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2:41

Where we go around the table

2:43

and introduce ourselves? I'm Jason, I'm

2:45

the dungeon master, going around the

2:48

table, starting with Jameson. Hey, I'm

2:50

Jameson, and I am playing cave

2:52

loring, the human warlock, and foreman

2:55

of the Twin Oaks Mining Company.

2:58

And Valerie? Hey, I'm

3:00

Valerie, and I'm playing

3:02

Linda Wright, the Human

3:04

Bard, also the CEO

3:07

of the Twin Oaks

3:09

Mining Company. And Xavier?

3:11

Hello, I'm Xavier. And

3:13

I'm playing Dr. Chapman,

3:15

the lizard folk rogue,

3:18

who is currently back

3:20

to his T-fling appearance

3:22

and acting as the

3:24

mines doctor once more.

3:27

And last and certainly

3:29

not least, Jasper. Hey

3:32

everybody, I am Jasper.

3:34

I play Archmage, Floss

3:36

Villel, the War Forged

3:38

Barbarian. His title has

3:40

gone between senior engineer,

3:42

minor, cave director, which

3:44

he appreciates, but also

3:46

this changes every day

3:48

because he forgets. Do

3:50

you know? Okay, two

3:52

things occur to me.

3:54

One... Engineering's an actual

3:56

skill in A5B, so

3:58

that's the thing that

4:00

you can actually do

4:02

it. Two, I just

4:04

realized that we have

4:06

one member from every

4:08

group that's in Arc

4:10

5 right now. Oh,

4:12

there you go. Yeah.

4:14

Right in the middle

4:16

of only unintended or

4:18

maybe we just wanted

4:21

to scatter you guys

4:23

after the last arc.

4:25

We just shot us

4:27

in the four corners

4:29

of these split these

4:31

guys up. I'm tired

4:33

of this like feeling

4:35

like a jar of

4:37

ashes. So it's it's

4:39

been in game time

4:41

about six months since

4:43

we last sat down

4:45

with with you guys

4:47

and with you guys

4:49

and We have

4:51

good news. A lot of

4:54

good news, actually. That made

4:56

it sound like there's a

4:59

bunch of bad news. One,

5:01

with Harmon Hale out of

5:03

the way, there's no competitors.

5:06

Well, there's no large scale

5:08

competitors. There's other minors on

5:11

Athias, but it's not like,

5:13

you know, no villain is

5:16

moving into town to, you

5:18

know. There's no rival. Yeah,

5:21

I don't know how property

5:23

works in terms of minds,

5:25

but I guess you guys

5:28

at the very least got

5:30

to strip his mind for

5:33

parts and scrap and things

5:35

that you need. Maybe workers,

5:38

I don't know. But financially,

5:40

you guys are doing better

5:42

as a result. You don't

5:45

have anyone to impede progress.

5:47

Your limitations? Your limitations? are

5:51

the ones you put on yourselves

5:53

due to an aptitude at this

5:55

point, which I'm not saying is

5:58

a thing we're gonna see. Xavier

6:02

gave a great idea before

6:04

that we're gonna start off

6:06

with a D20 to see

6:08

when is the last, how

6:10

many days you guys have

6:13

gone without having an accident,

6:15

right? And I think Xavier

6:17

should roll that one, but

6:19

I'm gonna have each of

6:21

you roll something else. Don't

6:24

worry about it. But yeah.

6:26

Just a regular old D20.

6:28

I'm a little d20. Here

6:30

we go. Strangely enough. Can't

6:33

find a single place where

6:35

I can, I'll just write

6:37

it down slash roll. One

6:39

d20. What can I say?

6:41

Wait, what? Oh, yeah, no.

6:44

That's so strange. I'll just...

6:46

Five days. Five days. I

6:48

bet we're celebrating. I bet

6:50

we're a little bit on

6:52

edge. There should be a

6:55

couple of that didn't count,

6:57

right? We don't have to

6:59

change it for that. It's

7:01

just a finger. That doesn't

7:03

count. Just one worker looking

7:06

at Dave like with the

7:08

number in hand like should

7:10

I? Like do I? As

7:12

long as the paperwork doesn't,

7:14

you know, go through, it

7:17

didn't happen. That's

7:19

fair, actually. It's good

7:21

life advice, too, Val,

7:23

thanks. Yeah. All right,

7:25

I just wanted to

7:27

make sure it worked.

7:29

That's fine. Looks good.

7:31

Okay. I want a

7:33

few more stats, just

7:35

to kick things off.

7:37

It's been six months.

7:39

Lot of stuff happens

7:41

in six months. How

7:43

many new employees do

7:45

you guys have? Give

7:47

me a day 10.

7:49

I'd like to preface

7:51

this with, because I'm

7:53

sure we did get

7:55

some employees when we...

7:57

we merged right so

7:59

this may not have

8:01

been we may have

8:03

gotten 50 these are

8:05

who are left how

8:07

many made it yes

8:09

we'll call it made

8:11

it through orientation that

8:13

you know otherwise called

8:15

hazing oh we have

8:17

five five okay five's

8:19

not bad considering you

8:21

know Have there been

8:23

any new discoveries? And

8:26

if so, how many?

8:28

Give me a D4,

8:30

and we'll work with,

8:32

I wanna say, if

8:34

you roll a one,

8:36

I wanna see something,

8:38

but yeah. Okay. So,

8:40

in six months, there

8:42

have been two new

8:44

discoveries, and we'll get

8:46

into that in just

8:48

a second, because... You

8:50

already have a lot

8:52

of stuff that you

8:54

didn't get a chance

8:56

to dig into, ha

8:58

ha, in your first

9:00

run. And I don't

9:02

know what you got,

9:04

you guys have talked

9:06

about it, we'll get

9:08

into it. Jameson. I

9:10

want you to roll

9:12

a D8 and what

9:14

this is, is to

9:16

see how many explosions.

9:18

have happened a week.

9:20

A week? Per week,

9:22

okay. Her week. Now,

9:24

some of them are

9:26

controlled detonations that are

9:28

supposed to happen and

9:30

some of them are

9:32

just practicing. So we're

9:34

not qualifying it? Right.

9:36

Yeah, we're not judging.

9:38

Three a week. Three

9:40

feels slow. Three a

9:42

week. Well, we're good

9:44

now. We didn't see

9:46

how big the explosions

9:48

were. We just sit

9:50

to explosions. It's about

9:52

efficiency. We're just scaling

9:54

up, so we don't

9:56

have to do as

9:58

many. Right. Yeah. So, okay.

10:00

Let's talk about the two

10:03

new discoveries. And what I

10:05

figured we would do is

10:07

we would kick off this

10:09

this this miniature campaign with

10:11

a morning meeting. But let's

10:14

say in the morning meeting,

10:16

you guys are here to discuss

10:18

all the things that you

10:20

know are we're going to

10:23

assume you haven't opened that

10:25

door that killed an employee

10:27

before. You haven't. been down

10:29

to the portion where you

10:32

saw what looked like a

10:34

dead body. And yeah, we,

10:36

yeah, and you've continued to

10:39

excavate the portion where there

10:41

were rubies and shit like

10:43

that, because why wouldn't

10:45

you? Well, like, there's

10:47

money. Two new discoveries.

10:49

One, you found what

10:52

appears to be a set

10:54

of stairs and... It

10:58

appears to have been buried through

11:00

a cave-in. Like, this portion

11:02

of the cavern looks like it

11:04

might go to the under dark

11:06

or something like that, but

11:08

these are rough but finished

11:10

stairs leading down. And there

11:13

only appears to be light rubble

11:15

in the way, little bits

11:17

of rocks and stuff like

11:19

that. So the cavein must

11:21

have happened in that hallway,

11:23

and you managed to dig

11:25

through it. in such a

11:28

way that you

11:30

didn't, you know,

11:32

completely bury that

11:35

staircase. Two, there

11:37

have been an

11:39

annoying amount of

11:42

glowing insects,

11:44

both flying and

11:46

crawling. Picture lightning

11:49

bugs, but they're

11:52

about an inch

11:55

long, When they fly, you

11:57

very much hear the wing

11:59

struggling. Like it's an old

12:01

jolope of a bug. They

12:04

don't appear to be dangerous

12:06

or radioactive or something like

12:08

that, but they are annoying

12:10

because they come in clusters.

12:12

And they do appear to

12:15

be coming from one particular

12:17

wing that you recently... Just

12:19

start it down. It's like,

12:21

hey, okay, this this seems

12:23

like there could be or

12:26

here. Let's let's plumb the

12:28

depths of this and recently

12:30

those insects have been coming

12:32

in clusters, right? Like every

12:34

few days You'll get like

12:37

a couple of hundred of

12:39

them that's out here like

12:41

that type of thing. They

12:43

don't seem to bite or

12:45

sting or explode or anything,

12:48

but very annoying A

12:51

thousand percent that is

12:53

one of caves warlock

12:56

spells that he just

12:58

forgot to turn off

13:00

and forgot he did.

13:03

He was drinking or

13:05

something. Oh you are

13:07

muted sir. I'm saying

13:09

he will not have

13:12

claimed responsibility for it

13:14

though he will 100%

13:16

be like I don't

13:19

know where they came

13:21

from. Weird. So what

13:23

are your morning meetings

13:26

like? Now, I'm honest,

13:28

who's running them, I

13:30

guess? Is it Linda

13:32

or Cave? I think,

13:35

I think Linda's been

13:37

here long enough now

13:39

that that she feels

13:42

comfortable, starting to take

13:44

more charge of stuff.

13:46

Well, kick it off.

13:49

Let's hear it. What's

13:51

a morning meeting start?

13:53

How's that? How's it

13:55

going? Now I have

13:58

a job and I

14:00

know what morning meetings

14:02

look like. There you

14:05

go, yeah. Val character

14:07

arc. Quick caveat, floss

14:09

is not there. Not

14:11

yet. Okay. Someone shirking

14:14

the morning meetings, they

14:16

have to be punished.

14:18

Again, Floss is not

14:21

there on time. Japan's

14:23

there, is Cave there?

14:25

Yeah, he's there. And

14:28

he's not happy. Cave

14:30

likes morning meetings as

14:32

much as Jameson does.

14:34

All right, everyone. Well,

14:37

welcome to the morning

14:39

meeting. Thank you all

14:41

for coming here on

14:44

time. I see you,

14:46

Jeremy. Nice job, my

14:48

guy. So this morning,

14:50

we really want to

14:53

focus on efficiency and

14:55

not getting hurt still.

14:57

We're doing. Pretty good

15:00

you guys, let's keep

15:02

that up, okay? Cave,

15:04

can you please go

15:07

over yesterday's mining results

15:09

for us? Yeah. He

15:11

said flipping through his

15:13

clipboard. Like, uh, mining

15:16

results. Um, can you

15:18

guys hear my dog?

15:20

Okay, it's super loud

15:23

in my ear. It's

15:25

distractingly hydrated. Like this

15:27

dog is like watered

15:30

now. Okay, so mining

15:32

results. We're still working

15:34

on those rubies, which

15:36

is great. I think

15:39

we got most of

15:41

the ones in that

15:43

main hallway, but. Not

15:46

all of them yet, so

15:48

we gotta keep going on

15:50

that. We need to... We

15:52

get that other hallway. The

15:55

other tunnel, it's not a

15:57

hallway, it's a tunnel. We've

15:59

got to dig that out

16:01

and see what we can

16:03

find there, but there's no,

16:05

we haven't found any rubies

16:08

in that yet. In fact,

16:10

there's nothing in that. I'm

16:12

not really even sure why

16:14

we're taking in that tunnel.

16:16

I'm just going to shoot

16:19

Linda a look, but he

16:21

keeps going. And that's it.

16:23

Most of what we're doing

16:25

is in preparation for uncovering

16:27

more. but we are running

16:29

low on the rubies, especially

16:32

the real big like fist-sized

16:34

ones. Those were my favorites.

16:36

We're almost out of those.

16:38

So I think that's that's

16:40

where our focus still needs

16:42

to be. I don't have

16:45

any numbers. Did you want

16:47

numbers, Linda? No, that was

16:49

enough. Thank you. Thank you.

16:51

I don't have numbers. All

16:53

right, thank you. Any sets

16:55

back down? Now, Dr. Chapman,

16:58

how is everything going with

17:00

the body pits? Are they

17:02

finally starting to, you know,

17:04

level out no more weird

17:06

decomposing gases and stuff? No,

17:08

actually, I've been able to

17:11

empty them out. They should

17:13

be quite, um, serviceable in

17:15

the near future. Actually, I've

17:17

got shock on the operating

17:19

type of right now. So

17:22

if this might be adjourned

17:24

quickly, I might be able

17:26

to save him from going

17:28

down in one of those

17:30

pits. He was still bleeding

17:32

when you called me over.

17:35

I mean, I care about

17:37

this mine, but I'm trying

17:39

to make better decisions now,

17:41

and I think I should

17:43

probably save Chuck. Great. Thank

17:45

you so much Dr. Chapman

17:48

You are free to leave

17:50

the meeting early and um

17:52

save that person's life All

17:54

right. Thank you. Dr. Chapman

17:56

Thank you Linda Just want

17:58

to make a general statement

18:01

that if you are actively

18:03

holding another person's life in

18:05

your hands, you do not

18:07

need to attend these morning

18:09

meetings. Oh, but I love

18:11

them. I'm a part of

18:14

this time. You definitely are.

18:16

And I don't want to

18:18

take that from you. But

18:20

I will check. I will

18:22

bring you the minutes if

18:24

you really want them. Oh

18:27

no, those are, okay. I

18:29

don't need to see that.

18:31

It's boring, okay. The rubbish,

18:33

I'm out. All right. Now,

18:35

I'm looking around and I

18:38

don't quite see Floss yet.

18:40

Has anyone heard from him

18:42

this morning? I mean, it

18:44

might as well be on

18:46

Q. You're gonna hear. whatever,

18:48

crashing the door. The door's

18:51

going to open. It should

18:53

not have opened that way,

18:55

but he's going to be

18:57

incredibly not very adept at

18:59

opening it. And he'll just

19:01

say, oh, he's got a

19:04

big toolbox, like a big

19:06

metal toolbox with him, and

19:08

he's going to bust on

19:10

the door. Miss Linda, good

19:12

afternoon. I'm sorry I'm late

19:14

again. I did want to

19:17

bring... pastries and rolls for

19:19

everybody. This lovely afternoon he's

19:21

going to throw the toolbox

19:23

onto whatever table is close

19:25

by. And then he's going

19:27

to find a chair and

19:30

somebody's probably going to be

19:32

in it and he's just

19:34

going to sort of squeeze

19:36

his way into it and

19:38

sit down on the chair.

19:41

Jeremy. Yeah, Jeremy will move.

19:43

That's fine. He'll pat him

19:45

on his on his knee

19:47

after he squeezes himself then.

19:49

Jeremy. Great. Thank you

19:52

so much for joining us

19:54

for us. It's actually a

19:57

good thing you came at

19:59

this time. We were wondering

20:02

how you are doing on

20:04

your lifting skills? Lifting skills.

20:06

That's a very good question,

20:09

Miss Linda. Lifting is going

20:11

well for most of me.

20:14

and also for many of

20:16

the people who also work

20:19

here at the mine. Bardellibon

20:21

and Claghorn are not pulling

20:24

their weight, and frankly we

20:26

haven't seen them in several

20:29

days. Other than that, Lifting's

20:31

going well. There are a

20:34

couple of... well... Hallways, as

20:36

Mr. Cave calls them, aren't

20:39

doing so great. We have

20:41

been trying to lift things

20:43

in order to lift the

20:46

ceiling, but that hasn't been

20:48

lifted well either. I may

20:51

have to get back to

20:53

you, Miss Linda. Great. And

20:56

on that, that concludes this

20:58

morning meeting, and remember to,

21:01

as Floss just said, lift

21:03

each other up. Okay, let's

21:06

make this a great day

21:08

everyone. Thank you so much.

21:11

Also lift the toilets and

21:13

I'm tired of cleaning the

21:16

outhouse. I hate how accurate

21:18

Val's morning meeting tone is.

21:20

Perfect, pitch perfect. I hate

21:23

it. So back. There's a

21:25

couple of things. There's a

21:28

couple of things. There's a

21:30

couple of things. There's a

21:33

couple of really cool potential

21:35

leads. One, Umin euro has

21:38

expressed interest in acquiring some

21:40

rubies, the slightly larger ones

21:43

especially, because man, those things

21:45

can sell as focuses, folk

21:48

eye, whatever you want to

21:50

call it. I hate the

21:53

word folk eye, but like

21:55

they'll pay a pretty penny

21:57

for those because, yeah. Like,

22:00

it's really tough fighting,

22:03

like, fist-sized rubies.

22:05

Now, sorry, everyone's

22:07

just yelling out

22:09

there. Fucking heathens. Oh,

22:12

it sounded like a

22:14

phone call. Like, a phone call?

22:16

No. No, it's just those

22:18

guys yelling. Lost my

22:20

train of thought, fuck.

22:22

Anyway, so, the, the

22:24

uminier thing, and. At

22:29

one point in the

22:32

six-month gap, someone

22:34

signed off on

22:36

purchasing a proof-of-concept

22:39

machine. This was

22:41

something that was

22:44

going to be put

22:46

in production at

22:48

one point, but

22:50

While miners expressed

22:52

interest in it,

22:54

it is a

22:57

manned drill, essentially.

22:59

It's essentially a

23:01

magic powered drill.

23:04

The problem is,

23:06

it is unreliable.

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do you guys want to do?

25:30

What do you like? What? So

25:32

what? See how I could put

25:35

this. Okay. Are you more interested

25:37

in the outside of the mine,

25:39

the business portion of it? Or

25:42

are you more interested in the

25:44

industry of it, the interior, like

25:46

the actual, like carving out new

25:49

hallways, as I've heard them called,

25:51

and things like that? Are you

25:53

interested in that part or the

25:55

business part? I think both. I

25:58

feel like after the end of

26:00

our six months ago adventure. There

26:02

was some, it was clear that

26:05

we as a group, the four

26:07

of us, are kind of like

26:09

above the average mine operators. We

26:12

were tougher, we're stronger, we have

26:14

access to magic and Arcana and

26:16

like some tricks and stuff like

26:19

that. Chatman being on hand on

26:21

those surveilling like surveying expeditions came

26:23

in handy, saving a few like.

26:26

He's almost more efficient down there

26:28

than up there because up there

26:30

they have time to bleed out.

26:33

So if he's like, you know,

26:35

he ventures down more now and

26:37

I feel like with this group

26:40

we're more efficient to kind of

26:42

like open up new paths and

26:44

survey new stuff. But at the

26:46

same time, not a lot of

26:49

people are well-versed in Arcana or

26:51

engineering maybe outside of us up

26:53

here. So like repairing the machine.

26:56

might not happen if we're down

26:58

there too, but yeah, I feel

27:00

like over the course of six

27:03

months we might have started just

27:05

going down there more often just

27:07

for efficiency. Well, I think also

27:10

mechanically, you know, when we first

27:12

started anything with the overseers, very

27:14

low level and kind of, actually

27:17

there were times to say like,

27:19

you know what, forget this, because

27:21

if we go any further, we're

27:24

gonna. we're never going to make

27:26

it. So I think dipping our

27:28

toes over the last six months

27:31

has probably been, I don't know,

27:33

kind of like picking that thread

27:35

back up a little bit, but

27:37

not quite getting there, you know,

27:40

so. And honestly, okay. Six months

27:42

is probably enough time to one,

27:44

sort out the wreckage of where

27:47

you fought and ended up like

27:49

the hail extraction like that, that

27:51

had to be a mess, right?

27:54

So digging through all that. And

27:56

just day-to-day operations, it's a slow

27:58

process, especially if you're doing it

28:01

by hand. Like you're actually in

28:03

there with picket. Have you ever

28:05

wielded a pickaxe? They fucking suck

28:08

like hit something solid with a

28:10

pickaxe that shit stupid like I

28:12

I'm So I'm I don't think

28:15

six months is a ridiculous amount

28:17

of time for you guys to

28:19

be getting things on the right

28:22

path. I think by now a

28:24

morning meeting After six months would

28:26

probably be pretty much how you

28:29

just had it that's like there

28:31

are less accidents. We're shooting for

28:33

none But there are less. And

28:35

it's probably just about time where

28:38

you guys can entrust the day

28:40

to day with somebody and it's

28:42

like, all right, we're gonna, we

28:45

might spend a couple of days

28:47

in the mine and come back

28:49

or we might, you know, just

28:52

little, little bits of exploration here

28:54

and there, not necessarily full on,

28:56

we'll be going for months somewhere,

28:59

you know. And like old, reliable

29:01

Leo Macintosh, still alive, right? He

29:03

was beat up, but he's still

29:06

alive. Oh yeah, we got, we

29:08

trust him. He's got, he's got

29:10

in control. I didn't want to

29:13

roll for that because he deserved

29:15

to live. He's fine. Enough of

29:17

our people died. We can keep

29:20

one. Yeah. I'll also say that

29:22

since Linda has been getting more

29:24

comfortable. taking over a lot of

29:26

the administrative duties. Cave has found

29:29

himself with less to do. So

29:31

one of the things that he

29:33

does, or has been doing, we'll

29:36

say this has been going on

29:38

for like two or three weeks

29:40

now, is he's actually been wandering

29:43

down to that, the door, right,

29:45

the mysterious door that killed that

29:47

one person. and he's been tinkering

29:50

with it just a little bit

29:52

just kind of idly like kind

29:54

of just picking at it just

29:57

to see he didn't really have

29:59

a goal in mind but he

30:01

really is kind of finding himself

30:04

like less useful up top so

30:06

he's he's he's working down here

30:08

now just to kind of have

30:11

things to do especially if he

30:13

needs to like take a walk

30:15

right if he gets frustrated with

30:17

something he'll come down here And

30:20

he does different things, but he

30:22

goes back to this door a

30:24

lot because he doesn't like... He

30:27

doesn't like that it's there. It

30:29

bothers him. So he's trying to

30:31

figure it out idly. Not with

30:34

any particular timeline in mind, but

30:36

he is one of the things

30:38

he'll do when he finds he's

30:41

not immediately needed for a disaster

30:43

or something. What bothers him about

30:45

it? Shouldn't be there. Well, okay.

30:48

Yeah, okay. I didn't know if

30:50

it was just that like you

30:52

didn't know it was behind it

30:55

or if it's it's more it's

30:57

like what it's make sense It

30:59

doesn't make sense that it's there.

31:02

He doesn't like that it's there

31:04

Okay, so yeah, and like he

31:06

doesn't like that it killed somebody

31:09

You know, and he doesn't like

31:11

that he doesn't really understand it.

31:13

So he's not like he's mad

31:15

at it, but it's just like

31:18

one of those things like he

31:20

just lays awake sometimes being like

31:22

what hell is that door It's

31:25

been thinking about that door for

31:27

like almost four years in that

31:29

six months and yeah No, but

31:32

like it's one of those. It's

31:34

just one of those things the

31:36

rest of the mind makes sense

31:39

to him like fist size rubies

31:41

are weird, but those can be

31:43

explained The door can't really be

31:46

explained not to him. So he

31:48

comes back to it once in

31:50

a while Well, you know what?

31:53

Let's see if you discover anything

31:55

about it Give me a perception

31:57

or investigation. Pick one. Let's do.

32:04

Let's do

32:07

investigation. And

32:10

they're 14. 14.

32:12

So let's recap

32:15

what you guys

32:17

did kind of

32:19

find out. You

32:22

found out that

32:24

there's an old

32:27

legend about a

32:29

large tribe of

32:32

dwarfs. were sealed

32:34

away down here. And you don't

32:36

exactly know how, you know, how

32:38

reliable that is or whatever, but

32:41

you do know that whoever

32:43

put this door there, they

32:45

definitely wanted to keep people

32:47

out who didn't belong. And

32:49

I think after someone gets

32:51

gored to the skull, you

32:53

probably just, you know, let's

32:55

come back to that later.

32:57

And I don't know if

32:59

you've attempted to like... pick

33:01

the love when you say

33:04

you're messing with it like

33:06

are you are you just

33:08

looking for looking for a

33:11

key somewhere maybe they have

33:13

it under a hidden rock

33:15

or like you're you're trying

33:18

to pick the lock itself

33:20

or you're just looking

33:22

for extra etchings

33:24

to kind of you know so

33:26

he does not ever ever touch

33:29

the door okay cave has picked

33:31

up in his time a mage

33:33

hand spell which you will

33:35

absolutely use to poke and prod

33:37

and fiddle with touch it yeah

33:39

just like feel you know see

33:41

if anything moves like if there's

33:43

there like a hidden keyhole or

33:45

whatever the case may be he

33:47

just if he's going to try

33:49

to physically inspect the door he will

33:52

use that instead and he stands like

33:54

20 feet away looking at the top

33:56

of the door frame just to see

33:58

if there's a key up there

34:00

yeah yeah yeah just like

34:02

yeah exactly like just literally

34:05

like like running fingers over

34:07

the rooms and stuff like

34:09

that I'm based on what

34:11

you've told me in that

34:13

14 I'm gonna give you

34:15

something that would have probably

34:17

occurred to cave it doesn't

34:19

appear to be a magically

34:22

protected door, at least from

34:24

what you can pick up.

34:26

It's definitely booby-trapped. You're just

34:28

not exactly sure how booby-trapped.

34:30

You know, it's got some

34:32

lethality to it. It's trying

34:34

to keep you out. The

34:36

one thing that occurred to

34:38

you is that with enough

34:41

explosive, you could probably open

34:43

this fucking thing. Or the

34:45

magic drill. Well, yeah, I

34:47

guess so if you can

34:49

get it running. All right.

34:51

All right. That's what Caves

34:53

does after the morning meeting.

34:55

Then he's gonna go check

34:58

out this drill. Okay. So

35:00

picture. I think we've, I

35:02

don't know if this is

35:04

such a thing in Canada,

35:06

but in America, it happens

35:08

a lot where we have

35:10

drills. No, no, no, no,

35:12

no, no, no. That gets

35:15

an old shitty car that

35:17

they're going to fix up.

35:19

Uh-huh, okay. And then that

35:21

car sits there. Forever. Oh

35:23

yeah. This is what this

35:25

is starting to look like.

35:27

Like grass is starting to

35:29

grow through this. It's like,

35:31

okay, oh shit, all right,

35:34

okay, we need to do

35:36

something with this. We can

35:38

do a little skill check

35:40

challenge to get this going.

35:42

No, please, derail. I just

35:44

want to talk about my

35:46

dad a second. He's been

35:48

carrying. Since I was born,

35:51

so that's... near 40 years

35:53

now, the frame of a

35:55

large steel boat that he

35:57

bought. And he's moved like

35:59

four to five houses since

36:01

then, and it is still

36:03

in his backyard. Now, smaller

36:05

and smaller, he's like selling

36:08

parts for scrap, but it's

36:10

still there. It will outlive

36:12

me. My... God, my dad

36:14

bought a boat with a

36:16

friend. that was not buoyant

36:18

and never ran. And the

36:20

two of them talked about

36:22

fixing it. And in my

36:24

older years now, I realize

36:27

my father knew nothing about

36:29

boats and knew nothing about

36:31

how to fix a boat.

36:33

And I don't know if

36:35

he ever had a solid

36:37

plan on learning how or

36:39

finding someone who knew. And

36:41

we definitely didn't have the

36:44

money for a boat. So

36:46

I don't know. What his

36:48

plan was? But I get

36:50

the dream. It's like, no

36:52

man, I get it. Like,

36:54

that's your thing. Like, mine's

36:56

war hammer equally expensive. I

36:58

get it. Like, it's fine.

37:00

Emotional support boat. Yeah, no.

37:03

It's like one day, you'll

37:05

see. A sail out of

37:07

this place. Maybe that it

37:09

didn't float was part of

37:11

the design. It's like, I'm

37:13

gonna get in this boat

37:15

and open sinks to the

37:17

bottom of the ocean. I

37:20

just want to, I just

37:22

want to get offshore first.

37:24

That's it. That's all I'm

37:26

after. Push. There's something romantic

37:28

about it. So this is

37:30

cave's boat, basically. This cave's,

37:32

maybe cave's the one who

37:34

like, you bought it for

37:37

the mine. Yes. Well, yeah.

37:39

This is going to improve

37:41

productivity. We're going to get

37:43

so much done. Like, he

37:45

gave away a lot of

37:47

the rubies. and trade for

37:49

it too. Like, well, I

37:51

guess it's gonna work out.

37:53

It's gonna come out. You

37:56

know, this is gonna be

37:58

good for us. It's gonna

38:00

be good for us. But

38:02

then, hasn't worked out yet.

38:04

So, today's the day. Today's

38:06

the day we're gonna go,

38:08

is even get it up

38:10

and running, because I think

38:13

if I just drill through

38:15

this god damn door, it

38:17

won't talk. Now, I want

38:19

you to know. Drills, drills

38:21

aren't meant to dig through

38:23

solid iron. Well, the drill

38:25

is magic. It's not... The

38:27

boat will float. The boat

38:30

will flow. No, it's powered

38:32

by magic, but it's meant

38:34

to dig through dirt and

38:36

rock, things that are semi-maliable.

38:38

You want it to just

38:40

tunnel through a solid iron

38:42

door. Is the, like, wall

38:44

next to it? Yeah, the

38:46

door's in something. Well, okay,

38:49

you got to imagine. They

38:51

didn't just put... a door

38:53

in some dirt and expect

38:55

you to work on the

38:57

honor system. Like, there's probably,

38:59

there's probably like a wall

39:01

behind that that it's anchored

39:03

to or something. I would

39:06

imagine if you don't know

39:08

that for sure. If that's

39:10

the twist that cave has

39:12

been going down to stare

39:14

at this door for six

39:16

months and he could have

39:18

just done this a little

39:20

bit and like get behind

39:22

it and just move it

39:25

like. I almost want

39:27

to do that because it's hilarious,

39:29

but you know, because it also

39:32

means whatever is on the other

39:34

side of it, it never occurred

39:36

to me. The trick is the

39:39

cave knows he could do that,

39:41

but it's the principal of the

39:43

thing. He's got to go through

39:46

the door. Okay, so you have

39:48

a work ethic like me where

39:50

it's like, no, it's supposed to

39:53

do this and that's, yeah. No

39:55

matter how stupid it is. I'm

39:58

going through the door, God damn

40:00

it. I get it. I get

40:02

it. I get it. You're not

40:05

supposed to use a screwdriver on

40:07

this. I'm supposed to, but yeah,

40:09

I get it. Yeah, give me

40:12

a skill check challenge to see

40:14

if I break this drill or

40:16

if I can't break it more,

40:19

right? No, I mean, it's, so

40:21

the battery, so to speak, there's

40:23

a large gem that's housed in

40:26

it that does, last time you

40:28

checked, it had a charge. These

40:30

things are meant to hold a

40:33

charge up to four or five

40:35

decades. You have to get it

40:38

recharged and that's a whole our

40:40

kind of thing, but like, you

40:42

know, yeah, the head of the

40:45

drill seems to be fine. So

40:47

picture this thing has treads, right?

40:49

And a person is meant to

40:52

be inside of it and can

40:54

direct it. The treads

40:56

are a little herky-jurky. They're

40:59

a little like, go stop,

41:01

go stop. Like it just

41:03

doesn't, like it's not, you

41:05

know. And then sometimes, it

41:08

doesn't explode, but it does

41:10

kind of discharge a bit

41:12

of magic. Picture it like

41:15

an oil leak, but it's

41:17

an Arcana leak. So... Every

41:19

once in a while, it's

41:21

like, oh yeah, it is

41:24

your problem. You're leaking. Like,

41:26

that's why the grass is

41:28

growing so much faster here.

41:30

Like, it's, it's like little

41:33

enchanting. It's like, oh, those

41:35

mushrooms seem to be glowing.

41:37

Did you get Jeremy to

41:40

cut this grass again? Just

41:42

like, just right there. So,

41:44

how about we start with

41:46

an Arcana check? Let's do

41:49

it. I'm

41:51

gonna roll. Let me ask you

41:53

a question. How? Oh my God,

41:55

that's a crit. Oh my god.

41:57

So it starts right up and

41:59

you're like man I should have

42:02

just tried to start. How often

42:04

has cave come out here is

42:06

this a thing where people just

42:08

avoid you because it's like oh

42:10

he's gonna be cursing at this

42:12

fucking thing all day like or

42:15

is it or have you thought

42:17

about it but just haven't Go

42:19

ahead of the time. He'll get

42:21

into a mode, right? He'll forget

42:23

about it for a couple weeks,

42:25

but then he'll decide to go

42:28

out there one day and he'll

42:30

spend a couple hours on it

42:32

and then, but then it's in

42:34

his mind. So he goes back

42:36

the next day and he goes

42:38

back the next day and he

42:40

goes back the next day until

42:42

he's out of ideas and suddenly

42:45

he hasn't gone in a week

42:47

or two. Here we go. Give

42:49

it a kick right in the

42:51

magic jewels and see if it

42:53

starts up. So one thing

42:56

that you're noticing is

42:58

the housing for this gem

43:00

is cracked. So you, I,

43:03

I, how skilled with magic

43:05

is, I mean, that's a

43:07

crit, but like, your powers

43:09

are kind of borrowed. Like,

43:11

have you been, have you

43:13

been studying magic or?

43:16

I mean, I'm not. an

43:19

expert. Most of his

43:22

magic is is

43:24

accidental will say so

43:26

he doesn't like he gets

43:28

it to a degree but

43:31

he's not like studied at

43:33

it I would say he's

43:35

not really it's a lot

43:37

of educated guesswork

43:39

you know so I

43:42

almost pictured that while

43:44

you're messing with this

43:47

you just twist the gym

43:49

slightly and it covers the

43:51

crack and you're not exactly

43:53

sure why or how but now the contact

43:55

is good and the gym just

43:58

starts lighten up you're like Oh,

44:00

it's like tapping a light bulb

44:02

to make it. It's like, oh,

44:04

well, there you go. So give

44:06

me an engineering check. All right.

44:11

I'm good at this. Oh,

44:14

that's a 19. It is a

44:16

19. So I'm just out there with

44:18

a giant wrench, just wailing on

44:20

this. wrench

44:23

in a one. Pipe wrenches. Yeah. know

44:25

what? It

44:28

actually sounds like you had a

44:30

shower moment where you're just where

44:32

you just like fucking, of course,

44:34

like you just like whatever whatever

44:37

this has been, like you just

44:39

figured it out. So you kind

44:41

of figure out this like, oh,

44:43

the treads like, OK. So I

44:45

figured out that there's been there's

44:48

actually bits of diamond in the

44:50

treads from some long ago excavation.

44:53

And it's actually puffing out one

44:55

of the treads. So every time

44:57

it rotates, it's it's got to

44:59

like crank over it. That's why

45:01

it's kind of stop and go.

45:03

So you're it's like, oh, shit,

45:05

OK. So that's two problems out

45:07

of the treads. All right, that's

45:09

all in the whole other problem.

45:12

They're not big diamonds. It's like,

45:14

oh, yeah, three diamonds, $20, $20.

45:16

Twenty. Well,

45:21

shit, OK, finally. You

45:26

know what? This has

45:28

gone so smoothly. I'm

45:31

actually thinking of, you know what? OK,

45:33

no, we're going to do one more

45:35

check. Give me an athletics check to

45:37

give this thing a nice push start.

45:41

OK, it's the it's the

45:43

long one. Yep. Oh,

45:47

my God. Hey, roll

45:49

the table. I I see

45:51

what I did. I

45:53

woke up. Yeah, I woke

45:55

up. I drank half

45:57

a handle of whiskey. I

46:00

just rolled up my sleeves. Yeah. And it

46:02

went out of her. Oh, so that's a

46:04

21. All of a sudden, you're not

46:07

even going to be working on

46:09

this thing long. So much so that

46:11

there's probably going to be a

46:13

few minors who are a little

46:15

pissed off. That's like, wait, that

46:18

thing fucking worked the whole time

46:20

and you got me in there

46:22

digging my ass off like that

46:24

like so. You're going to mess

46:26

with a little bit and then

46:29

start and it's like, oh, like

46:31

this thing is just going to

46:33

take off with some, a surprising

46:36

amount of speed. Oh. What do you

46:38

want to do with it? Like you

46:40

have control over it. It's not

46:43

out of control. You did too

46:45

well and now it won't stop.

46:47

It's in mind of its own.

46:49

It's one of those things where

46:52

you've never seen it go this

46:54

fast because the treads have always

46:56

been fucked up. So like sure

46:58

when you hit go now it

47:01

goes and doesn't stop until you

47:03

you pull back. So it's it's

47:05

got enough kick that you're like,

47:07

holy shit. Like there's no chair.

47:10

Like you're in it kind of

47:12

like a chariot almost. This might

47:14

be one of the only like engines we

47:16

have on site, right? We don't have much

47:19

else that's like powered in this way. It's

47:21

pretty rare. So it's pretty loud, right?

47:23

It's noticeable when it starts on like

47:25

a unique sound that would, okay. So,

47:28

Kave's doing that thing where he's ever

47:30

tried to talk somebody while they're

47:32

mowing the lawn and they're shouting

47:34

over the engine, the motor. He's

47:36

doing that, he's like trying to

47:38

get people to come over specifically.

47:41

No, Floss has been there for half

47:43

an hour. You didn't know that. He's

47:45

just been standing there watching you do

47:47

all of this stuff. So he's there.

47:49

Yeah, we're wearing that a Flevics check.

47:51

You were secretly helping me is what

47:53

it is. That's how I got the

47:55

20. He didn't realize. No, but he

47:57

does that thing where he's like, hey,

47:59

Flott, oh God. But yeah, he wants

48:01

to call like the group over

48:03

because he knows that they're good

48:06

for this type of thing and

48:08

they were all there for the

48:11

door the first time. So he's

48:13

trying to call, you know, floss

48:15

is there unexpectedly, but Linda and

48:18

Chapman over, like yelling over the

48:20

motor like, I'm gonna run it

48:23

down the tunnel. At the door,

48:25

I'm gonna run it at the

48:27

door. He hasn't looked as excited

48:30

in weeks actually. He hasn't looked

48:32

just like pleased. So we know

48:34

that this has haunted game for

48:37

six months. Does anyone else give

48:39

a shit about this door or

48:42

is it? Is it like, is

48:44

it part of the mind? You're

48:46

like, yeah, we don't, we don't

48:49

go there because like, it did

48:51

murder a person. So like, is

48:53

it, is it a, is it?

48:56

Something that even occurs to you

48:58

anymore or? I'm just excited to

49:01

be to see cave happy about

49:03

something It does seem to me

49:05

will mope. Like Chapman's kind of

49:08

like, here's a commotion, here's a

49:10

noise, and sees Cave motioning, like,

49:13

let's go over down to mine.

49:15

And Chapman's just like, gets out

49:17

of his little doctor shack with

49:20

like a sandwich in hand, I

49:22

guess, just like a dripping red

49:24

sandwich. Yeah, some stacked with meat,

49:27

some, it's just slices. Can I

49:29

get a, can I get some

49:32

check from you to see if

49:34

Chuck lived? Uh,

49:36

yes you can. Just in

49:39

general medicine. My- We're gonna

49:41

see if Jamieson scooped up

49:44

all the good luck

49:46

tonight. Yeah. It's actually a

49:48

little unfair that I rolled

49:51

out. Hmm. That's too bad

49:53

for Chuck. That's not great.

49:56

I almost want to play

49:58

it like the operation starting

50:01

to go- poorly and

50:03

you're just like, I'm gonna

50:05

come back to this with

50:08

a clear head and you

50:10

just walk away. I have

50:13

a specialty in autopsy so

50:15

maybe when I come back

50:18

I'll get to add more

50:20

dies to my rolls. You

50:23

have an expertise die in

50:25

medicine and it was still

50:28

a nine. Yeah,

50:30

I think Linda is probably,

50:32

I see Linda as like

50:35

in the office that definitely

50:37

has windows that are sort

50:40

of overlooking the main entrance

50:42

area. And so, you know,

50:44

she heard the drill through

50:47

the door so she'll look

50:49

out and see a cave

50:52

sort of motioning everyone over.

50:54

So she'll also stop what

50:56

she's doing and go outside

50:59

and see what's going on.

51:01

Okay. So let's say. Let's

51:04

say, obviously, people really get

51:06

out of your way, like

51:09

zipping through here. with you

51:11

know and and I like

51:13

this thing is fairly sizable

51:16

but not a picture like

51:18

you know like those baby

51:21

bulldozers you know I mean

51:23

like the little one picture

51:26

something about that size so

51:28

Obviously in cramp spaces like

51:30

the mine like people are

51:33

just gonna like okay wide

51:35

berth that type of thing

51:38

because inside this gym it's

51:40

gonna almost look like sparks

51:42

every once a while like

51:45

it's it's it's you know

51:47

so this thing has seen

51:50

better days but it's running

51:52

and while it's running you

51:55

know I so what you're

51:57

just gonna run down the

51:59

door or like yes all

52:02

right straight to it right

52:04

like this is a very

52:07

very chevy chase just go

52:09

directly at the door yeah

52:11

so spring every trap at

52:14

once so spring every trap

52:16

at once so spring every

52:19

trap at once so So

52:21

that's just a little toggle.

52:24

You can, you can. Yeah,

52:26

he has to punch that

52:28

a couple times, but then

52:31

it gets going. Yeah, like

52:33

it's probably like, oh, over

52:36

the sound of the, yeah.

52:38

A little mad science going

52:40

on right now. Yeah, the

52:43

image of, yeah, it's a

52:45

good image. I guess, give

52:48

me an engineering. Hmm. For

52:50

which, for, for actually like,

52:53

drilling through the door. for

52:55

running this thing in. Like

52:57

it sounds like, so okay,

53:00

it's, Jesus fucking Christ. 23.

53:02

So that's a 19. So

53:05

my day, I just felt

53:07

it. So, so, when you

53:09

say run it down. Yeah.

53:12

Are you going full speed

53:14

into this thing with the

53:17

drill running or are you

53:19

slowing and then just like.

53:22

I mean, he's gonna, he's

53:24

not going to, he's not

53:26

going to stop, but he's

53:29

also going to consider his

53:31

approach and try to hit

53:34

like a hinge or like

53:36

the lock mechanism or whatever

53:38

it looks like he can

53:41

to actually like spring this

53:43

thing open. Imagine somebody trying,

53:46

you ever see a movie

53:48

where somebody's like trying to

53:51

get through like into a

53:53

safe, try to lock, pick

53:55

a safe, like that, but

53:58

with zero technique. just brute

54:00

force. Yeah, usually someone uses

54:03

like a half inch drill

54:05

bit. type of thing to

54:08

get in. This is like

54:10

a massive... But with mining

54:12

equipment is what we're doing.

54:15

Yeah. Yeah. So the second

54:17

that this drill hits the

54:20

door, it's gonna be the

54:22

most horrific sound any of

54:24

you have ever heard. It

54:27

is metal on metal whoring

54:29

and and it is just

54:32

sparks and smoke and dirt

54:34

and smoke and dirt. And

54:37

it is horrific. Like, and-

54:39

You hear me standing by

54:41

the door with the sign,

54:44

zero days to incident, way

54:46

ready. It is bad. So

54:49

you are making progress in

54:51

that the door is starting

54:53

to push inward. There's no

54:56

hole yet, but it is

54:58

like buckling in places and

55:01

the drill is- pushing into

55:03

it, but the drill's heating

55:06

up. Look, you're watching that

55:08

drill start to glow red

55:10

as your hitmit, and there

55:13

are sparks constantly. This thing,

55:15

safety-wise, there are some kinks

55:18

that need to be worked

55:20

out. Like, this is the

55:22

founders edition, let's call it.

55:25

And you're kind of a

55:27

beta tester. So like, it's

55:30

like, okay, so we should

55:32

probably put up like a

55:35

blast shield or something. And

55:37

then like a kill switch,

55:39

like an emergency, you know,

55:42

something like that. But as

55:44

it stands right now, this

55:47

thing is definitely closing its

55:49

trunk on fingers. There needs

55:51

to be a patch or

55:54

two. So. I need one

55:56

more engineering, please. Okay. Can

56:00

I? That's a man who

56:02

realizes he's probably out of

56:04

good roles and he needs

56:06

to. I'm looking. I'm looking

56:08

through my skills. Sure. My

56:10

abilities here. Sure. And I

56:12

feel like there is as

56:14

confident and as almost jubilant

56:16

as cave is in this

56:18

moment. He does see that

56:20

there's a potential problem and

56:22

then his time before this

56:24

door opens. because the drill

56:26

is heating up. Yeah. So

56:28

while he's driving this thing,

56:30

right, you said he's in

56:32

like a chariot type thing

56:34

behind the drill. Yeah. So

56:36

he's got a good vision

56:39

of like where the drill

56:41

bit is like connecting into

56:43

the thing. So we're going

56:45

to get harder to see

56:47

just because of the smoke

56:49

and you know, but yeah.

56:51

So we're going to Eldrich

56:53

blast the door while we're

56:55

drilling it. Kind

56:57

of like a welding beam right

56:59

to get around the metal around

57:01

the outside of the yeah cave

57:04

have like the helmet You just

57:06

lost it on it. You've got

57:08

to flip it up because it's

57:11

the Elders blast right? Yeah. Oh

57:13

yeah. So now he's just blind

57:15

like it. And I like to

57:17

just imagine that the three of

57:20

us are just like back at

57:22

the entrance looking at this like

57:24

Chapman just shedding like a a

57:27

cone of from a lantern just

57:29

like a cone of light on

57:31

it just like helping. While he's

57:33

got his sandwich in his other

57:36

hand. Yeah. Yeah. And this is

57:38

I mean this is kind of

57:40

a breakthrough for cave but this

57:43

is he alternates between weeks of

57:45

being really kind of mope and

57:47

grumpy and then weeks of almost

57:49

to kind of manic energy. This

57:52

turns out to be one of

57:54

those so. Okay. I mean, it's

57:56

working out for him. So can

57:59

I get an attack roll against

58:01

door? Do it. So I'm bringing

58:03

mechanics in. to this yet that

58:05

I don't quite have. Let me

58:08

get to my spells. And we're

58:10

gonna get here. It's all good.

58:12

This is our first session with

58:15

A5B. Yes. I don't want to

58:17

take any anything away from Cave's

58:19

moment here. But I'm wondering if

58:22

Floss could have also made his

58:24

way down there at this point.

58:26

And at some point, much like

58:28

earlier, Cave's going to notice that

58:31

Floss has been there for a

58:33

while, he's actually pushing. on the

58:35

other side of like he's pushing

58:38

behind cave on the on the

58:40

machine he's just putting his like

58:42

his shoulder into it trying to

58:44

push it towards the door as

58:47

well do you know what hold

58:49

that thought I like that hold

58:51

that thought I don't think that's

58:54

covered well with the warranty I

58:56

think you're using it as intended

58:58

Do you know what I've seen

59:00

people do with forklifts? Like it's

59:03

no one, no one really thinks

59:05

about it. It's fine. If it

59:07

doesn't come with an owner's manual.

59:10

Mm. Then there's no rules. Then

59:12

it's meant to do wheelies. Forkliffs

59:14

definitely come with an owner's manual.

59:17

Yeah, but if you get it,

59:19

it's like the hand that usually

59:21

doesn't come with it. So, all

59:23

bets are off. I was waiting

59:26

on you to roll. Oh, okay.

59:28

I thought you were, I thought,

59:30

would the flosses help you doing

59:33

something? Oh, yeah, no, we're gonna,

59:35

yeah, yeah, Jesus Christ, wait, wait,

59:37

wait, oh, so roll the damage

59:39

for the attack to do five

59:42

damage to the door. Okay. So

59:44

what we're gonna do is we're

59:46

gonna take that five damage and

59:49

we're gonna add it to something,

59:51

because at this point now, it

59:53

is, can you break through this

59:55

door? before the inevitable heat death

59:58

of this machine? Do you want

1:00:00

that engineering check? So here's what

1:00:02

I want to do. I want

1:00:05

you to give me an engineering

1:00:07

check and I want you to

1:00:09

give it to me with a

1:00:11

D6 expertise just because of the

1:00:14

pushing that's going on. Okay. So

1:00:16

I highly doubt that Floss would

1:00:18

mess that up. Like he's all

1:00:21

strength, so it's fine. It's like

1:00:23

you get the thing behind you

1:00:25

pushing. Oh,

1:00:27

that's a low row, but

1:00:30

that's a 15. Jesus Christ,

1:00:32

that D6 helped. Yes, so,

1:00:35

so you're gonna hear a

1:00:37

different kind of squeal, right?

1:00:40

So everything up until now

1:00:42

has been metal on metal,

1:00:45

but essentially a smooth surface

1:00:47

and the, the, the, the

1:00:50

rough point of this drill.

1:00:52

So the front of the

1:00:55

drill has a couple of...

1:00:57

Do you remember the drilling

1:00:59

machines from Total Recall? Not

1:01:02

the remake, but the original

1:01:04

one. Val, don't worry. But

1:01:07

like, it's fine. I get

1:01:09

it. It's drills. There was

1:01:12

a woman with three boobs.

1:01:14

Like, it's a very famous

1:01:17

movie. What? It's watching for

1:01:19

the drill. Yeah, you watch

1:01:22

it for the drill, not

1:01:24

the boobs, but like... Okay.

1:01:27

I'll make sure to tell

1:01:29

my boyfriend that. Okay, good.

1:01:31

So the different shrieking you're

1:01:34

going to hear is the

1:01:36

drill starting to get to

1:01:39

a point where it's punching

1:01:41

through this two inch thick

1:01:44

iron door. So now the

1:01:46

shrieking is additional friction from

1:01:49

this thing and bits of

1:01:51

shrapnel are going to start

1:01:54

flying out of this fucking.

1:01:56

What you've created are heat-

1:01:59

bits of metal fragments that

1:02:01

would kill a man. I

1:02:03

just like, like, this thing's

1:02:06

gonna start shaking and coughing

1:02:08

and at this point, everyone

1:02:11

behind cave. Cave, may, cave.

1:02:13

may be dealing with his

1:02:16

white whale right now, so

1:02:18

he might be a little

1:02:21

blind to the dangers. You

1:02:23

guys are gonna see smoke

1:02:26

and the glowing red, like

1:02:28

at this point, the entire

1:02:31

front of this thing is

1:02:33

lit up because it is

1:02:35

just red leading to white,

1:02:38

like it is, it is

1:02:40

obviously, having known nothing about

1:02:43

mechanics. You could point to

1:02:45

that and go. That's probably

1:02:48

not right, right? It shouldn't

1:02:50

do that. Like it's like,

1:02:53

I don't know anything about

1:02:55

there. Yeah, and you got

1:02:58

floss behind pushing it. So

1:03:00

the back of this thing

1:03:03

every once in a while

1:03:05

is kicking up and lifting.

1:03:07

So it is shaking more

1:03:10

violently and you're going to

1:03:12

get bits of shrapnel flying.

1:03:15

And I would say, I'm,

1:03:17

can I get a dexterity

1:03:20

save from cave, please? You

1:03:24

sure can.

1:03:27

Hmm. That's

1:03:29

a ten.

1:03:31

Okay. Not

1:03:34

incredible. I...

1:03:36

So... I

1:03:38

have a...

1:03:41

So... So...

1:03:43

I have

1:03:45

a... So...

1:03:48

I have

1:03:50

a... You're

1:03:55

pushing him into this. Yeah

1:03:58

attack by something. It's called

1:04:00

hold still. Yeah. No, I

1:04:02

mean, if I mean, it's

1:04:05

not quite combat necessarily, but

1:04:07

primal intercepts. So I can

1:04:09

protect an ally within five

1:04:12

feet by imposing disadvantage on

1:04:14

an attack against them. Well,

1:04:16

it's really not an attack.

1:04:19

It's as a result of.

1:04:21

Yeah. You know, like, fair

1:04:23

enough, fair enough. I'm looking,

1:04:26

I'm just looking for the

1:04:28

fun. No, no, no, I

1:04:30

hear you. He wrote poorly

1:04:33

once. It's been six times.

1:04:35

You're right. Let's, let's, let's,

1:04:37

let's, let's, let's, let's, let's,

1:04:40

let's, let's, let's, let's, let's,

1:04:42

like, it is. bits and

1:04:44

pieces of this metal. The

1:04:47

drill seems to be fine-ish.

1:04:49

The door is being shredded

1:04:51

and it is because of

1:04:54

the cone of the drill,

1:04:56

it's all firing backwards. It's

1:04:58

all being ejected behind it.

1:05:01

So these are heated bits

1:05:03

of iron. And I guess

1:05:05

that would be, well, would

1:05:08

that be the equivalent of...

1:05:10

it's kind of... Look, I'm

1:05:12

gonna I'm gonna leave it

1:05:15

to you. Okay, give me

1:05:17

a D6 please. We're looking

1:05:19

for a low roll. We're

1:05:22

looking for a low roll,

1:05:24

okay. How about a five?

1:05:26

Okay, six. Okay, can't help

1:05:29

rolling high tonight. We're gonna

1:05:31

do five D6 damage. Oh

1:05:33

shit, okay. It's nasty, but

1:05:36

like it's it's probably I'm

1:05:38

probably gonna roll. Okay, so

1:05:40

18 damn it. So you're

1:05:43

gonna hear like pup-puping p-

1:05:45

and and you're gonna get

1:05:47

hit like shoulder shoulder chest

1:05:50

like it's it's gonna be

1:05:52

nasty. And you're gonna feel.

1:05:54

like a sizzle as these

1:05:57

things, like, it's probably gonna

1:05:59

win bed into your skin

1:06:01

just a bit, but that's

1:06:04

not the part that hurts

1:06:06

the most. It is, these

1:06:08

things are almost magma, like

1:06:11

it is, you know, meanwhile,

1:06:13

the drill's still going, still

1:06:16

getting through the door, and

1:06:18

I'd say you've punched a

1:06:20

hole the size of a

1:06:23

baseball in this door. And,

1:06:25

like, a fire of some

1:06:27

sort is imminent. Can

1:06:30

I get another engineering

1:06:32

check, please? Yeah, I'm

1:06:34

also going to... Um...

1:06:37

Xavier wants to say

1:06:39

something, go jump in!

1:06:41

Just jump in! Witnessing

1:06:43

the scene, Chapman leans

1:06:45

over to Linda, all

1:06:48

the way in the

1:06:50

back, I'm like, it

1:06:52

reminds me of fireworks.

1:06:54

It's lovely, isn't it?

1:06:57

What a beautiful sight.

1:06:59

This case is anything!

1:07:01

Is it going to

1:07:03

win? It's romantic. Meanwhile,

1:07:05

just like, came getting,

1:07:08

like, pierced by a

1:07:10

lava. Linda's not gonna

1:07:12

look over at Dr.

1:07:14

Chapman, and she'll just

1:07:16

say, keep eating your

1:07:19

sandwich. So cave has

1:07:21

a spell called fire

1:07:23

shield. First piece of

1:07:25

magma hits him, not

1:07:27

magma, you know, molten

1:07:30

metal, metal hits him.

1:07:32

Yeah. Like, ow, hot.

1:07:34

He's going to use

1:07:36

the fire shield to

1:07:38

give himself resistance to

1:07:41

fire damage. So yeah,

1:07:43

I think it's tough

1:07:45

because I would say

1:07:47

like... any additional week

1:07:49

down. grade it right

1:07:52

like instead of a

1:07:54

D6 and B D4s

1:07:56

or something because the

1:07:58

iron is still iron

1:08:00

it's still penetrate you

1:08:03

know what I mean

1:08:05

the fire is just

1:08:07

like an additional it's

1:08:09

it's weird because it's

1:08:12

not like it's it's

1:08:14

straight up fire it's

1:08:16

it's an amendment almost

1:08:18

but yeah honestly let's

1:08:20

let's get you know

1:08:23

I think This

1:08:27

next engineering check if it's good

1:08:29

we can punch through this door.

1:08:31

Okay, can I Eldridge blast again?

1:08:33

Okay, you can just say I

1:08:35

have been the whole time. It's

1:08:37

fine. I don't care. I don't

1:08:40

know how long an Eldridge blast

1:08:42

is but let's say like it's

1:08:44

hot. It's hot it's hot as

1:08:46

hell like your flavor than anything

1:08:48

really. Yeah. Okay. All right, so

1:08:50

let's roll that engineering check. Oh

1:08:56

no. Finally. There's

1:08:58

the one. I

1:09:00

got the keepers.

1:09:02

This is exactly

1:09:04

how it's supposed

1:09:06

to go. Roll

1:09:09

that god down

1:09:11

table. Yeah. I

1:09:13

don't have a

1:09:15

table prepared for

1:09:17

catastrophic mechanical failure.

1:09:19

So let's just,

1:09:21

so finally. This

1:09:23

machine. But

1:09:25

it's going to do one

1:09:27

of two things. The head

1:09:30

is either going to catch,

1:09:32

and instead of the drill

1:09:34

spinning, the machine part's going

1:09:37

to spin, or the front

1:09:39

end is just going to

1:09:41

explode and shatter because of

1:09:44

the pure heat and friction.

1:09:46

I would like you to

1:09:48

roll a die to see

1:09:50

so even zenods. E6, evens,

1:09:53

we get a nice little

1:09:55

explosion. Odds, we just created

1:09:57

like a circus ride, like

1:10:00

a fair ride, something like

1:10:02

that. A cave smoothie. No,

1:10:04

we're going to the classic.

1:10:07

Now, four explosions a week.

1:10:09

I'm gonna, I need another

1:10:11

dexterity check from you. Now

1:10:14

it's a good thing. It's

1:10:16

a good thing. You have

1:10:18

that little fire shield going

1:10:21

on. Mm-hmm. It's a good

1:10:23

thing. So give me a

1:10:25

dexterity safe, please. We're looking

1:10:28

for a 15 or higher.

1:10:30

Plus is there though. Pushing

1:10:32

him into it. Okay. That's

1:10:34

a 17. 17. Floss, can

1:10:37

I get a dexterity saving

1:10:39

check too? You can, you

1:10:41

can. I will mention that

1:10:44

I do have danger sense,

1:10:46

and that means that I

1:10:48

have advantage on dexterity. Do

1:10:51

you, do you though? Let's

1:10:53

not make, it doesn't matter

1:10:55

if it makes sense. The

1:10:58

most oblivious character, that's heightened

1:11:00

awareness. Well, that's the thing

1:11:02

is that he's got these

1:11:05

weird little things he understands

1:11:07

and knows and his body

1:11:09

just does and he's like,

1:11:12

I don't get it either.

1:11:14

Here's the thing, the most

1:11:16

oblivious, like, look, the most

1:11:18

oblivious person's like, so it's

1:11:21

it's jerking, it's red, there's

1:11:23

bits of iron flying off,

1:11:25

like I could tell something

1:11:28

bad's gonna happen. Yeah. I'm

1:11:30

I apologize, but I'm trying

1:11:32

to click on making it

1:11:35

happen. How do I make

1:11:37

it how to make it

1:11:39

roll decks? Oh, you got

1:11:42

a quick shield underneath it

1:11:44

with the a little saving

1:11:46

through a thing. Uh, your

1:11:49

your sheet has to be

1:11:51

locked or else you just.

1:11:53

Oh, is it locked? Thank

1:11:56

you. Thank you. I got

1:11:58

a one and a four.

1:12:00

Oh goodness. Well, all right.

1:12:02

I was also like, I

1:12:05

don't know how to see

1:12:07

there. I have to get

1:12:09

used to that now because

1:12:12

that's going to be the

1:12:14

most common problem of the...

1:12:16

Oh! God, with advantage, that

1:12:19

was a one? I got

1:12:21

a one and a four.

1:12:23

Oh goodness. Well, all right.

1:12:26

Ooh, okay, four total,

1:12:28

okay. So here's what's

1:12:31

gonna happen. There will

1:12:33

be an explosion. And

1:12:35

this is gonna be

1:12:37

4D12, half damage if

1:12:39

you succeeded, and I'm

1:12:41

gonna count this as

1:12:44

fire damage. This is

1:12:46

gonna be a pretty

1:12:48

big, yeah, so, 4012,

1:12:50

blipity black. Oh, I

1:12:52

just, I rolled two.

1:12:55

What's 29? So, okay, let's,

1:12:57

did cave take damage? So,

1:13:00

I, resistance and I made

1:13:02

the save, so do I

1:13:04

take a quarter damage? Did

1:13:07

you take damage for the

1:13:09

first? I did. Yeah, so

1:13:11

I, it's starting at my

1:13:14

maximum, I am down to

1:13:16

57 from taking the shrapnel.

1:13:18

And then- Yes, you take

1:13:21

like a quarter damage. Okay,

1:13:23

so was it rounding down

1:13:25

because it would be 29

1:13:28

to 14 to 7? Seven

1:13:30

would be a quarter. Seven,

1:13:32

seven, seven, that's gone to

1:13:35

50 health. So the, the

1:13:37

fire shield, by the way,

1:13:39

the description of the spell

1:13:42

is that I become wreathed

1:13:44

in flame. So he basically

1:13:46

walks. out of the explosion

1:13:49

completely on fire and just

1:13:51

kind of like put some

1:13:53

self out. He rolls on

1:13:56

the ground. I guess we

1:13:58

got to see structurally because

1:14:00

that's a full-on explosion. Meanwhile

1:14:03

Floss actually got rocked by

1:14:05

an explosion. Yeah. I... so...

1:14:07

I guess we got to

1:14:10

see structurally, because that's a

1:14:12

full-on explosion. I guess we

1:14:14

got to see structurally, because

1:14:17

that's a full-on explosion. I

1:14:19

guess we got to see

1:14:21

structurally, because that's a full-on

1:14:24

explosion. I guess we got

1:14:26

to see if that... Like,

1:14:28

when that suck up the

1:14:31

door gets sealed by a

1:14:33

cave-in or some shit, like

1:14:35

that would... Or by the

1:14:38

drill now, we just can't

1:14:40

get the drill out of

1:14:42

the way. Just is stuck

1:14:45

into the door. Oh shit,

1:14:47

guys, I'm sorry. Now you

1:14:49

have two problems, yeah. Doors

1:14:52

thicker. We need another drill.

1:14:54

Let's do this. Let's do

1:14:56

it as a constitution save.

1:14:59

The cave? Well, I imagine

1:15:01

in most caves that are

1:15:03

being mined, there's bracers and

1:15:06

things like that. You're hammering

1:15:08

up wood and stuff like

1:15:10

that so that it's, so

1:15:13

let's see if this does

1:15:15

the trick. Let's say D20

1:15:17

plus two. Can the mine

1:15:20

have stats? It doesn't cave

1:15:22

in. However, I wouldn't, I

1:15:24

wouldn't take any more late

1:15:27

night jaunts down to just

1:15:29

stand in that alcove and

1:15:31

stare at that door. Because

1:15:34

it is gonna cave in

1:15:36

one day. Like it's just

1:15:38

gonna. So, okay, this completely

1:15:41

flooded with smoke. and debris

1:15:43

and shit like that. So

1:15:45

you can't even see what's

1:15:48

going on with the door

1:15:50

right now. How the fuck

1:15:52

does everyone else react to

1:15:55

this explosion? finishes his sandwich,

1:15:57

like, at least his fingers.

1:15:59

All right, lunch break is

1:16:02

all but, and he kind

1:16:04

of, like, takes his little

1:16:06

doctor bag and heads on

1:16:08

over in a cave, rolling

1:16:11

on the ground, and, like,

1:16:13

takes up these, like, I

1:16:15

don't know, nasty looking, just,

1:16:18

like, tinsers, just to remove

1:16:20

the shrapnel. It's just, like,

1:16:22

walks on over. Can

1:16:27

I get a medicine

1:16:29

check? Oh sure. All

1:16:31

right, Kive. She's like,

1:16:33

I'm fine, I'm fine,

1:16:35

I swear I'm fine.

1:16:37

I'll be the one

1:16:39

that's on that. So

1:16:41

I have specialty and

1:16:43

diagnose and treat wounds

1:16:46

for medicine checks. So

1:16:48

that bumps me up

1:16:50

to D6 expertise role.

1:16:52

I love that the

1:16:54

two bits we have

1:16:56

are the oblivious guy

1:16:58

is crazy good at...

1:17:00

sensing danger. And the

1:17:02

bad doctor is really

1:17:04

good at treating wounds.

1:17:06

So, that's a 19.

1:17:09

So, look, it's gonna

1:17:11

hurt, but he's gonna

1:17:13

get the big chunks

1:17:15

of iron out of

1:17:17

you. The fire you're

1:17:19

gonna have to deal

1:17:21

with, probably, like that's

1:17:23

gonna have to be

1:17:25

a cave thing. Yeah.

1:17:27

Usually is. What about

1:17:29

floss, what's like, how's

1:17:32

floss doing after that?

1:17:34

I'm assuming Floss probably

1:17:36

is prone, or you

1:17:38

know, knocked to the

1:17:40

ground in some way.

1:17:42

His head is probably

1:17:44

ringing a bit, and

1:17:46

he just keeps saying,

1:17:48

for you, Miss Sparky,

1:17:50

her name was not

1:17:52

Miss Sparky. Jasper.

1:17:57

Yes. This.

1:18:01

Head injury He's gonna kind

1:18:03

of click any clack something

1:18:05

up in in in Floss's

1:18:08

think box, right? Oh, it's

1:18:10

like the it's like the

1:18:13

gem in the drill It's

1:18:15

like something just when it

1:18:17

clicked Right or or like

1:18:20

Gilligan and getting hit with

1:18:22

a coconut or something That's

1:18:25

actually much better Give

1:18:28

me a D10 and the

1:18:31

higher the number the the

1:18:33

the the the larger the

1:18:35

Jimmy Neutron brain blast you're

1:18:37

gonna get like All right

1:18:39

D10 I'm trying to get

1:18:41

all generations. I'm not for

1:18:43

my basis references are I

1:18:45

got a total recall reference.

1:18:48

I got a Gilligan reference

1:18:50

at a Jimmy Neutron nine.

1:18:52

Holy shit So what's a

1:18:54

nine on your scale? What

1:18:56

is what is floss? So,

1:19:01

uh, so, okay, so he's

1:19:04

gonna get sort of a

1:19:06

glimpse of something? The question

1:19:08

is, is this a flash

1:19:10

or is this like a

1:19:12

solid memory that sticks? For

1:19:15

you, like, for a nine?

1:19:17

I think... So, okay, what

1:19:19

needed to happen is such

1:19:21

a sizable, like, it took

1:19:23

half your health. Right. So

1:19:26

I think like the fact

1:19:28

that like big explosion you

1:19:30

get rocked you're on the

1:19:32

ground So it's I I

1:19:35

think It's a flash, but

1:19:37

it's something you hold on

1:19:39

to like it's one of

1:19:41

those things where like you

1:19:43

can't remember a song lyric

1:19:46

and someone starts tumming the

1:19:48

course You're like oh shit.

1:19:50

Yeah, it's like it just

1:19:52

yeah He's so he's gonna

1:19:54

have this immediate flash it's

1:19:57

going to be a barrage

1:19:59

like a collage and barrage

1:20:01

of images and moments and

1:20:03

What he's going to remember

1:20:05

is he's going to remember

1:20:08

falling immediately and falling and

1:20:10

falling and falling. He's going

1:20:12

to remember as he's falling,

1:20:14

he's going to remember looking

1:20:17

up and seeing like a

1:20:19

mountain, but upside down basically.

1:20:21

And then he's going to

1:20:23

black out for a second.

1:20:25

He's going to remember running

1:20:28

and running and running and

1:20:30

running. And then he is

1:20:32

going to go sort of

1:20:34

back in time. He's going

1:20:36

to remember looking sort of

1:20:39

down at his hands, and

1:20:41

they're going to be human-ish

1:20:43

hands or humanoid hands. And

1:20:45

he's going to look and

1:20:48

see a bunch of war-forged

1:20:50

SSI parts in different wooden

1:20:52

containers and that sort of

1:20:54

thing. And he's going to

1:20:56

be holding... what looks to

1:20:59

be maybe like a leg

1:21:01

or a, or some, want

1:21:03

some sort of a limb,

1:21:05

it's going to have that,

1:21:07

that kind of blue, um,

1:21:10

inked on porcelain look to

1:21:12

it. And then his flash

1:21:14

is going to stop. He's

1:21:16

going to come back to

1:21:19

where he was. And his

1:21:21

first words are going to

1:21:23

be, oh, we can't sell

1:21:25

anything to human hero. Everyone

1:21:32

else give me a perception

1:21:35

check. Because there's a lot

1:21:37

going on. Oh, that's going

1:21:39

on. Yeah, okay. I'm so

1:21:42

sorry, because if you're, it's

1:21:44

like a rough trip. You're

1:21:47

not looking for a perception

1:21:49

for persuasion. I did. Oh,

1:21:52

you're fine. There you go.

1:21:54

I guess Chapman starts humming

1:21:57

a little song. Right. Oh,

1:21:59

that's cute. Oh. Crit failure.

1:22:02

All you can do is

1:22:04

remember an annoying tune for

1:22:06

the next hour. You can't

1:22:09

gain expertise on intelligence or

1:22:11

wisdom because you have an

1:22:14

ear, you have a ear.

1:22:16

Oh, I love that's so

1:22:19

much. That's cute. So while.

1:22:21

So over the sound of

1:22:24

the. creaking and you know

1:22:26

fire and cave cursing as

1:22:29

you know things are being

1:22:31

wiggled out of him you're

1:22:33

gonna hear floss on on

1:22:36

on the ground say that

1:22:38

distinctly like crisply and it

1:22:41

sounds The tones feels like

1:22:43

it's different, right? It's not

1:22:46

in Floss's usual, like kind

1:22:48

of oblivious Jovial tone, like

1:22:51

it's much more... It sounds

1:22:53

like concern, like it sounds

1:22:56

like... Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so,

1:22:58

so Cave will kind of

1:23:00

like, Chapman's just humming and

1:23:03

like pulling this thing out

1:23:05

of his chest, like, bad

1:23:08

his handaway and like kind

1:23:10

of roll over to his

1:23:13

side and be like, ah,

1:23:15

like, you know, Floss buddy,

1:23:18

are you okay over there,

1:23:20

you're right? Flossil

1:23:23

looked straight at a cave

1:23:25

and kind of still disoriented,

1:23:28

but because it's, that was

1:23:30

probably more disorienting than the

1:23:33

explosion in a way for

1:23:35

him. No, I take that

1:23:37

back. You, you're talking to

1:23:40

people from whom in Europe.

1:23:42

It's okay to do that

1:23:44

because I imagine that is

1:23:47

money, but you can't let

1:23:49

them find me. And I

1:23:51

don't want to be near

1:23:54

them. That's all I know.

1:23:56

The money pot is okay.

1:24:03

Yep, that's everything.

1:24:06

Okay, so to be

1:24:08

clear, what are you

1:24:11

talking about? I

1:24:13

think I'm a bit

1:24:15

like your drill,

1:24:17

and that I

1:24:19

feel like I'm

1:24:21

working just a

1:24:23

little bit more

1:24:26

than I was

1:24:28

yesterday. Cave looks

1:24:30

at the drill.

1:24:32

I don't know.

1:24:34

Floss is overheating.

1:24:36

I just wanted

1:24:38

to. Yeah, right.

1:24:41

Actively bubbling. This may

1:24:43

be better for another

1:24:45

time over tea, but

1:24:48

I do believe I

1:24:50

remember something. I am

1:24:53

from Omeniro. That,

1:24:55

I suspected,

1:24:57

but I think it's

1:24:59

been validated.

1:25:02

That I didn't want

1:25:04

to be there. It's best

1:25:06

if I just go have

1:25:09

tea if they come to

1:25:11

visit. Sure, okay, so

1:25:13

if Omenuro comes here,

1:25:16

you don't want to

1:25:18

see them. You don't

1:25:20

want them to see

1:25:22

you. Cave looks at Linda.

1:25:25

I mean, this didn't

1:25:27

make his intelligence go up.

1:25:30

He's not going to be

1:25:32

much more coherent. Like, what's

1:25:34

the medicine check on that?

1:25:36

Because you guys work in

1:25:38

a profession where there's no

1:25:40

OSHA. Thus, no one's walking around

1:25:43

making sure you got your PPE

1:25:45

on, right? No ear protection, no

1:25:47

hard hats, no nothing. So like,

1:25:49

you've had, this place has had

1:25:51

to have had a few employees

1:25:53

that have got skull rocked at

1:25:55

one point, and they just don't

1:25:58

think so good no more. So

1:26:00

like, that's had to have happened.

1:26:02

I think in the past a

1:26:04

lot of times, they've just died

1:26:06

after that. Yes. Well, okay, there

1:26:08

is magic in this world. So

1:26:10

they, like, in this world, we

1:26:12

can heal. We could make sure

1:26:14

the soft spot in your brain

1:26:17

doesn't kill you, but we can

1:26:19

fix the drama. So like, we

1:26:21

can make sure you still walk

1:26:23

and talk and do the stuff,

1:26:25

but like, just like if you

1:26:27

heal. like a big gash and

1:26:29

someone yeah you get the scar

1:26:31

I that's a whole thing to

1:26:33

delve into with brain injury I

1:26:36

don't know how to fix that

1:26:38

but right but also how does

1:26:40

that apply to the magic robot

1:26:42

man compared to we're in some

1:26:44

uncharted water here floss I have

1:26:46

a therapist I can recommend to

1:26:48

you he can help you with

1:26:50

those thoughts in your head okay

1:26:52

I would absolutely absolutely appreciate that

1:26:55

Miss Linda I'll get

1:26:57

you two connected. It's Jeremy. I always

1:26:59

made Jeremy drive this thing. I should

1:27:01

have. I don't think Jeremy would have

1:27:04

pushed it as hard. I'm going to

1:27:06

level with you. So yeah, cable turned

1:27:08

back to chat and I'd be like,

1:27:10

am I okay, am I clear to

1:27:13

stand up, Doc? Oh yeah, so I

1:27:15

was just, I was, I kept going

1:27:17

until he told me to stop, but

1:27:20

you've been fine for a bit. Yeah,

1:27:22

no, I'm telling you to stop, please,

1:27:24

to take those creepy pictures away from

1:27:27

me, thank you. All right. Measuring parts

1:27:29

of you. It takes a little sneaky

1:27:31

lick and puts it back. Oh man,

1:27:34

I'm really into franology now, let me

1:27:36

see the shape of your skull. Like,

1:27:38

let's getting... I picture every time we

1:27:40

look at Chapman, like he's into new

1:27:43

old age, it's like, oh, your humors

1:27:45

are off, we need to like, yeah,

1:27:47

balance out your... The humor thing is

1:27:50

just generally the first thing he says.

1:27:52

His first, like, I don't see, is

1:27:54

like, he's a humor, man. In the

1:27:57

past six months, some things has changed

1:27:59

in his inventory, and like he's been

1:28:01

dealing with more, more poisons than before,

1:28:04

less healing these days, but also he's

1:28:06

carrying a jar of leaches at all

1:28:08

times, and he is, he cannot wait

1:28:11

to use them. Did I, did I

1:28:13

see? In your inventory that you have

1:28:15

fucking lotnam what? Lotnam is a hardcore

1:28:17

narcotic they used to use for headaches.

1:28:20

Lotnam is like a mixture of what

1:28:22

is it like cocaine and fucking like

1:28:24

I was gonna say meth but it

1:28:27

definitely wasn't meth it's one of the

1:28:29

most yes like it's very addictive like

1:28:31

I don't see it but um I'm

1:28:34

sorry I thought I knew someone has

1:28:36

it's in mine why don't you love

1:28:38

them there's a shot here and listen

1:28:41

don't ask me questions you don't want

1:28:43

to hear the answers to it Okay,

1:28:45

for our insurance purposes, we need to

1:28:47

know if you had been drinking lot

1:28:50

number before you got on that drill

1:28:52

set. Like in the Wild West, it's

1:28:54

fucking fascinating. Go back, like it's crazy.

1:28:57

Don't know why I have an inconspicuous

1:28:59

civilian set and it gave me lots

1:29:01

of money. What does it say for

1:29:04

a lot? What does it say for

1:29:06

a lot? What is the, what is

1:29:08

the, what is the, the description? The

1:29:11

mixture of amber gray, saffron, and other

1:29:13

rare ingredients can calm the nerves and

1:29:15

ease mental pain when you drink the

1:29:18

bitter reddish brown concoction in this vial,

1:29:20

you cover a level of strife. Roll

1:29:22

1D10 on a 1, you gain a

1:29:24

short-term mental stress effect. Once a creature

1:29:27

benefits from laudinum, it cannot do so

1:29:29

again until it finishes along with rest.

1:29:31

Well, but this is 100% something the

1:29:34

cave would want and need just to

1:29:36

get by everyone. I'm not giving it

1:29:38

to you Chapman. The second time is

1:29:41

for the taste. I'll let you know

1:29:43

my guy and you can get him

1:29:45

if you want. They used to put

1:29:48

it on babies gums to help him

1:29:50

sleep. That they did. Oh man. Can

1:29:52

we say that somebody here makes it

1:29:54

like somebody on the ground? Well, it's

1:29:57

got to be brewed, right? Someone's got...

1:29:59

Somebody's got a like a moonshine distillery

1:30:01

for a lot and I'm going on

1:30:04

in the woods behind the... Now I

1:30:06

want to see what other fucked up

1:30:08

things are in the game. It's like,

1:30:11

wait, wait, wait. You guys put laudanum

1:30:13

in here? What? Like, it's just such

1:30:15

a weird pole. Like, I want to

1:30:18

look around. It probably is Chapman actually

1:30:20

brewing it for you, because like, herbalism

1:30:22

kids and poisonous kids can let you

1:30:25

do like all of these items? You

1:30:27

just roll for it? So yeah, I

1:30:29

just, I can, you ask me for

1:30:31

it, I gave me for it, I

1:30:34

gave me for it, I gave it,

1:30:36

I gave me for it, I gave

1:30:38

me for it, I gave me for

1:30:41

it, I gave me for it, I

1:30:43

gave me for it, I gave me

1:30:45

for it, I gave me for it,

1:30:48

I gave me for it, I gave

1:30:50

me for it, I gave me for

1:30:52

it, I gave me for it, I

1:30:55

gave me for it, I gave me

1:30:57

for it, I gave me for it,

1:30:59

I gave me for it, I gave

1:31:01

me for it, I gave me for

1:31:04

it, I gave That's a rare venn

1:31:06

diagram of herbalism kit, brewer's kit, poison

1:31:08

kit, and you just kind of push

1:31:11

them to get off. Yeah, we're just

1:31:13

like a micro-brewery, if that were right.

1:31:15

Cave is a history as a brewer.

1:31:18

We probably made that shit together. Yeah.

1:31:20

You discovered it over. Is like, you

1:31:22

know what we could do. So

1:31:26

behind my doctor's clinic,

1:31:28

there's like a little

1:31:30

RV. Like that's just

1:31:33

something in income. So

1:31:35

behind my doctor's clinic,

1:31:37

there's like a little

1:31:40

RV. Like, that's just,

1:31:42

that's the new campaign.

1:31:45

Like, fuck the store.

1:31:47

Like, 100% I mean,

1:31:49

just going to cook.

1:31:52

Talking about this door

1:31:54

just before we eventually

1:31:57

on a inevitably and

1:31:59

tonight Is

1:32:01

there any like access to behind

1:32:03

the door the cave managed to

1:32:05

do? Yes, but can I can

1:32:08

I go back to one thing?

1:32:10

Yes. The very casual sexual harassment

1:32:12

earlier. Has that been a thing

1:32:14

for six months? And do you

1:32:16

guys have HR? Or is Linda

1:32:19

just real cool about it at

1:32:21

this point? It's like no. Just

1:32:23

like just shut you down. There's

1:32:25

the closest thing we have to

1:32:27

HR. I guess so, right? I

1:32:29

don't think he'd be agreeing. I

1:32:32

think of it as like a

1:32:34

90s TV show where it's like,

1:32:36

it's not really cool, but we

1:32:38

all just kind of let it

1:32:40

happen. There's still a very, there's

1:32:42

still a, it's like, I wish

1:32:45

you'd stop, like it's the, yeah,

1:32:47

okay, cool. All right. Yeah, that

1:32:49

goes up there with the, there's

1:32:51

no PPE or anything, no one's

1:32:53

protecting protecting those, it. But, you

1:32:55

know, yeah, in a few years,

1:32:58

Dr. Chapman will think back on

1:33:00

it and go, yeah, oh, no,

1:33:02

I have delayed those tweets. Oh,

1:33:04

man, we should go back and

1:33:06

bleep some of those things, we

1:33:09

said. So, I've, go ahead, sorry.

1:33:11

No, I was going to say,

1:33:13

like, you know, once, once Cave

1:33:15

gets Chapman to stop sizing him

1:33:17

up. and you know triple quadruple

1:33:19

checks with everybody else both like

1:33:22

so so cave is doing three

1:33:24

things he's looking at Chapman to

1:33:26

be like are you convinced that

1:33:28

I'm healthy enough to go on

1:33:30

living and he's looking at floss

1:33:32

to say are you gonna come

1:33:35

out of this or like how

1:33:37

damaged are you and then he's

1:33:39

looking at Linda to say how

1:33:41

do how in trouble am I

1:33:43

and then once he has an

1:33:46

assessment of all those three things

1:33:48

he wants to see what happened

1:33:50

with the door We're

1:33:54

definitely recounting, we're, we're, we're,

1:33:57

zero days since. Like, we

1:33:59

gotta do that. Oh yeah,

1:34:02

no, Linda like pointed over

1:34:04

to Jeremy. Zero. In my

1:34:07

defense, it's not usually me.

1:34:09

But this one was me.

1:34:12

Yeah, there's very, I think

1:34:14

there's very few times where

1:34:17

someone is so solidly responsible

1:34:19

for something usually you can

1:34:22

go. Well, we didn't know.

1:34:24

It's like, no, we usually

1:34:27

don't invite people to come

1:34:29

watch while they're doing it.

1:34:32

That, you invited witnesses, that's...

1:34:34

If Babe Ruth pointed in

1:34:37

the rafters and killed someone.

1:34:39

Look, if you can look

1:34:42

me in the eye and

1:34:44

tell me Babe Ruth didn't

1:34:47

beat one hooker to death

1:34:49

in his entire professional run,

1:34:52

you're a better man than

1:34:54

I. I don't believe that's

1:34:57

possible. Like, you're a better

1:34:59

man than I. I don't

1:35:02

believe that that's possible. He

1:35:04

was a giant drunk who

1:35:07

also had the ability to

1:35:09

get away with things that

1:35:12

no one should have been

1:35:14

able to get away with

1:35:17

Yeah, I was talking about

1:35:19

the cute part. Oh Sorry,

1:35:22

yes Oh Okay, so this

1:35:24

drill I don't

1:35:26

care how good your

1:35:28

rolls are. This drill

1:35:30

is probably not going

1:35:32

to be operational again

1:35:35

with just a little

1:35:37

tinkering around. Some hardcore

1:35:39

repairs. So the head

1:35:41

of this drill, the

1:35:43

head of this drill

1:35:45

is cracked and kind

1:35:47

of peeled back. What

1:35:49

appears to have happened

1:35:51

is the drill managed

1:35:53

to punch partway through

1:35:55

the door. So there

1:35:57

is a sizable hole.

1:35:59

It looks like probably

1:36:01

a little bigger than

1:36:03

like a foot and

1:36:05

a half somewhere in

1:36:07

there. uh... diameter so

1:36:09

i mean it it's

1:36:11

peeled back that way

1:36:13

so you could technically

1:36:15

crawl through this probably

1:36:17

uh... not comfortably but

1:36:19

you know and it

1:36:21

looks like the drill

1:36:23

got stuck at a

1:36:25

certain point And because

1:36:27

of the shape at

1:36:29

the drill and how

1:36:31

hot it was, what

1:36:33

essentially happened was it

1:36:35

belched fire in a

1:36:37

cone like a shotgun

1:36:39

back at you? Live

1:36:41

and learn, right? Who

1:36:43

knew? But that's going

1:36:46

to be one of

1:36:48

those things where you

1:36:50

jot that down in

1:36:52

the manual eventually. It's

1:36:54

okay. I, I, you're

1:36:56

gonna have to pull

1:36:58

this thing out of

1:37:00

the door. It's a

1:37:02

failed Kickstarter is like

1:37:04

the guys who are

1:37:06

making those laser razors

1:37:08

for a bit. It's