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Season 2

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The wind carries the stench of blood as we dive into Mörk Borg, a doom-laden RPG where survival is merely postponing the inevitable. Join Pat and Bryant as they create bizarre characters and embark on a grim one-shot adventure called "The Devil's Tomb."

Pat's character Vaughn, a fallen noble with a magical sword that openly despises him, pairs with Brian's Vatan, a mushroom-raised occult herb master with a hook for a hand. Their quest begins beneath an ancient sarcophagus, descending into a labyrinth where death lurks around every corner. The duo confronts a spore-infected madman, negotiates with greedy goblins, and wades through flooded hallways teeming with amphibious horrors.
Their final moments showcase Mörk Borg's brutal essence: finding meaning in a world already condemned.

Whether you're curious about dark fantasy TTRPGs or seeking inspiration for your own tabletop sessions, this episode demonstrates how simple rules combined with rich atmosphere create unforgettable gaming experiences. And remember - in Mörk Borg, the only god is the apocalypse, and it's coming for everyone.

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00:00 - Entering the World of Murkborg

09:18 - Character Creation and World Introduction

28:41 - Descending into the Devil's Tomb

44:50 - Confronting the Madman

01:03:55 - Trading with Goblins

01:24:04 - The Drowned Altar and Final Sacrifice

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the wind from the west, from the sundered land rot rides it and the stench of blood.

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Cursed walker, will you travel there to the valley of the unfortunate dead?

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Our young ones are taken by the child thief gurgle, known for his vile crimes and alchemy of flesh.

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Distances shift paths, warp between places, as if this pale, lightless world possessed a will and bitter life, its mercy curdled to wrath over a too long age.

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Who are you the grave robber?

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Was silver glittering between cracked fingernails?

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The mystic who would bend the world's miserable heart away from its inevitable end?

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Most likely, it makes little difference.

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No one has seen the sun in years.

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The old care more for sacrifice and god offerings than their bawling spawn.

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Doomsayers are proved right time and again and embraced by hidden powers.

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Maybe it's the best to surrender.

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That's my dog it's great background to trust your own instinct and skill rather than the whim of the dice.

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Before all, life is drowned in welcome silence, life locked in, falling in a dark fort.

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What was written must be known.

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That's essentially the preamble to what we're doing today Murkborg, murkborg, murkin, murkin, murkinborg.

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We're playing Murkborg, we're gonna call it Morkborg because we're Americans, andkborg or more, we're going to call it more board cause we're Americans.

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Uh, and we pronounce things improperly.

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Uh, but Connie is not happy about it.

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Um, but anyways, it's uh, created by Pell Nielsen and Johan Nor, as well as dead people, which I think dead people is actually a Scandinavian band.

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Um, or is it made by dead people?

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Well, it's called Johan, by Johan Nor and dead people which I think dead people is actually a scandinavian band.

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Um, or is it made by dead people?

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Well, it's called johan by johan noren dead people.

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Based on that preamble, it could have actually been made by dead people.

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It could have been it's pretty metal book, um, but if you hear that, also joining us for this, so that way pat has someone to wander with him into the uh, what is known, as I believe, the york land not york.

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I'm looking up the one shot we're playing tonight, um, devil's tomb.

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We'll be playing the one page rules, one shot, known as the devil's tomb, and, uh, we'll be going through creating characters, um, and then I've already provided Pat and Brian the link to auto-generate some characters in case their players die, so that way they can just generate another one and start playing and we'll see how far they get.

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But I'm going to grab my dog before she eats us.

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And you guys, pat, brian, feel free to discuss Brian while you're here, thoughts, experience, playing games like this.

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Oh for sure, I've never played this before.

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I've never played any of this.

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Is this D&D or is this like?

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This is not officially D&D, but it's D&D style game RPG.

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Yeah, it's known as a tabletop RPG, all right, which means you, it's a role-playing game.

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You create a character.

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That character has a a role in one way or another on a team and they play.

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Well, sorry, you play the character, uh, on that team, right, um, and a lot of people make weird voices and stuff like that.

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And you know, a lot of people like myself we like to do like miniatures on a map, kind of like chess pieces, right, um, and some people take it really far, you know, and they like dress up in costumes and all that, which, hey, if that's your thing, as long as it's not hurting anybody, I'm all right with it.

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They're like interlude larp sessions that's.

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That's what I've spoke about before on here.

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I'm afraid to do this because I'm going to show up here next week with braids and leather armbands.

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That's sick.

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I will say the back of this book says really not suitable for those under 16 years of age.

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Yeah, so what we're doing?

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to try to.

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It's written so funny.

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It says really not suitable.

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Not suitable for those who are really.

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Yeah, we are playing Mirkborg and it is certainly a very rules-like game, but it is also a very brutal game in that it is incredibly easy to die.

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But it should give Pat a pretty good idea of kind of how a one-shot D&D plays, just with way less rules, much more abstraction to it.

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Wildly demonic Well, I don't think they're demonic, but devils and demons are an issue in the world Literally the crescent over a ram's head with an upside down star of David.

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So yeah, but I think that's a bad guy you have to kill in the game.

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He looks like he's welcoming you into the game.

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He's the hero.

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That's one of the things a lot of people I feel like don't get about these games.

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Right is that they are designed for killing the evil, right.

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But a lot of people mistake that as like about joining the evil not.

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This one's not about joining all right.

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Well, I guess you could if you want to, but you could do that in anything oh my goodness.

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So we have to build our characters and we have to.

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Uh, then we gotta play, and I'm gonna interrupt the show for a second to save you listeners about an hour of time where me and Bryant spent time developing our characters before we got to playing, and I boiled it down for you so that it's you know, a little bit more palatable.

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And so here's what we came to as we developed our characters using this little sheet for the game.

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And I, pat, is going to be playing as the character Vaughn, and he is classified as wretched royalty.

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He's bowed down only by the memories of his lost glory and he could never submit to anybody else Not anybody, for he had noble blood and he's kind of an arrogant guy and he's, but he's also.

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He's painfully average.

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But he carries a magical talking sword who is unreliable and quietly despises Vaughn and this sword taunts his failures.

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He also rides a magical intelligent horse who can also talk.

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Moving on to Brian's character, vatan, as an occult herb master, born of the mushroom, raised in the clade, watched by the eye of the moon in a silverback pool, his character he wields a hook for a hand and he carries these soups and potions that can help him along on his journey.

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So, all right, you guys, back to the show and we're going to play the game.

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All right, I think.

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Are we ready?

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I think so.

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Do we just hop in?

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So we have two characters we're managing here.

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No, you don't have to manage them.

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It's just like if you that's when we die.

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Oh then, we have.

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This guy might last for like half a roll.

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So all this that we just did, he just might be smoked out the gate.

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So then you've got to use this.

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Baton's the front runner and the hey-roo comes from the ashes, yeah.

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Like you guys will see, we're just going to run it very slim here, yeah good.

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As you left, I was telling Pat.

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I was like I'm going to cry, that's good, I hope you do.

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I, hope you do I hope you do cry, dude, tears of joy.

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There's a lot to hold on here Again, hold your hand.

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I mean, I'll hold your hand because I'm also new to this, right?

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This is the first time I'll be running, yeah, good old little one shot of New York Borg, so give me a second just to go over a couple rules here, just so I understand how, uh, things are gonna roll like, play out, as well as like you guys will understand, right, yeah, so let's say we run into a scenario where there's violence.

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Okay, who goes first?

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Well, it's decided by rolling a d6.

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One of you can roll it, I can roll it, but just one person rolls it.

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If it's a one to three, whatever the enemies are, they go first.

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If it's a four to six, you guys go first, okay, um four to six, so it has to be the end.

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So they have the advantage it's three numbers for each 50, 50.

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It's 50 50.

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One to three for them, four to six right 6, but we re-roll it each round.

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So we roll, run one round.

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They might go first.

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Next round.

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You guys might go first.

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Right, you get to attack and you get to defend.

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So if you roll a 20, that's a critical, that's the highest value on the die.

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That means good job.

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And so when you're attacking something, if you roll a 20, it's a times two damage and they lose some armor.

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When they're attacking you, again, you guys roll the die.

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If you roll a 20 when they're attacking you, you get to give a free attack back to them, because that's that's narratively right.

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Like you, you have an excellent defense in you, youry, and then riposte um, a fumble, fumbles.

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When you roll a one, okay, uh, your weapon may break or it is lost, parried out of your hand and falling down the well I stabbed it into myself yeah, uh, and when you're defending, if you roll a one, you take double damage and your armor is reduced.

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If you got no armor, I guess you got nothing to lose, right?

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That's true, alright cool, and so that is pretty much how that works.

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There is reactions and all that that I have here for like how something may react to you all if you don't know if it's good or bad is that what we have here?

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reaction like kill, angered and different almost yeah, yeah.

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So that's how like it may respond after like on a result of those dice rolls that's how we responded.

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we were trying to discuss that, no no, no, no.

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That's all for me.

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The morale is like, for these things, if they flee or run away when you're fighting them or interacting them, right, and then resting is you know how they heal as well as how, how is you heal?

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So you're just catching your breath Like, oh, I got a bandage myself.

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You roll one D four and you get that many hit points back when you got an infection.

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It's not good, I die in one night.

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Yep, uh, it's not good for you, man.

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Anyways, um, my dog is tangled up on her.

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Uh leash here.

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Um, do you guys have any other questions before we start?

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I don't think so, but I guess I'm going to try to play true to my character and not to who I am.

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That's great, you know, because that's you know.

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Here's the number one rule.

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Just saying who are the four of you, your other two backup guys.

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My backup.

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Oh yeah, my backup is Torn the heretical priest Nice yeah.

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Yep, my backup is Torn the heretical priest, Nice yeah.

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Read your little.

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Who are you thing For?

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that guy.

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He comes from the temple ruins of the valley Of the unfortunate undead, haunted by Two headed basilisks Of the one true faith.

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You can be found Raving in ruins, Traipsing endlessly Vindictive and endlessly aggravated, a rotting face wearing mask.

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Oh, yeah, got to cover that up.

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Best friend is a skull.

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I carry it with me too, and I tell it everything.

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I trust no one more.

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Then I have a shepherd's crook for a weapon and some, some cool equipment, including my skull, which is a skull, a trusted friend.

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That's funny, that's great.

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Um yeah, and then and I, I'm here, haru L also has the Amla over the you yeah, raised in the calm isolation in the Sarkesh dark, born of the mushroom Raised in the glade washed, watched by the eye of the moon in the calm isolation of the Sarkesh dark, born of the mushroom Raised in the glade, washed by the eye of the moon in the silverback pool.

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That seems like practical knowledge, I should know.

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Loud mouth and ruthless Hands caked with sores Laughs hysterically at your own jokes, which you then explain in detail.

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Burn or be burned is the fate you accept.

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That's awesome.

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So here's the background.

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Right, we all know that that shifting alien foreign object embedded in Vatan's chest is some kind of threat.

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Last encounter, wherever it was, here across this ravaged world, something orcish goblinoid swung its maul and landed a should have been lethal strike into vatan.

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But as this creature was slain, its spinal cord snapped and with urgency, von repeatedly piercing its chest over and over with a sword baton, it was brought to your attention by one of your companions that the thing in your chest, the head of this mall, was shifting like puzzle pieces, yes, twisting and aligning itself with runes.

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It has stopped recently, and with some divining of your companion, who's a heretical priest, so who knows if you can even trust what he's saying.

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And my left upper rib.

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Yes, he has informed you that there is a tomb nearby that possesses riches and wealth, and it is known as devil's tomb, not the devil, for there is not a satan in this world, just like there is not what is known as like a god or messiah.

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There's only one god, and that is the apocalypse, and it is arriving any day.

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Now.

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You haven't seen the sun, and god knows who.

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Long, how long, and every day the two-headed basilis just utters prophecy of the end of the world, and every day another prophecy comes true, pretty much either making the fanatically faithful more confirmed and what they believe, and those who are simply just resigned to making whatever existence they can on this plane the best they can before the apocalypse arrives all.

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All right, can we go back to the game?

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They're talking politics.

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The four of you, for some reason or another, are aligned.

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Through your circumstances, you have come to put faith and trust in one another, more so than the other ragged strangers of this land.

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And it is with the words of your heretical priest companion, confirmed by the talking horse of Vons with its intellect and recalling books it has read, that you best understand that Devil's Tomb, probably at its core, possesses answers to what this device is and how to get it out of your chest without awakening whatever the puzzle seals away.

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Um, this abandoned hellhole, rumored to actually be a pit to the hells, uh, is deep in the graventosk forest and it is in there where you will begin.

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Uh, it has been outlined to you that there is an empty sarcophagus here in this grave.

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Uh, graventosk is like, literally, just imagine, like, uh, honestly, like the, the graves of normandy right, just endlessly going into the trees and imagine that you know more.

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You know nordic and viking medieval, right, not as well aligned like graves of heads to headstones kind of thing like just headstones spanning millennia, like they they've.

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They were once just piles of stones, and then they became this, and then they became that, and now, like sometimes they're just mounds of dirt with the shovel.

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Because what's the point?

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No one's going to remember you anyways.

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And so with that, there's a certain sarcophagus here that your priest tells you.

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Descending down the stairs there is what is known as a pit to hell.

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It is a dungeon, and it is a dungeon and it is layered, confusing, and surely those who have sought the treasure and riches hidden beneath have been laid away in a stray, likely driven mad by the groaning, gurgling pit and whatever echoes up from the heart of the earth.

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But I do believe from the heart of the earth, but I do believe that deep in here we could find, at the altar of the drowned, answers to this shifting device and quite a sum of silver and gold and anything else that the dead have left.

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Your heretical priest.

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You guys don't know him as a heretic.

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The followers of the basilisk Call him a heretic Because he speaks against the end of the world.

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He speaks for hope.

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Perhaps a different prophecy.

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He's also greedy as hell, yeah because he has somewhere to spend it.

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Exactly, he's a gambler.

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Isn't he the?

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gambler of the group.

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Yvonne's the gambler of the group.

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I wish for money if you had to have a future.

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You know Exactly.

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He's a gambler, isn't he the gambler of the group?

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Yvonne's the gambler of the group.

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I wish for money if you had to have a future.

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You know, with all of this, you guys find the sarcophagus and, with a combined strength check, both of you roll a d20.

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And use your strength modifier to add to it.

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The difficulty of this is low because I'm going to say that you're working together, so the difficulty rating is a six.

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It's incredibly simple.

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Only a fool would fail.

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I got a three Fifteen.

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There we go.

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Vaughn, he needs to get this shit out of his chest.

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Vaughn, it is a sickening feeling in your gullet, as you know, with the disappointed of the horse that you call a friend.

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It's clearly embarrassed by your effort.

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But what really makes that sour pit in your stomach is the cackling whine of a blade glimmering in this dark starlight.

00:19:30.335 --> 00:19:39.615
You know your sword is going to rip you apart for failing to be able to push this measly, dilapidated stone sarcophagus open.

00:19:39.615 --> 00:19:48.575
And as you struggle and fawner while Vatan basically single-handedly unseals the sarcophagus, you hear the winnowing sound of the sword.

00:19:48.575 --> 00:19:51.829
It's you, you pathetic.

00:19:53.121 --> 00:19:58.512
What ancestor messed up along the way to birth a Cretan like you.

00:19:58.512 --> 00:20:17.529
It is hushed and whispered like the ringing of a sword, but you know exactly what it's saying, vatan, you don't know if this sword talks, but certainly your companion, vaan, always has a sweating brow of grief whenever he fails and swears.

00:20:17.529 --> 00:20:18.692
This blade mocks him.

00:20:18.692 --> 00:20:40.194
As you open the sarcophagus, it is true to your heretical priest, your friend, saying there in front of you can see descending, oh, maybe 20 feet down into the darkness, before it is beyond the sight of twilight.

00:20:40.194 --> 00:20:46.665
Light is a staircase old and there's a reeking stench of sulfur.

00:20:48.549 --> 00:20:48.990
I farted.

00:20:49.613 --> 00:20:52.539
Nice Vatan's mushroom diet.

00:20:52.539 --> 00:20:58.351
All right, with that you guys can descend.

00:20:58.351 --> 00:21:00.767
What are your backup characters' names?

00:21:00.767 --> 00:21:03.104
Again, the heretical priest is who?

00:21:03.104 --> 00:21:05.852
Torn Torn and Heru?

00:21:05.852 --> 00:21:08.228
Heru is also a mushroom guy.

00:21:08.779 --> 00:21:10.787
Yeah, we're both two mushroom guys.

00:21:10.826 --> 00:21:11.869
You guys travel in pairs.

00:21:11.869 --> 00:21:14.426
I think it should be his cousin, yeah.

00:21:14.882 --> 00:21:16.287
This is my trip, master.

00:21:16.539 --> 00:21:27.631
Your cousin Heru and the heretical priest Torn Torn informs you, it's best that someone stay with the horse in our supplies.

00:21:27.631 --> 00:21:30.048
The horse, of course, cannot fit down these stairs.

00:21:30.048 --> 00:21:34.887
If you don't return in an hour we will come and search.

00:21:34.887 --> 00:21:37.147
But the first sign of death.

00:21:37.147 --> 00:21:38.265
You know what we must do.

00:21:38.265 --> 00:21:44.490
And your cousin Heyru says yeah, so I'll stay here with him.

00:21:44.490 --> 00:21:48.230
And you know, good luck, cousin.

00:21:48.230 --> 00:21:54.993
He gives you a good slap on the back, the two of you.

00:21:55.299 --> 00:21:55.800
Can I urge?

00:21:55.840 --> 00:21:55.961
him.

00:21:55.961 --> 00:21:58.087
Otherwise you can try.

00:21:58.087 --> 00:21:59.731
You can certainly try.

00:21:59.731 --> 00:22:02.182
Give me a presence check.

00:22:02.182 --> 00:22:10.733
I will say your cousin seems like he feels it is probably best to wait to see you Cousin.

00:22:10.733 --> 00:22:12.036
Hey, Rue, Do you survive?

00:22:12.036 --> 00:22:17.613
The difficulty for this, we'll say, is moderately difficult.

00:22:17.613 --> 00:22:20.587
So give me a presence check.

00:22:20.587 --> 00:22:21.784
You got to beat a 12.

00:22:22.286 --> 00:22:22.807
With a 20.

00:22:23.240 --> 00:22:25.710
Roll a d20 and add your presence modifier to it.

00:22:27.506 --> 00:22:27.968
Two, and what's your?

00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:29.586
modifier Not 10.

00:22:29.586 --> 00:22:30.461
Zero.

00:22:30.461 --> 00:22:33.707
Okay, what do you say to your cousin Heru?

00:22:34.701 --> 00:22:35.945
I don't think it's a good idea.

00:22:35.945 --> 00:22:38.964
Alone in the grave of eternity.

00:22:40.260 --> 00:22:41.799
You will not be going alone.

00:22:41.799 --> 00:22:46.019
You'll be going with Vaan, don't worry, cousin.

00:22:46.019 --> 00:22:47.445
No, I'm talking about you, andrew.

00:22:47.445 --> 00:22:50.431
No, I'll be here with Torn and the horse that talks.

00:22:51.876 --> 00:22:53.481
Fine, fine, fine, you see already.

00:22:53.521 --> 00:22:59.186
The horse has essentially set up your cousin's tent like, just with its teeth and hooves.

00:22:59.186 --> 00:23:01.308
This thing is clearly capable.

00:23:01.308 --> 00:23:02.704
It's easily the smartest.

00:23:02.704 --> 00:23:03.728
Member of the group probably.

00:23:10.720 --> 00:23:10.859
Yeah.

00:23:10.859 --> 00:23:12.018
So you just lost your horse in one foul swoop.

00:23:12.018 --> 00:23:12.328
There you go um.

00:23:12.328 --> 00:23:13.387
Anyways, you two, you know it's up to you.

00:23:13.387 --> 00:23:18.731
You know, if you guys don't return after an hour or if you don't give some kind of communication of like coming back to the stairs and be like, hey, we're okay, but we're going deeper, they'll.

00:23:18.731 --> 00:23:21.826
They'll probably come looking for you, but they're not going to come to your rescue, right they're.

00:23:21.826 --> 00:23:26.394
They're just going to first sign of blood and ichor, they're probably leaving.

00:23:26.640 --> 00:23:27.684
They'll be like well, we tried.

00:23:28.319 --> 00:23:32.224
At least that thing is stuck down there and we don't have to worry about the puzzle piece anymore.

00:23:32.244 --> 00:23:36.032
All right.

00:23:36.881 --> 00:23:38.988
If there is no turn order here, it's really up to you guys.

00:23:38.988 --> 00:23:45.229
First you can discuss between yourselves what you want to do, but you know, down the stairs you must descend.

00:23:45.308 --> 00:23:45.650
Hold on.

00:23:45.650 --> 00:23:46.561
Well, let's see what we got.

00:23:46.561 --> 00:23:48.089
What do you got Things that we got?

00:23:48.089 --> 00:23:49.123
Just so we know.

00:23:49.123 --> 00:23:52.632
I've got ten nails, throw one down, no.

00:23:53.800 --> 00:23:58.469
Oh, wait, wait, Give me those D6 back, because I might have to roll those against you.

00:24:01.101 --> 00:24:01.824
They also sound good.

00:24:01.824 --> 00:24:02.681
They sound like the nails.

00:24:02.681 --> 00:24:05.105
The teen metal dice I've got a hammer.

00:24:05.125 --> 00:24:05.847
I've got a drill.

00:24:05.847 --> 00:24:06.950
I come in handy.

00:24:06.950 --> 00:24:07.932
I've got a sharp needle.

00:24:09.986 --> 00:24:13.097
Okay, and my talking sword.

00:24:13.097 --> 00:24:13.761
Give me that navy blue.

00:24:13.761 --> 00:24:15.267
I've got a silver crucifix and a tent.

00:24:15.267 --> 00:24:15.588
Thank you.

00:24:15.588 --> 00:24:20.409
It's dark so we have nothing to illuminate the stairs.

00:24:21.540 --> 00:24:25.511
I would say you guys grab a torch from your cousin or something.

00:24:25.511 --> 00:24:28.088
Torches stay lit for about an hour before they burn out.

00:24:28.340 --> 00:24:29.384
Oh, does he have a torch.

00:24:29.786 --> 00:24:31.765
We'll just say he does, we're just making up our.

00:24:31.785 --> 00:24:35.471
I'll say this Each of you guys, all of you, have at least one torch.

00:24:35.593 --> 00:24:37.500
Okay, great, we've got a torch, some things with us All, right Okay.

00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:41.006
All right, let's light our torch, are you?

00:24:41.026 --> 00:24:41.507
light yours?

00:24:41.507 --> 00:24:43.891
Yeah, you probably only want one lit.

00:24:43.891 --> 00:24:45.213
Might be a long time.

00:24:45.213 --> 00:24:57.451
Yeah, you scrape some of that shiny stone against another and it sparks light onto the fetid animal fat soaked into the rags.

00:24:57.471 --> 00:24:59.294
Okay all right.

00:24:59.294 --> 00:25:01.125
So we've got to decide who goes first here.

00:25:01.125 --> 00:25:01.800
Huh Down this chasm.

00:25:01.800 --> 00:25:02.242
You've got the torch.

00:25:02.262 --> 00:25:03.768
You should go first All right, let's go, I'll go Down this chasm.

00:25:03.768 --> 00:25:04.630
You've got the torch, you should go first.

00:25:05.673 --> 00:25:06.296
All right, let's go.

00:25:06.296 --> 00:25:06.696
I'll go.

00:25:06.696 --> 00:25:08.944
Okay, all right, I've got the least hit points.

00:25:08.944 --> 00:25:09.647
Let's do it.

00:25:09.940 --> 00:25:11.263
You also have no armor.

00:25:11.263 --> 00:25:11.724
He does.

00:25:11.724 --> 00:25:14.511
I'm like, hey, all right yeah.

00:25:15.163 --> 00:25:25.570
As you are going down the stairs, you see that there is viney roots and a slight trickle of water running off of them.

00:25:25.570 --> 00:25:34.589
Uh, down the stairs they're rather slick and well hewn, even if they were made over a thousand years ago.

00:25:34.589 --> 00:25:53.788
It's not too far down their descent before you see that they veer with a right angle to the left, and from the left there is a very faint, faint wicking of light just licking the front of those stairs.

00:25:53.788 --> 00:26:02.351
So wherever they lead to, there is something glowing or a light source Not of the torch.

00:26:03.896 --> 00:26:04.539
Not of your torch.

00:26:04.539 --> 00:26:05.122
You can see ahead of you.

00:26:05.163 --> 00:26:08.015
Where it's darkness, there's a second light, not of your torch Like you can see, like ahead of you, like where it's darkness.

00:26:08.035 --> 00:26:08.517
There's a second light.

00:26:08.517 --> 00:26:09.119
There is no right.

00:26:09.119 --> 00:26:10.525
It's just like the stairs go to the left.

00:26:10.525 --> 00:26:11.067
Oh, we just go.

00:26:11.140 --> 00:26:13.048
You just know something's down there with a fire.

00:26:13.048 --> 00:26:15.980
Give me both of you All right.

00:26:15.980 --> 00:26:22.028
So I'm prompting you right now, but this is an example of where you could ask for something you want to do.

00:26:22.028 --> 00:26:22.851
But I'm prompting you.

00:26:22.851 --> 00:26:25.374
Go ahead and give me a presence check.

00:26:25.374 --> 00:26:26.323
This is your.

00:26:26.323 --> 00:26:33.265
This is checking to see if there's anything else you hear, anything else you notice other than what is obviously here.

00:26:33.265 --> 00:26:36.566
So both of you would roll a d20 and add your presence modifier to it.

00:26:39.712 --> 00:26:40.545
Got a 12.

00:26:40.929 --> 00:26:42.823
Nice, 16 total.

00:26:43.244 --> 00:26:43.968
Both of you do great.

00:26:43.968 --> 00:26:45.645
Those are excellent rules.

00:26:45.645 --> 00:27:05.571
It is not just the light you notice flickering down to the left, but there is a soft whisper echoing off the walls, bouncing off the stairs, and it is the whisper of can speak to himself.

00:27:05.571 --> 00:27:19.667
Can't make out what it is, other than that there's still about consonants, but it is down there and it is coming from you say that, and you your your cousin.

00:27:19.667 --> 00:27:23.574
You see, he's like oh worry, I'm covering up now.

00:27:23.574 --> 00:27:29.672
And you hear the, and you see the sarcophagus lid close behind you.

00:27:32.163 --> 00:27:33.709
I mean you could probably pound on it.

00:27:34.201 --> 00:27:35.405
He rolled really well right there.

00:27:35.405 --> 00:27:37.182
Anyways, it's a strong mother.

00:27:38.361 --> 00:27:46.047
There is what sounds like someone around the corner, so you guys know someone's there, that's what your knowledge tells you.

00:27:46.047 --> 00:27:49.006
All right, but it doesn't sound like multiple people.

00:27:49.180 --> 00:27:54.070
It sounds like a single voice, Obviously malicious, because you know we're in a tomb.

00:27:56.540 --> 00:28:01.249
But they could be hiding out from all this badness, really.

00:28:01.890 --> 00:28:02.131
Yeah.

00:28:02.612 --> 00:28:03.353
They sound nice?

00:28:03.353 --> 00:28:05.142
No, they sound.

00:28:05.482 --> 00:28:07.642
I'm moving your mic to you because I can't hear you're turning towards him.

00:28:07.642 --> 00:28:07.982
They sound.

00:28:08.023 --> 00:28:08.806
They sound pleasant.

00:28:08.806 --> 00:28:12.318
Um, but uh, all I could go first.

00:28:12.318 --> 00:28:17.631
I've got the armor and I've got I've got a tiny, tiny, tiny sword can we play?

00:28:17.691 --> 00:28:18.972
I've got some yummy soup.

00:28:18.972 --> 00:28:23.067
Makes him vomit.

00:28:23.067 --> 00:28:25.510
Okay, it's not gonna kill him.

00:28:25.510 --> 00:28:38.653
But all right, you know it'll give us some time I mean it would be like let's, let's like offer, see if he's cool you know, offer him the soup I mean as yeah it was like hey, I've got some, I've got some warm soup.

00:28:38.653 --> 00:28:39.501
All right that.

00:28:39.501 --> 00:28:40.523
I warmed with my torch.

00:28:40.663 --> 00:28:43.971
Just minutes before all right, I love it.

00:28:43.971 --> 00:28:46.440
Give him the soup, I like it uh, so who's going?

00:28:46.579 --> 00:28:46.840
first.

00:28:46.840 --> 00:28:48.023
You're gonna go first with the soup.

00:28:48.023 --> 00:28:49.567
I'm I'm gonna well hold on.

00:28:49.567 --> 00:28:55.548
We're gonna step one, keep our distance for like and just be like a little bit of hey.

00:28:55.548 --> 00:28:56.692
Hey, there are you.

00:28:56.692 --> 00:28:58.040
Okay, you know this is.

00:28:58.080 --> 00:28:58.863
This is a good idea.

00:28:58.863 --> 00:29:00.606
I will say so in this scenario.

00:29:00.606 --> 00:29:03.240
Are you trying to be quiet, to not startle whoever it is?

00:29:03.381 --> 00:29:10.314
yeah, we're gonna like going to like acknowledge our presence, but keep our distance All right, good, go ahead.

00:29:11.201 --> 00:29:11.965
So who's going first?

00:29:11.965 --> 00:29:13.766
I have no armor.

00:29:14.881 --> 00:29:15.845
I went down the stairs first.

00:29:16.324 --> 00:29:17.555
I feel like you should go first.

00:29:17.555 --> 00:29:18.140
I'll go first.

00:29:18.140 --> 00:29:19.183
All right, Vaughn, you go?

00:29:19.344 --> 00:29:23.223
first around the corner and I'll call to him from a little distance.

00:29:23.223 --> 00:29:24.105
What do you say, vaughn?

00:29:24.105 --> 00:29:30.943
Say, sir, it was a man's voice.

00:29:30.943 --> 00:29:34.286
Yeah, yeah, I go with pleasantries.

00:29:34.286 --> 00:29:35.605
I was raised royal.

00:29:35.605 --> 00:29:41.623
I'll address him with the greeting of the day, then I'll ask if he's in need.

00:29:41.623 --> 00:29:43.047
Well, yeah, just say it.

00:29:43.127 --> 00:29:43.628
What do you say?

00:29:43.628 --> 00:29:44.049
That's what I'll say.

00:29:44.049 --> 00:29:44.811
Say, sir, well, yeah, just say it.

00:29:44.811 --> 00:29:45.153
What do you?

00:29:45.153 --> 00:29:45.894
Say that's what I'll say.

00:29:46.035 --> 00:29:46.455
Say sir.

00:29:46.876 --> 00:29:49.525
Oh, okay, all right, cool, sir, and you peer around the corner.

00:29:49.525 --> 00:29:50.428
Right, Sir, are you here?

00:29:50.428 --> 00:30:05.789
As you step around, you see a man tattered with some what looks like wounds naked, some what looks like wounds Naked, nothing in his hands.

00:30:06.009 --> 00:30:06.250
Me too.

00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:19.914
As he moves his fingers across the stone wall, you can see he's standing on hewn stone tiles in a wall that's rather no longer eroded.

00:30:19.914 --> 00:30:28.333
However, the stairs in front of you, you can can see, have sheared off into that.

00:30:28.333 --> 00:30:31.584
They can like he can't get up the stairs.

00:30:31.584 --> 00:30:43.403
Uh, he would need someone with a rope of some kind to drop it down and pull him up, because the steer stairs into the room have essentially like crumbled away and it's just like a flat stone face.

00:30:43.403 --> 00:30:49.105
So you all stand essentially like ten feet up from the floor of the room where he's at.

00:30:49.105 --> 00:31:20.607
He, you can see, is just muttering to himself and there is this faint dustiness in this room and you hear a and, as that happens, you see a mushroom, a spore, and, as that happens, you see a mushroom a spore exhausting itself and releasing spores into the room around him and he turns, you can see fungus growth off of one side of his face.

00:31:21.244 --> 00:31:34.345
An actual head of a mushroom coming out of one eye socket and as he turns to look at you, we'll see how he reacts initially well, first of all, let's back up, because the spores are freaking in his room.

00:31:35.253 --> 00:31:35.859
You like spores?

00:31:36.123 --> 00:31:39.025
this is all kind of happening simultaneously.

00:31:39.025 --> 00:31:55.271
So we got a seven here and you see, he kind of looks and there's like the naked madness of someone stuck down here for who knows how long, the small fire in the room that he has to keep himself warm or cook something on.

00:31:55.271 --> 00:32:05.934
And as he looks at you both, he just turns back to the wall and keeps muttering to himself, indifferent of your address to him.

00:32:10.621 --> 00:32:13.548
So, what do you want to do?

00:32:13.548 --> 00:32:14.431
Offer food?

00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:19.050
We haven't gone down the slippery steps yet you haven't gone down yet, we're not stuck yet.

00:32:19.070 --> 00:32:19.392
Oh wait, wait.

00:32:19.392 --> 00:32:20.726
So I don't understand that.

00:32:20.726 --> 00:32:22.045
So he's down the steps.

00:32:22.065 --> 00:32:30.920
Think about it like this you take a left at the stairs, right, yeah, and you can see where those stairs lead, they turn into a slick ramp that you can't get back up.

00:32:30.920 --> 00:32:40.891
But they've eroded away from something and now, once you hop off them, you're going to be stuck in the room and you'll have to wait for one of your companions to come and toss you a rope.

00:32:41.480 --> 00:32:42.884
Can we see further on?

00:32:42.884 --> 00:32:44.568
Does the room continue?

00:32:44.568 --> 00:32:45.731
That's a good question.

00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:51.906
I will say, from the angle you're at, you can't see even the entire room, just because you're kind of looking down a hole.

00:32:51.980 --> 00:32:54.561
What's his physical state Naked?

00:32:55.064 --> 00:32:56.407
infected with spores.

00:32:56.407 --> 00:33:04.346
Scrawny, very mad, no weapon in hands.

00:33:04.346 --> 00:33:07.250
He's naked, so it doesn't look like he's got a dagger hitting him.

00:33:08.421 --> 00:33:15.291
I think we need to try to change his state, break his focus from that wall a little bit, if we can.

00:33:15.291 --> 00:33:16.342
How far?

00:33:16.362 --> 00:33:18.207
does this drop Like a 12 foot drop?

00:33:18.848 --> 00:33:22.299
If you squatted on the stairs and hopped down.

00:33:22.500 --> 00:33:23.666
It'd be like a solid 10 foot, drop 10 foot.

00:33:23.666 --> 00:33:25.154
Yeah, I'm not going to make you squatted on the stairs and hopped down.

00:33:25.154 --> 00:33:26.039
It'd be like a solid 10-foot, drop 10-foot.

00:33:26.039 --> 00:33:30.006
Yeah, I'm not going to make you roll to kill yourself or anything on it.

00:33:30.006 --> 00:33:33.766
It's just one of those things of you know, when you hop down it's not going to be easy.

00:33:33.766 --> 00:33:41.281
You could boost your friend out and then your friend could probably pull you back up but it's just going to take time to get back out.

00:33:41.501 --> 00:33:42.785
This guy has no friend.

00:33:42.785 --> 00:33:43.748
He's stuck down here.

00:33:43.748 --> 00:33:45.732
Yeah, I think, go ahead.

00:33:48.060 --> 00:33:49.005
These spores are not.

00:33:49.005 --> 00:33:51.166
My people do not have these things in our lives.

00:33:51.166 --> 00:33:51.828
We are clean.

00:33:51.828 --> 00:33:55.568
I think you should hop down there.

00:33:55.568 --> 00:33:58.746
You think I should hop down there.

00:33:58.746 --> 00:33:59.568
You should hop down there.

00:33:59.568 --> 00:34:02.930
These spores you've built a tolerance over the years to these things.

00:34:02.930 --> 00:34:06.342
You know how your body reacts to these things.

00:34:06.342 --> 00:34:11.913
I eat them, not breathe them, and but I I have a way to get you out.

00:34:11.913 --> 00:34:15.224
If you need it, I have the tools for escape.

00:34:15.806 --> 00:34:21.302
So okay, well, all right I mean I feel like we should try to reason this guy before jumping in the bear.

00:34:21.322 --> 00:34:31.168
I will say this, you do know, time is of the essence, because the thing, embedded in your chest starts shifting a little.

00:34:31.168 --> 00:34:33.766
So you have to make decisions.

00:34:34.782 --> 00:34:35.726
Let's throw him a bowl of soup.

00:34:35.726 --> 00:34:38.065
I'm serious, throw him the bowl of soup.

00:34:38.085 --> 00:34:39.268
Do you have two soups?

00:34:39.268 --> 00:34:39.730
I've got four.

00:34:39.730 --> 00:34:41.039
Do you have a different soup option?

00:34:41.481 --> 00:34:42.365
I've got spider out.

00:34:42.365 --> 00:34:43.101
This is for me.

00:34:43.101 --> 00:34:45.266
That makes me climb on walls for 30 seconds.

00:34:45.266 --> 00:34:48.755
I could jump down there and then climb back up.

00:34:48.876 --> 00:34:57.523
I think you should go engage him and talk to him, and if you can't get out, yeah, use your soup he probably can't get back up offer him the soup.

00:34:57.523 --> 00:34:59.807
Yeah, in the time he's speaking to you.

00:34:59.807 --> 00:35:08.621
So diplomacy, so give him the soup that he's gonna throw up and if he goes bad, if he turns into a bad guy, he's going to start yakking and you can eat your soup and get out.

00:35:09.184 --> 00:35:12.541
Yeah, yeah, I can eat my spider owl soup while he eats the southern frog stew.

00:35:12.541 --> 00:35:13.646
So what's the plan?

00:35:15.023 --> 00:35:17.686
And because of your tolerance, those spores will not affect you.

00:35:17.686 --> 00:35:19.786
You can get out, you'll be of right, sound mind.

00:35:20.739 --> 00:35:21.302
I'm going to go down.

00:35:21.702 --> 00:35:23.224
I'm going to slip or slide down.

00:35:23.666 --> 00:35:28.014
I've got only 30 seconds of wall climbing.

00:35:28.940 --> 00:35:31.228
You haven't drank this yet, right, you haven't drank this yet.

00:35:31.228 --> 00:35:33.282
No, I'm not drinking it, and if he's.

00:35:35.804 --> 00:35:41.021
Oh, I'm going to pretend to drink it with him, but I'm drinking spider soup, he's drinking no.

00:35:41.543 --> 00:35:45.068
Talk to him and if you trust him, I don't think you can trust me.

00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:46.344
He has a mushroom coming out of his eye.

00:35:46.500 --> 00:35:47.545
No, you both drink.

00:35:47.545 --> 00:35:49.748
No, we need his information, we need to know.

00:35:49.748 --> 00:35:51.025
We have to get this out of your chest.

00:35:51.981 --> 00:35:52.804
Get this off your chest man.

00:35:52.844 --> 00:35:54.509
No, no no, engage him.

00:35:54.509 --> 00:36:06.744
If you trust him, you both drink the spider soup and you get him out the top and we'll talk and we'll bring him up.

00:36:06.784 --> 00:36:08.833
If you don't trust him, give him the bad soup, like hey man, have you ever seen a talking horse?

00:36:08.833 --> 00:36:09.617
And you get out of there.

00:36:09.617 --> 00:36:09.878
You want him.

00:36:09.878 --> 00:36:11.682
All right, yeah, all right, all right.

00:36:11.682 --> 00:36:12.684
I mean, okay, let's.

00:36:12.684 --> 00:36:12.925
So.

00:36:12.925 --> 00:36:21.014
Plan is we're gonna go down, I'm gonna slippery slide down we, and then I'll say this do the thing, rather the same.

00:36:21.054 --> 00:36:25.802
What the plan is, start the plan oh, okay there you go, great, I Great, I slide down, you slide down.

00:36:25.802 --> 00:36:33.789
It's a little scramble but, you know, with help either from a potion or a companion, you can get back up in about a minute.

00:36:33.789 --> 00:36:46.163
And as you feel your feet hit the cold stone floor, there are some vines coming out of where the stairs used to be and you see the vines grow across the floor now, uh, this room.

00:36:46.163 --> 00:36:46.925
They're moving actively.

00:36:46.925 --> 00:36:48.987
No, no, no, no, they just have grown.

00:36:49.389 --> 00:37:06.873
Um, you see, the room is about uh, 30 feet by 25 feet, okay, and to your right, uh middle on the wall, are another set of stairs descending, and in front of you, straight across, is a door that is closed.

00:37:06.873 --> 00:37:22.628
Um, the mad man here turns to you as you get on the ground, you hear no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, choir no one else is supposed to come, I'm supposed supposed to.

00:37:22.668 --> 00:37:25.012
You have to turn around, you have to go back.

00:37:25.012 --> 00:37:27.454
You have to go back the choir.

00:37:27.454 --> 00:37:56.188
And it's at this point, coming from the stairs where the vines grow down, you hear the faintest, so scary, just a soft sound of the echo of a note from a choir um kind of like what's happening right now yeah, vaguely um, and what do you do?

00:37:56.188 --> 00:37:56.931
What do you do?

00:37:56.931 --> 00:38:02.288
You can see he's, his hands are not defensive, but yeah ushering you to go away.

00:38:03.230 --> 00:38:04.693
I think I'm going to talk.

00:38:04.693 --> 00:38:10.458
I say we're here to help.

00:38:10.458 --> 00:38:13.927
What do you need?

00:38:13.927 --> 00:38:15.590
You see, please, please, please, please, please.

00:38:18.063 --> 00:38:19.840
I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying.

00:38:19.840 --> 00:38:21.778
What are you trying?

00:38:21.778 --> 00:38:31.106
He's not talking to you and he, you see, now that the fire Something smoking on it.

00:38:31.106 --> 00:38:45.313
It's not a rat, but it is flesh from something larger, something that has been slowly parceled out, and it's now that you see, like, there are signs that people have died in this room.

00:38:45.313 --> 00:38:49.003
Um, maybe days ago, weeks ago.

00:38:49.003 --> 00:38:53.012
This man may be the survivor of whatever attacked him in his group.

00:38:53.012 --> 00:39:11.114
He may be the one that attacked the previous occupants here, but you can see he's twitching and the one eye that he has left you can see turning and furrowing, and as he wrinkles his brow, another mushroom spore spews.

00:39:11.114 --> 00:39:16.186
Give me a presence check here.

00:39:17.469 --> 00:39:20.554
Okay 12.

00:39:20.855 --> 00:39:21.094
12.

00:39:21.094 --> 00:39:26.952
You know that he is infected with spore fever as a mushroom ecologist yourself.

00:39:26.952 --> 00:39:44.028
Spore fever is what occurs when you have some kind of deeply infected wound that these spores land into and, if untreated, begin to fester, but they're symbiotic, they don't want to kill the host.

00:39:44.028 --> 00:39:46.025
Treated, begin to fester, but they they're symbiotic, they don't want to kill the host.

00:39:46.025 --> 00:39:54.193
So he is mad with spore fever, but he's also like not gonna die anytime soon as long as he still has something to eat yeah, um, you're trying to talk to him.

00:39:54.233 --> 00:40:03.646
He doesn't seem like he has the presence of mind to talk okay, I turn this.

00:40:03.686 --> 00:40:04.827
We need to put this guy with misery.

00:40:05.628 --> 00:40:10.885
I have a sword no, don't do it, I'm coming down whoa, we're talking, I have a plan.

00:40:11.447 --> 00:40:17.510
I I yell up and say he's right there.

00:40:17.592 --> 00:40:27.233
He's like literally just six feet above you at the stairs no, okay, fine I turn up quietly say I know what this is.

00:40:27.233 --> 00:40:39.563
This doesn't turn out good for him, you see he's like now, twitching a little bit, he's moving his fingers while your companion Vatan has his back to him, right, but he's slowly approaching.

00:40:40.184 --> 00:40:43.590
Vatan, we kill the mother Heal him.

00:40:43.590 --> 00:40:43.871
How do we?

00:40:44.192 --> 00:40:44.353
heal.

00:40:44.353 --> 00:40:45.434
We have the power.

00:40:45.434 --> 00:40:45.635
Heal him.

00:40:45.635 --> 00:40:46.135
How do we heal?

00:40:46.135 --> 00:40:47.438
We have the power, we do.

00:40:47.438 --> 00:40:49.266
We have the power to heal characters.

00:40:49.266 --> 00:40:52.204
Heal him and get the information we need.

00:40:52.204 --> 00:40:52.405
What?

00:40:52.425 --> 00:40:53.827
do you mean we're giving him some help?

00:40:53.827 --> 00:40:54.228
Heal him.

00:40:54.889 --> 00:40:55.851
Let's do it, let's do it.

00:40:55.871 --> 00:40:58.701
Yeah, yeah, heal him I do it you turn back at him.

00:40:58.701 --> 00:41:00.461
As you see, his hands are just like they're.

00:41:00.461 --> 00:41:07.927
They're cranking sinewy muscles tightening, veins explode as he's getting ready to essentially lunge out at you.

00:41:08.146 --> 00:41:13.690
And I jump down, no, no, and I jump down and I draw my short sword at the same time.

00:41:13.690 --> 00:41:16.032
So now I'm saying as he heals him.

00:41:16.713 --> 00:41:17.313
I'm coming in.

00:41:17.313 --> 00:41:18.713
Okay, great, go ahead.

00:41:19.614 --> 00:41:27.099
Roll the use of power 2d6, right, Wait, wait yeah so, on your Look at your cheat sheet.

00:41:27.260 --> 00:41:29.726
Your cheat sheet will tell you what to do when you're using power.

00:41:29.726 --> 00:41:31.922
It's the other sheet I printed out for you.

00:41:31.922 --> 00:41:36.911
Oh yeah, so powers down.

00:41:36.931 --> 00:41:39.297
Make a presence dr12 test.

00:41:39.297 --> 00:41:43.708
Yes, so a 12 set of die yep, oh, no, sorry.

00:41:43.728 --> 00:41:51.876
So you you roll a d20 and add your presence to it oh my god four, and what's your presence?

00:41:55.570 --> 00:41:59.297
the, the adding, yeah, zero so you rolled a four.

00:42:00.739 --> 00:42:01.280
Give me the book.

00:42:01.280 --> 00:42:14.300
So you, you radically, horribly fail, if it's, if you feel, by five or more.

00:42:14.300 --> 00:42:22.099
The the test was a 12 and you rolled a four, which is a failure of, uh, eight.

00:42:22.099 --> 00:42:25.992
So let's roll to see what happens when this occurs.

00:42:25.992 --> 00:42:27.657
Um.

00:42:30.414 --> 00:42:30.835
I got you.

00:42:30.835 --> 00:42:33.510
I'm down here with my sword now, oh sorry.

00:42:33.550 --> 00:42:34.672
Sorry, it's only on um.

00:42:34.672 --> 00:42:37.597
If it's a fumble, so you didn't roll a one, all right, so good stuff.

00:42:37.597 --> 00:42:39.239
Um, so you just.

00:42:39.239 --> 00:42:42.809
If it's a fumble, so you didn't roll a one, all right, so good stuff.

00:42:42.809 --> 00:42:58.594
Um, so you just, uh, lose a d2 hp, so roll d4 and divide the result by two, and then you become dizzy for the next four yep two one right, yep, so you had you lose one hp, so it's down to five and uh, you're dizzy.

00:42:59.076 --> 00:43:08.135
which means if you try to use a power, is she tangled up in you there?

00:43:08.155 --> 00:43:08.297
we go.

00:43:10.985 --> 00:43:14.697
So you're dizzy, which means if you fail a power, check again.

00:43:14.697 --> 00:43:21.416
Like you try to use another power and fail, then it will result in a catastrophe while you're dizzy.

00:43:21.416 --> 00:43:26.556
So if any further use of your powers for the next hour is a very dangerous gamble.

00:43:28.686 --> 00:43:29.750
Well, is it too late?

00:43:29.750 --> 00:43:32.929
Do I got to kill him or do I have time?

00:43:33.130 --> 00:43:33.871
I'm letting you decide.

00:43:33.871 --> 00:43:38.978
You guys are going first, then he's about to go, so I was like, yeah, so I feel I have time to try.

00:43:38.998 --> 00:43:39.722
Yeah, so I feel I have time to try.

00:43:39.722 --> 00:43:42.106
Yeah, you do, before I have to kill him, yep.

00:43:46.411 --> 00:43:46.992
What'd you get?

00:43:46.992 --> 00:43:48.713
What'd you get?

00:43:49.695 --> 00:43:50.896
A five, a five.

00:43:51.998 --> 00:43:52.679
What's your modifier?

00:43:54.900 --> 00:43:56.143
Zero Zero.

00:43:56.143 --> 00:44:04.333
Both of you not being incredibly magically inclined, both fail Roll D4 and divide the result by two.

00:44:04.333 --> 00:44:06.047
It's that four-sided one yep.

00:44:10.257 --> 00:44:10.637
Three.

00:44:11.324 --> 00:44:14.385
So you take it rounds up right.

00:44:14.385 --> 00:44:18.956
So three and four is two damage.

00:44:18.956 --> 00:44:23.456
So you take two damage and you're dizzy for the next hour as well.

00:44:23.456 --> 00:44:26.514
The madman is going now.

00:44:26.514 --> 00:44:32.556
The madman is going to try and eat you, valon, no Vatan.

00:44:32.556 --> 00:44:39.896
So Vatan, roll a d20, and let's see if he lands his attack On you.

00:44:39.896 --> 00:44:43.855
16, alright.

00:44:43.855 --> 00:44:49.231
So a 16 Is against your Toughness, I believe.

00:44:49.231 --> 00:44:52.327
Let's look at Double check on the combat thing here.

00:44:52.327 --> 00:44:53.608
Let me make sure I got this right.

00:44:54.750 --> 00:45:03.938
Um, Was he rolling for the madman or was he rolling for himself?

00:45:03.978 --> 00:45:05.621
No, that was for the madman to attack him.

00:45:05.621 --> 00:45:13.675
That's a bad score this is actually a good check.

00:45:13.675 --> 00:45:15.278
Hey, give me a moment here.

00:45:15.278 --> 00:45:21.630
Let me pause and just look this up, Because I actually, when they're rolling against you, do you guys have an arm like a toughness score for your?

00:45:23.989 --> 00:45:25.541
I mean just our zero.

00:45:25.943 --> 00:45:27.389
Yeah, like I've got a negative one.

00:45:27.851 --> 00:45:28.112
Yeah.

00:45:28.112 --> 00:45:28.492
All right Let me.

00:45:28.492 --> 00:45:29.255
Look at it, you're a pussy.

00:45:29.255 --> 00:45:33.269
I got to pee really fast.

00:45:33.552 --> 00:45:37.391
No worries, I'll look this up and we'll resume after you get back.

00:45:37.391 --> 00:45:40.777
Welcome back from that brief respite, Brian.

00:45:41.585 --> 00:45:42.751
Tell them what happened here.

00:45:42.824 --> 00:45:47.157
You roll for defense as this madman tries to scratch your face.

00:45:47.157 --> 00:45:49.911
And you rolled what did you roll?

00:45:49.911 --> 00:45:50.934
16.

00:45:50.934 --> 00:45:51.476
16.

00:45:51.476 --> 00:46:00.737
Now, when you're rolling defense, you add your agility modifier and you successfully dodge the attack if you roll above a 12.

00:46:00.737 --> 00:46:05.773
Okay, great, so you rolled a 16, but what's your agility modifier Ass?

00:46:06.835 --> 00:46:07.338
Negative 2.

00:46:07.338 --> 00:46:09.630
Okay, so that becomes a 14.

00:46:09.630 --> 00:46:10.251
14, so still good.

00:46:10.331 --> 00:46:11.012
You're still good.

00:46:11.012 --> 00:46:11.914
God bless you.

00:46:11.914 --> 00:46:12.978
Let's go.

00:46:12.978 --> 00:46:15.813
Brian, you should not be in melee rage.

00:46:15.813 --> 00:46:18.610
Yeah, this madman is trying to bite you.

00:46:18.610 --> 00:46:24.534
All righty, let's go ahead and roll a D6, and we'll see who goes first this time.

00:46:27.800 --> 00:46:27.880
One.

00:46:28.442 --> 00:46:29.344
You guys go first now.

00:46:29.344 --> 00:46:33.291
Okay, okay, all right, so it doesn't matter who you guys, either one of you could go first.

00:46:33.605 --> 00:46:36.635
Is this a fight, fight or can we try to heal this guy one more time?

00:46:36.635 --> 00:46:37.967
And I want to hear what he has to say.

00:46:37.967 --> 00:46:40.552
If you fail on the healing, we're still dizzy.

00:46:40.592 --> 00:46:43.077
You're right, good point, good point, all right, thank you.

00:46:43.077 --> 00:46:44.059
Thank you, we should have.

00:46:44.318 --> 00:46:48.813
Okay, so I'm rolling on an attack, right.

00:46:48.965 --> 00:46:51.610
You were rolling a strength so you got to beat a 12 to hit him.

00:46:52.213 --> 00:46:52.974
With a 20.

00:46:52.974 --> 00:46:54.985
Yep, all right.

00:46:54.985 --> 00:46:57.389
And I've got plus one strength, here we go.

00:46:57.389 --> 00:47:02.858
One plus one equals two.

00:47:07.385 --> 00:47:08.786
Well, if you roll a natural one, it's a critical fail.

00:47:08.967 --> 00:47:24.875
You swing your short sword and as you swing it you see this madman, just duck under it and it smashes against the stone wall and cracks in half your short sword is broken.

00:47:24.894 --> 00:47:25.757
Now all I have is my ass.

00:47:25.757 --> 00:47:30.610
All you have is your sword that hates you as he's swinging the short sword and it shatters against the stone.

00:47:30.992 --> 00:47:34.306
You can hear the sword sheathed on your back.

00:47:34.306 --> 00:47:45.934
No, no, now he's going to touch me with his poor failure hands and you're, like this sword's, not excited about it either.

00:47:45.934 --> 00:47:47.615
Here's one last insult.

00:47:47.615 --> 00:47:51.735
Please why couldn't that have been me broken upon the stone?

00:47:51.735 --> 00:47:56.697
Rescue me from this pitiful excuse of an inheritance.

00:47:57.045 --> 00:47:59.762
And I'm like dude, why are you freaking out about your sword?

00:47:59.762 --> 00:48:00.806
All right, what do you want to do?

00:48:00.806 --> 00:48:02.170
You can attack him too.

00:48:02.170 --> 00:48:05.967
Okay, yeah, what do I?

00:48:06.007 --> 00:48:10.117
roll, so you, you roll strength if you're doing melee, so if you're using your sword.

00:48:10.117 --> 00:48:11.967
It's up to you.

00:48:11.967 --> 00:48:14.356
I'm gonna do the sword, all right, actually wait, wait.

00:48:15.246 --> 00:48:16.590
Rustic can as a decent.

00:48:16.590 --> 00:48:17.614
Come up, what's your sword?

00:48:18.737 --> 00:48:19.306
I Didn't.

00:48:19.306 --> 00:48:20.070
So Sword's nothing.

00:48:20.070 --> 00:48:20.793
No, it does say.

00:48:20.793 --> 00:48:21.849
It does say what the damage is.

00:48:21.849 --> 00:48:26.425
Let me go back to the character sheet.

00:48:27.509 --> 00:48:30.409
Oh sword, I see a D6 as well.

00:48:30.409 --> 00:48:33.965
Great, can I do a little double you?

00:48:33.985 --> 00:48:36.956
can do one attack, okay, sword or hook hand.

00:48:39.869 --> 00:48:40.704
It's the same roll for both.

00:48:40.704 --> 00:48:42.592
Yeah, let's do a sword Hook hand because it's fun.

00:48:42.925 --> 00:48:43.708
Alright, cool, great.

00:48:43.708 --> 00:48:46.684
Roll that d20 and add your strength modifier.

00:48:46.764 --> 00:48:47.730
Give him the rusty hook.

00:48:47.769 --> 00:48:48.987
Six, no, no, no.

00:48:48.987 --> 00:48:52.768
The strength modifier D6 is your damage.

00:48:52.768 --> 00:48:57.346
You gotta roll to hit him Twelve.

00:48:57.346 --> 00:49:01.695
Twelve plus your strength mod Nine minus 1.

00:49:01.695 --> 00:49:02.797
11.

00:49:02.797 --> 00:49:07.396
You just barely miss as this madman again, is just nimble.

00:49:07.396 --> 00:49:09.172
He's skinny and wiry.

00:49:09.172 --> 00:49:17.237
You swing that hook at him, he just hooks on his beard and he's away in the wind.

00:49:17.237 --> 00:49:21.456
He is now going to attack you, since you are weaponless.

00:49:21.456 --> 00:49:25.331
So roll a D 20 for me and add your agility modifier to it.

00:49:25.331 --> 00:49:27.797
Von he's attacking.

00:49:27.797 --> 00:49:29.139
Von Go ahead Von.

00:49:30.644 --> 00:49:35.717
I was questioning if I should pull out my sneaky sharp needle or my stupid ass sword.

00:49:36.786 --> 00:49:37.409
It's not your turn.

00:49:37.409 --> 00:49:39.092
Yet you got to roll for him attacking you.

00:49:39.092 --> 00:49:41.731
The madman is trying to bite you.

00:49:41.731 --> 00:49:45.333
He's trying to eat your face Right Because you guys just went, so you gotta do something.

00:49:45.353 --> 00:49:46.927
So now it's his turn in combat to go.

00:49:46.967 --> 00:49:47.710
He's still a 12.

00:49:47.710 --> 00:49:49.788
That's what I'm saying.

00:49:49.788 --> 00:49:51.958
You have to roll for your own defense.

00:49:51.958 --> 00:49:53.126
He's attacking you, oh.

00:49:53.226 --> 00:49:54.811
I see and you want to get above a 12.

00:49:54.811 --> 00:49:56.436
Seven.

00:50:00.226 --> 00:50:01.280
Plus seven plus nothing.

00:50:01.300 --> 00:50:04.748
Eight plus one plus one so a nine I mean sorry, an eight total.

00:50:04.748 --> 00:50:05.612
That's not enough.

00:50:05.612 --> 00:50:13.592
You see him reach out with his nasty, rotten mushroom, soft gooey gums and teeth.

00:50:13.592 --> 00:50:16.889
That's a d2 damage.

00:50:16.889 --> 00:50:18.186
And I rolled a four.

00:50:18.186 --> 00:50:28.635
So you take two piercing as his bite sinks into your shoulder, just going through the leather, and you can feel it pinching on your bone and skin.

00:50:28.635 --> 00:50:30.510
It's wet, warm.

00:50:30.510 --> 00:50:32.831
Oh man, you might be infected.

00:50:32.831 --> 00:50:34.789
Now that's two hit points.

00:50:34.789 --> 00:50:35.490
Two hit points.

00:50:35.490 --> 00:50:35.992
What are you?

00:50:36.012 --> 00:50:37.536
looking at you, got one left.

00:50:37.724 --> 00:50:38.947
You got one hit, point left.

00:50:39.208 --> 00:50:40.913
Yeah, it started at four.

00:50:40.992 --> 00:50:41.976
You don't want to go negative?

00:50:41.976 --> 00:50:45.911
Alright, roll a D6 for me, Vaughn.

00:50:47.025 --> 00:50:48.452
Let's see who starts this next round.

00:50:48.452 --> 00:50:49.990
Yep, alright.

00:50:51.588 --> 00:50:52.496
You want a one through three.

00:50:52.496 --> 00:50:54.925
You want a one through three so you guys can go first.

00:50:54.925 --> 00:50:55.146
Again.

00:50:55.146 --> 00:50:57.188
Six he goes first.

00:50:57.188 --> 00:51:01.182
You see him step back, blood slathered against his teeth.

00:51:01.222 --> 00:51:05.092
He's like no, we had the top, we had the top.

00:51:05.153 --> 00:51:11.728
You guys are one through three, all right, um, and he is going to try and bite you.

00:51:11.728 --> 00:51:15.251
Uh, mr vatan, go ahead, roll another agility.

00:51:15.251 --> 00:51:16.574
Check, a defense check for me.

00:51:16.574 --> 00:51:29.489
So you want to roll that and add your agility to 18 18 nice minus minus 216 that's good you again move definitely out of the way that little bit of armor um all righty.

00:51:29.670 --> 00:51:30.291
Oh awesome.

00:51:30.291 --> 00:51:31.914
Does my armor not count for nothing?

00:51:31.914 --> 00:51:32.474
It?

00:51:33.215 --> 00:51:38.130
does reduce your damage when melee by a d4, so roll a d D4.

00:51:38.130 --> 00:51:40.956
And it might just reduce the damage entirely.

00:51:40.956 --> 00:51:46.454
One Alright it gives you one HP back, alright, we'll take it.

00:51:46.454 --> 00:51:47.608
I forgot about that Good thinking.

00:51:47.608 --> 00:51:57.655
But also keep in mind, your armor makes you slower on these defense checks too, so it's actually a minor like you have to get above a 14 now Instead of a 12.

00:51:57.655 --> 00:52:00.307
So I dodge, you dodge.

00:52:00.307 --> 00:52:01.570
Now it's your guys' turn.

00:52:01.570 --> 00:52:03.952
As he is just tempted to play, I'm going to swing back at him again.

00:52:04.574 --> 00:52:06.315
I just you guys got to hit him, get him.

00:52:06.615 --> 00:52:08.278
Yeah, I got the sword.

00:52:08.278 --> 00:52:10.141
I'm going to do the sword, pull the sword, come on.

00:52:13.630 --> 00:52:14.411
So I do a melee, go for it.

00:52:14.411 --> 00:52:17.516
What is it what?

00:52:17.516 --> 00:52:20.240
No way, you pull out your sword.

00:52:22.824 --> 00:52:22.945
Thank.

00:52:22.945 --> 00:52:25.090
God, you pulled the sword in and lose your rusty hand.

00:52:25.110 --> 00:52:31.355
You see, he just like, literally like water over the top of the blade, just matrix back, flip over it.

00:52:31.355 --> 00:52:37.909
It just, you see it like glisten as it just slides underneath his naked crazy butt, cheeks His flat ass.

00:52:37.909 --> 00:52:38.293
He misses flat ass.

00:52:38.293 --> 00:52:39.664
He lands on the palms of his naked crazy butt cheeks His flat ass.

00:52:39.664 --> 00:52:54.153
He misses flat ass, he lands on the palms of his hands and rolls away and you see the sword just swing again into the stone and just shatter you both, essentially your swords that you had they're both equivalently like daggers, now right.

00:52:54.184 --> 00:52:55.391
They're like improvised daggers.

00:52:55.391 --> 00:52:56.951
They only do a D4 damage.

00:52:57.012 --> 00:53:02.353
Yeah, but you see everybody's like I have to be faster.

00:53:02.353 --> 00:53:07.474
Alright, you are up, vaughn, I did.

00:53:09.047 --> 00:53:10.449
How did I roll the ones Ten?

00:53:14.144 --> 00:53:16.954
Ten plus one your strength and eleven.

00:53:16.954 --> 00:53:20.132
Wait, what are you using?

00:53:20.132 --> 00:53:23.001
My stupid sword Plus your strength and 11.

00:53:23.001 --> 00:53:23.443
Oh, what are you using?

00:53:23.443 --> 00:53:23.844
What are you using?

00:53:26.164 --> 00:53:26.547
My stupid sword.

00:53:26.547 --> 00:53:26.788
What's his?

00:53:26.788 --> 00:53:27.128
Does he have any?

00:53:27.128 --> 00:53:27.170
I?

00:53:27.190 --> 00:53:29.057
think actually my stupid sword has some exactly.

00:53:29.057 --> 00:53:29.760
I think that's how one doesn't it?

00:53:29.760 --> 00:53:31.949
And let's see, he does have a plus.

00:53:31.949 --> 00:53:34.900
He deals d6 plus one damage.

00:53:34.920 --> 00:53:38.597
I Don't know attack defense is down is reduced to 10.

00:53:38.597 --> 00:53:39.625
You defense is reduced to a 10.

00:53:39.625 --> 00:53:45.891
You only need to roll a 10 for your attack to hit You're good, or defense also.

00:53:45.891 --> 00:53:49.614
Defense is that plus you know two because of your armor.

00:53:49.896 --> 00:53:54.534
Okay, well, so I got him, you hit him I got 11.

00:53:54.574 --> 00:53:57.210
Roll your damage A D6 and add one to it.

00:53:57.210 --> 00:54:00.219
Come on Five, Six.

00:54:00.219 --> 00:54:00.800
A D6 and add one to it.

00:54:00.800 --> 00:54:01.945
Come on Five, Five.

00:54:01.945 --> 00:54:05.954
You swing this sword and you hear it.

00:54:05.954 --> 00:54:18.324
Just Please, God, succeed once in your life and as you strike true and kill this madman Vaughn, tell me how this happens, Describe it to the audience.

00:54:18.405 --> 00:54:18.806
How does Vaugh?

00:54:18.847 --> 00:54:34.376
von kill this mad man that shit on his cheek was pissing me off so I hewed it off first from top to bottom so that just clipped that thing off.

00:54:34.376 --> 00:54:40.536
Then we went down through the collarbone into the neck, split them wide open down to the lungs.

00:54:40.824 --> 00:54:58.036
You see it looks like a banana peel right, just like peeled to one side and you hear, with a rattling, gurgling left, like what leaves his lungs going through his infected larynx, the spores, thank you.

00:54:58.036 --> 00:55:00.300
And he just collapses dead, his trial over larynx, just thank you.

00:55:00.300 --> 00:55:03.568
Collapses dead his trial over.

00:55:03.568 --> 00:55:19.992
And as it does, almost in honor of him, you hear down the stairs, down the stairs, this angelic choir which he seemed to be in communion with but also avoiding warning us.

00:55:20.264 --> 00:55:22.813
He was afraid of, yes, telling you to turn back.

00:55:22.813 --> 00:55:27.012
What do you guys want to do?

00:55:27.012 --> 00:55:27.815
You're both injured.

00:55:27.815 --> 00:55:30.911
You can use this time to catch your breath.

00:55:31.313 --> 00:55:31.875
I've got a tent.

00:55:32.436 --> 00:55:32.976
I think we should.

00:55:32.976 --> 00:55:36.893
Well, you don't want to necessarily sleep here, but you want to, for sure, catch your breath right?

00:55:37.025 --> 00:55:38.025
No, let's catch our breath.

00:55:38.184 --> 00:55:39.088
Yeah, let's catch our breath.

00:55:39.088 --> 00:55:40.994
I think we should nail this door shut.

00:55:42.445 --> 00:55:43.092
And take a nap.

00:55:43.092 --> 00:55:43.474
With what?

00:55:43.474 --> 00:55:45.007
Oh, you have nails.

00:55:45.007 --> 00:55:45.668
With my nails.

00:55:46.130 --> 00:55:50.393
And you mean the door across from you, the scary door.

00:55:50.393 --> 00:55:53.827
Well, there's no door to the stairs to the right of the room.

00:55:53.847 --> 00:55:54.789
What else do we see in the room?

00:55:55.150 --> 00:55:55.951
Yeah, you look around around.

00:55:55.951 --> 00:55:56.873
There's a small fire.

00:55:56.873 --> 00:55:59.056
Uh, there are piles of feces.

00:55:59.056 --> 00:56:03.871
There are strewn about scraps of clothing and decayed armor.

00:56:03.871 --> 00:56:14.775
Um, there are some pouches of like possessions, of treasures, like you know, that were personal to someone, but nothing of clear inherent value.

00:56:14.775 --> 00:56:27.266
And then there is to the right side of the room, from where you enter stairs descending to this sound of an angelic choir, and then straight across from you, where you dropped down, is a door that is closed.

00:56:28.088 --> 00:56:29.992
There's two exits out at the bottom of here.

00:56:30.052 --> 00:56:35.032
So you're saying there's a door across from you that is closed, and then there are stairs going down.

00:56:35.072 --> 00:56:40.791
Can we jiggle the handle, not open it, just just quietly, just to click, press, check, walk up to that door.

00:56:40.811 --> 00:56:41.893
Yeah, you go to the door.

00:56:41.893 --> 00:56:43.757
I think we need a rest.

00:56:43.757 --> 00:56:45.059
It's not locked.

00:56:45.059 --> 00:57:01.289
Like you do a press check on the door, there's some give to it, okay, but as you push against it it's like there's clearly a pressure differential, like whatever's on the other side of the door is like a higher pressure that you would have to like, push against and like would like.

00:57:01.289 --> 00:57:05.835
You know you'd feel a blast of air from the other side yeah, okay, not open it.

00:57:05.896 --> 00:57:06.358
Don't open it.

00:57:06.358 --> 00:57:07.344
I'm from royalty.

00:57:08.990 --> 00:57:09.893
I need to take a nap.

00:57:09.893 --> 00:57:13.396
This man was down here for a long time.

00:57:13.396 --> 00:57:18.793
You guys are more than welcome to take a rest to catch your breath.

00:57:18.793 --> 00:57:23.047
Now, in this case from the herb expert, should we heal?

00:57:23.086 --> 00:57:23.831
each other real fast.

00:57:25.347 --> 00:57:26.731
Well, the rest will heal us.

00:57:26.731 --> 00:57:28.155
The rest is healing.

00:57:28.985 --> 00:57:32.715
You have a wound, that could be infected, as do you.

00:57:33.157 --> 00:57:33.538
That's true.

00:57:33.538 --> 00:57:35.570
You got a 2% chance you could die if you sleep.

00:57:35.570 --> 00:57:36.313
You got bit.

00:57:36.313 --> 00:57:38.548
I just what I'm saying is.

00:57:38.548 --> 00:57:44.885
Don't worry too much about the mechanics of the bite and infection right now, but what I'm saying is this guy was down here for a while.

00:57:44.885 --> 00:57:48.556
I think we can spend one time down here.

00:57:48.625 --> 00:57:53.155
You spend an hour to rest, patch your wounds and try to decide what you want to do.

00:57:53.155 --> 00:57:53.797
Catch your breath.

00:57:54.217 --> 00:57:56.733
Yeah, I think we need to catch breath in here.

00:57:57.465 --> 00:57:58.186
Roll a d4.

00:57:58.186 --> 00:57:59.789
That's how many hit points you get back.

00:58:02.693 --> 00:58:03.554
One hey.

00:58:04.394 --> 00:58:05.175
That's better than none.

00:58:05.697 --> 00:58:06.318
Back to the six.

00:58:06.318 --> 00:58:07.780
There we go, fully healed.

00:58:08.400 --> 00:58:11.012
Uno Also, I'm up to three.

00:58:14.045 --> 00:58:16.612
Just pulse check you guys having fun.

00:58:17.014 --> 00:58:19.391
Oh yeah, all right, I'm now in.

00:58:21.505 --> 00:58:21.945
Yeah, I wasn't't.

00:58:21.945 --> 00:58:22.266
And now I am um.

00:58:22.266 --> 00:58:32.487
An hour passes and you hear a a rather grating stony sound and you hear from get your echoing down the stairs.

00:58:32.487 --> 00:58:36.291
Are you all still alive?

00:58:36.291 --> 00:58:38.474
Live, live, Live.

00:58:38.474 --> 00:58:43.780
It's your heretic priest torn yelling down the stairwell.

00:58:43.780 --> 00:58:46.492
I don't think we should yell back, Say fuck you.

00:58:47.072 --> 00:58:50.090
Fuck you, fuck you, get down here.

00:58:51.726 --> 00:58:56.494
Good to know, hard to hear what you're saying, but you sound okay, okay.

00:58:56.494 --> 00:59:01.568
Okay, those bastards, you sound okay, okay, okay, those bastards.

00:59:02.309 --> 00:59:56.844
Now you just know down to the right of where you're resting, these vine-covered stairs, you see a bulbous flower growing along the walls, descending the stairs, and you hear this angelic, wordless song still echoing up from the stairway, the door that is sealed behind you, or wherever you're resting in the room, whatever its orientation is, from you you do hear now, while resting here for an hour, this like harsh blowing of a wind, as if on the other side of this door is a, a desert, you know, or a storm, but it's just the, and every once in a while it's bolts, uh, and hinges are rattling and the handle to the door chain rattling.

00:59:56.844 --> 01:00:02.552
Right, yeah, pat, you should actually just go through and add sound effects post to this, right, Like we did for our D&D short story.

01:00:02.552 --> 01:00:09.237
It sounds like paper shaking against the microphone.

01:00:09.237 --> 01:00:12.871
Anyways, what do you guys want to do?

01:00:12.871 --> 01:00:13.914
Decide what you want to do.

01:00:15.565 --> 01:00:17.954
At least they're still alive up there, those bastards.

01:00:19.405 --> 01:00:21.945
You just think about your horse you do.

01:00:21.945 --> 01:00:41.097
For the last hour your sword has been weeping Like just In pride, in like just like relief of just like you realize, like you've never actually successfully killed something with this sword before, and like this is a first for you, a first for it.

01:00:41.097 --> 01:00:43.661
You realize, you've never actually successfully killed something with this sword before.

01:00:43.661 --> 01:00:45.025
This is a first for you, a first for it.

01:00:45.025 --> 01:00:46.313
It's like literally having?

01:00:46.333 --> 01:00:47.822
Am I turning him around?

01:00:47.822 --> 01:00:48.144
We'll see.

01:00:49.387 --> 01:00:52.215
Like it says, if you fail enough, it will try to kill you.

01:00:52.215 --> 01:00:55.313
It's best to just continue to at least not fail.

01:00:55.855 --> 01:00:56.255
All right.

01:00:56.255 --> 01:01:08.331
I don't think we should split up downstairs or through the door, but I think what if we open the door?

01:01:09.634 --> 01:01:14.387
look down the door, just open, the windy door, just like, and see what we can see like beetlejuice.

01:01:14.688 --> 01:01:15.990
All right, closet you just.

01:01:15.990 --> 01:01:18.155
No, just close it afterwards.

01:01:18.394 --> 01:01:21.039
All right, we open the door and we look down, and what do we see?

01:01:21.405 --> 01:01:34.297
You pull on the door's loop and as you pull, it does have some hinge giveaway towards you, but you realize that's just because of whatever is pushing on the other side and you have to push the door open.

01:01:34.297 --> 01:01:49.981
And so you push against it together and as it unseals, a pushing blast of wind sees by your face and you can feel almost as if sand stinging against your cheeks.

01:01:49.981 --> 01:01:51.949
You have to squint and close your eyes.

01:01:51.949 --> 01:02:02.925
An immediate, uncomfortable, humid heat, heat.

01:02:02.965 --> 01:02:09.186
And as the door opens all the way, uh, once you get past that is myth it just kind of pushes itself with the rest of the air pressure behind it and blasting past you, going up and filling these stairs.

01:02:09.186 --> 01:02:24.000
Behind you, uh, blowing the fire out in the room behind you, you just see a glowing, scintillating like reflecting red water across this pit.

01:02:24.000 --> 01:02:41.436
In front of you, uh, spanning the pit is a very, very narrow, maybe two foot wide stone bridge being slowly eroded by the wind blasting up from the pit, and you hear no demonic cackle.

01:02:41.436 --> 01:02:46.507
All you hear is the wind blasting by your eardrums.

01:02:46.507 --> 01:03:12.990
Um, this is a pit to hell and there's a greenish bronze door and it has chains on it with something written in blood on the other side of the bridge.

01:03:16.065 --> 01:03:19.115
Chains door wind snare bridge pits of hell.

01:03:20.425 --> 01:03:28.110
Nope chains door wind narrow bridge, pit to hell, nope, well, but the problem is we have to go to the devil's tank to fix this, fix this thing.

01:03:28.170 --> 01:03:28.713
That's in you.

01:03:28.713 --> 01:03:30.650
That's true, you know.

01:03:30.831 --> 01:03:39.451
Fuck it, let's go, I'm gonna die anyway do we stand to gain any advantage by going to the sexy?

01:03:39.471 --> 01:03:39.773
voices.

01:03:39.773 --> 01:03:40.085
What's?

01:03:40.106 --> 01:03:40.994
the voices doing.

01:03:42.588 --> 01:03:43.469
Also, do we trust?

01:03:43.469 --> 01:03:46.097
The guy that tried to kill us said don't go.

01:03:46.965 --> 01:03:48.572
And they're calling us against the.

01:03:48.572 --> 01:03:50.750
Are they calling us to get?

01:03:50.809 --> 01:03:52.034
us dashed against the rocks.

01:03:52.545 --> 01:03:56.030
There's no words in the choir, it's just notes.

01:03:56.030 --> 01:04:01.777
Ah, ah, ah, it's just notes.

01:04:01.777 --> 01:04:04.681
You guys can close the door and go check out the stairs.

01:04:05.985 --> 01:04:06.833
You can look at both without.

01:04:06.833 --> 01:04:08.244
Yeah, let's close the door and look down the stairs a little bit.

01:04:09.007 --> 01:04:11.092
I want to go to the voices and we can come back to?

01:04:11.112 --> 01:04:11.914
Is our torch still lit?

01:04:12.815 --> 01:04:16.793
Uh, no, it is burnt out during your rest, so you do have to light your next one.

01:04:16.994 --> 01:04:17.965
Okay, or there's no more glowing light.

01:04:17.965 --> 01:04:18.273
Can we light a new torch?

01:04:18.273 --> 01:04:19.192
Yeah, sure, during your rest, so you do have to light your next one.

01:04:19.192 --> 01:04:19.697
Yeah, there's no more glowing light.

01:04:19.697 --> 01:04:20.284
Can we light a new torch?

01:04:20.606 --> 01:04:27.612
yeah sure if you close this door, yeah, you'll be in darkness yep, yeah, because we can see through there well, is there light coming from the door?

01:04:27.612 --> 01:04:33.576
It's all, there's light coming up from the pit to hell oh, okay, yeah, all right yeah let's close the door.

01:04:33.775 --> 01:04:34.237
Light the torch.

01:04:34.445 --> 01:04:36.068
great, you guys do that, no problem.

01:04:36.068 --> 01:05:00.880
Um, and stepping over the stairs it is at the foot of the stairs you realize these bulbous flowers have angelic faces on them and as the flowers bloom and then conceal themselves again, retreating into their leaves, they echo out this note.

01:05:00.880 --> 01:05:08.833
I need both of you to roll a presence check as the song sinks into your ears.

01:05:09.005 --> 01:05:09.773
That's a 20, right.

01:05:09.893 --> 01:05:14.913
Yep roll a 20 and add your presence modifier 19 plus 0.

01:05:15.144 --> 01:05:15.425
19.

01:05:15.666 --> 01:05:18.028
Nice 5 plus 0.

01:05:18.028 --> 01:05:43.726
Awesome, you say, it just sounds like, but to you Vaughn, with a five you fail and you just hear in your ears, just for unendingly you can realize why this man was bad down here.

01:05:43.726 --> 01:05:45.893
You see, vaughn, just like.

01:05:45.893 --> 01:05:52.831
Vaughn, you're like reaching for the needle to deafen yourself, to stab your eardrums.

01:05:53.405 --> 01:05:54.829
You can see he's struggling.

01:05:54.829 --> 01:06:00.367
Vaughn, while you hear the screaming, you will be.

01:06:00.367 --> 01:06:03.817
You're going to fail, like any time you try to cast a spell Right.

01:06:03.817 --> 01:06:12.389
You don't know how long it's going to go on for, but the screaming is going on All right, that confusion thing.

01:06:12.429 --> 01:06:15.697
I'm going to cast it on him, are you sure, are we?

01:06:15.717 --> 01:06:16.139
still dizzy.

01:06:16.139 --> 01:06:19.327
No, no, you're past the dizziness, honestly.

01:06:19.327 --> 01:06:20.230
Here's my theory.

01:06:20.230 --> 01:06:20.592
I think.

01:06:20.731 --> 01:06:29.099
I think it will just Disorient him away from that screaming you probably don't know what he's going through, I'll say you seem you seem you seem pretty comfortable.

01:06:30.166 --> 01:06:35.594
Like you don't know what he's wincing about, because you feel totally fine, von, is there anything you want to do?

01:06:35.594 --> 01:06:53.014
I Want to go home, but I think Let me say this as well With a 19 presence, you also notice, Vatan, that the spores are floating around from these flowers as well.

01:06:53.014 --> 01:06:56.614
Like they're probably what originally gave this dude spore fever I.

01:06:57.849 --> 01:07:03.141
I Got it Down the stairwell, down the stairwell, down the stairwell.

01:07:03.141 --> 01:07:07.514
How, how, yeah, how can I see like if there are they continuing down the stairs?

01:07:07.514 --> 01:07:07.673
You?

01:07:07.713 --> 01:07:12.373
look down this stairwell looks to be about twice as long, with a mid-level landing in it.

01:07:12.373 --> 01:07:22.527
Uh, from the stairs you descended from the sarcophagus, so it's about probably 40 feet down, um, but at the mid-level landing you can see it veers to the left.

01:07:22.527 --> 01:07:38.195
If you were to go down the stairs, um, and going to the left, um, what you can see from here is not much.

01:07:38.195 --> 01:07:42.641
You just see that it's a landing, um, maybe, maybe with a 19, that's pretty good.

01:07:42.681 --> 01:07:53.849
You see, like a faint glowing light at that landing coming from the left okay, um so he's, he's kind of freaking out a little bit, um it is.

01:07:53.849 --> 01:07:55.434
Can I move him away?

01:07:55.753 --> 01:07:56.717
sure, yeah you can grab him.

01:07:56.737 --> 01:07:59.271
I'm gonna grab you and move you pull you back from the flowers?

01:07:59.291 --> 01:08:04.114
Yeah, I'll do that You're probably having to pick up the torch as well.

01:08:04.114 --> 01:08:06.534
He probably drops it and it clatters on the ground.

01:08:06.534 --> 01:08:12.106
You have to pick it up and kind of shuffle him away while he's through this headache Vaughn.

01:08:12.106 --> 01:08:14.114
Anything you want to do while you're still deciding.

01:08:16.435 --> 01:08:19.359
I'm going to stick one of these flowers with my needle.

01:08:19.359 --> 01:08:21.402
I just want to stick it in there.

01:08:22.326 --> 01:08:23.350
Before he moves you away.

01:08:23.350 --> 01:08:25.689
What's the needle do?

01:08:25.689 --> 01:08:29.164
Again, it's just a sharp needle, that's all it is.

01:08:29.164 --> 01:08:34.831
You poke it, and as you do, you do hear like you poke it and it goes from.

01:08:34.831 --> 01:08:53.113
You poke it and it's like it screams louder, goes from, like it also goes like spores cut out.

01:08:53.113 --> 01:08:59.136
But uh, anyways, I'm glad you guys like that.

01:08:59.136 --> 01:09:03.478
It is only, though, like I'll save you from more screaming.

01:09:03.478 --> 01:09:22.497
It is after a minute that you feel it subside and your hearing returns after like a death swelling and the blood pressure leaving your brain, and you're like, oh okay, like all you hear is the notes of angelic choir.

01:09:22.497 --> 01:09:30.465
Again, you can see how this probably would have been very detrimental in combat if you guys had came over here from the madman, but you're pretty much immune to the effect after a minute of exposure.

01:09:30.465 --> 01:09:34.617
So now you just got to decide going down the stairs or through the door.

01:09:36.106 --> 01:09:36.670
I mean we could do.

01:09:36.670 --> 01:09:46.036
I feel like if we do another presence check, if we get close again, you're immune to the effect of them.

01:09:46.076 --> 01:09:48.078
Now let's go down there and see what's going on.

01:09:48.078 --> 01:09:52.274
If we're rewarded and it helps us in the future, good if not.

01:09:55.172 --> 01:09:57.251
I think the first step is to not go straight to the.

01:09:57.251 --> 01:09:59.011
There's something down there for us that we need.

01:09:59.506 --> 01:10:00.350
I think that's what I'm saying.

01:10:00.350 --> 01:10:05.976
Let's go down there, and if not, we'll kill that stinky voice, and then we'll come back up to the gates of hell.

01:10:06.217 --> 01:10:16.451
Okay, so you guys are going down the stairs, right yeah, as you descend and the spores float all around you it's hard to breathe through.

01:10:16.451 --> 01:10:25.862
But you kind of pull up a piece of fabric, maybe part of your scarf or your shirt or robe, to help cover your mouth and nose and breathe a little bit clearer.

01:10:25.862 --> 01:10:30.770
Again, you have nothing to worry about, unless you have deeply untreated injuries.

01:10:30.770 --> 01:10:56.435
This landing as a door closed on it, but you can see moving underneath the lip of the bottom of the door is silhouettes moving to and fro on the other side, where this warm orange light emanates from.

01:10:56.435 --> 01:11:12.932
Go ahead, both of you, give me an agility check to see if you fumble going down the stairs and make noise right, I imagine you're trying not to be super loud going down these stairs and then you guys can give me a presence check if you want to see what you detect.

01:11:13.485 --> 01:11:18.230
God, my agility is terrible, but yours is real bad.

01:11:18.230 --> 01:11:19.528
I got a 10 total.

01:11:20.271 --> 01:11:21.015
You got a 10 total.

01:11:21.074 --> 01:11:22.601
You got a 10 total Because I'm minus two, so 10.

01:11:24.646 --> 01:11:25.328
What'd you get?

01:11:25.328 --> 01:11:27.331
Fumble, fumble, nice, natural one.

01:11:27.331 --> 01:11:40.060
As you both descend down these stairs you're not like super quiet and sneaky, but you get down to this landing and it is at the landing.

01:11:40.060 --> 01:11:51.354
You're both kind of looking around the corner and notice this movement and Vaughn it's not you that gives away, but your sword is perhaps withdraw blood again.

01:11:51.354 --> 01:11:53.791
Perhaps you prove your mettle.

01:11:53.791 --> 01:11:58.233
Uncheese me, uncheese me.

01:11:58.233 --> 01:12:08.033
And like you see all the silhouettes that were moving on the other side of this door, just like stop, and the door just open.

01:12:08.033 --> 01:12:24.998
You see just silhouetted, hunched down, pointy ears, rounded knobby heads, and there are three goblins, uh, as they, um, look like they all want a piece of you.

01:12:24.998 --> 01:12:32.858
Uh, they have knives and uh, behind them, glinting on the ground of the firelight of the room they're in.

01:12:32.858 --> 01:12:42.203
Uh, seems like a nice sword, um, but they look like they want to stab you with these daggers sword, but they look like they want to stab you with these daggers.

01:12:42.224 --> 01:12:46.112
Yeah Well, you have that thing that does like it gets two people right.

01:12:47.106 --> 01:12:53.128
I am going to roll to see how they react entirely to you, if you guys are going right into combat or not.

01:12:53.128 --> 01:13:03.280
Oh yeah, get out, get out, get out.

01:13:03.280 --> 01:13:07.332
And another one's like you can't have it, you can't have it, it's ours.

01:13:07.332 --> 01:13:11.229
And then one turns and bonks both of the others on the top of the heads.

01:13:11.229 --> 01:13:13.613
No, it's not ours, it's mine.

01:13:13.613 --> 01:13:24.497
They seem to be in the middle of an argument and angry and upset, but they're just not outright trying to stab you, right, but they got their daggers drawn and they want you to leave Quickly.

01:13:24.497 --> 01:13:24.978
What do you do?

01:13:24.978 --> 01:13:28.712
This is a time that you don't get to make a plan, but you need to decide.

01:13:29.175 --> 01:13:29.475
Kill them.

01:13:31.065 --> 01:13:32.189
There are three of them.

01:13:32.189 --> 01:13:33.394
Can we run?

01:13:33.394 --> 01:13:35.256
Yeah, you can turn around and run up the stairs.

01:13:36.229 --> 01:13:37.131
The voices were not.

01:13:37.131 --> 01:13:41.409
There's something back there, though.

01:13:41.409 --> 01:13:43.695
Did you say there was something beyond the little goblins?

01:13:43.695 --> 01:13:44.197
There's a sword.

01:13:44.244 --> 01:13:53.470
There's a room like they're in, with some firelight inside and there seems to be a large sword behind them, and one of them said it's ours, you can't have it.

01:13:53.470 --> 01:13:56.369
And another one slapped that one and said it's not ours, it's mine.

01:13:56.369 --> 01:13:59.984
Clapped that one and said it's not ours, it's mine.

01:13:59.984 --> 01:14:04.604
So they seem to be in disagreement over the ownership of this weapon, but they also seem like they're certainly not willing to let you get involved.

01:14:04.604 --> 01:14:07.293
They are very angry but they're not trying to kill you?

01:14:07.604 --> 01:14:10.213
Are these demonic beings that could be dissuaded?

01:14:10.213 --> 01:14:11.006
Do you see?

01:14:11.046 --> 01:14:18.895
that these are through and through the nasty, vicious baby-eating, you know, women-ravaging goblins.

01:14:19.324 --> 01:14:20.692
Are all bad guys a 12?

01:14:20.692 --> 01:14:25.551
We gotta be a 12 for every bad guy we ever fight, or these little slapping rounders.

01:14:25.551 --> 01:14:26.253
You know what I mean.

01:14:27.649 --> 01:14:37.194
These little goblins right, they're rather nimble, so they're harder to hit and they're a little bit harder to defend against because they are fast.

01:14:37.194 --> 01:14:40.512
You gotta decide now what you're doing.

01:14:41.286 --> 01:14:43.789
Just for the sake of keeping on schedule with time.

01:14:43.789 --> 01:14:44.311
Alright, let's go.

01:14:44.311 --> 01:14:44.653
Let's go.

01:14:44.653 --> 01:14:52.311
Alright, I'm rolling for my great balls of fire here.

01:14:52.311 --> 01:14:57.207
At the end of this game I'll realize I've been rolling a d12 for all the d20s.

01:14:57.269 --> 01:14:58.939
no wonder I was sucking so hard.

01:14:58.939 --> 01:15:04.095
You're like damn it, damn it oh yeah what is that?

01:15:04.417 --> 01:15:04.837
a seven?

01:15:04.837 --> 01:15:08.448
What's your prowess?

01:15:08.448 --> 01:15:09.748
Uh?

01:15:09.748 --> 01:15:13.811
Or presence, yeah, your presence, sorry, your presence, it's a.

01:15:14.771 --> 01:15:15.212
Zero.

01:15:15.332 --> 01:15:17.354
Okay, great you fail.

01:15:17.354 --> 01:15:27.542
Go ahead, mark off your failure and take a D4 divided by two damage.

01:15:27.542 --> 01:15:33.033
Oh my gosh, and you are dizzy for the next hour, all right.

01:15:33.454 --> 01:15:34.036
Or a D4.

01:15:34.117 --> 01:15:41.136
Here we go Okay, I'm going to hold up my silver crucifixion Because I don't know what elseifixion yeah, do it.

01:15:42.509 --> 01:15:43.512
You just hold it up in front of them.

01:15:44.746 --> 01:15:46.072
I already asked this question.

01:15:46.072 --> 01:15:48.990
They're not, they're just Don't do it.

01:15:50.595 --> 01:16:14.984
I asked if they were like demonic and he said no, oh, okay, you hold it up, it's shiny they look at you, they look at you as your companion goes and like you hear a and like you look over at Vaughn and he has shit himself and failed to cast another spell with his power.

01:16:14.984 --> 01:16:20.099
Vaughn, you don't have a catastrophic failure, right, but it is not good.

01:16:20.099 --> 01:16:21.768
Uh, you're confused for the next hour.

01:16:21.768 --> 01:16:23.993
You best not try to cast another spell.

01:16:23.993 --> 01:16:26.186
You could if you want, but you would fail.

01:16:26.186 --> 01:16:27.829
Right, I'm at two hit points.

01:16:27.829 --> 01:16:28.792
So and do mark.

01:16:28.893 --> 01:16:38.916
I think even when you fail, it still uses a power right, yeah yeah, so you only have two left to use one, or yeah, yeah the confusion power I have?

01:16:39.436 --> 01:16:41.380
will that confuse all of them or just one?

01:16:41.380 --> 01:16:42.106
Uh?

01:16:42.828 --> 01:16:45.755
it says one creature, I think right, okay um, all right.

01:16:45.774 --> 01:16:49.329
So with that, though, you do see them, it is their turn, because you haven't outright harmed them.

01:16:49.329 --> 01:16:52.404
You just hold up this silvering like crucifix towards them.

01:16:52.404 --> 01:16:54.127
And again, this is nordic.

01:16:54.127 --> 01:16:55.228
So this is not a, you know, don't get it wrong.

01:16:55.228 --> 01:16:55.667
This is not a.

01:16:55.667 --> 01:16:57.630
You know, don't get it wrong.

01:16:57.630 --> 01:16:59.511
This is not a Christ crucifix.

01:16:59.511 --> 01:17:00.512
This is literally a.

01:17:00.512 --> 01:17:19.923
You know, some form of an ornate cross of some kind, but it has not got the representation we have, for, you know, real Christian faith, right, but they look at it and you see their eyes just go wide and bulge with the sight of silver.

01:17:19.923 --> 01:17:21.988
They look at you.

01:17:21.988 --> 01:17:23.288
Yes, give it.

01:17:24.371 --> 01:17:24.731
Give it.

01:17:24.731 --> 01:17:27.416
They reach their hands out expectantly.

01:17:27.416 --> 01:17:40.085
The daggers aren't immediately coming up to cut your throats, but they seem like now they want the silver crucifix you hold before them.

01:17:40.085 --> 01:17:41.225
Roll a.

01:17:41.225 --> 01:17:44.372
Well, you guys aren't in combat yet, you're not necessarily in violence, but it's close.

01:17:44.372 --> 01:17:46.331
It's close, it's on the precipice.

01:17:46.331 --> 01:17:47.387
What do you guys want to do?

01:17:47.387 --> 01:17:52.604
I would say there's a good chance, whether by your actions or theirs.

01:17:52.784 --> 01:17:53.347
this enters violence.

01:17:53.347 --> 01:17:54.351
Are these like intellectual?

01:17:54.351 --> 01:17:57.006
Probably not intellectual, they're probably not super smart.

01:17:57.006 --> 01:18:01.010
Yeah, but they are humanoid right.

01:18:01.010 --> 01:18:07.009
They sword cursed creatures that can be reasoned with and negotiated with if I go.

01:18:07.009 --> 01:18:14.887
But first I'll only give it to you if you eat this stew, oh sure you could try it yeah I'm gonna do that.

01:18:15.029 --> 01:18:16.771
all right, give me a check.

01:18:16.771 --> 01:18:23.307
I'm going to say, since it's three of them, the difficulty is 12 to get all three to do it.

01:18:23.307 --> 01:18:25.448
If you get an 8, two of them do it.

01:18:25.448 --> 01:18:27.895
If you get a 6, one of them does it.

01:18:27.895 --> 01:18:29.951
If you get below a 6, none of them are going to do it.

01:18:29.951 --> 01:18:31.065
7.

01:18:31.065 --> 01:18:33.646
Plus your presence 0.

01:18:33.646 --> 01:18:34.451
Alright, 7.

01:18:34.451 --> 01:18:40.086
You see one just like, and the other two are like yes, uh, you see.

01:18:40.086 --> 01:18:42.457
One just like hey, eric, and the other two are like.

01:18:42.457 --> 01:18:43.400
Yes, he will eat it, give us.

01:18:44.082 --> 01:18:45.326
Oh wait, but I go.

01:18:46.769 --> 01:18:48.011
Hold on, let's try to convince.

01:18:48.011 --> 01:18:48.712
It's Bond's turn.

01:18:48.712 --> 01:18:49.434
It's Bond's turn now.

01:18:49.434 --> 01:18:49.854
Go ahead Bond.

01:18:49.854 --> 01:18:52.139
What are you gonna do?

01:18:57.725 --> 01:18:57.886
Can.

01:18:57.886 --> 01:19:00.474
I just attack one of the ones that didn't eat the soup.

01:19:00.474 --> 01:19:01.036
Go for it.

01:19:01.284 --> 01:19:03.773
They haven't eaten the soup yet None of them have None of them.

01:19:03.773 --> 01:19:04.515
Yet they're about to.

01:19:05.706 --> 01:19:07.432
It's your choice in the interim.

01:19:08.645 --> 01:19:10.391
In that case I mean Try to convince the other two.

01:19:10.391 --> 01:19:11.014
Can I talk?

01:19:11.054 --> 01:19:11.295
to them?

01:19:11.295 --> 01:19:14.310
Yeah, you can still talk to them, convince them, all right.

01:19:19.418 --> 01:19:20.020
A little dizzy.

01:19:20.685 --> 01:19:21.952
You could offer them your sword.

01:19:22.725 --> 01:19:27.574
Okay, this is a great idea you pretend to eat the soup and say it has special powers.

01:19:29.769 --> 01:19:31.755
Give me the climbing soup when I ask you about this.

01:19:32.416 --> 01:19:34.372
Okay, but also yes, yes, yes.

01:19:34.372 --> 01:19:35.710
All right, let's do it.

01:19:36.244 --> 01:19:39.735
I will offer this sword and trade to you for the sword behind you.

01:19:39.735 --> 01:19:45.788
And you look around and we'll give you all this soup and I'll eat it with you.

01:19:45.788 --> 01:19:49.337
As you says, this sort of you bastard.

01:19:50.246 --> 01:19:52.832
How dare you dishonor your family's name?

01:19:52.832 --> 01:19:57.967
Offering me to these grains, like the guy was like yeah, it speaks, speaks.

01:19:57.967 --> 01:19:59.670
And they can hear it.

01:19:59.670 --> 01:20:00.921
For some reason you still can't.

01:20:00.921 --> 01:20:01.164
Vatan.

01:20:01.164 --> 01:20:03.652
I'm just like it's too high on this question.

01:20:03.671 --> 01:20:12.456
Yes, yes yes, For that in the crucifix we give you this sword and the other one's like, and the soup and the soup.

01:20:12.456 --> 01:20:15.426
The other one.

01:20:15.426 --> 01:20:18.568
One turns around, picks up the sword and comes back.

01:20:18.568 --> 01:20:21.090
Actually, sorry, give me a presence check real quick.

01:20:21.090 --> 01:20:21.609
Just want to see.

01:20:21.609 --> 01:20:22.591
It's a low DC.

01:20:22.591 --> 01:20:26.653
You got to get a six to convince them all that this is a good trade 17.

01:20:26.853 --> 01:20:27.113
Oh yeah.

01:20:27.134 --> 01:20:32.556
They're like this is a great trade dude, a talking sword and soup and a crucifix.

01:20:32.556 --> 01:20:48.882
So they each reach out a hand expectantly One goblin for the soup, one goblin for the crucifix and one for the sword, and the other one that seems to be in charge is offering you this larger sword in return.

01:20:48.882 --> 01:20:50.929
Okay, wow.

01:20:51.250 --> 01:20:51.911
And we take it.

01:20:52.152 --> 01:20:54.277
I'm grabbing that thing, you grab it.

01:20:56.427 --> 01:20:57.030
It is a two-handed sword.

01:20:57.311 --> 01:20:59.805
It is incredibly sharp, I think, because you only got one.

01:20:59.805 --> 01:21:00.833
What's the hit power on this?

01:21:00.854 --> 01:21:01.055
thing.

01:21:01.055 --> 01:21:02.247
It's incredibly sharp.

01:21:02.247 --> 01:21:11.900
It is a d10 plus one let's kill those shitheads while they're vomiting.

01:21:11.900 --> 01:21:15.667
Let's leave you see them they take this soup all excitedly.

01:21:15.667 --> 01:21:17.667
They take no one of them takes a soup to drink it.

01:21:17.667 --> 01:21:20.112
The other one takes your crucifix and your talking sword.

01:21:20.112 --> 01:21:28.110
You hear your talking sword swear your name, damning it to the basilisk to devour you in the hells beyond, starts cursing the goblins, because now no.

01:21:28.110 --> 01:21:30.810
And then the goblins return back.

01:21:31.506 --> 01:21:38.530
It's my sword no mine and they begin to immediately argue over it, as you can just hear your sword screaming.

01:21:38.530 --> 01:21:42.574
They close the door and they go back to their business.

01:21:42.574 --> 01:21:44.457
The door is closed.

01:21:44.457 --> 01:21:48.400
You can descend the rest of the way down the stairs or go back up to the pit of hell.

01:21:48.400 --> 01:21:53.137
It's up to you, are there?

01:21:53.137 --> 01:21:58.337
More voices downstairs, down the stairwell you don't see any light at all at the bottom of the stairs.

01:21:58.337 --> 01:21:59.224
It is pure darkness from where you stand.

01:21:59.404 --> 01:22:01.349
You can't see what's down there, can you?

01:22:01.349 --> 01:22:01.670
You can?

01:22:01.670 --> 01:22:05.957
Oh nice, with this I've been wasting our torches, oh with the spider spell.

01:22:05.957 --> 01:22:07.949
Mm-hmm, I feel like it's a good time to use it.

01:22:09.268 --> 01:22:10.112
How many sips of that you got.

01:22:12.166 --> 01:22:13.088
He still has four.

01:22:13.088 --> 01:22:13.730
He has three.

01:22:13.730 --> 01:22:24.193
I have one Of the of the spider no, yeah, one of the spider he's got one use of the spider before we go to hell, that's the crawl on walls one though I thought you had four of those.

01:22:24.626 --> 01:22:30.869
No, he's got four of the poison four of the soups wow, I've been playing reckless with the soups, everybody.

01:22:30.869 --> 01:22:35.930
No, I've been playing reckless with those, alright how long does it take for that soup to cause him to throw up, does it say?

01:22:36.694 --> 01:22:37.564
no, I think it's immediately.

01:22:37.564 --> 01:22:40.572
It says vomit for D4 hours.

01:22:42.296 --> 01:22:43.018
Rule of D4.

01:22:44.827 --> 01:22:46.210
Oh, because I gave it to the yeah.

01:22:48.055 --> 01:22:49.077
One All right excellent.

01:22:49.077 --> 01:22:53.150
Before they come after us, Okay all right, you guys better make a decision.

01:22:53.150 --> 01:23:02.292
You gather that it won't be long before one of them is retching and they may turn on you for a sour deal, especially if the sword is angry with them.

01:23:03.207 --> 01:23:05.167
And you say we can't hear the voices anymore.

01:23:05.729 --> 01:23:06.913
You hear the angelic choir.

01:23:06.913 --> 01:23:12.412
The only other voice you guys heard was the madman whispering to himself.

01:23:12.805 --> 01:23:15.110
I think I have 30 seconds of seeing in darkness.

01:23:15.110 --> 01:23:17.716
That's bad.

01:23:17.716 --> 01:23:20.029
Alright, the torch.

01:23:20.029 --> 01:23:21.073
We have a torch with a torch.

01:23:21.094 --> 01:23:30.145
You guys still have the torch, you just it's it, the stairs are so far down right like from where you stand on the stairs you can't just go in like a brisk all right, we're going on down, we're going great, we're continuing.

01:23:30.265 --> 01:23:42.478
You guys start going down the stairs and you reach the base of the stairs, which is known as, uh, the drowned, but the basically stairs.

01:23:42.478 --> 01:23:47.386
Uh, you see that this level is flooded.

01:23:47.386 --> 01:23:54.246
Uh, the water comes from a collapse somewhere within it, um, and it comes up to your chest.

01:23:54.246 --> 01:24:15.707
Uh, it flows towards, uh, like away from you, like you get to the bottom of the stairs and you could see that this water is flowing, uh to the side, like to your left, um and uh, there are quite a bit of sounds down here and the torchlight.

01:24:15.707 --> 01:24:29.266
You see scatters, eyes that are kind of swimming across this current of small like amphibious creatures, you know, looking, looking like fraud or maybe tadpole, like nasties in this dark, inky water.

01:24:29.266 --> 01:24:31.774
Okay, what do you guys want to do?

01:24:31.913 --> 01:24:40.225
you're not like in the water yet, but like you know, like you could tell, looking at it like throw something in the water, just see, like just you know been in situations like this.

01:24:40.365 --> 01:24:41.028
You don't know what's in there.

01:24:41.028 --> 01:24:45.016
All right, is there like a rock or something like that?

01:24:45.078 --> 01:24:47.592
like a stone, something from your equipment I know that's the problem.

01:24:47.632 --> 01:24:48.726
What do you have on your equipment?

01:24:48.747 --> 01:24:51.036
there's got to be some chipped stone nearby.

01:24:51.036 --> 01:24:53.204
Uh, you got flowers on the side of the wall.

01:24:53.204 --> 01:24:54.487
I'm not gonna pick one of those.

01:24:54.487 --> 01:24:55.588
It makes my head hurt.

01:24:56.270 --> 01:24:57.653
Guys, gotta, guys got to do something.

01:24:57.653 --> 01:25:00.618
All right, we'll throw a flower in the water.

01:25:00.618 --> 01:25:31.195
Cool, you pluck it, you just just like a soft whisper as you rip it off the wall and then toss it into the water and you see it like gently land and begin its petals unfurling and there is this like almost as if oil, a slick of oil, was alive and it is the size of you know, maybe a fist, and it just kind of comes up and goes and just gulps this oil.

01:25:31.195 --> 01:25:34.752
This oily mouth with eyes just kind of gulps the flower head away.

01:25:34.752 --> 01:25:44.895
It's quick, it's not loud or anything, but it's clearly like the flower was something it could fit in its mouth and it got it okay yeah, let's go fishing.

01:25:45.074 --> 01:26:08.198
I think we need to go back to hell shit you do know that your priest said that it is at the drowned altar where there should be answers to this scintillating object engineering itself in the chest of your companion.

01:26:08.480 --> 01:26:10.131
There's lots of eyes, there's not just one.

01:26:11.324 --> 01:26:15.889
Yeah, like you're looking around with the torch light and reflecting back at you at any time could be like.

01:26:15.929 --> 01:26:16.671
How far can we see?

01:26:16.671 --> 01:26:19.368
Probably 10 or so Across the spring, yeah or so.

01:26:19.628 --> 01:26:25.636
Yeah, the hallway from like where you stand on the stairs is probably about 10 feet wide.

01:26:25.636 --> 01:26:28.279
We couldn't like jump across the stream.

01:26:28.279 --> 01:26:29.020
There's nowhere to jump.

01:26:29.020 --> 01:26:36.917
The stream itself like fills the hallway up to like the stairs you're at and you imagine it's probably about chest high, based on how much of the wall is left up.

01:26:36.917 --> 01:26:38.625
Oh, I see, and it's probably about chest high, based on how much of the wall is left up.

01:26:39.204 --> 01:26:50.115
Oh I see, Can we take our sharp needle and turn it into a hook and put some frog soup on it and start catching these things?

01:26:50.265 --> 01:26:52.329
I will say you may certainly try it.

01:26:52.329 --> 01:26:53.252
Do you have string?

01:26:53.252 --> 01:26:54.795
Do you have a stick?

01:26:55.095 --> 01:26:55.877
We have clothes.

01:26:57.886 --> 01:27:00.313
As you are debating this and deciding.

01:27:00.313 --> 01:27:09.877
You just hear behind you just okay, unending retching.

01:27:09.877 --> 01:27:12.740
Are there lots of flowers around us?

01:27:12.740 --> 01:27:13.783
Um?

01:27:13.783 --> 01:27:16.207
There's, yeah, just easily like throwing them in.

01:27:16.247 --> 01:27:17.149
It doesn't around you.

01:27:17.149 --> 01:27:20.076
And how and how far do we have to go to get across this?

01:27:20.136 --> 01:27:20.978
thing you don't know.

01:27:20.978 --> 01:27:27.654
You got to start getting into the water and starts like you have to get down the stairs Cause you're kind of like at the stairs and there's this ceiling in front of you.

01:27:27.765 --> 01:27:28.850
Let's throw flowers.

01:27:28.850 --> 01:27:37.315
I think we've picked a bunch of flowers and we chum the water and then we go and we carry some with us and we chum it as we go and we get across there.

01:27:37.436 --> 01:27:46.676
Sure like that uh, you hear the door behind you from the goblins slam open and uh you better hurry.

01:27:46.676 --> 01:27:47.478
They're coming, bro.

01:27:47.478 --> 01:27:51.921
If you don't want to be in a fight, you better start getting in this water that's what we're doing.

01:27:51.980 --> 01:28:13.164
We're throwing the flowers you get in the water and start chumming and throwing stuff over, um, and you see that these, uh, amphibian creatures are coming up engulping the flowers, um, and as this happens, uh, you see, they kind of disperse around you.

01:28:13.164 --> 01:28:20.216
They don't seem too interested in like trying to eat you or anything like that, because they're more like tadpole frog, like size um.

01:28:20.216 --> 01:28:28.077
But you see, immediately, probably about 10 feet in front of you, to your right, is an indent going into another room.

01:28:29.805 --> 01:28:31.471
Like we got to go beneath the water.

01:28:31.672 --> 01:28:40.018
No, no, no, Like you're in the water chest high now, yeah, in a hallway, and that hallway goes straight four ways with your torchlight.

01:28:40.018 --> 01:28:44.957
But it also has a, like you know, outlet to the right as well.

01:28:44.957 --> 01:28:54.737
That would go to another area or down another hallway and as far as you can see with your torchlight, you don't see the end to the hallway ahead of you, like it keeps going into the darkness.

01:28:58.065 --> 01:28:59.088
How do we decide where to go?

01:28:59.088 --> 01:29:01.395
I don't know that.

01:29:05.685 --> 01:29:08.234
Yes we got a goblin coming down the stairs.

01:29:08.234 --> 01:29:10.189
The feet pattering.

01:29:12.725 --> 01:29:14.029
We got to go in the first door.

01:29:14.510 --> 01:29:16.012
Yeah, go, let's go straight.

01:29:16.012 --> 01:29:18.198
You got to choose.

01:29:18.244 --> 01:29:26.435
You're going to go straight, or you're going to take a right, we're going in the first Straight, or we got to explore that doorway and then we'll come out and go straight again.

01:29:26.435 --> 01:29:29.131
That's just another 50-50.

01:29:29.131 --> 01:29:33.983
So I know, but we can see, this is the doorway versus.

01:29:33.983 --> 01:29:35.166
We don't know what's ahead of us yet.

01:29:35.166 --> 01:29:38.694
Oh, let's hide, let them go by, all right yeah we're gonna hide.

01:29:38.735 --> 01:29:42.805
We're gonna hide in the door, yeah, uh, so you're going to the right.

01:29:43.346 --> 01:29:44.346
Yeah, we're gonna hide.

01:29:44.346 --> 01:29:46.047
Let them pass here.

01:29:46.547 --> 01:29:55.073
As you are going down to the right, you see that rounding the corner there is raised in the room.

01:29:55.073 --> 01:29:56.134
It's completely flooded.

01:29:56.134 --> 01:30:26.631
But raised here is a granite slab, circular, and draped across it is this fleshy again, like wet amphibious skin of this kind of like, almost as if like a fish head perhaps, maybe like a viper fish had been attached to, like a humanoid amphibious body.

01:30:26.631 --> 01:30:35.311
It's got large, thin, almost translucent, needle-like teeth and foggy, bulbous eyes that faintly glow and reflect your torchlight.

01:30:35.311 --> 01:30:50.739
You see its chest is cut and ripped open, organs disemboweled, ribcage exposed and it lays dead on this altar, all right.

01:30:51.166 --> 01:30:52.390
Meanwhile goblins.

01:30:52.944 --> 01:30:58.453
The goblins as you go around this corner they reach the bottom and one of them you hear behind you.

01:30:58.453 --> 01:31:11.224
They'll be back soon and you know how they are about us, near the young, and they turn to go back up the stairs, pitter-patter away.

01:31:12.787 --> 01:31:15.814
Nice Also if they were to get in the water, they'd be underwater.

01:31:15.814 --> 01:31:16.657
You know what I mean.

01:31:18.864 --> 01:31:26.551
They wouldn't be able to stand at chest height like you guys can, so these tadpoles might become something scary later, but we found the altar.

01:31:27.005 --> 01:31:28.671
This is the altar.

01:31:29.747 --> 01:31:32.368
If you go into the room you can probably deduce more.

01:31:32.368 --> 01:31:36.533
We're in it, you're going to walk in all the way there, vatan.

01:31:36.533 --> 01:31:39.667
You seem skeptical, as if you're going in or not In the room.

01:31:39.847 --> 01:31:54.074
Yeah, in the room there's kind of like a transitionary hallway between the main flooded hallway and this flooded altar room, so you could kind of be in that transitionary hallway before just outright stepping into the altered room.

01:31:54.074 --> 01:31:55.765
Do we hear anything else in there?

01:31:55.765 --> 01:32:05.328
Just the sound of current and then the bobbing gurgling of just because there's still water in this room oh yeah, it's, it's just as high, okay, the chest.

01:32:05.328 --> 01:32:08.853
The pedestal is at chest level, okay, nice.

01:32:10.173 --> 01:32:12.976
Wow, what's down the rest of the hallway.

01:32:13.318 --> 01:32:14.038
Like the main hallway.

01:32:14.038 --> 01:32:16.661
What I'll say is we found the altar's key.

01:32:17.845 --> 01:32:19.570
Oh, the altar is, the altar is key to this.

01:32:19.610 --> 01:32:20.453
So we got to go in.

01:32:20.453 --> 01:32:24.851
And it's disemboweled at the chest, yeah, but there could be more that also.

01:32:24.984 --> 01:32:27.451
It's like laying on top of this pedestal.

01:32:27.451 --> 01:32:29.476
It's chest ripped open.

01:32:30.728 --> 01:32:33.591
Something ripped it open, but we got to go in there to find out.

01:32:33.591 --> 01:32:35.971
I'm going to use that darkness thing because I can't see a lot.

01:32:35.971 --> 01:32:37.555
Right, it's pretty dark in here.

01:32:37.685 --> 01:32:41.695
I mean, if you step into the room you could probably fill the whole room with light, with torchlight.

01:32:41.784 --> 01:32:43.311
You just guys have to go in all the way.

01:32:48.444 --> 01:32:48.905
All right, let's step in.

01:32:48.905 --> 01:32:49.547
Yeah, let's step in.

01:32:49.547 --> 01:32:50.208
We walk up to the altar.

01:32:50.208 --> 01:32:50.429
Give me a.

01:32:50.429 --> 01:32:53.595
We'll say agility check.

01:32:53.595 --> 01:32:54.939
To be sneaky about it.

01:32:54.939 --> 01:32:59.189
Try not to be loud and obnoxious, but the difficulty is a lot higher.

01:32:59.189 --> 01:33:03.529
Just because you're moving slowly through water, it's not a lot higher.

01:33:03.529 --> 01:33:07.976
We'll say it's a 12, to be not super duper, crazy loud.

01:33:11.244 --> 01:33:12.408
What does a 2 get me okay?

01:33:12.427 --> 01:33:12.849
good to know.

01:33:12.849 --> 01:33:15.292
I got a 10 minus two, so an eight.

01:33:15.292 --> 01:33:17.197
Uh, you're it doesn't?

01:33:17.257 --> 01:33:25.604
you guys are just sloshing through the water holding the torch way above your head just to keep it from getting wet.

01:33:25.604 --> 01:33:32.779
Um, as you walk up straight to the altar, you see this thing disemboweled and written on this stone.

01:33:32.779 --> 01:33:42.989
Both of you give me a presence check to try to understand what is written here or interpret this ancient writing 13, 15.

01:33:42.989 --> 01:33:44.135
13, total, nice.

01:33:44.135 --> 01:33:49.197
Both of you together start kind of parsing out and reading back to one another as you're holding the torch light down.

01:33:49.197 --> 01:34:00.158
The water has flooded a lot of this pillar away, and so you have to kind of like slosh water and get the torch close to the water surface to see what might be below.

01:34:00.158 --> 01:34:07.438
Working together, you deduce that this altar calls for a sacrifice.

01:34:07.438 --> 01:34:29.171
That this altar calls for a sacrifice, the sacrifice must be imbued with what is known as the enigma and if done, the enigma will pause and it will essentially prevent the arrival of what is only known as the abominable.

01:34:29.171 --> 01:34:33.952
This thing maybe, whatever it is.

01:34:34.172 --> 01:34:37.038
Whatever it is, the things sacrifice it.

01:34:37.038 --> 01:34:38.671
This thing doesn't have anything in his chest.

01:34:38.671 --> 01:34:39.989
They probably couldn't read it.

01:34:39.989 --> 01:34:48.975
Maybe it was the goblins that sacrificed this thing here, but whatever it is that was sacrificed on this altar, it cut its chest open and we're trying to find the enigma.

01:34:48.975 --> 01:34:53.131
But the enigma was never there, was it Vatan?

01:34:53.131 --> 01:35:00.737
It's in me, it's in you and clearly this altar calls for your sacrifice to prevent the completion of the code.

01:35:00.737 --> 01:35:01.417
Let's do it.

01:35:01.465 --> 01:35:14.932
And their rival, the abominable Wait, you want to what, wait you wanna what the alternative is you just let it finish and perhaps it arrives through you.

01:35:15.166 --> 01:35:31.134
Perhaps your body is the vessel, the portal for this thing to walk across the material plane, or you could just jump down into hell and meet it early, maybe, or you could sacrifice, be sacrificed here and prevent it from occurring at all.

01:35:31.134 --> 01:35:33.686
If this is to be believed, what will you do?

01:35:37.132 --> 01:35:40.539
Vaan Vatan.

01:35:41.247 --> 01:35:44.471
You guys got to decide, I know, but oh my God.

01:35:44.471 --> 01:35:45.896
Oh my god.

01:35:45.896 --> 01:35:55.177
You start hearing an echoing from If you were to look back at where you came down to the right, further down that hallway you hear a.

01:36:01.132 --> 01:36:02.296
It's like a deeper.

01:36:02.296 --> 01:36:03.871
We can sacrifice anything.

01:36:05.086 --> 01:36:07.573
It has to be something with this enigma in its chest.

01:36:07.573 --> 01:36:10.289
Okay, do you know?

01:36:10.289 --> 01:36:14.256
Plucking it out of Vatan's chest would probably kill him right now.

01:36:15.167 --> 01:36:17.085
Without some kind of magical assistance.

01:36:17.085 --> 01:36:19.811
This is kind of like there's no options here.

01:36:20.926 --> 01:36:22.152
Well, you guys don't have to do it.

01:36:22.152 --> 01:36:24.452
I'm going to die anyway.

01:36:24.452 --> 01:36:25.515
You can be selfish.

01:36:25.945 --> 01:36:26.266
Might as well.

01:36:26.266 --> 01:36:26.810
Just kill me.

01:36:26.810 --> 01:36:30.807
I think, just lay on.

01:36:30.807 --> 01:36:31.970
Yeah, come on, let's go, let's do it.

01:36:31.970 --> 01:36:34.355
I'm going to lay on this thing, are you serious?

01:36:34.355 --> 01:36:35.658
Yeah, yeah, let's go.

01:36:36.185 --> 01:36:45.033
But it said in this it said a puzzle cube has been calibrated incorrectly or has it awakening a slumbering abomination.

01:36:45.033 --> 01:36:59.872
But I you hear the croaking and in the sloshing in water as they return where they are yeah, I know that's what I'm like, or has it been done wrong, meaning that could be nefarious or not?

01:36:59.872 --> 01:37:04.185
It's just like, and the fact that you this could be a gift to me.

01:37:04.185 --> 01:37:06.993
You could be, because every.

01:37:07.011 --> 01:37:10.591
It could be destined for you that's what I'm saying To be the abomination.

01:37:10.591 --> 01:37:18.993
Well, so, every day there's a chance, there's a 2% chance of you dying from your infection, from it as it slowly gets closer to your heart, right?

01:37:18.993 --> 01:37:21.686
So it's like the does it have to become?

01:37:21.947 --> 01:37:26.050
I'll say this boys, Realized yeah, billy Jean's out at the parking lot.

01:37:26.050 --> 01:37:27.850
You guys got to make a call right now.

01:37:27.850 --> 01:37:29.653
Whatever call you go with, we'll stick with you.

01:37:29.653 --> 01:37:31.474
Either choose to do the sacrifice or not.

01:37:31.474 --> 01:37:42.502
You choose to leap into hell, back at the pit to hell, or not, or you go back up the stairs and you call for your friends to pull you out and be like yep, it's a bust, let's get out.

01:37:44.704 --> 01:37:46.007
It's up to you guys yeah, I can wait.

01:37:46.007 --> 01:37:48.694
You were just so keen on getting whacked open.

01:37:49.036 --> 01:37:52.393
I mean A moment ago you were saying cut me open, baby, cut me open.

01:37:52.613 --> 01:37:54.488
All right, all right, let's cut him open.

01:37:55.592 --> 01:37:56.054
Batana.

01:37:56.404 --> 01:37:57.912
I got that fancy, smooth sword.

01:37:58.345 --> 01:38:03.037
Tell us how you push the corpse off of this altar and lay yourself out.

01:38:05.408 --> 01:38:05.689
All right.

01:38:05.689 --> 01:38:07.613
I walk to the fishy corpse.

01:38:07.613 --> 01:38:23.136
It's stench, salmon breath slosh it off into the water in chunks because it can't even hold itself together, and I lay upon the altar, willingly, in sacrifice to the greater good.

01:38:23.367 --> 01:38:28.750
You see, as he lays on the altar, the sigils in it begin to glow.

01:38:29.893 --> 01:38:30.395
In my chest.

01:38:31.005 --> 01:38:31.405
Not just his.

01:38:31.405 --> 01:38:34.832
No, like the puzzle piece glows, but the sigils of the altar glow.

01:38:35.233 --> 01:38:37.856
All right, yeah, yeah, okay.

01:38:38.478 --> 01:38:38.998
What do you say?

01:38:38.998 --> 01:38:42.385
This is like an Isaac situation All right, that's pretty brutal.

01:38:42.564 --> 01:38:43.805
So, all right, I say you grab your.

01:38:43.805 --> 01:38:44.927
I grab my janky dacker and I hand it to you.

01:38:44.927 --> 01:38:45.547
I think you grab your.

01:38:45.547 --> 01:38:47.409
I grab my janky dacker and I hand it to you.

01:38:47.610 --> 01:38:50.554
I think you should hook yourself up, just hook yourself.

01:38:50.554 --> 01:38:52.095
I take my hook off my hand.

01:38:52.416 --> 01:38:53.978
My rusty hook, give it to me.

01:38:53.978 --> 01:38:56.520
No, you got to do it, you got to do it, do it.

01:38:56.520 --> 01:39:01.613
And I say For the greater good.

01:39:02.585 --> 01:39:04.252
I'm going to say F this hook.

01:39:04.252 --> 01:39:06.328
I'm using this fancy new sword I just got.

01:39:06.951 --> 01:39:07.672
What do you do, vaughn?

01:39:07.672 --> 01:39:08.814
What do you do you swing?

01:39:08.814 --> 01:39:11.684
Oh, put the sword with me, decapitation.

01:39:12.145 --> 01:39:14.448
What?

01:39:14.448 --> 01:39:18.432
I'm going right up, I'm starting from the tank up to the throat.

01:39:18.453 --> 01:39:23.259
You're just going to do a good old chop, just try to cut it out.

01:39:23.259 --> 01:39:24.380
Just try a little cut out.

01:39:30.748 --> 01:39:35.296
Well, I'm trying to get the same tablecloth effect that the frog put the tip on it just to see.

01:39:35.396 --> 01:40:05.115
You know, maybe I don't have to die you do the gentle piercing, a little bit of blood is drawn, the ruins glow brighter and you see, the puzzle piece begins, almost as if it's afraid, trying to unlock itself quicker, spinning, and the pain is clearly visible on viton's face as it is literally moving its pieces against your ribs and heart, uh, inhibiting your ability to breathe, to keep a pulse.

01:40:05.115 --> 01:40:09.643
Uh, you better decide now, because you hear the croaking approaching behind you.

01:40:09.643 --> 01:40:10.505
It's multiple splashes.

01:40:11.086 --> 01:40:13.030
Yeah, I love this noggin off.

01:40:13.030 --> 01:40:16.078
You swing not the neck, just like right the.

01:40:20.725 --> 01:40:22.009
Yeah, bro, you swing.

01:40:22.009 --> 01:40:25.557
But odd, you look at him maybe like as he holds the torch.

01:40:25.557 --> 01:40:30.310
No, actually X asked you to hold it, so he can do a hit, point check or strength.

01:40:30.310 --> 01:40:30.931
Check on that.

01:40:30.931 --> 01:40:37.215
Uh, if you're not gonna deny it, he's just gonna wipe you yeah, and I yelled him for holding the torch.

01:40:37.274 --> 01:40:42.940
Bad, while I'm trying to do it like no, I said right here um go ahead, roll a strength attack.

01:40:42.981 --> 01:40:43.824
You got to beat a 12.

01:40:43.824 --> 01:41:02.951
We'll just say if you do hit, though uh got to beat a 12, we'll just say if you do hit, though uh three, uh, baton is willing roll with advantage, which means you roll it a second time take the higher number, 20, oh double damage roll the d10 just to see how much it is.

01:41:04.753 --> 01:41:08.119
That's close two is it two.

01:41:08.666 --> 01:41:16.453
It doubles that to four plus one yeah, so that's another two on it so it's a total of six.

01:41:16.453 --> 01:41:22.492
Yeah, you chop the sword cleaves halfway into his face.

01:41:22.492 --> 01:41:24.238
You see he's unconscious.

01:41:24.238 --> 01:41:26.350
It's gonna need another strike to finish him off.

01:41:26.350 --> 01:41:29.770
If he's at zero hp, he's not actually dead yet.

01:41:29.990 --> 01:41:32.355
Oh, wow, so I got to roll again, yeah.

01:41:33.117 --> 01:41:35.020
Roll with advantage 12.

01:41:35.020 --> 01:41:36.542
That's enough, yeah.

01:41:36.542 --> 01:41:45.404
You swing again and you hear the Of just the brain and cavity spilling into the water.

01:41:45.404 --> 01:42:06.230
You see the puzzle piece lock in place and then fire of blue flames release from the altar its glyphs and you see the body begin to incinerate the puzzle piece, with it going back to whence it came Vaughn it is at this moment.

01:42:06.230 --> 01:42:11.655
You hear through the flames and the splashing of water behind you.

01:42:11.655 --> 01:42:16.305
You have sacrificed your companion for the greater good, at his own will.

01:42:16.305 --> 01:42:36.511
But you turn to see more of these amphibious things which were sacrificed on the altar, their translucent fangs reflecting in this blue firelight, their orbs of foggy eyes reaching for you, ready to take you to a dark, watery grave.

01:42:36.511 --> 01:42:41.091
We'll leave off there, matan.

01:42:41.091 --> 01:42:43.664
Thank you, bryant and Pat, thanks for playing.

01:42:43.664 --> 01:42:45.152
That was fun that was really fun.

01:42:45.225 --> 01:42:45.978
Did you guys have fun?

01:42:46.037 --> 01:42:51.054
I had fun, that was really good, a good ultimate final choice there at the end.

01:42:51.054 --> 01:42:51.555
Thanks for playing.

01:42:51.555 --> 01:42:51.895
That was fun.

01:42:51.895 --> 01:42:52.917
That was really fun, did you?

01:42:52.938 --> 01:42:53.578
guys have fun, I had fun.

01:42:53.578 --> 01:42:54.381
That was really good.

01:42:54.381 --> 01:42:54.740
A good ultimate.

01:42:54.740 --> 01:42:56.625
You know, final choice there at the end of Also what does this mean for the time?

01:42:57.726 --> 01:43:06.012
Oh, Brian, with the classic rip-up, you actually honestly, we always like are told to burn the character sheets.

01:43:06.012 --> 01:43:10.752
The book says when you reach the end of the apocalypse, when the apocalypse happens, it says burn this book.

01:43:10.752 --> 01:43:15.587
I'm like okay, it's 35 bucks, I'm not doing that, it just goes.

01:43:15.587 --> 01:43:18.634
That is the most metal thing to do, right.

01:43:18.634 --> 01:43:19.828
But anyways.

01:43:19.828 --> 01:43:21.627
I hope you guys had fun.

01:43:21.627 --> 01:43:23.613
It seemed like it was a lot of fun.

01:43:23.613 --> 01:43:25.167
Pat.

01:43:25.167 --> 01:43:28.171
Brian, any kind of final thoughts in regards to your opinion of?

01:43:28.846 --> 01:43:31.274
mirkborg, I'm gonna be dreaming about this tonight.

01:43:31.274 --> 01:43:34.443
I'm gonna be like what was down the hallway.

01:43:34.443 --> 01:43:39.283
I just want to know that's always a question right do you have a map over there?

01:43:39.283 --> 01:43:39.905
Is that what you're looking?

01:43:39.905 --> 01:43:40.488
I do I do.

01:43:40.528 --> 01:43:55.949
It's a one-page map, that is, you know, illustrated with descriptions of the rooms it's like a nice little black and white pencil ink drawing of the map telling me what's in each room and I kind of just make up what you guys can do based off of what you want to try.

01:43:56.090 --> 01:43:56.952
Yeah, yeah, that's fun.

01:43:56.952 --> 01:43:57.913
Good job, that was fun.

01:43:58.354 --> 01:43:59.197
Awesome Pat.

01:43:59.197 --> 01:43:59.698
Any thoughts?

01:43:59.698 --> 01:44:18.859
Yeah, no, I'll say I think it's funny how, once we got into it, I mean I was in there, I was in there, I was in, I was in that spot and it was fun so I think, I think it was, excuse me, a fun exercise and a fun uh uh exercising creativity and imagination.

01:44:18.859 --> 01:44:22.293
And I have to come back to the.

01:44:22.293 --> 01:44:24.780
The story's not done, there's still two guys.

01:44:24.780 --> 01:44:27.310
There's still two guys and a talking horse upstairs.

01:44:27.310 --> 01:44:28.233
Yeah, yeah, that'd be fun.

01:44:29.126 --> 01:44:30.711
Yeah, I've got a backup character up there.

01:44:30.711 --> 01:44:32.636
Exactly, that's awesome.

01:44:32.636 --> 01:44:34.448
You've got to explain to him how you killed me.

01:44:34.448 --> 01:44:38.118
All right, that was fun, guys, it's up to him.

01:44:38.465 --> 01:44:38.746
All right.

01:44:38.746 --> 01:44:39.569
Hey, thanks for joining us.

01:44:39.569 --> 01:44:40.652
Ken Appreciate you.

01:44:40.652 --> 01:44:41.595
We hope you enjoyed this.

01:44:41.595 --> 01:44:48.498
Hopefully it encourages you to get out there and try something new, pick up another fun game for friends or family time.

01:44:48.498 --> 01:44:51.070
But, yeah, thanks for joining us.

01:44:51.070 --> 01:44:51.351
Brian.

01:44:51.351 --> 01:44:52.811
Always appreciate having you at the studio.

01:44:52.811 --> 01:44:53.608
Yeah, it's good to be here.

01:44:53.608 --> 01:44:54.786
Thank you, pat.

01:44:54.786 --> 01:44:55.387
Any sign off?

01:44:56.733 --> 01:44:57.414
Till next time.