Hi i'm Olma, Flynn, March, Ceallach, Shraya and i'm your DM Ethan welcome to Venture Forth

hi i'm flynn and i'm your dm ethan welcome to ventureforth

0:06

[Music]

0:20

so [Music]

0:37

previously you all had traveled to the city of solaris you guys had all taken your first day to yourselves doing some

0:44

different things throughout the city getting into some trouble here and there but with the main purpose of holding out

0:50

until thaddeus's contact can reach you guys and give you guys some sort of item or

0:58

maybe a spell you guys don't know exactly what it is but it's going to remove any sort of magical tracking on

1:04

you guys that will essentially hide you from hollow guard who has been tracking you you all got back together earlier in

1:12

this night and had told each other about you know some of the the things that you had gotten up to and oma came bursting

1:19

in telling everyone that she met with kale drumwind um you guys went to kale's house and

1:26

after sort of telling you guys a little bit about himself and his father um and sort

1:32

of the mystery behind why hologuard and um the mysterious cult of this red wolf

1:39

um or after him you guys let him go as he and his family tried to

1:45

escape the city um you guys got back to the inn but you guys were there for only a short period

1:50

of time as uh shraya let the group know that he met with someone earlier named xavier

1:58

um xavier being someone who was trapped in the city's prison um oma also

2:04

recognizing that name from her past decided that you guys needed to go and break him out of prison um or at least

2:11

see where he was being transferred to uh you guys got to the militarized section of the city snuck in the same way that

2:17

shraya knew how already and got down into the sewers um popping up into the

2:22

first level um you guys saw that there were there was one guard for every prisoner

2:28

as the guard had doubled or maybe even tripled uh since the prison break earlier in the day uh so you guys went

2:35

down a little bit further into the sewer and popped up into the barracks where you guys had uh gone up into the room

2:41

that was empty and you guys heard a door to the room slowly begin to open so as

2:49

you guys are hearing this creaking what would you guys like to do hide under bed

2:55

okay you guys yeah i remember dive into the bed what's what's the what are the what

3:01

give us a quick rundown of what's in the room is there anything else besides beds died behind or underneath yeah so um

3:07

there are sort of beds lined up on the walls there is a dresser that is

3:13

currently open uh with um a couple sets of armor and a couple sets of common

3:18

clothes hanging up there and then right next to that is uh like a weapons rack where a couple of swords and um uh

3:26

hammers are hanging as well as a couple shields does the dresser have a

3:32

closet or is it just uh drawers um it is like a closet dresser yes i'm

3:38

going in the dress i'm going behind the door so that when you open the door it opens

3:43

closing me oh nice okay quick question yeah is there

3:48

anything in the room that could even kind of obscure me or

3:54

um your best chance at this point is probably hiding under a bed okay okay great that's what i'll do then okay i'm

4:00

gonna have everyone make a stealth check are there lights in here is it pitch black um there are a couple of torches

4:06

lit up um in the room so it is dim light but you're able to see just fine oh i extinguish my torch

4:12

yeah oh okay yeah for sure okay i'm gonna have everyone make a stealth check for me nine

4:19

ten eleven oh if i get a twelve come on flynn

4:30

[Music] um yeah so the the door opens

4:37

and um you guys are all in place

4:43

the dwarf who walks in kind of walks through the uh through the room he um takes off

4:50

his sword from his uh his holster tosses it over on the bed takes off his um

4:57

uh the top chest piece of his armor um before he takes off his armor

5:03

i guess stink my hand around the side of the door [Music]

5:09

and just touch him on the shoulder and do shocking grasp okay well he's wearing

5:15

metal yeah that is an attack roll correct uh-huh and you get that at advantage

5:21

because he's wearing metal i think is that what i believe

5:26

or is it uh it's that advantage okay so roll that advantage oh boy

5:35

i mean we all rolled real bad so we did [Music]

5:41

19. uh 19 to hit definitely hits [Music]

5:50

2d8 will this kill him i hope not we're gonna find out

5:58

it is a cantrip at least there's that no probably not that is an eight

6:05

and eight okay um as he is walking into this room just before he takes his armor off um you

6:11

reach your hand out and zap him and you can see the the bolts of electricity just absorb right into the metal and um

6:20

and cling to his body as he seizes up and drops to his knees not unconscious yet

6:26

but just like in this state of of tense

6:32

so i'm gonna open it up to everyone else um you guys all get he has the surprised

6:38

condition so you guys all get an action i'll pop out under the bed and

6:44

try and hit him again okay are you doing an unarmed strike

6:49

yeah i'll use my bonus action and some of my sword but i'll use the blunt end of it and try and

6:55

okay make an attack roll yeah so the green green smoke turns into a sword and instead of coming down i just try

7:00

and uh and is it still like advantage because he surprised her now

7:06

uh no this is just a normal attack all right that is a 12 total

7:13

uh 12 total misses um as he's sort of sitting there seizing you just don't quite get a good okay and then on him

7:20

you'll see i seem to be attacking a bit quicker and i'm going to try and go in for another one okay yeah

7:26

yes you are um oh that's better

7:33

oh maybe not though he was still wearing his breastplate he is still wearing his armor

7:41

14 uh 14 misses you you uh bring the hilt

7:46

down and you just glance off of his uh his armor okay

7:52

oh man and i'll look to the rest of the room like guys help yeah i am i'm actually just going to

7:59

uh uh push the door slightly ajar and hold spare the dying

8:06

uh for when this guy goes down over uh he if he takes if he loses all

8:13

of his hit points okay uh that'll be my turn all right uh try you're the last one with uh with an

8:19

action what do you want to do uh i mean it appears that people are

8:25

are hitting them but we're not really bringing them down so uh i'm gonna

8:31

find the little tight corner where my staff is resting uh under my body and i'm gonna grab it and poke it out from

8:38

under the bed it's the first thing he sees and then i'm gonna focus all the energy into my hands gripping the staff

8:44

and a little bit of jagged electricity comes out from my area between my eyes into the crystal and

8:51

suddenly the staff glows and it becomes magical and i then in one sweeping motion whoosh out from under the bed and

8:58

spring up into the air and thrust the crystal end of the staff directly into the dude's head

9:04

okay make an attack roll and i'll be using the spell attack bonus which is great uh because it's magical

9:09

and ugh even then it's an 11. that's you hit

9:15

him directly in his chest blade armor uh i need to work on the follow-through

9:20

as he stands back up um looking around at everyone um he is going to

9:30

he tossed his suit we need to roll initiative um [Music]

9:36

yeah no i'm not gonna i'm not gonna have you guys roll initially i'm just gonna have you guys go then he goes um

9:42

so yeah so he is going to look around at you guys um and he's gonna try and take an

9:49

unarmed attack because he threw his sword down on the bed he's gonna try and take an unarmed attack at shraya

9:54

oh boy or oh bird rather that is going to be

9:59

a four to hit as he swings wildly and misses um

10:06

yeah and then that's that's his turn um basically he wants to try and hit him

10:12

you know yeah same order or yeah let's go same order yeah i'll i'll um

10:19

look at his face and i'll say we don't have to do this

10:26

just go to sleep and i'll punch him okay make an attack roll

10:33

19 to hit none yeah a 19 hits oh wait wait let me make sure yeah it's still possex yeah

10:40

um i'm not wearing any armor

10:52

oh yeah that was max damage okay good it was 11 points of damage 11

10:59

points okay is he still um uh no he is not he is actually one point

11:06

away from instant perma-death um no bonus action for me

11:12

so he immediately you clock him right on the side of the head and you can see

11:18

lights go out as soon as you make contact and he boom hits the floor in front of you

11:25

asparagus

11:33

make it look like he's sleeping you gotta take take the armor off of him no he wouldn't sleep on that you gotta

11:39

try is just kind of in jack uh have seen after seeing this child uh with that

11:44

amount of force clock him yeah yeah she's full of surprises we have a champion all right all right

11:50

i'm gonna uh help him take the breastplate off and get him in bed chuck this guy in the bed throw the covers over him

11:57

and okay close the door does he have any maps in his pocket

12:04

um oma i'm gonna have you make an investigation check and then flynn and try i'm going to have you guys

12:10

make a deception check for me 12. that'll go great uh 12. um

12:16

no uh you do not you uh are looking over him um he's got his plate armor um he

12:22

had his sword that was there he's got a pouch with 12 gold in it i'll take that

12:27

and um he has got a uh single key on his belt i

12:33

will take that that's good um i got a six and a

12:42

he is very clearly bleeding from both his nose and his mouth um

12:47

and like he's not snoring at all he is i'll pull this sheet he's definitely not

12:53

over over his head okay and immediately the blood starts to seep through the [ __ ]

13:00

um and uh like as as it's on his face the blood begins to seep through the sheet

13:06

can i dress as wounds can i use it yeah sure make a mess

13:11

yeah i'll just try to address this bleeding issue while he's doing that i'll swap the

13:16

sheets with another pair if he's successful in stopping completely uh okay

13:23

yeah that's um 24. uh 24 yeah okay so you stopped the bleeding he is

13:28

stabilized um flynn goes and gets a clean pair of sheets

13:40

if someone doesn't investigate too much they're gonna think that he's sleeping well that happened um

13:47

what'd you find yeah that's good what'd you get um i found this key and this pouch okay

13:55

um try it maybe you should take a peek out and see if you can see where his cell is i would but i i

14:03

have no recollection or information on how uh we could get to that wherever that place is or maybe we

14:09

can okay find a map or something i'll um i'll look around for a map or something i'll look around and see if i

14:16

can finally make an investigation check for me

14:21

are there any desks with notes um there are no desks in here um a total of 20.

14:27

a total of 20. uh yeah so you go over and you look through the the dresser that kalec was just in and you start

14:34

rifling through some of the pockets and you do actually find um like a real simple map of the military district

14:42

here okay i'll pick it up i'll bring it over to the group i found um i found this is this helpful

14:50

maybe um does it have any does it show any of the interior of the prison at all or is it mostly just

14:56

exterior military base um yeah so there are a couple of buildings that are specifically they

15:02

show interior most of them just show exterior and are labeled um like barracks mess hall those

15:10

things um but then uh the prison that you see is sort of roughly laid out um

15:16

as far as like um where the cells are and where like the hallways and stuff like that is um you do see on the map

15:23

you guys are actually in the building just adjacent to the prison this is not actually

15:29

within the prison itself is can we tell if the

15:36

if we went back one room in the one it looks like if you went back one

15:42

within the sewer you would probably land within the prison itself but this this building that you're currently in um

15:49

sort of the barracks area does look like it is a separate building that you guys popped in we went too far

15:56

probably okay okay let's go back but very valuable very valuable

16:02

um trip perhaps we could cause rats here and

16:08

then they'd come from there well i mean yeah if this is a place to make a distraction

16:15

you want to make a distraction here i mean that's the plan right there's still guards on every cell we need to

16:22

[Music]

16:28

okay this is a different building yeah yeah okay that makes sense if they're all coming here let's give it a shot but try not to

16:34

hurt the guy who can't actually get out of bed well let me see what i can hey dm

16:40

uh i'm gonna request to push the bounds of druidcraft again and see if i can

16:46

like the beak of like a screaming piha bird just like emerges from

16:51

the crystal and just like makes a really loud bird noise is

16:56

that be possible is that too far i'm gonna say no um because it is it does specify on the

17:02

spell a small sensory effect yeah um so if it was just like a a small little

17:09

tweeting bird um i would rule okay but uh that allows nothing okay cool um well

17:15

are we doing you want to draw them here right now [Music] how about everybody get in the source uh

17:22

or get ready to you know get on the ladder uh i can make a i can make a phone all right all right

17:29

and it's not gonna hurt our friend here no okay i mean i i hope it reaches their ears

17:37

yeah i'm i'm thinking about that too i'm gonna crack the door open a little bit and kind of see if i can see maybe where

17:44

look looking back the way we went the sewers and see like how far away would the prison be like is it

17:50

for the lack of is it 300 feet like what's the distance um the it looks like so you're in this

17:57

building right here it looks like the the start of the prison building or what you understand to be the prison from the

18:02

map um is about 150 feet away okay so if i'll i'll close

18:08

the door back yeah i mean it looks close enough for most like some of the spells that i have that could make are you gonna do that

18:15

thing with your foot again the stampy thingy well it seems like when you're angry in your stamp and it makes a bad noise listen you get ground beef it was

18:22

pretty cool i used it to knock something off a cliff and it fell on the lava it's one of these hook horse things did you

18:27

see it i'll go into the bag and i'll reach into you don't i just put you put that face away what don't break right

18:33

well just it's close enough if you want to make the noise i can save my i don't i can't do a lot

18:39

of spells yet so this will be easy for me okay thank you all right well let's get ready to climb i'm trying to perform

18:45

i'll go into the saddle or into the into the sewer i'll be in i'll be the last one before kellic

18:52

i'll leave the door open a little bit um just so maybe the sound can go out further i'll leave it cracked so it'll

18:57

and i'll head down and i will uh be the last i'll i'll like

19:04

get a top the er so for first i'll uh i'll position

19:10

uh this dwarf's body so that his head is resting against the banister of this

19:18

uh uh bed and uh our bed frame

19:23

and i'll uh get just just so that my top portion is

19:28

outside of the the ladder down to this thing and i'll take some of the ashes from my bag and

19:35

i'll do as i learned and put them across my face they're not hot but hopefully it'll suffice

19:42

and i will uh say oh god and i'll cast palmaturgy

19:48

uh and i can activate three of these effects so i'm gonna do all of them okay

19:54

i'm gonna make my voice three times as loud i'm gonna make uh a rumbling sound

20:02

uh happen uh at the it's all 30 feet range so i'm gonna make a rumbling tremblers happen

20:08

uh just in within the front of the uh

20:15

like uh doorway and i'm gonna make the the door fly open uh

20:20

and i'm gonna shout oh i've fallen oh my head

20:28

and then i'm gonna slam my slam the thing and i'm gonna uh race down into the city

20:36

okay um oh okay i'm actually i'm gonna have you

20:42

make a performance ah yes i didn't know we had anyone irish here

20:51

[Music] 15

20:56

15. okay um it was very loud you probably got some people's

21:03

attention um so as you guys duck down into the sewer you guys head one

21:08

um latch back you guys climb up the ladder and you guys pop open the latch

21:14

um just a little bit to see up and um shraya this you recognize

21:21

as the area where when you were in the prison this is where the guards were coming from

21:27

when you heard them sort of approaching you this is like the area that they were coming from

21:33

but as you guys look around you notice a couple guards but they are sort of running in towards the exit of the

21:40

prison let's go back to the first one let's go back to the first one first one yes

21:46

let's do it okay uh you guys run back to the first one um open up

21:53

open up the hatch um and now you don't see any guards um in

21:59

this section of the prison let's go i'm gonna try later on

22:05

all right um trio where specifically are you taking uh well first of all i'm going to conjure forth that uh druid

22:13

craft moon glow to hold my hand that i did the last time i was here so i can make it familiar to any of the inmates

22:19

who are around and now i'm going to take them to the cell where i had discovered xavier the last time i was here where

22:26

his big chains were and uh i think i'm it's a couple of a minute walk right down the different hallways

22:32

it's it's gonna take you a minute or two yeah stealthily of course okay

22:37

um okay awesome i'm gonna have everyone make a stealth check for me jeez

22:44

i need to change today uh i got really good uh 22

22:49

uh stealth 15. 10. eight for me okay um as you guys are walking along um

22:57

try one of your claws just sort of scrapes along the ground and you hear from the cell just to your right

23:04

you hear a muffled all right i'll look over it as you look

23:10

over and you reach out um your little um dull light

23:15

you see sitting there chained up um and with a gag over their mouth a very

23:21

familiar dwarf um the one who you had attempted to escape with

23:26

earlier um but had to cast hold person on um in the sewers it looks like they

23:32

brought him back up and uh now with you know chained to the walls with

23:37

a gag in his mouth he is now bound um but he does seem to recognize you as you were oh wait give me the key

23:44

please no no no you said not to get distracted come on show us where xavier is we can get him on the way out show us

23:50

where he's going i'll give him a kind of longing look with my eyes and then give him like a head nod like

23:55

we're coming back and i guess we keep going make an insight check for me

24:01

okay cool uh that's better i like this guy better 13. um you can tell by his eyebrows he's

24:08

pissed at you [Music] oh boy you left him there to be captured once

24:15

again and he like he had his one chance for escape and you you ruined it for him so um yeah he's

24:21

very upset with you deary me huh [Music] okay again i'm gonna try to communicate

24:28

goodwill through my eyes before just turning to go all right so you guys press on to this um same

24:35

cell that uh sure i had found xavier in before and as you guys approach um try

24:41

you see what is very familiar to you which you saw earlier in the day everyone else sees

24:47

this cell it looks in structure and make very similar to the iron bars of the

24:52

previous cells but this one has

24:58

like a bunch of different chains um about five chains coming down from the ceiling

25:03

to the center of the cell and five chains coming up from the ground to the center of the cell as well as a couple

25:10

coming in from the walls holding there locked perfectly in place unmoving is

25:16

some sort of humanoid figure it's very dark you can't quite tell um can't quite make out who or what it is

25:22

long black hair covering their eyes and like these dirty brown commoners clothes

25:30

um as you guys approach you can see these little purple runes um that are

25:35

etched in on the chains that are holding this person locked into place in the center of the cell as well as this thick

25:43

collar around their neck thick um handcuffs around each of their ankles

25:49

and their wrists as well as one big one around their waist completely locked perfectly rigid

25:57

in place black hair covering their face and immediately i'm just gonna whisper

26:02

xavier i think i might have found a friend of yours oh found friends

26:10

[Music] i'm gonna run up to the um bar or to the bars and climb up them

26:16

a little bit savior is that you

26:22

can be if you want has he looked up

26:27

nope could i um this is kind of spooking me out could i

26:32

make a spooky vibes check yeah make a make a spooky vibes check do

26:37

we see any crystals around him um no you don't shards

26:42

that's a good question uh 18 plus something i don't know 18 i got on the day

26:48

18. um awesome uh you are getting some real spooky vibes from this um it is

26:56

like this this weird unnatural thing where they are they are like suspended mid-air from

27:03

these chains and there is no leeway whatsoever in their movement yeah but with this guy

27:08

that the way he sounds it sounds creepy and just do i get any

27:15

oma there is like definitely like malicious yeah spooky vibe check there's like malicious intent and this sounds

27:22

different than what i'm used to yeah different yeah i'm gonna back up oh as as alma runs up to this to the bars

27:30

i'll step forward and put an arm put a hand on her shoulder i'm not

27:36

they don't these aren't the kind of bonds you put on a normal creme

27:42

savior's not a criminal he was helping me

27:48

savior it's oma don't you remember yeah yeah i i remember you

27:54

and i tried to see if this is the same guy i spoke to earlier like can i try to tell

28:00

yeah yeah make an insight or perception check

28:05

his hair is different 15 15 not the same person different clothes

28:11

um different hair the hair that you saw earlier um uh

28:17

the man who was chained up shreya that you saw earlier had longer hair um but it wasn't stark black like this it was

28:24

sort of more some like you know some white peppered in there um and also sounds completely

28:31

different yeah from the person i don't i don't think this is xavier

28:36

hmm clearly not it must have moved him somewhere else or too late

28:43

are there other prisoners around him who are you and what did you do with xavier i i'm i can be xavier if you'd

28:51

like me to be and they whip their head up and um the the hair that was in front of

28:58

their face whips back to the back of their head and you can see their face begins to like shift and morph and like

29:06

the eyes change to different colors and the nose changes shape and you can see um uh these tusks begin to grow from

29:14

their bottom jaw and their skin turned green and all of the the the pinkish

29:20

color flush from their skin and you can see now a what appears to be a half work

29:26

there says did i get it close no

29:31

is this more along the lines and their skin and their face begins to shift once more and it turns into this

29:39

this deep blue color and their eyes turn yellow as horns begin to protrude from their forehead and crawl back over there

29:46

at the top of their head and i said am i getting close i lean back i jump away from the um the bars into kellek i don't

29:54

know who this is this isn't xavier

29:59

[Music] i'm not sure what it is alma

30:07

what do they have you for a little bit of this a little bit of

30:12

that you wouldn't happen to know what happened to the person who previously inhabited yourself

30:22

i do i don't believe him can i tell if he's lying make an inside check

30:29

i raise an eyebrow 15 15 uh that line through their teeth

30:37

right well enjoy present then let's get out of here guys wait wait surely we might check some of

30:43

the other cells before we leave right we need to find out where they moved him

30:48

to but they probably moved him to another present altogether you know i'll turn around other prison

30:55

cells right behind us with other prisoners in them that would have seen themselves they're yeah they're lining this hallway that you guys are

31:01

i can't say this if they moved him he'd probably be in a similar kind of binding

31:07

you see here so the type they had him like this yes yes they had him in this type of binding just like this i'm gonna

31:13

um go to a cell right next door hey hey excuse me excuse me what happened to the

31:19

what happened to the wizard that was here before oh same thing that happens to everyone who comes through here is

31:25

they keep them here for a bit and then they take them away they touch you looking in um a uh uh

31:34

older dwarven man sort of sitting there very calmly in the corner [Music]

31:41

where do they take them i don't i don't know he was here

31:47

he was right here flynn let's look at your map there maybe there's another structure they could

31:53

have taken him to pull the map out lay it on the ground scour it look if there's anywhere that

31:58

they would have taken like a holding cell before transport something like that um

32:04

you this is the only real prison that you see um the building itself is is pretty big um there seems to be a lot of

32:11

cells here um and actually i shouldn't say that there is one more prison sort

32:17

of on the other other end of this military encampment looks about the same size about the same sort of facilities

32:24

um and you don't really see anything having to do with transfers

32:32

i don't know i mean there's another prison over there but i don't know if maybe they put them over there do you

32:38

want to check that one [Music] do you think the sewer is a lead there [Music]

32:44

let's fully search this one first we don't want to miss him why would they move him from one because they got this

32:50

guy and they needed another special chain prison i don't know then put him in the one over there i don't know i don't know

32:56

what else to do other than check the other one or ask a guard i almost shot her to say

33:02

this but he's done what i know of this town the only other place they could bring someone who's

33:09

is a place that you can't come back from where's that

33:16

don't worry about it schreyer you said that you heard that they were moving him

33:22

right yes but i don't know where they didn't say anything but they said they were moving him not

33:28

executing it right yes i heard nothing about that so we'd need not worry

33:35

and i sort of like put like nod my head in almost direction about such places that one cannot

33:42

come back yes discretionary of course i i gotta say that under my

33:48

breath i i made some friends in the in the religious community here

33:55

i could i could go through their channels there to find out where prisoners get transferred

34:01

perhaps but i do think it would be foolish to leave this place without searching the other prison complex no

34:06

matter how small it is the longer we stay here the longer we risk that's my only

34:14

we don't want to become you know uh exiled or imprisoned ourselves

34:21

but caleb you can ask you'll figure it out you'll help me find him of course of course

34:28

hey i'm sorry that we're late it was right here i know i know we can

34:34

find out i was right here i'll help you find a mama but right now we gotta stay focused on what's ahead

34:40

[Music] try you're not wrong uh how far is it to

34:46

the other prison i'm not sure i'm only going by the

34:51

map that the short one just sprawled out across the floor yeah i have it placed on the ground and i'll be i'll like be

34:56

looking at it can i see maybe measurements or does it have the sewer system on there as well or is it just like a vague

35:02

it's just a map of above ground um can i get distance or no

35:08

um yeah it's it's gonna be oh the the military district of this

35:14

city is is pretty big so it's gonna be about i'd say

35:19

a mile away how about this uh perhaps we could try a

35:26

we could try well the barracks is now crawling with them perhaps i could sneakily

35:33

go up into the air and or could disguise yourselves somehow and then

35:38

then you all could make your way over there i could even distract them from the air they are not any lights

35:44

can we try this the sewers and just see if they connect yes i suppose we can try

35:49

that yeah let's try that first [Music] okay um so as you guys head back over um

35:57

towards the hatch that opens up into the sewers you just hear sort of casually coming back

36:03

in um a couple of guards and uh as you close the hatch you hear a couple of them

36:10

saying i don't i don't know i'm sure they'll handle it i just like it's it's

36:15

just weird that that would happen i don't i don't know i don't know i guess they'll figure it

36:21

out and you close the hatch and you go back down into the sewers um

36:26

the sewers do continue on for quite a ways um as it sort of curves back around if you

36:32

guys want to judge distance i'm gonna have one of you make a

36:38

survival check um to see how far this sewer goes

36:44

um i'm decent at survival would having the map help as well yeah me too

36:49

uh no the map is you're the only thing allowing us to make a survival check if not it would

36:55

just be uh straight up uh try if you want to do it go ahead um

37:01

you you this is your area right now right guys i'm gonna lean my lead my feathers up and then i'm gonna float my

37:08

way up to the ceiling and then press my head slash ears against the top of the ceiling of the sewer

37:14

and that is a 17 on survival 17. nice um so yeah after a while the

37:21

tunnel splits and it sort of creates these catacombs down here um but you're

37:26

able to pretty precisely track your position you're sort of running your your finger along the map and figuring

37:33

out where you were and you get to a point where either this next

37:39

hatch or the next one is the one that you're looking for

37:45

let's go for this uh let's try this first one [Music]

37:52

whoever's going up first make a stealth check for me who's the stealthiest

37:58

uh yeah that's not me um i think i'm probably me okay maybe have someone pick their head up first before we go in

38:05

okay um yeah yeah that's a 25. nice 25. okay

38:13

um as silent as the night you [Laughter]

38:21

um and you peer through and this appears to be the correct uh

38:27

correct hatch that you guys are opening up um you do see in a very similar

38:32

fashion um a hallway that extends in either direction and cells on either side um very similar to

38:40

what you just saw previously cards um you do see two guards in this

38:47

um block of cells uh nothing like the the the group that you saw had seen

38:54

previously but you do see two guards sort of patrolling up and down this hallway

39:00

the hatch there are two guards up there

39:05

does anyone have anything that could um [Music]

39:10

help fog smoke

39:21

uh i can do more showmanship you think we can spook them

39:27

tremors yeah they might go and get more guards i'd rather just knock them out either

39:34

skip past them or knock them out yeah it might also be worth interrogating too or asking

39:39

yeah maybe they could tell us where they move yeah okay since there's only two of them we

39:44

might be able to overpower them and just like tie them up and ask them some questions okay and they're patrolling you said so

39:50

they're not stationary staring yes they're walking back okay are they walking together um no one of

39:57

them is sort of down off to the right one of them is off to the left okay find people to get one and bring them into the sewers

40:06

um are they walking at separate times yes there so yeah they're they're sort of walking

40:12

and so they're never crossing paths with each other they just sort of one ends at

40:18

one spot and then the other one sort of meets them there and then they keep going back and forth but they both end up at that spot in the

40:23

middle near the hatch at the same time yes they do um

40:28

i don't know if that's gonna work um there's an ancient

40:35

magic that i've been calling to in my meditations what is it that i've

40:40

started to hear some contact back from okay perhaps

40:46

what i could do is open myself up to this channel of infinite growth or it

40:51

could also be referred to as the boundless nature that creates all things all fourth

40:57

creatures or spirits that look like creatures that are very pleasing to the eye perhaps those guards could follow them

41:04

follow them away from here okay

41:10

we want to ask them questions still or um i would like to before we do that

41:18

uh take some of the water from the sewer

41:24

into my con canteen or like um water water um water skin okay thank you my water skin

41:30

yeah okay and i will time since i was watching them

41:35

secretly where they're walking time it so that when they're walking away from the

41:40

when they're walking away from the door from the hatch i will pour water

41:46

on either side of the hatch where they're going to step okay

41:52

and i will touch my fingers

41:58

to the sewage water um

42:03

and yeah freeze it whoa

42:10

yeah yep yep just touch my water drag it through

42:15

touch my touch the water with my fingers and drag it through um as it gets colder and colder and colder and then freezes on either side

42:23

okay uh what are you casting to to do that what shape water can't drip

42:29

all right all right so as they both approach on either side i'm gonna make some uh dexterity saving throws for them

42:36

[Music] and i'm prepped to like pop out i guess yeah while she's doing that we would just go i guess we just was like do we

42:42

want to be above like should we be up there ready on the ladder yeah let's like be on the ladder

42:47

yeah yeah because are they passing is it underneath where they're passing the m yes it is oh yeah just open the hatch we

42:55

open the hatch so that they potentially could fall in well no we can't well if we well it's sort of no they wouldn't

43:01

directly follow got it um it's sort of off to the side okay but you position the water to where it's yeah it's there

43:08

okay um is there anything that you guys want to prepare before i roll these dexterity checks for them

43:15

because they will be surprised on the first round of combat i'm gonna prepare bane

43:20

uh if i ca i guess it would have to be like movement and then bane though because i can't see them from down here

43:27

okay oh yeah i'll let you guys prepare a movement and then action just

43:32

to be able to get up okay

43:38

okay is anyone else yeah i'm also preparing um um

43:45

yeah punches yeah let's prepare two non-lethal sword attacks i'm gonna prepare chile again

43:52

nice okay um so that first one i'm just gonna say this out loud the uh

43:59

the dc to not slip is gonna be a 13.

44:05

that first one got a seven no and the second one got a 12.

44:12

so both of them in tandem like like they had coordinated this

44:18

before slip and both land on their backs with a thud um

44:24

okay so um i look around at everyone like oh it worked

44:30

i will uh have you guys all roll initiative sure

44:36

flynn got a 14. oh my god a 13.

44:42

eight for triumph uh five for kellic oh

44:47

okay dokey um okay first up flynn yeah um i'll pop up from this uh sewer

44:54

run over to the closest one and i'm just gonna thread thud hit him with the back of the

44:59

the sword try and knock him out make an attack roll that advantage if they're

45:04

prone or not melee attacks are if it's a melee attack yes so i'll run so yeah you get

45:09

advantage run up and do it okay advantage

45:17

oh that one's good uh 21 yeah 21 hits awesome

45:22

that is cocked that is 11 piercing or bludgeoning i guess

45:27

technically because i'm here yeah we'll transfer it to budgeting um as you run up um and just clock this guy over the

45:34

head with the hilt of your sword he immediately his head like as he like gets up to look at you clock him in the

45:40

head and his head hits the ground as he is unconscious okay cool and that was not

45:49

yeah and then i'll just spin and do it to the other one too boom okay try and get this one too they can attack roll that one's good too

45:55

that's uh that'll hit um i mean uh yeah 24. yeah that hits for sure

46:03

it's even more damage that's even more damage uh okay his yeah

46:08

and then the other guy gets up to look at you and the exact same thing

46:13

guys i did it look at these guys are knocked out fastest combat encounter of all time as everyone stands there

46:18

preparing cast their spells it's another setup set them up and flynn knocks them down yeah

46:25

um do we want to check the prison first and then maybe wake one up if

46:31

they're if if he's not here yeah maybe we should i'm i'm gonna grab my rope and tie their hands yeah when i see her doing that i'll grab some rope and do

46:37

the same to the other one why are we tightening them up these people aren't our friends what

46:43

i'm gonna waste the rope of friendship on the strangers no no no the different rope

46:49

oh right sorry my mistake the magic is within us not the ropes

46:58

just throw my hands up do you miss me today we're just gonna get past this the guards are tied up

47:05

um yeah let's uh i'll scour the prison um like everyone else is gonna do them i'm sure yeah okay um awesome make i'm

47:12

gonna have everyone make an investigation check here [Music]

47:22

11 anybody 14. um

47:28

eight it was good and then it was cocked

47:33

okay um so you guys are all looking through these cells and you guys look through these cells every

47:39

once in a while someone will come to the the bars and hello who are who are you guys but quickly moving through you guys

47:47

um sort of search cell to cell to cell and none of you guys can see

47:53

anyone who's in in those extreme bindings like the other person was [Music]

47:59

and i'm gonna do a quick roll here [Music] i'm gonna do a roll of my own

48:08

are you guys all going in separate directions are you guys standing yeah i would just scour around separate him because we knocked out the two guards so

48:14

we just kind of like walk around okay um so i did my role

48:19

you guys are all looking around and you guys are searching cell to sell

48:24

going down the hallways and every once while there's a guard but there's enough distance to where you can

48:30

sort of uh step around a cell and sort of hide yourself and the guard passes and then you guys can continue on into

48:37

the halls oma yes as you are searching around

48:43

you get to the end of one of these hallways the cells stop

48:49

and it opens up into sort of a larger room and the room extends off to your right

48:56

and as you sort of turn this corner the room is much more well lit than anywhere else this is this is um almost like

49:04

daylight amount of light in here um and uh you know as opposed to the the torch

49:11

light that was in the rest of the prison and you look around and you can see

49:16

about 25 dwarven tiefling human

49:22

guards all in full plate armor all with um swords and shields at the ready

49:29

pointing them directly at a figure who is floating completely locked into

49:35

position with braces on their wrists on their ankles

49:42

on their neck and on their hip and you can see these these purple runes are now glowing bright as you can see the

49:48

muscles contracting in this in this person as they're trying to move but they are not able to

49:54

you can see long black and white hair you can see robes

50:00

you can see this person is not wearing any shoes as the guards move them along they are

50:07

perfectly floating in place not being held by anything as they move into the center of

50:14

the room as these guards move along with it

50:19

you look and you see as the ground begins to glow as consecutive circles in the ground

50:26

begin to form around the 25 guards and this one prisoner

50:31

as they light up each form of the guards and this prisoner glow from the inside

50:40

as they disappear leaving only five guards remaining in the room

50:46

and a teleportation circle on the ground

50:52

savior [Music]

50:59

yeah i am oh [Music]

51:14

yeah i run out yeah yep

51:19

i run out into the middle and i like just scream save your no

51:24

um and i run get her circle get her no do not let her get hurt now

51:30

i'm bolton if i can hear you yeah okay i'm gonna have everyone roll initiative sure oh god for everyone i uh

51:39

flynn kalec and shraya i'm also going along with initiative i'm gonna have you guys roll a d4 to see where in the

51:45

prison you guys are and see how many rounds it's going to take you guys to get here really low i got a six on my

51:52

initiative six on your initiative yeah okay d4 is three

51:57

i got 13 on initiative and d4 is two okay [Music]

52:02

okay i got a 12 on my initiative but my d4 is also three

52:11

okay and oma what's your initiative five five and you don't need to roll the d4

52:16

because you are already here okay so there are currently five guards

52:23

in the room um they are going to turn around and see you

52:33

cool so um all of them sheath their swords and they're just gonna try and

52:38

rush you and uh the first one is going to try and make a grapple attack so that is their athletics versus your dexterity

52:46

just straight decks or acrobatics or okay or i'm sorry acrobatics oh okay that's

52:52

my bad 18 18. they got a natural one so they

52:57

on their way over towards you they sort of slip and trip and they don't quite make it to you um the next one is going

53:03

to come up and try and make a grapple attack that's going to be another acrobatics check

53:09

12. that's a 5 on his part so you're dodging in between you are determined to get to this underneath

53:15

your legs yeah all right uh one more one more acrobatics check

53:22

24. oh you got a 17. okay um the next few guys are going to

53:29

try and come up and just punch at you no more grabbing no more grappling they

53:35

see these three guys laying out on the ground um they're not going to try and do that so that is going to be a 15 to

53:41

hit does not hit [Music] and an 18 to hit that hit

53:46

that is going to be six points of bludgeoning damage

53:51

hey oh i keep running you across the face yeah i keep running okay awesome um

53:59

kelly you are in a full sprint right

54:04

okay you have one more round left until you can get there

54:12

shraya you have two more rounds until you can get there ah all right flynn you also have two more rounds

54:18

until you could get oma what are you doing you are about uh

54:24

20 feet away from this teleportation circle that is

54:30

currently unguarded it looks like yeah i'm gonna run up to the teleportation circle okay um you run up and you can see

54:38

like scribed into the ground there are these runes um but currently not activated

54:46

do i recognize them at all from the other teleportation circles i've used yes yes you do what what do i get from

54:52

them um it looks like um actually

54:58

it looks like the ones that you've used um but you can't determine where it goes

55:07

actually i'm going to have you make an arcana check to see that natural 20.

55:14

okay i wish i should take a picture of this for you guys natural 20. yeah so the teleportation circles that you've

55:19

taken in the past um have taken you fairly short distances just like one or two

55:25

cities over um you can see the amount of detail that goes into this um this is taking you

55:32

much further away um yeah you would see because you've got a

55:37

natural 20 i'll give this to you um you would see like etched into the teleportation circle sigils themselves

55:45

um the uh sort of the the dwarven iconography for

55:52

the capital of calder uh the capital of oak inspire

55:58

[Music] oak inspire oak inspire yes

56:03

so you determined that this teleportation circle probably takes you to the capital of caldor

56:08

[Music] okay

56:14

i so that was 20 feet that i ran and i'm probably 20 feet then from the person who tried to punch me or how far am i

56:20

yeah yeah yeah you're you're about that far so i'm going to turn around to face them um

56:27

and just tears streaming down my face

56:33

why'd you take it where are you going with him okay is that your turn

56:38

um as i scream that um my um

56:44

my whole body body pulses and out from my hand

56:49

um you see a glowing um blade covered in

56:56

smoke and lights shimmering as it protrudes from my right

57:01

hand and i cast shadow blade

57:06

nice and i will okay [Music]

57:11

that was cocked but it was cocked almost on a five so let's try this again i have to beat a five right you have to

57:18

beat a five eleven okay it was like

57:23

between five and eighteen all right um that's the end of your turn

57:30

uh yeah that was a um it is a that was a bonus action so i'm gonna hold i'm actually gonna hold um a melee

57:37

attack okay um with the weapon

57:43

okay um okay so in a full sprint kellik at

57:52

the very end of your turn um you've used your action and your movement you charge

57:57

into this room you do still have a bonus action if you would like to use it what can i do with a playstation

58:06

uh virtually nothing uh does almo look hurt at all

58:12

uh she does not no i have a little bit of blood coming out well you got a little bit of blood coming down

58:18

yeah forgot about that okay but that's pretty typical yeah okay then i'll just

58:25

arma what's going on try and flynn you guys are still moving

58:30

moving towards this area um and

58:36

the guards are going to uh the three that were on the ground use half of their movement to get up um

58:43

they are still 20 feet away and since they're dwarfs they have even

58:49

less movement so they can't quite make it to you but they're running towards you um the two

58:54

that are standing up however run towards you and are going to attempt they're going to try and grapple you so

59:01

that's going to [Music] another be acrobatics check from you i held my

59:06

melee action that's right so yeah you can uh you can do that yeah so the one that tries to grapple me

59:12

first i'll deflect and i guess yeah knife him

59:20

okay yeah make an attack roll [Music]

59:26

um 18 hits you slide this thing just in

59:32

between the plates of their armor [Music]

59:41

just making sure yeah that's nine points of psychic damage

59:46

ooh okay um all right they uh they wince and

59:53

and a little bit of blood um comes out of their nose and their ears as you can

59:58

tell their their brain just hurts and their eyes get all bloodshot when he's close to me and his eyes are bloodshot i

1:00:03

yell on it i'm gonna whisper into his face why did you take him

1:00:12

okay that well that's gonna end his turn he's he's

1:00:18

pretty much incapacitated at this point um the next one is gonna run up and try and grapple you

1:00:24

how does that affect how does this affect my acrobatics check if i have like i'm attached to i guess i could let

1:00:30

go of i let go of the sword to avoid this grapple i guess oh okay yeah yeah yeah we can you let go of the sword

1:00:36

and uh it's okay if it's in him yeah yeah yeah natural 20.

1:00:42

my gosh for a 26. okay

1:00:48

okay uh yeah that misses fueled by anger

1:00:54

okay and then yeah i guess it's almost turn again [Laughter]

1:01:00

um bonus action called the sword to me uh

1:01:06

okay point it directly at the closest

1:01:12

um dwarf that just tried to grapple me aim it right at his throat and i'm gonna

1:01:17

tell him and i'm gonna try to knock him prone with it and so

1:01:22

first i want to just try to knock him prone and aim the sword right at his throat okay so that is going to be a shove

1:01:27

attack okay that's going to be your athletics against his

1:01:34

14 that's a dirty okay fine still pointing the sword right at

1:01:40

his throat and saying why did you take him

1:01:46

you have to calm down i don't know who you are but you need to put the sword

1:01:52

down you're not answering my questions sword's still at his throat yeah you're not in any position to ask questions

1:01:57

here seems like i am and he looks over at the guy who stole me

1:02:04

okay um that is is that the end of your turn

1:02:09

um bonus action action i didn't move but i don't want to yeah so okay

1:02:15

okay so yes um next up kilik you are in the room you are about 30 feet away from alma and

1:02:23

these two guards um and about 20 feet away from the garage rushing her right now all right uh

1:02:29

i'm i'm 20 feet away from the guards that are how close are the guards to oma

1:02:36

there are three that are rushing her that are about 10 feet away and then there are two that are right up next to

1:02:42

her within five feet [Music]

1:02:50

uh i am going to uh like i i've briefly stopped there to

1:02:56

be like what's going on and see this happen and i'll just resume my momentum uh as i barrel toward her and i will

1:03:03

sort of like slide up uh if if i can get next to her um and i will

1:03:11

put my hand up in the air and say i'm sure we can all come to an

1:03:16

understanding with a little bit of help and i will pull the curtain down once more

1:03:22

uh from above me and let the sepia tone sweep out across this as as the whole uh

1:03:28

room is filled with these like very very translucent uh ashes and i will cast

1:03:33

calm emotions ooh that's a charisma saving throw

1:03:38

christmas saving throughout uh from all five uh from uh each humanoid in a 20-foot radius

1:03:45

sphere centered on a point i choose within range so i think that means i can catch all of them yeah okay you can

1:03:50

catch all of them including you including me yes

1:03:55

that is going to be a 16 an 18 an 11

1:04:00

a 10 and a 14. okay it's a dc of 16 so that two of them

1:04:06

succeed okay 22. then i will i will roll to see which

1:04:11

two succeed incapacitated one

1:04:16

that was one of them yes the incapacitated one and then one of the ones that are one of the three that are

1:04:21

still rushing oma okay uh and they as a result of failing

1:04:28

become i believe one let me let me read verbatim this

1:04:34

dude being a claire you have so many spells yep it's so many um

1:04:40

[Music] you can make a target indifferent about creatures of your choice that it is

1:04:45

hostile toward this indifference ends if the target is attacked or harmed by a spell or if it witnesses any of its

1:04:51

friends being harmed okay uh yeah and it is one minute uh

1:04:57

concentration uh for me to maintain this this aura of calmness

1:05:04

okay all right um is that the end of your turn it is okay okay um next up shraya

1:05:11

you uh run into this room you use your full action and your movement you have a

1:05:17

bonus action if you can use anything on that nope no bonuses for me i i make okay i make it here you are in the room

1:05:23

though uh flynn same to you you are in the room but you have no action or a movement i have a bonus

1:05:30

yes i guess i don't have an action to hold a spell um

1:05:38

and how far away am i now from the center where oma is you are 30 feet away from oma

1:05:45

and two of the guards and 20 feet away from the other three cards

1:05:52

oh um i'll bonus action some in my bow you see the bow kind of form in my hand

1:05:59

and toss it over the other hand and i'll just like get ready to like look like i'm going to go for an arrow

1:06:04

get ready but i can't because i don't know okay all right um

1:06:10

so next up i've got these guards um the one that is on the ground eyes

1:06:17

bloodshot um is just like from the uh from like a kneeling

1:06:22

position gonna try and reach for his dagger and take a swipe at oma

1:06:27

um no that's gonna be a nine to hit no no he is just out of it he takes a wild

1:06:33

swing and misses um the next one though who's still rushing towards you still

1:06:38

gonna go for that grapple um because you're a child and

1:06:44

he's not a monster so that is going to be an acrobatics check

1:06:49

from you you have to beat a 22 12. strength check 12 12.

1:06:54

okay um so he runs up and he grapples you so you are currently grappled

1:07:00

[Music] but next up omar it is your turn

1:07:07

where are his arms they are wrapped around sort of your

1:07:12

torso my torso sort of keeping your arms pinned there okay

1:07:18

okay um i am going to um sorry kellick

1:07:26

um try to break the grapple um i guess i can probably do that without trying to hit him

1:07:32

i don't know pm what do you think um yeah so let's see um you have to do an

1:07:39

athletics or an acrobatics check contested by me or contested by that i'm going to do an acrobatics check

1:07:44

[Music] they're trying to break that 18 that you have to beat i beat it that

1:07:50

was a 16 plus 60s okay 22. so you just are able to uh squeeze your

1:07:57

way out of this grapple and out of the control of the dwarf nice um

1:08:03

i recall my glowing green sword to me as a bonus action pointed at both of the close

1:08:09

um toward the cl the two closest are they both dwarves there's one dwarf one humans they're both they're both dwarves

1:08:15

okay um and then one of the guards who was rushing you was human and the other two were dwarves okay i'll point it back

1:08:20

to the dwarves um and just continue to stare them down where is xavier

1:08:28

make an intimidation check for me

1:08:34

i'm not intimidating at all um five okay

1:08:39

um they don't seem to have any interest in answering you right now um but with that

1:08:46

kellick we're at the top of initiative what do you want to do i can i tell who was affected by

1:08:53

the calming emotions spell yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna say so yeah so

1:08:59

the one of those who is the closest to me i will just say i will just look at him

1:09:04

pleadingly and just say nobody has to get hurt just let us leave peacefully

1:09:11

you've seen what she can do you don't want to see how much matter she can get

1:09:17

and he looks at you and he goes and he looks at the other guards yeah sounds good to me tell them tell

1:09:23

them hey guys let's hey what are we doing here

1:09:29

let's just like all take a minute just calm down yes take a minute

1:09:38

we're all friends here yeah these guys don't seem so bad

1:09:44

um shraya you are in the room and you have your full action movement and bonus action what do you want to do

1:09:50

i and i heard this exchange yes you did okay so in that case i am

1:09:56

going to uh druid craft a

1:10:01

uh minor like glow of light that's gonna just uh dance

1:10:07

in front of them as if they were two little flickering flames that would calm and put uh each of these

1:10:14

guards at ease even first okay

1:10:19

all right um i'm gonna have you make a persuasion check all right either that or poor

1:10:25

performance natural 20 oh my god

1:10:31

first one of the day of the last three sessions actually okay so the uh the guard that was just

1:10:38

talking to kalec um sort of elbows the guy right next to me goes hey look at that that's kind of cool and the guy

1:10:44

next to him goes yes these lights are very pretty yes i do enjoy oh yes oh look at that one it's going over towards

1:10:50

the other one and they're friends um okay is that gonna be the end of your turn yeah yeah

1:10:57

okay uh flynn yeah um what are you doing seeing all this oh

1:11:02

i'm not i'm not able to get up right next to alma but i'll get up into like the area like the like close and i would

1:11:08

move 25 feet yes sir okay so i'm like in eye shot very well i'm like in this

1:11:13

now and i'll just like yeah guys let's let's talk let's talk and i'll take the bow that's in my hand

1:11:18

i'll put it on the ground oh you know i'll like put my hands up like let's just talk let's figure this out

1:11:25

no big deal and the one who uh was calmed who was right next to oma um sort of looks

1:11:31

around and he goes yeah that's i hey hey i agree i agree and he drops his

1:11:37

sword and the guy who is like bloodshot eyes what are you guys doing it was an

1:11:44

accident hey we'll figure it out okay is that the end of your turn yeah

1:11:52

um next up the uh the two guards who are not currently affected

1:11:59

um

1:12:05

see there's something there's there are times where there are things that i want to do as a dm

1:12:10

but i just can't so

1:12:15

these two dwarves looking around [Music] seeing the situation

1:12:22

they're gonna drop their weapons yeah and we are out of combat yeah

1:12:28

as uh the dwarf with the bloodshot eyes like looks around and realizes that he's been defeated um drops his dagger to the

1:12:35

ground and the one who was just trying to grapple oma sort of backs away puts his

1:12:41

hands up and sort of backs off into the corner of the room next to a wall no one's running away though no one's

1:12:47

leaving no one's leaving i keep my sword trained on the one backing away from me and i

1:12:53

say what happens where he went i'm sort of standing in front of oma

1:12:59

like if she's putting her sword on putting my arm like over her sword arm to just kind of keep her body

1:13:05

back okay um oma make uh make another intimidation

1:13:11

check now that we're out of combat six six

1:13:17

um he goes i don't know where they went i'm not in charge of that

1:13:22

what happens where he went i don't i don't know i don't even know where he went

1:13:28

how am i supposed to know what goes on where he went i don't even know where it is

1:13:33

why did he get taken i don't know

1:13:39

[Music] why does no one know anything around here

1:13:44

i'm gonna look uh can i tell that this is a there's a teleportation circle in the

1:13:50

room yes you can you can tell by the engravings on the ground

1:13:57

you saw mama you saw xavier yeah he was right here

1:14:02

and they took him and i'm gonna start to like lunge forward i'm gonna just like try and take her

1:14:08

momentum and like pick her up and like spin around with her ass as she

1:14:13

goes okay and you look over and as this is happening you can see a little bit of a smirk on

1:14:20

the dwarf's face

1:14:26

um me go um if you hit him we'll have the whole

1:14:33

fight all over again and whoever else is here in this whole encampment

1:14:38

these people aren't even our enemies they're my enemy

1:14:43

what what's reason i'll turn to to the guy who's smirking what reason do you have to to to capture a wizard like that

1:14:51

and and and to teleport him to places and leave him in bizarre shackles

1:14:56

covering his neck that's not up to me [Music] but why might they

1:15:03

right if if this man is actually worth this kind of punishment then we

1:15:08

have no reason to pursue him so just grant us an idea of what his crimes might be

1:15:16

i've got no clue who who would a pipe up [Music]

1:15:22

i don't know does it seem like he's withholding

1:15:27

information can you do that thing for the truth can you do that thing can you do that thing

1:15:35

total of 20. yeah he's not he's purposefully withholding

1:15:41

information he's not intimidated in the slightest

1:15:47

i will add an additional layer i had almost prompt i'll i'll put her

1:15:52

down and this time i'll pull out a tether to the side and

1:15:57

and cover his his zone with a zone of truth uh which is a charisma saving throw

1:16:06

[Music]

1:16:14

the nine he fails he fails so he doesn't have to share

1:16:20

anything but if he speaks he has to speak the truth okay [Music]

1:16:28

tell us what you know about xavier or i'll let her go to town on you

1:16:35

i know nothing about the prisoner what do you know about what they do there

1:16:40

[Music] where they've taken him i believe they're taking him to be

1:16:46

interrogated in association with

1:16:53

with what i don't know where

1:16:59

oh conspire where in oak inspire it's a big city i don't know

1:17:06

is this you won't be able to get there from here there's a circle we can use the circle

1:17:11

no you can't why not it can only be activated from the other side

1:17:17

will you let us go [Music] without alerting the others no

1:17:25

that seems fair from his perspective just wanted to check

1:17:31

well then you got any more of that rope how many guards are there again there's

1:17:37

five total right some of them are still five total some of them are still chill and they don't change

1:17:45

one of them one of them comes up and uh and uh sort of

1:17:50

one of the dwarven guards um comes over and puts his hand over on kellock's shoulder and he looks at the other door

1:17:56

for you guys are interrogating and goes come on just it's it just tell him

1:18:02

just tell him what they need to know does he seem wooed by that

1:18:08

he does not uh do you know chum

1:18:14

do you know any more about this yeah i don't ma i wish i knew because if

1:18:19

i did i would tell you who among but you would or or can you tell us where we can look [Music]

1:18:27

commanding officers uh i don't know exactly where they are right now um we're kind of the the night shift so the

1:18:33

commanding officers are probably asleep at this point you have any like documentation or anything that we could have oh yeah over at the archives

1:18:39

where's that at um that's sort of uh if you go so here we have a map obviously

1:18:45

yeah i'll pull them out and as i'm doing this and as the other guards being very helpful to us i'll

1:18:51

just be looking at the other dwarf that's being kind of a dick and just give him like a look like gotcha didn't need you anyway

1:18:58

um yeah so he he looks at the map and he goes yeah so if you could just go right over here and then pass this right here

1:19:04

right in there are the archives perfect thank you and i'll make a little like indication or mark or

1:19:10

something and you guys hear just a couple feet away um one of the the human and the dwarven

1:19:18

guard oh no the light right there so it'll go around the other end

1:19:24

yeah oh yeah so we

1:19:30

so we just need to tie up the one they're only going to be calmed for a

1:19:35

minute yeah we might as well just get out of here we should just run yeah i know we're going to go to the

1:19:41

archives all right you know they don't know when yeah we could come back

1:19:50

i don't have a good idea i'm i'm fresh out okay look i'm gonna say it's it's a minute right it's a minute common

1:19:56

motions i'm gonna say you would know that you have about 15 seconds left why don't we just each take one in punch

1:20:02

yeah all right i run up to one the one that's i wrote the one [ __ ] i go to the [ __ ] one okay

1:20:08

uh and i will uh i'll i'll cast bain

1:20:15

on uh as many as i can i think i only have level one spells left so on three of them

1:20:21

okay um with that we're back in it i'm gonna have you guys roll initiative once again here we go

1:20:27

oh i got i got a total of 20 on that one we get i mean we're they're basically surprised though right because

1:20:34

the guards i'm going to say i'm going to say the three that have their uh that are the calm emotions on

1:20:40

them i'm going to say that they have the surprise condition okay and i'm on the other one that's not surprised

1:20:48

[Laughter] just like let's just take a break get some water i'll get back okay so

1:20:54

flynn was a 20. yeah oma was a 17. [Music]

1:21:12

see what these cards got we're just all lining up with one like

1:21:18

ready to knock them out at the same time

1:21:23

so that the people don't okay um okay flynn uh you are up first in

1:21:30

initiative what would you like to do as you can see this um this spell of calm emotions is just starting to fade yeah

1:21:35

i'll uh i'll just do the same thing i'll bonus action oh is it my turn or is it a

1:21:40

reaction yeah it's your turn just at the start of combat sure i mean i'll drop my bow bonus action bring out

1:21:47

my sword and start with the people that are surprised do i have like an advantage or something

1:21:52

on them because they're surprised they don't expect it um no they just skipped the first round to come oh okay all right well i'll i'll go ahead and start

1:21:58

swinging so i'll go to the closest one that's uh and and give them a little whack on the on the noggin

1:22:04

okay uh that is um that's a 12.

1:22:10

uh 12 does not hit okay i'll try again with my uh extra attack okay man another

1:22:16

12. yeah and thinking your sword hits uh on their armor both times i will action

1:22:22

surge and do it two more times okay uh i might hit

1:22:28

uh 15. uh 15 just hits okay uh that is ooh next uh that is uh

1:22:35

13 points appears or not piercing bludgeoning as i walk him in the head okay and he is knocked out i will go to

1:22:41

the next one it's unconscious okay next one is good too 16 uh uh plus

1:22:48

uh so it's uh yeah 20 you know 24. okay ooh uh eight points of bludgeoning on

1:22:55

the noggin okay um you you hit them over the head and um you can see immediately

1:23:01

they're knocked out of the common motion spell but they are still okay still conscious

1:23:07

um that is my turn i will stay in melee with that one okay um next up oma

1:23:14

i smile and i crack my knuckles and i run up run to him and punch him right across the

1:23:19

face nice okay make an attack roll oh i don't think it's gonna hit 13

1:23:25

13 does not hit one more time [Music]

1:23:31

15. uh 15 hits yes roll that damage

1:23:37

[Music] eight no seven eight seven seven okay

1:23:45

he is still conscious as he takes this uh hit right to the head

1:23:50

he's still standing okay um next up the one

1:23:56

with the bloodshot eyes dagger still in his hand is going to rush towards flynn and try and take a swipe at him with the

1:24:02

dagger sure uh no that's gonna be an eight to hit i misses and swings and misses as he

1:24:09

swings who sort of takes his momentum a little bit too far and almost collapses back to the ground um next up calek

1:24:16

uh i i'm casting bane on the three i think there's three conscious still is that is that

1:24:23

there are four conscious still um only one of them is at full health right now okay well um

1:24:31

whichever three seem the most threatening based on okay where i am that i can that are within 30 feet of me

1:24:37

okay they all have bane charisma saving throw they they could save against oh christmas

1:24:43

on the first one fail eleven and a two they all have been nice

1:24:49

okay 24 24 okay is that your turn yep

1:24:56

[Music] the dwarf who is going who just got hit

1:25:02

over the head by oma um is going to attempt to swing at omaha

1:25:08

that that would have is but thanks to bain

1:25:13

nice that is a 14. does not hit okay as his eyes are awash with ashes

1:25:22

that is his turn uh i'm shraya take the one i ran up to and

1:25:27

clock him in the head with this pulsating staff that is charged okay

1:25:34

make an attack roll all right uh dirty 20. yeah that hits nice roll your

1:25:41

damage and the damage for that is gonna be

1:25:50

uh that is a there's 12 points of uh magical archangel

1:25:55

okay as you smack him over the head um you can see his eyes roll back

1:26:00

immediately thrown into unconsciousness as he falls to the ground

1:26:06

awesome okay um next up top of the order flynn um i'll try the one that i hit before

1:26:13

i'm gonna try and knock him out okay finish it up yeah make that attack roll

1:26:20

one but actually it's just kidding it's an 18 plus something [Music]

1:26:25

yeah that is happening okay yeah that's

1:26:31

uh 12 points of he is out yeah knock them in their heads

1:26:36

out and then i'll move on to another one what's the other one that was weak

1:26:42

there's one the one that's taking damage right yeah so there's one right next to

1:26:47

oma that she's beaten up on and then um there's one that had the bloodshot eyes

1:26:52

that ran up to you um and was trying to take a swing right yeah i'm gonna leave the the one the one that's kind of a

1:26:57

dick that almost punching i'm gonna leave that to her well there's two next to me right no uh one of them was knocked out

1:27:04

oh okay so you're she's fighting the one that's kind of been a dick this whole time i'm gonna let her do that because i feel like she wants to beat him up so

1:27:10

i'm gonna take the one that's bloodshot eyes and try and um damage him okay make an attack roll another good

1:27:16

roll uh uh yeah like 25

1:27:22

[Laughter] uh only oh nine points but i mean he's

1:27:28

damaged before he's yeah he's unconscious i'll knock him out too

1:27:33

[Music] yeah how many more left just the one next to oma cool

1:27:40

that's my turn i'll move up to him in melee next up is oma

1:27:46

um i so i look at him i look in the eyes and i say i'm gonna find savior and when i do

1:27:54

i'm gonna make sure everyone who kept him captive pays and i punch him in the face

1:27:59

okay um

1:28:05

19 yeah nice nine points of damage for the first time

1:28:12

okay you want to hit him again oh yeah okay okay so uh you hit him the first time

1:28:19

the first time and i i pick up my other fist and i say starting with you and i punch him a second time okay

1:28:27

natural 20. is he like dead okay

1:28:33

all the damage he might be but she's gonna like break we can't use our reaction for this right open

1:28:39

no you cannot so automatic damage is 11 points

1:28:46

plus [Music] uh plus three because i don't add the

1:28:53

plus again so 11 14. okay um

1:29:00

he was unconscious on the first hit and as you swing back around and crack

1:29:06

him on the side of the head um you feel your fist like embed itself into the side of his

1:29:12

skull a little bit as he is instantly dead alma

1:29:18

what did you do i collapsed to my knees and i touch the

1:29:26

um circle the um teleportation circle

1:29:32

come back kellick i'm running over to the guy

1:29:39

can i put his head back together like i'm gonna cradle his skull and and

1:29:44

see if i i don't know where we fall on this in terms of like how how whether i can use

1:29:50

spare the dying on uh this kind of situation yeah was it non-lethal i don't know i

1:29:57

don't know it was not stated it was not stated that it was non-lethal so so it was

1:30:03

he is fully dead look as you lean down and you pick up his head

1:30:08

it completely falls back and you even sort of feel in your hand where his skull is collapsed in

1:30:18

oh my what are you doing girl now like he's gone

1:30:25

i turn around as a and as i flourish with the staff uh and the energy from the blow that i gave to the dwarf kind

1:30:32

of pulses back into the staff and it powers down uh i put the staff back between my wings

1:30:38

i turn around look at the dwarf kind of like [ __ ] my head and whisper under my breath

1:30:44

another dwarf bites the dust no shia

1:30:50

no this is not what we do

1:30:55

he was a dick but he was he was a person person so a

1:31:01

over this way no i think it was up here oh we gotta go uh-oh this just got a lot worse because of

1:31:07

this we're [ __ ] we gotta get we gotta get to the archive uh because we

1:31:13

can't come back here can only imagine what the security will be like if we come back you're right

1:31:19

we have to find a way out of here [Music] flynn he pointed to the that's where the

1:31:24

archive was on the map yeah i have it on the map and i i roll it up off the ground like shook i snap back into it

1:31:31

roll up the map and put it i have it here but we we gotta go and i'll put it in my bag

1:31:36

can i quickly look over this guy's like pockets really quick to see if he has like a

1:31:41

i don't know like i want to see if he has any mementos or anything like that like

1:31:48

sure yeah as these guards are quickly approaching my hand like two or three pockets like one two

1:31:54

and then go okay okay yeah you can do that don't ever trust the dm when he says

1:32:00

that well i did it i did it i just want to see if i can um

1:32:08

19 19. uh you find a pouch of seven gold

1:32:14

and three silver um you find his weapons which consist of a sword and a dagger

1:32:21

um and you see he's got a single key on his belt i leave all of it i just wanted

1:32:26

to see if he had like a i don't know let's go let's go now scanning the ground for

1:32:32

everyone grabbing oma and lifting her to her feet uh obviously i'm not gonna carry her

1:32:38

i'm not very strong but i'm just like moving her into a running

1:32:43

uh posture um as you guys are sprinting out of this room um

1:32:49

you guys round the corner and i'm going to have all of you guys

1:32:54

just make a just a straight dexterity check

1:33:01

yeah because we have guards coming in so i want to see if you guys can move fast enough

1:33:06

to get out of here 19. [Music]

1:33:11

16. [Music] um

1:33:17

11. 11. okay as the group sprints forward um

1:33:24

you guys round the corner and off down one of the hallways just like

1:33:30

literally split second before a group of guards rounds the other corner and enters the room um as

1:33:38

they don't see you guys um and you guys sprint down the hallway

1:33:43

you guys go down the stairs that you guys came up you guys find your way back down to the ground floor

1:33:49

and you guys find your way back into the sewer tunnel

1:33:54

what would you guys like to do keep going keep going to the archive what are we able to sort of i'm moving like a

1:34:00

triangulate um i think we just should get out of wait is the archive in the military

1:34:06

district still or is it yes it is yeah could i do could i press my head to the

1:34:12

top feel the vibrations of the of the ground above and try to triangulate the position based on the sewer complex

1:34:22

make a uh survival check see

1:34:28

ah that's an 11 and 11 uh you are at this point kind of disoriented you can't really find where

1:34:36

exactly it would be

1:34:41

do we come back later do we do this now

1:34:47

what were we expecting to learn from the archives exactly i wasn't there the whole time they attracted they do

1:34:53

what they do with their prisoners what they do with xavier

1:34:58

why they had him in the first place they don't put those kind of bonds on

1:35:04

regular people what kind of man was xavier what was he up to he was good

1:35:11

he took care of me he was teaching me was he dangerous amma no

1:35:19

never i don't know who what happened before i

1:35:25

met him but he was kind to me and he took care of me

1:35:32

when i had no one and he was teaching me how to control

1:35:38

everything did he teach you how to do that

1:35:45

and i'll point back towards the prison or the no no

1:35:52

that was before him he was teaching me how to stay in control

1:35:59

and make sure that buildings didn't blow up and make sure that nothing bad ever happened

1:36:06

he was good and they took him

1:36:14

what a mess we should just get out of here

1:36:21

i will say even if we do make it to the archive

1:36:27

there's there must be the highest level of security here now that there ever has been

1:36:34

if it isn't yet it's going to be there shortly i think having a location of your friend

1:36:40

is enough for now yeah what are we going to learn you know breadcrumbs fragments

1:36:47

that's assuming we can find whatever book they give you information

1:37:03

should we leave the city are we safe to sleep here

1:37:09

uh we killed someone

1:37:17

i that'll be dead aren't we still rendezvousing with a

1:37:23

contact in the morning we have to we'll miss that person we do need to go back to the end to get thaddeus

1:37:29

at least but maybe we find a different inn something

1:37:36

nobody really were staying there you know we didn't tell anyone

1:37:42

everybody's safe i can reach out to that inn is the one that thaddeus chose right that's that's

1:37:48

his place yeah but he will remember us we're pretty memorable

1:37:54

maybe we should have this meeting somewhere else everyone else got knocked out are we doing this like as we're walking through the sewers i'm assuming

1:38:01

we're just like kind of walking towards the exit eventually they may figure out our routes through these buildings

1:38:08

i think i think we get our protection tomorrow morning

1:38:16

and we go to a different inn or somewhere else

1:38:22

i can talk to the sentinel keep watch all done all night you need to rest no i don't

1:38:28

i'm not going to rest i'm not sleepy i'm keeping watch all night

1:38:34

i will keep watch with you i did not expend much energy in these last few exchanges the sentinel might be able to

1:38:41

hide us don't be foolish i'm not being foolish we rotate watch as we get the most out

1:38:46

of all of us what's that about that ulma we'll take care of each other

1:38:51

right that means you're sleeping too i don't need to sleep yes you do no i don't you're only 12. you don't know

1:38:58

anything i have this and i pull out i pull out i pull out a potion

1:39:03

that's not this doesn't matter um

1:39:09

it is a um blue like a dark blue potion um

1:39:17

i don't need to sleep this is good enough

1:39:22

trust me i know i know you're in a place yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna listen for any other sounds

1:39:29

around us here in the sewer okay make a perception check for it

1:39:35

uh 19. uh 19. um you hear just

1:39:41

quiet little drips drops of water that echo off of the sides of the stone walls here in the

1:39:48

tunnel you hear a little bit of a commotion behind you but you can tell it's just

1:39:55

above the surface no one's actually come down into the sewer but you've got a pretty good read on

1:40:03

you know you would probably be able to hear if someone opened that hatch okay great

1:40:10

it's only gonna get harder to make these tough decisions the less you sleep alma [Music]

1:40:17

no you don't understand this potion is like if i took a long sleep and took a rest

1:40:24

i'm gonna stay up and i'm gonna watch [Music]

1:40:29

i can't sleep anyway i saw him he was right in front of me

1:40:35

they took him and i let them

1:40:41

okay okay

1:40:51

let's just get back to the end start with that

1:40:56

i liked it here well you can stay

1:41:06

but i'm gonna go find xavier

1:41:16

we march back in silence yeah

1:41:22

okay so you guys are able to walk all the way back to that initial

1:41:28

hatch the manhole cover that you guys had opened up you peek through

1:41:33

you don't see any guards in sight seems that all of them have gone possibly to

1:41:40

any of your previous locations you don't see any of them you pop out shraya you once again turn

1:41:47

the key in the door pull the lever and it opens out into the city streets

1:41:53

you guys walk back through the park that shraya you had spoken with the

1:41:59

halflings at oma you walk and you see the tree that you had climbed

1:42:05

earlier in the day you guys continue walking

1:42:11

i see the early stones ire off to your right you pass by the gallows on your left

1:42:19

you make it back to the inn at this point well into the night

1:42:26

as you guys all sit down quietly contemplating what just happened and any possible next steps

1:42:32

that's where we're going to end today's session thank you all so much for listening and we can't wait to see y'all again next

1:42:38

week bye nerds goodbye nerds hey it's shane thanks so much for

1:42:44

listening to that episode of ventureforth we really really appreciate it uh we're everywhere on the internet uh we're on every social media

1:42:50

application as ventureforthdnd we're even on tick-tock but i don't really know how much we're doing on

1:42:56

there uh we've really enjoyed seeing your comments on our various uh channels on our instagram and our youtube and

1:43:02

even on facebook uh thank you so much for sharing your thoughts feelings and please do continue to do that we we love

1:43:08

uh seeing you guys engage with what we're putting out that way it fills our hearts with joy thanks so much

1:43:15

and we'll see you next time bye nerds [Music]

1:43:32

you

Venture Forth is a Dungeons and Dragons podcast. We play 5th edition (5e) Dungeons and Dragons in a home-brew D&D actual play setting. Our campaign takes place in the high fantasy realm of Elbor. A world of monsters, heroes and epic tales to be told. D&D is a TTRPG, a tabletop roleplaying game, also known as an RPG. Our gameplay is perfect for beginners to Dungeons and Dragons from episode 1.Olma, Flynn, March, Ceallach, Shraya

Venture Forth, Dungeons and Dragons podcast, 5e, actual play, actual play podcast, d&d, d&d 5e, d&d actual play, d&d campaign, d&d episode 1, d&d for beginners, d&d game, d&d gameplay, d&d podcast, d&d podcast for beginners, d&d podcasts for beginners, dnd, dnd 5e, dnd campaign, dnd podcast, dnd podcast ep 1, dungeons and dragons, dungeons and dragons 5e, dungeons and dragons campaign, dungeons and dragons for beginners, dungeons and dragons gameplay, role playing game, rpg, ttrpg, Alma, Fin, Finn, Fynn, Sharaya, Shraya, Shiraya, Shraia, Shraiya, Caylek, Ceylek, Cayleck, Caylick

Venture Forth, Dungeons and Dragons podcast, 5e, actual play, actual play podcast, d&d, d&d 5e, d&d actual play, d&d campaign, d&d episode 1, d&d for beginners, d&d game, d&d gameplay, d&d podcast, d&d podcast for beginners, d&d podcasts for beginners, dnd, dnd 5e, dnd campaign, dnd podcast, dnd podcast ep 1, dungeons and dragons, dungeons and dragons 5e, dungeons and dragons campaign, rpg, ttrpg

Venture Forth, Dungeons and Dragons podcast, 5e, actual play podcast, d&d, d&d 5e, d&d actual play, d&d campaign, d&d gameplay, d&d podcast, dnd, dnd 5e, dnd campaign, dnd podcast, dungeons and dragons, dungeons and dragons campaign, rpg, ttrpg

https://www.ventureforthdnd.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNl1hOaZiXruwLE8Ct1NNNA