H m. I guess we're just gonna and we're still gonna try and be
a little stealthy, right, that's what's going over there. Yeah, it
could be here, right. I don't mean I was born stealthy. I
was also borns doc. Some of us are some of us definitely are not
eloquant youths. We we could all learn something from my boo. Definitely by
boo boo, it's a door of well, I will not question it further.
Wait, no, I mean have you never heard of like terms of
endearment things like that. Yes, but boo is a very peculiar verbiage.
Yeah. But if it's like shared between the things people say boo to scare
each other, is that how that works? I mean yeah in this case,
Okay, all right, I said I wasn't going to question, and
then you both volunteered more information, So I mean I could keep alities.
I just want to know. Let's keep it down, naughty, keep it
down. Yes, yes, I heard the terms of endearment, Like nobody's
ever told you that they loved you or anything like that. No, oh,
morty, I love you, but no, like dear, I mean
I have everyone here. I think, God, what has happened to me.
You're awesome, that's all the lines yourself. Yeah, I agree with
Terry. You're lying. Oh no, no, I mean definitely not.
We're all just pretty great. And I love you guys too, says it,
and it's okay, you know, no, this is very uncomfortable.
Can we get back on the task? Then? How many people say this
when they're about to die? And I don't want to think of what I'm
saying. I wanted to say it just in case. You know, I
don't love everyone yet? Does that help? Now? I'm computing? Onward?
Onward anyway? Aay, So you are descending the Skyspire Tower, past
the frozen corpse, says of the Knights that were joined by Avarice. You
all can see the writing on the wall written in blood, clear as day.
I want my book back and my servant. Speaking of which, Kingsport
is there? Are you telling Kingsport to do anything? Are you suggesting that
Kingsport waits there? What do you do Kingsport? Do you want to go
back? Describing s cry no, no, you want to stay with us?
No? I want to leave this place? Was he unkind to yes?
Very unkind? Do I to kill him, yill, Why would you
kill? Do you eat it? You? No? But do you think
he's gonna hurt us? Yes? Then I suppose we killed him right well?
We might need him though. Would would you be willing to go back
to him temporarily in order for all of us to lead out of this alive?
Get out of it alive? Right? Good? Kill your work.
Make a persuasion check please Essa. Okay, No, no, I do
not want to go back. I just look at moon Broken and Chappy and
I I quietly say to them, maybe you try. I'm not great at
this. I mean, don't go back. Who cares? I've got them.
I've got a question. Is there any like dust or debris that's fine
on the stairs as we're going down? Most likely? Yes? All right,
I'm going to pick up a handful and I'm gonna throw it because there's
there's an open area that goes down, right, yes, oh yes,
quite a large open area. I mean you know that the staircase just descends
along the wall as you as you make your way down. Okay, So
what I'm going to do, because I'm gonna throw the dust in the air
as much as I can gather and throw it out and then I'm going to
use through a craft to blow it around see if it lands on anything invisible.
Yeah, very interesting. Okay, I need a check for this.
Sure that's some big brain thinking, but I think this is just a straight
up intellect check. That's unfortunate. All right, I'll do it. Give
him some give him some advantage, man, No, no, no,
no, no, it's fine, Sine. Literally give you this bread.
It's fine. That's a two. That's unfortunate. Ray, you're doing it,
but you don't have the finest control over the druid craft. It's probably
around a small area and it kind of it does blow around, you know,
and you kind of get some of it on yourself and some on the
group. And sorry, this is a bit awkward. More than anything.
You don't really manage to get it everywhere. Really, it's just kind of
blows around you a little and sh sorry, sorry, sorry, I thought
that's what damn it? Okay, hell are you doing well? I was
I was thinking that, you know, like he could be invisible, right,
and if you throw some dust and it like landed on I just I
can't It was no death. It was just you just throw it in Morty's
mouth. You know, I should have said closed your mouth. You're right,
I should have said that you do walking around with your mouth helping?
That's me. Can anyone see like invisible things? So whatever. I don't
know magic, so I don't know if that's like even possible. But well,
technically I could try and scry him again. But like just like I
did with Leoric scribbn, scry and m hmm again and someone had to say
it, you could get it. I mean, what's happened you well,
you know with you know, try and keep ourselves healed a lot. And
you know, I got eleven of these poking bad boy, I knock them
together. I'm related to go get bottles. Uh. Terrell's just keeping a
very very very wifty. It's just very quiet. Okay, you've all made
it to the bottom of the tower. While we're walking down, some of
the bodies, are they all kind of like turned to ice or stone?
Was it they were like? So they are all turned to ice? Yes,
all of them? Okay, they all yes. When we see her
body, I think Chepi's gonna look at her pockets. M absolutely, keepy,
go ahead and give me an investigation check. I give everybody a healing
pos. You can please write it down in your inventory. Thank you,
you're welcome. What's the bonuses? Goody boy? He changed recently? Oh
it changed? It was plus eight? I know that much. Okay,
very bad, yes, m you can play Chappie. You still find some
things. Mm hmm okay, um chappy. You find her first of all,
her staff is gone. You do not see that staff that she had?
You do eight platinum pieces and seven gold pieces? Okay. You also
find a spell component pouch. Nice, and you find five jewels. Have
I ever seen jewels like these before? Roll me a flat D twenty at
twelve, Now, roll me a history check? Oh, nasa earl,
you have not seen them before. But they are very sparkly and shiny.
There's a uh, there's a green one, there is a blue one,
and a clear one. More. Do you may like this one? Do
you know what this is? Let me? What is it with? Rock
comes from a rock and we're all seeing this it? Can you know what
this is? You can make a history check. Yeah, anybody can make
a history check for this. Good because I know what I'm looking for.
Yeah, villain, that is an emerald. He looks like fucking rotten mate,
I'm looking at the clear one. Yeah, right, that is a
diamond. Oh god, okay with the seventeen mm hmm, Ray, roll
me a d three. Are they so excited about random rocks? That is
unfortunate. Uh, it's a smaller diamond. I probably worth about one hundred
gold pieces. One hundred gold mm hmm. Okay. So Ray runs up
to uh it takes a look at the diamond, and I just want to
make sure here because I I I would probably know that right, I would,
I would know that it was. You would know by this, like
how big it is? Roughly? I mean, I don't imagine you know
the exact price. This is just to give you a rough idea. But
this it's it's you can tell right away. It's like too small to use
for any sort of like reincarnation or RIVIVI hire, any of those kinds of
spells. Yeah, so I probably can't go fuck and then that's it.
Just walk away. Then I turned back, like did I did? Did
I see her get the platinum out too? Or did we just see the
rocks? Chappie? Are you hiding it or you just you wouldn't hide it?
Definitely, it's going to generally right, anyone else? What else could
go in there? Then the last one, mortis, you can tell it
is a sapphire. This one is pretty neat. Look that one Ortis Romeo
D three, actually, Chepie Romeo D three and Mortis Romeia D three.
Okay, and three is a good one. Thank you for telling me.
I'll make sure to roll it perfect, okay, Cheppie. The you don't
know this though, Chepie. But the emerald is worth about one hundred gold
pieces. Mortis, the sapphire is worth about seventy five gold pieces. And
every thing looks like it's probably from looks like it was cut by a boy.
Looks like human hands or at least something of human type. It also
looks like it could be the they were using some sort of rock or some
sort of harder surface for the GLA type of features here usually done in the
nether Reise era. And if this is actually what I think it is,
and it would probably be worth I would say seventy five golds for that piece
there, thanks, sorry, gives it. And then this one is you
know, this is sapphire. Sapphire. Yes, that one was over seventy
five. And then the emerald was worth what the hundreds. The emerald was
worth one hundred gold pieces, yes, great, and then this emeralds here
looks like it's also probably around the same. You could tell by the cuts
and also the intricacies of the edges and the cuts on the creases here.
The cutter, the younger, the jewel cutter is very good at using edge
work, very good at edging, you see, especially around the sides here,
and definitely worth probably about the gold. What's that book is missed in
too? Wait? What? What? What firstaff in our spell book?
They're gone? What use scribing sky? Has it? I'm trying to say,
that is very fucking bad. Okay, Well, and so what you're
seeing is we do have to kill him. It's probably going to be a
lot harder. Now. Well, there's a good chance he still has it
on him right now. Yeah, correct, Just ignore him and hope he
doesn't. Just keep an eye out for him. Just don't fight him if
we don't have to, Fellen, are you able to easily talk in minds
back and forth? Does that take a lot of like effort for you within
a certain amount of distance? I can I The previous spell that I used
was a result of that fruit the magic properties, right, yeah, okay,
but if you are going to do that right now, would that tire
you out a lot? Does that take a lot of power for you to
do? No? No, no, no, but it has to be
with sin. Oh that's fine. I just want to talk among us right
here. Oh yes, you got to be a go between. Oh yeah,
no, no, I can send messages with ease. Okay, will
you talk to me real fast? Yes, of course, however that works
all right, Okay. I'm wondering if we could have own brook with her,
you know, light fingers. She could be out of sight all on
a little bit. Because I was worried about Scrivenscribe being invisible. That's why
I wanted to talk like this. And if we could pass us around to
everybody, maybe we can get her to break off, maybe even make it
look like she's upset with us. I don't know, something that that seems
realistic. Maybe she can get up. If you're saying it's as dangerous,
says as it is. If we can get it away from from him before
he has a chance to use it. I mean, that's something I know
that's dangerous, and I just didn't want to say it's that loud. What
I mean, as we said the big she would be putting current arms way
yet, yeah, which I don't know if it's worth it. Oh No,
she's communicating her telepathy right now via the message spell. I just figured
we could pass around and see if she's okay with it and then ask everybody.
I know that's going to be hard on you. I'm sorry, child's
play, It's fine, okay, Okay, Well that was it. That
was my idea, right, so I'm checking in with Moonbrook to see if
she'd be okay with it then mh Boonbrook Darling. Yes, Greatwynd has a
little bit of a plan. Would you like to hear it? Yeah,
of course. All right. So so you're you're using your message spell on
umber right repeatedly. Okay, how do you feel about possibly trying to hinch
those items that Scriven Scryer has acquired recently? Well, it just so happens.
I'm really good at that and I would love to do that, all
right. We just need to figure out how to keep you safe should anything
happen. So what my thought is is that we'll have for it to im
possibly scry on Scrivens cry like we were thinking of locating and then find a
way to get to YouTube. Yes, yeah, you know, I probably
wouldn't tell anyone else I'm doing this. They might get upset. Whatever you
want to tell anyone else, I'll just make it look like I don't know.
I'll figured it out. We'll play there as we go. Okay,
but if ray can scry, well I can do it. I just what
if I need like a little extra help, like pass without a trace or
something. I don't know. If you have to keep that up. We
might be able to move as a unit and then have you move ahead in
that case, but then we'll have to tell everyone. I'm not sure.
How is its work? Well, the thing is is that you know I
did tell you lot that I loved you, and I'm willing to die for
you. I guess, so i'd rather you not put everyone else I do.
I'll do it. I don't even need this bill. I could do
it all right. Let me check in with R. Do you want to
argue? Yeah, mooon Brock is willing to go ahead and do this.
However, she doesn't want to let anyone else know. I don't know if
that is in our best interest or not. I don't know. I don't
know if it is, but I mean I think that people would probably understand
anyway. I don't know why we wouldn't tell them. I don't I can't
imagine anyone really getting that upset about it. But I feel kind of bad
as doing a plan without everybody on board, you know what I mean,
because they can react in a certain way. She breaks off and then they
think she's lost and then they're talking to it's just that, and then he's
gonna know if he is around and invisible like that's a probable. Okay,
So what we'll do is we'll try to possibly discern his location. Would you
be able to scrowble or is that a little too much for you right now?
No, I can do it. I just need to find a place
to sit down. There's no guarantees. I mean, I don't know what
he could possibly do to stop me. It's really you know, it's like
good rap shoot, But I mean I can I can't try it and see
if it works. Doubt I could have trying to made him out with that's
a will that I used on or it instead. At any rate, maybe
we don't need to scry on him. Maybe we just go on business as
usual. Okay, we have moon Brook following close by, but in the
shadows wherever we go. Oh, I can I can hide a little bit.
Yes, and with that your show up because he's looking for his book
and his servant. Yes, mm hm, I can hide the servant too,
if that's an issue. Right Again, that's why I wanted everyone's input.
I could also just make us all like that, because even if we
break apart from each other, we're not going to be able to really right.
So then what do you think is the best course of action here?
And then we can work shop it one by one. I'd like you to
I'd like you to talk to Terriel. I think he's got it. He's
going to have an angle on it I'm probably not thinking of And if I
mean, if he's against it, there's a good chance that some others aught
Yeah. He just let's let's check in slowly and and and spread it a
little bit just in case I am missing something. But Terry, the rest
of you haven't been hearing anything this till now, Like it's just been like
this weird, like awkward silence. And finally, uh, you can hear
Villain in your head tarry, are you you'd also see villain fiddling with her
copper wire, and that she does when you know that she does communicate with
you for those that she has communicated with. Right what's happening? So I've
been communicating with Chuan and with moon Brook m hm. And we need to
get those two items away from Scriffin's Cry in order to gain an advantage in
that pattern when we do fight him. What if you're doing because right now,
as it stands, we don't have any bargaining chips. If he's lost
those two things, it's a fair trade. So with that, Ratan was
thinking that perhaps we have moon Brook trying to pinch it from him. At
least the book staff would be very beneficial as well, I'm sure, but
we're trying to figure out how it is we are going to do that.
I have the idea that perhaps I well Rater and mentioned it, but I
reinforced it, that he would descry a Scribbon's cry to see where he is,
and then we would send Moonbrook out for him. However, my assumption
is that Scriven's Cry would want to find us in order to make a trade.
Yes, hmmm, Well, we had a bargaining chip and his book
and his servant. We do risk the odds of him not wanting to bargain
at all if we do this. I also don't believe it's going to be
easy to slip something away from a being like him. That's my dilemma.
I would suggest that our little stealth trick won't work because we tried it already
and he already knew where they were, which puts us in a complication that
we had before. So he will be aware that we will probably try the
same idea again. Of that, all negotiations we were off the table.
If we do try to pull a fast one over him, that is fair.
I can taunt him. He seems to not like things being said.
It seems to get under his skin. So what if I distract, get
him really angry. He'll be focused on me, and then we try our
luck from there. I think I'm the one that can probably take the most
abuse with anything magical. I don't know if it's going to work or not,
but at least me other than moon Brook or ry t Win. That's
just my thoughts. Do you think that very is overall probably not going to
be any negotiation with this creature anyway, I'm of the mind maybe he won't
either. Realistically, maybe when someone wants something back so much they they may
be into talking. I very confused as to why he didn't take it by
force already. So with that we might have an edge. And if not,
we have a plan B, which is me agrowing him and then kind
of play it by you. Yes, all right, So then we're going
to play this by the assumption that he is going to find us. Yes,
I would think so. He doesn't seem to have much patience. Where
do we think we should fight open? That's a scary thought because and he
just looks up. They have a god watching us. And if we're fighting
out and open, what a perfect opportunity to dispatch two problems at once,
even if she's weaker. I say that we go with our original plan and
just be on edge the whole time. If we make it to the tower,
that's a plus for us. He'll be less likely more than likely to
incline to fight us. He won't wouldn't be in his best favor. Close
quarters didn't seem to be too good for him. Follow him if he has
means of dispatching us one by one. I would do it at a distance,
but what do I know about magic now? Casters are at a disadvantage
if they are in close quarters. That is correct, depending on those specialties
and what have you. But mm hmm, it was probably our best interest
to take because we don't want to put him in danger. But we'd have
to have bargaining chips and we'd have to be very quick about it. Right.
He's a talker, remember, he gets what he wants if he spends
more time talking. Hello, all right, going on right away? Oh
yeah, yeah, So we're going to continue as normal. M However,
if the bargaining doesn't appear to be going in our favor, Terry El plans
on going ahead and taunting him to distract him from there. We haven't brook
slipping and dispatch or remove yeah, book and possibly the stuff if she can.
The staff might be a little harder, depending on how he's holding it.
Right, Okay, I can. I was going to say I could
go ahead and cast pass without a trace on it, just for now,
but it's very funny, guy, I guess I can just leave it as
is and trust in her. That's fine too, Bring me whatever you think
is best, okay, Okay, Yeah, that's fine. You you let
you let her know, and yeah, that sounds good. This plan,
I will say, I do intend on having Moonbrook bring me the book absolutely
right. That is my colleagues book. I don't think anyone could really I
couldn't use it, but not that I know of. So that'll be the
goal of goal of that encounter should things go awry. Okay, I think
Ray silently looks over at Tariel to try and catch his eye and just nod
slowly and then like and then goes back and just okay, we'll just continue
on, okay, And I would relay the plan to everyone else, letting
Moonbrook know basically to also bring me the book should she get it. What
are you going on? Hello? So eventually you all get a message in
your head explaining the situation a little bit, because there was this like awkward
silence happening for a while and you are now all sort of clued in via
Villain's message. So Scri is kind of looking around, still very confused.
Wait, Scriminscri roll initiative belly, yes more, thank you. So I
like this idea. I was also thinking, what if we put regas that
thing where it makes it easier for us to sneak around. But he does
that to her, Moonbrook, and then I also poison her blade. Therefore
she can just poison the shirt out of him because then she's probably guarant change,
probably it because she's pretty good if you can't see him, and so
that could be pretty good. And if we needed to fight, he'll be
poisoned, right. Okay, So to clarify, Moonbrook gets that damn book,
you tell everybody, kill everybody all way, go ahead, I was
clarified. Okay, play to win. Yeah, how about we do proceed
with the Stills magic on Brook, but also Kingsport since you can do multiple
targets at the same time. Yes, yes, I can do that,
and that way should Kingsport need to hide Kingsport may okay, yeah. From
there, once Moonbrook is able to grab that book, Mortis will have poisoned
one of Moonbrook's weapons so that she can get an attack on right after.
Hopefully that way he'll be poisoned in the fight. Okay, that's fine.
So we need to be a little bit cloistered up because this spell doesn't make
her invisible, it just makes it less noticeable, so she can get lost
in us. So if each let her by none, we'll get close and
I'll get close enough and I'll do that. Now, I'll get those two
done one by one. Everyone would be told basically to group up telepathically.
Sure, I think Chippy just kind of like shaking her a little bit her
head a little bit. Just could she reply to vellin? Can I just
say ye know that she can reply? Yeah? Well, I mean we've
been having a verbal Uh, Chippy, would you have any imput You look
very very disappointed for some reason. Well, just Chippy has all these great
magics and can make everyone invisible. So all right, so that you fucking
made for invisible, great job, Capital Act. Yeah, thank you actually
for the suggestion forvid. So you make moon Brook and Kingsport giving me all
of it's invisible when one person we don't, Chevy makes is all invisible.
So here's the thing we want him to see us. We don't want him
to see moon Brook or kings Could you just pick one person or three all
right, to Kingsport and moon Brook. Then unless you have a steak in
being invisible yourself, you can do that as well. No, Jeffy's fine,
right, perfect, I relate that information telepathy to everyone in the room
in its pass of like this strange conversation. But this is like the best
conversation I think we've ever. It's because it's only one on one dollar,
great idea, what better do that? If you got that go that means
it's gonna be shorely on magic. But if if, if reg is the
thing that helps you become U Skulky and he he's through it and she still
has to she potentially still can do well, you know, because one is
helping her hide and playing shack. The other one is magic. Again he
threw magic. Yeah that's what I was Jeffie. Never mind, Darling,
we can't do that. You can see magic. She would go on with
your plan. Yeah, okay, sounds good. Right, all right,
this is the first game of telephone ever. I think it's pretty great.
Great idea, he's a great idea. I like it. Everything is definitely
getting across forever. It's just like this has happened for like the last half
hour of just you have to send this basic information to one person at a
time, you know, the ever and each message is like you know,
a three minute to upstairs at every single person, Like I hope it'd be
like a copy and paste sort of thing, like we're doing this, we're
doing this, you know, and as you're just like yes, yes,
just be the bait, exactly the idea. Okay, So hopefully everyone gets
close enough and then I'm going to do what I need to do, and
I'm going to make moon Brook and Kingsport start to vanish by casting pass with
outdate trace. I don't know where he is, Okay, So this ash
begins to settle all around the area that Ray begins to cast the spell.
You all have this like little film of ash upon your skin and clothing,
allowing you to know that this pass without a trace has been cast. Kingsport's
kind of feeling about with the flippers, trying to understand what's happening. Something
is strange, something has happened to me. Oh you're you're you're more hidden
right now? I can yeah, yeah, Like I know it doesn't feel
like that to you, but I can tell you from me, you look
more hidden all right now? But are we leaving now? Yeah? Yeah,
let's come, don't you? Thank you? And thank you? Quaiting
a whipping I gave you my bag is eh, perfect, Okay, let's
see if we can get across through here. Yeah, so I'm making a
way you exit the tower. You can see, you know, the the
various rubble that you saw previously. As you make your way out quietly,
everybody can make a stealth check. Please, you do not have advantage because
of the spell, HARRYL. Please remember you have disadvantage, but you do
have a plus ten as a result. No, no, no, the
spell is only on moon Brook. It's not on the rest of us.
All right, I apologize. Then sorry I missed that part. So yes,
so so yes, Then it's only on moon Brook in Kingsport. My
bad. You guys don't have to do this stealth okay, and but moon
Brook and Kingsport two don't Brook your gag? Okay? Is it plus ten
plus that perfect John Cena music plays right in Kingsport rolled to fifteen, so
that is a twenty five for Kingsporte you like it? So Moonbrook and Kingsport
are barely noticeable by you all. You don't hear them move, You don't
see them really unless you focus in very carefully. They're just kind of hard
to notice. And you continue moving. Someone take control of the token and
show me where you go who is away, Terry, Come on, buddy,
let us go, fearious leader, We're going to go on hundred show.
So just you begin to pass through the district of the sky Spire Tower,
passing by one of the previous towers of the Arcane that you cleared.
You continue on into the northwestern area of the city. When we pass over,
I think when there's a little bit less rubble and stuff, Cheppy's going
to take a look up at the towers. Oreel still on that perch,
champing, make a perception check for me. Please, these rolls, my
god, the roles are not with Cheppie today. You got that twenty five
natural twenty that you did not actually need to roll, and that was gonna
be your that's your only good luck. You look up to see your reel.
It's not the best angle. You can't really tell. Can anyone see
your reel? Chippie can't see her? Not from uh okay to us around
us. I'm sorry, yes, agreed. Also, I'm gonna go ahead
and snap my fingers and try to call Will back to my shoulder. Yes,
So what do you think happens when you sort of resummon your familiar because
they you can bring them back to you, right. I think that the
way that I like to do it is I kind of some of them a
little bit away so that they can swoop in and land on the shoulder.
So nobody really would see anything. But like a little just quick apparition,
a puff and a quill comes out from afar sponge. Just oder distance.
You see the owl land and perch on Villain's shoulder. Once again, I
give it a couple of sheet scratches. All right, ran fair distance of
the door. But there's a clearing either move together or knowing groups, probably
together, I agree. All right, onward, So you approach the base
of the support for the central spire. When you arrive, mm hmm,
you can see that there is some kind of door at the base. It's
sort of tucked away into some of the It looks very root like the supports
for the spire and sort of tucked away between some of the extruded root like
shape of this. You can see that there is some kind of door there.
Oh my god, is this far well? Now? Is it just
open? I got to look around the area, But I mean, I
don't know if anybody knows that I can start doing it because I'm hidden.
Nope, you are like Batman right now, go ahead and give me an
investigation check man brook. Wait, wait, let me see what's that bullshit
thing I get? Now? You can't roll lower than ten? Yeah,
well you you did. Actually you got you get a plus six on that.
You actually will have a sixteen on that instead of a ten. We
have to see it if are you? Are you proficient investigation? Let me
make sure because it is. Yeah, it's only based on the ones you're
proficient with. I am sixteen, all right. So searching around a brook,
you see that this is some like an arching strut of dark stone rising
from this ruined district to a junction high up on the central spire. There
is a gate engraved with arcane sigils set into the base of this strut.
I don't fucking who that mates, I quietly whispered to myself. How far
away is the group or buy well, I imagine that they're a bit outside
the struct here, and you kind of moved closer to the door to investigate
around, So maybe ten feet away, ten to fifteen feet Okay, I'm
gonna swoop behind. I'm going to swoop behind Bellin and like start talking to
her like in her ear, like she don't realize. God, yeah,
yes, Darlin, there's some like weird magic bullshit on the door. She's
like, I can't read it. Which side that sign's full point where she
was? She points towards like the gate. You can't even really see moon
Brook, like it's weird, Like your eyes are playing. You have to
focus. I'm gonna grab her arm and move it towards that way. Perfect,
perfect, thank you, And I'll start hobbling over to it and take
a look and into the shadows. I fade again. I'll go with Fellain,
definitely follow along. Yeah. You approach the gate and you can see
arcane sigils there. The three of you can roll an arcana check. I
just want to ask how many I see? Oh my god, wow,
I thought it was a mistake. She's got intelligence. You look over,
Chepy, your eyes are just crossed. He looks like a little goldfish just
sitting there, just looking at the rooms. Oh oh no, yeah,
Chappie, you don't understand that, right all Vellain, you and ray h
do know what this is. Uh, ray you have a little trouble identifying
each of these arcane sigels. Villain, you understand all of them, but
you both remember they are the same sigils representing the different schools of magic.
So there's eight there. Villain. Now you're starting to think that maybe the
arcane towers and that shield and those phrases were related. So you're taking down
the shield and entering through this gate. Well, shit, she did all
the work for us all here. What do you mean you remember that force
field thing that that she took down? You like, yeah, well,
I've been thinking about it a little bit, and it's just dawned on me
magically while looking at this door. For some reason, those towers were simply
related to taking down the force field. Okay, guys from here, congratulations,
you win credit. But did just the force field? The door will
just open right now? Of that? I am uncertain. Should we not
just try it? Yeah? Absolutely, I'm just, you know, a
little concerned magic and all that. This terrible idea. I'm gonna look for
traps on the door, even though I don't know for see anything, because
it's magic. So Moonbroke, I'm still going off of your sixteen investigation from
earlier. You did not see any traps. There's no track all right,
I'm gonna cast a tech magic. So I hand lights up and I put
it out to feel over the door, like I imagine the sigils. I
don't know if they are they glowing, they are not, they're not,
okay. So I'm just feeling over the door, trying to feel if there's
anything magical here. The sort of little bit of flame cascades around your eyes
ray and with a little bit of effort, you look at these sigils and
you see that there were some tethers like veins making their way through the shrut,
branching out along the strut, and maybe you see the equivalent of some
arcane circuitry making its way down into the ground past where your vision cuts off,
and you can see that it's very dim. Okay, okay, So
I think what I'm saying is the towers were connected to this. So all
those I'm assuming those phrases might have been something we would have had to deal
with here. I'm thinking that's how that all worked. Well, you're right,
she pulled it down. So I say, let's the only magic is
dim and it's connecting everything else. I'd say, let's try the door,
all right, Do we want to have Terry. I'll do it, since
he's the most resistance resistant against magic. Yes, but would you like me
to do it? I am more than willing. I figured, yeah,
we'll go and Terrio kind of holds the shield tightly and you're going to carry
you. Thank you. I'll see that. What Jack, what if?
What if those were the last ray? I really appreciate if everything you've can
give me a perception a perception check all right, pall ship natural. So
Ray, as you're looking around with your detect magic, you also see a
few other things. You see that beyond the sigils and through the doorway,
you can see the aura of conjuration magic. I grab I grab Matarial and
say, wait, wait wait, wait, wait wait, I'm sorry,
I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is I mean, this
is kind of advanced stuff. I'm seeing some sort of conjuration magic. Do
I get any sense of what the hell I'm looking at? Yeah? For
a second, it doesn't really make sense. And then you notice some of
the ash that maybe has fallen off of moon Brook or Kingsport is somehow getting
swept up. So I tell everybody this, I'm like, what, why,
what the fuck is going on? Do you it's getting are they more
visibly? Isn't sticking? Is it sticking to something? Well? Is it
getting cleaned? Like I'm that is what you would gather? Yes? Oh
okay, okay, because this place is self cleaning. Yeah, it's self
cleaning. Oh that's amazing. I'm sorry. Okay, go ahead, Terry,
I'm sorry, I just got caught. Yeah, okay. Do I
see anything else with the natural twenty mm hmmm No okay, yeah, yeah,
go ahead. Just give me a rock and let me just throw a
rock in here or something. No, no, no, no, no,
stop that right, all right, say Terry, just kind of like
close the shell tight and slips in. You step in and ray you you
noticed like Terriol's aura are as he stepped through. Basically, there's just this
constant magic that you can see when you use detect magic. When you look
at Terarrio, it's kind of surrounding him and various magical items that he has.
But as he passes through this portal, there is this sort of sound
and Tarrio you feel it almost feels like you walk through like some heavy heavy
drapery, you know, like a like a some heavy fabric when you pass
through beated doorway. Terriol is lifted quickly and he's gone. Perhaps we should
go after him. Check he's jumping in running and GiB. As you pass
through this to porthole, Cheppie and everyone else begins to step through, you
see them go. They get propelled upwards, levitated up through this strut.
A magical elevator continues you through this hollow steep passage Ontario. As you start
to slow down, you see a landing up ahead. I think Terry at
this point is probably like they trying to like pull himself towards it. You
would it would just be a very soft landing. You just you're it's almost
like you're arcing and you can see it just up ahead, and you just
gently land. Cool. It's more pleasant than I expect. I think you
just immediately start looking around like you are in this sort of hallway with stairs.
They're not very large or anything. They just there's a gentle incline of
stairs leading up. I think he'll immediately just turn around and try to catch
the next person coming down the shoot Cheppy very hold his hands out. She
just like comes out, arms stretched out and plumps right onto him. I
just want to say, he's really cute and all, but then all of
a sudden, all of us is start yeah, fell and follows quickly after
Literally, I just like stumble forward. Okay, definitely, he'd definitely move
out away. If you've seen this is a big that was uncomfortable, that
was not so bad. Okay, great run into us. Everyone in this
tower that we hear about screaming thinking I thought I was gonna that it again.
I go back. Oh you just upbreak you yep. RTIs is sort
of you hear him trailing off as he begins to fly back downwards. It's
just like this arc right Like, it's just uh an arc heading back downwards.
So it starts off slow and then you speed up. In the middle.
Mortis is gone for like a minute or so. Do you like anotheries
like you think they would just do this so fun? Sometimes absolutely definitely,
unless they had like people who yelled at then Oh oh yes, there are
a lot of sticklers around. Look he scribbing, scry. He's a big
jerk. I don't think the nether is with that fun. Look at everything,
it's like the same color everywhere. He followed, I'm sorry, what
was that? Kingsport followed us up the tube, right, Kingsport is not
there? Who was supposed to be watching over him? It's almost impossible.
Really, he's practically invisible. How are we supposed to be watching over invisible
others see others that are invisible? No, I suggested, you should have
probably held his flipp Remember, he can't see do you have what do you
mean you like kink? Do you have Kingsport? It mody? I don't
know. We don't see him. No, no, no, no,
no no no, this is not going as we plan ever. Ever,
Logically speaking, how would Kingsport not know to follow us? What is the
daft? You can't see? He has hearing and we were very loud.
Yeah, but he also heard us screaming, which probably meant that's a bad
Also, probably doesn't want to go anywhere near Scrims. So I would turn
and run the moment I'm invisible, that's me. Yeah. But well,
I think we had track of him until like we were all scared, right,
We're like, oh God, there goes our friend. Let's jump in,
you know, It's it's one of those things. It's hard in that
moment. Who says that he even followed us? Here? Can you message
him, can you do the brain thing? Yes, depending on how far
is Also does it depend on if he wants to answer, I'm not we
how oh god, how high up is this thing? Because we would have
pretty high out right. Yeah, we're pretty high. Yeah? How high?
Towers are like one hundred feet if I remember, so, we're like
five. I will take it back down and try to see if I can
find him and message him good luck. Oh, the tower's pretty big.
It's a lot bigger than one hundred feet. Yeah, much bigger. So
I'm sorry, Mortis. You headed back down, Mortis, when you reach
the bottom, look around and you do not see Scriven's cry or King's pot.
Okay, I will go back up. He's probably bad, but I'm
doing it. Villain, you were head down, yes, yes, Artists,
you cannot head up. Oh, try to like I don't know,
you walk in, you try to like jump or something. There's this almost
gentle sort of push you feel as you step into the elevator again. It
almost feels like you're pushed backwards skating. And then Vellain arrives. Oh but
that's why now recalling where he was in the group, because we were all
tightly knit still even though we couldn't really see him. Well, I want
to try and point in the direction that I last remember us being grouped up
in, and you cast message to give me a regular old intellect check.
You point in the direction you think Kingsport was. Oh, okay, Kingsport,
you can reply Kingsport. Are you all right? There is no response?
Looking around? Does it seem like there are any signs of like a
struggle or anything like that. No, but you can make an investigation check.
Are you looking for her? For it? Do you want to help
me do this? Uh? Yeah, for you? What about? What
are you doing? I don't know what you're doing. We're looking for any
sign of Kingsport anything an investigation check with advantage and gain ams. You're gonna
give you my never mind. Yeah, Kingsport has a plus ten to stealth,
So okay, I'll help them. Why don't you go ahead and add
a plus four to that too. I don't use my flash or gene.
Don't forget to do your If you feel like, I don't know, keep
going your your magage battle on your sort of like point around or something.
Maybe I don't do it. Thanks Boots Kicks, Boots, Thanks Boots I
said that other guy do that and looks like villain. As you are looking
around, you see no signs of a struggle. You see some of the
ash getting swept up, but before it is completely swept up, you see
the equivalent of some shuffling in the ash, like footsteps, like currently moving
ex foot print. Yes, which direction do they go? They go southwest?
Anything anything, anything? We need to find you. It is southwest
southwest. You see there you see the prince? Yes, yeah, yes,
contact Uh would I know whether or not the others are definitely out of
range for a message spell? You would know that are definitely out of range.
Tower is significantly bigger. It's sixty feet right. Where is it one
hundred and twenty? It's one hundred and twenty still too far and you will
get Kim. Yes, I am nice, all right? Are you going
in this direction? Though? You should be moving slowly so that we can
stay on the trail and keep moving. But you can catch up to me
quickly. I don't move fast, okay, hold on before you do,
before you do, before you go anywhere on earth, And I'm gonna bugger
and then pet to be undulating gradby and ball thing and then I'm going all
right, take good care, I'll be what that brings up a point?
I can use my eye, oh my hour whichever, okay, all right,
and I'll go ahead and attempt to cast I'm going now, arcane I,
yeah, okay, all right, bye bye. So Mordis heads back
up the town. Booger is following you, Mortis or staying down here?
Okay, villain, you send out your arcane I to that southwest direction?
Is that correct? Okay? That disorienting feeling of vertigo makes you stumble just
a little bit for a moment as your rcane eye sends itself outwards, flying
in that southwest direction, go ahead and give me a perception check. Well,
you send the eye slowly making its way towards that southwest direction. Where
is it going though? Is it just following the general direction of those footsteps,
because they would have stopped after a short time. Given that, uh,
given that I know that Kingsport is very stealthy. At the moment,
I would be using that eye to try to look around and see if there
are any signs of life or anything like that, mostly rather than just like
rushing, rushing in a specific direction. Mm hm, take your time look
around, and after the footprints have stopped, which is not very far,
you find nothing, no sign of anything. Where would you have taken it?
Looking around in that spot where the footprints stop. Do I see any
landmarks or anything like that? It's kind of if I have to position it
on the map here it is right about there, whoops, right about here?
If I was driven skry, where would I go? Or if I
were kingsfold, where would I go sheltered? Perhaps? Are there any buildings
that look like they're still intact nearby? Yes? Are there any that?
Uh, there's many buildings that are intact right. Are there any any that
have, you know, open doorways or like some sort of a large enough
keyhole or something that I could maybe slip the eye through. Definitely many of
them. Would you like to spend time looking through everything? Mm hmmm.
I will keep it in mind, but I'm going to just keep sending the
eye towards the southwest. All right, You continue moving the eye southwest,
and this is going to take a little bit of time. Mortists, if
you head back up the strut the spire, ah, eh, so,
Finance's gonna find him. No valleys down there are down here shoe and like
she said, can me about the south wish it was like footprints or something,
So we should probably go back. Yeah, we should probably go back
from Okay, last when there sucks? See you are you do? We
need him again? Come on, well, bogging it was supposed to be
like Ontario, just kind of like sadly, just like he doesn't even enjoy
He just kind of leans forward like he's gonna plumb it off a cliff.
Mm hmm. You begin to all head to the bottom here, you all
reach the bottom, and you can see that Villain is sort of leaning up
against some debris or the strut there as one hand is covering an eye,
and you recognize when she does this, this is typically when she uses her
arcane eye ability. Valain is anything Villain. It's now been several minutes of
searching, maybe like ten minutes or so, and no sign of Kingsport,
no sign of any more footprints. This self cleaning situation that's happening in this
city might be very detrimental. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
all right, there were some footprints going towards the southwest. I have already
surveyed the area all the way towards the southwest, and I have found no
other signs. The footsteps stopped. Great. Now, if I were Kingsport
and I were alone, I would probably try to seek shelter. Right,
No, he said he wanted to leave. If I was king, I
don't know how much he's going to recognize what is is not shelter. You
know what's in the doorway and what's not since you can't see it. Yeah.
Yeah, but I also think wait to the ice bridge. If he
is trying to leave the ice bridge, but he wouldn't know which way to
go for that? Perhaps is he Chebby hates to say this, but is
Kingsport more important than the dale? Nope? This is what I mean.
This is a key component in making sure that we all don't die down here.
I think guy just because he's a Yes, we also have Kingsport for
reason, But we also have that book, right, his book. Yes,
But now we're at a disadvantage. We're not even going to be able
to We're not even going to be able to negotiate if we don't have it,
we just go with pan b I guess just the book. Now I
have to get under his skin. I mean, ultimately he has will he
didn't want to go back. I'm not talking about him talking about all bigger
Yeah, I mean we don't really is I mean, if he's just gonna
pop out at him pointing great wonderful, and if he's gonna get a book
and great show what and then we just kill him. But I mean it's
if if Kingsport just sh would have waddled off. Can bye? I don't
know. I don't know if he if we have a book killed that he
wants, and I think we're in a good place when it comes to wanted
to get him back. Yeah, you don't know. I don't king pork
gone, he's gone. I mean we could continue checking for a blind penguin
gets waddled off and youruth eat wet. Well, we can go up.
We can ride this thing one more time if we keep looking for him.
Yeah, because or Reel could see us while we're doing this. We still
have things we need to do. Kingsport is important, you know, Agreed.
Agreed. I'm not saying that I disagree. I am saying that we
fucked up. So let us not do that again. Okay. And in
the spell gorm, which spell oh it's the past. Oh, actually hold
on yeah. Does it end after cast the tech magic? Mm? Yeah,
as soon as I cast the tech magic. That's trade drop fuck,
which means we should have seen him and really been able to track him.
Maybe he's looking around now to see him now that we know that he's supposed
to beside. There's a penguin somewhere. Probably he's caking. He was peng,
he was king napping woo, probably taking in some short of pocket dimension.
Okay, gribbing. So we walked off the edge of the entire city.
We think, no, no, it's fine, it's fine, fine,
let's just go back in. Yeah, all right, I've been with
that. It's any one. I don't see you have the talk again?
Yeah, yeah, you're at the car head back up the spire first and
again. And he stepped out of the way. Ahead of you. You
can see a lightly inclining set of stairs and at the end of the stairs
a double door away. So I got is this far wants a knock?
Usually? I mean I don't. I don't. I don't want to knock.
I kind of want to open it slowly. Look, it's go up
to the dog door. No checking for traps, but trap I don't know
what God, it could be on the other side, but another race could
have Oh no, we're all dying. Our entire our entire city is crashing
into the world. Hurry, let me set this trap. So are you
heading for You begin to approach the doors, moon Brook. On your right,
you can see that there is oh god, I've lost the word,
one of those arrow slits in the wall. On the right. You can
see something moving there. M rock hole. I believe you come. Literally
stink it's called an arrow. Immediately I stop, and it takes some steps
back, and I think everybody is obviously I need you to make a charm
save for me. Please. Oh that's great, that's great. This is
not so I apologize a charisma save. It is not a charm safe.
Actually, wait, let me double check. Let me double check. Until
you told me you were an elf, let me double check. You're an
awful Yeah. I got excited too. You're just kind of just waiting.
Yeah, uh, yes, you do have advantage against us. Ay,
all right, cool, saving through against charm? Okay, hold on advantage?
Wait what am I rolling for? Sorry? Thank you, sir moon
Brook. Look at this fake moon Brook, and then I give you a
plus for he went nine, moon Brook, you are stopped in your steps
as you look to the right there, and suddenly you hear in your mind
and only you here, please return from whence you came. And you begin
to turn around and start heading back towards the magical elevator. And I don't
say anything to anybody, and I just get in the elevator and I what
the heck she just start walking? Was going on? I don't no,
don't. Oh did he go down? Okay? What excuse? I'm so
confused. Well, if she didn't stop for you, there's obviously something not
right up there. Yeah, something must have happened the door. As I
said before, there might be a god. I don't know the side of
that, dour. Yeah, but the netheris were magical, so we have
to assume that they would protect this was like the central part right the water
or something. And we muster, is there something in a role to see
if that seemed like a magical reaction, I don't even know if there would
be an inside check. Sure eleven, something's definitely weird. I don't know
if it's magical, but Moonbrook doing that is very strange. I can I
can if it is magical. I could dispel it maybe, but I have
no idea. Meanwhile, down at the bottom of the spire Mortis, you
see moon Brook continuing to walk away from the spire. Moon Brook, you're
starting to walk through the district sort of plainly, heading towards the ice bridge.
Oh Brook, what are you doing? You can respond to the Brook.
You just have your direction from whence I came. We were up at
the Why we were just up at the king and you were opening the door.
And now you want to go back or you came, we just got
onhavar. What are you doing? Someone told me to go back from whence
I came? Going back? Well stop stop that? Can I stop?
Brook? You can make a wisdom saving throw. Actually I'm sorry, it's
just another charisma saving throw. And you have an advantage against this. Thank
god, I take that back. It is a wisdom save What is your
wisdom? Odd? Never mind? You rolle the natural twenty Remembrooke. You
snap out of it, right, Why did you just do that? Yeah?
What what's but we are right? I don't know. You don't know
what you just did. No, we were just riding my elevator, man,
that's right. And then we wrote it down because you walk away from
the door of your opening. No, I wasn't. Okay, let's go
back and discuss. Please write this way, okay, okay, please after
you and up the spire. Uh huh, up the spire. What are
the rest of you doing that? It was just kind of like sitting there
thinking about what we should do. I mean, I can check see there's
anything about the door that Wait, did you go so Nissa's moving? No,
No, I'm just looking at it from where we are, just trying
to see if there's anything there. Yeah, give me an investigation checking itself.
It's a door, it's two doors. There must be some way to
figure out what it was. Well, yeah, I could now that we're
looking. Do we see the arrow slit? Yes? Yes, you do,
yes, a dozen't uh. There's like a little window over there.
Be careful. You could get shot out of there. You could be a
little morty. Plenty of memories of yeah, speaking of which mortis and well,
stop yelling, stop yelling, all right, yelling? Yeah, I'm
sorry. She walked away and I was like where you go? And he's
like going back the way I came. And then I was like, well
stop that and then she snapped out of it for some reason, and they
was like, what what am I doing here? So let's be careful about
that door. So that seems a bit weird. Give you an order or
did you hear anything? I don't know. I just was there's like in
a weird ass trance, you know, when she walked by it, and
we're like, make nero slid up there, so be careful to be something
came out of there can come out. That means arrows can go in.
But to take care, I did something move before the blank happened? I
don't remember that blank? So how long dos we take a few moments?
We look around here? One of us it's a moment to go ahead and
use magics to try and look for other magics. Yet I am willing to
go ahead and sit down and do the ritual. Or you can ray and
I'll look around. It depends on what you want to do. Oh,
you go ahead, I'll I'll help them and I'll go over to the side
and I'll start setting everything up to cast de tech magic. You let me
know when you want me to shoot. Hmm, okay, let me know,
but don't find until we do. Do you remember any voices or anything.
What do you remember any voices? Did you see an insiduals? And
then I don't remember. Well, it must have been something magic to make
her walk out like that. No, that's what I'm thinking. Yeah,
but no, listen, we alsore like really good against magic. Okay,
we are not affected by magic like that. That's bullshit. What are you
talking about? I mean you just walked like a dean. Yes, the
magic she's worked against you. I don't know what talking about. I literally
made you kind of sort of not seeable with magic? What do you mean
magic that's different? Like mauld You want to check a murder hole? Neil,
Well, we're going to wait close to the door. Villain weird being
with her eyes just a few minutes, a weird breathing for tim I breathing.
It's not weird, you focused. It is a little strange. I
thought it was frogging time until I saw But you know, I think the
best thing to do is to stay put. I guess for a whole how
muchever long it is going to take us. We should be pair. We
should talk about our lands because we have and I know, let's say,
behind that door is you know, do you really think she could just be
behind that door? I mean, we don't know. That's the problem.
Everybody can make a perception check for me with advantage because I'm cute, oh
so close and I'm going to use it, or else I'll never do it.
Am I standing near Carrio? It's not a saving girl. I don't
think so. This this like hallway with the stairs that you're in surrounded by
solid stone. You know, there's only it's only about ten feet wide,
but the stairway does go up quite a bit. And Ray moon Brook and
Nissa. I think you can hear music sounds like it's coming from beyond the
door, do you yes, here's something really, No, just hear the
breathing, remember going on behind? Shut up if you think that's music.
I don't shut no, no, no, no, no, not through
the door. Shut I hears something. What is that? I don't know,
some music? Someone listening? And you see like Moonbrook's ears twitch,
she's twitching her ears a wiggle mm hmm. Okay, yeah, I don't
hear. Yeah, you don't know. Come closer to me. You don't
mean the breathing. The doorway is about thirty feet ahead of you the ro
slit. It's about ten feet away from the door ahead of you and to
the right. The music coming from that or the door. It sounds like
can I tell if it's coming from the door or the side? Yeah,
moon Brook, you and Ray and Nissa, you can hear this music.
It's very faint and it sounds like it is coming from beyond the door.
Yeah, like mm hmm, that's interesting. I have nothing and I have
su Herbery. No, there's definitely music. Hey, is it playing in
your head? Maybe it's another No, all three of us hear it.
We just have to wait and tell Villain's then before we can move up.
So maybe just listen to see if you can hear anything else other than music.
Yeah, I'm just wondering if it's like I mean, we have we
seen some magical things that's been here for how long now, thousands of years?
Maybe they got magical music playing in there forever. I don't know.
We didn't hear You didn't hear anything when you first came up, So it's
kind of strange that it was. Does the music have words or is it
just so instrumental it's instrumental sounds. I don't know if you would have ever
heard of this kind of music before Brook, maybe in your youth, maybe
around civilization, maybe around very fancy sort of gatherings. Harriel, you definitely
would have, but you don't hear it. Ye do you think scream and
scris listening to music? Maybe he's a classy guy. You think you think
he went down and three went through the elevator to come back up and listening
to me. I mean, you just got a servant back. Maybe he's
playing some music because of that is the evil villain music waiting for us to
come find him. So maybe we're maybe we are feeling, but you're you're
thinking there's another way in there, and he would because he would have had
to go past us to get there. With the King's point was that your
spell has completed. Maybe it's like boss fighting music? What's that? OK?
I don't know? Are we ready? Who's the boss? Your boss?
And I'll hobble my way up? Why were you? Why were you
caking the magic? Maybe you should tracks all right? Anyway, I don't
have time. It's go ahead and I'll go up to it and examine.
But trying to keep it decent enough distance? Sure, looking at the doors,
ahead. They look like some very large like mahogany doors. They're very
rich looking and there are there's light from some window overhead illuminating these steps.
As you make your way up, you see no magic around the door,
no magic around the door itself. So there were little arrow slits there was.
There is an arrow slit to the right of the door that glands over
and take a look. Do I sense any type of magic from there?
So you begin to approach, and as you begin to look towards the arrow
slit, you can see something moving around. Valain and need you to make
a wisdom saving through for me, please written from whence you came. Please,
Villain, you turn around and you can play time to leave stand in
our way. I'm going to put my foot out like the tripper. You
know, I'm going to try to grab her by her shoulders. Yeah,
I'm going to stand in her way because obviously we we would be a little
bit more aware of what's going on. Villain, Please make a strength check
so you can make a strength check with advantage. Oh good luck. Imagine
she rolls the natural one when strength that means strength saving throw I know from
actual strength. Click the stat all the way on the left, not too
far. Villain is trying to push past you. She's not really sort of
shoving you or anything. She's just very forcefully continuing to try and get past
you. She's not trying to hurt you or anything along those lines, but
she is trying to keep moving. You are able to hold her, however,
I'm just holding on to her. She's she's really trying to move,
Villain. Why are you trying to leave? We need to hear with us.
I just figured I should ye even does sorry, I will emulate you,
sir. We're good, right, No, No, she still wants
to leave at my hand. Hey, everybody, everybody, I got Oh
good? Can you consider it's stopping. Jimmy's going to stand in front of
Villain and she's gonna just say I'm sorry, and she's gonna lift up her
stump again and she's gonna hit her in the face. Chevy make a make
a strength saving throw. It's the same thing plus four. No, it's
not a plus four, it's just it's that's just a it's not an actual
throat shepy. Villain is being held. Uh and you still you get to
roll it again because it's technically with advantage because Villain is being restrained. Right
now, I see this and I go over and I picked chippy up.
That's a little bit higher. And eleven Villain, what's your thirteen? Jeff
be still somehow misses Villain is struggling to move missus hands and you just wish
forever soever you won't. I don't want to heard herts extreme times. For
the streme measures, you should flat one right on her lips. No,
not with that, with your lips. Valain, please make a wisdom saving
throw. She gets plus four, she does and on a fifteen, Villain,
you snap out of it. Give her a kiss. Mortis, everyone
can snap out of that. Remember flailing and you don't. Now you're seeing
any sort of school of magic, all right? Anybody would have prefield?
What the hell just happened? And why you have your grimy little mitstole over
me? Yes to the door. What we were doing? You are starting
to walk away like she did. Yeah, you were trying to leave.
You were trying to just leave us. How did you get here? Like?
Do you remember? Because you were up there and then you started walking
this way. Ombrook said she couldn't remember what she was doing, so I
have a question if I have an hands care, did you happen to look
in that area? With that question? Whack? Since it would trigger me
to start thinking about it, could I kind of make any sort of like
arcana check to think of you kind of you absolutely remember looking at the door,
but beyond that you don't remember any In case you can Booger, that
wouldn't strike a chord though that that would be like weird. This effect would
happened to both of us. It is strange, Boger. I'm gonna send
everybody else but to me and you probably not. I'm gonna send Booger into
the air. Sure, okay? Uh is bigger Booger immune to charm?
What a great question? What happened to booger shape? It's not a creature,
right, It's a construct which actually gets a different statue. I've been
looking at the monster many of the whole time. I should probably look at
the actual sketch of my monkels. Mhm. Hold on, there's got to
be a way forward, right, Yeah, I have a pun. But
if you want to plane inside of it, and then that's great. Booger
should be immune? Yes, so you begin sending Booger forward, and Booger
heads forward, seeing the arrow slit and seeing there in the arrow slit a
blue humanoid looking person and fine clothes standing at attention beyond the arrow slit,
looking out. It's the same people we saw before at the anvil. Yes,
it is. A Booker gets closer to the door. You can also
hear the music everyone just Booger and then okay, yes, yes, what
do you say, increasing Joe? There is and then Booger is going to
come back. Actually the Booger, the Booger go through the yah and like
maybe around to the other side of the door she had locked from the sire.
There is no hole in the door, but there is. Yeah,
the creature is standing beyond it, but it can't right it is that attention.
Does it look like it reacts to anything? Is it breathing or is
it just like froze in It not breathing, It is not moving. Yep,
Okay, your booget keep it's going to creep on, sleep on,
squeeze one through. And then as Booger begins to move through the arrow slit,
this construct begins to move. And that is where we're going to take
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send boogers through the murder hole, you can see this blue humanoid looking construct
begin to move and I need Mandy Kimmy, Yeah, what would you like
to do? I would like to immediately use my spell storing thing that I
have now a level whatever level we are eleven, and you shoot pyrotechnic from
my crossbow and try to blind this thing. Sure, however, we will
still need to stick an hue an initiative as I bring you here. Oh
cool, my god, Oh I didn't even click on the toe. And
ye, you can all go ahead and make initiative rolls. Make sure you
click on your tokens first. This is a small area to be rolling.
Initiative question. It's been a full day, right, Just want to make
sure it's been a full day since what you had? You had a long
Uh? How any days have passed since we've been here? Or a day
passed? Yes, two days I believe have passed since you So we get
our temp HP back. Whack. Do you have a token for my owl
as well? I do? Hang on, there you go. I believe
you should have control over that, so you should be able to yep,
there you go. Alrighty, and I need to roll for our blue friend
here. So I rolled, and I didn't select my thing and it was
in nineteen, so I just didn't put that in. Yeah that works,
thank you. Yeah, it just came. I went from my nineteen toy
eight. Well you keep the original role, but just yet I get out.
Yeah, my second role was ninety. Okay, and I go,
there's a blue thing. There's a blue guy behind. This is going to
essentially act like a supper fries around here. And as you trying to cast
your pyrotechnic spell. This creature will go first, and it will require a
wisdom saving throw from Booger. As you see this twenty natural twenty for Booger.
Wow, you see so through Booger, you see the eyes of this
creature glow silver, and for a moment, it's almost as if they glow
very brightly. And Booger passes this check. There's this horrific sort of reverberation
that moves through Booger and it's seemingly unaffected. Okay, and now it is
Booger's turn. I will use my action to fire sparks from my crossbow,
but the rest of the pyrotechnic is going to shoot from Bogger because as a
spell focused So, uh, this is my first time doing pyrotechnics. I
think, oh I should do this anyway. You've not magical flame that you
at an area of not a magical flame that you see. It fits.
Oh, never mind, I think I need to have a so it does
not matter. Yeah, it wouldn't matter. I would need I would need
a magical flame, so it wouldn't even work. So never mind. If
that doesn't work, then I would use poison spray just as a reaction Burger.
So because I went ahead and rolled, this is getting applied to the
poison spray, I think, which is a deck safe. It's still yeah,
it would still yeah, some sprite still happens, but nothing happens.
Point the creature sort of dodges out of the way with minimal effort. And
now you can all see there's something going on up ahead. Brook, it
is your turn. Something going on up ahead. I know it's a blue
the blue thing. There's a blue guy there. There's a blue guy there,
and he's screaming and he's scuff and he's attacking Burger. Everybody's okay,
you're all in the damn way. You can get biased, no problem,
come on, okay, she like squished past yep, scooting by. I'm
tiny, okay. Oh and I'm gonna aim through the thing and try to
shoot it. Yeah. This will be with disadvantage and it has yeah,
and it has uh like partial cover. Hell's bad, bad, God do
what I gotta do, though thirteen is unfortunately not enough. The arrow almost
hits the creature, but it collides with part of the uh. The opening
of the arrow slitt in clinging rat holds off past it. Okay, well
uh, okay, Well, I don't know if I should do this or
not. I want to go No, I'll fuck I'm gonna take a step
towards the door. Oh god, it's like right there, Jesus, I
can't get away from it. I can't get away from It's almost like this
area was designed so that it had the best possible view and you had the
worst. Yeah, it's it. Then, Okay, that's it for your
turn. Okay, yeah, Ray, m hm hm, this is your
turn. The brook ran up fired an arrow and just hung back by the
door. All right, So right, let's see that is twenty Okay.
So Ray runs up here and goes, ah, oh I I can get
us in there. And then he uh he calls forth the Susu, which
will be called forth back here just because it lets out some fire and I
don't want it anyone to burn, so let me pull him out. So
he just goes be here. Yeah, and he's gonna go up. I'm
gonna tell him to move close to Fellon and let me just make sure on
the distance here. Shit can't get all right, No, he can't get
over there. All right. Well, I'm just gonna I'm gonna have him
move up. He's gonna say there for now and say I can use him
to get in there in a minute. That's what I'm gonna say. And
then I am going to twenty feet. I'm gonna run to right there.
Okay, here's my turn, Sheppie, Okay, Chpy's gonna try to squeeze
through everyone five ten, fifteen, twenty hm hm, I can't do that,
Okay. Chepi's actually gonna take two steps back, and she's gonna hold
her hand out and if someone opens the door and she sees someone to attack,
she's just gonna hurl an eldrit blast adam. So she's gonna hold an
action. Okay, alrighty villain right, I'm gonna go ahead and uh move
past quill here so i can see a little teeny bit better. And I'm
going to go ahead and I'll pull out like a really rotten tart that I've
had for a long time, because I haven't really used this spell, uh,
and to feather, and I'll wiggle the feather in the air in the
direction of the of the culprit behind the wall, and I will attempt to
cast Tasha's hideous laughter, and which they will have to go ahead and make
a wisdom saving throw or they're going to have to fall prone and be incapacitated
the whole duration. Okay, they fail. You see this horrific sort of
grin on its face for a moment, And what do you say to this
thing? It's supposed to be funny. Well, I see that you've got
a hole in your life. Okay, that'll work for hideous laughter. This
horrible why did you say that? Silent laugh? And it's like mouth like
is like too large and too big for its face. It's like the cheeks
are too far spread. As this creature falls prone, laughing silently. That
wasn't that funny? He found funny? So how about I don't know,
move on my suggestion. Well, then somebody appreciates my fine work. I'll
go ahead and I'll move up with teeny bit more close to Winbrook. Sure,
that'll be my turn. Okay, And at the end of its turn,
it will make a wisdom saving throw. That's a natural one. It
continues its silent laughter prone on the ground. TERRYO, we are we making
things so difficult. I'm going to do the same thing I did when we
had arrows just before. It's only one right, because I can't see anything.
There is an arrow slit up ahead on the right. Okay, Terry's
just gonna put his shield on his back and move in front of the hole
and stand in front of it and block it. Booger is currently up above,
so it is up a little bit. It's not even with the staircase.
It is up just a little bit. So you can probably reach up
and like hold your shield. It would be like an awkward angle, but
I'd say you can do it. You know. It's kind of like you
don't have your your arm through the brace on the back of the shield.
It's more like you're holding the shield up with your hand holding on like a
plate. Yeah, all right, everyone move, Let's just go. And
you can't waste our time on this anymore, okay it unless you're doing something
else. What are you doing? Yeah, I'm just gonna say, well,
Lissa, you could probably hold this better, but if you can open
that door, I'll be better. That's it. That's all I will do.
Okay, Quill certainly try just to keep Quill safe. I'm gonna move
Quill towards the back. You're you're chubby, that's true, Mortis, can't
you hear you? And then I'll just move up here and then crack open
the door. Okay, Mortis, Uh huh. You push on the door.
Mm hmmm. Beyond you see a very strange sight. Chamber music washes
over you as you see a ballroom in front of you. In contrast to
the desolate frozen ruins outside, A dozen people mill around in here, dressed
in flowing silk garments and holding colorful hand masks and feathered fans. Noble courtiers
laugh and gossip as servants move among them, often offering sugared treats on silvered
platters. Ooh, do they look like they're like not a feral corporeal Yeah?
Okay, and they don't look like the blue no ding, not at
all. Okay. People of all shapes and sizes, all races in front
of you. I'm going to mingle. I would like to. I'd like
to use my action to me. I will use my sweet red excuse me
mingle. So, Mortis, it will take your action to open the door,
but you still have movement. If you'd like, you can move.
I'm going to mingle. You know where you would like, I don't think
I could actually go much farther now. Think you were just diagonal with Chappie?
Is that correct my action? Yeah? That's thirty so I can only
go here. So why don't you I don't even Yeah, I crack the
door, that would be it? Yeah, just past one. Basically did
you only crack her or did you open it all the way? I opened
it and pushed it open, like I reached around you kick and then just
sort of opened it. You want to make sure I could see? Can
I see? Well? I mean yeah, everybody can see past you see
this ballroom with people moving about and having what looks like a party. Appad.
Yes, it's your turn. I just want to ask more. That's
going to hold his action to mingle. Oh, I will nick you.
So you're not going inside? You can't. Okay, I'm gonna move up
the right by the door, but I can't really get pasted any everyone and
you can technically move just and you can. You can move inside. You
just move past everybody to do something. What are we dealing with here?
I think I'm just gonna move. I'm gonna move inside, like right in
front of moon broke sure and hold an action to use my holp uh yeah,
use my halbard or use my breath weapon just straight in front of me
if something attacks me, sure, yeah, what an entrance. I just
kind of like come in. But I'm like, you can see my stance
is very ready to fight, Like, what is this? I'm not trusting
what I see. This just sort of spins into the room, looking like
one of the Avengers, sort of spinning into a hero's stance. Okay,
holding your action to use your breath weapon if you are attacked, moon Broke,
Yeah, we can end this thing in here. We'll go and try
to find another way around. I don't know I'm blocking the hole. Sure,
let me suck a move in then I'm a movie. Just come in,
come in. You forget that guy, Thank you Carrio book wait hold
on one, two, three, four, Moonbrook's gonna move over here okay,
and actually right here, see if I can see anything? Sure,
So there's yeah, there's a door to the like to the right, like
this is a this is a sort of grand ballroom scene. Here in front
of you. There's people sort of you know, they're they're laughing and cajoling
and sort of having a party, you know, it's probably been a very
long time since you've seen anything like this. Yeah, I mean, yeah,
it's been decades. Does one more question? Do they notice us at
all? Or do they give a shit that we're here? We're not They
do seem to notice you. Yes, you see a few people sort of
smiling and waving and such. Okay, they're waving, Okay, I all
right, Uh it's it. I guess that's all I could do. Okay,
I don't want to attack anybody. All right, right, it's your
turn. I'm going to say to Velain, do you still have the tech
magic up? Because I think, considering how old this place is and there's
people dancing in here, I gotta be magic. So that's what I'm saying
to her. So I'm pretty sure with laughter would have concentration. Yeah,
it would have ended your detech magic. No, okay, we're going through.
Okay, So I what was that ray? He sended a little muffled
there. I said, I'm going to go through. Okay, it's making
sure. Yeah, and I'm going to bring the SUSU right here. Okay.
As a bonous action, I'm going to tell the SUSU too to move
us away. If anything comes to attack us right here, and I am
going to hold I'm holding a spell as well if something is going to attack
us. Cool Hello, Okay, I'm holding burning hands. Alrighty, Chappie,
sure turn Yeah, I'm Chappie. Five ten, five thirty. I
can get up to here. Uh what's going on in there? Did she
be your people talking? Chappie, As soon as you make your notice,
this party happen in this room. I need you to make a This is
a charisma, save Cheppie. Very good at those Oh, Chappie, there
is a party happening up ahead. You hold yourself back from rushing in and
enjoying this wonderful scene. My goodness. If anyone was to look back at
her, she's just like wide, I just like drooling a little tiny bit
like oh, there's a wonderful smell of food and drink coming from this place.
Then it is just looking at her like Cheppy's worst enemy has entered the
scene we talked about. Okay, Jeffie, what are you doing? That's
all Chappie can do. She's just gonna move up to there. She wants
to get into that party. So she's essentially just standing behind Terry l it's
all in her movement. You you are, you controlled yourself. It's it's
up to you if you would like to move forward. Oh, I can
dash. Chappie's gonna move forward. She's gonna do another thirty five feet.
Oh my god, you're so disappointed. Terrio's like looking over and there's like
a stump. There's like a stump that pushes you, okay, sprinting forward,
and she pushes in front of everyone and she kind of just jumps in
body. There's like or there's cannapis and or dirts. You've never seen anything
like this. It's such a fancy party. There's guests and things, and
they're sort of waving, oh hello, hello, and villain, it is
your turn. Okay, I am gonna go ahead and squeeze my way on
in and off to the side over here, I guess towards Nissa, Okay,
And I'm gonna spend my turn instead of holding an action, I'm gonna
spend my turn trying to just look around and see if there's anything out of
place that I can notice, any abnormalities, anything, any cracks in the
wall, things like that. Yeah, yeah, sure, go ahead and
make make an investigation. Check nineteen nineteen. It's too perfect, villain,
and it doesn't really make any sense. There's nothing wrong with this place.
It's too perfect not see it in my turn, You're right, it is
going. Why would these people be here dancing yet more silent laughter that no
one can see. It's your turn. People are rushing past you and rushing
into this ballroom. Even now, you can smell this Terio haiol. It's
been a very long time since you've been to one of these baths. You
can see no baths, but you can see it smells wonderful. It's the
smell of fine wine, good and the smell of snobbery at its finest.
Oh god, yeah, Terry's like, I cannot believe, can't well,
since everybody made their way and I think I should do this. Oh god.
Yeah. He's just like whips his shield and he's like goes up to
I told you not. I got to have red wine, watch of wine
and the stuff that it looks fresh. I am so sorry. And Terry
just like yeah, he gets here and he's like peeking around the corner,
like, oh, Terry, the finery here is wonderful. The kreme de
la creme of people back home would have parties like this. This is the
event that everyone would want to be invited to. Yeah. I think at
this point Tero does like the rigid scary. He'd like turn around like his
head's like and he has like the biggest puppy dog guys, and he's just
like tearing up. Please, just don't tear you. This can't be right.
They have beer, That's what he says. An that's it. That's
his movement. Absolutely, Quill's turn. All right, Quill's just gonna go
ahead and lie on up with its massive movement, speed up next to fell
In, and I think that it's uh, it's just gonna take the dodge
action just in case, all right, martist Okay, now I'd like Domingo
excellent and make my way in shy and vibe, and then I'm gonna be
like, oh, look at thish. I'm gonna go to the candy dish
and be like, hey, look at they got the huge thing. Absolute
as you as you enter this room, yeah, you're all out of combat.
Now. Several of the guests sort of interact with you and mingle Hello,
there, pleasure to have you. Wonderful party, isn't it? Are
you think it doesn't matter. You're fashionably late. Aunt, you said,
of course late. You had a new wine. Would you like something to
eat? There are cannabi is about. I have been delighting myself in them.
Just wears a bit of pastry, often with filling. And you can
see these people are all finally dressed, and they have wonderfully elegant masks,
and they're they've got golden filigree and such on them, beautiful, beautiful things.
But you see this spread of food, and there are servants making their
way around with the food on various platters and plates. Making your way,
and there will be a servant that sort of makes their way up to each
of you and offers you some drink and some food one of those, one
of those, in one of those, and whatever she's not having perfect.
It's just all false. It's an illusion of some something is wrong here.
Don't drink does not smell like I am a'm I have a fine nose for
this. Oh my god, Terry ill Is, Oh my god, you
have not smelled food this good for many months, Terrio. This can't be
right. Why would this be here? It has to be some kind of
trick or real. This serial faults. There are no cracks in them.
The place has wrong. They preserved this place for why no, you this
is a trick. It has to be. I'm gonna chest dispel magic,
trying to reach out at a magical effect that must be effecting this area.
I'm going to lick this glass like it's never been licked before, ray,
and I'm going to cast that at a higher okay level, I'm going to
say level five. Okay, yeah, dispel magic at lot So alrighty,
let me just check this out. Hold on a moment, he tried to
your Greek creek here you yes, you're anything, but what did you already
eat? One? What does anything happen to Morty when he eats out of
his mouth? So I would like Mortis, you to make a uh this
is going to be contested sleight of hand checks, I think, or no,
this will be a dexterity save Mortis and moon Brook a slide of handcheck.
Okay, and he has plus four fortunately awesome, Sorry you know slame
Haan, No dexterity, save and throw Mortis and moon Brook. This will
be a sleide of hand check fourteen sorry eighteen moon Brook, you knock the
food out of Mortis's hand before he's able to eat it. Would you this
isn't real. I'm sorry, she's crazy. At what point did you all
lose every brain cell that you had in your cranium? Everybody actively trying to
help. Excuse me, you're yelling at the last remaining okay, right,
and that last remaining one normally is not this stupid? I just told you
it's more than nightly an illusion, and you're all eating things, and we're
in the middle of a goddamn city filled with magic? Can you design you're
you're over here there? Over here? Does illusions smell this good? I'm
mingling? Can you smell that good? Yes? Learn about Harry all use
your brain. I am using my brain. It's called this wine. Smell
here and he hands it in. This is smelling over the individual who has
been like kind of talking with us a little bit. What what is the
occasion for the party where we celebrating? So ray you cast that a fifth
level? Yes? Yes? As Cheppie asks this question, music dies,
Yes, people disappear, and the wine falls from Terio's hand. Just what
the suddenly all around you you see that the ballroom lies in ruins, rhymed
with ice. It's furniture jumbled and shattered above the floor. Nobles danced three
glass cylinders with iron fittings slowly moved through the air. Housed in each cylinder
is a swollen human brain floating in a bath of slimy, translucent goo.
And everyone, please select your tokens. I need you to roll initiative again.
That was what the wine five told you not to drink it. I
didn't drink it. I wanted to trying to drink it. Three of them,
three of all of these jars with three in a jar. Yes,
they are floating in the air, about ten feet off of the ground.
Okay, that's what's my next question. Elaborate mm hmming next to me,
great question. There is the one next to mortis, one next to the
brook and ray and in the northeast of the room. And yes, make
sure you've clicked your tokens, and please all initiative. Oh did I?
Oh yeah, well we can with the original numbers. I think it just
needs Oh there it is. Yeah, Okay, it's going to say it
is. It's going to give it a minute. So they're on let me,
they're on pillars. They're not on pillars. They are floating, floating
in jars fitted with iron with iron fittings, like a French press with a
brain. Yeah, pretty much awesome. Would you like to see what the
liquid? Yes? Yes, please, yes, alrighty, yes, I
have a French press in my room. Well, who doesn't everyone? I
don't doubt what you're having. Yeah. The prop, well, it looks
pretty formal. It's got cut to make one the case. It looks like
bile if they want it. When it takes it over, I want the
jars. Save the jars people, thank you. I love little destroy the
jars it okay, I need initiative for me. I love catch keys moon
Brook. It is your turn. You see the environment fade all about you?
God, damn okay, so uh I feel she's sees the one by
Morty. She doesn't realize one's floating up of her or beside her, and
she's going to take aim at the one near Morty. Okay, crossco So
sorry, I'm so scared. Twenty three That is a hit and mortis beside
it, so I get sneak attack right. That is correct. Oh,
it's floating down on the ground. No, it is ten feet in the
air. But I got a short Yeah. Wait, technically you don't get
the sneak attack then because it has been within five feet of it. Ah,
that is correct. That's how I was asking. I was like,
if it's on the ground, jump, thank you for chippie. You can
have you can have inspiration. Oh a very nice, very little good night.
But you can see the arrow like leave like a furrow like in the
glass. Okay, there's like bubbles like all inside the the jar. Sweet
well that she still isn't realized there's one beside her, so till stay there.
Okay, yessah, it's your turn. I'm assuming I see the one
that's next to her right from where I absolutely okay, So I'm gonna move
over here and I'm going to rage and I'm gonna attack it with my halbird
her mother of gold. That is twenty eight because you did not have advantage
on this, and you can hit it because you have reached with your halberd.
Otherwise you would not be able to reach this. The melee weapon that
is not a crit It is the twenty eight, So that will be the
eight in the three for the attack. Your halbard connects. Oh my god,
it's right above you love. Oh damn, I'm gonna hit it again,
okayeh. Twenty three is another hit. Your halbird uh smacks into several
of the bits of iron filling. Yes, you won't hurt my love,
And that's it for my turn, Sheppie. Yeah, I guess seeing them
attack, Cheppy's going to look at the brain that's over by itself and kind
of do a little shrug and hurl some eldritch blasts. And since we've leveled
up, she now gets three of us. Whoa yay, turning into a
real warlock. Here. The first one sixteen sixteen like mega man begg That
is a hit, amazing, first one doing twelve damage okay, needy,
It hits, sort of spins the brain and the jar. I love it.
Do we know these things are bad? And then she's gonna hurl like
last ata it's a huge very seventeen is another hit. Fourteen too much damage,
jesus, Yes, he's a rocket launcher. Yeah, chivvy is dammage
chevvy all right. Last one going in fifteen also a hit. You're making
up for all the terrible rolls. Yeah, she was saving him for the
fight. Nice Yeah that yes, yes, my god, is that it
for your turn? Sheppie, that is it. She's gonna stay and range.
It's Harry ol and just kind of look back at him and that's her
turn in wink. Okay, we'll kiss her off. Alrighty Mortis, it
is your turn. I'm gonna go in this way. Yee. And did
you attack me? Can it attack me? Willing to ca so you were
not in range? That's high up, yes, because legal. And then
I'm going to uh, I'm gonna kick out my wand and fired at Dick
one just one fired it. It was that was the one that was hit
by three eldritch blasts. Yep, okay, Mortis takes out the wand no,
what do you mean? What I mean? This is? This is
ray? Literally? Oh man? That mean oh no? Cut of wind
a line of strong wind kicking feet in a ten foot wide blast from me
in a direct Can I cuose for the spells duration? Yeah, I've got
that and I want to blow it immediately against the wall, put fifteen feet
into the wall. It gets to make a strength saving throw to see if
it succeeds, makes it. I am going to and a cash cash chat.
I'm going to see what the difficulty is negative three on that roll.
Holy cry, I mean was pushed express vapor? I don't know if it
doesn't need damage? Uh Mortos does? Uh well, oh you're not the
GM. Okay, buddy, it will smack into the wall if you were
trying to push it against the wall and that you did not Okay, I
did, I did, I did want to do it, all right?
Yeah, so Mortis, go ahead and make it uh an ins check for
me, just a regular old in check I love to nowadays, and I'm
gonna I'm gonna have to click the button thirteen. Unfortunately you were not able
to push it with enough force to do any damage. Okay, Uh actually
no, I sorry, I take that back. I take that back.
It is enough. Okay, these things are not the best. Uh yes,
go ahead and roll the Desexo for four damage. Sing think smacks against
the wall sort of spinb Okay, is it a for return? Mortis?
Yep, yep. Villain. All right, I'm gonna go ahead and use
my turn to cast chill touch at the brand in the drud that everybody's been
hitting on this right side here that is a fifteen to hit is a hit,
villain? How do you kill it nice. Well, I think that
the the hand that operates from uh from chill touch goes ahead and it just
squwishes it in his hand. It's really disgusting. Juice is flying, probably
hits Chappy a little bit because she's not too far away. Man, it's
it's it's pretty rough, you know you. I wanted you to keep it
jar you cack? Is that it for your turn? Kind of more important
to kill them? Baby? Yes? That will be okay. What rains
begin their turn? You see bubbles sort of filling up the uh the jars
as bank first and foremost. I need Marhis to make a wisdom saving throw
against mmmm. Let me just check this real quick. I'll cover my ears
and I and close my eyes and starts singing using flash mutinias against charm quinkie
three la l l l l l l l because I'm meaning quay. That
is a success. You resist this charm, uh, moon Brook, I
need a wisdom saving throw. It's such an arm spell it is. You
have an advantage on this. But sixteen is enough regardless, Yes, ye
sweet, thank you m m. Yes, sixteen is enough, and seventeen
is even better. Moonbrook. You feel yourself sort of like something is trying
to force you, force their way into your head. For a moment,
you and Mortis both sort of shake it off, and TERRYO, it is
your turn making like Taylor Swift over here, shake it off with that.
I'm going to run this way. Terry's just gonna leave. The door is
open. I'm so see Tiffey, Oh Villan, I'm sorry. Yeah,
Sarah's gonna run here and he is going to cast don't touch my hour what
wait a minute, what happened to my Oh? I was gonna do channel
diviny, but I noticed I have a lot less than I normally they do.
What do you mean it says only have two? That is correct?
Okay, you only get two channel divinities. Oh alrighty well, I'm going
to use one and I am going to do Nature's wrath and hold it in
place, or try to hold it in place anyway. Actually you might get
three level eleven. Hold on, let me just do the chat. I
feel like it's a lot later. You don't get that many mmmmmm channel divinity
you have, be right, I'm thinking about divine since I think I have
five. I know you do get three eventually, but I'm pretty sure you
only have two? Still? Okay, m yeah, I can't find it.
I think you only. We'll go with two. All right, We're
gonna cast that dexterity saving throw. Let's see. The creature must succeed on
a strength or a deck saving throw? Is it's choice? Okay? And
which one are you casting on? Uh? The one right here? Okay?
Strength or decks? Mm hmm. An eight is a fail. So
we see these vines getting to grow upwards and encircle this this brain and a
jar set save the jar, right, and he just kind of tightens the
lines and just kind of like holds the top and then like, yeah,
holds it in place and that strain okay, right? How big is it
the jar? It's probably like four feet tall? Okay? Cool? Yeah?
How can fill? It's filled with like heavy looking liquid and a brain?
Okay, this is stupid, but I love it. I'm I'm gonna
I'm gonna move here as I tell my SUSU to go there, and he
is going to teleport me on top of the jar. Oh okay. Now
does it have to teleport everything in range? Or can it select things to
teleport? It can select? I can select it does release fire. But
nothing's in that range. I was the only one. I mean, technically,
I didn't even need to move I just need to move him down.
Okay, the susu doesn't move with you when you teleport. I thought it
does. He does, yep. Okay, So I'd be here and the
susu would be here. Okay, So it's up in the air, he'd
be floating. To be floating, so I'm on top of the jar yep,
deck saying or anything like that before acrobatics. Acrobatics. Fucking great.
That's a six. You get one foot on it. Ray, this was
such a good idea slide right off of it. Roll a D six for
me, Ray, Sure I don't felans on me? Is gonna be great,
Nah, I'd take five damage as you fall, roll me D eight
h four. You land underneath your sousu as you fall sliding off of this
thing. Okay, let me in for a second second, do this so
anyway, I all right, that's my turn. I think I'm prone right
on the ground. Sarah was looking at you like what the fuck? Why?
Uh? And he's trying to reinforce the grip with more like vines and
all right, that's it. That's my turn, Quill's turn. Okay,
so we'll see it's been a while since we used Quill. But are you
sure an initiative by the way it does? It does Actually, if you
read this unfamiliar, Yeah, it's weird. So Quill goes ahead and uh
is going to go ahead and start kind of pecking at this uh this jar
here to try to use the help action in order to brant whoever attacks it.
Whoever attacks this creature next advantage. So it already has advantage because it's
being restrained. Oh okay, well I do it to one of the other
ones. Yeah, we'll do it to the other one then. But with
that said, it does have fly by, which allows it to move away
from opportunity from from creatures without a provoking opportunity to attack. We're going to
move. You just didn't know that that was restrained. So that's fine.
I'm not. That's just a rep coon. I'm not. You don't have
to use that. It's okay. So it'll start picking this one and then
Quill will move away again as well, back towards like Chappie. Uh oh,
so you want to move towards it, then have it sort of peck
be distracted because it's all kind of happening within the same minute anyway, So
I don't think you can. It would have to stay next to it if
you wanted to do that, because the health action requires you to. Okay,
that's fine. Scratch it and it'll just do the dodge action. Then
it's fine. Okay, moon Brook. So I'm going to this is so
how can I kind of tell how big the brain is? Like? Definitely?
Okay? How heavy does it? Book? The weight of a brain?
I'm gonna have to google it. Damn, that's about five five pounds.
Okay, yeah, calls about three. I looked at it the other
week. Don't worry, can I squy? So with that being said,
moon Brook is going to be Yeah, she is going to cast mage hand
and she's going to float it over to the brain of the jar over here,
sorry one next to you, or the one the one north? Sorry
the one north. I'm trying to point at it, but it's not letting
me. You're just on the wrong tool. Yeah, that one, and
then it's gonna float up. So that's twenty five and then scoop it out
of the it's got a top on it was trying to get iron fittings around
this thing. It's like protected. Look I thought Ray was. I mean,
it's going to try to open the jar talking, then go ahead and
make a constitution saving throw, so you will have Terriol's bonus. This is
like a concentration check soon. Nice, Okay. Unfortunately, you try and
find some kind of thing to open these are it seems like what the hand
is feeling. There's no like lock on this thing. It seems like they
were engineered to be inside these things. You are not able to open it
up. Okay, damn all right? And she that's oh it's she'll move
She's gonna move over here. Then yeah, and that's it. Okay,
Uh, Nissa, it's your turn. Is there any reason not to try
to attack it? I just say this to the group. I mean if
I break it, no, I mean, do what you want. I'm
just I'm just like please okay, okay, just double checking by Harvard again,
crying me in the corner. All right. By twenty five, you
have advantage on this, Nissa. Oh and it's a good thing that you
did do that, because that is a crit So that is a whopping twenty
two damage as you bring your halberd down, you see cracks begin to form
in the glass and you scratch the shit out of the iron fittings. All
around. There's bubbles all bubbling up inside. It's still floating there. I'm
gonna hit it one more time. Do I still have advantage? Yes?
Twenty one is another hit? How do you kill it? Yes? I
so my halbird like slams into the center of the glass and the glass just
shatters outward and on the ground. It's in my mouth. Wow, the
brain mattered, like literally flat and everywhere, and it's just on everyone.
It's like a closeup of Mortis's face and slow mode. I don't know how
to do it. It's very it's very barbaring of you. Okay. And
by the way, if you haven't done so, I think everybody had that
ten HP from the blessing. Yep, otherwise Essa would have given you the
four. Okay. Is that a free turn? Yes, Chappie, it
is your turn. Yeah. Seeing them take that one out, I think
Cheppy is just gonna fire some elders blasts at the other one. Whity Jevy
s as she hurls them in. I'll just blast number one want to hit
hit fourteen damage for that one, a second one flying in sixteen to hit
another hit nine forest damage for that one, and the last one she just
hurls in for another sixteen. That's the wrong sime. Okay, that's another
hit, that's right, thirteen damage Okay. Hit after hit, you see
cracks like forming and like screws and fittings like sort of rattling out of the
iron and bubbles all inside the jar. Is that it for your turn,
Chippie Morty, it's on you now, Jebby weekend it and that's her turn
now, and then I'm going to run and dive onto it. Can I
jump? Can I use this? This is on? It's definitely it's definitely
not ten feet up. It's only three steps, so it's probably like two
feet up Marty, Okay, but I still do a try to. I
want to like bear hug it and like if it's floating, I just want
I need an athletics check and it's got to be ridiculously good. I just
want to see this ship me too? Great? Great? Uh? What
is it? Athletics? Should yep? Athletics. You grab onto the iron
fittings. Your fingers are like like peeling down the glass and you fall back
down to the steps. Hey, crap, and I'm going to I don't
know what I'm gonna do. And then I'll just hold my action and I'll
like wait for it to fall as if someone's probably going to break it anyway.
Valain, Well, I don't want to shatter ship from it because Morty
will be mad, So I'm holding I'm just gonna use the dodge action.
That's it. That's my turn, not doing anything else. Okay, the
brain's turn. Mmm hmm perfect. Mortis is jumping up trying to trying to
hold on to it, and really, how beautiful. Look at the thing.
Let's see, it's perfectly around the blone glass. Did they make a
fitting for the glass and the glass for the fitting? I have to find
out, Morris, Uh, please make a wisdom saving grove. Yep,
I got the seven. You're charmed, of course I am. And as
you look up at this beautiful brain in the jar, in the jar,
you just you know that you must protect this at all costs, exactly what
I was doing anyway, and I say, you will not break the jar
and memories. Then I load the crush bow and I got like hovering above
me and I have it. I got my hip, like I don't you
care? As I pointed at my friends in this very serious moment, you
can tell yes absolutely. Meanwhile, the rest of you see Mortise basically just
prepare his crossbow ready to fire at you. He looks very upset that everybody's
been shooting this brain. And don't hurt the brain, TERRYO. It's your
turn. Wow. I'm going to hold an action and if a crossbow comes
as the way it comes that way, I'm gonna step in front of whoever
the cross w goes to and try to block it with my shield. Hmm,
okay, all right, we'll do something. It's guy Mortis and uh
that's it. Ray, it's your turn, all right. I'm gonna whisper
whisper to the SUSU and say, if she fires a cross bowl, teleport
him and turn him around. And I'm gonna have the SUSU go right up
next to him. Oh whoa, whoa wait, whoa, whoa what's is
she doing? App looking at me? And then I'm going to there's flame
at it, raycollishing off, which gets extra D eight. Okay, twenty
six is a hit. Ray, how do you kill it? Oh?
Awesome, nice? I think it just the fireball goes straight through the cracked
glass and it it sort of it didn't really catch the brain, but it
kind of does, and it forces it out the back of the glass and
it just charred little gross lump that falls onto the ground as the jar crashes
down. No, not the brain, A nice nap out of it.
No, not the jar. The glass cracks and shatters, the brain lands
on the ground and just kind of liquifies below you. Corus, Yes,
you were no longer charmed your crossbow at us. You were gonna shoot one
of us? No, I wasn't. When you're gonna do that, and
I start kicking some of the shoards into a pile. You were definitely you
know, you know you can usually fix that, right, you can,
But everybody, I didn't want to do. That's a lot of work.
Everybody, get you any cards going here, you can help you pick them
up to you. I'll by doing that, I would be leaning around for
anything on the walls or any abnormalities or anything like that. Sure beyond this,
beyond this ballroom, you can see that there are several doors. It
looks to be another hallway and many other places to explore. However, we'll
have to find out about those next time, nicktime, as we missed now
in the episode. But thank you so much everybody for tuning in for this
episode of Rhyme of the Frost Maiden and this wonderful brain dance. Wow,
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fun today. I really liked falling off of that jar. No one got
hurt the entire time except Ray, who did it to so it was great,
good time. Sick. It's just what you say, just the ultimate
fail of not being able to actually attend that party. By the way,
just a footnote, anybody that ate or drank anything would have been fine and
you would have tasted those things. I was crying, Yeah, but we
wouldn't have known if we had a guy I know we had to eat and
stuff. I just have to rub a little salt in the woond there so
you can have good things when we're done. Save in the world elusory party
pooper. I was going to ask if the level for that spell matter,
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dope? All right? Did you do spell it? Yeah? At level
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doing really good about streaming once a week, which is better than what we
were doing next week. Though, since there is no rhyme, right,
we did establish it. Okay, I will be playing the Quarry. I
thought it was going to be a multiplayer first. Apparently it's not so Unfortunately.
We'll be playing with my booth thing tests. However, I'll be playing
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I'm actually excited about a game. Sometime this weekend, I might want to
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was doing for a second. Okay, Yeah, that's it. That's fine.
I was there too, You're fine. It sounds like, yeah,
I forgot my name. Okay, we'll do something creative for hours. Actually
drains you visically and mentally. No, and yeah, and I had a
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Thank you so much everybody for joining us as the group has entered the Spire
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