1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,319 previously on Dumbgeons and Dragons. 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:36,560 the building, two guards, and one man dressed in foodwares. 3 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:38,840 who are you and why are you here? 4 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:39,840 where's macawthin? 5 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:40,840 where's my bag of holding? 6 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:45,840 and they say that they saved you, and that they brought you back here, and those 7 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:46,840 people were gone by now. 8 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:49,840 oh shut up, welcome, my friends. 9 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:55,120 we had discussions with the magistrates here, and they are willing to help you 10 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:56,120 out. 11 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:59,600 but your brain friend, brain friend. 12 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:04,799 there is a spell of sorts, that does require some components we don't have 13 00:01:04,799 --> 00:01:05,799 regularly here. 14 00:01:05,799 --> 00:01:06,799 a request. 15 00:01:06,799 --> 00:01:09,799 you might have seen the airship, i feel like that's for you. 16 00:01:09,799 --> 00:01:13,799 let's go see this guy, what name did he give you? 17 00:01:13,799 --> 00:01:14,799 Grancis? 18 00:01:14,799 --> 00:01:15,799 that sounds like, that sounds me now. 19 00:01:15,799 --> 00:01:16,799 oh, you guys are back! 20 00:01:16,799 --> 00:01:17,799 it's been weeks! 21 00:01:17,799 --> 00:01:22,799 and he runs back into the airship, and then you see a ladder just fly over the 22 00:01:22,799 --> 00:01:23,799 edge. 23 00:01:23,799 --> 00:01:24,799 just come on up, come on up! 24 00:01:24,799 --> 00:01:29,120 and you come in and you see him kind of frantically running about the airship, 25 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:32,640 flipping knobs and turning things, and saying it's time to go! 26 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:34,640 oh, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa! 27 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:37,640 i've been waiting here for weeks, what do you mean we can't go? 28 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:38,640 nope. 29 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:39,640 where do you want us to go? 30 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:44,640 well we gotta go down in the serpent hills area, there, uh, bermspeaker, white 31 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:45,640 mouse. 32 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:48,640 so like option two that you gave us like way back when? 33 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:50,640 can we get out of here now? 34 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:51,640 let's go! 35 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:55,640 you see three recognizable horses riding in your field. 36 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:56,640 tiny! 37 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:58,640 are we picking up these horses or what? 38 00:01:59,159 --> 00:02:00,159 they shit! 39 00:02:00,159 --> 00:02:01,159 i'm not cleaning up! 40 00:02:01,159 --> 00:02:06,159 and then he takes back off, setting itself towards the serpent hills. 41 00:02:09,159 --> 00:02:13,159 welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons, we are a fifth edition actual play podcast. 42 00:02:13,159 --> 00:02:18,159 i am your dungeon master, Russ More, and with me today is Amy More, who plays 43 00:02:18,159 --> 00:02:21,159 Thea Amastasia. 44 00:02:21,159 --> 00:02:23,159 and Carla Johnson, who plays 45 00:02:23,159 --> 00:02:24,159 New Laura Moonbrook. 46 00:02:24,159 --> 00:02:26,159 and Tom Laird, who plays 47 00:02:26,159 --> 00:02:27,159 FlintFirebeard. 48 00:02:27,159 --> 00:02:28,159 hi guys! 49 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:29,680 we nailed that, you guys. 50 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:30,680 we really did. 51 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:32,680 we know who we are. 52 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:35,680 i got nervous halfway through, but i think we did a good job. 53 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:40,680 now that i'm not looking at all your faces, it seems a lot easier to do this. 54 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:41,680 yeah. 55 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:42,680 it's less pressure. 56 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:47,680 like when Russ can actually stare at me and like shake his head ever so slightly, 57 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:48,680 it's too much. 58 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:49,680 he's doing it right now! 59 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:50,680 i know who he is! 60 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:53,680 i know who he is and i don't even see him. 61 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:58,200 i was just happy to have him stare at someone that wasn't me. 62 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:02,200 but he did, most of the time, stare at me anyway out of habit. 63 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:06,200 after you called me out on it, i spread around the love of staring. 64 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:09,200 one, two, three, switch. 65 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:13,200 one, two, three, switch. 66 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:14,200 it was a good time though. 67 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:15,200 it was a good time. 68 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:16,200 it was great. 69 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:17,200 i miss you guys. 70 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:18,200 aww. 71 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:23,720 hey we're on Patreon and you can visit Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast and we 72 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:28,720 will dedicate 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00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:08,279 onward. 118 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:15,800 last time you guys acquired an airship with your new friend grancis. 119 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:20,960 grancis the man who no one seems to like very much. 120 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:24,160 but we begged for this character too this is all our fault. 121 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:27,720 i don't remember us not liking him i just remember the entire 122 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:30,720 town of luskin not liking him. 123 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:33,160 yeah they were all pretty choked at him. 124 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:36,880 i mean he spent a fair amount of time there just waiting for you guys 125 00:05:36,879 --> 00:05:41,800 so maybe he just he was very intense and they weren't wanting him or his airship 126 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:42,800 there. 127 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:48,600 maybe he kept talking about his sports almanac and buying kept trying to get 128 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:54,240 people to get like playing magic the gathering with them oh and the townsfolk 129 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:59,639 hated that idea they were like listen we have jobs and stuff it's a big 130 00:05:59,639 --> 00:06:06,360 financial investment i just don't have the time who has the time i don't 131 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:14,080 understand it when you explain it to me what's mana is he is he a deep crimson 132 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:16,639 red yet i think he might be weeping 133 00:06:16,639 --> 00:06:33,759 thanks guys so you uh you know i have feelings too 134 00:06:33,759 --> 00:06:38,560 you set out from luskin in your airship and you went and swung by uh went and 135 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:44,039 swung by little rock got our ponies and you got your ponies so now you have 136 00:06:44,039 --> 00:06:48,319 three horses on this airship which doesn't really have like an 137 00:06:48,319 --> 00:06:52,599 space for them underneath so they're on the deck nice which you've managed 138 00:06:52,599 --> 00:06:56,240 to fashion away to make sure they're secure in those gusty big gusty 139 00:06:56,240 --> 00:07:00,120 breezes well we missed them we want we wanted them to be like part of 140 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:03,360 the group yeah absolutely and we definitely didn't want them going back 141 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:08,040 to that asshole in luskin no that is someone we definitely didn't like and i 142 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:12,639 mean that will never come to bite anybody back in the butt ever don't see 143 00:07:12,639 --> 00:07:18,319 how it could no you guys have been traveling for the better part of two 144 00:07:18,319 --> 00:07:24,360 days down the sword coast seeing some lovely scenery some burning cities 145 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:30,800 seeing some some general mayhem occurring in large and small towns 146 00:07:31,199 --> 00:07:37,840 and this you can assume is just various groups and perhaps even the cult of the 147 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:43,840 dragon asserting their dominance across the land and we're just cool flying 148 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:47,280 over top like laughing at them this is what i'm this is what i'm going to 149 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:51,040 ask you you pass by a lot of cities that you know you pass by never 150 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:55,519 winter it seems more or less intact all of the major cities seem pretty 151 00:07:55,519 --> 00:08:00,120 well well to do right now so never winter seems fine water deep seems 152 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:05,639 fine it's some of the smaller cities that seem like they've been recently 153 00:08:05,639 --> 00:08:09,639 attacked a lot of them seem more or less abandoned at this point i guess i'm 154 00:08:09,639 --> 00:08:12,840 going to leave that up to you guys if you along your ways have stopped and 155 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:17,240 looked in these towns or if you've just kind of glanced at them i don't 156 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:21,560 think we can stop at every burning city i think the best way to help 157 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:26,439 everyone is probably just get to where we need to go agreed we already 158 00:08:26,439 --> 00:08:32,360 have many things to accomplish on our list what like the second thing on the 159 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:35,799 list exactly exactly and you know how much 160 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:40,360 we love cross and stuff off lists oh it's the best it is you see these 161 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:44,440 cities in shambles and but you you see caravans of people heading 162 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:48,519 towards the major centers heading towards water deep and never winter 163 00:08:48,519 --> 00:08:53,960 and they seem like they are ahead of whatever attacked them or whatever 164 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:57,560 caused the mayhem that was brought upon their cities and after 165 00:08:57,560 --> 00:09:01,240 like i said the better part of two days you come up 166 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:06,759 and uh Grancis yells to you and says uh oh boy we're uh we're uh we're 167 00:09:06,759 --> 00:09:09,560 almost here um almost at the borskia bridge right 168 00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:13,240 where we need to be where we're uh right where the guy was uh 169 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:16,440 what was the guy's name varam the white right where he was last seen i'm 170 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:20,120 just going to set her down and then in an open field here and 171 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:23,240 oh you guys can be on your way and i'll just wait here for you 172 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:29,960 your old man enthusiasm exhausts me yeah people say that yep yep yep 173 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:34,200 um and he's busy flipping knobs and switches as he do 174 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:37,320 and he brings down his airship right in a big field 175 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:41,000 on the west side of the borskia bridge 176 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,960 and to the east of the borskia bridge there is a 177 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:48,039 way station settlement that is little more than a collection of tents 178 00:09:48,039 --> 00:09:51,720 and wagons and caravans with some people's 179 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:55,639 humans and halflings mostly going about and doing business 180 00:09:55,639 --> 00:09:59,560 in this little area you see the borskia bridge 181 00:09:59,560 --> 00:10:05,960 which is a a large pronounced landmark constructed of black 182 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:09,480 granite and it bears sculpted images of the deities 183 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:15,320 syric and bal commemorating a legendary battle that they fought on 184 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:17,240 the bridge during the time of troubles 185 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:20,200 and if you want to make a history check i can tell you more about that 186 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:24,520 but that's again up to you oh god it went so far 187 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:29,960 14 six for Nulara so i just stare in the other direction i guess 188 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:34,120 17 all all three of you know that the time of troubles 189 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:37,160 is when the gods were forced to walk Faerun 190 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:41,240 flint and thea you know of the battle between bal 191 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:44,840 and did they not have uber they did not 192 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:48,840 have uber do they have people yelling shame 193 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:56,200 shame at them uh perhaps perhaps yes all right ball 194 00:10:56,200 --> 00:11:03,960 is the god of murder yes syric is a mortal who gained 195 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:07,879 the divinity from ball when ball was slain 196 00:11:07,879 --> 00:11:12,200 by syric and syric became the god of lies 197 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:16,920 now ball was slain by at the time mortal syric using 198 00:11:16,919 --> 00:11:20,919 the avatar of mask a sword named god's bane 199 00:11:20,919 --> 00:11:26,279 who then stole ball's divinity along in the story and the in the lore of 200 00:11:26,279 --> 00:11:29,799 that ball was not removed from Faerun part 201 00:11:29,799 --> 00:11:32,439 of his divinity remained in the winding water 202 00:11:32,439 --> 00:11:36,759 around the boars gear bridge where he was slain and his blood having flowed 203 00:11:36,759 --> 00:11:41,480 into the river more importantly ball foresaw his 204 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:46,199 death and impregnated many mortal women 205 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:51,160 creating his heirs which later were known as the ball spawn 206 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:59,160 yeah wow whoa okay ha ha you know that as these 207 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:03,080 children grew up they found out that they were in fact 208 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:06,759 descendants of ball they fought for control 209 00:12:06,759 --> 00:12:10,520 of their respected realms and cities one of them 210 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:15,960 stood up to the rest of them he fought against his his 211 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:21,080 call to kill and to and to fight and he 212 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:26,680 stopped the rise of ball again within Faerun 213 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:31,400 that is what that bridge represents and this is kind of a trading post 214 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:37,160 built around that and you pass over the bridge and you 215 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:42,360 enter the settlement and you see like i said humans and 216 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:47,639 halflings doing business but also a contingent of well-armored 217 00:12:47,639 --> 00:12:53,240 pAlydins who look like they are standing guard and 218 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:56,519 watching over the settlement and this is the last 219 00:12:56,519 --> 00:12:59,960 known location of veram the white what do the 220 00:12:59,960 --> 00:13:03,800 pAlydin's uniforms look like perhaps you'd like me to roll to 221 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:06,360 find out uh no no you can you can just look at them 222 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:10,120 and looking at it but like not not aggressively 223 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:16,840 not just glancing casual sure you see that they are very clean 224 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:20,440 and polished very silver and bright looking 225 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:23,960 steel and on them they're very intricately designed 226 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:28,120 but you see also an insignia which is the insignia 227 00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:32,120 of the elcher guard which the elcher guard 228 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:37,320 is the realm within the the southern part of the sword coast 229 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:41,320 where you are and as a nation of different cities some of which 230 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:46,120 you've actually been to and they encompass a large portion 231 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:49,320 of the area that you're in right now some of the cities that are part of 232 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:54,360 that are el turo triel scornuble burdusk 233 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:58,120 and in a bore who are all under this umbrella 234 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:02,200 of protection of these pAlydins and it appears that they are 235 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:05,560 within this settlement as well let's make friends 236 00:14:05,560 --> 00:14:08,920 i don't know we're so bad at that we are really bad at it but i'm happy to 237 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:13,080 try did they see us land in our sick ass 238 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:16,520 airship or were we far enough away that they 239 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:20,520 did not notice that you were a little far away but you 240 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:23,960 could see from when you were landing you could see the settlement as well 241 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:27,160 so you can assume that they saw you but perhaps 242 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:31,240 you're not the first airship they've seen and being that they are 243 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:34,920 a trading looks like a trading settlement there are plenty of 244 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:39,000 caravans and stuff they may have seen many different groups kind of 245 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:43,080 coming to and from in similar vessels perhaps so it 246 00:14:43,080 --> 00:14:45,080 doesn't look like they're too thrown by 247 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:48,200 seeing your airship land across the bridge there they're not like ah 248 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:51,960 demons no okay um maybe we should talk to a 249 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:56,200 pAlydin first it kind of seems like if they're in charge of the safety of 250 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:59,800 this area that they would know about 251 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:06,280 veram yeah like when he was last here this seems reasonable thank you standing 252 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:10,520 just beyond the bridge at the unofficial kind of opening to 253 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:13,560 this tent settlement you see two human 254 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:16,680 pAlydins standing guard they're both very tall 255 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:20,680 uh or they're both quite tall standing at just over six feet 256 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:24,680 each one has very pale white skin the other 257 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:32,760 a lighter brown skin um and the the pale fellow is uh clean shaven 258 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:37,400 the other one he bears a goatee now which one do you think you guys would 259 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:41,480 match with on okay cubit oh the first guy definitely yeah you 260 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:45,400 like him clean shaven oh yeah is this in character it doesn't 261 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:47,880 matter tom and flint both have big beards 262 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:52,040 that's why so you know maybe he's like not into uh 263 00:15:52,039 --> 00:15:58,120 he's no beard competition exactly i wear the beard in this relationship 264 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:01,799 yeah i would just be jealous of someone else's beard 265 00:16:01,799 --> 00:16:08,759 beard envy i get that all the time uh thea walks up to the clean shaven 266 00:16:08,759 --> 00:16:12,439 pale looking fellow i suppose um and says 267 00:16:12,439 --> 00:16:17,079 hello friend and he uh he sees you walking up and 268 00:16:17,079 --> 00:16:20,279 um kind of they keep an eye on you they don't move 269 00:16:20,279 --> 00:16:25,159 in any aggressive manner towards you but he says yes yes hello how long have 270 00:16:25,159 --> 00:16:30,839 you been stationed around these parts um well uh quite quite a while who are 271 00:16:30,839 --> 00:16:34,279 who are you and why are you asking such questions 272 00:16:34,279 --> 00:16:37,879 my name is thea jeez we try and make conversation one time 273 00:16:37,879 --> 00:16:44,600 my name is thea these are my traveling companions these are my buddies 274 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:48,199 is there someone here we can talk to that might 275 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:51,240 give us some information of a fellow we're looking for 276 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:55,080 uh who who is it you're looking for i mean there's many people that come 277 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:58,680 through here um but uh i may be able to help you 278 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:02,200 or direct you where you need to be my name is 279 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:06,200 nohythic and i would love to love to help you 280 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:09,960 are you hating on me says no no i'm a man of 281 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:13,480 man of faith and i need to uh to talk to god right now talk to god 282 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:19,559 right now excuse me god uh who uh i i turn just too little aside 283 00:17:19,559 --> 00:17:24,279 to new lar and flint and just kind of like should we ask him 284 00:17:24,279 --> 00:17:27,880 like should we like do we just name drop or like is that gonna look bad on 285 00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:30,279 us now i'm at a loss i've done the 286 00:17:30,279 --> 00:17:33,640 introduction i'm stuck who who are we name dropping well we're 287 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:36,759 around right yeah oh so by name drop you just mean 288 00:17:36,759 --> 00:17:39,880 tell them what we're interested in yeah i don't know if that's just gonna 289 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:43,400 seem like if that's gonna cause it these are like my trust issues 290 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:46,120 coming up again because i feel like yes because 291 00:17:46,120 --> 00:17:50,280 because russ broke me as a human now i no longer 292 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:55,720 like just i have no faith that any stranger is not wishing me harm 293 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:59,400 glad i'm not the other that being said in character Nulara 294 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:04,600 it's obnoxious so here it goes hey uh we're looking for a real 295 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:09,160 powerful wizard uh okay he's a bad dude he's a bad 296 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:12,840 dude fair enough yeah that's that's uh so you guys have 297 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:16,120 uh you guys are some sort of uh policing 298 00:18:16,120 --> 00:18:23,320 body or are you well yes yeah well it's kind of we're we do good 299 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:26,440 we're basically trying to save the world so yes 300 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:30,360 interesting oh well that's i mean world needs saving 301 00:18:30,360 --> 00:18:33,560 i uh i totally hear you there i know what that's all about 302 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:37,400 saving the world so i'd love to help you but you need to 303 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:40,680 i've seen lots of wizards coming through here too so you need to give me like a 304 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:45,080 description of the fellow perhaps anything he may be 305 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:49,880 wearing or a race or 306 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:56,840 okay maybe you have seen a dwarf in purple robes 307 00:18:56,840 --> 00:19:04,759 dwarf in purple robes uh not uh oh not in some time uh 308 00:19:04,759 --> 00:19:09,079 and then his counterpart speaks up and he says uh 309 00:19:09,079 --> 00:19:15,480 oh um i i know who might have seen him uh if you go in a little bit there big 310 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:19,640 tent uh bolo's tent she runs kind of the pub 311 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:26,279 area she was talking a story about a dwarf in purple robes it was again 312 00:19:26,279 --> 00:19:29,240 some time ago that he passed through here but 313 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:32,680 maybe that's kind of who you're looking for yes that's very helpful 314 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:36,840 thank you and he says do you guys have like any like badges or 315 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:40,840 paperwork or anything that's saying that you're you know you're 316 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:45,400 you're looking for things i just say no and i boop them on the nose 317 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:48,920 and then i walk toward the uh the tent that he 318 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:53,320 directed us to that was just the uh flint and i pull out our badges sorry 319 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:55,640 flint i don't want to talk for you i don't know what you do 320 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:59,720 oh yeah sure i pull out my badge and say thank you sir 321 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:04,200 what is your name uh my name is shoop jow and he looks uh looks over your badge 322 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:06,759 and says oh uh from water deep there the cancel 323 00:20:06,759 --> 00:20:11,000 water deep so yeah uh bolo's uh bolo's tent she she could probably 324 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,240 help you out she's like i said she was telling 325 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:16,680 stories of a dwarf in purple robes so if anybody has talked to you 326 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:19,799 might want to start with her thank you so much you're welcome i 327 00:20:19,799 --> 00:20:23,000 follow theed awards bolo's tent the uh 328 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:27,240 rushes ahead about halfway apparently i was making an exit 329 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:32,599 yeah uh so you guys catch up with the uh and you pass by these tents and then 330 00:20:32,599 --> 00:20:36,120 everybody's it seems there's a rotation of things going 331 00:20:36,120 --> 00:20:39,559 through the city um it's a very fluid settlement you 332 00:20:39,559 --> 00:20:42,440 could say but you get to what seems to be the 333 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:46,680 center of this this tent settlement and there is a 334 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:51,480 larger tent than everything else and uh there are people carrying 335 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:54,519 steins of of things coming to and from 336 00:20:54,519 --> 00:20:57,480 this tent and you go inside and it is a 337 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:01,400 it is a reasonably busy tavern it is a rough and tumble 338 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:05,319 establishment set up in in the middle of the of the settlement in a large 339 00:21:05,319 --> 00:21:08,920 pavilion yeah inside mostly humans there are a 340 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:13,079 couple dwarves and halflings kind of about milling about eating food and 341 00:21:13,079 --> 00:21:17,319 drinking and behind the makeshift bar is a 342 00:21:17,319 --> 00:21:21,799 older looking halfling female who's barking orders at 343 00:21:21,799 --> 00:21:26,119 servers and and serving people up uh beer behind the 344 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:30,200 behind the bar there we go on over there 345 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:34,359 and she's busy serving somebody else and then sees you walk up and comes 346 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:37,000 over and says uh new faces in town there what 347 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:40,599 what can i help you out with are you bolo as a matter of fact i am 348 00:21:40,599 --> 00:21:42,599 this is my establishment thank you for coming in 349 00:21:42,599 --> 00:21:46,439 uh can i get you some beers some food what are you in the need for 350 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:54,120 uh absolutely drinks my friends yeah great great great and some food would 351 00:21:54,120 --> 00:21:58,039 be great too of course of course uh and then she 352 00:21:58,039 --> 00:22:00,680 calls over to one of these servers says arden 353 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,960 make sure you bring out some some food here for our friends here 354 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:07,320 and uh she says anything else i can help you with what are you passing 355 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:09,880 through for and she's filling up the beers for you 356 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:15,320 we all take out our badges and show them to her 357 00:22:15,399 --> 00:22:22,039 and you've got some badges great great your uh your enforcement staff then i see 358 00:22:22,039 --> 00:22:25,559 yes ma'am we were just hoping you could um 359 00:22:25,559 --> 00:22:28,599 tell us we're looking for a for a wizard and 360 00:22:28,599 --> 00:22:32,039 and one of the pAlydins told us you maybe might have met him 361 00:22:32,039 --> 00:22:35,399 a wizard uh you got a you got a description of uh 362 00:22:35,399 --> 00:22:39,799 your fellow there dwarf with a purple robe 363 00:22:39,799 --> 00:22:44,039 dwarf with a purple robe uh some time ago that i saw him 364 00:22:44,039 --> 00:22:47,960 but uh yeah dwarf with a purple robe i saw him i saw him 365 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:51,720 he was asking about what was he asking about he's asking about 366 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:56,680 escorts into the hills when uh so not not the other type of escort 367 00:22:56,680 --> 00:23:00,359 uh i don't know i know no that's a different tent 368 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:05,879 um he was asking he's asking about uh somebody to take him to the hills 369 00:23:05,879 --> 00:23:10,039 uh the serpent hills there uh when this this hooded fellow starts 370 00:23:10,039 --> 00:23:13,159 asking him you know asking him his business asking him what he's doing 371 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:17,320 here and the dwarf looks him straight in the eye 372 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:21,320 then pulls out his dagger and stabbed the tall fellow dead 373 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:26,040 he did it right there whoa and then this dead folk he was one of the 374 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:30,200 scaled folk from the serpent hills that come down to spy on us you know 375 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,400 that dwarfs he that dwarf there he's a hero 376 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,759 make no mistake there but he and his entourage 377 00:23:36,759 --> 00:23:39,880 shortly thereafter took off straight away for the hills quick as cats you 378 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:47,000 know how long ago was this oh let me see here that's about uh 379 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:50,920 i'd say a little more than a month maybe four weeks four weeks ago 380 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:53,720 gosh guys we would have been right on schedule had we had not made all 381 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:56,440 those detours 382 00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:01,480 and you say they headed up to the serpent hills yeah now north and uh 383 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:04,680 north and a little east there do you have any escorts that could take 384 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:07,640 us oh maybe sure yeah if you're uh you're 385 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:13,320 heading up that way i look back to most people here they kind of run 386 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:16,520 caravans you could probably find somebody quite easily if you're willing 387 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:20,200 to pay them a few gold if you if you feel you need it is 388 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,400 there what are the roads like like is it 389 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,680 like do we need escorts or can we just like 390 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:33,240 head to the hills have any of the um have any of the people that went 391 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:36,600 with him returned no we haven't seen them since 392 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:40,120 they left uh we'd assume that they would have 393 00:24:40,120 --> 00:24:43,160 perhaps passed back through here if they had other business but maybe they 394 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:46,360 just kept going uh going up the river there or they 395 00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:50,360 found what they were looking for or they got uh or they got you know 396 00:24:50,360 --> 00:24:54,120 eaten by uh something in the hills what kind of dangerous creatures are 397 00:24:54,120 --> 00:24:57,960 and then they're hills well i mean you know the you find 398 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:03,080 your usual like herd animals you find uh you find some lizard folk that 399 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:06,520 kind of roam around there and then i mean there's some hill giants that 400 00:25:06,519 --> 00:25:10,279 that creep through there uh so there there are a bunch of different things 401 00:25:10,279 --> 00:25:14,039 that live in the hills it's a it's a wild place um 402 00:25:14,039 --> 00:25:17,480 but are the hills alive with the sound of music 403 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:20,759 uh you know i haven't heard much music out of there but uh if you go up 404 00:25:20,759 --> 00:25:25,160 there singing i bet you will hear it she's very kind to humor us in this 405 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:29,079 way isn't she she's a good business woman i pass her 406 00:25:29,079 --> 00:25:32,519 some gold to pay for our food and our drink of course and she says oh 407 00:25:32,519 --> 00:25:34,920 thank you very much and it has brought you your beers by 408 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:39,000 this point uh why don't we go sit down and discuss amongst ourselves what we'd 409 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,320 like to do instead of awkwardly talking about it 410 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:44,680 in front of bolo sounds wonderful we nod and take our 411 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,960 sounds out of character sends let me know if you need anything else and she 412 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,560 goes back to helping other people there is an open table that you you 413 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,039 you're fine just yeah what do you guys 414 00:25:54,039 --> 00:25:57,880 think should we try and join a caravan i mean all we know i think 415 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:01,400 is serpent hills for where he was going 416 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:07,080 nothing more specific than that uh it would be great if we just went up there 417 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:12,920 and there was like a big sign said like dragon that would be amazing 418 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:17,960 but varum this way yes i think maybe we should just i mean 419 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:22,120 new lar you're really good at going through 420 00:26:22,120 --> 00:26:25,480 like forested areas right in terrain 421 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:28,600 it's true you'd be good in the hills i would assume 422 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,800 yes is this a forested area dungeon master 423 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:39,560 the serpent hills are alive with the sound of they really are 424 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:47,160 uh the serpent hills are a swath of badlands mesas and rocky 425 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:51,400 plateaus sprinkled with trees and tall grasses 426 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:55,000 so yes not really sure yeah i don't know ish 427 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:59,240 well i think either way um we will probably just end up getting people 428 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:03,559 killed if we go with a caravan true um and if we go with a 429 00:27:03,559 --> 00:27:08,440 caravan that seems much slower than just the three of us 430 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:13,000 scooting along yeah we could even take our horses and cut down our time 431 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:17,799 we could take our horses what time of day is it can we get going like 432 00:27:17,799 --> 00:27:21,400 right now uh yeah you planned it kind of midday 433 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:25,240 guys let's pound these beers back eat our mutton and leave 434 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:32,360 i order some takeout for uh Grancis oh you are sweet 435 00:27:32,360 --> 00:27:36,440 i feel like we've just been eating like just the worst food on the ship 436 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,000 this whole time which he probably thinks is fine 437 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,680 but you know he probably probably wants something different 438 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:46,519 that's really that's kind of you wow she gets you your to-go mutton 439 00:27:46,519 --> 00:27:51,639 is it just like a shank yeah yeah i just have to carry it back yeah by 440 00:27:51,639 --> 00:27:54,839 the bone like a turkey leg at disneyland or 441 00:27:54,839 --> 00:27:57,720 something you can put it on your spear maybe 442 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:01,480 that seems unsanitary i've killed a lot of people with that 443 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:07,400 you don't clean that well occasionally girl we were probably pretty bar 444 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,920 pretty bored on that airship probably all our weapons are tip top and 445 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:14,359 everything's very clean because you know what else are we doing 446 00:28:14,360 --> 00:28:21,080 yeah okay yeah okay let's go get our horses let's do this thing let's do it 447 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:25,880 we all jump and high five in the air oh amazing i love it when we do that 448 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,560 you head back out and you head back to the airship saddle up the 449 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,600 horses Grancis is like uh oh you're taking 450 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:35,080 taking the horses there you don't want to take the airship 451 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:38,280 no you're just gonna leave me here waiting okay 452 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:42,440 okay oh god Grancis do you want to come no i don't have a horse 453 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:47,559 tiny is a giant i mean i somebody better watch the airship otherwise some hooligan 454 00:28:47,559 --> 00:28:50,519 is going to come up here and press all the knobs and buttons and that's my job 455 00:28:50,519 --> 00:28:55,160 that's my job to push the buttons i'll just stay here the good news is 456 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:58,440 you know that we're coming back so you can like 457 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:02,279 go into the settlement you can you know you don't have to stay 458 00:29:02,279 --> 00:29:07,480 at the airship all the time like yeah i think you kind of did in luskin 459 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:11,720 well no i went i i mean at the at the end there but they kind of got 460 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:17,160 i think they got tired of me so it's a new place new place new people new 461 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:21,160 new things happening for me it won't be two weeks buddy we promise 462 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:24,279 it's the few days of Grancis that's what we're going to call it that's what 463 00:29:24,279 --> 00:29:26,920 yeah few lines of Grancis i think there's 464 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,720 going to be a side episode of Grancis just talking to people it's 465 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:35,720 going to be great that sounds amazing okay bye bye Grancis 466 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:39,319 okay you guys have fun now i'll just stay here 467 00:29:39,319 --> 00:29:42,839 try not to fly away okay bye okay okay bye 468 00:29:42,839 --> 00:29:49,159 okay bye yes mount up and ride towards the serpent hills 469 00:29:49,159 --> 00:29:53,639 onward buttercup you head north and to the east you're 470 00:29:53,639 --> 00:29:58,839 traveling through there and it's about midday so you 471 00:29:58,839 --> 00:30:02,279 get going and how long do you guys are you guys expecting to travel for 472 00:30:02,279 --> 00:30:05,559 here until we it's time to eat dinner or 473 00:30:05,559 --> 00:30:09,879 we run into an incident you guys managed to travel 474 00:30:09,879 --> 00:30:13,879 um about six hours somebody roll me a d20 475 00:30:13,879 --> 00:30:18,599 16 uh you travel about six hours from when you left there so it is about 476 00:30:18,599 --> 00:30:21,399 time you know you're starting to feel hungry 477 00:30:21,399 --> 00:30:26,279 but it's kind of an open area uh down in some badlands there 478 00:30:26,279 --> 00:30:29,879 and you haven't you haven't seen much you've seen some packs of 479 00:30:29,879 --> 00:30:33,639 some goats and antelopes that you've passed by are we keeping our eyes 480 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:38,360 open as we are riding for any clues i don't know you tell me well yes i have 481 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,640 been yes high alert you have seen 482 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:47,160 lots of different trails and paths that have been padded down but 483 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:51,880 being that you know varam and hubolo said he you know he left with 484 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:55,800 with some people they left about four weeks ago 485 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:59,480 nothing super fresh or in any direction that makes 486 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:03,480 sense to you right now that makes sense four weeks is an awfully long time 487 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,039 there could have been lots of people going to these places 488 00:31:06,039 --> 00:31:11,160 i'm pretty sure that Nulara is a good enough tracker though 489 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:16,440 is this like did we just go into a notorious frightening place or it 490 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:18,759 just has as many frightening creatures as 491 00:31:18,759 --> 00:31:22,920 everywhere else in Faerun it has just as many frightening creatures so 492 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:24,759 there would have been travelers and stuff 493 00:31:24,759 --> 00:31:28,120 other people coming through this way yeah okay i'll stop whining about 494 00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:31,720 being an expert tracker then are you guys are you guys stopping 495 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,920 for food or are you carrying on for a little while 496 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:40,120 well we won't travel into the night how equatorial are we here is it getting 497 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:42,440 dark uh no you're doing fine still you 498 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:47,240 probably have another few hours of uh of travel time i say we can eat on 499 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:51,480 our horses and continue on agreed what if our what if our horses 500 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:55,799 are tired though is your tiny horse tired no he's fine 501 00:31:55,799 --> 00:31:57,960 but i was just curious we're gonna say that you can travel 502 00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:02,279 for another few hours and uh and then your horses are going to 503 00:32:02,279 --> 00:32:04,519 need a break and you will probably need a break too 504 00:32:04,519 --> 00:32:08,440 so somebody roll me another d20 i'll roll it this time 505 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:15,720 oh no it's doc these dice suck just kidding it's okay you come 506 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:19,160 dog it's getting close to dusk and you come across 507 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:22,680 a ruined settlement and it appears to be 508 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:26,680 kind of crumbling stones and dry wells that are 509 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:31,480 what remains of many lost settlements of the serpent hills from a different 510 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:35,320 time so you come across that and it is about 511 00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:37,560 dusk and your horses are slowing down 512 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,920 let's set up camp in this sure to be haunted 513 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:44,120 abandoned settlement definitely not haunted 514 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:47,799 place that we're in right now um i kind of like 515 00:32:47,799 --> 00:32:51,080 can i look around and is there anything that i notice about this 516 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:55,160 place any specific significance or importance does it 517 00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:59,640 look like everyone left in the middle of a meal or does it just look like 518 00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,600 it's old are there are there like feet marks from 519 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:06,440 people being dragged off exactly doesn't appear to be any of 520 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:09,640 that it it just appears to be a settlement 521 00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:12,680 that's been long abandoned and neglected yeah it doesn't appear 522 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:17,640 that anybody has has camped there recently beyond the usual 523 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,759 animals in the area have uh have passed through 524 00:33:20,759 --> 00:33:26,279 fia can you detect magic i could again i have no trust in anything that it does 525 00:33:26,279 --> 00:33:30,200 like that we're not constantly about to be jumped and murdered 526 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:33,640 i do have detect magic uh what do you guys think think we're fine 527 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:37,160 my thing is i'm wondering if there is like 528 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:44,599 if this is a place that maybe was searched by 529 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:50,920 baram for his mask right if like something is hidden here or 530 00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:55,240 although if he was such a powerful wizard he would absolutely have 531 00:33:55,240 --> 00:34:00,360 already looked here um i guess russ can you be more specific about 532 00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:06,440 abandoned settlement like is it half like is it ruins or is it just 533 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:10,039 like real old shacks that are still standing 534 00:34:10,039 --> 00:34:13,720 like what are we looking at it's it's ruins like it's crumbling 535 00:34:13,720 --> 00:34:19,400 stone like was built many centuries ago okay type bat yeah 536 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:23,000 so like half walls yeah may have been a city 537 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:27,400 under siege at one point and yes half walls and 538 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:31,400 it is yeah it's yeah not a not a ghost town 539 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:35,560 much like little rock is now are there any monsters high can i make a 540 00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:39,240 can i make a role for can i just keep asking is it haunted 541 00:34:39,240 --> 00:34:42,840 you can do you have a haunt check i don't think that exists does that 542 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:46,760 exist no i'm looking for it too i'm like is it 543 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:52,360 on here fine um okay i i say we just let it go 544 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,720 yep agreed we're not getting anything from them well and if there's like 545 00:34:55,720 --> 00:34:59,559 semi-ruined walls like we can kind of like if we're gonna build a 546 00:34:59,559 --> 00:35:04,440 fire or whatever like with walls ish to our back even if they're just 547 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,960 you know like it's some protection more than being in the middle of an 548 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:11,400 open field i like that idea right all right we 549 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:16,119 build a little fire have a little food tell sing a few songs 550 00:35:16,119 --> 00:35:20,599 camp stories what how do the songs go yeah tom how does the song go 551 00:35:20,599 --> 00:35:25,880 oh it's that famous uh dwarven sea chante that everybody is familiar 552 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:30,680 with and i don't have to sing oh it's this one in west philadelphia 553 00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:34,119 born and raised on the playground is where i spent most of my days 554 00:35:34,119 --> 00:35:36,920 chilling out you know the one i thought you guys were gonna join me 555 00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,480 yep that's the one oh no sorry i thought you were about to change the 556 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:44,840 words to make it like warfish oh god i wish i was that good i was 557 00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:48,679 excited i remembered that the fresh prince existed 558 00:35:48,679 --> 00:35:54,039 yeah you got really far too oh i could have done way more 559 00:35:54,039 --> 00:35:57,719 we'll see how many nights we camp so you guys uh sing songs 560 00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:00,840 and it is now uh it is now sleep time 561 00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:04,760 i guess we will take rotating watches i'm excited to get jumped in 562 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:06,840 my sleep me too no because we're gonna take 563 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,960 rotating watches i volunteer to take first watch 564 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:13,960 i think we should all just sleep at once it seems to work out really well 565 00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,920 for us before instead of sleeping i'm just going to go 566 00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,559 into a trance how long does your trance last 567 00:36:19,559 --> 00:36:23,880 um i can meditate for up to four hours instead of sleeping if i want to 568 00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:27,320 well you're only going to you can't sleep you can't meditate for four 569 00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:29,640 hours we're not 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meditate for up to four hours 602 00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:40,760 i will meditate until it is my turn so you are meditating 603 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:44,200 and flint is sleeping and newlara you are 604 00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,480 watching are you keeping the fire low are you stoking it up 605 00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:53,000 oh no i'll keep the fire pretty low uh donnie is of course with me as he always 606 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:57,159 is uh so he'll be like you know flying up 607 00:38:57,159 --> 00:39:00,519 checking things out if i don't know you know we're just 608 00:39:00,519 --> 00:39:07,079 hanging out sure sure um so roll a d20 for me 609 00:39:07,079 --> 00:39:10,840 get that look on your face you're sitting you're kind of propped up against the 610 00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:16,280 wall and you hear from behind you 611 00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:19,880 just like a little louder than a skittering 612 00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:26,280 um but wider than like footsteps and you hear that pass behind you 613 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:31,640 uh do the horses react they they don't appear to notice what's 614 00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:36,519 going on no okay i 615 00:39:36,519 --> 00:39:39,960 put my hand on my sword just in case like i'm aware 616 00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:44,600 i hear it donnie kind of senses me like freeze a little bit and so 617 00:39:44,599 --> 00:39:47,960 he's on high alert yep i don't get up or anything 618 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:51,400 because it's like you know i don't want whatever 619 00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:55,480 it is to uh know that i know it's there but 620 00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:59,000 i'm ready sure you're doing this you're readying your sword 621 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,920 are you uh the the half wall you're sitting down 622 00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:06,279 and kind of back to it how high is is it like 623 00:40:06,279 --> 00:40:09,639 literally half a wall like i'd have to get up to see over it 624 00:40:09,639 --> 00:40:12,920 well it's maybe a foot above where your head rests now 625 00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:17,320 well that makes me uncomfortable uh okay so i'm going to like 626 00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:24,360 rise up to so that i'm like crouching basically sure 627 00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:28,599 but i'm not gonna like i don't know what if it's a deer it's not a deer 628 00:40:28,599 --> 00:40:32,599 ross is definitely gonna try and kill me 629 00:40:32,599 --> 00:40:35,880 he's losing his shit right now 630 00:40:36,599 --> 00:40:40,039 yeah so was it it was right like it was behind me on the other side of 631 00:40:40,119 --> 00:40:42,840 the wall it sounds like whatever it was was 632 00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,639 just on the other side of the wall there i'm just ready 633 00:40:45,639 --> 00:40:49,400 i'm ready for action you look at you you kind of look 634 00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:53,559 evaluate your surroundings um a little more and 635 00:40:53,559 --> 00:40:59,239 the wall does end down about about 15 feet and where you could look 636 00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:01,880 around the corner to see as well if you don't want to look 637 00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:05,800 directly up over um you hear the footsteps trudging 638 00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,440 along and it sounds like it's a little bit 639 00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:13,320 like they're a little bit out of cadence and they kind of stop and scuff 640 00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:20,280 kind of near the end of this wall oh my god carla just look 641 00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:23,559 i can't take it i can't handle the suspense uh 642 00:41:23,559 --> 00:41:30,599 okay i stand up and turn around and look but it's dark so i 643 00:41:30,599 --> 00:41:33,159 probably can't see anything but i look because 644 00:41:33,159 --> 00:41:36,039 i what else am i gonna do stand here crouching all night 645 00:41:36,039 --> 00:41:40,759 you cautiously lift your head up over the wall 646 00:41:40,759 --> 00:41:48,759 and you come face to face with a goat okay now this is the cat scare and 647 00:41:48,759 --> 00:41:52,119 he's just fucking with me you're just staring staring down a 648 00:41:52,119 --> 00:41:56,119 goat who is chewing who's reached down and picked up some 649 00:41:56,119 --> 00:41:59,079 some grass from the ground and is just kind of 650 00:41:59,079 --> 00:42:02,840 making its way through and it sees you and kind of takes a step back 651 00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:05,880 and just carries on carries on walking down 652 00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:09,880 walking down the path okay night goat i like it 653 00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:16,440 and uh your watch goes by with no incidents perfect 654 00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:19,480 who's on next watch did we decide oh i can do it 655 00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:24,280 i wake up flint perfect see i was just gonna decide 656 00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:30,280 flint you're up i saw a goat i'm sweet i'm sleeping now oh all 657 00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:34,440 right it was very intense don't talk to me i'm stressed out 658 00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:37,960 i'm a really good sleeper i can just fall asleep like that 659 00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:41,960 so flint the fire is is basically embers now 660 00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:46,280 so you can you can do what you will with that but you have 661 00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:50,200 can i stoke it back to life a little bit sure yeah just preparing for the 662 00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:54,120 night you guys have stocked some some wood and some kindling around so 663 00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:55,800 yeah you could stock it up a little bit 664 00:42:55,800 --> 00:43:02,360 you are kind of in a a cove is just of two 665 00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:05,400 walls that are cornered to each other so where are you 666 00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:09,880 where are you seated for your watch in the corner where the two walls meet 667 00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:15,960 roll a d20 for me as a nat 20 about an hour goes by 668 00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:23,480 roll a d12 for me mixing it up that is a one 669 00:43:23,559 --> 00:43:30,280 and you start to get it a little sleepy you get kind of like the head bob going 670 00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:35,000 i am bad at watching and you catch yourself and you're you're 671 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,480 okay and you're just kind of rubbing your eyes 672 00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:42,519 yeah just make a constitution check okay 673 00:43:43,240 --> 00:43:47,480 that is a 14 so you kind of catch yourself in one of these head bobs 674 00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:49,639 and you're rubbing your eyes and you open 675 00:43:49,639 --> 00:43:56,519 them up and there is a spider hanging in front of you 676 00:43:56,519 --> 00:44:00,519 and it uh with 14 it gives you a little bit of a shock 677 00:44:00,519 --> 00:44:10,440 otherwise your watch goes by uneventful okay man oh god 678 00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:14,039 just uh i hope those new dice are lucky amy and you just they're not 679 00:44:14,119 --> 00:44:21,480 you know because they're mine you knock thea from her meditation or 680 00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:26,279 she's awake from her meditation and flint drifts off back to sleep 681 00:44:26,279 --> 00:44:29,559 again the fire is burning a little lower 682 00:44:29,559 --> 00:44:33,320 i stoke it just a little bit no make it 683 00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:37,639 just roll a d20 for me oh that's a four 684 00:44:37,639 --> 00:44:43,159 you hear what sounds like a cry off in the distance like in 685 00:44:43,159 --> 00:44:46,440 oh here it is everybody cry of an animal 686 00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:51,480 an animal cry not a human cry can i roll to see if i know that 687 00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:57,559 animal cry and all that nature sure i rolled 688 00:44:57,559 --> 00:45:04,279 so 19 yeah it sounds like the cry of a vulture 689 00:45:04,279 --> 00:45:09,719 okay i make note of the direction in which i heard the sound and 690 00:45:09,720 --> 00:45:16,040 remain non-plussed yep nice vocab thank you you maintain watch 691 00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:19,080 until uh until the sun begins to come up 692 00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:22,920 and your night goes by uneventful as well 693 00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:27,880 another successful watch i do take some charcoal and draw funny pictures on 694 00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:34,200 both of my friends for funsies nice i look at Nulara and i say i 695 00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:40,200 mustache you a question and then giggle a lot as you look at me 696 00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:44,040 with a confused look yeah yeah what's your question 697 00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:47,560 you're just laughing and i walk away 698 00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:51,560 onward i dose the fire you pack up your camp 699 00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:54,440 mount back up and head out onto the trail 700 00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:58,360 you head north and east further into the serpent hills 701 00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:02,840 where you pass over a smallish river and on the other side of the river 702 00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:06,200 you come across a set of tracks they're older 703 00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:09,720 but there aren't as many around and Nulara you pick up 704 00:46:09,720 --> 00:46:13,160 in these tracks that it looks like there are about eight to twelve 705 00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:16,120 humanoid creatures that appear to be traveling 706 00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:20,519 north together and even more east than your current direction 707 00:46:20,519 --> 00:46:24,680 i tell the members of my party and suggest that we follow them 708 00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:28,840 as we have no other leads as to where we're going so why not 709 00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:32,280 you begin to follow these tracks and you travel for most of the rest of 710 00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:35,560 the day nearly eight to ten hours without coming 711 00:46:35,560 --> 00:46:40,120 across anything larger than roving packs of goats and oxen 712 00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:44,760 but the longer you travel for the tracks being made by this group become 713 00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:48,200 more and more clear and after nearly a full day of 714 00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:51,320 travel you happen upon a larger more 715 00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:54,680 mountainous wall and at the foot of a cliff face there 716 00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:59,480 lies another city of ruins same as before the city looks like it 717 00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:04,679 was inhabited long ago crumbling walls but of much larger buildings than 718 00:47:04,679 --> 00:47:08,199 before you follow the footsteps and they 719 00:47:08,199 --> 00:47:11,240 track up and down the streets of this town 720 00:47:11,240 --> 00:47:15,000 along your way you are watching for signs of movement in life but 721 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:20,199 nothing catches your eye as you round a large mostly intact building 722 00:47:20,199 --> 00:47:25,719 you come to a large paved plaza the remains of a fountain are now 723 00:47:25,720 --> 00:47:28,920 little more than a stone circle set around a 724 00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:33,880 crumbling hole in the ground leading to a well deep below 725 00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:38,280 three bedrolls are laid out near the fountain and there is a long burned out 726 00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:42,840 campfire in the center of them two stone statues stand in the 727 00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:48,200 courtyard rising 20 feet high behind them a 40 foot high edifice 728 00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:52,280 is carved into the cliffside dominated by relief columns carved 729 00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:56,920 with strange otherworldly scenes you see scenes of 730 00:47:56,920 --> 00:48:00,600 what looks like planets and planes and odd objects and 731 00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:04,360 depictions of portals and other mystical engravings 732 00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:08,440 and carvings that seem some of which unrecognizable to 733 00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:11,640 you the two statues both of which are 734 00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:15,240 statues depicting two separate colossus the one on the 735 00:48:15,240 --> 00:48:19,000 right of the opening is a young human male and is 736 00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:24,119 wearing exotic clothes its face is smashed beyond recognition 737 00:48:24,119 --> 00:48:27,639 and it holds a bAlydince in its right hand and a cudgel 738 00:48:27,639 --> 00:48:32,199 at its side its left hand raised as if in a warning 739 00:48:32,199 --> 00:48:35,639 the colossus to the left is a bearded human male 740 00:48:35,639 --> 00:48:40,199 wearing similarly exotic clothing the left half of its head cracked off 741 00:48:40,199 --> 00:48:44,280 and lying at its feet guys i'm guessing ball 742 00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:49,400 and that other guy yeah yeah that'd be uh it seems like a theme around here it's 743 00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:53,640 a pretty good guess yeah ball and syric that hey you were 744 00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:58,440 writing notes weren't you always as soon as he said what kind of 745 00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:04,040 clothes did you say they were wearing uh exotic i immediately went to 746 00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:08,840 coconut bra grass skirt and then as you started to 747 00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:12,360 to kind of elaborate on it i was like no probably not 748 00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:16,440 okay it looks like some mystical shit has gone down here you guys 749 00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:19,880 i don't say that quite so loud because it seems like a whisper place 750 00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:25,559 um is the stone edifice uh it is a door or it is just like a 751 00:49:25,559 --> 00:49:30,200 huge wall carving um it is a it is a hole in yeah it 752 00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:33,480 is a it is a doorway it is and then car there are 753 00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:37,880 carved columns surrounding it i see yeah that and then 754 00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:43,079 the doorway looks like it goes into this cliff side well 755 00:49:43,079 --> 00:49:45,960 dudes if i was gonna hide some mystic shit 756 00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:49,079 seems like this might be the place to do it yep 757 00:49:49,079 --> 00:49:54,200 um should we tie up the horses somewhere safe and out of the way 758 00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:57,079 they've got some grass we can leave them some water 759 00:49:57,079 --> 00:50:00,680 yes i like this idea okay good whatever monster is going to come out 760 00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:03,000 of this thing i don't want it to hurt the horses 761 00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:07,640 exactly i whisper to tiny i pet his giant head i'm like we'll be back for 762 00:50:07,679 --> 00:50:11,559 you let's go i want to fight something 763 00:50:11,559 --> 00:50:16,519 or discover something as you approach the statues 764 00:50:16,519 --> 00:50:21,159 you hear the sudden sound of grinding stone 765 00:50:21,159 --> 00:50:24,839 and the colossal figures turn their massive heads 766 00:50:24,839 --> 00:50:27,879 their shattered features staring down at you 767 00:50:27,879 --> 00:50:32,759 and two voices issue forth in unison booming out as though erupting from 768 00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:37,560 the deep earth halt you come before didyrius 769 00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:41,240 ether walker and conduit of clairvoyance 770 00:50:41,240 --> 00:50:45,240 behold ye now his wondrous triumphs didyrius 771 00:50:45,240 --> 00:50:49,320 extends wisdom and didyrius offers knowledge 772 00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:54,280 which do you seek i do the polite thing and i like 773 00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:59,000 i i like bow to one knee we're in the presence of a god 774 00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:02,840 uh yeah okay i'm on board with that sure 775 00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:06,679 so i do the same thing sure let's make it three 776 00:51:06,679 --> 00:51:11,480 you all kneel and they continue to stare in your general direction 777 00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:17,480 without any response um i would like 778 00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:21,000 wisdom didyrius shall they speak forth 779 00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:26,519 didyrius shall grant you what you seek but only if you heed him and 780 00:51:26,519 --> 00:51:30,840 continue to show proper respect you hear the grinding stone again 781 00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:35,239 and they revert to their original positions 782 00:51:36,199 --> 00:51:39,800 um do do we know who didyrius is have we heard of this person 783 00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:45,400 this is a great question you know nothing of didyrius or what he may have 784 00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:52,519 done or been doing here okay neato um let's go forth and 785 00:51:52,519 --> 00:51:57,719 maybe we have more wisdom i'm sorry if i chose wisdom for everyone 786 00:51:57,719 --> 00:52:01,559 it's okay i thought we all got to choose wisdom or intelligence 787 00:52:01,559 --> 00:52:04,360 uh who could have known which would have been the good one or the bad 788 00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:06,519 one i thought maybe we all had our own 789 00:52:06,519 --> 00:52:12,840 options uh let's go forth into the cavern in the side of this 790 00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:16,119 mountain sure let's do it you enter this 791 00:52:16,119 --> 00:52:21,400 cave of wonders and you enter kind of an 792 00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:27,480 antechamber of sorts and while an illusion still shows a tomb with 793 00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:33,720 gilded carvings and silver sensors it appears that these are mere shadows 794 00:52:33,720 --> 00:52:37,240 and it looks like perhaps looters have defaced 795 00:52:37,240 --> 00:52:44,200 and ruined the relief carved walls and the sensors are long gone 796 00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:48,039 set between the carvings are a dozen alcoves recognizable as 797 00:52:48,039 --> 00:52:53,480 funerary niches though these contain only splinters of bone 798 00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:57,400 at the far end of the chamber a stone door hangs a jar 799 00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:02,199 marks on the door and frame indicate that it was recently forced 800 00:53:02,199 --> 00:53:06,119 i guess like should i look like run up 801 00:53:06,119 --> 00:53:12,039 run roll a perception check or an investigation check like to see if 802 00:53:12,039 --> 00:53:17,239 there's anything else in this room to stop us from 803 00:53:17,240 --> 00:53:20,440 like a trap or something yeah like just if 804 00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:24,440 you know i don't want in like three episodes to be like 805 00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:27,560 oh the mask was sitting in one of those funerary niches you should have 806 00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:33,320 looked damn it i look around 807 00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:37,160 i'll do a roll you want me to do a roll yeah for sure okay 808 00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:42,440 uh what is the like investigation or perception 809 00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:46,600 uh perception perception you're trying to perception is what you 810 00:53:46,599 --> 00:53:50,119 notice just at a glance so you walk into a room and it's just what you see 811 00:53:50,119 --> 00:53:54,519 investigation is when you are actively looking for something 812 00:53:54,519 --> 00:53:58,199 okay well i'm not really actively looking for something particular 813 00:53:58,199 --> 00:54:02,519 so i guess i'll roll a perception that is a 14 814 00:54:02,519 --> 00:54:05,559 you just see that there have been footsteps 815 00:54:05,559 --> 00:54:09,480 um that have kind of stirred up some of the dirt and dust 816 00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:13,319 um and that that the door in front of you 817 00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:17,320 has um recently been looked like it's been 818 00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:21,080 forced open and perhaps some of the the hinges 819 00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:24,600 which are all carved from stone have shattered 820 00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:29,720 a little bit based on something or someone pushing the door open 821 00:54:29,720 --> 00:54:33,080 uh in our direction or coming out going 822 00:54:33,080 --> 00:54:37,480 into this room yeah yeah that's a good question 823 00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:41,000 like oh we already missed the monster it already left perfect 824 00:54:41,079 --> 00:54:45,880 um okay well i'm i'm happy to keep on rolling 825 00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:49,639 yeah and by rolling i mean walking not rolling which is also the thing you can 826 00:54:49,639 --> 00:54:52,360 do in this game we walk forward through the door 827 00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:55,960 it's for work i was planning the session i thought you were i don't know 828 00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:59,320 i forgot to plan the intro 829 00:55:02,679 --> 00:55:06,519 yeah but nobody wants to play with me 830 00:55:06,519 --> 00:55:12,119 now's not the time yeah anyways if you want to play magic with 831 00:55:12,119 --> 00:55:19,400 me just hit me up on twitter lonely rust.com 832 00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:32,440 i would absolutely do that but amy was like uh you know rust we're moving 833 00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:34,280 away and then tom and carla would have to 834 00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:39,000 buy cards and i was like yeah that i mean it's like a solid it's a it's a 835 00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:43,480 monetary investment in something you're not sure you 836 00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:48,440 oh his face oh oh would it be investigation if i'm looking 837 00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:51,880 specifically for a trap yeah if you're looking for something 838 00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:54,200 in particular yeah it would be investigation 839 00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:59,480 well shit that's a nine what kind of trap are you looking 840 00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:03,320 like a mechanical trap or like a pressure plate yeah kind of like 841 00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:06,200 that it's littered with bodies in this 842 00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:10,680 chamber that's a long narrow-ish 843 00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:15,400 hallway not bodies bones okay i'm just uh still it would have been bodies at 844 00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:19,640 one point um and there's a door at the end this 845 00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:24,200 just smells trap it's just smells of trap you guys have stopped 846 00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:29,720 i assume in the front of this room okay um you notice no 847 00:56:29,720 --> 00:56:33,560 noticeable pressure plates looking around 848 00:56:33,560 --> 00:56:41,640 um you don't see any any signs of any like dart do i see any rocks around 849 00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:47,000 me um stones big bones yeah i mean a skull 850 00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:49,640 perhaps yeah i i pick one up and i throw it 851 00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:53,480 into the middle of the hallway now i'm just desecrating well you 852 00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:57,480 picked up a shattered skull and it throw it and it bounces and 853 00:56:57,480 --> 00:57:00,360 rolls into the center of this room and nothing 854 00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:04,519 appears to move or react in any way to that 855 00:57:04,519 --> 00:57:08,519 to that movement you don't see it shall we move forward 856 00:57:08,519 --> 00:57:15,159 cautiously i like it okay we move forward cautiously you 857 00:57:15,159 --> 00:57:20,119 slowly walk forward into this room what order are you going in here i'll 858 00:57:20,119 --> 00:57:23,960 go first yeah i was gonna say a human meat shield 859 00:57:24,039 --> 00:57:27,800 well too orrish but yeah yeah oh no i bet you're shielding humans 860 00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:35,000 oh i'm not human so flint as you pass the halfway point of this room 861 00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:41,720 the sound of grinding stone announces the statues turning their 862 00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:46,599 cowled heads to follow your movements 863 00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:52,199 what do you do i just kind of look at them and like 864 00:57:52,200 --> 00:57:56,040 kind of nod my head at them like what's up 865 00:57:56,040 --> 00:58:04,520 you look into them and you look into the darkness of their hoods 866 00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:11,560 make a wisdom saving throw oh no so one of my weak ones guys that 867 00:58:11,560 --> 00:58:16,520 is a seven as if he needs more things in his head 868 00:58:16,519 --> 00:58:19,559 you are 869 00:58:21,159 --> 00:58:24,199 yeah uh yeah i made a roll for board there 870 00:58:24,199 --> 00:58:30,920 you look into which seems to you now to be the darkest black you have ever 871 00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:36,440 seen and your gaze is 872 00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:43,000 held by the dark gaze within the stony cow 873 00:58:43,719 --> 00:58:52,199 you begin to hear the statue whispering impossible secrets 874 00:58:52,199 --> 00:58:55,639 things that you can't quite piece together 875 00:58:55,639 --> 00:59:03,400 right now make an intelligent saving throw again one of my strong suits 876 00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:07,480 oh that was all right 16 thea newlar what are you doing as flint is 877 00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:12,840 staring into these i looking kind of has he stopped 878 00:59:12,840 --> 00:59:16,920 moving stop moving and he's staring into the 879 00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:21,079 the cowl one of these statues i look at new lar and i say don't 880 00:59:21,079 --> 00:59:25,640 don't look at the statues i think um much like we did at the 881 00:59:25,640 --> 00:59:28,680 entrance it was so smart when thea did it 882 00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:32,120 because it told us to be respectful right 883 00:59:32,120 --> 00:59:35,800 so i drop to a knee and like lower my gaze 884 00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:43,240 i i follow suit and i i pull i i pull flint down with us 885 00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:48,200 flint doesn't move okay well but flint you 886 00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:53,720 after a brief time you begin to understand 887 00:59:53,720 --> 00:59:57,000 the world that you're entering in the world that you're in 888 00:59:57,000 --> 01:00:01,000 more accurately and for the next 24 hours 889 01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:05,800 you gain advantage on intelligence checks 890 01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:09,719 and your gaze snaps clear of this statue 891 01:00:09,719 --> 01:00:14,039 and you shake your head a moment and you're back 892 01:00:14,039 --> 01:00:22,840 and you see thea and Nulara kneeling towards these statues 893 01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:25,480 you okay buddy 894 01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:29,960 uh i don't know 895 01:00:30,679 --> 01:00:33,960 neat let's go 896 01:00:35,159 --> 01:00:38,679 did the statues move their heads back or they still 897 01:00:38,679 --> 01:00:43,480 i guess they they're still locked on you 898 01:00:44,119 --> 01:00:48,920 okay and i'm scared to look it just like froze our friend 899 01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:53,800 and i don't know i think i would just try and like keep walking 900 01:00:53,800 --> 01:00:57,160 yeah let's let's let's go uh yeah flint you 901 01:00:57,160 --> 01:01:00,680 you experience just like a bombardment of 902 01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:06,200 whispers and like multiple voices talking to you 903 01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:10,840 you picked some things up but nothing that really sticks as to what the 904 01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:15,640 meaning might be right now um but you know that 905 01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:19,000 whatever you've heard may help you going forward 906 01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:22,920 okay question so i didn't actually like you didn't 907 01:01:22,920 --> 01:01:26,280 i didn't actually hear like you didn't say 908 01:01:26,280 --> 01:01:29,159 something particular and i just missed it it's just like a 909 01:01:29,159 --> 01:01:32,680 cacophony of voices that i've somehow kind of filtered through 910 01:01:32,680 --> 01:01:37,400 it didn't seem like it started off as gibberish and it started off as just 911 01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:40,760 sound in your head that you couldn't break and you couldn't remove your 912 01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:44,840 gaze from um but you began to pick things out 913 01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:50,360 so nothing that really sticks in your mind right now but you feel that 914 01:01:50,360 --> 01:01:54,680 you have gained some sort of knowledge that 915 01:01:54,680 --> 01:01:57,880 may help you going forward into these chambers 916 01:01:57,880 --> 01:02:02,760 okay oh and so russ they don't like they don't know what was happening when 917 01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:05,800 i was frozen correct no they didn't hear any of the voices 918 01:02:05,800 --> 01:02:09,079 or anything like that okay they just saw they just saw you 919 01:02:09,079 --> 01:02:12,200 freeze in place staring directly at one of the statues 920 01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:17,320 i kind of shake my head and say did you guys hear that 921 01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:23,320 hear what hear what no obviously no i i don't really know how to explain it 922 01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:26,600 all right yeah let's just keep going he seemingly brushes off whatever 923 01:02:26,600 --> 01:02:29,320 happened to him and carries forward at a 924 01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:33,320 a bit of a speedier pace and as you guys continue walking through this the 925 01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:36,760 the heads of these statues follow you to the end 926 01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:40,600 and you reach the door at the end it opens 927 01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:44,600 and enters into another chamber with a high vaulted 928 01:02:44,599 --> 01:02:48,519 dome with a deep inset ledge circling the room 929 01:02:48,519 --> 01:02:55,719 about 10 feet wide and 15 feet up the floor here is set with a beautiful 930 01:02:55,719 --> 01:02:59,880 tile mosaic showing a knight in plate armor 931 01:02:59,880 --> 01:03:04,839 wielding a glowing sword against a chimera 932 01:03:04,839 --> 01:03:10,759 the room is nearly darkness now but you make out the faint outline of a 933 01:03:10,759 --> 01:03:14,039 door on the left wall of the room and 934 01:03:14,039 --> 01:03:18,279 written on that door in bright white chalk 935 01:03:18,279 --> 01:03:22,840 is the word safe 936 01:03:39,079 --> 01:03:43,960 music in today's episode was by Kavin mcleod of incompetech.filmmusic.io 937 01:03:44,360 --> 01:03:52,599 my name is thea these are my traveling companions these are my buddies my 938 01:03:52,599 --> 01:03:58,280 right and left hand it's flin fire beard and now we're on the brights's 939 01:03:58,280 --> 01:04:03,400 right come on down come on Nulara 940 01:04:03,400 --> 01:04:06,840 moonbrook come on down i apologize for this 941 01:04:06,840 --> 01:04:11,559 Dumbgeons and dragons is a dumb dragons production