Rotgrind - Narrative Declaration

All righty chat, are you ready for another exciting episode of Roadcrind?
Welcome back, everyone, to another exciting episode of Roadcrind.
I am your host, Zoran the Bear, playing Oren the Strix Druid, and I will introduce all
the amazing individuals here that bring you the awesome show, Roadcrind, starting off with
Oda Roshi.
Hello, hello, I'm Odo, I'm playing Valli, the sylph swashbuckler, and I ate a lot of food.
My tummy hurts, and I'm being so brave about it.
So brave.
They're brave.
So brave.
So brave.
Big class.
Big class.
Big class.
Oh, thank you.
Oh, my God.
Oh, thank you so much.
Big class.
I'm so glad you were so strong to be here.
Please clap.
Thank you.
Please clap.
Next up, we have the ever-towering, the ever-sun-eating,
the ever-amazing captain of our lives, Hulky Crow.
Hello, that is me.
I am playing the Konrasu Cleric Rahua,
and I got the chance to touch a real-life,
big-ass hermit crab in the ocean.
That's awesome.
That's cool.
That's cool.
How big is big ass?
Like, plate size?
He was the size of my hand.
He was a big boy.
I've never touched my crab that big.
Big boy.
Biggibus boy.
They get that big?
Oh, yeah.
Bro, perfect crabs are insane.
They can get, like, head-sized if you let them.
Yeah.
What the hell?
If you have a small head.
They took out a million crabs.
If you have a small head.
Those were coconut crabs.
They're different.
I don't want to fucking touch them.
They're cousins.
I took my hands off.
It's a family affair.
Of course, after that, we have our resident buckethead,
an amazing individual,
someone who's always enjoyed to be around,
Erendil.
Hi, I'm Erendil, and I will be, uh...
Doing your mom!
I will be playing as, uh...
Baldrick, the alchemist,
and I look forward to exploding something soon.
Soon?
Probably not.
We'll see.
And then, of course, we have
the ever-revolutionary
master of spells and wizardry,
Mr. Speaker D.
Yes.
I am Speaker D!
And, uh...
I also ate a lot of food,
and my tummy is very
oh-so-hardy-hardy,
but I'm not being grave about it at all.
I'm a coward.
So coward.
Everyone...
Odoroshi.
Oh, could you?
How could you do this?
So cheerful.
Please clap.
Please clap.
then of course we have the one who curses us all who spreads to rot everywhere that he goes
the one that will corrupt our characters to the very core and then probably turn into boss
monsters or something i don't know what's going to happen the most amazing game master in the world
thurston hillman hello all right good so good yeah so brave so brave so brave oh my god
all right so quick things before we start to show don't don't skip away you probably want to listen
to this part um because it's very important for the campaign and things like that we're changing
some stuff we're changing some roles a bit especially with the complications so two things
will be happening first off uh complications are being adjusted after some people's feedback and
after re-looking at it and stuff everything else uh we found the complications in the system that's
going with it every time we roll a natural one it just felt weird we were still trying to figure it
out a little bit see what would work best for the show player experience all that stuff because
this is our game you know we're we still want to play a game and have fun with it but we also want
to put on a show for you and uh what we think what might be best yeah we'll try this out for a little
bit what we think is a the best solution so far is that we're changing the complication to be if we
roll a natural one we cannot hero point it that is the major change so if we roll a natural one we can't
just roll it away so then the complication happens and then it's like it's weird you know we tried
this over over at raccoons and it seemed to work great so for this then we're going to apply that
to here to where uh we're going to basically every time we roll a natural one we can't get rid of it
with a with a hero point we we're stuck with it and the complication goes in with full so it makes
the game a little bit harder for us but it's more entertaining for you guys it makes things a little
bit more exciting for us um we feel like this could work out really well and with our death mechanic
with the rot and stuff like that uh i feel this could be really really interesting so please give
us feedback on patreon and stuff and speaking of patreon um for those of you there will be a post
coming out either later on tonight or tomorrow more than likely tomorrow that we are getting rid of
our antagonist tier the antagonist tier is basically where you submit the complications
to where you go hey i want to submit a complication and have it affect us that is still happening we
are getting rid of the tier and we are going to be combining it to the five dollar tier so we're
basically making it cheaper and allowing more people to basically submit to it uh we will try to
be adjusting the current tier um for that to be a little bit lower just so people don't get charged
for this month and stuff but yeah you will we'll do our best to kind of do that so we don't screw
people over so but if something just happened to you just dm me on discord i'll try my best to help
you out but um those are the big major complicate big major well not complication complication
adjustments for the campaign and of course if you like what we do here please head over to our
youtube channel um for narrative declaration head over to our twitter narrative to claire
and also uh visit us on patreon at patreon.com forward slash narrative declaration where you can
help us see all the amazing stuff we get get all the cool assets that we get and see everything
that we do but with all of that thurston
thurston thurston hello what adventure do you have for us today
well i guess i have an adventure prepared or something all right all right all right i'm gonna
go to bed okay well good night it's good i guess i sure i mean
get on with it all right well okay well last time our destined band chuckle fucks made their way
deeper into the giant metal cube in the swamp uh they traveled onto the second floor which they found
covered in in blood and what seemed to be like the the remains of some kind of testing
site they began searching around in which they uncovered documents several documents left behind
by someone some researcher alchemist who'd been working out of this this area um they they continued
on through several rooms as they as they made their way into the subsequent rooms they were attacked by
these strange perfectite creatures uh these entities that sort of loomed around um that looked like
decahedrons with spikes that shot electricity and they got into a to a good old rough and tumble with
those um which they they managed to do okay also during all of this rahua was was gathering sunlight
um following following following this they started traveling into some of the the rooms on this floor
where they found a larger alchemical lab which had mostly been abandoned um they found a room with like
smashed perfectite bits in it uh along with a chest which they have now taken to lugging around and have yet to
open uh then they also found a hole uh in one of the rooms a hole that led down to the deeper deep
well deepest level of of the cube uh where oran had briefly gone down before being assailed by spectral hands
um during all of this they were also a bunch of assholes to the best character in the campaign
picture and squelchfoot um and picturn is sort of uh sort of sort of taken at heart and um is uh
kind of kind of kind of sad right now but uh that is basically where we left off they had uh
basically rallied to to find picturn and said some things to him uh our our good friend baldrick had
been in the alchemical lab working and investigating there trying to find more information they have this
chest they have a hole that leads down to a larger larger chamber where oran briefly saw a glowing
chest in a murky mire but then again was attacked by spectral hands before flying out and that about
sums up where we are at i'm just gonna bring us right back into the action here and we come back
here and uh also you know i'll uh i'll drag uh i'll drag another like little little buddy onto here let's
let's have a rahua it's a rahua here we go rahua you step down the stairs after uh soaking in sun following uh
last week's little little discoveries what are you all doing now
killing you i think it's time we left this we have to go into the swamp and drink water
no all right oh i love swamp juice hunt down the game master and really take control of our lives
if there is nothing left for me to investigate in this room thurston
uh i'm going to look into a way to descend down into the pit below safe
okay yeah absolutely you can all right i'm going to move there then
before i fall down there i'm going to take
maybe the rug that's in the alchemical room and i'm going to toss it down
okay it would like but what's gonna tie in the air and then like lands um roll me a d20 okay
got an eight it catches it goes a bit to the to the west you can tell it partially lands in some of
like the submerged water which soaks up into it okay
nothing else happens nothing else happens okay are we going down here or what
uh do we still have a picturn hoist aloft in our hands uh well picturn was like kind of back it away
from you and then rahua marched menacingly down the stairs i mean
frame her moment um and then picturn it sort of stopped and that was kind of where we're gonna
start up things oh hi rahua oh hello i'm your friend now what oh oh um
thought i was always your friend you you are sort of like an acquaintance mostly picture and i don't
know you that well but that's good i'm glad you're our friend now that's wonderful what did i miss
i thought uh only a couple of minutes in the past i was just summing myself we found a precision
of some of the most devastating terrifying and depressing documents that we had yet found
we also found a big hole yes we did find that as well and then baldrick said some things to
picturn and now picturn is depressed but we have fortunately cured him of this ailment
is that true is picturn actually not depressed anymore are you i look at picturn picturn are you
still depressed i like the idea that you turn to him with again your glowing armor like
glowing armor guys glowing green covered in the cowl i'll just go to wonder tin how sad are you
are you are you right now picturn yes you know i kind of feel like i think my sister felt on the day
of the summer festival the bad one now as i said that entire festival went real south real fast after
you know the cart got loose and oh all them chickens everywhere that was no good and you know i was
one with the pigs what i thought that was the one with the wild hogs eating people well yeah that came
later oh i don't you listen to anything first of all the carriage got let loose and then it rammed
into a barn and that sent the chickens going everywhere but once the chickens started going
everywhere we're thinking he'll want to hear this mr bodrick mr bodrick or an action was just going to
heal himself up but he's like mr bodrick picture that's something you can pardon to say and he's
so funny how much damage does a coring charge
great idea mr bodrick we can give it the picture and as he runs into the enemy he's gonna fix
no i'm still assessing how to get down into the pit so you know
well we've got grappling he's sort of still depressed i think we can address that later i want to know
about the hole what show me the hole right now please all right i will show it to you picture and
come along um and i am going to oh my god i don't know what this does whenever you move your character
it has like you've created some kind of permanently you have you have him in the initiative thing you
still technically have him in a turn so that's why oh my god okay briefly we saw every means by
which chan hauser could have walked through this room yeah many creatures but which you chose the
wrong one again tan hauser when will you learn speaker have you seen that gif of uh the gift for
the animation where the guy's looking at the rain but the beam things like you've memorized all of the
dark soul bosses attacks so he goes to the rain yes teleporting left and right
all right uh chan hauser's gonna push past baldrick so we're going towards descend yeah trying to do
that carefully well fortunately for you i have a climbing kit and uh i'm going to take that out i'm
going to start hammering in just some uh uh uh pistons uh titans whatever i don't care whatever whatever
whatever that is titans you're right like in their declaration he has oh oh
classic speaker d move get something wrong going i don't care and then it's like
you better start caring fucko give me a nihilism is bad don't care about anything i will continue
nothing more than to make a reflex thank you 19 on the dice good you're good the the ground here as
determined by prior um by prior complications is fairly slippery but you managed to come in here and
and put some pitons into into the like the sort of metal work of of the floor um getting them just
just enough that you you are fairly certain this rope will not collapse unless the entire floor here
collapses i turned everyone i'm fairly certain that this rope will not collapse unless the entire floor
collapses in which case we'll have to get really good at jumping okay so jump in well i oh orn yes you he's
gonna say he has wings that's what's gonna happen here mr tannehauser i have an idea
it's silly i don't have to worry about it further collapsing uh oren will go like he'll just pitter
patter over this little bird feet just over to like one of the tables in here and he'll take the spare
rope and it's like if we tie if we tie the rope like kind of like in the middle of this table and then
like lay it longwise it'll like be braced up against the wall of the door and that rope can then
get attached to your rope so if it ever like crumbles or so it'll still be attached to that
and the table could be an anchor do it that's okay okay okay i'm proud of you buddy i like to
imagine slowly drag the table like could you help me i'm too weak and burn iron for this
sure i yes i can help you i like to imagine whenever you're doing that little pitter patter
noise oran's arms are just out at his sides like a t-pose he's just going like back and forth like
wobbling side to side like and also it's important to note oran is tied for highest
wisdom in the party so this makes complete sense he's very wise very wise know what i'm doing also
is there a drug rug in there i threw that rug down it's not there anymore yeah it was it was tying
the room together but it really wasn't the fuck baldrick because i wanted to see if it would trigger
any more attacks in fact if possible i'd like to continue throwing junk down there so we can have
something to stand on all right pick turn get in here we have a whole bunch of crates and barrels
here mr bodrick we could throw those down too what do you need mr rahua i i mean rahua i i i don't i
i don't he coming um anyways thurston i i would like to i would like to start throwing junk down
into the pit before we carry on with this inane sidetrack that's why i can't that's why i brought
picture no you can throw him what no take him up throw the baby you know i tried really hard last
session to get him to be quiet and then it's just like undone and now you're back to like oh i wish
it would be quiet and i'm just like you people don't deserve me we're just i'm an avatar of chaos
i can't i don't have to explain are you suggesting that i should go because i'll go down there if you
won't no don't can i just throw trash in the hole yeah yeah i assume that's what you're doing i'm gonna
kill you going trash in the hole so what's what we're trying to do why are you stalling
so so there's just a little bit what i want to do so you can fit me in wherever you'd like
oh yeah i want to set the table rope system so if it ever collapses we still have a rope with an anchor
yeah and i want to basically do first aid on myself and i'll do first aid on rahua i can't do it
anybody else because they've all on cooldown um because i don't think an hour has passed so i
want to do some checks and so so everyone if they want to roleplay i guess all right cool i'll just
do that yeah yeah well you know uh we got this rope here set up looks like orange doing a good job
with i suppose i could go down there you know that's wouldn't be the first squelchfoot who's walked
into adventure before oh all right what a crit on a 32 nature for healing yes that'll great oh thank you
48. only 11 thanks game very funny i'll get rid of here
picton yeah why is your family called squelchfoot well that's a funny story because we didn't grow up in
no swamps but you see sometimes it got real rainy where we were at and i guess one of my great great
great great great great great great great great great great great yeah great yes uh boulder
okay i'm gonna lose my mind steadily here i climb down the rope
like as he's as he's going great great great great i quit fuck it continue we know it's dangerous
who cares i knew you we're all gonna die someday can i please i've already done that mr tannhauser it's not
great your voice ישRA but she's trying to ask fish jesus christ i wanted to keep on the ground
junior you guys you guys are in a mood today
also thank you for the healing orin you are my best
okay i feel like for my own personal safety the the chair recognizes urndale
yes
is there
sufficient junk beneath
the rope for us to stand
on
yes I will say there is enough
for like a five by five foot
area of like
thank you that was all I wanted to
ask and everyone was giving me a hard
time about it
oh
oh man I have so much temptation
just go down there and move the rug
I don't give a shit about the rug
the rug's off course I was throwing like
crates and shit if I didn't
think that Erndel would come to my location
and kill me that would be the next bit
no move the rug move the rug
outside we'll do it
ties the swamp water together
move it around like a goddamn
bounty paper towel see if I give a shit
the rug is not my point of concern
we have turned this bit which could
take one minute to resolve
into a ten minute bit with no resolution
oh fuck the rock grind way
explode
I'm sensing some
tension from you Erndel what's going on
with you
oh it's called hypertension and I've got it
is it possible to have a place
oh we love you buddy
I know
let's descend I'm done with this room
so uh tanhouser I believe you were
going to descend first
I will take the first napkin yes
okay okay
you're getting the party leader
you're you're
as the revolutionary head I will be the vanguard
go for it
and I will leap into the
into the swamp death
from the rope
I assume you are sliding down
that is the word
that is the operative bird
please roll for rug burn
thank you
roll me a d20 for rug burn please
thank you
damn it hulky
same team
hulky same team
I'm telling you this team is in a mood today
I've got
I missed a session I gotta get two sessions worth of chaos out of one
oh that makes sense
no you're getting it out of one minute
it's working
all right
go back to being a tree
okay
uh well
I'm gonna activate this scene that probably not many of you can see right now
but you know
here
swam let's uh
swam
yeah okay
well
yeah you can look at the stream I guess
um all right
so so tanhouser you
you slide down
your your beacon light illuminates this chamber
um
you can see
uh similar to what Oren saw before
there's like a metal floor further to the to the east
to the west
there's like water loping up
you're kind of on this
um
rusted area
you can tell that the floor here is slanted
like
and you realize that the the entire sort of cube area of this perfectite
uh
siege tower is slanted in the swamp
uh far off you can see a small illumination of light
uh to the west from a chest
that appears to be glowing under the water
uh you land on a plethora of garbage
um can you please give me a perception check
yes I would love to
thank you
so you're saying that there is a plethora of garbage all around
that that has been thrown down yes
excellent excellent okay 26
okay um you with your expert knowledge begin to notice that around you
there are slight disturbances in the ground
um in fact you can see with your own powerful you know magical vision
um like etheric disturbances that the the you know would be the telltale signs of like
some kind of haunt manifesting which you would know because Oren had sort of
brought up being attacked by like spectral hands down here
um you can tell that you probably don't have a lot of time to react
but you basically have like a turn
like a full you know three action turn to do something while you are down here
okay so and after that turn I think I'm going to be attacked
uh yeah yeah
okay um
shield
okay laughing shadow
okay and then I am going to uh take out a torch
okay and I'm going to throw it to the periphery to illuminate more of this area
okay um give me give me an attack roll for that
sure sure uh
just like a weapon attack roll it'll give me the rough the rough math I need for a ranged thing
ah seventeen on the deck
okay um I'm just gonna roll a thing here
okay uh
okay so yeah you you toss a torch
um
it goes
what kind of torch do you have is this like an ever burning torch or a
like torch torch
um this is a torch themed torch yes
okay so you toss it it um briefly will illuminate an area over here
um let's see here I'm gonna do my bestest okay yeah yeah briefly illuminates an area that you can kind of see
before it goes dark again
did that look like a fountain or like a door that like you would like
because that looks almost like a submarine
like uh door handle give me a perception check to see what you see as you like toss this
um as you toss this all right sounds good
uh 24
okay um you in that moment are able to see that sort of section and what it actually looks like
um for the briefest moment you you kind of see it under this water again it's it's really tough
it um
it appears to be not like a hatch you would pull but almost like a
a valve like a valve you could turn
yeah
so you're not sure what the purpose of it is
it's it's under there
um it's you know only illuminated for a few seconds as you toss this thing and it splashes into the water
okay does it look like uh that it could like turning it would activate water or does it look like
turning it you can lift it up and then you'll be able to go deeper into it looks like turning it would
do something not necessarily it doesn't necessarily look like it's a door on it
okay uh and then lastly i guess as a free action can i call up to my buddies
yep okay i'm gonna say i'm about to be attacked come down and help me turn this valve
and on that note can you give me a reflex
uh 21 okay um so as you shout that up uh almost on cue um spectral hands burst out from the ground
and they begin tearing at your like at your legs basically underneath your your your knees and then
pulling and tearing uh grabbing at you um
now you stop that
you take
uh 11 points of bludgeoning damage as these like begin like tearing into you
um
and you can tell that they're trying to to grab
onto you uh and it seems to like like be around
you but you can see
any other areas of these uh these these these hands sort of moving about here
uh i want to see if i can
represent this for you
let's do yeah that should be good
uh i think you do you you maybe see this template i've put down
that's kind of the area where they're they're they're bursting out of here
okay okay um all right so that has happened what i will do uh right now i think is check upstairs with the the rest of the party what are you all doing so you're kind of like around the edge of this um only tan hauser has brought himself down into the into this lower level what are the rest of you wanting to do especially once you hear tan hauser shout and those of you who are leaning over the edge you can see down because tan hauser glows with the magnificence of the
sun sunlight um you see that he is being attacked by these spectral hands um i don't we're not quite an initiative yet so let me know what y'all want to do up there
oh like how how deep is the hole like what's the fall distance
um i believe we established last session it's 30 feet
it's pretty far fall yeah it was it was enough it was enough that you
you like couldn't quite do it in one move but like orin could with a fly
because he can do you know i do have cat fall
uh i treat falls as uh 25 feet
shorter oh very good
so i believe in that case just hearing tan hauser shout
up i'm just going to look over to everybody
at the edge of the hole and just be like well look alive i guess and just fall backward into it
okay um yeah uh roll me a d8
oh boy
yeah
valley
seven okay and you're going to land
right beside uh to the west of your your friend tan hauser now as you as you land again there are
these like spectral hands that are moving about uh as you enter the area can you give me a reflex
save please oh handsy okay reflex save there it is yeah
i'm okay at that one that is a 27
a 27 that is very good uh so these things these these hands attempt to grapple you they only do seven
points of damage to you as they start like grabbing and tearing at you
oh
okay um
but you you land so that's kind of like your first action i'll like give you two other actions this turn
as you like drop down and then see tan hauser there
okay um so they're okay okay sorry i haven't there's an important thing in chat um oh would
you like to give me an acrobatics check as you fall to make it look really cool and maybe generate
panache as you fall oh yes of course now if you're fishing for that one though something yeah
absolutely because if you're all in that one you're absolutely going to have been uh been been
knock prone when you landed i'm just saying it seems like something conscious when i land
okay
now 23 yeah i'll here i'll even i'll even click on the little panache
yay okay you have two more actions you've landed these things are sort of grabbing at your legs and
around uh these spectral arms that are coming up out of the ground they seem to like even move
through the garbage that has been dropped here yet when they like touch you they they seem
caporeal oh my greatest enemy hands yeah i'm just gonna move out of the uh they seem to only be coming
out of this box right the this square worth of yeah yeah that's like roughly that area yeah okay uh i'm going
to first uh get out of there okay um and so at this point you're kind of like stepping into the water
so any squares like further west of where you are like this way that's all going to be difficult terrain
and water okay so it's all water um and i believe they they seem incorporeal so like trying to jab at them
isn't gonna do me much good yeah uh probably not um like mechanically you're guessing this is
probably more akin to like a haunty haunt like like spectral manifestations you like typically this
is where you'd call like you know your resident priests to to banish this shit yeah luckily we don't have
that in that case um i don't really need to light up my pistols because tanhauser i believe is already
shining bright like a diamond over there um true but i am just gonna go ahead and pull out the
luminous dagger pistol and light it up and see if i can't get more um more of a view of what's going on
around here yeah give me a perception check then sure
uh kind of mid that's an 18 yeah you're not really seeing anything else beyond the like the
spectral hands bursting out of the ground beside you though the water lapping in the in the chest
uh you pull out your your you know daggers but they they aren't really giving you much more vision
than the holy beneficent beacon that is tanhauser all right uh yeah in that case i'll just call up to
everyone make sure you don't touch the ground unless you want to get grabbed
all right let's uh let's cut back who wants to who wants to go next on the side on the upper floor level
uh suppose i'll go down the rope instead of falling like a goober ass okay yeah i'll leave it on my feet
yeah because you've got the stats for it can you roll me a d8 baldrick slash r1 d8
six cool uh yeah so you you begin sliding down uh you come up on this area just to the southwest
of tanhauser uh as you come down can you give me a reflex save yeah you gotta do it thank you
i'll give you a 32 with a net 20 uh you land on the exact point of accumulated garbage that you
had thrown down here that none of the hands seem to to even like be able to to incorporeally pierce
through it um you land in the absolute perfect spot where your plan has worked and you take no effects
from the hands uh you see earned is just wasting our time
okay uh now that i am down here yes is there any real so i'm assuming the hands are likely a trap
that have been laid that is currently going off because again those hands were above two in various
chests and other shit is there any means by which i can distract them or are they only attracted to
living things uh it seems like right now they're they're mostly attracted to living like the only
thing you've seen them come for is anything that is that is alive would moss count as alive
um quite possibly all right then i will uh how many god damn how many quick alchemy do i have left
i don't know i'm looking hang on i believe i left a note of it somewhere
would you trust i have our party's lives yes i would chat i have four left that's it and then i'm out
so uh just for an experiment's sake i'm going to whip up with quick alchemy a moss bomb okay and i'm
going to chuck it somewhere where they can reach obviously but aren't necessarily you know uh at i
suppose pick pick a point for me i'll pick there yeah okay i'm just doing shape charge because i want
a blast volley of fucking moss yep well remember moss doesn't do damage to anyone um unless it's like
a rot thing so well that's what i mean she's rotten so i'm kind of that's fair that's fair that's fair
that might that might that might have an effect who knows okay i hate you yeah all right moss moss bomb
graft one throw one draw strike 10 uh 16 yeah uh the bomb lands there um it seems to have
no effect on the hands um no i tried can you give me a perception check sure
go uh 24 uh 24 okay cool um yeah you you toss it and it seems to have no effect on the hands which
are still just only coming up near like you and some some trailing ends by where volley has rushed out
of the area now there are enough that keeping the number even if like more people joined the hands
would just go after everyone equally they would not like run out of people to attack would be my
assumption on this that's what you're seeing like they seem to just like occupy spaces they're not
like a cluster of hands moving around let's try to keep our numbers small down here that way we don't
end up with everyone getting swamped by these things so you you came down here you quick bombed uh you
have one action left as well i will move off the edge towards the thing okay so how far do i get to
go uh so up to this area here right like the line the the line where volley is that's normal anything
else is going to be two square movement that's fine water okay that's fine i'll stay there all right
uh i'm gonna pass it back to orin orahua who would like to go next up on the upper floor go ahead honky
actually i was gonna say you should probably go down first just because i'm heavier if something
should go awry like that one uh and that rope snaps i'd rather you not waste a fly to get down
there i mean it's it's infinite it's just my movement speed oh oh yeah it's just fucking stupid
then yeah all right i got wings
rahul will gesture to orin well i'll see you down there and he'll jump off the side reach out
his arm to grab the the rope and start like do an acrobatics slide down i love that you're like
i'm gonna do this and look cool please please roll me a nat one on this acrobatics check hulky
a hundred percent yeah we cannot sacrifice him on the altar of the nat one acrobatics check we can
yes we can yes we can yes we can yeah we absolutely can
oh okay oh or 25 acrobatic tree comes all the way down uh can you roll me a d8 hulky
yes i can hulky hulky
now where does rahua land seven rahua lands right here and rahua gets uh panache for that
little did you know i spent last session multi-classing again
even before no it's giving you panache you will like break boundary system but your character has it
he takes off the the head and is just zedic okay not again roll me please roll me a reflex uh save
as you land with a plus two circumstance bonus for your amazing panache that you have earned here
uh this is where he rolls the dash for one of the reflex oh no okay another 25 um well okay okay okay
okay so that's not um it's not like enough to completely ignore it so you will still take eight
points of bludgeoning damage as these hands begin grabbing and grabbing at you um no touch no touch
yeah yeah you're you're there uh you have two actions left this round um because you've you've
landed here you're like in this sort of spectral event this haunt that's going on what would you like
to do rahua i would like to move outside okay trundle trundle trundle okay what action left
uh i'm going to cast light as a cantrip oh okay on yourself yeah yeah sure i think that just makes
you glow like a torch right yeah well we are just gonna flash bang anything that is in this
sure will sure will oh oh no oh god
so in the water to the northwest of you is um an entity that um seems to be some kind of horrific
amalgamation of flesh and scales and a substance you know as
rot um bulbous tumorous popping sounding rot um it appears as though it has like the digits of a
claw for a head uh some kind of underslung portion of a jaw mismatched hands again scaled flesh that is
also being like pushed by the bulbous rot matter inside of it um and as as this like thing like
like is lit up it kind of rises out of the water um like towering this thing's like 12 feet but you
can see that most of the like scale matter of it is um like stretched like it's it's obviously not
enough scales or whatnot for a large size creature but it's just this like brought within it is like
pushing it um and like as it comes out you just hear this
this like bass sobbing but it's not emanating from the mouth of this creature it's emanating from
the popping of the rot boils on it oh oh okay uh so cut back up so uh oran uh you don't see any of
this uh instead you hear a volley shout oh no followed by
but you kind of recognize that sound oh yeah oh yeah you absolutely do my buddy
oran's standing on top of the edge of that hole he is his little it's his wooden staff and he kind of
grips it tightly he takes a deep breath and he just kind of just is
and just falls forward basically as he falls down the hole spreads his wings out
and uh it's going to be a bit complicated so i have to run this through what i'm wanting to do
so he can he could technically glide yep in a way and as i'm gliding through i see where
valley hood and baldrick are i want to be south of baldrick that one square
yeah here yeah yeah i'll basically just kind of glide down there so as i do so um
will you allow me two actions or three actions two because basically moving is yeah yeah it's going
to be two okay he's then going to basically land down look at him and you'll see it and you see
oran has a serious expression he sees this thing he recognizes the sound of it all after hearing what
tan hauser's read to him everything he is just stone face but deep inside shit's all torn up on
him as he sits as he as he lands down he'll basically just go like let's go he'll yell at
everyone going it's not him anymore kill it just get rid of it and you'll cast protector tree
okay okay it's protector tree pretty much at let me see pretty much right in front of it pretty much
right in this spot they have there right there okay right there and that'll be the end of his turn
sure okay um so at this point if you could all set yourselves into combat mode and roll some
initiative for me i would be delighted thanks i like that who is little thing on the initiative track
who shows me the panache symbol that's fine bro i'm about to cry oran
that was interesting um okay so i've got i've got i don't have oran or baldrick yet in here
oh sorry i apologize i was setting a music for the uh thing oh for the sad well okay it better be
plin plin plin plon please um yeah sorry i'll send another battle music for us oran got a 25 for
his initiative okay i'm gonna thing i'm gonna update you and uh baldrick i'm super i got you i got you
dog i could have the whole wrong thing i even missed that out my bad it's good erndale you still there
yeah okay i i had myself muted because i didn't want to interrupt anything zorn was doing i was
saying i was clicking the thing and it wasn't going forward oh okay just uh just roll roll it on on its
own and then i can if it was if it was gray uh you didn't put yourself in combat mode like i did
yeah yeah there we go no mine won't i've been at 20. nice all right that's two that's two net 20s for
me uh terrific all right baldrick you get to go first okay
uh hell he's going to look at the the big sobbing writhing thing over there and
kind of without oran's permission for anything he's just gonna start chucking bombs at it
if you're wondering why i have colored squares there i'm just marking where the difficult terrain is
good just so you can see it uh let me see here what the hell do i have i used my moss bomb so
that's out of there you know what i'm gonna just i'm gonna chuck a firebomb at it alchemist fire
moderate let's see what happens okay i'm assuming this will not do much because dragon but we'll see
it's better to learn now than not at all
hit with a 23 uh that'll hit yep okay
nine uh yeah so you will hit it for nine points of damage and then it will also take
persistent fire it is on fire it roars as you strike it well it's not resistant to fire
remind me again thurston it is one to quick alchemy and then i can do my remaining actions
of drawn throw because of quick draw uh yeah yeah so you can draw and throw because a quick bomber so
quick i'm gonna see how much this lesser moss bomb does sure so that's down down to two okay
throw draw throw oh that's strike 10 no i need map go go us oh oh there you go 18. uh that will hit
roll me dimaggio thrown for 10 damage uh wait you have that moderate oh why did not fire damage there
one sec no i clicked the damage on the why did it roll alchemist for fuck's sake take off the item
bonus i guess but i rolled for the moss bomb yeah i that might just be a thing with how we set it up
one sec here i'll grab it it's all right i did it it's okay okay nine okay so does a 23 still hit us
oh yeah yeah okay um it does and it strikes it and then this thing sobbing intensifies
as you can tell this thing begins spearing over at the moss spreading over uh popping more of the the
rotten boils on its uh on its body uh and then the cries become much louder from it
and um yeah uh do you is that your last action that's all i had yeah that's the end all right
pass that over to me uh well this this boy goes um and with that oh oh lord it is not happy it is
going to move it moves around the protector tree to here
it then
unleashes
right position there we go unleashes a 30-foot cone hitting all of you terrific as it comes up the air
around it is now filled with sobs there are a couple things that are going to happen here as
this occurs um but like it moves up and these sobs are just just tearing into you um perhaps perhaps
none more than oran but also rahua who is very close um i require all of you i think i can do this i
think this will work one second i'm gonna try a thing here we'll see if it works um actually
it will but then it's forcing me to do it okay um
i require all of you to give me a reflex save okay could i use my shield block action in any useful way
uh i believe your shield block reaction is just to like increase your ac right i guess the other
net 20. yay this is like i'll explain what it's doing in a moment here orn got a 17.
uh i got a 25. voli got a nat 20 with a 30 brings it to a 33. okay um so
voli you critically succeed congrats uh tanhauser and baldrick you succeed yay rahua and oran you
both fail uh what happens as as this thing advances it like retorts back and just begins coughing
like and then it unleashes this torrent of rot material that goes flying out um so i'm going to
roll a couple bit of damage here one sec it's gonna be 17 and then 21 so um i will apply this to the two
who who gave me their regular successes which in this case is tanhauser and baldrick you both
succeeded so you're just gonna take half damage from both of these okay then um voli you succeeded so
you are fine rahua and um oran you will take full damage from both of these
as this like washes over you then on top of all of that
rahua i require a will save my friend oh excellent oh you are the closest you are within the a of e
28 a 28 is very very solid and means you are not affected by whatever shenaniganaries this thing has
right now but like you you hear the sobs around you and it's like it cuts to your core briefly um
but that's that is it for for this things go
oran you're up oh and then the the fire um
not a lot no it'll take two more though okay all right oran you're up as this thing has now like
come out of the water and yeah on you let me uh what i want to do is try to get everyone healed a bit
what i'm going to do okay what i'm going to do i'm trying to see the aoe heal it and knowing
from our past experience with the brought monsters are not necessarily undead all depending so it's
like hmm i can either experiment to see what happens or not so you just negate some damage that we uh did
to it so uh but i need but i need to use all three of my actions or else i would look to get some knowledge
to see what this thing is so i'm going to play it safe and i'm going to
now i can't even move because i'm wanting to do a three action heal and get everybody so
with permission to party is it okay if i experiment so we get that info or not i mean we need to learn
as much as we can this thing's probably going to do some serious damage all right be ready for you to
get healed though so i'm going to add a second level cast a three level heal and basically that
will range i will get the range for you so it will hit it in 30 feet hey yes i'll be doing a big old
heel going ha and just to make sure i understand it correctly because first time i ever get the best
with heal heightened for a three action heal uh heightened plus one the amount of healing or
damage increased by one d8 and the extra healing yeah basically it says base eight plus one d8 correct
uh yes awesome okay so or we'll go like go like just burn it just get rid of
gorgamugger doesn't deserve this and so
he will do let me see if i can do the uh coding of this right yeah of one d8 plus eight that's a
terrible roll on the die but nine uh nine positive healing uh to everyone around cool uh i can probably
just get you just get you yeah you just highlight everyone go here yeah
all right that requires all three of his actions and that is now into orm's turn and as you as you
you channel this this this you know natural life restoring energy in here you can see the wounds on
this this this shell thing begin to knit up as you do so
if that's the end of orange turn all right uh chan hauser uh to start off your turn i need you to
give me a uh i need you to give me a um reflex save please child be done thank you oh here we go
oh we'll hero point that in that one that way we can't oh we can't no more yeah we can't do it
no more you can't do it now we changed the rule oh no oh this is no okay all right well
what a time for us to see this mechanic oh okay um so you gotta hit me up now all right uh well
so as as tan hauser you you prepare um you've started your turn in this area so the grabby hands
uh begin to grab at you again um this time probably distracted by the the oh no creature that has
emerged from the the murky depths of this place um the ghosts seem to grab onto you with twice as much
ferocity um they do 22 points of damage to you um you are also partially now pulled in to the ground
around you as the rusty metal underneath it breaks from you being pulled um and you are partially
trapped in the ground thus giving you the immobilized condition
as i struggle against these spectral hands bringing me into this horrible mire tanhauser
was just going to struggling against the grip press some buttons on his inlay put his quantum engine
into overdrive and then simultaneously be here and here and i'm going to activate dimensional assault to
teleport away okay okay well one one sec there's a complication on top of all of this oh okay
so yeah i figured being immobilized was the complication oh no that's just the the you
critically failed against this effect um okay uh oh okay this one's good i'm using this one
this comes from sarah grapes oh this is this is mean and i'm doing it um for the complication entitled
oh shit that was real you were convinced the incoming source of damage or whatever effect
that forced you to make the save was an elaborate illusion or deception of some sort
um
and um you gain the confused condition as though trying to discern what is real
god damn they put ls they put dmt into my fucking cyber drip this weekend um
in this case you you gain the confused condition you can spend an action to look around to try to suss
out what is real and thus remove this confused condition or if you decide to go off um attacking
anyone um there's a chance you might attack one of your friends some of you may die
yeah yeah yeah i get it we're your target bastard listen if i spend my action then i need to spend
another action to move and i'm not going to get any damage which is a bad thing so i would rather risk
i would rather get damage on the party i would rather i would be the optimal play here is to just try
to dps the monster he's keeping those uh dps numbers up yeah because if i if i take that kind
of damage again from this creature attacking me and then standing in the ghost pit uh i'm
fucked you need to get away from the ghost peppers yeah you need to get away from the ghost peppers
many rot handle it
more perfectionist tricks uh i'm going to engage the teleportation okay
remember now the tree it tries to protect you that's fine but i might think it's the enemy
okay that means so true um
i'll uh probably i if i were confused normally i would not do the attack okay since i am confused
i think it makes sense for tanhouser to lash out with the normal attack as part of this uh here we go
okay okay okay okay okay i yep yep yep yep okay make your make your normal attack okay okay
that's really really cool um okay but to represent the confusion effect
i would like you to roll me a dc five flat check here so one through five is bad anything else is good
that's good that's good okay yeah i saw it literally twirling on the five for a second
if you roll the one through five i was going to redirect you and have you teleport next to one of
your friends and do that that would be very funny that would have been okay so yeah uh you do a crit oh
also hahaha uh you'll also need to give me a will save now now that you're in the sobbing aura
uh but but start by start by giving me damage from your uh your crate here oh i'm sorry i just
impulsively did the will save uh i'll re-roll that that's your point oh oh yeah fair fair fair fair
that's doo-doo that is doo-doo that's better hey 26 oh yeah you don't seem to be affected by the um
but but by the but we're used to this kind of shit by now all right all right so now you can do the
crit damage okay cool so crit is 14 but there's more but there's more folks well yeah but you said
you were doing the this is the free attack as part of the thing yes it is but there's still more
um because uh i am attacking this thing in the rear would you can and it is also being flanked by an
evil tree would you consider it flat for it uh no the tree does not flank okay am i flanking because
i'm behind it no it like every creature has like 360. oh there's no facing there's no facing okay okay
in that case um i will just do uh i think one extra damage yeah oh okay i will toss that up all right
cool um from the laughing shadow all right yeah now is the real thing with the map okay uh and i'm going
to uh spell strike shocking grasp level one okay wait a minute aren't we all in water
well that'll be very funny that that that is i mean all of my is electricity if we die we die
i don't like this wait what about your slashy attack all right that'll hit all right cool so we'll roll the
damage for the excoriatorge yeah six plus one so seven cool and then it is time now for shocking
grasp this is the uh generators within my form take effect uh what'd you say oh out of curiosity is this
wearing metal armor no okay no no no no no no forward 19 advantage nice yeah that that that hurt it
it lets out a whimpering roar and turns
die abomination or alternatively whichever strange puppet master is puppeteering this
fake abomination on account of my confusion don't forget yeah yeah well we'll get back to that don't
worry excellent just um am i still immobilized uh no no because that you would have like teleported out of
that boop great all right cool cool cool all right vali i believe you are up oh yes indeedy uh would
this position right here be a flank yes excellent so you're moving there uh yeah uh spend my first
will save will save you have light guns oh i do uh but if i shot from that angle i would have
directly shot rahula in the ass with the the beginning allies that's fine it's too late in there now cry
it's too late it's too late i do more damage from here anyhow yeah yeah yeah yeah just just give me
that will save please um that's not very good that's a 16. that's not very good i'm gonna spend the
i'm gonna spend the hero point that's that's fingers this seems this seems like a fair choice
valley spend the hero quest yeah hero quest hero quest are you feeling brave tonight ah better that's
better okay yeah um yeah you know what a 20 a 25 means you you are not um you are not so distraught
over over this sadness while you were in there so that's good i'm just a little sad yeah yeah just a
little just just uh just uh uh okay uh so yeah i'm gonna rush in uh give it a stab using a finisher
of course yep and he is flat-footed okay let's rock and roll do it uh uh not bad that is a 28 that will
hit fishing for the crit there it's fine yeah i'll say if the flat footage to it there we go
wouldn't change you don't have to huh you don't have to anymore if they're flanking you should all
make me do it oh yeah oh yeah we established that last time in the time before yeah i just okay cool
yeah if it doesn't show on the math just let me know yeah i'm not just seeing it in there but that's okay
all right 25 points damage 25 points of damage very good very good it roars as you uh make this
this impressive strike on it all right uh and my panache is gone now um and yeah i'm going to
uh i'm gonna get back out of this aura just because i think standing here is a poor choice
uh and i have another action uh so i'm going to just kind of jump forward stab in and then kind of
try to spring off of it i i want to roll an acrobatics check yeah absolutely let's see if you can
you can i certainly can with a 29. uh and i'm going to get back uh to my space over here uh unless i
need to move out of people's way nope uh does anybody have like anything that would uh require
me to optimally be in a different space you should be good okay all right and i'm gonna get with my
friends in our conga line here maybe don't be in the conga line is also a suggestion actually that is
true how much movement would you say i could get off of that thurston um up to your up to your move
speed so up to my move speed yeah yeah 35. we already learned that being close together is a bad
thing i just i'm fine dude yeah just don't go through the middle square there oh yeah don't go
through the middle square yeah you can move through friendly spaces or you can deal with difficult terrain
to the left yeah which will half your movement
but i think getting back here will be the best for now just so we can try to get out of its aura as
much as possible uh all right and that will be my go i'm going to uh come up behind orin and just
put a hand on his shoulder and give him a reassuring little squeeze you see he's crying oh buddy
uh rahua i have a quick question for you zoran oh no if i am to move somebody in the periphery or
through the protector tree will the protector tree make a strike on it or only if it's the tree cannot
attack uh it's all the trees a tree yeah if you get hit by this thing while you're adjacent to it
it'll do what it can to absorb the blow i understand that's all it does okay you're the only tree that
knows kung fu that's true yeah yeah so your moss mace is probably the most effective thing to this
or start blasting yeah start meleeing him or he or he can't have options uh i should actually i might
i could heal theoretically i would like to also try something instead they'll might help everybody else
so rahua is going to rear back his wood panels are going to splay apart his astral energy begins
pouring out of him sticking his hands towards the boss and i'm going to cast bone shaker at third level
okay shaking his bones second his bones not my bones i need those to wait all right well please all
what tells me to select one token i am selecting the token please okay so you're you're you're i have
to i have to click it yeah he does that i do the save that's right that's right
i'm going to villain point that please please mark i hate thirst i hate thirst don't worry i rolled a two
here comes the one everyone can be happy oh no okay yeah gee you jinxed it what a what a what a thing
oh oh look i'll just succeed so you only do half damage that's cool
cool do your damage why am i just pink yeah why are they pink i thought you were doing a bit
last session hey hockey why did dice pink why are they hot fucking pink it's uh who's breast cancer
awareness dice oh damn it i was about to make that joke you lost opportunity
kono deoda oh and then i guess you can move it up to five feet yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna do that right
now he's gonna go to the left five feet like that yeah okay cool i'm i'm doing it you're doing it okay
uh one sec i'm just gonna apply the damage here it's good it's good okay cool it's uh
baldrick you're up my man fix it baldrick fix it
yeah well i mean i did i'm like thank you tf2 spy boy that guy is really going outside today
i've had to mute like five times because he's just going up and down i'm about to go out there and
shoot him gun uh i'm doing a sub goal to get you some spike traps or something like just no give me a
sub goal so i can get a 12 gauge
i'm i am the gloves are coming off anyway in minecraft in minecraft i work for the government
it doesn't work they know i've seen the documents they don't work gloves are coming off they have
documents about it in minecraft i can't talk to you about that anyway i'm gonna uh i'm gonna
i'm gonna i've got like two alchemist fires left i'm gonna just try and put this thing down
boot up so uh now first i'm going to move out so i can only move half distance in this right
what is my move it's not very good no 120 uh so i can move to there yep so i will
there and i'm gonna do a alchemist fire strike go go that's a 22 the item bonus came through on the
clutch and let me hit that will hit yeah you mean you know the damage the item bonus let me hit because
i'm wacky yeah uh that's an eight okay oh i realize we've not been uh applying the uh splash
correctly oh it's because it's an extra two right yeah because it's up to it's four because of my
make him take four damage right now there we go there you go okay and i'll throw again at minus five
fire fire fire fire on it i've been an arson uh not that something do i have anything you have
a hair point no it's not worth it i think it'll probably be down by one of you guys next time
unless you really like are afraid this thing's gonna waste you speaker i uh i fear nothing all
right you fear no man uh it just takes splash damage then cool i took so it takes four four fire
cool i got it all right um does that give me my my my boys go uh yeah there's something else i can do
take it all right well did you splash him for an extra four i did i did okay good um well the big boy
uh is gonna gonna start attacking here um tanhauser uh has his want in our campaigns and you know every
campaign with you speaker date uh you've done the most damage so you are the prime target um
so this thing begins lashing out first with its strange jaw
i'm hitting you yep
uh for 18 but you'll only take eight because the protector tree will die for you oh wow he saved
you i love that yeah here we go wow wow that's the tanhauser you'll take it then he's gonna go at
you with a claw very nice oh here it comes oh oh thank you okay the claw uh that will do
slash uh 16 points uh eight of which is raw damage all right i think you still have you still have your
shield up right doesn't matter no it's one oh yeah oh and and i don't think because how long does
shield last the shield's hardness is what i'm meaning uh shield lost that's a good question i i never
use shield because it never matters yeah she'll have a hardness of five so i don't know how much
that would make a difference but until the start of your next turn but he didn't cast it last turn okay
okay yeah shield is kind of a funny spell it's like a shield block for wizard yep you are now dying one
yeah damn it he's down
danny then
and then it will
oh there is a decision to be made here it's either go to us or hit him while he's down to
potentially get a crit and kill him
that's the team it's obvious i'm not telling you what to do yeah no no no that thing's literally like
no
it's like
will tenazer receive his first level of rot find out next week yeah oh gosh yeah i have to god he's like
he's just gonna like destroy your corpse here
well there were other people doing damage to him there were but it won't matter he still
misses your flat-footed unconscious i tried to help he's writhing you know what happens when
you try to go up against the revolution i'm dying the only part of tan hauser that is sticking out of
the muck water right now is his fucking rebreather and it's just like it's true it's true it's
it's it's very it's yeah that was there's a family guy that's posed in the middle of the merc oh my god
um submerged okay well that's cool um all right um that's that's it for for my duder uh orin you're
uh oh and he then he takes some person fire hit
oh persistent fire goes without but i still take two points
all right orin orin yeah orin like valley as you kind of like put a hand on his shoulder you see that
he's like as stone-faced as he can be but you see that his his teeth are clenched and just tears are
kind of going down his eyes and you'll see you'll see that he'll uh kind of like very shakily take his
staff and go come come boom and a huge thing of lightning comes down as as he casts sudden bolts
on the uh abomination the abomination has to make a has to make a dc21 reflex save or take 4d12 electricity
damage okay uh and as he does so he goes i'm sorry
okay he succeeds but at least he'll take half
you know the total damage that i roll oh there you go couple in there so half of 31 points of damage
about to say you'd have to flub that spectacularly to not kill him at this point
well please wait um the bolt of lightning comes from above the like from the whole
arcing from some strange point um
far above you and as it comes careening down it hits this
aberrant draconic creature which at that moment as it is like tearing into tanhauser's corpse as
as there's the crackle and then and the electricity its head briefly turns and like
the the digits atop its head twitch slightly
and its jaw quivers as it looks past the bulky form of rahua at you oran
um and then then it explodes as this lightning bolt hits it and sends trailing icarus rot and in
every direction um rahua and tanhauser can you give me a reflex save please
i mean oh no can tanhauser make a reflex yes he can it will it will factor in all of the damage or
all of the the the problems sleepwalking i'm gonna i'm gonna hero point that okay cool 24 okay
cool 24 from the ground yeah i do a sleepwalk flip
he starts he starts he starts break dancing 27 oh much better okay um but but but one sec here
okay so um oops that was fun all right so uh you're going to go up to dying two that was the only
important thing it's not that bad and then our good friend rahua here you are going to take a
12 points of damage of rot damage as you're like sprayed i i just assume rahua you're standing there
and then there's this like this splatter of black ichor that comes over you um as this creature is
completely burst apart it hits swollen to a point and then just explodes coating tanhauser who clearly
had like leaned over in the right direction to avoid it um and as you are splashed with this ichor
um um rahua your panache expires fuck and that's where we'll take our break for today
oh all right we will be right back don't go anywhere we'll be right back all right now we are back
and tanhauser is dying
good night yeah that's really true like it's true so you cast sudden bolts
oren yes um and i believe that will bring us to tanhauser's turn unless you had remaining actions
after that sudden bolt wouldn't that put him at top of the initiative he's dying uh he would technically move
to on top of the durgin you are correct so we do have some time for some of you to get to him and heal
him yeah oren will uh take what remaining movement he has and since he can only go kind of half do i
have reasonable suspicion that his weeping aura is now gone right uh yeah yeah okay okay so i'm gonna
push up to here and then go up to here just plaiting up to tan house so oren's just kind of quickly
like you know through the water getting up to him and that'll be the end of oren's turn okay ralee
um uh well i can't really do much healing uh so i'm just gonna spend my turn um
um i'm going to start looking around kind of this broad swampy area over here
yep um and just kind of how deep is the water is it like just waist deep difficult terrain or is it
yeah it starts getting like you know waist deep around here and then it gets to be water about
like this area just around the chest like you'd have to dive a little bit to get down there
okay um swimming in this muck does not seem like a good idea uh so i'm gonna wait out to about here
okay uh because i've got panache my movement speed is 40 with it that'll get me there um
um and i'm just going to uh holding out my uh my gun just kind of peer around and see if i can see
anything just wave it like a light down there yeah i mean you see this this chest here that sort of
glows in in the water um it seems to have like a lambent magical light on it that's pulsating
uh makes it visible it appears to match some of the chests you've seen before uh in the upper level
so it looks like something like from the prince's soldiery okay i have two more actions um so i'm going to
yeah i'm going to go up to it um about here ish okay um i'd have to be here ish uh and then i'm going to
um with my final action just start kind of trying to haul it somewhere that's uh less deep
okay um can you um can you give me a reflex save why reasons uh not bad that would be a 27 okay
the mimic fucking bites my hand off oh god
chonky you'll take 16 points of electricity damage as it arcs over you as you attempt to uh like touch
the the chest and it reacts to you oh crackling electricity moving through the water over you
oh dickhead all right never mind i'm gonna move away from it well you're under water
yeah volley's gonna come up looking a little crispy gonna turn to baldrick
some dickhead put thunder in their chest
well did you check it for traps first
i just touched it i didn't open it usually they spring when you try to open it but this thing is
just electrified for god knows why baldrick's gonna sigh and he's going to just take a deep breath
well i'll take a look at it thanks thanks bud i figured that it might have some
important information about you know and that's the end of your turn rahua there is a dying man
oh conversation
i'll be fine yeah rahua is like oh the chest is interesting
yes i too will throw copper rocks at wires
in the interest of not being electrocuted as well i'm going to move up the tanhauser
well i didn't save you two times in a row but that doesn't mean i can not let you die again
i'm going to cast stable ways very good uh you no longer are dying
as soon as everybody is ready i can make us all feel a little bit better
um in response to that line tanhauser goes
you are now unconscious very good good i'm glad that you have different sound effects depending
oh dear he's asleep let me help him i'm going to slap him
all right i'm back down to dying one yeah i'm going to non-lethally slap him
you have to heal him he's at zero hit points stabilize doesn't bring you back
i'm sure you just start slapping him he will be fine i guess tanhauser doesn't get to die today oh
you lucky duck all right we're we're we're out of out of initiative order congratulations um excellent
what what are all of you kids doing now i'm gonna use nature on him and heal okay
uh baldrick is going to wade over to volley oh so close to a 20 19
oren will also be trying to uh build tanhauser with a uh
what uh what a normal treat wounds be applicable now or um so this place is like going to be
difficult to do it in because there's not a lot of supplies and stuff here
so the dc is actually going to be 20 for this okay um so so rahua you're not quite able to to
hit the mark but maybe maybe your good your good bird friend can can assist okay i tried i will
basically do some natural medicine stuff yeah there we go 34 will that do it that will do it
it yes and over yeah yeah all right 48 as as is want for tanhauser to awake to being like
glopped with pilaster goop yeah i'm basically just going when she brushed over to
she's like chat out here he comes here like thank you i'll tell my best to help here have this mud
your healing budget woke me from the most eat this worm
all right i want to have the centipede bite your wounds close all right sure
it might hurt a lot oh man oren's always the one who gets to violate tanhauser like that
rahua hold his legs down hold his legs down he'll try to kick me if he does this i put a again a
snake head that he has with uh
please do not resist you are going to feel so much better soon
so valley do you want to be healed at all i don't care if you don't uh i will in a moment
we're dealing with a thing i'm impatient oh not actually i'm just goofing oh you're so full of goofs
i know i'm just a goofy little guy i thought you i thought you're about to say rahua you're so full of
goo no the the one that's been gooed is tanney right now denhauser rises up drenched in goop with
probably now just spiders and snakes just oozing out of his wounds like with giant red lumps
from where this horrible homeopathic remedy healing has been affecting him i'm so glad you woke me up
i was having the most vivid dream there as picturn has descended from the rope and appears beside you
picturn i had this dream where i was a police officer in outset but then i was ambushed and murdered
so a corporation decided to graft mechanical parts to my body like you see here and so i became some sort of
android enforcer and i had to go and stop crime until eventually the gang that murdered i took them
out and then and then there was a corporation and the laws and and uh something uh that it was it was
crazy i didn't learn anything you got a good story there i like listening you keep talking you just feel better
picturn's words and encouragement heal you
ah thank you i'll look back at it no thank you tanhauser you you take all the time you need to
have your little police officer dreams i know they're important to you so they're important to me you
regain 14 more hit points on top of a nine he has already healed you for with his encouraging words
comrade picturn i can see now why you are the first one i'd throw out of the burning building
mostly because you're so aerodynamic all in understanding i'm small too makes me easier to
lift that's right rahua have you ever tried picking up picturn no i don't think i have
fucking orange just walks away yeah oh it's like okay i think we're done here you got this and then
he starts going to volley to help volley sorry why is this what tickled my funny bone here
okay so uh baldrick i think you were gonna look at the chest right
yes i was uh moving over with volley to inspect the chest so we're like gonna have to get under
the water to get this thing right yeah there's some like underwater investigation that has to happen
here so i'm not gonna touch the chest but i would like to inspect to see if it is currently embedded
in the ground somehow give me a perception check just to sort of like remotely view it
it doesn't look like it's embedded in the ground okay well if we can haul it to higher ground it
shouldn't shock us quite as bad but we have no real way of getting it out just now we gotta getting
our hands on it got a rope i believe so let me check my inventory for a rope
i do not appear to have a rope oh do i have a rope
do the adventurers have rope welcome everybody to the eternal
we've been using we've been using a lot of rope we haven't i do have rope i do have rope
um yeah i'm gonna try to is there like a handle on this thing
well yeah there's two handles on either side they're sort of like
rusted out uh metal but like it looks like you could lift it up and do that okay so it shocked me
when i touched it or when i got close to it when you touched it when i touched it okay i'm going
to be very careful not to actually touch it uh loop the rope through one of the like handles and tie it
off okay um
hmm let's see here you want to give me a thievery check for this please ah i'm actually pretty decent
at that one yeah that's pretty cool
this one uh it's a dirty 20. wait i know what oh that's 17. that looked like a nine ah i see i see
well um you start like attempting to to maneuver the rope um can you give me a reflex save
oh damn it it's a little reflex save i'm about to get rotten three by getting electrocuted oh i saw
the 20 but that is still a 27. your greed proceeds you i see
oh my god why does tannhauser take another 14 points of damage as your hand slips in it like your
your wrist momentarily taps the side as you're trying to get the rope through you do get the
rope through on this but it shocks you again ah i've got baldrick dives a hand blow to pull her away
from the water get out of there ah i got the rope but ah god papa storm the rope is now floating in
the water can i put a hand on the rope and just see if it's charged uh yeah yeah you you put your
hand on the rope and it does not seem to have like any kind of negative like zaps to you or anything
all right i'll take up the post closest to the chest molly you take the back
gotcha and i guess we'll line up in a way to get this thing out of well we're all we're all pulling it
oh we're all pulling it yeah yeah you're taking the back though because you're not getting shocked
anymore all right yeah i'll help baldrick haul it out of the water yeah you managed to haul this
chest out of the water no problem it sort of sits there um and at this point with the sort of like
light around it and here we can just like move you all back to the shore um as that happens you can
see that like there are runes on the side of it that seem to like lightly glow like there's clearly
like magical protections on this thing what the hell was this doing down here with gorgamonger
not sure oran yeah go tend to your friend yeah okay
oran will uh head up to the body obviously as oran looks down at the exploded corpse yes
um are there any remnants of bone
yes um you see like several likely bone fragments um can you give me a nature check actually yeah i was
gonna ask to basically be like can you identify yeah is this actually gorgamonger's head skull or what
parts are actually here uh that is a 20. that is enough for you to recognize that this is maybe
maybe like components for like a sixth of gorgamonger
oh um and as you make this gruesome gruesome realization um between some of the like remaining
dissolving rot and also some of like the bone and other matter you see a wet piece of paper
you will grab at it yeah
carnival take it up and he'll try to read what it says here because uh the font always
with me oh we can get speaker to read it he read all the other ones and did pretty good
carnival look at it and be like day 24 one of the hired help with missing a patrol last night
just patrolling inside the tower we'll be arranging a search team yeah search it looks like hard team
i'm like yeah oh it strikes me oh wait for the next one we're sending in our host team day 25
she's she is no longer site is no longer okay site is no longer viable other inhabitants presence
i've updated the specimen and i'm transferring it along with hiring and turning hired help to site b
to the southwest leaving this journal here in case site b proves notable or non-viable and backup records are
required
he does read this out loud yeah
and uh he kind of grips the paper and kind of puts it in his little little scarf like a little pouch
area and um for the bones what parts does he believe 100 are gorgo mark is there any skull
there's the remnants of one of the four claws um there's something that you thought might have been
like the jaw but it's at like the job this creature was actually too small it looks like it was taken of
like smaller teeth and then like stitched together flesh that was used to create the jaw
uh or to create a false jaw almost he'll look as he's looking down and he's like this isn't gorgamonger this
fits of him but not gorgamonger this is the offshoot of the experiments they were running upstairs
they made a mention that they couldn't break gorgamonger and they had more success with individual pieces
i'm sorry that you had to see this oren
yeah me too
i want you to sit
i want you to understand something oren
we are not going to allow such crimes to go unpunished if we cannot save gorgamonger then
know there is one thing we can do to honor him and obtain vengeance
retribution against injustice
right
you will know oh no sorry aren't struggling as you're telling him that he's struggling to respond
he's just sitting there in the swamp water just having a bad time
you alone can wield the glaive of retribution
and we shall help you hold it and in the end we shall bring peace to your friend one way or another
oren will simply nod
and he'll kind of bring his scarf over his face a bit and he will process this
i'm gonna go ahead and uh something strikes me about what was read earlier
i'd like to make a check with your permission first okay the document referred to a site five
now originally i be site b yes exactly um my apologies uh usually and originally i believe
that this might be the work of some solitary scientists something like the creator of glove
doc but hearing sight that makes me feel like this is more organized can i roll lore warfare to see
if there are any organizations to whom that vernacular is common or if it would strike me as
something that just someone might call a secondary location normally yeah absolutely excellent
uh i will hear a point that because uh if my hunch is correct this could potentially be big
sure
uh 24 24 is enough to to give you some insight that that type of vernacular if you had to
give it a specific connection um you couldn't tell like a specific group a lot of groups use that but
um where it is most common would be documentation relating to guilds in outset
i have this type of speech seems that like whoever was writing it whether it like
is a directly working for a guild formerly worked for a guild this is the type of thing that like
guilds would use i have a hunch orin this could be a single individual or it could be the work of a
larger guild one of the parasites feasting on outset we could be working against an organized effort funded by
the government to better understand the nature of the rot
which means then tannhauser will turn at baldrick
that if this is correct if it is not an isolated actor this may be a threat that we can pull to unweave the
fabric of outset it may be a decision made at the behest of shadowy masters we have yet to fully consider
baldrick baldrick is going to look at tannhauser and he is going to place one hand on his hip
tannhauser that may be useful but in case you hadn't noticed orin is not exactly in a good state
let's muse about what this could mean later when he's done mourning
hmm no no you're right no utterly insensitive let us continue on our mission pray they forgive me
rahua will take all of this in just kind of musing on what tannhauser just brought up
very much agreeing with the point but he'll look down at orin still just kind of wrapped up in his own
scarf and rahul will kneel down and he will wrap his arms around orin and just give him a big
big orin will hug back yeah orin will hug back
don't you think you gotta hear him say is like why did it have to be gargum
and that's all you just hear him say is he hugs you back
it could have been anybody we know but the fact that it was someone you know makes it hurt much more
although i was not privy to everything that had happened and since i know how much it meant to find
i can't really offer you any words of consolation as i didn't know him like you did
but i know that in spite of what had happened
we are all still here and we will do what we can to make this right or
this may be your your uh your hatchet to bury or cross to bear but
you do not have to do it alone
i'm sorry friend
orin will simply nod hello hello are you down there you hear the voice of dita neeson
at the the like exposed hole up above where the rope is
baldrick's gonna freaking shout up at her hey stay away from the edge it's slippery oh
yeah of course of course i i it's it's everything all right down there not particularly oh i heard i
heard lots of of noise or i was told to to stay stay up to to catalog and since since i heard the noise and
we'll be up in a minute we're consolidating all right yes of course
i should probably take the opportunity to get a bit of rest now that we've cleared the uh
other rooms out we should probably rest first regroup and chest right well we should rest regroup and
see it does this look like a tunnel or just like an underground cave so this is like actually part
of the um like part of the overall siege tower like the ground here is an extension of the key
oh i was wondering why there were borders yeah this is an extension of the cube and like the ground you've
been on is like rusted metal from water that is seeped in um though where you saw some of those
spectral hands and particularly the area where they grabbed um tanhauser and burst through that
looks like it had rusted so much that it had finally like gone through to the ground underneath and like
the the dirt and the muck underneath hmm in that case we should probably clear out this area and then
head back to camp we need to rest and regroup and figure out where those tunnels they mention lead
where the hell this site b is we'll have to search down here for anything further but i believe
that's a good choice we need to find the rest of gorgamunger and see if we can't give them a proper uh
proper burial oh on that note uh i'm gonna use one of my remaining quick alchemy things i'm gonna put
together a moss bomb and i'm going to toss it to oran oran heads up
can i reflex say to see if i catch it just off his head yeah i mean it's up to you i'm trying to
give you a scene here there you go yeah you're tossing me the scene let's see how well it goes
okay 22. that'll that'll let you catch it yeah cool oran oran catches it and looks over at balderd
collect what parts you can recognize dowsing with that that way you can keep them at least until we
find a good spot to bury him oran will nod and he'll start they'll start going through the muck uh
obviously trying not to touch it with his hands or so it's probably rot still everywhere so he just tries
to extract what he can yeah this is an awful thing to ask someone to do to their own friend so tanhauser is
going to assist the best that he can i i i was leaving it to oran because i felt it would be
even worse to just come over and spike it onto gorgamunger like in which case he will assist to
oran's comfort level i just i just realized at first i was like no it makes sense then i'm like
wait a second forcing the guy whose friend this is to find all of the implements and drag them out
through surgery it might be traumatic after surgery the thing look the thing's falling apart
like it's as much surgery as it takes to pull a bone out of a pulled pork i'm afraid bear fox yeah
yeah so collectively um we i guess we all just extract what parts of gorgamunger oran can identify
yeah yeah like you're able to get like some some bones some claws and whatnot and then collect the
rest um like enough for for you know what you you think is salvageable the rest of it though as you
as you take this moss and put it over the primal moss immediately seeps seeps over this body and
any of the residual rot just seems to to retract and for a moment oran as you touch it like your hand kind
of quivers and it's not from like fear or sadness but like your hand has a reaction to even holding
this vial um but you manage to to sort of take control and then pour it over which causes the
the rot to dissolve and any of the other things just to you know basically part before there is a
steaming mass in the air that then dissipates leaving you with only the goods you've collected
so
thanks guys i appreciate it aldrich nods
is there anything else we need to do in here or start heading back up i'm gonna look around see
if there's anything we missed but for safety i'm gonna open the chest instead of voli
okay um unless voli wants to relive tesla coil power again
how are you how are you like i like are any of you like gaming logic okay it's obviously the chest
is trapped are any of you like trying to disarm the trap yeah i'm going to try and do that now
okay yeah no we're all just taking turns poking oh no no no because he's like i'm gonna try to
open it i'm like just clarify yeah i trap that ten houses would arcane check it see what it is
then we all disarm it yeah sure i can i cannot roll an arcane check if you prefer
that's fine i mean hey whatever works whatever whatever thurston thinks is the proper choice
yeah give me give me give me give me a little arcana box reveal your secrets yeah that's enough
for you to identify there there are several arcane runes on it um it looks like there several of them
have dissipated it looks like there were probably another two charges in this thing but like you can
easily with that check just um make necessary um strikes on it to remove those runes and their power
before before they trigger tannhauser um which leaves you with a chest no you're not shocking you don't
have to shock and grasp no i i just forgot to spend the spell slot so i pressed it i forgot that i would
i gotcha you shock the chest back
um yeah so
yeah um inside you can you can crack this uh this chest open now that you have disabled those runes
inside is a pile of assorted old mint coins they appear to be
some kind of ancient variant of the empire of the first house
um
for for you know sake of of ease whilst these aren't like exact gold coins modern modern time gold coins
uh you can tell that there's probably about like with the type of coins and some research like
all of those of you who are like trained in like warfare lore and some some other
you know no notable marketing uh skills society and whatnot can guess the worth of this to be about
a hundred gold pieces worth of just additional
gold value here so i'm just gonna add that to the people's loot i was actually going to
suggest to the party that we pass this over to neeson because this is technically an archaeological find
well she might pay us more for it because they're old coins but
we will pay you a hundred and twenty gold pieces which i will add to
the people's loot yeah okay so we're just gonna quick math that one all right
yeah like yeah yeah like like at this point like you're able to get it i just want to make sure that
it's tracked and it's not something we forget about and then you're a hundred and something coins down
the yeah yeah like this is one of those things where definitely she will take the the coins and
provide you like good you know money can be exchanged for goods and services um
there is also in there um another item which appears to be um a falera
uh if you have warfare you can uh you can give me a check all right it would be such that i do have it
yeah i will also do warf
you have no honor you have this role has i have 27 sweet you're right that role has yeah uh tanhauser
this goes back a bit be before tanhauser's knowledge um this is this is particularly
old uh a falera is a sculpted disc usually made of a metal in this case it is a bronze
um they're worn on breastplates um this is actually like a thing that exists in the real world for roman
soldiers um but in this case it's something the prince's legions used um and it has the like the
the symbol of the prince and an older symbol i should i should specify oh i see it's one of those
discs it's it's like a little it's a little plate that the romans used to wear literally on the chest
armor exactly yeah um and and in this case like some of them were were awarded like medals this is
like a bronze one so it wasn't like anything you know too spectacular but like this would have been
like a a soldier who had done enough to earn some kind of recognition um and as as you sort of see
this amongst the coinage um you can also see that there is a full suit of breastplate in here
um that is preserved where this falera could could be socketed in um tanhauser as you sort of inspect
this in you know turn on the on the magic vision um you you do get the impression that the falera
itself uh does radiate like psychometric energy so something for your object reading um or object
whispers but the armor appears to be magical so the flare is not but it has like some kind of reading
to it whereas the armor is uh sure uh can i do a detect magic or object whispers on it yeah yeah so so
i i just assume you're detecting magic that that's how you would tell the the like the armor and stuff
was um but as far as the falera yeah um and as you you you touch this this disc and your your kind of
eyes shoot back mentat style um words come into your mind and you hear serena calasti never thought
she'd escape a life of banditry amidst the hills of radaman the prince's arrival gave her purpose and
she willingly braved the vicious seas to help take the jewel of outset she would never see the city's
walls she would die screaming alongside her legionnaires in the depths of a timeless prison
interesting what a shame what a rotten way to die
all right all right um with that sad parable is this the same person that was being discussed in
the other object whispers yes timeless prison you know i have a question thurston mm-hmm does my detect
magic detect any magic coming from this little doohickey um it does not seem to radiate magic
directly but you see like small lines of it like it connects to something that might hold a moment
i'm going to do something kind of spicy so oh if we step here do we get it was this box that was
electrocuting us but this area is no longer dangerous yes yeah like like you haven't seen
anything else in the water okay i'm gonna wade in mm-hmm i'm going to take one of my ropes i have ropes
uh i have a clamor skid i have all sorts of good stuff i'm going to tie it around this
bring it back and i'm going to say everyone work with me and let's twist this i want to see if this
cube has any other secrets i was spoken of a this object spoke of a timeless prison and it may well
be that by exploring the depths of this cube we can come to understand more of the operations here
i have to leave it up to neeson to drain it though
are you going what are you talking about there's a valve down here it may drain
matters or it could lead further into the cave either way it's worth investigating
yeah we should probably rest up first before we try to do that in case it releases some kind of
damn rotten snake or some kind of other horrible thing just to clarify this is not like it it itself
is not a hatch and as you look closer you can tell it's it's sort of just an elevated valve you're not
sure what it connects to or what it does but it's not opening a door there it's a valve anything could
come out of it anything could come out i mean yeah even half-life yeah the whole half-life wow
full life could come out oh wow look gordon a rope
wayne please hire us continue you know we can use those to clear pits i've been told um
all right so do we want to rest before uh we all lift together or do we want to just yolo
uh rest please safety yeah fair enough we've got time we we can use it we already made a discovery
that i wasn't expecting us to make at this at this juncture i kind of figured like oh gorgomonger's
not here he was but he's not now it's like oh no parts of him still definitely are it's like oh well
then we've made more progress than i thought there there we'll uh climb back up then and rest uh and
then come back down later yeah absolutely okay um so let's okay if you want to say something
hoki yeah yeah if we're gonna rest anyway then before we do uh rahua will do his funny little
healing routine i'm going to ask kill at third level and just do it dude we'll do it we'll do a
repeat we got a much bigger pool this time we'll just send a tendril of vines all across the floor and
let a nice healing vapor rise from this muck yeah all right um i'm gonna let you all heal
yourselves to full because like between the the the 10 minute medicines you can do the um pick turn
having a shit ton of stew spells yeah yeah let's let's save ourselves and nothing else is like assailing
you in this place i want to clarify um the only thing you've got um that you know you may want to
consider is is the the chest um that you i'm assuming left on the second floor the one that
you found in the room with the destroyed uh perfectites underneath yeah i figured we'd be
coming back up to deal with that and you know okay so so do you want to go up and like inspect that
chest now is that sort of the plan and then do your your healing up and resting yeah let's get that
squared away and done okay yeah um so you carry back on up to floor two um here we'll just move
everybody all lickety-split into the same little room here thurston where's liam neeson liam neeson
he's behind you yeah oh that's that's picture he's um then okay cool um so so you all like come into
here um turn off dita neeson's light okay there we go because you know her light does weird things
okay um and then glowing glowing tan hazard excellent all right so as you could come up you
take take a take two to a rest in this area setting up you know campfires and whatnot dita is
exploring every nook and cranny of of the siege towers as she's wants to do um however you have this
this chest um that makes this sort of like swishing sound it appears to be locked uh as we determined
last session do any of you have thieves tools in an attempt to unlock it
i'm a bird yeah you are i do not have thieves tools but i have a good thievery score so if anybody
else has a lock pick hit me up i have thievery um that's it would it be possible to just try to
break the lock with gouging claw i mean can i use a bolt can i use a bolt as a pick
a bolt um i would allow you to do it at a minus two penalty sure i'll try it yeah who's got the best
thievery i have an eight i have a plus 11. and i take the bolt yeah i'm sorry very fast all right
take your nine nine two nine two hit all right do it minus two or whatever because you're using yep
i suppose i should lose that bolt huh uh yes and uh can i assist
a chair like backseat lock yeah absolutely no you need to go to the right god i'm just going to
locksplain this to you yeah he takes out his little red book now the revolutionary way to pick a lock is
this we must first proudly announce our intentions no i'm part machine too so i i know how this works
i'll show you this lock is like a cousin to me yeah exactly you're binding on one you have to go to two
damn it go to two and just any time there's a click that isn't what we want it's just you shouldn't
have done that wow tanny look at the fact that you're so close with this glowing armor yeah it's
just like wow
the valley can make tan house or be like move to the right the light light's not in the way no not
like that like you know it's like a dad and his son fixing cars
all right uh i'm gonna take my penalty and i'm just gonna roll yeah
18. that's not good cotton that's not that's not great uh
and howser you were assisting right you're doing it wrong i am doing my best tanny
please give me your assist roll 10 i'll activate the nanite surge
to lock spleen oh god
okay so so
with this um tanhouser provides you a plus two bonus volley which gets you a 20 which given the age of
this lock um and and some like some moving around of it and some you know
smartness you manage to to crack it open um and realize that like in fact just putting a lot of
pressure on this thing like this is very old like the fact that this lock has even lasted this long
is is working out pretty well undercutter achievements why don't yeah yeah you know you
know look i am i i'm just just absolutely um gonna pull the rusty lock off and throw it in
yeah and so so the lock comes off okay well it was a big turn he jumps out of the chest yeah
no he just like gets close as he hears the like and is like kind of like thumbing his
our his hands together as he's like what there could be anything in there let's see
i get yeah i crack open the chest one crab okay um so inside is um as i said this is like you know
two feet sort of thick about like a foot deep you know it's a long chest um inside is a roiling
massive rot oh like purified liquid rot and the slushing around of it i need you to give me a
reflex save as you crack this open uh uh 27 you managed not to like drop like or or not drop but like
you managed not to shake it or cause any undue you know stress that would cause any of it to to spatter
out but you certainly now are are seeing that this has just like
and like untouched rot like the the physical manifestation of the rot in it
oh and it undulates and like pops slightly similar to what you saw on the not dragon below
oh oh pick turn like looms over well not looms he doesn't really loom over anything
he looks down oh yeah volley's gonna take a couple of instinctual steps away from it okay
that
speaking of i i guess that's what they used on gorgamonger
why is there so much of it still left
where did they get it
perhaps they were experimenting with it could it be some
new intuition rot
the impossible
can i attempt this is this is definitely newer you can tell by the the make of this chest here
the lock is very old they must have repurposed that but the rest of this is all it's it's it's
it's modern style chest probably one from from outset uh sorry you're saying um baldrick
is there any way i could do an alchemy on this
anyway at all yeah absolutely you want to give me a crap what is your goal with the check what are you
trying to do with this alchemy i'm trying to determine exactly how much would be needed for
their operations and exactly how bone this is
uh yeah sure give me give me a give me a crafting check to
do your recall knowledge cool uh can i use savant yeah cool
uh 25 yeah so this this would be like a lot of rot in any situation um
very likely this would be enough rot that someone could you know start in in like a noticeable
infection somewhere it would be enough for a cadre of alchemists or scientists to do work with
um even possessing this much is disturbing like
caches this big are like destroyed on site now
one thing with your your check that you would also know is that whilst the rot is is a corrupting
corrupting influence on like material things it interacts with you know the um
or is opposed by i should say like old power type material like you know the moss
um however it's not as actively opposed by fundamental elements and in fact one thing is is it has like a
really hard time and there there aren't any really recorded cases of the rot infecting like
fundamental matter which would mean that this site is actually a really good site to work with something
like this because like spilling this for example wouldn't necessarily infest everything around
okay i mean coupled with the fact that we found those
fucking wine bottles full of rot in the other room previously they seem like they're going a bit too
buck wild with it
i mean fair point
this is this is like more than you would ever expect to see in your life let alone
like something that would be used for you know any kind of experiment or whatnot
i get the distinct feeling they're not performing this experiment of theirs out of the goodness of
their hearts or the noble pursuit of learning anything i think they may be just doing this for a
less good purpose remember those bottles in the other room
that entirely too much
right do we know what guilds behind this
yes we have a hint the medicinal guild right the doctors
we found the crates the crates were theirs i can't guarantee that they're behind it but if those
were stolen that's another issue if they were supplied that's more in line with your theory
right it's worth looking into at least
well we've got a lot to look into
granted uh
probably this
the rot destroy it hopefully
keep it sealed don't break it open if you can find a corner to put it all in do it and i'll deal
with it later
drop some moss in there see if that fixes the problem unfortunately it'll have to wait because
i don't exactly have all the materials to hand right now kind of used up most of my materials for
today right
well uh in that case we might as well rest up and then
finish clearing this place out see if we can find anything else
but here's what my question is
the the leader of the children of the blaze
he gave us a location of gorgamonger much much further away
it could be the finished project and he could be trying to get us killed
probable to me indeed but they're expecting us
yes my assumption is that the place he marked is probably site b
most likely
the question is what the hell do the children the how how do they factor into this
why would they be cooperating with the medicinal guild and outset
because they don't seem to be the types to have the sort of resources to do
this i just kind of gesture wildly at everything
never discount individual ego some people think they're about to learn the most important things
since well sliced bread i suppose some people think they've got everything in their power to achieve
things beyond the stars if they've got some resources odds are they can get more
it's gonna either be an individual case or it could be a from on high scenario either way it's a mess
you need to figure out who's running it
exactly
and that means it's probably all the more important to find those
nomads with the alleged cure
yeah we're a good distance away from them so if we wanted to beat tracks to them now that would
be a wise choice i sincerely doubt that alert's suggestion on where to find gorgamonger is all that
true well
we'll see if we can't get some correspondence from that buddy of yours
see if she finds anything yeah well she's got a long walk too may as well figure on beaten tracks that
way at some point
right we'll figure out the actual
where we go from here i guess right we still have those ruins
on that note shall we finish up with this damn tower and figure out what that valve down there does or
shall we leave it for now as nice
i once we have all rested yeah we could see what survived us i would be loved to leave anything
under investigated before we leave
yes let's check that valve see what it hides
so um you carry on back down um you've already got the rope set up which tanhauser you've you've
like have sort of lying down there um when you come back down this time the uh the spectral hands seem to
stop at this point um they don't emerge again something has prevented their reappearance
and yeah um there is this
pull um that you have are all of you going to be involved in trying to like grab this rope and then
just start hauling it to to activate the valve down there yeah team work bucket yeah
all of you go um even like a little pick turn at the back i'm helping you know i used to do this tug
of war thing back home on the farm it was a real good time um you know it's just a little family thing
he just looks at pick turn and picture and we'll only see a mournful
depressed just tired of life face and orange just gives them a single look
yeah that was a good story but i i suppose now might not be the time i'll tell it again when
everybody's maybe orange turns back to pull the rope yeah uh and you begin pulling and there is a
chunk sound a chunk
chunk chunk chunk chunk as you begin pulling and pulling and with more and more intensity
as you do so um the valve continues to to spin to spin to spin and then you hear this kind of
humming this
um all of you like feel your your bones and your insides shake slightly to this
um your legs feel like strange for a moment um almost light
um with that the water begins to slowly recede exactly where it's draining is
ambiguous but it begins to
to drop out um removing that element from this chamber
well that did something
water's done
i don't think that was intentional whatever this thing was connected to i don't think was intended
to be pumping out swamp water um
all of you again have this like feeling in your in your like body like for for a moment you seem
almost lighter
can i uh roll crafts um to maybe see if i can tell what that might be connected to i did
previously work on large vehicles like this yeah yeah uh you hang on i'm thirsty loading them
yeah i am um because as you do so um and go to investigate this tanhauser you have the briefest
moment as you're like trying to think of what this could be you you remember to where exactly you are standing
and what this location is
and almost as you like have that moment
you very quickly realize
something is off and then you see all of the walls of the chamber
suddenly lose their silverness and then the darkness in the room the entire area is washed in light
as you find yourselves overlooking the immediate terrain
and you realize that the cube the the the the silver cube you are in this perfectite siege tower is once again floating
and as it floats you now see
a whole bunch more terrain that was previously inaccessible to you
and then you also see in this forested area far to the southwest um somewhat in the direction of where
alert had indicated that gorgamonger was or at least along the way
like some kind of rainbow coloration swirling in the canopy uh you see that to the northwest that you
already knew was was like a swampy lake but then there's open sort of plain land further to the
northwest that was where you know you would sent uh victrix and the other squad there's more swampland
far to the west there's a plains area further out you you finally are getting more of a sense of
the immediate terrain around you and then
you see the walls shimmer back to darkness back to the silver back to the the metal of the perfectite
and you hear this
and there is this and like all of you kind of shake
i need to brace myself for when this thing crashes
damn it not the not exactly the airship we were looking for huh well i'm sure we could always repair it
you know how this kind of machinery works we could learn no no you can
you know why don't we realize for a moment that miss neeson also probably saw this unless you're
willing to get rid of her i don't think we're keeping this discovery yeah well at the very least
it would make exploring quicker if we decide to repair it but i'm not
i'm not optimistic i am not a perfectite engineer nor am i and i am not perfectite at all in fact i
i will not travel in this this construct this aberration that it may be
what you don't even want to commandeer it for the forces of chaos liberate it as it were
how do you think these things work
frankly i was about to uh hedge my bet on magic but
magic is not far off but it is a bit reductive these are fundamental forces of reality itself
while one may give way to the other it is not as simple as
well corrupting the essence as if the rot didn't so unless you want to fly around a rotten construct well
i suppose you best get to working on how to manipulate the rot for your own ends point being is
the operations of this construct are as alien to us as well i am to all of you
oh if i could manipulate the rot i would have by now but i get what you mean
i i suppose i could have my god's comments we could take take point and then continue investigating
here's now as it's also threats so don't we um i like she this is where she would like dita would
provide you the coins in exchange for everything and sort of like match up with the the equipment you've
found um the the breastplate is still available if any of you want it again that was that was magical
um i'll try to swap mine out for that i think uh we should probably is it did we identify like what it
does it does it have some kind of special property is it just enchanted uh you have not you've not
identified it yet so like anyone with like arcana could do that so tanhazard if you wanna i push it
at him like like a cat to the old college yeah let's uh let's identification it sure identify the
chest identify identify the amazing chest amazing chest ahead i assume i'm rolling arcana yeah
uh 28. uh 28. hooray yeah you you identify the breastplate i'm just going to add it to your uh
inventory give me one sec here the people's lewd the people's lewds um and this yeah one sec
how dare you say this to our fair yes um this is this armor is a plus one resilient breastplate
so what that means is that it gives you like an extra armor bonus ac bonus yay but it also increases
your uh your saves by one while you while you wear it what's it's a dex cap modifier uh dex uh
modifier cap is one let me see what my breastplate is offering
because if my breastplate is already reducing it to
yes so basically i would be basically trading up my breastplate for another one yeah this this
would be a flat-up upgrade to your breastplate so i'm gonna wait so which one is it again it's the
second one right uh yeah yeah the one that has i'm gonna swap it out and i'm going to add
the other one to the people's loot and sell it later if someone's interested in that like
give that to fucking rahua he could have some armor finally he has he is armor i'll i'll drag your old one
there um and with that um yeah d just paid you off you have the the the treasure all good to go
um i guess um i want to ask very quick before we end though thurston on that one uh can we trade
out the freaking 10 bulk of miscellaneous legionary equipment and the marble bus to her
yeah yeah yeah absolutely we can just exchange that for for for money as well
um less things to carry the better yeah i'll i'll i'll get rid of that and just like add the
5 25 gold for all that's bringing you up to 1300 gold pieces which is pretty reasonable
uh i'll remove these other items uh balder and then a hand on tenhauser's shoulder now we can buy a
dirigible finally and at this point um i guess before we we we do end today's session i do want
to get a sense of where exactly you are going to plan to go next let's coordinate on that shall we
yeah i'm very interested in the swirling rainbow it is on our direction to gorgamunger but i it's the
less straightforward path i think we should go back to try and find zablzap's
shit again and try to find something that'll help us traverse the swamp faster we have so much money
to work with zablzap though and the entire area keep in mind had like four guys four level one guys
to protect him i get the feeling that the outpost is not going to have a tremendous amount of resources
for us it risks just being a time sink we did talk previously on this and i remember us discussing
this you had asked like can we get a dirigible or like a cart or something and we we went to go
make one after we learned that oh buying one would probably be very expensive
that is true yeah a cart lugging a cart through the swamp though is gonna be a tough one that's what
i mean pack animal i mean i presume thurston was not bullshitting us and saying oh yeah you can buy
the cart and then they give it to us it's like a rahou of mush oh no i know it's more just the fact
that it's it's difficult to rain it's grassy it's swampy and carts are better suited for when you're
going on a path that is and we are not following a path that does risk slowing us down generally
uh can i ask thurston if there would have been any vehicles that avert difficult terrain that would
have been available of any sort uh not in use for this case the like the best you could do would be
picking up some like like some some essentially like cheap rowboat type things that you could use
to say get through like the water terrain that's to the northwest um you could get a cart and the the
benefit of having a cart or a wagon even here is that it can store stuff for you right like because
you're starting to also get pretty pretty heavy on the on the gear and like whilst dita and crew can
handle it with what they have i have an idea okay pick turn is now our patsy
he is what's fancy it's what you are oh okay we bring that big backpack on that little guy
he's got a car he has the disc he doesn't need to lift anything exactly funny if he did exactly we got
a picture we got a solution all along so this is the this is the ledge that we're going to be going
with because i'm presuming we're going to find more materials and i think it would be foolish to
assume we're not going to we run the risk of having to leave shit behind once we start hitting
carrying capacity do we want to go back it'll take a little more time and get a thing to help
hold our materials rather than trying to jury rig one or do we press on knowing full well we're
probably going to have to ditch some shit well i'm in the camp of going back and getting something
that i'm presuming again here thirst and then please correct me if i'm wrong yeah the cart will
not be a hindrance to us okay no no no the cart will will not like be be an annoying hindrance i'm
not gonna like okay i can do that but it will allow you to get stuff now again you're gonna have to go
back you're gonna get now if you go back to zables apps um here's what's gonna happen you're gonna go
back to zables apps you're going to be able to make purchases zables app can sell up to a certain item
level i will explain that we don't have to go into that on like here um we'll explain that between
sessions but basically you'd be able to make some purchases there for equipment and stuff um and i can
like allow you to know what that number is um so if you want to do that next absolutely i guess like
and and we can do that and y'all can figure that out again i don't want you to rush into anything i
guess the question that i i more want and more for our viewers to know is after let's let's say
you go to zables apps pick up the carriage get that um get all good to go where exactly like
what direction are you planning on heading next hmm well we sent um victrix toward where uh
alert was off to yeah if she's moving at the same speed she'll either be there or there
yeah so i'm comfortable letting her kind of send correspondence once she gets there uh because i
imagine she'll have like the fucking carrier pigeon or something some way to get in contact because it
went horribly wrong yeah and the thing to note is that you've explored this hex here that you're in
right now and you've explored this hex here so you like you can move through these two much faster than
like any other hexes right um right because you you have notes on the terrain you've gone through
this area so like going here and coming back here isn't going to be too bad so we can we can do that
i just want to know where y'all are planning on care are you going like here here dragon i was gonna
i was gonna get on that so here's my thought on that right why don't we go to here
this spot here you see on the map yeah go to here we can see what terrain this is this is
and then we can make it a judgment call at that point to see like will it be good to do this and
then just go north or can we go here go back and then go investigate this again yeah i'm very i'm
very interested in that rainbow but i feel like gorgamonger is more pressing i wouldn't like to waste
time but it'll be good to learn what's ahead before we make any decisions like let's hit the
rainbow then we hit gorgamonger because there could be like nothing but garbage terrain over
here that makes us slow race his hand and say yeah uh as everyone's like debating oh we can go this way
uh i'm gonna go i'm gonna go like fellas um appreciate guys helping me find gorgamonger and such and
i can't really ask you guys to spend all of your time just you know i mean i just kind of met you
guys in the city and stuff and i can't ask you guys to you know keep sacrificing your lives to
all right tell me just find a friend but i'm okay if we need to make any detours just do anything to
make sure we're safe because you know i might have gone over across half the world to try to find one
friend and i've already lost one i don't want to lose four others so if we need to take time to
make sure we're all going to be safe at the end of it i'd rather take that time oran i'm gonna put a
hand on his shoulder don't feel guilty ever for anything that we're doing here we want to find
gorgamonger because it's important to you we're a crew understand we stick together and we look out
for our own and because he's a friend of yours he's a friend of ours so we want to find him
we want to make sure that whatever happened to him can't happen to anybody else ever again
oran will nod and then you'll look at everyone be like well we find gorgamonger if he's going to be
in the same state as that other thing was we're going to need to prepare a lot we need preparations
we need to do now's the time i think i'm confident of what we're going to find but i'd rather we all be
ready for it let's do whatever preparations get any materials that we can because it's going to be
tough right all right all right well i think that's what we're gonna we're gonna call it also by the way
thank you odo for not going the other way of like oh oren my friend thank you for letting me go to this
fucking rainbow like i was just waiting because you were all in on rainbow time you were just like
there's a rainbow on the map i need to know what it is i i i want to go to rainbow i'll be i want
to go to rainbow land we need to see if it's we need to see if it is strategically feasible we're not
playing strategic i'm so excited uh also there's one other thing i have to say before i do absolutely hand
it over um you all gain a level
there you go there you go i got a hit points for level six now we'll let y'all do that uh we'll
we'll do the shopping stuff off stream chat um and we'll figure out for next time as they head back to
zabblezaps get some gear and head out and maybe we'll see what happens when they venture more
than just one hex away from the start of this adventure oh god it's one hex yeah yeah i told
you we're we're getting into like the deep the deep stuff now you know i imagine the list the rest of
the hexes will be less interesting we'll see we'll see about that we also just need to not
fucking squirrel on everything looking at you rainbow i want to see the rainbow i want to go
to rainbow land i'm where i want to go to the gay rights hex
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we will find out what's on the rainbow i swear
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