Salem:

I'm Salem I'm a hill dwarf mould

Snyders Return:

Sure, surely Abel having done sort of basic training with ropes you could leper crawl it

Unknown:

Ah

Abel:

man, lepers are not the same bra laces.

Snyders Return:

So do you

Abel:

have a frickin line all right i mean something around places not here.

Snyders Return:

So you

Abel:

know I'm just gonna frickin follow dipshit Mr. Fucking twinkle toes and I'm gonna climb on it like the uncultured labouring animal, I

Salem:

am just gonna run up,

Abel:

grab hold of it, I'm gonna hand over over hand underneath climbing it like you would be you're taking a pirate ship.

Snyders Return:

So, because of your various descriptions, I would like an athletics check from Abel. And depending, depends on what I will get you to do say a

Abel:

big Musk's big mass come off a fuck you. I got an actual one. But it's a plus nine. So that totally counts as a 10 which is good. That's like half by half got that okay, we were established that was good. I didn't fat on the only fucking thing I'm good app.

Snyders Return:

It's except it's not as strong or as graceful or as powerful as you would expect. And every so often one your feet kind of slips and you have to sort of bounce the chain a little bit. So I would like an acrobatics check from Salem, because Abel, you are sort of making making the chain move underneath him. So 13 again, not your most balanced and you have to sort of catch catch your weight and counteract what your Leonean friend is trying to do behind you. But you're able to sort of be

Abel:

like newly born deers, newborn giraffes.

Snyders Return:

It's, it's not graceful, you will not, it's not stealthy, either, between the pair of you, however, yeah, you are able to reach the top of the chain, which doesn't go directly into one of the access holes. But it does anchor somewhere deep into this sort of paper, paper mash a tight outer skin.

Salem:

Where's the nearest accessible from where I am, the newest

Snyders Return:

entry sort of Port, as it were, to this high type construction is probably just 10 feet to your right hand side as the chain sort of anchors into this structure, you can see an entry or an opening just to the right hand side, maybe 10 feet across.

Salem:

I'm just gonna brace myself on this structure thing and then literally just run straight to the entrance. Nice,

Snyders Return:

no problem as you sort of walk around and sort of tuck into the hole, you can hear movement in in the structure. And you can hear that that strange moaning sound seems to sort emanate out from the structure itself. Again, it's hard to pick out a little bit echoes down to where your position in the entranceway is, but it seems to be more than one voice out of reaches your ears in this position.

Salem:

I'm not going to proceed at this moment, I'm going to back in with my hands for able to follow

Unknown:

where am I and all this shenanigans. I've done a lot, you get up the chain. Okay?

Snyders Return:

It's just not very graceful.

Abel:

Okay, if I can get by so I just want to follow Salem. And then try and get in

Snyders Return:

between the top of the chain and the entrance where you can see hidden, which is about 10 feet away. There's no step round, there's no walkway or any kind of natural access. So you can see I where the entrance in ggressive of creatures have sort of border thing a little bit smooth. Yeah, but then it connects the chain

Unknown:

is that okay? Is there anything?

Snyders Return:

Is there any other entrances that are closer not closer there is one a bit torn to your see on the chain into the centre of section that this face you're looking at. And there is one

Abel:

colour colour from the bottom right

Snyders Return:

to say the one to the right. So if you follow the chain from the right hand side into the middle, say that went to the right to the hole. Okay, you can also see one the bottom left. So you would assume while you were climbing the chain so there's across from you up from you are down to the left from your current position,

Abel:

I'm going to whisper the loudly to say

Unknown:

john rope

Salem:

I'm going to motion from Shut the fuck up. Okay, and then before for a further up, have a quick look around and then as long as everything still remains calm, throw a rope to him and try and anchor it to a point within the structure.

Abel:

This is going to be flawless.

Salem:

Pretty much he's going to not be an idiot and he's going to tie it to the chin and I'm going to tap into somewhere in

Abel:

my damn self.

Unknown:

What

Abel:

I'm going to do is gonna hook my legs on the row on the on the friggin chain and then with both my hands free use my absolute stomach muscles of sheer steel to just tent and then tie the rope around my waist as I'm hanging there upside down like an absolute boss double knotted someone frickin idiot.

Salem:

Try it I love the rope across the and then try and tie it oh

Abel:

you can just hold it I'm trying to climb up but at least if I do fall I'll just fall to the length of the rope.

Salem:

No I'm not holding up find your mentor

Abel:

I want you to wow just anchored wrap it around something I don't know but you fit on it.

Salem:

I will let it go if it tries to pull them out selfish. Yes, self preservation. That's what it is. Dude, I'll have a quick look around. See if there's somewhere

Abel:

let me know before I frickin commit to this. Okay,

Unknown:

I had to run it. Right okay.

Abel:

We whispering I'm whispering I'm gonna tie around my waist my steel trap.

Salem:

So I look around see to somewhere I can tie it Okay,

Snyders Return:

looking sort of into the chamber behind you in this this strange even though the sort of the walls and where you are, is this sort of weird sort of thick paper but there are a couple of stronger columns one just not too far back you can see those that the top the bottom one of the three for you to potentially anchor a rope around not knowing how sort of strong it is. You do here above you the occasional sort of buzz of wing and skittering of sort of feet across the sort of the surface above your head elsewhere as you sort of move around you again his soft moans and groans and and again it's from multiple sources definitely from now you sense it in the walls around you. But sort of quest to find an anchor point leads you to a column just close to where you are

Salem:

cowl attempt jus obviously not knowing what else is trying to sneak in tight around the column. Okay,

Snyders Return:

I would like a Star Trek II just a straight Are you proficient in any in any tools, tools,

Salem:

the profession and op Smith's tools and woodcarvers tools? Alright, so my tools down there, herbalists kits, mesh tools, woodcarvers tools, proficiency in speeches and trade woodcarvers calls,

Abel:

that's as good because it my I'm really proficient in Drum. Drum, it doesn't say drums. I am a hill

Unknown:

wood carving.

Snyders Return:

Right. So just do me a sleight of hand for the text.

Salem:

So my first one was a what sorry, a stealth. So that's a 21 personnel.

Snyders Return:

Okay, so you get to move quietly away from the entranceway into this main chamber.

Salem:

And you're ready slave and

Snyders Return:

further for the non slave. That is a plus for 1818 yet seem to move in loop the rope round this sort of first column able to tie a knot you're happy with a feel secure giving just a slight tug, you can hear it pull into the column just a little bit, but then it doesn't make any further sound. And you're able to carry on and move back towards the access point

Salem:

camera for the roof across to him.

Abel:

I would like to tie it around nice.

Snyders Return:

I will take a sleight of hand check from you as well for me.

Unknown:

Yeah, well

Snyders Return:

you're not just holding it and climbing up. Okay,

Abel:

when in doubt use a lot of knots and that's why clearly done here. Granny not a great another shit out of it. Yeah, fine. You got to move.

Snyders Return:

So you're not in place you

Unknown:

given a

Snyders Return:

talk and it

Abel:

was kind of upside down ish. But obviously I've been upside down for quite a while. So want to hurry this thing along.

Salem:

Yeah, you've just forgot to put it around your waist.

Abel:

Yeah. I've put it down. I put around one leg so I fully hit in the crotch.

Unknown:

Ouch.

Snyders Return:

So you now have this thing tied around you you have been given a bit of a signal from saying Yeah, from situps What are you doing?

Abel:

I'm going to put my hands on the rope, have my feet still on the chain, get as high as I can, while stretching, then just let go of the chain and then swing towards the weird math weird structure thing. And I'm just gonna slightly start pulling myself up using just my arms because I'm an absolute boss. And that's all I do is arms day, arms day every day.

Snyders Return:

What kind of boss you want, as you see that

Unknown:

see?

Snyders Return:

And not though kind of holding starts to slip down the sort of saucer squeezing on us. You're actually sort of dropping with the weight now pulling the rope

Salem:

it didn't slip now.

Snyders Return:

Pass I did and what it did many knots. I did many knots. If you hadn't applied it in such a way that it was your arms to pull tight shot and then let you draw but you're able to at least do something that I'd like a athletics check at disadvantage, though.

Abel:

Is his rise. No problem a man? How's a good 121? Was athletics you're asking? Yes.

Unknown:

On strength

Snyders Return:

and you feel we're not going to

Abel:

go. I defy you as myself. I say my brain because that's all that goes on in our brain. Nice.

Snyders Return:

You're able to climb the road but you have like Mark pressed into your skin like a burn almost whether or not as pulled tight around your chest. There's left mark,

Abel:

do I get to the top?

Snyders Return:

You do make it to my ceiling.

Abel:

Okay, because while doing this, I'll lift my shirt up. Ah, you see, like the actual burn marks is done. I guess. If anyone asks, I got captured and tied up. Okay, let's keep going. I'm going to pull my sword out my long sword. Just think both

Snyders Return:

of you enter this large chamber, it is tall enough for you to stand up and you can see where you are. And then across from you to the side the east. You can see like an access hole that goes up and down seeming like channel.

Salem:

Where does it sound like it's grown

Snyders Return:

from the perception.

Salem:

perception. Seven,

Snyders Return:

you think you hear it coming from one place close to the walls and then there's a sound from somewhere else that sort of carries you over to a different section of the wall. The way that it's been laid and constructed, it's hard to tell to sort of pinpoint you think you might see some sort of shape sunk into one of these these sections. But it's hard to tell exactly if that is where the sound is coming from at that moment in time.

Salem:

While I'm stumped.

Unknown:

Did you see some I'm going to whisper this. Did you see something outside that look humanoid that was stuck in the wall or something.

Salem:

I saw something but I also saw one way to win.

Abel:

Well, I'm going to take your lead, ie, you're going to go in front and we'll just attack this quietly. I don't really want to fight a million of them. But I'm guessing like every creature that builds a home has like a grand like bedroom. And normally they're in the top part of the house. So using that logic I think we should probably go upwards Yeah, that at least that way if we if we have to fall we'll get to the end we'll get out to the bottom and out of here.

Unknown:

Yeah, good. So I'm going I want to tip it over to that gaping hole at the side and see if we can find a way to get up Hey not having awakes

Snyders Return:

bullshit. The sort of wall surface isn't 100% smooth so it's scalable to climb up and but it's more designed for the free access of something capable of scuttling up or down or coming in at a you know freely a different angles and different levels as this sort of channel almost sort of chimney like structure links that to the next floor above

Salem:

sound perfect for me.

Abel:

Okay, well remember remembers like for rope if I need a hand okay. My ropes I'll use mine and rope we'll just use the last off optionally.

Unknown:

Anything else?

Abel:

Oh, I have like the cloak of bellowing I forgot that. Oh, it bellows magnificent style. Lexan

Salem:

display.

Abel:

Yeah, but mine's bellowing so it's bad. Okay, stop.

Unknown:

I am all right.

Abel:

Okay, I'm going to stealth over to that area and then see if I can just frickin just climb my way up with sheer passion and grit and determination sheer passion. And these these Musk's

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Salem:

I'm gonna watch

Snyders Return:

diggin you're sort of pausing toes in boots, you were able to post in pre typed surface, but it layered in such a way that once your toes have gone in, they gain purchase in your and it seems to support your weight. And you're able to sort of make as you sort of start climbing up at the top of the roof becomes a floor as your head sort of crushed between the two levels. And you're able to sort of scan the scene

Abel:

up and just and have a ganders Why is this? So this is this is a level higher now. Yeah, yes. Okay. Okay. Okay. And where on the side?

Salem:

I'm not there yet. No signals from you?

Abel:

Do I see anything, any flying bugs or any just like Oracle looking people,

Snyders Return:

as you sort of poke your head up between these two force level services, how to refer to them. You can see one of these large sort of wasp like creatures sort of scuttling around you can see sort of just tucked into a few sections, like closer to the the opposite wall, in fact, seem to be sort of, almost sort of sacral like shapes or forms that seem to sort of be gently writhing, they're sort of tucked into small recesses. And this large, wasp like creature sort of scuttles around and then you watch it as it moves the other side of the columns that are ahead of you and disappears down and out. You presume outside disappearing out of the structure itself.

Abel:

Hey, do those sacks look like foods they look like? Like babies

Snyders Return:

do me in nature Jaya.

Unknown:

They're super understand the words the nature 11

Snyders Return:

you know 100% sure, but it's like a jelly.

Abel:

Okay, if there's no other flying things up there is there no, okay. I'm gonna signal for Ireland. Calm without frantically bringing forward like come down a few steps and be like

Salem:

sign up soon as it does now just bound up the wall and land gently on the platform.

Abel:

Okay, I have to come back up to keep up with him. I there was a frickin flying thing here but there's some like meat Sakhi things over there. I don't know if it's dude or young or whatever. So what do you think?

Salem:

I say we destroy him just to be just to be so

Abel:

let's not destroy but that's you know, check it out. And if it's a laugh, then we'll call it a day and if it isn't, then we'll destroy it. Yeah,

Salem:

yeah, then we'll destroy Yeah.

Abel:

I'm gonna fuck what I'm okay. I've got no I mean I want to punch it to oblivion.

Salem:

Oh so I imagine some a different

Abel:

Okay, well get out your brain right now okay the rumours of that stop right here. I want to have a reputation to uphold okay and only that type of thing tarnishing my frickin name.

Salem:

God dammit well your names already tarnished should we approach one and have a look?

Abel:

Yes we should approach want to have that yes What do you suppose this is then

Salem:

no product with my product with

Abel:

my staff, your knowledgeable finger

Unknown:

in my staff,

Snyders Return:

I'm going to poke you with the stuff you poke it with your staff and the the skin of this sort of surface this sack sort of bows in with with the pressure applied and you can see some movement inside this one there's as I say there were a couple here so three of this one that you've gone to the pressure applied from the staff sort of puts pressure on the skin of this sort of form sort of bag or SAS

Unknown:

thing like nasty ones

Salem:

what's the font look like inside does it look humanoid does it look more like one of these the clicking things

Snyders Return:

it's hard to tell you can just see a dark shape sort of shift inside it.

Salem:

Okay, I'm going to take my hand axe and literally draw down inside of it away from the creature test the light our skin alright as you pierced the outer skin there is a slight eruption of heat and I'd like you to make a dexterity saving throw.

Snyders Return:

He was well labelled because you are close by

Unknown:

dexterity saving throw.

Snyders Return:

Next Okay, wait yeah, okay,

Abel:

okay, okay, okay, I'm gonna I guess advantage against decks as I do whilst I'm not blind deaf and or incapacity allows me I have I have advantage for getting good. Oh, not so good. Fuck.

Salem:

You have abundance? That's good.

Abel:

is six and a natural

Salem:

advantage Yes.

Unknown:

I wrote a three and a one. Okay one of it.

Salem:

I wrote a 17 that's 25

Abel:

well I got hit with your ship got sprayed and mucus fuck that's the most depressing thing is having a bad agent still fucking

Snyders Return:

just be good as as you slice down and it opens in the pressure gives Salem you see this fluid come out able you're not as quick and take

Unknown:

just be good Yeah, just be good. Just be better just be better just be good bye. Man I got hit with

Snyders Return:

you take five points of fire to fire or like see a fire. Say let me take two because you've succeeded and slipping out of this shape is this long? Sort of worm insectoid shape that comes sliding out but it seems to be sort of slipping into your into your gender. And seems my

Abel:

I yeah, I got my sword out. I just fucking claw the shit

Salem:

out of it and share it with my axe as well that I already have not

Snyders Return:

let Abel do his attack.

Abel:

My claw attack of 12 that I hit the slimy thing. Well,

Unknown:

no,

Abel:

you swipe through. Stroke I'm sorry I'm not used to this. I'm so pathetic. This is me like my app. My actual cell for the berada has got it I've just shared terrified because I can't see what the roll

Salem:

donaga my attack with the handouts?

Snyders Return:

Nope,

Salem:

nope. Okay. No, no, sir. Oh shit.

Snyders Return:

1414 four.

Abel:

This is why people's I've obviously used up all of the 20s that DND beyond want to give me because it's getting bullshit. And it's rigged.

Snyders Return:

It's going to share with the other players you

Abel:

know, I must have every single one when it's convenient for me.

Salem:

No, I'm getting every single one.

Abel:

Now I'm gonna get them. I've already had two today.

Salem:

I got I got an actual one again, every single 105 but

Snyders Return:

they got you got one as well.

Unknown:

Let's modify that me.

Snyders Return:

Now. All right, April, you were taken by surprise for a moment. But having stroked this thing down it's always sticking goosy strangely warm. My

Unknown:

Actually disgusted

Snyders Return:

it's right in front of you moving in your direction but you are able to King a little bit of compassion attack for I will

Abel:

pull out my long sword with a single hand from the back from my back and just do the grabber and then like upper cut it like straightaway I'm gonna just do that single handily because it was like a really quick attack esque thing with a 18 to hit a lot definitely with mere single hand that was eight points of slashing demand. Milan solo Yeah, you fall creature

Snyders Return:

as you slash this thing in between. and it and I mean ah thing is the worst dexterity saving throw between the

Abel:

way I'm not blinded. Oh, that's better. Okay 17

Salem:

same.

Snyders Return:

You take just a gentle slapping or lashing or

Unknown:

leaping or $1

Snyders Return:

and take two points of fire damage I'll

Abel:

take $1 $1 damage pitch right well, I think I'm just gonna like can I just boot it?

Unknown:

He's

Abel:

always been dead Okay, I'm gonna boot it anyway I

Salem:

was okay you can boot it if you want I mean I wouldn't do it

Abel:

I'm not a friendly but I'm not that intelligent so I'm seeing me go for it if you want to jump away jump away now and I'm gonna two foot jump on it. Yeah, I'm

Salem:

gonna I'm gonna move faster away from it.

Unknown:

Yeah, you fall Creech

Snyders Return:

as you kick it up Salem has no other way you take another four points I'll take it.

Unknown:

Fucking Park however, from above you

Snyders Return:

as you have made this sort of strange new noise you do hear the soft tones of a female voice Oh wow.

Abel:

It's above please please help me I like it's set up a time for being discouraged his past Come on brother to victory and I put my hand out I have just run away. Run straight to the heart is the same hole that we climbed up why climbed up before is that because I go up another level or drag find another one. I go straight to that and just jump or frickin limbs out straight into the paper esque thing and then start climbing. Alright, oh come in like I'm ready to freakin talk I'll be straight through the fucking paytable

Snyders Return:

as you clamp into the wall and start sort of making your way up this this last shoot and ascending you can hear the the cause for aid becoming clearer and I won't say louder they do increase in volume but not because they are shouting louder able sort of ascend and get to the top you can hear the voice clearer. Calling out to unknown Saviour unknown because obviously they don't know say obviously

Abel:

wow they've they've obviously heard of me it's never seeming flashover that's that's the only thing

Snyders Return:

and as you lock eyes with this female form as she says please please help me

Unknown:

oh sorry I just bought real bad sorry

Salem:

oh you said to

Unknown:

sorry love

Abel:

Yeah, yeah, I got so I just stepped on a weird worm thing I feel real right now like you I point and like you know the menacing down get robbed to have like a you the article they speak of doing that voice to make me sound like very like an authority figure.

Snyders Return:

I keep my finger pointed outstretched with an intense look in my notice as you approach she is speaking to you almost sort of sealed from the sternum down to down to her he has almost been fully encased in the structure

Salem:

we're seeing this film shoot her in the chest and

Abel:

not yes that's a good killing our only reason why we're gonna get paid. Stan, Stan and I stand back there stand still. I will save you can I just like that hugger and then like deadlift around with that.

Snyders Return:

You can do I athletics.

Salem:

While he's doing that, I'm gonna make my way up as

Abel:

I think I'm going to hug deadlift. This is a she can touch my body and be realising the strength of this table. Was it Leah Nolan? I can't say your men. That was a 26 absolute max squat pressure on

Snyders Return:

a bed left this way all day as you reach in and sort of break the tension of the sort of the paper type material that sealed her in she reaches out when her arms become into sort of embrace you in relief and she says you I am a failure. The Oracle from

Abel:

I know who you are. We have come to save you, but they're not. Well, I'm trusting Walt trust and wall trust and wild BMI ally here. We'll bring you back to safety. And I also don't know I'm talking like this. Hi, sorry. My name is Abel. This is Salem.

Snyders Return:

Evil. See this?

Abel:

We know but we got to make an exit strategy right now. Get on it.

Snyders Return:

He's on its way back. I know he is. He

Unknown:

is a big dude.

Snyders Return:

He goes by the name of Harmon.

Abel:

I see a big flying buggy thing.

Snyders Return:

I have not seen all he can do but he seems to control this. This hive. This guy

Abel:

did tell him that when you get out of here let's go pick her up onto my shoulder. fireman's carry. Left hand left hand, right hand with my frickin long sword out. Cause on my boss. start running to the frickin hole. Get the fuck out of it real quick.

Snyders Return:

What you can do when you get to the wholesaler what you know, I'm just

Abel:

I plan on stabbing my long sword in and sliding down like the sale. sale. Last thing I'm gonna rip this puppy wide open.

Snyders Return:

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