In the year two seven fourteen, a new squad of operatives was chosen by the College of Illusion. These fools promptly went on to frustrate their DM at every opportunity. Today, still working together, because really, who else would work with them? They survive as adventurers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the Second Breakfast Club. Tony Kenney as Eddie thousand Only, Jesse Owen as a deer a Glow, Michael Cole as Urog, Jesse Wicks as Phil Clevalance, Nico Rodriguez as your DM. Welcome back to the continuing tales of a Fool's Quest. I don't haven't written up like that, Bill smoothed, while urregg snooped in the Potter's place and Adera and I cleaned the cafeteria. Bill told the potters he joined them and get our bead for him, set up a meeting for later. Ureggs searched Hermy's room, then Don's, without finding much besides a note about a meeting in the library about the beads before lunch or after lunch. And I remember there was a wild magic event while we were cleaning the cafeteria, and so that was a fun food fight. And then Urog found a super secret notebook about the potter's bead strategy and her my votes hiding the bead in the chamber of pots. That's probably where Don Beastly wanted to throw it in the lake, and I guess I didn't write where Gary Slaughter thought put it in the women's bathroom. The women's bathroom, that's right, and that's that's my notes. Yeah, we also found a bunch of treasure in the lake. I remember that. Well, we're out good. So this session starts off with you all getting dinner at the cafeteria. You arrive to the cafeteria and you find that it is there's a there's a long line out of the cafeteria and people are getting their food in kind of the entrance way of the cafeteria. But some of the cafeteria is being worked on right now, and you can tell there are people like townsfolk, not students of the academy, but townsfolk in the kitchen repairing whatever happened during the brownie fight just direct the kitchen, and so they are still providing food as you guys queue up for dinner, I assume, yeah, wait for a tray. So, Bill, you got a meeting at the potters house, right, Yeah, you can sneak in as a big weasel or something. I will find a way and the deer and I are gonna be well. I can make us invisible before we head over as soon as we as soon as I have to cast another spell, or if we do anything noticeable, that invisibility will break. But I'll try as long as we're subtle. I was gonna say, if I'm keeping the powders busy. We have the plans right for how you guys who can get down to the chamber of pots? Yeah, something just sounds ominous about that. I thought you said you already checked the bathroom taking it was the chamber of pots? All right? Anything else are you gonna want to talk about before you get to the food? Look over the building plans again, and you know, make sure we got it down, Okay? Yeah? Are there any side entrances or other ways in or Now it looks like the entrances in the basement that leads down a path to the chamber of pots. But it looks like there's only one way in. One way out at least through the housing structure. There may be an exit in the chamber of pots later, but it kind of goes underground out to the side of the the island. Okay, when do you want to check those out? Check out the plans, check out the chamber. Oh, check out the chamber. Well, Bill's got the meeting at after dinner. Right, I'm distracted, you just sneaking visible behind me. So we got the afternoon. I'll make sure to make a make beautiful music to cover your entrance. There's gonna be a lot of underclassmen around, probably in the evening book. Take your good symbol. All my symbols are. It's got nothing to do with a symbol, all right. There's a half or launched lady with a hairnet, big belly. There's she's still always away while you guys are talking, but she's like marks marks, and kids are coming up and grabbing trays, put food on it and then walking away as you were moving up to alarm. There. We're we're just riveting tonight. Yeah, I think we're pretty much okay, Yeah, so you guys get up. We're getting account for a lot, but we're not gunna. Yeah. The only side thing I was thinking about is is there any correlation between the Dean's study getting broken into and all the events going on lately in the order. Maybe something's connected to the false alarm? We responded tune this morning yesterday morning whenever that was with fog and everything. Yeah, something strange as a foot, something strange as a foot, whatever that. Whatever that was, it affected the bells too, But I haven't asked the potters about it. No, that's something that's about when you talk with him tonight. We'll do anything I can to stall putting on that god awful hat. Is there any problems yesterday morning? Was that just yesterday morning? There? Yeah, more solved this morning. I haven't slept yet, said the averaging a meal period per yeah, per game. No, go get my train, all right? So you step up and she shoves a tray into your hands. Uh, and you can tell im there that there are fish sticks and waffles, but there's like no or up or butter or anything for the waffles or just like dry waffles, dryff fish sticks and it's just fingerfood. There's no silverware or anything, just just those on a tray that she shoves into your arms right next, disappointed in you? Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna walk up and speak frankly with her, and I get to ask her a questions you're to answer and then the same goes and return. But I'm anna ask her what can I do to get you to give me some syrup? Some syrup? Yeah? I want? I want the sweet stuff? Sweet stuff? Do you have to make a roll for this or doesn't? Just have? No? She just gets to ask the one and return. Then I have to be oh my god, I've got the list right here. No, no, I believe you. All right. So she takes a little jar of syrup out of like, you know, out of her apron. But it was like down under her belly, you know, it was a big old lunch of lady, and she like pulls it out. It's like in a jar. It's closed seal. She sets it on your train and she says, what are you doing later? I'm not quite sure yet. I haven't made any plans. But you did make plans. That's a lie. Oh that's true. I'm going to try on a hat at a ball. Would you like to come? I love too, But my shift's not out till late. We'll try again tomorrow lunch late to the ball. Listen to see if the hat looks good at it. I really don't want to wear this hat. Make sure this was your plane. It's a good plan. He's gonna ditch just for the lunch. I just wanted to see rupe syrup. Yeah, you got it. It's warm already, her big old belly keeping it warm for you down in the secret pocket. I've never seen green and sew up before, but it's all right. So she hands trays to flu Rag and uh, I'm good, okay, I don't mean eat, just walk right by. I'm just carousing amongst the tables. I'm gonna roll my fish sticks up in the waffle and put the tray back. She gives a double serving to Adira just because favorites. I'm hotbody has pizza. You go to eat because you're made of fire. I get it, all right, Lunch lady is on fire today. It's literally two for two. Yeah, she's also a bard. Guys are unfortunate, al right, So you guys get your food. You do that, you've turned in your trays. No wild magic events happen there. You do see the potters come and get their trays of food, and the bells come and get their trays of food. And the bells try to like give you knowing glances from across the yard, but they don't calm approach you or try to talk to you. They just they just trying to be like, yeah, we've got this same team, same team, alliance. It's all that's spelled out in the air between me and the Lusory letters. This was a game of poker. It'll be fun, all right. So I guess we can fast forward to after dinner and prepared to fast forward, preparing to fast forward, fast forward, fast forwarding, sir head over to the potter's house to try on a hat and see if you're a good fit in there. Yeah, I we'll do that. I'm gonna, I said, as I start to get close. I'm gonna start playing a song and singing along on the symbol, just anything to make a little bit of noise. We're gonna make a stop at our our house. First, I can ritualize us into invisibility. Oh okay, all right, so what does that look like? Oh well, I uh, I go into my my place of power there, my little wizard lab and uh, just you know, pull out a puff of smoke in a bottle and a bunch of clear courts around the circle and stuff like that, you know, and then uh yeah, weave a a lace handkerchief over over us, and then we turn in visible. Okay, so you and Adira have gone invisible. Will seem like invisibility? Sure makes sense to me. How did you get the puff up smoke? Did you buy it that way or did you blow smoke into there? I'm a wizard. Oh that explains. It's a wizards. Can you get puffs of smoke? Didn't say you could into the bottle? All right? And then you rag, Yeah, I guess I'll go weasel mode again. All right, So make your shape shift rolls. See how many nine? Nine? Okay, so it's old two yeah, yeah, old too, yea, all right, So you get two moves in your weasel form, ye all right, and you take off head and door at the potters yep, all right. And then Bill, you're smashing your some bow, letting everyone know you're arriving. And yeah, you do see a handful of students that are outside, probably people who reside in one of the lower levels of that house, and then you see the potters come out the front door to greet you as you approach, and they're like, oh, welcome, welcome, Hey, how are you doing? And I'm gonna continue playing. And then as I put my symbols back on, but I'm not going to tie him all the way, so they still like rattle around and walking you making noise, and the pop the other muffin out of my pocket and give it to Don. Ooh. Don sits down right there in the grass outside the house and starts eating his muffin like he's so concerned about people knocking muffins out of his hands. Now he will not hesitate to sit down and eat this muffin. So he's gonna eat that for a second. And her my kind of looks you up and down, judging you a little like schlourish a wow, And she's like, you're sure you want to join our team? You look pretty chummy with the other one. Have you been around Gary lately? You're not Gary? I'm sorry, Eddie, have you been around Eddie lately? The man? The man never showers, He perpetually smells like bourbon and cigarettes. All right, I don't I can't be associated with that you know that you do raise some good points. He does need needs to do some self assessment. I agree, you know, self control is a is a virtue, virtue. I kept wanting to say perk, stupid gay word. It's a perk virtue. Thank you, stupid words. On top of that, he's put some illusion spell over his office. Every time I walk in there, I turn into black and white. It's terrible. The whole timey jazz music starts playing. All right, go ahead and make a charisma role to see how your deceptions looking here to six. Okay, so she doesn't challenge you, but you get a feeling that, actually, you know what, you think she's buying into it with a six Jesus, yeah, you think you've tricked her. First of all, she is I'm charming, guy, You're very charming. Good move, all right, And then while you are doing that, Eddie and Adira, how are you guys sneaking in? I'm just gonna kind of wait by the door till someone goes in or out slip through. Okay, Yeah, a couple of the students go inside before the Potters go in with Bill, So you could try and slip through. You wanna give me a self check, give plus two for so a dexterity check, and then plus two for your being invisible. Hey nice, okay, so eight and nine all right, so you both come in. But so I will give you, guys the option either you make it through the door undetected. But even with the schematics and the way the stairs shift around, you don't know your way to the basement immediately. The house has moved too much on the inside, so you're gonna have to look for a different way to get to the basement. Or as you go in. The two of you try going together and someone steps right in between you and you both bump into them. That one okay, all right, so you're both invisible even to each other. So Eddie, you begin walking through the door and you I don't know how you're communicating with Adira, but it's not well because you start walking fast Adira, you notice he's gone. A moment of like panic sets in. You're like, oh my god, I gotta catch up, and so you go to step up right behind him, and just as someone steps in to go inside, you bumping him in the back, and he bumps into Eddie in the front, and you hear this guy's what the hell? And he starts reaching out for you, guys, I'm gonna try to try to get further away out of reach. It'd be like defied danger. I think I'd defied danger. It's by getting out of the way or acting fast. Okay, that's a nine. That's a nine, all right. So what's the pop stumble, hesitat or flinch? Okay? So which one do you do? I pick? Or do you pick? This one? You pick? Or worst outcome hard bargain or an ugly choice? Yeah you offer? Okay, all right? The worst outcome would be that you both become they cast a dispelling spell, and depending on how well they do, they may dispel your magic altogether. I'll make a role to see if they can do that. The ugly choice, I will say that you give up your invisibility, but Adia can still remain visible with your failure, and she can sneak off to the side. Or the hard bargain man, I would say, this is a student. You can try and bargain. You can try and offer him something to persuade him. Like he's not married to the Potters, he's got no specific reason, I mean outside if he lives in the house like he's not in an alliance with them. Eventually he's going to have his own click. So well, my reaction affect your decision because I actually made my defied a your role. Yeah, so you making yours means that you have no issues just getting away, which one of his choices is he can become visible and give you free access where you can leave and go to the basement because you know your way to the basement. Still, he didn't lose that. I've got an idea. I'll become visible and I'll turn on him and I'll say, you clumsy oath. I'm trying to practice holding two spells at the same time. Do you know how hard it is with invisibility. He's like, oh, where did you come from? I was invisible and then I'm gonna cast disguise self to look like her. My ah, I'm trying to get better at magic. Maybe you should too, Okay. Oh and I got an eleven to cast it. Okay, all right, so yeah, you've cast it without any issues. And I rolled a four for discern realities for their end. So he's like, I'm i am so sorry, I am this was a mistake. I am so sorry that I bumped into you. You Yeah, that's fine. Just don't let me see you anymore tonight. Okay, I'm heading to bed anyway. It starts standing towards the stairwell. But now there are other students that have seen you that were coming inside as well. So yeah, but now I look like her, but now you look like her. Yep, now you gotta hurt you. But aren't they also walking past her to see No, these this was inside. This all happened inside. Okay, so they're coming from Okay, yeah, I was very more so I'm going to head straight for where I remember the the way to the basement to be okay, yep, and a deer is ahead of you, already headed to the basement, so she she gets there first, and then rag, what are you? I would probably head towards the stairs and see if I can recall the one stare that was friendly to me before spirdos do wood? Who you need to get to the chambero pods in the basement. Yes, I'll get you there. You are the greatest stairs, one step at a time. But I do need you either need to make a move for being stealthy to get through or you can roll a stealth check to try and get through a move. You'll use a move to guarantee it. Okay, so there's one of your moves. So yeah, you weasel just right through the door, right between people's feet, over to you know, right over the stairwell, and uh and yeah, that stairwell will shift and take you over to this little it's not like a full stairwell all the way down, but it goes down a few steps into like this little landing area that leads to the basement door where you can go to the basement door. And there Adhira has already gotten there, and Eddie is showing up right behind you. So the three of you have gone together. Even though you can't see Adira, neither of you can hear you down here. Yeah, all right, I know you're here. I smell bourbon and cinder, and that's part of the that's part of the spell. It's not bourbon, it's meat. And then I'm gonna take a swick from my flask real quick and put her away. Let's let's see what we can find out. Find see if we can find this entrance to the chamber of pots. All right, so you guys will get in you can find the basement door that leads or the door that leads you down a handful of stairs into the basement and make your way into the basement. So you do that, and while you're doing that, we'll bounce back out to Bill real quick and go Bill. Somebody walks out of the house and it's like herm I I thought, I just whatever illusions I can't with this place, and her eyes like, go away. We're talking. It's important. And so the student leaves and Gary's like, all right, well let's see if you can be a good fit for our team. Come with me. Yeah, I'm excited to see this hat. Sure, it's all the range. He just wants to see if it looks cool on you. And that's how you're getting. So they take you into the house, into their study, into the library, and they've got this little crate that's sit set up, you know, in this little walk area, and they're like you have to stand here. Everyone has to stand here when they put the hat on, a little ten gallon hat. I'll stand the great, I guess. So they bring out this hat and that they're like, before you see it, please close your eyes. We have to put it on and then we're gonna bring out a mirror and then we'll when you open your eyes and see yourself in the hat, it'll determine whether you're a good fit or not. I just that's very I'm working. I'm gonna pick my hat off and put it somewhere, take my jacket off and cover it very protectively. Sure, that's what I'm here for us to do this. I guess we'll be right back after these messages. In the world of Naratova, forgotten gods have made themselves known, a darkness creeps across the land, and the Skeleton Army has posed to push the mortals away. All that stands between them are the heroes of What the Dice, streaming weekly on all major platforms. You can also follow us at what the Dice pod on Twitter. And now let's get back to the fun. So they bring out this hat and they're like, before you see it, please close your eyes. We have to put it on, and then we're gonna bring out a mirror and then we'll when you open your eyes and see yourself in the hat, it'll determine whether you're a good fit or not. I just it's very I'm we're gonna I'm gonna pick my hat off and put it somewhere and take my jacket off and cover it very protectable. Sure you know that's what I'm here for, is to do this, I guess. So you close your eyes and you feel them set something on your head. It's a kind of a tight fit, and then it even tightens a little bit more as they push it down and it kind of bumps onto your head and then you feel too dangly things like slapping against the side of your face. You're like, all right, okay, all right, and then Don says, all right for the final step right here, and he sticks a piece of straw in your mouth. Why because I opened my eyes yet, And they're like, yep, you can open your eyes. The mirr's in front of you know, I'll open my eyes, all right. So you've got this hat on and it's got two cans of beer on the left and the right hand side, and a straw straw that loops into your mouth from the side, and they're like, you have to drink, and they crack open one of the beers. It starts pouring. T R. I'm about chrug it. I don't have a choice, right the straw's already, yeah, the straws already in your mouth. So you chug that one. And while you're chugging it down, puts the other straw in your mouth and cracks open her, and Gary cracks open the other one. And we need to get a constitution check for you to see if you can down two of these beers without any issues. Hold no, so see you finish the first beer. Just as you're finishing in the first beer, they crack open the second and the beer starts pouring through this straw and the straw goes in your mouth and it goes a little bit too far and you just spew it all back up like beer flies everywhere. It shoots all over the mirror. The straws come flying out of your mouth. It gets all over for my The two boys jump back where your mind gets covered in your spit and beer, and the other the second can of beer just starts dripping under the ground, and Gary is like, dude, no, you can't hang with us. You can't even money. First of all, this is beer kind of fucking we're we go to school for free. You can invest in better drinks beer beer. Gary's like, I don't have any money. My parents are dead. That's where you get the money from the dead parents. Yes, that's how that's how you get money. No one told me I had money from my dead parents. Well you should go figure that out. And while you're at it, pick up some wine. All right, this is distasteful. You think we should put wine in the beer hat. Get a winehat. It's different, it's pointier. I'm just gonna take it off and I'm gonna make a huge seat of trying to clean everything up and just be as distracting as possible, just just just making a worse mess the whole time, knocking things over. I'm break the mirror on accident strupp for us. Yeah, so you're just stumbling all over. Honestly, you feel a little bit drunk from that really bad constitution check and downing that whole first beer. It it kind of hit you really fast, and yeah, I guess we're gonna bounce back over to the other three. So you walk down to the basement and the basement is cluttered. There are old holiday decorations, broken furniture, a desk with some rolled up maps and scrolls, wood boards with some other building material. Tool shed like one of those standalone tool sheds, you know, that can be moved around that the door. The door seems to be bent, but you can kind of see inside. There are some tools in there, and Eddie, you can sense some illusion magic on the wall. There's no one else down here, Nope, no one else is down there. All right, Then I'm going to drop my allusion to and not be hurt my anymore. And then I'm gonna go over and yeah, put my hand on that wall and figure out where the illusion is and dispel it. Okay, yep, So you put your hand on it, you figure out it's a small illusion magic on an inanimate object, so it's pretty easy for you to dispel. And you can see that there is a riddle on a hidden door. The door has one line of text, and then there are two parallel shelves followed by two more lines of text. What does the lines of text say? So the first line of text says, somebody once told me. Then there's one shelf and then a second shelf, and then the second line of text on the bottom says she was looking kind of dumb, and then in parentheses, the final line of text says, please complete the ritual. With the appropriate hand sign. All right, you said there was some tools hanging on the wall. There's a tool shed. There's a tool shed. I want to go look in there. What's in the tool shed. There's a sauce, some nails, a chisel, a rubber mallet, a hammer, a hammer slash hatchet. So it's a hammer on one side, hatchet on the other, and a paint scraper. And we grab the rubber mallet and the hammer slash hatchet. Okay, and go back and put the rubber mallet on that first shelf, and then I'm gonna put my finger in my thumb in the shape of an L on my forehead. Nope, nothing happens. Then I'm gonna turn the hatchet around and just chop the door. The door itself is stone, so it's creating sparks. Then I'm gonna go back and get the chisel. No, I'm gonna put the hatchet on the other shelf and then put my hand back in the shape of an lpe it still doesn't open. It ain't the sharpest tool in the shed. What els in the tool head again? What all in? Then? Yeah, in the basement or on the shed, in the shed there's the chisel, nails, the hammer, hatchet, paint scraper, rubber mallet, and the saw saw. The basement is full of old holiday decorations, broken furniture, a desk with rolled up maps or scrolls, wooden boards and other building materials. And then the shed. All right, I'm gonna go over and unroll some of those maps. Are any of them of view? Fray? One of the maps is, Oh, okay, I'm gonna roll that back up. I'm gonna go put it on the shelf where the mallet is. I'll put the mallet on the next shelf down, and I'm gonna just drop the hatchet on the floor. And then I'm gonna put my finger in my thumb in the shape of an L on my forehead. Magic lines begin to trace the doorway around this wooden structor, this wooden wall, and the door pushes back away from you and then slides to the left, giving you access to another stairwell, this time a stone stairwell well. It's stone steps that lead you down further into the heart of the island, or possibly the chamber of Pops. Done dun du. I'm gonna leave the door open, but can I put the illusion back that they're that the door is invisible. Yeah, yeah, you could put an illusion there. Then I'm gonna put the illusion back. Guys, it starewell looks ominous. I'll go first. I think we need to get Bill in here. It's in Louisel Yep. I guess I'll take off to go and retrieve Bill. Okay, yeah, so you head off. You know you remember how to get to the library. You've been there. I will bounce back over to Bill real quick. So Bill, you've made just an absolute massive shit. They have at this point called in some of the younger kids to come start cleaning up your mess, and they have you sat down with a cup of tea and they're like, look, we're sorry you can't be a part of our group. It was a good idea, but you're just not gonna fit in. There's no reason to get all wild in here. Like here, drink this tea and calm down. It's camemeal. I'm gonna I'm gonna drink the tea, call me and just do the best I can to act very shaken up. And then how are you going to get the beads? You can't get their beads without me, there's got to be some other agreement we can come to here, and like, we would love to have you a part of the team. But the hat makes the decisions. That's the worst hat. You're only gonna get the worst decisions. Don Beasley says, well, I don't know about that. I didn't have a problem with that. That surprises me, not at all. And then you see a small weasel with a little horns coming in. I'm just little antlers, I should say. Yep, it's gonna like do that prairie dog thing where I rear up and look around like a periscope. I just I'm just gonna well, I just can't believe it. I'm gonna stand up and I'm gonna drop my tea side. I've had enough and I'm gonna storm out of the room. And Gary's like he spilled the tea too. Had enough. Don't try and follow me. I'm not coming back, and I'm gonna walk out the door and I'll lead him back to toward the chamber pots I will as we're walking, tighten my symbols so it's like you can't just hear where I'm going. Tighten them on so you can't here they were all right, so you tighten them and you start making your way back through. Is there anything I mean, do you do when you get to the bottom of the stairs to leave, I mean, you don't leave. You had toward the basement. Any trickery you can do or stealth or anything you can do to sneak over to the basement. Not really, I don't really have anything I can do. Actually I'm not, but tell them you're headed to the bathroom to clean up. Yeah, I'm gonna stop and ask, like a a student, which way to the bathroom if you're on the ground floor. They were on the first on the next four up, so they're like, you have to go back to that starewell over there. It's moving right now, though, so once it stops moving, you can take that stairwell back. I'm just gonna flustered while he's talking we are no help, and just storm off and follow him even more the wrong direction. Okay, just periodically stop and ask students directions and then not listen and follow him anyways, pitching the whole time. See you make this bizarre scene students, And finally the weasel with antlers who takes you over to the basement door and lead to you. Right, we're here, right down the stairs, right down the steps into the basement. Yeah, and so you also go into the basement with all of this junk everywhere. Yeah, I'm going to sprint from here on now. I don't think we have much time. That was not a good way to get here, but at least now I did act like it was an accident. Get this isn't the bathroom. Who built this house? So yeah, you all are in this narrow stairwell. Now did Eddie and Adira wait for Bill or did you start going down the stairs? Eddie has no idea where I am. Yeah, I don't know if it is there, but I was waiting for Bill hanging out. Took off to go get him. So I'm invisible. I'm not. I don't want to chance it. So I'm being completely quiet. This will not be my full I'm not going to ruin this spell. Doesn't want to turn back to visible because ADDIE's been monologuing to himself for thirty minutes. Yeah, all right, so yes we are down there waiting again Bill. You get to the stairs, you go through, you get to the wall, you go through the hidden doorway. The illusion that Addie left there for others to see. And yeah, you come into this little dark stairwell made of stones that leads down into the earth. It's very narrow, but yeah, Bill, Hey, where's your hat? I think we're getting a new hat. No, it was awful, It was awful. It was full of beer. It was disgusting. Where are we going? We should hurry, I've fucked up. We get these stairs here, we got to see where they go on. It's the chamber pots down there, I'm guessing, but uh, I don't know what they might get down there. So all right, probably best we all go alright, Okay, a dear is here somewhere. I guess we can go. Then I was gonna wait, probably scared the hell out of us, jump out of your skin. Fuck there she is. I'm gonna need a light, a torch or something. I I s amon the head done. Yeah, there are no lights in this stairwell. So you have a little bit of light left from leaving the door open in the basement because they had lamps in there. But you that looking down the stairwell, anything that's like not in straight point of view right now in this winding stairwell, is black, So you'll have to do something. Genesee you I'm gonna go back and grab one of those lamps out of the basements. Okay, okay, take it with us. Okay, so you go get that. Give me either give me a defy danger role or a stealth check, but a dexterity self check, which every one you want to do. All right, I'm gonna do defy danger. But what's the danger I'm defying? The danger you're defying is there were students that saw Bill acting bizarre and came to check out that stairwell down to the basement, and so they're listening kind of to see if anyone's down there, and there is a chance that they might hear you grabbing up the lantern and moving it. M I don't know about them, do I? I don't know. I rolled an eight, But I don't know what stat I would use for that defied danger because I'm just I'm not really aware of the danger. I would say it's like quick thinking. Yeah, I'd say quick thinking, probably use use your intellect in the case it's a ten. Okay. So yeah, so you grab it up, but you were like tiptoeing your way across the room, and you dodged a few of the things that were on the ground, because, like I said, this basement is trashed. It's just a horder episode. Someone chopped a hatchet right in front of the doorway. So but yeah, you tiptoe all around it all and you grab the lantern and you disappear back in through the wall with no issues, noise, all right, very nice, And you head down down the steps, down the steps, all right. So as you head down, the steps are narrow, and so you must descend in a single file line. You have one of the lanterns that you brought with you. Who's going first. I'm somewhere in the middle, So okay, I'll go first. I'm in there. Yeah, you had some liquid courage, You're good. I mostly just want to be far away from the people who may be looking for me. Fair enough. I really don't want to have to talk my way out. I'll go second, and watch your back. I'll be third, basically right on the shoulder. Right. No, no, I'm probably the size of this cock to yeah. No, because of the fur ball, I can't do anything smaller than like forty pounds a right, I can, but it's gonna be like a larger fatass Cordian. A weasel. Yeah, yeah, weasel the size my great dangers. If Eddie or Bill are leading the group, they sense illusion magic on the stairwell as they travel down one specific stare in particular. I believe Bill was leading the group. Yeah he was. I will I will stop and point it out to Eddie. Eddie, there's a you see the magic on that stair there that might be Yeah, I'm gonna, you know, snap my fingers and dispel it. Okay, so you just spell it and the stair looks like a very obvious trap. Like, it looks like a very obvious trap. So now that you've done that and you've seen that, give me a discern reality role eight. Okay, so not only do you find this trap, this fake trap that was an illusion. You see the next step right below it as if you were to step over this one may actually trigger a real trap. Your just dabble, but the way the stairs are angled, you can't really. So the one step that looked like a trap is a fake trap though, yes, but it's also not like a very safe stair It's like designed to look like a fake trap, but it's not a safe thing to step on, and the other one might spring a real trap, but there's a pretty big gap between the stairs and so it would. I mean you're gonna either have to make some kind of athletics check to get over both of them, find a way to disarm the trap. With the eight, you can figure out that there's a real trap there, but you don't know how to disarm it or what the trap will spring. So get this. The one that looks like a trap isn't a real trap. It's just a bad stair. The real trap is the next step. That's that's very diabolical. I don't like these people. I can't tell what it does. It is the trap looking stair safety stuff on? Then not really, I mean, it's not a trap, but it's not a good stare like fault. Do you have anything to throw? M M how parking a giant weasel jump? I think it just made me jump. You'd be as a giant weasel, you'd be able to jump and maybe like parkour a little bit off one of the sidewalls and land. It would be the landing that would be the tricky part for for you. But I mean weasels are better at landing than humans are. So could you ask it how to turn it off? I could somebody, I don't have any clever Playlet start checking out the stairs and sniff around. Spirits are stolen. Tell me what mechanism this is and how we can avoid danger. Okay, is there a role with that? Yeah, okay, I don't mind giving you some for the sake of the story. But some of these things, see that's thing talker. Yeah, you're not getting around all my traps talking to the trap the spirit you have to start making about a plastic Yeah, technology really just ramped up. Well, I guess it's if it's if it just chooses to say something, there's no role associated with it. It just says that I can understand anything the spirits would say. Okay, so this gives you the ability to understand the spirits of the stone, which is a whole bunch of that's one big spirit that this was carved out of. So if you're going to try and get information out of it, then it would be a parlay role parlay Okay, sick God, we suck, all right. So the stone says, whoa man? Whoa? Look man, I'm not about whatever's going on. All right, you guys like cut in the knee and like it's kind of weird have me like trapes around through my inerts and stuff. So I'm might need you to like calm down, my dude, My apologies, Oh problem, all right, As you were, man, those spirits were of no help. I'm trying to figure out how my bag of books works. I have a bag of books with five uses, and I think I can use it as like a bonus to a skill check or something, but I'm not sure where I read that, and i can't find it again. I've got an act and I can throw that when it contains just the right book for the subject. You're spouting, Laura, and consult the book mark off of use and take plus one on your own for spout, Laura. Oh, I'm spout, okay. But if it is a bag of books, you can also just use the weight of that if you wanted to try and spring a trap. I don't know if you want to do that with your magic item, but it is a heavy bag of books. It is, And Adira did ask you if you had something to chuck at it. Yeah, I'm gonna pull it out and I'm gonna reach in, and you're right, just drop it on that next step. So you drop it, and the wall springs, and a club swings out of the wall with the intention of knocking the intruder unconscious. So it swings down and would hit someone in the head. So it does zero damage to your books because they're tiny. You know, the bag is just on there, but if any of you were standing on that step, it would have swung out and smacked into your skull. Okay, you're welcome. Good way to deal with traps. I have to remember that, all right. I'm gonna retrieve my bag of books and uh yeah, let's just let's keep an eye out for more more of that, all right. I feel like don wouldn't survive if they had more than one trap. Kind of a one trick pony. Maybe we were actually go first. He's low enough, he's probably gonna miss most of traps anyway, right, lessen the pit. I'll keep your out for pits, all right, Okay, continue down. This concludes this episode of a Fool's Quest, and join us next time for more fun and during adventure. Thank you for listening, and don't forget to like, subscribe, review, and comment, on your favorite platform and listen to a fool's quest. I'm trying to do something, so the stones are stoned and the board was board all right, I'm trying to figure out how my bag about brew morning. I was trying to sweep him off his feet ding, Sorry, what was that, Eddie,