SPEAKER_04

Hey, what's up, guys? Hi, happy Saturday. Welcome Saturday. We are here to play some Land of Eam.

SPEAKER_08

Some Land of Eam Stream. RPG the Eam Stream. Picking up season 40.

SPEAKER_04

It's season 40, episode 40. You guys are in the quagmash, the gross swamp.

SPEAKER_14

The mash. The quagmash. You're on the precipice of danger. Okay. I mean, we're always at the precipice of danger. Yeah, it's been a it's been a slog as of we like we like to live.

SPEAKER_12

As is customary. It's a dangerous place.

SPEAKER_14

And we never will get our 10 hex XP bonus. Not here. Not today. Not here. Not today. Not here. But I'm excited to try to surmount the insurmountable. All right. Dark Shroom Tower.

SPEAKER_04

The Dark Shroom. Yeah, you guys are headed to Dark Shroom Tower, which is a place of evil. Evil. A cult of mushrooms who have kidnapped people. And you're not really sure what it's all about, but you have two mushroom companions.

SPEAKER_14

No Bellow and Chini. Bellow and Chini. They come from Mushmash down south.

SPEAKER_04

And uh they were on a quest themselves with a group of others to stop what's happening there. And you joined up with them. They've joined up with you. It's classic. Last time you were at a tavern and met up with a guide.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_14

Schmidties singing wish, and we talked to Bork, who had a run-in with the mushrooms. Now, is that was that an on the spot name, Ben, or did you use the name generator? Which. I think James came up with Schmidtie's. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_11

For for Bork.

SPEAKER_14

That was on the spot.

SPEAKER_11

Nah.

SPEAKER_14

Using roll.

SPEAKER_11

Yeah. Got Bork, Bork, Dork, flat out orc, Mr. Fort. Zork. Zork. The grand inquisitor. Yeah.

SPEAKER_14

Cork Romano. Wow. It's a great film. The classique mafia film, Cork E.

SPEAKER_13

Romano. Wow. Really define this genre right up there with Godfather 3. And Mickey Blue Eyes. Mickey. Mickey Blue. Oh god.

SPEAKER_14

Kids, don't watch those movies, please. They're bad. They're objectively bad. You have better things to do with your time. Go play Roblox.

SPEAKER_04

All right. Um, you guys are still in the tavern, I guess. Or you know, I'll give you some time to uh supply up if you want. Or maybe you don't have any money. Who knows?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, we don't have any money. James is a good one.

SPEAKER_14

One who has, yeah, hooch has X1 copper powder.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I'm happy to uh to buy some supplies.

SPEAKER_14

I I would I would barter for some supplies too, I guess. We need rations. Yeah, we do.

SPEAKER_16

Apologies. I I lost my voice for a couple of days, so I might be uh I might sound hoarse.

SPEAKER_04

Froggy.

Choosing Dark Shroom Over The Sword

SPEAKER_13

Froggy. You sounded sultry and seductive, dare I say.

SPEAKER_12

It's uh not how it sounds when it comes out of my own mouth and I hear it. I sound like uh, you know.

SPEAKER_10

Tom Waits. B. Arthur.

SPEAKER_12

I want to put a creature in the quagmash, uh, an ogre that has two heads, and one of them is Tom Waits. The other one likes to be Arthur.

SPEAKER_14

Ma. Uh you mean uh Brad? Oh, Brad. Uh everybody loves Raymond's brother. Raymond. Raymond. Raymond. Let's let's jump into the game here. We're going way off course. That's it's just getting in the boost. We're sitting there for like nine minutes trying to think of Brad. Brad's name. Brad Bradson.

SPEAKER_12

Brad Branson. Branson, like Branson, Missouri. Yeah. Dolly Parton, uh, yeah, Brad Garrett.

SPEAKER_13

Okay, it's Brad. Ben knew Ben knew that we could not be wrangled. I think Ben Ben Googled it in order to move us along.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, that's just to destroy us and then move us along.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, he knows how to it was also for my own benefit of not having to think about that anymore.

SPEAKER_12

Yeah, this is gonna get in the way of jamming. It's true. Everybody left.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah. Uh Ben, who can I can I okay, so James, you want to concert with a bartender and see if you can get some supplies, and then I'm gonna do my own little side deal.

SPEAKER_07

We need some uh, you know, we need some food, barkeep for the road.

SPEAKER_04

Uh yeah, I mean, uh, what do you want? Got some quiche.

SPEAKER_14

No, no, no, no. Definitely want quiche. Don't get quiche. You know what it makes you do. I know the quiche runs right through you, hooch. I'll tell you what. We've done this before.

SPEAKER_07

Uh uh, give me as much as quiche as I can buy for a one copper pouch.

SPEAKER_14

Georgia O'quiche.

SPEAKER_07

I don't spend it.

SPEAKER_14

Oh, look at this guy.

SPEAKER_10

You get a little bit more than that.

SPEAKER_12

Okay. I buy more and I eat one while I'm there.

SPEAKER_14

I don't spend it. Yeah, who hooch is on a hot streak of not spending money.

SPEAKER_12

I'll come bumbling over to Brendo, still chewing on a quiche and hand over quiche to the rest of the team.

SPEAKER_14

Got team quiche. Got two pieces of quiche. Uh two X. Two quiche sees. Quiche sasu sees. These aren't really rations, they're just quiche. These aren't really rations. That's fine. Only it's said in Landavim. It's like you eat the quiche and it's gone. Hooch doesn't know the difference. Yeah. Um, I will actually ask if there's any regular rations he has for sale we can ration.

SPEAKER_04

Sorry, uh, this isn't uh really uh a depot here, a supply store. This is a bar. You're lucky I got quiche. You know, bar quiche.

SPEAKER_02

Bar quiche, bar quiche. Little microwaveable steak pies and bar quiche. Yeah. Got any hot pockets?

SPEAKER_14

You know?

SPEAKER_15

Yeah, like a toaster strutle, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_14

Got road apple hot pockets. Perfect. It's a road apple pie to go, mass manufactured for your enjoyment. Yes. Okay. So we've resupplied then. I think it's a good thing. Well, you've got leash.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, I wouldn't call that a full-on resupply. Um, Ben, correct me if I'm wrong. Uh what?

SPEAKER_14

Where was this bar and where was the dark stroom tower? Did we already move to the dark stroom tower?

SPEAKER_12

I think the dark stroom tower is south south of us. But I was gonna I was gonna ask you, Brendo, if we should go get um Grim Tusk's sword before we go there.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, we were kind of discussing that. Um, well, didn't Bello and Cheney have something to say about that? They're just gonna go throw themselves at Darkstroom Tower into the.

SPEAKER_17

Oh, that's right. You're right. We we gotta stop them from throwing away their lives.

SPEAKER_02

I mean, yeah, he's the only ones that survive to get to this point, the rest of them are gators, which we miss.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, I mean, their argument is that could take like days, even weeks.

Encounter With Mind-Controlled Mushrooms

SPEAKER_14

Right. And they have people inside that need saving. All right, then we're gonna roll in hot. Yeah, I mean, I gave Seth that wicked flail, so that's that's true. He's armed. Fran lost her blunderbuss and Bellon Chini are useless. Yeah. Um, I'll give my pickaxe to Fran. He twirls it around like an experienced miner, 49er.

SPEAKER_09

And that's all I have besides the man catcher.

SPEAKER_02

I have a hard hat. Does that count as armor?

SPEAKER_14

Again, yeah, it probably helps you against like death jets. That's amazing. You know what? We got this. How hard could it be? I make it. I don't know.

SPEAKER_04

Uh why don't you uh travel down south? Um kick us off, Georgie.

SPEAKER_14

Let me let me jump. Or we'll take you there directly. Awesome. So you can find it, but you will need to still uh show what happens. Apologies. I opened the roll 20, but I didn't actually get into the game. EA Sports got in the game. Uh now I will roll.

SPEAKER_11

That's uh yeah. Yep.

SPEAKER_14

We should have just had James Row. Three. Um four. Maybe five, four, four.

SPEAKER_04

All right. Doesn't uh change anything. Roll a D100.

SPEAKER_14

100.

SPEAKER_11

Sunday, Sunday. 24. 24, 24, 24.

SPEAKER_14

24. Oh, this is great. Oh, I I mean like for whom? For who? Uh great for you.

SPEAKER_04

It's great for extreme. It can't get any better.

SPEAKER_14

It's a Clunch Dragon is returned. No, no, like ornery mushrooms. Oh, oh come out from the darkness and ornery mind-controlled mushrooms start casting spores and shrieking uh bellow and chini.

SPEAKER_04

Um duck behind you guys and say, Oh, the words they are saying such profanities.

SPEAKER_14

It's like holding their ears.

SPEAKER_02

And I just don't even know what what they're saying because I can't see the mushroom language. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10

I say we're gonna make a realms check, pooch.

SPEAKER_12

Yeah, I'm gonna make a realms check to see if yeah, you're like mushroom addictions. If I can like telepathically understand like what they oh, I can't believe I did it.

SPEAKER_14

I believe it's not butter. They're saying uh basically that you will all drown in lakes of blood.

SPEAKER_15

And now you will know why you're afraid of the dark. Now you will learn why you fear the night.

SPEAKER_14

You will become one with the tower, the dark shroom. I'm sitting here I don't think so, chief. Who are you talking to? Shut up. You just yelled, I don't think so, Chief.

SPEAKER_00

You can't hear him?

SPEAKER_13

No.

SPEAKER_14

They're just like moaning at us. It's terrible. I hate it. They're threatening us with horrible things. You say I say uh, you know, they're mindless zombies. Tomato. I say tomato.

SPEAKER_04

So they are presently coming at you uh with their their eyes are glowing red.

SPEAKER_14

And um, what are you gonna do? No, absolutely nothing. We just go around because they move so slow. They're not zombies. They're no, they're zombies. They're zombies, then I'm sorry. George's turning himself out of it.

SPEAKER_15

The zombies are so slow. I I move around them.

SPEAKER_14

They're not the fast-moving 28 days later zombies. They're they're just I mean, you could run scambling mushrooms, but they are dark. What is what does that actually mean? They're like they are dark shrimp mushrooms. Like well, you're going to their their tower, basically. So they're evil tower. If you run to their tower, I mean they know exactly where you're going. Yeah.

SPEAKER_13

They'll never figure it out. Um, no. Uh how many of them are there, Ben?

SPEAKER_10

That's a good question. Uh, let's roll a d6. There are two.

SPEAKER_14

I go butt to butt with Seth and I say, Y'all ready for this? And I start shredding on the key tower. Actually, sorry. Let me um oh, oh.

SPEAKER_15

No, big boy rules, big boy rules. Nah, nah, nah.

SPEAKER_06

Well PC revolt!

SPEAKER_04

Yep. No, but I actually want to use the rules. So there's that's great.

SPEAKER_14

This guy and his rules. There are five. Uh okay, that's a lot.

SPEAKER_02

Can we take five shrooms?

SPEAKER_14

I mean, this is a good okay. So, this is what's gonna happen. We're gonna get our butts kicked, and we're just gonna retreat to the uh the the bar for a bit, you know.

SPEAKER_12

So uh the bar will be under siege like uh night of the liquid.

SPEAKER_13

Oh that would be such a good yeah.

SPEAKER_14

Uh the Winchester. Um, ah man, that's that sounds like so much fun. All right, let's get this show on the road. Let's see if we can steer it that direction. All right, I'm down. No, no, no, no, no. Well, I don't know. I feel like we have to go at least try to assault the the Quag Shroom Tower. So let's start fighting these guys.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, uh what do you want to do?

SPEAKER_14

Um, I fly behind them to flank them. Does that confer any bonuses, Ben? No, I feel like you've asked this every time. Really?

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, because there's a part of you that wants to play Land Beam like it's a skirmish battle game. Yeah, I do.

SPEAKER_14

I think it's just your like 3.5 roots. That is 100% true. Do I get an attack of opportunity when they move past me? That's all my only question. No, they get an attack of opportunity when you fly over them. So you're shot down.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, it's it's like the entire movie behind enemy lines. Um six feet away, but yeah.

SPEAKER_04

I guess my ultimate question is do you want to somehow parlay or do a non-combat action before?

SPEAKER_14

I turn, I turn well. This is how about this? I turn to Bell and China, say, is there is there any hope for these guys? Or do they need to become a risotto? So I had an idea for parlaying, actually, that I want to destroy.

SPEAKER_17

Um go for it. Um, I was gonna hold up the dark shroom that we found and like pretend to be controlled by it and be like, brothers, we we will not drown lakes of blood, but our enemies will to the dark shroom tower. Okay, like try to rally them and inspire them because their minds are weak, and then like wink at the other mushrooms that are with us in front of. And I'm gonna pretend to be Bellow and Cheney don't pick up on social cues.

SPEAKER_01

Thank you.

SPEAKER_04

Make a trickery check.

Deception Plan To Infiltrate The Cult

SPEAKER_14

Uh I could get you to re-roll it, but is that the best use right now? I think. Yeah, let's do it. I think maybe it is. Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. All right, I use Ode. And I um I'm gonna choose one of the following re-roll a roll for my ally. Oh. And I add plus one, it gives us a six plus. I quest point it up. All right, it's success of sus. Don't let me down, Hooch. Rolls are one. Let's see, Hooch. What you got? I roll again. He rolls again. Brandon 10. There you go. There you go.

SPEAKER_15

The power of the dark room courses through my veins. We are one.

SPEAKER_04

Yes, yes. Um, you you start picking up their language, hooch.

SPEAKER_14

Nice. You can uh pick up pieces and uh they say grab the prisoners, um and they all like swarm to the non-mushrooms. Uh Bellow and Chenie are uh a little uh spooked.

SPEAKER_04

Let's see if they can uh fall in line.

SPEAKER_14

Come on, Bellow and Chenie. No, they're like scared and uh I'll just keep looking at winking at everybody as I like get behind the beginning picture.

SPEAKER_17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_15

Soon you will understand your treachery when you contemplate this on the tree of woe. Wow, the tree of woe is now canon.

SPEAKER_04

The dark shrooms take Bellu and Cheney and uh push them forward. They say, You will become one of us soon enough.

SPEAKER_02

All right, now let's do your left out because I'm not gonna become one of them tower.

SPEAKER_04

All right.

SPEAKER_14

Um, eventually you come and see the the horrible sight of Dark Shroom Tower, the huge mushroom in the distance, and then uh there's like a there's just a field, it's like a giant moat basically of fungals around it, like rolling hills of fungals.

SPEAKER_16

Jeez, hills of fungals, um every bird that lands on them. Wow, ow, no.

SPEAKER_14

You watch as the the mushrooms, the dark shrooms walk up to the fungals and like whisper the horrible and it kind of carves a path. And the fungals don't attack as you walk through them. Ben, can I uh using my keenly tuned ear for music, pick up on those words and like maybe pocket the words for use in the future? Or is it not gonna work that way because I'm not a mushroom? Um really asking you to get in the nitty-gritty of how this mind control thing works.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, uh you could try with disadvantage.

SPEAKER_11

Okay.

SPEAKER_14

Um should I make like a uh let's make a just a roll d12 and see and apply whatever bonuses if I get close. Wow. So that eight plus I don't know, maybe like a scrutiny, scrolly, scrolly, scrolly. What? Maybe we say lore perception? Lore. Okay, lore would be plus two. It's a 10. Realms is plus one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_12

Pretty classic, pretty classic. I dig.

SPEAKER_14

I dig.

SPEAKER_04

Uh okay, so with lore, like you can realize that this is not normal.

SPEAKER_14

This is not something you could just say to any fungal in the world. This is like some dark thing they have over these fungals.

SPEAKER_07

Really specific to their evil cult.

SPEAKER_14

So you're saying I learned dark fungal mind control words. You've learned like the dark words of dark shroom tower that affect the fungals here. That's awesome. That'll be helpful for our escape. Yeah, like it'd be like it'll be good to have it in run into a sea of fungals and be eaten alive. Yeah. That's hilarious. Um, so we ran into mushrooms here mind controlled. Uh, we surrender to them. Okay, cool. Sorry, I was just making notes. This is quest 10, you know. Somebody's gonna die. Someone's gotta die, you know. Yeah, that's how it works. Doesn't it captors? I mean, it might be Fran. Who knows? It's definitely gonna be fork guys. Bork really did not um expect to go this far. He was gonna leave. So you guys are escorted through the fungals, um, and these things aren't licking their chops, but they're not acting on it. I like that they have chops. They're like yeah, they have frothing, gross mouths. Ew. And uh you're brought to the entrance of the tower. Uh as you say the word tower, lightning strikes. It's true. Krakoon.

SPEAKER_17

It's like favorite lightning strike, the shutter effect behind us, and the whole thing is terrifying.

SPEAKER_02

It's like we're going in a dragon's castle.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. You walk in, there are no guards or anyone uh at the door.

SPEAKER_14

It's just uh you walk inside, and the outside is black, but when you walk inside, the walls are like this gross fleshy red and uh oozing with a goop.

SPEAKER_13

Okay, delightful.

SPEAKER_14

Um, up ahead of you there a chamber opens up inside, it's like the mushroom is hollowed out, and um there are 12 mushrooms like engaged in some sort of ritual.

Crossing The Fungals To The Tower

SPEAKER_11

Oh is it like a um kumite?

SPEAKER_14

It looks like a uh sacrifice um to slain mushrooms like already like they who look unlike these uh mushrooms here. They're on the ground. Um there's a dais, and uh it looks it looks very culty.

SPEAKER_13

Okay.

SPEAKER_14

Um you see like the blood of a mushroom like pouring down a rivulet. Oh my ribulettes, Romeo and rivulet. Uh you hear a bellow and chini squeal, and then they say wheel sola, they kind of whisper to themselves.

SPEAKER_11

Hmm.

SPEAKER_14

They say what's it? Wheel solar. I imagine it's mushroom names.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Um, I'm gonna try something bold to see if I we can find like the master of this place, George.

SPEAKER_17

Okay, you're just gonna call out. Face me.

SPEAKER_16

I'm gonna use fibbing right roll advantage on trickery once per session. And um, I'm gonna fall to my knees, like holding the dark shroom, and uh like cry out like silence!

SPEAKER_05

I'm touched by the master. The master speaks to me. The master demands that we take the prisoners to him directly.

SPEAKER_12

Please, and like act like it's like making my mind explode.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, suddenly Brendo's not on board with his plan, but I figured you know, head of the snake, you know? Uh head of the shroom, you know. I'm gonna give you disadvantage on that. Okay, just because no one's ever seen you.

SPEAKER_08

And does the does my does the fibbing cancel out the disadvantage and just make it regular? Or does it have no fibbing okay?

SPEAKER_02

All right, oh boy. Come on.

SPEAKER_06

No, trickery is my thing!

SPEAKER_13

Let's do it again. Let's see if we can do it again. We're gonna burn all my own abilities, right? No, yes, like they didn't buy it quite into the first time. You gotta really double down and my mushroom cap!

SPEAKER_05

His words are crazy. Look, look, it's mushroom cap.

SPEAKER_07

That's a crit.

SPEAKER_11

Critical success is ease.

SPEAKER_07

We're blown through power, so this is freaking me out.

SPEAKER_03

It's okay, it's okay. That's what quest points are for.

SPEAKER_14

Uh, everyone sort of stops the ritual and the the gasp. The ones you came in with are just kind of silent. Everyone like turns around slowly towards you. And then one particularly uh intimidating looking mushroom who's like wearing this bark armor. Oh no, uh, walks towards you and he says, uh, you are chosen.

SPEAKER_00

You would say he was touched by a shroom angel. I say that.

SPEAKER_05

No, it's like, yes, uh, I'm so weak, I can't get to the master on my own.

SPEAKER_12

Pretend like I can't like stand up like and put my hand up for him to help me.

SPEAKER_14

He grabbed you by the face. Oh no. He's Thanos. He grabs me by the head.

SPEAKER_17

It's like looking at you like a I don't I can't help but my eyes like shift back and forth, like uh oh.

SPEAKER_04

Uh you you get the sense that he's like probing your mind with this very starship troopers um telepathy that mushrooms have.

SPEAKER_14

And he's kind of looking at you like you know, Larry David.

SPEAKER_04

Like a like really skeptical, looking up and down. Um then he asks you.

SPEAKER_02

What does the dark room tell you the dark room tells me that there is a betrayer amongst you.

SPEAKER_15

And that these prisoners may know who it is.

SPEAKER_06

I'm trying to tell the truth without like you're saying my mind it'll be right.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah. He motions for uh some of the escorts to follow and push you guys in. Okay. What kind of establishment is this? They have escorts walking around. Um Bello and Cheney tug you on the arm, Brendo.

Ritual Chamber And The Elder

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, what's up, buddy? Buddies? Get off my hand. Wheel, wheel and zola. They're part of the cult. I mean, yeah. For now, maybe we can get to the head and whoever's mind controlling them and just you know. Be strong, Ello. Have faith in me.

SPEAKER_04

Uh you're pushed forward. Um, hooch, you're walking side by side with this uh mushroom and armor.

SPEAKER_02

Um is he trying to probe my mind at all anymore?

SPEAKER_14

No. He takes you guys up uh through a long winding staircase. Uh you're obviously going up higher than the stipe with mushroom. The walls are um still gooey and red. Um everyone who's not a mushroom rule vitality.

SPEAKER_11

Okay.

SPEAKER_14

Oh, I stand strong in the face of intimidation.

SPEAKER_11

Wow. Whoa. Wow. We're we're all unaffected.

SPEAKER_16

It's like uh Boromir and Aragorn are hanging out with you guys.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, it was my word of encouragement as given everyone strength.

SPEAKER_08

I feel a slight itch.

SPEAKER_14

Uh at the top of the stairs, it's like a long, long walk. Um the top of the stairs, there are two stout-looking mushrooms uh wearing black bark armor and they're carrying crystal swords.

unknown

Oh no.

SPEAKER_14

Just some sweet loot if we get our hands on it. No kidding. But these are like warriors on stuff. Like we can't handle it. You know. Um, and then you're brought into the highest chamber of the tower. You see that there is another mushroom. Sort of he looks like an elder. He's all wrinkled and he's dehydrated. Yeah, he's like palpatine. He's uh you will die, and so are the old friends. Oh god. Full name is Sheevan.

SPEAKER_04

Um, you're brought in, and uh the guy you're the one you're with pushes you forward, Hooch. It is time to commune.

SPEAKER_11

Oh hooch. Uh uh.

SPEAKER_01

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

I'm gonna I'm gonna pretend like I'm communing. Chief Portability. I'm gonna pretend like I'm communing by like rubbing my brain. I assume the older guy is like the guy in charge. This is the one. Yes, the one.

SPEAKER_14

Um let me describe what the room looks like. Uh it's very dark, but um, you can see that the ceiling is like pulsing like a heartbeat, and there's like you know, mycelium like all up in the roof.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_14

And um the uh the elder turns to regard you and he seems to like immediately understand what's happening. Oh, like he sees through.

SPEAKER_01

Oh no.

SPEAKER_04

No, he he just he knows he knows what they're not seeing through you, but uh no words need to be spoken between him and the others.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, because they think that I'm touched or something, the chosen one.

SPEAKER_04

I mean, you've claimed that you are, and they want to see it. They want to see the truth. Prove it. Uh so you're gonna have to make a metal check.

SPEAKER_03

Should have saved my odes. It's okay. I'm super meddly. I'm plus two metallic. Um god, please.

SPEAKER_07

Oh no. No!

SPEAKER_05

Every critical roll that so it's a three.

SPEAKER_12

It's a I'm gonna uh it's a three. I uh uh making it a four is useless.

SPEAKER_14

I don't know. I I I feel gross that if I keep using Ode to re-roll your stuff.

SPEAKER_04

It's fine. I mean you'll you're running out of quest points.

SPEAKER_12

So I could do something else.

SPEAKER_02

I could do oh when I can't make a metal. I'm not gonna make a small check no matter what I do. Best I can make it as a four.

SPEAKER_13

Um can I make an acting check and suddenly scream out as if I have been touched now?

SPEAKER_01

Do it, do it, do it.

SPEAKER_04

Um well, here's the problem with hooch. Uh huh.

SPEAKER_14

You feel this overwhelming presence in your brain. Oh shoot, you are being touched.

SPEAKER_15

My my mushroom cap starts pulsing.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah. You feel like you're on the edge of succumbing to its words. Uh and it's kind of muttering to you in a hellish voice. Oh no. Um, if there's one thing I know about hooch in my relationship, is that uh I can strengthen hooch through laughter.

SPEAKER_04

It says to you, hooch. It doesn't even sound like anything I can uh replicate, but it says to you uh you are the betrayer. Give in.

SPEAKER_16

I will agree that I am the betrayer, I'll say like back to it. But I will never give in. Nice.

SPEAKER_04

And and the others around you seem confused.

SPEAKER_14

Like they they because they believed hooch, and now are they getting this broadcast too or something? Through mushroom to telepathy?

SPEAKER_04

You're not sure, you're not a mushroom hoop uh Brandon.

The Probe And The Betrayer Reveal

SPEAKER_07

So I'm not really like the play by play from Porto and G.

SPEAKER_14

No, they're they're that I don't even think they're speaking. Brendo, what you do notice is that the door shuts behind you.

unknown

Oh no.

SPEAKER_11

I say uh I uh I turn to Seth and I say, Seth, you think you can one-shot this guy?

SPEAKER_10

Uh he looks around and he says, Looks like we got no choice.

SPEAKER_07

Um am I controlled at all by these guys yet?

SPEAKER_14

Controlled?

SPEAKER_02

Like is the is the is the dark shroom controlling my mind?

SPEAKER_14

No. Uh failed to convince it, but. It does not have uh control of you, but you're like kinda at its mercy. Like you're liable to uh fall fall under its control.

SPEAKER_04

All right.

SPEAKER_02

I'm going to I guess like like I wanted to use disappearing act and like suddenly like vanish like from the from the fray.

SPEAKER_04

You know, it only makes sense that the mushrooms would have taken um the weapon away from Seth Grimtusk.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, I'm fine with it. I mean that makes sense to me too. We use a living weapon, it's fine.

SPEAKER_16

We disarm the their crystal swords.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah. Uh so yeah, here's the situation. Oh, I have a such a good idea. Okay, carry on. Hooch, you're being probed still.

SPEAKER_04

Everyone's kind of figuring out that you are a fraud, the door's closed. Um what are you gonna do?

SPEAKER_02

Can I attempt to use beg against the darkroom tower? The pulsing. Yeah, because like I the the ceiling is pulsing, like they're that's the that's the thing. That's that's the monster. Right?

SPEAKER_04

It yeah, it seems that way to you, Hooch.

SPEAKER_17

Um, so I'm gonna use beg on the thing to beg for something to get to get something.

SPEAKER_12

Specifically, like I want to be like, don't like don't probe my mind, and I'll give you I'll give you the the nectar of the gods. I'll give you the greatest thing that has ever been that I'll my most valuable object consuming it will fill you with power and glory.

SPEAKER_04

Um what does beg say?

SPEAKER_02

Beg says once per session, shamelessly beg to get something, or once per session make a last-stitch effort to avoid combat before it begins, but at a great cost.

SPEAKER_04

Great cost indeed. So this cost has to be real, it can't be like uh a lie that you're saying.

SPEAKER_14

It's a lie for sure. He knows this too well.

SPEAKER_17

Um I'm gonna beg for my f for my freedom from its mind control.

SPEAKER_01

But not to stop not stop to beg to for combat to stop.

SPEAKER_14

Do it.

SPEAKER_04

Sorry, I'm just looking it up.

SPEAKER_02

Once for session, shamefully beg to get something. Or once per session, make a last-itch effort to avoid combat before it begins, but at a great cost. So I don't want to do that. I want to use the first part of it. Beg for something, and then something is from my mental freedom.

SPEAKER_04

I'm gonna interpret this as the fact that you're doing this like makes this thing ill and would rather sacrifice you than like make you perfect.

SPEAKER_12

That's that's no, that's exactly what I was trying to get at. Mike, I'm not like I'd like just give me my you can kill me all you want, but give me my freedom.

SPEAKER_14

Kill me all you want. Okay, uh, yeah, roll that. All right, please, nooch. Mom, baby.

SPEAKER_13

Oh my god, I will have my cake and eat you too. My mind explodes. Yeah. Well, all right, you can play Seth for the rest of the campaign.

SPEAKER_14

Oh, shucks. That is unfortunate. This is rough, man. Pitiful.

SPEAKER_10

I will make you mine.

SPEAKER_16

My eyes like go down to pinhole size, and like I just look at Brando. Come, brother, join us.

SPEAKER_15

Join us, but for real this time. For real this time.

SPEAKER_01

I really, really mean it.

SPEAKER_04

You guys are in a conflict. Um, the doors.

SPEAKER_14

How many of them are there, Ben? There's like Palpatine, there's guards, and now there's Hooch. Yeah. And it's basically me, Fran, and Seth. Because Bello and Chini are useless. And mind control, probably. We should roll to see if they're mind controlled too. I mean, like what like like just to really no chance that they can both be mind controlled.

SPEAKER_01

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_14

Uh success with a twist. Um maybe he's like uh powered into inaction. Oh. Uh, sure. But the inaction is like one of them seems to be more uh at the mercy of the voice, and the other one's trying to get him out of it. I I like the idea that they're just tied up slapping each other. Like one is aggressive slapping, like I'm trying to kill you, the other is aggressive slapping like snap out of it. I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought. Econ's gone. Bye bye. Save it for the Halloween special boys. You know? Wow. All right, so Brenda, what are you doing? Um, they're all armed with crystal weapons.

SPEAKER_04

Two of them are the guards.

SPEAKER_14

Are they are the other ones armed with anything else?

SPEAKER_04

Uh, you don't know. All right, so weapons.

SPEAKER_14

This is what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna make up an um advantageous feature about this room. Uh say that it it's an audience chamber, so it's built for really good acoustics, so it boosts all my musical abilities.

SPEAKER_02

It's got great acoustics. This is funny.

SPEAKER_14

It's got really good acoustics. Uh the the mushroom that you came in with uh does have a dagger from the roll, but the the the elder has nothing. He needs nothing. Maybe he's just super weak and just you know, like this shriveled mushroom sitting there. Um, but Ben, can I can I make that thing happen with the swashbuckler about the room? Yeah. Okay, I'm gonna roll it up. It's very true. Nice. Um, and the reason I wanted to do that is I wanted to play like a specific tone that will shatter the crystal swords.

SPEAKER_02

I like it.

SPEAKER_14

That's cool, you know. Um, do you want me to make another role for that, or do you want me to that's gonna combat action?

SPEAKER_04

Um just gonna play that.

SPEAKER_14

Or because it was such a good role, you know.

SPEAKER_04

You know what I mean? Reward I mean, hint hint. You know, uh make it a combat because you know, you have combat music, so you can make an attack with advantage.

SPEAKER_17

Okay. To shatter people's swords and stuff.

SPEAKER_05

Just playing the chords from close encounter of the third kind, like that's good.

SPEAKER_14

Um soul roll initiative. You guys can roll uh hooch, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_17

You're not like fully at the mercy of this thing, but I'm I'm like making ewok sounds like pacing back and forth, my mind completely zapped.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, you're not completely zapped yet. Like you're you're at the precipice of that, so you can try to do something.

SPEAKER_02

Um if that's the case, then I'm going to try to slingshot my lantern oil into the ceiling. And if I'm on this this motherfucker.

SPEAKER_17

Um, I just want to slingshot the lantern oil. Okay. Uh I'm good at this, but also cursed.

unknown

Eight.

SPEAKER_17

I'll use a quest point to make that a nine.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, baby. Yeah, you will. All right, you uh splash the oil into the ceiling.

SPEAKER_11

We're gonna burn this mushroom down.

SPEAKER_16

We're gonna burn this mushroom down.

SPEAKER_14

Brendo, did you roll uh I did not? Um I lost my tab with my roll 20. There it is. Found it. I'm gonna roll we're rolling initiative, correct? Yeah. Oh man, I wish that was my attack roll. I'm just saying. Well, you go first. Okay. I'm gonna play to shred crystal swords, and I'm gonna do that with advantage.

SPEAKER_06

Well, yes.

SPEAKER_01

Oh jeez.

SPEAKER_16

I'm sorry, man.

SPEAKER_14

It's it was such a good plan. It was well, uh no, I've been using up all my 12s. Look at those. Look at those. I mean, it's something that you can keep trying. Yeah, I'm gonna keep trying it for sure. Um, what is your total? My total Magodal is is gonna be two plus probably one. No, no, my attack is minus one. Two minus one equals one. All right, you will not have advantage anymore. You're you kind of screwed up your instrument. Oh man.

SPEAKER_00

No, like one of the batteries.

SPEAKER_03

So such so good, so like well planned and failed with dice. All right, we got this though.

SPEAKER_14

That was advantageous and you rolled one.

SPEAKER_11

I know.

SPEAKER_14

I rolled I rolled, I rolled like a one and then a zero. So zero, I would have just exploded. At least it wasn't that, I guess. Okay, the mushrooms uh burst into action. Oh dear, they boist. They're boisterous mushrooms, you know. All right. Uh the two with the swords the S words attack Seth. Typical. One critically fails. The other head. Can't can okay, can Seth disarm the guy who critically fails and just take his sword?

SPEAKER_04

Um sure.

SPEAKER_14

I mean, or maybe he'll like have the opportunity to. I don't know if that's just too good for him to be armed. Yeah, let's say his sword kind of you know gets twisted and flies out of his hands.

SPEAKER_11

Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.

SPEAKER_14

And then uh the other one hits him. Six dread.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, that's a meaty, meaty hit. It's not good. What was I feel like I wrote this down? He's only at three now.

SPEAKER_01

Okay.

SPEAKER_04

All right, and the one with the dagger attacks you, Brendo.

SPEAKER_07

All right.

SPEAKER_14

And the elder elder rings should have done this before.

SPEAKER_02

The elder is going to shoot lightning bolts out of his eyes at Hoosh.

SPEAKER_14

As is tradition.

SPEAKER_02

The elder has spells.

Ceiling On Fire And Counter-Spells

SPEAKER_16

He's a spelder. He's a speldor. Speldarian. Speldor, the speldarian.

SPEAKER_04

Do it. Interesting.

SPEAKER_01

Okay.

SPEAKER_04

Uh, okay. He uh he targets um me.

SPEAKER_14

No, I'm just gonna make it random. How many are there? There's there's three threats really. Four. Where's Fran in all this? She's there.

SPEAKER_01

Okay.

SPEAKER_14

Counting her as a threat. Fran gets lightning bolted. That's Brendo.

SPEAKER_02

Oh dear.

SPEAKER_04

Brendo, you you feel uh uh this uh like a wave of exha exhaustion come over you.

SPEAKER_14

I disagree.

SPEAKER_01

I disagree.

SPEAKER_02

I refute. I don't allow it.

SPEAKER_14

Um you are tired now.

SPEAKER_05

I'm just gonna think I'm gonna see your minus one to stuff.

SPEAKER_04

Until you rest.

SPEAKER_02

Tuck tuck equals. Minus one.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, he's tucked out, little guy.

SPEAKER_04

Um all right, hooch, make another uh metal check. This time minus one.

SPEAKER_00

Oh boy. That's uh ten.

SPEAKER_14

All right, you feel yourself break free from the the hold of this thing.

SPEAKER_05

I want to break free, and it feels frustrated.

SPEAKER_14

Alright. That's good news. We like frustration. We aspire to frustrate everything around us. Uh all right, next round. Actually, no. You guys can attack with Seth and Fran. Okay. Um, you want to do Seth and LD Fran? Sure.

SPEAKER_09

Dang it.

SPEAKER_14

Um, hooch, he don't uh he don't roll well. That's a three. Can I have Fran? Yeah, that's tough. Uh Ben, remember me what class Fran is? She's a dungeoneer. Mm-hmm. Shoot, I need to look up her abilities. I guess this round she can try to retrieve the crystal sword. So the other guy can't get it back. I mean, she doesn't really have abilities that you can use. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so then she'll she'll retrieve the crystal sword to take it off the playing field and or give it to Seth next round. Okay. Um, do you want to make a roll for it? A nimbleness? I don't know. Uh she could just do it. Thank you. Thank you for your kind and benevolent GMing. So are you attacking with someone? Did you uh James already tried to attack with Seth?

SPEAKER_17

Yeah, I was gonna try to punch the the elder, but um and say welcome to Earth. Yes, because you didn't say that, it failed. That's exactly why it failed. Yeah, it's a shame.

SPEAKER_12

It could be nothing else, honestly. Welcome to the mucklins.

SPEAKER_15

Welcome to Quang Rish.

SPEAKER_10

Okay, wow. Okay, the next round. What do you what are y'all doing?

SPEAKER_17

Um, what are y'all doing? I know what I'm gonna do. I want to hurl my lantern into the lantern oil on the ceiling.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. Um, and then what do I want to do?

SPEAKER_14

Maybe I'll just uh I couldn't use good news to make this place extremely flammable, could I? Because that's a positive fact only to me or us about a place. Yeah, it's not like a positive. I think it's positive, Ben.

SPEAKER_11

That'd be like a weakness.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, no, I should have kept the other one. Could you make a positive fact that I've got an arm like a cannon from all those softball tournaments? It says NPC place your thing. I think I can't just uh I can't do that for you. I could narrate it. We could do like a combo move.

SPEAKER_11

That would be sweet. Uh is that cool with you, Ben?

SPEAKER_14

Um sure. I'll say uh and Hooch reared back his searing flames and threw it into the ceiling. I like it. Everything went down the drain. It was was was I like I think it was again everything went down the drain, but that's like just not contributing to it's a half rhyme. It's a half rhyme, it's a slant rhyme. I award you no rhyme. Yeah, and my do not collect too much.

SPEAKER_11

All right, let's see if let's see if this works.

SPEAKER_06

I award you no rhyme. Yeah it's a six.

SPEAKER_13

Six plus six plus two plus one quest point. Now I have two out of four.

SPEAKER_14

No, I used owed. You used I have so one out of four. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, that's a nine.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_04

All right. Um, your aim is true, hooch. You throw it into the ceiling right where you splashed the oil, and the whole place starts rumbling.

Laxative Gambit And Dark Hooch

SPEAKER_14

Pulsating and like Yeah. It's like uh you hear squeals and pops and hisses. Uh everyone looks panicked. You guys have used your actions.

SPEAKER_01

Um you are attacked.

SPEAKER_00

Cry out crumb.

SPEAKER_09

I've never prayed you before.

SPEAKER_04

That sounded pretty good. Yeah. Uh what's your defense, Hooch?

SPEAKER_17

Uh minus two.

SPEAKER_04

Uh one of the crystal sword guys swipes at you, kind of backing you up. The next one will have a plus two against uh plus one against you.

SPEAKER_14

Um the one with the dagger. He also misses and then um the elder focuses his attention on uh the ceiling, and you see him use some sort of magic. Oh no, he's got like a sort of thing start mending it. Yeah, maybe we can interrupt him.

SPEAKER_12

We gotta take him down. Yeah, I'll I'll try to take him down.

SPEAKER_14

I have an idea. Maybe Fran will go tackle, or Seth or Fran will go tackle him as as their turn.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, he's using uh you you see like the fire is blazing, but then you see uh this the elder's magic sort of like regenerating the mycelium that's been burnt.

SPEAKER_14

Shoot.

SPEAKER_12

Sorry. Um I want I want to use slippery right now. Oh, so slippery. No, it's like once per combat, redirect all adversary attacks against the rascal to another random nearby adversary. Okay. I know I'm backtracking, but I just realized that it's all attacks.

SPEAKER_10

Big boy rules.

SPEAKER_12

Yeah. Sorry. I thought I had to use it uh before, but it's a reactionary power. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Um if we get lucky, maybe it'll be against the there's like a 50-50 chance, it'll either be against dagger guy or the wizard. Right.

SPEAKER_17

Um, all right, I gotta roll nimbleness. That's a 10. Okay, I do it. Plus nine plus. So those those attacks are redirected to either the wizard or the other guy.

SPEAKER_14

It's a random it's random.

SPEAKER_17

So I'm it's 50-50, and I'm hoping the wizard just gets pummeled by two of his guards.

SPEAKER_14

Okay, so the first attack will be redirected towards either the dagger guy, number one and two, or the elder three and four. So the dagger guy. No.

SPEAKER_00

Come on, come on, please.

SPEAKER_14

Does one dread. He like he checks wings when he's uh trying to dagger him. And the second one. Um kills the other guy. Okay. That was glorious. That is glorious. And he develops a taste for mushroom murder. He goes in a killing spree.

SPEAKER_04

I have to do this again. Um yes, so now you've got uh the elder, the uh dagger, and uh unarmed fellow.

SPEAKER_14

Uh Fran has the sword. Sward. Can she toss it to Seth and then James? You can have Seth attack after these guys are done. Or these guys are done, right? These guys are done. Okay. Yeah, James wanna attack with Seth. Yeah, like have him charge the elder, maybe?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, the wizard. Mm-hmm. 10.

SPEAKER_11

Nice. Not bad.

SPEAKER_14

Seth is a good one. Seth has a plus four. Oh. Which is a crit. Yeah, it's a crit. Roll a d10.

SPEAKER_02

D10 with disadvantage, though, right? Because he's unarmed.

SPEAKER_00

No, no, he has a crystal sword. Oh, oh.

SPEAKER_17

Tendred.

SPEAKER_13

Um guys all over the mycelium. Wow. He turns into a pink mist.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah. But the spores go into us, and then we're all like he's a part of all of us now. It's terrible. He uh he is stabbed.

SPEAKER_04

He's not completely dead, but he falls over and it's like and um The king is ambush!

SPEAKER_14

You hear guards from the other room yelling. He starts multiplying into two. Is that something that's gonna take him around to do? Uh no, it's happening. Oh it's happening right now.

SPEAKER_01

They're both shooting lightning bolts.

SPEAKER_11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_14

Um, the only way to kill him is to eat him. I eat him.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, so the next mushroom elder mukman.

SPEAKER_14

God muckbong. Muckland's messy boy at your service. Oh god. That's a random encounter, guys. You gotta make it now. The muckland's messy boy eats food in front of you, demands you sit in his audience. Yeah, I mean it fits right in. Um, yes.

SPEAKER_04

So there's this thing happening where the ceiling is on fire, but also regenerating, and it's kind of like closing in on the fire.

SPEAKER_14

Um we boost the fire somehow.

SPEAKER_04

The I rolled Thelonius's amazing regeneration spell as well as that's amazing.

SPEAKER_14

You need it, it is, but not for us.

Killing The Elder And Breaking The Thrall

SPEAKER_08

Works on everything but the brain.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

So you guys are up. What do you want to do?

SPEAKER_17

Uh well, we gotta stop that spell somehow. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_14

Can I think I can remake up a positive fact about this placer thing?

SPEAKER_04

Positive fact. Let's see what it means. See how we interpret that.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, no, no, no. So the placer thing is. Uh he he just goes I'm always trying to break the rules. That's the problem. No, I know. Um, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_14

So so the tower itself, uh, the positive fact is that it was essentially a good thing before it was corrupted. And the amazing regeneration spell, if let go long enough, will actually regenerate it to the point of goodness. Okay. Interesting. You know, because he randomly rolled that spell. I'm like, let's uh let's roll with it. Uh roll plus rounds.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, it's a six plus. Uh uh, only one.

SPEAKER_14

It's a seven, it's partially true. Yeah. Um, I think that could be true. And maybe you have to do something else to like push it along. Yeah. Um I don't know if we want to define that now, or you guys have ideas.

SPEAKER_11

Don't the the blood sacrifice of Bello and Chini will push it over the edge.

SPEAKER_14

I have an idea. Yeah, some sort of heroic act.

SPEAKER_17

I have an idea. I'm gonna see if I can't like scale scale it and like plunge laxatives into it so that it like into the tower poops out all the evil.

SPEAKER_14

Gotta find the mushroom's beehole.

SPEAKER_12

And just I just gotta get the if I can get the tower to ingest the laxatives, maybe it will push the spell and like you know, it'll poop out the rest of the evil.

SPEAKER_17

Wind out, poop it out. Flooding the field of fungal with uh evil spores that uh turn them into kaiju.

SPEAKER_14

Kaiju. They all just like liquefy and then they re-amalgamate into a giant mushroom man. I'll state puffed mushroom man. Alright, so how are you gonna make that happen? The lax is I leave that to Hooch.

SPEAKER_12

So like so all the walls are like pulsing, right? They're like all like alive around me.

SPEAKER_17

Um is there any like if I if I used ruffian and like all my might to like punch the walls with the with the laxatives in my fist, could I like penetrate it? Like I was knocking out a bruiser or a goon?

unknown

No.

SPEAKER_14

And like release the laxatives into its into its body. Release the laxatives. Uh let's say you have to do it where where the regeneration spell is happening.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_14

That's that's fine. All right. Um Seth, toss me. Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_17

You know? I gotta get up there, Chief! And like it's like Superman pose with the laxas and like this.

SPEAKER_04

That'll be uh Seth's action, dude. Toss you.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, he gives the the sword to uh the crystal sword back to Fran and says, hold them up. I love you. She says, I know.

SPEAKER_13

I gotta, I'm telling you, there should be like a George DMs himself. I did the whole thing, just like little bits and pieces here and there, you know.

SPEAKER_05

Pulling pulling from Star Wars or Ghostbusters or smash. I love you. I know.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah. All right, someone roll for Seth. He has plus two might. Do it. Do it. I should no no no. I'll roll for Fran. You roll for you've been rolling well for Seth. I believe in you. I don't believe in that. I believe in you. You gotta believe in plus two. Yeah. Nine.

SPEAKER_04

Nine. There you go. He tosses you and you go flying in your superman pose. You got a fistful laxatives, baby.

SPEAKER_12

All right. I have to roll might for a ruffian.

SPEAKER_14

Oh no. Seven. All right. Um I could make it an eight. Could he get hurt in the process, perhaps? Six sense with a twist. I can't get my fist out.

SPEAKER_17

I'm hanging from this.

SPEAKER_07

Oh I can't get out the fires.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. Yeah. Um something ain't right here. I feel like we should do something with uh the dark shroom and your connection to it.

SPEAKER_06

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. If it it all works, but it gets transferred to me. Like, I Ray, I'm Vegle. Fall back down. The the last remnants of the dark shroom are in me, and I'm like, Oh my god.

SPEAKER_14

Just give me a quest to purge him.

SPEAKER_06

Like skittering back and forth across hammering the door, trying to escape so that I can continue, so I can persist.

Aftermath, Freed Prisoners, And Loot

SPEAKER_14

Oh my gosh. That is funny, but where do we go from there? Why are you asking so many questions, Ben? It's fine. Don't worry about it.

SPEAKER_12

Um, it has to be expunged from me. All right. Only had two Lexus.

SPEAKER_04

All right, Hooch. You feel a wave of evil energy.

SPEAKER_14

Just uh I already know how to do that, it's a better way to say it, but it like poops into you, just um excretes into your soul.

SPEAKER_12

I do scream at the top of my lungs.

SPEAKER_15

Now I hear the dogs room tower.

SPEAKER_14

Brendo like audibly rolls his eyes, like you can hear it.

SPEAKER_16

It's like a it's like a like a door in a haunted house.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, I love it. The elder is uh aghast at such a turn of events, and um but then the guy with the dagger is uh bows before you, Hooch. So can Hooch maintain control?

SPEAKER_15

Um Master, I must escape this tower and plant myself anew. Open the doors.

SPEAKER_17

I'm gonna try to scamper out of there. Let's slip the hogs of war. The hogs of war.

SPEAKER_03

Squee.

SPEAKER_04

Alright. Um you don't have full control of yourself. What is what is happening here?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, but you are the dark lord. I uh I'm concerned that my evil power will be snuffed out forever, and if I don't get out of the tower, it'll be the end of my thousand-year reign of terror. I'm like Sauron's spirit trying to escape.

SPEAKER_14

I'll come back when I get the ring, you know what I mean? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

So uh why not stay in this body?

SPEAKER_12

I am gonna stay in the body. I mean, like Hooch is gonna try to escape this area away from the heroes that have destroyed the Dark True Tower.

SPEAKER_14

Uh what uh Ben, real quick question. Was the the the mushroom Dark Lord Wizard Palpatine dude? Is he now is he still evil, or is he like, what happened? I was mind-controlled. Um like is he essentially good again? Hooch they're all mind controlling.

SPEAKER_04

The thing wasn't destroyed, it was it went inside of hooch.

SPEAKER_11

Right, so they're all thralled to hooch.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah. You are the the leader of these mushrooms.

SPEAKER_03

You should cut me in half.

SPEAKER_06

Let me like an evil hooch.

SPEAKER_14

Well, yeah, yeah. And then you just regenerate into two hoochies too funny because I'll live. Seth is confused. He's like, really? Seth doesn't hesitate, guys. All right.

SPEAKER_06

Uh uh.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, Seth cuts you in half um at the waist, at the torso. Uh the evil the evil uh hooch sprouts from the head, grows new legs.

SPEAKER_14

The good hooch grows a new head. Um I I uh use my fast friend's ability to instantly become chummy with this dark lord.

SPEAKER_04

Hooch, you've lost your uh abilities to survive death one time.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I've lost my abilities, but that was the greatest use of it ever. Wow.

SPEAKER_17

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_11

That's hardcore parkour.

SPEAKER_17

My extra life.

SPEAKER_14

I love that mushrooms have an extra life, it's just funny.

SPEAKER_04

Um, there's a bit of a pause, and then uh Seth just cuts this guy in half again.

SPEAKER_14

That's pretty on brand for Seth. Oh doing this. I could do this all day. I'd love chopping mushrooms. Fast forward 10 years in the future. Seth is like an expert chef. He loves chopping out mushrooms. That's all he does all day. Mushroom-based dishes.

SPEAKER_17

He travels around uh uh critiquing other people's restaurants and trying to pull them out from from other debts like Gordon Ramps. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10

I love that show. Actually, would it be better if Bello and Cheney killed? Yeah.

SPEAKER_14

But what if they uh actually I imagine just like all of them they just started stabbing him?

SPEAKER_08

Oh trying to destroy the monster. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Oh god, you see like a horrible black spirit kind of seep and ooze and like pour out of it.

Seth And Fran’s Choice

SPEAKER_14

Uh-huh. That was a roll to see if like some bit of it escaped into Belloncini. Unknown. Oh man. Unknown. Unknown. Oh, it didn't. Did not. Okay. It's uh because I wouldn't have explained it if it did. Ah, yes. We are fine. Don't worry about us. Uh everyone in the room kind of comes to all the mushrooms that have been affected by this are now finally released from its thralldom.

SPEAKER_17

Thralldom. And will be punished for their crimes accordingly.

SPEAKER_14

The elder act. Actually, requests that you punish him for his crimes. Seth doesn't hesitate and just chops him in half.

SPEAKER_07

You kind of went uh you kind of went uh a little crazy back there, but uh it's not your fault.

SPEAKER_02

We were all uh consumed. In fact, I was too.

SPEAKER_04

There is no coming back from the deeds I've done.

SPEAKER_02

Hey, come on. We've all done stuff, and you didn't do anything. It was a dark shrimp tower. Believe me, I know I was watching you.

SPEAKER_14

He uh he kind of has this blank stare on his face, and um here here, come here, guy.

SPEAKER_01

Come here.

SPEAKER_14

He slowly walks away. I gave him a quiche. A kiss? Oh quiche he looks at it and doesn't like doesn't even know what to think of it and just drops it. We are all shocked and horrified that he's wasting food. It's no greater cardinal sin.

SPEAKER_08

I pick it up and I'm like, Yeah, dust it off.

SPEAKER_14

Come here. Still good. This quiche is still good.

SPEAKER_11

Um this quiche, this quiche.

SPEAKER_14

Um that was crazy.

SPEAKER_04

That was crazy.

SPEAKER_14

Fran says, uh so what do we do now? Seth picks her up, looks deeply into her eyes, plants a smacker on her. I know what to do.

SPEAKER_11

Uh Borg. Sorry, get a room. Come on, you know what I mean.

SPEAKER_14

Pinhole, end of uh quest. What do you act? What do you guys actually want to do? Um so so so the dark shroom tower itself is what now?

SPEAKER_04

Like, is it no longer a dark just a shroom tower, or I mean, it's not completely uh it's not a beautiful thing anymore, but it's been purged of its evil spirit, whatever that dark like mushroom thing dark, love crafty and unknowable evil that consumed its mind.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_17

Well, um, uh as is customary, I only have one power left, which is barfly.

SPEAKER_14

So we create a bar in the first in the top floor of this tower, there's a tavern already being made.

SPEAKER_12

Yeah, there's like a they're remodeling a tavern at the bottom next to the blood dance, and it's called uh shroomies.

SPEAKER_02

And they sort of uh oddly enough, it's nothing but mushroom soup. There's no drinks, nothing.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, uh, but it's fermented, so you you do get a little tipsy off of it. And nobody really works there either.

SPEAKER_02

It's just it's just a vending machine, yeah. So there's a vending machine in the foyer, yeah.

SPEAKER_14

It's perfect. When you go downstairs, I mean everyone is just out of sorts and has no idea what's happened. Um Bello and Cheney reunite with their villager friends, nice wheel and Zola, and they mourn the loss of whoever died.

SPEAKER_02

Should tell Bello and Cheney to like take all these people home and help them and whatnot.

SPEAKER_14

Lead your people back to that we've fulfilled our oath. Will you come with us?

SPEAKER_12

You know, there's more adventure out there for us, guys. We uh we owe it to Grim Tusk to help him get his sword and yeah with the Drake and the Lost Willows.

SPEAKER_16

Because only then will we be able to find Twin Hornbeard.

SPEAKER_11

Seth looks gangster. Seth looks at us and says, Actually, I found I found my uh a true quest. She's right here. I think I'm gonna retire. Let someone else play that dragon.

SPEAKER_14

Uh I mean he doesn't have to say that. Do you want him to say that? Is that we I don't know. No, not necessarily.

SPEAKER_02

Then it's up to us to slay the dragon so we can get the hard beard.

SPEAKER_12

But no, we can't. Is it a dragon? It's uh it's a drink. Oh, yeah, I was about to say if it's a dragon, we like, well, us and one army.

SPEAKER_02

Um, what is it, Pikax?

SPEAKER_03

I put it somewhere.

SPEAKER_09

Look, Fran and I were gonna get married. Uh wow. We're moving to river country and we're gonna settle down and have kids and the whole nine yards. Uh I think I was crazy trying to kill a Drake for no real reason. And um it's been good.

Next Steps And Community Updates

SPEAKER_14

For whatever reason, there's a wagon there, and you're like roll off right into the swamp. You just fall into a pit.

SPEAKER_08

We spend the next six hours trying to get the trying to get the wagon out of the mud.

SPEAKER_16

Thanks, guys. It's kind of uh appreciate you doing that after such a rough day as it is, you know.

SPEAKER_07

It's uh oh yeah, no, uh, it's no problem.

SPEAKER_02

And the credits roll at the DMV.

SPEAKER_14

And that that's uh that's classic right now. That's a Star War. That's a star, that's a Star War. I was I was just finishing writing like a brief summary of what just happened in the tower.

SPEAKER_11

Okay.

SPEAKER_14

Um, Seth and Fran are getting married.

SPEAKER_11

Cool. So we decided nothing. I'm sorry, it's all my fault.

SPEAKER_14

Um we we could escort them back to mushmash. This is a terrible idea. I think that maybe we should just go back to mushmash and then we can northeast or northwest. What other yeah, are there a ton of other um mushrooms here? Like, what's the deal with this place? Like, what was it originally? Uh I mean what it was originally, you're not sure. This it's been growing for years like this, um, but there is a kind of there's some tunnels below the tower, and there are a lot of prisoners down there.

SPEAKER_11

A lot of ancient boards down there, you're saying we go release the prisoners.

SPEAKER_14

I I I think yeah, like we should you could try to scour the I would I want to treasure hunt, and then I want to I also want to scour the tower and like assemble a huge traveling party to go back to mushmash, like yeah, all the survivors or whoever do like a victory tour. Alright. Um there were you know several guards down in the tunnels as well as uh we just kill them all. Well, they're back to their normal selves. Nope.

SPEAKER_04

Just um yeah, you can roll um uh treasure hunting.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_04

There are a lot of prisoners. Uh 15 prisoners downstairs. Wow.

SPEAKER_01

Hmm.

SPEAKER_14

Um we round them all up and and kind of just tend to their wounds. Maybe we'll spend the night here and like kind of work on consolidating and making sure everyone's okay before we head out for the next journey.

SPEAKER_11

Are there were there any food supply stores here?

SPEAKER_14

Like um that the mushrooms had hoarded. They're cannibals. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11

It's like prisoners were like, it was horrible. They ate one of us every day.

SPEAKER_10

They're used to mushrooms, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_11

Oh, yeah, and it's V.

SPEAKER_14

Good for you, good for the blood. Yeah. Keeps you regular. Um, that's unfortunate, so we're gonna have to really like scrounge up a lot of food for these guys. No, that's fine. They can't worry about. They can fish too, you know. Oh, they'll just kill the weakest link every day and eat them.

SPEAKER_02

Yes, it's it's the Donner Party. Yeah, essentially.

SPEAKER_14

Donner Party of seven? Wow.

SPEAKER_04

Alright, so um you guys can roll treasure hunting checks.

SPEAKER_14

I love it. Three of them. You want to roll two, Jimmy?

SPEAKER_02

Two treasure hunting checks?

SPEAKER_14

Is it D200, Ben?

SPEAKER_04

No, it's a D12. You'll have a plus one bonus.

SPEAKER_17

Nine and five feet.

SPEAKER_14

Nine and five. Classic stuff.

SPEAKER_04

It's pretty classic. Okay, it's like uh it's flasic. It's got a small to it. Your total haul is four mundane items and a magnificent item. Nice magnificent item, yes, as well as gold coins and two components.

SPEAKER_14

It's one patch of gold coins. Yes. Um, as you guys are doing all this, you notice that the elder has walked into the field of fungals and just like given himself to them. It's the worst thing any of us have ever seen. Yeah. Like his music swells as he is like uh like limb from limit. Oh luckily you didn't have to witness it. He did it while you were all busy, but uh I I was watching.

SPEAKER_17

You see his tattered robes, like teeth marks on the waves like floating on the rough way to go.

SPEAKER_02

Yes, it is. Yes, it is. We did not effectively convince him that he could have been redeemed. He knew what he did. We did a very few redemption.

SPEAKER_04

All right, so you roll uh four, actually five D se uh D four hundreds. I got it.

SPEAKER_14

Uh 398, 51, 12. You want them in chronological like numerical order, Ben?

SPEAKER_13

Is that easier?

SPEAKER_04

Uh that's fine. Wizard hat clothing.

SPEAKER_09

A torch. Useful.

SPEAKER_04

Your magnificent item is a halberd.

SPEAKER_11

Nice. You can half man. Yeah. Wow, I could. Great law.

SPEAKER_04

Uh boots. Mundane boots. And an axe.

SPEAKER_11

Just like a regular mundane act, right?

SPEAKER_14

Awesome. Jossum. Awesome three. Okay, and uh roll for the treat. Yeah. Go for it, Jimmy. Is it D12? It is yes. Number three. Charge.

SPEAKER_04

PC moves into if you move uh, you know, from two ranges uh to an adversary, you can you would and you and attack, it cannot be countered.

SPEAKER_09

Oh interesting. That's cool.

SPEAKER_11

That'll be worth something if we if we sell it, or we can keep it.

SPEAKER_14

Either way. Um okay, all right, okay. So do we set out to return to mushmash? And then the PCs set forth.

SPEAKER_02

Sally'd forth to mushmash.

SPEAKER_04

Who is Sally? Why is she fourth? That's up to you.

SPEAKER_17

Um no, I think we could like end it and then begin our journey next quest.

SPEAKER_14

Next week. A new yeah, you want to do XP and launch out from here?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, I mean it's up to you next time what you want to do.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Like you don't have to go to Mushmash.

SPEAKER_14

For sure, well, yeah, because they could probably make it back on their own, theoretically. Yeah, you know, a couple might die, but that's fine. I mean, it was a little gator food here and there, yeah. Circle of life. Wheel of fortune. The wheel of fortune.

SPEAKER_04

All right, well, you completed a quest, definitely. Actually, you don't complete the quest until you fully escort every mushroom.

SPEAKER_14

All right, we're not we're not gonna stop the stream. It's fine. Let's go.

SPEAKER_12

They live in nine cities throughout the muck ones.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

All right, so that's one counter new creature. Uh yeah. Some horrible evil mushroom spirit. Uh significant NPC encounter. Nothing really new.

SPEAKER_14

Right?

SPEAKER_02

Not really. Unless the dark shroom is an NPC.

SPEAKER_14

Dark hooch. Dark hooch. Let them say dark hooch still exists.

SPEAKER_04

Uh solve a problem creatively, yeah. Get into peril, yeah. Do not travel. Explore new location, yes.

SPEAKER_11

Yep.

SPEAKER_14

Find a magic item or relic, no, crafted item, no. So that's five. And then uh did either of you do your ideal or flaw.

SPEAKER_02

I did not snitch on anybody, and I did not talk my way out of trouble.

SPEAKER_11

Yeah. Same. In fact, I failed miserably talking my way out of trouble. Same. My only flaw is that I did not use my ideal or flaw.

SPEAKER_04

That's your one glaring flaw as a gamer.

SPEAKER_11

I uh get XP because that's my flaw.

SPEAKER_10

My flaw is that I don't use my ideals and flaws, so can that be an ideal and flaw? I get XP every game.

SPEAKER_11

It's perfect. I love it. Why isn't that in the rule book?

SPEAKER_14

All right, cool. Uh six? Was it six or five? Sorry, five. Fiverr. Fiverr. Love it.

SPEAKER_06

Yoga fiver.

SPEAKER_14

Well, well, sorry. That was a good stream, guys. That that was less deadly than I thought it would be. But we leaned into the creativity, I think. Yes, for sure.

SPEAKER_17

That was fun.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_14

Thank God for laxatives.

SPEAKER_04

I mean, you know, there could have there were ways where you could have just been attacked by a whole bunch of things.

SPEAKER_08

Like yeah, I mean, I think our ammo is to avoid as much of that as possible because uh in a straight up fisticuffs, we probably won't do very well.

SPEAKER_02

Beastie cuffs, yeah.

SPEAKER_12

Classic. Um, all right, guys. Yeah, thanks everybody for watching. Um, if you're interested in checking out Landaveam, go to landaveam.com, you can download the beta uh for free.

SPEAKER_17

Um, and do get it soon because uh we are about to announce our crowdsourcing campaign, and the beta will no longer be available. You'll you'll be able to get the quick start guide, but not the beta. So grab it while you can, play some games. If you're looking for a group or if you want to start a group, uh check out our Discord. You can get that in the link below this video.

SPEAKER_07

And uh have a great weekend.

SPEAKER_14

You know what I mean? All right, thanks everybody. Bye bye. All right, bye. See ya.