Hi i'm Olma, Flynn, March, Ceallach, Shraya

and i'm your DM Ethan welcome to Venture Forth

venture fourth

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previously you all had delved deep into

the catacombs

beneath a forgotten graveyard you guys

had discovered this graveyard just

outside of

shraya's elven commune and discovered

that this might be the source of the

shadows that had been

creeping over the lands

you guys opened up a tomb and found a

stairway heading down

and you guys followed the lead going

down into this tomb you guys had

discovered

a number of goblin bodies amongst these

iron guards that seem to have been

engaged in some sort of conflict

there all of them deceased you guys

continued down this

long cold tunnel and you guys had

discovered

a small pillar off to your left that

held a bright red

gem atop it after reaching out for it

the gem appeared to have disappeared and

possibly moved down the hall

moving throughout these catacombs you

discovered two more pillars

and every time you reached out towards

this gem it seemed to move to a

different place

you guys had sort of set yourselves up

one at each pillar

and tried to all grab the gem at once

but it seemed to

move even further down into the

catacombs

with shraya now standing at the first

pillar flynn's standing at the second

and everyone else standing at the third

pillar flynn began to hear

the sounds of something dissolving some

sort of acid

in the next room beyond and as you are

hearing that flynn

what would you like to do

uh guys um you hear that

what here here we're downstairs right

yes you guys are down the hall quite a

ways so we can't hear him at all you

would not be able to hear this noise no

wait who's who's flynn is downstairs

or so shraya is upstairs at the first

pillar that you guys had come across

flynn is in the the room right down the

hall from shraya

at the second pillar the rest of you

guys are down the hall

down some stairs and into the room off

to the right

right at the third part can we even hear

him yell you guys would just barely be

able to hear him yell at this point

am i hearing the acids dissolving sounds

in front of me in the door on the other

end of the pillar that we haven't

gone to yet yes do i see anything

um i i can't see in darkness but i'm

assuming there's like some kind of light

or maybe i had a torch i think i had a

torch

yeah so the torch does the light seems

to be a little bit diminished

here um and you can't quite pierce that

veil of darkness

into the next room um

while i after i yell that out um

can i grab another torch from my bag

yeah

sure and light it with the torch that i

have already lit

okay and then once that's done i'll take

the original torch and throw it

trying to land it like right in the

doorway of this other door

okay so immediately the other room

begins to light up

and you can see the bodies of three

goblins

laying there on the ground with similar

slash marks that you had seen

in the previous room and you also see

two of these iron guards also on the

ground with

crossbow bolts in a same sort of

formation

jamming the gears within you see this

black

midnight dark ooze begin to creep over

all of these bodies very

slowly only a couple inches at a time

but as soon as it begins to move forward

you can hear the

s of this this black ooze dissolving

the bodies in front of it how far away

is that from me

uh this is about 20 feet in front of you

can i

it does it look like it's like a solid

figure and it's moving towards me

it doesn't even look like it's moving

towards you it looks like it is just

very slowly

covering the bodies and dissolving them

right but it's like a mass

it's not like water pouring into a room

it's like a mass of something that's

moving

yes it's it's more like a sludge

consistency oh boy

um uh

i'm gonna back out of the room if i see

it so it's like basically like 20

it's coming into the room where i'm in

and i'm it's not quite coming into the

room that you're in it's not quite

uh moving past that doorway it just

seems to be

preoccupied with consuming these bodies

that are in the next room

okay i'm just gonna slowly quietly start

backing up

as i see this because i don't know what

the heck it is and i'm just gonna try

and get

back to the door where i entered to

relay with my party like relay that to

my party

so whenever they show up after i've

yelled

okay are the rest of you guys coming

back up to where flynn was you guys

heard him yelling

could we make out what he we couldn't

make out what he said

probably not no do you hear that

sounded like flynn do you think he's

okay

no we should probably go but

but if we leave here does that mean the

gem isn't going to be where it needs to

be

i mean if flynn's in trouble then it

doesn't matter where the gem is

and think about flynn right he's

probably

in trouble yeah yeah you're right

no okay that's good let's get going

all right so you guys head back up those

stairs um

and meet flynn right at that uh that

entrance way into the second room

that had the second pillar with the gem

um

shray you would have definitely been

able to hear all of this just down the

hall

um so you would have been able to walk

over as well what are you yelling about

you look fine

um and i point in that direction towards

the torch and i'm just like pointing at

it like

what what is that what is what

and at this point you guys look towards

the torch and you guys see this

this black ooze beginning to consume

these bodies as well

gross appear to be alive

the views or like what kind of

is it you can make a nature if you'd

like sure

uh 12 this thing does seem to

be alive in some sort um you don't know

if it has consciousness or not

um but it does seem to be moving in ways

that

is not like water where it's just sort

of pouring out from an area it does seem

to be

reaching out and moving specifically

towards these bodies to consume them

i will i will pull out my short bow

and get ready to fire at it with an

arrow just in case

and uh as i stand in the other entrance

to the room so i'm far away from it

um should we attack it does anyone know

what this thing is

i i'm gonna look over at at flynn with

his bow and say

um do you think up

an arrow will actually affect it listen

it's

it's all i've got like it's either this

or the sword well well maybe it's just

hungry and once it eats all those things

it'll be full and it'll take a nap

hungry for dead bodies

even if that's the case no thank you

how far away is the is the creature from

um at this point uh with flynn having

stepped back out of the room it's about

35 feet away

and this whole time shreya has been very

uh still

and just clutching onto his staff trying

not to freak out

maybe we should come back

later he expected to depart

i don't know i i don't like it here

anymore

well what else is in the room with the

oohs dm

is there can we can i make out because i

have dark vision

can i see more yeah so looking into the

room um

you can see that it's a pretty empty

room besides

um where these bodies are laying you can

see that

the far left corner has been collapsed

in the masonry that holds up the walls

seems to have collapsed inward and

that's where the this

black ooze is coming from um you can

also see that there are three

sort of inset um

inset areas within the walls themselves

sort of in a humanoid shape um these

look like

possibly where these iron guards uh were

being held

had come from um

and is there a pedestal in there

there is not no are there any more

insets of

of those body things that are closed

still uh looking around you don't see

any no

okay

right uh well i can't see any

i have something that we need in there i

have a question

yes um just for argument's sake

those metal things aren't moving now

because there's arrows blocking their

gears

do you think if the arrows get dissolved

the guards will wake up

and be able to move again

without knowing the properties of the

metal there's there's no way to say

whether or not it would dissolve their

their gears just

as handily as the arrows disrupted them

okay

i don't i don't know beyond that

uh is there anything that i can tell

that that we would want

within the room damn is there anything

that that appeals to me

expression you can't see anything at the

moment there no and when we heard the

sound

um the gem leave us we heard it go

further down

the hall downstairs right yes you did

there was there was a little brief

teleportation

that you heard down the hall oh so it's

probably just down

the hall where you guys were mm-hmm

let's go

maybe just remember that this is here so

that if there's not another way out

we know it's here yep uh dm was there

there was a physical

door on this room no there is not um

it's just sort of a an archway into the

next room

okay would there be anywhere that i just

for my personal sanity sake would be

able to like

make a quick mark so i could mark and

notate

in case we came back this way that hey

this is the area with the ooze like on

the wall

yeah all of the walls are stoned so you

so however you want to do that you can

definitely try and do it

okay i would like to then just sort of

just take maybe even just the end of a

javelin real quick and just sort of

mark an x kind of thing nothing too

fancy or anything but just to notate

that this was the area where some oozy

thing

is happening yeah for sure

so i'm going to do that i'm just going

to take a javelin real quick and just

sort of mark and next be like

all right guys just in case i don't know

crips are weird sometimes you

can get a little funky down here and

start going around in circles but just

in case here's an x so we know that this

is where we've been

um and let's i don't know get out of

this immediate vicinity

of black ooze just to just to make sure

we know where we are

geographically so we've got the only

fork we've really discovered

we have we have one room prior to this

one that had a pedestal in it

and then there was sorry there's two

rooms behind us both of pedestals

there's like a hallway that ended with a

pedestal that led us into another

circular chamber with a pedestal that

led us into this

room correct with the with the ewes in

it and then

there's a a a fork in the road

so to speak prior to the circular room

that leads us down

to the other hallway that contained the

lock door

with the other pedestal with the third

pedestal that is all exactly correct

is everyone following definitely thank

you

okay got it so if caleb's got it i'll

just defer to him

yeah yep i understand okay like where

are we right

okay uh well we don't know where the

gem's gone though we have

we haven't we don't see it on any of the

pedestals that we've encountered thus

far

are we even sure the gem is real and not

a

hallucination of some form

it looked very real to me

yes and try is actually uh depending on

how much time is passed to him he's

actually resistant to being charmed so

we could theoretically we could trust

this judgment

uh yeah with his resistance to charms

schrei you're you still everything still

holds up you still see

the gem well you have seen the gem you

do not currently see the gem

right so down the stairs we go

down the stairs and down that hallway

there is there is still a

chamber we've yet to explore deeper into

the spooky tomb

count me up let's do it steal yourself

steal yourself boy

and uh as i follow if you were to look

back

at where shraya was standing you will

see a uh

a big clump of feathers that have fallen

off of

oh them i collect some feathers yeah

yeah i was gonna do that too yeah oh

fine you can collect feathers you don't

want you don't want one

no i like to do my own thing

okay i'll i'll hold on some just in case

you want some i'll put some in my bag

and as you guys head back down the

stairs um you guys hear from the very

back of the group

um a little voice pop-up um that being

the voice of farlane

saying um so uh i'm just i'm just

sticking

back here uh behind you guys you guys

can uh take the front i'm just gonna

follow your lead okay

uh why don't you uh farlane why don't

you let me

head up the rear you can go ahead and go

directly in front of me just

uh i know you don't necessarily have too

much in terms of

combat training or you're not used to

that uh the last thing i'd like is

for anything to sneak up behind us and

potentially you not be prepared for that

that's actually a very good idea

um i i didn't even think of that and you

can see at this point he's holding

that javelin that you gave him he's

holding it real tight he's like white

knuckling this thing

um and he slowly moves forward with you

guys

um you head back down the stairs and

into this

continuation of the hallway you see this

larger room

off to your right that you guys had

opened up um you discovered that it was

locked and

you had opened it up you see that the

pillar is there but the gem is no longer

on top and as you guys continue a couple

feet further down the hallway

you see one single doorway

in front of you seems to be a wooden

door

no portholes through it um but just

uh one handle and a lock beneath it

can i listen for anything coming from

the other side freaking out

and he's reached a kind of critical mass

uh and he's gonna he holds on to his

uh his staff really really tight almost

white knuckling it as well

uh and as the some pink purplish energy

pulses around him and his eyes kind of

go

uh purple neon uh

he's uh oh i'm gonna do chileli on the

staff

and then charge toward the door and

just attempt to bust it through with the

staff

if we can only go one way let's just go

forward

okay try wow make an attack roll whoa

oh seven uh

seven it's a stationary door you still

hit okay um

and it's it's a pretty big door too um

so yeah roll your damage

right with that shelley

uh that is

that is six arcane damage

okay so as soon as your staff comes in

contact with it the door

bursts open and the hinges swing wide

open

um with the amount of force that you put

into this door it didn't seem like the

door was

locked it seemed like it was pretty wide

open um and the door

bursts open um immediately the room in

front of you opens up as you can see

that there are

torches lit on either side already

lit there and seemingly not burning for

too long

you look in and immediately you guys

don't see the entire room yet but you

guys see

two pillars these stone pillars that are

in the center of the room

collapsed there in the middle um you

guys see

a long uh ornate rug

draped out in the middle of this room

and immediately at the open door you see

two

goblin bodies not dead from slashing

wounds

but dead from these these claw marks

across their throats as they are

bleeding profusely on the ground

are either of them uh like alive

or are they uh both of them are very

much dead okay

shia i think we can just open doors from

now on but thank you

try to collect a couple seconds after

this door slams open with a thud

you guys can hear from within the room

but you can't see its source

a deep growl

no oh no anybody else hearing this

seeing it where's it coming from it

seems to be coming from

deeper within the room beyond from what

you can see do we see the chris what are

the dimensions of the room again

um you can't quite get a gauge on how

big the room is without actually

stepping through the doorway

um yeah i have my torch i'll just i'll

just go

guys and i'll just lead in with my torch

to get some light as i hear the

growl okay do we see the crystal

you guys do not no but flynn as you head

into the room

you see i'm gonna show you here

exactly what you see

you see a long ornate

burial chamber here the pillars in the

center have completely collapsed

you see two caskets on either side and

one larger more ornate casket

in the very uh farthest wall of the room

um you see more goblin bodies strewn

about the

the floor here and you can see one large

hulking mass

of of orange and red fur off in the

corner

consuming one of these goblin bodies and

you can hear it ripping

its its jaw wide open and taking flesh

from this goblin body and as it turns

around and faces

you can see its face for the first time

and you can see all of its body is

is this red werewolf

type figure but then you can see just on

uh

his right shoulder and coming up the

neck and into his face you can see

a bit of green from where

a goblin body might once have resided

and

as he turns to you and growls i'm gonna

have you guys all roll initiative

oh no sorry what did you say about the

goblin goblin again it goblin in his

face

yeah so it seems like this is a goblin

that has

been 80 percent transformed into a

werewolf

um the only parts of it that are still

partially goblin are that shoulder

the neck up into sort of the lower half

of the jaw and into the face

so much nope

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so as you guys are uh coming into this

room can i also get a marching order

so flynn was up in front yeah i'm

assuming shraya is probably close to me

as well because he just bashed the door

yeah yeah so shreya can be up there as

well i'm

i'm probably right with farlane just in

front of march

okay alma

and march are near the back

kellik where are you at um i will be

just just behind uh shraya

and then i'm also going to place farlane

back here it was going to be right in

front of march

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oh no oh no none

oh okay

um let's see i'm going to get

initiatives now

maybe we can just close the door and

pretend like we never came in here

i would like to do that please pass

all right kellick what is your

initiative that's 12

a 12. okay oma

19 19.

flynn 23. oh 23. nice

i roll real good nice try

ah that's a 17 for me 17. nice

and march 8.

okay

i'm gonna roll for this game

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okay so as this

goblin werewolf turns to all of you

flynn you see it first and you sort of

get the drop on the situation what would

you like to do

um am i standing right next to shraya as

he's kind of like

figuring life out right now yeah you are

standing directly next to shrine

it's kind of bigger in life um i think

i think i would uh just kind of notice

this with

with the with my torch look over see the

tri is kind of struggling just kind of

put a hand on his shoulder

it's all right buddy i know you i know

you're struggling but

we got some stuff to take care of and

i'll look back

and is my torch lighting up the whole

room kind of where i'm holding it

yes you can see that there are torches

in this room already

that are lighting up the entire room

this this room effectively

you can see perfectly um then i'll just

kind of like chuck my torch like 10 feet

ahead of me just to leave it there just

to add more light

and then i'll okay and pull up my sword

and pull out my shield and kind of take

a

i'll take a step forward so i'm kind of

more in the room and kind of just

i'll use my action to dodge okay you're

gonna take the dodge action

all right uh next up is alma

um do i see anything

um yes now as sort of the whole party is

kind of

entering the room here um the entire

room opens up to you and you see

everything

okay so i see a giant wolf

that's turned to look at us yes um

okay um

yikes i

would like to

i see that there are pillars broken down

and caskets everywhere and dead bodies

um

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is there anything in front of

the wolf's path that's flammable

um there is not oh well there is sort of

this ornate

rug that has been strewn out in the

middle um that might be flammable

but that's not going underneath the

werewolf he's just off of it

right right but potentially it could

separate it from us

so i would like to try to um

light a portion of the rug on fire that

is between him and us so just beyond

that

just in front of that pillar okay um

the second pillar in yeah

to just kind of block his path a little

bit make it a little

more difficult for him to her

him or her to get to us okay um and i'm

going to use firebolts

okay so nice um

yeah so it's it's a pretty large rug

easy to hit if you hit

anywhere even close to it then then

you're good to go um why don't you

roll an attack roll for me um

pretty much if you just don't roll in

that one then you're good

sixteen yeah you hit the rug um

and immediately this um this road begins

to catch fire it's gonna

take maybe a round for it to fully

ignite but

um you've definitely gotten it started

great

awesome is that the end of your turn um

i would like

to go behind march

okay

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so you take a step back i would

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awesome okay uh next up we've got shraya

uh so looking over would shraya

and his kind of state be able to put two

and two together that this

uh would have formerly been a goblin

i guess at what point during like

what at what point did we bust through

this door and look over

um make uh make a nature check for me

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oh [ __ ] that one that's a critical fail

yeah you you really don't know um

exactly what what point this guy is in

okay uh then i'm gonna close my eyes

as i look over at the creature uh

my vision starts going negative image

switching back and forth specifically on

where the creature is

uh and i can't really make out what's

going on over there

uh i my i am having flashbacks

to running across uh arctic forest

floors

uh i'm having flashbacks to uh

moon and some howling i'm having

flashbacks

and i ha i sense a uh i i i feel

uh a sense of longing and uh

i as i hear whispers and

sounds of uh different types of

uh forest creatures and specifically

howling

i reach deep within myself and i'm gonna

i'm gonna cast speak with animals

okay you can't speak with animals

okay uh what do you say

i say

dear creature of the earth what brings

you here

and it's it's gaze turns from sort of

the party as a whole

to you specifically and you look deep

into its eyes

and you you try and make that connection

there but you see that this is a

completely mindless beast at this point

you can see

behind the eyes there is absolutely no

thought to what's going on right now

besides

attack i'm gonna recoil in horror

and

uh i'm going to how how

tall is the ceiling uh the ceiling is

about

25 feet tall um it goes up quite a bit

i'm going to in my moment of

like this horror of seeing this uh just

will to attack behind the eyes i'm gonna

just

take off and head for the ceiling in

panic

okay all right um is that the end of

your turn yes

okay next up in the initiative we have

got we've got the werewolf

so um looking at you guys and seeing

flynn as the first one who has charged

into this room

it is going to turn from its meal

and it's gonna sprint towards you flynn

gonna hop over this collapsed pillar

here i'm ready

come on and this thing is about nine

feet tall so it hops over this pillar

like it's nothing

and it gets right in front of you here

we go

dodge action right yeah he has

disadvantage so i have got disadvantage

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okay so

um he has disadvantage on both of his

attacks correct

i believe so

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oh

so he lunges at you first with a bite

attack

and you can hear his jaws snap at you

and with disadvantage

that is that's that's still going to be

pretty high that's going to be a 21 day

that does hit

like i try to put my sword up but he

just bats it away and gets me in my

shoulder

okay but he did roll a one on damage so

that's gonna be a three

uh three piercing damage all right

and then he's going to also uh reach out

and swing at you with one of his claws

sure i'm going to attempt to bring my

shield up to to block it

okay and that's gonna be a nine to hit

so his claws just graze off of your

shield

ah guys a little help

and even with that attack missing he's

still standing right there

lumbering over you and you can feel the

heat from his breath and his snarl

begin to to just emanate off of him you

said he stands about nine feet tall

yes oh my gosh so he's like twice the

size of

of poor flynn yeah yeah this thing

is how tall nine feet yeah jeez

holy cow

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okay so that's its turn um next up is

gonna be kellick

right uh uh can i tell if it's wearing

the crown

if it's yes actually at this point you

guys all look and

now that it's approached even closer you

can see perched atop of its head

is a crown with a simple band

at the base and around it is um

sharp uh jagged pieces of gold

that are reaching up towards the ceiling

but you can see that

all of them are are spaced normally but

there seems to be one uh one space

where a one of these pieces of gold

seems to have been ripped out

okay well uh i'll uh

flex my bandaged hand place it against

the amulet on me chest

and i'll say all right then let's test

the nature of your

might by the keeper

i vow to rid this land at your darkness

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and i cast guiding bolts at the creature

yeah okay

okay that's a 25 to hit

yeah that definitely

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rolled that damage yeah

i need another d6

right

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12 12 points of radiant

damage and the next attack will have

advantage

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okay and uh i would like to

move uh is that uh

can i get behind the rock there is that

is that

an obstacle can i pass through that um

yeah the rock off to your left

uh or the one to your right on the right

behind uh flynn

yeah for sure so yeah there's there's um

seemingly collapsed

from the ceiling um there is

this rock that you are able to get

behind um this rock

effectively gives you half cover great

okay is that the end of your turn that

is

okay next up is march

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oh boy the creature is now glowing with

spectral orange embers

uh highlighting its presence

which probably makes it scarier

that just makes it all the better um

after seeing this thing swipe at

flynn uh and seeing

shreya have a full-on panic attack and

just fly to the ceilings about this

i am

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would like to

move up towards where flynn

is okay just kind of

standing on a dead goblin

and while i was doing that i don't know

if this is even possible i wanted to

sort of

as i kind of run up kind of push for

laying back

slightly i don't know if that's possible

because i wanted to at least push it so

that he was

back a little bit more if it's not

possible no problem yeah i'm sure he

like you begin to push him and he his

body completely moves with you he

like he helps you sort of move him back

okay yeah i wanted to push him towards

alma so he was more out of

knowing that he's probably gonna be just

in a state of shock and

full-on freak out um and

am i going to be within five feet of

this thing now

yes you are then uh i'm gonna

uh be typical and go at it with a

warhammer

okay make your attack roll

give advantage for guiding bolt right

yes you do yeah that's right

what does that mean so you roll it twice

and then you take the higher number oh

okay

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23. uh 23 definitely hits yeah

now i need

uh that will be 11. eleven points of

bludgeoning

okay and as you swing your warhammer

around it

sort of uh leans into it and you hit the

the meat of its shoulder

and it doesn't seem to do as much damage

it seems like this is a

thick thick height and it's it's not

going to be taken down very easily

um

yeah that's i'm just gonna kind of

i mean i basically just sort of try and

position myself next to flynn to make

sure he's okay and then

am i allowed to scream or say anything

yeah sure uh then i'm just gonna scream

out loud and say

i do we feel like we've got to get maybe

possibly the crowd off

and then just have my shield chilling in

front of me with my warehammer

there to go okay nice

um so with that

you guys see just off in the far corners

of the room

you see that there are um there's this

this portion in the far left of the room

that has been collapsed

um again the masonry just hasn't held up

over the years

and um rocks have begun pouring in

but from the other side you guys see two

indentations in on the wall that look

like

humanoids and they are in fact filled

with these iron guards um

[ __ ] they seem to activate [ __ ]

and they drop down from the walls with a

thud

onto the ground guys i think we should

run

as two of these things drop down

and they are going to both

um you see that in in one of their arms

a sword um or like a like a long blade

protrudes from their forearm

and you can see on their other arm the

forearm

springs open and these sort of wings

form

and you can see that a crossbow bolt

begins to be automatically

uh loaded into the armpies as it is

drawn back and it raises

they both raise their arms and fire at

the group

the first one is going to fire a

crossbow bolt at

um march as it appears march is probably

the the

most dangerous at the moment that

is going to be an eight to hit so the

the crossbow bolt the first one

um flies wide it is as it was raising

its shoulder up you can see that

all of the rust that has formed over the

years

doesn't seem like it was able to get its

arm quite up into position and it seemed

to lock just before it fired

and it went off in a wild direction the

second one

fires and it's a natural one and so

the gears on its arm completely lock up

and

it doesn't seem to be able to fire at

the moment nice and uh

it made the crossbow bolt maybe uh or

the crossbow on its arm

maybe out of commission for a little

while

so with that top of the order is flynn

yeah so march just

yelled at me to about the crown

so as i see her kind of rob oh hey marge

this thing's

freaking tall and then um

yeah maybe we can uh

do i notice the piece that's missing

yes yeah there's there's clearly so

there are um

spaces for seven spikes to be going up

but then clearly one of them has been

ripped out and you can only see six

um well i'll

i'll take i'll take her word for it and

i'll i'll

sheath my stupid sheath my sword

put my shield on my back do i climb this

thing

do it oh no

[Laughter]

okay um uh so you can take this either

as

athletics or acrobatics sure

that's great okay and it is going to

make

a contested athletics check they're

trying to keep me from climbing

to try and just keep you off sure yeah

amazing

oh my gosh so let me see

you are gonna have to beat a

oh that's not too good um you're gonna

have to beat a nine

i got an 11.

so you begin climbing this thing and

grabbing in the tufts of fur

and it begins swatting at you and like

hitting its chest

and it's just not able to get you with

your your halfling dexterity as you're

able to climb up onto its shoulders

all right um so do i just pull it

march i'm going to say with that

i'm going to say that that's your your

actions

yeah so i'm just at the top and i yell

out to marge i'm like okay

um here we go i'm just at the top like

hands on the crown like about to pull it

off ready to go

okay

um next up is oma um

yes uh do i have enough movement to get

behind the casket

on the left-hand side on the left-hand

side

let's see so you've got um 5 10

15 20 25 yeah you can you can get there

you can just get there

um so i would like to book it behind the

casket

okay um that was not my i'm not

taking a height action i'm just um and

the casket here um

gives you half cover okay so you're

aware

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nice awesome that's perfect um

and then i see march

right next to a giant wolf who's oddly a

very similar size to her

and flynn on top of a wolf with his

hands

on the head of a wolf i see my fire

doing absolutely nothing

and he burned a rug oh my god

good job it's true

and um

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i will rub my hands together

and um i'm kind of freaking out kind of

freaking out and

i will

put them in front of me and say

flynn watch out oh no oh no

oh my gosh hey hospital today

that was a 19 plus five

should i roll my damage first or roll

your damage first and then we'll do wild

magic

oh my god twice twice twice yeah because

we forgot to last time

so that is

um 10 points of thunder damage

nice 10 points of thunder damage

nice shot right and that is not an area

of effect correct

that's a target spell it is a targeted

spell yes perfect so flynn is

not armed

so the whirling mass comes out of my

hands

and it's just like wiggling colors of

various shades and

eventually it settles right before it

hits the giant red wolf

settles on this like gray dark like

vibrating

color that just hits the wolf full on

and how sorry how much damage was that

10 points 10 points

nice i was not a fan of that

this is the second time flynn has

narrowly escaped being electrocuted by

alma

it wasn't lightning damage it was

thunder damage yeah fair enough fair

enough

okay and i need to roll twice for wild

magic

you need to roll twice and you need to

beat a two

i rolled a two one no

[ __ ] stop me beats it

wow oh my

because then in that case the first one

you would

what if she casts major restoration on

it or something yeah

yeah okay let me roll up

[Laughter]

she's like oh no i don't know what's

happening

it's so cute i apologize for not having

this prepared

as i did not think that this would be

happening so soon

right now it is let's see what happens

with you you're like

a werewolf yeah part

okay i'm going to roll a d100 you

suggested it

yeah she's like okay i'll try that

she feels her whole body vibrating

oh my goodness

do you not blink out of it because i'm

so okay

you don't blink out of existence but

you can feel there's sort of like this

weird itching sensation on your forehead

oh no and it's weird and then as you go

up and touch it you can feel your skin

begin to

move and warp just on your forehead and

all of a sudden the skin begins to split

on your forehead

and two eyelids open up as you have a

third eye

on your forehead you feel as though

you can like your your vision

opens up into this new spectrum as uh

for the next minute um you

have advantage on all wisdom checks that

rely

on site so any perception check that you

have

that relies on site you have um

advantage on

for the next minute wow do we see this

yeah yeah very clearly a third eye has

formed on

almost forehead i am i am no longer

looking at the wall

my forehead hurts oh

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does she have to do a second one could i

if i poke

my third eye will it hurt it's exactly

like a normal eye

um no that that role i was just counting

as

like disadvantage on a roll um as we

forgot to do it last time

that's mechanically home taken yeah okay

um

next up um in the initiative uh

farlane is just gonna keep holding a

spear and just take a step back

into this hallway just before the door

um just sort of having his back up

against

the doorway here just sort of

backing out of danger as best as he can

next up uh shraya you are up in the air

what would you like to do

uh do i see the transfer mike how

how far up am i would i have noticed the

crazyness that just happened with the

wild magic

uh yeah yeah with especially with oma

sort of

yelling out in a surprise way you would

definitely be able to notice that

uh i'm gonna look over clock that

like and zoom in because i like

i i'm gonna zoom in on that eye and like

crick my head around and just like focus

on it for a minute

it temporarily takes me out of uh this

this mania

uh and i i'm just really fascinated and

focused on it

uh do i notice anything uh like does it

look different than the other eyes

um no it's just you know how like people

have a right eye and a left eye

and like they're sort of shaped a little

bit differently this one seems to be

pretty symmetrical as like a center eye

whoa okay uh

i am going to remember

that we are in danger and tear my focus

away from the eye

begrudgingly uh because i just want to

look at it more

uh and then i'm gonna turn to the

i'm gonna fix my eyes on the

mechanical the source of the the source

of where the first arrow came

from would i be able to see that from

the ceiling

yeah for sure and now especially that

you're at the ceiling you can definitely

i mean

pardon the pun but you're really getting

a bird's eye view from

but uh yeah you can like at this point

you can see

all of the movement that's happening on

the battlefield here your vision is not

obstructed by anything

great so i'm gonna focus in

on the source where that arrow came from

i'm gonna

hold my uh my staff

up toward like above my head

and i am going to start to turn

and whoosh my wings and also turn at the

same time

into like a corkscrew motion with the

tip of the staff and the tip of the

crystal

on my staff forward uh as i cry

all arms forward and i'm gonna corkscrew

dive bomb uh try to drive my staff into

that mechanical thing

okay yeah i'm specifically the one that

fired the error right not the one that

misfired the one that fired okay

so yeah that was the one that was um a

little bit further down

so um yeah with your movement with your

fly speed you can definitely get there

um so yeah roll that attack

oh [ __ ] that's a six damn it oh i'm

gonna crash

oh man a six just misses um

but uh yeah you are now up in combat

with these two things

um their attention for the most part

seems to have shifted to you and not on

the rest of the party

all right i guess that's my turn

okay um next up this werewolf is going

to

um now with flynn on top of it

um it is going to

it's just going to start swinging wildly

it can't quite

reach up and get flynn so it's going to

start swinging at march

so it is going to take its first bite

attack

towards march that is going to be

a 19 to hit does that hit yeah just

that's literally what it is yeah okay so

it

just hits as um the the bite comes out

and it just

snags a piece of your armor but then it

digs deeper in and you can feel it

pierce through the armor and

into your flesh that is going to be

see what the damage is going to be for

that

that's going to be seven points of

piercing damage

and then it's also going to swing around

with its claw

and that is going to be a

seven to hit so i assume that that does

not hit

um as its claw swings wide and it also

catches a piece of your armor but it

deflects off of it

okay that's gonna be the end of the

wolf's turn kellick i have a quick

question actually

yeah while i'm holding on to the crown

um i'm using that as like my benchmark

to hold on to this beast does it

seem like i'm going with it or or is

that like

i'm going to say just mechanically you

are able to get up to the shoulders of

this

thing you were not actually able to

interact with the crown at all so you're

you're sort of holding the tufts of its

fur right at its shoulders

um but you're right there next to the

crew

oh cool caleb so flynn's on top of this

crater

swinging at march tria has dive bombed

the

[Laughter]

well uh in 36 seconds right

well so what i'd like to do even though

this creature looks terrifying

is i'm gonna pull the rope from my

backpack

and i'm going to tie it tie a knot

and then i'm going to attempt

acknowledging flynn's course of action

here

to throw the rope uh around the creature

or or if i can get to its hands or

something find a way to

to bind and restrain this creature in

some way if i can just pull his arm or

something maybe around

okay um even though you are using the

rope

i am going to just have this as a

straight grapple check

so it is going to be contested athletics

sounds good

stringy cleric mike he's our man if he

can do it no one can

yeah but maybe march could do it

uh that is gonna be an 18.

[Laughter]

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that's a time okay for poor poor kelly

yeah um part of the rope catches but

then he just swats it away

right all right um with that next up on

the initiative

is march

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this thing has taken a couple swings at

you and uh you've deflected them for the

most part so what do you want to do

um like

several others around us i will have

been momentarily

just distracted by that third eye that

just popped up

and i'm gonna come back to when i feel

oh

ow in my shoulder from uh

this creature um and dm i would like to

get

a quick clarification because i've

never used this i knew it was a thing

but i didn't

ever use it apparently as a bonus action

i can do

two weapon fighting

okay does that mean i can throw a

javelin

and a warhammer

i'm actually not sure who have been

fighting is uh light you have to use a

light weapon for the second

that's right yeah well

thanks caleb i'm going to shoot kayla

like an evil glass like

shut up i just put on glasses and turn

to tomorrow

you have to use a light weapon good

question though

if you're using the javelin and just

holding it and not throwing it

couldn't that be considered a light

weapon like because it's technically

disappearing it's

how how much effort it takes to swing it

gotcha so it's got to be listed as a

light weapon as opposed to a melee

weapon oh i mean it can be a melee

weapon but it's additional it's like

something you know how your warhammer is

versatile

it's it would say versatile light so

like a i think a scimitar

would be an example or the warhammer

does say versatile but it doesn't say

light

right that's for sure versatile is

because you could do it two-handed or

one-handed

yeah well fine

thanks kalec

um in that case

uh i won't try and do that um and i'm

gonna go ahead

and oh

man

i'm worried about try out but

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um okay i'm just i'm gonna do i want to

keep this thing distracted from the fact

that

he's there's a creep there's there's

flynn on him i don't want him

really paying attention to that i would

like to

every time i mention

catchphrase

[Music]

and i just sort of see full just at the

top

um and what i would like to do is sort

of

almost to an extent sort of bend down a

little because if this thing's

nine feet and i'm about six five um

i would like to in a sense try and aim

for

its knee a kneecap

with my wart hammer okay

um yeah go for it make an attack rod

22 yeah that definitely hits

roll your damage okie dokie

that's the wrong one where'd it go

please hold uh that's going to be 10.

10 10 points bludgeoning again

okay um so

yeah you swing around with your

warhammer and as soon as it makes

contact with

the knee you can feel like this crunch

as it

bows out if this was

any other creature this probably would

have taken its its knee completely out

um but you feel that it just muscled

through it a little bit it does

drop down to one knee giving flynn a

little bit more stability there

as it's not moving around wildly though

nice

nice thank you okay um is that the end

of your turn march

uh that's yeah pretty much it just gonna

again just

just hold that sucker in

my shield in front of me not very happy

about

the blood coming out of my shoulder from

that that swipe attack

that's pretty much it okay

um next up are the iron guards in the

back

um let's see so

the first one um is going

to turn to shraya as its crossbow bolt

uh arm has been decommissioned for the

moment um

it is going to use its sword arm to

swing at you

let's see what we got it's going to be a

15 to hit that hits

these aren't operations are they fine

these creatures um these are not

aberrations

okay and they're not elementals either

all right

no it's like there's like two types of

creatures that the spell doesn't protect

it from trying

uh that is gonna be three points of

slashing damage

and the second one is going to turn to

you now that you're

very close to it it's going to sheath

its crossbow bolt arm

and it is going to also swing at you

with its sword arm

that is going to be a seven to hit nope

okay so it swings and again the some of

the rust

in its shoulder just doesn't allow it to

quite complete it almost like stutters

its movement as it's coming towards you

and just isn't able to connect the

attack

next up we are at the top of the

initiative flynn

you are on top of this thing you felt it

dropped to one knee

you could feel a little bit more uh

stabilized on the shoulders

what would you like to do i'ma pull that

thing off

okay um i am gonna have you

make a either an athletics or an

acrobatics check

for me sure

oh man uh eleven i'm not rolling this

dice anymore

eleven okay he's gonna be in a contested

contest terribly again that is gonna be

what's his dexterity that's gonna be a

five

so you're able to just grab onto this

thing now additionally

i'm going to have you make just a

straight strength check as you can feel

it's almost like

like held to its head almost like

magnetized you can feel a little bit of

give but you're gonna have to pull a

little bit harder is it a um

strength check or strength saving

through

uh strength check this is just gonna be

a dc 10 strength check

oh which is ten okay

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oh so i rolled it too was it okay and

then i subtract one

nice so you're still there you're

holding onto the crown you've got the

ground

crown grappled but you just haven't been

able to pull it off

um yeah is that gonna be your turn

um does it seem like when i'm pulling on

it or tugging on it does it seem like

this thing is worried that this do i get

any reaction

from this creature of like this is

working this is something that he's

worried about

yes as soon as it feels sort of this

thing lifting off of it

immediately its focus goes from march

back to you

and you can you can feel sort of a shift

in this thing's body language um

hold on just checking really quick

because we just okay i've leveled up

i would like to action search and try

again okay

yeah yeah let's go fight her level two

better than the two better than that

once again so 15 total

okay awesome so you plant your feet into

this things shoulders

grab onto the crown and you

rip it off of its head and immediately

it releases in your flung back

off of the creature and you hit your

back onto the ground

now free from it

um do i take any damage from falling

nine feet off this

super you don't okay and then i have a

bonus action and movement so

um yeah i'll just land behind it like

kind of where i'm at

and just kind of stay there and hold the

crown and then i'll i'll wave it

do i know that kalec has that other

piece we took a piece or something right

a piece of gold

from you you have it do i have no do i

have that little piece of like

you guys put it in the dwarven box you

put it in germans can i

um custom box

i got it that's my turn

okay you are now free from this thing um

oma you especially now with your

perception you know that flynn has this

crown without a shadow of a doubt

and um i'm gonna have you roll a

perception check for me at advantage

seventeen a seventeen um

so you notice with your god-like

perception now

um you can see that the uh

the hairs are slowly begin to beginning

to retract

and you can see inch by inch this thing

is beginning to come back down to size

from its nine feet

it's only going a little bit at a time

um almost imperceptible

but it is beginning to revert back okay

so i have poked my head i've poked my

head out

from behind the crypt to witness all of

this

and i look to march and i say

is this gonna be here forever

and then

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am i able to play to reply to that yeah

sure

i have no [ __ ] idea but it's

absolutely tripping me out

sorry i'm i can't stop staring at it is

it following me

is it following me from behind the

wherewithal

language

and i i'm also gonna say um i think that

worked flynn

so maybe don't hurt it

okay um and i will

look over to the automaton

and try oh

boy um and

i will is is try up is he flying or is

he on the ground

i'm on the ground he is on the ground

okay

in that case i will just

try out you need help and i will um

put both of my hands out in front of me

and kind of like like touch my third eye

oh no and

i will just cast fireball that number at

the second automaton

okay make an attack run

[Music]

23 yeah 23 for sure hits

roll your damage

[Music]

seven seven points of damage

all right you uh you throw your fire

bolt at it

and as it's sort of moving around in

this mechanical motion

it's got these armor plates on it and

your firebolt

um shoots in just in between where two

of the iron plates

separate and you can see it reels back

and the gears on the inside some of them

made of wood

begin to light and catch on fire as the

insides begin to burn

it's not completely out of the fight yet

but you can tell it's movement and

everything is slowed

by now this fire that's caught on the

inside of it

is that the end of your turn um i dug my

head back down and i

grabbed my hood and i put it over my eye

okay

just pull my hood down over my eye

okay i am going to make a roll

okay uh next up is

shraya you are now engaged with these

two uh

uh iron guards one of them has just

caught fire

uh spooked by that a little bit while i

clutch the

wound from the sword that just got into

me

i'm gonna turn rear back and

uh is the one that that stabbed me the

one that is inflamed

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um no it is not okay then

i'm gonna rear back prepare my staff for

another

attack at the one that stabbed me

okay go for it make an attack roll come

on let's get one for this battle

[Music]

[Laughter]

[Music]

another six i got another six year i'm

not your preferred terrain tribe

caves are not like your favorite terrain

unfortunately misses

as i swing long again

my i'm still distorted and can't focus

enough to land anything on this person

okay um next up is the werewolf

now beginning to revert even more and

more it is going to take one last

desperate swing at uh at march

i'm holding the crown

yes you are but you are uh behind it and

as it's as it's sort of

reverting um it's just swinging at

whatever is in front of

it um which happens to be march at the

moment

uh and misses that's gonna be a

four so it uh it swings wildly and

as it swings towards you its claw

retracts

enough to where it doesn't even reach

you um initially it might have

but the arm is shrinking enough to where

it just completely whiffs

and misses you um

and it by the end of its turn completely

reverts back into its goblinoid

uh form a little tiny goblin now

laying there shaking on the ground just

a few tufts of

red fur all over its body

uh next up is kellik all right

uh seeing this i'm able to er the goblin

does not appear to be

a threat yes it's not a

can i the goblin seems to be

incapacitated it's not dead but it's

very much yeah does it

and from experience i know that it's

it's not going to die from

transformation at least to i can

i can assume i can presume i suppose

probably

so i'm going to uh get within 30 feet

of uh the the furthest

automaton the one that trey has engaged

with okay

um and actually can i see

is flynn uh has the crown had any effect

on flynn

can i tell him as he's waving it at us

does it look like

make a medicine check that's a good idea

oh that is i'm a doctor

uh 24. uh

24. so um flynn you probably feel this a

little bit too

um it's not progressing at all but

just on the hand that is touching the

crown a little bit of

red fur has has sprung up around his

fingertips

heck um it's not progressing whatsoever

but it seems that the contact

with the crown has just spurred it a

little bit of a transformation here

um but but looking at you know what

you've seen

here um this probably is gonna be

a while until a full transformation

happens right

okay i give flynn a look of like

hey just keep an eye on that if you

don't mind and uh

i will use my action uh to

uh channel divinity um

toward the uh the uh creature uh toward

the uh

the automaton and uh i'll whisper uh

pride and uh uh

focusing hard on the uh creature as the

bandages on my hand begin to sort of

slip off in the end

burning light begins to emanate from my

palm

uh the whatever source

of the automaton's life there is

whatever it is

is animating it at this moment uh

lines of light of burning orange light

begin to sort of

emanate and and show how these

these things are tethered show what the

source of the life of this creature is

and uh the next time

an ally or i uh hits the creature

uh with an attack the creature has

vulnerability to the attacks damage

ooh nice and uh

that will uh be my turn

okay next up

is march

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what would you like to do

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um

is caleb the only one who's able to see

what's going on

with the red fur with flynn or am i able

to see that as well

uh if you want to make a medicine check

you can see if you can

see that sure why not

it's a natural twenty nice

so yeah just glancing over at this crown

um yeah you can see

a little bit of red fur on just on his

fingertips okay

um i'm gonna just just

echo what what kayla has said and

and sort of look at flynn and quickly

say do you

uh want to maybe put that on the

ground and not physically hold it or

would you like a piece of cloth to hold

it

in or or like ready to rip my

shirt um and

while he's thinking about that i would

like to

well how far away is

uh the first and the second

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um so um the let me see

i literally forgot what they were called

and about to say those thingies

uh 20 feet and 30 feet

okay and

alma hits the second one correct yes

okay um while i'm kind of

waiting for an answer from from flynn as

to

you know if he would like a piece of

cloth between him and

and the uh the gold crown i would like

to

chuck a javelin at the one that's

30 feet away okay

go for it that's gonna be the furthest

one yes one that has not been

not been damaged yet exactly yeah thirty

feet okay make an attack roll

[Applause]

shut up no way guys

that was a nat 20 again you stroll two

not twenties in a row

yeah oh man i'm gonna need to inspect

your dice

like what do i do every

[Music]

second time the podcast has ended this

episode killing a guy

[ __ ] roll your damage um and because

that was

uh crit you automatically do max damage

plus um your regular damage roll

right so max damage is

10 and then i'm gonna do another one

okay

[Applause]

and that's an additional nine so jeez

nice so um you chuck this javelin

and it hits it center right in the chest

and it throws

this iron guard back and as it

completely

impales it to the wall and you can see

it's

trying to move but it's like stuttering

and it powers down

as

[Music]

your javelin buried itself about a foot

into this

stone wall did it is it dead

because it would do double damage

because of my curse as well

it's it's very very good

it just explodes a crit with

vulnerability that's nasty

yeah try looks over us this thing

whizzes past him and is just like

piece of cloth um

yeah i guess i'm just gonna rip a piece

of bottom of my shirt and

kind of chuck it at him and just just be

careful and that's

it you're really strong

[Music]

[Laughter]

okay um thank you next up

is uh the second iron guard that's

currently on fire

um now all it's gonna do is try and take

a swing at

tria and that's gonna be an eight to hit

that does not hit

and um you can see the the sword arm

that swings towards you

um it stops halfway through and

completely goes limp as

the gears in its arm that have caught

fire have disintegrated

and it's no longer able to move its

sword arm as it just falls completely

limp by its side

i'll be startled a little bit but then

relieved

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all right flynn you're up top of

initiative

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um does it seem like this

other automaton is basically kind of

like not a threat really it's arms

aren't moving

it's struggling

yeah marge can probably one shot it's

having a hard time

and how's this goblin look that has not

transformed

i can't remember it's uh actually a very

similar state to the way that

uh that alithar was back at the camp um

like writhing on the ground shivering

twitching um

but seemingly less so as time goes on

could i um i'll take the cloth piece and

i'll move

behind march if i could

okay um just to get away from the the

fight get away from the goblin that's

shaking

kellik is probably about to examine this

goblin anyway

i'm gonna put the cloth on the ground

i'm gonna put the crown on it

i'm gonna go in my bag and pull out the

other piece

and attempt to just fit it in see what

happens

okay as you put the last remaining piece

in

um it begins to fuse

and the gold around the the piece that

was broken off begins to melt

a little bit and meld back into the form

of the crown and after about a second or

two

it seems to be structurally sound

there's no longer any cracks there as it

is all melded back together once again

um when i put it down on the ground did

the hair kind of

start falling off it receded back into

your hands immediately you

you no longer have any sort of

transition okay well now that i've put

it back in and completed the

circuit or fixed the crown i would like

to try and touch the crown again to see

if i still start turning

okay um you touch the crown again

and you feel a little bit of a tingle

within your hand

okay

i think i fixed the crown but it's still

uh

giving me hairs uh why did you fix

it flynn wait was we not supposed to fix

the

crown

good point good point

valid valid point um

we can destroy this project

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it is your turn we've got this one

lonely

lonely iron guard here who's who's up in

flames um

probably gonna be shut down in the next

round or two anyways just due to the

fire

um

i'll peek up and just lift my hood a

little bit you can peek without your

eyes my foot is hovering my hood is

covering

so i'll peek my whole head up and i will

just like lift my hood just a little bit

over the eye so i can see uh

do i see anything in the room

um do i see anything coming off of the

crown do i see anything in the room that

i might not have seen before

make a perception check at advantage

advantage yes

and while she is doing that um i'm just

going to open it up to everybody does

someone want to have the final shot on

this

uh on this iron guard here march mark uh

march

and just just just just dissolve what's

left of it with

okay and the insides of it the armor on

the outside that's

sort of rusted doesn't uh fade away

anymore but the gears on the inside

completely turn to dust

as it collapses to the ground um

yeah so oma we are now out of uh out of

combat

at this point um actually i'm gonna make

one more roll here

no no you're not going to do that

i don't think that sounds right

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i made my last roll um

oma what did you get on those perception

checks

terrible i rolled a two and a three so

i got a five

uh nothing beyond what you haven't seen

already here

stupid i can't see and then i just like

pull it back

okay now um you guys have a bunch of

dead goblins here on the ground

um caskets uh two of them lining each

wall

one on the far wall um and some of these

iron guards off in the corner what would

you guys like to do now that you uh

have defeated apparently what the the

danger of this room has been i would

like to make my way because it looks

like there's like

the one rug that led up to like one main

casket so i would like to

go towards that main casket and just

like look inside because it's kind of

cracked

okay you walk up to this main casket and

you can see that

it is the it's it's a heavy

heavy ornate stone casket and on the

inside you can see

a lining of wood and fabric and these

little carvings and details

on this thing worn down with time but

when it was initially made probably very

very well thought out and well crafted

um

you go up and you see a headstone

um on the wall there and you can see it

reads in common

okay and it says

here lies the red wolf master of shadows

a fearless leader and a faithful servant

son of the archway dalmac

and father to the fallen storm if his

rest be disturbed the waking world shall

bear witness to the horrors of his final

breath

and then below it are letters in a

language

i don't believe you read um what

languages do you know omar

um i know common and elvish

but i think there's one more that i know

but yes common in elvish

um yeah you do not you cannot read what

is written here

okay uh can i join her there because

that would be well actually

guys there's um there's red wolf stuff

over here

yeah she was walking i can't read at all

yeah she was kind of walking up once the

fight was over i'm like wrapping

the crown in the cloth and i like after

kelly kind of dad yelled at me i mean i

don't know i thought if i like put it

together maybe the

curse would turn off i also forgot what

exactly we're doing with the crown

and i yell over a try are we supposed to

destroy this

it's probably best that it's in one

piece because then

it can't spread you know like a virus so

it's probably for the best

then don't worry about it there's

something here

about if the red wolf wakes up the whole

world is going to bear witness

to the travesties that existed when he

died so i

i think maybe maybe the red wolf thing

is is is

bringing the darkness i don't know it's

kind of confusing and there's more here

i just can't read it

can someone help i would like to just

uh quickly i would like to go up there

and join kayla and alma but as i do i

want to

call out to uh farlane

and just uh say hey uh

it's clear in here you're okay to come

on

in so that he's at least within

eyesight and earshot of all of us and

not

hanging out in a hallway um you call out

to farlane

and you look over and you see that

you don't see him he must have he must

have moved

past um moved past the doorway

um back sort of backed out of the room

um when you guys were in combat

uh-oh that could be bad i'm tending to

the goblin so if you guys are doing

things at the crypt then

or the casket i'm gonna go up to the

casket to see

um to check it out real quick with uh

alma before i

go back around and see if far lane's

anywhere around okay

uh what languages do you know uh

common draconic giant and orc

you do not know what this says nope

don't know that

so i'm gonna go back to the entrance and

try and look out and see farlane

can somebody can they tell what language

it's in

damn um everyone who's looking at it

can make uh just a uh straight

intelligence check for me to see if they

recognize the language

even though they might not be able to

yeah eventually after he after he

finishes

or after i finish wrapping up the crown

i'll i'll put it in my bag

um you know tie it up and then walk over

do a really crappy roll it was a six for

me

oh wait what do i have you said straight

intelligence right um

yeah i got an eight total

four uh four i know uh

i know half playing common and doorvish

i don't know if that's any of them

okay um yeah none of you guys know what

this is

all the while this has been happening

shraya has like

exhaustedly like sat down on the

uh pillar that's collapsed and is eating

a few berries to try to

like center himself

just beside himself okay sria do you

know what this says up here you can just

turn your head you don't have to like

come up here

but do you know what it says looks up

from um

uh what what and looks over

can can my vision like

with my you know bird vision can i see

what what can i make out from here yeah

you can see it um what languages do you

know

to see if you can actually i don't know

how much help i'm going to be either i'm

common ericochra and auren which is just

the language of the elemental plane of

error

you do not know what this says dm is it

in celestial can i

can i rule that one that's the only

other language

um do you know celestial i do yes it is

not celestial

okay does anybody have any parchment

yeah flynn

flynn was gonna or i was gonna start

yeah i'll like start doing that

make up my car i'm fine okay yeah

oh yeah i got it oma don't worry much do

you wanna do that it's really fun

no you got it all right um and

this uh this headstone is like inlaid

into the wall

so in order to actually do this you you

sort of lean over the casket a little

bit

um the casket that's open and looking

down into it you see

a um like a mummified corpse

in there um this

it doesn't look unusual um it looks

pretty well preserved

but you do see within the wood and the

stone there

there is a little um almost like an

inset

of a circle that looks pretty

perfect that would fit the crown it

looks like there's a little

placeholder here for the crown

um do

uh just so i can roll this out dm how's

the goblin is it stabilized

can i can i make sure it's doing okay

yeah make a medicine check

and who's keeping an eye while he's

doing that who's keeping an eye on the

um

crown oh i have it in my flynn hasn't

i have it in my bag okay it's uh 21 on

the medicine check

uh 21 the goblin has stabilized but is

unconscious

okay so i'm just going to put some

if i have for my bed roll i'll use a

i'll put a pillow under his head

and just try to make him comfortable

okay the poor deer

kai turn around and see that yeah um

don't you think maybe maybe we should

tie him up

because he wanted to become a red wolf

and kill his kill his brothers

i mean i don't think he wanted to kill

his brothers but i think he wanted the

power of the red wolf and that seems

kind of dangerous

i'm not saying kill him i'm just saying

maybe tie him up remember

we ran into some air issues last time

when we didn't tie people up are we sure

that he even had any idea he was gonna

turn into this yeah he probably could

have just been robbing the crypt and saw

a cool

crown and put it on gold crown and he

just wanted it

okay i mean it's still the point stanza

i'm in agreement

and i'll i'll set to work dm just just

tie in his

his his wrists and his his ankles as

gingerly as i can

he's unconscious it's very easy to do um

are those doors

on either side of the room

yes they are um jeez

are they locked you can

go up and try and open one i would i

would would you like to i would like to

try um

okay because the crystal went somewhere

and there's no other rooms

beyond this right i mean it's just those

two it looks to be that there are only

the two

there are three doors in this room the

one that you came through and then the

two on either side

and we don't see the crystal in any of

the caskets

do you go and inspect the rest of the

caskets

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do they look i don't want to but

somebody should do they look like

in terms of ornamentation are they the

same or are they

uh more like can we tell that this is

the main one

so to speak you can tell that this is

definitely the main one um

that you guys are currently at but the

other four that are there

are also very intricate these are not

standard

coffins you can see three of them

are completely closed the one main one

is

slightly cracked open and flynn has seen

the body inside

but then you look over and you can see

the one in um

sort of the the right hand corner um is

also

a skew a little bit is open okay i'll

before i go to the doors i'll go over

there and look at it

with my head hood down

um you look in and you don't see a body

oh there's no body there um there's no

body

boy all right uh that's bad i'll come

over kind of scratching my

head you do also see um

a couple of headstones you see one

headstone adorning each of these

caskets um and you see

on this one of the one that's slightly

open with no body in it

you see um it says

the name corvin amberstone

lord of the night and right hand to the

red wolf

is that name familiar to any of us try

it do you know

any of these people in these nights

coffins night

like k-n-i-g-h-t or knight like

n-i-g-h-t

uh n-i-g-h-t as in not day

uh would i have heard i mean in the time

that i might have spent

uh with you know in the commune uh would

any of these

you know would there have been folklore

legends anything that would would have

clued me into any of these names

um i'm going to have just shraya make a

history check for me

have have you guys shared the

information that the

crown that there's a slot for it yeah

i'd probably be talking to you about it

all right well we're all up to speed on

everything that's been both of my dies

deciding if we should put it back or not

nailing me

uh seven yeah

uh seven the the name does not ring a

bell for you

no nor do any of the sort of monikers

uh not familiar with that particular

name

with uh with alma calling out and saying

there's not a body in this casket even

though the other three

seem kind of closed i would like to

just check on those as well and

even if they're closed i'd like to open

them even if there is a dead body in

them i just want to clarify

how many caskets are in this room

without dead bodies and how many caskets

are in this room with dead bodies

so you go to the one in the bottom right

hand corner

and that um the casket

for this is a little bit bigger than um

the other ones um and you see

that the the headstone here reads

ooza the bonebreaker ghost of the

western isles

and you sort of you push open the top of

the casket

and this thing is is pretty heavy but

after a couple of seconds you're able to

get it open

just enough to see inside and you do see

that there is

uh a body in here a very large body um

looking to be that of a dragonborn

but very like very similar to the the

other casket um

seems to be pretty well preserved and

mummified

but also very much dead you go to the

one in the bottom

left on the headstone it reads

sasura high mage

of taltholier and herald of the depths

and you open this one as well and

immediately you see

another body there um humanoid in form

um pretty standard height but you do see

two

horns protruding from the forehead and

curl back

over the skull you move to the

one off in the top left this one has

sort of been displaced a little bit by

the cave-in

um that had happened but you can sort of

um

piece it together um you see that this

one the headphone says

fair enough brew basher of the bartok

mountains

and you open this casket and you can see

that there is a

smaller body um looking to be that of a

dwarf similarly mummified

can you repeat um the last sasura and

and farnock

yes and what were the monikers

sasura galmot high mage of taltholier

and herald of the depths and then

fair knock brew basher of the bartok

mountains

i can send you guys these brew basher

yeah um and also underneath

every one of these headstones in

seemingly the same language

um there seems to be a uh

not as much writing but a similar piece

of writing so it seems like there's a

similar phrase

on these headstones as um the main one

the main one just seems to have

um a longer phrase i think uh if

who was opening these originally was it

alma

march march i pushed off so i'm gonna

just say hey guys

uh so i got dead bodies here

um these guys are all kind of different

but they've all got

something underneath them talking about

i mean i can't tell you what it's

talking about because it's in that same

language we don't know

so if we want to also take some imprints

of this

i think we probably should but it looks

the same right

it looks identical uh

yeah yeah from what i can tell i mean i

don't really

understand this language or know what it

is but so maybe so maybe it's just

one do we just need one of them yeah

i'll um bring over the

the thing i the imprint i did and i'll

hold it up and see if

the symbols match yeah so you hold it up

next to it

and you look at the the one from the

main casket

and the first half

seems to be the first half from the main

casket seems to be repeated

onto all of the other lesser caskets

um the main one just has uh like a

second piece to it that the other ones

don't have

okay have a have a like maybe another

phrase or another sentence at the end of

it

okay and is it all different sentences

are they the same like

they're all the same the same sentence

okay so they're all the same symbols but

the big casket had a little bit more

so correct i guess we don't need to do

you think

do you think we should be worried about

this corvin guy

is that yeah uh i think

do you think it's that creature we saw

in the forest

do you think you know well did we see

anything in the forest

or did we hear something we heard i

don't i didn't get a good look at it i

just know it was fearsome and i didn't

want to get

any closer to learn but

it's up and walking around and uh all

the forces we've encountered thus far

have

smelt of on death uh

so it doesn't it's not too far of a

stretch to thank

this this core corbin

the lord of the night rolls from there

tonight

and he's leaking shadows about the place

can i go back to the

that i guess corbin's uh

coffin and take a peek in again do i see

like a crown in there

or or something or can i look for clowns

on the other ones

you don't so looking in um you see

uh on in all of them there are

um in all of them that have bodies there

are like um

there there's like headdresses and like

ornate

um sort of looking like ritualistic

robes

and uh stuff like that adorning the

bodies but

nothing crown like well

i'm a little worried um

that far lane isn't with us and if

corvin is out there

and far elaine is out there that's

probably bad

but also what about the crystal do we

need to do we need to find out where

that is do we think just corvin is

causing the problems or

is the there more in this tomb that we

don't know about

well i mean there definitely is more

there's the room where that

acid thing was was attacking the bodies

and eating them there's also then we

also have two

yeah pathways we can take still yeah go

deeper these two doors can we

should we look at them well i think we

need to find far less yeah we probably

should go get him

and then we can explore these two doors

i don't care about that full

he's too stupid to stay with us and i

don't care what happens to him

maybe he thought he was gonna grow an

eye as well

well we're here to save the town kellic

and he's part of the town

so right uh i'm here to reach this place

of the shadows

i don't much care trust me kayla i

wanted to

you know throw javelin through his head

as well but

he's a friend of tries and so long as he

can continue to

want to better himself as everyone says

that perhaps we should give him that

opportunity

but what if there are bigger problems

down here that's causing problems for

the village like

don't you think farlane would want us to

protect the village

kellogg is visibly distraught uh you can

see i'm i'm like

rubbing my brow with my hands and i'm

looking over to try it

just trying to watch his face for any

signs of

of um sympathy of of having the same

feeling of disappointment just

how could how could they have allowed

this i would hope that we can

find farlane and return him in one piece

to the village

i hope that and

i shudder a little bit from the from the

stab

wound let's return this place to its

natural order and be on our way

can't stand being in here

flynn if you put the the crone

back where the goblins found it

will that do anything should we at least

test it i mean it could but

i mean what's to stop another ground

round of goblins coming in here and

doing it doing it again i agree but

every second that the shadows exist in

this forest

more more danger looms

for the that of shreya's commune

yeah we can try it i mean we still have

to find where this body is

and then i'll kind of yell out down the

hall

farley

the notes don't indicate how to

put the word wolf back to sleep right it

doesn't say it just says when

when when the red wolf is away awakened

uh yeah i can read that for you one more

time um

here lies the red wolf master of shadows

a fearless leader and faithful servant

son of the archway dalmach and father to

the fallen storm

if his rest be disturbed the waking

world shall bear witness

to the horrors of his final breath

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flynn you yell out to farlane down the

hall

and you just barely hear

you guys hear that can we all hear that

do we all hear that yeah you do oh

no damn

barley the [ __ ] full

and i'll start walking down the hallway

and grab my torch off the ground if it's

still lit

okay um and you go through the doorway

and

immediately there down to your right

with a

mechanical arm sword stabbed through his

chest um you see a farlain laying there

and his arm also outreached with

a javelin piercing the chest and going

all the way through

the chest of a uh dead iron guard

seemingly having both gotten an attack

in on one another

can i cast the brother diane on him can

i run up and attack

the thing sure has he still got it is he

still he's still got a sword he's got a

sword through his chest

um yeah i'm gonna the iron guard

is the iron guard is not moving at all

who's who's there for do i get up there

and see this i if i if i'm pretty

sure i'll have both of you guys roll

initiative

um just to see who gets there first uh

eight plus hold on

uh six thing for me i think you're first

i got a 12. yeah

okay caleb you get there first can i i

mean can i do if it if it's not moving

can i remove the

the blade and and try and stabilize uh

farlane i'm assuming

is he down uh yeah he is he's down he's

conscious

and as you reach down to do that he's

got this just blank stare on his face

and he's whispering to himself he's i

must protect

my people i must protect my people i

must protect me

all right and as you you're pulling the

sword out right right

as you pull it out blood begins to just

pour out onto the ground

you can see him begin to lose

consciousness i mean i've i've got to

take the necessary steps to

to i mean i don't have any like proper i

don't have a healing kit

left but i have some cloth and i'll

try and banish the wound to the best of

my ability and cast

spread the dying on him to stabilize him

okay

um this is a mostly internal

wound this sword went pretty deep into

his chest so i'm gonna have you make

a uh medicine check all right for this

before you do spare the dye

fair enough uh

that is uh 21. uh 21.

so you're able to bandage up most of the

wound it doesn't seem like blood is

coming out

anymore um but again the damage is

mostly internal

and um as he slips into unconsciousness

you cast spare the dying and he is still

unconscious but

he's continuing to breathe all right

is he all right is he good what's going

on

do i hear him like here's just flynn

saying these things okay yeah at this

point

you you can go up and and you see your

friend

uh laying there unconscious on the

ground bleeding

from his chest my old friend i'm gonna

cradle his head

in my in my hands oh we're gonna get you

out of this

we're gonna get you through just hang in

there

um am i able to tell because i would

like to sort of

walk up and am i able to tell that if i

removed the javelin

from this the iron guard would the iron

guard

get up again um

you uh make an investigation check for

me

i'm just going to sort of help try out

like

to hold farley and to get him into a

relatively stable

safe position okay again

sorry uh 19 you look in and you can see

that um you look at the gears that are

around

where the javelin is going through and

they are trying to click forward

um click like sort of in in a clockwise

rotation

um but they seem to be jammed by the

javelin that's in there

okay then i will leave that there

how old does this crypt look does it

look older than the

elven village

um make a uh

make a history check

actually uh make it nature yeah it would

be more nature

you got it one second

try uh was farlane always this

compulsive

or impulsive rather has he always been

such a

risk taker he did have pastimes i

disagreed with

uh he like flynn would sometimes try to

ride wild beasts

would have thought if he had seen that

he would have

had a moment of recognition but he he

left

you can't blame him for wanting to take

care of his his commune to

take care of his kin but

we can't seem to keep the man from

dooming himself

i do hope he comes too maybe this

maybe this could be the thing that

causes him to take more

care before he decides to do things

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um it's it's really hard to tell you

know that elves live a really long time

um but you also looking around at

not only the the structural damage that

has happened over time but the masonry

you can also tell that this place is

really old

um you really can't tell

shraya do you think this

is all really really really old do you

think it's all been here

way before the elves even built their

village

because the things that they're talking

about it seems strange that

i mean if they're talking about a time

of of darkness and turmoil

why would the elves settle here i

don't barlane said that the that the

shadows weren't this way before we got

here it was a week

i know that that's not what i'm asking

i'm saying

it was probably very very dark when the

red wolf walked the earth before

and corvin walked the earth alive so

do you think that was like way way

before the elves even settled

uh i'm gonna rack my brain at any kind

of

like architectural styles or

symbols or anything that i've been

taking in on my way into this

in between my fits of anxiety uh that i

might have seen on my travels before

yeah um make a

history check oh 15 that was a little

better that's first good roll of the day

15. 15. notably

nothing that you have ever seen before

um you wreck your brain for

maybe conversations that you've

overheard at the commune

but this is the first you've ever even

heard of a graveyard

being here for the most part um also

hearing farlain who

has been the leader of this commune for

quite some time he seemed surprised that

it was here

um so for the most part this

graveyard was probably pretty unknown

i think we might be other than these

goblins uh

perhaps the first living beings to have

come down here

if it's true that the goblins were the

ones who broke in

that scares me i'd like to see

the remaining chambers here i'd like us

to know the depths of this

curse and and and how much more of it

has been

released yeah we need more information

for sure what should we do with garland

i will stay with him i have a few

herbs from my homeland that might do

something for him but

they do not touch the depths of healing

that and i

motion over to kellock but i will do

what i can

um will you scream really loud if

something

happens yes i uh

you know that i can screech i've

just been quite stifled in my language

and

everything since i've been down here

well you can say anything you want to

say just scream it

really loud in whatever language you

want so that we know you're in trouble

okay yeah and

are you okay try

i've seen better days

you will again we'll get through this we

will be back soon

uh and tri is gonna um just sweep his

wingspan around both he and farlane

uh and kind of huddle uh

wingspan and then with his hands uh he's

going to

you know dig into his pouch and try to

pull out you know

anything that he might have brought from

his homeland that that could help

we could help this guy out okay

and as you wrap your wings protecting

yourself from farlane

attempting to administer some some of

your ancient medicine

and as the rest of the party then moves

back

and goes to investigate the rest of this

temple

um that is where we're going to end

today's session

um you guys

uncovered quite a bit on that uh during

that session

um i had a lot of fun with that one

flynn wrote a werewolf do i still have

an eye

how long do you get to keep that we can

get to that

so i had a lot of fun with that one um i

hope you guys did too

um that was kind of a a stressful one

you guys figured a lot out

pissed yeah stressful [ __ ]

all right um and with that um we're

gonna end

and we can't wait to see you guys all

next week bye bye

bye hey guys this is shane i play calc

on venture fourth and i also wrote all

the music for the podcast

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go check that out and do become a patron

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uh and we'll see you next time on

venture force

bye nerds

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