Ep 9: Delving into the Darkness

The Planar Vanguard finally begin their trek into the Winterforge mine in search of the white dragon at its heart. The group is being extra cautious, and perhaps a bit over thinking, as they have discovered a magical barrier preventing spell casting, and a familiar inky sheen permeating the walls.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_12 0:30

Okay, so welcome back. The group has brought Drax back from the brink when he sent his Echo to the other side of the continent. Wasn't sure if he was going to be able to maintain connection with it, and then he switched places with the Echo. Now we had a real conundrum where the connection wasn't able to be connected, I guess. And uh Mr. Drax died inside Drax's body. And Drax was trapped inside Mr. Drax. The group worked hard, was able to go over through the portal, come back, bring Mr. Drax back with them, perform the ritual, get Drax back into Drax's body, and now everything is right as it is. We are joining this group while they are in the chapel, as they are breathing a sigh of relief that their friend is now back among them. The journey of heading down towards the dwarven mines of Witcher Forge to try and cleanse whatever is causing the issue that is preventing the ice forge from working, lays ahead of them. A long rest still needs to be had, and we're gonna join our characters as they are having their conversations.

SPEAKER_10 2:12

And just says, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I didn't think that would happen.

SPEAKER_05 2:20

Yeah. Wasn't expecting that. I love you all too. Glad to be back.

SPEAKER_10 2:29

She just gives you a really, really big tight hug, perhaps reminiscent of what Einar just did to you a little bit too much around your neck. She says, I'm sorry. And then out of curiosity, is the friendship bracelet still on Drax?

SPEAKER_12 2:44

It is still on Drax. Drax Proper.

SPEAKER_10 2:47

Drax Proper. Drax Prime.

SPEAKER_12 2:48

Drax Prime. Drax Prime, yeah.

SPEAKER_10 2:50

Like Drax Prime. Draxmas Prime. Yeah, that's all. She just feels really sorry because I didn't know that would happen. I thought if it couldn't work, it just wouldn't work. You wouldn't go anywhere.

SPEAKER_03 3:03

I thought it was gonna work.

SPEAKER_01 3:07

Einar's a little overwhelmed by everything that's had to happen, and he just feels the need to ground himself, so he does a familiar reaction. I drop to a knee and he just started running one hand across the brains of the wood. Just focusing on that sensation and trying to push the image of, you know, strangling his brother death out of his mind. And just calms himself in the relief that the that his faith in the group to bring his brother back, that he could just leave them to solve it, worked. And that he's here. And that they're blocking out their rejoicing around him and just calming and grounding himself.

SPEAKER_02 3:51

I'll walk up while they're hugging and just, you know, give you a little tap on the shoulder. Glad to see you back in one place again.

SPEAKER_05 4:00

Glad to be back. I have my utmost faith in you guys.

SPEAKER_10 4:05

As it is very uh getting late in the evening, Oleander recognizes that people are gonna want to be, you know, wrapping up for the evening pretty quickly, but um I apologize everyone. I I really need to be um getting to something, and I I'm so sorry for this really shitty timing, but I need to I there's something I need to do, and I'm hoping that a couple of you can come with me. Is there anybody willing to spare the time to come with me? I can come with you. What do you need done? Oh, what has it been? I need to speak with grandfather. I am so scared right now about what we are facing with everything that has happened, uh, especially now after we almost lost tracks. I I need to speak with grandfather and I need to prepare myself for what is about to what we're about to do.

SPEAKER_01 5:12

I takes your hand. Doesn't speak, he just takes your hand from this position and continues to focus. You know, you don't have to ask.

unknown 5:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 5:23

Um I can help if you need help. I don't know what you need. You were there for me when I found out about my family, so thank you. It's it's gonna be calm and relaxing if that helps. I could really use calm and relaxing. I feel like we haven't had a lot of calm and relaxing and say, oh, 40 days. Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 5:45

Um I will help you. If not, I will go to bed.

SPEAKER_10 5:51

Um, I uh it would it would be great if you would count them. That would be fine. I would greatly appreciate it. Uh and she will try and gently guide away, taking Einar, Drewkin, and Delphine with her at the chapel.

SPEAKER_01 6:10

For the briefest of moments, a hand clapping on my brother's shoulder, looking him in the eyes. You will hear my voice, only you. You alright?

SPEAKER_14 6:20

I'm alright. It was a crazy thing, but what are you gonna do? I am gonna enjoy life and go get a beer.

SPEAKER_01 6:32

I wink at you, and I let the arm extend and then pull back to go with her.

SPEAKER_10 6:39

I'm gonna make sure that we're never lost without each other. And I pull us outside. Um, the four of us. I lead us out of the chapel and into the snow, and I'm looking for a slight clearing within the city walls that it has trees, and we're we're in a snowy landscape, but we're surrounded by pine and spruce and other uh evergreen trees. I just want to find a place where we are out of eye shot, but still in easy view of the sky. So I'll lead us just kind of behind some buildings where we have privacy, but also, you know, safety and security. We're not cost of trees, yes. Okay, uh so I ask everybody, guys. I just we're nicely bundled up for the weather, so I don't think it's that cold, it's pretty nice. Yeah. Alright, everybody, dig yourself a nice little snow chair. We're just gonna, we are going to spend the next hour. And we are going to just make ourselves a little recline, kind of a little lounge chair in the snow in a little circle, so that we can be together in a very relaxed way, staring at the sky.

SPEAKER_01 8:13

I suggest you use your cloak to sit on, and I offer Delphine my displacer cloak to sit on as there would be.

SPEAKER_12 8:19

I'm actually She goes to sit on it and misses the first time, but then get on it. First of all, she can't find the chair, and then she finds it. Well, when Delphine refuses, I quit, but I just lay mine down to sit on then because it's perfect.

SPEAKER_10 8:36

I'm okay. We've been given these nice warm cloaks from the dwarves here, so we are well equipped to be spending time in the cold outdoors comfortably. And uh Oleander's intention right now is to be able to be one with nature with her companions.

SPEAKER_12 8:59

So is it nighttime?

SPEAKER_10 9:02

It is evening.

SPEAKER_12 9:03

Yes, evening, yeah. Yes. Waning on into the twilight light.

SPEAKER_10 9:07

No, I do not need light. In fact, I do not wish you're the only one who might need it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 9:13

Right.

SPEAKER_10 9:13

Uh right now, we are guided by the stars, and I wish for us to just embrace that. The natural dark of nature. So we all get a comfortable place in the snow, nice and cozy up, so we're not actually feeling the cold. Uh, comfortable in a circle together, and reclining, sitting together so that we can stare up at the stars. And I tell you guys that uh I've I spent a lot of time talking to grandfather, and I'm so scared that we're going into such a dangerous time right now. And we almost lost Drax. And just before that, and when we lost Drewkin, I had to prepare myself so that I could try and bring you back to us. And I know that you said that I failed you, but I have to at least try. So I need grandfather and the spirits to be with us, to be with me. I need to try and prepare myself in case anything like this happens while we are down there. And I ask us to hold hands and to just stare at the sky, and we are going to just embrace the surroundings and embrace our ancestors as much as we can. Very prudent.

SPEAKER_01 10:53

I hold Oliander's hand and I stretch out my hand to Droke.

SPEAKER_10 10:57

And as we all link hands, I say, I need you all to focus. And we are going to be open. Please, just focus. And we'll sing. Come, come, O spirits of old, come with a thousand voices from stone, from water, from earth, unite with us, rise and guide. And we will sit and embrace our ancestors. And I will learn what I can from them in order to gain a spirit session revivification. And this is establishing a new nighttime ritual that Oleander will be having to speak with her ancestors. With whoever is available. With whoever is available.

SPEAKER_01 12:07

Very cool. Einar's mind in this moment wanders down pathways he hasn't thought of. And he goes past thinking of Julin and his training. And on the fact that somewhere deep in his past, there's a human and an elf who made him. And then whatever they did and whenever they did to have created him at that time. We know that. We know what they did. That's what he focuses on, is the fact that he's been trained for so long not to worry or think about that. For the first time in forever, the water's even past his adoptive father, but to to the fact that somewhere out there, he had parents and where they came from, he does not know.

SPEAKER_12 12:56

Okay. Delphine, you had something you wanted to do.

SPEAKER_10 13:00

Oh, we can do that as we're going back. We spend an hour meditating, focusing, and uh listening to our ancestors. And then as we wrap up, I ask Delphine and Jerkin, I'm sorry, I need to have a moment alone with Einar. Can I have a moment? Yes. Thank you. I don't want to be part of your moment anyway. It sounds great. Okay.

SPEAKER_11 13:34

So you two then will head back.

SPEAKER_10 13:36

Yeah, I'll just head back.

SPEAKER_11 13:38

Uh what did you want to? Is there what did you have to do?

SPEAKER_10 13:41

Is there something I she just she's still dealing with the fact that she just literally saw her home in flames, knowing that everyone she loves most is there. And now we've had this whole spirit session where apparently she's been disposing to dwell on her ancestors, with which she's not entirely certain who's involved in there. Um just gonna link an arm but jerk in. She's really sad to lay her hand on her shoulder.

SPEAKER_04 14:04

No, like that happened.

SPEAKER_10 14:05

As we walk back, she's just gonna start my shoulder. On your lower elbow. No, she's just thinking about, you know, we literally just had drags return, and she's just seen for herself her home. Silvery moon is in flames, and she could remember the screams that she could still hear from a distance of people there, and knowing her family's there, and knowing Theron's there. She's just gonna kind of start crying. And she's just gonna keep saying softly, I can't believe I just left them. I left them there.

SPEAKER_04 14:55

We will go back. We can't. When are we going there? Once we finish here, we can see and see how it is at that point.

SPEAKER_09 15:04

I can't even talk to them.

SPEAKER_04 15:08

Yeah, I understand that.

SPEAKER_09 15:10

I can't talk to Theron at all. I can't he can't hear me. Or even worse, is he hearing me and he can't respond?

SPEAKER_04 15:17

I don't think if it blocks it the wall, I like just stops. I don't even think you he will hear you.

SPEAKER_09 15:25

I don't know what's worse, that he can't hear me and he thinks I'm not there, or that he can't hear me and he can't respond.

SPEAKER_04 15:31

Well, I don't know what's worse. He might have tried to go to and have it blocked. So he's not.

SPEAKER_10 15:38

Drax said he was almost dead.

SPEAKER_04 15:41

Yeah, well. We'll save him. I know you'll try. I'll try.

SPEAKER_12 15:52

I'll put my hatred away.

SPEAKER_09 15:53

And I'll just walk back to the inn crying on Dreugendarm.

SPEAKER_12 15:58

So you two are gonna turn in for the night?

SPEAKER_10 16:01

Um, I am going to use my new spell book and set it up to transcribe mouth's my new mini meteors. Okay. So for the night I will unattune from the Heather Disguise and attune to it, so it'll do that. Okay. And I will mark off my gold cost on my book.

SPEAKER_12 16:15

There you go. You two, what's going on with you guys?

SPEAKER_14 16:18

You said you were gonna go for a beer, so uh I suppose uh we'll just gonna go with Drax for a beer and have a brewski together. Yeah. Good, man, in in a dwarven town, so we'll see how that goes. I know I've ever really drank dwarven ale. Let's put a little bit.

SPEAKER_09 16:32

Let's probably like cling on it.

SPEAKER_11 16:34

Even in life, we'll not find much better. Um, so you guys have a seat in the tavern, which is in uh kind of the same hotel that you're staying at.

SPEAKER_12 16:43

Um you're alone for a little bit. Do you see Drunken and Delphine come back after about an hour? Delphine seems to like nod at you and then head straight up to her room to start working on stuff. Drunken, are you gonna stick with these boys or are you heading up to bed? No, because I I had uh a rough time to bring him back in knife to go up and compose myself and get everything figured out. Okay. Anything you two want to do before you turn in? Uh nothing particular, no.

SPEAKER_03 17:12

Uh, at the bar, my character just being full of life now, kind of like goes to Literally. Literally goes to whatever dwarfs beside him is like, I was dead earlier today. I'm gonna go see a dragon tomorrow. This is a crazy life we live.

SPEAKER_11 17:32

The dwarf got the sister and he's like in his kind of he's he's had a couple of drinks as well, and he's like, literally, you don't see me.

SPEAKER_12 17:40

You little green life, that's amazing. And I like kind of cheers the glass with him, the mug of a. I've got to figure out how to get my magic toilet of each other. Unless this is a place that's why I mean here. Alright. So you two will finish up there in the tavern, you'll head up to bed. Um the city will start to get ready for the night. The lights in the roadways and the streets are now being dimmed a little bit. Shops are starting to close for good. You now start to see people clear from the streets and enter the houses, and then smoke starts to rise individually from each chimney and climb into the cold, cold night air. And you can see it's such a clear night. As the storm is rolling in from the distance, you can see that the wind is pushing all the smokestacks in one direction, and it won't be long until the wind is strong and the cold is biting. But we've got Oleander and Aina still walking in the wilderness together.

SPEAKER_10 19:00

We are still in a away from prying eyes, Maria, uh, in the snow under the stars, and I cast silence around us in the need for privacy. But that doesn't stop us from talking because we can speak to each other quite clearly, telepathically. And I say to him, I'm sorry. I got carried away with my feelings for you, letting myself be blinded by affection. But that's not fair to you. You deserve a good woman. Someone that will be every bit the hero that you are. But I'm not good. I am just scared. I want to be good. Every fiber of me wants to take care of you and the others. And everything that's good in this world. But in truth, I'm scared of them. I'm scared of how they see me. They think I'm a threat. I would never hurt you or them. But they will always be suspicious of me. If they knew what I'd done, I would have to leave. They would lock me up like they have threatened before, and I will die before I let that happen.

SPEAKER_01 20:52

And he thinks you. You are a good person. The actions that we take in life, it's the intent behind why we take them, not what we've done. I've done terrible things myself and will do terrible things in the name of what I believe is right. The world will break each and every single one of us, Holy. It's not about that. It's about taking those pieces with the people around us and building something better, something stronger out of them. I will stand by you through anything.

SPEAKER_10 21:50

But you don't understand. It's not just standing beside me.

SPEAKER_01 21:54

Let me understand. What do you need to tell me? Know that I will understand.

SPEAKER_10 22:01

The only person that I have ever let myself love. He didn't leave us, Einar. I killed him. And I can see you falling in love with me, and I want that so bad. And I killed the only other person that I've ever loved. And I am falling for you, and I'm so scared right now that you cannot accept that.

SPEAKER_01 22:40

I stroke my hand from top of her ear down her cheek. I'm sorry that whatever happened between you two or that he did drove you to think that you had. I don't know the wise of the way. But I know your soul and how you feel about it. And if something drove you to kill him, I know that you did it because you thought it was the right thing.

SPEAKER_04 23:21

Not because of hatred or greed, avarice, or a will to control, which are the true evils in this world.

SPEAKER_01 23:31

I don't judge you for it. I lament that you had to do it and suffer that pain. You don't have to suffer it on your own.

SPEAKER_10 23:41

Can you truly love a woman that has killed another that she has loved without ever knowing the why? Because I promise I will never tell you why. And you have to accept that. If you are ever to truly be mine, and accept me as yours. I kiss her.

SPEAKER_01 24:05

And I repeat the words she said to me when we first started this. I don't want you to doubt anything. I trust you.

SPEAKER_10 24:18

And she kisses him passionately and embraces him and holds him with the strongest embrace that she can, thanking him.

SPEAKER_12 24:30

As you do that, the wind picks up around you, and the snow starts to blow, and the storm is almost upon you.

SPEAKER_10 24:43

I need to be with grandfather, I am sorry. And you need to be with Rax. Just thank you for. You have no idea how much this has meant to me. That you have truly given yourself to me and accepted me. But I need to. I really need to be with grandfather right now.

SPEAKER_01 25:12

Go take care of tracks. There's a trusting and knowing smile on his face, and honestly. He had a sense that nothing would please him more than going to his brother right now. And he just thinks to you, I'll see you after.

SPEAKER_08 25:29

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 25:30

I think maybe I should have a few drinks. He kisses you on the forehead, once on the cheek, started a relationship, smiles at you, and heads off towards his brother.

SPEAKER_10 25:44

She just kneels down in front of the trees with a smile on face and a new confidence and comfort that you haven't seen in a very long time.

SPEAKER_01 25:54

Where's my brother?

SPEAKER_12 25:56

So you guys you head back into the city, you get to the tavern to see. These two are just wrapping up having a drink, but I'm sure they're down for another kid who's no longer there.

SPEAKER_01 26:09

There's almost a you can almost see it on my face. I'm acting it's a look of, and it's not to my brother for a moment.

SPEAKER_04 26:14

There's a look of satisfaction when my eyes land on you, seeing that you're you're here with him, drinking in a sipping very just the fact that you're here with him when I see that one member of the party is here with him with my brother. Yeah, I felt someone should probably be with him. I know it's not an accepted or comfortable thing, but you still feel it.

SPEAKER_01 26:37

I don't say it out loud, but in your head, you do hear Einar. He goes, it's almost even a sense. It's a appreciate you're here. He orders three drinks, brings the L's over, sets it down beside his brother, and looks and goes, This is a good thing.

SPEAKER_04 26:58

He drinks with you, which is something he doesn't do. I guess I do that.

SPEAKER_02 27:07

Well no.

SPEAKER_04 27:08

You were cheers. Dude, he's very happy. You put him in the cheers, he looks at you and nods and says to build up.

SPEAKER_09 27:21

You're in the I love you, man.

SPEAKER_03 27:26

My guy's drinking, uh he's zipping recklessly.

SPEAKER_12 27:39

So the storm blows in, you can hear it banging on the shutter. But the warmth inside the end of the tavern is perfect. It's comfortable, it's nice. For a moment, there's refuge from the chaos that has been put on this entire continent in the darkness that is plunging around.

SPEAKER_01 28:01

I realized my brother hadn't seen something because of how he was dead, and it clicks on Liner of Mint Drunk.

SPEAKER_10 28:07

He's dead. He was dead at the time. I clicked on the light.

SPEAKER_01 28:11

It's a very little moment. Mint drunk is hanging out. Liner turns and goes. I can jump.

SPEAKER_04 28:18

You can jump? I say, Liner, please don't you almost learn it. I look at the roof and I'm like, he actually reminds me. Half Dr.

SPEAKER_01 28:27

Liner was about to go, he's not. I could go through that roof. I don't know how. I don't know why. I woke up today. I actually kind of showed him, I put him like, I feel like there's shape different. I'll show you like really, really far. It's just cool.

SPEAKER_04 28:44

It's like your echo stuff changing.

SPEAKER_14 28:47

You know, at this point, nothing surprises me. I know, right? I believe you could jump.

SPEAKER_10 28:54

I think that's the motto of this whole thing. At this point, nothing surprises me.

SPEAKER_01 29:01

I'm so glad you're alive. You have no idea. I lean in, trying to act like I'm trying to like whisper. I'd forgotten that I could just peek in his head at this moment, because Einar's not used to alcohol, and a couple bells give him a gorgeous stuff. I was really scared. Thought I was gonna lose you. I trusted them. Don't you ever fucking do that again?

SPEAKER_13 29:26

I say that very loud. I uh not gonna try to switch consciousness across the condo. That's my bad. Won't do that again.

SPEAKER_14 29:38

I guess we have some limits. I don't like that. We'll find those limits, brother. Alright. I uh I gotta get to bed here. I go back to our room.

SPEAKER_01 29:52

I go back to my own room. On the way, though, on the way. I do put my hand on Rold's shoulder and just I thank you for doing what you could to bring him back to us.

SPEAKER_04 30:06

Um, it pleases me that you wanted to be involved. So I I do what I can. Yeah, walk away.

SPEAKER_10 30:13

I go back to our room. Well, Leander later joins. She spends about an hour away still, another hour alone by herself before she joins back in the bedroom.

SPEAKER_01 30:27

When you come back, you find Einar passed out. He's had two no, he's had a drink and a half.

SPEAKER_10 30:33

You just said You just said too much drinking.

SPEAKER_01 30:36

I know he's a he is sitting there with his he is he's half clothed, sitting on the ground in front of the fire, looking at his dad's journal. And he's reading the page of overcoming just over and over and over.

SPEAKER_12 30:48

Okay. Is there anything else that you'd like to do before the long rest tonight?

SPEAKER_10 30:53

Go to sleep.

SPEAKER_12 30:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 30:57

Not overcoming. Make sure my book's working properly and go meditate.

SPEAKER_12 31:01

I just caught that. Okay, so the storm blows in, yada yada yada. Everything I said before. It's a peaceful night. You rest easily, and the morning uh comes way too quickly. You are now in daytime.

SPEAKER_10 31:18

Day 41.

SPEAKER_12 31:19

Day 41. Yes.

SPEAKER_10 31:20

For those who are counting.

SPEAKER_12 31:22

As the sun rises, it is dawn. You can hear as the storm has now ceased, but it would appear that the muffled sounds of outside would lead you to believe that there is a significant amount of snow that has been brought into the town. You can smell, start to smell the scent of breakfast that wafts up from the downstairs kitchen and tavern.

SPEAKER_08 31:53

Meat.

SPEAKER_12 31:54

And yeah, the city is now waking.

SPEAKER_11 31:58

What would you guys like to do?

SPEAKER_10 32:00

Delphine gets up, puts her hat of disguise back on, re tunes. It's her elf self again, because these people only know her as Nell. And she wants to go down for breakfast and then she needs to go get her smell components she's been promised. Yes. And we need a diamond.

SPEAKER_01 32:19

Okay. I don't let Chick it up right away. I will go find a diamond. Not in a bad way. You're part of the diamond. Nope. No, it's it's uh he doesn't ever want to talk about it. He just sends it to me, so he goes, nope, I just want to stay here for a little while. Just rest.

SPEAKER_10 32:36

I'll give Viner an extra 15 minutes before I prod him towards breakfast because my stomach is growling.

SPEAKER_04 32:42

I need ginger tea. 15 minutes feels like a lot to us. I need some ginger tea.

SPEAKER_10 32:52

Oh, yeah, you would have had to get it back from Drewkin.

SPEAKER_13 32:54

I have so I still haven't. Yeah, that's right. So we'll meet up with it. Drex gets the bag and does an inventory. Okay.

SPEAKER_10 33:01

Delphine reasserts don't give things out.

SPEAKER_03 33:05

I was dead in my defense.

SPEAKER_10 33:08

I'm talking, I'm this is just your going forward. Dangerous things are in here.

SPEAKER_02 33:15

I will guard the bag. Well, I'm gonna say, you know, we need to make all haste. We've already lost a lot of time. Things keep happening. We don't have time to just sit around.

SPEAKER_10 33:24

No, I just I need to get my spell components, have some really good breakfast, and then I'm ready to go.

SPEAKER_04 33:29

And I need to find a diamond because we don't have any and I need one.

SPEAKER_10 33:32

You need that, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:33

I haven't fully noticed it yet, but uh during the long rest, the uh Barbarian Beast switched from jump to spider.

SPEAKER_12 33:42

As you are sitting down, again, the doors fly open, and it's again, Rinja, Frog's hammer, comes in. She has a few things. Uh, one is a bag with the spell components you requested. Yeah. Two is a list of items that you can find at the arcane potion store.

SPEAKER_11 34:10

And she and she's like, I'm anticipating that today you're leaving to go through the mines.

SPEAKER_10 34:16

Yes, we're gonna be going as soon as we can. I apologize for the delay.

SPEAKER_11 34:19

Well, no, it's not that it's not, I'm sorry, but I'm sure with you, it's got nothing to do with it.

SPEAKER_12 34:25

Um, I don't know if you've heard, but we we need to find that witch.

SPEAKER_10 34:30

Which witch? You had her.

SPEAKER_12 34:32

You had her, she's gone, and the king has been slain.

SPEAKER_00 34:36

What?

SPEAKER_12 34:36

In his bed. And you can see behind her now in the fields, people are running around.

SPEAKER_10 34:48

Are you saying that you have let that vile hag out of your clutches?

SPEAKER_12 34:56

I'm not telling you I've let anything happen. I'm telling you what has happened in the middle of the night, and now we are scrambling.

SPEAKER_10 35:05

Do you have any leads?

SPEAKER_12 35:06

What about the sisters? Well, we're looking for we're looking for the witch.

SPEAKER_10 35:10

Yeah, her sister is the apothecary.

SPEAKER_12 35:12

I look towards her house. Are they are they there already? I hope. Who's there? The dwarves. Oh, yes, like the the the guard is running around everywhere. They're in the arcane shop. Or sorry, yeah, that that shop, but there's another one.

SPEAKER_10 35:24

You know what? The sisters owed her a favor. Maybe they got her out. The wretched dawn. She was owed a favor by the wretched dawn for something. Maybe they got her out.

SPEAKER_14 35:38

Likely.

SPEAKER_10 35:39

Which is why, why did they have her here is the more pressing question for me.

SPEAKER_12 35:43

Well, one of the dwarves soldiers comes running in, and he I'm sorry. Sorry, Tinker. We found the witch. And she the the assistant turns and she's like, Well, where do we find her? And the the dwarf soldiers is She's in her cell. She's still locked up. However, she got out, they put her back in. Who's they? I don't know. How do you know she slayed the king? Yeah. Who else would slay the king? Who else in this city would have means to kill the king? The wretched Don.

SPEAKER_04 36:24

That doesn't mean she's the she's copy, but we need to find And as much as I hate secret messages.

SPEAKER_10 36:34

I'm going to do message to Oleander. And I'm gonna say, have we been looking for Obsidian Shadows marks here? We haven't, honestly. It you have the quickest eye. I'm sorry, I didn't even think of it. I will I will start observing I instantly. I'm sorry. And uh Oleander instantly starts scanning around everybody who is. And then I look to Drewkin and I just tap you and I just go tap my wrist. Oleander does a quick uh investigation. What do we mean? Perception or investigation? Uh fuck. It's a fuck one. It's a fuck. It's a fuck. It's a fuck one. It's a fuck. That's okay. Oleander gets sidetracked by um all the information that we can telephone to the rest of the group.

SPEAKER_04 37:32

Yeah, my passive night. I don't know if you figure the ghost from the darkness would pretty much figure. You're talking about assassinations. Who else do we suspect?

SPEAKER_01 37:42

Oh, yeah. Yeah. So I'm looking at you, I'm literally looking at you right now with a knowing like the the elf place fell from a traitor.

SPEAKER_14 37:52

Silvery moon fell from a traitor. They really are maybe a city we fell was from a traitor.

SPEAKER_10 38:00

Can I look at the second's wrist? Does she have full sleeves?

SPEAKER_12 38:05

You can definitely make an attempt, yeah. If you want to roll a perception check.

SPEAKER_10 38:09

I'm gonna try, but I'm not.

SPEAKER_04 38:13

Oh yeah, do that and that'll be seen afterwards. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 38:20

I don't see nothing.

SPEAKER_12 38:20

Yeah, she's pretty covered up.

SPEAKER_10 38:22

She's got a little bit of a little bit of a little nice winter part of it.

SPEAKER_12 38:25

Yeah, winter winter wearing.

SPEAKER_10 38:27

Yeah. Um well. Do you would you rather we concern our efforts with Borg or with the mine?

SPEAKER_09 38:36

We We're here for the mine.

SPEAKER_11 38:39

We we have this under control. As far as I'm concerned, as long as she's locked up, we can figure this out. Go and do what you came here to do.

SPEAKER_10 38:47

I'm gonna lean in close to. Does she have like a lieutenant with her?

SPEAKER_12 38:53

Yeah, that's who just came in. He's the other soldier.

SPEAKER_10 38:55

He's I'm just gonna suggest to them, you know, the sister's the one who told us that we might find something of interest in Borg's um shock. So the sister might have some insight. Because she's the one who led us to finding the agreement between Borg and the Wretched Dawn.

SPEAKER_12 39:22

She's also family.

SPEAKER_10 39:24

She's also family.

SPEAKER_11 39:25

Well, you've uh proven insightful so far. I'll take it under advisement.

SPEAKER_04 39:30

And I'm gonna look at him, and I'm gonna be like, if you could do me one favor, because this has happened in a couple other towns that we've been at. Look at all your guards' wrists. At all your fighters, everybody, look at their wrists. If you find a smudge, it's a traitor.

SPEAKER_10 39:51

A triangular-shaped mark of soot.

SPEAKER_12 39:54

Yes. It's the mark of the wrist. Just look at both.

SPEAKER_08 40:00

Left.

SPEAKER_07 40:00

Left.

SPEAKER_12 40:01

But still look at both sides. Doesn't matter. And what would that signify?

SPEAKER_04 40:06

That they're work for the obsidian shadow and they're your traitor in your.

SPEAKER_10 40:10

They're in league with the wretched dawn.

SPEAKER_04 40:13

Alright. Delphin scene's Iar to try to get her attention.

SPEAKER_07 40:16

Yes.

SPEAKER_12 40:17

Like, would you mind showing us your wrist just to Yeah, and he lifts, he rolls it up and he shows. Yeah, don't mind that. And he rolls up to show that his wrists are bare. Perfect. Then that's the one.

SPEAKER_04 40:27

DM has a smudge! You're part of it! Yeah, then I you have my full trust. But this is what we found in all of our other the other towns that have had traitors in their messages.

SPEAKER_12 40:40

Alright. But if I find anything. Lock 'em. Lock them up. With the witch. If you have other cells, put them in other cells. Oh, yeah, yeah. We do. Same building though. Wherever, wherever you have your jail. Alright, then. Yeah, we will. I'll get to it. Thank you. And he kind of looks at everybody and.

SPEAKER_01 40:58

Oh, before he goes. Well. Trying to heed Delphine's distaste of talking inside her head, Einar actually tries to whisper in her and goes. We have one threat that will make her talk. She showed fear of the ink.

SPEAKER_10 41:13

She showed fear of it, but I also don't trust it to work to our advantage. I'm not saying we have to put it on.

SPEAKER_04 41:21

She might tell us something with the threat of it going.

SPEAKER_10 41:23

We don't have time, I don't think. You're the brains.

SPEAKER_01 41:27

I just I wanted that option given. I'll do what we have to to make her talk.

SPEAKER_10 41:38

We don't have time. Let the dwarves take care of their own. I think right now the most important thing we can do is get through the mines, cleanse the dragon. This is what the town needs. They will have their power back, their heart back. And right now, we need to do everything we can to get this done so that we can get on to Delphine's family. We need to get to Silvery Moon. And in order to do that, we have to do what we have committed to here. We have to cleanse this dragon while they gain information before we can move on.

SPEAKER_04 42:18

And then once we cleanse the dragon, they might be able to help us down to Silvery Moon.

SPEAKER_10 42:23

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 42:23

So this is our most important thing we need to do.

SPEAKER_10 42:26

Or the factory, but we were originally trying to get through this whole time.

SPEAKER_04 42:31

Right now, at this moment, the dragon is the is our priority at the moment.

SPEAKER_10 42:36

The doors can take care of the rest right now. Delphine, I know that we planned to go to the factory, but right now your family needs more. If my family was in danger, I would not be able to rest before going to them. And I understand that we need to get more information before we can figure out how we can help your family and help Silvery Moon. We've made a commitment here. My father wouldn't want me to break my commitments. Exactly. And they can get that information while we deal with their dragon. But we have to we can't. Maybe by the time we're done with the dragon, you Lewis might have more information for us. We need to move on to that.

SPEAKER_04 43:16

And not just rely on the water.

SPEAKER_10 43:17

You know, historically, that's always gone really well for us.

SPEAKER_01 43:20

Well, it's limped in that. You know, I can actually think of several occasions where it did actually. This is the reason why we were given this.

SPEAKER_12 43:28

Did you want to talk to this soldier? Because you you said you needed to talk to him. No, I just wanted him in front of the case. She was going to talk to him.

SPEAKER_10 43:35

No, I have nothing further to ask me.

SPEAKER_12 43:36

So he's left now. He's left absolutely. Okay.

SPEAKER_10 43:38

I want the dwarves can handle their own.

SPEAKER_12 43:40

And the mayor go down into the cabin. The assistant, the assistant to the king there. She steps forward, she's got another bag, and she drops it on the ground, and you can hear like a clinking of glass on the inside.

SPEAKER_11 43:53

And she says, We don't have a lot to offer you. But here. Inside this bag, there are ten potions of healing.

SPEAKER_12 44:07

Regular or regular potions of healing, and two potions of greater, and one portion of superior. Okay, okay, good, good, good.

SPEAKER_10 44:19

Is there anywhere we can get a diamond that is worth at least 30 gold before we leave?

SPEAKER_12 44:27

Yeah, I'm sure. I wish you had asked me that before, but uh it's gonna take some time to find it.

SPEAKER_10 44:32

We didn't know we would need it. And I look at tracks.

SPEAKER_11 44:36

And she goes and she looks at you, she goes, how how desperate is it that you need it?

SPEAKER_10 44:41

We are very desperate. Please, I will follow you. I will come with you to help you fetch it.

SPEAKER_11 44:46

She's she just kind of she looks she looks at you for a second and her eyes get a little sad and she goes, she unclasps a necklace from around her neck and pulls out a diamond pendant.

SPEAKER_12 45:00

And she's like, This is worth more than that. But will it help you? Of course.

SPEAKER_10 45:06

I only undertakes this with the utmost reverence. I uh you have no idea how much I appreciate this. I understand that if this is something that you wear around your neck, this is something of significance to you. And it will be used only to save a life and for no other reason. If we can come back without the need of this, I will bring it back to you, I swear.

SPEAKER_12 45:35

Well, it's a family album, it's been in my family for hundreds of years, but it's worth more to me to have our the soul of our town brought back. So you can't see it's beautiful. It's a sortnate golden chain with this diamond pendant. The diamond in it is it's like oblong like this. It's beautiful. And uh shaped diamond.

SPEAKER_10 45:57

Pear cut diamond for the audience. Beautiful pear cut diamond. The ladies know their jewels. Ladies know their jewels. Um, a DM question. Yo. How much gold piece worth of the ingredients for true seeing did I get?

SPEAKER_12 46:11

How much did you need?

SPEAKER_10 46:13

2.5 gold piece according to your economy per use.

SPEAKER_12 46:17

Then that's what you got.

SPEAKER_10 46:18

Just one.

SPEAKER_12 46:20

You just want you wanted more than. Because it consumes. Oh, it consumes it.

SPEAKER_10 46:24

Um can we roll.

SPEAKER_12 46:25

Four uses of yeah, roll a D4.

SPEAKER_10 46:27

A D4? D6.

SPEAKER_12 46:33

For you! Now you can flip a coin.

SPEAKER_10 46:36

No, just one.

SPEAKER_12 46:39

Roll a D4. Roll a D4.

SPEAKER_10 46:41

No, we uh can I just take the four that you said first?

SPEAKER_12 46:44

Because you're greedy. Then I get to roll the D4.

SPEAKER_10 46:46

Do you want my D4? She never wants a one. I never want your shit. I just rolled a one. That's why I don't want your shit.

SPEAKER_07 46:58

Two.

SPEAKER_13 46:58

There you go. Two. You got two. Two. That looks like a four to me. All right.

SPEAKER_09 47:06

Um, can I ask her?

SPEAKER_08 47:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 47:11

Um, if while we're down there, because I had to use one of my ink vial to go get him, if we can have a replacement for when we come back. Like Borg doesn't have any.

SPEAKER_12 47:26

She doesn't have it on her.

SPEAKER_10 47:27

But like, while can it be procured in the time that we're gone?

SPEAKER_11 47:31

She she thinks about it for a second. She's like, Well, everything that she had is now ours. So we'll go through it. We'll see if we have anything. If we haven't, excellent. It is yours, but we I don't have to.

SPEAKER_10 47:40

She has any because because true seem just takes mushrooms and saffron and you know, fat.

SPEAKER_11 47:46

So if she has any of that, well, whatever components that she ends up having that we've gone through, like you, you're welcome to them.

SPEAKER_10 47:51

When we come back.

SPEAKER_12 47:52

When you when you turn that, I mean, we will owe you more than that.

SPEAKER_10 47:55

So perfect, perfect, perfect. Thank you.

SPEAKER_12 47:58

Um, is there anything else anybody needs?

SPEAKER_10 48:00

We have a diamond, we got a bunch of healing potions. We're good.

SPEAKER_02 48:04

Uh yeah, and I think we'd have torches and stuff like that already. I'm gonna take two of those healing potions if that's okay. Yeah. Just the basic one. Does anyone?

SPEAKER_10 48:11

Well, I think the fighters should get the higher level. Well, you don't really get it. Yeah, you don't get head.

SPEAKER_02 48:16

Okay, so you might as well take the most basics. Two of them? Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 48:19

You two should get the higher ones.

SPEAKER_14 48:20

Exactly. Well, right now I got all of them, unless I just should.

SPEAKER_10 48:26

I don't get the superior one.

SPEAKER_14 48:28

Yeah, I think.

SPEAKER_10 48:29

And then I already have two basics. I'll take a regular basic.

SPEAKER_03 48:35

Okay, so take a basic.

SPEAKER_10 48:36

Because then I'll have three.

SPEAKER_03 48:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_13 48:38

Does everyone have a basic? Okay, Drew can you get a basic? No, you get a basic. No, I got my stem under the basic phone.

SPEAKER_10 48:47

I'm just trying to look at it. It's a little minor of a mite.

SPEAKER_03 48:51

Well, they're still gonna get a basic.

SPEAKER_10 48:54

I have two basics of my own. I just think you could give it to others as your action, right?

SPEAKER_03 48:59

So, Drew, can you're not taking one? Um, I'll take one basic. Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_10 49:06

And then we can just have extra in the bag hole.

SPEAKER_03 49:08

Okay, and then I'm gonna put uh I'm gonna give Minar the Superior.

SPEAKER_14 49:12

Alright.

SPEAKER_02 49:13

It's really good to have them, anyways, because like we don't want to take a short rest. Look at the way we get some hits.

SPEAKER_10 49:18

Um, I'm not certain how much resting we're gonna have anything.

SPEAKER_12 49:21

Well, that's a why it's good. That's exactly why it's good. Have everything you need. Yeah. Everything you require.

SPEAKER_00 49:29

I pop made armor, like I always do.

SPEAKER_12 49:32

Okay. And I will cast aid. Yay! Who are you giving aid to? That's three. Yay! How much can we?

SPEAKER_10 49:40

Yes! Okay. Okay, everybody, everybody. Delphine woke up looking a little extra tough lately, and now she's even more tough.

SPEAKER_09 49:50

Because now she has 94 hit points.

SPEAKER_02 49:55

Oh, well, I thought you had toughness because you were saying tough.

SPEAKER_09 49:58

I now have a base of 74 hit points. I've got I'm looking extra tough lately.

SPEAKER_12 50:06

Ina, they are done getting procurements before they head down into the mind. Is there anything that I needs? He's been given a potion of superior healing. Yeah, three years maybe. Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_10 50:17

Do you want another one? Like, uh is there another medium regular healing?

SPEAKER_12 50:20

Yeah, there's a bunch of basics. Do you want some more basics?

SPEAKER_09 50:22

Yes, we got we got greater, regular, and superior, right?

SPEAKER_12 50:26

Two greater, one superior, and ten healing.

SPEAKER_09 50:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 50:30

So I've got the superior. Yeah, do you want any healing? Is there a normal one sitting there? Yeah, there's seven of them. Oh, well, give me two normal then. Okay.

SPEAKER_10 50:37

Just to have, and then we can't we've got stuff in the bag holding.

SPEAKER_12 50:39

Yeah. Yeah. Perfect. Okay. I got the superior and I got two. So uh I still have a nepi pen one, if anyone thinks. Do you still have that? Or I have a nebbi pen somewhere.

SPEAKER_10 50:47

No, you you guys used it, didn't you? Did I use mine?

SPEAKER_12 50:49

You did use yours, but one of them got yours. Uh now he's looking at his forearms and his catching just he does seem a little confused. Cool.

SPEAKER_11 51:02

We will talk about that when you get into the mine. Yep. So she is going to then say, if you're ready, we're ready to show you the way in. That's right. Are we ready to go?

SPEAKER_12 51:11

And she leads you out, and you can see the town is almost buried in snow, but there's footprints everywhere as the soldiers are running around trying to figure out what's going on. And there's wailing and crying coming from the war tent where the king usually rests. She walks you around the forge and into a cavern that is dug into the cliff behind the forge, where the forge is like built into the mountain. As she takes you in there, she pushes open this large wooden door with all these dwarven ruins written all over it. Beautiful wood and iron that is clapped into the cavern wall. She pushes it open, and you get this draught. A cold, stagnant air gets blown out into your face, and there's a reek of death and decay that comes up with it. On first glance, as you look in, it's very dark, but you can see a faint glow at the end of the tunnel. And she looks at you and she goes.

SPEAKER_11 52:22

It will take you straight down.

SPEAKER_12 52:26

Once you are in that mine shaft, you have entered the mines. And we can no longer help you. I wish you all the best. And if you return, having your mission completed, you will be given a hero's welcome. Oh, we'll be back. Okay, so before we go in, is there anything else you can tell us? Do you know of the denizens of the mine or we know that there are monsters.

SPEAKER_11 52:55

There are some very good dwarven traps that we have created. If I can tell you that there are many of them. Okay. Be aware, be on your guard.

SPEAKER_10 53:07

Are there any rooms in here that would have been like bunkhouses or storerooms?

SPEAKER_12 53:14

Yes, I guess there are. We do have supplies that are down there. You just need to find them.

SPEAKER_10 53:18

Remember, we were asked to find the hammer for the box. His nephew went down here with the hammer.

SPEAKER_12 53:24

Well, only me and Drax know that one.

SPEAKER_09 53:26

Oh well. Maybe you told them. I remember it. I'm telling you to remember it.

SPEAKER_12 53:31

Um, so you guys remember that? Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 53:33

Um yeah, and that's just kind of tells you, you know, be on your guard. We haven't had anybody return yet.

SPEAKER_10 53:40

Who was the last expedition, last people to try? When was that?

SPEAKER_11 53:45

It was roughly about three months ago.

SPEAKER_10 53:48

So fairly recent.

SPEAKER_11 53:49

It's been recent.

SPEAKER_10 53:50

You don't expect survivors.

SPEAKER_11 53:52

Well, I haven't seen my nephew since he went down there.

SPEAKER_10 53:56

Is there further light past the lantern that we can see ahead?

SPEAKER_12 54:00

There will be uh magical lanterns and light that show, but it's not very often. Uh there will be a natural luminescence of the cavern that you'll notice, but I wouldn't rely on that.

SPEAKER_11 54:12

If you've got other methods, I would use it.

SPEAKER_10 54:15

She says that Delphine's gonna turn to Druckan and she's gonna say, okay, lean down. And she's gonna very gently pass her eyes, her hand over her eyes. And she's gonna cast dark vision. And then she's gonna walk up to Rold, and she's gonna fuck him in the forehead and cast dark vision.

SPEAKER_09 54:34

The spell she bought for him a very long time ago.

SPEAKER_12 54:38

Oh, what aw, friend. Thank you.

SPEAKER_10 54:40

So you both have dark vision for eight hours.

SPEAKER_12 54:44

There you go. Okay. With that, she stands aside, and you walk in two Dorman minds of winter orange. At the opening of this cavern. You can see about a hundred to a hundred and fifty feet ahead of you, there's a dim light. What you can see is dwarven carved walls. Beautiful, straight, with precision. You can run your hand along the smoothness of them, and it's very rare that you find an inconsistency in the rock. It's beautiful. As you move further down the cavern, you do not you do start to notice very, very rarely, there is a black inky streak in the stone.

SPEAKER_10 56:13

Is it reminiscent of the catacombs?

SPEAKER_12 56:16

It is not.

SPEAKER_10 56:17

No?

SPEAKER_12 56:18

No, it is not.

SPEAKER_10 56:20

Is it just a static streak? It's like mineral, it's not like an oozing liquid.

SPEAKER_12 56:27

You'd have to touch it to find out. How familiar to me does it look? I mean, it looks very familiar to you.

SPEAKER_10 56:37

Can I take the vial of the substance from the catacombs that I took? Yeah, you can. And kind of hold it towards it and see if it reacts within. Towards those this stuff on the wall.

SPEAKER_12 56:50

So the vial that you have. With the stuff from the catacombs. From the catacombs, as you reach towards the wall, it actually starts to move and slams against the other side of the vial as far away from the wall as it can get. Oh well, that's interesting. I utter the words T is etched in sleepless veins.

SPEAKER_10 57:10

I'm gonna hold the vial towards Einar.

SPEAKER_02 57:14

Same thing happens.

SPEAKER_10 57:16

I say aloud, well, that's very interesting.

SPEAKER_02 57:20

So Einar got pushed away, like the ink.

SPEAKER_10 57:22

The ink from the catacombs from the portal.

SPEAKER_13 57:25

Is avoiding.

SPEAKER_09 57:26

Is avoiding both what's on the wall and Einar. That makes sense. So it's not the same.

SPEAKER_02 57:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 57:34

But it's having a real.

SPEAKER_02 57:36

We certainly thought that that came from a very different place.

SPEAKER_10 57:38

Like this came theoretically out of the portal that had the undead beholder come out of in the catacombs back in Crystal Burrow.

SPEAKER_02 57:47

So how does that not?

SPEAKER_10 57:48

The shadow fell? Like Yes, I'm just testing to see the source of things. I put the vial back in my bag.

SPEAKER_12 57:54

I pull off a glove so you can see my hand. I don't touch the You can now see Einar's hand. I don't touch, I don't touch the wall.

SPEAKER_01 58:04

I see how the ink on my hand reacts as it gets closer to the vein on the wall.

SPEAKER_12 58:12

Just approaching it and seeing if anything happens now that Delphine's shown. So it's a short little vein. It's only about maybe a foot and a half long. So you get close to it, and it goes. It just goes on your hand and mixes with the ink. Oh, before I can even react, right? Yep. I look to you. Specifically, Delphine, I go, like that grimmed face.

SPEAKER_10 58:40

I take your hand and I'm just looking at what the the tattoo is doing.

SPEAKER_12 58:44

It's the exact same color, and it's the exact same consistency, and it just melds in. And you hear in your head.

SPEAKER_10 58:56

More of that, please.

unknown 59:00

Oh.

SPEAKER_10 59:01

Is this more of Noctus? Was Noctus separated from himself? Or was that I guess we didn't hear that? It's the same color. Sorry. It's the same color as his dominant, now dominant tattoo.

SPEAKER_02 59:15

Nobody heard what he just said.

SPEAKER_10 59:16

No, nobody would have heard, but I'm just saying, like, seeing it blending and uh meshing, shorping onto Einar, binding with Einar and being color.

SPEAKER_13 59:28

Einar, do you not think that was a little foolhardy after last time?

SPEAKER_10 59:33

Foolhardy seems to be the way we operate.

SPEAKER_04 59:38

Weinar doesn't even respond from a learn from us.

SPEAKER_12 59:40

It seems introspective, and I'm just thinking, do I feel any different from that? Nope. You don't learn from my mistakes. Not with that small amount.

SPEAKER_10 59:47

Please, you can't judge him for just reaching out to a wall. No, I don't. I don't. It's an experiment.

SPEAKER_12 59:55

Well, we've seen what experiments are doing. Do you guys keep moving towards the end of the uh the end of the tunnel? We keep going. Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:00:04

Maybe don't do it again.

SPEAKER_14 1:00:06

Uh DM, I'm going to have my echo roughly 20 to 30 feet.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:12

Is it annoying?

SPEAKER_12 1:00:15

It's just your regular echo, yes? Yes. It's not Mr. Drag.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:20

No. No, I'm not ready to bring him out.

SPEAKER_10 1:00:23

Delphine is visibly disappointed.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:25

I don't want to play.

SPEAKER_10 1:00:29

She just kind of tinkles your little friendship bracelet and walks by.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:33

Okay. Out of natural instinct, even though I have dark vision, which my guy's not used to yet, he gradually understands it's normal that we did have games.

SPEAKER_10 1:00:43

Oleander gets a little soft in the heart. It makes her feel, you know, kind of gooshy like old times and accepted by Drun, which she hasn't felt really in a long time. And so she gives Drkin's hand a little squeeze and carries on to guide him through the darkness, even though he really needed it.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:06

He's not used to being able to see so far. I don't have lagged behind a little as they walked on.

SPEAKER_14 1:01:12

Yeah, okay. Looking at the ink, I want to sync to Ventor.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:17

More.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:19

Well, what will you give me? Access to Noctus once a day would make us stronger if I could use his attacks while you rest. You'd still be the dominant ink. We can assure this. Okay. A thought for you.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:44

Delphine is making sure she hangs back with him and she's keeping an eye on him.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:49

Okay. I think it'll let me talk to Noctus. No response. I smile to myself. So we're in negotiation. And I turn and see Delphine there and I go. I've got this.

SPEAKER_12 1:02:10

I believe long and prosper. Yes, he does. He does actually looking at it.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:13

She's just a spentaman Delphine would probably really like in normal times. But as we walk, I tell her what I just, but I'm keeping an eye.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:23

As we as we walk, I do tell her I'm like, he wants more of that.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:27

Oh, I bet he does.

SPEAKER_14 1:02:28

I'm gonna mention to Einar. Maybe I should go ahead this time, as I do have a little more experience with things we might encounter in here.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:37

Oh, I'm gonna poof Miriam and she'll go with you.

SPEAKER_13 1:02:40

Perfect. She'll just kind of like on your shoulder. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:43

And because I don't need a source of light. This vision is pretty good. I thank Delphine. I thank Delphine. Thank you. This is this is You're welcome.

SPEAKER_10 1:02:53

It's almost as if some of us consider the needs of the party. Right.

SPEAKER_12 1:02:58

Well, I alright. I certainly didn't need this before, but it is very helpful.

SPEAKER_10 1:03:03

Miriam's gonna go and just be a second set of eyes for you.

SPEAKER_12 1:03:06

Okay, so I'm gonna try and stay ahead of the group because with the Echo Knight.

SPEAKER_13 1:03:10

The Echo will be 20 to 30 feet in front of me.

SPEAKER_14 1:03:13

Okay. So I don't know. Yeah, well, I can move pretty much as quiet as the Echo, so yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_12 1:03:18

Okay, sure. And the owls just with him. Exactly. You're walking, you get to the light. I am watching for traps. You get to the light, and then there's a staircase that goes down, and it's uh it's a winding staircase that kind of goes in a spiral. Okay. There is a draft coming from that staircase, but it does seem like it's pretty safe to use. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:39

I will uh obviously just sort of report back to the party. You know, make a little gestione here down and say, come on, you know, I'm trying to still try to make it.

SPEAKER_10 1:03:49

I'll say while we're together, I will kind of whisper if at any point in time you think we would benefit from a telepathic bond, let me know. It will take me 10 minutes, but it only lasts an hour. So we don't want to be earlier than well, I can do it multiple times. I just don't see a point until you think anyone in the group thinks we might need it.

SPEAKER_14 1:04:10

I guess if we start hearing things, maybe when we get to the bottom, it might be beneficial at some point. We need to separate down there. If we ever need to separate, I found it very useful when I feel except the wonder very dangerous.

SPEAKER_10 1:04:25

Yes, I don't recommend.

SPEAKER_12 1:04:29

Um all right. You descend the spiral staircase. It takes ages. You are delving deep, deep, deep into the earth. Finally, you get to the bottom. Rolled in the Echo Knight, and Miriam are there first. Standing in front of you is what looks like a cavern, but it's a narrow cavern. It has not been dug out by the dwarves. It looks like a natural occurring cave. It's a roughly around 15 feet wide, 15 feet tall. Twenty feet in front of you, you recognize the same shimmering barrier that you saw encompassing Silvery Moon.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:31

Well, I'm definitely waiting for everyone to get down here because uh this is magical in nature, so I sort of want to ask Delphine about it if she's seen anything like this before.

SPEAKER_12 1:05:43

Yeah, you guys are all there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:05:48

Delphine just hangs onto her locket and like hands on her chest because she rec recognizes the look of it. At least she hasn't actually done an arcana check or anything yet. Can I? Do that to determine the nature? Because I have a lot of concerns about the barrier around Silver Moon as it is.

SPEAKER_12 1:06:05

Absolutely. Go ahead. Yeah, good time.

SPEAKER_10 1:06:07

Arcana, yeah?

SPEAKER_12 1:06:08

Arcana.

SPEAKER_10 1:06:12

I'd want nothing. Am I ever gonna say yes to that? One day you will say yes to my twenties. Oh I rolled a two, but that's an 11. It's an arcan. My arcan is an 11. Okay, that might be twenty.

SPEAKER_12 1:06:28

An eleven?

SPEAKER_10 1:06:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 1:06:30

I mean, from what you know in previous times, this is like there are spells that do this that prohibit magic. But this doesn't seem like that. This doesn't seem like it's a spell. And in your experience, they're not as those spells aren't as vast as what you saw in Silvery Moon. And this is the same shimmer. So it's definitely your collective intelligence on this. You can adequately say that this is not a spell.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:05

Oh.

SPEAKER_10 1:07:07

Can I try to send Miriam through it? As she's a magically summoned Faye creature.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:14

Mm-hmm. I thought it might be like a warning system. Oh personally. Maybe we'll know if we go through.

SPEAKER_10 1:07:23

Well. They're gonna know we're here. They're gonna know we're here anyway.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:27

Yeah. Well, they're all focused on the shimmering barrier. Einar would prefer to uh stay focused on what he's already focused on.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:36

Okay. Use my uh per perception there. See what I see. Okay.

SPEAKER_12 1:07:44

The magical barrier just sits in front of you. You sending mirror through it.

SPEAKER_10 1:07:56

Can I like touch it first and see if it's tangible?

SPEAKER_12 1:07:59

Yeah. So you walk up to it and you put your hand on it, and it just passes through.

SPEAKER_10 1:08:06

My hand on the other side, because I'm in my elf form. Does it look like my elf or a tiefling? Looks like an elf. Interesting. So it doesn't neg seem to yet negate magic.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:18

Well, what choice do we have? We may as well go through. There's nowhere else to go.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:23

Send the elf through first.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:24

Send my echo through.

SPEAKER_12 1:08:27

Whatever. Okay. And my echo walk through. He walks through. And he stands on the other side, turns around. I wonder if it just blocks.

SPEAKER_10 1:08:37

I whispered to Mr. Drax.

SPEAKER_12 1:08:38

Can we hear them?

SPEAKER_10 1:08:39

Mr. Drax would have said something really funny. She really likes Mr. Axe.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:48

I'm big. I'll go. Drew can give some shits. I give no shits. I'll go.

SPEAKER_10 1:08:52

Since I'm holding his hand, I go in with.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:54

Okay, you walk through. Alright.

SPEAKER_10 1:08:58

Do we notice any difference being on the other side of the barrier? Did we notice any kind of change from one side to the other? Like smell or cold or anything. No, not necessarily. Can I try to do a message to Leander on the other side of the barrier? I just do a mess message cantrip. Can you hear me?

SPEAKER_12 1:09:16

So you send the message. You don't hear anything. That's what I'm fair.

SPEAKER_10 1:09:21

You see. I just keep looking at her w in expectantly. You have observance. So now I'm gonna say aloud, can did you hear me in your head? I I see her lips moving, I can tell what she's saying, but you can hear her voice. No, I I know that's what I'm saying. I can read her lips. She's she's lip syncing. Or were you syncing?

SPEAKER_04 1:09:43

Yeah, but the message did not quit.

SPEAKER_10 1:09:46

Yeah. Yeah, so I I just I say I'm not gonna go to the house. I'm trying to determine the nature of the barrier. Nothing happened.

SPEAKER_08 1:09:53

That's good to say.

SPEAKER_10 1:09:54

So I say to those on the other side of the barrier, magical communication doesn't seem to work.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:00

That's just pretty much what it was like in the moon.

SPEAKER_10 1:10:03

Yes. Do you think do you think you're on the other side?

SPEAKER_04 1:10:05

He said we can hear you. You can hear through it. It's not a sign. It's not just your message did not go through.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:11

But we can talk back and forth.

SPEAKER_10 1:10:13

Yes, this could be the barrier between you and I just wasn't sure if it was a communication barrier or an all anti-magic barrier. Um, I will try to um I'm I'm just going to casually ever so casually blown up. I just want to do an Eldritch Blast against the wall just to see if you could just do like top dirty or something. I don't know. Well, for some reason I didn't think of that. This is very visual. This is very visual. I just try an Eldritch Blast against the wall through the portal, just to find out if it does anything. Uh first one doesn't hit shit because I rolled so badly, but the second one, I roll a um 21 to hit the wall on the other side.

SPEAKER_12 1:11:05

Roll me an intelligence check.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:07

Okay, I can do that. Uh that fell off your board. That's the one.

SPEAKER_12 1:11:14

It was a one, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_10 1:11:17

It was not cocked. That was worse.

SPEAKER_11 1:11:21

You take the worst one because you lied about being cocked.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:24

No, they said I was cocked. I didn't say nothing. Either way, I didn't do shit.

SPEAKER_12 1:11:30

It doesn't happen. You don't even, you can't even manifest the magic. Yeah. Oh wow. Yeah, nothing happens.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:35

You guys see that nothing happens.

SPEAKER_12 1:11:37

You see her go like this.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:39

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:40

Oh, that really and I'm like, what are you trying to do?

SPEAKER_10 1:11:44

I was trying to cast on the other side and nothing is passing through.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:49

Well then what okay, then I will pick up a rock.

SPEAKER_12 1:11:53

I will cast a light on my rock and toss it over to Delphine. Roll me in a television check, please. A check? Yep. So it's just a straight roll, right? Or whatever on whatever you're unable to cast any light on it.

SPEAKER_10 1:12:12

It's just a straight check roll.

SPEAKER_12 1:12:14

Oh wow. So I see activity, but I'm still scanning the wall up. So you see so you can pick up a rock and go.

SPEAKER_10 1:12:22

Oh, my hand stayed, my elven hand on the other side.

SPEAKER_12 1:12:27

So you can you can gain through all of this, you can gain the understanding that anything cast outside of the magical field stays. Anything that magic on the inside is extremely difficult to cast. Oh, this sucks. We're fucked. Yep. 100%.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:51

I hear them talking about this and uh pull my focus up. Did I scan anything along? Do you want me to roll anything or just move over to them?

SPEAKER_12 1:12:58

Uh for what? Like I said, I'm looking for the wall for other. Oh, right. Uh yeah, you don't need to roll. Yeah, there's no there's nothing on the walls here. This is just the scandal on the veins. I come up and join them. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:10

You guys are having troubles? I heard Jupiter say we're fucked.

SPEAKER_10 1:13:13

Do you guys want telepathic bond? It takes an hour for me to put it on you. I was misspoke before it was not 10 minutes.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:20

But how do you know it's gonna work?

SPEAKER_09 1:13:22

If I cast it on this side, it'll work on the other side.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:26

Possibly.

SPEAKER_10 1:13:27

Possibly. Do you want it? It's only an hour to last. But it takes me an hour to cast it.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:33

An hour to cast it?

SPEAKER_10 1:13:35

I misspoke. It's not 10 minutes.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:36

Oh, let's just go.

SPEAKER_10 1:13:38

Alright, before we go though, I'm going to cast true seeing on myself for one hour. Okay. So with that. Or am I gonna do that? Am I gonna do that? Because that's a high level spell.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:52

Linar's cleaned enough to figure out that they're having a hard time catching magic, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:13:57

I'll say. Nobody's said anything to you. Yeah, you no, you were too far back. I'll say. I'll be like, we're having asked. Yeah. Yeah, you didn't ask you though. What's the problem? I'm having a hard time casting spells on the other side of this barrier. What about your other abilities? Or I feel like try any of them. What are their abilities?

SPEAKER_00 1:14:21

Maybe not yet. Maybe not yet. Okay. Not yet.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:23

Well, I don't see an opportunity here, Oleander. Wow. You're gonna hear in your head.

SPEAKER_12 1:14:28

I'm going to try I'm going to try something. Okay. Are you inside the magical barrier? Yeah. I can't remember. I'm inside. I'm inside. No, I was coming from joining. Oh, I thought we all walked. Yeah, I thought I was. You guys were all there doing stuff. I lag behind and I was joined. Is that is that psychic ability magical? Well, that's what I'm I'm testing. I don't know. That's up to you. I'm asking you, is it magical? Or is it an ability that you naturally have that is not?

SPEAKER_10 1:14:54

What does the wordage say? For you, not for me. Let me find out. His is magical, mine is natural.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:59

Well, mine's an ability from a fetus where I automatically get the ability to cast that naturally. It's cast? Cool. I think it's cast next. You need to roll. He does not manage to detect thoughts on her.

SPEAKER_10 1:15:10

I will just like I'm looking at them struggle on the other side, and so I just try to speak to Delphine. Can you hear me? In her head. In her head.

SPEAKER_12 1:15:24

Um it does tick off on your thing, though. You've used Oh, I'll use one of my two. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:15:29

I use my ability. Not my magic. Your aberrant mind. I use my aberrant mind. Can you hear me in this fashion? I know that I'm magical, yes. I just nod because I know I can't reply to you.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:40

You can.

SPEAKER_10 1:15:41

Not.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:43

I asked Delphine a question. I look to you and I go, in your knowledge or experience, is this some sort of magical barrier we're dealing with that affects magic specifically?

SPEAKER_00 1:15:55

Seems to.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:58

Well, there's not much we can do about it, so we just gotta keep on going.

SPEAKER_10 1:16:02

She takes a deep breath. She's really trepidatious because her entire being is devoted to magic and the casting of magic. She's really possibly useless on the other side, and she just walks through the barrier.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:15

I not much we can do, that's I think, right?

SPEAKER_10 1:16:17

There's nothing else we can do.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:18

I I pause you for a second. I go, more information for you to calculate. I just tried to use my ability to read people's.

SPEAKER_10 1:16:26

It didn't work, did it?

SPEAKER_04 1:16:28

I felt something stop me.

SPEAKER_10 1:16:30

Yes, that's the same thing that I felt when I tried to talk to her with message.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:34

Does that mean I'm innately magical? Just something for you to think on.

SPEAKER_10 1:16:40

What about everything you can do makes you think that it's not innately magical in nature? Don't understand any other truth. Clearly. I just do it. I know.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:51

That's the honest truth. Delphine, I don't honestly.

SPEAKER_10 1:16:54

Yes, you are innately magical in nature.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:56

That's something to figure out. And I keep walking.

SPEAKER_10 1:17:00

Dolphin rolls. That's something to figure out because that was very obvious to her this whole time.

SPEAKER_12 1:17:06

You walk for a little bit, and you come across a what looks to be like a uh somebody that was traveling through. It looks like they were running back and had been killed. Right? Almost getting almost getting to the end. By what? I I no, there's nothing there except for the skeleton.

SPEAKER_09 1:17:33

There's a dead body.

SPEAKER_12 1:17:34

So there's no markings or anything else. No markings on it, no. Okay. So it's been here. It must have been here a while now if it's a skeleton.

SPEAKER_10 1:17:41

Does it have any obvious, like punctured by a bolt of crossbow bolt or something?

SPEAKER_12 1:17:47

Uh it does have a large gash across its back. But you you can only tell because the clothes are torn. Does it look like a singular gash or like three marks, or how does the gash look till even bone? It just looks like a slash. Hit by a single hit. Okay. You're not able to ascertain that. Okay. Something's down here anyway. I guess we better keep it. Is this a result of a track?

SPEAKER_04 1:18:12

The clothes? Because I just want to see if roll investigation check on the body. So I just want to see if this is the kid who we were the blacksmith. The blacksmith's good thought.

SPEAKER_10 1:18:23

Can I help him investigate?

SPEAKER_04 1:18:25

Yeah, you can give him a chance. Okay. Oh my god. Not good. No.

SPEAKER_07 1:18:29

Oh, even with advantage.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:33

Sorry, we want to get the crap goals on the way.

SPEAKER_12 1:18:35

Uh investigation, right? Yeah. Uh a four. You're not really able to tell if this is the guy or not. It uh he's too mangled. Okay. He does have a backpack on him, though, and you are able to pull the backpack kind of off him, and as you do, a couple items fall out of the backpack. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:18:55

We got paper? Are we gonna paper?

SPEAKER_12 1:18:59

Physical item in game.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:00

Nothing better. I'll tell you guys what it's gonna be.

SPEAKER_10 1:19:04

I get way too excited about actual items from the D.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:08

This is he's got multiple pieces of paper in this envelope for us. This is cool!

SPEAKER_10 1:19:13

We have more things to get.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:15

Just so listeners know what's going on. This is cool. Nothing for you. It is supposed to meet I finally get some.

SPEAKER_12 1:19:22

These pieces of parchment fall out of his bag. Oh, cool. Cool. I pick them up.

SPEAKER_07 1:19:31

Is a dwarf body?

SPEAKER_12 1:19:33

It is a dwarven body.

SPEAKER_07 1:19:34

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 1:19:35

Cool.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:35

So I'm looking at him trying to figure out. So it's probably a puzzle of some sort. Uh for now I will put it in my and I will figure this out. You won't show about this paper, but right now I will. What is that? Can we see it? Well, it's nine-piece paper with symbols on it. Lay it out for us, sir. We're in a freaking cavern.

SPEAKER_10 1:20:02

Why don't we just look at this?

SPEAKER_12 1:20:04

I lay out a blanket for you and put it on. It's it is uh ancient Dwarven. Oh, I don't speak Dwarven. Does anybody speak Doran?

SPEAKER_10 1:20:12

I mean I have comprehend languages, but it's another ritual.

SPEAKER_12 1:20:15

These are it's not the Dwarven language, these are Dwarven ruins. Runes. We're gonna attempt to attempt to interpret them or not.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:23

I have no idea if that's are you smart enough for that?

SPEAKER_10 1:20:26

Here's a thought. I don't know if you're prepared for it or if either of you prepared for it. We have a dead body and we have a skull.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:34

Good point. I've got a bag of holding. You know what?

SPEAKER_10 1:20:40

I can speak to him. That's a good idea. Yeah, that's a very good idea. Do we want to find out what this guy was doing? What he was running from. What was his name?

SPEAKER_04 1:20:54

I can do that. I can cast speak to.

SPEAKER_10 1:20:59

I know it apparently will be difficult. We'll find out, I guess. What would you rather? Would you rather do it or would you rather me? Jerk in. We can both guide each other.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:09

That's true. Well, we'll see on how this goes first if I cast guidance on all the ending.

SPEAKER_12 1:21:15

Okay. Okay. Well, roll me an intelligence, at least.

SPEAKER_10 1:21:19

Him or me? Whoever's getting away. He's casting guidance first. He's got casting his guidance first. Okay, you cast your guidance. Isn't that just an automatic though? Is that straight or? No.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:31

Why are you rolling things?

SPEAKER_10 1:21:32

I thought guidance was just an automatic.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:34

I'm doing a spell. It's a spell. Oh never mind. You try to cast your spell.

SPEAKER_10 1:21:40

So he has to cast to see if it'll even go through.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:43

Period.

SPEAKER_10 1:21:44

It was to cast to see if it can be bonus.

SPEAKER_12 1:21:52

Because it was cocked and then somebody hit the table and it might take it. Guidance does not go through.

SPEAKER_10 1:21:56

Okay. So I try to cast speak with dead and do not succeed because the roadlip too. Can I uh really difficult on that side?

SPEAKER_02 1:22:09

Can I make an investigation check?

SPEAKER_12 1:22:11

Like, are are these separate pieces of paper or do they look like tear marks? They are separate. Like uh each each square, each square of nine is its own piece. Got it. Can I make an investigation check or anything like that? Sure.

SPEAKER_11 1:22:24

What would you like to do? What would you like to investigate?

SPEAKER_02 1:22:26

I'm just trying to think if there could be a pattern that would put these in like a certain sort of uh configuration that might make most sense.

SPEAKER_12 1:22:36

Go ahead and roll it. Sure. So that's 25. Sure. Flip those things over. Wow. Okay, so there are stuff. Oh, wait, look at the other side.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:46

Oh, that would have been smart. Wow. I was gonna do this after we were done with the dragon, but whatever. Well, but it might be part of it. It might not be part of it.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:57

The guy's running away with paper. Yeah, but he had it, so he probably was using it to find something.

SPEAKER_10 1:23:04

I've I do not recall my ruins as to what order they should go in alphabetically. Does this mean anything to anyone? It does, but it can't I can't tell you to play or not to care after.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:21

It doesn't have any like thinking familiar with like the coin of Lthea, does it?

SPEAKER_10 1:23:27

Are you saying that allowed it?

SPEAKER_02 1:23:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:23:29

I have the coin, technically. No, you don't have to be a big one. No, actually, we did put it in the bag.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:34

I have no idea. Yeah. Does anything match up with the Alethea coin? I have no idea.

SPEAKER_10 1:23:38

We take out the Alethea coin.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:40

It's just a random guess.

SPEAKER_10 1:23:41

We are so fucked. Take the Alethea coin out of the bag of holding and I hand it to Rold.

SPEAKER_12 1:23:48

For those listening, it's a physical coin puzzle that he embodies. I don't have good enough eyesight. Can you guys seriously look at those?

SPEAKER_10 1:23:53

But there's glasses on, they're literally beside me.

SPEAKER_12 1:23:55

That actually makes this dark vision. That makes it worse.

SPEAKER_10 1:23:57

Actually, he's literally holding his glasses in the room.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:01

That's a really good point. In dark vision, he would only be able to do it. The problem is we have symbols.

SPEAKER_10 1:24:05

We don't have a way of putting them in proper order. Correct.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:09

Well, knowing Dwarven, it's actually hard to sort these out, unfortunately. And none of us speak in there.

SPEAKER_10 1:24:14

I mean, give me an hour to do comprehend languages. We do. We do legitimately have some of these runes on here.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:21

You're kidding me. Oh, of course we do.

SPEAKER_10 1:24:24

Yeah, that didn't work.

SPEAKER_04 1:24:26

No, it's not. The DM did not hand us this and that. To not be collected. I guessed. My bad. My bad.

SPEAKER_10 1:24:32

We're talking to the person who doesn't remember anything. Oh, I thought you meant me.

SPEAKER_12 1:24:36

Okay, well, before you get too far off track, the two are not related. But it's really fun. That could have gone along. I feel like it's something else. Delphine, I feel like it might be worth understanding what these are.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:05

I think everybody we don't have time for this. We need to do what we need to do. If we maybe get a moment to take short rest, or Nick, maybe think he had it on him. As he came in. It could be nothing either. An hour will not make a difference to our delving in this. We should take the time to explore this.

SPEAKER_09 1:25:25

I think it might be important.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:27

I will get outvoted and uh you guys do what you want to do. Ask your goddess about it. Maybe you should ask him my goddess.

SPEAKER_10 1:25:32

She might know about this! Calm down. No.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:35

You want to do this, you guys can deal with this. She wants to do this, and I trust her judgment. Then we'll take an hour and we will do it. Do we want to do that? I don't think we have time for this, but that's just me.

SPEAKER_10 1:25:46

I'm I'm not trying to be confrontational. I just want to ask, why do we feel that we need a rest? What benefit can we get from it right now? We haven't we don't need a rest right now.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:55

We don't want to rest. We nearly want to rest.

SPEAKER_10 1:25:57

No, what I was trying to say is if we have a moment where we do want a short rest, I can do the ritual then. Fine. I agreed. Okay. I I think it's important that we uh carry on. We just have to realize that any magic here is obviously really going to struggle. Neither Drucana and I her uh exceeding exceeding in anything we're doing. How far from the barrier are we?

SPEAKER_14 1:26:25

You yeah, you could turn around, it's like 30 feet away. You didn't go very far. We could just carry the body to the other side and then do speak with dad. Then diagram. There you go. That's a good idea. I got a bag of holes in it. We just want to do it later, too. I think that's a great idea.

SPEAKER_10 1:26:46

I would like to know what he was running from.

SPEAKER_14 1:26:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 1:26:51

Drag takes the initiative and Jesus.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:55

30 feet.

SPEAKER_10 1:26:56

Gently so the skeleton doesn't disarticulate.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:00

Uh sure. Gently the other side of the barrier. And then my character does this.

SPEAKER_10 1:27:14

The demonstration of on one side versus the other.

SPEAKER_11 1:27:19

I know the listeners are gonna see that, but all right. And so you guys are you do have the body on the other side now.

SPEAKER_10 1:27:25

Shall we try this again? I do not uh object to I honestly um I know that we each have a certain amount of ability to cast spells, and yours are far more essential than mine. I I don't mind to continue. I mean we all figure listen to it anyways. Okay, all right. So I will once again try to cast speak with dead. Are you wanting to guide me? Is this a is this I don't think we need that.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:55

Is this a spell slot or is that no guidance is a trip can't trip?

SPEAKER_10 1:27:58

Yes, can't trip.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:00

I'll put guidance in the space.

SPEAKER_10 1:28:01

Well, because you only need to cast do that to make sure you could cast the spell. We don't need to hang out the side of barrier. Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 1:28:09

Okay, true. So no, you don't need guidance.

SPEAKER_10 1:28:12

Alright. I need no guidance. I just I kneel down beside the corpse and I kind of run my fingers through its hair. Tesla. There's no hair. Okay, it's just a skeleton, so you said. Okay, I just I um put my hands. I I put my hands on either side of the skull and I say, allow me to hear, see, and know you. I shall honor you, carry you, and hold you with respect wherever I shall go. Please speak to me. Who are you?

SPEAKER_12 1:28:47

Brom dear storm. Brom dear stormbabe. Stormbabe.

SPEAKER_10 1:28:55

Was that the name of Storm Bay? Was that that wasn't the name I've been here for me? Okay. That's one. What were you running from?

SPEAKER_08 1:29:06

Great evil. What were they?

SPEAKER_10 1:29:14

What is the puzzle that you hold and how can we decipher it?

SPEAKER_12 1:29:19

Which one of those two questions would you like answered?

SPEAKER_10 1:29:22

Okay. How do we decipher the puzzle that you hold? What evils did we see down there? I'm trying to. I'm trying to see. Yeah, five reasons are okay. Yeah, two. What evils did you see?

SPEAKER_08 1:29:55

Oh great evil.

SPEAKER_10 1:30:01

Be more descriptive. You son of a stupid skeleton. Yes. What is the best warning that you can give to aid us in our endeavor in going in the mine not to leave it? To aid our safety while in the mine. Decipher the puzzle. Son of a nugget. Okay, so I I mean I answered your question. So we need to find the key. There's a key of the answer. Oh well, I'm sorry, monsieur. I did not um Yeah. Sorry.

SPEAKER_13 1:30:46

I put my hand on your shoulder. You did fun. Well, we know magical.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:50

So here, do you want to do your comprehend languages, or are we just trying to?

SPEAKER_10 1:30:53

It takes an hour.

SPEAKER_02 1:30:54

Well, yeah, you only have a very event. Isn't there a chance it'll fail if we go in there? Sure. It's up to you guys. This puzzle is awesome.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:02

We need to figure out the puzzle.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:04

Yeah. Delphine has the ability to potentially comprehend it.

SPEAKER_12 1:31:08

Why is there a debate? I don't understand you people sometimes. Fine. I'll have to wait the hour. Well, these are ruins, so this is not really the language. This is like uh these are arcane ruins. I know I didn't know that. Yeah. But Delphine would know that.

SPEAKER_10 1:31:20

It understands any written language that you see, but you must be touching the surface in which the words are written. Takes about a minute to read one page of text. Does not decode secret messages in a text or a glyph, such as an arcane sigil that isn't part of a rich.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:34

They're glyphs?

SPEAKER_12 1:31:35

Okay, these are considered glyphs. So I've looked at it a little bit and I'm like, you know what?

SPEAKER_10 1:31:38

I think this is a good thing.

SPEAKER_12 1:31:39

Yeah, you know you know not to waste your time. Okay. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:31:43

We'll just keep them handy. Maybe we'll see the markings on the walls or a statue. Maybe we'll see them etched in somewhere. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:50

So that's what we're doing.

SPEAKER_10 1:31:51

Giving us a hint. There's got to be a Is there anything on the guy's body? Can I search his body for anything? Can I see the map or anything again?

SPEAKER_12 1:31:59

Yes. Um I did already search.

SPEAKER_10 1:32:02

Oh, I thought he was searching for like to identify the guy. Uh it was up to the report.

SPEAKER_12 1:32:06

Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, then search the body. He didn't search the body. You go ahead.

SPEAKER_09 1:32:13

I just want to see if he has like a map. Like this guy was down here for a reason. Why was he down here? Did he have a map? Did he have something guiding him down here?

SPEAKER_12 1:32:24

14. 14? Plus anything?

SPEAKER_10 1:32:27

That's with my plus.

SPEAKER_12 1:32:28

Okay, you find this. He had that on him. Oh, there was something else on him, too. And you find this on him.

SPEAKER_09 1:32:43

Gabo.

SPEAKER_04 1:32:44

Wait, I see a pattern. Yeah, it's Seduko. Oh, I see a pattern. Seriously? Yeah, I see a pattern. What does Gabo mean?

SPEAKER_13 1:32:52

I'm not telling you. Oh, do you actually know?

SPEAKER_10 1:32:55

We are playing with puzzle pieces. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_13 1:32:59

A bit of a silence.

SPEAKER_10 1:33:01

Anyway, while you guys are fiddling with the puzzle, shall we go back in the hall?

SPEAKER_12 1:33:04

Yes.

SPEAKER_10 1:33:05

Yes. We need to carry on.

SPEAKER_12 1:33:07

Because we can't sit here for like an hour just to create a sound course. As you head back into the magical barrier, you come to a four-way junction. You can choose to go straight ahead. You can choose to turn to the left. You can choose to turn to the right.

SPEAKER_10 1:33:25

Or you can choose away.

SPEAKER_12 1:33:26

That's right. Or you can turn around and go back the way you came.

SPEAKER_10 1:33:28

Are there any markings on the walls, on the ceiling to give you any directions similar to what are on the puzzle we just found?

SPEAKER_12 1:33:36

There are not. Does anything look well like used more than others? Uh 917. 17? Yeah. Uh it does look like there's been movement and there's some scuffing on the walls that head to the left. I'll mention that to the group. It looks like something has probably passed through here recently.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:03

There's scuffing on the walls and stuff like that. Possibly the dwarf. Scuffing. What is it? Does it look like it's on the walls though, right? Yeah. Probably more likely some sort of creature, wouldn't it be?

SPEAKER_10 1:34:16

Chasing the dwarf, maybe.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:18

Oh potentially. So we should go that way.

SPEAKER_10 1:34:21

I say we go that way.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:23

I guess we can't tell up or down, so.

SPEAKER_10 1:34:25

There's no like wafting of wind one way or the other. It's all heard of the stagnant.

SPEAKER_12 1:34:30

No movement. No, that's not true.

SPEAKER_10 1:34:33

Exit sign pointing that way. You know what?

SPEAKER_12 1:34:34

That's not true, actually. There is air movement coming from the left. Sorry, from the right. From your right turn. So we should go. The right might go up.

SPEAKER_10 1:34:43

Is that the scuffed side?

SPEAKER_12 1:34:44

Nope. No, the scuffed is the left. So maybe left is down.

SPEAKER_10 1:34:48

I think we want to go down.

SPEAKER_12 1:34:49

Yeah, I think you're right.

SPEAKER_13 1:34:50

So I think we should go left because we're trying to get to the heart of the mountain, essentially.

SPEAKER_10 1:34:54

The heart of the mine. Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 1:34:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:34:56

Let's go down.

SPEAKER_13 1:34:57

Yeah. But then that breeze could be coming from the right.

SPEAKER_10 1:35:01

I feel like the breeze coming from steady, or is it sort of a steady?

SPEAKER_12 1:35:05

It's a steady.

SPEAKER_10 1:35:06

I feel like the breeze would come from below.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:08

It could be coming from below because that's coming from where the dragon might be.

SPEAKER_10 1:35:14

I would be inclined toward to go towards the breeze.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:18

Towards the breeze? That makes sense to me too. Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:35:22

We could all be wrong. We can always turn around. It's not a big deal. Can I make a nature check to see if there is any kind of if I have any inclination towards what would go down, whether the breeze would be leading us towards lower versus higher?

SPEAKER_12 1:35:39

I mean you can you could try, but your your logic is neither right, like a breeze would come from movement of air, so that could come from anything. What the hell do I think? Alright.

SPEAKER_10 1:35:57

The guy who lived in nines. That's a kid.

SPEAKER_12 1:36:01

Roll me a history check.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:02

Good move, buddy. A history check.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:04

Yeah, well, you're trying to remember, right? Oh my god. Okay, well that's not gonna go well. Well, that's actually not awful, so I don't I don't think I have any bonus to history. Except 14, I think. I think it's possible.

SPEAKER_12 1:36:13

Yeah, you remember that when you are uh you remember that in the cave system, you get more draft and more air movement from large open caverns. Okay. So I will mention that. So we go that way.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:26

So there's most likely a large open cavern if we go.

SPEAKER_10 1:36:32

So let's go that way.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:34

I mean, getting it that close. You never know.

SPEAKER_10 1:36:37

No, no, it's just that's just where the air is coming from.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:40

So if you go there, you might find a different Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:36:42

That's I I mean in logic that's way out goes.

SPEAKER_12 1:36:45

Okay. And yeah, I guess that's probably what we should do. Okay. So we're going right or left? Right. We're going towards that breeze. Okay, yeah. So you turn and you walk for about 50 feet, and it takes a sharp kind of a right, not a not a turn, but it takes a right like veering lists lazily to the right. And uh you come into an open cavern with a 80-foot gap and a crevice that is black. So deep, it's black. There is one rope bridge ricketedly going across. Is there a roof? That we can see. Is there a roof? No. It's a cavern, it's it's vast and open. How big is the how long is the bridge? It's uh well the the cav the gap itself is 80 feet long. Okay. So the bridge is roughly go about maybe five feet on either side, so let's say it's 90 feet. Okay. Does it look like there's any is it just a rope bridge? Yeah. So it's a uh there's a bridge. Basically, it's a piece of rope that goes across the cavern with two other pieces of rope on either side that you hold on to and you shuffle on the rope.

SPEAKER_10 1:38:10

How far can your echo go?

SPEAKER_12 1:38:13

A thousand feet.

SPEAKER_10 1:38:15

Could he carry a rope across? I don't believe so, but it can it interact with objects?

SPEAKER_05 1:38:26

Uh if you give it inputs, can it?

SPEAKER_03 1:38:30

If I gave it hitputs, maybe actually.

SPEAKER_10 1:38:33

So didn't we use it to like use a interact with a lever or something at one point?

SPEAKER_13 1:38:38

That was it could attack it. That was just a normal that was just a normal echo though. Yeah, it could attack stuff.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:43

So I could I could get across and then try to do something on my end.

SPEAKER_10 1:38:50

I'm just trying to think if we try and go across this rickety bridge, if we have a rope one of us is hanging on to on the other end.

SPEAKER_02 1:38:56

Exactly, if we tied two ropes together. Do we have a hundred rope?

SPEAKER_03 1:38:59

Do we have a hundred foot rope? Between us, two fifty is easily. Okay, well I could have my echo float across. You have three hundred. And then I could teleport the switch. Oh, yeah, exactly. I could have the echo go across, teleport switch, and then shoot somebody could easily shoot an arrow across, and then I could tie it on my end.

SPEAKER_10 1:39:21

Just just for like added safety for this bridge, right?

SPEAKER_12 1:39:24

Couldn't do that. Let's do that. Okay, you can have your echo go across the bridge? Yep. It floats, right? Yeah, it just floats across. Yeah. So it just flies.

SPEAKER_10 1:39:35

Real creepy, like the ghost guys in the mountain in Order of the Rings.

SPEAKER_14 1:39:39

Yeah. Yeah. He gets across to the end. He gets across to the other side safely. Okay. I would like to use a bonus action to switch places with him.

SPEAKER_12 1:39:49

Doesn't work. Oh, actually, no, roll an intelligence check. It's not a cast. So it is a magical thing though. Your echo is a mag your echo nate is magical. Okay. So any alterations and new things on echo on anything magical within the field has to be rolled. Okay.

SPEAKER_14 1:40:05

Hey Arnor, can you jump that far?

SPEAKER_01 1:40:10

I'm shaking my head at you going. Something's changed.

SPEAKER_10 1:40:15

Is that yes or no?

SPEAKER_12 1:40:16

It's check. No. Okay. Yep, you switch places with him. Natural 20.

SPEAKER_10 1:40:26

Nice. Minus one. Minus one. 19. Sweet.

SPEAKER_12 1:40:31

Sweet. You are able to switch places with him. Sh. It works. Alright.

SPEAKER_02 1:40:36

I uh say, I throw me a rope. Shoot an arrow across with a rope and try and so can we actually do that? We'll uh we'll it have Well you're it's not a magical item you're doing.

SPEAKER_12 1:40:49

You can definitely shoot a rope. Okay. I just weren't sure about the way it but uh you do have to tie the ropes together. Yeah, that's pretty easy to do. Everybody, and who's proficient in nature? Uh nature nuts.

SPEAKER_10 1:41:02

Me.

SPEAKER_12 1:41:03

Your ropes and nuts? Yeah. Joining two ropes together securely?

SPEAKER_10 1:41:08

I am excellent with nature. Anything nature, I am jam. That's my jam.

SPEAKER_12 1:41:13

Roll me a check. Anyone want to help? Strawberry.

SPEAKER_10 1:41:15

I want to I am not trained in nature.

SPEAKER_12 1:41:18

I want to train in me. I am not. I don't know who else can help with.

SPEAKER_10 1:41:22

Who else has any nature proficiency? Really?

SPEAKER_14 1:41:26

Well, I really don't need insight today, but I guess I didn't change it. So we have to.

SPEAKER_01 1:41:30

Uh actually I think I am trained in nature.

SPEAKER_14 1:41:32

No, I'm not.

SPEAKER_10 1:41:32

Okay, no help. So I am solo, but I get a 19. Perfect.

SPEAKER_12 1:41:38

Yeah, you know that you require what is known as a water knot to join two ends of rope together.

SPEAKER_10 1:41:44

So it don't get slippery during wet and wet?

SPEAKER_12 1:41:47

Nope.

SPEAKER_10 1:41:48

That's not that's not what a water knot is.

SPEAKER_12 1:41:50

That's not what it is. But yeah, you are able to join the two ends of the rope together. You now have a hundred-foot rope that can bear weight.

SPEAKER_10 1:41:55

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 1:41:57

I will shoot an arrow across then.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:59

Alright. Uh is there anything like that I can aim for that would uh I could like, you know, at least peg it into so.

SPEAKER_14 1:42:06

Don't aim for the echo knights where he is. Yeah, no, that's Drax.

SPEAKER_12 1:42:10

But I mean for Drax. Well, it's just because there's still a lot of weight on the rope. So I'm hoping what's your plan to get it across? It's 80 feet. That's quite a ways for it to carry because as the rope, as the arrow travels, the rope will get heavier and heavier and pulled back. That's arrow. That's exactly what I was getting. So what's your what's your plan? Well, I need to shoot it high enough to begin with, and I need to I'm hoping there's something that I can, you know, anchor it to as it hits. Is there anything across the way? Well, there is two uh wooden stakes that are on either side of the cavern, which the ropes are tied onto so that you can get across. Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:42:44

You just need to get the arrow across.

SPEAKER_12 1:42:45

Well, I do.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:46

Do they feel I exact I almost want to make sure that it's gonna almost like as it hits, if it's just grappling. Can we do that?

SPEAKER_10 1:42:52

Can we tie it off to something on our end? Like a grappling hook.

SPEAKER_02 1:42:55

That's probably not the worst idea. But there is those two stakes on our side that we just tie it onto once.

SPEAKER_10 1:43:01

But is there any staleg mites that we can tie it on to?

SPEAKER_02 1:43:05

Yeah, oh for sure. Yeah. So that's what we would need to do then.

SPEAKER_10 1:43:08

So tie it first on our end. Yeah, and then you shoot it.

SPEAKER_12 1:43:12

Exactly. Yeah. Okay. Uh roll me a shot. I gotta get steady aim high enough power.

SPEAKER_10 1:43:21

Very good time for steady aim.

SPEAKER_12 1:43:22

I will steady aim. That's a good idea. It's 25. Oh, yeah, that gets across. Okay. Okay. Grab the rope. You grab the rope. Okay. Tie it off. Alright. The rope is tied off. Okay. So we essentially just have another rope to go with the rope bridge? You have just another rope that is part of the rope bridge.

SPEAKER_10 1:43:42

Can I take like my belt and kind of loop it around me around our rope? So I belt it to our rope as a safety. You can. And then I'm going to go. I will try and go across because I don't want to go after him. He's really big.

SPEAKER_04 1:43:59

I'm going last.

SPEAKER_10 1:44:00

So I'm gonna I will try to go first.

SPEAKER_04 1:44:02

Yeah, I will go last because I'm gonna get too all go last.

SPEAKER_10 1:44:05

Can I, in case I need to do any kind of acrobatics check, invoke blade song? It's not a spell, but it's sort of is it an ability? It's an ability as being a blade singer.

SPEAKER_12 1:44:17

Then yes, it is characterized as an ability.

SPEAKER_10 1:44:20

Bonus action to start blade song.

SPEAKER_12 1:44:22

No, you're not casting. No, it's uh start, does it say cast?

SPEAKER_10 1:44:27

No, um let me look it up. It just says start a blade song.

SPEAKER_12 1:44:32

It's not just it's a dance. Is it what a dance is?

SPEAKER_09 1:44:34

It's basically a thing.

SPEAKER_12 1:44:37

That's why I was looking up Drax's, and Drax's is magical. That's why I had to make that call.

SPEAKER_10 1:44:43

But if yours is not magical and it's a just because it gives me advantage on acrobatics checks if I need to while I'm in blade song.

SPEAKER_12 1:44:50

Yeah, I'm allowing it.

SPEAKER_10 1:44:50

Okay, so I will start a blade song, it's gonna last one minute and I'm gonna start making my way across the Rickety Bridge.

SPEAKER_12 1:44:55

Okay. You make your way across the Rickety Bridge. Just fine. You get halfway.

SPEAKER_02 1:45:01

I get halfway. I wanted to look at the walls.

SPEAKER_12 1:45:03

Anyway. What do you want to look at? The walls to see if there's any sort of thing that's gonna like shoot out or destroy our bridge or anything. Yeah, why don't you roll this in? Uh that's uh 12. You see nothing. Okay. Delphine, you get halfway across the bridge.

SPEAKER_00 1:45:18

I get halfway across the bridge.

SPEAKER_12 1:45:20

There's a loud crack. As you see the support beam crack at the base. On our side? On your side. I grabbed it.

SPEAKER_10 1:45:35

It's tied to a stalagmite. Our rope is tied to the side.

SPEAKER_12 1:45:38

Your rope is tied to a stalagmite. Yeah, but on the other side, is it tied to a stalagmite on the side of the original? Drax had it. Drax had it. No, I would have tied it to, I assume, the bridge thing. Whatever would have been closest to me. That one is not collapsing. Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:45:53

It's one of it's the bridge beam on our thing.

SPEAKER_12 1:45:58

You grab it, roll me a strength jacket. Can I support him in this endeavor? Try to grab it with him or him. Um advantage. Yes, you can. Give him advantage, yes.

SPEAKER_10 1:46:09

I'm glad I went first and not him. Garbage.

SPEAKER_12 1:46:12

What is your role? You grab it and it slips out of your hands and tumbles down into the cavern. You feel your legs give out underneath you, but your belt I did that. Holds true on the rope that you have tied. Right? Jesus Christ. So we still have the other two ropes. Just the one is gone. Nope. The beam that was holding the rest of the bridge has collapsed and fallen down. You now just have the one rope that is attached to the beam. Our rope. Your rope that is attached to the beam that is attached to a stallignet on the other side of the.

SPEAKER_03 1:46:58

Oh, you have seen this. Seeing this. I'm gonna try to secure this a little tighter.

SPEAKER_10 1:47:05

While I'm still hanging over the camera.

SPEAKER_03 1:47:09

No, no, no, no. Go! I'm keeping it tied on that thing, but with like the excess, I'm like gonna wrap it around my arm and like sit down.

SPEAKER_10 1:47:18

I'm gonna kinda like pushing myself so that I can like Spider-Man pull myself along the rope to the other side.

SPEAKER_11 1:47:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:47:26

I'm gonna wrap my legs around the rope too.

SPEAKER_12 1:47:28

You make it to the other side. And I bring my echo back to me. Okay, you and Drax are now together on that side.

SPEAKER_10 1:47:34

Okay, just to be careful. I'm gonna take my featherfall scroll out and just have it ready.

SPEAKER_12 1:47:40

For you or for somebody else. Yeah. Whoever is next. I'm going last.

SPEAKER_02 1:47:46

You're going last? Well, I'm the biggest guy.

SPEAKER_10 1:47:48

I'm just gonna shout. I don't know, should I shout?

SPEAKER_12 1:47:51

I think you should shout. No, I'm gonna show you. I already did shout or shout a person.

SPEAKER_10 1:47:54

I'm gonna message Oleander. Tell everyone to tie their belts to the rope. Fucking hell, we gotta tie our belts to the rope. Okay. And then so I'm on the side with you. Is there a stalid mite anywhere nearby? Like I have an eight strength. I can try and help you hold the rope.

SPEAKER_12 1:48:14

Drunken, what is your weight? Well, I got like the pole. Oh, that's not that bad.

SPEAKER_02 1:48:21

I guess it depends how much the rope holds. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:48:25

Does anyone know? No. Who's next? I was pausing. Noticed something as the things broke over and reached for it and he touched the side of the of the of the cavern. Okay. He felt his hand sticking to him actually. So it's now testing this. Sticking to what? The wall. Naturally sticking to the wall. Okay. I switched to the spider plant, remember? Oh, that's right. So I'm gonna turn to Oleander after doing a little bit of this and go. I have an idea.

SPEAKER_12 1:48:57

Wait. I go looking for the nearest wall. There is a wall. It's on the far, far side. There's two walls. Like it's a it's a cavern, right? Yeah. So you would have to go to the end. Where we came in. No, no, you'd have to go to either end of the crevasse, which goes on for a long time. What about the wall behind us, though? Like where we came into the area, there's one taking. Yeah, yeah, there's a cavern behind you. Yeah, you but uh you could just climb.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:23

In the end, there's going to be a roof.

SPEAKER_12 1:49:24

Yeah, there is. There is, for sure. I notice.

SPEAKER_04 1:49:28

He touches something because he's tries sticking to the wall again. Okay. And notices that he can climb.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:37

He ships right into it, somehow adhering into it. I look to you and I say, climb on, hold on around. I think I can go up and over.

SPEAKER_10 1:49:47

Alright, Oleander uh kinda gives him a little bit of a piggyback to see if he can comfortably climb first before we go over any.

SPEAKER_02 1:50:00

Rope to tie yourself on in case you happen to let go by accident.

SPEAKER_10 1:50:03

Man, you have no idea what kind of grip I got.

SPEAKER_01 1:50:05

I tried to actually rather the piggyback is pointing. Rather than a piggyback, I try to pull you out of the front. I'm gonna be going upside down. I can belt it. I don't know how, but I can stick right into the wall.

SPEAKER_12 1:50:18

You've got the strength to be able to carry her, so we can't fall. Well, you're still gonna have to roll to maintain it. Absolutely. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:50:26

Alright. I I take uh take a length of uh of uh belt and I just kinda clasp it around our waists together to hold me to him.

SPEAKER_12 1:50:38

And I will begin just doing my normal. So going up and over the cavern, this is gonna be like almost 500 feet in distance. Yep. So it's quite a ways.

SPEAKER_01 1:50:45

Endurance check. I'm gonna do this shit.

SPEAKER_12 1:50:47

Yeah, so it'll be uh strength check over an endurance check. So we'll just do one rather than do five. Uh so we'll just make it great a greater pass for the endurance.

SPEAKER_11 1:50:58

So you get a pass to be able to carry her for that distance, and then you gotta pass the endurance to be able to stay non-fatigued for that distance.

SPEAKER_01 1:51:06

May I expend a rage to have my advantage on it at some point? When I feel tired, spending my rage to uh get the surge to try to push past it. Well, rage only lasts for six seconds. I know, but it gives me a but it gives me an advantage on the on the strength check, so using that for that moment when I feel tired, trying to push past it. I'll expend the rage, I'll lose the rage, absolutely. But it's six seconds of me being merger.

SPEAKER_04 1:51:29

100%. I would like to do that to give myself the chance to do it because it's worth it to try to push through for us. Would rather have you blow your rage on this.

SPEAKER_01 1:51:36

Well, I'm glad I blowed because I was a one on that, but the 19 does really good.

SPEAKER_12 1:51:42

Yeah, the 19 does good, so you're able to maintain your endurance. Now roll a strength check. 20. Yep, you got it. So you're able to easily get Oleander across. Your rage does give out six seconds into it, but you are able to muscle through it, get her over to the other side. 500 feet, you come down the cavern wall, you are spent. I will take time to sit. Sweating. Heaving hell. So now we have to get you to sexy life. Oh, yeah. So how how how I'm gonna test how tight the rope is. It's I mean, it's it's tight because Dirac's is on the other end holding it with all he has. Oh, okay. That just seems a little bit more than a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:29

And on our side it's the thing with tight rope blocking, but I mean robot. Yeah, I've got acrobatics. I I it's not something.

SPEAKER_10 1:52:39

I would prefer you shimmy and belt it. Okay, I'll do shimmy.

SPEAKER_12 1:52:43

All right, I'll just shimmy, okay. Uh shimmy. Okay. Uh yeah, go ahead, shimmy. Roll uh roll me in uh acrobatics, Jeff. Acrobatics? Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_02 1:52:56

Uh 15.

SPEAKER_12 1:52:57

Yeah, you're good. You get across. Uh it's there's a couple of moments there where you can hear the the pillar cracks. Oh, jeez. But it doesn't give way you're able to get across with your lightweight. Yeah, yeah. I don't weigh that much. I'm probably wearing close to same stuffine, I guess.

SPEAKER_07 1:53:13

No.

SPEAKER_12 1:53:13

Oh man.

SPEAKER_13 1:53:17

I don't know what you wear. I guess I don't know what you wear. That was a look at disdain. No.

SPEAKER_02 1:53:22

You never ask a woman to you like a muscular tyfling.

SPEAKER_09 1:53:25

No! I have a strength of eight. I'm a dancer.

SPEAKER_12 1:53:31

Right. Everyone's across except for one.

SPEAKER_04 1:53:33

Except for this guy. Except for the healer. Get your fishing rod ready. Yeah, I was like, how the hell are we getting this guy? You could. Oh.

SPEAKER_10 1:53:40

I can try.

SPEAKER_04 1:53:41

You could try it. And then if it doesn't work, then we can try something else. But I'm with that cracking on the pillar. Me at USD 160, me 120 pounds heavier. I don't know.

SPEAKER_10 1:53:55

I want to try to cast vortex warp on Drukin.

SPEAKER_06 1:53:59

Okay. Should we see if there's any even any point? Can we like walk a little further and see if this is leading anywhere? What if this just literally leads outside?

SPEAKER_00 1:54:07

Go ahead.

SPEAKER_12 1:54:08

Sure.

SPEAKER_00 1:54:08

Before I cast.

SPEAKER_12 1:54:09

Yeah, I'll walk a little bit further down the cavern, not too far. Okay, so you do walk a little bit further and you come to a through a dead end with two ways to go. Okay. You can go left and you can go right. It looks like this leads further into the cave, but it's not like we're leading right to the surface or anything. Yep. Go ahead and roll me an intelligence check, Delphine.

SPEAKER_10 1:54:33

Um, is that cocked or next seven?

SPEAKER_12 1:54:36

Yeah, it looks like mine and then.

SPEAKER_10 1:54:38

Maybe give it a jiggle.

SPEAKER_12 1:54:39

If it's cocked, we're rolling. Now that I know you can do that, you could have just like come from the roof and like swing them off the room. 15. 15?

SPEAKER_04 1:54:46

He's heaving going, I could try.

SPEAKER_02 1:54:49

Possibility. Didn't know I could do that. Okay, well, shrugs. Right? It's one or two seconds versus uh.

SPEAKER_04 1:54:58

I guess I will try and cross the rope. Okay. There's nothing else I can do.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:04

I'm gonna yell across my freaking hell.

SPEAKER_04 1:55:10

How much can you pull?

SPEAKER_06 1:55:12

I'm pretty strong. He's pretty strong.

SPEAKER_14 1:55:15

Got 23 strength.

SPEAKER_10 1:55:18

Could you just tie your end of the rope to you and you just pull him up?

SPEAKER_14 1:55:24

Well, there's also five of us.

SPEAKER_02 1:55:25

You could collectively pull him. Well, the question is which side does the he break to on the rope? Does he go back to the start or does he fly back if it snaps?

SPEAKER_13 1:55:33

Why doesn't he just cross it with a belt?

SPEAKER_01 1:55:38

Breathing heavily, Sidar says, your idea's not bad. I could hang above him with a rope as a safety.

SPEAKER_12 1:55:45

No, you're that's spent. You're not doing that again. Yeah, and I might almost.

SPEAKER_10 1:55:49

Do you want to just try?

SPEAKER_04 1:55:50

I'll try. I'll have to I'll take my I guess my belt and I'll wrap it around. And I will start crossing.

SPEAKER_02 1:56:00

I mean, if Drax is holding the other side on with that, I mean we do yeah, like so one side's on a stalap. The one on our side is here. If it broke, he would at least swing because it was people.

SPEAKER_10 1:56:11

We'll just don't hang onto the rope. No, that's what we're doing. I think we elevated stripes. If it breaks, we'll pull them up. It doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_04 1:56:17

We don't care weight about it. This will be dramatic. Let's do this. Yeah, so that's what we'll do.

SPEAKER_10 1:56:21

We do like the tug-of-worse dance where we're all like basically sitting on our butts on the ground. We've wrapped our hands around the room.

SPEAKER_04 1:56:28

I love this plant. I'm excited to be a part of it.

SPEAKER_11 1:56:32

Right, so you start going across, and then yep, all of a sudden the the beam, which is taking most of the weight, breaks and falls off.

SPEAKER_12 1:56:40

And that's on your guy's side, which is good. Look, he's holding it, though. He's holding the rope.

SPEAKER_10 1:56:44

We're all we're all holding it. We're holding it.

SPEAKER_12 1:56:46

Who are the top three strongest that are holding it? No, okay. The men. All three of you roll a strength check, please.

SPEAKER_10 1:56:54

Oh, but you have spider climb. Can you just like stick to the ground?

SPEAKER_12 1:56:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:56:57

So that he doesn't budge?

SPEAKER_12 1:57:00

Or is that spent? Yeah, but it's not going to change his strength. We'll change the straight up strength. But I rolled it in strength check here. Strength or athletic. Strength.

SPEAKER_04 1:57:08

Okay. I'll take either. They're both good. Uh I got nine plus six. 23 for me. Because this isn't athletics, right? It's not really strength.

SPEAKER_12 1:57:16

You just try to sit there. It's basically organ. Yeah. This makes embrace it and pull it right in front. You're grip and not slip. 23. Uh 10. They're not very high. Yeah, I only got a plus one, so.

SPEAKER_02 1:57:29

Okay. It's not a matter, it's just strength.

SPEAKER_12 1:57:32

It's just strength, right? Because you're not doing anything holding. I agree. Absolutely. Totally. Okay, that's fine. The 23 saves you guys.

SPEAKER_08 1:57:41

Yay.

SPEAKER_12 1:57:42

So you're able to. It does slip, it does fall. You do feel yourself drop about 10 feet. But they are able to pull you up. But what I will get to are you?

SPEAKER_08 1:57:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_12 1:57:56

I will get you to roll a dexterity check to make sure that you are able to still hold on to the rope. Just be hanging by your belly.

SPEAKER_08 1:58:03

That's what's worse.

SPEAKER_12 1:58:05

Because I can tell you right now, my belt would not hold me up. Absolutely. 100% up.

SPEAKER_10 1:58:09

That means very dainty. Her belt holds her up.

SPEAKER_12 1:58:13

Fine.

SPEAKER_14 1:58:14

No, I rolled a seven. Oh, that's oh geez, okay. Plus your strength. Plus your strength.

SPEAKER_12 1:58:19

Okay. Plus your strength. Dexterity. So dexterity check. Because he's got a whole thing. You have no dexterity. It's not an acrobatics or anything. So your your hands let go of the rope, but your belt holds you momentarily. Right? You guys see this. Drunken's now hanging by his belt, and it's starting to break. Okay, you reach up, you grab the rope, you start pulling yourself back up again. Getting your legs around it. Get your legs around the rope. And you are able to get yourself up over the side of the cliff. You're on solid ground. Sorry, guys.

SPEAKER_09 1:58:52

Well, you know, you made it. You made it. You made it.

SPEAKER_12 1:58:54

Well, we're not going back that way very quickly. I was just about to bring that. Hopefully there's another way back. Yeah. Um well I can get over Rudolph Well, as you guys all kind of lie on the side of the cliff and you're panting a little bit, at least one obstacle's been covered. And we're gonna take a short break there. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:59:14

Thank you for joining our adventures. Check back to see where we end up next.

SPEAKER_11 1:59:18

Alright, so you are on the other side of the cavern.

SPEAKER_00 1:59:21

By this go to our teeth.

SPEAKER_12 1:59:23

As you kind of stand up, you can see that there's the exit that Rold has already pointed out, that you can walk to the end and either take a left or right. What would you like to do? Do we still where is that do we have have a breeze coming from one of those two sides? No, the breeze was coming from the cavern that you're currently in.

SPEAKER_10 1:59:40

Does it look like there's been any passage?

SPEAKER_12 1:59:43

Uh roll me an investigation check.

SPEAKER_10 1:59:45

21.

SPEAKER_12 1:59:46

21? Uh so it doesn't look like there's any um movement or passage on either of these walls. But there is footprints that go to the right.

SPEAKER_10 2:00:01

I'll point those out. Footprints to the right.

SPEAKER_12 2:00:03

I mean go right. How fresh are those footprints? I'd like to do a survival check on that.

SPEAKER_10 2:00:08

Well, in my investigation, I probably would have picked up.

SPEAKER_11 2:00:12

Yeah, I mean you can do uh whoever wants to do it, survival investigation doesn't bother me. Investigation you found the footprints.

SPEAKER_08 2:00:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 2:00:20

But the uh the uh the survival would have to be the one that gives you the most idea if the footprints are new or not.

SPEAKER_12 2:00:28

Trained.

SPEAKER_08 2:00:29

I am nice.

SPEAKER_12 2:00:32

I do believe I failed. What did you roll? I rolled low enough. Or seven. Okay. Total. So yeah. Um they you can't tell if they're not.

SPEAKER_10 2:00:44

Well. Regardless, the last person that had been here had been months ago, we suspect so.

SPEAKER_02 2:00:49

Are they facing words or are they going down?

SPEAKER_10 2:00:53

Before we leave this cavern area, is there a stalagmite on the other side now that we could, if we need to go back, tie this rope off to? Yeah, there's stalagmites everywhere, but you'd have to tie our uh the rope on the other end off to a stalagmite just in case we need to come back. What if we need our rope?

SPEAKER_01 2:01:12

Could care.

SPEAKER_10 2:01:13

There was only a hundred feet of rope.

SPEAKER_04 2:01:14

I could use that rope. I could just head back across, tie a rope off, and come back over with that rope. No, that is not extraneous. Yes.

SPEAKER_10 2:01:26

We don't have that many ropes.

SPEAKER_13 2:01:27

We should just put it in the bag of holding and move on. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 2:01:30

Well, how do we get a little bit more? Well, I think we can just do the same trick. Quite bad.

SPEAKER_02 2:01:33

Unfortunately, the rope broke from the other side because I felt the the power rope is still in the room.

SPEAKER_10 2:01:43

We'll just leave this one here and you can send your echo to get it if we need to come back to it. I'm surprised, Delphine's overthinking.

SPEAKER_03 2:01:49

On that note, I can have my Echo explore the other one at least to a thousand feet. Sure. Um, like the non-footprint one.

SPEAKER_12 2:01:56

Cool. That's a great idea. How big are the footprints? You failed your nature check. Cool. Or survival check. Yep, no. Survival check, sorry.

SPEAKER_04 2:02:03

Very, very fair.

SPEAKER_12 2:02:04

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 2:02:05

Yeah, if you want to send your echo down one side, we'll go down the other. You could just go a thousand feet.

SPEAKER_10 2:02:09

Buddy system will someone lead you down with us, and you can look through your echo, right?

SPEAKER_03 2:02:14

Yeah, like I'll have blind sight 10 on my dragon proper, but um, I can have my echo go down, you'll have like dark, you know, dark vision just.

SPEAKER_00 2:02:23

One of us could just like leave.

SPEAKER_03 2:02:24

We could just leave guide dog me too. Yeah, that's a very good idea. Uh so DM, I'm gonna send the echo, the non-footprint path, um, down it to see what I see. Okay, you see.

SPEAKER_12 2:02:35

And I can get to about a thousand feet before uh I can't go any further. Okay, you come to a uh a large round circular room that doesn't appear to have much in it. Uh, it does have a door that leads off to the right and a door that goes straight.

SPEAKER_13 2:02:54

And we get when we get both the doors are shut?

SPEAKER_12 2:02:57

Uh no, sorry, there are there are doorways. Oh, doorway, yeah. Sorry. Is that a thousand feet or have like already hit that thousand feet? No, you haven't hit yet. You could continue to go if you wanted to. Okay, then I'll do the left one. You're gonna go right or straight? Straight. Straight? So you go straight another about another 50 feet or so, and you come to a square room that has a left, uh, straight ahead doorway, or a turn to the right. I will go straight. You go straight, you come to another circular room, uh, about another 50 feet away, and you can turn left or straight. Left or straight? I go straight. So you go straight, you come to uh catacombs. What is a catacombs? It's like a burial area. Uh, what's the word I'll look for? Not catacombs. Tombs. Tombs? Tombs of dwarves. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 2:03:53

So while I'm coming to these tombs and catacombs, I am telling the group what I have seen.

SPEAKER_14 2:04:01

Okay. So literally just saying, you know, that first intersection, it's like I could go straight or right, I went straight. Those were my options. And then same thing with the so they they have at least an idea of what intersections I've come across until getting to the burial. Does the burial ground look to be disturbed at all?

SPEAKER_03 2:04:22

Is does it look like there's like royalty dwarf? Is this like what you know the the king's family used to use back in the day?

SPEAKER_12 2:04:30

Like, what is this? Um, it does look like royalty. They or anybody that has died in the caverns has been buried here. So when they were building it, when they were designing it, if somebody if a dwarf died during the process or somebody died up top, this looks like a place where they have brought them to lay to rest. And no, it does not look like it has been disturbed at all. Okay. You can go, you still have about another 500 feet if you want to keep going with your Echo Knight. Okay. Uh yes, I do.

SPEAKER_14 2:05:02

Um, so okay, hey, getting to the burial grounds at this point, it's like a cavern, so it's just like squalls past past the burial.

SPEAKER_12 2:05:09

Like the burial is like a dead end, essentially. Not really, like it it almost looks like a honeycomb, right? You've got a section that goes around the outside, another section that goes around the outside, and then another section with like a royalty area at the very end. But uh along the end of the royalty area, there's another pathway that goes like this, straight across either way, and you can either go left or you can go right. Okay, let's go there and go left. So you go left, so you turn left and you walk up basically that area weight, and you come to what looks like a workshop where there's been some building, creation of tools, uh ironwork, and smithing. Because your Echo Knight is not actually a creature, and you're just floating, nothing happens. Just float into the room. Okay. Do I see um an enchanted hammer in this area? Not in this area, no. Okay. Are there any corpses littered about that I've come across since starting this? Not in this direction, except for when you're in the tombs. You've got about another 150 feet. Okay. Well, let's uh keep going then. Well, so you do come to the end, there's stairs that go to the left and they go up. Okay, I go to the stairs and go up. Soon as you get to the top of the stairs, you realize that the stairs now go down. So they go up and then down? Nope. If you were to turn around, they would go down. Oh, okay. So I'm at the end then. You're at the top of the stairs. Oh, okay. But you can keep going, there's still another hallway. Sure, yeah, I'll go uh until I get to that thousand-foot limit. Okay, you just before you get to the T intersection of that hallway, you've reached your limit. Oh, okay. And I look down the halls, what did they look like? You can peek a little bit, but then all of a sudden the the vision starts to get a little hey hazy. It's almost like staticky. Okay. You start to lose contact a little bit.

SPEAKER_14 2:07:06

Alright, I am going to try to have my echo recreate the path back to to me. Like, so he's gonna go turn around and go the exact route he he went. Yep, and he he makes it back to you easily. Yeah, so I tell the group, I'm like, this is what I saw.

SPEAKER_12 2:07:20

If any of that sounds interesting to you, so it goes down, we go that way.

SPEAKER_10 2:07:24

Goes up goes up.

SPEAKER_11 2:07:26

So it goes upstairs, yeah. So he gets to the stairs, and then he goes up the stairs, and then when he gets to the top of the stairs, when he turns around, he notices that the stairs go down.

SPEAKER_12 2:07:35

Oh god. So that could be the exit. So we No, there I'm being a jerk. There the stairs go up one way, and when you turn around, they go down. Yeah, but it's if it's going up, is that the colour? Yeah, so there was a burial.

SPEAKER_13 2:07:51

And there was a number of intersections.

SPEAKER_12 2:07:57

So you're gonna go the way of the footsteps? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's a lock the way of the stair steps.

SPEAKER_11 2:08:01

Okay. As you get to the end, you notice that out of the rock, you can see that shimmer has ended.

SPEAKER_10 2:08:10

The the kind of stuff that we've saw.

SPEAKER_12 2:08:12

Yep, the shimmer that is uh preventing you from casting spells. Oh I'd like to do a check along the walls. I almost feel like we should stay in the shimmer. You know what I'm looking for.

SPEAKER_10 2:08:22

I feel like going out of the shimmer implicates that we are out of the zone where it's uh 21 if I not a cool.

SPEAKER_13 2:08:29

You want to just do passive for that? Is it tip? Okay, well then, yeah.

SPEAKER_10 2:08:37

Are we going through? I think we need to stay in the shimmer. Yeah. I think if we I think if whatever is blocking the area for safety or for security or just trying to keep people out is within the shimmer. Yeah, because if it's through the shimmer. And then I'm gonna do my what basically what he did with my familiar. I'm gonna look through Miram's eyes.

SPEAKER_12 2:08:59

Okay. Uh you send Miriam through the shimmer. So she flies out basically it's a quiet owl. It's a circular room that's 20 feet across, and halfway through the room, the shimmer line goes through the room. So one half of the room you're in the shimmer, the other half of the room you're not. So Miriam flies through that. Then there's a corridor that goes down to another big circular room that's roughly 30 feet across, which is outside of the shimmer.

SPEAKER_10 2:09:23

What do these rooms look like? Are they just big empty open rooms?

SPEAKER_12 2:09:25

They're just big empty open rooms that maybe have been some at some point have been used for storage, but at this point they're just vastly empty.

SPEAKER_10 2:09:32

Something came through here and it goes down. And Miriam down. I can only see through her 50 feet for 100 feet.

SPEAKER_02 2:09:39

True shame. So do we think we should stay in the shimmer area, or like do you think it's uh the none of our advocate?

SPEAKER_10 2:09:46

None of our my casting has worked in here.

SPEAKER_02 2:09:50

Yeah. Also, did the dwarves put this here, or did whoever took over?

SPEAKER_10 2:09:56

Either way.

SPEAKER_02 2:09:57

Either way, I think it goes down.

SPEAKER_04 2:10:00

And I think that the shimmers leaves the center for the dragon, and that's just might be worth asking Mr.

SPEAKER_10 2:10:08

Drax to go or you know the echo to go the other direction. Further than the Miriam can go.

SPEAKER_14 2:10:15

Sure, I can do a thousand thousand feet, may as well.

SPEAKER_10 2:10:21

We'll have Miram fly back.

SPEAKER_14 2:10:22

You guys just want the echo to go ahead?

SPEAKER_02 2:10:24

Or you want it to like literally try to search the hole? At this point, yeah. But I you know, obviously your echo won't set off any traps or anything, but yeah, so that's what exploring.

SPEAKER_14 2:10:33

Okay, then I go uh listening to the group, I send the echo forward. Same, same, you want to go where Miriam went?

SPEAKER_12 2:10:41

Yeah, like basically ahead of us down that path, going to you know, each intersection. Okay. So you do you send your you send your echo down, it goes to where Miram is in that big open room 30 feet, and then turns, and there is another exit that goes out to the left-hand side, and goes back, and your echo again walks through the shimmer again, back into it. Oh, so it's just a brief break. Just a brief break. Um, your echo walks into a large room, roughly 40 feet across, 80 feet wide. Um, there is a giant water wheel in this room. There is an underground canal of water that is got this water wheel that is free spinning with a uh three by three stone altar right in front of a water wheel. Okay, I tell that to the rest of the crew. What are we waiting for? What I'm seeing. I feel like this is probably our way that we need to go if there's somebody has cast another. You are at the so where you are standing, there is a dead end that you can go left or right. And you have all gone left. Both Mirim and the Echo Knight have gone left. Yeah. Oh, so you are at a you are at a dead end threeway. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 2:12:03

I'll send a mirror down the right.

SPEAKER_12 2:12:05

So a mirror will turn, go down the right, comes to the end of a corridor. There is a large oak door that is locked. That's really good.

SPEAKER_10 2:12:14

I say that.

SPEAKER_12 2:12:18

Are there any ruins or anything on the door? There is no ruins on the door. Is it green? The door? No, it is not green. Good.

SPEAKER_10 2:12:27

Do we want to go check the door out?

SPEAKER_12 2:12:28

Yeah, let's go check the door out. Seems like the right place to go.

SPEAKER_14 2:12:31

I can't open the door with my echo. No, but I can bring my echo back.

SPEAKER_12 2:12:35

I can investigate the door. You are still within the shimmer when you go to the right. So you head up to the right. Is that where you're moving to? Yeah, I'll be watching out for traps and stuff. Like, does this like a look like a crafted hallway, or is it just rough here? No, this is crafted. So this has been designed by the dwarves. Yeah, okay, I'm definitely gonna be watching out for drops. Okay, roll me an investigation check. Okay. Uh 26. 26, yeah. You get to the end of the hallway, there is a door, you look at the door immediately like, this motherfucker is trapped. Okay. Uh what does it look like? What is the mechanism? Or what can I see? You're not sure what the mechanism is, but you know that if you were just to grab the handle and try and force the door or try and break the door down, whatever mechanism there is would be tripped. Okay. So you would have to attempt to disarm it to figure out what it is. I guess I'm uh I let everyone know hey, don't touch Mr. Steph or something. So you are at the end of a hallway with a door.

SPEAKER_10 2:13:30

There's no markings or symbols on the door.

SPEAKER_12 2:13:34

Not on the door.

SPEAKER_10 2:13:35

However. Around it.

SPEAKER_12 2:13:37

Yeah, however, you do see some uh ruins around the stonework.

SPEAKER_10 2:13:43

Are they similar to the ones that we found on the puzzle?

SPEAKER_12 2:13:46

There are three that you see that are on the puzzle. Which three? I will tell you. Thank you. Which three. So you see these three symbols, the one that you got from the guy, and then the one that you got from the two that you see on the symbol. Now, what you notice is that the first symbol, which looks like a line with the two lines that go up, like an upside-down F. And uh who here speaks Dwarven? Dirax? Well, Drax can you? I I speak, right? No, I'm common elders or not orc.

SPEAKER_10 2:14:27

Because you said it wasn't a thing the comprehend languages would.

SPEAKER_12 2:14:30

No, but the the writing that is next to the ruin isn't Dwarven. Oh. So that does have Dwarven on it. Uh all three of them do, actually.

SPEAKER_10 2:14:38

Do we want to just try and do the door or do we want me to do the ritual? That takes an hour.

SPEAKER_12 2:14:42

I'll start looking at the trap of while you do that, I guess. May as well. Okay, so you're gonna look for trap. So you you know it's already trapped. Uh yeah, or what the mechanism is. Okay.

SPEAKER_10 2:14:53

Can you tell if it's magically you would you would only know if it's non-magically trapped, correct?

SPEAKER_12 2:14:57

Uh that's dependent on how the DM interprets it. In uh in anyways. It's non-magical. I will so what am I doing here?

SPEAKER_10 2:15:04

Disarm.

SPEAKER_12 2:15:05

I don't know, what am I rolling? You are, yeah, you're gonna attempt to disarm this. Slight of cane?

SPEAKER_10 2:15:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 2:15:10

Yeah. Slight of cane.

SPEAKER_12 2:15:11

Yeah, it would be a slight. If you use your thief tools, you're gonna try and disarm the trap. So let me just double check that. And I am have expertise in that, so. Uh roll, yeah. So it is not, it is a dexterity check. Straight of dexterity? Yes. Plus the proficiency of thieves tools. Yeah, which I'm expert. Which you should be already adding. I have expertise, so it's plus 14. Yeah, so dexterity check, yeah, go for it. 29. Okay. So you are fiddling around with this thing. Yeah. And who is standing in the vicinity of roll role while he disarms this check?

SPEAKER_10 2:15:47

None of us, because we're smart. I am busy looking at the puzzle. I was looking at the doorway.

SPEAKER_12 2:15:52

You were looking at the doorway. Well, I told people I'm I'm working on a app for the app. You were there? It's not like I'm doing nothing. It's pretty obvious as doing something near the back. Designer, you were just had your head down so. I'm back, I've got the puzzle out, I've been rearranging. You see, we wouldn't be nearby.

SPEAKER_07 2:16:09

He did tell us he's working on something.

SPEAKER_12 2:16:11

So you are farther. But Delphine, you are not? And then Drew and you are not?

SPEAKER_09 2:16:19

Well, I mean I wouldn't have been like super up close.

SPEAKER_12 2:16:22

Yeah, but you're you're within 10 feet of the door. Are you guys within 10 feet of the door?

SPEAKER_10 2:16:28

Well, I'm the one who found those symbols, so how close would I have to be for that?

SPEAKER_12 2:16:32

But as you're within 10 feet. Sure. So because you two are within 10 feet, you're able to see Rolde successfully discern the trap.

SPEAKER_07 2:16:38

Yay!

SPEAKER_12 2:16:41

That was a masterclass.

SPEAKER_04 2:16:43

I gotta get it. I mean, seriously, a 29 doesn't freaking work. I mean, like, that's a good one.

SPEAKER_07 2:16:47

Good job.

SPEAKER_04 2:16:48

No, that was fantastic.

SPEAKER_07 2:16:49

You get a very rare pat on the back from helping. Good job.

SPEAKER_12 2:16:53

So the door just goes and just opens. Okay. Inside, you see uh there are multiple treasure jests. And there are piles of gold. There we go. I think this just seems too easy. Well, we're not here.

SPEAKER_10 2:17:16

This is the dwarves violate their vault.

SPEAKER_02 2:17:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 2:17:22

We can violate it on the way up.

SPEAKER_02 2:17:25

I like to violate things. It's interesting those symbols were here, but yeah, I agree. I don't feel comfortable taking the things.

SPEAKER_10 2:17:30

Is there anything in here though with these same symbols?

SPEAKER_12 2:17:33

No, not in there. Okay. Is there another doorway in there or is it an enclosed room?

SPEAKER_10 2:17:39

With not enough necessarily.

SPEAKER_12 2:17:40

So hard to not to take.

SPEAKER_10 2:17:45

I am curious. Could I just peruse?

SPEAKER_12 2:17:49

Yeah, exactly. That's I agree. There's roughly about there's roughly 500 gold in this room. Okay.

SPEAKER_10 2:17:57

I want to look at interesting items, or is it just gold?

SPEAKER_12 2:18:01

For our currency in this world. It's a time. And what else do you look for?

SPEAKER_10 2:18:06

I just want to look because there's items in here. Oh, these. Did you voice out loud? Well, no, because that hammer wouldn't be in here.

SPEAKER_12 2:18:12

No, it was on it on these treasure chests are full of items.

SPEAKER_10 2:18:18

I just want to see things in I can look. We got my body. Look with your eyes, not with your hands.

SPEAKER_12 2:18:24

Let's not, yeah, let's not try and open anything.

SPEAKER_10 2:18:26

No, look with your eyes, not with your hands. What you tell children in stores.

SPEAKER_12 2:18:30

Okay. Are you opening the chests?

SPEAKER_09 2:18:32

No, I am not opening anything. I'm just looking.

SPEAKER_12 2:18:35

So there's not much out other than the gold and the jewels that are kind of resting on the shelves.

SPEAKER_10 2:18:39

Well, Delphine likes jewels.

SPEAKER_12 2:18:41

There's a couple uh diamonds skicking around. This just seems to be a good thing.

SPEAKER_10 2:18:46

Yeah, I don't think that we should be touching that. Yeah, this is this is the for the dwarves. If we are successful, maybe we'll have earned something. Maybe we'll have earned. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:18:56

I shut the door because I'm okay with that. Just because I mean, I'm not gonna steal from the doors. Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 2:19:06

Someone give me a look so you know I figure I'd say yeah. Uh but there look there's you can ascertain that there are probably items within those chests. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 2:19:14

I'm not gonna go jeopardize things by opening up chests that are probably trapped or mimics or something.

SPEAKER_04 2:19:20

Yeah, soon R's not a treasure greed, so he's not interested. Um focus on a puzzle. Okay. I think every time we stop, he pulls it up and then.

SPEAKER_10 2:19:29

Nothing will happen if we take it.

SPEAKER_12 2:19:31

What I think would would you be copying down the phrases that are on those rituals?

SPEAKER_11 2:19:37

Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_07 2:19:38

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_11 2:19:39

Right. So you have those. So when you are able to read Dwarven, you will be able to decipher those easily.

SPEAKER_12 2:19:45

Okay. I have them all. Right. Okay. Alright, so.

SPEAKER_04 2:19:48

Do you want to do your ritual for that and I'll carry you?

SPEAKER_10 2:19:52

Do you have to carry me?

SPEAKER_04 2:19:53

That's kind of funny. I don't know if you're when you're around while she's doing it.

SPEAKER_01 2:19:58

That's pretty funny, honestly.

SPEAKER_04 2:20:01

I think that's great. If you want to do your ritual, again, I love this. I'm excited to be part of it.

SPEAKER_09 2:20:08

Exactly.

SPEAKER_04 2:20:09

So you're stationary, but I carry you while we walk.

SPEAKER_09 2:20:13

Why not? I mean, it would be adorable.

SPEAKER_12 2:20:16

Why wouldn't it work? Why wouldn't it? Yeah. All you have to be doing is concentrating, and as long as he's carrying you. If the DM's on board, why are we even considering arguing against the water? Yeah, then you stop. But then we're walking. Okay, so you turn around and you see that the shimmer ends at the end of that hallway on the other side of that room.

SPEAKER_09 2:20:38

When we backtrack to the hallway.

SPEAKER_12 2:20:39

When you backtrack to where you're going. So now you're in that, now you'd see down the hallway, there's that room that's got the shimmer halfway through. Okay, well, now you didn't ask questions. Can I carry it?

SPEAKER_10 2:20:48

Well, no, because he's he's saying that I don't have to do an intelligence check if we sit in that non-blocking bulb.

SPEAKER_04 2:20:55

Well, yeah, but we have to sit there for an hour.

SPEAKER_09 2:20:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 2:20:58

Oh well.

SPEAKER_03 2:21:00

I can during the hour kind of scout out what's going on. Oh, that's true with my echo.

SPEAKER_09 2:21:05

Because then I don't have to like potentially fail on an hour worth of it.

SPEAKER_04 2:21:10

Patience on a dungeon crawl is not a bad idea. Yes. We did do that and you do ritual. You can use your echo. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_10 2:21:16

If everyone else has died, I feel like patience is a bit of a virtue.

SPEAKER_04 2:21:21

Just saying. That's not a bad idea.

SPEAKER_07 2:21:23

Let's be careful. Let's be careful that you're dead.

SPEAKER_04 2:21:27

I believe our DM did say know your shit and play your shit right, or I won't be graceful. So let's do that. We do a ritual outside of the shimmer.

SPEAKER_10 2:21:35

In the bubble of non-magical barrier.

SPEAKER_04 2:21:37

Yep. You use your echo to the show.

SPEAKER_10 2:21:39

Okay, so Delphine sits down, she pulls her candles, draws her little circle with chalk, and she sits and she starts a ritual for comprehend languages.

SPEAKER_12 2:21:47

Okay. And uh, Drax, you are going to move your echo up to a thousand feet, and I'm going to take whatever path goes right, and I'm gonna turn right whenever the option presents itself. Okay. Um the option does not present itself. Oh, are you going back the way you went the first time? Well, right now I'm with I'm with the group. Is there somebody that's like marking this down? No, which sucks. Okay. Actually drawing this, we have no floor. So if you go back the way you came from, you go right, your first ride available, you come to that large circular room that's 30 feet across, and you turn right, you go down, and you end up back in that puzzle room that has the uh the wheel in the water.

SPEAKER_10 2:22:33

So both ends lead to the same. That one does, yeah.

SPEAKER_12 2:22:37

Okay. But if you were to continue straight, that would take you to the square room that has the four-way that goes left, straight, or right. Yeah. Four-way. This is the one you previously went straight on. Oh, okay. So it's it's okay. We should write this stuff down, guys. Well, pull it your thing and do it. You're the one doing it. Have a pen or a pencil. Here's a pencil. Is it a blank piece of paper? You could also just write it on here. Right on the map. Oh that's true. You could draw the map if you go. Alright, so you are let's let's let's go back to where you're starting from. So draw yourself right by where you are. Right by right next to you, right in front of you.

SPEAKER_10 2:23:15

Directly in front of you, farther back. Farther back, farther back, farther back, farther back.

SPEAKER_12 2:23:19

Oh, like you're saying. Right in front of you. Right here. Draw a circle. Alright, circle in front of me. Okay, to your left, draw a pathway that goes up about 20 feet. Well, you don't have to draw it 20 feet, you can just draw yourself whatever. Yeah. And then draw another circle. That is the room that you were just in that had all the treasure in it. Treasure treasure.

SPEAKER_00 2:23:39

Just put a T.

SPEAKER_12 2:23:40

Okay. Okay. Back to the center circle where you're at. Yep. If you draw another about 10 foot corridor that goes to the right, that will take you outside of the shimmer into that other room that is a large storage room. Okay.

SPEAKER_10 2:23:57

No, is there anything in this storage room?

SPEAKER_12 2:23:59

Nope. Oh, storage room. Right. And then if that room, from that room, and you go straight up another 10 feet, this will take you to the water wheel room. Alright, so that is essentially where you are, and right now you are here. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 2:24:13

No, we're in the You're in the treasure room. No, because we we we were going, I'm doing between the shimmer and the bubble, in the bubble of magic.

SPEAKER_12 2:24:22

Okay, so there you are. So that's where you're at. Okay. And wherever you go from here, I will tell you where you have been. Heading to the wheel room, we we re-go back into the shimmer, right?

SPEAKER_08 2:24:31

Yes.

SPEAKER_12 2:24:31

Yes.

SPEAKER_14 2:24:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 2:24:32

Green is for account.

SPEAKER_14 2:24:35

Or else we're going to go. We're in a storage room. There's a water wheel up ahead.

SPEAKER_12 2:24:38

And it's actually a room. It's it's it's quite large, yep. Is there flowing water in this? There is flowing water and the wheel is turning. Okay, so there's like a river going through this room. There's a canal or a stream or something? Okay, and which way does it go? Uh it is flowing towards where the direction you are in, and the wheel is turning clockwise. So it has to be going down. The water water has to be going down, right? Is it going to ground or is it above? Like what do you see? He sees there is water. Yeah. It is dug into the ground and it is flowing, and the wheel is sitting in the water and is okay. Does it extend?

SPEAKER_14 2:25:17

Because you can literally just have the echo walk on water and walk down the water, right? They totally can. Yeah. Okay, so the water would be going this direction? Nope. The water is going towards you. Yep. This direction? Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 2:25:29

So just go like that for water. For these three areas that we kind of had my echo explore, were there any offshoot paths that I didn't go down?

SPEAKER_12 2:25:38

Yes. The middle one, the middle, well, no, sorry, the middle corridor. That is the direction that you came from originally. Technically, where you started was way over here in this area. Yeah, but there's like a chasm. Yeah, so this is where you're starting from now for your map, right? Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_10 2:25:51

Because when we came out of the cavern with the chasm, there was two ways to go. One way led down to the dwarven stream.

SPEAKER_14 2:25:57

This is a dead end here. Oh, I came from that way. Yep. Okay. Look at us making a map. There we go. Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 2:26:04

Okay, so which way other ways can we go? You can continue going straight. So I went past the cavern, which is where Drax's guy went. This leads all the way to those tombs and crap like that. Yep. Yeah. If you just keep going straight, straight, straight. Now you're at the tombs. And it's a dead end. No, the stairs to the blacksmith thing. There is, yeah, there is a uh passageway that goes across the far end of it. And it goes, yeah, it goes left and right. Sorry, the stairs went up, but they also the stairs turned to the left as they went up towards you, Drax. And then you came down another corridor to a dead end that was a three-way, so yeah, go left or right, and you were you were paused there because that was the end of your reach. That is as far as Drax has gotten. Yeah, the hour's done. You're good. Okay. Okay. So you're able to comprehend the languages.

SPEAKER_10 2:26:59

I have to touch the things that have the language on them.

SPEAKER_12 2:27:02

You do see the one picture. First of all, it says the first rune is the rune of the beginnings. That's the one with the uh the upside-down F.

SPEAKER_07 2:27:11

Yeah. The rune of the beginnings.

SPEAKER_12 2:27:13

Yep. The fifth rune is the ruin that binds, and that is the X.

SPEAKER_10 2:27:16

This is the fifth.

SPEAKER_12 2:27:18

Yeah. The last rune is the rune that guards.

SPEAKER_10 2:27:20

Guards, binds, beginnings.

SPEAKER_12 2:27:22

No, they have to. Did you make sure that like the letter's facing up? Yes, we've been very sure of it. Okay, so now that that has gone off, you are free to roll.

SPEAKER_10 2:27:31

We are free to roam. Where shall we roam, Drax?

SPEAKER_02 2:27:34

We are using you, and then we will physically go and check for traps.

SPEAKER_03 2:27:39

Well, so we found the treasure room. We found the tombs, we found the water thing, we found the blacksmith shop.

SPEAKER_10 2:27:47

Do you think we'll find more clues in the tombs of the blacksmith's store?

SPEAKER_02 2:27:50

We would think the blacksmith shop is going to lead in some direction towards wherever the forge was, right?

SPEAKER_10 2:27:56

It would make sense that it would it had some sort of connection.

SPEAKER_13 2:28:00

And the blacksmith led to a stair, so that's where we should go. Do we want to check paths that haven't been looked at?

SPEAKER_04 2:28:07

Well, I mean you still have the blacksmith to go up those stairs, anyways, and then that's as far as you were able to go with your echo. So there could be more going that way. Oh, absolutely. So that's where I think we should go because I think the closest to the forge to the dragon.

SPEAKER_13 2:28:20

Yeah. Might as well explore those other ones, though, just so we know, right? We're just making them shoot down the passages, right? Well, that's what that's exactly it.

SPEAKER_06 2:28:27

Yeah, so we could just worry if we want to worry about getting like monsters coming from some side flank of some sort. Oh, that's why if we go to the room.

SPEAKER_10 2:28:34

If we go to like the tomb room and stay there. And you keep sending the guy ahead, and we can inspect the rune. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 2:28:41

Okay, well, why don't we go to the tomb and then you can send that explore farther up the blacksmith room area?

SPEAKER_02 2:28:49

That's where I would go. Yeah, uh the when we we get close to the square room, I'm definitely watching for traps.

SPEAKER_05 2:28:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:28:55

Yeah, absolutely. I feel like the circles are gonna be safe. No, to the tomb room.

SPEAKER_13 2:28:59

Oh, just guidance is just oh god, even the tomb room. Yeah. Well, I I'm just going to be uh actively perceiving regardless. Okay, so we're heading to the tomb. Can you tell me what it is? Uh well, would you want my passive?

SPEAKER_11 2:29:11

It'll be your passive, yep.

SPEAKER_02 2:29:12

Yeah, my act sorry, it's for 19.

SPEAKER_13 2:29:16

Okay, yeah. We're heading to the tomb. Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 2:29:19

So pretty much the same as everyone else.

SPEAKER_10 2:29:20

Okay, Delphine is feeling a lot more comfortable in this bubble of magic and feels noticeably uncomfortable in the bubble of no magic.

SPEAKER_12 2:29:29

Okay, so as you're in this bubble of no magic.

SPEAKER_10 2:29:31

She shivers.

SPEAKER_12 2:29:32

You walk towards a tomb as you pass this room here, because now you are physically there, you can hear the low grumble coming from the left-hand side. I feel like you should send your heck up.

SPEAKER_10 2:29:54

Does it sound like breathing or like it just activity or sounds like there's movement.

SPEAKER_12 2:29:59

I think we should get into that tomb room first. I position myself between that passageway and the garden. I think we should go. Like, are you in that passageway? Nope, just between it. Anything coming out would hit me. I think we should all go to the tomb room first.

SPEAKER_04 2:30:12

And then see if it comes, see what's going on. I don't want to fight in a small area.

SPEAKER_10 2:30:17

Yeah. Okay. Sorry. So an advantage? Can you point again where the movement was coming from the left of the town?

SPEAKER_04 2:30:23

Because who knows what it is? Oh, from the week back down the hallway. I just need to be already. I don't want to be in a small room. Okay. Because I don't know what it is. It could be something crazy. I don't know. I don't want to be in a small room.

SPEAKER_06 2:30:38

We can go to the tomb room and I can send my echo right to it in the middle of the way. That's what I assumed you were going to see. We're already walking up there.

SPEAKER_04 2:30:44

That's why I'm saying let's get into the tomb room so that it's bigger, so we're not gonna be if it's if it's something that's the wash and we're all in a small room, we're fucked.

SPEAKER_02 2:30:54

Because I feel like the tomb room would be a perfect place for traps as well.

SPEAKER_10 2:30:57

So you said there are bodies littered around the tomb, you said?

SPEAKER_02 2:31:03

No, well, there's bodies in the tomb.

SPEAKER_10 2:31:05

But like they're they're all like appropriately. Yeah, they're all buried in in their own.

SPEAKER_02 2:31:12

Like if you don't f with the tombs, you're probably safe, but let's not assume.

SPEAKER_04 2:31:16

So I think we should just go in the tomb room and then send the echo down that way to see if you what you see down there. Works for me. Yep. They'll work. Yeah, very good.

SPEAKER_10 2:31:25

I'm very comfortable in the tomb room.

SPEAKER_12 2:31:27

Because I don't want to be in the small room if it's something crazy. Okay. Okay. So you send your echo down that that passage. Down the girl one.

SPEAKER_10 2:31:38

It's the other way, right?

SPEAKER_12 2:31:39

Well, the party is retreated to the tomb room? Yes. Apparently. At the back. All right. It's a smarter idea. So the uh the Echo Knight goes up, goes down, comes to a large room, roughly a hundred feet by a hundred feet. And in the center there is a large, what looks like a basin, but a walking around it, you see three enormous yetis. Oh, let's go there.

SPEAKER_10 2:32:14

Shall we take out a threat?

SPEAKER_12 2:32:16

Yes. Okay, I guess we better. But as your Echo Knight walks around that room, you notice that there's another exit at the far end of the room that leads down a corridor, and there is a green glow coming from there. I think I can.

SPEAKER_10 2:32:36

Use the green pen.

SPEAKER_12 2:32:41

Yes, mother. How do you get made the map scribe?

SPEAKER_10 2:32:44

Haha! I do enough work, okay?

SPEAKER_04 2:32:48

Do we want to go that way? Because I think that green glow is a good idea to get your words. Let's go. I agree with that. Let's go wreck some faces before we don't.

SPEAKER_12 2:32:58

Hopefully. Let's do it. Let's do it. Yeah. I guess that's what we're doing. Minor, you notice as you walk back to when you were standing here. You notice up that corridor, you see more veins in the wall. Do the Yetis react to my echo. What are you being stealthy with him? No, I can't be stealthy with him. Oh, then yes, they absolutely will attack.

SPEAKER_07 2:33:22

Yeah, well, that's literally a floor right on there.

SPEAKER_12 2:33:24

Yeah, they will actually they turn and they go, Hey guys, what's up? Take a swipe at him. Can I take a swipe at them first? Yeah, you can have the uh surprise element of surprise if you want.

SPEAKER_10 2:33:32

I like the surprise. Then I recklessly attack one of them.

SPEAKER_12 2:33:37

Fair. I mean, why not, right? Why not? Alright. Uh 30 hits, I assume. 30 does hit. Okay, so they take a ruin. Or one of them takes 18 damage. Okay, one of them takes 18 damage. Uh 22 hit? 22 does hit. Okay, and then I deal another. 13 damage to it. Okay. It feels it and it just goes and it just swipes out with a claw and does its attack. Okay. That was a natural one for the first one. Good start. An 11 plus an 11 is 22 to hit. Uh it has disadvantaged to hit me. It does? Well, it's not me. It's my echo. Oh, that's right. That would be uh 13 to hit. That misses. 13 misses.

SPEAKER_08 2:34:31

God damn it.

SPEAKER_12 2:34:31

Okay.

unknown 2:34:32

God damn it.

SPEAKER_12 2:34:33

Drax is so happy right now. Do you retreat? Do your does your does your Echo Knight retreat? Uh well, I did all my movement, so he just stands there, I guess. Well then one then one of the other Yetis is gonna throw an ice boulder at him. Yeah. That one will not have disappeared. That's a 19 plus 11.

SPEAKER_09 2:34:52

Poof!

SPEAKER_12 2:34:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 2:34:54

Oh.

SPEAKER_12 2:34:55

So now they know you're there. They don't know about us. They don't know about you guys.

SPEAKER_11 2:35:00

Would you hear the something's here.

SPEAKER_02 2:35:04

I got one of them.

SPEAKER_11 2:35:06

What do you guys want to do?

SPEAKER_09 2:35:08

Uh, we're going to their room, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 2:35:09

I guess so, yeah. We're gonna go check it out.

SPEAKER_04 2:35:11

I guess we're engaging in that.

SPEAKER_10 2:35:14

Are we still in the bubble of magic of able?

SPEAKER_11 2:35:17

Yes, you are.

SPEAKER_10 2:35:18

I'm gonna cast protection from good and able. Okay. Myself.

SPEAKER_11 2:35:22

Roll your.

SPEAKER_10 2:35:22

So if I'm in the bubble able? Are we in the bubble of magic is able or not able?

SPEAKER_11 2:35:27

Oh no, you are back in the shitty enable. You can try, roll it. You can do it though. You might roll why now.

SPEAKER_10 2:35:33

Uh no, I won't do it. I'm gonna try. You might roll it. No shit!

SPEAKER_11 2:35:44

It does not go through.

SPEAKER_10 2:35:46

This is gonna suck for me.

SPEAKER_12 2:35:48

So what do we have?

SPEAKER_02 2:35:50

Huh? It's an 18. I'm fucked. There's no way I can do it. Oh, you gotta like a one in ten?

SPEAKER_10 2:35:56

Let's roll a 19 or 10.

SPEAKER_02 2:35:57

I have a minus. So I screwed a one in ten goals, then you're one in ten. I'm useless. But your staff, would your staff tell this shit? My I can okay, two three staff. Okay, well, let's leave it to the fighters and we'll go mess them up.

SPEAKER_08 2:36:14

Catrips.

SPEAKER_12 2:36:15

So you guys are gonna you gonna fight? What do you guys think?

SPEAKER_10 2:36:19

Well So just to be clear, every single spell that we cast, we have to roll for intelligence to see if it goes through before even attack. Yeah, cantrips.

SPEAKER_13 2:36:32

And it's an 18 intelligence.

SPEAKER_10 2:36:34

Cantrips, man, cantrips. And it's an 18 intelligence. I need to fucking bite someone. All me. Hopefully it's a humanoid. Bite the yeti. A yeti's a humanoid, right? It's in a human shape. Alright, well, we're going to the thing, right? Are we?

SPEAKER_14 2:36:52

I guess we're going to be able to do that.

SPEAKER_10 2:36:56

I feel like we need to go that way.

SPEAKER_14 2:36:58

You ready to hunt, brother?

SPEAKER_13 2:37:00

I'm ready to use the SLG. Maybe we can can we lure one? At least we can just kick the women piss out of one of them first. Plausib. They can't be that smart, can they?

SPEAKER_00 2:37:10

Kite, kite, kite.

SPEAKER_12 2:37:12

They're unsmart. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 2:37:13

They are unsmart.

SPEAKER_12 2:37:14

They're unsmart.

SPEAKER_09 2:37:15

Yeah, the echo go.

SPEAKER_14 2:37:17

Oh, I gotta summon echo. I'm standing in the front of the. I don't know how many rounds it's gonna take to summon that sucker. Oh, what do you mean? Really? Because he has to roll it.

SPEAKER_12 2:37:27

Echo and it's a magical.

SPEAKER_14 2:37:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 2:37:30

I didn't know that. I thought you had your echo permanently. Oh. Well, he does, but he has to. It's a magical ability.

SPEAKER_11 2:37:36

Right. It still happens, but you still have to you gotta get past that magic suppression.

SPEAKER_10 2:37:42

We're sitting in here. We're safe at the moment. This is what's happening in Silvery Moon? Cast until you can get me that shitty ingredient. No magic. Brutal. Yeah. Get your fucking echo and try and try and lure a lot of yeti so that we can.

SPEAKER_12 2:38:01

Or we can go fight some yeti. Well, I feel like they're gonna come get us, aren't they? Do they hear us? They're not following yet.

SPEAKER_14 2:38:08

They don't know where I would have come from. Linar has moved back to front of here.

SPEAKER_02 2:38:11

Do you think we should just check out more stuff first? Maybe make some little goat noises.

SPEAKER_10 2:38:17

Meh! Meh! Meh.

SPEAKER_12 2:38:21

That's right. Screaming goats. Are you really doing that?

SPEAKER_10 2:38:24

See if we can lure one of them away.

SPEAKER_02 2:38:29

Can you do like a few more?

SPEAKER_10 2:38:30

Or something in a in a non-threatening fashion so that one of them feels like it's a little bit more. Yeah. So would we.

SPEAKER_02 2:38:42

Yeah, but the idea is It's cantrip. It's cantrip. You could just yell go.

SPEAKER_07 2:38:46

Cantrips are still spelled.

SPEAKER_12 2:38:47

I know, but it's just cost me spell slot. Yeah, it doesn't cost you a spell slot for sure. Yeah, it doesn't cost you a spell slot. You might as well do it. Brilliant from a display. Roar down the hallway. They can only fit one at a time in the hallway.

SPEAKER_04 2:38:56

That's a little club fight.

SPEAKER_10 2:38:59

I well, I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_04 2:39:00

Yeah. Oh, it's a 15 by 15 hole.

SPEAKER_10 2:39:04

Would you like me to try palm turge? Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_13 2:39:09

Do you want me to try it?

SPEAKER_10 2:39:10

What kind of noise do you want to use to lure it? Um. I'm just saying, if you want to be an old girl laughter. I can do that without a cam trip. Yeah, but I can do it at a distance.

SPEAKER_12 2:39:24

And and yeah. And where are you doing it to? Are you doing it to the opposite end?

SPEAKER_10 2:39:29

Are we trying to draw it out?

SPEAKER_12 2:39:30

I think we're trying to draw one out, aren't we? We could just yell if we want to draw it out.

SPEAKER_10 2:39:34

Well then do that, people. That's what I'm saying. If we want to go to lure one, a goat would be a non-threatening thing. Let's do it. Make a decision. Let's go. All right, guys.

SPEAKER_02 2:39:44

Let's do it.

SPEAKER_10 2:39:44

They're hungry. Meh. Meh. You're really good at that. Meah. I try and lure it out with hungry dinner noises.

SPEAKER_11 2:39:57

And where are you doing this from?

SPEAKER_10 2:39:59

Um, I will I will do it like right here.

SPEAKER_11 2:40:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_10 2:40:02

Around the corner so it can't see me, but therefore it can hear the little noise.

SPEAKER_02 2:40:08

So you two are blocking the hall, essentially, and then we're gonna stand behind, sort of dealer or what? Yeah. Everyone's gonna perfect.

SPEAKER_07 2:40:14

I will attempt cantrips.

SPEAKER_12 2:40:16

And I will just shoot over top of you guys. Okay. So you hear the and you watch as this huge monstrosity comes down. I would like ducks in to get into the hallway and starts. I would like to shoot with arrows. Like lots of arrows. You watch as he tries to get into that little corridor. And he starts swiping at the sweet doorway to try and break it open. He can't. He's there, it's they're trapped in there.

SPEAKER_10 2:40:57

Okay, so we can just try and pick him off.

SPEAKER_12 2:40:59

Yeah, I'm just gonna start shooting arrows then. Sure, go ahead, fire an arrow.

SPEAKER_10 2:41:03

Do we need like an initiative order or we start? No, no, not for this, because they can't hit you back inside. I'll just keep trying to elders blaster. Well, I got one crit.

SPEAKER_12 2:41:15

Okay, you get it. Okay, so that's plus 17. Do I have a sneak attack? I had advantage here or no? Did we never roll another one? Uh you didn't have advantage. You weren't hidden. And did you say you were doing roll again for the sharpshooter first?

SPEAKER_11 2:41:28

Did you say sharpshooter?

SPEAKER_12 2:41:29

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_10 2:41:30

He did not. He did not.

SPEAKER_12 2:41:31

But I roll three dice.

SPEAKER_02 2:41:32

There was no way I wasn't sharpshooter in this. But anyways. Do we roll another one on the?

SPEAKER_12 2:41:36

I should have stated it. I'll give it to you though. I'll give it to you. I wouldn't. Does he roll fast? From now on, you state it. Okay. So I don't do one attack? Yeah, you get to re roll a crit.

SPEAKER_04 2:41:44

Reroll a crit.

SPEAKER_12 2:41:45

It's just one dice. You win your sneak attack, though, though.

SPEAKER_14 2:41:48

Oh 16. Oh that's sweet. Okay, whatever. So I guess I roll two dice. Roll your dice and double it? Yeah. Okay. So I'm rolling two dice and doubling it, I guess, then. Do it. Because that's all I can really do. No, three dice because I get an extra dice because of piercer. There you go.

SPEAKER_12 2:42:05

And doubling it, I guess. Doubling it.

SPEAKER_02 2:42:09

So that's Jason.

SPEAKER_12 2:42:12

1632 and 8 is 40 plus 17 is 57. You smoke him.

SPEAKER_11 2:42:24

And you watch that and as you go, and he lumbers out of the way of the door and goes off to the side. Okay. Now you can just see straight into the camera.

SPEAKER_06 2:42:32

Meh! Another one to come out.

SPEAKER_07 2:42:40

Let's see how stupid they are. Let's see how stupid these are.

SPEAKER_13 2:42:45

I'm not gonna rob you guys in this thing. I'm hiding this time. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_12 2:42:52

He comes back, he's like fireballs.

SPEAKER_07 2:42:55

Okay, can I can I also Elders Blast?

SPEAKER_12 2:42:57

Like intelligence shot. No, they should both get the shots off. No, it doesn't work. Roll your channel.

SPEAKER_10 2:43:05

Can I roll for Elders' blast?

SPEAKER_12 2:43:06

Yep, roll through intelligence. That's got it.

SPEAKER_10 2:43:09

14.

SPEAKER_12 2:43:10

14 plus standing glass. Okay, so I am doing my whatever sharpshooter. I'm not gonna bow. So you've already had you've already had yours. I thought this was still a round.

SPEAKER_11 2:43:22

It is just a quick round, but it's not you still don't get to go bankrupt.

SPEAKER_04 2:43:29

Well, he wanted to do something. What do you do first? I will I I'll I'll try and do cantrip of Told the Dead. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Try it. He's been hit. You might roll it. I mean, I have to roll in 19, but do it, but it might happen. Do it.

unknown 2:43:42

Do it. Nope.

SPEAKER_04 2:43:44

Nope.

SPEAKER_10 2:43:45

It's just a cantrip. Wait, can I ask guidance for his intelligence check?

SPEAKER_12 2:43:49

Too late.

SPEAKER_10 2:43:50

No, like in general, yeah.

SPEAKER_12 2:43:52

Uh guidance is a spell, right? Yeah, you have to see definitely roll to try. You guys like rolling dice. Now you get a chance to. What do you want to do? So I could how far down the passage was he able to climb? 30 feet. It's 30 feet down. Well no, how far was the Yeti able to reach his hand? Uh his reach is uh his reach is five feet.

SPEAKER_01 2:44:14

I know approach to 15 feet of the monster. I will activate his ink or try to activate his ink because he wants to punch him in the face. Uh yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_12 2:44:23

Go ahead. The ink activates? Oh yeah, the ink activates. Yeah. The ink is not it is a magic item that you have control over. It is not a spell.

SPEAKER_10 2:44:31

I was more wondering about Ventor.

SPEAKER_12 2:44:33

No, no, I was more wondering about Ventor.

SPEAKER_10 2:44:37

He wants to fight.

SPEAKER_12 2:44:38

So I'm gonna punch him in the face twice. Recklessly. Well you can uh try and punch him in the face first. I will try to punch him in the face. I think I missed on the first punch, actually.

unknown 2:44:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 2:44:50

What'd you get? Yeah, not enough.

SPEAKER_01 2:44:51

What'd you get? 14.

SPEAKER_11 2:44:53

Okay, so with the first miss, he's gonna try and move out of the way now. Because he's dumb once.

unknown 2:44:58

Actually.

SPEAKER_04 2:44:59

Pull me once as he's trying to move.

SPEAKER_12 2:45:01

Shame on me. Can I try to step forward and curl around with a punch as he's going? You can, but you're gonna be at disadvantage because you cannot see him anymore.

SPEAKER_01 2:45:08

Alright, so with reckless, I just go to normal roll.

SPEAKER_12 2:45:11

Yes? Well, reckless was your first attack, right? I always reckon. And so then you had uh so you get it every time?

SPEAKER_04 2:45:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 2:45:16

You can always reckon this attack.

SPEAKER_04 2:45:18

Straight roll.

SPEAKER_12 2:45:18

Straight roll.

SPEAKER_04 2:45:20

I still think that's I'm rolling. Jeez! We have all rolled shit. Uh well, it is better. Fifteen?

SPEAKER_12 2:45:27

15 does not hit. And I back up somewhat. Okay.

SPEAKER_10 2:45:30

So we all flail in the hallway doing nothing.

SPEAKER_12 2:45:32

Well, I can it does the damage. He does shit. I can shoot again. Well, you can't see anybody. I mean, what you can see iron. Okay, well, can I not can I not sneak in and like hide? You can definitely try.

SPEAKER_10 2:45:47

Do you want to sneak in the room of three guys? I don't want to sneak.

SPEAKER_12 2:45:51

I want to sort of sneak in to see uh at least to the end of the hallway to see how close I can get and see if I can actually see them or not. You can definitely attempt to. Sure. Rule to hide. Actually, that's not that bad. Great. Uh, eight and fifteen, twenty-three.

SPEAKER_00 2:46:07

Twenty-three, not that great.

SPEAKER_12 2:46:10

You believe you were hidden. Yeah. So he went in the room? I'm not in the room. I'm just going pretty much to the I'm going to sort of He's in the hall. Well, I can see 60 feet, too, so I'm wondering if I can see anything. You're right, I can't. I know it looks like he's ready to do something, but he's looking around.

SPEAKER_09 2:46:28

Looks around corners.

SPEAKER_12 2:46:29

Creeping up. Yeah. So you believe you are hidden. And uh what am I smelling? Let me just. Brother, how tall was the cavern? Uh it's it's tall. It's tall. You're pretty hidden. Okay, go ahead.

SPEAKER_10 2:46:44

I like that you're rolling on a plate. Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 2:46:46

Oh yeah, that's pretty loud. Do I see anything or no? Well, you're right at the oh there you go. You're right at the uh the entrance. Yeah. You'd have to poke your head around the corner to just double check. But you can see now the full enclosure of the room, and you can see there's two Yetis lumbering on the far, far side of the room, about a hundred feet away. Okay. And then there's the middle big, like it's like a big stone. So there's actually light in here so I can see decently to our. There's like that glowing luminescence light, so you can see. And they're like 100 feet away. And there's obviously one. So can he reach me from here? If he knew you were there, yes, he would be able to reach you 100% where you're at. Can I hear? Oh, you can hear. You can hear sounds right around the corner. Right or left? Right. So couldn't I stick to the left side of the passage and just shoot one of the ones across the way? You can definitely try. It'll be a disadvantage from how far away you are because of the dark vision. Don't I ignore disadvantage with sharpshooter? Shark cover's cover. You ignore partial cover. So I don't think the dark vision. Okay. But you could still try, you'd just be disadvantaged. So I could do regular because I could stay while I'm hitting slash. Yeah, you could you could yeah, you could burn that. Well, it's just a regular shot. Do it. Yeah?

SPEAKER_10 2:48:09

I mean, what else are we gonna do?

SPEAKER_02 2:48:10

I mean, we got some giggles, why not? Sure. I'll just take one regular shot. I'm not doing the plus two. I'm not doing a plus ten.

SPEAKER_12 2:48:17

So 24. That hits. Okay. So you ts. You loose an arrow. I might as well shoot my second arrow. We'll see. And it goes shooting across and you hit the yeti. Yeah, whatever. Yeah, so eight and seven is fifteen. He takes it. And then I got a second arrow after I got my second arrow. Before you get a chance to do your second arrow. Around the corner. This claw comes and swipes at you. Yeah. You've given away your position now. I'm not hitting anymore. Well, you just fired an arrow.

SPEAKER_04 2:48:49

He was waiting. Alright, I guess.

SPEAKER_12 2:48:52

There's no shrubbery.

SPEAKER_04 2:48:53

You're not invisible.

SPEAKER_12 2:48:55

Okay, fine. Well, I might get whacked here. You're gonna get small. Well, maybe not. 18 to hit. 19 AC. Yay! He goes and he digs his claws. Digs. I'm rolling like garbage. He rolls and digs his claws into the side of the stone. Okay, I am uh backing up. Tears a chunk out. I was like, come on, come on, I dare you do! Come out. So then you can hear as he backs up now. Yeah. He's walking over to get the attention the other. Pardon me? Can we see him? Can we shoot? Uh he's he's being a little wiser, he's kind of going around the outside of the room. So I can. If you stuck your head in the door, you'd be able to see him. Okay, so there's nothing close enough now that I actually carry it. I'd like to take the advantage of this opportunity being so close now. Yeah, you're pretty close.

SPEAKER_01 2:49:40

I go right around the left side, knowing he's on the right, and I go up the wall.

SPEAKER_10 2:49:44

What? He wants to go in the hallway.

SPEAKER_12 2:49:48

Okay, you go out, you're almost two dimensional now. He was down the hallway already. Yeah, okay, you're up and you're on you're on the ceiling. So he's on the ceiling. I don't go up on the ceiling. You're on the wall. Yeah, I go up the wall, like 40 feet up the wall. 40 feet up the wall. You're 40 feet up the wall. Yeah. They're starting at it. Yeah, it's huge. And I will try to hide. So you're gonna go up the wall, be seen, and then try and hide. Well, I'm gonna try to hide while I'm doing it. I'm doing it stealthily. I'm only doing my full movement.

SPEAKER_09 2:50:12

You can't really hide while you're moving. He does it all the time. You're gonna have to do that. No, wait, wait, wait. He goes to a place and then he hides it.

SPEAKER_01 2:50:18

I do. Well, then can I not do the same?

SPEAKER_12 2:50:22

That's literally what I'm just so like maybe there's a stalactit or slide. Yes. Exactly. Trying to you can certainly try. 21. 21? Yeah, you believe you are hidden. Okay. So liner is in the room. I stay back. Rold is standing about five, ten, just over five feet back, so you can't get it. Definitely wants to stay. Where are you?

SPEAKER_03 2:50:45

I do we want to go in and fight and just it's gonna be a one of you who's already in there. Yeah, we can be a brawl. It is. We have to.

SPEAKER_10 2:50:54

With or without spellcoster help, because we're helping.

SPEAKER_03 2:50:58

Yeah. Do you guys have crossbows or anything that is not magical?

SPEAKER_10 2:51:04

Schimitar. There you go. I don't really want to go up close and personal. You got a blade stone.

SPEAKER_12 2:51:09

Aren't you like 96 hit points?

SPEAKER_10 2:51:12

Right now, actually, I am 94. 94 hit points from my house.

SPEAKER_12 2:51:16

You can freaking whack harder than anyone else in this room. Just walk up to the city. I can only strike.

SPEAKER_10 2:51:22

Well, it's just my scimitar doesn't do a whole lot of damage. But I can wait, I can try.

SPEAKER_03 2:51:26

Yeah, okay. Well, let's go in then.

SPEAKER_10 2:51:27

Like uh I'm not leading the charge, let's put it that way.

SPEAKER_03 2:51:30

Well, okay, so uh yeah, I'm gonna come out from our tombs area, I guess.

SPEAKER_12 2:51:36

So you guys are in the hallway now? You're in the room on the wall, 40 feet up in the air. 40 feet right above the door, yeah. 40 feet above the door. You are four feet just over five feet back.

SPEAKER_11 2:51:48

You are following drags inching up along the door. Yeah, like 10 feet back from drax. Oh, Leander, you're with them?

SPEAKER_10 2:51:53

Uh my scimitar out. I am stressed the fuck out, and I am in the hallway trying to figure out how I can get in and be of any use whatsoever. The only thing I've got on me is a light crossbow.

SPEAKER_12 2:52:09

Drogan, where are you? I'm in three things. I'm about to charge into the room of Yetis. That is where we will pick it up next session.

SPEAKER_00 2:52:51

Please tune in again.