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[30.0s] as you slow your pace where there's a slab of jet black stone that sits at the center of this
[37.6s] cavern alcove its sides show relief carvings of familiar old faces you look at them a little
[47.8s] more closely and they're your own faces i uh don't remember sitting for this but like they
[57.3s] did a really good job with us in a flash you're in a stone walled hallway another hallway how
[64.7s] refreshing are we all here we look around are we all there i'm here hurry hurry you gotta go
[71.3s] gotta go fast gotta go gotta go really quick okay boys ah ah shh and then down at the end
[77.1s] of the hallway you see a pseudo dragon zip by and then come back and looks down towards you
[85.7s] holy fucking shit donnie welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons i am your dungeon master Russ More and
[94.4s] with me today is carla max dead that is me i play yen bolnuri a kalashtar cleric and amy
[102.6s] more that's me i play thea amistacia a high elf druid and tom laird hey that's me i play
[111.8s] flint Firebeard a champion dwarf phyta welcome everybody that's you we are having us oh that's
[120.6s] us oh okay yeah no yeah you you too but also you but also you thank you for being here
[125.5s] yes thank you i got confused yeah yeah sometimes i talk to you guys sometimes i don't you know
[130.6s] it's all up to what i've written down previously he's shaking his head vigorous head shaking
[137.8s] you can hear that in the audio recording can't you yeah his hair swishes back versus actually
[142.6s] just panning the audio from left to right right i'm so good like that anyways um way
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[212.6s] jumping in and saving me everybody no that was sometimes we just like to watch you drown a
[217.4s] little it's like you were you were going somewhere and just were building in pregnant pauses
[221.7s] for effect i thought maybe you put yourself in a word maze and you were trying to get out
[226.7s] i feel like sometimes we have to be those mama birds that are just like okay time to fly
[232.2s] and they either fly or they don't yeah well i got so lee if you stopped listening before
[237.5s] you heard your if you showed out i'm so sorry so sorry but it's there so just skip back 15
[243.4s] seconds it'll be perfect i mean probably 30 at this point and now let's play
[251.5s] the four of you find yourselves having just seen your friend donnie flying soaring speedily
[262.4s] careening towards you holy fuck guys i thought i'd never see you again oh my god donnie is it
[269.0s] really you and i bend down and i and i gather him in my arms and i start checking him over
[276.7s] you save you have you been are you okay is anyone hurt you no well i mean it's malnutrition uh
[283.0s] a little starvation uh mental uh terror you take your pick but otherwise great other than that how
[293.8s] was the play mrs lincoln where have who holy how many days has it i hello i am donnie who are your
[306.0s] friends hello i'm uh yen bull it is so nice to meet you i have i've heard about you uh
[314.7s] hey thea you see this person that is talking to me the yeah is it's real
[321.0s] mm-hmm okay yeah she's real and this other one oh mannex yes yes mannex oh cool good
[329.3s] so you acknowledge their presence i've even seen people well um you've been alone
[337.9s] well except for when i'm being chased who took you uh well see there was a flash yeah i
[344.6s] remember the flash yeah we all got thrown you was you was all gone i didn't see anybody
[352.6s] i was i was out of the forest it was it was cold and dark and i heard i heard this laughter
[361.5s] kind of kind of sounded like real not like fun laughter like they're watching the play
[367.0s] you know that remember that one cat play that came through town everybody was really laughing at
[371.0s] it because it was so gosh darn good oh yeah yeah that was that was great yeah little little
[377.0s] knoll on the prairie i think is what it was anyways uh no this was like evil laughter but
[384.2s] it sounded familiar it sounded like you know that uh the guy we met down in the in the crazy
[389.0s] with the brains and the pieces and bits uh-huh it's kind of sounded like him like thelonious
[395.9s] primsbane oh that's the name that's the name yeah you know yeah brains and jars and stuff yeah
[402.0s] shit anyway he he started into this diatribe that ended with like run run as fast as you
[407.3s] can don't get caught or you'll be dead in a flash at i i i called him out on his rhyming
[413.5s] scheme and then he sent some undead after me uh so he didn't seem to like that um but real
[420.5s] uh i ran like he said and every once in a while i'll see a flash of lightning and then laughter
[428.9s] again and it's been like this for a while i don't know how long exactly i've been here
[434.7s] oh you poor thing how long have have you we i how long um i mean it's been it's been a while
[444.1s] well we looked for you pretty hard at the start but there was just no sign
[452.2s] but we never gave up hope we actually had people working to try to find you mystically
[459.4s] using magic i i had no idea we'd find you in a floating pyramid i would have i would have
[465.5s] brought your collar yeah yeah because you're just itty bitty now hey um it's just a little tired
[474.7s] come here and i open up my bag my satchel he uh flies in and like collapses inside of your
[482.8s] bed oh there are snacks in there he's unconscious yeah seemingly you must be so happy to have
[491.3s] found your friend i know you have missed him so much you have mentioned it and he has been
[495.4s] missing for so long it's a little bittersweet though i mean how is this all gonna go down
[502.3s] if if i mean yes i'm happy to have him back of course but we are in just the most dangerous
[508.1s] place we could possibly be and now if primsbane has his hand in this if he's working with
[514.0s] the lich oh i i'm not like i'm not giving up hope or anything obviously super positive
[523.0s] that everything's gonna be fine um so the genus are that you talked to did they give you
[530.6s] like a timeline or just kind of can't remember don't know how long we've been in here you
[538.0s] know time seems to be just a construct at this point yes i don't know can you tell me about this
[544.6s] primsbane he said brains in jars and undead and the undead part makes it seem like
[554.3s] perhaps he and the lich would be friends
[559.8s] let's let us hope not yeah no he's a really bad dude super handsome though gotta give it
[566.4s] to him um he is an um he's an elf wizard and that guy's got some crazy power and he's just
[577.0s] like fucking crazy so but we know his one weakness he is very bad at rhymes
[583.6s] that's right we could maybe taunt him i'm not sure how that could help us but perhaps
[591.0s] uh maybe thea could challenge him to a rap battle
[598.6s] that's right i'll start thinking up some some sick rhymes really fool that a-hole
[606.5s] i will write a rap later
[610.8s] ahead of you down this hallway there's nothing behind you uh it is a torch lit
[615.5s] hallway that looks like it tees off at the end which is where you saw donnie zipping across
[621.8s] as you're talking the uh out of the corner of your eye you see a flash of a figure
[629.5s] down at the end of the hallway running down the top of the t
[633.3s] uh not back where we came not running down towards the top of the t but not running
[638.5s] it's uh floating and orb-like you see a glinting eye staring back at you
[645.3s] and that clicking that you heard echoes down the hallway is it like a baby beholder or a big
[653.4s] beholder big beholder the big beholder um oh hey hi you you're still here you you are here
[665.2s] to help for buxy doesn't say anything and they turn and move to the right of the t and disappear
[676.0s] um perhaps that is the way we should go i think so yeah something seems wrong though
[683.6s] why why wouldn't they say anything i want to slowly peek around the corner
[690.9s] i just want to run around the corner and slowly peek around the corner you walk down the hallway
[697.6s] and approach the corner is it just you peeking around or are you three stooges in it oh three
[703.0s] stooges obviously i mean four stooges there's four of us manix is down there is very small
[708.7s] sure yeah um okay the four of you peek your head around the corner
[714.0s] and you see the torch lit hallway which continues uh but before you you see a dead end
[720.6s] about 25 feet down you look to the left and another dead end
[727.9s] but we don't see for buxy you don't see for buxy i like whisper into the dead end
[735.0s] for buxy it just echoes back off the stone in front of you my whisper echoes back dang
[742.0s] yeah it's too loud it's echoey got crazy acoustics in this dead end do you think maybe
[746.9s] there's um like a secret brick we can touch a passageway uh maybe this isn't actually a
[756.4s] dead end maybe it's just a an illusion yes this must be true i have heard about
[761.8s] mazes where along the walls if you feel your way you will find a hole in the maze that you
[767.5s] cannot see that could have been the way out all along but instead you are actually just
[772.6s] trying to get out by using logic yes i have heard of such a place
[778.6s] well um we don't have anything to lose i mean donnie came from down here yes
[785.1s] have come from somewhere i'd ask him but he's totally snoozing he needs to sleep
[791.4s] keep can i roll a perception check to see if i can perceive anything
[802.6s] probably investigation for anybody wanting to investigate their current situation
[806.8s] investigate the current situation i would love to not investigate my current situation with my
[813.1s] four seven hmm all right let's no it's dead ends guys there's nowhere to go
[819.6s] the crit fail so mannex mannex rolled an 18 this is why we keep an NPC around with
[830.3s] just in case you need to find a plot point tom get your own roles well sorry amy
[837.8s] okay i'll let it go this time um okay crit fail tom okay yep got it uh okay the three
[845.7s] of you are like patting the walls trying to find a brick or stone or something to depress or turn
[854.3s] or whatever uh so focused on the dead end ahead of you um you mannex walks back down the hallway
[863.4s] and is looking for other things and gets to the t and calls you three over hey uh
[872.2s] uh come come take a look at this yes what do you see it looks like a map you walk over
[880.4s] and you see very faint and worn etched into the stone right at the end of the
[886.5s] hallway that you walk down to get to this t is a worn down map and it looks like the pathway
[893.1s] of the tunnels that you are in uh there is a star at the end of a long straight hallway
[899.8s] teeing off to dead ends on either side so it's like a you are here this is our mall
[906.7s] map the you are here can i take out a couple pieces of parchment or scroll or whatever i have
[914.2s] and a piece of charcoal and rub this making itching yes sure rub this out can i can i rub
[922.8s] one out episode title can i rub this out see you in the middle of this wants to just rub
[930.3s] one out guys it's stressful just need a moment look away don't look at me
[937.0s] no keep direct eye contact it's going to be extreme yeah fair enough okay um yeah absolutely
[943.0s] so you pull out a a piece of paper and charcoal or something as you touch the wall
[949.0s] Yenbul flint and mannex you see thea disappear
[956.3s] thea you touch the wall and immediately have an orgasm sure and immediately have an orgasm but
[966.7s] also uh you rub the the chalk or charcoal along the paper turn around and see that your friends
[977.5s] are gone however above you where there was stone it is open you see elongated versions of your
[990.0s] friends looking down at you almost like i'm seeing them through a glass ceiling that's also
[1000.9s] a funhouse mirror and they're very huge um Yenbul flint and mannex uh you see on the map
[1009.4s] there is now beside the star a tiny image of thea oh she has she has been pulled into the map
[1019.2s] but how how would that even work i don't know what is a magical flying
[1023.9s] castle what are you talking about how would that work oh you know what fair point
[1028.7s] how does any of this work after a moment you hear stone movement down towards either end of
[1035.9s] the hallway and two doorways open up and on the map you see passageways start to form
[1046.1s] on the etched in map do passageways form in my version of this weird hallway yes they do
[1055.0s] you see you hear the stone grinding and then look down both sides where there was a dead end
[1062.3s] when you looked but did not see your friends now you see two open passageways
[1066.7s] okay beyond it on the map the passageways extend but then fade off i i yell up at them
[1076.7s] uh hey you don't hear thea
[1081.2s] yeah i look at my bag do i still have donnie yep you have all of your content still with
[1088.4s] you including donnie okay well i think thea disappeared when she touched the wall
[1096.6s] i think we should all stay together yes yeah i mean that's it's probably good idea for this
[1103.4s] weird pyramid castle flying magic place we're in so yeah let's let's go find her
[1110.6s] yes let's touch the wall as well i'm going to touch the map okay uh everybody touches the map
[1120.4s] yeah you all touch the map and the instant you do uh you are standing beside thea
[1129.3s] you see um the same illusion of like outstretched uh structures outside and
[1137.2s] you see your friends as you each one like yeah i assume Yenbul goes first you see flint and
[1142.3s] manix flint goes you see manix and manix uh touches it and follows him behind oh you guys
[1149.4s] found me i feel like i'm tiny or are you guys really big no it was likely me i'm i'm
[1158.2s] tiny but now we're tiny you think we have shrunk well i don't know and i gesture with
[1166.4s] my head up to the glass ceiling of giantness but doorways huh and i point to the left and the
[1175.4s] right did this happen in big world yes the stone moved yes okay well um maybe we go down
[1188.7s] one of them and we should go right where if a boxy went i think so sounds as good as any choice
[1197.3s] let's do it okay let's go wait hold on is this where we want to be or should we try touching
[1204.4s] the map again and getting back up to normal land i mean i don't know i don't know i also
[1211.9s] don't know i don't want to get i don't want to get to a certain part and it'd be like
[1216.0s] oh this is as far as you can go shadow land mirror world person um i'm gonna touch the map
[1224.7s] again i want to see what happens if i just go back to the other side okay so what are you
[1230.6s] doing to try and get back to the other side just gonna touch the touch the map again uh you
[1235.4s] touch the map that's on the wall and nothing happens all right well that answers that question
[1240.2s] um let's go to the right yes it appears we have made our decision um you did describe
[1246.8s] it as a glass ceiling but there is no actual glass above oh yes no it is just you can see
[1252.7s] that there is a mirror image almost of what's down here yeah sorry folks no glass
[1263.4s] um okay so you're heading down to the right yeah yes for if you begin to walk
[1268.1s] down to the right in the direction uh where you saw for buxy go um and as you take a few steps
[1275.3s] from your current location the stone walls begin to close in on either side that's not good
[1283.4s] like we're in a trash compactor on a spaceship sorry no just like they're just like they're
[1288.0s] resealing actively moving they're just getting smaller not moving but like closing up the
[1293.3s] doors that just opened i see yeah okay oh can we run for it
[1299.5s] make a text or athletics or acrobatics are you running just just by yourself okay
[1306.7s] cool no no let's go i'm like let's go if the door is closing i want to try and get
[1311.5s] through the door athletics he said 19 okay i'm so fast so fast uh 15 22 oh wow well i have a plus
[1324.2s] 10 so really it wasn't that great uh the faster you run the faster they close and by the time
[1329.8s] you get to them they are closed are we just trapped in a passageway with no
[1336.7s] no exits cool um maybe we go stand by the map again yes perhaps it goes um three two one on the
[1348.2s] timer maybe i mean it was just open for the whole time we had this conversation and then just
[1354.4s] started to close so i walked back over to the map yeah me too uh the four of you walk back
[1361.0s] the four of you walk back over to the map uh and they remain closed i touch the map
[1367.7s] nothing happens i knock on the map nothing i take a piece of paper out and i etch another
[1373.7s] you have another etching up the map cool but i'm on this one this time
[1378.6s] yeah we're on this one now right you can see up and out you look around you can see up
[1383.0s] and out and into the big world uh but there are no egresses can i make an investigation check to
[1391.9s] see what the frick is around me i will also 19 oh investigating the shit out of this place
[1398.6s] you are mine's only a 12 uh okay yeah with a 19 you get the feeling that you could climb up
[1406.3s] the walls oh i just get i just get a feeling okay well you're not actively climbing you're
[1413.4s] investigating right no but i mean okay so i'm looking and i see like there are like
[1418.6s] notches that'd be good for hand holds or do i put my hand on and i'm like yes like spider
[1423.8s] man no you could you could climb up to the open ceiling okay um hey you guys uh i think
[1433.0s] we might be able to get back up there if we and i put my foot on one foot hold and grab a hand
[1440.2s] up and start to scale the wall you climb up um by yourself everybody's just watching thea at
[1448.4s] the moment maybe what's this crazy girl doing i was like ready to catch her if she fell sure
[1453.8s] thanks when spotting thea you climb up and as you reach up and pull yourself up to the top
[1459.7s] of this wall um you are shot out and back you're now looking back at the map and you see
[1467.5s] three figures on the map oh and i can't see my friends anymore uh no you see them tiny figures
[1473.6s] drawn on the wall right but not around me as you exit the map the doorways begin to open back
[1480.0s] up should we just go for the doorway or should we wait for her to come back oh because the
[1487.7s] doorway opened down in tiny world also it did yes or do we all head up and then go for the doorway
[1494.7s] i don't like the idea of us separating no i don't either so but we need to
[1500.7s] we either need to get her back or all go up there because we need to be together
[1508.9s] i i don't think i hear this conversation you don't do i i was like what's thea doing
[1513.0s] thea's like waiting and looking and being like you're not they're not fucking coming
[1520.1s] oh my oh my god you just see three uh images of your friends kind of just roughly scared i
[1527.4s] figure like like mario the original mario characters like moving big arms and legs um
[1534.3s] just kind of flipping back and forth as if they're discussing something with each other
[1538.6s] um well we know if we are all down here we cannot go to door i suppose we could all go up
[1546.4s] there and see if we can get the door or maybe we just waited too long last time before we went
[1551.7s] but yeah let's go up and we'll see if we're waiting if we're able to go over there then
[1555.4s] let's go quickly damn it we did it again i spider-man like thea did up the wall yes me too
[1563.0s] everybody follows and is sucked out into the big world the real world um and as uh the the four
[1571.3s] of you set foot into this you hear the stones closing again ah no no run run no no no run
[1578.2s] faster you run the faster i think it's a little late what took you guys so long up here like
[1584.5s] an asshole just like standing by myself i go back to the map and i touch it again russ
[1590.2s] uh flint is back inside the map i also run and touch it
[1597.4s] goes back inside the map well i mean did it open the doors again when i did that or when flint
[1603.7s] goes back inside the map the doors do open again okay yeah then yeah i'll follow too and then i
[1608.8s] immediately start walking in an leisurely pace toward the door not waiting just being like
[1615.9s] okay so flint and yen bull are inside manix and thea are out or no no i've also touched the map
[1621.0s] and then as soon as i get down there i'm walking to the start heading for that door manix
[1627.4s] follows lead and follows behind the three of you and as the fourth one of you gets back
[1633.4s] into the map the doors begin to close again faster you run the faster they uh all right
[1638.2s] one of us has to not be we have we have solved the problem a little bit
[1643.5s] okay who wants should we just split two and two should we i don't think there should just be
[1649.7s] one person all alone that seems rather shitty also not it i mean i can do it if need be
[1656.8s] but i'm happy to go with someone too yes i see what you're saying yes it makes sense two and
[1662.5s] two and we will both in in large world and timey world go towards the right as teams of two
[1671.8s] okay and if we are if we are if we find ourselves faced with a choice again
[1681.8s] choose to go right okay how about that and then hopefully we will be going in the same
[1688.5s] direction the whole time
[1693.8s] all right manix uh you and me up top and we'll we'll leave these two here all right so we are in
[1700.9s] tiny world you folks are going back up yep okay um then i i hope we will see you soon
[1707.2s] i give i give flint a hug oh sure yeah hug hug as well i guess i reciprocate you return the
[1713.8s] hug you know just stand there i returned sir let me roll for hug here oh failed failed miserably
[1721.7s] it's oh cool you just did you just like wiggled back and forth just not completely
[1728.6s] unresponsive flint and manix you climb back up and out you see the two images of yen bull
[1734.6s] and thea thea and yen bull you see elongated outstretched flint and manix the tallest flint
[1741.3s] is ever gonna look hey you're damn right manix too well as we start to make our way
[1747.9s] towards the door rust does anything happen this time the door remains open all right
[1754.0s] nonchAlydintly yen bull let's not scare it closed yes we won't run then it goes quicker
[1759.8s] let's just walk at a normal pace flint and manix as you two begin to walk towards the
[1766.8s] door you see the map begin to follow along with you inside you see your friends big arms big legs
[1775.8s] moving alongside following with you does our map follow us yes your map follows along with
[1781.1s] okay somebody roll me a d8 no it's not gonna be me okay i don't want to be responsible
[1788.2s] straight up refusal i don't want to be responsible for what happens because of this
[1792.4s] that is a three oh that's my favorite number you're walking for a while taking always rights
[1798.4s] yeah so just in circles it's not a right it's a wrong okay that's how we remember it
[1804.7s] you're walking for a while and taking always rights any chance you get the map continually
[1810.3s] following beside flint and manix all four of you you hear like a is a long dark hallway
[1820.7s] ahead of you and as you as you walk down the hallways the darkness fades the closer you get
[1825.9s] and torches illuminate like this map or this these tunnels are bringing themselves into view
[1834.3s] it feels like just beyond this darkness you hear like this low groaning and like soft
[1843.3s] patted feet strike the stone just outside of you uh yen bull do you hear that yes i do it sounds
[1856.6s] like a large creature do we are so small what if it is just a normal size creature
[1863.0s] doesn't matter does it flint and manix you hear this too up up in your own area okay flint
[1871.0s] and manix you see yen bull and thea stop for a moment turn to each other big arms
[1881.0s] what if we use this and i take out a potion
[1890.2s] and it is passed without a trace sure it's happening it's not invisibility so you remember
[1897.2s] oh right it's not never mind i mean you can use it if you want to but it's not it's just a hallway
[1907.4s] with no like things
[1911.3s] your call though um
[1915.4s] well maybe we can befriend it like we like we did the beholder yes perhaps just because it
[1921.4s] is a creature it does not mean it is evil perhaps it is also being held here against
[1925.3s] its will okay um well let's go forward carefully um with friendship in our hearts yes
[1936.6s] up with flint and manix i wonder what they're talking about do you hear that sound too yeah i'm
[1942.8s] i'm not really sure what it is but we we better get ready i think okay meanwhile we're
[1949.8s] like friendship in our hearts and flint is like get your weapons ready all four of you
[1955.8s] see the others begin to move again on the map and you move forward and as you walk forward
[1963.1s] the the groaning gets louder and begins to echo off the walls and ahead of you illuminated
[1969.8s] by torches you see first you see like a long cloak that extends down to the ground the light
[1978.2s] moves up and it's a deep hooded figure with hands that are dark like gray mottled gray
[1989.5s] they don't look quite human yeah you can't quite place them like they're not reptilian
[1995.4s] they're not human they're not mammalian they begin to raise their hands to their hood
[2001.5s] hello if we can see them i assume they can see us yeah i mean yeah i assume that we're facing
[2011.2s] the front not the back yeah yeah you see like the deep recessed hood so you don't see a face
[2015.6s] or anything beyond it um it's just shadow as they're raising their hands to their hood you
[2020.3s] say hello they go to raise their hood make a constitution saving throw as their face becomes
[2026.8s] clear and it's gaunt and you see dark deep recessed eyes and a long jaw that extends down
[2035.4s] and opens a long slithering tongue rolls out of their mouth slime sloughs down their skin
[2045.1s] it's a 22 for my con roll 17 for mine which is okay don't feel like it's good enough
[2053.0s] uh 17 for mine as well as this creature uses its withering gaze on the four of you you each
[2061.4s] take 11 necrotic damage dang son roll for initiative i say it's like the stare my mother
[2071.8s] would give to me when i when i told her i didn't want to take over the family business
[2076.8s] uh 10 19 12 keski's pass flint
[2084.9s] uh the creature ahead of you do i know this creature make a you can you
[2092.1s] druidic wise you can tell it it's undead well yeah i mean pretty much everything you run
[2096.7s] into this thing ain't alive guys um but roll nature or or arcana would probably
[2105.0s] whichever you prefer 18 you recognize it you've maybe heard stories or read broken passages of
[2113.2s] an undead creature named the bodak bodak horseman um and it's uh it has a
[2120.7s] um a gaze that if looked upon can instantly kill a creature oh
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[2310.7s] again well don't don't look at it
[2314.8s] i drop my gaze to the ground okay i also do if you if you look at it it can kill you
[2321.8s] it's a boat it's a bodak i i read about it in the libraries um ditch uh don't like we're
[2328.2s] gonna have to not look at this and fight it because i don't i don't think that i think this
[2333.9s] thing wants to be here if you want to figure out what this is flint you can roll uh i said
[2338.3s] nature or arcana all right or see if you know about it i mean neither one of those are super
[2345.4s] great but i still have some bonuses so i mean it would make sense if you didn't but uh
[2350.4s] yeah 15 you you would have heard tales of a creature that reminds you of this
[2358.0s] but they were all like children's stories of creatures with a gaze that could injure
[2364.7s] or harm you thea you're up first oh i am neat okay uh okay uh let's see what kind of spells
[2375.7s] i have where i don't need to actually look at anything if it doesn't say a creature you can see
[2381.4s] if it just says within range is it a spell attack yeah you roll with disadvantage if you're
[2386.5s] not looking oh i'm gonna eldritch blast at disadvantage yeah 14 it goes wide and cracks
[2396.2s] into the stone beside it damn it uh okay fine uh what if i try to hit it with my oath bow
[2407.6s] at disadvantage because i'm not looking yeah i whisper with death to those who have wronged me
[2414.4s] and oh 14 the arrow goes wide flint and manox you see cracks form as out of the corner of
[2424.4s] your eye you see like sparks shoot from what you presume to be thea's character in this and
[2433.0s] cracks begin to form on the stone where these things hit is manox's turn they
[2439.8s] at the beginning of their turn don't look away uh so they have to make a constitution saving
[2446.2s] throw we haven't had an NPC die in a long time flint you see manox stumbles and holds their head
[2457.6s] tight and like corrects themselves and uh holds their mace and slams it down into the ground
[2464.7s] trying to turn undead uh which doesn't work so a beam of light ripples through the hallway
[2474.7s] and you see a faint aura Yenbul and thea within your hallway move towards this creature and like
[2481.2s] wind gusts at its cloak and nothing happens to it flint um how visible were those cracks ross
[2491.0s] you mentioned uh it's like something just struck into so not like it's something's cracking or
[2496.0s] damaging but like something struck into it and like chipped off part of the stone
[2501.2s] oh okay well now i'm very curious about that yeah happened at the same time you saw it or your
[2507.3s] periphery sparks come from thea's character on the map okay um but if you don't intentionally
[2516.5s] look away from this creature i need you to make a constitution saving throw okay uh yeah
[2521.2s] i probably noticed what happened to manox but didn't really understand why or how
[2528.5s] so i will roll a constitution saving throw uh that is a 19 you take no damage as you do
[2536.9s] what you want to do the creature locks eyes with you and i point at my two eyes and i say i'm the
[2544.6s] captain now as i stroll forward with my axe in hand okay go for it all right first attack
[2558.5s] 21 that will hit second attack 24 yep third attack 17 uh also will hit oh uh as you as you
[2571.9s] step forward uh this is unrelated to the constitution saving throw um but you're going
[2578.7s] to take five necrotic damage as you step in you feel like this withering effect okay all
[2585.1s] right so all three attacks hit you got it roll some damage all right let's do this
[2592.0s] uh 16 and 11 is 27 followed by another 12 so 39 magic slashing damage three huge strikes
[2604.8s] uh crush into this creature um and
[2612.3s] yen bull and thea you see gashes show up across its cloak and cut into its flesh
[2620.8s] mirror world flint is there anything else you want to do uh nope no that'll be
[2626.1s] that'll be about it for me okay thea has a strange urge to nickname flint captain now and
[2632.3s] she's just not sure why uh Yenbul is your uh i am going to channel divinity turn undead
[2643.4s] i'm going to speak a prayer centering the undead needs to make a wisdom saving throw
[2652.6s] the problem this thing is dumb as shit right uh 13 that is good for me uh if the creature
[2661.7s] fails its saving throw it is turned for one minute until it takes any damage a turn creature
[2666.1s] must spend its turn trying to move as far away from you as it can and it can't willingly move
[2670.3s] to a space within 30 feet of you it also can't take reactions for its action it can only use
[2676.4s] dash or try to escape an effect that prevents it from moving there's nowhere to move the
[2681.3s] creature can use dodge okay so it's got a turn on its turn and get away there's more okay
[2690.7s] but wait um if you order now in the next 10 minutes when an undead fails its
[2699.4s] saving throw against your turn undead feature the creature is instantly destroyed if its
[2703.6s] challenge rating is at or below a certain threshold which this almost certainly isn't
[2707.4s] but what if it is what if it is what is the threshold what is my level 16 so challenge
[2717.6s] rating of three or lower oh it's higher than that would have been super cool totally imagine
[2726.5s] okay that's uh all for your turn yes neither of you yen bull or thea took any step towards it
[2732.8s] you just cast from no yeah okay we are spell casters we do not go near the creatures
[2742.5s] okay flint you take these three strikes in and then there's this like
[2746.5s] aura that washes over the area and the creature in front of you turns and begins to walk away
[2753.8s] allowing you an opportunity attack oh all right let's do that oh we're gonna fuck it up don't
[2761.3s] smile you bitch do i i just roll damage it automatically hits uh you have to roll to it
[2766.7s] okay yeah because you could get so excited that you miss just be like trap or something
[2772.3s] sure i could yeah yeah yeah um it was an 18 before bonuses so i'm sure it's fine
[2778.1s] you know what it hits i guess it's really 31 just for you this time yeah the nice nice dm
[2785.5s] doing yes solid all right and that is 17 damage all right describe what everyone sees when you
[2794.2s] destroy this creature well thank god because otherwise it would have come at us um i guess
[2799.7s] i just as it's like turning to walk away from me i take like one big step and just like plant
[2805.9s] my axe and like it's back do you yell don't you walk away from me or anything like that
[2812.2s] yeah give us a cool line oh geez now i'm on the spot for a cool line i can cut amy's
[2822.2s] you can have don't you walk away from me or i wasn't finished with you
[2827.4s] i'm the captain now just keep saying that we're not done here i like it yeah so the creature
[2835.0s] another huge gash latches into its back that yimbal and thea see and it falls to the ground
[2841.9s] and for you two it fades into the stone for flint and manix it remains in front of you
[2852.0s] you this mysterious i thought theirs would have faded into the stone and ours would
[2857.4s] have stayed yeah we're not in a real world uh can i go over to the wall where those like
[2863.4s] cracks maybe showed up sure and just like feel around and see if i can like determine whether
[2870.6s] or not that was like an optical illusion or a real thing sure yeah i mean yeah give me an
[2878.7s] investigation role at advantage because there's no pressing i mean guys it's real nice when there's
[2883.7s] no pressing issues the first one was a 21 second one was a nine so we'll go with the 21
[2891.2s] 21 yeah you go over and um there's they're definitely real cracks like it
[2898.4s] like something caused real damage to it and it even has like this bit of like residue on
[2904.5s] there which is reminiscent of thea's eldritch blast smells like my perfume
[2910.8s] you're like chanel number five i ask manix if i can borrow their mace for a quick sec
[2919.4s] they yeah yeah yeah here and i don't want to wreck your own weapons strike the wall with it
[2924.5s] well i mean a mace is a pretty good crushing tool and axe not as much okay yeah you hit
[2929.9s] the wall and strike into it the stone crumbles a little bit below
[2934.4s] Yenbul and thea you see stone like crack and like drop to the ground
[2942.2s] i've been fighting with him for a long time i know what his flashes look like
[2949.3s] i think it's flint i mean you can see him flint what do you do oh right we can see
[2955.9s] him doing this oh yes oh i don't see any like visual representation of them of them of my little
[2966.6s] tiny friends with big arms and big legs do you know what do you think we're like pumping our
[2972.0s] fists so like you don't see them like in the hallway with you yeah like i don't i like there's
[2977.4s] no hole for me to look through and like see them down there i am sorry i understand what
[2983.2s] you're asking yes uh no you don't see you know you don't see through the stone like it's just
[2987.5s] deeper the stone just goes deeper um but yeah no you don't see them except for the tiny
[2992.7s] images of them on the map on the wall Yenbul do you have a dagger or anything
[2998.4s] oh actually you know what here and i grab my uh i grab an arrow and i go over to the wall
[3006.9s] where the smash happened um and i carve in high flint all right 20 minutes later i did it fast
[3019.9s] okay you carve in high flint and you hear the sound of like hooves hitting the stone ahead
[3027.1s] of you and snarling and grunting and you turn and you see glowing eyes all four of you down
[3035.0s] your respective hallways glowing eyes and like smoke billowing from these nostrils that are
[3040.3s] flaring as a skeleton minotaur charges out towards you
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