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Wondery US. Welcome

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to the campaign after the

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campaign. This is not another

1:02

D &D podcast. Welcome

1:07

back to Skaldova, everybody. Skaldova!

1:13

I'm taking to heaven right now. I'm going. I'm

1:15

ascended. You committed too many

1:17

sins, Caldwell. Yeah,

1:19

that's for me and St. Peter

1:21

to work out. Repent. Repent, dude.

1:23

I'm your dungeon master, Jake Hurwitz.

1:25

Here with Brian Murphy. You've got

1:27

to grow to a spit on

1:29

that thing, subject of the murder.

1:31

Oh my god. What? It's

1:34

timely. He brought it back. Eight

1:37

or nine months ago. He doubled down.

1:39

You have to invest in crow to

1:41

a coin. Emily Axford.

1:43

Besties with boggy and a

1:45

pocket froggy. It's Welly Ham

1:47

down. Oh, sweet Billy

1:49

Jr. And of course

1:52

we've got Caldwelltown. Ah, noble

1:54

robber, jet -jabber, door stopper, ba

1:56

-da -ba -ba -ba -barber, I'm Skel

1:58

Dovenet, it's Bargy Roger. Shout

2:00

out to McDonald's. was so experimental,

2:03

and then it also had

2:05

a McDonald's in there. Yes.

2:08

Go ahead and spit on that thing. like Slam

2:10

Poetry sponsored by a corporation. Well,

2:13

I thought Jake would like the

2:15

sponsorship and the Slam Poetry, so I

2:17

combined two of his passions. angle

2:19

before we go through the drive -through

2:21

though how about a little recap last

2:23

time our three bizarre buds laid

2:25

claim to the opal sunsword a legendary

2:27

weapon imbued with an ancient magic

2:29

and sunken into the stone floor of

2:31

a crypt which you freed by

2:33

coating it in lube. You then slept

2:35

in the crypt, leveling up before

2:37

making your way into the sealed wing

2:39

of the fortress. There, you

2:41

avoided a falling guillotine and decimated some

2:43

monks who were conducting experiments with

2:45

black lace in their laboratory. You

2:48

hatched a wild scheme to free a

2:50

terrarium full of cave critters, rescuing them

2:52

from certain death and adopting a little

2:54

frog along the way. Finally, you inspected

2:56

a journal on one of the monks

2:58

and discovered that the ritual which is

3:00

about to take place will claim Lila's

3:02

Just then, the scared ones trigger to

3:05

collapse in the lower passageways, blocking you

3:07

off. And that is where we are

3:09

now. Okay. we

3:12

take the quickest short rest in

3:14

the world? Yeah, absolutely. I

3:17

want to make sure that William Schitt's picks out his

3:19

favorite pebbles to share the pocket with him. All right, so

3:21

this is how we do it in the bog. Everyone

3:23

just stand close to each other and we'll punch each other

3:25

in the jaw and pass out and when we wake

3:27

up, we'll be good to go. Okay. All

3:29

right, one, two, three. I

3:31

suck. Yeah, I I learned

3:33

to sack on two. Yeah, only Boggy

3:35

passes out. All right, so Wellie and

3:37

Zudrick both punch Boggy. One

3:39

fist on each cheek. I

3:42

kick Boggy once in the gut, and while

3:44

he's down, good, he's out. He'll get some

3:47

good rest. Boggy

3:50

gets a really restorative nap. Yeah, he's

3:52

smiling. Zudrick and Wellie, you guys both

3:54

take a knee in this hallway as

3:56

it fills with a dust cloud from

3:58

the collapse. Yeah, I'm like a hockey player.

4:00

I get down on one knee and I have my lance, just

4:02

on the side watching Boggy

4:04

sleep, staring straight ahead. It's

4:06

actually pretty restful watching him.

4:09

I'm just whispering chastes

4:11

sonnets about the Lady

4:13

Genevier to William Schitt's The

4:16

Pocket Frog. Right. Because I feel like

4:18

William Schitt needs to get

4:20

the background of Lady Genevier,

4:22

her beauty, how soft her

4:24

gloves are. Just so he doesn't have a

4:26

corner release the first time he sees you. Exactly.

4:30

Okay, so well you unload all of

4:32

your baggage on the little toad. Do

4:34

you want to give me an animal handling check? She blows

4:37

her toad. 16.

4:40

Great, okay. I'm just saying

4:43

like the Lady Genevieve, she had

4:45

the softest down on her

4:47

forearms. I saw them one time.

4:50

Zodra keeps looking forward. As

4:52

you tell this story, you notice the frog

4:54

has been kind of just like blinking and

4:56

licking its eyes. But as you whisper, it

4:58

doesn't blink for a really long time. Oh,

5:02

shit, his toe is a pervert.

5:04

Here's the thing, she was

5:06

hot so she rolled up her sleeves.

5:09

Okay. Oh, he's

5:11

going to have a nighttime corner release if we

5:14

don't wake him up soon. He's going to have

5:16

a freaking cream dream. I'm

5:18

getting buggy again to wake him up. The

5:20

corner, I beg of you. All

5:22

right, everyone wake

5:24

up. Maybe we should let him sleep through

5:26

it. What? No, everyone up. Save

5:28

that energy, everyone, all right?

5:30

All right. Connor releases

5:33

for later. Zudrick pokes

5:35

Baggy awake with the butt of his lance. And

5:37

you guys rise, finding yourself in

5:40

this once orderly corridor. Now

5:42

the bisected body of one of the monks lies

5:44

in the middle of it, which you just

5:46

took a nap next to. Yeah, unbothered. His body

5:48

is already being devoured by the leftover insects

5:50

that didn't hitch a ride on Wellie's shield. Beyond

5:53

the corpse, past the lab door, the

5:55

hallway continues for another 40 feet until

5:57

it vanishes in a settling but swirling cloud

5:59

of dust, the aftermath of the

6:01

monk's desperate cave -in. Whatever lies

6:03

beyond wherever this ritual is taking

6:05

place, the most direct path is

6:07

blocked. But this corridor is not

6:09

empty. Two open doors line

6:11

the right wall with only shadow

6:13

visible beyond, and opposite them, on

6:16

the left wall, there is a

6:18

heavy iron door bolted shut. Okay. bolted,

6:21

classic monster stuff, but I

6:23

don't know how we avoid things.

6:26

Let's do the safer looking doors first.

6:28

Of course, do the old. Quick

6:30

peek. Tie a rope to the handle.

6:32

Use the lance. Tog it from

6:34

afar. Everyone stand out of the way

6:36

just in case there's a dart

6:38

or a boulder. I

6:41

kick the corpse. I fucking hate these

6:43

guys. I just feel like

6:45

we've been through all the traps. What traps could

6:47

possibly remain? There's always traps. They were going

6:49

to use freaking, yeah. So kind of smoke that

6:51

they were putting the poor toads through. Do

6:53

you think William Shitz is

6:56

a trap? I held

6:58

up the frog. Look him in the eyes.

7:00

That's a sweet, that's a sweet toad.

7:02

No, he's gonna trust him. Billy

7:04

Shitts blinks at you. Zudi, please.

7:07

Young Billy Jr. deserves no scorn. He'll

7:09

have to earn it. I

7:12

go and I guess I'll tie a

7:14

rope to one of the handles. I

7:16

stand far away with my lance. Make

7:18

sure everyone's out of the way. Yeah,

7:20

I'll prepare an action to attack. And

7:22

I yank it open. I guess I'll

7:25

just do the closest door to me

7:27

that's not the iron door. Okay, so

7:29

that closest door, it's already a little

7:31

bit of jar. You tie a rope

7:33

around the handle, you yank it, it's

7:35

on rusted hinges, it falls

7:37

off of the hinges and collapses into

7:39

the hallway, the corner of it

7:41

smashing the monk's skull. Sweet

7:44

dreams. A definitive end.

7:46

All right, let's grab, okay, I'll

7:48

grab a torch off the wall

7:51

in here and I'll do

7:53

a little. Poken, okay, and

7:55

I'll literally do a poke and

7:57

I'm just gonna start stabbing with

7:59

my legs So Zodric sidesteps over

8:01

the body poking his lance

8:03

forward careful What if there are more

8:05

critters? Oh quicksand that's what the other

8:07

trap could be I just remember watch

8:09

out for quicksand. Well, they don't all have

8:11

to be different They're always freaking dropping

8:13

the floor out on us and shit. It's

8:16

true. I remember that and I started

8:18

poking at the floor as well I'm doing

8:20

just full soul caliber swing around spins with

8:22

my lance. It's incredible to watch him work.

8:25

Just banging your lance on the

8:27

stone. Yeah. It's echoing throughout the

8:29

corridor. He's a one man

8:31

army, really. Like a one man stomp.

8:33

Yeah. You poke your

8:35

head and your lance into this first

8:37

room. As you poke your head in,

8:39

you realize it's not a room at

8:41

all. It's a cell. It's not quite

8:43

as small as the dungeons behind you,

8:46

perhaps meant for prisoners of a higher

8:48

rank. The iron door is hanging open,

8:50

just having pulled it off. Inside the

8:52

space is sparse and cold, the stone

8:54

floor is caked with dust. The far

8:56

wall has collapsed inward, cascade of rubble

8:58

spilling into the room. Hmm. Okay. Is

9:01

there anyone in here? Are there any corpses

9:03

or anything? This room

9:05

is empty. What strikes you most

9:07

is a single cot with the blanket

9:09

still folded, a single set

9:11

of manacles bolted to the low

9:13

wall and a lone plate next

9:15

to a clouded glass. Weren't there

9:17

three adventurers? Oh dear. Can

9:20

we take one more look at the

9:22

transformed fellow that we bested with the

9:24

chandelier? Yeah, you can inspect him. Do

9:26

want to give me an investigation check?

9:28

Yes, I will check his pockets and

9:30

also the rest of them, I suppose.

9:33

Oh, 16. 16. With

9:36

a 16, you don't find any

9:38

signs that this is someone who is

9:40

not just a scared monk who's

9:42

been transformed by black lace. With

9:45

your 16, you can also see

9:47

into this room that it looks

9:49

like there is something carved next

9:51

to the bed, carved into the wall.

9:53

This is the one that had

9:55

the manacles in it, the room. Yes,

9:57

the solitary. Let's look at the

9:59

carving. Perhaps it could

10:01

be the cipher for that scrap of paper we found.

10:04

Probably not, but it's worth looking at. Yeah, I

10:06

think that's an ancient thing. This seems more

10:08

of right now stuff. I'm putting it in the

10:10

clue pile regardless. All right, so

10:12

this wall is crumbling, but you clock

10:14

what looks like fresh scratch marks at the

10:17

corner of the bed. And

10:19

Boggy, you go over and you take a look.

10:21

There's a carving in the stone. You

10:23

see a rose with the

10:25

initials, M .D. Sir

10:27

Mathis Dyer. That is very sigil.

10:29

So it was Lila who stayed here.

10:31

Okay. And she was dreaming of

10:33

her betrothed. Yes. Can I check under

10:36

the mattress to see if any

10:38

messages were stored there? Yeah, let's turn

10:40

this room upside down. Right. Yeah,

10:42

I want to inspect the cloudy glass

10:44

to see if there's any remnants

10:46

of black lace. Yeah, same thing with

10:48

the plate. So, Zudrick, you stab

10:50

your lance into the mattress and twirl

10:52

it around your head. Hey,

10:55

flies everywhere. Wait, maybe you take the room before

10:57

we come in, because I can't work around the

10:59

ceiling fan of a lance. I just feel like

11:01

we could have taken our short rest in here.

11:04

There was a mattress. So, just

11:06

below that MD, Boggy, when you kick the

11:08

mattress aside, right at the base of

11:10

it where the mattress meets the wall, there

11:12

is a more direct message. He

11:15

fears the pool. He fears

11:17

the pool. There's the pool. We've

11:19

seen this somewhere before. Yeah, well

11:21

that's where the ritual is happening.

11:24

Yes. Seems that there is some

11:26

sort of dark woman presiding over

11:28

a pool. Is that what we

11:30

learned? He fears the pool. Maybe

11:32

Bullrick is afraid of the power

11:34

he withdraws. Yeah. So

11:36

maybe we could... to push him in.

11:38

Let's shove him in the pool. Yes, a

11:41

classic pool prank. Oh, yeah. Oh, he's

11:43

got his phone in his pocket. Oh, my

11:45

goodness. got his scrolls in

11:47

his pocket. Oh, could you imagine? If

11:49

we're table -tapping, I call being the

11:51

table. I call distraction, of course. All

11:53

right, then I'll be the shover. I

11:56

shove the wall to practice. Give

11:59

me an attack on the wall. Nine

12:02

What is with you an inanimate? I

12:05

don't know I just don't have I

12:07

don't have the follow -through You just

12:09

sprained your wrist. Can you see through

12:11

that helmet? Sometimes well, it's full of

12:13

vomit from You should

12:15

take it out this morning. Do you

12:17

need a minute in the cell alone

12:19

to clean your helmet? No. We

12:21

promise we won't peek. I'm fine. All

12:24

right. Well, you inspect the glass and

12:26

the plate and you find, you know,

12:28

stale breadcrumbs, maybe something like residue of

12:30

water. It would seem like they have

12:32

not given Lila any black lace yet,

12:34

like they're saving it. for the ritual.

12:36

They're saving it for the ritual. Okay.

12:38

Well, I suppose there's a chance that

12:40

Braxton and Holden were held in the

12:43

other cell. I mean, they're probably dead,

12:45

but yes, maybe. Yes. There's also a

12:47

chance that they've already been transformed. Indeed,

12:49

or a darker fate awaited them, which

12:51

is that they betrayed Lila, but I

12:53

wish not to think on that. Oh.

12:55

I mean, I don't really care. Between

12:57

them what happened? I mean, I guess

12:59

I hope they're okay, but like I

13:02

don't know I don't feel personally too

13:04

much about like their inner friendship dynamic

13:06

Yes, be honest. How do you feel

13:08

about betrayal between blood? Pretty

13:10

bad pretty bad about yeah, so that's

13:12

that bringing that up and that's why

13:14

you're trying to deflect so hard immediately

13:16

Zudrick Zudrick look in my eyes. Look

13:18

in my eyes frog ribbit Zudrick look

13:20

at me There is faith and trust

13:22

in all people I say this, end

13:24

of that table, top him. I

13:27

wasn't even there. I know, I don't trust you

13:29

to let me be the table. I

13:31

just take one step back. What the fuck,

13:34

Boggie? Willie, where were you?

13:36

You did it. Dispatch me! I

13:38

gave you the signal! What's the

13:40

signal? You distracted me from

13:42

something. What was it? signal! I don't

13:44

say pushing someone because that can't be

13:46

the symbol. Didn't you see me blink

13:48

with both eyes? What?

13:51

I'm going to go check out the

13:53

other room. Wait, Zuzik, real quick. Hold

13:55

the pocket frog and think about your

13:57

feelings for two seconds. I don't trust

14:00

the pocket frog, okay? Oh, come now,

14:02

Zuzik. Please wait around for 15 minutes,

14:04

okay? Alright. Ribbit. He

14:06

could have secrets. He could

14:08

be a polymorph wizard for all

14:10

we know. I'm gonna sort

14:12

of cover William Schitt's ears. Don't

14:15

listen to him. He's deeply

14:17

disturbed. Everything he's saying is about

14:19

himself and not about you.

14:21

Okay? Okay, William Schitt's. His unblinking

14:23

eyes flit around the room. Swamplin'

14:26

creatures are all pure. They desire one

14:28

thing, and that's to eat bugs and

14:31

hang out. Those are

14:33

two things, but I consider them one. Yeah, great.

14:35

Okay. Okay. Let's go in the other room

14:37

I feel like we've gotten all that we can

14:39

I actually find it really hard to hang

14:41

out when I eat Really? Yeah, just the idea

14:43

of collapsing those two things because I find

14:45

it really hard to carry a conversation when I

14:47

have a task at hand. Listen, when we

14:49

are done here, we are going to have an

14:51

absolute banger of a feast and I will

14:54

teach you how to hang out and eat at

14:56

the same time. Okay, I'll keep an open

14:58

mind. It's true. After every mission, we would have

15:00

a big feast at the bog. We called

15:02

it bogaroo and it was quite a time. I

15:05

just feel like I don't understand when

15:07

you're supposed to be chewing and when you're

15:09

supposed to be talking and this transition

15:11

from one to the other feels really complicated.

15:15

Cedric is tapping his foot like

15:17

Sonic the Hedgehog, just waiting at

15:19

the edge of the door. Ooh,

15:21

good idea, a song. I take

15:23

it. Yes. I lose. I do

15:25

my rope trick again. I put

15:27

a rope around the handle of

15:29

the other door and I open

15:31

it and I dive out of

15:33

the way to make sure there's

15:35

no darts. You yank the

15:37

door as Wellie plays her

15:39

loop with you stomping in time.

15:41

And I'm with your impatient

15:44

tapping. It crescendos as

15:46

the door yanks off its frame

15:48

and crashes onto the floor, and

15:50

no trap is sprung. No basket

15:52

of snakes. All right, is this

15:54

another cell? I swing my lance

15:56

around wildly into the room. Okay,

15:59

you charge into this chamber.

16:01

It is deep but narrow, expansive

16:04

yet claustrophobic, with dim candles

16:06

burning in cracked lanterns, leaving half

16:08

the room swallowed by shadow,

16:10

disappearing. Into the shadow, a

16:12

rose and rose of stacked

16:14

cots, seemingly going on forever. The

16:16

red bear, dilapidated, empty. The

16:18

room is sparse. Whatever warmth it

16:20

once had is long gone. Chandeliers

16:23

hand crooked and empty. Trunks at the feet

16:25

of the beds are knocked over and forgotten. The

16:28

scared ones may have once enjoyed creature

16:30

comforts, but they are different creatures now.

16:32

You remember Darwin Wednesday's words. When

16:35

my brothers and sisters consumed that dark

16:37

draft, that's when I lost them. How

16:40

long have these candles been burning?

16:42

Do we get a sense from how

16:45

much wax has pulled up? Great

16:47

call. Do want to give me a

16:49

perception check? Just

16:51

an eight. An eight. Does anybody want

16:53

to give me a perception check? I make

16:55

a little figurine with the pulled wax.

16:57

I got a 17. So you guys all

16:59

look at the candles you take in

17:02

the room. It seems like they've been burning

17:04

for a long time. They're

17:06

they're low. They're guttering. The

17:08

monks have, you know, inhabited this

17:10

space, but they've been inhuman for

17:12

a while now. Yeah. Okay. You

17:14

know what? Why don't

17:16

we get dressed up in the robes? Let's

17:18

throw the robes on over our armor

17:20

and whatnot. Maybe it'll give us

17:22

the Element of surprise to a certain

17:24

extent. Can we search the trunks for

17:26

a third robe? Yeah, so we don't

17:28

have to do we also have the

17:30

murdered guy on your shoulders, right? Yeah

17:32

Unless you want to okay. Yeah, you

17:34

guys want to give me some rolls

17:37

as you pick through the trunks I

17:39

get a 12 investigation to try

17:41

to find a robe. I got a

17:43

17. Ooh, six. Okay. In

17:46

these open trunks, you find the

17:48

robes that belong to the scared

17:50

ones. You also find a bunch

17:52

of personal effects, things that normal

17:55

people might have hung onto. Boggy,

17:57

you find a golden chain tangled

18:00

around a silver locket. The front of

18:02

it is engraved with the sign

18:04

of the load star. Oh, jackpot. Quite

18:07

a fancy chain. It's a locket, right?

18:09

Crack that Yeah, look, look in the locket.

18:12

Crack it open. I had already put it in the treasure

18:14

bag, but okay. Boggy

18:17

it. You saw the gold, not the

18:19

potential memories within. Boggy rifles through the

18:21

treasure bag for a shred of humanity. You

18:23

open the locket. And inside is

18:25

a picture of a young girl.

18:27

What color are her eyes? Are they

18:29

piercing blue? It's a

18:31

black and white photo, but you don't

18:34

recognize her or anything. Okay. Well, you

18:36

pick through a trunk as well. You

18:38

find a small pouch of saffron. Inside

18:41

the pouch is a

18:43

jagged piece of untreated amethyst.

18:46

Oh, like a

18:48

crystal that hasn't been refined? Yes.

18:52

Wow. I've got

18:54

good company for you, William

18:56

Sheths. You are

18:58

gonna be in the swankiest

19:00

pocket of all River

19:02

Toads. Yeah, can I

19:04

inspect the amethyst? Does it

19:06

remind me of any part of

19:08

Scaldova? Does it remind me

19:11

of any jewelry I've ever seen

19:13

anyone adorned in? Or

19:15

is there any sort of

19:17

divine hum or emanation from

19:19

it? I think those are

19:21

the things I would be

19:23

thinking of while I looked

19:25

at it. Okay, this amethyst,

19:27

it doesn't strike you as

19:29

having any magical or historical...

19:31

to it. It

19:33

seems like it's just someone's cherished

19:35

item. But how much do

19:37

you think you've traveled across Skuldova?

19:40

No, not much. I think I've

19:43

literally followed the path of the

19:45

river, just walked under the oaks

19:47

of the river to get down

19:49

to what I now know to

19:51

be soul set. But we call

19:53

mud town. So yeah, you

19:56

don't necessarily know where this came

19:58

from in Scaldova, but you do know

20:00

that whatever it is, it was

20:02

something that somebody wanted to hang onto.

20:04

Yeah, no matter what, it was

20:06

someone else who saw sort of a

20:08

metaphor for the human condition in

20:10

every rock and pebble they find. I

20:13

hold it up as I say that. The

20:15

frog is trying to eat it. Oh

20:18

shoot. And Zodrick, in your

20:20

trunk, you find a moderately

20:22

small robe and also a

20:24

letter pressed with a flower.

20:27

Okay, I crack the letter. It

20:29

reads, Dearest one, I will not ask

20:32

you to stay, but I will wait until

20:34

the winds shift or the stars change

20:36

their course. Woof.

20:39

Why wolf? Why wolf? Why wolf?

20:42

Why? Because this seems to have

20:44

been received by one of the

20:46

scared ones. Oh. I think, right? Yeah.

20:49

Unless they, yeah, there's... You're right. I saw

20:51

only the poetry and I didn't think of the

20:53

tragedy that someone is basically sending a letter

20:55

to someone in a cult saying, hey, will you

20:57

come home? Yeah. Is there

20:59

a signature? I look for a

21:01

signature. No signature. It seems almost like

21:03

a note that someone got before

21:05

they went off into the keep. Yeah.

21:08

Like a goodbye message. Yeah.

21:10

Well, you know, maybe this

21:12

could have been stolen by the

21:14

scared ones and it could

21:16

be long to one of the

21:18

three adventurers. But in all

21:20

likelihood, this person just dedicated themselves

21:22

fully to this terrible cause

21:24

and, you know, cut off all

21:26

outside family and friends. Yes,

21:28

indeed. It do be like that

21:30

sometimes. Yes. Does everyone want

21:32

to smell the saffron? It

21:34

looks like a wish. Yeah. Yeah.

21:36

Okay. Ribbit. I put

21:38

on my small robe. Yeah,

21:42

I think that it would fit

21:44

better if you took off the

21:46

armor. I can't You can't you're

21:48

cursed. Are you cursed? Yeah, I

21:50

guess so. Yeah, cursed.

21:54

Yeah who cursed you who cursed me

21:56

who cursed you what magical hex

21:58

has been a sorcerer what? Yeah

22:00

Three sorcerers coming up now

22:02

just coming up now. Yeah,

22:04

they're different colors. There's a

22:06

red one, a blue one,

22:08

and a purple one. There's

22:10

a purple sorcerer? Yep, there's

22:12

a purple sorcerer. Well, the

22:15

red and the blue one,

22:17

they do like a fusion dance, and then

22:19

they become the purple one, and the purple

22:21

one is the purple one. And they cast

22:23

a curse on me, yeah. So just tell

22:25

her that you're short stink. Just tell her

22:27

that you've got swamp ass. I just am not.

22:30

There's freaking darts coming out of the

22:32

walls. I'm not taking my cloak

22:35

off. I whispered to William shits. Did

22:37

you hear that? Sorcerers are real. Ribbit.

22:40

Skinny robes are in now.

22:43

I don't care what the kids are doing.

22:47

Zadrika, as you stretch this robe over

22:49

your armor, you

22:51

guys hear something in the darkness,

22:53

the rustling of bedsheets. There is someone

22:55

in here and they're restless. Whoa.

22:57

I charge towards them and grab them

22:59

and hold them up against the

23:01

wall. Okay, steady

23:04

on, friend. We

23:06

mean you no harm. You sprint

23:08

forward, tiny robe flying off

23:11

of your armor towards a frail

23:13

figure, barely noticeable on a

23:15

lumpy bed. Oh my gosh, a

23:17

scholar! Yeah, I'm grabbing him.

23:19

Are you a scholar, or a

23:21

fish -bearant, or a sorcerer? What did

23:23

you hear about the sorcerers? Remove their

23:25

glasses so they cannot see. Us,

23:30

yeah. Laughing. Oh, yeah.

23:32

You found us. You found us. Yeah,

23:34

we sure as hell did. Oh, jeez,

23:37

you're gonna be a tough interrogation. You

23:39

love it already. Fuck. I punched the

23:41

wall and I just hurt my fingers.

23:43

I'm so bad against inanimate objects. Why

23:45

are you left behind? Why aren't you, if you're

23:47

laughing so much, why aren't you at the damn ritual?

23:49

Did you not get invited? Oh,

23:53

we weren't expecting visitors, were

23:55

we? You wag your finger

23:57

in her face and she

23:59

smiles, revealing high cheekbones and

24:01

a chipped tooth. Wait, are

24:03

you, are you Faye? You

24:06

remember Victus' words when you

24:08

mentioned Faye. You have a friend

24:10

in the deep. Okay. Hey,

24:12

Faye, why are you

24:14

here by yourself? Are you like good? Are you

24:17

out on this stuff or what? I mean, you're

24:19

laughing a lot, which is bad. I

24:21

thought you were supposed to be

24:24

scared. Oh, there's nothing left for us

24:26

to fear. Not for us, but

24:28

perhaps for them. Oh, shall

24:30

I warn them? No,

24:32

let's let them see for themselves.

24:35

Oh, she's cooped up. She's cooped up big

24:37

time. Yeah, okay. Hi,

24:40

okay. What's your favorite song?

24:43

Okay, interesting question for Faye.

24:47

Is that Ricky holding Faye? I think I've

24:49

got her by the collar. She's laughing and

24:51

stuff. I'm just like, I don't know. I

24:53

just kind of loose it up. All

24:55

right, so Faye's head is

24:58

like lolling around. She's

25:00

giggling, talking to herself, and you

25:02

ask her what her favorite

25:04

song is, and she cocks her

25:06

head and she says, I

25:09

like music. I

25:11

like music. I like music. Do

25:13

you like happy music or sad

25:15

music? Or body music? Ribble

25:18

tails? But we no longer listen to

25:20

music, do we? We don't need to be

25:22

merry. We need to be vigilant. Yes,

25:24

that's true. But you can be

25:26

vigilant about cool stuff instead of the

25:28

shitty stuff you're vigilant about down

25:30

here, turning bugs into bigger bugs. Who

25:33

told you you have to be

25:35

vigilant? Why, why is it

25:37

self -evident in the cavern, is

25:39

it not? Yeah. Okay, so

25:41

no one told you to be

25:43

vigilant. You're just protecting yourself. was

25:45

Bullrick. Bullrick didn't set you up here

25:47

to be on watch or anything? Bullrick?

25:50

Bullrick the bullshit artist. He left

25:52

us quiet, Faye. I wanted no

25:54

part in his ritual, and neither

25:56

should you. There's still time to

25:58

turn back, or you can vent

26:00

your head. Let them try and

26:03

stop him. Faye, we really appreciate

26:05

the warning, but we really want

26:07

to help Lila. Did

26:09

you meet her, the young girl?

26:11

When you mentioned Lyla, she throws her

26:13

head back like she's fighting something

26:15

internally. I think like I

26:18

want to give her a chance to

26:20

just like work it out. Take your

26:22

time. Take your time. Yeah, we're friends

26:24

of Darwin Wednesday. He

26:26

misses you. OK, so Zedrick,

26:28

you're placing. I'm gently putting her down.

26:30

Yeah, I think I had I

26:32

think like what as soon as I

26:34

grabbed the person and it was

26:37

a scared one that was just unarmed,

26:39

I put I put her down.

26:41

Okay. I think, yeah, we could kind

26:43

of transition from like holding her

26:45

against the wall in a threatening way

26:47

to then kind of like A

26:49

fraternal arm around the shoulder. Yes. I'm

26:51

doing like sort of just basketball

26:53

defense, making sure she doesn't run for

26:55

something, but like other than that,

26:57

I'm non -aggro. Zodra, you're staying on

26:59

the balls of your feet, but you

27:01

guys are giving Faye some space

27:03

to process everything that's going on. Yes,

27:05

I'll pour her a little bit

27:07

of the peach whiskey that we've got

27:09

to calm her nerves. Oh,

27:11

it helps me. Okay. All right,

27:13

great. And let's do, oh, God, I

27:15

hate doing this. I guess we should

27:18

just give her a health potion. See

27:20

if it helps her, maybe to help heal

27:22

some of this black lace stuff. Yes, why? Okay,

27:24

yeah. Fun wasting it on a damn stranger. Probably

27:27

going to betray us in a moment anyway. Well,

27:29

let's see, though. I mean, if we give her

27:31

too many things to drink after she was part

27:33

of a cult in which they made people drink

27:35

stuff, she might be a little dodgy about drinking

27:37

anyways. Okay. So we'll let

27:39

her mix them together. Like

27:43

a whiskey sour, but

27:45

with potion and stuff.

27:47

Yeah, put some of that saffron in

27:49

there too. Let's go crazy saffron

27:51

rim. Oh, wow, okay. Yeah,

27:54

so you guys are gonna, you're gonna

27:56

do a cocktail, a mocktail. No, it's

27:58

a car, a cocktail. Oh, right. Yeah,

28:00

because at this point, yeah. There's whiskey

28:03

in the potion. Okay, sweet.

28:05

But we're offering it to her, she

28:07

can watch us like pouring it all

28:09

and everything, since she seems frazzled by

28:11

her whole experience so far. Yeah. All

28:13

right, great. So do you

28:15

guys want to give me a try to

28:17

think what kind of check this would be

28:19

for the medicine? Oh, yeah, a medicine check,

28:21

right? Okay, does anyone have decent medicine? I

28:23

have a plus one. It's not negative. That's

28:25

the same as me zero. So now, okay,

28:28

I'll give advantage to Wellie. I honestly, I'm

28:30

going to be honest, I think that we

28:32

should give Advantage to Boggy.

28:34

I know that he has a

28:36

plus zero, but he is like the

28:38

cocktail maker. Okay, but of the

28:40

three of us. All right, but Rolling

28:42

seems interesting seems like an interesting

28:45

strategy. I actually love this. So let's

28:47

lock it in. All right. Boggy

28:49

is the mixologist. All right. Remember, I

28:51

think it's mostly it's like not

28:53

like three parts whiskey one part potion.

28:55

It's more like four parts potion

28:57

one part. Yeah,

28:59

the whiskey is a float on top. Have you ever

29:01

poured a float? It's like where you pour it on

29:03

a spoon. Oh, I prefer just on the

29:05

top. Yeah, I prefer a sandwich a little bit on

29:08

the bottom and a little on the top. Okay. There we

29:10

go. This guy eats a lot of bog meat. Great.

29:12

So, Boggy, give me one roll raw. Okay.

29:14

see what happens. Well, I'm going to use a

29:16

lucky. Great. So, I'll roll it with a

29:18

vantage. Thank you very much. Okay, okay, okay. And

29:23

that's in that 20 -shot. See?

29:26

I knew. I knew

29:29

it. Really? Wow. The

29:31

Lodestar's intuition. I

29:33

just, I didn't take him for a

29:35

cocktail guy. Damn. He's just a

29:37

party guy. I'll drink what's handed to

29:39

me. You know that he makes whatever someone

29:41

comes in asking for. True, true, true.

29:43

Even if he doesn't drink cocktails himself, he's

29:45

an entertainer, a host. He is, I

29:47

agree with that. I mean, you guys are

29:49

hilarious. So you

29:52

mix this amazing cocktail, Fay.

29:54

who has had like very jerky

29:57

emotions, grabs it and tosses it back,

30:00

freewheeling, fun -loving Faye, who

30:02

had more humanity than most,

30:04

wrestling now with morality. She

30:07

feels that whiskey float through

30:10

her fighting with the black

30:12

lace, and she starts dancing.

30:15

There we are. I liked music. Oh,

30:17

I did like music. The

30:20

Ender's Waltz. She grabs you and

30:22

she spins with you, Ellie. The

30:24

Ender's Waltz. I actually know this

30:26

one quite well. I perform a

30:28

perfect Ender's Waltz. Yes. Yes.

30:31

I know how to lead a

30:33

partner, right? Right, from all the balls

30:35

at the monastery. Okay, I guess,

30:37

well, all right, if we're... You know,

30:39

if it's necessary for the mission

30:41

and to get information from Faye, I

30:44

should probably play the lute during

30:46

this. Yes! Please, Zudrick, it will help.

30:48

I'll try. All right,

30:50

give me a performance check. Okay. One

30:53

sec. It's

30:55

tuning in. One sec, it's still out

30:57

of tune. It's fine, I can walk

31:00

to you tuning a lute. I'm just

31:02

that good. Oh, there it is. Very

31:04

nice. That's how everybody gets dear before

31:06

Easter. Hang on. That's E at the

31:08

end there. I

31:10

got a nine. So I think

31:12

I mostly tune it. And then every

31:14

time I play a chord, I

31:17

go, this thing's out of tune. This

31:19

thing's out. You're

31:21

playing it, refusing to take off your gauntlet.

31:23

So it's hard to hold down. It's just

31:25

off the right chord. William shits back him

31:27

up. Yeah,

31:29

get William shits hop onto

31:32

the onto the loot and give

31:34

him a help action. Oh,

31:36

yeah His webbed fingers slam onto

31:38

the fretboard. I did even

31:40

worse I'm so dubious of William

31:42

shits. It's fine. Honestly, if

31:44

I'm waltzing with like a girl

31:46

I could actually use my

31:48

pockets free like I don't I

31:50

don't need a pocket frog

31:52

right now I'm

31:54

like kind of flirting. No

31:57

frog, but she's feeling froggy.

31:59

You waltz through this haunted cavern

32:01

with a specter as your

32:03

frog looks on. And I just

32:05

do. And you

32:08

twirl Faye, and she

32:10

comes to rest, breathing heavy.

32:12

She doesn't look healthy. She

32:14

still looks tortured, but like

32:16

she has some control of

32:18

her faculties. And she says,

32:20

tell them Faye, tell them.

32:22

Yes. Faye says, I

32:25

waited. I held myself

32:27

back. I couldn't

32:29

do what they wanted us

32:31

to do. I couldn't do

32:33

that to the girl. They

32:36

tricked her. They tricked her. And

32:38

the lace must be a choice. It

32:40

must be a choice. How

32:43

did they trick her? She

32:45

shakes her head. I

32:47

only drank it. I only drank it because

32:49

I wanted to belong. I only came here.

32:52

Because I wanted to belong. That

32:54

was why I came to the castle to belong.

32:57

And now, and now I'm lost. I'm

32:59

cast out. Well, did

33:01

you do that? You got cast

33:03

out. And honestly, being cast

33:05

out of a group like that is,

33:07

I think a badge of honor. It's

33:10

better to be cast out - Hi,

33:12

Marks, for character. Yes. And you have,

33:14

you still have friends on the outside.

33:16

Your friend, Darwin, sent us.

33:18

Yes. If you wish, we have

33:20

a shield that we can use to lift you up

33:22

into a hole. Faye

33:24

looks down at her hands

33:26

and her thin forearms,

33:29

veins pulsing with black lace.

33:32

She says, I can't

33:34

go back. It's too late

33:36

for me. But, but

33:38

you're right. You're right.

33:41

Maybe that's not where I want to

33:43

belong. Bullrick, Bullrick took everything

33:45

from us. From me, he

33:47

took everything. So I

33:49

took something from him. What

33:52

did you take? She tiptoes

33:54

over to her bed. I

33:56

sewed it in. I sewed it

33:58

in the mattress so I wouldn't

34:01

forget. You hear her fingers tearing

34:03

at the cloth and she pulls

34:05

out a gold ring. She

34:07

comes over to you. This

34:09

is a gold ring darkened with

34:11

age, signet ring with a

34:13

garnet stone in the center. It

34:16

looks like a ruby. And

34:18

on the side of the signet

34:20

ring, a flowing H. Flowing

34:23

H. H. H.

34:26

Do you know what the H stands for? She

34:28

had face smiles with her chipped tooth

34:30

and shrugs. You stole

34:32

this from Bolrik? Yes.

34:34

Yes. Yes, I took it

34:36

from Bolrik. And he couldn't find it before

34:38

he had to flee into the cistern. He

34:41

fears you. Did he need it?

34:43

He'll want it someday. Uh,

34:45

her eyes go bright. They collapsed

34:47

the passage, but there is another

34:49

way, an older way. The

34:51

spillpipes behind the walls of

34:53

the vault. You

34:56

can still access the cistern

34:58

and the pool. Okay, is

35:00

there any like monsters or anything waiting

35:02

for us behind that iron door? Is

35:04

that the vault? Oh, yeah, piranhas. Are

35:06

there piranhas in the cistern? Faye smiles

35:08

in shrugs. Faye, do

35:10

you know why he fears the pool? Everything

35:13

he's created is a test. They're

35:16

experiments. He's been

35:18

trying to perfect the effects for

35:20

himself. But now that you're

35:22

here, he has to rush. He

35:25

fears the outcome. But he's

35:27

going to do it anyway. Has he never

35:29

taken Black Lace himself? Faye

35:31

looks at you and shakes her head. Like

35:34

any good court leader, he

35:37

never ingests. Yeah, okay.

35:40

Faye, do you know what happened

35:42

to the other two? Not

35:44

Lila. Yes. It's okay, Faye.

35:46

Tell them. No. No, it's shameful.

35:48

Tell them, Faye. It's okay if

35:50

you ate them. She cocks

35:52

her head and smiles. Do

35:56

you trip your teeth on one of them? I

35:58

wish I could have eaten the boy. Okay.

36:03

Tell him more. But

36:05

you couldn't because he's

36:08

still alive or... He

36:10

lives. He lives. He

36:12

lives. He's the one

36:14

that delivered, Lila. Whoa!

36:19

There was a blood betrayal. Did

36:22

he take the blacklist? Face

36:24

smiles and shrugs. Or maybe

36:26

he's got paid off. Yeah, he was

36:28

in some sort of conspiracy before they

36:30

ever left off to begin with. What

36:32

about the guard, Sir Holden? Sir Holden?

36:34

It's okay. Tell them everything. They need

36:36

to know. They should know. Let the

36:38

whiskey work. A shaky hand

36:41

reaching out for another swig. Careful, he

36:43

might not crit on every cocktail he

36:45

makes. And Faye says, Sir

36:47

Holden, they forced her

36:49

to drink it. Oh,

36:51

gods. Okay, so

36:54

Braxton is a rat. Sir

36:56

Holden was an innocent bystander, and

36:58

Lila was the mark. Okay, is

37:00

it H for Holden? Is that

37:02

where Bullrick got it? Did he

37:04

steal it from Sir Holden? I

37:07

hold up the ring. Perhaps. Faye shakes

37:09

her head. No. He had it long

37:11

before they arrived. Long before that. Huh.

37:13

All right. Did we see? Yeah, let's

37:15

give this ring a good once over.

37:17

Let's inspect it. Just see if there's

37:20

said it was a flowing H? Yeah,

37:22

like a flowing curved H with a

37:24

garnet stone. The names on the sword,

37:27

Sir Hilda, you don't

37:29

think. Sir Hilda? Foggy, as

37:31

you say, Sir Hilda Garnet,

37:33

the stone seems to glisten.

37:35

Oh, Garnets. Wow. I

37:38

wonder if he's collecting a... Item

37:40

from every single one of the

37:42

night or maybe didn't we see

37:44

a woman an image of her?

37:46

Is there a corrupt knight that

37:48

is commanding this that is the

37:50

true puppeteer? Is she the one

37:52

who died? One night

37:54

died in in the final

37:56

battle perhaps and does her

37:59

soul linger here Faye a

38:01

remnant of this ringing a

38:03

bell They smiles and shrugs

38:05

okay Faye It's been great.

38:09

Yeah, let me top you off. Look,

38:12

you might not be lost

38:14

yet. I don't know the

38:16

effects of this black lace

38:19

necessarily, but perhaps when we

38:21

stop the ritual, some of

38:23

the side effects will lessen

38:25

for you. Yes, I have

38:27

been a part of many

38:30

causes that I have turned

38:32

from and I hope that

38:34

you are offered the mercy

38:36

to do the same. Faye,

38:38

it pains me to say

38:41

so, but I do know

38:43

a scholar in Goodport, or

38:45

at least someone who's dating

38:47

a scholar. And I

38:49

think that perhaps with some

38:52

research they could help in this

38:54

pursuit to overturn this curse,

38:56

but I can make no promises.

38:59

I spit as I say it. Faye,

39:02

Faye looks at you. She

39:05

looks at her hands. You're in

39:07

uncharted territory. What you

39:09

say might be true. You

39:11

look in her eyes. They're

39:13

dark with black lace, but

39:15

a small glimmer, maybe

39:17

hope, maybe doubt. She shrugs

39:19

and smiles and she turns and

39:22

goes back towards her bed. Okay.

39:24

Faye, is this where you would

39:26

prefer to stay safe? For

39:29

now. For now. We'll

39:31

see if you can stop the ritual. And

39:33

if you can, maybe there's hope

39:35

for me. For us. Faye,

39:38

we will not let you down.

39:40

Yes. There will be a grand

39:42

feast after this. You are invited to Baggeroo.

39:45

You and I shall be doing the

39:47

Ender's Waltz at Baggeroo. And I'll finally

39:49

get this damn thing in tune. She

39:51

twirls and spins back into

39:54

her bed. Maybe you can

39:56

save her, or at the

39:58

very least, maybe you've given

40:00

her her final dance. I

40:02

grimace and go, right? I

40:06

think before I leave though, I

40:08

do want to give her a

40:10

little kiss on the hand. In

40:12

a nightly chased kiss on the

40:14

hand. Okay, I think that when

40:16

we were dancing together I look

40:18

really like her smile and stuff

40:20

like that So I was feeling

40:22

it, but then when she talked

40:24

about how she wanted to eat

40:26

the kid I would say that

40:28

was a red flag moment for

40:30

Wellie But he was the he

40:32

betrayed his sister, so he's a

40:34

bad guy. Oh, yeah, you're right

40:36

Yeah, you're right. It still just

40:38

was really intense. I mean hell.

40:40

I don't like the guy I

40:42

eat him You've never eating a

40:44

guy. Sure. Maybe I've been repressing

40:47

a proper amount of, uh, heavier.

40:49

I don't know. Honestly, I would.

40:51

I'm saying I would. So

40:54

you've been around a lot of war camps full

40:56

of just mysterious stew pots, I imagine. Yeah, for sure.

40:58

That's what I'm saying. I don't know. I'm

41:00

not 100 % sure. Again, like I was

41:02

saying to Faye, I've just been a part

41:04

of a bunch of, like, different nighthoods and

41:06

stuff, and I was like, wait, this main

41:08

guy's a bad guy. Maybe he was feeding

41:10

us other nights for dinner. Okay,

41:12

all right. Well, I don't know. This

41:14

is one bad guy. We have to

41:16

stop before more feedings take place. Yeah,

41:18

think that, um, I think after this,

41:20

maybe we should go to the fjords

41:22

and, um, go after whoever's, um, a

41:25

cannibal. Well, there's just too many.

41:27

There's a lot of cannibals. I don't

41:29

know. If you're talking about

41:31

just like people that are causing problems and

41:33

killing each other, that's the problem, right?

41:35

Is that you go and you kill the

41:37

one knight or you kill the one

41:39

king, but then another guy comes up or

41:41

But then they're like, we had this

41:43

thing, it was like called like the war

41:46

of the 17 kings. And there were

41:48

seven kings in like five square miles. It

41:50

was wild. God's alive, that's a lot.

41:52

That's just too decentralized. Is that

41:54

how you feel? Yeah, I mean, look, look, I'm

41:56

not a politician. Okay,

41:58

okay. Come on, there's gotta be

42:00

like one king that like nobody would miss,

42:02

right? And they would just be like, that's fine.

42:04

We'll just divvy land. All the time, dude,

42:06

of the 17, they were like. How many are

42:08

there now? How many are there now? I've

42:11

been gone for a week, so maybe

42:13

more or maybe less. Wait,

42:15

so the War of the Seventeen Kings was

42:17

ongoing as left? Yeah, I mean, there was

42:19

a War of the Seventeen Kings, it was

42:21

a War of the Twelve Kings. Okay, so

42:23

the numbers decreases. Well, then there was the

42:25

War of the Thirteen Queens and the Five

42:27

Kings. Whoa, okay, wow. a

42:29

real girl boss moment. Yeah, okay, I

42:31

see, so everyone was like, we're done with

42:34

Kings. Right, they said that, and then

42:36

everyone got furious and there was this blowback.

42:38

mad. Yeah, so now it's back. a

42:41

mess right now. Yeah, yeah

42:43

second thought let's not touch that.

42:45

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44:55

I think she is going to

44:57

go ahead and give a chaste,

44:59

ambiguous, uh, kiss on the hand

45:01

to Faye. Okay, do

45:03

you want to give me a constitution safe?

45:06

I think it's

45:08

great. This

45:10

can go exactly

45:12

how you

45:15

want it to

45:17

go. I

45:19

think how it goes is that I

45:21

put my lips to her hand, but

45:23

then like before I come up I

45:25

like glance up at her. So

45:28

it's kind of flirty. And then

45:30

I move my lips away, but

45:32

then like one lip like lingers

45:34

a little bit. Everybody's

45:36

getting some at Baggeroo.

45:38

A string of saliva connecting

45:40

her bony hand to

45:42

your lip. Yeah, cruel intention

45:44

style string of saliva. So

45:47

it takes a knee again and it's

45:49

just waiting by the door. Should

45:52

we knock her out? I don't know.

45:54

Oh my god. I'm going to also

45:56

tuck her hair behind her ear. She's just

45:58

in love with everyone. We

46:00

have to go. They hums the

46:02

Ender's Waltz as you do. I'm

46:04

gonna, yeah, and then I flex.

46:06

I walk away so rigidly because

46:08

I'm flexing. I won't stop.

46:10

We've just got to get her

46:12

laid. There's just no way around

46:14

it. Yeah, wow. She is

46:17

just in love with every woman we

46:19

meet or talk about or read about

46:21

Ridley. Let's go. My muscles are shaking.

46:23

I'm flexing too hard. literally don't think

46:25

we've said a woman's name that she

46:27

hasn't been in love with. Let's

46:30

not test it. No, we haven't

46:32

I can say emphatically we haven't Be

46:34

careful. Oh, well, what about this

46:36

sir Hilda? You got to be careful

46:38

Yes, I will be I will

46:40

be careful with that and be careful

46:43

around William shits Why I'm a

46:45

bad influence Because my soul

46:47

is so corrupted by carnal desires. No,

46:49

just because we don't know this toad yet.

46:51

You're right. You're right. He is humping

46:53

that amethyst quite a lot. You've got to

46:55

separate the pockets. Yes, he's trying to

46:57

tumble it into something smoother. It's

47:01

the alchemy, a literal alchemy, mirroring

47:03

the alchemy of the spirit. I get

47:05

it, William. Ah yes, let's go

47:07

ahead. Which of us is not smooth

47:09

to pebble in bed? The frog

47:11

is wrapped around the amethyst like a

47:13

tree frog. Glad everyone is finding

47:15

love right now. this terrible room that

47:17

sucks. Let's

47:19

crack open the freaking vault. The vault

47:21

is gonna... The candles gut her out

47:23

as you guys exit this room. Wow,

47:26

those are long candles. Well,

47:28

perhaps you could focus

47:30

your energies on picking this

47:32

lock. Yeah, I can

47:35

do that. I picked the lock,

47:37

but it's like really... She's

47:39

teasing it. Exactly in the way

47:41

that you're imagining. No! I

47:44

don't think you need to flick it quite so much. Oh

47:47

my god. You crossed

47:49

the hallway. You crossed the hallway

47:51

rigid from flexing and you approached

47:53

the closed door. Okay. It is

47:55

heavy, made of bossed steel, tarnished

47:57

with age. A chunky crossbar

48:00

spans the frame, padlocked to a

48:02

sturdy latch, just above it, a deadbolt

48:04

with a smooth -worn keyhole. The door

48:06

is double -locked, sealed shut. I'll try

48:08

to pick that lock of the

48:10

deadbolt. So you're using your hairpin, trying

48:12

to pick the lock? Using my

48:14

hairpin, my cloud rune, aka my loadstar

48:16

rune, gives me advantage. Okay.

48:18

That's another fucking nat 20. Oh,

48:22

man, I really... Damn, Wellie's

48:24

on. I just needed to

48:26

waltz with a girl. Oh,

48:30

the flush in those cheeks. Okay,

48:32

unfortunately, as you

48:34

go to pick the lock, the entire

48:36

steel door detonates forward, ripped from

48:38

its hinges with a sonic shriek. What?

48:40

It's triggered by any attempt to

48:42

touch it. It was a trap. It

48:45

was a trap. I don't

48:47

know. It rockets

48:49

across the hallway like a siege engine.

48:51

Who was standing in front of

48:53

the door? I was. I mean, we're

48:55

all right there. We're all there.

48:57

Yeah. OK, everybody give me deck saves

49:00

to avoid being rammed into the

49:02

wall. Jesus, not one. Oh, no. Eight.

49:04

16. All right. Boggy,

49:06

you sidestep the iron door just

49:08

as it bursts forward from

49:11

its hinges and whistles past you,

49:13

taking with it Zudrick and

49:15

Wellie. Wellie is still beaming. I

49:17

just quickly say, oh, it's

49:19

strapped. Wellie finally having some confidence

49:22

from her situation with Faye.

49:24

This is punishment. I had

49:26

a decent thought. The door smashes

49:28

you hard against the stone wall

49:30

for... 15 damage.

49:32

Oh my god! Dammit,

49:35

alright. Should we just drink our fucking

49:37

potions? I'm so mad at myself, I

49:39

kick the door. Well, you use it,

49:41

I'm alright, I'm fine. Yeah, well I

49:43

mean perfect. We have two and two

49:45

of us got absolutely fucking rocked. The

49:47

iron door falls forward from where it's

49:49

pressed you guys against the wall. How

49:51

is this place usable? There's

49:53

just all of the shitty places are

49:55

open, all of the good spots fucking

49:57

blow up. Why didn't you just sidestep

49:59

it? I don't, okay. You

50:01

know what? I'm not worthy of this

50:03

potion. Yes you are. It is my

50:06

indecent thoughts that caused this. No, it's

50:08

me not checking it for fucking traps.

50:10

I kick the door. I kick the

50:12

dead mom kind of his job. I

50:14

just pick up his, I pick up

50:16

his head and I just soccer kick

50:18

it across the, across the hall. Fuck. Guts,

50:22

brains just spray against the stone wall as

50:24

you, as it bounces down the hallway.

50:27

I do think it wise to drink the

50:29

potions as opposed to taking a short

50:31

rest because they're clearly We alerted to our

50:33

presence all night. Do we have

50:35

the potion rules that we use in campaign three,

50:37

which is if you use an action, you can

50:39

get the full? Yes, sure. All right. I

50:41

drink my potion. Fuck. I

50:45

am so sorry.

50:48

I got so distracted. This

50:51

is all my fault. I'm

50:53

going to take a shot of that whiskey. Please,

50:55

yes. You know what?

50:57

I'm so fucking pissed. I'm just going to

50:59

lace my... Taking out, I'm using all the

51:01

potions. I crack the poison potion and I

51:03

pour it all over my lance. Oh,

51:05

sick. Here we go. Should I,

51:08

does this feel like the moment

51:10

to coat the sword? No, let's

51:12

wait for the day glow. That

51:14

seems kind of special. This is

51:16

just, I'm hoping to infect someone

51:18

before they die. We can assume

51:20

anyone we find this deep is

51:22

just kill on site, right? Cause

51:24

I'm so mad. Oh, right. Oh,

51:26

yes. How money temp HP do

51:28

we get from the whiskey? It's

51:30

a D4. Nice. Oh, yeah. All

51:32

right. I'll take a freaking shot.

51:34

All right. Okay. Yes All right,

51:36

you guys are pissed you're hooking

51:38

up you're getting hit by doors

51:40

You're drinking potion swigging whiskey Yeah,

51:43

I run in freaking soul

51:45

caliber swing around Okay, you're the

51:47

last person we're being quasi

51:49

nice to except for Lila cuz

51:51

she got tricked so I'm

51:54

gonna fucking rip you in half

51:56

Okay, let's just like they

51:58

would have okay. Yeah, I'm starting

52:00

to yeah Yeah, yes, all

52:02

right to turn against your sister

52:04

like that to turn against

52:06

your chum. Yeah Imagine if William

52:08

Shitz did this. I look

52:10

at the toad with skepticism. No.

52:12

You guys get so pissed,

52:14

you rile each other up, you

52:16

charge into this room as

52:18

the dust is settling, and

52:20

immediately you're thrown off by how different

52:23

it is than the rest of the

52:25

castle. Not neglected, barren, or forgotten. This

52:27

room is cozy, lived in. Against the

52:29

right wall, you see a double -width

52:31

mattress packed with feathers. A lantern at

52:33

the bedside illuminates a large Oh, this

52:35

is freakin' Bullrick's room. This

52:38

piece of shit are so mad.

52:40

I ruined his room. I fuckin' ruined

52:42

his room. Yes, let's trash this

52:44

far. gonna take a fuckin' shit in his

52:46

middle of his room. Everyone turn around. He's

52:48

taking off his armor. He's taking it

52:51

off. Joe's your ass. I take off just

52:53

the butt of my armor. You broke

52:55

the sorcer - think

52:59

Wellie's gonna picture herself

53:02

in her own baseness and

53:04

just rail on the

53:06

mattress. Okay. So angry at

53:08

what an unserious person

53:10

she is. I just opened

53:12

all of the cabinets.

53:14

Take that! So Wellie self

53:16

-flagellates. on the mattress. Oh,

53:18

we should have investigated before I took

53:20

a shit. Zodra takes a

53:22

shit. And Boggy, you run

53:24

around pulling off books on the

53:27

bookshelves. But as you approach

53:29

the bookshelves, you actually see that

53:31

they are entirely. empty.

53:34

So you have this large mattress that

53:36

Wellie is going to town on. There's a

53:38

lantern at the bedside, illuminating a large

53:40

sagging tapestry, a velvet robe draped over

53:42

an oak chair right near where Zudrick

53:44

just took a shit. Two leather

53:46

sandals kicked off in the center of the

53:48

room. At the far end

53:50

of the room, there's a wide desk, which

53:52

is sitting before two imposing ironwork sconces

53:54

shaped like dragons with thick beeswax candles burning

53:56

in each of their moths. And

53:59

lastly, directly to your left, where

54:01

Boggy just went towards the book. They've

54:03

all been pulled off the wall with

54:05

the trunk splayed open. The contents burnt

54:07

to ash. Only the brass lock on

54:09

the trunk remains, bearing the initials. Should

54:12

we go ahead and take a shit in

54:14

this chest? Yeah, I'll try. I

54:16

might be all tapped out. I

54:19

think I have more. I was a little nervous when

54:21

I did the first one. Well, as I said, the bog

54:23

deer just goes right through Yeah, I'll take a shit

54:25

in his trunk. Okay. As

54:27

you bend your ass over the

54:29

trunk, everything that's inside

54:32

it is burnt beyond recognition, curled

54:34

pages, leather bindings, journals, books,

54:36

letters, all of them gone, deliberately

54:38

destroyed. And just before

54:40

Zudrick can Pinch one off. Bagi,

54:42

you see something that is of

54:44

note. Hang on. A blue cap. Clench,

54:48

friend, clench. Bagi,

54:50

you see a blue cap with

54:53

bronze stitching. There's a tassel

54:55

that's been burned off, but you recognize

54:57

this hat. It's the exact

54:59

type of hat worn by the scholars guild

55:01

in Goodport. Friends, this is

55:03

no ordinary cap. This is

55:05

a scholar's cap. This

55:07

is a foul garment for

55:09

the skull of a brain

55:11

-swollen scholar. Do you have

55:13

been in league with this? I

55:16

think Bullrick is a former

55:18

scholar. It all makes sense. Smell

55:20

it for a whiff of fish. Don't smell

55:22

anything. In case he is one of us.

55:24

I was really hasty with the shitting in

55:26

the middle of the room thing before we

55:28

investigated. I go to walk over and slip. Fuck,

55:35

okay, he's so tricky. was like, I was was

55:37

like, like, like, I I I like, like, like, like,

55:40

was like, I I I was like,

55:42

was like, was like, I

55:44

like, I like, I was like, I

55:46

was like, I like,

55:48

I was like,

55:50

I was like,

55:52

I like, I

55:54

like, I was

55:56

like, I

55:58

was like Like

56:00

a magical bag that I've gotten

56:03

on my adventures inside out like

56:05

I'm scooping dog shit and I

56:07

catch up my shit and I

56:09

bring it outside and I put

56:11

it in another room. I put

56:13

it next to the guy's corpse.

56:15

Zudrick, why is your shit so

56:17

pale? Yeah, I'm very sick. Okay,

56:20

let's look at his desk for sure.

56:22

Okay. Yes, let's just ransack the bitch.

56:24

Yeah, the scholar probably probably wrote stuff.

56:27

He probably read stuff. Yeah, as you

56:29

go over to the desk, you see

56:31

that all of the drawers have been

56:33

yanked out and they're splintered across a

56:35

worn rug. There is one slim drawer

56:37

with a small iron keyhole and it's

56:39

closed. A small iron

56:42

keyhole. Wait. Now, what do

56:44

we think about this? Do you

56:46

want me to try to pick the lock? Yeah,

56:48

but Stan, I Tap it

56:50

and move. Anything?

56:53

Give me a perception check to try to

56:55

see if there's a trap here. Here, I'll

56:57

give you the help action. I appreciate you.

56:59

Oh, 19. There we are. Great. Zodric,

57:03

as you inspect this lock,

57:05

you see a tiny little copper

57:07

coil going from the back

57:09

of the desk under the worn

57:11

rug up into the wall

57:13

behind the dragon work sconces. Goddamn

57:16

scholars. Okay, I walk over to the

57:18

sconces, I pick up the sconces, what's

57:20

happening back here? With

57:22

your 19, you can deduce that turning

57:24

that lock is a trigger for a

57:26

cone of fire to spray out of

57:28

the dragon's mouth, incinerating anybody standing at

57:30

the desk. Cool. That is actually... Pretty

57:33

dope. All right, that's sweet, but this

57:35

guy sucks and I hate him. Do

57:37

we think this is just a trap

57:39

or that there might be something in

57:41

there? Is there a way I could

57:43

finagle it so that I was underneath

57:45

and out of the way of the

57:47

conifier, but try to pick the lock?

57:49

Let's army crawl. Maybe get under the

57:51

desk and like turn the lock that

57:53

way. Can we sort of triangulate what

57:55

there? Yeah, I'm just gonna fucking kick

57:57

the dragon. Maybe we could just

58:00

rip him out of the wall. Okay.

58:02

Yeah, I'm just gonna break the trap. Give me

58:04

an attack on the Iron Dragon. It seems

58:06

like that would also trigger it though. I got

58:09

a fucking 10. You

58:11

pound your fist into this iron

58:13

sconce and it glints off.

58:15

Cool. Okay, yeah, let's army crawl.

58:17

Wait, what if we went,

58:19

what is the desk made of?

58:21

The desk is made of

58:23

wood. Can I go underneath the

58:25

desk and see if I

58:27

could carve into the bottom of

58:29

this drawer? Wow,

58:31

that's really smart. Okay, give me

58:34

a sleight of hand check with

58:36

advantage. I'll give her a

58:38

help action, yeah. Dirty

58:40

20. Koi 20.

58:42

Amazing. Wellie,

58:44

you army crawl under the

58:46

desk, avoiding any poop

58:48

on the floor. No, I

58:50

already slipped in it

58:52

and I laid there. My

58:55

boots were already covered in shit,

58:57

so. Yeah, you army crawl under

58:59

the desk, spreading more poop across

59:01

the floor. Right now, I feel

59:03

like I deserve it. This is

59:05

just a metaphor for me smearing

59:07

my shit. Yeah, I said it,

59:09

my shit all over Scaldova. Okay,

59:11

well, Wellie. Well, the crawling through

59:14

shit to avenge Faye. You

59:16

turn over like a mechanic under a

59:18

car and you carve out this drawer

59:20

and it comes down on top of

59:22

you. It is

59:25

a velvet lined drawer

59:27

and a Burlwood ring

59:29

box spills out, open

59:31

and empty. You

59:33

can deduce that this is the ring that Faye

59:35

gave you. And also,

59:37

since you went in from

59:39

the bottom, You see, as

59:41

the velvet lining flies off

59:44

from the drawer, you

59:46

see something under the lining. As

59:48

you pull up the fabric, you find a

59:50

circle of red gems inlaid into

59:52

the wood, more garnet stones. And

59:54

they encircle another carved

59:57

ornate H. What

1:00:00

surface are those on? That's on the

1:00:02

wood bottom of the drawer that had

1:00:04

a velvet lining over. They were hidden

1:00:06

under the velvet lining, but since you

1:00:08

went in from the bottom, you would

1:00:10

find them. Can I collect them? Yeah,

1:00:12

perhaps this has some sort of magical.

1:00:14

Yes, I would say that these are

1:00:16

go towards the feast budget for later.

1:00:18

Yes. By ourselves a

1:00:20

boiled swan with ease. Yeah.

1:00:22

Well, you can easily pry out these

1:00:24

inlaid garnet stones and you pop them all

1:00:26

into your palm. Does it look though

1:00:28

as though they're like a circle that has

1:00:30

some sort of by being in a

1:00:32

circle, they're doing something other than the ornamental.

1:00:35

You can give me. you want to

1:00:37

give me an insight check? Ten.

1:00:40

Yes, it's a great question. And

1:00:42

with the ten I would say

1:00:44

it doesn't just seem random or decorative.

1:00:46

Okay, then I'm gonna keep them

1:00:48

as they are and just bring the

1:00:50

whole wood with us. Okay. I

1:00:52

feel like this is maybe if this

1:00:54

is something Bolrich likes and it's

1:00:56

part of the ritual, I think we

1:00:58

should destroy it. Well, is it

1:01:00

part of the ritual or is it

1:01:02

getting in touch with Hilda Garnet

1:01:04

in which case we might want to

1:01:06

appeal to her or at least

1:01:08

distract her momentarily? If she's friends with

1:01:10

this guy, I don't trust her. Or

1:01:13

maybe they're not friends and they're

1:01:15

both trying to use each other.

1:01:17

I get the sense that whatever

1:01:19

Hilda Garnet did, whatever dark deal

1:01:21

she made, or whatever ghastly remnant

1:01:23

of life she's clinging to, it

1:01:26

seems that Bullrick is merely spelunking

1:01:28

and trying to profit off of

1:01:30

her misery. Was the... Magical

1:01:32

effect created by it was that powering

1:01:34

the fire coming out of the sconces.

1:01:36

The fire from Zedric's inspection looked like

1:01:38

it was set by Bulric. Like a

1:01:40

mechanical to prevent anybody from stealing his

1:01:43

gems. Just yeah, just mechanical. Okay, you

1:01:45

know what? Let's take them all out

1:01:47

and then put them back in and

1:01:49

see if we feel the difference. You're

1:01:52

most attuned to such divine emanating

1:01:54

from it. So we'll like remove a

1:01:57

stone. Let's make it not an

1:01:59

H. We'll it into a a four.

1:02:01

It's a circle around an H, right? Yeah, circle

1:02:04

around an H. Cool. Okay, so let's yeah, let's

1:02:06

mess with the H. Let's see what happens. circle.

1:02:08

Let's break the circle. Yeah, yeah, let's just try

1:02:10

putting one of the garnets in our pocket and

1:02:12

see what happens. Yeah, yeah, let's give some of

1:02:14

it to Boggie. Yeah, very good. Who feels right?

1:02:16

Ring a ding ding. Okay,

1:02:18

do we see a difference? I'm gonna

1:02:20

I'm just gonna feel for it. We're

1:02:22

gonna feel for it. It's fine if

1:02:24

we feel nothing. Hold hands, see if

1:02:27

we can feel and he's gonna vibe

1:02:29

shift. Let's get woo -woo. Let's get

1:02:31

woo -woo. What? This room reeks of shit

1:02:33

as guys get woo -woo. Again, I

1:02:35

want to just apologize for my rash

1:02:37

moves. No, honestly, it was the medicine

1:02:39

I needed. Well, the problem is is that like

1:02:41

I cleaned it up, right? So like he's just

1:02:43

gonna come back and we're the only ones who

1:02:45

had to deal with the smell. I

1:02:47

just feel like have you eaten any leaves of

1:02:49

any sort? We're gonna kill them. No, I just

1:02:51

bogged you. Just bogged you. Anyway,

1:02:54

yeah, what happens with this stuff? You

1:02:56

guys can all give me insight checks.

1:03:00

17. I got an

1:03:02

8. 17 as well. So you guys...

1:03:04

Form a circle, just like the

1:03:06

garnet stones, you try to get woo

1:03:08

-woo as Boggy tries to gain any

1:03:10

insight from the stone, as well

1:03:12

as you try to see if you

1:03:14

can feel any of the historical

1:03:16

significance from these stones. And you remember

1:03:18

something that you saw in the

1:03:20

mosaic, that purple streak

1:03:22

of lightning, when you

1:03:25

realized that Princess Lenark had

1:03:27

a mage and Boggy,

1:03:29

with your insight, you realize

1:03:31

that this mage might

1:03:33

have had vaults or a

1:03:35

chamber where she stored her spell

1:03:37

components or practiced her magic or

1:03:39

read her spell books. So

1:03:42

this could be a key to

1:03:44

that vault? Yeah, I think this was

1:03:46

perhaps Sir Hilda Garnett's study. Yeah.

1:03:48

Where she perfected her crafts. Well, as

1:03:50

you say, this could be a key to

1:03:53

that vault. Give me a perception check

1:03:55

with advantage. Okay. 13.

1:03:57

As you say that your eyes

1:03:59

spin around the room taking it

1:04:01

all in and they settle on

1:04:03

the sagging tapestry. I rip it

1:04:05

off the wall. I rip it

1:04:08

off the wall. Yes into the

1:04:10

bag it goes. The tapestry falls

1:04:12

to the shit -covered ground. I

1:04:14

cleaned it. The resale value.

1:04:16

I know but you clean it after I

1:04:18

smeared it everywhere. Revealing

1:04:21

a battered iron vault, a

1:04:23

thick circle of steel built flush

1:04:25

into the stone, eight

1:04:27

interlocking arms radiating outward from

1:04:29

a central hub with a

1:04:31

brass crossbar dark with use.

1:04:34

This is it. This

1:04:36

is like the closest to

1:04:38

magic that anyone in Scaldova

1:04:40

has gotten in forever. Is

1:04:42

it truly possible? I thought it was

1:04:44

just myth. Do you understand the privilege

1:04:46

that we have right now? We're

1:04:49

about to see something that

1:04:51

no one Well, maybe, maybe, maybe

1:04:53

if the key still works. Right.

1:04:56

All right. Okay. Can I look

1:04:58

at, so I'm guessing are there

1:05:00

eight garnets here? Wellie, as

1:05:02

you look at these eight arms,

1:05:04

each of them are marked with

1:05:06

fine geometric channels and notches, functional,

1:05:08

deliberate, seemingly meant to reinforce the

1:05:10

vault. But when you get closer,

1:05:12

you see that set into each

1:05:14

arm is a faint circular impression,

1:05:16

shallow and clean, partially obscured with

1:05:18

the pattern. Okay. All right,

1:05:20

so we're gonna need to do a similar

1:05:22

rope trick here where we attach small

1:05:24

strings to each garnet so that we can

1:05:26

get them in the sockets and then

1:05:29

yank them back out and right into the

1:05:31

back again. It could be booby -trapped. Sorry,

1:05:33

breast -trapped. But I think

1:05:35

that I'm just gonna go

1:05:37

for it and begin to put

1:05:39

these. Do the gemstones all

1:05:41

look exactly the same? Like they

1:05:43

could go in interchangeably? As

1:05:45

you look at the gemstones, it

1:05:47

does look like that. Okay.

1:05:50

All right, let's put them in.

1:05:52

Yeah. Let's put them in.

1:05:54

All right. You insert each gemstones.

1:05:56

There are seven of them.

1:05:58

There is one small socket missing

1:06:00

a gemstone. The signet ring?

1:06:02

Yeah. Does the signet ring

1:06:04

fit in it? Welly, you

1:06:06

push forward your fist with the

1:06:09

signet ring. You turn it

1:06:11

and you feel a heavy click

1:06:13

echo inside the stone. Welly

1:06:15

the wise. Oh,

1:06:18

no, I mean, this was a group project, really.

1:06:21

Yeah, let's push it open. Let's

1:06:23

push it open. Yes. All

1:06:25

right. With effort, you guys spin

1:06:27

the central bar one by

1:06:29

one. The interlocking arms begin to

1:06:31

rotate outward like petals of

1:06:33

a steel flower unlocking. As the

1:06:35

last arm shifts, the

1:06:37

vault hisses open. And

1:06:40

that's where we'll end our session. The

1:06:45

sorceress's vault. Yes.

1:06:48

Finally, we opened the door correctly.

1:06:50

The sorcerers are real. Oh,

1:06:53

man. Are you glad you got us

1:06:55

with one door, though? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Really

1:06:57

glad I got you with one thing,

1:06:59

one thing, but it's always welly. That makes

1:07:01

sense, though. It's like the most naive

1:07:03

one. her so excited to use her lockpicking

1:07:05

tools. Yeah. We'll

1:07:07

talk about this more over on our

1:07:09

Patreon, patreon.com. That's NADDPOD.

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Don't sing yet. And

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You can subscribe to my new

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at Jake Hurwitz. Oh shit. It's

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just getting back to basics. There

1:07:42

we go. My DM is

1:07:44

really railroading me and won't let us do anything

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fun and he keeps blowing up doors in our

1:07:48

faces. How do I handle this? Shit

1:07:50

in his chambers, dude. That's what you gotta do. I'm

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gonna do a disgusting little double plug.

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I was just on an episode of

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smarty pants on dropout. I was sick.

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And I was on it alongside

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Jordan Myrick who works for sports.com

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now has to do something

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with the trolls. To get

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keep them, you know you gotta turn

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to page 69. Oreo,

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-barred whisker is basically a crick

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or just fan art? By the

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way, thank you, Emily. Baruch

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