hey nerds support venture forth over on our patreon to unlock exclusive bonus content now on to the show hi i'm flynn

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kellick omar and i'm your dm ethan welcome to ventureforth

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previously you all had begun your journey to the dekeer ruins where zeta the t fling had instructed

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you all to go on your the next steps of your journey to discover uh what this this possible affliction

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that she was feeling was you made your way back to the town of marstock where you heard news of

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um unfortunately uh cold crest and beckensdale being taken over by

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kaldur and now the entire northern border being moved forward of the war front

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with hearing this news you continued on to westbury where you all had taken the night to rest and in the morning you all

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had made your way over to nestle valley through the mountain itself to get to a mining town on the other side you had

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taken this rail system all the way through the mountain with no incident but when you got to the other side

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flynn had a mission of his own flynn had gone to the house of a gram bludron

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senior to deliver the unfortunate news that his son who had joined the ironlight collective was now dead

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graham seemed to have come to this conclusion a while ago on his own has his son had not sent word back and

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specifically had not returned but you all decided to well flynn decided that you all would be taking up

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the mission in his stead you all had gone down into the mine to

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see if you could find these drow who had supposedly been coming up and been confronting the miners who had been

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coming out of the mine in order to settle some sort of deal you're not quite sure exactly what's going on but

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you ventured into the mine in order to discover that for yourselves as you went further and further down

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shraya had noticed a scream off in the distance as you descended into the the

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darkness below you ended up coming to this cave that shrai had specifically pinpointed that

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the scream had come from and after walking in you had come across these six nothics deep within the cave they were

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devouring one of these miners that was in the cave and as their massive bulging

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eyes looked up at you they attacked a brief encounter ensued and you all stood

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victorious over these bodies as you look down at all of them the the

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six bodies that lay there on the ground defeated dead as well as this dwarven

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body what would you all like to do i'd like to take a look at the dwarven

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body um for two things one to confirm that

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he died from these creatures uh and two to see if there's any like

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identification any way i can like report his death to this organization or whatever definitely make a medicine

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check for me literally this die i thought

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i thought the thing would help me but it didn't the roller did not do anything it's going out again it's still an i

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mean it's a natural one but i have a plus eight to medicine okay um

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i you know that this dwarf is dead and you know that it was

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these creatures that killed it as you're looking through it though there is i

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as as when you guys came up you noticed the entire rib cage on the front is like broken outward and these gnothics were

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devouring the inside of this creature any sort of identification

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is just covered in the mutilation of this dwarf

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[Music] um i don't feel so good

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i think i just want to can i sit down for a little bit guys i just sit uh of course i would also like to

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take a moment uh and i my back is going to hit the back of the cave wall and i'm just

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slowly still picking out little pieces of like wood and bark and

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moss and just just a couple moments actually would be great yeah i'll help you try it and i'll like put

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my hand up and start just picking the debris off of him and brushing it away kind of like um like

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like peeling a sunburn just feeling just getting some some like nice like satisfaction from just like

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strips of bark sorry that one had a feather attached to it i'm sorry i'll i'll be more careful

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um i i would i would like this to be a short rest if

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i if i can can argue for that oh yes is everyone in for a short rest um yeah how far away is the entrance to the

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um where we entered um the entrance is you guys walked in quite a ways i'd say

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somewhere between 250 300 feet back how how long would it take to maybe like

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get to it i was i'm curious if we could maybe drag one of the bodies to the entrance so people know when they're coming down

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they see a dead body of a monster maybe not to come down this tunnel just to i mean it was a pretty straight shot it wouldn't it wouldn't take that much in

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order okay i'll just start dragging a monster back that way to like hey um i'm gonna i don't know i don't want anyone

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come down here i'm gonna mark i'm gonna pull these bodies at the entrance maybe if anyone comes here

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they'll see it and they won't venture in here and and they won't end up and i'll point to the dwarf like that uh

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can i see uh does this tunnel extend further or we have we come to its natural conclusion

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you can see that the tunnel does extend further okay i suppose

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i wish there were more decent ways of communicating that but uh that's that's

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expeditious of you yeah i mean i could send it up if we can find a way to send

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i don't know i think it might be better to leave it at the entrance because then if people come by it they'll see it or we could make a sign

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can you make a sign i i can write i i don't know if we have

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other materials but can the miners read

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i i'm going to start with the box be surprised i don't know what the practices are like in caldora as far as

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education uh i'll start checking the body towards the entrance [Music]

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dm can i have a short rest i'll be back in a minute me too yes

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um as as you guys are doing this these are not um as actually except for flynn who is

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dragging a body i would say everyone is is able to get a a short rest as flynn is the only one actually okay so

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it takes about an hour to get there uh actually no

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it would not if i would be able to i mean if we want to take a little bit extra if i come back and i just wrestle and you can get a short rest too and

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it's actually not it's not that far away you'd be able to easily drag whenever i get to the entrance uh i'll on my way

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back before i head back i'd like to um take my sword and cut off an arm and throw it in the back holding okay

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and then i will head back and i will sit down and i will write about these scary freaking things in my book okay

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all right um as you begin writing uh i mean with a with a perfect

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five now remaining templates right in front of you um you begin writing and take note of of this entire creature um

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let me see full health

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nice um as you are looking over and studying this creature flynn

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um you take note of its uh of its natural armor as

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you had as you all had experienced within the battle um you take note of its natural armor and you sort of take note of what

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it would take in order to pierce through that armor um now knowing it's it's ac

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of 15. and uh beyond that you study it's uh you begin

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to study its eye this big green and yellow eye in the front um and having

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specifically been on the receiving end of one of its its effects um

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you now know that it has uh a what you write down as a rotting gaze

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um where it can stare right at you um and forcing you to to have to steady

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yourself otherwise taking necrotic damage and real quick flynn another thing that

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you would that you would note is um this uh these gnothics um

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as you're again studying their natural armor do not appear to have any uh resistances or weaknesses to any sort

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of damages [Music] that's a little bit better

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some weird eyes man those really hurt yeah be careful about those it seems

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like they like mess with you i know mess with you how just messed with your

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brain it's like i was looking at it and i was checking it out and it like hurt give me like forever mess with your

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brain forever i don't know when i looked away from it it kind of went away but i don't know just be careful

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as i'm writing in my book watching you during that fight the two of you um

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i could tell your souls were suffering but i couldn't

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make heads or tails how it was happening so yeah i'm not used to feeling like that

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with no blood something pernicious of that yeah like i said i still kind of have a headache right now

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i feel a little bit better actually i'm kind of fine maybe you should just sit okay and i'll close my book after writing a little bit more and just kind

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of like close my eyes and lean back a little bit um we know dm that that this is not the

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lowest tunnel right we were headed to the lowest one and then we that is correct um the elevator you guys specifically stopped on this at this

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tunnel in order to go in but you know the elevator goes down much further okay

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uh do you think there's more of those things

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almost definitely oh i mean this group if i had to make a guess of it i'd say

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this is a pack of hunters if they're anything like um

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other species of the world then this

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there would be a place for them to return to after a hunt oh like a nest

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i don't know oh gross unless this is it but

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this just looks like a tunnel i don't want to find their nest

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no nor do i so

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will you just keep going down i suppose are you sure because we could just go we could just leave now right

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guys we could just leave now i would be out in favor of that course of action we've already resolved ourselves

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to take care of this trouble yeah just to whatever extent we can we first have to identify

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what the stakes are right well we didn't know that these things were down here and they're spooky we'll just be careful

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we've seen them now you try and avoid them okay

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but eventually eventually i just like we'll get super

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tired and won't be able to do anything well and the world possesses

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untold depths and i sort of like look toward the tunnel that we have not yet

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even traversed down the length of this could go on and on

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and we have to find some way to contact the dro

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i think we just go further down and maybe we'll run into a some of them or at least a way to

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contact them do you have a plan improvise it improvise yeah

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that's your plan improvise it's worked out so far that's not really a plan i don't know much about the minds of

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kaldor right but from our previous experience they were labeled with signs of two crowns

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if we can find something like that and that's where to go

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okay uh before we head out can i look at one of them or i could have maybe i've done this during the short break could i

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examine the body and see if there's any um markings uh i'm assuming no clothes but like any maybe engravings or

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brandings on on these beasts or monsters on these beasts um sure make either a

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medicine or investigation check maybe like two skulls or anything yeah okay investigation

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rolled a one nice hold of four so a total of six total six don't see

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anything in particular that's it no worries yeah all right um well

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i mean i guess my head's feeling as this is gonna get i'm ready to go if you all are yeah uh

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um [Music] dm do i know

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of the um

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of the subterranean architecture of this world um do i know a distinction between

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like uh what would be considered a mind out mountain versus

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uh something else i guess yes so um you you do know that that deep

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deep below the surface of elbow there is the underdark okay um where there are

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civilizations there are massive caverns um bigger than you can even see from any

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one point um but from what you know they

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they are much much deeper down than this you would have to pretty much you would have to travel for a couple days in order to get down that

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far and you guys have only gone a couple minutes in this elevator right okay okay

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i i think if we can we'll know when to stop if we touch the

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we start to see the signs of the underdark uh i've never seen it because but um

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mushrooms uh creatures like this but more

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disturbing for lack of a better word how far down is that [Music]

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very far like what's the underdark i don't know that we have time right now for me to get into atom

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it's where my people are from your people well some of my people um

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it's a place far below the surfaces the realm where

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entirely different takes place

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we're not going anywhere near there for this excursion though there's a chance and i don't know but

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based on based on what we heard from graham senior the the drow may have come up twirly

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under dark to this mine because if the mine plunges deep enough to hit the underdark then there's going

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to be a squabble no doubt about it yeah maybe they'd maybe they've dug so

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far down we finally reached it yes it's very far to take quite a bit of a

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plunge when we were on this dm when we were on the surface did it look like they were continuing to

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dig or were they more just um excavating excavating thank you

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excavating what was already done like or were they going down more um from approaching and and coming down

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you could see that there are tunnels much like the one that you're in that expand outward um all around

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but you can't even see down to the bottom of this this central sort of

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cylinder that goes into um the the surface here it is very possible that they're still

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digging downward for it but from what you have seen personally with your own eyes it is all going outward

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um but again you can't even see the bottom to know [Music] and there was nothing on the surface

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that implied like big tools that were for nothing on the surface no

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when i was um dropping off the monster at the entrance and remind me again was this the lowest we could have gone

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no the elevator continues to go down [Music]

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do we wanna go down the path or do we wanna take the elevator don't think it makes much sense to go down the path

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unless we want to find the nest and i sort of look grimly at the corpses around us

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yeah i think maybe we just take the elevator yeah i think so i mean if if

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you want to find these things right you want to find the things that are coming up all right it does make me worry that

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how do you save people from all these things down here like maybe people just shouldn't dig if there's all these

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things down here i mean these things lived here first well how did a very very valid point

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how do you save shreya's people from the spiders that live in that forest

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um uh by that i mean the the elves of course of the shadow of timberland not uh

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i don't know much about it if you have respect for them and they will co-exist along with you and

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and in that sort of way there is a perfect harmony that can be achieved can be

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with first first the awareness of what it is that well

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or i suppose in this world you know who your neighbors are

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so to speak well if neighbors can't even get along on the surface how are they supposed to get along from the ground to the surface

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it didn't really seem like those things wanted to co-exist with us when we showed up down in here the spiders did not coexist with farlane soldiers either

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yeah but there was all that black stuff taking over right that wasn't their fault there was just the darkness in the forest i will say i wasn't there long

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enough to figure out if those spiders were native to those woods or whether they were

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intruders of their own i right sometimes you just have to take action

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yes with regard to the i mean this cyclops we encountered in the woods he

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was a hunter a fisherman like james he constructed that marvelous device that

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was intended to make a meal of alma and it's not so different from the intent of

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james when he goes out on the river it it's up to us to

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draw uh boundaries between otherwise hostile civilizations and and

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to navigate those conflicts without harming each other

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oh i don't know i don't know how

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and i'd soundly get up and i will x-co disintegrate the rest of these uh the

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bodies of the gnothics and also the uh dwarf did you get what you needed to get yeah

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who'd you get i just took something from the one that's at the entrance what'd you get well i took his hand his

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hand grows yeah and we're leaving him at the entrance as

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a warning sign yeah if you want to make a sign you can

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and i'll start walking towards the entrance uh looking toward the entrance too as long as we can

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keep things moving i do not like being down here you didn't have anything else you could

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take you had to take a hand that's so gross what are like a tooth or like

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or like i don't know i'll just yell back from 30 yards away

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sometimes you just have to take action what i don't know how those two ideas

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relate those don't relate to each other at all kellick do you have anything to make a sign with

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alma all i have is this bloody rope um um

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spell out letters with the rope yeah yeah i have a scroll

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um some parchment yeah i have some parchment but i i

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don't know maybe you can use some like soot or something to make letters because i i don't have anything to like write on

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it with i have some charcoal yeah oh yeah okay you can help me perfect thank you and i

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will i will uh write in common

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danger monsters i will pin this sign to the front

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entrance as as in the most well-lit area i can okay

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um how would i go about doing that can i

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like hang it on a torch post or something is there like some some metallic instrument that as

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you walk up actually there there is just like a little bit of of rock that's sort of jutting out from the

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side of this where this this entrance to the mine is um and if you sort of put

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the paper up onto it and sort of stick it through the paper it would stay

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okay and then um a standing nobies and i will light up

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the paper with the light [ __ ] nice and then x i will disintegrate the body of this

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monster all right and uh um i'll i'll

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sort of um sidle up to uh flynn uh as we make our way back into this

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elevator and i without looking at him we'll say that to me put it to rest when you're

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done with that right and then not looking at him yeah all right

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all right and you're all getting back on the elevator yep all right um as you all hop back on

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you uh turn the switch downward once more and you begin descending even

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further and further into the darkness um as you guys descend

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a couple of floors down anyone who does not have dark vision um

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begins to lose sight as as this darkness encroaches all around you i'm gonna pick

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up the torch that i already that i had i put it out but i'm gonna yeah and i'm

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gonna um cast a fireball bolt to the to the top of it light it all

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right um so you do now have a source of light as you can see uh you guys moving

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further and further down and as you get further and further down you once again see um more tunnels moving outward along

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this this central cavern as you're all moving down

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you're sort of you're looking around at all these different tunnels

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and just for a moment you look down into the darkness

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and with your vision you can you can just barely see what might be like a fog or a mist

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down there okay cause you guys are slowly

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descending towards it um is it

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what's like the temperature like is that uh can i feel

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what the air flows like you all haven't you all haven't descended into it just yet but as you're looking down probably

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100 feet down you can see like this blanket of of this gray fog

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okay and it's like opaque yeah it it obscures your vision just a

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little bit going down you can still see the walls extending down beyond where it starts so

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it's got some vision through it but um like picture heavy mist

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uh i'll hold my hand up to whoever's operating that elevator

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just just a moment um if i can stop here i'll uh

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pull and stop it there's a there's a fog below us

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a fog hi how could there be fog underground

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i don't know isn't that something that only happens like on the surface

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not the geologist i have no idea um i suppose you could produce

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fog a number of ways or if we were to light a fire down here it could be a smoke

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uh do you want me to try to light it on fire no i mean like if we if we made a

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bonfire it wouldn't have anywhere to go so it it as the rest of you sort of

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look and and peer over the edge of this this elevator to see what kellik is is looking at the rest of you who have now

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full vision because of this light don't see anything you just see the tunnel begin to just

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continue to descend into darkness um caleb i don't see anything where's the

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fog yeah there's nothing down there what do you mean it's right there no there's no fog

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there's a dense there's a heavy mist i can't see past it

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i i don't know what to tell you i just see it going down i i mean i still can't see the end but

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i don't see anything blocking

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uh and i i i start to like cover my eyes and uncover my eyes and and and look at

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it and like uh try to like fixate my eyes on different points in within the

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the mist

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and i'll use eyes of the grave okay i'm assuming it remains the same remains

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the same um can i try to um uh

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i'll hand my can you take the torch for a second yes um i'll rub my hands together and

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like do a swishing motion with them um

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um and i want to try to shape water but i don't see anything so like i'm just

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trying to see if if there's anything that i can't see there that's water-ish and i'm gonna try to turn it to ice

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like freeze it okay um you cast a shape water and as you reach out you just

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don't feel anything that you can latch on to um and you you feel like the spell

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dissipates without having any effect and to back that up kellick you do not see any

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change in the mist does it look to me like a

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can i distinguish between like smoke like fire or like uh the mist from

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a storm for example like what does it look wet for sure um

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it uh yeah it has um it doesn't have like the heaviness

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of something from a fire where you would see if something was burning you would typically see a little bit of ash or

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like some some more um particles in the air it just looks like a very even blanket

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of thick air kelly i'm sorry i don't see anything and also like that should have frozen it and i know

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sometimes what i do doesn't work but it felt like it was working if there was anything there

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i am sitting right now on this ever descending elevator just peering into the flame

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i'm sitting on my butt with my knees up to my chest one arm wrapped around my knees i'm rocking slightly and changing

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the color of the flame to keep myself occupied okay do we see any

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more carts going for uh elevators going further down do we hear

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or do we see any more tunnels where we're at currently where we've stopped and do we hear anything from those tunnels yeah so looking around you do

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see a couple of tunnels on the level that you're at going inward you don't see any activity though um

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though starting at the top as you were descending down um the first sort of layer of tunnels that were going out you

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saw a lot of activity people coming in and out carts being loaded and on the elevators and being brought back up but

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as you're descending further and further down um you're seeing less and less activity and now at this point you don't

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see anyone around you you also just take note that it is still

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early morning it hasn't even been an hour since these people have gone on the job for the morning um so it is very

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possible that people are just are making their way down but at this level that you're currently at you don't see anyone

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um how far away are we from this from this veil of mist about 50 feet up 50

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feet yeah uh and looking at it more

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strangely whereas a normal cloud or something would

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sort of wouldn't come to a direct end it would sort of dissipate after a couple of feet

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this comes to a pretty direct end right it looks like a like a block of it looks like like a block yes

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i'm going to take a stick of incense from my bag and just drop it over the edge

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to see if it penetrates this mist or and or creates

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any kind of motion okay um you drop it down and right as it makes contact with this this

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top layer of mist you sort of see it um sort of poof out just a little bit as the as the incense falls and then form

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back together um just as uh a normal air current of something being dropped through would sort of dissipate it

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around it for just a brief moment and then form back together the rest of you just see some incense dropping down into

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the depths light the next one uh that feels

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all right sure um and i will use my tinder box why does think about incense

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we have a torch going oh we have a torch going okay well i will white the stick of incense on the chart don't take it

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away from me okay uh uh and i will just drop it gingerly

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over the side okay the exact same thing happens where it dissipates just a little bit but then forms back together

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as a gaseous do we see anything yeah how far down the rest of you do not see anything you just see the tunnel

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continuing i still don't see anything i'm sorry i just don't i don't think there's anything there does it go down further

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do we see it do we lose the tunnel the tunnel goes past further than you can see oh even like that light goes away as

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that far yes eventually after a couple minutes the light just gets so small the darkness maybe we should just go up a

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bit and ask some of the miners some questions dm when i

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uh approached the mystic in

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um blackpool he blocked my vision as he pushed me out the door

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does this remind me of that in any way it doesn't feel like your vision is being blocked

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it to you it literally looks like there's a layer of mist there that descends deep into the into the ground

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it doesn't feel like like your vision is being obscured from anything you feel like you can see just fine

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i don't know flynn i think we should just keep going well i mean that goes down far yeah well

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we're trying to get to where they are so where the where the

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drow lives so we have to just keep going hang on um

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[Music] i i can see in the dark okay

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and i can see this mist that none of you can when i when i dropped the incense down

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did it disappear no no we could see it keep going until

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it until it got so far low that we couldn't see it anymore yeah um

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and i regret a blame because i already used it on the other thing a white a light as

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thick of incense with the white cantrip and i will drop that into this thing

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and once again the exact same thing happens it stays lit as it enters it stays lit yeah okay see and there it

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goes it's just dropping and dropping and dropping an event in there oh and yeah oh it's gone can't see anymore all right

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well that disproves that idea stories told me um

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my mother could create darkness just out of nothing just create darkness

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yeah she had a knack for it well i mean i create

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a lot of fire so why wouldn't there be somebody who could create darkness that that that tracks so i thought maybe this

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was that but i suppose not do you think your mom's down here

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no oh no my mother's dead yes oh i'm sorry fine nothing

34:38

um it happens uh it i guess

34:47

it certainly does i'm sorry to reveal this to you now all my but uh yeah your your parents will not live forever

34:54

even if they're elves well i don't even know if they're alive now so okay i meant more generally speaking

35:05

[Laughter]

35:10

there's like a very small like rope ledge or like a rope um keeping this this uh keeping you guys on

35:17

this elevator but really it's it's precarious guys um maybe we should either let's make a choice i mean i i'd

35:24

be down to talk to the miners get some information what's down here but if you just want to go we can just go yeah let's just go okay i'd like to make a

35:31

spooky vibes check oh make a spooky vibe before we go

35:36

i think you're the only one try is the only one who's able to give him advent can try and help me with this

35:42

yeah if you're if you're looking for spooky vibes too yes [Music] jesus okay maybe it's just me it's not

35:49

the dice an advantage all right advantage right cool good

35:54

much better nice uh you need advantage sometimes in your life don't we all just need a little bit of

36:00

advantage the most important checks that's an 18. an 18. um

36:07

kellik you do not feel as though this is at all dangerous you don't get

36:13

any malicious vibes behind spooky vibes this is exciting yeah these spooky fives are getting

36:19

really exciting every time there were spooky vibes it used to be guaranteed

36:24

oh okay yeah okay like you do not feel as though this poses any danger to you yeah like how are you feeling uh i just

36:31

wave my hand let's go for it let's uh let's see what's below and i'll lower start

36:36

lowering the elevator maybe it's that weird thing with your eyes how they're getting all cloudy maybe that's the problem maybe it's just

36:43

your eyes your eyes are getting cloudy and for the first time in a while i'll actually look into his eyes and see

36:49

uh yeah i i don't know more recently i've been able to see very well in dark areas yeah

36:56

and not so great it's like the same kind of you see there's kind of a film over them like

37:01

they're like yeah and as they're looking into kelly's eyes um hey look you see the the layer of

37:08

mist as you guys passed down below it it rise up to your ankles your hips

37:14

and past your heads as you guys descend into it um oma shraya and flynn i'm gonna have you all make a uh

37:21

constitution savings for me

37:26

wow [Music] i said we gotta win i'm talking to the

37:31

miners that's a 16 for alma okay

37:37

oh 24 for for when 11 for me no okay

37:43

um you take one point of poison damage what's wrong

37:52

not to trust the depths of this world i'll be fine did we feel anything uh did

37:58

uh um and i feel anything when we were going through um as kellix sort of noted that you guys were

38:04

were actually in this you don't your vision once again does not change it seems like you're just traveling down this tunnel yeah um but you felt just

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like a little tiny bit of a sting on the back of your throat um

38:17

as if you were you know walking into as if you were like breathing into a

38:24

mist or a fog or something quick clarification i'm i just took a point i'm not actually in the condition of

38:30

that is correct just a point of damage you are not currently poisoned great

38:38

does it taste funny to me at all no okay like you are fine i just look

38:44

suspiciously at the group and at this mystery are we still within it yeah you guys are still heading down as we're

38:51

going down can i look and see how far this mist goes make a perception check and as you're looking i'm gonna have oma

38:57

shraya and flynn make another constitutional

39:04

another 16 shray you take two points of poison are you okay

39:12

should we go up uh that's an 18 on no i'm sorry that's 21

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on perception uh 21 you cannot see an end to this missed yeah let's let's go back let's go

39:24

back yeah i'll switch it up and i'd like to keep going up until we find activity in the minds again okay as you switch it back up i'm going to have all of you

39:30

make one more constitution saving throw another 24.

39:37

13. eight alma and try you both take three points of poison damage

39:44

i'm sorry it just looked like a mystery as caleb you see you break the veil and

39:50

ascend back up what in the hell

39:55

man but we're supposed to find them and that whole time we couldn't see any

40:00

any phone it just looked like you were in a tunnel oh well we can say we tried well we're still trying it doesn't

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defeat flynn's stupid note

40:12

and we're here and i'd like to land at the uh area where there's like maybe an activity

40:18

do i see anyone that i can talk to yeah so um as you're heading back up you do see that there is another platform that

40:23

you guys come to um where a couple of humans are just sort of unloading all of

40:28

their gear you can see them getting out their mining tools and just starting to set up all right i'll i'll just head off

40:34

the elevator and walk over to them okay hi um i'm from flynn fellow eve and uh

40:39

i'm part of the ironlight collective and um and one of the the humans walks over to you um a uh a

40:48

middle-aged uh human man um and he reaches out to shake your hand and he says hi uh randall levore i'll i'll

40:55

stick on my hand hi randall um so i'm here

41:00

trying to find some drow really i've heard that there's a problem down here and i came to the right place i mean well we tried

41:07

to go further but uh one of my someone i know uh

41:13

said that there's fog down there and we tried to go through it and it hurt one of my

41:19

colleagues i'm very sorry to hear that um we actually got orders a couple days ago uh not to to

41:25

go too much further down um we just don't want to be disturbing any

41:31

activity up there i think i think the company doesn't want just a regular joe like me to be having the first contact with the drow um i think what do you

41:38

want why what's down there i don't know like i said i've been down there in a couple days

41:43

um my men have just been excavating this tunnel here well

41:49

how do we find the drought presumably you just keep going down down

41:54

that and i'll point down the open hole yeah that's that's where they've come up every time so far i'm gonna yell from

42:00

from kind of like behind flynn or like wait a week right because they're just gonna like come up to the

42:06

surface is that what they've been doing yeah uh about every week or so

42:13

so danger in peril or wait a week um

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while they're having this conversation can i look at tria and just see

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like like try to comprehend the nature of the pain he was experiencing make a medicine

42:29

check [Music] uh ten

42:35

ten uh from what you saw most likely a toxin in the air okay that was affecting him

42:42

and his his breathing straight deducing that okay yeah okay but it yeah but i wouldn't be able to tell

42:48

if it was like a natural toxin versus like uh you know you wouldn't be able to tell that okay

42:53

[Music] that's the only way to find them is to go through whatever is down there

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i haven't spoken to them personally um i i just saw them once as a matter of

43:05

fact um so i don't know a way to get in contact with them or anything i mean

43:13

i wonder how much lower they are from that little like area because maybe we can just yell at

43:19

them and ask them if they can come up and talk well uh i i mean a couple weeks ago before we were ordered to stay up on

43:26

some of the the top levels uh me and my team were going further and further down it's it's quite

43:32

a ways down there it's it's going to take you probably a half half a day to a day to get to the

43:39

bottom of what we were doing we actually began setting up camps way down there so you know people didn't have to come all

43:45

the way back up uh every time that they wanted to work and did it hurt your throat the entire time

43:51

no when was the last time you went down a couple weeks ago

43:56

when was the last time anyone went down no one's been down there in at least a week a week and a half

44:04

maybe it's recent because they didn't want you setting up camps in their home town who's the i don't get what's what's

44:10

recent i don't understand who's the person that is in charge of sending people further down in there who's the

44:16

one that gave the order to not oh we got the station master up up top where is he stationed right now i mean he's probably

44:23

up top um there's we've got up there we've got um a little outpost um it's just a couple of

44:29

buildings up there it's really nothing too fancy but uh that's where all the paperwork and everything is done maybe we go talk to him

44:35

no one else has answers maybe he'll be able to tell us more alternately

44:40

i could go down by myself i was unaffected by whatever's i mean we can also try covering our

44:46

mouths but maybe the station master you said yeah the station master maybe the station master has

44:51

information of what that is uh i don't know kelly it's a good idea for

44:56

you to go down and maybe ask if somebody wants to be an emissary it stands to reason that they wouldn't

45:03

execute one of their own even a half breed right away i don't know

45:09

um that makes me i also need when you talk about executing like that it makes me sad so

45:16

maybe don't yeah i'm sorry

45:21

but uh i i think flynn's reasoning is sound i think it's worth us getting more

45:27

information but uh try i i've seen you manipulate um

45:33

currents of the air do you think you could maybe blow the smoke away

45:38

i certainly could if it was something i could see and understand

45:43

attempt to manipulate but like like uh our fellows here i

45:49

couldn't see anything what about with a flap of your wings or something i don't know how

45:55

they seem quite mighty in the sky there yeah they're mighty they can support my own weight but

46:01

and that are uh and sometimes sturdy little halfling friend dirty

46:08

young short one but i don't i don't know if it could

46:15

move to the extent that it would need to i'm not sure it's quite a bit of

46:21

toxic fog so it also goes down for a almost a day

46:27

well we don't really know that's what oh he's this guy randall said all right well but we don't know that the smoke

46:33

goes down that whole way right but i mean even if we wanted to go to i mean it's a whole day's journey i'm

46:38

no i i think you're right let's go

46:45

i know we've wanted to talk about this so is is everyone on board with that is that does it work for all parties going

46:51

to the surface going to talk to the station manager i mean i don't want to be in the spooky cave anymore so yeah that works for me

46:58

yes just get out of here i'll uh go over head back up to the surface and okay try

47:04

and find this outpost all right um and as you do you look around and um randall

47:10

had kind of pointed in the direction that this outpost was so as soon as you hit the top level you look sort of in

47:17

the general direction and right next to a couple of those those

47:22

massive metal um furnaces that you had seen on approach uh right next to it are

47:28

a couple buildings all right i'll head towards uh the buildings and uh see if i can discern if there's anyone in them or if

47:34

i can discern the outpost or the officers definitely um actually as you approach there is one sort of larger

47:41

building that's flanked by two smaller buildings and the larger building has these large

47:47

in construction it almost looks like a barn and in the front it's got these large barn doors that are wide open and

47:54

as you look in you can see that there's um like this big u-shape of tables inside

48:00

and you can see a couple people walking around but right at the head of that u-shape um you can see a figure sitting

48:06

there upon your approach all of you see a

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a very large creature um probably

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he's sitting so from from what you can see probably about eight feet tall um

48:25

and as you look very broad shoulders fur coating the entire body

48:31

you can see the face coming to this dark muzzle and horns protruding from the back of

48:37

the head that circle all the way down and come close to the jaw as you see a massive minotaur sitting there at the

48:44

table with a little quill out very very daintily signing some papers

48:52

before um we walk into the barn i'm gonna like quickly grab flynn's shoulder

48:57

um or his sleeve um flynn yeah

49:03

we weren't really asked to be here other than by like one person so like maybe don't like imply

49:10

that we're here to save the day or anything like we maybe we should have a better solution of wise four strangers

49:16

are here rather than just like we want to talk to the drow like maybe maybe maybe maybe not say that maybe

49:22

maybe i i have no suggestions i'm just like maybe come up with something other than like

49:28

if you want i could just go in alone it's not about that i don't care i don't care about whether we go in with you i just think like

49:34

what's your concern on uh i mean in terry we're here accepting a contract on behalf of the iron light

49:40

yeah but it was just the dad who asked for help so like they didn't contract you

49:48

so maybe they don't want you so the maybe they don't want the iron light here i i'm just saying

49:55

maybe you should say something other than like high end plymouth even with the iron light collective [Music]

50:02

i'll think about it okay i'm just saying

50:08

we're not here like as an authority really right we're just here to help

50:14

[Music] okay good talk okay um as you head in it's it's just

50:21

very easy to to get around no one really seems to even take note of you um are you walking right up to the manager

50:29

yes yeah okay um as you walk up he sort of looks up and

50:36

makes eye contact with you and you can see these like dark red eyes and these

50:42

piercing pupils as he stares down at you what do i know about minotaurs do i know

50:47

if they're inherently evil do i know if they're a normal thing to see in today's society

50:52

um make a history check for me [Music]

51:00

15. um you would know that they are

51:05

pretty rare as a species um you don't there's like no

51:13

like set alignment for them um you've seen uh stories of some that are

51:21

um the quote-unquote good guys of a story there are some that are the bad guys of the story um you know that

51:28

uh a couple of classes before you at ironlight there was actually a minotaur student

51:36

that made his way through the training and actually became a sentinel um but after about a decade of

51:44

being on the job was was killed in action so they are inside it is very very rare very very rare yes okay

51:53

[Music] is there anybody else in this room besides us

51:59

yes you can see that there are a couple of humans a couple of dwarves a couple of halflings okay just sort of handling

52:06

it seems like they're doing paperwork um as as you could gather from this site um

52:13

there's a lot of stuff being exported and so you can see people working on what types of materials are being

52:18

exported the materials that need to be brought in or the equipment stuff like that so you

52:23

see all that paperwork being handled okay hello hello

52:29

um was wanting to ask a few questions about the mine

52:35

i'm more than happy to answer any questions that you have um i'm just finishing

52:40

something up give me two seconds here sure and he finishes writing something on one of the pieces of paper a human

52:46

comes by and sort of leans down and picks them up and the minotaur leans over and whispers something in his ear

52:52

the human nods in agreement um and walks away the minotaur folds his hands in front of him all right what can i help

52:57

you with could i have caught anything that he was writing or whispering yes make a perception check

53:06

total of 20. a total of 20. um you saw that what he was filling out looked to

53:12

be an equipment order um that had different tools that were going to be

53:17

needed just general mining equipment on it and you could just barely hear under his

53:23

breath he says and make sure nothing is missing from the list this time

53:28

um hi uh so my group and i uh we're traveling

53:35

through the uh the tunnel and we overheard that there were problems um

53:41

in the minds and i'm just curious to know what's going on and the uh some of the minors told me you were

53:48

the person to talk to oh um of course i'm i'm happy to

53:53

answer uh any questions that you have um yes we have had uh our run-ins with the

53:59

drow as i'm sure if you had spoken to any of my miners they would have told you um the the drow have been coming up

54:06

and um attempting to negotiate uh takeover of

54:12

our operations here and time and time again i've i've told them no and so um we've unfortunately had to

54:20

to pull back our efforts over the last week and a half or so

54:26

um but beyond that operations are as normal besides the depth with which

54:32

we can mine so so they

54:38

came up while you were digging down and said stop the mine's hours now and so you

54:45

stopped digging down and started digging out and they're still um

54:50

attacking [Music] um well there were

54:56

some of our men had gone missing um the drow have not claimed responsibility

55:02

for that yet um but i i assume that they most likely won't

55:08

um that is the main reason that i've pulled our our men back is

55:13

as as much as this mine you know makes gold and and uh is is

55:20

very profitable my men's safety is is paramount to me and if i don't have men there's no work to

55:26

be done here so we pulled them all back can we hear this from where we are at the entrance way yeah he's

55:32

he's a very loud speaker and his voice sort of fills the room and you can hear yeah i'm gonna elbow calic on the side

55:38

and think kill like [Music] they probably don't know about those creatures that we found down there i was

55:43

just thinking that element but i'm getting some weird looks from the fox here i don't know if they know

55:49

at the time with the iron light collective well you're not and i i i know

55:56

it's been it's a bit of a joke but it's not a very good joke i'm sorry

56:02

uh i don't feel that i'm the best person to go up and say this wasn't drought that

56:09

killed your men it was one-eyed bipedal beasts in the shadows do you think i should say

56:14

that you're a child yeah not very helpful i know we don't have a lot of

56:20

i don't know dignified clout between us well maybe flynn will see it or try yeah what's wrong dude is he just like

56:26

nervous as hell i mean if we're back above the surface at this point i'm less shaken we're

56:31

still in the mine proper yeah oh yeah it's a more open space no you guys are on the surface

56:41

uh yeah i'm i'm currently gazing but we can still see the mine right from

56:47

where we are yeah i'm i'm just looking back and forth right now between the mine and where we are

56:53

and i'm still very much like taking each moment as it's coming

56:59

i'm listening very closely now because i'm waiting to see what flynn says whether he blames it on the drow or or

57:05

tells them that there was [Music] so again are are they still coming up and

57:12

trying to be aggressive even after you've stopped digging changed up your efforts and

57:18

tried to compromise with them yes um they've continued to come up um

57:26

i i've told them repeatedly that they should cease making contact um if if this is how

57:34

they're going to conduct their business but unfortunately my words have fallen on deaf ears

57:39

and it's and in their attacking are they violent or are they just coming up and declaring that they want this area you

57:45

say no and they leave peacefully well the the drow who come up and attempt to to speak and

57:51

make their case for themselves they have never been violent and we have never seen them openly attack

57:57

anyone um but with our men now missing

58:02

we can only come to one conclusion yeah um and why do they feel like they have claim on this

58:08

mine all the way up to the top that is is something i don't know they

58:15

they seem to uh to whether it be through conquest or or birthright i i do not know

58:22

[Music] and i've heard again and again that the only way to

58:27

find them is to go almost a day's travel down that mine or to come back in a week about i'd like

58:34

to help but i i don't really see a way to do that um i mean i i don't know their exact

58:41

patterns um or exactly what their their goals are but that is is correct

58:47

about a week or so between each visit

58:55

and do you know of any way i could help right now i i see you have some some weapons on

59:02

you we were actually looking to uh put a a small force together in order to

59:08

um defend ourselves if if things come to that right and i'm here today but from what

59:14

i've heard they're not going to be back for another week i would be more than happy to pay you

59:19

handsomely for your services uh to stay here for as long as we need you

59:26

[Music] i have a lot of things to take care of

59:32

i'm a busy man i i understand that completely um maybe one night you are not obligated i

59:39

i i understand that you're here uh uh just visiting as you said before right

59:44

so you're under no obligation right do you think they would come tonight

59:50

from the patterns that i've seen previously no

59:58

well i'm gonna talk with my group and see what they're feeling and

1:00:04

if we can stay we will but if if we have to move on i would appreciate that because let them know that would be paid handsomely for

1:00:10

uh for their services and i'll uh turn around back to the group have a good day

1:00:17

you as well and i'll head back to the group flynn you have to tell them that it's

1:00:22

not the drow oh yeah i guess go tell him right now you have that hand of the monster yeah

1:00:29

i'll go back anything else i can help you with uh

1:00:35

yeah and i'll go into my bag and i'll pull out the hand of the nothic and i'll put it on his table oh gross

1:00:42

so on our first attempt to go down to solve this problem uh we ran into

1:00:47

a beast with a hand like this multiple actually um it's still at the entrance well

1:00:52

no this is all we have left now um but it was down there and it was feasting on one of your miners i believe oh [ __ ] and

1:01:00

he immediately slams his hands down on the desk um and he stands up

1:01:05

and he yells out of the doors and uh he says isaac collect the cold pikes get

1:01:11

everyone out of the mine i will quickly put the hand back in the bag

1:01:16

sir what can i do to help um if you could help just getting everyone out of the mine i would greatly

1:01:21

appreciate that as quickly as possible okay he begins running out of the door and i'll run back to the group yeah good

1:01:26

idea oh my god that helped and uh we gotta help never get everyone out of the mind come on come on come on i just looked bewildered at this whole exchange

1:01:33

all right and i'll head out the door and i'll run towards the mine and uh get ready as

1:01:38

soon as you get out as soon as you guys clear the barn um you you look over and you hear the same dwarven man who um

1:01:45

with the with the whistle had sort of been conducting the the um cart through

1:01:50

the mountain you see the same one run over to the mine and give a couple long blows on the whistle as everyone

1:01:57

all of a sudden jumps in sort of a panic mode and you can see some people getting on

1:02:03

elevators to go down you see some people getting on elevators to come up um as sort of this this frenzy begins

1:02:09

happening as everyone comes out of the um i would like to turn to shraya i know buddy that

1:02:14

you don't like this place but we could save people right now i no one absolutely no one can convince me

1:02:22

that that i can that i have to do anything that and as you hear me uh speaking like very vehemently um all of

1:02:29

a sudden i i hear this little thing like the crystal in my staff starts glowing and

1:02:34

i it's almost like my i draw it closer to my my face and i like lean my head in toward it i'm

1:02:40

picking up hearing something from it all of a sudden uh and as i bring the in one

1:02:46

second flynn one second okay here i bring the crystal closer and closer to my ear uh

1:02:52

all of a sudden you see my face uh relax a little bit more and my jaw loosens uh and

1:03:00

uh back yes i i i know i have help right

1:03:05

yes i know that it's life and life makes more life and we

1:03:11

need to protect the living and the okay and as uh as as you see my expression

1:03:18

completely shift uh as i whisper into the into the heart of the crystal

1:03:24

[Music] and all of a sudden um

1:03:30

out from the crystal uh almost as it mirror images itself uh you see

1:03:35

a uh little pixie pop out of it as i summon a

1:03:41

fake creature okay [Music] is it cute what is that is it cute

1:03:48

uh so it's this little pixie creature it has the same color as the crystal uh it has these little like tiny like features

1:03:56

almost like a uh it looks a little bit like a tiny little like

1:04:02

evil looking monster like it's a humanoid but it has these sharp sort of spiky features and these

1:04:08

uh purple glowing eyes uh and and uh and i say

1:04:14

um i will handle this and uh then you see us uh

1:04:20

take off toward the mine and then go down into it and this uh pixies can speak common too so i'm gonna instruct

1:04:26

it to we're gonna divide and conquer to get tell people to get out of the mine okay um i am gonna have you make

1:04:35

an athletics check to see how fast you can uh get around this and and start spreading the word all right slack jawed

1:04:41

i yeah i literally i'm just looking back and forth okay what do we do

1:04:48

i want one of those gotta be honest i don't think it's a good idea for me to go off on my own uh yeah maybe

1:04:54

instructing these men to abandon their posts uh so that was a i'm pretty sure 21 on

1:05:01

the athletics check okay oh no actually no uh 17 17. okay um you are

1:05:09

just gliding around the interior of this mine and as you're going down level by level you can see people packing up um

1:05:15

and you you see um one woman sort of trip as she's trying to collect all of her items

1:05:21

and you swoop down and you pick her up and you help her onto the elevator and you look over to the opposite side and

1:05:27

you can see this uh pixy creature also sort of like zipping between people telling them and they're all loading

1:05:34

onto the elevators as you hear down um sort of in that same area that you guys were just uh we're just in uh a cry for

1:05:42

help you hear help uh i

1:05:47

along i call the pixie over to me uh the last thing the pixie would have been doing would have been speaking to the

1:05:53

last person they were around that person might have noticed that when the pixie opens its mouth it has like these crystals for teeth actually

1:06:00

uh yes and uh and i summoned the pixie to

1:06:06

my side uh with a new son a newfound sense of confidence we both uh

1:06:12

dive down into where the cry for help is coming okay and immediately in that entrance um you can see a uh a dwarven

1:06:19

man laying there on the ground like crawling um arm over arm trying to get

1:06:24

out of this this mine and you can see in one of the hands clutched uh a piece of paper in the exact same tunnel that you

1:06:30

guys want um as you see all of a sudden they look up to you as their body is dragged back into the

1:06:37

darkness uh i'm going to dive bomb after this

1:06:44

[Music] before it gets dragged back into the darkness okay you drop down and you uh

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you land at the entrance of this tunnel and you can see um 10 feet away 10 feet

1:06:56

in front of you is this uh this dwarf being dragged away by one of these

1:07:02

creatures just a single one one single one i'm gonna whisper something to the pixie

1:07:11

[Music] my version of speaking pixie fry's not very good at it yet uh

1:07:16

but it's gonna communicate to the pixie to cast uh sleep on the creature okay um right as that happens i'm gonna

1:07:23

have you roll initiative for both yourself and the pixie

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[Music] uh so i have i got a um

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17 initiative and the pixie finder initiative bonus

1:07:42

it should be their dexterity oh their decks okay great uh so that's an 11 for the pixie okay

1:07:47

[Music] so as you swoop in um

1:07:55

the first on the initiative is actually shraya so you give this command over to the pixie

1:08:01

what would you like to do before the pixie can even react what what you want

1:08:06

i am going to

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uh immediately uh press my thumb to one of the flat

1:08:17

surfaces of the crystal and aim it toward the dwarf as i quickly uh a point of light

1:08:25

comes out of my forehead through the crystal and then touches the dwarf as i uh healing word to the dwarf okay nice nice

1:08:33

yeah roll it up all righty i'm gonna do that at third level too

1:08:38

okay oh gee okay uh that's

1:08:44

nine points of healing to the dwarf nine points of healing nice as a purple glow washes over it

1:08:50

and pull pull pull uh well i guess my action could be to pull out my staff and

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to menacingly glower at the uh gothic okay

1:09:02

all right next up the nothic um jumps over this body that is currently dragging comes up face to face with you

1:09:09

and it is going to successful menacing glare there should i yeah yeah so much

1:09:18

let's see [Music] yeah it's going to use its rotting gaze

1:09:23

against you so i'm going to have you make a constitution saving throw awesome trey's really good at those

1:09:30

right not this time that's a five yeah that does not succeed

1:09:36

of course yeah and it's gonna be 14 points of necrotic damage

1:09:42

yikes all right like then the crystals light flickers and starts to dim a little bit more

1:09:49

next up is the pixie uh yeah so i whispered it to cast the

1:09:54

sleep command or the the sleep spell yes on the nothing okay

1:10:01

as the pixie does that um is that that is a saving throw on my part yes

1:10:09

in the interest of keeping everything on the level is the summon fake creature a concentration because you have to roll

1:10:14

for that as well

1:10:31

okay nice concentration is kept yes thank you shane yeah um

1:10:37

and sleep is like an aoe or something like that it's a number of health it's like a health plan yeah you have to roll five

1:10:42

d8 and the total is how many points the spell can affect you need one there's one it's actually wild because

1:10:49

they don't save it's just about it it's just if you can reach their hp which is it's just one right now so

1:10:54

it could happen yeah do you need some more d8 yeah that'd be great oh dude

1:11:00

one more [Music] quick on the draw after after last session i got all my ideas down

1:11:07

all right all right here we go hey that's pretty good

1:11:13

[Music] 30 that's a 30 30 geez um as you see

1:11:19

this one singular eye starts to blink very slow then it opens up once again and stares daggers right at you yeah

1:11:26

almost almost uh try it you're up next what are you gonna do

1:11:32

uh okay so now the gloves are gonna come off um

1:11:37

i wanna say up top we're probably just helping usher people at this moment yeah right now because we don't know what's

1:11:43

happening we got our hands full up here

1:11:49

um how high is the ceiling in here

1:11:55

10 feet it's my favorite dnd question i will say probably one at some point flynn might want to go down and help to

1:12:02

find his friend but we'll see this is all happening so quick yeah i don't think

1:12:09

we won't even know that he's gone for as long all right so so as i unbuckle from that awful damage

1:12:16

that i just took and just i reached my hand in front of the front front of the crystal and much like i did

1:12:22

in the previous encounter with these gnothics i reach

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uh into the crystal and this time more forcefully just throw out and you can't tell if it's coming from the crystal or

1:12:35

just my outstretched hand uh this flaming sphere and

1:12:41

it careens into the space that's occupying that's currently occupied by the nothic here okay

1:12:48

is that going to be a role for me that is going to be dex a deck saving throw

1:12:56

that is going to be an 11 yeah that does not save and

1:13:04

[Music]

1:13:10

uh seven points of fire damage to this guy

1:13:16

nice okay um next up the nothic is going to uh

1:13:23

staring right at you is going to do two claw attacks right [Music]

1:13:30

let's see what is that okay first one's gonna be an eight to hit that does not hit and the next one's

1:13:37

gonna be a seven to hit um as it swings you're able to just duck and dodge out of

1:13:42

the uh the area of this claw um next up the pixie

1:13:47

okay so now uh the pixie is going to

1:13:53

which is kind of insane uh going to

1:13:59

like put its hands on its head and shake it around and then knot its head uh toward the gnothic uh and it is

1:14:06

going to cast confusion on the nostrils all right

1:14:12

[Music] this this um and actually it's gonna be a d10 from

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you ethan okay uh oh it's a wisdom save yeah first you gotta wait okay [Music]

1:14:25

maybe a six yeah that does not save really good all right so um

1:14:33

yeah the yeah so now you roll a d10 and we'll

1:14:39

we'll see at the start of its turn it's going to it cannot take reactions and must roll a d10 at the start of each of

1:14:44

its turns to determine its behavior for that turn wow but next up in the initiative is shraya

1:14:51

so what is shraya gonna do uh i am going to move the

1:14:58

sphere to continually uh scorch this guy

1:15:03

um but i'm but i am going i'm just going to keep it where it is but i'm also going to bonus action charge up my staff

1:15:10

okay yeah yeah and i'm going to bear down the [ __ ] i'm going to as it charges up with energy and becomes

1:15:16

glowing and magical [Music] i do not like your kind and i'm going to

1:15:23

slam the tip of the crystal down onto the nothic okay make an attack roll

1:15:30

get him try heyo 26 to hit that yeah that for sure hits for sure all right so then that's going

1:15:37

to be a that is going to be oh uh that's five points of arcane damage to the

1:15:43

nothic okay and uh it also needs to save against the flaming sphere which is

1:15:48

occupying them all right that that's a nine and so that's an additional

1:15:56

uh six points of fire damage to the gothic all right um okay the nothic is up i rolled a one

1:16:04

on that d10 what does that give me uh you must move in a random direction

1:16:10

uh we're going to just assign the direction via 88. that's a 7

1:16:18

and it must move it must use all of its movement to move in that direction oh

1:16:24

okay so what it's a d8 what you said he rolled a

1:16:31

seven i rolled a seven on a d8 uh in terms of its direction

1:16:36

i don't know if it okay it's cardinal or okay give me one second i'm i'm actually gonna roll this

1:16:41

on my end um just i'm gonna determine what did you

1:16:47

say is a d8 yes a d8 okay i'm going to determine different directions

1:16:52

just because right now i'm determining directions i don't want your role to oh sure yeah influence which directions i'm

1:16:59

putting right um okay so i will yeah

1:17:05

this entire movement yeah and that's uh you're gonna get an opposition

1:17:11

uh yeah and it doesn't get an action yeah you're gonna get to do an opportunity attack too yeah okay

1:17:17

it's great it's really good that's really good on a one or an eight it is going to run away from you into

1:17:23

the tunnel on a four it will um move directly towards you and then

1:17:28

anything else within that that scope we will see according to the rule

1:17:36

the d8 you said right [Music] that is an eight yeah get out of here so it is going to

1:17:42

use its full movement to run completely away from you get on

1:17:47

that is [Music] nice that is going to be 90 feet away from

1:17:54

you holy crap can you can he do an appetizer

1:18:00

i'm just gonna swivel the staff around and just club it in its center uh as it uh

1:18:09

moves away as fast as it can okay make that attack roll does it also take damage from the flame as it moves through it or is it just

1:18:16

starting to turn off it already took the damage and eleven does not hit eleven does not hit so i mean it's just blindingly quick

1:18:22

as so your staff comes around it's already gone um as it runs away

1:18:28

okay are you or the pixie giving chase now that you have the dwarf laying there right in front of you our our intention

1:18:34

is to my intention is to scoop this purse uh this being up into my arms and

1:18:40

just fly it away from this door okay yes you have carried flynn but dwarves

1:18:45

are a little bit heavier than halflings so um as you pick them up and attempt to fly away i'm going to have you make a an

1:18:52

athletics check i'm good at these uh 11 and 11. okay you are just able to

1:18:59

carry him out of this this cavern and onto the elevator before

1:19:05

you completely collapse does this elevator have a switch like maybe the

1:19:11

other ones do it has the exact same switch yeah yeah you i don't even know your name yet

1:19:17

get up here stop lollygagging in that tunnel

1:19:32

through my hand i feed it back into the crystal as it flashes and then goes dim so uh and i put my arm and pull my hand

1:19:40

on the uh dwarf and like throw my hand to flick the switch to get

1:19:47

the elevator move okay and as the elevator moves back up um you can see level by level um now everyone is

1:19:54

clearing out of the mines and by the time you reach the top level with this dwarf um

1:20:00

nearly everyone is out just the the remainder couple of people are just getting off of the elevators as you can

1:20:05

see the rest of your party um helping those those people get off of the elevators do we see try it you do see

1:20:11

shreya coming up with this dwarf now and i'm like my holding myself up very barely with my

1:20:18

staff kelly come on he needs help don't worry there's ryan and i'll i'll help him support this dwarf there's more of

1:20:25

them down there i don't know how many more but there's more of them more dwarfs no no

1:20:31

no although i'm sure there are more of them in places that i uh

1:20:36

no there's more of those beasts those the eyeball beasts that that that stare

1:20:41

into your soul they're more of them i saw another one it did a number on this one

1:20:48

i pointed the dwarf i'm gonna look at this dwarf how's he looking um at this point he looks

1:20:56

nearly in perfect condition nice seems like he did right by him try it i

1:21:02

tried i'm glad you made it out those things were not mesmerized i can only hope everyone has

1:21:09

made it out i'm gonna turn to the to the dwarf hey did you see what attacked you

1:21:17

i just barely saw it um i just saw a massive eyeball um before i tried to get away you have a big monster with the one

1:21:23

eyeball yeah yeah [Music] so it's not the drow clearly

1:21:28

no it wasn't yeah as he's like trying to like run back to the the rail cart so uh

1:21:35

when i saw at the beginning of this when i saw shraya coming up with the elevator and saw that he was okay uh and then he

1:21:41

was saving someone um i'm ushering off a few people as they finish up i will find the minotaur as their

1:21:47

as they were talking and talking to the dwarf and all that i'd like to find the minotaur okay um he towering over the

1:21:53

rest of the crowd here you can definitely find maisie um well is that everyone um that appears to be everyone we're

1:21:59

getting a head count right now but i i believe that's everyone all right um so

1:22:05

probably not the drow right um

1:22:12

most likely not from the hand that you showed yeah so um

1:22:17

you got that hand yourself yeah how many were down there like six six

1:22:24

um isaac come over here and you could see um a human man with this dark black short hair um run over

1:22:32

and uh he comes up and he says yes it says um these

1:22:38

these these fine fellows here um they uh they took down six

1:22:44

um what do you what do you say to that and isaac looks at all of you sort of with a

1:22:49

little bit of bewilderment and he says um well six it's not bad um

1:22:56

so uh for 600 gold a piece uh 600 gold sorry what is right you're paying us for killing

1:23:02

these unless you don't want to get paid no i do but did you know they were down there

1:23:09

we had some sightings a a little while ago so when your people went missing why did you just assume it was well i'm sorry

1:23:16

let's just take the man's money but just for the record um

1:23:22

i uh there i found one another one and uh i'm

1:23:27

i looked pretty hurt uh so all right now let's not push your luck here 600 gold all right fine and i look at the dwarf

1:23:36

say that i killed it [Laughter] make an intimidation check

1:23:41

[Laughter] that's not bad um

1:23:49

that's a 16. he killed it there was another one down there he killed it

1:23:55

okay 700 gold as um isaac reaches into this this massive um bag that he has

1:24:01

down at his hip and brings out a little wooden chest um and hands over 700 gold to you guys

1:24:08

looking at that in the bag of holding it's uh yeah it's it's in a decent sized

1:24:14

chest but you'd be able to fit it yeah but before you put that away flynn yeah this is gonna be split of course yeah i

1:24:20

just we can't really carry it normally so for yourself i have a backpack would you like to carry 700 gold i'd like to carry my portion of 700

1:24:27

gold we can figure this out later okay as i said you all uh oh as i mentioned to uh this one over here you all would

1:24:32

be paid handsomely for your services here services for what uh exactly what you just did uh

1:24:38

protection down in the mine uh to protect my men um they're down there working and obviously um as you've seen

1:24:45

some possibly hazardous conditions as much as i want to mitigate that risk i would love to hire you all to keep them

1:24:50

safe why do you look confused i'm just

1:24:57

i don't understand what well you're 12 so

1:25:03

keep safe from the one-eyed monsters [Music]

1:25:09

and anything else that's down there we have come across

1:25:14

oh boy let me think the the creatures with one eye um there was some acidic

1:25:20

ooze that was down there that uh actually unfortunately melted a man's leg off he's these giant insectoid

1:25:28

creatures that have have crawled out from under the rocks um my face is just like my lips are my

1:25:34

mouth just like wide open and i'm just why do you keep going down there if it's

1:25:40

so dangerous well if you look at the amount of people that go down there the the risk to

1:25:46

reward is actually not that bad i'm just like in horror i just like

1:25:52

ah we'll talk about it i share some incredulity just the look of incredibly

1:25:57

and the civilization that that you serve is in full agreement with

1:26:02

what are the caldorian uh uh people who rule that nation are of

1:26:09

informed of how you conduct your business down there yes we're well funded for oh really well

1:26:16

of course clearly of course you are uh it's a kind offer uh

1:26:22

and i and i very timidly make my way forward kind of like trying to stay kind of in

1:26:29

lockstep with my group so like literally not to break away in any way shape or form uh but

1:26:36

our services are needed that's where we stopped by on a special request and uh

1:26:42

we we'd be remiss not to take care of our other matters before uh helping you with this i appreciate you all taking uh

1:26:48

taking the steps that you have um you're clearing out your your man from

1:26:55

this from this uh now how long until you return to your business or will they hire exterminators

1:27:02

first or well um isaac is sending down the cold pikes we we have a group that we have hired um in cases such as these

1:27:09

to go down and make sure that the the mines are once again safe they clear out

1:27:14

each tunnel and make sure that there's a safe environment for our men to go into are we in eye shot of the

1:27:21

um uh the elevator we used to get to

1:27:27

uh well we took that elevator there um we went about 80 meters or so

1:27:34

um and uh and that is where we found them there there might be a

1:27:39

there should be a sign that we put up um to warn of the dangers there and and i i don't know it's i'd expect that's

1:27:46

maybe you're [Music] i don't i don't know that's right i appreciate that they usually go tunnel

1:27:52

to tunnel right um to clear out each one do we see these the the cold pikes

1:27:57

looking around you don't no no okay so you've got a group of

1:28:03

of monster hunters you could call them that yes

1:28:08

called the cold bikes so there's a different group okay good to know they might just be mercenaries on them

1:28:15

oh i don't know pretty cool name though it has a cool name yeah but we solve the problem

1:28:20

i'll say under my breath we killed a handful i don't know how many are down there yeah well this is probably their

1:28:25

home that's been dug off anyway well uh

1:28:31

we'll talk about it and get back to you thank you kindly thank you for the job offer you're very welcome um actually before

1:28:38

you go if i could have a word yes um i have a i was actually contracted here

1:28:45

uh by one of your workers to look into something

1:28:52

okay and i feel like we have completed it

1:28:57

uh based on the gold received and i was hoping to get a now i know that

1:29:03

today is not uh a uh um is not reflective of the day-to-day here

1:29:10

and um as you do an inspection of our facilities here i i hope that that does

1:29:15

not reflect um and if i could get the name of the person who contracted an inspection to come by i would very much

1:29:22

appreciate that name as everything is to code and above board um but though i do

1:29:27

appreciate you being here um i i i i'm you know i can't seem to remember his

1:29:32

name that's that's a shame yeah it is well have a good rate have a good day uh

1:29:40

i i do now sort of break from the line here [Music] there's a

1:29:46

uh we attempted to go farther down your mind's here and we were stopped by

1:29:51

a curtain of invisible fumes that

1:29:57

wounded the lungs of my companions i just thought i'd let you know to be

1:30:03

mindful of that if you send men below a certain level to

1:30:08

have protection in that regard i i appreciate the warning it's uh it's not it's

1:30:14

it was possible for me to see it but not uh for them

1:30:19

so very interesting mech of that what he really and i like i don't make eye contact as i'm saying that like i just

1:30:25

gotta look everywhere but at him and then i just sort of step back into line like a

1:30:30

dutiful student um one last thing we're actually trying to head north yes any

1:30:35

easy way of doing that get started

1:30:42

sometimes you just have to take action

1:30:50

let's be on with it all right um on our way north

1:30:56

as we depart north could i uh stop by the house of graham yeah for sure on the way there

1:31:03

i would like to make sure no one's following us or keeping an eye on us okay make a perception check [Music]

1:31:11

uh right that is 13. flynn why do you why do you keep looking behind us um i don't want you turning around i

1:31:17

don't want this father's been through enough i don't want him getting in trouble with his work because

1:31:23

he was the one that wrote the complaint i'm gonna look and see if i see anyone make a perception check

1:31:30

[Laughter] neither of you see anybody following

1:31:36

okay good i don't see anyone all right well could you guys just stand out front and just keep an eye out i'm gonna go in

1:31:42

and just talk to him and tell him everything was taken care of i don't think he'd be that happy to see us yeah yeah oh i'll wait out here i'll

1:31:49

just walk up a few steps and just knock on the door all right the door slowly swings open um does it seem like

1:31:55

it's pulled open or just just swings open you can uh look in and you see in the corner making himself um

1:32:01

a little thing of tea a large goliath [Music] senior sir

1:32:06

sir hi uh yeah come on in i'll uh come in and i'll shut the door i um

1:32:13

so uh well i guess i'll just show you i'll pull the hand out of the bag and put it on oh nice

1:32:20

so this was why the miners were going missing it

1:32:26

wasn't the trial [ __ ] um

1:32:32

all right i this is news to me i need a i need a moment to sort of process yeah

1:32:37

yeah well it seems like it's been taken care of for the most part right now the mines

1:32:44

are temporarily shut down as i believe they call them the cold pikes are going to go down and clear them through the

1:32:49

mines out hey they've been down a few times mostly scarce but apparently yeah from

1:32:56

what you're showing me well if i could and i'll sit down and pull out my bestiary um and i will relay to him the

1:33:02

information that i gained from studying the monsters okay and just kind of you know um well

1:33:08

the scales are the scales or the skin is kind of rough but if you kind of aim at these spots here and don't really look

1:33:14

in its eye or try and keep keep it the keys away from and i'll just describe like how to better defend themselves

1:33:21

maybe you can use that to keep yourself safe all right um well one thing's for sure

1:33:27

i'm gonna be uh taking a father's old hunting knife down from now on yeah i'd say protect yourself when you're down

1:33:32

there for sure um and

1:33:37

you know don't be too quick to jump to assumptions maybe next time

1:33:43

i know that i know that maybe drow aren't as common up here

1:33:48

and i'm i mean i say that because i care i travel with one i mean sometimes he can be a

1:33:54

pain in the ass but he's all right

1:34:01

i appreciate the warning um again if there's anything i can do for you if you're around these parts again yeah i'd

1:34:07

be more than happy and if there's anything i can do for you i don't know how but

1:34:13

i feel like your son gave the ultimate sacrifice and

1:34:19

i feel like that should be repaid and this is only one step to

1:34:24

doing that i appreciate the sentiment [Music]

1:34:29

well i'll let you rest and process um and i'll tap on the papers that i wrote

1:34:35

down the notes make sure to go over these this will keep you safe make sure you bring that knife um

1:34:41

and then before i go it's just a formality but i have the letter if you could sign it oh uh yes i appreciate it and he pull

1:34:48

out the contract and grabs it signs it gives it back to you again you need anything [Music]

1:34:54

he was one of the best and i'm sure you went out with a fight

1:35:02

and i'll head out okay as i close the door all right

1:35:08

he seemed shook but understands that the monsters did it seems to be taken

1:35:14

care of for now so good

1:35:20

i'm glad he wasn't insistent that it was something else yeah

1:35:26

and that we don't have to go down into the tunnel anymore yeah that place

1:35:32

there's a shame i would have liked to have spoken to some of the drawing i'm sure that day will come i'm sure you can

1:35:38

get another chance uh yeah i i i i i hope it's

1:35:46

i hope it remains to be the case that the lives of these men are not threatened by this

1:35:53

squabble over territory well when i was listening to the the the big

1:35:59

guy talk he was just saying that that they were trying to negotiate right and and that they were non-violent so

1:36:07

i don't know seems like they have more to worry about in that like cavern than anything else well it

1:36:14

comforts me to know that the later this man is in minotaur that it's not

1:36:20

um i don't he understands what it's like to be

1:36:26

outside of the norm [Music] i don't know what a mess

1:36:33

perhaps if our travels take us back this way we could find ourselves a week from now

1:36:40

uh talking to these drow oh maybe could be

1:36:49

all being said and done uh we did a good thing here a lot we

1:36:55

we may have prevented a greater conflict by just identifying

1:37:00

a more neutral threat so and we made a lot of gold i have my gold

1:37:06

please yeah and i'll i'll pull the bag out and i'll um

1:37:11

do anyone do this right in the middle of the street it's a lot of gold account

1:37:16

we may want to make uh the most of our time on the road as well and we get to move on okay

1:37:24

maybe before we go to sleep don't worry we'll split it up and you for sure [Music] all right so you all are heading off

1:37:32

north by foot yeah does it seem like there's a pathway to walk on

1:37:37

just barely at the base of this mountain as you guys are going to be traveling north from nestle valley to the dakir

1:37:42

ruins you've got the mountain on your left hand side this mountain range that goes in north um there is uh like a

1:37:50

little bit of a path just skirting the the the bottom of this mountain not a

1:37:55

well-traveled road but definitely something that will keep you going in the right direction about what time is it

1:38:01

it is still early morning you guys got up pretty early to catch this this um

1:38:06

rail over here so um i would say no later than nine

1:38:11

o'clock in the morning wow okay yeah you guys got up right as the sun was rising and then came over here do we

1:38:18

want to try and find horses or do we want to it deserve valley isn't so much of a town as it is kind of like uh i don't

1:38:24

think there are horses yeah yeah okay yeah just walk

1:38:30

[Music]

1:38:36

but as you guys uh start to walk north um you all just kind of turn around just

1:38:42

at a brief glance to look at nestle valley once more as you can see the last of these carts

1:38:48

being loaded up and shot back through the mountain as a single cart makes its way

1:38:55

to the end of the mountain to the entrance as you can see it opens up as a group of humans and dwarves step out all

1:39:03

of them holding spears they look to be wearing different types of armor and

1:39:09

not like a single uniform across them but swords shields and spears as they walk and descend down into the mine

1:39:17

so you guys continue your travel north it is uh a beautiful day ahead of you as you have

1:39:24

this great view of the mountain up on your left and it comes down into these these sweeping

1:39:30

valleys and and and meadows off to your right you all spend the day traveling and as

1:39:38

the sun begins to set off on the horizon marking the end of this day

1:39:43

just off in the distance you can see the dakir ruins you see nestled up

1:39:51

at the base of this mountain sort of um making their way from the flat surface

1:39:58

all the way up into the curvature of the mountain itself you can see all these stone buildings

1:40:04

you can see different heights of them different sizes you can see that this at one point was probably a pretty decent

1:40:10

sized town much larger than marstock but definitely not the size of addersfeld

1:40:18

and as you approach you can see that the way that this town is laid out

1:40:24

there's sort of a town center and you can see at this town center

1:40:30

no buildings whatsoever and right outside of that that town center buildings that are mostly

1:40:35

demolished almost all the way demolished you can see just a couple of pillars here and there

1:40:41

and just a little bit further out you can see buildings that are a little bit more constructed still and as it goes out you

1:40:48

can see that the buildings are more and more constructed they seem to get more and more dilapidated as they get closer to this town center

1:40:55

you can see all of the stone is covered in moss and vines and overgrowth from

1:41:01

the years of neglect here as you all approach

1:41:06

i would like to ask how you are approaching just to clarify uh so like the outskirts seem

1:41:13

like slightly better in a better state as like as we get inward yes it gets worse all that remains are

1:41:20

what were once stone buildings like you don't see any wood buildings anything like that it's all made of stone but yes

1:41:27

it appears the outer most buildings are more intact while the innermost ones are

1:41:32

mostly demolished uh before we approach i would like to

1:41:38

uh touch the crystals on my forehead and i would like to listen for the whispers of elduria in this place

1:41:45

okay make a nature check or a religion check

1:41:52

nature or religion that's a five a five you do not

1:41:58

um and i'd like to use eyes of the grave see if i can get any sense to get any

1:42:04

ghostly two questions how far does that spell extend and how close are you getting to the decay ruins because as of

1:42:11

right now you guys are still approaching you're still a couple hundred yards away from the outermost building is the sun

1:42:17

going down the sun is has crested the mountains um and

1:42:23

yeah the sun is has pretty much lowered all the way so as the grave goes 60 feet uh so i guess i would wait to use it

1:42:30

until i was within that range okay um guys this is

1:42:35

really creepy looking should be maybe take our time

1:42:40

yeah we uh we know for a fact that a certain uh outcast yeah spent some time here so

1:42:48

let's be careful yeah i gotta get into the zone here like i i'm still thinking about them

1:42:54

mine this is serious let's go quietly yeah can we sneak up for sure i'm gonna

1:43:00

have everyone make a stealth check okay i'll contact with you

1:43:05

naturally

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14 natural 20 over here oh my god

1:43:19

22. nice oh boy okay you are all silent as the night as you approach um watch

1:43:25

out and expertly weave your way up towards the outskirts of these buildings um you

1:43:32

are helped by the cover of these still mostly constructed buildings um as you approach um

1:43:40

you can see that uh it is a pretty big town so at the outskirts

1:43:47

um if you were looking to cast any spells or anything they probably wouldn't even reach the

1:43:53

town center right right well but you uh even so i'd like to use the grave once we get within

1:43:59

60 feet okay um you cast eyes of the grave you do not feel any presence of undead

1:44:05

around you okay i turned with my eyes stole a blaze uh

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nothing yet it doesn't mean anything about

1:44:16

other creatures but no one did yeah what what are we looking for

1:44:23

do we see evidence of any body anybody

1:44:28

um people people like a recent recent action activity or an investigation

1:44:35

check either one um investigation or what or perception

1:44:43

i'm dirty 20. okay um looking around you you

1:44:49

don't really see anything what's that perception or investigation who's perception okay you don't

1:44:54

see too much and then you just look off to the ground just a couple yards away from you

1:45:01

and you can see a couple sets of footsteps going into the ruins and then you sort of close your eyes and

1:45:07

you quiet yourself and you can begin to hear a couple of voices coming from the center of town okay i'm

1:45:14

gonna like tap kellic on the arm like very very quickly and put my finger up

1:45:19

to my mouth and i'm just gonna point to the footprints

1:45:25

and then i'm gonna point to my ear and have everyone listen quietly

1:45:31

okay as you all know you can just begin to hear the murmurs of

1:45:37

i can't quite tell how many people but a group more than one probably more than two or three

1:45:42

can we see like from the footprints like what kind of size of the group we're talking about uh you can

1:45:49

see coming from on on this path here um you can see four distinct sets of footprints

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okay um [Music]

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maybe go take a look can i climb up onto the roof of the

1:46:08

outskirt building to see if i can see the city center from here yeah for sure it's it's a stone building and it's got a lot of handholds and stuff like that

1:46:15

so it's really easy to get to the top yeah okay so i'm gonna climb up and try to see if i like on my belly i'm gonna

1:46:22

go across the ceiling or the roof and see if i can see anything okay

1:46:27

as you scoot to the edge of this the top of this building you look out towards the

1:46:32

city center and you can see while there are no buildings lots of trees and vines and overgrowth

1:46:39

have completely overtaken that area you can see that there's a a

1:46:45

spot right in the middle um where there's like a layout you can see almost

1:46:51

like the floor plan of a building there that was once there in stone and you could see all around it

1:46:57

a bunch of trees that have cropped up some of them sort of like weaving their way into some of these um mostly

1:47:03

destroyed buildings but in this giant open area where you can see the remnants of this building

1:47:11

you look and you see a couple of pillars that are standing there just barely sort

1:47:17

of standing up under their own weight you can see

1:47:22

a group of people standing in that the the ruins of this

1:47:28

building you can see three of them sort of at the at the center where there are a couple

1:47:33

of statues laid out these these big stone statues as these three figures are

1:47:38

moving in between them you can see a couple of tables with papers and books stacked on top of them

1:47:45

another four figures are attending each of those tables flipping through

1:47:50

you can see one figure up by this semi-circle of pillars

1:47:56

and five full-length mirrors propped up against

1:48:01

each of those are they wearing red cloaks you look over and you see

1:48:09

you see three of the the figures that are attending the tables

1:48:15

wearing red cloaks you see two of the figures that are in the little circle center wearing red

1:48:21

cloaks and you can see three additional figures

1:48:26

you see one of them attending one of the tables a half orc with

1:48:32

no very nicely parted hair now adorning small little glasses

1:48:39

but a very distinct hole in their chest no you can see another figure man in the

1:48:46

center of this this what once was a building red skin

1:48:51

and horns that curl back to the back of their head you can see that this figure of what was

1:48:58

once zergath is now deformed as

1:49:04

like his shoulder and his left trap are like bulging with muscle that comes down

1:49:09

into his shoulder and into his left bicep you can see another figure who has just

1:49:16

at this point approached the mirrors that are propped up against the uh the the pillars

1:49:22

you can see a young half elven woman with short white hair and a tri-ring

1:49:29

tattoo on her forehead [Music]

1:49:35

does she look like somebody i saw in the image in she looks exactly like the woman you saw in your image

1:49:45

yeah oh my gosh okay so you count you you listed a lot of how so

1:49:50

i see what three four five like like i see like ten total how many like ish yes

1:49:57

so you see the the people who are present there yeah

1:50:02

you see five distinctly red wolf cloaks yeah you

1:50:08

see the half work you see zergath and you see this half elven woman with

1:50:14

short hair got it so like eight people eight people in total oh man i'm gonna like crawl back across the

1:50:22

roof on my belly okay to look at to look down at my team and i'm just gonna my eyes are wide

1:50:32

wide and i look over and i and i put my hands up against my face

1:50:38

like claws and i go and then i make like a cloak

1:50:45

in face hand motion with my hands from going from like shoulder to over my

1:50:52

head to imply like there is hoods and then i keep going hood and like claws and hood and claws and hood and claws

1:51:01

and i point back to where i'm looking and i put eight fingers up

1:51:07

how well can we pick up what she's laying down yeah what are you what are you going to give us

1:51:12

like moving very frantic i don't know what would what would you guys be able to take from that what is she doing uh

1:51:19

i think making is she casting us behind um

1:51:25

it's hard to say eight there's eight fingers right there so that would mean maybe eight people

1:51:30

yeah okay probably seems bad from that but then she's holding up ten fingers that are curled

1:51:36

that's like i think that's like just by the way claws of some kind was that oh we're whispering yeah definitely yes i think

1:51:43

that's some kind of grappling like there's ten there's eight monsters uh

1:51:49

or yes or eight wrestlers oh you know

1:51:55

the emotion from my shoulders to my head they're throwing something they're throwing on

1:52:02

wrestlers throwing i think if they were doing an action that would be a longer gesture there's an easy way to solve

1:52:07

this i'm just gonna start to slowly hover my way up toward her very

1:52:12

stealthily does it do i need to be stealthy with hell no no you can use my wings

1:52:17

yeah okay um and i as i uh finally reach the the crest of of where

1:52:24

i can get in whisper earshot with homa what are you doing up here i my hands

1:52:31

were doing the hood motion and i they as they go forward i put them on either side of of shreya's head and i

1:52:37

bring his head up to mine everyone's here everyone here's

1:52:43

everything from the red wolf including and the orc with the hole in its tummy

1:52:51

and the half elf they're all here that's not that's

1:52:56

like not letting go of his face like i'm just holding it staring deeply into his eyes

1:53:02

i uh uh the horror of this hits me and i really quickly tense up i look back down

1:53:09

what do i see looking back down just just expectant expressions just

1:53:14

like well i know the others immediately you should

1:53:20

i would say rejoin us as well if he starts making gestures then then

1:53:32

[Music]

1:53:38

uh

1:53:48

oh dear yeah could you fly me down i don't think i can move yes yes of course and i uh

1:53:54

easily right this is yes very easily probably as easy okay uh and we sort of lower our way down to the to

1:54:02

the surface uh i can't i don't i can't even some once we get to the bottom i can't even really summon the courage to speak at

1:54:08

first i'm like ashen my whole face is just like i've lost all color

1:54:13

so what what what is it wrestlers that are throwing something just shaking my head i am taking all my her word

1:54:22

but i i think at the center of this

1:54:28

oh omar tell them what you saw guys everyone's here

1:54:34

spread what do you mean everyone i mean like

1:54:40

right there red wolf people are here but also like stargate is here and he looks real

1:54:47

bad and and your person with the rings on the head is here and and

1:54:53

the orc with the belly and guys everyone's here i guess my face

1:54:58

goes pale there's some spooky mirrors and mirrors

1:55:04

yeah it would appear there's some sort of right or

1:55:09

something happening based on what you said how their bodies were homer could you tell what they were doing no i

1:55:16

couldn't tell what they were doing at all they were all just like moving around a bunch of papers but i didn't see your friend from the from the iron

1:55:23

light here okay well maybe we got the jump maybe we got here first or he's dead well we had the luxury of a

1:55:31

quick teleport and then yeah a trip through the mine yeah yeah that's true are we going in or are we

1:55:38

i don't want to go in there i have to admit i've [Music] uh been

1:55:43

hopeful that we'd find some answers here but is there a way for us to get closer and hear them without you would

1:55:49

definitely be able to like weave between the buildings and the trees and stuff there's definitely a path forward there

1:55:55

okay and did i identify that path from the feeling like from the roof so i could i could lead us

1:56:00

definitely just daily secrets come here it's not really um it's just almost awesome

1:56:09

i don't need to move very fast let's do it whatever's going on

1:56:14

we have to stop it yeah we gotta at least you know what they're doing out there yeah but i don't i mean

1:56:19

you remember what happened last time we fought sir gathered the last time we fought that orc i mean they're gonna just wipe the floor with us we can't

1:56:25

really i don't really want to fight these people and we're quite a bit stronger than we were the last time but

1:56:30

all of them against us it does sound like bad odds for us especially that we're down one march

1:56:36

yeah seeing us the stakes are higher than they ever have been for us not to be

1:56:41

seen i uh bring both of my hands around the crystal and it starts glowing this

1:56:46

silvery black and i spread it out across all of us and this veil of darkness uh falls different

1:56:53

than kelly's darkness please uh we must know that but as i cast a pass without trace

1:56:59

[Music]

1:57:05

okay with this new added bonus um and as you guys approach the city center i'm going to have everyone make a stealth

1:57:11

check that's a plus 10. right with a plus 10. let's go stealth jesus another

1:57:17

natural 20. what's your what's your stealth modifier my stealth man so yeah that's

1:57:24

two so that's a 32 32 yeah 26 and i rolled a 10. nice

1:57:30

uh 29 24. okay um even even more silent than the night

1:57:38

you guys all approach and you all see exactly what oma had seen earlier um

1:57:45

but with this ground level view now you can all see that zergath with his now

1:57:51

like morphed left arm um that is just muscle bound now um he is holding this giant

1:57:59

stone pillar over his uh over his shoulder as he walks towards this center

1:58:04

circle and just said it places it down like it's nothing right in the middle you can see also

1:58:10

what appear to be six boxes just sort of all laid around all of them with

1:58:17

sheets over the top of them so you can't actually see the boxes themselves but

1:58:22

as you all approach you look towards the mirrors where this half elven woman

1:58:28

artemisia stands you see and the images and mirrors begin to warp

1:58:34

and take form into other shapes you can see

1:58:41

that artemisia bows and addresses all of these these shapes in the five mirrors

1:58:47

she says my lords it is an honor to be in your presence

1:58:53

and a true privilege to personally oversee the next steps towards our salvation and she looks over to the right-hand

1:59:00

mirror and she sort of gestures and bows as um you guys can see

1:59:08

that there are a pair of drow twins now occupying that mirror

1:59:14

you can see the exact same drought winds that you had seen in the vision previously in black robes as she

1:59:20

addresses them and bows and says tahari and kaiba shinzo imperators of the united coalition of

1:59:26

keng shi she moves on to the next mirror where you can see a humanoid figure

1:59:33

but this humanoid figure's face is strange it almost looks

1:59:39

semi-transparent as if six or seven different faces were overlaid on top of each other and with each movement the

1:59:46

faces warp and change so you can't even distinguish which features are actually

1:59:51

their own she bows to this mirror and says kodamvo

1:59:57

[Music] and you can see beyond this figure with

2:00:02

the warping faces you can just barely see another figure standing behind their shoulder

2:00:09

blue oily skin black piercing eyes and tentacles

2:00:15

dropping the front of their face she moves on to the next mirror

2:00:20

where you see a stark white tee flank with this black hair that completely

2:00:27

contrasts her skin and right behind her you can see a black

2:00:33

dragonborn she bows and addresses this mirror and says

2:00:38

ilana show and varys brag of the hollow guard she moves on to another mirror where you

2:00:45

can see a goliath man with tattoos all over his face and his chest with a

2:00:50

massive pelt over his shoulders and she bows and she says newly appointed turek stormpelt of the

2:00:57

banuk tribe and she turns to the center mirror where you can see

2:01:03

an old dwarven man stark white beard half of his face drooping and rotting

2:01:10

you can see tight black leather clothes and a small

2:01:16

black cane and she says and of course my lord corvin emberstone of the order

2:01:23

of the red wolf and you can see corvin sort of steps

2:01:29

forward towards the the edge of this mirror and says how are things proceeding there

2:01:37

i expect the seeds we've sown haven't been for naught

2:01:42

and artemisia replies i am pleased to report that the assembly is proceeding as planned thanks to the

2:01:49

added efforts of the imperials at the tear we were able to uncover the first key quicker than expected i predict that

2:01:54

we'll have full emergence by dawn very well then we shall proceed

2:02:00

good work artemisia will be pleased artemisia sort of bows her head and says

2:02:09

the end is the beginning and everyone in the mirrors in unison repeats back the end is the beginning

2:02:17

you can then see each of the figures in the mirrors begin to warp and fade away

2:02:23

as each of them the tiefling and the dragonborn leave the drow leave

2:02:28

the humanoid with the changing faces leaves the goliath leaves leaving only

2:02:33

the mirror with corvin amberstone as artemisia sort of gives him a nod

2:02:40

indicating that the rest have left corvin says what progress on finding our missing

2:02:46

locksmith [Music] um no word yet on the locksmith but we once again located his son in grafton

2:02:53

i've requested alana send a team to retrieve him and i expect this attempt to be of greater success than last time

2:02:59

now that he's in a new land and no longer surrounded by his army a greater success you say

2:03:06

it better be else you and ilana both shall pay for it

2:03:11

[Music] and as corvin emberstone warps and his figure leaves

2:03:18

the visage of this mirror that is where we're gonna end this session

2:03:26

[Music] yep that's it we're going to call it right there

2:03:32

so with that thank you all so much for listening and we can't wait to see y'all again next week bye

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