Dalelands - Episode 12 'Castle Krag'

The party continues their quest to locate Powell and the orb of Damara after their evening festivities. They quickly learn the lengths some will go to for power as they track this object to Castle Krag, seemingly the headquarters for both the Zhentarim and the Banite cultists.

Transcript

SPEAKER_10 0:01

Thanks so much for joining us for episode twelve of our Dale Lands campaign. Last episode, we picked up with the characters returning to Shadowdale Town from the tomb of Demara. Weathered and worn. We had Val with two HP and a curse on her from Damara themselves. With a 24-hour countdown until inevitable death. So they needed to find a healer very quickly, while also sheltering Joanna, who was at two strength, three strength, two strength, um, from getting sucked by shadows. Um and was was then carried to Old Skull in, to her room by Orion, uh and then watched over for a little bit while she regained her strength. Meanwhile, Val was being taken care of by Ike and Hodge as they uh went to the Tower of Ashaba to claim their reward uh and ask where a healer might be that could uh get this curse out of Val. They were pointed to Storm Silverhand, which is one of the seven sisters, one of the chosen of Mistra. Um the players above table would know her sister, uh, who they dealt with a lot in uh Vecna, Eve of Ruin, Illustrial Silverhand. So uh, but the characters would also know Storm and all of the Seven Sisters just because they are legendary heroes and adventurers who have been uh helping the world for centuries at this point. Anyway, they learned that she was uh she was uh stationed up north of Shadowdale Town in that sort of farming community that you've already kind of been through. Uh they rushed her there until they were stopped uh by Powell, his Zentrim associate, and his three goblins who have been chasing you ever since you stole the Nathlum right out of his grasp. He gave you a bit of an ultimatum. Uh the Zentrim had his pistol trained directly on Val, who, with any damage, essentially would have died. Um in order to avoid that, some negotiation was had. Uh unfortunately Ike's dice weren't rolling very hot and was not very convincing, but was able to get away by giving Powell the orb of Demara. Which you have been informed now by Storm of its very powerful nature and evil nature that you have sensed yourselves, but the confirmation from Storm really made it a very uh top of the mind thing to get it back from PAL, because you do not know necessarily how quickly PAL would consume it. You know that it has to be swallowed to be used. Um Powell likely uh has the ability to cast identify or identify something um very quickly, being this kind of studious mage. And obviously they have gone somewhere else for you to have to find. Uh so this this kind of healing happened at Storm. She'd introduced herself to these three characters, Val, Hodge, and Ike. Um, they had some connection. She knew Ike's pal uh Leaf uh from childhood, or not childhood, but hundreds of years ago when they were uh kind of growing up together. Um and she had also met Hodge's brother, uh, who uh was seeking insight about exploring Myth Draner. Um Val, uh, she also recognized that there was something that has to do with Bane within you. Um she obviously recognized that you were an Asimar but didn't really bring that up. Um she was more focused on getting you healed and and and ready to get back home safely. Which you then did. You returned back to Shadowdale Inn, or not Shadowdale Inn, Old Skull Inn, and participated in the Skullcrackers, which Hodge edged out a victory over Orion. Um and crazy to say um and won the recognition of Shadowdale Town as well as uh free rounds for the rest of the night, and your your tab clear. Um so uh after that party um of a night that followed a crazy morning you all settle back into your rooms for a nice, well-deserved long rest. Uh if there's anything anyone wants to do while they are settling down for their long rest or early in the morning, uh let me know.

SPEAKER_12 5:59

How much time do we have?

SPEAKER_10 6:01

Uh it's the skullcrackers would have finished, and you would have you bought rounds for everybody in the bar, so you would have had quite a party after the skullcrackers finished, so it likely would have been midnight by the time you guys even got to bed. Um so if there's anything else anyone wants to do other than party and just head to bed, let me know. Um otherwise you will all kind of wake up uh in the inn, in your rooms, uh, and and head downstairs one by one.

SPEAKER_03 6:36

I think I want to go talk to Joanna in the morning? Sure.

SPEAKER_10 6:42

Okay. Uh you wake up and and head over to Joanna's room.

SPEAKER_12 6:46

Alright, well, metal when you're a little drunk, a little liquid courage in you.

SPEAKER_03 6:51

But this is a very normal conversation. Um yeah, I'll knock on the door. He sheltered. He sheltered. I'll knock on the door. Huh? I think that maybe I need to talk to you. Can I come in? That's not his voice. I think that I need to talk to you. Can I come in?

SPEAKER_00 7:20

Sure. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:25

So, um you need to stop running into the fray. What are you doing?

SPEAKER_00 7:32

That is what you want to talk about then early in the morning.

SPEAKER_03 7:35

You almost died yesterday.

SPEAKER_00 7:36

Yeah?

SPEAKER_03 7:37

So did Val. Yes, but you are our healer. If you go down, the rest of the party goes down. What are you doing? I think we actually need to talk battle strategy. I'm trying to help. Okay?

SPEAKER_00 7:51

Okay. And sometimes the best I can see is just getting in there.

SPEAKER_03 7:56

During fights, we have frontliners and we have support. And I think that you need to be support. What training did you have at your temple?

SPEAKER_00 8:07

Tri uh first of all, temple is insane. Uh my temple, my temple was a small shoreside church, about, and she'll look around her room, about as big as this room. And my training was get up in the morning with my dad, go see if maybe the handful of people who come every day are there. If they are, great. Talk to him a little bit, give a like he would give a little bit of a sermon. And then they would go about their day. And I would kind of wander town with my sister, or talk to people, or go down to the dock and see who came in that day, you know? Like there was no training.

SPEAKER_03 8:53

What kind of religion is this? You don't know.

SPEAKER_00 8:56

A very small one.

SPEAKER_03 8:58

You don't know.

SPEAKER_01 9:00

No!

SPEAKER_00 9:02

There's no temples, no there's no soldiering or whatever you do. Like, I just it was just living. It was living in a small town with a small community, and we just helped people. Helped each other. I so I just do what I can when I see that there's a need for it, and I don't really put much thought else into it otherwise. I see.

SPEAKER_03 9:30

Um okay, well, I think that maybe just stop running into the fray. I'm afraid that you're going to die.

SPEAKER_00 9:42

I'm not the only person who can do healing stuff.

SPEAKER_03 9:47

You know that, right? I know, I can as well, but me too.

SPEAKER_09 9:54

Nope.

SPEAKER_00 9:56

You don't worry about you don't worry about Akard, Val, or even Hodge running into why does it matter?

SPEAKER_12 10:02

I'm in the rock.

SPEAKER_03 10:03

I do worry. He's always in the rock. I do worry. I just I've seen battle strategy battle strategies in you that I've never seen before, and so I just wanted to see where you were at, and maybe we could. I don't know, maybe I could help you.

SPEAKER_00 10:21

Does it make more sense to you now that you know I it's not a strategy at all and I am just kind of flying by?

SPEAKER_03 10:28

It definitely does. Um because I Did you think somebody taught me to do You shot me once. You think somebody taught me to do that? Stand in front of the guy with the bow and arrow? I had hoped that nobody taught you that, but just with the way that I was raised, that is exactly what I um assumed. So.

SPEAKER_05 10:44

Okay, well, with the way that I was, I see a need, and I feel the need.

SPEAKER_03 10:50

No matter what it does to me. Okay, just remember that other people rely on you and want you to be okay. Okay. I just leave. Thank you. By the way, she'll like call out after you for staying while I was all shriveled. You're welcome. Oh you didn't need to carry me though.

SPEAKER_11 11:18

Ike will open his door and seeing Orion come out of Joanna's. He is he looks a mess. I have never drank so much in my life.

SPEAKER_03 11:28

Mike, are you alright?

SPEAKER_11 11:30

No, frankly, I'm not. But I had a blast.

SPEAKER_03 11:35

I'm glad. I think we all deserved some some fun.

SPEAKER_11 11:39

It was very fun, yes. That is Joanna's room?

SPEAKER_03 11:45

Yes. Um I was scared of her dying again, so I went to uh What is wrong with her? Nothing, nothing. She's fine. She's it's just after, you know, another another battle of her running headfirst into the I think I headfirst into the danger. I was I thought maybe I would kind of see where her training lies, see if she needed some assistance. And it turns out there was no training at all.

SPEAKER_11 12:10

No, of course not there's no training for Joanna. She is headstrong, but that's what's good about her. Sometimes it you don't have a choice but to run into the middle of it.

SPEAKER_03 12:22

That's what scares me.

SPEAKER_11 12:24

And that goes for all of us.

SPEAKER_03 12:25

Yes.

SPEAKER_11 12:26

Sometimes you are not going to be in in the background, firing your arrows. Sometimes you will have to be right next to me, or right next to Val.

SPEAKER_03 12:36

And I'm prepared for that.

SPEAKER_11 12:37

Good.

SPEAKER_03 12:38

I have my sword, I have my training.

SPEAKER_11 12:40

And what does what do you think that says about Joanna? Do you think she is ready to go into the middle of it? I would say she is, given her recent actions.

SPEAKER_03 12:50

I would say she's ready for it, but I would also I'm also cautious about it. She has her armor now.

SPEAKER_11 13:00

I gave her a shield. She'll be alright, don't you worry. I know you're concerned, but as we all are, but I think she'll can hold her own.

SPEAKER_03 13:12

Just worried about after yesterday, I'm just worried about it.

SPEAKER_11 13:17

That's understandable.

SPEAKER_14 13:19

Um I'd let her in my rock if it was bigger.

SPEAKER_13 13:23

Oh Jack.

SPEAKER_14 13:24

Good morning.

SPEAKER_03 13:27

Um Joanna being the age that she is, she's definitely like had some nights out before. So she can handle, I think she can handle a couple of drinks pretty well. She comes out.

SPEAKER_05 13:38

Oh Loubert! Good morning! Hi! You alright? You alright?

SPEAKER_11 13:43

Yep. His hair is a mess. I'm going to have a smoke downstairs.

SPEAKER_00 13:50

I yeah. I think you need that.

SPEAKER_11 13:53

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 13:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 13:55

Did you care to join me, Hodge?

SPEAKER_14 13:57

Of course. On Waterdeep, they get uh get pretty dirty with some of the goods there. This is no stranger to drinking. I was expecting a little more of the hard stuff to come out last night, but it was a nice light uh hard enough for me. Like a high school party almost.

SPEAKER_11 14:13

Right.

SPEAKER_02 14:14

Stone cold summer.

SPEAKER_11 14:17

I do believe I was uh cross-faded, as they say. Yes. It was quite the experience, and I might be sick later today.

SPEAKER_08 14:36

Or peek yourself into it.

SPEAKER_05 14:38

You saying you mat means you absolutely are going to. I can purify problems.

SPEAKER_10 14:42

That is a two for a total of four. Uh, you feel like you're gonna be sick in five seconds.

SPEAKER_01 14:50

Oh no.

SPEAKER_11 14:50

Uh do I mean a few minutes or I'm going to the bathroom? Absolutely.

SPEAKER_05 14:55

Knew it.

SPEAKER_14 14:57

Fantastic.

SPEAKER_11 14:57

Yeah, Ike's never had like an alcoholic beverage in his life.

SPEAKER_14 15:02

Was it just like a light mead? Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 15:04

Light mead now and then. You see Ike run back into his room. Oh no. Um, and the rest of you go downstairs um and you see uh a little gnomish man uh with two big cases. Uh kind of like he has to he has to lift them up by his ears in order to get them off the ground as he's carrying them. Brochures are crazy.

SPEAKER_08 15:29

You're not gonna let me in here.

SPEAKER_10 15:31

And you see, uh one of the uh one of the bartenders that you probably haven't met yet um is like No, dude. Look what happened last time, and you look in the corner and there's like a uh circle of smoke that looks like an explosion. Oh god.

SPEAKER_13 15:49

He's like, that wasn't my fault! Somebody dropped it.

SPEAKER_10 15:53

Doesn't matter, man. You need to keep your stuff outside.

SPEAKER_13 15:57

And he goes, Alright. I can use some help.

SPEAKER_14 16:06

Yes, I think I will help you. Sir, hi, I can help you. Uh cases outside, you're selling something that looks like you caused quite the stir here uh the other day. By chance I'm in this case.

SPEAKER_10 16:20

Well, I'm not allowed to sell inside, apparently. Yes, let's go outside and discuss. He picks the one up and like throws it up on his shoulder, kind of like leaning.

SPEAKER_13 16:32

By the gods, what is in these things?

SPEAKER_10 16:34

Uh and he once he gets out of the door, it he like slams it under the ground. Um and he goes, You can put that anywhere. I guess I'll just sell right outside here. My name is Bimble.

SPEAKER_04 16:46

Bimble! Bimble?

SPEAKER_10 16:48

And I own Bimble's bombs.

unknown 16:50

Oh.

SPEAKER_14 16:51

Very nice.

SPEAKER_05 16:51

You're tossing those cases around it, yourself.

SPEAKER_14 16:53

You are go you are going to sell bombs inside of the inn. Well, they let other people set up their shop in there. That's true. That's true. They do. It's not fair to you, honestly, Bimble. That's what I think. What sort of bombs? You make them yourself? They go. Very good.

SPEAKER_10 17:09

And I do make them myself, yes.

SPEAKER_14 17:11

They go they go poof or they go. Some go boom, some goof.

SPEAKER_13 17:17

Crackle, crackle, crackle. Sold out of those! Uh darn it! My favorites. Uh are they bright?

SPEAKER_10 17:25

No! Okay. Uh no flashbangs. Uh he opens up uh your case, you might want to be a little bit more careful with yours. Uh and he opens up his and he's like, These are smoke bombs. Uh-huh. You can get away in a pinch if you need. And then yours. Hold them very carefully, hand them to me. Yes, of course. Uh and he uh he opens it. He opens it. And these are big bombs.

SPEAKER_14 17:54

Uh, how big are they?

SPEAKER_10 17:56

Uh they're the smoke bombs are like baseball sized, and the the explosion bombs are a little larger than a softball.

SPEAKER_04 18:06

Ooh. Melon size.

SPEAKER_13 18:07

How much are you selling these bombs for? Well, the smoke bombs are 50 and the um the explodey bombs a hundred.

SPEAKER_11 18:18

We got some.

SPEAKER_14 18:19

But I've got a discount. If you buy in bulk. How many for the bulk discount?

SPEAKER_10 18:26

Well, if you buy five of any, you get one free.

SPEAKER_14 18:30

Six bombs for five hundred gold.

SPEAKER_10 18:36

Five bombs for four hundred.

SPEAKER_14 18:39

Oh, I see.

SPEAKER_10 18:41

I think. Is it is that what I said?

SPEAKER_14 18:44

If you buy five, you get one free. Oh, I thought. Never mind, yes.

SPEAKER_10 18:48

Sorry, if you buy four, then you get the fifth free.

SPEAKER_14 18:51

Very nice. Five bombs for four hundred gold. I will confer with my party. Would you mind a um perhaps a demonstration? I know that they aren't uh duds. Uh sure.

SPEAKER_09 19:05

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_14 19:06

Here seems like a fun place. Hell yeah. Right in the front yard of the gold score. Uh at the town's edge, I mean. We're at the edge of the woods here. Uh yes, I'm always thrown over the creek!

SPEAKER_10 19:19

I'm always saying we should set explosions out in wooded areas. I can tell you're that kind of man. Um, uh just bring anything you'd like to blow up.

SPEAKER_14 19:32

Uh okay. Uh I'll go inside and be ashamed to waste a bomb. Right. I'll go inside and I'll pull a chair from one of the tables. I'm just gonna go take a seat outside. Uh wait, hold on. Uh I can't smoke outside? Oh. Sure. It's a beautiful morning. Yeah, sure. Great. I'll be right back.

SPEAKER_11 19:52

Ike will see him carrying the chair. You he's come back down now and it's Oh, where are we going now?

SPEAKER_14 19:59

Yes, you should come too.

SPEAKER_11 20:00

Yes. Excellent. Uh great. Should I grab a chair as well?

SPEAKER_08 20:04

Uh hey, yeah!

SPEAKER_11 20:06

All right. Sure. I didn't see any chairs outside. No, there aren't.

unknown 20:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 20:10

Not yet.

SPEAKER_11 20:12

Great. It is a beautiful morning, it is a beautiful morning for a coming my friend uh bimble. Bimble?

SPEAKER_13 20:19

Yes.

SPEAKER_11 20:20

Oh, Bimble! I'll greet him in the Nomish language. It's a pleasure to meet you. You know my language! Absolutely.

SPEAKER_14 20:27

Oh, wait, I also talking in Gnomish.

SPEAKER_13 20:33

What is going on? Not a lot of uh not a lot of people who speak gnomish.

SPEAKER_14 20:38

Yes, well, we're quite learned folk and take interest in the gnomish culture, so. Uh perhaps that demonstration now, you're gonna love this idea.

SPEAKER_11 20:46

Yes, you saw. Anything you'd like to blow up? Oh, what is going on here?

SPEAKER_14 20:52

Bombs uh bombs. Like like or both both, actually. Yes, I'm gonna put in no crackle. He's out of those.

SPEAKER_03 21:03

He's got snap and pop, but no crackle.

SPEAKER_14 21:06

That's funny.

SPEAKER_11 21:07

What uh type of bombs do you have exactly? Just describe them both.

SPEAKER_14 21:12

Yeah, one goes bang. Yes big bang. That's the big one here.

SPEAKER_11 21:16

Yes.

SPEAKER_14 21:16

Catch. Um and the other ones are smoke bombs. 50 gold for the smoke, 100 gold for the larger ones. Smoke bombs would be very useful for us. Five of the bomb big bombs for four five for the deal runs on both of them. Five for four hundred of the big bombs. Oh or five for two hundred and fifty? Two hundred?

SPEAKER_11 21:47

Uh not two hundred, yeah. That is quite steep.

SPEAKER_14 21:51

It is steep. Um just a couple of gnomish speaking fellows here, and he's offered to give us a great demonstration, and I did help him. Carry this case outside. Yes, you did. Yes, I did. Perhaps now forget that.

SPEAKER_11 22:04

Perhaps now that we speak his language, he can offer us a very good deal.

SPEAKER_14 22:10

You don't know.

SPEAKER_11 22:11

Now you're speaking my language. Indeed.

SPEAKER_03 22:16

I feel like the other three of us are standing here watching going.

SPEAKER_04 22:18

I'm just like watching my book and mark. I'm excited for them.

SPEAKER_14 22:24

Um, I kind of want to see this one. It's a river, I guess. An unseen servant walk a chair across the river. Uh what you brought the chairs for. Just the one. You can sit on the other. Okay. Don't worry about it. A single chair?

SPEAKER_11 22:43

Alright, it's a good one.

SPEAKER_14 22:44

I'll make an illusion of it in pieces and say I sat on it and fell apart. Frankly, I'm thinking of suing. Uh we'll see how that goes.

SPEAKER_11 22:51

It will go over very well, Mr. Winner of the Skullcrackers.

SPEAKER_14 22:54

Yeah, surely I've come to the city. You won the Skullcrackers. I did! Discount! Well, I'm very funny. I I I would assume so if you want. I've set the chair over there across the river. Yes. I can have my my unseen servant as well walk the bomb across and we can have a little show.

SPEAKER_05 23:18

Oh he's lit it.

SPEAKER_10 23:22

I'm sure he knows what he's doing. It's much more fun when you wait until the very last second.

SPEAKER_05 23:28

I've not seen it.

SPEAKER_14 23:35

Honestly.

SPEAKER_05 23:36

Oh. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_11 23:40

That's too many.

SPEAKER_10 23:41

You have to wait until it stops making sound. Oh. Which it has. Oh, it yes, it has. And he chucks it 60 feet.

SPEAKER_09 23:51

There you go.

SPEAKER_10 23:52

Whoa. What happened? And I think the chair automatically six uh fails on deck saves.

SPEAKER_04 23:59

Uh his back is facing them, I think.

SPEAKER_10 24:03

That's a bad roll. Does it even blow up the chair, dude? It does. Five damage. And you see the legs kind of kick out, but the chair is still like half-intact. Ah interesting. There were those are worth a hundred gold. I know.

SPEAKER_08 24:24

Let me try another.

SPEAKER_10 24:32

That one did nine.

SPEAKER_11 24:35

The chair blows up. Your formula's inconsistent. Well, we can't all be perfect.

SPEAKER_14 24:43

Fair enough. That's why some of us have bombs. My unseen server gathered the pieces of the chair and bring it back.

SPEAKER_11 24:50

Okay. I'm just I'm sitting on the chair with my legs crossed, like just smoking. This is ridiculous.

SPEAKER_10 24:58

So, um I know it wasn't the best example, but they can do a lot. It just kind of depends on which one you throw.

SPEAKER_11 25:05

A smoke bomb, maybe uh twenty-five for the twenty-five apiece for the smoke bombs. You want me to give you a fifty percent discount when I just spent through two hundred gold worth of bombs across the You're the one who priced them at two at a hundred apiece.

SPEAKER_14 25:19

What's the going rate? Mountain uh Shadowdale. You aren't even prop here, are you? Yes. Quite a name for yourself, I see you've made. Uh, how many bombs are you selling? Oh, please.

SPEAKER_10 25:39

I'm just joking.

SPEAKER_14 25:41

I don't cry. I like his spirit though. You don't cry?

SPEAKER_05 25:45

Hey, he makes bombs. That's how he deals with his veiling.

SPEAKER_14 25:48

Look.

SPEAKER_00 25:49

I can say I can do 40.

SPEAKER_11 25:52

You're there.

SPEAKER_00 25:53

Except for probably watching. Um I've been commenting this whole time.

SPEAKER_05 25:57

Uh I've been sipping coffee. You want to go uh 50-50 on this ike for the smoke bomb? Yes, yeah, we can't fifty something extra.

SPEAKER_13 26:06

All right, and then the girls. Just one smoke bomb.

SPEAKER_14 26:10

I thought this was going to be a bulk deal. I expected you to destroy a chair in more than one bomb.

SPEAKER_11 26:16

What is the bulk deal for the smoke bombs?

SPEAKER_14 26:19

200 for five.

SPEAKER_11 26:20

200 for five. 150 for five. Make a persuasion check. With help.

SPEAKER_14 26:28

That's me.

SPEAKER_11 26:29

I'll need it. Good lord. Um. That's uh nine for a total of eight.

SPEAKER_10 26:42

I think the two of you just want to mess with me just because I'm small.

SPEAKER_11 26:46

I'm sorry, my lad. We do want the smoke bombs, but we're a little short on coin.

SPEAKER_14 26:53

He just made a thing about that.

SPEAKER_13 26:55

You were that gambling! Do you like meal now like you do with silver? They're used to being tiny by now.

SPEAKER_10 27:05

You're right, it's a sales tactic.

SPEAKER_14 27:09

I respect you for it. Uh, unfortunately. How about this?

SPEAKER_10 27:15

I'll give you two for the price of one.

SPEAKER_13 27:17

Hmm.

SPEAKER_10 27:18

Done. That's 25 gold each. Done.

SPEAKER_07 27:22

Fair enough.

SPEAKER_10 27:23

You each get one of them. And I don't have to sell to you anymore. Great. Worse for me.

SPEAKER_11 27:30

Uh perhaps we buy. No. I don't think the big bombs are worth it.

SPEAKER_10 27:37

No, we're waiting for the biggest. It's it's uh five foot sphere 3d6 damage.

SPEAKER_14 27:43

I can have my actions can do better things, I think. Um I will pay for half one. Um I am finished. I will be uh heading to breakfast now. Thank you very much, Bimble. It's a pleasure to meet you and to do business with you. Uh I'll go inside and uh with the pieces of the chair in my arms. You cannot let that bimble fellow in here. I tried to just enjoy smoke outside, he blew up my chair. It was terrible. Yeah, I mean, look, it's covered in smoke, just like your corner there. This fellow, I think you should even maybe run him out of town. What the hell, man? And he walks outside.

SPEAKER_11 28:28

Hey, you're better.

SPEAKER_13 28:34

And you can see Pim looking like, whatever.

SPEAKER_11 28:38

He's slipping into his name.

SPEAKER_13 28:43

Oh my big later.

SPEAKER_10 28:46

Well, Lord. I'm sorry about the chair.

SPEAKER_14 28:49

I'm sorry about the chair. I I didn't realize there'd be in such dangerous conditions outside with that bimble fellow out there.

SPEAKER_10 28:57

Yeah, we well, we got it sorted. Uh anything I can get you for breakfast? Anything to drink? This looks like one of you needs to sober up at least. Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 29:06

Little hair of the dog, Ike?

SPEAKER_10 29:08

What?

SPEAKER_14 29:10

More alcohol. Oh.

SPEAKER_05 29:12

So you just kind of continue the uh Yes.

SPEAKER_14 29:15

Let's let go.

SPEAKER_05 29:18

Yes, yes, yes. You wean yourself out of yourself more into sobriety. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 29:22

Something oily. Yes, yes. There you go. All right. Uh and he brings out breakfast for you all.

SPEAKER_01 29:29

Uh extra oily.

SPEAKER_10 29:34

Um, plenty of water for Ike. Um what's the plan for today? Um obviously Powell has Powell has uh the orb. I should say we should be able to do that.

SPEAKER_03 29:50

I'd like to go shopping.

SPEAKER_14 29:52

On the way out, yes, perhaps we can get to the show.

SPEAKER_10 29:54

They there are other the the smoke shop guy, the the old potion seller guy, uh are both are both set up here if you want other potions. Um, but there are plenty of other shops around Shadowdale Town, too.

SPEAKER_11 30:08

I think we need to start at the Tower of the Shaba where we last ran into him, Hodge. That was you ran into around the farms. Oh, around the farms.

SPEAKER_14 30:17

Like way up here. Yes.

SPEAKER_11 30:19

I think we start there and we can look for tracks. Can have Orion help me.

SPEAKER_14 30:24

I believe uh Orion.

SPEAKER_11 30:26

The best place to start.

SPEAKER_14 30:27

I mentioned grabbing some new armor.

SPEAKER_11 30:29

They have armories around here.

SPEAKER_14 30:30

Yes, we can grab that and then head out.

SPEAKER_10 30:32

Yeah, they got I mean, this is a nice town, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:35

Um also on my long rest, I forgot to mention I swapped out one of my spells for Barkskin.

SPEAKER_11 30:40

Okay. Okay. That's a great spell.

SPEAKER_14 30:43

Um Roof.

SPEAKER_11 30:44

Think I have to do that.

SPEAKER_14 30:44

I would also sell some barking. Yeah, let's face it. I've been holding on to if possible.

SPEAKER_11 30:50

Yes. I need to get rid of my shovel as well, because I used that. Yeah, I used a shovel to bar the door at the tomb.

SPEAKER_05 30:58

Oh, I was gonna say, why do you have to get rid of that?

SPEAKER_11 31:01

I forgot to get rid of that one time used.

SPEAKER_05 31:03

Yeah, it's how shovels are, right?

SPEAKER_02 31:04

Some use shovel just because it's dirty.

SPEAKER_11 31:07

How shit? I think I will hang on to this Sylvan Sabre. It does have the ability to cast message once a day. That is very so. I think I will hang on to this. Although it might be worth a pretty penny, I think I'll hang on to it.

SPEAKER_14 31:29

Um I sell real quick, like unless you want me to roleplay uh like the silver drinking horror.

SPEAKER_10 31:35

I mean, not unless you do. The silver drinking horror, the the torque torque, it's pronounced torch potentially the crawling mucus is quite expensive. 200 gold. Yeah, 200 gold. Uh, did I tell you what the other two things are worth?

SPEAKER_14 31:49

35 and 25.

SPEAKER_10 31:50

Perfect. Yeah, if you want to sell those, you can just add that to your inventory. Yeah. But if if you want that. Uh the Pixie Dust.

SPEAKER_05 31:57

Can I sell that? No, you have to keep that. It was given to you by the Pixie. You'll get it.

SPEAKER_14 32:00

I don't give a fuck about the Pixie. Pixies don't curse people.

SPEAKER_05 32:05

You can go on a crazy drive.

SPEAKER_03 32:06

I did one radiant damage.

SPEAKER_14 32:07

I've had Pixie Dust. I've had better.

SPEAKER_03 32:11

Shit. Um well in that case, can I just sell my um my shield?

SPEAKER_11 32:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 32:19

As well.

SPEAKER_11 32:20

Yeah. Uh how much would a staff of a dormant be worth? Since Ike uses his own staff.

SPEAKER_07 32:35

Rid of the staff.

SPEAKER_11 32:37

Uh it just does something cool, but it doesn't have the worth of time.

SPEAKER_13 32:48

It's morning.

SPEAKER_05 32:51

It's not morning. It's morning.

SPEAKER_10 32:53

Um 50 gold for the staff. I'm gonna sell that. Uh twenty-five gold for the pixie dust.

SPEAKER_11 33:04

I prefer my even staff, but was crafted for the colour.

SPEAKER_14 33:07

Twenty five isn't definitely worth just having a fun evening one night, you know?

SPEAKER_11 33:12

I would also like to find a straw hat.

SPEAKER_14 33:16

Can't you just make one?

SPEAKER_11 33:18

I don't have straw. So I suppose I could see if I could buy straw.

SPEAKER_10 33:24

I mean, absolutely get some straw from from one of the farms up there. You're going there anyway.

SPEAKER_14 33:34

Six or seven reeds? Alright.

SPEAKER_00 33:38

No. Why do you wear a straw hat?

SPEAKER_11 33:46

Keeps the sun out.

SPEAKER_00 33:47

Oh, okay. I don't know if there was.

SPEAKER_11 33:50

Plus, Hodge looks very cool in his hat.

SPEAKER_03 33:54

He does look cool in his hat.

SPEAKER_11 33:56

Watch like a dozen.

SPEAKER_14 33:58

You can't do that. You should all wear some kind.

SPEAKER_05 34:01

You're right. You got me there, Hodge. I can't do that.

SPEAKER_11 34:05

I do uh my farming sun hat, so it'd be nice to have one again.

SPEAKER_05 34:12

Yeah. I'll make iron top of the val again. Go with it. Go with it.

SPEAKER_10 34:20

There is a hat shop.

SPEAKER_05 34:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 34:24

Unless you do want to make one. Uh would I need specific tools to make one?

SPEAKER_14 34:28

The hats? No. Can I just say that is just a big thing?

SPEAKER_10 34:32

I think you can probably just make one as a druid, yeah. It'll also be cheaper.

SPEAKER_14 34:36

I don't think habadashers are hats. I think hatters are hats.

SPEAKER_10 34:39

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 34:40

I think haters are hats.

SPEAKER_10 34:42

Hatters are hats. Haberdasher?

SPEAKER_03 34:43

What is a haberdasher? It is a thing.

SPEAKER_01 34:50

I think it's a hattery too.

SPEAKER_10 34:53

How much for some straw? Establishment that sells men's clothing and accessories. Yeah. Or sewing and needlework supplies.

SPEAKER_04 34:59

Bingo! Bingo thing. You work at a haberdashery. Are you a haberdasher?

SPEAKER_11 35:04

Probably. How much for some straw and some. Uh straw and perhaps not fur, but what I'm thinking of.

SPEAKER_10 35:19

I think if you went up to a farmer and asked them just for enough straw for a straw hat, I think you would be convincing enough that they would just give it to you.

SPEAKER_14 35:28

Alright.

SPEAKER_10 35:33

Just share it over there. Oh no, the cows are gonna starve.

SPEAKER_04 35:38

You just turn it to a horse and pretend to be eating anything.

SPEAKER_13 35:43

Get that horse to you!

SPEAKER_14 35:55

Um says that anymore, because I'm pretty sure they're fucking said anymore.

SPEAKER_11 36:03

From saying that.

SPEAKER_03 36:05

I think Vinny says that and he's five.

SPEAKER_11 36:07

We need to get around some studded letter.

SPEAKER_03 36:10

Yes, please, I have a 13 AC without my shield. Yar. Yar. I didn't know that. I forgot money. And that's okay. Yeah. I'm sorry, I've been playing the game wrong.

SPEAKER_14 36:24

I'm telling you guys, get yourselves a fake rock. Nobody even looks at you.

SPEAKER_00 36:29

I know. Yeah, but it's real telling then when from inside the rock you hear mine sliver.

SPEAKER_14 36:36

It's not telling in the heat of combat. I'm also trying to whisper. You should hear me trying to be loud.

SPEAKER_00 36:46

How about you threw a door?

SPEAKER_13 36:48

Doors are thin.

SPEAKER_10 36:50

Uh you want stunted leather?

SPEAKER_03 36:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 36:53

45 gold.

SPEAKER_03 36:54

I'm gonna make sure I'm proficient in it.

SPEAKER_10 36:56

You are slight armor.

SPEAKER_03 36:58

Yeah. 45 gold?

SPEAKER_14 37:01

How much AC is that?

SPEAKER_10 37:03

Yes. Uh 4. 12 plus decks.

SPEAKER_11 37:05

I think it's 14.

SPEAKER_14 37:07

How is your dex?

SPEAKER_11 37:09

Probably plus three.

SPEAKER_03 37:10

My dex isn't great, but it's not like I don't think it's the best, but then leather. Boom.

SPEAKER_11 37:19

It's one of it's one more than leather. 45 gold.

SPEAKER_14 37:23

I'm getting some gold, baby.

SPEAKER_03 37:25

My dex is plus three. My AC is now still plus 40.

SPEAKER_09 37:33

Yeah, because that's 12 plus two.

SPEAKER_14 37:38

It is better than 13. And you're an archer, so you know, stay back.

SPEAKER_03 37:42

I do.

SPEAKER_14 37:43

Be elusive. I do. Get up in those trees. What if there's no trees where we're fighting?

SPEAKER_03 37:49

I cast a veil of dusk on myself. Put him in a rock. Put me in a rock.

SPEAKER_14 37:54

I really can't stress enough how only I can fit in a rock.

SPEAKER_05 37:58

If you put me in the case. We both fit in there in the Albear thing.

SPEAKER_14 38:01

Yeah, we were very close. I don't want to do that anymore. No, nothing against you.

SPEAKER_03 38:05

No, no, no. I'm also a lot taller than you.

SPEAKER_14 38:07

You smell like incense.

SPEAKER_03 38:10

I'm sorry?

SPEAKER_14 38:11

I mean it's fine. Would you think?

SPEAKER_11 38:12

That's a good thing.

SPEAKER_14 38:13

Yeah. It's a little strong for me, personally. What's everybody smell like? Dirt. Like the good kind of dirt. Like earthy.

SPEAKER_05 38:22

No, you can't just say dirt. No, no, no, no. Hodge, you can't say dirt and then say put the good kind.

SPEAKER_14 38:27

As soon as you say dirt, yeah. Ike knows what I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_05 38:31

I think dirt smells good.

SPEAKER_11 38:32

But as soon as you say dirt, most people are gonna think dirt.

SPEAKER_05 38:36

That's why Ike likes hot so much.

SPEAKER_11 38:38

I do not smell like dirt. I smell like I smell of the earth. And the ground before it rains.

SPEAKER_05 38:46

Incense and maybe like sandalwood or like the beach, kind of a smell. Like salty.

SPEAKER_01 38:50

Salt air.

SPEAKER_10 38:52

Yes. I smell like beef.

SPEAKER_11 38:56

Ike smells like cedar and pine.

SPEAKER_08 38:59

Yes, very nice.

SPEAKER_13 39:01

Yeah. Very nice.

SPEAKER_10 39:03

That's what our bathroom smells like right now. Yeah, that's we we got new we got new litter and it's just chunks of pine. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 39:12

It was $20 for 20 pounds, and I've been spending $21 on seven pounds. $21? That's crazy.

SPEAKER_10 39:20

Alright, gang. Are we all shopped out?

SPEAKER_03 39:23

We shop till we drop. Are there any nope, never mind.

SPEAKER_10 39:27

Val's good with her smoking armor. Oh yeah. She's dope as hell.

SPEAKER_05 39:34

Nice.

SPEAKER_14 39:35

She's painted early shoulder pads. You can fill them out with like a shoulder pad.

unknown 39:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 39:42

What is it? It's like chain. Chain shirt? Chain shirt. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 39:45

It's like that with a corset, she's impenetrable.

SPEAKER_10 39:52

What would you like to do? You gotta find out where how to go up and kind of track his trail from where he last where you last saw him.

SPEAKER_14 40:02

I think that's our best option. I mean, unless we could ask Mirna, he left.

SPEAKER_11 40:06

Orion, we you and I need to dipped immediately.

SPEAKER_05 40:10

Sorry.

SPEAKER_11 40:11

You and I need to look for tracks. I agree. This is where we Hodge and I last saw him on the road here. No, not at this point.

SPEAKER_03 40:18

He takes that as his task and he is immediately on it.

SPEAKER_11 40:21

So you can roll with advantage, because I'll be helping you. We have the same modifier for survival.

SPEAKER_14 40:29

I do have detect magic, which could help us. But at this potential distance, he's maybe got a day's journey on us.

SPEAKER_10 40:38

Uh you did last see him b right before dark, so yeah. He probably didn't travel that far. That's bad to do.

SPEAKER_09 40:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 40:50

Um and you do know it took him quite a couple days to find you guys anyway. Loser after the last time. Uh on a 19 survival check. Um you there's been a lot of footsteps through here. Um this is a pretty busy thoroughfare. Uh and you I mean, Ike is helping you kind of point out where he went. Um button. So it's hard to gauge two adult male footprints. But they do have goblins. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Uh Ike points you out uh that it's probably easier to look for the three goblin footprints. Okay. Uh, and those are pretty quick to find. And you find that they have gone uh a bit northeast along the north ride, which is kind of the main the main road through this part of the dales. Um and you kind of follow that uh it looks like it leads out of Shadowdale Town and and uh probably even out of Shadowdale proper itself.

SPEAKER_11 42:16

Good job. Are we ready? Let's make haste.

SPEAKER_14 42:21

After him.

SPEAKER_11 42:22

All right. Let's make haste.

SPEAKER_02 42:29

That's how you walk. Well he's hung over.

SPEAKER_04 42:35

Why does he walk on that?

SPEAKER_03 42:38

He's hungover. We know we know I want to take the over out.

SPEAKER_11 42:46

Yeah, he's hung over his shoulder. Uh you f I'm so sorry. What did you say? I said, yeah, he's hung over his shoulder. Spyroes. Christmas, all right. Northeast one. Northeast.

SPEAKER_10 43:06

Well, if I zoom out, it goes. Um but you guys are now in Shadowdale town. It looks like um looks like it goes northeast. Um and as as you get out of Shadowdale Shadowdale Town and are now on the outskirts, just kind of walking along the trail, the goblins tracks uh lead kind of off. They they kind of veer off the trail and in deeper into the forest.

SPEAKER_03 43:49

Okay. I will go that way.

SPEAKER_10 43:53

Okay. Make another survival check for me as you try to track through the forest in this one.

SPEAKER_03 44:02

Twenty three. Twenty twenty twenty three. Yeah. I'm confident in that.

SPEAKER_02 44:13

I know how to do that.

SPEAKER_10 44:17

Um as you as you cut off uh and you kind of get to the edge of the forest, you and Ike both looking for tracks. You do see that they lead in uh north kind of the northern forest. A merchant heading the other way uh towards Shadowdale Town. Um you see a cart uh pulled by a donkey and then a merchant um kind of riding on the back of it, uh, calls out to Joanna, Val, and Hodge, who are still on the road. You're not going deeper into that forest, are you? You know what's in there?

SPEAKER_05 45:10

Clearly not.

SPEAKER_10 45:14

Uh you're you're not you're not from here, are you?

SPEAKER_05 45:16

No. What gave that away?

SPEAKER_10 45:19

Uh a lot of stuff. Nice. Um well uh up through there is is Castle Crag.

SPEAKER_14 45:27

Oh! Uh that would be where the followers of Bane are. Yeah?

SPEAKER_10 45:33

Yeah, uh one of among the many things to watch out for, uh Castle Crag. Um yeah, you know that the Black Fist um of Bane, the cultists uh of Bane did mention that they are um kind of residing there, and the ones that you met had left and come to Dagger Falls. Um he goes, uh yeah. Blackfists, uh Forest creatures, undead, Zenterim.

SPEAKER_09 46:16

Jesus.

SPEAKER_05 46:16

Well, maybe they both killed each other. Might be easier to tell us what's not in there.

SPEAKER_10 46:21

Kind folk.

SPEAKER_11 46:27

I'm guessing Orion and I are in deeper in this forest off. You would have like started like you're like looking for a track.

SPEAKER_03 46:34

Um I just see us like spinning. But you might probably hear that.

SPEAKER_10 46:38

The guy's like shouting over because over a bit of a distance, so you can probably hear like chatter in the background if you want to come out and see what's going on.

SPEAKER_14 46:48

I appreciate your concern.

SPEAKER_10 46:50

Yeah, uh, I mean you look like you can handle a few blows, but um don't look at me like that. Um Mr. Merchant. Um dirty dog. Uh just I I didn't want anyone wandering in there without knowing what they're getting themselves into.

SPEAKER_14 47:09

Okay. Yeah, thank you. That is good. Thank you, Pad. That's good to know.

SPEAKER_10 47:13

Alright. Well, if you've made your mind up already, then then best of luck to you. Uh whatever gods watch over you, uh just hope they're stronger than whatever things are in there. Appreciate it. Uh snaps uh his Giddies up his horse. Giddies up his horse.

SPEAKER_03 47:37

What is what is the He smacks his ass.

SPEAKER_10 47:39

No reins, yeah. He snaps the reins and uh heads further into Shadowdale Town. Um and the rest of you.

SPEAKER_14 47:51

Um, I know we're attempting to avoid the thing. I don't feel as though Hal would have gone to the Castle Craig with this over unless he were captured.

SPEAKER_04 48:16

We will not go avoided. We have bigger problems because they have the word at that point.

SPEAKER_10 48:35

He did mention that Zentrim reside there as well, and you know that he has connections.

SPEAKER_04 48:42

Yeah, but we hate them, so it doesn't matter. We'll kill him.

SPEAKER_11 48:46

Uh at this point I'll rejoin the group and tell them where we can tell them where these tracks lead.

SPEAKER_01 48:53

Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_11 48:54

Hopefully it's not. Well, they're they lead right there. So they lead deeper in.

SPEAKER_14 49:02

Uh we have just learned that uh Castle Craig is that way. Castle Craig.

SPEAKER_13 49:10

Yes. Craig.

SPEAKER_14 49:11

Craig. Castle. Castle Craig. Castle Daniel Craig. Uh Castle Craig. K-R-A-G.

SPEAKER_03 49:23

Crazy. It is black hands.

SPEAKER_10 49:26

Castle and it's Craig. It's both.

SPEAKER_03 49:27

It's both?

SPEAKER_10 49:28

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 49:29

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_10 49:31

I don't know.

SPEAKER_14 49:39

Um, there anymore. Castle Craig is there, where the uh uh Black Hand of B is. Of course, Hunting Val, and we don't want a Zenterum and terrible creatures and that sort of thing.

SPEAKER_11 49:57

The Zenterum are in there as well. Apparently.

SPEAKER_14 49:58

It seems like the Zenter everywhere here though.

SPEAKER_11 50:01

Well Powell has we know Powell is working with them. So it's I don't know if handing it off or regrouping with other uh with a Zent's camp within the forest, but are you going to be alright now? We will protect you all the way.

SPEAKER_03 50:18

I will kill your enemies. Thank you.

SPEAKER_04 50:22

I believe we will mull them down. I think we'll be okay. This orbit's very important, I feel.

SPEAKER_11 50:36

Unfortunately, it seems that way. Give Linda a taste of that black blood.

SPEAKER_10 51:06

Um as you guys make the decision to head deeper into the haunted corn or forest near Castle Crag. Not necessarily heeding the warning, but keeping making a note in the back of your mind that there may be some untoward visitors uh on this trek uh that has quickly come to fruition as you hear bones cracking and groans and moans coming from the forest. Slowly approaching, you see three desiccated bodies of zombies that are and then behind them skeletons of former residents of Castle Crag, it seems, marching towards you.

SPEAKER_01 52:04

Oh, that's not good.

SPEAKER_10 52:06

Roll initiatives.

SPEAKER_04 52:08

Well, I think.

SPEAKER_14 52:16

All of them. Is that a question? You're not allowed to interview him.

SPEAKER_03 52:20

I could have sworn I had a plus three to initiative. I guess it's Dorian.

SPEAKER_14 52:23

If your dex is plus two, it's plus two.

SPEAKER_13 52:25

Joanna?

SPEAKER_02 52:26

I think it might be Dorian.

SPEAKER_13 52:28

Hodge. Um Valty Wat.

SPEAKER_04 52:35

Three.

SPEAKER_10 52:36

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 52:38

Yeah, I was really shook as I think.

SPEAKER_10 52:41

Nah, you see them uh approaching you on this path as they come uh out from hiding on the sides of these roads, straight from the forest. Hajj, as always, is first to act.

unknown 52:54

My bell.

SPEAKER_10 52:56

Jingle.

SPEAKER_14 52:59

Dangers of what um jingle. I will.

SPEAKER_10 53:10

Uh you see the skeletons have are wielding short bows uh and they look at ready to fire from a distance. The zombies, however.

SPEAKER_06 53:18

Which colors are skeleton?

SPEAKER_10 53:20

Uh the skeletons are the uh black minifigs on the map.

SPEAKER_14 53:25

I will um move out this way. Uh shoot a first level magic missile at the skeleton over there.

SPEAKER_02 53:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 53:54

Oh, damn. Uh you step off the road and fire uh is it three magic missiles? Uh three uh missiles of force energy just clatter into the bones of the skeleton, cracking and breaking uh all of the bones almost uh that leave it barely able to stand. Uh and you see it, it starts to pull back its bow. It lost all of the bones in one of its arms, and it starts to pull back the bow with its teeth.

SPEAKER_02 54:28

Oh, oh, oh god. Oh interesting technique.

SPEAKER_11 54:34

Rock rock. It's not a rock. Alright. Uh okay, bonus action wild shape. Uh he still doesn't have quite a grip on how to control these wild shapes. So I'm gonna see, I'm gonna roll and see what I get. Nope, not in the tray. A wild shape. Giant spider! Whoa. Hell yeah. From this green and black mist come a comes a giant eight-legged creature with fangs as he chitters and runs forth. Let's see.

SPEAKER_01 55:15

I think this. Yeah, it's gonna be a fun though.

SPEAKER_11 55:22

Oh, it's just one target directly from Skyrim.

SPEAKER_01 55:24

Oh, oh, no.

SPEAKER_11 55:26

One creature. Alright, I will go forth towards the zombie.

SPEAKER_08 55:34

And I will bite him.

SPEAKER_10 55:39

Back. Eleven. Eleven's gonna hit.

SPEAKER_14 55:42

Oh my god. Just a real right back.

SPEAKER_10 55:45

Not much ability to dodge and no armor for these zombies. They're slowly marching forward.

SPEAKER_11 55:52

True. Alright, hopefully this will work. That's only four piercing.

SPEAKER_02 55:59

Yeah, that's my zombie noise.

SPEAKER_11 56:01

And nine poison. Whoa. Uh they are immune to poison. Of course they are.

SPEAKER_10 56:09

I knew Spider was gonna be useless, but you bite into it your fangs, do a bit of damage, and then you s uh sink your poison into it, and it does not even flinch uh as it uh attempts to slam at you, but it's not its turn yet. Um Joanna.

SPEAKER_09 56:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 56:34

I'm not in the middle.

SPEAKER_09 56:36

She'll look but she'll look back and be like, I'm not in the middle.

SPEAKER_05 56:39

That would be this is my compromise. Are you happy? Um to fire a guiding bolt at that one.

SPEAKER_10 56:47

Okay. Skeleton hiding deeper into the forest.

SPEAKER_03 56:56

Uh 22 to hit.

SPEAKER_10 56:59

That'll do it, yeah.

SPEAKER_12 57:09

One for good luck.

SPEAKER_05 57:12

Yeah. Okay. I'm fine.

SPEAKER_09 57:14

Um radiant.

SPEAKER_05 57:24

I was kind of asked for that amount of the okay.

SPEAKER_13 57:27

I don't want to hear it from you.

SPEAKER_10 57:29

This radiant energy sears uh this skeleton, and you see uh sort of this corrosive uh light begins to melt into some of its marrow, uh, but it stays standing. Uh two of these skeletons now bloody. Is that your turn?

SPEAKER_05 57:49

Um yes. Yeah. Alright. I take one more step forward looking around in the eye the whole time.

SPEAKER_10 57:58

Uh two of these skeletons are going to fire arrows at this giant spider. Dry me. Uh that's a 21 and a 12 to hit. I'm assuming the 12 misses. 12 misses.

SPEAKER_02 58:14

Great album.

SPEAKER_10 58:17

21. Uh that's gonna be six piercing damage as one of the arrows misses, flies over your head, uh flies just over Joanna's head, and everyone is kind of in a line here. Uh so it just kind of flies right over the whole party's head. Uh the second one sinks into the side of your your spider body um for six piercing. Um then the and then the other skeleton is gonna take a shot at oh wait, Hodge is behind a rock.

SPEAKER_09 58:52

Take a shot at the rock.

SPEAKER_10 58:54

Oh right.

SPEAKER_09 58:55

Fuck!

SPEAKER_10 58:57

Uh does a 14 hit, not anymore, right?

SPEAKER_02 59:01

Beats it!

SPEAKER_10 59:02

Oh, you got a 14 even with this. Studded just one more than 13. Shiz, man. Shiz. Alright. You're not a technically a ranger, that's why your dex isn't that high. Um that's only gonna be four piercing damage as it f fires and hits you in the calf as they uh didn't make an arrow ride. Didn't they it seems like they're confused about uh I mean it's barely hanging on, so it this is the one that fires with its teeth. Uh so it doesn't really get a good look at you as it's pulling back at the bottom. And it just doesn't shoot with enough power to hit you in the in the center of mass, it just slowly falls and clips you uh on the shin. The zombies then will rush forward. Uh two of them already right next to Ike are going to make slam attacks. That is a s five and a nine. Both of those are gonna miss. Also attacking Orion.

unknown 1:00:19

Alright.

SPEAKER_10 1:00:20

A 13 is going to just miss as it rears back. And you just managed to dodge out of the way uh of its undead limb. Orion, Val on deck.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:34

I'm gonna cast a veil of dusk on myself. Um, and with my shadowy form that you can't see, I'm gonna lift my mask and I'm going to hit the zom hit the skeleton that hit me with his arrow and his teeth. I'm gonna try and fire the same way. Um 13?

SPEAKER_10 1:00:59

Just misses.

SPEAKER_09 1:01:00

No!

SPEAKER_03 1:01:03

Damn.

SPEAKER_10 1:01:05

Right between its uh two of its ribs and its rib cage and out in the back.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:10

Of course.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:11

Um, okay, well, in that case, my AC still has a plus one.

unknown 1:01:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:01:17

Okay. So your turn?

SPEAKER_04 1:01:22

Yes.

SPEAKER_10 1:01:23

Val. Alright, well. You've got a zombie in your face right now.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:27

Yeah, since he's literally in my face, we're gonna try to kill him with Linda. That one so far. Here, try this one.

SPEAKER_14 1:01:36

Um, uh this one counts.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:42

It does count. I got a 10 11. Anyways, 15.

unknown 1:01:46

15?

SPEAKER_04 1:01:48

Uh, I got 11, but that'll yeah, that'll hit. Sorry.

SPEAKER_09 1:01:56

Oh.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:58

Uh, how does a 15 feel for damage?

SPEAKER_10 1:02:01

Damn! Uh a one-hit kill. Nice. How do you want to do this?

SPEAKER_04 1:02:07

Uh that one's a zombie.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:09

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:09

I just want to come clean it up.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:11

Alright. Uh, it's rotting flesh, splits in half, and it softly uh kind of splits in the middle uh before falling onto the ground.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:24

How does Linda feel about that?

SPEAKER_10 1:02:27

Uh she's adopted the don't speak unless spoken to mentality here.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:36

But in the middle of a fight, she's I love Linda.

SPEAKER_14 1:02:43

Val's a very different experience of all of our fights.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:49

Commentary.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:52

Amazing.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:52

We all think that Oh wait, never mind. We can't hear Linda unless she's we're telling you.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:56

Yeah, unless you're touching.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:57

I was gonna say, we all think it's Val screaming.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:59

Uh it's at your turn.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:00

It is we're screaming.

SPEAKER_10 1:03:02

Or do you want to move?

SPEAKER_04 1:03:04

Um I'm screaming for Linda.

SPEAKER_10 1:03:09

Skeletor.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:10

This guy?

SPEAKER_14 1:03:11

Yeah, fucking the last one.

unknown 1:03:16

Cool.

SPEAKER_10 1:03:17

Alright. Uh, you run over to the skeleton firing bolts at Orion.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:23

That's so devastating, and I missed like.

SPEAKER_10 1:03:25

Hodge, you're up and you are hiding in a rock.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:28

At least none of us. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:03:31

I will uh I just trick.

SPEAKER_14 1:03:35

A firebolt, uh, one of the zombies on top of Ike.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_14 1:03:41

Uh actually, I'll go for the skeleton behind him. He can hang handle that. That one has not been hit yet. Yes. Uh the one closer to you.

SPEAKER_10 1:03:53

Oh, that the one closer to me?

SPEAKER_14 1:03:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:03:55

Uh that one has been hit. That one's bloody.

SPEAKER_08 1:03:57

Oh.

SPEAKER_10 1:04:00

And it was hit with a guiding bolt as well.

SPEAKER_14 1:04:03

Advantage. That's huge.

SPEAKER_10 1:04:07

Ooh, those.

SPEAKER_14 1:04:08

That was an ad one. The first one was a seven.

SPEAKER_10 1:04:13

Just misses.

SPEAKER_13 1:04:15

Can't see it anything in this rock.

SPEAKER_10 1:04:19

Well, the skeletons are just harder to hit. They're skinny to hit through. Ah, right between the ribs. Dextrous. Um. Alright. Uh a firebolt goes whizzing past, catches a leaf on fire for a second, and then it just kind of fizzes out. Um. Alright, that'll bring it to Ike.

SPEAKER_11 1:04:41

Joanna on deck. The uh zombie. The zombies. This one has been hit. What about that zombie? Uh the uh yeah, the the one closer to me has not been hit. Okay. I am going to web him. Okay. So he will be restrained. So I need a deck 13. Okay. That's a nine. Sweet! He is restrained until the web is destroyed. Okay. So he uh advantage attacks against him will have advantage? Uh I think.

SPEAKER_14 1:05:25

I don't think it gives you advantage, I think.

SPEAKER_10 1:05:32

Oh, I can never remember restraint. I usually have the rules glossary on another tab, but I didn't this time.

SPEAKER_09 1:05:39

I remember that.

SPEAKER_10 1:05:40

Now I'm paying the price. Uh I think it's just disadvantage or something. Yeah, it's oh, attacks against you have advantage, attack rolls. And your attack rolls have disadvantage. Yeah, that's right. And the point is on deck saves. Never mind. Awesome. Okay, that's my turn.

SPEAKER_11 1:06:00

Cool. It is.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:04

I'm gonna web.

SPEAKER_11 1:06:06

It is an action. Someone has that. Can you put a restrain tag on him? Joanna. So that way attacks. I guess well, you'd have to be within five feet to No. I don't think so. What? Oh my god. That's prone. Right. Yep, so he's got you got advantage on that guy. If you want.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:31

I don't really have anything though.

SPEAKER_11 1:06:33

Don't miss your spells.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:36

I really think that that that will work for me.

SPEAKER_11 1:06:39

I feel like I shouldn't have used it.

SPEAKER_14 1:06:41

Oh, does that?

SPEAKER_03 1:06:42

I know, I really want to save. It would make sense for Orion to right now, but I'm just like, I'm not. I feel like whatever's in the same way.

SPEAKER_10 1:06:50

Oh, she's saying she wants to use the advantage.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:52

And after last time with the morrow? No, I don't want to. I'm just saying I can't.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:55

So I skirted around the edge and got in between here.

SPEAKER_10 1:06:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:58

I'm gonna need con 13 from both of the zombies.

SPEAKER_10 1:07:02

Whatever are you doing?

SPEAKER_05 1:07:03

Word of radiance. Nice.

SPEAKER_10 1:07:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_11 1:07:07

Con from the zombies. That doesn't hurt me, does it? Nope. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:13

Why don't you stay behind that?

SPEAKER_11 1:07:15

Are you sure?

SPEAKER_03 1:07:18

You get to choose.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:18

You can just like hunt hike from behind him.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:21

It's five feet from me, so I'm still what's the DC?

SPEAKER_05 1:07:23

13?

SPEAKER_10 1:07:24

Both safe.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:25

Fuck you! Damn it!

SPEAKER_03 1:07:31

Okay, well, I'm here now. Joanna's in the middle of the final.

SPEAKER_10 1:07:37

Hey, I don't want to start anything, but like check it out.

SPEAKER_11 1:07:40

If you look over, she's just gonna be like a restrained zombie pretty quick since he's we got a much better chance of hitting him. Skeleton.

SPEAKER_13 1:07:50

I thought it was gonna work better.

SPEAKER_10 1:07:51

Uh the one next to Val is going to swap to its short sword.

SPEAKER_13 1:07:56

Short sword? Sharon.

SPEAKER_10 1:08:00

Oh, that is a nat 20, but it's just barely cocked. Alright. Uh, and then a 14 to hit is not gonna hit your AC. Uh so a short sword just pings off your armor. Um the other two are going to fire uh arrows at Joanna. We are the cock at this table.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:24

Okay with you.

SPEAKER_10 1:08:26

What's your AC right now?

SPEAKER_03 1:08:27

13!

SPEAKER_10 1:08:28

13?

SPEAKER_03 1:08:29

17.

SPEAKER_10 1:08:30

17 misses, but the 20 hits.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:35

Okay. What?

SPEAKER_10 1:08:37

That's gonna be seven piercing damage as uh one arrow uh just kind of checks off the side of your armor, and then another one uh hits you right in the kidney. Oh piercing those.

SPEAKER_13 1:08:53

Seven, just save one of them. Um okay. It's fine.

SPEAKER_10 1:09:00

The zombies uh there are two questions that are gonna continue attacking Ike. Yes. The Ike the Spider. Spike?

SPEAKER_02 1:09:12

Spike!

SPEAKER_10 1:09:15

Spiker.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:16

Spiker! That sounds like Spiker, I hardly know her.

SPEAKER_10 1:09:21

Uh one is gonna hit, one is going to miss. No!

unknown 1:09:25

No!

SPEAKER_03 1:09:26

Here, try this one. Here, try this.

SPEAKER_10 1:09:31

Get that out of here.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:32

Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_10 1:09:34

For two bludgeoning.

SPEAKER_13 1:09:35

Ooh!

SPEAKER_10 1:09:36

One D8 plus one for two damage. Let's freaking get it. And then one temp. The other zombie's dead, so that's all the enemy's turns. Uh, not too much damage on that turn for them, unfortunately. O'Ryan.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:52

Okay, um. Is this guy bloody? Who's the one that shot at me?

SPEAKER_10 1:10:01

Well, the zombies didn't shoot at you. That one's restrained. This skeleton shot at you.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:05

Over there. That's the one I want.

SPEAKER_10 1:10:07

I want you.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:10

You're mad. Welcome to Radiator Strike. Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 1:10:13

Another tooth.

SPEAKER_10 1:10:15

Yeah, that's one.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:16

Um, 21, yes. I'm doing another tooth shot to redeem myself.

SPEAKER_10 1:10:20

Tooth shot?

SPEAKER_03 1:10:21

A skeleton can't be more skilled at this than me. Um way. Tooth can play.

SPEAKER_10 1:10:27

And that one, one of your teeth would have fallen out.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:29

Tooth can play.

SPEAKER_13 1:10:31

Nobody can play. Uh four.

SPEAKER_10 1:10:35

With three HP. Let's go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't want to do this.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:40

Orion um puts the bowstring between his teeth. Hot shoots. Sorry. The skeleton uh.

SPEAKER_10 1:10:47

But if you saw it, it would not be at all.

SPEAKER_11 1:10:50

That shit hurts.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:51

It's in theory, it's in theory. Uh pull his teeth out.

SPEAKER_11 1:10:54

Most of his lip. Sorry, describe, sorry, interrupting you.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:01

Okay. Knocks the arrow with his teeth, fires it off, uh, shoots the uh skeleton, his head pops off, and rolls is right next to Val. The skeleton is. Um, and then he puts his mask down and keeps his veil of darkness.

SPEAKER_08 1:11:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:17

Kick the head away from me. I don't want any of that.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:20

Ooh. Val the skeleton in front of you uh has just been slain, freeing you up to chase after some others.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:30

Sorry, I was I just really wanted to do that. Oh, you didn't. Oh no, that's just so bad. Yeah. Advantage. Hi, Val!

SPEAKER_09 1:11:36

Spread as quickly as you can to the web zombies.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:41

This bitch is trying to get killed. I better stop her. I thought it was gonna be cooler than it was. Yeah, but 18 plus five. Twenty-three.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:56

Yes.

SPEAKER_11 1:11:57

Thank you. She's getting so much better after two and a half years.

SPEAKER_13 1:12:01

Oh my god! I can't do reverse math.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:04

Subtraction.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:10

And I'm gonna slash him again and kill his little face.

SPEAKER_09 1:12:14

Four.

SPEAKER_14 1:12:18

It's in your actions page.

SPEAKER_11 1:12:20

Just be a plus three right now.

SPEAKER_09 1:12:22

Thanks.

SPEAKER_10 1:12:24

Ooh.

unknown 1:12:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:12:25

Uh that one had not been hit yet. Um, so it does not do too much. He's about to get hit again. Uh no, the one that got bit is on the other side. Um, but even that one hadn't been hit that much.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:38

Uh, I'm gonna smite him.

SPEAKER_10 1:12:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:42

Come on, mad. Uh how about 12 extra damage?

SPEAKER_11 1:12:46

Oh, alright. How do you want to do this?

SPEAKER_13 1:12:50

Um I just want him to explode. The delay smite. You know what? Yeah, but fuck you.

SPEAKER_11 1:12:59

Just a smite rain down from the sky. Nice. Hell yeah. Linda just goes, hey, you forgot something?

SPEAKER_14 1:13:12

Turns around she's Linda.

SPEAKER_13 1:13:16

Yeah, yeah, exactly. That's where my bath will like us.

SPEAKER_11 1:13:23

Uh dude, delay smite is actually a sick as fuck idea.

SPEAKER_10 1:13:29

Uh Hodge. We've got a very hurt skeleton and two not very hurt uh skeleton and zombie. Okay. And that one is the closest.

SPEAKER_13 1:13:46

Let's see how you do with my games. Mine sliver! And how do you whisper it? That's your whispering. He doesn't know it's on a real rock. He's far away.

SPEAKER_10 1:13:56

You actually can't whisper the spells anyway.

SPEAKER_14 1:13:59

Well, you have to declare them quite loudly.

SPEAKER_10 1:14:01

Uh you have to say them in a normal speaking manner or something like that. However, it's worth it.

SPEAKER_14 1:14:06

What is the wisdom stage or a junks?

SPEAKER_10 1:14:09

Uh there's a nine.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:10

What if you're mute? Can you use sign language? No.

SPEAKER_10 1:14:12

No.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:13

What's hardless?

SPEAKER_10 1:14:15

No, it's like being in silence. You can't cast spells with verbal company.

SPEAKER_14 1:14:18

I'm saying it's able to catch a bow without hands.

unknown 1:14:23

Pick up.

SPEAKER_09 1:14:24

Dorian, are you not weird for this combat?

SPEAKER_10 1:14:26

Honestly, it might be a fun build to do like a wizard with no verbal components. I mean, I did a monk with no hands. You just kicked.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:36

Dorian is missing a hand.

SPEAKER_10 1:14:37

Uh it's not problems. How do you want to do that?

SPEAKER_14 1:14:40

Um, hell yeah. Your mind is weak!

SPEAKER_10 1:14:43

And then it's just bangs teeth ball out of its skull. I guess it doesn't really even have a brain, so it just kind of just crumbles underground. Um, leaving just a zombie and a skeleton in this battle. Uh but they are not wise enough to flee. Right. Of course not.

SPEAKER_14 1:15:06

Are they holes? BIT! Uh technically yes. Fuck!

unknown 1:15:10

I think.

SPEAKER_11 1:15:13

Probably. At the zombie? Yeah. Yes, it will. Uh, you said they're immune to poison. I did. Shit.

SPEAKER_09 1:15:23

Shit!

SPEAKER_11 1:15:24

Uh uh five damage.

SPEAKER_09 1:15:27

Uh-huh. Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:15:28

Uh he is now bloody.

SPEAKER_09 1:15:30

Yeah. Spiders.

SPEAKER_10 1:15:33

Your spider fangs into it. It's hurting. Joanna.

SPEAKER_09 1:15:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:48

Um.

SPEAKER_10 1:15:52

There's a lot of movement happening on the table that is not reading into the podcast, but trust us.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:57

Dexter.

SPEAKER_10 1:15:58

We're not buying you anything.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:00

Dex 13.

SPEAKER_11 1:16:02

Okay. Save.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:06

That bitch. Okay.

SPEAKER_11 1:16:08

That's what I hate about being spider. Safer suck things. Piss me off.

SPEAKER_03 1:16:13

Yeah. I have a hair in my butt. There's a lot going on. Uh, yeah, nope.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:18

Done.

SPEAKER_10 1:16:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:21

I can feel it. I can't get out.

SPEAKER_10 1:16:23

Uh, skeleton is going to fire another arrow at Joanna.

SPEAKER_09 1:16:29

No.

SPEAKER_10 1:16:30

24 will hit. Oh my god. Jesus.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:33

Joanna. I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine.

SPEAKER_10 1:16:36

Five piercing damage.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:38

It's okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:16:40

Into your other kidney.

SPEAKER_13 1:16:42

No, it's annoying. No, it's no longer okay. The skeleton's no anatomy! My organs!

SPEAKER_10 1:16:50

And then the zombie uh is going to continue attacking.

SPEAKER_13 1:16:57

Wow. Miss.

SPEAKER_10 1:16:59

Wait, what's your AC as a spider? 16. Never mind. Miss. Any wild shape is a 16 now. Oh nice. Cool, cool, cool. Bloody zombie misses Orion Valondeck.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:14

Bloody zombie.

SPEAKER_10 1:17:17

Bloody zombie.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:18

Neat my lama.

SPEAKER_06 1:17:19

Bloody zombie!

SPEAKER_03 1:17:22

16.

SPEAKER_11 1:17:23

Yep. Strong zombie.

SPEAKER_13 1:17:26

Four. Love his music.

SPEAKER_10 1:17:29

Does not kill him, but he is very weak as this excellent. He's got you see this arrow pierces him in the heart, but a heart that's not really beating. Won't kill it.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:43

Thank you. Val. All of us come.

SPEAKER_10 1:17:46

Never mind.

SPEAKER_03 1:17:49

Healing work, Joanna. Nah, I'm fine. No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:54

I can do it myself.

SPEAKER_11 1:17:57

Do you have healing work? Is it druid?

unknown 1:18:00

Yes.

SPEAKER_11 1:18:00

Or is it cure wounds? Because you always confuse the two.

SPEAKER_02 1:18:04

I know I confuse it, but I'm looking at it right now.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:07

I get it confused because I had both of them. I only have one this time.

SPEAKER_11 1:18:10

No, I always got him confused as when I was Devron. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:15

Eight.

unknown 1:18:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:16

Um, which one is it more dead? The zombie is doing hanging on by a thread. He is uh he's healing you because he's not gonna tell you about or talk to you again about uh running into the fray. At this point, he's like, Alright, well, you gotta learn this. But I also don't want you to die, but I've said my piece, so I will continue to focus on my own point.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:45

Uh I'm gonna hit that guy. That's almost dying.

SPEAKER_10 1:18:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:50

Yeah, right there.

SPEAKER_10 1:18:51

Zombies fucked.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:52

Yeah, he won't die. Uh how does an 18 feel?

SPEAKER_10 1:18:55

Painful.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:57

Painful? Uh 10 damage.

SPEAKER_10 1:19:00

How do you wanna do this? Two HP remaining.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:03

I just want him to explode.

SPEAKER_10 1:19:06

Pardon the viscera. Pardon the viscera. Uh the tree just gets absolutely coated in blood and guts. Take care of me, so you don't smoke. And you see the skeleton of the tree gets exploded by a bit of it. Linda screams. Zombie guts are.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:25

Uh I thought there was gonna be a blinda scream. I thought Linda was gonna scream.

SPEAKER_11 1:19:28

You only get one for combat.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:30

No.

SPEAKER_11 1:19:30

She also is drinking zombie blood, and that's gross. She doesn't like that. She wants real blood.

SPEAKER_13 1:19:37

Mine slipper! You better watch out. You better not cry.

SPEAKER_11 1:19:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 1:19:42

You better not.

SPEAKER_10 1:19:44

Shadow. Uh fail. Okay. The dice kept getting cocked. That's why I don't like trays. That's why I like psychic damage.

SPEAKER_11 1:19:55

You gotta get hard walled trays.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:58

Nope. I got no five.

SPEAKER_10 1:20:01

There is no damage. Oh, I didn't think apparently uh hurts it. He's still up. I'm gonna shake. Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. I you guys are low level, so I just I always assume that you're not doing buttons actions.

SPEAKER_11 1:20:20

He ain't gonna flee. He's stupid.

SPEAKER_14 1:20:21

I'm just telling fucking Joanna to get another fucking arrow in one of her other.

SPEAKER_10 1:20:29

Next to me, what the fuck is going on here?

SPEAKER_14 1:20:32

Beware, my summon knight!

SPEAKER_10 1:20:35

Mike.

SPEAKER_13 1:20:37

Bite!

SPEAKER_10 1:20:39

Uh that that zombie's dead. Fuck.

SPEAKER_11 1:20:43

Did you even hit? Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's right. You want to move up to that one? Yeah, 10 doesn't hit the skelly. It does not. That's right. So I'm just gonna part on it.

SPEAKER_10 1:20:54

Yep. Uh as you run through, you just dissipate the illusion of being holy danced.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:02

That's in the adjacent square. I don't inspire.

SPEAKER_11 1:21:04

Alright, joke run around it.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:09

Oh that's right. That's right.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:12

Everybody happy! This is it's purely character-driven. I just I gotta get in here. I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:23

Um, from here's stuff doing talking about it.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:29

Yeah, whatever. Orion's just like she dies. She dies at this point.

SPEAKER_14 1:21:35

You'll be very upset, Orion. It's broke by close.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:39

We'll get over it. Let it let it 20 to hit.

SPEAKER_10 1:21:44

That'll do it. Aggressive roll.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:47

Yeah, it worked.

SPEAKER_10 1:21:49

What are you doing?

SPEAKER_11 1:21:50

I'm copying her. That's how she's already. Hey, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:54

15 right here.

SPEAKER_11 1:21:56

How do you gotta do this? She goes.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:59

Um, Joanna.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:00

Let it rip. Joanna bro, take throw yours. Her two steps back next to Val.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:08

Kind of looks towards O'Reilly and gives him a little like nod as a thank you for healing her. And then just like guiding ball. Iron Man style. Yes. Nice. Yes.

SPEAKER_10 1:22:23

Amazing. Awesome. You guys are now out of combat.

SPEAKER_14 1:22:28

That little fucker didn't know what he was talking about. That was nothing.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:32

Yeah, it wasn't too bad.

SPEAKER_14 1:22:34

I like people laughing that.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:36

How are your kidneys, Joanna? Easy to do. How are your kidneys? Oh, fine now, I think. They feel like they're functioning, so it's fine. You can feel them functioning? Yeah. I felt them be I felt them. I felt them be healed, which felt gross. Like I felt it come back together. So I think you're fine. Alright. Did you learn anything? I thought you missed.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:08

Russians don't do this. I did not like Russians don't do this.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:18

I thought you missed. Yes, but did you see me kill it with my teeth? No. Right after.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:25

That's how Val, you recognize my face is still shadowy.

SPEAKER_10 1:23:33

Val, you recognize that uh all of the bodies here um have a symbol of Bane on them. Uh seemingly uh old residents of Castle Crag that have been uh shooed out by the new residents, the Zentrum, the new uh Black Hand of Bane, uh cultists, whatever forest creatures or other undead have resided here. Uh but they seem have seemingly were on the move uh and trying to find a new place to reside. Uh it's a good thing that you guys stopped them before they got into Shadowdale Town, but uh it's clear that uh there's not enough space uh at this point, so Castle Crag might be pretty, pretty full at this point.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:31

Yeah, maybe we don't go there until we're a little strongy.

SPEAKER_11 1:24:35

Hopefully we can catch Powell before he gets into Castle Crag.

SPEAKER_14 1:24:40

I'm not sure that's where he's going.

SPEAKER_11 1:24:42

We'll continue to follow these tracks. Uh let me know when it's been an hour. Okay.

SPEAKER_14 1:24:50

Um I don't think I'll ever get used to use spider form.

SPEAKER_11 1:24:56

This is a strange form.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:58

When you talk a wild thing, are you like moving your mouth or your buttons?

SPEAKER_11 1:25:04

Yes, both or something. What?

SPEAKER_02 1:25:10

Would it like give you a lisp or something?

SPEAKER_11 1:25:12

Uh I don't think so, no.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:13

Does your mouth you just know how to use your mouth like that?

SPEAKER_05 1:25:19

I I don't know. Spiders have tongues, do you? It's it'll it's only don't ask me how that is. Oh my god. It's a little hard to look at you. I'm not gonna lie.

SPEAKER_14 1:25:33

I know.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:34

I'm I'm sure it is. This is not my favorite of your favorite.

SPEAKER_14 1:25:37

Do you think you can milk his venom? Oh no.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:41

We're not milking our friend, Hodge.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:43

That's weird. What?

SPEAKER_11 1:25:48

I will have to think about it, Hodge.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:52

Oh no, no, no. Can you turn to your own?

SPEAKER_10 1:25:55

No. And with that, I would ask for another uh another survival check.

SPEAKER_11 1:26:07

Twenty. Sletty twenty. I made that with advantage with your help.

SPEAKER_10 1:26:16

I'm spidering.

SPEAKER_14 1:26:18

Spider.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:26:24

You guys are your spidey senses lead you along the trail. Uh you do pick up two other adult male friends as well. As well as the three goblins. After about forty-five minutes, the goblin tracks veer off. And you see adult male footprint leading from the direction of the castle. The goblins then went uh to the right. Um and then all of the adult men went towards the castle dragon.

SPEAKER_11 1:27:30

Do you want to follow the goblins or do you want to follow the man? There's no way to hell gave the goblins at all. Hopefully we can catch him before he enters the castle.

SPEAKER_10 1:27:49

Um another ten minutes and the castle comes into view. You see, uh, Castle Crag doesn't rise so much as claw its way out of this hillside. It's a drow-built tower and a broken wall, swallowed by centuries of earth, burned and rebuilt and burned again. Half of its half of it is underground. You see, crows sit the battlements and don't fly off. Somewhere inside of these stones, you hear chatter. Lots of it. Make a perception check for me, everybody.

SPEAKER_09 1:28:44

Yep.

SPEAKER_11 1:28:45

Eighteen.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:50

Let's go on, I think.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:53

Uh nineteen.

SPEAKER_11 1:29:00

Ooh, my stealth is close by.

SPEAKER_13 1:29:02

Fourteen. Fourteen.

SPEAKER_10 1:29:08

Um you see that uh anyone that got a twelve can see that the main gate is being watched by two uh figures in dark robes, and you recognize the these dark robes as those not of the Zenterim, but of uh cultists of Maine. These tracks that you've been following lead there. You don't see any of them veer off, but they do kind of uh it becomes muddy. Um, but you do see clearly that these were probably the latest tracks to have gone in. Yeah. Um it seems like just last night. They probably left, followed the exact path that you guys have followed them on um immediately after this encounter that you had and went in. You do not see any tracks that are newer after that. So it seems that Powell is still there. You also see on your 19 and 18 that there are other ways in. You see a collapsed section of the wall, a drainage tunnel that is choked with roots, but apart from that is uh accessible, um kind of leading into the lower levels. Um, and you notice that not all of the entrances are fully guarded. Um obviously this place is layered and very old, and likely below this uh this face that rises up from the hill uh is a uh labyrinth beneath.

SPEAKER_11 1:31:09

Do you think do you think we could try and call him out?

SPEAKER_14 1:31:13

I can make uh one of us invisible for an hour. Uh-huh. Perhaps we could feel it. From under their nose. I do think potentially goading him out is preferable to going in.

SPEAKER_09 1:31:29

Yes.

SPEAKER_14 1:31:30

But I'd rather not deal with them at all. No. Especially with Val being here.

SPEAKER_11 1:31:36

I'd they are mere cultists, I feel like we could take them.

SPEAKER_14 1:31:40

We don't know their numbers. That is true.

SPEAKER_09 1:31:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:31:45

One, two, even ten of them, I think would be fine, but Well, you know that there's at least six. Yes.

SPEAKER_14 1:31:53

Plus, including Value. Like you mean.

SPEAKER_10 1:31:57

So Powell and the Zentrim that he was with, plus what seems like the four Bannites that went in, and then you obviously see two guards in the front, and then lots of chatter within, and then knowing that this is an old, very ancient uh and drow-built uh place, that you know that there's a labyrinth inside of this that is that is going to house many more people. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:23

I have pass without a trace now, too.

SPEAKER_10 1:32:25

Especially since they have kicked out some of the undead that previously lived there. I have really good stealth as a spider. Do you? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:34

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_14 1:32:35

What is what is pass without a trace?

SPEAKER_03 1:32:37

You get a plus ten to yourself check. All of us.

SPEAKER_11 1:32:40

So if somebody needs Orion and I could sneak in.

SPEAKER_14 1:32:44

I can only make one of you completely invisible.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:49

I uh how much longer can you be a spider?

SPEAKER_11 1:32:53

Uh not too much longer.

SPEAKER_14 1:32:55

Then perhaps we send Orion an invisible guided past another trace. All the spells combined. We may have a chance to have you go in and steal the orb from right out. Uh from under how's nose.

SPEAKER_10 1:33:15

I will say that this is very clearly not a horse heist situation. You will not be able to go in and go out scot-free. If you are found while you're in there, you do have different entrances and exits that you can use, and you will need to get to them quickly or you will be surrounded. You don't know exactly how many are in there, but you know that there are many.

SPEAKER_11 1:33:44

It might be better just to go in together.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:49

Find a way out.

SPEAKER_10 1:33:51

You also know that that's probably not a great option either. Just all going in together. A straight up fight? That's what I'm saying. Like you guys are way outnumbered. A fight would be suicide. Yeah. If you sneak in there and are caught, then you need to get out quick. Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 1:34:13

Would you be comfortable doing that?

SPEAKER_11 1:34:16

I can become fast.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:19

Yes.

SPEAKER_14 1:34:20

One of you two. Is it a range?

SPEAKER_03 1:34:29

Uh it's an aura of 30 feet.

SPEAKER_11 1:34:33

I can change, I will focus all of my energy to change into either a wolf or a lion, which will give me much speed. 50 feet of it. Yes. Yes. But they will most likely pursue us.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:53

I can also cast long strider on myself in addition to casting on a tree.

SPEAKER_10 1:34:59

Longstrider last year.

SPEAKER_03 1:35:00

I get an extra 10 feet of movement, it lasts one hour.

SPEAKER_10 1:35:04

I think are both of those concentrations?

SPEAKER_03 1:35:06

No. Longstrider isn't mine.

SPEAKER_14 1:35:12

Very quick. And spelling him my magic isn't working as well. And then maybe we can on the outside waiting.

SPEAKER_10 1:35:33

Yeah, so it's not um it's not filled with water. It's uh but it's like a 30-foot drop.

SPEAKER_11 1:35:41

So we can distract the front door.

SPEAKER_14 1:35:44

Or we we set a trap, and as they if they do catch an attempt to follow, we may pull the bridge off once Orion is free, trapping them in their own castle, at least for a moment. We get the fuck out of there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:36:02

I mean you guys can see that the obviously the there's an entrance here, there's an entrance here, back here.

SPEAKER_14 1:36:08

Like um This is all down? Oh no, the oh, this is the thing.

SPEAKER_10 1:36:12

This is So this is this is kind of you would have to find a way to cross this. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_14 1:36:18

Um straight through the front door, maybe.

SPEAKER_10 1:36:20

But yeah. Uh or or climb up over here. Um but there are other ways in. Um and then the the sort of sewer entrance you can see uh is is it's kind of hidden by the map. But it's over it's over where it's over where the void. Yeah, the void. It's in the void where the um their projector is broken.

SPEAKER_03 1:36:50

Orion would definitely use the hidden entrance.

SPEAKER_14 1:36:52

Yeah, I don't think going through the front door is the best, but maybe out through the front door would be a potential just because it's fast.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:00

If necessary.

SPEAKER_14 1:37:01

Yeah, and then we could, I don't know, destroy the bridge if we needed to.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:06

Only we have bombs.

SPEAKER_14 1:37:09

3d6.

SPEAKER_10 1:37:13

That was really disappointing.

SPEAKER_14 1:37:16

Good work. Um I think that might be our best option. We can't all go in there.

SPEAKER_11 1:37:21

You do have smoke bombs.

SPEAKER_14 1:37:23

Yes, exactly.

SPEAKER_11 1:37:24

We do have smoke bombs.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:31

So with myself and plus fourteen. And guidance. And guidance. So then I have a plus fourteen.

SPEAKER_14 1:37:46

And invisibility would give you advantage. Right? Yeah. Um really a shadow.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:02

He's just a wind.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:03

Yeah. Thars. Sometimes I still hear his voice.

SPEAKER_11 1:38:10

I loved having a plus twenty with pass without trace. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:15

14, 17, 30.

SPEAKER_11 1:38:17

Yeah, right. Alright. Quick draw.

SPEAKER_10 1:38:21

Yeah, it doesn't really give rules for invisible, which is weird, but um it's just they kind of need to just find you.

SPEAKER_11 1:38:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:38:31

If you have pass without trace, because when you're hidden, you're you have the invisible as invisible vision anyway.

SPEAKER_11 1:38:36

Yeah, you don't really give it to me.

SPEAKER_10 1:38:38

Yeah. But with invisible, you can be you can be hidden out in the open. Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 1:38:44

I would do it anyway, just to give us as much options as humanly possible. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:52

I'm ready.

SPEAKER_11 1:38:54

Please just be careful.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:56

I will.

SPEAKER_11 1:38:58

Come back to us. Okay. Is Orian going solo?

SPEAKER_14 1:39:02

I think so.

SPEAKER_11 1:39:04

That's such a bad idea. I think we need to send one more person.

SPEAKER_14 1:39:07

I don't think that's for what's going to be one more person's not gonna kill him.

SPEAKER_11 1:39:12

No, but it'll help if he's caught.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:15

Um I'm gonna cast Log Strider on myself, and I'm gonna cast barkskin on myself as well. Not only one of these things is concentration, which is insane. Which is a pass without a trace.

SPEAKER_10 1:39:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:29

So I have bark. I'm gonna write.

SPEAKER_10 1:39:32

For how long? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:33

One hour for bark skin.

SPEAKER_14 1:39:37

Oh my god, Ryan, you got this. I believe it's yes.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:40

What's invisibility?

SPEAKER_14 1:39:42

Nothing essentially you're just invisible.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:44

How long?

SPEAKER_14 1:39:45

One hour.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:47

Um cast without a trace is one hour.

SPEAKER_14 1:39:54

Always will have this advantage to attack you. While you're invisible again.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:58

So cast without a trace I'm casting, orpskin I'm casting, long strider, I'm casting. Which is long strider is also one hour.

SPEAKER_14 1:40:08

I will also wait to cast invisibility, of course, until Orion has uh cast all these spells and then attack. Any attack roll, dealing damage or casting a spell, you will become uninvisible. So just not doing an action necessarily, but like doing it offensive action.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:26

Okay. Yeah, and I'll wait to cast guidance because it's only a minute, so it'll help you get in there, but then once you're in there, it'll go in.

SPEAKER_11 1:40:32

Yeah. Poof. I believe in this. I believe in you, but I'll be excited. I'm I'm super nervous for you.

SPEAKER_14 1:40:41

I think we may be more of a liability than the health, but if we were to travel in maybe you or Ike would not be so bad, but I feel the worst if we are all taking a whole two of us inside. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:53

This is uh very similar to a lot of the missions I was on back at the temple, so I am prepared.

SPEAKER_10 1:40:59

Good.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:59

Be careful, okay?

SPEAKER_10 1:41:02

Orion spends uh a couple minutes casting these spells on himself, right? Uh and then finally topped off with invisibility from Hodge.

SPEAKER_14 1:41:16

Actually, I throw her face, I'm pretty sure.

SPEAKER_03 1:41:21

He doesn't flinch.

SPEAKER_10 1:41:23

Uh turns completely invisible out of sight from the group. Um you faintly hear his footsteps as he walks off. How hard is it making it? He said it's not gonna be like foresight, so we're fucked.

SPEAKER_14 1:41:39

We can't just outrun him. That's what he meant. Can't steal. It just means you can't like run it.

SPEAKER_11 1:41:47

I mean, we could it'll they'll be easier to pick off that way.

SPEAKER_10 1:41:50

Um climbing down and going through the drainage tunnel. Yep. Okay. Um do you take your time or do you want to do this quickly? Climbing down.

SPEAKER_03 1:42:03

Oh what what would change? Anything?

SPEAKER_10 1:42:09

The it would be more difficult. I would make you have you make a roll, but uh you would save some time on your spells that might really concerned about my spells.

SPEAKER_03 1:42:18

Okay. So I will take it.

SPEAKER_10 1:42:20

Is ten minutes the shortest one?

SPEAKER_03 1:42:21

One minute is the shortest one. One minute for guidance.

SPEAKER_10 1:42:24

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:42:24

One hour for everything else.

SPEAKER_10 1:42:26

Well, it's gonna take it. Either way, your guidance has gone.

unknown 1:42:29

Okay. That's fine.

SPEAKER_10 1:42:31

Um, by the time you reach the bottom and and reach the drainage tunnel.

SPEAKER_03 1:42:34

I have guidance now. It's kind of nice. You're right.

SPEAKER_10 1:42:39

It's also verbal.

SPEAKER_03 1:42:41

Not doing that. Guidance.

SPEAKER_13 1:42:45

I hope they don't see me.

SPEAKER_10 1:42:51

Uh you find a root-choked tunnel in the buried tower, buried at lower levels of this tower. Cramped, wet, dark, but no guards. Nobody watches it because nobody sane would ever think of using it. Not the poopy tunnel. You watch the poop tunnel.

SPEAKER_01 1:43:16

Don't worry, sorry.

SPEAKER_10 1:43:17

Uh as you slip between the roots uh and step through this wet mess, uh, you are dropped beneath the castle. Make a perception check as you find your way inside. Uh, this will be a disadvantage because it is completely dark.

SPEAKER_05 1:43:48

11.

SPEAKER_10 1:43:50

Okay. Still be at disadvantage. Okay, never mind.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:56

It was at disadvantage.

SPEAKER_10 1:43:57

Yeah, I know. What have you done?

SPEAKER_02 1:44:01

I didn't do it at disadvantage.

SPEAKER_10 1:44:03

Oh, yeah, it's disadvantage. What'd you get?

SPEAKER_02 1:44:06

Nine.

SPEAKER_10 1:44:06

Okay. Um you continue along through the tunnel until you reach this labyrinth. You kind of climb up through a gate and find yourself in a long tunnel with many different doors leading different ways, many different tunnels leading different ways. You hear the rickety sound of a bow. Kind of clicking and clicking and clicking. And make a stealth check for me. At advantage.

SPEAKER_03 1:45:01

Not twenty.

SPEAKER_10 1:45:03

Let's go. What's the total? Thirty-four. Plus ten for five password trace, right?

SPEAKER_02 1:45:10

Plus less than five. Thirty-four.

SPEAKER_10 1:45:14

Oh, I love that. This clicking uh is a bow uh wrapped around the back of a skeleton that is walking down the hallway and clattering against its rib cage as it walks right past you. Literally right past your nose. And continues down the hall. Completely unaware that you are right there. You peek around the corner and you see more skeletons just kind of like looking around, uh, kind of watching, and then some zombies just passing by. And then uh do you continue through the hall?

SPEAKER_08 1:46:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_14 1:46:09

Um I'm getting nervous. Did I keep an eye with my orb of time? I thought you got rid of it. No, I didn't. Oh. I was like, no one's gonna want this. Um just how long she has left on her spells, and then he has left on his spells, and then I will maybe use it as I had to cast message and give like a 10-minute warning.

SPEAKER_10 1:46:30

Do you need to see them to cast message?

SPEAKER_14 1:46:34

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:46:35

Cool. Like, yeah. He's in there. He's in there somewhere. Um you pass by a door uh that you hear a uh a few people uh sounds like they're eating. You hear the click, the clanking of silverware, uh, and then people kind of eating and that's a good one.

SPEAKER_08 1:47:06

Um better uh better get back to work.

SPEAKER_10 1:47:10

And then you hear footsteps kind of clacking against the uh um against the stone and and getting closer to the door that you are standing next to. The door opens. Uh uh, he he closes it.

SPEAKER_08 1:47:32

Fucking zombies walking outside. Let's take care of them.

SPEAKER_10 1:47:37

Awesome. He uh you hear the other three people get up. Uh, you look and they just kind of look like bandits. They don't look like they're affiliated with the Zentrim or with Bane. Uh and you see all four of them uh grab their short swords and point them at the zombies and say, Get moving down the hall, down the hall. You know where you're supposed to be. And the zombies go, and they kind of turn and walk down uh down the hall to another uh room down a long hall. Um, and then the other three go back inside, continue eating, um, and uh the one walks right past you, almost bumps you with his shoulder, uh, because you didn't say you moved. Um and uh just kind of like sniffs and then starts sniffing his armpits.

SPEAKER_11 1:48:45

I guess that's me.

SPEAKER_10 1:48:47

Weird. Uh and then walks down the hall uh and and you see him open a door to another room that look and you kind of peek in, looks like sort of like a bedroom. Um you continue down the hallway that you were going through?

SPEAKER_03 1:49:05

I think so.

SPEAKER_02 1:49:06

I should.

SPEAKER_10 1:49:07

Okay. Um you start to feel as you as you venture deeper into this labyrinth, you start to feel your skin kind of ache. Something feels really wrong here.

SPEAKER_03 1:49:25

Skin aching like my stars?

SPEAKER_10 1:49:28

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 1:49:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:49:31

Um and your kind of breath starts to get a little thin. There's something something here that's very, very strange.

SPEAKER_03 1:49:48

Um would you like me to um use one of my shape my uh wild shape couches for my story form or not yet?

SPEAKER_10 1:49:58

If you want to.

SPEAKER_03 1:49:59

I didn't know if you're You said my skin aches, I don't know if that was the trigger.

SPEAKER_10 1:50:02

No.

SPEAKER_03 1:50:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:50:05

Um then uh continue down the hall and hear the faint screaming, just guttural agonizing scream. He fucking swallowed it. Some bitch.

unknown 1:50:26

Nice.

SPEAKER_10 1:50:27

Do you follow the sound?

SPEAKER_03 1:50:29

Yes. If it can I ready I'd like to ready a disengage. Can I do that without breaking my invisibility? Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:50:43

Yeah, why not?

SPEAKER_03 1:50:45

Just in case I see something in here that makes me need to run in the opposite direction.

SPEAKER_11 1:50:51

Okay. Yeah. I'm gonna guess it's pal after he swallowed it.

SPEAKER_00 1:50:57

If there's a cult here, they might just be tortured.

SPEAKER_10 1:51:00

You try to approach this door? Um make a religion check for me.

SPEAKER_14 1:51:16

18. Nice, nice, nice, nice.

SPEAKER_10 1:51:20

Um, as you're walking down, you get this sense. It feels very different than the orb did. The orb felt evil, but this feels like a different kind of uh like a devotion to a dark being. As you listen to this scream, it continues. Sometimes it goes quiet, but not because they're stopping their suffering, but because they're being gagged. And you kind of look at the door and you see that it has been painted um by the cultists of Bain. There are two candelabras illuminating it, and you see uh um what looks like on that on this religion check, what looks like the markings of uh this is like their chapel room that the Bainites have uh have kind of requisitioned and have clearly uh started torturing someone as a sacrifice to Bain. Great. Just great.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:38

Okay. It's none of my business.

SPEAKER_10 1:52:41

Okay, you wanna keep on?

unknown 1:52:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:52:45

I'm going to help that person. We're fuck power, we're fuck power. Uh if you continue down this hallway, uh it leads down a staircase. Um down to another uh sort of labyrinth area. And the door directly in front of it. Uh the just kind of this double door uh appears in front of you. Um you now get that same feeling that you had when you were near the orb. You see these etchings, these scratches on this double door. Uh make an arcana check for me. Eight Not something you recognize um but scratches in this wood nonetheless. You hear a muffled conversation. A few voices. Make a perception check for me.

SPEAKER_12 1:54:13

Fourteen.

SPEAKER_10 1:54:16

Uh you hear the word uh you hear the words chromatic, dragon, fuck orb, swallow, uh, and power. And you recognize that this is likely between four and six people in this room. It is fairly clear to you that Powell is one of them. It is fairly clear to you that the orb is in there as well. What would you like to do?

SPEAKER_03 1:55:03

Oh fucking no.

SPEAKER_10 1:55:10

At this point, we are approaching ten minutes.

SPEAKER_14 1:55:15

Left.

SPEAKER_10 1:55:16

Ten minutes uh that you've been on this trip.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:20

So I don't have my launch.

SPEAKER_10 1:55:21

Because you didn't stop really and look for anything. You've just kind of been the only time you really stopped on this trip was when people were right in front of your face. You've just kind of walked straight ahead. Uh the invisibility certainly helped with that. What do you want to do? We're not warbat. We're not warbat.

SPEAKER_03 1:55:44

Do I can I like use my I guess intuition or something to try and determine if they're going to swallow this now or if this is a sale.

SPEAKER_10 1:56:05

Based on what you heard from here, unless you were to go up and kind of listen at the door, very hard to tell. You as a player can try to make something up, figure it out, or as Orion, but that's all the information you have.

SPEAKER_03 1:56:22

I have a feeling that this is a sale. I don't think that they are. I don't necessarily think that they're stupid enough to try this right now. So I'm gonna wait a few minutes and see if they open the door. After negotiating. I'm gonna listen to see if they transform. I'm gonna listen to see if this is a sale. And if it is a sale and they come back out this door, I wanna try and pickpocket them. Hell yeah.

unknown 1:57:00

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:57:01

Pigpocket zit orb. That's good to see.

SPEAKER_03 1:57:05

If I can like feel it and sense where it is, I might be able to see it. I'm fucking scared, guys.

SPEAKER_11 1:57:15

Pickpocket zip orb. Attention it pickpocket!

SPEAKER_03 1:57:19

Now, if I pickpocket, does that count as like a roll?

SPEAKER_14 1:57:23

It doesn't say it says make an attack. Oh, the phone's dead. It says make an attack, cast a spell, or if you're gonna be able to do it.

SPEAKER_11 1:57:34

I would say no. Yeah, I didn't think so. Um it doesn't count. No, it doesn't count as an attack. No. Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:57:40

Um you hear footsteps coming down the staircase. About five minutes in. So you're 15 minutes total in. About five minutes since you've arrived at this staircase. You're waiting. You hear two pairs uh or yeah, two pairs of footsteps coming down the stairs very slowly and methodically.

SPEAKER_03 1:58:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:58:12

You hear them talking to each other.

SPEAKER_03 1:58:14

Okay. I listen. I'm gonna move out of their way though, if they're coming down.

SPEAKER_10 1:58:17

You're gonna hug the wall?

SPEAKER_03 1:58:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:58:20

Um These motherfuckers. You think they can do business in our home without us knowing about it? Just gonna start eating away. Yeah. We're gonna teach 'em. We're gonna teach 'em what they do in our place.

unknown 1:58:38

Perfect.

SPEAKER_09 1:58:39

I think we need that.

SPEAKER_10 1:58:41

Um and you they pass right by you. These you can see that these are two uh members of the Bane cult.

SPEAKER_09 1:58:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:58:52

Um their footsteps clack uh loudly with their boots on this approach to the door. Uh it seems like this is um sort of like very loud stone, or they have very, very hard, hard boots.

SPEAKER_11 1:59:14

It's like those click-clack footsteps in the Barbie movies.

SPEAKER_03 1:59:17

Oh my god, those are so good.

SPEAKER_11 1:59:19

It's like with my eardrums.

SPEAKER_10 1:59:21

Sorry. Um and right as they are about to reach for the door, uh, you hear from the other side of the door.

SPEAKER_08 1:59:32

Don't! Oh.

SPEAKER_10 1:59:35

And they both kind of freeze. And then you hear a kind of hand wiping against the back of the wood. You can hear their fingernails across the grain. And you see the scratches and the pattern on the front of the door wipe away.

SPEAKER_08 1:59:58

Uh fuck.

SPEAKER_10 1:59:59

And the door slowly opens, and you see one uh the the Zentrim that was with Powell. You see him peek out with his pistol, literally, like right under his face, pointed at them. The fuck do you want? And you see uh both of the knights, they put their hands up and kind of take a step back, a loud clack as they do.

SPEAKER_08 2:00:29

You think you're allowed to do business without us knowing about it?

SPEAKER_10 2:00:35

Uh he kind of steps out, closes the door behind him, points the pistol at both of them. I think I can do whatever the fuck I wanna do. And they go. Alright. We're gonna hear about it at some point. Fuck! And they put their hands down and turn and walk right past you.

SPEAKER_04 2:01:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 2:01:04

The pistol still looking, trained on both of them until they reach the top of the stairs. Um, you see as he opens the door to go back, there are five other people surrounding Pal. Uh, and you see at the center placed on sort of a coffee table. Pal is sitting at the center of a couch. There are two people on either side of him uh facing this door. Uh two people on chairs um sitting in front of him, and then the the other Zentrim, all four of these other people also look like Zentrim members. High up, very high up. Uh, but at the center you see the orb itself wrapped in a thin lead uh infused cloth, uh kind of like half folded over. Um you see all of them kind of looking out the door, making direct eye contact with you pretty much. They obviously don't know. Yeah, but you kind of get a chill down your spine as you see these five men, these scary looking men directly looking at you, and then the door closes. You hear a scratch on the wood grain again, as you notice this as a glyph of warding is placed again on this door.

unknown 2:02:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 2:02:45

What do you would like to do?

SPEAKER_03 2:02:46

I am still gonna wait.

SPEAKER_10 2:02:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 2:02:49

Until whatever this deal is is done.

SPEAKER_10 2:02:51

Okay. Yeah, until they open the door again and the rest of them have an hour, so 45 minutes.

SPEAKER_03 2:03:00

Everything is an hour.

SPEAKER_14 2:03:01

Okay. Everything is an hour here. And I'll give the 10-minute warning as soon as I can.

SPEAKER_10 2:03:06

Okay. Um, do you get any closer as to listen to the conversation?

SPEAKER_02 2:03:12

I will.

SPEAKER_10 2:03:13

Knowing that your footsteps may be loud. This will require a stealth check, but it would help. So if you get um this is a 15-foot walkway of loud stone that has been placed here specifically for this purpose so that people would not know when or so that people would know when someone is approaching this room. This room has been placed at the very bottom of this keep. Very uh well hidden. You were able to find it pretty easily. Uh so this is 15 feet. For every five feet, I will subtract two from the DC of the perception check. But on each five feet, I'll ask for a stealth check. And the DC would be eighteen.

SPEAKER_14 2:04:13

Plus ten. Plus fourteen.

SPEAKER_10 2:04:16

That's pretty good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 2:04:18

And you have advantage?

SPEAKER_10 2:04:20

Well, not on this because it's just purely sound. If they open the door again, slip your ass in there.

unknown 2:04:28

Oh.

SPEAKER_10 2:04:29

So you can get ne you can get next to the door. On three successful stealth checks, you can get next to the door and have a six easier perception and the opportunity to possibly get inside. It's up to you. How close do you want to get?

SPEAKER_03 2:04:46

What am I gonna do if I get inside?

SPEAKER_10 2:04:48

You'll get it. That's up to you. Or you can stay here, not roll you can roll perception check that's gonna be harder.

SPEAKER_11 2:04:56

Uh but not have to roll a stealth check. Is that not the goal to yoink it?

SPEAKER_10 2:05:01

It is the goal.

SPEAKER_03 2:05:02

I'm scared!

SPEAKER_10 2:05:04

You got this. You got this. Whatever happens, I'm going to roll for chance to see how long it takes them to come out.

SPEAKER_14 2:05:13

Okay. Oh, hell yeah. Should try to get a little closer at least. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 2:05:19

Honestly, you oink it, and you gotta.

SPEAKER_03 2:05:21

I have 45 I have 90 feet of movement with dash.

SPEAKER_11 2:05:24

That's amazing. You'll outrun them.

SPEAKER_03 2:05:26

But they have guns. I do have barbers. Invisibility.

SPEAKER_10 2:05:30

I have invisibility. You are invisible.

SPEAKER_09 2:05:34

Oh my god, we had a sweaty. Okay. You got it.

SPEAKER_10 2:05:37

Okay, first stealth check.

SPEAKER_11 2:05:38

The DC is 18. So you need a four above, and you did not roll a four above. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 2:05:45

Then that one. You rolled a two. Shit. I'm gonna go further back.

SPEAKER_07 2:05:51

Well.

SPEAKER_10 2:05:52

Can I? What's your total? That's a sixteen.

SPEAKER_03 2:05:56

Um, yes.

SPEAKER_10 2:05:59

Uh you take a slow step up and a loud clack on the stone. You hear the conversation hushes for a second. Door swings open. Pistol. He looks around. I make a perception check for him.

SPEAKER_02 2:06:26

Slip in there, slip in there.

SPEAKER_10 2:06:33

He does not see you. Slip your way, isn't it? If anyone's out there, the next time you make a sound, it's gonna be the last sound you make. Door slams shut.

SPEAKER_07 2:06:50

There's no way you're gonna roll.

SPEAKER_10 2:06:51

You are five feet closer now.

SPEAKER_07 2:06:53

Right? There's no way you're gonna roll.

SPEAKER_10 2:06:59

Where's the box? You are five feet closer.

SPEAKER_03 2:07:03

Okay. Get a little closer.

SPEAKER_13 2:07:08

You got this? You're fast.

SPEAKER_11 2:07:09

You little closy. Get a little closer. He did just open the door without disarming the glyph. Well, I figured no.

SPEAKER_02 2:07:17

Oh, and he would expose it.

SPEAKER_11 2:07:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:07:20

Alright, so need to get a little bit closer.

SPEAKER_10 2:07:23

He just opens the door. BOUM! You're gonna get five feet closer? Alright?

SPEAKER_09 2:07:30

Let's do it. Yep.

SPEAKER_13 2:07:32

Yep. Yep.

SPEAKER_10 2:07:33

Yep, yep.

SPEAKER_13 2:07:34

I rolled a nine on the die, so.

SPEAKER_02 2:07:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 2:07:40

One more or no? Yes! You got it. Which dice did you roll?

SPEAKER_02 2:07:47

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_10 2:07:48

You you Okay.

SPEAKER_02 2:07:50

What?

SPEAKER_10 2:07:51

Because you rolled two dice you rolled a dice and then it like knocked another D20 out. I rolled this one.

SPEAKER_02 2:07:56

It knocked this one. That's a 12 on the dock.

SPEAKER_10 2:07:59

Okay. You are next to the door. Obviously, you know not to touch it.

SPEAKER_02 2:08:03

Yep. No, not to touch it.

SPEAKER_10 2:08:05

But one step closer. Your perception check DC now drops by six from a twenty to a fourteen. Oh yeah. If you would like to listen in.

SPEAKER_12 2:08:14

I do. Alright. Perception check.

SPEAKER_10 2:08:17

DC is 14.

SPEAKER_03 2:08:19

Yeah. Uh uh. Nope.

SPEAKER_10 2:08:22

What did you get though?

SPEAKER_03 2:08:22

Rolled a four plus five, so nine.

SPEAKER_10 2:08:26

Okay. That's still only five lower, so you can still get a little bit. Um, you're not gonna get the whole story.

unknown 2:08:35

Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_10 2:08:39

Um you hear that uh pick these words carefully. You hear Bane can't know.

SPEAKER_12 2:09:04

Whoa, whoa.

SPEAKER_10 2:09:06

What you hear need to leave tonight. That's it. Clearly they are unwelcome visitors here, though some Zenterim obviously have taken up some residence here. This is mainly the cult of Bane who stay here, and you have seen firsthand that they are not keen on keeping visitors who are keeping secrets from them. Oh my god, we could rally the Bane people.

SPEAKER_03 2:09:55

I literally was thinking that. But I don't think it's a good idea for Val. My other thought is I come out, tell the group that they're leaving tonight.

SPEAKER_14 2:10:03

We wait.

SPEAKER_03 2:10:04

We wait, we ambush. I like ambush.

SPEAKER_11 2:10:07

Yep.

SPEAKER_03 2:10:08

Now granted, I don't have all of the information, this is what I am assuming.

SPEAKER_11 2:10:11

Yep. That's fair.

SPEAKER_14 2:10:13

Um I think we can still wait it out and see if they leave, maybe, but then I think if we can make it back to us, that would be fantastic.

SPEAKER_10 2:10:21

I'm gonna roll a D100 to see how many minutes they are going to stay in there. Oh no.

SPEAKER_14 2:10:27

Out of a possible a hundred minutes?

SPEAKER_10 2:10:30

Yep. Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_03 2:10:32

I am only staying until.

SPEAKER_10 2:10:36

They're gonna stay in there for another hour and twenty four minutes. Bro! Talking about what?

SPEAKER_14 2:10:42

Yeah, that's out of a possible hour and forty minutes.

unknown 2:10:46

Fuck!

SPEAKER_03 2:10:47

Alright, well.

SPEAKER_10 2:10:48

So as you feel your your spells getting close to being finished, I'm assuming you probably leave with some time to spare. Yes. Okay, so you're gonna head back?

SPEAKER_03 2:10:59

Yes.

SPEAKER_10 2:11:00

I'll need two more stealth checks. Okay. Can you just like hop?

SPEAKER_11 2:11:08

Your eyes got really wide. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 2:11:12

I'm gonna fucking run. I had my disengage. Remember, I said I'm gonna be able to do that. Would you still be if you're leaving, would you still be at advantage because you're still invisible?

SPEAKER_07 2:11:19

Well, but I've done it.

SPEAKER_11 2:11:20

This is for the sound. This is for the floor, so no. Run. Let me see your character sheet.

SPEAKER_14 2:11:27

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_11 2:11:28

What does that mean?

SPEAKER_14 2:11:30

That means he's about to delete it off your DDBR.

unknown 2:11:34

No.

SPEAKER_11 2:11:34

It's just a p it's just a pistol or two.

SPEAKER_14 2:11:36

It's the glyph of mortg that I'm worried about.

SPEAKER_03 2:11:39

Well, I'm not close enough to it.

SPEAKER_11 2:11:42

He didn't touch the doer. So he's good.

SPEAKER_13 2:11:46

No!

SPEAKER_14 2:11:47

Not in a hole in the ground, she doesn't.

SPEAKER_13 2:11:49

Not yet!

SPEAKER_10 2:11:50

You take a step, a loud clap as you turn. And you trigger that disengage, you start running on the stone on the side of the wall. There is a sharp piece that juts out, catches on the side of your belt, your long long sword, your plus one long sword, is unclasped, falls, clatters on the ground behind you.

SPEAKER_03 2:12:30

I'm fucking running.

SPEAKER_10 2:12:32

You run.

SPEAKER_03 2:12:34

I have 90 feet.

SPEAKER_06 2:12:37

Your sword also becomes visible.

SPEAKER_10 2:12:46

Scratches on the wall. Yep. You're dashing. You are at the steps. The door flings open a shot of the pistol.

SPEAKER_14 2:12:58

Is that a disadvantage?

SPEAKER_10 2:13:00

Did you say you're visible? She is visible or invisible.

SPEAKER_14 2:13:04

The sword becomes visible.

SPEAKER_10 2:13:08

What's your AC right now?

SPEAKER_03 2:13:09

17.

SPEAKER_10 2:13:11

It is? Oh right, right, right. Right on the bottom of your foot. The bullet hits and shatters on the bark skin. And you run.

SPEAKER_02 2:13:26

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 2:13:30

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_09 2:13:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 2:13:33

And that's where we're gonna end our session.

SPEAKER_09 2:13:35

No, no, no! Keep going. What the fuck? No! You can't do this to me.

SPEAKER_10 2:13:42

I mean, we can go another 10 minutes, I guess. I felt like that was a good place to end.

SPEAKER_09 2:13:45

It was a good place to end.

SPEAKER_11 2:13:47

It's a great place to end. Oh my god. Jesus.

SPEAKER_08 2:13:54

GG's.

SPEAKER_05 2:13:55

Holy shit.

SPEAKER_10 2:13:59

It was a 16 to hit you.

SPEAKER_06 2:14:01

Holy nice. What was it without disadvantage?

SPEAKER_10 2:14:07

18.

SPEAKER_11 2:14:14

You found out everything you needed to. So there's there's four of them, including Powell.

SPEAKER_06 2:14:23

Five Zentri.

SPEAKER_11 2:14:25

Six.

SPEAKER_10 2:14:26

There's five total, including Powell. Sorry, six total including Powell. Okay, the Zenterim that you've met, there's Powell, and then there's four other high up Zenterim. You think we could take on uh five high up Zenterim?

SPEAKER_14 2:14:39

Well, we've got them all traveling with Powell. We'll just have to see. We could also tail them until they go to sleep. They can't be up forever. We could sneak behind them.

SPEAKER_10 2:14:49

Orion's gonna outrun them. Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 2:14:52

I mean when they leave, theoretically, later tonight.

SPEAKER_10 2:14:54

And they likely will not think to go through his route.

SPEAKER_09 2:15:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 2:15:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 2:15:01

Great.

SPEAKER_10 2:15:03

It's just a matter of did your invisibility go away after getting hit? It's also a matter of will you run into people on your way through.

SPEAKER_14 2:15:14

Only if you do an offensive action.

SPEAKER_10 2:15:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 2:15:20

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