Whispers in Wregate
Journey back in time with the Time Breakers as they infiltrate the Black Sun Festival, attempting to alter the fate of the city by thwarting a cataclysmic plot. But beware, for a greater threat looms that could overshadow even the consequences of their plane-shifting actions. Can this epic adventure be completed without too many rippling butterfly effects, or will they change the world for the better?? Come along and find out!
Whispers in Wregate
WiW 26: NoTa Castle Mystery
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What happens when a makeshift propeller, a sleepy castle guard, and a missing helmet collide in a whirlwind adventure? Join the Timebreakers as they embark on a chaotic and hilariously cramped boat ride, eventually sneaking into a castle thanks to a guard whose vigilance is more than a little lacking. As they navigate the castle's hallways, they encounter a series of tactical and humorous challenges that keep them on their toes, all while making their way to report their findings to Lewis Ignatius Zephyr.
The plot thickens when the team meets a suspicious castle guard whose disheveled uniform and ignorance about religious pendants raise eyebrows. With clever persuasion and a display of nobility, the Timebreakers compel the guard to reveal an enchanted helmet linked to mysterious disappearances and potential cultist activities. This discovery, coupled with a rune uncovered by Fall, raises more questions about a character named Dillin, adding another layer of intrigue to the unfolding story.
The excitement reaches new heights with an intense investigation of a crime scene marked by a fierce struggle and high-level magic. Thaddeus's heroic efforts to break through a Wall of Stone lead to a fiery trap, testing the team's wit and resourcefulness. The episode crescendos with a dramatic confrontation involving a crossbow bolt, a vanishing cloaked figure, and a powerful Eldritch Blast, leaving listeners eager for the next thrilling installment. Don't forget to join our Discord community to contribute to the Timebreakers' ongoing adventure and leave a review to support our journey!
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Hello and welcome back. I'm Baron Battlebred, your guide to the streets and whispers of reggae. Come gather round. You lost folk as we spiral back into the Timebreakers, trying to rewrite history and change their fates. When we last left off the Timebreakers?
Speaker 1Timebreakers Time Timebreakers had managed to lose their friend due to a kidnapping, track down their friend, Sarah, make their way into the thieves' hideout, destroy them utterly, reclaim their friend and manage to escape without actually falling down that giant hole, despite their best attempt. They are currently now standing in the field outside the secret entrance, in the middle of the shipping lanes, Surprisingly close to the Tree of Shadows. As for what they plan on doing with the rest of their evening here on Day 2, we'll jump to them Time Breakers. What are your plans for the day? Plan on doing with the rest of their evening here on day two? We'll jump to them time breakers. What are your plans for the day?
Speaker 3well, we figured out where the uh helmets were coming from and that was of interest, so maybe we could do.
Speaker 4I don't know well, now that we got sarah back, we should probably go to the castle and report all of this thank you, agreed, and perhaps we shall inform them of this seedy element that we found. I don't see why not.
Speaker 2Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1All right, so you guys want to head back to the castle. How would you like to get off the island?
Speaker 4The boat.
Speaker 1We have a boat. I'm on a boat, zant, you do currently have a boat, but if you'll remember correctly, it barely fit the three of you.
Speaker 2I'll just sit on Thad's shoulders.
Speaker 4A 40-pound robot on Thaddeus' shoulders? Yeah, that'll go well. Considering that he's also rowing, that's gonna go great. Hey, I got a better idea. Can we just have Sarah hang off the back and use Sarah as the propeller?
Speaker 2I was gonna suggest the exact same thing. Can that be an acrobatics roll?
Speaker 1Yeah, you know what. Okay, so Shimmer, elise and Thaddeus get in the rowboat. Sarah latches on to the backside and gives me an acrobatics roll to see if you can kick against the current 17.
Speaker 1Yeah, okay, easy enough. We don't know why your legs are capable of moving like that, but apparently they are, and you make it to the edge of the shipping lanes with no problems, but you make it back up, you cross the bridges of the lanes. You know the castle is Well, actually, I have a question for you. You can use the shipping lanes to get to a delivery dock on the backside of the castle and you can probably do it faster through the water than if you were walking along the roads. Would you like to do that instead? Yes, yeah.
Speaker 4I say we do that.
Speaker 3Yeah, sure.
Speaker 1All right. So you guys make your way down the shipping lanes. Going with the current is a lot faster than going against it, obviously, and it only takes you a few minutes to make it to the loading dock on the backside of the castle. As you come up to the dock that's under the castle, you climb up onto it and there is just one guard currently sitting at the top of a long flight of stairs. He seems to be asleep at his post.
Speaker 2How responsible?
Speaker 1Well, what would you like to do? Do you want to try and sneak past him, or Well, we don't need to wake him.
Speaker 2Not and sneak.
Speaker 4I'm not even going to try to sneak past him, I'm just going to walk past him.
Speaker 2Yeah, just walk. There's not really any reason to do anything but, yeah.
Speaker 1Okay, so as you guys clamber up the stairs, this particular individual is entirely unobservant.
Speaker 2Well, you rolled a perception check for him and he fucking failed, didn't he?
Speaker 1Haha. He made a couple of checks in his sleep as people walked past him Elise made it past him, shimmer made it past him, thaddeus made it past him. Sarah, as your feet clink along the stone steps, though, he startles awake, he jumps to his feet, he grabs his spear and he levels it at you. Who goes there?
Speaker 2Let's see how would Sarah respond to this. Sarah is going to casually look up at him and, like I am Sarah, I have business here in the castle, and then continue walking.
Speaker 1He roll me a persuasion. Yeah, roll me a persuasion.
Speaker 2check Just a persuasion check, just a straight dice roll 16 yeah, all right.
Speaker 1Um, he's going to, he's. He's going to shake his head right. His eyes are half closed, he's still partially asleep and he's staring at a small creature he's never seen before, and he's just going to. As you walk into the doorway, he's going to reach up and pull on a rope that was hanging behind him, and you're going to hear a bell like ting-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling to let other people know that people are coming up the stairs. You make it to the top of the stairs and you watch as the steel portcullis that is guarding the door is slowly rising. So you have free entrance into the castle now.
Speaker 2Not only are we that easy in real life, let me in, let me in, let me in. Hey, I have business here. Sure, I guess.
Speaker 1If only you step into the castle, into the main hallway, and Elise, I believe, is usually the one leading you into the space. You're coming from a different direction, so it takes you a little bit longer than you anticipated. To Whose room are you headed to? A lizard? You're headed to the lizard. Gonna go fight? Gonna go? Gonna go report to lewis ignatius zephyr as you make your way down the hallways. Um, elise, roll me a perception, check as a 14. As you make your way down the hallways, Elise, looking around with your 14, because you like to keep a keen eye on what's around you, you notice that the last time you were here there were fewer guards than the first time you were here, and this time there are even fewer still. Instead of a guard at, say, every other entranceway and two or three patrolling, you see no guards standing their posts and you only see like maybe four along the patrols and nobody stops to question you.
Speaker 2Patrols are a bit late.
Speaker 3This might not bode well, it's either because all the other guards were cultists, which is not good or worse.
Speaker 2The only you know people we're seeing left are the cultists. Would be worse, yep.
Speaker 4Could just be a shift change you make it to the lizard's room.
Speaker 2The fact that nobody is acknowledging us is concerning now.
Speaker 4It could also be the fact that it's a festival, so many of the other guards may be called to other locations I'm going to walk up to one of the guards and say hey, buddy, uh, why do you not have as much security here as you normally do?
Speaker 1um, he's going to stop and he's going to kind of turn towards you, not in the usual rigid, sharp, militaristic movements that you would expect of a castle guard, but he's kind of leaning on his spear and he's just going to kind of he's slouching a little bit. His head is going to turn towards you. He says it's just they've been disappearing slowly, one after the other. I didn't even finish my training and yet here I am wandering the halls.
Speaker 4Guard's disappearing eh.
Speaker 2Can somebody do an insight check on that?
Speaker 4I'm going to be rolling insight on that.
Speaker 3I have six with them Insight. Apparently Can I also roll insight oh yeah, you're in close enough proximity.
Speaker 1You can all roll it if you want or if someone can roll it at advantage.
Speaker 2I think all of us rolling is going to be a better result than one person rolling with advantage.
Speaker 1I heard a 15, a 16, I think I heard a 17.
Speaker 2Sarah got a 17.
Speaker 1Okay, elise, were you rolling? No, it's good. The other three are looking. So, thaddeus, I believe you got your 16 correct.
Speaker 4No, I got a 12 you got a 15 and, uh, sarah got the 17 okay, I don't know where the 16 came from then.
Speaker 1Uh, thaddeus, with a 12. You stare at this man. Um, like he is. He he's relaxed in his stance, very much not properly trained. He also looks like he hasn't slept in a while. His eyes are kind of sunken in. You can see some, some dark bags underneath it. He seems more annoyed at having to explain this to you, like where have you been? This has been happening for like two or three days now, but he does seem to be telling the truth. Shimmer and Sarah, you are looking at him from a different angle and you watch that while he is leaning on his spear as he is talking to Thaddeus, one hand slides to his side and you watch as he grabs the hilt of his short sword, like ready to use it should Thaddeus continue asking questions. It hasn't been drawn yet, but it definitely looks like he wants to.
Speaker 2I'm going to put down my shield, pull out both of my rapiers and step in between him and Thaddeus Ah.
Speaker 1What are you?
Speaker 2What are you?
Speaker 1I'm a. I'm a Thomas.
Speaker 2A Thomas.
Speaker 1Yeah, I work here.
Speaker 2Do you now? Oh yeah, that doesn't sound very convincing.
Speaker 1He's just staring at you like mouth open, like eyebrow cocked. He's super confused right now.
Speaker 2Do you want me to explain my logic here, or just keep going?
Speaker 1I personally would like you to explain your logic. What's your plan here?
Speaker 2So just the fact that he's got his hand on his weapon ready to use it it not his spear either, like would it be, which would be like the normal guard weapon kind of gives me, uh, for life a better way or in a sense vibes that he's probably just a cultist here in the castle, like he lacks all the mannerisms of a guard.
Speaker 1But yes, he wasn't properly trained okay and uh, what would you like to do with this suspicion?
Speaker 2You're questioning him further. That's what I'm doing right now.
Speaker 1Okay, go ahead and give me your next question and we'll see where it goes.
Speaker 2Okay, hold on. Before I do that, what's the name of the fucking evil deity that these cultists worship?
Speaker 1They are. From what you gather, they are Siricists. They worship the mad god Siric.
Speaker 2Does this guy have any religious symbols?
Speaker 1on him. Roll me an investigation, see if there's anything that you recognize.
Enchanted Helmet and Missing Guards
Speaker 2If you mention that out loud, if you Sarah mentions out loud that she's looking for this, elise will take a closer eye too. I got a 12.
Speaker 1You look over this man and as you gaze upon his uniform, it looks like a castle guard's uniform, though as you look upon it, it's very clear that it has not been properly maintained. It's not as shiny as the ones you've seen. They're frayed. The seams are frayed. There are some thin spots, especially up in the shoulders and where the metal breastplate rubs against the edge of the pieces. This is not somebody who is doing very well. This is definitely bottom-of-the-barrel type of guard.
Speaker 2It's quite the old uniform you have there. Hey, do you have your religious pendants on you? My what, your religious pendant?
Speaker 1Why would I have a religious pendant on you? My, what? Your religious pendant? Why would I have a religious pendant?
Speaker 3that's a weird thing that I wouldn't.
Speaker 1I don't need a religious pendant. It's, it's here on my helmet. As the castle guard, we worship the god of protection, is that?
Speaker 2the way that works.
Speaker 1Are you asking me?
Speaker 2Yeah, the DM.
Speaker 1Roll a religion check. I'll give you a religion check on this one. You don't know a lot as Sarah Seven. You have no way to confirm or deny whether he's telling the truth.
Speaker 2Due to the fact that I rolled a holy number, I think I should have, you know, some sort of bonus. The religion of hell. As I look around at everybody else, Are you not worried that these god disappearances would lead to you being disappeared?
Speaker 1Me, yes you. What would they want with old Thomas here?
Speaker 2They only take the people who your English muffins.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2They only take who.
Speaker 1I think they only be people who know what they're doing. How did you come to that conclusion? Well, based on my own observations, I would say it was right around the time Lord Corvatash disappeared that I figured they were only taking people who were good at their jobs.
Speaker 2Lord Corvatash is still on.
Speaker 3Is that the prince or the fiancé of that one noble I'm friends with?
Speaker 1That would be the fiancé of Lady Serafina Artemonde.
Speaker 2Yeah, damn it, I liked him. Artimonde, damn it, I like him. Which posts in particular have been targeted by these kidnappers, I'm assuming or possibly murderers?
Speaker 1Oh well, we haven't found anybody murdered yet, but a lot of our standing posts like we'll be on patrol, right, we'll see a guy, he'll be standing his post in front of a doorway and then by the time we come back around, poof, he's fucking gone. Like some people are. Some people we think are like abandoning their posts with all this nonsense talk of, you know, cultists and things infiltrating the capital, but we know that's not possible.
Speaker 2It definitely is.
Speaker 1It's crazy, weird and covered in hoods. If anybody was a cultist, it'd probably be that lizard back there.
Speaker 2Is this guy wearing a necklace at all?
Speaker 1He's not wearing a necklace.
Speaker 4Hey, buddy, I gotta ask you something real quickly. You mind taking off your helmet?
Speaker 1He looks down at the hammer that you have and he eyes you kind of suspiciously, like that's an odd request for someone with a blunt object.
Speaker 3Just for a second, take off the helmet, please.
Speaker 4You don't even have to take it, uh, fully off. I just want to see you lift it off your head.
Speaker 2Trust me, it's, it's important um, go ahead and I use persuasion to convince him yeah, let the persuasion monster convince them. Yes, yes.
Speaker 1While normally this could be happening. Thaddeus is the one who asked, so I will allow Thaddeus to roll with disadvantage, not disadvantage With advantage if Shimmer is attempting to help. But how does Shimmer aim?
Speaker 3I specifically piped up and was like take it off, to ask him to take it off herself after all you are in the presence of royalty you're jumping in with like a pretty please basically like I'm jumping in, like yes okay. I have a nobility. I would like to see your face if you're gonna pull a nobility I would like to see your face.
Speaker 1If you're going to pull the nobility card, then yeah, okay, I will allow Shimmer to make her roll, but it'll be flat, not with advantage.
Speaker 3That's fine 31.
Speaker 131. Having pried his eyes away from the angry visage that technically is Thaddeus, and his hammer, uh, as he stares at you, shimmer, you pull out your, you, basically you throw your royalty card, uh. And he's like, oh yeah, uh, sure, fine, yeah, we gotta listen to you. Sure, fine, yeah, we gotta listen to you. And you watch as he undoes the strap and he pops the top off of his helmet and you can see that he is shaved completely bald. But you can see the hair is growing back in little bits and it's very clear that this man has some male pattern baldness going on, which is why he shaves his head.
Speaker 3May I see your helmet for a moment?
Speaker 1Yeah, sure.
Speaker 3I would like to inspect the helmet.
Speaker 1Yeah, go ahead, roll me investigation.
Speaker 3Goosebusters inspect walls.
Speaker 4Timebreakers inspect helmets.
Speaker 2Timebreakers inspect helmets.
Speaker 4Timebreakers timebreakers.
Speaker 1What was that?
Speaker 216. Okay, sorry, shimmer you rolled intimidation, that wasn't intimidation.
Speaker 3Damn it. I thought it pressed investigation. It's like another 16.
Speaker 2Okay, Right, it's the same, okay, okay.
Speaker 1With a 16,. You look over this helmet and you do, in fact, find a small rune etched into the back of it. Is it familiar, it is familiar. This looks like one of Fall's enchanted helmets.
Speaker 3Hmm, interesting these, a few of these helmets have these runes and those with the runes are not good to be wearing, and it appears yours has it. I will be keeping this helmet, but I need that Find another one. What?
Speaker 2Who's the guy, who's they're supposed to be seeking?
Speaker 1Dylan.
Speaker 2Does the name Dylan sound familiar to you? I? Knew a Dylan back in high school.
Speaker 1When you say Dylan, when you ask him if Dylan rings a bell, he is going to snap to attention in the more rigid, militaristic standing that you would expect him to be at all the time. He's going to say have you seen Dylan? We're supposed to report him.
Speaker 4No, we haven't seen Dylan. You should go find him and report back to us.
Speaker 3She's going to wave Thaddeus off. Report him to who.
Speaker 1I'm not entirely sure, but I know that if I see Dylan I need to report him.
Speaker 2It would seem that you're still under the effect of the helmet Interesting Well, be on your way.
Speaker 3and under the effect of the helmet Interesting Well, be on your way and I will be keeping this helmet.
Speaker 1Yes, ma'am, he's going to turn, click his heels and march off in a way that he was not walking previously.
Speaker 3Well, it seems we have more information to give the lizard.
Speaker 4Shimmer's got a mutter to the throat. As he marches off, thaddeus looks towards him and yells Good luck with your English muffins.
Speaker 1There's English in this campaign. As you say that he's going to throw out uh, two fingers in a peace sign as a behind him, as like a yeah sure, whatever, uh, but he's going to keep walking without turning around, are we sure those?
Speaker 4uh, that's a peace sign.
Speaker 3That's what he did, uh-huh onward to the lizard we have yes, onward to the lizard we had a guard things to report.
Speaker 4Louis Ignatius Zephyr, arcane reader of divination.
Speaker 1That is his name, and if you don't have one, you may have a point of inspiration.
Speaker 4Yes, I have a point of inspiration.
Speaker 1You guys make your way to the lizard's office and his door is closed.
Speaker 2The lizard is the biggest source of inspiration we've had so far Brought all of our games too, I think.
Speaker 1That is true. You said the door was locked. I said the door was closed. I opened the door.
Speaker 4Yeah, when has that ever stopped us?
Speaker 1All of it was locked. I was going to pick it. Sarah goes to open the door and it is, in fact, locked.
Speaker 2Well then.
Speaker 1Elise is going to pick it All right With the mage hand. Okay, go ahead and roll me your sleight of hand 18. Easy enough. This seems to be a fairly standard lock. It's not even magic which is surprising. Standard lock it's not even magic which is surprising. But you hear three distinct clicks as you unlock this lock and the door swings open on slightly bent hinges. The room inside is dark, but you can see that it is like even more of an erratic mess than it has been previously.
Speaker 2That's not good.
Speaker 4I think somebody's been here.
Speaker 2Indeed Police will close the door behind them.
Speaker 3The hinges immediately tip me off at what the fuck is going on. There's something wrong with the hinges.
Speaker 2The lock was also returning. Yeah, at least they'll shut the door silently behind them and begin looking around the room without a word.
Speaker 1Have you all gone inside? Yep, okay, you all stepped inside and Elise has shut the door behind you. Yes, okay, elise, go ahead and roll me investigation. Do you have darkvision?
Speaker 2She has a moon-touched rapier that if it is too dark in here to see she would pull out.
Speaker 1There is no internal source of light, so when you shut the door it is pretty dark. But you pull out your rapier. Okay, you'll be fine, Go ahead and roll me your investigation.
Speaker 4While Elise is, or when we walked in and everything, since it go ahead and roll me your investigation. Um, while Elise is, uh, or when we walked in and everything. Well, since it was dark and whatnot, I took my light hammer and I infused it temporarily with uh light, okay, Now we've got two sources of light.
Speaker 2I got a one and a two for a total of fifteen, and I have advantage because of the uh eyes the eyes of minute seeing the investigation right.
Speaker 1Wow, a one and a two on an advantage roll, but to still end up with a 15 is crazy yeah um, you, you look around, uh, you're looking around this space, and the more you look around, the more concerned you become, because what you're finding is not just a trashed office, but an office that obviously had some form of a scuffle in it. Uh, you're starting to see. You're starting to see, uh, weapon marks, claw marks, scorch marks, probably from some type of magic. Most likely Something went down in here. You also see several potion bottles smashed on the ground and several larger glass shards on the table.
Speaker 4I would like to investigate those larger shards on the table because I have a feeling I know what they are or what they were to, and I would just like to confirm that.
Speaker 1Okay, you go to investigate the larger glass shards on the table. Seeing as you are an artificer and a tinker of sorts, I will give you advantage on your investigation 16. Uh, with a 16, your current fears are not realized. Uh, whatever this particular object was previously, it is not the jar that housed the star the material is made of. Uh, while it is a glass object, it is far too thin to be whatever it was previously well, also that.
Speaker 4And uh, gregory took the star in the jar. Oh, that's good, but I was more concerned with it was some kind of crazy concoction that could have been very, very toxic for everybody. Oh, this is the lizard we're talking about.
Speaker 1This is the lizard we're talking about, but nothing about. These shards give way that it was gas or liquid container. There's no residue to worry about, nothing particularly crazy that you can tell about it.
Speaker 4Okay, I think my next order of business is I'd like to investigate the walls.
Speaker 1Okay, you look around the room. This is an oddly shaped room, so you have some walls with bookcases, you have a wall with a large fireplace, you have a wall with what looks like a window, but when you look over to it it's actually a very, very realistic painting. Which wall would you like to investigate? The wall that shouldn't be there? Okay, go ahead and roll me your investigation real quick.
Speaker 4Is that an investigation or is that an arcana?
Speaker 1First give me your investigation.
Speaker 4What could we do, arcana?
Speaker 2That has yet to work for you. Every time you've tried that it has yet to work for you First time.
Speaker 1You've tried that. It has yet to work for you. First give me your investigation.
Speaker 4Rolling investigation. With disadvantage now because I've asked too many times about Arcana. No.
Speaker 1No, no, we'll get there 19. Okay, as everyone else is looking around the space, you are taking it all in. You have light from your hammer, you have light from Elise's moon-touched rapier and suddenly, with this wall in front of you, something clicks in your head and you walk back to where Elise is currently investigating and you can see what is effectively a trail of combat that leads back to this wall.
Speaker 4Elise, looking down here, I can see a trail of combat that leads back to this wall.
Speaker 1From where you are, you can see that the door was forced open suddenly.
Speaker 4From where I am, I can see that the door was forced open suddenly. From where I am, I can see that the door was forced open suddenly.
Speaker 1And the lizard who was likely at his desk stood up so fast that he knocked his chair over backwards.
Speaker 4And the lizard who was likely at his desk stood up so fast that he knocked his chair backwards.
Speaker 1As his assailants came running into the room. It looks like he was able to get off a fire spell, maybe a scorching ray or a flaming hands from the marks, from the searing marks that are currently against the back wall and door.
Speaker 4It seems the lizard was able to get off a fire spell, a scorching ray or searing marks based off the evidence.
Speaker 1It looks like one of the assailants dove to the side and upturned the table to take cover behind it, but it's very clear that one of them was struck one of the assailants.
Speaker 4Looks like they dove behind this table over here, but it looks like, very clearly, it looks like they were struck. So there were struck, so there were at least two.
Speaker 1There were at least two. One of them was carrying a large, sharp object, perhaps a sword or a spear, or maybe both.
The Intriguing Escape and Impending Threat
Speaker 4Based on these indentations here. I think one of them was carrying a very large object, a sword or spear, or maybe even both.
Speaker 1The lizard probably came forward in an attempt to push them back out the door and he was swung upon several times. It looks like they missed, as these slash marks in the bookcase provide.
Speaker 4These slash marks and these scuff marks prove that the lizard most likely got a few shots off, but he was struck several times.
Speaker 1They seem to be pushing him backwards deeper into the room.
Speaker 4And they seem to be pushing him backwards deeper into the room. And they seem to be pushing him backwards deeper into the room.
Speaker 1It looks like with these shards of glass, he grabbed something off of his shelf or off of his person and threw it as his assailants.
Speaker 4Ah, it makes sense now. These shards of glass were most likely the lizard grabbing something off of his shelf and throwing it at his assailants something off of his shelf and throwing it at his assailants as they pushed him further and further into the room.
Speaker 1the other assailant seems to be carrying a large blunt object, as you can see by the smashes of objects between here and the stone wall.
Speaker 4See these smashes here and between the stone wall. I think one of the assailants had a hammer of some kind.
Speaker 1And then one of them was a powerful enough spellcaster to put this wall up, or the lizard put it up himself in an effort to defend him from the assailants.
Speaker 4And then this wall appeared, so that's all I've got.
Speaker 1And all of that happened. Uh, Thaddeus, roll me an arcana check.
Speaker 4Okay, one second Arcana. That's gonna be a 21.
Speaker 1Thaddeus, as a partial spellcaster, you recognize this as the Wall of Stone spell, a fairly high level magic that only lasts for about 10 minutes. So this either this had to have just happened before you got here. It's a wall of stone.
Speaker 2So I think that was excellent narration. Honestly, I think that worked out really well.
Speaker 1Thanks. With this wall of stone being in place, you know that you only have a few minutes, so you can either wait it out, attempt to dispel it if you can, or you could, if you are bored enough, try and smash through it with your hammer.
Speaker 4If I smash through it and it disappears anyway, is that going to be a problem? Like it's not permanent right? No matter what.
Speaker 1Right, it's going to disappear at some point within the next 10 minutes.
Speaker 4I'm kind of bored and I really want to hit something right now, okay. So, yeah, I'm going to go ahead and try to smash the wall. Okay, go ahead and hit the wall 22.
Speaker 1That is going to hit. Go ahead and roll me double damage.
Speaker 3It is a wall.
Speaker 1It is a wall, but you'd be surprised how hard some of them are to hit. Well, I guess it's not always about how hard it is to hit, but more about how hard the object is to cause damage to. So roll damage twice.
Speaker 4Yes, roll me double damage because you are striking it with your light hammer. What's that?
Speaker 1Dang it. Where'd the check go? That looks like 15. Yep, okay, here we go, you have. Let's see, the wall is an object of stone that can be damaged and breached with an AC of 15 and 30 points of thickness. Okay, you put a serious crack in it.
Speaker 4Okay, it seems like I put a serious crack in this wall. You have.
Speaker 1Would you like to hit it again? Yeah, sure, why not?
Speaker 3Can I see through the wall? Can you see through it? How big?
Speaker 2is the crack.
Speaker 3No, it's in the crack.
Speaker 1No, it's a large spider web fracture. You can't see through it quite yet. Nothing's fallen off. You would have to hit it again, yeah well, I'm gonna hit it again yeah, go ahead and hit it again 10, that doesn't hit you it's a wall. You think that you did much better than you did, so you strike it lightly in an attempt to break off just a little bit to see if you can see through it. But a little too light, not hard enough to actually do any damage.
Speaker 4Okay. Well then I'm just going to wait. I'm sure it's anywhere from what? Nine to two minutes, yeah, to wait for the wall to disappear.
Speaker 3Yes, I'm going to sit the chair back up and sit down.
Speaker 1Alright.
Speaker 2I'm going to pull out both of my rapiers.
Speaker 3I would also like it to be on the opposite move, the chair to be on the opposite, against the opposite wall. So I'm staring at the wall in the chair.
Speaker 2Elise will move over to the door and listen for anybody coming, okay.
Speaker 1So after about six minutes you start getting a little concerned, Thaddeus, the wall is still up. After eight minutes, the wall is still up.
Speaker 4Okay, I'm going to hit the wall again.
Speaker 1At about Go ahead and swing to hit the wall again 16. 16 does hit.
Speaker 4Is it double damage again?
Speaker 1Yes, you are striking a wall with a hammer.
Speaker 4That's going to be 15. That's the last.
Speaker 1That will do it. That will do it. That will do it. At about nine minutes, you guys watch as Thaddeus gets really bored and just walks up and smashes the wall with his hammer one more time, and this time the head of his hammer goes through the wall and he breaks a line down all the way to the ground as the wall starts to crumble. Thaddeus, I need a dexterity saving throw from you as a bolt of fire comes shooting out.
Speaker 4That's a four.
Speaker 2Is there any way I can interpose myself in between?
Speaker 1Where are you, sarah? Next to him. You are right next to him, as per usual, yeah. Do you have a maneuver or a feat or an ability that lets you Nope? No shield master or anything of the such?
Speaker 2I don't have shield master. No, but Okay, I don't have shieldmaster now.
Speaker 1But Okay, okay, I will say that because you are his steel defender, that it is your job to do such things, I will give him advantage. I will give him one more dexterity roll, as if you pushed him in an effort to save him from said fire. Wait, dex, save, or flat. Dex, dex, save.
Speaker 3Oh.
Speaker 1Well, okay, wow, you got a 19 and a 20 on that roll, so I don't think it matters, okay.
Speaker 4Considering that my dex save and my dexterity both have the same modifier, I think I'm okay.
Speaker 1Right. So with a flat 20, sarah reaches over and pushes you out of the way of this bolt of fire and you can hear a voice behind this wall say God damn, I missed. And the wall that doesn't sound like lizard Mom. The wall is going to crumble and what you?
Speaker 2see, did you say mom?
Speaker 1Yeah, you did. And what you see behind this stone wall, under the light of the hammer and the rapier, is not the lizard, but it is Lord Handred Corvitash, very damaged and holding a wand of some kind made of iron. He looks like he's on roughly his last legs.
Speaker 4He's just kind of.
Speaker 2Does he have a sword, a spear or a hammer?
Speaker 1He has a sword, A long sword. It is currently out, it is bloody and it is in his other hand.
Speaker 3I'll stand up and be like.
Speaker 2Does anybody? Know, healing magic.
Speaker 3What happened here?
Speaker 1We're attacked by who? The guards?
Speaker 3Fuckin' course. We had just had an encounter with one of the guards. I was hoping to speak to him about that. Did you kill him? No, he seemed useless. He seemed useless. I did not.
Speaker 1Don't they all Eh?
Speaker 3fair. No, he seems useless. He seemed useless, I did not, don't they all Fair? I'll cast how damaged does he look and how much HP does it look like he would have if he had healthy?
Speaker 1Versus 100. Roll me a medicine, check Medicine 18. 18. Roll me a medicine check.
Speaker 3Medicine 18 18.
Speaker 1You look at him and it looks like he's taken Quite a beating and you would guess that on a scale of like Between 1 and 120, he looks like he's about 8.
Speaker 3So I'm gonna cast Healing Word at second level. Okay, eleven healing.
Speaker 1Okay, that is a little better. It does look like his wounds have stopped bleeding.
Speaker 3So that's a start. Do you have any idea where they might have taken the lizard?
Speaker 1Instead they were were gonna take him back. They had a. They had a a jar. They got Gregory. Oh, fuck it, they got Gregory's jar.
Speaker 2Anybody who hasn't watched up to this point is like who the fuck is Gregory and what's the significance of this jar?
Speaker 3Dammit, they have that. If they have that, that's gonna be fucking bullshit. It's not good at all.
Speaker 4Shimmer. How very not noble of you.
Speaker 2How noble of you Shut up, how noble of you to just call some bullshit.
Speaker 3I'm sorry, I'm a magic user and that cancels out magic.
Speaker 1Excellent. Hey, while this conversation is going on, can you guys please tell me your passive perceptions?
Speaker 2I don't care. Also, you stopped your game session 14. 15 37.
Speaker 4What the fuck? No, that's bad. No, it's actually 17.
Speaker 114, 15, 17. Elise, what's your passive perception? 15. Okay, got it. 17 is, let me just go ahead and Excellent.
Speaker 3Apparently I forget that passive insight is also a thing.
Speaker 1As you guys are talking to Lord Corvitesh.
Speaker 2Ear is still on the door.
Mysterious Figure and Eldritch Blast
Speaker 1Yes, okay, if your ear is still on the door, go ahead and give me an active perception. Roll, it didn't help. 14, alright, your ear is on the door. But the shock of seeing Lord Corvatash Lying, bleeding out on the floor and not the lizard, the questioning, the answers that he's giving. They've taken the lizard, they took Gregory and his jar. They almost killed him. You guys are paying attention Very much To the man lying on the floor. All of a sudden A crossbow bolt Comes screaming past you guys and lodges itself in his chest. You hear him go and he kind of slumps over. And as you turn to see who it was or what it was that did this, a cloaked figure is standing in the middle of the room. He turns, sees Lise standing against the door the room. He turns, sees Elise standing against the door, turns back, he looks left, he looks right and then he poof, turns into a mist and disappears.
Speaker 3Can I Eldritch Blast right at his feet right as he disappears, so like I'm trying to hit him.
Speaker 1Uh yeah, as you take your shot, you take your Eldritch Blast shot as he disappears, the force shattering the stone where his feet were just seconds, just a second before, and that is where we are going to cut the episode today.
Speaker 4Dun, dun dun.
Speaker 1That is all for now, but when we return next episode, I'm sure the Timebreakers will continue to impress us.
Speaker 2Timebreakers. Timebreakers.
Speaker 1You can come join. The Discord link is in the description and, you know, help us build the city from the inside. You can uh, you can talk to us about it. You can give us ideas or or references, or tell us when I make terrible, terrible decisions. Like a wall of stone if you hold on to its concentration, the whole time becomes permanent. Oops, I read that actually. Anyway, you can leave a rating, leave a review and tell us how you really feel. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 2Bye, you promised me an action. Thank, you.