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you for listening and enjoy What was that? Oh? Sure you again?
Yeah? I suppose you can't see anything gang that is thing. Jilden has
a torch she does, That's why I can see it. Just to remind
you, Yeah, torch flame, I guess by torch flame flickering in these
dark tunnels in the bluestone, the old bluestone minds. Jilden rounds one of
the corners and suddenly you see a bunch of little red dots floating sort of
in sync. There are some strange mechanical noises coming from within the dark.
As this torch light illuminates several little creatures. These strange geometric shapes and forms,
They appear to be mechanical beings that have been brought to life by ancient
magics. Their bodies are sort of composed of metal, wood, and stone,
and they've got these precise symmetrical designs across them. These are the drones.
Entirely up to you if you know what these things are. But they
are old Goliath magitech, and they have no facial expressions or emotions or anything
like that. Instead, they just seem to be communicating with one another in
beets and clicks. When suddenly they produce a bunch of little javelins. Two
of the creatures take flight. They have these sort of mechanical wings that flutter
very quickly, like a hummingbird. And then there are two on the floor
on the sort of ice in front of you that start rushing forward. These
are the little triangular shaped creatures. Let's bring you straight over to the map
and get everyone to roll some initiative, because these children, I don't want
children, stay away sadly chilled and rhymes with children that tragedy. I think
I would did you actually saying that I don't want you? Okay? I
would say what you can't see? What I can? Yeah, what are
you talking about? Are their totals down there. I don't know what they
are, but they're ruddy at me. You can hear them, the rest
of you can hear them, but not see what. What is rushing forwards?
Now? She calls for her. I lean against the site. I
would like to rush forward to help her. We're in to order right now,
aren't we? Yes? Sorry? Sorry, sorry, out of the
campaign with I'm skilled lean against the wall. Uh all right, So I
think i'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you didn't see them.
There's no surprise around or anything like that, because they sort of didn't see
you either or hear you. So thrank you go first? Okay, so
I can see I can actually see this one? Who? So does that
mean I can can I hear it? If you see it, you can
see it? Yeah? Okay, right, okay, oh I will I
want to move first? Move? Yeah? And I can Okay, now
I can see. Yeah, I'll try and hit this one with a fire
bolt. Okay, don't kill it being okay, shure are they did we
not? I'm going to give you guys the benefit of the doubt here that
these things look like they're attacking you. They they've a bunch of spikes have
come out of them. They have red flashing, pulsing eyes, and they've
pulled out these sort of like they almost are like mini javelins as they come
running forward in their sort of like mechanical grippers hands. I'm going to look
at Jildren and say they've just pulled javelins out, and you're looking and beating
at each other and going nuts angry, Right I will, yeah, so
I'll do that cast the firebolt and comes out of my staff and and that's
at the yellow monodrone No exact trydrone okay, twenty hits eighteen damage. Wow.
What happens here is this thing comes rushing forward and all of these spikes
come out of it. It starts skittering along kind of like a spider on
multiple legs as it rushes across the ice. You hit it with this firebolt.
You see it strike this creature and then the the pulsing sort of red
arcane energy that sort of makes up these sort of red lights that you can
see dies out and immediately the metal, the stone, the wood integrates into
dust. I'm so sorry. Do this is that right? It? Should
fireball be doing two D ten? Did I accidentally change it or did it
change on its time when I leveled up or something. I thought it was
one D ten firebot I think is one D ten, but it might do
more as you level ut Ah, when you reach fifth level it does two
D ten. Yeah. Yeah, wow, excellent. I am seem a
little surprised as I You know, a file bolt that comes out of my
staff is a little more vigorous than I thought it would be. And I'm
sort of taking aback a bit, and I grab building shell and I say,
right, well, that is show you do it there? Yeh,
do it again and again we will do when I start looking through my spell
book, Jill Dennis, your turn. I can't see the other one.
Okay, I can. I can move by the way you can walk down
onto this is in front of you is ice. This is like a tiny
little drop, like a little ledge that you can easily step down without penoy.
This is all ice, not water. It's completely frozen solid. So
you're perfectly free to walk across any of this that you see in these caves.
Yeah, okay, I help you at it. We came closer and
I cast thorn whip on the red one. I can see here. Okay,
so melee spell attack. Sorry for my ignorance. I don't ever do
this in any campaigner. I don't make a melee spell attack thorn whip.
Oh actually I set this up alread because I know this would be a problem
for me seventeen to hit. Yeah, it's just it is a melee spell
at tag. But that's just sort of a tag for the sake of certain
situations that might need it. It's still got a range of thirty feet,
so yes, yeah, seventeen hits excellent. Um it would do onely six
piercing damage. Oh one one damage, and it will be pulled ten feet
closer to me. Okay, so it's kind of here on the edge of
that wall. Yeah, this thing comes outch drags this thing close. It
was kind of running towards you anyway, but it sort of as it's dragged
forward, you can see it's little spidery metallic legs dragged across the ice,
raking scratches into this ice here. Okay, anything else and thatch and about
ad ideas, give me a spader book and I try and take reach out
with spell book. I want to see how to do it. Yeah,
are you actually going to take my spell book. I'm gonna make it run
for it. Yeah, okay, I would try to stop you. So
what we how do we do this? Do the strength? Strength? Yeah?
Sure, athletics, the netlets? Why not sixteen one? I I
think I'm gentle because I know you're just a poor old curl. So I
just with the strength of you know, it's like it's like when a child
tries to take the remote control from bad and I'm like, no, Roman
rank, if you roll a one, you'll have disadvantage on your next attack
excellent exam or some sort of penalty because you're going to try and circumvent that.
Actually, I'm going to move back, playing tactics. I know how
you think. Are we not to each other? I moved forward? Do
you move forward? And then she moved back? She moved forward, then
she moved back, grabbed the book, failed and moved even further back.
Okay, I don't know what happened to my turn order then, but it's
back. It is Cyrus's turn. M I am going to you could do
I'm sure that this is yeah, okay, can I get past the rack
in the rules of double checking? Okay, I see this thing around the
corner. I have to come out here. Uh, I am going to
cast sacred flame on it? Which one? Do you read? One?
Okay? Eleven it's a fail fail. It takes nine radiant damage, which
I think probably briefly lights up the cave as well. While you guys are
in here, the creature is still sort of rushing towards you across the across
the ice here. After that you probably break like bits of it break off
behind it, and you see as they break off from it, so they
disintegrate. Okay, yeah, I pull well, like for flavor and not
for turned. I pull out my sword and Mike Buckler and I like get
in position to like protect everyone. Yea. The flying creatures now start sort
of gliding over towards where you are. I think, see how far they
can fly? Actually, you know what, I think this one's going to
fly forward. But actually the two of them aren't going to move that much.
Instead, they're just going to throw their little spikes at you, cirrus.
As two of these little small javelins come rushing in towards you twenty and
fifteen versus your acen twenty to hit the twenty hits. Yeah, one of
these little spikes strikes you and deal six piercing damage. They're like little they're
really just sort of shards of metal that they're throwing at you, but calling
him javelins first sake of weapon rongs. Yeah, they're just they're sort of
like firing these things over. A few of them probably land in the ice
and stuff. But for the sake of the actual mechanics, you take six
piercing. It is sears turn. He's relaxing. Okay, I am going
to run my movement that's forty feet past everyone here, maybe thirty five to
go past in front of Jildin. Yeah, now I can see what's going
on. I then take one step closer, and then I'm going to adopt
a stance right foot back, left hand, parallel with my with my shoulder,
kind of like a Rock League ready stance. And I'm going to use
a key point for patient defense. Yes, so that my bonus action here
is going to be a dodge action, making my making everybody have disadvantage against
me with attack me. But because I didn't need to dash, I guess
I'll also use I'm too far away from this kind to attack him, so
I guess I'll use my dart that I have on this pink monodrone over here.
Okay, and this one is pink, it's fluorescent pink. All right,
I am going to throw my dart sixty to hit sixteen does hit eight
points of piercing damage. How do you destroy it? I just throw the
dart towards one of the blinking eyes on this creature and it flies through the
eye, which is a weak spot I imagine, and then out the back
of it. Yeah, as it's falling through the air, it turns to
dust disintigrits entirely before it even hits the ground. Is that the end of
ten? That is my turn? Okay? This one will rush forward and
attempt to attack you with disadvantage. Oh it's got three times multi attacks.
Let's see pretty No six, twelve nine, I block and defend every attack.
Yeah, it's a bunch of like little spikes rushing up at you,
and you're just eight trade ground sixty four pounds defensive nedgy defense to activate rank
your turn, right, Okay, I think I've drop my spell book.
I fumble with it after Jordan's attempt to take it. I drop, and
I think I want to say, like maybe I'll fall over something, I
pick it up, and I'm looking around, and I I would like to
know I know a little bit about these creatures. They are mechanical in nature,
right, there's nothing organic about them? Right? Yeah, I mean
that parts of them are sort of organic, but they weren't grown. They
are constructs that were made with old Goliath magic. They're just little drones that
were designed for lifting and very simple menial tasks that have been left here for
so long they've just sort of gone a little crazy, right, Okay,
Yeah, in that case, I'll just we'll cast fireboat well with a disadvantage
on the monodrone yellow. Okay, yeah, light passing through the cavern,
lighting up some of the cavern as it moves forward and strikes this this monodrone.
How much damage does it deal enough to reduce this one to ash as
well? It struck, falls out of the air, flames flickering as it
turns to dust, disintegrates. Wudn't do anything else? No? I uh.
I sort of looked at Jordan and say, well, I leave if
on my pot and remember to stay calm during these situations. Ish ish,
very helpful, Yes, good jobs. Some of the book it's your turn.
I check to see if she's taking something. Has she I don't.
As he turns around, there's her kick me post it on the trying to
get it. Yeah, I'd like to take this advantage on my next time.
I'm spinning around and so, okay, child, in your turn?
Did you kill them all? I try and crane my neck around the corner.
I don't see anything. I'm going to move up that day. I'm
gonna use prival savagery on this fellow. Here is a fifteen to three acid
damage. Three acid damage, Yeah, this one is. There's bits falling
off of it. It's sort of sparking and whirring, but it is still
going. Yes, look at you. I went to see what he can
do. Maybe just for some reason, that did not do full damage.
M hmm. It's supposed to be two D ten. Sorry, what it's
on being on? Being that your primal savagery five two the tank again?
All right, well done, the same outcome. It does do one extra
bit of damage, but it doesn't doesn't kill it. You can go into
it in the little carg and change it. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I just didn't do it, did it? Yeah? I mean same outcome
still going. I don't do anything else that I'm just observing, learning learning.
It will be bashed if you stop toying with it, and who's trying
to kill us have noted? I do secret flame again. Okay A nineteen
same as this thing is going so crazy, just launching knives and fists out
at the two people around it. It just sort of naturally moves out of
the way as your sacred flame hits part of the ice under its feet.
And do anything else for a bonus action that's not me hinting. I have
no idea what you guys can do. No, yeah, I get it.
Everyone's fine, I think so. Nope, that's it for me.
Here we go. Then, all right, two attacks? No, no,
this thing is that never mind, it's seeous time. I am going
to pull out my staff and swing at the roguard in front of me.
Okay, the twelve to hit is a miss. It's sort of just going
absolutely hay wyan spinning around at this point, twenty six is going to hit
nine points of bloodling damage. How do you destroy this one? I just
bring my staff up and pull it down, would straight down directly onto it,
and it's to meet the ice with the stuff connected to its still and
just shatter on the ground. Oh, explodes and then turned to dust.
Well, beggars that what was that thing? Not too sure? I would
immediately what is there anything left of these creatures or they all turn into dust?
They turn into yeah, just just dust. There's there's sort of la
there is some dust left behind. But yeah, it's a bizarre sort of
You notice that they have a I would say that you would understand, perhaps
fully understand how these creatures work. They're pretty simple. They're almost like gollumns.
They have a core. It is like a magical core, and once
that core is destroyed, it just sort of pretty much just melts everything around
it. It has a little mini nuclear meltdown and just melts the crature.
Sure that it's sort of magically binding together. Once the cause gone, everything
that was it was controlling is gone as well. Right, And added some
of the dust into my pocket, just handful into the pocket. It's not
like in magic dust or anything. It is just dust. But it is
pocket dust. Blind someone in the future exactly probably briefly explain. If someone
asked, I would say, in our it's is Yeah, these are constructs
I believe they were built hundreds and hundreds of years ago by Biliath who used
to use these minds. Well, now they're deconstructed, shall we move on?
Well, there should be more of them, And don't forget we were
warned about the what's the name of it again? Rosen? Fred Rosen,
Fred Rosen, Fred Ross and Fred Ross and Freed? Oh yeah, how
big does you seem to get? They don't get much bigger today? Well,
I'm not exactly sure what frosting three days? I hurt my ear,
but more designed for combat? More? Do you see how many blades that
thing had? I don't think it could have been designed for more? I
tried. Is there? But if we're moving around to explore now I think
we are? Is there anything in? Nothing of interest? Over there?
Is? You will have to rock climb up this part? Children flew.
I'm sorry. Yeah, this area here is like a little bit of a
rock climb up, So I don't know if anyone has any skill in climbing.
Otherwise you seem to have to make an athletics check to climb up the
twenty foot rock lip there the eyes. It was probably some sort of river
with a waterfall a long time alf I slip and fall and die. I
mean actually yeah, so it's pretty close. Character under A ten is a
fail and a one is that you will slip and fall the twenty feet and
take her two D six fold down. Can I I'd like to try and
catch thorn whip as he falls. Yeah. I don't think it's going to
work, but you absolutely may roll me a thorn whip against his ten eleven.
So okay, well, good look you get three person. Yeah,
she's just gonna whip as your you climb up, this part of it breaks
underfoot, you fall, and as you're falling she just whips you and then
you hit the ground across the face. I want to say, and cut
slice. You just have a nice cat and you also land awkwardly and take
two D six bludgeoning damage. So three pieces. I'm sorry, that's four
and three even intel. Anybody that beat a ten on the reflex check can
be at the top. Serious you are and you sort of start climbing and
then just sort of mess it up, but don't fall. You just have
to make another ataliga. Yeah, I shout out, ah, why are
you trying to do? Children? Walk it half leading from blood dripping down
my face. I sort of concerned, look up at you, and then
I'll try again. The face actually matches children's with the red mark on one
side, red marks from book sides. And you can do it. Give
me another missed six. Yeah, so you're just sort of struggling at this
point. We have ropes right in our packs. We do. You have
ropes. You also have pitons which will help you climb. Okay, I
will throw down my rope and you're the anchor. Turn around the stalk might
over here and then just lean on the stalk might And I'm not really paying
attention anymore. Yeah, I have no idea. Who's tired. I just
assume that I can help. I'm just holding it as if I'm the only
person. What do I get for that? Anything you can have advantage for
that? Yeah, I'm sorry. It is serious. Still down here with
me? No serious. She made her out, just didn't move her token
on the map, which is excellent. Still can't make it the big strong
orc. I guess I'm just top heavy from my and I'm like awkwardly trying
to carry my staff and mine. Yeah, you'd climb the rope. Three
three fails here I'm going to say that takes a little while. What is
Cyrus and see are doing at the top here there really is sort of just
nothing more than a pretty much a dead end as you sort of maybe take
a little glance around. But there is a bunch of and again these mines
are very old mind shafts where they would mine out bluestone and then the other
gems and resources they would find. There's endless amounts of like clear signs of
old mind shaft work that lots of these areas are kind of structured with wooden
beams and things as well. They just I didn't have time to like populate
the entire map with exactly one one what you're seeing. But the only real
thing of note up here, while they're struggling behind you to sort of like
throw a rope down to thrack and stuff, there is a lock box that
seems to still be somewhat intact, very similar to the other one that you
found. It isn't too badly broken, but it is still locked with a
little brass lock on it and the sort of gilding or whatever that sits around
the old wood. I'm just standing staring at the box, but not really
saying or doing much, just kind of listening to Thrac struggle and smiling to
myself a little bit. I think, is he is Thrax still struggling?
Like? Does he need more help? Because I could walk over and grab
the rope that he's holding on to and try to pull him up. It's
entirely up to you what you're doing right now. Yeah, I probably wouldn't,
just if he was still struggling. I wouldn't just be like a box.
So if you come over, I like hand you my staff so I
can use both hand hands to bomb up. I'll try again. Okay,
well, okay, yeah this time, and Nilia handed, didn't you?
And I swipe your cheek the blood on your cheek, and I take it
and taste a little bit and then add it to my cheek. I hang
on, roll me a D twenty building, okay, or I've contracted disease.
You're not able to shift into an orc? Uh? No you?
Uh? Yeah, nothing happens movie. I hand thracks staff back to him,
and I reach into my pack and pull out some gauze and just kind
of like wipe the blood from his face. It's like, I mean,
right, but I'm a little. I think I'm I'm like a little you
know, actually I don't let you do it. I think I brush you
away and I'm like, I'm fine, thank you, Uldin. I would
appreciate if in future you do not drink my Blood's a drinking is a big
word. I was tasting it right. I think you would see some some
there's some real anger in his eyes if you know. If you don't notice,
you may not not like a parent in his voice, Yes, precious
about your own blood. Over to the lock box. Now, I don't
think I say anything to that, and I walk over. You have all
the information about the box. It doesn't just like magically spring open, unfortunately.
In fact, if it did, that would be worse because it would
be a mimic zio. This seems like, to remind you, the last
one we just smashed open because the lock is as old. I just I
think I just pour it open with my hands. You can try tearing this
one, even if you want to. I would stop you try not to
break what's inside. Or I think I just grabbed, like grasped the lock
itself and just kind of tugged, which I don't think puts the things inside
too much danger, but I can try again while someone else wants to.
I don't think I have any locks or thieves tools or anything, so unless
someone has any to lend me, I'm just going to stand there looking.
Does this look Does this lock look at any stronger than the last one?
This box appears to be in a little bit better shape, but it is
pretty pretty similar. It's very rusted and old looking. Athletics or just pure
strength. Well, athletics is the same role, isn't it. Unless you
ever off fifteen fifteen, yeah, you do the same thing. I think
you pull it and again. It is a little stronger, but you feel
the actual clasp break off of the box this time, and it comes with
the lock, and the box kind of springs up a little, as if
it's just opened up inside. Give me some loop roles here, roll me
a the twenty and a D four first, then and four and then four
and then a D two one. Okay, So the first thing you find
is wow, a bizarre sort of little gadget. It is very similar to
the creatures that you just defeated in that it seems to be made with a
few like stone elements, but mostly metal in the center of this thing.
There's a little red arcane glow coming from some sort of gem, maybe a
ruby, embedded into this thing. And then there's just lots of sort of
circular mechanisms that roll up up and up and up and on the on the
surface of this thing, there's a few little runes that would be in Goliath,
and then two little hands on it. Essentially, this thing, you
get the sense this is a gadget that tells you the time of day.
Okay, I I'll pocket that like okay, okay, And then you rolled
a war in here as well, is a I guess what it would look
like is just a yellow square. When you pick the thing up, it
isn't painted, but it is a very sort of bright yellow in color.
It's kind of garish, mustardy yellow. And what it is is just a
sort of wooden square. It looks like as you pick it up. Then
as you sort of feel it a little more, you get the sense that
it might be ceramic, but again it feels very odd. It's too light
to be ceramic, but too heavy to be wood. The sensation holding it
is very strange. It's extremely smooth and very well carve, but it's extremely
plain, but the shape is like a perfect square. It fits in the
palm of your hand. Right, ah and yellow square for now, a
yellow square? I show it to everyone. Does anyone know what this is?
Yellow square? By the looks of it? Can I roll to maybe
acidine what it might be? I came from me a history check with disadvantage,
have no idea yellow square? Something magic to it? Magical and you
detected? I will you if I can discover anything magical or bad without casting
a spell? Yeah, give me an akana check A nine. Absolutely awful
role. It's extremely hard to tell whether this thing has magical properties or not.
It's sort of it's either unbelievably well crafted for whatever the hell it's supposed
to be, or it does have sort of a magical element to it.
But yeah, I don't think you can tell without casting some sort of spell
like detect magic or something like that. I'll yeah, I'll cast identify which
you want? The id the pearls that worth? Oh yeah? Yeah?
So you you find it? If it's a magical item, what else do
you find out about it? Do you have the blow? I learn its
properties, how to use them, whether it requires atonement, and how many
charges it has if any I learned whether any spells are affecting the item and
what they are. If the item was created by a spell, you learn
which spell created it. If you instead touch a creature throughout the cast,
and you will learn what spells, if any, are currently affecting it.
This is I don't think you really know. It doesn't really give you much
of an idea of what the thing is. But it's definitely magical. It
is a transmute table square of some kind. There's a strong sense of transmutation
from this thing. But for what purpose and in how you do that,
You're not really able to tell. But it is certainly a magical item,
and it's a transmutation item. But yeah, how it was made, It
probably was just a piece of ceramic of first, and then it was imbued
and charged with this magic. Yeah, it doesn't do anything like it doesn't
like hold a fireball or you know, or turn into a boat, you
know, or anything like that. It's it seems to be extremely simple.
So if someone just changed it into the shape with magic, but it doesn't
actually do anything, it probably does something, and it probably is able to
change shape. Okay, but I don't know how correct they use it,
Okay, right, I guess, well, there's certainly something magical about it.
It was changed with magic with this shape, but I'm not really sure
how, why, or what to do with it. Can you not change
it with magic to a different shape? Maybe I do not have the knowledge
and s mute anything appar Well, I suppose you could keep it with you
if you want, as a lucky pet yellow square and we can keep moving.
There is also a potion in here. Oh well. Also Jilden is
still under the effect of the potion, but I forget what it was she
has. Yeah, there's a potion in here. It is a sort of
iridescent liquid that is red in color, but it's not labeled in any way.
It probably was labeled, but the label is long since gone. Is
it a similar red color to the healing potions? I have no looks different?
Mmm. I I take it in my hand, and I have you
know how like when a player in the NBA is like boxing someone out from
getting a rebound sports metaphor, And now I'm stopping Jilding from getting like she
cannot get to this potion. Okay, so children drinks it. What you're
saying, I'm attempting to keep her from the potion, and I will will
sort of look at it and say, I don't think it's wise to do
I buy this with that, you know, knowing what it is, So
I think I'll just hold on to it for now. Sure, it looks
very tasty. I just rolled for tastiness and got it known to and it
looks to delicious. Give advantage on that. Actually, if you want to
roll to try and get a quick because you have advantage on perception checks.
I was going to roll. Actually, I was going to just try and
rub it. And when I'm actively trying to stop her from Yeah, well
you just have an advantage. You can have advantage on your on your check
to defend there, I guess saving throat or oh good god, you have
the option with athletics. We've done what we've done in the past. Yeah,
athletic, Well, we usually do passive perception. But that's one.
Yeah, you knew she was coming for it this time. Yeah, do
this seventeen bullying? You just let me? Why? I so selfish?
I'm hold I'm holding her prglehead with my That would work with many species,
but it's also pretty long arms. I feel like I do. How big
are you have told you can transform her arms into snakes briefly or something.
Probably I am one hundred and fifty cent Can you translate that into American five
foot two? I'm I think I'm six four. I'm a massive preacher compared
to you. It's also same as in real life, right that two feet
one day? Real laugh? Uh right? So yeah, I'll I'll put
I'm putting all of this into my knapsack of holding, containing one of every
musical instrument. Reason, every handheld musical instrument, every handheld musical instrument.
Yes, instrument. It's how we say it in Auckland on New Comments.
There you go. It's just it's literally orcish. That's it. There's nothing
else up here. I okay, I walked towards this pile of stones,
and there's nothing underneath them, is there? Let's find out RONI D twenty.
You're all on Natural twenty, there is something under there. Okay,
if you're on Natural one, there's something horrible under there, are all the
nine. So there's a bunch of bricks and stuff. I'll hop back down
this over here. It's just an empty box. The box. Yeah,
you can rob me D twenty if you want. Yeah, find out if
it's a mimic. Wouldn't that be fun? Yeah, it'd be no.
Eight, Would you believe in all these years, I've never used a mimic.
I don't actually believe that. It might not be true, but I'm
pretty sure. I'm pretty sure I've never used a mimic in a very traditional
sense. I might have used something similar to a mimic or used its status.
I'm pretty sure I've never just thrown a mimic out. Then again,
there's probably someone in chat writing that. Actually, in twenty eighteen, on
August fifth, during episode twenty five of Dark Fire, I actually used a
mimic in an hour, two minute five But I don't have that kind of
memory. So yeah, you guys can can climb back down safely. I
will. I will be a benevolent god and continue to sort of maneuver around
this This map again sort of moves sort of relatively slowly because there are things
populated in this map, but you're able to sort of freely move around for
a little bit as you navigate further through the tunnels by Jildren's torchlight at this
point, because he is the one who has the torch stip. It continues
to be extremely cold in this in this cave, but not as cold as
it might be top side out in these sort of open planes. I'm expecting
you to be like, not as cold as this ice dragon attack and as
this ice dragon. Who's coming for you dragon? Yeah? Otherwise blue eyes
eyes dragon? What a classic, a classic creature from dn DA. We
continue exploring the gals, checking out every crevice. Yeah, it's nook,
every crabby. This place is huge. I think as you approach this area,
Jilden, you can roll me a perception check with advantage ish, I'm
feeling perceptive fifteen fifteen, Uh, yeah, you see something here again.
It's sort of on a lower level of this cavern. You get the sense
that some of this cavern is a sort of natural natural built area, like
it was probably once a river and there were probably like there was probably water
running off of this lip and hitting the lake below, but there is a
frozen lake underneath this precipice. And down there you can see this kind of
partially covered by the lip and and and sort of caught in a lot of
this ice. There's what looks like like an altar of kinds. There's a
big shiny gem on top of it that is sitting on top of a sort
of a stone box. What it would look like is it would look like
a I guess to us it might look like a shoe box sized stone box
with a with a gem on top of it. The area is also slightly
illuminated by the there's a statue to the right here of a of a goliath,
and is the ice and the moss covering it kind of gives this sort
of like effervescent glow to the to the area below you. What is the
expression on the goliath's face? From me an insight check give you about reading
expressions? Okay, as everyone knows here is amazing at social interactions and meeting
people. Yeah, twenty four Pride Pride is the is the expression that you
get from this goliath kind of looks he's it's a very old looking piece and
it's carved out of that bluestone, which is sort of betrayed by the white
of the image, but it is actually kind of a blue gray color.
It's been relatively well eroded through time, but you can still make out the
features. This is a goliath miner of some sort. He's leaning on a
pickaxe with a prideful look on his face. He seems rather quite content.
I recognize him or will have heard any tales of such an individual. You
can roll me a history check with disadvantage. I think I'm pretty much known
about these guys. Natural one, you know what you do? Know who
this is? Incorrectly? This is Alvi, the famous prospector who founded the
initial sort of area of Moon and was instrumental in setting up the first houses
of the of the area of Moon, the the initial sort of long houses,
and the initial sort of idea of the commune in the commune and things.
And they moved away from being sort of nomadic and living off of the
land and creating those ancient even the places in this cave maybe like little uh
little spots around Voreo and in and around Uma, and actually settled the town
of Moon. Oh my stars, it's Alva. I believe that's Algae on
the statue Founder of Moon. I'm surprised that it's so far deep in the
minds, but perhaps they were planning on moving it to the city where the
town proper. It looks prideful and then we were a married. It looks
like my cousin Billiam a liar, Billium, you say, had to make
lies all the time. Hm, well, I assure you that Alvi here
is not William. He's not a liar. He's a very well known and
well respected if imis yes, right, a bad dish. And I pointed
to the gym just below them that I have been fixated on for most of
this time, Frank Roma, history check twenty four. Alvi was a fisherman.
Don't know anything else about him the same, but the information was correct.
Okay, he was a founder, he was the premium known as the
founder, but he was very famously a fisherman. Um serious, I'm I'm
not sure that that Alvi Alvi was I think it was a fish. You
mean quite bi famously actually, yes, but well, you can't build a
town with a fishing pole. It makes sense that he's holding the pickaxe.
You think I would know Alvi from any old come treck if anybody would know
what to seish? Do I have any knowledge of what might this whole thing
might be about? Give me another history check. O. Great, gonna
be hard to be at twenty four rolling to orcs. Sorry you have disadvantage.
Sorry sorry, Well, I've disadvantage again at your twenty come up fourteen
fourteen. I think you you sort of get the sense that this set of
caves from what you do. Do you know of the caves? It was?
This was mined long before Moon was actually founded. They would they would
mine these caves for the bluestone and then just shift it out to places.
After Moon was founded they made it more of a structured mine shaft, but
before that it was still being mined. So this could be any number of
people. It's almost certainly pre Moon. However, Yeah, because in the
they don't really do statues in Moon. There aren't any. I think that
would be the giveaway for you. They don't idolize people because they worship the
mountain and the nature of the mountain. So there's a sort of I think
that that would be the logical conflict that you'd come to, right, I
would say, I am curious, have you ever seen a statue of any
Liath in Moon? Well? No, it's it wouldn't be proper or appropriate,
right. I think that these caves were mined long before Moon was founded.
I doubt that is alve As A statue of him, of course,
would have been created after Moon was founded, and after Moon was founded,
I believe they stopped making statues of Lias. Anyways, I think this is
someone else, so I'm not sure who, and I'm I'm not sure about
the gem. I just look at him like he took wind out of my
sales, and then I turn back and look away. Natural one suck.
Yeah, I'm I'm so sorry. I would believe that I'm just spreading knowledge,
which is what everyone wants. Why wouldn't you want to know the truth.
It's also the worst when you do roll a natural one in a conversation
like that, you know, and you're like, oh, yeah, I
mean four time seven is twenty one, you know, and so much like
I hat to let you know that I have to. I couldn't. I
couldn't let this go in case you would think that this was healthy for the
rest of your life. No, it's yeah. I think he's more practical
for rank. I think he doesn't want us to make any decisions in this
area based on balse information. Oh Mergles agrees with you, and it's fine.
Cirus is like Sirius now has a deep hatred for orcs, especially a
lot of the glades well I'm probably the only one. It's not true.
Yeah. So now this drop is a little more dangerous looking. It's probably
about thirty feet down, and it's kind of an overhang, so you'd have
to drop the last ten feet down. So unless you want to try and
sort of navigate around the cave and try and find a safe route down,
that is sort of really the only option you have in front of you.
Or you can just carry on whatever you want to do. I affixiated out
of the gym, I walk away. I leave them to it, and
just kind of like almost petulantly storm off in the way that cyrus it's just
stone faced and walks away. Okay, Okay, I want to back back,
Yes, ok at it. I think I can tell you what it
was if I if I could shad how high is the drop? Thirty feet?
The drop from from top to bottom, it's thirty feet. You can
climb down twenty but you still have to drop because there's a kind of an
overhanging precipice. Okay, all right, if I was to fall all thirty
feet, how much damage dould I have to roll? Three D six?
I believe three D six. I just jumped down and I'm fine with my
slow fall. I'm a monk, right, Yeah, you jumped out,
what is it look like? It's strange because, like, obviously with gravity,
that being the way it is kind of want to want to earth,
like you would expect the fault to look a specific way. But it's almost
as if like it's in slow motion. I hop up and as I do,
you see my close billow up and I kind of slow down. It's
like a cat almost in the way that they land on all fours from a
certain height. I do so, and there isn't a forward roll or anything.
It's kind of just like a It's like a feather landing on water.
It's like nothing's really happening. There's no ripple, there's no air, there's
no displacement as I just land on the ground. Ooh, hold go back.
Okay, everyone stop where you are. Unfortunately for you mm hm,
as your feet glide down and touch the uh the ice there, I think
maybe you don't notice it, maybe because you're kind of looking towards the altar
and the gym. But up above you, Thrack and Jild and Cyrus has
wandered all the way up. But Thrack and Jilden. You recognize actually that
the statue, the glowing on this statue suddenly shifts and changes. It starts
pulsing and moving as the moss that is covering this thing becomes a sort of
phosphorus like luminousent light, and it starts to shift and slide off of the
statue itself and start moving towards sea. Everyone roll me some initiative, please,
Okay, you know I had to do it to him. I watched
this happen with an amount of large attitude, just like interesting, some cave
like moss couldn't have happened to a better version, I agree. All right,
Well, lucky for you. See you're going first, okay, in
which case I am going to run up to the cave like moss and I'm
going to swing at it with my staff. Okay, yeah, this thing
is bizarre as well. It's just like a bunch of stems and moss,
just a big sort of feathery mass of green phosphor and spores are sort of
coming off of this thing, and essentially what you're looking at is a big
plant carnivore. Okay, yeah, so I swing at this thing with my
staff in an arcing motion down towards like the stalks, trying to snap them
off, like where they seem to buy illuminus with an eleven to hit.
I think eleven does hit it, but like doesn't hit it any such way
that seems to do any sort of damage to it. You just kind of
hit it and a bunch of like moss and dust comes up, and then
but the creature seems to continue moving quite slowly towards you. All right,
then I'm going to swing at it one more time with a four or fourteen
tier it fourteen also, I miss same thing. You're just kind of whacking
away at this thing, and it's just kind of creeping forward towards you.
Okay, In which case, noticing that I'm not having any effect, I
am going to close my eyes and as I do, the six slits on
my forehead then flutter a tiny bit and then remain open, staring at this
thing. I then take that same defensive stance, and I am now in
patient defense. Okay, wonder what that means, but okay, it means
disadvantage on an attack on me. Okay, right, Uh, Cyrus,
you're all the way over there. Yeah, does anyone make any noise.
What I hear? What's happening? Silence from this complete? Can I roll
to see if that I find silence? The silence suspicious? Yeah, usually
I would be bickering, I guess rolling inside. Okay, you might hear
he hits the ground with his stuff. Okay, Yeah, that's suspicious.
Is a miss quiet? Especially the children have stopped speaking? That is are
wrong? Okay, I'm going to run forward. Oh damn, I still
can't really see them. Eh. Okay, yes, everyone, I don't
know if I can do this. Let's see if it works. Can't show
your perspectives because I'm sort of the version that the chats see as this map
here is a different version than I see on my DM screen. This is
a I've joined as a player, so I just think I'm a player.
So you can you can actually see what each other sees as a d M
or what each player says. But unfortunately not today. Yeah, I suspect
that I can't see them. I think that's probably fair. Yeah, they
are in darkness. There is a bunch of glowing this thing you would potentially
be able to see. It is kind of a down thirty feet over this
lip, but it is glowing. Okay, oh that thing is lit up.
Okay, so if you can see it, yes, you can justify
seeing it like that is kind of my dynamic lighting role. I'm gonna if
I've done my job correctly, I'm going to assume that because everyone is being
super quiet, I should not just start shouting. So I'm going to past
guiding bolt and keep directly at it, but I want to keep my eyes
on everyone else to see what their reactions are, if they're like fighting or
preparing or something like that, to kind of gauge the situation better. Okay,
nineteen hits, Okay, seventeen radiant damage. Yeah. I think this
guiding bolt comes in sere as you're kind of like preparing for whatever this thing
is going to do to you, as it kind of shifts and moves and
heads towards you, like a sort of green venom symbio made of mass,
and then one of these guiding bolts comes down and there's a bunch of the
stalks and the mass explode, and the creature seems to kind of stop for
a second before continuing to sort of slither its way towards you. But you
deal seventeen radiant damage. To it. That's it for me, right,
Jilden I once again called forth a power of the moon from my staff,
and a large pillar of light seems to illuminate the cave from no apparent origin.
It seems to go directly in the center of this strange moss and engulfit
in ghostly flames. So it's a con save. Please, this is moonbeam.
Yes, you don't think there needs to be any daylight or anything to
use it from whatever? I know some spells are like that. It has
to be a form moon natural one for my con save it would take nine
radiant damage. If it's a shape shifter, it'll just make a saving throw
with this advantage and go back to its original form. It isn't it's just
a plant down. Uh be cooler if it just transformed into you know Eddie
Brock I imagined. So there's this moonbeam hits the mass that spores sort of
fly everywhere, and it's quite pretty actually with the moonbeam light and the spores
kind of all flaming around it. Yeah, very pretty. And then series
eating yes out of the flat. That's the end of my sound rack.
Uh think I'm a a little like going to back here. But I'd like
to know if I'm like in this moment, would I know what the hell
is happening? Do I know what this thing is? Do I think the
statue has come to life from nature? Check only six? You know exactly
what's is? Yeah, cave like moss. It's pretty rare, but pretty
famous they are. It is a strange sort of chemical mixture of moss and
spores. They can live for like hundreds and hundreds of years, just living
off of like vermin and the things that come through. Bats will fly past
and it will grab them. It's spores germinate in the carcasses of its victims,
and the spores just grow slowly on like guano and other areas rich in
moisture and organic nutrients and things. It's basically just a collective of smaller life
forms patched together, sharing sensations, barely cognitive, and it just spends its
time position itself, position itself into places where travelers might come through. And
yeah, you're fully aware of what this creature is. You are You are
the stevowin of cave like mosses. Based Jilden literally after the moonbeam is like,
oh that's a beauty, mate. I am just going to do this
just for myself a little wisdom. Okay, yeah, so would I know
if it has any specific weaknesses off of my nature role. It doesn't really
have any, is it. Is it a grass type Yeah, it is
a grass type pokemon, but no, it's not a grass type pokemon.
It doesn't have any weaknesses, but it does have resistances. It's resistant to
acid, cold fire, and slashing from non magical weapons. See okay,
so I would know not to use eyebomb in that case. I M I
think I'm going to use a magic missile this hello, just just a regular
magic miss not a higher level magic missile is coming out of my staff and
we decided we are going to roll a free time correct five to four,
that's eleven eleven. Yeah. These things fly through the arc over the lip
of the rock and strike the creature as it starts. You know, there's
multiple things coming in a golden a guiding ball, moonbeam, the magic missiles.
It's moving slowly towards Heeer. It seems to be eating a lot of
this stuff, but you're certainly dealing damage to it as it moves. I
would shower, I see ye, beware it will try to consume you.
Oh, all right, let's see if you can try and consume it is
at the end of your ten. Yeah, all right, so it has
disadvantage on this attack natural one, which is a ten. Wow. That's
rough. Yeah, so you are lucky to be in that defensive posture.
I think what happens here is tendrills shoot out like a fucking bulbousow suddenly in
a sudden sort of burst of movement from a thing that was moving quite slowly
before. These tendrils launched towards you. But you're extremely perceptive with the extra
eyes going on and the stance able to dodge, weave and avoid them as
they kind of whip through the air towards you. That is the end of
its turn, though you'll be pleased to know it's your turn. Plan to
thrack and say, I can see that, and then I'm going to bring
out my staff again and try and thwack this thing with well the blunt end
of my staff. That's what he said. Thirteen to hit. Thirteen is
a miss again just kind of maybe you just don't wink one of the tents
out of the way. Nineteen does hit, okay, eight points of blushing
damage up. I'm then going to expand a key point here and as I
do, so, I've swung with the staff and I'm going to kind of
like throw it around my hip, using the momentum to kind of keep it
around me. And as I do, I'm going to elbow and punch the
stalks before grabbing the staff again for unarmed attacks with a flurry of blows or
ten to hit and there's a match doesn't get purchased, and then are twenty
to hit when he hits, or a six points of blushing damage and this
is you don't have magical attacks right with your fists, not with my fists.
No? Oh actually yeah, it doesn't matter. It does the full
damage. I'm done, okay, okay, And with my crusher feet,
I'm going to have made part of this thing recoil five feet away from me
over there, mhm. And on the on being told that this thing will
eat me, I think I actually can I move it up this way instead?
Or is it just away from me? Yeah? Okay, then I'm
going to move back a bit. Okay, Cyrus, do you run forward
to meet them? And then based on what I have witnessed thus far and
the damage I did with my guiding bolt. Last time, I'm going to
cast another guiding bolt. Am I m hmm? The fear of the cleric?
Am I allowed to use a spell to attack? Yeah? Literally?
Otherwise it's not my daults I can do do secret blame it forever and it
just takes two No, I should really guiding boulted. You miss devastatingly as
it. Maybe you do it as as Sea like does his weird punch and
it just hits the ground just in front of where it is as it's pushed
back, and this kind of moss kind of does like a weird kind of
like I would say, it probably doesn't like just move as one big thing.
It kind of like folds over itself like you're you know, like you're
cooking in a frying panic kind of in a weird yea pancake mix. And
then yeah, moves backwards in that way, and then the guiding bolt comes
in and kind of just strikes the ice underneath, right? Is that the
end of time? That's it? That's it, Jillden. Does any of
this area look like I could clamber down as I sort of work my way
around it? Or does it all look the same height. Yeah, it's
pretty much the same height all the way across. Okay. Is there a
way for me to get above this statue area or is it too an even
ground? Basically? Can I look down upon it at thirty feet directly down?
Yeah? If you can stand on this bit of rock over here and
be directly above it. Yeah, so where was it? If you can
get I can do that. Yeah. If you can stand next to the
token, you would be directly thirty feet above it. Yeah, you need
to range there, Yes, wonderful. I use the thorn whip and it
hits a track in the face twenty two hits three per okay, and do
you drag is it? Is it dragged upwards? Yes, it would be
dragged ten ft towards me. Okay, so the token doesn't there's no verticality
here, but it is ten feet up kind of stuck on the bottom of
this this overhang of the rocks here. Now. Yeah, so it's still
in the moonbeam, still in the moonbeams, And I understand, and I
see him, and if yes, I would adjust the moonbeam to be directly
on top of it. That's my bonus action. You should be able to
move that token. The spell tokens if you want to move it around.
Seems fine, and that's it. That is the end of my turn.
Okay, rack um, I will dry. I don't. I'm let's try
to do ray of frost. Okay, I have not done this one or
a frigid beam of blue white light streaks towards a creature within range, make
a range spell attack against the target. I want to hear. It takes
one dear cold damage and speed is reduced by ten feet until the start of
your next time. So yeah, all right, So I'm going to do
ray of frost. I think that like ice starts to build at the end
of my staff and it's just that beam of light just shoots out of it
and makes a really cool sound effect that I don't have, and it strikes
the moss hopefully. Okay. That's three six cold damage and slows it by
ten feet. All right, So you hit it with one of its resistances
agreed resistance the cold and fire resistance to acid, cold fire slashing from non
magical weapons. But it is slowed and you but you do reduce its speed
by ten feet, which is really what you want to do with that spell.
Usually I think anyway. Yeah, I'm hoping that to save you from
the social disaster of me telling you literally one turn ago it was resistance of
cold rather that natural one that Syrus did earlier on in conversation. Yeah,
I only heard fire because that's the spell that I was going to use.
Changed tactics. I'll change it to the one he said before that I could
not hear at all. Yeah, he's the smart resond Yeah, it's I
couldn't spell my own name today if you asked me tastes. I really have
no idea where I am. It's actually longer than that. Okay, there
are three more letters in my actual name, I think. Okay, Yeah,
you do anything else, No, I will probably no, I'll say
Joe, don' don't get too close to it and shout the way down there
and it needs to make a conceive yes ten fail takes seventeen radiant semen nice.
Unfortunately, you are too close to it, and it is able to
just about reach you as it crawls up a little way under it starts.
Instead of going after see you, it starts crawling up under the lip of
the thing. Does the mission impossible to Tom Cruise moves here? And goes
kind of show my age goes underneath the lip of the thing, and then
some of those buble sal vines and ten drills come out and try and sort
of whip it you. Yeah, Jilden on an eleven, I'm guessing it
misses you. You sak, but I'm nimber touch out of the way.
Yeah, I think they definitely hit you. They just hit the shell.
Yeah. May fourth, two thousand was one mission Impossible Too was released.
Yeah, I was forty three. Yeah, it's your turn. Okay.
I think I am going to run back five, ten, fifteen feet towards
this thing. I'm then going to try and run up the wall of ten
feet to get to this thing and then swing at it with my staff.
Okay, okay, stuff which twenty five? Did that hit? Okay for
five points of bluddeling damage yep, then again seventeen to hit mm hm or
another seven points of bludding damage okay. As I try still goepe this thing
off the wall. Yeah, I think you do. Scrape a bunch of
it off the wall. It kind of like parts of it do sort of
like slough off this thing as it kind of like falls apart under the strikes,
and it does sort of fall into the moonbeam and just get burned up
as it as it parts of it are reduced by you. It does look
significantly reduced. Right now, I'm going to distracted what I run. I'm
going to expand my final key point in order to do I just keep punching
at it, or do I try and do? Yeah, I haven't done
it before. I use my final key points to basically punch at the wall,
and as I do, I'm gonna at the last second claw my hand
out and then dig it into the into this moss. And there is a
bit of like a reverberation you see, like almost like ripples in the waters,
ripples in this whole like pancake mess and a green ooze. And I
am now done stunning strike. It needs to succeeded constituent saving through will be
stunned until the end of my next turn. My favorite move in all of
D n D by the way, right, stunning strike. Maybe you did
it to me every single week or like nine months in Dark Fire against every
boss and it worked every single time, like never made the save against it.
It is almost counter spell levels of RP destroying. Yeah, yeah,
so yeah, there's other ways. There's other ways around it. So I
have to make a what save the constitution? Saving through nine fails? It
is not stunned. It continues moving. There are other ways round it,
legendary resistances or just no, it has an immunity to stunned, unfortunately,
I assume, because it's just a lob lob mess. And also it's actually
really weird because it says here in my notes that everything is immune to stun
in all of my going forward. That's weird, and they have been since
twenty eighteen. I wonder why I wrote that into my no's bizarre Okay,
yeah, no, Unfortunately, this is literally just immune to being stunned.
All right, I've learned the next time when I land, Okay, Cirrus,
your turn. Yeah, I'm going to move forward next to back here
and cast sacred flame at it X save coming in three ten points of rediant.
How do you destroy it? What is it? Like? What happened?
I just like raise my hand and then make a fist and the bright
icy light of the sacred flame just kind of like envelops it in a little
bit of a small tornado, and it just kind of inviscerates every single spore
in radiant light, and then it just goes I hear and go healistick to
healing. It's a can't trip. It's a can't trip. That one's a
can't trip. Yeah, it is just sort of obliterated. The bits of
it that were sort of hanging on and crawling up the tendrils and stuff all
fall limp and fall off of this thing, parts of it falling through the
moonbeam and kind of being burned off the sacred flame sort of dealing most of
the damage. And this creature clearly falls in it and dead. The glow
from the creature falls dark as the cave like is destroyed it. It takes
that great enery. So I don't trust nature ever. Test nature. If
you have commanded of a nature, you don't need to trust it, You
just have to command it. Well, Pou, did you regret how many
of the creatures we've had to destroy in this mine that we're living perfectly peaceful
lives before we came. Well, I mean, you put the finishing touches
on that one. So I don't know how bad you actually feel. I
think it's more about how I feel about you. What do you mean,
I bet she could have just left you to die, boy, Why didn't
she? I will them all over that for the rest of the evening.
M h yeah, perhaps takes time. It'll take her twice as long to
think about it. Perhaps every little nibbling is good for the humility. I
should be so lucky. I'm going to stand on the thing. Yes,
you approach the sort of altar here, and this is an altar that it's
sort of set within a lot of this bluestone, but the cold and the
frozen area of the frozen lake underfoot, and some of the ice hanging down
gives it a sort of sort of curtained effect. It looks almost like like
a crypt or something like that, but you get the sense that it isn't.
But it's that kind of look to this thing, this kind of ancient
testament to the old ways of the craftsmanship of the Goliath before that relied a
lot more on sort of mystical power and an arcane elements to survive. Here
you get the sense of a sort of shim of faint arcane energy and you
sort of step up to this altar, which is the map doesn't really show
it, but it is a rectangular structure about waist high. It's on with
all these sort of like carvings and etchings that have sort of ancient arcane symbols
into the bluestone and the gem atop this thing is embedded into the top of
the stone here, and you do you get the sense that the top of
this thing has a small stone box that presumably contains something written around the edge
of this box is a familiar script to you. You can tell that this
is Goliath script and text, but you I don't think you can read it
right? Nope, seems useless down here. Let's keep moving. I kid,
it's in Goliath. I need one of you down here. Oh petty
sick? I climb down, all right, give me an athletics check or
an acrobatics check. Mind a step, Oh, mine is the gap and
there's a fail. Unfortunately, a fail here simply means you fall, So
you need to roll me three D six. As you fall, you start
climbing down misstep. And really, because it's just a sheer drop off here,
there's really no way to save yourself. You just tread air for a
moment and then fall down beside this altar and take step away bludgeoning damage as
you fall onto the arms and starn. Oh anything I should have left you
down there, I shrug with a smile, turned to thrag. She okay,
I go to read. Not sure. I step away, presenting the
dice for the bluestone magic altar with my hands just in a half jazz hands
half like butler representation, like your stage. There you go, your stage.
This is what you read, okay? Are guarded treasure, locked in
duty. Time for you to get snoopy. Three keys to access this booty
Sapphire, gold, and ruby, one for each degree from cold to hot.
Around the cavern they see sit each a sought after lot and icy embrace.
The first must be sought, or only through chill can the puzzle be
caught. Next comes the temperate, a warmth in it's hold, a token
of balance amidst stories, untold in the middle. It sits neither icy nor
sweltering, a key to progression. It's worth never faltering. But onward we
journey to where heat doth abound, where flames dance in fervor, and courage
is found. The third in the sequence a testament to flame, For only
through heat can we claim our claim. So heat. These words well,
from cold to hot, one for each degree in the puzzle they've got with
changes refined in the order they're sought. Unlock the altar where the treasure is
wrought love from Billium and the Throgar family. Is your cousin here? I
don't I knew he was a man. He told me he was a ghostmis
in the South, very very common name. Billiam, by the way,
I would tell you clearly this is a different Billiam. Sure, I'm sure
it is. Sure your cousin. Your cousin didn't know. You don't know
my years ago? Well, I think if anybody got it him ready to
tell you that anyway? Did I tell you to serial another everyway? You
know something razor and all that Billiam's razor. Now that the moss has clear,
you can actually say that it says Billium. I the statue shout Filium.
Okay, Well, clearly that isn't your cousin. As that is,
he looks like my curtain. I said. His face was familiar, striking
total. I don't know, it's a long time ago. Perhaps the family
tree is large and sprawling like a bush. Like a tree, imagine a
half tall, half goliath billion. I didn't think he was much for poetry.
First verse reads like a Bard's verse or something. Time for you to
get snoopy three keys to access this booty. I mean it's very like it
is. So it's in a sort of archaic version of Goliath, right,
So it's kind of oldie, worldie. It would be like us reading Shakespeare,
but it's still English. But it's very it's very silly, Like you
get the sense that this thing is is almost a joke, you know,
like an old joke, like a Shakespeare level piece of It wouldn't be funny
to any of us to read a joke written by Shakespeare, but at the
time this was probably hilarious to whoever did this for whatever purpose it was built.
Plenty plenty of coo. We need three keys, one sapphire, one
gold, and one ruby. We haven't found a single one, but sapphires
are blue, and so is the thing in front of us. Incredible observations.
Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all Ragnarok mm hmm.
No, I would like to use my hammer and pittons to create like handholds
to try and climb down. Yeah, you can absolutely do that. It
gives you advantage on your Czech athletics or acrobats. Check. Okay, in
eighteen you are successful and you're climbing down. Excellent, and now I can
Jill then use my pittons as well. Yep, same thing. You can
have advantage athletics or acrobagskind No, everyone should have pittons and rope, because
you've got it in these engineers. Pack to nineteen success about just top down
the last few steps anyway, just to see if someone catches me. Okay,
I assume you're quite heavy because you have a massive shell. Heavy big
big booty jildin big children. No, I don't know how much a weigh
by chef ever escalated how much they weigh? All right, well, so
is it. Let's assume I feel hundred kilos at least never escalated the racy.
Uh. They stand between five and six feet tall and weigh in excess
of four hundred and fifty pounds, a third of which is their shell alone.
Yeah, it explains it because of that movie. You can do.
The increases a racy by three or four. My mom's got a tortoise and
and it's pretty heavy, and it isn't even that big. It's pretty small.
Okay, Well, I'm on a smaller end of tortals. But let's
say, yeahs two hundred and five kilo crabs. All right, you are
old as well, right, so I just yeah the weight in my character,
she just says big, So I never really speaks, all right,
So does anyone feel strong enough to catch I might big big jildin the last
five you want to give it, I might, I might try give me
a she does. She does weigh probably one hundred one hundred pounds, one
hundred and twenty pounds more than I do. Okay, that makes the DC
fifteen. You don't have to fully catch. We just let me down a
little bit gently, just alright. That lowers it to twelve eleven. It's
ugly, it seemed for the rest of the campaign. It's ugly what happened.
I don't think either of you take any damage, but it's just an
ugly display as you flatt and I'm just on my home back on top of
it's cartoonish. Maybe some of your stuff like spills out over the ice rack.
Yeah, I A mage hand appears like in front of Jilden and like
grabs her and like tries to help her. Moves like five pounds. But
this is this is role play. But for the role play, yeah,
I'll allow it. After work on that. It's a well yeah, and
don't want to then instruct the mage hand to like start picking up my stuff.
And I'm gathering at my stuff. I have a lot of stuff.
Instruments are everywhere. There's a flute o Billiam's feet. I'm running around picking
everything out. I'm going to go to the statue of staring. Are you
speaking though? Okay, see your mouth it's because she said it's been a
while, and then my brain went it's been a while and then sang the
song yep, also showing your age. Yeah, I've just sat down on
this platform. You've just sat down, okay, and I'm watching them solve
this puzzle. Oh okay, we're not solving anything, so you're not wandering.
And now I'm picking my stuff up and children's staring at the statue.
I'm just walking around looking at the progressing anyway. Yeah, okay. After
a few minutes, I would finish picking everything up, and then I would
inspect and see like, is there are their keys? Here are their key
poles? Have you read you've read this to us right, Yes, she's
read that. Yes, but yeah, give me an investigation check sixteen sixteen.
Yeah. So on here there are there are three sort of I wouldn't
call them keyholes, but there are three sort of depressions. It's not me,
you and Maya. It is three three depressions that are sort of embossed
onto the top of this altar. One of them is sort of triangular in
shape, with a sort of a little dip at the bottoms. I guess
it would be a bit more like a diamond shape. One of them is
a star shape, and one of them is a very perfect looking square about
the size of your palm. Okay, And so there's just depressions in what's
the gem? Gem is not part of that. The gym just seems to
be set in the top of it. It looks like a pretty ordinary sapphire
to you. Okay, yes, things around the place. Then in that
case, they say, actually, what about that that you have picked up
from the chest. Wait, I'm sorry, you say one of the shapes
of the square? Yes, okay, sure, yeah, I'll take the
square out and place it in that. It does it? It doesn't look
like if it's perfectly Yeah, it's you slott it into place, the sapphire
on top of the h h the altar. I don't know why I can't
English today the lights up dimly, in which case we're looking for a ruby.
Next. I think I spied a chess just around this corner. If
somebody wants to go get it, I say, with my back nearly its
tall. Oh, just round here, okay, I point towards there.
There is indeed a chest just around this corner at the same situation here.
It's another one of those very ancient looking chests. It really just seems like
there were probably multiple chests around this place, storage boxes and things. This
just happens to be one that's roughly vaguely survived the weathering of age. So
you you can attempt, I assume, to just break into it the same
way you have been with an athletics check if you like, or come up
with some other way. No, I have a hammer, and I have
two. I got those. Does it look like it's any more difficult than
the other ones, Like, is it in better shape or is it about
the same. No, it looks it looks in worse shape than the previous
two. If anything, Okay, then yeah, I'll just grab it again
and give it. Give it a yank. Okay, give me that flags
check fourteen fourteen. Yeah, you break into it. You can roll me
a D two, D twenties and a D two, this one, A
one, an eight. I think you rolled a D one the first one.
Oh yep, I'm gloves on an eighth are thirteen and a one?
Okay, So you actually find a magical item in here is a is a
like an unbelievably clean scabbard that would fit sort of an average long sword.
You get the sense, do you know what I'm just gonna have? It
has a tag on the side that reads magical scabbard. Okay, And this
is a scabbard that cleans the sword kept in it. That's all it does.
You also find what did you roll the at thirteen? Is? Oh,
there you go perfect a silvered short sword. You know what, it's
a short sort. It's in there in the scabbard. It is a silvered
short short sword that has Elven script carved into it. So this is an
Elven sword in a magical scabbard. Silvered is a key thing here because there
are some enemies that go get a little witchery in this in that they will
be vulnerable to silver silvered weapons sort of Elvin. MM. I can speak
Elvish anyway, so yeah, I mean Elvin I think is just Elvin.
The High Elves and use the same Elvish. I think probably Eladrin used something
like silver, and Drow have their own version of Elvin, which is similar
enough but different. But yeah, if you can read Elvish, you can
read it if you'd like to. If I recognize the script from the distance
I'm standing at, which would be like you know here, then I'd say,
oh, I recognize that, and I won't press any further on this
they let me, I'd hand the sword in its sheath to Cerrus. Wow,
and then I'd go back to whatever else is in the chest. Yeah,
you find another potion, but I need you to roll me a number,
and I can't remember where I put my list of potions. Roll me
a D ten A one A one. Uh. This is a potion of
animal Friendship. When you drink this potion, you can cast the animal Friendship
spell for one hour of will ah and I recognize what it is. Oh,
this one is labeled you know. Yeah, I would tell everyone what
it is and say, if we ever have need of this and use it,
and I'll put it in my knapsack of holding. And yeah, when
when I handed you the sword, I didn't say anything, but yeah,
it was. It was not like i'd deliberate. It was just like yeah,
yeah, yeah, okay, okay, okay. I would have turned
to Seer, but Sears running away. Sorry, yeah, I'm here.
I would have turned to Seer and like, look, given him a look
up and down. He's obviously a monkey's good with his fists and fighting and
his staff. Are you trained with one of these? Possibly? But I
don't want to use it. You wouldn't use it. No, But I
recognize it. It says on the hilt something. I say. You can
read it too, can you? Yes, very well. I just simply
wanted to say that I could see what it was. Since you are a
Goliath expert, I figured I just chime in and feel useful. But since
you know what it is and you have it on you and I have no
use for it, you can have it. I say, with my hands
behind my back, I just furrow my brow and look to thrack and go,
I can hold on to this for now. It's my useful I know
it's a silver sword. I assume old I need to read that. Yeah,
for sure, you can tell it might yeah, who reads it?
Well, I would pull it out and look at it. Yeah, but
both of us could see it. Likely Yeah, Sera' was standing right next
to me. All right, then the two of you got to tell me
what it's called. Oh how about in three two one? And then I
say a name and you say a name and it's both of those names together.
Oh gosh, okay, okay, bad has a countdown great to one.
Blazing You missed it. I mean entirely. I did not understand the
simplest instruction of all time. My pros okay, I FROs, I would
have frozen to I would have said, the thing that pumped in my EP
was silver, so blazing silver. There we go, blazing silver. I
was just waiting for like a better idea to put it. Didn't. So
here we are when you start telling the beginning of a joke and you just
kind of hope in the end of it comes to my life that you just
spread my entire life. Every time I say, yeah, okay, I
just rolled in nut one on. No, I did it again. That's
everything in the chest, run oceans, sword and scabbard. So the poem
mentioned temperatures. But I imagine without the last thing, the ruby, we
don't have to worry about it. But sapphires blue, gold is yellow,
rubies are reds so cold moderate hot, we'd need that last piece of the
puzzle before coming back here anyway. All right, Well, I'm sorry,
does it look like the sapphire is the part of the is one of the
keys, Well, one of them is a diamond shape and one is a
star shape. It doesn't, It doesn't. Depressions don't dictate a color necessarily,
They're just a hole in What shape is the sapphire? Well, you
don't know, because the sapphire. There are two parts to this. There's
a there's the the sort of poet poem, and then the physical sort of
holes, the depressions that are in the top of the thing. So it's
it's it's a you know, No, I'm asking what the gem in the
ordinary sound The gem in the top of it of the thing is a sapphire.
Yes, sorry, sorry, And it doesn't look like it matches the
shape of any of the No, it is a circular shape. Okay,
so I would say, yeah, I think we're looking for two more keys
before we can get whatever is here, So you reckon, we still define
the blue thing and a red thing? Correct? Probably most likely? I
think it more importantly it's the shapes. But yes, shall we press on
then? Or would you like to rest first? Yes? Better than to
have a little rest. My feet are hurting. Do we want to rest
for a full evening or just for our hour? Sir? Okay, frame
with just an hour and that all works for me. All right, let's
see, I think I have some wood in my pack, but I don't
know. I don't know about making a fire in a cave. Probably not
a good idea. How big is this cavern? Massive? This part is
pretty big because it's your down that you feel, as well as the area
that's up. So the part that you're in right now is a pretty open
area. It was it was. There is a literal like frozen lake under
you. It's a small one, but it is okay, So I could
probably light a small fire and not risk suffocating us. All. Oh,
absolutely, yeah, for sure you could like fires. This whole network is
enormous. Yeah, I'll light light a small, a little fire with my
magic and boy. Okay and U yeah, investigating the short sword and just
like not really, I'm just looking over it and kind of looking at its
quality and edge. Okay, and you're doing a short rest, yes,
okay, roll me ad. Six. Let's have thrack Dorec since he's the
one that sort of set everything up here. Five okay, Yeah, you
are able to spend an hour sort of relaxed here. You're able to rest,
you can do you regain anything you regain on a short rest, any
spells and abilities, and you are able to roll hit dice if you have
any to regain any HP that might be lost. You will need to be
here for at least an hour. So whatever you guys do in that downtime,
does anyone know does it take a long rest or a short rest for
a wizard to loan a spell from a scroll? Long rest? For sure?
It actually takes like full blown down time I think usually. But you
are in luck because I you so for you, the way that this is
going to work is that you have to do you just have to do a
long rest. It also is not there is no gold cost. Usually there's
a gold cost that accompanies this, which is which you don't need to meet
pretty much because there isn't really any gold around and I'm not rewarding you with
like gold and things like that, just because that's not the type of campaign
this is. There isn't you know, there's not I have no use for
it, and it's a waste of all of our time. So you get
lucky in that, you know, for the most part, you well,
you don't need to You can forego any gold costs so pretty much for you.
You just need to ride it. You need to find time to write
it into your book and practice it, which is a full, uninterrupted long
rest. So you are a very you are a powerful buffed wizard. The
downside is that every time you open a box, I'm rolling to decide whether
you get nothing or a potion or a scroll if that's an option. So
you're you're, yeah, that's what's happening there. And Yielden probably eats paper
for fun, so that me and Lea have been dming. There have been
two times that she's eaten very powerful scrolls. Quite really, if you've seen
if you've seen the Land before time, Oh God, just to reveal my
age one last time. If you've seen the Land before Time, there's that
little there's that little guy that eats loads of leaves all the time. That's
what she's doing walking. She ate Meteor from Final Fantasy seven. She's eating
wish. Yeah. The title of the spell is the last thing I see,
the last thing. Okay, Yeah, so I think we sort of
see you guys, settle down and rest and take a little break here,
and that is draw the statue. Just draw him for me. He looks
familiar. I need to double check some things. When we get out of
him. Frank is going to try and draw him. Yeah, I say,
you do stat sketches. I feel like I've seen Yeah, I've done
sketches before. Yeah I would. Yeah, I can do sketch. I
can do a sketch of it. I'm not like a great artist, but
I let's find out performance. Okay, excellent, it's actually pretty absolutely smashed
it out. Yeah, flesh work, pretty good hour of work. But
he does glare at you the entire day. He's still mad at you,
like it's obvious, but he doesn't say anything. But it's obvious in the
way he looks at you, And then you might be able to sense it
in our connection as well. Most Stable Party composition everyone, Table Story.
Okay, that is where we're going to end today. It's slightly earlier than
we might do normally, but it's a good spot to end it, and
and we'll pick up from this. We're going to have a short rest in
game. You're going to have a long rest of a week before we return,
unless you're watching this on playlists in VODs and stuff in like three years
from now, in which case, just watch the next episode and enjoy it.
It's a doozy. Let me tell you that that crazy that one in
next episode was a game change. Ja. Yeah, that was insane,
So tune in next week for that if that happens. By the way,
if you like TPK on a natural one next week, I'll never DM again.
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