Rotgrind - Narrative Declaration

are you guys
ready for another exciting episode
of raw
grind
yes
yes
that was louder than last time
we have more passion this time
dammit
yes
hi everybody
welcome to near new decorations rock
grind we're joined by some very
lovely and illustrious talents
joining us here today we're going to start
off with erindil
howdy howdy my name is erindil
and you may or may not know me as the writer who works with alpha busan projects known as ogre popenang now
that's the name of our project not alpha he's still alpha i'm still me
uh and you can find me on twitter at erindil you
uh nowhere else
don't ask i won't give you anything
and uh today
and for presumably for the foreseeable future unless i die i will be playing as
baldrick weathers the alchemist
uh he blows shit up and he has fully intended to do so
he's just a human he's a guy he is the he is mostly normal
mostly mostly mostly i said mostly kills you
next one
all right next up we have hulky crow how you doing man
uh i'm hanging in there you know just living
living about how much you can say nowadays
uh but yeah i'm hulky crow
you may know me from doing a couple background voices
you probably don't know me from a couple background voices
on previous projects like text speech
although i was shrike on there
uh but also played zedek on our previous project
war hams
you can find me of course at hulky crow on twitter
it's pretty much the only social i keep up to date with
uh i will be playing rahua
our kanrasu cleric
uh he is of course a kanrasu
and he is a cleric
that's about all there is to say right now
funny funny tree man
it's one who's not funny tree man
odoroshi
hello uh i'm odo
you can find me on the internet
uh at odoroshirider
mostly just on twitter
um you may recognize me from your walls
where i live
uh
that's fucked up
yeah that's fucked up
um
yeah i uh am a uh
friend of the alphabusa crew
uh and i am going to be playing
vali the sylph swashbuckler
so
and after that we have speaker d how's it going
and here he come again
turning victory into despair
and victory into death
hi i'm speaker d
you might know me as one of the lead writers
for alphabusa
and for the parenting
and if the emperor had a text speech device
and i uh voiced some guys in there
like a back in the emperor
and i am big d as well
yeah that's great
uh you can find me on twitter
at super snake
if you'd like
today
i will be playing
as tan hauser
the revolutionary android
who with his magus specialization
is here to cast down the chains
of oppression
and i'd like to thank everyone for your patience today
because i'm coming to you from
odoroshi's walls
as i will be moving soon
and so if you guys notice
a lower mic quality on my end
um
it's because i got snowed in in dallas
so that's what went out
dallas is down
yeah like texas is currently going through its freeze thing again
and if anybody knew
right up on the news
uh as a preliminary warning
if we
if the stream randomly disappears
um
texas likes to just not have power for no reason
i can even look outside and go like
oh well there's no weather in this city
so what's going on
so
if we randomly disappear
like we'll be back online
uh as soon as we possibly can
yeah everyone
who's gonna be
yeah but the one who's gonna
we made that electricity great
you're really good
you know
we'll put duct tape on it
hope that worked out
god damn good touch
uh but the one who's gonna be
grinding us through the gears
of rock grind
is our lustrous game master
thurston hillman
hello
hi everybody
it's me
it's it's thurston
on call gm on all the things
you can find me on
the tweeter
and then the twitch
where i sometimes stream games and stuff
um
and yeah
i am
just a person
i am a um
i recently got a promotion at work
i'm now a senior digital developer
at paizo
where i work on digital products
and all sorts of fun other projects
i can't talk about
uh so i work on pathfinder
and i work on starfinder
and all those fun things
um
and uh
i'll be
i'll be gming today
and running our uh
our cast of uh
of chuckle fucks
through uh
through rock grind
in our second session
after i totally didn't just
kill them all in the first session
right
right
right
right
you are terrible at lying
yeah
we rolled up new characters
but like
all of these are just the identical twin of our previous characters
yeah
you won't do it
the next time you meet schmanhauser
but they're all gonna look different
and somewhere
like skelebean is like
that the one bead of sweat is going down her face
and she has to do art for everybody
we go over to her
it's like
skelly we have good news for you
thirst and has killed all of us
you must now work
get to making that out
all right
come on chop chop
we need some new portraits
oh
tharson kills us every other week
and forces skelly to do more art
it's like
it's like
the artist
purgatory
or something
that's fucked up
depletes zoran's bank account
in one day
yeah
absolutely
and in speaking to plain bankers
hi i'm zoran
um
yeah welcome
i am your host
zoran the bear
hope everyone's been having a good time
i used to work at paizo
and then
then i left to go to the fields of texas
with no electricity
and i have been
doing all the twitch and online things
and i kind of help host the show here
and one of the things i wanted to go over
is a couple of notes
that we kind of got from last session
for feedback that we got from everybody
so thank you everybody for submitting stuff
on the feedback form
and all that
we got a good peruse of it
i got some things in
and also read everybody's comments
to be like
hey what's wrong with the overlay
what's wrong with their stuff
etc
um
so one of the things that people
keep asking is like
what game are we playing
and what uh
virtual tabletop are we using for it
we did explain it last episode
but just to reiterate
uh we are playing
pathfinder second edition
and we're using
foundry virtual tabletop
to play the game on
so that's just to kind of
help inform people
going like hey
like that
this is the game we're using
and this is the uh
virtual tabletop that we're using
we like it a lot
like it's really really good
it's a really solid uh system
and it's also really solid
virtual tabletop
uh another thing we also like to point out
that i think we lost an electric arc
next time
to where i was supposed to crit
because somebody crit failed or whatever
uh that's just to kind of
let people know that
as much as like
i like i used to work at paizu
who made pathfinder
as much as
you know there's some works on it
and all that other stuff
we're gonna mess some things up
you know it's a typical property
everybody messes up rules
um so do understand that
like with the excitement of things
with all the information going on
then we're gonna mess up some rules
still feel free to correct us
uh if we do get things wrong
so that other people
um who may be going through the comments
and stuff going
oh is that
is that how the rule works
we can always have some correct information out there
but i just want everybody to know
and say it out there
that uh
we try our best to be as accurate as we can
but we're human
and we will mess up
so please forgive us
if we do
if we do mess up
uh the other thing
that people wanted to know
is
how the hell do these bars work
we tried our best to explain it last time
but it's a very new thing
uh there's a lovely
uh friend of ours
named sonosu
who really helped put this stuff together
so
what happens with these bars
and the intention of them
is that if people donate on stream
using twitch
using twitch's bit system
um
so say for example
if somebody donated
like i want to
donate a hundred bits
what they can do
is
type up the
character's name
so let's say for example
for my character
someone's like
i want to give
oran
uh
a little bit more
into the pool
for his hero points
so that he can eventually get them
so i'm going to donate
500 bits to the total
which is 2500
and
as that bar
fills up
in which
i think he's now added an animation
to where it actually shows
progress
as it like
it glows up
as it fills up
basically as you donate
you can go hashtag
the character's name
and then that bar will increase
and as that bar
finishes increasing
it'll automatically
give us a hero point
and for hero points
that allows us to do
uh
a plethora of things
main one is
it allows us to
uh
re-roll
d20 results
so say for example
i roll a d20
hit somebody
i rolled a 5
i go
oh man
i'm going to spend a hero point
to basically re-roll that
i can re-roll it
and i'm either going to get
get higher than a 5
or lower than a 5
so it's not a hundred percent
on our side
we can actually make our rolls worse
and critical failures
are a thing in this game
to where
it's just not going to help us
but yeah
but if you ever do see
the system not working
or you don't see the bars move
or anything else like that
please tell us in chat
and we'll uh
do our best to fix that
so i hope that explains it
please tell me if i need to
um
re-explain any of that
so basically overall
if you want to
you want to send bits
towards somebody
to help them
you know
contribute to the pool
to get a hero point
you do hashtag their name
as you're doing the bits
so be sure you spell it correctly
which hopefully
with me increasing the size
of the names
you can see them fine
oh and by the way
the tokens do carry over
session to session
so i think baldrick used too
and i think valley still has one
rahua has one
so they had that from last session
and the progress should save
uh
over time
oh god here they come
oh no
oh lord
oh lord the hero pointing
yeah
we appreciate the support
yeah
the next thing
is somebody asked like
what's the other thing
that they do
somebody mentioned
about narrative decorations
hence the namesake
of her group
narrative decoration
um
if we can spend
two of our hero points
to do a narrative declaration
if people remember
our last show
warhams
uh
narrative declaration
was a really common
mechanic in that
basically we would spend
a die
and go
i want to narratively
declare something
and basically it's us
uh
weaving the story
in a certain way
that we want to
to kind of help
push it in interesting ways
and it's pretty much
like a way for us
to help do some cool things
so
it's not as
grounded
as it is of an explanation
but it pretty much
allows us to
manipulate the story
in a way
not so
drastically
where we're gonna summon
dragons or something
but it helps kind of like
oh there was a rope
in the corner
that we needed
or
there's a thing over there
something that
goes within the wheelhouse
that uh
thurston's gonna allow us
to do
because we don't want
to be like
oh thurston uh
we're about to starve
and everything
there's a car full of food
around the corner
we're not gonna go
that powerful with it
hatching and manario
appears
yeah
no not yet
oh
we have to bribe thurston
mm-hmm
so
that's
yeah so that's basically
how they were
they allow us to do
some fun roleplay things
so that's what their
intentions for
and with that
I also want to say
thank you everybody
for supporting us
so far on youtube
I think uh
you guys really helped out
with the youtube channel
which is uh
youtube.com
forward slash
narrative declaration
on the twitch
and on the patreon
and everything
we've recently
have been releasing
more pdfs
we also released
the bestiary
of the first episode
on there
so we hope everybody
uh
really appreciated
the bestiary
the handle cards
tokens
everything else
that we've released
there
like we've been
really busting our
uh
butts off to
get you all that
content
also on the patreon
so thank you
for your support
thank you for
telling people about
us
thank you for
sharing the stream
with everybody
you guys have been
absolutely amazing
so with that
i think my
spiel is done
thurston
yeah
what adventure
do you have
for us today
well
in our last session
our intrepid band
of destined
chuckle fucks
were incarcerated
in a jail
in the pond's
pilaster
for a variety
of charges
facing a long
sentence
the group
agreed to
work together
to take the
option of
trial by combat
to battle
a group of
tyrants guild
aspirants
instead
they ended up
fighting some
corralled wildlife
from the nearby
swamps
including some
reptiles
and a very
big and very
angry bear
which tanhauser
managed to
do a lot of
damage to
very good job
very good job
after a hard
fought battle
the party
exited the arena
and were quickly
approached by a
member of the
architects guild
who offered them
upfront payment
for investigation
of one of the
hanging apartments
that leans off
the sinkhole
in the district
of the pond's
pilaster
basically looking
to evict
any squatters
and make sure
there's like
nothing else
in the home
before it would
be demolished
pieces agreed
to this
as they all
need funds
and they
spent a bit
of time
at Baldrick's
home
eventually
they made
their way
to the
apartment
where they
met the
blacksmith
warrior
cronch
now due
to his
weight
and heavy
armor
cronch
was weary
of entering
the apartment
so our
heroes went
instead to
continue their
mission
there they
found a
group of
squatting
ruffians
led by
one
prince
du
shelf
who
quickly
departed
the area
after
volley
conversed
with them
the PCs
continued
their
investigation
and eventually
uncovered
several hats
and sets
of headwear
but then
were set
upon
by helmet
crabs
which were
crabs that
live in like
helmets and headwear
names on the
tip
they managed
to defuse
the situation
with the
helmet crabs
and they were
about to
depart
when a
fire broke
out on
the base
of the
hanging
apartment
they were
in
baldrick
attempted
to quench
it with
quick
alchemy
using a
smokestick
but the
fire grew
too rapidly
the building
support
collapsed
sending
the party
hurtling
down
into the
abyss
now
where we
begin
today
is not
in the
abyss
not
following up
instead
we cut
to the
front
of the
apartment
and we
cut
to
the
large
warrior
crunch
of
legibet
who our
players
had spent
some time
with
who
was
doing
a
doing
a
dutiful
patrol
outside
the front
of the
apartment
looking
around
sort of
hefting
up his
shield
and
as
crunch
is
patrolling
around
his
attention
is
drawn
by the
sounds
of
shouting
and
weapons
clashing
as
we
realize
that he's
hearing
the sounds
of our
party
battling
against
the
crabs
shortly
after
as he
takes
note
of this
and
kind
of
has
trepidation
of going
into the
apartment
due to
his
weight
once again
he
sees
smoke
billowing
up
particularly
alchemical
smoke
so
with that
crunch
rushes
his way
not
through
the
apartment
but
around
the
edge
of
the
sink
hole
going
around
some
of
the
rocks
and
debris
that
split
up
the
area
and
as
he
emerges
from
between
the
rocks
in the
overlook
down
on the
hanging
apartment
where
our
characters
ended
last
session
he
sees
something
at the
same
overlook
looking
down
and
what
we
see
as
the
audience
is
this
amalgamated
figure
of
elemental
energies
like
roiling
water
blazing
fire
kind
of
like
craggy
rocks
tumbling
over
one
another
and
gusting
air
throughout
this
whole
thing
it
has
this
almost
feline
appearance
in its
nature
as it
turns
towards
crunch
who raises
up his
hammer
at this
creature
what
are you
doing
here
and
as he
points
the
hammer
we
hear
in the
background
behind
these
two
like
the
cracking
of
timbers
and
this
elemental
amalgamate
looks at
crunch
but then
looks down
and as
it looks
back down
we cut
to
the
supports
on the
apartment
breaking
and
the
apartment
falling
down
and we
can tell
that
Baldrick's
quick
thinking
with the
smokestick
well not
enough
to save
the party
from this
collapse
was just
enough to
buy them
time
for Baldrick
to see
this
this
amalgam
elemental
creature
at the
edge
of the
sinkhole
staring
down
at them
and the
last thing
Baldrick
that you
see as
you and
your
fellow
party
mates
tumble
down
into
the
abyss
is
crunch
rushing
towards
this
elemental
his
hammer
raised
his
shield
outstretched
but then
then you
fall
into
darkness
all of
your
and then
as all
of you
have fallen
and
unconsciousness
takes you
you wake
up
and you
wake up
to a
feeling of
of weightlessness
tugging on you
and then
the
telltale
feeling
of
water
lapping
against
your
bodies
and you
find
yourselves
waking up
in a
pool
a pool
of
bluish
liquid
clear water
that sort
of laps
in a
slightly
circular
form
it looks
like it's
carved
out
and you're
in a
chamber
of stone
now
with six
support
pillars
that rise
up to a
ceiling
the ceiling
is actually
quite a ways
up you
guess it's
about a
hundred feet
up and
where you
are in
this pool
you can see
that there is
a cracked
hole in the
ceiling from
which you
must have
fallen through
into this
area
it's awfully
convenient
that we
seem to
land
in the
one
clean
pool
and
outset
hey
thurston
yep
mind if
i uh
check
the water
is clear
via
alchemy
absolutely
yeah
yeah
give me a
crafting check
yeah
orin would
also like
to
um
as he's
making up
kind of
inspect the
water to
make sure
knowing
his time
in the
city
he's like
yeah
you know
what
baldrick
give me
crafting
i'll give
you a
giant
heck
yeah
with an
on the
dice
nice
all right
um
and if
you want
to give
me a
nature
check
orin
uh
as you're
sort of
like
inspecting
it
and as
you're
doing
this
um
what i'd
like to
do
okay
i'd like
to explain
the room
so again
we have
these six
pillars
they go
up about
100 feet
to a
ceiling
um
there are
two slab
stone
doors
that look
as though
they have
like pull
handholds
to both
the north
and the south
and then
there's a set
of stairs
that ascends
to a
very large
10 foot
wide slab
of stone
that looks
like it
can be
pulled on
on both
directions
uh
the stairs
ascend
about
15 feet
up
as they
rise
in this
chamber
uh
now
orin
you're able
to tell
with a
with a
that this
is
this is
clean
water
um
baldrick
you're able
to tell
that not
only is
it clean
it's
remarkably
pure
water
in fact
probably
some of
the purest
you've seen
in your
lifetime
and also
you you would
note at this
point that
all of your
wounds that you
like any of you
had suffered
during your prior
combat have all
been restored
and in fact
you sort of
look around
baldrick as
part of this
and see that
possibly the
water or
some something
related to it
has restored
the wounds
on all of
you
and like
your allies
all look
far far
better than
they did
hmm
this is a
surprisingly clear
font of water
maybe want to
step out
it's
very clear
like elemental
purity clear
i'm not quite
sure what that
means but it
sounds like
bad news
bears
it means
you climb out
before you
piss off
whatever
elementals
hanging around
here
volley as you
get out
can you give
me a perception
check please
sure
you step up
the stones
and i'd like to
point out as well
the light in this
room is coming
from a sea
what the hell
where'd tanhauser
go i don't know
what the heck
is going on
with tanhauser
he's back
he's just
teleporting around
i'm i'm i
i can't see
anything i'm
seeing like i guess
i'm seeing a part
of the map that
is um
sorry i had to
if you're having
issues make sure
you have harder
acceleration on
there we go
okie dokie
uh i will give
you a perception
roll uh am i
taking any penalties
for low light
no okay
like in fact like
whatever i was um
just describing there
is um you can see
that there's there
are magical or
clearly like magical
torches that are
uh in sconces at
various levels on
the pillar all the
way up to the
ceiling there are
emitting like a
almost white blue
flame uh and you
can tell that these
are magical in
nature i mean no
one's coming in and
replacing them so
they're giving the
entire chamber like
is this um very
mellow um muted
gray blue light
uh with your
perception check uh
you can tell that
there's a few
objects that seem
to have fallen um
and landed in here
with you first of
all uh you notice
that there is a
cauldron like a
metal cauldron that
is on its side
um just just
between two of the
pillars to the
south um you
also spot that
there are several
gold coins that
have like tumbled
through uh the
ceiling with you
and there is also
um sadly the
corpses of two
crabs which appear
to have broken
their backs on the
fall having not
landed in the pool
but instead landed
on the the hard
stone um one of
which the corpse is
right beside a
very large hat uh
the same hat that
you had put on
rahua prior to
uh falling down
no look down
give him a little
salute goodnight
brave soldier
goodnight
hear rahua from
back in the pool
is everybody okay
where where's
jeremy
oh no
orn's like uh
i was like we
we better we
better let you
do this real quick
like orn finds
like some rocks
and his wing
kind of comes
over starts
scooping it near
a pile of rocks
nothing man
uh we took
jeremy up north
uh he he's on
a farm now
he's a farm
yeah yeah
in the crab farm
what the hell are
you guys talking
about
shit
it's a crab
farm bosrick
is that farm
worker owned
yes yes it's a
work of co-op
anyway
yes union
oh i do hope
jeremy is okay
i'm going to
move over to the
cauldron first i'm
going to scoop up a
couple of these gold
coins kind of
gnaw on them see if
they're real
yeah they are
they are i've added
them into um the
the inventory you
have which i have
dubbed the people's
loot
um in in honor of
tan hauser um the
people's loot uh
includes the coins
which you've scooped
up which is
approximately 30
extra gold coins in
addition to the
eight you found
previously so so
this is essentially
like your party fund
uh so you have 38
gold coins which you
can distribute how you
want and then i've got
the the two items in
there which is the
unusual uh headwear
and the unusual uh
cauldron object
all right uh baldric
you have any use for a
cauldron
uh not well let me
take a look he's gonna
come over and take a
look at the the
cauldron of purport
how big is this thing
um so it's like
it's it's it's it's
got a good size to
it um let's see
would it be bigger
than one i have at
home um it looks
like it's it's it's
definitely more portable
uh than like one you
would have at home it
looks like something you
could theoretically um
you know move about
with uh is it is it
like a hand one or is
it one that i would
hang off the back of
my back uh like you
could bring it with
you it'd be pretty
heavy let me uh let
me find the exact
weight for you so you
kind of know what uh
which which to uh to
expect weight wise
yeah because the only
reason i could think of
that is like you know
potion concoction on
the go which would be
not terribly useful
bugs i can just kind of
do that already but so
it's gonna be nice to
give you an idea it's
got a carried bulk of
four so it's it's heavy
it's it's it's it's a
heavy type thing um but
like it looks to have
good quality it's um it's
got like sturdy crow like
iron crow speed on it
uh-huh
looks like it also looks
like it has some like
impressive quality like it
looks like it's not that
scuffed up or anything
even from the fall
uh i'm gonna put that
by the stairs for now
can we get like a little
marker over there because
i'm not carrying that
thing with me if we're
exploring yeah yeah
absolutely um i can i
can put a little marker
there absolutely
is anyone else wanting to
like look at these
objects
um yeah or i would like
to come over and
kind of look at them only
in a nature like
perspective
okay um yeah you know
what oran uh how about
you give me a nature check
on that uh on that their
cauldron
excellent
it's just a cauldron
that i mean cauldrons can
mean many things you know
cauldron like
like it's a specific
cauldron kind of you know
it's a cast iron in this
sort of ways it has a
wooden lining and
enchanted enchanted way it
could be a lot of stuff yeah
uh it's a cauldron yeah it
it it is a cauldron so as
you're like looking at this
uh this tumbled over
cauldron uh what did you
get on nature check i got a
i got an 18 total
18 total okay so that is
enough for you to identify
this magical item
righteous it is a walking
cauldron uh and it's
essentially like a an iron
cauldron uh that has a land
speed of 25 feet that you
can use to like craft potions
oils and other liquids um and
as like a single action uh you
can command the cauldron to
follow you or stay in place
and if the cauldron follows you
it does its best to remain
within 30 feet of you um but
like you can't direct it in
combat or anything basically it
just like follows you around
ponderously and um it has it
can carry up to two bulk worth
of ingredients
horn gets inside it
um i mean sure like there's
nothing in it right now so you
can like forward
oh it it does not move with you
in it it looks like it only can
contain those ingredients
maybe get out of the cauldron that
i'm going to be using
are you trying to be safe right
kid what kid get out of my damn
cauldron i'm not okay
strict sure strix claws do not
have magical chemical ingredients
unless you wish to figure that out
baldrick will pull out i'm sorry
sir oran gets out of the pond yeah
are we taking turns riding around
in this thing no i don't think it
can carry us i don't i don't think
it's big enough tragically the powers
of that b have not legalized this
pot
i still have the option of kicking
it from the discord server i still
have that ability
okay so let's address the elephant
in the room here
does anybody know where the hell this
is
uh down and in a pit so presumably
one of the many many buried
structures down in the uh the sink
hole so well yes but it i mean
nobody else is a little weirded out
by the fact that there's a pool of
clean water and outset this far down
i am
the lights are clearly on
i am and i'm surprised we survived
sorry ten hauser go ahead no you just
said what i was going to say but i
appreciate the support
well yeah man anytime revolution pump
it he like extends yeah yeah he uh meets
the fist and you can't tell if he's
being sincere or is actually angry
identical it'd be impossible to tell
hey thurston also raises his fist
since uh baldrick is a resident of
outset would i have to roll to know
something specific about outset
well it depends like what do you what
do you want to
i i assume baldrick knows why there
would be a pure you know amount of
water in this particular zone given
what goes of the city i want to interrupt
because i don't want to leave her
hanging i also fist bump her
that's really important of course
oh we're doing this we're really
doing this
um okay uh
uh let me uh let me let me see here
what do you got uh society yeah give
me give me a society check
gotta say because i believe we
discussed this in one of our many
uh test sessions yes yes give me
give me society also check out this
cool dice
oh that's horrifying it needs to be
arms
yeah it needs to be 18 you got an 18
we forgot to have that talk darn
um so okay i'll just say it out loud
please color your dice to your colors
of the overlay
so people can see who's dice or who
how do i do that
well i want to teach
i'm teaching you one foundry
yeah that's right so nice you go to
the top right
you go to settings
then you can figure settings
i wanted green because of
settings
i wanted green because of alchemy you
poop
people gotta know who's who because
if you do green they get confused
they can't tell a lot of green from
another green
all right so you go to the module
settings and my dice settings and it
gives you a whole smorgasbord
customization
oh god
under dice so nice you have to scroll
down to dice so nice
there you go
yeah
mine are already blue
there you go
yeah so if you already got it you're
good
mine are black and red for obvious
reasons um
okay so baldric with with that 18 as
as you're all changing your dice up
uh to horrible colors
combinations i'm sure
uh baldric uh with an 18 you would
know that like a structure like this
off of the sinkhole if you fell any
good amount which you
clearly remember falling a good
amount at least um would be part of
outset's uh buried city and so
outset as a city constantly builds
upwards vertically because there is a
like defined limit based on the
the old accords with the old powers
who gave the original settlers that
land
um so prior generations of the city
are constantly pushed into the
swamplands down and down so there's
you know thousands of years worth of
prior generations stacked on top of
each other so the buried city
contains all sorts of like different
leaderships different like regimes that
once ruled outset um as far as like
having a pure source of water there
could be a hundred different
explanations as to why this could be
you know a temple this could be a
um like reservoir that was used by
some previous government sometimes
things like sometimes areas were just
like built over and people didn't even
know what they were building over or
sealing up
well to put it bluntly everybody this
could be a temple a water reservoir an
elemental containment chamber or
anything
because as you know well actually no no
you don't as i know
doubt said likes to build over old
things without necessarily giving it its
due recourse
so we could be anywhere
interesting
i think the water is very very nice
it is nice we'll take what we can get
i mean i feel at home here the the
torch sconces are blue the water's
blue i'm blue it's it works out on
that note can i bottle up some of this
clean water
that's kind of a hard thing to come by
up top
yeah absolutely
like fill the vial
mr thurston hillman
mr tan hauser
yes
um i happen to be an arcanist of
minor repute
um given the different possibilities
that this could be potentially a
a den of great elemental power or
something along those lines could i
get an arcana arcana check to maybe
see if i can ascertain
what exactly it could be or
occultism i also have that
um you know what arcana arcana's fine
um yeah you can give me an arcana
check here
all right let's see what i know
not a whole lot tan hauser with the
12 on the skill check
okay okay so um that's enough for you
to uh to know that like any any kind of
thing relating to elemental energy is
probably going to be more nature or
religion this doesn't appear to be like
an arcane font the only thing you
could tell is like
you've seen the the sort of magic
that's going on on the torches here
do you have detect magic by the way
i do
uh you would also tell as i'm assuming
you're like casting detect magic and
looking around
i will happily cast detect magic
the hat
is radiating a magical aura
the hat that was on rahua's head
prior and has made it down here
i'm rahua
yes
your hat
radiates
power
let me see it
rahua looks around because he's no
longer wearing the hat because it was
on the crab
it's on the ground
yeah it's on the ground by the
the dead crabs
i will uh i will approach the dead
crabs
comrades your sacrifice was not in vain
jeremy
oh fuck
they're on a farm
ted hauser
oh no
crab corpses
uh no these are unrelated crabs
i would like to make a nature check to see if
recognizes the crab that he had lost
oh yeah
of course
of course
of course
oh god
while you're doing that
fucking hell
ted hauser can you also give me an arcane
arcane check
for uh for the the hat
oh god
yes yes i will
while this is happening can i do something useful
yeah what would you like to do
can i please
explore the surroundings to try and find any
denomination of the room we are in
okay okay so a few things all happen at once here
rahua these could be any crabs they aren't necessarily jeremy
with that 11 you've got i mean this could just be other in fact these could be like
helmet crab corpses that fell from your combat it's not necessarily jeremy
i may have been born yesterday
would i recognize the hat that was on them as the one that was on jeremy
um yes yes you would
uh
however as as you're like like making this horrific realization
uh tanhauser is making a practical realization
um tanhauser you uh are able to identify the hat
as a hat of disguise
it's a fine looking hat
um that you can activate
uh like basically
um with a minute
uh and you can cast basically illusory disguise
the spell on yourself
um and then like after that the you can like magically alter
the hat to appear as a comb a ribbon
a helm whatever you'd like
um okay so baldrick
jesus 25
let's go
okay so what you're able to tell is that the doors to the north
and the south are sealed
however the door
uh the double doors to the east are slightly ajar
um looking like they'd be pretty easy to open
uh you're able to tell that there's like some smashed like wood debris
up top on the the hole about 100 feet up from the pool
probably where like the remains of the apartment
yeah fell onto
um you also tell that like by the by the like the the crab corpses
like clearly one of the crabs had attempted to crawl away a bit
and then just gave up and fell there
um and that's that's that's like your your um your sherlock-esque analysis of the situation
there's no signs no like denoting like rune carvings no anything that would indicate
no uh this room is like is fairly is fairly devoid of any like pertinent markings it looks very spartan
there might be a significance to it but that would be more like a religion check
um crap
the one thing
i know
i got a one in it i'm not doing that
all right uh
while they're like mourning the crab and inspecting the hat i'm gonna just like
look up at this double the stairs a little bit i guess okay
as he's uh doing that orin would like to call valley over like hey hey valley
uh-huh what's up my fine feather friend could you help me test something
i'm sure
so can i can i uh can see your sword and or knife
all right don't drop it i'll just hand him the rapier
okay thanks i cut the shit out of my hand
orin yeah okay yeah
mostly my wooden hand which is my right hand because uh i probably wouldn't feel as much pain
mostly my damage yeah yeah mostly you know a little bit still there and he will dip his hand into the water
okay it feels cool like against your against your skin
um however you will still take the one point of damage from cutting yourself and it will not be healed by the water
and the one's like well that confirms that thank you thank you funny
uh oh god all right i think i see what you're doing yeah it felt obviously we fell from a great height
and honestly something kind of helped us you know get down here or else we all be dead
well it's gonna have some kind of properties here here uh i'm gonna i'm gonna get out one of my flasks
and unscrew the top uh kind of eyeing the inside is there any rum left
um you know what uh i will let you determine if there's some probably like a small amount you know
what a small amount that you could probably just throw back right now if you need to oh
it's your character you decide yeah we're about to have another emergency all right i'll knock back
the rest of it uh and then i'm going to stick the bottle inside okay and kind of scoop up some of the
water maybe we should try drinking a bit uh he's overhearing this as he's like not facing them and he
turns a little bit i'm going to inspect it when i get back home whenever that'll be i'm not going
to drink it right now i'm going to inspect it with my stomach and i'm going to take a sip enjoy your
okay uh it it tastes like very crystal clear great water volley oh uh tanhauser you were you're missing
out uh i'll do the same why not yeah he wants everyone everyone take a sippy from the pool yeah yeah i'm
gonna replace my dirty rock grind water with uh clear clear magic water yeah that's probably a
good idea maybe i go through all of my rations to replace the chat the chat's killing me it's la croix
la croix tastes la croix tastes like tv static i hate that
oh it's so disgusting it hurt it physically hurts me
ball drink you were going towards the door you said i'm going towards the stairs leading up
i want to see what what the deal is with them and how far up they go okay they they're basically
15 feet up to a door that like ends right at the border of the light because of how the wall curves
in may i push the door open yeah uh so as you like like pull on one of the two handles as soon as you
touch and begin to pull there's like a rumbling as both of the doors swing wide open boom to reveal a
like massively large room uh ahead of you um there are rows of um of pillars that go up again about
a hundred feet to the ceiling here um each of the pillars in this room are engraved with basically
four repeating patterns of symbols uh that that sort of spiral up and around uh in the the center of
the room there is a depression about five feet down with stairs that lead into it the depression's about
20 feet by 20 feet and it has like a large basin in the center of it um now there's to the
south you're seeing like roots have burst through the stone walls here uh the cobblestone floors sort
of like crawling over them knocking up cobblestones in a few places like some of the pillars have
collapsed or been broken uh mostly to the north uh and you're seeing like these roots have also
broken through in the ceiling kind of giving the ceiling like this appearance of of stone but then
cracked masonry and then like roots coming through um and what as you walk in you can see that the
water in this room is decidedly more um outset in nature in that it is like almost a dark black
barest hint of blue to it um and that the the root above seems to like very very uh slowly be dripping
like a tiny drop of of black fluid down into the basin uh i'm gonna i'm gonna ask again can i throw an
alchemy at that because i have a distinct feeling i know what that is um yeah you can absolutely you're
like i mean you're a bit far away so like you'll take a penalty without being close to it but sure
how much of a penalty oh like i i'm gonna probably impart like you aren't like getting close up to it
so it's you know let's see here like the water itself is like 40 feet away from you so like you see
blackish water i'll probably give you a minus four to that minus four you know what i'll take that just
because i have the distinct feeling i don't want to get near that yeah okay circumstance penalty yeah
okay
ah almost 18 it was an eight it helped like some kind of messed up water you you are not sure with an
eight what exactly this is being cautious baldrick will retreat away for a moment i will check that out
later what'd you find baldrick uh there's a pool in there with some very dark water and something
dripping into it which means it could be anything but if it's what i'm thinking it is we don't want to
go in there just did you throw shit at it on that note he will slam the door shut oh the door does not
slam shut oh damn you it like it it basically the the doors opened wide and then went into the recesses
yeah let's not go in there for now because that my friends could be brought and i'm not sure about
you but i have no intention of anyone getting it because if you get it burning you right well that's fair
so we'll leave that for now we got two other doors to check out are you guys still why are you
well drinking the water it's good i'm it seems pretty pure yeah that's why i'm going to inspect
it to make sure it is later just hurt yourself i'm feeling more hydrated than ever
or no it's just still kneeling here with the crab corpses
don't just drink the water and have a good time poor boy but it's okay poor baby i'm gonna i'm gonna
walk over to rahua and just put a hand on his shoulder i'm sure they loved you very much
their feelings are ultimately well their own secrets it wasn't their time but it's okay
so to the earth they have come so too they shall return for who will just reach his hands down and
just cover them a little mess of moss and vines and stand back up look kanrasu i'm gonna i'm gonna
ask this for who do our little kanrasu do this you may you meant these things maybe 10 minutes ago
and they were trying to pinch you to death do you did you seriously form that much of an attachment to
them in 10 minutes he'll think for a minute
no no not really oh all right shall we i did
for the revolution it's okay danny let it out buddy all right i will and i'll just cast flame touch on the
wall presumably causing a fire that will that will be one level one spell down no that's a cantrip damn it
right time has her cries does he have windshield wipers on his glasses
no it would be funny so draw it like that
dictating to people all right we got two doors to look at uh baldrick's probably gonna
again try to ward people as hard as he can away from the giant mysteriously opening double doors
with the quite obviously not good water in the middle of them and maybe direct them to one or the
other door probably the northern one because it always start north yeah okay divide and conquer we
might as well open both i would rather open one in case one of them could be holding a load-bearing
avalanche behind it well i don't think avalanches occur this far down especially in the middle of
i don't know what seas we're in but it's not now avalanche of rubble i mean oh you should be more
specific about that whatever we do here we can't just stand around drinking water we have revenge to
obtain just open the door pushing it open oh is it locked it does not appear to budge as you
attempt to uh to use the handholds on it is it is it because it is locked or because it is stuck
um you could give me a thievery check if you got that i got plus eight to that yeah you do that i'm
not doing that do it up and dare i say it yarhar actually no i'll do it too because i got a plus six
uh that is a dirty 20. yeah 1920 uh yeah so you're able to assist um you could tell that this
is um like there's some kind of magical impediment on this that is preventing it um volley you could
probably like fight with this it might take a few attempts but you could probably try to but
if you mess it up you might like permalock it oh well there's a strong possibility that this
thing locks for good but um i'm willing to give it a shot go for it i don't like we got any other
options with this you can do it i believe all right well your belief gives me strength or can i
can i assist with my own yeah absolutely it's uh dc uh 15 so so let me go or 20 20 actually 15 in
this case yeah so i will roll hopefully getting over a 15 we'll see yeah oh there you go yeah
so you will give a good bonus there uh so you will damn if only i had rolled that i know
oh shit bastard um and then volley uh i forget i forget to be a stealthy character yeah
stealth bros yeah volley you wanted to give me that fever because you were being primary there
so oh yes what is my uh bonus uh just just straight uh from uh from baldrick um yeah let me quadruple
check i think on the credits give yourself plus two and if it's plus four no yeah then well i think
it gets pushed all right let's go oh okay uh i'm gonna spend a hero point on that i've got two to burn
okay yeah i mean you could you can roll a one that's fine you could roll a one and you want
you could probably only do better yeah if you jinx it i'm gonna beat your ass it totally won't be it
there you go oh the plus two didn't go through so it's a 25 yeah that's enough for you to um to
like pop it open you can see it uh like immediately leads into about 15 feet of stone hall leading
forward and then into complete darkness all right yeah just kind of pull back with my like hair clip
or whatever and do a bow toward everyone wow nice job on the uh the third tumbler there that one
looked tricky oh yeah thank you thank you i could have gone so wrong but you did it so not wrong
good job thank you your faith is incredibly great for my self-confidence anyway let's go uh anyone got a torch
it's dark i do i turn to see orin which i mean no no can you see in the dark he showed he points
forward to the dark hallway you see a lambent yellow glow emanating from behind you oh yeah that's right
you can do that can't you yeah i would like to cast light as a cantrip as my eye starts glowing
okay so just like on yourself okay cool uh yeah so here i'll i'll light you up
right ahead oh wow my vision is augmented
and you can see that there's a set of stairs that that goes down and they seem to go down for quite
some ways all right well we could go right down the stairs we could check the other door or we could go
drink the rot pool and die what's uh what are our options here if i love that last one what are the
benefits of the rot pool don't nothing do not touch the rot do not consider the rot okay we'll go down
the whole way let's check the other door first in case it's just a room in fact you guys stay here
i'll get that door all right i will just go up but baldric yeah what if dangers over there we might need to
stick together well that's what i mean you guys aren't going downstairs i'm just opening this door
we're just across the room i'll come with you just in case i'm gonna get like grab the back of his
chest piece where who was chest piece or mine he's walking forward
holding part of he wants to test how strong and ignorant rahua actually is here oh no
please rahua please all right baldrick um yeah you get to the door this one again has one of those
like pull it's like it's it's old stone but it has like a handhold for pulling it open okay can i pull
it or is it also locked uh you can try to open it that's just open yeah it uh it immediately opens
up into about five feet ahead and then further up beyond that you see the entire hall here has
collapsed uh stone has like fallen down locking off the entire access point from here question answered
and then he will slam the door yeah what'd you find a brick wall oh my favorite you know i had someone
do that to me once what while you in we're going down to the basement to see their vintage
actually yes it didn't work out for me i'm sorry it happens to the best of us
no it turned out worse for him i had only recently learned how to make arsenic ah
all right i want to go downstairs like i guess yes uh i'll take point with rahua since he's our torch
because you guys are doing that orange like yeah uh i'll catch up here in a moment uh hold on where
are you going nowhere just i'll just be right by this door real quick so thurston
mm-hmm is there any nature or anything isn't sort of like a like a branch or like a
like like like you know trunk of trees or something like that not in this room i know what you're going
for but it's not in this room okay i was like oh man okay never mind it's like barely anything living in
here i mean there wait no there were roots in the other room but i would really rather avoid getting
in there there is all right down listen go ahead down the stairs we go all right into the deep dark
okay don't get lost yeah so so you um you begin making your way downstairs it's like it's about
maybe 80 feet down worth of stairs long stairway eventually eventually it takes you to to another
chamber a square chamber which has two um like square braziers which are burning with like a blue
white fire um you can see that the like the room has sort of the stairs descending it at either well
coming out from the the center and then further uh ahead you see a great large green crystal coming
out of the wall in another room some 70-ish feet away uh and then a hallway of sorts that seems to
connect to connect out from here uh the walls here all depict um various symbols which oran you
immediately recognize as you get down here as uh like druidic symbols like written in the druidic
language huh it's like i do yeah these are these are this language of the greenway oh what does it say
it's it's praises to all of the um to all of the four elemental powers so like papa storm
auntie drown uncle blaze mama decay all of them are given given praises here through these these
murals on the wall i'm sorry auntie drown yes that's a good ass name she make you drink of the primer
the primer did you find the primer available for 9.99 on the primers the free one
available for 9.99 on my website mm-hmm and go.com seems to be a place of worship
oh where if i was going to for it going to four elements of the papa storm and all that oh what
prize be to papa storm him and i are on good terms probably maybe ding yeah i mean various sailors are
trying to call his name to try to get the clouds moving along i don't know why it's here though
hmm and that is a good question uh i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna peek at these these uh braziers i'm
gonna like pluck a feather off of my coat and just kind of flick one inside and see what happens so it
it seems to just land in there but not burn like and as you your hand approaches you're not even
getting heat off of these uh these flames huh it's just light my assumption would be because
and if i understand this correctly not being an architect major this place used to be above ground
not down here i mean it's a good assumption
well who wants to go touch the big green glow the cool glowing rock yeah how about that as
baldrick is staring at the the giant tiberium crystal sitting on the other side of the room
oren looks to tanhauser hey tanhauser yes i mean you want to go take a look at that rock
why do you know that i want to take a look at the rock it's clearly dangerous and by the way yes
i do the fact that you assumed that i wanted to i find hurtful and i'm gonna go to really assume
that you want to i thought that your abilities would be best suited to it because i think you're
pretty you know don't even lie and i'm gonna go and uh i'm gonna go take a look at this rock okay
so this chamber here um there's a few things that you see um first of all there's the the like
glowing green crystal here there are the roots that have covered up to the north these are all
alcoves it looks like this this section was built around the crystal this area up here was built
around several roots and down here are several alcoves in the wall that contain um rows of skulls
uh so it's clearly some kind of like mausoleum or like burial spot um now as you as you come in you
can see um the like the crystal itself even has some uh some some like scripture carved into it so as
it's glowing you're actually seeing some some items on it um and then as you get into the room
i'm gonna get you to everybody to right click on your tokens and set yourself into combat mode
how do we do that thurston i don't know you fucking fool that's the elephant's foot yeah and then uh
i'm gonna steal it i'll get you all to roll initiative uh probably in this case with perception
so uh please please i i mean will this just be perception from here can i stealth it you can
stealth yeah if you've you've been pretty uh pretty cautious uh bulgic very cautious perhaps too cautious
um yuck it up you i will yuck it up sir that's a good thing i'm ahead of ollie now yeah let's do that
okay cool all right so uh announce everyone's rolls uh oren got an 18 total and baldrick got an eight
i've only got a seven uh for tanhauser i haven't seen you rolled yet do you know how to oh i i just
forgot to change my dice color oh no no you have to click the dice to roll same with rahua yes that's
the thing oh i haven't seen you roll which is that's weird yeah oh what did you oh perception no i'm
dumb my bad yeah you gotta roll initiative for perception i got a 20. yeah there we go dirty 20
but the 20 never did that bro re-roll re-roll terrible that's yes it is there you go i guess
that's what happens you get punished all right he does get a natural one all right so uh we have the
initiative so what happens at this exact point is some things uh actually fall from the ceiling here
uh and a few of them are gonna go before tanhauser um tanhauser you will you will spot one of these come
out in front of you uh it is it is like a roiling mass of sap that is also covered in in detritus like
small twigs and um pieces of stone it seems to have like almost a humanoid face to it though it
might just be a trick of your mind but it also has like boils of black coming off of this otherwise like
clear amber like substance uh and one of these like there's the distinct sound of like as it falls to the
ground and then it slithers towards you um and we'll take an attack on you with a pseudopod
not pseudopod
subopod um it will hit you for six points i will hit you by six uh and then it will uh do nine points of
damage to you um three of it physical and six of it is rot damage
so oh did you buy that already um yeah so so that one drops down that's it's go then another one drops
stem this one moves up to here but rather than attacking you tanhauser it sees rahua
and um lets out with a globule of some like rotten sap substance that it hurls towards rahua who is
standing there and rahua you are struck by this and you take six points of rot damage as well as this
hits you and you you feel it has like this just draining effect on you like it it it's it's this
blackish sap substance and it strikes you and then you just feel like even the um the wood matter that
this uh globule hits start to like wither and turn gray from the impact ah vile thing uh tanhauser you're
up okay i fucking hate visceroids good the rot rallies against the revolution and uh i will uh target this
horrid creature that has done such discardious acts to my person and uh i'm going to enter into
laughing shadow i will activate my various combat protocols and begin phasing in and out of this
realm of reality and okay one thing from last session um just so you're aware to do the conflicts you have
to cast a spell first oh okay and that's part of the spell action uh so basically in order to do it
your prior action had to be casting a spell so it's essentially like you you cast a spell and then
can go into conflux oh i see but it's an action yeah exactly exactly like you'd have to cast a spell
normally and then you could be like okay i'm going into my conference or you're casting sorry cascade
that's the one so you're you you're you're basically your most recent action would have to be cast a
spell or make a spell strike so you essentially in your first round you can't enter the the cascade first
you have to do a spell or make a spell strike first then you enter it i see i see okay well in that
case i will then just enter into i will cast a spell strike on this poor fool mama fool and uh i think
let's go yeah totally let's rock kill him uh kill kill him kill the child the right child
uh i hit him by three with a four jesus but they're sludge they're slow moving sludge so it's easy to
hit uh yeah you hit like how do you hit them with all the four all right and we'll go with the damage
from that which should not be too substantial quick frankly um you'll see listen yeah no yeah one from
that but i then i'm going to get my gouging claw damage yes yes you are is gouging claw a single d6
uh yeah but it's plus your uh oh right right right so it's going to be eight damage in total
okay awesome awesome awesome so yeah um
um eight damage and that's yeah so that will just apply little damage i'll apply that and i'll apply
that all right and then i will activate dimensional assault that's just one of my focus spells yeah and
i will literally teleports behind you silhouetted by the crystal yes and i'm going to make just another
attack sure and this will be at the map minus five yeah uh do i get any bonuses since i'm attacking
behind them no no there's no facing in this game okay and i will miss by four but that's okay because
i i even though i spent a foci for that i will be able to refresh yeah okay so yeah you you appear
behind it you've flanked it uh striking it once uh that is the end of your game for eight damage and
it's still got so much left i know uh these are beefy they they're they're literal sludge piles uh
you can end uh your turn there ten hazard send it over to oran oh yes of course well let me be sure
there you go all right we're up to we're up to oran oran so you've you've heard the the sounds of
combat and this like suckling like sludge sound as they move and drop down from the ceiling of these
creatures all right orange for his first action is gonna rush up good he's gonna rush all the way up
to his 20 feet and go he's gonna see two of the slime guys and go like that's no good
and something i mean he's gonna do you see that both of them are within the 30 feet he's gonna cast
electric arc okay you see his hands come together and then from the staff a bolt of electricity arcs
in between both of them and also note for everybody we're now level two so some of our
sets a little bit better uh they need to make an 18 reflex save yeah i gotcha so can they even pull
that off we'll we'll find out oh that's right the thing does the button doesn't work for some reason
with these okay um first one never rely on it yeah i know and this uh seven that's a crit fails
and the next one is to crit fail as he's doing the other role you it's either 10 over the result or 10
and the crit fail is 10 under the results so the first one crit fails the other one's a 15 so he does
not make it so he just takes the full damage yeah so this one takes full well actually roll the damage
for me please oh yeah i'm getting you so the full damage is five so he'll take that and then he will
take the double oh yeah so i did 15 damage in total and that will be the end of oran's turn he has
electricity i help you the best arcs out yeah cool okay uh yeah and these things sort of sizzle with the
electrical uh okay um tanhauser it's me
another one comes out of the darkness this is going to depend targets you and uh hurls a globule at you
and misses terribly it's like a like basically a chunk of rot hits the crystal beside you like
and you just hear this like uh and that is just cannot stop the revolution that's the end of
that one's go and then that brings us to another one which is drop down
this one comes up to here uh and this one will target for it no again hucks like another like
rotten globule at you and misses terribly uh is he misses or in spit bagel how do you like it
wow wine like you see these masses and occasionally you're seeing faces in the masses but again it
could just be a trick on your mind uh uh you're up it could just be there's no bodies in the slimes
yeah exactly okay i don't i really don't like these creatures uh would there be a way to detect
what kind of alignment these things have maybe a particular check i should use
um it's an ooze so like i don't know nature is usually ooze related but that would be an action
remember it's one action to like do a recall very true uh i will perform a nature check for that
yeah give me a give me a recall knowledge just roll me a nature check brah tree brah
uh a 15 okay so uh that's actually not too bad like these are pretty like you don't have to roll
too too hyper to know much about these these are uh rotten sap so they're they're like sentient ooze
sap that has been like afflicted by the rot uh what you know is that they um they would have a lot of
the traits like common to two things infected by the rot which means in this particular case they'd
probably be mostly um neutral creatures like they wouldn't like be necessarily evil by default
uh just because they're ooze uh you would also know that um they're immune to critical hits
and precision damage because they're oozes so like any type of precision damage isn't going to do much
but they're incredibly incredibly slow and weak so like just lots of extra damage will hurt
um good because you'll hit them a lot uh in this particular case you would also know that they are
weak um against fire and primal moss which is a type of thing that directly opposes the rot
friends i do know something of these creatures they they burn very very good their rotten oozes if
anyone has some primal moss they also tend to not like that a whole lot so throw it at them or shove
it in them i don't necessarily know i haven't really seen much of them i have fire that works
great and let me just reach into my boots for some primal moss oh volley's boots are empty
i am curtailing this now
do i can i check my stores of useless crap that i've well not useless crap it's my crap
uh to check and see if i had pilfered any for my alchemical well no chemical potion crafting needs
you would not have primal moss you know that okay you know that's worth a shot yeah good try though
if you had two hero points in a narrative declaration i'd give it to you but
you probably don't just have any primal moss laying around yeah i don't have this precise alchemical
chemical reagent mm-hmm all right you got two actions left for who what are you doing buddy
i'm gonna go up to him and i'm gonna
i'm gonna kill a nice a nice unsheeper yeah make sure to target him of course yes there we go
target oh there there we go now now now kids strike to kill now i kill him i hit him now the pick
the pick the pig oh you hit three now you're going to kill yes no i do not you will do one
three points you do on that good shit today kale has like you're literally fighting this sludge
that's just like oh yeah that's piercing damage so uh it does damage them it's just they have a lot
of hit points uh is that the end of your guru oh boy oh boy yeah that's about it all right uh please end
your turn my boy that caught me yeah that's about it and then he just baseman
i'm sorry it really caught me oh my call trick these drivers so much dude
every saturday it's like there is like you have like a horde of like drivers going we
gotta get to our own pathfinder game which means they get to sit outside my house and fart really
loud anyway baldrick is moving spike traps but here i already look there are no police surplus
stingers i can use i can't because this is also a government road people who want to
the government along this road i can't bust them anyway i'm gonna i'm gonna move up 15.
yeah two three jesus 15 there we go uh i'm going to quick alchemy together and alchemical fire
yep and i'm gonna hurl it at this boy because he is already wounded and i hope this will actually do
something it will burn me to death in the process which is what i wanted you to do do
do you want to hit the one because because if you're throwing it the one in front of
ruhu it's gonna get cover if you throw it the one down here it will not get covered but that's
the thing i want to focus fire okay yeah okay then it'll just have like a slight bonus to its ac
but that's i will probably be okay unless it's like catastrophically bad yeah in any case it would
probably suck anyway how bad could it be yeah how bad you stop that trick comes up preps fire bomb
throws fire bomb fire bomb it just shakes it like a martini for a second yeah i assume with the fifth
the 15 feet it's like shake shake shake okay so that's it i'm minus two uh yeah minus two circumstance
boom i'm going out how for fuck's sake oh my god that's all you and screw you screw you i'm
hero pointing that please please do uh i'm gonna self hero point because i think if you
fucking like if you crit fail on a splash weapon it's real bad oh please don't kill me oh there we go
so so you don't actually do crit damage because these things are immune to crits but
you yeah you hit it um okay so roll damage on the first one uh on the first one yeah sorry sorry
sorry sorry because because oh sorry yeah because you're gonna do splash to the second but roll
damage on the target so just roll damage then yeah sorry no crit damage them buttons don't seem to
work oh there we go sadge nice okay so it's going to be persistently on fire now which is cool
it's going to take seven points of damage it's then going to take um three more points because it
is weak to fire um cool i don't know why it does that automatically that's weird anyways it says meh
not impressed apparently um okay i don't know why that's built into foundry but sure it's meh not
impressed um then you do splash damage right uh so your splash damage is how much on that it is one
because yeah so it's one bomb but it's going to be four because of the weakness on the other one so
yeah uh meh not impressed i don't know why these users are saying that
yeah i'll say now yeah that's what they all say all right bulge uh i think that's it for you said it
earlier oh god yeah it's true that's true uh mer uh it's from the token health module okay cool um
you may end your turn you say cool bolly do something i'm gonna do something uh okay
uh uh well these things are immune to crits uh because thurston is committing microaggressions
against me specifically
all right uh let's go ahead and start uh schmoving i get here uh and then i am going to tumble through
the ooze tumble i want you to critically fail things i want to kill you with jello damn it
sludge all right uh i'm going to tumble through tumble yeah yeah yeah the ooze is like um ooze and
you just fucking like pure wet over it yep i'm gonna jump down there um and because i'm now little
too uh i don't know if he can be flat-footed if he doesn't have feet however if he can be i mean he
is he's flanking yeah so uh there you go uh here i'll uh i'll i'll turn on uh one sec one sec one
sec uh bam he's flat-footed there we go all right good job he sure his feet sure are flat bro his
his blob is flat all right and i'm gonna i'm gonna finish him
uh question about finisher here because not that i'm like again these are not totally not
microaggressions against you and i would never be be so rude what is the damage on a finisher
is the finisher all precision damage i don't know thirsty why are you telling me i'm just
yeah yeah i would apply your precise strike oh yeah so um um so just so you know uh you don't
want to finisher these because it's um just gonna do more precision damage which they're immune to
it's almost like you know sometimes i have encounters where like bulgex fire does nothing
and other times i'm like fuck you odoroshi rider this would be one of the the fuck you odoroshi
right but you can roll an attack roll i'll just hit him then yeah just hit him with the rape
i don't even think it's like good like i don't even think it's smart for you to use a hero
every time we've rolled a one this setting i've just imagined the gangsta's paradise
it never changes no it's just that voli is just going to like backflip over this guy
and then just like go to hit him and the sword just like just drops out of her hand slides across
the ground or something i just i like them i like the idea that you're like so instinctual
you like pirouette over this you like i do this to everyone i pirouette over flank stab finisher and
then you like get to the finisher part and you're like where do i stab and you just kind of like look
like where the fuck do i stab i don't know where to stab crying yeah just weeping openly i believe
uh is that wait that was your second action wasn't it uh no because i move i'll move then tumbled okay
so you may end your turn so i'm going to take a bow and go ta-da and then pick up my sword
wow that was aggressively terrible you're welcome all right uh well i'm gonna target uh target my good
friend um tan hauser here we'll hold on pod through the pod and then i'll miss and then i'll do it again
missed by two then i'll do it again and missed by three and then i'm just i'm just you know what
i'm just gonna go all out and like they're mindless he's just gonna keep trying to attack you
at a minus 10 and then i missed by four good dice rolls i had yeah as it's like blah blah blah blah
i'm continually just like whiffing on you uh the one that's like persistently on fire is um
going to start by attacking um attacking rahua
what if he didn't yeah well i mean that could be a thing he'll miss rua because i rolled a two
because apparently this is just the game of terrible rolls uh then it will move uh one two
three to there i don't i don't wish to i don't wish to interrupt but i do want to point out
a train is literally going by on the track right now
and then very slow rumble i said it's rock grind day we gotta make sure this man's audio is just
full of motors yup okay so so it like attacks for who and then like sludges its way with two
actions towards baltrick um that's the end of its turn um it fails it will take three additional
damage as well because of its um because you know it takes the extra fire damage so i'll just mark that
that cool uh so the persistent fire continues to mess it up uh actually wait no i need to give it
another point what shame okay uh okay uh that brings us back to tanhouser it's tanhouser time baby
that's not his catchphrase and he would never say that but it's how's your time baby
how's your house god damn are you trying to emulate tool time
ted hauser's just like i'm gonna kill chaos back at you i think it's time for me to activate my arcane
complex yep uh arcane cascade i believe it's coming now you don't even know now i have plus
one damage um i'm gonna small strike this fool yeah dude all right so let's roll let's see my rapier
gets a critical hit nice which is fantastic because you rolled a 27. that's right um so let's roll my
crit first um so just just to note you don't actually do crit damage of this i don't no because
they're all critical so remember so you just roll regular damage well in that case i roll five plus
one so six six and i'll apply the extra one and i did get a crit on my uh do i get to crit on my spell
attack uh no it is immune to all critical effects ah i see yeah okay well regardless i will roll the
damage for my fire attack which is nice uh five and i believe there's also some persistent damage in
there um for produce flames yes there is yeah uh it is on a critical success it does that so yeah
well but if he doesn't take quits then he can't take the system okay which is why i did it in the first
place f well regardless um i would i think like i i'm just gonna say like it can still be on fire
it just just won't take the um the double crit damage it's just not gonna take the double damage
like it's more meant to be that it's um it's immune to like extra damage like from like oh like i can do
a precision strike which is what a crit is like i'll still let you set it on fire with a good hit
oh okay well thank you very good i'm very good all right and um that the dm that never lets us do
anything except for everything it's my yeah oh thank you friend oren you're up nice i'm going to
if the spell would like to work today produce flame over at the glob near baldrick okay the one right by
yeah yep he's gonna go swoosh and basically that is well i would credit but they're dumb but
regardless damage he'll do damage for it that's going to be seven plus his weakness yep there we go
cool it's hurting it's looking real bad it's looking real bad right is for my final attack
i am going to beat it with a stick map all right it's a minus five but i hit it by one but it's a
ooze what is bludgeoning damage you club you club the flaming pile of sludge to death righteous
and that's the end of orange turn and the end of his life now that's not myself in attack mode
that's not as stupid as it sounds because you can like you can mash like goopy stuff into a pure
liquid mommy is like mashed potatoes he's making potatoes one of them comes out of the darkness
towards you yeah i bet it does and strikes you with a sweado pod sweaty pod the sweaty pod hits
you oh ouch i am going to reaction nimble dodge oh well yes you may react nimble dodge
i will miss you best of course well played so do you want to tell the class what nimble dodge lets
you do oh yes nimble dodge uh i think i can post it to the chat does it is it gonna let me uh it's
essentially just i can take a reaction to give myself a plus two to my ac yeah uh for that attack
yeah which is good because it'll make me miss and then i'll be all like whoa i only have one action
left so i'm gonna do it in minus five and i'm gonna crit you just to spite you oh no i'll just
hit you normally but i'll only do six points of damage this time worth it worth it take six points
uh so so it's pseudo pod slaps you and it does three points of uh like bludgeoning and then three
points of again this this like touch of rot on you begins to sort of like gray your skin
slightly as it touches your your arm um it's just not my daddy no it's not uh then we come to the
one that's flanked and is just like angry at rahua so it's going to attack rahua i didn't do anything
to you you nearly yeah but but but volley was like rolled a natural one so it's mindlessness
doesn't consider volley a threat it considers you ouch that's right i'll miss really do be like that
i'll critically miss it really do be like that sometimes and then i'll critically miss again
very good very good ooze if it's any consolation you did get to beat up speaker really hard
i i had a moment where i did uh rahua you are you are up
oh god what the heck i gotta do with this crappy hit him oh no yeah like like the thing with these
guys is they don't have good ac so it's just about like chunk and help off them you chip them yeah i
smack him around a little i'm gonna beat up the one in front of me who thought it was going to try and
ruin my day okay bring it oh bring it yeah it pops a boil to like intimidate you i'm just gonna
attack with an arm to not get piercing and reduce my damage further but you don't no no no you like
piercing piercing still effective like yeah don't it it doesn't have any resistances it just has a lot
of health so you're gonna prove it good to use your thing 10 hit by nine yeah roll me some dimaggio
okay it's gonna be another one i'm feeling it god damn it what the fuck
you shouldn't have said nothing you're doing my big mouth
yeah i'm gonna take him again yeah very good
you see now now the gangsta's paradise nose has been replaced by the uh earthworm jim pain
noise from the early notes it's so fucking specific it's very specific
i like to imagine just seeing who uh just you know like that uh what's that movie of the
seeing this guy's or the shot of the dead or just beating the zombie it's just that for like an hour
i'm slowly killing it um okay do you have uh a second attack i do look you hit just by zero
roll me damage don't roll another one roo oh there we go he rolls a six rolls the god has arrived
and you have a third action roo i mean these these are terrible ac even with the minus 10.
the two beyond beating the out of these ports no no no i'm not taking pity on them they don't deserve pity
yeah because you best watch yourself mister okay do you miss you're not learning from my mistakes
this time please end your turns fine here we go baldrick you're up my friend there we go okay let's
do some here's how to do some real damage uh if you baldrick is going to step over the smoldering
splattered remains of this one because he doesn't want to touch that absolutely
nasty i assume like you cool walk just just no he doesn't cool walk he literally tiptoes over he
like you know that thing you do where you like you see a puddle you like arch your foot up and you
step over it yes do a big stepping oh not touching that right uh uh uh yeah that will do and i'm going
to target the one directly in the middle yep and a cocktail up another uh alchemist fire as soon as i
create another one shake a shake up shake shake shake shake shake shake shake shake shake another bomb
mind the heat uh is this one getting covered um in this case i'll say these are short enough you don't
have to worry about it epic epic gamer moment you'll hit barely i am barely barely okay roll me nice i
rolled a 12. nice roll me dimaggio or the fire i rolled that time oh big damage uh that's a seven
very good so i'll be seven on him he'll get persistent damage which i'll drag uh seven plus
three right plus three yeah yeah no i've got to apply that i'm going to apply the weaknesses manually
um the splash will hit the other one and will um like kill it so i'll just test it
um so kills the one in front of tanhezer and then the one over here will uh end up taking
uh or from the splash shapes
yeah why don't these damn things die
i don't know why it says and that's whatever
not impressed probably turn yeah volley uh so you like you see this chemical explosion in front
of you is the one in front of tanhouser like shrivels up and withers the other one is now on fire
and then you still have the one that like even through the fire of the bomb rahua keeps like
attacking with the pick all right i'm just gonna join rahua and just
the the precision damage isn't helping me here i'm just gonna start hitting it like
my sword this is like the worst curb stomping like exactly
all right all right let's just kick the thing yeah uh it should automatically apply the the the
plus two for flanking i've got that yeah okay epic epic gamer moment heavy all right
it does hit uh yeah i suppose yeah
good one you're chipping it down it takes the damage you like your first attack i feel like i
feel like that one episode of it and that he where the double d is holding up the plank just hit the
dang thing yeah yeah i'm not even stabbing it i'm just i'm just hitting it like with a stick at this
point keep quacking it keep going second one we can we can eat them and go to go it's like sound
they like term of the water we're not doing all right all right critical minutes on the second attack
yeah do we do we're so good at what we do i love that like i'm like i'll give them like these like
absolutely low ac things and you're just like gaming gaming moment all right stab slimes with boxing
there you go you hit you critically hit with a 19 to 17 total with minus 10. yay i sure wish i could
use a finisher hey don't you try getting these slimes card gauge
like need to wind up that's your problem like you and rahua need to like have a shitty roll and
then get angry and yeah exactly we're both just taking turns like swatting these things
okay commenter gets this right the gm low balls an encounter and then the dice decide to turn it
into a life and death struggle it's true it's true all right all right uh vali that's your your
go after you've like three action beat this thing yeah yeah just really ungracefully last turn i did a
back flip now i'm just kind of disturbing like everyone kind of thinks a little less of her
after this not because like oh she's so ungraceful it's just like it really shows that like a really
fucked up and violent nature wrong both of the corpses continue to smolder i guess they fail their
persistent checks to not be on fire they're filling the room with fumes we're slowly yeah exactly like
yes uh tan hauser you're up okay uh that's not how tan sounds it's a tan sounder it's a tan sounder
i transmogrify into a corner uh before i do that i should take my turn tell you um the revolution i mean
i will move to the flank of this slime and i'll show them i'll show them the power of my ideology
it bubbles in response
you hear baldrick shout how about you show them the ideology of hit them with a damn sword
dialectically you should shut the hell up
and uh please all right attack are going to please end my suffering i'm going to introduce
this thesis to its antithesis and we'll synthesize its depth right yeah yeah roll that regular damage
because you can't credit all right five you want you should know we're only critting these things
because their ac sucks so much oh it's so bad which is why he made them immune to crits
yeah bastard that shows his work i'm going to get the gouging claw damage reloaded
oh okay there's nine so that is nice so that's nine plus what was the other one five four
that's 14 damage yeah i've got it all in there yeah splash yeah yeah as it's like on the fire
hurting zone yeah it's always good to say it out loud because there'll be people on podcasts going
what was it man what was the wrong i just want to say between all the globules being thrown between
all the blunt damage and explosions i've been using gouging claw which is presumably like
bisecting these slimes this room is probably like completely black with just it smells bad there's
gas it's yeah it's just this room ought to smell like a fucking blood board level thank you
oh stinky please just know before i kill everyone in the room
all right cool orange gonna wind up with another electric arc and go you see this slams
uh staff slam down and go shabam they need to make a reflex save yes okay can i do it yes thanks windows
that fail we got 12 on one roll they have to beat an 18 for context okay so they both fail
not a goddamn thing righteous fail that's going to be seven damage total oh that one's out
one is left on fire with very little of its health remaining why does uh only one take three well
that's right that's how much he had left and then he died that's right my bad yes one's down the other
one's there and god i wish i had a single attack thingy throw your spear at it
just whack it yeah just throw your spear like i only have a staff i am so tempted just to chuck it
i barely use it anyway but no i'll uh i'll leave the kill uh to rahua i think rahua needs the final
kill because his turn's coming up so he will end his turn okay that or the persistent fire damage
will say this is gonna go it's gonna turn to tanhauser it's gonna watch me crit tanhauser three
times in a row um you you're gonna hurt me too i'm gonna hit you i'm gonna hit you for nine points
damage so how did you how the fuck did you hit that i rolled like an 11 and then it got up plus nine
so it's 20 on you um okay sweaty we'll let it go
wow i'm gonna click the supply damage button here yeah oh i played the damage to it no no no
yeah
i mean the system doesn't make mistakes chaos chaos
the damage i did it did it's not dead it's also not invisible also i'm clicking all the wrong buttons
wrong button wrong one get four hd yeah there you go all right all right all right then then it's
going to attack you again attack is a man it's going to hit you again because i roll a 17 on the second
attack they're not impressed the sludger does he'll he's afraid and then and then the third attack i
could only possibly do this under 20. it comes to him here comes the 20. there it comes
no i couldn't clean this there we go um and then let's uh let's let the let the game do its math
no uh it it did quite dies too uh it quite it quite does it it it does that like uh that youtube video
where the guy lights his own fart on fire and explodes yeah he did so it like it like like
pseudopods go striking out onto tanhauser like bashing you around impacting you heavily and then it
it burns itself out as it collapses down oh the reactionary fervor is now depleted all according
to plan right tanny absolutely not i'm covered in slime you are covered in a bit of gook huh
you're here go back to the pool his his ribs are broken
yeah like like it's like darth bader and he takes off the helmet spoilers for episode six
and uh he's like you hear all this fucking apparatus totally gunked up that's what's
happening here but it's actually gunk he's his bones he has bones in his mouth no his bones his old
bad bones oh you're looking awful as my friend said you look fucked up really really
fucked up i assure you i feel worse than i look that right is she like bleeding from multiple
points oh like it's more than like not bleeding because there wasn't any cuts it's just more like
he took a lot of impact damage and there's sections of his skin that have just been grayed
by rot and he's bruised like he's been in like with a boxer except the boxer was like sludge
oh no all right all right hold still hold still uh because because i'm level two now i finally have
uh the ability to mix a delicious martini in the form of the elixir of life minor
and i will do so i will waste one of my imbued ingredients and conjure up an elixir of life for
you speaker d i will also assist in the healing process uh how can i discuss how can i give this
to him use yeah i just use it and i can i can click the heal button so there you go you get four
congrats god i fucking hate this thing healing healing alchemist blows it's it's more it's very
situational yeah yeah does our cleric have any ability to heal yet i do actually
i do let's see can i target him with natural medicine without trigger a healing thing for him
or just uh so do you want to like you could spend time to treat deadly wounds which is basically you
like all decide to okay we're gonna take like a 10 minute breather here and you can then use like
medicine or in your case nature um to to treat uh treat wounds and so it's essentially like a dc
15 check and if you succeed they regain 2d8 uh if you crit succeed they regain 48 if you crit fail they
take 1d8 so may i may i suggest something then yes in character yes all right you guys look like you
got the snot beat out of you oran why don't you and me check out this damn crystal for who it can
you take those two back to the other braziers and heal them i'm feeling fine yeah let's make sure that
molly doesn't need anything yeah the tannhauser's good first then i can join you and help you out yeah
i'll be up here you might need tannhauser for this too go ahead do what you can with this crystal
if you need to bring me a sample i am going to go sit in the healing jacuzzi and when i return we will
proceed yeah that's not good yeah considering the healing jacuzzi is a bit far also it didn't heal you
yeah yeah yeah like oh i like the idea that you think it helps but it like like oren clearly tests
it's a placebo yeah pool of placebo in that case i'll just take out one of our bottles of spring
water and just start drinking out he was he was just suggesting you guys like get away from the
crystal because he doesn't know if this thing is going to make it worse yeesh how about though as we
figure this out let's maybe let's take our break here because it's oh yeah we haven't taken a break
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everybody hello hello we back we out here hello i want sort of free games it's a tall order not anymore
this is what to play to the paper okay so why don't we go over what we were going to do huh
yeah yeah so i think we're going to heal uh so i think we're who it basically needs to make a
uh a nature check to heal the old tanhouser
tanhouser will let me heal him i will allow this to occur okay and like last time a horrible panoply of
vines washes over tanhouser snakes up your wounded parts of your body really enjoy seeing all the blobs
become flat-footed that's right we're going to get a 22. so that's good that'll be enough to give
him 2d8 healing back let's hope they're good yeah don't mess this up roll the 2d8 2d8 rehuva
oh no i did 2d6 oh it's gonna be less do 2d8 do it oh fuck get out of my way steam overlay
what do you guys your steam overlay up yeah what what is happening over there do his
but i think it's a man 13. dean bam oh
i'll get 13 health back and how's your you look at the fallout three stem pack noise
yeah then oren will come in and do battlefield medicine i'm like hey i can help
positive the rest of this very well we'll do battlefield he will first you'll first have to
cast um because i do not have a healer skin i'll cast healing plaster which basically allows me to
get dirt and go and now it turns into healing kit stuff basically and then
i roll a nature check because i have natural medicine to attempt a healing check on you
i almost saw the one but i do get a 15 uh so do pass to dc in which i heal you for 2d8
which that will be terrible five okay hey that's um that's enough to get me to almost full nice
we're all animals what and animals something something thank you oren yeah no problem man oren yeah
you flap your way over here okay over the corpses
uh so
so why don't we approach this from two different angles you look at it with your more nature-attuned
eyes and i'll see if this thing's actually alchemical in nature or whatever i can learn
tennhauser can also help in some of the magical departments that's right tennhauser get your ass up
here you might not believe this but i went to college you might not believe this but i also
went to college what'd you major in who the hell's rolling something i'm gonna kick your political science
really i would guess pottery
that would be a pretty dumb guess
i'll uh i'll activate my uh evil nanomachines 14 for this one um uh you're you're not familiar baldrick
um never seen this before oh 25 on my arcana roll yeah um so so you're able to to do some detection
here on this large crystalline um growth uh you can tell uh tennhauser that this is a like natural
crystal formation that is basically had the equivalent of a continual light spell cast on it
so it is actually just a very pretty rock in the room that has been magically enchanted to provide the
light interesting um can i try to cut a piece of it off yeah absolutely i would like to assist and also
get a piece okay you can tell that as you're cutting pieces off of it like it's not glowing anymore like
anything you take off of it the magic does not seem to go with it magic i wish it was as certain as
metal alas this rock is but a natural formation the only thing mystic about it is the light spell
cast i was hoping we could bring it with us but it seems as though it was meant solely to eliminate
this corridor that's odd that seems suspiciously intentional hey volley do you want to give me a
perception check i would love to give you a perception check the person currently not like
focused on the big gloomy crystal oh i saw that one that's a 19 okay uh so you do notice a few things
first of all um in the alcoves here to the south uh though you don't have light to like the dark area
here the the glowing crystal illuminates a section down here where you do notice um there's like
a skull that has a small uh leather satchel by it hmm uh and you also notice as you depart uh like the
tangled uh web of like roots and such here to the north you notice something kind of glint uh off of
the off of the crystalline light there like an object that's in the roots hmm i'm gonna lean down and i'm
gonna snatch up this little pouch sure um uh and then i hear the jingle of glass as you as you grab
it oh and i'm going to uh crack it open while i meander over to uh over to the virus yeah this is
this is all kind of going on as they're like checking out the crystal and like rahua and um
tanhauser taking off bits of it and yeah uh okay so you're able to um first of all uh see that
the the um inside the inside the satchel are uh two two vials filled with red liquid
um and then what appears to be a vial but it's full of like some kind of green growth
um and there's like a slip of of paper that has like scrawled notes um which you guess to be some
kind of like maybe mathematical equations huh going to squint down at the mathematical occasions
or occasions equations equations can somebody who went to college come determine what these mean
i played college ball you know and i'll go and grab it yeah i'm going to walk between baldrick and
tanhauser and just hold out the uh the vials that i found and stuff and this looks more like your
wheelhouse unless this is uh i kind of shake it i don't think it's whiskey i wouldn't imagine it is
if it is i have dibs sure uh i will roll a 19 for alchemy on which hang on that would be
that would be a plus two because i don't have alchemical savant okay i will do it on the growth
first so add a plus two okay so i will explain what this is as you have identified it um so you
identify this as a moss bomb which is a like colony of primal moss that has essentially been put into
a bomb form um and the equation that volley has as well that is a formula on how to make these with
like infused reagents or like general reagents you can purchase baldrick is just steadily reading over
this and he he kind of like looks between the paper and the little jar in his hand that's uh this is
not chemical script oh hang on let me look at this he he rips them away from volley and begins to turn
to the breed in the light okay okay you sure you haven't been here before this isn't your stash or something
mixture of the natural ingredient here and then you that's fine and a diameter not the radius
i'm just gonna be leaning annoyingly over his shoulder and just oh yeah no that that's what i
was thinking he's muttering incoherently to himself as he reads through it i have uh i have appended the
the formula for a lesser moss bomb onto your character sheet as a known formula you now have
thank you very much yes uh along with that i will also be providing you in your inventory equipment
one uh moss bomb uh and this will be a permanent one this will not be one that i can correct this
is not like this is one that you okay yeah exactly very nice very interesting uh you would know basically
for the audience and what these do is um these do 2d6 moss damage and two moss splash damage
moss is a type of thing that only affects creatures that have an inherent weakness to it so typically
rot creatures because primal moss opposes the rot so if you threw like moss at a regular person it
wouldn't do anything but if you fought something that was like rot tainted um this would do 2d6 moss damage
and 2d6 moss splash damage as a first level bomb
hmm interesting this seems to be more of a counteractive measure against rot than anything
useful well not i say useful given that most of what i use these things on tend to be living or
otherwise you know considered alive but this could have some use against rot touch creatures that
actually is quite useful what a nice find actually let me see is there anything else i need for this
something you scan he goes and you're scanning the paper do you want to give me a quick crafting
check just on the other liquids real quick um just as you're doing this volleys like dangling it over
him like what about this one yeah exactly what about these two raspberry ones is it is it bothering you
when i tap on your helmet like this that quit it echoes in here he'll he'll stuff the moss bomb in
his pocket and curl up the the alchemical note and stuff it in his pack and he'll protect them over
yeah just give me one crafting check they're basically the same oh damn it it was almost a
it's a 17 is that good enough do you get the plus two on that as well it's oh you've got okay uh
yeah i know you're i was just making sure uh that will be enough you identify these as two lesser
healing potions so these are the ones that are uh 2d8 plus five hit points
what i'm going to do is drag these over to the people's loot so that you have them and can
distribute them to who you want to yeah honestly just split these up between yourselves
it's not liquor you can't enjoy it like that oh bummer well if you were to quaff it like beer
i'd cut you open and take it back out it's much more useful than liquor oh geez that's a little
a little much but i understand don't waste useful reagents like that this shit's expensive you're right
you can don't drink liquor it's used for molotovs yeah
baldrick and 10 out of high five what are you talking about you just hear a loud crunching from
behind yeah who was just kind of munching on the crystal that he broke off
how does it taste hope it's not radioactive i don't know what you taste like i honestly
here try mine and i'll andrew the one i broke off right here who will also eat the chunk of crystal
quick thing yeah you uh you're from how's your nature looking at with this thing
kind of determines it's not really uh useful but i kind of want to know what mineral this is
does well it's a closer look i'll roll an interesting to see uh what i know about it
and i got a 27 big yeah um so so you notice a few things in this room first of all the the deal
you would get the same as like tannhauser did knowing that the illumination here is is purely
aesthetical like this isn't anything like magical with a purpose it's more like here's this nice glow for
the room uh you know that the like gem formations like this are often associated um with the the
deity that you know as ing taus or mama decay as she is like known in in common circles uh the sort of
like matron of the the elements of earth um and you would know that as well that there's like a symbol
of mama decay that's like etched into the ground over here that you're seeing illuminated by the light as
well and then kind of looking at the chamber this is probably like a place where uh servants of of
like ing taus were actually like buried in the the southern mausoleum section uh the crystal was
probably just sort of an homage to uh to that deity yeah not much not much importance with this rock
i'm afraid well just as well that's i think we can go ahead and check the other stuff but uh
baldrick i have a question what's up you you'd live in this city for a while right yeah no one talks
the way i talk like right no not a single soul not as far as i've lived damn it
like oran's been pondering the entire time as he's been listening to everyone and he's like my
dad told me if i talked like this i'd blend in i haven't found a single person who talks like this
wait i know someone who talks like that
oran looks uh but he did get run over by the chainsaw car so i don't know if you can still
that work i'm just adding that to my now what the chainsaw car we've all seen it don't be dramatic
not personally no well you will what is this chainsaw car listen of which you speak listen
we'll talk about the cubist later we gotta move on that's right wait before we do rahua yes i know
you're very beat up about jeremy i mean not really it might not have been his you are incredibly
emotional but yeah he's crying right now this feels incredibly as my friend would say patronizing but go
on no no anyway before jeremy died uh well after jeremy died i obtained his hat and i don't know if
jeremy wanted anything on account of him being a crab free of all worldly desires
acceptable crab desires but i figured you should have it to carry on his legacy
okay now rahua i know you're very emotional about all of this
i get it right i do not really feel but okay rahua it's okay i understand how you feel or don't feel
let's let's suffocate our emotions together and i'll hand rahua the hat
you have oh what was the expression you have a lot of demons tanhauser uh volley uh real quick
before you depart that uh there was an object up here as well were you looking at that oh yes i very
much was emotional projection moments yeah so as they're having this lovely emotional moment everyone
has left volley like starts to leave turns around comes back um you notice that like amongst the roots
here are a pair of um discarded bracers that sort of have like a uh like like kind of a little sorry a
bracelet i suppose um like a nice metal sheen it looks out of place from the other items here it
kind of reflected off it has almost like a a purple coloration to it oh not really my aesthetic but uh
i'm gonna i'm gonna put it on kind of examine it admire it okay it looks it looks super cool
looks really high quality oh check it out somebody left the jewelry behind
excellent more fuel for our endeavors
it could pay a good bribe oh it could but i like how it looks on me
wait i think it looks quite nice oh thank you rahua you're my favorite
i went the wrong way i thought that you were somewhere else i got lost i never thought i'd see
you again that's okay tanny well let's head up let's head upstairs everyone wait hold on we
haven't finished exploring this place quite yet that's true there's a whole nother alcove down there
that's right we have so much to leave the best behind
well if you want to go down all we saw was a weird green rock and some moss in a jar come on there's
got to be more i'm really more concerned with getting out of this hole than anything else but
yeah there may be well the way out wasn't the way we came
i mean you've gone you've been going down like going in this area is going down okay all right um
my my good friend rahua as you continue to explore a few things are going on first of all um as you
reach this area you see a chamber uh that sort of expands outwards to uh the west and the east there is
a large mural uh that covers 15 feet of this wall going up almost 25 feet tall it is a stylized
display um on on this display what you what you see and or and you see this and volley you kind of come
behind and tannhauser you're sort of seeing it um you see um essentially
is it's depicting a raging storm that is above a small field of homes and farms and there's little
like stylized people who are huddled inside the buildings like you can kind of see like their heads
in like carved windows and stuff looking up uh and this storm is is raining down on them but
the majority of the storm is going to the other like side of this mural where there is a castle with
a king and the the storm is just beating down incessantly on the castle um what you also see
is that from the storm are three riders um and they seem to be riding like on the storm itself like
riding lightning um and each of them has like very distinct faces uh they they all seem sort of elfin in
nature and one of them appears to be volley huh volley hey look you got fanart
uh why are you on this very old and sunken mural a baldrick were you coming up as well he was he was
trying to but then you paused the game i had to pause the game just so they didn't keep freaking running
around uncontrolled okay um i i i couldn't tell you why i'm huh so as you like walk into the room you
can see a few other things as well the hall here uh that goes like west to east uh that is this chamber
um the ceiling here is much lower it's only about 15 feet tall and the the ceiling here is covered in
dangling bone wind chimes um the the the ground here seems to have some areas that appeared like
like really chilled and in fact you notice not a like uncomfortable chill but just a slight chill as
you enter here um or and you once again sort of see some of the the symbols on the ground and on the
murals and recognize that these this is like in homage to another one of the elemental powers in this
came in this case um zashur or papa storm as he is known
is there no specific story it's telling or is this kind of like yeah he's cool
well it's like his symbol on the ground the mural is very much telling a like a depiction of papa storm
like raining down elemental fury on both the weak and the strong though the strong seem to be taking the
brunt of of the elemental damage uh there's two side chambers like like that are connected as part of
this larger chamber here and here um which if you kind of like walk off and see they're they're they're
semi-octagonal chambers but the 10 feet foot centers of them have additional runes on them as well
uh and those runes display and or and you would see this if i'm shifting over here don't worry
uh like you'd see like this is the rune for like strength and then over on the other side you see
the rune here for weakness on the ground
okay
sorry i'm noting things down is like i i relay this to the party
uh
strength and weakness
i imagine we'd want to go to the strength side right
but it is the strong that are being cast down
or at least in a worse manner than the weak
that's true maybe we try both
no let us try the strong first and whether whatever retribution comes
anyone make anything in this mural
can't say i do i'm not a religious person sorry me neither
yes can i uh can i make a nature check at how long sylphs live
uh average lifespan yeah sure i like now that you're like what the
fuck is going on here never ask a woman her age yeah true correct that's why i'm not asking i'm relying
on my brain you who have lived all of three years but technically i've always lived and always will live
baby boy baby
ooh tiny baby 16. um sure as fuck not that long like his place is way older than a self should live
now when you said it looked like volley did you mean like down to the outfit
um like or just like close approximation but the face is like the body itself is dead on
i think that you are much older than it appears or that you tumble through the corridors of time and
now you have fan art i i mean one rude never ask a lady her age i didn't know that but now i do
well i'm glad we're learning this together and two it's probably just a coincidence i mean i'm
flattered to see the legend of someone as uh prolific as me and i toss my hair a little represented in
this random shithole and outset but you know damn that answer is not satisfactory volley what do you
want me to say i want you to take us by the hand and help us understand why you are one of the riders on the storm
well i don't know frankly i would tell you if i did
can we just move on yes i suppose that's good enough for me all right let's go press the strong button
okay horn heads over to the room and steps on it okay you may move yourself there i try to but there was
collision okay so as you step on it there is like a moment where the the rune begins to glow like
with a blue energy as you stand on it i apologize like cat she cannot stop crying let me go put her in
the living room kitty honey can you stop and yeah so so oran you step on the rune and the rune of strength
begins to glow
hey someone else will stand the other one
i will stand on the weak rune and i'll go do that okay this feels like a dangerous idea what are
the the rest of you doing as tanhauser is moving to there honestly baldrick has like no intent of
getting involved in whatever is happening here so he's just kind of like waiting and watching for
something stupid to happen okay like okay cool uh volley is standing constantly yes so who's just
going to stand kind of in the middle here by the mural yeah just again because he's vex as to
things that don't add up okay and uh volley so so um tanhauser is going to go stand on the other
room the first one like radiated magical energy um uh what are you doing as this is uh
is this as this is happening baldrick's kind of staying back out of the way rahua's sort of
like just standing in the middle of the room uh what are you doing as this happens
hmm yeah i'm gonna kind of step back away from the mural kind of between rahua and baldrick and just kind of
just kind of shifty eyes looking around this place a little a little uncomfortable now cool okay um
could i get uh each of you to put your tokens into a combat state oh you know since you asked
so nicely i think i can make it happen yeah i'd like that oh it says there's no active encounter here
we go there we go there we go yeah good good good uh okay so yeah i'll get you just all to roll
perception here this is all going to be perception based damn station oh there we go damn okay so that was
let me just roll this up nice nice i got a fucking huge 11. cool for the rolls oran uh got a natural
20 valley got a natural 20 but oran got a 28 total valley got a 26 total 10 how's i got a 22 total
rahua got a 12 total and baldrick got 11 total okay so this is what happens uh as we begin this
encounter um as tanhauser steps on the other glyph a few things happen at once first of all um a
whipping gale fills the room the wind sort of cycling along a path um going basically around
the edges of the room and everything becomes exceptionally cold very quickly um along with
that um the runes seem to like crackle with electrical energy um and you can see that um they
they seem to be like yeah like just emitting this this energy now baldrick as this happens you you feel
like a pressure wave in your in your ears briefly as like i guess for who you would also feel some
kind of pressure wave nearby like like something happened to the air near you that isn't just the
chill the the bone chimes all begin to jingle and that gives off this like kind of like beautiful
melody in the background of this like wishing gale um so
oran you get to go first as this happens what do you do
uh there's not much i can do at this point yeah okay so you're just gonna like sit and wait and
kind of i'll have to delay my turn okay perfect uh volley uh you see all of this happening it's
getting awfully cold for you uh what are what are you doing oh god uh all of this happening uh um
um i'm just going to hmm i should probably pick a side to go uh tannhauser's at the strength side
right uh no he's at the weak side oh he's at the weak side okay strength side yeah we um i'll probably
just move to go and support oran okay so like stand in the rune with him uh just jesus christ oh no
what the hell is happening over there i'm going to assume
there's that's a fire alarm yeah are you guys in an apartment yeah is it in your house
oh shit the whole building is going to hit with this fire alarm oh no oh my god we're gonna we're
gonna probably have to investigate this real quick just in case there's a fire
yeah look you you know to go take care of that real quick we'll wait like we'll wait a bit for
any news because someone could have just pulled it or something yeah don't be safe
sorry sorry for the erupt ending um odoroshi's apartment where speaker d was visiting at the
time uh their water main broke basically because texas has been going through a couple freezes and
texas just doesn't know how to handle cold um basically things have been exploding water pipes
have been exploding and the apartment complex main uh water pipe thing just erupted and burst and
started flooding places odoroshi and speaker are fine the kiddies are fine everything's fine so no
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