Box Wine Banter And Cold Open

SPEAKER_07 0:00

Yeah, boat a box, that's what we grabbed too. I'm telling you, man, box wine is the thing. Like more people need to embrace it. It's not, it's not for the trailer parks anymore, man.

SPEAKER_05 0:09

They also fit neatly into a Dunkin' Donuts box of Joe, and the spouts just kind of like swap out. Hey, who the fuck are you?

SPEAKER_07 0:20

Apparently not going to AA.

SPEAKER_05 0:25

Look, man, M State Parks. They uh they they hound you. You gotta you gotta be crafty.

SPEAKER_02 0:31

Like, I would expect that out of anyone else in this party except for you.

SPEAKER_07 0:35

Right.

SPEAKER_03 0:37

You know, the school fundraisers have started raising a lot of money since Ray started bringing the coffee, and that's all I'm saying.

SPEAKER_02 0:46

Welcome to Oathbreaker, a DD story. I am Brandon the Irish Wookiee, and with me today is Justin. Hi, Brandon. Hello, Justin.

SPEAKER_01 0:56

How are you doing today? I'm okay.

SPEAKER_02 0:59

I'm just gonna extend our banter every time I introduce you slowly until we're taking up the entire podcast, just the two of us talking.

SPEAKER_01 1:06

Slowly at a medium pace. Managed to do my uh my intro, right, at least. So far.

SPEAKER_00 1:13

Oh perfect.

unknown 1:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:16

Oh yeah. Did you do your NKO?

SPEAKER_01 1:23

Hi everybody, I'm Justin. I'm playing uh Novax, the male human monk.

SPEAKER_05 1:28

And Ray. Hey, I'm Ray. I play Harleck, the Kenku Bard Warlock.

SPEAKER_03 1:34

And Andrew. Everyone, I'm Andrew. I play Elvar Ulfredson, the Goliath fighter with a little ranger in the mix.

SPEAKER_07 1:43

Maddie? You ever had a little ranger in you? Just a little bit. Do you want some?

SPEAKER_02 1:50

Just the tip of the ranger. Ray, that's a sex joke. Jokes. I got those.

SPEAKER_07 2:01

Hi everybody, I'm Maddie. Uh, I play uh Vain Dot. Yep, boss Dane. There we go.

SPEAKER_08 2:08

Vain Doss.

SPEAKER_07 2:11

Uh, yeah. Boss Dane. Uh click. Half help. Wearing a dress. Perfect.

SPEAKER_02 2:21

And finally.

SPEAKER_07 2:22

That's not perfect. That was the furthest from perfect, but I think you're.

SPEAKER_02 2:26

Listen, man, I'm trying not to put everybody down so early in the session.

SPEAKER_06 2:30

Saving that for. Hello, I am Bill. I play Zane Umberlight, the half orc warlock.

SPEAKER_02 2:39

The half elk gnome swashbuckler.

SPEAKER_08 2:43

Gnome?

SPEAKER_06 2:46

Half sounded like you said, half elk gnome swashbuckler.

SPEAKER_02 2:50

I said half elk gnome swashbuckler, yeah. It's compared to your orc. Glenn is very, very small.

SPEAKER_06 2:58

They're about the same height.

SPEAKER_02 3:00

No, they're not.

SPEAKER_06 3:02

Yeah. Glenn is about eight or eight. About six foot tall. A little bit like six six one, something like that. He's half feet tall.

SPEAKER_02 3:09

Is your half orc like eight feet tall, though?

SPEAKER_06 3:12

No. He's only like six four.

SPEAKER_02 3:15

Okay. Maybe taller, I can't remember.

SPEAKER_06 3:17

No, it's Elvar that's freaking twenty feet tall.

SPEAKER_02 3:20

That's fair. He is a Goliath, though. You're muted, Andrew, if you're trying to talk. Which every guy does.

SPEAKER_05 3:30

That's Common Core math. The new maths, right? Everything's just about so he's about 12 feet.

SPEAKER_02 3:37

Alright. I want to say thank you to everybody for following us, like and has given us ideas. It means a lot to us. Make sure you check us out on all of our social medias at facebook.com slash ad story. Retweet us on Twitter or EX at ad story2. Follow us on Instagram at Instagram.com slash ad story. And following check us out on Blue Sky, a BSKY.app at a DND Story. Um let's roll right into some recap stuff. So let's roll some recap, everybody but he did it last time. I got a 10.

SPEAKER_07 4:11

Justin doesn't have to go too, right? He was he not here? You're right. Justin. Justin doesn't have to go. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:21

Oh man, I thought it was me for sure with a four. You know, we we had like nine nat twenties in the last episode. Well, two on this one.

SPEAKER_05 4:31

Well, we're showing some promising roles already. All right.

SPEAKER_07 4:36

Was that the actual count? Was there how was did we count the nat 20s in the last time?

SPEAKER_02 4:40

I haven't got her and counted. I have it listed here. One second.

SPEAKER_03 4:44

I think the players had nine and Brandon had four, maybe.

SPEAKER_02 4:49

We had a total of 12 Nat 20s between the entire party, including me.

SPEAKER_08 4:54

That's a lot. Damn! Yeah.

Recap Chaos And Monster Menagerie Plan

SPEAKER_02 4:56

There's no way we're there's no way we're getting that again. Alright. With that being said, Maddie, I think you got the recap.

SPEAKER_07 5:06

Alright. You guys sure you want me to do the recap?

SPEAKER_02 5:09

Yep.

SPEAKER_07 5:13

Uh I'm trying to remember for myself. Alright, so, like, Symondra rolls up with 12 knights, all dramatic and dusty, and like we barely escaped with our lives, and we're all just like, okay, trauma dump much, yo, and then he drops some lore bomb on us. Apparently, King Waldron went in the Feywild to save his queen. But Plaquist, the blessing he got was actually a pull-on curse. Dude comes back, goes crazy, and straight up murders his own son. Yikes, like big feelings. Uh meanwhile, Father Lester still ghosted in the Feywild. Rip to that man. Uh Son Squad, like, okay, what's next? And our to-do list looks wild. Talksome architect named Nader Trick. Wait, that's not his name. What is his actual name?

SPEAKER_03 6:08

Uh Nader Tyke, I think.

SPEAKER_02 6:10

Yeah, it's Nader Tyke, but yeah.

SPEAKER_07 6:15

Yeah, yeah. Who honestly sounds like he gates keeps the blueprints that we're looking for the arcane tounter. Uh then we get it in we find Master Eldon, uh, which, by the way, is literally falling apart like X. Uh track down some magical key that opens any lock. And if we can't fix the cursed crown, then we might just have to destroy it or yeet it into some magic-eaten box. Uh, and we got 12 knights living rent-free in our manor now. That's cool. Uh Sime Monders upstairs like it's an Airbnb, and everyone's pretending this isn't gonna end with emotional damage. So, yeah. Uh we're over caffeinated, under-leveled, and uh ready to make some bad decisions in high definition.

SPEAKER_02 6:58

That's perfect, but that was from two sessions ago.

unknown 7:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 7:01

Was that two sessions ago?

SPEAKER_02 7:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 7:04

Forget you. So uh, yeah, we went into the we went into the we we left there, we went into some sort of house to find him. And we didn't.

SPEAKER_02 7:20

Who are you going to track? Let's start with that.

SPEAKER_07 7:22

Who am I going to track? Oh. Yeah, who are you trying to find? Yeah, we go to the architect's house. So, yeah, see? Uh AI doesn't actually always help. Uh, so we go we go to the architect's uh like apartment or something, and and we go in there and find literally nothing. I just spend a bunch of time rummaging around um finding hence to go to uh the Fantastic Beasts theme park. What's it actually called?

SPEAKER_02 7:51

Monster Menerie. Monster Menagerie. Or the menagerie, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 7:55

That place. The monster menagerie. Uh and so we we dumb around the apartment for probably way too long until we finally figure out, yep, Brandon's not gonna let us do anything here, so we need to go to this monster menagerie. Uh so we go there. And once we get there, we sooddle bits around the outside of the fence, finding our way in. Uh, we eventually do get in, and we're presented with three options left, right, and center. And if I remember correctly, we went right. Which is not what we were expected to do because right led us to essentially the end boss of this entire area of the map. And we went in and fought, I don't remember what. Was it a monkey? Two shambling mounds. Oh, it's right. No.

SPEAKER_02 8:49

Uh we fought.

SPEAKER_07 8:51

Yeah, yeah, we we we fought some piles of grass. Uh and uh we beat them. And that's essentially where we ended. Oh yeah, there's the picture of the shambling mounds now. Yeah, it kinda looks like a troll with grass. Uh the best part was the testicle punching.

unknown 9:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:15

It was a lot of testicle punching.

SPEAKER_07 9:17

There's a lot of punching going on that ended up killing these uh these guys. Uh um, yeah. I think that was that was pretty much it.

SPEAKER_02 9:27

Anyone want to end up?

SPEAKER_07 9:28

I could have actually done the recap. I didn't need to use that.

SPEAKER_02 9:31

You didn't need to do that awful Gen Z chat that you were fucking doing. I barely understood what you were saying, and I knew what happened in the last session.

SPEAKER_03 9:41

I will say though, there's time to cut that into the previous episode and replace the recap from the previous episode with his recap. There you go. You're welcome.

SPEAKER_08 9:55

Bill's recap. Sorry, Bill, you've been updated.

SPEAKER_05 10:02

So good, so good.

SPEAKER_02 10:04

Yeah, I wasn't sure if it was.

SPEAKER_06 10:06

Because he's also a Gen Z loser.

unknown 10:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:09

I don't think anybody here's Gen Z. I think we're all millennials.

SPEAKER_03 10:12

No, no, we're we are all very solidly millennial.

SPEAKER_01 10:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 10:18

Or or Bill.

SPEAKER_06 10:19

Sorry, Andrew just reminds me of a Gen Z. That's fair.

SPEAKER_03 10:23

It's the shirt. Yeah, the hairline definitely screamed up Gen Z.

SPEAKER_05 10:29

No, I I was at the warp tour this year. All all of the people my age were in the Hawaiian shirts, including myself. So it's a solid, it's a solid millennial thing right now.

SPEAKER_03 10:42

By the way, Green Day is coming out with a 25th anniversary of um her album. Uh I forget which one.

SPEAKER_05 10:50

They stopped being called the dookie.

SPEAKER_02 10:51

So Andrew, if you can do me a favor and clip this like the last 15 seconds of conversation. So next time Maddie asks me if we gained a level, I'll just play this back to him. That'd be great.

SPEAKER_07 11:03

Talking about Hawaiian shirts and warped turtles. Uh question though. I thought Justin was gone at the last one, but he was the one that did all the testicle punching.

SPEAKER_02 11:11

Yeah, it was two sessions ago. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 11:13

Oh, he was gone. Okay. See, I'm really like way far behind. Was I here like that?

SPEAKER_02 11:17

Does anybody have anything to add for the recap? There's a couple interesting points that happened.

SPEAKER_03 11:23

I mean, there's a spotless recap. Okay. I mean, are you talking about the there were posters where the animals and employees of the monster menagerie are now under the crown protection. Uh while we were at the apartment, we found a couple items, including some magical power that removes the scent of the beast. Um, a book that attempted to railroad us towards the monster menagerie, and then some drawings of the feeding pit that actually railroaded us there. And I railroad you know nothing.

SPEAKER_02 11:59

You make your own decisions.

SPEAKER_03 12:00

No, we had we hopped on the train and followed the tracks. Uh yeah, so there was some poop on the ground, a large fern-eating beast. Uh there we saw tracks that went in and no tracks that went out. Um let's see what else happened. There, I mean, there was the thing the bit about uh Harlach and the guards, and you know, one of the guards seeing some skin, thinking that Harlach was hot. True. Are you thinking about a cool piece of armor? We did find a cool piece of armor, and uh Eldar is carrying around the corpse that is wearing that piece of armor because we have not taken the time to strip the body of the armor.

SPEAKER_00 12:42

True. Did you have a question, Justin?

SPEAKER_01 12:45

I was just gonna ask if you were thinking about the dresses as the big thing we're not talking about.

SPEAKER_02 12:50

No, but the dresses are peaking.

SPEAKER_05 12:53

We met Risio that episode, or was that the episode before? You met Risio. I meant like our recent interaction, though. I s swore Seinmonder was like, hey, here's my guy. He's gonna leave the place. Last episode he led you to the apartment. Okay, okay, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_03 13:11

Yeah. Well well, so so the episode before that was the big lore dump where Risio was like providing a lot of color commentary to it. And then last episode was the one where Seinemander um completely dissed Melvax and said that like Riceo is the king of the shadows, and Nelvax is just some tidbit scrub.

SPEAKER_08 13:33

What a jerk.

SPEAKER_01 13:34

It wasn't that harsh. We do go way back.

SPEAKER_02 13:37

Way back. Alright. Matty, you get some heroic inspiration. Sorry, Justin, did you have something to say?

SPEAKER_01 13:43

Uh the only other thing that I I wasn't sure if it was just like a combat thing or something with uh deeper seated roots is that Eldvar had some kind of like fungal infestation in his chest that looked like it burst out of this other guy's body. So I wasn't sure if that was just a combat issue or it was just a combat thing. Yeah. Is he gonna be where it's that shirt telling us that we're saying goodbye to Eldvar today? It's stuff burst out of his shirt chest again.

SPEAKER_02 14:11

Andrew and I have a pack that we're gonna re-roll a new character because he's got hundreds of characters. We're gonna re-roll a new character every two for him so he can go through all of his all his characters.

SPEAKER_03 14:21

I thought it was six. I thought I thought I'd get six sessions in before I move.

SPEAKER_02 14:27

That might be true.

SPEAKER_03 14:27

We'll find out.

SPEAKER_07 14:29

Next one comes in with a terminal illness, joins the adventuring party for the last days.

SPEAKER_03 14:34

Right. He's just got this wet cough. And every time we cough, there's blood coming out from his time in the mines.

SPEAKER_02 14:42

Uh also, everybody around him needs to make a con save.

SPEAKER_08 14:46

Uh all right.

Back In The Greenhouse After Combat

SPEAKER_02 14:47

So yeah, we you you guys end it the last session after a big fight against some shambling mounds. So that's where we're gonna start. Uh all of you, there are two shambling mounds, and you are in the middle of the monster menagerie. And uh yeah. Who would like to loot and who would like to explore, or what would you like to do?

SPEAKER_03 15:09

So I think we looted the shambling mounds, but we were gonna investigate the surrounding area, if I remember correctly. Because like I I found some half-dissolved half plate, which we commented was quarterplate. Yes, you did.

SPEAKER_02 15:24

Okay, I had that in my notes. I didn't write that you guys actually loot it though. But I think we still need to investigate the area.

SPEAKER_06 15:30

Yes, we need to investigate the area.

SPEAKER_02 15:33

Okay. So all of you are wandering around just checking everything out.

SPEAKER_01 15:38

Noblex is trying to get all this goo off of him. So he's gonna be deploying.

SPEAKER_07 15:46

The kind of stuff you just can't quite take off or out of your mouth.

SPEAKER_05 15:52

It's like a child.

SPEAKER_04 15:54

Like, uh, I can I can help.

SPEAKER_05 15:57

I'm just really disgusted by it all.

SPEAKER_01 16:02

Yeah, of course. Do you see this?

SPEAKER_05 16:05

Just just just starts like really like disgustingly like heading away from the whole thing, doing present digitally to try to clean them up.

SPEAKER_02 16:12

Like, oh god. Uh okay, uh, so everybody roll me an investigation check.

SPEAKER_01 16:18

It's uh 19 for Nelvax. Oh shit.

SPEAKER_02 16:21

11 for Zayn.

SPEAKER_03 16:23

Harlex finding nothing. A nine. Elbar gets a Nat 1 minus 1 for 0.

SPEAKER_05 16:33

Hat off to you, sir.

SPEAKER_02 16:38

Elbar, you are so distracted by Harlek trying to clean Nelvax off that you can't pay attention to anything else. You don't know why, but Harlek is just completely you're just completely enamored by Harleck trying to wipe goo off of Nelvax.

SPEAKER_03 16:55

Yeah, I'm mesmerized by this magic that didn't just make stuff disappear. Never heard of it, never seen it.

SPEAKER_02 17:03

That's beautiful. Um God, yeah, yeah, has rolled great. Uh Voss with your with your two. With your two.

SPEAKER_07 17:14

Hey, that's like infinitely more than what Elvar got.

SPEAKER_00 17:19

That's true.

SPEAKER_07 17:20

Two two's not like double zero. Two is like infinitely greater than zero.

unknown 17:26

True.

SPEAKER_06 17:26

It's an undefined number. Um so for investigations, you can always just it since we did poorly, it's just a long investigation. We take a long time to do it.

SPEAKER_03 17:39

Yeah, I mean some things we might not find, but if there's something really quickly leave this place because we can't find shit.

SPEAKER_07 17:46

Okay. I I got it, I got it. I'm gonna I'm gonna go ahead and add a one to my two and make it three. Using guidance.

SPEAKER_02 17:54

Give yourself guidance for it. Great.

SPEAKER_07 17:56

I reach up and I poke myself in the eye. Guidance. I try to boot myself on the nose and miss myself in the eye.

SPEAKER_02 18:08

Uh so Zane, you find as you're looking around, you find a small uh one of the tiles has a a symbol etched into it, and it looks like a triangle with a hammer in the middle. With a uh with a a triangle, and inside is a circle with a hammer.

SPEAKER_06 18:25

Um, okay, so does Zane have any recollection of what that symbol might mean?

SPEAKER_00 18:35

What is your passive? You wouldn't get it off that.

SPEAKER_02 18:42

Uh role history. Uh seven. Uh you you recall that it is a symbol of um uh a symbol of some type of community, but you can't really recall what it is. Okay. Nelvex, you as you're searching through and somehow I just imagine you leading Harlech around as he's prestidigitation you as you're checking everything out. You come across a uh uh under underneath one of the bushes you find a small lever.

SPEAKER_01 19:16

Hey Harleck, uh, what do you think this thing does? And then I'll push it. Pull it, activate it. Sure.

SPEAKER_02 19:24

As you go ahead, Harleck.

SPEAKER_04 19:27

Uh hopefully no one falls through the floor.

Secret Lever Reveals Hidden Stairs

SPEAKER_02 19:32

As you pull a lever, uh, Nelvex, you hear a large grinding sound. As uh it sounds like stone sliding on stone. And behind you, uh a staircase is revealed.

SPEAKER_00 19:45

Doo doo doo doo.

SPEAKER_01 19:48

You found a secret entrance.

SPEAKER_07 19:51

The princess is in another castle.

SPEAKER_03 19:54

Thank god somebody had a somewhat decent investigation check.

SPEAKER_02 19:59

It wasn't a high roll, it was like 12. There's another way to get in, but this was definitely the easiest.

SPEAKER_01 20:05

Uh hey guys, I found a doorway. I am the key.

SPEAKER_03 20:12

I am the key.

SPEAKER_04 20:14

Well done, darkness.

SPEAKER_01 20:16

I'll give a little bow.

SPEAKER_04 20:18

I can't believe you found that.

SPEAKER_01 20:20

I would have never done it if I still had that goof in my eyes. Uh I can see pretty good in the dark. Uh I don't really care who goes first. How big is this entryway we're looking at?

SPEAKER_02 20:35

Uh the stairs descend. It looks like you can fit about you can fit two people side by side.

unknown 20:41

Cool.

SPEAKER_05 20:43

Pull out my lantern.

SPEAKER_01 20:49

I see you pull your lantern. I say, give me like 20 feet head start at least. I'm out of your light, okay?

SPEAKER_04 20:54

Uh nope, no problem.

SPEAKER_01 20:56

Just like normal times.

SPEAKER_07 20:58

Is anybody to Novelvax and say, hey, uh, you know, you might uh might want to let us go in there first. Um sure, by all means. Uh Moss will kinda or boss will kinda duck as he's heading down the the stairs.

unknown 21:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 21:18

So did we fit it?

SPEAKER_06 21:20

We're just leaving. Okay. Boss is Zayn is gonna stand back and kinda look back and forth between this hole that we're entering and the area that I don't think we finished investigating. And uh, so Zayn Zane will clear his throat and kinda point back at the greenhouse. That's the greenhouse, right?

SPEAKER_00 21:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 21:48

Yeah, you're an electrical. Are we done here?

SPEAKER_01 21:54

What else do you want to do?

SPEAKER_06 21:56

Well, I mean we found a door. And immediately walked through it. I don't know. I thought we would finish looking around. Are we done looking around?

SPEAKER_03 22:08

I mean, we're looking for the architect, and clearly he there's a door. So we gotta go through the door.

SPEAKER_07 22:17

I rolled a two on my looking around. I don't know what else to do. Somebody else shows me.

SPEAKER_03 22:24

I got a zero. I wouldn't know that I'm in a greenhouse right now.

SPEAKER_04 22:31

I think I just got excited about the secret passage.

SPEAKER_01 22:34

It's like a 50-foot wide room, right, Brendan?

SPEAKER_02 22:38

The greenhouse itself, yeah. About 50 feet wide.

SPEAKER_01 22:41

How densely populated is the shrubberies?

SPEAKER_02 22:44

Uh it is it's like around it's pretty it's pretty thick. Uh you get you didn't really see the shambling mounds until they showed up, so it's it's thick enough to hide two very large shambling mounds.

SPEAKER_01 22:56

Okay. Well, yeah. Zayn, if you want to look around, I hope you look. Where do you which way'd you start?

SPEAKER_06 23:03

So um Zayn will kinda look around. I mean, is there any place that he doesn't think that anybody has looked?

SPEAKER_02 23:10

Uh yeah, where you guys are meandering, uh, there is a northeast section that nobody has really checked just yet.

SPEAKER_01 23:17

Can I do can I can I use survival to see if there's any like frequented passages in the undergrowth? Like point us in the right direction of where we should look. Uh sure.

SPEAKER_00 23:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:28

And then can I maybe assist him with that by like just slashing at plants and stuff that might be in the way?

SPEAKER_02 23:35

I don't know if that would assist him. You get a minus D4. Alright.

SPEAKER_01 23:44

Well, well, I'm like shaking my head.

SPEAKER_06 23:48

When you're trying to accomplish something at home.

SPEAKER_01 23:52

He's married my path. I put my hand on my face and like shake my head and cast guidance on myself. Perfect.

SPEAKER_02 23:58

Straight roll.

SPEAKER_01 24:02

What I said, uh survival?

SPEAKER_02 24:04

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 24:05

That's a nine total.

SPEAKER_02 24:07

So I'm like, uh, it you do see that there is a uh a not a well-traveled path, but it looks like a small clearing uh between some bushes that you can walk back up into the northeast side of the greenhouse.

SPEAKER_01 24:20

I'll point it out to uh Zane and ask him to lead the way.

SPEAKER_06 24:24

Zane will go that way. And investigate to see if there's anything of note.

SPEAKER_02 24:32

Uh about fifteen feet up up that path, underneath some trees and between two bushes, you do find a small wooden box.

SPEAKER_06 24:41

Um, pick up the box.

SPEAKER_02 24:44

I'm sorry. By small wooden box, I mean it's a three by five box. Three inches? Three by five foot wooden box.

SPEAKER_07 24:52

Is there a hole in the box?

SPEAKER_06 25:00

Is there a round hole in the box?

SPEAKER_02 25:02

There is not a round hole in the box.

SPEAKER_06 25:04

Is there is it does it look locked?

SPEAKER_02 25:07

No. Uh it has uh it has hinges on the back end or the back side of the box that you can see, and it looks like it's a lid that just lips up.

SPEAKER_06 25:16

Um, so Zane will point out that he found this box and say that he we're we're looking for a box, but I don't think this is it. So he will reach towards the box like he's going to open it. And if anybody if nobody stops him, he will open said box.

SPEAKER_03 25:39

Nelf wandered away from the rest of the group, right?

SPEAKER_06 25:41

Yeah, Avoss is still in the tunnel. Well, I know uh Nelvax is here.

SPEAKER_01 25:49

Nelvax is here. Uh we I pretty much we announced, you know, you said you're concerned, I announced I'd go with you. So I don't know. It sounds like Harleck might have been coming with us.

SPEAKER_05 25:57

Yeah, I was gonna say I'd been tagging along, probably cleaning you up still.

SPEAKER_04 26:00

Um uh we could try and open it up with magic real quick and pop up uh mage hand real quick.

SPEAKER_05 26:07

Oh, I don't know how heavy that lid is and I struggle like I would in real life.

SPEAKER_01 26:13

I'll get this side.

SPEAKER_06 26:14

I don't know. Oh mage hand. Um so Zayn will join in and cast Mage Hand? Great. So we have three mage hands, so we can lift 30 pounds.

SPEAKER_02 26:27

So yeah, your hands seem like they're struggling for a second until you hear a groan of like wood giving way, and then a small pop, as it sounds like like an air seal has been uh released, and you can feel some cold uh emanating from it as it just blasts you. Not dangerous, not not not like it's going to cause you any harm, but you can definitely feel the temperature drop a degree or two until it normalizes with the rest of the uh the rest of the room. Um but yeah, it opens up. You guys looking inside?

SPEAKER_06 27:02

Yes, well Zane is. I can't speak for anybody else. Yeah, well now we can't.

SPEAKER_05 27:07

I mean I can, but they don't have to try to peek carefully.

SPEAKER_02 27:12

Uh yeah. Zane, looking inside, you see it looks about it looks like 15 different bags of uh 15 different bags of of something, and on the the label written in common says animal rations grade C.

SPEAKER_03 27:28

That's one level better than Taco Ball, by the way.

SPEAKER_06 27:31

Um, so Zane will say, I think we f found the animal food.

SPEAKER_01 27:38

Nice. Uh is that a clue? I didn't think it was pertinent.

SPEAKER_02 27:43

Are you asking me is the DM?

SPEAKER_01 27:45

No, I'm asking Taco Zane. Like when we found it. Now what?

SPEAKER_06 27:52

So is there an enchantment or something on it that's keeping it cold and we just broke it?

SPEAKER_02 27:59

Uh it it it seems like a refrigerator. It does not look like a refrigerator. It looks like it's slightly chilled from the area of it.

SPEAKER_06 28:08

And it's three foot by four foot, so I can't just pick it up.

SPEAKER_02 28:12

It is three foot by five foot, yeah. Does it fit a body to keep it from rotting? A small body, probably Harleck.

SPEAKER_06 28:22

I mean, it'll fit a body if you push hard enough.

SPEAKER_03 28:25

Yeah, I mean, like, even if I curl off in a ball, I feel like I could fit in three foot by five foot. Start breaking some games.

SPEAKER_04 28:37

Do you think it's worth grabbing some of this food? We are going towards the animals at some point, right? Could you distract him? Yeah. Oh, I got the bag of holding right here.

SPEAKER_01 28:48

Oh. Yeah, we'll take it all.

SPEAKER_06 28:50

Yeah, so take all the food.

SPEAKER_01 28:54

Uh actually wait.

SPEAKER_06 28:57

How big's the bag opening?

SPEAKER_01 29:00

Like four foot diameter, I think, at max.

SPEAKER_06 29:04

No. Let me look.

SPEAKER_01 29:05

Isn't it stretch?

SPEAKER_06 29:07

Can't we fit the whole box in there?

SPEAKER_01 29:10

Five foot? It'd be pretty big.

SPEAKER_06 29:13

Like three foot though. You just gotta get it through the f through the the three-foot side through the hole and push it in and it disappears.

SPEAKER_03 29:20

Brandon's only gonna be in two of the three dimensions.

SPEAKER_06 29:22

That's true.

SPEAKER_07 29:23

He's about to make that third dimension bigger than four foot.

SPEAKER_02 29:26

It says it's uh four feet. It could uh it's four feet on each side. You cannot fit the box in the bag of old.

SPEAKER_05 29:34

Yeah, that's what I thought. We weren't allowed to have a fancy cooler. This is gonna be perfect!

SPEAKER_06 29:42

All that stuff that we had trouble keeping from spoiling. Alright, so I guess we'll take the stuff out of the thing. Is there anything other than what looks like uh zoo fo zoo animal chow?

SPEAKER_02 29:58

No. Each bag, uh there are 15 bags, and each bag weighs 20 pounds.

SPEAKER_06 30:05

Kibble. From Simple all the way to extraordinary.

SPEAKER_01 30:10

Like grains, or is it like rummy?

SPEAKER_02 30:12

15 bags, each bag is 20 pounds, yes.

SPEAKER_03 30:15

So it uses 300 pounds of the capacity of the bag of holding.

SPEAKER_05 30:20

You could take a bag or two.

SPEAKER_06 30:24

Alright, whatever. I'm just I just thought we should finish looking through the greenhouse. I didn't know that this was gonna be a pointless endeavor.

SPEAKER_05 30:32

Well, I'm we don't know if it's gonna be pointless.

SPEAKER_06 30:36

So why don't we take all of it? So why don't we take a little bit of each of it?

SPEAKER_02 30:41

Justin, you were asking a question about the feed.

SPEAKER_06 30:44

Oh, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_01 30:46

Um yeah, I did ask, is it like all grain, or is there like chunky meat parts in there too? Because maybe we we don't need grain probably for non-aggressive critters, but if there's like some predator's favorite food. Might be worth it.

SPEAKER_02 31:00

It actually, right below grade C it says green free kibble.

SPEAKER_06 31:04

It's kibble. It's all kibble, dry kibble.

SPEAKER_02 31:06

It's all dry kibble, yes.

SPEAKER_06 31:08

Are there labels on it?

SPEAKER_02 31:10

Each one says the same thing.

SPEAKER_06 31:12

Okay, so they're 20 bag or 15 bags of the same thing. Yes. Oh, that's different. I just grabbed one bag. And that should cover us.

unknown 31:23

Cool.

SPEAKER_06 31:23

Unless somebody disagrees.

SPEAKER_01 31:25

Nope, that sounds great.

SPEAKER_03 31:28

So I think I think as they walk off, uh Eldvar is gonna turn to Voss and just be like, Do your your companions normally just wander off like this? I mean, they're there's a door. Should we go through the door?

SPEAKER_07 31:44

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. I don't really know what they're up to. Hey, look, turn around, look at them. Okay, where did where did they go? You didn't even notice they were gone until you said something.

SPEAKER_03 31:56

Maybe we should uh just take a peek. Just you know, make sure everything's fine.

SPEAKER_07 32:03

Take a peek where? The door. Yeah, buddy, we walked through the door already. I don't know what are you trying to get at here.

SPEAKER_06 32:13

So after getting that 20-pound bag of feed of Zuchia, I guess Zayn shrugs and says, I guess it was a waste of time. We can go through the secret door.

SPEAKER_01 32:28

If you think we got it all, yeah. That sounds good. Which way back?

SPEAKER_02 32:36

Nelvax arguably the smartest one in the party.

SPEAKER_01 32:41

I'm just I'm fucking with him now.

SPEAKER_03 32:43

I think I think Zayn and Harlech are the smartest. Meanwhile, Team Idiot is making their way down this corridor. A tunnel.

SPEAKER_06 32:52

Wait a second. So there's no way 12. Elver came up to help help search the area for Nelvax.

SPEAKER_07 33:03

And then he went back and kept walking down the tunnel with Voss.

SPEAKER_00 33:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 33:08

You guys are descending down the stairs?

SPEAKER_07 33:10

Uh, we kind of stopped.

Steam Pipe Trap On The Descent

SPEAKER_02 33:13

Like 15 feet. Okay. Um Elvar and Voss. Um, as you're walking down the stairs, you you you kind of if it feels like the cave's almost exhaling, and that you can smell this cold metallic, uh, stale air kind of sting your lungs a little bit. It smells like oil. And uh the stairs that you're sitting on are made of metal, and each step protests your weight as you step down step after step. Uh the walls are pretty tight here, and you can see that the metal has condensation uh clinging to it, which makes it very slick. And you you suddenly hear a blast of uh a blast of or violent hiss erupting as steam jets out of a pipe you didn't see from the from the from the wall next to you. And I need you both to make a deck save for me. So 14 for Eldvar.

SPEAKER_07 34:14

Uh I rolled a uh seven minus one for a six.

SPEAKER_02 34:18

Perfect. Alright, so uh Eldvar, you did save on it. Voss, you did not. So uh Voss, you're gonna take 13 points of uh 13 points of damage? And type of damage? Uh of fire damage specifically. And fire damage. Eldvar, you are gonna take seven points of fire damage.

SPEAKER_07 34:45

Does that mean I take half resistance means I take half?

SPEAKER_03 34:48

Correct, seven. It's about this time that Elvar remembers he cannot see in the dark. And so he is going to draw his greatsword and he's going to kind of like slash it across his left hand. Uh and as he does, he is uh well Voss is able to see that like the metal starts to take on this molten chain to it, almost like uh magma or lava flowing at the surface. And he's gonna cast light on his greatsword so that he can now see. Great.

SPEAKER_02 35:23

Do you guys react at all from the steam? You just take it in stride? Is there anything that your companions that are still above ground would hear?

SPEAKER_07 35:30

Uh after taking it, Voss will say, uh guys, watch out. The uh there's there's some uh steam coming out of these pipes as you uh head down the stairs. And you turn around and be like, guys? Hey, where'd you guys go?

SPEAKER_03 35:46

Elbar not a um uh you know he he's he's very familiar with heat and fire damage being of fire lineage, and so he'd probably just kind of look for the pipe and see if he can't kind of crush it in his hand to shut it off. I'll know what kind of pipe we're we're talking about here. Uh it's about a six-inch diameter pipe. No, yeah, it's the Alaskan pipeline. Schedule 40? Oh, it's an Alaska pipeline. Yeah, Alaska pipeline. He's probably not gonna be able to uh to crush that one. So he'll just um kind of stand by it so that as the rest of the party eventually comes, he can point it out to them so that they can duck under it. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 36:33

So Harlech, bless you, Harlech, Nelvex, and Zane. Uh you heard a hiss or you heard a hiss of of uh what sound like high pressure air and maybe some grunts of pain from below as you notice two of your companions are gone.

SPEAKER_01 36:50

Where'd those guys get off to?

SPEAKER_06 36:52

Oh man. They will look at Harlech. I thought you were watching them.

SPEAKER_04 37:00

My bad. Should we look around up here for them?

SPEAKER_06 37:05

So we heard where the we heard where they came from? Is that what you said, Brent?

SPEAKER_02 37:09

Or where the you heard a grunt of pain and a hiss of high pressure air, yes.

SPEAKER_06 37:14

Okay. So Zayn will say, I think they went through the door.

unknown 37:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 37:27

With a sigh, Zayn will walk, start walking towards the door, shaking his head.

SPEAKER_01 37:33

Yeah, uh, I'll look around and follow them, I guess. Let the guy with the light go first.

SPEAKER_03 37:39

Since the entire area is uh just bright light right now with uh Elbar's light spell, he will see the rest of the group coming and be like, oh careful, there's uh there's some steam coming from this pipe right here, and point it out for them. It touches it. I mean, if it's not high temp silver, how do I know not to touch it? I got shocked, I touched it right here.

SPEAKER_02 38:07

Uh yeah, so the pipe is still emitting some steam every once in a while, even a jet of steam, but since Eldvar pointed it out to you, the three of you can easily avoid it if you want to.

SPEAKER_07 38:18

Or you can take a shot of steam if you want to.

SPEAKER_06 38:21

Uh Zane will avoid the steam.

SPEAKER_02 38:24

Perfect. This is not a trick question. It is my job to give you choices and options as a DM, not to decide for your character.

SPEAKER_03 38:39

El Dvar will turn to Voss and just be like, you know, up on the the glow jarl, uh, sometimes we'll build these huts and fill them with steam and just sit in them for 15, 20 minutes at a time, and then go out to the snow, and it's it's quite relaxing. I didn't get the same sensation from this pipe, but uh you know, maybe the next time we're in the area.

SPEAKER_07 39:02

Do you and your buddies uh shoot steam in each other's faces while you're uh hanging out in the hut?

SPEAKER_03 39:08

I mean, you know, we drink a little, who knows what really happens once we're in the hut.

SPEAKER_06 39:14

What happens in the hut? Stays in the hut. Oh no.

SPEAKER_08 39:21

I've heard so good on the feathers.

SPEAKER_07 39:31

Uh oh, hey everybody. So glad you could join us.

SPEAKER_06 39:36

So we tried to finish searching the area, but thought we should probably come down and make sure y'all didn't get into trouble.

SPEAKER_07 39:45

Yeah, nothing we can't handle. Did you find anything up there in that room? Oh, we found some animal food.

SPEAKER_05 39:55

Just open up the bag of holding and it's just a black hole. A black hole. No, the thing, the thing that you want is the thing that's on top. That's how it works, right? I thought you had to reach in to pull it out. Uh, maybe. I mean, like, I've always kind of figured it's like, you know, that's how it always works. You know, it's just what you want is there. Yeah, if you if you want to just show somebody, if you want to open up, I'm fine with that.

SPEAKER_06 40:19

But I think it'd be funnier if he just opens it up and it's a swirling black hole. See? Look what we got!

SPEAKER_02 40:25

Harleck, do you see something in the bag?

SPEAKER_04 40:31

Oh yeah, if you look into any void long enough. Oh god.

Construct Graveyard And Breathing Furnace

SPEAKER_02 40:38

Harleck's action E G, we're just gonna continue to make the sanity go down. Alright. So, yeah, as you guys descend the descend down the stairs, again, this this smell of oil is just uh oil and grease, and you feel the heat coming up from the uh the cavern below. Uh it eventually opens up into a a wide cavern, like a wide opening, big enough to actually hold a temple. And around you you see mounds of broken constructs. Uh it looks like bits of metal mixed with flesh uh lying in different piles. Uh, you can see steel bones, glass eyes, uh jawless faces fused by heat, and you can see bits of skeleton amongst those those mounds. Uh in the far uh on the far corner, you see a single blue-orange furnace that's burning low, uh, inhaling and exhaling in a slow rhythm, like it's alive.

SPEAKER_04 41:38

Alright, then we go back upstairs, right? Anything anything interesting?

SPEAKER_03 41:47

I mean, uh clearly we're not meant to be here, and maybe you've got the the right idea.

SPEAKER_07 41:56

I don't know. Let me take a closer look. Uh I'm gonna try to investigate the furnace or do something.

SPEAKER_02 42:04

Are you walking up to the furnace or are you keeping your distance out? What are you doing?

SPEAKER_07 42:08

Uh I feel like I need some more details to figure out what the heck boss would do. Okay, so the furnace corner, mounds of bones.

SPEAKER_02 42:18

Mounds of bones and construct pieces. So it's like metal and gears and uh it it looks like somebody is trying to fuse flesh with machinery.

SPEAKER_06 42:30

As people do.

SPEAKER_02 42:32

As as one does.

SPEAKER_07 42:34

What else are you supposed to do?

SPEAKER_06 42:35

Uh uh, yeah, I'll uh sorry guys. So is there um you said it looks like a temple? That's what you said earlier.

SPEAKER_02 42:44

No, I said it's large enough to fit a temple into it.

SPEAKER_06 42:47

Oh, so it looks like it's a workshop.

SPEAKER_02 42:50

It's a it looks almost like a graveyard.

SPEAKER_06 42:54

Okay, so there's bones and pieces of machinery that look like people trying to smash them together. There's a furnace in the back that's breathing. Yes. Um and um, so okay, so nothing about this would look so uh we can investigate or we can get out of here? Uh Zane is open to either.

SPEAKER_07 43:22

Let's do it this way. Voss is gonna start walking towards the furnace until he figures out more about it. And Brandon, I'll let you decide how close that is.

SPEAKER_06 43:38

Voss burns his face on the furnace because he kept walking and never burned anything.

SPEAKER_02 43:44

The higher you roll, the further you are from the furnace before you figure it out.

SPEAKER_07 43:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 43:51

Yes.

SPEAKER_07 43:52

Let's go ahead and use my spiritual shoe. Oh my god. There we go. And uh I'll throw some uh guidance on top of that, because you know uh why not? So I got uh 16 plus two for an 18.

SPEAKER_02 44:10

Perfect. Yeah, i you get about you get about 20 feet away from the furnace. Uh before you identify, before you feel like this this magical presence within it. And you're not a very magical creature yourself, right? Uh other than your your uh d divine powers that were given to you as a cleric. But uh you can see.

SPEAKER_07 44:36

Yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_02 44:38

You can sense the magic emanating off of this furnace. Um and uh but more than that, you can sense that it is watching you.

SPEAKER_07 44:47

Alright. Uh so Voss will kind of look at the furnace. He's kind of like crouched down, sort of, in his pretty pink dress with a shield in one hand and mace in the other, and he's gonna look at the furnace and say Hey there. What's uh what's going on, buddy? Did Brady talk to the furnace?

SPEAKER_02 45:14

You hear a large uh you hear a loud hiss. And it sounds like that steam that you heard on the stairs above you, but even louder. And this this blue furnace uh or the the blue flame in the furnace leaves the furnace itself and goes into a pile of metal and flesh and bones that is near you, and uh you start to and it starts to move.

SPEAKER_07 45:41

Uh roll me hold up a hand. Nope, before you do that, let me quickly hold up a hand and try to persuade it. Be like, hey, we're we're not here to hurt you, buddy. Trying to persuade it.

SPEAKER_02 45:54

You know what? Roll me a persuasion check.

SPEAKER_07 45:58

There we go. Yeah, that's what I was hoping for, not twenty. That wasn't that bit of fun. Although I can add a four to that, so let's add a d4. Because uh, you know, Claire Cantrips or uh thing. So I get a total of us 18 on that persuasion check.

SPEAKER_02 46:16

The fire seems to hesitate for half a second before it dives fully into the pile with renewed vigor.

SPEAKER_07 46:28

This thing wants to find us.

Furnace Spawn Fight And Stunning Blow

SPEAKER_02 46:30

I need everybody to join maps for me. And roll some initiative.

SPEAKER_05 46:37

An eight.

SPEAKER_02 46:39

Eight, nice. Killing it tonight.

SPEAKER_07 46:42

Man, that sucks. I got an eleven.

SPEAKER_06 46:48

Uh Zane got a twenty.

SPEAKER_03 46:50

I got a twelve. Seventeen for Elvar.

SPEAKER_02 46:56

Ah, yes.

SPEAKER_00 46:57

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 46:59

Alright, so out of out of this metal and um out of this metal, bone and flesh, it's not one simple construct. It seems like it is a mass of just bone and flesh and metal all fused into this one moving blob uh as it as it moves towards you, boss. And we are gonna start some combat. So Zane, uh you are first. You saw this this this construct kind of appear out of this pile from this blue furnace.

SPEAKER_06 47:35

Does this stuff look flammable or just like melt it, or what's what's the deal?

SPEAKER_02 47:40

It is made of metal and bone and flesh. Like decaying flesh, though.

SPEAKER_06 47:46

Okay, give me one second. I'll try to figure out how I want to do this.

SPEAKER_03 47:50

Quick question. How long has it been since our last combat? Since I know there may be some uh buffs out there still. Less than five minutes. Uh I'd say less than ten minutes. Perfect. You just activated my trap card.

SPEAKER_02 48:04

Okay. Um but you would not have been able to fit down the stairs as as a big creature.

SPEAKER_03 48:16

Uh you said two people can walk side by side. Yeah, how tall do you get? I get to like ten feet and I'm a large creature. Which would be two five-foot creatures side by side. You could still stoop.

SPEAKER_02 48:31

I could squeeze. You could not fit down the stairs as that large creature. Alright, fine. Ruin all my time. I know.

SPEAKER_06 48:43

Zane will um hold out his hand, and as he holds out his hand, a glowing ember appears in his hand and leaves his hand, and a fireball is cast approximately twenty feet away from Voss. On the other side of the console. So cast fireball from where he's at to the other side. So basically there. Okay. Because I'm seeing it as the picture that you're showing, which is a pile of eyeballs.

SPEAKER_02 49:26

Yeah, it's not a pile of eyeballs. But it's one of the few swarm pictures that are out there. Uh they rolled a. They got a 14 for a deck save. Is that safe? Yeah, it saves. Okay. Roll me some damage.

SPEAKER_06 49:44

29, but they don't take 29, they take 15.

SPEAKER_02 49:49

Okay. Alright, you see the decaying flesh uh that was a part of this this uh construct kind of melts off of its uh off of its figure, uh, but the metal and bones are still held together.

SPEAKER_06 50:05

Okay. Um, so alright. Um so Zayn will, um with his bonus action, he will um summon his sword. Actually, would he have let his sword draw? I don't even know. He probably would still have his sword out, so he would just reposition.

SPEAKER_02 50:23

Where are you repositioning to?

SPEAKER_06 50:26

Sorry, I was trying to get control of my character or control of my mouse again. Um so he's going to be like over here. So he's gonna go pretty much directly south, assuming this is north and south. So south on the map of the construct storm. Are is this like piles of things? Yes. And is that steam thing actually a jet of steam?

SPEAKER_02 50:52

It is actually a jet of steam.

SPEAKER_06 50:54

Okay, so Zayn will move towards the jet of steam, staying out of the jet of steam, and kind of giving himself half cover behind this pile of machine parts.

SPEAKER_02 51:05

Perfect. Anything else?

SPEAKER_06 51:08

Um He'll say, uh boss, when things that are inanimate are breathing, we shouldn't approach them. Past turn.

SPEAKER_02 51:19

He discovered it from very far away. Things would have happened poorly if he was within five feet of it.

SPEAKER_06 51:24

I mean he looks like he's within five feet of it.

SPEAKER_02 51:27

Not of the furnace, just of the the construct that got summoned by the furnace.

SPEAKER_06 51:33

Oh, I'm sorry. Where's the furnace?

SPEAKER_02 51:35

The furnace was north of that by about 10 feet.

SPEAKER_06 51:40

Okay. Is the furnace doing anything?

SPEAKER_02 51:44

No, it's dead. There's it's uh it's it's cold and it's not there's no fire in it any longer.

SPEAKER_06 51:51

Okay. Alright, yep. Past turn.

SPEAKER_02 51:54

Eldvar, you're up. You are approximately 35 feet away from the construct.

SPEAKER_03 52:00

Perfect, that's my speed. Um does the contract construct look like something that could be knocked prone, or is it are there just so many pieces and parts to it that it is uh it doesn't look like it could fall down?

SPEAKER_02 52:14

This is not a humanoid creature. It is a it's almost like it's rolling towards boss.

SPEAKER_03 52:22

Okay. Uh so Elvar completely ignoring what Zane just said about not approaching creatures and contracts, is going to run up 35 feet, and as he's doing it, he is going to draw out the rune of the mart uh and cast Hunter's Mark on whatever it is. Uh let me find that spell. So the last free casting of Hunter's Mark. Uh, and then he is gonna do what he does best, which is he is going to splash at it twice with his greatsword.

SPEAKER_02 52:54

Okay, give me the attack roll.

SPEAKER_03 52:56

All right, the first one is going to be uh a 26 to hit, which I'm going to assume hits.

SPEAKER_02 53:03

It'd be really fucking no. Yeah, it hits.

SPEAKER_03 53:06

Yeah. All right, that is uh let's see, eight plus seven, so fifteen points of flashing damage. Okay plus the d6. If I can find it on the sheet. Yeah, uh, that's not it. Uh plus an additional three points of force damage for a total of eighteen.

SPEAKER_00 53:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 53:30

And then on its second attack, that's a uh that's another natural one for a total of eight, which I think messes. It does mess. So as uh Eldar slams his greatsword in for the first attack, he just kind of gets hung up on all the pieces, parts, and bits that uh make up this uh construct, and he's unable to free his greatsword. And as he pulls it out though, there is an additional four points of flashing damage from the greats property of his greatsword. And that's gonna be his turn. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 54:03

Alright, uh, so the construct is continues to roll, continues to roll uh until he's about between Voss and Eldvar. And Voss and Elvar, you feel a kind of a pulling sensation, and I need you both to make a strength saving throw.

SPEAKER_03 54:23

That's a 16 for Eldvar.

SPEAKER_02 54:26

Okay. Um Voss, you're just able to stay on your feet, but your sword gets ripped out of your hand uh and gets pulled towards the construct.

SPEAKER_07 54:38

Joke's on you. I'm not carrying a sword.

SPEAKER_02 54:41

What weapon are you carrying? It's a mace. Okay, your mace gets pulled towards the construct.

SPEAKER_07 54:47

I mean it's uh it's a hammer.

SPEAKER_02 54:49

Uh uh Elbar, holding onto your sword, you're able to do it, but you fall prone. Oh no. Uh and then uh the construct leaps up into the air about three feet and slams down to the ground. And roll once for that. Does a 19 hit your ACs. No.

SPEAKER_03 55:15

Uh okay. It normally would, but Eldar's um runic tactoos on his arms are going to flare up as he casts shield in response to the attack. Uh deflecting the attack away from him. Perfect.

SPEAKER_00 55:29

So if that's the case.

SPEAKER_03 55:31

Was that with advantage, by the way?

SPEAKER_02 55:33

Uh it's not, thank you. Uh yep, that that was the advantage. Okay. So you're both going to take seven points of lightning damage. Even with the miss? Even with the miss. Spicy. Spicy, spicy.

SPEAKER_06 55:52

It sucks when things take damage even when you miss, don't it?

SPEAKER_02 56:02

Nelvax, you're up. So you've just saw you saw one of your friends get his mace ripped out of his hand, and another one of your friends get knocked prone. Um. And there's a small fire burning, you know, in the northeast corner of the room.

SPEAKER_01 56:17

From the fireball.

SPEAKER_02 56:18

From the fireball, correct.

SPEAKER_01 56:21

Is the fire that like let this guy's body still like visible from the outside at all?

SPEAKER_02 56:27

Yes. Deep inside, as it's moving and ungulating a little bit, you can see a little bit of a blue flame flickering deep within.

SPEAKER_01 56:37

Nice. Okay. Interesting. Alright. And so it's kind of like a ball-shaped, like a orb of pieces parts. Yep. Cool. Well, I am also about 40 feet away for a bit, I think. If I was measuring correctly.

SPEAKER_00 56:55

Yeah, about 40 feet. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 56:56

Just about. And I've got a 45 foot run speed, so I'm gonna run up next to it past Voss and get kind of behind it. Uh still kind of scoping it out as I do. I'm trying to see if there's any kind of like weaknesses to it. Like, does it have eyes or anything like that? Uh trying to just understand how best to fight this thing.

SPEAKER_02 57:16

I will let you roll me a d20 to see you do, but it's gonna take up your bonus action. If you want to try to determine a weakness.

SPEAKER_01 57:26

Sure, is it straight d20?

SPEAKER_02 57:28

Straight d20. Anything above a 12.

SPEAKER_01 57:30

Sure. I would still have guidance on me, I think. Is that okay?

SPEAKER_02 57:35

No, just a d20.

SPEAKER_01 57:37

Fine, I'll get that.

SPEAKER_02 57:38

It's not an ability check. 19, perfect. Yeah, you you can see that there's no no weaknesses. Good luck, get fucked. Uh yes, you can see that as it's rolling, uh, it there's a small gap that opens up between the metal and the bones where you might be able to reach inside of the uh the blue flame. It's gonna be a tough shot, but if you use the force, you can probably get into the hole.

SPEAKER_01 58:05

I have a bunch of womp rats that are not much bigger than that back at on the streets, you know, when they try to get in my sleeping bag.

SPEAKER_02 58:14

On the streets the fact that we have not been suited, Disney blows my mind.

SPEAKER_01 58:22

I have to listen to us first. That's a weird street, you know.

SPEAKER_02 58:26

I mean, either way, they don't sue us and we win. If they sue us, I think we'll we'll come out on top.

SPEAKER_01 58:31

Yeah, the people would love us. Probably. Yeah, people would love us. Okay, um, so I'm gonna then try to capitalize on what I've seen. I'm gonna shout to the guys, uh, just like, I think I see something. I'm just gonna like cobra strike my hand in there and get a hold of something and rip it out as my uh as a punch. I'm gonna do that twice. Once with each hand, just let's see if I can just slip them in there.

SPEAKER_02 58:56

Give me attack rolls.

SPEAKER_01 58:58

Oops, that's a dagger. I'll take it. Uh it'll be a high hope less than that, but uh an arm strike would be actually a 13 on one hit and a 23, 24 on the second one.

SPEAKER_02 59:10

The 13 does not hit but the 24 hits. You're able to uh dig deep down into the construct itself and actually punch at that flame if you would like.

SPEAKER_01 59:22

Uh hell yeah. Absolutely.

unknown 59:24

Alright.

SPEAKER_01 59:24

So let me just roll my unarmed strike damage. That's uh 11 damage straight in there, and I think I'm gonna use some she points, if you don't mind. Maybe a stunning strike.

SPEAKER_02 59:38

Is that a bonus action?

SPEAKER_01 59:40

It is not. It is when I make a contact. I can do this once per turn. When you hit with a monk weapon or unarmed strike, you can expand it to focus point to attempt a stunning strike. Start at mistake a DC 13 con save. When it fails at save, it has a stun condition at a start of my next turn. Right. Otherwise, uh Oh, sorry.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:00

Go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:02

Sorry, what'd you get?

SPEAKER_02 1:00:04

Uh a five.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:06

That does not pass. So it is stunned until the start of my next turn. And I will expand it. Key focus. Key focus. And that's me. Move action. Focus action. Hell yeah. Perfect. So I like to think that the whole thing quivers and like drops to the ground.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:24

Actually, a bunch of a different a bunch of different pieces of metal fall to the ground after you strike deep within the construct. And uh quivers a little bit, it lets out a breathless sigh as metal just falls around. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:39

Breathless sigh.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:40

Alright. Breathless sigh. Voss, you're up. You are currently unarmed.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:46

Oh, you don't have tickets to the gun show, do you? Uh Voss saying that the uh construct is stunned. He uh looks over at Nelvax and gives him a nod, like a well done, like good job. And then he just slowly reaches down and picks up his mace and readies himself for the next uh round. Oh, and as a bonus action, I will cast invoke duplicity and uh I'm sorry, uh Voss, your mace is pulled into the construct. Oh, it's not just it on the ground?

SPEAKER_02 1:01:26

No.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:27

So I reach in and grab it.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:28

It is part of the construct now?

SPEAKER_02 1:01:30

It's part of the construct. You can try to reach in and grab it if you'd like. Yeah, it is an action, yeah, it'd be a sleight of hand. Or a actually it probably wouldn't be a sleight of hand, it'd be Yeah, it's probably sleight of hand. Yeah, sleight of hand.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:47

I have trickery domain for a six.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:56

Boss, you reach in real fast and grab something and you think it's your mace, and you pull it out, and you're holding a femur bone in your hand.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:04

Alright. So what's the uh what's the uh damage test on a femur bone? If I start beating it with that.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:09

It should be an improvised weapon. I'll take it.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:12

Uh I will uh I have my mace in hand, aka femur bone, and I'll also invoke duplicity on the other side of him and uh create a copy of myself. Exact opposite of me.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:29

And uh my turn.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:32

Alright. Perfect.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:33

Harlek. I am going to try to hit it with fairy fire, but I want to make it further back so it's not gonna hit uh anyone up close. Okay, uh can you describe that to everybody? Yes, so put that back up. Uh I create a 20-foot cube within range, uh, and anything caught in it is outlined in a blue, green, or violet light of my choice. Uh Harleck probably go for like a purpley color. Uh each creature in the cube is also outlined in this if it fails the deck save. For the duration, objects and affected creatures shed a dim light of t uh in a 10-foot radius and can't benefit from the invisible condition. Attack rolls against them uh are at advantage. So Harlech pulls out his you know Siturn thing and starts playing the music and flicks off like a like a little like firework of like glitter at this thing. And that would be a deck save of 15.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:34

Uh, Novex? Or Justin?

SPEAKER_01 1:03:37

Nothing. I was misunderstanding something.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:40

Okay. So deck save of 15. Yep. It it rolled a seven.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:45

Nice, nice, nice. Alright, so the the whole construct would then be like shimmering in a purpley light, uh, and now all attack rolls at it are advantage. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:57

Awesome.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:58

Nailed it!

SPEAKER_03 1:04:02

Wouldn't it have automatically failed the deck save since it's incapacitated by the stunning strike? Oh yes, you are correct.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:10

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:11

Well then there we go.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:14

Cool. Um, sorry, go ahead, Arlik. Do you have something else to say?

SPEAKER_05 1:04:17

No, yeah. Uh no. Uh everyone looks like they're in good shape, so I'm good.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:23

Perfect. Just move a little bit. Alright, Zayn, back to you.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:27

Alright, so Zayn will move up and forward a little bit to clear his line of sight so that he can um see between the Voss and Elvvar. And uh he will raise his sword and as he's pointing his sword towards the construct swarm, um, you see lightning swirling around the outside of it, and a bolt flies out from his sword and slams into the construct swarm. Okay, casting witchbolt. And it's at advantage, right? Yes. Uh 17?

SPEAKER_02 1:05:06

It does hit. Good. Good thing you did have advantage, the other one was a one.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:11

Yeah. So 33 points of damage.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:16

Okay. Yeah, uh slams in the construct. More metal and bone drop uh around it, but it is still moving towards Voss.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:26

And if anybody were to look, um, you would see a an arc of electricity connecting the construct swarm to Zane. Zane's sword. Which looks kind of like it's a part of a Zan, but hard to tell. And he will uh stay where he's at and pass turn. No pithy remarks.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:50

No pithy remarks. Okay. That means Eldvar, back to you.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:54

Alright, uh Eldvar is going to stand back up because he is uh not. Happy to be on his back, knocked down like a little bitch.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:04

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:05

And Steam, he's gonna like wave his hand in front of this construct and see that it doesn't respond. Uh and a smile is gonna crack across his face as he is going to unleash with two greatsword attacks at advantage because um actually right page. Uh because this thing is done. The first is pretty crap, uh 20 to hit.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:33

That does it.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:34

Alright. Um eight plus seven, fifteen points of splashing damage plus an additional uh six points of force damage. And then the second is eight. Oh, natural 20, 27 to hit. Yep, double dice. Alright, um, that is 22 plus three to 25 splashing damage plus um eight points of force damage. And I did roll the Constitution Saving Throw. I got a 20 on it uh in between turns. I didn't tell you that at the start. Uh so yeah. Uh and then that is going to be the end of Elbar's turn.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:20

Uh Elvar, tell me how you destroy this construct.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:24

Yeah, um Elbar is just gonna just rapidly splash into this beast. Uh and I also forgot that the first one should be a critical because he's inf. Uh, and he's just going to just start splashing and tearing at it and uh ripping pieces and parts off until it is just like waist high of a scrap of earth or a pile of scrap in front of him. Uh because he's pretty pissed off that this thing went after Vossi, uh, who has been his friend for as long as he can remember, which isn't very long, if you think about it, because it's he doesn't have the best memory of the entire group, but um for as long as he can remember, Vossi was there for him, and he is just kind of pissed off that this thing uh stole Vasi's mace, and he's digging for the mace to give it back to him.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:18

Okay. Uh yeah, so the this construct convulses and the bones and metal seem to contract a little bit, and you hear a horrible grinding sound tearing through the different bits of metal as sparks start to lance out as the metal and bones kind of grind against one another. Uh, you see for a second that blue light becomes a blinding white red fire within it, and then it erupts outward. It's blinding for an instant, and then it snaps and it detonates. Um it's not a clean, it's not the blast isn't like a clean fireball or anything, uh, but it's a storm of metal and pressure, and so everybody around it, meaning Voss, uh, Nelvex and Elvar, give me a dex a con save, sorry.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:10

It's a seven.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:12

Sorry, Nelvex, what'd you get?

SPEAKER_01 1:09:15

Nelvax got a seven.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:17

And uh nine for Elvar.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:20

I should have uh inspiration, right, for being human. I might have used it.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:25

Did you did you use it last session?

SPEAKER_01 1:09:27

I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:28

I don't have it marked. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:31

Voss.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:32

I got uh 22 for natural 20.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:36

Perfect.

Explosion Collapse And One Way Forward

SPEAKER_02 1:09:37

Voss, you're able to get your shield up just in time to block this uh all this debris flying towards you. But Elvar and uh Nelvax, you're gonna take eight points of slashing damage. Um but as this this metal and stuff this metal and bone kind of blast out from everywhere, uh it smashes into the walls around you and behind you, uh the tunnel that you entered groans once as the support gives away from a a large gear slamming into it and the tunnel collapses where the stairs were. Uh the dust blooms outward, choking the air around you. And when the sound finally dies from all this exploding and haze and uh hiss of steam, you can see that the only way forward is a single path uh to the very north of the room.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:39

Did I do that?

SPEAKER_07 1:10:45

Yeah, I wouldn't say you necessarily did it.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:49

Uh, we'll say yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:53

There's there's a friend and then there's an acquaintance, and we just saw both of them in action.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:02

Yeah, don't worry about it. We can go over that way.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:05

Oh, remind me not to make you angry, old var.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:12

I mean, all all you have to do is is be kind to Vossi. Um, if you hit him, I'm gonna hit you back.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:20

Yeah, so don't hit me.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:22

Or like just like nervously rubs Vossi's leg, like, ha! Like just like he's we're all good, we're all good.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:31

Like uh we see this fur, like is the furnace doing anything right now?

SPEAKER_02 1:11:38

No, the furnace is dead. It's cold. There's no fire in it. Oh.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:42

Uh boss is gonna walk over to the furnace before we exit this room and take a closer look.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:48

I also think Voss should probably pick his mace up from the construct.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:52

Well, yeah. No, he's got his mace in his hand. The rest of the adventure is done with the face. Oh, okay. No. Of course he picks up the mace. Well, I thought I thought Eldvar was search around for it. Well, so would Elbar grab it and then hand it to him?

SPEAKER_03 1:12:05

Yeah, if uh if I found it, Eldvar would give it back to him and just be like, oh. I think they're dropped this.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:11

I mean, there wasn't an explosion to distract him. He seems easily distracted.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:21

Uh so yes, I'll put my mace back, whether from Eldvar or picking it up myself, but uh, I want to take a close look at this furnace.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:29

Okay. Um, yeah, you you walk up to the furnace. It looks like the furnace has not had a fire in it for many, many weeks or even months. Uh it's cold. It's it's got condensation dripping all over. It looks like steam is condensed uh around the the burnt pieces of wood in the fire. It looks old.

SPEAKER_08 1:12:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:51

Zane?

SPEAKER_06 1:12:53

Uh so Zayn will uh kind of look around and try to find anything. Is there anything of note? It's he's gonna search the room.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:02

Okay. Is anybody else doing anything?

SPEAKER_01 1:13:05

Yeah, I'll kick through like the construct, like poke at the parts of me that got like slag melted onto my skin, and then just kinda poke around and try to see what's in there. Try to distract himself from the blast they just took to the face. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:23

You said it's like a whole room full of stuff, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:13:26

Yeah, it's a whole room of like discarded constructs and piles of bones and metal, yes.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:31

Or like I'll probably look around too then, just checking it all out.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:36

Alright, well then the three of you roll me an investigation check. Highest one is gonna get something.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:42

While they're looking around, Eldbar is just gonna sit down and start like ripping off uh strips of cloth and applying them to the wounds to try and staunch the bleeding. Um he's he's used to bleeding, it's not something that uh really worries him, but he knows that if he doesn't stop it, that it could become a problem. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:04

How's everybody looking? I got a 16 plus zero?

SPEAKER_06 1:14:11

Yeah, I got a 12.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:13

Alright. Uh Nelvax, as you're picking around the different piles, you notice a a small red uh crystal. And it looks like a uh like almost like a a mechanical heart. I've traumatized my players about any kind of crystals. Both Bill and Justin's face went Smashover episode.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:45

Uh yeah, cool. I'll pick it up. And uh like look at it and see if I can get a better feel for it.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:51

Yeah, as your as your hand holds it, uh you can feel a slight pulsing every couple uh I would say about every 20 seconds.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:00

What does it feel like?

SPEAKER_02 1:15:01

It feels like a heart beating.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:03

It's not doing anything to me, not like healing me or hurting me. Nope. I'll uh I'll give it putting it closer to my face and say, oh, hello there, little guy. What do you do?

SPEAKER_08 1:15:16

Um You know what?

SPEAKER_02 1:15:19

Because you talk to it directly, uh you feel a warmth from this this this crystal. And uh you don't exactly know what it is, but you know to start referring to it as uh uh Lauron. L-O-R-A-I-N.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:39

L-O-R-A-I-N? Yes.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:42

Isn't that the uh the first sign when crystals talk to you that you should probably be afraid?

SPEAKER_06 1:15:48

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's a second sign from you.

SPEAKER_07 1:15:52

When you run out of when you run out of one dollar bills, that's the second that's that's when you really want to be afraid of crystals. They're talking to you and you got no money.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:01

They start asking you to pay their rent. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:05

In your inventory, Justin, you can add a heart of La Ron.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:09

What kind of base item should it be?

SPEAKER_02 1:16:14

Uh is there a crystal or add a gem. A gem. A ruby, if you will. Yeah, there is only one path forward out of this room, and it's in the north side of the the the room that you were all just in. Is there anything else you'd all like to do?

SPEAKER_06 1:16:30

We would like to take a short rest.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:32

Okay. Uh, so for short rests, uh even if you don't need the hit points, I'm going to require one die to be rolled.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:41

Oh, we didn't actually roll my die. Motherfucker. I got five dice. Chief spec.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:54

Nice.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:57

796. Alright.

SPEAKER_06 1:17:00

So Zayn is at full health and full health and full spell slots.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:05

While we spent that hour, I would have definitely showed you guys Lorraine. So I feel like that's something I would share. I also want to point out there's a distinct difference between Nelbike's talking to a rock and Morris talking to Iraq. Okay, this was more like I'm thinking like George Clooney in like Oceans 11, where like he's a thief talking to his prize, like, oh hello there. How are you doing? You know, not oh talk to me. It was way more normal.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:33

Not the notebook. One talking to the other lovingly, but not remembering.

SPEAKER_06 1:17:40

So you're you would share it. Um so uh is it a magic item? I don't even know.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:46

Uh yeah, so as we sit down and like chat and take a breather or whatever, like I'm like, hey, I don't know what you guys found, but look at this thing. It's got like a like a pulse, like a heartbeat, and it gets warm, and I talk to it, and its name is Lorraine. And I'll put my hand up, palm up to you guys. So I know, sounds weird. That's what it said.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:06

Well, look at the pulsing gem and look at the formerly pulsing furnace. Is there a connection between those two?

SPEAKER_01 1:18:18

Sorry.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:18

Is there a connection between those two?

SPEAKER_01 1:18:21

I'll uh I'll nod at him and I'll say, I I thought about that. This one's red and that flame was blue, so I don't think so. And this didn't try to hurt me, it's just a little warm and you wanna hold it?

SPEAKER_06 1:18:34

So Zayn will say sure and hold it.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:43

Uh about twenty seconds after you initially grab the the the Ruby, you do feel a slight pulse, almost like a heartbeat, a faint heartbeat.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:52

And a very slow one apparently.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:54

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:56

Zayn will say, Oh! It uh it it pulsed.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:02

Yeah, neat.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:03

Um Do you want me to identify it?

SPEAKER_01 1:19:06

You can do that, yeah, that'd be great. I mean it's a short rest, I could probably also do it, but um Yes, please, that would be that'd be great. Tell me more about it.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:16

So Zayn will close his hand around it, concentrate on the thingy he got from his library or arcade study, I can't remember which one. Arcade Study, and uh identify.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:32

Uh so you identify this as the heart of Oran? Uh it is uh it is the power cell of an ancient construct.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:45

Does it do anything?

SPEAKER_02 1:19:47

Not by itself.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:49

Okay. So Zayn will say it's the power cell of a an ancient construct. I assume we probably need to find the ancient construct. I'm getting a strange message from my intuition that this is a quest that somebody was sent on at one point and never succeeded, and hands the crystal back to Nelvax.

SPEAKER_07 1:20:16

Or never even tried.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:19

Yeah, never even attempted.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:22

We didn't know we were gonna time traveling, it's not our fault.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:26

True. I didn't either, to be fair.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:29

We did have a fairly new DM and thought he had to give us lots and lots of side quests.

SPEAKER_07 1:20:35

I mean, and somebody didn't know we were time traveling.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:39

And now I don't give you that many, and I'm railroading you. Which we asked for. Which specifically asked for.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:48

So, yes, that's all that is true. I don't see the dissonance. Anyway.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:57

Oh, that's sweet. Maddie, whenever we're together, Maddie doesn't ever kiss me goodnight, it's bullshit.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:03

We were at we were at Dragon Con, and I know that's not true.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:07

He didn't kiss me goodnight. I want to be very clear about that. There's a distinction.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:12

Kiss them good morning. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:15

Open mouth and he just rolled over and kissed them good morning.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:19

Uh is there anything else everybody wants to do during this hour? Yeah. So uh Eldar has been carrying around like 200 pounds of dead body and uh spooky armor. And so he'd like to, after he's tended to his own wounds, strip the body of the armor and then just kind of like focus in on the armor and try to use the hour to identify any properties of it or um potentially just identify it. Rules is written.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:50

It's only a short rest you need, you don't need a long rest?

SPEAKER_03 1:21:53

Uh it's only a short rest. An hour constantly in contact with the uh item in question.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:59

So for visual sake, has Eldavar just like was like, oh crap, we're about to fight and just pop this body down real quick.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:06

Yeah, so fireman carries it with him, and then every time he draws his short his sword, he just shrugs it off the back of his body and leaves it where he was, and then draws his great sword and goes and does what he does, and then he goes back and picks right right back up the body.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:25

Right, that's exactly the visual I got, and I felt that anyone else has yeah had the benefit from it as well.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:31

And to him, it doesn't seem weird, right? Because like we didn't have time to strip the body, and so he's just carrying around this armor with the body inside of it, and then when he fights, he fights, and then when he's done, he picks it right back up and carries it.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:46

Fantastic.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:47

Uh yeah, so you identify this as a again, it is a almost ink black piece of full plate armor. Uh and it's it's swirling almost like there's clouds drifting across the front of the plate. Uh, but you identify this as a resilience of unmaking armor. Um, so are sorry, the the entropic plate armor. That's what it's called. Entropic plate armor. Um, and it is a plus two full plate armor.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:15

Shit. Uh I think does it be a little bit more than attunement?

SPEAKER_02 1:23:20

It also has resilience of unmaking. You are immune to slow spell and other effects that reduce your speed. Does it require attunement? It does require attunement.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:29

Okay. Um, so Eldbar, realizing that he probably doesn't have time to sit around for another hour, uh, will go ahead and strip it off the body and throw it in his pack for later use.

SPEAKER_06 1:23:41

Okay. You don't you don't have to attune armor to wear it. You just have to attune it to get the properties, right? To get the magical stuff. You wear it and it's still plate armor.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:55

Yeah, I'm gonna figure the for getting the plus two, I probably need to attune to it, right?

SPEAKER_06 1:24:00

No, I wasn't talking about the plus two, I was just talking about the fact that you can wear that, but you have a different set of plate armor.

SPEAKER_03 1:24:06

Yeah, I'm I'm in mithril plate right now, so that is a a serious upgrade though, and worth the disadvantage on stealth.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:16

Just before we head off, it's the Harlech wants to uh uh I want to use my inspiring leader feet to give some temporary hit points to the to the whole party, because now I can use during a short rest, I can give a performance and give six allies temp HP. How does Harleck do that?

SPEAKER_04 1:24:35

So Harlecks just gonna, you know, it's like, uh, alright gang, you know, let's you know do our best for doing the rest of this, and if that fails, plan B, we can always uh scream running in a heroic direction.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:49

Uh and that gives 10 uh 10 temporary HP to everybody. Including me on this one. Nice.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:55

Oh, replace my nine temporary hit points with ten. I really wish temp hit points would stack. I'd be broken as hell. Oh yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:14

Yeah, you you'd almost have as much as me.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:20

Yes, you get ten.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:22

Alright.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:23

I would have eighty-two hit points right now.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:26

Does anybody else want to do anything? Otherwise, we'll move on.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:30

Were you guys at all interested in the crystal? Were you guys just kind of watching the other three?

SPEAKER_06 1:25:35

Um Zane handed it back. He is.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:39

No, I know you did, but I didn't I wasn't trying to keep it a secret from anybody, I was like pointing out like this is a weird thing. Do you guys want to see? But if you're not interested in weird crystals.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:50

It's interesting. I don't have the ability to do the identifying, and since you guys already figured it out, Harlex, you know, like I don't know anything about construct, so I'm good with you holding on to it.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:00

No, simply for RP.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:02

Meanwhile. Yeah. Meanwhile, Eldbar doesn't have the intelligence for it, so he's just kind of shrugs.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:12

I mean, you're the you're the construct expert. Who is? I am. Yeah, you have a construct heart. Yeah, I guess that makes you expert.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:25

I did most recently have my hands inside one, so and you stayed at a holiday in the express last night.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:31

So you took a beginner class, you're the expert.

Entropic Plate And Temporary Hit Points

SPEAKER_00 1:26:39

Alright. Okay. So move uh sorry, go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:44

Sorry, I know you just started talking. Uh the other thing we probably would have done is talked about our plan since the stairs class behind us. There's only one way forward, but I don't know. We would have probably aligned on it. And maybe plan to all go together this time instead of uh two three. So if you want to go forward, or I want to do that. You know, maybe we bring up things like hey, I can't see in the dark.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:07

Yeah, I I will say the tunnel in front of you is pitch black. There is no light coming from it.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:13

Lantern. I I dark uh Zayn has dark vision.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:18

It is pitch black. Even though he has dark vision? It is pitch black. You need to have some some light source, or not light source, but it needs to it can't be pitch black for you to see with dark vision.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:33

Delbar watching the light just kind of run out on his greatsword is going to recast light on it as a source of light for the party.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:44

It lasts an hour. Perfect.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:46

My bullseye lantern. Nice. Yeah, it's gotta be it's gotta be dim light for you to see with dark vision.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:53

Uh not quite sure that's right. If it's if it's pitch black, then he can see as if it's dim light.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:00

And then if it's dim light, if darkness you can see in dim light with this within a specified range as if it were bright light, and in darkness within the range that as as if it were dim light.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:08

Yeah, so he'd have disadvantage on for some.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:11

Oh, unless it's magical.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:13

Okay. I misread that then. So yeah, you with dim light, you'll be able to see six zero feet.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:22

Me too.

unknown 1:28:23

But now.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:25

Around Elbar, there's twenty feet of bright light and then twenty feet of dim light. So you should be able to see sixty feet past that.

unknown 1:28:32

Oh.

SPEAKER_06 1:28:35

If you're in front of us, all we see is you.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:40

Right, that's how light works. My bullseye lantern uh creates a 60-foot cone of bright light in front of me.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:50

Oh yeah. I don't see uh actual like limit to the dim light. Like like a range.

SPEAKER_06 1:28:58

It's your whatever your dark vision range is.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:00

Yeah, it's 60 feet.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:02

Well, if there anywhere there is dim light, you see as if it would be lit.

SPEAKER_06 1:29:07

Bright light.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:08

Still you still your dark vision range. Okay. Maybe it doesn't change anything. That's fine. Is it a magical darkness?

SPEAKER_02 1:29:15

It isn't. Not yet.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:18

Because I can see in some of that.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:20

Ooh.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:21

So we'd probably let darkness go in the front, and then Elbar would kind of follow behind 20 plus feet so that he could benefit from the darkness in front of him. He being uh Nelvax.

SPEAKER_06 1:29:35

No, the other guy is darkness.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:39

He's the king of the shadows. Oh. But Nelva Nelvax is darkness. And also the key master, and maybe the gatekeeper too.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:48

Do you think my lantern is too much for exploring around here? Uh it might give us away a little bit.

SPEAKER_06 1:30:02

So when when uh when his um co when his uh bullseye when Harlex turns out his light and shines it down the tunnel, how far down does the tunnel go?

SPEAKER_02 1:30:15

Uh you cannot see the end of it. You can see about 60 feet in front of you.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:19

Okay. Can you is it like a big tunnel or a small tunnel?

SPEAKER_02 1:30:24

Uh you can fit two to three, I'd say two two in some in most places, but three some places wide.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:31

Like a man-made admade square edge?

SPEAKER_02 1:30:35

It's not square edge, no. Like hewn from rock? It looks like something burrowed through it.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:43

Looks like something burrowed through it. That's key information. I don't know what I want to think of.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:50

Voss previously found a drawing of a secret tunnel leading to a feeding chamber. Does this look in any way like that?

SPEAKER_02 1:30:59

It does not. Okay. You guys entirely skipped over the feeding chamber portion of this.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:05

We have the food. But I wanted to see them feed the animals.

SPEAKER_06 1:31:13

The people that are feeding the animals aren't here.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:19

No, no, no. The the feeding chamber animals feed.

SPEAKER_06 1:31:24

The chamber doesn't feed the animals. The pe na na never mind.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:31

I would love I would love for Zane and Eldvar to get into like a like some kind of teaching situation where Zane's trying to teach Eldvar. Holy hell. Yeah, it's not That's not gonna happen. That's not Zane.

SPEAKER_06 1:31:49

No, that's not Zane.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:50

Alright. So, uh who has dark vision, who does not?

SPEAKER_07 1:31:56

I do.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:57

Everybody but Harlech and Eldvar, okay. Uh and or Eldvar, you have your torch up? No, Elvar has light on his great sword. Oh, that's right, that's right, that's right. And Harlech, are you using your lantern?

SPEAKER_05 1:32:11

Um did we decide if it was gonna be too revealing for the group? Because I'll use it if it's if it's you know the easiest way to you know, but I can also just stay by Eldvar.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:21

It's the out of 40 foot radius of some amount of light. It's probably not bad.

SPEAKER_06 1:32:25

Yeah, it points light in front of us, so I mean if you guys are gonna be in the if he's gonna be in the front, then it would be helpful, but if Nelvax is gonna be in the front, then probably not. So is Nelvax Nelvax gonna be in the front?

SPEAKER_01 1:32:39

Well, um Does this look like something something eight made this cave? Or do you think like I don't want to walk into a big creature that can do this? Do you guys do you guys want to do this together or do you want to scout it out?

SPEAKER_03 1:32:52

I mean uh it it uh dwarves can make caves uh or or passageways between caves. Um I I'm I'm sure there's just a dwarf at the end.

SPEAKER_06 1:33:04

Yeah, I'm can I dwarves generally have straight lines.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:11

Yeah. Why why are you typecasting a dwarf? I mean they can they can zig and zag like the rest of us. Um, he's only straight until it gets wet.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:23

You're not wrong. Nelvax and Zayn, uh each of you can roll me a uh to see if Alvar is is is making sense here, you can each roll me a history or a I don't want to do yeah, so it actually, yeah, you can either roll me a history or we'll also do perception.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:48

Perception it is with my eyes. It is with your eyes. I get advantage on perception checks with my eyes. Perfect. Zane got on 11. 23 on perception.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:00

So now, Vex, you you can see that there are no tool marks in the on the cave walls themselves. It doesn't look like this is constructed through any kind of tool, either by dwarf human or otherwise. Um it looks like something forced its way through this tunnel. You can see bits of rubble on the ground around the sides. Uh the ceiling of the cavern, which is about 12 feet tall, is uh is not smooth whatsoever. Uh and there are chunks missing out of it as it's fallen to the ground, making the ground not smooth. Uh, and there's rubble all about. It looks like something forced its way through this tunnel.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:38

Rude. You know, as I look at this closer, I'm pretty confident it wasn't made by Mandwarf Elf. But something this big would probably make a lot of noise. I don't mind going first, but I'm not gonna I'm not gonna make friends with it until uh until we're all together, if you know what I mean. Hey, don't worry about it, buddy.

SPEAKER_07 1:34:59

Let me go first. I'm great at making friends. You had your try for the day, Mud.

SPEAKER_03 1:35:08

I'll I'll stick up with Vosse at the front. Um maybe the rest of you hide in the shadows behind us. Uh that way they they only see the two of us, and the rest of you can hide.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:19

Uh, like I said, I don't mind going through. Or you can leave. Be my guest.

SPEAKER_06 1:35:25

Yeah. So Zayn, well just let the meat shields shield us with meat. Alright. Sounded dirtier than I meant to do.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:35

Yeah, no, no, it sounded perfect. Meat shields shielding us with meat.

SPEAKER_03 1:35:39

Yeah, mechanically, what the meat shield and meat head is suggesting is that y'all can hide in the shadows and be unseen. And only Voss and Eldvar can be seen, and then therefore you have advantage and sneak and whatever else happens in the shadows.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:56

And Harleck, who needs vision?

SPEAKER_03 1:35:59

I mean, he'll still he'll still be able to see what we're attacking because I've got 20 feet of light around me, but he can be in the shadows himself.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:07

I just think I'm like walking through a dark, unfamiliar passageway with rough human edges.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:12

Sounds like it's gonna be pretty pretty hard to deal with blind. And and rocks and stuff all over the ground.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:18

Well, if he just stays within 20 feet, then he's got or actually if he stays within 40 feet, he's got he's got light, so he can see.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:26

Worse me.

SPEAKER_04 1:36:27

Oh, right.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:28

Uh I'm I'm gonna actually uh cast invisibility from the Citurn. Uh, and then this way I can stay close in the light and not have to worry about it. Beautiful. That bird's got brains.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:42

Barely somebody needs them.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:45

Zane will uh stealth behind. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:49

Yeah, I'll I'll also do that.

Burrowed Tunnel And Something Hunting

SPEAKER_02 1:36:52

Okay. So as you all leave the graveyard that was that construct uh that construct graveyard behind you, the the air in front of you in this tunnel, it changes. It's it's colder, it's heavier, and you can get the taste of almost like like pennies in your mouth, like the there's rust in the air. Um as you're walking through the tunnel, you can hear your footsteps echo back at you, uh, but the echoes come half a second too late, as if uh almost it's as if the tunnel is like very, very large, or it's it's it's very wide. Um and you can hear condensation dripping all around you. Uh from pipes from steam, you can still hear the hear the hissing of steam, it still sounds like there's pipes all around you. And then somewhere in the distance of the tunnel, you hear what sounds like metal flexing with a low groan as it scrapes against rock. Um you hear you hear another loud hissing of steam, but it sounds like it's it's getting closer to you. And you can feel the the ground underneath you vibrate once lightly as if something big just shifted its weight.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:07

Ugh, I I don't like the mouthfeel of this air. You asshole below the belt.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:28

But go ahead. Uh Arlek, what did you say? I was just saying that didn't sound good. Yeah, that's all. Sorry.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:35

Okay. I whisper loudly, what do you see up there?

SPEAKER_03 1:38:42

Do we see anything?

SPEAKER_02 1:38:44

Um, so I am gonna have you join maps again.

SPEAKER_06 1:38:50

I never left. Yeah, I never left, but now I have a big retry button.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:55

Can you guys see the map in front of you?

SPEAKER_06 1:38:57

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:58

I don't see and everything is fog of ward, right? Yeah. Yes. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:39:05

Not everything. Yeah, our characters are up on the page.

A Perfect Harleck Mimic Tries To Lure

SPEAKER_02 1:39:08

Yeah, I'll follow you. You're up on the page. So in front of you, you see three paths. One is to the north, one is to the east, and one is to the west. Um as you're you're standing there, kind of getting your for surroundings, uh, you you hear from the east side.

SPEAKER_08 1:39:30

Oh, that doesn't sound good.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:34

He sure moves forward, doesn't he?

SPEAKER_02 1:39:37

And it is an exact mimic of Harleck.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:40

He said the M-word.

SPEAKER_04 1:39:42

Whoa, whoa, whoa! That wasn't me! Whoa, whoa, whoa!

SPEAKER_02 1:39:50

Again from the East Tunnel.

SPEAKER_07 1:39:53

Uh, boss is gonna look confused back at Harlik. Trying to figure out what's going on. Harlick's invisible.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:00

Harleck's invisible. This isn't good. Hey.

SPEAKER_06 1:40:07

Hey guys, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:40:11

Where'd Harleck go? Oh, he must have gone over there. I I thought I heard him behind us. Just wait, what's going on here?

SPEAKER_03 1:40:20

I'm I'm with you, Bosse. We should go go see where he is.

SPEAKER_07 1:40:24

What what did what did uh Harleck say, the voice say?

SPEAKER_02 1:40:28

Uh it said, oh, that doesn't sound good, and whoa, whoa, whoa.

SPEAKER_07 1:40:33

I think he needs our help. We should probably go that way.

SPEAKER_06 1:40:37

But he's right. He's that he said something right here.

SPEAKER_07 1:40:42

That's what Voss is really confused. He doesn't know that he went invisible. He didn't pick up on that. He might not have been paying attention, but he knows he heard him down that way. Then he also heard him behind him, and he's very confused by this.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:55

But he does know that Harlik said guys, don't go down there! That's not me. Help me!

SPEAKER_07 1:41:05

Please come from Voss snaps his head backwards and looks to where he doesn't see Harlik.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:14

Um yeah, I guess Harlik's gonna Harleck's gonna drop invisibility and then use message with uh, and I'm gonna put like my finger over my beak to Voss and like No, it's not me.

SPEAKER_04 1:41:27

Don't go down there. Oh, please come down here, help me.

SPEAKER_03 1:41:33

And shake my head. Like I I once saw this ventriloquist that could throw his voice, but not that far. I'm quite impressed, Arli. Do we go this way? Did Voss gonna point out the I'm not invisible anymore because I did okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:41:52

Do we just cut gosh?

SPEAKER_08 1:41:58

Yup.

SPEAKER_05 1:42:02

Well, a charge on the sittern, thankfully, but still.

SPEAKER_07 1:42:07

That's horrible. Hey, I'm trying to play it out. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:15

No, that this is what makes good DD. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:42:19

So Foss turns to L D. Yeah, I was having a hard time containing myself. I don't uh I don't think that's actually uh Harleck down there, do you?

SPEAKER_03 1:42:32

I mean, he's he's right here with us, so he can't be.

SPEAKER_04 1:42:38

I don't think it's me.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:42

For our listeners out there, as I was describing this and mimicking uh Ray's Harlecks voice, Ray is just freaking out, like waving his hands.

SPEAKER_05 1:42:54

I was like, uh just like trying to do anything to keep myself contained, like snapping my fingers, like no no no no no no. So much chaos.

SPEAKER_07 1:43:05

Alright, so uh which way do you think we should go? If not, we've we've ruled out one of the three options.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:12

I mean, I I always lean to the left, so we could go down this left path.

SPEAKER_04 1:43:18

Oh, I I definitely don't want to go where my voice is coming from. Oh no, you should definitely come down this way.

SPEAKER_07 1:43:25

Alright, so we've uh we've ruled out going back the way we came and to the right, because those are the ways that uh the voices are coming from.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:34

Well well, what if the what if the voice follows us if we go left and then they come from the right, and then they're behind us, and then they attack the guys in the back, which aren't us.

SPEAKER_07 1:43:45

Then uh I think we should probably go straight ahead. That way it won't that that stuff won't happen.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:53

Elvar is going to like very obviously like do the giant face wink and then say, yeah, we should go straight and then start walking left.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:06

I I like how Harleck, Nelvax, and Zayn are just allowing the two of you to decide your way through this dungeon.

SPEAKER_07 1:44:18

Well, at least one of the Harlecks is trying to help us.

SPEAKER_06 1:44:30

So you guys are going to the Zane is just kind of dumbfounded, but fair. I mean, he's he's seen Voss, and he's been, you know, chilling out with Voss for a while now, so he knows how off he is, but this is like their exponent they're they're multi- they're they're multiplying their stupidity.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:52

Oh, yep, yep.

SPEAKER_06 1:44:55

That's fairly accurate, right? One stupid person is bad, two pie two stupid people is very, very bad, three is just a nope, won't say that.

SPEAKER_07 1:45:05

It's factorial uh multiplier.

SPEAKER_03 1:45:09

I mean it it's Shakespearean. You always listen to the fool. Because the fool is the only one to speak the truth.

SPEAKER_07 1:45:16

I think we're going to left.

SPEAKER_06 1:45:17

Unless he's a good liar, then he acts like he's a fool so that everybody believes him.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:21

So you guys are gonna walk to the left.

SPEAKER_07 1:45:23

Can we see can we see anything that would give us any indication left versus straight?

SPEAKER_02 1:45:30

Oh you think this is what you see right now.

SPEAKER_07 1:45:34

Oh god.

SPEAKER_04 1:45:36

Hey guys.

SPEAKER_06 1:45:37

So, um, if so we're all standing in the middle of this area, right? So if Zayn were to walk past before Elvar actually moves, if Zayn were to walk past him, would he be able to see down that path?

SPEAKER_02 1:45:54

Uh, about sixty feet, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:45:56

So is there anything down there that he recognizes?

SPEAKER_02 1:46:00

You see more tunnel and stone.

SPEAKER_07 1:46:03

I think from this point right here, we would see 60 feet that way.

SPEAKER_02 1:46:07

It looks like it opens up into a larger room.

SPEAKER_01 1:46:10

Is that your 60-foot cone?

SPEAKER_06 1:46:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:46:15

So Nelbax will take a second. Nelbax will take a second to uh reach back into his hood and like pull out this little ball of fluff you guys. I don't know if you've been introduced before. He holds him up. Have you guys met Ember? He's pretty smart. It's a fox. It's my animal companion or my what do you call him? Conjured Familiar. Familiar? He takes a shape. Familiar, yep. That's the one. He's currently in the shape of a fox, so he has dark vision, and I can give him a torch and just have him run down a hallway.

SPEAKER_07 1:46:46

Has uh has Brandon killed Ember yet?

SPEAKER_00 1:46:49

I have to do that.

SPEAKER_07 1:46:50

That's what I'm really looking forward to.

SPEAKER_03 1:46:56

Elvar is gonna look at Ember and be like, oh, you have a pet too? I've got a raven, but uh I haven't seen him for a while. Not sure where he's going off to.

SPEAKER_01 1:47:07

Uh El Jim. No, that points to Harleck. Does it look like him?

SPEAKER_04 1:47:15

I mean uh look, not all ravens and stuff look alike, you know.

SPEAKER_03 1:47:21

No, I mean he's he's got white feathers instead of black feathers, and and he can fly, and I haven't seen this one fly, so he can fly?

SPEAKER_04 1:47:31

Uncool, man! Uncool! I can fly sometimes. Oh, Raven, fine, I'll come to you.

SPEAKER_08 1:47:39

Oh no.

SPEAKER_06 1:47:46

So Nane says maybe we should go take care of the danger that's down there.

SPEAKER_01 1:47:52

Head on instead of letting it sleep up to us, I like that.

SPEAKER_06 1:47:55

Yeah. Um I like to be the danger in the shadows. I don't want to deal with other dangers in the shadows.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:06

Something copied me.

SPEAKER_07 1:48:09

You wanna go check out your this little copy of our friend here?

SPEAKER_06 1:48:13

Zayn says I don't think it's actually uh Harleck. I think it's a mimic, or it could be a another Kenku, right? They can do that.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:26

Yeah, that's uh it's uh I mean pretty much every Kenku can mimic anything they hear long enough.

SPEAKER_07 1:48:34

Hey, Eldvar, where do you think we uh you know head over this way and go take care of this the scary thing that's trying to lure us into a trap, maybe.

SPEAKER_06 1:48:44

They're trying to lure us into a trap, so we're gonna go. That'll fix their trap.

SPEAKER_03 1:48:50

Are you motioning to the right?

SPEAKER_07 1:48:51

Yeah. No, uh, yes, he's he's he's looking back at Elvar and kind of pointing to the right.

SPEAKER_06 1:48:58

I see him not motioning at all. Let's go this way.

SPEAKER_03 1:49:10

Yeah, I think uh I think up the center is the right way to go. Yeah, it's the right way to go. And then he'll start walking to the right on following uh Voss.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:23

Oh yeah. I'm right behind you, Elvar. And I'll make some like fake steps sounding toward like going towards center.

SPEAKER_06 1:49:31

My god.

SPEAKER_07 1:49:34

Alright, so we move to the right. Just a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:43

I could do that too. Maybe it's less fun.

SPEAKER_07 1:49:46

Hey, let's uh yeah. If he's gonna cast minor illusion, trying to trick things and think we're going to the center, I'm gonna go ahead and cast Pass Without Trace. And uh we're gonna do some sneaky sneaky stuff and try to sneak up. On this uh can Q. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:50:04

Uh so alright, so you guys are all going to the right.

SPEAKER_07 1:50:11

I didn't think that's the way we were going, but yeah, yeah, here we are.

SPEAKER_03 1:50:14

Okay. I think Moss and Elbar going to the right.

Acid Pools Warning On The Bridge

SPEAKER_02 1:50:19

The rest of them are like, alright, now that we got rid of those two fucking idiots. Alright, so um you do see as you enter this little corner, uh, you see that uh there's there's two pools to the left and right of you across a uh a stone bridge that has been burrowed out into the rock around it. And there the two pools to the left and right seem they're they're filled with a green liquid that is sizzling. You're not really sure what it is from where you're at. Uh but you do see on the bridge itself is scrawled in what looks like a dark viscous liquid mixed with red, so it looks like oil and blood mix it makes the words don't run with a corpse next to it.

SPEAKER_06 1:51:12

Thane is gonna activate his wing boots.

SPEAKER_02 1:51:15

Okay, uh this this tower, this tunnel is only 12 feet tall.

SPEAKER_06 1:51:20

That's fine. I can't fall into a hole if I'm flying.

SPEAKER_03 1:51:24

True. I messed up the triangle. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_07 1:51:29

No, I was gonna say, I don't know how I did it, but I messed up the triangle and I can't drag it back into blaze.

SPEAKER_01 1:51:35

Yeah, also could you move me back out of the fog of war? Because I can't get back to me either.

SPEAKER_07 1:51:45

There we go.

SPEAKER_03 1:51:48

Uh so Elvar is going to get down on all fours, kind of like um the bear pose, and he's gonna sniff at whatever this bubbling green liquid is and try and identify it.

SPEAKER_01 1:52:00

What does it taste like?

SPEAKER_03 1:52:03

Um kind of mouthfeel does it have? You waft first before you taste it.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:10

You're you're you're the note the hairs in your nose, you know, you've you've been renowned for the hairs that grow out of your nose. And as a as a proud warrior, I mean you're bald, but where you you're missing your hair on your head, that grows from your nose in your nostrils, but it starts singing the nose hairs, and uh you can feel them start start wilting away inside of your nose.

SPEAKER_03 1:52:34

Oh, that uh that feels like a habit arrow right there. It's got that that slow burn. I I I wouldn't recommend stepping into it though. Um I'm uh a couple hairs short of uh full nose.

SPEAKER_06 1:52:48

Why would you think about stepping in it?

SPEAKER_03 1:52:54

I mean, it's there. Why would you not think about it at least? Have you never had a thought that uh goes into your mind against uh all self-preservation that makes you think, hmm, maybe I'll just go up and poke that thing. And then you do it.

SPEAKER_06 1:53:19

I mean, occasionally I've thought about taking a dagger and rapidly shoving it into a statue or a hole in a statue to try to cause some action, and it frustrated me, but I think that was a dream of a past life.

SPEAKER_03 1:53:34

Well, um, again, just if when you have that thought, don't step in the liquid.

SPEAKER_04 1:53:41

Well, yeah, in Elvar's defense, there's a lot of illustrated scrolls where green bubbly liquids give you powers. So, you know, maybe he's maybe he's picking up on that.

SPEAKER_03 1:53:53

Wait, you think this can give me some more power?

SPEAKER_04 1:53:56

No, no, no. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:54:03

Two session rule, baby.

SPEAKER_05 1:54:07

It'll give you a power. You know, just nothing's happening.

SPEAKER_02 1:54:15

It gives you the ability to respec Andrew.

SPEAKER_06 1:54:19

It gives you the ability to dissolve into boot once.

SPEAKER_03 1:54:26

Elvar will think really long and hard uh about dipping his hand in to take a sip. Uh, but given how spicy it was in his nose, he's just not certain he's gonna take that plunge. Instead, he'll he'll continue to move up and lead the group past the bridge and down the next tunnel. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:54:48

Looks like Foss is gonna try to scale that wall. I I'm trying to move my person away from that, and it's literally okay, I had to reload the thing.

SPEAKER_02 1:54:58

What? That was Zane just hovering there, okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:55:01

Now I can't.

SPEAKER_06 1:55:02

Zane is walks over on top of the on top of the green stuff, but stays level with the ground.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:09

Okay. So Nelvax, are you coming up as well?

SPEAKER_01 1:55:14

I'm gonna stay back a little bit, but I will be following, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:55:22

So is Harlach staying really close to uh Eldvar and Voss?

SPEAKER_05 1:55:28

Uh, probably not like right up on you guys now that I have my lantern out as well, because at this point uh I'm not invisible anymore.

SPEAKER_07 1:55:37

Uh Voss will kind of look at the lanterns and know they kind of give us away, so he's gonna sneak ahead of the group so that I can still benefit from the lanterns making a dim light, but still see using my 60 feet to scout ahead of the group.

SPEAKER_03 1:55:54

Voss, give me a perception check. Yeah. Very so well yeah, well uh Harlach is next to Eldvar. Eldvar is gonna take his bonded uh hand axe out, and he's gonna stick it in Harlak's belt so that he can identify who the true Harlack is. Great. Okay?

SPEAKER_01 1:56:17

That's not my belt.

SPEAKER_02 1:56:19

Uh so Voss, give me a perception roll.

SPEAKER_07 1:56:22

Perception 13. Uh uh it's just higher than my passive by one.

Ceiling Ambush From The Fake Harleck

SPEAKER_02 1:56:28

Alright, so. Uh Voss, uh the first thing you notice is a change in the air around you. It seems like an odd weight is above, like the room itself is holding its breath. Then without a sound, something unfolds in front of you and dropping from the ceiling. For a half second, it's just a shadow. Uh, it's dripping lines of oil, and you can see bits of bone and flesh uh in uh uh kind of entwined around the metal itself. And then two red lenses snap open, almost as if eyes, and you can hear a whisper of hydraulic hydraulics exhale, and it says, Ravens, as it slashes at you twice.

SPEAKER_07 1:57:10

I snuck up on him.

SPEAKER_02 1:57:12

Does it do a 23 and a 21 hit?

SPEAKER_07 1:57:17

Uh yeah, those will both hit.

SPEAKER_06 1:57:19

21 hits? I thought your AC was higher, but I think it's 21. 21.

SPEAKER_02 1:57:25

Oh, it's 21.

SPEAKER_06 1:57:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:57:26

You're gonna take 14 points of slashing damage as this creature uh folds itself back up into the ceiling. You're gonna have a chance to give it an opportunity attack if you as you if you would like, as it drops up back up to the ceiling.

SPEAKER_07 1:57:40

Oh, it's going back up to the ceiling?

SPEAKER_02 1:57:43

Yep.

SPEAKER_07 1:57:44

Uh yeah, I'll just take the opportunity attack.

SPEAKER_02 1:57:47

Give it to me.

SPEAKER_07 1:57:48

Uh 18.

SPEAKER_02 1:57:50

That does hit.

SPEAKER_07 1:57:52

Five damage.

SPEAKER_02 1:57:53

Perfect.

SPEAKER_07 1:57:55

Perfect, but uh that's not perfect.

SPEAKER_02 1:57:58

You hear this creature say, ow! As it seems to blend into the rocks above you. And you hear scuttling. You cannot you can no longer see it.

SPEAKER_07 1:58:10

Uh, he's gonna yell back to the group and let them know what happened, unless could they see what happened?

SPEAKER_02 1:58:16

Uh Eldbar, Harlack, and Zayn can all see it, yes.

SPEAKER_07 1:58:23

Uh uh, I think we're dealing with uh something that's gonna be a little sneaky here. Yeah, best be uh best be prepared. Uh I'm gonna go go ahead and uh uh move forward, but before I do that, I'm going to uh cast a shield of faith on myself.

SPEAKER_02 1:58:45

Okay, plus two AC, that's nice. Continue walking bird. I even named this one just for you, Ray. Did you see it?

SPEAKER_05 1:58:54

I did, and this and and this faux Harlech seems way more deadly than real Harlech.

SPEAKER_02 1:59:03

Uh Nelvax, did you have something that?

SPEAKER_01 1:59:05

Yeah, I was gonna ask if I could scoot up and uh ready an action to throw some darts at it if it pops its head out again? Or some daggers.

SPEAKER_02 1:59:14

I actually I don't think ready to actions are a thing anymore in 2024.

SPEAKER_03 1:59:18

Uh they're still a thing. You can still take the ready action.

SPEAKER_02 1:59:22

What was I reading?

SPEAKER_03 1:59:23

Probably something about Pathfinder.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:26

You can take the ready action on your turn. Where are we at here? You take the ready action to wait for a particular circumstance before you act. So you take this action on your turn, which lets you take a reaction before the start of your next turn. If the circumstance triggers, you do your action, or you you know move your speed up to response, whatever. For example, if the cultist steps on the trapdoor, I pull a letter that opens it. If the zombie steps next to me, I move away.

SPEAKER_02 1:59:52

Um, ready actions don't work outside of combat, though. You've gotta be in combat order for that to work.

Cliffhanger Setup And Outro Plugs

SPEAKER_01 2:00:01

Then I will be ready to take a re to re respond, hopefully, and do something if this thing drops out. Now we're aware of it. I think we're pretty combat capable group. Okay. If that thing can drop down from the ceiling, I'd like to be able to get a toss in there.

SPEAKER_02 2:00:18

Understood. Um so I think with midnight rolling around, that's where we're gonna stop it for the night. Uh, with now the fake Harlek going around hunting you all. I was I told Ray in uh it while we were DMing, while I DM'd him, I was like, I've been practicing his voice all fucking week. Oh man, it is alarming. I was I've been listening to recordings and trying to imitate it. It's good, man. Alright, just taking a note.

unknown 2:00:56

Alright.

SPEAKER_02 2:00:57

So we are gonna start next session with the uh with working your way through this tunnel system, trying to find the architect.

SPEAKER_03 2:01:08

We had to go find the fake Karlac.

SPEAKER_02 2:01:14

Yeah, it wasn't a trick, guys.

SPEAKER_06 2:01:17

We're supposed to turn and walk the other way and let it come up behind us?

SPEAKER_03 2:01:21

We were gonna deceive it that we were gonna take the center route and then we could take the left one. Big brain and a big head.

SPEAKER_01 2:01:31

Two you were in pretty heavy stand. Like Voss is not even half capable of wearing his fucking armor. We they're gonna know where we are with no effort. Clash, clash, clash.

SPEAKER_05 2:01:42

We're essentially just walking around hitting pots and pans.

SPEAKER_03 2:01:47

With a pass without a trace, like we'd be fine. Well, we're not doing anything at that. To roll for stealth, even which well, what's your turn?

SPEAKER_02 2:01:57

Stealth, I mean stealth works when an enemy is not aware of you, right? Like this creature is actively hunting you.

SPEAKER_07 2:02:03

Yeah, it doesn't mean you're actively hunting, it means you know you're always where it's at.

SPEAKER_03 2:02:07

I mean, if we hit a DC-15, we have the invisible condition. So unless he's got blind sight, he can't see us.

SPEAKER_02 2:02:14

Creature lives in complete darkness.

SPEAKER_01 2:02:17

Blind sight tremors. We can think that we're hidden. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 2:02:22

Are we still in the dresses?

SPEAKER_03 2:02:25

Yes. Yeah, you guys never Eldar took his off at the apartment. Yeah, Eldar ripped out of his No, I took it off and it away gently because I did not want to ruin it.

SPEAKER_02 2:02:39

That's true. I do remember you saying that. Yeah. Alright. So that's where we're gonna stop for the night. We're gonna start our next session with the uh hunt through the tunnels. I want to say thank you to everybody for final slightness, giving us ideas. It means a lot to us. Make sure you check us out on all of our social medias at facebook.com slash ad story, retweet us on Twitter or X at addstory2, follow us on Instagram and Instagram.com slash adnd story, and finally check us out on blue sky at BSKY dot at ad story. Um if you like all the sound effects you've been hearing, make sure you check out sirenscape at sirenscape.com. And if you're a lazy DM like I am, please check out worldsmith.io for all your random generated stuff. Got random generated maps, loot, stores. I use them a lot for stores because making stores in DD is tough. Um so yeah. And finally, Maddie. It has been six episodes. I actually skipped you since the last time you took us out. Can you take us out tonight?

SPEAKER_07 2:03:41

Uh it's been birdie. It's been birdie. Fake birdie? Fake birdie. Alright, it's been nerdy, everybody. It's been nerdy. Hey guys! Come to the clubhouse.

SPEAKER_05 2:04:04

Well, it's a tree house, it's copyrighted differently. Oh.

SPEAKER_07 2:04:09

My bad. Alright, it's been dirty, everybody. Have a good one. Bye.

SPEAKER_01 2:04:17

There was a minute I thought you were gonna ask. Hope you don't find the roll of quarters in my pocket.