Dalelands - Episode 2 'Miraculous Growth Serum'

The party learns more about Algar Gaunt's 'Miraculous Growth Serum', exploring the damage it has done to a small village in the Tesh Valley, eventually tracking down his hidden laboratory attempting to apprehend the criminal and prove themselves useful in this new land.

Transcript

SPEAKER_13 0:00

Thanks so much for tuning in to episode two of our Dale Lands Campaign.

SPEAKER_08 0:07

Uh last episode, we obviously began uh our recording of the campaign uh as we arrived in the Dale Lands after the characters all traveled on a caravan across Anarok Desert and arrived in Daggerdale, Dagger Falls specifically. Uh they arrived at night, so they quickly found a place to stay at the Red Rock Inn. Um Ike made a nice friend or two. Um you uh you found that there were a few black hands of Bane uh trying to get into the inn, but your half orc companion there, well not companion, but uh friend, uh, slapped one on the ear so hard that it made him bleed and run away. Uh both of his friends run away, and he drug him into an alley alley. Um as we uh got further into the episode, Val uh realized that maybe they were after her. A bit of a bit of backstory came uh for Val finally as uh you guys went and chased down this Black Hand uh member all the way out of the city of Dagger Falls, uh, past the guards who uh open the gates for you quickly, letting you catch up. Uh Ike turning into a wolf while shaping uh and chasing him down, and then all of you tackling him and eventually killing him after finding out uh all you could find out, essentially, from him. Um mostly that they are spreading out from Castle Crag, which is kind of their main base in the Dale lands, and looking for other places to stay. Uh they don't seem to be very welcome in many places, obviously. It's a very famous cult of an evil deity. Um after that he went and slept uh in beds for the first time in forty odd days for some of you. Uh and woke up, had a nice breakfast, um, and met up with Sister Liana at River Tesh, where you had a nice relaxing morning, uh surrounded by a nice flowing river and bugs and uh plant life and flora and fauna uh before you got into some serious business uh where you are trying to fight the corruption uh and the curse on a little town called Humble Hill, uh a few miles away from Dagger Falls, still in Daggardale. When you arrived, uh you saw that many of the plants and animals and people and crops were uh corrupted, um sick. You heard lots of coughs and uh the the kind of chorus of animals and insects that you heard in River Tesh uh fell silent. Um you then talked to the kind of head of this town and his wife, uh, who had both come down with this sickness, um, where Sister Liana said she would stay with them and help the people if you guys went and uh tried to find uh this man uh Algargaunt who uh sold this mysterious uh and corrupt uh fertilizer. Uh he called it a miraculous growth fertilizer, sold it to enough people in this town that uh sold food. Sold it to this uh sold it to enough people in this town, enough of the farmers that it corrupted the water table and poisoned all of the crops. And anyone who ate or uh was around any of these crops got very, very sick. Um you went outside and again silence surrounded you until uh you heard the banging of fists on wood and the screams of a small young family who is trapped in this wooden uh shack they call home and is being attacked by a mycanid, a spore uh person, essentially. Um it spotted you uh just around the corner of the entrance of this shack. Uh and you uh Yeah, uh you you are uh intent on doing battle with it immediately. So we're gonna roll initiative.

SPEAKER_09 5:58

Hold on, maybe we don't have the whole story. It's already left in my hand.

SPEAKER_13 6:02

It's it's in the win.

SPEAKER_01 6:05

There we go. Fifteen for Ike.

SPEAKER_11 6:08

Hmm. Slutty 20. For Orion. Ooh. Uh six for Val. A womp womp. Oh. Leo's slutty 20. Orion's repressed 20.

SPEAKER_13 6:25

Scared 20.

SPEAKER_11 6:26

15. Nice. Anxious 20. Two.

SPEAKER_08 6:31

Oi, oi, oi. Oi, oi, oi. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie. Uh Orion, you're gonna be up first Ike on deck.

SPEAKER_11 6:40

Um, I'm gonna. Okay. I'm gonna try to hit him with my longbow.

SPEAKER_08 6:44

Alright, uh, you're gonna have to get into a better position.

SPEAKER_11 6:47

Could somebody move me, please?

SPEAKER_08 6:50

Or else he's gonna have three-quarters cover around that corner there.

SPEAKER_14 6:53

Wrong.

SPEAKER_08 6:53

Or full cover on him from where you are. Okay. Okay, that's fine. That's on the side of the cliff.

SPEAKER_11 7:01

No! Oh, it's a seven.

SPEAKER_08 7:06

Uh, that is going to miss. Your arrow, you pull back, and your arrow swings uh and sticks into the side of this hut.

SPEAKER_14 7:15

He is very mad about that. That's okay, buddy. Slaps him on the back. He's gonna kill you.

SPEAKER_08 7:25

Mike and hears this, uh, hears the arrow foo. Uh, and kind of peeks around the corner and snarls. Um, and looks like it wants to kill you.

SPEAKER_09 7:40

Oh, great heavens.

SPEAKER_08 7:41

Uh Ike, that'll bring it to you.

SPEAKER_11 7:44

Before it's Ike's turn, I want to do something. I want a bonus action. I'm gonna bonus action a um veil of dusk on myself.

SPEAKER_08 7:52

Okay.

SPEAKER_11 7:53

Uh that's uh bonus to stealth checks or uh stealth checks, and I get a plus one to my armor class.

SPEAKER_08 7:59

Nice.

SPEAKER_01 8:00

Alright, over to Ike. Uh I'm going to bonus action adrenaline rush. I can uh I can take the dash action as a bonus action. Yeah, I'm gonna actually no, I'm gonna not cut it.

SPEAKER_08 8:27

I'm gonna put 40. Uh this thing is large, by the way. Um so you run up to it and see it towering over you.

SPEAKER_01 8:36

Um I also poison. Uh as an action, I'm gonna guess a starty width. That's all I can do right now. Get his ass.

SPEAKER_06 8:45

No, my tray. Oh, hit my tray.

SPEAKER_08 8:50

Uh that's uh 24 to hit. That'll hit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:56

For four damage.

SPEAKER_08 8:57

Beep! Okay. That's rough out here. Uh alright, four damage. Hodge.

SPEAKER_06 9:09

Turn into a snake. What do you need to turn into a snake?

SPEAKER_09 9:14

Is this a porch or like a roof or something? Is that the s that's not wall? I can see through that.

SPEAKER_08 9:20

Uh that is porch, yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_09 9:22

A disporch.

SPEAKER_08 9:24

I have porch. That is porch. I have mushroom on head.

SPEAKER_09 9:30

This is bad.

SPEAKER_08 9:31

I have mushroom on head.

SPEAKER_13 9:32

When we're separated, it's fine.

SPEAKER_09 9:33

This is bad. I will cast Magic missile. Oh shit. Yes.

SPEAKER_05 9:43

Um SHIELD!

SPEAKER_08 9:50

No!

SPEAKER_11 9:52

I can't miss.

SPEAKER_08 9:54

It does if you cast shield.

SPEAKER_11 9:56

What?

SPEAKER_08 9:57

I was joking. I was joking though. It doesn't matter. The mica did not have shield.

SPEAKER_14 10:01

Mushroom boy does not know shield.

SPEAKER_08 10:03

Remember because six percent.

SPEAKER_14 10:06

Nine force.

SPEAKER_08 10:12

Me or you nine force damage. Nine force damage. Alright. Uh that hurts. Uh Ike, you see these three hood-seeking missiles just uh go over you around you uh and stink into uh this mic, and it is uh you see pieces of its uh kind of mushroom form start to uh fall off. Sloth.

SPEAKER_14 10:37

Sloth?

SPEAKER_08 10:41

It is going to make a slam attack at Ike. It's gonna raise both of its fists up and that's gonna be a 21 to hit.

SPEAKER_09 10:54

Silvery barbs.

SPEAKER_08 10:56

Oh shit. Uh what's the range on that? 60 feet. Nice. 16 to hit? Yes. Oh wait, we're level fucking two. Just hits, Ray. Uh well.

SPEAKER_01 11:08

Oh wait. Yes, it just hits.

SPEAKER_08 11:12

I have a still like. I will give uh you the advantage. Goodness.

SPEAKER_01 11:16

Oh, wait, I got two.

SPEAKER_08 11:17

Um, dash. 14 bludgeoning damage. Joanna! Uh slams down on Ike returning the blows that he did to it.

SPEAKER_09 11:33

Um that's all my opponents is 14.

SPEAKER_08 11:39

Um, and then it's going to run to the other side of you. It's kind of gonna uh it's gonna slam on you and then just uh work its way back around you. Okay. Um, and then it's going to Oh. You're just out. I thought you were within 10 feet if I did that, but you're not. Alright. It is not gonna do that. It's gonna stay there. Uh it's going to shoot out these spores uh at Ike. I need a con save. DC is 12. Come on, big boy. As you try not to breathe in these spores. Yep, we're good, save.

SPEAKER_04 12:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 12:28

Okay. Uh avoiding the stunned condition. Oh.

SPEAKER_11 12:32

Yikes.

SPEAKER_08 12:33

Uh Ike is A-O-K. Val, Joanna on deck.

SPEAKER_05 12:40

Ah, yeah, that's the one, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 12:42

It could be Yes, it is.

SPEAKER_14 12:47

Um. I'm going to try to command it. To um grovel. Oh, it wasn't 14.

SPEAKER_01 12:58

Okay. What's the random?

SPEAKER_14 13:01

60 feet. But I also did actually, you reminded me I did want to move closer.

SPEAKER_08 13:05

That's gonna be a 10. Nice.

SPEAKER_14 13:08

Oh, it's a 10? Nice. So, um now he's on the ground. He he he he he.

SPEAKER_08 13:15

Uh, is that prone?

SPEAKER_14 13:16

Yes.

SPEAKER_08 13:17

Nice.

SPEAKER_09 13:18

He might does he spend his next turn doing it?

SPEAKER_14 13:20

He's it says and then it ends its turn, but his turn had already ended, so I don't know if I'm gonna.

SPEAKER_09 13:25

On his turn, he will go prone, I think.

unknown 13:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 13:29

Uh I think it goes prone immediately. Target.

SPEAKER_14 13:33

Or follow the command on its next turn. So you're right, it grovels at the beginning, or it falls prone at the beginning of the next turn.

SPEAKER_09 13:39

Or they changed. Or follow the command on its next turn. So yes.

SPEAKER_08 13:44

Yeah, so his next turn will be going prone, and that's it.

SPEAKER_14 13:49

Okay. That is weird. That was kinda weird.

SPEAKER_09 13:51

At least he wastes his turn.

SPEAKER_08 13:53

Yeah. Very true.

SPEAKER_10 13:55

And Baldo's gates. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_08 13:59

That's real that's really good. Skips a whole turn.

SPEAKER_13 14:05

Get on the ground, and he's like, not yet.

SPEAKER_08 14:07

A level one dispel. It's not my turn! Yeah, I can't do anything yet. Hold on. Hold! Hold these.

SPEAKER_09 14:15

I have not. Which would be weird with like legendary actions, too. I can't touch you. Why can't you touch him?

SPEAKER_14 14:25

I moved all of the movement that I think.

SPEAKER_09 14:27

You're an adjacent square done.

SPEAKER_14 14:28

She's not going to be able to do that. Can I do it? Sorry. That would be another spell slot.

SPEAKER_09 14:35

Not with healing hands.

SPEAKER_14 14:36

Not with my special magical.

SPEAKER_04 14:41

Yeah, baby. I have a thing. Okay.

SPEAKER_14 14:44

Yeah, actually, I was looking at that. I was like, ooh, okay, so I'm gonna give you five hit points.

SPEAKER_08 14:50

Thank you. Joanna. He's doing that strange healing thing again. We need your sword.

SPEAKER_13 14:58

How is she doing? I have a question. So with my guiding bolt, I have a charge of it. It doesn't use a spell slot. And I do that and also healing work.

SPEAKER_08 15:08

Mm-hmm. Sick. Oh, yes, yep.

SPEAKER_13 15:10

So I'm going to try and hit it first.

SPEAKER_08 15:12

Yeah, I need innate spells. Do not need spell slots or equal to one of those.

SPEAKER_12 15:17

Oh, you can just do that one over? Hmm. That might not be enough.

SPEAKER_09 15:21

Yeah, only one spell slot per turn is too.

SPEAKER_13 15:23

14.

SPEAKER_08 15:24

14 hits.

SPEAKER_13 15:27

Okay, I have one more D6.

SPEAKER_08 15:28

Not too much more than that. You get your code of cast spells, but I'll say two. What do you need?

SPEAKER_01 15:34

Holy fuck.

SPEAKER_06 15:35

I have a hello.

SPEAKER_11 15:36

I'm not just gonna reach into your. I'm not just gonna reach into your body. I can hear me!

SPEAKER_08 15:43

This for the class.

SPEAKER_13 15:45

I can't do math. Hold on.

SPEAKER_08 15:47

Big part of this game.

SPEAKER_13 15:50

Uh nine radiant. Oh, yeah, kill it! Uh Bloody. Two Ike. By the way. Oh nice. Bonus action here.

SPEAKER_01 16:01

I bet it's a meal to play.

SPEAKER_13 16:03

You get back another eight.

SPEAKER_10 16:05

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:06

Me?

SPEAKER_13 16:06

Yes.

SPEAKER_10 16:07

Yay!

SPEAKER_09 16:11

Says Ike. Literally.

SPEAKER_08 16:13

Damn. Yippee! I didn't realize command was that crazy. Skipped a whole turn.

SPEAKER_09 16:19

It's a fucking go-to.

SPEAKER_14 16:20

Get fucking murdered, I guess. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 16:22

Uh Orion, you are up.

SPEAKER_14 16:23

Longbow! Ike. I hope. Please. No!

SPEAKER_11 16:32

Um, I don't do anything, and Orion is going to hide in shame. Keep sulking in his face. This is gonna make it.

SPEAKER_08 16:43

So upsetting.

SPEAKER_13 16:44

It's okay, buddy. If you're trying to hit the build, then you're doing a great job. He's gonna kill you.

SPEAKER_08 16:50

Shlele. Bonus action, shleli.

SPEAKER_11 16:53

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:54

Ooh, yeah. 23 to hit.

SPEAKER_11 16:56

Ooh. It's a good thing he's cloaked in darkness. You can't see him crying.

SPEAKER_08 17:00

Uh nine damage. Yeah, the veil doesn't help. Nice. Uh wearing it down.

SPEAKER_13 17:05

Just hear sniffling from inside this cloud.

SPEAKER_08 17:07

He's hurting.

SPEAKER_14 17:11

Why he sound like that?

SPEAKER_08 17:13

He's infected.

SPEAKER_01 17:17

Hodge. Oh, it can't Oh, that's interesting. It can be force damage, if I want it.

SPEAKER_08 17:23

Oh, yeah, Shileli. Yep. That's it. Yeah, because of the whole bludgeoning piercing slashing change that they did for 2024.

SPEAKER_00 17:32

I use mine sliver!

SPEAKER_08 17:34

Oh shit. Yeah. Um. Fail. Okay. There's a four on the die.

SPEAKER_09 17:43

Two psychic damage. Hopefully you can take that. Oh that hurt me too! You described my decentralized nervous system.

SPEAKER_01 17:54

A kind of like a human that has been taken over by this.

SPEAKER_08 17:59

You could make a check on your turn if you'd like to turn that. Uh it is. What I would what I described is like a mushroom with humanoid features, essentially. Um dirt in my slum. It's like the kind of like the Last of Us Zombies, or like the people on the uh the ship in Pirates of the Caribbean. Oh, like DJ's people. Where they have growth that they'd be like, shit grown on them. But they look more like a mushroom, like they're way more mushroom than that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 18:37

Like a reanimated corpse.

SPEAKER_08 18:39

If you played Baldur Gig, you would know. Baldur Gig.

SPEAKER_01 18:44

Pretty uh, I think by the description, I was like, Listeners a like a human face or head on it somewhere. Like this blight got so bad that it turned this person into whatever.

SPEAKER_08 18:57

Yeah, like I said, you can make a check on your turn if you guys fungus is good for crops. On they on their turn, because of the command, they are going to grovel. Uh you see it uh stops fighting, uh, stops groaning in pain, and just spends its turn just bowing down uh all the way to its knees. That's pretty scary to this command. Uh that'll bring it to Valve.

SPEAKER_14 19:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 19:28

Yeah, any melee attacks will be an advantage.

SPEAKER_14 19:31

Oh yeah, we're going to.

SPEAKER_09 19:32

He also has a minus one d4 to his next saving throw.

SPEAKER_14 19:35

Oh. Oh, because of mine's litter. God damn it.

SPEAKER_09 19:38

You have to be advantage.

SPEAKER_14 19:39

Oh shit, you're right, good.

SPEAKER_08 19:42

Sorry, we didn't tell you.

SPEAKER_02 19:46

Uh, how does a seven feel to him?

SPEAKER_08 19:49

Uh windy?

SPEAKER_02 19:54

Uh, can I use Divine Smite if I don't hit?

SPEAKER_08 19:57

If you don't hit, you can. It's gonna hurt the ground real bad.

unknown 20:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 20:04

Um, I, you know, I was expecting his head to be up a little bit higher. And, you know.

SPEAKER_08 20:14

As you swing, he ducks his head. As you were about to chop his head off, a dragon landed on the tower behind you.

SPEAKER_02 20:20

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_07 20:21

As we commend your souls to Ethereus!

SPEAKER_02 20:25

Um, well, yep.

SPEAKER_08 20:27

Little Skyrim joke for everyone. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 20:32

I like the Thomas the tank engine version. Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 20:37

I'm not familiar.

SPEAKER_08 20:38

Joanna. I'll show you later.

SPEAKER_13 20:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 20:40

Umrion on deck.

SPEAKER_13 20:42

How long does he have that minus key for the first time?

SPEAKER_08 20:46

Yeah, he ended his turn doing that.

SPEAKER_13 20:49

Um, a wisdom 13.

SPEAKER_08 20:51

Oh, I thought you meant the corn thing.

SPEAKER_13 20:54

Sorry, what was the uh wisdom 13 of doing toll to death. Oh minus one for two.

SPEAKER_08 21:02

Oh, never mind. Yeah, minus. He did still succeed it.

SPEAKER_13 21:06

Even with the minus?

SPEAKER_08 21:07

Yes. So uh I rolled a 15 on the die.

unknown 21:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 21:12

And the his bonus is exactly cancelled out by uh by the minus slipper. Well, I thought because it was a 15 minus two, it was like 13, and then I saw that he had a modifier. Yeah. Either way, it still would have succeeded because it was mitza pizza, but in organism.

SPEAKER_13 21:31

Um Nature Boy Rick Flair?

SPEAKER_08 21:37

What the freak?

SPEAKER_13 21:38

That's it. I tried.

SPEAKER_08 21:41

Orion. Okay, disadvantage.

SPEAKER_13 21:43

She's all the way to the club. What the fuck?

SPEAKER_08 21:45

He's prone.

SPEAKER_11 21:47

He's on the ground.

unknown 21:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 21:49

Come and get him.

SPEAKER_11 21:51

Dex 13.

SPEAKER_09 21:53

He does not have the minus anymore. What are you doing?

SPEAKER_08 21:56

Uh he has disadvantage on deck saves. One prone, I believe. Yes. Shooting stars well. That is an eight with disadvantage. It was gonna be a 17 with advantage. That's not right.

SPEAKER_11 22:13

Two radiant damage. Woo!

SPEAKER_09 22:15

Okay, let's go.

SPEAKER_11 22:18

Before he does this, though, he takes off his glove and then does it.

SPEAKER_09 22:21

Yeah. Sneak a peek. Death by a thing. You've seen it.

SPEAKER_11 22:24

You've seen his hand.

SPEAKER_09 22:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 22:25

Last session.

SPEAKER_08 22:26

That's right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 22:28

Did you say how do I want to do this?

SPEAKER_08 22:29

No, Will said that.

SPEAKER_11 22:31

Damn it. I got really excited with my too dinky damage. Too dinky damage. Too dinky.

SPEAKER_08 22:40

We're playing a different version of DD where the DM rotates every turn.

SPEAKER_11 22:44

Listen, I don't know where sounds are coming from.

SPEAKER_09 22:48

Wishful thank you, I suppose.

SPEAKER_08 22:51

Okay. Smack him. Ooh, I'm advantageous. 16. He already pulled that trick.

SPEAKER_04 23:01

Ooh.

SPEAKER_08 23:02

Or fuck. 10 minutes. Exactly his HP. How do you want to do this? Just slamming down on his stuff. Slamming down. Big style.

SPEAKER_11 23:18

Ooh. I'm not layup today. Big style.

SPEAKER_08 23:21

As you do that, you feel like very little resistance, like how you chop a mushroom.

SPEAKER_13 23:28

Oh spongy. I don't like that.

SPEAKER_08 23:31

As his body.

SPEAKER_13 23:32

I've heard the sound from over here. I don't like that.

SPEAKER_09 23:33

Makes me feel bad.

SPEAKER_08 23:34

Smushes into this wet earth, this corrupted uh earth, and uh settles.

SPEAKER_12 23:44

Did you get it?

SPEAKER_09 23:46

I got it. Good word, Ike.

SPEAKER_14 23:48

Good job, buddy. What is it?

SPEAKER_08 23:50

I'm poking with my sword.

SPEAKER_14 23:55

Mushroom.

SPEAKER_08 23:55

Uh, you still hear the cries of this this young family inside.

SPEAKER_14 24:00

Oh, I guess we should let those drive.

SPEAKER_08 24:02

Oh, go make sure they're all right. Who would like to go inside? Not me.

SPEAKER_12 24:09

I'll I'll go.

SPEAKER_08 24:10

Okay. Ultra bread. Uh Joanna, you step over this uh spore creature. Ultra breath. Sometimes they can release dust. Uh the door is locked.

unknown 24:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 24:25

Um, but the people inside, uh, you can hear them kind of whispering. It's it's very rickety, like there's gaps in between the uh. She'll peek a big eye into one of the uh you see a mother and father and uh young child looks to be about six. Um, and you see the father goes, Hey, hey, the the sound stopped.

SPEAKER_03 24:49

Hi. Oh, uh there.

SPEAKER_07 24:52

Hello. Yeah, we took care of her.

SPEAKER_08 24:55

Um motions for his uh kid and his wife to stay there while he goes over and uh unlocks the door, uh opens it for you. Did you deal with it?

SPEAKER_13 25:10

Uh yeah, and she'll like gesture behind turn.

SPEAKER_08 25:13

Oh my. Like wiping off mushrooms shit. He uh pushes past you, not hard, but uh just uh weakly pushes past you, gets on one knee and uh puts his hand uh on the back of this creature. It was my uncle.

SPEAKER_03 25:32

Oh, I'm so sorry now.

SPEAKER_08 25:34

It is he was long past what he once could be, and you needed to put him to rest. I'm sorry. I was the one that killed him. That is that is okay, sir. Uh he stands up and shakes her hand. I uh I hold no ill will towards you. He was he was going to kill myself and my wife and my only child. He was infected.

SPEAKER_01 26:06

Where did he get infected just by consuming food from this um He was one of the first to try it?

SPEAKER_08 26:23

Miracle Growth Formula.

SPEAKER_11 26:25

Where did he Miracle Grow, I use you.

SPEAKER_08 26:29

We're not gonna get sued.

SPEAKER_01 26:31

Where did uh where did he live? We would like to examine his home for any sort of clues that might lead us to the culprit that gave this concoction to this village.

SPEAKER_08 26:46

Uh he points uh down to the other side of the town. Um you'll find it um his house is is right next to the worst looking farm in the village. Black crops everywhere.

SPEAKER_13 27:08

Um I don't know if it would be comforting to to you or maybe to your your wife and child, but um if you'd like I can what was his name? I can say a quick prayer over him.

SPEAKER_08 27:21

His his name was Hendrik. Uh my name is Irwin.

SPEAKER_13 27:26

Oh! Something deep in Joanna. Feels like she's met she's met an Irwin before. Um Okay, sure. If if if all of you want to be a part of it, I don't know if you're you know the religious tackle.

SPEAKER_08 27:40

My uh wife and child will stay inside. Sure. I I have been taking as many precautions to keep them away from this sickness as I can.

SPEAKER_13 27:50

Yeah. Okay. Um and Joanna will kind of just over top of the mushroom body. Just say a quick prayer for him. Um and then kind of reach into her pack and some of the rations that were left over from the caravan that she hasn't used. I know the food around here isn't that safe. Um so just a little something to help.

SPEAKER_08 28:16

Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 28:16

This is very kind of you.

SPEAKER_13 28:18

Of course.

SPEAKER_01 28:19

Um best burn the body. I would say I would like to bury it for you, but you should burn it.

SPEAKER_08 28:26

Yes. Uh I'll take care of that. You have uh more responsibilities going forward, I I'd assume, if especially if you want to take a look at Hendrick's home. I'm gonna take a piece of this thing and study it. Okay. Just put it away, fold it up into some some leather or paper or something.

SPEAKER_09 28:50

Um We are seeking the man who sold you this faulty fertilizer. If you have any idea of what he potentially ran off to. He didn't sell it to me. Um I'm no farmer.

SPEAKER_08 29:05

Um But my uncle, um like I said, was one of the first to buy it. Uh uh I I don't maybe he has uh records that he kept in his home of uh where this man may have gone or where a description of him. I I I've heard the name gaunt go around.

SPEAKER_12 29:31

Yeah, that's the yeah.

SPEAKER_08 29:33

Supposedly some some sort of halfling, but I I've no clue where he would have gone. That's alright, thank you.

SPEAKER_10 29:40

What a fitting name.

SPEAKER_08 29:41

Uh he bends down and and uh puts his hand uh on the back of his what once was his uncle, and kind of uh rests it for a second and and then picks him up over his shoulder and takes him out back to to make a fire. Oh, um one more thing. Uh I know you can probably handle it, all of you, but uh he did have a dog. So just beware of beware of uh that.

SPEAKER_12 30:15

Okay, good.

SPEAKER_08 30:16

Animals are no problem. Big small Yes, but I'm not sure what it was big, and I'm not sure what happened to it if it ate the similar food to eat.

SPEAKER_09 30:25

May have befallen the same fate. Okay. Okay, we'll keep a look at it. What was its name? Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_08 30:32

Uh its name was Bruce. Bruce? What's right what's wrong with it? Okay.

SPEAKER_10 30:41

Just a human's name.

SPEAKER_09 30:44

Yes, I've met.

SPEAKER_10 30:46

Or an elf.

SPEAKER_11 30:47

Or a halfling.

SPEAKER_09 30:49

Good observation, Orion.

SPEAKER_11 30:50

Or a teeth.

SPEAKER_08 30:53

Anyway, I best best get going with this. Uh I wish you the best of luck, and I I thank you very greatly for saving us all. If I had money to pay you, I would.

SPEAKER_03 31:05

Oh no, that's fine.

SPEAKER_08 31:08

Uh so you guys set off. I'm assuming the first stop you want to make is at uh Hendrik's house. Yes.

SPEAKER_13 31:15

Yes. Did you hate the name Bruce so much? What would you name a dog?

SPEAKER_01 31:18

You know, I'm not sure. Something fitting. I swear I've met somebody named Luna. That's what you typically name a dog.

SPEAKER_11 31:26

Yes, Luna would be great. Uh I think like Senka would be great, or uh Zarina, maybe.

unknown 31:35

Sure.

SPEAKER_09 31:36

And Bruce was bad. Bruce was bad.

SPEAKER_11 31:39

I didn't want to.

SPEAKER_09 31:40

I met a dog named Apple once. That's very good. Yeah, it seemed like a nice name.

SPEAKER_11 31:45

I knew a dog named Buddy. You sure he wasn't just He was very good with a ball. He was very stinky.

SPEAKER_01 31:58

Air Bud.

SPEAKER_13 32:01

Air bud, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 32:02

Could soar through the air. It was remarkable. Alright. His children can talk.

SPEAKER_08 32:10

I forgot they did that. Well just use that map for his house as well. Might as well keep it.

SPEAKER_11 32:16

Oh, that was an air bud joke. I just did it against Airbud.

SPEAKER_13 32:27

Sour Patch Kids.

SPEAKER_01 32:30

Sour Patch Kids.

SPEAKER_11 32:32

Sourpatch Kids.

SPEAKER_13 32:34

God damn. But Dev Cars.

SPEAKER_08 32:36

Airbud. Alright, you guys head across town. Again, the silence uh cut only with uh a cough uh and a wheeze as you pass these houses houses going down the uh residential streets uh and then on the outskirts, uh finding uh what was uh wheat is just these black slimy strands uh covering an entire field. Uh and you know this to be Hendrick's house.

SPEAKER_07 33:12

Oh god. Beware of what's Beware of dog. Be wary of a dog.

SPEAKER_12 33:19

They got dog named Bruce guy.

SPEAKER_08 33:21

You do see a beware of dog sign on the side of the house. Um it looks a bit nicer, uh, while albeit the same size uh or similar size to uh his uh nephew's house. Um as you approach the door, uh you hear paws slam on the door, uh, and you see uh one of the pieces of wood uh breaks, you see one of the arms reaches out. Oh wow. Um and then it pulls it back in. Someone say his name, quick! You see uh you see it leap up again and punch out another pole. Um and then you see uh a head peek out of the first one and sniff and snarl, and uh you see uh just drool as its eyes are wide and crazy. Just then you see a second head peek out of the second two Bruces? Uh they look identical.

SPEAKER_11 34:30

Oh, I'm gonna speak with animals.

SPEAKER_09 34:33

I Brucifer.

SPEAKER_11 34:40

Bruce? Bruce is not you.

SPEAKER_08 34:51

Your words do not seem to get through. This is no longer a beast.

SPEAKER_02 34:56

But a monstrosity.

SPEAKER_08 34:59

Mushrooms are closer to animals than they are to class. It does not seem quite strong enough to reach through the entire wall while it is getting through some weaker kind of uh planks in the in the wall. It doesn't seem to have the strength to get to you unless you are to go inside. But there may be some valuable information for you. Can I cast a spell on him? Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_07 35:24

Sleep!

SPEAKER_08 35:25

Uh it it doesn't have the ability to like we're not gonna go into initiative unless there's a way for him to get to you.

SPEAKER_09 35:32

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_08 35:33

I'm gonna sleep him. Alright. Uh is that a save? I can't remember what it is.

SPEAKER_09 35:37

So wisdom 14 save.

SPEAKER_08 35:39

Okay. That was crazy.

SPEAKER_09 35:44

I saw it roll off the edge of the mat. What the fuck?

SPEAKER_08 35:47

It rolled from a 19 and then it rolled Jeffs off the edge of the mat to a natural one. Yes! Yes! Yup!

SPEAKER_05 35:55

Yup! Yes!

SPEAKER_09 35:57

Well, not ready.

SPEAKER_08 36:00

Um snarling and drooling stops as you hear one head hit the ground and then the other one plop on top of it uh as its body falls asleep.

SPEAKER_00 36:10

Joe heads.

SPEAKER_03 36:11

How long does that last?

SPEAKER_09 36:13

Moments! Please, uh, Joanna, Val, someone uh do something. Does anyone have fire? Uh so perhaps your sword. I saw it glow with energy earlier, Val.

SPEAKER_14 36:24

Yeah, you want me to breathe on the door and kill it?

SPEAKER_09 36:26

Uh stab it. What? Can you can I see sleep real quick? Yeah, it has a few seconds before it has to make another save and then it can be.

SPEAKER_13 36:38

Well, that's for flavor and stradd if it doesn't set things on part.

SPEAKER_09 36:41

Okay. Can you smite it or something super quick? Just what I thought maybe.

SPEAKER_08 36:48

So it currently has the incapacitated condition. It's at advantage, though, right? Would it be?

SPEAKER_14 36:54

Like if I sword attack him.

SPEAKER_08 36:56

Uh you would have to you can use a free action to open the door. Um and then uh oh, no, because the door is locked. So you'd have to somebody somebody in your team could use an action to open the door, and then you could go in and use your action to hit it. So if somebody wants to make a strength check or a lockpick check. Uh Orion.

SPEAKER_11 37:18

With my minus one episode.

SPEAKER_08 37:20

Can you get the door open?

SPEAKER_11 37:20

Uh yes, I I will try.

SPEAKER_09 37:23

You might have to make the save while that'll be a second.

SPEAKER_11 37:26

Can you guide me?

SPEAKER_08 37:27

Well, this is all Okay. If we were in initiative order, this would all be taking place at the same turn. I think just see. Why?

SPEAKER_11 37:34

You don't judge yourself? Just do it.

SPEAKER_09 37:38

I am Orion, please would go a very long way, I think.

SPEAKER_11 37:42

Yeah, it would. Please.

SPEAKER_09 37:44

There we go. Thank you. Good job. Only because I think you're really smart.

SPEAKER_13 37:49

Oh, that's a compliment. That was about half me.

SPEAKER_09 37:52

Oh.

unknown 37:52

Oh.

SPEAKER_09 37:53

Well, thank you, Orion. Um I have read many books. I have read the book.

SPEAKER_08 38:04

Um very big. It's not a sleight of hand check. Thieves tools is not a sleight of hand check.

SPEAKER_11 38:09

Oh, I've never used them before.

SPEAKER_08 38:11

Uh it's a thieves tools check. Thieves tools. Um Do you have proficiency in sleight of hand?

SPEAKER_13 38:17

Or uh Yeah, because this is when I found out that I could have been rolling advantage. You gave me whatever I needed.

SPEAKER_08 38:22

Yes, so you have proficiency. So it's a thieves tools check at advantage. Yeah. So you would use your proficiency bonus.

SPEAKER_10 38:32

How do I do that?

SPEAKER_09 38:33

So you don't do it as well at hand. Two or three. How do I find that? Our proficiency bonus is two or three right now.

SPEAKER_08 38:39

Yeah, probably two. I don't know.

SPEAKER_11 38:41

Yeah, like try that.

SPEAKER_08 38:43

Have you guys been doing it wrong too? I have been using the water.

SPEAKER_13 38:45

I'm finding out that in Vecna I could have been rolling fucking advantage a lot more.

SPEAKER_08 38:49

Yeah. I mean, it's still on Thieves Tools how to do it.

SPEAKER_01 38:52

As as quick draw, like when you say, oh, make a, you know, Thieves Tools check in my head, I'm like, oh, it's sleight of hand to get the door open.

SPEAKER_08 39:00

And I use my sleight of hand skill modifier. No, it's uh yeah, it it explains it on Thieves Tools. It's it's a Thieves Tools check using a proficiency bonus, and if you have proficiency in sleight of hand, you get advantage.

SPEAKER_11 39:14

Okay. Well, that's a 21.

SPEAKER_08 39:19

Okay. Yeah. Uh you run up, uh pop open the lock, uh, the door swings open, you hear this dog snoring. Uh it's not fully unconscious, but it is incapacitated. Ow!

SPEAKER_05 39:32

Strike it down, damn!

SPEAKER_08 39:33

I believe if it's is it an autocrit if it's incapacitated? That's what I've been using sleep for.

SPEAKER_13 39:40

Yeah, that's how I've decimated the man cover.

SPEAKER_08 39:43

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_13 39:44

Oh, okay.

unknown 39:46

Roll two B20s at the same time.

SPEAKER_08 39:47

Well, that might have been unconscious.

SPEAKER_14 39:49

I don't know if well, does a 19 hit?

SPEAKER_08 39:54

Uh a 19, yes.

SPEAKER_14 39:56

Well, it don't matter, Dan.

SPEAKER_08 39:58

Well, it matters.

SPEAKER_14 40:01

Oh, well.

SPEAKER_08 40:02

Um, it does not crit. Okay. Well, it's gonna re-roll.

SPEAKER_14 40:11

Alright. Um if you smite, though. And I'm smiting, you're right.

SPEAKER_08 40:16

I'm smiting?

SPEAKER_14 40:17

I'm smiting.

SPEAKER_08 40:18

I'm smiting, I'm smiting.

SPEAKER_14 40:20

An extra 2d8.

SPEAKER_08 40:22

Yeah, smite 3. Extra 2d8.

SPEAKER_14 40:23

I'm smiting.

SPEAKER_08 40:26

You actually don't have advantage on the attack for incapacitated. It's prone. It is prone. Okay.

SPEAKER_14 40:33

Um two slashing damage and seven radiant damage.

SPEAKER_09 40:38

Unless he's like a cow and he's sleeping standing up.

SPEAKER_08 40:40

Which is also amazing.

SPEAKER_14 40:41

That's four bites. That is it's standing up and its heads are like bumper.

SPEAKER_08 40:44

Uh so you said two and seven?

SPEAKER_14 40:46

Yeah, two slashing and seven radiant.

SPEAKER_08 40:49

Okay. Which means that does he wake up from that? Oh, he'll wake up. Okay. Yeah. So now we'll roll a nice video. Uh kind of hoping that would do him in. Uh 17. Not even bloody from that. Oh.

SPEAKER_02 41:03

Oh!

unknown 41:04

Oh!

SPEAKER_08 41:04

Uh, you walk in and you do and you see, yes, this dog does have two heads.

SPEAKER_11 41:09

Uh, he's ropes. Yay, don't worry. Somebody make it better so that I can have Senka and Zarina.

SPEAKER_08 41:17

Orion nine. Yes. Joanna?

SPEAKER_11 41:19

15.

SPEAKER_08 41:21

Ike 17. Val.

SPEAKER_11 41:24

Imagine Orion with a two-headed dog. Well, I want to tame it. Okay, so Val is the one inside. That'd be sick.

SPEAKER_09 41:38

I would have been adjacent, so.

SPEAKER_08 41:40

Yeah, put yourself wherever.

SPEAKER_09 41:42

Um God bless you.

SPEAKER_08 41:45

So the dog rolled horrible on initiative, so everyone is gonna go before it. So it might not get a turn. Uh it'll be Ike, Joanna, Hodge, Val, and Orion. Jump him! Okay. Uh gonna bonus actually. It is still prone, while it is not incapacitated. Okay. Bonus actual prone.

SPEAKER_01 42:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 42:07

Uh, that's a 16 to hit. Okay. Put yourself on the board where you want to be. Okay. Alright, where are you moving to? Uh, in within melee range of him. Joanna.

SPEAKER_13 42:24

Um. I guess if I guided Orion, I'm like in between him and Bao. Um. But I guess I three guys or wisdom 13 again.

unknown 42:41

Please.

SPEAKER_08 42:42

That is going to save with a dirty 20. Boopy. A doggy 20.

SPEAKER_13 42:49

Whatever.

SPEAKER_08 42:51

I didn't all like that.

SPEAKER_13 42:56

Um yeah, no. She tries to throw a toll to dead out and just goes like fizzled out in her hands.

SPEAKER_08 43:01

Uh yeah. Uh, okay. Hodge.

SPEAKER_07 43:06

Mind sliver.

SPEAKER_08 43:08

Wisdom save again, right?

SPEAKER_07 43:09

Yes.

SPEAKER_08 43:11

Six. Mind slipper. Mind sliver.

SPEAKER_13 43:17

It has two mines. Which one are you? The one in the middle.

SPEAKER_08 43:21

We all hate it. They smack their heads into each other.

SPEAKER_09 43:25

Four! Psychic damage.

SPEAKER_08 43:28

Okay. Val.

unknown 43:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 43:33

Do it again!

SPEAKER_14 43:35

Yeah. Is it on the ground still or is this advantage or regular?

SPEAKER_08 43:42

Advantage.

unknown 43:45

Good.

SPEAKER_08 43:46

Oh, I forgot to bring the dice box. I'm sorry. It's all good.

SPEAKER_14 43:49

Uh 15.

SPEAKER_08 43:51

To hit? Yeah. Hits. Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 43:56

And then I'm also, yeah, we're gonna play on this my dev. Item here here. Where is it? Where is it? Yeah. Uh six radiant, two slashing.

SPEAKER_08 44:16

Alright. Finally it is bloody. As Orion comes up.

SPEAKER_11 44:22

Um he's going to um take a longbow attack. He's gonna s he's not within melee range, right? No. Okay. Yeah. Um Jesus Christ. Nine to hit.

SPEAKER_08 44:38

Miss. Another arrow sinks into the woodwork. We have to make sure his targets are up.

SPEAKER_11 44:47

She just turns and looks at you. He stares at you scarily, but you can't really tell. You get an energy that he's.

SPEAKER_01 44:55

Why do you always say that? He's like, He's looking at you so mad, but you can't see it.

SPEAKER_08 45:04

I just see the mask kind of furled down.

SPEAKER_13 45:08

Or is he just smiling? There's like how old depressive eyebrow.

SPEAKER_08 45:13

You see his mouth. This like line of beard. Wasn't there like a in Veggie Tales, wasn't there like a the unibrow?

SPEAKER_07 45:20

The angry eyebrows! Yes! Oh my god!

SPEAKER_08 45:24

That was one of the best cartoon movies ever. Like this dog is going to uh stand up from prone. It's gonna turn around, and both heads are going to attempt to bite you. Uh 13 to hit for the first one, and a dirty 20 for the second.

SPEAKER_06 45:43

Yes.

SPEAKER_08 45:45

That's gonna be six piercing damage, and I need you to make a con save to avoid the poisoned condition. That's a nine. You are now poisoned. Ow. You're while poisoned in this way from this dog, it's different. Uh your hit point maximum will not return to normal when finishing a long rest.

SPEAKER_10 46:15

What?

SPEAKER_08 46:16

Okay. But my hit point maximum hasn't been reduced. Not yet.

SPEAKER_01 46:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 46:21

Ah! What? So would that that would need to be like a bite or something?

SPEAKER_08 46:26

Uh you um maybe after a couple long rests.

SPEAKER_11 46:30

Lester restoration.

SPEAKER_08 46:31

Lester? Lester restoration. Lester restoration.

SPEAKER_13 46:36

Lester restoration. I can't get until we level up. Oh god.

SPEAKER_01 46:40

Laceration. My favorite cleric. Lester.

SPEAKER_13 46:42

Lester. It's Lester's restoration.

SPEAKER_01 46:44

Lester Laceration. GTA 5? Uh Ike.

SPEAKER_09 46:48

It's like reference, dude.

SPEAKER_06 46:54

Ooh! That's not good.

SPEAKER_08 46:57

Okay. So you'll need to repeat the save every 24 hours until you are healed. Oh my god. Your HP will lower. Oh my god. Hopefully he forgets. Covering your mouth saying it's so loud.

SPEAKER_13 47:20

Or if we level up seems like anything. Is this voice?

SPEAKER_08 47:24

Yes. Oh my god. You tell my bad. What did you do for your attack? Sorry, I was. I tried to bonk him and he tried to bonk. His AC is 12. It would not. Okay. Joanna.

SPEAKER_13 47:37

Okay. I'm gonna pass through everybody and get on the other side of the dog. I'm gonna touch it.

SPEAKER_01 47:45

What is that dog doing?

SPEAKER_13 47:48

I don't know! Okay, no, I'm doing. I don't think it's a dog anymore. 21 to hit.

SPEAKER_09 47:56

It's a dog O. Dude. Sorry guys, we're millennials.

SPEAKER_13 48:02

And that is.

SPEAKER_08 48:03

No. Like, sorry, you couldn't give it a boop last time. You didn't meet meet its AC. I couldn't boop its snood. Sorry. What are you doing, Joanna?

SPEAKER_13 48:17

I rolled a 21 to hit it. And that's gonna be three necrotic. She'll touch. So it also, I don't think that it would, but it can't regain hit.

unknown 48:26

Oh.

SPEAKER_09 48:27

Hodge. I will have a look at it. Hurt. Very nice. Looking like an ugly motion. Mind slipper! You have to say it like that every time.

SPEAKER_04 48:45

Mind slipper!

SPEAKER_09 48:47

That's what Hodge is saying.

SPEAKER_13 48:49

Mind slipper! Do you have to say it or else the spell won't work? Yes.

SPEAKER_09 48:53

How do you cast your spells? It's how it's written.

SPEAKER_13 48:56

I just reach my hands out and my god does it.

SPEAKER_09 48:59

Well, I don't have a god. I read.

SPEAKER_13 49:02

Do you want one? No! I don't have a god.

SPEAKER_09 49:04

I don't think they're real.

SPEAKER_13 49:05

Well, you read the code.

SPEAKER_09 49:06

How do you think people start following guns?

SPEAKER_13 49:09

I've read. I hope mine's real. I have met a big one.

SPEAKER_09 49:12

Like I said, it was a big book. Also, it might as well be for because no one made to make a second throw before we got into this one.

SPEAKER_08 49:23

Alright, that's gonna be a seven.

SPEAKER_09 49:25

Two psychic damage. Take that!

SPEAKER_06 49:32

Oh, was it still prone?

SPEAKER_08 49:34

No. It stood up and bit you. Oh yeah. Trying to take it out before it gets one more turn.

SPEAKER_14 49:43

Yeah, like high key. Okay. Um, we're gonna stab it again.

SPEAKER_09 49:47

Skewer the creature!

SPEAKER_14 49:51

Uh, does a 21 hit?

SPEAKER_01 49:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 49:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 49:58

I mean, it was not plus 10.

SPEAKER_14 50:01

Um smite. Only one more smite.

SPEAKER_09 50:04

How long do these this is long rest type shit. Yeah, that's long rest type shit. There's battle slots.

SPEAKER_00 50:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 50:13

Um, do I get this bag as both I? That's a long rest jump.

SPEAKER_14 50:17

Well, that's a three. Yeah, throw a little more. Total on my stabby stab.

SPEAKER_08 50:22

Okay. Three total damage. Three total on the stabby stab.

SPEAKER_02 50:26

And I think that's a shield.

SPEAKER_08 50:30

Alright. Can you hit?

SPEAKER_13 50:33

God fucking damn it, I hope so. It's standing upright. Hey, it's not a disadvantage. And don't hit me, I'm standing right next to you. You got it. I believe in you.

SPEAKER_05 50:42

That's funny.

SPEAKER_09 50:46

That's a crazy roll. It was fucking a Mexican jumping bean. Does that be sick?

SPEAKER_04 50:56

No, that's a good one.

SPEAKER_11 51:05

Eleven.

SPEAKER_09 51:07

How do you want to do this?

SPEAKER_11 51:09

Shoot it right between the eyes of the one head.

SPEAKER_08 51:13

Shoot it between the eyes of one of the heads, and the other head turns to look at it. And then they both fall dead.

SPEAKER_11 51:22

Orion. Yeah, just out of pure anger for missing all of his shots, basically, he uh just yeah, he kills it and then he kind of throws his longbow back on his shoulder and walks out and gets some fresh air alone. Would you like help picking up your arrows? No, I've got plenty.

SPEAKER_04 51:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_11 51:42

Good job, Ryan.

SPEAKER_01 51:44

I'll follow Ryan out and kind of put my hand on his shoulder. Thank you for taking that out. When you I don't think I could have killed it myself, but it's very hard to kill a creature.

SPEAKER_11 51:56

When you first touch him, he flinches, like, badly.

SPEAKER_01 52:01

He will not make a note of that. Okay. But just, you know, be very gentle with his grip. It's whenever I had to put animals down on my farm, it was very hard to make.

SPEAKER_10 52:12

That thing was a monster.

SPEAKER_01 52:14

Unfortunately, yes. But still. Still had some light behind its eyes. But thank you for dealing the blow.

SPEAKER_11 52:24

Orion nods at you, but he he's a little worked up. Yeah. Um. Yeah. We we didn't record why he gets worked up, like when he misses, but Orion was uh trained to not miss, and when he did, the repercussions were very bad.

SPEAKER_01 52:44

Where is he wearing his trinket that I gave him?

SPEAKER_11 52:48

Uh, just around his neck.

SPEAKER_01 52:50

Remember. And I'll kind of point to it. Trust in your bow and yourself and your hardliness.

SPEAKER_11 52:59

He takes a deep breath and just grants at you again.

SPEAKER_01 53:02

Pat on the shoulder and turn around and walk back in the house. Yeah.

SPEAKER_13 53:05

Um, when you walk back in.

SPEAKER_01 53:11

He's alright. He'll be alright.

SPEAKER_12 53:13

Okay. Just checking.

SPEAKER_01 53:15

Something deeper in him. He gets upset when he misses. I'm not sure why. Well, I get it, but it seems more than anyone would normally. It'll be alright.

SPEAKER_05 53:31

It's okay.

SPEAKER_09 53:35

Can we search the cabin for any notes, traces of Miracle Grove.

SPEAKER_08 53:43

I've got um Yeah, any notes, anything. Oh, well they're doing it. If you're looking over notes, he does have a bunch of notes on the table. If you're looking over those, I'll ask for an investigation check. If you're looking for signs of anything else, I'll ask for a perception check. I will do investigation.

SPEAKER_01 53:59

I'll do something else. I make a nature check on a piece of the mic in it that I took to see, like, if, you know, I'm sure it originated from this to see if I can I don't know, determine any kind of origin. Yep, sure. Or tracers of something to like, I don't know, track it.

unknown 54:19

There you go.

SPEAKER_13 54:20

That's an eight perception.

SPEAKER_08 54:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 54:24

Um twenty two investigation.

SPEAKER_08 54:30

Uh quickly you find uh under a pile of uh scrap paper and various uh drawings of uh maps and plans for his expansion of his farm. Uh you find um a note that uh you as you're flipping through you you catch the word gaunt and stop. Uh and got a trace of the bastard. It says uh it's like a little note that he took um that Algar Gaunt uh gave him a free trial of this miracle growth formula um and that he is uh he saw him uh shacked up in an overgrown shed um near the ghost hold.

SPEAKER_09 55:30

Sounds lovely.

SPEAKER_08 55:34

Uh just outside of town. That was a nineteen on the nature. Um this is not anything that you have found before. Uh this is um this seems to be uh a creation all of this Algargaunt's own. Uh so something you've never seen put into action before. You would have dealt with your fair share uh over the past seven years, right? I think it was six years. Six years, uh, of being on Leaf's farm. Uh your fair share of uh disease through uh plants. Obviously, Leaf was an archdruid, so uh that was dealt with very quickly, but nothing that would turn an entire field of wheat into these slimy black strands, and a man into a mic and did, and a dog into this like m two-headed monstrosity. So it kind of sends a chill down your spine that something this one what seems to be just one formula can do this much damage, especially if it gets into the wrong hands, which I think he was I think he's trying to now brainstorm like what could possibly be an antidote to this.

SPEAKER_01 57:09

Maybe another plant or something. Um you're just gonna mull that over.

SPEAKER_08 57:15

Continuing on that 21, uh, as you find the info about gaunt, uh you continue you continue to flip through uh and um and you see the word simulacra.

SPEAKER_00 57:34

Interesting.

SPEAKER_08 57:35

Uh interesting. Being that you are very interested in learning about that. You find you find research papers comparing the serum-induced life, uh, the evidence being this myconid and this death dog, uh, of the mutilated mutated plants and animals and people, uh, him comparing that to the creation of Similacra and constructs.

SPEAKER_09 58:04

Um This was the notes of Gaunt or the notes of the trick.

SPEAKER_08 58:10

This seems to be a paper that Hendrick got from Gaunt in s in some way. Interesting. Uh maybe Gaunt dropped it uh and Hendrick picked it up, or uh he this is definitely in a different handwriting. Interesting. Um and you see uh Gaunt Gaunt mentions in uh he says he was trying to shape reality by forcing growth, where Moander had brought rot.

SPEAKER_04 58:40

Interesting.

SPEAKER_08 58:40

If you'd like to make a history check uh or a religion check uh to see if you you would recognize Moander.

SPEAKER_09 58:49

Um I will as well, and I will announce to the group.

SPEAKER_08 58:54

Moander?

SPEAKER_13 58:55

Has anyone heard? 20 for 25.

SPEAKER_08 58:58

Nice. I would like to know about it. I would like to know about.

SPEAKER_09 59:04

23. Damn it!

SPEAKER_08 59:06

Okay. Uh both of you remember learning about Moander, who was an ancient deity of rot, corruption, and decay, uh, whose or origins predate the Empire of Netherill, so even more ancient than the this Netherese artifact that Sullivan has. Um most notably he was uh in the Dale lands and grew to this massive form, was corrupting a lot of the Dale lands before he was slain by Alias. Uh you would recognize Alias as um somebody brought up by people on the caravan, uh, mentioning uh the quote of Alias saying, um uh find your best find a corner and sing your best song uh to like meet people in the Dalands. So Alias being a hero of the Dalands um slayed Moander, and it seems that Algar uh Gaunt um was somewhat of an admirer of Moander, uh, but uh he is trying to force growth where Moander had brought rot, he says. So doing a pretty shit job, bro. Um it seem yeah, his his mention of Similacra and constructs points you in the direction that he did not actually care about the growth of the plant life. He was more focused on what you have encountered and just something.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:46

Yes.

SPEAKER_08 1:00:47

Uh creating these micinids, creating these uh fucked up animals, um, and being able to possibly control them is seems to be his goal, just based on this this small sliver of evidence you have from Gaunt himself.

SPEAKER_09 1:01:04

Just sick. Ike, these writings, they're not this was not simply a con artist. This man did this on purpose. This was He's trying to create. It was his intention, yes. Uh Hendrick has notes here. I think we have a lead. Perhaps the only way to clear this plight is to find Gaunt. He has to have I would hope. Some antidote. Something about the ghost hold.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:34

Ghost hold.

SPEAKER_08 1:01:36

Uh Joanna, additionally, this would feel uh hearing this described by Hodge, uh essentially would everything that I would that I just said would have come from Hodge's. I say what he said to everyone. Um this would feel like the very antithesis of what uh Neuralis teaches. There is there is the element of suffering and healing, but that is a that is for a peaceful transition from death uh from life to death, whereas Algargon is is kind of going uh this is like sacrilege to you, as Algargon is trying to bring life preemptively to death and then back to life, uh, which which does not would not sit well with you.

SPEAKER_14 1:02:35

Yeah, hell.

SPEAKER_09 1:02:35

A perversion to be sure.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:39

Sorry. I like that argument.

SPEAKER_08 1:02:46

So the lead you have right now as far as finding him is an overgrown shed near the ghost hole.

SPEAKER_09 1:02:56

Says it's inside of town.

unknown 1:02:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 1:02:59

We could ask the villagers if they know of this shed, perhaps, or set out on our way. I have no idea where the ghost hold could be.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:07

We should ask.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:09

I can't tell I can't say which direction it would be. Yes. Maybe Maybe the other family knows.

SPEAKER_12 1:03:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:18

Or the leader, I suppose, of this village that we saw earlier.

SPEAKER_09 1:03:24

Yes, that's uh good idea.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:29

At least point us in the direction. And we can start our search from there. Find tracks, traces, anything.

SPEAKER_13 1:03:38

Yeah, yeah, we need to We need to so I'm not sure how many of you actually read the pamphlets that I made, but this is this is this is this is wrong. This is the complete opposite.

SPEAKER_09 1:03:51

It's sick.

SPEAKER_13 1:03:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:03:54

I agree the natural cycle of life and death is not something to be trifled with. No. No. We will see an end to this. Like yes, we will. Yes, we will.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:10

Let's kill him. Let's go back to the leader's house and see if he can point us in the direction.

SPEAKER_08 1:04:15

Alright. Uh, you return um to the leader's house, uh, where you find uh that Liana has already moved on to take care of other people. Uh you see that he is sitting up in bed now instead of uh laying down, uh, just kind of he was kind of drenched in sweat and looked very pale. Uh he has a bit of color in his face and he's sitting up on his on his own uh as he his wife is still tending to him, but uh he looks a bit better from from Liana's healing uh and Joanna's uh hand in that as well.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:49

Hello. Uh back so soon. Uh did you manage to find the source? Sort of.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:59

Uh is there something you need from me?

SPEAKER_01 1:05:02

We need to go. We need you to point us in the direction of the ghost hold. It said that Yes.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:12

Mr.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:12

Gaunt is holed up in a shack. In the ghost hold.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:18

Right. Um most of them are in Battle Dale, but um we have found one uh deeper in the forest around our forest, uh uh south of here. Uh just a mile or two uh into the forest. It it might be a bit difficult to find, but um I'll find it. Uh the ghost holds, uh, if you were not aware, are these uh ruined uh castles and and mansions that uh once obviously They held uh nobles and and rich folk, but now uh abandoned and and surrounded by ghosts. Hopefully, uh I can't imagine that he would be living in one of those, but uh if it says near, then uh just stay as far away from the from the ghost hold as you can. I wouldn't advise going in there. Good to know. Thank you.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:30

You're welcome. Um let's go there now. Yes.

SPEAKER_08 1:06:35

Good luck. Alright. Um Whoever wants to lead the party, I'll have you make a survival check, please.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:50

I roll in that one.

SPEAKER_09 1:06:54

Advantage because he's a druid.

SPEAKER_08 1:06:56

Uh total of that's what proficiency's for. A total of seven. Like fuck up a roll.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:05

I was supposed to fuck up with survival check.

SPEAKER_08 1:07:08

Um you're angry. As you uh out of this small uh and ruined village, you head into the forest off the beaten path, trying to retrace uh this halfling's footsteps through the forest and find where his base of operations is. And then you hear behind you.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:35

Lay down your arms They're attached to my body.

SPEAKER_08 1:07:42

No funny business! Oh, I wouldn't dream of it. Uh, you turn you whip your head around and you do not see anyone. Show yourself.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:51

Where are you?

SPEAKER_07 1:07:58

Put your magic away.

SPEAKER_11 1:08:00

That's a goblin voice. I can't really put it away.

SPEAKER_09 1:08:03

It's just quite eloquent for a goblin.

SPEAKER_13 1:08:06

I can't put mate.

SPEAKER_07 1:08:08

No funny business. Hands up!

SPEAKER_09 1:08:11

I'm gonna Do you want our arms down or up?

SPEAKER_07 1:08:15

I want your weapons on the ground and I want your hands up in the air.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:23

Stop.

SPEAKER_09 1:08:26

Uh perhaps the trust goes both ways. If we could only see you, we mean no harm.

SPEAKER_08 1:08:32

Uh make a persuasion check on it. Yeah, so check it. Obviously, if you mean harm.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:41

We don't.

SPEAKER_09 1:08:48

Six. Six eyes. Sexy six.

SPEAKER_08 1:08:52

Uh you hear an arrow whiz past you. Thunk into a work.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:02

I was due for a haircut.

SPEAKER_11 1:09:03

I can wear a weapon for something hair.

SPEAKER_09 1:09:06

Yeah, disadvantage, please. I lay fully on the ground. I go prone. Just do as he says. This is my walking stick.

SPEAKER_11 1:09:21

Okay, I'm gonna cast mysterious presents on myself so that I don't put my bow on the ground. I'm gonna cast Edlord.

SPEAKER_08 1:09:27

What does that do?

SPEAKER_11 1:09:28

Enchroud my presence.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:31

I said no magic! Oh shit. Yep, and an arrow right next to your feet.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:37

You want us to put our weapons down, put yours down.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:39

That's not how this works. Weapons are down, come out. Alright, I'm gonna go.

SPEAKER_11 1:09:48

I have mine on my back. But I don't have a drawing.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:51

Hands up. And hands over your eyes.

SPEAKER_11 1:09:56

What?

SPEAKER_14 1:09:57

I already can't see.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:59

I'm peeking.

SPEAKER_09 1:10:01

I'm peeking.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:04

Fucking peeking.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:05

Oh, they're fucking peeking. God!

SPEAKER_08 1:10:08

Bigger than your hands? Yeah. 18? I'm peeking. Okay, you're peeking.

SPEAKER_11 1:10:13

I'm almost 18, I'm peeking. Can I get an advantage though? Because I'm shrimp my own.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:17

How's a 10 do for peakage?

SPEAKER_08 1:10:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_13 1:10:21

Oh, 11. Joanna's peeking. I think.

SPEAKER_08 1:10:24

I'm peeking. Joanna. This encounter is picking.

SPEAKER_13 1:10:27

15. I'm peeking.

SPEAKER_08 1:10:31

You said 18. 15. Okay. The three of you, Joanna, Ike, and Orion, manage to peak without uh it showing very much, and you see two men in Zentrum cloth approaching you with their bows and arrows knocked as they point them at you. And then as Joanna and Hodge take a peek, they both feel arrows uh sink into their thighs.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:10

No! We don't have to do this. Easy!

SPEAKER_12 1:11:13

Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_08 1:11:16

We mean no harm if you mean no harm. I will speak. Uh you guys are each gonna take eight piercing. This is a heavy crossbow, by the way. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:31

One more shot in this.

SPEAKER_13 1:11:38

Okay, fine, whatever.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:44

Now who's the richest among you? Wizard? Yes. And one hand in your pocket, which is grab your gold and toss it in front of you ten feet.

SPEAKER_09 1:12:08

Okay. I would like to instead of do that cast a minor illusion and put myself in a big rock.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:20

We're gonna pretend to make gold.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:24

Alright. You can do that if you meet their initiative roll. Let's go! Yeah, I would like to turn into a plus four.

SPEAKER_09 1:12:37

Luck? Are you lucky? I've used them all. Shit. On initiative rolls. Uh no. Five. Okay. Of course I'm going for my gold.

SPEAKER_08 1:12:50

He sees you about to cast this spell and not reaching directly into your pocket. Uh and what was your initiative? We're gonna go into combat here. Five! Okay. So there's ten.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:05

Oh! Yup, yup. Twenty. Dang it.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:10

That's actually one.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:11

Oh no, for me. For me, for me. Ike. Six.

SPEAKER_08 1:13:15

Joanna? Six. Whoa. Orion? Whoa. Two twenties, two sixes.

SPEAKER_09 1:13:22

Yeah. Come to my aid, friends! I have an arrow. Orion, you are up first.

SPEAKER_08 1:13:27

You see uh you uh are still peeking stealthily. Uh you see the Zenterim, uh both of them are about to fire at Hodge's open chest as he is about to uh cast a spell. You see that happening, and they recognize that they're about to fire, but you get to act.

SPEAKER_09 1:13:47

Longbow. Yes!

SPEAKER_05 1:13:50

Get them 11!

SPEAKER_08 1:13:57

Uh that just misses. As it whizzes right past uh his long hair, and you see take uh take half an inch off of uh off of one of his curls.

SPEAKER_10 1:14:11

Oh, so that's a curl, not an ear. Got it.

SPEAKER_08 1:14:14

Val.

SPEAKER_10 1:14:15

Can I see them now?

SPEAKER_08 1:14:16

Uh yeah, you you guys hear Orion's uh I'm not gonna put this on the map because it's all just like a little bit of a little bit more. Do I know the six because her eyes are too close? Uh close proximity. Uh so you can just use your movement to get it right up next to him.

SPEAKER_14 1:14:31

Cool. Cool. I like Viad. Okay.

SPEAKER_08 1:14:36

Uh you see they have they are equipping heavy crossbows right now, about to fire, but they do have uh each maces on their waist.

SPEAKER_14 1:14:46

That's pretty lame. Um, okay. Yeah, so I can just like walk up and stab them basically. Yes, yes. Cool. God bless America.

SPEAKER_07 1:14:59

Val says that because they're from far away, but what is America?

SPEAKER_14 1:15:07

What's Moon?

SPEAKER_09 1:15:08

Lesser known God.

SPEAKER_14 1:15:10

Um well, because that didn't work and I'm sad about it. I'm going to.

SPEAKER_08 1:15:16

Oh, God bless America was a bad thing. Oh yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:21

I mean, I don't think God's blessing us too well right now.

SPEAKER_14 1:15:24

We're gonna do the toughest to me?

SPEAKER_08 1:15:32

They both look exactly equal.

SPEAKER_14 1:15:35

No tracks. I'm going to compel one of them to duel with me. I need a wisdom 14 saving throw.

SPEAKER_08 1:15:41

Okay. So actually. That's a fail. I love he turns from aiming at Hodge's heart uh as you're your uh attack misses and locks eyes with you and then goodness uh he he puts he puts his uh his crossbow on his back and reaches for his mace.

unknown 1:16:07

Cool.

SPEAKER_08 1:16:08

A duel it is. She's quite strong, I'll warn you.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:15

Laughter and crazy.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:18

Something crazy like that.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:16:28

Um that's gonna be a dirty 20 to hit for five damage as he clocks you across the chest uh with his mace.

SPEAKER_14 1:16:39

That's okay.

SPEAKER_08 1:16:41

Uh uh the other one is also going to attack as you are the only one within melee. They're gonna swap to their mace as well.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:16:50

Um, and that's gonna be a 2148 bludgeoning damage. They're gonna clock you in the back as you feel the wind gets knocked out of you for a second.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:03

I'm going to turn into a snake.

SPEAKER_08 1:17:13

Snake time. Uh snake time. Where'd the yoke go? Where'd that snake come from?

SPEAKER_13 1:17:19

I don't know, my eyes are still closed. What? Can I open my eyes yet, sir?

SPEAKER_03 1:17:24

Because if I open my eyes, I'm gonna see the arrows.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:27

Simon didn't say a puff of black smoke from where I stood. Cool. And to the closest one, I guess not the one that's compelled. Slither up his leg and around his neck. His what?

SPEAKER_08 1:17:43

He needs to make a snake in DC twelve uh strength saving throw. Fail.

SPEAKER_09 1:17:54

That bitch weak.

SPEAKER_08 1:17:55

This silicone mat that we have, it like adjusts rolls like crazy. Uh he will take eight bludgeoning damage. Holy and he is grappled. Yeah. Nice. Uh as you squeeze him. Uh he does not have uh armor on, uh, so you don't have to deal with that as you're squeezing. You're just I guess since he's grappled, I'll say that he's like around his chest and bicep, so his arms can't do anything. Yeah. Uh his mace waving uh haphazardly at his side as Ike uh now a snake strits him. Joanna. Hodge on deck. Um I get 10 HP.

SPEAKER_13 1:18:38

I double-checked this. So with my magic initiate, I can use guiding bolt with my spell slots because it is a cleric spell.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:47

Yep.

SPEAKER_13 1:18:47

Um, so I'm going to guiding bolt the one that Ike is grappling.

SPEAKER_08 1:18:51

Copy that.

SPEAKER_13 1:18:53

Does that give me any sort of like advantage to hit or anything? Just grappling.

SPEAKER_08 1:18:56

Him being grappled, no. Okay. Just me.

SPEAKER_13 1:18:58

Oh, I think sure. That's a 17 in it.

SPEAKER_08 1:19:03

That'll hit. Yeah, not wearing armor. AC's 12. Just their Zentrum cloak.

SPEAKER_13 1:19:11

Uh, nine rage.

SPEAKER_08 1:19:13

Alright. Next attack on that one is going to be at advantage, and he is now bloody. Uh as this guiding bolt shoots him in the chest and yeah, it doesn't feel good, does it?

SPEAKER_03 1:19:29

Look at she points at the arrow in her thigh.

SPEAKER_08 1:19:32

You didn't get hit by one.

SPEAKER_13 1:19:33

Yeah, you said I did.

SPEAKER_08 1:19:34

No, Val.

SPEAKER_13 1:19:35

You said Hodge and Joanna.

SPEAKER_08 1:19:37

Did I?

SPEAKER_13 1:19:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:19:38

I meant Val.

SPEAKER_13 1:19:39

I've been riffing about this arrow for like four minutes.

SPEAKER_08 1:19:42

I didn't hear you. There's been a lot of talking.

SPEAKER_13 1:19:45

Get that back, get that back.

SPEAKER_08 1:19:47

I'm sorry. I I I was saying Val and Hodge is what I meant, because they're the ones that failed that check.

SPEAKER_13 1:19:52

Never mind.

SPEAKER_08 1:19:53

Um Hodge.

SPEAKER_09 1:19:55

Yes. Oh, you've done it now, boys!

SPEAKER_06 1:20:00

Um I'll shoot a firebolt at them.

SPEAKER_08 1:20:04

Just forgetting the rock situation. Yeah. Alright, uh, the bloody one. Keep grapples.

SPEAKER_09 1:20:10

Yes, because uh sure, yeah, I'll attack the one that's bloody. Uh is it at advantage because of guiding bolt?

SPEAKER_08 1:20:18

Yes, it is. Is that just weapon attacks, or is it magic as well? I think so, is it? The next attack will be uh sixteen. Sixteen to hit. Yes. That'll hit.

SPEAKER_09 1:20:32

You're welcome.

SPEAKER_08 1:20:35

Seven fire damage. Uh flames engulf the wound uh where he just got hit by this gliding bolt and he is being squeezed. Uh and the kundaskooey! Uh he is very, very hurt. Hodge is hurting as well. I'm gonna go and maybe move behind a tree and just like uh hide back behind uh three-quarters cover, use your movement. Yes. Orion.

SPEAKER_11 1:21:03

Okay, I'm gonna long bow over.

SPEAKER_08 1:21:05

Val on deck.

SPEAKER_11 1:21:06

Hopefully.

SPEAKER_08 1:21:09

Peter.

SPEAKER_11 1:21:10

I'm actually going to put these in my mouth.

SPEAKER_08 1:21:13

Yeah, use different dice. 12 hits.

SPEAKER_11 1:21:15

Okay. Thank God. Um seven. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:21:24

How do you want to do this? Yes!

SPEAKER_11 1:21:25

Again. Through the eyes. Or between the eyes.

SPEAKER_08 1:21:29

Uh through the eyes.

SPEAKER_11 1:21:30

Between the eyes.

SPEAKER_08 1:21:31

Well, you as you're squeezing Ike, you feel the life uh drift out of him as he begins to fall. Uh what do you do? I will uh coil and boing off of it. Uh you land right next to him as he falls dead onto the ground. Uh you see the others enter him. Uh doesn't even notice he has uh been coerced into this duel and is fully locked in on battle.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:57

Uh he's been what would you say he has been uh let's just say compelled?

SPEAKER_08 1:22:03

Yeah. Nice, dude. Really good.

SPEAKER_14 1:22:07

Uh really makes up for the uh so obviously the one I got. Um I don't think I have any advantage on him or anything like that. It's just it just has a disadvantage against other creatures other than me. That's it. Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_13 1:22:27

I can't sit next to Will anymore. Sit next to me every week. But I'm farther away.

SPEAKER_14 1:22:35

Eleven?

SPEAKER_08 1:22:36

Eleven just misses.

SPEAKER_14 1:22:38

God damn it! Well, um crack.

SPEAKER_09 1:22:43

What's your bonus to hit him?

SPEAKER_14 1:22:44

Plus four.

SPEAKER_08 1:22:45

Oh. As you swing your sword, he deflects it with his mace. You're locked in heated melee.

SPEAKER_09 1:22:53

Perry!

SPEAKER_05 1:22:54

Ooh. Heated melee.

SPEAKER_08 1:22:56

Who's Perry?

SPEAKER_14 1:22:57

Who is Perry?

SPEAKER_08 1:22:59

Perry the Blood Puss. Uh is that your turn?

SPEAKER_14 1:23:03

Yar.

SPEAKER_08 1:23:04

Okay. Uh he does not have pack tactics anymore because he has no pack. Pack tactics. He had pack tactics? What? Uh that's gonna be a 10 to hit, which is going to miss. Uh, you parry his attack as well. Uh again, he did melee. Um he is so does he make that save again for compelled duel or is it one type of?

SPEAKER_14 1:23:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 1:23:30

So yeah, he is so locked in that he does not know that the right move would to be would be to run away in this situation because he is so locked into this duel uh as you guys parry each other's blows. Ike sick. Uh I'm gonna slither up him and squeeze in as well. Got all the slithering. He needs to make a squeeze, coil and boy. Natural 20. Oh.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:55

Uh he's still. Oh, I guess he wouldn't be grappled. Takes spludging damage, and the target has the grappled condition. So would he still be grappled, just no damage?

SPEAKER_08 1:24:10

No, you have to hit for him to be grappled. Okay, I got you. So I'm still, I guess, on a next now. So it's a say it's a save to avoid.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:18

It's uh constrict, strength saving throw. Okay, gotcha. Uh a creature snake can see, bludgeoning damage, and the target has the grappled. So it doesn't say like if it fails, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:24:31

So I got you could not grappling him. He would have um pushed you uh away far enough that you are not constricting him, essentially. Uh so you still may be on his body, but not so tight and tightly wound. Joanna, until I'm up.

SPEAKER_13 1:24:49

Okay. Um I'm gonna run to the one. Until he turns into a wonty. Oh, scary. Um, yeah, I'm gonna run to the one that's compelled and I'm gonna chill touch.

SPEAKER_09 1:25:03

What willy? Daddy chill.

SPEAKER_13 1:25:07

14 to hit.

SPEAKER_08 1:25:08

That'll hit. What the hell was even that? Daddy chill.

SPEAKER_13 1:25:13

Uh three necrotic.

unknown 1:25:16

Three.

SPEAKER_08 1:25:17

Is he dead? Okay. With the first hit on him. Damn it!

SPEAKER_14 1:25:21

Yeah. And then he's no longer compelled to duel me.

SPEAKER_08 1:25:24

He's no longer compelled to duel you. Oh.

SPEAKER_13 1:25:26

Hodge. Hod Hodge. How much uh damage do you have?

SPEAKER_09 1:25:31

I'm at six. Oh! Out of fourteen wizard life. Let's go. I used all my spell sets. I would have cast shield, but.

SPEAKER_11 1:25:41

Get back. Whoopsie. Eight.

SPEAKER_08 1:25:43

You cast you cast hide behind a tree, which is just as good.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:46

Yeah, I cast run away.

SPEAKER_09 1:25:49

Oh, that's all my hit points. Let's go. And now it's your turn. The arrow injects itself from my wound as- This is gonna be gross! Oh my god!

SPEAKER_13 1:25:59

You should know I should have told you to not watch.

SPEAKER_09 1:26:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:02

Where is he?

SPEAKER_13 1:26:03

That's her healing word. This is gonna be gross. Mine sliver!

SPEAKER_09 1:26:08

Yes!

SPEAKER_08 1:26:09

Uh, that's gonna fail.

SPEAKER_09 1:26:11

Oh, great. Take this! Five psychic damage!

SPEAKER_07 1:26:18

My brain! Yes! What brain? My mind! It's a good one, Val!

SPEAKER_09 1:26:27

That is a merchant.

SPEAKER_08 1:26:29

Orion.

SPEAKER_11 1:26:31

Okay, I'm gonna hit him with my bow again, I hope. Please! Yes.

SPEAKER_08 1:26:37

Nice.

SPEAKER_11 1:26:38

That's a slutty 20 to hit.

SPEAKER_08 1:26:40

Nice.

SPEAKER_11 1:26:42

That's my cross. Nine. Yep. Okay, join this.

SPEAKER_08 1:26:45

Alright. He is bloody.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:26:49

Val. Still locked into game. Good shot, Orion! In battle with this man. You can have this arrow if you'd like. It came out of my leg.

SPEAKER_11 1:26:55

Hit him! Orion's non-verbal at this point, but he'll take us.

SPEAKER_14 1:27:00

Uh, that's a slutty 20.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:02

Oh, you hit it.

SPEAKER_14 1:27:04

Dress it down.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:06

It's a slutty 20. I'm sorry. That's too many.

SPEAKER_14 1:27:09

But I said slit. Slit. Slit. That's eight. Um, and I keep forgetting this. Because I hit him, he has disadvantage. Um, the next person who hits him, I guess, has a sandwich. Or what's it say?

SPEAKER_09 1:27:24

It's just disadvantage of his next attack roll.

SPEAKER_14 1:27:26

Okay, so he's got disadvantage. Oh.

SPEAKER_08 1:27:29

Gets sapped.

SPEAKER_14 1:27:30

Um, bitch.

SPEAKER_08 1:27:33

He sorry, how much damage did he do?

SPEAKER_14 1:27:36

Eight.

SPEAKER_08 1:27:36

Okay. He is very, very hurt. Uh running away really isn't an option for how hurt he is. He finally, now that he's broken the spell of Val's compelled duel, uh, looks around, sees himself surrounded uh by uh barely hurt foes. Uh and His associate dead at his feet uh realizes that he's too hurt with these wounds uh to run away because he'd just die. So hit in a last-ditch effort uh is going to attempt uh to kill Val before he goes. Kind of accepts his fate. Um that's gonna be a 19 to hit and it's going to be 10 piercing damage.

SPEAKER_14 1:28:27

Your your girl's dead.

SPEAKER_08 1:28:29

As you see, uh he looks around and then folk locks back in on Val uh and takes Oh fuck, wait, no. Redaction, redaction, his cross- I rolled his crossbow damage. I rolled his crossbow damage. Okay. 7 HP.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:46

You're right.

SPEAKER_08 1:28:47

Five bludgeoning damage. Uh I was gonna say that mace is. As he swings his mace. Uh yeah, I rolled a D10 in the middle. I don't like mine to work like that. He swings his mates and almost knocks Val uh unconscious. But she uh she stays up. Ike trying to finish the job as you're dangling around.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:12

Saving throw. Uh four.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:17

Ten. Weak.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:20

Nine bludgeoning damage. How do you want to do this? Great. I squeeze his arms as he hits Valve one more time. Uh I coil around further to his neck to cut off his airflow, suffocate him as he falls down.

SPEAKER_08 1:29:45

Falls to the ground. These two Zentrim now laying on top of each other in the middle of a forest. I will change back into me.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:55

And I'll change back into Ike. Well, why don't we search their pockets?

SPEAKER_13 1:30:03

Yay!

SPEAKER_01 1:30:04

Do you think this is because of Rogar?

SPEAKER_13 1:30:07

I don't know. It's not like we like find our names on them or anything. So I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:12

I think Zenterim are just uh conditioned to rob strangers.

SPEAKER_09 1:30:19

We may find some answers on the room.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:21

Let's see what's in their pockets.

SPEAKER_11 1:30:23

Five, they're real dumbasses.

SPEAKER_08 1:30:25

I'm gonna check their pockets. Good Ryan. Alright. Uh Ike, roll a D100 for me, please. Let's freaking go. One of my favorite dice rolls of all time.

SPEAKER_11 1:30:35

Uh my least favorite. Every time I roll a D100, something bad happens.

SPEAKER_08 1:30:38

77. My soul gets trapped in a trask.

SPEAKER_11 1:30:41

Yep. Well, I lost my nails.

SPEAKER_08 1:30:45

I got also. Okay. 77, you said? Yep. Uh roll a D6 for me, please. Love loot tables.

SPEAKER_09 1:30:56

What the hell?

SPEAKER_08 1:30:58

Three. Okay. Uh tucked away in a big bag that he has, uh, you find a very Fey design uh simtar. Uh surprising to you that he wouldn't be using it, but it must be some sort of uh artifact uh that he may have been taking back to his interim base or was bringing somewhere uh uh it's it's strange that he would have it. Um but he has it nonetheless, and now uh you can take it or uh give it to one of your party members, but yes, uh I could um Simtar.

SPEAKER_09 1:31:55

Check it for magic. It is strange to me that he was not using it. Check it out, but this is you wanna cast identifier or tech magic on it and then maybe uh I think I would like to keep this.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:10

I am intrigued by the design. Very naturistic, very fay. Yes.

SPEAKER_09 1:32:15

Anything fee, I am slightly cautious of, but my magic will tell the tale.

SPEAKER_08 1:32:21

Uh you do not get uh a school of magic. Oh boy. But it does emanate with uh magic. Oh, actually, hold on, you do get a school of magic, and you get transmutation magic, a faint aura of transmutation magic. Um how interesting. But it does uh all the designs and the and uh it's very beautiful Fey uh craftsmanship on this tar.

SPEAKER_09 1:32:51

Um like is it like from the Fey realm?

SPEAKER_08 1:32:56

It seems to be.

SPEAKER_09 1:32:57

Holy shit. We take a short rest here. Does anyone mind?

SPEAKER_08 1:33:00

Uh I'd like to get a spell sign back real quick. You want to check the other guy's body as well? Yeah. Yeah. Hodge, you wanna roll a D100? Because I think you said Sure. I think Ike said it first and then Hodge for a second. See what you find on the second guy.

SPEAKER_09 1:33:18

68. Okay. So close.

SPEAKER_08 1:33:22

Um sweet spot. In in his backpack, you find another uh strange that he wouldn't be using it. Uh again, what they might have been bringing it back, uh, but you open the bag and you see wisps of harmless odolus uh smoke rise from this armor. Armor in his bag. In he has a they both have these big backpacks that they were carrying with them. Uh roll a two three four dead. Okay, I definitely uh roll a D12 for me.

SPEAKER_04 1:34:06

Oh my god. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_08 1:34:08

10. Jesus. Uh this is a chain mail. Oh uh and it seems to be like smoldering in a way, but you if you touch it, it doesn't seem hot.

SPEAKER_09 1:34:26

Um over a short rest, can we identify these things? Yeah. Okay. Cool.

SPEAKER_08 1:34:31

Uh if Ike, if you want to try to attune to this weapon as well. Uh the armor does not require um attunement. So yeah. It is and you do not detect any magic coming from it, actually.

SPEAKER_09 1:34:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 1:34:47

Um what would this item be considered so I can add it? Yeah. If we short rest uh the short button, short wrist button. The armor is a is uh smoldering chainmail armor.

SPEAKER_09 1:35:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 1:35:01

Uh and it's just a visual effect to it wisps of odorless smoke rise from the armor as you as you wear it.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:09

So like my staff of a dormant. It's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_08 1:35:12

Yeah. Very scary to see somebody look look like they just took a fireball to the face. Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_09 1:35:20

Cool. Val, I think this will suit you very well.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:25

You say I'm smoking hot.

SPEAKER_09 1:35:29

I mean yes, but uh just take it.

SPEAKER_08 1:35:35

Thanks. Uh this is a blushing Sylvan Talon Simtar for Ike, and then the smoldering chainmail armor for Val.

SPEAKER_09 1:35:49

So sick.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:51

Interesting. Oh. While this weapon is on my person, I understand the non-written communication of all Fay, and they understand yours. Yeah. Secret message as a magic action. I can use the weapon to cast message. Once this is used, it can't be used until the next dawn. That is pretty sick.

SPEAKER_08 1:36:14

Because we got into that, I'll just say you also checked uh further on their on their person, and you would find um you would find a letter uh on them suggesting that the Black Network, the centerm, uh was interested in Gaunt's serum as a potential bioweapon to use against the newly crowned lord. Damsels.

SPEAKER_09 1:36:43

Holy shit. These are proven quite troublesome.

SPEAKER_08 1:36:47

Sent to look for Gaunt similarly to you and seem to have either got lost on their way and stumbled upon you, or were tracking you, uh, hoping that maybe you would lead them there. Uh either way, they did not get what they wanted.

SPEAKER_13 1:37:03

Well, if they were if they were tracking us, they'd jump the gun on that a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:06

Just a little bit. Idiots.

SPEAKER_09 1:37:09

Truly. What made them think they could take such formidable foes? Severely outnumbered. I nearly died, to be frank. So everyone can figure that short rest as well.

SPEAKER_13 1:37:19

Sorry again for not warning me about the arrow coming out. I didn't think it would shoot out quite.

SPEAKER_09 1:37:24

Well, better out than in.

SPEAKER_13 1:37:26

Yeah, yeah, I guess so.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:28

Better out than in, I always say.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:32

Okay, sure. Oh, what a funny original thing for you to say.

SPEAKER_08 1:37:40

If you'd like to continue, uh make another survival check for me. Whoever wants to lead. Uh mine is plus five.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:51

I also have a plus five. Give a little bit more. Can I help? Yeah, and guidance.

SPEAKER_11 1:37:57

Yeah. Yeah. Jesus.

unknown 1:38:01

Give me that because it was good.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:03

Uh that's really good. Um seventeen plus nine is twenty-six.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 1:38:12

Uh you my judgment is just no longer clouded. My stomach is going crazy right now. Uh I'm doing the thing that's a hell.

SPEAKER_13 1:38:23

It feels good. So it's like halisthetic. Between the two of you, I can't call them soon.

SPEAKER_08 1:38:27

I'll try it with my stuff. Um. Ouch! What's I do? What are we swinging that? Start floating your simtar on the staff.

SPEAKER_13 1:38:39

Joanna does a little too hard in a sacred flame. Oh, sorry. Um flicked it a little too hard.

SPEAKER_08 1:38:46

You uh find this overgrown shed uh right next to this uh dilapidated and destroyed castle with this uh heavy aura of death surrounding it. Let's not go in there. Um but it is far enough away that you can the the shack is or shed is far enough away from this ruined castle that you do not have to go to this castle. Uh but if you do see it, what would you like to do?

SPEAKER_09 1:39:26

Perhaps we should try to ambush him.

SPEAKER_08 1:39:28

I would love to try and ambush him.

SPEAKER_09 1:39:30

Yes, it could be dangerous.

SPEAKER_06 1:39:32

I could go in as an infiltrating snake. Yes.

SPEAKER_09 1:39:41

Exactly. Very nice.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:42

But I don't want to kill him. Sure. I want to find a vial of his concoction and feed it to him. So he suffers.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:54

And then we can kill him.

SPEAKER_09 1:39:56

Well, he perhaps will be also more incentivized to give us a cure if we infect him with his own tincture.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:05

Possibly. I hope so.

SPEAKER_09 1:40:06

Because we need a still we need a cure to this blight.

SPEAKER_13 1:40:09

Yeah, there is also the possibility. I don't I do like your idea, but I worry that if he's so interested in creating this new thing, he might welcome it. Becoming part of it himself.

SPEAKER_11 1:40:20

He could also be immune to it. If he's that twisted. Um can I c I'll cast mysterious presents on you.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:31

Okay. You can do that.

SPEAKER_11 1:40:32

Okay. Yeah, so I feel mysterious. So your presence is shrouded, and until the spell ends, other creatures must subtract a D4 from any wisdom, which is insight or perception checks made to find you. Sweet.

SPEAKER_09 1:40:49

Can't get a read on you, Ike.

SPEAKER_11 1:40:51

That's only a minute, so be fast.

SPEAKER_01 1:40:54

Alright, I'm gonna change into a s snake. Okay.

SPEAKER_13 1:41:01

And the snake will have guidance.

SPEAKER_01 1:41:02

Sick. And uh let's see. My snake is not as good. Okay. You're not a little sneaky snake. I am a little sneaky snake. Uh if if the beast's stat is better than one of mine, it says to use the beast. Uh so yeah, I will sneak up to his shack and find a crack I can lither into.

SPEAKER_08 1:41:28

You do. You the door is likely locked. Yeah, but yes, you do find, because this is uh an old overgrown shed, uh, you do find a hole big enough for a snake to slither through.

SPEAKER_01 1:41:42

Excellent. Okay.

SPEAKER_08 1:41:45

Um as when you get in uh you don't see any signs of living. But uh being that you are a snake, uh, and flat on the ground, you do see uh that a lid has been placed over this kind of wooden lid has been placed over something. So you see you enter into this empty shed. Um but like I said, because because you are flat on the ground, you notice right away that there is something covering something in this room.

SPEAKER_11 1:42:25

It could be a bunker.

SPEAKER_08 1:42:27

Like a like a box or like a trapdoor type thing. Like a like a a a latched door type thing.

SPEAKER_01 1:42:34

Uh yeah, I'll go up to that door.

SPEAKER_08 1:42:37

Um I don't think it's a snake, you can push it over.

SPEAKER_01 1:42:41

I don't think I can, but someone with arms get in here.

SPEAKER_08 1:42:47

Uh what's your strength as a snake?

SPEAKER_01 1:42:50

Um that's a good question.

SPEAKER_08 1:42:54

Because you might be able to like shove it enough that you can sneak down.

SPEAKER_01 1:42:58

Plus two modifier to strengthen it. Okay.

SPEAKER_08 1:43:00

Uh yeah, then you'd be strong enough uh as a snake to push it. Yeah, just push it, nudge it just enough so that it slides so that you can uh fill into that crack that you create. Uh if you'd like to go. Bad choice of words.

SPEAKER_09 1:43:18

Um, as it is possible.

SPEAKER_08 1:43:21

I don't want to be seeing as you this this overgrown shed uh clearly uh a ruse um to hide this underground chamber. Um as you descend, the smells of the Tesh Valley, uh the pine and the damp earth that you've been slithering through are replaced by the chemical reek of sulfur and the clinging smell of rot. Uh the air down here seems stagnant, um, and it is dark as you descend these stairs that end in a low-ceilinged chamber where uh the walls and the floor are slick with moisture. Uh, you avoid slither through these puddles of dirty water that have collected on this uneven stone floor, um, probably leaking from a hole in the ceiling uh from the river Tesh. Uh not noticing you is a gray ooze.

SPEAKER_01 1:44:41

Not good. The halfling is nowhere in sight. Uh is not.

SPEAKER_09 1:44:49

Uh I will put the map up here. Ike's been in there a while. We haven't heard anything.

SPEAKER_11 1:44:54

I think we should go in. Should Peek?

SPEAKER_09 1:44:57

Maybe sneak up and give us the all clear.

SPEAKER_11 1:45:00

I will not. I I still feel my magic on him, but it's going to wear off and I don't I don't. Oh yeah, because I have the Oh, you feel your magic on him?

SPEAKER_08 1:45:08

Yes. Uh this gray ooze uh just moving around this area uh does not seem to notice uh your snake form approaching. Good.

SPEAKER_12 1:45:25

Did we turn into the ooze?

SPEAKER_01 1:45:27

Keep looking around for this for any traces of a half-like.

SPEAKER_08 1:45:36

The most immediate uh area, I guess. It's gonna be tough to here to make it the right size. Oh, I also gotta erase things as we go. I didn't realize it was so big.

SPEAKER_09 1:45:57

I'm worried about Ike. He seems angrier than I have seen him in the past. I think.

SPEAKER_13 1:46:07

Well, finding those notes like he did, it's it's a little more personal for him now, I think. I believe it is.

SPEAKER_12 1:46:15

If he's feeling even a fraction of the way I am with the religious side of it, I I genuinely fear for that halfling's life if I find him.

SPEAKER_09 1:46:26

I worry that he's acting rashly and going in alone. Perhaps he will.

SPEAKER_12 1:46:31

I mean, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:46:34

Uh as you slither into the adjacent room uh that is not the only room that is not past a door, uh, there is just a bunch of trash and mud. That's a booty hole. And then a big pit in the corner. A big pit in the corner.

SPEAKER_04 1:46:55

Yes.

SPEAKER_08 1:46:55

It seems to just be like a trash pit where all the shit gets thrown into.

SPEAKER_01 1:47:00

Yeah, I'm gonna try and find a door I can slither into. Okay. Um I would like to be as sneaky as possible if you need me to make stealth checks, I can. Uh what does the mysterious presence do again?

SPEAKER_11 1:47:12

Uh so anybody who is trying to find you, they have to subtract a D4 to perception and insight checks to find you.

SPEAKER_06 1:47:19

Gotcha.

SPEAKER_01 1:47:20

Awesome.

SPEAKER_08 1:47:26

Um what was your stealth check? Oh, that's not good. Um eight. Uh that is a sixteen perception as you slink, slither back into the room with the ooze. It turns around and sees you. Oh no.

SPEAKER_11 1:47:57

And begins to slowly ooze its way towards uh are we on our way down? Yep. Yes.

SPEAKER_09 1:48:07

Uh it's up to you guys.

SPEAKER_11 1:48:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:48:09

Just to send a Ryan Ford to peek into the shed, because we didn't hear anything once he went in there, and it just was like. Uh it's not a very big shed. So make your uh Thieves Tools check.

SPEAKER_11 1:48:20

Oh god. Yeah. Probably was a plus two.

SPEAKER_08 1:48:24

So it's advantage. Your dexterity it's a dexterity check with advantage plus your proficiency bonus.

SPEAKER_11 1:48:33

Um 18. Ooh.

SPEAKER_08 1:48:35

Uh you pop the lock open, pop lock and drop it. Uh uh, you see uh this lid. Uh Val is definitely strong enough to just toss it aside. As you see. You might not have you might not have seen it if it weren't for Ike slightly moving it, and you see this uh crack uh that Ike has made. Uh you throw that to the side uh and uh go down the stairs. You guys want to do this stealthily? Obviously, you wouldn't know that what's down there, but I'm definitely gonna be stealthy. I'd like to try to make it.

SPEAKER_14 1:49:10

Uh-oh. God damn it.

SPEAKER_08 1:49:14

Um and then we're gonna roll initiative. Anyone who who passes a 16 will have advantage.

SPEAKER_13 1:49:23

23 stealth. Has it been longer than a minute since he's been in there?

SPEAKER_08 1:49:32

Uh no.

unknown 1:49:33

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 1:49:33

Because you would have gone straight in and straight down.

SPEAKER_13 1:49:35

So I was gonna guide myself because I rolled a 15.

SPEAKER_08 1:49:38

Um so anyone who passed a DC 16 stealth check will have advantage on this initiative roll control initiative.

SPEAKER_11 1:49:47

I've got a 23 on my stealth check, and then I got a five on initiative.

SPEAKER_08 1:49:50

Oh damn.

SPEAKER_11 1:49:51

With advantage. Uh 19.

SPEAKER_09 1:49:55

13. What? 18.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:58

Ooh, nice. Uh 19.

SPEAKER_09 1:50:01

Nice.

SPEAKER_13 1:50:02

Fifteen. I was giving you my stealth. I need to roll my initiative.

SPEAKER_08 1:50:09

Or not uh Joanna. Oh, so if I get Oh no, they were rolling. Yeah, so you did not get advantageous because you've you were found. Oh really.

SPEAKER_13 1:50:23

That was with advantage.

SPEAKER_08 1:50:26

Alright, Ike, you are going to be up first. Everyone else, you can place yourselves in your order going down the steps. Um me first, me first. However, you want to be. Uh the the last person will have to be at the very top. Everyone else will be one further up. I rolled a fucking 18. That's okay with everybody.

SPEAKER_14 1:50:46

Yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_08 1:50:47

What's this? That was the um dog.

SPEAKER_14 1:50:51

Um I so I am definitely the least stealthy. So I probably should probably be on the front.

SPEAKER_09 1:51:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_14 1:51:01

Um, probably Orion, and then like in the back you held the thing open for us or something. No, I fucking threw that shell on the right.

SPEAKER_08 1:51:09

Um, Ike, you're gonna be up first.

SPEAKER_04 1:51:12

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_08 1:51:14

Uh you see the ooze in the center in this dirty puddle uh across the other side of the room. It it you can see it starting to move, and it is very slow. Uh so it's gonna take quite a bit of time to get to you.

SPEAKER_11 1:51:28

It's probably resistant to piercing damage, huh?

SPEAKER_08 1:51:32

Not very common in 2024 rules. Wow. Because of the they did away with the magic thing.

SPEAKER_01 1:51:46

Bonus action uh rush.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:49

Ooh.

SPEAKER_01 1:51:49

And get go around him and go straight into that room.

SPEAKER_09 1:51:54

Ooh, let's go. Ike is blood lusted. I should get about here.

SPEAKER_08 1:51:59

Uh I don't like him.

SPEAKER_01 1:52:05

What's going on with Ike right now?

SPEAKER_11 1:52:11

This is exactly how he should be.

SPEAKER_13 1:52:13

Well I'll talk to him once this is over.

SPEAKER_09 1:52:18

It is just unlike him.

SPEAKER_14 1:52:20

He is so angry. Yeah. Alright.

SPEAKER_01 1:52:24

Poor buddy.

SPEAKER_07 1:52:25

I will.

SPEAKER_01 1:52:26

Yeah, I'm I might I'm fucking with that in the unhide.

SPEAKER_09 1:52:31

Oh god, Ike turned into an ooze! Got you, bastard. That's what I would say.

SPEAKER_01 1:52:52

Yeah, it's not fun, is it? There we go.

SPEAKER_08 1:52:55

Uh you slither through there. Um, large, technically, so I'll take up four.

unknown 1:53:01

Really?

SPEAKER_08 1:53:03

Well, apparently, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:04

I think I kinda apparently kind of don't.

SPEAKER_08 1:53:08

Uh you uh slither quickly past the ooze uh into the laboratory, this inner sanctum um with tables crowded, uh with lab notes and equipment. Um you see bubbling uh of this potion that he's uh trying to make as uh you smell this fungal smell that you uh smelled when you killed uh the uncle. Um fungal uncle? Fungal uncle, yeah. The fungal uh is Bijan in here? He does not seem to be in here, no.

SPEAKER_04 1:53:57

Keep looking, Snake Man.

SPEAKER_08 1:53:58

A bunch of field notes um and uh bubbling uh concoctions, but uh no halfling here. Okay, he's too short. Yeah, there are step stools leading up to these bubbling cauldrons.

SPEAKER_01 1:54:20

Move anymore. May I, as my action, make a perception check. Perception check to find footprints.

SPEAKER_08 1:54:36

Uh you can make a survival check.

SPEAKER_01 1:54:45

18.

SPEAKER_08 1:54:46

There are footprints, there are small halfling-size footprints kind of all around this room as he kind of uh walks around this room plenty, uh, and it's a very dirty, messy area. Obviously, he probably stepped in some of the dirty puddles and everything. The most recent ones, though, on that 18 you can find uh go north uh through this doorway. And that's your turn? Yeah. Okay. That'll bring it to Hodge.

SPEAKER_06 1:55:31

What is that?

SPEAKER_08 1:55:33

Yeah, for the first time, you guys around the corner, you do not see Ike. You don't know where Ike is, uh, you do see in the center of this room, now noticing that the snake was not alone, uh, this massive, uh well not that massive, it's still medium, but a gray ooze uh rising out of this big puddle in the center of the room.

SPEAKER_09 1:55:55

Uh yucky, yucky. An ooze. Rudimentary. Um I will reactively, upon whipping around the corner, shoot a firebolt at it. Alright. Twelve.

SPEAKER_08 1:56:14

That's gonna hit. AC is nine. Oh, let's go. Big ol' thing of ooze, not very dodgy.

SPEAKER_13 1:56:22

Can't believe unarmored Larielle has the same AC as a fucking.

SPEAKER_08 1:56:29

That's gonna be halved two, one.

SPEAKER_09 1:56:33

Oh everyone else come down here, please!

SPEAKER_08 1:56:37

As you shoot this fire and it just dissipates on its body. Um Yay!

SPEAKER_07 1:56:54

Yay, battle!

SPEAKER_14 1:56:57

Okay, yeah. I'm going to E got that boy's ugly. I'm gonna uh pull my javelin out of my ass and try to do it.

SPEAKER_07 1:57:12

Bag of holding.

SPEAKER_14 1:57:15

Ooh, yeah. Uh, does an 18 hit?

SPEAKER_09 1:57:19

It does.

SPEAKER_14 1:57:20

Well.

SPEAKER_09 1:57:21

As previously established. Hey man, remember the stuff's your job. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 1:57:27

Hello when you sometimes laugh like a rich man.

SPEAKER_05 1:57:38

Oh, um.

SPEAKER_14 1:57:42

Seven. Hello? Ooh! Um he his speed is reduced by ten feet until the start of my next turn.

SPEAKER_08 1:57:53

His speed is ten feet, so he cannot move.

SPEAKER_05 1:57:57

Bitch is stuck. Yo, it is stuck.

SPEAKER_08 1:58:00

How many javelins do you have? Six? Uh you see the javelin uh fly through the air and just sink into this massive ooze and just slowly sink down. Um it is going to, I mean, it can't move. Um, so it's going to look at uh at Val, and you feel your brain feels like it's being crushed. I need you to make an intelligence saving throw DC 10.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:38

Is there a little man who's in this frame?

SPEAKER_08 1:58:42

Uh 60 feet.

SPEAKER_01 1:58:43

Uh not 60 feet away.

SPEAKER_08 1:58:48

Oh shit. Yeah, get out of here.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:53

Sit down!

SPEAKER_08 1:58:53

Hey, that's my bad. Alright, never mind.

SPEAKER_09 1:58:56

Alright, Joanna. It looks at you really weird.

unknown 1:59:00

Why does it have eyes?

SPEAKER_09 1:59:03

It's just it's it's the angry eyebrows.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:06

The angry eyebrows.

SPEAKER_09 1:59:07

We'll do the zombie voice.

SPEAKER_04 1:59:13

Um all I can do is dash.

SPEAKER_09 1:59:20

Joanna. Joanna, our frontline fighter. Oh! Make an intelligence save.

SPEAKER_11 1:59:25

Oh, Ryan's gonna yell at you.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:29

You can't yell at her for having minus one intelligence.

SPEAKER_13 1:59:32

Is this anything to do with charms? Nope.

SPEAKER_01 1:59:34

Okay, it's for brain crush, apparently. Obviously.

SPEAKER_13 1:59:38

I can't do anything. I don't have any spells lost. Um 13. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 1:59:45

Okay. You succeed. Uh you feel your brain begin to crush into itself and then uh work your way out of it.

SPEAKER_02 1:59:53

Remember who you were, Joanna. I didn't like that. Don't look at that figure, it's not as.

SPEAKER_08 1:59:58

Any damage. Alright, continue with your turn. I'm done. Oh. Alright.

SPEAKER_11 2:00:04

Uh, can you move me 35 feet? I dashed, and that's all I can do.

SPEAKER_01 2:00:12

You are 65 feet away.

SPEAKER_11 2:00:14

Okay, I'm gonna hit him with my longbow. Joanna, how many times have I told you stay out of the fray? You don't talk to me. Nine. How many times have I told you to watch this shoot? Nine hits? Yeah. Whoa! Five. Nice.

SPEAKER_08 2:00:32

Alright, respect. Uh, your arrow sinks in slowly through this booze body. It's disgusting.

SPEAKER_11 2:00:41

Do you think I could chop it up and get that back?

SPEAKER_02 2:00:44

Yeah, unless I can.

SPEAKER_03 2:00:51

Probably yeah.

SPEAKER_09 2:00:52

It's gonna go somewhere, huh?

SPEAKER_03 2:00:54

And I can't do anything unless I get a little bit closer, okay?

SPEAKER_01 2:01:00

Ike. Uh I'm going to go into that room. Uh what's your movement?

SPEAKER_00 2:01:08

30 feet.

SPEAKER_09 2:01:13

20 feet. Yeah, it's right. Uh less the door, though.

SPEAKER_08 2:01:17

Yeah, uh, this is a solid door. Um and then it's closed. It's not locked.

SPEAKER_04 2:01:23

Right.

SPEAKER_08 2:01:23

Um. But I think as a snake, I would say you could probably open it, but with an action instead of a free action.

SPEAKER_06 2:01:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 2:01:38

Right. So you use your action, you're essentially like attacking this door to.

SPEAKER_01 2:01:42

Well, you've seen that uh video of that uh like albino ball python opened the door and just essentially what I do.

SPEAKER_08 2:01:52

I have not seen that video, but I like the image.

SPEAKER_02 2:01:55

So funny.

SPEAKER_08 2:01:57

Alright, let me uh erase here. I I thought this was like a smart thing to do. I like it. But it just turns out. Yeah, because the black pieces of paper didn't work.

SPEAKER_03 2:02:08

Yeah, it's the fucking wild.

SPEAKER_11 2:02:10

Um show me this computer. Computer. Make these guys super gay and horny.

SPEAKER_13 2:02:24

No effect. I knew if I started it, you would finish it.

SPEAKER_08 2:02:28

Yeah, you and Orion were just on yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep, perfect. Alright, Ike, uh, you go in. Um far have I moved, by the way? Uh your full movement. Okay, good. Um, into a supply room. Uh you just see a bunch of uh ingredients that he must use for the potions uh and concoctions that he is whipping up. Um and then in an adjacent room, you do hear uh someone rifling through paper. Snap uh that you cannot see uh quite yet. I'm gonna where?

SPEAKER_01 2:03:14

Into this room here. Okay.

SPEAKER_09 2:03:20

That was your that was 30 to me at least.

SPEAKER_01 2:03:23

Move me another 30 and get a bonus action in Darling Rush. Nice.

SPEAKER_09 2:03:35

Right here's 25. You wanna get right up? Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 2:03:41

Okay. Uh you move up. Um what was your stealth check? Twenty-three or something? Uh stealth. Well, I guess. Oh well, you did just open the door. It was eight two.

SPEAKER_01 2:03:55

Um. I can make another one if you need. Yeah, make another one. It's only attack.

SPEAKER_08 2:04:06

Uh, he does notice you. He hears the door, uh, and he starts you see him uh start shuffling through his papers, and he's like turning to watch the door. Uh, and he sees this large snake come around the corner and rear right up next to the Has it been uh a minute since he entered the building? No. I will rear up.

SPEAKER_11 2:04:28

Mysterious presence.

SPEAKER_01 2:04:29

Oh, I did.

SPEAKER_11 2:04:30

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 2:04:31

Oh. I will rear up above him and bare my fangs. Uh you see him go.

SPEAKER_07 2:04:38

Oh gods, I knew it'd be coming back to haunt me. What? Dadoe.

SPEAKER_08 2:04:46

The doey. Um there you are. Alright. That'll bring it to Hodge, still dealing with this gray ooze.

SPEAKER_09 2:04:56

Oh, don't like my fire, eh? Try this on for size.

SPEAKER_08 2:05:00

It does like your fire. Oh, is it resistant?

SPEAKER_09 2:05:05

Yeah. Frick.

SPEAKER_07 2:05:14

Mine slipper.

SPEAKER_08 2:05:19

Uh thirteen. Uh ill?

SPEAKER_07 2:05:25

Um, that's actually a fail.

SPEAKER_09 2:05:28

It's one damage. Take that!

SPEAKER_08 2:05:31

Uh, you feel your mind start to corrode and take two damage in retort.

SPEAKER_11 2:05:39

This guy has stupid security.

SPEAKER_01 2:05:43

He probably doesn't even know this shit's in here.

SPEAKER_11 2:05:47

Well, I just spawned.

SPEAKER_08 2:05:49

But it's dark. He drip he dropped one little thing, one little drop of his uh fertilizer into the water, and this thing just happened.

SPEAKER_09 2:05:59

It just happened. It just happened. This is what happens when you don't clean your trains, folks.

SPEAKER_08 2:06:03

Uh alright, Val.

SPEAKER_14 2:06:05

Yah. Pops giving a jump. Oh yeah. I'm going to Oh yah!

SPEAKER_08 2:06:17

Oh yah.

SPEAKER_14 2:06:19

Can he give me a Muslim 14 saving throw?

SPEAKER_08 2:06:23

I guess so.

SPEAKER_14 2:06:24

Yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_09 2:06:24

Minus a fucking D4.

unknown 2:06:27

Sorry.

SPEAKER_08 2:06:28

I don't know. I think that's like to me. Oh no, that was from Sliver. Right, right. A dirty one. Nice.

SPEAKER_14 2:06:40

Um, 10 necrotic damage.

SPEAKER_09 2:06:43

Shit. Uh yeah, D12 already hurt. Yeah, nice, nice, nice, nice. Blood. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:06:50

Isn't that 2D12 that's already hurting?

SPEAKER_09 2:06:51

No, that's just catch up upgrades. It's the spell that you use.

SPEAKER_14 2:06:55

Toll the dad. Tull the dad.

SPEAKER_08 2:06:57

Uh you see uh his body starts to starts to turn from gray to this uh dark green uh as it starts to kind of melt off uh and into the puddle. Uh he's losing a bit of his life force and the stuff that is holding him together uh as he Oh.

SPEAKER_11 2:07:22

Oh, sorry. That was a noise.

SPEAKER_08 2:07:27

That was a noise. Uh you said the speed lasts until the end of your next turn, right?

SPEAKER_14 2:07:33

Uh yeah, so that would be this time.

SPEAKER_08 2:07:36

Yeah, put your freaking Get ready for this shit.

SPEAKER_00 2:07:46

Oh, it's coming right away.

SPEAKER_04 2:07:51

Oh my god, it moves. You should dash.

SPEAKER_09 2:07:55

She said, you should die. He should dash. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:08:01

Over your eyes!

SPEAKER_08 2:08:02

Hmm. Who's the dumbest of the group? Joanna. Joanna, make an intelligence saving joke.

SPEAKER_11 2:08:13

Leave me alone. Joanna, fortify your mind! Alright, I knew it.

SPEAKER_13 2:08:18

What are you talking about? I wasn't printed. Um, well. Ten. Nice.

SPEAKER_07 2:08:28

Oh, meets a pizza.

SPEAKER_08 2:08:30

Oh shit.

unknown 2:08:33

Fuck you.

SPEAKER_08 2:08:34

It locks eyes.

SPEAKER_13 2:08:35

And again, you say that was at both Dallas and O'Riot.

SPEAKER_08 2:08:39

Thank you. Uh Joey. It is your turn.

SPEAKER_13 2:08:47

Um. No, that was a fuck you from Emily the player to Oriot. Um, I was either gonna run after Ike because I don't think he's gonna borrow to get him. But if it's already bloody. Um, I'm gonna use one of my channel divinities. So I need a con 13.

SPEAKER_10 2:09:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 2:09:22

Fail.

SPEAKER_01 2:09:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_13 2:09:25

Uh 10 radiant.

SPEAKER_01 2:09:26

Nice. Well, silent.

SPEAKER_13 2:09:29

Uh Divine Spark.

SPEAKER_08 2:09:31

Yes. He is very, very hurt. In retort, you are gonna take six psychic damage.

SPEAKER_09 2:09:37

He has a tor.

SPEAKER_08 2:09:39

He used it on you. I know.

SPEAKER_01 2:09:42

I thought it was only when he would only take certain types of damage. I thought it was like a failing at stamping throw. I don't know.

SPEAKER_09 2:09:49

Oh, he's gonna be doing a lot of that.

SPEAKER_08 2:09:52

Uh he's very hurt. He is you can see it's like he's like melting, just becoming flatter and flatter and sinking down. Uh, it's still like trying to slowly move through this water.

SPEAKER_06 2:10:06

Yeah, she just she just runs up and sh like puts her holy sample out in front of her and it just like Orion might miss it off here.

SPEAKER_11 2:10:19

Lumbo! Net one! Oh no!

SPEAKER_01 2:10:23

Bro, you need to take a look at it. Uh I'm joking.

SPEAKER_13 2:10:28

No, I'm just gonna go. It didn't it didn't land over here. Do it. It'll kill me.

SPEAKER_08 2:10:33

Uh what happens on your net one?

SPEAKER_13 2:10:37

You can shoot me if you want, it's fine. I can't heal myself because I have no spells on, so you will feel bad about it.

SPEAKER_11 2:10:42

I do want to hit you, but I'm not going to.

SPEAKER_13 2:10:44

I can use my other I can use my other channel divinity to heal myself, and it'll be funny for the plot.

SPEAKER_02 2:10:49

God, shoot me, it's fine. Shoot me, it'd be funny. Shoot me.

SPEAKER_01 2:10:54

I do perhaps think one of the other puddles is another ooze and shoot that one. She shoots the reflection of the ooze in another puddle.

SPEAKER_11 2:11:02

The humidity from this dank basement is getting into his eyes. It's fogging up his mask. And because of that, it's Joanne.

SPEAKER_08 2:11:20

No! I think it's funny, she'll be fine. Alright, roll damage.

SPEAKER_11 2:11:26

Five six. Okay.

SPEAKER_08 2:11:27

What do you should do?

SPEAKER_11 2:11:28

That was more than I wanted. It's fine.

SPEAKER_01 2:11:31

What's your uh damage for longbow?

SPEAKER_11 2:11:34

A D8 plus two. Joanne. Ah! What is wrong with you? The mask is a burden. More than the mask is a burning. No you.

SPEAKER_09 2:11:52

No you doesn't say that. Your mom.

SPEAKER_11 2:11:56

She doesn't say that.

SPEAKER_09 2:11:57

I think we all need to sit down and have a long talk.

SPEAKER_08 2:12:03

Alright, uh Algar's turn. Algar's. Um, you see this halfling, this uh just he looks like a just a terrible guy. He's got this like scraggly beard, uh what this green cloak.

SPEAKER_01 2:12:25

Well we know it's not because he's scraggly and ugly. Um and he's got no ass.

SPEAKER_11 2:12:34

According to he's black.

SPEAKER_08 2:12:38

He grabs he grabs all of his papers, uh, shoves them uh under his armpit like a football and runs uh as fast as he can. He's going to dash and try to get away from you. Nope.

SPEAKER_11 2:12:53

What a loser.

SPEAKER_13 2:12:55

He's got a scraggly beard, green cloak, and in the corner a 5'11 fucking monster of a pillad!

SPEAKER_01 2:13:01

Doesn't uh even if you dash take an opportunity attack? Yes, you will get an opportunity attack. Fuck you. Strength 12.

SPEAKER_08 2:13:09

It has to be an attack roll. Fuck. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 2:13:12

Terminator in the background. I'm gonna bite him.

SPEAKER_08 2:13:18

Uh 17. That'll hit. Five. Uh you penetrate his mage armor. Uh you said five damage? Five. Penetrate. Okay. Uh you bite him and he feels surprisingly strong. Uh, and he gets away. You you uh tear at his cloak a little bit as he as he's running at full speed away, uh, and your fangs uh eventually give way, and he gets out uh running as fast as he can uh away from you. Um that'll bring it to you. Excellent.

SPEAKER_06 2:13:59

After him.

SPEAKER_01 2:14:08

I am large.

SPEAKER_08 2:14:09

I'll pick up four squares.

SPEAKER_09 2:14:11

Does it move like four squares?

SPEAKER_08 2:14:14

Don't move one square at a time.

SPEAKER_09 2:14:15

So it'd be five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, thirty. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 2:14:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 2:14:26

Um Yeah, I can't reach no more drumming rush.

SPEAKER_01 2:14:31

Nope, I used them both. Oh, I don't have because he's turn 15.

SPEAKER_04 2:14:40

Um It wants to fly.

SPEAKER_09 2:14:50

That's kinda.

SPEAKER_01 2:14:51

Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna use my action to dash up to him. Alright. Uh try and corner him in front. Um sure. Or just just outside the door.

SPEAKER_07 2:15:10

Gods, this snake doesn't quit, huh?

SPEAKER_13 2:15:14

Yeah, it's definitely not.

SPEAKER_08 2:15:17

Alright. Ah, it's stupid. Uh this ooze is crumbling before you. This ooze is crumbling before you. Oozy style. He's a little oozy. Oh my friend, learn to add. I hope that's actually him.

SPEAKER_13 2:15:45

I couldn't tell you. I think that's a loose idea.

SPEAKER_08 2:15:53

He's not dead. Oh.

SPEAKER_11 2:15:55

All of his friends are though.

SPEAKER_08 2:15:57

Extension RG.

SPEAKER_09 2:16:02

Trippy Red. Trippy Red died. Oh, damn. Rip. I'm gonna fuck. Who are these people?

SPEAKER_04 2:16:08

Who are these people?

SPEAKER_09 2:16:10

I'm going to dad. And say Finish him off. I'm going to find Ike. Yes, responsible. Yes, what's on the book?

SPEAKER_01 2:16:24

I'm just gonna capture him, guys. Don't worry about it.

SPEAKER_13 2:16:27

No, Durant is worried. That's it. It's much more.

SPEAKER_01 2:16:30

Valve. I'm gonna suffocate him. Yeah, okay. So it'll knock out, and then we'll beat him as concoctions.

SPEAKER_14 2:16:39

And now another. Yeah, give me another wisdom bit or saving roll. That's the word.

SPEAKER_08 2:16:49

Saving the role, baby. I'd do good. Uh that's a zero. Does that mean he is that Is it like a crit somehow? Natural crit. Um that's terrible.

SPEAKER_05 2:17:07

I think you should be able to go. Next two! Oh my god. Um, so that's 12 necrotic damage?

SPEAKER_08 2:17:14

With three hit points left. I didn't even want to do this. You also take five and retort as its last. Retort three.

SPEAKER_07 2:17:23

Mind corrosion! Corrosion.

SPEAKER_12 2:17:31

Let's play, baby. Let's go. Yeah. I don't know if I can't.

SPEAKER_08 2:17:38

You two are suffering from mind corrosion. Finishes the ooze.

SPEAKER_14 2:17:44

He crumbles.

SPEAKER_08 2:17:46

Just melts into the water and becomes a bigger puddle.

SPEAKER_11 2:17:50

Um that cannot be good for the environment. Nobody step in there. Watch your feet.

SPEAKER_08 2:17:55

Uh Joanna. Now you are looking for Ike, who you have not seen since you've come down here.

SPEAKER_13 2:18:02

Yeah, I'm gonna not heal myself so I can dash. Um, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:18:06

Are you sure about that?

SPEAKER_13 2:18:08

Yep. Pretty good.

SPEAKER_01 2:18:10

Are you sure?

SPEAKER_08 2:18:19

Ike Oh you can respond if you'd like. He's in here!

SPEAKER_12 2:18:25

Okay. Don't don't do anything yet.

SPEAKER_08 2:18:30

Orion.

SPEAKER_11 2:18:32

I'm gonna use I'm gonna dash, I guess. Yeah. Uh seventy.

SPEAKER_08 2:18:37

Whoa. Uh Algar's turn, he is going to dash as well.

SPEAKER_01 2:18:50

Bitch. Yep, that's gonna hit. Uh 19 to hit.

SPEAKER_09 2:18:58

Holy fuck. He's running away.

SPEAKER_08 2:19:01

30, he moves 60.

unknown 2:19:03

Oh, motherfucker.

SPEAKER_08 2:19:06

Uh, he will take another eight piercing damage. Okay. Uh he still looks fine uh as you bite into him. He probably runs away. Um Ike, it is your turn. Uh he has gone uh on the other side of the door, and you did not uh cannot see him anymore. But you know he went through that door.

SPEAKER_01 2:19:29

Going in his direction, yeah. Alright. As far as I can. Dash if I must. Whittling down.

SPEAKER_08 2:19:35

You see, well, it would have to be your action to get through the door. Ah, okay. Then I'll be right outside the door.

SPEAKER_01 2:19:43

Or never mind, never mind.

SPEAKER_08 2:19:46

Um slammed that shit shut.

SPEAKER_01 2:19:51

Uh yeah, you see him, this halfling rip through, and this snake just hit his head on the side of the shut door.

SPEAKER_08 2:19:59

Do you want to re- do you want to instead of doing your dash to only move those ten extra feet, do you want to do something else? Or do you want to move those ten extra feet?

SPEAKER_01 2:20:09

So I wouldn't be up to the door.

SPEAKER_08 2:20:11

So you would be here if you did not choose to dash. Okay. Yeah, I can't really tube anything else. You can ready in action. You're not coming back out this way. Or you could just you could just dash if you didn't do anything else too. Yeah, I'll dash. Get to the deal. I see Ike! Uh well, you don't see him through that. There's like a uh curtain. A beaded door. Um Hodge. But you did hear him. Yeah and you did hear a door slam shut.

SPEAKER_09 2:20:49

15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60. Ike! He went over here. Oh, your poor snake body probably can't open that door. Uh batteries me.

SPEAKER_14 2:21:08

Oh.

SPEAKER_04 2:21:12

Oh. Oh.

SPEAKER_07 2:21:18

I am sentient.

SPEAKER_14 2:21:23

I'm going right here. Running. Real past.

SPEAKER_01 2:21:28

But you and Joanna could be like. Oh, very good.

SPEAKER_08 2:21:31

Uh so you dashed as well?

SPEAKER_02 2:21:33

Oh, yes, I did. Okay.

SPEAKER_08 2:21:35

Uh Joanna. Here she comes.

SPEAKER_02 2:21:38

Um, hold on.

SPEAKER_12 2:21:39

Uh no.

unknown 2:21:44

You could try.

SPEAKER_08 2:21:45

Do you want to use your movement first of all and then go from there? You could try.

SPEAKER_13 2:21:50

If I'm deciding if I want to open the door behind me because I'm concerned that there is a door connecting these two rooms. And I don't want him to run through and pass us if we're all going that way.

SPEAKER_08 2:22:01

Scooby-doo style. Seriously. That's what it feels like.

SPEAKER_13 2:22:05

Um serially. Yeah, this might this might be a mistake, but whatever. Yeah, I'm gonna use my action to open that door. Like, kite the point.

SPEAKER_08 2:22:14

Uh it is not locked, so you can use a free action. You're not a snake.

unknown 2:22:17

A free.

SPEAKER_13 2:22:19

So I've only used 20 of my movements so far. I just want to see if there's a door.

SPEAKER_09 2:22:24

You should tell us to memorize what square we're in. I don't know where I'm at. Yeah. You're at the door.

SPEAKER_13 2:22:30

If there's not a door, I'm turning my ass around and dashing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 2:22:34

Alright, let me try to zoom in and get it to the right spot. Why's a bunch of piles of goose?

SPEAKER_13 2:22:38

Oh fuck!

SPEAKER_08 2:22:40

That's all right.

SPEAKER_12 2:22:45

Okay. Well.

SPEAKER_09 2:22:50

Just hold on a second. There we go.

SPEAKER_13 2:22:53

Um, okay, never mind. 25. 30. Uh so you see her turn go. No, okay.

SPEAKER_08 2:23:08

That room, however, uh, was the storage for the miracle fertilizer.

SPEAKER_12 2:23:14

Oh, oh yeah, we'll be back. I found this.

SPEAKER_08 2:23:18

A bunch of barrels. So this room holds the ingredients to make it, and that holds a ton of fertilizer.

SPEAKER_13 2:23:24

Yeah. Yeah, she'll yell up to you.

SPEAKER_03 2:23:26

I found where he like I found where he's keeping it after he makes it.

unknown 2:23:31

Good. Good.

SPEAKER_13 2:23:33

You're getting real scary.

SPEAKER_11 2:23:35

That's fun. I like this version of Ike.

SPEAKER_13 2:23:38

Of course you do.

SPEAKER_11 2:23:40

He's fun.

SPEAKER_13 2:23:42

You and I have very different definitions of fun. You guess we should have done.

SPEAKER_09 2:23:46

We're chasing a snake around a damp dark dungeon.

SPEAKER_11 2:23:51

I can't believe I shared. Can you believe I shared a wagon with him?

SPEAKER_09 2:23:55

Alright, Orion.

SPEAKER_11 2:23:56

Alright, I'm gonna. It seems you two became great friends. Sure.

unknown 2:24:03

Sure.

SPEAKER_13 2:24:07

He just jumped over your head.

SPEAKER_08 2:24:14

Alright. You guys can't see Algar, so you don't know what he's doing with his turn.

SPEAKER_09 2:24:17

Someone help the damn snake with the door.

SPEAKER_08 2:24:19

Mike, you are at the door. You can use your action to open it. Open the damn door! Or you can ready, uh, you can ready a dash for when somebody else opens the door for you, if you want to do that or something.

SPEAKER_01 2:24:29

No.

SPEAKER_08 2:24:29

Okay. Using your action to open the door.

unknown 2:24:32

No.

SPEAKER_08 2:24:32

Well, here goes the map again. Hold on, brothers. Not even close. I'm not looking at this map. Nice. Uh all right. Uh you open the door, and inside you find an empty prison.

SPEAKER_01 2:24:52

Fuck you, this bitch. The next door whore.

SPEAKER_13 2:24:59

How does he run my nail?

SPEAKER_08 2:25:03

Uh you do not see another door in here. And you do not see Algar.

SPEAKER_11 2:25:07

Invisible! He's invisible!

SPEAKER_09 2:25:09

That's 15 feet of movement right there.

SPEAKER_01 2:25:13

God damn it, I wish I still had a lot of things. Uh, my passive perception's 12. If he's in still.

SPEAKER_08 2:25:25

Uh, you do not see him.

SPEAKER_07 2:25:27

Show yourself, you coward! I'll feed you your own mixture.

SPEAKER_13 2:25:33

Oh no.

SPEAKER_09 2:25:34

As a giant fucking thing. That's so scary. Mixture.

SPEAKER_13 2:25:42

With my lack of arms. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 2:25:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 2:25:47

I'll mama bird it to you. That's bad for Ike. Hodge. He gets mad at every night. Did you I'm assuming you left the door open? I did, yeah. Not that they could open it with a free action, so whatever. Okay.

SPEAKER_09 2:26:02

Ike, where'd he go? I don't know. Is it an action to investigate for?

SPEAKER_08 2:26:07

Yeah, it would be an action to investigate.

SPEAKER_09 2:26:09

Uh maybe in a few seconds.

SPEAKER_08 2:26:13

Uh Val? I'm assuming you want to dash in there.

SPEAKER_14 2:26:17

Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_08 2:26:18

Once I catch my breath.

SPEAKER_14 2:26:19

Curiosity. Could I use tomaturgy to like open a door that I can't see? Or no? It has to be a vision, like a visible door andor window.

SPEAKER_09 2:26:28

That's a good opt idea.

SPEAKER_01 2:26:30

Let me Do you have it open? Like if you make like a tremor or something, would it trigger the false door to every minute?

SPEAKER_14 2:26:37

I can like as part of it, you can just open door the windows. Like that's part of what you can do with it. So I'm curious. I don't think it says anything, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_09 2:26:47

Every door you can see would be a weird caveat.

SPEAKER_08 2:26:52

It would, yeah, it would be a door that you can see because you're casting it at the specific door. If it's a if there is a secret door in here, then you would have to see it too in order to cast towards it.

SPEAKER_14 2:27:03

I figured that kind of made sense. What if I tremor and then the door starts wiggling and we see it that way?

SPEAKER_08 2:27:10

I would say a tremor would give you advantage on the investigation check. Cool. Because you would kind of be able to hear different things rattling. Yeah, right. Uh good idea. Alright, Joanna.

SPEAKER_13 2:27:27

Uh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:27:28

Um move me 60.

SPEAKER_13 2:27:36

I think that'll get me right to the corner by the door. I feel you.

SPEAKER_08 2:27:42

Thank you. Right? Yeah. Orion.

SPEAKER_11 2:27:48

Okay, uh, I'm gonna move on.

SPEAKER_08 2:27:54

235.

SPEAKER_11 2:27:57

2295. Can I make a sorry bam?

SPEAKER_08 2:28:02

Uh yeah, you can make an investigation check because you just make it into the room. Orion crashes to the fucking ground. DC is 15. I mean, you know there's a secret door in here. What did you think? DC is uh investigation. DC is 15.

SPEAKER_11 2:28:15

Oh, the bat one. Put them in your mouth! I can't they're dirty and I have allergic issues. Allergic is sheets.

SPEAKER_04 2:28:26

I've got them allergies.

SPEAKER_00 2:28:27

I'm allergic to dirty.

SPEAKER_08 2:28:29

Fill up a bowl of water and brown it. Alright, see that. Uh Algar's turn unseen.

SPEAKER_13 2:28:34

I like that you sterepuls on screens.

SPEAKER_08 2:28:37

We did not find the door. You did not.

SPEAKER_13 2:28:39

I can't believe how bad I wore.

SPEAKER_08 2:28:40

Investigation check if you'd like to look for it.

SPEAKER_13 2:28:42

It's because I'm not sitting next to you. Yeah. My curse transferred.

SPEAKER_09 2:28:45

You can also hold your action for when I look. I go right after you. I don't know. Hold on. I don't know if you can hold plus one.

SPEAKER_08 2:28:51

You could also use uh help action to help him, give an advantage. Good investigation. Yeah, because my investigation is like plus one. Can you hold his turn? Can you delay his turn? Uh you can also make a perception check.

SPEAKER_01 2:29:06

Uh if you if you want to. Natural 20 for 25. Damn. In my fury.

SPEAKER_07 2:29:14

Oh, please.

SPEAKER_13 2:29:16

Where's the main?

SPEAKER_09 2:29:17

Your pits. If you're a constrictor snake, more than likely you have heat-sensing pits on your face.

SPEAKER_11 2:29:24

Gross.

SPEAKER_07 2:29:25

They don't have arms! They can't.

SPEAKER_01 2:29:29

Whenever I do wild shape, the animal's eyes are yellow like the color of my own iris iris', um, but just like the whole thing. But these are like the layering.

SPEAKER_10 2:29:48

Ikey poo.

SPEAKER_01 2:29:50

Thanky wanky.

SPEAKER_09 2:29:52

I'm not sure it will be okay. We need to figure this out. He's just a man.

SPEAKER_01 2:29:56

Oh, it's alright. He just wants to capture him for questioning.

SPEAKER_09 2:30:00

You said something about yeah, I was gonna say the torturing part.

SPEAKER_13 2:30:03

Force feet in him his own.

SPEAKER_09 2:30:04

Yes, there are many violent threats made. Ha ha!

SPEAKER_05 2:30:09

I don't think that we should do that. I think that was.

SPEAKER_01 2:30:11

So then I want to move.

SPEAKER_14 2:30:16

Get it to him.

SPEAKER_01 2:30:19

Adjust here. You can move the minis, it's fine.

SPEAKER_08 2:30:23

I know. I just have to. Alright. There we go.

SPEAKER_01 2:30:26

So I will move as far as I can. So you were Oh there's a liner in there.

unknown 2:30:33

Alright.

SPEAKER_01 2:30:34

Mike doesn't know that. Uh I'll move as far as I can through this tunnel.

SPEAKER_08 2:30:46

Squeezing through this five-foot-wide tunnel, this massive reception link. Yes. Um, it's okay. I closed the tab, but it wasn't a critical tab. Uh on deck.

SPEAKER_09 2:31:17

Excuse me, pardon me. Excuse me, pardon me.

SPEAKER_08 2:31:22

Um, I need you to make a DC thirteen deck save.

SPEAKER_01 2:31:26

Oh shit, traps.

SPEAKER_08 2:31:27

Uh, as you step on a pressure plate uh and ceiling nozzles start to spray acid over top of you.

SPEAKER_01 2:31:40

Ooh, that doesn't look good from here.

SPEAKER_08 2:31:42

It looks like a single digit from here.

SPEAKER_09 2:31:43

It is a single digit from over here as well.

SPEAKER_08 2:31:46

Definitely. We see 13 decks saved.

SPEAKER_09 2:31:49

I didn't do it.

SPEAKER_08 2:31:50

Uh you're gonna take seven acid damage. As acid rains.

SPEAKER_09 2:31:55

So many of my hit points. Which is anytime I'm hit.

unknown 2:31:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:31:59

Y'all, I have I have no spell slots left. Acid!

SPEAKER_06 2:32:03

Because we only should have ranged it we got it.

SPEAKER_09 2:32:07

My fucking burning skin.

SPEAKER_05 2:32:09

Don't open your mouth! That sounds really bad.

SPEAKER_09 2:32:15

Surely I've gotten it.

SPEAKER_14 2:32:16

Oh, me? That's right. Um, yeah, I'm gonna just keep on following y'all.

SPEAKER_09 2:32:23

Keep on following y'all. Melty Hodge turns around and saying.

SPEAKER_11 2:32:26

Melty Hodge.

SPEAKER_09 2:32:29

Mind you. Your hat is soaked. Joanna. My eyes are sagging. I'm assuming you just want to run your full movement.

SPEAKER_13 2:32:38

My full movement, yeah, it'll get me right inside the tunnel, and then uh upon hearing Hodges screaming, I'm gonna use my I'm gonna use my action to use my last channel divinity to heal myself. Nice. Um, that's good. That was my max. So I'm almost back to full. Yay! Nice. Um, yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_10 2:33:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_13 2:33:09

Try not to die. I can't. I can't I can't help you. Well, I can You won't help me. I can make you stable, but I can't.

SPEAKER_06 2:33:18

Why can't I be enough for you?

SPEAKER_09 2:33:20

Orion. Okay.

SPEAKER_13 2:33:23

I can stabilize you, but that's about it. I can't. I don't have much more than that.

SPEAKER_11 2:33:28

25, 30, 35.

SPEAKER_13 2:33:34

Same thing as when she hurt the ooh, she just turns her holy symbol at herself and it goes.

SPEAKER_01 2:33:38

You could probably see down that hallway.

SPEAKER_09 2:33:44

You're a snake obsessed, Tyke.

SPEAKER_11 2:33:49

Well, can I peer around that corner?

SPEAKER_08 2:33:52

Uh you uh make a deck save.

SPEAKER_11 2:33:55

Oh god. I've been rolling so bad.

SPEAKER_08 2:34:00

DC DC 13.

SPEAKER_11 2:34:02

Deck save, huh? Seven.

SPEAKER_08 2:34:07

Uh you take seven acid damage.

SPEAKER_11 2:34:10

Great.

SPEAKER_09 2:34:11

I did say there was a lot of.

SPEAKER_08 2:34:14

You do peer around the corner and you do not see anyone. Just a bunch of ladder. You do see a ladder at the end. I see a ladder!

unknown 2:34:25

That horror.

SPEAKER_09 2:34:26

He clearly escaped. Perhaps we should go slower. Or mind the traps at least.

SPEAKER_11 2:34:32

We could go out the way we came.

SPEAKER_09 2:34:34

We're going to melt.

SPEAKER_11 2:34:37

Mind the gap.

SPEAKER_09 2:34:40

What are you looking at me for? I was just waiting for you. I was listening. You were the one talking. I thought you were about to make me do something. Uh like.

SPEAKER_01 2:34:51

Dash, please. No!

SPEAKER_08 2:35:00

Uh deck safe.

SPEAKER_02 2:35:03

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_08 2:35:04

That's not good. That's a fail. I unrolled a eight acid damage reads on top of you.

SPEAKER_01 2:35:10

That's fine. I'm good.

SPEAKER_09 2:35:12

Oh my god. A little fuckered arm traps. And probably many more of these traps. Ike! I urge you to slow down.

SPEAKER_08 2:35:24

May I check for more traps as an action? Uh yeah, make a perception check.

SPEAKER_01 2:35:31

In my tray.

SPEAKER_08 2:35:35

Uh.

SPEAKER_01 2:35:36

That's not good.

SPEAKER_08 2:35:38

Eleven. You don't see any more.

SPEAKER_01 2:35:40

Well, that's could be good. The DC could have been 12. Um, hodge.

unknown 2:35:49

Fucking fuck fuck.

SPEAKER_09 2:35:51

I will I cannot run forward. I'm gonna say, well, he very likely escaped. I will head him off at the front. Uh, and I'm gonna turn around. Okay. I will meet you at the entrance to the shed. And I'm gonna go the fucking.

SPEAKER_08 2:36:09

We can get out of initiative. Yes. He is gone. Uh, and everyone has been through the acid trap enough times that you uh I'm at the entrance like I'm not going in there.

SPEAKER_09 2:36:24

Yeah, or we can at least take our time and have a Ryan like we can look for traps and take our time to get out, because I am worried that that pops out somewhere else.

SPEAKER_11 2:36:32

I don't have disarmed traps tools. Is that a thing? How do I disarm tool? I don't think for traps tools. Is that a thing? I think that's only.

SPEAKER_13 2:36:43

I've never been like a rogue character before.

SPEAKER_08 2:36:46

As Algarkon makes his escape.

SPEAKER_13 2:36:48

I've never been roguies.

SPEAKER_08 2:36:50

From you all. You are now in his laboratory, unguarded, it seems. And that's where we're gonna end our episode.

SPEAKER_11 2:36:58

Whoa! I was so scared. Oh my god, it's 1020. What the heck? I know.

unknown 2:37:03

Holy.

SPEAKER_08 2:37:04

Thanks for listening to episode two of our Dale Lands adventure.

SPEAKER_04 2:37:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 2:37:12

A very successful escapade for our group.

SPEAKER_13 2:37:17

See ya. Thank you so much for listening to the Chaotic Naturals podcast. You can find us on all of our socials at Chaotic Naturals or send us an email to chaoticnaturals at gmail.com. New episodes of the Dale Lands campaign every Wednesday. Find us wherever you listen to podcasts.