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Hello everyone, Kirk here with

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the second of Triple Quest, the three

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Dungeons and Dragons campaign Jason

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Maddie and I recorded earlier

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time for our heist to get properly

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underway as Ki, Leon, and Bing prepare to

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breach the magical tower at Thornhold. get

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into it with act

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of Triple Quest. I'm

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Maddie Myers. I'm Jason Schreier.

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I'm Kirk Hamilton. and I'm

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Matthew Mercer, and this is

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Triple Quest. The

2:00

quest. Welcome

2:03

back. So picking up where we

2:05

left off, our heroes, Ki,

2:08

Leon, and Bing, have

2:10

been called back together

2:12

for one more job.

2:14

After years of an

2:16

unsuccessful and tragic end to

2:19

their last thief

2:21

job, they've been called

2:23

together to infiltrate Thornhold,

2:25

a dwarven keep, wherein

2:27

of the towers,

2:29

recently married lady

2:31

of strange mystical

2:33

interests. and we saw,

2:38

somewhat, somewhat

2:41

shitty persona.

2:45

Sort of a jerk. Yeah, threw

2:48

you out of the keep walls you

2:50

had snuck in as merchants and

2:52

attempted to sell her a bunch of

2:54

Chachkies. However, However,

2:56

while both Bing and Key

2:58

have left with the

3:00

cart, looks

3:02

like Leon has successfully infiltrated and as

3:04

they await to re -meet at sundown,

3:07

you hope to find a way to

3:09

sneak your friends in to indeed this

3:11

heist for the bracelet

3:13

of the Emerald Maw. All

3:17

right, so yeah,

3:19

Leon's just hanging out until the

3:21

appointed time. You guys have a a little

3:23

bit more to do, right? Yeah. So

3:25

I guess we're on the cart outside, once we're

3:27

outside of the gates, we're kind of clear of

3:29

the guards view.

3:31

mean, mean, we're not gonna do anything

3:33

suspicious, but we kind of take

3:36

the cart, I guess, to the west,

3:38

like into the, how clear, like like much clearing

3:40

is there between the woods and

3:42

Maybe about or so feet, not too long.

3:44

Is Is there road that goes into

3:46

the woods? There is. The road

3:48

kind of kind of, car, it

3:51

of forks towards the fortress then continues into

3:53

the woods, you so you of just head the

3:55

left side of the fort just of sight

3:57

then ditch the cart you want to. Okay.

3:59

So yeah, we pull the cart into the

4:02

the woods and yeah, D cart.

4:05

And get in the woods. get into the woods.

4:08

So looks at Key and says, I

4:10

know you like to burn things and I think

4:12

it might finally be your moment. Yes. Yes,

4:15

distraction time. Just

4:18

sidebar, it's really funny that Leon's

4:20

the one who had to sleep

4:22

in a bush tonight and both

4:24

of us got out of it,

4:26

just sayin'. Sometimes I think he likes sleeping

4:28

in the bushes. Yeah, guys, it's like a role

4:31

playing a peasant kind of a deal for him.

4:33

I guess so. I gave up trying to truly

4:35

understand him a long time ago. It goes a

4:37

lot better if you kind of just go with it.

4:39

Yeah, you're right, you're right. So

4:42

Bing of looks into the back of

4:44

the cart says, what here looks flammable

4:46

and starts pushing things around around and and

4:48

moving around. the wooden crates aren't bad.

4:50

The cart itself? I mean, do we

4:52

really need it anymore? He's

4:54

like, it's all fairly wet and

4:56

he's pushing pushing through underneath the crates and a

4:58

couple of them open. Have we stuffed,

5:00

Did we go with any hay?

5:03

Have we stuffed anything we did, think we all

5:05

dirt, right? Okay. It was mostly dirt

5:07

and sod. I mean, as part

5:09

of your general supplies, you do have like lantern

5:11

oil things that can still catch in the process. And it's

5:14

Okay. It magical fire, then does that still

5:16

does that matter at all? Like I

5:18

could still light it on fire even it's

5:20

pouring rain? It depends. I mean, fair

5:22

enough. Things that are like tinder,

5:25

that soaked will not catch, but oil

5:27

will probably still catch. Things

5:29

that are highly flammable will still

5:31

catch. So Bing has kind of guided

5:33

the cart off the side

5:35

of the road, just kind of

5:37

within the line off of the road. off

5:39

of the road. So still view,

5:42

well, if it started to maybe burn, it

5:44

would still be in view of the front

5:46

of the sort of gate of the wall. Okay,

5:48

okay, so It's like just out of sight. just out

5:51

of sight and starts kind of pulling

5:53

things apart and and things so that they

5:55

might catch fire better. What time is

5:57

it right now? I'd say this is

5:59

by mid afternoon. afternoon. Okay, good afternoon. So

6:02

we of, yeah,

6:05

I guess get the cart just enough off the

6:07

road that it's not immediately visible and

6:10

about making it as fire

6:12

as possible. So

6:14

plan is to just push

6:16

this cart and try to distract the

6:18

guards with a... No, we're start

6:20

a fire out here and and it burn

6:22

high enough that they'll see it and send

6:24

some people out and it'll just have some

6:26

kind of of a distraction like maybe some people

6:28

inside will go reinforce the guards at the

6:31

gate who come out to check the fire

6:33

and it'll just reduce the number of personnel

6:35

on the ground which will make it things

6:37

easier for Leon and for us to get

6:39

up the wall presumably assuming he's able to

6:41

get to the top of the wall like we

6:43

talked about and drop a line down to

6:45

us okay so we're gonna need a really fire if

6:47

we really want people to be worried enough. that

6:49

they're going to come come here. Yes, Key, we're

6:51

going to need a really, really big fire.

6:54

Okay, but it's not time yet because

6:56

have to wait until nightfall, right? So I'm simply vibing

6:58

for now I think we should maybe check in on

7:01

the other wall and see if we can catch some kind

7:03

of a sign from Leon. That's No, a good

7:05

we idea. No, we had plans to meet at night. That was

7:07

the. But maybe you and I should

7:09

just look at it and be

7:11

like, we're sure know what's going on guard

7:13

wise. There's not gonna be weird surprises And we

7:15

don't have to do a whole thing with that.

7:17

we can kind of circle around, assuming and just sort

7:19

of Check out the wall and yeah and do

7:21

that for the rest of the movement. Yeah, and see how many

7:23

guards we're to need to distract. Yeah,

7:25

so you gauge the patrols best you can

7:28

and of get a feel for the pattern.

7:30

It hasn't changed much since the first

7:32

time you scattered space, so you feel

7:34

pretty confident that there's

7:37

about a a 40 40

7:39

to 50 -foot gap between each of

7:41

these little points where guards sit, and

7:44

there, you to kind of piece out

7:46

different sections of small bush and kind

7:48

of divots in the open space between

7:50

the wall and the tree line you

7:52

could probably probably quickly when the eyes

7:55

aren't watching, especially under

7:57

the cover of night and rainfall. Leon,

8:01

have been sitting within the interiors the day a

8:03

progresses, is there any sort of preparation you to

8:05

do do we could move to the end of

8:07

day? No, so there's a ladder on the inside

8:09

that goes right up to the wall and

8:11

and I got my grappling hooks and ropes

8:13

and stuff so no prep,

8:15

don't want to go out

8:17

and because it's daytime and there are

8:19

around so I'm just gonna hang out until

8:21

nightfall. in a bush all day. Yeah,

8:23

that's so boring. I mean Leon's, Leon's, he's

8:25

meditating. he's thinking, day with his He's

8:27

got stuff to do Cool.

8:30

elvish lineage lineage you just focus. Yeah,

8:32

he's playing Candy Crush, you know Perfect,

8:36

great. the afternoon comes

8:38

to a close the sky grows dark once

8:40

more the Cracking of thunder

8:42

has lessened as the day progresses. now then

8:44

you still see a distant flash, it's

8:46

over the ocean and it takes a

8:48

while for the low to just just

8:51

make the interior of the courtyard The

8:55

torture, the and braziers, especially at the top

8:57

of the courtyard pillars all

8:59

lit In spite of the flames and

9:01

you can see the evening portion of

9:03

the courtyard come to life Around

9:05

the time that it feels right

9:07

You can attempt to head towards the

9:09

ladder to where the tower and the

9:11

entrance you discuss be Yes. Go ahead and

9:13

make a stealth check a stealth me. for

9:16

me. Okay. will with advantage on this because

9:18

it was also a dark And

9:20

you have the rain help Okay. Okay.

9:29

Seven. With advantage. With advantage.

9:31

Six a seven Wow Wow.

9:35

So So you, hmm, you

9:39

from this bush to the next

9:41

to behind a section of crates

9:43

and wait for the moment that

9:45

the guard patrol is shifting Through

9:47

the keep which causes attention to

9:49

scatter opposite directions of the main road

9:51

that carves through the courtyard. that you

9:53

dart across the main thoroughfare kind of

9:55

between the keep the tower is The two

9:57

guards to the front of the keep not see

9:59

you. and as you emerge from

10:02

the bush about to head to the

10:04

wall a voice goes uh,

10:07

well, hello. Look

10:09

behind you can see Luther's right

10:11

there. We're like uh,

10:14

we thought you left Is

10:16

it just it's just Luther? the moment.

10:18

Yeah. Yeah, Luther, I lost trying on

10:20

my way out and I was

10:22

hoping that you actually actually was

10:24

looking for you my friend Me, but for

10:26

all I of a sudden, it's not a big courtyard.

10:29

I was I'm to confess to you, Luther. I'm

10:31

in love with you What?

10:34

Making a session check. I'm gonna make a session check. I'm gonna

10:36

make a session check. I'm gonna make a session check. Uh,

10:39

12. 12 12 He

10:43

was like, I, well, We we just

10:45

met, I didn't think we've more than maybe

10:47

a hundred words, but you

10:49

were just the finest soldier that I

10:51

ever met Look, now, look,

10:53

there's some funny business going on here and

10:55

I was not born yesterday I I

10:58

see when I've been I fattened up to be

11:00

a stuck pig So I'm

11:02

gonna have to ask you to be

11:04

up front and honest with me or

11:06

I'm gonna have to get the guards

11:08

involved. Okay, Luther, All right, I'm gonna drop the act.

11:11

I cast Charm Person. And, you

11:13

know. You're

11:16

You like, Drop the act. He

11:18

was. You begin like moving your hands. I think he

11:20

goes for his weapon on the

11:22

side and He just...

11:26

loosens grip. Well, look,

11:28

you just have to be open and

11:30

honest with a friend. okay? I am being

11:32

open and honest, Luther. That's why I need

11:34

to get into that tower. Well, that that

11:37

one, that big old tower. Why? would

11:39

you need Why do you need the tower? a

11:41

secret mission Luther. And the

11:43

of the world and the

11:46

entire realms at stake Who

11:49

are you Noel? And loser? I can't say that

11:51

right now. but I can tell you

11:53

that it is Extremely important for

11:55

you to help me get into

11:57

that tower. All right. I'm

12:00

so conflicted my entire job is to

12:02

keep people out of it But

12:05

so nice Mmm

12:09

Look Look, I I don't know

12:12

what I can do to help because I

12:14

also don't want to don't get fired My

12:16

grams be real unhappy with me if I

12:18

get fired again. So uh

12:20

So, uh... What

12:24

What I do to help you? Where are you going

12:26

to? you You can tell me everything you know about the

12:28

inside of that tower. Well, I've never been inside. you

12:31

tell me everything you know about the guards

12:33

and the outside of that tower. Okay?

12:35

Well, there's tonight. He's a big fan of

12:37

apple pie He's

12:40

got a rash on his left side of his

12:43

Shoulder that's been giving them for about a month. Okay, I

12:45

I was trying to get my good

12:47

cream for that, but it's apparently not helped

12:49

at all. So a bit ornery

12:53

And there's Jamal a big nice

12:55

orchish fella He's he

12:57

on a brave face but he's

12:59

a a bit ticklish and he's a

13:01

real bad occurrence That's

13:04

all I know. Rash and tickles. Okay.

13:06

Good to know. All right thank you. Okay now thing

13:09

I need do is I need you to make

13:11

sure that nobody sees me go up that

13:13

ladder and get to the top of the

13:15

ramparts you even know

13:17

um, I'm saying I I need to

13:19

get up there and meet my friends so we can

13:21

get into the tower because remember the of the world Is

13:23

that stake Make

13:25

another deception He's

13:30

trying to do the math in his head Okay,

13:39

that should be I have

13:41

advantage okay Oh, Ho ho

13:43

25 25 he goes what? 25, he

13:45

goes... What? Wow

13:50

Look I I from very

13:53

humble beginnings. I've always

13:55

wanted an opportunity to do

13:57

something special to just to make

13:59

an impact and mark on the world.

14:01

and I'm

14:03

just let just say

14:05

no I've

14:09

got your back. right, All right. Why don't you

14:11

come with me, Luther? You you

14:13

guard guard ladder here I'm gonna go

14:15

up the ladder and

14:17

I'm going to let my friends up on the

14:19

wall and you guard and make sure nobody goes up

14:21

this ladder and nobody sees me. You got it. All

14:23

right, thank you, Thank you do it. Thank you, Luther.

14:27

It's been an honor. Okay,

14:30

so I guess it's coming up on the on the

14:32

upon. Yeah, it's about my fault I get to the

14:34

wall, I set up my grappling hook so it's

14:36

like on top of the wall and so there's rope is

14:39

anyone up on wall? Are there any guards

14:41

that can see me or anything There are guards

14:43

who could likely see you? Okay, they're not out

14:45

They're not them the location the wall. You are

14:47

they're both kind of at points and they're not

14:49

in the process of shifting. They're just kind

14:51

of stationary looking out. Okay. one of them

14:53

looks like he's yawning a bit So

14:56

they're not like super attentive at

14:58

the moment, but they're they're not

15:01

Completely blind I'm climbing up the ladder

15:03

This should be around the

15:05

time the fire is getting set right

15:07

so maybe they're distracted or the guards distracted I'm

15:10

well be at this time we

15:12

cut over two things. So so are you two so you

15:14

this time, you

15:16

have a flame based cantrip. Uh,

15:18

I have fireball one.

15:22

You might not want to wait that way.

15:24

I think you have another other

15:26

I I have fire bolt is a cancer. Oh yeah, yeah

15:28

fire bolt. Yeah, so you can do is you

15:30

can essentially Repeatedly, hit this. mean, you

15:32

could even like bolt it a little bit

15:34

early to kind of start drying off some

15:36

of the wood as well, but but preventing it

15:39

from catching. number of times I can use

15:41

that? or no cantrips many times as you want to.

15:43

Baseline simple magic. I I also

15:45

have a a cantrip control flames so I was hoping

15:47

maybe I could use that to like make the - fire

15:49

really weird. that's the combination. So So you

15:52

can fire bolt the side of it and

15:54

prevent it from catching entirely. Instead, you

15:56

can control the flame and just kind of

15:58

push it around to dry off all all

16:00

the various wood matter this cart and the surrounding

16:02

kindling you've built to prevent it from

16:04

being waterlogged and have it ready to

16:06

just go up. And so

16:09

you're it back from becoming an inferno until

16:11

you both kind of make eye contact and

16:13

nod it's the right moment. as you do,

16:15

you reverse. You You know longer are controlling

16:17

the flames, you are unleashing them. The

16:19

flames flames erupt and tear up,

16:22

licking the bottom of the

16:24

canopy of the tree line it does,

16:27

the underside of the tree line is not

16:29

very wet. It's densed on top that a lot

16:31

of the rain is of poured through and cascaded the

16:33

sides to the point where the bottom of

16:35

the tree begins to catch as well. Within

16:37

moments, this is not just a cart this

16:39

is becoming the beginnings of a forest fire if

16:41

if the rain doesn't help and the people

16:43

aren't quick. Right around this time, as as

16:45

you're kind of peeking up on one of the rain

16:47

guards goes, goes, oi, oi, oi,

16:50

what is this? It's fire. It's a

16:52

fire, I was like, said. What are

16:54

you talking about? Oh, shit! It's a fire! It's

16:56

fire. For fire. They They both

16:58

what to do, they're not prepared for this. So

17:01

they kind of like scatter, running back and forth. One

17:04

of them darts down the wall the opposite

17:06

direction, The other looks over at the ladder where

17:08

you're currently on and goes and goes towards the ladder,

17:10

what do you do? The

17:12

guard is rushing towards me like on the wall.

17:14

You're the nearest ladder. Oh,

17:16

right. Okay. I

17:19

duck down, All or I climb back

17:21

down before he gets to me and I say,

17:23

loose or for me and I just

17:25

kind of like sneak behind

17:27

the nearest, something. Biggest elves for

17:30

me. Okay. One. One, One.

17:32

There we go. one. or Okay. Yeah. 21.

17:34

it's 21. 21. 21. You get the ground

17:36

and you go behind the ladder,

17:38

kind of like using it to

17:40

hide you as you duck down

17:42

in the shadow. The

17:44

The figure the guard starts

17:47

rushing down, Fire! fire. Lands. turns

17:49

around, Luther, there's a fire.

17:51

One thing goes, no, everything's fine.

17:53

there's no problems. Watch ladder. What's

17:56

goes, no, you dulk. I'm telling you

17:58

there's a fire. Well,

18:01

you should take care of that. Salute

18:03

some the guards. Ah, Why

18:06

are you here? And then runs

18:08

while shouting, Fire, fire! And the guards

18:10

start shouting You hear a bell goes

18:12

ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding ding ding,

18:14

on the top of the gate. And

18:16

as the gate to open, you see

18:18

guards rushing out towards some buckets. You

18:21

can see one of the

18:23

guards is currently maneuvering their hands

18:25

to conjure some sort of a small

18:27

of liquid front of them. So

18:29

doing what they can with their disposal try

18:31

and deal with this. But

18:34

as they're scattering out towards this

18:36

flame, you can climb back

18:38

up the ladder, and you're setting

18:40

the grappling hook and rope off the I'm setting

18:42

it Yep, so can come climb up. Fantastic.

18:44

Easy enough to do, especially with good

18:46

old Uther an eye. The

18:48

two of you hear the bell begin

18:50

to toll, and shouts across the way. And

18:52

we're going to run under cover of

18:54

of night and try to avoid whatever. I mean,

18:56

the guards are a straight shot towards

18:58

the fire, right? mean, So going to kind

19:01

of strafe around. Yeah, we're kind of just of through the

19:03

woods. We're gonna get get around. there, but like we're to

19:05

get over to that wall, but we're

19:07

going to try to not be noticed.

19:09

So we're abandoning the fire. So whatever

19:11

control I was doing, I assume the fire is

19:13

just doing its own It It is indeed.

19:15

it is no longer my problem. So

19:17

we're just heading to the wall. Are we

19:19

going to make it there without any issues? Well,

19:21

I need you both to make stealth checks

19:23

for me. You have an advantage on them because they both

19:26

distracted and the light and weather is aiding

19:28

your passage. Yeah, I got a 14. 14,

19:30

okay, great. OK, great. That

19:32

not that's not real. Okay.

19:37

17. Great. Yeah, you both dart past at one

19:39

point, someone kind of of past, but they're caught

19:41

up by the flames and just go

19:43

back to put their attention towards the

19:45

roaring inferno that's gathering at the edge

19:47

of the forest. You both dart through

19:49

the mud, kind of like diving down

19:51

an embankment and then back up as it

19:53

kind of picks the base of the wall

19:55

as you both get there, you you kind

19:57

of glance around right as the rope

19:59

tumbles off the side and... slaps the wet stone

20:02

exterior. You both immediately grab

20:04

the rope, climb up, and the three of you

20:06

are reunited at the top of the wall. Bing

20:09

a moment to look out over the

20:11

fire and looks down at Kia says, nice work.

20:14

I do what I do. I do, What can I say?

20:17

All right, we have limited time, so

20:19

we gotta get in, get out,

20:21

bam. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we yeah, you're welcome. welcome. in,

20:23

We We take another, no, I think we another, grappling card.

20:25

I think we take another grappling hook,

20:27

can we reach the balcony from

20:29

where we're standing with the grappling hook?

20:31

for the grappling hook? How your rope? rope? About 50 feet?

20:33

Sure, Sure, rope size, as one has.

20:36

You can certainly try. I'm gonna try.

20:38

is gonna be, at at

20:40

that length, probably a strength check

20:42

if someone wants to try and lob it

20:44

towards the balcony. So So throwing the

20:46

grappling hook from where we are across. Okay,

20:49

so he pulls up the grappling hook because we only we

20:51

the one. the one. he pulls up the grappling hook behind

20:53

him and spins it above

20:55

head, as you do, and

20:57

a very long, under-earned throw. Lobbing

21:00

it over there, roll a d20,

21:02

add your strength modifier. 11.

21:09

11. It

21:12

connects with the the stone of the balcony

21:14

and then drags off and tumbles

21:16

back to the ground. The first attempt

21:18

was a failure. You have two

21:20

more attempts before you fear might be gaining

21:22

attention this side of the

21:24

wall. And And of just and pulls the rope

21:26

in and says, all right, all right, nobody ever gets anything

21:28

on the first try. try. You this big. You

21:30

got this. Thanks. Thanks, We we appreciate it. We believe spinning

21:32

it again it again, and you hear of humming under his

21:34

breath. And

21:38

And, nah, and he throws it. Oh

21:43

Oh, god. That's

21:45

a nine. That's a nine. Woof, It and

21:47

completely misses the balcony, crashing into the

21:49

ivy and getting caught on the IV. You

21:52

can You on it and pull some

21:54

of the IV free that kind of kind

21:56

of a a chain reaction, like tearing

21:58

off causing an element of it. to flap

22:00

downward, which kind of, the pattern which slightly

22:03

breaks the pattern of of the IV,

22:05

which means there's definitely, if if looking

22:07

closely, a sign that something's different

22:09

about the tower, but nothing yet

22:11

has caused any issue. Oh, God, I,

22:13

I, I, I can mend that if

22:15

we can freaking get over there, man. Bingo's

22:17

pulling up the rope, says, nobody gets anything on

22:19

the second try. He starts spinning it

22:21

again, you hear he's humming a little louder. if

22:24

one of you wants to help,

22:26

you can. You can use your

22:28

help action, which grants advantage on

22:30

another person's ability check. I

22:32

I happily do that by this point, I'm feeling

22:34

sorry for- sing along with me. Recognize

22:37

the sign. What it

22:39

What am I, whatever- I You You just out,

22:41

no, that- Yeah, you also- I help advantage. how you help

22:43

him with the action and then he gets

22:45

advantage. All then I sing with him. Alright,

22:47

we're both like, both like, and he sings, he says,

22:49

and he grows, and throws. And I throw one

22:51

more time. Got it. You

22:55

are so thrilled, struggling with that. gonna be

22:58

another 11. Another 11. Are

23:00

you serious? The third throw, you

23:02

actually do chuck it hard enough

23:05

that it it finally arcs up and

23:07

over onto the balcony Yes.

23:10

And then other side of the rope goes with it it,

23:13

like you're like, oh, I go of the rope. I like

23:15

that. And you watch the entire grappling

23:17

and rope is now up on

23:20

that balcony I cast hand

23:22

and grab the rope with my mage

23:24

hand and pull it towards us. That's slick. As

23:26

you watch it arc over, the of it in

23:28

the middle the air goes taut, and

23:30

begins to just back down to

23:32

where you are all standing. Okay,

23:35

so it, well, the hook

23:37

have landed on the on the

23:39

roof of the tower? No, on

23:41

the balcony. Oh, on balcony Yeah,

23:43

so we can climb. So now we bring up. So can we all, do

23:45

we need to check to climb can we

23:47

all just get on the roof? And then quickly, can go

23:49

ahead and, with with a rope it's much, was climbing

23:51

ivy be a different story yeah but the

23:53

rope you all are pretty well you know, climbers

23:56

in your experience with burglary, So

23:59

one one you all have they clamor up onto the

24:01

balcony just as the guards, you can see the

24:03

flames beginning to be doused. It's

24:05

still gonna burn for a while, but it's

24:07

now being swarmed. There are now guards who

24:09

are starting to look throughout the courtyard,

24:11

just in case. I back and give

24:13

a thumbs up to Luther. He's... When

24:16

the other guards go, Luther is! Nothing's

24:19

wrong, nothing's wrong at all,

24:21

That's normal. Being of watches this and says,

24:23

I know there's a story there, but you're

24:25

just gonna have to tell me that. I'll you later, we're

24:27

done, after we're out of here and in

24:30

our riches, we're at the tavern. I feel like

24:32

like I am paranoid enough to mend the

24:34

ivy with my mending because I don't want

24:36

us to be seen. Okay, you glance over the

24:38

side and use of the ivy

24:40

kind of reforms up into the rest

24:43

of the lattice work. It looks like

24:45

it'll be fine. Great call. great call key.

24:47

right, we we to open the door, the

24:49

glass door is something about. You the doors, you

24:51

can just see a little bit on

24:53

the inside, a beautiful extended

24:56

of black and gray

24:58

floor, and you can

25:00

see what looks to be a staircase in

25:02

the distance, but you can't make out much

25:04

more that because the the curtains obscure it. You gotta check the

25:06

door, and it is closed. So

25:09

is gonna check the door for

25:11

traps and anything that

25:13

looks amiss with the door. Great, You make

25:15

an investigation or perception check. You'll I'll

25:17

have advantage because of dungeon delvers. Yes, you do.

25:19

Oh, that's cool. This be, I I

25:21

think I have generally, Bing good at spotting this

25:23

of thing. so. So, check. Okay,

25:26

that's gonna be a 19.

25:28

19, okay. It is locked, but

25:31

there isn't a trap on

25:33

the door. What you do

25:35

notice as you're inspecting it is

25:37

this slight movement on the inside

25:39

of the chamber and as you glance

25:41

through the glass amongst the kind

25:43

of warm, gentle, kind of almost candle and

25:45

interior of the room, there is

25:47

this faint, translucent

25:51

orb that's just of gliding around

25:53

the upper area in circle.

25:56

So pulls back and says, One

26:00

of of you can probably get it open. There's

26:02

some sort of a translucent orb rotating

26:04

and like it's patrolling and I

26:06

guess is being able to describe it?

26:08

our not if one wants to make

26:11

an arcana check. I

26:13

I guess Bing saw it first. So maybe I should take

26:15

it. Yeah, go for it. I I can, oh

26:17

no, yeah, go ahead. Maybe you both can see. that's

26:20

a 10. That's a a 10, You

26:22

have no real concept. So so that's not

26:24

seeing it, I guess. So then maybe if he

26:26

describes it, I don't know if able to

26:28

describe it enough that to like is

26:30

probably magic? right, so like so then if

26:32

I have I plus one arcana. Yeah, go ahead and

26:35

do it. Int. A

26:38

one? A one. Unfortunately Okay,

26:41

well, so. Unfortunately, no No

26:44

true concept of what this is

26:46

capable of or what it can

26:48

do. It just doesn't look welcoming Great.

26:51

In the sense that it is

26:53

patrolling the upper area around the

26:55

chandelier to be fair. We aren't

26:58

welcome. Yeah Yeah. So being

27:00

as described where that is is, it can of

27:02

you pick the lock? I'm gonna

27:04

cast a minor illusion to create

27:06

like a little critter inside of

27:08

the glass and see what the eye

27:10

does to it. So like So

27:12

little I form a little little cat

27:15

That is like meowing its way around inside

27:17

of on the other side of the glass door.

27:19

Okay. As the cat

27:21

kind of appears and takes a

27:23

couple of steps. You see the the

27:26

as it's passing through it rotates

27:28

and you can see the orb, It's see like it's kind of

27:30

like a a sickly color like a

27:32

greenish yellow, a very very

27:35

dark kind of verident forest green pupil on

27:37

it, Almost like it's a floating

27:39

eye. it comes around and

27:41

its periphery to face the direction

27:43

of that cat it Kind of

27:45

focuses and stops focusing on the

27:47

cat And

27:50

you watch as the bookshelves that

27:52

line the walls that you didn't

27:54

see before Dozens of

27:56

books fly off the shelves and. Pfft.

28:00

on to this cat, like smashing and

28:02

bearing what would have been there. There's

28:04

this heavy, just bludgeoning

28:06

pile of books crammed

28:09

over it. The moment passes

28:11

before one by one the books pick themselves

28:13

back up and then return to the shelves

28:15

where they were and the eye continues its

28:17

patrol. Now we know. Okay,

28:20

I'm gonna pick the lock first, Okay.

28:22

without opening it. I'm just gonna pick the

28:24

lock first. Great, so go ahead and

28:26

roll a dexterity check. So roll D20, add

28:28

your dexterity modifier your proficiency modifier, since

28:30

you are proficient with these tools. That

28:33

would be a 12, 12. Okay, you needed

28:35

a 10 to get this door, it's needed

28:37

not a very complicated lock, at least not

28:39

at this moment. You

28:42

take a moment, eventually find

28:44

the right tumbler, it opens up,

28:46

the glass door's slightly open

28:48

and you can feel the warmth.

28:50

interior air immediately kind of hit

28:52

your face to contrast the cold,

28:54

rainy exterior of the tower. So

28:58

on this orb, I use all

29:00

sorts of illusions to just kind of

29:02

distract, get the books at them

29:04

while we figure out how to neutralize

29:06

this thing. And I do have

29:08

access to darkness, which just to check

29:10

how that works, it's, I think

29:13

it's a race ability. But

29:15

if I'm gonna cast darkness, what

29:17

exactly happens If were to create an

29:19

orb of magical shadow, Right. I think

29:21

it's a 15 foot radius. I believe

29:23

10 15 foot and it stays in

29:26

place It's just wherever you cast it

29:28

it for concentrated for concentration. So for

29:30

as long as you concentrate on it Or

29:33

you want to stop the

29:35

spell, but everything in that

29:37

orb? cannot see. Everything is just

29:39

darkness. Oh yeah, darkness. either. Including us.

29:41

Yeah. Yeah. Unless you can see through

29:43

magical darkness. Which I think I can.

29:45

Can you? And looking at the orb,

29:47

is the orb, does the orb have

29:49

like a full view of every part

29:52

of the interior of the tower? It

29:54

looks, it's moving fast enough where like

29:56

there's a window of about maybe four

29:58

seconds, five seconds, where it, might be

30:00

facing away from you in its

30:02

rotation, but it's a very small window. Is

30:05

this a room like within the tower?

30:07

Like what can we see of this? what

30:09

you can see, this looks like a parlor

30:11

almost. There's some simple furniture,

30:13

some couches arranged, some small tables. Looks

30:15

like a hosting space. There's a chandelier

30:17

in the center that the orb

30:19

is kind of rotating around like a and

30:21

ghostbusters. Oh yes. You can see on

30:23

the opposite end there's a staircase that descends to

30:25

a floor and there is

30:27

a staircase not completely across

30:29

the way. but maybe about

30:31

a third across the chamber

30:33

to the right -hand side

30:35

that looks like it curves upward.

30:37

There are two vases that

30:39

flank the staircase that leads

30:41

up like tall beautiful vases,

30:44

nothing in them. and

30:46

that's kind of the gist of the chamber

30:48

that you're in in now. Okay, And on

30:51

the upper floor, like up the stairs, can

30:53

we see any doorways or or like that

30:55

up on the upper level? Unfortunately,

30:57

no, it's blocked off from the ceiling, it's

31:00

just like the, just each segmented separate floor

31:02

of the tower. see, I see, All you see

31:04

is see is the that kind of spirals up

31:06

and vanishes into an enclosed hall that leads

31:08

you to the upper floors. Got it. Bing

31:11

says, I I think we should go up. We

31:14

take out that orb first. Or Or we

31:16

to get past the orb. Ah, Oh, okay, okay, okay.

31:18

I can distract it. it with

31:20

some cantrips. And And I cover us

31:22

with darkness on the stairs if if you can both

31:24

remember. But we, yeah, I don't know if to we'll anything.

31:26

That might be a disaster. Yeah, but we can look

31:28

at the stairs and remember where they are. We

31:30

know how to get upstairs. There might be other traps,

31:32

but we can just keep checking to see if

31:34

there's any traps on the stairs. and just

31:38

fumble way up up. Leon, your plan

31:40

again I I can

31:42

I could distract the orb we just run upstairs. I don't

31:44

think we need the darkness. Okay,

31:46

give it a shot. All right.

31:48

I'm cast mage Hand just kind

31:51

of like Lead the

31:53

orb on a goose chase in the

31:55

in the sky like the same, sir following

31:57

same circular path as the orb is

31:59

my Mage Hand. Okay, a mage hand legend, your

32:01

mage hand is invisible. Oh, okay. If you

32:03

a book Can I make

32:05

my mage hand visible for the purposes of

32:07

this? you want to, yeah. I'm gonna cast

32:09

visible mage hand. Okay. it's the

32:11

maichan appears, the orb rotates

32:13

it and another like two dozen,

32:15

three dozen books just colliding

32:18

in the air where is like impacting

32:20

Not or tumbling to the ground They're

32:22

creating an orb crushing where the

32:24

hand would be So as that

32:26

happening, we go for it. go upstairs. We

32:29

can certainly try. We certainly try. We're gonna,

32:31

we're gonna, sit gonna sit down quietly as

32:33

possible. All right, so for this, all

32:35

of you. trying desperately to avoid

32:37

detection by this as you head towards the

32:39

two large vases and the staircase that

32:41

ascends. I need all three of you to make

32:43

a stealth check for me. All right. This

32:47

is is the advantage because you

32:49

are in a more interior the ring not

32:51

80. It's a 14 for me. for me

32:53

22 It's a two for me. All

32:55

right, so. the two of you

32:57

dart towards the edge where the

32:59

vases are and

33:01

kind of head up the stairs. Key,

33:04

you go running. Technically it's a seven.

33:06

was wrong. it's a seven. Okay, still. I

33:08

know it's bad. It is bad, but not

33:10

as bad. You running carefully

33:13

as you can. Your rain boots,

33:15

unfortunately, hitting marble floor, so it

33:18

out and you slide and

33:20

slip for a second, catching

33:22

yourself before like completely collapsing into

33:24

the ground. But as you

33:26

catch yourself, you look over your

33:28

shoulder and the eye rotates you

33:30

and the orb of books breaks apart into

33:32

a cloud and they start swarming in your

33:34

direction. What are you doing? Can

33:37

I firebolt at the books? You

33:39

can, yeah, go ahead and roll go ahead and They're waiting on a paper. So

33:43

I roll a 20 or 10. Just Roll a d20

33:45

add your spell modifier,

33:47

which should be on your sheet. Okay,

33:50

so it's 17 plus eight,

33:52

so. 25 all right

33:54

that definitely hits. So go ahead and

33:56

roll damage on your firebolt should

33:58

be be a 2d10, I believe. There you go. There

34:03

you go. 13, great. So you

34:05

launch this firebolt at this cloud of

34:07

books that's just rocketing towards you as

34:09

it impacts. As it spurs flame. A number

34:12

of the books just ignite

34:15

a blast of flame. There are

34:17

tattered pages then falling and cascading

34:19

around you. It does manage to

34:21

lessen the impact. The rest of

34:23

them still clatter towards you and

34:25

you take four points of bludgeoning

34:28

damage as you are impacted by the

34:30

rest of the books that weren't

34:32

quite fully damaged, but you definitely lessen

34:34

the impact before they slammed into

34:36

you. All right, all

34:38

right. So, right. I'm adding

34:41

this to my P. I'm now

34:43

at 18 out of 22 hit points. So

34:45

this orb is out of reach, right? Of

34:47

Of melee reach. It's about

34:49

maybe, I'd say, 10 feet up.

34:51

The two of us got hit it with

34:53

your Of tuba's got up already. Yeah.

34:55

We're out of there. You You

34:57

at the stairs and you hear this

34:59

sound. You're up and then things have

35:01

gone wrong behind you. We hear ki.

35:03

Ki is, okay. Okay, so Bing draws his

35:05

sword and he just yells out at

35:08

the orb over here. As you As

35:10

you shout that, the

35:13

orb orb in your direction as

35:15

well. The books that are

35:17

already impacted stay on the ground.

35:19

You watch as more off

35:21

the shelf and they both divide

35:23

going towards each of you. I

35:25

need you both to make dexterity saving

35:28

throws for me, please. So roll a d20 add

35:30

your dexterity saving throws. Okay. It's

35:32

an 18 for me. Great. 13. 13.

35:34

13, okay. He he to get

35:36

12. So the books go

35:38

towards you. You both dive out of the way.

35:40

You, as you kind of pull back into

35:42

the hall, it it dexterity smashes against the stone.

35:44

You watch as they recoil. You duck out and it it

35:47

smashes the massive vase that's right behind you.

35:49

It hits the ground, you know. As you

35:51

kind of stand there with the sound, you

35:53

glance over. The shards

35:55

of the vase reveal

35:57

a body. It

36:00

was like the vase? or in

36:02

the vase. The orb

36:05

is still now it's kind of hovering around and

36:07

it's kind of still glancing down at the movement of

36:09

the two of you. What are you doing? Um,

36:13

Do I I have like, I can take

36:15

like communication, right? Leon, or a thing back at Leon

36:17

and what Leon is doing. Well

36:19

Leon is looking at looks at the body. What What is this body? What

36:22

do I body? the What do I see on

36:24

the body? In the the midst of

36:26

this chaos, you glance down at the body and

36:28

you see a figure that is bloodied. Freshly.

36:31

And they are adorned in

36:34

the recognizable

36:36

of the Thornhold Keep guards.

36:40

Alive dead? Very much not

36:42

moving and covered in blood. Okay. Okay. Well,

36:45

so Bing is of at

36:47

the base of the stairs. Leon, or a little further

36:49

up the stairs, and Ki is still over where we

36:51

first came in. And there's books.

36:53

Oh I'm a little, I'm by the vase you're by the

36:56

way, So we're at the stairs So is

36:58

just like up the stairs and And he goes up

37:00

the stairs as fast as he can. we're not

37:02

doing casting darkness anymore. We're just going up the

37:04

fricking stairs. All right, here we go. Yeah,

37:06

Leon some invisible Mage Hand

37:08

to in the pockets of

37:10

this guard see if there's anything interesting

37:13

on his body and anything that would...

37:15

Anything, really. Sure, really. Sure, okay. go ahead

37:17

and make an and make an check for

37:19

check for me. 13.

37:24

13. There's

37:26

a pouch of a handful of coins.

37:28

It looks to be a a short sword

37:30

was sheathed on them. It

37:32

looks like most anything else of interest has

37:34

either been taken or they didn't have on them

37:36

at the time. But

37:39

the outskirts of casting this in the space, the orb

37:41

does take notice of you. I need you to

37:43

make a dexterity saving for me. The

37:45

hand, by the way, takes the gold, of

37:47

course. I understand, yeah. That's four gold. Cool.

37:51

21, yeah. 21, yeah. You

37:53

just dodge out of the

37:55

way as the book slams and the

37:58

other vase, which is mercifully Okay.

38:00

Huh. But dart back

38:02

up the stairs and as you all

38:04

begin to to up to the third

38:06

floor of this tower, you can hear

38:09

the books resetting and quiet to take the chamber.

38:12

Bing says, I I never did like

38:14

libraries. Dang. Mm-hmm. right,

38:16

we go upstairs. All

38:19

right, next floor you come into. while

38:22

the previous one was kind of like

38:24

a a parlor entryway, this one feels like

38:26

it is a music hosting room.

38:28

You see a massive grand piano that

38:30

sits on the opposite side of the

38:32

room. It looks like there is

38:34

a stocked bar that

38:37

magically lit across the way. There

38:39

is, opposed to the general single of

38:41

spiral stairs, there is a

38:43

wide thick set of stairs across on

38:45

the opposite side of the

38:48

room that heads up and and

38:50

in two directions, like great Gatsby staircase style

38:52

vanishes into what would be the floor above.

38:55

Here this room, there's like open dance

38:57

floor sort of aesthetic to it.

38:59

This is a place to hold

39:01

parties. This is a place to

39:03

to guests up to mingle and drinks

39:05

and cocktails. You can

39:08

see there's like

39:11

statues and brass art pieces that

39:13

are on displays small pedestals and

39:15

kind of carved alcoves the sides

39:17

of the interior. You're also getting

39:19

the feeling which is odd. This

39:22

isn't massively wide, but now that

39:24

you've been in a few chambers, it

39:26

feels like these rooms are larger

39:29

than they should be given well you've

39:31

cased the structure from the outside. So

39:35

Bing looks across the dance floor, is

39:37

the piano, where is it situated in the

39:39

room? It's directly in

39:41

the center. It's kind of put

39:43

in a corner, I I

39:45

want to say opposite, but almost like a catty

39:47

corner to the staircase so

39:49

that the acoustics the room, when you do see now, just look

39:51

at the ceiling, it's almost like a a domed ceiling,

39:53

so the acoustics will carry it throughout the chamber,

39:56

which also probably makes conversation horrible.

39:59

It's kind of whispered. and everywhere. And is there there's there's

40:01

that the keep going up, right? They do.

40:03

do the So right, right, right. right, right, right,

40:05

okay. So makes his way over to

40:07

the piano and sees if he

40:09

can detect anything strange about it. Sure.

40:11

Sure. Make a a perception or check. It's

40:16

going to be or so that's

40:18

a 13. It's a 13.

40:21

I Piano to be a

40:23

a pretty cool piano. It's very well kept

40:25

well tuned. Bing does not play piano, and he

40:27

just kind of like a few keys at random.

40:30

Okay. ding, ding, ding, ding.

40:32

Okay. as

40:35

you do that. in the silence

40:37

of this chamber, two of the brass

40:39

statues like in

40:41

your direction. Looking

40:43

at these, they look of

40:46

interpretive, strange busts. but

40:48

now that they can turn in your

40:50

direction as opposed to facing away, they are

40:52

originally facing the wall, you can see that

40:54

they have a reptilian sort

40:57

of expression upon them. And

40:59

both of them have these

41:01

marble -like eyes set within the stone. As

41:03

they both turn, you

41:06

kind of over and look at them. each

41:08

I need you to make the constitution saving throw

41:10

me. Okay, first thing, just really quickly pulls

41:12

the lid down on the piano. That's

41:18

going to be a 14. A

41:20

14. You feel like

41:22

some sort of magical influence strikes into

41:24

your body, and for a brief

41:26

moment, all of your muscles begin to

41:28

tense, the tendons begin to pull tight.

41:30

It's almost like something is is

41:33

you in the moment, but

41:35

you are a fairly hardy individual. and

41:38

you've endured the elements both magically

41:40

and otherwise a number of times,

41:42

and you manage to shrug it

41:44

off and regain that mobility as

41:46

they shift back. and here in this still

41:48

silence. You

41:50

gather that maybe is

41:52

a drawing factor. So

41:56

looks at Leon and Key and

41:58

he makes a gesture. like

42:01

silently and he then he holds his hand

42:03

finger up to his lips so he any

42:05

kind of takes his arms across

42:08

his chest to indicate kind of

42:10

binding and points to the stairs Leon,

42:12

yeah, points up like it. Let's

42:14

get the f out of here. So

42:16

So he begins to, being to move very

42:18

quietly and slowly across the the

42:21

floor toward the Okay, as you drop down and

42:23

begin crawling you now have a

42:25

a lower perspective and you can see

42:27

the number of like futons and

42:29

Kind of lounge Chairs that are spread

42:31

the space you move past and

42:33

look and you can see something

42:36

underneath one of these futons. I I

42:39

guess I closer. You carefully

42:42

forward and you can see there's

42:44

a red smear across the ground and

42:46

and up to where this is. there

42:48

is a body that has been

42:51

hidden beneath this particular Food

42:53

on okay, I'm Bing over

42:55

as quietly as you

42:57

can to further.

42:59

Okay this figure

43:01

is also wearing the breastplate

43:03

and armored garb of

43:05

a thorn hold guard.

43:08

he leaves it doesn't touch it at

43:10

all and keeps moving toward the stairs. Okay, rest

43:12

of you follow soon. Mm -hmm. Okay Slowly

43:16

move across I'm

43:20

just gonna have all three of you roll a d20 for me. for me.

43:22

Okay, just don't. ominous.

43:24

You're trying to roll four

43:26

or higher if anybody rolls 17

43:29

13 11 Okay,

43:32

so as a troop with

43:34

the knowledge and the The

43:36

face tanking of the magical

43:38

of this chamber you

43:41

together to coordinate a very careful

43:43

and plot exit out until you

43:45

get to the The rising staircase

43:47

that divides into directions It

43:49

is carpeted across the hardwood base, which

43:51

makes it a little easier from making any

43:54

noise as you ascend it as well Stepping

43:57

forward, upward upward uh It it

43:59

splits into two pads and then

44:01

kind of gathers on the

44:03

second on the the floor at

44:06

this point um what meets

44:08

you here is a vibrant

44:10

interior garden uh as you

44:12

step past that split this

44:14

entire floor is just a

44:16

botanical garden uh the ceiling

44:19

itself is just vines and

44:21

ivy and there are glass

44:23

enclosures that contain beautifully vibrant

44:25

flowers and various exotic plants

44:27

that you've never encountered and definitely

44:30

not from the Sword Coast of Faerun. you

44:32

can see there

44:34

are uh planters and

44:36

and flower boxes

44:39

and they're all just

44:41

clustered with uh

44:43

vibrant and and odd

44:45

very dreamscape-like plants. you also

44:47

hear the silent

44:49

sounds of struggle Oof!

44:53

Hi! Pfft! Pfft!

44:55

um Bing! just

44:58

Yeah, I think kind of moves forward

45:00

pretty quickly to investigate what it is

45:02

Yeah, and try to figure out where

45:04

the sound is coming from yeah

45:06

okay uh you all kind of like

45:08

shift up around the side and can

45:10

hear it coming from across this

45:13

room uh and as you kind of

45:15

divide off to one of the small

45:17

walkways you can see another staircase

45:19

that leads up to the fifth floor

45:21

um and there are two cloaked

45:23

figures that are currently rushing up that

45:25

staircase while a third figure uh stands

45:27

there you see uh a a ebony

45:30

skinned elf with a a

45:32

shock of short blonde hair

45:35

that kind of comes to

45:37

an off-kilter point on the left

45:39

side themselves wearing a dark cloak

45:41

they have a rapier in

45:43

each hand and they currently in

45:45

the process of struggling against

45:48

uh what looks to be

45:50

a uh a moss covered

45:52

stone clay looking humanoid physical

45:54

entity that is just swinging

45:56

massive fists towards it And

45:58

this figure's like, Dodging trying to hold

46:00

it off, like over its shoulder and

46:03

batting the others to continue.

46:06

What do you do? Bing's Bing at the

46:08

two of you and says, looks like we have competition. Yeah,

46:12

can we just ignore those guys and keep on going

46:14

up? and don't think we're gonna be able to ignore this Yes,

46:17

okay So

46:20

woman is fighting this like big moss. Okay, I

46:22

think we should probably, have person

46:24

is we should probably help them

46:26

out. Bing has already drawn his

46:28

sword and attacks the them mean, I wasn't

46:30

gonna help them, but fine, I

46:32

guess. Okay, I

46:35

need you to roll initiative All right.

46:40

13. 19.

46:45

17. All right, so we'll say key

46:47

go, I think you have a higher dexterity than

46:50

Bing so we'll go key

46:52

Leon and Bing. All

46:55

right, so key you're up first. as you

46:57

see the the of the struggle, what do you do? I

47:00

mean, I don't want help, but I'm being socially pressured,

47:02

I guess. You

47:06

still have to. I know, I what mean,

47:08

can, I can, I, hmm,

47:10

Okay, I so

47:12

so we're we're this elf

47:14

somebody we wanna help. The

47:19

elf is alive the other thing is

47:21

is other thing is a problem. I'm

47:23

I'm gonna try to of construct. I'm

47:25

gonna try to attack this construct. Fireball

47:27

you can't really go with firebolt my view. So

47:30

I'm gonna cast Firebolt at it. Okay,

47:33

you cast Firebolt. a fireball you said or fireball bolt bolt.

47:35

okay, Yeah, Just a little guy. You got

47:37

it, so go ahead and roll and roll d20 add

47:39

your spell attack things think it. plus eight you said. Something

47:45

like that. That

47:48

definitely hits. so ahead and roll

47:50

your 2d10 fire damage damage. Well done. This

47:56

entity has a swing its massive this out towards the

47:59

this elf. The elf dodges of the

48:01

way and then gets partially hit by

48:03

one and knocked to knee. Right as

48:05

it brings its up to slam, your

48:07

fireball strikes it the shoulders, just leaving this this

48:09

black dark char mark across its loom it

48:12

does, It's just to look at you.

48:14

And You can see now, it

48:16

is probably an eight -foot

48:18

construct made of clay with

48:20

chunks of stone that are carved

48:22

on it. Its eyes glow of

48:24

an arcane blue light. Its

48:27

face, just this stone-faced set

48:29

expression. as it spins. And

48:32

you watch as

48:34

the stone shifts this liquid clay

48:36

pattern movement of pattern

48:38

movement beneath the shards as

48:40

it now turns to focus on you. Do

48:43

you to stay put or do you want to move somewhere within the

48:45

chamber? I want I want to up

48:47

and stand behind Bing. Ha ha ha ha

48:49

ha ha ha ha I've

48:52

already taken damage today. I don't want to

48:54

take any more. You it. Okay. will

48:56

then bring us to Leon. Yeah,

48:58

I'm going to out my long bow

49:00

and fire at it.

49:03

I guess this be a stink of because

49:05

I don't have advantage yet, but

49:07

for now I'm going to fire at this

49:09

creature. Go for it. All

49:11

righty. 22. 22.

49:13

22? 22. That directly,

49:16

hits as it looks over and faces

49:18

towards Ki, You can see that fists kind

49:20

of clenching and it's about to lumber

49:22

in that direction. As it

49:24

does, your bolt strikes in the center. And and

49:26

you can only maybe see an

49:29

inch or two of it protruding as

49:31

it just dives in deep. As it

49:33

does, you watch as bits of

49:35

that like thick clay kind of like

49:37

spills out, and into puddle on the ground. It

49:40

doesn't slow it down, but it definitely

49:42

left a mark. Nice. My bonus action, I'm gonna

49:44

hide in the shadows. Great. Go go ahead

49:46

and roll a stealth check me. me. All right. 22

49:49

22. You go ahead and dart off into

49:51

one of the nearby bits of brush with the

49:53

of a planner box. It's easy enough for you

49:56

for to dodge in there and kind of off you

49:58

skate you might be The empty doesn't even pay. Pay

50:00

attention to you, it's still focused on ki at the

50:02

moment, so you're pretty well hidden. All right, Bing, you're up.

50:04

up. So rushes toward the construct, which is,

50:06

I think it's pretty close, right?

50:09

About how far away is it? Maybe

50:11

about 20 feet from you, it's pretty

50:13

close. Yeah, feet so he So he 20

50:15

feet quickly, and then he yells, Bing,

50:19

his name, to to enter

50:21

a rage, his bonus action. Alrighty.

50:25

Alrighty. So he is now

50:27

raging, and Storm is active, because

50:29

when cries out Bing activates

50:31

his, enters his rage state,

50:34

you, everybody feels a kind of a cold across

50:37

the room, or at least within

50:39

10 feet of him. And everybody

50:41

within 10 feet of of him gains

50:43

temporary hit points. Oh, great. So So his Storm Aura active,

50:45

he just takes a swing with

50:47

his greatsword at this construct. Oh yeah.

50:49

Bing kind of of echoes the room

50:51

and you swear you hear that rolled

50:53

thunder from outside the tower from

50:55

the storm it seems like to underline the

50:57

shout. Cool. You hear a

50:59

voice from the future, so it's

51:01

Bing. So

51:05

yeah, so Mark, you have three temporary hit points,

51:07

which is kind of like a a hit

51:09

buffer. The next time you take any damage,

51:11

it comes from those first. It's It's kind of like

51:13

a little three hit shield. Nice. Let's

51:16

go ahead roll your attacks. All right,

51:18

so this is going to be,

51:20

I did an attack roll first before

51:22

damage, yes. Okay, so that's Okay, so

51:24

24 definitely hits. hits. Go ahead

51:26

and roll damage. Greatsword is 2d6. Yeah. That's 11. 11

51:29

points of damage. 11 points of damage.

51:32

Heavy strike. you swing past the greatsword, it did

51:34

carves into it. It hits pretty

51:36

hard. It

51:39

shrugs off some of it,

51:41

much like within a bolt in your

51:43

hit. It's taking damage, but

51:45

it also seems to be

51:47

a fairly hardy creature. Not

51:49

unlike you yourself are you are

51:51

conjuring the essence and strength

51:53

of the storm. storm. So, first

51:56

hit definitely leaves a mark, but not as

51:58

heavy a wound as you would have liked.

52:00

So I can take a... second attack. again. So

52:02

he of pulls the sword free and swings again.

52:04

Heck go Yeah, it. Oh,

52:08

that's a natural 20. Ooh, Ooh, okay!

52:10

Critical hit. First crit of a...okay go. So go

52:12

go. and roll ahead and roll

52:14

your dice damage and double what you rolled.

52:19

It's gonna be a 16. All right,

52:21

so the second strike through. At At this point,

52:23

a big chunk of the stone armor

52:25

that's built within its clay form of like

52:27

shears off and hits the ground shattering.

52:30

A big element of that kind

52:32

of molten clay also spills with

52:34

it. and you watch as its other

52:36

arm seems to shrink to shift

52:38

matter over to make up for

52:40

now the loss of mass on

52:42

that side. So again, it's still shrugging

52:45

off more than you'd like, but

52:47

each hit is still impacting it.

52:49

Okay, yeah, Bing right up close next to it.

52:51

That That finishes your go. It's now the the

52:54

elf's turn, who you saw when you

52:56

entered, who now you all strike this creature

52:58

and it spin around and goes,

53:00

look at that, it is a great

53:02

fortune our side. Good luck. And he

53:04

just darts up the stairs after the other two that

53:06

vanished. The cloak

53:08

flowing behind them. He

53:10

is unsurprised by this. The

53:14

The now takes its turn, at the

53:16

start of its turn because it it under its

53:18

hit threshold. Okay,

53:20

it does not go berserk. All All right, so the

53:22

creature is go and take and take its attacks. It's

53:25

gonna go ahead and try and focus to

53:27

slam Bing first and then rush past go after Key.

53:29

It has no idea where Leon is at the moment, so

53:31

so Leon those are two targets at the moment. Going

53:33

against you, that's going to be a 17

53:35

to hit. What's your armor class? 16. 16, so

53:38

it hits you. All right, so the slam attack

53:40

on this is a, it's not an

53:42

insignificant amount of damage. Okay,

53:44

that's gonna be, 20

53:47

points of bludgeoning damage to you,

53:49

but you take half that you are raging.

53:51

Oh, nice. so that would be, so

53:53

that's 10 10 points and then 3 with the current HP. I

53:56

get the bonus to that too, right, when

53:58

I'm raging? Yeah, I guess the Both of you

54:00

are just meat shields. You're just each other. Seven,

54:03

okay, cool. All right, and also I need you to

54:05

make a constitution throw for me. Oh,

54:10

Oh, that's gonna be pretty good. That is a

54:12

21. 21, the The blow slams

54:15

into your chest and pushes you

54:17

back and you hold strong. And

54:19

as you kind of look at it and smile you try

54:21

to inhale, it's like, like it stole, like it knocked the

54:23

wind out of you in a way that

54:25

you weren't expecting. You

54:27

to shrug it off, but

54:29

something about its impact

54:31

beyond just trying to

54:33

leave a mark. and

54:35

it shakes you a little bit. And

54:38

as you kind of take this in, it uses

54:40

the momentum of the first swing to keep

54:42

running forward and come after you. You do get

54:44

an attack of on it as it leaves your

54:46

melee. Okay. Pfft.

54:48

Natural Natural 20. Dang! Dang!

54:51

That's how you do this. Okay, go ahead and

54:53

roll your dice again. Make up

54:55

for that grappling hook. Yeah, yeah. I

54:57

think you not like getting hit by that. one. That's

55:00

a 20 damage. 20 damage. What? What?

55:02

Shh! As it rushes past, your blade

55:04

carves into its back and and actually

55:07

stuck and you see it goes running, it stops

55:09

for a second and head of of like, pfft,

55:12

pfft, back in your direction as you pull

55:14

the blade out and kind of stumble back to

55:16

catch it from the momentum. Its head pfft, pfft, back

55:18

and charging towards Ki. You,

55:21

Ki, that is gonna be to hit.

55:23

11 to hit. Okay. You

55:26

fall just misses you! Beautiful.

55:28

That's great. great. love We love that. Heavy swing out

55:30

you and you just barely duck out of

55:32

the way. Slow motion

55:34

the knuckles just bypass

55:36

your face like a

55:38

tree just narrowly smashing your

55:41

head against the wall. As

55:44

you kind of pull back and almost

55:46

stumble off of your your heel as you catch

55:48

yourself as the massive entities now there in front

55:50

of you and you swear your heel this like

55:52

rumble in its chest down with proximity, like, ahhhh.

55:56

That's gonna finish its go. That brings us back to

55:58

the top the round key. you are up. All right, right,

56:01

so I mean, this thing

56:03

seems pretty strong. I feel like now it's

56:05

gotta be magic time, right? I mean, I I

56:07

don't know. Maybe I'll save that. What

56:09

do you guys think? I'll just do it. just do it close

56:11

enough that Ki can't get away, get

56:13

like put distance between her and it? Yeah,

56:15

you want to Cause pretty squishy, so I. Much

56:19

like how you were able to strike it as

56:21

it left your melee range, if you were to

56:23

leave its melee range, it would get one attack

56:25

and on you as you do so. So

56:28

So, unless you have misty step. I

56:30

do have Misty Step. You do. Hey. So

56:33

can do that on top of casting a

56:35

cantrip like Firebolt if you want to. Okay, up

56:37

to you it seems good So just cast fire

56:39

bolt again and then do a misty step away

56:42

Sure. All right, let's do that. All right, so

56:44

go ahead and roll attack for your Firebolt. So

56:46

it's a D20, firstly. That's

56:50

a 19. But I add eight.

56:52

whatever, three, modifier. I eight. I

56:54

Yeah, plus eight. Phew, for all the of those,

56:56

that definitely hits. All

56:59

All a so nine points of fire

57:01

damage. Okay, cool. right, points so So you

57:03

go ahead and fire this fire

57:05

bolt into it. And you're near blank as

57:07

you just release it. You see

57:09

this kind of concave blast

57:11

crater where the bolt hit of the

57:13

charred black emanating from that space

57:15

as it kind of takes a minute to resolve

57:17

that impact. impact. As it

57:19

pulls its fists up, it gets itself ready

57:21

to slam with a double hammer blow

57:23

on top as you misty

57:25

out of the way and appear else in the chamber.

57:28

I mean, I to go

57:30

behind a planter like did because I

57:32

gotta get out of here, man.

57:34

Ha Ha ha. ha I

57:36

to get away from this thing. This is

57:38

all Bing's job And I didn't even know we we

57:40

run into something this. You it. So

57:43

appear of in a cluster

57:46

of bushes near of the planters off to the

57:48

side of the staircase that that descends upward, kind

57:50

of of near Bing in the middle of that fray.

57:53

Taking that moment to crouch down and

57:55

hopefully not attention in the moment. but finish your

57:57

turn. Bing your head. The end is going to

57:59

sneak attack. on guy. Yes you

58:01

can. Go ahead and make that strike.

58:03

All right. Is

58:05

this with advantage? is with advantage, because it doesn't see you, doesn't

58:07

know where you are. you are. Mm-hmm. Mm.

58:10

Mm. Mm. Mm. Mm.

58:14

Mm. Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm. -hmm. 14 to Mm hit. Mm. hell? 14

58:16

is exactly its armor class, that is. Ah. So as

58:18

you kind of go up, you go

58:20

to aim where you thought it was

58:22

and you see that it's moved over

58:24

there and you watch cages vanish reappear and in confusion,

58:27

you of have to readjust where you were

58:29

aiming and you just managed to catch

58:31

it and of at the base of where

58:33

the clay neck is. Nice. So you go ahead and

58:35

roll your roll your damage with your sneak

58:37

attack. Mm-hmm, mm -hmm, mm -hmm. So that's

58:39

an extra extra three d6s. It is. Can

58:41

I have a couple of your your d6s? Oh

58:44

for sure. I I a bunch. Here,

58:46

take two of these. Okay. All

58:49

right. 16

58:53

damage total. points of damage, heavy

58:55

strike. Like, Nice. This

58:57

particular arrow, just of carves through

58:59

the air, like passing through and

59:01

around various like burn extensions and a little

59:03

middle of this clustered space and and it

59:05

sinks deep into the chest and

59:08

emerges part way out other side as

59:10

it does, there's like the piercing

59:12

of the clay as it hardens

59:14

around the impact and the

59:16

creature creature kind of like, head head up

59:18

in your direction and over towards

59:20

you. Rrrrrrrrr. You

59:23

just nod, way. Yeah, as my bonus. my bonus, as my

59:25

bonus, I'm I'm gonna hide again. All right, go

59:28

ahead and roll stealth. So

59:30

dive back into the bush and begin

59:32

scattering amongst the nearby planet.

59:34

16. 16, okay. okay, good

59:37

enough. Okay, so you dive into

59:39

the shadows in the brush, to

59:41

stay hidden. That finishes your go. Bing,

59:44

you're up. All right, Bing realizes he should have been

59:46

adding two damage to his strength but that's okay. Oh,

59:48

Oh, I can note that, I note that. Okay,

59:52

Bing Bing right

59:54

nearby. He just takes another swing. All right, charges

59:56

behind it and strikes. Go for

59:58

it. Mm-hmm. So that's a a 23. 23. 23

1:00:00

definitely hits, go ahead and roll

1:00:02

damage. So

1:00:07

points of damage. Six points of damage, you it,

1:00:09

OK. And you have your second attack as well.

1:00:11

Yes. This one kind of cleans off the

1:00:13

side, not a heavy hit, and you follow it up a

1:00:15

little little bit with a secondary swing. That's

1:00:18

gonna be a 12. 12, much

1:00:20

better. This one sinks in

1:00:22

very deep. and And the blade is

1:00:24

there, you can feel that vibration on

1:00:26

the blade, almost like within the set

1:00:28

chest of this clay form, there's something

1:00:30

holding it together that is causing this

1:00:32

kind of weird vibration to your weapon in

1:00:35

proximity. Thank you. You your blade

1:00:37

free. And And I believe that concludes

1:00:39

your turn. Let's see how some of your bonus. No, that's it.

1:00:41

All right, it's now its go. After that secondary

1:00:43

swing, and you are no longer in its range,

1:00:45

and it can't even see where you are, Leon.

1:00:47

Yeah, like, Ki and Leon out of its periphery. It's

1:00:49

just going spin around. It doesn't even turn,

1:00:51

like its Its of reform in

1:00:53

the opposite direction, and it's going

1:00:56

to wail on you being strike

1:00:58

on you. That's going to

1:01:00

be a 22 to hit. to hit. The 16 ACs.

1:01:03

ACs. Yeah, and a 24 a 24 to hit. They

1:01:05

both hit you. Oh, great. first

1:01:07

strike is going to be

1:01:09

14 points of bludgeoning damage reduced

1:01:11

to seven. And

1:01:14

oh, that's going to

1:01:17

be 18 points of bludgeoning damage

1:01:19

reduced to nine. So a total of

1:01:21

16 points of damage to you from that round. I

1:01:24

need you to make two more constitution throws

1:01:26

for me. That

1:01:32

was like an 11. OK. And

1:01:35

And... oh, a six.

1:01:38

As with the modifier? Oh yeah,

1:01:40

with with my modifier. OK. The

1:01:43

first blow you kind of like on the

1:01:45

side and it and it you off and

1:01:47

then Your rings a bit on that side

1:01:49

as it batters you with one fist.

1:01:51

other wham Cracks you on

1:01:53

the side of the head, right Where the

1:01:56

the are the face near

1:01:58

the temple as well. Like massive batting ram it

1:02:01

hits. The ringing fills your mind, and

1:02:03

you feel that, like the air being sucked

1:02:05

out of your body again. That

1:02:07

second hit was for points of damage.

1:02:09

Your maximum hit points are reduced

1:02:11

by nine. Oh boy Okay, So even when

1:02:13

you heal up, you can't heal your

1:02:15

nine hit points lower than

1:02:18

your maximum. Wow, okay. It

1:02:21

that shakes you a bit. The idea

1:02:23

that some of your vitality has been

1:02:25

siphoned, or who knows how long, but

1:02:27

it's readying itself another round of pummeling You're

1:02:30

up next. You see this impact have

1:02:32

a profound and strange effect on being who kind

1:02:34

of grasps his chest and pain and in a way

1:02:36

you haven't seen before. What are you doing?

1:02:39

I? I mean, I I

1:02:41

don't know. I I I in got it I

1:02:44

I'm at this point, so

1:02:46

I am gonna give a

1:02:48

more powerful attack. I'm for

1:02:50

it. I want do to do a

1:02:52

freaking You're gonna do

1:02:54

a fireball in this boy. I don't know,

1:02:56

why not? sure all all right. Let's

1:02:58

do it. Let's see what happens. You

1:03:01

you you at the chamber, you see Bing's

1:03:03

proximity to this creature. The fireball

1:03:05

is a large blast radius 20 radius. It will

1:03:07

fill the majority of this chamber. So

1:03:10

you're gonna have to do a little bit of math here to

1:03:12

to from hitting your

1:03:14

friends, Uh-huh, which impossible. I'll

1:03:17

say go ahead and make make

1:03:21

a perception or an arcana check for

1:03:23

me, your choice. Okay, So it's a

1:03:25

d20 and then I'll d20 and then add one to the

1:03:27

other, whichever is higher. Right

1:03:32

20 d20, let's do All right,

1:03:34

great. so about nervously you

1:03:36

feel that that frustration and

1:03:38

you glance up and see the roof of

1:03:40

this room is just enough at a height that

1:03:42

if you were to strike it in the center

1:03:44

in the blast were to explode out, it would hit

1:03:47

the creature and would barely avoid

1:03:49

being long as Bing doesn't jump. With

1:03:52

that, you concentrate and

1:03:54

and unleash bead of

1:03:56

condensed arcane flame up towards

1:03:58

the top as it strikes

1:04:00

strikes, flashes. There's a

1:04:02

moment of silence before it. Blah! Explodes,

1:04:06

filling the chamber with

1:04:08

vibrant, bright flame. Go

1:04:10

ahead and roll 8d6 damage. And

1:04:14

out. Yeah, do we

1:04:16

even have one of those? Oh yeah. Ha

1:04:18

ha ha. The construct definitely

1:04:20

fails in dexterity saving room.

1:04:22

Ha ha ha. Blah!

1:04:24

All right, here

1:04:26

we 22, 23. 23 points of fire

1:04:28

damage. We it. do

1:04:31

you wanna do this? Describe to

1:04:33

me how your fireball consumes

1:04:35

and destroys this construct. Oh, it's

1:04:37

gonna destroy it? You've the

1:04:39

final blow. All right, so

1:04:41

the little the embers are

1:04:43

gonna be like firework -esque

1:04:45

and cascade down and it's

1:04:47

clay So it's just gonna

1:04:49

melt Just be like this

1:04:51

gooey puddle of clay that

1:04:53

just is on the ground

1:04:55

and I'm gonna be like

1:04:57

yeah! Ha ha ha. Maybe a

1:04:59

little too loudly. Ha ha

1:05:01

ha. love it, that's great.

1:05:03

I just shout, yeah! The

1:05:06

kind of descending in the

1:05:08

creature kind of falls and

1:05:10

boils and coalesces in this odd

1:05:12

pile of bubbling brown slop.

1:05:14

All right, surrounding, yeah. The

1:05:16

surrounding vegetation, of course, is

1:05:18

incinerated and blackened. Like, a good

1:05:20

section of this beautiful garden

1:05:22

chamber is now blackened cinders.

1:05:24

Not to mention that the

1:05:27

sound of the detonation. has definitely

1:05:29

reverberated and echoed throughout the tower. You

1:05:31

swear you hear this distant

1:05:33

sound of like an arcane

1:05:35

alarm. It's like whoop, whoop.

1:05:37

Oh, whoop, whoop.

1:05:39

Bing sort of plants his sword and pulls himself

1:05:41

up. He's still a little bit shook. He says, I

1:05:43

think they might have heard that. Ha ha ha. Whoop,

1:05:47

whoop, whoop. feels bad, but doesn't to

1:05:49

admit it and just standing there

1:05:51

silently. Guys, we gotta go. There's

1:05:53

another Thieve party that's now got

1:05:55

a head start on us. So

1:05:57

we gotta get back up there. So

1:06:00

being of puts his sword back to his

1:06:02

back and begins heading the stairs. Yeah, we

1:06:05

head upstairs. Okay. You

1:06:07

dart up the staircase like following the

1:06:09

student as you rush into the next

1:06:11

chamber on the fifth floor. Yeah, this

1:06:14

would be be the fifth floor, I I think. You

1:06:16

head in there, and this is a brass

1:06:20

art decor cluster.

1:06:24

There are multiple pillars with statues

1:06:26

busts all around them. You can

1:06:28

see there are multiple levels with

1:06:30

small miniature that lead to sitting

1:06:32

arrangements. The

1:06:34

further in you look, it looks

1:06:36

like there is a small

1:06:38

laboratory. There are a number

1:06:40

of tables with alchemical contraptions

1:06:43

and odd sparking, kind

1:06:47

of magic tech-looking devices

1:06:49

that light up

1:06:51

that portion of the

1:06:53

room. There

1:06:56

is another, not a staircase,

1:06:58

but a heavy platinum

1:07:01

and brass ladder that leads up to

1:07:03

the floor beyond. And there

1:07:06

you can see there are three

1:07:08

cloaked figures that are in

1:07:10

the process of battling another one

1:07:12

of those clay stone-based stone -based creatures.

1:07:14

Right as you rush in,

1:07:16

you can see them dealing the

1:07:18

final blow to it as it slowly

1:07:22

out to the floor and begins dripping the

1:07:24

stairs towards the central part of

1:07:26

the chamber. can see a number

1:07:28

of these pillars have been toppled and cracked. You can

1:07:30

see these of these art pieces have been shattered

1:07:32

on the ground. In the

1:07:34

air, too, there are these little sparking

1:07:36

wisps of white energy, like dandelions blown

1:07:38

in the sky and they just of drift

1:07:40

on an unseen wind. Bing

1:07:44

drinks the health potion that he's carrying, the

1:07:46

potion of greater healing, just

1:07:48

as they're kind of going up the stairs

1:07:50

and taking in this scene. Got it, So go ahead

1:07:52

and roll roll the hit points for that one, I think it's

1:07:54

D4. it's 4d4 plus

1:07:56

4. Got it. Alright, so it's 484 plus 4.

1:07:58

Got it. I

1:08:02

hate d4. They're

1:08:04

the worst of all the days. Not

1:08:07

too bad. Actually almost to

1:08:09

my to my new maximum HP. We

1:08:14

go up to the other

1:08:16

adventurers and say, hey y'all. As

1:08:19

they turn towards you, you

1:08:21

can see one of them

1:08:23

who has this like mask

1:08:26

across their head, immediately

1:08:29

whistles

1:08:32

and to climb the ladder, looking

1:08:34

down as the other two kind of and

1:08:36

defend as they are starting to climb

1:08:38

up themselves. The one at of them on the elf that

1:08:40

you saw goes, I appreciate the

1:08:42

help back there, but but I you know, being

1:08:46

it is, I guess this

1:08:48

makes us rivals, right? Bing

1:08:50

says, I I don't know, maybe we're here for

1:08:52

different things. The

1:08:54

voice of god goes, I don't think that's

1:08:57

the case. You see the

1:08:59

figure on the top, female formant, like leather

1:09:01

armor, the cloak over there, the bandana

1:09:03

on the side, can see the

1:09:05

horn kind of curled up on this

1:09:07

side, the deep red skin and the

1:09:09

shock of purple hair. Could it

1:09:11

be you, Biana?

1:09:15

You let me

1:09:18

die. I

1:09:22

everything I could to keep you

1:09:24

from how, how is this possible? Shadow Shadow

1:09:26

thieves to have been a bigger friend

1:09:28

than my own brother. Bing's

1:09:31

drops and just speechless. You

1:09:34

can see You can see like, can hear

1:09:37

the metal rung of the ladder like creaking

1:09:39

her fist tenses against it. The

1:09:41

two other thieves, you can now see

1:09:43

there's the elf there and the other one

1:09:45

that around is this kind of rugged looking halfling

1:09:47

with a massive like scar across jaw and face.

1:09:49

What What do you want to do, boss? I

1:09:56

don't know, maybe let them deal with

1:09:58

the dangers of the chamber. And she goes. pulls small

1:10:00

orb from her pouch and tosses it in

1:10:02

the middle of the room. As

1:10:06

it arcs through the air and

1:10:08

lands in the center, it

1:10:10

shatters the bright flash that

1:10:12

of you can't help but

1:10:14

to protect yourselves as the

1:10:16

space settles for a

1:10:18

moment. see this one of

1:10:20

the art pieces in the

1:10:23

middle. It was this

1:10:25

glass orb that contained a

1:10:27

glowing yellow energy, to

1:10:29

have shattered, and from

1:10:31

it this yellowish ooze begins

1:10:34

to gather up into

1:10:36

some sort of aggressive

1:10:39

sentience. The other group

1:10:41

begins to climb the ladder behind her and she

1:10:43

goes, well, I guess I'll race

1:10:45

you to the top. As she

1:10:47

climbs and descends to the next chamber, this

1:10:50

massive ochre begins to

1:10:52

slowly lumber in

1:10:54

your direction. And

1:11:02

I think that is

1:11:05

we're going to pick up on our next session.

1:11:07

Beautiful. Beautiful.

1:11:10

Beautiful. Yay. up

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Maddie Myers and me, Kirk

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Hamilton. I edited and the show

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Can we face the future while

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exercising the ghosts of our past? Find

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out next month on the grand finale

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of Triple Quest.