 Continue the dungeon crawling. You find yourselves in the depths of the old world's ruins, the forgotten tunnels and holds of an old civilization that once ruled where Linty is now in search of a massive soul crystal of an ancient and quite very likely unstable Warforged Unit, as theorized by Surgey, the dragon and head inventor of Peletrios. Around you is death and decay, abandoned living quarters, bones and debris, caved in caverns and monstrous creatures that now call at home. You've also discovered old destroyed Warforged that upon closer investigation seem like fabrications that would fool the layman. At your immediate area are the remains of a previous battle with a couple of bone welks and cave fishers, and straight ahead seems to be some of the re-growing crystals local to the Peletrios area, highly valued and a large part of the economy and a regular resource thanks to Querencia, the life tree, and flanking the deposits on either side, a path deeper into the ruins to the left and another cave and to the right. I was thinking we could stand to grab some of that crystal. I mean we are perpetually broke, so like having money would be nice. You smashed in this succulent morsel with no care or consideration for the meat inside. Do you know how valuable these things are? Are you referring to the cave fishers? Yes, eat this. I'm not going to do that. Are you handing me the corpse of the... Yeah, I'm like cracking off. Your boys have fun. My parents used to make like a rope from the spit that these things would shoot at you. I don't know how to do that. Do you eat this raw? Yes. Can I insight... I'm loping it down. I'm watching, so word is himself eating? Yes, absolutely, the ravenously one might say. I guess I'll take a gamble and I'll... You're eating raw cave fisher. Word tolls. Is that what you're doing, word? We just started. Yeah, we're so back. I see. Okay. Is cave fish or something you've had before? Yes, rarely. It's a delicacy. You did a nature check, didn't you? Or something like that? Yeah. That's what I recall. Yeah. It's supposed to be sort of like a crab or lobster soaked in wine. That's right. I do remember that now. Yes. Yes. I am gobbling. You're gobbling it uncooked, so word... I'll eat a little bit too. Since you've had it before, I'm going to need a constitution saving throw with advantage. Okay, you gobble it down. Could use some seasoning. It's a little bitter from the environment, but the delicacy nonetheless. Bok could give me a constitution saving throw. I'm assuming not with advantage. Not with advantage. I think this is the first time you've ever tried this. It doesn't appear to be where it's coming up. Oh, plus five. It is a bit bitter, but do you think with the right seasoning, this could make for a nice little hearty meal? It's not exactly what I expected, but it's pretty good. I swallow heart. I think maybe we should. I'm not going to eat any more of this. I'm going to go help our friends. You do feel as though that with a weaker stomach, the thing could possibly make a re-entrance out of your mouth. Oh, jeez. Yes, I'm good for right now. So, Larry and Fritz, you guys are looking at these crystals. Yes, the crystals sought after by many, many a mage and alchemist and inventor for its high conductivity and magic. Now, mining these things is no easy task, as if it were easy, everybody would do it. These things are lodged in there very, very strongly and tightly, and pulling them out is going to require some manner of either finesse or brute strength. How do you want to go about it? I'm curious what Mold Earth does here, but we don't need to do that. We can try brute force. You can certainly try Mold Earth. Okay. Yeah, why not? It's a cancer. If I can do this as many times as I want. Yes. So, Mold Earth, you are able to dig kind of around the crystals, but they seem to be lodged in a harder, kind of thicker, more tightly dense piece of rock that goes a little bit deeper down. It's almost like a different mineral deposit. Very cool. Well, we could try to break a piece off. Do a little brute force. We could. If it's a combined effort, the risk of breaking one of my javelins that I barely ever use, could I use my javelin to help out? Yeah, I'll say if Laira wants to make an athletics check with advantage due to the help action. Wait, this counts as an athletics? Hold on a minute. Yeah, of the two of us. Which of us should be trying that? I mean, do you think yourself is a bit of an athletic person? No. Okay, can I do that? All right. I will provide the help action. Instead of using a javelin, how about you borrow my dagger, which I don't want to break it. I barely use the thing. It's fine. All right. Fritz and Laira, with Laira's help in leverage in some way or just, I don't know, in however way you wish to assist. Fritz, you may roll me an athletics check with advantage. Whoa. Wow. That's a strong. That's a quit right there, that is. So you find the perfect spot where it is with your keen eyes and senses and aim, and you just like jam the dagger in at just the right angle in order to pop up an entire flawless piece of Palletrio's crystal. You can add that to your inventory. You can flawless crystal you can add. You can just say crystal instead. Flawless crystal. Or you can say flawless magic crystal in the case we come across some gems or something. Okay. And we'll say this deposit is done. Yay. Okay. That went better than expected. Yeah, that was very impressive. Possibly the highest quality you could get without hiring an actual like miner to come dig it out for you or prospector. We've got to be rich boys. Nice change of pace. I might try to clear up this rock slide. I'm by just the same way I've been doing before with the little mold earth, little shifting stuff around. Okay. So just open this up. You clear out, you push aside the loose rocks with your mold earth and the gravel and you get a bursting stench and notice that trapped behind the debris that there are. Stinkies. Whoops. Big stinkers. Oh, stinky. Oh, there are quite a few poor unfortunate souls that were who whose attempts to escape were in vain as well as a few more mineral crystals and broken down warforged. These idiots probably didn't have magic that could move date. Are these real broken down warforged or more fakes? I would say with the previous information from Fritz investigating, they are fakes as well. Very convincing. I'm gonna I'm gonna cover my nose. Yes, this is deeply unpleasant. I'm going to move away from this as much as I can. I don't see anything of note in here unless we wanted to try and get more of this the crystals. Okay, there he goes. The the dragon said that his friends are in here. Do you know if there's any belongings on that might be a sentiment? To these, I guess I can rummage through the corpses. Yeah, I mean, let me just interesting. All right. So if you wish you can roll me an investigation to rummage through the long decayed bones, whether it to be to find things or to discern if they might be his friends. Is that a minus one? It would be. It would be. Yeah. Okay. Oh, wait, I should probably help. Can I also, while I'm here, while we're in this room, just can I use my magic awareness feet? You most certainly can. May I see it? Yes, let me. How do I? Awareness to the presence of concentrated magic. You know the location of any spell or magic item within 60 feet of you that isn't behind total cover. Okay. Yes. Let's see. What school of magic would this be? You do notice. Oh gosh. Dang. Illiteration. So you know that there is something right here. Let me ping it right over here next to this crystal deposit. And it is a divination spell. Hmm. I will. Oh no. I've connected some dots. Let me approach and I think there's something over here. Oh boy. Standing on the crystal trying to pry it off. Because that's something we saw last time. Somebody walked over a little magic circle that briefly flared and then disappeared. Yes. And just the same. I'm just going to move you so I can show it. Just the same. You see a magical sigil appear as you get close to it. Hmm. Hmm. And word, you're going to try and pop off a piece of crystal. Yeah. Yeah. I'm like standing on it prying with my whole body. Give me an athletics check from you. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. It's our greatest hell of getting these crystals out. That is going to be another flawless magic crystal. Well done. Dang. Come on. We have to pry it out almost effortlessly. I would like to go up and investigate this chest. Okay. From about 10 feet away if I could take a quick look first. From 10 feet away. As in like rolling an investigation. Yeah. I would like to. I've seen a couple of these bite word before. I would like to try and investigate first. Yeah. Give me an investigation. Roger that. Oh baby. Oh baby. That's what I like to see. All right. It's hard to tell really what with all the muck and grime that it's sitting in this kind of knee high water. Get in there. Oh well. What's the worst that could happen? But yes. Buck, when you see that sigil, do you step on it? Oh yes. I think I do. Okay. When you step on it, you see that the sigil dims a little bit. That's all it does. Guys, there's them. Oh no. There's like a sigil. Yeah, like the one in the other room. Yeah. It's kind of dimming when I stand on it. Look. Is it past all the corpses? Yes. Absolutely. All right. Best of luck with that. Try opening the chest. Okay. So you open the chest. I do. And inside, it is completely safe. And you find 15 gold pieces. Nice. And where did I put that? And an orb of direction. Orb of direction? Hell yeah. And I'll put the link because it is an official item. I'll put the link in general so that you can have it. It's an official item. And you see that there's a little kind of glimmering necklace of some kind. You find a guardian emblem. Guardian emblem. Oh okay. So the orb of direction is a compass. That's cool. Yeah, it's basically a compass. But orb of direction sounds cooler. Does sound very cool. And the guardian emblem, you can see that it is a kind of holy locket. It seems to be depicting the goddess Saphira, the mother dragon. Hot dang. Can I add that to my inventory as well? Because I just found it with the search. You most certainly can. Thank you. That guardian emblem is cool. That is, yes. And it looks like it would be pretty useful to any buddy. Yeah. It's not too specific to like tanks or anything. So that's pretty cool. All right. And I'll add that 15 gold. I mean, I'm going to split the 15 gold up with everybody. We'll do that later. Can I attempt to like look through the bodies to find sentiments? Because I'm guessing these are probably people from here. And I kind of want to return something to the families. Yeah, you can give me an investigation as well. Okay. Okay. Rummaging through these remains, you see that these were some kind of prospectors of some kind. You can see old rusted and rotten pickaxes and hammers and various mining equipment. You can see that their pockets are kind of filled with old magic crystals that have since kind of lost their conductivity a long, long ago. It doesn't seem like these bodies were recent at all. Whoever they are, they must have been here maybe a decade or so. Okay, that might not be our friends. Yeah, that's not our friends, friends at least. Puzzles. I don't like being in the room alone with the spooky divination magic. Why? Do we want to keep exploring or investigate the situation? Well, we can try. I think I'm just a little bit concerned if we, I don't want to be snuck up on kind of like the way we were with the bone wilt situation. I'd like to maybe explore a little bit further. I mean, do any of us know what that little sigil is, what it means? I don't. I don't know. All you know is that it's some kind of divination, which it does narrow it down significantly. Yeah, so divination is the magic of it. It is a set sigil, which means it inscribes something specific. I have a plus three to arcana. Can I try and decipher it? Yes, you can. Okay, I'm surprised I have that. Oh, well, divination helps you sense and also talk to bears. So it's some kind of bear magic. It's weird that I use my own school of magic song to remember what the school does. Bear magic sounds wrong, but I don't know enough about bear magic to disprove it. It's not bear magic 60 buck. What are you? What do you mean? I'm wait? What was the check? Okay. Are you like a type of bear? No, I'm like a bug bear. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's not. I mean, it's just like, I don't know. What are you getting at? It's not. I didn't do it. It wasn't me. Maybe it's something that they use to like sense you specifically. Do you have local enemies that I'm aware of coming here, like at least 10 minutes ahead of time? I don't think so. No. Okay. But I'm not we've been accosted by several enemies that I think are just our enemies because we're the pilgrims. So I don't I'm not going to rule it out, but I don't think so. All right. I'll watch you back. I appreciate that word. I'm just gonna move and check out this this way a little bit. Okay, as you head down the left side of the cavern, you can see another pool where cloudy murky water sits. And on the other side, what looks to be a magical seal of some kind, blocking the path any further. Oh, when you said magical seal, I was in a much more beautiful world. It's me, the magical seal. There's certainly something I'm worried. I realized I walked into the water last time without consulting anybody and we got attacked. Can anyone see anything in the water? Yeah, I got this. Can we throw a rock into the water maybe? You most certainly get one better. I want to use my Mage Hand Ledgerman to grab this little bone and then just fish around the water and see if I tap any of this. Yes, you grab the bone. Unfortunately, I can't pick individual bone. So I just move the whole thing. You move it around, fishing it around. And just as before with the other rooms, you can see when it gets close to right here, you can see that there is a magical sigil on the floor. Wait, does it activate if I just put the bone on top of it? When you put the bone on top of it, it does not activate, unfortunately. Okay. But it does become visible when there's something nearby. Yes. Interesting. And standing on the previous one seems to have affected me. Yes, it dims its kind of arcane light a little bit whenever Buck was standing on it. Can I try? It's a long shot. This is not my kind of magic. Can I try some kind of like arcana or investigation or whatever? Just on a chance. Sure, yeah. All right, thanks. Joe, did it undim when I step off of it? Yes, it undim. It lightened back up. Okay, so getting the information from Buck, these sigils are divination, which means they're magic of senses and stuff like that. It senses when someone is near it. This magic sigil, the seal that from what you can tell is not divination, whatever it is. But they do seem to be connected in some way, perhaps. Yeah, right. I have a mastermind theory. What is it? I assume you're all ready to hear it. Okay, so how many of these sigils are there? Because I think we got to stand on them individually. But it seems like in each place that they're at, there's a bunch of bones, which means when we trigger that, we probably open the door and then something else happens like big rockfalls or all the bones come together. So maybe if we have, I think I have a rope here, we could like tie up all the fake guys and all the bones together and then stand on them. Because I don't want to fight bones without you guys. Oh, I see. It would make sense if the sigils are some sort of unlocking mechanism for this seal, although... Maybe we have to stand on them with our bare feet. No, I mean, I like elbow bucks. Thank you. I understood the joke. Will, do we want to try stepping on more than one at the same time and see if it affects anything any differently? Yeah, it's not my favorite idea, but it's not it for the pile of bodies. There's one all the way in the back. I will reveal the rest of them to you since you guys would look for them all. I'll go to the one that's all the way at the beginning. And the last one I was already on my way there was by this dead bone. Well, go over here. I try to race you. I like this. Wait, no, I'll take the other one. Oh, I see right down there. Okay, like make your mind up. So the two of you stand on those sigils kind of further closer to the entrance of the cave and Buck and Lera, when you observed the seal, you can see that the kind of circular kind of markings on them vanish each time one person stands on them. Almost like it's being unlocked. All right, I'll take this one. Okay, you stand on it. The third circle goes away and Buck, you stand on the final one and Lera, you see the seal vanishes. Yay, puzzle. Each one of you stands atop a magical rune and once the seal blocking the way vanishes, each rune that the pill, each pilgrim is standing upon, just then the bones around you start to shake and rumble. Why did I tell you about the body? He said to wrap up into hideous creatures that attack you. I'm gonna need everyone to roll initiative. Oh, there's a lot of bones by me, huh? There's a lot of bones in me, especially. Okay, let me roll initiative. Oh, that's not bad. See these three because they were moved around. These three. And these three. Ew, yucky. What are these yucky little guys? Okay, I will put their name in there. Oh, we split the roll initiative. Oh, this was our idea. It was my idea to move the bones. I feel a little bad because I did prepare to spell magic as one of my two third-level spells today, but I didn't want to waste it. Someone has to spell magic. It also might not work on this if the seal is higher than fourth level. Oh, yeah. Let me just, I have a spell of scroll of destroy magic, I think. That spell scroll in my inventory of second level. Is that to spell man? I don't remember. So, see, just pulling up their stat sheet because apparently I accidentally closed it. Here we go. Boop. Word and Layra, who wants to go first between you two since you rolled the same number? I think word has a higher dex than I do. It'll be difficult not to. Up to your choice. I leave it up to player choice. No, no, it's all good. Okay. All right, word will go first, and yes, you now face a small decently-sized group of witherlings decrepit undead created by necromancers as sentries for nefarious purposes. First up, buck at the bottom right. What do you do? Buck up first? Or rather, word. Sorry. Word. Oh, okay. No, that makes no sense. I read the name. That's a masterful plan where I disengage and run away. Disengage and run away. Genius. And then, because that was my bonus action, I'll, oh, I can move 30. Leaving the witherlings still forming, trying to catch up to you. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, no, I need to say buck. Wait, no, don't get it. My friend. I got it, don't worry. All right, that's my turn. Okay. I'm running. Next is Leira. Leira. Yes. I am going to, we shouldn't keep the party split. I'm going to use Misty Step, which I get for free. Heck yeah. And I'm just going to, where, come on. It's, what, 30 feet? Okay. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. All right, form up everybody. All right, that was my bonus action. I mean, it's like it is a spell, but it's from the Fate Touch thing. I guess I can't also cast another spell. That's a good question, because it's more of a feature. I don't know. You know what? Because it's like a feature that you got. I'm going to say it sounds more fun that you can still cast a spell, because you didn't actually cast this. It's more like a thing that you can just do. Just a thing I can do. Yeah. It just so happens to be in the form of functionally a spell. Yes. It could also wild shape, which is an action and also not a spell. But I think I am actually going to start trying to pick some of these guys off. So let's do Moonbeam. I'm going to cast that on basically the fella just north of where I was just at. I don't know how to signal it. That guy. Moonbeam's concentration, right? I believe so. Yeah. Okay. It stays up and I can move it around. All right. Okay. Yeah, concentration up to one minute. All right. Let's see if they make the save they take half, yeah? I think that's correct. Okay. This Moonbeam crashes down through almost through the rocky ceiling and blasts this thing, and it's already looking pretty roughed up. This thing is barely holding together. Good sign. All right, that was my bonus action and my action, and I don't really need to move. That would be redundant, so we're good. All right. Fritz. Hello, Layla. Hello. Okay. I only have 30 feet of movement. Everyone to buck. All right. So I guess my normal movement is 30. So to this square, and then for my bonus action, I'm going to keep in mind, if you move out of the melee range of those witherlings, they do have have attack of opportunity on you. Oh, I didn't realize they were fully formed yet. Um, no, I was just saying, yeah, with the word thing, I was just flavoring of like how he's able to move. Okay, then if I, this is me being a bit weird with phrasing, and I just wanted to double check, does teleporting count as jumping out of that? Do they still get that movement? They do not get attack of opportunity if you teleport out, like Misty Step that Layla did. Yeah, so can I do my Misty Step and then run? Oh, do you know Misty Step as well? Yes, I know. All right, great. Yeah, you can. Minds of fate touched ability. Yeah, so which gives me 30 feet. Yes, you finish as well. And then I'm also going to leg it for another 30 feet because that's my full, my, I'm running. Great minds, think a lot. And then where am I at this point in time? I sight on anyone, do I? I think you can use your action to dash if you wanted. I don't have to dash. No, I think anyone you can do. Anyone can take the dash action, but some classes can take a bonus action. Another full of your movement. Yeah, so you can move another 30 if you so wish. Yes, please. Am I allowed to dash and sacrifice my action? Yes, that is how it works. Okay, cool, cool, cool, cool. I was just double checking. Hi, guys. Back to back spinning circle moment. So next are the witherlings' turns, the ones that you just vanished, Word and Fritz and Layra just ran away from completely. You hear their moaning and creaking and screeching echoing through the halls of the cave as they start to run to chase you down, kind of stumbling. You can hear them clattering and stumbling, kind of scratching on the walls and screeching. They're not necessarily the fastest things, but they're on their way. Okay. Running towards you, straight towards you without a second pot. This one actually does reach you, Layra, and it's going to take a claw at you. And it swipes and misses. You can see as it swipes as well, its arm just kind of falls apart just from how decrepit this thing is. This one is also going to be able to get in melee range. This is also going to swipe you. And this one is going to hit. And you're going to take let's see, five slashing damage. Ouch. And you can see as well, when the second one swipes, you notice a very peculiar thing that as it gets closer to the other witherling, you can see that its claw seems to glow ever so dimly as if its swipe was ever so slightly stronger when it was nearby the other one. Strange. And these are all going to gang up on Buck. Yeah. Let's see. Yeah, that's what they do. Okay. One of them misses, two of them hit. Nice. First one is going to deal. You can see that their talons are kind of glowing ever so dimly in the darkness, almost lighting up the place as well as they swipe at you all nearby each other. You're going to take seven slashing damage. And then the second one is going to deal 10 slashing damage on you. And they are just ganging up on you, screeching, clattering. That was your turn. Let me just hit me with a bop. He's still ganked up. Let me do a thing. Let me let me get a little bit of a rage in here. I want to see what it's always I always can I can never find the I can never remember which one of these is the right button to press for this. Okay. Shield. Wilds herds seven flowers and vines temporary grow around you until your rage ends the ground within 15 feet of you. It's difficult to rain for your enemies. All right. That's pretty good. While raging, I am going to I'm going to do two attacks. I want to do, I suppose I think these guys are going to hit me anyway. I am going to do a reckless attack. And I will start with the one that's I guess this one above me. Let's see that attack with advantage. Okay. It doesn't matter. Even if you crit on this thing, you smack it in one hit, just you hear the clattering and crunching of bones. And that's 10 damage in total anyway. Okay. All right. I will hit the other one and I will actually do it with advantage this time. Okay. Unfortunately, 12 is not just not enough a swing and a miss clatters into the the wall just knock a little bit. Okay. I think I think what I still want to do is risk being attacked. Okay. There's two of them. I understand. Okay. I will I still think I want to make it to over here, which is I think as far as I can get. No, I don't have a ton of health left. Ah, but then if they only move 30 feet around and there's 15 feet of difficult terrain around you, if you're not right next to them, they won't be able to reach you. I know, but there he did just reckless attack, which means they will have an advantage. Yeah. That said, you are raging. They're going to have that anyway. They're going to have that anyway. I'm going to I'm going to try and get here. All right. I'm going to try and attack me. Okay. They're attacks of opportunity. I need to be closer to the healers anyway. They're going to get to attack me and be an advantage the next time anyway. So I think I'd rather be further away. Both swipes are going to hit the first one. Sure. It's going to be five reduced to two. And the second one is also going to be five reduced to two. You take four total damage. That was still up. Okay. Yeah, I am. How do I can I make a let me see here. Can I make an aura of 15 feet around me? Is that how much? If you select the token there. Yeah, there you go. There we go. Nice. I figured it out. Thanks, man. Love that. Word. It's difficult terrain around me. And that's back to the top. All right. I'm going to scooch on over here. Let me make that. That's not to everybody. Let me make it visible. There we go. See. There we go. So that is the area of which that is difficult to rain to enemies. Right? Oh, yeah. Oh, can they not see the can they not see the no, they can now. Okay. But yes, word. You go up into that little corner. What do you do? I scooted for half cover and I'm going to just launch a an arrow from my short bow. All right. And well, and miss suddenly it lodged in dings off of the rock cavern wall. I don't know. I guess I'll try and within this wedging if I can hide from maybe like these enemies, I guess. Yeah, those specifically that you tried to fire at. Yeah. No, I was trying to shoot at these guys, but I'll try and hide from those guys. Okay. Give me a stealth check. No, I've got friends between me and them. Sorry. I will agree with you and hide from. Yes. The ones who I don't have. So your cunning action stealth, I will roll their perception checks to see if they see you. My roles are killing it. Leira, it being. Yes. Yes. So I think I can hold concentration on a spell and cast a spell that isn't concentration, right? That's a that's a thing I can do. Yes. Okay. Let me just make sure I've got the right shape for this because this is a 15 foot cube. And I think that gets all three of these boys. So I would like to cast Thunder Wave. All right. So that is a DC 14 con save. And that's seven damage, which will have to three if they see. Oh my god. You blast all of them as their bones just like are thrown against the wall clattering and echoing throughout the entire cave. Did that get all three of them? All three of them. AoE for the wind. Cool because they would have been pushed back 10 feet if they still survived. Yeah, their their bones just like fly back back into the pool of whence they came. Great. And as my bonus action, I would like to use bomb of the summer court and fire off two d6 to Buck. So that's one and two. So that's seven more hit points. Thank you. Only got one of those left in me, but we're good. Also, I think we forgot to do a concentration check for your moonbeam. Oh, yes. Sorry. It was very low damage. So you just need to make 10. I have made 10. We're good. Nice. All right. And I'm happy where I'm at. So we're good. Okay, awesome. Yeah, there we go. I was like, did you? It took a little while for roll 20 to actually show. Yeah, I briefly got the little red like your connection was interrupted. Anyway, Fritz, your turn. Oh, right. I'm going to be jumping over to here to buck. Hello. I learned how to do it now with the ruler. I'm so smart. Nice. I'm instant without a shadow of the doubt casting protection from good and evil on you, which I think I don't know. This is undead. Yeah, protect against undead. Yeah, these are for sure undead. Yeah, I'm not going to assume. Okay, disadvantage on attack was against the target. See me. You're going to be our main guy. Also, I'm the main guy. Do I have sight line? I do. All right. And as a I've only got a few more of those in me. Okay, I'm going to can't imagine anything else. I'm also going to use my I can still attack. I have an extra action, right? No, no, you can spend one action to do multiple attacks or this thing, which is it takes the full action. Then can I ready my bonus action for next turn? I mean, you can use a bonus action next turn if you're if you mean ready a reaction. I'm getting confused. Yeah, if you mean ready a reaction that I personally rule that as like spending your action to ready it. Oh, okay. Sorry. I'm still getting used to it. Okay. It can be confusing sometimes stuff works. Yeah. Um, I think that is me done then. Okay. Yeah. If you have any like healing potions or items or something it might be worth. Oh, actually, yes. Can I throw an item to you back? Um, I would say you can do that as a bonus action. Yeah. Yes, I want to I have my inventory. The potion of hill giant strength to you. Oh, I don't need to know if we will need that for this. These things good. I want it on you because you're the one that's probably the most and I just in case something goes wrong. That's going to make it very strong. So is that are you having him consume that or are you just giving it to me? I'm just giving it to him. Yeah. All right. Yeah, that works. You never know. If he gets dangerous. There you go. And then I'm done. All right. Next are the witherlings turns. These ones are going to use their dash action. So they're going to drop on all fours and start running. Disgusting. There we go. This one is well. You can hear their clattering kind of echoing throughout the cave. And this one is actually going to stop here. It's not going to be able to go its full movement because of the difficult terrain, the vines growing all around you. Sorry, nerd. This one as well is also going, it has to dash to get close to Fritz. It's not going to be able to attack though. That was weirdly perfect. It gives you a 15 foot radius of difficult terrain. If they can only move 30 feet, they have to use their dash to get to you. Yeah. You've like slowed. Whoops. You've slowed like basically all of them. Come on, lady luck. Come on. Let's go. I'm perfectly protected hidden between this corpse and this wall. And these two. Shut up. So this one actually doesn't spot you word and it runs right past you up to Buck. Oh boy. They're all real close. Oh boy. Oh boy. This one does spot you though. It is not pulled by your hiding. And it's going to swim. It's when it sees one. Okay. Luckily you are able to dodge out of the way. Yes. I'm perfect. And next is a buck. I am going to reckless attack and try and start hitting some of these guys. I'll start with this guy closest to me and thanks to protection from good and evil. It's almost like you just get a free advantage because then it's canceled out by the disadvantage. Oh, I get I get a free event. Oh, I see you're saying because they have disadvantage on attacking you. That's full damage. Oh, yep. You smack down this thing as splash into the water and it is kablooey. I'll move then where his body stood and I will hit this one that's between Lera and Fritz. Let's see it. Yes, that'll hit. You smash this one as well as it's screeching and getting ready to swipe its own arm at Lera or Fritz. You smack it before it even gets the chance. And I think that's going to end my turn. That is going to end my turn. That's going to end my turn. Word. Yes. Okay. I think I'm going to drop the bow for now and pull out both the negotiation and some standard dagger. I'm going to do that sneak attack against the guy who hasn't realized I'm there yet. You will have it at advantage. I'll use my standard dagger to smack the other guy and miss. Yeah, you just another thrust and you try to do like the no-look like thrust. 360, no scope of my eyes closed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Splatters on the wall. Pings against the wall. The Batman over the shoulder punch. We can discuss this. That's my turn. You don't want to move at all? Oh, wait, no, that was your... Yeah. Yeah, that was my bonus action. Yeah, yeah, I was going to say, action. No, you already... All right, just waiting. Just waiting in the wings. All right, Leira. So you're going to need to tell me if Moonbeam's five foot radius... Oh, wait, hold on. You can move it, can't you? How silly? Yes, but also silly of me. It's a five foot radius, not diameter. I was incorrect. So let me just draw that again. Oh, it's actually bigger. And then I would like to move it. Yeah, I thought it would... Five foot radius is a five foot diameter would be a little bit weird, but I didn't question it. I've spent so long in the mass zone. Yes, I mean, it wouldn't really change anything, but so I would like to just... Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. I can move it 60 feet, so this isn't going to be difficult. 40. Okay, that makes it easier for me to get both of these boys. All right, let's see it. Yeah, the Moonbeam travels across the cavern floor lighting the way and kind of lighting the whole place up as it travels. And I believe... Blasting into the two... Actually, it doesn't matter, even if they make the save, they're dead. Oh, as this thing blasts down from the cave ceiling into them, carving their flesh down and their kind of bones clacking down into the water, they're dead. Gross. Awesome. All right, well, the Moonbeam's gonna stay there. It took me my action to move that. I don't have that many bonus actions I can really do at this point. So I think I'm just going to call that my turn. All right, Fritz! All right. Hold on, I did that weird... Whoa! You're going through a roller coaster. Yeah. He's all over the place. And this little fella here, Kachow. Kachow, indeed, as you fire a shot from your crossbow lands it right straight in the head, and the head just kind of knocks back like off of it and it flies back into the cave, just falls apart. I got to fire again. Yep, you've got two attacks per the action. Oh, I didn't make it clear. I was going for this one. That's okay. This one goes a little bit wide and pings off of the wall, lights it a little bit on fire. That's all right. Happens to the best of us. And I think that's me done. Yeah. Next are the witherlings' turns. This one, without a single thought of self-preservation, continues to book it directly towards you, Leira. And it is going to make it there and be able to throw a swipe at you. Really? Yes, because... Oh, that was difficult to rain. It is difficult to rain. So it makes it here, which is 15 feet, right? And then in order to move here, it needs to spend 10 feet. Oh, I got you, got you. So that would have been 25, yeah. Cool, let's go. It's going to swipe at you and it is going to hit you. Fortunately, it doesn't have any friends, so it's not going to do any bonus damage. So you take three slashing damage. Ouch. And this one is going to do the same thing to your word. And it is going to land a hit and it's going to do a measly one. I will use my reaction to have the damage. I guess you can do that. It hurts my wrist. I was like, ouch. Yes, you block it. Hold on. Oh, no. Wait, what do you do? Are you going to let me fully block it? I mean, it reduces it to a minimum of one, I would think. Well, you round up. Oh, I think you round down for damage, right? You do round down for damage. And so I would say if you take one and nail it, you take zero. That one from being like, I'm going to waste my reaction to being actually good. Awesome. Every little bit counts, baby. Parry the blow. Well done. Buck. I am going to... I guess I will try. I have 10 feet of... Can I hit the guy from... It's 10 feet. You got bugbear arms. I have bugbear arms. Just reach over the dead guys. Yeah, I'm still going to... You're going to reckless again. Oh, yeah. Oh, hold on. I need to roll for concentration on moving. Sorry. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you're fine. Uh, okay. You got him. Just boom, smack, and smash. And then I have... Okay, Moonbeam's gone, sadly. Yeah, Moonbeam's gone. I'll get rid of it. I can come over here and then try to hit the other one. Yep. One smack and a second of smack. You are dishing out just as much. If not tons more damage than you were taking. You help your little guy word out and smack that last one into the cave floor. Well done. You've defeated the witherlings. Yeah. I kind of like how none of the defeated enemies are like gone. So it really drives home how many things we've killed today. Just how many fake corpses and real corpses we found along the way. Yeah. The true friends were the fake corpses we found along the way. But now the path forward is open. Great. All right. So I was right about everything and you have to trust me now. I could possibly go wrong. I'm going to drink my... I have a potion of healing, a greater potion of healing. I'm going to consume that. Good idea. That's 44 plus... Oh, I might have accidentally rolled twice there. That's okay. You can take the first one. Bring a panic dog back in. Whoa, what the four... Look at the roll on the... Whoa, that's a... The other one was 41414. Oh, 41414. The first one is 16. Yeah, look at that. So I can do the 16. Yeah, yeah. The other one was the four threes. What kind of rolls are these? I know, right? Yeah, you can take the first one. 16. Okay. Yeah. Okay. I'm at a good spot now. So I'm just... Sorry. I'm looking at the Guardian emblem and it says requires a tombot by a cleric or paladin. I'd say no. No, you don't need that. Okay, thank you. Good. I was like, I guess we can sell it. Mike, some money. Fuck you coming. Yeah, I'm trying to turn off my... I gotta turn off the flowers. Get these things off me. It's a common difficulty. Yeah. Okay, as you guys traverse the final kind of neck of the cave, you hear a creaking and just kind of low groaning sound coming from the next room. And the sound of drip, drip, dripping like water is leaking in. That's probably, all right. Let's round the corner. Let's get this over with. Wait, I have an idea. Oh, then let's not... Wait, what's the idea? To also ruin this whole encounter. I have a scroll of invisibility. I can sneak inside of it and rip its heart out. You don't even have to fight it. Are you confident that you can get in and take its entire heart out? Not even remotely. I don't even know what it looks like. Fair enough. You want to pop your head in and scout it out? I'll say you can scout it out, yeah. All right, I'll do a little stealth roll. I hope that we're all like in a Scooby-Doo stack with just like peeking our heads around the corner. So I think our hearts actually account for that. You peek in. Fan art, quickly. And you can see... Oh boy. Oh, gross. Just as Sergei proposed a large, old, and seemingly aimless warforged unit, a cadaver collector. It lumbers around with various pieces of long, dead adventures of the past. Sharp steel and esoteric artifacts, anything the construct could gather to ensure its dominance over whatever wandered into its domain. Okay, so it's worse than we expected. That's all I have to say. I don't really want to be the one to run up and approach that guy because he's covered in swords that I want when we're done here. Here's the full art as well. This is some official D&D art of how it looks. Oh boy. Oh boy. You're really cool. Well, I mean... They come with burgers. Is it... I could... I mean... We're gonna... Is our goal to just kill this thing? Is that right? We need to just take its heart, I think. Those are fairly synonymous, but... Well, yeah. We can do like the Incredibles. Just... Make it hit itself? Yeah. Have it rip its own heart out. Can I... Can I... I mean, I'll hold up the potion of Hill Giant Strike. I mean... This might be... Can I take this now? Only if you also take this. And I hold up another potion. What's in the other potion? It'll make you even stronger. Yeah. Is this... I just want to be clear. Is this the plan? I'm just gonna take a bunch of potions and then go fight this thing? I don't think this is necessarily wise. I think we've got this covered. Because if Buck is like... Super strong and... I think this potion says it makes it bigger. It's a potion of biggery. Oh, I'm gonna work in a Voltron meat? Yeah. And then I'll climb on top and pull his hair and point him in the right direction. I mean, it's not... I... Look, I understand my position. Let's table that idea for when we're not fighting in an enclosed space with low ceilings. I understand my position in this group. I'm gonna be up close and personal with this thing. I'm not opposed to drinking the potion that makes me bigger. I agree. That thing is also big. How long does the last... I didn't... It doesn't come with those kinds of instructions. Mm-hmm. Uh... I'm okay with the idea. I think that's fun to do. There's something I can do when... If we have the elementary surprise, if nobody else is near it, but we'll... You know what? We'll deal with that later. I'm gonna drink the potion. Okay. All right. I mean, does anyone dislike that idea of whatever doing? No. I think maybe you should have more healing before we go fight this thing, but... I'm not too... After... I'm actually not too far away from Max with what... After the... After taking that healing potion. Oh, yeah. The huge potion. Okay. There's also a short rest you guys can camp out for an hour. I forget. What does short rest do for us? Short rest of reset a couple of things for me. Actually, that wouldn't be worse. It lets you roll a hit die. I'm okay with that. I mean, if we want to... Boy, essentially a short rest is just like taking an hour break to recuperate, maybe rest up, and recover some hit points and some class features. So it's only hit points, okay? We might have those. It's... I get one thing that... You get to roll... You get to roll dice depending on your level to determine how much health you get back. Like, you get five dice... We each have five dice a day. I think yours is a D6. I think a D8. You can choose the number. Range is a D8. Oh, yeah, I don't... Oh, okay. So... Are we doing that? Is that what we want to do? Do you want your short rest before this encounter? I don't see any reason why not, honestly. Yeah, if we can. Yeah, all right. You guys can short rest, and you can roll as many hit dice as you want. Your short rest features reset. All right, let me roll... And while I assume you're camping out and just keeping an eye on the collector, and you can see that it is just lumbering around occasionally poking and prodding at the crystals. I think you add... Do you add your con modifier? You do add your con, yes. So whatever your con modifier is, that's how much health points you get back. So Fritz, you would add plus one to that so you'd recover seven hit points. Oh, okay. And you can roll as many up to your level. I'm good with that. I just want to double check to make sure... So a short rest usually just helps you with if you have some race features for it and health where a long rest clears your spell spots. Yep, long rest resets all your spells. Okay, cool, cool, cool. Some classes get different benefits. I'm on the right page. Yeah. Like if I'd wild shaped, I would have those back from a short rest. Yeah, if the feature recovers on a short rest, it will explicitly say that it does. Yeah. I'm sorry, I'm still asking questions. No, it's okay. This is the first time we've done one, so... I'm up to max health, so I'm good. I'm one away from max health. Wow, that is a max roll. Look at that. Here's what I want to do before... I'm ready to Voltron myself. I'm good too. I think I'm going to get inside of your gigantic poncho. Okay. I'm going to hide as well. I'm hoping my clothes grow as well. It's... I don't just have to be naked. I want to know who made this magic trap if it wasn't this thing. It specifically says the target's weapon also grows to match its new size. I'm not sure if you're going to be naked or not. So I'm going to... My poncho is my weapon. If weapon does, I would say that clothing does as well. If it can tell what your weapon is. I really make watch eyes. It's priorities. It can only make one thing bigger. Okay, so here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to drink the potion of hill giant strength. So my strength is now 21 for an hour. It's 21 for an hour. Which is better. I've changed that on my... I've added a little modifier on my sheet. My hope is that that will still affect my actions. I think it looks like it has. I will then drink the potion of enlarge, I think is what word got. Yeah, potion of bigger. Can you make my token bigger? I can make your token bigger. Oh, and then... You're big for three hours. Three hours. For three hours? Can I not end it? I can I end it? You can't know. I can't end it? How am I going to get out of this place? You can get out, but I can't. I always arrive in a... We can squeeze you. Yeah, but always are all wide. It's fine. I didn't know that I couldn't end it. Hope you're going to crawling, Buck. What did you think was going to happen that you could just... I don't know that. Just tucking away my scroll of enlarge reduced because I'm not wasting it on getting bugged on this cake. Can I also eat my duelist eclair for the next hour attacks on a phone with no allies nearby is with advantage? Yes. I have two of those things. I'm really hoping this is not like a secret... We can be friends with this enemy. I'll keep in mind that the duelist eclair... It's covered in corpses. The duelist eclair is like if no allies are nearby. So if you want to carry word, then it's not going to benefit you. Oh, I see. I thought it was the if the enemy had it. Then I don't want to eat it because I might carry word. Oh, if the enemy... Wait, how did I word this? Actually, I deleted it out of my backpack. Hold on. I've got it. Yeah. I think I worded it very deliberately. Because I thought I... Attacks on an opponent with no allies nearby. Yeah, I wasn't sure. I thought that meant the opponent didn't have any allies. I'm going to say if the opponent doesn't, because that sounds pretty vague. I should have been more clear on that. So as a thing for my mistake, I'll be like, yeah, okay, it does. He stands alone. My question is, is the eclair also bigger? Sadly, no. Okay. Word, do you want me to throw you? Are you jumping into my... What are we doing here? I'm just going to... And I climb off your leg. You got to hold on, friend. Oh, geez. Are you really in there? He's gone. Okay. All right. This is so fun. I give a thumbs up to Lyra and Pritz. Well, I suppose we can just take a day off. Gigantic ratatouille here. You going to get in my hat? Okay, you're going to... All right. I'll step forward to find the guy here. Okay. Your steps are so out of balance. This is so impressive. You step forward and the thing notices you immediately. Sure. I can imagine that. And it steps forward itself. I said it's our name is Buckward now. Sorry. And you can hear like a rumbling low hum come from inside of it. It's seemingly waiting for you to make the first move. Now the question is, do I chuck word at it or do I go up and hit it? I'm going to pull out the bigger blind, biggest blind, and I am going to, I guess just rush towards it and get here. Okay. I don't know if bugbear arms has, gives me 15 feet of, I don't know, it's like 20 feet. Because you are larger size. I'm going to say 15. That's good. So that's what he, that's there and that is out of range of it. So I'm going to say you get the first hit free and it will begin initiative. Oh my gosh. All right. Let's, can I recklessly attack it? Your duelist weekly already gives you advantage. Oh, interesting. I forgot that. Let's roll it. Remember, you also get a bonus 1d4 to the damage because my gosh. Oh, I've not, I've not raged. I've not raged yet. But if it's going to, I'll, I'll, I'll rage after I do this. So the large also gives you a 1d4. Okay. Oh wow. 15, 15 big hit off the back. Just run. Yeah, go home. I get to move it five. I get to push it five feet back because of the crusher feet. Oh my gosh. Yeah. You just because he is not more than one size larger. So you're stopping splashing the water and like just like that scene in Pacific Rim. Just slowly throw big blind. Push as pieces of this warforged are thrown off and it's push backwards as its feet kind of skids across the floor carving the stone beneath it. Joe, I just want to make sure this was not me surprising the creature and hitting it with an attack. You were not my first turn in combat. Okay. Just want to make sure you basically just got a free hit because you were out of its range. All right. Let me roll an issue. Oh, well, not a great. Yeah. I was like, I think there was an issue maybe with my bigger token. It like maybe you can still add a four. If you want to add, let me roll again. I'll try rolling again. Doesn't appear to be working now. There we go. Ah, dang. Or let me get for for me. Chief. There we go. Layra Fritz, who wants to go first among you? Let's let Fritz go first. Okay, collector. Although I do have an idea for a thing. The collector is going to roll initiative as well. It is slow, but it's not as slow as Bakker. All right. I don't want to judge a book by its cover, but it is covered in dead bodies. I'm going to cast. Not your turn yet. I meant Fritz before Layra. Yeah, I was going to get a bit confused. I was like, huh? Yeah. First up is word. All right. Let's launch a secret arrow with advantage because it does. I have a shoulder. I have a shoulder mounted cannon. Okay. Secret arrow burst out from Bucks Poncho. Can I actually be a little secret Gatlin gun? Can I use my bonus action to hide on Buck again? Yes. You can. It's going to try. I'm going to say yes, because that's enough cover to try and hide. And it's going to have to. It's going to try and find you. But as far as it knows, Buck can just fire arrows out of his chest. You have the perfect opportunity to like chest burst her out through the poncho. I don't know if on your guy's screen it appears this way. On my screen, Buck and words names are perfectly aligned to say Buck words. They've combined. They fused. They've revolt run. I have my secret little gun that is now to make weak PCs stronger. This is the best episode of a little piece. All right. That's my turn. Fritz, your turn. Okay. I'm a cast. Helathons. Oh, okay. And I'm going to fire. All right. Yes. Fire indeed. And you fire it and oh my gosh, 14 helathons is so strong. You fire it and the thorns kind of lodge all over it. Just just breaking off pieces and kind of chunks of the kind of dead corpses on it as well. And I get to fire again. You do have a second attack. Yes. Oh my God. You are on point hitting just every weak spot it's got. Two bolts dart into soft softer parts of the metal. All right. And that's my turn. Lay around. All right. Just going to scooch up a little bit. So I have line of sight and I would like to cast one of my two third level spells erupting earth. Whoa. So that's a DC 14 deck save. And if he saves, he takes half of that 23 damage. Okay. You're just destroying this. I feel a little bad, but he is covered in bodies. So like obviously gross. Yeah. After what we just fought, I do not. Yeah. Yeah. He told us this thing was dangerous enough to kill his last party. We are not taking chances. No. Okay. So. Word buck. Word buck. It's better. This thing is going to take what's up. I just came to a really gruesome discuss like no. Okay. Cool. So. Oh yeah. You've the erupting earth. How does it look? It's just like just it. Let me just display in VTT. Fountain of churned earth and stone erupts in a 20 foot cube centered on that point. Each creature in the area must take a dexterity saving throw. The ground in that area becomes difficult to rain until cleared. Okay. So it's just a big explosion. A big explosion from the ground. Uh, so here's what happens. As it does, you can see that the ground does indeed explode and erupt underneath it. And a large crack opens up. Oh, and the thing falls partway through but kind of clasps on. It's a monster. With its arm just kind of like hanging on. Oh. It's like bodies halfway through into this hole that now exists on the platform that it is. Huh. And it is going to take half damage. It made that deck save? Dang. Yep. It's so big. I thought it would be lumbering, but okay. I'll take 11 bludgeoning damage. I'm okay with revealing this. It's because it's got magic resistance, which gives it advantage on spell saving throws. Okay. Well, that was my action. Actually, yeah. As my bonus action, I could just use some temp HP. So I'm going to shift and I get plus seven temp HP and a little bit more mobility. All right. And that's my action and bonus action. And I'm curious about what's under this big guy now. Next. Finally, the collector's turn. As it is trying to pull itself up from this massive hole that it almost fell out of, it from its shoulders, you can see two little cannons kind of come up and fire out two things. It's not buried. Stole our idea. He's got, he's got him too. And out from it, it actually fires out two warforged that appear. Oh, that's exactly our idea. He's got a way run fritz too. And they are going to run forward to try and attack you. Word buck. Oh, buck word. Word buck. And they're going to slash at your, at your feet with little sharp steel and crude weapons of war. All right. So one of them is going to hit. You're going to take a whopping seven reduced to wait. Actually, it's not. I'm not. Nope. Not really. You're going to take seven slashing damage. Okay. And it is going to pull itself up. It is no longer in the hole, but the hole is there still. I'm going to push that. And it is going to get up to melee range to you. Oh, yeah. Fuck your turn. I'm going to push. Oh, I'm going to smirk. And then I'm going to I'll I'll let me rage. Let me use my last rage. The giant voice is so impressive. Thank you. Uh, last rage. This one. Oh, uh, uh, that would do. Oh heck yeah. Let me I'll share it, but it's I always I always forget which one I did. Whenever a creature hits me with an attack before my rage ends, that creature takes 1d6 force damage. There's a great one to get. Lady luck, baby. Um, I'll take this and then I'm going to take big button. I'm going to, I guess he's a big blind. I'm hitting the big guy though. All right. And I get I don't have to reckless attack because oh no, he's got allies nearby. Um, so do us a clear doesn't necessarily work against him. Not currently. Oh screw. I'm going to use screw it. I'm going to attack recklessly. All right. Reckless attack. Okay, that is going to be enough. So that's going to be, so that's going to be 14 plus my 1d4 big big. Uh, so additional 15 in total. Yeah. First, you smack it again and it gongs like a bell. And then because that's my first time moving it, I do can move it five feet back. Can I move it? You can. You can see that it likes feet skid. And I'm going to move. I'm trying to push this boy in this hole. So I'm getting I'm getting I'm closing in with you can see it's healed. Just kind of skirting the edge of this hole. All right. Let me let me roll it to attack again. Oh, yeah. So that's another one. Are you going to push it again? I can't push it again. I can only push it once for sure. Okay. That is another decent hit. Just bashing it in and like bending so much of its metal and pieces that it's screwed up itself. So that one was 16 because my thing doesn't add the rage plus two. Oh, no, wait a minute. Hold on. I'm it would be stronger. Wouldn't it? Don't hold on. How much do I add to my attack when you're raging? I think it's oh your rage is a plus two. Right. Oh, it's my is it my proficiency? Hold on one second. We make him an attack using strength to get a boost to the damage roll that increases. Oh, it's it's my barbarian level. I was for whatever reason. I was thinking it was my strength modifier. That's okay. So yeah. So the first attack was yes. Second attack was sweet. All right. Yeah. Banging away and banging away yet again. This thing is definitely quite tough. It's taking quite a few hits, but you're chipping off more and more of its armor. Heck yeah. Where the other warforged came from. That doesn't make sense. The first part of buck words turn is done. It is now word bucks. Word buck. Word buck. You are hidden from just about every enemy that is here right now. So your attack will be made out of stealth with advantage. What suspicious phrasing that was. I'm back. Word buck. The other one has a better ring to it. His big chrome air energy. Okay. It is like fully my turn. Yep. I was gone for like one minute. Okay. Yeah. I'm pulling out negotiation and hopefully end this. Okay. I don't have. Oh. That's too much damage actually. That's too much. Shit. The mega boss. Hold on. Let me do the math. The mega boss. This was the best idea we've ever had. I don't know why it's working so well. It's working like way too well. A tiny little scaly arm extends out from buck's poncho. Just like the little V part where the two parts of the poncho kind of cross over and just ping. And you see a big just massive crack. Just almost like an iceberg is like cracking down the center. Like it's from scrat from ice age. Just like cracking down. And you see the chest cavity just open up. And you can see its heart right there. It is a crystal that seems a little dim. Or rather the soul. Rather the soul crystal. Is it connected to anything? It does seem to be connected with a few pipes and wires. Okay. I'm going to make an off-handed attack as my bonus action to fling my dagger in there and try and cut some of the pipes or wires. Okay. Let's see it. Ooh. You toss it in and it kind of rattles around in there. Okay. You're going to have to get it back by yes spelunking into the warforged. I'm taking that out of my inventory now. Oops. Fritz. Return. I'm going to fire at both use both of my actions to fire at one bolt at each. Okay. These warforged. Okay. So the first one unfortunately is blocks by the thick metal armor of the warforged. The second one does hit though and it kind of knocks it a little bit. You hear it ring and it turns its head to you. Oh. I'm a... Laira, I'm sorry. Yeah, behind you. I did my turn. Laira. Oh, okay. Yes. Oh, all right. Let's... Drat, they're not right next to each other anymore. That's very unfortunate. Well, okay. Let's do... Let's do an... Geez, let's do... I'm super good at this. I promise. Sorry. Everything I have is either AoE or like something I already used. I'm going to try an ice knife at the warforged that we missed. Okay. This one. Yes. Yes. Oh, all right. Dex save. Okay. All right. The full dam... This thing is you can see the kind of icicles piercing into it and it's about to fall apart. I think one more good blow could shatter it. All right. That's pretty promising. All right. And that was my action. And I don't really have a bonus action that I can use. So I think that's everything I got. Okay. Now it's the collector and the warforged's turn. Both of these are going to book it towards the back line. Buck, you have an attack of opportunity. Which one do you choose? Oh, I also do. Oh, wait. Workbuck. It's workbuck's turn, baby. Wait. Can I choose the one who's... I guess I'll try to hit... I don't know who's going first between the two of us. I'll swipe at this guy because he wouldn't have my... Yeah, because your field of attack is wider than mine. Okay. All right. So word, unfortunately, you are unable to reach this one as you swipe and a miss. Is it just out of your reach? This one, buck, you do slam into it and it's 20 damage. Sorry. Smack it. 20, 22 damage. Yeah, it's like the pieces of warforged's armor just dig into the ground as you smack it. Like one of those things that you just push into the sand. This one is going to make it over here, though. And it is going to try and trip you up, Leira. You may make a... It's going to do what? It is going to try and trip you. So you can make a dexterity saving throw. Sure. I'm so good at these. Come on, you're like a cat, right? Yeah, you'd think that would help me. Okay, it goes to swipe a kind of its offhand arm kind of at your legs, but you're able to leap out of the way. And the cadaver is now going to try and do a little bit pushing of its own. So buck, it takes its two hands and kind of grabs on to big blind as it's trying to push you back. I'm going to need you to make a strength saving throw with advantage since you are raging. I think it's also because I am enlarged as well. You are enlarged, so you're going to have a massive amount. Let's see how it does. No, it's not able to push you, but... Oh yeah, you have advantage on it. But it is going to do something else that is going to do... That you're going to need something that you're also good at, a constitution saving throw, as it opens kind of its mandible-like jaw and a little kind of dust sprinkles out. Actually, word, since you're in the area, you're going to have to make a constitution saving throw as well. No, the downside. The plan's falling apart. It is using paralyzing breath. That's a setback. Uh-oh. Oh, that's not good. Okay. Oh, that's not good. The word buck fails to use my inspiration. Oh, all right. Let's see. Inspiration. Won't let this bus stop, please. If there's a god in the sky, he'll give me a five. Lady. All right. Yeah. You are fine, but... Unfortunately, you are paralyzed. Yeah. Oh, no. The choice is blocked up. No. As you breathe in this kind of rusted, smoky mist, and it keeps you still. And buck, you're not able to do anything on your turn since you are parallel... Actually, what is paralyzed? Yeah. Let me see. Just be sure. Incapacit... Paralyzed, paralyzed. Incapacitated. Can't move or speak. Automatically fail strength and dex throws. Attack rolls against me have advantage. Any attack. So you can't do anything. Critical attack. It is literally the worst condition. You can't do anything, however, you will be able to make another constitution saving throw at the end of your turn. Sadly, lose your turn. Fair enough. Let's see it. Just looking through. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, um, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh. Come home, baby. Oh, uh. Okay. You make it so you just... Yeah. Paralyzed just for a brief moment before you shake it off Sadly, you're not gonna be able to do anything else this turn though word. That's fair enough Okay, so I'm definitely swapping mechs. I'm gonna Okay, give me an acrobatics check Okay, perfect. What are you doing? Okay, you leap from Bucks Poncho into the open chest of the cadaver collector warforged Would it I Don't know if I'd be able to like take it or rip it out or grab it I'm gonna need it. How do you want me to try and like how remove the heart? How do you want to try and okay? This is very incredible Yeah, so give me a give me a description of the situation that word is it so word you're in kind of a fairly Cramped and closed space you're able to just fit in there as there are pipes and Gears and wires all over the place kind of surrounding you as well as the entirety of the inside of this chassis and Right in the middle connecting a lot of these pipes and wires is a crystal with quite a few cracks in it and scratches It's dimly lit and it's right there in front of you connected to all these bits and bobs Okay I'm gonna use my Bonus action to is there any way that I'd be able to make a stealth check? I Make a self-check. Let's see if it does know if you're in there. Come on, baby Okay, it's rolling low on its perception every single time so it doesn't know that it's got a little no little dragon man Word inside it. I take out my dagger and I stab at me. Okay, you Oh Absolutely, no shot you cut out the soul crystal and While it's kind of holding on to big blind buck and it's getting ready to breathe the second kind of misty breath It stops kind of like and jitters a bit and Just falls backwards into the hole with I Knew we were gonna have to go down the hole Can I as I'm falling throw the heart like right here I With one more Act actually a dexterity check since you're throwing an improvised weapon Saving throw just like it's it's like a throw. Okay flat decks. Yeah Oh throw it up and as it's falling you throw it up like perfectly straight it falls back and just lands on you This is only fair after all the shit we pulled in this fight how far am I fall we will get to that Fritz you have a warforge right next to you that is trying to attack your friend Layra How fucking dare it? Um You know what I haven't gotten to do this and oh, I did not mean to move It's within it's within melee rage, right? Yes. Yeah, it's right. I kind of I just wanna you know I just want to try it. I haven't done it in a while They are not to be fucked with all right. All right. Come on Talon You slash at it and ping off a little bit I'm just angry Okay, and then I'll I'll crossbow it I come to my senses. Okay, so you are using a ranged weapon at melee range It is going to be at disadvantage. Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. Whoopsie. Oh, well, it's fine If you want you can you can Talon again like retcon is it be like Talon again if you prefer No, I messed up. I'll let myself. Okay. Well, then let's roll the crossbow again See if you miss actually because it's at disadvantage. So we will see if you actually Crit miss Roll for severity, okay, it's not too bad you fire it off it whizzes by buck But you're fine feel like it's important to question if any of us know that word just fell down the hole That's up to you. Yeah, I'll let you decide. I think the what's your guys passive perspective? I think I would feel him come Not high enough The thing is would you feel when a bug got off of your skin? Word is I think I would know if I was no longer buck word if I was Half of your identity was missing my heart of hearts Lay where I just like it like we leave and we're like we lost word. They're like, oh, no, what happened It's like we just can't find him He must have left tell me must have been dead. No, probably not. We just can't I hope not. Yeah My my melee attack options are rather limited I could always try with that now, what am I doing? I want to cast more spells dang it Yeah, let's do oh I guess ice knife is ranged also It's a it's a saving throw though, right? Or is it a is it a spell attack? It's a ranged spell attack Frostbite, however is It's a con save and it's a cantrip so I can do it as much as I want. Why not nice Okay, all right. I know they're pretty good at these but you know Okay, it is pretty good at that So your frostbite is just gonna not do much as you blast kind of some cold air into it Just shakes it off completely. Oh Good, I love this Okay, because it's a cantrip. It doesn't do half on saviour Let me check No, yeah, you're right. Sorry. It doesn't do it. I just wanted to make sure but yeah Okay, then for my bonus action. I'm going to wild shape into a panther All right try and trip me now bitch I For legs twice the stability so it is going to take a swipe with its crude sword that it has on you labor It's gonna take two swipes All right, my AC is now 12. Oh, I think that's unless that's I don't actually know if this if wild shape retains my actually no that's better than my actual is better ever So slightly it's not gonna matter though because it hits you twice Okay, cool as this the rusty sword swipes at you twice and You are going to take Eight slashing damage, okay, that's all right. I'm still a panther Fuck your turn Okay, I'm gonna jump in the hole You're gonna jump in the hole. I Assume I can fit in the hole. Yes You can too I trust I trust Laira and Fritz to take care of this thing, okay I'm gonna say for the time being If that's what you're doing then the combat is gonna come down to Fritz and Laira with the last come on guys You can do this. Yeah, I'm working on it Fritz All right, I Guess I'm going to dagger him All right dagger You pierced the armor a stab. Oh my gosh That stabby stab brings him within an inch of his manufacturing expiration date Yeah, that's that's all that's all I can do very very close Laira finish them off All right, I would like to try and bite him. I'm not entirely sure how this works Uh Well, I have I have the action to bite and claw it doesn't look like I have any sort of like flurry attack So I think I have to pick one of those things So it's a plus four to hit and on a hit it does 1d6 plus two piercing damage I don't think it'll just let me roll that so I'm just gonna like slash our That's okay Okay, oh, yep, that'll hit and let's see nice Okay, 1d6 plus two just realized I missed the opportunity to say fly Yep, that'll be enough as you crush down on the Fairly like rusted and old metal actually and rip it to shreds And that is going to be the end of combat and Buck and word falling down into the Cavern below which is completely Pitch black to the point where not even your dark vision can help What the only Yes, the only amount of dim light that you see word is the little soul crystal But the globe seems faint and weak and there are cracks all over the surface Maybe you can tell just like as so as a soul crystals are common enough in the world Maybe this crystal was powerful once before but not anymore Well, shoot, but buck thinks as he falls as you yes, the fall is actually not that far. It is about It's about 30 feet, so I'm gonna roll the damage that you take But you're cradled inside the comforting sharp metal carapace And then a giant bugbear lands on top So Word you're wait if it's 30 feet. Can't he literally just like get down like he's getting off the roof of a building Hmm like bug like his arms are that long. They're 15 feet long, so he'll only have like a five-foot drop or something What if buck buck would you like to try and catch or pull word out of the metal chassis of the I Would love to try it my friend. I would love to give it a shot, so I'm gonna need a Each halfway down slight of hand check from you. Hmm. Okay Why won't it let me where's my just realized that giant buck is literally the beast Titan His reach to There I go Falling and falling and you try and reach into The open chest of the warforged unable to find your bearings to get buck and Combined with both of you falling Word you're going to take 15 damage. Oh Okay, and buck that's You since you are bigger. I'm gonna reduce the amount of damage you take since the fall is not as far For you like proportionally. Hmm. Oh Wow, okay, never mind you are also going to take 15 because I rolled high Now do now this is bludgeoning. Oh wait, it's gonna be reduced. Yeah, you're gonna take seven so the metal construct Crumb just clangs and echoes throughout this pitch black nothing that you are now in and it echoes Upwards and lay rough fritz you can hear it as well this massive hunk of metal just loud gong like a bell Yeah, I'm still a panther Panther with five hit points left baby I'm I'm inside this this thing And I like wrenched myself out. Oh shoot. Well, I got stabbed Think I have a torch in here, but it's too tiny Hold on I got you covered and I pull out my hooded lantern Okay, oh, and I just bought a stupid amount of oil. Oh I think my rage is probably gonna end assuming that we're not fighting anybody or I don't know if we're in combat still Kicking the giant robot every six seconds to keep the rage going in addition Buck and word as soon as you do hit the The bottom of this hole I'm gonna need both of you to make a constitution saving throw. Oh Boy, I don't like doing those I get It was nice knowing you okay the horrible stench of death and decay fills your lungs Though the caverns above could still perhaps sold some hold some semblance of life this strange new pathway Whatever it is. It's doubtful anything could survive down here The stench is so strong and musty that you both now have the poison status for an hour Throwing up all the cave fish I'm doing the same, but it doesn't it's not as much because I'm big okay. Okay, I Pick the wrong animal to be my only two things is keen smell word When you like your hooded lantern the cavern we blow you notice is just as visually challenging as No light Peaks through the lantern when you light it. Oh You can feel the heat of the fire coming through But it's still completely dark Nothing illuminates this cave alright, I Put out the lantern and dump the oil back into the I I'm gonna hold up the little heart. Does it glow like Does it have a wider radius than anything else? No, you can see that it's a dim glow The magical glow that does seem to permit a little bit of light, but not enough to really guide you anywhere It's like those terraria items where it looks like light is on it, but nothing around Yeah, yeah, like the spark sparkling like Or like from a distance into area. I have a good idea Yeah later in fritz your companions just fell down this deep hole. Are you gonna do anything about that? We should probably go Well, okay, actually DM I have one question So when you give me a list a while back of the various animals that you said I could wild-shape into I read the fine print of wild shape more clearly and I'm not supposed to turn into anything with a flight speed until like Level eight or something. Oh Yeah, it's up to you. Okay, cool because if that's okay I can be a giant bat which has blind sight 60 feet Which I think might be very useful for navigating down there, but I wanted to I wanted to see if that was actually okay Yes, before I play cool. I don't care that the rules say you can't turn into a flying thing until later I think that's thanks Yeah, let's go up to the well I think I assume I'm gonna hold off on that until I Diogenically learn that it's super dark in there because I have dark vision so I'll be able to see that I can't see down Yeah, you see down there and it is pitch black just as a word and buck who both have I presume dark vision as well I'm unable to see yeah, okay Well, I'm not just going to drop down a giant hole without knowing how deep it is So I'm going to use my second wild shape for the short rest to shift into giant bath form And now I have blind sight to 60 feet. Yes Can you can you sit on my shoulder? As a giant bat, I think you could sit on my shoulder it says I'm large All right, so Since you have some semblance of the area around you now. We're going to move to the second map You can see the the now broken down and Completely destroyed cadaver collector, and I'll put you guys you guys aren't dead I saw I saw Logan do it so I did it and you can see that there's a bunch of debris around from the fallen and broken down Area Leira like is the only one that can seemingly tell kind of this terrain Around her since she's got blind vision, you know echolocation being a giant bat Well, yes, I think we're in on the tail That's a play I saw Stop making things cannon burgers in this Oh, yeah, the horrible stench of death and decay fills Leira and Fritz's lungs as well You're both going to need to make constitution saving throws Do I use my bat constitution or my Presumed the bat constitution right that's just it's going to be a flat plus you are now poisoned as well But you're also filled with determination. Oh, no everyone is If you don't know a poison creature has disadvantage on attack rules and ability checks This is disgusting not skills, but ability checks Leira, can you can you stand by me? I can't see anything Okay God me Giant, oh god, there's a giant bat in here I'm assuming you communicated that what your plan was before you did this I don't know if I would but I think I'm gonna kill the giant Question no fritz is riding on me. This is we've already been poisoned and I realized this is silly But I'm just curious would I be able to use gust of wind to kind of like cut through the stench I think this place is probably just more is it too much. I would say it's too much It's permeate. It's like too stinking like this is the equivalent of like a bottle that hasn't been opened in ages Like if you were inside that bottle So I can't use like pressed the digitation to fluff up my nose you can fluff up your nose But the poison status is going to stay for the hour You'll just it'll just smell nicer Well, are we but if you couldn't tell basically the darkness you see here You are familiar enough with magic in this world. This is magical darkness the spell darkness Let's get started, okay Into the wall and you're feeling all kind of all my way around Smart I feel right now. How do we know how can you tell where I'm going I can tell where you're going you can Now we're all big. All right, I'm gonna scooch up here Still on my shoulder Follow my sultry voice Okay, so Layra being able to surmise the area of the situation that you're in is able to glean the actual path forward And I bumped into something fuzzy here There's a large as you are guided by later on me You are able to move outside of the area of this magical darkness. Oh my goodness. Oh good. Oh boy, oh Boy follow the walls Finding more rocks and debris but oddly enough no signs of bodies no bones no decaying flesh Nothing and you find a few structures stone and tiled walls lost to time weathered by time Looking like they could crumble at the slightest hard shove And you also see kind of just in the distance Standing amidst this all floating translucent figures, I don't trust like that Buck do you know what I'm secretly horrified of? What's that? I'm thinking this is like kind of a narrow passage and I'm afraid that like Actually on the other side of this wall. There's a huge open space that I just can't see that goes on forever Word I don't know if I have the time for this. I'm very sick and very large I would say after after you pass this area the the magical darkness is no more. Oh my god. I was right It's such a niche fear I love it All right, let's see well, I still I still have one so I didn't tell I get knocked out of this form which Guys, I don't think I'm gonna be able to fuck very good Oh Also actually one thing I forgot word when you are rummaging through You and like there were pieces and of like bodies and stuff in the The warforged as well and you snagged what seemed to be a piece of paper. Oh And once you exit out kind of like In the area where you can see you can see that the piece of paper Has two things on it Firstly it seems to be a scroll of some kind seems to have ground bits of granite sprinkled onto it and it's written On it is written in incantation of wall of stone. It's not usable anymore. This piece of paper has been shredded to pieces Huh And The crystal that you found was also amongst a few pieces of debris Inside of the warforged Okay, yeah, I think just because we went on break I probably would have rummaged around to grab a couple things including my dagger before yeah, you are a rogue Yeah I mentioned the gruesome thing I thought might have happened when we were down please. Yeah. Oh, no So I thought those were the bodies of the dead adventurers. I think so, too Wait, where all the bodies on the guy. Oh, I assumed that yeah Yeah, I'd like to I don't know blind site echo locate you get some sense of like what's in this enclosure Uh, yeah, right real quick just uh giving word, you know what he found. Oh, yeah Yeah, so you found that and you also found a few pieces of debris Including one that seems to have a symbol kind of in the warforged when you are rummaging around and it looks like this Huh a piece of scrap It's like a little Little dragon And oh it's an eye You it's you actually the symbol you actually recognize the symbol on these panels of the scrap Word recognize you recognize it because it's on the wand that you stole from the lizard foe from Shreveceda Lucia best hand of the military defense company house best hand You can see it here Whoa Also, that is how her one looks because you stole it I have the wand you do have while you stole it from her remember This does sound like something you would do though listen, I just take stuff I don't really keep yeah, I've got like a fancy feathered hat written in here, but not a Was it a specific wand? Maybe I Remember you stole something from her. Oh No, I stole the eyelash in amber. I think you also Yeah, I think after we defeated her we took her wand right right yeah to stop her from The eyelash in amber off of her for the spell. I think we disarmed we disarmed her when we Like went we were trying to determine whether or not we were gonna interrogate her or not and like we had to disarm her before We took her back right so Maybe I remember correctly Yeah, I think at this point we have to say I this makes sense that we would have taken it yeah Okay, so I'll put that down But a metal panel with the sigil of the house of defense. What was her family name again? Lucia Baz tan BAZ TAN Okay, and then a wand of the same. Yeah Sorry if I remembered incorrectly That's right Somebody took the wand off of her. I do remember that I'm sure if it's not in anybody else's inventory Let me see I might have it I think that could very well be true Anyway, anyway, yeah, I Feel like I remember something like that. Otherwise Yeah, I don't know but yes the the little piece of scrap and panel has the same symbol as on the wand Hmm, I Definitely bring that to the attention of the party when I realize Assuming that I have the wand I imagine I haven't used it yet, but maybe Yeah, so that thing I guess comes from her family or was made by her family Mm-hmm very old family then. Oh Yeah, oh wait, I'm a giant bet So good at making stuff like this that they made all the fake dead bodies look really old But yes, Lera you want to look through that building then I would like to take a peek Yes, so you look inside and it is looking a chirp noise to crepe it you can see inside Inside the abandoned structure you find what looks to be the Vegas kind of living quarters bed frames old crates and furniture Wood material Decade and rotten all the cloth that would be there completely nearly completely decompose and shelves empty Whatever books you can find in them pages either blank as their ink is faded or pages missing and Aside from them roots roots everywhere roots You can see that they are just sticking out of the ground All right, let's see Could I make some sort of nature check to see if these are roots of the life tree or roots of something else? You can give me your nature actually what's your nature score? My nature is plus four plus four. That's enough to just know that Let's see the roots inspecting the roots. They seem a very old They seem very old and must have died a long time ago. They've had no water no nutrients The dirt around them seems completely barren of anything resembling fertile soil and noting this you also see that Nothing is growing here. No fungi. No weeds. No moss nothing all life seems to be abandoned in this place And From your studies understanding the the roots of the life tree these do bear a very striking resemblance albeit dead Perhaps the fate the life tree if the fate of the life tree if the pilgrimage were to fail and the dragon hearts not delivered I see All right, I'm gonna Migrate over to the far right building and take the same peak Take the same peak again and inside you see another root another living quarters of some kind and the translucent figure Some sort of spirit of some kind inside, you know what these are their ghost They're floating translucent figures their manifestations of strong desire or emotion left over at the final moments of someone's life Though the soul has departed. These are the slightest of the body that remains. Oh Okay, I didn't realize they weren't the soul. I Guess most of the soul moves on If it's not immediately hostile, I'm not gonna try and pick a fight. I'm not really equipped for fighting ghosts today It seems to just be floating there Okay, this is kind of scary I Wondering if we should leave but I feel like can you like talk to them? I have cur I currently can't talk to you guys fritz say something I've never seen one of these things face-to-face you say hello to the ghost. Oh The buck was saying say something. Oh, yeah, Fritz you say something To the ghost, yeah, I can't fit in the door You know what can I I can't see where I'm going. Can I oh, can I know you can the darkness was only that for a section Okay, um, I Guess I'll go talk to ghosts. Yeah, you can see on that side of the building like the wall has been completely annihilated and like I'm gonna like peer around the corner and look at it for a second See if it noticed me it doesn't seem to have any interest in you even when you go within its field of view It's just floating there staring off into the middle distance I'm gonna take a bit of a step closer Hello, no response still I'm gonna advise against provoking the ghost With whatever body language I can signal as a child. Yes, it's not it's not responding Hmm Take a closer look at it like step closer and you can anything and I'm gonna need you to make a wisdom saving throw Okay So you hear a voice when you get close clear as if it were speaking to you But not audibly like it's in your mind But as if it's speaking to your soul as well in a language You don't recognize and yet are able to fully understand and it sounds like it's saying We're doomed. We're doomed. They've come and we're doomed and The ghost fades in the essence kind of Shocks you for a bit and you are going to take Three psychic damage and the ghost vanishes How do I calculate psychic? It's just three damage unless you resisted it doesn't matter what type it is. Yeah I'm just the flavor of what type of damage. It's like fire or like you you took damage All right, well rip to that guy, but we're different Fritz, did you kill that thing? Yeah, but it's like gone now we're gone What did you do I'd like to take a look in this lefty building over here looking in that building you can see kind of another What looks to be more of like a storage place rather than some some place residential, but crates completely Open the wood decayed. They're empty. Whatever loot that was once there is gone long gone Somebody was bold enough to loot this place. That's pretty impressive Dustin echoes all right Try the last building and That one's just inside you with a you see another residential kind of building with another ghost inside Can I just I'll I'll just nudge down this part of the wall and just Easily push it down like this trying to scooch in this rock is like this stony building is nothing You can effortlessly push over and it crumbles on a bit of the ceiling crumbles, too But it doesn't even hurt you Okay, you go near the ghost I will go to the ghost and the same thing as Fritz you hear the ghost in your soul in a language You don't recognize but are still somehow able to understand Protect the Prabhup if he has lost all it's lost. I need you to make a wisdom saving throw Gladly protect the what the Prabhup? Prabhup, okay Okay, with a 15 you're able to stave off. Whatever shock this ghost may have nice And it vanishes All right, I want to collect all these bits of information Let's go poke some ghosts Can we see more of those as we move down? Can we see any more of the map? You do? Yes? I will reveal some more of the map Boop oh And it seems to be a large residential area of some kind there is a round Kind of central area something akin to a square of a town and a statue now completely ruined in shambles nothing but debris and Large massive roots in the distance once again akin to the life tree, but dead I would like to be line for the building that appears to be surrounded by massive roots Beeline towards the building anybody else doing anything Yeah, I talked to I guess that'll put me through that ghost so I'll take that ghost along the way Oh, yeah, I was gonna let's check out this one. Yeah, can I cuz everyone's getting a talk to go? Yeah, all right word. We'll go with word first word make me a wisdom save. Oh Snap okay, I just approach it and Okay, you're able to stave off the psychic shock as the ghost shouts in a language you don't recognize Traitors traitors traitors. They're all traitors and the ghost vanishes The ghost said you guys was traitors Huh He didn't tell me anything interesting. Fuck you're gonna go next to that one. Yeah, let me make a little wisdom Make me a wisdom. Okay. Oh, baby The shock and terror of this ghost seeps into you. You're going to take six psychic damage And this one. Okay. Where are you? Please say something anything. I can't find you. I can't see This one vanishes Can I look in this house? You look inside that house and you can see more roots more bedding another residential building of some kind Gotcha Fritz. Did you want to do something? I want to look inside this house inside that house. Okay You can see inside. There's another residential building and you know old It seems as though this was some kind of place that had a lot of residential housing of some kind Under ground Whenever residents are long gone There's nothing of like pottery or decor just there are there a few like pottery and just odd furniture here and there Nothing of value. It seems anything. It must have been here a few decades. Maybe a century. It's hard to tell really All very old maybe worth as something at an antique shop, but if you can even get it out here in one piece There's more looking for just symbols and stuff Symbols, okay. Yes, if you look around you can give me an investigation check I'm just kind of like Getting any gleam of anything Okay, investigating. This is architecture that you've somewhat recognized in History books actually somewhere can't quite tell where if you want you can give me a history check See where you might have recognized it, but you know that this is old Did I pay attention in school? No But you know that this is something you've seen before in a history book Maybe if you went into some of the archives or libraries and around a linty you could probably find out what they were and Layra, you're gonna go to that large building. I'm going to the conspicuous building with the roots Okay, you see it and there's a big hole Even bigger hole, this is awesome and several ghosts standing around it great. Let's collect some ghosts Yeah, I want to pop them like bubbles All right, let's get this one first evening ma'am or sir All right Actually, I'll save you all of these Like every single one you can hear them actually like echoing bouncing off of each other They all of them saying protect the Prabhup, protect the Prabhup protect the Prabhup Is the Prabhup down the hole? Is the Prabhup in the room with us right now? Joe will you permit me what 60 feet of blind sight down this hole gives me 60 feet of blind sight down this hole gives you the Characteristic of a large kind of interior if you weren't Giant-sized yeah, if you if you weren't so sure You would mistaken this for something laid out like a throne room with a large chair kind of like shape towards the end some pillars holding up what would have been the ceiling and you feel From your blind sight and your echolocation that there are quite a few more roots down there as well I See and some kind of slowly moving liquid. I Don't like that So I've had some experience with plant shaping in my day I'm kind of getting the vibe that all of these roots didn't just grow naturally through this ruined space That's that's my suspecting. But is that is that what I'm coming to the conclusion of here I would say that can have a nature check to it Okay Badly You can discern that it is somewhat magical in nature that maybe someone may have done Some kind of arcane or involving this what you can't quite put your finger on it But these are definitely not plants that grow by themselves All right So the vibe I'm getting is this place was attacked by somebody controlling the roots By traitors Something killed this place very very dead. I'm gonna go to the last building. Okay, where I inevitably go check out what's down the hall Right the last building Seems to be yet again just another house some kind. Okay, and another root sticking out Yeah, you want to talk to that ghost give me a wisdom save. Oh, no Yeah All right, you are completely fine, and you hear the voice there isn't much time This must work for a linty must pay damn this person damn the horrific minds what designed it all Eternity I curse you a linty. I curse you Huh I found the real dirty bubble So there was a guy back over behind that house and he basically said that either him or like everybody He didn't like a linty and they were trying to do something real stinky Sorry, did they say like I heard something about a curse, but I was distracted. He basically said curse you a linty Okay Cool, I'm gonna gesture the big hole. Yeah You're gonna go down I don't know how we plan to get back up out of this one. I'm gonna move my wings Did you know that I have a rope I am Like right here look at me tie in the rope to the root Whoa, look at that look at that you're able to all Tie the rope. I am a giant That's not my problem, I guess the rest of us could willingly choose to stop being giant How many hours do I have to wait for simplicity sake though, I would say you can just squeeze into the hole Okay, thank you If you make you know if you suck in a little bit yeah, I'll be giant out of solidarity for buck Yeah, I really hope they were the only team player here I hope that this isn't just you now So I was words mech I was useful to him and now he's now now my bigness is Inconvenient So this is very on brand. It's more about the chorus more than the cool giant thingy Not in this game in this game. It's about the cool giant thingy. So you guys going down the hole then Can I try to take a piece of the route you most certainly can it comes off fairly easily You don't even have to like take a dagger to carve it off just with enough strength and squeeze you're able to just Break off a chunk. I'm gonna like Okay, you can add careful it's weird to crepe it root to your inventory So word climbs down fritz I presume glides down as is Lera buck just kind of like I don't know like emperors new grooves shimmy his way down with back against the wall legs against the other side And as you head down You see oh God, oh we have oh, we're all poisoned come on You find More ghosts they mutter in your mind protect the Prabhup protect the Prabhup and on the floor a massive Just kind of sigil of some kind The room is large and expansive and now Caved-in entrances on kind of on the sides Wherever they lead they've been covered by debris by now and among all those routes around you black ooze like creatures It seemed to sit and as you appear they converge on you slowly It's the blot. I want that ghost on the throne. I think he's important They all slowly All right, let's get ready to fight some blood again. I'm gonna be sick They'll stay at a little bit of a distance kind of defensively around you not not enough for me You can see well not from you of course they don't know no, but um, they don't know just Waiting for any sudden movements Later, I think you should know my back is bleeding from like three different puncture wounds. I Not sure it's very comfortable being Slowly yes, you got a stern nod from the giant bat. Um, yeah, all right, all right I'm gonna stay right here as buckwood this they say I Don't know that there's much I can do But we can don't really have a lot of options Okay, do we want to try leaving is the thing because we might just be able to do that I could plan one of my beans I'm gonna like gesture back up the hole the way we came and like flap significantly do we want to just try leaving? That guy does look important. I Don't know what it is. We stand to gain for being down here Fritz go go have a brief little brain conversation with that guy like fly over the books. I Think that's a bad idea Can you reach the ceiling can you carry us to safety? I can get up. I mean we can try and run, but there's a lot of them I Will flap over to the ghost on the throne you're gonna flap over to the ghosts on the throne And we're gonna immediately start to roll initiative as I'm sorry guys. I have 13 extra hit points as a bat right now the blot Notices the quick movement and immediately starts to dart towards layra heading towards the throne. Yes. I'm not affiliated with those guys I'm just an ordinary giant bat So layra you fly over to that ghost and I'm gonna need you to make a wisdom saving throw badly Okay, so you take a shock to your mind and you are going to actually take eight psychic damage Still a bad still a bat with five hit points go about baby and you hear this voice I shall not rest my people will have vengeance lengthy Will fall white and you actually see a vision of the life tree of Oh, and once the ghost vanishes Sitting on the throne you can see a very dim glimmer of some small little pieces Something that looks a little bit familiar. You see shards of dragon scales Huh Dragon and we are going to end the session there Yikes, well, that's exciting We will find out what further plot development staff