 So yes, you guys let me bring up Sergei once again the little three-foot tall almost dwarven stature Warforged with various tools all across his belt and chest and a little hammer made of a crystalline material similar to the crystals that you saw in viscerally And the ones that are on our cart. Yeah, and the ones that are on your cart I've fully missed that he was three feet tall. This is the best day ever He's a little guy So much brain in his gosh darn head I'm gonna actively have to try to avoid talking him in puppy talk because everything's It's just evolved into I'm very glad you don't talk to me like that You see you have negotiation, I don't think I'd lost very long So Sergei just kind of eyeing you up and down and kind of extending a hand to shake with each one of you You can you can see that he's got a fairly firm grip as well and you can see that all across his kind of Constructing warforged hands. They're scratches and marks and stains all over The you can tell he works with his hands like almost all the time So how are you enjoying our little city here You know, it's really not bad. I am liking the the water flowing through all of this. It's very interesting You know what that makes me glad I built that myself Oh Like by hand just yourself well with a few tools and a little bit of help, but it was part of my construction I wrote the blue blueprints Huh, you seem to have been have done a lot for this city at least everyone that we've spoken to thinks fairly highly of you I would hope they did I've been working on this city for quite a long time now well, there is a Pretty much one primary reason where he and I'm sure you know what that is. Oh, yeah, the heart. He kind of steps forward a little bit and Just kind of pats around his body Now it's usually tradition that the trial of a linty and dragon involved some sort of fight against a dragon But if I'm to be totally honest and I don't mean any offense by this I find that tradition kind of wacky So I agree I like I prefer the smoother sailing of just getting this done and over with yeah The place doesn't fall apart lucky thing that this place ain't run by Lord Nicholas meaning tradition ain't law So I'm not gonna fight you instead. I'm just gonna give you the heart But only after you do me a solid you're gonna help me fight something else What's the thread I'm not surprised it seems reasonable not quite so much as a threat But more like a resource you see there's a tons of ruins around Barbella and low Piramios to the west of here ruins of the old world and rumor has it that there's some right nasties inside and tons of treasure too I See I'm very interested in this So you want us to go in there and fight whatever right nasties that we find in there Not just fight them most more importantly. There's a what happened recently is I think I've Started to crack a formula on a permanent solution to the blot and I think the final piece of the puzzle might be down in one of those ruins What are we looking for? Yeah, I've been researching the blot ever since I could even lift a pen Now I don't pride myself on grave Robin But some of the greatest inventions made in Poletros were derived from some of the lost goodies hidden in those ancient ruins And if I got to get my hands dirty one more time just to get rid of the blot for good I'm not gonna sniff twice What do you mean by dirty hands well? Seeing as they're ruins from the old world. We're kind of stealing stuff from the dead. It's a little bit disrespectful Yeah, if they were worth our respect, they wouldn't be dead Okay Well, I'm sure we would be happy to help you in this endeavor read the room Well, it's the elimination of the blot Be good for everybody So when do we start? Hmm. I see that some of us here not fans of grave Robin Yeah That's that's a dead person Yeah, what are they gonna do about it? Occasionally they do get upset and get up about it. I would think that if it means being able to put a permanent end to the blot that Probably falls under the greater good. I think it would probably be for the best I'm sort of agreeing with word here if they're just if they're dead. I didn't those things say that they like Weren't alive Did I get that right? Yes, I would argue that that is more reason to be concerned about the consequences of taking their stuff But just to be clear word, I do not object to taking their stuff Are you sure they hate the heat ain't going to you if I didn't hear right? I would have thought that you said the plot talk to you Sort of ah It must have been the heat then if it was talking to you it probably wasn't the blood No, I mean that would be comforting but we have reason to believe that it may in fact have been a form of communication Right. We've been able to we've sort of been What's the word for it guys? We've got our own follow Yes, there was an unusual blot creature that was pursuing us until we destroyed it in the chasm near the entrance to the city And it's been able to communicate with us at least to it at the very least it appears as though It understands and it's key of it understands speech and we were able to communicate somewhat with it I mean just yes and no, but it conveyed the attention in the intention of killing us without Just attacking us first whoever so wishes give me a persuasion check All right, who's actually charismatic? Oh God me for some reason Yeah, I think it's always you but we're god damn it. I mean, I guess Unfortunately, this is just a persuasion from whoever Feels like they had the most to to insist that they heard the plot and you can see Sergey one of Sergey's eyebrows just kind of narrows a little bit And he just kind of puts both hands on his hips and tilts his head listen I don't mean to say that your ears would deceive in you, but I've been around this place for almost 200 years now I'm pretty sure the blot don't talk It is strange that none of the dragons have had a confrontation like this when we bearing their hearts have had so many Well, whatever it is you heard I'm I'm sure it was something dangerous, but I can promise you blot don't talk I Mean what would you said you said you've been studying the blot for quite some time, right? Oh, yeah What would how how would that you change your perception of the blot if the blot could talk? well How would it change your perception if suddenly a thunderstorm started reaching out and speaking to you? God's do exist Yeah, I guess a few of them you got me there But needless to say basically what I'm trying to get at is the blot's just a weather phenomenon is moves on instinct It's no more dangerous than say a tsunami or tornado And no less dangerous, but Nature is like that, but I certainly hope you're right regardless I don't mean to be rude and I'd get that you've probably done a lot of research, but The blot spoke to I mean we didn't speak to us. It didn't use words, but we communicated with it's all right He holds up one hand. I don't know I get it if you say the blot spoke to you Then you then the blot must have spoke to you. I'm just telling you what my experience was I've not once said the blood spoke to me I just want to be clear about the disease. I'm sorry. I'm sorry It's all right We don't need to convince anybody We're all on the same page here Our goals we I pointed the two of us are on the same page here. I think yes, but our goals are the same Right, I'm sorry. I don't mean to get frustrated about it You we got to go fight the goo guys in the in steel from the dead or whatever the whatever it was that'll be fine Something approximating that yes. Yeah back to the matter at hand. Anyway, I was gonna say I used to pop into the old ruins all The time but starting a few years ago. Lord Euphrasia has been putting a limit on my visits She keeps insisting it's too dangerous and I'm far too important an asset But honestly, I feel that gives me all the better reason to go in I feel if there's something incredibly important that could aid our province that's hidden away in an extremely deadly place I ain't about to send in somebody else to die for my theories. Plus. I'm the dragon I'm the most powerful individual on poly trails, and I don't even I'm not even bragging this time You'll know when I am That is currently true Is Lord Euphrasia going to be angry at us for assisting you in this endeavor? Well, no, but I think if I had you along with me being that you've beaten two dragons I think we could probably convince her to let me go along. Oh Oh Yes, we are very good at coordinating with local authorities and be All right. Well, whatever don't linger on me saying that All right, let's go and he kind of just trots and waddles you can see that he's Got someone of a makeshift leg. They're kind of like asymmetrical somewhat with some pieces that he must have found at some point and It doesn't hinder his Maneuvering too much. He just kind of walks a little weird And he heads to the elevator and makes some space for all of you and heads all the way back down So how big do you get when you turn into a dragon? Oh? You're like you're like my size you want me to spoil it Yes Give me give me a rough approximation Well your old man over in what's your town's name again? Satya Satya. Oh, yeah, Elias. That's the guy Yeah, somewhere around his size, maybe a little bit bigger. I haven't really compared in quite a bit I ain't so magically inclined as the rest of the dragons So my form ain't a traditional transformation like the others. I built it myself with my own forehands I'm very excited to see that at some point. Yeah Benefits of being a warforged half your body being a construct makes permanent transfiguration a whole lot simpler. I Suppose it would So do you just like get in the top of it and then its legs become your legs? Oh, no, it's all stored in here and he takes his hand just kind of bumps his chest and just like I'm curious how heavy this little man is The elevator's just like trying He gets in his own tunnel just plummets. Yeah So as you head to the bottom and you start making your way to the Lord's office You Start making your way to the Lord's office and you can see that there's a small orcish boy That runs up to Sergei About the same height as well just a few inches below and he starts rapidly punching him extremely rough on the chest And you can hear banging like someone smacking pans together and Sergei is clearly just acting out pain Oh, ah, you got me. Oh the dragon of Poletrius has been beaten. Ah spare me. Oh great Mikkel And you can see the little a little orcish boy with a little bandana over his kind of spiky red hair Oh This little type this is Mikkel say hi Mikkel and then Mikkel just kind of points at buck You're the one who smacked like district Torah Well, we were engaged kind of in pitch combat. Yeah, but you already defeated her and then you hit her again I'm a villain Yes Evil so I just sort of my the acolyte. Nah, you're not cool enough to be evil. Oh You're gonna take that buck evil is never cool. That's a child word. I mean, what is it you want me to do? Prove you evil by by what hitting the child this onion and I hold up an onion What a non-cool evil person do this and then I bite the onion Give me a charisma check. Okay This is rotten work Well, yeah, Mikkel laughs and points now your breasts going to stink for a week Just what I wanted Now you've got the breath like a villain Shut up. It's a good thing. I'm down here That makes you in the splash zone word I think that's I think we're busy Kid, so I think we're gonna I'm gonna throw up Mikkel looks over at Sergey and Sergey just kind of shrugs his shoulder. It's kind of like yeah, we do. Oh Come on, sucky Can't be played today and Sergey's discuss. Ah, sorry little pipe. I can't I got important business to do with these losers Hey Sorry Yeah, thank you Mikkel just kind of lowers his shoulders. Oh, but you said that yesterday You said that once you're done with your newest invention, you'd have time I will but I got another new invention that really needs my attention right now. Trust me. It'll all be worth it but I need you to be a little more patient right now and Mikkel just kind of kicks the dirt Okay And he looks at the party and pout and start to walk away fritz actually your passive perception You can see that he seems to hide an explicit hand gesture at you all and kind of whispers Stupid pilgrims stupid inventions. You never going to play with me anyway Oh The cats in the cradle in the silver spoon little boy green Do I want to blow a second level spell slot just to get a puppy to play with for a little while? Can I talk to the little guy you most certainly can I like I like Crouch down and I'm like hey. Hey strong powerful man. What do you want? I know it sucks, right? Really does. Yeah, I can't because I you all ah But you see Mr Once this is done. You won't just have one playmate. You have to I'll come play Now how fun will it be trying to catch someone flying? Give me a persuasion with advantage. Yeah One more Already pretty good He he kind of looks you over he sees your wings Can I ride on your shoulders? Yes, but you have to wear the goggles He kind of like looks and thinks about it. You don't want bugs in your eyes. Trust me. It hurts He puts one hand to his chin rubbing it as if he's got a beard I can squish those bugs with my eyelids Oh I don't doubt you sure that's a fascinating My and I just like whispered like it's not my full if he cries right? It's not my To you All right, and now I'll pinky promise. I'll give him a flight and he he Flicks the pinky promise and then he points to you and he points to Sergei like like almost like he's like Ready for you to bring it by his office the next morning and he walks off and you can see that he's got a little bit Of a spring of an instep now Didn't know if this was gonna work Just liar. I'm like, I haven't talked to children in so long Masterfully done Children respond enthusiastically to the promise of future violence, so I'm not surprised that you and Mikkel get on so well Of course not Sergei goes up to you Fritz. I'm sorry. You didn't you really didn't have to do that That's all right. We'll be like carrying word around Yeah, he's about the same size. Yeah, I am glad you were able to see through his bad manners I do love that kid. I just barely got time to set him straight, you know, but he's honest as long as he you know He's in causing too much trouble Does he have Other people who can take care of him in your absence If you talk about family not really that kid just showed up in town one day And what's the most loud and obnoxious little bastard I ever met and I love him for it Not looking at friends Trust me, I've been asking the gods to keep him out of trouble He ain't really my kid, but I do kind of feel like it's my responsibility to take care of him You know nobody else has the nerve to put up with him. He's a lot more earnest once you get to know him though Perhaps some sort of apprenticeship in the workshop. Maybe I don't think he's big enough for that But maybe one day You're a damn good person Sergei I wouldn't I wouldn't put that based on how I'm treating that kid. I could spend more time with him I just got other priorities right now. Who's to say yeah, but you didn't give up on him when everyone has Sometimes I feel like I do I spend most of my time trying to come up with more ways to improve Poletrials against threats like the blood or monstrous wilds of a linty so kids like Mikhail can be safe Even if it means I can't really be with them as much as I'd like to Yeah, all those creatures on the horizon are really something else. Oh, you bet As we're walking If I ever get a second I want to pull Layra aside Something you said when we were back at the top of the tower really sort of rub me in an interesting way just All right, look the fact that No one else has encountered the blot the way that we have really got me thinking like maybe if we sent a pigeon or something back to Satya to see if any of the other champions remember anything unique about the blood or if this is just us in our journey Yes, that would be wise I May be able to commune this with Shamiah the next time she calls me. If not, I can attempt to Find another way to send a message back Thank you Let's go fight law and rub graves. Yeah Right so and run away from children head to the Lord's office to go find Lord Euphrasia So you guys go into the Lord's office. You are let in at the site of Sergei Sergei sorry and Inside you find a fairly tall and wide middle-aged air Genasi woman going through some papers and talking with some guards She sees you come in notices Sergei sighs and waves away the guards You can see that she's wearing kind of a very thick black jacket with an ornate hat and You know some nice jewelry around as well. Let me show a portrait of her. Yes show me the fancy hat Oh She's like buck. She's got yeah, she's got a gout But yes, she sees you come in and she just looks kind of neutral until she looks down and sees sir Sergei, and then she just kind of takes a few two fingers to go up and pinch the bridge of her nose I Sergei, please don't tell me Lord Euphrasia apologies for the repeated interruptions, but no Sergei I don't care how much help you bring you're not going into those ruins But we're not just any help We are the what is it something of satia pilgrims pilgrims pilgrims pilgrims of satia. I know who you are Oh, oh me specifically our reputation precedes us. I know what did you do? Of course. I know who you are. It's in my paper. It's my job to know who you are Of course I take a bow Listen you pilgrims are free to head into whatever ruins you so wish you are not under my command But I would heavily advise against it especially on such a fool's errand In what way exactly what is he told you that he wants to find in there? Just a little bit of garbage some dead person left behind What's you what you call it Sergei a stop to the blot for good? Oh, yeah Yes Yeah, and I've discovered a new way to use the nearby cactus to wipe material That's fascinating. I didn't know you were a scientist. I was being sarcastic The blot is merely a part of the ecosystem of Elinthe and it's best left that way Those who have tampered with it have only brought pain and destruction upon themselves and you do well to respect its destructive nature And uh, sir gay just kind of like with certain parts of that assessment Yeah, sir gay just kind of looks to you guys and kind of whispers. Come on. Help me out guys Lord Eufrasia the blot has not part of the natural ecosystem of Elinthe the natural ecosystem of Elinthe suffers under the blots infestation And at the same at the same time like if you could tell a tornado not to Sweep through your city and destroy everything you've made you would want to have that ability am I wrong? He seems like a genius He's basically built this whole place and if he thinks he knows what is right when it comes to protecting it I think it's worth a shot Not the only person who has indicated a connection between the blot and the ancient ruins We were already planning on investigating something similar Sir gay is only giving us an opportunity. We would have taken sooner or later Give me your choice of a history check or a nature check Seeing as you are using those as arguments for uh, well my nature is plus four As you are, you know bringing up the idea of Why are we rolling so bad today? Because I haven't rolled yet Observe yeah, let's yeah, let's see word I reset it though. She's gonna hate us. Yeah, she doesn't like us She looks at you all and you know taking in your words. She just leans back in size It seems as though she's heard very similar rebuttals before Listen the ruins of the old world are abandoned for a good reason Sir gay you've recovered some good resources and even advanced our city to heights beyond my imagination But you've done enough the deeper you've explored the more dangerous it's gotten and we cannot afford to lose you Lest you forget what happened the last time you put a team together And you can see sir gay just immediately just kind of looks down And looks back at you guys and Yeah, I'm immediately giving him like a look like what happened last time Hmm ah Perhaps sir gay can enlighten you on that. It's not my story to tell Pilgrims you're free to go in but you will not be having the dragon's assistance. I'm sorry Perhaps that would be for the best regardless I don't think so but uh She is correct that sir gay is very valuable And the potential to lose him to the blot would be devastating Maybe I just don't understand the gravity of the risk that we're facing say gay. What are you not telling us? He looks over to lord ephrasia and gives a little bow Thank you lord ephrasia. I'll uh tell you outside All right, and she just kind of um Looks to you all doesn't even like give like a knot or anything goes back to her paperwork pilgrims Well, she's all business It was nice meeting you ma'am All right, let's let's let's get out of here. We're following sir gay Unfortunately, you are not able to secure the approval to allow sir gay to go into the ruins with you Is it just mere as every politician outside of satya a terrible person? I think this one's just sensible and overworked I mean she's got stuff. She's got to worry about two. I mean, I guess I get it What are they gonna do freedom to the dragon messes up? You know, what if we didn't bring him back? Then they get a new dragon named word Yes, I don't think that's someday She don't know Sorry, sir gay just kind of looks uh once you guys are outside. He just kind of shrugs his shoulders a bit Sir gay just looks a little disappointed and and seeing that you guys tried your best He just kind of shrugs his shoulders. Yeah, sorry about that. She kind of comes across as rude But you're right. She is just kind of looking after her City and all that sometimes it doesn't come across like she wants to help but she really does Well, that's disappointing So gay how bad did this get the last time you went into the ruins? Yeah, we got to know what's going on Oh, yeah, uh My last team they died I gathered that how many of them from what well I was in too big of a hurry and there was a bit too much going on And I got careless it's not my proudest moment I delved into one of the old world ruins like I do and I had a team of adventurers with me like I do It helps to have extra hands and extra perspectives great as my mind is there's always new angles that I'm not always privy to but then this time It's uh, it's hard to talk about But uh, know that things went really wrong and that it was my fault I understand if if we're gonna go in there then It's it's best if you just tell us At least what we're up against if there was a cave in we got to know that it's not safe You know, if there's a a bunch of angry rabid kobolds in there, that'd be good to know Hi short thing A few adventurers who have ventured into the ruins before Unsuccessfully might I add say there's a particularly big and nasty construct made during the time of the old warforge factories used to be running A big nasty that's been scavenging parts from whatever it can find in those caves Now tell me pilgrims how much about warforge biology. Do you know? Very little I can make some guesses Would you like to make some guesses with a history check? Yeah Oh Is a word you would know that warforge run on an internal power source called a soul crystal Similar to kind of like a heart but in a more magical sense of alente and it's used kind of similar to how uh Magical crystals are used to power devices like uh the crystal that levitates your cart or fire crystals That can be a nice source of heat a soul crystal is what keeps a warforge alive much like a heart The only problem is it's only powerful enough to power one warforged for a very long time, but only one warforged Can you put other soul crystals into the same warforged? That is as dangerous a procedure as Heart transplant and it has worked in the past with other warforged souls But only ones that are like of similar size and make I mean like accumulation replacement. Oh accumulation. No Okay, this construct Is it a warforged? Ah sort of It was forged for war So undetecticality. I don't know if that's maybe not okay to say Roll for microaggression My theory is that there's something so big and so angry That can have some kind of complex behavior for so many centuries and still not even walking up yet Has to have a soul crystal with immense power inside Is that what you want? Absolutely, whatever that is it might be the key to my new invention to help get rid of the blot Can it's a bad idea So you would want us to find this construct destroy it and bring you its soul crystal that's The size of it just about I see Can I ask I mean when we get you this crystal? You don't have to get too in depth about the science because I'm not sure I'd understand it But I mean what's the plan to end the blot? I guess I I don't understand. What what is this? Crystal gonna power it's gonna power an incredible device that's gonna be able to find the source of this thing Whatever it is. It's got some kind of will of its own Now the mages they say it's not necromatic, but I disagree As much as they continually tell me that it has no necromancy in it. I found otherwise How so? What that sense very important. Yes He pulls out a little wand that kind of looks like a wrench Also with a similar One of the same kind of viscerally crystals embedded into it This thing is my special conduit. It allows me to detect magic better than any mage I could find Even deep magic hidden away Ones that they insist is not necromancy So you believe the blot It springs from a single source and that source is in part necromantic Mm-hmm That's the gist of it and if I can find the source I could put a stop to it Maybe it's some kind of mage from the old war Still hanging around keeping themselves alive vamping off of the life tree That's just a theory though It could be any number of things But with this I could be able to find it and put a stop to it all together That could be very valuable I think it's certainly worth the attempt. Do you have any The last few expeditions. Do you have maps reconnaissance? Information about what we might be getting into not for this specific dungeon But if it's anything like the last few Uh, there's been abandoned Dungeons and There's been abandoned ruins for hundreds if not thousands of years So odds are whatever things that are in there that are living in there have moved in and shifted into place into an environment of their own Consider finding a lot of monstrosities And I'm dead Wonderful All right. I might need to look through my spells There is nothing we can't handle That is demonstrably untrue I mean it sounds like this I mean this is the challenge issued to us by the dragon so it doesn't sound like we have A ton of options here No, I agree. Not just a challenge, but a favor you'd be doing for me and all of alinti Yeah, that too. Is it really a favor for alinti if we don't come back? Well, yes, I suppose we do nobody any good by dying in a dungeon But if we succeed this would be a great favor for alinti and for us It might even stop the blah I mean potentially stopping the blood as one of the main things keeping us up on this journey So I I think it makes a lot of sense Listen, you've already taken on two dragons, two very experienced dragons, even if one of them is extremely arrogant If there's anyone who can do it, it's you You got something special about you Yes, I do Like in the direction of the ruins proudly Well, perhaps before we go maybe we should Get a good night's sleep and then go in the morning Wait, isn't isn't it the money? I'm thinking it's like it's like oh, it is the morning. Yeah, you guys Really in the morning to go to meet. Oh, that's right. That's right. But you can take the day to prepare if you so wish That would be wise Okay Oh, yeah, we had a rest. Well, my spouse is declared one other thing I'd be careful of a lot of these a lot of these ruins have some sort of arcane interference That's been messing with my tools. So the spell magic is almost universally useful. If not completely necessary Can you give us something that does that I mean if you want to I can give you a voucher for some extra spell uh spell scrolls That would be valuable. I've only got like two of those here. He kind of uh presses like a button on his back and you can see out from his Mouth prints out like a little receipt And you can see that it has the kind of elinthian sigil the tree as well as a little bit of uh Instruction, it's got a watermark. Yeah, it's got a watermark and a Kind of printed signature of sergi, uh, which is just a few very specifically placed dots And he hands it over to you and it's good for three scrolls of dispel magic at the uh alchemist lab That would be helpful. I can also prepare the spell if we have a knight's rest first. You just know how to do that Oh, yeah, yes Oh, all right. Well, I'll take a scroll with two Oh boy Oh another thing Where paletrios now is now used to be an ancient warforge factory as you probably know So it's natural that a lot of them are still asleep lying around nearby And some of them have not woken up are probably still following their initial directive to destroy outsiders And since the masters that gave them that order have probably been done for centuries Well, get ready for a bit of aggressive constructs Wonderful, let's be sneaky I think that's about it. Thank you very much Thank you for your hospitality and the advice and we'll be sure to check in with you once we Accomplish the mission Sure thing if you need anything else just meet me at the tower. I'll try and see if I can pull some strings certainly Oh gosh well You guys need anything more to prepare I guess we should only time Yeah, I think we should maybe go Who who is it who sells the scrolls? Can we go to that person? Yes the alchemy lab Which is now open chest. Yes the the little this thing Now while you're walking to the alchemy lab Word you hear a familiar voice ringing in the back of your head. It's your little pal Yeah non-stop begonias Who kind of appears in a sort of form next to you while you're walking? It doesn't seem like any of the other kind of bystanders are able to see him at all But he's walking side by side with you kind of hunched down to meet you kind of hi. Hey, what's up begonia? Hey boss Look at what I found And he conjures up kind of out of his hand what looks to be various different herbs and medicines Okay, what why are you showing this to me? Is this just for me for free? Oh If you want I mentioned before that I could get things I found this juice from the alchemist the other day as well as a bunch of ingredients Now you can hold them for ransom That construct I hear she needs this one to ease her pains And he holds one vial of what looks to be some kind of like semi Glowy pink liquid in a vial Now you have leverage boss. You're the one who can make demands The one that we go into meat. Yes All right, I'll take him Word He drops them and they they transform kind of From their more ethereal form into the physical falling into your hand. You have a vial of We'll call alchemist tonic As well as assorted alchemy ingredients I look forward to the notoriety They fade out And just so I remember correctly because I wrote it down I just have to say his name when people are looking At me like it in terms of notoriety. He just wants to share that that's his bargain Yeah, well notoriety in terms of accomplishment. However, you may want to interpret that Okay, okay I wonder if you'll ever get bored or like Frustrated that I put that off Cool, so um, yeah, I pocket it keep going nice fritz No, it's just a connection. I'm making outside a game. Not so like fritz would know Would you like to share it with the class is he the one stealing from the shop? So you guys make it to the alchemy funny And you see chestnut once again, uh kind of tending to the stall and stuff actually opening it This time the the warforge alchemist from yesterday chestnut However, you can see that one of her arms is always to her side like it's limp even when lifting Simingly heavy objects like a crate or a box the her arm Just her one arm her right arm just seems to just sit there limp And she sees you coming in and she notices. Oh the adventure is from yesterday. Welcome back Uh, the alchemy lab is in business as best it can be We we got these vouchers for dispel Magic oh the dragon got that from the dragon himself. Oh Of course here she kind of Goes to take them from you and hands you three just as it says scrolls of dispel magic So anyone can use those they're one use and they're used up Do we all want to take one except for laira who can cast the spell naturally I'm shuffling around my spells as we speak can anyone use spell scrolls. Yes. Yeah, okay And that's a second level spell. Uh, yeah, I think so pretty sure What do you have what are your wares potions seller? Yes, she sells potions three different kinds restorative utilities and weapon oils Her potions are too strong You can't handle my strongest potions Potions are not fit for a beast let alone a math. I need to rewatch that so I can recite it all from my mind Okay, I need to stop laughing I don't think I I'd need or can't afford anything. So I that's all Seeing as she saw you yesterday and you I feel like you mentioned something about keeping an eye out for the thief She pipes up you can see here in her voice some desperation You've been keeping a lookout. Yeah, they've found anything on that thief that might have stole Some stuff. I don't know some suspicious looking figures. I'm kind of running out of options here I don't believe we've had any luck, but assuming we return from the ruins. We will Gladly skittering shadows age you with this. Yes All right, just don't know how much longer I can go or like this Might have to close up shop again if this takes too long my shipment doesn't come in until the next week Oh, yeah I did manage to find a few things as we've been traveling with this help at all and I put just the alchemy ingredients on the table Give me a deception All right Oh my goodness you found them Where did uh to hell's with it. It doesn't matter. Thank you so much Yeah And she just kind of like wait these are the missing and I pointed the top shelf Can I had that potion? Uh, which one are you pointing at? Uh, I'll let you pick word doesn't know. Okay. The top shelf would probably be the potion of growth Okay Gosh, finally you can be a normal sized person. I will cut you down to my size I'm sorry. Are these the exact items that went missing? Yes, you must have bumped into the thief and made him scared off or something Thank you so much. That must have been what happened I just I find things scattered around look. I know where to look where thieves would hide things because I have a friend Who steals things very often Is that right? Who's not me? Uh-huh, sure So anyway, this is a really nice potion. I'm looking forward to drinking the whole thing Oh, of course, uh, stop by anytime I'll be sure if you would like I can put you in a special order or something I I I don't like to go to places more than once. Oh, all right Anybody else want to put in an order before we go? I don't believe so, but I might spring for the potion of healing just to have I think I have one already. I think I'm good. I think I'm good. Oh, actually, I also already have one never mind I have all these potions. I just never use them on anything. I don't want to buy anything. Sorry. I've got puppy on my lap right now. Oh All right, so you guys buy your potions and Return your ingredients and also I wanted to ask because I also forgot about this Fritz, did you want to deliver that? painting to the nearby like kind of Post office or something. Yes. Thank you. I'd appreciate that. Yeah Do that right now as well while you have downtime Actually, uh, I might buy that potion of concentration that looks like it could be extremely useful All right, let me just mark off my 30 gold. Oh god. We're so broke Uh, I'm gonna go back to the uh Maybe I'll I'll go back to the end. I guess if we're gonna it doesn't sound like this is something that we're gonna do tonight, right? No We need time to prepare right well, uh I would assume you stop by the post office first as well unless buck you just want to go straight to the end and not I mean, I'll go if ever if everyone's walking like if fritz wants us all to go with Them to the post office. It's fine. But otherwise, I'll probably just be like Tag along sure I want to go I think I'll just go back to the I'll just go back to the bar I might go back to the end and start, uh swapping out my spell slots an idea What See when we go into the post office, why don't you write a letter to your friend with the bar now? Oh, yeah It would be good to know, uh, what business has been conducted in the past couple of days Paola very wise Cards to be able to work it out. I don't know your code stuff Oh Actually, yeah, I'm gonna need your help with that I don't know how to write I can tell you what to write, but I don't know how to Oh And uh, I've got very good ham writing Good. I have a couple things to send out Get to write a letter. I usually pass them on I'm excited now All right So you guys head over to the post office and you can see that there are a few people kind of exchanging packages and back and forth and stuff and see that there is A human behind just kind of servicing letters and stuff and when you go up there To mail the painting back to sachia They recognize you and they're like, wait a minute. Are you the pilgrims from sachia? That would be us specifically the god king word and also fritz the male bird Hi Well, I got a few letters for you Actually, oh from sachia three of them in fact Addressed to fritz word and layra What oh my goodness I got it We just got a letter. I wonder what's inside And nothing for a buck fight And uh, you exchange the the painting for the letters they bid you adieu Yeah, so for the note that I'll have written to um Um Paulo the rattler is just sort of a general update on what we've encountered I will like add a note that the blot is um Just noting that it's more more than just a weather phenomenon Because that's all we know right now and then just asking for general updates about business politics anything that they would know Okay Yeah after the session you can write down the more specifics of what you would like to ask Oh, just so you in case you don't want to leave anything out Or if you come like come up with something later and you're like, oh, I should have wrote that too And then um, I will package up the vial of the alchemist's tonic And I'll have a note written to the alchemist Uh, like specifically deliver this in two days not like right now And have it issued from non-stop begonia Oh Like a generous gift Hmm interesting all right Those will be my notes nice Now would you guys like to read the letters first? So that your letters back can be in response or would you like to write the letters first? Um, yeah, definitely read first read. Okay. Who wants to read first laira word or fritz? I Forgot I was here. I will absolutely read mine. All right, so uh laira you have a letter from shamiah Oh, you use magic sending spells. Oh, give me give me give me. Oh, it's written Oh Should we not do not want us to do not want us to read this should I read it aloud? Yeah, read it aloud for the audience Laira I've managed to finally find a cure for your little ailment But unfortunately you'll have to put together the remedy yourself if you wish to be free of the witch's silence over you The other friends of your companions insisted. I write this letter along with them as a form of solidarity I am unable to see what benefits a letter fills an efficient communication where a sending spell couldn't do objectively better in every way But I digress I do hope you are doing well Though I am accustomed to quieter environs your absence does leave me wanting for company Or at the very least an extra hand the weeds have taken over the garden for my next birthday I want enchanted shears take care shamiah And oh and then there's a there's a package of various herbs and ingredients as well as instructions on the creation of the remedy Require a medicine check dc12 at sundown for each dose. There was only enough ingredients for four So i'm gonna have to succeed at this all four times Wait, word didn't get the gage did he? Word didn't get the yeah, right good. Okay. I didn't get the what? You weren't uh, yeah the curse from the witch remember Oh, cool. Another thing to do tonight. All right Well, i'm curious who wrote the other letters who could persuade shamiah to leave the house Who's next word? Oh my god, my medicine is plus six. I'm no longer worried. Uh, I'll go in the middle. All right word Here's your letter All right I'll have someone else read this for me fritz. Can you read this all out for me? Oh, uh, sure. I my reading skills aren't Best. Oh my god. I love them so much Where do I read this my blind? Oh, it's in front of me. Yes Okay, there's a summarization. Okay, here we go Dear boss good news that witch lady you told us that to keep an eye on Won't be traveling satya anymore or because she left and has been gone for a week now Bad news. We can't spy on her no more because she's gone and we don't know where she went to We are crafting her house to mark your victory Pumpkins our big graffiting graffiting. I'm sorry like a graph. I think it's graffiting I Sorry Pumpkins are bigger. I didn't teach him to write Claudius and lackeys Claudio Claudio All right, that is good to know but also kind of actually really bad Maybe I don't know. There are implications in both directions it to you because there's a couple of things at the bottom you might like At the bottom of the letter seems to be several claw prints of various sizes the lackeys who couldn't write so well making their own kind of signature Truly friendship is the greatest magic of all I recognize that one that one's Layra's Lyra, it's Lyra This one. Oh, yeah, Lyra. I got that back. This one's Layra. The other one's Layra I was looking at the phonetic writing that I had Still did it wrong. Oh boy And lastly the letter to Fritz There you go. Oh, this is very How do I make this bigger? Oh, if you click on it, there's it Okay, hoy Fritz Strange I find myself writing a letter to you of all folks there Though it might be a good idea for me and the crew And all those friends of of your friends to send you a little care package in the form of some Good old fashioned well wishes However, you've been enjoying mainland. I never met. Uh, I never went Too far past new best sky myself. I heard you're kicking the asses Asses of the buffs balls though. Sorry. My reading is real bad I'm more of a more of a deliver letter. This is a reader. Do you want me to do it? If you click on it? Lyra, I'm struggling again. He writes so fancy Of course Heard you kicked the arse of the bull though props to you I hope you got some st-ars and bruises to show us when you get back And now I hear you're in the land of invention itself. What a city I've always known a ship like the insides of my beard, but machinery is a whole other story Who knows you might pick up a thing or two from that engineer's haven And maybe you could hook up the nato with some fancy lights or something really make her shine on the waters The whole crew wanted to write you too But I had to wrangle them to make sure you don't die by paper cut Instead, we've all opted to sign this letter for you to let you know how much we miss you So sorry if my letter is a bit shorter than I'd want it to be Also, I've attached some extra coins some of the lads won while we were docked by bus sky Go spend it on something stupid for me. Will ya dozen? Yeah! I got I got allowance! I got 25 gold pieces signed at the bottom of the ladders are two dozen signatures of Some of them are obnoxiously large others are common by silly doodles of fritz ones Downed out piece of script with her a huge muscle arm wings all things like overhead in a prime body slam position. Oh, I I don't I was a fan of my desk by monday Something's got a bit Stood through miss uh I'm gonna roll it out the letters 25 gold pieces I want to know who did like the john hancock big signature at the bottom of this one I like this is very cute. I'm shmiling. I hate that. I can't read well I can't wait to see those in again and tell them all the stories I gotta be on the lookout for something stupid more stupid than the stick I brought This is adorable So you've purchased some potions. You've uh read your letters from loved ones Back in the satia And you can write your letters at the end of this end of the session so that you can get your Thoughts together and make sure you say everything you want to say to them or you know learn sending up to you It's not on my spell list Either way, uh, once you are done with that, what other preparations do you wish to do? Oh No, actually, I don't want to still got an entire day Uh ahead of me. I would say by now it's maybe like mid-afternoon ish Would it be okay if I planted a bean Oh, oh my god, we're genuinely doesn't know what these do So I want to like get a little like pot of soil and put it on the cart assuming that it's going to take a while for these to grow Hmm, I don't actually know how long it takes for a bag of beans one minute one minute. It's like it's like immediate I'm pretty sure like no, it's a minute. I was looking at it, but word doesn't know the outcome I see you're gonna plant it in the cart Um, I'll get like a little pot or something like maybe a bowl that we have and just scoop up some dirt Yeah, yeah, okay on the back or something probably on the ground as I'm starting. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, okay You can do that if you so wish yeah and uh Do you would you like to roll? The bag of beans for me Here we go Great, but um 85. Oh no A nest of 1d4 plus three eggs springs up any creature that eats an egg must make a dc 20 It's con saving throw unless the sex will save a creature permanently increases its lowest ability score by one Huh choosing amongst the equally low scores On a failed save the creature takes 10 d6 force damage from an internal magical explosion Okay, let's see how many eggs spring out from the beans roll 1d4 plus three Some very dangerous gamba eggs. So you have six eggs now my friends I have created eggs With my bean The question is would your first instinct be to eat them or to leave them alone? No, I don't What kind of what do they look like? Do they look like chicken eggs? I would say these probably look like run-of-the-mill eggs like non-descript You don't know where it's from you can see that it has a very dim glow and is ever so subtly Just shaking in place Are they like on a little vine or did they grow in like a little nest cluster like what they grew kind of Yeah, like in a little cluster in the pot like as they were kind of sprouting out They kind of fell out of the pot I assume it's a small enough pot and then you put it on the on the floor that if they just kind of rolled On the floor of the cart without cracking. Okay um I made eggs You planted one of the beans Well, yeah, I didn't know what they did I figured maybe it would give us like some kind of neat little food either for the future of our travels or for Like the adventure we're going on. I figured it would be like berries or something but We got eggs Yes, I would when they hatch I'm actually curious to know that but I would advise against not planting any more beans at least not in an enclosed space Advise against planting more beans. They're already in the ground No other beans. I don't know how I feel about you being a parent would put the eggs down I'm actually really curious what happens if we let these eggs hatch Because all it says is you eat them Do we sit on them? Is that what you're I don't I don't we just we have eggs. I don't know what to do with them. Do I need to sit on them? No, not unless you want to I What if we feed one to like a random citizen? I think we shouldn't do that What do you the eggs? What do you think's gonna happen? Well, we don't know what's inside them Bean eggs. Oh god. Wait. How uh, how was I born? An egg? Was I an egg? I don't know Oh, no Joe, can I make a major check to know how aracacra birds on the tree works? I haven't thought that out. Do you? Okay I haven't thought out through the aracacra birthing process. Come on, dear What do we pay you for? Hey word, how many hit points do you have on a scale of like hypothetically? I think hypothetically my odds are Straight up safe enough for me. Yeah. No, I can't die. I'm at 33. Yeah, okay So taking observe my reptilian nature. No, no, no, you could technically die Uh, how do you know? Oh, wait, sorry You could go unconscious. No, you he has you actually can't he has three extra hit points keeping him from possibly dying technically six Uh, we wouldn't know I'm gonna try one of my eggs. I bought these I'm not gonna succeed though. I'm just gonna you bite into the egg No, I I stick out my tongue and I like swallow the thing whole like a Swallow it whole like a reptile. Give me a constitution saving throw All right, come on over 20 This You see words swallow this egg whole and you I'm okay His stomach and his whole body just like puff up briefly just And then just some like Magical mist just come out of his nostrils and his eyes just like briefly flash of blue As eggs of internal bleeding I choose to believe that like he only got away with that because Fritz and labor were having like no, no, don't overthink it. It's fine. But what if I get what was I an egg or not? And then just behind us like Oh my god, all right, I suppose we'll be sleeping that off You are not sleeping under my bed tonight I Hold on hold on. I think I can see my parent Have five hit points back Thank you. You're welcome. I think you cleaned out some of the blood in my stomach All the blood is internal. That's where it's supposed to be Does anyone else want one? Can I just scoop word up with your permission word? I just scoop you up I'm just going to pile these eggs in like a little like nest in the corner and just leave them I'm gonna put a sign on them that says do not eat And then I'm going to add it as an afterthought word. This means you you should know better I know better now. I didn't know better before but I Wait, can word reader write I forget I can't read Okay. Well, he knows the gist I wonder who this sign is for anyway That's my old stomach because I can't read But please tell me you're up to something more responsible I thought it was just I I think I was just gonna wait for them to like come back. Like I I'll probably just like Five eggs of stomach exploding in my I want to see buck's reaction to basically half dead word Yeah, are you guys significantly more than half dead? I'm just I'm just playing solitaire like out of table and the huh this queen What happened what's going on There's someone out there. I played that a beam and it became eggs Huh, it looked really good and I thought he's he's delusional. Oh, no I discovered one of the one of the many wonderful side effects of using the bag of beans that we acquired I don't just do all the beans Come here The sick cobalt I don't want him You might throw up on me Too long to hold me correctly. I don't like this. I'm sorry. Just hold still you just hold still I'm gonna take him to the bedroom. Come on Let's get you. I'm not that heavy. Just take me You're going limp. You have to help me I keep like slipping out of your If I die in my sleep, I'm taking the beans Okay, thank you word I'm just gonna lay you down here in the one bed that's in this. Well, actually there's four beds in this room I'm gonna put you on my mind, please Oh, no, we made mega. We made mega bed last night. We made mega bed. Yes. Yeah Fuck like mega bed. No And I'll I'll put word I'll put word down and I'll kind of like tuck him Tuck him in. Are you guys in the room for this? I'm actually gonna probably be in the room for the rest of the because I need to swap out my spells and stuff And there was nothing else I needed to do. So it'll just be like a word like dying in the corner Okay, so I'm trying to meditate I'll get some of the blankets from layra's a Little pile and kind of kind of like kind of like tuck word in Because I know he's cold blood. It's that trying to tuck him in a little bit You know that feeling when you anxious and your stomach hurts a lot This is like if I was anxious 50 times over Okay, but I just think you need to just take a nap. Maybe just go to sleep a little bit. So just relax That's a good idea. I'll do I'll I'll close his eyes Do that thing you do like a dead person a valuable lesson was learned today I want water is something I'll get you I'll get you some water. Don't worry. This is so sweet I'm just gonna be in my little nest in the corner actually getting shit done I walk away. I walk away from the bed I walk away from the bed where word is tucked in and I kind of like, you know patting my hands You know against each other kind of So, uh, how was the um, how was the post office? I guess It was fun. We had some mail Um Sorry Mail from mail from who? I received word from my mentor I believe word also received a letter. Although I'm not entirely sure why I had to read it out for him. Oh, yes And I got a letter from dozen You remember dozen right buck. I think you've gone drunken with them Right, right. Yeah, um any any mail for me by any chance or Not that we saw Perhaps next time. Oh Oh, I mean, it's not like I have many Yeah, I'll get the water for word Uh, and I'll go get water for word and then bring it back when I get it. Well the day is going swimmingly so far Should we write him a letter? I'm not sure that would help Perhaps we could write his ex-wife and suggest that she write him a letter I don't know if that would help either I'm sure his spirits will be raised in time Yeah, let's let's I guess rest we can't leave him alone Apparently word will almost end his life if we leave him alone So do you think we can confiscate the beans without him noticing in his weakened state? I don't think we can It might be worth a try a frail hand You can I'm not I'm not touching him in case he throws up on me. Oh, that's wise All right. I'm back. I'm back with the water um I'll just word here. You just take small sips just take a little sip Small sips word. You're drinking too much. I know and it feels like hell, but I need it Okay, I'm losing water from crying Okay, that's all right They're they're there sort of padama. I don't know I'll I'll learn every little layer inference Um, I think I'm just gonna the the onion from earlier is kind of not sitting right with me as well So I think I'm probably just gonna turn in Is this your retribution? God What a successful day we've had so far Are there any other errands we need to run before our potentially inevitable demise tomorrow or are we all set? I don't I have nothing else that I want to do Well, how much gold do I have now? 25 more than last time Hmm. I don't oh, I don't remember the prices. I don't think I could make my bow better Uh, there should be uh in your little journal there should be handouts here. I'll bring up the smithy in case you want to see There he is Hey, it's a boy What is an add weapon skill? What does that mean? So that is a weapon dependent here I can look up the one for uh Hand crossbows, or is it light crossbow? Do you have a light crossbow? I could check for you Uh Why am I struggling? Uh-huh I just have a crossbow and it Just says it's two-handed range Okay, that must be a light crossbow then let me Look for it. Oh, it does it right there light crossbow Yes, oh my goodness I'm a bit hysterical after everything you just went down. It's okay. So the light crossbows special weapon skill is called piercing shot um, what it is is you can use an action to do this instead of a traditional attack and Shoot an enemy to damage them and possibly leave a gaping wound So we're just gaping wound Well, I didn't uh prepare this enough basically What I did was I stole Baldur's gate three's weapons uh skills and every weapon has a unique weapon skill um If I can figure out what piercing shot does I will let you know and you can decide retroactively next session Maybe I will do it. Yeah Sorry about that. I should have uh researched this. Uh, I have Your character sheets. I could have just written down all the possible weapon skills that could get Out of all the weird things we have thrown at you today This is fine Now having to after stream looking up arachok rip birthday Okay, yeah, don't be looking that up. I would say it is for sure eggs guys. It's probably You're too feathery. They're too feathery. Anyway, uh, most of the rest of the day You guys are just hanging out and tending to each other preparing both mentally and uh, physically And resourcefully, uh, however much you need for the for the ruins the next day And during the night word while you're grabbing your tummy Making sure that you're all right You get a visitor There you go Oh no not yet Oh good And it is non-stop begonias that shows up kind of hovering above you Greetings my demonic ally. Hello. I wanted to ask you what the heck that was Uh, wait, which which thing I did a lot today. Well firstly you didn't say my name For what? For using Those things as leverage the alchemist items No, I technically did. It's just something that's going to take effect in a minute Oh, not a minute. I want immediate gratification I you didn't clarify that beforehand. I didn't know it had to be every single time That's kind of now on I would like you to preface my name earlier okay, um And also what was that deal with the egg? I can't get my idea if you're dead I you think that I knew that the egg was going to literally explode my stomach Perhaps not, but you could be less careless. Would you like one? No I'm putting them in my inventory now as tummy bombs His eyes just squint I would like you to be more careful. I've just made this deal. It would be ruins And you mark whether you died immediately after That's actually extremely true okay uh Yep, I will let people know that you are here and important and where you've praised and whatnot Do not forget our deal Didn't know it was that concrete, but I won't and I can I pat him on the head? Yes, you can and give me Oh god Give me a charisma check Okay, just a straight charisma. You gotta riz up my boy here Well You pat him on the head and you can see his eyes just kind of Lower a little bit. Uh, you're right. I'm sorry. I should have prefaced a little earlier and been more specific So do you do like spooning it? Do you just vanish? Sorry, like I said, I'm not one for a lot of physical affection A pat was nice Like I can respect that I understand. I have friends like that Our large personal bubble Yeah You'll grow out of it and I'll like roll over We shall see I do want to know one thing though Yeah, yeah, go ahead the egg was a tasty Um It was weirdly spicy for having just been created. It was sort of like a Have you had a pepper? Yes, come from if you can believe it. I'm not into spice Mm. You probably wouldn't like one Good night boss. Oh, yeah. Good night non-stop begonia Any phase and slunks into the darkness Uh, could I actually make that one medicine check per night thing to try and make a dose of the You can make them. It's not per night. You can make them all right now. It's just you know If you're feeling lucky If you fail it the ingredients needed are consumed Right I do want to like make note of what they are so I can try and buy more if I need them but um They are nondescript for now. Yeah. Yeah, I would say you can buy more if need be but it's going to eat into your personal Yep. Oh good. Can I try the medicine check? Go ahead if you so wish Hang it. Oh, would you look at that? Ah, look at that. All right. You made successfully made one cure remedy For the curse of the witch. All right, cool You're feeling lucky punk Sure, why not? I already swapped out my spells and now I'm nervous All right, that's two cure remedies for the witch's curse. Okay, and uh Uh That's three. We're good. You get three witches cures For the for the witch's curse the remedy. All right. Yeah, well done. And you have extra ingredients as well I do ingredients I drink the forbidden juice Drink the little juice and it's a little bitter honestly not the tastiest thing you've ever had Are we is this is this in the morning or uh night that you're making these? I think I made those before word had his little spooning session with um Yeah, it's like it said like do it at sunset. So I would have done it but yes. Yes. We can say retroactively did and uh If uh, the three who are under the witch's curse would like to drink it. You can yes Yes Fritz Oh, sorry. I said yes. I drink would you? Oh, okay. Yes. I'll definitely do it first so that nobody like fucking dies or something Like no, I trust in you Lyra. I'm shugging this thing. I have drunk voice All right, you bottoms up the potion and all of you taste this bitter herbal medicine taste It doesn't taste good But you can see just all of you have a dim glow about you Before the dim glow just kind of kind of pops off into these little sparkly dusts You can now speak of the witch to anyone you wish however you wish Oh, how's that? Well, I will convey my gratitude to my letter and lay rock. Give me a wisdom saving throw. Yeah Uh All right as you do down this potion you feel flashes of imagery going through your mind Of the blot that you have encountered staring into the red eye and the thing pointing at you and Kind of flashes go through your mind and it feels as though you're getting a migraine until suddenly you're able to focus in You hone in from all your training with samaya you meditate on it and you focus on the imagery and When you do you actually Oh my god, I was just checking that out. Okay. You didn't actually eat the egg. You were just trying it out No, no, I'm not eating another one as a midnight snack To make sure Yeah, gotcha. All right So lay rock you focus in on this vision and On these images that you're seeing and it's all the encounters You've had with the blot of the recent few days and weeks Until when you focus into the flashing images you actually see through the eyes of the humanoid Blot staring at you with its arm pointing at you And through its eyes you can see the two hearts in your pockets glowing As if it's calling to you And you see the vision going backwards backwards going back and back and back into Some strange dark ruins And then the vision fades. Oh my goodness Did anybody else see that? Okay, probably not then Is this where we sleep for this? No, no, I assume this is this is right after you all drank the potions together to get Oh, so we all see it. Okay. No, no, no, you don't all see it. Only Layra does Oh, okay. I was confused. That's what I was like You have a nightmare? No, I think I definitely need to sleep though I don't understand what it was or how Perhaps I'll ask Shamiah You know what? It's probably nothing to worry about. I'll explain later if it is Okay That's fine. I need to go back to preparing spells or something Anybody else doing anything during the night before you go to sleep? Mending my wounds Megabedals taken so Layra, well one It's cold and you take the fucking bed Oh You're free to join me in my pile Thank you The pile Yeah, oh she fluffy and hangy I'm going to bed. Good night Good night I'll talk fritz in Buck, did you want to do something? Uh, I don't think I have anything I want to do So I guess not okay Well the night goes on you all rest and sleep the rest of the night And when morning comes you are ready to head towards the ruins I'm guessing the morning comes you have your breakfast served to you by the uh the nice innkeeper the fire genasi who Signs for you good luck on your journey And as you head southwest following the directions that sir gay gave you Uh, it's not too far from town. In fact, you don't even need to bring the cart But if there's anything in the cart you wish to bring any of the supplies that are provided in it or on it You can as well if you so wish I'm so curious to see if they had to do something actually like in the purposes of scientific inquiry But um Yeah, you can't basically you can bring the cart, but it's probably going to be parked right outside the entrance anyway And it's not going to be too too far from the city And You find the mouth of this cave as given directions from Sir gay kind of passed a bunch of boulders squeezing through a few tight spaces You delve deep into a cavernous hole That is the entrance to the old world's ruins you go layers and layers deep down as it gets warmer and warmer from the kind of hot insulated desert heat And through layers of broken down structures Uh kind of lining the walls most of it covered by a rocky debris Every here and there you come across a few bones Perhaps the remains of some poor creature or previous unfortunate adventure who bit off more than they could chew you reach the entrance of The ruins if you scroll to the bottom you can put your tokens down here at the bottom Oh, there we go Where's me? Yeah, oh, it's so gray put me token in the game. All right. Oh my goodness. I think this guy is dead Oh Oh, I found it You gotta go to like a third tab from the left The little character's one journal and then you grab your your name. Ha. I was doing it the wrong way I I'm sorry buck, but I don't think he's gonna make it Live damn you Why he was so young died too young. No, we gotta bury him. All right So now he's good at ahead of you. You can see that there is a kind of Ancient architecture made of stone carved in typical brick Uh, you can see that there are two hallways leading into two dark rooms As well as what looks to be some kind of cave in with a bunch of boulders straight ahead of you I'm gonna flip a coin to see which way I think we should go first Uh, and then heads, I guess left and Let's roll a d2. Yeah one is I think did we say one is heads or one is tails? Uh, I guess it doesn't really know. Uh, one is heads two's tails heads left Two, uh, right I think we should go left I agree. All right. Very well. You had to know they got him too No, they're so young. That's definitely a wolf. Fuck I'm point down at the I point down at the skeleton. This is a bad sign, right? Like that this we've barely made it into this place Things die all the time. It doesn't need to be a thing. These are big bones. I mean, I'm looking at these Are these human skeletons like these are humanoid skeletons. Yeah, they're fairly they're humanoid in some way Oh, okay. So this is not great. I'm just off the bat So you head into that room to the left and you can see that it looks to be some kind of living quarters of some kind You can see there are various crates and beds as well as a couple of More dead guys couple dead guys and you can also see what looked to be some very run down destroyed decrepit Warforged bodies as well you look to be warforged soldiers of some kind You can see their parts are all worn out and you can see that in their chassis where their soul crystal would be it is Just like Basically out of power It's far gone So they still have their soul crystals, but they're like Just burned out basically basically all right I wonder what kind of literature they like I'll never know Yeah, if you look there is also a bookshelf as well But whatever pages on these books must have been faded in history I doubt you're gonna find a book on living forever given the number of skeletons in this room That is a fair point. It's weird that this one doesn't have a skull and i'm gonna add a skull to my inventory Just picking a skull off of the ground. All right. Oh begonia is gonna love that I know we said we were okay with stealing from the dead. I don't know about stealing the dead I There's no reason for you to take a skull. It'll come in in the third act Oh a last poor yorick. Yes. Yes Some people donate their skulls to be used in that one. I knew red would get that reference No, I actually took me a second honestly Uh, I can I look in one of these like barrels or both of these barrels? Maybe yes You can look in those barrels and you can see what looks to be old mining equipment Some pickaxes some spades some shovels and various they're all Real rusted and the wood shafts that they once used to have are like rotten to the core and just kind of in disrepair as well Nothing too interesting over here You can glean that whatever, uh, this room once was it must have been turned into some kind of like Camping mining operation. Uh, there is a big mining industry in this area of a linty. So it would make sense Can we try and figure out how recently these warforged were deactivated? Uh, yeah, you can give me an investigation if you so wish I love that skill. It never acts. Maybe someone who is better at it than me can try but I can give it a shot I Ain't no private eye bad Anybody who wishes to investigate can investigate Okay All right vision Lera you go up to one to try and kind of poke at it and prod at it and figure it out and Trying to do so You touch it wrong and it just crumbles to pieces and a few of it just kind of cracks on the ground making it completely Unfeasible I'm going to put an extra skull on it just to indicate that that's like twice I believe it was killed some time ago Fritz you look at it you look it over and with a 22 you can tell that It's almost as if this thing was just thrown together recently to make it look like it was deactivated actually What? Can I explain that to them? Yeah, you can relay this to your allies It just it was just recently thrown together Wait, sorry does it look like shoddy. I'm sorry. I'm just confused by your wording a little bit. Sorry. Yeah It looks as though these parts are actually looking at them It looks like it's just a masterful craft of someone who made a piece like almost like a piece of cosplay Of a warforge but purposefully going in and to scratching it up putting fake decay on it to make it look as though It has been there for a long time what? guys this when never alive um this a crafted Yet that's true for I'm sorry. What do you mean? Like they they were crafted and put here To look like this That's very worrying because that makes it seem like there's some sort of trap Like fake dead bodies I I suppose. Yeah, I don't really get why you would do this So what you're saying is that we should leave? I think we should leave this room. Yes, I agree. If not this entire location I'm so perplexed so I'm sorry Is the vibe that like these warforged were created like like props these were made to look like dead warforged Or is it that these were okay, so it's not that these were actual warforged that were killed and then made to look older Yes, basically fritz you can tell that these are fake So they that's what I mean. They were never here. They're just they're just they're not warforge Would they count as warforge? That is baffling Can I make sure that these skeletons are real? Uh, perhaps and what about these rocks? Maybe a medicine check. I think oh, please let me make a medicine check since uh, I would say uh, oh my gosh I wasted them on those cures They seem to be a proper proportion and all that stuff and you know, I investigate my humanoid skull similar To the warforged that you inspected layra whenever you go to grab kind of the bone They kind of crumble to dust in your haphazard grabbing this and how is we're doing that Layra, maybe you should stop touching things for now All right, I think that room is a dead end. Should we try the other one? Nobody let layra touch you. You will turn to dust Well, don't come crying to me if you get injured. Did anyone touch the bookcase I'll work at it and the books look really old. Yeah. Yeah, there's no interesting literature there. I promise I think we're gonna do a scooby-doo or something Okay, oh, I hope there are secret passages Yo, let's split up open that room and you can see that there are more dead quote-unquote warforged as well as what seems to be Some humanoid remains on a bed as well as an unopened chest over here as well Some sort of chest. Oh god I will use my mage hand to touch the chest. Okay, your mage hand reaches out. I don't want to stand in front of it I'll be over here Your mage hand reaches out to tug on the chest It seems pretty locked shut All right, what is it big blind? Is that what you call it? My hammer Yeah Smack that like wait, do I have What if I mean, what if there's something inside there that we don't want smashed? Oh, well, I meant the lock, but actually I forgot I'm a professional here. I'm not that I'm I don't have that good of an accuracy. I don't think slight of hand. Okay. That's a high enough slight of hand check Hey, when you go to start to pick the lock You see teeth Yep And I'm I'm beginning to go To roll initiative As a mimic gnaws out its its teeth to try and grab at you But with your high enough slight of hand, I will say that it is enough to dodge out of the way What are with my rolls today? Wait a minute. La Destructora. Yeah, it's because I never removed it from the last one The true form of the humanoid skill is revealed Technically I can use my mage hand ledgerman for slight of like slight of hand checks So I would make that remotely just like the tools are floating and picking I see okay Yeah, either way. It wouldn't have uh with that high of a check like it. It's not able to grab you at all Okay So Like every video game is taught us we should have just hit it But you might break it and what's inside the last time that happened we broke a potion Mm-hmm. That's true stupid potion mimic I should have should have been standing there Oh, okay Fritz you see the mimic gnawing out at your friend word. What do you do? Oh, you know what? We do a classic little Nice, okay Yes, pierces into it as like immediately as it lifts its maw and you fire right into the roof of its mouth Oh nice Um, oh, yeah, I get two attacks. Don't I whoo? Oh, you know what? I haven't used in a while a javelin I'm gonna spice it up All right, you throw the javelin. Yep. That's gonna hit as well. Oh my god like Okay initiative is over. Good job. Past buck You fired on a swivel one of your shots from your crossbow and then with your other hand You lift a javelin and throw it and pin it against the wall and it just Flick Into the wall and it coughs up a little bit of bile on word. You don't take any damage or anything But it coughs up a little bit of bile and a little bit of gold pieces as well There's uh 15 gold pieces on the floor Good work. Thanks What did I put in my crossbow? Um, so I if I can I'd like to take a look at this rockslide area you mentioned Yes, you can tell that there's a lot of it's a fritz. Yeah, you can bring the javelin back to fritz You can tell that there's a lot of heavy rocks. It seems as though there was a cave in that happened here Okay, um, so you're gonna need to tell me if this works. I took the mold earth cantrip because Seemed like it might be useful for an underground area. Um It's not super fancy. It's not stone shape or anything, but it says if I target So it works within a five foot by five foot by five cube if I target an area of loose earth I can instantly excavate it move it along the ground and deposit it up to five feet away um, whoa What does this count as loose earth enough for the purposes of starting to clear it? I would say it most certainly does and that for a forgoes the uh check that it normally would need And you're able to push the loose dirt out of the way revealing the next portion of the dungeon Word I I love how we all just know words going to take the gold so we didn't even ask Yeah We got little guys up there. So The next leg of the ruins you can see that the architecture that once was the kind of stone bricks turns into more of a traditional cave with organic just, uh, kind of stalagmite stalactite structures of just holes that have been dug by some creature from some Long ago or perhaps naturally formed you can see there's a few more, uh, bones and decrepit kind of Dead Bits over here as well as a few dungeon slimes that seem to be chowing down on those bits Scavenging or and you can see that a few of the bones are just sizzling inside of their bodies They're having a nice time a good meal Well, that's sweet. Grab something really quick. How much gold was in that toe? 15 Well, we should probably clean these out All right, can we get a fight man? We're going straight for it I mean, we all have ranged weapons. We could just kind of pick them off. Yeah Not all of us have ranged weapons. Oh, that's okay. Three of us have ranged weapons and uh, all right Well, I'll stand here and make sure you don't get hit You don't stand in the way of the fire. I will stand. I'll move out of the way of the fire But we will see Okay Let's see since you're all I assume you're all gonna do it like together at once Well, can I can I bar Fritz? Can I borrow a javelin? Oh, yeah, sure. I'll hand you a javelin. Just give it back to me after Okay, I am gonna throw it at them. So hopefully if it survives that you can target mine I'm using a spell that might not kill it outright. I would imagine your throne weapons also gained like five I'll roll the javelin for you. Yeah, since since they haven't taken notice of you yet I will say you get one free attack on them before initiative starts. Yay All right, I'll target the one in the back I target the one closest. Do you want me to roll the javelin for you? I'll I'll do the no I have javelin actually, uh, like the stat thing because I had some in the beginning Oh And let's see the attack from lehra doesn't matter. Oh, what is this? Frostbite dc 14 con save Okay All right All three of you kind of fire off your weapons and buck you throw it And it just kind of pings off of the cavey wall Over here while everybody else pretty much lands it a little bit splashing off a bit of chunks off of each Uh Ooze as they all start to panic and quickly kind of crawl and seep into the cracks into the wall and panic I mean if they're going to run away, that's probably nice queen solution. Did it take my arrow? Let's see. Yes, it did Here's the here's the uh javelin. Like I said, I'm not very good at the range Hey Now there's some more, uh, cave and debris over here as well as another empty path down here I can try to clear this with the same, uh, mold earth cantrip as before If people want that or we can check the clear path this might open up, you know Why don't I I would prefer clear paths just in the off chance that you gave us all in here I suppose that's fair All right, born down the clear path Do you want me to stay here with you while you clear that out and then you guys can see if there's something down the other No, no, let's let's not split up. Let's try the clear path first when we we can come back and move the earth later All right last time we did that we lost poor terry What? Oh, that wasn't with you guys Okay, so you go down the clear path and you can see that it looks to be a very another similar storage room Uh, as the other ones without a bed this time another dead warforge and some another trunk and another chest another storage chest of some kind All right, who's feeling sloppy dead bank actually, you know, I'll just I'll do it from this distance now And if it has a like a keyhole, I'm gonna just send over my little mage hand to pick a lock Okay, like bow in hand ready. Yeah, let's do it. Let's see it. Oh, yeah, that's right All right, you pick the lock and The chest opens up Yes What is mine? What is yours? A second smaller mimic An explosion so inside you do find a little coin purse containing 20 gold pieces You find I'll give everybody else five Nice You find a potion of of wall climbing. Is that what it's called? Yeah And you find yeah some sort of vest that is unclear to you needs to be identified by somebody So you can add unidentified vest to your inventory I'll put the vest on you're gonna put the vest on Perfect cursed immediately How are you feeling right now word emotionally? Oh boy All in all content that I'm alive content, okay The vest as you put it on It seems to be made of some kind of silk and material you couldn't quite sell what the color is But then it has a very dim glow and turns orange It's a mood ring Uh Buck I'll hand you the spider climb potion just because it's funny a mood ring. Um, okay, uh, what do you? Spider climb got it put in my inventory Just turning out of bucks coming in the wall Fritz Fritz if it fits around you can you try this and I'm gonna briefly Lend fritz the the vest is it safe? I mean, I'm not dead You also ate eggs Get eggs in a vest that took completely different things fine All right, I'll put the vest on how are you feeling emotionally fritz? I'm a bit nervous a bit nervous It turns a deep shade of blue Oh very stylish Do you like blue? I'm more of a green type person. All right. I'll take it Is there a I want us to hit? What if we put it on leira? Oh, yes All right. I'm going back to trying to what yes. Hello. Can you come over here for a second designed for you? Uh-huh Can you put this on? Yes Should I is the other question I'll put on that just like a deeper blue. Yeah leira. What's your emotional state right now? Oh boy Um, I've been like super focused on the whole plot situation So I'm mad on edge since we got in here and the fact that we've only met slimes and decoys thus far has me Even more concerned over what nightmares lie beneath. Okay. It's so contentious Yeah, so but the face is completely stoic as always a little concerned and when you put it on it stays the same color as fritz is a deep blue Fascinating anyway, I'm going to go clear out that wall now. This is wonderful. You both have the same aura Oh Okay, it's like a part of your soul Why is my soul blue? Because you're sad and mine's orange because I'm on fire No, I'm not sad Your soul says otherwise I will say when you guys were in that room investigating around when one of you stepped. I presume uh Stepped on a specific spot right here Briefly as you stepped on that spot. Oh, that was weird You yeah word when you briefly stepped on that spot. You saw a sigil magical sigil appear But as soon as you stepped off of it it vanished. Oh, oh boy Well, let's just pretend that that doesn't exist because I don't like it All right that bears investigation later. I'm going to try and uh clear this corridor Okay Clear the corridor once again with your mold earth yep And yep, let's move the loose rocks out of the way And in this path you see that there are There is a path Up to the top and you can see you hear some little bit of rushing water to the right as well as a large kind of Snail-looking creature and it's some more bones in sort of a shallow pool Oh, that's fucking disgusting. It seems to be gnawing at something away from guys towards the water There's something very gross It smells like where we put my grandfather Maybe we should just be quiet and just kind of move on to this next area. I really like that idea All right, let's give it a shot. Let's give me a stealth check everybody who wishes to sneak past it 19 from word. All right 14 from I was more stealthy than I thought I was And labor Walking behind everyone steps on one of the bones and makes a loud crack And you'll turn slowly to you The large well, I don't know what any of you expected snail like creature step on What color does the vest turn and it's the same shade? This is the same This is exactly what I expected the day to go like and screeches and you are all going to have to roll initiative against the bone welk With cat-like tread Bone whelk, what's that from? That is from I believe Uh Baldur's gate descent into avarice. I think Oh goody You got us something from descent into avarice. You should oh, I fucking hate it. Thank you I am not sure where it's from I was just browsing through my books to find creatures to use that seemed like they would be underground You can see that it is a large snail like creature But instead of a shell made of something from the ocean It seems to be made up of the various decayed Dead creatures all around including the bones of the deceased It screeches at you and it's gonna roll its initiative Thanks, you've just unlocked a phobia I don't like it Hello A snail slow Surely not And it's going to start slithering towards you, but word your turn is up first Ah I am going to huck a vial of oil at it a vial of oil It's just a typical oil like flammable oil Yeah, yeah. All right. You huck the oil at it. Give me a ranged attack I'm using my uh What is it dragons gambit or is it? Dragon I will point out that it's in the water, but Man, maybe it'll work. Yeah. Well, I'm like throwing it on the bones on the slime and stuff, but yeah So that'll just be a dex Yes, all right. Yes, you throw it and it smashes on it and it coats the upper part of the welk in oil Well, goodbye. I run over here and I'm gonna do a stealth check. Okay. Yeah, give me a stealth check With your uh cutting action. Oh my god Hidden I am unstoppable There's no way it's gonna reach that amount. So you know that you're hit Okay, I like slide under the rock almost I really don't want to touch this thing um, I guess I'll stay here And hold I guess I'll hold my action to Because I don't really know what we're dealing with Oh, actually Um, I have a torch. Can I light a torch and then chuck it at this thing with a uh, yeah with a Yeah, improvised weapon Sure, what do I um I believe a ranged attack is Can you use strength on a throwing weapon? I don't quite remember Yeah, I think you can use I think you can use either on thrown weapons. Yeah, all right. So yeah, give me like A strength plus your proficiency says an improvised weapon. Actually, are you are you proficient with improvised? I'm not Then just um, well, I'm proficient with marshal and simple which I I want to say counts for both. No improvised weapon is a very specific thing. Yeah, uh, you got your proficiency And so you can just give me a strength Uh, just a strength check. Yeah Oh, you throw it Is that enough Oh, no, it you throw it and it's spinning and it bounces like the hilt where you are holding the torch bounces off of the Boney shell before it dips into the water and This sizzles out. I have an inspiration. Can I can I use it? Go ahead and use your inspiration We're gonna rewind time to see if that actually happens Okay I'm not good at the ranged weapons. We've been over this Okay, never mind the same thing happens Ah I told you I'm not good at ranged weapons. How would you roll a critical failure twice at different? Oh wait. No, I get it Uh, is there anything else you wish to do buck? Uh, I don't want to use my rage just yet. So I will not do anything else All right fritz A real quick note for everybody within the next, uh, 10 turns any fire damage does an additional flat five damage Ooh, tasty I I tried you weren't here, but I really did try to set it on fire. Oh well What are failures, but So that is going to be an additional eight fire rather than three Oh, yes, and it does light a flame as well as it screeches And I guess I will pew again Oh you pew again. Yes. Oh my gosh, and this thing lights a flame and it screeches again. It's Not holding up too well actually Why am I okay? Uh, and I still have some more movement. So I'm gonna Wait so from here 10 15 30, okay. Yeah, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna stay fuck math end of time end of time Yes Um Well at the risk of uh breaking the elemental theme we've got going I didn't actually prepare anything with fire in it. So I'm going to instead cast ice knife Oh my god. Why did it roll all the dice at once? Uh, well anyway to hit it's 19. Um, yeah 19 will hit And pierce and the okay. Yes. That's a really bad damage Uh, it needs to make a deck save. Yeah, okay So it's only going to take half and I'm gonna say since it's on fire It's gonna take even less than that because I'll say it's resistant to cold damage since it's on fire So it takes so sound fair One cold damage instead Yeah, you throw the knife and it seems as though it's almost like it melts before it even reaches the wealth Although some of the shards seem to embed a little bit into its tough skin But not too much. All right. Well, that was a learning experience mark off my spell slot Uh Yeah, um, yeah, that that's me good Okay Now it's the bonewalks turn and it is going to slither on up not too far because it's got a speed of 15 And you can see its neck kind of bend backwards as it's hucking up something and Spits out a glob of goo That layra fritz and buck you're gonna need to make dexterity saving throws for me Oh, I have a Okay, how do I make it My dice keep rolling off the edge of my browser. I have advantage on next saving throws against effects I can see all right. Hey You may roll with advantage then All right, so buck and layra. You are fine. However, you are going to take three acid damage From this kind of mucusy Spit that the thing has thrown at you fritz. You're going to take six and You are grappled right now Okay, so you are unable to move unless you make a strength saving throw at the end of your turn to get out of this goopy muck I don't know the grim shake I've been I feel like that went from nothing to fucking everywhere in like two hours word I just uh looked I looked up where snail's brains are and they just have a set of ganglia Yep, but this one's a big one. So maybe it's different ganglia a ganglia. It's kind of like a distributed nervous It's like a little non-brain, but it's a cluster of nerve cells that's like so a lot of uh things like slugs have Several ganglia kind of up and down where it would have a spine It's like if you took your brain, but like stretched like all the wrinkles in it, but stretched it out into a long noodle With like lumps along the noodles so the ganglia are like nodes Essentially, put it in a blender and then spread it throughout your whole body. Yeah, yeah, like little brain jumbly bits Is that good enough for the mini brains part of a little jumbly you learned don't get me started on octopus brain gross anatomy I'm gonna Launch a short bow attack at it to get that sneak attack damage. It's gonna hopefully be higher than fire It is with advantage. Yep. Okay. Yeah Yes, nice you fire into it and it's Just you hit it in a in just the right place wherever a good nerve is and it stabbed its ganglia You stabbed its ganglia and it falls and splashes into the water Hold on Good work and you can see right as it was slithering towards you and as it falls it kind of slithers over Another one of those sigils that briefly appears before vanishing again All right, what is that? I don't love that But I do Love my arrow I'm just gonna Yeah, pull it out. Yeah, you guys do that. I start to like wade in to get my arrow back You wade in it's about waist height for you word And when you pull the arrow out, there's like a long string of mucus kind of Come on, man You can leave the arrow we can buy other arrows Yeah, but This one killed that day Is there anything else on its weird body? Like is it just bones has it dissolved anything else or is there like it's just bones and flesh But if you would like to make an investigation you can Oh god Is the arrow poisoned out by the way Whoops You reach in and to try and Check out what's in the bones, but it's very very uncomfortable for your little claw In fact a few times you feel like you are poked by maybe like a rib or something or Maybe some like tooth or fang stuck in there somewhere Guys, you'll never believe what I found and I walk back like with my arm behind my back covered in slime And I'm just gonna like lash my arm out to try and get slime on them Rose get away. Are we all making dick saves? Fritz is already covered in goo Yeah, yeah, fritz has already been gacked Okay, more about ooze You guys going over to the next leg of the yeah, let's let's look at the uh Let me in so as you do you see that there are more warf Kind of broken down warforged as well as a kind of watery gap kind of like Filled in where the cave seems to dip in elevation a little bit as well as some of the regrowing crystals You saw in viscerally and some parts of paletrios as well Hey fancy natural resource As well as two more paths another open one and another piece of fallen debris and loose rock Does the water look deep or uh, it's about like knee height for you waist height for word About the same amount of water as before Buck you're going in. Okay. Yep. Okay buck. I'm gonna need you to make a strength There it is Something I'm ostensibly. Oh my god. All right. Hey guys. I'm not only great today if I'm being completely So as you walk nonchalantly into the water, you are immediately grabbed by another bone welk That has been keeping its body kind of Still in the water and just flat and it comes up and wraps itself around you No As well Oh, there's the tears the net damn it as the welk grabs you it signals with us Oh my god, where was this before? Stop it Yeah, you should be able to change there we go So as the bone welk grabs you it screeches and you guys hear skittering from above you And you can see that the bone well this time is not alone Oh, no, you can see some kind of white scorpion looking creatures There are cave fishers as well and they appear and drop down from the ceiling No, can I make it can I make a nature check on those guys? I love them. Yeah, sure. Look at those little guys Creatures Do you know about them? Uh, I know the layman's amount about them Their meat tastes like lobster soaked in wine What? Yeah, it's they're delicious. Okay. Well word would know that M.J. Mechie are we doing today word would know that uh, yes They all drop from the ceiling and the ambush and word just calls dibs just start Start watering it They're subterranean spider like creatures they do have webbing similar to spiders except they're much larger They hunt bats these things They often like crawl on the ceiling Grabbing unsuspecting bats that are just kind of sleeping in their cave All right So Buck you're grappled by this thing and it is leaking mucus I'm also going to need you to make a constitution saving throw as this mucus is acidic Oh, see how much damage you are taking from the touch. Okay. You're only taking two acid damage from this Only taking two acid damage so far I'll go ahead and take one so far. Maybe around in the other. Yeah, you want to take one Fair enough Now is I understand grappling Um, I my speed is just zero, but I can still use actions and yeah, you can still do this thing Your speed is zero unless my speed is zero until I get off. Okay Unless um, am I at first? Or is there anything else that? No, you're first pretty sure. Okay. Uh, I will I'm going to draw card and rage He's got our range. Let me see. I forget which one of these rolls it. I think it's this one. Oh Ah That's one way to get out of the grapple Uh Nice. So I will Yeah, it's one of the sound effects from as as I am wanting to do I will I will teleport behind him and say nothing personnel kid and then uh And then I would like to attack twice and I'm about to do this recklessly Both with advantage. Let's see it. Uh, let me let me panic return. Yeah, I'm I'm ready to just actually hit something for once Please Yeah, you see you hear a big crack as you smack right into its shell And you hear a splurge as some of the mucus kind of bursts out whatever is under that shell. Let's keeping some tender parts Uh, because because of my uh crusher feet I can Uh Once per turn move a creature five feet Uh, can I move it like? Uh, I don't know if I can show the direct like How do I show the direction? Uh, there should be this this way. Yeah, you can like smack Like push it back a little because I want to move it away from these guys. Yeah, you can Uh, and then I will hit for my second attack That's the wild surge hold on Okay, yes, that second hit is going to land as well And those those will each do uh, so add four to all of those because I'm using my rage So I do an additional plus two This thing is like roughed up Nice And that will uh, can I use my thing again? No because I've used my bonus actions So but I but on my next turn I can teleport up to 30 feet So I'll end my turn here Awesome. So the first hit you hear a crunch and the second hit you hear a slap Like a loud slap as you hit the more tender part of its front just There disgusting awesome. Um Yeah, all right, so one of these little bug guys just oh two of them just dropped near us. Um Then yeah, I'm going to Target lefty magoo Uh, I'm going to use a Thorn whip All right, why not? Like I have weapons, but honestly like what's the point. Oh god damn it Does it have a really low ac by any chance? Um, unfortunately it does not as your thorn whip goes and it just kind of hops out of the way real quick Well beans. All right, uh, well that was my action. Um Yeah, I'm gonna I'm going to shift Uh, and as my bonus action so I get seven temp hp and I can do some more stuff with my reaction Uh, but that's going to be it for my turn. Okay fritz All right, this fella I forget how to ping I'll just rule it towards it This guy Eat arrow dipshit Oh very nice The arrow goes into the dipshit just straight on into its soft shell And It does a decent amount of damage. It looks pretty roughed up though. All right, then Oh, so nice. We do it twice very nice. Yep the other one just two quick arrows into it and it's dead That's my turn ended All right next is the cave creatures So This one is going to spray some webbing down onto the floor And They got filament Once again, uh Well now new for word, uh fritz laira and word you're all going to have to make two Dexterity saving throws as both of these ones behind us. Yeah, there's they're blind There's two of them here. They're spraying webbing on the floor to try and trap you Is it dexing dex save so first let's do yeah, let's do fritz first. So first one 16 Okay, just going for the second one Oh, that's the second one. Yep. They're both spraying webbing. I can count Oh, and once again, you are grappled. Unfortunately All right suffering next laira. Yeah, let's do yours Okay, okay Nope Laira you're grappled sure word dex saves Yes, you're fine. Oh, you're grappled all both of you are grappled Only buck can save us now all three of us, right? Yeah, all three of you And they're going to move in close Oh no, and these two are actually going to completely ignore buck seeing as you two you three are grappled This one is going to skitter on over like on the wall since it has wall climbing and drops down next to you fritz And it is going to bite you Oh, this is gonna suck. I hate spiders It's okay. Just kill them. We used to hunt these things Okay, bite it right back. I'm sure it's delicious Oh, yeah, so both bites hit and you are going to take Nine piercing damage as it bites you twice This one is going to crawl up onto the ceiling Over here over here over here. It's not able to make is it able to make Uh, no, it's not able to make it all the way, but it is Salivating you can see kind of a sticky goo drop from its little mandibles dipping into the water. What's up How high is this with with my additional bugbear arms of 10 feet am I able to Hurt that thing. You know what the ceiling is short enough that you are able to reach it is going to you It does proc an attack opportunity from you. Okay. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Okay And I can move it five feet. Oh, no, I can't I already did that. Yeah, you already did that So you smack it real hard you hear a loud crunch as well As you smack it up against the ceiling and you can see a little bit of its guts Kind of splattered on the ceiling above you as well and it is pretty roughed up now Uh word you're not surrounded, but you do have several guys near nearby you Meet low guys. Did the did the welk go? Did I miss the welk? Oh the welk? You're right. Thanks Yes, you did have homework last night. Don't worry. Don't worry chat. I'm ready to get Messed up by this guy. I'm I'm happy to do it Thank you for reminding me genuinely. So the welk seeing that you are all trapped and nearby is going to move Reminding me right over here. No, it is going to Reach Yep, this thing can't screech So I'm going to that's kind of gross. Yeah, it's very gross. I'm gonna need Everybody to make a Consist Oh, yeah Strang When I'm good at please constitution saving throw. Yeah, she is Come on, baby. Oh Man Lay around maybe like my iron will Fill with air before No, no stopping to picture it. Yes, it's that's what a snail would do Inflates with air before you can see it's mow the t. The mouth just kind of screech out It's what it's mow the t. The mouth. I'm very good at descriptions And uh, actually word you do make the save funnily enough So word and layer you're able to hold your ears closed as the screeching does not completely pierce your eardrums And you are going to take Five thunder damage, but Fritz and those of us who Uh succeeded take five. Yes, you take five fritz and buck. However, the piercing screeching sound Uh, not only do you take 11 thunder damage? You are both deafened as well Oh, I'm uh, look a bit rough guys. No Does that that counts as an attack, right? That is an attack. Yes Okay, I'll take uh, yeah. Oh, I'm taking way more damage than I would have. Okay. Don't die for it. Next is word your turn Okay, I'm back. I'm in Put me in coach I don't A bag of beans, um I mean if you eat one of them tummy bombs into the snail, I'm curious what would happen The tummy bombs are what if it passes the constitution saving throwing it gets stronger It just gets one point of intelligence becomes able to speak. Oh, I think these things blood is actually highly alcoholic I'm not sure if it's going to catch fire, but I'm going to slash at this one with negotiation Come on negotiation. All right That's a lot and the sneak okay. Yeah, you just kill it out right in one hit You stab at it nice and it bursts a little bit into flames. Just I see it and as I do that. I don't know use my reaction to grab it and take a bite Oh, um, that's that's my turn. Okay. It's delicious surprisingly gamey Oh, no He looks so disappointed All right buck Uh, I'm going to use my bonus action to teleport Here okay by my friends Um, and then I guess I will do My I don't know if I'll kill it or not, but I'll use it on big blind attack recklessly on the Okay, yeah on the snail smack it and it just like You squish its head as it's like screeching and it's getting ready to do another one And you slam it down into the water and you paint the water with like a yellow mist Yeah, everything in this cave is so disgusting nice Uh, I will I guess I will try to I have 10 feet of reach So I will try to take out the one that I already injured earlier With another attack from big blind. All right Yeah, and this one as well you smack it into the wall Just like like a lift like an uppercut of your hammer and it Crunch into the wall as it like slowly falls like Piece by piece of each of its limbs like slowly unstick to the ceiling as it falls into the water Gross and uh I guess I will Use my movement to come over here And I'll end my turn. Okay Now they are both seeing that a lot of their main Sources of intimidation. They're going to use a special reaction to retreat But you know attacks of opportunity from all three of you if you wish to take them Yeah, sure wait they get attack of opportunity. We get to attack. Oh my gosh max max damage on me. Okay That's that's plus that's plus two as well, joe. Oh gee. Okay. Yeah This one's getting ready to retreat but you smack it like as it's crawling up the wall You smack it into the wall and just Squish it. I'm uh, I'm gonna hit it with my talons. I'm stuck Okay, you scratch it with your talons And you're able to the first time I've only ever used my submit chop off a few limbs But it is able to make it away And it is going to retreat into the little cracks and crevices. Congratulations. You were able to beat the ambush cave creatures All right, let's get un-oosed if we can Uh, I can't hear I can't hear you. Oh Great. All right. Um, I'll say if you spend enough time you you'll eventually make the saves to get rid of that deafened because it would have happened at the end of You just each turn see We're looking angrily at you buck. You can't hear it. He's like yelling at you All right, I'm going to dole out a bomb of the summer court to We're uh buck took damage this turn, right fritz fritz probably needs it more I think I might do an actual healing on fritz. Um, yeah, I'm gonna cast a first level cure wounds Okay, would you Oh max uh Yeah, but uh, I'll also just because I have a bunch of bombs in the summer court. I got five of them per So I heal 11 long rest you heal 11. Yes. Um, and buck heals just five, uh And I'm gonna also throw a bomb with a summer court on fritz Who heals an additional two I guess I'm trying. Uh, did word take any hits or I just my ears got a little thunder drummed. I'm fine. Okay. I think we're all right. Um missing three health Great Oh, I still have absorb elements that would have been useful when we got acid attacked. That's fine Oh, I do too Joe, I don't know if now would be a good time to call the session, but I can't stay for a super Okay. Yeah, we can call the session here for now Explore. Yeah, we can explore the rest of the ruins Later, I think this is a good place to call it What could possibly go wrong?