Oathbreaker: A DND Story
Oathbreaker: A Dark Fantasy Actual Play Podcast
Betrayal. Corruption. A kingdom in ruin. The oath has been broken, and the dead refuse to rest.
Welcome to Oathbreaker, our second long-term campaign together. Join our party of schemers, outcasts, and would-be heroes as they navigate a kingdom torn apart by political intrigue, forbidden magic, and the looming threat of an undead crown.
With years of shared adventures behind us, our table is filled with rich roleplay, high-stakes decision-making, and the chaos of a group that knows how to push each other to the limit—both in and out of character. Whether you're here for the deep lore, intense combat, or just to watch everything spiral into madness, this story is one you won’t want to miss.
Swear your loyalty—or break your oath. The choice is yours.
Oathbreaker: A DND Story
Episode 21: The Tomato Garden Is Running Out Of Room
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Cold Open And Cast Roll Call
SPEAKER_06Every once in a while we get on these tangents and Andrew will message me on the side, we're never making a level, are we? I was like, no. Welcome to Oathbreaker, a DD story. I am Brandon the Irish Wookiee, and with me today is Justin.
SPEAKER_08Hi, Brandon.
SPEAKER_06Hello, Justin.
SPEAKER_08Hi, everybody. I'm Justin, and I'm playing Nelvax the male human monk.
SPEAKER_06And Maddie.
SPEAKER_11Hey everybody. Uh, my name is Maddie. I play Voss Dane, the half-elf uh clerk.
SPEAKER_04Ray. Hey everyone, I play Ray. I will put I play Harleck. The Kanku Bard Warlock.
SPEAKER_10Sorry, folks, Ray's been drinking. Damn it! Already hammered.
SPEAKER_05And finally, Bill.
SPEAKER_15Hello, I'm Bill. I play Zayn Umberlight, the male half orc warlock.
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Recap Of Murder And Doppelganger
SPEAKER_06So continue messaging. We love talking to you guys. Alright. Let's roll for some recap. Everybody except for Justin, because he has missed the last two sessions. Slacker. Slacker.
SPEAKER_15LEC2 dice.
SPEAKER_04No, I rolled that eight.
SPEAKER_15You rolled an eight. I got a 16. One six.
SPEAKER_06Ten and sixteen. Alright, Carla, that is you.
SPEAKER_15Oh my god. Give us a recap. He got sick in the middle of the episode.
SPEAKER_06Yes, he did.
SPEAKER_04It's gonna be great.
SPEAKER_15It's gonna be fantastic. I'll try to help you.
SPEAKER_04Previously on Oathbreaker, uh D story. There we go. I like it. After leaving the Emporium with Abra, uh the we made our way through the streets that uh we had a little bit of a thing with Abra about the sky. Uh we kinda had a whole thing about, you know, like it's always different, it can be beautiful, it's not just painted nonsense in her room because she hasn't really been outside. We discovered our good buddy Ricio brutally murdered in an alleyway. Um and it seemed like it was more than just a robbery. Uh, we found uh a strange key or a rune shifting thing in his hand. Uh we think it's the master key. I don't know if we actually confirmed that or not. Uh we uh Avrus starts, I think she's chopped off his hand, or she started to. We were gonna put everybody in the body bags, I mean the bag of holding. Uh we went back to the Bastion. Uh oh yeah, Seinmonder was assassinated. Um and I think this is rightfully where I where I dashed out, so I'm going off of strictly c uh notes here. Umder was murdered, and the butler lingering in the room kinda I think helped towards everything. Uh Sainmander may have been connected with everything in the Bastion. Uh I think it ended up being Sir Corvin that being the doppelganger. Uh, because he already knew that Risio was dead. Um, and then there seems to have been a good cop, bad cop, or some sort of poisoning that went on. I was not privy to all this. Um, but I think that it looks like that everyone found out that there was in fact a doppelganger. They either chopped off body parts or poisoned him in an a terrifying uh intimidation interrogation.
SPEAKER_15Uh just just a note, uh when you cut off their hand, that's no longer intimidation. That's straight up torture.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, that's that's torture.
SPEAKER_12Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_04Hey, I mean But that is uh uh. Anybody wanna add anything?
SPEAKER_11I can add some. Oh, I just have a question. We did we find out specifically who the sent the doppelganger? I mean probably it was part of the queen. It was the queen or last year.
SPEAKER_15He said the doppelganger told us it was the queen.
SPEAKER_11It was the queen, okay.
SPEAKER_15Yeah, the uh so the way we found out is Zane came out and we called all the soldiers into the courtyard. Uh Mortain told us everybody was out in the courtyard. Zane came out with uh altar self looking like Risio, and everybody was watching for um reactions, and two people had a weird reaction. I don't really remember why the other one had a reaction. I don't think we found out. Um but then we did some back and forth and asking questions and trying to figure it out the and and we pretty much were failing miserably. Uh we tried to intimidate them with poison, and then we went back and told another guy, and then when we came out, we found out that the doppelganger had shifted into the a different guards from George. I don't remember no, it wasn't George. Jeff? Jeffrey, maybe? I don't know. Um and uh then we cut off his hand, found out it was a doppelganger, and then we tried to get some more information out of him. We found out that it was the queen that sent him. Or her?
SPEAKER_14Did doppelgangers have gender?
SPEAKER_06Uh doppelgangers are gender neutral.
SPEAKER_15So they got a bruise by that. Um the uh we found out that doppelganger was sent by the queen, and then we we Zane cut off his head, and then we buried him. We actually told him we told him we were gonna bury him upside down in a a little hole that he was But anyway, um Then we ended up kidnapp killing him once he confessed, cut off his head, threw him in a hole, buried him in your tomato garden. Not you just buried him in a hole in a backyard.
SPEAKER_06I mean, as Novex once said, any ground is a burial ground if you bury bodies there.
SPEAKER_15We have a partially disassembled doppelganger in our backyard buried.
SPEAKER_06Okay. Um fantastic. Uh which one of you want inspiration?
SPEAKER_15He can take it.
SPEAKER_04All yours, Harleck. Sounds good. I was gonna say, Bill definitely gave more more of the actual usable info.
SPEAKER_15The poison cup. So there was apparently a cursed poison cup that w whatever you put in this cup turns to poison. So um Maddie or not Maddie, uh Voss. Voss dispelled the curse. No, he what did you dispelled magic? He dispelled magic. So now the poison cup is no longer a poison cup in the water, or whatever you put in it is fine? I forgot about that. So we had a cool poison cup, but now we do not.
SPEAKER_06Um to help find that bad guy.
SPEAKER_11We did.
SPEAKER_06That's true. Okay. And does anybody remember the intentions to start this session off?
SPEAKER_11No. To have some notes.
SPEAKER_04Yes. I was showing I was going over the notes. There's Seinmonder had a ring that lists about his estates as well. Like Seinmonder estates 247, as in the 242 summarine. 242, I was close. Um so I don't know if we want to go and try to investigate that.
SPEAKER_06Uh the last thing that was said on our I what you guys intended at least was to use Speak with Dead on Seinmonder. Oh goodness.
SPEAKER_11I don't think it's I mean, I think we also determined it. We don't know if that's really important now. Do you guys I mean, do we have well we can we could let's RP that. Let's let's
Morning After The Long Rest
SPEAKER_11let's start. That's a good idea.
SPEAKER_06So, let's start us off. So you all just finished the long rest. Um and you did not get a level. Yeah, you all just finished your long rest, and uh the manor's still kind of in a mess. The guards have been on high alert all night. Uh they they made sure that nobody disturbed you all during your sleep. They knew that you've been out, and they just wanted to make sure that the building was protected. The uh Eldvar, you you slept, but you tossed and turned the entire night. Like you, no matter what what you tried, you just couldn't get a full night's rest. Um so you're a little more tired than you normally feel after sleeping in your comfortable bed. Uh but the rest of you feel great. And you go about your morning routines and come down to the main study. Uh, Zane.
SPEAKER_15So, I just want to put a picture on this. So the guards are chaos, they're running everywhere, they're doing all these things, and we're all up in our beds, all snuggled up, sleeping.
SPEAKER_04Or it's just like making coffee, like, oh, anyone want some? Alright. So, what would y'all like to do?
SPEAKER_11I'm gonna hang hang out in my workshop for a little while in the morning while I'm doing my prayer rituals. Perfect.
SPEAKER_06What is Nelvex doing?
SPEAKER_08He's gonna stretch off all the sleep he's been getting, you know, go through some uh limbering exercises and try to get his body to wake back up from that that very long nap.
SPEAKER_06Just like two weeks of sleep straight.
SPEAKER_08That's fine. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06I'm not sleeping, Mom, I'm meditating.
SPEAKER_00Mom, get out of my chambers.
SPEAKER_15Um, I was just gonna say, um, we did check on you while you were sleeping. We all stood around the bed looking down at you. Um, Zayn is gonna go down to his he's gonna continue on with his research party about trying to remove the curse and also look for anything to deal with, like sources of changelings, not changelings, doppelgangers. Um, see if there's any note of connections between the queen and doppelgangers in the past.
SPEAKER_04Okay. Harlach. What is Harlech doing? I guess I'll be trying to talk to go around and and talk to all the men that I can to try to pick up on when the doppelgangers could have gotten in a little bit. And then just see if anyone notices when shifts would have changed. Um, other than that, just probably just go out and check to see if there's anything ready for making potions. Okay. Um finally Eldar.
SPEAKER_13Um, Eldvar is probably uh like he tried to sleep last night, and he just kept tossing and turning because every time he would just like look up, there was that flesh golem staring at him with a hairbrush. And so probably about like I don't know, 3 a.m. he finally just kind of gave in and started brushing her hair, and so now he's just like still there, kind of in a trance, kind of half asleep. Um, probably around like 1200 hairbrushes in, uh trying to just like keep this thing from taking his hand in the middle of the night.
SPEAKER_06All right, uh, that is a slightly terrifying picture to think. Alright. Uh Zane, you don't find anything regarding doppelgangers and the queen, but you do find that the golden masks uh tend to use them and employ them very often.
SPEAKER_15We kind of knew that they were had some connection before, right? Because wasn't that guy a doppelganger?
SPEAKER_06Yes.
SPEAKER_15Okay. Anything about the curse?
SPEAKER_06What curse specifically? I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_15The uh the werewolf thing, werewolf curse. He's trying to figure out how to break it.
SPEAKER_06You don't find anything about that.
SPEAKER_15Okay.
SPEAKER_06Oh, sorry, go ahead.
SPEAKER_15I was just gonna say he will continue in his spare time researching that.
SPEAKER_06Okay. Uh Harleck, while you're talking to the guards, you don't notice any uh sorry, while you're talking to the guards, the guards didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. Uh there was a slight a few of the guards showed up late a couple times, but they just kind of they they gave that uh or sorry, they blame that on the cosier quarters than they're used to. The barracks that they came from is not nearly as comfortable as the manor that you all have here. Zane.
SPEAKER_15Did you say that our manor is more comfortable than where they were, or the other Your manor is more comfortable than the barracks that they came from.
unknownAlright.
SPEAKER_06So are you about to say something, Ray? Oh, you're coughing. Okay. Don't die. So, as you're all doing your morning routines, uh, you get um Voss, you get a knock on your door, and you hear uh a familiar voice. Master Dane. I believe there are still there's still some cleanup to be done in the study. Come in in uh the door opens up and a ghostly figure steps through in a butler's uniform and uh bows slightly once he enters your room.
SPEAKER_11Hey, clean up in the study. You talking about from our uh our little doppelganger friend you're talking about?
SPEAKER_06Well, sir, of course you know uh Lord Seinmonder is still there. You told nobody to touch it until you were done your investigation.
SPEAKER_11Oh, yeah, let's we let's take a second to to regroup and figure out uh if we want to ask him any questions before uh we uh properly d take care of his body. I've all said display.
SPEAKER_06Of course, sir. I will uh I'll gather the others.
SPEAKER_11Alright, uh yes, let's let's everybody meet in the study if you uh if you wouldn't mind.
SPEAKER_06Uh yes, sir. Uh Mordain goes around and knocks uh uh on each of your doors and invites you down to the study.
SPEAKER_15I go. His name will go.
SPEAKER_13Uh Elvar, are you going along? Yeah, Elvar will uh use that as a great reason to disengage himself from uh the Flesh Goleman. I can't remember her name for the life of me. Avra. Avaro.
SPEAKER_15She's the one that actually cut the doppelganger's hand off.
unknownYes.
SPEAKER_13That's correct.
SPEAKER_15Granted, Zayn pointed at it and told her to do it, but she with the handsaw. With the handsaw.
SPEAKER_13Handsaw.
SPEAKER_06Um Everyone.
SPEAKER_15Didn't you say that the handsaw is a saw like being held by another hand?
SPEAKER_06That's correct. And she keeps the hand on there holding the saw, and she grip grips the wrist of that hand. The hand. Nice. I like it. Uh Elvar, as you stand up to leave, ever says to you, Can I come with?
SPEAKER_13Um, no, I I I think maybe you should stay here for the the time being. Um, we're still not quite sure that the whole path or the whole uh place is safe.
SPEAKER_06Ah, oh, okay. I'll uh I'll stay here and I'll I'll just I'll just stay here. And she sits back down at the chair that you were uh brushing her hair at, and she just stares off into the corner of the room.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, I mean i if you get bored, um uh there's a lot of nails in here, if you could count all the nails.
SPEAKER_06She immediately stands up upon your suggestion and starts going around to the walls and start and starts looking for nails in the wall.
SPEAKER_13Uh Elvar will use that as the perfect opportunity to just kind of slide out of the room.
SPEAKER_06And Harleck, you're going along as well? Yes, I am going as well. Sorry, go ahead, boss.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, before Voss leaves his uh his workshop, he he he's gonna be uh honestly not even sure. We should probably talk about this, how how these channels would actually work, but he'd be looking for some sort of a response or an update from his mother. He's uh one of those things is deeply weighing on him is uh after the last message he got from her, he does not believe uh that she is in a safe place and is in some need of rescue. Uh did he is there any chance he has any additional information or clues presented to him in the past 24 hours since he got that message from his mom?
SPEAKER_06No, you haven't received anything from your No, you haven't received anything from your mother. The last time you got an update was when you asked the merchant.
SPEAKER_11Uh it was I thought he just received I didn't know he got information from a merchant, I thought he just got a letter from a courier.
SPEAKER_06You you you specifically asked the merchant to find something, and he brought you a letter from your mother.
SPEAKER_11Oh, and he brought that's that's the birth I got the letter from, okay. Got it.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_06What the hell is his name? And why am I missing it? Is it a Till guy or the crazy kobold? Yeah, it's the Kobold. Oh, Tybald?
SPEAKER_15Jorbin Twill.
SPEAKER_06Jorbin, that's right.
SPEAKER_15Jorbin Twill.
SPEAKER_06And uh you haven't used his business card since it was given to Nelbax.
SPEAKER_13Uh Nelvax used it immediately.
SPEAKER_06Yes, that is true. He did use it immediately.
SPEAKER_08To make sure it worked.
SPEAKER_15And Jorbin was not happy.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, Jorbin was a little upset.
Planning Five Questions For The Dead
SPEAKER_06Alright, so you all arrive in the study.
SPEAKER_11Alright, once everybody gathers uh Voss will say, Alright, so uh do we do we feel like we need to get some more from uh our our friend here before we you know give him a proper burial? Because uh I've I've I've had some time to uh look into it more, and I I can I can definitely speak with the dead, but we're uh we're only able to ask him five questions. And uh yeah, that's that's about it. So it's relatively limited, but I wanted uh check with you all first before uh you know initiating this. Is it a ritual? It lasts for ten minutes. No, it's just a spell. It's not even a ritual.
SPEAKER_15Zane says yes, I think we should to get any extra details or data or extra information that we can. We need as much as we can get.
SPEAKER_06Novax.
SPEAKER_08Novax walks in and goes, Oh my god, Seinmoder's dead.
SPEAKER_03Oh no one told Nelvax?
SPEAKER_11Uh Vossel shoot Mordane a uh a look at that. You told him. You just invited him down here to see his friend was dead without letting him know first. What kind of a monster are you?
SPEAKER_06Sir, I you asked me to gather everyone, not to inform them of the untimely demise of their friends.
SPEAKER_11You got me there, Mordane. Boss, we're gonna have to work on his people skills.
SPEAKER_06Not a person. I was literally about to say, uh, sir, I am not a person.
SPEAKER_03Well, you're working with them now. No, but this this is a bad situation.
SPEAKER_11So uh Nel Vex, uh there was a while you were asleep, there was a uh bit of a misfortune between a doppelganger and a couple of guards died, and they they killed uh Ratio and Horatio, no not Horatio. What's they killed Horizio and uh Seinmonder as well, but we got him and uh Zayn Zane put an end to that guy. He's he's out there in the uh in the old at the old train station.
SPEAKER_08Oh man, I need a drink. He looks around.
SPEAKER_06Uh Mordain walks up to you with a a full glass of very fine wine.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, I'll take that. I'll take a good mouthful of that. Just shaking my head.
SPEAKER_06Sir, I must inform you, of course, uh your your good health is at the top of my priority list. Drinking this early in the morning generally indicates that you might have an issue.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, my issue is that two of my friends just died.
SPEAKER_06Ah, I will refill this immediately, sir.
SPEAKER_13Mortain, can I get um some some coffee and maybe a a churro or two?
SPEAKER_06Uh, yes, of course, sir. I will get the chef honor to meet.
SPEAKER_13Thank you.
SPEAKER_04No, we had elbow is knee.
SPEAKER_13I mean, yeah, it was it was at least eight hours long. I mean I didn't get a whole lot of rest.
SPEAKER_06Oh, that's the end of the interaction. Okay. Moving on. I thought Ray was gonna push on that one.
SPEAKER_15I'm able to continue that. I set you up. Come on. You did.
SPEAKER_09No, I want details. Did she give you?
SPEAKER_15Did she warm up the hands first?
SPEAKER_05Alright. You know, I love knocking Ray's corruption corner out early on in the episode. It leaves us open to everything else during the session.
SPEAKER_00I tried to join in.
SPEAKER_11If she were to use somebody else's hand, is it still considered a hand job?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, it's just a stranger.
SPEAKER_11Stranger hand job.
SPEAKER_06No, that's when you set on your own hand. Well, right, but I've never had the opportunity to use another person's like chopped off hand. I figured it'd be the same thing.
SPEAKER_04Would it be called the thing? Would it would it just be a toy at that point?
SPEAKER_15It's just thing, not the thing.
SPEAKER_04Well, yeah, but it as a move or a technique, I suppose. Yeah.
SPEAKER_15So Zayn will try to get this back on track. Um by RPing. Um, he looks at at Elvar and says, you know, they have bacon too. You don't just need to eat churros.
SPEAKER_13Uh I mean, yeah, but churros are full of uh lots of simple sugars that really give me a jolt um so I can get through the day. Uh I just feel tired. Any y'all feel tired? Nope, not particularly. Uh that's why we slept. Yeah, I I I tried to. I don't know, guys, I just feel off today. So Zayn cast sleep on Elbar.
SPEAKER_09Go to sleep.
SPEAKER_13That's a con save, right? I'm kidding. It is not. I'm glad you're kidding because I would fail that.
SPEAKER_15Because he wouldn't have done it, he would have done suggestion and just say something. But it's good. But no. Um anyway, sorry. But it's bacon. Meat candy. Meat candy.
SPEAKER_05Wait. I like how you say I'm gonna get this back on track, and then you go with, you know, they also have bacon.
SPEAKER_15It's off of the raised corruption track and onto the story track. I didn't say the moving the story forward, just continuing into the story. Uh we got I said I'm gonna get this back on track by role-playing.
SPEAKER_11So uh what uh what what five questions you think we should uh ask Seinmonger?
SPEAKER_03Nelvax, you you knew him pretty good, right?
SPEAKER_08I mean Do we know who killed him? That would be good to ask him.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, we figured that one out already. That's the doppelganger that's buried in the backyard. Yeah, we he's he's we got more tomato fertilizer.
SPEAKER_13I I I burned this one to a don't want him coming back. You did?
SPEAKER_15Oh, we burned him in the hole. That's right.
SPEAKER_13In the hole, yeah. Like uh Iraqi burn pit. Oh my. Jesus Christ. Are there any clues that we need to follow up on, or I mean I I'm not so certain that we got all the doppelgangers. We may want to find out if there is someone else in the room when he got killed.
SPEAKER_02We have Risio too.
SPEAKER_03Oh god, no, that's right.
SPEAKER_15Um, so Zayn. How's Nelvax processing all this?
SPEAKER_06He just showed up, uh, finding out Risio's dead, uh Signmoner is dead. You know, you he Nelvax has known Seinmonder for a long time. How's this affecting Nelvax?
SPEAKER_08He's a little shook. They've been through some shit. Um, so it doesn't really seem real to him yet. Uh I mean he knows some of these guys more than others, but we've been through some shit. So like we know we're all the same s I know Nelvax knows it, they're on the same side. Bringing up a doppelganger kind of makes him a little antsy. But he's mostly uh thinking about you know the good times with Sign and wishing that he would have had a chance to you know say goodbye. Knowing the last time we saw him was a while ago.
SPEAKER_06Is Nelvex has worked with the Golden Masks before, right? Part of the uh the the Thieves Underground, right? So or the Thieves Network, Thieves Guild. Uh knowing that they employ doppelgangers, does this influence you one way or the other? Do you have what is n does Nelvax think any particular way about it?
SPEAKER_08Um so he probably would have made that connection. Um I would think Nelvax would know if they are like, as an organization, are they aligned with the the crown, or is it something that they might be amenable to, with their like powers that were like pro I don't know, authority?
SPEAKER_06Uh that's a very good question. Uh you can uh uh roll me history check. It's gonna be a low DC.
SPEAKER_08Okay. I got a seven.
SPEAKER_06Well, uh, you know that the Thieves Guild generally does what's best for the Thieves Guild. Alright, they're out for their best intentions, whether that is recruiting uh high potential clients or high potential uh new people to the guild, or if it's making money, uh, but you know at the end of the day, the thieves guild looks out for the thieves guild, so they will align themselves to what is best for them. If the crown gave them an opportunity to make more money, or to give them more power in the city, they absolutely would have helped the the crown out.
SPEAKER_08Could I think of any uh like contacts or handlers that might have been a middleman in setting up that kind of a job?
SPEAKER_06Uh, you do know a few. Um who is your go-to guy that you reach out to for this kind of information?
SPEAKER_08Hmm.
SPEAKER_06And how do you get a hold of them?
SPEAKER_08Well, I've got my uh warehouse thingy that sells shit. So I would probably have like something innocuous that just doesn't make sense, like a some like Orcush made vase or something that is like unusual, not really a collector's item, and then inside there might be like a like a shard with like thieves can't in there that would set up a time and a place to meet him. Uh let's go with uh uh Henebs Yanis, Y-A-N-I-S. He's the guy I normally would meet. Y-A-N-Is gotta look out-I-S.
SPEAKER_06Okay. So are you going to use your warehouse to get in touch with Yanis?
SPEAKER_08Um, I'll bring it up to these guys, like we're all here. Um so it'll the idea will occur to me, and I will now share it with the dudes. Um Hey. Slurp some wine. You guys mentioned Doffelgangers, uh do we know where they came from or who sent them? Uh I got this guy that might know a thing or two about them. Could point us in the right direction. After we get done with sign here, and you raise a glass to sign when he says it.
SPEAKER_06Uh as you take a swig. Sorry, go ahead.
SPEAKER_11And yeah, but the only thing we found out from the Doppelganger is he's working for the Queen.
SPEAKER_08Might be worth pursuing.
SPEAKER_15I think that we should ask him, one of the questions we should ask is why is did the Queen send somebody to kill him now instead of at some other point? Right? Obviously, with all the stuff going on in the manor, he wouldn't have been able to snake a all the stuff that we've had built and redesigned recently. He could have snuck a doppelganger in here at any time. I don't know why would she have sent him to be killed now? He's been an obvious thorn in her side. Was he about to do something? Or did he discover something? That's one of the questions I would ask. Alright. But I agree once we find out the information.
SPEAKER_11Was there other doppelgangers? Uh, was there other doppelgangers? And then this one is uh looking for a pen. I should write these down. Does it do I have to be the one that speaks the questions with a spell like this?
SPEAKER_06Probably. Uh yeah, generally. Okay. But I don't think I don't think these are questions that they want to ask Seinmonder. I think these are questions that they want to ask Justin's contact in the Thieves Guild.
SPEAKER_15Oh. I wanted to ask Seinmonder because like why he what did he just do that he thinks would have prompted her to kill him now?
SPEAKER_04Understand. She's wanted him dead for a while now though, hasn't she?
SPEAKER_15Yeah, but she all of a sudden kills him? I mean, she I has she wanted him dead, or is she has he just been somebody that's off in the background causing trouble but not high priority, and now she kills him?
SPEAKER_11He was like the the the one person that the knights that she was relying on could potentially have allegiance to.
SPEAKER_15But I think we should have that's the thing.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, that's okay. Alright, got uh are there the dockable gangers, potentially the doppelgangers? Why would the queen uh want to send an assassination for you now?
SPEAKER_13I mean, if if we're gonna go to Seinmonders' estate, we probably want to know if there's any kind of traps or something there.
SPEAKER_03Or if there's anything that it's even worth looking for. Does he have something that he knows for sure is helpful?
SPEAKER_11Wouldn't his family want to take care of his estate? Why is it uh why why should that concern us too much?
SPEAKER_15What about that ring with the number on it? We can ask him what that is.
SPEAKER_11Maybe we should ask him what that is and who it should be given to, because I'm not sure that's something we should hold on to.
SPEAKER_13But it's shiny.
SPEAKER_11Who has the ring?
SPEAKER_13Yeah, but I mean you should probably keep it away from the bird since it's so shiny.
SPEAKER_03I don't know what you're talking about. Trying to pocket it.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, just I'll I'll simply ask him what he wants us to do with this ring. How about that?
SPEAKER_15What it how about what is the significance of this ring? And if the significance is we need to give it to somebody, he should tell us that. If it's not, then he could tell us that.
SPEAKER_11Alright, that sounds good. What is the significance of his ring? You can see boss, he's he's holding up like one finger and he's like writing in the palm of his hand. And then he looks over at everybody that has like maybe doubting him. He's like, it's a steel trap. He taps his temple.
SPEAKER_06Elva already knows that about you.
SPEAKER_15I mean he's he's the smartest man I know. How many how many do you have so far written down? Three?
SPEAKER_08Three. I thought we had four. Who else was in the room slash what other doppelgangers might be around? What would make the queen want him to be dead now? Like what changed recently? Yep. Is there anything helpful at his estate? And what's up with the ring with numbers?
SPEAKER_11Significance, anything helpful at his estate? I'll add that one in here. Got four.
SPEAKER_13Maybe we leave the the you said you get six or seven questions. Five. Yeah, I only get five. Oh, yeah, maybe maybe we come up with four, and then if we have another question as a follow-up to the question, then we can save a question so that we don't run out of questions, and then you have to ask the questions again.
SPEAKER_12Hmm.
SPEAKER_05You know, the dumbest way he could have said it, but that's the smartest shit Elvar has ever come up with.
SPEAKER_03Do you do you think it's worth asking about if there's anyone else?
SPEAKER_11You you want you want me to ask him uh should we save one question to ask you after you answer the first four? Alright. Yes.
SPEAKER_03Or if he has any other allies?
SPEAKER_11Other allies? That's not a bad Yeah.
SPEAKER_03It's just we're we're running low on people to go to and people in the know. And uh it's defin definitely better to have more friends on our side, right?
SPEAKER_15But do we want to curse them to dying?
SPEAKER_03We are uh we are leaving a uh a trail in our wake, I I suppose.
SPEAKER_11At least none of us have died.
SPEAKER_03I got pretty close there last time.
SPEAKER_11Look around.
SPEAKER_03None of us.
SPEAKER_15But uh the other guy back never mind.
SPEAKER_13Well, I mean, there's plenty of room under the tomatoes for for that to happen later, I guess. You just start sticking them up.
SPEAKER_11If uh the last last question will be are there any other allies out there we should uh seek out?
SPEAKER_15Yep.
SPEAKER_13I'm gonna go. So Boss, do we need to make him like comfortable in his chair or do we have to lay him down? Like, how does this how does this work?
SPEAKER_11Uh no, just wait, I'm I'm a I'm pretty much a pro at this. I think I've done it maybe like uh never before. So uh here here we go.
SPEAKER_06And uh as you uh walk into the the study, you see Lord Steinmonder still sitting in his chair at his desk, half turned as if he tried to rise just a little too late. Uh you can see one arm is outstretched towards uh the very edge of the desk. Uh the other is clenched tight against his chest. His face is pale, but it's not twisted in like terror. It it's more uh that he was caught in some sort of surprise. Uh his clothes are still rich, uh, but they're practical. There's a dark fabric, uh, but it's brumpled a little bit from being slouched all night. And you can see that there's there's still some wine on the table on the on on the or sorry, wine on the desk from where you found the goblet before the room is otherwise untouched. I know you from his signet ring is missing from his finger.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, we have the signature ring.
unknownOh. Okay.
SPEAKER_06I wasn't like a I'm I'm just describing the body.
SPEAKER_15Zayn Zane starts inspecting the room trying to find the ring.
SPEAKER_13Okay. And his right hand is gone from the body.
SPEAKER_06No, they she s ever was stopped from chopping his hand off. That's why I had to brush her hair all night. Yes.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_00Yes.
SPEAKER_11Uh anyway, uh, so Boss will walk in and uh he'll grab a little pouch, and uh from his pouch he produces a little stick of incense and a holder. And he knows this is a very specific stick of incense that will take exactly ten minutes to burn. And so he'll tell everybody, eh, once uh once this this this incense burns out, that means the uh our our time has run out and our our time to ask Simon of these five questions is over. Uh but just be very careful, because uh five questions is all we get. If uh if you if we ask him for any any other things that uh he can perceive as a question, it's uh it's gonna take away from one of our things. So uh just uh let me do the talking. We're in good hands here.
SPEAKER_13Okay, so he'll So Voss, if I extinguish the incense, then we get more time.
SPEAKER_11Uh nope, nope, definitely doesn't work that way. Uh if you extinguish the incense, I'm pretty sure the spell will stop as well, and we'll we won't we won't get to do it again.
SPEAKER_13Is this you can only do this once you do it once every ten days.
SPEAKER_11The spell for fails the corpse is target. Oh, past ten days. So you can literally like keep a corpse around and keep doing the spell against it if you really wanted to?
SPEAKER_06You you would have to find a way to keep the body from rotting, but yes.
SPEAKER_13I don't think that's actually a requirement.
SPEAKER_06You well, you can't go into a skeleton. Yeah.
SPEAKER_15So you're talking about ten days? You're talking about like five years in the real life future. So Yeah, sure.
SPEAKER_11We'll never actually get there. By by we'll we'll forget who Simon is by the time ten days rolls around.
Speak With Dead Answers Change Everything
SPEAKER_11Okay. Alright, so uh boss uh lights his incense and he goes over and he you just kind of hear him mumbling to himself. Because he never does that. Um, and then uh finally you see his his hand like blow glowing really, really brightly, and he holds out a single finger and he reaches down and he touches Seinmonger on the nose.
SPEAKER_06And he doesn't as the spell settles over Seinmonder's corpse, the room grows unnaturally still. Uh Seinmonder doesn't rise, he doesn't breathe, but something in his posture changes. Uh you can see a stiffness in his limbs and in his head as his head jerks up and he sits up straight in his chair, um, and his head shifts with a slow, unnatural drag, as though it's pulled by invisible strings, and his mouth opens a fraction too wide before settling in place. His eyes snap open, about it and dead, but now they seem fixed, not on you, but through you. Uh, and you can see that his pale skin somehow looks worse. The face looks more like a mask than the man that you all knew.
SPEAKER_11It's uh great to have you uh you you you back with us. We got a couple of uh questions starting with uh when you were killed, was there any other people in the room or possibly Dapple Gangers with you? Other than the one that killed you, because he's he's dead now and we buried him.
SPEAKER_06You hear a raspy voice, and Seinmondra responds, Ricio Tain. That son of a bitch.
SPEAKER_11Okay, that makes that makes sense. That was the uh I'm trying really hard to think would Voss ask him some like dumb question, like, hey buddy, how's it going? I'm resisting that urge really hard to burn one of our questions.
SPEAKER_13I was expecting at least one question, burn.
SPEAKER_11I'm I'm tr I'm trying really hard not to. Please, hey buddy, how's it going? Um so I guess that wouldn't make sense. Risio was who the Doppelganger was impersonating when he killed him. Alright. Alright, any chance you'd happen to know why the queen would want you dead now of all the times.
SPEAKER_06Because I remembered too much. Because what I carry breaks what she protects. Or she does not protect. And someone fears I would make them see the truth.
SPEAKER_11So, Table Talk, this could be pertaining to what he did was Justin with us when we kind of got the additional information from Sidmonger? Because he he told us he told us the additional like T on what happened in the Fey Realm. Correct? Uh I don't think so.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, Justin wasn't present. Nelvax was at that time.
SPEAKER_11Okay. But we we were we were made aware that uh of additional information of what happened in the Fey Realm.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_13We were told about the public truth and the actual truth.
SPEAKER_06Anybody want to give a very short description of what that was, or for a short brief to make sure our players or our listeners know and Justin is caught up.
SPEAKER_13King Krasnar conspired with um the Seder King to one, kill his son uh in the Feywild, and then two, curse of the crown. Um I don't think there's more to it than that, but that that was kind of the high points.
SPEAKER_15And then that one father guy.
SPEAKER_13Father Lester.
SPEAKER_15Yeah, they left him in the Fey realm, and it's supposed to have made the kingdom more prosperous, but in reality, curse of the kingdom and the prince questioned it. That's why he wanted that's why the king wanted him dead and le and then He tried to say it was somebody else that cut him. I can't remember who it was. And then uh the father Lester or whatever wasn't gonna go along with the story, so he told so they left him in the Fey Realm.
SPEAKER_13Yeah. They said that the uh the son uh was stuck into quicksand.
SPEAKER_06You pretty much got the gist of it. Uh the Fey King kidnapped somebody. Uh the king of uh the king of this realm went uh led an expedition into the Fey Realm to rescue them. Uh the he struck a deal with the Fey King uh to get the crown, make him prosperous, which is really um which is really a cursed crown. The prince spoke up against the king, as did Father Lester, and uh basically challenged the king. Uh the king slew his son, left him uh to die in his uh die in the fee realm as well as Father Lester. And uh Lord Seinmonder was sworn to secrecy.
SPEAKER_11And we got him really drunk.
SPEAKER_15Yep. Got him really drunk and he broke his word.
SPEAKER_13It'd be super convenient if we had a character with a backstory that came from the Fey Realm. Only F. Only F.
SPEAKER_11Alright. Alright. Alright, so uh we we we we didn't want anybody else to take it, so we're keeping your uh signet ring uh is safe, but I just wanted to know is there any significance of your signet ring?
SPEAKER_06Authority, passage. It marks you as a munder in the eyes of those who still honor it. The vault recognize it, and something within demands it.
SPEAKER_11If uh if we venture over to your estate, is there anything of importance there that we should look into?
SPEAKER_06The journal.
SPEAKER_11Everything you lack.
SPEAKER_06Everything else you lack. Gold to hold your knights, proof to stand before the crown, and the journal. The truth I would have carried.
SPEAKER_11Alright, and before we uh let you go back to to Betty Bai, are there any other allies yet there we should uh make contact with uh now that you and Rucio were gone?
SPEAKER_06Aldric. Narter Teak Drewster.
SPEAKER_13What was that last one? Drewster?
SPEAKER_11Aldric, we've met Aldric already, right?
SPEAKER_13Yeah, Aldric was the number two of the guard.
SPEAKER_11Oh, he's in the manor.
SPEAKER_13Yeah. Okay. Or it's a doppelganger.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, it's always a possibility.
SPEAKER_13Did y'all meet Drewster during the misadventures of the Magic Emporium, or is this a new name?
SPEAKER_15New name.
SPEAKER_13Okay.
SPEAKER_15Or it used to be contained in a brain cell that I have killed.
SPEAKER_06No, it is a new name.
SPEAKER_11Uh Voss kinda looks back at Signmonger's body reanimated. Has anything changed after asking the last question?
SPEAKER_06That was five?
SPEAKER_11I thought that was four.
SPEAKER_15Oh, sure, we'll ask another one.
SPEAKER_11I'm about to ask another question. See if we can get off a sixth. No, that was five. That was six. That was five. Okay.
SPEAKER_06Uh after answering your last question, Aldric's head slumps to the side. And his face looks a little more worn than before. Or not Aldric's head. Seinmonders head slumps to the side. And his face looks a little more worn than it was before you cast the spell. And he looks like he's resting.
SPEAKER_13Alright, well, it's a good thing we we dug two holes last night. We can uh go slide him in the next one.
SPEAKER_03I don't think we can do that. Elbar he had a family. I'm sure they're gonna want something to do with him.
SPEAKER_11Hasn't really stopped. Yeah, maybe maybe we could talk to Aldric, see if Aldric might want to uh do uh reach out to his family and see if they would want to come claim in.
SPEAKER_06Does Nelvax just speak up about this at all? I mean he knew he probably knew Seinmander the best out of the entire party.
SPEAKER_08Uh yeah, what do I know?
SPEAKER_06I mean, you know that he uh he did have a lover from a long time ago. Um never married. Uh he never has he never had any children that he knew of. He considered the knights his family.
SPEAKER_08Novak's uh finishes his glass of wine and says. Yeah, he had no kids or wife or anything. He might just appreciate being laid to rest with the the soldiers he'd who died alongside him as best we can.
SPEAKER_06Dang.
SPEAKER_15So do we know if Simon's manor has like a a family burial ground or anything like that?
SPEAKER_06Uh so our tomato garden. Uh you guys know this. You I you were informed about this the last episode, but the signet ring is for the Mondor vaults, and which is also their family crypt.
SPEAKER_15Oh. Okay. That adds some context to some stuff. So the ring is how we're gonna get into the vault. The vault has something we need, probably the journal, and the journal's gonna give us information that we can use to stand up to the queen somehow.
SPEAKER_03Like a secret recipe.
SPEAKER_15And the I would say disaster. So Zayn would say I say we take Sidemander back to his family crypt, and while we're there, we can check out the Vault 742. I don't remember.
SPEAKER_05Anybody remember the number?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I was gonna say it was like 242. Wait, no, two forty-two.
SPEAKER_06It is on the signet ring.
SPEAKER_04I don't have it in front of me. You're the one that picked it up. It's a it's imaginary. At least for Ray.
SPEAKER_08I wasn't even here. I got the number.
SPEAKER_04I know, I ran upstairs throwing up.
SPEAKER_11Alright. So And so you're saying that should be done before uh we go steal the crown and put it in the uh the empty box we got now?
SPEAKER_15Zayn looks at Voss and says, yes. He said that it's gonna give us information to be able to confront the queen. And the ring gives us authority, so I think we should go to the vault first.
SPEAKER_08You guys wanna do that? And then meet up with my contact with uh the Thieves Guild who knows Doppelgangers?
SPEAKER_15Yes. And then we can have more if the journal's there, we can have more context and more information to gather.
SPEAKER_08Alright. I'll arrange a sundown meeting. Uh, you know, let's make it a little later. We'll give ourselves a midnight meeting tonight.
SPEAKER_06So, Nelvex, you are aware that Seinmonders family vaults and family crypt is outside of the city gates.
SPEAKER_08On our side? Closer to us?
SPEAKER_06Yes, it is closer to you. So you won't be going into the city gates unless you've made a purposeful detour that way that direction.
SPEAKER_08It's like a three-hour walk, kinda?
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_08Should give us plenty of time. It's still morning right now, right?
SPEAKER_06Yes, it is morning.
SPEAKER_08Um you know, actually, guys, thinking about it, with our track record, uh, maybe I try to schedule this for tomorrow and try to knock this out, come back, see what happens.
SPEAKER_13Elvar is gonna dip his choro in his cup of coffee and then point it at Nelvex and say, Yeah, you got a pretty good hat on your shoulders on that one, Nelvex. And he takes a big old bite of the churro.
SPEAKER_08Alright. Uh I'm gonna go take care of that then. I'll be back in a few.
SPEAKER_06And uh you are s oh sorry, Nelvex.
SPEAKER_08Swipe another grass of wine on the way.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, Mordain is holding it there ready for you to take. And this one is a uh luscious rose.
SPEAKER_08Oh. Oh, it's light. That's nice. All of my feelings are Oh Jesus.
SPEAKER_06And as you step out of the room, Avra steps into the room and she says, Seven hundred and twenty-one.
SPEAKER_11Uh 242.
SPEAKER_05There are 721 nails in your room. Uh are are you sure about that?
SPEAKER_06Huh. I think I'll make sure. And she backs out of the room and walks back upstairs. Elvar, what if what are you doing?
SPEAKER_11Apparently he's been nailing it. Oh, Elvar.
SPEAKER_13Guy guys, I um I think there's something not right about her.
SPEAKER_11Hey, what was your first guess?
SPEAKER_15Did you probe her to find out?
SPEAKER_11No, no judgment, friend. You know, hey, don't uh don't hate the player, hit the game. If you know what I mean.
SPEAKER_13Wait, Voss, um I I don't know what you mean. Um I'm not in a I'm not in a game or playing. Uh but she just kind of like you try to talk to her, and it's like you're talking to a wall. There's there's nothing there.
SPEAKER_11Some of my best ex-girlfriends have been the exact same way, buddy. You feel like you found yourself a keeper. Oh, okay. You find it in the weirdest of places.
SPEAKER_13Voss, I mean, you know that I'll have eyes for one woman.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, speak speaking of that one woman, I I think we need to go check up on her. I know this uh the stuff with Seinmin is pressing, but it is my mother after all. Put in a good word for me we when we when you chat.
SPEAKER_03Elvar, I think it's I think it's important that you help set you set some healthy boundaries with Avra. If she's making you uncomfortable, you definitely need to make that known.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, buddy, it's always helpful to have a safe word. You might try uh mine, it's coconut.
SPEAKER_13So that's why you were screaming coconut the other night.
SPEAKER_11Uh maybe it was just a bad dream. I can't remember.
SPEAKER_06So, uh Nelvex, you didn't hear any of this, right? As you're walking upstairs, this uh beautiful blonde woman is walking next to you and she looks over to you and she says, Foot? And she hands you or she tries to hand you a severed foot.
SPEAKER_08Oh, no, I've got enough, thank you. Okay.
SPEAKER_05There are 721 males. Um where?
SPEAKER_06In Elvar's room. What else matters?
SPEAKER_08Oh, I could think of a thing or two. You want some wine?
SPEAKER_06No, I don't need wine. I don't need water. And at that, she parts ways from you at the top of the stairs and heads to Elvar's room.
SPEAKER_11Huh. I didn't actually think she was good looking. Is she supposedly good looking? The flesh golem?
SPEAKER_06Yes, she's a beautiful woman. Yes.
SPEAKER_11Oh. But like stitched together.
SPEAKER_06No, you can't see any stitches in her at all. Alright, it's uh there are those versions of flesh golems, but high-level wizards can make flesh golems that look just like humans or dwarves or elves. Uh so I'm assuming the next step is going to be everybody is we're we're going over to uh Monders Voltz.
SPEAKER_11Well, before uh before that, I mean Voss Voss does want to have a conversation with the group because he's his his mind is, you know, he he understands his head space, he understands we need to go and get the cr uh the crown and put it in the box. That's like what needs to happen for this this bigger thing. Uh but more pressing for him is he hasn't heard anything from his mother, and so he's wanting to go check up on her. Um what that looks like. That means part of the group going and taking Steinwander, and he goes off and checks up on his mother, but he needs to essentially sneak into the city and get some more information and possibly mount a rescue mission for his mother.
SPEAKER_06So the the last message you got from your mother was less than 48 hours ago.
SPEAKER_11Yeah. But that's he he wasn't convinced that it was, if I'm remembering this correctly, he was not convinced that it was uh it was either a forced letter or it was a letter not written by her but signed by her. He does not actually believe it was from from her, but it was a response that somebody was trying to f to forge as being from her. And so that even makes him even more leery and wanting to take action before it goes too long. Yeah, so Unless I'm understanding it correct, misunderstanding.
SPEAKER_06So you did investigate the letter, you you uh and uh Voss did investigate the letter, and while it wasn't while it was written in your mother's handwriting, it was words that she doesn't normally say, but she did leave leave you some clues in there that asserted that she was of sound mind, but she and she was of sound mind, not under duress, but she was basically a prisoner. So a comforting prison is what she's in, and that's what you determined from that letter.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, I mean, I think you still want to go rescue her from that comforting prison. Right. So that's kind of his his his thing for the group is uh throwing that out there as a a possible option. Uh I know splitting the party is never good, but that's I think Voss. Voss is it's gonna be pretty hard to convince him to not go investigate his mother right now.
SPEAKER_06Okay. So, Nailbex, you have gone up and asked, or is there anything else you want to do in your warehouse while you're while you're asking them to get in contact with uh Yanis?
SPEAKER_08I mean, yeah, just check on the overall status of business. You know, it's kinda just a money-making thing, right? Uh buying and selling items. Um the party's all aware of it, so I don't know if we've been collecting loot and shit. Uh so probably refill on like my basic supplies. Like, I haven't really been using stuff really, but like make sure my ball bearing bag is topped off so I can play around with those. Make sure my potions are good. I probably would actually take my Sylvan Talon Scimitar. Or actually, does it? It does, it requires it too much. I probably would take my uh my scimitar that I was using and uh put it up for auction or on the market to try to just make some more money. Yeah. Uh stuff like that. Just, you know, a little bit of business, make sure that the peon who's conducting that business is doing a good job, making sure that they're maintaining the relationships with my network. And then again, get that weird weird item that would catch catch the eye of my counterparts and arrange a meeting for like midnight at our normal location, like a designated like alley. Again, uh on on neutral ground. Okay.
SPEAKER_06Alright, uh, Nelvex, roll me a D100.
SPEAKER_0847.
SPEAKER_06Alright, add 47 gold to your inventory. Uh the your warehouse has produced 47 gold since last time you checked in.
SPEAKER_08Wait. Speaking of what I was looking, I'm gonna transfer like 1200 gold to our party inventory from my inventory because I think that didn't exist when we started playing. Alright. Just so everyone else is aware of it. If we could also keep our like let sing it ring, any notes on there in the party equipment, that would be helpful to me as well. So I could see that shit. I don't think I have anything that was critical to our our shit.
SPEAKER_15I clicked on the party inventory.
SPEAKER_06Is it Harlech's dick?
SPEAKER_15It just is my dick. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Someone's got my dick in there.
SPEAKER_15It's 12 inches long.
SPEAKER_06Harlex packing.
SPEAKER_04I think they I think it has like a weight of 20 pounds too on there. Yep. Yeah, it's it's heavy.
SPEAKER_11A lot of sausage. I mean, I've seen what a five-pound loaf of sausage looks like. Couldn't imagine four times that size. Sausage comes in loafs? Yeah, you're buying the big stuffed tubes. Like turkey burger.
SPEAKER_10Hey, whoa, whoa. Do you want to go to the supermarket and get some turkey burger?
SPEAKER_03I don't like where this conversation's going, boss.
SPEAKER_06Alright. No, uh before we go on, Maddie, you I need to hear Voss Voss trying to do a southern accent.
SPEAKER_09Oh, jeez. Hey, I move on.
SPEAKER_11You what you got in them drawers, uh, A bud? He messes it up with a northerner accent.
SPEAKER_04Southern Southern boss is a bit of a creep. I guess we wants to people's drawers. Oh my god. A bud. Uh in Philadelphia, that means underwear.
unknownAlright.
SPEAKER_06So uh with Nelvax finishing that up and putting his scimitar on auction, I will add that. Uh you are all in the main hall of the of the manor and discussing your next steps.
SPEAKER_13Has uh has Harold finished Elbar's great sword? Roll me a d20.
SPEAKER_06Uh nine. Uh he says to you, I it's it's almost done. One more night, I promise.
SPEAKER_13I mean, it that that's good. I needed this mall uh to hit things with.
SPEAKER_06If you just need something to hit somebody with, I I have a club.
SPEAKER_13No, I I I need a ball. I need something big.
SPEAKER_05Okay, just one more night, I promise.
SPEAKER_11Harold sounds like an off-source offshore software engineering team.
SPEAKER_13We're on the last sprint. One more sprint. I have a meeting set.
SPEAKER_11I have a meeting set tomorrow to discuss the it's we're sending it over to QA shortly.
SPEAKER_13Alright, Harold. I'll I'll see you in the morning for my mall. Yeah, of course, Elvar. I'm I'm sorry we it wasn't done by now. Does does he comment that I asked for a long sword and now I'm talking about a mall?
SPEAKER_06No, he does not. He seems terrified of you. Good.
SPEAKER_12Alright.
SPEAKER_06Especially now because Elvar, he he's more terrified of you than normal because you've got these bags under your eyes and you've got this semi-crazed look in your face that he's not seen before. Um and last he heard is you and the party torturing just rumors in the mansion or the manor, but torturing uh torturing Recio and knights in the manor.
SPEAKER_13Uh it was one of the guards, but yeah.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, just rumors that he's heard.
SPEAKER_13Yeah. Did George survive the night? Yeah. Yeah, George is still there. Alright. I I tossed a turn a lot last night. Just make sure I didn't crush him.
SPEAKER_06No, no, no, George did survive.
SPEAKER_13You s never mind. You you don't cuddle your familiar at night? I do. I said never mind.
SPEAKER_11What you do with your familiar on your time is your own business. Beansprout was loved every night.
SPEAKER_08Ember's loved every night. He had a good long rest with me.
SPEAKER_11So we're all back in the room. Nelvax is here too.
SPEAKER_06Yep, you're all there.
SPEAKER_11Okay. So boss boss sees everybody, and like Nelvax comes walking down the stairs to uh join us. He's like, alright, so uh kind of got some uh some some good news and bad news that I I want to discuss with y'all before we take off to uh Seinmonders place. So uh well the good news is well my mother, she's she's alive. The bad news is she's she's kinda being held against her will. Uh somewhere in the tower or by the hags. I'm I'm not exactly sure. He kinda he he pauses and he kind of thinks to himself. And you can see like his his internal conflict is like stirring. He's like, actually that which that kind of that kind of feels like it's actually bad news pretending to be good news. So uh yeah, I was thinking we should uh we should go get her immediately. He's kinda nodding to the group.
SPEAKER_13I I mean, boss, uh you know that I probably more than anybody else here would love to go after your mother. Uh make sure that she is safe and protected. But um quil just saw her, like, and maybe he could sneak back in and just confirm for you. I I think if we go, like bad stuff's gonna happen, and I I just I just really don't feel up to killing a whole bunch of people in the tower right now. I got this headache that the coffee's just not working on.
SPEAKER_08Are you are you feeling okay, Eldvar? Did you say you didn't want to kill people?
SPEAKER_11And and you're not wanting to go do something for Voss's mom? He's the doppelganger!
SPEAKER_03I'm sorry, you're really worried about Eldbar.
SPEAKER_11Cut off his hand. Like someone cut off his hand.
SPEAKER_06Alright. Everybody roll initiative.
SPEAKER_11Rolls for initiative. You don't get to want to go save my mom so you can bang her. Yeah.
SPEAKER_13I saw more hit points than all of you.
SPEAKER_11I'd have to have to say, out of all the plans I've come up with, this this I admit this sounds like probably the worst one. But it still seems like the right thing to do.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, but I'm pretty sure I was dead for a stolid 12 seconds.
SPEAKER_11Yeah. You know what happens sometimes.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, I'm just glad you packed your healing that day.
SPEAKER_11I believe you and me both.
SPEAKER_03It sounds like we'd be breaking somebody out.
SPEAKER_11Uh no, but Elbar, you did you did mention something there, and he kind of looks over to Nelvax. Is there uh is there possibly any connections you got that might be able to start ascertaining some uh some more information on where my mother's being held so we can uh plan plan that uh adventure for another day. Because at least we know she's alive, and if they're keeping her comfortable, then she must be of some importance to those the the hags.
SPEAKER_06Uh boss, you already know the answer to that. She is in the physical tower.
SPEAKER_11Oh, we do know exactly where she said that.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, she's in the physical tower of of the city.
SPEAKER_11Then he'll change that too. Maybe uh you've got some friends that can figure out how we can best get her out. You ever break someone out of the tower before?
SPEAKER_08I haven't, but my brother Tom Zol, he might know how to get in there. I could set up a meeting with him too. Maybe uh we can go to Sign Monsters estate today. Uh see how that goes. And then if there's time in the afternoon, we go into town and see if we can find some intel, maybe. And then I I did manage to get a message out. Hopefully we'll get confirmed that we can meet up with Giannis for tomorrow night. If you're worried about your mom, I'm worried about your mom. We can take care of that. But maybe not going blind.
SPEAKER_11I've been to the tower plenty of times, but I've never had to really sneak my way in. So if any if you know someone that has, hey, they might be the person we'd want to talk to first before uh Joseph Hadd is really, you know, just going in there and throwing our box on the table, if you know what I mean.
SPEAKER_08Well, Twin didn't seem to know his way around. We could we could ask him again.
SPEAKER_15So Zayn will say he thinks I think I can help you get into the tower. I am an agent. It's I think we can get in and at least be somewhat stealthy. I know a back way. I mean I know the way that I And then he stops and says, I think we can get in undetected.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, we should uh that's we should we should do that. Maybe after Simon though.
SPEAKER_15But I think I agree we should do it after Saimander. Cuz looks down at the body, looks over at Nelvax, and I I think it's time to put him to rest.
SPEAKER_08I'll raise my glass and toast for that and have another sip.
SPEAKER_13Just toss him in the bag for for transit.
SPEAKER_15Well, that is what the bag I'm holding's for.
SPEAKER_11Carrying bodies. One day we're gonna put one too many bodies in this bag.
SPEAKER_13And it's gonna just explode and the body parts are gonna go everywhere. That's what that's why it has a uh a gauge to let us know how full it is. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01That's a good idea. How many bodies do we have in the bag right now?
SPEAKER_13Just uh Ricios. Yeah. But I think we're like five eighths full.
SPEAKER_03If we're going sign monters, they went through the trouble of making sure he was dead here. Might be a pretty big trap going there, honestly.
SPEAKER_11Trap Schmap. What do they got that we can't take care of? And then like as soon as he says that, Voss just realizes the error in what he said.
SPEAKER_15And he thinks he's like We literally do not know what they could have.
SPEAKER_02Hence crap.
SPEAKER_13Well, I mean, there's there's really only one way to find out about these things, uh I I think we should go.
SPEAKER_11Ignorance truly is bliss. And I always say, hey, when grandma taught me that one.
SPEAKER_15Zane considers for a minute and just nods and says, Alright, we're going to Seinwander's.
SPEAKER_13Tuberculosis. He's still alive and kicking. She's an elk.
SPEAKER_06Alright, so to make sure I'm following, you guys still have Reese on the bag. You've left Seinmonder outside or in the study, and you're going to Maunders uh Maunders Vaults. Uh with a You're not going to Monders Vault's?
SPEAKER_15No, we're going to Monders Vault, but we're taking Seinmonders, we're putting him to rest in his taking his body with his vault.
SPEAKER_08Crypt is in the Where's Reese?
SPEAKER_15Well, can we fit both the bodies in there or not?
SPEAKER_06Did you leave Reese's body in the bag when you put Monders in there? Yes or no? No.
SPEAKER_11We haven't put him in there yet.
SPEAKER_06Okay. We've got a shallow bag.
SPEAKER_02Give us a little credit.
SPEAKER_15We had to do the whole giant ass freaking rug carpet.
SPEAKER_11How do you get three gallons or whatever challenge? Like we did did that earlier, so we gotta we we should be able to figure out how if we can put another body in there or not.
SPEAKER_06Okay, so you're taking you're taking Seinmander's body uh to the vault. You haven't decided if you're putting him in the bag or not. Uh you're going to the vault. Nelvex has reached out to his condect uh Yanis to ask about uh to ask about the assassination of Seinmonder, and uh you've also asked Nelvex to reach out to somebody else. Who was it, Nelvex?
SPEAKER_08Tomazal, his brother's been trying to get into the tower for a long time.
SPEAKER_06Okay.
SPEAKER_08It's in my backstory, my notes tab if you want to look at that shit.
SPEAKER_06Okay. So what are you doing with Simoner's body?
SPEAKER_15So when we take Risio's body out, what happens to the gauge?
SPEAKER_06It drops to about a quarter.
SPEAKER_15And we put Simoner's body in it.
SPEAKER_06It raises to about six-eighths. Or three quarters.
SPEAKER_03Oh, he's a hifty fella. He's a dwarf.
SPEAKER_14How can he take up that much room?
SPEAKER_09He's bold. He's probably plate still. What are our friends with Reese?
SPEAKER_15Maybe naked. I don't know what we're doing. Does Recio have family?
SPEAKER_03And he and Zayn looks at Avra was his family. Just remember the flesh column is his wife. Oh, I know. Do we do we know if he had any kids or or any like real family ties? He was kinda Seinmond or shady guy, wasn't he?
SPEAKER_15Yes. Zane looks at Nelvax. Do you know anything about his family?
SPEAKER_08I've only known him a couple days, I think. I think, right? I didn't really know Risio very well.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, you didn't know Risio that well.
SPEAKER_15Did we just bury him?
SPEAKER_03Or I wanna just leave him somewhere. Doesn't get him somewhere. He's he was an aide to us. He said we know his wife? Can we ask her? Uh we have his wife's body. Or or something shaped like it.
SPEAKER_13Yeah, how does that even work?
SPEAKER_03I don't know. It's real creepy.
SPEAKER_13Alright, we we already have a hole outback. Why don't we just stick him in it for now and then we can figure that out later? Um.
SPEAKER_15Um do we have a freezer?
SPEAKER_06No.
SPEAKER_15How about a cooler?
SPEAKER_06No.
SPEAKER_15Okay. Yeah, I say we bury him. Right next to uh the doppelganger. No, I would say right next to Xanover.
SPEAKER_03Oh, Elvar, you better not have buried that doppelganger near Xanifer.
SPEAKER_13I mean, there were two holes. I put him in one of the holes. Um don't blame me, I didn't take a hole.
SPEAKER_06Arlex tomato garden is gonna be ruined.
SPEAKER_03Oh, there's too
A Quick Burial Behind The Manor
SPEAKER_03many, there's way too many nitrates.
SPEAKER_04I don't know anything about gardening, so I don't know if that's a real problem.
SPEAKER_15Nitrogen, maybe, but I guess nitrates produce nitrogen when they run. Anyway. Yeah. Um, so I'd say we take his belongings, set them aside in case we find out he has family, so he can give his belongings to his family, bury him.
SPEAKER_03Sounds good.
SPEAKER_15He doesn't seem like he was much for big formalities, so he probably wouldn't want a ceremony based on the way he spoke to his lord.
SPEAKER_06Okay. So you're planning on burying Reseo. So how are you guys doing this? Who is burying him? Who is carrying the body out there? Uh Seinmonder is currently in the bag of holding.
SPEAKER_15Okay, so I would say as we're going towards the cemetery that keeps growing, um ask any of the guards that as we walk by, they may have been familiar with Risio, and say that we're gonna have a quick burial, lay Risio to rest, and if anybody wants to say any words, we'll be doing it.
SPEAKER_06Uh the guards spread the word, but after a few minutes, and with the high alert that the guards have, the only people that show up are Sir Aldrich and two other knights. Every other guard is on or every other knight is on duty.
SPEAKER_15Um during that time we would have, or Zayn would have laid Ricio out and basically look around at the party. Does anybody want to say anything?
SPEAKER_03Uh-huh. We didn't know him all that well, but he was certainly helpful to our cause or aided us in what we what all the endeavors we were. So I'm thankful for that.
SPEAKER_06I I love how Harleck is the bard of the party, supposed to be the face. And at every public speaking opportunity he has, he acts like a shy teenager.
SPEAKER_04It's that silver tongue, man. It's that silver tongue. See, that's the that's the whole point of Harleck is that he's idol enough that everyone's just fine with him.
SPEAKER_13Uh go ahead, Omark. Sorry, we see him all that well. Well, yeah, after Harleck says his piece, all of our yeah, but I mean he was a bit of a dick. Um, that was it. You choked up our bar. That was it.
SPEAKER_08Lvax will uh kind of like bow his head a little bit to him and say, may the darkness guide your path. And then like give a little nod.
SPEAKER_15Zayn will uh just look down at Ricio and say Thanks for the assistance.
SPEAKER_06Okay. Um Sir Aldrich steps forward, his his helm kind of tucked under his arm, and he says his his his voice was is firm, uh a little quieter than usual, and he says, Rizio Tan was not a knight. He did not swear our oaths, he didn't wear our colors. And yet he mattered. He stood up for those that couldn't on the darkest days. We will honor him forever. And he takes a deep vow, pulls his sword out, and right raises it up in the air.
SPEAKER_15Zayn nods to Aldrich and then turns and starts walking away.
SPEAKER_06Uh the two knights that are with Sir Aldric grab shovels and start or putting the dirt back in the hole.
SPEAKER_11I think Vane or Voss will also start putting dirt in the hole.
SPEAKER_15Zane mumbles under his breath. Unfortunately, we'll probably need more holes.
SPEAKER_06You see the tomatoes physically shove shutter.
SPEAKER_03I am not winning the contest this year.
SPEAKER_05Alright. What's next, guys?
SPEAKER_06Yeah. Alright, so as Go ahead, Harleck.
SPEAKER_04I was gonna say, before before we leave, can I do like some sort of insight or medicine check on Elbar? I feel like his character's not I feel like he's having a rough time over there. Uh sure, give me a medicine check. I'm so bad at medicine.
SPEAKER_15You'd think his best friend might have noticed something, but Oh. Oh, fuck me. 22, not 20.
SPEAKER_11Boss definitely's noticed something up the moment that he he gave him an opportunity to go rescue his mother and he didn't jump at that.
SPEAKER_06Alright, uh Harleck, I mean, you've seen this dozens of times, right? It looks like Eldar had a bad night of sleep. He's tired, he's got bags under his eyes. He looks like he is not really, he doesn't have as much energy as he normally does. He's not his normal perky self. Even when he was eating his churros earlier, it's a little it was a little slower. Um, he just seems almost muted today. Uh and maybe he drank too much the night before, maybe he just tossed and turned a little too much, maybe he had too much fun with Avra. You're not really sure, but it just looks like he had a bad night of sleep.
SPEAKER_11Okay. I I think Boss is very much convinced that he was up all night banging a flesh golem. Look at a lot of nailing nailing a fresh flesh golem, apparently 721 times.
SPEAKER_13You have touched a lot of curse things. Yes.
SPEAKER_00Harlock's saying X agree.
SPEAKER_04Harleck is just like, no, I'm doing it. We're all doing it. It's a wee thing. We're all getting cursed. But it is just me touching all the stuff. All right.
SPEAKER_11Uh boss is convinced that that with with Eldvar not taking an opportunity to go like woo his mother, that he he's convinced that Eldvar has a girlfriend now.
SPEAKER_14Okay.
SPEAKER_06Just a little bit of uh of uh what's it called? Nut clarity. No, nut clarity. Afterwards, he's
The Sealed Mausoleum Outside The Gates
SPEAKER_06like, nah, go count the nails. One of these days one of you will have sex with my NPC. I think it's already happened. Alright. So after a couple hours of walking, you uh you all arrive at the quiet hill of High District Cemetery, and you can hear the city noise far in the distance. The graves here aren't humble, right? They have stone markers that give way to monuments and monuments to structures, you can almost like small fortresses built for the dead. Uh, but among them a few stand apart, and you immediately identify the uh the mausoleum of Hausmonder. It's carved entirely from a pale blue marble, it's veined with white, like uh white frozen lightning beneath beneath the surface, and it's uh the structure itself is squat and imposing. It looks more like a defensible hold than a resting place. You can see that there are four dwarven statues that stand embedded into the front facade. Each one is armored, bearded, and unyielding, and their stone eyes stare outward over the cemetery as if still standing guard, worth kill uh still standing guard over something that's worth killing for. As you approach, you see two individuals standing outside in uh uh armor with swords on their side, and as you approach them, they both pull their swords. HALT! This crypt is sealed by order of the queen.
SPEAKER_13What queen?
SPEAKER_06Our queen? Uh Eldvar, roll me either an insight or a perception check. Actually, you can all roll me an insight or perception check.
SPEAKER_1317 perception on Eldvar.
SPEAKER_15Alright, I'm gonna do it with advantage. Okay.
SPEAKER_06Okay, 22. Arlik, what you get? Oh, I forgot control. Let me a 25.
SPEAKER_11Boss got a 15.
SPEAKER_06All perception. Insight, okay. Uh so for everybody with perception, you can see that these figures, there's slight mismatches between the two armors that they're wearing. Uh one of the armors, though they are guard armors, they they look a little mismatched. One is a little tight on the individual, another is slightly misaligned. You can see that there's uh uh a few daggers strapped to the side of of uh one of the thighs of these guards, which is not normal guard attire. Uh, and you can see that there's a shoulder piece on the right guard that's faint etch symbol of coin split in two. As for you, Voss, you know that, or you can tell that they are lying about something.
SPEAKER_03Oh, and and just out of curiosity, what's it being sealed for?
SPEAKER_06After a moment of hesitation, the guard on the right speaks and he says This vault was was sealed by the queen in order to investigate the traitor Seinmonder.
SPEAKER_03That's exactly why we're here. To investigate the Seinemander.
SPEAKER_06Probably persuasion check.
SPEAKER_08Oh, can I give him guidance?
SPEAKER_11No. Can I give him guidance?
SPEAKER_15No. Can I give him guidance? No.
SPEAKER_04Anybody else? You can't. I could I could potentially give myself advantage, but can I assist?
SPEAKER_06No. Alright. Uh Harleck.
SPEAKER_05So upon hearing your words, the guard on the right says, Oh, uh are you the special team that was sent that was sent for?
SPEAKER_11Voss will speak up as a look like a special team to you? Come on.
SPEAKER_15Of course we're the special team, says Zane.
SPEAKER_03Just look how special we look.
SPEAKER_13I mean, they've always told me in school that I was special.
SPEAKER_06Uh well, i i if that's the case, and I totally believe that you're all special, as he pauses for a second and eyes you each up and down, uh, then Yasselby is waiting for you all inside.
SPEAKER_08Does that name ring a bell?
SPEAKER_06Yasselby. Well, lead us to Yasselby. It's a weird it's a weird spelled name, and it's spelled like this for a reason. You guys might find out. Uh Y-H-L S-A-B-Y.
SPEAKER_08Y-H-A-Y-H-L-S-L-B-Y.
SPEAKER_06S-A-B-Y. Y-H-L-S-A-B-Y.
SPEAKER_13Yasel B. Does Elvar believe them when they say that the guys wait inside knowing that the signet ring is needed to unlock the vault?
SPEAKER_06Uh roll me an inside check. 15? Uh yeah, Elvar, you believe them. I mean, let me let me fix that. You believe what they're saying is true.
SPEAKER_13Alright, then then I guess we go inside. Because we're special.
SPEAKER_15So who has the ring currently?
SPEAKER_06Harlock does.
SPEAKER_15Okay.
SPEAKER_06The guard sheath or swords and stand back at attention. Uh, but it's not really attention. It looks like it's a lazy attention. They're kind of relaxed, you're just kind of standing straight as they're looking around.
SPEAKER_15Is there anybody else in?
SPEAKER_06Roll me a perception. You don't see anybody else in the area.
SPEAKER_15So he's sort of reaching towards his dagger at his hell. Anybody say or do anything?
SPEAKER_08And they're letting us through. Why are we gonna kill them?
SPEAKER_15So you've got the read. Um because Zayn is not sure if they're gonna come after us as soon as we go in there. It's a trap. And if we walk in, we're now enclosed. But that's fine. That was the plan to kill them. I can move on.
SPEAKER_08Wasn't that the plan to go inside the script?
SPEAKER_15It was, but that was before there were two people outside and one or more people inside. But that's fine. If nobody else is gonna take if nobody else is gonna act like or take action, act like they're gonna take action, Zayn will not do it solo.
SPEAKER_08So these guys are in.
SPEAKER_06Oh sorry, go ahead.
SPEAKER_08I'm still trying to think through it. So these guys are pretending to be the bad guys, which makes them not the bad guys. We don't even know that they're our enemy. So if we go around just killing everybody who has on some kind of armor, does that symbol on the shoulder mean anything to any of us, Brennan? Can I roll like inside or something to see if that split coin?
SPEAKER_06You can roll me history jacket.
SPEAKER_08Can I give myself guidance? Uh yeah, guidance. Guidance is what, a plus four or something right now?
SPEAKER_04D four. D4.
SPEAKER_08Okay. Let's see if we can turn that eight into something a little better. An eleven total.
SPEAKER_06Uh you do not recognize that symbol. It looks like a few other symbols that the Thieves Guilds have used, but it's doesn't it it that symbol specifically doesn't spark any memories from you.
SPEAKER_04Yes, I was viewing this as we just got them to put their swords away and were allowed entrance. I do feel like they're shady characters, but they might also just be here stealing in my mind.
SPEAKER_06So how does this play out RP-wise? Uh Zane has reached towards a dagger and looked at the guards. Uh Voss has raised his shield behind the guards and pointed at one of the guards. How do how does Nelvex uh react to this?
SPEAKER_08Uh he probably was just walking by and then looks back and was like gave like the what the fuck face? What are you what are you doing? Like and like kind of like shrug palms up like why? I don't I I think Nelvax is as confused as I am.
SPEAKER_15So with that, Zayn will kind of just shrug his shrug his shoulders and walk on.
SPEAKER_06I I always feel like Zayn is just teetering on the edge of murder hobo. He just wants to kill everyone.
SPEAKER_11Kill everybody up in here. He's got his fireball back. I mean.
SPEAKER_03It has your name on it.
SPEAKER_04Okay. Alright. I want to go in just like sit like slowly playing intro music, uh, but having uh Tasha's hideous laughter at the ready as we go to meet this Jezebel.
Inside The Crypt And A Restless Spirit
SPEAKER_06Okay.
SPEAKER_04So that's not the name.
SPEAKER_06It's not Jezebel. Isilby. Or Yelbi. Yasilbi. Yasilby. Alright, so as you walk down the stairs under the earth, uh, the chamber opens wide, and you can hear the sounds of your footsteps echoing across the polished stone. Uh, this place was not built for the living. You can see two massive sarcophagus or sarcophagi? Sarcophagus? Sarcophagus. Sarcophagus rest in a recessed alcove to the south, each of them carved from the same blue marble as the mausoleum above, and their lids are sculpted in uh their lids are sculpted, one of a stern dwarven lord in full ceremonial armor, and the other of a regal woman at his side. Both figures are depicted with hands folded in eternal rest. Uh, except the lid of the left sarcophagus has been forced open and leans awkwardly against the stone. Inside of that, you can see from from your vantage point walking down the stairs, you can see that there are skeletal remains of the Dwarven Lord exposed, armor still clinging to the bone, but disturbed, shifted. And you you feel like this place was disturbed, like that there's something wrong with it. Uh, you can see that there's a faint smear of blood near the very far wall, and as you walk down the stairs, you can feel the temperature physically get colder. Elgar.
SPEAKER_13We see was there a weapon in there as well, or just armor?
SPEAKER_06Just armor.
SPEAKER_13Yep. Do we see Yasel B?
SPEAKER_06You don't see anybody here. You see a smear of blood. But that is about it.
SPEAKER_15Is there any entrance or exits out of this room? Is it just a this is the whole crypt?
SPEAKER_06Oh no, no, no. Sorry. At the between the two sarcophagus, there is a path that goes further into the crypt.
SPEAKER_08I believe it's sarcophopod.
SPEAKER_06Sarcophopods.
SPEAKER_15Alright, alright, alright.
SPEAKER_06So who is leading the pact? Or the pack?
SPEAKER_08Is it lit inside or is it?
SPEAKER_11I don't think he's leading the phone.
SPEAKER_06Uh this whole this whole area is lit up by torches. Uh the torches are they're not magical. You don't see any magical sense from them. They're normal torches that are burning on the wall. So who Voss, you're in front?
SPEAKER_11I'll be in front. I'm not leaving, but I'm in front.
SPEAKER_06As you're as your step, as your as your as your foot lands on the floor of this room, you can see that the air above the open sarcophagus twists and something begins to form. You can see a shape, almost a figure, as if uh a memory is being pulled and it's angry. And then you can see the outline of a dwarven warrior take shape, broad, armored, crowned in spectral fire, and its eyes are burning with a pale, furious light as it looks upon you and your party, and it speaks. As it speaks, the room seems to recoil and pulse uh with its words. Who dares?
SPEAKER_11I I can't speak with dead. What five questions are we gonna ask the dwarf? Just kidding.
SPEAKER_03Oh good idea.
SPEAKER_04I I pull it out of my pocket really quick, and she was like, Oh we we dare!
SPEAKER_03Um my name's Harleck. These are my friends.
SPEAKER_15Dyne Mondor said to us.
SPEAKER_03Oh yeah, that too.
SPEAKER_06Uh so the spectral form of the dwarf fully emerged from the shatter or from the from the tome. Uh its gaze sweeps across you all, and it doesn't look like it's it's hostile, but it looks at you all as if you're trespassers. And he says, My rest has been broken, my honor defiled.
SPEAKER_07Who among you will set this right?
SPEAKER_15So we just got here, but if there's somebody in here that needs taken care of, we can do that. We're just here to try to lay Seinmonder, the current lord, to rest, and he told us to find a book, and then we were gonna leave. But if there is somebody in here that needs taken care of, you've got the right folks.
SPEAKER_06Uh the Spectre doesn't answer you, Zane, but or sorry, the Spectre doesn't look at you, but he says, Why does the defiled one speak to me?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, he talks a lot. Oh, Zane, what have you done?
SPEAKER_11Yeah, he's he's not really that defiled. He's actually a pretty, pretty nice guy. But let us let us help you get back to rest. What uh what can we do you for?
SPEAKER_06You of Tempest. Put me to rest.
SPEAKER_11Me of t of temp what do you mean, uh, another Tempest Cleric, or you just want me to help you take a nighty night?
SPEAKER_03Boss, I I think it's because you're a cleric. I think you can help me pass on.
SPEAKER_11I can't be whole shtick. I can I can definitely do my best too. I'm not sure if I have that spell prepared, but uh let me see what I can do you for.
SPEAKER_06So while Voss is while Voss is is looking internally about what he can cast, uh you can see that the ghost or the specter is very agitated, and he keeps floating around his sarcophagus, and his eyes, though burning through all of you, right, as it's staring at you, does occasionally glance down towards his sarcophagus.
SPEAKER_15So do we need to do anything more than close the lid?
SPEAKER_03I probably gotta clean that stain.
SPEAKER_06There are two of taint. You will not speak to me.
SPEAKER_11What if what if uh what if I just uh, you know, close the lid on this and we we take care of the mess that's all up in here from whoever passed through here previously. I promise it wasn't us that opened up your tomb, but we're happy to get you back to 99 if that would help. My buddy over here, Eldvar, is quite the s quite the singer, too. Eldvar?
SPEAKER_06Boss, at your words, the Spectre uh backs away from his sarcophagus and stands in in the door that leads further into the crypt.
SPEAKER_08I go look in the sarcophagus.
SPEAKER_06Uh yeah. Do you want to go look in it?
SPEAKER_08Uh yeah, like I'm gonna watch the the specter as I approach, but I'm gonna take a look and just like watch him make sure he doesn't get aggressive at me and like see what I can see.
SPEAKER_06Was he like disheveled or stolen from or yeah, so as you approach, uh the specter stares at you, but it doesn't make any aggressive movement, and uh uh continues to stand in the doorway, and as you stare into the sarcophagus, you can see that his his bones the bones of his body seem to have been moved around, disheveled a little bit. They're not in the right place, and the tomb of his the obviously the lid of his sarcophagus is also off of it.
SPEAKER_11If uh do uh Voss kind of sees Nelvax looking into the and into the sarcophagus, and he looks back over to the the specter and he says, uh, we're gonna go ahead and uh try to tidy things up here and close the lid for you. You wanna uh you wanna climb back in before we close the lid, or are you uh you okay hanging out over there?
SPEAKER_06In answer, he passes through the wall and comes right back.
SPEAKER_11Okay, uh and let's uh let's let's go ahead and close up the surgraphicus. I think he can find his way back to his body if he really wants to. This is a good problem to have.
SPEAKER_04I'm gonna pull out my whispering lantern really quick as well.
SPEAKER_06Okay.
SPEAKER_04Uh, just in case, but that in a 30-foot radius allows me to reveal invisible creatures and creatures uh on the ethereal plane. Or that's once once per day. But it does let me see invisible creatures. So I just want to have it up at the ready just in case.
SPEAKER_06Okay. Uh, so as you pull your lantern out, uh, you don't see any invisible creatures except for the specter. But instead of being able to being just seeing the specter of the Dwarven ghost form, you start seeing what it would look like if the Dwarven body was there and in person, and it looks like it's a spitting image of Mondor, maybe slightly more mature, uh, it looks more stern, more serious, but it looks exactly like Sign Mondr.
SPEAKER_11Oh wow. Uh, so Voss will go over to the sarcophagus and kind of join Nelvax. And can he figure out how to like tidy up the bones in a way that they initially were? Maybe using his medicine to know how bones go together.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, Nelvax and Voss, both of you give me medicine checks, Voss, yours is that advantage.
SPEAKER_11I I was kinda wanting to just light a hand on that one. Oh I'm just kidding.
SPEAKER_01Can I give myself guidance? Do I still have guidance?
SPEAKER_13You can. Can I give him assistance by saying the headbone's connected to the headbone? The headbone's connected to the lab cool.
SPEAKER_11I told I told you he was great the the the yeah, now roll at advantage.
SPEAKER_09He has the vocal cords of a Chinese boy band.
SPEAKER_08Uh brought a 20 for that medicine.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, 23.
SPEAKER_08Okay.
SPEAKER_06So yeah, you both uh you know how bodies are formed or are put together. So yeah, you you're able to assemble the bones correctly in the right order.
SPEAKER_11And uh while we're doing it, does it make that like uh does it make like the assembly noise you get when you're playing Lego Star Wars? No, it doesn't.
SPEAKER_06The little little clinging. No.
SPEAKER_04Darn but Harlecks making it in the background now.
SPEAKER_11Okay, once we're done putting the body back together, Voss is gonna try to close the lid on the sarcophagus.
SPEAKER_06Okay.
SPEAKER_08And we do a good job.
SPEAKER_06Nelvex, you're assisting him? Sure. This is a heavy sarcophagus. Or sarcophagus lid. Oh. That I'd probably help. Okay.
SPEAKER_04Clearly, this is a job for Harleck. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06So the three of you easily push the lid on, and the Spectre sighs once in satisfaction and disappears.
SPEAKER_11No, I know the sound of satisfaction, and that was it. Hey, a boss is goes over and he gives Eldar a nudge. He's like, Yeah, is that the sound of satisfaction sounds like?
SPEAKER_13Yeah, buddy.
SPEAKER_09721, you you go get her you.
SPEAKER_11Alright, was that was that battle number one that away? Was that one of the six?
SPEAKER_06That was battle one number one that you avoided, yes. Boy. Uh Andrew, you weren't here for it, but yeah, right? Andrew, you weren't here, but I was like, I've learned from past mistakes. I made six battle maps. I'm ready to go tonight.
SPEAKER_08But the guards weren't one.
SPEAKER_04We're gonna talk our way past all of them. That's that's my specialty boy, talk no jutsu. Alright.
SPEAKER_06Um so as I are are you guys walking through the door?
SPEAKER_04Yes.
SPEAKER_06How fresh how fresh is that blood smear? Uh it is it is pretty fresh. It it looks it's still wet. Uh it hasn't fully dried yet. Um it is a uh brighter red. So it's it's still pretty fresh.
SPEAKER_03You think this might have been our Yal Yosabi?
SPEAKER_04The blood smear? Most likely. Any any it's not going in any direction or any extra droplets or anything.
SPEAKER_06Uh it it's uh in the middle, it's between the sarcophagus and the hall in front of you.
SPEAKER_13Okay, I I think we followed the blood. Because you level up was gonna beat us, right? Because we're the special team.
SPEAKER_08Yeah. Sure. Yeah, we have to take signs somewhere.
SPEAKER_03Special ops! Well, before we go any further, I just wanna make sure we're all as tip top shape as we can.
SPEAKER_04And I'm gonna do the um inspiring leader feat and give everyone the what is it, 10 HP? 10 HP. Let me just yeah, let me double double double check what it is, but uh Harleck is blowy's for everyone.
SPEAKER_11Whoa, whoa, whoa.
SPEAKER_04Um full string performance. Uh I give up to six allies, temporary HP up to my character level plus my yeah, so it's ten. So it's ten temporary HP.
SPEAKER_03Um, and Harlick's just gonna say, Oh, it's it's doubt that asks the loudest questions, but it's bravery that whispers, this can work. 10 HP.
SPEAKER_13How long does that last for you down? Temporary HP, yes. Am I supposed to ask the questions or am I supposed to whisper?
SPEAKER_03No, no, no. Doubt asks the questions. It's it's just a saying, Elvar. It's supposed to be inspiring. Don't you feel a little pumped up?
SPEAKER_13I mean, I I I I feel like I just ate a choro, so it's clearly working.
SPEAKER_12Yeah, there we go.
Traps On The Stairs And A Bloody Trail
SPEAKER_06Uh so through the hall in front of you, uh, there are more stairs at the send downwards. Who's in front?
SPEAKER_11Voss.
SPEAKER_06Okay. So, Voss, about halfway down the stairs, from the top of the stairs, you can see that about halfway down the stairs, there is a spear lodged in the wall with uh blood dripping from it.
SPEAKER_11Is it fresh blood? Like it's dry to dripping blood. Is there a body andor parts close by? There are no parts or a body. Does it look like the spear came from a trap?
SPEAKER_05You can roll me an investigation or a perception check. And yes, you can use guidance.
SPEAKER_11Uh investigation. It'll be perception. I would like to use my heroic inspiration on that perception check, because I got a 10. That's worse. And what's your second roll? And I have to take it. Plus, I'll let a plus four to that one.
SPEAKER_06Alright.
SPEAKER_11And everybody brings it up to a 13.
SPEAKER_0613, wonderful. Um, so you can see from where you are that right where the spear is, there is a slight depression in the stair. As if somebody stepped on a pressure plate.
SPEAKER_11I'd expect there to be a body close by, but uh Voss will turn around to the group and will just signal pointing down to the uh the the point down to the stair, and he'll use the hand signal for stare and step, and then also communicate with his hands that it's a pressure plate, that if you depress it with a anything greater than 50 pounds of pressure, it will go off, causing a spear to fly across from a northern to southern projectile rate, and will cause blood to come out of your body if you step on the pressure plate. And he'll do all that in hand signals.
SPEAKER_03I think he might have a B near him.
SPEAKER_10He's having a seizure. And then he'll step over the pressure plate and keep walking.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, I was gonna say, uh, I took common sign language as one of my languages. Did he make any sense at all?
SPEAKER_06Um, the only one that you understood from Voss was when he placed his hand over his nose and twisted it back and forth.
SPEAKER_08So Nelvax muttered to himself, asshole.
SPEAKER_00There was so much of this. We're not going to speech for our listeners. It was spears, it was spears.
SPEAKER_06Ray's corruption is Ray Corruption 39% complete.
SPEAKER_15So for the visual. was stroking penises out of his face. Dual penises out of his face.
SPEAKER_06He was dual wielding those penises.
SPEAKER_01It's okay guys. He had his flashcards on.
SPEAKER_13He's off. Yep. So I I think as uh Elbar sees Voss uh make a whole lot of gestures and then step over pressure plate, he's gonna draw his great sword and just like try and keep pace with Voss and like push the stones ahead of him to try and set off any pressure plates before Voss can step on them.
SPEAKER_06Okay. Um so as Voss steps over the pressure plate, your sword comes down and hits the stone in front of him at the same time. And Voss, you feel the stairs beneath you click or the the step beneath you click and press down and just a mo gives you an or sorry Eldvar's sword gives you a moment's notice. So give me a dexterity saving throw at advantage. So I step over and then his sword hits you step over the D press uh pressure plate and you step on the next step which is a pressure plate.
SPEAKER_11But that one which is also another trap okay uh that would be an 11 with advantage. So can I guidance on that one too.
SPEAKER_06You cannot okay. So Voss as your foot comes or as your foot comes down and Eldvar's sword comes down and presses it in you hear a click and then you hear which sounds like compressed air shoot out or shoot from the right side of you as a spear juts out and you're able to dodge most of it but you are going to take shitty rolls on my part you're gonna take eleven points of piercing damage.
SPEAKER_11Yeah much temp HP anyway so don't no big deal.
SPEAKER_06Those were really temporary those are those were really temporary ski pole thing isn't having an effect anymore on Voss um you make it to the bottom of the stairs uh or sorry before we do that Voss do you react at all do you say anything to your party members as a spear literally comes out and uh skins your back as it comes across to you he he turns around and he goes like really loud what does he do?
SPEAKER_08I didn't hear it puts his finger up in front of his mouth and makes a shushing sound convinced that somebody else did that um coconut you're being a little reckless here I like them too I picked up the first trap why don't we oh why don't we not use our feet to set off traps and try to use our brain cell I've got this which Novak says he pulls out a collapsing ten foot pole expanding ten foot pole collapsing one foot ten foot you know whatever an erecting ten foot pole elongating elongating right yeah maybe maybe we he sets off the traps with that thing. By all means go right ahead I'll extend the pole collapsing and then I'll just like kind of basically sweep every set of stairs before I move down onto him and see what happens.
SPEAKER_06And we'll just move forward smartly um as you go forward you set off two more pressure plates but they uh they hit harmlessly into the wall in front of you and as you reach the bottom you can see that this is a large circular room with four doors in front of you
Spike Pit Rescue And Golden Masks Clues
SPEAKER_06and the third door starting from your left is open and you can hear gr what sounds like groaning coming from inside.
SPEAKER_08Can I peek around the door and just see what's in there?
SPEAKER_06Or around the door when you look inside you can see a massive spike pit and laying in the bottom of the spike pit uh impaled by three different spikes is a uh mid-thirties year old uh male human human male uh and he is uh groaning and when he sees you he says help me he is about fifteen feet below you if he uh if he if he dies I can uh you speak with dead so we might just want to wait this one out or do you think we should go save him first Nobux goes in to try to save this guy I I do feel like we kind of have a uh responsibility to at least try to save him I mean I think this is the guy that was disturbing the our our dwarf friend but go ahead let's save him that's that's the right thing to do in this situation worst cleric ever I mean before at least so we can get some answers I told you we could get some answers just late wait for him to die first I think he can get an answer from down there Novex how are you trying to save this individual uh so is it like a a bridge over the spike traps or is it like a spike traps in the center?
SPEAKER_08Like what does it look like here?
SPEAKER_06No it is a right inside this door it is a 20 by 20 foot spike trap there is no other way outside of this room uh it looks like this person is four or five feet from the entrance to the door impaled by three different spikes.
SPEAKER_08How far down? Is he just on a ground level?
SPEAKER_0615 feet.
SPEAKER_0815 feet down so I'll start uh I guess like try to distract him like hey uh what's your name uh we're gonna help you out what do I call you uh he he says uh my name is Bernog Burnog okay um I'm then let's see my stick extends to where did it go? Pull of collapsing a ten foot pole. Okay uh so ten feet so with me reaching ten feet towards him does that give enough space for him to reach and grab it? Uh you can get the edge of your pole to him yes I said it do you think you can grab that he reaches his right sorry go ahead How big are these spikes sticking through the sky and where have they skewered him at by the way?
SPEAKER_06Uh so he's got one in his right shoulder one in his left thigh and one coming directly up on the right side of his abdomen.
SPEAKER_04And they're they're pretty large the spikes that you can see are two to three inches in diameter two to three is not two to three inches then that big in diameter it's below average actually it's below average as someone who works with a lot of piping I can tell you that's pretty girthy Andrew please clip that as somebody who worked with a lot of a lot of hop pipe 40% damn it's always plumbing yeah yeah we we discussed this at the beginning of the episode it's all about their plumbing all right so yeah Nelvex they're they're pretty large spikes so it looks like he's not gonna probably be able to get a grip with that and pull them out so far.
SPEAKER_06He reaches his left arm towards uh your extended pole and grabs the end of it but he can't seem to hold his grip.
SPEAKER_08Okay I've got another idea I pull my pole back and I pull out my rope and I try to make a big uh like lasso loop to try to hopefully get something that's not his neck his arm or torso and uh try to haul him in.
SPEAKER_11So I might be able to help oh I I gotta go go ahead Ray but I got something else after you're done.
SPEAKER_04I was gonna say with it with him using the rope I could try to help with a mage hand to try to help guide the rope in place.
SPEAKER_06Oh shit I like mage hand too how's that gonna work out Ray? How are you helping Nelvax?
SPEAKER_04I guess Harleck would try to grab the end of the lasso and help you know manipulate it around the the body over and over again to try to get it to where he could safely pull on it. Okay.
SPEAKER_06Yeah so you uh you have it wrapped around the top part of his body where the spikes aren't aren't aren't grabbing so it's wrapped on top of his right shoulder right above where the spike is impaling him and it's lassoed around under his left arm.
SPEAKER_08Okay. And so is this is there anything on the far side of this pit from us? Like can we jump to the far side there.
SPEAKER_15Nothing well uh like empty space is just a hole?
SPEAKER_08Just a wall.
SPEAKER_11A wall vernog this probably isn't gonna feel real good but we're gonna pull you out of there okay bud before he does that seems how seen how uh Voss can see his companions you know very very intentionally trying to save this guy he he does want to actually help him out and does value life but sees the value in talking to dead people as well because he went through all the trouble to prepare that spell. Uh great difficulty for him. So he's gonna go ahead and cast a first level healing word uh on the person that he can see because they are within 60 feet, correct? Yes. Yeah. They're just gonna give him a first level healing word uh giving him back H HP. Okay. Just to help him feel a little bit better as we're ripping him off these spikes and about to start bleeding excessively.
SPEAKER_06As your spell uh lands over him you can see that the wounds it some of the blood starts drying up and the wounds around the spikes start healing uh but their heal around the spikes so they actually pull tighter around the individual nice would Voss know to wait until he's off the spikes to do this?
SPEAKER_11Yeah probably not okay go ahead you can play it out if you can if you want Voss's attempt to help to make it harder for Novax to save the guy go right ahead.
SPEAKER_06It's not it's it's just for story man.
SPEAKER_10I'm not gonna make it harder it's it's just for flavor the guy starts screaming as his wounds reopen after they've been healed as he's ripped I just imagine a tree growing around a stop sign that's effectively what you did there.
SPEAKER_08It's just for flavor you did you did heal him for HP he feels better so I guess we're just yeah we're just gonna try to haul him up like try to not get him into more spikes and try to not dig the spikes further into him okay uh so that is going to be strength checks who's helping you haul I hold the other end of the rope behind me and just I imagine somebody's gonna grab it right? Toss it. I start pulling anybody else grab check Elvar will listen. How about is it straight strength or is it athletics?
SPEAKER_15It would be athletic Yeah athletics yep both of you roll me athletics I kind of imagine the you toss the rope behind you and it kind of just bounces off of Zayn's chest and he looks like I don't do this out of the way Voss would also be helping after attempting to heal so athletics.
SPEAKER_04Uh yeah Voss would also rope me athletics but Elvar said he was doing it too so yeah yeah's just cheering everybody on doing like illusory muscles that deflate like who gets Nelvoss got a 10 okay oh yeah what did Voss get what did Elvar get uh Voss Voss got a 15 I didn't think I'd be carrying this group man my back hurts.
SPEAKER_11Uh can I do guidance on myself as well too sure. Yeah I can also cast a guidance oh yeah sure all right I'm up to 14 now that's much better okay I two to my what was it 15 or 17?
SPEAKER_15I can't wait until Brandon describes us ripping this man in half we pull him so hard Brandon what could possibly go wrong we pull him off one set of spikes and on to another now he has six spike holes pull him sideways through this so the spike just rips through him instead of lifting him off of it. But would it be to split him this way?
SPEAKER_11This way or this way and do we get the bottom half or the top half Brandon did you really think it was only going to be 48 minutes?
SPEAKER_06I did. Alright so sensing that you're about to pull you can see the man gritting his teeth at the bottom of the pit and as you pull you can see that his body it it seems like it's resisting not from the strength of the body of his body but from the spikes almost refusing to let him go and then for half a second nothing happens and then you hear a horrible scream from the bottom of the pit as a tearing sound as you hear a tearing sound from the bottom of the pit and inch by inch you drag him off the spikes and pull him up the pit up the pit wall now at as you pull him up over the ledge you can see blood spilling out fast over the individual holes of the spikes and he's limp barely conscious as he's just laying there he's alive but barely shove a healing potion in his mouth oh sorry boss will start that's our that's our healer trying to keep the uh the the the red stuff on the inside the best he can it's hard like putting a uh healing potion in him like boss is clearly patching him up and I'm just like oh here here you go here you go like just like baby like trying to bottle feed him it's better than trying to baby bird it to him as oh god I want that to be canon R like has to baby bird all potions into people's mouths if he ever hands somebody a potion he has to baby bird it to him he tries to hand somebody a potion and they just kind of lean down and put their mouth up you know how we want it so the healing potion goes down the man's throat and after a couple seconds you can see the the the holes in his abdomen and his arm and his legs start closing and Harlack he basically collapses against you trembling and he says I I thought but he isn't able to finish he just grips your arm with the little strength he has left alright I cast with dead with dead told you guys this is where we were going with this shape I know there's a reason I prepared this bell he's still alive I pull out my axe no boss again okay so Voss will just do his best to try to like bandage up his wounds and stabilize him because we we got some questions for this guy.
SPEAKER_11Hopefully alive so we don't have to burn another third level spell slot to get questions out of this guy.
SPEAKER_06He should thank us but you guys bandage him up he's uh he's barely hanging on he'd be stable throw him in the bag move on with life become pouch for carrying pouch for carrying about heroes what's he uh what's he wearing though like is he dressed kind of rather bandit like or or like the Queen's guards outside He is dressed in cloth armor he's got a few daggers on his side um and he's got a short sword on his back.
SPEAKER_11Roth Voss will definitely search him while he is bandaging him up if because he's he in Voss's mind this guy is the the grave robber that knocked over the dwarves like sarcophagus and doesn't think he's actually in here for any good.
SPEAKER_06This guy's a grave robber he is awful at it by three different drafts as you search him you find two gold and fifteen silver on him and the two gold look a little different from what you're used to they've got a picture of a uh eyeless mask on it.
SPEAKER_11Voss will take two gold out of his inventory and put it in that guy's pouch and take those two gold coins. He's not trying to rob the guy but he he's he's intrigued these these being different gold he wants to look at this deeper. Okay.
SPEAKER_15Um Zane So when you say eyeless mask is it just doesn't have holes for eyes or it looks like an empty socket.
SPEAKER_06Looks like an empty socket.
SPEAKER_08Is that would we know if that's a symbol for the the guys we're gonna go talk to about the Doppelgangers?
SPEAKER_06The golden masks um Nelvax you know that that is a symbol for the golden mask but you do not see that.
SPEAKER_08Yeah I mean as a table I'm just trying to see it am I following the right path? Okay.
SPEAKER_11Yep. Do I find it so Voss will take these two coins and slide them into his pocket and replace them with two other gold coins. Did he find it and he finds nothing else? He doesn't want to take anything off the guy.
SPEAKER_06I mean he's still alive so he's got three iron daggers and one iron short sword.
SPEAKER_08Okay he'll leave those human yes he appears to be human.
SPEAKER_11Um okay so he'll he'll kind of step away from the body if he's more or less stable at this point.
SPEAKER_08Uh nope is there anything else at the bottom of these stairs or is it just this one dead end trap room?
SPEAKER_07No, there are four doors four doors okay there's there's more doors for us to go dining at what there are more doors for us to dine at looks like meat's back on the menu boys thank you what kind of nerds are you guys you can't pick up on a little bit of I did not know what you were talking about.
SPEAKER_04Well I caught I caught on the Mordors part I got dining part though.
SPEAKER_11There's like fine dining in Mordor? Never mind. Okay. Uh so we before you and I got the same wavelength Andrew got it. Anyway that's all that matters one person one out of the it doesn't matter uh so as we kind of step away from this guy as he stabilized uh boss will hold out these two gold coins and say uh do uh these mean anything do uh the the rest of you can I I don't know what these are. These look like gold coins to me except for the faces something a little funny about it.
SPEAKER_08Oh yeah those are the mark of the golden mask organization. We're gonna go talk to them tomorrow.
SPEAKER_11Well they might be happy that uh we we saved one of their fellow companions but I'm not too sure this guy's on the up and up what the heck is he doing here? I'd love to ask questions unfortunately I'm right here.
SPEAKER_03Oh I thought he was I'm still here we just found out about your secret organization I was a little curious about it now I'm still I'm still here this really hurts Oh I thought he was I thought he was not conscious anymore.
SPEAKER_08Okay no he was he's conscious oh okay so let's start questioning it what are you doing in here we heard that there was a lot of gold down here okay um how's that going not not too great that hurt a lot yeah I bet those are good size holes you had in here maybe try doing something more whole some
Interrogating The Survivor About Yasselby
SPEAKER_08next time he looks over at you and just groans uh so who are who are you with by the way I just want to you know touch base here make sure the guys outside outside said you're with the queen uh where would the Ossel bee where the Ossel be
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_07The Yasselby? I that I mean that's a pretty unique name. I haven't I haven't heard of anybody else with that that name.
SPEAKER_08Tell us a little more about Yasselby.
SPEAKER_07I mean if you're if you're down here, it's you must know Yaselby, right? She's Golden Masks, second in command.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, definitely.
SPEAKER_07Just making sure you're ringing a bell.
SPEAKER_05Of course I know.
SPEAKER_03Making sure you know what you're talking about. What?
SPEAKER_15I I have a feeling are you gaslighting me? What was Why would you think we're gaslighting you?
SPEAKER_03Sir, we just risked our neck pulling you out of a hole, and now you're accusing us of gaslighting you?
SPEAKER_07Uh I'm I'm sorry. I'm s I didn't mean anything by it. Don't throw me back down there, please. Well, what are we doing? Can I go?
SPEAKER_08Uh no, I don't think so.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, do you want to go back down there or uh I just I just wanna lay here for a few.
SPEAKER_08We can make that work. And uh I'm gonna tie his wrists behind his back and his feet together and then make those attached just so that he doesn't go anywhere or get us in trouble while we're still down here. You're gonna hog tie him. I intend to free him and let him go about his business, but not while he's behind us.
SPEAKER_06Uh as you're hogting him, he is screaming in pain.
SPEAKER_01I'm being gentle. And he's healed.
SPEAKER_05Not fully. He's got a bunch of wounds still open on him. He just bandited him.
SPEAKER_08He's got a healing potion and a healing wound? Uh, okay.
SPEAKER_13Yeah. Elnovor will shove a rag in his mouth as he continues. He will shove a what? A rag in his mouth as he continues.
SPEAKER_06Uh okay. Uh yeah, it's it's you now you're muffled to me.
SPEAKER_08I wasn't like managing him. I was just making sure he wasn't gonna run off to his buddies and have them come ambush us.
SPEAKER_06I mean, yeah, Hogtai at Mestadaze isn't gonna be comfortable. He's still got open wounds on him.
SPEAKER_11Yeah.
SPEAKER_08Okay.
SPEAKER_11We'll unhog to go back through here. Do we do we have any is is there anything that connects him to the guards up at the top? Like, how did he get past them? Or are those his buddies?
SPEAKER_08They are all working for Yassel B. Who is the second command for the golden list?
SPEAKER_11Okay, so he went down here, they were standing watch. Okay, got it.
SPEAKER_08Which is why I didn't want him to go to the room.
SPEAKER_11Then Voss will say. Voss will simply say, Hey, we're not we're not trying to hurt you, but we want you to stay right here until we're uh we're we're done. And uh when we're on our way out, we'll we'll untie you. Don't don't worry. We don't mean you no harm.
SPEAKER_15I mean, just saying he wasn't going anywhere when he was down there. He wasn't going anywhere positive. Is Yasselby here now?
SPEAKER_06Is she in the room with us?
SPEAKER_15No, it's asking he's asking Jim Bob if Yasselby's in the crypt.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I I believe I believe she went further ahead.
SPEAKER_11Why did you take door number three?
SPEAKER_07It's what I was told to take? I stepped on the floor and then it disappeared.
SPEAKER_15So many people are with Yasselby.
SPEAKER_07There there were a dozen of us.
SPEAKER_15I'm assuming some of them are those blood smears we saw as we came in.
SPEAKER_07They were hurt. I I don't think anybody died to them.
SPEAKER_11Why did they only send you through a door by yourself? If there was a dozen of you, I think it'd be a buddy.
SPEAKER_07There were a lot of traps in here if you haven't figured that out already.
SPEAKER_11I might have figured that out already, but maybe I didn't. What's it to you?
SPEAKER_05Listen, I I don't know.
SPEAKER_11I'm the one tied up here.
SPEAKER_05I don't know.
SPEAKER_11Alright, you just hang will you just hang tight here for a little bit? Well promise we we always come back to where we came in. We'll we'll untie ya.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, sure, I'll just hang out.
SPEAKER_11Alright. Are there any hooks on the wall? I think uh you should be more worried about your f why did your friends leave you? If they saw you walk through the door and then disappear into a spike of pits, pit of spikes, why did uh why'd they keep on going further without ya?
SPEAKER_05This is the thieves guild. Rule number one.
SPEAKER_02Throw the dumb guy in the spike fit?
SPEAKER_13You don't talk about the thieves guild?
SPEAKER_05No, it's I don't know. Rule number one, you never never never sacrifice gold for a man.
SPEAKER_11Oh, you hesitate, logic suggests graves of behavior. Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER_05Is this another Mordor joke?
SPEAKER_11No, that's a Yasselby.
SPEAKER_15Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_04Did did we did we figure out which way Yasselby went? Which door she went to? No.
SPEAKER_15I asked, he didn't answer.
SPEAKER_07I I I I don't know what door she went through. Um I was at the bottom of the pit.
SPEAKER_15So you stepped through Oh yeah. Maybe regretting your uh life choices.
SPEAKER_03Oh, are we just gonna leave him here for now and come back? Oh, I could put silence up. That gives us ten minutes of at least he can't scream for anybody.
SPEAKER_15I mean there are other ways to make him not scream. I mean, ask him not to scream. That's what I meant. That's true.
SPEAKER_11The boss under his breath is speak quiet, speak quiet, Dad.
SPEAKER_05He's answering all your questions.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, it's a good point. We don't really need to speak with Dad, because this guy's been pretty cooperative. Maybe should he come with us? I don't know, Nelvac, should we trust this guy?
SPEAKER_08Do you trust him? I could untie him.
SPEAKER_06I don't know. He can't walk, can he? Nah, he's pretty messed up.
SPEAKER_15Oh, he can't walk. I'd say just leave him here. We can come back for him.
SPEAKER_11I mean, do we do we feel like if we if we leave him for potentially hours and come back, will he still be alive? Do we believe that to be a relative truth?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, so I mean, you you've seen people in worse shape than this and live. So uh boss, you're pretty confident that he'd be alright. As long as nothing comes and grabs him or anything like that.
SPEAKER_11You uh we're we're gonna we're gonna leave you here and we'll we'll come back and untie you on our way out. Do you uh you want a drink of water before we go?
SPEAKER_07No, I'm I'm o I'm okay.
SPEAKER_15Or a cookie, maybe? I don't know. Fucking love cookies.
SPEAKER_11Alright, well, you don't go anywhere. You hear?
SPEAKER_07Yep. Yep, stay right here, got it.
SPEAKER_15I we'll go through a different door. What do you got?
SPEAKER_11I mean, what do we we got anything else to go through that's based off of like information and choose the right door?
SPEAKER_06Do is there any blood leading to Uh you don't see any blood in this room other than where the spear is against the wall.
SPEAKER_14Um Detect traps? Check all the doors for traps.
SPEAKER_06Uh through investigation? Okay. I was thinking thieves tools, but uh that's not to detect traps though, right?
unknownNo.
SPEAKER_15Yeah, I guess not.
SPEAKER_06Investigation or perception. I actually think it would be No it'd be investigation if it's those two.
SPEAKER_11Perception. Investigation is typically like a person's insight, isn't it? No, that's insight.
SPEAKER_06Insight. Insight is persons' feelings. Investigation is to figure out how something works, or uh find obscure information, or to determine something specific in a room. But you're you're looking you're not looking to see if anything will work, you're looking to see if something exists, which was perception.
SPEAKER_1519.
SPEAKER_05Okay. Uh you don't see any traps on the doors.
SPEAKER_15Zane says, I don't see any traps.
SPEAKER_11Is there any chance that a uh you see a trap that's already been sprung? You mean the pit trap? Other than the pit trap. Clearly, door number three is not the right one for us to go through. Mr. Guy over there proved that to us.
SPEAKER_03Oh. We we also have this ring. Maybe it could help us out.
SPEAKER_04What's the ring that's right? Is there any like keyholes or potential areas that the ring might fit in?
SPEAKER_06Uh, you don't see any keyholes. The the only thing that is on the ring itself is the uh the banner of House Sign or House Monder and the inscription 242.
SPEAKER_11Alright, so clearly the ring says that door number two and four are not the right choice, which leaves us with one and three. We've already determined that number three is not the correct one, so I'm pretty sure we should go through door number one. What?
SPEAKER_04I didn't follow that at all. Me and Harlock are both confused. What?
SPEAKER_11I mean, ultimately, door number one's where we want to go, right? You know what I mean.
SPEAKER_15Is this the first set of doors we've come to?
SPEAKER_03Yes.
SPEAKER_15I would say take door number two.
SPEAKER_03Or maybe it's a pattern.
SPEAKER_15The second door, the fourth door, the second door.
SPEAKER_03Mmm. Only one way to find out.
SPEAKER_06Harley charges in. Opening the second door.
SPEAKER_11Door number two?
SPEAKER_06Yeah. Alright.
Choosing A Door And Cliffhanger Close
SPEAKER_06Door number two opens, and inside is a large room with a wall on the other side.
SPEAKER_09Mmm. Mmm.
SPEAKER_04Alright. Can I pull out my lantern and try to see if there's anything invisible and whatnot?
SPEAKER_06You pull your lantern out, and you can see on the other side that there is a doorway.
SPEAKER_03Hey guys, look!
SPEAKER_06The rest of the party is very excited that you see that door.
SPEAKER_08Nelvax moves into the room with his long fold and like starts whacking the floor with his stick.
SPEAKER_06Nothing gives way to your long stick.
SPEAKER_15Hit it harder.
SPEAKER_08Cool.
SPEAKER_15Before Then I guess uh before Voss.
SPEAKER_06Good. Nelvax, finish your thought first, buddy. One second, Voss.
SPEAKER_08I was just gonna move forward, uh, but he said he's gonna do something before I do.
SPEAKER_06So Okay. Voss, go ahead.
SPEAKER_11Uh, before Voss will go into the room and and follow Nelvax and Harleck. Um, before he he does, he'll he'll turn over and look at. We still have no idea who this guy's his name is, right? Did he tell us?
SPEAKER_06He did tell you his name.
SPEAKER_12Yeah.
SPEAKER_11What was his name? His name is Fernog. Alright, so he'll look over to Vernog and he'll say, Hey, you have legs, uh stop actually using them. Yes? And then he walks through the door into Harleck's room. I don't know what you're saying.
SPEAKER_03I think Boss is having an aneurysm.
SPEAKER_06Alright. Uh so as soon as you all step through that door, the door behind you slams shut, and the door in front of you opens. So a door appears on the far side of the wall. Um but that did take 40 minutes, so I think we're going to stop for the night. You have three more rooms to get through.
SPEAKER_11That was 40 minutes. Yes.
SPEAKER_15It was 45 since he said it would take 45 minutes, because he said it at 1040, 10.45 my time, and it's 1129 now.
SPEAKER_07Andrew is done with this group.
SPEAKER_15Oh, come on. Andrew has zero reason to be up.
SPEAKER_13I'm just chilling. If we find out, we're having fun.
SPEAKER_11We're another 40 minutes that way.
SPEAKER_06Oh god. Alright. So that is where we're gonna end the night. I uh I want to say go ahead, same. Did we get a level? No. Absolutely not.
SPEAKER_11Did you really think we were gonna get through four rooms in 45 minutes?
SPEAKER_06I had hopes. I had hopes.
SPEAKER_05Oh man.
SPEAKER_06I know. I know.
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SPEAKER_08It's been confusing.
SPEAKER_06It's been confusing. But also.
SPEAKER_08Uh but it has been nerdy too.
SPEAKER_11It's been nerdy.
unknownIt's been nerdy.
SPEAKER_11Alright, bye everyone. I I think I figured out what Yass will be really stands for. It's you had lots scheduled and barely yielded. No.
unknownNo.