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nearly derailed by a quarrel amongst my companions. The drought known as Miss Crystal
number two must have been suffering about a hysteria because she believes that the cult
leader has usurped her identity, and then she tried to derail our entire expedition.
Luckily, a few of our other companions, level headed fellows such as
my gnome friend Jimothy, managed to subdue and calm her in the moment.
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how do your characters unwind after a long day at work? I'm Kyle,
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for thirty minutes. That's it? What up? It's your boy? Marcel
Hardy playing Richard Cox, a human consultant turned haffling bard who Holly believes it's
better to be lucky than good, but it's best to be both, and
Richard unwinds after work by disassociating for a couple of hours. So almost as
I'm sensing Hi, I'm Anelin Hardy. I play Taylor Jacobs, a centaur
barbarian who's a marketing coordinator in the old world. So when she is at
home after work, which we all know doesn't happen early, she loves a
little nose candy. So she gets home, clears off her counter and her
studio apartment, gets comfortable, gets out her little vial and just takes a
deep breath, and the sweet aroma of Crystal Clarity's first line of products called
Sleep with Me lost her. Hi, my name is Katie, and I
played Crystal. She is a drought druid and the owner of her very own
MLM, Crystal Clarity, which is not something she uses to wind down at
the end of the day because she don't work, doesn't She's neither confirming nor
denying that those essential oils worker don't work. But Crystal doesn't really unwind um.
She's always on the hustle, always on the grind. She is always
on Facebook even when she's not. She's like constantly checking messages, constantly communicating
with her downline, constantly communicating with unders. Her version of unwinding is like
probably like a super long bubble bath, but she's still on her phone working.
Yeah. Hey, I'm Marjorie. I play Amy Ann basic b Rough
and Tumble Human Fighter. She has a freshly minted dentistry degree. Her unwinding
after a long day of pulling teeth, we'd have to she would go to
the gym um, maybe get home, call her mom, call her brother,
you know, reconnect with some folks, hit on the couch. Nothing
exciting, nice, your souls forward again? All right, I'm Tyler.
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work used to actually get winded up playing League Legends until he eventually rage quits
and goos to sleep. The DM unwinds like most dms after a session,
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Pod. You guys made it through the first of the puzzle doors. You
guys made it into what is This room is called the rotunda, and it
has three doors, one directly in front of you and then one to each
side of you. And there's a little gargoyles statue above, and one always
lies, one always tells the truth, and one tells you what it thinks
you want to hear. Hey, fizzle bang, how would you handle this?
No, we have the t He looks, and he starts thinking to
himself. He goes, this is quite the conundrum, because obviously what we
want is to find the right dual. I got it. What is two
plus two? And I ask all of them. One of the gargoyles goes,
seven. Okay, that's the one that lies. What did the other
one say? The one at the very back says two plus two equals four,
and then the one on the right says two plus two equals four.
Okay, So we can just disregard the door that says seven. We need
to figure out between the other two. Okay, so we ask the one
on the rightmost side, should I go down your path? He said yes,
Okay, I'm going to ask the one in the middle, Hey,
is your path safe? As far as you know, I think we need
to go down the door on the right. So I think the one in
the middle is the one that tells us what we want to hear, and
I just want to test it. Hey, so what do you think of
me? The gargoyle like it turns and it like scans you up and down.
It says, oh, my gosh, your boots are so cute.
Are hey, you're like color matched with the socks and everything. Yeah,
it's fantastic. Thank you so much. Are those extensions or is that your
actual hair? It was extensions, but I think it's my natural hair.
Now, Oh my gosh, girl, that could be a liar. And
then Crystal like she's like, thank you so much, girl, And then
she turns around anytime, and then she turns around, her face immediately falls
and she's like, that's the guy that tells me what I want to hear.
We already knew that though she was testing a theory, I was so
confirmed. We go right. Yeah, yeah, I think we just go
to the right. So you guys approach and the gargoyle looks down and she
says, which one of you is approaching the door, Jimothy, I want
to go up to the door on the right and try to open it.
All right, As you approach, it says it looks down, says,
and this is the door you have selected. Confirm the door opens. Okay,
sick, let's go. And you hear a clicking sound. No,
no, no, I'm just kidding. You step in, and more more
lamps light themselves, and you see a very simple stone room and you see
a door at the other end of it. Basically, if you enter this
room and you turn left, you would see a door. The other sides
are just walls, and there is a single table at the center of the
room with what appears to be a bottle of very very old wine. Bentley,
you're up because you're the biggest, so if it's poisoned, it'd be
the slowest to kill you. I should also note that the door to the
like the door to the left, is open. I feel like miss Jamieson's
the biggest. Technically, she's got the whole horse body Jamieson said, the
door on the left is open. Yes, go peek in there. Okay,
it's just a hallway. Okay, hey, it's just a hallway.
So why would we drink this mysterious I can't resist the prompt, and I'm
going to and I'm going to open it. Does it say drink me?
I'm going to open it? So is it just you approaching it? Yes?
Okay, So as you grab it, you see on the bottle it
says Boone's Farm. And two arrows fire out of the ceiling. One like
grazes you but doesn't like hurt you. The other one is like a direct
hit, like right into your shoulder. Jimothy, not again, and you're
gonna take four piercing damage from the arrow from the ceiling. No, he
uses that shoulder. I use both of them. Is he right handed or
left handed? That's a good question, ye say what shoulder? Your right
shoulder? That's unfortunate? Is right handed? Yeah? I an arrowed um.
If I was any taller or probably hit my knee, but luckily it
hit my shoulder. So I imagine you had the wine bottle in your right
hand. Are you still holding it? I firmly grasped it and as you
pick it up you realize it's empty. Is there a message in it?
No, it was just a prompt just you want to break it? Can
I detect magic on this bottle? You would not detect anything magical about this
bottle. It was literally just something put in the middle of a room to
to distract someone. Cool. Well, now y'all are all safe, so
disarmed the trap everybody. Two of us have now taken damage from this,
so someone else is gonna have to volunteer whatever it is. I'm gonna break
the arrow off over here instead of pulling it out, because I know that
you're not supposed to pull the arrows out. Yep, Why don't you just
pull it out and I'll heal you up? Big brain, I pull the
arrow out. Any I guess uses your spell to heal me. I'm not
you're gonna use a spell? How much damage did you take? I took
four? You heal the four because I used lay on hands. Bentley walks
up and put his hand on your shoulder and the moves it away and it's
like you see skin because it's healed nice in your shirt. What the fuck
was really? How did you know? To do that. I figured out
after the fight. Oh, I was gonna say, Felix like kind of
chimes in. He says, well, most paladins can do that. It's
a very common feat. He just laid his hands on him. Yes,
these hands. That's like a miracle. That's amazing. That's not that remarkable,
Because I can do i'n't. I've been told I can. I accidentally
did earlier. Can I wonder if I could do it? She's it's different,
not exactly the same. But you're I mean, I figured you,
with your hubs and everything, you are druid, aren't you sure have you
figured out? How have you figured out how to tell run into like a
bat? Yet? No? I don't think is that my only option?
No, I've heard druids turned into all kinds of man of beast, So
like beast boy, you don't know beast boy. I still definitely doesn't like
animals. And it's like Taylor Jacobs is like, did I get stuck?
Like was that like halfway? Yeah, okay, I would I can do
that, And she just like starts trying to figure out how to just think
about the animal. Really all right, we'll go back to that. So
you guys. Are you guys heading into the hallway? Now? Yeah,
but I talk to Professor Felix Bain for just a quick second. So,
professor, what does your research tell you about the ancient ones? And are
we gonna should be expecting a lot of booby traps? Or yeah? Like
what should we expect you? He? You know everything I've read. They
were very cautious about this, in particular falling into the wrong hands. So
we do need to keep all wits about us. Should we be closing the
doors behind us? People can't follow us? He looks and he says they
are closed. Oh okay, good, the doors behind us are closed?
Yes? Oh yeah, how should keep moving just for based on oxygen?
I was going to say things like that, now those doors don't seal it
up too good? Oh okay, Well, then let's go down the hallway.
So you go down the hallway and you come to a room at the
end of this one, and there's going to be a door to your left
and a door to your right. Anything else in the room. Of note,
it's a very just plain a lot of plane rooms in here. So
they didn't get a very good interior decorator. They're too busy working on apparently
time travel and interdimensional spaces or they were just hungover on Boone's form. Yeah,
that makes more sense. So where's the light coming from? You said,
there's there's little sconces with oil in them? Can we tell how old
they are? They magic? Or I mean make an investigation check? Five?
They weren't put there yesterday? Good? Good? Okay, okay,
they smell old? How about that? Okay? Well, which which do
some carbon dating and you can find that exact Which door do you guys want
to go down first? I think have you guys ever been to those like
mirror mazes things before, like at the carnival or whatever? Yeah? Yeah,
So typically there's there's two things you could do. Right. You can
wander around aimlessly, or you could just pick one direction and keeping going that
every time we picked right, So maybe we just go right. It might
not be the fastest way, but theoretically we should get to over go thinking
the same thing. Let's set right, let's just be consistent about it instead
of zig zagging. Well, how about we like listen to the door and
like knock on the door and see if anything. In response to that,
we've already been burned once. Let's not do it again. Bentley healed himself,
so now he has no or Okay, so which door y'all trying first?
The right? So Amy's gonna take the leave. She's going to crouch
down next to the door for her ear, kind of not on the door,
but near it. Okay, listen, is there anything you don't hear
anything? Going to knock gently on the door? Nothing, try to open
it. The door opens right up. Okay. You as you peek in
and more sconces light up, you see that the floor is lined with very
uniform square tiles, and at the center of the room there appears to be
a chest, and at the very back of the room there is a lever.
Guys, want to see what the other door leads to before we just
jump into this one? Yeah, sure, being conscious, yep, yep,
yep. Hold on one second, and he reaches into his pocket and
pulls out a couple of copper pieces and he just tosses them into the room.
Okay, so the copper pieces land, nothing happens. Okay, Well,
the floor isn't falling, so there's that theory out. The floor is
not lava. How about we try the same thing with the left one.
Yeah, same same thing. Okay, so you go up to it.
Yeah, you hear a subtle dripping noise, but it sounds like it's off
in the distance, almost like this is like a very long corridor. Okay,
can we open it? You try to open it and it does not
budge. Okay, it's locked. This one's locked. I guess we have
to go in the other door. Then. Wait, I mean just because
something locked doesn't mean okay, what if the lever opens the store or apparently
have a lock pick with me? So you do not see anywhere where a
lock pick would be applicable to this tailor? Yeah, could you kick it
down? Oh that's such interesting thought. You did such good with that other
door. Fizzle bang goes. I don't think anyone's ever tried that method.
You can hear the shade. Try to open a puzzle box up and then
you're just like fucking you just break the box. Yeah, I'm gonna tryst
room first, and then if nothing happens, then we kick Miss Jacobs.
You should just kick it. Okay, all right, so formal Jimothy,
Oh did he say miss Jacobs again? Yeah, Jesus Christ, make a
wisdom saving throat. Oh god, that's sixteen. Okay. So you you
again like you feel that rage building up inside of you and you just take
a deep breath. All right. Um, Hey, I know I've talked
about it a couple of times, but if you could just call me Taylor,
that would that would really just be the best thing. Could you do
that for me? You too, Bentley? Actually, Bentley's not listening.
He's still looking at Bentley. I kind of want to go get my copper
pieces back. Hey, Bentley, it's uh, this thing, this has
come up a couple of times and I can feel myself having a strong emotional
reaction to it, and so I'm trying to knit that in the back.
I need you to make another wisdom saving throat from him, like Ignorie,
Oh that's a sixteen again. You you just like you're just you're practicing that
woo saw. She's gonna kick the door down. She's might kick your face
down. She's gonna kick you into the door, gentlemen, to see what's
on the other side. Yeah, if you could please call me Taylor,
She's gonna wait for you to say something. Well, you're that's going on.
Felix isn't like his own world, and he's looking at the other door,
and he's like, miss Jacobs, could you come give me a hand
with this. We're gonna talk about this later. Yeah, she's gonna walk
over. He says, there's a small crack here. You seem to be
the stoutest of the bunch. Yeah, you think you could give this one
a little shove? Of course, I'd be happy to. Is that a
strength check? Yes, okay, that's a sixteen. Okay, describe what
you do. She's actually gonna back into it. Back that thing up.
Yeah, okay. So you're going for like the donkey kick. Yeah,
okay. So you do it and it's nothing really happens, and he goes,
oh, well it was worth a shot, all right. So the
other door it is, let's go okay, if he is to be that
way, So where is Bentley in this? Well, Bentley said he was
going after his copper piece. Yet I'm standing at the door like looking,
yeah, what what's your plan? My plan is to stand only on one
single of the square tiles any given moment. Okay, are you doing that?
Now? I'm gonna step onto the first one, okay, So you
step onto the first one. Just a random one. Yeah, just a
random one. Make me a dexterity saving th uh. Sixteen see you duck
at the last second as three darts go flying across the room and almost hit
you. If he had not ducked about what are part of his body would
that have hit? Is about neck level? Yeah? Oh god? Okay,
Timothy, you want to try and take you? Yeah? Timothy and
Richard. Yeah, so I'm gonna go ahead and you just walk through.
Yeah, it's just like so you go walking through and it's like you can
feel them like buzzing the tower, like they're just like buzzing through your hair.
No big deal. Then I need you to make me a deck saving
throw. So we need to get to the lever on the other side of
the room. Wow, that is unfortunate. Four okay, so the four
you see as you step on one of the plates, one of them just
clips you right in the knee. The bitch, and I need you to
make a con saving throw everyone else's ankle. Twelve okay, so the twelve
you will take four damage, which is unfortunate. That was Max's damage for
this little dart, and your knee feels a little numb. I've been poisoned.
It feels numb for a second, but then it seems to go away,
like my leg or the pain, the numbness, it just takes your
leg away. Do you keep going? I've got another leg, so yeah,
yeah, we're all kind of like so about the time this happens,
I'll put it to your right, next to the treasure chest. I'm sorry
the chest. Oh no, I want to I want to pull the lever
crum Okay, so I guess my choices. Hey, guys, do I
open the chest or pull the lever? Pull the lever? Jimmy, speaking
from video game experience, you probably don't want to open the chest in the
middle of empty room. We can always chest it on the way back.
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, But Jimmy, don't you like crime.
Don't do it, Jimmy, God, damn it, Jimmy, don't do
it. We just pull the lever. Hey, Hey, hey, Jimmy,
Hey, Jimmy, have you ever had gratification? You're there booming,
zooming, or coming open the chest? Okay, you approach it and it's
locked, but there is a keyhole at the front of it, and I
have thieves tools. You do have thieves tools. So while he's doing that,
can Richard follow the path that he took? Yeah? Things, Can
I like, as I'm doing that, can I examine Can I see a
this difference in the tiles? Okay? So one thing you had notice because
not every tile he stepped on shot darts across the room. Right, and
as you pay, make an investigation check on that, and then Jimmy,
make me a slide of hand check to see if you can pick this lock
dirty twenty On the investigation Okay, on the investigation check, you will notice
that some of these tiles have a lot more dust on them than others.
Can I use a good omen ice? Sure to steal treasure from I'm gonna
save get to save all these bad omens for you guys when you get to
the boss fight there, we go much better. Now that doesn't have my
modifier attached to it, doesn't. Yeah, you get slight of hand okay,
fifteen, yeah, fifteen, that'll be enough. The box opens and
as it does, you see at the center of the box a small jeweled
dagger. I take that dagger. Okay, so you take it and you
just like stash it. Yeah, okay, I've got it. I've got
it in my old in my equipment. Here, I've got rad dagger.
Okay, I have dual wielding daggers. There you go. All right,
that a very different direction than I was expecting. It could be a mimic,
could be a cursed dagger. We don't know. Yeah, so you
see him take a dagger. Yeah, it's gonna be like, oh good
cool. I rolled that loop box and it paid out. All right?
So Rich you you, I'm guessing you're gonna try to step on the ones
that have the least dust on them. That is correct. You make it
to the lever, and as you pull the lever as the other door opens,
Hey, guys, you were right. It was the lever. And
as you're doing this, like fizzle bangs still over there messing with it,
the door opens. He goes, hey, I got it, I got
I got the door open. Ben. It's just gonna look over and be
like, good job, buddy, like a real academic. It was the
team every now, Jimmy, and you're chasing or like trying to open the
box. Did you notice how Rich got over to the lever. No,
I was completely enthralled with the keyhole. Okay, so how are you planning
to get back to the doorway. Couldn't he just walk with Richard? Yeah?
What's what's stopping me from going back with him? Okay? Is it
a piggyback situation that just ends up being like two kids in a trench?
Coke's definitely happening later now, Okay, So you guys make it out of
their fine. Yeah, we disarmed all we used all the traps up going
that direction. So before we leave the room, the darts that fell to
the floor, are they just on the floor now they're they're like they're like
stuck into the wall on the other is there one? Could I reach in
and like pluck one from the wall? Yeah? Sure, we'll fun Is
it a poison dart or what can I write? Put dungeon dart, dungeon
dart? Okay? Can I assume that it's you don't really know what it
is? Okay? So I have detect poison, Okay, So, but
I don't know how to use it yet. So I'm trying to think.
I feel like I feel like crystals detect poison. It's like those strips you
put in your drink to see if it's been roofied. It's her finger polish
colors. Oh so wait if she if she hands it to you or something
like, oh hey, check this out and you touch it your finger,
noise could change. Oh there it is. Yeah, yeah cool? I
like, yeah, can I touch it and see? Yeah? So it
definitely detects this poisonous cool. I don't know if it will tell me what
like, I don't know if from now, we'll circle back to the Okay,
as you go to the other door, the one that just opened,
you find a long hallway and as you look down at more sconces fire up
and you see what appeared to be a large room at the end of the
hallway. No need to take this offline, overworked and underplayed. We'll circle
back after these messages. How do you proceed? Are there tiles on the
floor? No, these are more of the normal stones you've seen. Okay,
well, guys, let's just let's just go amien. I'll go first
and start walking down the hallway. Okay, nothing happens. Not every room
has to be dangerous. And so you make it to the end and you
find another room about the size of the rotunda, and it appears to have
a mural at the far end, like opposite of the way you came in
and you see several weird looking objects and a big circular whirlpool at the other
side of it. And what color is it the whirlpool? It's purple.
It's familiar and Amien, you would remember having some kind of weird dream involving
a purple whirl pool in a mirror. Yeah, definitely, Okay, do
you mention that? Okay, that's fine. You're like it was just a
nitrous oxide and yeah, yeah, yeah. So you know, we party
hard in the Amanda household. We had sugar things that no one else she
said. She said, yeah, it's like we get really crazy after ten
pm on special occasions. Does it is it reminiscent of the scene from Road
to Eldorado where they're like throwing things into the whirlpool of Yeah, well,
it's not really so much of a sacrifice. You see. It almost looks
like hieroglyphics, like with two dimensional figures. You see like you're not really
sure what they are, but you can tell that there's some kind of object
of importance, and they all seem to come together at this whirlpool. Professor,
does this look familiar to you? He looks, he says, I
don't know that anyone's seen this, and lord, hundreds, if not thousands
of years possibly he steps close and he's looking, because this will take some
time to figure out what's going on. And now are you all inside this
room at this point? So as you guys, like the last one of
you steps in here, the door behind you just slam shut. I've been
doing that, right, Yeah, yeah, well not all of them,
just the main entrance. And as you guys have all filed in here,
and he's looking at the inscription, do any of you want to do like
an investigation check or what are you doing? Aman is just going to start
kind of like tracing her finger on the whatever's on the wall. Okay,
so I'm in. I'm going to roll a five. So is anyone else
doing anything? Yeah? Can I investigate? Yeah? What specifically are you
wanting to look at? I want to look at the whirlpool more, okay,
but I don't want to touch it, okay because I'm afraid. All
right, So roll investigation, you know, of looking at the whirlpool,
what's anyone else doing? I want to walk around the room. If anything
stands out or looks like it could has an object. Okay, sure,
wants to see if there's any other doors, Like, is this a one
way in, one way out kind of situation? Okay, I got sixteen.
Okay, so sixteen. You see, right at the center of the
whirlpool, there appears to be the smallest separation between the stone surrounding the whirlpool
and at the very center of it, almost as if they are two different
pieces of stone. So Taylor and Richard, y'all were both kind of doing
similar things. What did y'all get? Eleven? Eleven? Three? Okay?
So Richard, you don't really like you're feeling around the walls and everything.
You're not really sensing anything. Taylor, when you get to one of
the two walls, you feel almost like air coming in from one of them,
like you feel a draft. Hey, guys, there's like a draft
coming from this side. Oh would someone else like get some eyes over here?
Yeah, yeah, I'll walk over Okay. The closer you look,
the more you realize, you're like, this wall doesn't appear to be as
solid maybe as it appeared at first. Can we start pushing on it?
You can make a strength check. I hope it's like a Scooby Doo door
where like rotates around, they're in a different round. That would have been
a good idea. So when you say when you keep saying strength, you
mean athletics, Ye're sorry. That's okay. Taylor's also helping with that,
and that's a twenty one okay, and then that's a dirty twenty okay.
So you guys push so yeah, we ah, I look so cool.
Yeah, So you guys push as hard as you can and you don't really
feel the wall move away from you at all, like the sliding door.
Is anybody else doing anything? Can I cast to detect magic? You know?
Yeah, Well, we'll see what happens when you cast it. You
see that one of the objects, the weird looking objects on the wall of
the mural all light up, okay. And then at the center of the
whirlpool that lights up, but only you see that. It's not like it
lights up for it. Well, as far as you know, everybody sees
it lighting up. I take that back, okay, Like you guys saw
that right, Like there's stuff lighting up on the walls, and there's stuff
lighting up in the middle of the whirlpool. I don't I don't actually see
anything. Chris, Oh, come on it's like right there, like it's
right there, and she's gesturing, like Taylor going to start agreeing with her.
Everyone everyone's like, everyone's like not sure if she's serious or if she's
just trying to gas light them because that's what she does. Well, it's
like, I guess I need to bring up the fact that I, when
I did my investigation earlier, the whirlpool and the stone basin that it's kind
of in are not connected. Okay, well, I guess you guys can't
see that. So there are tiles on the wall that are lighting up,
like I don't really get it, but that's probably like someone who gets it
will probably be able to figure it out. You see, Felix, he
pipes in, he goes interesting, and he goes over to where Jimothy is.
He starts feeling the whirlpool like he has no fear whatsoever at this point,
and as he touches the center, you see as the stone pushes in
and it starts retracting, and he's like, well, that did something.
And then Amien and Taylor y'all would hear what sounds like rocks grinding on each
other and would see as the two side walls of the rooms start retracting backwards,
like going going up. Yeah, they're going up, okay, and
I say retracting, they're upwards, sorry, and curtains the whole time.
So Crystal, you still see all the objects lit up, but the part
of the whirlpool has now gone dim. Oh so cool. We just need
to press buttons and something interesting. What happened? And she walks up to
another of the panels. It's lit up and she just presses it. As
she does that, the one for the whirlpool pops back out. The one
she press popped back out. I don't get it. The walls still are
going upwards. And as you guys look, the rooms on each side of
this look empty, but you see what looks like little bits of metal or
something like, almost like they're floating in those rooms. What do you guys
do? Do you guys see that? Should we be worried? Professor press
is another panel. I'm going to go out on the limb and say roll
initiative. One guy mad at me? Today? Amy Ann rolled a two
total. Gotta go to Dice jail. I know I'm running out of d
twenties. Do you want to use one of mine. Okay, Bentley,
what did you get? I got a seventeen, Taylor Jacobs ten, Crystal
two, Jimothy seventeen, Richard six. All right, right, Bentley and
Jimothy. Who goes first? You want to go first? First? I'm
going in boys, all right, So Bentley, you're gonna be second.
You need this, you might want to hold onto it. Oh my god,
I don't like that. I don't I don't like that at all.
Okay, So at the top of the order is Jimothy. So you would
notice that when when they pressed the whirlpool one in that the dishwasher started.
Yeah, that that it stayed in. But then she pressed one of the
random ones in and I rolled for which one she did, because she didn't
say one in specific or anything or ask what they even were, and it
popped back out. So what do you do, Crystal? Can you tell
me we need to press another one? Can you tell me which other ones
are lit up? And the whirlpool lit back up when it popped out,
just to let you know, Oh, well, I pressed this one and
she just stressed to the one she pressed. Okay, And so the one
she gestured too is in the shape of a skull. That's bad. Okay,
what other ones are there there? You're gonna have to point those out
on your turn. There's five in total, so I have to wait then.
Yes, my action is asking her which ones are lit up? Okay,
so do you want to hold your action to press one based on her
answer? No, I'm just gonna press one. Which one are you pressing?
I'm gonna go the farthest to the right. I'm gonna press that one.
You don't know where it is, so he doesn't, Yeah, because
they're lit up, because they're lit up for her, but they it just
it's a big wall like a mural. Oh shit, I thought they were
individual tiles. Okay, yeah, I guess I gotta I gotta wait.
What I want to do is press another button. I just don't know where
the buttons are. Yeah, I'm gonna say one more time. When you
press the whirlpool, it stayed in the first time, and then she pressed
the skull and it made both of them pop out. The doors are still
opening, and you still see this like this weird shimmer, and like it
appears that there's like some just some stuff floating around in the space in these
two rooms. The doors have not fully open, and it is your turn.
You have ten seconds to tell me what you're gonna do or where we're
moving on. Okay, since they're not fully open, but I'm small,
I'm gonna try to slide under one. Okay. So as you go to
try to slide under one, I need you to make a dexterity saving throw.
That's shitty, there'd be a seven. Okay. You take eleven acid
damage Oh no, and basically fall backwards away from it as you realize that
there is something occupying the space on the other side of those two doors,
and as you get closer you realize it's almost gelatinous in nature. Yes,
you would you see actually, as you now closer to it, you see
like what appears to be some bones floating around in this space. Oh,
the whole thing. We got to figure out how to shut these doors.
In my mind, it's just the villain from the Gym and Utron movie.
That are eggs. Not exactly you've used. I would say you've used a
third of your movement. Would you like to scurry backwards away from it now?
Yeah, that'd be good. Okay, Yeah, so you on all
fours, you're like scurrying away is like you've got acid burns on your arm,
your left arm this time. Okay, all right, So that's Jimmy's
turn. It is now Bentley. Bentley wants to I mean, he doesn't
know which buttons to press either, So we're gonna ready in action and press
and I'll move and press the one that Crystal says which one did? Oh,
so you're ready, So you're holding your action until she identifies the buttons.
Yes, okay, all right, I will all right, So next
is Felix Fizzlebang. He goes, m Let's see what happens if I do
this again, and he presses the whirlpool button again and it retracts in and
it stays retracted in, and he says, I think there's a sequence to
this. Yeah, no shit, sir lock, and that is that is
his turn. Let's see here. It is now Something's turn. But it
does not move because the doors aren't fully retracted. So it is now Taylor
Jacobs. So she is after Professor Fizzlebank says that she's going to make her
way to the door to be of assistance. How many buttons? So I
would say this in the time you have on your turn. Crystal could tell
you how many things she sees lit up? How many things? Four?
Okay, so we need four people over here. Maybe I don't know she's
gonna ready her sword, okay, having seen Jimothy get burned and having a
run back, so you do that. It is now Richard Cox. Well,
I wanted Richard to have been doing prior to this happening, was taking
a picture of the murrale because he thought it looked cool. So I guess
I'll be putting his phone away. I'm just imagining like you were in the
middle of taking a selfie and all hell breaks loose behind you. So it's
probably a really entertaining picture. Selfie just shows Jimmothy getting burned. Is burnts
you see the acid Richard is going to with shortness. Can he ask Crystal
for one other thing other than skull that's glowing? Okay? Yeah, the
star symbol is also cluing, okay, and so he will follow Taylor's advice
and he'll move over towards the star symbol. Okay. It is now Amy
and Amanda. I think Amy Ann would hear everybody talking to Crystal about symbols
on the wall. She can't see them, But she's just gonna try to
how far away is it. You're going to be about fifteen feet okay,
So she's gonna use her movement all the way to go over to the wall
and just start rending her hands across it. Okay. So you're doing that
and your hand lands on the symbol of a sword, it depresses into and
you hear a click and then all the symbols pop back out. Okay,
so it pops back out. The whirlpool pops back out. Do the doors?
No, the doors are still opening, but all of the all of
the symbols, basically the trap reset. Okay, but the doors are still
opening and the things are still trying to approach. Okay, that's all she
can do. All right, So it is now crystal. Oh my god,
no pressure um. Okay, so can you name all of the shape
yes, so everyone knows the whirlpool, you identified the skull, which is
the one year next too, there is the star, there's the sword which
Amy and just found, and then there is a fish. Fish makes me
feel like flooding. Can she ask Fizzlebank to press the thing back in?
Yeah? So, so Fizzlebang is getting ready to press the whirlpool button.
Okay, So all that's left that hasn't been pressed is the fish. Yes,
all right, let's give it a go. She's going to press the
fish. Fizzlebang presses the whirlpool, and then you're going to press the fish.
Okay, So that will bring us back to the top of the order,
which is Jimothy, you are on the ground, yeah, scurried back
away from whatever it is, and at the end of the round the doors
have fully retracted. Okay. So I'm going to throw out a suggestion here
that I think we need to press the symbols before we press the whirlpool button.
That's my idea, which is unfortunate because the whirlpools are impressed. But
maybe someone can like toggle that he hasn't pressed it. He was getting ready
to Okay, which symbol syllable sword, skull, crystal, where's the skull
ut? And she points to the location on the ball, So I run
over to that. Guys, I think we need to press the buttons down
before pressing the warpool. Are we okay with doing that first? That makes
sense? Yeah, all right, so can we all hear that? The
click in and then Professorial fizzle Bang presses war pool. Okay, what we're
gonna do is so basically y'all are going to act as one block, and
depending on what happens, anything else will act and then resolution will come back
to the top of the order. If everyone's in agredance with that course of
action, that sounds yeah there. So basically what happens. So you're going
to press the skull first, right, Okay, So you press the skull
first. As you do, you see that almost translucent shape moves out five
feet from those walls. So now the room is about ten feet narrower,
if that makes sense, and it'll continue to do so every turn until there's
no room left. Okay. So you got about three rounds to figure this
one out. Okay, and you press the skull and it resets the trap
and fizzle, Bang goes. I think we have to press the whirlpool first,
and we have to do them in a certain order that might make some
kind of sense, he says, Crystal. I believe you are onto something
with the fish. Whirlpools are in water and fish are in water. So
I'm going to press the whirlpool and then when you get a chance to press
the fish, it Okay, that's what Fizzle Bang wants to attempt. Does
any want to have any suggestions for the third, fourth, and fifth?
So Richard's thought is that perhaps it's some sort of chronology thing, so you
know, Fish and then we move maybe into Sward and then maybe to Star
and then Skull or something like that, like about Skull and Star, Like
what if it's the cycle of the universe where it's like big bang. Yeah,
So that's kind of what Richard's thinking. So maybe so maybe Star actually
is before starfish death. Yeah. I think that's a good point. But
I think we go with Fizzle bang um suggestion first, because we have not
yet pressed then pressed the Fish. We have pressed Star, didn't We know?
I went to the Star, but I haven't pressed but you haven't pressed
it, ye okay, Um, Taylor's gonna pipe in and be like,
if the room gets too narrow, we're gonna stack on top of the ech.
Okay, So what order? What order are y'all going to try to
press these in? What if these are just emojis? Y'all? It feels
like these are emoji's fifty It's funny you say that because upunk closer inspection,
they do appear like emojis fizzle bang chimes in. I really think fish is
the second one. Okay, let's do that. The DM is hinting that
fish is the second one. Maybe we should do that first. Yeah,
let's try the star fish sword death. Wait, wait, fish fish.
So Richard still thinks the evolution thing, right, So maybe they were an
aquatic based species, right, they got some sword fighting thing, you know,
age of bronze, they became star travelers, and then their species died
out. Oh I like that. That's cool. That makes sense to me.
Let's do that. I think they look like emoji's and I'm trying to
think of all the emoji. But if we're going with the Big Bang theory
of existence and star particles, yeah, it could be. Can she using
her knowledge of texting and of MLM overuse of emoji, would she be able
to think of a irrational order in which these I'm gonna go No, damn
it, She's under a lot of pressure. We go with Richard's playing first.
Okay, Richard, say them whirlpool fish, sword, star skull.
Okay, so whirlpool clicks into place, Fish clicks into place. When you
do sword, Crystal would see it flash and they all pop back out.
Didn't work, And you see as the masses move ever closer to you guys.
Okay, but the fish, so whirlpool fish. Yes, once we
got to the third one. No, so whirlpoolfish. What could this be
sushi? So it should be death then because the whirlpool, the fishes in
the whirlpool dies somehow. Yeah. Death. Then cut up Yeah, and
then awesome because it's a star. Yeah love it that? Ye? All
right, So you're doing whirlpool ye, fish, skull ye, yes,
sword, and then star yeacause amazing sparkly sushi. Okay. So you see
as like little bits of dust and things are like sizzling away. As those
things inch ever closer. You press in the whirlpool, it clicks into place.
You press in fish, it clicks into place. You press in skull,
it clicks into place. You press in sword, it clicks in.
You press in star, it clicks into place, and the whirlpool itself opens
up like a door into Okay. Also, I would like for the whole
room to recognize it. This was sushi, and I was so it's funny
it was supposed to be sushi. That was really well done. Really well
done. You all get into the room and you hear is like you see
as like the cubes are almost being retracted back into their other spaces and those
doors closed. But as you enter the main room, you find a massive,
massive domed room and lots of inscriptions along the walls and ecs. Felix
is walking along them, reading them, and he says, we found it
the Great Ore and he points out He says, there it is the key
to all of this, and he goes to a pedestal in the center of
the room and he holds it up. He says the astral projector, and
you see as he is holding up a projectory. A gratitude today keeps the
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