0:27

And welcome to a brand new season of

0:29

Tip Top Champions. I'm Lauren, your dungeon master.

0:31

And this season story is called Off the

0:33

Rails. I know I deviated from our typical

0:36

format. So Off the Rails campaign is heavily

0:38

inspired by my good friend, Nikki Robertson, and

0:40

I want to thank her for allowing me

0:42

to use elements of her campaign into this

0:44

one. And I think it's going to be

0:47

a lot of fun and I'm super excited

0:49

about it. But before we get started, I'm

0:51

going to go ahead and just have everyone.

0:53

introduce themselves and

0:55

their characters. And we

0:57

could do brief descriptions

1:00

later. So Stephanie, introduce

1:02

yourself. Hi. I am

1:04

playing Vexis Dravin. What

1:06

information do you want of

1:09

our characters, Lauren? What race

1:11

and what class you playing?

1:13

Okay. So I am playing

1:16

a male human Ranger. Fantastic.

1:18

Kyle, who you playing? It's

1:21

name I'm we're still working on

1:23

I was so you know come

1:25

back to me and just we're

1:28

gonna come back to me two

1:30

seconds I'm almost there I even

1:32

made a mental note to

1:34

put you last and I

1:36

devied for my own fucking

1:38

play Matt who are you

1:41

playing I am currently

1:43

playing a T fleeing

1:45

warlock known as Mordecai.

1:47

I like I used

1:49

currently playing Planning for

1:51

a character death right

1:53

now. He's got a

1:55

backuper to go. I

1:57

have like sticks now.

1:59

high behind the pile of

2:01

dead birds, okay? Fair enough,

2:03

fair enough. Ben, who are you

2:06

playing? I am playing Carthan

2:08

Narithoon. Fantastic. I am

2:10

a dwarf artificer. You

2:12

are the first dwarf

2:14

we've had on our game

2:17

that wasn't about to get

2:19

murdered immediately. I'm so proud

2:21

I think we're healing. Good

2:23

job too soon. You know

2:25

what happened. I know. And

2:27

you guys may have heard

2:30

a different voice. And tonight

2:32

we actually do have a

2:34

guest player, Katarina, and Kat,

2:36

say hi. Hi. And we

2:39

will be introducing her

2:41

when the time is

2:44

appropriate. So with that. I'm

2:46

ready now. Kyle, who you play

2:48

in. Sorry. I'm, so I'm playing

2:50

a little furry guy. It's kind

2:52

of a reskin of another character,

2:55

but I think of like, you

2:57

know how like a centaur has

2:59

like mostly a horse body and

3:01

then like a full like torso

3:03

up of a human male? Imagine

3:05

if a dog had like the

3:08

whole front of a dog, but

3:10

then that was the whole thing,

3:12

like there was nothing from

3:14

the back, so you got

3:16

a dog head. dog front

3:18

of the body, dog pause,

3:21

standing upright. That's your man,

3:23

Wolfgang von Snausage. And lock

3:25

in your votes on who's

3:27

going to get murdered first.

3:30

Um, kidding, kidding. And

3:32

with that, we'll go ahead

3:34

and start our procession. Darkness.

3:36

There's a low. rhythmic churning

3:39

that fills the air. Like

3:41

the grinding of ancient... fuck you! Like

3:43

the grinding of ancient gears. The pulse

3:45

is some great unseen engine. You can't

3:48

really see it and you can't move.

3:50

Barely remember who you are. Then

3:52

a voice, smooth, deliberate, touched with

3:54

an unnatural calm, a conductor calling

3:56

from beyond the void. All aboard,

3:58

mind the gap. This is your

4:00

final departure. The darkness shatters. You're

4:03

standing on the deck of an

4:05

impossible train whoring through the sky

4:07

that should not exist. Below you,

4:09

unless shifting landscapes flicker like a

4:11

dream, rolling hills dissolve into citiescapes

4:13

which twist into floating islands, then

4:15

vast oceans of stars. The train

4:17

itself is a metal behemoth. Its

4:19

carriages are lined with glowing arcane

4:21

sigils. It's a smokestack releasing not

4:23

smoke but whispers that you can

4:25

barely perceive. You're not alone though.

4:27

The car is filled with faceless

4:29

figures. Their forms hazy as if

4:31

reality itself somewhere among them though

4:33

a figure moves towards you. As

4:35

she gets closer her build becomes

4:37

clear. A woman clad in deep

4:39

blue and silver steps forward. Her

4:41

presence is a magnetic calm, very

4:43

authoritative and utterly in control. Her

4:45

piercing gaze flickers like candlelight behind

4:47

polished spectacle. And when she speaks

4:49

it is with the weight of

4:51

someone who has done so a...

4:53

thousand times before. Welcome travelers. You

4:55

have been chosen. A rare privilege

4:57

indeed. She steps forward, tracing a

5:00

gloved hand along the metal railing

5:02

of the car. Outside, the scale

5:04

begins to crack, fracturing like glass,

5:06

revealing the swirling chaos beneath. The

5:09

planes, they're shifting and the balance

5:11

of the multiverse tilts. You, you

5:13

have a role to play. And

5:15

when the time comes... You will

5:18

make a choice. Suddenly impact. The

5:20

train lurch is violently. The sound

5:22

of screeching metal fills your ears.

5:24

The world around you bending, twisting,

5:27

ripping apart. There's no time to

5:29

react. There's only falling and then

5:31

silence. The roar is gone. The

5:33

train is gone and the woman

5:35

is gone. The scent of salt

5:37

and feeling of warm sand fills

5:39

your lungs. The wave crashes nearby.

5:41

Water rushing up to kiss your

5:43

fingertips. Somewhere. In the distance, seagulls

5:45

cry. A sound both familiar and

5:47

for wolf gang. Consciousness grasps at

5:49

your mind, but you hear an

5:51

ominous voice question. You already know

5:53

the truth, don't you? But everyone

5:55

wakes up on a beach. The

5:57

sun is blinding above you. Your

5:59

head pounds. There's a sharp pain

6:01

on your right shoulder. Close

6:03

our damp and you remember

6:05

nothing. The dream, almost a

6:07

haze. Wolfgang, in addition to

6:10

the above, you realize that

6:12

in your hand, you're holding

6:14

a ticket stub. And as

6:16

you start to sit up, you

6:18

realize you are not alone. And

6:20

that's where we're going to start

6:22

our game. Who's with me? No, I'm

6:24

skid. And Kyle, I'm going to, with

6:27

the ticket stub. being held in

6:29

your hands. And that is

6:31

what it looks like. If you

6:33

could see... Midnight Requiem. So if

6:35

you want to get on this

6:38

train, y'all can fuck off, I

6:40

only have one ticket. But as

6:42

you look around, you do see other

6:44

people on the beach with you. Are

6:46

they like awake? Are they like passed

6:49

out? What's the... Everyone seems

6:51

to be slowly waking up.

6:53

Let me get everyone on

6:55

the board, because I did

6:57

not do that. yet. We're

6:59

going to put you over

7:01

here, Stephanie, in the rocks. I

7:03

only see black, though. Oh, fuck.

7:05

I thought I turned that shit

7:07

off. I was fucking, lights.

7:09

Give me a second. Oh,

7:12

I can see. Maybe it's a

7:14

shot. It's because you're DM.

7:16

No, I'm not, right? I'm in

7:18

the player. Oh, we'll fix

7:20

that later. Yeah, we'll fix

7:22

that later. I realize what

7:25

happened. Yep. Yeah. Um,

7:27

I'll fix that. Um,

7:29

give me just a

7:31

second. Hey, b, b, b,

7:33

b, b, b, b, b, d.

7:35

There we go. Shadowy,

7:37

big shadow, fair enough.

7:40

I'm still working on

7:43

this rule 20 thing. Cool.

7:45

But yes, you all wake

7:47

up and you were all

7:49

on a beach. So the rules for

7:52

the amnesia, you don't have a whole lot

7:54

of memory. But here's what you do know.

7:56

You know your name, or what you think

7:58

is your name. Each part. each person that

8:00

you're looking at looks slightly familiar. You

8:02

know that you've worked with each other

8:05

before, but you're not quite sure to

8:07

what extent. You know, very common knowledge

8:09

like races, classes, items, etc. Like

8:11

you're not saying they're struggling to find

8:13

the world to see or fucker or

8:15

anything of that nature. And you don't

8:18

really remember anything. about your past people

8:20

that you may have built a relationship

8:22

with, things of that nature. But there

8:24

are like words that come super easily

8:27

to you so once more you don't

8:29

have to sit there and try to

8:31

fumble trying to figure out how to

8:33

say train. That is something that is

8:35

commonly known to you. It comes very

8:37

easily to you. Does that make sense?

8:40

Yes. Fantastic. Lauren, I need to

8:42

text you something real quick. Absolutely.

8:44

I just had a thought that

8:46

might matter right now. Perfect. Mordecai,

8:48

I want you to make your

8:50

perception check. Oh, all right. One

8:52

moment. 19. You feel like something

8:55

is... I feel like what? Something

8:57

is missing. You're, you know that you?

8:59

Block, you know the powers that draw

9:01

from a book. You don't know where your

9:03

book is. Well, damn nation and

9:05

tarnation. What the, what the hell is

9:08

that book of mine? Y'all seeing a

9:10

book that I was carrying a book

9:12

that I was carrying around.

9:14

I have never seen you before

9:16

in my life. I don't think

9:18

I have seen your book. Oh,

9:20

uh... I've never seen you! Oh,

9:22

that's very shameful. I mean, my,

9:24

salutations, my name is Mordecai. May

9:26

I have the pleasure of

9:29

your name? Wolfgang von Snausage.

9:31

Pleasure to meet you. Pleasure is

9:33

all mine, but, oh dear, dear, me,

9:35

me, what? If I don't have my

9:37

book, I'm in, and all sorts of

9:40

trouble. I'm in all sorts of trouble.

9:42

Longer than a baseball, than a

9:45

pin, about maybe about this, a

9:47

yard this size. Like he's like

9:49

giving off weird measurements that make

9:52

no sense, but typical size of

9:54

a book. Uh, leather bound

9:56

has a few chains on it.

9:59

They secure. You know, gotta

10:01

keep those spells

10:04

secured from wandering

10:06

eyes. Ah, your

10:08

spellbook. Yes. Did you

10:11

just said that? My

10:13

apologies, like, I'm a

10:16

bit, uh, razzled. What's,

10:18

uh, in it for me? What

10:20

can you, uh, well, hold

10:23

on. Where, where, where

10:25

are we? Before I

10:27

start hustling you. or not well.

10:29

I think there was a train

10:32

and then the beach. I have

10:34

a ticket for a train. I

10:36

think it looks like a train

10:39

ticket. What's a train? Do we

10:41

know what trains are? Yes, got

10:43

it. Sorry. Just double check.

10:45

That's super valid. You know

10:47

what a train is. Okay,

10:50

cool, cool, cool. Tight, tight,

10:52

tight. Does anyone else have

10:54

a ticket? Oooey? You

10:57

go ahead and roll me and

10:59

do perception checks if you're

11:01

looking for another ticket. Eight.

11:03

Fourteen. Um, Stephanie, are you there?

11:05

Do you want to look for another

11:07

ticket, my dear? Yes, I would. Okay,

11:10

what would you like? Sorry, I was.

11:12

Roll me a perception check. And Wolfgang,

11:14

if you want to roll a perception

11:16

check too, you're welcome to. Oh, I

11:18

got a nine. You did get a

11:21

nine. So much better than me stuff.

11:23

I know. Okay. So, um, Kyle, did

11:25

you want to roll one

11:28

as well or now you

11:30

don't care about them? I

11:32

mean, I'm not looking

11:34

for their tickets. I'm

11:36

just curious. Fantastic. Okay. So,

11:39

uh, so, check your pockets, well all

11:41

of you check your pockets, you don't

11:43

really find anything. You have some basic

11:45

gear and like once you touch it,

11:48

like, oh yeah that is mine, that's

11:50

what this is for, okay, but as

11:52

you kind of start looking and searching

11:54

through your persons, you don't find anything

11:56

that resembles a ticket. Mordecai, however, you

11:59

notice a shipwreck. jetting out of the

12:01

sand. This is totally absolutely 100% a broken

12:03

boat and you think you see something kind

12:05

of shiny on the top of the deck

12:07

boat. Other than that you don't find a

12:10

ticket. I was like well I must not

12:12

have been a member on this said chain

12:14

but I must have been I wonder if

12:16

we were all the rest of us were

12:19

on that boat over yonder I pointed to

12:21

the shipwreck. It might be something to note

12:23

over that I see something shiny. I mean

12:25

I don't have a boat ticket. What

12:29

does it say? Midnight Express. Do

12:31

you show them the ticket? Yeah.

12:33

Okay, cool. Show the players. I have to,

12:35

do I have to do, oh, I

12:38

was just saying, do I have to

12:40

do something to make that happen? No,

12:42

no, I've got you, okay. Is it what

12:44

I do? I don't know what it is.

12:46

Yeah. And actually, no, go

12:48

ahead, you're doing great. Me?

12:50

Whatever, you show them the

12:52

ticket. You show them the ticket.

12:55

So everyone can see. Yeah, perfect.

12:57

And everyone could go ahead

12:59

and whoever's looking at the

13:02

ticket roll me perception

13:04

checks. Oh, 20. Nice. 17. Okay. See

13:06

you guys roll really well. You

13:09

all will notice that. It's

13:11

too fucking late. Dedicated to

13:13

it now. There's a couple

13:15

things that you notice about

13:17

this ticket. One, it is

13:19

a ticket stub. Two, it

13:21

has one, two, three, four,

13:23

five, six poles punctured into

13:25

it. And for those of

13:27

you who see Vexis, you

13:30

roll really high. You've been

13:32

around, you kind of have

13:34

vague memories of being around

13:36

some strong powerful magical. There

13:38

seems to be a magical

13:40

aura coming, just admitting from

13:42

this. Nothing malicious, but you

13:45

do feel a touch of

13:47

magic coming from it.

13:49

Could I do like

13:51

an Arcana check on

13:54

it to get a

13:56

little bit more information?

13:58

Absolutely. 13. There's

14:01

something, this ticket is admitting a

14:03

bit of a magical aura. You're

14:06

not quite sure what type of

14:08

magic it is without the correct

14:10

spell that is associated with it.

14:12

But do you do get the

14:14

hint of it's weak? It's a

14:16

weak magic right now. Okay. But

14:18

you think if certain elements were

14:21

to be met, it could grow

14:23

in strength. Okay. So I'll probably

14:25

just say to the group. I

14:27

don't know if you guys have

14:29

any idea. This ticket, it kind

14:31

of seems magical. I don't care

14:34

enough to really figure it more

14:36

than that. So do with that

14:38

information what you will. I think

14:40

it's magical. Oh, magical. Can I

14:43

run like some sort of Arcana

14:45

check on the ticket? Yes, and

14:47

in addition to that, yeah, go ahead

14:49

and roll me in Arcana and then

14:52

I also want you to roll. You

14:54

also want me to roll a what-a- what?

14:56

A D6. I do know how to do

14:58

that. Please hold. 12 Americana. 12

15:01

Americana and 1. Okay, that's fine.

15:03

Uh, okay, cool. You're kind

15:05

of in the same boat. You

15:07

definitely can tell that there's

15:09

magic embedded with this ticket. It

15:12

seems to be weak now, but

15:14

perhaps if there are some

15:16

elements that were met, it could

15:18

grow in strength. Okay, interesting.

15:21

Yeah, these tickets are magic.

15:23

Yeah, these tickets are magic. I

15:25

don't know what that really tells

15:27

us. Well, son, it sounds like

15:29

that train. If you always was

15:31

magical, but it doesn't help us

15:33

much now, does it? That's what

15:35

I said. Well, perhaps we should check

15:37

that boat, then. You can. Arthon

15:40

has begun walking over to climb

15:42

into the boat. Fantastic. Carthon, you

15:44

make your way into the boat.

15:46

Go ahead and roll me a

15:49

perception. Perception or investigation?

15:51

You know what? That's a

15:53

good point. Probably an investigation

15:55

check, Ben Ben. Boni. Jesus

15:57

Ben Ben. You'd be smart.

16:00

All right, so you clamber into the

16:02

boat and you're kind of looking around.

16:04

Everything in here looks old. Um, definitely

16:06

worn down from the sand and the

16:08

sun. So there's a little bit of

16:11

decay and riot kicking in. You do

16:13

note that there is a skeleton sitting

16:15

on this one of the sides of

16:17

the ships, the side that you clamored

16:20

on to. It is holding a lockbox.

16:22

And yeah, that's what you find. You

16:24

find a skeleton holding a lock box

16:26

and not a whole lot else. Well,

16:29

it's a skeleton holding a lockbox. I'll

16:31

take a look at this skeleton. See,

16:33

it doesn't look like it's moving.

16:36

Then I'll try and take the

16:38

lockbox. Yeah, it's definitely not

16:40

moving. And you're able to

16:42

easily pry its grip from the

16:45

lockbox. The moment that you are

16:47

able to pry like the last

16:49

little finger off of it, the

16:51

skeleton just kind of falls apart

16:53

into a pile of bones, very frail.

16:55

Well, I got a thing. You try

16:58

to open it and it is locked.

17:00

Here, here, move aside, move aside. And

17:02

then I go try to open it.

17:04

Oh, I was about, I, Lauren, I have, we

17:06

have, I have all of my stuff because

17:08

I was going to like start

17:10

going through my pockets and stuff

17:13

to see if I have everything.

17:15

Yeah, do you have lock packs? You

17:17

have your lock packs. Everyone

17:19

has everything that they, like,

17:21

you're starting here, you have,

17:23

except for your book is not with

17:25

you. Sorry Matt to

17:27

pick on you. Figures.

17:29

All right. Your lockpicks

17:32

break now. Hold

17:35

on. That's actually

17:37

missing. It's actually

17:39

it's actually. Oh, it's

17:42

25. Oh, 25. The

17:45

DC was 26. Ah,

17:47

Shucky Darnes. With very

17:50

practice calculation and ease,

17:52

you're able to pop

17:55

open the lockbox. And

17:57

you're find another ticket.

17:59

And you also find a waterlogged

18:01

note. It's kind of hard to read

18:04

this, the script on it, but if

18:06

you squint just right, you can make

18:08

out what it says. It says, I

18:11

swear I saw it, a train, but

18:13

trains don't sell the sea, do they?

18:15

Mm. And this is being held by

18:18

like a skeleton? Yeah. This was in

18:20

a lockbox that a skeleton was holding.

18:22

Uh-huh. All right. So, uh... Dead. Looks

18:25

like this dead guy saw the train

18:27

that we were on maybe? I don't

18:29

know about that because that guy

18:32

is not like a recently dead

18:34

guy and I don't think we

18:36

took the train years ago because

18:38

if he's a skeleton I'm

18:40

just saying like you don't

18:42

die and become a skeleton

18:44

in like six hours. Perhaps

18:46

this uh this skeleton was

18:48

here a long time ago

18:50

and that train's been here.

18:52

They can come in here

18:54

multiple times. Maybe they were

18:57

seedles. Some kind of train

18:59

station. Maybe things were eaten.

19:01

Who ate him? I don't

19:04

know. Maybe something? People,

19:06

animals? monsters?

19:08

Well we were sleeping on

19:10

a beach? Something gobbled this

19:13

man up and left

19:15

him a skeleton? Picked

19:17

clean? Yeah, I'm with the furry

19:19

guy. I think that's way

19:21

off. Wolf gang! Wolf gang!

19:23

Sorry, apologies. I just

19:26

woke up. I'm really

19:28

not that apologetic. Hey

19:30

Ben? Yes. Roll me a

19:33

D6, please. Thanks. Thank you.

19:35

You have a second ticket.

19:37

Okay. Well, I've got another

19:40

ticket, so... How many calls

19:42

are mentioned in your

19:45

ticket? The same amount.

19:47

Six. Six. There aren't

19:49

six of us. Well,

19:51

there is if you

19:53

count the skeleton.

19:55

Oh, you think he was with

19:58

us? Well, isn't... Catarina's

20:01

not with us right so correct

20:03

there were don't there's only four

20:05

of us here five if you

20:08

count the skeleton right with the

20:10

skeleton one more corpse to be

20:12

determined before we hit our six

20:15

number uh... something tells me that

20:17

German was not with us and

20:19

when he met his untimely demise

20:22

if he was we're farked i

20:24

would agree my my furry friend

20:27

I mean, I don't know what

20:29

did that to him and

20:31

recently, but I was

20:34

really banking on, you

20:36

know, weathered with time

20:38

as the answer to

20:40

what happened to him.

20:43

Stephanie, yeah, Vexus feels

20:45

a sharp pain on

20:47

his right shoulder. Step,

20:49

step, step. Hold on,

20:52

I got a message

20:54

to something. You feel it

20:56

on your left shoulder? You

20:58

feel it on your back?

21:00

How about that? No, no,

21:03

no, no. I'm sticking with

21:05

how I say it. My

21:07

right shoulder. Okay. Okay, my

21:10

right shoulder, perfect. That really

21:12

hurts. I don't know. I

21:14

guess I go to feel

21:17

where the pain's coming from.

21:19

Do I feel anything? Roll

21:21

me investigation check. 11. Crushing

21:24

it. Okay. I've never felt

21:26

anything like that before. And

21:28

it feels warm. Like hot?

21:31

No. Warm and hot

21:33

are two different temperatures.

21:35

We're going to go

21:37

with warm. It feels

21:39

very warm touch. There's

21:42

raised skin there and

21:44

it feels like it's scapping

21:46

over and it's very tender. Okay.

21:48

Scale from 1 to 10, how

21:51

much does it hurt? Like, were

21:53

we talking really painful? No, I'm

21:55

talking to like a... Like, actually,

21:57

that hurt. Yeah, yeah, question. Has

22:00

your character ever gotten a tattoo

22:02

before? No. Okay. For Stephanie reference,

22:04

it's like a tattoo. Like that's

22:06

kind of pain level. Okay, that's

22:09

fine. Yeah, that's that's fine. And

22:11

like everyone else has have kind of

22:13

a dull throbbing ache there as well.

22:15

Like it's not hers just flared up

22:17

or sorry his just flared up. Thank you.

22:19

Okay. Well, we might as well leave the

22:21

beach if you guys, unless you guys like

22:24

it here. Maybe we should find

22:26

something else. There's another people. Well

22:29

I oh if we came here if

22:31

you know there's six holes in these

22:34

cards and then we came here with

22:36

six people then there must be another

22:38

person or maybe two Sounds like

22:40

a good idea would like to see

22:42

me we can find our own tickets.

22:44

Maybe we can use that to get

22:46

off here Lauren, can I

22:48

do a quick, before I leave

22:51

the boat, can I do a

22:53

quick look over on the skeleton?

22:55

Is there anything that seems odd

22:57

or off? Yeah, roll me an

23:00

investigation check. Out of second investigation.

23:02

Seven, fuck. Ah, it's just some

23:04

guy. You don't find anything

23:07

major outstanding or anything that

23:09

jumps out to you for it.

23:11

Cool. All right, then I guess I'm

23:14

gonna go back on the beach with

23:16

everybody else. Okay. I will say, Ben,

23:18

you still have the ticket, correct? Yeah.

23:20

Okay. As you're walking off of the

23:22

boat and you get a little bit

23:25

closer to Wolfgang, Carson, you feel

23:27

like your ticket gets a little

23:29

bit warmer and it has a

23:31

slight glow. Wolfgang, you also notice

23:33

this for your ticket. This seems

23:35

to resonate with one another in

23:37

some sense. Like as they get closer

23:39

to each other? Yeah. As we get

23:41

closer and it glows, I'm gonna just,

23:44

you know, I'm going to touch tickets.

23:46

Yep. getting freaky. Let's touch it.

23:48

There's a little flash of light,

23:50

nothing blinding, just kind of

23:52

startling more than anything. And the

23:55

glow dye is down, but the tickets

23:57

still remain warm and they still

23:59

do have like glow about

24:01

them like a celestial

24:03

like ethereal ask glow

24:05

like gold. Okay. It's

24:08

really dark. So everybody

24:10

found their tickets on

24:12

their person, correct? No.

24:14

No. No. Um, Wolfgang

24:17

found his on his person

24:19

and, uh, Carson just found

24:21

one on the boat. Oh, I

24:24

found it on a person. Right.

24:26

A person. You're right. My bad.

24:28

Is that supposed to be my

24:31

person? Should I take him with

24:33

me? Is that my body the

24:35

whole time? Hold on. As you

24:37

kind of exit the boat

24:40

and you get a better view

24:42

around some of the rocks, you

24:44

do see an old stair set.

24:46

Looks like staircase over yonder on

24:49

the other side. I want a

24:51

ping. Damn it. Let me ping.

24:53

Stair. Okay, I did it,

24:55

okay. No, it was Ben.

24:57

Ben did it, damn it.

25:00

Welcome to D&D

25:02

with us. You see those

25:04

stairs. I want to ping,

25:06

I want to ping. Are

25:08

you on the right thing?

25:11

Like Shishar. Oh, I was

25:13

pressing the wrong button,

25:15

that's why. Thank you,

25:17

Benjamin, I'm sorry for

25:20

shishing. Bye. Anyways. Do

25:22

you guys still hang

25:24

out on the beach

25:26

or are we leaving? Yeah, I'm

25:28

good. Let's go somewhere else.

25:31

I can't move my tickets

25:33

maybe. Uh, Matthew, I'm sorry.

25:35

Hold on. I can

25:37

move me. We. Oh,

25:39

all right. Everyone free

25:41

will over here. Except

25:43

for Matthew. All right.

25:45

I'm just a figment

25:47

of everybody's imagination. You should

25:50

be able to move now. Yeah. All

25:52

right. set upstairs, that kind of elevates

25:54

you to the next layer of the

25:56

island essentially. And this island doesn't appear

25:58

to be big. as you're approaching the

26:01

top of it, you can look

26:03

around and you see ocean and

26:05

there seems to be a dock

26:07

over, let me put myself at

26:09

the area, you see a dock

26:11

over here, it's very much run

26:13

down, it doesn't seem to be

26:15

anything over here, Vot, and but

26:17

you've also got a path that

26:19

leads out this way. All right, anyone

26:21

got a strong feeling for

26:23

which way to go? I think

26:25

Vexis is just gonna start

26:28

walking. Pushed by the group,

26:30

doesn't say a word and

26:32

just kind of starts going

26:34

off. All right, Vexis, make

26:36

me a perception check as

26:38

you start your little adventure.

26:40

False down a cliff or

26:42

something. Breaks a leg. I'm

26:44

sorry, you want a perception?

26:46

Yeah. Okay. Jesus, a nine.

26:48

You hear something wrestling in

26:50

the bush over here? Okay.

26:52

I, so if I hear

26:54

something. I would probably yell

26:56

back the group and, you

26:58

know, tell them, if you

27:00

would like to follow me,

27:02

there's something over here. I don't know

27:05

what it is. But, you know, if you

27:07

want to come join me, might be

27:09

an adventure. So I'm going to

27:11

go ahead and like proceed cautiously.

27:13

Okay. If you want the stealth

27:16

or whatever. Well, would you like

27:18

this stealth? Yeah, probably. Okay. Go

27:20

ahead and roll myself. 20. 20.

27:22

Okay. You're able to very... You

27:24

are very naturally stealthy and you're able

27:27

to creep down and start kind of

27:29

going to where you heard the wrestling

27:31

coming at. Go ahead and roll me

27:33

a perception check. Odd. Like, does it

27:36

do anything beyond a nine? Oh, there

27:38

it is. Okay. Anyway, I'm nine,

27:40

Lauren. Nine. Okay, okay. That

27:42

actually... You're curbing closer. You

27:44

maintain yourself and you're kind of

27:47

a little difficulty figuring out what

27:49

this wrestling... coming from it because

27:51

it stops for just a brief moment. And

27:53

then you hear it again and all of

27:55

a sudden a baboon appears right in front

27:57

of me. It doesn't seem to have noticed

27:59

you. And it's holding something in

28:02

its hands, a book. Do

28:04

I recognize the book? All

28:06

right, everyone who's looking at

28:09

this little baboon, are you

28:11

being, okay, so Steffi's close

28:13

to it. I have to

28:15

remember new character names is

28:17

going to be hard. Mordecai

28:20

and Carson, go ahead and

28:22

roll me perception checks. I

28:24

see nothing. No, you don't.

28:26

Well. You see a baboon

28:28

ass facing. That's what you

28:30

see. As it's turning around and

28:32

starting to kind of chatter to

28:34

us. So can I like the

28:37

baboon and go, hey guys, weren't

28:39

one of you like missing a

28:41

book or something? Like do you

28:43

want me to try to get

28:45

this for you? The moment you

28:47

yell us out, the baboon turns

28:49

around screeches at you and points

28:52

a finger at you in a

28:54

beam of crackling energy goes

28:56

racing towards you. All right.

28:58

All right. Let's see what

29:01

happens. Nothing, man. It misses.

29:03

It goes fucking wide. And

29:06

it takes off. Step, you

29:08

will get in talk of

29:10

opportunity, should you desire. Okay,

29:13

yeah, because I don't want

29:15

to cast something at that fuck

29:17

or two about Ken. Yeah, I

29:19

was going to see if there

29:21

was something, sorry, again, new, new

29:24

character who diss. And Ben made

29:26

me change platforms. So I'm so

29:28

lucky. God, Ben Ben. Oh, you

29:30

know what, can I cast and

29:32

tangle? Will that work? Let's see,

29:34

a point within a range. Because

29:37

I just want to assume it

29:39

down. I don't want to hurt it.

29:41

It wouldn't be a reaction where you

29:43

would not have enough time to cast

29:45

entangle. Okay. You could try to trip

29:48

it. I'll allow that. Well, hold on.

29:50

Trip attack is an action, isn't it? It's

29:52

like an in place of an attack. So

29:54

it's up to you. So you can either,

29:57

you can either try to trip or

29:59

you can cast. Tangle. You just

30:01

have to show me where you're

30:03

focusing the entangled spell at. Um,

30:06

what do you want for tripping?

30:08

It would be, um, on its

30:10

attack. Hold on, like, acrobatics, probably

30:13

athletics, I think. Go ahead and

30:15

roll me. You can just, we'll

30:17

rule right now, athletics. Athletics? Ooh,

30:20

okay. That's fine. 16. Sixteen. Let's

30:22

see. What are Baboon dexterity stats

30:24

stats. That's her baby. Let's see.

30:26

Ooh. It just jumps over your

30:29

sword, over your whatever you're trying

30:31

to hit it with. It jumps

30:33

over you and starts taking, Kyle,

30:36

go ahead and make your spell

30:38

that you want to do. That

30:40

was a dong. Was that a

30:43

bed? Who used to do that?

30:45

What? The hitting. Was it me?

30:47

That was me. I actually knocked

30:50

it because I was reaching for

30:52

my drink. Fair. Yeah, it's mad.

30:54

He likes to punch the mic.

30:57

Yeah, because that was nice. I

30:59

can't do my thing without moving.

31:01

I'm five feet too far away.

31:04

Okay. Fantastic. It starts taking off.

31:06

And we're actually... Go ahead. I

31:08

was going to say, are we

31:11

in a roll initiative? Because I

31:13

would like to chase this. Let

31:15

me get... My initiative tracker, the

31:17

initiative tracker is gonna come up

31:20

a little funky. It's okay, we

31:22

will make it work. Where the

31:24

fuck is my tracker? Okay. All

31:27

right, go ahead and roll initiative.

31:29

17. I don't like this point

31:31

thing. It's okay, ignore the point.

31:34

Yeah, no, it's okay. The points

31:36

are more for me than anything

31:38

else. Oh, okay. I was like,

31:41

I don't like this decimal system.

31:43

Yeah. Ignore the decimal system. The

31:45

decimal system has revealed that we

31:48

all have the same dexterity. Oh

31:50

no. No, indeed. Okay. All right.

31:52

I'm the only I have the

31:55

lowest dexterity at a at 15

31:57

and everybody else is exactly at

31:59

16 it looks like. All right

32:02

so the baboon goes first it's

32:04

gonna turn around and chatter at

32:06

you angrily Stephanie Vexis and point

32:09

a finger at you again and

32:11

another burst of energy erupts from

32:13

its finger. Does an 18 hit

32:15

you? An 18 does hit me.

32:18

Fantastic. Oh, wait, what's that the

32:20

girl? Oh, I looked at it

32:22

wrong. I'm so sorry. Does a

32:25

13 hit you? Let me try

32:27

that again. Okay, I wondered. I

32:29

was like, what is she adding?

32:32

Do you know my... No, no,

32:34

no, no, no, no, no. 13.

32:36

I'm a silly, goofy, goofy, go

32:39

to get a little bit closer,

32:41

but you're able to easily just

32:43

stuck your head out of the

32:46

way. and it screams and starts

32:48

chattering and runs away. Okay, okay,

32:50

cool, there we go. All right,

32:53

who the fuck is that? Who's

32:55

17? Me. Ah, okay. I think

32:57

you're in Main Plains updated. It's

33:00

been a while since I've played

33:02

a sorcerer, so let me get

33:04

this straight to make sure I'm

33:06

going to what I'm about to

33:09

say makes sense. So I have

33:11

the ability to do a quickened

33:13

spell where I can convert two

33:16

sorissory points and it makes. me

33:18

ability to cast something as a

33:20

bonus action instead of as a

33:23

full action. Sounds right? Can I

33:25

double move? So can I like

33:27

sprint so that I can do

33:30

a whole bunch of motion and

33:32

then do that to still do

33:34

an attack? Uh-huh, absolutely. Got it.

33:37

All right. So then I, you're

33:39

gonna see me run as fast

33:41

as you've ever seen a two-legged

33:44

dog run? Which is pretty fast

33:46

I guess to hear and since

33:48

he's still holding the book. All

33:51

right hang on a second. Hold

33:53

on before you before you make

33:55

your attack because I don't know

33:57

if this will change or not.

34:00

As you. around the corner and

34:02

you see the baboon chattering angrily

34:04

and you more baboons pop out.

34:07

Okay but he's still holding the

34:09

book right? He is still holding

34:11

the book yes. Great so I'm

34:14

gonna still do the thing that

34:16

I want to do and I'm

34:18

gonna do my trade in here

34:21

and I'm gonna actually cast infestation.

34:23

Oh shit! Okay. So let's see

34:25

the actual is it didn't put

34:28

the language for infestation can I

34:30

make it up here? How do

34:32

I... All right, well, you cause

34:35

a cloud of mites, fleas, and

34:37

other parasites to appear momentarily on

34:39

one creature you can see within

34:42

range. The target must succeed on

34:44

a constitution saving throw. It does

34:46

not. It does not. So it

34:48

takes six, or I'm sorry, five

34:51

poison damage. And it has to

34:53

move... Oh, that's the wrong one.

34:55

I have to roll this. Oh

34:58

man. Stop. I have to roll

35:00

a D4. It moves west one

35:02

square just because it forces movement

35:05

for whatever reason. Okay. As the

35:07

infestation hits, it screams and throws

35:09

the book on the ground and

35:12

starts scratching out itself very animatively

35:14

and very friendly. And it goes

35:16

west one square and takes a

35:19

step over here. Yep. That's east.

35:21

That's my turn. Sheh,

35:24

Benjamin. You know what? That's

35:26

fair. I need to start.

35:29

He's on a tear. We

35:31

don't have a compass on

35:33

the map. We could be

35:36

looking at it upside down.

35:38

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're right.

35:41

But you just reminded me.

35:43

I should probably start doing

35:45

that now. Cool. Take to

35:48

date. Carthon. It is your

35:50

turn. All right. The book

35:52

is on the ground. Run

35:55

that way and then I

36:00

think I'm at a range

36:02

of doing... Yep. Yeah, he'll

36:05

dash up next to my

36:07

new dog friend. Fantastic. As

36:09

you get into range. Not

36:12

a dog. Wolfgang and Carson

36:14

you feel your tickets actually

36:16

get a little bit warmer

36:19

and they start to glow

36:21

a little bit brighter and

36:24

a little bit more so

36:26

than when they first were

36:28

introduced to each other so

36:31

this I bet one of

36:33

these monkeys as a ticket.

36:35

Okay do you have any

36:38

boat attractions you would like

36:40

to take? Uh nope. Fantastic.

36:42

All right, um, did I

36:45

see the book dropped? You're

36:47

too far to see the

36:49

book dropped. Okay, see. Well,

36:52

I'm going to move a

36:54

little bit closer. I can

36:56

go up to here. I'm

36:59

going to play it off,

37:01

like, without my book, I

37:04

can only, like, cast can

37:06

trips at the moment. And

37:08

believe, yes, I'm just going

37:11

to fire at the closest

37:13

baboons. It's like, ah, baboon,

37:15

such filthy creatures. And, um,

37:18

fire off, and Eldridge blastred

37:20

blast, blast. I'm

37:23

assuming a 10 misses. 10

37:25

misses. It's jumping around a

37:28

little bit more so than

37:30

you thought and it's scratching

37:32

and in its dance to

37:34

get rid of this infestation

37:36

it dodges somehow the Eldridge

37:38

Plast. Hmm. All right that's

37:41

going to be my turn.

37:43

It's very interesting that your

37:45

Eldridge Plast is the same

37:47

color as the force of

37:49

energy that was she baboon

37:51

earlier. Hmm. Vexis. Stephanie. Yes.

37:54

I. You are up. Okay.

37:56

So I'm going to run.

37:58

see how far I can

38:00

go. Not very far. So

38:02

I'm going to run up

38:04

to here and then I

38:07

guess to the closest one

38:09

I'm going to cast and

38:11

tingle. Okay are you centering

38:13

the spell on the that

38:15

baboon? Um actually because how

38:18

it's 20 foot square so

38:20

could I in theory get

38:22

like if I put it

38:24

there could I get those

38:26

two? Oh can I get

38:28

all three of those? Okay

38:31

yeah let's go for that

38:33

Lauren. Okay you want like

38:35

that or like that? The

38:37

other way. I don't know

38:39

why. This one. A or

38:41

B? One or two. You

38:44

keep changing which was A.

38:46

It's the same. It's fine.

38:48

A or B. Let's go

38:50

with A. Perfect. What's wrong?

38:52

All right. So, can you

38:54

do? Uh, join the check.

38:57

All right, the first one

38:59

is stroke station. Oh, hilarious.

39:01

Oh, 16. Uh, saves. The

39:03

second one fails. Third one,

39:05

third one, also fails. So

39:07

these two are restrained. I'll

39:10

make a habit, habit, habit,

39:12

habit, just do that. It's

39:14

the same thing. Just different.

39:16

Okay, cool. So those two

39:18

are restraining. The other one

39:20

who is somehow frantically just

39:23

trying to get rid of

39:25

this, is dodging your checks.

39:27

Fun. Okay, that's the end

39:29

of my turn. All right,

39:31

uh, infestation, last one round,

39:33

right? Yeah, it's just one

39:36

round, it goes away. All

39:38

right, fantastic. The baboon screeches

39:40

at the top of the

39:42

slum, uh, screaming at you,

39:44

but ultimately, let's see how

39:47

this works. You should stream

39:49

up, default terrain. Okay. I

39:51

fear this baboon is going

39:53

to fuck me up. Where

39:55

is it up? That's actually

39:57

we attend, one. Yeah, this

40:00

baboon doesn't like you and

40:02

ignores the book runs up

40:04

at you and tries to

40:06

slash at you by you.

40:08

Okay. for seven points of

40:10

piercing damage. You know what?

40:13

This monkey is insane. I

40:15

thought this monkey so much.

40:17

He said seven points? Seven

40:19

points of piercing damage. Okay,

40:21

cool, cool, cool. These two

40:23

are gonna try to make

40:26

it. I know, that was

40:28

stupid. Either two are trying

40:30

to make string throws to

40:32

get out of the web

40:34

or the entanglement. This one

40:36

succeeds. I think it takes

40:39

all of its churn. So

40:41

we're no longer entangled. Okay,

40:43

cool. This one's chattering angrily.

40:45

This one's hiding in the

40:47

bushes. Okay. Next. Wolf gang.

40:49

One second. I have to

40:52

do one thing. This. Whoa.

40:54

It froze my whole computer.

40:56

Can you guys hear me?

40:58

Yeah, can you hear? Oh,

41:00

I didn't freeze my computer.

41:02

My mouse died and it

41:05

just didn't let me put

41:07

your thing because the mouse

41:09

was frozen. But everyone's still

41:11

here and everything's all right.

41:13

Well, all right. So. I

41:16

have to now charge my

41:18

mouse for like three seconds

41:20

so that I can click

41:22

a button to do my

41:24

turns. Just give me one

41:26

second. But I mean all

41:29

I can really do is

41:31

attempt to hurt this thing

41:33

in front of me. So

41:35

I'm going to, let's see.

41:37

Come on mouth, my mouth,

41:39

my mouth is like dead,

41:42

dead, shit. Uh, hold on,

41:44

I'm sorry. You hear drumming

41:46

the distance, slough chanting of

41:48

D.K. Don't kidding. Not funny,

41:50

didn't laugh. Yes, you did.

41:52

Don't lie to me. All

41:55

right. Now I'm, I'm back.

41:57

Yeah. Well, back. So I

41:59

think the spell. Let me,

42:01

let me see. All right,

42:03

so. So I have a

42:05

true strike and I think

42:08

I can use this to

42:10

attack with a weapon for

42:12

something that's melee to me.

42:14

Mm-hmm. Like because I'm holding

42:16

a staff. Yeah. So I

42:18

think I can just I

42:21

can just bonk it using.

42:23

So do I have to

42:25

draw true strike? Yeah. I

42:28

just don't know how to

42:30

actually rule this in this

42:32

game. Like if I rule

42:34

through strike like this, it

42:36

doesn't say anything. Uh, true

42:39

strike. Oh, wait, Kyle, are

42:41

you looking at the new

42:43

D&D rules for true strike?

42:45

I don't, I don't know.

42:47

Do you have any questions?

42:50

I don't have answers to.

42:52

Should I, should I be?

42:54

Should I not be? Which

42:56

is better? The old rules.

42:58

Road rules. I thought we

43:01

were just, I thought we

43:03

were sticking with the old

43:05

rules, but we are. Sticking

43:07

with the old. This says,

43:09

oh, so this is from

43:12

the D&D free rules 2024.

43:14

That's not, yeah. That's not

43:16

kosher. All right, well, then

43:18

fine. Then I need to

43:20

pick a different fucking Cantrop.

43:22

Hold on, I'm sorry, I'll

43:25

be done in a second,

43:27

because now I just don't,

43:29

that means I don't have

43:31

something melee, so I'm just

43:33

going to very quickly switch

43:36

it to a different melee

43:38

can trip. Yeah, absolutely. Now,

43:40

shocking grasp, turns out, and

43:42

let's do this, 18. You

43:44

hit it. All right, and

43:47

so then it gets seven.

43:49

Spicy damage, electrical damage. This

43:51

baboon lights up and you

43:53

could smell burning hairs and

43:55

it falls dead. And it

43:58

falls, he's dead? Or? Yeah,

44:00

it falls over dead. Sweet.

44:02

I love that. That means

44:04

that I'm not going to

44:06

have an opportunity attack as

44:09

I move away. from the

44:11

rest of these fucking monkeys's

44:13

to over here. Perfect. Carson.

44:15

So these monkeys are coming

44:17

at us aggressively still? Are

44:19

they baboons? Ah, they are

44:22

indeed baboons. And they are

44:24

coming at us aggressively screaming.

44:26

They are now screaming. Their

44:28

shrill screeches are almost painful

44:30

to your eardrums. But yes,

44:33

they're definitely coming. One of

44:35

their friends didn't make them

44:37

calm down. What do you

44:39

mean? They're scared of the

44:41

sparky handman. All right. So,

44:44

Carthen is going to step

44:46

closer and... He's

44:48

going to just reach

44:50

back with his hand

44:52

and punch it in

44:54

the face. I guess

44:56

punch. Super effective. Oh

44:58

shit. Oh fuck. It

45:01

was super effective. Oh

45:03

shit. Oh fuck. It

45:05

was super effective. Oh

45:07

my god. Okay. Well,

45:09

it's 11th thunder damage

45:11

as I connect with

45:13

my gloved fist and

45:15

just a... Holy fuck!

45:17

Yeah, a bit of

45:19

like a shockwave hits

45:21

the monkey or baboon.

45:23

You punch this, you

45:25

just rear up and

45:27

you punch the baboon

45:30

solidly in the face.

45:32

Its body goes limp

45:34

but flies back into

45:36

the baboon behind it,

45:38

essentially knocking it down.

45:40

And the baboons are

45:42

screeching you louder. Step,

45:44

you should edit in

45:46

Phil Collins, Shock the

45:48

Monkey under this comment.

45:50

Close enough. I mean,

45:52

there isn't the Shock

45:54

the Ape song, I

45:57

can tell, so. Same,

45:59

same species, right? not,

46:01

but okay, Carson, is

46:03

there anything else you're

46:05

gonna do? You're scary.

46:07

Like, fuck, dude. Yeah,

46:09

I'm going to, as

46:11

a bonus action, give

46:13

myself some temporary hit

46:15

points. Perfect. So I

46:17

got three temporary hit

46:19

points. This is like

46:21

a sort of a

46:23

shivering fields, sort of

46:26

a mitts from the,

46:28

my armor. Okay. That's

46:31

it. Oh, I guess I'll

46:33

step a little bit closer.

46:35

I'll walk forwards menacingly towards

46:37

the next movement. Mordecai, you

46:39

are up. Okay. I get

46:41

a little bit closer. Oh,

46:43

as you do, you see

46:45

your book entangled in the

46:47

vines. Good heavens, my, no,

46:49

that's the wrong accent. It's

46:51

like, oh, thank the Lord,

46:53

it's my book. These evil

46:55

creatures have them. All right,

46:57

um, I'm gonna go for

46:59

this one right here. I

47:02

don't want to actually hit

47:04

Ben's character. Okay. Oh my

47:06

fucking God. Nine, unfortunately, misses.

47:08

Vile-year-old's 20, unless you do

47:10

this to me. Oh, no,

47:12

I think it's just old

47:14

20. Shut up, Ben. Don't

47:16

embarrass him, Ben. That's all

47:18

I can do. Okay. Yeah,

47:20

you shoot at the baboon.

47:22

You're just a little bit

47:24

out of practice, so it

47:26

goes a little bit too

47:28

long. Vexis, you're up. Right.

47:30

So, I still got my

47:32

guys in the spell, right?

47:34

Oh, but if I do

47:36

anything else, I'll lose concentration,

47:38

right? If you cast another

47:40

concentration spell or take damage.

47:42

You will lose concentration. I

47:44

just tried to... Oh, stop

47:46

it. Oh, stop it. Oh,

47:48

Lord. If you try and

47:50

stab someone or shoot somebody

47:52

you should be fine. Yeah,

47:54

that's kind of rare. All

47:56

right, so, then I'm going

47:58

to go run up to...

48:01

I'm going to go in

48:03

between these two guys. I'm

48:05

going to hit the one

48:07

that's, oh no, away from

48:09

Ben. I'm going to try

48:11

to hit it. Makes sense?

48:13

Yes. I'm going to hit

48:15

it with my hand axe.

48:17

Does, oh, where's, it didn't

48:19

really attack, oh, let me

48:21

see. There, oh shit, yeah,

48:23

you hit it. Alright, 22

48:25

and then, nine slashing. Oh,

48:27

whoopsies, I did not mean

48:29

to move. Like I did,

48:31

I moved something, I don't

48:33

know what I did. Anyways,

48:35

you hit it. He's behind

48:37

me. Yep, there we go.

48:39

Or underneath me, if you

48:41

want to move him back.

48:43

Oh, perfect. Oh, who did

48:45

we lose? We lost. Caterita!

48:47

No! Hold on, that's okay.

48:49

Oh no, we bored her.

48:51

We weren't entertaining enough? God.

48:53

Okay. All right, so he

48:55

was back up here. All

48:57

right. So he was under

49:00

you now. You hit him

49:02

solidly for nine points and

49:04

he drops. The screech of

49:06

the baboons gets louder. Perfect.

49:08

Do you have any bonus

49:10

actions you'd like to take?

49:12

I don't think I do.

49:14

I think I'm okay. All

49:16

right, fantastic. Okay. The baboons

49:18

are now loud and frantic

49:20

and they start taking off

49:22

away from you. So the

49:24

excess in Carson you will

49:26

get attacks of opportunity. They

49:28

try to run. I heard

49:30

it. 16. That will hit.

49:32

Six damage. This one cries

49:34

out in pain but starts

49:36

taking off and clamoring down

49:38

the side of the... Stephanie,

49:40

would you like to do

49:42

a talk of opportunity? I

49:44

would love to. I'm actually

49:46

going to do my long

49:48

bow. Oof. That was a

49:50

great fail sound. You, well,

49:52

accurate. Because if you try

49:54

to hit them with your

49:56

long bow at that range,

49:59

you're going to be at

50:01

disadvantage. But if you're just

50:03

taking it to. Opportunity attacks

50:05

with a ranged weapon. Yeah.

50:07

So you can do it

50:09

with your. Your hey. No,

50:11

he was. He was right

50:13

next to you. Next year,

50:15

turn it away. Okay, my

50:17

bad. Then yeah, let's do

50:19

hand acts 21. That will

50:21

hit and six points of

50:23

damage It wimpers as it

50:25

gets hit but keeps raining

50:27

down the side of the

50:29

clang into the rocks below

50:31

These guys are stuck and

50:33

they're gonna try to make

50:35

a string save. It's not

50:37

gonna go Michael. It doesn't

50:39

though. Yep. We're stuck there

50:41

and they're clamoring. They're screaming.

50:43

They're trying to get out.

50:45

They cannot Um, yeah, Wolfgang,

50:47

what are you doing? Uh,

50:49

all right, so how far

50:51

away? That one's 25 feet.

50:53

All right, I'm gonna, this

50:55

one over here, I'm going

50:58

to go ahead and cast

51:00

a poison spray. Okay. Oh,

51:02

did that roll of damage

51:04

first? Oh, no, no, poison

51:06

spray. Oh, it did it

51:08

all at once. Okay. So

51:10

I got a naddy 20.

51:12

It drops. Yeah, and I

51:14

blast it with some poison.

51:16

And then I'm going to

51:18

run up closer to the

51:20

old, you know, for lack

51:22

of a better word, we'll

51:24

say friends. Perfect. All right.

51:26

Carson, what are you doing?

51:28

I want to go pick

51:30

up that book. You pick

51:32

up this beautiful tomb, this

51:34

tomb, it's wrapped in chains.

51:36

And as you pick it

51:38

up, your ticket glows brighter

51:40

and it gets warmer and

51:42

Wolfgang yours does as well.

51:44

And as you're kind of

51:46

looking it over, you see

51:48

that there is a ticket

51:50

tucked in between the pages.

51:52

You can easily pull it

51:54

out, the chains don't impede

51:57

pulling that out, but it

51:59

is there. Oh, yeah, sure.

52:01

I just want to try

52:03

something. I point my finger

52:05

at one of the bed

52:07

boons. You point your finger

52:09

out of it. Oh, you

52:11

know what, Ben? Be a

52:13

D20. Oh, my God. Oh,

52:15

okay. Ben, you point a

52:17

finger at one of the

52:19

baboons, narrow your eyes at

52:21

it, and you focus, try

52:23

to replicate maybe what the

52:25

baboon earlier was doing, and

52:27

you hone in on a

52:29

focus, you touch something, power,

52:31

that is omnipresent, and it's

52:33

very pressing, and energy shoots

52:35

out from your finger and

52:37

into the baboon, It's screeches

52:39

echoing. Oh, Benjamin. Now I

52:41

say, now, Mr. Carthon, it

52:43

is very uncouth of you

52:45

to use another man's spillbook.

52:47

Sorry, I just wanted to

52:49

see if it worked like

52:51

that. Yeah. May I please

52:53

have it back? And work

52:56

out it is your turn.

52:58

I walk up, um, see,

53:00

15, 20, 25, I reach

53:02

out to Carthon for my

53:04

spellbook. He looks at the

53:06

spellbook for a second and

53:08

for like a moment, do

53:10

you think he's going to

53:12

try and keep it? But

53:14

then he hands it over.

53:16

Thank you. I've got... You're

53:18

lucky I'm busy with other

53:20

experiments at the moment. Alright,

53:23

Mordecai, you've picked up your book.

53:25

Are you doing anything else? Um,

53:27

I don't think I would waste

53:29

the time, like, these are all

53:31

running away, right? All these better

53:33

ones. You're trying to, yeah, absolutely.

53:35

I'm not gonna waste a spell

53:37

slot on them. I'm not gonna,

53:39

I might just be like, try

53:42

to shoot the one that's running

53:44

away, not in the entangled. It's

53:46

like, hmm, maybe with this, maybe

53:48

with my spell book, things might

53:50

work out. Fuckin' hell, man. No,

53:52

there's something that's just not in

53:54

alignment right now. The energy and

53:56

the vibes are very much off,

53:58

Andy. You just go a little

54:00

bit wide again. You're going a

54:03

little too far left. You need

54:05

re- or something. I look at

54:07

my book and it's like, and

54:09

then the carton is like, hmm,

54:11

and just pass my turn. All

54:13

right. But I obviously make it

54:15

look like I'm blaming you. Vexis,

54:17

what are you doing? There's one

54:19

baboon ensnared into trap and there's

54:22

another baboon that's clamoring down the

54:24

wall trying to get away the

54:26

whole thing. Yeah, I think I'm

54:28

gonna go try to try to

54:30

attack the one that's in my

54:32

snare. I think you can. Hold

54:34

on, creature in there, you're going

54:36

to cast a spell. Okay. Yeah,

54:38

you're just, it's just rough terrain

54:41

for you right now, so, but

54:43

yeah, you have absolutely the mood.

54:45

And you get advantage. I need

54:47

to get advantage. Cool, cool. All

54:49

right, then I'm going to hit

54:51

in with my hand axe. Does

54:53

a 25 hit? It does, and

54:55

it shakes one hit, and it's

54:57

down. Okay. Perfect, bye monkey. All

54:59

right, and this one screeches and,

55:02

oh sorry, was there anything else

55:04

you would like to do? Nope,

55:06

that'll do it. This one screeches

55:08

and hides in the rocks somewhere

55:10

out of you. And we are

55:12

out of initiative. One baboon survive,

55:14

you monster. They came out as

55:16

a failure. Mm-hmm. Mardakai, you're holding

55:18

your book and you, there's a

55:21

little bit of a little white

55:23

light kind of admitting in between

55:25

the pages, and you look and

55:27

you see a ticket. Oh, lucky

55:29

there. Looks like I also was

55:31

a passenger on that sad train.

55:33

Go ahead and roll me a

55:35

D-6. Okay. Three. All right, thank

55:37

you. And then. There's a path

55:39

that leads ahead and as you're

55:42

examining your ticket, there's a brief

55:44

warmth that wraps between Wolfgang Mordecai

55:46

and Carthan in a light that

55:48

emits and before it, it shines

55:50

bright for a moment and then

55:52

dies back down until a duller

55:54

glow. This time, little stars start

55:56

to erupt from the tickets just

55:58

for a brief moment. Hmm. I

56:01

think is that though. I'm sorry

56:03

Lauren, you said the tickets glow?

56:05

Yeah, the tickets are giving like

56:07

a soft glow and like there's

56:09

little stars kind of admitting from

56:11

the brief moment before it dies

56:13

back down. And this time you

56:15

notice that there is a like

56:17

golden light emitting from all three

56:20

of the tickets all pointing in

56:22

the same direction going this, I'm

56:24

on the wrong, going that way.

56:26

Well, I think we have to

56:28

find three more tickets. Or at

56:30

least one more, but I think

56:32

I think there's more tickets. Don't

56:34

suppose, uh, that lights, um, showing

56:36

us where each ticket, where a

56:38

next ticket would be. It's possible.

56:41

Let's go look for it. I

56:43

mean, the three of us have

56:45

a ticket, we need one for

56:47

you. Mm-hmm. Let's look on the

56:49

head. Yeah. All right, so you

56:51

make your way down the path,

56:53

and I'm not going to be

56:55

going as well. And eventually you

56:57

come to a beautiful stone altar.

57:00

It seems to be in ruins.

57:02

And standing before you seems to

57:04

be a tall, it's like it's

57:06

a saty angel, essentially. And in

57:08

its grasp, standing well above you

57:10

towering, is another ticket. The light

57:12

erupting from the other tickets seemed

57:14

to connect to this one and

57:16

there is a bright glow, but

57:19

it's just a little bit out

57:21

of reach. Where is it exactly

57:23

again? So it's right sitting in.

57:25

There's a tall like 20-foot statue

57:27

of an angel and it's holding

57:29

the ticket. So it's pretty far

57:31

off the ground. And you guys

57:33

are about 15 feet away from

57:35

the statue itself whenever you notice

57:37

it. Uh, I don't have a

57:40

way to, I don't, I can't

57:42

cast a climbed statue. Who's, who's,

57:44

who's, who's more? Yeah, I was

57:46

like, can, um, can I try

57:48

to climb the statue? Yeah, absolutely.

57:50

Okay, then. Okay. Vexis isn't going

57:52

to say a word and is

57:54

just going to start going and

57:56

trying to climb the statue. Fantastic.

57:59

You get to the base of

58:01

the statue and a voice admits

58:03

from it and its eyes glow

58:05

and it says, I have no

58:07

legs yet I always run. I

58:09

have no voice yet I whisper

58:11

to all. I'm never still yet

58:13

I can be lost. Those who

58:15

seek to hold me, find me

58:17

gone. What am I? I dropped

58:20

it in the roll 20 chats.

58:22

Thank you. You're welcome. I know,

58:24

I know. Is it the river?

58:26

It's a refrigerator. Yeah. I feel

58:28

like it's like the wind. No

58:30

legs. I run like the wind.

58:32

I have no voice. Whisper. I

58:34

don't know. I'm bad at fucking...

58:36

I can't even think of what

58:39

it's called. So, that's bad I

58:41

have at them. There is the

58:43

word. If you would like, any

58:45

of you can roll an investigate,

58:47

or sorry, intelligence check to see

58:49

if you can get a little

58:51

bit more. I'll give it a

58:53

shot. Intelligence check. I'm not very

58:55

smart. You said intelligence, Lauren. 14,

58:58

well, is the same, whoops, well,

59:00

whatever, same difference. We'll keep it,

59:02

it's fine, because it's still the

59:04

same modifier. It is. Okay, so

59:06

those, perfect, that's right. Because you're

59:08

sitting there thinking on it for

59:10

just a month, never still yet,

59:12

I could be lost. What are

59:14

you? It's never holding still forever,

59:16

maybe, but. What also passes quick?

59:19

Time? Time? Time? You say time

59:21

wolf gang and eyes of the

59:23

angel, the glow from it dims

59:25

and her hands drop and the

59:27

ticket flutters to the ground at

59:29

Vexis's. Wait, when does time whisper?

59:31

Don't worry about it. It's a

59:33

riddle, stuff just makes sense. Fair.

59:35

So Vexis, do you pick up

59:38

the ticket? Yes, I do. Fantastic.

59:40

Roll me a D6. A D

59:42

what? A D6. Okay, perfect. Sorry.

59:44

We keep cut now. It's okay.

59:46

No, you're good. I, um, my

59:48

internet hates me. All right. I

59:50

know. You're okay. Perfect. Okay. There

59:52

is a loud rumble that resonates.

59:54

across the sky and the ground

59:57

begins to shake. Suddenly, the sound

59:59

of ripping is followed shortly by

1:00:01

the blast of a train horn

1:00:03

coming from above. You look up

1:00:05

and you see a massive midnight

1:00:07

blue train. Its mechanisms a bright

1:00:09

and vibrant gold is an accent.

1:00:11

Coming through a tear in the

1:00:13

sky, it roars towards the island

1:00:15

and hits the stand close to

1:00:18

you. The ground shakes once more

1:00:20

at the impact as a brick

1:00:22

squeal, slowing the train drastically. There's

1:00:24

a series of clicks and release

1:00:26

pressures, emit from the train. As

1:00:28

it only... It only appears that

1:00:30

the locomotive... Oh my God, what

1:00:32

are my fucking words? Let me

1:00:34

try that again. There's a series

1:00:37

of clicks and release pressure that

1:00:39

emit from the train as it

1:00:41

comes to a halt. It only

1:00:43

appears that the locomotive is attached

1:00:45

to a singular car. As the

1:00:47

loud sounds begin to die down,

1:00:49

the door to the attached car

1:00:51

slides open, emerging from a tall

1:00:53

and pale woman. Her hair is

1:00:55

tightly wound in a tight bun

1:00:58

that rests on under a conductor's

1:01:00

hat. She clears her throat. straightens

1:01:02

her midnight blue uniform and not

1:01:04

a place of it seems to

1:01:06

be out of place, not a

1:01:08

piece of it seems to be

1:01:10

out of place there. From the

1:01:12

top of the straightened conductor sat

1:01:14

to the golden broiled accents to

1:01:17

the black polished boots. A beautiful

1:01:19

cloak flows behind her like smoke

1:01:21

as she moves and you swear

1:01:23

for just a brief moment you

1:01:25

saw the galaxy hidden in its

1:01:27

folds. Bright silver eye study for

1:01:29

you and study you for just

1:01:31

relief and she smiles. Her aura

1:01:33

is blinding almost and stunsy for

1:01:36

just a brief moment and then

1:01:38

There is a moment of recognition

1:01:40

in your memory. You know her.

1:01:42

She is the conductor. There you

1:01:44

are. I've been looking everywhere for

1:01:46

you. Did you lose your tickets?

1:01:48

Are you okay? Uh, what happened?

1:01:50

I have, I think I have

1:01:52

my ticket. I'm sorry, my dear,

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I'm assuming you're the conductor of

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this locomotive, but who are you?

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I'm the conductor. Do you, do

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you not remember me? and she'll

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kind of glance over at Vaxas

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and go, surely you remember, and

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she'll whistle. And dog is going

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to come running out of the

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train. This dog! Waltz out of

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the train and into step, two,

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sorry, Vex's chest, just a missile.

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It is a dog that literally

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looks like it's been in hell

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and back. It has dark matted

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fur. It's got bald spots. It's

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got very weird snow coming from

1:02:28

us. And it laps at Vex's

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face, eager. It's bald tail just

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lagging wildly. He missed you so

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much after the crash. We've been

1:02:37

trying to find you. Are any

1:02:39

of you injured? Are you okay?

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I mean I got I got

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hit. Also when the dog, you

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saw the dog come out, you

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saw I made an unpleasant face.

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As I do not recognize the

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dog, correct? There's a moment of

1:02:53

there's a flicker of recognition and

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familiarity. You're not quite sure though

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what to make of it. You

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can't discern if it's good or

1:03:02

bad, but it is familiar to

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you. Okay, yeah, I think I'm

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gonna kind of give it weird

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looks maybe pull it away from

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my chest and kind of have

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it in both my hands and

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kind of look at it like

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just okay But I'll keep it

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against my chest after I'm done

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looking at him. Yeah, it seems

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very happy to see you. It's

1:03:25

Take Candace's enthusiasm when she sees

1:03:27

you. That equivalent. This puppy will

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fit in my arms. Candace will

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not. You're correct. A debatable. It

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does seem to be a pretty

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large. Well, I see a large

1:03:38

is more medium, but medium-sized dog.

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Hold on a second. Well, if

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you would like, and she's going

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to guess you to the train

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binder, if you'll... If you want

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to board, we can get you

1:03:50

all healed up and taken care

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of and maybe fix some of

1:03:55

the memory issues or at least

1:03:57

talk about it. If you will

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hand me your tickets, I'll get

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it. I'll get them all stamped

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and squared away and then get

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back on to the train. I'm

1:04:07

going to get up. Then walks

1:04:09

up and hands her his ticket.

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She takes it. She stamps it

1:04:14

as she gives it back to

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you. She's going to look you

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in the eyes and go, and

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remember, don't lose it. I didn't

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lose mine. The

1:04:25

conductor will stamp each of

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your tickets and after she

1:04:29

does so the glowing dies

1:04:31

down They're still a little

1:04:33

bit warm and should you

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choose to you can attune

1:04:37

to these tickets as a

1:04:39

reslot magic item and that's

1:04:41

where we're gonna end tonight's

1:04:44

session Seat on the train,

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is it like steerage? Do

1:04:48

we have like a train

1:04:50

car? You'll get to find

1:04:52

out next game, baby. So

1:04:54

many questions. I know, I'm

1:04:56

so excited. All right, so

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thank you, Catarina, for joining

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us for this. And thanks

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for having me. Yeah, thank

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you. Thank you for a

1:05:07

good session tonight. If we

1:05:09

want to linger around afterwards,

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I'm going to show you

1:05:13

guys what your, if you

1:05:15

choose to, to tune to

1:05:17

them, what your tickets will

1:05:19

do for you. Cool. Sounds

1:05:21

good to me. All right,

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well, till next time. Turtles.

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the