Hi i'm Olma, Flynn, March, Ceallach, Shraya and i'm your DM Ethan welcome to Venture Forth
hello there i'm kellick oma flynn and i'm your dm ethan welcome to
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ventureforth
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previously you all had made your way to oak inspire a massive capital city in the nation of caldor in hopes of
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rescuing olma's friend xavier along your way you had either seen or discovered
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that a couple other people who you had known or are known of were also captured in the same prison
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that being zeta and timmy you guys had made your way throughout
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the city and actually gone back to hayfreed who had told you that he might
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send someone your way who could help you break into the prison going back to oak and spire you guys were greeted by faraday a copper
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dragonborn who said that she used to work at the prison and might be able to help get you guys in and navigate a
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little bit after some tense negotiation you guys had sort of come up with a hesitant plan
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and after a good meal you guys are heading back to the inn in order to get
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a long rest and start to enact that plan for the next day so as you all arrive at the end that you
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guys are staying at what would you all like to do i would like to sit with faraday and
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create a new um document to go along with our other document stamped by the seal to really
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define what we are who we are and why we're there so i want to partner with her to really make sure it's worded
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correctly um in a way that she has seen before so that when we go to the prison tomorrow we have a signed sealed
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document that says we're there to um we're basically like there to investigate the health and safety of the
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prisoners is that going to be an exact copy of what you currently have or is this going to be a new looking form new
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looking document it's going to be a new document similar to what we already have we're going to use it in in in
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conjunction with our other documents so we're going to use both but this one's going to say we're not just a traveling
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healer and and his minions but we're also here specifically for this reason today okay gotcha um so as you guys walk
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into the inn um you guys see once more that it is a fairly open space um and
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oma and faraday you guys actually go over to that long table where you guys had breakfast um you see that no one is
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currently there as as the evening is winding down so you guys find two chairs at the end of of the table and sit down
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and begin to forge uh this new document so faraday um i'm gonna have you make
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a sleight of hand check at advantage well i wanted me to do it you wanted you to do it okay if you're
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the one if you're the one writing it okay she's using her help to do it gotcha but i'm writing it okay gotcha
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okay then i'm gonna switch that over to omaha
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your handwriting is bad
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that is a 21. okay um so as you are forging this
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document each line is is expertly crafted and you're even surprising
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yourself with some of the language that you're using and uh spending too much time around yeah yeah um actually faraday i'm gonna
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have you make a uh perception check for me
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19. a 19. um you double check this document it looks pretty official you're
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sort of lining it up with what you've got in your head of what you've seen before and almost done a pretty good job it looks very official um you know that
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there's no real one set standard for the documents that that come through um but
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you do know that this looks official enough for sure um so as you guys finish that up what are the rest of you doing
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i would like to approach um verde and i just say uh as casually as i can
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uh are there any other are there any kinds of uh utility animals that are used in the in
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the prison complex uh i haven't um
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been completely open about this with you yet but i can assume many different forms
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something i don't even completely understand how i do it myself yet but uh
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it is a tool that we might have at uh at our disposal here well typically we've got just standard
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guards going around are you inquiring us to um sort of creatures that may
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be used to um corner us or attack us or are you just looking for how standard a beast
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may be present in the prison yes if there were a uh some type of being or creature
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walks on a some number of legs goes through the prison uh what would be normal to see there i
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suppose that's what i'm after here so
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typically not many animals are present uh standard uh within the prison
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i was worried about that i turned over i turned to the uh who's
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in close ear shot probably omar right yeah if if they're forging the document together that's right
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i'm just making sure our room is booked for the for the second night here okay
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that leads me to my next point i've been thinking a lot about this and
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i'm rather more nervous about this particular expedition than any that we've attempted in the past and uh
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well i'm hoping maybe i can assume a form of a small being a very tiny creature
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maybe i could be shuttled in on someone's person when we go in i'm not sure if anyone would be
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interested i make my way back over carrying me yeah i'll carry you do you want to be like a
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little tiny mouse that was uh one of my ideas yes
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i would want to be what was most prudent maybe i'd rather be an owl try
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oh yes yes maybe maybe uh maybe i could be an omen maybe i could assume the form that i
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love soon that sounds to be too ominous i would like to have a little mouse in my pocket
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sure i suppose a mouse would not be too much of a surprise down there either if you needed to make an escape yeah and
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mice can fit in small spaces and that could be something we could use potentially
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yes but you would have to tell me what to do i wouldn't be able to communicate back with you which
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we'd have to develop some kind of maybe tapping or or maybe i could do a dance
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to with my feet to try to tell you what i thought of what you were saying
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um how about you just don't do anything unless we like point it in a direction can you understand us when you're in a
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form i can't remember if we really figure that out oh yes i can hear you and i can understand things i just i'm
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limited by the physical form i'm occupying um here's what you can do if you ever want to do something you can
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crawl up my body as a little mouse and you can put your paw on my face and then you could point with your paw
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in a certain direction and then i'll know that you want to go there that's that's that's good for directions yes uh
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i think that's a start i don't think mice can make plans so
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speaking of the plan uh what are we gonna do with timmy we're supposed to tell him to be let's wait
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until we go up to our room oh and i look around does anyone seem to be watching and listening
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make a perception check can i eat him in that
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yeah um if you'd like to also make a perception check you can i'm just sort of frowning and nodding
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apprehensively at all of this discussion i got a total of 20. 21. 21. um looking around there is uh
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just the dwarven man behind the the counter that kayla could just purchased another night with um
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no one seems to be looking yeah if we just if we finished up our document we can head upstairs [Music]
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okay take that twice all right you guys make your way back upstairs and are greeted once again with the the same room that you guys had
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previously um you guys can still see just a little bit of like sticky residue in the corner not
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too much but uh ah still some there i begin fastidiously cleaning it all
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right what are the rest of you doing [Music] should we talk about the plan for
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tomorrow and just like step by step what we're gonna do well i know that we were planning on saying timmy was sick but i didn't find
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anything in the library that could help with that well uh i found uh there's a
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disease that might fit our suit our needs uh it's called dream rot uh it wouldn't show any uh external
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signs it's something that would happen to his mind his brain would begin to deteriorate and
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um he'd go nuts and uh that might be enough for us
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to go on we're not actually gonna give him it right no it'd be a ruse right wow
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dream rot uh so uh my thinking is in the morning i'll
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contact him try and give him the heads up on
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faking his uh illness and then the rest is in the execution
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and then what her put to find a point on the board we'll send we'll send tammy and and
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hopefully zeta away oh right because we're gonna say we need zeta to help us
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with the curing of timmy that's right right so my thinking is zed is the only person who
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can do the procedure to heal dream rat right i highly doubt anyone at the
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temple uh will have the knowledge necessary ted doubt that uh but uh my only concern
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is dream rock contagious it is so maybe we also don't want to risk getting
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anybody who's not in prison contained contaged contaged contaged that's something
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and then and then so they'll feel like oh if we use data then we won't get anybody else sick and then if they both
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die they both die right uh they may wish to send someone with them though i i think i can work
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something out that it must be done in layton's temple like behind closed doors or something yeah well when we went to
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lydia's temple there was a chamber uh that sort of a basement area that was kind of sound proofed right and i think
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that it makes as much sense as any other as it is okay okay so we'll send them away
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and then and then what are we gonna if they need an escort of guards or something i don't know how they escape from them they'll figure it out they're
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just gonna have to figure it out we can always come back after we get
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savior provided right we have the time yeah xavier or what if we what if we told them to escape somehow and send
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them send them ahead of us send them to meet us at the at the at the circle
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my only concern is if they weren't able to escape capture the first time why would they do it now getting him away from well last time they couldn't escape
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capture because he was on a boat timmy was on a boat surrounded by enemies but zeta was
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presumably in we don't know we don't know that's surrounded by alex well maybe she thought that maybe maybe she
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wasn't maybe she was gotten a drop on besides the stakes have considered considerably uh increased for them yeah
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so now they know that there's no way to get out yeah and so you can tell them through your through your intention you
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can tell timmy how to how to get to the circle that way we don't have to like because if we're leaving the prison
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quickly we got to get to the circle fast and like we can't be going all over the world trying to reach them so maybe we
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just tell them to meet us there having had very limited experience with timmy
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uh i would say it's a lot of responsibility to put on this boy's shoulders well it
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might be better to tell zeta to do this give her the direction we can't tell zeta maybe when she comes up to help us
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with him we can find a moment to tell her if any of these dominoes fall as they might uh then i think
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handing z to the burden wise i have an idea yes yes
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so i'm really good at making notes what if i make a really really really really tiny note
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for zeta and i slip it to her when we see her tomorrow that's sensing and hopefully they don't
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confiscate it when we're searched i don't know if do they i'll turn to their what if my what if i keep it with my mouse
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uh i mean i'll still be holding it i would have no pockets to put the note in and even if i had them they'd be
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incredibly small what it's between your teeth yeah and then you could probably make the transition yourself you could
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deliver them um faraday how thorough are the searches to get inside the prison
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that is actually part of the thing that we need to discuss if you could please bring out the blueprints uh right uh got
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them here perfect take a look at that i'm while they're doing this i'm gonna
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start drafting the note of like how to get to the circle and what levers to pull
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and and like how to get to where they need to go i'm gonna make a little map
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for them okay i'm very apprehensively looking at the map and like looking away and just kind
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of twirling my staff at really uncomfortable okay so what you see here is we're going to
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enter through the checkpoints there are two checkpoints the first one is where they will
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general inspection look at our documentation make sure it covers everyone that is included in the document
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and our purpose within and then the second at the second
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checkpoint they will confiscate all weaponry [Music]
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as i'm military personnel i'm hoping that they will allow me to still maintain my
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equipment however they will take weapons and inspect any equipment that we are
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bringing in and they will store it at this in one of the staff offices um
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i think i'll leave all my weapons here it doesn't really make sense for me to have weapons so i don't have a lot anyway i just have all these daggers i'm
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just going to leave him here i think he'll do the same then do you suppose well you could recall it i guess yeah i
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i can i was thinking that too i could just leave my stuff here at the end i mean i don't really need my backpack the other
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thought i had was um we might be able to fake a military status yeah i was also
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thinking him just now it might be good for me to have my weapons because if i'm the bodyguard or the protection it would
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make sense that i have my weapons on me and i can just call them from them yeah maybe just bring the ones that you can call yeah
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yeah i concur all right um okay so so so they're gonna
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check for weapons and stuff but like if i just have a teeny tiny tiny note parchment like
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tucked into my shirt will they find it that i do not i cannot guarantee but if
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you've got a little mouse and you are a child so it may just be something that they can say is you're
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just a child and that's part of your game and so if you really play having this little friend that may work to our
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advantage but worst case scenario destroy the note before they can read it exactly
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if need be just tap me twice that's a good plan i like that i love this so we will then have to make our
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way over to records and once we get two records we will have to try to find out
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um what sell your friends are in oh right how are we supposed to get to
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timmy oh we're doing a checkup right that's right so the pre-chances we're inspecting the health and safety of the
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inmates at this prison got it um will they escort us or will they leave us our own devices
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this will sort of depend on how we present ourselves and how how well they believe our documentation so i have
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another um i have another i have another um um potion again that that'll make you
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that'll make you a good talker i actually have one of those too so i don't know who else would be doing talking but maybe we'll use one and then
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and then we'll use the second one if we have to and just leave the talking to whoever has the potion or or do you think alex
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should you and i both take them i think that might be good okay yeah we'll both take one yeah
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it'd be fun to be really good at talking i'll also use my try to use my my standing in the fact that i'm still
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military personnel i used to work here and hopefully they will entrust that i still understand the rules of this
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prison yeah you can be our guide yeah okay
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um what else should we know those are records hopefully we can find the necessary records but we have to maintain that we're looking over
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relative health because of everyone if we're like supposed to be checking everyone won't they just start going down the line do we even need the
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records we'll eventually land on timmy the records will help us if things go awry and also when we find timmy we have
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to know that zayn is there we have to have some reason why we're got it zeta from wherever she's being
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kept okay so get to records and then how are we going to fast track to timmy so we don't have to check seven
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zillion people just let's just make a brisk and then once we find timmy um i have an
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idea of how we can get back to to xavier faster instead of having to check everybody what if what if we say
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that what if we say that um that this this disease affects people who have more um
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more power and so we have to go to the bottom level level to make sure that nobody else is sick because if we find
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the dream rat uh the stakes go up and we have to go all the way down to their most powerful uh persons because if they
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get dream rash then the prison will explode it'll be a nightmare i like that yeah cool um so the only other thought
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is what if zeta is like a serial killer or something we don't know anything about her
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and what's our what's our fail safe right what's our what's our our last straw is we got to get xavier right
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that's the end of it yeah so if we get to the top if anything goes awry uh
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um if we get cut if they catch on to us then we're just blitzing to
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um xavier's itself which i assume is at the bottom level yeah
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i think order of importance would be xavier timmy theta
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i'm hopefully we can get them all but but
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[Music] i'm gonna um i'm just like nodding naughty nodding i'm looking through all
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of my stuff to make sure i have everything i need so i'm like putting the potions aside and then i'm gonna get the thread that is supposed to help us
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remove savior from his um from his um magical cuffs and i'm going to like
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wrap it in a bow around well i can't do that yet i'm gonna like prep it to wrap in a bow around um the
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mouse's like neck so that it's like a little like bow so it looks like a pretty little collar
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tomorrow so i'm just like prepping if we make it to save yourself undiscovered uh
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then he has a very bad case and he's got to be removed right away
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right um well we're hoping that maybe he can do something by the time we get him out of those cuffs if he's in the cuffs what
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imagine if we could just walk out of the place i highly doubt they'll let us take xavier that's true but maybe we can try and get
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him to a temple maybe that's how we can get in though right to his cell yeah um or i just need to inspect him more
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closely it might be and to do that we need him out of the cuffs because you need to use the magic on him
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and well if we're not being if we're not being followed we can just get him out of the cuffs ourselves right um are there any ways for people to
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faraday are there any ways for people to like magically see what we're doing in cells like do they have any i don't
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know like ways of of scrying on us and seeing what's happening in their in their cells
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typically there's not a lot of use of magic my more important concern that um
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you may not have picked up on with regards to how well
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they locked down these areas is we will have to it will not be an issue
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to get down to sub level one we need a key for each particular sublock that
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we're going into so if timmy is in one sub block and zeta is in another and i'm guessing
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xavier will be in another we will need different keys but if we're investigating the health and safety
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wouldn't we just get keys for all of them so that we can investigate everyone if we can convince them that that is
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what is needed so that is three different potentially three different keys that we will need in order to
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access even just the elevator to get to the individual block where are the keys kept each card
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so at each guard post they have a copy of the keys in a log box when a guard goes on rounds they
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keep a copy of the key on their person on their belt at each floor there's a so on each floor
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there's a key or just at the top so the on sub level one uh at the main guard
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post there uh we have to check in with the the guard post of the sublock that we are going to
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go to they will assess if they need an if we need extra escorts or
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hopefully for our plan assuming that they will accept me as your escort they
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will then uh provide a key and we will use the key to ascend down into the particular sub
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block and we need the key to get in we need the key in the elevator to
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bring it down as well as to bring it up so my recommendation would be um
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timmy's probably gonna be closer to the top so we'll get timmy and and and we'll see timmy um and then once we realize that
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he has dream rot we can get keys for the bottom and and and and we don't have to get a
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key for zeta because we'll have the records and we'll just know that data is the only one who can help him so they can go get zaydar themselves we don't
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have to get data at every mention of going down and like going to another key and having to go
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through another locked area you just see like a dull freak out expression just spreading across tria's face
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yeah i think we have a good base i think we have good options what are the
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essential materials here right we convince them of our cause we get the registry of the the the list of
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prisoners in some fashion or another and we need these keys right and that that's
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a different key per cell sorry if you've already said no it's a different key um per sub block per block
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all right okay so so that's how many sub blocks four so four different keys um ideally
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but if bar and that just the last one well we can determine how many keys we
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need once we get the record book right correct okay so i think we know what we need to do
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right is there anything faraday's or anything else that you know that we should know that we don't know yet because i don't
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know what i don't know and and and and maybe you know what i don't know so i'm going to recommend after
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interacting with you all and seeing the temperament of two particular party
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members and i look pointedly at kellik and at alma what you will have to keep your
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your composition so we do not need extra energy brought to us any extra attention brought to us
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this is the mission i don't bring extra energy to myself um kellogg is really
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controlled he um i'm a beacon of composure he tells us not to make a fight a paragon of decency
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i lean towards trial i kind of see what she's talking about yes when he becomes not himself but
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maybe that is himself i'm not sure we will be discreet
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all right and with that um you guys all have been feeling affect the effects of the day and uh you guys gonna go take a
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long rest yes sir yeah during during like the day and like
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just the longest i'd like to just spend time with the books uh learning
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reading and paying attention and taking notes on spells and and comparing the hydration
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book to my iron like book and then i'd also if i had the time i would like to bring out the bestiary and uh just write
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down what i could remember back when we thought um elementals i can't remember if i did that yet or not
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i don't believe you have so i would like to just spend like an hour or so just writing down all the stuff that i noticed from the elementals okay um make
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a uh intelligence check for me just straight intelligence
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intelligence [Music] oh actually
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a total of 20. total 20. um you know you've seen them up close and personal
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you've seen air elementals up close and personal um so you get a very detailed record of what you saw what they could
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do um and even a little bit of like their their origins of how they came through the uh
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through the the tear in space uh so yeah you get a very detailed account awesome and is that just for air elementals or
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is that just for air got it okay thank you no problem uh during the night um
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i'm going to attempt to sleep but be so riddled with anxiety i'm not going to be
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able to sleep and in the time that i'm not able to sleep i am going to walk
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outside of the inn and attempt to find the local type of mouse that inhabits the
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city or whatever type of rodent inhabits the city in an effort to be more convincing okay
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i'm going to have you make a uh nature check for me as you're looking around at possible places that a rodent would be
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see if you find one all right [Music]
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uh 15 15. um you look around for a couple minutes and eventually you see like a
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little street gutter and you see this uh this little uh rat that's just like
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chewing on a little piece of bread that's been discarded as he then sees you
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and takes off and runs down an alleyway but eventually you're able to catch up with him and uh sort of see exactly what
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he looks like the the tone of gray in his fur um the how the first stops at
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the tail and the tail come kind of comes out to this this winding pink um and you gotta you get a pretty good inspection
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of uh of the rat briefly i just lower my beak
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and i whisper how's your life here are you satisfied
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it looks terrifying that it is in the clutches of this giant bird yes well
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i tend to say nothing at all too when i'm in a meditative place good luck to you on your travels
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decent decent creature and i just sort of give it a little pat on the head and send it down the street all right and
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it's it's legs start moving before it even hits the ground and it is it takes off um and it rounds a building and you
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do not see it anymore uh before i go back to the inn uh in the time that i'm just awake because i i'm just riddled
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with this anxiety i would like to casually go to the area in the city where the
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prison is and observe it at a distance okay are you looking for anything in particular i just want to get a sense of
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the timing of the different entries and exits and the type of personnel who uh leave and
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go in and just any other uh pro anything i could glean about the protocol of the
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entering and the exiting of the place okay um make an investigation check for
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me [Music] oh that is a 17 17. um so you see after
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a little while you see a rotation of the guards on the top of the wall um it's a pretty consistent rotation as they're
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walking in um triplets there's three of them walking around at all times um
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stopping at each post and then another three goes and then they stop and another post another three goes they've got sort of like this dance around the
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wall um that you can see uh all perfectly timed perfectly coordinated and you see at the front gate where the
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entrance is um you see this massive this massive entryway to get into the prison
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and you see five dwarven guards on either side of the entryway each of them
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holding spears and shields um all heavily armored and just guarding the
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front of this this prison i seeing this and observing for a decent
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amount of time then mope and a little bit of a mope in my walk but also a little bit of a
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shudder and uh every few feet that i go i kind of
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clench up my fists and make my way back to the inn and try to get some sleep
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okay and as you do uh you walk back in and everyone else is sound asleep um as the
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rest of you are woken by the gentle light of mourning
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you guys all wake up you all have taken a long rest what is the first thing you all want to
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do i'm i'm just grabbing the things that i know i
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need um and um looking around
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um shall we i'm going to um uh as uh almost says
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this in turns uh i have been uh kneeling in my spot next to the window
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uh and i will um reach up and to the vibrating thread
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pull it to my palm and twist it and i will
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hang on with the range it's it's infinite [Music]
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[Music] uh to timmy [Music]
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tammy it's kak we're breaking you out
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you must fake dream rot disease hallucinate during the day
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and your brain is dying have fun with it and a couple of moments pass
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and you hear echoing back within your head i think i can manage that
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i'll be ready for you guys i assume you want me to start now so i'll get going
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and i open my eye open one eye and then the other and i tentatively nod at the gang
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okay okay all right that's done um um okay okay okay um
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try it do you need to turn into a mouse now or later i would prefer to now so that
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if anyone has any questions i was just up here in this room all day okay my pocket's kind of tiny so make sure you
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can fit into it all right and i focus really hard on the being that i met during the night
31:51
i uh hold the crystal of my staff to my forehead it starts to glow and then it
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just starts to sprout fur and then the fur spreads down from the crystal and covers the whole staff the staff then
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merges with my body and everything on my person just starts bawling itself up almost like a mass of like spiders that
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they're all crawling together this like mass of fur just kind of congeals and starts to shrink and shrink and shrink
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his hair just kind of disperses everywhere and then from this big kind of tuft of hair uh
32:22
you see you see this little poof and pop and uh a rat not much different than the rat
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that ethan described is now kind of teetering and uh twitching a little bit at your feet i
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like his little pink tint i thought you'd be cuter oh he looks cute alma and i just like pet the top of his head
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oh okay okay and i'm gonna take the bow and i'm gonna wrap the the um the um no
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magic thing around his neck another nice little pretty bow and um
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as you begin wrapping the string around schrei's neck
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um that's right as soon as it makes contact with you you can feel your form start to like bulge and pop out okay
33:08
i'll take it off and he shrinks back into a wrap i was thinking that i was really worried for a second
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okay well i'll just like roll it up into a little ball like it's lint and keep it in my pocket okay all right
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maybe make sure strike is in the other pocket okay i'll keep it in my pants pocket try
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it's going to be in my cloak pocket and i'm pick up try and i put them in my coat pocket
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[Music] and then i also wrap up and i also pulled up my little map and and i've
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tried to make it in such a way that my map looks like it's just a normal map and but i've put like
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footprints to where i won't wear to the to the to the um
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um to the circle um but the footprints don't really look like footprints like they like they clearly are a track but but i've made it
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in such a way that maybe it doesn't look like that if you get a quick look at it and it just looks like a map of the city like i get lost all the time and i need
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a map okay all right um anything else that you guys are prepping
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before you head over to the prison i'm just going to look as clean and polished as possible i spend extra time
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making sure my hair isn't poofing out in weird directions resetting my bandage and straightening
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my robes okay i've just been like stretching and warming up and like getting my body set
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and only pausing to watch try it transform and then otherwise just trying
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to get into game mode um yeah i'll uh leave my bag and my souvenir bag and
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my books just in [Music] uh in the room and i'll take the sheath
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and i'll just detach it from the backpack and i'll do the same with the bow and i'll put the sheath on my side where i used to have it back
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back when uh back when i first started and i'll put the bow around my back uh like a
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string around it and uh as i come down the stairs the once again the sword starts hitting the
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stairs as it once again is now too big too and it's once again dragging
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as i remember and then put my hand on it to lift it up a little bit all right i'm ready
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i did not miss that okay i'm gonna um reach out a hand for
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the potion that russell has oh uh hold on
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grab the potion come back down sorry here you go and i give one to calek and i have the other one okay
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all right um then with that everything prepped you guys head out the door uh you guys snake your way through the
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streets that you know at this point and and you
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make your way to the prison um once again the walls being the first thing that you see even streets blocks over um
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you see these massive walls rising up over the horizon and you guys know at this point where the entrance is so you
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begin sort of moving your way street by street over to where the entrance is um and as you guys walk up just before we
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get there yeah i want to take the potion same okay when we're still out of sight okay cool cool so i'm going to get the
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documents from oma so that i have them in hand as we approach them okay um all right you guys uh take those
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and it's an advantage on charisma advantage on charisma checks for one hour for one hour
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um and as you drink it um have either of you did either of you take one of these before this is your
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third one you just all right
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a very familiar sensation of uh this potion almost leaving like a light coating over your tongue in the back of
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your throat um and uh you you just like sort of feel yourself with sort of
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like a slightly more like positive attitude towards life um but this uh
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this potion takes effect and you guys have it for the next hour so i do a little shaming as you guys
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you see the the five guards that you had seen the previous night um different guards from what you can see but still
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five on either side of this entryway oh that's cool am i like in a little part of your cloak that's perched so that i can actually see these little mountains
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oh that's right yeah you're in a pocket can i have my hands up over the left
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of the pocket that'd be awesome i would be upset if you didn't do that amazing can you always be like this
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uh but you see the the same uh alignment of five guards on either side as you guys uh walk up and uh as you
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guys approach closer and closer you see the two guards that are sort of on the inside the closer ones to the entrance
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both in perfect tandem both step out in front of the entrance and begin walking
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up towards you spear in one hand a shield in the other uh the one on the right as they approach
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you look to this this crew that is approaching the prison and says state your business i immediately drop
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into and hide in the pocket yeah i put my hands behind my back like a like and i stand very very still
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salutations uh i'm gray uh i understand um
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there is a need of a a health inspection here we are uh here by the honor of uh thorgan nightcrest uh to um
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ascertain the health and safety of the inmates
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um i if you look here i'm sure you'll see our paperwork as an order okay make a
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uh persuasion check hey here we go ad advantage
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advantage is so sick dude nice
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persuasion yeah okay i'm i'm bonkers at that so that's 23. 23.
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um you don't even get the paperwork fully out by the time he sees oh you've got
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paperwork um oh um that that's something that they're gonna check uh at uh the first
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checkpoint so why don't you guys head on in and both of the guards split and walk back to their their posts and uh you see
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right in front of you uh one of the guards goes over and pulls a lever down on the wall
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as these gates open and you can see they open into kind of a small area you see just like
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on the map um that that faraday pointed out to you two buildings uh or one building on either side two buildings in
39:37
total um and then stopped by another gate just beyond as you guys walk up and approach i would
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like to be using my silver tongue potion if possible to just appear incredibly like earnest and um and like like i am i
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could i am just a little girl who could do no wrong okay uh as you approach i'm gonna have you
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make a performance check at advantage [Music]
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15 15. um the rest of you look to oma and she seems like a decently likable person
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for the first time this is the nicest i've ever seen
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for a little girl she seems absolutely tolerable i wonder this is a side effect of the potion
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we need to get more of those for sure all right nice friend all right i puff out my chest and try to
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look as militaristic as possible lovely okay um you guys walk in and you see
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these these two guard posts one on either side of you um and as you approach one of the the guards inside
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the guard post to your left there's a little window in front and he sort of waves you guys over um and as you
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approach it is a young fresh-faced dwarven man um who's got a
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short bright red beard and he's got on sort of this this half plate armor you
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can see some of it's like compared to the guards on the outside who are in full plate armor he seems to be a little
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bit more comfortable but still wearing kind of the same the same sort of stuff um
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and uh you approach is he he's at a is he at a desk or he is at a desk inside this guard post
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but in front of him is an open window to where you guys are approaching okay um and uh you approach and he says
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hey um what what are you guys here for good morning uh and i coolly slide the
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paperwork across the desk to him uh uh with my five fingers pointed down uh
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here to uh inspect the health and safety of the inmates it's present um on the honor of dog nightcrest
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okay um let me just give me one moment and i'll uh make sure everything's in order and he takes the paperwork and as he's
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sort of looking through the paperwork he pulls out another book from behind his desk opens it up and starts flipping
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through it and um all of a sudden you hear from inside you here at
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and you see on the inside of of this little booth on the wall there's a lever
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and the lever is in the down position and with each tick it goes and moves up
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he stops what he's doing with his paperwork it's a slow tick it's a slow move up he stops with his paperwork for a moment goes over and resets the lever
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into a down position um do we see this yes all of you would be able could i turn to faraday maybe just
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do it what is that leather whatever safe gods
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of course all right can we see what the weather is attached to
42:44
it's just into the wall um you don't see exactly where do anything do i get the impression that
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it's it's merely there so that they can ensure that that person is always there somebody's always there guarding to pull
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it down to the lever make an inside check for me that sounds good sounds right [Music]
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19 19 probably with the with the timing of the lever it's
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not it's not going to throw itself up super fast it's kind of and he took it kind of casually he saw it he went over
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he reset it back down um but we don't you don't know what it does and we don't
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know how to do how long the though don't know in between timing is okay um but with that he uh looks over your
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paperwork and uh oh my gosh you did an amazing job uh putting these together uh
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he looks through yeah i did um as he's looking he sort of looks back
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and forth between his book and your documentation and he walks back over and he says
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um apologies all of your documentation is in order i just i haven't seen an order
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for anyone to be coming in the prison today no one well yes if they let you know in advance
43:57
how do they know you're not gonna try to hide whatever prisoner you've let uh go sick
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oh come on oh it's sick okay it's another 23. yeah
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you see his cheeks begin to get bright red sort of goes flush um and uh he begins
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to blush and he says i guess that's a good point um i'll
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if it's an emergency i'll i'll wave you guys in um and i'll just make sure my books are all
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set in in a moment here um let me just get get the the information down you do that
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and uh he takes a quick moment and as he's writing down in his in his book sort of he's looking at your
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documentation and he's looking at his and he's writing stuff in his book um and you can see his hand is shaky a
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little bit um but then eventually he hands you back the paperwork um waves you on and he
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sort he waves over to the other guard post on the opposite side and uh as you look over you see another very similar
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window and you can see this dwarf look down do a couple of things you can't exactly see what his hands are doing but
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then in front of you the gate creaks open into another smaller section
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so we this is that was the second gate in this order of gates yes so you you just passed through there
45:33
there seems to be three walls here three games one more gate till we get into the prison problem one more gate yeah and we
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don't know what his hands did to get to let us through that gate you none of you
45:44
saw okay cool sorry we'll figure it out all right we'll be all right we'll be good um and as you guys are are waved on into
45:52
uh the second checkpoint you see that just a moment of apprehension as we turn away from that game it's like just like
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a quick glance and as soon as you move into this second
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checkpoint area the gates behind you close and you are now trapped within the confines of this
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this second checkpoint area don't stay trapped you are free to roam this tiny area
46:18
but once again you see two card posts on either side um this time you see three guards in each of them um and two from
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each of the posts come out uh so four in total surround you and uh one of the uh
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the guards says all right i'm gonna need you guys to hand all over uh your weaponry uh
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anything that might be dangerous spell components um anything of of that sort we're going to need to hold i give a
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perfunctory nod to the gang i i put my hands in my pockets and i grab the inside of them and i pull
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them out as if there's nothing in there but i'm holding the little ribbon in my hand okay so that it's hidden
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okay make a make a slight of hand check for me nice
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nice 24 24 okay
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masterfully you like you you palm this thing in your hand and put your hands up and uh
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the guard comes over doesn't even think to check what's in your hands um as as you are are showing him uh that your
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pockets are empty except for the one that has the mouse in it and i'll show him that okay oh and he he sort of
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looks back for a second he looks at the rest of you and he sort of gives a little nod
47:37
and then he moves on um flynn
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i'll uh go to my my sheath and uh unsheath the sword kind of hold it out present percentary and just do that
47:50
okay when he takes it he grabs it i'll take off the bow hand him the bow grabs that as well and uh take off the quiver
47:56
that hangs on my back and i'd like that as well okay he takes that um and as you uh are handing him
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the stuff he he goes back and he takes it um into the guard post and you can see him sort of like inspecting the
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sword and you see he gives like a little like a nice sword
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as he as he takes it into the guard post uh as he does another uh one of the guards approaches faraday
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good morning hey what is your name he looks back at you and he says
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uh my name is baylor stormforge hello good morning yes so
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um as the military expert for uh escort for this
48:38
party i was hoping that i could as a former uh soldier of the council
48:45
army myself if i and a former god here and if i could hold on to my weaponry and i just sort
48:52
of lean in a little closer the um children gets a bit on my nerves
48:59
make a deception check for me
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16 16 okay um you see that this guard you don't recognize this guard um baylor
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as he's as he's looking at you and he sort of looks you up and down and just sort of a little inquisitive
49:19
and before he starts taking any of your stuff he walks back over to the guard post where one of the other guards
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remains and you can't quite hear what they're saying but you can see there's a little bit of a back and forth and the other guard um who appears much older a little
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bit of gray in the beard um looks back over and
49:39
looks you up and down and i stand more at attention and he sort of he gives you a nod and
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sort of raises his hand as if to say hello and you faintly remember seeing this dwarf
49:50
before um maybe just in passing but he seems to recognize you at this point um
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considering she's a dragonborn amongst all the other dogs
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um and uh and yeah you faintly remember maybe in passing um but
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he seems to recognize you he says another word back to baylor and he comes back out and
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he says yes i'm sorry i'm i'm kind of new here um i uh i obviously didn't recognize you um but
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you are spoken for so um you are able to take anything in that you would
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like you have no idea how much i appreciate that and i give them a pat on the shoulder
50:32
okay um all right and uh lastly um baylor walks over to kellik and he walks up to
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you and he says you're the healer that's right all right um you are permitted to keep any spell components
50:46
you might need um if you have any weaponry though we are going to need to take that i i i pull my cloak open to
50:53
show that my belt has nothing on it and i opened up the vest to show there's nothing in my vest and i sort of shrug
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okay um and as the guards go back and go back into each of their guard posts you see
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one of the the guards who did not approach you guys before uh walk up with a little slip of paper and
51:14
that slip of paper has the number 72 on it hands it to
51:20
oh who's gonna grab it i'll grab it i'll take it hands it to flynn um and he says
51:25
now when you come back out uh just give us this note and uh all of your stuff will be brought back to you
51:31
got it okay um and as he walks back to the guard
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post you see the gates in front of you once again click and and creak open
51:43
and you guys are through the two checkpoints i will put the little thing in my pocket about how long about how long did that
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take total in total that took about 15 maybe 20 minutes okay so we got like 45
51:55
minutes of of of good tacky taco yes um so as you guys as this gate opens um
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you guys can sort of think back to the map and think of where these these buildings and
52:10
things are but on the map you can't imagine how cold this place feels not
52:16
temperature wise but stone everywhere all of the buildings have no windows this is a
52:23
solitary place you see on either side of you these these walls that sort of come out at an
52:29
angle and then come back together a couple hundred feet in front of you and you also see another slightly
52:35
smaller building directly in front of you you see walking around um and and
52:40
mainly you hear these guards who are patrolling and on duty you see
52:46
six of them lined up in in sort of this um in a formation patrolling the grounds
52:52
and even the ones that you can't see you can hear the heavy armor um moving and shifting and the metal
52:58
hitting itself as they as they move around so as you guys are in the prison proper
53:05
where would you guys like to head first i'm going to take lead and just start
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walking and leading us towards uh to the left towards the intake and release side of
53:17
the uh of the building all right um and as i assume the rest of you follow where she's going yeah
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okay um she takes you over to the left and uh walks you inside one of these
53:29
buildings uh and as as it opens up you see a bunch of desks in this room um you see
53:38
that there are dwarven guards and dwarven soldiers almost in
53:43
this more casual armor that you had seen before sitting at these desks
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writing in their books some of them on their desks have another individual on the opposite side
53:55
of the desk uh some of them free to move about and some of them very heavily chained together and and bound
54:03
um you can see uh some of these what you assume to be soon prisoners uh you can see some of
54:09
them struggling and swearing and trying to move around and you see some of them sitting there and crying and just
54:14
defeated some of them have completely blank expressions uh but you see you see humans you see half elves you
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see mostly dwarves here though um you see a a t fling off in the corner
54:28
and uh you can see that this is the intake and release room so
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as you guys are walking through is there anything you want to do in here or are you passing through
54:39
as much as possible i'm going to just with authority if i'm not stopped by anyone or indicated to stop i'm going to
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try to keep the group moving forward okay i'm going to completely follow
54:52
today and as you guys are walking through the middle of the room you sort of have to
54:58
circumvent um this massive hole in the ground um and it's got this
55:04
this gate around it so that no one falls in but you do hear deep below you hear
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this clicking and you hear it that can click and continue and get louder until a platform
55:16
raises up and and fills the hole and on this platform is um a
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dwarven guard who in shackles next to him is a human male uh on both on this
55:28
this elevator as they come up into the intake room he sort of gives him a shove and moves the human along as you guys
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continue on um now as you guys are moving through this room you see uh a couple of doors in front of you um
55:42
verde where are you where are you taking the crew next i'm going to uh head just keep heading
55:49
through unless we're you know a couple courteous nods to the guards if they happen to look our way um if anyone
55:55
looks at us if we're not stop uh head uh to the back towards holding and
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eventually towards the records room and as you are just about to enter the
56:07
holding area um you hear a commotion start behind you and it appears that
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this human who they had just brought into the intake room um has started
56:19
just causing absolute chaos bumping into the guards um and trying to just run
56:24
around and being an absolute disturbance in this room and you see very quickly
56:29
a group of guards come in from outside and there's about six of them and just
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tackle this this human man and uh quickly subdue him put on more chains
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and this time you can see they actually put uh instead of just the bands around
56:46
his wrists and his ankles they put a larger band around his thighs and one
56:51
around his torso also encasing his arms so he is not moving at all um but a very quick
56:58
response it seems to uh to this guy causing trouble uh you move through into the holding
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area uh
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as you guys continue on into the holding area you see a couple of of um
57:14
sparse cells a couple of them filled more of them not filled um but you see
57:20
the the people here in these holding cells none of them really causing any any
57:25
ruckus just sitting there looking solemn but eventually you guys do get into the records room um and you see a a
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massive stockpile of um books and shelves and everything in this tiny
57:39
little room um all of these shelves overflowing and if even a slight breeze ran through this room
57:46
papers would be flying everywhere um but you guys walk up and you see that there is a front desk area
57:52
and a a female dwarven guard is sitting there at attendant
57:58
i'll um walk up to the desk with with kellogg um
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excuse me hi what can i do for you and i'm like trying i guess actually it's all dwarfs so the
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the desk is probably fairly low right uh yeah it's about yours it's comfortable to stand over yeah
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hello um we are hoping we can find um a list of
58:25
all the prisoners and their cells so that we can and i try to remember what calico told
58:30
me to do when when i was him and i stand up straight and and tilt my chin down a little bit and and we need to inspect
58:38
them for their health and safety and i'm applying to her while she does this the stern gaze that i know too well
58:45
from my upbringing in the temple of the mayor just the okay just a slightly
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contemptuous all right i'm gonna have both of you make a
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persuasion check and advantage let's go
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uh 16. [Music]
59:07
all right she uh seriously she looks at alma and
59:15
understandably you're a little human girl um looks at you not with a whole bunch of speculation
59:22
but then sees sort of the company that you're keeping and and takes more heat of your words i'm just trying to learn
59:28
exactly um and she says uh of course can i just
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have uh paperwork i'd silently pass the paper paperwork across okay um
59:40
she looks it over she begins reading it and as she's reading it um
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bursting into the room is uh a dwarven man who has shackles on his wrists and uh and you
59:52
can see that the the shackles around his ankles have actually been broken and he runs into this room
59:58
and um he just begins thrashing about you can see he's trying to get his his wrist
1:00:04
shackles undone um and this this dwarven woman from behind the counter who seems
1:00:10
to have a very soft demeanor um you see her grab her spear that is right next to
1:00:17
the uh the counter toss it up into her hand and chuck it towards this guy what whoa as it flies
1:00:24
through the air pins him in the shoulder and he falls down to the ground with a scream
1:00:30
and you can see this little dwarven woman from behind the counter says hey someone get in here
1:00:36
as five guards run into the room yank the spear out from his shoulder and put him
1:00:42
in a choke hold and begin to bind him once more i am freaking out in the pocket right
1:00:47
now and she looks to you and she says okay all this documentation seems to be in
1:00:52
order um and she hands it back to you over the counter i'm practically holding my breath and just very very softly and and
1:00:59
subtly my hand just like goes to almost shoulder i'm just like do not move do not
1:01:04
[Music] i look at her and i just give her like a really curt nod like yeah my mouth is a
1:01:10
gate but i'm just like health and safety
1:01:16
that's right um all right it all seems to be in order so um if you guys would like you may
1:01:23
find your prisoner i sort of just with my head indicate that oma should pick up the papers
1:01:29
i reach over and i take the record log and i just hold it to my chest
1:01:36
all right um there's a table over in the corner if you would like to look through it i would uh ask that you just don't
1:01:41
leave this room with it thank you kindly oh okay i go screen over to the table okay
1:01:49
all right um as this is a it's a heavy book you even have some trouble carrying
1:01:54
it um but as you place it down on the table uh and open it up it's it's messy
1:02:01
it is there are names written in and scratched out there are there are names inked over um and
1:02:07
some of the the pages have been partially ripped and uh it is a messy documentation is it um
1:02:15
in order of like floor those like if we look to the back would that be like the base level if we look to the front would
1:02:21
that be the top level um make a um just a straight intelligence check is it
1:02:28
like dated like recent to oldest or is it kind of all over the place or maybe we could she's yeah she's oh she's doing
1:02:33
that okay a six um you see letters and numbers and names
1:02:41
there might not even be a system i'm gonna look to faraday and like call her over and have her help us find people
1:02:47
okay um all right fair day you get to the book um and
1:02:52
while not easily read by you you sort of understand a couple of the key points a
1:02:59
little bit better so i'm gonna have you make a investigation check at advantage
1:03:07
[Music]
1:03:12
eleven eleven okay um you are looking through this book
1:03:18
there are a bunch of names a bunch of numbers it's gonna take you some time um
1:03:26
but you might be able to to narrow it down a little bit as you're looking through
1:03:31
um you sort of know xavier and zeta are
1:03:37
spell casters so they're probably going to be in a certain area timmy is not timmy's going to be a tough one to find
1:03:42
because he's probably going to be in the in the common holding area general population general population for sure
1:03:48
um what about spies are spies kept together though um
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faraday you would know that uh spies it's more
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divided up into what you can do not necessarily what you're in for everyone's a spy
1:04:05
everyone's a spy but as you uh faraday are looking through it is going to take you
1:04:14
let me see it takes you approximately 15 minutes to find the first name
1:04:21
and total okay um as you do
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you find the name of zeta
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and next to zeta's name is sd-17-0-1
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[Music] sd170113 [Music]
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[Music] sd-17-0113 i'm gonna have you make another investigation check at advantage
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11 11 okay takes you another 15 minutes
1:05:09
but this time you find the name of xavier [Music] you see next to his name sd-09-0205
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[Music] and that last investigation checked
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advantage fourteen fourteen okay this one takes
1:05:32
you five minutes um you are scrolling through and you see
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timmy's name and next to his name is sa-63-0128
1:05:51
all right so it seems i've located all three of the um parties we're interested in
1:05:58
good uh so we're done we don't have any more we have 10 minutes left 10 minutes left okay if i did my mouth correctly
1:06:05
which is unlikely i'll give you 10 minutes that sounds right i'll give you 10 minutes yeah
1:06:11
[Music] so what are we looking at what keys do we need so we are going to need uh
1:06:19
sub block a is where tim is located and we will need sub block d for sata and
1:06:24
for uh xavier do you think we can ask the records lady for the keys
1:06:30
the records lady will not have the keys but she said that just let her know where we need to go
1:06:37
well she can direct us where to go i know where to go but she does not have the keys and would not have access as
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someone who works in records where do we get the keys time is of the essence here so we have to head down to sub level one
1:06:50
right well that's natural we should uh do some inspecting i'll i'll give the book back
1:06:56
to um the records lady thank you yeah no worries i hope you
1:07:01
find who you're looking for um okay so you guys hand the book back
1:07:07
over and as you guys are just about to leave this room um this time the door
1:07:12
opens the the not the door back to holding um but
1:07:17
another door across the way that you know that goes to the crime lab area and opening this door
1:07:24
crouching down and sort of shifting his body underneath just to fit through this door you see
1:07:30
silver-plated armor a massive sword at his side
1:07:36
tattoos running across his face you see who you recognize to be captain barrett hastel who took timmy away on
1:07:43
the ship and he walks in not even regarding you guys he walks
1:07:50
over to uh the lady who is behind the the table and he says now how many times have i told you that
1:07:58
we need to get records cleaned up and she says i'm so sorry um i we've
1:08:05
been running it this way for so long and um i'm i'm just i'm terribly sorry warden
1:08:11
and he says well now that i'm in charge things are going to be run a little differently around
1:08:17
here are you guys leaving the room
1:08:36
with warden barrett hastel um sort of blocking the way to the crime lab you
1:08:42
guys go back through holding and uh where are you guys headed next
1:08:48
um as we're walking can i just say okay now we know where they are but what is our reasoning again uh can't look for us to
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go right to timmy's we're not going down all right we're going to sub level a he's going to be there just just keep going we're
1:09:01
going to be mathematical oh okay all right fine can i ask one small note yeah being that
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i'm a small creature with a very uh sensitive nose what did the crime lab smell like
1:09:13
when the door flew open um interesting make a perception check for me
1:09:20
very nice uh that is a dirty 21. nice um you smell
1:09:26
a mixture of chemicals and uh different possibly potions um but
1:09:34
overwhelmingly you smell iron in the air that is like
1:09:41
probably blood uh and as
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i gained that awareness and perception uh you just hear
1:09:53
a few like wins noises i pet the top of his head
1:09:58
okay all right um okay where are you guys where you
1:10:04
guys off to sub level entry sub level entry okay that's right so you guys head out
1:10:09
through holding only got 10 minutes we're moving back through intake and you guys uh walk around this sort of
1:10:16
central building um in the center of the prison and you guys walk around to the entrance
1:10:23
and uh as you guys are walking through you see it's there's this this long hallway in
1:10:28
front of you um and you can see doors on either side of you but you guys keep on going
1:10:34
and as you guys keep walking down you exit this this long hallway to um a bit
1:10:39
of a bigger room and you can see right in front of you a um
1:10:44
an elevator to go down to the first sub-level as well as stairs on either side that sort of spiraled down um on
1:10:52
both sides so as you guys approach how are you guys getting down to the second level
1:10:59
i'm gonna look to faraday to explain where the keys are so um are we going to remind me of the plan
1:11:06
are we going to get to timmy first or we have to use data first yeah we have to do to me first so we'll need to go to
1:11:12
god post a so we will take the stairs to the right okay um you guys take the stairs to the
1:11:18
right and as you guys get down there um you see what is sub level a um it is a
1:11:26
pretty big room that that expands um uh pretty far on either side
1:11:32
but still very claustrophobic with just how low the ceiling is here um
1:11:37
and you see right in front of you you see a guard post very similar to what you saw
1:11:43
at the checkpoint you see one on either side of you and you see one directly behind you
1:11:48
in between these guard posts though you see more of these these
1:11:53
holes that just go straight down into the ground you see that they they disappear into blackness you can see
1:12:00
some of them have a couple elevators at the top and some of them are are missing them
1:12:06
so as you guys see the guard posts um you also actually see um walking around
1:12:12
these these elevator shafts you see two guards circling each elevator shaft
1:12:20
i'm assuming we're approaching the guard post then so walking and i will lead the group to guard post a and stand at
1:12:27
attention and i'll step up um salutations uh we'll need access to the
1:12:35
sub-levels uh we're here for uh health and safety inspection yeah i wasn't notified of any health and
1:12:40
safety inspection yes well what reason would there be to notify you or the inspection of something or which you
1:12:46
might hide that's a good point
1:12:52
also um we are here like we clearly had to show a bunch of people
1:12:58
our authorization to get here it's my job to ask i'm sure and a great job you're doing don't
1:13:04
harass the man he's doing his job he's doing a great job yes make a persuasion check for me which one
1:13:11
who both of you both of you make my big mouth
1:13:17
[Music] 24 19. nice um
1:13:22
you can see his face goes red but in a totally different way than the previous card you can see he's like he's blushing a little
1:13:28
bit he's like you you've brightened his um and he says all right um
1:13:33
where are you guys where are you guys headed we're going to need to access the age sub level if there's any pernicious uh illness
1:13:40
affecting the inmates here we're going to need to address it posthaste all right well i've just got keys for
1:13:46
sub-level a um we can start there okay um and uh he reaches down behind the desk
1:13:52
he you can hear some keys um jingling and as he hands
1:13:57
you this uh this big iron key um you guys take it
1:14:05
yeah and where are you guys where are you guys starting we're gonna go right there baby or elevators
1:14:11
okay um you guys hop on to sub level a and as you hop on the elevator you can
1:14:17
see that on each of the platforms there's this wooden post that rises up in the corner and you can see that
1:14:23
there's a little um like an iron lock on it it's like inlaid into the wood
1:14:29
and you can see the key that you have probably fits perfectly into that so as you walk over and faraday would
1:14:37
would know how to do this you put the key in turn it and you can feel the elevator start to move down
1:14:44
sorry before we do that um could i turn to the guard from a
1:14:50
and and ask him if we wanted to save time by just having all the keys now so that we wouldn't
1:14:56
have to come back here every time no nope so we're just gonna have to come back up here every time yes ma'am okay that's
1:15:03
fair thank you [Music] and we go down okay let's do it um as
1:15:09
the key turns you feel the elevator activate and you can you can see these gears beginning to turn where the
1:15:14
elevator is attached to the wall um and you guys begin descending faraday you know in order to stop the
1:15:21
elevator you got to turn the key back and take it out how far are you guys going down
1:15:27
we need to go to 630128 do you faraday i'm sure knows where that is yes and can take it out
1:15:34
for us so i'm going to be watching sort of our progress
1:15:39
getting ready to stop the elevator when we get to level uh sub level 63. okay um
1:15:45
so you guys keep going down further jeez we're just holding our breaths standing
1:15:51
in silence you look to
1:15:56
your left and you look to your right and you see like the prison here is set up as
1:16:02
cylinders that just go straight down into the ground and each of them in a
1:16:07
circular pattern hold all of these cells and you can see a very thin
1:16:14
uh platform made of wood that circles around all the cells to where you would be able to walk
1:16:20
on but very very small area to walk here
1:16:26
as you guys are going down further and further it gets darker and darker and darker can we see outside the elevator
1:16:32
is it like glass it is just a platform okay there's nothing even holding you do we see guards on every floor as well
1:16:39
as you're going down you see a couple of guard posts on each floor as we're going down
1:16:45
we're seeing all these cells and just realizing that this keeps going and going and going um
1:16:51
i'll just uh turn to kellic and i wonder how many uh people here
1:16:58
just as innocent as timmy locked up i imagine the lion's sheriff then
1:17:06
if it's just for missing paperwork i mean imagine what slight indiscretion would result in
1:17:12
being held captive here doesn't seem like a good place
1:17:17
it does not then just huff okay as you guys descend further and
1:17:23
further down the smell in here is absolutely atrocious um and it's it's
1:17:30
tough to even breathe as you guys get down further and further and the air becomes thick and what's made even worse
1:17:37
is echoing off of the walls are screams and the cries of the prisoners
1:17:44
just bouncing off of one another almost deafening as you guys get further and further down into almost this echo
1:17:50
chamber of pain um as you guys descend further and further down and pretty soon the only light that you guys can see
1:17:57
around is three torches on each level providing just the faintest amount of light
1:18:04
as you guys keep going further and further i reached my hand out to to grip calyx robe and i
1:18:10
am i'm like slowly petting um the head of the of the rat that's kind of sticking out of my pocket just to kind
1:18:17
of comfort myself i ever so softly hum a little tune just just a light little
1:18:23
lilting melody to keep everybody
1:18:28
kind of uncomfortably shift every once well but try to get back into my um
1:18:34
into my position at attention okay as you guys keep moving further and
1:18:41
further down you guys eventually get to sub level 63 63 floors
1:18:48
into the earth 63 floors of cells and and these
1:18:54
people trapped and you guys finally get to the floor faraday turns the key the elevator stops
1:19:01
and you pull it out you guys see that there is sort of this this central
1:19:08
guard post in the middle that leads off into another section of cells on the other
1:19:13
side and you can see this big um circular array of cells in front of you
1:19:19
and you also see the pit that's in front of you as well that this elevator is taking you down
1:19:25
an endless pit into darkness geez so as you guys get to sub level 63 what are you guys doing um i'll take one side and
1:19:32
and kelly can take the other and we'll just kind of inspect every single cell as we said we were
1:19:37
for appearance for timmy but like for appearances of of general health and safety and for safety i will follow
1:19:43
kellik and i will nod to faraday to follow our other member as they as we guard them
1:19:50
okay um and as you guys begin inspecting um the
1:19:55
this side this block of cells that you guys came on the elevator um
1:20:00
you guys begin to to walk around and you see dwarves you see humans you see elves
1:20:05
you see every type of creature that you could imagine here um and
1:20:12
just in absolute despair how do they all look like health-wise though
1:20:19
make a medicine check for me um well can i assist on that yeah yeah yeah you can while we're just
1:20:24
walking around i'm noticing their faces and seeing this and i'm just fighting the urge to just help help 15.
1:20:32
15. um 11 11 they are
1:20:38
they're not doing good but they're definitely not being starved and they're not like clearly ill like
1:20:44
nobody is clearly ill or anything nobody is clearly like nobody else that we would have to take up other than timmy is
1:20:51
none that you can see okay no um kellick and flynn you guys move around you guys don't
1:20:56
see anyone that resembles timmy um but ferdinand oma and tria also as you are
1:21:01
in her pocket um as soon as you get to this other side this other block of cells um you begin to hear
1:21:09
sort of more clearly you couldn't quite distinguish it on the other side just as all of these yells and screams are
1:21:14
echoing off of the walls you hear a little bit more clearly timmy in one of the sets
1:21:20
and you look over and just very faintly by torchlight you see
1:21:25
six guards by one of the the um by one of the cells and you can hear on the inside
1:21:33
oh it's such a pretty day oh look at the sun and the clouds
1:21:40
um and just um as much as possible using
1:21:47
the last bit of my like persuasive thing let my face turn white in fear
1:21:53
and yeah kellick kellick it's bad come look
1:21:58
at this flynn and i will turn and rush over yeah okay um i'm gonna have you
1:22:04
make a deception check for me as you can just feel this potion beginning to wear
1:22:11
16 okay 16. um all of the guards sort of jump back as they're like you can see a
1:22:17
couple of them are like laughing and pointing um at him and uh as as you
1:22:22
approach timmy goes oh oh what a beautiful flower on the wind
1:22:32
can i and i want to wink through the wind i'm going to wink through the window at him to be
1:22:38
like and like slowly nod my head like hey you're killing it
1:22:43
okay um and all of the guards uh look to you and one of them looks over a dwarven
1:22:49
woman and she says hey uh what move on what are you all doing here
1:22:55
uh have we have flynn and i arrived at this point yes you guys are just running up every single person why we're here
1:23:01
yeah you do counter is great remind yourself we're we're here to address the very evident
1:23:06
problems that you have with your facility here has anyone looked after this man he's just going crazy he's very ill
1:23:14
and i'm gonna have you make a intimidation check
1:23:20
we're we're still we're still we're still i don't need it get that natural 20 maybe okay is this
1:23:26
yeah this is your last your last name okay uh 22 22 okay immediately all six
1:23:33
guards jump back and um begin to just clear away from the cell and the woman says wha
1:23:40
what are you talking about oh standing newbies i light my arm up and i just pull on eyes of the grave
1:23:46
hell
1:23:53
i pull out from my bag uh uh uh some fabric and i wrap it around my face nice
1:23:59
this man has dream rot keep your distance i will also like cover my face okay i'll
1:24:04
cover mine as well and you see you see a couple of the guards taking their cloaks and putting it up over their faces you
1:24:10
see the rat just cover his eyes with it i turned to verdi like
1:24:17
make a big deal about taking a huge step back okay nice can you can you fix him sir
1:24:24
sir i am your subconscious hear my voice
1:24:32
i am here to escort you to safety
1:24:37
tell me what do you know is your name and your heart of hearts sir
1:24:42
well my name is jim and i used to be a dragon
1:24:48
but then i was cursed and made into man
1:24:55
jim the dragon then that's very good i turned to the guards it's worse than i
1:25:00
thought
1:25:06
love it um i will um open the door can i do that
1:25:13
do it with the key to it that we have yes the key that you have you try and it opens up the door um and i will uh
1:25:20
leave it unlocked if i can but close it behind me um as he says it's worse than he thought
1:25:27
i'm going to use control flames to like flicker the all the all three flames in the in the area
1:25:34
okay um and two of the guards run away they
1:25:42
rush to the other side of the platform and hide back in the guard post in the central the central are you saying they failed their spooky vibes
1:25:54
um and i'm going to uh very very carefully slowly
1:25:59
tiptoe my way toward toward jim the dragon uh jim
1:26:05
what is the song what is the song of your people sing it to me
1:26:13
[Laughter]
1:26:20
and he leans in real close and he goes am i doing good a tiny tiny trembling nod
1:26:27
an urgent nod and i start to hum the same song along with him
1:26:41
i am i am i'm looking into his ears i'm looking into his eyes like i'm
1:26:46
holding his head and i'm like pulling his eyelids up and looking underneath them and i'm turning his head and
1:26:52
looking into his ears ah yes i see i see is there how many guards remain outside the cell four
1:27:00
this is as bad a case as i've ever seen we're going to need uh
1:27:05
immediate care he needs acoustical treatment he needs a sonic remedy
1:27:11
um [Music] zeda zeta malacas
1:27:16
she was uh in in your care correct do you know i don't recognize that name
1:27:21
there's a person i took the liberty of looking through your records before i came down here i have to know if the
1:27:27
head count is accurate and i saw zeta malacas a very very powerful cleric uh who specializes in this specific kind of
1:27:34
treatment i need her here as urgently as possible
1:27:41
okay i don't know where where she would be but um a very powerful um cleric
1:27:46
where where would they keep those uh over in sub block d okay well you need to get them as quickly as possible
1:27:52
because we could all get this okay um i'll try my best
1:27:58
and you see this dwarven woman runs off and runs over to one of the elevators um and she actually grabs an additional key
1:28:06
from one of the guard posts takes it takes one of the elevators and goes up [Music]
1:28:12
everybody else keep your distance we don't want to catch this
1:28:18
i'll turn into the guards um we should probably check the other cells to see if it's spread yet oh that's a good idea um
1:28:25
is anybody on this cell are they particularly powerful because those are the ones that are most at risk
1:28:32
no one over here no okay but still check and i'll start walking around for a blankness in their eyes
1:28:39
i'll start walking around and like peeking through and like just going through the motions of like checking each cell pretending like i'm looking
1:28:45
into all the cells and like looking okay i'll go with one of the guards and do the same thing and repeat like what we're looking for that only just said
1:28:51
that we're looking for okay while we're checking yes do nice things
1:28:56
i well this is just logistical first i need this i need to ask you this how
1:29:02
long has it been since we left the inn it has been about
1:29:09
an hour and a half great that is all
1:29:14
i'm gonna i'm gonna whisper into my pocket while the guards are checking and i'm gonna there's no guard still standing with us right
1:29:20
um no not currently the other the other ones have either gone with flynn or i gotta look into my pocket
1:29:27
go give him the map put it in his pocket and uh i grab the little uh piece of
1:29:34
paper and crawl down uh almost leg or something to the floor and then this is the map
1:29:41
not the note right this is the map yeah the map okay i didn't have a note the map the note is the one no no the note
1:29:47
is the map yeah they're the same thing i misunderstood i'm carrying it in my little between my teeth
1:29:56
and i crawl over uh and i and i crawl up timmy's leg
1:30:02
yeah as unobtrusively as possible uh and into
1:30:07
i don't know maybe by his shoulder maybe if he's holding his hand out in the palm of his hand uh and i
1:30:13
in whatever body part i end up resting on i just [ __ ] my head to the side and and
1:30:19
uh lean the the paper up and kind of extend my hands a little bit that kind of okay
1:30:27
all right um and i shake my head at timmy okay he he sees that that almost shaking his head
1:30:33
and he reaches down apprehensively and takes it from the mouth of try and i immediately as soon as he takes it just
1:30:40
bolt back down and as scurry as quickly as i can back into the pocket okay
1:30:46
all right i pat his head you actually hear a little bit of a bird
1:30:53
squawk come out but you have to be paying attention to it to hear it
1:31:01
okay um the rest of the guards are going around with you guys um are you guys
1:31:07
actually looking for people with with blank expression in their eyes or are you guys sort of just pretending i'm
1:31:12
pretending but i'm also trying to see if the guards have keys on them okay um
1:31:17
make a investigation check sure it's like as we're looking i'll just kind of like as
1:31:22
they peek in the window i kind of pull back so they can peek in the window and i just look at their belt like sometimes
1:31:28
okay you said investigation investigation yeah as they're doing this
1:31:36
okay um since the guard the guards are no longer
1:31:41
with me and tim no longer with you guys no okay um i am going to
1:31:48
um i am going to
1:31:54
um put my hand on timmy's heart
1:31:59
uh and uh just the slightest little like
1:32:05
poof of ash uh pops up around my fingers and in the
1:32:11
center of my palm and uh in coco and i will cast enhanceability
1:32:19
on timmy flurry okay um to give him uh
1:32:25
cat's grace okay the target has advantage on dexterity checks it also doesn't take damage from falling 20 feet or less if
1:32:31
it isn't incapacitated okay um okay and uh it's up to an hour
1:32:37
okay sounds good uh i rolled a 11.
1:32:44
11. um you very clearly see that the individual guards do not have keys around their
1:32:50
belt you saw that the guard had to run to the guard post to grab a key for the elevator
1:32:56
that they don't have them individually around their belt they have them in the guard post presumably okay um
1:33:03
yeah that's that's all i'll do i'm not gonna i'm not gonna poke the bear okay um caleb as you guys are doing that um
1:33:10
shraya what is your passive perception
1:33:16
i believe it's 16 but let me double check
1:33:23
oh it's 17 actually 17. okay as all of this is happening and as
1:33:28
you're crawling back up into oma's pocket maybe a couple levels up
1:33:34
you think it might be coming a couple of levels up it's tough to hear off of the echoes of the walls and and all the screaming
1:33:41
that's going on but everyone smile you hear ah
1:33:48
[Music] ah is it uh possible to climb the sides of
1:33:54
the walls in my red lake uh in my pocket right he is in your pocket yes
1:34:00
it might be you could definitely try uh uh one also question about the
1:34:07
architecture of this space on the actual walls is there a gap between the platform
1:34:13
and like is there a is there a pit that goes around the perimeter as well like if i were to fall crawling on the
1:34:19
sidewalls that potential for yes if you were if you were to fall climbing these walls there is potential
1:34:25
for you to fall deep into this like elevator shaft [Music] are there elements of the elevator shaft
1:34:32
itself i could climb up where there might be something under me if i were to fall um if you climbed on the
1:34:38
like on the components of the elevator itself you do see that there is a cable running all the way up that the the elevator
1:34:45
sort of attaches to and that these gears sort of turn and and pull up towards i spring out of almost pocket
1:34:52
and i if he tries to spring i will try to not let him spring okay i'm going
1:34:58
to do this then um acrobatics check
1:35:03
yes i'm going to have you make um also an acrobatic check or athletics whichever one you want i'm
1:35:09
going to make this a grapple check [Music] and shreya i'm gonna have you make that an advantage because you are tiny okay
1:35:19
22 26. [Applause]
1:35:24
you feel his hind legs begin to sort of like crouch back in your pocket and as soon as he springs off
1:35:32
you turn and you catch emitter no i like i'm holding him midair and i i
1:35:39
turn my hand around so that his face is facing my face and i bring it close to my eyes
1:35:44
and i say what are you doing remember you're supposed to touch my face with your paw and point directions
1:35:51
you want to go where are you going i let one of his paws free so that he
1:35:57
can point and i'm pointing up toward the floor where i'm here and i and i look up the
1:36:04
floor too do i hear anything um i'm gonna have you make a perception check as they're doing this i am i am
1:36:12
surreptitiously relaying uh the details of to timmy of the plan of like we're
1:36:18
going to catch you to the temple of lazio uh and then you're going to have to figure out your way from there uh and i'm and i'm telling him about the note
1:36:25
in his pocket with the map to uh saviors that was a four
1:36:30
we're not saviors sorry hey fruits okay um oma you don't you hear screams and
1:36:37
cries and it's all just like hitting your eardrums and you can't discern anything
1:36:43
i'm gonna look back at try and just say this is too risky you can't do this
1:36:48
right now
1:36:54
is his body moving in any direction while he makes these noises i'm i'm wriggling around just nudging my face upward toward that and
1:37:02
i'm gonna turn my hand back around to timmy and say look at timmy [Music]
1:37:08
trial look at timmy bringing my head over we gotta get him out
1:37:14
[Music] okay
1:37:19
[Music] does he nod or anything uh i very uh
1:37:24
hesitantly and begrudgingly nod my head and then i just pat him on the face and
1:37:30
put him back in my pocket i'm gonna sulk in the pocket
1:37:35
meanwhile i'm on the right side very loudly so they know how far me and the other guards are and how much time they
1:37:41
have just making this big deal of oh this has never happened when i worked here before oh are you experiencing any
1:37:47
symptoms oh does he look okay do you think this might be very loudly just like trying to stir a
1:37:53
panic at the guards that i have on the other side of things i'm gonna have you make a performance check
1:37:59
there you go
1:38:04
at every mention of of anything having to do with with disease and this spreading um
1:38:12
the guards get a little bit more jumpy and antsy and as you're approaching some of these cells the guards are hanging
1:38:19
back a little bit they're they're keeping their distance so
1:38:24
as the as all of this is happening the guard has not yet returned
1:38:29
have i heard any uh any sort of indications any
1:38:34
uh stirrings that would get my attention um nothing other than
1:38:41
[Music] if you yourself had this post and you were told this information and
1:38:47
you had to go over and and make sure that you had to find someone in sub block d
1:38:54
for you it probably wouldn't take you this long all that's all you really got
1:39:00
was that me have we are we reconvened or uh are we still all split up searching
1:39:06
this stuff you guys have plenty of time to reconvene if you like um because i'm still just with timmy at
1:39:13
this point um i'm going to turn to cali can you say should i start using the stairs do you think to go down should i start the
1:39:19
whole like i mean all the guards are really nervous here so maybe i just tell them that we've got to go and take one of the cards and let one of the guards
1:39:25
come with me so that he can explain to everybody else what's going on plead our case downstairs yeah okay i'll say it to
1:39:31
me so i'm gonna go over to faraday by her guards where everyone's nervous and
1:39:37
say [Music] um i hate to mention this um have you seen anybody else on this
1:39:44
floor with this [Music] and i turned to the guards have you seen anyone on this floor
1:39:50
showing symptoms um i i don't know i'm no i'm not an expert
1:39:55
um and it looks the very day these are our experts here and i'm trying to like
1:40:01
make eye contact with zuma like so i i do know that dreamwork affects those
1:40:07
who have [Music] abilities beyond
1:40:13
the the the everyday i mean the fact that timmy even got this is is
1:40:18
incredibly or jim i guess jim the fact that jim even got this is incredibly um
1:40:24
rare and that just shows how how strong this version is and and i really think
1:40:30
that we we should see those below us who have more abilities where do you keep the
1:40:36
people who have abilities beyond theirs i think they mentioned indeed yeah that that would be
1:40:41
over indeed we should start heading there now everybody else can stay here faraday and you can come with me and
1:40:48
we'll go down um and i'm gonna quietly like i'm gonna somehow like i want to infuse the like a
1:40:55
imply that he can get away from the infectious area right now um
1:41:00
you can come with us and take us down to where we need to go so that we can inspect those with um more abilities so
1:41:07
we can make sure that this hasn't hasn't infected the whole world [Music]
1:41:13
okay or the whole we infected the infected your your prison further all right make a persuasion check for me
1:41:21
oh that's good 19. okay um he looks he looks at the other
1:41:28
guard standing right next to him and he goes um and he stands up a little bit straight and goes yes if that's what's required
1:41:34
if that's what is necessary um then yes i think we should we should go
1:41:40
and uh as he as uh they both walk with you guys back to the elevator um he
1:41:45
leans over to the other guard and um he said i i think i heard wasn't someone going
1:41:52
crazy in in level 72 um i think i heard someone
1:41:58
was that i i don't know and as they're sort of murmuring to themselves you guys make your way over to the elevator uh
1:42:04
did they leave the key with us with timmy i was just gonna take the stairs oh take the stairs because i figured i
1:42:09
need an elevator to get to d but i'm for sure but the stairs might be able to get through and i still have mikey you've
1:42:14
got your key yes um okay so as you guys take the stairs there is one elevator only one elevator now at level at this
1:42:21
level that you guys are currently on um but you guys are taking the stairs should we take the elevator to 70 to the
1:42:27
bottom of of of a and then take the stairs [Music]
1:42:36
we're going to just try to get down to d without we have to go up to get to d oh you can't there you can't go this
1:42:41
once you get to the bottom of may there's no we have to get up we have to go up to sub level one so the way that these and and you could sort of see when
1:42:48
you were at the top with the elevator the way that these are set up is that sub block a is a massive column that
1:42:54
goes down into the ground next to that completely separate no attachment sub block b is a big cylinder that goes
1:43:00
directly into the ground essentially yeah you need to go up over to the other elevator and then down in
1:43:06
order to get i didn't know that kellick
1:43:12
what should i do maybe i should go with you well we can't we can't all go
1:43:17
so do you want to go or not i mean we can't what are you talking about we somebody's got to make sure that timmy and zeta are handled do we feel like
1:43:24
this well you're going to come back with it right do we feel like jim is okay i was going to go get xavier
1:43:30
well what if oh i thought you were going to plead our case for salem i told you to plead her case for zeta
1:43:35
are they whispering all this to each other i i just convened this is a group discussion oh
1:43:41
okay great i turned to faraday yeah they're doing it again
1:43:46
and i just sort of look be muse but also like trying to see if i can hear anything and
1:43:52
observe the guards to see if they're like how they're doing if they change the way we look i mean i want it to i
1:43:58
want to like perform as if we're talking about dream rot but we're but we're talking about what we're talking about so i wanted to imply that we are super
1:44:04
nervous about dream rot but we're not talking about that okay right well someone has to go make sure zed is actually going to come up so i'll go do
1:44:10
that and you can go do what you need to do no somebody's got to stay here what are you talking about what is the what's the purpose of staying here we know the
1:44:17
situation we sent somebody to go get zeta so we have to someone has to wait for them to get better he hasn't come
1:44:22
back yet so something might have gone amiss someone what does that help with us the
1:44:29
guard doesn't know the the risk the danger here he can't press upon them the way i can fine go and i'll stay here i
1:44:35
was more so go i told what i told the card was that i was gonna go and check the more powerful people to make sure
1:44:40
that they didn't have dream rot also meaning i was gonna go start to look for other people
1:44:46
right so this is still that i don't understand what you're talking about i'm not trying to get sata
1:44:51
yeah and i am so go get sand and i'll stay here then why wouldn't you also do what you intend
1:44:56
as you guys are debating this you hear an elevator begin to come down you hear the clicks
1:45:02
of the gears as the elevator comes down and you can see
1:45:07
two figures on that elevator one of them is a tiefling woman and the other is the guard that you guys had
1:45:14
sent up all right
1:45:19
as you see the tiefling woman step off of the elevator you can see she is visibly
1:45:24
pissed like she is she is not happy um you can see that she is wearing her
1:45:30
this very plain prison garb and as she steps off of the elevator um she says
1:45:36
all right what am i doing here is she in chains still she is currently
1:45:42
in chains yes your glory thank you for coming i i understand that
1:45:48
the rest are under um my name is kenneth gray uh i'm uh a clerical zachary and as you are sort of
1:45:55
reaching your hand out she leans forward and she spits in your hand oh um i i don't even skip a beat i just
1:46:04
i waggle my hand to get rid of the saliva with a very serious condition here
1:46:10
that only you can handle and that you may need to return to your temple to uh
1:46:15
uh ameliorate she looks around it all of you i give
1:46:20
her a very meaningful work as i said um make a persuasion check
1:46:28
to try and get your point across oh it was bound to happen eventually 12
1:46:34
at 12. um she looks at the rest of you and she says
1:46:42
no no take me back to myself what i'm saying is
1:46:47
you might need to leave the prison to help this man who's in
1:46:52
danger she looks over at timmy who timmy is still like he's not really
1:46:58
even focusing on anything he's sort of letting his eyes wander everywhere um
1:47:04
and kellick actually i'm gonna have uh
1:47:09
since kellogg and omar right there i'm gonna have both of you guys make an insight check for me
1:47:18
15. natural one natural one nice um oma you see as soon as she looks at timmy
1:47:24
she looks back at you guys and there's sort of like a little she's interested
1:47:31
she's you can tell she's sort of hooked right now
1:47:36
and she walks over to timmy and uh she puts her hand up to the rest of you guys and she says i'm gonna need
1:47:43
a moment to inspect by myself you don't mind and she walks up to timmy and she kneels
1:47:49
down next to timmy there's a couple moments that go by you can hear them whispering back
1:47:57
you can't really discern any of the words and she stands back
1:48:02
up and she walks back out to you and she looks at the guards she says
1:48:09
this is the most extreme case i've ever shot we need to get him out of here
1:48:15
immediately and i expect this uh this group right here to be uh
1:48:21
well-versed in this knowledge is if they can they can pick it out of of the group they have you have thousands of
1:48:27
prisoners here and they they were able to to pick out one with dream rod this is you have a worthy crew here on your
1:48:33
hands um what we're gonna need to do i cannot uh handle this by myself here we're gonna um as uh the gentleman said
1:48:40
earlier we're gonna have to take this back to a temple and have this remedied um so uh let's let's all move and i'm gonna
1:48:47
look at her and i said but the the risk of of of this spreading to our most powerful and and to the most um to the
1:48:53
strongest of them is is too it's too high for us to the mind the greatest of the imagination for us to leave right
1:49:01
of course um while we head back perhaps um you all could could inspect the rest of the
1:49:08
prison i i feel um and we could uh hopefully
1:49:13
nip this in the bud absolutely absolutely very very contagious it's very important i'm sort of like stressful yeah we still have our
1:49:20
things over our mouth so wearing our like covers and all that of course um we should move quickly so um she goes
1:49:26
over and she sort of uh helps timmy up and timmy's like looking all over the place
1:49:33
and she helps him out of the cell and um if if we move quickly we might be able to to stop this here um and the guards
1:49:39
step to the side and let you move towards the elevator is she going to start heading up or she
1:49:46
is walking okay so we're all so we're all we all need to go up essentially right anyway so let's all get on the elevator
1:49:52
yeah are there any guards coming with us if we get on the elevator two guards are coming with you as we passed that floor
1:49:58
where i was hearing the noise come from i'm gonna see if i can direct my head and sight in the direction where that was coming from okay so i can
1:50:04
catch a glance perhaps as you are going up you hear more and more clearly with each
1:50:11
level
1:50:16
and in your native tongue you can start to pick out words
1:50:23
[Music] sky and as you get up to about level
1:50:31
49 you look around you you take a quick quick glance around
1:50:36
and you can see in one of the cells a flurry of feathers
1:50:42
and a couple of them even poof out from the cell and begin to fall down this elevator shaft
1:50:48
i'd like to so all i see are the feathers i can't see it like you cannot see the creature within but you can see this this mass of
1:50:56
of um essentially feathers you can't pick out the creature itself i start going nuts in in the pocket uh
1:51:04
and again try to get out okay
1:51:09
i'm not gonna let him here we go again come on okay i mean if he's freaking out then i would know in
1:51:16
advance to like keep an eye on him and and not let him i think it's safe to say
1:51:21
he's freaking out at this point okay i'm gonna attempt to pop out of the
1:51:26
pocket yeah just first just okay um once again a uh acrobatics check
1:51:32
from both of you and he's the only one that hears this commotion and sees these feathers
1:51:37
um yes he is okay i rolled a dirty 20.
1:51:43
i rolled an eight um yeah oh my god but he was just poking
1:51:49
his head out first though this was to get out
1:51:55
alma you lose your concentration for just a split second as these voices and
1:52:00
the screams off of the walls are hitting your ears try you have just a moment you jump out and oma you notice and you go
1:52:07
to reach and he slips through your fingers and i just stare after him and say well i guess try
1:52:13
is gone forever and he's gonna wake up in a prison good for him do we all see the mice that the mouse
1:52:18
jump out yes as you guys are moving up there's no way to talk about your pattern try it you jump out and you land on the
1:52:24
platform of level 49. well do we see him in the land can we can i shout something out
1:52:30
wait did you hear that cowlick it sounds like somebody might on this floor might have it
1:52:36
i i didn't hear anything fun stop the thing oh boy stop the elevator
1:52:44
fair day you've got the key i go to stop the elevator okay you guys are about halfway between level 48 and 49.
1:52:51
well this is all happening i'm making my way over to that try you get to the cell and you see
1:52:56
um these these brown feathers in a
1:53:01
like this this moving mass and sitting in the corner you can just make out a beak
1:53:07
and you can hear from within the cell the wind in the sky betwixt my wings i'm
1:53:13
free i can fly the cell cannot contain me this cell i cannot take it anymore
1:53:20
uh i look over i actually uh climb to or scurry over to the feet uh or if they're
1:53:26
sitting down uh and i i look i look this being up and down is this is a person of my race i would
1:53:32
imagine this is yes uh probably eats rats is there uh well if i'll hopefully not if i need to
1:53:39
do more athletics i will but i'm gonna do is this is this do i
1:53:44
recognize this as any kind of relation or is this someone is this a just another person of my race um make a
1:53:52
insight check for me and just let us know whenever we start
1:53:58
going back to get level uh dirty 20 dirty 20. you
1:54:04
for a moment you didn't recognize this person as they're sitting here in the corner
1:54:10
fully grown aracocra with um owl features
1:54:15
and these dark brown um dark brown
1:54:20
feathers you almost didn't recognize him because you had seen him years
1:54:27
previously when he was much much younger you know this to be tito
1:54:32
the son of your tribe's shaman
1:54:37
uh i look up at tito and i crane my
1:54:44
head to the side how much time has it been since we left the end now um about two hours
1:54:51
okay so i'm gonna look around the floor
1:54:58
okay and i'm going to try to spot like in my knowledge of how the guards were
1:55:05
moving before in their dance in their my previous recon uh
1:55:11
are there any that i would be an ice shot i shot of at the current moment at
1:55:16
the current moment you see that all of the guards are currently in the guard
1:55:21
post um where you had met the guards on your floor they are not within eyeshot
1:55:27
of you no they're sort of in there in their little guard post they cannot see you i am bonus actioning out of wild
1:55:33
shape and i'm going but i'm going to but i'm going to assume the same position
1:55:39
as tito and mirror myself right behind them so that it perhaps might create
1:55:45
some kind of mirage as if okay yes a terrible one at that but it's
1:55:51
something some bonus actioning wild shaping out uh what are you in the cellar outside of this i'm in the cell
1:55:57
because i crawled through the bars and as a as a you know little guy uh and as
1:56:02
soon as i morph out uh i in a harsh tone i say
1:56:08
my brother i'd rather what brought you here i can't sell
1:56:17
don't worry i'm going to get you out of here somehow
1:56:22
i need you to keep doing exactly what you're doing only
1:56:28
imagine things imagine the most wild flights of fancy you've ever seen or heard of and you
1:56:35
need to spout that into the air right now and i can get you out of here the wind
1:56:41
the wind and the sky no no crazier than that it's gonna be it's gotta be more wild than that what is the most
1:56:47
incredible wild beast you've ever seen all this is in hush tones and as quickly as i can a creature of gems gems pure
1:56:53
gems blue gems louder i see it
1:56:58
i see it it's here i will not be this form any longer but you must keep doing exactly what you're doing and you will
1:57:03
be out of here soon and i bonus action wild shape back into the rat yeah okay okay
1:57:11
as his voice is morphing from your native tongue into
1:57:17
common um the rest of you begin to hear this this shouting of the creature made
1:57:22
of gems and diamonds it's here i tried to flynn yeah that does sound bad yeah
1:57:29
we should check it out and then uh motion to lower the uh elevator back down to the level so we
1:57:34
can go and check it out you guys lower the elevator back down and at this point five guards come out from the guard post
1:57:40
the two guards that are with you hold up their hands and they say we've got a situation here i'm gonna need you guys
1:57:46
to go back into uh into the guard post you guys need to stay there and if you see any hallucinations
1:57:52
you need to report this immediately and they'll go back into their garden come on guys
1:57:58
and you guys walk over and you see in this cage uh a little rat right next to
1:58:04
a a owl with these these dark brown feathers
1:58:10
yeah about the same size and shape as dry i shake my head
1:58:15
and i look up with my little rat face and again in this kind of same form i did before just kind of raised my hand
1:58:22
to this side okay um are you guys opening up the cage
1:58:28
yeah with a searing look to rat try out
1:58:39
um his arms are are free but you see this leather brace around his chest and
1:58:45
you can see his wings completely pinned back um and he's sort of slowly like
1:58:51
shaking steps out of the cell in very much the same manner i'm inspecting his ear canals okay i'm
1:58:57
giving meaningful works to zeta ah cochlear acoustic therapy don't you
1:59:03
think um uh yeah i i could not agree more
1:59:09
um and shraya i'm gonna have you make an inside check for me [Music]
1:59:23
you look into tito's eyes and you see when you go underground and even right
1:59:29
now that feeling that you get of being trapped tenfold for tito
1:59:35
um you don't know how long it's been but with when you went into a cell like the mutterings
1:59:40
seemed a little bit on the side of possibly going insane um but he steps out
1:59:47
and you guys usher him over to the elevator i assume uh-huh okay
1:59:53
very we're going to calmly
1:59:58
um you guys put the key back in i'm going to like put my foot out for trying to climb back up okay and i am going to
2:00:04
hop back into the pocket with once i get in my hands clutching the fold of the pocket and my gaze whenever it comes
2:00:11
back into my gaze over at tito and as you guys begin to ascend back up
2:00:19
the yells around you some of them fade away
2:00:24
and you begin to hear no please take me with you no no no
2:00:30
off on another floor no no i've got it too i've got to please please bring me with you
2:00:35
and these voices begin to culminate and to please for help to take them with
2:00:42
you too as you guys begin to rise up i'm gonna turn to the guards and i'm gonna say as you can see
2:00:48
it is it is easy to tell who has it and who doesn't by those who are aware of us moving them
2:00:55
and he's sort of like you can see he takes mental note of that of like okay i uh something to look out for i kind of just like
2:01:01
crouched and move into like a ball and just kind of have my my hands over my ears trying to
2:01:07
block this out and just it reminds me of just other types of prisons
2:01:15
okay sensible today it does transfer through the ear canal so and i i just don't like
2:01:27
um but you guys make your way up the elevator floor by floor you guys ascend
2:01:34
and eventually with each tick you guys hear the the elevator and the gears turning and you guys get up to the final
2:01:40
sub level and you look over the stairs that you guys had come down and you can see a massive sheet of stone
2:01:48
now covering them sealing you guys off from the top floor
2:01:54
and as you guys look around you see six guards dwarven in full plate armor
2:02:00
with spears and shields and right in the middle of them you see a massive goliath man of course the
2:02:07
warning as he looks to all of you and says i don't remember ordering an inspection
2:02:13
team and that's where we're going to end
2:02:21
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