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Outpost is a bustling city

1:13

located in the nation of

1:15

Goldcrest, a nation that nobody

1:17

cared about until the king was slain

1:19

by a bunch of adventurers. Unfortunately, adventurers

1:21

did what adventurers do, and they didn't

1:23

think of the consequences of killing a

1:25

powerful tyrant, and they promptly left the

1:27

citizens a gold crust to figure it

1:29

out for themselves. For

1:32

now, Jaren's Outpost is a melting

1:34

pot of religions, criminals, politics, and

1:36

paranoia, with everyone keeping everyone else

1:38

in check. But all that's

1:40

about to change. Welcome to

1:43

the enhanced edition of Jaren's

1:45

Outpost. Alright,

1:48

I'll head back to the cop shop then. That's the name of the place.

1:51

Pops aren't a thing, but it's called the

1:53

cop shop. No, it's the cop shop because

1:55

it's C -O -P -P -E. Like, the

1:57

old cop shop. The cop is shoppy. Did

2:00

you got a cop it? The shop where you cop

2:02

the law. You all reconvene at the cop shop? Did

2:04

I do anything with the dwarves? Oh, right. Fuck, sorry.

2:06

It went swimmingly good. It

2:09

was great. You're best of friends. Thank

2:11

God. As you approach one of the

2:13

dwarven ships, it turns to face you.

2:15

Some ballastae on the side of the

2:17

ship are vaguely aimed in your direction.

2:19

I'm like, really? I'm a halfling on

2:21

an upside -down boat, and you're aiming

2:23

that at me? By the

2:25

time you're basically next to the ship, a

2:28

stocky dwarf leans over the side,

2:30

arms folded with a big smile

2:32

on his face. You

2:34

actually recognize his face, and Captain De

2:37

Silva calls out to you saying, well,

2:39

what are you doing there, little boy?

2:42

Captain De Silva! I want

2:44

arms outstretched like a baby reaching up

2:46

for his dad's art. He's like, eh!

2:49

Captain De Silva! Help me

2:51

up! The arts dwarves lower like a

2:53

net sort of thing that you can

2:55

clamber onto and they haul you up.

2:57

Oh, fuck! Captain

3:00

the Silver is as flamboyant as ever.

3:02

Instead of his regular hat though, he's

3:05

wearing some sort of official kind of

3:07

looking dwarven navy hat. But his like

3:09

clothing is just as colorful as it

3:11

was before. Holy shit, Captain Silver, how

3:13

are you? How you been? Man, haven't

3:15

seen you in an age. Captain the

3:17

Silver leads you to his like personal

3:19

quarters. You sit down. You probably like

3:21

offers you a change of clothes if

3:23

you want. Thank you. I'm very sad

3:25

I recently lost a friend. You addressed

3:28

very flamboyantly. That is good for me.

3:30

Perfect for sneaking into a castle. Every

3:32

article of clothing is a different fluro

3:34

colour. God, that's good. What

3:36

are you doing here? Captain Silver explains

3:38

to you that a couple of years

3:40

ago... He started working with the dwarven

3:42

merchant company. Mm -hmm. He hasn't been

3:44

home in a long time He tells

3:46

you but he's instead now working for

3:48

kind of like a subsidiary of one

3:50

of the dwarven clients They offered him

3:52

a pretty sizable check now fair for

3:54

his services I like that he remembers

3:56

me. That's all right. That's so good.

3:58

But I feel like Captain Isilva is

4:00

also the kind of person that remembers

4:02

everyone he meets. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you

4:04

guys are like drinking pretty heavily. De

4:07

Silva insists. He tells you it's good for

4:09

someone who's been wet. He hasn't changed. All

4:12

right, I keep drinking. I'm half drowning myself.

4:14

And half, like, it's a skull. seems quite happy.

4:16

It's like, I lost a friend, but an

4:18

old friend. He seems quite happy

4:20

with everything. He's like, Things are going really

4:22

well for him. He's like been on the

4:24

up and up pretty steadily. His life's completely

4:27

turned around. When he first met him, he

4:29

like had one ship. Now he's a Commodore.

4:31

He's no longer Captain De Silva anymore. He's

4:33

Commodore De Silva. Congratulations, Commodore De Silva. He

4:35

explains to you, probably, I assume, asked why

4:37

the dwarves are here. They

4:39

normally come here around this time every year.

4:42

They'd heard Or they were aware that the

4:44

orcs had taken the docks because they saw

4:46

orcish ships in the dock. But they didn't

4:48

know, they didn't really know or care what's

4:50

happening in Jaren's Outpost. They were just there

4:53

to try and free up the dock so

4:55

that they could resume trading. Well, I tried

4:57

to fill him in as much about Jaren's

4:59

Outpost, just to lay the land. And basically,

5:01

if you could help us out, that'd be

5:03

just great. Captain the Silver gives you a

5:06

very pained expression. Unfortunately, lad,

5:08

the ships are, well, I command

5:10

them, but they're not really mine.

5:13

I have permission to act within a certain

5:15

boundary, but there's only so much I can

5:17

do. And we're not allowed to interfere with

5:20

local politics, and I feel this is very

5:22

close to local politics. Potentially, but... I can

5:24

wrangle you some things, but... All right, well,

5:26

what can you wrangle me? What can you?

5:28

Well, we're allowed to fight

5:31

orcs wherever we see them, so

5:33

maybe I see some orcs near

5:35

where the keep is. We

5:37

fire our catapults, no one's gonna think twice

5:39

about that. Well... That just so happened because

5:41

I'm pretty sure maybe that keep is full

5:44

of orcs. Well, in

5:47

that case, I think we'd have to shell

5:49

that place till it wasn't standing anymore. I

5:51

think that'd be a pretty good idea. Get

5:54

rid of all them orcs. Wow, that's definitely

5:56

something I'd have to do. Yeah, that's a

5:58

pretty good idea. Commodore to Sylvie, just shell

6:00

that place around about midnight when the orcs

6:03

would be sleeping. That might be all that

6:05

I can do though. I think that's more

6:07

than enough. Alright. And if you'd

6:09

help me just, uh, put it in the boat,

6:11

it'd be also real good. Ah, that boat's full

6:13

of holes, you don't want that one? Yeah, maybe

6:16

we'll lose a boat. Maybe

6:20

like weapons on it too man after

6:23

so many things bad that happen to

6:25

you You're gonna be sailing that way.

6:27

It's good. You're gonna be scaling that

6:30

wall. We will be scaling that wall

6:32

about you'll need a ballast day to

6:34

fire that grappling hook Yes, we would

6:37

need a ballast day. Yeah, maybe we

6:39

lose one of them as well It

6:41

means that bad things are around the

6:44

corner Probably only for me like you

6:46

have like another drink. It's Getting

6:48

kind of late, you stumble a

6:50

little bit out of Captain the

6:53

Silver's office. I'm like, hey, meat

6:55

pie, you've never... Oh. Oh,

6:57

that was so... My heart.

7:01

You're breaking it. I quietly get

7:03

into the boat. Pour

7:06

one out for our homie meat pie. So

7:11

sad. Maybe I'll get a seagull this

7:13

time. Oh

7:18

Danny boy! The

7:21

pipe! Sorry.

7:24

Sorry. Yes. A ballastate, a smaller

7:26

one, but one that you can

7:29

attach a rope to the bolt,

7:31

is fixed into a boat, roughly so

7:33

that it can be kind of fired

7:36

from the boat. You're given some basic

7:38

instructions on how to operate a ballastate

7:40

because you probably don't know how, and

7:42

just in case your friends don't know

7:44

how either. They lower two

7:46

boats down, one with a bunch of dwarves

7:48

in it, one with you in the Ballastay.

7:50

Oh, thank you. Meeting Pomodora Silver was the

7:52

best thing that's happened to us this whole

7:54

game. And the

7:56

dwarves row you back to shore. Where do you

7:59

want to be? What would be the

8:01

most strategic to kind of be so we can get there?

8:03

Would it be near Tigalai? Tigalai? Yeah. Near

8:05

your strongest allies. would say near

8:07

little Tigalai. And yeah, we'll go

8:10

from there. Can

8:12

I acquire? Paper and pen. How are you

8:14

going to fuck? You certainly can. I would

8:16

like to write out of eye shot from

8:18

my eye, looking up, pretend

8:20

to stab me, and then remove

8:23

my eye and throw it away.

8:25

And I'm going to hand it

8:27

to Leo when I see him.

8:30

What is this going to do? Well,

8:33

then the sabers are like, damn, Greg,

8:35

I'm faking my own death. It's

8:38

good, but we can't allow them to confirm. As if that's

8:40

going to last. It'll last long enough. We

8:43

need them to attack the base. Well, we'll wait till

8:45

after that, but that's my plan. Although I feel like

8:47

the dwarves shelling the shit out of it would be

8:49

enough. Potentially, but then a dragon might

8:51

come down. So look, we want to go down the

8:53

savers. We want a lot of pandemonium is all. But

8:56

when the time comes, that's what we're

8:58

doing. OK. I got to fake my death from

9:00

the savers. Or I just marry the girl. What

9:03

do you do? Then the blood cult still have your soul.

9:06

Yeah. Yeah, well, we'll sort that out. When

9:08

the time comes, I'll cross that

9:10

bridge. so the three of you

9:12

plus a bunch of hangers on

9:15

excuse me they're they're good friends

9:17

they're good are are finally able

9:19

to reconvene at your local tavern

9:21

right ill cop tavern does my

9:23

eye look different well what's your

9:26

original eye color bright green one

9:28

of your eyes is a regular

9:30

looking bright green and one of

9:32

them is a apt piece yellow

9:34

do we Even though

9:37

just his eyes are fucked or

9:39

do we not care? He's just

9:41

like alcohol poisoning, I guess. Is

9:43

this yellow eye is looking around

9:45

completely like without... Can I get

9:47

an eye patch? Sure.

9:49

Yeah, I'll just eye patch. Well, no, but if

9:51

you eye patch it then they can't see anything.

9:53

Saber's mad at you. Ah, fuck. I'll

9:56

just cast message. It's fine, I'll cast message and

9:58

I'll be like, right. That eye,

10:00

it's not mine. What's the sabers eye?

10:02

No, you don't say Greg. Looks

10:05

so real. Oh, Whisper is a... Message?

10:07

Message. a whispered conversation at a distance,

10:09

sorry. Ah, so the sabers will hear

10:11

you. Could hear? I'll risk it. All

10:14

right. Sabers

10:16

are having to look at everything that I

10:18

do. Right, so best behave your voice. And

10:20

they're gonna help. Yeah. Periwinkle,

10:24

your practised bullshit detector

10:27

is going off. Oh,

10:30

so they're definitely gonna help us, Greg.

10:32

Well, that's... Look, that's what they said.

10:35

They said, for a promise, understand that as I

10:37

had my eye taken out, it was under duress.

10:40

Right? They said the words, we

10:43

will help you, Greg. I'm

10:47

not believing this, am I? Your

10:50

bullshit detector is like five alarm chili

10:52

calling out that something spicy is going

10:54

on. Greg. Yeah. Because we've known one

10:56

another for... I don't know. 24 hours

10:59

now, but yeah, I'm gonna give you

11:01

one more chance I'm gonna ask you

11:03

one question You do you just have

11:05

to give me a thumbs up or

11:08

thumbs down because you compromised, right? If

11:11

I'm not happy with the answer

11:13

that I get I may put

11:16

you in that barrel over there

11:18

Just throw you in the water

11:20

right boss. All right Did they

11:23

say they would help? Us

11:25

with our attack they did say that

11:27

they would help but they didn't guarantee

11:30

it because it's gonna take them a

11:32

while to get their resources together So

11:34

instead of doing a thumbs up or

11:36

thumbs down I give like that wavy

11:38

hand It's just wonderfully unclear All right,

11:40

I'm not gonna put you in a

11:42

barrel right now. Maybe

11:45

Harry Winkle. We

11:47

have just a quick sidebar Sure.

11:49

I'm gonna chat to the cops. Don't

11:52

arrest him. You have very

11:55

little to talk about. A

11:58

lot of them don't like you.

12:00

All of them. Goggles his brother

12:02

and his wife and his mother.

12:05

Same day. Same

12:08

four hour period. He slept with every

12:10

day of the week. Including

12:14

Thursday? Twice. Alright,

12:17

what do you want? Right. So we're

12:19

gonna get this weapon. Look, I'm

12:21

sure that Greg Piss... I know that you'd have

12:23

no to... He's definitely going to betray us at

12:25

some point in the I like to imagine you're

12:27

like, we look Greg Piss, you're like, look, I'm

12:30

just like eating a pickled egg in front of

12:32

one of the guys, be like... How many could

12:34

you put there? How

12:36

many could you put away? So, look, I know

12:38

you have doubts to where I would lie. I

12:41

promise you right now that I won't try

12:43

to... Backstab you, betray you, grab the weapon

12:45

and run. If you agree before you do

12:47

anything with your weapon to at least meet

12:50

with Papa Littleo and see what he says.

12:52

And if I don't like what he says,

12:54

I can walk away. I will try and

12:56

see if you're on it, Vatican. And I

12:58

promise that I will make sure that Greg

13:01

Piss doesn't fuck us up. At

13:03

least I'll try and stop him. was gonna say, can

13:05

you actually promise us that he is a slippery one?

13:07

He is a slippery little piss. You

13:12

finished the jar of dick face! For...

13:19

Alright, I'm open to that. Whatever little

13:21

low wants, that's a conversation with Papa

13:23

Little. As long as I've done my

13:25

job in his eyes, I don't really

13:28

care what happens. He's happy

13:30

for it to be potentially destroyed. Yes. I'm

13:32

over to a conversation if you promise you don't fuck

13:34

me over. And do your very best

13:36

to stop him from... Yeah, that's gonna be a... That's

13:41

gonna be hard. All right. You're

13:43

all right, mate. Thanks, Jakey. Colin

13:46

sucks you in the gut. I'm

13:50

farming up a lot of egg that I was just keeping

13:52

in my cheeks. Wow,

13:56

broke the fun, Colin, didn't

13:58

you? Eight eggs in a

14:00

crumb. Yes. We're good to go, team. Yep,

14:03

we've got the boat, dwarves are going to

14:05

provide some cover and the sabers are going

14:07

to attack the front gates. Yeah,

14:09

right, yeah. Maybe.

14:13

The town militia will hopefully also provide you guys

14:15

some distraction, basically attacking from all fronts. Now here's

14:17

the options. Do you have a moment to help

14:19

us break in or do you a moment to

14:21

go just smash some shit? I think maybe half

14:23

and half split the team. How

14:25

many are a couple days away from

14:28

retirement? Two,

14:30

both the Thursdays. They're

14:35

coming with me on the actual real hard mission,

14:37

right? Because they'll be safe. Yeah. Yeah. You gotta

14:39

look after them. Yeah. That's how it goes down.

14:41

He's bought a boat called the Freedom. He's

14:46

expecting his third grandchild this week. That's

14:49

Thursday tea, not Thursday art. Well,

14:52

we have a map. You got two

14:54

maps. A map of the inner area.

14:56

Oh, yeah. And a map of the...

14:58

The castle, yeah. just hand drawn from

15:00

the commander himself of the inside of

15:02

the castle, where you might want to

15:04

go that vault down downstairs. There's no

15:06

map of the vault, just where it

15:08

is. All right, we're doing

15:10

this. You

15:12

all assemble out on the beach. It's

15:15

a cold night. The only sound right now

15:17

you can hear is the waves gently lapping

15:20

against the shore. And in

15:22

the distance, maybe you imagine you can

15:24

hear the gentle creaking of the dwarven

15:26

fleet. Suddenly, the

15:29

Dark Knight is pierced by

15:32

several bright fiery lights as

15:34

massive firepots launched from catapults

15:37

on the dwarven ships suddenly

15:39

streak from the sea up

15:42

against the walls of the

15:44

city. They explode in

15:47

massive fiery balls of destruction,

15:49

caving away large parts of

15:51

the wall. Then on the

15:53

other side of the city,

15:55

far away from you, You

15:57

can hear the distant rumblings

15:59

of people screaming and possibly

16:01

combat. It's gonna be good.

16:04

Time to scarf our lads. Let's

16:06

go boys. After a solid,

16:08

maybe 15 minutes of shelling, a part

16:10

of the wall crumbles away enough that

16:12

you guys could, if you want, attempt

16:15

to scale it. It's only a short

16:17

climb. We've got that harpoon

16:19

in the rope. Harpoon

16:22

gun that fires a grappling hook. With

16:24

a solid clinking sound, the

16:27

grappling hook connects with the top part of

16:29

this caved -in wall, and you can feel

16:32

the rope go taut when you pull it.

16:34

Who's gonna climb first? After you, lads. I'll

16:37

nimbly climb up. So my theory is

16:39

I'll send you go first. I'll send

16:41

two militia behind you. I'll go. No,

16:44

Greg, you're going in front of me. Then

16:47

I'm going. Then I'm sending

16:49

the rest of the militia. All right, all

16:51

right. Leo, you're on the wall or over

16:53

the wall, I should say. Cool. There's like

16:55

a little courtyard there. Do

16:57

your right hand side or a bunch of buildings? One

16:59

of them is a big blacksmithy, a bunch of them

17:01

are storage places, some stables as

17:03

well. To your right looms the large fort.

17:06

Cool. Any horses in the stables? It's gonna

17:08

scalpel? Nah, it's gonna have a distraction. Ah,

17:10

clever. Set up to open the... like the

17:12

stables. You see no horses on the stables?

17:15

Anything around us, by the way. Like, is

17:17

there like just like no people. One dickhead

17:19

being like, just staring at us, being like...

17:21

What? There are no guards on the wall.

17:24

No, there were no guards on this section of the wall.

17:26

Oh, that's why they're on the other sections where we're running

17:29

in distraction. They're barely able to keep the walls man. There's

17:31

not a lot of people in here. If

17:33

you, like, scan around the fort

17:35

looking for any entrances, they all

17:37

seem boarded shut or closed or

17:40

locked. There's no easy entrance here.

17:43

Head towards the fort unseen, I guess,

17:45

or try to make myself unseen as

17:47

possible. Start your way forward. Yeah. And

17:50

try to inspect some of the... Did you tell

17:52

us the map where there might have been an

17:54

entrance for the keep? Was there

17:57

a particular entrance we were meant to be taking?

17:59

You found, though, particularly... Good entrances. You figured that

18:01

once you were there, you might just scan the

18:04

place and look for an obvious way in. But

18:06

there doesn't seem to be any obvious places from

18:08

where you are. You'd have to do like a

18:10

lap or just... Try and unlock the door. Lockpick

18:12

that shit. Is there one? How they bought it

18:15

up? I've been unlocking spell if you want it

18:17

to, by the way. Maybe we'll save it for

18:19

the falls. The level

18:21

-level windows have just been bricked

18:23

up with shittily, but with mortar

18:25

and brick. So it doesn't look

18:27

like they're easy entrances. the doors

18:30

all just look like they're barred

18:32

shut the large massive gate that's

18:34

the entry the main entry way

18:36

in has the um port colors

18:38

the uh crusty metal bit yeah

18:40

and uh the massive wooden doors

18:42

beyond it also look barred any

18:44

upper level windows look like they

18:46

might just be shuttered closed so

18:49

very easy to break open but

18:51

it's climbing up there as well

18:53

all right next is greg pierce

18:55

is it two of my guys

18:57

and greg pierce You

18:59

asked your two guys first. Yeah,

19:02

both of the Thursdays. I think

19:04

you said you know the Thursday's

19:06

catch so hang on half of

19:08

them went and did distraction So

19:11

Colin goggles Monday and Tuesday Wednesday

19:13

went to distractions the two Thursdays

19:15

Saturday Sunday and Ian a I

19:17

am came with us that house

19:19

wait hang on so Saturday Saturday

19:22

Saturday Sunday Ian yeah Collins in

19:24

the BT Thursday Thursday get over

19:26

the wall Uh, Greg

19:28

Pierce is over with some difficulty. And

19:30

I'm right behind him. All right, gotta

19:33

be on my trial. Pierce, you

19:35

fall in a month or two Thursdays.

19:37

Leo isn't anywhere to be seen. Maybe

19:39

he's sculpted off or something like that.

19:41

The both, both the Thursdays are just

19:43

lying for, uh, lying in wait for

19:45

presumably Leo to get back. Right here.

19:48

I'll look around, see if I see any

19:50

sneaky entrances, any way into the fort, from

19:53

where I am, any drain pipes, like up

19:55

to the... just, that's how I get down

19:57

after sleeping with a man's wife. There wouldn't

19:59

be drainage pipes on a couch. Oh,

20:02

right, yeah, not fair. That's

20:04

just oh. They don't have plumbing. Getting

20:06

down from a window, easy. With your

20:08

half -orque strength, you easily

20:11

scale the wall. Damn straight, I

20:13

do. You're with Pierce on the

20:15

two Thursdays, and then... Saturday, Sunday,

20:18

and Ian. Saturday, Sunday. Yeah,

20:20

they're all with you. Right. I'm just saying,

20:23

you can just decide what they do from

20:25

here, because I can't be bothered trying to

20:27

be six people. That's

20:29

fair enough. By

20:31

the time that Saturday finally

20:34

manages to scramble over the

20:36

wall, Leo, you return, having

20:38

done a quick circumvent... circumference

20:41

around the castle. So

20:43

if I broke through the window of the mortar stuff, would

20:45

that be able to... are we then inside? How

20:47

many layers of... The main gate has the

20:50

port colors and the two wooden doors. There's

20:52

a small servants entrance around the back that's

20:54

a thick heavy looking wooden door. You think

20:56

that might be the easiest way in if

20:58

you wanted to break in ground floor. So

21:00

you want to go in the ground floor

21:02

and then then that way we make sure

21:04

that there's nothing below us to chase us.

21:06

Yeah, let's go to the service and sneak

21:09

it up the back. Yeah. Right. That was

21:11

good. So Ian peels off and he's just

21:13

going to like skulk around the outside and

21:15

give you guys a heads up if he

21:17

sees anyone coming. Kill. Do I need to

21:19

use my acid flask to break through the

21:21

servant's entrance? You can just try picking the

21:23

lock. I'll try picking the lock. Yeah.

21:26

I could throw a great quiz at the door. Hey! I'm

21:29

very squishy. It's not going to do

21:31

you any good. You waste 15 minutes

21:33

getting nothing done. Oh man. Then

21:35

you're just like, oh, it was just dark.

21:39

Another one of the firepots rockets overhead

21:41

to strike somewhere else in this little

21:43

section of the city. And you're like,

21:45

oh, I was like, maybe instead of

21:47

getting into the keyhole, you were like

21:49

trying to jam them in the side

21:52

of the door. Just the

21:54

handle. Just the holes around

21:56

the handle. You

21:58

get the door open. The corridor beyond

22:00

you is very dark. What?

22:02

All right. I've got dark vision,

22:04

I think. You switch to dark vision. Everything

22:06

turns into black and white, but you can

22:09

see perfectly in darkness. Anything

22:11

I should be worried about? No, it's

22:13

not a corridor. It is, in fact,

22:15

a kitchen. or a rear, like, well,

22:17

probably the storage area for the kitchens.

22:20

A, what do you call it, a ladder? When they

22:22

turn in the cook's entrance. Yeah, anyway. We're in the

22:24

downstairs, or the upstairs downstairs. Yeah. Yeah,

22:26

they have a, there's no, well, there's no

22:28

food here right now. It looks like they've

22:30

been burning through their supplies. Maybe

22:33

you know where the horses went. Ah,

22:36

delish. Oh, I see. Horse meat

22:38

is good. No one's been coming in or going

22:40

out. Anything

22:42

useful this kitchen that we could, like, tag with

22:44

us to assist. Hmm. Do you want kitchen knives?

22:47

No. No. Well, other than that. They're good

22:49

at punching. Yeah, it's fine. Other than that,

22:52

you don't, there's not a lot. No. Leo,

22:54

you check all the different doors. One

22:57

door forward leads into the, the kitchens and

22:59

beyond the kitchens, you can see through an

23:01

open doorway, a great hall where feasts are

23:03

had. You check another door. It leads to

23:05

a corridor with a lot of different doors

23:07

and another door. So three doors in total

23:10

leads to a staircase going up. Right. Does

23:12

any of this look familiar from the map

23:14

that we have? So there are a couple

23:16

different ways you can approach this. You can

23:18

go through the Great Hall into the main

23:20

entryway, and in the main entryway there are

23:22

stairs going down into the dungeons. But if

23:24

anywhere is going to be busy, it's going

23:26

be there. Yeah. But it's the most direct

23:29

route. Alternatively, you can go

23:31

to the stairs, take the stairs up, go

23:33

through an upper landing, go down. Yeah. Yeah.

23:35

It's a longer route, but you're less likely

23:37

to bump into someone. I'm

23:40

always the capable. I vote for safety. Oh,

23:42

up we go. Yeah. The

23:44

distant sounds of combat begin

23:46

to start swelling. It looks

23:49

like the fighting's getting more

23:51

intense until you hear an

23:53

awful, tremendous roar. The

23:56

roar shakes the entire castle. That'd be

23:58

the dragon. And for a brief moment...

24:00

The dragon's not here. For a brief

24:02

moment, the sounds of combat stop, but

24:05

then immediately resume. That's good. That's good.

24:07

That's fine. It's not our problem. what

24:09

we wanted. Dragon's not here. here. Column,

24:11

Godspeed. So, what's marching order

24:14

here? Who's first, second, third? I'll be

24:16

first. He's in the middle, and I'm

24:18

close to him. Alright. And then I

24:20

trust Leo, I do not trust great

24:22

kids. A shadow lands behind Leo. Before

24:24

you're able to do anything, you

24:27

feel a blade at your back.

24:29

Ah, shit. Combat begins. Ah, shit.

24:31

We're fighting a shadow. You've

24:34

become ventilated. What does that even mean?

24:36

Full of holes! Oh

24:38

gee! Airholes! Make it

24:40

quicker! He punctures your lungs, I

24:43

guess. You have to do

24:45

the rest of the episode like that. Then...

24:49

Who was up the bar? Periwinkle? Were

24:51

you up the back? No, I'm in

24:53

the middle with him. It's Saturday and

24:55

Sunday. That's unfortunate for them. Don't be

24:58

killing my voice, Adam. You hear an

25:00

awful gurgling sound from behind you. Oh,

25:02

no. And you hear Sunday cry out

25:04

in terror, turning around,

25:06

Periwinkle. Yeah. You see Saturday jerking

25:09

uncontrollably as a shadow with wicked

25:11

claws that look like daggers start

25:13

slashing out his throat from behind.

25:16

Saturday, oh wait, yeah, wait, which

25:19

one was calling out in agony

25:21

Saturday Saturday Saturday, so it was

25:24

Sunday who's being slashed because he

25:26

can't call out at all Sunday

25:28

collapses. Oh, no Oh Shit heel

25:31

Sunday, can you punch a shadow?

25:34

You're shocked. You've never seen

25:36

such awful wicked magic before

25:38

Unfortunately, you're frozen in place.

25:40

You'll be going last in

25:43

the initiative turn Leo Your

25:45

quick thinking springs into action. Do

25:48

I know what the hell this

25:50

is? You have heard of dark

25:52

magics that can make a shadow

25:55

sentient. It's possible that

25:57

that's what this is. The

25:59

shadow creature is forever linked to

26:01

whatever it's a shadow of. The

26:04

person who loses their shadow just

26:06

gets fucked. No one

26:08

willingly gives up their shadow. Man.

26:11

So it's not Aiden's shadow. It's

26:13

clearly possibly like a prisoner. Yeah

26:15

has quotation marks donated their shadow.

26:17

Do they look like forces? No,

26:21

they look vaguely like people. So

26:23

I know that this all if I kill the show, we

26:25

hurt the shadow. you kill the shadow, you're going to kill

26:28

the person as well. Oh, I don't

26:30

know that information. Do I? No, you don't. Good. Even

26:35

if I did. I'm

26:40

just kind of be like I'm

26:42

so sorry and then China stab

26:44

with the thundering and then not

26:46

using the benefit I'm so sorry

26:48

Sometimes you got to do what

26:50

you got to do man I'm

26:52

gonna look at you. I've got

26:54

my back to you. I'm just

26:56

looking horrified at my dead friend

26:58

and my dying other friend who's

27:00

No, he's alive. He's just freaking

27:02

out. The Weekend Brothers. The Weekend

27:04

Brothers won. They're such bloody animals.

27:07

They are. They live on the

27:09

weekend. Learning your lesson

27:11

very quickly, you jump

27:13

backwards and you don't hit with

27:15

your first blade. Your first blade,

27:17

you kind of just use more

27:20

as like a guard against future

27:22

attacks. Nice. Your other blade with

27:24

a flick and a sneak, you

27:26

get deep into the creature's belly.

27:29

You hear it cry out in

27:31

agony. Oh man, I'm so sorry.

27:34

The shadow disperses as your blade slashes

27:36

through it. Somewhere deep in the castle,

27:38

you hear a moan. Damn. Got him.

27:41

Can I cast Last of Confusion on

27:43

it? How many are there? There's two.

27:45

Well, one now. I'll cast it on

27:47

the one that's alive. The

27:50

creature staggers in place on

27:52

its turn. The

27:55

creature crashes onto Saturday, making

27:57

him topple over and fall

27:59

onto the ground. On Saturday,

28:01

it just starts tearing, ripping

28:03

and tearing. Saturday screams

28:05

and then stops. At

28:07

least the two Thursdays will get out of this and be able

28:09

to retire on their boat called Freedom and Happiness. No,

28:13

the two Thursdays charge in. One

28:16

of the Thursdays is too dismayed

28:19

to get a proper hit. He

28:21

swings, but his attacks are like

28:23

full of fear, not Anger or

28:26

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28:28

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28:30

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28:38

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killed my other friend. Can

30:42

I rip a shadow's head off with

30:44

my hands? You can certainly try, my

30:46

good friend. I roar real loud. Just

30:49

go for its head and try to pull

30:51

it off with my big meaty, meaty, meaty

30:53

hands. Big,

30:55

beady, meaty, or... It slashes out at you

30:57

as you try to grab it, dealing five

30:59

points of damage. But you

31:02

grab it. You pull upwards. twist

31:04

you hear a cracking sound from the

31:06

shadow awful cracking sound echoing somewhere from

31:09

below you guys and then when you

31:11

tear it off you hear another moan

31:13

from deep within the castle ah done

31:15

I win who's thinking that right it

31:17

might be worthwhile a time go downstairs,

31:19

find where that moaning is coming from,

31:21

kill the others. Just so that their

31:23

shadows don't get us again. It's easier

31:26

to kill a guy who's tied up

31:28

and had his shadow talk than a

31:30

shadow. These are people. is all I'm

31:32

thinking. These are people. They don't need,

31:34

they don't, they take no one. Are

31:36

they dead because I pulled that guy's

31:38

head off? Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's

31:41

good. No, no, they don't know. Killed

31:43

my friend. Someone's taken this

31:45

against their will and made them

31:47

do so. Killed my friend. Sunday

31:50

is dead. Saturday. but

31:52

you saturday is on tender hooks i

31:54

can give him a cure cure light

31:56

i respect you a little bit more

31:58

yeah right well i want to kill

32:00

the fellas downstairs and listen to me

32:02

not it bleeding out leo over here

32:04

oh if i remind you in the

32:06

second or first adventure we had was

32:08

like let's kill this wizard and take

32:10

all of his potions or whatever but

32:12

wolverine you don't know all of saturday's

32:14

runes heal over as greg piss puts

32:16

a hand on him Clarex

32:19

mutter a prayer, Bard sometimes sing

32:21

a song. Greg Pierce, I

32:23

imagine, just says, all right, get up there. Right.

32:27

Like a little cod does a slap on the chin.

32:30

Saturday briefly embraces Sunday's lifeless

32:32

body. We'll get them. So

32:35

we're on the top floor. You're on

32:38

the second floor, the first floor, depending if you're

32:40

in the UK or the US. We've gone up

32:42

to the next floor to Skirt Above, where we

32:44

feel the busy opinion. Can we continue

32:46

on, molested? Excuse me? Can

32:49

we continue? Oh yeah, you can, absolutely.

32:52

As you move through, these windows, the

32:54

windows on this upper level, are not

32:56

all bricked up. So you can kind

32:58

of see sometimes out through cracks or

33:00

like out through a window, the

33:02

night sky lit up by a fire pod

33:05

being held by the dwarven plate. Every

33:07

now and then as well, you hear another

33:09

roar, tremendous always, and it always scares you

33:11

to your core. Can we see dragging out

33:14

the window? No, you never see it. Every

33:16

now and then. He's coming from outside though.

33:18

It's outside, yeah, yeah. You get to the

33:20

staircase going down. You start slowly making your

33:22

way down. Oh, doesn't he even have a

33:24

light? I have a lantern. I

33:27

have a bullseye lantern. Do you have it

33:29

lit? We've sort of lost any kind of

33:31

stealth because the shadow people got us, so

33:33

like, yeah, not lantern out. Okay, cool. By

33:35

the light of the lantern, you see a

33:37

puddle of shadow moving along the roof of

33:39

the staircase towards you guys. Leo,

33:42

you go first. Oh, is it near me? It's

33:44

streaking towards you at a rapid pace. Kind of

33:47

up on the roof, so you could use a

33:49

ranged weapon if you have one. I'm gonna throw

33:51

in my dagger of venom. Alright, and activate its

33:53

power, or You

33:56

fumble for your dagger. Instead of your

33:58

dagger, you accidentally

34:00

grab your bedroll. And

34:04

throw your bedroll at the

34:06

creature. It misses. Take ticket.

34:10

Greg? I'll...

34:12

I'll... I'll... I'll... I'll... I'll...

34:14

I'll... I'll... I'll... I'll... I'll...

34:16

I'll... I'll... I'll... I'll... I'll...

34:18

I'll... I'll... I'll... I'll...

34:21

I'll... I'll... I'll... I'll... I'll...

34:23

I'll... I'll... I'll... I'll... I'll...

34:27

I'll... I'll themselves at you. That's

34:29

not great. No. Told you we

34:31

should have killed the ones downstairs,

34:33

right? Right, eh? What are we

34:36

doing? That's what we're heading to

34:38

do. Well, been quicker about it.

34:42

Greg, I will punch you. One

34:44

of them attacks Saturday? Again? Yep.

34:46

He's behind me. Yeah, it like

34:48

launches over all of your heads

34:50

and strikes at Saturday. Saturday,

34:53

however, brings his greatsword up and

34:56

deflects its blows. It's slowly

34:58

fighting him back up the stairs

35:00

though. Another one attacks Leo. It's

35:03

awful wicked slashes at you,

35:05

unable to penetrate your defense. After

35:08

you threw the bedroll, you quickly fumble for your

35:10

real daggers and now you're fending it off with

35:12

the daggers. Not gonna able to sleep though. Yeah.

35:15

like a fucked up lock picking up through a bedroll.

35:18

These guys think I'm an idiot. You got a lantern

35:20

in one hand Leo. You can drop the lantern and

35:22

potentially it breaks. Or you could fight

35:24

with just one dagger. Okay. What do you want

35:26

to do? Throw the lantern

35:28

to one of the Thursdays. Yeah. Actually I'll

35:30

probably just drop the lantern. Drop the lantern?

35:32

How's the lows? Lowes. I hope it breaks

35:34

and things catch fire, because that'll make it

35:37

things exciting. Yes. The stone

35:39

floorwork. You're standing at an

35:41

angle odd enough that when you let go

35:43

of the land, it doesn't really fall. It

35:45

was kind of already resting on the step

35:47

below you. You are small, so it makes

35:50

sense. There's not much of a drop. And

35:53

one of them attacks Perimenko. Oh,

35:57

no. Oh, you just raised your eyebrows.

35:59

Oh, no. Oh, no. You got credit.

36:02

It leaps forward. Without really thinking

36:04

about it, you engage your B Gauntlets

36:06

and just like, NAH! Push them

36:08

out in front of you. It launches

36:11

itself onto your B Gauntlets. Sucked

36:14

in, bitch. It was a look of disappointment

36:16

from Adam. He'd be like, fuck, I didn't

36:18

tell him. to tell. Yeah, it's

36:20

hard. It's hard to to tell. Then it is

36:22

Periwinkle's turn. There's one of them

36:24

right in front of you. You can see

36:27

shadow leaking out of its chest from the

36:29

wounds. Basically, it's like through my fists, right?

36:31

It's kind of like on the end of

36:33

your gauntlets, yeah. I'm assuming I cross them

36:36

over in a defensive pose, because now what

36:38

I want to do is uncross them violently

36:40

and ripping apart through the middle. Sure thing.

36:43

That's bad. Tear him

36:45

asunder, as they say. Yeah,

36:47

you tear it apart. It

36:50

dissipates into the various little wisps that

36:52

make it a... Do we hear another

36:54

moan? Uh, yeah, from deep below you

36:56

hear, like a death rattle. Less death

36:58

rattle and more, like flying rattle. If

37:01

you pleasure one of the shadows, does

37:03

it pleasure the person downstairs? We can

37:05

find out. And

37:07

you are a lover, not a fighter.

37:09

I am a lover, not a fighter.

37:11

Saturday kicks the shadow that he is

37:13

fighting into your back, periwinkle. The

37:16

creature staggers, you stagger a little

37:18

bit as well, and then Saturday

37:20

yells, duck! I duck. He slashes

37:22

high, cutting the creature in half.

37:25

It dissipates into wisps. We high five. Leo,

37:27

it's your turn. You're face to face with

37:29

one. I'll just stab you. I'm like, again,

37:31

just stab with both. I'm

37:33

sorry. I've

37:35

been ripping things apart. I've never killed

37:37

an innocent man, I lie. Very

37:41

begrudgingly, Leo, with like a heavy

37:43

heart, you kick

37:46

out one of

37:48

its legs so

37:51

it falls down.

37:54

Kick its arm

37:56

so it hits

37:59

the wall. Pin

38:02

that arm to

38:05

the wall, and

38:07

then with your

38:10

other dagger, nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

38:17

As you're charging the money, Leo

38:20

casually grabs his bedrock. Just

38:22

to distract him, yeah. At

38:24

the bottom, you know that there's going

38:26

to be a corridor with cells on

38:28

either side of you. The cells would

38:31

be filled with basically like political prisoners.

38:34

People that Damien Eaton himself personally

38:36

hated and wanted to imprison. How

38:38

good are these people? What's how

38:41

good? How emaciated are they? Oh,

38:43

wouldn't you like, would it be more of

38:45

a distraction if we let them all go?

38:48

I see what you're saying. You get to the

38:50

bottom and as you're moving through the cells, you

38:52

can see people hunched up. All of them are

38:55

chained up to the walls. You

38:57

know, your classic like dungeon sort of chains

38:59

to the walls with their arms. They

39:01

all look just awful and

39:03

sickly. They look like they've

39:05

been slowly starving for quite

39:07

some time now. There's this

39:10

awful stench, not just of

39:12

like unwashed people, but people

39:14

that like they're basically dead

39:16

wasting away yeah like gangrene

39:18

there's maybe 60 people here

39:20

in total as you shine

39:22

your bullseye lantern over them

39:24

you curiously note that none

39:26

of them cast shadows So

39:28

it's doing them a service, really? They're not in

39:30

a good way? Are any of them dead? A

39:33

couple of them are dead, yes. One of them

39:35

is one of them in half and one of

39:37

them missing a head. Yeah, you see injuries identical

39:39

to those that you inflicted on the shadows. A

39:41

bunch of them are dead, like, just in other

39:44

ways. Like, card separations, attacks. You

39:46

think maybe the shadows are fighting in

39:48

the fight going on upstairs? Yeah. And

39:50

some of them maybe appear dead at

39:52

first, but when you get close to

39:54

them... they make tiny sails. They do

39:56

that guy in seven. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

39:58

It's basically like a room of that

40:00

guy in seven. Yeah, yeah. Well,

40:02

so really, letting them out is going to be

40:04

time consuming and they're not going to be able

40:06

to help us in any way, shape or form.

40:08

But they might cause a nuisance for Eden. But

40:10

they are innocent. All of these

40:12

people look like if you unchained to them,

40:14

they would just fall to the floor. If

40:16

we kill them, will the shadows die? Yes,

40:18

so anything that happens to one happens to

40:20

the other. But if we kill Eden, we

40:22

maybe save these people that the shadows don't.

40:24

think you can reattach a shadow, Leo. Shadow.

40:27

You both know a cleric of suitable power might be

40:29

able to help them. I think that's very wrong, Greg.

40:31

They're not dead. Where are we finding a cleric of

40:34

suitable power at this hour? Losing your shadow weakens you,

40:36

but it doesn't kill you. These people are weak because

40:38

they've been kept down. Yeah, they've been tortured in all

40:40

sorts of places. just gonna start un -picking a lot.

40:43

I know there's lots of cells. There's lots of cells.

40:46

I'm gonna go through that door. You guys do what

40:48

you need to do. Alright, I'm gonna leave and open

40:50

the door. Can I borrow? You kind of need him

40:52

to get on unless you have a ranged weapon that

40:54

you don't worry about. Did the guards have a ranged

40:57

weapon? Like his mates? Some

40:59

of them would have had like crossbows stuff.

41:01

I've got bees. I thought you were a

41:03

good person, Periwinkle. No, no, no, no, no,

41:05

no, no. Don't you remember? Do

41:08

bad things for good reasons. You'll have to

41:10

pick the lock while they start killing. That's

41:12

funny. I'll borrow a crossbow from one of

41:14

the... You know what? They've got it. Am

41:18

I men okay with killing these people? I feel

41:20

like they would be if they had the same

41:22

values that I have. Yeah, the two Thursdays start

41:24

killing. Saturday seems to have lost his heart for

41:27

it and hands his crossbow over to Pierce instead.

41:29

I'll forget. Go

41:32

over there with Bleeding Art Leo, would ya? I

41:34

want to use one of my small B canisters.

41:36

You throw it and you kill, like, of

41:39

the 60 people, you kill maybe 10. I've got four

41:41

of those cannons and so I used two of them.

41:43

Alright, you killed 20. Pretty a great deal in the

41:45

right thing. you half an hour to pick the lock,

41:47

Leo. By the time you're done, they're done. The door's

41:50

open. Don't look at me like

41:52

that. I walk through

41:54

it. Can I just, before he goes, put

41:56

my hand on his shoulder and I just

41:58

go, Man in Glass Castle shouldn't throw stones.

42:02

And just keep going. You move

42:04

forward through further dungeons, none of

42:07

these inhabited. Some other miscellaneous places

42:09

as well. At some point, you're

42:11

passing through an armory or a

42:13

stock. Anything good? Just mundane

42:16

stuff for the guard within here. You guys

42:18

all have equipment better than this. So the

42:20

map we're looking at, are we close to

42:22

the vault? Yeah, you're getting quite

42:24

close. There's going to be a security checkpoint.

42:26

You're not sure who exactly is going to

42:28

be manning a security checkpoint. It's

42:30

just around a corner. Can we have a

42:32

sneak around? Because if I can all the

42:34

self look like eating might make it easier

42:36

for everyone. I'll have a sneak look. I

42:38

don't think you should be doing any scouting

42:41

because your eyes are compromised. Yeah, right. You

42:43

can. Leo, you duck around

42:45

the corner. You see a like a

42:47

barricade, not a hastily constructed one, but like

42:49

a properly made one, like several different layers

42:51

of protection, like places for crossbowmen to

42:53

sit and defend against people coming down this

42:55

corridor. The only thing you can see though

42:58

on the floor are shredded bits of

43:00

shadow. I'm massive So if we had to

43:02

kill those people, we would be facing

43:04

about 40 shadow men right now. It's hard

43:06

to tell how many are here, but the

43:09

mass looks big enough for like 10,

43:11

15. Yeah, but made a good move. Yeah,

43:13

we did, didn't we? That's all I'm saying.

43:15

Can I just cast Detect Magic? You

43:18

cast Detect Magic, the door,

43:20

the vault door itself radiates with

43:22

powerful magic, but nothing else here

43:24

does. Yeah, it's all clear. Do

43:26

we know what kind of magic

43:28

the door radiates with? As you

43:30

guys are walking closer, Leo, you're

43:32

able to identify evocation magic, so

43:34

the magic that governs lightning bolt

43:36

or fireball, basically a release of

43:38

energy magic. You're able to

43:41

detect a faint necromatic aura about it.

43:43

Can't kill us. An

43:45

abjuration aura. Abjuration alters the

43:47

nature of things. So

43:49

turn wood to stone, make something lighter than

43:51

it should be, that sort of stuff. And

43:54

yeah, that would be it. The three different types.

43:57

Whoa. Why don't I? Because presumably it's trapped. It's

43:59

only able to be passed by certain people with

44:01

the right code. If I make myself look like

44:03

Eaton. Sure. I'll alter

44:05

self to look like Eaton. It

44:07

lasts for 70 minutes. Sweet. While

44:10

he's doing that, I'm going to give you this

44:12

spell that I got given by someone I might

44:14

be handing. I'll alter self last. I was like,

44:16

I could try and disable it, but let's just

44:19

see his plan. Yeah, because then if Greg Pears

44:21

is dead, it's alright. I stand back. We get

44:23

back behind the corner of the corner. It's

44:26

like, yeah. Alter self. It's

44:28

me, Aten. Let me through. The Voltaurs

44:30

have two massive, um, like a handle

44:32

spinny bit and then six different combination

44:34

sets on it. I'm just gonna whisper.

44:37

Like, no, I'm gonna whisper. He's just

44:39

like, talk to Perrinco. He's dead. He's

44:41

dead. He's dead. dead. What would you

44:43

do? Oh, I just thought, I

44:45

didn't know there were combinations, but like what, I'll

44:47

just go up to it and touch it to

44:49

see if it responds to my touch. It feels

44:51

warm, faintly warm to the touch. So it's combination?

44:54

Yeah, there are six combination. numerical combination?

44:56

Yeah, a numerical one. Probably lit

44:59

a cigarette. Yeah, lit a cigarette,

45:01

having a sneaky one. Put my ear up to it, start

45:03

turning combination, try and hear it click. can't even smoke it,

45:05

Lito. I

45:07

like to turn to you guys, give you the finger,

45:09

keep going. You can pick locks, but you're not very

45:11

good at it. You can certainly attempt

45:13

it, but I'm going to tell you here

45:16

and now your character is very well aware

45:18

that it's probably beyond his ability. Do

45:21

we tell him that we have the spell

45:23

yet that opens the doors? Even I could

45:25

try and have a quickander at this,

45:27

because it's basically a lock. I could try

45:29

this, but I'm curious what happens. Me too.

45:33

Is there anything else other than the combinations? No,

45:35

nothing else. I'll just turn back. Right, it doesn't

45:37

work like I thought it does. Oh, you could

45:39

give the handles a go see if it opens.

45:43

Yeah, go on. Give the handles a

45:45

go. I'll

45:48

turn back to them and be like, have you tried

45:50

turning it off and on? No, well, we're all funny.

45:52

Come on. Get off

45:54

your arses. Finish cigarette out. Come on.

45:57

Have a look at the locks. Can

45:59

I unlock this? Well, the magical element

46:01

is a bit beyond you. You can

46:04

make out a faint line of like

46:06

magical text around just the edge of

46:08

the door. The magical text is some

46:10

sort of spell of protection. You

46:13

think potentially the spell might have some sort

46:15

of effect of like If you're trying to

46:17

open the door, and you do not own

46:19

what is beyond you, the door can tell

46:21

that. But you don't know what it does

46:23

when Like a Gringotts vault. Harry Potter. I'll

46:25

be like, well... The door knows if you

46:27

own what is beyond it, and you're not

46:29

sure, but you're not sure what it does

46:31

when it finds out. Alright. Does not... What

46:33

does Nock do, the spell? It,

46:36

Let's negate everything? Or just unlock it? It

46:38

just unlocks magical or mundane locks. It

46:40

won't get rid of any traps. Alright.

46:43

I'm gonna use the Nock and see

46:45

what happens. Does the magic change? We're

46:47

standing back again. Stand back, boys. You

46:50

read aloud the arcane spell, the

46:52

six different combinations, spin of their

46:54

own accord, and one after the

46:56

other you hear click, click, click,

46:59

click, click, click, and

47:01

a bolt sliding on the other side

47:03

of the door. Right. Still

47:06

magic, like... You can still detect magic,

47:08

yeah. So the trap door is still

47:10

activated. Yep. Cool. Right, doors are unlocked,

47:12

but... Ah, this too happens. Do I

47:14

think it'd be fooled by my altar

47:16

self? I assume I still look like

47:19

Eden. I haven't changed that. You

47:21

don't think altar self will

47:23

fool it? A use magic

47:25

device check, which both you

47:27

and Piss can attempt. Basically

47:29

what you're doing is you're

47:31

tricking a magical item into

47:33

thinking something. So easy ones

47:36

are like, you trick a magical item

47:38

into being like, hey, I'm a wizard,

47:40

or hey, I'm lawful good. More

47:42

complicated ones are like, hey, I'm

47:44

an orc, or hey, I'm Damien

47:46

Eaton. Well, I've got 13 in

47:48

Use Magical Device. What are you

47:51

rocking? It's a good question. I'll

47:53

crack my knuckles. It'll be like, yo,

47:55

yo, it's me, Damien Eaton. Don't even

47:57

think about it. You grab the left

48:00

or the right handle? Left.

48:02

Left? Use Magic Device. Let's see how

48:04

we do it. You grab it and

48:06

turn it. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick,

48:08

tick, tick, tick, clock. Sweet.

48:11

Right, that's one done. The next

48:13

tea. All right. It's

48:15

me again, Damien Eaton. Everyone, it's me, Damien

48:18

Eaton. Don't think too much. In your exuberance,

48:20

you forget to say it's me, Damien Eaton.

48:22

It's like, it's me. It's me. You grab

48:24

the second one and when you grab it,

48:27

It feels impossibly cold to the touch. Fucked

48:29

up, fucked up, up. No, you don't let

48:31

go. You mind letting go, but you don't.

48:33

fucked up. Your hands become frozen. to

48:36

the door and ice starts to come

48:38

along or starts to chill up your

48:40

arms. Someone cracked my hands off this

48:42

right right hey ow ow ow. Alright

48:45

I go over I grab Greg Piss

48:47

round the waist and I pull until

48:49

his hands snap off. If I pull

48:51

him off in his handshatter you can

48:54

heal him right? No not at all

48:56

no one can. Who's the healer? He

48:58

is. I couldn't even heal this. Can

49:00

you round this past while you guys

49:03

having this conversation? I can't take another

49:05

point of damage. It's very difficult. All

49:07

right. Use my fingers away use magic

49:09

item. I try and Turn on your

49:12

damning. I'm damning. I'm damning him. I

49:14

mean, I'm so damn you grab turn

49:16

tick tick tick tick tick the clock

49:18

the effect on Greg piss immediately ends

49:21

and the door Slowly starts to swing

49:23

forward hot tip For those of you

49:25

playing at home, if you'd pulled at

49:27

him, I would have broken off both

49:29

his hands. I kind of

49:32

knew that you would have. I wouldn't have been

49:34

able imagine. I thought you'd hear it. No. Sorry,

49:36

I can't let you do that, Adam. Sick pleasure

49:38

in that as well. Oh, I know you would

49:40

have. The vault door opens to a very small,

49:43

simple room. It's maybe 15 feet

49:45

by 10 feet. The room is tiny compared

49:47

to the door that's guarding it. In

49:49

the room is a table, and on

49:51

the table are three bags. One of

49:54

them, you recognize as the bag that

49:56

you were originally after, that the orc

49:58

chieftain was holding aloft. The other two

50:00

bags look like they might also be

50:02

magic bags, but they're not ones that

50:04

you specifically are after. Right. The bags

50:06

all look similar. They do look kind

50:08

of similar, yeah. Don't you dare.

50:11

I was gonna be the tech magic again.

50:14

You detect magic? The room detects with no

50:16

magic. Neither does the door. I grabbed the

50:18

bag that we are recognized from the orcs.

50:20

You step into the room. And when you

50:22

step into the room, You feel like you've

50:24

walked through a waterfall. Some weird happened when

50:27

I walked in. Check it out. I

50:29

walk through. Same thing. You have a feeling

50:31

like you've walked through a waterfall. And both

50:33

of you actually, I should say, feel a

50:35

little different. Like, something's changed. Neither of you

50:37

look different. It just feels... It's this nagging

50:39

feeling that something's changed. I stay

50:41

out of the room. Alright. By the vault

50:44

door. Saturday steps through. I want one of

50:46

the Thursdays to stay with Greg Piss. Both

50:48

of the Thursdays stay with Greg Piss. They

50:50

give you sour looks, Piss. I can give

50:52

myself a look back. Saturday steps through and

50:54

he says, I feel fine. You feel fine.

50:56

I felt that weird water thing, but I

50:58

feel fine inside. Both

51:01

of you look normal, he says. I

51:03

don't feel normal. You don't feel normal.

51:06

Yeah. Don't you want to grab the one we know

51:08

and I'll grab the other two? Yeah, all right. You

51:10

wonder up to the table and consider the bags, but

51:12

you feel it would be wrong to steal. I

51:15

want to steal. Perhaps there's a better way

51:17

to do this. What do I feel? Same

51:19

thing. You feel like really bad. I love

51:21

stealing. You periwinkle. You look back on like

51:23

a bunch of things that you've done to

51:25

get here after like considering taking them and

51:27

you're like, oh man, I killed all those

51:29

people. Saturday. Try

51:31

to take the bag. Saturday

51:34

wanders off and he's like, well,

51:36

surely there's like... You know, another way to do this.

51:38

What's wrong? What's wrong? What's going on? Pick up a

51:40

bag. Can you pick up the table? Can I pick

51:43

up the table? Yeah, you can lift the table. Let's

51:45

move the table out of this fucking vault. You don't

51:47

even finish that sentence. You're like... Let's just put down.

51:49

The theft is wrong. What's wrong? What's a... Give me

51:51

no idea. That thieving is wrong, Greg. Never

51:54

in my life. Your idea helps you

51:56

steal. You don't say whatever you're thinking.

51:58

Adam, can I mage Hey,

52:01

Greg. Yeah? Before you mage

52:03

hand, can you try to come in the

52:05

room? I want to

52:07

see what... Happens to you when

52:09

you try to take this back

52:12

because I don't want to and

52:14

neither does Leo I don't want

52:16

to let me try this first

52:18

idiot Yeah, you lose the correct

52:21

bag and look right towards you

52:23

Right, I got the right bag

52:25

Close the vault door You do

52:28

realize the two Thursdays are out

52:30

with you. I'll fight them. That's

52:32

fine. I closed the vault

52:35

door We make a run for it.

52:37

Fuck. I knew it was coming.

52:41

I should have broken his fucking hands

52:43

and I had the chance. You should

52:45

have. He wouldn't be able to do

52:47

this. I trusted him in a bad

52:49

moment where I forgot that Jackson and

52:51

Greg Pierce aren't the same person. But

52:56

I wouldn't break Jackson's hands.

52:59

Alright, so Pierce, you put your hands around

53:01

the vault door and you begin to close

53:03

it. It's nearly shut and Leo, if you

53:06

want you could try to duck through but

53:08

if you fail you're gonna get crushed on

53:10

the door and I'm gonna let you know

53:12

you have five hit points left. Do

53:15

I know if he closed the door we're

53:17

dead? Like there's no exiting this. Now on

53:19

the other side of the door there's like

53:22

the mechanisms that control the door. Certainly if

53:24

it's just a mechanical issue you can unlock

53:26

it from the inside. I throw a dagger

53:28

through the closing door and get him? Can

53:30

I be him as the door's closing too?

53:32

If you be him, you'll be being your

53:35

friends as well. These are equal opportunity enemies.

53:37

Can I throw a dagger at him? Charged.

53:39

You heard that? The dagger

53:42

slips easily into your thigh,

53:44

Piss. I'm

53:47

gonna kill him.

53:50

I'm gonna straight up kill him. Piss,

53:52

you feel an awful pain shooting up

53:55

your leg and then everything goes black.

53:57

Oh god. Fucking dammit. You're on negative

53:59

one hit points. Oh my goodness! God.

54:01

God damn it! The two Thursdays like grab the

54:03

door before it closes and pull it back open.

54:06

Pull it back open fucking damn it. Right. Hang

54:08

on a second. First off, tie him up. Tie

54:10

up. I'm gonna use Mage Hand. Grab the other

54:12

two bags. One of the bags is too heavy

54:14

for Mage Hand. You can only get another one

54:17

of the bags. Alright, grab that. Do you want

54:19

one with a red buckle or with blue lining?

54:21

Red buckle. Red buckle? Okay. Red

54:23

buckle is a good name. It's

54:25

another of my dad. So,

54:28

you get the one with the red buckle, and you

54:30

get the one that you assume is the correct I

54:32

gonna kill you. Alright, so... Oh, does

54:34

anyone stabilize pierce or do you just leave him the

54:36

bleed out? I don't know how to

54:38

heal people, Leo. Do we want to just... You

54:40

know what? Between the Thursday, Thursday, and Saturday, they

54:43

stabilize him, and then if you guys want, you

54:45

can just kill him. Alright, first off, I want

54:47

to get that other... Like, I want to get

54:49

that other... The blue lining one? Blue lining one.

54:51

We can't steal it if we're in the room.

54:53

Something happens, it means we can't take stuff. Yeah.

54:55

That's not strong enough to do... the weird spell

54:58

thing you do. Yeah. Can I just like, can

55:00

I get like a grappling hook? Uh -huh. Some

55:02

rope. Pull it in to last of it. Like,

55:04

like, not like the bag, but the desk. The

55:06

table. And drag the desk towards me. Um, well,

55:08

you're probably not strong enough to drag it, but

55:10

with the, yeah, with the Winkle and such, you

55:13

can, uh, drag the table so that it's... Can we

55:15

tip the table at the door so that the bag

55:17

falls out of the door? The

55:19

table's probably a bit too heavy to

55:21

finangle it like that, because the vault

55:23

door like is... One of

55:25

you's gonna have to like reach in

55:28

and just kinda grab at it. Yeah,

55:30

we do that. Uh, he's got long

55:32

as reach. Probably periwinkle. Yeah, I'll go

55:34

first then. Uh, it's a bit too far

55:37

for you periwinkle. Without actually putting yourself into

55:39

the vault and then not being able to

55:41

steal. I've got an idea. Pick me up.

55:43

Yeah, can I hold Leo out? Then

55:46

you would just proper be in and stealing is wrong. Can

55:49

I just maybe use the grappling hook and kind of grab

55:51

the bag and push the bag forward? You know what I

55:53

mean? Like it's kind of a new hook just to be

55:55

like, I just don't want Damien eating to have this. Yeah,

55:57

no, me neither. Maybe it's

56:00

a dragon. You miss with your first throw of

56:02

the grappling hook and after you've thrown the grappling

56:04

hook just one time. I give it one more.

56:06

I give it one more try and if that

56:08

fucks up like fair enough, throw it in. On

56:10

the second go, you loop it loosely around one

56:12

of the bag straps and you're able to drag

56:15

it closer and then out. So you have all

56:17

three bags. There you go. I'm going to take

56:19

the bag that we came for. I'll put these

56:21

in my backpack. Alright, and I'll look after this

56:23

one. That's just a regular backpack, right? My backpack,

56:25

yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I forgot if any of

56:27

you had like a... Nah. Putting a magic bag

56:30

in a magic bag is not good. No, no,

56:32

it's a regular backpack. That was explosions. Now,

56:36

peas. The only thing that

56:38

makes me really wary is this

56:40

is Greg Piss we're talking about,

56:42

and I'm worried that if we

56:45

just leave here with him, he

56:47

will find a way to just...

56:49

us. Part of me is like, lock him

56:51

in the vault and if he gets out of the vault, bully for him.

56:54

Well, how will he wake up? Will he wake

56:56

up? Because he's been stabilized. if

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