He's been nigh about twenty years and them cool Yon fool Dune broke magic and
the world ain't been right since monster Freon from them other worlds running round Terra
Clesea and down in a bole and got the gree Gree water. This is
some kind of evil set on sort of good many folk, So beware,
my friends, go carefully. Amy Lazy brought them else. The mucky water
gonna lead you to the grave. So come with us as we go on
another fool's quest, all the true blood. Guys. Guys, guys,
guys, guys, what look back, I'll look over at it. It
is inky black shape, almost just a silhouette, long arms, wings and
horns, and probably about seven feet tall, but very shadowy, almost seems
to trail off to nothing in the lower body. It rises up from the
water but doesn't disturb the water at all, as if it's not even corporeal
role initiative as it is bro very clearly hostile eleven O sixteen five, got
a nineteen. Well remember that time that Mike said he was in last place?
Damn yep. The the thing just sort of glides forward, just right
over the water because it doesn't need to leave it and just swipes out at
you. Ran with these shadowy appendages that it has. It only got a
twelve. Whoa, You're able to press yourself back against the walls. It
just misses you. Pilsner, you you, you saw that happens. You
turned around and when Wren said, guys, there's something or whatever he said,
so he turned around, saw that happen. There is a shadowy creature.
Actually I won't make religious religious checks. All right, that's a thirteen
eleven, it's a three. All right, brend. You can definitely recognize
that there's some sort of demon, but you can't identify the type. It
is Pilsner's turn. So I'm going to unsheath mood and g're ready to engage.
And as I passed by Wren, I put a hand on his shoulder.
You got this, bro, and I will use my bolstering magic ability
for the next ten minutes. You can roll a D three whenever making an
attack roll or an ability check, and add the number rolled to the D
twenty. Nice is that an action or it's an action? So actually I
wish it was a bonus. Elmer, what are you? What are you
doing? You can also see this thing from where you're at. You see
back into the room there, I'm gonna look at it and cast slow.
I don't like it slow. That's what wisdom saving throw. Yeah, twenty
one, it's more than fourteen. Yeah, he shakes it off. Well,
I'm also gonna sneeze and slide back about ten free and you guys are
doing that's gonna slide you into the into the wall at the corner there aloud
eating bolt down the sewers. I'd be loud. Yeah, yeah, it's
these echoes. It's Stephanie. Oh Rent. That thing just took a swite
patchet, standing right well, floating right in front of you, just existing
right in front of you. I draw my two daggers and I shouts,
and I cast hexless as a bonus action personal safe for hexes or nope.
Ah right, Um, So I placed a curse on it, and then
until the spend spell ends, I deal an extra D six necrotic damage to
the target whenever I hit it with an attack. And then I also choose
one ability that it has disadvantage on. So we're gonna go with um constitution
constaves, and then I'm gonna attack it with my daggers roll your attack role
my first attack, missus. And that's all I can do. Because I
already use a bonus action. You can add a D three to that.
It's an eight, so a D three might get me to an eleven.
Okay, it doesn't quite do it. It's only thirteen to hit it.
But it's not hard to hit it. It doesn't seem to move a kind
of not entirely there say it's not hard to hit. It seems kind of
hard to hit. It's going to sink back into the water. It's gonna
take a swipe at run first that actually hits for seventeen psychic damage. Really
get on the damage dace uh and then SLINKs back into the water and you
will get an opportunity to attack against that. Yeah, so not only well
already no, I'm gonna use hellish rebuke instead. Okay. So I point
a finger at it and I say Johnny Blade call hello s from down and
it needs a dexterity saving brow twenty three. So that is eight points of
damage okay instead of sixteen. And then it sinks back into the water,
and then what you also need to make a concentration save DC ten for your
hex that's a twelve, all right, so you maintain concentration. Pilsner,
what are you doing now? This thing just sunk back into the water and
out of sight. Well, Pilsner might think that it's probably still just below
the surface, So he's gonna take a couple of axwings at the surface or
just below it. Yeah, make your attack roll with disadvantage because it is
that's a nineteen in the persone is that fourteen damage noise? I could not
do the sting, all right, Elmer, you see that, but you
can't see the thing. It's sunk back into the water. And see builder
slashing at the pool there and say, and he caught something. I'm gonna
I'm gonna twin a hays stun the one and then hi, Ren's turned.
You're fast. Now, there isn't much I can do. I'm gonna step
back toward the doorway and you can make blind attacks at it. You building
a totally connected with it. They're in the pool, so you know about
where it's at. You'd have disadvantage on the attack rolls. It's all yeah,
I guess I'll do that. I'll take my daggers and I'll well,
yeah, I'll do both attacks then, So the first one is miss.
Second one, oh, disadvantage was an eighteen to hit. Nice. So
that is two from the dagger and two from the psychic da Sorry I assume
only one yeah, one from the necrotic necrotic yea, yeah, I'm sorry.
Yep, one from each. Did you use your extra attack too from
haste? Okay? Oh yeah I did not, but I will now more
action anyway you could. Yeah, you could disengage if you want, or
a dash or whatever. I'll keep slashing out the water rich blast. Disadvantage
for that one is a fifteen, So again D six and a D four.
Oh but this is normal damage on that yeah. So yep. So
that is h five damage from the dagger and two damage from the hex long
right, and it is this thing's turn again. It is gonna pop up
and attack Pilsner. So he misses this takes a swipe at you, and
you're able to dodge out of the way. It was barely passes by in
front of you. And is it out of the water now. It is
out of the water now, and it is your turning it? Oh shit,
that's a cris So that's sixteen damage. For the propone, seven on
a second one and six on the last one. This thing is looking tattered.
I mean there's like holes through it where you you know it's it's it's
a it's a black or black than the darkness, I guess, but there's
it's looking pretty tattered and pore up. But it is Elmer's turns watching Pillsner
go to town on it and chop through it three times. Are there any
stones or anything around me? There are not. I'm gonna shots crossbow at
him. Okay, make your tech roll. I'd like you're gonna can pull
the crossbow head the pull crossbow bolts, because I'll get rid of the crossbow.
Oh I think I feel like they're too light to really do sixteen sixteen
nits all right, just redefined magic missile. It's going to do four and
then I'm also going to use my fury of the small because I assume it's
bigger than you said it was like nine. Yeah, so it just takes
six extras ten total. You put your crossbow bolt right through its for its
face out of you, and it blows right through, but the thing's still
hanging in there a little bit. Rend it is you the things right in
front of you. All right, So I am going to cast crawler and
it's a DC fourteen constitution save at disadvantage because I hexed it, you did
it if he failed it on the first one, I don't know why.
Right the second one, I'm like, well, maybe it's a rip film.
That's ten damage from that, and uh then I'm still hasted. Right,
yes, you are all right? I will attack that, does it?
Oh? Really? Yeah? So? Oh the spell the thing that
I used for my nightcrawler spell. Because it's darkness that we're fighting, I
cast a whole group netting. I don't know of fireflies that explode like they
explode the things we saw on the swamp. So they're fireflies that light up
the inside of this thing and then just explode damp all a room. Yeah.
Um, it's very effective. It's actually I would have gave you a
double damage for that because that's fight. It's got a weakness to bright light.
Um, you wouldn't have believe the thing. These things start lightening up
and exploding inside it, and it just sort of dissolves, disperses the little
patters that just float away nice where it go red sweet, and I can
still use my hatpo so I hex Pilsner. Wait what, Um, you
don't have to immediately put it on anything, you could. You can just
keep that in reserve and the next thing you've already cast hex, so you
can just transfer it to the next thing you fight, sweet or whatever.
It's a pretty handy spell. But that was probably that demon that from the
summoning circle thing. Yeah, it was definitely a conjured I don't know what
kind of demon it was, but it was definitely a conjured species. I
think it was pretty normally, yeah, nar, that was a beruval?
What a beruval? Blah blah, a burrito bold Normally you jumped backwards and
knees like that. My hair you're still ringing in that lightning cloud? Yea
worse? Oh Elmer, Uh, why don't you do that moon earthing at
the bottom of that little sister and see if there's anything down there? Uh?
Actually, I can do one better. How deep does it look like
it is? You can't tell? The water is just black and murky.
I'm gonna shift five feet of it, a five foot cube of it to
be clear. Said with a shape water, it is about five feet deep,
so you can see the bottom whatever anything cool in there there is now.
Yeah. So there's a drain grape right underneath where you you cleared the
water, but you can see it looks like a coin purse. It's open
and you can see a couple of coins on this drain grape. Um,
somehow it hasn't fallen through. Do you want any get that for you?
Yeah, I'll teleport down and back up. It's only like five feet down.
It's underwater. I'm just after he's teleported down and back up, I'm
like, oh yeah, I'm gonna shape the water floor. It's just no
water there. Um, but make it next dirty check to to grab that
nineteen. Yeah, I'm still hasted too, right, Oh yeah, right,
you had advantage then, so you even more. You grab it and
uh scoop up the last couple of coins that we're laying on top of the
bars. Precariously. You don't drop a single one, nice and helport back
out here. You go, Elmer, you hand it right over, hand
it right over. Yeah. I'll save two gold pieces for antinoxis just in
case, okay, but the rest go to him. So there's seventy three
gold pieces and there are two diamonds in there. Caught diamonds pretty good size.
We're probably worth a lot. That's nice. If you're not going to
use those, give them the anthronoxis. But you've got plans for all.
I can totally respect that. Yeah, we'll find you because we're never going
to see him again. You guys are always joking, all right. So
back through that southwest door. Yeah, So a tunnell goes south the short
ways west or short waves, and then north a long ways and then it
reaches another curve and you realize it's almost like a loop. This is going
to lead back to the northwest corner of that same room. And you get
back down to where you feel like that room should be in Sure enough,
there it is. But to the left is a corridor. There's no door
there. There's the door on the room in front of where you just fought
that demon. There's a corridor to the left, and this one doesn't have
a canal in the center. Um, nor do you see like the open
pipes poking out from the walls. But there are some pipes along the ceiling
and some running along the walls. And it goes down a little ways and
turns left. What about the tracks we were seeing earlier. You see them
in the sludge outside this corridor and just a little ways into the corridor,
but there's there's not as nearly as much muck in here, so you kind
of lose the tracks, but they do lead into this corridor. Oh yeah,
I think we need to hit that way, Russell. I'll sneak along
in front again, keeping the knee out, all right, make me a
perception check twenty three. So you're sneaking along in front, you get you
go around that corner and maybe fifty feet ahead as another corner, so kind
of doubles back, and right before that corner hung over one of the pipes
blow the wall. It is just a whole bunch of strips of cloth,
a couple of sacks underneath, like burlep sacks, and strips of cloth looked
like they were ripped or cut off of one of a similar sack. They're
probably, you know, like three feet long four inches wide. Maybe.
Um, you go around that corner and you have dark vision, so make
a wisdom saving her. I'm sorry, kurbismas saving throw. Okay, hello,
As you turn the corner and there's a door ahead and mounted to the
door is the head of an umberhole? Okay? Fifteen is what you're needing.
You look up and you're shaking a little bit and even a little bit
confused for a second, but you shake it off. Do I recognize that
it that's what did it? Yeah? Okay, but it's just the head
of the umber hole, yep, hanging on the door. Then how far
ahead is Elmer from us? Thirty feet right? You guys are kind of
at the back of the first corner in this hallway, and he's up at
the next one. How how well is it secured to the You go right
up to it and check. I'm yeah, sneak up there, but I'm
gonna try and get a peek at it to see how well it's secured.
Make your stalth check. But yeah, that'd be great with a magic mouth
bill. It's not secured real well. It's just kind of like he stuck
a big nail in the door. Twenty four Okay for the stealth check.
You're very very sneaky, you guys lose track of him. Um, but
yeah, he just kind of stuck a big nail in the door and jammed
the thing on there. Do I get the impression that if I like put
it in a bag or something that it would maybe not. Yeah, you
get the impression that the eyes of this thing are what caused the effect.
It's got like these big insect eyes, and it was the moment you looked
at those that you got a little confused. That's what what caused the effect.
So you could definitely cover it with a bag or I'm gonna throw a
tarp over. There's some sacks right back there down the corridor. I'm like,
I'm gonna cover it. And then I found the rest of the young
effect of them. It's above the door over there. I covered its eyes.
I don't like how it was looking at me. There. Good all
brouh. So we'll go back. And also you're in charge of breaking the
door. I'm on it, and you get to check your traps. Oh
yeah, I'll be back here. I think the head was the trap.
Well, yeah, there could be more. Okay, you're gonna do one.
Why wouldn't you do my several? No, I mean that's smart.
I trust you completely. You're the Charlotte door. So I'll go up and
trap check it for a thirteen thirteen. You don't see anything, but you
can hear some noises in there. Um, faintly, you're a faint like
slithery hissing noise from the other side of the door, just for a moment,
but you don't find any traps. I'll motion behind the door. I'll
point at the door and motion, you know, by putting my finger on
my lips to be quiet, and tap my ear that I heard something to
Pilsner who's about to kick in the door. So Pillsner will point to his
foot and go okay. Then I step back away from the door. I'll
stand thirty feet away and just give him the thumbs up. There's a real
big spot all the way back to the corner. I ain't goblin thumbs This
is the scary part, all right, give him the thumbs up, and
slowly ducked behind a barrel opened the door. I'm trying to open it quietly.
Yeah wait, really it was at this moment that he knew he fucked
up. Well yeah, all right, really it didn't sound good. I
mean, you've been kicking all of them. Well he told me not to.
That's fair. Um, make a stealth check at disadvantage. I should
have told him. I moved back toward Elmer just happens true with disadvantage five.
You slowly opened the door and one of the bassilisks in the corner.
It turns its petrifying gaze on you, and I'm gonna need to save DC
twelve Constitution saving throw du twenty two twenty two. So he's saved. It
turns its gaze on you, and feel yourself stiffing up a little bit.
But I push right through it and row initiative. Who we sucker lea sha
these gumble y'all y'all down here in the bios, say Clay magnee feet.
We're gonna take a quick break to grab us some crawlins and maybe dress us
up or move a lotta who had a lot of it is who y'all hold
on tight. We're gonna be right back after this, see ship, I
told you we'd be right back. Time to get back to the I'm music,
mall l let them good time roll. We got Matti's bro fuck my
life seven twelve. I did walk backward back to Elmer, so forever unprepared
his backs to the room. All right, So Elmer here up first,
thirty feetback from the door. Well, it's only about twenty feetback from the
door to the corner there, and you can't see the bassilisk from where you're
at. That's ideal. Oh and they're down in a corner, so Pillsar
I couldn't see it util he walked in the room. I'm gonna do it
again. I'll twin to haste on him, all of ours do, all
right, twin to haste on him. And the bassilisks turns, they're both
gonna get up and come towards pills NERN creature that isn't surprised can avert its
eyes to avoid the saving throw at the startups turn. If it does so,
it can't see the bassilisk until the start of its next turn, when
it can avert its eyes again. So you can avert the eye your eyes
at the start of your turn to avoid the savings throw, but then basically
treating them as invisible creatures. However, it is their turn, So Pilsner
and Wren, I'm going to need constitation constitution saving throws from you. As
the bassilisks move up twenty to range with their gaze, twenty five is plenty.
That was a role for Ren too. We're good. I don't think
we are good. Oh even with my bonus that's an eight. You are
restrained as you begin to magically turn to stone, so you're restrained on your
next turn, and you'll need to make another save on your next turn.
All right, Pilsner, what's your armor class eighteen? So the closest one
gets up and takes a bite at you, but you're able to just kind
of slap it aside with your the side of your acts pretty easily and it
misses, and it is the other one walks up also, but it doesn't
get close enough to attack, but it is your turn. All right.
Um, well, I see uh shit starting to happen with wren No no,
no, no, no no and rage. That's what a bonus action.
Yeah, it's a bonus action. And then you're hasted as well.
Yes, so I gotta do the the wild magic portion of that, which
is the shadowy tendrils lasher out around me each creature of my choice that I
can see within thirty feet It all wound, must succeed on a constitution saving
throw before take a D twelve necrotic damage, and I also gained a D
twelve temporary hippos. Nice. I'll roll another D eight real quick. That
one is a five five as elmo. Oh no, no, no,
no, no, no, oh my god, what the herod card you're
here? Okay, all right, boys, they both need a what was
the constitution saving co save? That's a fail and that's a fail. Nice,
that's a detail for both those. Okay, more than girls, dude.
And the word for the day is decapitating you there were decapitated. That's
when you take your head and you remove it from your bagging down to the
paper. But I won't the thing. You will elbow some all right,
make your attack rolls, but three of them. Yeah, yeah, I'm
just gonna focus fire on one and it drops and then go to the second
one. But as you get into the room, you notice there's a rope
tied to wiscons just inside this door, and the other end is tied to
another SCons just inside the other door at about like waist level. Pretty much.
That's a nineteen on the first moment, eighteen on the second one,
sixteen, the third one all hits. Yeah. You also notice almost right
in the middle of the room a statue with a tortal. But anyway,
roll your damage statue of a tortal that's Flanders. Ah, Okay, see
plus the two for two. So that's fourteen on the first one, eleven
on the second, and five on the last. Couch all right, so
it's uh, it's definitely bloodied, but it's it's definitely still alive as well.
Rent, you are restrained. I need a saving throw. Actually,
let me see it's at the end of your turn. I think it's the
end of your turn, because I would get it turns sitting throughout the end
of its next turn. Ye, So you're restrained. You get a turn,
but you're restrained. Yea elmer, I thought you said the anti stone
potions were going to last for a while. I'm gonna move my hext to
the one that got bloodied, and yeah, constitution will be its thing,
and then I will because I'm still hasted. Right, you're still hasted,
but you can't move. I think I think I'm just gonna use my can
trips for infestation on it. So disadvantage for con saves. Oh yeah,
nightcroller. First one was a failure anyway, I don't know what it's kind
has been rolled the two so certain it's not high enough. You can of
beer. There a bunch of rollie pullies land on it. And start chomping
away at its face for ten damage. Ten damage. It is definitely not
happy. Good elmer. It is your turn, there is Yeah, you
can see both the basketlisks at this point. Oh I need to make a
save, dude. Yeah, now you make your save. That's right,
make your constitution saves DC twelve. Fuck. I'm not even putting my bonus
on this because you have to be a waste. You have an inspiration,
don't you. Oh, I do have an inspiration. You can do it,
not twenty twenty two. So you you shake it off. You will
yourself through it and are able to move. Never myself again. The anti
stone potion kicked in. It was just taking a second. I'm good.
Thanks, thanks omer Um. Did you say I can avert my eyes from
them yet? To start of your turn? It's basically blind fighting. You'll
have a disadvantage on attack rolls. Its like I'd be fine with that.
Yeah, all your stuff us saves. If you do anything for attacks,
that's actually ideal for you. I don't really have any of those that I
could use other than like catapult, but I can. I think I'm just
gonna shoot. I'm a blind fire crossbow, all right, my best option,
duck, just cover my eyes shooting Its probably fun. It's did you
just shooting your Yeah? I'm doing it all right. What do you think
you have the democratic miss? I was worn away from hitting a teammate.
I think pretty close. It's just whiz us right between you guys. I
rolled the two back at your level for Pilsner, nipple level for Wren,
and it is their turns. Oh my skippy, Oh shit here after then?
Oh? How close is that one to almost being dead because I didn't
add my D six damage? Oh add your D six damage. That's two
more damage. That does it? So the rolly Polies just eat its face
off. Ye it chokes on him and falls over. But the other one's
still there. So I as it moves up to attack Pilsner, I need
saving throws. Your eyes are averted. You didn't avert your eyes. I
couldn't. You didn't either, Yeah, I think you could have averted your
eyes. Oh well, then we'll see you did. Because we need to
make an attack roll. It would make sense for you to close your eyes.
We'll see you did, so you're gonna need a saving throw. But
you do thirteen, you said, And I think it was twelve, so
you are of course safe. And then it is going to try to bite
you. That's going to be a hit. It does eight damage. Okay,
that'll come off. The temporary hits eight damage with the bite, and
then you can feel a poison burn through your veins for another six damage.
Okay. Why are they poisonous? They petrify things and then eat them.
Why would they need poison? Because they're fuckers. Some of the D and
D monsters don't make sense. Um. But then it's your turn yep.
All right, okay, boys, here we go. We're gonna try your
morns cap maybe because it's like dismemberment, that might be quarter. Okay,
just tempt on your free for you. Okay. So the first one's a
hit, second swing is a seventeen. That's a hit. Third swings the
twenty six. That's definitely a hit. Yep. Okay, So the first
one does fifteen, second one does oh I did h sixteen and thirteen?
The because they want that isn't now? Yeah, okay, you know what's
to look like? Um? Can you go to tree right to your neck?
Perfect, say you right through the neck chop that bassilisk set off.
Now, these Uh, there's no no danger of being petrified by the dead
basilisk. Their their eyes lose their gaze or whatever. Not like the umber
Hulk, which you have that head in a bag, now, don't you.
I didn't. I didn't think about that. Put it on a shield.
Oh what's going in the house at the front? Bumper? All right?
Um? Yeah, that's all that's in this room is the statue,
the rope leading from one door to the other, and two dead bassilisks.
Um, which I got the statue. Um. He said, it's a
total. It is a total. I wonder if this is mister Flanders.
We're looking for more than likely. So Sam gave you a description which I
didn't give you at the time because I was lazy. Um, but yeah,
this is definitely him. He's got to over buy it. And he's
wearing some you know, kind of tattered clothing, and he's got a accordion
accordion slung across his back. Uh. For you listening, I was just
I'm sure I had a confused look on my face because I couldn't think of
the word according and I was just making, you know, the accordion motion,
played some charades, which yeah, translated great in a podcast. Well
well done, n inspiration for that, I just used mine found the word.
So yeah, he's got an accordion across his back and kind of tattered
clothing, older total with an overbite. Pilsner comes out of his rage.
No more Elmo and uh yeah he's he's he's a little winded. So he
just plops down over by the dead basil. Looks all right, I'm gonna
so we should probably take the statue with us. We're gonna have that extra
stone to flash potion. Right, Um, don't you have one with you?
You negotiated for twelve of them, but he hadn't picked them up from
the right. That's why I saying we're gonna have to take the statue with
us, or we could just come back for him. M I think I
can mold earth and just move them that way because it works on stone too.
Hopefully we don't knock him over to slide them along. It's pretty sure,
are strong you can spot him and drag along. Ye, Maybe build
some sort of raft. What are the ropes attached to again? That are
in there? The rope is so there was there was ropes around in the
next of the bassilisks, which when they saw you, they just snapped them.
But there's one more rope tied from the SCons. There's a torch SCons
just inside the doorway here, and there's another doorway with another SCons inside of
it, and the rope is tied so that hangs about waist level in the
center. Um, make intelligence checks real quick, or wisdom would be wisdom?
Probably wisdom like investigation or no, maybe insight insight insight? Okay,
nice, okay, not nice? Eight eighteen twelve, Elmer, you realize
those strips of cloth back there, those are blindfolds. I'll pine that out
to them. Yeah, that rope's just to guide you from one door to
the other. Cool. So what's through the other door? Then you go
open it up? It seems like if people send this room up on purpose,
they're probably not very nice, that's true. I mean, what were
they feeding the basilisks? I don't see anything here for them to eat?
There are some some sort of crumbled stones and things in the corners, like
more than likely they have been fed at some point. Oh, never mind,
I see you now, I think they found them. So the room
beyond the door there is um it's like twenty by thirty, a good sized
room, but it's been turned into a sort of combination living slash workspace.
There's like a cooking area, you know, with a little a little fire
pits set up underneath one of those access holes where pipes come through for the
smoke to waft out, and a little sleeping area set up with the bedroll
and whatnot. And then there's a little workspace set up. A couple of
crates boards laid across them make sort of makeshift workbench or desk. On that
workbench or desk, there's several thin sheets of what appears to be LAD.
They're about the size of like a page of notebook paper, like eight and
a half by eleven. They almost look like they could be pages about they're
lead. Just a good dozen of them make perception checks. Actually, because
you pick up one of those sheets were lad, you realized it was engraved.
It looks like there's writing in it, but it's it's it's worn away
to almost nothing, like it's illegible, but you can definitely make out that
there was writing on this at some point. Rat we're at the point where
Lego doesn't even answer when you say roll perception it was it was just a
seven. It's just just every time I say my dumper, I've always like,
oh I did well, I get that look over and he's just shaking
his get a three. Ye, So you're the only one who noticed that.
Yeah, um, yeah, that's what you got. So the he
said it looks like they had writing on them, but I couldn't quite Yeah,
you couldn't make it out as completely illegible, like worn away almost like
it was worn off to nothing or how does it So it wasn't like chiseled
in it was like written with something else. No, it was like engraved
into it. But it's it's it's like it's been just worn off, like
um, have you ever seen like old tombstones? Yeah, but eventually always
because like I put it down there, like right, maybe a rubbing,
Yeah yeah I can do that. I've got chop and paper yet all right,
Um, if you do a rubbing, you can make out some parts
here and there, and it seems to be detailed description of just some guy
physical description that the part that you did a rubbing of just at least five
feet ten inches anyways, exactly one hundred and sixty three pounds. His arms
are this long, and his hair is this exact shade and no name though,
Um the part where you assume the name would have been is is still
illegible. You can't can't make it out. Yeah, this is probably about
John Smith. Anytime there's no name, I just assume it's him. There's
another like probably a dozen of those sheets are lead with writing on him to
make a couple more rubbings and yeah, yeah, that's the same as descriptions
and various people. Um, one of them is one of them. You
get like a little paragraph. It's going into the deal about how good he
is it uh picking locks and how much analogy has about uh larceny in general.
M hm um, do any of them have the thieves? Can't emoji
on them of the beer mug and pizza slice? No, not that you
see. Oh all right, so there's the lead. Is there anything?
What else did you say? There wasn't notice and anything they read? Oh,
maybe you could use that mirriagers and see if there's ah, if you
can see anything in the mirror reflection. Oh yeah, I'll check for whiches
molding around and activating. You don't see anything weird. Um, there's the
cooking area there's like a bed roll laid out, pretty basic bed rollers,
just like a couple of blankets folded up, and then another one over the
top. Um. But then this this desk is a couple of shitty old
boards. Looks like they might be planks pulled off of an old door or
something like that. On some a couple of crates stacked up. Search inside
the crates, give me investigation. Nineteen crawled to twenty. I've rolled five
twenties tonight and two of them have ended up as nineteen. Okay, Um,
yeah, the first crate has got clothes. It's got clothing in it,
like but not all for the same person. There's men's, women's,
big little of various qualities. The second one, though, is you're digging
through it you find, Um, first you find a book like a journal,
looks like because you flip through it, and underneath that there's some more
clothing. But under the clothes there is a little bundle wrapped in like a
soft cloth. You know, open it up. It's heavy and it's also
about eight and half by eleven, and you unwrap it and it's sheets of
gold. Um, there's enough gold here. It's worth about seven hundred gold
pieces. But it's it's sheets of it, like thin, like those lead
sheets. I don't pull all those out and be like, hey, look
we got the weirdest payday of all the time. As you pull one out,
or as you you're pulling those out, you notice one of them has
writing on it, and it is a very detailed physical description of that total
statue out there. Oh, I'll show it, Dren. You do paperwork
things. It does look like a detailed accounting of Flanders out there, though,
which leads me to believe this is some kind of sick game. It
doesn't have Flanders his name on it doesn't have a name on it at all.
But um, unless it's about Smith, very detailed description of that statue
of Flanders out there, I actually think it might be that other crate has
a bunch of different types of clothes against m So what I wonder if this
has anything to do with that Hag book we're supposed to be looking forward for
the Hag remember hmm. Maybe yeah, thing that John Smith was supposed to
like stolen from him, Yeah, potentially, Or if this has something to
do with that, Oh, we're taking it either way because it's gold.
Yeah, I mean some of it we need to give to Anthronoxis. So
you you keep saying these things. I still got the mirror out, and
then like looking at myself in the mirror, and I'm like, Pilsner,
I think you got some basilist blood on me. He got me with your
axe body spray. It's voice nice. I'm putting the mirror away. You
found that journal as well? Oh yeah, the journal read the journal ways,
and I'm like, I know I said it, you did, you
did, But then you said seven hundred gold, and I'm a goblin.
So the journal stopped mattering. So you started the earliest century, the latest
century, just a middle one. I'll just I'll start at the latest first,
all right, the latest century. I finished the physical description, just
need a spell to turn it back to flesh that I can find out everything
he knows. If only I hadn't left my spell book with the hags,
I might not be able to use it anymore. But I'm sure there's someone
in this town I could convince. No matter, I'll find a way so
I can finish his page. The few I have left are risky to use
or come right useless. This is definitely related to the hags. I'm gonna
flip back to the first page. Then this place will work. It's deep
enough no one should find it killed. Number hold. Maybe I can use
its head. There's a security measure, at least until I guess some others
in place. That was the first one. The next entry, he says,
condors from Carcosa arrived in town today. If they find out, they'll
try to take me back. There's another one says had a scare coming back
today. Found a new statue in the bassilist room. Looks like a beggar
wandered down and got lost. Most of them, tho, are just pretty
mundane day to day. This Mosquito White's really driving me nuts, like that
kind of thing, any of them like love John Smith doesn't know. There's
no name in it. But who signs their journal that sky? But it
was worth the track? Maybe signs off, you know? All right?
All right, so I'll give back to Red. This is actual paper.
Cheez okay, So here's the paper, Sparks. We all back at the
house and we'll take the statue with us. I'll help you get that out
and you can do your thing with it. And uh, but I did
hear something in here about the journal about his spell book being at the house.
Yeah, he said he loved it with the hats. Yeah, I
wonder if we just need to search the house to see if we can find
that spell book. Yeah, I'm down all right. So you guys are
gonna pack up those gold page Does you do anything with the lead ones?
Yeah? Taken with take with um. It seems like a set, even
though it's kinda yeah. Yeah, uh, anything else you want to grab
from in here? His clothing and nothing really take the twartle with us.
Oh, I'm taking the clothing. I love clothes. It's Rents, Rents
filling his backpack with clothes. Um. And yeah, between between your move
Earth Spell and Pilsner is just strength. You're able to drag the statue out
um all the way to the ladder. But there was about eighty foot ladder
that you first climbed down. True. Oh dude, why don't you shrink
it? I could do that, I allow it mostly never mind, I
can't do that. Yeah, shrink I'll shrink it and then we'll just catapult
it up fashion some sort of harness out of the er open tie the tiny
turtle to Pilsner's back and all right, he shut them up. Get him
back to the house, there, turtle on the back shelf. Might it
took you guys a climb fast. That's only level three hours and you're very
smelly and muddy at this point. Um, and your house doesn't have running
water unfortunately, or on the coast. We're good, all right, Yeah,
you're getting back to the house fairly easily after that's uneventful. So you
said you wanted to search the house a little more, You guys never really
searched that house. I was too excited to drive it, yeah or walk
it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In the in the alchemy laboratory upstairs,
there are several bottles of ingredients, stars of ingredients. And there's also
a bookshelf, and sure enough, there's a couple of spell books on it.
Um. One of them seems to be the spell book of a very
advanced transmutation mage. It's got some really powerful spells in it. Uh,
that's that's that's mine. I'm taking that. Yeah, transmutation age. But
you're not a wizard on a transmutation use the spell books. I can't read
either. It's gotten nothing to do with it. Fair An already pictures.
Um, you do recognize some of the spells as being very powerful transmutation spells
like polymorphs, been large reduced and stone to flesh, and there's there's quite
a few of them in there. All right, sweet, all right?
He said in his journal that he couldn't use the spell book anymore. Why
can't he need spell book anymore? Yeah? I don't know. They're all
transmutation though, right, they're all transmutation. And what was the other spell
book? He said, Um, there's another one that's got it's sort of
just a general spell generalists spell book. It's got a lot of lower level
spells in it from several different schools. Nothing stands out, no magic,
missile made armor. Just a thought maybe he was able to before magic up
broke. That was yeah, that's all I was. Yeah, because earlier
I was wondering about that if I could use um scrolls of other schools of
magic. I never tested it because I figured that might have just answered the
question do you use spell books? But the spell books you have to cast.
The spell rolls you have to cast a spell when you create them,
so who knows? Kay? Also, in this world, scrolls take a
specific kind of paper, not just like spell book paper. Oh yeah,
there's a whole like Heroes episode about it, the whole thing. That's a
whole thing, whole economy. So yeah, it's uh got do Oh we
gotta go pick up our potions. Oh yeah, all right, so we'll
settle in at the house, get fed and change of clothes and worshed up
a little bit. Yeah. Um, it takes about an hour and you
come back out smelling much better. You've got a new uh lawn gnome shaped
like a total I assume you left it on the lawn. I'm gonna hang
the I'm gonna hang the head up outside of my room, sit on the
outsider on the inside. People walk in, but I mean, well he
doesn't want to see it. Yeah, I want window. I'm not going
anywhere near your room. That's the stay out of my room signed. No
no boys allowed, stay out my room and the hallway outside of my room.
All right, We just don't go to that part of the house.
Every time Elmerck tries to go to bed, he just wanders back down confused.
You guys just think he's seen now, I mean trying to go up
there for I went in there for something Oh well, so heading over to
step Sisters Soaps and Sundries. Yeah, oh yeah, old yep, yeah,
you get get over there. It takes about a ten to fifteen minute
walk from where you've parked your house. There. Boy, that's fun to
say. It really is. Um. You can you can see it from
a block away, and you can smell it from two All that perfumey candles
since essential oils, you know, permeate in the air. It's not as
strong as it was yesterday when you were here, though. Um. You
go in and there's that little bell and you hear a different voice this time
though, and it's this one sounds a little more, a little more terse,
little more business like. I guess just a moment, I'll be with
you shortly. Oh well, if I've got a moment, I'm want to
go back to the bell. I said i'd been with you in a moment.
I'm gonna press the digitation a bell sound with it. Okay. So
a tall, older bronze dragon board lady comes out and she says, how
could I help you today? But we had some potions on order? Are
you the ones Rose helped yesterday? Yeah, Grandma Rose, Grandma Rose well,
she's just finishing up your order right now. Um, I'll go back
and get them in a moment. You know she you know she charged you
half what she should have. Yeah, she was pretty cool about that.
A deal's a deal. I'll be back. She only charged this half.
She comes back out with a crate, a little crate. It's got twelve
vials in. They're packed in like straw, you know. Um, so
here you are. Everything's all paid for us, So you are all set.
Is there anything else we can do for you today? Huh? Do
I see any other potions in the shop that are the same color as these
ones? I did color coordinate the shop. You did color coordinate the shot.
Nothing's quite the same color? These ones are a real You see that
V eight fruit juice that gets that swirly look when you shake it up,
you know what I mean? It's that. But but Gray Elmer come here
there. So I'm trying to think, and maybe there's something we can mix
here, or maybe there's some magic that you can do. But if we
give one of these to our tortal friend and make him not stoned, then
we can fill it back up with something that looks similar and give it to
the one guy at the at the one place that was kind of a dick,
and then he'll never know. He'll just think it didn't work, that's
true. Yeah, let's take one this color. I mean, I can
make it look the right color for long enough to give it to him anyway.
It's almost the consistency of mayonnaise. As a matter of fact, it
doesn't actually even I can just turn water into the right color and do it
to him. Well, um, okay, cool, then I guess we
don't need to buy anything else, and you will only ask for eleven potions.
You guys got on an extra one anyway, and I was gonna skim
some off of all of them anyway, So all right, yeah, so
yeah, you can catch potions up. You take one back to the house
first. Yeah, we're delivering the rest of the caravane office. Yeah.
Yeah, I do skim a little bit off the top of each one,
enough to get myself a jar, and I'll just add some water back in.
Um. Luckily Granny Rolls makes her as a little heftier than normal,
So yeah, there's enough to skim some off and they'll still be effective.
And you managed to make basically essentially a full other potion. I'm not aware
that they're still going to work. Just care um. When we wake Flanders
up and when I give him some of the stew and have him like stay
at our house for a little while until we get back, he'll be happy
to Or we just leave him a statue until we get back and ready to
talk to him. He's going anywhere. I just figured he's probably hungry.
Hasn't eaten in like a week. You can still eat when you get back,
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