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Thank you for listening and enjoy Inside of the Tower, after the vampire vacates
and everyone's able to settle down again and sort of relax enough to finally get
some rest, we witness each of our play a characters sleeping or at least
see it will be in some sort of trance state. Cyrus. What do
you dream of? What is happening in your dream? The vampire is ah,
he's bitten me, and he's created a wound in my neck that won't
stop bleeding, and I feel all of the blood leaving my body, but
as it continues to spill out, it's turning black, and then slowly my
fingers are turning black, my toes, my legs, until I'm i can't
discern where I am in the darkness any longer, or me a wisdom saving
through our place. Oh yeah, twelve twelve. As you are moving through
this darkness and you're witnessing your fingers and skin turned sort of inky, you
would feel something bizarre, a sort of invasive presence that is starting to warp
your dream around you. You can be aware of it, either lucidly or
just you know that same way that dreams will just shift and change around you.
Out of the darkness and out of the kind of ink that you're moving
through, these mountains start to raise up and grow in the distance. You
can see them. They're the only things that have light here. You can
see that they're snow capped and underfoot. Suddenly you start stepping on to twigs
and trees and broken branch of a lot of dead trees. I would go
so far as to say blighted trees rather than dead trees. They've been sort
of yeah, they've been blighted for a moment. That sort of ink underfoot
sort of a bates And while the sky above you remains sort of full dark,
you still have this kind of ink traveling down your skin very slowly,
what are you doing? Start running towards the mountains? Okay, yeah,
give me another wisdom saving throw thirteen, then roll me a D eight five.
It's hard to run. It's that horrible thing of running underwater. Almost
as you start to try and run, not only does it feel like your
legs are heavy, but the ground underfoot is difficult to maneuver on. Do
you think cirrus well, given the choice of two words, which one would
she pick? Permanence or impermanence? Permanence okay, ronny? And are kanacheck
twenty? Oh wow, okay, permanent are twenty? The mountains take on
this bizarre form. As you're attempting to run towards them, you recognize they're
not mountains at all. This is the carcass of a great bird. There
is a skull sort of shifting and moving within this mountain range, biting and
snapping. It's beak, the eye or i socke. It seems to locate
you and fix on you. And then you wake up. The ends of
your fingers and the ends of your toes are stained with that black ink.
It is essentially a tattoo. You brought it out from the dream and you're
aware of that, because you've older twenty, okay, Jildin, at some
point during the night here you're able to get some sleep. I don't think
of anyone. I would imagine you're the least frightened and worry about this vampire
that's potentially lurking around anyway, So I can't imagine that it would have been
too difficult to fall asleep for you. What does Jildren dream of? Yes,
I fall asleep quite fitfully and easily, and when I close my eyes,
I'm back in a familiar dream again, one I've had a few times
here and there I'm stumbling through a forest, a densely overgrown forest. Takescept
that it's dark because I ever slept again when I made camp. The ground
is slippery, it's hard to find purchase. There are sounds all around me,
strange sounds, creatures making all sorts of monstrous noises, ones I've seen
before and ones I've never seen in my life. But it feels like I've
been wandering for hours, maybe maybe even days. And then there's a feeling
like a cat unfurling, yawning and stretching inside my mind. And then a
voice. It's his voice, so dark so dark, the voice said,
and I feel comfort and warmth in a way I haven't felt in so long.
I straighten my posture. I'm no longer afraid, and in fact I
feel ashamed, and Elnay has susteen me this way weak. When I blink
again and open my eyes, I can see the forest is quiet but alive.
There are strange creatures everywhere. They've got teeth, and they're glinting in
the dark, in the bushes and around the leaves. They're looking at me
from the tree branches. But I'm not afraid anymore, and I know there's
nothing to fear. In fact, they should be fearing me, So I
continue walking. For me, I wis saving thro our place? Eleven?
Yeah, you're walking through this forest. You're moving? Are you moving towards
uh something in particular, somebody or the village or away from I'm just wondering,
as I used to tend, to try and to see whatever income and
I can come across. Okay, ROMI a D seven please four four?
Given the option, would Jilden, let's just say, prefer chaos and disorder
or playfulness and humor. Chaos and disorder absolutely, okay, wrob me another
wisdom, saving for our place. Fourteen. You continue to move through this
environment, slowly it begins to shift around you, from a forest to a
swamp, to a bog, to a cold bog. It gets cold,
very very cold, the type of cold that I don't know if Jilden is
used to with. You know, the shell and the thickness of a skin
in a sort of ability to adapt to environments. But you recognize that the
area is sort of a cold bog, but that the reason that you are
cold is that you are missing a heart. You don't have one. There
is a hollow place where your heart should be. Where is it? It's
in my hand. There's another hand that curls around yours and attempts to take
the heart. Do you let them? Yes? El Naeus sort of beckons
you on through this bog, but he's leading you away from the coldness and
back the way you came. Would you go to him or continue the way
you were wondering? I would go to him. Every time. The journey
is long. It feels like you've been traveling for years before you eventually come
to an area that is maybe somewhere that you would recognize actually somewhere comfortable.
Somewhere maybe friendly or safe. Where would that be? A small town that
I went through one time after Ay and Dale Nurse had been satisfied. I
didn't record a name. Yeah, the townsfolk here sort of look up at
you as you pass through. A few of them smile at you in recognition.
One or two of them point you in the direction that you're looking to
go. There are some wheat fields that sit on the edge of this town,
and at the center of it is a scarecrow. But you get the
sense that el Naeus is over there as well. Do you go over there?
Yes, Romeo Wisdom Saving Throw eight. As you approach the scarecrow,
you recognize that it is the It is the skin of el Naeus. There
is there's no flesh, there's no bones, There's just the skin wrapped over
to haphazard branches. It's completely hollow. At the center of where the cross
that makes the branches, that holds the skin on is your heart. It
appears to be functioning. It's beating, but it is pierced by these two
sticks. What do you do? HI, close my eyes and feel for
that familiar if you link again. I was searching for Naos inside my mind.
Are you here? Ah, Rommy in the inside check eighteen? Do
you want the truth? Oh? No, Rony in our corna check seven?
You wake up? Uh? When you wake up, you have sort
of indigestion or heartburn, and the dream fades pretty quickly. I think,
h yeah, that was unpleasant. It's too early to waken anyway. Rack,
what are you dreaming of? I uh, I'm dreaming of Xilon.
I'm standing around the other Hawks and we are looking down a small slope strangers
nearby. I am it's a familiar dreamer. Remember the smell of the grass
and the fear of the wind down over my face. And uh hm,
as I run down a slow with the others, I can. I can
remember doing this time and time again in my dreams and in my life.
My vision is burried, doesn't things had to focus, Things don't make much
sense. But as I bring down my great acts, the one that hangs
above my bead, all I feel is rage, rage, and shame.
One of those feelings comes from the moment and that ump shrum Frack. That's
dreaming. Okay, Romeo, wisdom saving Sorry please, it's a natural one
natural five. Okay, as you're moving across the sort of open plaines of
the the excellent long grass fields there is you get the sense that there is
an army behind you, or like your own horde behind you that you're at
the head of. There are two other hordes rushing across these fields what looks
to be a sort of three way skirmish between three awkwards, all mounted on
horses and large walks behind you. Is there fire or storms? There's fire.
You're holding a flag as you're riding forward. Looking up at the flag.
Is there a dove on it? A candle or a lotus flower dove?
As you ride forwards, the ground underfoot cracks and breaks like a shattering
mirror. And while this would normally be sort of a terrifying experience, it
completely makes sense within the dream. As you fall forward, you catch reflections
of yourself in a mirror, as the world transitions from being grass and land
to literally glass and reflections. In one of them, you see yourself hiding
your face. In another one, you see an empty chair, one that
you would recognize from Hard's tower. In a third reflection, you see yourself
wearing rags and sort of tattered clothing, thin and alone as you're falling,
you can reach out to one of these three reflections, which one would you
attempt to either reach towards or fall towards? And the tattered rags rob me
another wisdom saving throw please in night the bore that your people sort of worship.
As you're falling towards the rags, you recognize that you are now in
those rags, that you're chained to a wall, and you're in a jail
of sorts, a dungeon somewhere. There's no light coming in here. You
get the sense that you've been here for years and years and years. You
get the sense that you have a deep debt to pay. Every time you
close your eyes, you see only big bore looking at you from across the
world. Rommy and are Karna check money for If you could save the life
of that boar, would you am? I fully conscious of what I'm doing.
To be honest, I think if it's a reaction, a reaction,
I would you would save it? Yeah. You wake up in your bed
in the in the tower where your robes were. Are the tattered clothes that
you were wearing in that dungeon, in that jail. As you look down
at your body, you're not like wasted away or anything, but you recognize
that you're thinner. Last person that we're going to come to sits in a
sort of trance like state. The elves don't have to sleep. They can,
but from what I understand see, it enters a translate state for a
few few hours a day. Now while you're meditating like this, what normally
happens, So you are correct as a drow I do not sleep or rest
or dream in the conventional sense, although I do, however, enter a
trance. You see sear kneel down in the darkest corner of the room.
If there is a fire or a hearth, I am away from it.
I am within the shadow. For this, let's say, the camera,
if there is one, is facing me from the corner of the room.
As I kneel down. In my hand, you'll see that waxy white handbook
I tend to have on my person bound sash. In my right hand,
I have this red crystal which well there came as a package deal. Let's
just say from my set, my eyes are closed. However, the ones
that are my forehead are slightly more open, but not fully. You see
my right hand almost browsing over the waxy tablet, stabbing down every now and
then writing in some sort of strange brail if you will. However, if
you were to see what I could see right now in this trance, you
would still see me from this exact same camera angle. Albeit now I am
kneeling down and I'm just inside the darkest corner of the room. I am
in pure darkness, my surroundings now gone. However, if you were to
focus, you could perhaps see pink outlines of things like the floorboards, the
wall, the cracks and the wall faint. From within this trance, I
again don't dream. Instead I review. I go back to the day I
just had. I follow everything that's happened. And again, if you were
to be watching through my perspective, the camera now shifts behind me and then
pans backwards. I'm no longer kneeling down, but standing. You see me
standing behind my compatriots as they argue amongst themselves, going around. I am
a bit more observant around the area. I'm looking to see what may I
have missed? How can I have done something differently? I think time isn't
necessarily a thing during a trance. Instead, I walk from scene to scene,
place to place, challenge to challenge, our biggest challenge, of course,
being this vampire. From my perspective, you again see me dart towards
this creature, it darting towards me, who's in interest? In mere moments,
Again and again I run through this. Should I have punched him,
spun around, grabbed, kicked, attacked, Time after time, I am
stuck here for a bit, fading back into reality. You see my hand
again, stab down onto the inky wax, again and again and again and
again, documenting, reviewing, seeing if there were any gaps, seeing if
there was anything important. Sometimes I wake up and read and surprise myself because
well, revelations sometimes happened during dreams and trances are no different. Make me
a wisdom saving throw, plase with advantage, a wisdom saving throw with advantage,
as plays twenty one. During one of these sort of resurfacing moments,
you recognize an owl at the window looking in from within my trance? Is
the owl? Describe it to me, for if it was within my trance,
I feel as if I would see it differently if this owl was How
do I put this? If this owl was in our corporeal world, The
waking world. I would see it as a purple outline, or I am
semi conscious during a trance. If, however, the owl is part of
my trance, then I would see it exactly how the owl would want to
be seen or would be seen. How might you see an invading piece of
magic within a trance. I don't believe i'd be able to tell the difference.
I am not a magician. That is not where my strength is.
Then I would say it appears to you both corporeal with an outline. It's
both which clues you in are to the fact that you are aware that while
in this trance, there's another element that is affecting your I guess perceptions.
During these reviewing moments looking around the room, you actually recognize lots of other
elements as well. There's several books and scrolls that have this same effect where
they're kind of outlined but also appear to be sort of corporeal and real.
There's a key in the door that is, you know the same thing,
A company and a map nearby where you'd sat down that you don't recognize have
appeared here. You're aware that something is altering your trance like state. What
would you do. If I am aware of an intrusion not caused by my
compatriots, if I don't feel an immediate sense of danger, which, as
the case may be, I have not for some time, I would very
slowly open one of my two eyes in between my nose slowly in doing so.
What I am trying to do is to simply see if, for instance,
the compass on the table is it there in the real world as well
as in my trance. A key in the door, Yeah, I think
I'll give it to you. They are not the things. The owl,
the key, the map, the few scrolls and berks are not present in
the real Sleepwalking is frowned upon, laughed at almost sometimes. But I will
close my eye yet again and try and achieve trans and then attempt to stand
up within the trance while also moving my body normally within my trance. I
again, it's for review. It's restive in a similar way that a human
being when going to sleep will have a strange dream, but it was still
tie into the events of their living waking day. It'll make sense of what's
happening, puts things to rest. It might even help somebody get better at
something. There's a case where people can sometimes play an instrument and not be
so good that day, then go back to that piece the following day,
and all of a sudden they're just that little bit better. That's what a
trance is for a drow like myself. I do this for fighting a lot,
but it's always in here in my head. However, I am going
to try and move my body while in trance and move to the compass.
Okay, I guess, just make me another wisdom save then a natural one,
and natural one. In doing or in attempting this, you sort of
accidentally slip further into a sort of dream like state. The elements of the
room that you know to be part real or to be fully real, and
the elements of the room that you know to be sort of an intrusive external
magical presence stop becoming as easy for you to discern, and you do sort
of slip closer to what would be a dream than awake. Could I give
you that perhaps I'm slipping into trans paralysis. Absolutely. If anybody's ever experienced
sleep paralysis where they see things for what they think they are, but they
can't move, they can't get up, I want to offer that trance paralysis
is pretty much that I'm now within a trance, but my agency is much
much reduced. Yeah. Absolutely, the I'm just going to pose to you
a sort of, I guess, an intrusive thought when it comes to the
seekers, and when it comes to your sort of home, what do you
do? What does see a sort of believe home to be? Where is
home? Is it Mens of Brandon? Is it there the sort of tower
where the seekers are from? Or is it somewhere else or something else or
someone else? Where is home? I didn't then have one m The concept
of home for sear for myself is is a conflicting one. I haven't seen
the silky avenues of Men's of Baranson for quite some time. I left there
a long long time ago and didn't go back once I left. I shall
not reveal to you exactly why it is, dear audience, that I no
longer live there. However, since departing I have been part of this sect,
these seekers. They are militant, they are fearless, they're cruel,
but they have their reasons. I have my reasons. But there is no
love, There is no home. Home is where the heart is, and
they are heartless. You have to be heartless. So for me, home
is quiet, Home is the dark, Home is emptiness and cold. Okay,
make me in our carna check essex. Would you like to continue to
remain in this state or would you like to return to your previous trance like
state? You can kind of you you can sense that you can almost surface
up back to away from whatever is going on and whatever is invading this process
and to a more lucid trance like state, or you can kind of delve
deeper. I guess I think this experience is is rather quite a novel,
and without a reason to pull back, without a feeling to pull back on,
and with this almost exhilarating, exhilarating loss of agency, This this trance
paralysis. This is something. This is something that doesn't happen very often.
Generally speaking, it happens to those who are weaker more often than not.
It happens to half elves trying to trance. It's embarrassing, however, also
refreshing different. I think I try and stay here within this altered trance,
this heaviness because I'm curious, okay, dreaming, is this real? Give
me an another wisdom saving thrower? Please? A five? You can't you
actively try. You can feel yourself in what in, however, it is
that you interpret it sort of grasping out and reaching to sort of stay into
that state, you know, kind of I would imagine it to be like,
you know, when you're kind of waking up and you're a little bit
aware of it and you want to stay asleep. I think it's probably a
little like that. You can you can sense this magic drifting away from you,
the owl vanishing, the compass, the maps, the scrolls, the
key. There was a truth in there somewhere that you, I guess,
sort but you lose it and begin once again to surface back up to a
sort of normal trance like state. Over the course of like probably a few
minutes, as you sort of actively try and remain in this state, you
lose the sense of something, this kind of this knowledge maybe you might want
to call it, but what it is is a truth that just slips through
your fingers as you return to the sort of real world. For one of
a better word, I think when you do sort of fully awaken from the
trance and you look over to where the compass should be, you see a
very nondescript wooden case that has some sort of constellations etched onto the top of
it. Do I recognize the constellations? I think? Well, I guess
is this a thing that you are aware of? This is a thing that
you've studied, in truth being mostly mostly subterranean, but with some training,
it's highly dependent on you them. Well, we'll go with a role then
roll me. Ah, I guess history some sort of knowledge check? Okase
to check here. Let's just go history very well. At fifty, I
think you do you recognize this to be the constellation that sits directly above the
mountains of the rift where the seekers are based. It's a constellation that doesn't
have any sort of It doesn't have a name or a meaning or anything.
But you know that if you were to match the image of the stars to
the stars in the sky, you would find yourself back at where the seekers
reside in that monk tower. In truth, it is one of the only
constellations I know. It's how we actually move about the surface. We line
up and adjust to this constellation, and it is our I wouldn't say our
guiding star, guiding route, but it is used to help us know where
we are. Give me another history check? You can have advantage on this
one, Okay, an eighty. What sits before you is the seekers Compass,
which is basically the most important artifact for the entire sect because this compass
allows you to hold it. Think of a place, a person, a
thing, and the compass will direct you to it. Oh, within the
box that is. Yeah, so you would recognize it either from stories,
and there's no way you would have seen it. I don't think you even
know whether the Seekers have it. You know, it's just a theme of
legend that you would have heard of. It's just incredibly useful, as you
could imagine for the monks. But yeah, regardless of how you know,
you completely you suddenly realize that that's what is inside this box, our most
important relic, barring of course, the personal reasons. One and I put
my hand towards my pendant momentarily the compass is in my pocket now by the
way, No, it's not. As you go to reach out for it,
your hands passed through it. Oh, and it fades from your vision
a little sort of almost it almost turns to sort of a colorful smoke as
that strange outline across your vision, and then actually it fades away m hm
hmm. I think if anybody else is in the room, or if the
audience is in the room still there with me. I I'm just standing there
pensively looking at this, this desk, this table where this, uh,
this item was. And I'm not angry, I'm not sad, but I
think you see the corner of my mouth curl upwards, or I don't think
that's the last time I'm going to see that compass dungeon master wasn't pointing in
any particular direction. I don't know, because it was still in its box.
I see, are my six hours up of rest? Have I woken
up and I rested? Yes? And in fact everyone is. I think
you probably notice that there are people shuffling around, which might be a little
odd for you. I'd imagine most of the time you go to sleep in
quotes after and get up in quotes before everyone else. Maybe you transfer a
little longer than you normally do here because you can hear the others sort of
moving around upstairs. All of you are awake over the you know, however
long it's been. It's the morning after, and I think probably everyone stayed
up a little later, unable to fall asleep except for maybe Jilden because there
was a vampire potentially roaming around outside or might come back in and try and
bite your necks out again. So we'll say that it's morning, but maybe
it's like very late morning or mid dayish. The storm that was there,
this sort of hail and stuff, has completely abated, and you can see
outside the windows in this sort of morning light. It's a pretty quiet landscape.
There's a few hills that are interspersed with trees, dead trees, snow
sitting sort of softly on the ground as far as the eye can see,
and no horde for now. What do you guys? Do you all,
for the record, have had the effects of a long rest. I think
once I notice them in the room, I kind of almost like I've been
shocked in a stand up straight and then return to my usual self. Maybe
sit back in the corner, assumed the position, arms behind my head,
legs crossed, and then just observe. Mm hmmm. Anybody anybody got any
ginger? Yeah, just walking around looking a little uncomfortable. I walk it's
my hand. Ah, did you have any strange dreams? No? There
I stepped like a baby. Well, what has he been doing? In
your sleep, I say, too serious. I had a dream and it
seems to have come become real. It's just ridiculous. That's not how dreams
work. Is it's something to do with the tower. Has it happened to
you before Throck? I think actually he briefly came downstairs and he grabbed like
a big haunch of meat. And you might notice he's wearing different robes,
but like his his trousers are all but like he doesn't have them pretty much
like his legs were bare. His green legs were barren. And he grabbed
just like a haunch of meat. And then he went back up to his
room. So he's not he's not actually down yet. Here, Okay,
I grab stairs his hand and take a look in the entitled fashion that children
tends to take things she wants to look at. Have you done? What
is this? Like? Lock in my finger and rubbing away. I believe
it's some. It does not wash off well, I mean, I think
you've tried hard enough, clearly. What what is that is it? Ink?
Eve been writing? I don't know you wrote things. I know it
was it was my dream. I dreamt that this happened, and I awoke
in it had happened here into her eyes as she says this, and like
with another claws reach on top her head. What do you mean dreamed it?
That's not how here are you hearing it? I am? I'm curious.
Is it a dream from your god or something? Ah? I mean
no, I don't believe so it might have been humm mm hmmm, it's
fabular god. Perhaps she just over Maybe we all ought to have blackened fingers.
Maybe it tricks the frostbite stay away from you if it thinks it's already
got you want. I think I'll pass on that. But I'm curious.
Is it magical or what is there? Do I get any sense that this
has any benefit other than just being a tattoo. It's just a tattoo,
right, I mean it seems like just a tattoo. Yes, without doing
some sort of spell to determine whether it does have any other additional things going
on, Oh, this could be fun. I go into my pouch and
I pull out something that perhaps maybe the audience might recognize from I believe our
second Tier zero episode. It's a small cube that kind of glimmers, and
I say, this is a tattoo removal cube. I wonder if you wanted
to, you could either remove it or perhaps use an edge to draw on
it. Even feeling a bit artsy, and I just pass it to her.
I take it, and then I thank you. I pocket it.
I don't use it right away. You still like that, I still can't
have it. But I'm just curious, you know, forthcoming of your ship,
do you look at him suspiciously? What do you mean? I just
think that it would be kind of funny to have to see what would happen,
you know, either it removes it entirely, or she can use the
edge to draw on it. You know, do not use that thing.
Whatever you do, I won't. I'm curious to know if this serves any
purpose. Perhaps it's the tower. I'm gonna go look for a thrac I
wanted bad. Oh right, I pull it out of my pocket and I
hand it to him. Can I snatch it? I'm gonna try to snatch
it as they hand it over. I don't even wish for it. Oh
okay, Well it's a twelfth to sleight of hands, so I might just
knock it out of your hand onto the floor. Anyway, go for it.
I want to take a look at that and if if they let me,
then I'll just sit there examining it. I guess yeah, I won't
stop you more the mirror. I'm gonna wander upstairs. Hm as seriously as
I ask children, you don't have any tattoos? Do you under your shell?
Perhaps? Yeah? Would you like today, Jenny? Maybe one day
you'll find out. I close my eyes and kick back. What is Thrac
doing? Yeah, he's in his room and he's sort of like he's sitting
on the floor, sort of hunched over. He's adalaxe and he's sharpening it
h back and forth. If serious comes in, that's you'd see he's back.
I would like to know. This is such a weird thing, but
I would like to know how good he is at sharpening the axe, like
the technique of sharpening the axe. I want to know you can, I
mean you can, definitely. It's not like a dwarfing craftsman level of axe.
It's like it's like a big bone from an animal. And he's like
the handle like it's just like a big rib bone from like a big animal.
And then like the head of the axe is he's probably like it's probably
steel, but like it was definitely crafted by like humans or something not and
then but it's kind of crudely tied on, but the edge is sharp,
like maybe his technique isn't proper, but it's something that I want to see,
the fluid motion. He's done this a million times. Yeah, okay,
okay, okay, I uh just knock on the door frame, serious,
what do you want? I wanted to ask if you had any strange
dreams if the Tower makes dreams real? Nah, I ain't the tower.
Someone's fucking with us. H He's in like tattered robes. Okay, Uh,
may I come in? Yeah, I don't care. I come in
and I sit on the floor across from you, and I just sit quietly
and watch you. Okay, I'll just keep going the endsing Well, No,
I mean like I would sit there, and I guess I'm just sort
of like I'm giving you space to work through whatever it is. But uh,
okay, okay, if you're if you're sitting in front of him,
yeah, I mean he would he would look so different first of all,
Yeah, I mean I don't think you've seen him with this literal amount of
clothing on and what you imagine to be like very thick muscular build, but
like a muscular build that has like a nice layer of padding over it,
you know, like a bear wintering for for the for the year. You
know, there's there's a layer of of fat over this, these these muscles.
Normally that's what you would imagined he would be underneath his ropes. But
instead you've seen this very lean You see a very lean track in front of
you. His muscles are very well, are very prominent. Because of his
life, it doesn't seem like he was much fat on him at all.
On top of that, if you look at his face, he's he's definitely
got like the he looks like this right, and he's like he appears upset.
I think you've done a wonderful job sharpening that. If you keep going,
you'll grind the steal down, you see, sir, too thin,
then it'll become brittle. Um, I'm actually gonna roll. Yes, okay
seventeen For those listening, it was a wisdom Save Frank. He just sort
of he stops for a moment and he takes a breath and he says,
it doesn't matter. I don't use it anyways. I just just I don't
know, hopes, calm me down, and he sets it aside, and
he stands up and he starts like rummage through like a chest, try and
find some spare robes that maybe aren't porn shreds. Are those your sleep clothes?
No? I think these might be the clothes that I deserve. And
he just he'll strip them off, barely anything, and he has no modesty.
He strips them off and changes into his spare robes. Non, so
it's fine, Yeah, the robes you deserve. What do you mean?
It doesn't matter? And he's like adjusting his cauldron and he's bring a scarf
on and on his ass again, and he picks up the bone from the
punch of meat and he I think that those streams were unnatural. I something
wrong about them. I h. I stand up and I pick up the
axe, and I would like to do like a flourished wield of the axe,
as if it's my own weapon, and then yeah, kind of like
bounce it in my hand and then hand it back to him. I think
you're the only person who decides what robes you deserve. If only that were
true. And his leather gloves make that sort of sound as he leathery sound
as he they tightened, and he grips the bone handle and he sets it
back over the bed and yeah, he's like, yeah, he's about to
leave. I think about to leave the room. And what were you what
were you saying when you came in? Oh? Yes, my dream?
Did this show on my hand? I want to know if it, if
it's magic, if it does anything, If you could detect it? Yeah
I can't, ohd on uh, yeah I can. Oh would this be
identify? You can use detect? That's an object. I'll just do detect
magic. Yeah I can. I will cast tech magic. Yeah. This
gives you the sense and presence of magic within thirty feet of you, which
is almost everything in this tower, including all of your own objects. And
you know, everything in this tower has a hint of some form of magic
attached to it. Serious's sort of fingertips. And this, this tattoo that
looks as if she sort of dipped her fingers into some ink, does not
appear to be magical. Give me an ar carna check as well? Why
not? Okay, as I'm doing this, I've taken her hand in mine
and I'm brought them close to my face and I'm studying them. Our carnage
check ten. You get the sense of of a sort of a whiff of
fading magic, kind of like if if you had a match and you blew
out the match and you watched the smoke, the final wisps of smoke leave
the match from from the from the fingertips. But for all intents and purposes,
they're not magical. No, I don't detect anything magical. I think
there's just a down to her, all right. I was merely worried if
I did any healing, if it would impact that. Thank you. I
don't think we're cursed. I think someone's just having a bit of fun,
I suppose. And with that, I pick up the bone from the meat
that I was eating, and I'll walk out, head back to the kitchen
and then downstairs. What does your room look like? I would like to
take a look at your room before I snooping while I'm gone. I'm not
I'm not digging into anything. I'm standing exactly where I am and I'm like
casting. I'm casting my gaze over everything right before I leave. Yeah,
is I mean it's pretty modest. The bed is like it's I mean,
Frank is big. So the bed is probably a little bigger than it's probably
the biggest bed that he could find, but luckily he was living with you
know, big people, so it wasn't that hard. So it's probably big
for you, but it's still kind of small, immodest and sort of tucked
away in the corner. There's a lot of smart use of space, like
there's a there's a window. It shines into the room and it kind of
forms like a little nook. And in that little nook is like a desk
where it's got like a little bit of our chemical staff because he's he does
dabble in potion making and alchemy, so there's maybe little jars there and you
know, like a burner and and vials and such in that little nook with
the window coming through, and then one wall is just like a bunch of
books, and then you know, there's it's pretty tidy. There is an
open space of floor above the bed is the is the axe hanging on resting
on some pegs. There is a fireplace as well. You'd need that with
how how cold it gets even inside the magic power. And that's about it.
There's not much else. There's no like artwork or any sort of like
memorabilia, or personal effects other than the axe, and like some clothes in
a trunk. Okay, yeah, I after I pick my little LOOXI,
I follow him out of the room in the back to the group. Yeah,
just let me give you a tattoo. See, it won't take me.
I swear I've done a few of them before. I know what I'm
doing. I think I will pass, but rain check. Perhaps, yes,
I will get you what a track? How about you? Do you
want tattoo? I've got all the ink here. Don't rest a waste of
time if you maybe get all this out and you're not even gonna let me
use it? Rack looks looks and like does the over the spectacle's look,
and she knows that look as an answer. Okay, okay, sorry,
I suppose I just an ordersome way for next time. But if you know
you'll want one tomorrow, don't come asking me because I'm not prepared tomorrow.
Why don't you do it on yourself? You know, practice at the very
least? Well, how do you know I'm not already covered in tattoos?
And all the places you can't see? Moving on? What's the breakfast?
Wait? Is Thrack in the room right now? Yeah? I was literally
just talking to you, were right right? You mentioned d M that Rack
was thinner? Is he thinner? Real? Yeah? On second maybe it
scat. I don't know, because this will have to be up to you.
How easy it would be for you to notice. It's one of those
things where you know, you know your own body a little bit. I
mean, you know, within some level of understanding, he isn't like noticeably
thinner, you know what I mean. Like, it's it's very slight.
He's not gone, he doesn't look like contracted some consumption he would recognize like
you know, like he's like, oh, maybe this is how I looked
five years ago, or you know, that kind of a right thing.
So it's yeah, it would be. It's entirely up to you and how
perceptive I think you think your character might be. Bear in mind also dressed
differently, so maybe that would like just fact that. So, yeah,
it's it's very it's very slight, if you might if you sort don't mind
the pun. Okay, he went from two hundred and forty five pounds like
two hundred and twenty. That's quite a lot. Yeah, it's like four
gene sizes from the experience. Really, Yeah, okay to twenty five?
All right, anyway, I guess i'll hold back my comment then if I
don't think he's suddenly sick. I have a very high passive perception. But
like it depends track, like how how different do you look? Do you
think you look? I don't think I think I look leaner, Okay,
and maybe like around the midsection, I'm a little dinner, but you would
more than like I'm wearing robes, right, so the only place you'd really
notice is my waist. I'm also wearing different clothes. Okay, Well,
unless you were looking at me when I came down earlier in nothing but tattered
rags, I might have done. I have very high perception. I have
eight eyes, after all. But it was all for a pun or a
joke. And this was for a pun or a jark. It was,
but I didn't want to take it from you, So I think I just
wait for you to eat first. I think because all of a sudden you've
contracted something I've already eaten. I'm putting a bone from a big haunch of
meat, but I'm possing it out or whatever wherever it goes in a magical
bin. That just integrates it and makes it into an out chemical ingredient.
Yeah, I see absolutely no doubt whatsoever that's around here somewhere. I just
need a mushroom from from my kit and in that case, okay, yeah,
I think you guys can have some form of a breakfast and prepare yourselves.
Are you leaving today continuing on? Or is that other things you'd like
to do. I'm not sure. I trust that vampire has left us,
but I do feel as if if we're to leave him, the day might
be the best way to do it. When he was here, Dungeon Master,
was it nighttime or was it daytime? It was nighttime. I see,
so he could be anywhere now he's not in the house. He could
be in the house. Dearly could be here with us. He burned the
tower down. Never mind, but yes, I think you might just hear
thee make mention of the fact that there is still that bat boy around here
somewhere, and I wait for you guys to make your decision. Can I
look into the orb? Which orb? The orb of the ghous jacious orb
of Dynamo. Isn't that the orb that we found? Is that his cop
I don't remember this orb at all, am, I just this is something
I think we did in this glacious you have the delicious orb ofacious, orb
of dynamo, delicious orb of dynamite, the delicious or of dynamite. This
is the thing that gives you a plus one to insight and plus one to
charisma. Yeah, it does. But I think he had I did not
have a dream last time. I is this the orbit? I snuck into
the top floor and looked into uh, yeah, you and it showed me
the future gave it to him. Yeah, and then you went up and
looked at it and then you woke up in your bed. It's on the
top floor of the Now go see if it's there. Yeah, so that's
a different orb. No, no, no, you you have you have
the sagacious orb of dining of the dynamo. And then there's the the tear
of Savras, which is the one ball. Ah okay, I want to
Yeah, I think I think that might be useful. So I think I'll
go up, and I go up and it's there. Yeah, okay,
Yeah, you try to go up to the top floor. A keyword being
tried. How do you attempt to access this top floor where you are the
floor that you are forbidden and entering. I just try I try the door.
I guess if it's open. Yeah, that's all you're going to try
and do. You're going to try the door. That's the first that's the
first thing i'd try, yes or do I No, No, Actually I
would not because I know that that I feel like I feel like you wouldn't
just try the door. Yeah, I uh, it's a power game,
you m it's not going to be that easy. I would do. There's
this, there's this. Yeah, No, okay, I'll just I'll just
cast a knock on it. If that works. I think I have a
hope. I think I have a special sound this knock. Okay, okay,
oh okay, you said especially sound, not just the same. I
think it's so magical, okay. Rommy A D one hundred, Oh good
god, something terribles about Oh no the music fifty nine fifty nine. You
are now a goblin for the rest of the campaign. Okay. Yeah.
You open the door, You open it onto a city anywhere I can describe
it. You open it up, you step out, or you look through
the doorway and on the other side it is not the room that you were
expecting with the sort of open plan, sort of circular top of this tower,
which is not circular at the top, by the way, and doesn't
have an open plan. From the outside, the tower looks very much like
what it is in this image for audio listeners. It kind of has like
a thatched roof that tape us off to a point in your dream. Previously,
it opened up to a circular, open plane thing with no edges,
just the orb on a sort of plimp in the center of this thing.
As you open the door this time, there is just a vibrant city on
the other side of it where you kind of you just see a bunch of
people moving around, moving back and forth. He looks like there's a marketplace
here. Like almost everyone is moving about. They have musical instruments on them.
It's the first thing you think you notice is that everyone has a musical
instrument. That guitars, lutes, saxophones and stuff. Everyone has just like
musical instruments. If you didn't know any better, you would think this was
just a city of bards. Basically just moving around. You hear people singing.
There's music playing from every single direction. You can hear different types of
music as well like blues and jazz. There's even someone doing like what you
wouldn't know to be like hip hop, but it's basically hip hop. Coming
from one corner. You can hear all like gospel music and that kind of
like floods you straight away. For all intentsive purposes, it does look like
a medieval See, this is like a modern cy that you've even opened the
door into New York because I would never jump the shark like that, but
that you know, it's it's never happened in anything on the table story before,
but it it is a medieval city filled with like bards and stuff.
But there is yeah, just everyone appears to be sort of musical in tune
with sort of musical. It is absolutely not the top floor you were expecting.
Holy shit, Okay, I do I recognize this as as a city
I've heard about? Hmmm, I guess rob me a history check play off.
Nope, doesn't doesn't ring any bells, doesn't seem to be anywhere that
you've heard of or and it doesn't look like anywhere that you recognize. And
also, considering that the world has ended, you'd not expect there to be
right now, though you know the vampire did mention that there might be sort
of some civilization on the fringes of the planets. Still, but yeah,
there's just this looks like a vibrant and thriving town. There's no way this
is real. Can I try and get the attention of someone in there with
walking through? Yeah? I mean, what do you do? Yeah?
I shout at the nearest fellow carrying a loot on his back. Oh you.
Immediately he just goes ah and screams and looks at you, and then
everyone around just starts freaking out. Monster monsters are back monsters, and they
start screaming. People starting rushing away. A few people start like grabbing out
weapons. You hear swords being pulled. I charm person on the nearest person.
Let me just let me just check something. It works on humanoids.
I'm just seeing if it works in this realm. Okay, it's not New
York, it's London. It's London. Four Charm has no power here.
You cast the spell, but you feel as soon as it hits that doorway,
it doesn't take effect. That being said, you do get hit by
a few spells. Let's see ye make me wisdom saving throw another one to
Wisdom Saving Throws twenty three seven oh seven the seven was there, dominate person,
You get charmed. There is an individual standing in front of you,
quite young and nice looking, very sort of Shakespearean actor looking, with the
leggings and the feather in a sort of flat cap looking situation with a loot,
and he strums the loot and you feel this sense of magic. You
see it permeate the door. You recognize that it's not a two way straight.
Their magic works on you, your magic excellent, and you get immediately
charmed. Let's see here. I think all that he says to you is
begone foul creature closing, or immediately spell broken. Now I actually spelled immediately
broken. Well that didn't work. I walked back downstairs. Okay, I
wish you God save the world. Now lessen let's and like that's like the
fiftieth time that's happened to Thrack, you know, like I definitely tried to
get where he's opened that door some crazy I feel like he's probably done that
with cupboards and it's like a Rick and Morty episode, you know. He's
just like sometimes he's like, where's my need? I need a spoon and
it opens a cupboard and like a tentacle comes out, you know. And
yeah, one time I reached in to get like an apple and my hand
came back out from the floor and grabbed my own leg and that was that
was tricky for me to get out of a rick. Mhm. That was
great impressions. You are good. Okay, this could do your Obi one
again. That was my favorite. If we ever do a sequel to Rota,
you will be in it playing Obie. Yeah good. It was the
greatest impression I've ever heard anyone do Obi wan good. It was. It
was exactly like that was so good. She hates I've done it never.
Okay, So I need to make a note. So okay, So yeah,
you are able to sort of prepare and get ready and actually head out
if you'd like. You can open some more doors and cupboards in here.
You're free to do what you want. You know, You've got time in
this tower away from the Horde and the horrible landscape that's a waiting you outside
and things like that. So I would like to shell Jield in something before
we leave. I'll take her over to a section of the tower and I
start, have you been in here? Again, it's me, Oh your
names? Yeah, I forgot for a moment. Sorry, I was quite
entrenched, demanded dreams. No, I'm obviously lying. I opened the door
and you would see like what is essentially a It's like a like a steam
room or something, but like there's in the corner there is like a some
some holes in the ceiling, like little tiny holes, and if you put
a little bit of magic into a wall of water will start coming out.
It's basically it's a shower. And I'm like, ghot stand over there,
and I give them a strange look. I'm not used to just following instructions
from Thrack. This is very strange behavior to me. But what are you
doing? What is this? You know? I put I put the magic
into the wall, and the shower activates. She's a turtle, a giant
turtle is now taking a shower. But I'm going to lose my patina.
I've spent long time carefully assembling this muck on my shall have a purpose,
you know, maybe it would be nice to smilling myself. And then I
start kind of taking off various pouches and like things, and then I hand
you importantly a vial of blood that seems to be somehow full. You've seen
me dip my little claw into a few times and it still seems pretty full.
So I am. Yeah, I'll hold on to your stuff as you
take your shower. I give them another side eyes. I stepped towards the
showers. It's great, isn't it. You can wash away the travel yeah,
when usually I have someone else rushing it away for me. Unless you's
need to help. Oh, yeah, I'll scrub a shell, I think,
just I mean, who wouldn't want to scrub a turtle shell? That
sounds so satisfying. Well, just I'm a little particulis down there. Every
careful. No, I just scrubbed the shell. That's all I do,
just the shell. I'm not going down anywhere the shell. That's the tail
area a little bit. Now, you're you don't have do you do?
Druids have like any sort of noticeable features that they can like change shape or
and like this hair coming out of your shell or anything like that. Are
you asking me if I'm a typical turtle? Yeah? Are used a typical
Um? Yeah? My shell is covered in lots of like carvings. I
think you would have noticed so lots of handcarved carvings throughout the whole thing,
but other way the other like a fairly typical aged total, a little bit
scalier than usual. Okay, yeah, yeah, I'll just I'll scrub your
shelf for you and then uh yeah, just like past the whatever so sea
sponge or whatever I was using, and I am singing horribly reay ready,
and then steam fills up in the bath as track exits, and that's the
end of the don't forget my bile. I hate that. I'll leave it
outside for it. Enjoy yourself, okay, right with Bayes children, it
was yeah, you know that was not my being your list. But yeah,
anyway, do you guys want to do anything else bizarre? I would
show would we can pay your whole three episodes? Yeah, now I want
to know what, specifically what you did? You say you're curious? Curious?
Yeah, I would tell the other two like, there's a bath in
there that comes down from the ceiling. Its real nice. It's like standing
under a waterfall. Are you saying that Jilden's having a bath right now?
Yeah? I think you should have one to you reckon. Yeah, I
came to join me. It's a fully modern day shower. It's one of
those. It's one of those like rain showers or whatever. I think I
have the fear again. It's not possible. Any take your time. I
think, I think see it makes himself invisible, but by which I mean
stage just leaves, not through the front door, but he just like leaves
the scene. It's like, just does that thing that Obito does in waives
his hand over his face, and then he's gone call me when when we
move through another scene, he says, I think I think I'll pass.
I think he's says, and he says, back down, Okay. I
would take the opportunity to take a shower after Jilden, after jil right,
Yes, yes, I am good. We're going to have a child,
yea. Once once serious has done, I would probably go as well.
Everyone showered except for see of course. Can I try to lure you into
the magical trap door that leads into the shower room. Your fixation with getting
everyone wet rag mhmm. This combat musk a fixation. I never mind demination.
I get you know what rommia deception check versus an inside check. We'll
see whether you are able to him very good at deceiving people. Moment we
step out of this story is like the last intense Oh my god, yeah,
against my wan inside inside, how are you deceiving me? Let's find
out. Maybe he's not. He's not. Oh wow, it's actually the
best he's ever lied. I think you've known him for a year now.
He he's not a good liar usually, and this is the most convincing lie
he's ever told. And as usual, you're fully aware that he's lying,
but he's actually either getting better or he really wants you to get into this
bizarre water contraption. The best lie I ever told. I was like,
h so, yeah, have you ever wondered what he would be like to
stand over there in a night? And it's good through the window, I'm
looking at you like this. This is his most convincing lie. This is
his most convincing lie. I think I stare at the rack in the eyes
for a good five seconds, and I think if this was a TV show,
and like now you are looking through thrax perspective, and so you're focused
on Sear's face. When the camera pans backwards, Sears completely naked and he
walks towards the shower. Fine, fine, Fine, all right, that's
three characters we've seen naked so far in this episode. Basically, I will
not allow you to continue until we see serious naked. So what what here's
here's what I want to know. Okay, we're now in the next scene.
Why is Serrus naked? What happened? What the hell happened here?
As we cut to the next scene, Jildren has disrobed me to investigate if
flat that's right? Yeah, we cut to Cyrus's back, you know,
on the bed, sitting on the bed, and in front of Cyrus Jack
she's jacked, but is just a giant tortal just looking over every part of
your body for more goodness extensive your frost bite advantagetive measures are also if you
want a tattooed, now's the time I said I packed it all the way,
but actually I hadn't, So I think I'm good on the tattoo front.
We're trying to have lots of them, correct, that's what this is
for. Fine, but yours are far too built up. You should work
on them like storm out of the room, clearly annoyed. Whenever this because
the tower is magical. Whenever any of you that any could stand up there
is just a sensor bar that appears in the world. You know, this
white track is just so okay, we're walking around dude, because he's like,
yeah, the center bar. He does it when he's not in the
tower and just assumes that there's a everywhere. It's only in the tower.
I've walked into the inn fully just to get a stew. Yeah. Glions
are cool with that though, right, like Golias, I think, but
completely different reasons because he's insane, like serious is used to see bathing experience.
Yeah, is that your special knock? It's my special knock. I
didn't cast the spell. Peek in and then I got are we are?
We're comparing scars? We can all right, and then we have the scar
comparing scene. It's completely straight up. She is like, just actually just
comparing scars. Well, I don't know, Yilden storms out as you walk
in and start comparing scars. Oh I wouldn't, that's just rope. She
would absolutely she Yeah, Jilden storms out. Frank walks in and says,
are we comparing scars? Takes off all of his clothes and Jilden is just
suddenly next to him. Again. Her face is like in the door for
a second, and then she she turtles, She like pulled the door off
the hinges. Actually she comes. It's like her class wrote for no reason.
She's half transformed, but she's not even aware of it. She's like
her voices are like random and deep, like what are we doing in exchange
for five minutes like oh yeah, I've got this one. Damn I leg
Oh yeah, I got this one of my back. And then five minutes
of that and then it's jilled in, like the claws are out, the
hairs coming off of her neck, like let me shoot, let me see
that one again. Let me see one on the inside of your eye to
show it again. Well, perfect, all right, all right, guys,
I didn't need to do anything. But what are the three notable scars?
Yeah? What what are three notable ones? I think the first one
is probably like across my rib coge, just a just a gash across the
ribs that kind of you know, when it bounces off the ribs like that,
it makes it can make a kind of an interesting scar on the skin.
That's my first. What's your first? My first? Start with I
open with that, Oh yeah, you go, yeah, I open with
one that is on my thigh like from knee to diagonally from knee to hip
like someone just you know, and all of them are seemed. They're just
like long slashing wounds. That's it. There's no like burns or anything.
It's all just slashing wounds. So yeah, that's the first one. Second
one go. My second one is is a burn on my back and it's
like the left shoulder is just but the skin is horrible. It's crazy sick.
I have one on my back, like I guess from shoulder also diagonally
down to uh yeah, down to like halfway down my back and again slashing
wound from from a sword. And I would say like, yeah, I
took this one and the back during a battle. Yeah, yeah, that's
nice. You see this. And then I take my take my trousers off,
and then the scar goes from friend, it goes from like my my
cough all the way up like in a thigh. And I'm like, I
say that thing. I almost caught me a blay lock up pig. I
slapped my arm, religion. I pull out my my big big arm and
there's a scar going over my my forearm here and I so two hundred and
fifty men went into the water. No, twenty five men came out.
Basically one of those guys eyes like a doll size anyway, Yeah, yeah,
right, nodding, yeah, yeah, sick leaving what what? Why
is everyone naked again? You got stars? Yes? It sears like all
packed up with his back pack, standing by the door. It's been standing
by the door for an hour. Curt the milk with a straw strawberry milk
somehow on closed again. We're investigating. We're looking at the deep gashes in
your shell. I'd imagine that would be interesting. Yeah, we we we.
I would. I'll be like that. I would turn you around actually
without asking, and I would flip you around, be like you see these
these are calf This is with some purpose. Do you do you feel that
I kind of I put my hand gently. I'm not like digging into the
crevice or anything. But we're still alive. He's just standing in the doorway
like sitting some tee. There's a spider on his shoulder, also sitting like
a globe. Yeah. It is clearly episode. By the way, it's
very ticklish back there. Okareful, right? That's all sick in here is
just giggling. That's when he comes in with this. He's like, what
it sounds like they're up to something bizarre. And then he walks in and
you're all naked, climbing over each other, and just confirms his worst fear.
He doesn't have fears anymore. So no fear O right well, he
regrets right now A right smash cut to you guys walking. We hear the
front door close. You know you're all packed up, you're already and you
step out into the it's been three days since see it packed his bag.
You step out into the into the world and look about the area, looking
to progress and continue with your journey. Now a little reminder, we were
doing a mini game. I'll bring us back over to the minigame map that
we were playing where you had this is what we're doing for travel. Instead
of all of the varying different ways of doing travel, I thought it would
be fun to do a basically like a little board game here where you guys
are moving from the left side of the map to the right, essentially going
from west to east, heading from the starting point of Uma through here the
giant land Salve towards Condor Reach, which is the sort of next Kingdom over
with the intent of heading towards the House of Knowledge, which is a forest
to the southeast, and all the while being chased by hordes of undead and
all sorts of things. You are here in the middle of the map,
and I think we sort of see you all packing your things, gathering your
stuff, you know, having one last bite of meat, and then heading
out into the cold. For the record, your winter coat thing is still
intact. It wasn't part of the things that got you know, dream turned.
But I think, yeah, Threc has a set of robes on that
are a little different to the ones he had on before. And the rest
of you are packed up, and we see you head down the steps of
Hard's Tower and back out into the into the wilderness. I'm just going to
leave the Horde where they were when we picked up on it. And who
remembers the rules of the game because it's been like three weeks, which is
funny. I thought it was going to be a one episode thing, but
yes, we do. Yeah, that's right. We do a group survival
check and then that allows you to determine in which direction you go basically on
a on a success you pick on a failure, you move in a random
direction. Every other to turn you roll for the chance of an encounter,
and every other other turn you roll for the Hord to see if they move
towards you. The hoard will always just move towards where you are moving with
the sort of quick the shortest possible route, and then rests. After every
two turns you can take a short rest, or after every four turns you
can take a long rest. But essentially every hex you move is a day
of travel in game. So that's the that's the basics. Let's do a
set of survival checks and get moving. As we see you sort of trudge
out into the snow and continue on your journey. And the DC for this
is forty eight that you have to be eighteen thirteen two. We got on
a fifty six. Nice, Yes, you can move to whichever space you
desire. You are oh on this one and then all right, so this
we're going to count this as the encounter role, which was who was in
charge of that? Mayer Lear was no, I was the Horde. He's
in charge of the Horde. I think you're in charge of random encounters.
So roll me a D six. Okay, two and you are in clear
grounds. So there's different ground types here that will affect this. Because I
decided to add too many rules. Yep, you'll find nothing. Nothing comes
for you. So everyone can roll me another set of survival checks ten forty
four eight again four that's thirty eight four thirty four thirty eight romy and ruling
the de st four so it's one is on the top, so it's that's
exactly the directly four. You end up traveling south towards the Horde. And
then I think at some point during the day as you sort of start traveling
on this second day, we see you wake up from your camps, pack
everything up. Everyone's sort of trudging along, feeling a little bet arrested after
being in the tower. And then you know, you recognize that Hard's tower
is on the right of you, and it really shouldn't be. And then
you recognize, up, we've gotten lost. If we keep heading another tower,
maybe we should rest the same power. And then you guys have to
relocate what's going on. Rommia D two. The Horde moves one moves to
well done, well done. Yeah. On two it moves two spaces,
and on a one it moves one and that's just what it does every other
turn. Okay, let's have some survival checks. This time. You've got
beat a fifty six. Hold on, that's that's fifty nine, I think.
Yep, absolutely, no idea. Yep, definitely is one can't count,
so you'll never know. Okay, yeah, you can move your token
wherever you want. I'm gonna go back away from the rd maya roma D
six ruling the D six number two. Yep, that's clear, all right,
soble checks twenty one, ten, thirty one, forty five, A
forty eight, I get a three or higher virus whichever direction straight away from
them A oh, okay, rolly. Perception checks then, okay, perception
of us Okay, yeah, perception have to be five for sixty four.
All right, well, that's easily enough. You can see some stuff in
the distance, some stuff in the distance. You see some you see some
stuff in the distance. It kind of it's kind of over a hilly area,
but to the north of you you can recognize that there are some absolute
the enormous sort of totem poles that have glowing runs on them in giant tish.
Can I see what the can I read it from here? Okay,
you probably it probably just looks like a light. I guess. At this
point, you know, you can see two days of travel away from us,
right, I see them, and I say, let's go there.
And then I look behind us at the Hord. Let's make our escape,
all right, roll for the Hord please later one the horder, right on
your heels, snapping at your heels. Also, yeah, Mergs, you
still have the minus fourteen HP until you clear this mini game. I think
that was what I said. Yes, I can't remember exactly. Okay,
so when you get to that point, the next long rest you take after
that, you'll get your full HP back. Awesome, thank you. I
think. Also that's how long Jildren remains enthralled, right, was that what
we said as well? Oh? I don't know. I can't remember if
we said just for the front of it, because at some point she needs
to sort of snap out of it and be like, why did I want
to go outside with him? Maybe she just would still have done that anyway,
to be honest, children's it's kind of a bit of adventure strange,
man. Okay, I had two full turns. I think we can do
a long rest right now if we want to. Can we have to?
Well, we don't have to, but we could. I don't know if
you'll do that from it. I've spent like four spell slots around in the
tower, but we don't have to. If you want to ensure it's probably
best to do it then, Okay, yeah, all right, that's right.
Or because's job is counting rests the realm. To answer your question,
Brad, vampire charm has a twenty four hour like typical vampire charm has twenty
four hours. But I don't remember if we specified if it was anything or
less. I know it was twenty four hours, but I couldn't remember it
because the thing for Cyrus is also twenty four hours, I think, But
just for the sake of it being more fun and you're sort of trapped in
this pocket dimension of a board game, I'm gonna say it lasts a little
bit longer. Plus it was pretty potent. Yeah, this is not a
standard vampire so I don't know, right, Yeah, he's also kind of
weird and home brewed. M Yeah, I'm gonna I think it's just that.
Yeah, his effects will wear off at the first long rest after this
mini game. All right, So survival checks to see if you can in
fact move towards those rounds for four fifty four fifty four. Yes, you've
absolutely been You can move any direction you want into the horde. I said,
say, do we want to go to the ruin totems? The team?
Yes, all right, nice enough for me. The other two stare
blankly at me. I don't stare blankly, but I did look at him
like when he's talking, because he never replies to me, so I don't
reply to him. Some wait the table the table talk subtweet. Then all
right, road someone I won't say who, but a green person. Nine
Yeah, one of my adventuring party who happens to be green. No naming
names, but a four no encounter fur you roll survival? Do this team
do this come on to be? No? We did not. We didn't
beat it, all right, d six Remember the way is one one one
one one one is rolling this? Oh I can do it. Yeah,
let's have roll. You don't have a thing to do. Five. That's
not bad. That's there, great, not amazing, Thanks Mergles. That's
actually the worst thing that could have happened. Actually, I don't think could.
It could be pretty bad if Leah rolls are two right now it is
just rewind a legal I don't know it's a board game. I don't know
if I could do that in the board game. I don't think you can
roll. But it was like, yeah, it's not like real role,
is it, because when do you get that back after every long rest?
I'll let you do it. Then it's long rest of the bullshit in the
mini game. Do you want to do it? You want me to rewind?
Yeah? Absolutely absolutely, If you're gonna let me do it, yeah,
then reroll the detail and trying to roll a one. Zombies catch up,
you get you get lost in these hills. There are these like big
totem poles that are kind of glowing in the distance, but you lose sight
of them. There are white outs and you move down into sort of dips
in these hills and mountains and stuff, and you end up. What happened
now? She rolled in a row which is still rolling toes. Oh my
god? Five? Wait what? Okay, well it's he's learned. Wow.
Okay, so let's bring you back over to the care with the odd.
At least I think she is not. I love the sound of shabling
death advancing towards me here they come. Yeah, all right, put yourselves
wherever you want in that square and the on the edge of the map like
I'm at the front and I was, all right, come on, guys,
let's go the wrong way. So with the rules of this encounter,
when we do escape, do we must we escape from the same border of
each other? No? Or just lease? Get up? All right?
You're holding down all the top buns in the final fence again a bitter bitter
powder. Bitter powder, most American I've ever heard you sound. Let's get
out of They are close to me, very close to the side they were
on. You can remove yourself still if you want. Now, I'll take
it. Like an orc lives with his choices, he dies with them too,
and dies. Okay, I expect an inspiration the point for not moving.
Oh great, all right, fine, you can have on. You
would all know by this point that my plan is to just hit turn on
dead so that we can get out of here. So if you guys just
want to plan with that, even though I'm the bottom of the turn order,
mm hmmm, I'm going to be dead before you can do it.
I've got nine track alive, am I right? Okay, first up.
Oh wait, I got it, I'm first up. Or the zombie has
nineteen? H does it? Oh? Yeah it shouldn't. The should not
be doing there. Oh but do you see two zombies? Yes, so
I see one zombies, one for nineteen and another for twelve. Yeah okay,
oh not in the turn order, just in the in the chair right
yeah? Oh yes, yes, no ignore that one. That was an
incorrect role for me, the first one. Sorry, it's just the twelve.
Just only have a look at the turn order. Okay, sorry,
Well in that case, I see the swarm and I say I'll meet you
all by the ruins, and I run. I guess I go my full
distance forty and then I sprint for another forty. So I'm not eighty this
way, which is over there? Can I move myself there? O quay?
Sorry, so I'm not eighty here? And then you see a purple
pulse around my feet and I step at the wind off the map. No,
no, actually from last time? Yeah, so sorry last time he
was like, I wish i'd stayed. Yeah, so yeah, so can
I? I can't. I dragged myself off the map and I can't click
the token anymore? Can you please control see me and move me just at
the border, and I'll wait there. I have no idea how to get
you back. Can you remove me and put me back in? I can
put you back in. Yeah, okay, jentlemen in your time, thank
you. Yeah. I take one neck at my comrades and one nucket.
Sure ever, and I go. I fall sprint towards really movies fast as
everyone else. She jumps on a shell and it slides the rest of the
So. Yeah, you imagine how terrifying that would be, Like a running
full top as fast as a human could run. That would be horrifying.
And it's put in the ice of the snow. Certainly a run up and
then down to the shell. We the rest of the works, clean shell.
Some of you didn't watch in Age Mutant Ninja Turtles. I did.
Yeah, that's true. Okay, I'm ashamed. All right, zombie swarms
are gonna swarm the two of you that are here. I guess let's see,
this one will go to here. Huh, this one will go to
here, this one will go to here. They're going to die, and
let's do some attacks here. It doesn't feel any guilt whatsoever. Yeah,
you don't know about my guilt. First two against Thrac, second against Cyrus.
One, two, three, twenty three, eight, twelve. First
two, the twenty three and the eighty are against Thrack, and the twelve
is against Cyrus. I'll get one one hit on me, does not kid
me? Okay? You fifteen damage? This is although there are three tokens
on the map, this is just one big hoarde you know of. And
again, these are lizard folk zombies, so think walking dead zombies, but
they're all giant lizards and they're snapping and slashing and biting at you. And
as they sort of overwhelm you and you get lost in them, you guys
are sort of defending yourselves and hitting them away with shields and things. But
they get enough strikes in to deal fifteen bludgeoning and slashing damage really probably to
Thrack, and that ends their turn, bringing us to Thrans turn. I'll
do a magic missile at one of them, and then I will I'm pretty
screwed, don't because they're all within I'm just not going to do anything else.
Okay, which one do you? Magic missile? Blue or so?
Okay? And it is this much damage? Five or thirteen? Thirteen magic
missiles. Yeah, thirteen of these zombies just get a blitter rate by this
thing. And I imagine this is like that scene in Guardians of the Galaxy
where the guy's whistling and the thing goes takes out all the people, but
they're still absolutely loads of them. Then it is Cyrus's turn. It's time
to get Cirrus. Time to get Cyrus. I will cast my channel divinity
turned on dead yes, which is wisdom saves right, Yes, Wisdom s
right blue, green, orange, one, two, three, Well,
all fail? What the hell? So if you want on in the combat
there rather than go through the whole thing unless you want, you're more than
welcome to stand and like slowly beat them down and waste your spells if you
want. But I'm assuming that we experience in this campaign, so there's no
reason to get We see you cast this spell once again, and the it
just lets you, the three of you slip out all that. Well,
I guess the four of you, but like you know, see it's already
on the edge of the map doing the thing. The thing a run like
this in that movie that with his hands. I think it's the inkings,
by the way, like because the fact that that worked for all of them,
when it has never worked for all of them. The highest roll for
all three of them was a two, and they only have what like a
minus two? Yeah? Plus yeah? No, they have a minus two.
Yeah, that's insane. Yeah. And how many of those do you
have? Then? Probably one more? One more? One more the phases
do you have? I have one more? Yes? Okay, get two
every long, long year. Yeah, hold on, let me just double
check because it might be proficiency bonus. I have to look it up.
Sorry, it's fine, we can just sit watch me. I'm pretty sure
it's I'm pretty sure you get it back on the long words because because of
who you are. Okay, great, that was the board role. So
it is now time to do another set of survival checks and you have to
beat fifty six on this again. The revivals gotten off of a strong lead
here forty seven. We need a nine from sirus h. Sorry it is
twice okay, two of them? Wow, smash it? Yeah, you
direction you want to go a D six from Mayer Place for the random encounter?
Okay, rolling the D six, I mean it's been a two or
four of this entire time, so why not another two it's one bad of
good. There's one bad of good in this one is bad. Uh,
roll me a D four. Let's see what you're going to be fighting what
you stumble upon? Okay, four, okay, and then roll me a
D six. I'm also going to roll a D six. Roller D six
one one means you're surprised. So let's go back to the map. Put
yourselves back into the circle. Yeah you don't need these anymore. Yeah,
it's time get off here. You've moved on to me. You lass so
cute. I think what happens is you're moving along and you just hear a
lot of bugs. You recognize that there is creatures crawling up from under the
snow. You've activated some sort of bizarre, horrible nest of bugs. You
are surrounded by insects and centipedes, swarms of them. Okay, and I'm
just going to give them different I'll tell you what you can roll me.
Some reminds me of this apartment every summer. Oh you know what, I
am so happy about moving out in two weeks, not having to deal with
the spider infestation this year because I'm moving to a topsoor apartment and there is
no such things spiders in those from spider ds can't walk up the stairs and
get rats on the top floor apartment. The pizza up there, well one
of them. You've got a teenage mutant Ninja tar in there. One of
these giant talking rat two fours and two six is for our initiative. That's
so rough, doing great grace the heart. Let me roll some. The
last time we had bugs, I think a thrag exploded a chasm almost that
you know, I was killed, that's right. Last time. He was
my favorite encounter so far of the entire campaign. The one super strong captain
was in there all right, going first or all the centipedes and you're surprised.
So these guys mhm yeah, you guys just get to role players being
surprised. So this one's going to appear here, This one's going to go
here, this one's going to go here. Ani the anime gaps, Yeah,
uh, what was? What have you not? Attacks coming in on
Jild and then Thrack and then two and then Sea one two three, eighteen
sixteen, so eighteen children, sixteen, franc twenty one, yere, I've
been struck. I think he's been strict can paralyze Oh, no, no,
no, it's not that can't. It's just if you die to this,
your dad. So Jildreen, you take eight piercing damage, you take
nine piercing damage, and see you take seven piercing damage. A creature reduced
to zero hit points by the swarm of centipedes is poisoned and paralyzed. They
do have some form of poison. Oh, and then the insects go immediately
afterwards. Great insects, insects, insects. So this is Jilled and again
ten Thrack eighteen Cirrus twenty two. Yeah that is a hip. Okay,
thank you take twelve piercing damage, and so does Cirrus. So I think
all of these insects just burrow up through the snow. You know, you're
like walking through snow, and it just suddenly there are insects rushing up out
of the snow, running up your legs and biting into you. And it's
instant and sudden and awful, and you're surprised, which means they go again.
Yeah, absolutely, I think they're just going to continue to bite the
same people. So let's do it all again. One two three, So
this is Jilden twenty two Thrack twenty two see a natural twenty child at eleven
piercing thrack, you're doing something. I'm going to have to try and do
something there, I think. Let me see. Hold on, God,
someone get your racel to a twenty two. No, but I can have
them just yeah, God and hit me. Okay, I'll use my relentless
endurance. So I'm on the one hit point all right, yep, you
take them nine piercing and then fall over and then get back up again,
and then see it, you take ten piercing damage and then the swarm will
bite Jilden for a twenty two the decided here thrack twenty one and Cyrus with
a natural one. So I'm going to use the the the time thing to
make him roll that attack again? Okay, how many times you do that?
I can do it twice for a long rest this last one? Here
we go eleven instead, hold on, hold on? What is is this
the reaction you control a flower time around? Yeah, it's reaction, So
I don't have another reaction, So I'm down. Why don't you have another
reaction because that's the reaction to make him reroll? What what did you use
your reaction for to make him reroll. Yeah, to turn back time the
reaction shield after what you're saying, Oh you were going to shield, I
was going to shield. Your ace is lower than eleven. It's nine.
Okay completely, I just missed that point. I think. Yeah, I
mean, I'm I don't have any armor, right, I'm not wearing armor
and I have minus one dexterity. That's why they have me jarm That's why
they worked on major armour all those years, all those majors. Okay,
then yeah, you're down, you are ko right now. It's just swarms
of these things rushing up thrack. As he's trying to beat at them.
There's like a moment where he blurs and sort of like he does this thing
every now and then where sometimes it's like he moves weirdly as he reverses time.
But yeah, they just swarm over him, rushing up and biting and
biting and biting until eventually you just see him collapse. Cyrus, you need
to row me a D twenty You need to do what time of day is
it right now? Rob me a D twenty four. It's that time of
day, okay, thirteen team, and then you throw damage for those rules.
It's ten in the night and at night. Yeah, who needs damage
or you haven't taken damage yet? Not for the baits, right, so
this one's Jillden. They're just the ten thrack. It doesn't matter, does
he. It's just the done so before, my dear, Yes, you
don't take nineteen is for the because the second role was a cryp. We've
only taken the first thirteen. This creature cannot attack next round. I don't
know why why these bugs become suddenly stunned by Cyrus. But Syrus, you
do like maybe you just like hit the broad side of your sword or something
at the snow and it covers these insects and they have to spend spend a
bit more time getting over it to get to you. But they basically skip
a turn. That swarm all right, Then we come to the top of
a round. Thrank give me a death saving throw. Yeah to those listening,
one of the swarms rolled the natural one. So Brad does a thing
where the person that they attack ralls a D twenty and that's the disavanas they
got. That's what's happened, tables. I've got one one failure from thrack.
I got a nine. Oh, actually, no, you're what got
you the insects or the centipedes. It was the insects. You are death
saves. Okay, all right, see here, it's your turn. All
right. Well, I hear from behind me, is this or force to
the ground, and I am going to attack things that attacked him to try
and stop him from being eaten alive by bugs or something. So I shall
turn to the insects, pull out my staff and start swinging as hardened as
fast as I can at these creatures. I'm going for the blue tagged insects.
Okay, okay, that is going to be a nineteen to hit.
Nineteen hits as seven points of bluddeling damage. Okay. I'm then going to
use my I believe it's called sorry, it's not called story, it's called
extra attack. There we go, and I'm going to swing at that same
creature again or seeing group of creatures again for we' thirteen to hit it.
Okay, for twelve points of bluddling damage. Okay, there's only three bugs
on the ground in front of you from that's right in that swarm. There
are only three bugs in front of me left. Okay, I am going
to again. It's almost like a hula hoop kind of situation. As I
throw the staff and it kind of like catches my waist and swings around.
And as I do, I'm going to do a flurry of blows unarmed on
these three creatures or at them for a as I expend a key point or
twenty to hit thirty twenty hits five point blodging damage. You take out the
last of these bugs. Okay. I am then going to out of well,
I'm gonna move this way, encouring a how would you say a opportunity
attack from the centerpiece if they would choose to nineteen nineteen hits okay, ten
points, they have a plus three to attack. Okay, just rolling everything.
I just really this roll twenty. This Roll twenty camp really likes me.
I wish I wish this was Kingmakers. You know that I would have
rolled on Aero fair, But it's not. I'm the GM and you're all
in danger. Okay, yes, what else? Worried? And I will
then use my final punch on these creatures here with an unarmed hit or ten
to hit and does not hit all right, wiggling around too much, but
you took out one swarm. It is Jilden's turn. Excellent. I grasped
my staff with both hands and jump up and slam my clawed feet down on
the ground as I cast thunder wave. And I'm going to upcast that level
of two, which is going to be a con save from both of these
one two, an eleven and A six both failures which mean three D eight
thunder damage. Okay, okay, wow, I'm such a good roles.
So it's eleven thunder damage and they're both pushed ten ft away from me.
Okay, nice, I'm going to bonus action healing word myself, healing word
yourself. Hm. Nice? Okay, do you want to move? Oh?
Yes, I will be oh and then I'm going to move here.
I'm going to hide behind so you're look fine, what's your problem? I
am bleeding, I look terrific. He doesn't look great either. He's been
bitten by there's like centipedes hanging off of him. Uh. Okay, it
is seriously turning. I think everyone looks rough. Fact, everyone's covered in
these bugs and are doing damage. Serious. Yes, your turn. Yeah,
I'm going to cast first beacon of hope, so it's the soos hope
and vitality choose any number of creatures. I'm going to choose all of us
for the duration. Each target has advantage on wisdom saving throws and death saving
throws, and regains the maximum number of hit points possible from any healing.
And then with my bonus action, I will cast healing word at level three.
So great, eight. Okay, wait what maximum? Hold on?
That is the maximum healing? Is the maximum? Yeah? You cast on
everyone though it's mass Yeah yeah, okay, yeah, it's on everyone.
Everyone gets eight healing, which most importantly works on thrank. You sort of
wake up on the ground, still covered in smack, but yeah, you're
prone and laying there. Yeah, let's see if they do want to eat
you or see it. Let's roller one D two one will be you.
Okay, you're lucky. They're going to bite seam. These ones will also
chase seer. These ones, I think, will chase your jildin. Okay,
and let's do some rolls. So center Pede's first, Centerpede's biting sea
Centipede's biting cyrus centipede, biting jildin. So twenty one for the ones biting
you, sere, I'm assuming that games. Yep, it's for eight piercing
damage and the ten and the seven on I'm getting missed the other two indeed,
so, and then we've got more bites coming in on sea from these
guys on a seven that's presumably a miss and then the other one trying to
bite cyrus on another natural one. Roll mere D twenty for the critical failed
consequences of their actions, which almost never makes sense for swarms, because it's
stuff like your weapon falls from your hands and stuff you stumble forward, giving
attacks of opportunity. So if you'd like to have a free attack on that
swarm of insects using your reaction, you can wait, I can Can I
do that right now? You may hold on. Oh, actually they don't
get a turn this turn, so that didn't happen at all. But I'm
going to let you have a free attack anyway, because I've got you all
excited, and I don't want to take that from you. The guilt,
the guilt, guilt's already in me alive. Literally, we don't have to,
okay, just playing a game of like reflecting guilt. I'm gonna I'm
gonna go for it. Yeah, because I'm a wor caster. When a
creature provokes an opportunity attack for me, I can use actually cast a spell
at the creature rather than making an opportunity attack. Yeah, so let me
just quickly take a look at the spells because I was I normally spend the
whole time preparing what I'm going to do for my next turn. Dang,
Okay, to heal the insects, yes, I was only preferred to heal
the insects. I'm gonna go with a guiding bolt, so yes, as
yeah, as you nothing the guiding belt, well, I think probably just
the snow explodes, but you know, if they're insects and they just turn
over and keep rushing forward, and it's just a horrible nightmarish experience. Okay,
Thrank, you are prone, but you are up. So okay,
I stand up and there are bugs everywhere? Yeah, I think, uh
ah, I I'll cast misty stab and get get the fuck out right,
Okay, Okay, Well I'll go there. Okay, is that it?
That's uh? And then now I'll move an additional I have fifteen movements we've
left. I'll go here, all right, So yeah, all right with
them not leaving, huh? I trust you? All right? I am
with all these creatures on me, just biting and digging in. I think
I'm going to take a deep breath, bring across my arms, take another
deep breath, and focus my key on all the puncture wounds and creatures on
me. I'm going to release shout and then use a pollusive body as I
gain three times my monk level in HP. So I go from seventeen to
thirty five with eighteen points of healing with a bonus action. I then assume
the ready stance, and I am now going to be in a patient defense,
making it so that their attacks are disadvantage on me. That's my turn.
Jilden, your turn. All after work and I exhale in a big
gust and you see another wind wall come out, and I shape it to
wrap all around us and get all of these insects in it. Now,
this is about fifty foot long and any shape I wish, so it's going
to hit all of these flying creatures cannot pass through the wall. But of
course they're in the wall right now, but they will need to do strength
saving through its Ryan does that include Cyrus? No, serious, it will
be around Cyrus. I just drew it terribly well. You have to do
it incredibly accurately otherwise Okay, that's the type of okay strength saves from the
centipedes first one, two, three, and then the insects eight, fourteen,
four four fail. They all fail. Actually know, the fourteen meets
the DC, so fourteen breaks it. Okay, so that's the you'll take
half as much damage. Yes, So I'll take half damage and then the
rest are going to take fifteen budgeting damage. Okay, I mean, yeah,
this does a lot of work. Kill this swarm of insects that are
near sea. This one takes seven, this one fifteen, and this one
takes fifteen. Okay, yeah, I mean they're all looking significantly reduced as
this wind wall just launches these insects. It's like a little tornader biting and
then having the time in my life. And then I will send another healing
word towards Cyrus, although this will come back and bite you in the ass
one day when I make an insect sharknado, and that can be bothered to
make an insect sharknado monster those six healing or Cyrus, Yeah, just sort
of absent mindedly. You see, a little thing comes through the windwall,
a little spark you look low in your heart? Do you just give yourself
over healing? Huh you have seven? Yeah? I know it's because my
maximum is thirty seven. But she's allowed. She's got a special thing on
her sheet that she gets racial bonus. That's how I always plays. Then
we've learned that lesson the hard way. Well, I learned that actually I
can't be hurt by bugs. Oh right, yeah, okay, it's your
can someone to see your team six? You just said serious? Your turn?
The bugs are? They they're like encased in a wall now, Uh?
Yeah, kind they're sort of a wall that all around you happen before.
Well, they can go through, but they wouldn't be able to go
back through the other way. And if song as they're in the same place,
then they will make bludgeoning They would take bludgeoning damage. Can I move
without taking an opportunity attack? Does it keep them from attacking me? If
I try to move or I don't think so, I shouldn't do it.
No, you'll still have to stay. If you stand still, you'll be
safe. But yeah, it doesn't. They're not immobilized or anything. They're
just kind of getting bad and thrown about, but they're still there. So
they can still fight. Okay, okay, yeah, I will cast guiding
Bolt again at which one here, I'll go for the green swarm of centipedes
guiding bolts, the range spell attack yes, yes, sorry, guiding bolts.
So if you cast a range spell, if you do anything range a
melee range, you have disadvantage. Disadvantage range spells, use them that range.
Uh? Can I go for the purple one then? Yes? Yeah?
Okay, purple Okay, I mean there's no way you don't kill these
guys. How does it look natural? Twenty? Yeah? I just I
just release my ice white guiding Bolt into them and it just obliterates them,
annihilates them like glitter in the air glitterpades. Let me write that down as
well, So bug shark nay down glitterpades. Okay, all right, anything
else? Uh? Yes, I'm going to to cast Healing Word on Gilden
two lovely. Oh, we're just still kind of exchanging. Remember that you
actually still get you still get maximum from this because my Beacon of Hope is
still going, so you get sorry, let me do that. Yeah,
it would be nice. Okay, Wait, do you get it from all
sources or just from you? Their heels. I think it's just from that
it literally says regains the maximum number of hit points possible from any healing.
That's ridiculous works retroactively for Jilden's thing if you get any more from that.
But yeah, yeah, I'm set. All right, Well, center piece
are going to try and bite yea natural one rom then they're going to try
and buy Cyrus. Six. They miss five means that the centipedes apply the
damage to themselves. Let's see if they destroy themselves yep, fifteen damage to
themselves. They're in a each other right, so they're just like getting torn
apart by that. Really, we're just going to say that's probably what happens
there, all right. This swarm of insects is going to try and bite
Cirrus as well on a nineteen versagi. It's a hit, yeah, hit,
you take thirteen piercing damages. These bugs they're just being like they're in
your hair and stuff because of the bug shark Nader. It's your turn,
DMS drink. It's one simple track. Thinking a potion is a bonus action,
right, yes, because there's no rogues in this game. Okay,
my role is that it's a bonus action unless there's a rogue, and because
rogues get that thing fast hands or whatever, and if everyone do stuff on
a bonus action, it just makes the rogue not be special. And I
don't think that's fair. Rules is written, it's an action, but like
most tables, make it a bonus. Yeah. I've always used it as
a bonus action, apart from if there's a rogue. So if anyone classes
into rogue, become my best friend rogue wizard. Okay, so I'm going
to drink my healing lick sair that I summoned a while back. It's two
D four plus two. Do I get all of that? So I have
the thing you would? Oh wait, hold on, then you have to
be a good question, but you can. What's the all? Yeah?
The range is thirty feet within range, choose any number of creatures within range
for the duration. Each target has advantage. But you were in the ring
this day. Yeah, yeah, so I think it should still work.
Yeah, I'm gonna say it. Does. I think that's fast? Okay,
okay, cool concentrations, Yeah, yes it is. Then, yeah,
I think that's fair. And then I'll cast uh, I'll do a
little fire ball biovolletball actually I just got hit. Mm hmm. I need
to do a concentration. This is the first time I got hit, so
sorry, let me just quickly check. Because warcaster also gives me advantage on
that, I believe. I think it does advantage. Yep, Okay,
seventeen, We're good, all right? Fire bolt? Fire bolt which one
ms out of my staff? Hit the centipedes. Okay, ardo seventeen hit,
seventeen six damage. There's one later, there's one center paid with a
shield. Surprisingly familiar. His name is His name is Jeremy, my family,
my brother. Yeah, there's a twenty name Jeremy. Cricket. Just
having thrown around, I run around the wind wall. There's one singular cricket,
and I'm gonna plant my stuff one singular cricket. There's seven insects there,
Okay, the one singular cricket. I plant my staff on the ground
and then like lift myself up flagpole and then bring both my legs together to
clap at it. I suppose I'll try and do that because it sounds funny.
One he's back, he's back. How many ones are you up to?
Zero? Because this is like my yeah, well, hasn't happened.
I miss I guess legs twist in the wind with the should have skipped leg
day boy with extra tech around. Yeah, did we see? This?
Is this embarrassing everyone? This is quite everyone. It's floating through the wind
like Avatar last with no death saying if I missed every attack and it hits
me back, all right, So I didn't let go the stuff and I
just arm strike. I mean, I'm going to follow your blowers and try
and clap it. Twenty three Have you seen Avengers endgame when Thanos goes to
like little Steve Rogers has the shield and he's like holding it up against Thanos,
and then Thanos just punches him in the head and knocks him out.
That's what just happened. There you were Thanos, and that was Captain Centipede
to make so but he put up a damn go fight. Really, what
was happening is you were trying to hit a centipede in which is in the
same past anyway, So when you know, when you spit chewing gum out
and you got to kick it, it's weirdly difficult. I have one extra
attack left my movement to go around and try and get Jeremy, that's what
I do than the planets done that before. You don't speak, you cheering,
gum out and then volley it. It might be a unique experience,
it would if you're brought up on FAIV like the boy all right, twelve
to hit on this other swarm twelve hits six points of blessing damage. Wow,
guess what that's what falls in front of him? Yeah, named Jeremy
Cricket. I don't even see as they're like, I don't even know who
you are, all right child? For years? Actually, I think they've
been training you since the since the previous dungeon where you kill the other insects.
You took everything from They raised the banners to get this insect the not
remembers. You can just go through this wall without any You can just drop
your own spell. You know that is also true. I will, but
I'm not going to for dramatic effect, because I too want to try and
smack a cricket flying through the air with an arms straight. You're now Thanos
walking through the wind wall. But you know when he appears through the or
whatever, Yeah, what do you do? How do you kill it?
My own wind and spear Jeremy Cricket on the bottom of your nail, through
his little tiny body, through his screen little little plaid jacket. Sheasy with
a claw and just eats it. Wow. Yeah, I mean that's what
happened. It's terrific. Everyone's injured. It was rough. That was the
roughest combat we've ever done. Absolutely insane. I'm really, I really really
don't know how to balance you guys. Yeah, I've got no idea of
my next character, like a rogue. You are a really weird party.
Thank you. It's really bizarre com approach too much. Alright, Let's see
if you can do a set of survival checks and make it the destination that
you're looking for. You got to get higher than a forty eight twenty one,
twenty seven, that's twenty four two nuts. Nice. Yes, I
assume you head over to the Yeah we do ruins. Yeah, you guys
finally sort of make your way across this mountain range and in sight once more
are these enormous sort of totem poles, ancient depictions of demons and giants carved
into absolutely gigantic stone columns. Most of them have fallen to ruin, but
there are many that are still standing, and a few of them are covered
in these glowing ruins giantish runs that seem to depict predominantly strength. And that's
where we're going to end our session. Thank you so much for watching,
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I have a horrible feeling you're going to go straight back to Hart's Tower.
Well after all those Yeah, we'll just quietly here over the horizon when
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and a tornado of creatures to add a bug nado to add into the random
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