The Glass Cannon Podcast - Gatewalkers Episode 84 – Doctor, My Guise

Episode Date: May 9, 2025

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Five foot square cells. Oh. Do you think anyone's in there? I hope not. You see something written on the back of the wall. It says, kill Edward. Avenge us all. Zephapha perhaps we examine this room to the north with the mushrooms. Carefully stepping by all this fungus and you look into the cistern

and you see headless bodies. Oh headless? What? And then you climb down into this cistern of corpses and on one of them you see the mark of the Gatewalker. In the pocket you find a letter that says, Dear Gatewalkers, I would love the pleasure of you visiting me at Riddleson Manor. Bippity boppity boo. Bippity snoppity huck. Huck and kisses. Murder. I could flip this table. Edward. I'd flip it. Riddleson. I'm going to kill him. The adventure continues... ...now. No Today is our first in-studio recording since Barnes exploded.

Not the first episode since, but basically, long story short, after the last recording, I sent out an email with all of the dates and a hopeful plan for the end of this campaign and how it looks. And then Matthew, I don't know if he emailed me personally or if he texted me and was just like, hey, I'll let you know if I can make any of those dates. And I'm like, did nobody tell you man? We absorbed you. You've been absorbed. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. It absorbed.

Thank you for your sacrifice. Your position has been eliminated. It was like the last supper. It's like we all ate his body and increased his strength. He made the break of his blood. Yeah. He's like, I'll let you know. I'm like, no, you don't need to.

You're welcome to come to the after party of the finale. Always welcome. Yeah, always welcome. I'm sure we'll have a couple drinks. Right. Yeah, he's gone I'm sure we'll have a couple drinks. Right. He's gone. But yeah, he's gone. He's gone. Don't worry about him. He's not walking through that door, people. Captain Kaza's not walking through that door. Not walking through that door. Kate and Sydney, I want to ask you a question and I want to get your honest response, but it might be an uncomfortably controversial question, but I really need to know. And I feel to get your honest response, but it might be an uncomfortably controversial

question, but I really need to know. And I feel like doing it on a show that goes out to the public is as good a space as any. Yeah, wait. If Matthew were here, he'd say stop. Yeah. Right now. Now I can do it because he's not here anymore. He would be getting, yeah, I would see him like vibrating, like shaking, and I would

turn nervously. Linking, going. You also just said our names so fast and close together that I think you made a new person. You were like- You are an identity. You were like, Kate and Sydney. Kate and Sydney. Kate and Sydney.

See how I always start with Kate? Anyways. Wow. What does that mean? Wow. It used to be Sydney and Kate. I think it's just alphabetical, Sid. I think it's just alphabetical.

Yeah. Kate, Kate, look at me. Don't worry about what he's going to ask. Boys will be think it's just alphabetical. Yeah. Kate, look at me. Don't worry about what he's gonna ask. Boys will be boys. Boys will be boys. Is it offensive? No, that's not the right question.

Oh, I told you. That's not the right question. Please stop. Are you offended when you hear someone say like, ah, stop being a pussy? Like a skin gel went. Francis died too. being a pussy. I don't want to say is that offensive. Are you offended if someone if you hear somebody say I can't speak for every woman at every gaming that's what I want you to do. But let me give you my personal opinion. Yeah. No.

No. You're not offended. Right. No. And this is a mean thing. You like it. Well, huh. Do I only have to?

You use it. You use it. Do you ever say to Kate? The word pussy? If she's like, I don't want to do this show tonight, and you're like, stop being a pussy. We got to go. No. Because you know what?

Maybe this is why. Margin to the middle. Like all language gets like used and then it gets like canceled and then it kind of moves back into normal dialects or diction. No one really says pussy anymore. Like, don't be a pussy. It has been a little phased out compared to, yeah. It's like a 90s, 80s sort of insult.

It's sort of like, like, you're such a bastard. It's been replaced with beta. Like don't be a beta. Beta doesn't pop. Interesting. Here's the thing, it's derogatory because you're saying like, don't be a woman because they're the worst.

Sure. That's kind of what it's saying. Thanks for clearing that up. But like, you say like, don't be a dick and that means you're a bad person. Right. Don't be a man you're a bad person. Right. Not you're like, you're a man. Don't be a man, because they're bad people.

Right. Although that's how I use it. Kate, are you offended if you overhear, like if you hear Joe really railing on Francis? Stop being a pussy. It depends on who says it. Turn the camera on. Turn the camera on.

If you heard that, what's it be like? Leave Francis alone. You've got nothing to do with this. Leave Francis out of it. Look at that laughing pussy. Poor Francis did not want this question asked. Leave him out of this. HR is not fucking here today.

That's a good point though. Are you offended? It depends on who says it, what's the context, like so many things. Like generally with friends, like whatever. I don't care. I see. It's such a fun word to say. It is fun, that's. Like, I don't care. I see. I don't know. It's such a fun way to say.

It's fun. That's the thing, it's fun. If some person is purposely being a dick and like say, like you can tell people's intent most of the time by what they're saying. Right, being a dick. Yeah, if they're being a dick, they can't say pussy. And a dick is a bad man.

So if like there's some, you know, boomer dad. I think you're onto something here. I think she's onto something. I think you're onto something.. I think she's onto something. It could be generalist. A pussy is a bad woman, not just a woman. No, no. You're being a pussy.

I think the correlation. I'm so, the more we say it. The more we say it. The worse it gets. Are we focusing too much on words and not on curing infectious disease? Words do matter though. Words do matter, yes. We have power. Much on words and not on curing infectious disease. Words do matter though.

Words do matter, yes. We have power. We're dismantling our CDC and health organizations as we know it, so yes. But I think you're right. If there's a boomer dad talking to his young son and instilling the idea that pussy means to be weak, then yes, bad.

Yeah, that's bad. No good. But if you're yelling at Francis, who we all know. Uh. Is a prince. No. Who we all know. I was gonna say.

Where you going with this? I was gonna say who we all know. Who is a known pussy. Who we all know. Continuke. And love. And love. And love.

Nice recovery. Stuck the landing. In spite of his pussitude. To me, it's the same. it's the same as the word bitch. A lot of people don't like it because it's- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Bleak that out. Derogatory to women in some cases,

but if you're joking with friends and it's just like- Literally only my other like- Girlfriends. Women or women adjacent people can say like bitch to me or around me. But you can use it as a verb though. Like anyone can use it as a verb. Don't like stop bitching.

Stop bitching. Like that's still. See, I feel like I would never call you a bitch, but I'd call Joe a bitch. That's different somehow. But I might not do it in front of you. It's different. You're right.

It's so contextual. I don't know. I think we can tell just by how much I keep laughing. That you love it. That I'm a pussy. Yeah. There really, there are two words that I just don't use anymore.

I don't use, I just don't use those words anymore. I think that's true too. I try to not use words that could be hurtful to somebody. I don't want to. Yeah. I don't want to get in, I don't want to, I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. I don't want to get in trouble.

Words we can't use anymore. Except in this group, I feel like we have fun by fake hurting each other with our words. But as a group, privately as a group, or real words. Or on air. Sometimes they'll say something so hurtful while we're recording. And it's like, I can't do anything but take it.

When's the last time you called somebody a bitch? Like a pussy. Yeah, like a pussy. You can't say that. This quote is Kate. In the transcript of this, that is in quotes. We should come up with a new word. Do you throw these words, do you bandy these words about? No. Even amongst your brother-in-law and his friends?

No. Liar. No. Well, I would say bitch is something that I got more sensitive about in recent years. Pussy is long out of my lexicon. Because nobody says it. To me, it's just so foul. I don't know.

I can't remember the last time. It feels weird hearing you say it. I know. I don't like it. But bitch, I would use all the time. Let's stop being a bitch. Well, whatever. And then I was like, eh, that's just offensive.

So I just kind of stopped doing it. It's funny because like that was one of the first curse words that was allowed on network TV yeah it was like bastard and then bitch and like that was it for for a while and then you know we get NPD blue you get like the shit in there oh yeah but it was like that was like the second curse word that was allowed on TV. What about like, that was a bitch move. For example, Mike White, the creator of White Lotus was quoted and I think it was Variety recently about he had a conflict with the composer and the composer, like the week of

the finale, finale was quoted in the New York Times and he kind of like shat on Mike White. Like the week of the finale of season three. And so Mike White was quoted like, you know, he said, you know, this guy didn't respect me, blah, blah, blah, blah. And he thinks that, you know, coming out against the show on the week of the finale, it's kind of a bitch move. And I agree, it is a bitch move.

But I love that you can't, is that the same, I guess it's the same context, but like, there are people, there are moves that are bitch moves. What does that mean? Like that's a womanly move, no. It's just a bitch move. Depends on the context, but again, you know, Noam Chomsky is out there like shaking his fist,

listening to this, because he listens to Glass Cannon, I assume, and he's like, words mean things, so. Sometimes they're necessary though. So I don't. Sometimes they're necessary though. I did see someone. What were you saying? I did see someone online called JK Rowling a bitch recently. And I think that she deserves it.

That's accurate, yeah. So sometimes it's necessary. And it's the only word that gets the point across in the right way. I've thought about tweeting at her much worse words. Well. You know, we frequently, I got one on the tip of my tongue right now,

but we won't bring it up. Well, you got a million dollars and you're a real pfft. We have frequently on this show, or at least in Ascension, use, and I use it all the time, the term penis. Oh yeah. To describe someone that is awful.

Right. It's funny when you do it. Yeah. It's a real, real. the term penis, to describe someone that is awful. It's funny when you do it. Yeah. It's a real, real. And it doesn't, obviously it doesn't offend me. But I mean, I don't know why, it just feels like a word that when you say it, people immediately know what you mean.

Well there's not a kind of passion to it. It's funnier to go into detail. It's funnier than dick. It is. And like, it's a thing that you do, it's not something that everyone does. Yeah. So, yeah.

What about queef? Can we say that? I love the word queef. It's so funny. And what would you be describing, except for what a queef is? Use it in a sentence. Use it in a sentence.

Oh, no. This gentleman the other day, while I was trying to order from him, he acted like a real queef. Oh, I thought you were about to be like, he queefed. And I was like, I don't think he can. Queefed. One of the greatest voice actors in the world is Queef David.

Ooh. Is his real name Queef? Maybe it's spelled different. No, maybe it's, I think it's Keith. Ah. It's simple. But you know what I meant. It's similar.

This guy was acting like a real Keith. Yeah. Real Keith. That's like Joe saying, that guy's a real penis though. Like no one says, no one uses that word that way. It's just funny. That's the thing is they're funny words, but they can hurt too.

They can be barbed. I think you could say queef. Okay. Go ahead. All right. That'll be the name of the episode. And you'll start calling everyone queef. Is this 84? And you'll be like, Sydney said I could say it. She gave me permission to say queef. Don't bring me into this.

There will not be a show for Matthew to return to. Nope. That's the point. Burned it to the ground. That was the goal. Frances, are there any words you don't like? Tsk. Tsk.

Ah! Ah! Ah! Just shout them out. Shout them out. Well, it's good. I got it. Oop.

No? We'll put it in the description of the episode. Francis is giving the, please stop, please stop. I think it's important to have these discussions. Oh, we can't talk about it. It's fun to talk about it and to learn, like, okay, we shouldn't say that and here's why. Or you can say that behind closed doors, maybe not on a podcast that over 10,000 people download monthly. I think, oh, go ahead. I was going to say, I think after your reactions and explanations, I can now use it whenever I feel like in this room.

Well, hold on. That's why I brought it up. Let's walk it back. Thank you for clearing it up. I want to bring it up. Ooh, if we could just rewind the tape. You know what? I think I understand why HR was here before. Actually change.

You know what? Now I know the reason for HR. Change my mind. Please come back. Matthew, we miss you. Help you. Help us. Matthew, your thoughts. Oh, God.

I miss him. Pipe down, pussy. We'll be back right after this great break. Craving an escape? Tia Rosa, Tia Rosa. Folks, as evidenced by the opening band, now is a great time to be a sponsor of the Glass Cannon podcast. And we want to thank our sponsors, Norse Foundry and Foundry Virtual Tabletop.

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That there's going to be a future. Nothing is guaranteed. Matthew thought he'd never leave, but now he's gone forever. Sorry. Let's just throw it out there for a quick second before we dive back into the show. Let's say Matthew, we don't think this is going to happen, right? We like Matthew. We think he has talent. What the heck is happening? Why don't you speak for yourself? What if he is garbage and just like gets kicked out of this show like middle of the run I would never talk about this show. No, it's show that he's working on. I'd say that comes back

I very unlikely those are the highest. Why would you speak that into existence? I was saying what if he comes back and it's like hey I'm free now. Does he make a new character or is he not allowed on the show? He makes a new character campaign three. No For campaign to like tomorrow. Oh, no, he's done. He's done. He makes a new character. For campaign three? No. He plays Dr. Vittleson. For campaign two? Like, tomorrow. Oh, no. He's done. He's done. He's done.

If he got fired today and said, can I come back, I'd say, we'll talk for campaign three. Wow. Yeah. Ice cold. Wow. Yeah. He made his choice.

And I don't begrudge his choice. Yeah. I don't have that choice. Yeah. All of a sudden, law and order called yesterday, wanted me to do a couple EPs. It'd be really tricky. I think one of us could sub.

To be Matthew? No, to be Troy. To be me? Oh, to be Troy. To be the GM. I could wing it. I think you could do it. Yeah.

How hard could it be? You could definitely wing Foundry. Yeah. I mean, I'm a software engineer. How hard could it be? Yeah, true. True. You couldn't even help me with my trackpad.

You have a base of skill. You couldn't even help me with my trackpad. This is a pop-up on my screen. You're like, I don't do hardware. Couldn't even help me with my trackpad. You have a base of skill. You couldn't even help me with my trackpad. You're like, I don't do hardware. Couldn't even help me with my trackpad. That's true. Troy was having a meltdown about his trackpad. He's like, Kate, help me.

And I was like, have you tried turning it off and on again? I'm getting a hard click. I want a nice soft click. Love a soft click. Oh wait, I thought you were getting a soft click. You wanted a hard click. It's not clicking. It's not clicking the way I want it to click.

I just feel like I'm pressing it, and I've got to really push down. I feel like this is a user error. Yeah. All right, well, you just got to hover the mouse where you need it, and then like every time. Both. But yeah, no, he's not allowed back.

I'll talk about campaign three. OK, all right. Let's keep an open mind. Yeah, I thought about that driving in. I'm like, wow, things didn't work out, tough shit. He made his choice. So now you know if you ever have to leave. If you ever get an amazing opportunity, Troy will bitterly hate you. Cool.

Cool. Good to know that's where you stand. Awesome. This is my priority. Glass Cannon Network. You don't have any other applications or requests. Family, GCP. That's it. Family, GCP and God? Laundry. Laundry. FGL. FGL, baby. We are in the basement of Riddleson Manor. I call it the basement. It's a whole underground sewer system that has been reconstructed into a mad scientist's laboratory.

You've been exploring it now for several episodes ever since you discovered that Riddleson had these hidden plans in his bedroom to kind of reconstruct underneath Riddleson Manor, a manor he inherited when his parents perished on a riverboat that they used for galas and fundraisers. He took over, let the manor fall into disrepair, and you can now see he's been diverting all those funds or a lot of these funds into reconstructing the downstairs. He's got demons, he's got beings from another world down here, and he's got a ton of

research that you've been like, well you know what, we'll deal with this in a second. We need to make sure this area is clear. So you've been exploring, trying to figure out what's going on here. You found a map of the crown of the world leading from someplace called Ice Gate all the way to the crown of the world. Did I leave the yurt here? Little weird notes in the marginalia of these maps. How do you lose a yurt? How do you lose a yurt? There's a lot of information down here, but there's also a lot of danger. You met this sort of whale fish-like being from beyond named Augman Xorius that

seemed to know you. Said that you met them before and that you will meet again at the spires. It said that it gave Riddleson some powers and it's going to give you powers too, as well as a lesson. Barnes gets absorbed and you almost drink in the powers of poor barns and go from fifth directly to eighth level. That was really fun. All your fucking deviant abilities start manifesting. You have mutants. You keep exploring and you eventually find this pit with fungus and whatnot growing all

over it and you see bodies down there. And as you go in the pit and start exploring, you find a letter on one of the bodies that matches the same exact letter that you got from Riddlesund. Please come to my manor. We need to talk. What is going on here? What is your initial thoughts about this? Because we wrapped up the app.

I just need one quick initial. Hey, hey, when this happens! Careful, you're going to break your track pad. When the coaster stays on the drink. They say you put salt on it, and that doesn't happen. Like in a bar, if you're hitting on a lovely lady, like, hey there. Ah!

This is embarrassing. You put a little salt. But what do I do in the studio? She's a paper coaster? She's a paper coaster? You use a paper coaster? But that happens at a bar. You have a Guinness coaster and it sticks to your beer and you're like hello.

Sometimes I hear about your problems and I think his life is so good. His life is so easy if that's his main problem. I just thought I could talk to him as friends about a little problem I was having. I don't think he introduced it as his main problem. Right, this isn't like my main hurdle in life. It just seemed like, the way you were talking about it, it just seemed like it was. One quick clarification, because you said something

that I was not expecting compared to how the last episode ended. OK. The letter that Zephyr found in the pocket is indeed a letter exactly like we just got at the post. Word for word, but same gist. Same gist, but it is not the, hey, we are gathering gatewalkers for the first time

to like look into this, which is like, I would assume the initial communication we got three months ago. Is it like the one that we got in Mendev? Or is it one that's like, oh, we need you to come back. Oh, good point. Yes, the one that, what did you think it was?

I thought it was the first one, like from three months ago. So then that aligns, I think, with what we were thinking right after we ended last episode, that he tells people to come here under the guise of you're a special person, you're a Gatewalker, I'm a scientist. They come down to this secret lecture. I'm a Gatewalker too, by the way. I'm a Gatewalker too, by the way. I'm a Gatewalker too, he says. They go to this lecture room where they are gassed,

knocked out, and then he does... Experiments? Cuts their head off, question mark? Experiments? Yeah. Yeah, I don't know if the lecture hall... Because all these bodies were decapitated, by the way. I don't know if the lecture hall in whole

is in a complete deception deception or if he's actually drugging these people with poison, bringing them into the lecture hall and operating on them or something in front of people and or questioning them while they're in some sort of haze. It seems like why didn't he do this to us? I think he did. Maybe he did. I think he brings everyone down here initially, does some weird experiments on them.

He didn't cut off our heads. And then some live and some don't, and the ones that don't live, he decapitates them and puts them in this pit. So that they can't be identified by their teeth. Or maybe there's something to chopping off their heads. I don't know. Right, maybe you have to kill a vampire.

You have to kill them, otherwise their power, because here's what I think, here's what Sydney the player thinks. The powers we have, these deviant abilities in game terms, I don't think we get them through walk, by being gate walkers. I think we got them from riddles. But, Muck has a deviant ability.

So as far as they know, have not been here. As far as she knows. But the whale guy that we just met just said that we have all been here before. So maybe you have. And there is an interesting other layer to your situation. That is an interesting idea that I didn't think of before. Okay, so what happens in science fiction stories, right?

When you have like a programmed Android, right? And you- Sleeper cell. Yes, and you turn them on, right? And you... Sleeper cell. Yes, and you turn them on, right? And you trigger them. Maybe that's what's happening with the awakenings, because it's we see him in the mask in a dream, and then our powers grow.

It's like maybe he's turning them on at the right time. Or he's tightening the experiment up. Yeah, or he's turning up the experiment, yeah. This is all so yucky. This is one of my favorite sci-fi trope type of thing because it's so insidious and it feels so invasive to your like memory and your personhood. Yeah.

It's sort of like Deadpool, same similar kind of way where Wade Wilson's powers were manifested, similar kind of thing. Because he was an experiment? He was experimented upon to bring his latent mutant powers out. And then I'm also thinking of Manchurian Canada. Like if there's something in us that will trigger at some point. Right exactly.

And like... When we face the Black Frost Whale? Well, it's something I regret, you know, in hindsight, not spending more time on right out of the gate because we started our story in Medius Res with the players already knowing each other. I wish that I had spent more time digging into this, the feeling of the missing moment

and how horrible that must be. Like, you all lost time and have no idea what happened to you. If things, you know, if you, it's got to be so invasive and what's the word I'm looking for? Like, you feel like you've been manipulated or deceived or... Well, like our time was stolen. or... Deceived or... Deceived or... Deceived or... Deceived or... Deceived or... Deceived or...

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Hmm. And we left off facing the mushroom room. Someone went down there and failed a save. No. I think it was... I'm sure I passed. It was you. The natural 20.

Oh. And I didn't realize, because I assumed it'd be like a poison type of save, and that would be fortitude, but I think I rolled a will save. Mm-hmm. I listened back to like a laugh a little bit of it. It seemed like he was trying to get you to roll against fear or something.

Okay. And you did nat 20 of that? Okay. Yep. Nobody else went down there with her? No, she went down, we tied the rope to her, remember? Somebody failed. We were very- No, she had the ladder. She went down herself.

We stayed completely out. I tied a rope to her anyway, just in case. I did, to pull her up, I said, in an emergency. Oh, okay. Okay. She's always tying ropes to people. You also found a jade figurine as well. In the pockets of one of these decapitated-

Jade serpent? Jade serpent. Jade serpent. Did that mean anything to us? It's weird because- Have we come across any serpents? Dog is a jade statue, right? No, Onyx. Onyx.

He has the Onyx dog, Chummy. Which is just like, it feels almost like parallel. Like we got that in Kniepo. Was that from Kniepo? Yeah. In his realm, yeah. So like, did they go on an adjacent weird mission and they got like a jade serpent?

Like, I don't know, that just, that was weird. That's a weird thing to tell. So what does Kniepo have to do with any of this? I don't know, and it fucking pisses me off that we fought some night-hold god in the first 10 episodes. Yeah, if he has no relation to Riddleson, I wonder if Riddleson knows about him.

If Riddleson, yeah. Very strange. People died. Pissed. Well, there is a lot of information. There was a room to the north that I said to you, like you would have to spend some time here, but you might be able to learn a lot,

but you're worried about being jumped. You're worried about, you know, there's hazards here. There's enemies like these daemons, what else could there be? You know that there is a locked door mechanism and Ogben Zorias told you to seek the Blessed One behind those doors presumably, but there's still a whole eastern wing of this underground death trap that you've yet to dig into, so you have some options. You can do some more research or, you know, and not worry about what's behind multiple locked doors or you can keep clearing the area.

You tell me what you want to do. You guys, this is Pathfinder. You can literally do anything you want until the rules ruin it for you. Yeah. Oh, right. How about, yeah. Research? Yeah. Because when we go through the locked doors and meet this,

I feel like we're still knowledge-wise unprepared. The more we find out, the more questions we have, and it's starting to maybe get a little clearer, but maybe we should spend time in that room. Yeah. But remind me what happened with the vault door, or the eastern door. Was it locked?

We just didn't go in at all or it was locked and we didn't know the password. Well there's a series of doors that we need to find keys for. I don't know if that's the first one that we need to find a key for. It was locked. We couldn't get through? We tried I think. Oh gosh. I don't remember if we tried.

Let me look at my notes. I don't think we ever tried. I think we were like, let's just look down at the end of this hall real quick. And then we found a secret door. Yeah. And then you started exploring and you found a library. You found those potions and elixirs. You found that room that was trapped

with the bed in the middle of it. We found no keys yet. We found the mask and the costume. Should we just go back to that? And then I kind of looped back around and then you went north. Yeah, so you've never been going. Should we go back to that Eastern door

or should we go to the library and spend a night? I did write in the notes, we have to search for the combination. Oh, right. So we don't know the combination. I think we should. The three lock. But that's the vault. I don't know if this door is the vault.

Right, right, right. I'm saying correct, but we still haven't found the thing to the vault anyway. I think the information wasn't in Riddleson's library. It was that room to the north. We have not looked there. That stuff. Yeah. It seems wild to heavily search his office found behind a secret wall and not find the combination

What? It's not in his office What you found a schematic? If you remember like a paper Underneath it was like on the floor under a table leg or something that talked about the lock It was like on the floor under a table leg or something that talked about the lock Complex diagram complex diagram that may you know meta wise it's going to help you sure perhaps crack into that But didn't say like 25 left two turns got it I say let's go back up. We have nothing to lose. There was nothing bad up there that we know of let's go look in that

North room and then let's go through the East door so we can do what was scrawled in the cell to go to the East, kill Edward, and free us, avenge us all. That's right. We didn't even mention there were these cells all the way to the South of the lecture hall that you wrapped around, found another secret door into the cells. And-

Tiny cells too. Tiny little horrible cells. It's just like- It's just like- you just stand in it. It's like being in the box or something. And, oh, Bill Edward, avenge us all. Yeah, so you want to go to that, you know, when you when you finished in the lecture hall, you found a secret door behind the purple curtain

and you started traveling along and you found this room with crates and boxes and notebooks and journals. Is that the room you want to go? Yeah. All right so make your way back there pawn-wise and let's go over again what you saw here because it's been a few a few eps. There is a dry sewage channel that kind of splits the room in half and it dead ends against a new looking brick wall to the north. There is four iron and wood chairs adorned yet again with these restraining straps in the southern portion of the east section of this area. There's a ramp leading to a door, a narrow walkway. You've already gone through that door that leads down,

but you could have also swum down the channel. Two large metal tables, and then shelves holding large collections of alchemical and surgical tools, books, scrolls, notebooks. You start looking around here. You want to spend some time and you see that things are written in primarily three different languages. You notice common and I'll just tell you the other languages are Verisian and Aklo of which I don't think any of you speak unless you, unless Ogman Zorius gave you that power. No.

Okay. So, because common is the only language you speak, it's going to take a lot of time to dig through these things. However, all of you can spend that time and hopefully discover things. But where you only have one of the three languages, you're gonna have to spend some significant time here. I can give you an idea. Well what is significant time?

Is it hours or is it days? I would say where you only know common, you'd have to spend a full 24 hours here. Okay, that's what I thought we would have to do. To begin learning. We're gonna get caught. I mean, Zephyr can watch. I don't have many skills. We're not gonna get caught. Towards investigating. He's gone. I can also probably, I mean, I can prepare a spell to come, like, it's called

translate now, but I could prepare comprehend languages. I just don't have it ready right now. Yeah, I think comprehend languages still only let you know the language for a certain amount of time. It could be. Yeah, we can call translate now. But I remember looking at that. I was like, Oh, maybe Joe could just cast that. Its duration is one hour. Yeah, so even if you knew two out of the three languages, it would still take eight hours to really crack as to what's going on here. It's just, imagine just a room full of journals. Do you guys have journals? In old journals?

Real life? Yeah. I used to. Sometimes I have like old, I'm bad at keeping journals. Yeah, me too. I go on and on. Five started, half started journals. I have like old, I'm bad at keeping journals. Yeah, me too, I go on and on. Five started, half started journals. I started like my junior year in college

and I probably finished about six of them into my twenties and stuff. And I wonder if I should just burn them all. Publish them. Publish them, you know. Publish them. Self-publish all of them. What do I do with them?

Like, do I just, do I get rid of them? How do I read them and you track your own state of mind? You understand more about yourself? What if I don't do I get rid of them? Or do I leave them? You read them and you track your own state of mind. You reminisce. You understand more about yourself. What if I don't want other people to read them? Well, don't give them to other people. And self-publish them. No one will read them.

Yeah. Sure. Okay. The best journal I kept was my dream journal, which I kept to try to lucid dream. Do you guys ever try to do that? You're supposed to like keep it and it helps you to lucid dream, whatever.

You write it immediately when you wake up. Boy howdydy everyone should keep a dream journal just the weirdest shit just so bizarro you read it back and you're like Wonder what kind of day I had that that's what I dreamed about So you want to you want to spend 24 hours here It's gonna be more because you can rest as well if you want to turn it into a rest you can't just read for 24 Yeah, yeah, we'll do a whole day in here researching and resting and preparing spells etc and I'm not going to prepare translate. Should someone tell Hubert that we're doing this? He's at the top of the stairs guarding the door in the library. Well that's the other thing to think about and that's an important point not even Hubert but like there's Alwyn staff. We're going to

wonder where the fuck did the gay walkers go? Gic is gonna go tell- You've been down here. You haven't arrested yet, right? Right. No. So you've basically been down here for a couple hours. Well, yeah, if you spend 30 hours, what does it matter? I think Gic is gonna go back up. Here's what I wanna do.

Gic wants to go back up, open the door, get Hubert's attention, and tell him our plan, and tell him to tell anybody who asks, especially Alwyn, that we went into town early in the morning and we're doing some Shopping. Some studying, some sightseeing, you know, whatever. We just needed to go into town.

And we're staying overnight. And we're staying overnight and we'll be back. We need a little break, a little vacation. So after dinner you went into the library with the rest of the Game Walkers and then decided to go spend a night in town. Early in the morning we leave. Like that's the story. Like 5 a.m. Oh no, what he's saying is it's that won't work. Why? Because you- Because it's the evening now. It's the evening when you went- you just had dinner. And they know we still the doll

Still all that so they would know they did a different story. I want to get hammered Yeah, we went into town in the evening and we're gonna say overnight dragged us out We haven't been out in so long It's been a whole day. We've been here can't stand it anymore. Yeah And we don't like your attitude Always or your wine. Wow. And we don't like your attitude, Alwyn. Or your wine. Wow, all right, so you wanna add?

No, no, no. Have Hubert tell the, what's his name? Alwyn? Alwyn. Alwyn, yeah. Have Hubert tell Alwyn that Ramius was so upset by the servant going upstairs at all that he couldn't stay in the house anymore. That servant's gonna get fired, what the fuck?

Yeah, dude. Yes. She needs that job. Let's wield our powers, Gatewalkers! Wraith level now. All right, so we should probably play this out. You come up the stairs, and Hubert's sitting there reading a book,

and he's just like, yeah, yeah. Gic loudly closes the door and then opens it again. Hey, just a book on botany. Well, he has a type. Gic holds her tongue, nods really politely. Hubert, I can't. Can't stand up. That Huber, I can't- Can't stand up.

You don't have to. Please don't. Please don't. He has bombs. That's the first thing he asks? That's the first thing he asks? How's Bards? He never cared about Bards.

He's thinking about him. He didn't even like him. That's a boy howdy. The rest of the group is down in the basement. Yes, all of you in barns? We need a favor. We need a favor from you. Oh, all right. We found some stuff down there and we're gonna... Is it? No, information, paperwork. Paperwork. Paperwork. We're gonna have to stay down there and we're gonna... Dessert? No, information, paperwork. Paperwork. Paperwork. We're gonna have to stay down there for like a day.

A whole day? What do I tell Owen and the others when they come looking for you? Tell them that we went out after dinner into town. Along with Mr. Barne? Yep, everyone left. He led the charge to the bars? To the bar, exactly, to the bars. So we went to the bars, we stayed out,

we're gonna stay in town. Really? We're gonna do some shopping, we're sightseeing, and we won't be back for a day. All right, and you left me behind. You wanted to stay behind. I wanted to stay behind, so I did. Because you love the food. I love the food and the books. And the books. Right. Tell me like the books.

Right. But do not, Hubert. Yes. Do not say anything about the basement that you were in here, that you know about. You should not know about it. All right, good, yes. I think we're on the same page. I will relay the message when I'm finished here. You take your time. Oh, I will. Goodbye. Okay, Dale Barnes, I said hello.

I'm thinking of him. Yeah, you see a single tear rolled down Geek's face. I will close the door. Yes, I have something very important to tell you. And she makes her way back to the group to relay that like, got him, everything's all good, we should be good. Okay, open it, shirtcase. What could go wrong? What could go wrong? Putting all our eggs in the Hubert basket.

What the scariest thing is, that's the most competent I've ever heard Hubert about a plan or anything, which freaks me out. That is a little alarming. Caught him at a very focused time. All right, so you come down there and you spend a day plus resting and reading and trying to make heads or tails of these journals and notes and diagrams and all sorts of information onto what was going on in Dr. Riddleson's head over the past few months.

Now, some of it is in dialects that you might be able to make little words out like Verisian, I'm sure has some sort of crossover to common. But Aklo is like reading the, you know, necotic manuscripts. It's very foreign and it's also jarring to look at. Sometimes if you stare at it for too long, it starts to infect your brain. So you really just focus on the stuff you can read

and you learn some things. What things? Find out right after this video. Juicy things. What things? Find out right after this good show. Juicy things. We hope you're enjoying your Air Canada flight. Rocky's vacation here we come. Whoa is this economy? Free beer, wine, and snacks. Sweet! Fast free wi-fi means I can make dinner reservations before we land. And with live TV, I'm not missing the game. It's kind of like I'm already on vacation. Nice!

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Ramious, you're reading and something, you start going down this trail, you see him mention a hand, like a mummified hand that he found. Vecna! He found this mummified hand in his belongings when he woke from the missing moment. He has no recollection of walking into the gate with this hand, but when he woke up, not only did he lose time, but he found in his belongings a mummified hand, and it seems like he has been trying to grow that hand back into a full body. And he calls this creature that he's trying to rebuild the guest. Oh, great.

That's eerie. Any descriptions of the hand? It's a human hand? It's like a furry, like a furry hand. Like a Yeti hand? Like a Yeti hand, sounds like a mummified Yeti hand. Has no memory of how it came into his possession, but he's trying to regrow it into something called the guest.

And it seems like he's built an entire containment chamber for the guest, somewhere down here. Oh, man. Fuck off. You see that like the schematics for the containment chamber are just, they look like the workings of a madman, the writings of a madman.

There's all these levers involved with the containment and it's like there's a liquid and all. That must be what's in the vault, I assume. That's what I'm thinking. Yeah. What was the, we knew what was in the vault. I assume. Yeah. What was the thing? We knew what was in the vault. He called it something else, though.

The Blessed One. The Blessed One. I wonder. Is the Blessed One the guest? I don't know. Gek, though you just learned to read yesterday, you learn some things as well. You find what seems like Edwards dream journal Oddly enough your dream journal on the mind

And it seems like ever since the missing moment He has been really focusing on Recording his dreams and you get the sense. This is something he has done ever since childhood. Like he was obsessed with dreams and the powers the dreams hold and after the missing moment it seems he finally cracked some sort of ability to invade other people's dreams. Specifically the dreams of the Gatewalkers, the dreams of those who have shared in this strange missing moment experience. The notes further reveal how his obsession with dreams led him to this quest to try and get to the Dreamlands. You know, oddly enough, this quest is very similar to an enemy we face in another adventure that we are playing.

And he believes that if he could figure out a way to get into the Dreamlands, he would be reunited with his missing memories and become even more powerful huh So obsession with dreams ever since he was a child. It's an onirgin Figured out how to invade the dreams of other gatewalkers and now believes that if he can find a way into the dream lands Can get his memories back. So you start to think is that how you can get his memories back so you start to think is that how you can get your memories back get mocked oh Zephyr whoa you maybe you get really into the nameless spires talk anytime you see nameless spires mentioned you, you start, you're like, all right, I'm gonna focus on this. She's

doing the hand, he's doing the dream. You read these musings by Dr. Riddleson that he believes during his missing moment, he made an expedition to these nameless spires on the crown of the world. He's not sure, but this is what he believes. He's trying to piece together what happened. Maybe similar to what you experienced on the Lake of Mist and Veils, he started to see visions, but he was able to interpret those visions in a way that led him to believe that he made an expedition to the Nameless Spires and he believes, or he's at least concluded, that if he can return there and dream somewhere in the vicinity of the Spires, that's how

he will get entrance into the Dreamlands and discover a method to significantly enhance the psychic gifts that he believes he gained from a Soyo. If he can go back to where he went in the missing moment which he believes to be the name of Spires, sleep and dream there, he will be able to discover a way to enhance his psychic gifts that he was given by a Soyo or that he can steal from other Gatewalkers by invading their dreams and perhaps experimenting on them. Now the map is kind of making more sense because it was going to the Crown of the World and he's like, I left my yurt there maybe to sleep and dream in.

The old dreaming yurt. Boggles. Whether drawn to it or maybe the Kulakan was drawn to it, you anytime you see anything about asoyo, you start going down the asoyo rabbit trail and his notes on a Soyo go round and round trying to theorize on what a Soyo may be. So even he doesn't know. He's like, is it an alien? Is it some sort of undead god? Maybe the collective consciousness of the long dead builders of the

nameless spires? His own mind projecting to guide him from the future. So at a certain point he thinks that a Soyo is just a manifestation of himself trying to guide himself back. And it's just all of these and even wild- He's crazy. He's crazy. Wild theories filling the pages, but throughout all of it, you see his obsession, his obsession

and his fear that if he's not the one to release a Soyo, he will go unrewarded. This fear becomes eclipsed near the end of the notes by a greater fear that all of you, and he mentions your name specifically and you see that he's added names like Gic after the fact, he's added Barnes after the fact, like in the notes. Are they're cross outs? Crossed out Asta, yeah, yeah. He's feared that if you push a Soyo back into his prison, that will strip all Gatewalkers of their powers and end his mission.

He's like a reverse Ahab. He's obsessed with this whale, but instead of wanting to kill it, he wants to save it. He wants to save the whale because he's taken these powers and found a way to enhance them, like your deviant ability. But to what end? Are out of your control. From what we can tell, he just wants to know what happened to him and regrow the guest? Or is there anything in there about world domination? The combination of what you've learned so far, it's about enhancing personal power.

He's figured out a way to harvest power from dreams and thinks that Osoyo is guiding him to even greater power. It's lust for power. Is there anything in here about the mask? No, I mean, at least after 30 hours of looking, you haven't seen that, but you know that if you spent even more time in here, you could learn even more. There's nothing in here about him contacting us through dreams.

Nothing here about, so I went into Ravius's worst memories. Well, you did see- I tinted him with my mask. You did read that, or is it, that he's been able to invade the dreams of the Gatewalkers, but you don't know to what end in this first 30 plus hours of looking. I mean, that's how many notes there are. You know, you could spend more time here and probably learn more.

And nothing just in that last tidbit about like enhancing the psychic gifts or stealing the gifts of other Gatewalkers or experimenting on them, was there any more information about the experimenting on them part? Like, any more info than us speculating about what he was doing? Why, why he was experimenting on you or anyone? Or like, what the experiment would be? No, it seems to be

He's trying what you know so far is that like he's trying to extract Powers from people but you do not know to what end is it just to enhance his personal power? Possibly but in in in his ramblings. It seems like he's trying to use that power to do something else to like redirect that power, maybe to release a soil, or maybe to do something else that's just not clear. It does really feel like the ramblings of a madman, but it's an obsession. It's like someone trying to understand what happened and pieced together you know memories that no longer exist I

Want to kind of push this aside and concentrate on those schematics to the vault like if I can sure you Spend some time looking at the schematics to the vault and it seems like there are three doors, each with their own locking mechanism. Between each of the doors is a space that only one person could really fit. It's meant for just one person to go through like this. Once one door is open, the other two cannot open. So in order to progress further, you have to close the door behind you. And then that one person can then try and unlock to get into the next room. I guess we're not going in there.

I'm scared. So one at a time. Yeah, it's like a little five foot space. So it's meant really for one person or one at a time. I'm sure he didn't build this thinking a group would infiltrate his lair. But yeah, one person at a time, but it's built in such a way that only one door

can be opened at a time. You do get the sense that if you're going out, you can open the door freely without having to enter a combination, but that is like a triple lock system to get into the vault. How tall are the ceilings? 10 to 12 feet. Damn it.

Well, we could be on each other's shoulders on someone else's shoulders, and we would just about fit. You have no reason to believe that it's meant to house more than one person. I'll figure out this door puzzle Clearly, it's not three characters in a trench coat, but I'll figure it out What do we do about this frickin vault because now we've been down here the the amount of time that we said we would be Yeah

I mean if we go in the the ghost whale said to go in there and it was like a special Person in there Blessed one and we need to like release them But then we're seeing this a Yeti thing and the carving in the cell was like kill. Yeah Riddleson So I'm not sure what we're gonna. Yeah, I mean met from a meta standpoint. I feel like we can't just like Not go in right now. Yeah, we can't just leave you like, okay. Well, we'll wait for Riddles like we can't just not go in. Right now? Yeah, we can't just leave. You're like, OK, well, we'll wait for Riddleson.

So who's going to go in? I'll go in. I don't really care. I have a question about the- OK, I bet the most skilled person should go in, but go on. Is that you? I mean, I could. I have like thievery and stuff.

Maybe it'd be easier for me to open the doors. Yeah, whoever wants to go in, we'll see when we get there, obviously but I want to do any checks if there's anything else I can learn from a medical standpoint as a doctor but then also as a divine caster thinking about resurrection reincarnation but then also you know more mundane or maybe even alchemical methods how do you grow someone from a body part you know like a dead mummified I know I know from a meta standpoint that the resurrection spell can work with a part of a body at a very high level but it's that anywhere into what

his notes are talking about or is it like his notes are very focused or is the mummified hand is it like thousands of years old does he give because that would have felt like you can't do that. That wouldn't yeah that would. And he's trying to like grow it so maybe if we find it it's like half made like it's not resurrected. Yeah it sounds like something out of alien resurrection. Yeah, it sounds like some kind of science semi scientific Alternative to resurrection right exactly and as a you know medical Mundane medical guy as well

I'd be curious to see if there's any more info or if I could just think about my own experiences with that if there's anything Give me an Alchemy role is that what you have? I do have crafting a craft alchemy roll. Is that what you have? I do have crafting. Yeah, craft alchemy? They don't have craft. I don't really... I think it would be lore alchemy, which I don't have. But I have crafting. Okay. It's just general crafting. It's not craft, John. Craft. Yeah. It's just general crafting. Yeah, we talked about this before with identifying the poisons and stuff. Yeah. And that's for like making things. Oh no, alchemical. If you want to make alchemical items, it's not, it doesn't say that it's for like understanding alchemical stuff.

Yeah. So if it's only, if it's purely alchemical reactions. What does Aldo have for that knowledge in Strange Aeons? I think just, he, lore alchemy. Lore alchemy. Lore alchemy. And no one has that, right? No. All right, so let's try arcana.

There's certainly things to learn. It seems like this isn't something that would be pure science. There would have to be some magic involved. Can we all rule? At least you can rule it out with a good rule. What about religion? You can do religion, yeah.

All right, I'll do religion. I'm not trained in neither of those. 27. Arcana. Arcana. 23. 23. I'm not trained.

I'm not trained. 20 religion. You can still do it. I don't think you can. I don't think you can recall knowledge. Yeah, you can. You can? I rolled a five and I have a plus one.

So you just made a fool of yourself. Holding the book upside down. I just think it's like there's always a chance that you could know something even if it's not your field. It's true. You know? So, Gic, not Gic, I'm getting all your names wrong. Buggles, you have, if Rabius brings this to you, you have heard of rituals like dark, dark

rituals, maybe necromantic in nature of some consider unnatural cloning. And you know, that you start going down that rabbit trail thinking like, okay, if you mixed these cloning rituals with like science and alchemy, and you look at the notes that you found on this containment unit and the levers, it looks like there's liquid and whatnot that he's doing some dark shit if what he's saying is true, but you don't know how you think that this is a mix of some sort of ritualistic thing, maybe dark rituals and science?

Buggles turns to the rest, little green dude that he is, and says, begun the Clone Wars have. Nice. Wow. Good. Glad you said that. Yeah. Yeah.

Gip wipes that down. She's like- If it was Halloween, you'd that. Yeah. Gip wipes that down. She's like... If it was Halloween, you'd go as Yoda. You'd just have to get some ears. You'd be a great Yoda. Oh my god. You'd just have to get some ears.

So cute. Side note, I was just looking at Resurrection because I haven't looked at it in 2e and I was just like, am I high enough level to cast that? The answer is, I will be next level. Really? Yeah, but it's a ritual. Oh, is it like a scale thing with raised dead? Yeah.

Oh, it's a ritual, so you need multiple casters. It's gonna take a while. It's a ritual, it's so cool. It's a ritual, you need multiple casters. And I just, I don't wanna go into the details. I just went to the end, heightened to 10th level, as a spell, right? Heightened to 10th level.

It doesn't matter how long ago the person died. So it could be from forever, and it requires 16 secondary casters. Holy shit. Oh wow. A cult. Exactly. It is a true cult raising of an ancient mummy or something. Is that so cool? That's awesome. The target can be up to 20th level.

That is so cool. Isn't that awesome? 16 secondary casters. Well that's probably how the Whispering Tyrant keeps coming back. You get enough high level cultists. Enough lunatics together. Yeah, they're rune lords and whatnot. But yeah, so it seems like a mix of science and dark magic that could regrow a hand.

I mean, using the knowledge that we have of like modern day science, that sounds like Dolly the sheep. Yeah. Okay. You have the DNA from the hand,. Let's build something from it. Should we take another day? Keith, there's still so much we haven't read. He's looking at the books. Well, we have to tell someone it's going to be weird. I told Hubert we were in town for a day.

I'm going to stop looking for us. But we are here as guests of Rus'. Ramius. What if he comes back? Also. Who cares if he returns? We're guests in the cage of a madman. Who's to say what he's gonna do? We're not guests, Ramius.

I just mean that no one else is going to bother with us. No one else cares. And if he, as I said before, it makes no sense that he is not here to protect this vital information, knowing we were coming to his house. Well, I think the demon in the other room was to protect it. I think he would not want to see even walk into the library. So I believe he would be here to protect it at all costs. It is against his will that he is not here. Hmm.

Huh. When you went up to Hubert, did he have any news of Riddleson? No, he was busy. Huh. Busy in a library. He can't read. Weird. Oh, he had a book of, uh, botany pictures.

Oh. Oh. Keepers. Extremely... Keepers! Oh, he had a book of botany pictures? Oh. Keepers. Keepers. Extremely detailed diagrams of stamens and pistons. What are they called? Pistons, I believe it's right. Pistons.

Not as a pistol. Pistons in volume one. I hail from Detroit. Pistons? What are they? Pistons? Pistols? Pistols. Itils? What are they, pistils? It's neither of those things.

I've never read a botany book, I don't know. I know the word you're thinking of, but I can't think of it. What the fuck is it? I think it's pistil. No, it's pistol, it's P-I-S-T-I-O. Pistil, pistol. Oh, it's pistol. And he couldn't stand up.

And he couldn't stand up. He was up there, jazzing off. Buggles! Buggles! Sort of language offends the women. I didn't know you knew about jazz. Jazzing everywhere! How can you not know about it?

They're jazzing everywhere! That sounded like the Battlestar Galactica term for it. I heard a guy on YouTube say that like a few weeks ago. Jazzing off! I just haven't stopped thinking about it. Really funny. Jazzing off. Don't come in.

I'm jazzing off. I'm jazzing off. There's jazz everywhere. There's jazz everywhere. Don't come in. Oh, sweet. Sydney. And all that jazz.

Puzzle off. Doot, doot, doot, doot. Well, Ramius, if you think it's safe to keep going, I mean, I'm going to keep going. Close it off! Well, Ramius, if you think it's safe to keep going, I mean, I'm gonna keep going, but I just don't want to draw suspicion. And I really think we should go through the door at some point. I don't want to lose our opportunity,

but if no one knows we're down here. Should we go now or should we do more research? I don't know, it's kind of like both sides, if we open the door and then we lose the opportunity to stay down here. I guess there's no clear answer. I'm so tired. You didn't sleep?

We slept, Buggles. We all slept. Did you? And I feel great. Let's go. Let's go. I checked Buggles' forehead. I checked Buggles' forehead.

I don't know, he's talking about jazz. He seems out of it. I think we should go look at the vault. Let's go check out the vault. Then let's do it now, and then we have to go back up. We have to show face to Alwyn and the other Gatewalkers. I mean, they could be in trouble. I don't have a good feeling about any of this.

Yeah, and then maybe if we open the vault and everything's fine, one or two of us can stay down here. While one or two of us go up and cover. If it's not dangerous, I'm sure that'll be no problemo. I just don't see it. I don't see it, Kik. The dangerousness of it all? I don't see checking in with these people. Who cares?

What are we going to do? Here we are! Hello! What are they gonna do if we don't show up? Where's we going to do? Here we are. Hello. What are they gonna do if we don't show up? Where's Riddleson? He's still not here yet. Dick starts walking. Okay. Dick starts walking towards the vault.

Then we say, we're just going to go to the library. Tick, tick, tick, tick. Back downstairs. I don't like Alwin. I don't like his face. I don't like the way he talks to people and I don't trust him. Yeah, he is a piece.

He is a real piece. I just think out of all the things. You said that so reserved, you're like, he is a real piece. Zephyr. What? Zephyr. Gic snapped at Zephyr. What did you just say?

Buggles said jazz. Sorry. He's a real botch. I just wouldn't want Alwyn to look for us. Perhaps he knows about this. That's all I'm saying. I understand, but I will do what- He may know.

I'll do what you wanna do. Let's at least look at the vault and then we can make a decision from there. What'd you say? I'm over by the vault. See ya. Wow. Wow.

Remus? Wow. So you wanna go to this door actually. Let's go to the vault. Can't hear you. Ladies at the vault. Go to the vault. Can't hear you. Ladies at the vault. Ladies at the vault. Ladies at the vault.

Ladies leave your vaults at home. The boys are far away and we're right by the door. Alright so there is a door leading further east. It is unadorned. It looks like all the other doors. Ramius pulls out his greate and kicks the door open. Whoa, where'd you get that? What the? What the? You can't heft that.

So we know there's only enough room behind here for one person. Who's going in? Well, this this is not the vault door, right? I don't think so. There's not a three lock mechanism on this door. Looks like a pretty normal door. Okay, let's try to open this door. I have thievery. Do you have thievery? Check I have we already determined. It's locked you don't know anything Yeah, we'll deal with this door in a second. Well check it for traps or something. I don't have thievery Oh, that's perception. Oh, it is just perception. Okay, so perception for traps It took my job up 22 perception roll is so bad a I don't know. 22. Your perception roll is so bad.

A dart flies out of the peephole and hits you right in the eye. Jesus, give me a fortitude. Are you kidding me? Are you joking? You gotta joke about something. Are you joking on my ass? Give me a roll.

You have any bottle caps? Yeah, definitely use them. I do. How many? It was a 19. Do you guys think that's a fail? Do not spend a bottle cap. It's a made up dart. 19.

It's a made up dart. If you spent that bottle cap, he would accept it. What? In the world? How could you do this to us? You can't say I get hit by a dart and then go, it was actually not a thing. If you spread that bottle cap, he would accept it. What in the world? How could you do this to us? You can't say I get hit by a dart and then go, it was actually not a thing.

I'll take that bottle cap. It's actually such an amazing idea. She's just like, right in the eyeball. I was gonna have your head swill. And that's what happened to all the bodies at the bottom of the system. Now it all adds up. Of course.

Pop. I love, there's few things I love more than when PCs stress about a completely normal door. I know, that's what I'm, just open the door. What do you mean, we walk into a room and then there's like a smoke trap that's invisible. You don't know. This happened on the disorganized play.

We were so worried about a rug. So worried about a rug. And the whole time Joe was like. And like eight minutes later, after everyone has avoided the rug, one of them stepped on the rug, Kurgovich. And I was just like, wait, did you walk on the rug? And he's like, oh shit, oh I forgot.

And he's like, you know what, fuck it, I'm doing it anyway. And I was like, it's a normal rug. Nothing like that. It was smart. That's what a blitteron would do. That's what a blitteron would do. A blitteron fears no rug. I don't know. I'm sorry. I don't know. I'm sorry. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.

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I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Yep, you get a little hurt. Yeah, I think as you play to my hers you have to get even It's not too far. I know I'll never forget We're also down one person. Okay, go open the door. Okay, dick. Oh, I don't mind perception checks Just roll a person wait dick opens the door. Yes. All right hand off the chess piece. I said just say yes He should come mess it with the perception. It makes sense. Oh see a Just say yes. He should come mess with you. You did the perception it makes sense. You see a hallway looks to be about 30 feet or so long.

Five feet wide. There is a single door at the end of the hallway. But just before you get to the end of the hallway to the south, is a another door and it's like solid iron instead of a typical handle there is a wheel at the center of the door okay and at the center of the wheel is a dial numbered one to fifty and that is the door sorry not directly down the hallway to the right the southern door South wrong right the door at the end of the hallway looks just like the door you walked in I do want to say Before we started this as we were doing our morning preparations I cast my new spell mind of menace on myself. Hmm. Okay. What does it do?

Also I cast Vital Beacon on myself again. So that's where that glowing healing energy reverberates off of him. And if at any point you need healing, you can just touch him as an action. Oh yeah. Fused with healing. Cool.

Okay. I look at the two doors. What do we do? Go. The regular door first? The regular door? Yeah. See what's back there before we start messing with this dial.

Okay, I'm, Gekki's gonna turn the knob to the door. The knob is at least 120 degrees hot. It burns through your hand. Yeah, right. What the, yeah, right. Stop. Oh! Whoa! Just the door! What the poop? Oh Yeah right. Stop! Oh!

Whoa! Shut the door! What the poop is in this room? Close the door. This trapezoidal room that you open into. Should have checked for trapezoids! Yeah, you should have done- One time we don't check for trapezoids!

I checked for rhombuses, I'm an idiot. Yep, you fool. Detect rhombus. Detect trap. It looks, at first you're like, hang on! And then when nothing moves in the room, you realize that this is like a grizzly trophy room. Oh!

Holy shit. To the north and the south of the door, several humanoid skulls are mounted on stands. In the northeast corner looms a huge white-furred horned humanoid, while to the southeast sits Southeast sits a diorama of a strange city surrounded by six stone spires. Wow. The largest is good. Sorry, this is very mountains of madness like this. I'm sure they grew from there. It's like ancient city.

The largest display is to the east, an immense flickering image of smoke and shadow that looks vaguely like a whale, a whale with far too many tentacles and far too many eyes. So many eyes. I mean, any tentacles is too many. Yeah, even one is too much for a whale. Yeah. Original title for Time for Chaos was gonna be

Too Many Eyes. Yes. Too many eyes. Too many eyes. Too many eyes. We got skulls, we have furry human eyes. We have strange city, we have flickering image. This is a flickering image, like a sci-fi thing?

Like a hologram. Like a hologram? Do you do a perception check on the flickering image? Yeah, he's gonna walk up and see what's generating this. Is it being generated from a device? I have a question about like when we saw the whale, I pictured it being bigger. Well, this is a model.

Oh, I thought it was a trophy. Well, why do we don't know? Like a trophy like the actual whale. Good roll. Hey, thanks. What's your total there? My total is... What's your total there, buddy?

Total seems extremely low. Do I have a... Quickly! Oh, yes, I am unconscious. Oh. I don't know that that's true. You've been talking a lot for unconscious guys. That's affected all of your rolls.

I have been giving you false results for all episodes. Now, that is a 34. Oh. Okay. You can Oh shit. Okay. He refuses. Damn. What do you do when you approach him? Just eyes?

He's walking up to it. So does it also kind of flickers in and out? According to the map, it looks like there are other objects on the desk under the flickering image. Are there scroll cases or are those like telescopes? Yeah, those spy glasses or cannons? All right, so it's this eerie feeling as you approach it and look at it and you look down, as you look down at the things underneath it,

it looks like scrolls, scroll cases. You feel like you're being watched by this image seems to kind of see through it a little bit from time to time and other times it's like fully formed and there and you feel like you could touch it and grab it but then it flickers in and out or becomes semi transparent. And is it is it a soil? Is it the whale we saw in the sky?

It is. It's a little bit different. It doesn't quite look like Ogman-Zurius. We saw the whale in the sky. We assumed that was a soil when we were... Yeah, that's the closest thing to it. Same species but not necessarily the same person. Yeah, or like a different unnecessarily the same person. Yeah.

Or like a different, different artist interpretation perhaps. And it is, um, not moving at all. Like, it's not like it's like flowing even in this image at all. It's not like it looks at us. It's, it looks like you feel like it's watching you in a way. And you also have this overwhelming sense of deja vu. Where's the... Is it a projection? Where is it coming from? Yeah, that's what he was looking for. So he stops. He's like,

I think we've been here before. In this room? Sorry, I just got this feeling like we're being watched and that we've been here before. At least I have. He's looking at this flickering thing, looking at its many, many eyes. Zephyr does a perception check when she hears you say, we're being watched. Who are you? Hell yeah, the math is so big. Oh wow, oh wow.

30. Oh. 30. So, I'm trying to think of the best way to explain this to Zephyr. It appears like something magical is going on here. It feels like it's an illusion of some sort. An illusion that's been made semi-permanent. That's the best way I can explain it to Zephyr. And that's why we feel like we're being watched?

You feel like this thing, it has so many eyes, is watching you and you feel deja vu as well, but the deja vu, you can't quite, like all moments of deja vu, you don't know if you've been in this room or if you've been under the watchful gaze of this thing before, but you just feel like this has happened before. It looks like an Aboleth too. Can I attempt to disbelieve it? Oh, yeah. I kind of will it out of my mind like it's not there. There's nothing there.

Yeah, give me a will say. It's not that there's nothing there. Yeah, give me a give me a will say I Mean you ever have to wonder like what's gonna happen natural one? It's there It is no illusion. It looks like a statue like yeah, she says it's illusion. You're like fool Can get illusion and get go after she's ever saying it's an illusion. And you're like, fool. No illusion. Can Gic go after Zephyr saying it's an illusion, can Gic feel the real scrolls that are there? There are two scrolls that are still there and then empty the, or I should say scroll cases,

there are like used up scrolls and then two that have not been used. Can I look at the used up ones and then also grab the two? Yeah. Give me our can. Give me our can roll here. Okay. I want to see what you would actually be able to interpret in my... 25. Mind. Okay. It looks like all of the scrolls were scrolls of a illusory object and in fact the two that are were scrolls of illusory object. And in fact, the two that are still intact are of illusory object as well. But you can tell that the other ones were.

And so it seems like someone has continually cast illusory object to try and create this illusory sculpture. And it wasn't quite right. Let me try it again. Let me try it again. Let me try it again. Trying to recreate it again. Let me try it again. Trying to recreate. That's why maybe it looks different than what we saw.

Can I take those two scrolls? We create from a memory that no longer exists of, you know, Soya. Like that episode of Star Trek Next Generation. Remember? They're trying to piece together the room that they were in and they're asleep. Only with their memories?

Yeah. Let's get, no one who watches the show watch Star Trek The Next Generation. I know, it's like they'd be nerds're asleep. Only with their memories? Yeah. Let's get no one who watches the show watch Star Trek the next generation. I know, that's like the beat nerds watching this, come on. Silly. Fool. Can I do the same check then to disbelieve it with that information in mind?

Would I get like a boon? Yeah, give yourself plus two. All right, and this is, what'd you say, Will? Yeah, Will, we'll say, to disbelieve. Yes. 22? No, to disbelieve. Yes. 22? No, it's pretty high level. In fact, I'll just lift the veil here

because I hate stupid checks. These scrolls are fifth level illusory object. Wow. Okay. So, and disbelieving at all is gonna tell you at this point, it's like, that doesn't exist. Ramey is very stupidly believes it and will fight to the death.

I thought maybe there'd be like a secret door. He burns all his highest level spells shooting at others. He's like, it's not gonna happen. About the Yeti of his. Yeah, I wanna look at everything else. He's gonna turn his attention to the skulls. I mean, do we think that these have been the cleaned skulls of the people in the cistern? Beheaded.

Who looks at the furred humanoid and who looks at the strange city? I look at the Yeti. City. Yeti? Give me a society check there, Sefer. Oh, perfect. It's like the one thing I'm okay at. Or no, I'm kidding.

You're so good at so many things, Sefer. Stop. That's actually not wrong. That's wrong. Ten. Looks like a Yeti. things that have stopped. That's actually not wrong, that's wrong. 10. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Looks like a Yeti.

You know, you can't really discern its significance beyond that if it's a specific Yeti. It's a Yeti. Guys, did you see? If it's Yeti White. Wow. Is it a specific Yeti Ford? A specific Yeti?

Are there specific kinds? Kind of. Yeti Page. Salmon Car, is it? Is it like a... Can it say Yeti Ford? You don't know. Salmon Car. Because you got all these Yeti Bugs there specific kinds? Kind of. Yeti page. Salmon car, is it? Is it like a? Tennessee Yeti Ford. You don't know. Salmon car.

Because you got all these yeti buttons. That's a yeti. Yeti. You don't know. Huh. And she just like continues to look at it. Just do it like you see the math happening and you're like, why are you doing math? You have a moment of like,

I've stood before these before, you know, that very sick feeling, like I've seen these in the flesh. Okay. But you don't know what the significance is. You look at the diorama. City. Love a good diorama.

Give me an occultism role. Occultism? If you have it. I do. You should, right? You're a bard. Yeah. I know stuff.

You know stuff? Um, 24. Yeah, I mean- Oh no, sorry, 20- 24. 24, okay. This is obviously some sort of basic model of these nameless spires you keep hearing over and over again. It doesn't... you have no reason to believe it's a two scale map because it doesn't look like the same care went into its creation as did this illusory model of a soil. But you do see six towering spires surrounding a sort of hexagonal pyramid in the middle.

That seems to be the center of this hexagonal pyramid with six identical spires around it. It's the first you've seen of a structure beyond the spires. Hmm. But Brother Ramius, perhaps Buggles, come sidling up to look at the skulls. It is very disturbing, obviously. Made all the more disturbing by the fact it looks like the skulls have been cut in such a way that the top can be removed. So it's like you can place the top on and off. And each skull is accompanied by a plaque bearing names and dates. And you just start reading these names.

None. Ring a bell. Name. Date. What are the dates? Recent dates? Dates are all recent. All post-missing.

Moment. And it'll be like, interviewed this date. Har, interviewed this date. Harvested this date. Oh my god. The person's name. Then you see a name that you recognize. Says, interviewed.

It's about two or three weeks before you went to Seven Arches. Harvested a couple days after that date. Skull collected posthumously. And another date, which is basically shortly after Asta's death. The name is Gan Nagaso. We'll see you next week. Wait, was Bolan a gatewalker? Oh wait, yes, that was the whole thing. He was a big gatewalker.

I was thinking Bolan as you were saying it. I was like, wait, he wasn't a gatewalker. He was like a big time gatewalker. That's right. Wow. Harvested. Wow. Harvested. Harv That's right. Wow. That's why we backslide. God harvested. Wow. Harvested.

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