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the grand finale

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of Triple Quest. I'm

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Maddie Myers. I'm Jason

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Shire. Jason Schreyer, I'm

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Kirk And I'm I'm Matthew

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Mercer. and this is triple

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quest. This is triple

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quest. This is triple quest.

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Last we left off

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this trio of odd burglars

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if you will had

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once found themselves scattered to

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the four winds after

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a theft gone wrong, left

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one of their kind

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publicly executed, and the rest

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of them sent off.

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Until eventually, Destiny came calling

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and brought them back together.

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As Evix the Vice. We've

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got an opportunity. A

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strange kind of gravel-voiced figure

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called them in for

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one more job. One of

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her crowning keepsakes with the

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bracelet of the emol- They

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were sent off to the dwarf and

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keep of thornhold by the mere of

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dead men in the north Here in

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recent years the dwarf and lady Obila

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Amberthak had been married into the Margister

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family and had kind of taken over

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Throw them out you have been hired

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to infiltrate this keep by whatever means

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you felt necessary Clamber into the heights

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of her tower and steal from her

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a singular artifact a beautiful polished silver

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bracelet imbued with ten green emeralds Bring

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this back and you would be paid

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handsomely for this as such you all

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set off to Thornhold itself That are

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some conversations and infiltration masquerading yourselves as

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traveling merchants. You'll always feel that you're

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breakfast was well cooked if you have

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this little box in your possession. Sending

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off various distractions by lighting your merchantile

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on fire into the nearby forest. Nice

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work, Keith. I do what I do.

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What can I say? Sneaking into the

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odd shadows, making some friends amongst the

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nearby guards. infiltrating the

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tower the tower You begin

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to discover that

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perhaps you are the

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only one seeking

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to steal within. seeking

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You found other You found

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inside, inside, slaughtered or

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or and hidden and

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or dead, or dead? Very

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much not moving and

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covered in blood. in

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You began to

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encounter traps and dangers

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that were set

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within this tower the

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further you tower further you

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climbed to find this

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other rival group

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of thieves. thieves. appreciate

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the help back there,

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but back know, you know...

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guess this makes

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us rivals, right? us rivals,

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to chase on their tail,

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to seems the leader revealed

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it be none other, but

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to be none lost sister. The

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lost sister? Biana? but now

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before you, alive, now

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and you, alive and apparently bitter. You

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let me die. As she and her As she

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and her troop of two

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other thieves clamber ahead of you

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up this tower, tower, You all

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race to keep up and figure

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out what's going on, and

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if you can still complete your

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job. still before they do it for you. before

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they do it for you. So, Keisandrene,

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Leon Goldpedal, and Bing, being,

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as the three of you

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clamber up up this chamber

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with odd structures and

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pillars and statues around you,

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this around you, this quivering, yellow

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yellow -type creature Slops onto the

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ground and begins to

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quiver and slide across the

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floor between you and

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your quarry that now rushes

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up the spiral staircase. What

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would you like to do? Well,

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I mean, What his sword do? Well, I

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mean, draws his attacks the Biana

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and attacks the creature creature. I'd like

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you all to roll initiative

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if you don't mind all

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to roll initiative, if you don't

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mind. All righty. a got a

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six. 18 for being? Three. All righty.

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So as if the narrative called for

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if the narrative called for it you're

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the first at the the first of the

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top of this initiative order order as

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the strange kind of kind of. begins to

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push in your direction. You take

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out your blade and rush to

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strike it. Are you going to

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just straight up attack it with

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your weapon? Yeah, just a great

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sort of attack. Go for it.

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Go ahead and roll your attack.

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That's gonna be a 10 to

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hit. A 10 hits. It's not

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very difficult to strike. It's a

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large entity and it's not moving

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extremely fast. So you go ahead

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and strike it with your first

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attack. Go ahead and roll damage.

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Strike this creature with your massive

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great-sword blade. Shh! It carves through

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its body, and where it divides

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the wound itself left open and

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shifting, you watch as this massive

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jelly creature continues to split where

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you carved, and then is divided

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into two smaller entities that now

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seem to shift as autonomous separate

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beings. Don't care for it. No

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more slicing this thing, buddy. Not

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as not a fan of us.

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We gotta go fire. Well, Bing

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is unfortunately just, his blood is

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up, so he's gonna take an

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extra attack and attack the one

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to the right. Go for it.

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That is gonna be a 19.

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19 indeed hits, go to roll

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damage for the next strike. That's

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another 10 damage. You carved through

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it again. Which each of these

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strikes it seems like your blade

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isn't quite as impactful on a

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being that is made of a

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gelatinous substance You're carving through it,

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but it seems to almost reform

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around the wound and with that

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second strike on the one on

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the right it too divides into

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two smaller beings God Okay, that'll

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that can be the end of

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my turn All righty finishing up

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Bing's turn the quivering mass of

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dark amber kind of solidified liquid

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aggressively begins to now divide the

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three and now spreading out. The

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two that you've recently divided now,

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under the smallest ones, are going

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to strike towards you being four.

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It's gonna be a 15 to

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hit. What's your armor class? Sixteen.

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Sixteen. You just managed to kind

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of dodge out of the way

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as attempts to strike you with

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one of its pseudopods. and it

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just manages to slap into the

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side of one of the strange

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kind of waist-high decorative boxes with

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no impact. The secondary one's gonna

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go ahead and try and hit

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you from the other side. Same

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role. This one now, you managed

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to deflect with your greatsword blade

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and kind of step back into

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the defensive position. Neither of them

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finding purchase on you. One of

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the kind of medium-sized one that

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you haven't given a second strike

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to. elongates its body to move

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between the slight gap of the

8:47

decor and strike around to where

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Leon is. It's going to attempt

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to strike you with a pseudopod.

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Oh, that's going to be a

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natural 19 for a 22 to

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hit. Okay, that definitely strikes you.

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So, you try and move out

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of the way quickly, but in

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this moment, it seems like this

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slow moving mass moves lightning quick,

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far more than you expected. Far

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more than you expected. Far more

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than you expected. begins to burn

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and sizzle the exterior of your

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flesh. You take six points of

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bludgening damage, which just kind of

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slams you into the side and

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you kind of catch yourself, but

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four points of acid damage. It

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begins to burn and sear the

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outside of your skin. That's the

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worst slap I've ever got. And

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I've gotten a lot of slaps.

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That finishes there, go Lee on

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your up with key on deck.

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All right, Leon is pissed. Leon

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is going to cast magic missile

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on all three of these fuckers.

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And once? P-P-P-P-P-U? Yeah, split them

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up, so it's one for each.

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Perfect. All right, so go, roll

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1D4 plus 1 damage for...

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each of these. these.

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Okay, that's two damage, four

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damage, four damage, All

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and five damage. reach

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your hand out, as you

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briefly your your kind

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of briefly muttering your

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incantation, these spears

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of pure arcane energy up into the

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air of into the air of

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the chamber and then slam

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into the sides of these

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three three jellies. The The smallest

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one that had had attacked being get

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struck seems to almost struck seems to

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almost make a strange, dissolutes into

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a blubber. The other one that got into a puddle. being looks

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like other one that got hit that's near

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being looks like it's barely holding itself

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together, one while the seems to the largest one

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that still stands, of to still have a

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hearty amount of you to it. where you are you

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want to stay where you are, or

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do you want to try and shift around,

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Leon? Leon? So the largest largest one is

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near me if I of within the

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range of like attack get an opportunity move

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away? I try to move away and move

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you can try move away gonna

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kind of look for some, is there like

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a I'm or something that I can hide of

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look for some, is there Oh a pillar or

11:06

something that I can hide behind? in I want

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to try to hide somewhere. add little definitely. There's

11:10

a number of places in the architecture that kind

11:12

of add little pockets and shadows to the and

11:14

So you can dart off to the right -hand

11:16

side and kind of run behind one of

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those. of those. That's what I'm gonna do. I'm going

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to so you can use your bonus action to try and hide,

11:23

go ahead and roll stealth check for me. action to

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try and hide. Go ahead and

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roll a stealth check for me.

11:29

That should be be good. Great.

11:31

All right, that finishes All

11:33

right, that finishes your go ahead and hide ahead

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and hide into the shadows and assume

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that you're fine here. fine here. With that, that,

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we come up to Key's turn. Key,

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what are you doing? are you

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doing? Uh, well, I well, I already cast

11:46

my Fireball last time around, so I'm

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looking at what I got left here

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and we got some got baby. I'm gonna

11:52

go, I'm I mean, I also have

11:54

a I also have a magic missile. Hmm.

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How many, how How many? how many? left?

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How we got left? one We that's... like pretty solid.

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And one that's barely holding on. And

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one that's barely holding on. You could

12:05

do like two and one. Yeah. So

12:07

two of the magic missiles go towards

12:09

the bigger one and one goes towards

12:12

the remaining one. I see this is

12:14

like a math problem. I love this.

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Let's do that. Let's do that. Magic

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missileing it up. All right so go

12:20

ahead and four and two. Great, so

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the first missile that arcs out and

12:25

strikes the one that's barely holding on

12:27

for two points of damage, it blasten

12:29

inside, and it kind of splatters almost

12:31

in Bing's direction, and Bing, you instinctively

12:34

kind of step back out of the

12:36

way as its form kind of splatters

12:38

across one of the nearby, kind of

12:40

knee-high art pieces, and you watch the

12:42

art piece begins to smoke and sizzle.

12:45

The other two slam into the side

12:47

of the largest one, it kind of

12:49

takes the impact and shakes like a

12:51

jello mold before it kind of holds

12:53

itself there, damage but still holding its

12:56

ground. You want to stay putty? You

12:58

want to try and back away or

13:00

move throughout the chamber? I'm going to,

13:02

I'm going to hide also. Okay. All

13:04

right, so you do it off? I

13:07

go behind big. valid all right so

13:09

you go and like hide behind being

13:11

trying to like make your form small

13:13

like you can kind of like the

13:16

Japanese game show where you try and

13:18

fit into the spaces you're just trying

13:20

to not be seen yeah exactly perfect

13:22

all right finishing your turn that brings

13:24

us back to beings go being you

13:27

have the one kind of medium-sized kind

13:29

of quivering mass in front of you

13:31

that looks damaged but still standing you

13:33

get the sense your blade is not

13:35

doing much to it right behind being

13:38

maybe not my greatest hour but That's

13:40

fine. Yeah, Bing just doesn't really have

13:42

much other than his sword. So, um...

13:44

Don't do it, Bing. No, Bing looks

13:46

at his sword in one hand and

13:49

he looks at the, um, at the

13:51

oo's creature in front of him and

13:53

then he just makes a fist and

13:55

he just punches it. Yes, punch it!

13:57

Go ahead and ahead and

14:00

roll attack with her her

14:02

unarmed if you

14:04

don't mind. don't mind.

14:06

Yes, this is gonna be

14:08

a to be a 17. hits, All right.

14:11

being, how do you want to do you

14:13

want to do this? to me to

14:15

me how you with your fists

14:17

beat this thing to death. thing to

14:19

death. So being just, he's just

14:21

kind of, he's the

14:23

sword over one her one shoulder and

14:25

just like launches just super of right

14:27

up and through the up

14:29

and there's as much surface

14:31

area impact as possible. area

14:34

impact as it splatters and

14:36

scatters around. around. The, your

14:38

Your fist hits with such strength

14:40

and such speed that it

14:42

doesn't actually like burn or damage your

14:44

skin, but as you pull your hand back,

14:46

it does feel a bit numb, almost like

14:48

you hit your funny almost like for a moment,

14:50

for a bit of discomfort. gonna linger

14:52

for the immediate danger fades, you

14:54

can look up on the opposite

14:56

side of the chamber where the

14:58

rising staircase kind of heads up

15:00

to the upper level to the you

15:03

no longer have sight on the

15:05

other troop that is ahead of you.

15:07

of you. Okay, Bing sort of turns

15:09

and looks behind him. him and

15:11

so Key, Key, you're hiding in

15:13

his shadow. says, so Bing says to Key,

15:15

he says, so Bing says to

15:17

Key, he says, where did

15:19

Leon go? We're losing them.

15:21

starts starts running toward the

15:23

stairs. He just silently motions just silently motions

15:26

to Leon to get out of

15:28

hiding because she still saw where

15:30

he went follow like, guy follow this

15:32

guy who is probably having a

15:34

mental breakdown. She just communicates that

15:36

with her eyes. with her eyes. You know

15:38

you do or you're like, eh? Leon

15:40

says, hey, Key, I Leon says,

15:42

hey, Bing is okay think now. I okay

15:44

right now. to help him out. we

15:46

need to help So as you all keep, try you

15:48

all keep catch best to catch up

15:50

to Bing is is in full sprint after

15:53

them and it's a bit quicker than

15:55

a bit two of you if I recall

15:57

of you, if I recall. Indeed, with

15:59

a walking. to 40, you are

16:01

failing to keep up directly. Bing,

16:03

you charge up after them and

16:05

you enter what looks to be

16:07

an upper hall of this tower.

16:09

This is an incredible collection chamber

16:11

with darkened woods and banisters all

16:13

along kind of an upper staircase

16:15

that rings a secondary floor in

16:17

this massive kind of an antechamber

16:20

space. Within this, you could see

16:22

there are library shelves that kind

16:24

of line the upper area, but

16:26

here in the center of the

16:28

room. There is a massive central

16:30

pillar that sits in the very

16:32

middle, a very wide pillar, probably

16:34

about like a good seven to

16:36

10 feet wide, that runs the

16:38

full length of the 20 foot

16:40

tall chamber. It is covered in

16:43

beautiful rooms and like golden inscription.

16:45

It's an incredible piece of decor

16:47

and the rest of the interior

16:49

very much matches that aesthetic inside.

16:51

But what really catches your attention

16:53

is the room is filled with

16:55

a number of wooden. cabinets in

16:57

chests, intricate containment units that are

16:59

all beautiful and have what looked

17:01

to be places where they had

17:03

labels or plaques on them, but

17:06

they've since been either removed or

17:08

hidden. This looks to be a

17:10

collection. And as you enter, you

17:12

see, Biana and her two compatriots

17:14

are in the process of trying

17:16

to quickly jostle some of these

17:18

open. They are searching throughout them.

17:20

They are searching throughout them. Okay,

17:22

do they notice me? You know,

17:24

are you trying to, your speed

17:26

and aggression, are you trying to

17:29

come in quietly? No, I'm just

17:31

sort of curious if they've, if

17:33

they're sort of looking away from

17:35

me or if they seem to

17:37

have noticed that I came up

17:39

the stairs. No, they do not.

17:41

The really, really terrible perception check

17:43

on beyond his part. They seem

17:45

to be at the moment engrossed

17:47

with expediency to rummage through the

17:49

extent of this collection. So being

17:52

sort of, sort of, he sheaths

17:54

or, you know, straps his sword

17:56

to his back slowly, while kind

17:58

of walking to the side, keeping

18:00

his eyes on the three of

18:02

them, and he just says, Biana,

18:04

talk to me. Biana stops this

18:06

momentary prying of one of the

18:08

locks on these chest and the

18:10

ground, stands, and glances over, shoulder

18:12

towards you, her one like scarred

18:15

and ruined eye, kind of instinctively

18:17

blinking as the muscles try and

18:19

recall a semblance of functionality. I

18:21

didn't expect you to show up

18:23

here, but if you're going to

18:25

make yourself useful... Come help me

18:27

and leave the rest of your

18:29

compatriots behind. There's a place at

18:31

my side if you want it,

18:33

but you have one shut. Bing

18:35

looks back at the stairs. Does

18:38

he see Key and Leon? At

18:40

this point, they both kind of,

18:42

they both just now make it

18:44

up to the top of the

18:46

stairs, and you can see being

18:48

as kind of standing between where

18:50

you've risen to the top and

18:52

his sister Biana amongst this massive

18:54

collection chamber. He looks back at

18:56

his two compatriots and then turns

18:58

back to his sister. He says,

19:01

Biana, you know me well enough.

19:03

I wouldn't betray them just like

19:05

I didn't betray you. You all

19:07

left me to die. I was

19:09

abandoned. I was captured. And when

19:11

I was put up on that

19:13

block, nobody lifted a finger to

19:15

try and save my life. Try

19:17

and break me free. Try and

19:19

speak on my behalf. I was

19:21

left for dead. I was dead.

19:24

But Xanathos will promise me. They

19:26

brought me back from the brink,

19:28

and they fed me. They raised

19:30

me. I have a home. Better

19:32

home than any of you ever

19:34

offered me. So, if you're not

19:36

going to grovel before me and

19:38

join the rest of my compatriots,

19:40

then you are an enemy. At

19:42

this time, one of her compatriots

19:44

is going to attempt to open

19:47

one of these chests. And... Is

19:49

still working on it. They're having

19:51

a hard time with the lock

19:53

and they're both like in the

19:55

stopping and staring at their leader

19:57

in the middle of this this

19:59

brazen burst of emotion and So

20:01

go back to the work early,

20:03

like, well, this is not the

20:05

time. So being now slowly redraws

20:07

his sword, and he says, Biana,

20:10

I could never bring myself to

20:12

really hurt you, and this isn't

20:14

over, but you need to get

20:16

out of our way. Leon and

20:18

Key are just kind of like

20:20

watching this, is that? No, I'm

20:22

going to creep forward. I'm going

20:24

to creep forward. All right, Biana

20:26

is keeping pace of key, and

20:28

Leon is getting ready to attack

20:30

these fools. He is feeling extremely

20:33

sad and worried and is still

20:35

like, how did Piana escape? I

20:37

want more information. So a lot

20:39

of questions. Hey Bing, can you

20:41

ask some questions for us? No,

20:43

it's fine. He understands this isn't

20:45

the time, but that's just what's

20:47

going through her head right now.

20:49

She doesn't have attacking on the

20:51

brain. She's just like, what's going

20:53

on here? But she's creeping up.

20:56

Okay, as the three of you

20:58

begin to kind of step forward,

21:00

Biana gives a smirk and kind

21:02

of cocks your hip to one

21:04

side. Look, my job here isn't

21:06

to carve a bunch of old

21:08

faces. My job here is to

21:10

find what we need and flee.

21:12

If you get in the way,

21:14

we're going to retaliate. But in

21:16

the meantime... we have a job

21:19

to do." And she snaps her

21:21

fingers and looks over towards the

21:23

half-ork who you kind of caught

21:25

a glimpse of early and goes,

21:27

Damien, put them on ice. And

21:29

the bard kind of stands and

21:31

was like, I guess if that's

21:33

what you want me to do.

21:35

Look, no heart's feelings and is

21:37

going to go ahead and flick

21:39

a finger and your direction being,

21:42

I need you to go ahead

21:44

and make a wisdom saving throw

21:46

for me. That's

21:50

going to be a big

21:52

old three. A big old

21:54

three. Key I need you

21:56

to also roll a wish

21:59

for me. All

22:01

right right, so that's an an

22:03

eight power 11 11 all right bing

22:05

key both of you watch as

22:07

All right. odd energy begins to kind of curl

22:10

around the both of you this

22:12

as this odd energy begins

22:14

to curl around the fingers

22:16

of this half as he He

22:19

whispers something with a hum,

22:21

and as he snaps his

22:23

fingers, almost in the way

22:25

that he was called to attention by Biana

22:27

both of you feel this music kind

22:29

the sides of your ears, almost in

22:31

your head, and this high note

22:33

high into the center of your mind.

22:36

Your your the center of your we're both

22:38

momentarily up and you are both momentarily

22:40

paralyzed. Uh, so teen Leon. As both of

22:42

you lock up, Biana both of you look at

22:44

Leon a look at Leon and

22:46

says it's a proper race Leon. And she

22:49

proper race, back at the lock she turns around to

22:51

go back at the lock and the two

22:53

of them put their heads down to start

22:55

trying to unlock these chests. chests. Leon is Leon is

22:57

going to cast. sleep on

22:59

the three, on Biana and

23:02

her pals. All righty. So

23:04

just so give you the

23:06

of give you the heads

23:09

up there there. Sleep has hit points, right?

23:11

right? Right, it's 5d8 hit points. You

23:13

can affect how many many spell can affect within

23:15

that area up to that number of

23:17

hit points. you can roll number of me

23:19

hip points So okay. Let me do that. Yes,

23:21

on. we can decide how best to

23:23

try and distribute it. Because if it

23:25

doesn't go over anybody's current hit points,

23:27

it'll have no effect. it doesn't okay. anybody's

23:30

current hip points, it'll have no

23:32

effect. exactly like melatonin dosage.

23:34

It's pretty, it's just

23:36

one -to -one. pretty. It's just one go

23:38

on. See, not not everything's fantasy about

23:40

this game. this game. Okay, 28 is the

23:42

28 is the total. right.

23:45

I will let right, you to spend

23:47

let you know that if

23:49

you were to spend

23:51

all of this the would

23:53

affect the bard that just

23:55

cast the spell upon

23:57

your friends. Okay. Can

24:00

I tell if he's like, is

24:02

he like doing some like active

24:04

casting or he's going back to

24:06

the lock picking? He's just going

24:08

back to the lock pack. He

24:10

basically cast this on your friends

24:12

and then turn back around and

24:15

is now trying to get one

24:17

of these cabinets open. So this

24:19

isn't like a spell that requires

24:21

concentration. Okay. Yeah, I'm gonna cast

24:23

sleep on the bard then. Take

24:25

him out. and just like slams

24:27

face down into the middle of

24:29

the ground hits the ground and

24:31

as soon as he hits like

24:34

the the the center of this

24:36

like polished floor with the heavy

24:38

thud this tour the compatriots kind

24:40

of glance over nervously take a

24:42

big sigh and go back to

24:44

their picking the two of them

24:46

are gonna attempt to pick a

24:48

lock it looks like the other

24:50

one the kind of elephant figure

24:53

is frustratingly still attempting and and

24:55

not doing so however Biana does

24:57

open one of these cabinets could

24:59

I have one of you I

25:01

will have it be being since

25:03

you're related. Go ahead and roll

25:05

a D10 for me. It's gonna

25:07

be a nine. Nice. Sorry. No,

25:09

that's good. No, but it's not

25:12

good because I'm rolling for Biana.

25:14

Right. So, Biana opens this cabinet

25:16

and there's a flash of kind

25:18

of reddish flame that bursts out.

25:20

She ducks back out of the

25:22

way out of the way. as

25:25

this winged entity just bursts forth

25:27

out of this cabinet and begins

25:29

to fly up into the center

25:31

of the chamber's air. Maybe standing

25:34

at about two and a half

25:36

three feet tall you see a

25:38

humanoid red-scaled fleshed creature with leathery

25:40

bat wings and these kind of

25:42

pale yellowish glowing eyes with a

25:44

toothed jaw that kind of opens

25:47

and slightly druels. It kind of

25:49

flies up. Yes, yes, stay away.

25:51

Miss Fitzwans, you, stay away! and

25:53

you watch as this infernal imp

25:55

now has been unleashed in the

25:57

chamber flying up towards the ceiling

26:00

about good 15 20 feet on

26:02

top and beyond just goes you've

26:04

got to Be kidding me. And

26:06

then ignoring the current empty cabinet

26:08

goes to pick another chest. That

26:10

will, we'll say, bringing it back

26:13

around here, since we have the

26:15

initiative order still going now in

26:17

this bit. Actually, you know what?

26:19

Now that we're engaging and both

26:21

of you are asleep, let's go

26:23

ahead and roll initiative for how

26:26

things are happening here, including those

26:28

who are currently paralyzed. Just we

26:30

have any more. Okay. 17 for

26:32

me. So, at the top, now

26:34

we're actually in like an action

26:36

around here for the base on

26:39

this initiative. Leon, you are up

26:41

first. It looks like some of

26:43

them are quick to go there

26:45

after, but you have the current

26:47

floor. And just to be clear,

26:49

we're an initiative role for the

26:52

action, but like nobody's in combat

26:54

yet, or we are in combat?

26:56

I mean, it's up to you

26:58

whether or not you want to

27:00

take actions that are combat-oriented or-

27:02

Is the imp attacking us? I

27:05

guess there's a question. The imp

27:07

hasn't attacked anyone yet, but he's

27:09

certainly cackling to himself flying above

27:11

and looks like he's looming over

27:13

you all with aggressive intent. Okay,

27:15

I'm going to use a message,

27:18

Cantrip. Hmm, I'm trying to decide

27:20

if I want to try to

27:22

talk to Biana or to the

27:24

imp. I'm going to send a

27:26

message to... Biana, and I'm going

27:28

to say, let's all work together

27:31

and we'll sort out the details

27:33

later. We might even want different

27:35

things here. All right. Go ahead

27:37

and make a persuasion check for

27:39

me. All right. That would be

27:42

a 15. 15, 15 is not

27:44

bad. I'll say, you send this

27:46

message to Biana. Biana, who's currently

27:48

now rushed over to one of

27:50

the chests on the ground and

27:52

is in the process of trying

27:55

to jostle it open with her

27:57

lockpicks, kind of pauses for a...

27:59

and glances over her shoulder, not

28:01

making eye contact with you, but

28:03

acknowledging you in the chamber, and

28:05

then responding to the message, you

28:08

hear the whisper back into your

28:10

mind from her saying, perhaps, but

28:12

I have to keep my contract,

28:14

as I'm sure you have to

28:16

keep yours. If we're not going

28:18

to come to blows, at the

28:21

very least, maybe let's keep this

28:23

a friendly competition for as long

28:25

as it stays friendly. All

28:30

righty. Does the message, does that

28:32

count? Yeah, that counts as my

28:34

action. That is your action. As

28:36

my bonus, I'm going to try

28:38

to hide, as usual. Leon is

28:40

a big hider. You got it.

28:42

Go ahead and roll stealth check.

28:44

Okay. Let's see. Fourteen. Fourteen. Okay.

28:46

So you have jumped now in

28:48

the middle of this chamber with

28:50

all these different chests and cabinets.

28:52

You kind of find a path

28:54

through some of the cabinets and

28:57

vanish and vanish into that chaos

28:59

where you think they aren't watching.

29:01

bringing that now it is now

29:03

the swashbuckler's turn is going to

29:05

try and unlock one of these

29:07

chests. They're rolling horribly. They've been

29:09

on the same chest since you

29:11

got here and you're like, oh

29:13

that fucking! I'm imagining Joe Pechee

29:15

and Home Alone as a suspect.

29:17

It's a great visual. Hair is

29:19

all on fire. Yep. They actually

29:21

like. Abandon that chest and move

29:24

on to one of the side

29:26

cabinets kind of darting by not

29:28

from not far from where you

29:30

are Leon But not taking notice

29:32

of where you're placed and they

29:34

begin to try and open the

29:36

lock to one of these other

29:38

cabinets We're not coming to Biana

29:40

who has kind of after that

29:42

whisper towards you seems to be

29:44

contemplating and She's still gonna continue

29:46

and pick lock, but you have

29:48

distracted her enough with your message

29:51

Biana seems to be caught in

29:53

her head from what you would

29:55

say. and momentarily is unable to

29:57

get through this difficult lock. One

29:59

of them getting kind of jammed

30:01

inside and you hear a little

30:03

under her whispered, God damn it!

30:05

and is still trying to push

30:07

into this, but you've definitely kind

30:09

of gotten into her head a

30:11

little bit. Finishing, Bionna's turn, we're

30:13

going to come to Bing. Bing,

30:15

you are currently still held and

30:18

bound by the magic that this

30:20

bard set upon you, who is

30:22

snoring loudly on the ground in

30:24

the middle of this chamber. You

30:26

try and steady yourself to try

30:28

and shrug it off. Make a

30:30

wisdom saving throw for me at

30:32

the end of your turn. Time

30:34

to switch to the other 27.

30:36

That high-pitched wind still crawls in

30:38

your mind. It has a melody

30:40

to it, but your brain can't

30:42

grasp it, and all of your

30:45

body feels like it's locked up,

30:47

like an entire head-to-toe Charlie Horse.

30:49

Oh, the worst. That's gonna finish

30:51

your go. That brings us back

30:53

to the imp. The imp is

30:55

going to go ahead and it's

30:57

going to go ahead and swing

30:59

down towards one of you and

31:01

attempt to lash out and... sting

31:03

with what looks like a scorpion

31:05

bit of its tail that you

31:07

hadn't noticed until it kind of

31:09

whips out as it swoops downward

31:12

to see who it goes after.

31:14

One to three are... Key being

31:16

in Leon, one to three, and

31:18

then the other troops for the

31:20

four to hire. Shouldn't it go

31:22

after the one of the people

31:24

who opened the chest of the

31:26

first place? Can I roll a

31:28

persuasion? Check against the DM to

31:30

persuade. This is Leon trying to

31:32

convince God of what should happen.

31:34

It's an interesting point. Checking the

31:36

IMPS passive perception, you are stealth

31:39

from it, so you are actually

31:41

absolved of that. And it rolled

31:43

you on the dice roll, so

31:45

I'm going to re-roll, I'm going

31:47

to re-roll. So being the, it

31:49

streaks like streaks down from above.

31:51

It's going to go ahead and

31:53

attempt to make a strike at

31:55

you because you're paralyzed. It does

31:57

have advantage on the attack roll,

31:59

which yeah, that's going to put

32:01

it at a 30, sorry, 23

32:03

to hit. That's going to be

32:06

a seven points of piercing damage

32:08

to you. Okay. And you should

32:10

make a constitution saving damage to

32:12

you. Okay. And you should make

32:14

a constitution saving throw for me

32:16

if you could. That's going to

32:18

be an 11. And

32:21

11 is enough. Actually, it was

32:23

just the DC of its poison.

32:25

So you only take half damage

32:27

from the poison. That'll put you

32:30

at six points of poison damage.

32:32

Wow, okay. With that's going to

32:34

finish the IMPSCO, the Bard is

32:37

unconscious on the ground and loudly

32:39

snoring. So that's going to be

32:41

his turn. That brings us back

32:43

to Kiki. You are still locked

32:46

in place at the end of

32:48

your turn. Go ahead and make

32:50

a wisdom saving throw for me

32:52

again. Come on. Why is this

32:55

happening to me? It's a two.

32:57

All right, the spell still holds

32:59

strong. Oddly, uh... And Leon, you

33:01

being a bit of a practitioner

33:04

of magic yourself would understand too,

33:06

certain magics that hold sway over

33:08

minds and bodies require concentration to

33:10

maintain the spell. This can be

33:13

disrupted usually by either heavy impact

33:15

or pain or damage upon the

33:17

caster to force them to try

33:20

and maintain it. The bard is

33:22

unconscious, but the spill is still

33:24

maintained because nothing has truly kind

33:26

of struck him to scramble what

33:29

holds the spell that your friends

33:31

are both still bound to. So

33:33

that kind of strikes in your

33:35

mind as they're having a hard

33:38

time breaking free from this. This

33:40

is an inception situation. Yeah, a

33:42

hot tip suddenly appears in Leon's

33:44

mind. Speaking of which, Leon, it's

33:47

your go. get all of them

33:49

agro i don't want to get

33:51

biana agro against us all right

33:53

um all right sorry biana i

33:56

say and i use a fireball,

33:58

no I use a use

34:00

a sneak attack

34:03

I'm in I'm in stealth going to

34:05

use use a sneak attack

34:08

with my crossbow, on the, yeah, on the

34:10

the bard. Could it be

34:12

so Could it be so sneaky that

34:14

no one even notices that? that Leon

34:16

filed the error? I'm not

34:18

sure given how a few people

34:20

are in this room. people

34:22

of in this

34:24

room held. Everyone's distracted. a lot

34:26

of locks to pick in here we're

34:28

all looking We're all looking for That's true.

34:30

true. I'm trying to do it in

34:32

a stealthy way it can't see me.

34:34

way so they All right. see me. All because Well,

34:36

because you're hidden. Two, your target, target. And

34:38

you're shooting the bar on the

34:41

ground. on the ground? He is

34:43

very much asleep. asleep. So you have you have

34:45

advantage. However, he's flat on the ground, which

34:47

puts you at disadvantage for ranged attacks.

34:49

So just make an attack roll. attack. So

34:51

I'm I will but this is definitely

34:53

attack roll. he is unable to defend

34:55

himself is definitely a sneak a because he is

34:57

unable to defend So hits. roll

35:00

your is a 23. That damage,

35:02

plus your sneak attack,

35:04

which is an extra

35:06

3d6. sneak attack, which is an extra

35:08

3D6. Ooh! right, 1DA 1d8

35:10

plus four is let's see, that's

35:12

3D6. So 6 is 21 damage.

35:15

21 damage, ooh! Gosh! Gosh! You heard

35:17

this scream as the barge shoots up from

35:19

a sitting position, kind of grabbing his leg

35:21

where shoots up from

35:23

a sitting position this of

35:26

grabbing his leg Ace Ventura

35:28

crossbow bolt. This is

35:30

kind of like And

35:33

jammed into his thigh out

35:35

like, sorry dude. He maintains a maintains

35:37

concentration. He does not

35:39

a boar. The spell drops spell

35:42

drops and both Key have

35:44

and key their bodies once more

35:46

the spell dissipating. The

35:48

is conscious conscious. As my

35:50

bonus action, I yell out,

35:53

out. Biana, I had to to hit

35:55

your bard my guys could

35:57

be free. Now let's let's all

35:59

team up take... down this imp, get

36:01

away from those chess, you morons.

36:03

It's a really long thing to

36:06

say is a bonus action. Okay.

36:08

Yeah, conversation should be fine. Are

36:10

you trying to be convincing or

36:13

intimidating in this moment, given the

36:15

chaos? Or just insulting. Convincing. Convincing.

36:17

Okay. Yeah. It's kind of a

36:19

mix of, yeah, performance, persuasion, nuts.

36:22

Fair enough. Yeah. Go ahead and

36:24

roll into the persuasion check for

36:26

me then. That is

36:29

a natural 20. Whoo! Okay. Beautiful.

36:31

So at this point, Biana kind

36:33

of turns back from the cabinet's

36:35

been giving her trouble and looks

36:37

at you with this like steely

36:40

angry glance and you can see

36:42

almost going for a blade at

36:44

her side before the bar stands

36:46

up with this like hobbled knee

36:48

and goes like, actually, I think

36:51

this is a great idea, this

36:53

hurts a lot. Why don't we

36:55

just work together, right? Please? And

36:57

Vienna kind of... Ritzer teeth looks

36:59

at the rest of me. Very

37:02

well. That's a problem. Stop that.

37:04

And then maybe we'll just see

37:06

who gets the, who gets the

37:08

chest first then. And with that

37:10

is gonna be the, the elephant

37:13

rogue is gonna go ahead and

37:15

spin around and rush over towards

37:17

the imp that's next to you

37:19

Bing. Kind of taking a cue

37:21

from Biana and is going ahead

37:24

and swing with a rapier and

37:26

a dagger towards the imp. Yeah,

37:28

that's going to be a 22

37:30

to hit. Pretty great. Nice. Useful.

37:32

Okay, not so bad. That's going

37:35

to be six points of damage

37:37

to that imp. The imp takes

37:39

a heavy strike from... The rapier

37:41

on a natural one on the

37:43

dagger. So unfortunately while the rapier

37:46

strikes the em, the elf swallows

37:48

up with the dagger and swings

37:50

over the em, kind of, pulls

37:52

back and it flies further just

37:54

out of range of that dagger

37:57

swipe. That's going to finish their

37:59

turn. It's now beyond its go.

38:01

Biana kind of stands there for

38:03

a second, seeing all this go

38:05

down, sees the damaged imp, and

38:08

is going to go ahead and

38:10

pull a short bow out from

38:12

the side of her. She has

38:14

like a little leather strap that

38:16

connects. to her belt that holds

38:19

the short bow almost like it

38:21

folds up. She unfolds it rapidly

38:23

and sits it upside, pulling from

38:25

her other thigh, a quiver bow,

38:27

and it's gonna go ahead and

38:30

aim and shoot towards this imp

38:32

for a natural 20. Damn. Dang,

38:34

Biana? C is still good. Love

38:36

this. Glad they're not fighting us.

38:38

All righty, that'll be a waste

38:41

ice damage. Six plus four. Ten.

38:43

Biana. Quickly, shoof! releases an arrow

38:45

and then just kind of cackling

38:47

as it flies up. Ten just

38:49

flummets out of the center of

38:52

the chamber spiraling down as it

38:54

hits the ground. It just incinerates

38:56

in a burst of ash, leaving

38:58

a little like darkened circle on

39:00

the ground where it hit. That

39:03

was easy. Bion looks over at

39:05

you and goes like, we're not

39:07

working together. But we're working aside

39:09

each other and to the best

39:11

thief Let us win Bing coughs

39:14

and sort of puts his sort

39:16

of back on his back on

39:18

his back and looks at Biana

39:20

and says we haven't lost your

39:22

edge Of course not. You have

39:25

to take an edge to gain

39:27

a better one and you see

39:29

she kind of points to this

39:31

massive scar on the back of

39:33

her neck from where you heard

39:36

the sound of the blade that

39:38

took her life seems to have

39:40

left a mark and kind of

39:42

leaves even a further hint of

39:44

curiosity as to her current status

39:47

of life. Denitude. Being just sort

39:49

of grumbles and looks around him.

39:51

Are there any, what is, what

39:53

are the sort of nearest chests

39:55

to him on... the ground. Indeed,

39:58

so looking about the chamber here,

40:00

you kind of quickly get there

40:02

are six cabinets and 12 chests

40:04

throughout this chamber. It looks like

40:06

one cabinet has been formally opened

40:09

and one chest has been formally

40:11

opened. So there is one of

40:13

each currently that have been kind

40:15

of revealed. The rest of them

40:17

still remain closed. And they all

40:20

look the same? They all have

40:22

have differing general... tweaks and kind

40:24

of uniqueness to the scrolling and

40:26

things on them but they all

40:28

look like a similar make like

40:31

they were all crafted or commissioned

40:33

by the same the same guild

40:35

of furniture builders and makers. Okay.

40:37

Are there any that look weirdly

40:39

similar to the one the imp

40:42

came out of for example like

40:44

is that a clue we could

40:46

be discerning I don't want any

40:48

more imps is where I'm going

40:50

with this. Make a perception check

40:53

for me if you don't mind

40:55

key. Sure. It's

40:57

a 20. A 20. A freaking

41:00

20. Looking at the open and

41:02

kind of somewhat charred cabinet that

41:04

the inn came out of, what

41:06

you can tell is the doors

41:08

on that cabinet kind of blasted

41:10

open have like a gold trim

41:12

on them. That looks like it

41:14

was untouched and unscathed from its

41:16

flame burst out there and has

41:18

some sort of rutic scrolling on

41:20

it. And immediately you glance around

41:22

and see two other cabinets. that

41:24

have that same kind of gold

41:26

seal on the inside. So you

41:28

can count out two other cabinets

41:30

amongst the chamber that likely hold

41:32

something similar within. Okay, Bing is

41:34

reaching toward one of those cabinets

41:36

right now. So it's one of

41:38

the gold cabinets? Okay, just trust

41:41

me, don't open that one. We

41:43

don't want more imps. That one

41:45

looks real similar to the amp

41:47

cabinet. So Bing was just reaching

41:49

for the cabinet and then he

41:51

just kind of stops and then

41:53

he looks at you and he

41:55

says, all right, and he like

41:57

kind of pats the cabinet a

41:59

couple of times and then moves

42:01

on to the chest next to

42:03

that cabinet. and just sort of

42:05

tests it, like shakes it and

42:07

sees if you can, if you

42:09

can, you know, get it open,

42:11

anyway, other than picking a lock.

42:13

Understood. So the lid of the

42:15

chest, it gives up like a

42:17

faint quarter inch give and you

42:19

feel the latch kind of catch

42:22

it. So it is locked like

42:24

the rest of them. But there

42:26

is a little place to get

42:28

your fingers in there. Like you

42:30

could try and pick the lock,

42:32

or you can try and force

42:34

it with brute strength, your call.

42:36

I mean Bing isn't really much

42:38

of a lock picking kind of

42:40

a guy so he just he

42:42

just puts one hand like he

42:44

kind of pulls up the gap

42:46

puts one set of fingers in

42:48

there and then the other and

42:50

then just tries it to fully

42:52

Jaws of life it up. Beautiful.

42:54

So you can go ahead and

42:56

make a strength check for me

42:58

so Roll D20 and then add

43:00

your strength modifier Bing. Plus five.

43:02

Did it have Jaws of life

43:05

in Farron? I guess this would

43:07

be the equivalent. All right, that's

43:09

going to be 16. 16. Take

43:11

some, but you hear the metal

43:13

begin to creak and then ping,

43:15

ping, ping, ping, bolts that are

43:17

holding its metal casing begin to

43:19

give before the lid. Slams open.

43:21

Roll a D10 for me, Bang.

43:23

That's an eight. As you open

43:25

the lid, there's a brief pause

43:27

before a cluster of what looked

43:29

like ropes. But they're animated, like

43:31

serpents or snakes, kind of entwining

43:33

and nodding around them, all reach

43:35

out to try and grab and

43:37

wrap around you to pull you

43:39

towards the chest. Go ahead and

43:41

make a strength saving throw for

43:43

me to see if you can

43:46

break free from their grasp. That's

43:48

a 20, not natural. Oh, easy

43:50

enough to do. The ropes try

43:52

and grab you and pull you

43:54

towards it. You grab the edge

43:56

of the box and as you

43:58

pull back, they can tear free

44:00

with your arms. You reach and

44:02

grab the rest of the rest

44:04

of them and just. You hear

44:06

these series of tiny squeals as

44:08

the ropes kind of pull back

44:10

into the box. So you've definitely,

44:12

you've ensured another. is not what

44:14

you seek. Okay, Bing sort of

44:16

just looks to see if Biana

44:18

saw that. He's like, I opened

44:20

it with my hands. Ropes. Stupid

44:22

ropes. Biana, glancing over her shoulder,

44:24

looks towards you, that same kind

44:26

of steely darkness and intensity kind

44:29

of melts away for a second

44:31

saying, well, you got half of

44:33

it, right? Being just sort of

44:35

smiles a little bit to himself.

44:37

She clears her throat, gets dark

44:39

and stoke again and goes back.

44:41

And now the bard is going

44:43

to go ahead and attempt to

44:45

open and rolls a natural 20.

44:47

The bard goes, hey God's what?

44:49

There you go, buddy. Opens up

44:51

another one of the chests. If

44:53

I can have Leon, if you

44:55

could roll a D10 for me.

44:57

All right. Five. Yay. Oh God.

44:59

I got this one. Opens the

45:01

lid and as soon as he

45:03

does this purple gas, emerges around

45:05

and he goes, but I don't

45:07

know if this or not again.

45:10

And just fall passes out once

45:12

more, snoring loudly on the ground,

45:14

kind of curled up with his

45:16

thumb in his mouth. Amazing. Leon,

45:18

Leon looks at Biana. Hey, you

45:20

guys need to do some. short

45:22

rest before you come into a

45:24

tower like this. Looks like you're,

45:26

you are not taking care of

45:28

your party. Biana kind of spits

45:30

on the ground and looks back

45:32

at you. I don't know, I

45:34

see one less infernal imp carving

45:36

into your friends, huh? We all

45:38

got our strengths, Leon. Do you

45:40

say, Biana, what is it you

45:42

guys are looking for here? What

45:44

is it that Xanathars sent you

45:46

to get? She kind of narrows

45:48

her eyes. We're looking

45:51

for a personal heirloom of the

45:53

owner of this tower At which

45:55

point we'll say of this conversation

45:57

key. It's your go. I want

45:59

to keep opening stuff. I don't

46:01

think I have the ability to

46:03

convince Biana of much of anything

46:05

at this time. I'm going to

46:07

leave that social engineering to Leon.

46:09

So I'm going to try to

46:12

open another another item and hopefully

46:14

not hurt myself in doing so.

46:16

No, whereas there are three unopen

46:18

cabinets and it looks like there

46:20

are nine chests. Though there are

46:22

two members of the... The rival

46:24

faction currently focused on a couple

46:26

of them. So do you want

46:28

to go for a chest or

46:30

a cabinet? I'll go with a

46:32

chest. It feels like something a

46:34

bracelet would be in. But who

46:37

knows? Great. So you you go

46:39

ahead and go towards the nearest

46:41

chest. It is locked. Do you

46:43

do you have a means of

46:45

unlocking it or forcing it? I

46:47

mean, I have I have like

46:49

an okay decks score. For sleight

46:51

of hand, so can I pick

46:53

locks just using that or can

46:55

I just give it a go?

46:57

I don't know. I don't have,

46:59

I don't have, this isn't resident

47:02

evil, I don't have a number

47:04

of lockpicks in my possession, this

47:06

is D and me, so. Norris,

47:08

well if you look at your

47:10

inventory, do you have thieves tools?

47:12

I do, I do have a

47:14

bunch of locks. You're right, I

47:16

do, I'm Jill Valentine over here.

47:18

I can play the piano, I

47:20

can play the piano, I can

47:22

play the piano, I can play

47:25

the piano, too. Go ahead and

47:27

roll a D20 and add your

47:29

proficiency, which is three, and add

47:31

your next area, which is two.

47:33

So add five total to the

47:35

roll. Okay. All right, so it's

47:37

18. Whoo, perfect. So indeed, you

47:39

get down there quickly. You know,

47:41

it's been a little bit since

47:43

you've had to jump in front

47:45

of something locked and show your

47:47

capabilities as a thief. But as

47:50

soon as you get down there,

47:52

all the sense memory comes memory

47:54

comes back, and within just... is

47:56

now yours to grasp. Roll D10

47:58

for Mickey. Yeah,

48:00

it's a six. It's a six. All

48:02

right, uh, a purple fume bursts out

48:04

of it. Make a wisdom saving throw

48:06

for me if you don't mind. Okay,

48:09

11, 12, 13, 14. 14 is great.

48:11

The fume passed around you. You catch

48:13

your breath just in time, close your

48:15

eyes and step out of the cloud.

48:17

It eventually dissipates. Unaffected. And I go,

48:20

not falling asleep. No, no. You hear

48:22

echoing around one of the side chest.

48:24

All right, that finishes your go. That

48:26

brings us back to Leon. Leon is

48:28

like, guys, it is not in here.

48:31

We are just opening a bunch of

48:33

traps, chests for no reason. Leon is

48:35

going to look around and see if

48:37

there are any other kind of hidden

48:39

exits out of this room or kind

48:42

of secret compartments that wouldn't normally be

48:44

visible. Okay, you can look for if

48:46

you want to look for details of

48:48

things around the chamber you could roll

48:50

a perception or investigation check your choice

48:52

And just as far as what's visible

48:55

it's we have these cabinets these these

48:57

chests, there are no windows or doors

48:59

or anything like that in the room

49:01

of just this case going down There's

49:03

no windows or doors. What you see

49:06

is that there is a there's an

49:08

upper kind of small level that's kind

49:10

of like a halfway up the height

49:12

of the height of this chamber where

49:14

some library kind of shelves sit up

49:17

there But you You do not see

49:19

any other exit. You do not see

49:21

any further up in this tower, which

49:23

is, I think, is why, beyond his

49:25

troop, felt this is likely where it

49:28

would be hidden. But also, this tower

49:30

has a bunch of odd, unique things

49:32

about it, so who knows? Mm-hmm. Okay,

49:34

so perception check? Perception or investigation, your

49:36

choice. Perception, for sure. Let's go. 17.

49:39

17 is great. So you glance around,

49:41

you don't see any sort of immediate

49:43

signifying exit points, you don't see any

49:45

like... Trapped doors the ceiling

49:47

or any like

49:49

hidden hidden that are

49:52

kind of well placed

49:54

against the nearby

49:56

walls What you do

49:58

notice though walls what you

50:00

do notice though central pillar

50:03

of the chamber

50:05

and that beautiful kind

50:07

of scrolling and

50:09

glyph like designs that's

50:11

carved into the

50:14

wide pillar glyph-like looks

50:16

like it almost carved

50:18

almost has a It looks

50:20

of outline almost

50:22

like someone carved a

50:25

of outline almost like rendition

50:27

of a of a

50:29

a a Vitruvian man, if you will,

50:31

will, arms and two legs within this this

50:33

stone pillar that wrapped through it.

50:35

Just a beautifully artistic scenario, but scenario,

50:37

upon the brow, there are

50:39

a number of beads of

50:41

green that of lost of the

50:43

gold, of get lost and the

50:45

surrounding gold scrolling and the

50:48

surrounding Um, can I still I still?

50:50

go or do do I have to wait? Was

50:52

that my action, The kind of investigation? To

50:54

spend your turn your turn glancing everywhere to

50:56

make up that detail, to going to

50:58

be your action, but you can still

51:00

move in bonus action if you be your action

51:02

I'm going to, um, move

51:04

to, uh, to that humanoid is

51:06

and just kind of hang out near it

51:08

hang out notice hope I while

51:10

while everyone else is taking their

51:12

their turns? Okay, you got it. So

51:14

you kind of kind on over

51:17

to the on over to the base of that

51:19

or is that an action? things as

51:21

my I'd say, or as a I'd

51:23

say, well as a rogue here, as part as

51:25

part of your your

51:27

or hide action, unfortunately, I'd say

51:29

with all you've done here, here, you can, as a

51:32

bonus action, can, be as a bonus action, wouldn't

51:34

be able to kind of futz with

51:36

it too much. much. You could begin to

51:38

try and investigate or try and get near

51:40

it if you'd like, but it be too

51:42

if you'd you. Yeah, I'll get near it. be

51:44

I'll get near it. near it. Okay, I'll get near it.

51:46

And and spot some hopefully, everyone else is something while everyone

51:49

else it, all right. their That brings

51:51

us now to the us now to the Alvin

51:53

figure of Beyond crew is He's gonna go

51:55

ahead and attempt to open their

51:57

chest their chest and succeeds, finally, the poor

51:59

bugger. So let's see if I could

52:02

have Leon go ahead and roll

52:04

a D10 for me. That is

52:06

an eight. That is an eight.

52:08

All righty. So as the elf

52:10

kind of opens this chest another

52:13

cluster of what looks like vines

52:15

begin to emerge like the ropes

52:17

did earlier, kind of growing rapidly

52:19

and reaching out towards them. They're

52:22

going to attempt to move out

52:24

of the way and do so.

52:26

So they slip out of the

52:28

grasp of these vines that kind

52:30

of stay there, kind of wiggling

52:33

in the air, reaching for anything

52:35

in the vicinity. And everyone kind

52:37

of notes to kind of keep

52:39

a wide berth around the outside

52:41

of that chest and moving over

52:44

to the chest and moving over

52:46

to A poem, no, Biana, Biana

52:48

at a cursory glance doesn't make

52:50

notice of Leon kind of slightly

52:52

sauntering over to the central pillar

52:55

and hasn't picked up on what

52:57

you've picked up on and continues

52:59

to focus on the chest in

53:01

front of her. It's going to,

53:03

that definitely picks that lock, bing,

53:06

go ahead and roll a detend

53:08

for me. God, a seven. A

53:10

seven, okay. So we've already gotten

53:12

the two ropes out of here,

53:15

I will go ahead and roll.

53:17

You know, roll again for me,

53:19

Bing. One. A one. She opens

53:21

the chest and there's like a

53:23

flash bang sort of moment. But

53:26

like a greenish tint, and as

53:28

the flash subsides, you can see

53:30

there is this like heavy... kind

53:32

of brackish-green cloud that has encapsulated

53:34

her. She's coughing within and fails

53:37

her safe. She, Bionna, is going

53:39

to go ahead and take four

53:41

points of poison damage and is

53:43

currently poisoned. She's not... So she's

53:45

not undead. Mmm. She's not a

53:48

zombie. Yeah, the poison is affecting

53:50

her, so that does give you

53:52

at least some clue that maybe

53:54

she's not on that side of

53:57

the spectrum of existence. But as

53:59

she pulls out of the cloud

54:01

and kind of waving her hands

54:03

in front, coughing, you can see

54:05

kind of like the veins in

54:08

the side of her neck and

54:10

her forehead, kind of bulging as

54:12

the poison kind of holds in

54:14

and kind of tries to hide

54:16

it like, I'm good, I'm good,

54:19

I got it. It's trying to

54:21

move over to the next space.

54:23

Uh, finishing is oblivious to what

54:25

Leon is doing, because he's kind

54:27

of distracted. by Biana getting poisoned

54:30

and also the fact that she

54:32

said he looked cool when he

54:34

opened the chest. So he is

54:36

gonna just check the cabinet next

54:38

to him, check the door on

54:41

her. It is definitely locked. It's

54:43

not a heavy lock, but it

54:45

looks like it could definitely be

54:47

forcible or breakable. All right,

54:50

and there's like a lock like

54:52

on the on the door of

54:54

the cabinet. Correct. You can see

54:56

there's like a keyhole on it

54:58

and there are like two bars

55:00

both externally and interior of it

55:02

that's just barely visible in the

55:04

crack. Okay, he's gonna use the

55:07

pommel of his greatsword to just

55:09

kind of break the lock to

55:11

just hit it as hard as

55:13

he can. Hell yeah, go ahead

55:15

and make a strength check for

55:17

me if you don't mind. Kras!

55:19

Hit it with all the might,

55:21

the metallic strength and weight of

55:23

your weapon, the heft of it

55:26

just smashing through as it does.

55:28

Go ahead and roll a D10

55:30

for me. Oh boy. Four. A

55:32

four. You slam through and in

55:34

just that brief moment you see

55:36

this kind of flicker like a

55:38

candle light inside. And then all

55:40

the error around the cabinet kind

55:42

of like... pulls into it an

55:44

instant. Now you, being trained to

55:47

be on your toes at all

55:49

times, you do have a feature,

55:51

danger sense. I need you to

55:53

make a dexterity saving throw, but

55:55

you do have advantage on it

55:57

because of your dangerous sense. Okay.

56:00

That's going to be a 13.

56:02

13 is just what you need

56:04

to get past it. So all

56:06

of you hear this cavernous explosion

56:09

sound. The cabinet that you had

56:11

knocked through detonates, sending wood splinters

56:13

everywhere as a blast of flame

56:15

encircles the space around you. Everyone,

56:17

your eyes, I mean, beyond the

56:20

whole troop, except for the sleeping

56:22

bard, who kind of like... for

56:24

a second stirrus and then goes

56:26

back into his slumber all look

56:28

in that direction and in this

56:31

fiery blast that seems to swirl

56:33

around as it dissipates you fear

56:35

to see the scalded form of

56:37

Bing, but Bing you had managed

56:39

to just pull out of the

56:42

way in time untouched by it

56:44

except for maybe a little bit

56:46

of cinder curls to your eyebrows.

56:48

He's this one's empty. Perfect. Bard

56:50

keeps sleeping key at your up.

56:52

I agree with Leon that every

56:55

single container in this room is

56:57

probably full of something I don't

56:59

want to capture. So I go

57:01

over to see what Leon is

57:03

doing. And do I have... I

57:06

feel like I don't have as

57:08

good of like magic perception abilities

57:10

as Leon does, but like this

57:12

feels like a magical puzzle. Can

57:14

I tell if like the green

57:17

stones are emeralds or like if

57:19

they're related to the thing we're

57:21

looking for in some way? You

57:23

do see what looks like five

57:25

emeralds that kind of set across

57:28

the brow of where this like

57:30

this like chiseled in shape is

57:32

on the pillar. If you want

57:34

to see if there is a

57:36

magical facet to it you could

57:38

make an Arcana check if you'd

57:41

like. All

57:43

right, that seems useful. Let's try

57:45

that. Go and roll a D20

57:48

and add your Arkana skill, which

57:50

is a plus one. Eight. You

57:52

know, you haven't spent a lot

57:54

of time studying the ins and

57:57

outs. that the magic that you

57:59

muster is instinctual and part of

58:01

your very essence. You're not fully

58:04

trained to know why the weave

58:06

of the world and mystery and

58:08

all the various like magic facets

58:11

of the world have chosen you.

58:13

And in this moment, you also

58:15

have no idea how it would

58:18

affect this pillar. Yeah, big ego

58:20

on key. No clue what's going

58:22

on with this. in classic Leon

58:25

fashion. What is my bonus action?

58:27

Can I push it? Will that

58:29

achieve anything? I don't know. I

58:32

don't have any bonus actions. I'll

58:34

say because you weren't scanning an

58:36

entire room and you're just kind

58:38

of looking up at this particular

58:41

pillar, I'll consider your bonus action

58:43

for inspecting the pillar. You still

58:45

have an action. Can I just

58:48

do like a regular perception check

58:50

and see if there's like any

58:52

type of interlocking Zelda style puzzle

58:55

that we can do? Like, does

58:57

this thing open? Yeah, you can

58:59

make up make up make up

59:02

perception or investigation check your choice

59:04

Okay, perception as plus three so

59:06

I'm gonna do that. Let's go

59:09

14 14 17. Great 16 is

59:11

what you needed. You You glance

59:13

up at this pillar and where

59:16

those are those emeralds are you

59:18

can see the kind of like

59:20

metallic scrolling that set throughout the

59:23

metal that these Emeralds are set

59:25

in is a different silvered, almost

59:27

platinum-type metal, whereas a lot of

59:29

the surrounding metals is gold. It

59:32

definitely stands out and looks like

59:34

the front of a circlet. Interesting.

59:36

I assume Leon can tell this

59:39

too. I just whisper it to

59:41

him. Okay. Just elbow and like

59:43

check that out. Good cat's key.

59:46

Great cat. Perfect. And Ninkysgo, Leon,

59:48

you are up. Okay, can you

59:50

describe what I'm seeing exactly? So

59:53

it's the outline of a person

59:55

and on the top it's the

59:57

emerald beads? 20-foot pillar that sits

1:00:00

in the center of this chamber.

1:00:02

It's about just under 10 feet

1:00:04

in its width. And along it

1:00:07

is all this glyph-like scrolling like

1:00:09

intricate circles and rooms that kind

1:00:11

of spiral. It's a beautiful almost

1:00:13

elvish-looking carved work of art that

1:00:16

kind of in circles this entire

1:00:18

pillar from top to bottom. But

1:00:20

here along its base, part of

1:00:23

that scrolling kind of takes the

1:00:25

artistic shape of human. are humanoid,

1:00:27

you know, arms and legs, kind

1:00:30

of a Truvian man style, kind

1:00:32

of embedded in the pillar, and

1:00:34

across the brow of this featureless

1:00:37

shape, you can see now, especially

1:00:39

with the help of Key, pointing

1:00:41

out the details, it looks almost

1:00:44

like the circlet is embedded in

1:00:46

the middle of this art piece.

1:00:48

Okay, Leon is going to put

1:00:51

his entire body against the pillar

1:00:53

and against the humanoid shape and

1:00:55

like the exact figure where the

1:00:58

human... is like, like putting his

1:01:00

arms alongside the arms, etc, etc.

1:01:02

etc. Okay. Being notices this, it

1:01:04

just sort of turns. Hey Bing,

1:01:07

don't worry about it. Just keep

1:01:09

smashing locks. He is nodding like,

1:01:11

this makes sense. And actually, Key,

1:01:14

you've got to help, because this

1:01:16

is a wide pillar. For Leon

1:01:18

to kind of get both the

1:01:21

arms and up against the pillar,

1:01:23

you kind of have to get

1:01:25

behind and help lead push up.

1:01:28

I need some. Key is going

1:01:30

to spot me while I do

1:01:32

this exercise. Perfect. As Key does,

1:01:35

this thing sort of sets down

1:01:37

the lock that he was working

1:01:39

and sort of stops and just

1:01:42

watching. As does it. Biana and

1:01:44

the standing elf both kind of

1:01:46

stop what they're doing in glance

1:01:48

over an odd cock to their

1:01:51

heads as they watch this As

1:01:53

you do you feel the stone

1:01:55

on this pillar begin to suddenly

1:01:58

vibrate Like it begins to have

1:02:00

this this odd kind of energetic

1:02:02

shaking quality to it and the

1:02:05

out line of this humor kind

1:02:07

of carving begins to light up

1:02:09

with a faint greenish tint. There

1:02:12

is definitely some sort of enchantment

1:02:14

within this pillar. And as you

1:02:16

stand there with your arms around

1:02:19

it, it's like the pillar begins

1:02:21

to push back. And you realize

1:02:23

it's because where the carving of

1:02:26

these hands are, they've emerged from

1:02:28

the pillar to be hands that

1:02:30

wrap their fingers into yours. You

1:02:33

are now kind of locked in

1:02:35

some sort of silent stoic dance

1:02:37

with what looks like an odd,

1:02:39

somewhat flat carved stone entity given

1:02:42

consciousness that begins to step forth

1:02:44

from the pillar you kind of

1:02:46

pinned to its front being held

1:02:49

like a scarecrow across its chest.

1:02:51

Leon never went for being silent

1:02:53

or stoic is like, hey, you

1:02:56

have to buy me dinner first.

1:02:58

You now see in this kind

1:03:00

of plain, kind of featureless face

1:03:03

that's standing right before you, a

1:03:05

little bit taller from your form,

1:03:07

your elvish form, right beneath where

1:03:10

this circlet is, and it is

1:03:12

indeed embedded in the forehead of

1:03:14

this entity, the emeralds kind of

1:03:17

glow, and as it does, two

1:03:19

green eyes glow through the stone

1:03:21

and kind of crack. Like these

1:03:23

two little kind of spiral cracks

1:03:26

happen where the eyes would be

1:03:28

with green light kind of Peering

1:03:30

out from behind them and you

1:03:33

hear and feel deep within the

1:03:35

stone this resident And I need

1:03:37

you all to roll the initiative

1:03:40

Okay, you got it. So because

1:03:42

it's kind of slowly emerging from

1:03:44

this pillar all of you rapidly

1:03:47

of gather making eye contact and

1:03:49

realize this is a threat to

1:03:51

all of you. And there's kind

1:03:54

of a general unspoken sense that,

1:03:56

okay, you know what? Maybe we

1:03:58

should all work together on this.

1:04:01

Leon, you're now like, your hands

1:04:03

are still held by this entity

1:04:05

in front. What would you like

1:04:08

to do? So, so it's like,

1:04:10

so I'm like grabbing it and

1:04:12

it's holding my hands. Okay, so

1:04:14

I try to disengage. I try

1:04:17

to get my hands out of

1:04:19

its all hands. Okay, cool. I

1:04:21

will say you can use your

1:04:24

bonus action to disengage from this

1:04:26

creature. Go ahead and roll an

1:04:28

acrobatics check for me just to

1:04:31

kind of like squirm out of

1:04:33

its grip as you pull away.

1:04:35

I have a plus seven acrobatics.

1:04:38

Let's see. Yeah. Eleven. Eleven? Ten

1:04:40

was what you needed to get

1:04:42

out. So you. Cool. pull out

1:04:45

of its grasp and it wasn't

1:04:47

like a it was it was

1:04:49

like it was about to kind

1:04:52

of really grip down on your

1:04:54

fingers and hold you in place

1:04:56

and you just managed to pull

1:04:58

out just in time kind of

1:05:01

leaping off the pillar and backing

1:05:03

up to where key is and

1:05:05

the entity is now kind of

1:05:08

like kicking both of its feet

1:05:10

free from the pillar like boom.

1:05:12

Leon says pulling out just in

1:05:15

time is my specialty. Leon is

1:05:17

going to cast, well he doesn't

1:05:19

really spell slots, so we're going

1:05:22

to do a, let's try to

1:05:24

be clever. I'm going to do

1:05:26

a mage hand and use my

1:05:29

special arcane trick's durability to make

1:05:31

it an invisible mage hand and

1:05:33

try to grab the kind of

1:05:36

the circuit from its head. the

1:05:38

bracelet that I guess is wearing

1:05:40

or the circlet that's wearing. You

1:05:43

got it. So you kind of

1:05:45

craft your mage hand as you

1:05:47

back up and send it up

1:05:49

there. The invisible mage hand kind

1:05:52

of drifts up towards its forehead.

1:05:54

ahead and attempts

1:05:56

to grasp where

1:05:59

this circlet is

1:06:01

embedded. the It's

1:06:03

embedded pretty It's Go

1:06:05

ahead and roll a d20

1:06:07

and add your and roll modifier,

1:06:09

add your which would be, I

1:06:11

believe, intelligence for you, so

1:06:13

add a be, I to it.

1:06:15

intelligence for you. So is plus one to it.

1:06:17

Okay. That 18. This circlet is circlet

1:06:19

is not shifting. like a fair It

1:06:21

looks like a fair amount

1:06:23

of strength would be needed

1:06:25

to try and pry it

1:06:27

from its form, form or... So a

1:06:30

it entirely a good attempt, but good a

1:06:32

good attempt, but it looks like it

1:06:34

wasn't quite enough You can

1:06:36

try and continue to move. You did disengage,

1:06:38

so technically you can move back and have it

1:06:40

not get an attack of opportunity against you.

1:06:42

Yeah, I'm gonna back up and get as far

1:06:44

away as possible from this thing. And then

1:06:46

I'm gonna whisper to Bing, Bing, go

1:06:48

for Yeah, I'm try to rip

1:06:50

it off of get as head. away as

1:06:52

that finishes your go. this thing.

1:06:54

you felt, You know in the the moment,

1:06:57

kind of confident that that had

1:06:59

stepped down, you were shoulder

1:07:01

to shoulder to tackle this to

1:07:03

look over to tackle just gone. then you'd

1:07:05

look over and Leon's just gone. Being it is

1:07:07

your turn. turn. Okay, Bing sort Bing of

1:07:09

nods his head at what Leon

1:07:11

just said and then reaches

1:07:14

down next to him and grabs

1:07:16

a chest off of the

1:07:18

ground and throws it at the

1:07:20

stone creature. throws it at the stone creature.

1:07:22

Go ahead and roll and check

1:07:24

for me, if you don't mind.

1:07:26

check for me if you don't mind. All

1:07:28

right, so so he got a 17. a is

1:07:30

still 17's still very good. you reach

1:07:33

out, pick up the chest, chest. and

1:07:35

chuck it over towards this

1:07:37

creature. It slams into it, shatters

1:07:39

across it, it shatters me, if Roll

1:07:41

you don't mind. Roll a D10 for me if

1:07:43

you don't mind. Yeah. That's a nine. Oh, a the

1:07:45

imp. Oh, that's the imp. That's

1:07:47

a nine. It It smashes across

1:07:49

it a flash of flame, and

1:07:51

now like now like a bluish imp

1:07:53

emerges like, like looks down, kind of

1:07:55

of confused at the massive kind

1:07:57

of stone. stone kind of -

1:08:00

Hulk that stands in the chamber and

1:08:02

goes, so that puts the glyph, or

1:08:04

that puts the imp on the board,

1:08:06

the imp will go just before key. Alrighty,

1:08:08

so Bing, do you want to move

1:08:10

on your turn or stay put, they're still

1:08:12

surrounded by cabinets if you want to

1:08:14

keep chucking things at it? Yeah, I mean,

1:08:17

is that a second attack? That's, or

1:08:19

is that, does that, do I get

1:08:21

a second attack with a chest or is

1:08:23

that different, like a thrown object different?

1:08:25

No, you do, do you do have two

1:08:27

attacks? Why not? Let's go for it.

1:08:29

You want to throw, can I, can

1:08:31

I, can I activate my rage in between

1:08:33

these? Yes, you can. So you go

1:08:35

ahead and begin to like, great your teeth.

1:08:38

Go for it. He grits his teeth,

1:08:40

he gathers all of his energy and

1:08:42

he makes a very high pitchedched sound sound.

1:08:46

And his rage, it ignites

1:08:48

in a burst of cold and

1:08:50

10 feet around me, everybody

1:08:52

gains three temporary hit points

1:08:54

as long as my rage is

1:08:56

active. And then he grabs

1:08:58

a second chest, I could

1:09:00

say the second chest that's within

1:09:03

reach, and just throws it

1:09:05

straight at this creature. You

1:09:07

got it. All right, so go

1:09:09

ahead and roll another athletics

1:09:11

check. We have advantage because

1:09:13

you are raging. That's

1:09:18

gonna be a big is that

1:09:20

really yeah a big 26 26

1:09:22

a heavy impact on this one

1:09:24

kind of sending the glyph hull

1:09:26

kind of back onto its back

1:09:28

foot as it does roll a

1:09:30

detent for me that is gonna

1:09:33

be another nine So this is

1:09:35

the final one of the chest

1:09:37

that you saw that had the

1:09:39

gold trim now bursting across from

1:09:41

it You watched that one And

1:09:43

that hits and a pinkish imp

1:09:45

emerges and joins the other blue

1:09:47

one and they look at each

1:09:50

other and hiss at each other

1:09:52

and now there looks like they're

1:09:54

about to go for each other.

1:09:56

Two imps enter, one imp leaves.

1:09:58

Excellent. Bing just starts. laughing at

1:10:00

the top of his lungs and

1:10:02

draws his sword and prepares to

1:10:04

fight, but that's the end of

1:10:07

his turn. You got it. No

1:10:09

movement. Great. Finishing beings go, it

1:10:11

is Biana's go. Biana kind of

1:10:13

seeing this chaos is going to

1:10:15

go ahead and pull out her

1:10:17

short sword and dart. to go

1:10:19

and come to Keys Aid, kind

1:10:22

of running across, leaping to one

1:10:24

of the cabinets and kicking off

1:10:26

of it, sending the cabinet, kind

1:10:28

of tumbling back and hitting the

1:10:30

far wall, but pushing her, springing

1:10:32

into the air, spinning wide, and

1:10:34

as she does, she pulls out

1:10:36

a secondary short sword from her

1:10:39

side, and it's just like the

1:10:41

spin, this whirlwind of blades, as

1:10:43

she descends, striking towards her two

1:10:45

hits, that's gonna bad, yeah, that'll

1:10:47

hit. And, ooh. The second one

1:10:49

will not hit, but she can

1:10:51

take him. No, she just gets

1:10:53

two attacks. It's the hit and

1:10:56

offhand. So with that, it's going

1:10:58

to be... ooh! Nine points of

1:11:00

slashing damage against it. However, it

1:11:02

is halved because this is a

1:11:04

being of stone and is resistant

1:11:06

to piercing, slashing, and bludgening. So

1:11:08

instead it takes, we'll say five

1:11:10

for the heck of that. She

1:11:13

does have sneak attack because she

1:11:15

is right next to you, Key,

1:11:17

for an additional... oof! Oh, a

1:11:19

five, five, five, and a six.

1:11:21

That's amazing. An additional 16 points

1:11:23

of slash damage. Still reduced I

1:11:25

have to eight. But still, that

1:11:28

is a solid 13 points of

1:11:30

damage and that opening around against

1:11:32

this entity. As her blade's kind

1:11:34

of shoo-shoo-shoo-joo-jee-j-shoo-shoo-hmm, it's like, oh, it's

1:11:36

nice to see you, Kie. And

1:11:38

she kind of glances over with

1:11:40

a halfcock smile in your direction.

1:11:42

That's going to finish, uh, it's

1:11:45

going to finish beyond his go.

1:11:47

The elf is going to go

1:11:49

ahead and throw, no, she's, after

1:11:51

seeing that array, it's going to,

1:11:53

it's going to pull out, actually

1:11:55

is going to go ahead and

1:11:57

take a, uh, Take

1:12:00

an inkling of inspiration from Bing's

1:12:02

Go, and it's going to go

1:12:04

ahead and pick up one of

1:12:06

the only two remaining three remaining

1:12:08

chests that are there, and it's

1:12:10

going to attempt to throw it

1:12:12

in the direction of the essential

1:12:14

tea. Bing says, yes! That with

1:12:16

all that said and done is

1:12:18

going to be a 14 to

1:12:20

throw it, which is which is

1:12:22

enough. And this elf is not

1:12:25

as strong as being by any

1:12:27

means kind of like has to

1:12:29

run heavily to do something. Lobs

1:12:31

it! It looks like it's not

1:12:33

going to make the full arc,

1:12:35

but then Biana kind of kicks

1:12:37

up off the ground and gets

1:12:39

that extra push and it slams

1:12:41

into the side. Volleyball set. Yep.

1:12:43

Key, go ahead and roll a

1:12:45

D10 for me. It's a seven.

1:12:47

A 7, as it blasts against

1:12:49

it, there was another cluster of

1:12:51

animated ropes spring out and attempt

1:12:53

to wrap around this entity. The

1:12:55

massive glyph Hulk, weirdly enough with

1:12:57

a super low roll, even though

1:13:00

it's pretty strong, gets... Rapped up

1:13:02

in these ropes to a certain

1:13:04

degree. The ropes don't fully restrain

1:13:06

it, but it does... Well, as

1:13:08

I'll say, it is restrained at

1:13:10

the moment. It won't be difficult

1:13:12

for to break free, given like

1:13:14

its anger, but it is currently

1:13:16

held in place, it can't move,

1:13:18

and it has disadvantage on its

1:13:20

attack rolls. So no damage, but

1:13:22

it is definitely kind of gummed

1:13:24

up a bit. The elf kind

1:13:26

of quietly gives a fist pump.

1:13:28

The two imps are going to

1:13:30

go for each other. One's going

1:13:32

to strike at one with a

1:13:35

natural two fails while the other

1:13:37

one's going to go ahead and

1:13:39

does manage to sting the other

1:13:41

one with its tail. This is

1:13:43

some mini-kaiju combat happening over here.

1:13:45

So that's going to be five

1:13:47

points of piercing damage. Well, actually,

1:13:49

it only takes two because they

1:13:51

are resistant to piercing damage. They're

1:13:53

both no poison. They're immune to

1:13:55

poisons. They're just both going to

1:13:57

clawing each other like a couple

1:13:59

of angry siblings. in the air.

1:14:01

Finishing their go, that brings us

1:14:03

to Key. It's your turn. Okay.

1:14:05

This seems like as good a

1:14:07

time as any to use Fireball.

1:14:09

Key is always in paper. That's

1:14:12

a very key thing to say

1:14:14

in general. I mean, when in

1:14:16

doubt. All right, am I far

1:14:18

enough away? Is everyone else far

1:14:20

enough away? Key kind of looks

1:14:22

around. She's like, is everyone far

1:14:24

enough away that I can cast

1:14:26

Fireball? No one else is going

1:14:28

to get hurt. You and Biana

1:14:30

are definitely right up against this

1:14:32

creature. All right, all right, however,

1:14:34

you are also, it is taller

1:14:36

than you, because where Leon had

1:14:38

to kind of clamber up onto

1:14:40

the pillar to get eye level

1:14:42

with this creature, and you had

1:14:44

to kind of help hold him

1:14:47

up, this creature was that height

1:14:49

as it pulled itself free from

1:14:51

the pillar, so it probably stands

1:14:53

about eight, nine feet tall. You

1:14:55

could try and aim your fireball

1:14:57

up. The chamber is tall enough

1:14:59

that you could try and bless

1:15:01

it, but it's a 20 foot

1:15:03

tall chamber and it is a

1:15:05

20 foot radius. So you could

1:15:07

try and, if you want, you

1:15:09

can try and move out of

1:15:11

the way and blast kind of

1:15:13

off to the side to try

1:15:15

and catch it in just the

1:15:17

edge of the blast. It'll probably

1:15:19

incinerate a lot of books. But

1:15:22

you don't care, right? I don't

1:15:24

really care about that no that

1:15:26

seems fine um can I do

1:15:28

that and then use my bonus

1:15:30

action to like push me and

1:15:32

be on it out of the

1:15:34

way and like save her you

1:15:36

know like I'm so I'm kind

1:15:38

of like fireballing the goal I'm

1:15:40

like on its side right yeah

1:15:42

and getting a lot of books

1:15:44

behind it sure I'll say I'm

1:15:46

like clear and I'm doing a

1:15:48

flying leaf town I love it

1:15:50

so she doesn't hate us Great,

1:15:52

so you go ahead, because you're

1:15:54

both side by side and the

1:15:57

creature's like not that far from

1:15:59

you. You go ahead and go

1:16:01

into a shoulder charge, kind of

1:16:03

pushed, like, trying to get you

1:16:05

both out of the way, action

1:16:07

movie style. So we'll say, yeah,

1:16:09

you'll use your bonus action to

1:16:11

do that. Go ahead and roll,

1:16:13

roll an acrobatics check for me

1:16:15

if you don't mind. This is

1:16:17

to see how well you can

1:16:19

manage to maneuver both of you

1:16:21

to a safe space. I got

1:16:23

a seven. Okay, plus two. A

1:16:25

nine. Okay. So, as you push

1:16:27

both of you out of the

1:16:29

way and unleash your fireball, you

1:16:31

let this bead of red arcing

1:16:34

energy that kind of streaks across

1:16:36

to one of the far walls

1:16:38

behind where this pillar is before

1:16:40

it explodes and spills. A good

1:16:42

third of this chamber with spinning

1:16:44

arcane flame. The sound of it

1:16:46

rocks the tower itself in an

1:16:48

equid pew. This massive explosion kind

1:16:50

of began almost feel it hitting

1:16:52

the lower floors with its vibration.

1:16:54

It does fill the chamber with

1:16:56

flame, catching the target of this.

1:16:58

However, I will say this, either

1:17:00

you or Biana get caught in

1:17:02

the blast. With advantage on a

1:17:04

dexterity saving throw to try and

1:17:06

reduce the damage. Who do you

1:17:09

pick? I just gotta be me.

1:17:11

I feel like I deserve it.

1:17:13

I don't know. Yes, so go

1:17:15

ahead, make a dexterity saving throw

1:17:17

for me. With advantage. You get

1:17:19

to roll twice, take the higher

1:17:21

number and then add two to

1:17:23

it. Damn it, I just rolled

1:17:25

a one. Are you kidding? This

1:17:27

is going to be such a

1:17:29

dramatic ending to this story. All

1:17:31

right, so go ahead, go ahead,

1:17:33

go ahead, roll. So you're rolling

1:17:35

your fireball damage. That is 8D6

1:17:37

damage. So roll eight, six out

1:17:39

of dice and add them together.

1:17:41

Okay. So it's 20. For the

1:17:44

first roll. This is going great.

1:17:46

13 for the second roll. So

1:17:48

33. 33 points of fire damage.

1:17:50

So the blast catches the stone,

1:17:52

uh, glyph hulk, and with full

1:17:54

bear, it does not succeed at

1:17:56

saving a throw and takes a

1:17:58

massive. 33 points of fire damage.

1:18:00

As you're pushing Biana out of

1:18:02

the way in that slow motion

1:18:04

moment, the bright light of the

1:18:06

flame kind of heads towards you

1:18:08

and you realize in that moment,

1:18:10

I miscalculated before you take 33

1:18:12

points of fire damage. I'm dead.

1:18:14

So yeah, you are definitely unconscious

1:18:16

and you are dying. So Biana

1:18:18

kind of stumbles back out of

1:18:21

the way unharmed. The rest of

1:18:23

you watch as Key gets blasted

1:18:25

about 10 feet from where she

1:18:27

was standing, kind of rolling, and

1:18:29

is not moving on the ground.

1:18:31

I need you to go ahead

1:18:33

and roll a death saving throw

1:18:35

for me. At the end of

1:18:37

your turn, because you are unconscious

1:18:39

and dying, you enroll a D20,

1:18:41

you want to get a tenor

1:18:43

higher, a tenor higher is a

1:18:45

success, and he lowers a failure,

1:18:47

you want to succeed three times

1:18:49

before you fail three times, or

1:18:51

you are dead. This is good,

1:18:53

it's very hard to die in

1:18:56

this game. You

1:19:00

girl got a three. And I

1:19:02

die guys. I might die. You

1:19:04

never want to say it's very

1:19:06

hard to die in this case.

1:19:08

Let me just say that before

1:19:10

you're wrong. I have a great

1:19:12

feeling about this. What could go

1:19:14

wrong? You can possibly go wrong.

1:19:16

I don't know. Oh, it's going

1:19:19

to be so dramatic. I lost

1:19:21

all my luck on getting an

1:19:23

ape. As Key lies, unconscious on

1:19:25

the ground, kind of still bits

1:19:27

of flame, kind of burning the

1:19:29

edges of clothing and form, we

1:19:31

shift now over to the Cliffholks

1:19:33

term. The Cliffhol blasted by the

1:19:35

flame, angry, looks around, doesn't see

1:19:37

Key, who is now on the

1:19:39

ground, and Biana's been pushed out

1:19:41

of the way, and angrily glayers

1:19:44

across the way, unable to see.

1:19:46

the now unconscious key and beyond

1:19:48

having pushed out of the way,

1:19:50

it seems to focus its ire

1:19:52

on being. It tenses against the

1:19:54

ropes that keep it restrained currently

1:19:56

from the chest that was thrown

1:19:58

against it. And... It is

1:20:00

a natural one preventing it from

1:20:03

breaking free from the ropes and

1:20:05

its frustration. It gives this low

1:20:07

guttural kind of muffled humming cry

1:20:09

as it does its green shattered

1:20:12

eyes begin to glow brightly in

1:20:14

a beam of arcane energy. Kind

1:20:16

of Cyclops beams out towards you

1:20:18

being being I need you to

1:20:21

make a dexterity saving throw for

1:20:23

me. That is a 14. And

1:20:25

actually you have advantage on this,

1:20:27

because you are a barbarian. Well,

1:20:30

still going to be a 14.

1:20:32

Okay, there we go. So that

1:20:34

just fails, unfortunately. The beam catches

1:20:37

you as you try and dodge

1:20:39

it out of the way. You

1:20:41

take seven points of necrotic damage.

1:20:43

As the beam hits you, it's

1:20:46

not forceful, and it doesn't burn.

1:20:48

But as it kind of hits

1:20:50

your skin, it feels cold and

1:20:52

numb. And as you kind of

1:20:55

get back off of your knees

1:20:57

after trying to dodge it away,

1:20:59

where it hit you, your skin

1:21:01

is now beginning to blacken and

1:21:04

crack. Like it's been immediately plagued.

1:21:06

Yikes. That finishes its turn. We

1:21:08

come back to Leon. Leon is

1:21:10

grossed out and he loses his

1:21:13

turn. No, um, Leon is going

1:21:15

to, I mean, I still like

1:21:17

the idea of taking off that

1:21:19

crown, but Bing won't listen to

1:21:22

me. And my major is not

1:21:24

going to be strong enough. So

1:21:26

being, so Leon is just going

1:21:28

to use his fire bolt cantrip

1:21:31

on old, what's his name, fuck

1:21:33

face, the gallum. You got it.

1:21:35

Go ahead and roll. That's going

1:21:38

to be. Yep, a D20 plus

1:21:40

four. That would be a 13.

1:21:42

A 13, unfortunately, misses. The bolt

1:21:44

hits, but where it hits, it

1:21:47

looks like some of the stone

1:21:49

glyphs on a kind of flash,

1:21:51

and it almost dispels the bolt

1:21:53

before it impacts on its chest.

1:21:56

No impact. You still have your

1:21:58

bonus action and move, however. Hmm.

1:22:00

I'm gonna hide. Okay, so go

1:22:02

ahead and roll stealth check as

1:22:05

you dive down behind one of

1:22:07

the still standing cabinets. The few

1:22:09

that are there and it mostly

1:22:11

destroyed chamber. Uh, that would be,

1:22:14

uh, not good. Uh, seven. Seven,

1:22:16

got it, okay. You go and

1:22:18

dive behind a cabinet, right as

1:22:20

the cabinet kind of catches the

1:22:23

edge of your cloak and spins

1:22:25

and then tumbles over. It doesn't

1:22:27

break, but it slams the ground

1:22:29

with a heavy thud, leaving you

1:22:32

standing exposed, and the heavy sound

1:22:34

causes the entity to shift its

1:22:36

attention over, and now it definitely

1:22:38

perceives where you're standing. That's gonna

1:22:41

finish your turn, Leon. With that

1:22:43

being, you're up. Okay,

1:22:45

so if I don't have any healing potions left,

1:22:47

so I don't really have a way to help

1:22:49

key, is that right? Well, you would need more

1:22:52

than just a healing potion, right? A healing potion,

1:22:54

you could try and feed somebody. Yeah, any means

1:22:56

of healing could be the other magic practitioner in

1:22:58

this chamber is currently sleeping soundly at the foot

1:23:00

of a chest the snoring Or half-ork bard is

1:23:03

currently nowhere to be seen as he's just behind

1:23:05

your visual sight Okay, so Bing looks over at

1:23:07

that bard who is sleeping on the chest and

1:23:09

is he kind of he's like is he kind

1:23:11

of leaning on the chest? He's actually like curled

1:23:13

up in the fetal position with a thumb in

1:23:16

his mouth kind of just on the bet the

1:23:18

base of it like he kind of slumped and

1:23:20

slid down it and it's just kind of napping.

1:23:22

Okay. So Bing is going to pick up that

1:23:24

chest. Can he do it in a way that

1:23:27

bumps that guy in the head while he's picking

1:23:29

it up? I'll allow that. Go ahead and make

1:23:31

a strength check. I would say with disadvantage in

1:23:33

this instance. But because you are raging, it just

1:23:35

makes it a straight roll. Oh, sure. Okay. Oh,

1:23:38

nice. That's a 19. 19. So as you pick

1:23:40

up the chest, you slam it at the side

1:23:42

of his head. I'll say enough to do a

1:23:44

damage. bar of like, of like hey

1:23:46

what's what what what happened what's what's

1:23:49

going on? so being being is sort of

1:23:51

is holding the of is holding

1:23:53

the chest over his

1:23:55

head and he looks down

1:23:57

at the guard he he

1:24:00

looks over key and he's

1:24:02

like, you help help her he

1:24:04

then he throws the chest

1:24:06

the at at the being okay he's

1:24:08

like what do you he help what's

1:24:10

do you mean Hump, to

1:24:13

to be, and then glances

1:24:15

over and sees the

1:24:17

massive stone stone rampaging. rampage and it's

1:24:19

I get it. get it you

1:24:21

go throw the chest, go

1:24:24

ahead and roll, ahead and roll

1:24:26

Go ahead and roll an

1:24:28

athletics check for me. an

1:24:30

athletics check for gonna be a going to

1:24:32

21. all right, so with that,

1:24:34

you go ahead and take this

1:24:37

chest, ahead and of the fuse still

1:24:39

standing, and it smashes across it.

1:24:41

Roll a d10 for me. and it smashes

1:24:43

across it. Roll a D10 for me. Five. A A

1:24:45

five. This one across its

1:24:48

across its chest, another small localized

1:24:50

explosion that blasts into it,

1:24:52

as this chest detonates. detonates, Oh, a

1:24:54

a natural one on its dexterity

1:24:56

saving throw, taking the full

1:24:58

brunt of the damage. the ahead

1:25:00

and roll brunt of me, if you don't mind being

1:25:02

- ahead and roll 4D6 for me if you

1:25:04

don't mind being. Hell yeah. That's

1:25:06

gonna be nine. damage that of fire

1:25:09

damage, the chest bursts across creature.

1:25:11

creature. it's It's like its front

1:25:13

stone chest that's now that's now blackened

1:25:15

and charred with the multiple

1:25:17

blasts that have rocked it. have

1:25:19

You can still move if you

1:25:21

want to. if you want to. There's one

1:25:23

chest remaining, is that right? right?

1:25:26

There is one is one chest remaining.

1:25:28

I'm gonna, being, being, sort of seizes on of

1:25:30

seizes on that last chest and

1:25:32

heads over to it and

1:25:34

grabs it and throws it. it. Let's

1:25:36

go. All right Oh, Nat 20. Oh, oh, yes.

1:25:38

That's a 28, I guess, modified. Roll a D10 for

1:25:40

me. And a I'll say, I'll guess roll,

1:25:42

because it's for me And I'll

1:25:44

say I'll say roll because

1:25:47

I'll, natural I'll, I'll choose times which is

1:25:49

the I'll choose in the

1:25:51

list Which is the most

1:25:53

horrifying. Okay, great. We've got

1:25:55

a one got a

1:25:57

one. A ten. And

1:26:00

a four. We got a ten.

1:26:02

Okay. So. The one smashes across

1:26:05

it and it does the green

1:26:07

gas of poison kind of bursts

1:26:09

around it. It seems unscathed as

1:26:12

it does not bring. You said

1:26:14

it was a... Which one was

1:26:16

the last one you wrote? A

1:26:19

four? Four? Yeah. Right. We'll say

1:26:21

like the gas that kind of

1:26:24

emerges from it, it has no

1:26:26

effect, the four doesn't seem to

1:26:28

go off, there's nothing in there,

1:26:31

because this is like a massive,

1:26:33

like multiple trapped one that you

1:26:35

did with this natural 20. However,

1:26:38

after the shards of a chatter

1:26:40

across its chest, all these splinters

1:26:42

of wood kind of fly outward

1:26:45

and then stop in mid air.

1:26:47

In these strange kind of silver

1:26:50

tendrils of arcane power seemed to

1:26:52

emerge from where the... impact happened.

1:26:54

All the splinters begin to pull

1:26:57

back in as the small localized

1:26:59

black hole kind of briefly begins

1:27:01

to open where it hit and

1:27:04

as it does, all shards of

1:27:06

wood, stone, and bits of paper

1:27:08

and books and things that have

1:27:11

fallen from this all begin to

1:27:13

kind of... warp and spin around.

1:27:15

The stone creature tries to pull

1:27:18

away, but it can't. The rope's

1:27:20

still holding it in place. So

1:27:23

it is going to have a

1:27:25

disadvantage on its constitution saving through

1:27:27

on this. That's a natural 20,

1:27:30

but it has disadvantage. And a

1:27:32

three! That's a failure! into the

1:27:34

middle of this tiny singularity. All

1:27:37

right, that is, wow. 27. 27.

1:27:39

Ooh! As the singularity pulls in

1:27:41

the creature gonna hunches over feeling

1:27:44

itself pulled in the ropes snap

1:27:46

and are destroyed. by the proximity,

1:27:49

and immediately the singularity kind of

1:27:51

vanishes the little popping sound. As

1:27:53

it does, the glyph hook stands

1:27:56

up and you can see the

1:27:58

middle of its chest is just

1:28:00

cracks running all through it. More

1:28:03

of that kind of green energy

1:28:05

is kind of peaking through it.

1:28:07

It looks fairly damaged and very

1:28:10

angry. That finishes your turn being?

1:28:12

Yes. All right. Biana is going

1:28:14

to dart over. right in front

1:28:17

of the entity to grab the

1:28:19

unconscious body of key and attempt

1:28:22

to drag her away from any

1:28:24

sort of bit of danger. In

1:28:26

doing so, she will trigger an

1:28:29

opportunity attack from the now freed

1:28:31

glyph hook, which will try and

1:28:33

slam over the fist. Ooh, for

1:28:36

the natural 16, that will definitely

1:28:38

hit. So that will be... Oh,

1:28:40

14 points of bludgening damage against

1:28:43

Biana. Biana who is still poisoned

1:28:45

from that chest earlier takes a

1:28:48

heavy hit in the back and

1:28:50

like knocks is knocked to the

1:28:52

ground Kind of still protecting the

1:28:55

form of key before Picking herself

1:28:57

back up and begins running off

1:28:59

and kind of scoots your over

1:29:02

towards where you are being So

1:29:04

key is now unconscious at your

1:29:06

feet Biana looks up at you

1:29:09

and goes to say something before

1:29:11

coughing up blood across Key's shoulder

1:29:14

and part of the ground. Looks

1:29:16

like the heavy, like sledgehammer like

1:29:18

hit, she just took, definitely cracked

1:29:21

something. Finishing Biones go, the elf

1:29:23

on the side is gonna go

1:29:25

ahead and you don't see the

1:29:28

elf for a second until you

1:29:30

hear, and you see the elf

1:29:32

is pushed around and there are

1:29:35

the three remaining cabinets side by

1:29:37

side. She's trying to push one

1:29:39

cabinet into the others to cause

1:29:42

a domino effect. She'll go ahead

1:29:44

and attempt to make. With a

1:29:47

natural 15, there's only twice two,

1:29:49

there'll be 17, that does it.

1:29:51

The cabinet kind of... Oh yeah.

1:29:54

Domino's in the next... The last

1:29:56

one slams over into the side

1:29:58

of the stone entity. The stone

1:30:01

entity feels the impact, instinctually spins

1:30:03

around with a mass of fists

1:30:05

to backhand it reflexively to try

1:30:08

and fight off whatever attacker is

1:30:10

there, and shatters this cabinet. You

1:30:13

know what? Key, go ahead and

1:30:15

roll a D10 for me. It's

1:30:17

an eight. That's an eight. As

1:30:20

this bursts forth, more of these

1:30:22

vines now emerge and attempt to

1:30:24

wrap him up. The National 18

1:30:27

does make a strength-saving throw. So

1:30:29

a nice try by the Alvin

1:30:31

companion of Biana, but this entity

1:30:34

does manage to break itself free

1:30:36

of this kind of interior trap

1:30:38

enchantment. Finishing that go, the imps

1:30:41

just keep striking each other. They're

1:30:43

kind of out of the fight

1:30:46

focus on each other. They're not

1:30:48

even present at this point. Key

1:30:50

it is your turn I need

1:30:53

you to make another death saving

1:30:55

throw for me. This is terrifying

1:30:57

Okay, it's a 10 Okay, so

1:31:00

that is a success so you

1:31:02

have one failure and one success

1:31:04

Kind of still teetering on the

1:31:07

knife's edge But that does finish

1:31:09

your turn still breathing The glith

1:31:12

Hulk takes its turn now freed

1:31:14

from the ropes damaged and furious

1:31:16

from what Being is unleashed upon

1:31:19

it now multiple times It goes

1:31:21

into a terminator sprint and is

1:31:23

attempting to swing it you twice

1:31:26

with one with each of its

1:31:28

massive sludge hammer like fists the

1:31:30

first one comes at you. Ooh

1:31:33

natural 18. That's gonna be a

1:31:35

25 And the other strike is

1:31:38

going to be an 8 plus

1:31:40

7 that's going to be a

1:31:42

15 to hit. What's your armor

1:31:45

class? 16. 16. So the first

1:31:47

fist comes and hits you square

1:31:49

in the stern if you feel

1:31:52

your ribcage kind of crack in

1:31:54

multiple places from the impact that

1:31:56

sends you sliding back on your

1:31:59

back. foot by about two feet.

1:32:01

You take, oh my goodness, that's

1:32:03

going to be 22 points of

1:32:06

bludgening damage. You are raging, which

1:32:08

means you take half damage from

1:32:11

bludgening damage. So actually only take

1:32:13