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you going? Everybody's headed to the main chamber. There's someone in us all
there for like the tree ceremony thing. Oh dude, Like, I'll be
right there. I just needed to grab my rose quartz real quick. Oh
all right, I feel that, Like I like your vibe. I don't
want to harshit. So I'll see you there though, right, you're coming
right, one hundred percent. I'll be like right there, rad Agent Yellow,
come in, Agent Yellow. Hi. That I'm so glad we got
to use these code names even though we're like sisters. Can I like call
you Agent Purple because you call me Agent Yellow? Yeah, that's we're we're
on the job. So yeah, wow, it's like real. Okay,
So here's the update. So, like everyone went to dinner and they fucking
drugged those patches. It was crazy. Well that's a felony. Yeah,
it was wild. They so after that they were like going to meet up
the tree and it sounds like really intense. Wow. Okay, well,
thank you for the update. Yeah, like we should definitely be aware of
all that. Yes, I'm going to report this to the higher ups immediately.
This is extremely concerning. Yeah, it's crazy that, like not too
long ago they were like stealing staffs and stuff. They have like come a
long way. I feel you're right, maybe they're not like the baddiest that
we thought they were. I'll be the judge of that. Sounds good.
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Yes today's icebreaker, what has been your character's favorite moment from the last
year, What Up, It's you boy? Marceau Hardy playing Richard Cox,
the Human Consultants turned halfling Bard who holy believes it's better to be lucky than
good, but it's best to be both. Richard's favorite moment over the past
year has probably been just the amount of reference to soup. Just like all
of the things in the world that don't make sense, Why oh God,
I cannot I get good soup? That good soup. I'm sticking with it.
It's been soup. A lot of the foods that could exist in this
world. Why is every place we go to have soup? Marcelle's favorite thing
over the past year has just been all the time, Like when we do
the episode recaps, I feel like we have just so much fun with that
that focus just ten minutes of just coming up with some two minute long just
skit that we do. Yeah, Hello, my name is Anelin Hardy and
I played Taylor Jacobs, a centaur Barbarian with the heart of golds. So
my favorite moment of the podcast was when you introduced us to tour Or you
just committed to him like so deeply. I felt like I knew exactly who
he was the entire time and you didn't like break from him at all.
It was amazing. Yeah, my lady, yes, like when you were
like it actually hurts to do that through any Yeah, that was amazing,
and yeah, to echo what Marcel's saying. Like obviously, recording is really
fun, but also the circle backs on Patreon are super fun to record to.
Hi everyone, I'm Katie and I played Crystal the drow Druid with her
very own MLM Crystal Clarity sometimes and sometimes not hers. And my favorite moment
is the moment when we had a discussion on whether or not it was weird
to tie Crystal up. Oh my god, it's all fun and games till
someone breaks out zip ties breaks out zip. That is one of my favorite
ones, not only to have like to listen to on the like playbacks,
but also like I felt like I had the best time being the character that
everybody is everybody's problem, So that was a lot of fun. And also,
if you guys don't know, I'm the editor of the circle backs on
Patreon, so I enjoy listening to those so much. They're crazy. Hey,
I'm Marchie. I play Amy and Amanda a basic b ref and tumble
human fighter with a freshly minted dentistry degree. There are so many fun memories.
I'll give you Marjorie's fun memory of the campaign when Jimmy had his elaborate
plan to steal the staff they right off the bat, just out of the
gate, like he just committed to that. He had no idea what he
was doing. I loved it so much. I feel like that kind of
set the flavor for the rest. She's gonna do a bunch of dumb stuff
with no you know, not thinking through what it is we're trying to do.
Even so, I really enjoyed that. That was really fun. Hi
am Tyler. I played Bentley, the it balladin. And my favorite moment
I'm gonna give two, maybe three, I don't know. I can't really
decide what was his name again, Sundrop was a good moment. Yeah,
absolutely, uh negotiating to get everyone out of prison and then Richard being like,
no, not worth it. That was also pretty funny somehow, only
because we had to get reunited. I have another favorite moment that's a verb
for a combat encounter that hasn't happened yet, because we haven't had combat at
all this campaign. This is where I put my favorite moments been like three
rounds of combat. Okay, yeah, Crystal killed a bear, Taylor got
an arrow interrout and if you've been listening this long, you know who I
am. So my favorite moment. Oh man, there's been some really good
I mean, there's been some bangers, specifically, like you guys going to
the dark Web, splitting the party, one of you gets possessed by demon.
You begin fighting while all but with each other while also simultaneously avoiding a
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we last left off, you guys were the guests of honor for the Truth,
and you guys got to know the boss behind the orchard a little better.
You had some good food and you took a little nap, a non
contented, unplanned yep. And so as we open, gosh it, most
of y'all got rooffeed. You got rufio. You just got forcibly roofied instead
of subtly ruf we have spells put on us is overtly roofeed a roof food.
There's a difference. You ate the food too well, thank you?
I say Richard should wake up first, because this is not his first encounter
of oh interesting character. Yeah yeah, building up, you're going to be
a mut Maybe your metabolism so quick because you're so small. Maybe oh yeah,
all right, so we'll say it was one of those reasons. And
Richard, you wake up and it's cold and dark. Is it so dark
that I can't see? Or yeah, you can not? You can't.
I mean there's there's like faint hints of gray in the darkness, and you
hear the sound of water dripping and as you feel the floor of floor feels
very cold and very damp. What do you do? He starts waving his
arms to see if there's anything like close to him that he can touch,
and then he's gonna be like, is anybody else in here? Okay?
So as you reach around, you feel what appeared to be cold stone walls
and from his arm, Yeah, just on one side. Okay, I
was gonna say they put him in a So you reach out, you reach
out on one side and you feel a wall. You reach out on the
other side and you feel nothing. So if you continue like kind of walking
around feeling, you'd feel you're probably in about a like a five by eight
cell, okay, And act as you reach the front, you find you
feel the cold steel of metal bars. He starts shaking him. It's just
rattling. It rattles a little bit, but you don't really feel anything.
And as you call out into the darkness, need everyone to make a constitution
saving throw twenty five bitches ten sixteen. That was a nineteen plus three,
so twenty eighty two. Okay. So Taylor Jacobs, your eyes slowly crack
back open, and you feel very drowsy, but you also feel very very
cold. She wipes the drool off her face and five eight she so her
cell is gonna be a little bigger, just a little bit, Like that's
not much bigger. We're all separated, yes, oh no, and you
hear like almost like an echo, like a faint echo in the distance of
Richard saying, is anybody else here? Yeah, She's gonna yell back and
be like, Richard, where the fuck are we? And this does not
work appropriate. You hear a faint noise come back, but you can't really
make it out. Okay, hearing a noise, He's like, wait a
minute, we have something for this, and he's gonna try to use this
bracelet. Okay, So you touch your finger to the bracelet, you try
to reach Taylor. Taylor is the first person. He tries to read it.
Okay. So Taylor, you hear a faint buzzing sound in your head
and you it's kind of staticky, but you can hear Richard Taylor, are
you there? It's very dark in here. I can't see anything. Yes,
same. Has anyone else woken up yet? I don't think so.
We were fucking drugged this world in their drugs. I think we need to
keep making a lot of noise to try and wake everyone else up and then
maybe also get the attention of Mike Chef so we can figure out what he
wants and then get the hell out of here. That makes sense is it?
Is it dark way year? Can you hear anything? So, Taylor
Jacobs, as you look out, you can see a little bit more than
Richard can. And it appears that you're in some kind of a cave network
like these cells don't appear to be like in a building of some kind.
Okay, she's gonna communicate. Does she have her any weapons with her anymore?
You don't see any of your weapons. Does Richard still have the fanny
pack? The fanny peck is missing, Kenny Pattis pockets and things, and
see, yeah, you're you're pretty. Your cell phone is also missing.
Those sons of bitches? What are the buyers made out of steel? Iron?
It would probably iron. She wants to try and smash them down,
but she knows she'll hurt herselves. She's not going to She's just gonna make
a fuss, and then Richard's gonna be like, try to do what Aby
and did bed. Oh God, Bentley, since you roll the next highest
you startle awake. Oh your hands are still gripping, like you have your
weapons. I feel like Bentley always startles awake. Now and you jump up
and you basically since the same thing that you're in some kind of a cave
system, guessing I also, I'm not I don't actually have my weapons your
weapons like you you grip like your weapons because they were just in your hand
and you find there's nothing. Do I have anything on me? And your
armor is still on? Okay? Am I still wearing my necklace? Yes?
Okay, So I've got the dagger necklace, nice shanks somewhere all right,
pull that out, and I'm gonna like kind of like feel around.
You said there's bars, so I feel alsome? Feel the bars. Yeah,
I'm going to make an attack roll and a chant to to smite work
on the internet objects. Let's find out. Okay, while you're doing that,
amy An and Crystal, both of you wake up next. Oh what
the heck? So Crystal can see perfectly? Yes, so because she is,
and you two find yourself in the same cell. Oh okay, so
I don't see you? Is it because I lashed onto her? Maybe she's
so strong? Hello? Hello, hey hey Crystal, Amen, I'm next
to you. Oh okay, And like Crystals, like, why are you
you can't see? It's too dark? I can't is it like so dark?
It's very dark? Like like Crystal, you can barely see you have
a light? Is there? See? Huh? Is there a light?
Do you have a lighter or something? You know what? I can if
you want. I think I can question Mark. I wonder how we got
in here. Oh, I'm gonna catch Chief dance with us. We got
really did get this special? Oh? I'm sure this is just like part
of their like initiation. Like I'm not worried about it, but I would
like to see crystal crystals like the Sorority ones. All right, all right,
so I am going to cast What is your hold on? What is
your focus? What do you mean like your arcane focus? What do you
cast your spells through your sunglasses? Wasn't it? I think it is?
My susses? Are they on your head? Ye? Telly? Yes?
You check and they're not there? I want to say there? Uh?
Well, damn, Okay, I'm sorry. I was gonna see if I
could get us some lights, but apparently I'm being told by my d M
that I can't. I don't know. Are you still are you okay?
Crystal? You're talking nonsense? Are you still feeling drugged from? No?
I feel pretty great. Actually, I'm just like, I'm not worried this
seems okay. Oh oh okay super meadow. Well okay, well no door,
like, yeah, there's a door there. Okay, it's kind of
dim in here and here, but I hadn't show me to the door.
Maybe I can open it. So I'm going to take amy Ann over to
the door and let her see if she can open it. Yeah, so
what do I feel? So you feel iron bars? Okay? Any any
give it all a little bit? Okay, She's gonna try it as hard
as she can to figure out if she can. If it's a push our
pull then okay, so it's probably gonna be a push. Okay, she's
going to try push as hard as she can to try it. Okay,
open a strength or make me an athletics check twenty one does not budge.
This is really this is I don't think we're getting out the normal way,
Crystal. So this is this is on here tight. I'm sure if we
just wait, they'll probably start explaining so to us. It's not like I
don't understand, like if there's no need to freak out, they say,
like pretty cool people. I mean the food was really good. Are you
hurts all? Are you okay? No, I'm totally fine. I think
that they're just probably being like, you know, cautious, like, hey,
why would be too? Crystal did something like this for one of her
treats. We're gonna have really unplugged. Yeah, she read that shared trauma
was like a good bonding mechanism, and she's like, all these people are
gonna buy so much stuff from me if dressed them. Oh. I mean
that's the whole concept of an MLM is to really stress out of people that
you asked to buy. Anyway, moving on, that's okay, So can
I I want to pat down myself? Do I need I don't have any
weapons generally, But do I have my backpack anymore? Your missing? Okay?
Do I have all my my jewelry and stuff still on? Your jewelry
still on? Okay? So I have my brass knuckles? Then, oh,
make a slide of hand chick. We'll see if they found them wherever.
You don't know, I keep them on, like to go on slight
hand Checkkay, Okay, quick question, why they would Why would they take
my sunglasses? I'm stuck on that. You don't know. Maybe they just
really liked the look seven if they Okay, so you've realized that the brass
knuckles are gone. Bentley, all right, so I want to feel around.
Does the door move when I push on it? I mean it jiggles
a little bit? Is it? Is it like locked with like a chain
and a padlock? Or like, how's it now? It looks like it's
got an internal locking mechanism. It looks like it's got an internal locking mechanism.
All right, so I looked it up. Regular smite does nothing.
I have thunderous smite it. So would you allow me to try? You're
not thunderous smiting the door open? Damn it? Okay, okay, I'm
not going to I'm all for a rule of cool. But here's the deal
in the cell you're in, if you were to do that, you're also
going to be like permanently deaf for the next three episodes. Might be worth
it. We have the magic bracelets for a point talking yeahlet because he doesn't
realize how he's being So, yeah, you're you're not really getting anywhere there,
So we coult back to Richard. You doing anything else? Or what
do you? What are you? Richard is going to go back to his
three day, two day whatever, how long the weekend was training and tried
to cast some spells and they're not going to work because he had a cell
phone with him and that was his focus. And he's like, man,
I thought I really had this all right, Taylor Jacobs. Taylor's still making
a fuss. She's trying to get Mike Chef's attention. So she's just at
the door, like me ow exactly. She's like, are there any rocks
or anything? Okay, So what I'm gonna say is you don't find any
rocks, but everyone you faintly hear the sound of Taylor Jacob's like in the
distance, like yelling let me out. Oh no, do you hear that
Taylor? Oh yeah, she's probably freaking out, Hey Taylor, Taylor Taylor.
And she's like tapping her wrists like for that like friendship bracelet for Taylor.
She's like, Taylor, Taylor, Taylor, Taylor, Chris, this
is like it's this moment Crystal red list, the Taylor's cluster. Oh,
She's like, Taylor Taylor, It's fine. They're probably just like, you
know, making sure the word cool, Like it's fine, Christal, I
don't have any nose candy, not freaking out. It's fine. It's it's
fine. Just take some breaths. They're they're probably gonna let us out.
They're probably just making sure we're cool. Like this is probably oh cool.
I think we need to interpret this is them cool. This could be a
lot worse, like they could have done something really weird to our food instead
of just knocking us out. Like it's totally fine. Like you know,
like I've taken some girls on some retreats and this was part of the training,
so like I'm sure this is part of it, so it's totally fine.
Just take some deep breaths, do some meditation, revisit that rage room
experience that you had or don't. I'm not actually sure what happened there,
but like you just need to breathe, girl, Like it is okay.
Taylor's gonna like do the breathing thing, do the breathing thing. Yeah,
and then she just lets her inner rage just burn inside her way, Dare,
That's not what Crystal was open. She's controlling her rage. Hey,
that's a tech. You picked it up. You picked it up. Yeah,
okay, we're right there. And then and then like she's like,
okay, so we have Rachel's like we have Richard, and we have Bentley,
Amy, and you want to try talk to Bentley and I'll try and
talk to rich Yeah, Bentley, can you hear me? Are you here?
Okay? Can we join a conference call? Does this think conference call?
And she like grabs all of the beads all at once, and she's
like, everybody, yeah, they can all hear you? Oh sweet?
It does two conference call. Katie is grabbing her own wrist. The literal
interpretation of okay, okay, okay, guys, it's fine, We're all
fine, right, you're okay. Everybody's awake, right. I'm sure this
is like a this is just part of this like they're weird orientation thing.
We've been through weirder orientations. So Richard help, As y'all are having this
conversation, you all hear a loud click. Oh look, they're probably letting
us out now. See. I told you, guys, it was fine.
Freaking of the door as it's slows, keep behind me, Crystal behind
me opens itself. She does that. Yeah, okay, Taylor's gonna run
into the direction where she heard Richard. Okay, oh wait, are you
saying all the doors opened? Yeah? Okay, okay, yes o wait,
no, I can see. Well, then get behind okay, weeah,
I can't protect yeah, okay, okay you can. You'll just you
run into walls and stuff, and I'll tell you right before you get to
it, I'll put my hand on your back and like, okay, then
like you know, squeeze the shoulders, okay and all. So you all
are leaving yourselves. So as you step out into the corridor wall, sconces
light up faintly and produce dim light all the way down the corridors. You
see this what appears to be a cavern tunnel snaking its way through through the
ground. So because there's a dim light, now I can see perfectly fine.
Yes, so grab one of those sconces if I can know. These
are like built into the Yeah, Chris is like, I got this off.
Yeah, so you actually that's funny. You sap one off and it
immediately stops working. Throw it down. So Crystal just starts talking. She's
like perfectly calm, not worried about any of this. Yeah. She just
walks down the hallway like she's like, hey, guys, can you guys
And she starts like she's like, can you guys hear me? She's not
even she's not using the bracelets. She's like actually talking out loud, and
she's like, if you guys are in the hallway, like where I can
see, so if you just wait, I'll catch up to you guys.
And she's zero percent phase if they leave, she's fine with it if they
don't leave. So what is everyone doing? Can I see everyone? Though?
No? What I'll say is just for the sake of us not taking
like three hours for you to navigate navigate a tunnel, because you guys have
the bracelets still and you're able to like you're all awake, you guys are
able to meet up. Yeah, yeah, is going to be like all
right, So clearly these weren't working before when I thought they were working.
Yeah, we need to get our ship and leave because this dude is a
fiend a devil. So yeah, that's racist. I don't don't care what
he seems so nice, like this is just like nice when he's dead or
far away from us. So Richard seems like when you say devil, do
you mean like Matt Damon? No, like actual devil, not like want
to be a devil. I don't understand why would they do this to that
to my understanding, because I use my divine whatever since before he didn't ping
different kind of thing. This dude actually has an evil aura around him.
Seems like an actual devil. There's a voice that keep in my head and
said, oh he's a fiend. So we saw Matt Damon's face look like
a devil. Yeah, but apparently it's I don't know other rules. Okay,
it's just an ability that I've gained. You can trust me or not,
it's up to you. I mean I don't like either one of them,
So I mean, okay, so we got to find our stuff.
Apparently he's a different kind and I don't know, maybe it's more powerful.
Could you use that to figure out where he is so we can go get
our stuff back? I mean, it's got a range. It was like,
I mean, I can try. I guess i'd burn one more divine
since that's my third one out of my four that I have. Geez,
can we have a sense of how long it's been that we've been knocked out?
You're underground, so it could have been ten minutes, it could have
been hours. No need to take this offline overworked and underplayed. We'll circle
back after these messages, so I think, I mean, like, guys,
this is probably just an initiation thing, like it's we probably just have
to find her way to the end of this thing. They'll all be waiting
and they'll give us a weird like a weird glass of wine and light some
candles and it'll be fine, and then we'll be in Are you reading my
notes? No? So as you guys are walking, you hear what appears
to be chanting in the distance. Crystal was right on the move. Gristle's
like, see you, guys, I told you, and she just walks
straight down towards the chanting. You're gonna say something, yeah, Richard's that
can he conference called the three people that are not Crystal? Yes, a
conference com Like, guys, Like, I think she's like delusional again,
Like I think this is her just trying to accept things she's drink. That's
a good point, Richard. Maybe we should just go with the flow because
it seems like there's probably only one way out of here anyway, and she
she seems pretty relaxed. So I don't know, that's kind of the opposite
of what I was going with. But sure, okay, oh oh okay,
Well what should we do Richard, guys, I Like Crystal's walking off
and she notices that they haven't come with her. She's like, they're all
looking at each other, staring intently and not saying anything, and she like
picks up her bracelet. She's like, come on, like, let's go.
It's fine, Like it is totally, but what if it's not Crystal?
What do we have to lose? We're in a tunnel underground, Like
what else are we supposed to go back the way we came from? It?
Out in the stuff to go? Yeah, it's fine, Like we'll
just go. They'll give it. Like I said, it's probably like Boom's
farm that they're gonna hand us. They're gonna have some wine, and they're
probably gonna be dressing cloaks. It's probably like again, it's probably just like
some sort of weird and is she a ship? It's probably fine, we'll
go. I'll stab him, we'll get our ship back and leave. What
are you gonna sab him with him? Oh? You have a dagger?
Yeah? Oh so so Taylor is gonna be like to only Bentley like I'm
gonna help you get close enough? Okay, cool. Crystal's walking Richard is
defeated and follows, all right, So so Crystal and Richard, since y'all
are at the front, You, guys, fine, at the end of
this corridor, you do see light in the distance, and you see a
table with five robes on it, including one that is exceptionally large, like
it looks like it was stitched together at the last second. What are the
robes look like? It's just like a white linen robe. See, guys,
I told you. She walks up, she takes a robe, she
puts it on. Is there any way to like test these to see if
there's something wrong with them? I mean, you can detect magic on them
if you have that. I don't. Crystal does, but she literally is
not bothered. Yeah, because Crystal psychopath. So you look for any kind
of written like weirdness. I mean you look that it's just basic linen's.
So you guys put them on. No, Crystal does, but I drape
it over my arm. Okay. So as you guys get closer and closer,
you hear a large number of people in the room chanting. Taylor throw
back off opposite paper. Taylor takes her off and puts hers on. Crystal
continues walking away. Do we see the people chanting? You don't see them
yet, does Crystal? I mean that's just Crystal. You're getting closer,
right, So, so Taylor is not going to do this to make her
client happy. Here's more important? Who's more important? The clients? Or
then you found friendship you have with bit that that is really good at least
you believe and right, well, you see friend I think that she's starting
to become more of her own person. So I think also she thinks that
we're probably gonna die here, so I think she's gonna try and resist.
So as you guys enter the room, you find this massive chamber and you
see lots of seats like almost like balconies with like probably about one hundred members
of the orchard like all sitting there and chanting, and they appear to be
channeling some kind of magical energy. Oh, guys, this is where we
get our spirit names. And you see at the very back of the room
logs a massive tree that is growing up out of this cavern and appears to
be like breaking through to the surface. And you see as there's moonlight filtering
down around the trunk of the tree down into this cavern. And like right
at the very front of it, you see a podium and Mike Cheff is
standing at the post. In front of it is a table with all of
you guys weapons and other items. Taylor's gonna sprint to the table. Can
Crystal try and stop her in the like like put her hand out just so.
She's like, just like just be cool and just wall you can try
so make a persuasion chick. She's just asking her to be cool, just
like not that's a good one with advantage because you are Crystal and you are
asking Taylor. I feel like that's like Taylor's dream is for Crystal to be
needing her to do something. I don't know because she's I mean, you're
like a fangirl, right. That one was a bus, but you gotta
do what you gotta do. And yeah all and as fury as much also
a bus and she didn't work. Well what did you get? It was
eight? Okay, I will say if she made it an emotional like if
they made eye contact and junk, Taylor probably is like, okay, just
like slow down. I'm not asking you to not go to the table.
I'm just like, be cool. This is like a moment like we're in
a moment. Yeah, this is the moment before we get fucking annihilated by
these people. I'm pretty sure they're just asking you to join their club.
Yeah, it's called fucking cold and they drugged us and put us in prison.
We don't have to believe the great Welcome friends, As Mike Chef addresses
you as he notices you've walked into the main chamber, thank you for joining
us on this most joyous occasion. You're welcome the Devil's friends. I don't
know, won't you ask one. He's gonna say whatever he needs. Mike
Chef's just going to ignore that, he says. He says, all of
you are gathered here today to witness these five travelers who have a decision get
married, inspiration, try to get you to wear white. Know he's going
to marry all. It's just maybe they're just really into polygamy when they're all
married to Mike, so he says. Crystal is less excited about this.
He says, step forward. I mean you wanted to be a real housewife.
Oh true, that's why he asked you what your treat was. I
already knew you just wanted to be Okay, so what Crystal's attentions back on?
So mister Mike Mike Cheff says, step forward, my new acolytes,
and make your decision. Do you wish to learn who you truly are or
do you wish to cling to these artificial trappings surrounding you? Now. Crystal
steps forward immediately and is like, yeah, how close is he at the
table? So he's probably about fifteen feet from the table. She also knows
she needs her sunglasses back and she sees them on the table, so she
steps up. Okay, she steps up. She doesn't also like, you
can say yes to joining a cult. I'm sure that in like the like
in the human world, you know, like joining and cold, there's no
like actual contracts. You can leave it anytime except for all the peer pressure
and emotional trauma that you are given in this one. I don't know,
Like there may be some more, but that's all she's thinking she's signing up
for, is like she could just bail it anytime. That's awesome. So
Richard is just gonna ask. So you're saying, we can either take one
of these white robes or we can get our stuff back, Like we don't.
It's either or I thought we'd get them both back. That's why Richard's
asking, Oh, yes, you must discard all that makes this current husk
you to become the new you. But what I need so the better us
can't have the old stuff, you must. What's gonna happen to our stuff
if we joined the colt and he points over to like a giant furnace.
Yeah, He's like, we throw it all in the furnace. He's like
slowly making his way over to the table. Taylor's just gonna straight up and
be like, I don't think that this whole thing is for me, but
thank you for the invite. Do you have a pamphlet? Yes? Do
you have any reading material for a CA? Can we? Because last time
I should have asked for a pamphlet and I didn't. So I want to
see if Mike Chef turned someone because did you not give them the pamphlet you
were supposed to? I specifically I said trifold pamphlets. It's not that I'm
so sorry we did not get the pamphlets to you in time. Do you
have any further questions? Well, I'm not going to make any decisions before
I read the pamphlet. I have all my good toothbrushes in there. I
don't want you to burn it. Make a persuasion check. Yeah, I
need my sunglasses. They're a medical requirement. Can I get an accommodation sixteen?
Go get the damn pamphlets? Can you see a stairwell behind the tree
that goes up and then you see light coming from it, so you would
assume that's the way in and out of here? And he says, well,
while we're waiting, so again, my sunglasses are a prescription, so
I need them like medically, like they are a requirement that I have,
and so I can see Can I have those back? Fine? Take your
sunglasses? Awesome, thank you. She just puts them right on her forehead,
like are right on the top of her head. She doesn't put them
up. Is anyone else doing anything? Yeah, I'm still making my way
towards the table. Yeah, I'm gonna how long? So I would say,
you get about five feet from the table and he says, oh,
hold on, friend, what's your decision. I'm gonna turn to him and
look at him and be like this, and I'm gonna throw my bag.
I was gonna see that bookt also support. Okay, Crystal is very shocked.
I need everyone to roll initiative. I got a natural twenty B nice,
that's appropriate. Okay, anybody have a twenty or higher? Okay?
So Taylor Jacobs is at the top. Does anybody have a fifteen to nineteen?
Are they seventeen? Does anybody have a ten to fifteen? What do
y'all have? Eleven? Who wants to go? You want me? What
do you want to let me go? Okay? Amen? All right?
And then what did Crystal get? Poor? Perfect? So you're going it
doesn't make sense. That's why I didn't like try and burn anything, because
I'm like, she doesn't want to do this anyway. Okay. So Bentley,
because you are starting the whole thing off. Nice, you are going
to be the only one acting during the surprised round. Okay, so go
ahead. What is your action? So my bonus action? First? My
bonus action? First? No, you started this by saying you're throwing,
Well, are in the action of throwing your dad? Hundreds of people watching
this go down? Can I cast a spell to empower the dagger? IM
sure? All right, I'm going to bone it. It's a bonus action
spell. It's divine favor. It doesn't work nicoponas be on verbal and semastic.
Okay, So what it does is it's concentration up to a minute.
My attacksteal an extra one D four radio Okay, you track that? Yeah
cool, And I'm gonna do an attack roll by throwing the dagger, which
I think uses dexterity. Yeah, which isn't good. So I might miss
by a mile. That's what the omen dies are for. Ooh yeah,
can I burn an omen dice and try and get this to hit? Sure?
Just for the memes. Oh this is great. Y'all go into a
combat encounter and have four bad omens. It's fine. So yeah, that's
on eleven. But I have a minus two decks, so that's a nine
and so so yeah, no that is a deck very far. Okay.
So you throw your dagger and because it's on a chain like is it's on
a necklace, it just flings like it flies right past Mike Cheff and like
buries itself into the bark of the tree and you hear all the cult is
stop and just that might have been that and Mike Mike. You notice though
that Mike didn't even flinch. Yeah, of course he didn't, and he
said because he knew I was gonna miss. He said, well, that's
not a very nice thing to do there, now, is it. Friend.
I don't make a habit of being friends with devils that drug me,
or sorry not drug me, cast spells on me to put me to sleep.
So the way surprised order works, everyone has the surprised condition. So
we go all the way to the bottom and then back up to the top.
Taylor Jacobs, Oh, are you doing anything else with your turn?
You still have movement and free action? Yeah, I want to move over
towards the table that way. I probably can't free action grab my two weapons,
so I'll have to do that next year. I mean, you can
interact with an object with one object. Oh, so I'll free action grab
the sword with my holy symbol one. So you go to grab the sword
and your hand goes right through the table. Oh fucking hell, your weapons
are not right there. I'm guessing I can't look, but you noticed at
the other table with all the other eye are still like in place, so
it looks like it was just your weapons that were alorsory. Of course,
I want you to make a perception check, Okay, and then Taylor Jacobs,
it is your turn. She's gonna find you a rage okay, and
try and tackle him to the ground. That's a thirteen okay. So at
thirteen you quickly scan the room and you see the rack with your weapons is
over by the furnace, which is about twenty five feet away. Cool.
Wow, he fully expected Bentley to go for it. Yeah, he's he
was pretty onto Bentley because his ping did let him know that Bentley was like
Bentley was hunting him. So, uh, he looks. He's like,
you think this is my first rodio but your last. Yeah, Taylor,
you charge the horse girl is a yeah. So you charge. So I'm
gonna say, because you're charging and you're gonna tackle, I'm going to give
you an attack with advantage cause she's so large, right, yes, because
she went into a rage, so she grew. Also, I was joking,
okay, so eleven. So then he's gonna try he's gonna also oppose
it with athletics, and he got more than an eleven. And so you
like charge him and as you get and you like wrap up on him.
He is very sturdy. Fine, And he said, miss Jacobs, I
thought we were gonna be friends. She's just gonna be like, you're not
my work friend. All right, Bentley, it is now your turn again.
Cool. Bentley's gonna I have thirty feet of movements I guess twenty five
feet over to the weapons rack. Yeah, and the the cultists are all
just kind of standing around because they're like, uh, normally, normally people
are really chill like, and they're kind of scared of you right now because
you just threw a dagger like the tree. Yeah, they didn't realize I
was aiming at him. Yeah, they think you just hate the tree.
Fuck nature. So you grab your are you gonna? Yeah, I'm gonna
run over and grab my weapons. Okay. Now I'll just burn a full
action to grab them, Okay, and then I'll spend five feet him all
right, so amyen, Okay, I'm gonna go get my stuff and put
my brass knuckles on. So that's my action. I'm gonna say that that
is because that's I mean, it is two pieces, but it's one object.
That's a free action. I'm gonna put those on and see what is
happening with Taylor, and it's like, oh, let me help. I'm
gonna say you have enough movement, you could get within melee range. Okay,
I'm gonna do that, and I'm gonna try to clock them. Okay,
so make an attack. Roll fourteen. So you swing and you make
direct contact with his face. Yeah, and your hand kind of hurts.
And he says you too, Miss Amyen. I thought we had something specter.
We do, but you need to get your business model together. You
can't even hand out some pamphlets. That's what you're attacking. Said that he's
Richard. Yeah, don't forget Amyen's pamphlet. Richard is now your turn now.
Picture dentistry office is just covered in pamphlets. It is not even just
her business. She's got like other businesses in there, like say Chinese food.
Well this is new just because the last time, you know, they
didn't want to about anything. Yeah. Yeah, did you not take any
damage? No? Okay, fourteen didn't take damage. Yeah. Realistically,
this is not the fight we're gonna win. But that's what Bentley would do.
Richard is going to move to get his things, Okay, So he's
gonna, you know, get his fanny pack, get his cell phone.
I don't know what other items I have been stolen from him. But he's
gonna get all of his stuff. Okay, he should get the dragon radar.
Yeah, all the stuff that Richard had, which the regiment dragon radar
should have been in. I guess that would have been in a pocket.
Yes, he's definitely getting the dragon radar. Okay. And so yeah,
so that's what he's gonna do. He's going to see if the if the
thing is in the room with us. Okay. So you look at the
palm pilot. A hand appears almost like a hologram, and points directly at
the tree, and you see a little section of the tree where it's been
carved out, and you see levitating in that space what appears to be a
light bulb for a projector. If Richard has any movement, laugh of his
twenty five, he's going to make his way towards the tree. Okay,
are you doing it overtly or covertly? Hey, he's gonna do it covertly.
Okay, make a stealth check. Bentley is gonna like come on on
the radio. And then it is his turn. Okay, So stealth is
a sixteen. So you start making your way skulking over to the tree.
It is now his turn. He is going to activate one of his abilities,
and I need all of you to make a wisdom saving throw sixteen thirteen
eighteen Richard got an eight twenty six. So you see as he closes his
eyes, as you guys are like all around him, closes his eyes and
he goes, m Yeah, that'll do. And you see as he as
he begins into it. You see as his form begins to shift, and
you see his legs protrude from his back and he begins turning into what appears
to be a giant spider. Cool. Believe you guys, you now have
the frightened condition. I can't willingly walk towards him. And now Crystal,
it is your turn, as you just watched the cult leaders morph into a
spider. Yeah, but spiders are nice in this universe, the ones that
you've interacted with. Yeah, I forgot to attack. No, that's fine,
I think. Wow. Okay, well that doesn't matter because Taylor Jacobs
does a ten hit. No, Amy Ann does a thirteen hit, does
not Okay? So he throws two of his spidery legs at you, and
you just barely are able to dodge both of them. Both of you are
able to dodge them, it would be a lot cooler for me. I
just blocked it with her brest. She didn't even flench it, like sure,
we'll say amy An like used her used her brass knuckle to block the
spiders like sweep. Can Taylor have spun around and stopped it with one of
her back Sure you gotta animate it up right? Yeah? Sure? And
then Crystal it is now your turn, like She's so frustrated and confused.
She's like, this did not have to be this way, guys, like
it did not. She's gonna start fighting us, start fighting you, guys,
but she is gonna blame me. She wants to side with the spider
demon. She kind of devil. Not a deal. Actually, I don't
know if we know what it is. I don't know. I don't know
what if anyway, Sorry, go ahead, Knie. So Crystal's gonna pick
up her little staff that she carries because she really just wanted our sunglasses,
but the staff is kind of important too, and she does she notice Richard
moved towards the tree because Richard didn't actually attack. Make a perception writer,
Okay, what did you roll for stealth? I think I was a sixteen
that sounds right, so he could be a demon or a devil. The
comment section is going to flame us if we get that wrong. But yeah,
that's a twenty. Yeah, so you definitely see Richard like low,
like like he hunches down and he's like slowly making his way over to the
tree. If you listen in to Richard's mind, like with the bracelet whatever,
it's like when Kronk from Emperor's New Groove back of his mind. Yeah.
So, since she doesn't really want to be involved in this now because
it was cool and now it's not, she he's gonna slowly like she's gonna
notice Richard, And since she doesn't really want to attack and it didn't go
out for the last couple of times she tried it, she's gonna follow Richard,
okay kind of, and she's like going to back out of the situation.
She's gonna she's gonna go slowly, and she's gonna go kind of not
sneakily, but like she's not trying to draw attention to ok that's fine,
So you're gonna do that. And since you rolled high enough on your perception
check, as his focus has turned to this encounter, you notice more and
more of the cultists are disappearing from the stands, like disappearing as in like
poof, or disappearing as in like like leaning like like they're like they're they're
disappearing and like dissipating. Okay, she's getting more and more alarmed with the
situation. She's not like she's she's starting to realize that this is not a
good situation and not not a cool fun club she could join to make some
extra money. She thought it was a pyramid scheme, but really it was
and it actually was a cult and she's starting to realize that. So she
is going to yeah, she's got a conference, Colin, and she's going
to be like, hey, guys, I didn't want to believe you at
first, but like all the people are disappearing from this stance, so I
think we should leave. I think we should leave. Yeah, let's leave.
That would need to get what we came for. Her still great,
Crystal like, So she says that as as you and Taylor, as Amy
and and Taylor basically are holding spider legs in their christ is going to use
her entire movement speed to catch up to Richard, and you're trying not to
draw attention to yourself. Correct, Okay, I need you to make a
stealth check. That's when they never roll. I'm going to burn my inspiration.
Richard did so good. I'm about to screa you over. No,
no, no, okay, I thought it was an that one. No,
it would have just been a twelve. So what's your stealth? My
stealth is plustery, So it's actually a seven. Okay. So you take
off and you're making a lot of noise as you do, and I then
I because like, he'll have to notice me before I catch up to Richard
Ben So Mike Chef with all his spider eyes, turns and he sees you,
and he's like, where does she go? I don't know, And
out of the corner of his eye, out of one of his eyes,
he turns and he goes, where are you off to, my little friend,
looking right at Richard. A gratitude to day keeps the haters away.
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gonna keep my clothes on. Yeah you should. I still can see you
if you undressed.