The Team House - Bhaals Deep: a Dungeons & Dragons Tale | Ep. 300 | The Team House

Episode Date: October 4, 2024

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Hey guys, it's Jack. I just wanted to talk to you today about a way that you can help support the podcast if you're not already. To support the channel is to become a Patreon member. So we have Patreon memberships that start at just $5 a month. And when you sign up, you get access to all of our episodes ad free. That's the big bonus for that. I mean, we also do some Patreon bonus episodes for our subscribers. But this is the biggest and best way that you can support the Team House. channel and podcast if you'd like to and we really appreciate that so go it and check us out at patreon.com slash the team house special operations covert ops espionage the team house with your host jack murphy and david park hey everyone welcome to episode 300 of the team house uh uh Long awaited by us. Maybe not by the audience. I'm not totally sure about that. So this episode, on the anniversary episodes, we always do something weird or gonzo.

This one, we're not going to do another 12-hour marathon session like we did last time. Yeah, it's a little nuts. So we're going to play a Dungeons and Dragons game. It should take just a few hours. Thank you for joining us. and we'll jump right into it. So I'm Jack. You guys know Dave.

You probably know Alana because she's been on the show before. And John joining us for the first time. Thank you for coming in. Glad to help. So, are you guys ready to jump into this game? Yes, yes. But I also want to give respect where respect is due. Jack, tell us about this.

This is not a module you picked up. These are not, this is not a kit that you bought. you know, for this module. Tell us a little bit about this game, please. Yeah, so this is going to be a fifth edition, D-N-D game, and I made up this dungeon, like made up the concept behind it.

And what's the, what's the campaign name? The campaign's name, the adventure name is Balls Deep. With an H, though, right? Yes, yeah, B-H-A-A-L-S, which the nerds out there will know as the god of murder in D&D. But Balls Deep was my campaign that I ran for the guys during COVID. They came up with that name and wanted to use it for something.

So I'm trying to carry the legacy forward for those guys. So yeah, I painted all the miniatures. I made the dungeon from scratch. So it's all a scratch-built dungeon. I was completely insane trying to attempt this and spent a ridiculous amount of time on it. But it came out looking pretty cool, I think. But you guys can be the judge.

So do you want to jump into the game? Let's do it. All right. Can you guys start out as it like a D&D podcast? Yeah, we did. We did. And the six people out there who watched it would know that. Yes, we started out as a D&D podcast.

Okay. So the three of you, gradually come to your senses and wake up. You can feel the grass against your cheek and on your hands as you've become aware of your surroundings. You open your eyes, you can see that it's daylight out. As you begin to hear things, you can hear the cicadas and the bugs chirping in the distance.

You start to look around and you can see rusty wrought iron gates, mausoleums, tombstones, and you realize that you are in the city of the dead, which is a ward and water deep where people are buried. It's where the cemetery is. Also known as kind of a place where you can get away from the hustle and bustle of the city for clandestine meetings or even just to take a picnic.

As you struggle to your feet, the last thing you remember is a night of carousing at the yawning portal, a tavern in water deep. But at some point in the night, everything gets kind of like vague and fuzzy, and you're now waking up in this gated part of the city of the dead. And as you get up to your feet, you notice that there is a woman standing just outside the closed gate. So before we move on, why don't each of you introduce your character? Tell them who you're playing. I am Logan, but it's with an H.

I'm very edgy. I'm a drow. Logan. Uh, I'm a... Yeah, where is the H? Logan. Well, it's...

It's there. I think it's a G.H. It's there. Logan. But I will correct you if you say it wrong. Um, no, but I'm a, uh, Drow rogue. Um, I'm assuming, do we all know each other? Have we done, have we done bits together before?

You might know each other? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, I was hanging with my peeps last night. You know, the goody two shoes over there and, you know, the wild woman here. But anyway, yeah, so that's it, basically. And I have a huge backstory. Alana. My name is Rubinica.

And I am a half-elf ranger who, I don't know I don't necessarily come into the city much or the town or even the tavern very much because I generally prefer to stay away from all

of that but... Just kind of a hillbilly but we accept her. Don't hate don't hate that some of us have other things to do but I do come in when I know that my friends are going to be around and hygiene

are about to ensue. So, and I have a little bit of a career as kind of a, not, I wouldn't, I wouldn't call it a bad background. Like, the stuff that I took was either a not nailed down, or it was for a good reason. I needed food or someone I knew needed food or drink or some cash or something. That's a long-winded explanation to say you're a degenerate cut person. I wouldn't call it degenerate. John? Well, you say Goody Two Shoes.

The name I chose is, or my name is, Alaric Gilded Heart. Of course. How are we friends with this guy? I have no idea. He keeps us healthy. I wiped the crust from my. I was like, what do you do you got me into this time?

Uh, um, just looking like your average human here. Just nothing particularly noteworthy of my guys. Gild, uh, being clear at Gilded Heart, my background is, uh, help where I can, do what I can with what I've got or if I sometimes need to, um, bend the rules to, uh, do good in the world. I believe my deity will be okay with that. Okay. So as you guys are getting up to your feet and you notice this woman standing right outside the gate,

she announces to you that her name is Mertha Dunvellgeld. Each of you wince at the pronunciation of this name recognizing Lady Monster of Waterdeep, a woman who, a wealthy woman, known to hire adventurers to collect monsters for her. She lets you know that you have been sealed inside this mausoleum complex with the gate, and she had her scouts pick you guys up from the yawning portal last night, after assessing you as being suitable for this task,

to go into the crypt through the mausoleum and recover a cat. of dragon eggs for her, about her inside the dungeon. She knows that you're going to need three keys to get into that final chamber, but doesn't know much more about the dungeon. Everyone else that she's sent in there so far has never returned. So as a kicker, she explains that you have four hours to complete this task before the poison already running through your veins kicks in and kills. kills you. Curses. The antidote will be provided upon your completion of the desk.

So is that what's in it for me? I don't care. The world is gloomy enough. Play some smiths. Don't cry, your mascara will run. I love playing those characters that are like Trent Reznor with a warlock cloak. I forget, do you have a scar down your cheek? It's through the eyebrow? Exactly.

All right. I mean, it really hurt badly when I put it on, when I did it. When you did it to yourself. You did it to myself. Just switches each sides each time I go out. All right, fellas. So here you are in the graveyard. Okay.

So there's... I'm trying to see where she is. She's right outside the gate. Oh, okay. Oh, she's on the outside. Yeah, you guys are locked in. Oh, fabulous. And the mausoleum is.

You know, you can see the roof. I take it. Okay. In the corner there? Yeah. Well, what else have we got? We got no money. We have no booze.

We have no... We got nothing. This guy doesn't drink anyway, so more for us. So aside from dying, what's in this for us? Yeah. Nothing, probably. You get to not die. Okay.

What are the other effects of the poison? There aren't any. Okay. Death, it's final. All right. All right, so I'm going to try to make like a persuasion role. And I'm going to make a persuasion. I'm going to, look, you poison us, great.

We'll go in, we'll get your eggs. But if you don't guarantee us something, we'll smash him while we're in there. If we're going to die, we're going to die. She says you can keep whatever, trust. you find inside the dungeon. Well, see, now that's a little better. Has she ever been in the dungeon?

She may have traveled remotely to work a few times following some of the adventures with screen spells. But we know this woman to be, like, powerful and, like, we know who she is. You've heard of her. You don't, yeah, you've heard of her.

Okay. Yeah. And she's above our above our weight class. Probably, yeah. Okay. Sorry, kids. Can we ask any more specifics on the dragon? She doesn't know much more about it.

She thinks that it's a young blue dragon, but that's mostly speculation. Okay. Because nobody has come back out. All right. let's just get this show on the road then if we have four hours

we have all of our kit we have all of our equipment yeah yeah nothing was taken from you okay all right mom I stare at this guy and say why God what no

all right so every one of those days so do is there only one door then yeah you can enter through the door on the mausoleum go inside okay

can I just go kind of around not necessarily around where she is like I'm not trying to get out but I'm trying to search around the gate around like this whole side of the gate the mausoleum side of the gate or fence to see if it looks like there are any other entrances or tunnels wouldn't be expecting. Yeah yeah you make around

around the perimeter of the fencing and no it doesn't look like there's any tunnels or or weighs out. Okay. All right. Okay. Check the door to the mausoleum. Yeah, it pushes open easily.

Okay. Inside, you can see colored light coming through the stained glass windows. Okay. We're going to do a standard two-by-two. So since we've worked together, I'm going to assume that, like, has the rogue also a drow with the dark vision I'll take point

you'll like be there and however you guys are I get well we'll guard the cleric in the middle yeah okay do either you have light I do I have I have for when we're in

I don't want to necessarily call attention to ourselves yet right but I do have I do have the ability to small not keep casting like it won't catch other things on fire type, yes. Just curious for those of us

without the benefit of dark sight, dark vision. Okay. How dark is it inside the room? It's, I mean, a normal person can see inside fine. There's enough light coming through the windows. Through the windows. Okay, what's in, so before I enter the mausoleum, I like look inside.

It's a bunch of volts where people are buried and a door with a bolt on the far side of the mausoleum. Okay, you mentioned earlier that, like, we know this place. We know that, like, people come here sometimes, hang out, like, it's... You've walked through the ward a few times. Okay. Does this mausoleum look like it, that people have been here recently? Does it look like it, you know...

No. No, it doesn't look like it's actively used. Okay. Dust on the ground. Any spider? Yeah, it smells musky inside. There's mold and moss growing. The windows, are they, like, are they broken at all?

No, they're not broken. They're actually colorful blue and red stained glass. Okay. We know whose mausoleum this is? If you look around at the names on the vaults, yeah, you can see that it's the mausoleum for one of the noble families. of water deep. There's, you know, hundreds of them.

And maybe half of those families have tombs in this ward. Also, I have dancing lights. So I can... Thank you. Whatever. All right, so I am... Obviously, I'm going to kind of check the area. How large is the monolium?

It's about 15 feet by 15 feet. Okay. And there are the crypts, are they, like, laid out on the wall they're in the walls on the side and then there's the door is straight ahead okay um i'll just go around to like the left and i'm not like being super cautious i don't figure that there's a lot of stuff here but but i am like just peering on each one uh yeah you can take a look um and uh there's a lever next to the door yeah on the far side right next to the door yeah oh oh the door we entered no no oh we the far door wrong lever

Okay. All right. Go back. Hey, there's a door here. There's a lever here. Do you want me to, do you guys want to come over here? Do you want me to test the lever first? Is the door open?

No. Does the door have a handle or anything like that? No. Just a lever. Okay. Is the lever in the up position or down position or neutral? Up position. It's in the up position.

Okay. So, is it the only mechanism? Yeah. I figure before we do anything we probably would probably all want to be in the mausoleum. Either that or I can

take a rope, tie it on, put a like stick a baton in the ground to bring it down, back up, and then pull it to open love with none of us in there. Okay, it'll probably take like five minutes or so to engineer all that.

all of over four hours all right yolo do you all want to come in and it may not be for very long we're only living once may only be four hours do you guys

do you guys want to come in or do you guys want to come in or do you guys want to stay out there while I do this? I'm in I'm in okay so are you guys staying on the far side though right where we entered okay I guess so the just instance

the door off to the right. Okay. Yeah, I, like, hey guys, make sure you don't stand in front of any of the, uh, uh, Crips. Yeah, Crips. Okay, so I, uh, standing off to the side of the door, uh, making sure, like, check and make sure that there's nothing looks like it's a hole or whatever. I'm going to reach out and pull the lever down.

Okay. So when you pull the lever down, you hear a click as something clicks into place and a mechanical whirling sound on the other. side of the wall and the door opens up. It opens this way. Is it dark inside or what's it? It's not super dark. There is light coming through more stained glass windows as it appears to let into some sort of crypt. Okay.

I have, I can actually cast a bit more light like I can throw light a little bit. whatever our standard strategy is that is what you see okay um you have you have dark vision too though or night I do but he doesn't how far yeah um but can she's from where she's out uh because

you'll probably like pie off the room you know with your bow I mean I from where you're right there you go there's a corner Before we go into the next room, I'm going to... You're in a hallway, and you can tell it turns, makes a hard right turn.

In the corner of that hallway, of that right angle, there's a statue. And there's, you catch a couple rats scurrying across the floor as well. Okay. Before we go any further... Oh, rats. Yeah, go ahead. I just think before we go any further, we're just inside. So I'm going to touch Rabbinica and cast guidance, and I'll walk over to you.

by the switch and touch you cast guidance. Okay. There's some rats. You can ask them what's going on. Yeah, sure. I have basic animal.

Do you need to cast speak with animals? I don't know if I'm not a couple of five either. It's okay. You're a fifth level of character and it's perfect. You cast a spell and it works. What do you say to the rat?

animal friendship we're friends hold on the so I can speak what do we want to ask these delightful friendly rats how friendly they are what's

what's it's what I'm actually just get out I can't see so there's a statue down there How far from a statue are we? And can we see what the statue is made? So each square on the dungeon four is five feet square. So it's 15 feet away.

Oh, I see the rat. Okay. Ooh, that's a big rat. That's the statue. That's not the rat. That's not the rat. Right in the front. Oh, is it?

Yeah. Oh, the big statue. Yeah. What's the big statue? The little ones. The little ones are rats. The statues here and the rats. Okay, what is that big statue then?

A person? That's what I'm about to ask the rat. You can make an investigation check or a history check. Okay. Or a religion check, actually. Okay. So what do you want to ask the rat? Who's that statue?

The rat stands up on its hind legs and squeaks, and it says it's one of the human gods. He doesn't know the name of it. How long have you guys been around here? We've lived here all season. You've seen any trouble? Other people passing through. Occasionally.

Have you ever seen anybody come back this way? Never. Hmm. It can be great. Did you tell us animal friendship? Can you, like, have the rat scout for us? Like, stay with us. I can get them to do, like, I can ask them to, like, do things, like, see what's

around the corner. There's very little, it's more that I can communicate with them. I don't have like particular persuasion. It's not like charm animal. Right, right. Okay. Yeah, it's more like we're buddies.

Did you make a religion check? I was going to, but, Rabinika, did you tell us what you heard from the rat? Oh. The rat knows the rats have not, first of all, they don't know who the statue is. If you ever seen that statue, do anything else, move. No.

All right. Dave, do you want to make a religion check? He's making a religion check. I'm going to make an investigation check. Not great. Six plus seven, three. No. Yeah, six plus seven 13.

Okay. The statue is of Sunei, the greater goddess of beauty and passion. Oh, hey. Let's get it home. Yeah. Her other nickname is the Lady of Love. Well, rogue. Adieu.

A do, adieu. I'm going to make. an investigation check from here from I've where we 15 20 feet away yeah um yeah I'll make just for I know I can't you know see everything but so it's uh five plus investigation four at 11 um and so from where you are you're just checking out see what's up ahead yeah actually though I have guidance on me um just so the the one thing that you do find there, Dave, is there's a stack of documents in the window is still next to you. Okay.

In the window is still right where the hole is? Okay. Yeah, it's another stained glass window. How do the documents, how do they look? They look like they haven't been disturbed in quite a while? They look pretty ragged. Okay. Hey guys, there's some documents here.

Can I read what's on, like, the top document without picking anything up? Yes. It says, you know, something about the blacksmith's daughter. It appears to be one of the many smutty chat books that makes the rounds around Waterdeep. Oh, nice, my favorite. Who left the documents here? I ask the rats. The rat has no idea.

Well, the rats don't know. So I check a couple more of the documents. Are they all of the same nature? Yeah, they're all cheap smut. Okay, so I'm just, if you guys... How far have the... How far have the rats? How far have you guys gone into the dungeon beyond here?

Not that far, but we go down to where the gate is. They go down to where the gate is, informing you guys. What gate are you talking about? There's a gate and that leads into where all the bones are. We don't go in there. Do the boat? The gate leads to the bones. Ask them if the bones move.

Do the bones ever move? We don't know. We don't want to know. That's fair. They do not want to know. Okay. How would, can you describe the gate for me? metal with holes in it.

So that's how you can see the bones, eh? Yeah. I'm going to move forward in stealth towards a statue. Go ahead and move your character around the dungeon. All right. So I'm obviously kind of watching out for traps, but I'm going to move

forward. Is there anything else in that window that I can find? Okay. Does the window open, or is Is it like just a seal window? Okay. All right. So actually, yeah, I'm going to move forward. Keep my eyes both on the statue and pying this corner.

Okay. Slowly, pying it off slowly so that I don't get caught by anything. I lost my mind. Okay. So when you look around the corner, you see this. Okay. And the rats, the rats are not hostile. Are they ignoring us when they?

whenever Rabinica isn't talking to them? Yeah, they're not really paying too much attention to you guys. Okay. Do you see the gate yet? I don't see the gate. How far past where we are now is this gate you guys are talking about? Not that far, just down the hall. Okay.

Will you ask them if they'll go down to the gate and just come back and tell us if there's anything between us and the gate right now? I can ask, sure. Go ahead. Would you guys mind scouting out the way for us? We've heard that there's, especially because you guys haven't seen anybody come back, we'd like to be the first. So can you guys run over down to the gate and let us know if there's anything that we, human types, us two-leggers, should be aware of?

The rat looks at you quizzically, says, do you have any cheese? You know what, I have a pack. Let me see what I got. I probably do in my little explorer pack over here. Usually carry some snacks. I can sacrifice a sliver of this hard cheese. Okay. So the rat takes the sliver of cheese and slides it into his cheek

and goes scouting around the corner. The only thing he really has to report, is that there is a very faint ruin etched into the far wall down around here. Okay. Oh, we're still around the first corner. The hallway, it looks clear. It goes forward into a chamber, and then there's a gate. And then on the left-hand side, there appears to be some sort of crevice leading to another

chamber. For the statue, is there an offering bowl? No, but down at the feet of it, there are like some coins and things where people have left stuff. Okay. We're not going to take...

We'll take on the way out. On the way out. Going for the collection. On the way out. Okay, I'm going to I'm going to try and see if I can pie the corner of where I can see the ruin without exposing myself. And I could just ask them to describe it.

I could just ask them to describe it. The room? Well, we want to get eyes on the room, though. Sure. So can I come up to this corner and just like peek around and check out the room? Yeah. Make an investigation check or make a a perception check. Perception?

Or hold on one second, please. Yeah, perception check, please. Okay. That is 9 plus 716. Okay. So the run is a run of scorching ray.

When you pass in front of it, it will briefly light up in a nozzle hidden in the wall will scorch you guys like a flame thrower sweet is the um is the nozzle is the nozzle like set with the run or is the nozzle like does do can i can i identify the nozzle no okay you know i don't know where the nozzle is you can see the run okay but you you can because you can see the ruin you can have some notion of what kind of trap it is okay um okay uh how How is it in relation to that crevasse? Say again.

How is it in relation to that little indent in the wall that the rat was telling us about? That indent in the wall was further down the hall. Oh. The area you haven't explored yet. Great. So, hey guys, there's a trap up there. I guess I'll deal with it. Thanks, rats.

So I'm going to, I'm going to try to, to come down the, this wall without crossing over. Okay. And try to approach, obviously, the, the ruin coming this way, but also checking for anything else that might, that I might not, you know, that might be facing. Go ahead and move you at the minute. Okay. So, sorry.

While you're skulking, I'm gonna take one of my very, very, very small, the smallest that I've got, coins. I'm gonna drop that right in that. I mean, I figure I'm gonna- You have to cross the run though. Because the run is down here facing this way. So, uh... I can toss it.

Oh, toss it, toss it, nice. Yeah, I've got some dexterity. I'm a half-elf friggin... Sorry, sorry. Ranger, bro. Sorry. Dead shot. I'm gonna I'm just want to take one I want to I want to I'm gonna take one for this I will I'm

getting interest back on it though well on our way out so we all know I'm gonna before you get too far down I'm gonna well wait I'll let you do that first thing before I go anywhere I want to I'm gonna toss a penny or a hey penny or a copper thanks a coppa into the bowl, our offering bowl. Lyrics. Lyrics. Yeah, you can we leave a coin down there

at the statues? Aller. Okay. I've got plenty of my little explorer pack. Also, like... You go, we weren't robbed in the cemetery. Yo, is Gildenhard or Gilded Heart? Gilded Heart. Y-G-H.

All right. You know anything? You know anything, you know, you're a holy ruler, you know anything about this, this chick? What's her name? It's Senei. She is the goddess of love and beauty, also known as Lady of something. There's my note. Lady of Love, yeah.

Do I know anything more about her background or? You're a cleric, right? Yeah. She's also the goddess of school. Yeah. Scorn loss. Yeah. Oh, she's the goddess of beauty in all its forms, be it sight, sound, smells, tastes, and feels.

The experience of pleasure was the touch of Sune. She's the goddess of all love, including the more negative aspects like obsessions, murderous passions, and the tragedies that could be born from love, but also deeper connections of matches destined and forbidden, as well as the transformation of ugliness into beauty. So she's a complicated woman. Does anything happen when I get the coin in her little basket there? Sunei is unmoved. Well, to do that if she's a gold digger and she really wants more.

So nothing happened when you threw the coin? No. With your good eyesight, can you tell what the coins that were on the ground already versus the coin you threw? That is a very good question. I mean, I think you can see the coin that you threw. Yeah. I mean, what are the other denominations?

We've got to continue bribing the goddess of love? I mean, there are silver pieces. There are dragons, which are the gold pieces used in water deep. The outbid? I only threw copper. Are there, is it just, Are there just coins, or are there like any types of like mementos, like lace or flowers? Just coins in this case.

Okay. Just trying to see if we can get her to turn that fire off, because that'd be cool. Okay. Does it look like there's an average, like are the coins all stacked? Do they spread out? They're spread out. They're spread out. I don't know how much gold I have, but.

I've got like 50 pieces maybe. 50 pieces. I think. We're going to. Dude, that or we're taking one to the team. This is near the entrance anyway, if once we're, if we survive. Quite frankly, other people have made it this far because the bones aren't until we get to the gate.

I mean, unless the fire's so hot that it incinerates our bones too, but are you kidding me? Yeah, I'll just, like, crawl over, avoiding the, if I can. Like, crawl under it? Yeah, crawl under it. Okay. And then crawl to the altar and, like, In terms of comparison with the dragons to the silver,

is there like more dragons? Is there more silver? It's just a mix. It's just a mix. All right, I'll just put, I'll put 10 gold there. Okay. And then crawl back, low crawl. Like sniper crawl.

Okay. You get back up to the room then. Okay. Oh, because I went back. Okay. All right. So, I don't know

What does the Wren look like? It's the ruin of scorching Right, the scorching Right, okay So can I Do you guys, hey guys I think I should disable this That sounds like a plan

Okay You're in it to win it man All right Dave You're gonna have to make an arcana check Oh no I'm not No I'm not Okay No

So I'm going to So I have guidance on that I didn't use it I'm going to use the guidance. That's an extra D4. D4. 1D4? 1D4. Unanability.

Okay. So my arcana, so my arcana, if it's not a skill that I have, then it just has my intelligence modifier, right? It should be right down here. Yeah, it's here, but I think it's just without, when it's not. Yeah. So there's no modifier. Oh, I thought it was just a plus one for intelligence. Okay.

11. Okay. No, no, no, I'm sorry. Nine. Okay. No, that fails to disable the trap. Okay. I only have a plus.

I can't get it. Whatever. I'm also just yelled at our missing person. Like, could have used a sorcerer right now, bro. Yeah. So there was nothing, so it, so there was nothing on that trap, though. like my thieves tools or anything like that. It was...

It was... It was... It was... It was... Okay. Oh, plus seven. Hey... He's got a plus seven for the arcana.

Yeah, I'm... Hey, uh... I can't figure this out. I don't know. I don't see any holes. I can't figure it out. You guys want to come look at this? Logon.

Is there anything I do to help? What do you need me to do? I don't... I don't know. It's just this glowy thing. I know what it does. But there's nothing here to... to stop it.

Can you guys come and look at this? But don't walk in front of it. Just come down this wall. Okay. There way I can look around. He's gulped over there, crawling. I didn't have to crawl. The reason I crawled was because I went back to the statue.

I walked down this wall. You stay against the wall. The run is right. It's kind of center, right? Yes. So the ruin is kind of centered. This hallway facing that way. I just walked down this wall.

and I'm sorry, I walk down this wall like this to the room. Okay. I'd like to follow Logan's exact path and... Grab yourself and... Yeah, move your character where you want him. Give me a solid and move me up to the corner. I'm gonna keep an eye on that there, Stach. I just don't trust statues in dead places.

All right, I've got your character, your men, where do I go? No, just like right up to the corner. I'm gonna pull rear guard for you on that stupid. stupid statue and then you're you. Where am I? You're there. Your finger was almost on it. There, no further down, further down.

Oh, stuck it. Oh, hidden. Okay. Silly. You guys are tucked in a corner. Okay. We can swap spots. Yep.

I try and take a look at it and see if there's something that jumps to mind as to what this is and how to deal with it. it. Just toss it. I can't. Yeah, about it. Okay. Yeah. Just go ahead and make an Arcana check. Okay. A nine. Well, at least, what do you have?

Do you have any modifiers on your character sheet for Arcana? Didn't you have plus seven? I rolled it two. Oh. Okay. That fails to disable the trap as well. God damn, my guys. Uh, yo, uh, Rubinna. Rubinica.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. You can call me Ruby. I forget with guidance. Was able to... Guidance is plus four. Did you cast it? What is what... B4?

Yeah. Go ahead and roll... Yeah, when I was casting on everyone, I forgot of two, so that's an 11. Okay. That successfully disables the trap. The ruin flashes blue and then just disappears. Okay.

I guess I'll come down there then. Yeah, hey, come on. But follow our path, so, like, you don't... Since you guys have... Since you guys have... move down there, you can now see down to the Oh, right, yeah. The ratscape.

So you see down the hall, down at the end, you can see a pillar of light coming down from an opening up above, lighting up the entrance to the catacombs beyond. There also appears to be some sort of a cave entrance over on the left-hand side. That's what the rats were talking about?

Yes. Okay. Can you do me a solid and move my... Yeah. Yeah. You want to come all the way down or you want to post up on the corner? I'll probably, I'm going to post up on the corner. Okay. And then, um... You guys want to come with us, fellow rats?

Good at skulking. We're good at skulking. We can skulk together. The rat's not going to go beyond the gate. Okay. But he'll follow you around. All right. Okay.

Have you guys been inside this cave? No. We don't go in there. It looks like it's packed full of spider webs. Oh. Spiders. I don't know if I can talk to spiders. I'm going to stealth down.

What do I see on this wall here? Like, I'm going to, this wall, is that anything in the two feet? Oh, that's just a lantern that's lighting up the way. Okay, so there is light. Mm-hmm. And there's nothing over here. I'm going to, hey, you guys want me to go check it out? Yeah, get a little used to, like, the terrain in the sense that, like, what you see is what you see.

Okay. If it's there, it's there. Okay. So, I'm going to come down here. Is the lantern, I'm just going to check the lantern. Is it fixed? Is it... It's just an oil lamp that's hanging on a hook?

An oil lamp hanging on a hook? So I can take it off the hook and, potentially... Okay. You can take it with you if you wanted. Okay. Is it the only light source other than what's coming in the windows? Yes. Okay.

And there's natural light coming down from the ceiling over in this area. Okay. Above the cave or above the gate? Above the, this doorway right here. Okay. All right. There's natural light coming in from above the door. Yeah.

So, um. Before going further, I recast guidance. Okay. Thanks. I'm going to, um. I wouldn't get in front of that cave entrance. I know, yeah, what we know what's in it. What I'm going to do is take the lantern off and cover it with something.

Like a cloth or something? Yeah, with a cloth. So it's dark here, but I don't want it to snuff. Okay. And then in stealth with the lantern in my left hand and my short-so of my right hand, I'm going to move over here to try to peer into. that cave. Okay. You look inside

and you see a small cavern appears to be like spider webs and stuff inside there. Okay. Is the front block, is like the doorway or the entrance? The entrance is clear. Okay. Do I...

Okay, let me look in there then. So spider webs, spider webs. Do the webs look any heavier in any particular part of the cavern as I kind of poker them? Nothing you can tell. Okay, so I'm going to go back. I'm going to move silently back to them, and I'm going to tell you guys what I saw.

All right. Okay. Also, I have fire. How much light is in that? The cavern, none. So it's just my dark vision that make boat and out as we see it. Well, but you have a lantern now? No, I covered it up.

Yeah, it's a water cavern, too, is the other thing that you would pick up on, as you can hear the drips of water inside. Okay. Hey, you guys think I should throw this lantern in there? You said there's water in the cavern. Is it just coming from the ceiling, or is it like dripping into a pool? You don't know, but you can hear drips.

I mean... What's your plan by throwing the lantern in? It's an oil lantern. Why don't I just... It's an oil lantern. Smashes and fire on the floor. Burn up the webs. Spider webs.

Ah, okay. Did you see any spiders? Saw a spider web. It doesn't sound like it might be a real good plan to... There's smoke, there's fire. Where there's webs, there's spiders. Where there's Logan with a lantern, and there's fire.

I mean... Do you have, like, offensive? I know that you played a heavy heel, or a heel. I've got a couple. I've got Sacred Flame. As a cantrip. Guiding bolt, I need to look that one up. Shield of faith, defensive.

Protection from good, evil, defensive. I don't want to burn a higher level one. And then do we all have the standard, like, does it load out? I assume we have maybe a little bit of oil. I have, yeah. I don't remember exactly what's in my pack, but I've got, you know what I do have.

like this sleeping mat that we're not going to use in the next four hours. I've got we can... I should point out it's more like three and a half. Three and a half hours. And we haven't made it past the tavern. We need to move a little faster.

Yeah. So my left arm is feeling a little funny. Here's this. Instead of throwing in our only light source, why don't we light one of these like pillow things that I got? Toss that in. Make it a little... You know what? No, I can just toss my little flame jabby in there

because it doesn't actually catch anything on fire. Well, secret. The name's a misnomer. It's radiant damage. I don't know. Oh, it's radiant? I don't think it's natural fire. It's got damage in the name.

No, I can cast like 20 feet. But yours is not fire, fire. It's just like... Basically, yeah. It's like it's not going to burn up the webs, but at least it'll show us... I think Logan wants to burn the webs. I know he does.

Don't like spiders much? No, I hate spiders. You know that. I mean like that. I mean like they might be nice. How about this? Why don't we light up their world? I can check and see if they're friendly.

Okay. All right. I mean, it doesn't say what animals I can and can't talk to you. Okay, so, all right. So I'm gonna put a little bit, I'm gonna dump a little bit of oil, like right in the doorway.

Just because you, yeah. just a little bit of oil like right in the door across the thing. Threshold. And then, yeah, and then you can do your thing, call out to your spiders, to your spider call. Okay, so what are we doing? So I'm going to go, I'm going to place a little bit of the lantern oil across the doorway and just like leave it. And then I think you're coming down. I can't actually cast anything on fire.

All I can do is throw light. I've got the fire I've got the fire code I don't know why you're doing this alright you in case they come out in attack this

because you're burning their house down no I'm letting you talk to them first you want to talk to them right I'm just taking precautions okay all right here's my sleeping mat

huh yeah I am drop your venom you just want to fuck the world Drop your venom and come out. There's no hostage in there. We don't need to stack on the door. All right, man.

Here. Here's my sleeping mat. You can grease that up, late in front of the door. Please don't burn down there, webs. Okay. I'm actually gonna, what you gives me your sleeping mat,

I cut it into strips. What? And then put a little bit of oil on each strip of it. And just kind of stand by with it. So, go ahead, hippie. Nothing catches fire. It doesn't even generate heat.

I thought you were going to try and talk to them. Logan has all the elements ready. If and when he needs them. All right. But he's not destroying anything. When this backfires on you, and it will. So yeah, so I'm kind of set up a little bit of oil across the door. Are you going to try and do the animal friendship thing?

Yeah, I'm going to make every effort to So you would have to go in there and actually identify an animal to try to speak to. All right. I have my palm. So we're down here. Fire. Yeah. Because it, oh, it's produced flame is the name of it.

So you do have fire. I produce flame. It's tiny. It's wee. That's where we have oil. Oh, fuck. Okay. Why do I hang out with it?

Thank you. My left pinky is now feeling funny. All right. I produce flame. So I am not a threat to these guys. It can stay in my hand. I approach. I avoid the oil-soaked rags that are now in front of them.

Oh, I have those. The only oil that's there right now is across the threshold. Well, that's where I'm going. So we're moving you. Yeah. Inwards. Just in. As you step inside, you see a couple giant spiders the size of dinner plates kind of scatter and try to move deeper into the shadows.

Okay. So they don't, I understand you guys don't necessarily dig light. Your light also catches a glint of something in one of the spider webs. I would like to know what that something is. First, I'm going to ask. Okay, so yeah, you can try to ask, but these are monsters, so you can't speak to them. No, I did not pick up that particular language skill. All right, in which case, guys, there is something shiny in a web.

Can't quite make out what it is. I think my produced flame only lights up. I think it's very small. I think it's like 20 feet or something. Well, 20 feet might be enough. If I can see any closer, can I see any closer to identify what that is for where I am? Oh, it's like a investigation check. Oh, fabulous.

I actually have pretty good at investigation. Well, she's looking at that since, I mean, I can see anyway without her light. But how high are the ceilings in the ceiling is covered in web? I'm just covering your back, sis. The ceiling is like maybe 15 feet high. Is it covered in webs or what I don't? webs and stalactites. Okay.

Well done. They are stalactites. Four, but I do have a plus eight. Okay. So you can see tangled up in one of the spider webs is a gem of some kind. Here we go. Over here in the web, we'll see if it stays there. Maybe.

No. Okay. But it's over there in the web. All the way across the room. And you can see the, also the spiders are kind of working around too. around the... Up on the walls. Okay.

And actually I'll put them. Well, guys, we've got some dinner plate size... It's right right shoebox there. The... Guys, so far, we've got some dinner plate size spiders. We've got a gem. And the spiders are... Look like they might be protecting said gem.

and I can't talk to them so they are unlikely to be they are they are not your they are not the spiders I would find out in the woods where I make my home so

okay I can about as close as I would be able to get would be the I'm not going to like shoot at any monsters with my bow. I've only got like

20 in my quiver and I've got to go get them. But I might be... I... Let's just burn it down. Let's just burn the world down. You want to light some dinner plate size monsters? How many spiders are there? Three that you can see. Three that we can see. Are we all in the room yet? We are not. I'm not in the room. You're not. I don't think... She's the only one in the room. I'm the only one with balls here in balls deep and we've made it to the point where the final has been said.

You're welcome. She's like SEAL Team 6. Only because I... Hey, little, little, straight up in a middle. I mean, I can talk to the seals. Can you guys clap? I'm a rebelled to Ball on my nose. So

What are we What are we thinking? How am I going to get this? How am I going to go check out and see what that thing is Before the three spiders want to Do anybody would anybody like to come in here with me? Oh.

No. Just come out. The gym won't burn. Let's burn it all down. There is a logic to what Logan is saying. I mean they're monsters. I don't really care about them. Do I see anything else, anything behind these webs?

You know, your light glints off a few other things. Deeper in the webs, hard to tell if it's glass or metal or what, but there do seem to be some items scattered around inside the cave. But that big honking gem is the one that stands out for you. around the corner behind. I mean, it's a gem. I know you want it. I want it, but I don't want to get bit.

I hate spiders. I only like bats. They're not real spiders, if that helps. All right, well, at least you're in the doorway. Thank you. Coward. I'm, I'm, um, my suggestion is let's commit to plan of action. How about this?

I will sacrifice one of my arrows if you would like so we can actually make a targeted strike instead of just chucking your makeshift napalm makeshift napalm using my sleeping bag am I the only one who packs shit too?

I have a bed roll but I like to be cozy at night well I don't how about this then instead of burning the place down and angering the spiders, why don't we fashion a rope of sorts to lasso the thing gem

and pull it out here? We went to engineering. One of us has a rope. No, we didn't know. Yeah, I mean, I'm a rogue. I have a rope. Yeah, I'm not saying what for? Huh?

Not saying what for? Well, does that, does that still... I don't, I don't think We can lasso a gym out of a web, sis. Do we... Children? We need three keys.

We need to find this dragon with a clutch of eggs. Let's make it a thing. I think we're doing this. You want to burn it down? I'm getting out of this room before you guys burn it down. At some point, my personality is going to turn into a... I'm saving myself, champs. That's what chaotic neutral does.

I will sacrifice certain things for my friends, but y'all are being dumb. So have bad. If we don't do this, the kids of the orphanage are not going to get my help this weekend. I need to get through this. Let's do this. Okay. So we call the burn it? I already paid money to get this.

Let's go. Okay. So the first, so I take the reveal the whole. Unquote or take the Reveal the lantern Use a bit of cloth To light the doorway

And then Start lighting the strips And chucking them in As far as I can He says, shoot Oh, you don't want to use your arms I mean I can for one Yeah

If there are any rocks Then I'll like To give the strips some weight But Can we take a check off the wall? So I'm going to whatever I can see so if I have like

four strips I'll throw them this direction sorry about that sorry about that oh shit sorry it's breaking the rest of the dungeon so I'll throw them this direction this direction this direction this direction kind of equidistant okay so you

light the webs aflame and these spiders go scattering around and that's when a phase spider transports right down in front of you guys, and then phases in and out into the hallway.

Okay, excellent. So go ahead and roll for initiative. There we go, first of the evening. Since it was going to attack us anyway. So, yeah, so initiative is your

that plus your dexterity moniker, right? I believe so, yeah. Sweet, because I got me some sweet dexterity. Bitches. What? Okay. Pathvel.

Initiative, what do you guys got? Yeah. Roll 20. D20? I got an 18. Okay. Plus 3 to 21. 5 plus 4.9.

John? 10 plus 1, 11? I'm good being in the back. I rolled a 18. So, Alana. Or I'm sorry, I rolled a 16. You rolled an 18. So you go first.

Hazzah. Great. The person who didn't want to be in this situation. No, it's a vampire, I believe. It depends on if you ask Billy Corgan. Attack, blah, blah, blah. I mean, I guess I may as well just do a, let's see what they got. May as well just shoot an arrow at it. You know what, I got a little.

How, where's the spider compared to us? It's out in the hallway, right? Oh, right. It turned around and went in the hallway. And then, we're all out. I mean, we're all out, they're all outside. You guys are outside because we lit the thing on fire. So the thrush, the doorway is burning.

I don't know where you guys have your thing. But anyway, okay. So, yeah, you have your bow staff and your bow. Yo, while I'm doing this, why don't you just go get that fucking gem? It's all on fire. Oh, that's your fault. All right. I am, I'm going to shoot a bow at it.

Wait, how far away am I? Because I can either, because it's a short bow, so it's not. It might be a point-blank shot, though, I'm not sure. I mean, look at where your miniature is in relation to the spider. You're like probably five feet away. Oh, yeah. And if it's a point-blank shot, you don't have the skill or the feet, right?

Then it's... Disadvantage? It's a disadvantage. Alana, make your attack. All right. I am going to throw... I'm going to short bow. Okay.

Vex, if you hit a car. Short bow. Eight. That's it, just eight. Just eight. No, plus your... your weapon modifier. Right.

It should be right up here. Oh, you have put it on arm's strike. Oh, I have his unarmed strike. I just have my short bow. Oh, you have an arm's mark too. Short bow. Yeah, but where does, where your weapon, it should have like your,

it should be like this. Right. Oh, this puts your, um, spells are where your bow should be. I guess I don't have much going on. So a short bow. Okay, guys. Sorry. You missed. The spider's going. He is going to make a

bite attack against John, who's standing right there. Tasty in the doorway. Natural 20. Yikes. So I take it, that's a hit. My AC is probably not... Yeah, my EC's 11.

Okay. Four points of piercing damage. And make a Constitution saving throw for me, please. Okay. Only strikes him. My con is plus two. Sorry, bro. 10 plus 2 is 12.

Okay, you pass. So you don't take any addition. poison damage. Oh, good. Oh, wait a second. Oh, you take half the damage on a... On a save, yeah.

Okay. Three, seven, five. So, yeah. So nine points of poison damage. How did three and seven have... Oh, seven, eight, nine, ten. No.

Oh, because... Okay. Yeah. It's 4D8, and I just rolled twice instead of four times. Gotcha. So you said 9 poison? Yeah. Okay.

Noted. Okay. And the phase spider then phases in and out of the ethereal plane disappears and reappears over here. And now it is Dave's turn. Oh, no, I'm sorry. It's John's turn. No, I didn't... No, mine was low.

Oh, okay. Yeah. You roll higher than I do. Okay. I'm going to cast Sacred Flame. Okay. 60 foot radius, instant.

2D8 radiance damage. It's a deck save. The spider has to make a deck save? Yep. Okay. Plus 2. 14. That's against my decks.

Which sheet is it? It's one. Yeah, well, that's helping not so much. 14. I've got a 13 dexterity. so it passed okay I can guess um

let me just double check if it was by half yeah target must succeed on deck saving throw uh balls nothing okay uh so the spell

it wasn't against your decks was it it was against your wisdom right is it it's a deck saving throw but it's a wisdom what's it yeah what's their decks against my what I don't know what the what the DC is for

Yeah. What spell is it? Sacred Flame. I'll tell you real. It didn't say... It doesn't say what? It just says make a deck save and throw. Of what?

That's all the rule says. Maybe it's against your spell save DC? I'm not sure. That's the only thing I can think of. It's against my decks or my spell of... All right, guys. We're going to move on. Dave, it's your turn.

Okay. Is it is, all right, I'm just going to, I'm going to stab it. I think it's away from the other two, it's away from the other two right now, right? It's closest to the, closest to the game. It's not right next to one of them. Okay, I'm just going to, I'll attack it twice with my action or my bonus action for, make your two attack goals. Short sword, 12 plus six.

7, 19. That hits. And then... There is a modifier. Just roll again. Yeah. To attack. And then 4 plus 7, 11.

That does not. Okay, so 1D6 plus 4 piercing. 1d6 plus 4 piercing. 2 plus 4 is 6. Okay. Okay, so you stab the phase spider, takes six points of damage. The thing squeals and bears us.

It's fangs at you. Alana, we're back to you. Good, man. I'm just going to... I mean, you just, what, stabbed it? Cool. Because I am just going to quarter staff... Let's see.

If you hit with the quarterstaff, I can force it to make a con-saving throw at least. Okay. So I'm going to use some of my martial skills over here. And swing, because I think I'm within range. Yeah, I'm actually closest to it. Okay. So I swing.

I aim for the place where he just got the stab wound so that I can see if I can actually bludgeon right on in there and cause more damage to the wound to open up that wound a little bit more. Go ahead and roll. Mother. I got it, too. There's, like, nothing that's going to save me on that one. Yeah, that's a miss. Yeah, yeah.

Okay, the spider is going to attack you, Alana, this time around. Cool. Twelve. Does that hit? Bless you. Does that hit on, I mean, like. Armor class. What's your armor class?

My armor class is, shit. I'm a ranger. Oh, no, I'm a 13, at least. Okay, so... So it misses you. John. Okay, I think I found it. Wait, I can use my...

Wait, wait, wait, no, I have giant killer. When a larger or larger creature within five feet of you hits or misses, with an attack, I can use my reaction to attack that creature immediately. Oh, okay. Provided, I can see the creature, which I can. This is a large monstrosity, so... Right, yeah. So I'm in.

Okay. This time, however, no, you know what? I'm going for the same thing. I think it was a good run. This time I got an 11. Plus your attack modifier. Plus my attack modifier, which is right right. Actually, I don't know if it's dexterity.

Yeah. I mean, I have strength. I should be your strength. Strength is plus two. So what's your total? So 13. Okay, that hits. Yeah.

Roll your damage. Seven. Okay. All right, so you hit the spider and like some blood comes out of its abdomen, looks like green toothpaste. Okay. The spider went and missed you, Alana. So, John, you're up. All right.

I'm going to try it again, Sacred Flame. Okay. I figured out the DC mask. Okay. Cool. 18. Definitely hits. Nice.

and it's got to do DC save against 8 plus proficienting bonus plus wisdom modifier so that's 83314 So DC 14 to save This is a constitution Dex. Dex. Okay so I got a 4 So is a hit Yes okay

So it's 2D8 radiance damage Cool roll up your damage That is a 5 And a 1 Six. Six total? Yep. Okay. Okay. You blast the spider with radiant energy. It looks pretty pissed at this point. Dave, you're up. Okay, so Alana's right next to it. She did it with staff, right? So I don't need advantage to get my sneak attack. So I will use, I will hit it with my short sword and my dagger because I couldn't. So short sword. So short sword. is 18 plus... Okay, you hit. Okay, so...

Actually, I'm not sure if I'm... Let me figure the damage for that first. So it's... My sneak attack is... Sorry. It's 1D6 plus 4, and then I think 3D6, because I'm level 5.

Right? Level 5, 3D6. Sneak attack, 3D6 yet. So... Okay, go ahead and roll your damage. 1D6 plus 4 plus 3D. One D6. Are there more D6? Yes, I have a shitload here.

Actually, let me do the... I got three. So the initial one is five plus four is nine. Just give me the total. Okay. Four, right, four, five, nine. Eighteen. Okay, that kills it.

Spider... Woo-hoo! Turns upside down with his legs crinkled inward and dies, perishes of terrible death. I'll just move them out of the way for you. Meanwhile, the fire has burned up and killed all these spiders that were inside here. All right. Shall we go and get that, let's go get that gem.

Let's get the gym. Search the room. Okay. Let's see here. You guys search the room. You find a potion of greater healing. That's the second one up, right? 4D4 or superior healing which one is it it it's a 4d4 healing motion okay okay all right 44

you find one of those uh you find 200 gold pieces kind of scattered around inside the webs but most importantly you find this gem uh about the size of your of a fist and it has a square on one side jutting out as if it fits into a socket or something like that might be key number one or that might open this door in front of us yeah yeah so there's we searched the room nothing else right that's it okay okay hey guys you want to didn't we never really took a good look at the statue right enough close look to see if there might be a slot in it we no we didn't we didn't really check it out okay we're gonna go back to the statue real quick

and just check and see if it looks like there's a slot for this gen. No, there is. Okay, all right. So back to the gate then. All right. Check the gate? Which gate?

What do we talk? The far gate. Okay. So the gates won't go past. Yeah, how's, you're looking, you look through the entrance and you see that the gate is beyond, it's a porticullis.

The metal gate with holes in it that the rat described. Hey Allerick, how's your health? It's Um You're gonna need that potion? I'm still walking

I was down nine I've got written down but I'm down Do you want the potion? That's the question Do I need it right now? I'm down 1344 Yeah I would really like that Okay

All right It's a, yeah, 4D4 healing potion whenever you want to use it. I think now is probably right, yeah. Go for it. And neither of us took any damage. Just roll it up and add it to your hit point total. Okay, what are you guys up to? Check out this, check out the, well, this is a doorway, but no door.

But there's a light coming down, right? Yeah, there is. If you look up, it's like it's a, rocky KV exit you really can't tell is it like a hole in a pasture or is it a well but there's natural sunlight

it's natural light okay all right I'll search before like I'll search the area in front of it for traps I'm not going to enter the light but I'll check it for any kind of traps go ahead make like an investigation check investigation can I

make a perception check for that or you make a perception check you Six plus seven 13. Okay. You look around and you don't see any traps or anything like that. You notice that the walls are starting to become, some of them are still blocked. Some of them are rocky. There's roots growing down from the ceiling and from the walls.

So you're not that deep underground. And then you can see into the antechamber beyond through the doorway and you can see the porticoleus in there. The floor has like a mural. very elaborately designed, but it's not trapped. Okay. Hallard, do you know what that mural is? What do I see of the mural so far?

Like the murals on the doorway and the floor and stuff like that of this gateway here? Just, yeah, before I do the investigation, or one of the skill checks, what does it look like to me at face value? Exactly what you see it at face value. Oh, see what you see. Yeah.

Well then. Let me take a look at that. It's history or religion. You can make a religion or a history check. Okay. I'll do a religion check. Okay. Oh, and I'm fully healed up, by the way.

That's a 9 plus a 7.16. So, you're not entirely sure, but you think that this is a pretty, obscure pattern not commonly seen. You suspect that this is depicting the seven lost gods from ancient times. Is one of those lost gods are the lost gods? Is that a common myth or is that just more

like a religious scholar would know about them? A scholar would know details of it. Maybe, you know, as a common person, you might know that there are are these lost gods from ancient times. Okay. No one really... No, it's like Greek mythology.

It doesn't really matter to anyone. All right. Okay. I'm gonna move forward into that area and check it out before they come in. Do we see, yeah, like is there any obvious place to put this? No. Okay.

Does the Portecolus have, can I determine how it opens? It doesn't appear to be, any manner of opening it, it's just sitting there in the downward position. Okay. There's no, I mean, there's no, like, lever or button or anything like that. And there's no place to put the gem that we can see or anything like that. No. Should we see how our combined strength is here?

Okay. Make a strength check. You at strength, too. Not a lot. Just close one. I'm a... I'm a wee baby. I got a 12.

Never know. Well, I did this roll on 18. Okay. Plus two. I'm of no help, three. Okay, so the druid gets in there and pulls the port-a-cullis up and presses it overhead and holds it up in the upward position. Let's go, boys. You've been working out, bro.

Let's go, boys. Move it. And move, let's move your miniatures into position. all the way down. I'll lead the way to you know, to hear, but obviously searching the whole time. Is there anything that we can use to prop

this thing up? Or am I going to have to do this on the goddamn way back? Prop what up? The porticole is so that we don't have to do, so that I don't have to... I mean, if you have a staff or something, I mean, you can try to...

I kind of don't want to leave my quarter staff. I don't think we have anything. I just... All right. No. Okay. We'll just hope for our best. So you're going to move inside and set the porticoas back down.

Yeah. Can somebody check the walls behind me? Do me a solid while I'm holding this thing up for you? Yeah, I'm searching all. I'm searching the area for traps now. I'm going to move you guys inside then. Because maybe the lever was on the other side of this. Yeah.

Is there a lever there on the other side? No, there's no lever. And it's not locked. It's just the heavy gate that's in the downward position. and you lift it up. And now you guys have really moved beyond the crypt deeper into the dungeon and entered the catacombs. Okay. And you can see the catacombs and the skeletons and all kinds of shit in the walls.

There is a doorway on your right-hand side down the hall, and there are two doorways out on the left-hand side over here. Okay. Nothing is open. There is a torch hanging in the wall down. here that kind of illuminates the hallway a bit okay I'm gonna yeah yeah I'm gonna real quick how many feet are that 510 15 20 25 35 30 5 40 45 50 55 60 6 6 5 70 I think that my night vision is 120 or dark vision is 120 I'm gonna look down in the end the hallway and see if I see another ruin or anything like that anything else it looks like

you know, maybe a trap facing us on that far wall. Okay, making a perception check. How far down is the torch? 15 plus 7. Okay. No, you don't see any traps or anything like that. There are some bottles, odd-looking bottles and urns on the side of the wall over here. Okay.

You can see there's some more murals down at the far side of the hallway. Okay. And somewhere like, it's not in this, hole directly in front of you, but you can hear somewhere deeper in the dungeon. You think you hear something like moaning or smacking its lips, some sort of weird sound a little bit deeper into the dungeon. A little bit deeper? Okay. Do we all hear that or do I just hear it because of the person? You hear it because of your... Hey guys, something sounds hungry down there. You're hungry or horny. I can't tell which.

Rogues. these are not a bard It's the temple of love And I'm going to search these Like Not crips What are they when they're in recessing wall Anyway

I'm going to search those real quick For traps and treasure Okay Yeah these ones You find skeletons And you find like some Like rusty old weapons But nothing that's really useful

How big is the largest weapon? Like a short sword Okay So about Two feet Hases Lift the Portugloss again You know that took me

At 18 before Yeah now I got a two You fucked All right I'll try and lift it Okay Can we all help together? Yeah absolutely Let's do it together

Like combine As if we were a team Yeah 19 Okay So together you two guys Lift the Porticolus up Okay

there, so at least we have like two feet of clearance. Yeah, there you go. You jam it in there, and it's, yeah, it's halfway open. Okay. All right, cool. All right. You guys want to check this first door first? How far in is that moaning coming from?

It's around the corner. I don't know where it's at, but it's not, like, it sounds far away. Okay. All right. Check. What's in doorway number one? Room by room. Yep.

Okay. I'll search the door for Taps quick and then Does Does the door have a lock or anything like that? So you're coming up to this door here Correct. Yeah I'm number one

Or I guess oh Do you want me to Head in there? What are you doing? Well open the door and look in before I go in All right okay um The door is not Not locked, do you want to open it up?

Yeah, I'm going to open up the door, so be careful. I'm going to stand somewhat behind you with bow ready. Okay. So you gaze inside. You see another mural, rocky wall, a couple pillars on the far side, and there is... Is there a lightener that he... No. The all right can see?

Okay, so it's a dark to allure. And there is this carrying crawler that comes scooching to you. Okay. So it sees us. It notices you that you, when you open the door. Okay. So there's a carrying and crawler in there because I don't know if you can see it or not.

Carrying. What's a carrying crawler? Well, a carrying crawler. They crawl, scour putrid flesh from carcasses and gobble the slimy bones that remain. They aggressively attack any creature that trespasses. They aggressively attack any creature that trespasses on their territory or

disturbs their feasting. It's like a giant grub kind of culture with a nasty maw on it. Is there something in here we want? We don't know yet. How fast is it moving? Can I scan the room and see if I see a gem? Before.

Yeah, you got a couple seconds, you know, as it's like, you know, slithering towards you. You look in and peer around and, you know, you don't see any gems. You don't see any treasure chests or loot or anything in here. Okay. We can come back to this. You want to, you want to shut the door? I'd say we'd come back to them. All right, shut the door.

Okay. Shut the door. and this carrying crawler doesn't know how to use doors. I mean, he's just got a mall. Yeah, dummy. All right. See what's behind door number two? Okay, so the next door is on this side, correct?

Actually, before we open that door, I'm going to search this area. So there's some bottles with some liquid. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you want to go ahead and look at those? Yeah, yeah. Shirk it for traps first and then look at what else there is. Okay. So yeah, in the recess, there are some burial urns filled with ash,

but there are also a couple of interesting looking bottles. As you look closer, you see a couple of them are potions. There's a potion of greater healing, and there's a drought of colossus. Ooh. Is there anything if we, I would like to first check and see if we move those bottles. is there anything is there like an Indiana Jones style move the rock

no it doesn't appear so do we all know what the Dada Colossus does or does like does Alaric with his Arcana like do is that common knowledge as adventurers you've probably heard of this thing before it's a swirling concoction with tiny star like

specks of crystalline matter floating in it it contains the mysteries of matter in volume manipulation It's been crafted using the blood of void dragons Something we probably want to hang on to So basically it will It will likely increase your size and therefore increase your strength in your unarmed combat attacks

Okay Drop it in the pack Oh yeah I think one of you two should probably hold on to it What's your constitution? Pretty good it's 14

You should hold on to it Okay The healing or the Constitution You can hold on to both of them But the Constitution for sure Oh that's fair I mean the Drod of Colossos for sure

Okay I'll hold on to them All right Is that it As far as The urns are concerned Is that? Okay

So then we'll check the door Behind us Same pattern her checking the door. The door, this door over here? Correct. This one.

Yeah, this one. Yeah. Let's see here. Whole long security. Okay, so this door is locked. Okay. I'm going to attempt to, first I'm going to search for any traps

or mechanisms with the item market. Yeah, you can easily see the locking device. It's a, you know, warded lock. Okay. Then I will. we both have sets of thieves tools do you have thieves tools you want to pick it?

Sure I will yeah I'm going to try to I mean it's a warded lock doesn't make me feel great but I will let's see if we can't pick it Was it awarded?

I thought we sued lock in mechanism I mean a word not a magical ward Right but Just like a Okay You have the tools too She does too.

Yeah. Yeah. So I've got my thieves tools. So I'm going to try to pick the lock. Okay. So make a Dex check, I guess. Yeah, that sounds right. 16, and Dex is another plus three.

Okay. You hear the lock click as you unlock it. All right. Good job. Watch out. All right. God help me. We may as well just like, if we're all going to die anyway, just going to ease the, anybody want to pull fucking security behind me?

Dix. I'm going to shove this thing open a little bit and see what we see. We're stuck up with Subpinica, Mugan, then myself. Yeah, that sounds about that. All right, so you ease the door open, and what you see inside is a torture chamber and a half dozen ballist cult members. Sweet. Is that a dollar? They all turn and look at you as one. Go ahead and make your initiative rules, pal. Yep.

Okay, so we are here. She's numero uno. I'm numero dose. And then here, door is open. And then, okay, an initiative. I initially heard something else. Ball list.

Oh, damn it. Well, I think, it probably makes sense for me to go last. 12. 16. 16, yeah. So. Reviewing my healing spells.

Well, you have another healing post. Sorry, guys. Your initiative rules again? Eight. Three? That was what was your deck's bonus? Oh, no, so 11. Don't forget your bonus.

Dave? Roll 12. Yeah, 16. Okay. All right, so I rolled Dave five. So there's four of these cultists. You can see the blood-stained altar before you and the torture devices that they've been using. Dave, you're up first.

You're in the sheet. So I'm going to step to the side of the door here and just go stealth. So are you going to hide? Who's that? Yeah, I'm just going to hide. But I'm saving my, my, stealth isn't an action, is it? Maybe it is. Then I'm not going to hide.

I'm just going to step to the side of the door and save my turn. But out. But outside. You mean hold your attack? Hold my attack. Okay. What is your attack that you're holding? I'm waiting for them to come to us.

And you're going to stab the guys that they come. Okay. Gotcha. Yeah, I'm going to let him come through that fatal funnel. Okay. Stack them. Alana. I mean, if you want them to come through, I am going to...

I don't see why I'm not just going to... Is this going to... They just get on the other side of the door. They might have spells. Oh, I'm still right in front of the fucking door. I should have moved first. I think I actually have. Yeah, I do have a bow.

Yeah, I do have a bow. So I am going to, it's a short bow, so it is more vex. So I'm going to not aim for our lead guy. I'm actually going to go for one of the rear guards. in the hopes of distracting him to have him look backwards to where I am hitting. I am going to go for

the champ with the knife. Okay. Over here. All right, go ahead and make your attack rule. 14. Not terrible. 14 total? No, roll the 14. Plus my decks, which is 3, so 17.

That hits. So if I hit a creature with a short bow and deal damage, advantage on my next attack. Roll for your damage. Oh, yeah, sorry. And seven. Okay, so...

Oh, I gained a plus two bonus to attack with ranged weapons. Yeah. Got it. Okay. So nine. So now the ballists come to attack. They have daggers. She can also, though, you can also...

like you can move after your attack as long as you don't have your, so you can move back to the side of that door. So this guy moves forward as he walks forward, he turns invisible. Of course he fucking does. Casting shroud self on himself. And he is going to attack Alana, two dagger attacks, plus seven. 13?

Oh, no, just your armor class. Oh, my armor class? Uh-huh. 13 so hits yeah 13 okay my armor class is 13

4 so it's 4 5 so it's 9 points of piercing damage and then he makes a second attack 7 plus 7 that's 14 hits

what's your arm armor class? 13. Okay. Five points of piercing damage. Okay. And as he does that, he then turns visible at the end of his turn. Of course he does.

And Dave, you've been holding your attack there, and now that you can see him, he's within range, you can hit him if you want. Yeah. Yep. So I'm going to, yeah, I'm going to hit him with a sneak attack, since he's right next to Alana. Short short. So, oh, mother, one. Eight. Eight, that is a mess.

Oh, you still have guidance on you, too. Actually, I still have guidance on me. Okay, we still have guidance on, so don't forget that. You can, on one, guidance is only a skill check, though. It's not an attack. Never mind. Yeah.

Okay. It's skill checks, yeah. Yeah, just skill checks. Okay. Okay. The next ball list dashes comes forward

so turning invisible also and he's going to attack Dave okay about seven so we got a an 11 16 and that's a natural

one so they both miss and he's visible and he becomes visible yeah he's standing right there in front of the door okay oh my god you might be able to hit somebody Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Okay, this one turns invisible also and comes right over here.

Wait, where's the guy that I hit? Oh, he's back here. What happened to hit? I happen to pick guy number four. As with the main D&D campaigns, this might turn more Laurelowe Hardy than heroic survival. He's going to attack Dave also. Yes. Uh, 12. You're 16.

Right. What's your armor? 16. Oh. 19. That one hits. Plus five. Seven points of piercing damage.

Okay. Do you have pencil? Yeah. Take it. How many? Seven? Yeah. And then we got one more.

It comes forward and turns invisible and he's slashing out towards Alana. Oops. That's a guy. That's a three. And that's a 15. So one of them hits. Uh-ch-ch-ch-ch. nine points of piercing damage

and now we are back to John okay and all of them are visible now after their attack okay I'm over here and they're three stooging their way

through the door yeah I mean if you were to move over here you could hit all three of them if you have a spell that works like that I don't have an AEOE attack that would have been beautiful would be nice with a sorcerer I told them already I want to protect myself so I think I will

I guess we're fighting in the hallway here no I don't want my back there move back here okay and I'll try 60 foot that's less than 60 Um

Sacred Flame on that cultist Okay DC 14 Decc save 17 Well then From Yeah

Plus 5 it says So it misses Yep Okay Moving right along Dave I only took Um

Okay So we're looking at Two in here Mm-hmm And two out Did this door Do this door open? an in or out?

It pushed in. It pushed in. Okay. All right. Neither of these guys have been hit yet, right? One of them has. Which one? I think it was this guy took seven points.

Okay. I'm going to hit him. Actually, dual-will. Okay. I'm going to hit him. Short Shores 6 plus 713. What was it? 13.

Miss. Miss. Okay. And then my dagger, 17 plus 724. Hits. Okay. And then... 2.6.

Okay. Alana. Now that they are close, I am going for the quarterstaff. Okay. And how close are they? Can I do a sweet? Yeah, they're right next. Two of them are right next to you.

All right, I'm going to do a sweeping motion with the quarter staff in an effort to either knock one or knock one into the other, ideally. Okay, okay. A 14, you can force it to make a, if I hit the creature with a quarterstaff, so I gotta hit first. 14, and that's...

Plus two. Yes. Okay, that hits. All right. Um, so I can do, I can force it to make a constitution saving throw. Okay. In addition to the damage it takes? Uh, yes, because it's topple. So 15.

8 plus 3 plus the ability. Uh, it's, yeah, do you see 8 plus 3 plus the ability modifier? How much do you have? 15. Well, you did hit him. I did. So you get your staff damage. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. So there's that at least.

Yeah, roll up the damage. Was that a... Is it 1D6 plus 2? So 3. Or is it 24? I'm not sure. Plus your strength. Right. So strength 15 plus 2 and 3.

So what's the total? What? I don't think... I think I'm thinking of old D&D. I don't know that strength is a... added damage, right? It's just a hit. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry about that. Damage comes from like whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Damage.

I'm sorry about that. The damage doesn't, I'm thinking of ADD. So, yeah. Three. Yeah. Okay. Gotcha. Okay. Now the ballists are going to attack. So this one is going to go after John.

When he disengages, you can make an opportunity. attack on him. Actually, I can't too, right? Wait, wait, wait. When I'm... Oh, no, I wasn't. Well, he was...

Because I attacked him. He was over here. Yeah, so we can both make a reaction... Okay. Go ahead. Go ahead. So, just roll your attack with your staff. A D20 plus two.

20. Bitches. Damage? Six. Fuck yeah. I'm on a roll. You don't... Do you have a specialist

to the staff? No. You don't a specialist of... All right. You killed that one. He keels over and dies. Okay. Awesome.

All right. So this guy is going to, this one will attack Dave. Okay. 15. 9. And it's plus 7. Oh, plus 7?

Yeah. So the first one hits, the second one doesn't. Okay. And then I have uncanny Dodge. so I, if I can see him, then I, the, he does have damage. Okay. So you take four points of piercing damage.

Four points? Okay. That was eight so far? Go ahead. All right. Now. Eat so far? Say again. You got eight so far?

Eight points down? Four and four, yeah. These two are going to turn invisible. Yeah, eight. And charge forward. Oh, they can just turn invisible again? That's cool. Yes.

every turn they can pass and invisibility lasts until it makes a attack or takes damage or casts a spell. Great. Awesome. Okay. This one's going to attack, one of them's going to attack Dave, the other one is going to attack Alana. 12 and 11 and 14 plus 7 to both of those. They both hit.

Okay. Can you still use it uncanny dodge? No, because I didn't see him. Four, five, six, six, Seven, 17 points of piercing damage. I'm down to three. The other guy is going to attack Alana. 15 and two.

So one of the two hits, eight points of piercing damage. I'm also down to three. Oh, no, no, wait. No, I was, yes. No, I am. One of you guys has that healing potion, too. I know.

And the drought, the drought of Colosses. I am at, I was at 11. Okay. You can drink the healing potion or any potion as a bonus action, too. Can we go splitzies? No, go ahead. I already used my bonus action. Okay.

John. Rubenica, you're down? How much? I'm at three. I have three left. You're down 21. Yes. Okay.

So can I take that? It's an action to hand off the potion? A bonus action, I guess. Okay. move up here well where's the nearest cult is in the middle here this guy here or this guy okay um and if i move next to uh rubinica i uh attack of opportunity on me no okay no only if you only if you move out of his attack space it's out not in right right right right okay um well let's try this again so um DC 14 deck save it's a

All right. On that note, I'm going to go up to... For some reason, I rolled twice. I don't know, but four was the first one, so I think he failed your check. Yeah. All righty then. Actually have an effect here. So 2D8. Okay. Four, seven. Radiant, if that matters. maybe let's see here I don't think it does

yeah that's fine and then I'll use my movement and the bonus action I'll pop the cork for Binigna could take the healing potion Thank you Okay and you're handing it to her

Okay Potion of greater healing Dave you're up What does that give me? I'll double check Okay Let me check something real quick Okay How many are left?

Two or three? Three. Three. One, two, three. All right. I have three help. Three. I'm going to go down.

Okay, so with my action, then, I'm going to cast fairy fire. Okay. On all three of them. It's a 20. 44 plus four. So for fairy fire, they have to make a... Maybe. Depends how will you roll.

DC 14, I think, charisma. Is that right? on what? All right, two of them made it. One of them didn't. Two of them made their safe through? Yeah. 14? Okay.

All right, so the one is highlighted and can't go invisible now. Okay. And then I don't have any healing or I don't have anything like that. Yeah, that's the end of my turn. Okay. Actually, I have a... Action, bonus action.

Actually, I get... Do I get another attack since I've dual... wielding. I used my action, but I think I get my bonus action with. I don't think. If your bonus action has an attack, that would be, that should be on your character sheet. Yeah, it does, but I think it's only when I, I don't, I don't know that I get it after I cast a spell only when I attack. So, go ahead. Okay. Alana. While you're doing that, can you look up real quick? Because I'm going to use my, I'm just going to go ahead and use my bonus action in any way to take the...

Okay. So 4D4 health? I looked it up. It said 44 plus four, actually. Is it? Okay, so 44 plus four. Unless the source I'm looking out was off. No, it's okay. It's the potion of greater healing. It's fine. Yep, that's what I looked up. I mean, no.

I have, wait. That's it. You get the roll four times. Yeah. Two, six, seven, eleven. Okay, add your hit points to your character, and do you want to use your action to make an attack or do something else? I was going to ask you, can you check out what poison spray does?

Because it's not, I can't. Poison spray fires out in a cone. Yeah. You could catch maybe all three of them, actually two of them. Definitely two of them. All right, I didn't know my radius. It's a cone. It's a cone.

I'm going to throw out some poison spray. Okay. for my plus five. Yep, 30 feet. Nice, thank you. Um, 20. Okay, roll up your damage.

Target takes 1D12 poison. Who what? Target takes 1D12 poison. 1D12. The weird one. Oh, fuck. Great, that's a 1. Oh, what?

You're level 5, 2D12. Thank you. Fixed it. Fixed it. Six? Six. So that's seven? Seven.

I'll take it. Oh, but I have poison spray. So a, well, at least a hit is plus five. Okay. So now I'm at. So you jacked up these two guys pretty good. Sweet. Hold on, Jay.

I think, I think, I forgot about cutting action. I think I can disengage, which means that I can break off as a bonus action. I can break off without... You have to do that on your turn, though. Okay. So, the ballists are going to... This one's going to make an attack against John. Did you not hear my last name?

All right, one of them hits. Oh, Jolly Good. All right, so you're healed back up. You're still down eight. So nine points of piercing damage. Are you a three? Yeah, I'm three. How'd you kill yourself?

No, he was at three. He's left with three. I've been in three. He has three left. I missed a few things. Okay, and I got hit for nine. Nine, all right, piercing? Yeah, one of these hits Dave.

Seven points of piercing? Oh, shit. Hit me for 16? It hit me, it got 16. You got a 15. plus seven. Okay. It's lovely knowing you. So that's seven points of piercing.

Okay. He's not dead. He just goes down. Yeah, I'm down. And then one more, the guy going after Alana. One of those hits for nine points. Well, cool. I mean, like, that puts me back down to five. How, you...

I just got to let... I only, I didn't. Oh, your rolls. Okay. Yeah. Okay. John. Okay.

What's you got, bro? You're three? Well, no, he's. No, no, you're down. No, I'm down to, he just gave me five, so I'm at nine. All right. I think I'm going to use both of these on Logan. Okay.

My action and. Where's Logan? Right here. There. Okay, so I'm going to attack up an opportunity from this guy because I'm going to go here. Attack hoard. One, two. Is that accurate?

Yeah, but every time you move by them, they get an attack of opportunity. Or each person you move by, you think it's an attack of opportunity. Well, isn't it once I leave? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. But I didn't, so I only got one attack. Oh, one to attack. Is that accurate?

Yeah, that's correct. Yeah. It's a 15. Against my AC? Yeah, that hits. Eight points of piercing. Well, I need to get to touch range, and we're in a narrow hallway. How much health do I have?

Now you can take your action. 38. Yeah, okay. I'm hurt, but not terrible. My action will be a touch spell, cure wounds, 2D8 plus my modifier. which is my spell modifier is my wisdom so that's plus three

so 2d8 plus 3 go for it I think you roll that though right or do I it didn't matter 2d8 plus 3 yeah 8 is there another 7 plus 3 is 10

just like that Dave's back up on his feet uh 9 10 I'm trying to figure out to do with my bonus action. I'm going to burn. Sure. Logon again. Healing word. Bonus action. 2D4 plus my modifier. Spell modifier. That's three. So 2D4 plus three. Go for it. 2D4 plus three.

Right. So that use that one. 5.8. Okay. Is that it? John. That is my movement action and bonus action. I'm done. Okay. Dave, what was the first one? 10 and 8. 10 and 8.

So you're up to 18. You can go ahead and take your turn, Dave. Okay. All right, motherfuckers. Let's get it on. So which of these guys is wounded right now? The one right in front of you. Right in front of there?

Okay. It's the worst. All right. I'm going to hit him twice. Does he, which one has fairy fire on him? of this one. Okay. All right. Okay, great. 20. So 27. Roll double damage. And then, and that's my sneak attack too. So, um, yeah, roll up your damage and double it. It's double it, right? So it is going to be, yeah, he's dead. One D6 plus four. So it's going to be,

so it's going to be 6 plus 4 is 10 then 6D6 That does on these days Yeah So that's my first attack And my second attack

Will be against him Okay And that's going to be with advantage Because he has ferry fire Gotcha So 1320 and

1421 20 and 21 So either one of those Just one though Okay That hits And then it is 1D4 plus 4. No sneak attack.

One plus 4 or 5. Gotcha. How many people are we up? Alana. Are we down to? How many are we down to? There's two still up. All right.

Two up. And they are how far away from me? That one has fairy fire. That one is, you know, vitally injured. Do we take down one? Take down the, take down fairy fire? or go to the guy who's not injured? Take down the guy

is one not injured? These both guys are lightly injured, I would say. Smaller numbers, better. Here's what I would do. I would go for the guy who doesn't have fire fire because he can't disappear. The other guy can. Right.

So it's this guy who's not. All right. Going for him? Okay. It's close range, so all I've got really is that quarter staff. Okay. because I

well do I have anything else useful I have on arm strike not super helpful no all I have left is poison spray poison spray an onarmed strike or really you can hit them you can't do both with poison spray

can't you without hitting no they're not you can you'd have to move and take an opportunity attack but you could you would take an opportunity attack from one Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you could cast it on both of them.

Yeah, don't, don't take the opportunity to attack. No, I'm just going to go for... But you can use it on one of them. You don't have to get them both. All right, I'm going to go for a non-disappearing guy. Okay. Three. What is...

I just blew my... 20. So, three and poison spray is plus five. So that is eight. that's not not gonna hit do they take half damage with

whether you have if the you make I think so I didn't see that when we looked at it okay okay so it's a miss all right

are ballists ball cult members one of them is going to attack Alana miss miss the other

this one I think is getting pissy with Dave so he's going to come over here and attack Dave give you an opportunity attack on him sweet you make your opportunity attack on him 19 so 16 does that hit you

16 hits okay so both of them are going to hit and I take half damage seven seven Alana your opportunity attack 15

okay Okay. Plus whatever, that probably hits at 16. Roll your damage. Six. Good. Okay. John. Broken record, let's do the Sacred Flame. Okay.

Decks saving through. DC 14. I'm going to attack. Which one looks worse for the wear, or is there just one left? these two are both this guy is a little worse off I'll go for that guy Okay, so one of your attacks

I'm sorry, it was a DC DC 14 deck saving throw Okay, I don't know why I rolled twice Is that, so So, are you talking to one with Ferry Fire? I think so Is that, should I not? No, I'm asking because

You get advantage but I'm not sure if you get advantage with a spell. A spell. Oh. So I just want to... I was just thinking the one that's reduced their numbers. Yeah. Okay. He fails.

Okay. 2D.8. 8 and 2.10. Okay. He's bloodied and staggered up against the wall. He doesn't have much fight left in him. But he's still on his feet for the moment. Dave. So,

So, uh, all right. Are they both within range of me or no? No, only one of them. One of them. All right. So I'm going to attack him. Um, oh, neither of them are within five feet of me. So, uh, so not a sneak attack.

All right. Double it. Uh, 18. Um, so just, uh, it hits. Yeah, it hits. And then 1D6 plus four, uh, two, uh, two, plus four is six. You're hitting this guy?

Yeah, he's only guy. He's down. He's down. Okay, then I'm going to move. Okay. Use my movement. Sure. And then my bonus action, I can use my bonus action on a different target with a one of dual-willed, right? I mean, if you

have an attack as a bonus action, you should be able to use it on whatever. And I do get, so that's 19. Okay, and then, yeah, and that's my sneak- attack also. So if he's like so 19 I hit him and then it's a 1d4 uh plus 4 plus 3d6. Okay. Roll it up. Okay. Uh, one plus four is five and then six, 10, five, 15, and then 16. 16. Okay. Okay. That does it. He's dead.

All right. You guys have slain the ball. cult members. What? They're bloodied and dead. I search those motherfuckers. Yeah, you search them. They're wearing some vestments of ball. You've in your adventures, you've never really come across ball, cult members,

or really anything to do with ball. But there's, you know, sort of like children's bedtime stories that get told about these guys that they worship the god of murder, and they, therefore, have to commit a murder once every 10 days. And they are known to target usually people who are like undesirable that the city's not going to go looking for so that they can kind of stay under the radar as they go about their nefarious activities. And you find some, each of them has a dagger on them that you're able to recover.

Okay. Do they have sacks? Are there any balls sacks that we can take? Oh, it was waiting for it. There it is. Yeah, the ball steep. So, okay. And then, so then we'll go in this room,

and I'll do, like, we'll do a cursory search for traps and anything else we might find in there. It makes me uneasy to ask this question in the first place, but considering where we are in our predicament of, what, two hours left to live, Do any of these vestments look whole and not bloodied? Very smart. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, you can pull off at least one that's relatively unspoiled. Mr. Sneaky. What? That might be good for you to take. Yeah. So, yeah, I'm going to take one of the good ball gowns. and throw it on over my stuff. Okay.

And pull up the hood to hide my drow heritage. And then we'll come in and search this room. Okay. Go ahead and move your characters where you want them to go. Okay. Do you guys want me to search it before you come in? At least the internal. The entryway?

Yeah. So I'm going to come in. then I guess that they'll kind of kick it at the door. Okay. And then I'm going to do a cursory sweep for traps and whatnot. Okay, so you don't find any traps. At the far corner there, there are some documents, some scrolls and things like that rolled up. There is a statue of ball over in the corner here that they've been worshiping.

Okay. And there is a treasure chest right there. Okay. So I don't find any traps. I check everything, no traps. I let them know there's no traps. I point out the documents to Alaric, Alaric. And then...

Why are you assuming I can't rain? Well, he has the archana and... I get it. I get it. Yeah. No, I actually did not do that. These little cubbies, like this little cubby here. Four history. These little cubbies...

If I search those, do I find anything like this cubby? Skull. bones, things like that. Nothing valuable? No. Is there anything in the Iron Maiden? No, just blood and guts. Okay.

All right. And then I don't want to get too close to the statue of Ball. Actually, that's probably your area. Okay. But I'm going to check the area for traps. Oh, you're sending traps. All right. Yeah.

Yeah. Are you willing that to exist? I mean, since you're checking the room, I'll say the treasure chest appears to be trapped. Okay. Shocker. Yeah. Okay. Was there something on the treasure chest

you want me to take a look at? No, it was the statue of ball. Okay. I'll do a religion check on the Yeah, go for it. On the ball statue. Oh, good gravy. 10. Okay. So, yeah, you

recognize the statue of ball. He is also known as Nynushku Shingambo among his Gugari worshippers. He was widely feared as the Lord of Murder, the Faroonian god of violence and ritualistic killing. That's hopeful. Okay, beauty and murder. Yes. Well, we're two down.

All right, so the treasure chest appears trapped. Yes. Can I? I, I'll roll perception. You got me in D20. What does that say? It says 19. Plus seven on my perception. What, so what did you roll?

26. 26, oh shit, okay. Awesome. So, you check the treasure chest for traps, and you find the mechanism in it in the lid. will release a poison vial. Do you want to try to use your thieves tools to disable the trap?

I do. I would like to recover the vial of poison if I'm able to. Okay. Stand back. Hold my beer. You've been drinking this whole time. Actually, I'm going to use guidance on this also.

Okay. Ability checks. It's been a while. Touch guidance. Touch guidance. Rub my belly, pat my head. So I do have expertise and

thieves tool so is it was that expertise and thieves tool is it it's I roll a DC plus my decks right yeah uh okay plus 1D4

for the guidance right yep uh 16 plus 7 you successfully disable the trap uh plus 4 not 7 now you need to pick the lock okay so I disable the trap

um can I have guidance again please uh it just continued It does. I thought it was only one. Okay. Not as far as I read. Okay. All right. It's based on me having concentration.

Okay. That is not as good. That's two plus... Oh, plus my Thie's tool. So two plus four is six plus the guidance. Man, it's seven. Okay. You keep working it and working it and eventually the lock pops. Okay. And you get it open. Okay. You do... You are able to recover the glass. veil of poison.

Just for your own knowledge, when that thing shatters within a 20-foot radius, it does 46 poison damage. Mother, mama. Mama-mea. What's the radius on that?

What's the radius on that? 20-foot radius. Radius, wow, okay. So you might want to write that down. 46, yeah. And... Why don't we wrap that up so it doesn't shatter our back? Within the treasure chest, you identify

another one of the gems in the bottom of that thing okay what is so we have two or four gems right what does that gem is there look like though what was it's in the chest you can't see it was it look like oh yeah it looks similar to the other gen except this one has a circle on it instead of a square also looks like it would fit into some kind of a socket okay and that's all it's in the chest yeah okay how are you on healing cells Alarck? Pretty good.

I burned one level one, and then my extra level one for healing word I burned, so I've got three more for level one. Okay, I'm down to 11, so can you give me some sort of top-up, or something to get me a little bit higher? Yeah, I'm at 14, so I'm good.

Okay. Why the fuck did we bring him along if he's not going to, he's not wanting to heal you? Because, like, I mean, a solid hit will take me out. Give me one moment. What do we have? 20 feet of, what did we say? How much damage was that?

4D6. And you have that in hand already. So while you're figuring out if he's going to do his job, I'm going to, um... I'm going to take out what remains of, like, my bedroll, whatever. And I'm going to wrap up that poison. Okay. so that I can put it in a bag

because I don't want that thing to break because it says when it shatters. Are you going to, I figured I'd keep it just because I'll be stealthed ahead and I can like maybe drop it on somebody. I'll wrap it up and put it in your bag. Okay. Well, what I'm wondering is

should I use a level two spell to heal us all? I wouldn't turn it down. How low are you? I'm at 14. How many are you missing? Oh, sorry. You're missing 10? I'm missing 17.

I'm at, I'm down 9. Down 9? I mean, I don't actually think... Wait, no. The, the attack of opportunity, that... Was that the first hit I got? No, yeah, okay.

Minus 9, and you're down... You're down 10. I'm down 2.11, so I'm down 17. Yeah. What would be... would cover for the level two uh 2d8 uh and it's as if you had a short rest yeah it's as if you had a short rest we don't have time for a short rest no no it's not it doesn't require one it's the effects of feels like a short rest okay so you even hear your spells come back after a short rest

yes i'll look that up after um because if any of your healing spells come back after short rest and she comes back that might that might be a good way to go right now I know I'll get the healing word slot back. I got to double check. That'd be nice. Fuck it. We're doing it. Power word.

Prayer of healing. It's a 10-minute cast time. That side eats into our life. Okay. 30-foot radius, instant. Five creatures, short rest, 2D8, HP. All right, where's my 2D8? All right.

Do I get, I don't, I don't forget. First. Well, no. There's no upload on this. So we each get 13 back. Cool. I'll take it. You're good.

You're down four, and I'm good. Yeah, perfect. 24. Okay. Wait, you said we got, what? 13, yeah. Nice. Second level slots.

It's actually good, because that ends the equivalent of a short rest, right? Yeah. All right. I'm going to hang on to whichever, to what I'm going to do next with Hunter's Pray, though. So we, have we secured the gem yet? Yeah, we have everything. Well, you didn't secure the documents. Is there anything about the documents?

You want to go look at the documents? Sure. Let's go look at the documents. All right. So you go up there and you start shuffling through the documents. A rat scutters out and startles you as it runs off. Most of these are old scrolls. They're like deteriorating and falling apart.

but you find a book in the pile. It's called the fanged tome of Lacanthus Tsar. This is a famed and much sought-after tome that you would have heard some, you maybe not know so much about the book, but you have definitely heard of Lecanthus Tsar as a famous ranger that lived over a hundred years ago. These are my people. So I would therefore, like, I only have a plus two on history, but I feel like if that's, if they're my people, I already know who they are or I know who this.

Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, go ahead. So I am going to. Knowledge history or? Huh? I mean, like, I've got, I only, I have two on history, but. But in general, no, investigation isn't super helpful. Yeah, history is your...

History is probably of those... Because investigation doesn't really help with this, so... Go ahead. History's fine. Four plus two. Okay. So you recall a little bit about this. You know, well, first you can see that the book is made of some kind of hide and it's like held closed by like dragon teeth that have been changed.

chiseled to kind of join up with one another. But it's not locked. You can open it up and look inside the book. The book itself, the contents of it are this ranger's observations about nature, including lessons he learned from the elves while he was at Myth Drenor. The illustrations inside you notice have some sort of magical property that each time you open the book to that page, the picture changes. So there will be like, for instance, pictures of a phase spider, and that picture will change to a different angle or a different view of the spider the next time you turn the page. It's very helpful.

And for the statistical purposes underlying the game, if you spend a night studying this book, you will get plus two for your nature checks permanently. All right. You all mind if I take this thing? Have it. Have it. I'm in. Take it. Helps with all of my things. I don't get anything back until long rest.

Okay. Yeah, we won't get it. But I think we needed that. Okay. Okay. So we're going to, you guys ready to leave and hit the rest of this? Yeah.

Okay. Continue one. And we've checked out all these little nooks and crannies. Yeah. That, that, yeah. Okay. Um, so we're gonna, um, we're gonna go back out here.

Yeah, because we still haven't checked. Yeah. Yeah. I'm back out here. Uh, I'll go first. This time we'll stay on the same side of the door so that we don't get split up. Uh, so that Alarik doesn't get, um, have to test the tax of opportunity. Um, I'm gonna listen at the door, uh, and check up for traps.

Look at the torch. That's right where the torch is. Yeah. It's not trapped or locked. Okay. If I snuff this torch, is there enough light in here for Allerick to see? In the hallway? Yeah.

There's a very dim light. There's like candlelight flickering in certain places in the dungeon. So you can see a little bit. Okay. Can I take the torch off the wall? Yeah. Okay. type of fuel is a burning

it's just torch so it's probably like pitch all right like a certain As we're walking through the The fuck is lighting that thing The cultists Yeah

It's part of their penance Yeah While we're walking through The questionable hallways I'll keep a hand On Rabinica's shoulder To guide me through Yes because I also have dark vision

Okay So you're going into the room So yeah I think we should snuff the torch first though either that or use it to light the room on fire. You want to snuff the torch? I think we can snuff the torch. I've got light too.

Yeah, you can throw one of the dead cultist robes over the torch. Not the good one of the blowing. I'm wearing the good one actually. Yep. So I'm going to... Dave the Holy Man. Who knew what was happening? Never said for good. I'm going to...

if you guys stay back, I'll open the door. I won't open it sneakily. I'll open it like I belong there. I won't walk in, but if there are occultists in there. Social engineering. Yeah, exactly.

So they're going to hang back. I'm just going to open the door. You look inside and you see these tombs, a bunch of jars and things lining one side. And sitting in the center, is a ancient warrior perhaps

as he's wearing this armor has a sword but he is just a skeleton at this juncture he sits there upon his throne gazing at you is he moving no okay not yet um do you uh

hey h uh no one picks your own call sign are you uh you uh you got anything good for him dead Um, let's check. I mean, I can speak infernal. Infernal is, it's only dragony, though. I did not take the...

Yeah, infernal is demon. I think it's demon, and epistle is devil, right? Yeah. I think. I know I have... Infernal is like what the teethlings speak. Oh, that's right. But, yeah.

Yeah. Got Divine Spark and Turn Undead. Yeah, you do have turn undead, right? Okay. Magic. So, I think we have to check out the room to see if one of the keys is in here. Frighten or and incapacitate for one minute. The skeleton moves and it motions to you.

You there. Come forward. Who's it talking to? Alert. Whoever he sees in the voice. Oh, it's me then. Okay. Okay.

Oh, but you're in the robe. Yeah. Oh, that's how to have me. Okay. So I give you guys a side eye and I walk forward. Yes, my lord. He says, I know what you're here for, the same as all the others. Answer my questions, and it can become your possession.

I do not let him see my hair flip inside. Are we ready for this battle of wits? Okay. Riddle me this. All walk through me, though many misconstruing. My meaning is subjective, but I'm always the objective. I'll walk through me, though many misconstrued me. My meaning is subjective, but I'm always the objective.

Life. The skeleton man smiles, and he holds out this gem for you. Thanks, buddy. I walk up and, I mean... Be respectful. Yeah, respectfully and bow and... You retrieve the gem. this one has like a star socket on the bottom.

The bone lord smirks at you through his broken jaw. You can see the expression for some reason, and he wishes you good luck. Joe, the boner lord and ball deep. The boner lord of balls deep. Yeah. I really want to check all the stuff. Okay, I'm not going to check this stuff.

I'm going to walk back out and, you know, do the Jack Black, you know, bow out and close the door behind me. Yeah, he waves to you like the Crusader Knight. Yeah, there's probably some good shit in that room, but I don't think we need to... We don't need to go messing with friends. Yeah. And, yeah, since you're looking down here, Dave, you can see down the hallway. Okay. Again, I'm going to check. Can I see with this statue? is. From that...

Let's hear. 10, 20, 30, 40. Yeah, we also got some urns. Let's see here. Here's my... I think my dark vision is only... I think mine's a 60. Yeah, you're half. I'm 120.

You think the statue down there is of Kellembourg. Who is? Hey. Champ. G.H. Who's Kellemdor? I'm gonna do a litig check. That is a... 13 plus 7.9.

So Kellenvore is known as the Lord of the Dead and Judge of the Damned. He's the God of Death and the Dead. And he resides in the Fug plane. Fug. I feel you, bro.

All right, so I'm going to start moving down this hallway, checking for traps on the side, checking for cubbies, but also keeping an eye down here to see if I'd see another glyph or anything. Once it comes into range. Yeah, we've got some urns. Yeah.

Yeah. So, let's see, these murals against the wall are also to the lost forgotten gods. Okay. You see down here. You're just looking or you're walking down here? I'm walking down, but like, every step I'm, like, every step I'm, like, looking ahead of me, you know. Yeah, so these are, like, funeral urns. mostly they're just filled with ashes.

But you discover a couple potions in there. One is a salve of senile serenity. It restores mental cognition to senile old people for a brief period of time. Okay.

The other, the elixir of half-orcish fury. Okay. So what that does is if you are downed before your next long rest, you instead drop to one hit point. thanks to the relentless will roiling in your veins.

So if you get killed, if you go down, instead of going down, you come right back up with one hit point. Okay, and that's the... Elyxer of half-orcish fury. The first one was a senility. Sinility potion. Yes.

Anti-senility. Temporary antisimility. Ligon, I think you take that half-orkeish potion. Okay. Hang on to it. Well, but then if he's dead Well, no, the idea is you drink it With the expectation of you're gonna need it

Yeah, yeah, it's a good idea to drink it now Based on how it works, I think Well, do you know how long that lasts? Until your long rest. Until your next long rest, which is... But here's the thing is I have fast hands Which I think I can drink a potion on like a bonus Quick wrists are a definite plus and balls deep.

Yes, they are. Just ask the bone horse. So do you want me to take it? I mean, I feel honestly, like maybe you should take it since you are a healer. Like, if you go down, we all go down. Okay. That's the consensus.

It's my vote. It's my vote. Yeah. Cool. All right. So it lasts until long rest, so I'll drink it now. Yeah.

Okay, cool. Yeah, so, yeah, You don't discover anything else particularly interesting. Okay, so I'm going to get up to this corner, do a quick peek, and then call them forward. Okay. You see a gateway adorned with skulls like everything else in this cursed catacombs. Tree roots are kind of growing over out of the walls. Okay.

So you guys are up here. What's your order in March? She's first or two seconds. I'm going to... Because you can shoot over... Yeah. I'm gonna, we should put him in the middle. Uh-huh.

Protect. What? No, I'm just saying that's a good idea. Oh. Okay. Squishy one in the back, probably bad. So I'm going to then, you know, in stealth, approach this area right here and check out the door. Look through it, see if I can see through it with my superior night vision.

Okay. More catacombs. Okay. Move through the catacom. Same thing. Searching. checking stuff and letting them follow me at, you know, so they won't be exposed to anything that I trip or whatever.

Okay. I'm periodically checking back behind us to make sure that nothing. She's got our six. There it is. Adorable. So, like, checking these little crips, checking the jugs, checking any of this. Do I find anything as I'm searching? No.

bones rotting fabric many skulls okay um already then um then all the way down to here

being quiet you hear a shuffling around the corner and a slight someone coughs somebody coughs okay um go back

whispered again there's coughing uh whatever uh how do you guys want to handle this I can, since we have established there's nothing over here, correct? I can take up a position that they cannot see me yet, but I can... She's high in that corner with the bow. Yeah.

So I am set for if something comes around the corner. I suggest you just kind of... Are you looking, trying to look around the corner? I am, but with bow ready. Okay. Because I have 60 feet of dark vision. As you do that, you see there are two dwarves down there. They're illuminated by this brazier here.

And they spot you, you know, with a light flickering against your face. They say, oh, who goes there? Do they speak common? Or am I supposed to speak dwarish? They're speaking in your language. Okay. Oh, first of all, guys, got a pair of dwarfs here. Is that euphemism?

Okay. Hey, we are some travelers and adventures, and we are here to, we have, we've, we're here to, help eradicate some of the issues with like the ballists and the fine gentlemen. I'm basically going to try and charisma these people. Well. Charisma chop! Well, well, yeah.

All right. I can, I can do, yeah, you know what? Yeah, we'll do persuasion. To see if we can get you guys. Do you guys want to help us out? talk to see if they would like to assist

in figuring out what other dangers are looking lurking around since they clearly have more experience in this place than we do. One of them says come forward and talk. Put your bow down, please.

All right. Yeah, I'm stealthed also. Yeah. Then I'll just think of them to talk. I'm talking to myself next to you. It's like, oh, we're really gambling. All right. Well.

They, I will come closer. They introduce themselves to you. One of them tells you his name is Zeldon Honor Breaker, the other Gornocken Brickback. All right. We can actually get along. They are part of an old dwarf adventuring band known as the Jogtonslayers. And they have found their way into this dungeon because, they heard rumors that Lady Monster was dispatching adventurers into this to find some sort of treasure.

And the Yotan Slayers love fighting dragons and tentacled things and nasty monsters. It's what they do for hire and for a living. So they freelanced this, but unfortunately these two got separated from their band who are somewhere else. and they've kind of been stranded in this dungeon for a day. They do know the way forward. There's a trapdoor at their feet. It leads down into some sort of a sewer system. And they have not gone back down there because the place is infested.

What's it infested about? We think rust monsters. Well, that's fun. So, but the rest of your band has gone. ahead and you haven't heard from them since. We don't know where they are. Oh, well. Do I introduce you guys?

Yeah, I'll come out of stealth. You beckon us from around the beach. Yeah. Well, I'm not traveling alone. We are also here for, but we are primarily here to see if we can recover some of this treasure because we are being sort of

bought into it in a way. And we would love it if you would. We can either help you guys find your companions or potentially take a little off the top should we be able to all find the treasure.

Our companions will find their own way. The Yotin Slayers would be more than happy to help you slay what lies ahead in exchange for our cut of the treasure. Fair. There. Oh yeah.

I'm not. You're not even asking what their cut is. Oh, they're probably going to get a dagger in the back. No. Why did I ask? Um, so bra. No, that's more surfer. Uh, anyway. What do you, what do you want for treasure?

What are you going to take? We heard a rumor about a dragon. a dragon or dragon eggs deeper in the treasure. We want some of those eggs, too. What's our, what's our, what's our girl want from us? Did she want three eggs? I don't know what she said. It doesn't matter.

I hold up my fingers to, the, to, uh, towards Rubinica. Three. She wants three. Um, how much is so? So, so I'm gonna try and do a persuasion check and say, hey, uh, tell them we're dying we've been poisoned

if we don't give her at least three eggs she won't give us the antidote but anything over three you can have and if there aren't more than three then you can have any pieces parts of the dragon that you want for new armor new weapons he says well as of now we have no eggs

so we are happy to venture forward with you and see what we can find All right. What type of weapons are you guys throwing out here? Battle axes. Yeah, I see some battle axes. When you say that the sewer is infested with

Rust Monsters, was there a nest that you saw, or are they just wandering everywhere? Just crawling along the walls. Okay. All right. I will try to handle the Rust Monsters. Lead the way. So I'm going to

basically take off any metal that I have, any iron. Prepare the poison. Okay. We'll open up the bottom. When they said they're standing over a trap, is it the trap is sprung already and it's like a hole down?

It's a trap door. It's a trap door. Oh, it's trap door. Sorry. I hear trap. They're trying to keep anything coming up, right? Yeah. They kind of ran away. Yeah. Didn't think they were prepared to face it.

I mean, they're dwarves facing rust monsters. Like, everything they wear. Yeah. Their armor and everything. I, however, I'm wearing, like... They're a druid, so... Yeah. I got, like, like, pretty much nothing...

Right, because you have a bow, you have your arrow. So, and you have... And I have a quarterstone. You have stealth, too, right? Or don't... Because I'm half elf. Okay. So...

So, um... So what's the order here? Your first, one of them, me? No, so, oh, so here's my plan, man. Life is futile. So what I'm going to... Everyone passes through it some bullshit. I don't know.

It may be for you, but those orphans need me. So what I'm going to try to do, because Rust Monsters can smell iron, right? That's how they know you're around. I'm going to go down and try it using stealth. like see if if there's a way that I can get them all in a general area or see if um you know maybe toss a dagger someplace or whatever whatever I'm gonna check it out first as many as I can get together I'll hit them with the poison that way nobody risks their their armor their weapons okay uh before anyone does anything I say to the to the dwarves um brave yotan slayers uh can he approach

provide you with a boon of guidance. Please, we'll take all the help we can get. Okay, I do the rounds, all five of us. You need to duck, duck, duck, duck. We all have guidance. I did my part. What's next? I guess open up the trap door and see if...

Yeah, well, you crack open the trap door, and now this place is fucking dark down there. There's no sources of illumination, but from the light coming down from the brazier, that's next to the trap door. You can see a series of metal rungs that are embedded into the brick wall that go downwards.

And you think you can see the floor. Okay. I mean, I have superior dark vision at 120 feet. So with that, you can see the bottom. It goes down about 15 feet down to like a stone platform. Okay. Do I see any movement down there? Okay. So it's a stone platform?

Like a brick platform? platform you. Okay. So I tell everybody I'll like keep the door open. It's fine, I can throw my it looks a little something like that. I can throw light, bro. We don't need light. I don't need light. I see as well

without it. And I think the rustin ostracist because they don't have to have vision. So it's like light would actually hurt you at that point. So I'm trying to remain in stealth and go down the wrong to the platform. Okay. So we'll take you but I'm ready

to beat feet. You're right there. Okay. And you can see the rust monster scuttering around like giant cockroaches. About how many are there? Three. There are three? How deep is that water?

Probably way steep. Way steep. So I can't throw the poison in there. Okay So Ruston's small metal within 30 feet, right? Is it 30? It's like, I don't know. Okay, so I climb back up, closed trapdoor, and tell everybody what I found.

And now I need metal. So if there's not any metal handy or iron handy... Wait, wait, wait, we got those downers off the dudes. I was thinking of the... even more, like maybe even the Iron Maiden. That's going to be heavy. What's your plan? To drop it onto the platform,

to attract the to attract the Rust Monsters. Because I can't throw it in the water. Right? It'll dilute it. And I need to pull them all three together. So I was going to try and bring him to the platform, drop the poison

down, because it goes straight down, and then close the trap door, wait for the poison to take care of them. Before we go through the effort of seeing if we can budge the Iron Maiden, do you want to try, like, throwing the daggers one at a time into the, like, stick to the platform? Sure, we can do that. It's a rock stone platform, so we just said them down.

Okay. Yeah. So they pass the daggers down to you, and you can pile them up on that platform. And you see it's starting to draw the rust monsters towards you. Okay, climb back up and close the door for a few minutes. or not for a few minutes, but... Moments? Moments, yeah, based on what their speed looked like.

Okay. I don't know if we want to throw the poison. How many of them did you see? There's three. There's three. Because I can actually swap out, because now that we've had our quote-unquote short rest. You are partially restored.

I am partially restored but I can also part of hunters prey I can after short rest I can actually switch to the attack the horde I can do hoard breaker

make another attack same weapon different creature yeah I can do after short rest I can do hoard breaker so I can just go for basically I can do a poison spray in

like why are we waiting like why are we going to use our 44 whatever on three I mean they're big but okay yeah it's 46 right yes

46 it's an area target uh huh but do you're pointing to spray uh We go in a cone. Yeah, so we got a funnel. Okay.

May as well go for all three of them. Okay. All right, so you're going to pop open the hatch and fire poison spray. Fire poison spray. All right, go ahead and roll your attack. Just go. 20. Double damage.

Okay, so it hits. Yeah, roll up your damage, please. It's over here. It's only a one. But... What's the damage on poison spray? 5 plus 5. So, 6.

1D4 plus 5? Uh, oh, it's 2D12 poison. Yeah. Okay, so it's gonna be 4D12, or 2d12 times 2. Yeah. That's a 10. What do we say, 2?

Do you have 2? 2. 10, 20. Yeah. Okay. Poison spray blasts down at them, and you can see, like, starting to dissolve their, like, outer exosoph. skeleton, sending them into a frenzy, they're hurt pretty bad, but not quite dead. You have your bow and arrow.

I do have my bow and arrow. I'm going to do, I think that can, I can only go for one, though. Take one out? Yeah, you're taking out. Are they all the same size? They're different sizes. Take out the biggest one if you can. All right.

Or maybe the smallest one, I don't know. Smallest, go for a small. Yeah, the smallest gover. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. All right. Okay. 13.

Plus. Your decks. Plus decks. I think Dex was plus three. Okay. That hits? The only Beck, so I don't actually think I'd get. I'll get a shit ton for having a goddamn bone out.

So much for being a goddamn elf. I don't get. No. I really don't get much for short, by the way. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So the arrow sinks into its exoskeleton and the rust monster lets out a hiss.

So we're not dead yet. Mm-mm. However, on each of my turns, because I'm using cord breaker, I can make another attack with the same weapon against a different creature that's within the five feet of the original target and within range of my weapon, which it is. Okay. What is that, uh, nine? So that would be 12.

miss. Okay, the Rust Monsters are starting to, like, come up towards the ladder. They can see you guys up there with the trap door open. They're starting to climb up the wall towards you. I'm... Do you want to take my turn?

I don't even range weapons, so, I mean, I'll wait for them to come to the top. Do you want to drop the poison on them? I feel like they're almost dead. Like, now it's like... I can swing it them with my frigging quarter-swatt. Is poison spray a can'trip for you? I mean...

yeah that's fun can you cast it every round yes hunter's mark can cast without expending a spell swap blah blah blah yeah I mean it's like it is

yes yeah so whatever you got range spells you guys have just like last while they're coming up the walls all right um I look down the I'm I'm still a dumb dumb because I get a plus two bonus but it still wouldn't have done

for archery. Okay. So I look down the shaft there. Mm-hmm. And how far down are they down the ladder? There are like 10 feet at this point. Oh, plenty. So whichever one's highest on the ladder closest to me,

I look at it and cast Sacred Flame. So deck saving DC 14. 12. Okay. Okay, two D8. Okay. And two, that's a six.

That kills the one you targeted. All right, now the others are making their way up to the top. And I, well, I see. Coming up through the hatch. I'm going to close the hatch before they come up, though. Okay, they're banging on the hatch. A little bang. Eventually we're going to have to go in there.

Yeah. Hey, what are these dwarves doing? they're staying there I mean are we going to have to go in there or they're going to get bored and like go someplace else we have to go forward we have no we're out of time right so so then let's do this

my left pinky toe is feeling weird okay let's let's pull everybody back down the hallway and then let like let I'll let them up and like run or I'll like stealth okay and then you're going to open the hatch and stealth yeah if you guys come down

to here, everybody, all stealth, and then you guys, or you can attack them from there. I just thought we could get it from a different distance, so nobody's armor or weapons get damaged. Distance sounds good to me. So the Yothan slayers move down this way. As they come around the corner, I can use one of my, use some of my other arrows. Okay, so Dave opens up the trap door, the rust monsters start coming out. Yeah, I'm stealthed. You know, and I'll pull it up so that, Actually, does it, do you know which way it opens? Okay, so I'm going to hide behind it, stuff, and pull it up.

So when they come up, like, Oka, they're coming up, yeah. And maybe actually probably drop some metal or something over here to draw them. The Russ monsters are starting to scuttle around. They're looking for metal. All right. Toss, the dagger, or do you have all of them? Did you use all of them? I think we use all of them.

I have nothing else made of metal to chuck. Well, those two dwarves are loaded with metal. Yeah. Hey, do you guys have something that we might be able to use to draw them hopefully maybe one at a time? Something like? One of them says we can try using my shield. I mean, I'm not going to say,

it's a little harder to check. I mean, they're going to find you guys sooner rather than later anyway. Right. Yeah. So I'm just going to say, fuck it. Like, why are we trying to lure them? I'm just going to, they're going to come. Okay.

Just take another swing at them. They're, like, half dead. That's it. I'm going for it. Okay. Well, I didn't go for it very well. So I got a three. So what the fuck else you guys got going on?

So that arrow misses. Wait, why is everyone looking at me? Is your... He's behind a trapdoor. Is that a cantrip? What is? Your damage spell? Yeah.

So they're coming around the corner. You want to blast them? Was it one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Each of these is five. So they're out of range for me. So you're going to have to move forward. Yeah. All right.

So I think I've got to go here. Cool. and I can see both of them or there's a gutland and see one of them for sure wait I see the big one

oh so actually if I moved here would I be able to see the small one yeah I think so okay you're behind the door right and I don't have any metal on me so they can't smell me I just don't want them to cast something in your general direction

I have it up. I'm shilling myself. Yeah, yeah. Just looking out, I think. Um, okay. DC-14 deck save. Okay. On both of them? Uh, no, I'm just attacking the one.

This is a one, um, single target spell. Okay, they both make it. Oh, well, I was only targeting the small one, but yeah. Oh, okay. Okay, well, that's it for me. All right So do they keep moving forward then? Yeah, they're starting to move over in this direction

Okay, what's their movement? What do you mean? What's the movement? How far can they move per turn? I don't know if he's got to tell us that. 40 feet? 40 feet? So that's 30 feet.

Okay, so I do that, yeah. I think that they get their mover now, right? Yeah. All right, so this guy is going to move forward. and make a bite on John. Of course. To myself. Plus three, so.

Oh, geez. 16? Hum, okay. So that's four points of piercing damage. Of the 16 for Pearson? Yes. So minus 12. Now, I need you to make a...

No, no. well you've already been touched yeah it's your armor oh well i guess better me um actually it looks like it's one or the other uh either a bite or the rust attack so i'll forego that one now um the other rust monster is gonna come forward this way all right guys what are we doing They're going to go for the dwarves because they're covered and... Yeah, but now it's just launching an all-out attack. Like, they're pretty damaged. One, two, three, four.

Okay, I'll move to here. Okay. And attack a bare-fisted. Okay. So, and I think that's just one D-4, right? So it's 19 plus my strength zero. So 19. And then isn't barefaces, it's just 1D4?

Two. Okay. You're able to kill one of them. Wow. Ooh. All right. Since it is not made of metal, I'm going to go for because I've got 30 feet.

So I can move in and swing my quarter staff for old boy over here okay so yeah you move in and you cave his cranium in too okay let's head down into the yep off we go before we're dead are we dead yet no you have one hour left we are not dead yet I don't know where you are. Oh. I think you have one hour. What time did we start at?

Right around eight, right? 47 minutes. We have 47 minutes. Thank you. Let's get it on. Okay. Oh, dear. All right.

Move down into the sewer. Into the sewer. Oh, good. Elevated. I can actually see it. I'll leave the way and stealth, even though it's waste deep water. I'll try to be one with the

one with the current. I think something touched my leg. Can I see it very end there can I see what's down there? Every time I see it up. Yep. Does anyone have a torch or a cast light or something? I can cast light.

Let me, let me, um... I'm asking you. Yeah, I can cast dancing lights. Let me, uh, in total darkness, like, peek around this corner. Okay. And then I'll cast, I'll cast, uh, I'll cast dancing lights for you. Appreciate it. So I'm gonna come up to here and peek around this corner.

Okay. He just doesn't want me to do it. I don't know why. Okay, that's what I see. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna call you guys up, let you know what I see, and then I'm gonna go down and check all the way to the end there. Being very careful. Actually, I'm gonna use my, I'm also gonna use my short sword

to like probe the ground in front of me to make sure I'm not stepping off into it. An abyss. All right, move where you want to go? Slowly this way, probing. Actually, can I borrow your bow staff? Uh-huh. Okay, so I'm going to use your-quarter staff?

Yeah, your quarterstaff. Bo-staff. Bo-fighting skills. Bo-staff. Eat your food. Tina. Numbchuk skills. I mean, I do have expertise in martial weapons, but.

So I'm going to use your bow staff to, like, prod in front of you, make sure I'm not, you know, stepping off into, like. Oblivion? Yeah. And then keep moving down with my superior dark vision. The stick is going to be very sticky. All the way down to here. You come around the corner, this elbow in the sewer system,

and you see in front of you a cave-in that blocks the way. But you also see what looks like some sort of loot drop amongst the crap. And what's the term, Duterus. A loot drop? Okay. I'll go back and tell them what I've found, have them move forward, you know, maybe up to here to support me, and then go and prod that loop drop. Do we do that? The loot drop.

Sure, why not? Okay. With the boats, like check for traps, stuff like that. It's not trapped. Okay. prod it with the Boast staff, the quarter staff. Okay. Nothing.

All right. I pick up the loot. All right, yeah. It's an old leather backpack. Inside, you find two potions of greater healing, 40 feet of rope, 20 gold pieces. And that's it. Okay.

Finalizing fucking rope. So do we have any other potions of healing right now? Nope. Okay. We're out. We've got the draft of Colossus, which I think we should use soon. C-enow spray.

C-enow spray. I think the draft of Colossus, the problem is you'll get bigger and you might get stuck. here. Cost Caven. So we'll give

both of them both of you guys the potions. One for Rabinico, one for me. Yeah. I'm about to dip into the snacks. You know, our viewership hates it when I eat, and I don't know if we have a viewership for this episode.

Yeah, yeah. I think we're good. Three hours in. They're there. They are loyal. They get mad at me every time I eat. Yeah. Well, good. They get mad when we laugh. They get mad when, yeah, it's weird.

Well, share them, because I will eat them. Thank you, sir. Thank you, John. Rabinica, maybe I'll keep one of the potions because I have fast hands so I can take a potion for a bonus action. These are steak-flavored glazed potato chips that John brought.

Are these Korean? It's from the Japanese market across the street. Nice. I assume it's a Japanese one. All right, so you guys want to go down the rest of the way? Oh, I don't have fast hands of this, that's all right. Thanks. I'll just a second.

So we'll all head down that way with me leading the way. All right, move your. John, you want to move us all down? Yep. You're in the lead. One of these guys. You're going to move down there and look around the corner. Squishy in the middle.

him. It appears that you have located the exit from the sewer system. There's a ladder leading upwards. Okay? I feel like we've missed something. A dragon? In so many words.

We're missing a dragon. Do you want to see if this is the exit or if there's something up there? What ones in case someone needs to clean their hands? Thanks. What do we think? Do we're at the exit? We can check it.

I didn't say it was an exit from the dungeon, but it appears to be an exit from the sewer. From the sewer. We did skip, like, a room and a half, but I doubt a dragon would fit back up there. Okay, Mr. Sneaky. Yeah, so I'll go up in... We skipped a room and a half?

Listen first off at the... Is it a trapdoor? Oh, right. Yeah, we gotta go back there. And then we can explore the room with the sinks or whatever. Some were a wooden trap door. It's closed. You don't hear anything on the other side. Okay. I'll open it up. All right. Opens up into a small antechamber.

There's a large stone door, and there is a console next to it with three sockets. A star, a square, and a circle. I played this game in preschool They played Legends of Zelda, you know how it works But it But it's just a small room, right? Yes

Does it appear that Any of the walls Are false walls, movable walls? No, but there's a stone door That Oh, there's a stone door, okay All right I tell you

I tell you guys what I find I found the sockets for the keys How large is this room Can everybody fit in it or shit? Yeah But that's about as big as it is. Do you guys want to come up, or do you want me to open it and stealth and tell you what I see? I'm all for you scouting that shit out.

So I stay stealth, but I put everything, I put the sockets in. Okay. We put the gems into the console. Yeah. The stone door opens up and reveals some sort of large cavern beyond. Okay. Can I, how, with 120 foot it's pure, dark, dark vision. What can I see in the cavern? How far does it go? How high is it? The ceiling probably goes up at least 100 feet. Okay. There's some light coming down from cracks in the ceiling. Okay. The chamber itself is maybe...

The chamber itself is yay big. For example. And potentially even structured and shaped. Yeah. Okay. Stylagite, staligites. A few. A few. A few. few geological formations in there. Okay. Any big recesses, like caves or anything like that?

Some shadows. That's about it. Okay. You think you can see something moving off in the distance. Off in the distance. Okay. I go back down the ladder quietly

and tell you guys what I find. What do you guys want to do? We don't have much of a choice. I mean, I can try and go deeper and scout it while you guys stand on it. You guys can come up. I would say you probably aren't going to want to do that yourself because otherwise, like,

if something does happen to you. Yeah. You scream down what you saw? Yeah, he screamed out. He quietly comes down. No, I came down until... Okay, okay. So I haven't made any noise here.

Okay. So, yeah. Other than the wall going up. Mm-hmm. So prior conversation, Colossus potion would cause a cave in. You said that the ceiling's higher than you can tell, or...

Right. Is that, yeah, yeah. So we might be able to... I don't know how long the Placis Potion will... Last though. Through a battle for sure. Through a battle, okay. Who's got...

How long does it take to take a cut? No, no, I haven't. But who's got the best strength? There's some chance. The Constitution. No, no, no. Okay, no, sorry, I was jumping ahead. The Colossus improves your con.

So it improves your strength, but you get, you grow based on your... Each time you grow, you have to make a constitution saving throw. So each round? So not each round. When you take it, you make a con saving throw. If you make your con saving throw, you grow even bigger and get even stronger.

Then you make another con saving throw. So each time you make that saving throw. So I go from a medium to a large... Small, yeah. Well, I'm a medium. It's like five or six. Yes? Can I...

I would need some help on this because I'd need another short rest. But I would, I do have Colossus Slayer and Giant Killer as two options that I would be able to then take for my. All right, guys. What are we doing here? I'm going up. The question I'm trying to ask was, do I drink the potion when we get up there and try to. You're not going to drink it down here. Do you want me to wrestle a drag?

or not? Not? I want to see you. Why don't we just go the fuck up there and find out? All right. Okay, guys. We're going up.

I'm going to go because everybody else is being a wiener. All right. You can see when you get up here and you start to step into the light, you can see at the far side is the clutch of dragon eggs.

Standing between you and it is the dragon. There we are. It's problematic, though. As this dragon, as it emerges from the shadows and into the light, it's clearly been zambified. It's a zombie dragon. Wow. We got zombie and dragon.

The two Yotan slayers make eye contact with the dragon, and one of them yells, ho, you dogs, do you want to live forever? And they both charge towards the dragon. Leroy Jenkins in it. I ain't chicken. Roll for initiative. Our poison isn't going to work. I believe it's

just yell death and storm the castle. I just rolled an eight. I lost my deck, so it's 11. Don't worry about it. Is it yell death and lose the dogs of war? No, it's

if I am Theodin King, that's how I'm going to rally my troops. Five plus uh, four, nine. Nine. Nine? That's a lovely five. Alana?

I had, what did I say I had? I think you had like 11. Yeah, it ended up with 11, yeah. Okay, so Alana. Okay, so Alana, Dave John, and then I'll put the Yothan slayers and then the dragon. A quick question.

When you said Zombofly, does that mean undead? Yes, it does. Okay. I don't think I have very much against undead at the present moment. So undead though you may be, I can only be friends with so much. So I am going to go for, I'm going to take my arrows. I may as well shoot it an eyeball. Okay.

Go ahead and roll your attack. They have eyeballs when they're a zombie? dragons. There's some semblance of an eye still in the socket. All right, I'll go for it. Well, I got a four with that, so we're just going to assume that misses. Sorry.

Getting texted from my daughter. Even with my plus two range bonus, bringing that to his six. Okay, so your attack missed. Yes. Dave. So, are the dwarers right up?

Are they to the dragon? Just about. Just about. Okay. I don't have sherry fire anymore. Is there light in here? Can he see? There's light coming down.

There's light coming down. Let's see here. You took the potion. What do we have left? The poison's not going to work. Sinal. Salve of Sina. I don't think that will work on undead.

I will I will go stealth and move off to the side here working my way around around here however far I can make it. Okay. And stealth. John.

I'm going to cast that's why it's my divination, it's not in my spill list. It's Channel Divinity, Turn on Day. as a magic action, I'm going to hold up my holy symbol and censure undead creatures. I have to be within 30 feet. Okay.

I think that's probably close enough. They must make a wisdom-saving throw. If the creature fails, well, we'll get there. It must make a wisdom-saving throw. What's the DC? Um, I'd assume it's the spell save DC. Mm-hmm. So that's 14 still.

Wisdom. Seven. Okay. So, looking at the effects. Um, it has frightened and incapacitated conditions for one minute. For that duration, if, uh, it tries to move as far away from me as it can on its turns. This effects, this effect ends early. Uh,

If it takes any damage. Okay. If I gain capacity to if I die. Anything else? That's it. Okay. So I'm pretty much making it run away for a turn. The Yotan fliers come forward and they start hacking into the zombie dragon with their axes.

Probably not the best use. I should have saved that. And now the dragon is going to make its attack. Wait, didn't we get our... Oh, our two dangerous. He has to move backwards away from John. As he's in this frightened state, he hisses at you. I think I can use Hunter's Lord. The zombie dragon rears back, and he exhales his rotting breath in a 60-foot line that is five feet wide.

Well, shucks. I'm pretty far back, but... He's got a ruler. 60 feet. We get one Slayer and John. Of course. The damage is... Okay. John, I need you to make a dex check.

Rout row. Dexterity saving throw, I should say. So roll the D20 add my modifier? Mm-hmm. No, that's just a no. It's a two plus one, three. It's a what? It's a three.

Okay. Yeah, so you fail, and you are going to take 10 D10 damage Well, I'm really glad I drank that potion earlier You did you? Yeah The Colosses? No, the Orchish Fury or half workfurio

Ah, gotcha. The one that when I go down, I'm up with one. Yeah, gotcha. Okay. So 5, 12, 14, 19, 19, 20, 21, 22, 22, 23, 4, to 5, 26, 27, 28. 38. How many hit points do you have?

Oh, we're past it. Okay. So you go down, killed by this breath weapon. He's down to one hit point. But then you get back up onto your feet with one hit point. This Yotan Slayer is dead. No, Bob.

More eggs for us. I see what you did there Okay, that concludes the dragon's turn. Alana, you're up. All right. I always have Hunter's Mark prepared. Okay. So I'm going to

cast Hunter's Mark so that we know whether the creature has any immunities, resistances, vulnerabilities. Okay, so its damage immunities are lightning and poison, and its condition immunities are poisoned. So no poison. Yeah. It doesn't list any vulnerabilities. Should I drink the other potion?

Anything else? I mean, technically that, well, so really not very vulnerable except not to poison. Fabulous. Well, I guess I'm going to try to take out another eye or his eyeball again. Okay. Go ahead. I'm not super useful. 17. Plus.

Plus three. Or plus two with my ranged weapon. That's a hit. Roll your damage. Oh, shit, snacks. Literally. Six. Okay.

Still good. Dave. Yes. Floor tip? Sure. Fort tip. So how long was the Dragon's Breath weapon? How long was it?

60 feet. 60 feet. Okay. So I'm going to come up. I'm going to take out the eggs. Okay. Grab them all. Throw them my bag.

There's all five of them. Throw them in there. And then I guess that was my action. My bonus action, I'm going to dash 60 feet. Okay. And then, you'll run. Which way? Back down? Yeah.

John. You should probably get the fuck out of here, bro. Oh, I'm going to pop the potion of greater healing. Probably makes sense. Okay. I'm giving one hit point. 44 plus four. Four is nine.

Ten, fourteen. So I have 15 hit points. Okay. And I run to the exception. Okay, you're running to the exit. Leave that Jotan to be his glory. The remaining Yotan Slayer calls you guys a bunch of cowards and sissies as he continues swinging with wild abandon at the zombie dragon.

Let me do another. I pick the floor chips. Would you like any, like, probably not floor chips? Probably not floor chips. All right, so the last thing you see, John, is. the dragon picking that dwarf up into its jaws and swinging it back and forth. Alana.

You two assholes are already down there. Run, yeah. Yeah, I'm the fuck out of here, bro. Okay. So you guys run through the stone door into the antechamber and run into two humans. One of them shouts,

it's more of a high-pitched female voice, the other grumbles something. Are they wearing the robes? No, no, no. They're not cultists. When I get out of the room, though, can I take, if I remove those, like, if I just ignore them and remove the stone, it's just a door closed? It'll start closing, yeah.

Okay. The woman is dressed quite elegantly. The man looks. like a wizened old wizard. He has a conical hat and everything. You would recognize the woman as Laurel Silverhand. She is the open lord of water deep. So there's 50 masked lords that ward over water deep.

One is the open representative between the public and the lords. She's the current open ward. The man turns to her and he says, before I was rudely interrupted by these three, as I was saying, the last time Mert's hair fell out, I think it was because of his dalliances down at the dock ward. And the woman looks, Laurel, Silverhand, looks over to him

and says, is this what you guys get up to when I'm not around? Both of them seem rather unperturbed. Then the wizard looks at you and he says, So which one of you got the eggs? Before we answer... There's a dwarf in there that I think got the eggs. He says, I'll handle the dragon in due course. But right now, we need the eggs.

I know Lady Monster sent you in, but we've already dealt with her. Did you deal with her in terms of, I don't know, getting an antidote? Did you get the antidote? Laurel Silverhand laughs and... and so does the wizard. And it says, yeah, there's never any poison. All that, my pinky toe. Got's full of shit.

Yeah, she was full of shit. But the more important thing is to unmask who she was working for. And that's what we could use your help with. I should have broken in the boots and gloves before we came into this place. How much does this job pay? Oral Silverhand tells you that she's authorized to open the water deep treasury and that you will be definitely rewarded for this type of work. They need able-bodied adventurers for this,

and you guys have seemed to have proven your worth. Do you mind if we talk about this for a moment? The wizard steps forward and says, not here. And he tells you his name is Elm Minster. He is the kind of the right-hand man of Laurel Silverhand

but in a more clandestine way. He does investigations for her finds out what's going on in the seedy underbelly of water deep and thwarts plots against the city. He pulls out a pink gemstone and he motions all of you

and says, come on, stand close. and as you gather around he holds the gem in his hands and teleports you out of the cave. I guess we didn't have much of a choice then. To where? When I give them the eggs, I'm going to use side of hand to give them three eggs. Yeah, I think Laurel and Elmister would probably accept that

as long as they remain in ignorance. What, what? And that ends this dungeon. And we're not dead. How we do, D? Time. Cutting it close. Made it out of the escape room. Haven't broken my streak.

Man, thank God for that dragon fodder we found on the way in. That's very, very inconsiderate to prefer to him that way. The one thing I wish I had done differently was pop the giant potion as we entered. Yeah, you should have done that. I wanted to try and wrestle the dragon. Cool. How did you guys like the dungeon? It was great. A lot fun.

Love it. I, uh, there was actually, there was one encounter I cut out of it, out of it. Well, a couple, actually. But I was initially going to have you guys. I figured the spiders at the beginning because we were going to slow. I was going to have you fight the zombie beholder as well. Oh, yeah, down in the hallway. That would have been.

Those hallways were fairly empty. Yeah, but you guys, uh, I also had this guy. I might have sicked on you, but, and there was a, if you guys went messing around with the gravestones, there would have been zombies coming out of them. I assume also with the Tunes. No, I don't think so. I don't think I had anything planned for that. Are we done?

Oh, hey, everybody, thanks for watching all two of you who might still be here. Yeah, this is definitely off-kilter for us. You know, whenever we hit 100-episode mile mark, we try to do something that's just fun or different. And we'll be back actually tomorrow with Jamie, who served in the New Zealand Special Air Service. so that's tomorrow's episode anything else before we get going tonight guys

no it was a fun game it was a good game it was a it was a well-balanced game for our level yeah well I balanced it in real time a little bit yeah yeah yeah cool but no I'm glad I'm glad you have fun thank you guys both of you for coming in doing this today I hope you had a good time with it

the set is beautiful yeah took a long time to make, thank you. I love the grimy water effect you've got in the sewer. Yeah. He makes that, though. It's crazy. That's a cardboard tube that I cut in half, and the water is resin.

That I cord. Yeah. If you look in it, you can see, like, down in the bottom, there's, like, there's some potions, there's glass bottles, there's, like, some barrels. I don't know, man. All this stuff is on the table, which is most of the set. worked on for at least a year. Yeah, these catacomb things were like super difficult.

I tried to make them modular, right? So you can take them apart and move them. But I also tried to make them like almost like diorama quality. That's kind of crazy. And yeah, just that there's no standardization really for like a catacomb really. So each one's like very different. they're double-sided. They had to be double-sided so that you can...

How did you make them? This is an MDF base that I cut with a saw. The bricks and stuff like that are just foam. Yeah, it sounds like foam core. Yeah, yeah, the foam that I cut. And then the little, like, some of the, like, resin pieces, you know, these are, you know, I bought these from a company. Some one that 3D prints, the little skeletons, the candles, the bottles. That's so cool, man.

stuff. That's amazing. Yeah, that was... You guys want any chips? No, good. I'm like halfway through the wasabi cheese. No, I'll swap you for the chips. Yeah, no, good game.

It's a lot of fun. Cool. We do it again. Episode 400. You know it. It would have... Right around the corner. Like, honestly, like, if Lucian would have been here,

it would have been... It would have gone much faster. Yeah, probably. The beholder would have come out. out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, next time.

Yeah, that's why I love it. You know, one of my favorite things, like Game Breakers, is an arcane thief. The Mageehan ledger domain, using an invisible hand to pick pocket or to steal shit. No, it's good, especially, like, I haven't played. D&D actual in probably 20 years. Really? I played like other

like miscellaneous. Yeah. But I probably haven't, I don't, I think it's probably been around 20 years. One, thanks for making the trek out here. Coming out. And also, thanks for like taking like the thankless job of the cleric. Being the cleric.

Seriously, man. Somebody's got to do it. Yeah, there should have been him. It should have been me. like he's a guest I should have done that that's all good I had fun power of persuasion right here I was like hey

buddy so what you do in Thursday today? You asked on what Tuesday I think I asked you on Tuesday it's like okay I'm doing anything Friday you asked the question and said I sent you sent you a gift like you got me I'm in

and then I figured out what I had to do it's like well I haven't played D and the fifth edition and I've not played a cleric yet so I'm going to figure this out real you had off this week you were basically invited out to be the designated driver you know I've been that person so like next time we play though whether it's live or just like whatever like you can you can play whatever you want and everybody else everybody else will accommodate yeah by the time we get to episode 400 maybe I'll have a new dungeon ready.

Because to get like 100 episodes, that's like what a year and a half for us? Because I think we'd probably do like 70, 75 episodes a year. Yeah. Well, because when did we do Cthulhu? We did that, like, I guess about a year and a half ago. Yeah, I think it was. Mm-hmm. The 200?

Yeah. Yeah. The call of Cotulu, yeah. Yeah, that was so insane. Yeah, I was not here for all 15. Yeah. I think we finally stopped around like two, three in the morning. Yeah, I don't know.

We were playing video games. Yeah. I think I showed up at like, I don't know, like six or seven. And then you went back to playing video games towards the end of it. Yeah. Yeah, well, we were playing Ninja Turtles and then we started playing Ground Branch at the end. But this was fun. I'm glad we got to do this.

I miss playing D&D. I had like two campaigns going at the same time at one point. I kind of miss it. It's fun. Okay. All right. Now that's it. Ready to go?

Yeah. Thank you very much, everybody. Yeah. Thank you guys. And we will see you on Friday. Yep. Tomorrow. I've been eating chips in all your ears.