Beneath Dark Wings | Ep. 10 | Maze of Mysteries: Part 2
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Hey man, welcome to Legends of Adventress. I'm Toa Komonui and you're listening to Beneath Thark Wings. Here's basically what happened last time. You notice that there seems to be very subtle, but the remains of some kind of foul rot pestilence or disease. Iris, this isn't good.

Why is that, darling? This is necromancy. So you're not coming along? No, absolutely. I ain't doing this, Andrew. I don't care how sneaky I am. They're gonna take one look at me and screw me up. And old Hornhardt and I had a good talk-for-talk. We lost lots of good men and women yesterday. And I would like to...

Offer a token to each of you of my sense that may be able to help. Do you have any idea, Homeheart, what the fuck is happening out there? And I've seen what the Horned Legion is doing. I know where they're going. They're heading to Zintra. If you find...

Any other members of the 13th Order, please make sure that our land and our world is safe. Is that the name of the order? You had kept that secret up until this point? Yes. You see the road and you see marching regiments of Korvahim. Three weeks are going to pass. Oh. This is the place. Whatever's in there.

it's gonna hold a lot of answers and you see a long dark tunnel and you hear lo chanting a close figure but on his head is looks like a dead bullhead oh gross the horned king gains the power of flame the ashen bull gains an army zentra will fall

The dark prodigy will fall. Malibuls will be ours. The sacrifices bring fire. Raise your weapons, brother. They're all raising their weapons. And as they're saying, the sacrifices in this labyrinth bring fire. They bring fire. And then you start to raise their weapons. And as you kind of see that there's a flame kind of licking around it. Is it just these four creatures? Just those, yeah. Oh.

Do they all look like bullmen or like they all just look like bullmen? Oh, apologies, apologies. And then beneath him are three heavily armored guardsmen of some kind. And with these large weapons and large shields on each of their shields is the same symbol of the knotted effigy with the crown with the horns. And on painted behind him is that same symbol.

As you start to see that there's now, there's torches, all of this, and they don't know this yet, but you are facing this speaker. Is it a humanoid with a bull's head on? Yes. Okay. Yes. They all seem to be humans. The three humans seem to be humanoids just wearing helmets that are shaped like bulls. And this speaker, this mouth of this god or whatever, is wearing an actual dead bull head on his head.

Hey, guys, he just said some crazy shit. Do you mind if I kind of fuck with this? Are you guys ready for some combat here? I suppose now or never. We need to stop them, whatever they're doing. One second. Divine Sense again. Is it going to clang my shield if I try to cast it? If I'm presenting my holy symbol? I would say if you're trying to do something, like there'll be some light and try to make a sleight of hand check, if you want to do a stealth attack.

But it is something that... I mean, it's a sense. You open your awareness to detect such forces until the end of your next turn. You know the location of any celestial feet are undead within 60 feet of you. That's not behind you. Well, I would say either way, you don't notice anything. Okay. And any place or object that's been consecrated or desecrated, do I feel like it's a really... By DSL.

As with the hollow spell, so it doesn't have to be necessarily hollow, but she's... Yeah, no, I don't think there's any desecrated. Okay. You're getting a sense that this whole place is pretty profane, but there's no specific sense of anything that's especially profane. Do you want me to go with you?

We're not I'm not going anywhere. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna cast a quick spell and see if it goes right if not then listen Let's just all just go in there and and and pokey pokey stab stab. I'll get you back You actually would notice something there is an altar that's built around this platform that has these rusty crowns and Skulls and weapons and iron weapons and you see a large glade on one side

Was it an actual glaive or just like a drawing of a glaive? No, no. On this altar that you remember that they're having weapons and crowns and like remnants of body parts and stuff. Yeah. On the altar that you had seen in Miss Crow's Crossing. Oh, okay. So this is a similar thing. So not like the drawing. Yes. Okay. Yes, exactly. And they seem to be referencing something going on in this labyrinth that's bringing fire. Okay.

Alright everybody, hold on to your butts. I will cast enemies abound, third level enchantment on the primary dude right here. He has to make an intelligent save, a DC 16. And then hold your breath. He gets a 12. He automatically succeeds if he's immune to being frightened. I don't think he is.

He's not. Outstanding. On a failure, the target regards all creatures it can see as enemies. Each time the target takes damage, it can repeat this save. He chooses targets at random, but he now regards the three people in front of him as enemies. I lean forward, and I just very quickly, to use my magic, I pull my viola out. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Ha ha!

Nokia. Hello, Motto. That's awesome. I love that. Oh, Derek. Perfect. Are we each able to do something since they haven't seen us yet? Or is it kind of the one-off thing? I think I just did something horrible. We'll see. And they all turn to you. Fucking Jurassic Park.

all the rafters. And all of a sudden, there's this scent that washes over him and he looks down at the three figures and all of their swords have now ignited from this chanting and the things that are going on in this labyrinth. And he looks down with fear and he says, oh, no! And he casts a spell on all three of them. And you see all of these dancing lights erupt out of his hand and they all look around like, huh? And then I'm going to make some saves. His gaze is fogged.

Yeah! Yeah, Derek! I love lards. Are you doing the running man? Oh, I love firehouse. Are you doing the running man as Caprice right now? Yeah, in the reality of this world, I'm doing the like... So, they...

they all get completely incapacitated and fall to the ground with the not a pattern. And he looks and he's like, oh, and he looks at you, oh, you've done this. And then I need to roll for initiative. Yeah, get advantage.

- That was okay. - Jesus Christ. - I guess that's it. - Oh well. - Terrible initiative. - 23. - I'll take one, yeah, thank you, I appreciate it. Thank you for thinking of me. - 15. - Oh, let's see.

- Felix, what do you got? - I tied with Hersha, so I will go first if Hersha's not back, and if she's back in time, I'll go first. - What did you get? - 11. - 11? You got an 11, which puts you above Felix. - Oh, really? - Yeah, Hersha and I both got 10s. - Oh, fantastic.

So, as this bull-headed creature, he looks at you and he says, You have done this! You are interrupting our... Only you can understand this. You have interrupted our ritual and you have turned these non-believers! And he is going to try to attack you. Toa, what are you doing?

I am going to run my full movement, which is... Who brought one of these assholes? 40 feet. So, 1, 2, 3... I'm sorry, you're like right here, I can let you move, sorry. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Hands off. And I'm going to... Just give me one second here, let me just check my features. What did you order my minis? And incapacitate until someone hits them. Right. What did you get for initiative, Jack? 11. Oh, gotcha.

I am going to pull out my boomerang and-- At the main guy? Yes. I'm not-- I have a plus six to it, and I just rolled a five. 21? 21? Oh, that hits, yeah. Four plus three is seven.

Okay. And so I think that clatters to the ground. It does. So you run up and you see these creatures, they're all holding their swords and their incapacity, their swords are still flaming but they're on the ground as their eyes are rolling around and you pull out your boomerang and it flies and hits him in the head, the bull head on his head starts to rattle a little bit. And all checkered jam on Adam.

How much damage was that? Oh, sorry, four, seven damage. Seven damage. Okay, and then you pull out a javelin to check in. Ooh, almost was good. That would be a 12. 12? 12 does not hit. Okay. Monsters 1. What are you rolling in your boomerang, by the way? 20 or something. Okay, cool. It is a monsters 1, sir. These are the ones I cast a spell on? Yeah, no, these are the incapacitators. Very good.

Let me see how we can. - Just making sure we're all doing what's right. - Do what's right. - No, they don't want us to make the save, so they are just. And with that, it's Lifty's turn. - Oh, it's my turn. I am going to run up. What is my movement? My movement is 40. - 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35. - So you can get to one of those two. I don't wanna hit them though.

- Do we know that hitting them would be bad? - Yeah, you said that they're something until they're all- - But that's metanol. - Oh. - You don't know that unless you would be familiar with the effect.

Which I guess I wouldn't. Right, so I think it's a question of would you hit the guy on the ground? If there's a guy who's literally paralyzed on the ground, would you think, "Oh, I should hit that guy." That's your question to yourself. So then just act how you want. So then I would move to one back then. I would kind of move up behind Jude and be like, "Ooh!" You go, "Ooh!" As you run up behind Iris. Not Felix, don't. Oh, Iris. Are you going to do an action or anything? Dash or anything?

Yeah. Okay. I would look at Caprice. What do you want me to do? Well, don't hit the main guy. Whenever he takes damage, he might snap out of it. I just wanted him to fuck up the guys in the front. Do you want me to attack them? I mean, if we think they're evil, go for it.

Okay, I'm gonna cast Toll the Dead. I'm gonna move forward a little bit and cast Toll the Dead on number two. The one that's over here, close to the wall. This is more forward enough than your mini-tower fucking brain. Yeah, I believe it's 60 feet. Holy shit, good for you. It's so dry. It's a Wisdom save. It's okay. It's okay. It is a Wisdom save. So we're in combat, and he is handling... So it'd be 2d8. ...capacitated before all three guys.

Hey, that's me all the time. Yeah. Yeah. I feel you. We just bought a humidifier. It's helped a lot. Oh, that's so good. 11 points of damage. 11 points of damage. Number two. It's been ages since that's happened to me. I'm sorry. You guys hear the gong of Anubis's toll the dead. It wrecks his brain, snapping him out of the hypnotic ability. Which one? Number two. Number two.

as he, and he starts to get, uh, right himself. We gotta kill these guys fast. Um, okay. Uh,

it's his turn. So he is going to... He has to make a target by random. This is the last minute that I cast on him. Number one? Yes. Whenever the creature chooses a target, it must choose at random from among the creatures it can see within range. If an enemy provokes an opportunity attack, the creature must make that attack. Okay, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. It's all roll the eight. There should be nine of us.

But he can't see Felix. Oh. He sees Toa. Oh, not Toa. He looks at you and he says, he says, you are not worthy. You are not worthy.

For the cult of the Horned King! And you need to make a saving throw. Me? Yes. I just want to roll a 20 for him. Two is saving throws, actually. He's going to do it twice. I'll just hear. Eight. What kind of saving throw is that? Eight, which is probably a fail. So it's eight and ten, plus two on each, so twelve and ten. Twelve and ten? Okay. Move. Sorry, buddy.

Oh no, I'm good. Oh, I think you're right. No, I shouldn't have given it to him. Sorry. That's gonna be 13 points of psychic damage. Okay. Oh, I'll mark it. 13 points of psychic damage is you feel the knowledge back in your brain. And because he has no allies, he's not gonna use all those cool buff shits that I had planned. Okay.

- It's like the kind of thing. Appreciate it, buddy. Hey, I'm gonna go into the corner. - Which corner? - As quickly as I can back for it. - Oh, this far? - Yeah, yeah. - Got it. - If I can reach that far. - Yeah, that's all right. - Okay, that's pretty good. I will flunk number two with a hand crossbow attack. - Yeah, 'cause he's the one at the top, right? - Yes, you will. - Number two is the hand crossbow. - That had 100% hits. That's gonna be a 23. To number two.

Yeah. Okay, so I'm gonna give him order. Sorry, 25. Yeah, it hits. And then that's going to be eight piercing damage to him. Okay. You fire off your hand crossbow and it gets him in there. And he's still on the ground. Right. And... For my...

- Shit, okay, that's great. I shouldn't care about that too much. I need to mark down the crossbows bolts that I use. - You don't need to mark them. - I turn to Toa and I'm like, "Sorry about that, big guy. "You got this, buddy, though. "I believe in you." And I'll give him an inspiration. - Okay, you do that. - Number 13 damage, one inspiration. - Yeah, 13 damage, one inspiration. - I have 13 and I have inspiration right here. - Okay, Felix drop.

I'm gonna move 5, 10, 15, 20 and then I'm going to firebolt number one. I'm gonna move pretty much next to Caprice so I can get the line of sight on him. It's 120 feet so I should be good to go. Hey buddy. It's a plus eight for hit.

Oh, nine, so 17. 17 on the... Number one, the big boss man. That's going to be 2d10, I think, and that's it. On hit takes 1d10. Sorry, I'm not used to playing my wizard. I think these are 10s, these are 10s. Yeah, just 2d10.

- Ugh, four. - Three. - No cards of damage. - Oof. - Uh, Felix, you reach in and grab your dagger. - I don't think so. - And a what? - It's just, I thought it was-- - He was asking plus anything, I think it's just two d10. - Firebolt, yeah, it's-- - It's a cantra. - Yeah, you shoot the bolts out. - He makes another intelligence save against the DCs. - Bang bang! - To see if he loses the-- - There's a name that you have one inspiration. - Oh, sweet. Another intelligence saving, huh? - Mm-hmm. - He gets a 14. - He fails. - Okay. - So he still regards everyone as an enemy. - Yeah, okay, cool. - With that, it's Ernest's turn.

I didn't get your message about not attacking him. I yelled it out loud. Yeah. How far am I? Do you know that, though? I mean, like, as your character, are you aware of what that spell does? It's not his spell, it's his spell.

Oh, that's what spell does. We can have that conversation later, but generally, I feel like you know how the magic works and that like a person would be charmed in this way until they took damage. I feel like I would understand that. Got it. Yeah, I mean, Sylvie's told you guys when you hit something that she charms that if you do it, it would be great. So did I misunderstand that then? I thought you had said don't attack the

No, you said don't attack number one. All of them, and when it hits, it fucks up. The reason why I... For one, like if I hit the smaller one, it hits it. That breaks all of them. Just for him or just for all of them? Just for him. I charm this dude, he charm these three. So if you break the big one, you break all, if you break a small one, it's just him. Yeah. Okay.

Which one am I not attacking? We're just going in at this point. They're already here as well. So just kill as fast as you can. It's whatever you think you would do, right? It's just a character call. Your character sees this guy up, these guys are like incapacitated and this guy's confused as hell. So it's up to you. I think I could use my action and my movement to get to four, right? It's nine squares. Yeah. At least my bonus action to...

to activate Thunderous Thighs. Hell yeah. So I run up to him intimidatingly as I'm staring down at him prone to the ground and I slap my thighs together a couple times, taunting him to get the fuck up.

if he dares, and that'll be my turn, because I used my action. You see her just sprint. The clanging that you're used to hearing and the rattling of the chainmail is silent as she's running forward, and she smacks her thighs together, and you hear a loud clanging of an anvil, and there's a swirling thunderous magic that is swirling around Jotora. Okay, Toad, you're up. I will... Number two is up.

Well, he's prone, so... Right, so one of the four are not...

Three and a half. I'm just gonna walk right up to this fucking guy. You guys are funny. Also, Choa, you took 13 psychic damage. And you have inspiration from me. That's right. Okay, perfect. I'm going to get him into my tribal trance. Okay. And I will attack twice. Give me that. Not a 20, but a 18 hits. And then higher than that. Okay. So... I will roll...

9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. 28 damage to number one. Oh my god. Jesus Christ. Holy fuck. So you see Toa running in his channel. You get to see the kind of faint wisps

of these tribal animal spirits kind of swirl around him and he just gets an incredible focus and it's not at all like the rage that he beat the shit out of or tried to beat up Felix with and you hear the bull head flies off of him and you just see this old man with a wrinkled face looking at you with this pure hatred in his eyes and so he needs to make two saving throws

And a six. He fails both. That's crazy. That is mind-blowing to me. 16, right? That's pretty good. That's hard to beat. That's tough to beat. That's tough to beat. Depends on the man. If I have an opportunity, I'll yell out, see if you can knock him out!

Number two, where's number two by the way? Two is the one who's not engaged. He's gonna run to the first target that he sees, which is her job. And he's gonna get up and his flaming sword, and he is going to... He's gonna look at you with his bonus action and just channel this like... You hear this loud as you feel Hunter's mark go onto you as he's going to swing his sword. His longsword. What a hunt.

There's just two attacks. 20 and... I didn't get that 20 on fireball. 23. Both hit? Yep. 16d6, that wouldn't be too bad. Fireballs came from a dozen odds. I didn't know if it was a one or a three. Oh, it's a saving throw. Oh right, 'cause it's just like evasion. It's an attack stack. Ah, fuck. So is fire different from slashing for you?

No, I think I'm just, it's poison. Yeah, the rogue crits are so tasty when I get them. It's like, because even right now I'm only 5d6. You see Hruks, Persia's weak points her armor gets slashed as the fire burns around. And you take 26 points of damage. Whoa!

I was like, I'm not sure. I was going to ask him. You have to roll Concentration. For first hit, then the second hit. Okay, yeah, so I'll separate that. I didn't even think about it. Big-ass die. I roll really well on this one, so I put the other one in jail. I think either way, the DC would be 10, because if it's 26, right? Or it's half of the damage in the first half. Right, it would have to be over 20 for a single hit. Alright, I should pass. Cod, that's 14. And then another one, so you can do two.

Four, so I drop Thunderous Thighs. Four, so the Thunderous Magic disappears from Dakota as he is standing there angry with his bull helmet. Okay, with that, that was his turn. And you kind of feel as he's hitting you that the hunter, that is his hunting bloodlust for you is allowing him to strike even harder than he normally would.

The rest are all just fucks, so we'll do it. Okay. So I would just rush up to number one in front of me and I would whip out my spoon and just kind of whack, whack. Nobody likes a bully. Okay. Thank you, thank you, thank you. That one is a 24 and that one is...

- A 14. - 14 misses. - Okay. - So that is one D6 plus five. Ooh, that ain't good. That's seven damage. - So number one, you punch and you, you remember your advantage, he goes down the ground. - Oh, I did not do advantage. - So just roll again for each. - Yeah. - Just in case you get a crap. - So you get the nine and 20, yeah. - Okay. So one would have been a 20.

- But not a natural. - No, you're just rolling for the natty. - Yeah, you hit either way. - So one hits anyway. So one of your spoon hits as he's on the ground. - Both of them should have hit, right? - No, so both should hit with the advantage. - So I'll take a little damage for both. - That is gonna be an 11. So the first damage was, what did I say?

An eight? An eight and 11, so 19 total. So you just smack him and smack him again as he's prone. Okay, and then I'm gonna use a ki point to do Fury of Blows and just kinda wail on him. Yep, you just start beating him on the ground. Ip man. Whoops. What is Fury of Blows? You can do two attacks instead of one. So basically do two more attacks with your unarmed attacks. Two more unarmed, okay. Are they both advantage?

- We're looking for naddies. - So 16 plus eight is 22. - 30 C-17. - Coming to the stage, natural 20. - Thank you. So the first damage is gonna be...

Ten. Ten? Okay, you smack him down. Second damage is gonna be... 15 with the great fire. Yeah, so 25 total on the orange attacks. Dang. Just barely. Yes! Smack, smack, and then just doosh and he kind of pulls his head off and you just boosh and his seagull is sitting and snaps as he, his neck snaps. You just like one shot KO'd him.

- Yeah! - Just ends him. - Damn. - Ha cha cha. - Exactly. - Ha cha cha! - Okay. - Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! - I am going to move forward a little bit to the wall here, kind of like halfway between, along the wall, but halfway between Lufty and Caprice. - Hey.

- Like up front of me or like just... - Like against the wall closest to us, to the girls. - Hey, I'm crossing here. The other direction. - No, against the wall closest to the girls. There's a line that shows a wall. - The classic. - As I'm saying, in front of us. - Yes, and then like halfway between Lufty and Caprice.

So like here? Yes, right about there. And then I'm going to cast Bane on the three of them. They make a chrism saving throw, all three of them. Okay, so we're gonna do two warriors first. That's gonna be a catashop and fail. That's gonna be a natural 20 plus whatever. So number four fails, Bane.

And then big guy, that's tops. Big guy, big ass whore. So, big guy, he's the big guy and he gets baned. And then, so yeah. Great. And then I think that's all I'm doing. Okay. So, as a

Iris runs up in the darkness and you hear this, uh, another kind of like a gong that echoes through this chamber and you just see like these kind of shadowy bindings emerge from the ground and sort of wrap around two of them and it seems to be, uh, constraining them quite considerably. Oh shit. Uh, and with that is number two. Nobody cared who I was until I put on the bull mask. And I... Of course. Of course. So I need to roll an item again.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah, he failed. He only gets to save when he takes damage. It's the nightmare of that. So, one, two, three, four, five, six. It's so good. Yeah, it's really bossy. It's my only third level spell. I chose it because it's fucking bonkers. He looks at you, Lufty, and he says, That's so good. You've done nothing. He was not strong enough for the cult. Only when you do this. You hear blah, blah, blah, blah at you. I'm trying to yell it out. As he casts Vicious Mockery on you.

- I don't know what he's saying. - Does he still have your thing on him? - Yeah. - Yeah. - He took her randomly. - What am I doing? Sorry. I just wasn't sure we still have it. - What did she need to roll? - Wisney saving throw. - Two of them? - No, just once, right? - Two, two. - Oh shit. - One is 11 and one is 16. - One is 11, 16 passes. So the 11 you'll be taking four points of psychic damage. - Whoa. - Okay, that's all he can do. - Yeah.

Oh, I'll just... I'm going to maintain concentration and I'll take a shot at two, I guess. I'll use my bonus action to load and then... Because I have to load my fucking hand crossbow because those aren't OP as shit, as everyone assumes. And so I'll just roll to hit him and that'll be a 20 to hit. And that'll be a...

- That's caught. Let's do it like that. That'll be a seven points of piercing damage to him. - Seven points of piercing damage. He plinks him through his arms. - So it's not a bonus action to load, you just can't do it twice in a row. - Yeah, I was gonna say that. - Oh yeah? - Yeah, so if you have a bonus action. - I have a bonus action. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. It doesn't take a bonus action. - Seven points, you blink him. Miss your weapon.

Luffy, that was a really good job. Why don't you see if you can be the big spoon on that guy and give you inspiration. I always like to be the big spoon. And he is looking pretty rough as he's going after Urja. This kind of savage rage. He's the closest I can go. I finish my turn with yelling out, see if we can just knock out the old man. And then continue. Pretty strong.

I'm gonna use my cantrip to hit number two. Okay. Ten plus eight is eighteen. Hits. Six. Six points. It's almost a nine. Fire bolt hits him and stinges him. He's looking pretty rough.

Okay, cool. That is Bridget's turn. Of the two in front of me, which one is what prone are they most of them at? So the guy, he's cursed and he's vain and prone, and he's not doing anything. The guy who just attacked you and just chunked the shit out of you, he's looking really rough. He just got blasted and hit with a crossbow bolt and, you know, he's got... Alright, I'll take one hit at him with my flail. Flail! Flail!

That'll be a 16. 16. It bashes off of his shield as you almost get him and tshh. 17, right? Was it 16? Yeah. Wow, that's good. So I'll try again with my extra attack. That will miss. I will use my bonus action to try to shove him. Okay. So that's athletics. Okay. Athletics check. So he has to beat an 11.

- That'll be a 21. - Oh, sorry. - Red fucking turd, all right. - He's a big bolt warrior, right? He has a big ol' shield, so he just and he's just frothing as he's looking at you. There's this wild animalistic rage in his eyes as he is looking at you. - You might be good guys. - Bad rolls, y'all, bad rolls. - I'll tell you what, you're up. - Wait, so this guy's just being, is all that means. - He's being and he has been damaged. - And you still have my inspiration.

Okay, I will just simply attack twice. You can't undo... Yeah, it's a natural one, it's a natural one. Okay, the other one's 20. You stumble and you miss as it smashes the side of the stone wall, breaking some of the imagery of the mural. 11 damage. 11 damage, as you smash into him with 11 damage...

He's still hanging on there. He's pretty hardy. There seems to be some kind of ethereal strength from this old guy. And he's going to make a good, intelligent saving throw. That's correct. And that's going to be a three. Crazy. Wow. I love this spell. It's about standard. And so it's his turn. I still have to choose at random. Yep. Okay. Then he's beamed. Wait, no. Hold on.

- Moser's one of those guys. - Yeah, the little guys. - So he is just going to keep trying to slice away at her jump. - Which one? There are two of them on her jump? - Two, the other guy coming here. - Yeah, number two is the one who's up still. - That is going to be a fail. And then other one is going to be a 17. - And minus a D4.

He's baned? He's not baned. I thought you said the one on the ground was baned. The two is a tackle. He's rolling for two. Oh, okay. I'm rolling for two. Gotcha. The other guy's not doing anything. Two is, whatchacallit,

So he is gonna get miss one, get a 17. - That does not hit. - So you just, just like he did to you, you block both of his attacks with your shield. - Fuck you. - And the flame of the sword is kind of like heating your face and almost damaging you, but you manage to keep it in effect. - Hey. - Vav, I'll lift you up. - Oh, it's a me. - It's a me, you're the deal. - It's a me, I'll lift you.

The one that's here, what does Bane do again? Like for my purposes? He's minus two rolls, right? Yeah, minus a decoy to saving throws and attack rolls. Yeah. So you have a better chance to hit him. Okay. So I'll just come around. I have my spinoff and I'm just going to like whack down. Look on the ground. Yeah. He is prone, so you will wake him up with this, but you are damaged. I'm going to attack him.

- What do you guys think? Are we feeling the natural 20 on the next band roll? Are we willing to put our money on the table and call it? - It's a 24 to hit. - 24 hits. - I'll put like two chips in. - Just two chips. - All right, I'll match your chips. - Nine damage. - He comes to out of his confusion and he is now angrily looking at you

- Oh, he's breathing fire. - Okay, and I say, "Oh, you mad, big boy?" And I'll just jab him in the face with a spoon again. - All right, natural 20. - Is he still-- - He's still up. - He's still up. - He's on his turn. - Okay, he's 26 to hit. - He can only call rich. - Seven damage? - Seven damage. You bop him in the face. It was kind of through his helmet. - Bop him. - Bop him, bop him, bop him, bop him. Twist him, twist him.

- Stop stopping. - Cool. - And that's it, you're not gonna use any Fury Blows or anything? - No, I don't think so. - Cool, so you bop him in the face. You kind of break his nose and-- - I attack twice, yeah. - You can throw an attack for free for free hit. - Oh, I do, okay. I'll hit him more time for a free hit. And it's at advantage, so. - Just hit him. - Pull it. - Oh, I'm green again, so another 20. - That'll hit, full damage. - Bam.

- Okay, so that'll be another 10 damage. So I'll just kind of like flip the end of the spoon and be like, smack him in the face. - You flip the end and you just dance it to bash him in the face. Okay, with that it is Irish's turn. - I'm going to, all of them have been damaged, correct? - Correct. - Number two, I'm going to toll the dead. It's a wisdom save.

That's gonna be a 19. - That's it. - Okay, so you hear the kind of gong and he manages to shrug it off with his pure rage. It is the big guy's turn and he's a big guy and he is going to look at you and he has to just roll, I'm just doing this. Or I can rather I need to choose at random.

That's going to be Felix. As he's going to look at you and he is going to... Of course it is. He's going to say, Keep standing in the back there, weak one. Fire is stronger than you can wield. I didn't quite catch that. And you can actually. And so he's going to just two wisdom saving throws. Uh-oh. Oh, that can't be good. Wisdom saving throw is never good for Felix. It's just ticking. You'll be all right. Poor guy.

So my wisdom is just plus the two, right? Yeah. I fail both. Wow! So you take nine points of psychic damage. You hit the nine, actually. Nine? Oh... Go to saving. Yeah, so it's... I still fail both, because one's only 11. Highest was 11. Yeah, you failed both. So it's nine total? Yep, nine total psychic damage. Yeah, now it's... My brain!

Okay, so the words rack your brains, same kind of demonic voice. That is Capriccio's turn. Capriccio. I'll yell it again. Hey, maybe we can get some information from this guy if we just knock him out?

And I'll reload my crossbow with another bolt, and I'll take another shot at number two. Okay. And that'll be a 22 to hit. Go ahead. And that'll be... That's maximum damage. That looks like 11 points of piercing to me. 11 points of piercing. You plink him, but he gets deep into his armor. He spits up blood. He is barely, barely hanging on. Oh, really? Okay. And...

That was my bonus action Does everyone feel alright? Yeah, so far darling. This thing smells bad, but I'm okay.

Alright, that's the end of my turn. Okay. With that, it is Felix's turn. Alright, so after just having my brain racked, I'm gonna like tuck and roll and pop up and fire off a frostbite at the Bane guy. So you have to make a con 16 save. Con 16 save. Fight a spade. How does frostbite work? It's gonna be 12. So when he fails, he takes 2d6 and on his next weapon attack, he is disadvantaged. I number 2.

No, the guy who's baned. So we get minus six. So yeah, I'll just roll forward and then I shoot out like a cloud of frost and he slows down. Six points damage. A blast of this deadly frost hits him, unable to avoid it. He starts to...

He's slowed. And he just starts, like, you know, when you're starting a car and you're trying to open up the car door or something, he's just trying to break himself free of that. So until my next turn, any weapon attacks number four makes will be disadvantaged. Okay. Got it. Okay. With that, it is Ferg's turn.

Sorry, just the next attack. Is he still prone? No. Oh, he was prone. Yeah, because not until his next... Okay, got it. Was it an attack? Yeah. Correct. It wasn't a ranged attack, was it? No. I mean, it was, but it was the same... It was a grouse. Not an attack. Okay, so it was the same. If it was an attack, it would give him disadvantage. Yep. Okay, I'm going to smack him. The prone guy. Smack him up. With advantage. So 18. 18? That'll hit. Great.

- He takes seven points of bludgeoning damage. - Seven points, he smacked on the ground and he's still barely hanging on. - All right, I would take my second attack on the other guy. - Two.

Number two. Number two is not advantage. Fuck him up. That's an 18. Oh, he's over. Okay. I'll save my defense fight. That's going to be two plus five, so seven bludgeoning? Seven bludgeoning. You smash Dakota down and cracks his helmet and splatters his skull inside. And number two is finally dead. Wait, no, number three. Wait, which one? Two. Two. Yeah, he's finally dead. Yeah.

Oh, dude is proed. If people are proed, can they take attacks at you for opportunity? Yes. Okay, that's fine. I will walk past him. Actually, I can walk around and get between them. Can I get between them or is there a platform? There's a platform that he is on. It's only elevated by like two feet. Okay, can I bonus actually try to shove Big Bad? Yeah, yeah. That's how it works.

It's my Shieldmaster. Yeah, as long as you attack, you can use Bone of Dice. So that'll be a contest of 13 for strength. Try but not to be proed. Minus a d4. Oh, no, it's a contest, not a saving throw. Contest. That'll be a 12. 13. Okay, barely. He's fucking free!

Let's go! You go up and you shove your shield into it and he hits the ground hard. And breaks a hip off of it. And so, our friend is Fronebone. Prodebone. I like it. He's Fronebone. With that and his coaster. So, the Devil in Wind theme song fills the room until it feels really inspired. He's gonna literally just try to end this. Remember what I said! I got the wrong apple! That's gonna be a hit.

I'm just gonna roll both attacks first, and that's another hit. So, one, two, three. No one needed inspiration. It's crazy. What do we got? A six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, plus fourteen is twenty... six. Twenty-six. For both rolls or individually? So, you smash him and smash him on the ground effortlessly. You're like, ah!

And he starts caving in his heavier armor, kind of made of heavy leather, and he's spitting up blood, he's looking weak. Alright. Okay, with that, it is Monsters 1, which is the guy who's prone to stand up, and he's banged, and the one that just, he's going to turn to Lifty, and he's going to just...

- He's gonna channel Hunter's Mark onto you. And he does that, right? - Yeah. - Yeah, he just Hunter's Marks you. - He's saving. - Bonus action movement. Is this a melee attack? - Yes. - I'm gonna impose disadvantage. - Which one's doing this? - My shield. - Number two, I think. - Number four's already disadvantaged.

- Oh, that's right. - So the first one, he's gonna hit and all of a sudden he's and Lifty's easily able to dodge out of it. - Nice. - And now he breaks out of it, right? - Yep. - So the ice breaks and now he's gonna swing again on Lifty. - All right, I'll oppose disadvantage on that one. - So disadvantage on this one. - And minus a d4. - God, these poor guys. - Let's get walloped.

We must have the most debuff-oriented party of all time. He gets a 12. He gets a 12. And so, it looks like he's going to hit, and then hers just sticks her shield up and it clangs off, protecting Luffy. So after he lunges at me or whatever, I'm gonna just kind of swing back with a foot and try to smack him in the face. Okay. What's that called?

Okay, sorry. Go ahead. A whole swing and foot? The whole swing and foot move? Like, is that an ability you have? A reaction? No, it's just kicking. I'm kicking. It's a non-hard attack. Oh, okay, sorry. I'm just giving some flavor. I like to share. I didn't know if it was like a reaction. I'm doing a whole roundhouse and smack him in the face. I don't know these kind of moves, so. Oh, no! Terrible. You accidentally kick Kersh in the face. Yeah. Oh! Ay!

I'm so sorry! I just protected you. I'm bleeding from my nose! That only fates as a ghost. I steal myself against that embarrassment and I say, "Ew!" And try to punch him in the face anyway. Oh, that's bad too, but 17. 17 barely hits. Here we go. To number three, right? Or number four? To whatever the one, the little one.

- Okay, so that's 11 damage. - 11 damage, you bring your knee up, you hear a loud as and you fall to the ground down. - Excellent. And then as my bonus action, I wanna make an attack and jump on the big guy and try to like pin restrain him. Can I do that? - So you've already used your actions, you can't grapple him.

Oh, I can't. He's already prone. He's prone, but he's not trying to grapple us. He's prone and he thinks everyone's a nightmare. Were you missing a token? How's he looking then? I lowered the...

Okay, because they were stuck together when I found it. I found it. I magically found number three. I had already, I print more tokens generally than I need. So does the big one, like how's the big one look? He's looking very rough. Okay, I'm gonna just kind of brace myself and let my turn pass. Pick thighs, sit on him. Okay, well then I'll make a non-lethal attack as a bonus action on the big one. Hit him on the head with your spoon. Is he prone? Yes.

After being shoved and brutally cursed. Don't kill him with the spoon! Oh, Terabad. Terabad. Yeah, 11. Despite that, he managed to dodge out of the way. He's gonna smack him on the nose and then back up. Bad. Bad. Um...

I would know that I would have to make a normal attack to... I'm going to hold my turn. Okay, so you all hold there seeing that he's surrounded and pretty fucked. You would have to make a normal attack to... I would have to... A spell attack you can't do non-lethal. Okay. And I'm not gonna get close enough to... Do you want to hold to do something?

No, I'm just going to pass it. Okay. Monsters 2 is his turn, and so he's going to get up, and there's a still kind of... He's himself up, and he needs to choose at random, because this is bullshit. Oh, wait, he would have taken... If he took any damage, he would have made another intelligence. So, he got a twice-spy kill, right? Both of those at a d4. Minus d4. Minus d4. 16. Uh...

Fuck. The Bane drops it. So he is still, he would have made it, but the Bane just barely got it. - Beyond me, all right, beyond me. - And he's still fucking bonkers town. So there's six of you, so I'm gonna roll a d6 now. And that's gonna be Caprice. 'Cause he stands up and he's just gonna be like, "Mm, fuck this charm!" - Sorry, it's a bunch of bullshit. - Hey! - Two with saving throws.

That's gonna be a 19 and a 10. 19 and a 10, 19 passes, 10 fails, so you're gonna take 5 points of second damage. I accept. As your brain is racked. I'm pretty sure. Do you have to roll Concentration? Yes, I do have to roll Concentration, thank you. I never remembered to roll Concentration. How does that work?

It's a con saving throw. Ten or half of the damage, whichever is higher. 17, so I'm fine. So I maintain concentration on the spell. I will... What will you do? I'll move next to Felix on his right side. Yep. And I'll reload my bow, but put it away. And I'll be like, I think that guy's kind of done. Um...

- Toey, you still feeling inspired, right? - Yeah, I'm still good. - How are you, you sweetie? - Can't you see I'm bloody nice? - Are you feeling all right there, Herja?

You're not feeling good? You feel bad? Uh-huh. Okay, I'll use my... You see your oral burn marks and slashes and fucking boars. I'll be like, fucking heal! And I'll use Healing Word at... Yeah, I'll use it at first level. That's fine. I can't remember. But it gives you... It's 1d4 plus your charisma. Oh, it's really bad. Healing Word at first level is 1d4 plus charisma.

a nine points of healing damage. - Wow. - Those horrors feel very magical. - I rolled a four, so. - So I can make a melee attack to... - Yeah. - Okay, so I'm gonna use my movement to move 30. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. I'm going to pull out my dagger. - Okay. - And I'm going to make a melee attack. - Okay, yeah. - Wow.

There you go. That's definitely a hit. He's not prone though, right? He is prone. Oh, he got that. All right, well, it's 23. Damn good hit. 1d4 plus 3.

Whoa! Seven. Seven. Nice job! You take the back of your dagger, you smack him across the face, you see a tooth fly off, he's barely hanging on, powered by pure rage. And then I'm assuming, oh, he's, fuck! Yeah. Well, okay, well, I put myself in moral danger. You'll be all right. Trying to end it.

Okay, Tyler, go. Oh, no, Hurtle, sorry. Here. Can I nod lethal attack with a flail? Yeah. All right, I'm claiming that now. Let's say you bought one back. Boop. That'll hit with a 23. That'll hit. That's a d8.

With Six Bludgeoning. Six Bludgeoning. You just hit him on the head and his eyes kind of roll back and he collapses onto his little raised pedestal. There you go. Thanks, Erja. I'm going to immediately put the dagger back in my coat. Okay. You do that.

- Okay. - Are we out of couples? - Wow. - Damn, Omo. - Wow. - Damn. - Wow. - Okay. - I wanna just walk over to the other bodies and drag them away from him. - Okay. - Just in a heap. - I'll start tying him up. - Okay. - I will assist him. - I roll dex advantage.

That'll do it. 19, 20, 22. You tie him up very intently. And he seems to be very tightly bound. As a herder drags the corpses away. I think if this guy's going to wake up in the near future, then we should...

We should ask him what he's up to, why he's here, what he's doing in this dark, deep, weird den full of traps. I think that there's a lot of questions we could ask him. That's why I wanted us to just knock him out. I mean, is he going to answer any, though? I mean, I might be able to suggest very strongly that he answers. Oh, I see what you're doing. Yes, I like. I did notice that that glaive that he's got over by the altar is a desecrated, consecrated sort of item.

So I would just hold. Did you feel that in your heart? The whole altar, not just the glaive? Oh, okay. You felt that in your heart? Yeah, I divinely sensed it. Does that mean that we need to do anything? Like take action right now? It just means that there's bad juju in that area. Just maybe be careful touching it, but it might not hurt to destroy it. That's exactly my point. Should we destroy the bad juju glaive? Altar, but yeah, we can do that. Oh, okay.

Is the altar something we can destroy? Or is it like a... Is it built around it? So it's like a stone altar around it, even placing things like crowns and skulls and weapons and things like that. Well, I'm comfortable... If we think we can make a progress against pulling down this altar, I'm all for it. I'm not a fan. But I just feel like we could take a five-minute rest.

We're a 15 minute rest here and just sort of get our wits about us. And then when this guy wakes up, we can question him for the rest of this crazy maze labyrinth right here. What do you guys say? I don't think that idea. Oh, I can start beating down the altar. I like kick stuff. So I just like, you know, somebody should stop. We should also be aware of the amount of noise we're making. Do you think destroying the structure for one potential stability issues and two potentially calling people to our location?

i feel like we've made enough noise as it is yeah it's a big fight it's up to you guys we should probably search the bodies of the i i think i think at least disrupting this altar is probably okay let me let me if we can spare the time let me see what's in these bodies i will search the bodies okay so i mean you guys are heavy yeah um

- Are we taking a short rest? - Investigation 19. - So you guys, so you dig through, you find gold, and there's a lot of gold on the guy that you have bound up. In total you find 1,266 gold pieces. - Oh shit! - Someone wanna divide that by six? - I will do it.

1266. I think that's divisible. Everyone experiences 211 gold pieces. Wow, great experience. And you find a strange gauntlet on this person that has a red ruby on the other. Interesting. A red ruby gauntlet. I will put it in my pack.

- Okay. - And you're speaking short rests while we're waiting like to kind of wait. - Well, I was asking. - Are we doing after a rest? - That's what I asked the gang. I didn't know if we, it's an hour. - Long time.

Are we feeling alright? I'm feeling okay. I'm feeling alive. Believe it or not, I'm doing alright. The less time I spend in this stink cave, the better. Let's accelerate. I don't think we should take a short rest. I'll pick this guy up and let's just carry him with us. When he wakes up, he wakes up. Is there anything on the altar that we should take? If he starts screaming though when he wakes up, you kill him. We can't draw the entire labyrinth to our location.

All right, I'll kill him instantly. And you have him on taunt us and you are making your way back to the labyrinth. What are you doing? He's bound and gagged. Yes. And we're just going to make our way back. Toes hauling him. Lead the way, Felix. Yeah. Good joke. I think we're just representing the party with my mini. I'm actually going to be in the lead here. Did we inspect the altar area at all? We tried to disrupt it was what we had talked about.

- Yeah, you would just start with a little bit. I mean, there's no books or anything. It seems like just like the crowns and the skulls and the weapons. It seems like a very savage. - I'm satisfied. - I'm satisfied. - So we can go. - So you guys can go all the way back the way that you came. - Holy shit. All right, look.

That's really far. - He's walking forever. - Yeah, but look, I'm saying then all the way back. - Yes, we go all the way back to this. - All the way back to, yeah, all the way back to here. - But we never went in that little room, did we? - Yeah, I know, I'm trying to, it's just an odd shape. So I'm gonna fast forward us. - Let's bring the map. - Do we really go in that room? - Yeah, I would go in that room. - We should go in that room. - Voting no, we go in the room. - We're gonna go in this room here.

Okay. Oh, we do? Okay. Hold up, minis. Okay. Oh, we can just remove that. Do we need a re-interested one that's under the map camera if you want to grab the paper? Oh, if you're planning on stealthing, then yes. Yes. Okay, that's right. That's a terror badge. We're re-stealing. We're re-stealing. We are not very stealthy. Nine.

- I'm bopping along. - I ain't killing it with my stealth checks. - Another 20, 29, 29. Gotta give it up on that natural four. - Nine. - Nine. - Gotta give it up. - I'm banging on the walls. - You're banging on the walls. - 11. - I think it's Herja. - Toa and Herja are in front. - Normally? - I'll take the third place. - I'm right there too. - Yeah, it's Toa, Herja, Felix. - Two by two.

As you make your way, you arrive and you turn the corner around this dead end. Herge, I'm telling you, you make a perception check for the first. 19. If it's been more than, if it hasn't been more than 10 minutes, use your inspiration. 11. Real quick, real quick. Boom! D8, D8. Oh, shit! Oh, shit.

- No! - Nice. 16. - 16. So both of you walk and you just see a dead end and as you're stepping, both of you notice a slightly off kilter plate and you stop and then you look up and you see basically just a very small narrow dead end with all of these little pock holes in the sea line. - So we can see the dead end? - Yes. - And there's nothing down there? - There's nothing down there. It's just a dead end. - So you stop. - Hold on, guys, stop, stop. - There's nothing down there and it's just some kind of trip.

Well, let's move on then. Yeah. Okay. You make your way to a choice that you have. Oh, another choice. Do we?

- Yes. - So move slide that one. - I see what you're saying. So like either this room, can we tell it's a room by like peeking in without stepping in? - Okay, so actually I will say as soon as you come here, as soon as you stop. - So right up here, back up here, okay. - You'll go a little bit further. And as soon as you round that corner, keep going a little further. As soon as you round that corner, I,

I'm going to keep the perception checks that you guys made. Thank you. And you hear a faint language of chattering. Is it like humanoids talking or like monsters? Do you need to know what languages we speak? Who speaks Infernal? I kind of recognize from the muttering of earlier and I call you forward.

That's not good. Fourteen. Fourteen. You listen in, and you clearly hear a muttering in infernal. And you hear it, and it's coming from the room right around the corner, and it's low enough that you can't make out the words. It's definitely infernal. I can't make out the words. I'm just, uh...

Do I get a sense of tone with a 14? I would say impatience. Frustration. Well, you know, here's an idea. What if I were to become unseen and sort of sit down there and see what I could see? Yeah. Just if things get bad, make sure you tell us and we'll come out swinging.

Fats and prayers. All right. All right. No, that's fair. This is on thoughts. No more regret, by the way. Good job. Oh, excellante. It must have been a ramp thing. Well, we'll see. It may happen again. Now, listen, everybody. I can only become invisible if no one is looking at me. Oh.

It's a great movie. Alright. Alright, so everyone turn your back. Is that the real thing? I'll just cover my eyes. Can I insight check him? Yeah.

Very trusting. 9. Deception. It's just a stupid thing to say. Like, obviously I'm gonna cast Invisibility on myself. Yeah. But with a 9, I guess with Deception, the lowest I could possibly get is... I get 23. Because he's very honest, yeah.

Alright, alright, I broke your eyes. I cast Invisibility on myself. As I'm turning around, I'm muttering to myself, like, that's not even how magic works. I have no reason to doubt. With them not seeing, I boop myself. You boop yourself, and allow me to... I keep booping myself. I can't do nothing. Fuck, I can't do nothing. Ladies still look great. Okay, so...

You sneak, you sneak your, poke your head around the corner, completely invisible. You just disappear. - No one sees that. - No one sees that. And he walks, you Caprice, you walk around. And as you turn the corner, you see a room with a number of tables.

on the far side. - That's in here? - Yeah, and you notice that there are three figures in this room, and they are very clearly not human. There is one creature that is standing with his arms folded, crossed, just staring at a pear, and this creature is tall, greenish skin.

strange barbs all along its hands coming from its face. It looks completely monstrous. And then on a table, you see these strange pieces of magical-looking parchment that have hatch marks and drawings on them and the like. And you see two creatures that are discussing over this. And one is a very small creature, probably about no bigger than...

like no bigger than this. And it is, has a long tail, two horns, almost looks bull-like, but it's very clearly this alien monstrousness to us. To big bulging eyes. And it is talking to a creature that has, that is fleshy and pink, that is covered in all of these spines, that has kind of a long snout with no nose,

that, uh, and a long fleshy tail also covered in spines. I will put some minis. It's too late to go home. So here are the two creatures discussing.

And they are on the far corner. So the two, this corner? No, the, uh, I don't know if we can show them. And then straight ahead of you is this, uh, creature on, yeah. And then he's, yeah. And he's just what? Is he watching the two of them or is he watching the door? He's watching the door. Yeah. So he's watching the door and he's in the other corner actually.

Like up here? Yeah. And he's folding his arms and you can make a stealth attack with advantage, right? Because you're not, you can't be seen. I'm invisible, so I don't know if I even need to make a stealth attack. You do, because you can be heard. But with advantage, I will very quietly move forward with a 21 stealth. Okay. As you approach, they do not seem to notice you.

I will very quietly approach the table and see if I can read the scrolls on the table. Okay. As you approach, you hear the infernal. Yes. And the little one is telling you, I don't know where they are. They're being delayed. I don't know. The plans. He looks fairly nervous.

as these other two creatures. They seem to be, those two creatures seem to be at odds with the small one on the table. And the other one with the long snout, large maw teeth, and says, I don't care.

We brought you the plans for these machines. We demand what we were promised. And he's like, oh, this must be delayed. The military has been highly active. And they're kind of discussing. As you make your way across, they don't seem to notice you. You're creeping very slowly. Go first. Go first. And you see on these tables these large documents that are scrolled up.

And they... You've seen blueprints before. These look like designs for machines. Very vague machines, but there's also strange magical incantations and summoning processes with this. It's a strange, horrific combination. They have these... They have schematic... They have these designs and drawings on them to kind of show these whole machines. And these look like massive, hellish blueprints

Artillery Machines of War. And it seems as if these two creatures, or at least this one creature with the spine, they've come to provide that and work with this smaller creature representing another force that's allegedly going to do this. Mimi, we get the sense that he owes something and it's late. He owes something to these two guys and it's late. Yeah.

I will take one more glance around the room to see if I notice anything of interest before I start to make my way back. The creatures in the room and the large schematic blueprint thing that splits right across all of these large, like, rickety tables is definitely the things of interest. Okay. I will sneak back out.

and make my way back to the group. Hey guys! Sorry, this is Caprice. I know you can't see me, but I am invisible now. I explain to them what I've seen in as much detail as I can recall based on your descriptions. Do any of the incantation, summoning, magic, rune stuff that he mentions mean anything to me?

I don't think he would just tell you that we're in a canteen. So it wasn't able to... Right. Yeah. So when you didn't... They were like runes. I didn't cop him down. Of course. No, that's helpful. Fine. Thank you. They seem really invested in the whole situation. Now, listen...

I have this ability for quite a while. I'm inclined to continue to move it along. If you guys want to take care of these guys in this room, that's great. But I need to leverage this magic as much as possible. I've only been doing this for a few minutes. I'm going to make my way around the hallway and continue to explore. While I think avoiding confrontation is probably a good thing, do we think that there might be any value in destroying these blueprints? I mean, I can burn them instantly.

I think that we should destroy them so that they can't use them, but I have Mending, and so we could always put them back together if you rip them up. I mean, we could just steal them in that case, but we'd have to kill the people in the room. I'm not against that. They seem particularly evil. I mean, any beast excluding myself that speaks Infernal should be killed. I've got plenty of...

Got plenty of juice in the tank if you know what I'm saying. I can not good to go. All right I'm love your tank juice, but I'm gonna continue on my way Yeah, no I I just think that I'm gonna split for just a hot minute and I will be back and I'll be back in like I'm not gonna give myself more than 10 minutes I just want to run down the next few hallways and unless I hit on a horrible gas trap I think I'll be fine. Do we think that the five of us can take these three creatures out?

Yes, they look puny. We should probably focus on like crowd controlling them so in case they try to make a move. Well, we can just make sure they don't leave the exit. It's a small room. I think we can handle it. Do you two want to take the charge? We might be able to take them by surprise. They don't know we're here. Alright, sure. Since we didn't take a rest...

Correct. Before we go in, I'm just gonna pump all but one of my Lay on Hands into me and heal for 24 hit points. I'll give you guys a hand as I make my way around the corner, but then I'm gonna dart around and see if I can explore a little bit more in my invisible state, alright? Don't do anything too risky.

I'm just going to create a distraction, and then when you run in, you guys will be dealing with them dealing with a distraction instead of them seeing you, and there would be immediate conflict. What do you think? Yeah, I think that's fine. All right. I'm going to run past the doorway and start to make my way up this way. As I pass through, I'm going to randomly throw one of my first daggum illusions. Yes!

Okay, how does that work? I believe that I throw a card in total random and let me just quickly give this a true shuffle because I put them in order not realizing that when you pull from this deck you have to deal it at random. You can't choose what illusion is going to occur. Is this not countless casting a spell?

It's an action. And invisibility, I do not believe, is concentration. Invisibility is concentration. Well, it's not going to break my concentration because this is an action using a magic skill. Is this an item? Yeah. Pick a card, any card. I would be honored to. Oh my god. Let me pull up the actual stats. Alright, what do you got?

- King of diamonds. - Oh, that seems big. - All right, I throw a card into 30 feet from where I am. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, right onto the table. And all of a sudden an archmage

Summoned in the center of the room. And the mage apprentice. And the mage apprentice. He's got like a little boy with him. He's got like a little kid with him. They will appear and I don't know if I get to command the illusion, but they act how they would. So that's up to you. And that'll be burned. That feels so good. Isn't that the most satisfying feeling in the whole universe? They're Derek's cards. They're Derek's cards. You're holding my easier?

And then I continue running around the corner and I'll let them deal with that shit. Okay, so I assume we hear them talking. Oh my god, that chaotic nature is just choking me. So you run by and you throw it and it turns and you're like, Long wizard! My blue wizard!

- I'm a windbreaker! And then the little boy's like, "I'm here too!" And they all do, they're all like, "What?" And then, "Let's go, let's go!" - I bum rush in instantly. - I run, run with him. - Incredible! - Excuse me, is that the check real quick? Just to, just to... - Me? - Yes. - Oh yeah, my pleasure. - So insane. - And again, it's an illusion. Now see here, my boy! - That'll be a 12. - Link, my boy.

And that fails. And they're all just like, what? And you all get a surprise round. Yay! Everyone roll for initiative. Yeah, everyone roll for initiative. I rolled for initiative too, but... 21. Son of a gun. My initiative is poopy. 18. Mine's 22. Damn. I got a 12.

I am very spoiled playing Vandross. Very spoiled. I'm so spoiled playing Frost, you have no idea what spoiled looks like, man. Okay, 20 to 25. Not this guy. Somebody got 20 to 25. 20... Shit. 23? You got 20? No, she got 23. Oh, 23? Okay. 15 to 20?

- 18. - 19 for Iris. - Sorry, 21 for me. It doesn't matter 'cause I'm just leaving, but. - 18 for Herja. - 18 for Herja. - So it should be Lufty, Iris, Herja. - Lufty, Iris, Herja. And then Felix and Toad, you got it. - I got 12. - Nine. - Wow, okay. And then let me roll for the Spiderman. - I love surprise rounds. - Me too. - It's the blues!

So how does that work? You get one attack, not your normal round attack? It's not a surprise round, but we call it colloquially a surprise round because all of the monsters that you surprise are surprised. And the surprise condition means you can do nothing on your turn except end surprise. So basically I get one attack. You get a free attack. There's a whole turn, but they don't go. That's what a surprise round is.

Yeah, it's basically a status event. It's not a surprise attack where you get advantage. You just get a free turn, basically. Yeah. So he rolled. Oh, shit. Listen, if you look, he rolled. They rolled better initiative than us, but they don't go. So there is this like, RZA!

that you burst through the illusion and start unleashing whatever it is left of your health. Okay. So which one looks like more measly than the others? The one, number one, the little little fuckery on your head.

- The blue one. - Oh, they're all number one. How confusing. I'll go to blue number one and I'll just kind of break through the illusion like and jab him in the face with my spoon. - Do you want to just be focused on one? Like not be between them both? - Yeah, that's fine. Sure.

Natty won. Natty won. And I like trip over my spoon. The illusion trips you up. And break my face a little bit. Yeah, you like burst through and it's like, "Huh?" And then you miss the first time. Yeah, I missed that. So my second attack and then I'll just also make my bonus attack on the same guy. Okay. God sakes. So a second one probably misses. That's 10 and then 27 to hit. 27 for your fist, yes.

- God. - Man, you're rolling like shit tonight, I'm sorry. - Six. - As you run through, you miss, he's so small, you're like, and he's like dodging your spoon. - And I'm just like . - And he's like, he's trying, you can tell, and he's trying to like cast invisibility, he's trying to go invisible, and you just punch him and be like . - Just really boop him really hard on the nose. - And he looks like incredibly weak and horrible, as if he could like be one of a point of damage. - Damn. - Okay, Iris, you're up.

- I'm going to cast Toll the Dead on that one. - Okay. - That's a wisdom saving throw. - With saving throw? He catastrophically fails.

And he's already damaged? Yes. It's a d12. Mike, it happens when you lean in or move closer. Oh, so I'll just stand back here and make sure. Okay, I apologize. Seven. Seven. And as he gets punched, he's like, ah, I'm getting a scale. And he's like, okay, ah. And he's like, one arm turns into the back. He's like trying to transform. And he just falls onto the table dead. Oh, shit. He tried to fucking transform.

What are you doing with the dude by the way? While this happens? He's in Toa's arms right? Toa's holding him. But he's bound and gagged. So even if he wakes up he'll... I would say if you're fighting with a guy on your shoulder you'll be disadvantaged on everything either. I might put him down. I can't use my weapon while he's on my shoulder. So I'll put him down. He's bound too. He's an egg on him right? Okay. Let's add his version.

- I'm gonna run up to the other dude. - Okay. - Make my attack. - Wing guy, he starts to try to take off. - Nine. - Nine, that misses. He dodges out of the way. - 10. - 10, misses and dodges out of the way. He flaps out of the way, he's trying to take flight. - Bonus action, trying to shove him. - Okay.

What the fuck is in my dice? I rolled a four and a five and a one. Is it a stone dice? No. Well, this one's a stone dice. This one isn't. I normally roll really well on that one. Let me know if you need a new dice. You've got dice jail. Yeah. You want some? Yeah. I think you just shot somebody with a rubber band. He is flapping around, dodging out of the way, trying to take flight here. It is, okay, he was dropped. Do define weapon attack. Is that bites and claws?

Like for a creature like this that isn't wielding a weapon, if it makes a weapon attack, does that count as a bite or a scratch or whatever? The frostbite says the next weapon attack. Then I am going to reposition over, I guess, one, two, three, four, five, six, and try to frostbite the one that is engaged with Herja. So it's a deck 16, I'm sorry, con 16 save for you. Natural one plus, yeah, thanks.

So he is disadvantaged on his next weapon attack and takes seven points of damage. Seven points of damage as the frost crackles around this creature. I'm just really getting my Todoroki over there. As it does, however, the frost seems to not be as effective as you were hoping. It doesn't seem to damage his splash as much. Well, alone you're already suggesting that you use the old man to boost your AC by two. Okay, that's pretty good. I like that idea.

Okay, so Koa got in front of me. It's your turn, Koa. I would like to... I'm gonna change my plan. I'd just like to drop him, drop the old man at the feet of Iris. Just keep an eye on him, and then I'm gonna run up to that guy up there. So unconscious. And I will just attack twice.

20! 20? Yeah! 18. 18? Okay. So I'll do the first. They could have quit first.

Not bad. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 damage for the first attack. Do you have a magic weapon or no? I do not. Okay, so as you smash it, it breaks some of the spines, but it's not hitting them as much as possible. And then the second attack's damage will be... 19%? Yes.

Is that the kind of thing where if Toa hits him he would notice like, "Oh, that's weird." Yeah, I would say, yeah, that's fine. Uh, 10 for the second attack. 10 for the second attack. It's a hit or damage? Damage. Okay, hit, bro. So once again, it's not doing as much, so it's kind of... Oh, shit. Well, I'm changing my target. Okay. Coming into Burner's no more. Okay, with that, it is, um... It is Monster's one turn, which was the, uh...

the guy that's dead, and so he's horribly dead, and then the next one is the small guy, and he is going to just, he's gonna immediately look around and he is going to, he's gonna flap his wings and

As he's passing by, he's gonna attack Herja twice. Number one. What the check? He is disadvantaged on his next weapon attack. Oh, you're right. So he is going to do one... Shit. He's gonna bite into you once, Herja. So that one's disadvantaged, yeah. Okay. That critically fails and is horribly disbucked, and that breaks off the ice. And then this one is going to hit. Okay. And this is going to deal...

- Hirsh, I tried! Six points of piercing damage. And then he's gonna fly past and then stab you with his tail as he flies past here. - Dang. Where's he going? - That's a 17. - 17 misses. Is he going past me? - He's going past you. He has fly by, so he's so fast, you're not able to get him off. - So which direction is he going? - He's going out of the room.

What? So none of us can fit. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40. Yeah, that works. Very well done. And he's flying out of the room. He's like, I didn't sign up for this! As he starts flying out of the room. It's a living! Little fat...

What is my speed? My speed is 40. Oh, yeah. Fucking kill that bitch. Now, I'm going to be like, hey, little fucker, come back here. And then I'll make, I'm going to, like, run at him spinning my spoon above my head and just, like, attack him. So, like, two right off the bat. Like the devil stick? Who wants a piece of the jam? Yeah, yeah.

- Imagine if I used a beer bottle. - So, I'm sorry, my brain is, 21 and... - There's the moon! - 21 and 24 to hit. - Keep going. - Are you seeing both hits? - We're touching nerves.

That did make me more hungry just talking about it though. So 15 damage from the first two. 15 damage. You, um, boosh, boosh, and you knock him. You notice that your spoon is still, it's not hitting as much as you would like. Uh, 15, so divided by. Okay. So he does not. He takes damage, but it's just not as effective. Do you get a bonus action? Yeah, I do. I'm like, what? Um, and I'm going to hit him with a bonus attack, like jab him with the spoon. Okay.

Yeah, 24 probably. Okay, and 7 damage more. 7 damage more.

As you're bashing him, you're starting to, despite your attacks not really being as effective as it normally would be, you're starting to, like, start flying a little bit more radically, and he's looking bloody. Okay. Okay, Iris, you're up. I'm going to turn around, and I'm going to toll the debt on him. Okay. So it's a wisdom saving throw. Seven. Okay, so he misses, or he fails. Do you need help?

No, I got it all. Four. Four points of damage. Yeah. And you hear a groaning. And you are hearing... It seems to do a full bit of damage there. Yeah. As...

as he starts to get more, he's more wounded. Okay, Herzy, you're up. - God, he sucks, man. - Kill him. - Can I get with 25 feet of movement? - Five, 10, 15, 20, 25. The path is kind of blocked. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25.

5, 10, 15, 20, 25. 7.5, 15, 20. That puts you here. Would that be a possible attack rate? I would say yeah. I would say you can swing around. If the DM's gonna give it to you, might as well. I could scooch a bit. All right, I'm gonna try and hit him with my foil. That is better, 17. 17 I will hit. It's a magic weapon. Oh shit. And I'm gonna dump a first level divine smite into that.

So that's another 2d8. I love Divine Slime. So this is...

That is four bludgeoning, and then this is 11 radiant. So as soon as you swing your codex, it's flapping away, Lifty's weakened, it's flying erratically, and Iris is following up, and he's starting to fly even more, you swing down, you hear the clang of the hammer on the anvil, and it charges up with holy fire, and you smite this creature, and his body completely disintegrates. Yeah.

- Nice. - I have more movement. I do have a bonus action. I will cast Shield of Faith on Toa. - Okay. - A molten orangey shimmery glowing shield appears around Toa. And with that, it is the bard gentleman's turn. - Oh.

Pass the fate to Maia, we'll pass it out. Spine is dead, barb is alive. So the numbers of the monsters don't correspond to the numbers of the monsters. Yeah, I should have done that. That would have been really nice. Toa's right in front of him, he's gonna start attacking. He sees both of those guys dead. He's gonna swing around with his barbed tail. He gets 14, he's gonna miss. Doesn't appear to be his hide.

I'm going to cast Frostbite, which is a con 16 save on your part. That's going to be a max team. I'm going to go.

So on a failed save, you just take half. Oh no, no, 1d6 cold damage and disadvantage on the next-- Oh no, I'm sorry. I think it's just a fail on the second save. Yeah, no, you pass, so you're just good to go. So the ice starts to form around me, and you manage to force it off. And it throws me. Attack him twice. 15. 15 hits, barely. Okay, then both head.

27. 27 points of damage. You're just smashing away. You're both just fighting for your lives in this corner here. And you're just, it's not doing as much, but you're whittling them down. Lifty's turn. All righty, righty. So I have 5, 10, 15, 15. Okay, so I've got plenty of movement. I'm going to rush up there, just again, like wildly spinning my spoon and like battle crying. Ah!

You're spinning your spoon, just smacking sides. Yeah, I'm just all revved up and don't seem to know why. So I will move up here and make two attacks with just a spinning spin. Yeah. Oh, this is 18 and 25. 18, 25, both hit.

19. Yeah, you smack him with your spoons and he's just whittling away. The occasional spine breaks off. His devilish hide is still kind of staying resilient. Okay, so bonus attack. I'm just going to swing it one more time and like, I don't know, fucking jab him in the chin or something. You're coming with an uppercut. Do you need full damage? Eight. Okay. Iris, you're up.

I will toll the dead him. Okay. That is going to be a fucking 13. No, three. Oh, 12. Pardon me. Three points of damage. And this seems to kind of wrack his brain. Okay, it is Herb's turn. I'll one-up to him. How does he look?

He's looking fine. I mean, a lot of you are just bashing with weapons that aren't magical and, you know, and he's releasing a lot of it. He's pretty sturdy. 17? 17 hits. Okay. I'll save my device. 10 bludgeoning? That's magical? 10 bludgeoning. Your magic weapon, it's a splash. Okay. And it seems to do the full thing. 24? Yes.

- Five bludgeoning. - Okay. - And then bonus action to knock him prone. - Okay. - 11. - 11, he's gonna succeed. - Okay. - As you try to knock him prone, he just stands his ground staring. He knows he's trapped, he's fighting for his life here. And for this, he's going to swing, he's gonna swing his tail at Toa. - I'll impose disadvantage. - Okay. - If that doesn't hit. - It fails. It's gonna try to then claw both Persia. - The disadvantage is marked. - Oh.

He's gonna fail that, he's gonna claw Lufty. Perfectly fails, he keeps missing everything as you just horribly mark. Felix drop. I'm gonna try to, um, uh, crossblade him again so just can't d16. What was that? Can't d16. 16. Oops. Uh, that fails.

So he takes nine damage and he's disadvantage on his next attack. Nine damage, so the frost seems to kind of crystallize around him, but the damage, his flesh is not as affected by this cold. Interesting. Weird. That is weird. That is weird. Let's see what's his sensitivity. Ooh. Must be some kind of icy monster. Okay. Good run. All righty, I will attack twice. Okay.

I don't have inspiration, do I? No. So one's 20-something, the other one is 5 plus 8, 13. 13? 13 misses. Okay. One attack hits. So 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 damage. 11 damage. He missed one, he blocks him with his arm, and then he swings again and manages to smash off some more. But he's getting rough. Okay, it is Wolfie's turn.

Back to me. Okay. So still, I'm gonna not spin. I'm gonna make like, I'm gonna hold in my spoon, but I'm gonna like elbow, like multiple elbow attack three right in a row, just alternating. Okay.

Natural 20. Wow! 11. Damn, we've been rolling well in that. And the third one would be a 27. 11 misses. So quick, another one hit. 23. Very nice. What was that? 23 total. 23 damage as you're just bashing and bashing and punching. And you're just all kind of being like that scene from Shaun of the Day. Girls taking turns whacking on him. Yeah. He's looking rough. He's looking very rough. Iris, you're up. Told the dead him. Told the dead, okay. Reason save.

And he fails. That's an eight. Two. Two. He clutches his head and he's... He is very, very... He's getting weak. Harjit, you're up. Trying to make this non-lethal. Hits 24. Okay.

- Six bludgeoning. - Okay. You smash him, he's looking very weak. - All right, next hit, natural 20. - Natural 20! - Max damage, by the way, this was an eight, so 18. - Is it non-lethal? - Yeah. - Okay. - If you deem that as non-lethal.

I think that if you declare to be non-lethal, and you swing it around, he's looking really rough, and you hear a loud crack, and the eyes roll back, and you now have an unconscious devil. We don't have our infernal speaker, and we really shouldn't be collecting bad guys.

Well, I don't know. I just figured if you guys wanted to interrogate me. I'll run over to the table that he described with the blueprints on them and see if I can read them in any substantial way that might be magic related. Okay, go up and make an arcana check. I would love to. I have to check my arcana. I know that it's high.

- Oh, we should probably change the music. - I was like, I'm fine with it if this works. - 23 for Arcana. - 23 for Arcana. You take a look at these, at a lot of these,

Runes. And some of this you actually recognize that this is a, that there's a, that these infernal machines, these massive things, that there is assembly that is being done, that is done through a process of, what's the summoning school? Conjuration? Conjuration and faith mutation.

And that it is a highly magical, it's in languages, but you recognize some of the symbols and you recognize some of the things. But you can't piece it together, but it's definitely clear to you that that's what it is. I'm going to roll up the blueprints and stick them in my pack. Okay. As much as I can take. I don't know how much there is. No, there's three large, large ones that are just kind of all basically different parts of it. And you roll that all up and you now have an unconscious cult guy and an unconscious...

Devil guy. Should I kill them both? No. I don't think so. We choose which one we murder right now. We kill the devilish one. I mean... Why is that one? He's not going to give us any information. How dare he not? We can't risk it. If he gets away from us, if he does anything that we're not expecting, then he lets anyone know that we're here. To be fair, we can't even talk to him.

The only person that can talk to him is Caprice. Caprice isn't here! He'll come back. He's like, "I'm in the next room. We'll find him." We don't know where he went. Or he's dead. Right? So yeah, what's Caprice doing right now? Okay, so while you debate, I just wanted to make sure if you were going to side on that. So, Caprice, you are sneaking down. Caprice, as soon as you walk down there, you walk through and you hit a dead end. I need you to...

Make a perception check, as you're welcome. Let's go with a 14. A 14. Unfortunately, you do not see this as you step on a plate and a large, a large, massive, glazed pane from the ceiling drops and slices towards you. I need to make a dexterity saving throw, please. 27. 27? Easy peasy. Holy heck.

So you manage to dodge out of the way, but you're still sliced on your side. You don't take a full glaive and you're gonna take this much in slashing damage. Do you get a bonus to straight deck saving though? I'm proficient. That's like plus seven. Yeah, I got a bunch of shit. Alright. OP, OP. You're gonna take seven points of slashing damage. Okay. That sucks. And you are still invisible.

but it was the pressure of that and so you hit that trap and it is a dead end on all sides. I don't see anything with this dead end? Nope. It's another one of those dead ends with the trap. I'll turn around, avoiding the trap. Okay. And I will return and I assume by the time I get back the combat's over. Oh yeah, it's a dead end. Okay. Yeah, probably. So as you get back I would say yeah, probably the combat is over and you...

very carefully patting the walls and all that, but it was a quick combat and it ended very quickly. And so now you get back, they're debating currently on how the, how it was to do with his death. I'll boot myself an invisible. Hey guys, I kind of got a little cut back there. It's a dead end and it's dangerous. How are you guys doing? I kept one alive for you. I think you want to talk to him, but they might want to kill him anyway. Oh, thank you. I think we should talk to both of these guys. Why don't we just take a rest for just a little bit and...

Mechanically, maybe take a short rest while we talk to these guys. I'll talk to them before we take a short rest. Or while we're talking to them, if it's talking. I want to bind the devil guy if I can. I don't know like physically how that would work. Does he have armor on of some kind? He does not. He has like a thorny hide. I would say you could try to bind him, but it's very difficult. I'd say you do a disadvantage, you might take some damage doing it. Those are his spikes. Yeah.

Okay, so disadvantage. Dex. Join in this. I'm gonna try one bite. Eleven. Eleven. You tried it, it's very difficult, it seems pretty loose, and you're gonna take three points of piercing damage. Ooh, that's not bad. As the barbs slice into your hands.

I'm just doing that while I time up. Watch out for the barbs, man. It's kind of hard to do. I don't know. Maybe you should have done it. Um...

It's different. And, um... It's, like, very cringy. So how does that sound? Or should we just keep carrying them with us? No, I think we need to deal with these problems right here. As soon as we have two unconscious dudes, we're not going to be able to stealth our way through this labyrinth. I agree. Let's wake them both up, or wake one up and then the other, and see what they have to say. And if we don't like what they have to say, then I can make nightmares in their head. Are we actually taking a short rest? I think we can talk to them beforehand. No, we're going to talk to them, and then we're going to decide if we need a short rest.

Well, this is out of my wheelhouse, so someone step up. I'll just sort of grab the old cult guy and let's kind of smack him awake if I can. He looks at you and his eyes are just immediately, he looks confused. And his eyes immediately narrow and still look like this animalistic creature. Hey friend. How you doing? What's your name? My name is Caprice. It's a pleasure to meet you. And I pull the gag out.

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He looks at you and he says, "You should have killed me now. You should have killed me back then. You should kill me now. You'll get nothing from me." Well, if you want to be dead, we can certainly make that happen. Oh, yeah. We can certainly make that happen, but we want to know what you know. Why are you doing what you're doing? What's up? What's going on down here? Yeah, I will tell you nothing. Is he a humanoid? Yes. I'm going to charm him. Okay. Spell save DC 13. Wisdom.

I don't, I still don't know, but sure. It doesn't tell you Indy and Dibyana? Oh, don't tell me. That's crazy. I will Google find Charm Person. What are you using? Eyes of Charming. It's Charm Person. Charm Person. It's gotta be Wiz. It has to, right? It is a wisdom saving throw. Oh, that's the item you got? If you click on the spell that it lets you cast, it should pull it up for you. It doesn't, like, bring anything up. It's bolded, but it's not linked. Yeah. It is Charm Person, though. Wiz. Okay, so he gets a...

18. As your goggles kind of flare and he seems to be, despite being chain fucking charm the whole fight, he seems to resist that. It's a broken! I told you all's a broken! Well, let me see if I've got any jazz that I can play. I guess, I mean, if he wants to die and he won't tell us anything...

He's a part of a cult, so I mean, I guess it was foolish of us to expect we'd get any kind of information. Yeah, I mean, it's been a while. I'd be happy to let you snap his leg. I mean, I couldn't. Couldn't someone else do it? I could spend some energy juice to suggest he might actually tell us everything he's been up to down here and why he's here. That's up to you, friend. I trust your judgment. Hey, buddy. Why don't you tell us a little bit, as much as possible, why you're down here...

what your ritual is all about and What your ultimate goals are? I'll spend a second level spell flaws or suggestion you will make a wisdom saving throw DC 16 Okay, unless he's immune to charm

He's not. Okay, I magically influence the creature that can hear and understand me, which he can. It's a reasonable course of action. He, on a failed source, he pursues the course of action that I described, so I want him to tell me all of his secrets. He looks at you, and he tells you, his eyes kind of gloss over, once again charmed, and he says, We are the cults of the Horde, King. We give glory to...

to our horned god. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. We are calling the army. We are calling forth the power of fire, the power of the nine hells, joined with the power of the abyss. Oh, no, that can't be good. Why would you do something like that? That seems very unreasonable. I just don't know why anyone would be motivated to do that. The death, the death of all in the city. You're talking about Centra there? Of course. Mm-hmm. The death of...

Of the Dark Prodigy, the Death of Nine Hells. Do you know who the Dark Prodigy is? I know of the Dark Prodigy. She is our quest. She is your quest. Do you know of her by any other name? We do not. Hmm. And is the Horned King and the Horned God the same book? He is our God. He is the Horned King. Okay. Answer any of these fine people's questions. What do you got? So he's not...

He's not charmed. He just will do what you originally asked him to do when you cast him. Yeah, but... So we can't like question it. I mean, he... I try to phrase it as, you'll answer any of our questions. I'll remember that next time. What did you phrase it as? And the suggestion spell wears off. Oh. Suggestion spell wears off. Okay. What are you doing for retirement? Do you get a pension? Who is this? My point over to them.

- Oh, they're unconscious guy on the ground. - Um. - That's a good idea. I know suggestion has worn off. I'm just wondering if you'll answer. - His eyes kind of turn. He goes at you with hatred. - I will tell you nothing, Kimmy. - Well, you already told us plenty. So you might as well just spill it. - I will not. - Well, we can either torture him or we could just coup de grace. What do you guys feel? - I don't think we need to torture anyone. - Why don't we just leave him tied up and he'll stop to death? - No. - Oh, okay. - Just kill him. I said, we just kill him.

This is far, far too dangerous to just leave them. We need to make sure we tie up any loose ends. I don't want to just murder in cold blood, but this is evil. This is purely evil. He's, I mean, he's obviously doing terribly evil things. Make it swift. So if you don't want to do it, that's fine. I'll do it. But, you know, you got their strong hands. You just, you know.

Let's finish him real quick. He's just pretty strong too. That's fine. If hers is feeling like it, you know, he gets squashed his head like a melon. You got that sweet ass flail you got there. That sweet ass. Or I can sit on him.

- Not a bad way to die. - I'll do that. I'll walk over to him. I'll straddle the back of his shoulders and I'll try to crack his neck and kill him instantly with a twist between the thighs. - I would say with how weak he is, you just grab him by the thighs, just, who to draw him in a very interesting way. - Wow, that was-- - He falls to the ground, his eyes go and he collapses. - Caprizo will remember this.

That was unique, to say the least. I'll like close his eyes and fold up his arms and just say a quick word in prayer and... I point to the spiny one and I say, this guy seems a bit more dangerous as well. Yeah, I'm not going to put my thighs around his neck. I wouldn't suggest that. I don't even know if we want to wait for him to wake up.

Do we just want to take care of this right now and move on our way? I feel like we've got about as much information as we can out of that guy. And this place seems large. We could be here a while. I'd like to keep moving. Yeah, I only kept him unconscious because you had disappeared and he spoke a language you understood. So I figured if you wanted to interrogate him, you could. Oh, he speaks in viral? Yeah. He does. We don't understand. He's a devil. We just don't know how long it might take to roust him. Did he seem like he was...

of the same kind of leadership quality as this old guy? - He seems like a bodyguard. He was just guarding the door. - It's hard to tell, yeah. I mean, he was just standing there. He was just kind of threatening. - I don't love the idea of killing him, but I feel like if we just do that, then we can move on. What do you guys think?

- It's fun, I feel like we learn. - I cast Toll the Dead on him. - Okay. - We could put it to an anonymous vote. - Wisdom save. - And yeah, he fails. And as soon as he does that Irish wave, you kind of hear that familiar and all of a sudden, all those in college are like, and then his eyes, this gross dicker, a seeps out.

and his jaw hangs out in his tongue. - I'm gonna look at all of them and I'm gonna say, what on earth is wrong with every single one of you? Do you not hear and see what we are getting into here? And you're standing around trying to be just to two people who are hoping for the destruction of innocent lives in a city not miles from here. You don't know how many innocent lives are dying as we speak in here. And you want to give justice to these devils and this

"Disgusting human!" And I'll kick his body. "What the hell is wrong with all of you?" "I think we're just trying to learn some information, that's all." "And the time for learning that is done. There are people who may need our help." "Knock it off, you're all a bunch of idiots. Now let's go!" And I immediately storm out of the room. Pretty sure that's what I was saying, but alright, let's keep going.

And so Iris marches out and you make your way back to the entrance of this labyrinthine. Yeah, we're back to literally square one. And you all arrive there and there are several more paths to take.

- Four more pads. - Do they still smell the same as they did before? - I would say you can sniff it with your cat nose and yeah, they smell the same. I would actually have you make another perception check with smell. - We're back at the penis. - We're back at the old thing. - 12. - 12. I would say that you smell a bit more and the smell with the smoke scent is a little bit stronger.

From which one? From three and four. Yeah, three and four. Okay. Whatever they're doing down there, it is increasing, at the very least. We need to go. More expanding, at the very least. So three or four? We're right here at the entrance. Does anyone feel like popping out and talking to Ravioli, or should we just continue on our way? He would let us know if he needed us. He was gone. I mean, he ran off into the woods. Oh, you're right. Okay, let's make our way. So let's flip a coin, three or four?

Let's just do three. Three of these. The next one. I'm going to do three over here. Okay. So, with Loofty and three, we slide this over in the main boss of soy sauce and duck sauce. Oh, soy sauce. And you can continue this way or this way. Do you guys want any of this stuff? No, thank you. No, thanks.

Not right this second, anyway. I'll drag that duck's off later on. Keep it, we just keep heading towards me. Okay. I don't know what you guys want to do. You move up. Yeah. And you move to the right. Okay. Slide that over very slightly. And yeah, so you move up. You see that there's a dead end there. And it's pretty easy to see. And you zoop up around. Zoop up? And move it slightly a little bit more. I think we're going to need to move. Okay. Then you realize that there's two ways you can take it. Left and right. Which way?

Do they seem different in any way? Like smell or sound wise? Make a perception check, whatever you'd like to. I will do it. Okay. Sounds good. I are sniffing sniffs. 16. 16. You smell sniff the air and you're getting two distinct scents. To the left,

is the smell of a strong musk and a strong sense of death. The scent to the right is far smokier. I still feel like fire is going to lead us to living beings. I don't know about...

going towards the death smell, but again. - I agree, I think that we can, if they're doing some terrible ritual burning things, we should try to stop it. - Very quickly, while I was away, I would have noted that like, I would have come back to the original cock that I drew and drawn like a not this cock and then continued to indicate that like that entire avenue is explored and just to do that sort of thing. - Okay, so you have the chalk.

- The cock chuck. - The cock chuck. - So we're gonna go towards the fire. - Okay, let's go. - So you make your way down and you, as you start to, who's in the lead?

Toa, probably. Herja. Same, same. Herja and Toa need to make a, uh, I think all of you need to make a double check. With Lifty in the back. Do you want this one? Uh, slightly, yeah. I mean, it's, yeah, difficult. Who needs this? 21. 23. 19. 12. I get an 11. Okay. And as you make your way towards this hallway, you go down further and further. You start to hear a strange whimpering sound.

And it almost sounds like the sound of a fussy infant. Oh, Jesus. That's... Oh, it's a room. It's a room. And so... Do you reveal the whole room? Yeah. Oh, it's a room connected to the other hallway. Okay. So as you enter this room, it's very dark. And this kind of strange smell hits you. And...

It's not good and you kind of hear it. What is the smell? And you see a number of baskets on these long tables. Oh, I hate it.

and they all seem to be empty except for one in the darkness you see strange shifting motion on the farthest of these baskets and it's like a straw it's dark we can't even see with dark vision no you can see it with dark vision but the basket is high and filled with like a straw like we can't see them oh oh the movement is coming from the basket okay i misunderstood i'm gonna like push past and rush up to the basket and look at it rush up and you look inside and you see a human infant

squirming, fussy, kind of looking distraught. - Does it look normal? - Make a medicine check? - I'm gonna, seeing her pick up the baby, I'm gonna roll over. - Oh, shit. Oh, that was bad. - I'm right behind her. - That was super quick. - Roll over. - Roll over? - Huh? Once he's my baby, I'm gonna go over to examine him. - I kind of fell out of my hand, but what did you tell me to make? - So, medicine check for you. - Lufti, Lufti, give me the child. - Okay.

And it is 23. 23. You check the child and it seems to be a normal human baby. And it seems as if it's not in the best shape, but it's relatively healthy, surprisingly. I want to check the other baskets while they're doing that. Okay. Make an investigation check. Can I help him? Yeah. Okay.

Oh, there we go. 15. As you and Persia poke around, you find, you dig around and you find the occasional small doll rattle. Little scraps of clothing. Oh, no.

This isn't good. If this infant begins to cry, they're gonna know we're here. We just... We can't leave the child, but this isn't good. This is not good for us at all. No, it's not good because we don't know how many infants were in this basket when we spent all that time wondering whether or not we should kill those foul beasts. I mean, we already know they're sacrificing children. This isn't the first we've seen this. It's only a matter of time before we find another one of those iron bull furnaces.

I agree. I think we just need to-- I'm gonna get into my pack and grab like a bag of string or a ball of string and I'm going to like-- is it sleeping or does it seem like it's just-- It's kind of like falling in and out. It's like sleepy. So I'm gonna like give it to hold on to and then I'm just gonna hold it against myself and like purr a little louder to kind of coax it into falling asleep. Keep its arms across its chest like this and really hold it by the butt. I'm good at this sort of thing. Do you want the baby rattle that I got in the very first session? I would love it, please. Oh yeah, here, here, here.

And you get a little baby rattle, which you assume to be Baby Thomas's from Miss Crow's Crossing. And it takes it and kind of clenches it with some coaxing from Iris. I put the rattle in my pack. That's just for later. I don't want it rattling while we're in here. Coaxing with Iris, the baby gently falls. Do you bring it with us? I'm not leaving it here. So we either bring it with us or you leave me here with it. Let's bring it with us. You stand in the back.

I planned on it. Yeah, keep like 10, 15 feet back. Someone should be back there with her. Why don't you stay back and I'll lead? Sure. My speed is quick. Should someone come on me, I could make my way to you.

- Losing their rare. - More than likely quicker than them. I will be. - Okay. Iris, I would like you to make a perception check. This will be ear or-- - 16. - 16. As you're doing this, you start to hear an echoing through the hallway behind you. - There's someone coming up behind us. - And the stench of this musk, this...

- Beastrol livestock scent and it's . - Was it, what I recognize is the same one that I smelled down the other hallway. - Yes. - I believe whatever was on down the other hallway is on its way. - Does it look like we can hide behind the basket? - There are small tables and the baskets are like anything. It'd be very difficult for all of you to hide. - Time to go. - Around the corner everybody. - Let's keep moving.

So it's coming from the way we came? Yes. Presumably from the way we didn't check. Based on what Iris was perceiving. Smelling as a kitty. Meow. So as you make your way through, you hear the... Sorry, I'm trying to rotate some of these bad boys here. You can give me some of the loose paper if it don't matter.

- That is perfect. So you make your way and as you make your way down to the end, you actually start to see smoke billowing out from down around the hallway. You see the glow of orange and yellow and red fire. - Can I smell the smell of burning flesh? - Make a touch and check. - 24.

It does smell like burning flesh. They're burning some kind of flesh down here. It's gotta be one of those furnaces. We can try to put it out like we did last time. At least slow them down, but I'm concerned about what's coming from behind us. As am I. We have to keep moving. We gotta go forward. Is this another path? Yeah. You can pull the rest of it off. What is all this? Yeah. Let's just peek. I mean, you might be saying you can pull it off. So, you peek into the room.

And you now see the source of this light at the center of this room. A massive brass statue, bull-like in appearance, not too unlike the mural that you saw in one of those chambers. A raging furnace inside its belly, arms raised up to the sky.

An open, roaring bull mass that almost looks like a helmet. Fire raging out a large pit with stairs leading up to it. Holy shit. Where the flames of inferno just raging. And then small little windows with metal grates just going all along the body of the statue. And it's sitting there at the center of this room where the smoke is building up and you can kind of see these very small vents heading upward.

where the smoke is somewhat billowing up towards. - And there's no creatures in the room that we can see. I just look at Iris and say, "I'm gonna put it out." - I think you should. - So I move forward and I cast Ice Knife on it. Just like I did the first time. To try to quench it. - Everybody around the other side of the statue. Everyone around the other side of the statue. - Yeah, I'll follow.

Yeah, so I'm gonna basically just ice knife this thing as many times as I need to to put it out. So you run up and you, as soon as you enter the room and you understand what's going on, you ice knife and how does that work? I mean, it's just an attack roll. It does, it shoots an ice knife and then explodes into ice all over the place. Can you make an attack at advantage, please? 16.

16. It does, it flies into the furnace and it hits and explodes and the fire starts to... And how much damage would that do? It would be 1d10 and then plus 2d6. Okay. Roll that. 8. Okay.

I can do it again if it doesn't look like it's enough. So, um, as you throw it, it explodes and it turns to water and starts to, like, dance to the sum of the fire. But it's a raging inferno, it is duller. However, as soon as you do that and it explodes, you hear and then the head of the statue turns to you. Ah, fuck. Jesus.

And it moves down, and where it was sitting stands up. Ah, Jesus. This massive brass statue with a raging inferno in it turns to you and it starts to move. His eyes blaze. I made a mistake! And we're all behind him. We're all behind him. Shit.

Oh my god. Jesus, my rolls have been so bad tonight. I'm in three. Okay. I'm assuming hitting this thing with a fireball would be a bad idea. You don't know life. Ooh, I don't know. Yeah, no fire. So, uh, it... Let me... Let me get this, let me get this. And I'm not feeling too great. Oof.

So, I need 20 to 25. 24. Sorry, 23. Iris is first. 19. 15. 19. 15. 11. I got a 7. Replace me with Hersha. I was 19. I don't know Hersha's. 5. Oh, wow. Brutal. Okay. And Ez...

As it turns to you, you kind of see its large bloated belly as these creatures made of ash and smoke appear and form. They have flapping wings and these almost juvenile-like faces as they swarm and fly around it. That is so messed up. And with that, I need to roll initiative. And do we get tokens for this purpose? We do. You would have finds. Yeah.

I would be back in a corner somewhere. We all would be in that corner. I was in front of you, you guys were behind me. Everyone else would be where Maya is. I would be as close to the wall as I could possibly be. You guys put it around. That's intense. Where did you want to be? As close to the wall, like in the very, very corner as possible. Put them around once. Oh, dear lord. Are you sure you miscounted these, Mike? No.

Thank you. I can't really, I can't reach, so... Troy, what did you get, by the way? You wanted to be over here? I was in front of it. I had to be in front of it to try to... I would put them in a circle around it instead of all on your side. I just can't reach, so... I don't know how else to do it. It's fine. Thank you. We'll put some next to us, too, right?

Yes, exactly. And thank you. You wanna also jump in there too. Okay, cool. So this creature, all of these smoke creatures flat out around Iris, you're there, this massive brass statue is looming, ready to attack. I'm going to hold the baby in one hand and then with my other hand, I'm gonna reach up and cast Mass Healing Word on all of us. Okay. Ooh, fuck yeah. It's not much, but... It's enough.

Seven. Hell yeah. Seven health. Seven. So you call upon the power of Anubis, and all of you kind of feel, you kind of hear this low bang of like the jackal, as this shimmering golden light shimmers over you, and you all feel a little bit healthier. Thanks. I'm then going to use my regular action to look at him and cast Toll the Dead. Okay. It's a wisdom save. Wisdom save, got it.

That is going to be a 12. That fails. Okay. Those are six. There's my eight. Fourteen. What kind of damage? Necrotic. As you start to see it start to react, but given that this is not a creature flesh, it's not doing as much as you would expect. Is it doing 14 damage to that? Yes. Okay. Oh, wow. That was the main one? Yeah. Okay.

Me? Yep. Uh, Luffy, sorry. Okay. Um, so I'd move around you over here to number four and make two attacks with my spoon. Yep. Uh, so that's a lot. It's a 27 and a 19 to hit. Both hit. So 17 damage.

17 damage, okay. You run up and your spoon... Are you getting the little guy or the big guy? Number four. Okay, yeah, you... On to which guy? 17 damage, you smash into it. A puff of smoke and ash kind of puffs in your face. It's still alive. It's still alive, okay. So using my bonus action, I'll just kind of like knee it as well. To number two, right? Yeah. No, number four. Oh, number four. 22 to hit. Hits.

- Nine damage? - Nine damage, and that's enough as you knee it and it explodes into a puff of ash. - Thank you, Bee Nuno, that's really nice. - I'm gonna use a ki point for patient defense. - Okay. - Okay, cool. - Okay, so you do that, and you patiently defend yourself when you're ready to go. As it turns and looks at all of you, it is going to,

and it sees you running up and it walks to you, Lufty, and it raises one of its arms and it's going to slam down on you. That is gonna hit and you take... Where the fuck is my D10?

15 points of bludgeoning damage. So do I get the dodge action there? Yeah. Oh, does it dismanish? I took patient defense. Yes. Oh, never mind. You need to dodge out of the way as it slams you heavy waiting and it slams out of the way. However, is it going to turn to

and you see its belly start to blaze up. It is going to shoot right towards Horda. As a blast of fire, I need Caprice, Horda, and not Rodan, Toa to make a dex saving throw. As a blast of fire explodes. 18. 18? Yep. I'm behind them. Do I need to make one? 20. Dex save, so I might be able to use Shieldmaster here. You should be able to save.

Ten. Ten is unfortunately a fail. But so you will take... Wait, hold on. So both of you take half of this. Cabriss and me? So... Ten. Eighteen points of fire damage. So you're going to take the full of that version. And both of you are going to take half. So nine points of fire damage. Nine points and I cut that in half because I have Hell's Resistance. Yeah, there you go. As it blasts. And that is its turn. Toa, you're up. Thanks.

Do these guys seem like they would be... Are they actually made of fire? These ones are made of ash and smoke. So they can't... Or I guess, does it feel like we can put out the fire to any of factors? I would say that you could certainly try, but this is a massive living construct. Well, what I'm going to do is use my movement to... One...

I have two, three. - Can you go which way? - I'm gonna get here. - Like here? - Yeah. - You run up with your maul ready to go. - I am going to...

What do I want to do? Yeah, I'm going to try it. I am going to then pull out the conch shell that I've been carrying this whole time. Oh, shit. And I'm going to blow into it. And from it is a huge wall of wind. It's going to extend. And I just want it to go, like, right here. Okay. If possible. How does that work? Um, so... Uh...

So, a line of strong wind 60 feet long and 10 feet wide blasts from you in a direction you choose for the spell's duration. Each creature that starts its turn in the line must succeed in a strength saving throw and be pushed 15 feet away from you in that direction following the line. Any creature in the line must spend 2 feet of movement from one movement or one foot in moves when moving closer to you.

The gusts disperse gas or vapor and extinguish candles, torches, and similar unprotected flames in the area. It causes protected flames, which is those with lanterns, to dance wildly and has a 50% chance to extinguish them. As a bonus action, on each of your turns before the spell ends, you can change the direction in which the line blasts from you. Well... I would say roll percentile die. Holy shit. I would say roll percentile die. Okay. If it's that big of a fucking blast to win...

Iron flask, iron flask. 53?

- 53. So as you see Toa pull out his comms, and he blows and this . - I'm holding my hat and my cloak, it's just like going right past me. - This blast of wind blasts this creature and it . And you see the fire get completely doused inside.

- Oh my God. - Good job. - We'll see what happens. - And as soon as that happens, the fire goes out in his eyes and it waits a second and then lifts its head back up and moves at a much slower rate

still fighting, but incredibly weakened and doused of that infernal flame. It looks like just as soon as the fire was doused, there's crackling and crack crushing in the bronze statue. - Nice. - Okay. - We're done. - And then sort of blast of wind is constantly going in that line. - Okay.

That is a priest's turn. Well, that makes my life a lot easier. I will take a swipe with my rapier against the guy right in front of me. I don't know the number. There's a little guy. Six. Six. I will take a swipe at six with a 23 to hit. Swipe at six with 23 to hit? Yeah. Okay, that hits. Yep, and that'll be eight piercing damage for him. Eight piercing damage, okay. Uh...

It pierces in with your rapier and it gets him a little bit, but he's still flapping. All right, then what are you going to do? How are you feeling, Herja? Are you feeling better? And with the word better, I'll healing word at second level. That'll be for her. 12 points of healing. Thank you kindly. And that'll be the end of my turn. Okay.

- That is its turn and then so the two creeps are going to go. Two are gonna fly at Felix. One is gonna fly to Urge and the other's gonna fly to Luffy. - Hold on, one and six need to make strength saves. - One and six need to make strength saves, okay. That is going to be a 13. - Little one and big one goes in there. - A 13 and three, 13 and three. - So which one failed? Six or one? - We'll say six failed. - Okay, so he's pushed back 15 feet.

V, let's go. No, it goes that way. Towards you. Oh, sorry. Where are you? Oh, okay. So, one, two, three? Yep. This one goes to Felix. This one goes to Felix? Probably. Yep.

And then one's gonna go to her job And it needs what I need you to move what's their movements with their movement their movement is a 35 35 okay, so they can move 15 feet so can one get to Felix Yeah, so one is gonna move towards Caprice and can move that free to me so he can he can fly flat towards Caprice, okay

Come on buddy, why? No, this way he can get back. He got knocked back, but he can then fly. He sees all of his movements like that. He's always a good winner. And so they're all going to, one is going to use its breath and blast Lufty, Caprice, and Toa, I believe. Toa's the dwarf.

Are you talking about number five? Yes, he's gonna blast those three. Oh, wow. And so I need a dex saving throw.

Natural 20. 19. 23. Shoddy. Hold on, hold on, hold on. My rolls have been garbage. It's been really, really ice and fire tonight. It blasts and almost gets in your eyes and you're able to all dodge out of the way and you're not blinded. Two are going to claw at Felix. Let me know that if one hits I'm going to use shield, but if not, I'm not going to use it.

One's gonna be a 13. That's a hit, so I'm gonna use my reaction to shield, which then sets my bonus AC. The shield shines up and blasts, and the other one's gonna claw at you, and that is going to be a 14. And so both of the shield blocks both. Caprice, one is... That one's gonna blast Herja, Caprice, and Toa, so I need all of you to make attack saving throws. I already did 19. No, no, another one. Another one? Which one's blasting? That one.

Oh, sorry, my apologies. It's 24 now. If it's lower than a 10, you win. 15? Yes. This is dex? Yep. 15? 15. And once again, if the blast is not blinding you, then that will just get clawed and compressed. And horrifically fail. Okay, that's their turn. Felix, drop. Alright, um... Oh, this feels bad. I am go- Oh, Jesus, this feels bad. So, spellcasting at melee range is disadvantage? If it's spell attacked, then yes. Any other spell is not. Shit, pass.

It's just disadvantaged.

This is terrible. I feel like I'm in really deep shit here. Um, I am going to actually cast Thunder Wave on the two in front of me. Nice! It is con 16 save on your part. I didn't know you could do that. Bring... Yeah. ... neutral 1 plus whatever, uh, con. That's gonna be 13. Both fail. So they both fail, and then I do 4d8. You've been killing it. 4d8 damage.

And so let me start by doing that. And they'll be pushed 10 feet away from me. So let me do the damage first. Four. God, my rolls have been so bad. And then eight is 12. So 12 damage to each. They get pushed.

10 feet away from me and it emits a thunderous boom audible off to 300 feet. So basically it's gonna rattle down the hallways and everybody's gonna hear this thunderous boom. - Thanks Felix. - What numbers are those by the way? - One and two.

Yeah, it's just 12 points of damage. That is the most miserable level 3 spell I've ever cast in my entire life. And you knock them back to 15 feet. 10 or 15? 10. And you blast them back and you hear a loud crack of thunder and you stick out your hand and you hear *poof*. They're looking rough. Can you knock them both into the wind? Is that possible? It's just 10 feet back from you. I mean, I would have had to reposition and I would have taken an opportunity and all this shit. So back from you could have been like there.

- And then he would have been straight back that way. - I think that's fine. - Whatever. Okay. - And then I'm gonna use my movement though to move away 'cause they're not near me now. So I'm just gonna. - Keep an eye on the corner. - Yeah, keep an eye down the corner and then I'm gonna pull you out. - What a distraught hand roll in my shit. - I'm gonna make an attack on three. - That's exactly what I'm gonna do. - Nine. - Nine misses.

15? 15 hits. Oh nice, max damage. 10 bludgeoning? 10 bludgeoning, yep. It smashes in with Dakota and it blasts, it kind of flaps around and so on. Only, yeah, okay. And then I will try to bonus action not in front. 17 athletics?

- 17 athletics, okay. - For number three. - Oh, that's gonna horribly fail. It flaps to the ground and is knocked prone with your shield. - Yay! - And dash it down. - Which one is that? - Number three. - Okay, okay. Iris, you're up. - I am going to calm down the baby 'cause it's screaming now. - Oh good, that's pretty nice. The way it's screaming and squirming in your hand is this horrible thing, yeah. - So I'm just purring at it, trying to calm it down. And then I am going to...

As a bonus action, I'm going to cast Spiritual Weapon. Okay. And I'm going to put it... I'm going to put it so that it's going to hit...

Not there, because it can be in people's spaces, because it's a spiritual weapon. So I'm going to put it between the guy next to Lifty and the big guy, so it'll hit both of them. Okay. Good. Yeah, so it should be right there. And then, yeah. I'm going to attack with it. Okay.

Oh, you see Iris pray and then this shimmering magical crooking flail join at once appears and swings in to attack somebody. 17 plus 8, so 25. Which number? Both the big guy and number 5. Big guy and number 5, okay. Big guy and number 5. And they're both going to take 9 damage. Oh, is that AoE? Yeah, it hits anybody within 5 feet of the weapon.

- Oh shit. - Oh, a creature, you're right, yeah. So I'll do big guy. - Okay. - Big guy for nine damage. - Nine damage, smacks in, you hear that crack as it takes the full damage. - And then as my bonus action, I'm going to use toll the dead. - Okay. - Nice. - No, as my action, 'cause that was a bonus action and that was a spell. So I'm gonna use toll the dead then on the other one. And that's a con save or a wisdom save.

- That's gonna be a wiz. - Has he been damaged? - Big guy? - No, little guy. - Number five. - Five has not been damaged. - Okay. - Let's get closest to you, Hanson. - So it's gonna be two to eight.

Every one of them has been damaged now. Nine points of damage. Necrotic damage. As you hear the gong. They're kind of making this like a juvenile, really unsettling noise of these smoke monsters. Okay, Lufty, you're up. How's number five look? They all look like

- They've been damaged, but like five just in my hand. All of them look more damaged than five. - Okay, so I'm gonna like see her spiritual weapon. I'm gonna like throw a wink over my shoulder and be like, "Thanks girl." And then I'm gonna whack it twice with my spoon, number five.

13 and 27. 13 for 27. For the little guy? For number 5, yes. Number 5, yep, they both hit. Nice. Roll the damage of the first one. Huh? Roll 1 damage first. Just in case that you hit something else. 10 damage. Number what? 5. Number 5. 5 is not enough. Yeah, it's still alive as you hit it.

- Six more damage. - Okay, six. You smash it out of there and it disappears in this card. - Okay, cool. - And Ash. - And then I'm gonna spend a ki point and I'm just gonna like start wailing on the big dude. - Okay, you're gonna start punching this and all of your attacks are gonna be hitting him. - Do I need to roll for two? - Yeah, roll for two. - Okay. - I mean, do it in normal damage. - Lots and lots. 27. - Hits. - 23. - Hits.

- Good roll, damn. - Wait, 10 plus 16. - 20? - Yeah. - Okay. And you are bashing it in this iron. Now that the fire's gone out, its metal seems to actually be brittle as it is beginning to crack. It's starting to spread over the whole. You look as if it was going to make that belly attack and its fire is out and it cannot do that. And so it is just going to make two slam attacks that seem to be far slower and far less accurate.

So this guy must really like pogs Which pog? Slam attack. You know, if you didn't replace pogs with your- You have to use a slammer to try to flip the pogs Does anyone remember pogs? Yeah Or elves? That was after her- It's gonna be by the slam That's gonna be E17 to hit Lufty still

There's a whackable 17 to me? We'll show you after the satchel. And that'll be 14 points of bludgeoning damage. It's got like marbles, but with paws. I know marbles. And then it's going to slam down with a weakness on Toa and is going to...

It's gonna miss. It smashes its fist down very slowly and is unable to do anything else without the flame there. And, uh, okay. So we're up.

Keep that flame out. I will... I will... That'll be rough. I'm gonna move here. It works. Meaning that I'll get... Potentially propose an opportunity. That is a natural one. Okay.

I will use my bonus action to redirect the wind in this direction. Yep. So that it gets all of them. Okay? Good one. How long can you do that for? A minute. Nice. And I will attack twice.

I'm the old big fella. Hey big fella! Ooh, that's not very good. 16. Mine not. 16 hits. And a 14. 14, that misses. Ah. 7, 12 damage.

- It's okay. - You are smashing into it. It's starting to crack and split as the metal is starting to kind of cave in with each of your hands. - Yeah, I cannot see. - Okay. - It's kind of tough. - It is, Gary, you start. - Yeah, I'm just trying to see where I'm at here. - If I were to move here, what, five, 10, 15, I would not be able to hit. - What happens to the wind with allies?

Well, no one's in it currently, but anybody that's in it. Okay, so you shouldn't cross the wind. Well, I don't want to cross the stream, certainly. God damn it. That's what I meant to say. It's a dyslexic mind. Fuck me. I will make a... Derek just stole your joke. This guy's prone. Who's prone? This guy's prone. That guy's prone? Delicious.

And the guy's looking weak, Mr. Firebelly. - He's looking damaged, yeah. - He's looking damaged. All right, seeing that we've already crossed the Thunderwave threshold and we don't care about how much noise we're making, Felix, I mean, Purvis. - Purvis, is that what we call him? - Yeah, we're calling him Purvis. - All right, I'm gonna write that down. - He doesn't like it, so it's funny. And I'll cast Thunderwave myself, pushing into, I think that's six.

and then also the big dude. Okay, so are you gonna move? I'll see where I'm at. I'm just gonna hit both of those guys in that cone. Coney way. And I guess I'll cast it at... I guess I'll cast it at second level. Why not? And that'll go... For both of them, constitution saving throws. DC 16. Constitution saving throw for the big guy.

is gonna be 15. The little guy is gonna be a 19. - Okay, so the little guy succeeds, which means he's not pushed and takes half damage, but... Oh, it's a straight 2d8. Oh! That's hilarious. So 15 points of thunder damage. The guy who succeeds doesn't get pushed and takes half of that, but the big guy gets pushed 10 feet away from me.

Okay. This one? Yeah, you hear a loud "push" and he gets pushed back as... How does this affect number two? I would say it pushes him out of the way. Which way would you-- Just toward-- yeah. Okay. Is that good? We don't get opportunity to rate because-- No, no, it's not his movement. It's his blast and then number six takes half damage, right? Number six if they succeeded? Number six takes half damage, so I guess that would be seven. And he gets blasted. Yeah. And so 15 to the big dude.

And all of these guys are all damaged, complete split damage across the board, looking all rough. Okay. - And I'll say to Herja,

- Normally I sing a song, but you just go do your thing. You're doing fine and that'll be an inspiration for you. - Okay, bud. Thank you. - Okay. So you do that, you feel inspired. It's the monster's turn. One's gonna fly towards Toa, the other one's gonna fly towards Persia as this massive creature- - So the one, number one needs to make a saving throw. Strength saving throw. - That's gonna be 12. - That fails. - Okay. - So move him diagonally two squares.

Here? Okay, yep. Okay. Number two is going towards Toa. Yeah. Is that in your stream? Yeah, that's gonna be... No, that's not. Okay. Once he gets... He didn't start there, so yeah, he... Okay, so he flies up. This guy is going to try to fly...

He is going to see, he's going to be half movement in that one. So there's a 10 foot diagonal. He's going to fly towards, he's going to try to fly towards Felix. I mean, he'll get there. One, so one, two, three, four, five, six. There we go. Nope, nope, he can't get there. So he's there. Nope, nope, nope. Sorry, you're both counting. I just went with it. It's fine, it's fine. And so we're going to do one claw on Caprice and that is going to hit. I'm going to impose disadvantage. I didn't realize he was right next to me.

That is gonna be... 16. Yeah, it still hits. Okay. Fuck! Thanks, thanks! That's alright. That is gonna be 4 points of slashing damage. Oh! One is gonna attack Toa. And that is gonna be a 20 metal hit. It's gonna slash into you for 6 points of slashing damage. And then one of the ones are up. Is there anyone that's up?

This one's prone. Okay, yeah. Number three. It's gonna get up, fly, and then you can take the little thing off. And it's going to, that's gonna be a 20 to hit. To me? Yep. Yep. Wowee. That's gonna be six points of slashing. Okay. Six points of slashing. Feel the trap. Pause what you're doing for a second. Everybody pause, because we're, I'm certain, creating sound noise. I think he's just moving. And you took damage. I don't remember how much. You took damage from number two.

Ivan, how much? Six. What was the AC? What did you roll? I rolled a 22. I'm just going to cast Mage Armor on myself as my action. Okay. So you hit yourself and you feel like your AC is higher and you feel a lot luckier.

Okay. It's been like 8 hours. Can I listen just to see if the hooves are getting closer? Or that would require an action to just hear if I hear the hooves getting closer? I would say that if you want to make a 7/2, probably take your action, yeah. Okay. I will... Which of the two looks weaker, 6 or 3? Or looks more bloodied? 6. Okay, I'll make an attack against him. That'll hit me with 24.

- Does five bludgeoning? - Five bludgeoning, you smash it and it is barely hanging on. - Natural 20. - Man, gotta give it up for that natural 20. - Gotta give it up, gotta give it up. - Seven bludgeoning. - So then you smash it out of the air as it explodes into smoke. - Oh shit. - And then I'm gonna bonus action try and knock this guy prone again.

So 10 is my flags. Okay, 10. It's gonna be a six. Yes! Okay, it falls to the ground once again. Prone. Okay, it's prone. With that, it desires a start. I'm going to use my bonus action to whack the guy that's right in front of my spiritual weapon with my spiritual weapon. 20 to hit.

And that is... Which number is he? Two. Is it a one or a seven? It's a one. Six points of damage. Six points of damage. You smash into him, he's looking rough. Okay, and then I'm going to use my action to cast Toll the Dead on him. Okay.

- Wisdom saving. - That's gonna be a 10. - Fails and he's damaged already. - Number two, right? - Yeah. - Five damage. - Oh, he shoots a damage, it's enough. As it cries and explodes. - Nice. - Okay. - Get him. - So with that, it is...

- Who's turning that? - She's still going. - Oh, sorry. - Oh no, no, I just wanna see if I can move it to... - I think you can do it as a bonus. - Oh yeah, as a bonus action. 'Cause I can do it every turn regardless. - Move 20 feet. - So I'm gonna move it on top of the big guy. - Okay. You're getting these flies over the crooked fly out towards the big guy. Okay, you're up. - Okay, so I'm gonna kind of lunge towards this guy. I'm gonna like plant my spoon and like... - There's a thing here. There's a graft.

What the fuck? Is it what? You didn't get through, this is when you started. It's the wind. Where is it? If you don't start in it, it's just difficult terrain. Yeah. So it's only half speed. Yeah, half speed. But you can walk up, it wouldn't be like there. If I start my turn in it, what happens? You get blown back. You get blown back. Or if you fail a strength check, it's purely a movement thing.

And that's if he doesn't redirect it on his turn before it's your next turn. Okay, so I'm gonna lunge forward, I'm gonna sort of like plant my spoon and then like double kick like up in the air on the guy. I like it, I like it. Uh, it's 27 and 18 to hit. Uh, both will hit. Very nice. Uh, so that's gonna be 17. 17 points of damage total? Uh, for those two attacks, yes.

How's he? He's looking rough as you smack smack and you're smashing, you're like cracking and it starts to split and kind of arc as the whole metal statue is starting to split. Okay, and then I'm going to spend a ki point for two more unarmed attacks on a bonus action. And...

I'm just gonna like flick him with my fingers. Very poundy. Wow, 215! Oh yeah, double 15s. It's more annoying than... Isn't that 1 in 400? That's right. Wow. I'm consistent. 23, 23. That's the young Midoriya move. And so, 15. How do I do this?

He literally does. Yeah, I'm just like, I'm fucking flicking him and I just feel like he would just be so annoyed that the last little bits of pain would just like, I hate it! And then he'd crumple. I hate it. So it's this creature, it's

it's still a construct, but if you could see a frustration, then it would definitely be frustrating. It's getting aggravated, it's not being able to move as quickly as it would. And you find this large crack and you just go,

And then just... And it's like split. It cracks all over the statue. And then it goes like... And then just collapses into... And there's one still shadow creature that's still going. You are two, right? I do, yeah. Yeah, one is prone. One is prone and the other one's neutral. So...

- What do I have? - You would get advantage on the prone one. - If you moved over to me. - I don't think I have any, I can't do any more attacks. Yeah, I'll just, I'm gonna stay right here. I'm even gonna like back up a little. - Yeah. - And with that, the creature is dead. Counting goes, so it's Noah's turn. - Next. - Seeing Felix dangerously close to the spooky hallway where we know a big evil bull man is. - I think I made a drum roll. - One, let's see.

One, two and a half, three and a half, four and a half, five and a half, six and a half. Go here. And then I'm going to use my movement to dash here. Okay. And I peel around, do I see anything immediately? What's the check? Uh, 15. 15. You don't see anything immediately, but you start to hear the echo of footsteps. Okay. I have more movement, so I will go here.

I'll go here, and I will redirect the blast just directly in front of me. Okay. And you redirect it and the wind just bows to your command. You're the wind waker. And with that, it is Risa's turn. I'll move over to the prone guy and attack him with my rapier at advantage. Okay. Which number is he? That'll be... Three. Um, 23 to hit. Hits.

That'll be a nine piercing. Nine piercing. It moves very rough as you stab it on the ground. It's now there. Do you have any bonus action or anything? I will... I'll make my way a little closer to Choa. Okay. So I moved five, so get me 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. That's fine. Okay.

Okay, you do that. This one flies up and is going to immediately attack Persia, and that'll be a 22 hit. And that'll be...

five points of slashing damage. And the other one is going to get, oh, I need to get the strength saving throw against the one in front of Toa, and it's gonna fail, it's gonna get knocked back. And it is going to just turn and attack the priest. And it is going to orderly miss. - Good. - Okay. - Quick you, buddy. - I'm gonna cast...

Frostbite on the one that's remaining. Or I guess the one that's next to Caprice. - Get over here buddy. - Five. - You gonna move? - Is the number or the con saving throw? - I roll a five. - Oh, okay. - Yeah. - Six. - So you're gonna damage number three? - Whichever one's next to Caprice. - One. - And then disadvantage on his next attack. - Okay, Cole starts to settle in, uncross out his wings and he's flying slowly, kind of slowing him down. Okay, Harjit, you're up.

I'm gonna whack this guy. 24. What? 5 bludgeoning. 5 bludgeoning? Okay, so number... which one? 3. Number 3. 5 bludgeoning, and you smash it with the code item and it explodes into ash. Hell yeah. Alright, so 5, 10, 15, 20, 25. Second attack on the other guy. Wrong. 20 non-natural. Okay. 5 bludgeoning. 5 bludgeoning, and it looks very weak.

Uh, bonus action shove with a 13. I was going to say, I want to pulse the ground and crumb. Yes. Okay. I'm going to move my spiritual weapon and I'm going to whack it. Okay. Whack it! Uh, 18 plus 8. Oh, it hits. Anyway. It could be a crit. It wasn't. Um, and it's a D, A...

- 11. - So as it falls, it gets shoved down onto the ground and as you see this is kind of floating, cook and flail, is the shimmering teal magic and just goes and this coup de grace that explodes into ash and then quiet settles over the room, except for the crying of the baby. Starting to like cry a little bit and Iris is,

doing whatever she's doing with it. - Guys, we might still have company behind us. - Yeah, we should figure out if there's any other way in or out of this room. - You all immediately run out here and look this way. I'll just stand next to him. - Okay. - I'm gonna stay in the corner. - Okay, so you all do that and I need both of you to make a sign and check. - I'll join him. - Okay, all three of you then.

19. 21. 21, okay. 21. You start to hear the echoing. It's kind of hard as hell how far away it is, but it is starting to get a little bit louder. And... I'll dispel the wind. Okay, it dispels. Lufty, can you help me take a look around on the walls and see if there's any place that we can hide?

Yeah, I don't fly. Or, like, any secret doors, maybe? Is there any way to tell, like, how long it's going to take until they get here? Do we have any kind of idea about that? Probably...

Getting to the infant room, it could take maybe like a minute. I'm going to use my action to regain a spell slot with my pearl of power. Okay. So you channel the power of your earrings and it fills you with a sense of magic and you feel like the blessings of Anubis. You can use more magic. I get the past life joke almost on me.

Old Iris and Monster Camping. Yes, had a perlite. Before it was you from canon. Yeah, it only took you six hours. Yeah.

So, Lufty and I want to run around the room and she wants to help me like, pad the walls. Make an investigation by her what? At advantage. Figure out if there's any secret doors or places we can hide her. 15. 15. As you're making your way around, you're padding around and you're starting to feel the stone and all of a sudden you hit one and it kind of crumbles.

and gives and you hear a lot of clang of metal. Holy shit. And you see one brick has fallen out, but there's a large metal square where this brick left. It seems to be of a similar make to the hatch that you entered. Oh.

Does it look like it's covered by more bricks? Is that what you mean? Yes. So the whole rest of it, it seemed like it goes to continue. Okay. I'm going to jump over there and help her start pulling bricks off. Yeah. I'm just pulling bricks, ramming into it, trying to get it to crumble faster.

Okay. Guys, be quiet. I've got an idea. What if I just show up like the old man and then run up to the thing and I just tell him that the whole plan is bust and that he should be on his way? Don't stop digging. We need to get out of here. But I think that if he just came around, then it would be ideal if we could leave out the way we came in because then maybe Ravioli might be coming in the way behind us and if we go out some other exit, we could haul a bunch of... But this really isn't the time and I'm just...

- Like all ass. - Why don't you try it? Go on and try it. We'll try to open this gate. At least there's a second way to get out. Even if we don't leave right now. - All right, if you hear my agonizing death, then just leave. And then I run, I start running down the hallway towards the steps. - Okay. So you guys start to pull over the bricks.

You are running and as you're entering towards the infant room, you see a shadow start to cross around you. - As I see the shadow, I will prop myself. Was the old man more than or less than a foot taller than I am? - I'm not saying that would be the case. - I will make myself look like the old man that we captured. - How did you do that? - Disguise self. - Okay, so you disguise self.

And you do that, and you suddenly see this... And all of a sudden, this turn is...

you see a massive monstrous bull creature. You saw something similar in "Miscrow's Crossing." Seems to be a massive minotaur with this huge glaive. With these massive horns, but its eyes are red and its mouth seems to be kind of filled with bits and pieces of flesh, rotting and otherwise. - Gross. - And you just put him down around the corner there.

- Is he in the baby room? - He's turning the corner to the baby room and he sees you standing there and it stops. - I'll immediately interrupt him and say, in abyssal, I'll say, "The sacrifices are complete. Our day is done. We can rest now." - Fuck. Oh fuck. - Make a persuasion check.

- And I will make an insight check. - That's damn good. - Guys, it's happened before! - 25. - That's a pretty good roll. - It's good text too. - 25, hold on, insight, insight. - I'm so scared. - The suspense. - I got a 23. And, boy, it kind of sniffs and says .

"I'm..." and this, uh, it speaks to you, uh, and starts to grunt. And it... what language do you say that in, by the way? I said it in abyssal. And it responds in abyssal, as it, uh, says like, as he says, "Where are the others? I was the one to deliver the sacrifices today."

Very quickly I'll say that much is true. Our in abyssal. Our sacrifices had to be accelerated because we believe that our area has been compromised. I'm sorry that you did not get to taste blood today.

He slowly, like his dumb bull eyes, despite being a massive monster, he's still a cow, kind of like lays over for a bit and tilts his head. And he looks disappointed if a horrific demon, demonic creature can look disappointed. And turns and he nods and says, You are the speaker of the horned god. I will return to my lair.

as he stomps off into the fog. - Oh my God. - And as soon as he turns the corner, I'm like, "Ha ha ha, ha ha, ha." And I turn around and I run back to the fucking room as fast as I fucking can. - Amazing. - You run. - We get a round of applause. - Round of applause for the bar. - Round of applause for the bar. - Goddamn.

As you do that, you actually also find hanging up, so you start to, the bricks start to fall away as the ash and the smell of smoke drop. You see the little

plumes of chimney that are up and it's too small for any of you to fit through. However, you're starting to pull away and you notice this little metal hatch that seems to be fully formed and beside it is a little outcropping and hanging on the side of this outcropping seems to be a pair of these dark lenses that are hanging on a strap alongside of it.

I'll take a look at the lenses. I'll pick them up. Okay. You grab them and they seem to be, you know, these dark lenses. You put them over. I would say you would immediately be able to tell. You can see better in the dark as soon as you put them on. Excellent. I would say that that would be a thing. Copies of night? Essentially. Who's standing, like, closest to me? I'm right next to you. I'm going to, like, toss them to you and keep digging. And so eventually there's this little outcropping. And I would say in your investigation check,

You dig through the pieces of metal and you see that this furnace, although fire was blazing out deeply inside, it was too tall to see, are these two large rubies that you're able to easily pry out of the ruined metal statue that was cooled so intensely by the blast of wind. And you are now standing before a large metal hatch.

I would have like having pried those out and just tossed them over my shoulder and like kept working at what I'm doing. Okay. And so like I'll just kind of check the latch to see like if it's locked or you know if it was kind of like the other one if it I don't know. I would say that you lean down there's still that same kind of metal handle and you give it a tug doesn't budge

- Seeing her throw those rubies, I would immediately go over and grab them both and put them in my pack. - Okay, you sprint over. - Well, I had the baby, so I'm being careful. - Okay, you're very carefully, like you can see like, huh? - What a wasteful genasi-um-gut, and I put it in my pack.

And you do that. Don't ever have a genasi parent little baby thing. Little baby thing. I always be keeping watch, so I guess whenever... So I can't lift the hatch open, but it doesn't appear to be locked. Not that you can tell. Can I help her? Like, does it seem like it gives a budge? Yeah, you should probably try. It gives us a budge, huh? Well, I wasn't sure if it was locked.

athletics. I might just be put to the week. That's great. You still have that inspiration I gave you. We'll do that. That's a D8? That's a D8. Nice. 6, 8, 8, and 14. 14. I would say you start to lift it up a

and it starts to budge a little bit, but then, and it slams back down. It's very heavy. - There's no window or anything like the seats or the seats on the other side? - No, no, it's fully metal.

At this point you see an old man who you recognize to be dead turn the corner and I immediately address all of you. Everything's gonna be okay. I mean, hey, hey everybody. I'm sorry. I think I convinced the giant bull man. Very similar to the one we, you know, it's not important. How fast can we get out of here? Because we could be super fucked at any time. That depends how much help we have. Maybe Tora can help? I'll

- This thing is very heavy. - Let's go, let's go. And I go over and I will attempt to lift it. - I'll help him again. - Okay. As you do that, roll with advantage. Felix, you, I need to make a perception check. - Oh.

That's a natural 20. And you start to hear very faint footsteps coming down the hallway around the corner there. Different from the other footsteps? Yes, they seem very soft and slow and gentle. Oh, shit. Someone's coming! Give me one second! I rolled a 20. Oh, a 20? Yeah. You...

with her just help both of you help and it clangs and holds into place. Uh, but I want to say it's different this time and I'm just readying to wait to see what it is. Okay. And praying that it's right. Okay, so as you make your, um,

you see and you just see a shape from the corner. Oh, thanks, Chef Boyardee. It is Ravioli. I knew that you were going to say Ravioli. That was actually partially my intention. Ravalli turns the corner. He seems to be roughed up.

a little bit, as his half-elf, his slighter half-elf frame kind of turns the corner, and he's running a hand along the wall, and he's obviously reading the magic chalk that you have. Seeing it's him and that he's potentially slightly wounded, I'm going to run to him and say, Are you okay? We're here, we're here. He sees you and he puts...

Thank goodness you're alive. What the fuck happened here? I start to fill him in on things that we saw and the fact that we still need to be quiet and move towards the exit because there are creatures that are still alive and they've been distracted by Caprice. And I tell him about the fights and blah, blah, blah, and get him into the room with everybody else. Let's move, though. Let's move. Okay.

Good idea. He turns the corner. You see Felix and Revali turning around the corner, and Revali looks beat up, not quite as beat up as he was when he arrived at the lodge. But he joins you, and he says, "It's well worse than I thought." We need to... Can we get this... go through here and get this closed?

We're trying. It's open now, right? Yeah. As soon as you look outside? You open it. The clang's open and you see a dark tunnel that goes out into the dark. Does it look like this door can be closed behind us? I mean, are we just going to leave with that terrible boat creature behind us? Yes, we will. The door will be all right. I told him to go back to his lair and he seemed like, yeah, I'm just going to go hibernate for the next six months. I think we're good.

Was there anything in this room we should take a look at first that might be important? Like the blueprints we found earlier? Maybe you guys can make yourself useful and look around. I mean, do you think, I mean, we've obviously disrupted what they're doing here, but leaving at least a bit of it understood, what do you think? I mean, what's, what's, what was our major goal just to learn something here?

Tell me what you learned. I pull out the blueprints that I mentioned. I've already mentioned them, but I pull out the blueprints. I lay them on the ground and I turn to tell him, I say, make sure this door is closable again. And as I'm explaining what I found and I'll interject with the occasional story bit where I think that the story needs some additional meat on the

bones, you know, that sort of thing. But also specifically how I can add the few moments that I experienced privately when without the group. What I told the Beast and also what I noticed when I was invisible, that sort of thing.

Okay, so you tell the story and he's sitting down and Felix and Revali are across each other and says, okay, let's first of all, let's get inside, let's get in the tunnel. And so he guides you all through the tunnel and he sees these hinges and he points to you two. He's like, can you smash those and get that closed? So we, all right. Can you not push it back open? What do you mean? We close it, we can get back in if we need to, we just push it.

Yeah, I'll close it, yeah, with the intention of not... Yeah. Okay, so you get into the last door and you're into this tunnel again. Similar. All of the brickwork is gone. It's all back to this natural tunnel. And he closes with a clang. And he listens. He sits down and Felix... He listens to Felix's story as he's... As he points over and says, can I take a look at those blueprints? Absolutely. And I hand them over. He grabs it and...

If we're gonna be here for ten minutes doing this, I'm gonna cast Prayer of Healing. I would say that's a thing. Hell yeah. I'm gonna start to rest. Okay. I would say you can start to rest. I'll just sit down and think about what I've done. So you all sit down and you're all resting, and he's looking over at you.

- 20 points of healing. - Wow! - For 10, everyone? - Yeah, for everything. - Holy shit. - I don't need the three, but thank you. - You see we're all kind of like taking a bath. He looks at his wounds and he's like, "Thank you, I appreciate that." - You're welcome. - I saw part of one of these. - Like in this tunnel or before this? - No, when I went to scouting. I got far too close. It was stupid and reckless. - So they're building these things now? - They have...

Prototypes? At least part of it, at least the beginning. We were hoping that if we took these, it might slow them down, but if they've already started, then maybe they can't complete it without these.

They were debating quite a bit. I don't know if everyone else understood that or if I communicated that at the moment, but they were really insistent about the what-fors and the what-nots about those diagrams. So if they were debating about them, I don't feel like they were feeling success and construction in their heart. They were trying to figure things out still. Do you mean that you saw something exactly like this or like this is a part of something different?

Like you've seen a separate part of a bigger plan. That this is all... It was like a huge skull furnace on wheels. Parts of it. It was... It was horrible. I didn't think that they could build anything like this. This is more than the Korvaki military. That these were savage beast men. That these are just...

creatures of the forest. I think we need to throw assumptions out the window. I mean, at this point there have been so many surprises around every corner, I wouldn't be surprised if they actually had built some sort of insane moving wheeled skull furnace thing that was designed to crash into the side of the capital and burn down one whole side so that demons could pour in without issue. It may be similar to what they were doing here, and this furnace thing used to throw in the bodies.

Oh. Or sacrifices. Is that more, more, more body sacrifices? We've been able to sacrifice anywhere. We did see the furnished back at the...

The room we were previously in. No, no, I mean when you were trying to talk... Yeah, we saw that big furnace. Outside the church, yeah. Yeah, so we're seeing a repeating thing here. They're just all kind of different, but this one was more sentient and it could move. So it's not to say that they weren't trying to feed this thing and then... It was surprising. It could have been a weapon. I think you're really onto it. I think that actually might be exactly right. What do you suppose we do?

I mean, do we know where this tunnel even goes? I'm glad that you're here with us now. It's nice to have some backup, but I assume we need to keep moving. We do need to know where this goes, because this tunnel and these hatches are big enough for even the biggest of their minotaurs and ogres to fit through. It couldn't fit the giants, but who knows where that could be leading to, a vantage point that could be a good place to infiltrate them.

I don't know, I never would have thought they'd be that calculated. And he turns and he says, remembering that you had mentioned that there were creatures that were seen to be at odds. The murals. And the murals, and he says, and he thinks and he says, so it looks like it's our deduction that we're looking at devils and demons working together in this situation. Is that very strange? Caprice, do you know? What I know?

I would make a history check. I hope that it's a good roll. It is of acceptable quality. 18. You would know that they're different. And you would know that it's very explicit. And that, like, you know, even tieflings in Galtica would take offense at being called demons. And that, but as far as, like, them working together, you were kind of never really into, like, the whole, like, dark workings. You were more into music. So it's difficult to tell.

I've never heard anything like it, honestly. Well, I mean, I feel very concerned that we're just going to leave. Potentially, maybe there are more babies somewhere in there. Or more captured people. Without having been through the whole thing, I just worry that we're endangering someone by moving on. I agree with you. I think the problem here is that even if we do find more people to save, we don't know where this tunnel goes. And if we have to...

carry along you know five to ten more people we're i'm running out of the ability to protect myself and you guys let alone a host of 10 un people who can't defend themselves we i mean if we knew of a clear way out of here to get these people to safety i'd say fine but if we go back and we waste more time and more resources dealing with a creature that caprice outsmarted we should continue on i i know i i think that we've discovered a lot here and and i i trust i trust our our guide

to to point us in the right direction and i just don't think that we can waste the time i try i should have told him to leave if i if i if i've been smart in the moment i i didn't outsmart him i just happened to look like a guy if i just told him to leave and then then we would have been able to explore with impunity but right now it's just sort of like well you know what if we took an hour and we had a short rest i feel like we could kind of tank the guy i mean we we've experienced you guys all know the beast that we faced

That was the thing that totally, like, see the scar? I mean, you remember when that happened. When we very first met, that was a very tough fight. But we've learned a lot since then, and we could maybe take the guy if we really had to clear this station. Well, how about this? I like the idea of just finding it where this tunnel goes. Why don't we proceed kind of

While trying to rest, just go slowly and just take this tunnel where it leads. And if we find out where it leads and it's a safe place to go, perhaps we just turn back, open it up and try to rescue anyone that may still be alive. I believe that if there was anyone else in there, that what Caprice found out from that beast, he would have found that out in it as well.

If there were more people to be sacrificed, that beast wouldn't just go back to its home. It had a thirst for blood. It would have gone to the other sacrifices. I hadn't thought about that. That's exactly right. That's right. All right, well, we can always come back, but we should press on. Let's do it. Let's do it. Full steam ahead. Let's do it. Very well. I think that anyone else that would be still alive in here, what kind of state would we find them in? It's a miracle that...

found a child that is seemingly unharmed. And we think that he points back to the hatch where you come from. That was the face of all the infants that we assumed that there were. Now that we've had a moment to pause for a second. It's a human baby? Yes. Okay. And it's a male child? It seems to be, yeah. Okay. Now what are we going to call this little guy?

You do not get to pick names. I hear what you call Felix. That's different. I'm just giving Felix shit. No, it is not different in any way. I think I could think of a really sweet name for this kid. No. I mean, I feel it was the same, but I think we call it Not Our Problem and just get it out of here. I don't agree with Lufty on this one. You don't need him, though. Makes it harder.

Okay, that creeps me out a little. Maybe we should name it. I'm with Ravoldi here. Just out of curiosity, what gets out of it? You've seen a lot of horror and death and war, have you? I've seen many things. You don't know what I've seen. I think you look at it incorrectly. There's nothing wrong with death. Death is natural.

It doesn't mean this child shouldn't have a name. It doesn't mean that should it, the gods choose to take its soul and it passes into the afterlife, that someone, even if it is just me, thinks on of its name and of it for the rest of my life. A legacy is tantamount to immortality. I am all for the gods deciding our threads of fate. I would not say any god that I would respect or

Punch an umbrella. Any god worth following or respecting for an ounce would send any soul to that thing. No, I do not believe that they would. And I agree with you. That is neither here nor there. The idea of not naming an infant because death may be on the horizon to me is terrible. I will name him Felix. Oh, Christ. Because I'm sure they would both die.

I'm kidding I'm not giving it a name yet it's okay little human it would little human continue to sleep we will name you later I'm going to pat it back should we go on then absolutely that's our plan do I break these hinges so that it's I guess they could just bust right through it but they could rip it off the hinges if they want to follow us they will

The less that we... There's going to be an absolute field day in there when they find out what's happened. If we at least leave it there, make it harder for them to get through. All right, next part. Let's go. Let's go.

And as you all walk and talk, I would say you'd benefit from a short rest. As you walk out of the tunnel, go deeper and deeper. - Should I have song of rest? - Yes, if you wanna sing and walk. - What does that do? - If you use a hit die, you can roll an additional D6 and gain more health. - Just once. - Just once. - Not for every hit die. - I'll sing.

Oh the bitter winds are blowing in and I'm already missing the city. Striga's cold and I've been told we're gonna have to endure this kind of weather.

I'm certain in time our enemies will find that they're defeated and we've captured that weird-ass crown. I'll be your troubadour and sing you a tune if you'll be my friends and my party too. No, I'm not asking much of you. Just fight, little darlings, fight with me. Aw, dear me!

- And now all of a sudden Little Human is fast asleep. - Thank you, Caprice. - Yep. - Thank you. - Can we do that sometime? - Anytime, my pleasure. - Caprice, Little Human is sleeping. It's the first time he's calmed down all night. - I'm gonna call him Lorenzo. - Please do not. His name is Little Human. - You rewind that the labyrinth, the goggles are this.

I don't think I cost them to you. Yeah, but I have darkvision and you don't, right? Who has the goggles? Does anyone have the goggles? Derek. I don't know if I can wear these. Okay. Oh, you have two pairs of goggles? I do. Oh, you have glasses? No, you can be attuned to all three. You can swap them as necessary.

I mean like... I'll hold him for now. You can do like the whole lightsaber thing where they just go at each other. Yeah, but I can cast darkvision and I can create light. Where did we get this conlux? It was on the old guy that you guys killed. Oh!

I think that based on the fact that I've had a chance to study this, you could use this to sort of scorch somebody real hard once per day. If anyone isn't interested in this, I'll hold on to it, but I just thought I'd throw that out there. What does it do? For an action, you can cast Scorching Ray once a day. Oh, that's... I pass. All right, well, to sort of cross where we do it, I'll just... And I attach it to my left wrist.

So as you're walking, Revali talks about what he was up to. And he's walking and talking. He gets kind of healed from the short rest and from the song at rest. And he says, I got, like I said, I got too close. I saw, we saw the army that we've seen several times in our journey here in the three weeks that we've been traveling together. But there's far more.

Then I could have guessed there, you know, we thought that it was just the ogre tribes and the hill giant tribes and the ogre clans of the highlands. But there's more clans than that. They're uniting the giant kin just with this gift, just with the promise of power, it seems, and the military discipline.

is unlike anything that I've seen for these creatures. I've been fighting them my entire life. But, these are regiments. They have some kind of chain of command. These aren't a bunch of savage barbarians thundering into villages from the woods, slaughtering people and taking their things. Wrecking dark altars. And the power that they had, I... The fire, the hellfire...

And these prototype machines of war and furnaces and these horrible effigies. I have no idea what they're planning to do with it. But it's very clear. I don't know what they're planning to do with it. But I think you hit the hell nail on the head there, buddy, when you said that there's been a change of leadership. I remember the taverns that I used to enjoy in Galtigan. The difference between the good taverns and the bad taverns were whether they had good management or not.

not. I suspect that this transformation where the unity that we're seeing, this new organized ability to go from place to place and actually pursue goals without infighting and all the rest of the friction that's held them down for so long, I think we're talking about one guy or some guys that are all making some concerted effort and really laying down the line. And I think you're right. Almost militaristic, as if the military might be in both. Some military. Who's in which?

is the question. The core of Hackean. And even that's the biggest question. Why are they not raising their hair to do not anything? And then, the reason why I almost died if I didn't have my dust of disappearance was I stole this. It was a small group and I thought I wouldn't be detected. Pulls out a parchment and said I wanted to get the full unpolluted story from you all before I showed you this.

And he pulls it out, and there is a very crudely drawn map of the Clockwood that sprawls over much of the country. And there are some points that have X's over them. And he hands this to you, Felix, and he says, do you realize what this is?

and make a history check with advantage, please. - Oh, Jesus. - You can do it. - I can do it. - Are you proficient? - In history, I am. Damn, my history's actually banging. 20. - 20. - Ooh. - It looks to you like every point you see the rose, and there seems to be X on small towns. And you see an X on Miss Crow's Crossing.

And it seems to, it seems to, there are a few dots that are no longer X'd out. Or that are no longer, that are not X'd out. Okay. And it seems to be as if everything kind of around towards Zensher and all of that, and in the opposite direction of where you were coming from, all through the Clockwood, are dots that are marked out on the map, but not X'd out.

If I had to guess, I'd assume that you were pointing out almost an origination point. Because why would they start one way and only go one direction if they had started before? You don't understand what I'm saying. I do. I don't, so could you maybe elaborate? So the idea here is if you take a look at the map, the X's, they only go in one direction. Tell us. So we have to assume that

They wouldn't have just skipped all of these towns. They would have originated here and moved this direction and simultaneously, or I'm sorry, systematically destroyed and ransacked these Xs, but left all of them behind untouched.

So we can almost make the assumption that this point here is where something started. Wait, so the point... Miss Crow's Crossing was the first one? No. Because in the sense that basically that the path was going back from Miss Crow's... Towards the generation... The clock went around Zantra. And then out. And then it's going towards Miss Crow's Crossing and then past it. And then it's towards Zantra. Heading...

So you guys were heading this. It was heading towards the coast of west. West. So like past where you were headed. I just think that there's a reason why. It's odd to me that only certain directions would be X out. You know what I'm saying? Yes. So it means that if we went all the way back there, perhaps we could investigate where this all started? I mean, that would be...

God, I must... Like five weeks worth of traveling. Well, what it says here is that it's... So rather, it was spreading towards Miscrow's Crossing, past the direction where you crossed it.

So, allow me to... Yeah, I don't think I get it either. Just draw on here if you want. Just pretend this is a Finnish map here. We're getting a little bit of echo. Oh, sorry guys. It's so random. And so, like, you know, let's say this is like generally Korvakiya. This is Korvakiya. Here's Entra. Here's Entra. Here's North.

- Wow, that's a great end. - Thank you. So you guys like met on this crossroads like here or like rather like here and you basically went over the mountains and you're basically heading here, right? - To Zentrum. - To Zentrum. And so like, it looks like there are towns spotted all over that are X'd out, X'd out, X'd out, X'd out. And then you see Mistcrose Crossing here X'd out. And then there are a few dots

Behind it. Behind it. As if it is spreading out in that direction. Does that make sense? As though it's coming from Zentral. So I guess that's my question would be, right, my question would be, how do we know, well, I guess I'll just say it in character. How are we, how do we know the direction that it's spreading though? I mean, there's no, nothing saying that it's not spreading towards Zentral, right? I mean, do we know for sure? Well, we don't. We don't.

But it just seems like they've tackled all of these towns around Zentra. But either way, we have at least some idea of an origination point. We do. We do. And that is what concerns me the most. Is that if there were some systematic operations, demonic, devilish operations, why would they feel comfortable starting in the most heavily populated, heavily militarized, heavily watched areas of the entire country?

Yeah, I guess you'd think it'd be the opposite, that they'd start at the perimeter and work their way in. It's pretty clear I think that Iris is onto something. That's what I thought was happening. I agree. And that's even more alarming. I knew that they were trying to keep the peace, but I have no idea. I mean, we need...

There's so much to do. So my concern is this: What if the little X's are not locations of towns, but locations of things like this labyrinth we were just in? What if they're the places they're taking the infants and potentially the women from the towns that are around the little dots, and they're taking them to these forges and sacrificing them? What if this isn't the only one? Because if you remember, on the map that we found that led us here, this place was marked with an X. I'm sure it's not the only one.

Yeah, we know it. And we know that there was a forge in Mistcrow's Crossing. So what if this is telling us these are all of the towns here, but anyone with an axe is a place you can go to leave your slaves and, or your, yes, your slaves are stolen. So we happened to find some when we rescued Nora, but they were more than likely en route to one of these axes to be sacrificed.

I mean, it's hard to say. We do know that these bull creatures don't stay in one place for very long. Is that right? They know. They don't. I mean, historically, I mean... But I guess we don't know because they're acting so strangely. What the hell do I know anymore? What the hell do I know? I've been asking myself the same thing for weeks. And...

I mean, I would have said that they are savages that keep to the deep forest, and they used to for years. They've always been in Korvaki, they've always been in Striga. They were one of the original threats of the people here on this continent. And now that this is happening, and only these poor towns that seem to have less contact with the outside world are the ones being targeted.

So it's only going in one direction, like with a line straight out. Yeah, at least in that direction, yeah. It seems to be that situation. And maybe not necessarily a straight line. Not a straight line, but it's a... It's sort of like a snake that's kind of like snaking through. Yeah, totally. You know, the thing that really sticks with me is the difference between...

What we experienced when we were first fighting together against the Beastmen who had been transformed by some kind of disease, right? You guys remember the I Apologize guy? Yes. Of course. And then what we witnessed at the top of the Butcher's Bluff, when we saw people physically being transformed, those felt like two different but similarly connected things. I'm not sure how to put the pieces together. I mean, again, you're right. You're onto something. And it goes back to the fact that

You know, I made an assumption about the military, you know, eradicating these people who had this beast plague and then realizing that it was an illusion and then finding out that it wasn't an illusion. So we've got multiple layers here of things that we don't know about, that we don't have enough information about. The fact that it seems to be originating from Centra...

That is very disturbing. I agree. That could mean that the military is super on board with this whole thing. The whole country is just this crazy sacrificial pot that they're just gonna wipe clean and do whatever they want with. But didn't that guy say that Zentra will fall?

Are they originating all this stuff from Zentral, only to go back and destroy it later? He did say that, but that might be part of the plan. Right, if they just need humans, there's a lot of humans in Zentral. There's a lot of humanoids in Zentral. There's plenty of sacrifice. Yeah. I think we're not going to make heads and tails of this until we learn more. At least I won't. Felix, you're way smarter than I am, but... I just want to make sure we've got all the puzzle pieces in front of all of us at the same time.

i think that we're all on the same page as far as the confusion and what mysteries lie in front of us are we still heading to center we have to i mean even even if even if our original goal of alerting somebody isn't going to work anymore we still need to go and find out if that was the origination point and i still think that there could be clues that lead us in in a better direction if zentra is a big place and even if even if the military is behind this

Not everybody will be we'll find people who are who don't believe in the military who are against the military nobody's gonna just let this happen and

- Are we still walking the tunnel? Like I said, it's super long tunnels. - It seems to keep going and going and going and going. - What was the name of the woman and her daughter that we met in? - Rosalina. - Rosalina and Oma. - And what was the name of their little wife? - Thomas. - Thomas. - Cool. Can't believe I remember. - Nice job. - I looked at my notes and I just wrote down girl, boy, and mom. - Yeah, you literally could have said anything and I'd be like, "Oh, mom."

Alright, well, we'll stick to the plan, but I'm getting really skeptical that we have anyone to trust in this country. We don't. Again, you're right. Look, I barely even trusted you people. It's taken me a long time to understand that you don't mean me harm. I know.

I thought we were in the city because there was gonna be walls and safety and it sounds like when we get there we still can't look at anybody. I never guaranteed that. I'm hoping to find information about where my brother might be and yes I was hoping we could alert somebody but even if that's not the case there's nowhere else we can go. Do you have any kind of clout in the city at all? Depends on what kind of clout you mean. I mean just anything getting us you know just helping us save people. I was born in Central.

That's good news. Were you born in Zintra, Felix? I don't think I've ever asked you. No, I wasn't. I was not born in Zintra, no. You look like you have some training in there, don't you? I know that, especially with everything that's going on, you're not going to like to hear this, but I was once part of the military and I went AWOL. Academy boy. They're actively looking for me and I was, you know, just trained to be a wizard. Well, with the connections I have, they...

Hopefully won't be able to find you or us. - That's fantastic. I mean, I'm doing everything I can to be undetectable, but you know what they're capable of. - I hope you guys weren't hoping for high society living. - I'm always hoping for high society living. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Toa and I have been living in shit more or less for the last maybe three, four months. - Yeah, we're used to sleeping in the dirt.

I'm not, but that's fine. That's why I have Lufty. Yeah, I'm pretty used to the dirt. You know, keep cat on top. You don't have to worry about dirt. It's more of the company we'll be keeping. You all are farming on us. We'll be fine as long as we can help these people. If there's any way we can save these people, we can do it. I agree. And I understand that I...

made a pledge to Home Heart and the Conclave, but this takes far more priority and he'll understand that I am gone for a long time if that's what it takes, if I even do ever come back. This is far bigger than whatever he has gone. You don't seem very convinced with the whole mission of your Enclave. I do. I believe in destroying evil. I believe in ending the lives of the horrible beasts that

would ruin the lives of all the poor people that live here. If it wasn't for people like me, the hunters, the ones that kill the beasts, that lurk in the dark, Korovakia would not stand. This continent would not exist. And I believe that is a good cause. But it comes to a point when, if we're focused on spending our lives in the highlands, picking off ettons and large, dangerous boars, threatening peasants, while death marches on them,

the center of civilization here. After Zentra, what next? You mentioned that they said that Zentra was just a stepping stone of some kind that was beyond the scope of the city. I mean, someone mentioned that Zentra will fall. Where did we hear that? From the cultists. That Zentra will fall. He mentioned it as we were speaking up to him. He reiterated it when we were interrogating him. So we did mention it. So anyway,

And I... Homeheart is a good man, he's a fool. But he's a good man. And I appreciate everything he's doing, but... And I... I may not know his full story. Just like he does not know mine. So maybe I'm being too harsh. But this is... This is important to me. And I think it's very... And maybe it is bigger than any of us can possibly imagine. Maybe everything that we all have experienced, the attack on the lodge, maybe it's all connected in some horrific way.

And then God's helped us. There also seems to be a repeating theme of fire. And I think it's related to these furnaces. If we can find a way to snuff out that resource, whatever they're using instead of just, you know, human sacrifices, of course, but like if it's coal or some nearby thing that they're, they need to start the fire or, you know, as much wind as,

Wind is gonna be a resource on our side. You know, you're an heir to Nasi. I'm not saying that like we need to contact your people or anything, but that seems to be their greatest weakness. It's adorable how little she knows about Genasi. Like you have a bunch of little wind genies that do your bidding. Yeah, I wish I did. No, she's useless. That's the only people I have.

Useless. Well, we could be your people. We are her people. She's not going to find it better than us. I like that. I could have people. I haven't had people before. What are you talking about? You had me.

You said you hate me. No, no, you've had me. You don't need other people. You've had me. And you also need to apologize for that time that you told Herja that you loved her because that was just, that was a lie and it was not true. I don't think I will remember doing that. Of course you didn't because you don't feel that way. Of course. Of course you don't. I was. What did you just say to me? I said of course.

That's what I thought. Yeah. Revali. I... I want... Is it Revali or Revali or Revali? Revali. People say Revali all the time. It's been retconned. I said Revali. No, call him Freewing. That's so badass. Freewing? Freewing. Call him Freewing. That's kind of cool. Do you have a ranking? Like, are you a... He's a captain. He's a captain. Captain Freewing? Let's call him Captain.

Listen, I... My brother's missing. And that's a big part of the reason why I went AWOL. And I'm looking for him. And I have reason to believe that the military may have him. And if it turns out that the military's working with these people, or with these creatures, then... And you're going to do everything you can to save these people and stop them, then...

I'm gonna do everything I can to help you. I have a lot of making up to do. I've done a lot of bad things and I gotta try to set things right. And if this is about saving humanity, then you can count me in. I appreciate that, but it's going to be a dark, dark path you walk down if you are all prepared for this. This tiny life is proof of that. The fate that you all saved him from is proof of that. Are you all truly prepared to walk that path?

I've got nowhere else to go except find my brother and stop this. - We're all prepared to do what it takes to keep the people of Korovakia and Striga and the world, keep their freedom. - Is this like one of those trick questions where we say, yes, we're prepared and you'll be like, no, you're not prepared. So when we answer like, no, we're not prepared, you're like, ah, finally you're prepared.

I'm not a monk. Great answer. Great answer. Look, if they catch me, I'm dead anyway. I'm basically a dead man walking. I'm in. Yeah, I've got my own business here in Striga, but I want to see this thing through. Let's do this. We got it.

I want to spend more time looking at these forges next time we get close to one. With my dad missing, I'm wondering if he's got anything to do with this. This is just my paranoid thinking and probably because it's been a while since I've heard any news about where he's been and I'm probably just, you know, swallowing, drowning in my obsessive thoughts. But, you know, if he's being...

told against his will to help build these monstrosities. Mechanical, you know, he's a well-known expert in Yona. Is he like, jamming? Would he just do this for like, alcohol? Well... I don't think so. I don't know. No.

- Probably not. - Yeah. - I would say no. - He's a man of honor. - This is pretty dark shit, right? - Yeah. - I mean, he was running for a beard, no problem, man. - I mean, like, he might have a double beard, I don't know what the fuck. - I'll literally sell my soul for a beard, no big deal. - A beer baby. - Yeah, a beer baby. - I mean, he's a businessman, but he's an honorable businessman. I would hope that he would know what he's getting himself into. But if this is devils and demons and he signs some kind of contract and it was

Binding and it was like oh we're gonna kill your family and your wife and your daughter if you don't do this like I wouldn't be surprised if this was kind of got tricked into it or against his will but again This is just my obsessive thinking and a lot of Forge stuff is happening And I just feel like I should have spent more time looking at that well on statue, but it's sorry I'm sure we'll cross another one soon so the statue is where we got the

The ruby is from it. So we did go through the statue. Yes. But it was all messed up. I didn't like, I thought it was in that hatch thing. No, that was the goggles. Oh. That was hanging inside the outcropping thing. Inside the hatch. Okay. And so, Naz and I, we all have our own business and obviously this is not, this is not like, this is not a light commitment. We may be the only hope of the

preserving the wings of freedom for the entire civilization.

We're not gonna call it the Wings of Freeman, Free- Freedom just because your name is Freewing, alright? That just seems too convenient. I was being poetic. I mean, that's fine. I mean, you're literally a bard, don't you have an appreciation for something like that? I mean, this guy's so cool! I mean, can't you appreciate how cool this guy is? I like very slyly give Toa a fist bump. Well, you know those guys that says the word "red" in Steam?

Cause I'm not free as a wing. Was that too meta? It was a little meta. I don't know about that one. We, at least for now, are the only people who know the true threat. So, in that response, with that being known, we are forming our own squad at this point. What do you mean?

Like, we're a squad? Yes, Tim. I've never been a part of a squad before. The rest of mine died. It sounds pretty cool. And you're going to be a cool captain? If you think I'm worthy of it. Yes, yes. We should name ourselves something. We should definitely have a name. And I think that we should pick our own captains. I vote for Revali. Me too. I vote for Revali. As long as we all chose Revali. Actually, I mean, anyway.

It's very cool. Very cool. It's very cool and very legal. The boys are very strange. Yes. I don't quite understand this weird passion they have for this man. I'm feeling like a lot of strange energy going back and forth here. Yes, significantly more than I've seen them be passionate about anything else. Yeah. How tall is this guy? He's probably 5'8". So he's not a foot taller than I am.

Is that funny? You're definitely taller than I'm taller than. He's such a small man, they like him a lot. Yeah. He's not that small. I'm taller than he is. He's as tall as all of you. I'm 5'11". He's as tall as all of you. So no, maybe he's taller than me. At least from perspective, you all look more or less the same height. I appreciate it, so we don't need to discuss this.

I am not all of your own free individuals. I'm not going to... This is not the military. This is more of like we have our squads and our ranks within the conflate. We make an oath and we do what we can for each other to support each other's lives and safety. But we understand that everyone is their own free individual. Well, that seems fair. It's up to you. Should that be the name of our group? Free Individuals?

Or we just don't name our group. Not with Iris. All groups need a name. I mean, if we eventually become famous for all our deeds, we're going to want to have some say in what people call us. Otherwise, they could just name us... Well, my name is Iris, so I'd prefer if you call me Iris. Right, but if they refer to the group as a whole, all of our deeds put together. What? Are we just going to call that Iris? Of course. I don't want any recognition or name acknowledgement from anyone anywhere.

They'll literally kill me. I mean... Well, that's the point. They wouldn't know you as Felix. They wouldn't know you as part of the same group. Look, this is something we can talk about later. We have a lot on our hands. I mean, Wings of Freedom sounded pretty badass. Yes, well, band's album... You're kind of right. I mean, that sounds kind of cool to me. But then it's like, oh, well, the leader's name is Freewing. But maybe that's the point. Maybe the whole group is poetic.

Anyway, we can discuss it later. We can talk about it later. I only found where this creepy tunnel leads. As we continue to walk, I lean over the toe and go, I thought it was a good idea. We need two banks. We can work on it. Maybe we can convince Caprice. He can convince everybody else. Come on, something. Yeah, I suggest. I'm not going to ask for a commitment, but it'd be nice if all seven of us could trust each other and see this throne. Yeah, I mean, I trust you all. It's just, this is...

This whole thing is just kind of a bummer and I mean I haven't uh... I don't know, you know? I'll go along though because I haven't been to the city before and I'd like to see that but... I feel like Anubis would want me to continue along this path.

And, Lufty, it would mean a lot to me if you'd stay with me. Of course! And I think your daddy would very much like me to come too, so I'll be here. Well, my father would actually not care if you were there. He would just want to make sure I was okay, so as long as I had six other people, that would include Free Bird here, then it would not matter whether you were there or not because I had six people. I was just saying I would like you there. He wouldn't care. This just came from... He just wants me safe. What if we...

What if we name ourselves, um, Leonard Skenard? Leonard Skenard. Is that a Goliath? Is that your name? No, I mean, I think I heard it once from one guy, but it's always stuck with me. Leonard Skenard? Yes. That is terrible. It sounds like foreskin. Ew. No.

- Nevermind. I'm taking big. - Can we talk about this later, please? - Yes. - What's Forfkin? - You know what? I'm actually gonna know that. ♪ Secret tunnel, secret tunnel ♪ ♪ Secret, secret, secret, secret tunnel ♪ - And with that, you continue on your way. And you walk and you walk and hours turn to hours.

As the tunnel seems to have no end. Wow. And you feel like you've walked for miles. As the passage that you're walking through is... I'm going to stop everybody. How many hours has it been? It's probably been like two, three hours. Okay. My concern, though I don't believe that this should stop us, is I have a feeling we are going to exit in the city. I turn to our captain.

How, how, roughly how far were we from the city when we entered this, this hatch? We were a few miles per the map. Revali looks at you with this grim sense of acknowledgement and like unsettlement, and unsettlement, whatever, of unease, as he just gives you a nod and he looks at all of you and says, we should keep going. I thought we were trying to get to the city.

We are. We were just not hoping that this secret tunnel that lies in this labyrinth where they're sacrificing people would have a direct link to it, thus confirming our theory that there are people in the city, probably with high power, who are utilizing these to kill people. But that's fine. Let's hope. Yeah. Who built these tunnels? Why are they here? Why are they connected seemingly nowhere? Are there more than one tunnel? I have so many questions. We had no branching off from this main tunnel so far in the last three hours. Yeah.

Let us continue. Let us. And it continues forward until you finally see, you feel the elevation start to rise up. And you walk up higher and higher. And you see up ahead a very faint rim of light around a large rectangular outline of light. Very faint, though.

As you get closer and closer, you realize that the, that it's the back of a hatch. Large metal hatch. Very faint, thin line of light coming around the outside. Can we hear anything on the other side? Make a reception check. Gah!

That's terrible! It's a seven, I don't hear nothing! It's very difficult to hear. You can kind of hear that there is... It seems to be quiet. Well, seems good to me, let's go! Is there any way we can find out what's on the other side of this door using all of your abilities? I can open the door! And I have the ability to enter into the room afterwards. I also have the ability to open the door.

What about before we open the door? I'm just worried about what if there are bad guys around the other side of this door? Well, I mean, you know, I might be able to...

Open the door? Yeah, I think we should lift it a little bit, have somebody peek under and see what they see on the other side. That way we're not making a shit ton of noise, but it's a little bit of noise. I think the second we even touch this door and start to open it, we're going to alert everybody on the other side. I say we just open it and be ready to fight. I'm with you. There's really no other way around this. You don't know what's happening around this door. We have a kid and we have a child with us. I'm going to stand at the back.

- Okay. - I reach down and I just try to- - Oh boy, my boy. - You're gonna push it. - This is gonna be like the back of a tavern or some shit. - 24. - I hope so. - Use a drink. - As you heave it and you feel a tiny bit of resistance,

As soon as you heave, you hear a loud "vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

with several bulls. Actual bulls. Actual bulls. Livestock. And cats. Livestock. And the spade light is kind of peeking through the slats of this building and is kind of illuminating the whole thing. And as you step inside, you hear the sound of voices and footsteps and like the rattling of carts and the light from outside.

and Revali kind of looks at all of you and he looks around, this is stable, he walks forward and there's this little side door, you see that there's a large double barn door and there's just a wooden side door, then he just grabs the handle and opens and as the door swings open you see a bustling city street of Zentra and that is where we're on the session.

As we do that, Iris will look down at the baby and she'll go, well, welcome to Zentra, Thomas. And she'll hold him close to her heart. Very nice. I thought we agreed that Lorenzo was going to be the name. She completely ignores you and walks out. And that's where we'll end that. Wow.

That was really awesome. Holy crap. We made it. That felt like some old school D&D with the fucking map and shit. Yeah. This is the first time in a really long time that we've had like an actual dungeon since like old school crime. Yeah, exactly. Like I'm saying it's been a long time. I feel like even for crime that we haven't like dungeon crawled. Yeah.

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