ends. Turbine, you're just floating, you're having the time of your life just like, just life. Just like... I'm burping for no reason.

Disgusting. Charlie, the chocolate faster. I really liked it without context though. I guess you're gonna float on Barnababas appears again and he says, wow, mine's like a steel trap, truly impressive stuff. Astrid, next time maybe. What? I got a bit of that.

Do you sell these balls? Huh? Do you sell these balls? Yes. We are thinking of offering these balls. Yes. Astrid just becomes a wallpaper burnout. She's just like so chill muscles that have been tense her entire life is suddenly relaxed.

While you're on the elevator somehow, having just won this competition, Barnabas is like Vader, Bink, Bong, You guys do a great job. We have your resumes on file. Like I said, we're going to keep you for next time. That's a lie. I think this is the end of the road for today, though. I single out just Bong and I say, good hustle, Bong. He just nods at you and says, thanks.

Hey. Maybe later you can explain that idea once more more because I just have a hard time wrapping my head all the way around it. I would love to slowly walk you through my doodle book. The whole book? Okay. All right. Hey, like, whole appears in the side of the elevator shaft and sucks them all in and they

are God. As you reach the top, it feels like you're gonna slowly just smash into the ceiling to remind you're just kind of floating above the ground and just like kind of hitting the ceiling. My hat, my hat, is just hit the ceiling spinning slowly like a top, an upside-down top. He's like, ahhhh! The ceiling slides open at that point.

The elevator rises through and you find yourself in this small thicket of woods at the top of the obelisk. Despite being so high up, it seems protected from when by some kind of technology or magic. So high up that people would never have been able to see it from the ground. At the very top of the obelisk? Yeah.

So cool. Make a perception check. Cool. I am perceiving. It's 12. That is a 19. I got a 5. I did grit one. It was not an important grit, but I did grit. So you guys are at the top of this elevator. You look around turbine. You notice this. Galvest is not up here. What? What? Can I do some kind of like nature check to see if there's any like like hoof prints or horse scent on the wind or anything, makes a, I don't know. I can do investigate or nature or yeah, I wish ever that makes animal handling.

Yeah. I'll do investigation. You can all make these checks now. Oh, I can. Yeah, I told you. Go fast, go fast, go fast. Where's GAL fast? Okay.

I only got a seven. I did roll really well on this I got a 25 perception or 25 animal head like Galfast has never been up here There's no hoof prints anywhere. It doesn't I turned to Bartabus. I hold it by the throw over the edge of day Like you're over the ass where scalfas what if you dog with him? Where's Galfas? What if you dog with him? I Have to do a couple of checks to maybe make that happen Maribus is like I don't understand. I gave specific instructions to bring him up here

I thought he'd love it. I mean there's all these trees. Uh, you could jump over stuff Um are you the boss or does someone work above you? I'm I Can I do a check to see if he's lying? Yes, yeah, 60 he doesn't seem like he's lying He did tell someone to bring golf ass up here. Who did you tell to bring golf ass up here? Yeah, yeah, okay. I told bubbles to bring him up here I thought that this would be fun for him and I am in charge I'm he is very nervous when he's trying

to describe himself as being in charge. We did see some of your employees were trying to sort of, for lack of a better word, unionize against you. Can I do a perception check to see if he's in charge? Yeah. Yeah. Where's Bobbilt?

I got a 13. Something about him saying he's in charge feels wrong, or he feels like he's like shifty about that idea. I grab him by the neck and deck him over the yet. As you grab him by the neck, his... I suppose it makes more sense, you would be... I have a plus for what's your intimidation. Yeah, make a strength check to grab him by the neck.

Can I do an athletics check? Yeah. Great. I'm going to use that body conservation. I got a 10 even with body inspiration in plus six. Can I do the help action? Because I was prepping myself to do this motion. And lend this to Brandon Elizabeth.

Okay, there we go. I got a 19. As you grab him by the neck, he rips fully out of his metal suit. He was the little gnome tradics from the painting. The one that's put all over its face that I poorly described. He rips out of the body. The metallic beard falls off his face revealing he has a much smaller head than it seemed like he had before. Little tiny metal points on his ears fall off to reveal he has slightly less pointed ears.

He's a shameless wonder. That's why he had the beard. He grew the beard because he doesn't have a chin. I have a chin. I just wanted to present. I just thought when the last Barnabas died, this place nearly completely collapsed. I had to step up and do something. And as he says this, a cold, unfeeling voice iminits from the facilitator itself. And it says,

As you said, the facilitator can do just about anything. It's echoing all around you. It's coming from something within this place. I stop on the floor again. You guys are banging on the floor again. She was a bang-bang on the floor. You guys are banging on the floor. Wait, does this mean there's no job? I had, I thought there could be a job. I was defeated, but I was not killed, and my plans were not completed. But now they are too far along for you to stop us.

You hear this very scary voice emanating out, as it says that. And Barnabas is just like, what plans are you talking about? I thought it was just, you know, you hear the great wonders. And this other voice says, Let me know, I only let you live that my son's dying request. At first I thought your charade was embarrassment to the part of my mind. I ignored it as we went away, but when our plans were jeopardized, he from once actually became helpful.

But now the time is dying. Your rules is once again all the end necessary. As he says this, everybody make a dex check. OK. Can I see this? Do I have advantage against it? As he says this, everybody make a Dex check. Okay. Can I see this? Do I have advantage against it? You feel the whole obelisk rumble. Okay.

Do I have advantage on this because I have the little magnet boots? Yes. I rolled two 11s, which is 14. 11, both times. I got a 17. Wait, you rolled two 11s because I also rolled two 11s. I rolled two eights, but it fells up to eleven As it said this this whole verse was wholly unnecessary the elevator falls out from under you and you all start to fall

And that's where we'll in the episode And that's where we'll end the episode. We don't even find out of our decks checks, a pasta or not. You son of a gun. The Charivator, it's going down. I'm sorry that the job didn't turn out to be what I said. I much more distracted by Galfast's disappearance. Yes, but no. Oh, I'm sorry.

Hashtag wears Galfast? Let's get it trending. Or just wears the horse. Where is the horse? hashtag where is gal that's get it trending Or just wears the horse where is the horse we give you all the clues Actually didn't give you an inkles really Well, that was all for this week next week will be a talkback or will I feel like I'll get a little yelled at Change for a change I have a feeling it'll just be me reassuring you that it was funny to dock Brenda Elizabeth's intelligence. Oh, God, I feel so bad about that.

No, it's funny. Immediately it was like, you guys really wanted to get rid of your intelligence. Often you've already have such low intelligence that getting rid of more of it is on game. Yeah. It's very. It's very easy. Feel better. It doesn't it because it was my whole intelligence and not the modifier. I didn't actually lose a point. Oh good. From the modifier. It's very funny to have an idea so bad it makes you dumb. Yes. Okay. Well, we'll end it there. Thanks for listening and we'll do that next week. Thanks. Bye. Bye.

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