Session 17 - Transcript

00:00 [DM (Aarya)] All right, and we're live. Welcome to Phantom Chains session 17. Would somebody like to recap?
00:09 [Sildir (Tris)] Sure. So AI, Sildur has big old honker donkers for the record.
00:20 [DM (Aarya)] I don't think you have to specify that because the AI really likes to give people boops for some reason.
00:27 [Sildir (Tris)] Just the biggest that is sustainable. So last session was session 16. But to understand where session 16 started, we have to understand where session 15 left off.
00:27 [Sildir (Tris)] Session 15, we blew up a guy. His name was Ezek. And really he blew up himself.
00:27 [Sildir (Tris)] Kind of like how we're going to do if Aria does anything to us. But session 16 starts right after that. Right after Ezek blew up.
00:27 [Sildir (Tris)] And with that fight over, we were joined by Silas who probably saw the explosion distance and made their way over. So we decided to head back to our base and short rest. And while we do, Saturno and Mercurio use their newfound decoding skills, or maybe they always had them, I'm not sure, to decode Ezek's message, which is to whack their women is next.
00:27 [Sildir (Tris)] So while that's going on, before the message is fully decoded, we talk a little bit about the chore chart and this and that. We try to boss around Udo a little bit. He just does not care because he's Udo.
00:27 [Sildir (Tris)] And, you know, the message is finally fully decoded and we all start to freak out. So we run to the Whacker house. And that's around like 10 at night now, I think.
00:27 [Sildir (Tris)] Is that right? Or was it 10 in the morning? Yeah, night.
02:04 [DM (Aarya)] I think it's a night. Yeah.
02:05 [Sildir (Tris)] So we knock loudly on the door. The butler gives us some BS and Solder shoves his way in and brings everyone with him. We storm into the living room and intrude on a meeting between Lady Whacker and her guest.
02:05 [Sildir (Tris)] The guest we find is Vasili Von Holt and he's offered aid to establish Whacker as the Burgomaster. We convinced her to let us speak with her privately, despite there being more guests on the way. We let her know that Ezek is a goner, but we explained the note that we found on him to her and we show her his hand as proof that he's dead.
02:05 [Sildir (Tris)] Anywho, someone, I think it was Mercurio, says to Solder to use some paladinly senses. And he does. He uses divine sense.
02:05 [Sildir (Tris)] And with Torm's help and anime on his side, he's able to detect six undead outside. Of course, you know, Solder shares this information and the gang springs into action. So we convinced the butler and the chef to flee and headcanon, they tell the maid to come with them too.
02:05 [Sildir (Tris)] Lady Whacker and most of the party escape through a window. Well, I don't know if it's even most of the party at this point, but Mercurio, Iridel, Ember, and Solder fade back to get the kids out. So we pull up a lot of tricks.
02:05 [Sildir (Tris)] Some of them work, some of them don't. But eventually, you know, we were able to get out even after Vasili let in the undead that were outside. Not without a lot of running around and close calls.
02:05 [Sildir (Tris)] You know, Lady Whacker had to be boosted over the fence. You know, we had an encounter with the undead in the hallway. We got chased and died them through town.
02:05 [Sildir (Tris)] And probably would have died if we fought them ourselves. Especially for Mercurio and who were stuck in like a 3v2. But, you know, we make it without going too far into detail.
02:05 [Sildir (Tris)] There was a note on one of the assassins that was killed by I think it was Father Bryce who did it. He just, you know, the party was all inside the church for context. Like the people who left with Whacker and the kids.
02:05 [Sildir (Tris)] And they made it inside and Father Bryce is basically like, you guys stay here. I work alone. And he steps outside and there's just like three dead bodies when he's done.
02:05 [Sildir (Tris)] And he's like off in the city now fighting more crime. Because he's probably Batman, legally distinct. But we find a note and it says bring her and return to the lake.
02:05 [Sildir (Tris)] So that's probably what they wanted to do with Whacker. There's definitely more going on at the lake. All the while, you know, Iridyll is still having a hard time with the full moon approaching.
02:05 [Sildir (Tris)] But, you know, at this point the whole party's together at the church. And we get a knock at the door. It is the Nightingale aka Bluebird if you were to listen to Arabelle's name for him.
02:05 [Sildir (Tris)] We catch up on all the happenings, disappearings, Arabelle, assassination attempts, yada yada. He knows where their hideout is. So we might end up paying them a visit.
02:05 [Sildir (Tris)] But it's, you know, on the lake and the entrance looks like the maw of a wolf. We ask him as well about the doll. Which doll was that?
02:05 [Sildir (Tris)] The Irina doll? It must have been. That's correct.
02:05 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, so there's no magic on it. But we decide to send it off to Arabelle to see if she has anything to say about it. And we also are gonna go, this is important now because this is what we're gonna do, we're gonna go to Blinsky's in the morning and get her a toy.
02:05 [Sildir (Tris)] And Nightingale will collect it at the church and drop it off for us. Let's see. I think that's the most of it.
02:05 [Sildir (Tris)] Anything else from anybody?
06:45 [Saturno (Steph)] Um, the Wachter's family is at the church. They're pretty scared. Yeah.
06:45 [Saturno (Steph)] I didn't know if we wanted to talk to the, well, the priest isn't there right now. I was gonna bring up like daughter's condition, but that could be something for later. Now that they're in safety.
06:45 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, I think that's it.
07:10 [DM (Aarya)] All right. Well, thank you for the recap, Tris. And with that squared away, I'll go ahead and activate the current scene.
07:10 [DM (Aarya)] So at this point, if you haven't already long rested last time, I believe you were sleeping overnight at the church. So go ahead and take a long rest if you haven't already. As we resume, it'll be dawn at the church early in the morning, as you all are rising from your slumber.
07:10 [DM (Aarya)] And as we do that, I have a short dream sequence for Iridyl. You managed to fall asleep after the chaotic events of the day. And unfortunately, you don't find much solace in your dreams either.
07:10 [DM (Aarya)] So in your dream, you find yourself running through a forest under a cloudy night sky. You're being chased and you hear the snarls and rapid footfalls of predators behind you as you frantically pick a path through the dense woods. Eventually you run out into a clearing of the forest and your gaze is drawn upward to behold a beautiful full moon.
07:10 [DM (Aarya)] The moonlight has an enchanting quality and you find that it washes away your panic and fears. You feel an incredible strength flowing through your body and with it a confidence that soothes your nerves. At the same time, you feel a hunger building within you.
07:10 [DM (Aarya)] It builds and builds into a roaring fire that you can't contain and you let loose a blood-curdling howl. You awake suddenly with a gasp and find that though you're no longer dreaming, the hunger is still present, though much fainter now. Yeah, so the rest of you awake in the church.
07:10 [DM (Aarya)] Some of you have set up makeshift cots on the floor. Some of you are lying in the pews. You look around.
07:10 [DM (Aarya)] The church is mostly empty. You see Milivaj off to the side, just tidying some things away. And he looks to you all and he says, Well, good morning, a lot of you.
07:10 [DM (Aarya)] Good morning. I understand that there was quite a stir last night. Is everyone all right?
07:10 [DM (Aarya)] Are you hurt at all?
09:45 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, I think we're doing okay now. We just had quite a scare last night.
09:52 [DM (Aarya)] Yes. I didn't get much details, but Father Bryce was able to explain some things. Um, we have the walkers staying here now.
09:52 [DM (Aarya)] Um, Father Bryce was able to set them up in a bedroom upstairs. So for the time being, they're secure, though understandably pretty tense. Um, something about vampire assassins?
09:52 [DM (Aarya)] I'm, I didn't quite catch everything.
10:20 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, that, that about covers it.
10:23 [DM (Aarya)] I see. Well, Father Bryce has assured us that so long as we are on church grounds, the hallowed spell of this church grounds should keep us safe from any undead.
10:42 [Mercurio (Gui)] That's comforting.
10:47 [Sildir (Tris)] So what do you think of the father? Do you think he has some secret crime fighting life that we don't know about?
10:55 [DM (Aarya)] Secret crime fighting life? Yeah. Um...
11:02 [Sildir (Tris)] I mean, how did he just kill those three assassins like that?
11:08 [DM (Aarya)] So he was the one who killed the assassins?
11:12 [Sildir (Tris)] He would kind of know that, right? Like the party would, we would assume at least.
11:16 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, that is, that is the picture that you're allowed to assume.
11:19 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, I mean, I, uh, I'll reply to Milivoj then saying, I mean, unless it was you, I don't think it was any of us and I don't think anyone else was here last night.
11:28 [DM (Aarya)] It wasn't me. Well, I mean, I know that Father Bryce is a very capable priest, so...
11:36 [Sildir (Tris)] Powerful man, clearly.
11:37 [DM (Aarya)] I guess. I mean, dealing with undead is kind of the business of holy folk.
11:44 [Sildir (Tris)] He said he came from the special priest town, right? The Abbey of St. Nicodemus. Everyone is a priest.
11:44 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah. I mean, do they train in combat there? I've heard of, I've heard of some monasteries that do such things.
12:01 [DM (Aarya)] Well, I can't say that I know. I mean, I've, I've lived in Wallachia my whole night, my whole life. I've never been to Krezek, but I mean, the Abbey of St. Markovia has long been, has a history of being a holy place in Barovia. So if there were to be a place that would train powerful priests, then I guess it would be there.
12:25 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay, so maybe he's some sort of holy crime fighter.
12:29 [DM (Aarya)] I mean, he's certainly a holy man, but I don't know about crime fighter. I'm not sure where you're getting this from.
12:36 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, well, there is this... Have you seen the guy in the black cloak around town? Have you heard of him?
12:36 [Sildir (Tris)] He's like, able to basically prevent some of the kidnappings that have been going on.
12:53 [DM (Aarya)] Uh, I mean, I've heard the rumors, but I haven't seen this figure myself.
12:59 [Sildir (Tris)] We actually have run into him. And I just, you know, he, uh, him and Father Bryce, they kind of remind me of each other sometimes. But you know, it's not a lot to go off of.
13:10 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'll admit that.
13:11 [Saturno (Steph)] I've never seen them in the same room together.
13:13 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'm gonna elbow, uh, Sildir and be like, hey, ninja, come on, be chill, man.
13:19 [DM (Aarya)] What are you doing? Was, uh, sorry, Mercurio, were you saying something?
13:26 [Mercurio (Gui)] Huh? No, I just, uh, need to remind Grandpa to take his pills.
13:32 [DM (Aarya)] Grandpa? I, uh, sorry.
13:37 [Sildir (Tris)] Uh, Mercurio, he has a bad sense of humor, but... Uh, yeah. I cut your drift, pal.
13:37 [Sildir (Tris)] I get it. Anyways, we should, uh...
13:50 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah. Uh, and maybe we should, uh, check on the Wachter family, like, uh...
14:01 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, yeah, well, they're just upstairs. Father Bryce is with them now. Actually, he did say he wanted to speak to you this morning before you left to go about your business.
14:14 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, we shouldn't keep him waiting then.
14:18 [Sildir (Tris)] Thanks, Millie.
14:19 [DM (Aarya)] Of course. Thank you. Um, so let me, uh, bring y'all to the next scene.
14:31 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, I can see the people downstairs.
14:34 [DM (Aarya)] Can you? Oh, did you go up? I see.
14:34 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
14:38 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay.
14:38 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, should I not have gone up? No, it's fine. I was going to take you there anyway.
14:38 [DM (Aarya)] I forgot there was, like...
14:42 [Sildir (Tris)] If you go up there, Father Bryce will kill you instantly.
14:44 [DM (Aarya)] I forgot there are, like, the funny moments. I don't think I've moved all the tokens there yet, but that's fine. Let me get up there.
14:57 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, this is chippy.
14:59 [DM (Aarya)] Chippy?
15:01 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, how did they do this? That's crazy.
15:02 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, it's cool, right? Um, yeah, so if you haven't already, go ahead and, like, um, go up the stairs, I guess, if you can. How are you able to do it, Key?
15:02 [DM (Aarya)] I just walk up and store my token. Okay. Yeah, I mean, let me know if you guys are able to do it.
15:17 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, yeah, and you click it. Yeah, yeah.
15:20 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah. Okay, I'm here. I can't.
15:20 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh, no, I can.
15:27 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah. You can see people downstairs until they come up and then, like...
15:33 [Speaker 7] Oh, that's cool.
15:34 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
15:35 [Sildir (Tris)] Pretty wild, man. I can't walk through here. I'm stuck in this little square, but that's okay.
15:43 [DM (Aarya)] Um, that's okay. Let me, uh, bring over...
15:46 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, yeah, he has a wall, this guy. That's why.
15:50 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, yeah. He's solid. He's a brick house.
15:53 [DM (Aarya)] Where, um, was I able to do it? I mean, it's...
16:00 [Sildir (Tris)] You gotta just click on that door.
16:01 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, I mean, it's not a big deal. We're just gonna be, like, uh, chatting and noticing. I'm stuck.
16:01 [DM (Aarya)] And where is...
16:12 [Mercurio (Gui)] Hey, you two owe me drinks, by the way.
16:15 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, sure, man. Like, I think we owe you a lot more than drinks.
16:20 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, but we could start there.
16:22 [DM (Aarya)] You know what? Next time come by the blue water inn, your drinks are on me. All right, so you make your way upstairs and you find your...
16:22 [DM (Aarya)] You find the, um, the Wachters settled into this very modest living quarters upstairs. Father Bryce is sitting with Lady Wachter. He seems to be, like, putting her at ease, assuring her that she'll be safe here.
16:22 [DM (Aarya)] And yeah, so Father Bryce will turn to the rest of you as you come up the stairs. I see you've, uh, you've risen from the excitement last night.
17:11 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, excitement is one way to put it. Thank you for handling what you did.
17:18 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, well, it is my duty to keep the flock safe. But on that note, there are some important matters that we must discuss.
17:31 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay, what do you have to say?
17:35 [DM (Aarya)] We'll have to... I'll need to move. I'll need to take you somewhere more secure.
17:35 [DM (Aarya)] It's matters... These matters are... Well, they're delicate and I need to know that I can trust you all.
17:35 [DM (Aarya)] So Father Bryce will lead you again downstairs. Actually, I'm gonna... Okay, so he'll lead you...
17:57 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm actually stuck behind the frat boys right now. I can't leave. I literally can't get out.
18:05 [DM (Aarya)] There's gonna be a couple scene switches here, so it's...
18:08 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, I can diagonal it. Okay, I made it. Sylvia, you're stuck thick side down.
18:08 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, I'm stuck thick side down, it's true. I made it out though.
18:19 [DM (Aarya)] So Father Bryce will lead you downstairs. He'll whisper a word to Milivaj to look after the walkers upstairs. Milivaj will hastily make his way up and he will lead you down to the end of the church.
18:19 [DM (Aarya)] It's near where the altar is and he'll pull aside... He'll pull aside a rug and reveal a secret trap door. He pulls out a key from a necklace that he's wearing and unlocks the door and leads you to the crypt below.
18:19 [DM (Aarya)] So let me switch... Let me switch the scene. Let's see, where is...
18:19 [DM (Aarya)] I got so many scenes.
19:08 [Mercurio (Gui)] Is there a butler down here?
19:11 [DM (Aarya)] Is there a butler down here? Gosh.
19:14 [Mercurio (Gui)] Wait, Milivaj, this is Robin.
19:16 [DM (Aarya)] I am really glad you guys are enjoying this. Let's see. All right.
19:25 [Sildir (Tris)] Wait, Bryce, Bruce... Hold on.
19:29 [Mercurio (Gui)] Wait, you're cooking. It was in front of us the whole time. Master, Bruce, Father, Bryce.
19:29 [Mercurio (Gui)] No.
19:38 [DM (Aarya)] All right. So activating this scene. Okay.
19:38 [DM (Aarya)] So you find yourselves in the crypt of the church of Saint Andral. It's a pretty like... It's clearly very old.
19:38 [DM (Aarya)] The stone walls are kind of like crumbling a little bit. They've been kind of haphazardly maintained. And on the far end of the crypt on a table, a stone table, you see staked into a coffin is the remains of what looks to be one of the vampire assassins that you've been dealing with.
19:38 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, shit. So Father Bryce turns to you all. So I think you all have proven your trustworthiness in these past few days.
19:38 [DM (Aarya)] It's time, I think, that I brought you into the fold. And he'll move to pull down the hood of his priest robes. And as he does so, you see that his form shimmers for a moment.
19:38 [DM (Aarya)] And the figure that was Father Bryce is replaced by... Let's see. Uh, Mr. Nightingale.
21:11 [Speaker 7] Yippee!
21:12 [DM (Aarya)] My god.
21:14 [Mercurio (Gui)] Wait, so Father Bryce is Nightingale. Wait, I thought he was Batman.
21:19 [DM (Aarya)] Who's Batman?
21:22 [Mercurio (Gui)] All right. That's in character.
21:27 [DM (Aarya)] Batman? Like, I still don't understand who you guys are on about with Batman.
21:32 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, there was this person we saw, another crime fighter like you. And we actually met them once. And they had a long black cloak.
21:32 [Sildir (Tris)] And they said, I work alone.
21:44 [DM (Aarya)] Uh, yeah. He's... he tends to be pretty dramatic.
21:44 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, he doesn't really call himself anything. I just call him V for short, but...
21:50 [Mercurio (Gui)] V? Yeah. V?
21:50 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah. V for what?
21:55 [DM (Aarya)] Does he have some kind of vendetta or something? Well, you know, whenever he's, like, facing, like, the big bad or whatever, he always goes around being like, oh, I'm Vengeance. So I just call him V for short.
21:55 [DM (Aarya)] You know?
22:14 [Sildir (Tris)] Vengeance. Could get behind a guy like that. It's a shame that he insists on working alone.
22:20 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, he's a stubborn bastard in that regard. But that's actually kind of what I need your help for. Um, I'm...
22:20 [DM (Aarya)] Well, I'm worried. I think he's gotten himself into more trouble than he can chew on his own. Uh, he went off to deal with the assassins last night, and he hasn't returned since.
22:20 [DM (Aarya)] And I've been left here playing the part of old Father Bryce. And I don't know how long I can keep that up. Oh, wait, so he is Bryce?
22:20 [DM (Aarya)] Listen, just, he's... If he were around for this, he'd be really upset that I shared this. I don't know.
22:20 [DM (Aarya)] I'm in a tough spot here. I had to make a tough call. And I think you guys are trustworthy.
22:20 [DM (Aarya)] But yeah, keep this on the down-low. Don't go around screaming it from the rooftops.
23:12 [Mercurio (Gui)] But... I like side-eye Sylveer. Yeah, don't go screaming it from the rooftops.
23:17 [Sildir (Tris)] I was just asking questions to Millivodge, which in hindsight was in a bad judgment. But yeah, no more screaming anything.
23:25 [DM (Aarya)] Millivodge is not in the note. He's a completely innocent young boy. Just don't involve him.
23:30 [Sildir (Tris)] All I really asked him is, is there any chance that Father Bryce has a night life of crime fighting and secret training from a monastery?
23:41 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, well...
23:42 [Sildir (Tris)] I guess that sounds pretty bad, actually. You're not... I'll just be more careful going forward.
23:47 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, clearly you haven't really been in this line of work. But we tend to value our secrets and keep them close to our chests. Anyway, I suspect that he went off to the court's hideout to deal with him on his own.
23:47 [DM (Aarya)] And I think that honestly was probably a bad move. I really don't think he can take them all by himself, despite of what he might think. So I'm hoping that's where you guys come in.
23:47 [DM (Aarya)] The Maw of the Wolf is where we have to go. Exactly. I did share with you all the location of the hideout's entrance.
23:47 [DM (Aarya)] And with, well, a lot of you, I'm sure you guys can handle it. And once you meet up with him, then with your combined efforts, you can hopefully take down this court once and for all. And we can all go back to normal.
24:40 [Sildir (Tris)] Dang. What are you gonna do?
24:43 [DM (Aarya)] Well, somebody has to watch over the church.
24:46 [Sildir (Tris)] I see. Okay. So you'll be around for a bit?
24:49 [DM (Aarya)] I'll be around here as long as I can manage it. I mean, I'm not going to leave as long as there's danger around. And I did promise the Voctors that I would keep them safe.
25:00 [Sildir (Tris)] You're a good guy, Nightingale. I just wanted to make sure that, you know, this is obviously much more urgent than getting Arabella a toy. But it's good to know that you'll be here and we'll still have a chance to drop it off with you.
25:10 [DM (Aarya)] And speaking of Arabella, I did talk to Ez too. And she said she would look after Arabella as well, just in case.
25:20 [Sildir (Tris)] Ez, is she the... Is that the name of the boomstick girl?
25:24 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, you met her, right?
25:27 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, I met her, all right. Gun to my head, I met her.
25:31 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, she tends to leave a pretty strong impression.
25:35 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, well, she'll keep Arabella safe, I'm sure.
25:39 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, what about...
25:43 [DM (Aarya)] And as you guys are speaking, Sililus speaks up and he volunteers to stay behind at the church and help guard the Voctors. But yeah, continue, Mercury.
25:56 [Mercurio (Gui)] But what about the... I'm a bit interested to know about the Voctor plans. Because, well...
25:56 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, you know, they might have been involved in a small little... You know, just a little bit of collusion, a little bit of a coup thing, you know? Just a little one to overthrow the Baron.
25:56 [Mercurio (Gui)] And I don't know how much of that is maybe relevant to this. And also, how much of that is in motion. I don't know what other plans they had going on.
26:38 [DM (Aarya)] Well, I can't say that I've investigated that specifically, but I've had some time to speak with Lady Voctor and judge her character. And as far as I can tell, I mean, she seems to genuinely care for the people of Vallaki. And her actions suggest that she's trying to look out for the good of her town.
26:38 [DM (Aarya)] And if that means overthrowing the Baron, whom literally nobody likes, then, I mean, I can't say that I blame her, honestly.
27:09 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm just scared that her entire plan revolved around this Vassili guy, who really was just out to get her. I hope she has some other forces in mind.
27:17 [Mercurio (Gui)] I wonder if Vassili was kind of always, you know, if he was always the plan, like that's kind of where the whole thing originated from or what, you know? Yeah, maybe it was someone else. Someone else is the mole and they leaked the plans and that led to the assassination attempt.
27:40 [DM (Aarya)] These are good questions. Well, I'll try to see what I can get from her and see if she's willing to talk about it. Understandably, she is pretty shaken up right now.
27:53 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, she wants to be a leader who needs to shape up and start thinking.
28:00 [DM (Aarya)] I agree. But in fairness, she did just escape an attempt on her life. So maybe give her a little bit of slack.
28:07 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, we could give her a few hours.
28:12 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, well.
28:15 [Sildir (Tris)] There's some slack, but she needs to realize Vassili coming to kill her wasn't just for fun and having it happen on the night that we killed Isik is no coincidence.
28:25 [DM (Aarya)] So it certainly isn't.
28:27 [Sildir (Tris)] Maybe walk us through that one in our absence.
28:30 [DM (Aarya)] All right, I'll bring it up. But on that note, there is some more pressing news. It seems the court isn't pleased that Lady Voctor escaped their clutches last night.
28:30 [DM (Aarya)] And this morning, as I was heading out to meet with Ez, I spotted some of the fangs splitting about in broad daylight. They usually stick to the shadows. So if they're willing to operate now in the morning, then, well, it seems we need to accelerate our plans and deal with them sooner than later.
29:13 [Sildir (Tris)] Do you have any proposals?
29:17 [DM (Aarya)] Well, it's like I said, hopefully you're able to infiltrate their hideout, meet up with V and take them down from the inside. And I'll hold down the fort here.
29:28 [Sildir (Tris)] Do you know anything about what might be waiting for us there? What's there that if we go and take care of it is going to end this organization?
29:39 [DM (Aarya)] Well, an organization like this, we've been tracing some of their communications and as far as we can tell, they have some kind of hierarchy. There's someone at the top of the chain who's running this whole operation. These assassins, these fangs, I mean, I've had some time with V to question this one.
29:39 [DM (Aarya)] And he gestures to the assassin staked in the coffin. And they're pretty tough, but they're also, well, they're not exactly intelligent. They need to be ordered about.
29:39 [DM (Aarya)] They're basically just instruments that somebody is maneuvering to further their own plans. So if we find this person, and I assume that they'll be at the hideout and deal with them, then there's no one else left to pull the strings.
30:34 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, I hope you're right, but I think it's our best bet.
30:39 [DM (Aarya)] I really wish I had more to give you, but I'm going to be honest, we are desperate now.
30:50 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, I have to agree with you. But it doesn't mean this is going to fail just because we're desperate. It might still be the best move we could be taking.
31:04 [DM (Aarya)] And yeah, and honestly, after seeing you guys in action last night, I honestly have a bit of faith. You guys managed to pull through a pretty tight spot. So try to keep that going forward.
31:22 [Sildir (Tris)] Do you have any intel on how many strong they might be? I mean, we would have been basically matched in numbers last night, which is, it would be a tough fight. So I don't know that their base, I mean, do they all hang around there?
31:22 [Sildir (Tris)] Are they more dispersed?
31:39 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, Vee and I have been tracking their motions as much as we could. And it seems like at this point, between him and myself, we've taken out most of their numbers. So I'm sure they keep some reserves in their hideout for themselves.
31:39 [DM (Aarya)] But I mean, as long as you all stick together, keep your wits about you, I think that's the best you can hope for.
32:11 [Sildir (Tris)] Do we have some holy water on us, guys?
32:18 [Saturno (Steph)] I don't have any of that in my inventory.
32:21 [Sildir (Tris)] I don't either.
32:23 [Saturno (Steph)] Can we get something on me?
32:25 [DM (Aarya)] Actually, Bryce was able to make some before last night. And he will hand you all each a flask of holy water. Let me figure out how I want to do this.
32:25 [DM (Aarya)] All right, so give one to you. Not you. Hold on.
32:25 [DM (Aarya)] So that's for Ember. This one's for Mercurio.
33:29 [Ember (Spurthi)] Oh, I got it.
33:31 [DM (Aarya)] This one is for Eridel. This one's for Saturna. And for Sildir.
33:31 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so y'all should each have a flask of holy water. Yeah, yeah, I mean, again, I wish I could give you all more. But my hands are tied here.
34:09 [Sildir (Tris)] No, we understand. This should be helpful.
34:14 [DM (Aarya)] One piece of intel that I can give you. The assassins, they come in two varieties. And the weaker ones, they're a lot less tough.
34:14 [DM (Aarya)] They aren't vampires. We, V and I, think that they're like some kind of zombie or thrall. And they're weak to the cold.
34:14 [DM (Aarya)] The cold. Um.
34:48 [Saturno (Steph)] Do you happen to have any information about the layout of the hideout?
34:55 [DM (Aarya)] This is where I wish V had coordinated with me on this. We could have scattered it out and gotten some intel. But no, he always has to do things himself.
34:55 [DM (Aarya)] So he went off without letting me know. And am I right? Honestly, yeah.
34:55 [DM (Aarya)] But yeah, I just. I hope he doesn't get himself killed doing this.
35:33 [Mercurio (Gui)] He can take care of himself.
35:37 [DM (Aarya)] I really hope so.
35:38 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'm sure. I mean, we'll still come to his rescue. But I'm sure he's all right.
35:43 [Sildir (Tris)] I bet he'll at least afford us an opportunity to help him out of whatever situation he's in. But we should probably get going unless there's anything else you need to tell us.
35:53 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, yes, yes. I think that is everything I can give you, at least. And you're right.
35:53 [DM (Aarya)] Time is of the essence.
36:02 [Sildir (Tris)] Could be in peril as we speak.
36:05 [DM (Aarya)] Oh gosh, yeah. Yes, please hurry.
36:10 [Sildir (Tris)] When is the festival in town, by the way, that the Baron is holding?
36:13 [DM (Aarya)] Good question. So this morning is the morning of Niavar 8th. And tomorrow the 9th is the day of the festival.
36:13 [DM (Aarya)] And that night at midnight is the full moon.
36:25 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, so I guess I'll pretend that I just remembered that because I probably would. I was asking out loud, but you can do it to me asking the DM. Okay, cool.
36:25 [Sildir (Tris)] So that's Nightingale saying that then. All right, cool. So okay, well, that's concerning.
36:25 [Sildir (Tris)] Iridel, how are you hanging in over there?
36:47 [Irredel (Sav)] I am. This is a... I'm not doing great.
36:47 [Irredel (Sav)] I don't know, I just feel hungry and a little faint. I think I need to sit down. I was plagued with these terrible dreams last night.
37:16 [DM (Aarya)] Dreams? Nightmares, really. Well, I have some field rations that I can share with you all if that would help.
37:29 [Mercurio (Gui)] What do you have? She has a condition.
37:33 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, so you're Iridel. Yes, Fee caught me up to speed and I'm so sorry. I know that he helped you with the wolfsbane potion, but I know that's not really a cure and just, well...
37:33 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, I'm sorry.
37:55 [Irredel (Sav)] My mentality is things can always be worse. At least we were able to have the wolfsbane.
38:01 [DM (Aarya)] That's true. And I think more and more these days we need exactly that kind of perspective. But yeah, he'll hand each of you some field rations that he has.
38:01 [DM (Aarya)] It's just a collection of hardtack, some cheese, jerky, and the like. Scarfing down that jerky. I know it's not much, but it's what I can offer at the moment.
38:34 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah, scarfing it down. And I'm going to look at Sildur and hold out my hand.
38:42 [Sildir (Tris)] I don't really question it. I'm just going to give her the jerky, seeing that she scarfed that down. And I'm going to ask Nightingale...
38:53 [DM (Aarya)] Also, really quick, Sildur. So as you see Iridel reach her hand out to you, you notice for a moment... Well, not for a moment.
38:53 [DM (Aarya)] But you notice that her hands are a bit more veiny than you remember. And her nails are longer and pointier.
39:15 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh dear. Yeah, Nightingale. Should she take the potion?
39:15 [Sildir (Tris)] Do you know anything about wolfsbane potions?
39:25 [DM (Aarya)] I mean, I'm not an expert like V is, but I know a bit. You're supposed to administer it.
39:30 [Sildir (Tris)] Did she take it earlier?
39:32 [DM (Aarya)] It won't stop a transformation while it's happening. And it won't cure a transformation once you're already in werewolf form or anything. But if you take it on the night of the full moon before nightfall, then when the moon rises, instead of transforming into a full-on werewolf, you'll turn into a wolf and retain control of your minds and your senses.
40:00 [Sildir (Tris)] So now would be too early?
40:02 [DM (Aarya)] Yes.
40:03 [Sildir (Tris)] Would it help her at all if she took some? We have a couple doses, I think.
40:08 [DM (Aarya)] I wish I could say it does, but I'm afraid it doesn't work that way.
40:12 [Irredel (Sav)] And plus I'd want to save those anyways for the future, next month.
40:20 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
40:20 [Irredel (Sav)] Want to make sure we're prepared for then.
40:23 [Sildir (Tris)] You always are so practical. Okay then, can't be helped. Thank you, Nightingale.
40:30 [DM (Aarya)] Of course. And thank you all.
40:39 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, I mean, you got it. We're just doing our best here. Glad there's people like you around.
40:46 [DM (Aarya)] Likewise. And with that, I assume the group is headed off to the lake? Yeah, I'd say so.
40:46 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. So you exit the church. You make your way to the shores of Lake Zarovich.
40:46 [DM (Aarya)] Do I have the scene active here? Yes, okay. Yeah, Isik's not here anymore, he's dead.
40:46 [DM (Aarya)] So Lys isn't here either.
41:17 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm back.
41:19 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
41:21 [Sildir (Tris)] I unexploded.
41:23 [DM (Aarya)] I imploded positively. Oh my goodness. All right, so once more, you find yourselves leaving the church, walking to the northern road leading out of Vallaki, and you go down the path that leads out to the shore of the lake.
41:23 [DM (Aarya)] The lake is surrounded by dense forest, and going by the instructions that Nightingale gave, you are on the lookout on the shore's edge, looking for the maw of the wolf that he described. Everyone give me, or at least everyone who's actively looking, give me perception checks.
42:16 [Saturno (Steph)] Perceive?
42:17 [DM (Aarya)] Oh yeah, let's see. Oh, I got a nat 20.
42:19 [Saturno (Steph)] Perceiving my cats fighting? Hold on.
42:23 [DM (Aarya)] Perceiving your cats fighting? Uh-oh. All right, so Mercurial got a 5, Ember got a 24, Hirudal got a 13, and Sildar got a nat 20.
42:23 [DM (Aarya)] All right, yeah, so Sildar. Sorry. Yeah, no worries.
42:23 [DM (Aarya)] And Saturnal got a 15. Okay, pretty good. Yeah, across the board, except for Mercurial.
42:41 [Sildir (Tris)] We noticed something.
42:43 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so Sildar, with a nat 20, you pretty quickly spot, you kind of notice it. It isn't immediately obvious unless you know what to look for, but you've noticed near the shore of the lake, there is a sort of grotto. It's kind of built, it's kind of like in a recess underneath like some roots of a tree.
42:43 [DM (Aarya)] And the formation of the grotto and the roots sticking out, it gives the impression of the maw of a wolf.
43:16 [Sildir (Tris)] Guys, look over there. Turn your head sideways and squint. Do you see it?
43:24 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh my god, it's a wolf.
43:26 [Sildir (Tris)] I know.
43:28 [Ember (Spurthi)] Yeah, it looks like it.
43:33 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, that was, yeah, pretty easy, I guess. Yeah, Nightingale was right. They are a little obvious once you know what to look for.
43:43 [DM (Aarya)] Very interesting, this cards. All right, so are you guys approaching?
43:49 [Irredel (Sav)] I wonder which came first, the hideout or the name?
43:56 [Mercurio (Gui)] I feel like they probably had to find the cave first.
44:00 [Irredel (Sav)] That's what I'm saying.
44:01 [Mercurio (Gui)] Too convenient. And then they were like, well, now that we have this cave, we have to come up with a cool wolf.
44:08 [Irredel (Sav)] I suppose it could have been the Court of Dogs. If you squint, it could also look like a dog.
44:14 [Mercurio (Gui)] I wonder if not for this cave, if there would be a Court of Wolves at all. It could be like a bear too.
44:19 [DM (Aarya)] Or like a rat.
44:19 [Irredel (Sav)] Could be a bear. The Court of Bears.
44:22 [DM (Aarya)] Court of Bears.
44:25 [Sildir (Tris)] If they could have found an owl-shaped cave.
44:27 [DM (Aarya)] Oh my god, just...
44:30 [Irredel (Sav)] That strains credulity a little bit, don't you think?
44:34 [Sildir (Tris)] A little bit. I have an active imagination sometimes. Well, I guess we can't go beat those guys up without getting closer to them, right?
44:49 [Saturno (Steph)] Let's go break their legs.
44:51 [DM (Aarya)] You're approaching?
44:54 [Sildir (Tris)] Exactly, I'm glad you got it.
44:59 [DM (Aarya)] All right, so you approach the entrance of this cave. One by one, you all step up. You kind of lean in.
44:59 [DM (Aarya)] You see that this little cave here is pretty... I mean, it's a pretty small cave. You find that the five of you can barely fit in yourselves.
44:59 [DM (Aarya)] You don't really notice anything here. However, Iridel, as soon as you pass closer to the inside wall of the cave, you see on the wall some glowing red text appear. And I'm going to post that in Discord for you all.
44:59 [DM (Aarya)] And this text is in the secret script that you have all uncovered on your adventures.
45:49 [Irredel (Sav)] So I'm the only one who can see it?
45:51 [DM (Aarya)] Or I just noticed it? It only appears when you come close, but everyone can see it.
45:59 [Irredel (Sav)] Okay, so I'm going to back away and see if it fades.
46:02 [DM (Aarya)] It does.
46:08 [Irredel (Sav)] You see the area? Yeah, look at the cave wall. This text appears and glows and gets stronger the closer I get.
46:08 [Irredel (Sav)] And look, when I step away, it disappears again. Do I see that?
46:21 [DM (Aarya)] You do, yes. Yeah, everyone, once Iridel points it out, you all can notice it as she steps closer and further.
46:30 [Irredel (Sav)] We need to... I'm going to back away from it. I'm assuming this is like some sort of magical werewolf detecting thing.
46:30 [Irredel (Sav)] It's translated?
46:46 [Speaker 7] Translated? Yeah.
46:50 [Mercurio (Gui)] Curio's going to walk up to it and inspect it.
46:55 [DM (Aarya)] Well, as long as Iridel's not standing with you there, then the text is not visible.
47:02 [Irredel (Sav)] Okay, I'm going to stand just close enough for it to be visible, yeah. Copy it down quick.
47:10 [Mercurio (Gui)] You'll see Mercurio roll up his sleeve, and he has a bunch of ink all over his arm. And then he's going to hold it up next to the thing and say, blood of prey opens the way.
47:31 [Sildir (Tris)] Is that what it says?
47:34 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, that's what it says. Look, just match it up with the letters I wrote down on my arm.
47:38 [DM (Aarya)] Oh wow, you've gotten really good at this. Does Mercurio have the key for the cipher on his arm?
47:47 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, he wrote down the letters in order.
47:50 [DM (Aarya)] That's awesome. Okay, yeah, Mercurio, take inspiration for that.
47:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] Let's go.
47:55 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, that was so fast.
47:57 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, that was pretty fast. Blood of prey opens the way.
48:02 [Mercurio (Gui)] Blood of prey.
48:06 [Irredel (Sav)] Well, there's two possibilities. Prey is either humans, or if these are vampires, then werewolves might be their prey.
48:26 [Mercurio (Gui)] I think the prey is us. Oh, go ahead, Mercurio. I think the prey might be us.
48:26 [Mercurio (Gui)] Just people blood.
48:37 [Saturno (Steph)] I can feel a little blood. I have higher HP. Maybe I could prick my finger or something.
49:01 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, yeah, I guess if they are vampires, then to them, anything with normal blood would probably be prey. I don't know. I can't get ahead of these sickos.
49:01 [Sildir (Tris)] But I think it's worth a shot. That's our no.
49:23 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, so I take out my greatsword, and I kind of like go along the tip of my finger very carefully. And then I squeeze the fuck out of my finger. Where do I put this?
49:23 [Saturno (Steph)] That's on the wall. Okay, so I approach the wall, and I kind of just like rub it on the wall.
49:54 [DM (Aarya)] All right. So as you rub it on the wall, Saturno, you feel a burning sensation on your fingers, where you're contacting the wall, basically. You take a point of damage, and you feel some rumbling.
49:54 [DM (Aarya)] And the back wall of the cave shakes and quivers and then basically crumbles. And reveals a passageway leading deeper underground. Peering into the passageway, you can see it extends a little bit further down, not terribly far, maybe like 10 feet or so, in like a steep decline.
49:54 [DM (Aarya)] And you see some flickering torch lights at the bottom.
51:00 [Ember (Spurthi)] Do we need to offer blood too?
51:03 [DM (Aarya)] What'd you say?
51:04 [Ember (Spurthi)] What'd you say? Do we need to offer blood too to get into this passageway?
51:08 [DM (Aarya)] It looks like just Saturno's blood was enough to open the passageway and keep it open.
51:13 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay.
51:19 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, only if you want to at this point, Ember. I think it looks like we can let through.
51:25 [Speaker 7] All right.
51:29 [Saturno (Steph)] Well, there are lights, so I guess let's just be ready.
51:34 [Speaker 7] Yeah.
51:35 [Irredel (Sav)] I guess I'll go ahead and lead the way. Something about my presence here is working to get us on the right path, I guess.
51:49 [Saturno (Steph)] Can we do an inspection? Or like, maybe an investigation? Or maybe someone could do an arcana check alongside that, just to make sure there's no traps.
51:49 [Saturno (Steph)] Can we do an investigation? I don't know if someone wants to check for magic.
52:12 [Speaker 7] Yeah, I did an arcana check.
52:14 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, thank god.
52:16 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so we got 13 arcana from Iridel, a three investigation from Saturno, and a five arcana from Ember. So between the three of you, you don't detect anything, like any hidden traps or anything of the sort. It just seems like, I mean, the only magic that you can kind of detect is coming from the door itself.
52:16 [DM (Aarya)] It seems there was some kind of enchantment there that was expecting payment to open the passage, and that has now been dealt with. Yeah.
52:55 [Saturno (Steph)] I'd also like to say I kind of clean off my finger and try to wrap it up.
52:59 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
53:00 [Saturno (Steph)] Because I go to the vampires, they're like the vampires in Twilight, you know.
53:04 [Mercurio (Gui)] Can never be too careful. True. Like, hot?
53:11 [Saturno (Steph)] Well, yeah, but in addition to hot, I think it's smell blood.
53:16 [DM (Aarya)] Oh my gosh. It's Edward Cullen.
53:20 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh no. Okay, so I guess I could go alongside Iridel as she leads the way, just in case.
53:37 [Irredel (Sav)] Let's go side by side. All right.
53:40 [Sildir (Tris)] But... Yeah, I'll be close behind.
53:44 [Irredel (Sav)] Either it's a trap laid specifically for werewolves, or there's something here that is cohesive with the curse I've been affected with. Either way, I'm taking it to my advantage. Getting to the bottom of this one way or another.
54:01 [Sildir (Tris)] This is called the Court of Wolves, after all. Maybe there's some truth to that name.
54:07 [Irredel (Sav)] Maybe it's vampire-werewolf collusion.
54:12 [Sildir (Tris)] Could be. If anyone will uproot collusion, I think it's you.
54:19 [Mercurio (Gui)] We were attacked by werewolves earlier on, too. So, it seems everybody's out to get us.
54:29 [DM (Aarya)] Fair game, honestly.
54:31 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, we'll get to the bottom of this cave.
54:35 [DM (Aarya)] All right, so is everyone entering?
54:40 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay.
54:41 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, wonderful. I'm so excited. All right, let me...
54:48 [Sildir (Tris)] I turn around, I go home.
54:51 [DM (Aarya)] All right, so...
54:58 [Sildir (Tris)] I give up and open a coffee shop in Tlaqui. Just try my best to live a normal life.
55:02 [DM (Aarya)] Well, you descend down into this deep, dark dungeon. You are greeted by this simple entrance area. There are two torches on opposing walls lighting this cobblestone room.
55:02 [DM (Aarya)] And on the far wall opposite to where you entered is a door built into the wall, leading deeper into the depths.
55:37 [Sildir (Tris)] So, hold on. Can you ping where the other door is? Or, like, where did we come from and where's the next door?
55:42 [DM (Aarya)] You came from, like, back here. I don't actually have it, like, in the scene. But, like, imagine just, like, a narrow...
55:42 [DM (Aarya)] a steep staircase, like, leading downward in here.
55:51 [Sildir (Tris)] And this is the other door.
55:52 [DM (Aarya)] And that's the door here, yeah.
55:53 [Sildir (Tris)] This appears to be the only way to go forward, right? At a glance.
55:56 [DM (Aarya)] Yes.
55:57 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay. Uh, I guess the only way is forward, huh? Yeah, I have an old saying.
55:57 [Sildir (Tris)] Sometimes the only way out is through. So, I guess we go through.
56:20 [Saturno (Steph)] Um, so, can I open the door?
56:24 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, let's do it. We'll be right behind you.
56:27 [Saturno (Steph)] All right, door open.
56:31 [DM (Aarya)] Uh, wait, give me one sec. I need to...
56:32 [Speaker 7] Oh, fuck. Sorry.
56:34 [DM (Aarya)] I just need to double check something that I configure with the scene. Really quick.
56:39 [Sildir (Tris)] And Saturno walks into the only other spike trap in the campaign.
56:44 [DM (Aarya)] Literally.
56:45 [Saturno (Steph)] There's cheese. Could you imagine? Once again.
56:52 [DM (Aarya)] Um, let me do this.
56:58 [Sildir (Tris)] Dang, he's on that chronic.
57:02 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Um, so, really quick. Saturno, what do you see on your side?
57:02 [DM (Aarya)] Just double checking.
57:13 [Saturno (Steph)] All I see is, um, I can see that there's a corner up ahead. And that there's a passage, uh, to my right.
57:24 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
57:25 [Saturno (Steph)] That's it. Yeah, perfect. That's all.
57:27 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, just checking. So, peering into the corridor, Saturno and everyone else peering down, you can see that it is completely pitch dark. Some of you have dark vision and can navigate.
57:27 [DM (Aarya)] You can see in the dark in, like, grayscale. But for those of you that don't have dark vision, it is totally dark and you can't see at all. Some of you, I think, do have torches in your inventory.
57:27 [DM (Aarya)] And I did add a module to help facilitate that. So, if you right-click your character token in the scene, you should see, like, some icons pop up around your character. And in the top left, there's, like, a flame icon that will light a torch that you have on you.
57:27 [DM (Aarya)] I think I did it.
58:08 [Irredel (Sav)] Weird question. Considering that I've, like, started changing, do you werewolves have dark vision?
58:18 [DM (Aarya)] Um, I think yes, but you don't yet. I don't yet. Okay.
58:23 [Sildir (Tris)] I don't think you want that.
58:25 [Irredel (Sav)] So, it's only, like, the actual full moon that I would have it when I'm, like, in.
58:31 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay.
58:33 [Irredel (Sav)] All right.
58:35 [Saturno (Steph)] As an ASMR, like, I have lightbearer. How long does that last for? Do you know?
58:45 [DM (Aarya)] Um, good question.
58:47 [Saturno (Steph)] Let me see.
58:47 [Mercurio (Gui)] If I just leave a chat, it might come up. It's just the light cantrip, so.
58:53 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so, light lasts for an hour at a time. And it's a cantrip and it doesn't require concentration. So, you can recast it as you need to.
58:53 [DM (Aarya)] But yeah, if you, like, right click on yourself stuff, you should see, like, the flame icon. And if you click that, it'll light up. I think Triss already did it and it looks like it is active.
59:11 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh, okay.
59:12 [Mercurio (Gui)] You don't have to hold it. You can just put it on, like, your armor or something.
59:18 [DM (Aarya)] Got it.
59:18 [Sildir (Tris)] And my armor has a built-in torch slot, actually.
59:21 [DM (Aarya)] Nice. Very convenient. Yeah, the thing is with the light thing, if you place the template, it just, like, does this stupid circle thing.
59:21 [DM (Aarya)] It's, yeah.
59:30 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah.
59:31 [Sildir (Tris)] My armor has cup holders.
59:33 [DM (Aarya)] Oh my gosh.
59:34 [Mercurio (Gui)] Just kidding, just kidding. It does not. Well, yeah, it has cup holders for your...
59:34 [Mercurio (Gui)] That's right.
59:46 [DM (Aarya)] Oh my gosh, yes. It's the Mercurio's line. All right.
59:46 [DM (Aarya)] Well, you're no longer paused. So, yeah, feel free to explore at your leisure.
01:00:01 [Saturno (Steph)] Can I inspect the floor? Yeah. I'm scared.
01:00:07 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, go for it.
01:00:09 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay.
01:00:11 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, go ahead and describe for me, like, what you're doing to inspect, and then I'll tell you what to roll.
01:00:16 [Saturno (Steph)] I kind of, like, get close to the floor, right?
01:00:20 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
01:00:21 [Saturno (Steph)] And I use, like, my... I take off my shoe and I, like, extend my arm to, like, touch the floors to see if it's, like, steady or not.
01:00:29 [DM (Aarya)] Sure, okay. Yeah, you can roll either Investigation or Perception, your choice. What looks better?
01:00:29 [DM (Aarya)] Investigation. Yeah, 18 Investigation check, yes. So, looking out, you see with your steady eye and your careful investigation, you can tell that the floor ahead of you is stable.
01:00:54 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, love that. Okay, so I kind of look at the gang and I give a thumbs up. Okay.
01:00:54 [Saturno (Steph)] These floors are good. Okay. I almost don't know if I should trust her or not.
01:01:15 [Sildir (Tris)] She's either a full expert on floors now or the worst person to trust.
01:01:21 [Mercurio (Gui)] But I want to go with a full expert. She's an expert. Back in the war, she was our certified floor checker.
01:01:28 [Sildir (Tris)] I feel like, yeah, like, kind of like a mind sweeper, though. She's fallen into a spike trap and fallen through a floor in a tower.
01:01:36 [Irredel (Sav)] Completely unnecessarily. Well, it sounds like she's good at finding them.
01:01:39 [Sildir (Tris)] That's true. Lead the way, Sisarda.
01:01:41 [Irredel (Sav)] She's just not good at protecting herself from them. But she found every single trap. All of them.
01:01:41 [Irredel (Sav)] I mean, it's a remarkable odds, if you think about it. That this one person is capable of just catching all of them. It's a burden I must carry.
01:02:02 [Saturno (Steph)] Statistically, you know. I think we should go this way. I don't know.
01:02:02 [Saturno (Steph)] Let's go this way. I don't know. There's like a door all the way down here.
01:02:12 [DM (Aarya)] Also, you can use, when you have your token selected, you can use arrow keys to move your character if you want. You can hold and click. Click and hold left click.
01:02:23 [Saturno (Steph)] So right here, there's like a door. I don't know where it leads. And there's like a passage over here.
01:02:32 [Mercurio (Gui)] So check it out.
01:02:35 [DM (Aarya)] Also, really quick, I will point out, you do maybe want to be mindful about where you move around your token. If you move freely and split off from the group, you may encounter something. What do you see in there?
01:02:35 [DM (Aarya)] For the sake of this exploration, I'm going to treat your position of your token as your actual position of your character. And whatever consequences that come with that will occur.
01:03:09 [Sildir (Tris)] Can you just treat Iridel as if she's moving with the group and she won't be eating around exploring?
01:03:15 [Speaker 7] Iridel? Yeah.
01:03:21 [Sildir (Tris)] Because Savannah's doing a little bit of understandable multitasking right now.
01:03:25 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, yeah, sure.
01:03:26 [Sildir (Tris)] That's all.
01:03:27 [DM (Aarya)] No worries. No, I can move around too.
01:03:29 [Irredel (Sav)] I can move.
01:03:29 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay, I guess I don't need to ask for you. But yeah, I was putting it out there.
01:03:33 [Irredel (Sav)] Sorry, I'm knitting. It keeps me from doing anything else. No worries.
01:03:33 [Irredel (Sav)] Because my hands are busy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I lock in.
01:03:40 [DM (Aarya)] I gotcha.
01:03:40 [Saturno (Steph)] I'm going to take a look around the corner and just kind of like, make sure like, there's no one, I don't know, doing the funny hanging off the roof thing. But I don't see them because I don't look up.
01:03:50 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so I will point out that the corridors of this area, like they're pretty low. They're not like super high or anything. They're like 10 feet tall.
01:03:50 [DM (Aarya)] And the walls themselves are five feet apart. So you do feel kind of cramped as you're getting through this.
01:04:05 [Irredel (Sav)] Okay, I'm just going to go ahead and just cast Detect Good and Evil.
01:04:09 [DM (Aarya)] True.
01:04:10 [Irredel (Sav)] I don't, it's good for 10 minutes. But I want to know as soon as we're within 30 feet of.
01:04:16 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, 30 feet. Of myself. The spell is blocked by one foot of stone, dirt, or wood, one inch of metal, or a thin sheet of lead.
01:04:16 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, good to know.
01:04:29 [Irredel (Sav)] Oh, God, this thing appeared.
01:04:32 [Mercurio (Gui)] We have, yeah, we have a few options to scout around. I mean, we have Sildir's, you know, divine senses. And this is, yeah, Pepito to scout too.
01:04:45 [Sildir (Tris)] I got a 60 footer as well. 60 footer. No comment.
01:04:55 [Irredel (Sav)] No comment.
01:04:56 [Sildir (Tris)] Here, this is my 60 footer.
01:04:58 [DM (Aarya)] Tristead.
01:05:00 [Irredel (Sav)] Well, I don't think we both need to use our spell slots, but yeah.
01:05:04 [Sildir (Tris)] I don't think it's a spell slot.
01:05:05 [Irredel (Sav)] I was going to say we both don't need to use our 60 footer.
01:05:08 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay, so it's a channel divinity.
01:05:11 [DM (Aarya)] It might be a channel divinity to do that.
01:05:12 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, maybe refund yourself.
01:05:14 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. Okay, no worries. Okay, so divine sense.
01:05:14 [DM (Aarya)] So for the next 10 minutes, you can.
01:05:19 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, it is a channel divinity.
01:05:20 [DM (Aarya)] You can detect celestial beings and undeads within 60 feet. And it appears that it isn't blocked by like stone or walls or anything. So let's see how big 60 feet is.
01:05:31 [Mercurio (Gui)] That's quite big.
01:05:33 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, it is one channel divinity, but I think it's worth it here.
01:05:36 [DM (Aarya)] Oh yeah. It is.
01:05:37 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay. Oh yeah. That's the whole dungeon, baby.
01:05:37 [Mercurio (Gui)] That's a 60 footer, baby.
01:05:43 [DM (Aarya)] All right, so. That's Ronaldo, guys. Stop.
01:05:49 [Sildir (Tris)] Ronaldo sense activated. You need to chill out.
01:05:52 [DM (Aarya)] I'm getting interested. Okay, so you detect a number of things. Undead in multiple directions.
01:05:52 [DM (Aarya)] You detect two undead in this direction to the north. To your east over here, you detect six. Six?
01:05:52 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, six. And yeah, that's all you can detect in your immediate surroundings.
01:06:21 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, can you ping the two locations again? Or was someone else paying attention?
01:06:25 [DM (Aarya)] Up north over here and like to the east over here. So that's two and six? Yes.
01:06:31 [Sildir (Tris)] Two, six. Okay.
01:06:36 [Mercurio (Gui)] The other directions, there's no undead pinging, right?
01:06:39 [Ember (Spurthi)] What is the goal exactly here? Are you supposed to find your way to the other side or?
01:06:45 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, the goal is we need to kill the big boss and we need to save Batman.
01:06:52 [Sildir (Tris)] V.
01:06:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, V. We need to save vengeance.
01:06:58 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, I'm interested to finally talk to this guy, you know.
01:07:04 [Saturno (Steph)] Mask off. Can we check this out quickly and then we come back?
01:07:07 [Sildir (Tris)] I guess this is going to be active. Yeah. So let me know if I come in range of more stuff.
01:07:13 [Mercurio (Gui)] There's no, yeah, it seems like there's no undead to the left or down there. So maybe explore, maybe there's a prison cell like in one of the other directions.
01:07:25 [DM (Aarya)] So Sildur, as you head further along west into this corridor, you detect one undead presence over here to the west.
01:07:37 [Saturno (Steph)] Over where?
01:07:38 [DM (Aarya)] Here to the west.
01:07:40 [Sildir (Tris)] There is one alone over there. Maybe we could go beat that one down and get some information. What do you guys think?
01:07:51 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, I'm down. Sounds better than six.
01:07:53 [Sildir (Tris)] I guess we kind of saw what Bluebird did to that one. We could do something similar. I have a silver sword here.
01:07:53 [Sildir (Tris)] Just jam it into him and ask him some questions, yeah?
01:08:05 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah.
01:08:07 [Sildir (Tris)] Probably should have asked about that, but here we are. All right, so how do we want to do this? Maybe we should sneak up.
01:08:07 [Sildir (Tris)] Wait, where's Iridel?
01:08:20 [Irredel (Sav)] Right here.
01:08:21 [Sildir (Tris)] You have a ruler on?
01:08:23 [Irredel (Sav)] Oh, I do. I got lost, sorry.
01:08:28 [DM (Aarya)] No worries.
01:08:37 [Mercurio (Gui)] Let's do this.
01:08:39 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, I guess we're gonna fight him anyway, so let's just make it quick. Follow me. Am I detecting anything now that I'm here?
01:08:52 [DM (Aarya)] You detect that the presence is over here. It's the same one, but there's no...
01:08:55 [Sildir (Tris)] Nothing to my south or whatever?
01:08:57 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, nothing new that you're detecting.
01:09:00 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, so let's beeline it.
01:09:03 [Mercurio (Gui)] Whoa, this thing is huge.
01:09:07 [Sildir (Tris)] Hey, hold on, sorry.
01:09:08 [Ember (Spurthi)] Oh, no, no, no, no. Where should we pause the game?
01:09:13 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so, Silda, you're detecting the presence coming from over here on the other side of this wall to your east.
01:09:24 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay. All right, guys, it's right around this corner. Be ready.
01:09:30 [Ember (Spurthi)] All right.
01:09:31 [Sildir (Tris)] And I'm gonna... I guess I'll still lead the way.
01:09:36 [DM (Aarya)] All right. Wow.
01:09:38 [Speaker 7] Okay.
01:09:40 [DM (Aarya)] I'm gonna make that a little slower next time. Silda, you step into this room and you see one of the assassins hanging out in this room. They look to you and they take a fighting stance.
01:09:40 [DM (Aarya)] So I'm gonna have everyone roll initiative.
01:10:10 [Mercurio (Gui)] Devastating initiative.
01:10:12 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah.
01:10:13 [DM (Aarya)] Holy.
01:10:15 [Sildir (Tris)] Hurt assassin. Are you metagaming me?
01:10:20 [DM (Aarya)] Am I? No. Can you?
01:10:26 [Mercurio (Gui)] Does the assassin look hurt?
01:10:28 [DM (Aarya)] May I?
01:10:28 [Mercurio (Gui)] It does not hurt.
01:10:30 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay. It's more like a...
01:10:34 [DM (Aarya)] Um, yeah, Ember, go ahead and roll initiative when you get a chance. Yeah, I'm coming. No worries.
01:10:40 [Sildir (Tris)] But hurt assassin, maybe?
01:10:45 [Ember (Spurthi)] Which icon do I press? Is it on the right side?
01:10:49 [DM (Aarya)] On the right side, you'll see, like, the... The combat tabs. It looks like two swords.
01:10:49 [DM (Aarya)] If you click that, you'll see the list of people in combat. And next to your name, there should be a dice... A die that you can click on.
01:10:49 [DM (Aarya)] And that'll pull initiative.
01:11:02 [Ember (Spurthi)] Oh, okay, I see. All right.
01:11:03 [DM (Aarya)] No worries.
01:11:04 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay.
01:11:04 [DM (Aarya)] Cool. Oh, yeah. You actually rolled the highest.
01:11:04 [DM (Aarya)] Nice. Okay. So with that, we will begin the encounter.
01:11:04 [DM (Aarya)] Ember, you are first.
01:11:15 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay. Where do I need to be to, like, be in long range to use my bow?
01:11:20 [DM (Aarya)] So the assassin... You're not in view of the assassin yet. They're in this room here that Sildur is in.
01:11:20 [DM (Aarya)] So you can step around the corner and, like, peek into the room from the entrance and get an angle there.
01:11:36 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay. If I look right here?
01:11:38 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. Right behind Sildur, basically.
01:11:42 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay. So I can use my bow now if I want to, now? Yeah.
01:11:48 [DM (Aarya)] As long as they're, like, in your line of sight, which you are now.
01:11:57 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay. I'm going to use my light crossbow. Okay.
01:12:05 [DM (Aarya)] So that's a seven. Unfortunately, the seven does not hit. You shoot your crossbow and the assassin quickly moves to avoid the shot.
01:12:05 [DM (Aarya)] So now I'm gonna move it to the assassin's turn. Uh, the assassin's gonna step up to Sildur. And it's gonna go for...
01:12:05 [DM (Aarya)] Uh, it's gonna go for a claw attack. Let's see what we get. Eighteen.
01:12:05 [DM (Aarya)] Does that hit?
01:12:43 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, it matches. Yeah, so it hits.
01:12:45 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so damage, that's gonna be...
01:12:49 [Ember (Spurthi)] Oh my god.
01:12:52 [DM (Aarya)] That's gonna be 12 damage at Sildur. And it's gonna go for a second attack. And that's gonna be...
01:12:52 [DM (Aarya)] Oh my god!
01:13:01 [Sildir (Tris)] I just got a drill with that.
01:13:03 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so here's the damage. That's...
01:13:06 [Sildir (Tris)] Plus four, plus four is nuts.
01:13:08 [DM (Aarya)] Is it plus four, plus four? Um, actually, yeah, that's right. Okay.
01:13:08 [DM (Aarya)] And then that's gonna be 11 damage on you.
01:13:17 [Sildir (Tris)] Alrighty. Yeah, good thing we didn't go to the room with six of them.
01:13:21 [DM (Aarya)] Good thing we got our healing potions. All right. And that's gonna be Mercurio's turn.
01:13:30 [Mercurio (Gui)] All right, I'm gonna hear all this skirmishing. Why did Grandpa Sildur have to go running into this room? Uh, I'm gonna roll off to peek.
01:13:30 [Mercurio (Gui)] Uh, and... Oh, wait. Shit, now I put my heat, because I'm on the same tile as Satorno.
01:13:30 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um, how do I... Wait, uh, oh, party. There we go.
01:13:30 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um, I'm going to, um, come around the corner and say... Uh, I don't know. What's this guy look like?
01:14:18 [DM (Aarya)] Does he have hurt eyes? Um, you're... So he looks the same as all the other assassins that you've seen, but you can kind of...
01:14:18 [DM (Aarya)] You kind of get the sense that, like, just from... His mask is kind of, like, misshapen a little bit, so you do get... Yeah, sure.
01:14:18 [DM (Aarya)] He has hurt eyes.
01:14:37 [Mercurio (Gui)] Hey, idiot with the droopy eyes. Look over here. And I cast, uh, Vicious Mockery.
01:14:43 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so it's gonna be a Wizzsane. That's a 17. Holy shit.
01:14:43 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Wait, actually, hold on. Sorry, he's not supposed to be proficient in that.
01:14:43 [DM (Aarya)] Um, so that should have been a 13. So that, um, fails. Go.
01:14:43 [DM (Aarya)] Um, okay. Um, so that, two damage. Nice.
01:15:18 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, and disadvantage on his, um, next attack.
01:15:22 [DM (Aarya)] Cool.
01:15:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um, and then do I wanna use anything else? Um, who does, like, the most damage? Ember, I think.
01:15:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] Ember, for sure. Ember or Setsuna, yeah. I'm gonna, uh...
01:16:00 [Saturno (Steph)] I think more consistently, Ember.
01:16:03 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'm gonna give a Marduk Inspiration to Ember.
01:16:06 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. It's a d6, right?
01:16:11 [Mercurio (Gui)] It's a d6.
01:16:20 [DM (Aarya)] Cool. Uh, what else you got?
01:16:23 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um, and then I'm going to use, uh, Pepito Dissolve. To give Sildur advantage.
01:16:29 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
01:16:33 [Mercurio (Gui)] And that's it for my turn.
01:16:37 [Sildir (Tris)] Guys, should I grapple this guy? Any thoughts on that?
01:16:44 [Irredel (Sav)] Is that what Sildur would do?
01:16:46 [Sildir (Tris)] I just, yeah, I, that's what I would do right now, actually. But I just wanna see, uh, thoughts on tactics.
01:16:53 [Mercurio (Gui)] They are freakishly strong. It will be hard, but...
01:16:57 [Saturno (Steph)] I could try to run in there once we're both there and we could both try to tackle.
01:17:01 [Mercurio (Gui)] Does the help action give you advantage on the grapple?
01:17:07 [DM (Aarya)] I'll say it does, yeah. Okay, then... Probably got a good shot, yeah.
01:17:12 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, I'm gonna go for a grapple.
01:17:15 [DM (Aarya)] So you're having Pepito give advantage to Sildur? To Sildur. Yeah, cool.
01:17:21 [Irredel (Sav)] Or I could also cast Hold Person for my next turn.
01:17:26 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay. Could work better. All right, then.
01:17:26 [Sildir (Tris)] I will...
01:17:34 [Irredel (Sav)] But that uses a spell slot, so that's a calculus there.
01:17:39 [Sildir (Tris)] Let me just try grappling this time. I think it'll go around the Robin pretty nice. Mercurio's the only person that's not gonna get advantage from it if I land it.
01:17:39 [Sildir (Tris)] I guess. I mean, I don't know. Try it out.
01:17:53 [DM (Aarya)] Go for it.
01:17:54 [Sildir (Tris)] Uh, so what do I do, Strength?
01:17:56 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so you're gonna do Athletics with advantage, and the Assassin will also do Opposing Athletics.
01:18:04 [Sildir (Tris)] Damn, that's crazy. That's all I got.
01:18:06 [DM (Aarya)] That's a 15.
01:18:07 [Sildir (Tris)] I have a plus 6 on advantage.
01:18:11 [DM (Aarya)] This is gonna be an 11 from the Assassin. So you have successfully grappled the Assassin. So now they are unable to move, and any attacks from your allies will have advantage against them.
01:18:26 [Sildir (Tris)] Cool. I can move him around, or no?
01:18:32 [DM (Aarya)] You can move him around. You'll just be moving at half speed.
01:18:37 [Sildir (Tris)] Gotcha. All right, um, yeah, I'm gonna like... Nah, I don't know.
01:18:37 [Sildir (Tris)] I need to give everyone else access to him.
01:18:52 [Mercurio (Gui)] I mean, I think we're all... We're in a good spot. Yeah, we're in a good spot.
01:18:52 [Mercurio (Gui)] Iridel is 30 feet of movement away, so even if Iridel wanted to melee with a melee spell or something, she could still make it. Everyone does.
01:19:08 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, if you wanted to, you can maybe position yourself slowly on the other side of him. But yeah, up to you.
01:19:15 [Sildir (Tris)] I thought of that, but then what happens when he's out? I guess... I think it's okay.
01:19:21 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, no, it might be good, because then, like... I could turn around. Flanking, right?
01:19:21 [Mercurio (Gui)] Are we doing flanking?
01:19:28 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, that would be flanking.
01:19:30 [DM (Aarya)] So yeah, you should...
01:19:31 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, turn me around. I need him to move to where I was just standing, I guess.
01:19:37 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, you want to push him over here?
01:19:39 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, that's the idea, right?
01:19:40 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, I will say that if you're going to move him directly in front of Ember, she'll have a harder time landing her bow shots.
01:19:49 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, let me push him back one space, then. He's still with me, but yeah. That's where he was standing, so I just pivoted around him, I guess, instead.
01:19:59 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, you spun around him and put him in a choke hold. Back shots on this guy right now. Yeah, you put him thick side down.
01:20:10 [Sildir (Tris)] Stop! That's what Torm would want. Anything else?
01:20:10 [Sildir (Tris)] I guess... I mean, could I, like, headbutt him or something? I mean, I don't know.
01:20:10 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm good. That's it.
01:20:28 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
01:20:28 [Sildir (Tris)] That's all I got.
01:20:28 [DM (Aarya)] Airdell, you're up.
01:20:31 [Irredel (Sav)] All righty. I'm gonna move a little bit closer, because I can't freaking see anything. So what's the idea?
01:20:31 [Irredel (Sav)] We're just gonna, like, wallop on this guy, or are we trying to get information?
01:20:45 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um, wallop him.
01:20:47 [Irredel (Sav)] Okay.
01:20:48 [Mercurio (Gui)] Incapacitate and interrogate. Yeah, like, we can incapacitate him when we wallop him.
01:20:55 [Irredel (Sav)] Okay, so... And we have advantage, right? Yes, because they're currently grappled, right?
01:21:05 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah. We have advantage, yes.
01:21:07 [Irredel (Sav)] Okay, I'm realizing that actually all of my spells are to help you all, basically, except for one that I feel like I should save for later. So fuck it, we just Sacred Flame it. Because I won't use up a slot, and I'm scared of this dungeon.
01:21:21 [Sildir (Tris)] I think it's good. And Radiant Damage should be good, too.
01:21:24 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, exactly. So we'll do... It's gonna do a saving throw, a 10 that fails.
01:21:24 [DM (Aarya)] And you rolled 7 damage?
01:21:31 [Irredel (Sav)] Uh, yeah.
01:21:32 [DM (Aarya)] Nice. And that was Radiant Damage. Cool.
01:21:35 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah.
01:21:36 [DM (Aarya)] All right.
01:21:37 [Irredel (Sav)] And then I'm gonna step out of the line of sight.
01:21:39 [DM (Aarya)] Cool. Satorno, you're up.
01:21:45 [Irredel (Sav)] What the... Do I, like, feel anything in a spiritual or wolfish sense in any of these rooms? Is there any other weird shit happening?
01:21:54 [DM (Aarya)] Um, yeah. So you can smell a faint scent of blood on the air, and it stokes your hunger a little bit more. Oh, from the assassin?
01:21:54 [DM (Aarya)] Just generally, not specifically coming from the assassin.
01:22:11 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm the bloodied one here. It's probably me.
01:22:17 [Mercurio (Gui)] These barrels might be, like, some, like, blood...
01:22:20 [Sildir (Tris)] True!
01:22:21 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah. Blood barrels. There's some weird blood rituals going on here.
01:22:21 [Irredel (Sav)] All right, so I'm gonna be on the lookout for it.
01:22:28 [Sildir (Tris)] Remember in Madagascar when Alex saw the zebra as a steak? Oh my god.
01:22:34 [Irredel (Sav)] Yes.
01:22:35 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, that's, yeah.
01:22:40 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay.
01:22:41 [Sildir (Tris)] What was the zebra's name, Marty?
01:22:42 [DM (Aarya)] Marty, yeah.
01:22:42 [Sildir (Tris)] Sorry, go ahead.
01:22:44 [DM (Aarya)] That's Chris Rock, right? The zebra?
01:22:50 [Saturno (Steph)] So I'm gonna get right here, because this way, I could get advantage, right? Well... Yeah, you have the advantage regardless.
01:22:50 [Saturno (Steph)] Because of the position. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
01:22:50 [Saturno (Steph)] Um, okay, and then I'm gonna go and cast, um, Booming Blade. Mm-hmm. And then, oh.
01:23:11 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, for future reference, don't bother, like, placing the template, just because it's, like, annoying to deal with later. But, yeah. Oh, okay, okay.
01:23:11 [DM (Aarya)] No worries.
01:23:18 [Saturno (Steph)] And then I'm gonna hit with my greatsword.
01:23:21 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, yeah, go ahead and roll that with advantage.
01:23:26 [Saturno (Steph)] Can I clip it, please?
01:23:29 [DM (Aarya)] I got it. 24, yeah, that hits. Great.
01:23:29 [DM (Aarya)] Let's roll that damage. 8 damage, cool.
01:23:43 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay, and then, yeah, I'd say that's it. Cool.
01:23:49 [DM (Aarya)] Ember, it's your turn again.
01:23:51 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay, am I still in range to use my roll?
01:23:54 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, and you can roll that attack with advantage.
01:23:57 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay, um, attack. Advantage.
01:24:08 [DM (Aarya)] 19, that hits. 19. Go ahead and roll your damage.
01:24:13 [Ember (Spurthi)] Please.
01:24:16 [DM (Aarya)] 12, okay.
01:24:17 [Ember (Spurthi)] 12.
01:24:18 [DM (Aarya)] And then roll sneak attack on top of that. Where you sneak the mosh and come. All right, so that is, um, cool.
01:24:18 [DM (Aarya)] Pretty good damage. That was 21 damage total from Ember. Let's go.
01:24:18 [DM (Aarya)] Damage carried. All right, and now it's gonna be the assassin's turn again. They're gonna be stuck in the grip of Sildur, and they're gonna try to break out of the grapple, so that's gonna be another strength check.
01:25:02 [Sildir (Tris)] Do I still have advantage or not really?
01:25:04 [DM (Aarya)] No, that would have been for just a 1. So that was a 5 strength.
01:25:09 [Sildir (Tris)] So give me another athletics. I need to do athletics?
01:25:12 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
01:25:13 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay, literally if I don't get a nat 1.
01:25:15 [DM (Aarya)] Well, actually they rolled a nat 1, but yeah. There you go, 9. Nice.
01:25:18 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, that's actually crazy, didn't it?
01:25:20 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, you successfully maintained the grapple. And then Mercurio's turn.
01:25:28 [Sildir (Tris)] I got on thick side down.
01:25:33 [Ember (Spurthi)] What does that mean?
01:25:34 [Sildir (Tris)] It's just something I accidentally said earlier, and it's caught on. Go to the other server and read the chat, and you'll be horrified at what I've done.
01:25:45 [DM (Aarya)] Actually, you're better off not reading it, Sav, just so you know.
01:25:51 [Mercurio (Gui)] You know, it's like, inside out.
01:25:53 [Irredel (Sav)] It's like, does it, is it just like, sound suggestive, or is it like, uh...
01:25:57 [Mercurio (Gui)] You'll see.
01:25:59 [Sildir (Tris)] Is it the fucking cooking channel, guys? Why? I don't know.
01:25:59 [Sildir (Tris)] I don't know. Don't ask me. You're the one who said it, you asshole.
01:25:59 [Sildir (Tris)] I was just horrified. It's not me, okay?
01:26:12 [DM (Aarya)] It's a deadlock, actually. It's in the deadlock channel of all places.
01:26:21 [Mercurio (Gui)] Is he bloodied yet?
01:26:23 [DM (Aarya)] Um, let me check. So, yes, so that last attack just bloodied him. Okay.
01:26:33 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um, and do we start with advantage?
01:26:37 [DM (Aarya)] Um, yes, you do.
01:26:40 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay. She found the thick side of the floor. Horrifying.
01:26:40 [Mercurio (Gui)] Damn, I do no kind of damage. What if I use my sword?
01:26:53 [Saturno (Steph)] Get in there.
01:26:57 [Mercurio (Gui)] Uh, is this a martial weapon? This is a goddamn martial weapon. I can't do no damage.
01:26:57 [Mercurio (Gui)] Sorry. I just touched it. Um...
01:26:57 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, I just say, pathetic little worm. Even an old man can hold you down.
01:27:27 [DM (Aarya)] All right, so wisdom save. Wisdom save.
01:27:34 [Sildir (Tris)] Trying not to be viciously mocked myself.
01:27:36 [DM (Aarya)] That was a nat 20. That was a nat 20 on that wisdom save. That was a nat 20.
01:27:36 [DM (Aarya)] Duh.
01:27:42 [Mercurio (Gui)] All right, well.
01:27:44 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, he completely ignored you.
01:27:45 [Mercurio (Gui)] He's fighting stronger now. Yeah.
01:27:49 [DM (Aarya)] All right. Yeah. Sildur, your turn.
01:27:56 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um... Let's throw the holy water at him.
01:27:59 [Sildir (Tris)] I was gonna ask, do I have any indication that this is like undead? Oh, I do, because I'm the divine sense guy.
01:28:05 [DM (Aarya)] He's undead.
01:28:07 [Sildir (Tris)] I mean, I got him grappled. I could just like, you know, bang a holy water over his head or something. Does that do anything?
01:28:07 [Sildir (Tris)] Any doors?
01:28:16 [DM (Aarya)] It doesn't do damage. It just turns a third of a generation.
01:28:21 [Mercurio (Gui)] It doesn't do damage. Oh, does it? Wait, really?
01:28:21 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah.
01:28:24 [DM (Aarya)] It's a 2d8 radiant.
01:28:28 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, wait, that's new.
01:28:30 [DM (Aarya)] Oh.
01:28:32 [Sildir (Tris)] So I can still go for it.
01:28:34 [DM (Aarya)] It didn't used to be that way. So yeah, I guess. Yeah, if you want to do that, you can.
01:28:34 [DM (Aarya)] But what are we going to do, Sildur?
01:28:40 [Sildir (Tris)] I can still go for an attack if I'm grappling, correct?
01:28:43 [DM (Aarya)] Um, yeah, I will say you'll need to keep one hand on him to keep him grappled. And then if you have your other hand with like a one hander, you can attack with that.
01:28:53 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, my weapon is one handed. I have a shield equipped, but I don't know how you want to say that precludes me from.
01:29:00 [DM (Aarya)] Um, you can still do it. You'll just have to stow your shield.
01:29:08 [Sildir (Tris)] All right. I just, I will just do some back shots or something. Let me think about this.
01:29:16 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, do it. If you want to do back shots, you probably got to put them thick side up.
01:29:33 [Sildir (Tris)] All right. So can I just like prepare myself to grapple better?
01:29:44 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay, sure.
01:29:46 [Sildir (Tris)] Cool. I'll do that.
01:29:48 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, wait, I can just give you the help action again. Okay. I forgot to mention that again.
01:29:54 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, no worries. You can do that.
01:29:57 [Sildir (Tris)] All righty. Okay, so I'll put away the shield. And I'll attack with a long sword.
01:30:09 [DM (Aarya)] All right, send it.
01:30:13 [Mercurio (Gui)] Plus I should just give you advantage every time because we already all have advantage from you grappling.
01:30:19 [Sildir (Tris)] Yep, yep. So I'll do an attack. I guess that comes with advantage now.
01:30:24 [DM (Aarya)] You wouldn't get advantage from your own grapple, but you do have it from Saturno flanking.
01:30:29 [Sildir (Tris)] Right, from, yeah. And from, well, okay. Yeah, we'll take it from Saturno flanking.
01:30:29 [Sildir (Tris)] And I have a help action from Pepito too, apparently. So lots of advantage to go around. I'll use the help from Pepito on the, hopefully on the strength check, I guess.
01:30:44 [DM (Aarya)] That works.
01:30:46 [Sildir (Tris)] But yeah, anywho. I hit him with that.
01:30:49 [DM (Aarya)] So you got 23 hits.
01:30:51 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay, cool. And then, how, is he looking like he's bothered at all yet or no?
01:30:59 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, he's like pretty hurt now. He's bloodied.
01:31:02 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, so I'll just do some normal damage. I'm not gonna rip a smite or anything unless I get peer pressured into doing it. Oh, max damage.
01:31:02 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay, there we go.
01:31:14 [DM (Aarya)] 12. Nice, very nice.
01:31:16 [Sildir (Tris)] Love it.
01:31:17 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, wait, I put that on you, my bad.
01:31:19 [Sildir (Tris)] Thanks a lot. You killed me. Sorry.
01:31:22 [DM (Aarya)] The tactic.
01:31:23 [Sildir (Tris)] I think I had 9 health, by the way. 9 health? Not 12.
01:31:23 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah.
01:31:27 [DM (Aarya)] Not that much. There we go.
01:31:30 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm the kid who's like, we had homework due and we had 9 health. All right, so yeah, he did 12 damage. Yeah, thank you.
01:31:30 [Sildir (Tris)] Cool. Oh, and then I'll just, you know, I'll hold on. I'm holding on.
01:31:44 [DM (Aarya)] All right, Eridel, you're up. You're muted on your side by the way.
01:31:56 [Irredel (Sav)] I see, I'm gonna step back into the line of sight. I'm gonna cast a sacred flame again just to end things. And let's see how he does on the dex.
01:32:06 [DM (Aarya)] Yep, that's a 14. That fails.
01:32:09 [Irredel (Sav)] Yes. Damage roll. Okay, it's 2.
01:32:15 [Sildir (Tris)] Eridel is giving Roy Mustang right now.
01:32:18 [Irredel (Sav)] True.
01:32:18 [DM (Aarya)] Better than nothing. All right, and then... Stepping back away.
01:32:18 [DM (Aarya)] I don't know.
01:32:25 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, so this person's, I guess, like pretty bloodied now. Are we at a point where we want to stop to try to interrogate them?
01:32:35 [Sildir (Tris)] We just choose not to kill them once we drop them to zero hit points, I think is how it works.
01:32:39 [DM (Aarya)] But it has to be with a melee attack that you do that. Okay, so... If you've reduced them to zero hit points with a range attack, that kills them outright.
01:32:39 [DM (Aarya)] But if you do it with a melee attack, you can choose to knock them unconscious instead.
01:32:50 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, people. Melee stuff only. What about spells?
01:32:55 [DM (Aarya)] Um, if they're ranged spells, then it'll kill them.
01:33:00 [Mercurio (Gui)] Same rules, yeah. Mathematically speaking, it's probably going to be Satorno and Ember, not me and Eridel killing these guys.
01:33:10 [Speaker 7] Yeah.
01:33:11 [Saturno (Steph)] All right, so damage?
01:33:14 [Mercurio (Gui)] Hypothetically.
01:33:15 [Saturno (Steph)] Hypothetically. Theoretically.
01:33:17 [Mercurio (Gui)] What would a 14 do? If Orkirio's 2 damage doesn't win, that'll be crazy.
01:33:24 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, hit with a 14.
01:33:27 [DM (Aarya)] 14... Was that with advantage? Oh, the damage is a 14.
01:33:27 [DM (Aarya)] That's damage. That hits, yes. Holy.
01:33:27 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, pretty good damage. Nice. All right, very good.
01:33:27 [DM (Aarya)] All right, I'll say Ember, you're up.
01:33:47 [Sildir (Tris)] Melee. Melee attacks. Ember, we can't hear you right now, just in case you're saying stuff.
01:33:47 [Sildir (Tris)] Or at least I can't.
01:34:12 [Ember (Spurthi)] Hello?
01:34:12 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, what's up?
01:34:13 [Ember (Spurthi)] There you are. Okay, crossbow again?
01:34:20 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, you can use your crossbow, but Sildur's suggesting to use melee, so you can knock him off instead of killing him, but it's up to you.
01:34:27 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay. Sorry, how do I know which ones are melee?
01:34:34 [Sildir (Tris)] It's all like close-range stuff.
01:34:36 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so your melee options are going to be your swords, basically.
01:34:40 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay, so short sword. Mm-hmm. Okay.
01:34:40 [Ember (Spurthi)] Can I attack with advantage?
01:34:46 [DM (Aarya)] Yes.
01:34:47 [Ember (Spurthi)] All right.
01:34:48 [DM (Aarya)] 25, oh my gosh. Yeah, that hits. We're all damaged.
01:34:53 [Ember (Spurthi)] All right.
01:34:57 [DM (Aarya)] All right, 8, and then do your sneak attack.
01:35:00 [Speaker 7] All right.
01:35:09 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, so that is just a little bit more than enough to knock him out cold. That was 10 damage on the sneak attack. So with that, that ends the combat, and this guy is out cold.
01:35:09 [DM (Aarya)] Wait, why is it? Oh, there we go. Cool.
01:35:39 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, I guess anyone have some rope or something?
01:35:47 [Saturno (Steph)] Me. I feel like I heard something.
01:35:52 [Speaker 7] I have some, yeah. Yeah.
01:35:55 [Irredel (Sav)] My backpack, I think.
01:35:57 [Mercurio (Gui)] By the way, you guys can't hear Maria too much, right? I tried lowering like inputs.
01:36:02 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, I haven't really heard her.
01:36:03 [Mercurio (Gui)] I haven't heard her at all. Yeah.
01:36:04 [DM (Aarya)] Not at all. Okay, perfect.
01:36:06 [Irredel (Sav)] Oh, maybe I don't. I have rope, actually. Okay.
01:36:06 [Irredel (Sav)] I have a rope.
01:36:12 [DM (Aarya)] Damn, we don't get any, we don't get any waylos in the background anymore.
01:36:17 [Saturno (Steph)] That's so sad.
01:36:17 [Mercurio (Gui)] I didn't think you would want that during the set. Yeah, fair.
01:36:22 [DM (Aarya)] My, my waylos.
01:36:24 [Mercurio (Gui)] Excuse me. All right.
01:36:26 [Sildir (Tris)] The rope could be used as an improvised straitjacket.
01:36:29 [Saturno (Steph)] That's true.
01:36:31 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, I'm just kidding. We'll use the rope.
01:36:34 [DM (Aarya)] All right, so you're gonna tie him up with the rope? Yes. All right, yeah, you're able to do that.
01:36:42 [Saturno (Steph)] And then I guess, um, take the mask off while they're out.
01:36:48 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. So you take the mask off and you reveal a pale, shriveled up face. They have sunken in eyes and their lips are like kind of peeled back to reveal a set of sharp fangs.
01:37:08 [Saturno (Steph)] I put the mask back on. That's a face that even a mother could love. Thanks for that, Robin.
01:37:08 [Saturno (Steph)] Sorry, you guys. Um, and can we inspect the barrels, out of curiosity?
01:37:23 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
01:37:23 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, what's going on in this room?
01:37:25 [DM (Aarya)] Go for it. So yeah, you look around in this room and it appears to be like, you get the vibe that it's a kind of like wine cellar, sort of. They're like, like casks and barrels of what you think should be alcohol.
01:37:43 [Ember (Spurthi)] But, but.
01:37:44 [Irredel (Sav)] You think should be alcohol, but it's like, is it secretly something else?
01:37:48 [DM (Aarya)] You'd have to check.
01:37:49 [Irredel (Sav)] Does it smell like blood? Can I sniff it out? What's in my wolfish senses?
01:37:55 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, normally I'd have you roll for this, but I'm just gonna let you, given the context, yeah, it's blood.
01:38:05 [Irredel (Sav)] Okay, I'm gonna like back all the way to the other side of the wall, like put my hands on the wall. I'm assuming I'm feeling like ravenous right now from being around this blood. And I'm actually going to like keep my hands on the wall and walk out of the room fully.
01:38:05 [Irredel (Sav)] And I'm going to say, it's blood. And go step in the hallway.
01:38:30 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, go ahead and take an inspiration.
01:38:35 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, so I guess we wake them up.
01:38:44 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. Whoever chooses to do so, you can like shake them or slap them awake.
01:38:52 [Ember (Spurthi)] I can slap them.
01:38:53 [DM (Aarya)] All right, so Ember, you slap him on the face and he shakes to consciousness and he regards you with beady yellow eyes and hisses at you.
01:39:08 [Saturno (Steph)] I hiss back.
01:39:16 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, find yourself in a precarious position for a fang.
01:39:24 [DM (Aarya)] I live only to serve my mistress.
01:39:30 [Mercurio (Gui)] Mistress, huh?
01:39:32 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, we heard some things about your mistress.
01:39:38 [DM (Aarya)] You have walked into your tomb.
01:39:43 [Saturno (Steph)] Those are quite some words for someone that's literally on the bridge of death.
01:39:47 [Ember (Spurthi)] That's good to know.
01:39:50 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, you're right about one thing. This place is mine now.
01:39:57 [DM (Aarya)] He turns to Saturno and says, you cannot kill what is already dead.
01:40:09 [Saturno (Steph)] I kick him in the spine before he finishes.
01:40:11 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh yeah, you want to bet? I'm gonna like, just...
01:40:15 [Saturno (Steph)] Can we kick him like in Jojo? Like we just both kick him. Oh my god.
01:40:20 [Speaker 7] That's why I couldn't hear you.
01:40:22 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'm gonna uncork my holy water and just drip a little drop on his face. Oh my gosh. Better start talking.
01:40:22 [Mercurio (Gui)] My hand's getting shaky.
01:40:35 [Sildir (Tris)] We're torturers.
01:40:36 [DM (Aarya)] He's like, so the drop of holy water like sizzles against his skin and he hisses and he says, do your worst. My purpose is served.
01:40:53 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, I have an idea.
01:40:56 [Mercurio (Gui)] I have an idea too. But what's your idea?
01:41:00 [Saturno (Steph)] I was thinking someone hangs out with Iridel a bit farther away and we destroy these barrels of blood in front of them and maybe they'll lose their grip. I don't know. That's just an idea.
01:41:00 [Saturno (Steph)] But it might be too, I guess like dangerous considering how I might make Iridel feel.
01:41:23 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, I'm a little scared of...
01:41:27 [Sildir (Tris)] I don't know how strong that scent could be too. Maybe it'll alert the others.
01:41:31 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, it might alert the others and the rest of the dungeon. I could try to use the spell that never works too. What's that spell?
01:41:31 [Mercurio (Gui)] Suggestion.
01:41:47 [Sildir (Tris)] I think Iridel has some special zone spell too. That's true. What can suggestion do to this guy?
01:41:59 [Mercurio (Gui)] I give him a command of up to 25 words and he obeys for eight hours.
01:42:12 [Sildir (Tris)] That's not bad.
01:42:15 [Mercurio (Gui)] You haven't used that on me, have you? You know, only for your own sake. Sometimes you need a good night's rest.
01:42:28 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm going to be on guard from now on, Mercurio. Okay. All right, that's a nice one.
01:42:33 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'll take that. You know, I tell you to get some good beauty sleep and to not stay up all night worrying yourself.
01:42:44 [Sildir (Tris)] Is this from that time when I nagged you about drinking too much in the middle of the night?
01:42:48 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay, it may have been at that time, but I still had good intentions and that's what matters. My goodness.
01:42:53 [Sildir (Tris)] I did sleep great. Well, maybe we should try it.
01:43:02 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um, all right. Well, what should I maybe command him to say? Like, I can command him to tell us where this mistress happens to be, how we can find her and take her out, and then I can command him to, I don't know, stay put, and then we can just, you know, finish the job.
01:43:31 [Sildir (Tris)] Sounds like a good plan. You probably don't have to command him to sit put. He's in a rope, but yeah.
01:43:31 [Sildir (Tris)] Let's go for it.
01:43:39 [Mercurio (Gui)] All right. Um, all right. I'm gonna cast suggestion.
01:43:39 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay.
01:43:49 [DM (Aarya)] Please work. Please work. So this is gonna be a wisdom saving throw?
01:43:54 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah. I'm gonna like smack him one extra time. Is that an add 20?
01:44:00 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh my god, that was an add 20. Holy shit.
01:44:03 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh my god. No way. Two campaigns.
01:44:08 [Mercurio (Gui)] Four uses of this spell. It doesn't work. This spell's the worst spell ever.
01:44:08 [Mercurio (Gui)] It just doesn't work.
01:44:17 [Irredel (Sav)] I'm gonna try. Should we keep going? I can try this out of crew because that doesn't use a spell slot.
01:44:17 [Irredel (Sav)] That's one of my...
01:44:24 [DM (Aarya)] It's a ritual.
01:44:26 [Irredel (Sav)] Nah, it's like the, um, no, it doesn't use a spell slot. It's just always prepared. I'm just stupid.
01:44:26 [Irredel (Sav)] Whatever.
01:44:36 [Mercurio (Gui)] Is it a first or second level?
01:44:38 [Irredel (Sav)] Second.
01:44:39 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay. Expensive. Mine was too.
01:44:39 [Mercurio (Gui)] Ugh. This sucks. Um.
01:44:47 [Irredel (Sav)] But it would- All right, what are the odds it's like, what were you gonna say?
01:44:52 [Mercurio (Gui)] I was just gonna say, like, knowing exactly where to go, like, to fight the lady, like, the mistress would probably be pretty huge.
01:45:04 [Sildir (Tris)] What if- Maybe we need to find out where V is too.
01:45:07 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, because my- Here's my thoughts right now. I mean, we don't know how big this place is. It might be kind of huge.
01:45:07 [Mercurio (Gui)] I wasn't expecting it to be so big that things were gonna escape Sildir's, like, senses. Like, that means it's more than 120 feet wide.
01:45:27 [Sildir (Tris)] Feels cavernous in here, yes.
01:45:31 [Mercurio (Gui)] So we might get real worn down. Like, this might be a marathon if we have no idea. Like, maybe she's in the room of six and we're- then we're kind of cooked.
01:45:31 [Mercurio (Gui)] Maybe she's in the room of two and then we might be able to, you know, get a, like a- A more precise operation. Yeah, it might be a more fair fight for us that way. Because I think if we wander around with no knowledge, we might just get cooked.
01:46:01 [Irredel (Sav)] You're right. Okay, I'm gonna cast Zone of Truth. Okay.
01:46:01 [Irredel (Sav)] Wait, is there- Anyway, let's see. So the creature has a charisma saving throw.
01:46:17 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, he doesn't have to talk is the one thing.
01:46:21 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah.
01:46:27 [Saturno (Steph)] What if we do- I know the barrels are a no-go, but I still have the cut on my finger. So what if we kind of entice them with that? And maybe it drives them mad or something?
01:46:27 [Saturno (Steph)] I don't know how they work. They might not even care for it, honestly. Just how you did a drop of holy water on their forehead.
01:46:27 [Saturno (Steph)] I, like, just let a drop of blood hit their forehead.
01:46:56 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Yeah, you see him kind of, like- He, like, stares a bit and, like, struggles against his ropes. He's going to attempt to break free.
01:46:56 [DM (Aarya)] So let's see. I'll say it'll have to be a 16?
01:47:13 [Sildir (Tris)] It's a 20. It says so on the ropes.
01:47:16 [DM (Aarya)] It's a 20, okay. I think it's a 20. And they roll the 20 on their strength check.
01:47:16 [DM (Aarya)] So they're able to, like, break out of their ropes. And they immediately lunge towards Setona. Do any of us get to react?
01:47:16 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, you can react.
01:47:37 [Irredel (Sav)] Okay. So can I just, like, blast them? Sacred Flame it again.
01:47:37 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah. Well.
01:47:48 [Sildir (Tris)] I'll try to grapple him again.
01:47:49 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah. Yeah.
01:47:51 [DM (Aarya)] So that was an 11 on this Dexterity save, so that fails. Since they were already, like, low HP, like, basically won, Sav, your Sacred Flame spells will kill them outright.
01:48:07 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, we'll just have to do it the old-fashioned way then.
01:48:12 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah.
01:48:12 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah.
01:48:14 [Saturno (Steph)] Maybe we search their body. Any keys? Any maps?
01:48:21 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, you search their body. You don't really find anything particularly useful. Just, like, a dagger, basically.
01:48:21 [DM (Aarya)] And that's about it.
01:48:30 [Irredel (Sav)] Should we keep the outfit?
01:48:33 [Speaker 7] Hmm.
01:48:34 [Irredel (Sav)] We all have lots of them. Which, what are we doing with them? It was, like, saved a lot of them, I think, right?
01:48:39 [Mercurio (Gui)] I think we said we had two that were, like, intact.
01:48:43 [DM (Aarya)] Yes.
01:48:44 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay. Uh, so if two people want to put them on...
01:48:51 [DM (Aarya)] And this is the third one here that you have. Yeah.
01:48:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] I can disguise myself if I need to, so... I don't need one.
01:49:02 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, I'll take it.
01:49:04 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, I'll take one too. A pretty convincing, yeah.
01:49:07 [Speaker 7] Yeah.
01:49:09 [Mercurio (Gui)] And then maybe Sildir and Ember, you could just, you know... You're already just as silent as the wind, anyways. But me?
01:49:09 [Mercurio (Gui)] You can just remain hidden. No, I'm saying Ember. I'm saying Sildir should just get disguised, because you're clanking around, like...
01:49:09 [Mercurio (Gui)] You don't hear from anybody.
01:49:32 [Saturno (Steph)] You clanker.
01:49:34 [Mercurio (Gui)] Sorry, Grandpa, but your bones creep.
01:49:36 [Saturno (Steph)] Sorry, chatGBT.
01:49:38 [DM (Aarya)] Why are we calling him Grandpa all of a sudden?
01:49:41 [Sildir (Tris)] That's just what Mercurio's into today. Ah, you know they are creaking today, honestly. Not even gonna lie.
01:49:41 [Sildir (Tris)] After that fight, I'm creaking.
01:49:52 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so who's wearing tech?
01:49:55 [Irredel (Sav)] I'm gonna put the ropes on quickly and just leave the room. Okay. Again, as fast as possible.
01:49:55 [Irredel (Sav)] And I'm gonna stand in the hallway and put my hands on the wall. Like, my head as well. Like, elbows, forearms, hands, leaning against the wall.
01:50:14 [DM (Aarya)] Sure.
01:50:16 [Saturno (Steph)] I follow Iridyll and I hand her a piece of cloth with Mercurio's perfume that he doesn't know I have. I said, maybe if you smell this, you'll feel a little better.
01:50:31 [Irredel (Sav)] Thank you, this is wonderfully helpful. I'm gonna tie this around my neck like a little scarf. Perfect.
01:50:40 [DM (Aarya)] Nice. So who's wearing one of the outfits?
01:50:45 [Saturno (Steph)] Iridyll, I'm wearing the outfit. And then I would say Sildir is gonna wear it. Ember's pretty stealthy.
01:50:45 [Saturno (Steph)] And then Mercurio can just, you know, disguise.
01:51:00 [DM (Aarya)] Sounds good.
01:51:01 [Sildir (Tris)] Ember might, like in a horrible turn of events, make a convincing prisoner if we have to, you know. So I would just say be ready to do some acting. But plan A should be stealth.
01:51:14 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, I think.
01:51:15 [Speaker 7] Okay.
01:51:16 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay. I think Ember will be able to stealth around.
01:51:20 [Saturno (Steph)] I think if we T-pose her on, Ember, they won't see her.
01:51:24 [Mercurio (Gui)] At least until we kill the next guy and then she can have a disguise too. Yeah.
01:51:28 [Ember (Spurthi)] Yeah. Yeah. All right.
01:51:31 [Saturno (Steph)] All right, I guess out to the next. Can we detect anything?
01:51:38 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, radar. Yeah, my senses should still be booming.
01:51:42 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
01:51:44 [Sildir (Tris)] I guess we killed this guy.
01:51:45 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so I'll say after that scuffle, you have a little bit left on your sense, but not much longer.
01:51:54 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, all right. I'm not gonna be sassy with the DM. Never mind.
01:51:58 [DM (Aarya)] Never mind. It's 10 minutes, right?
01:52:03 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah.
01:52:03 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, okay.
01:52:06 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, this guy's a wall too. 12 seconds.
01:52:12 [DM (Aarya)] That's what I was gonna say. I guess the comet was two rounds.
01:52:16 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay.
01:52:16 [DM (Aarya)] I don't want to be that, you know. You'll have a bit more time.
01:52:19 [Sildir (Tris)] I don't want to be a total stinker about it. I was pretty stinky last session, I think, or something. I said some shit.
01:52:19 [Sildir (Tris)] Nah, don't shift it. Um, all right. So what do I know right now?
01:52:32 [DM (Aarya)] You know, the six that you detected were way east. You're no longer in range to detect them. And while in the midst of the fight, you did detect that the two to the north were there, but they've since moved further away, like up north somewhere.
01:52:54 [Sildir (Tris)] So that's all I have right now? Mm-hmm. All right.
01:52:54 [Sildir (Tris)] I want to start moving this way.
01:53:00 [Mercurio (Gui)] Boom, boom, boom. Wait, wait. Maybe should we check the areas that we don't detect them in?
01:53:00 [Mercurio (Gui)] Because maybe there's like a prison cell somewhere with Batman.
01:53:10 [Sildir (Tris)] True. I'm going to step one more step to see this little hallway.
01:53:14 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay.
01:53:18 [Sildir (Tris)] Uh, you're muted. Give her a second.
01:53:22 [Irredel (Sav)] And the other thing too, if there are actual werewolves, that would be indicated by the fact that I was able to light up the entry door. I don't think they count as undead. You're not detecting me with your channel divinity, right?
01:53:35 [Sildir (Tris)] Uh, no. I'm not.
01:53:39 [Irredel (Sav)] Any room we're in, we need to watch out for.
01:53:43 [Sildir (Tris)] Good point.
01:53:44 [Irredel (Sav)] Maybe it's a collusion of werewolves and vampires. Yeah.
01:53:52 [Sildir (Tris)] Do you guys think I should go down this hallway or no?
01:53:55 [Mercurio (Gui)] I kind of want to check this out.
01:53:55 [Irredel (Sav)] The Court of Wolves and Fangs, if you will.
01:53:57 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, Mercurio, lead the way. I just want to be quick, whatever we do. All right, let's do it.
01:53:57 [Sildir (Tris)] Decisively moving south. And let me know if I'm reading anything, DM. Sure.
01:53:57 [Sildir (Tris)] This way. Um. I'm clanking.
01:54:20 [DM (Aarya)] Turning deeper into the depths. Fuck this path.
01:54:25 [Sildir (Tris)] This place is huge.
01:54:30 [Irredel (Sav)] I feel like we're gonna, like, open a door and be like, how did we end up in Castle Ravenloft?
01:54:36 [Mercurio (Gui)] Anything new being found?
01:54:40 [DM (Aarya)] All right, did any of y'all watch Demon Slayer?
01:54:45 [Sildir (Tris)] Uh, no. Are you trying to burn my divine sense out?
01:54:48 [DM (Aarya)] No, no, no, no.
01:54:49 [Sildir (Tris)] Because I'm on to you, pal.
01:54:51 [DM (Aarya)] Just, I was just gonna say, like, you just reminded me of, like, the Infinite Castle in Demon Slayer, but I don't think any of you are familiar.
01:54:58 [Sildir (Tris)] Nope, we're...
01:55:00 [Mercurio (Gui)] I haven't finished that. Um, all right, who wants to... Well, Ember, maybe you should, uh, hide around the corner.
01:55:10 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay.
01:55:10 [Mercurio (Gui)] And, uh, I'm... Well, do we detect anyone behind the door?
01:55:14 [DM (Aarya)] Um, you do not detect any presence behind this door. Okay, I think...
01:55:20 [Mercurio (Gui)] So, what the fuck is this? Okay, so...
01:55:23 [DM (Aarya)] We have the moon in here. You open this door, and you are... You see an open cavernous room.
01:55:23 [DM (Aarya)] The ceiling in this room is much higher, and in the center of the room, you see, levitating, like, 10 feet above the ground, what appears to be, like, a miniature replica of the moon. And directly above it, in the ceiling, is a porthole with, uh, light shining through and casting onto it. In its current state, the moon is not completely lit up by the light.
01:55:23 [DM (Aarya)] It appears to be in, like, a, um... How do I say? What's the word?
01:55:23 [DM (Aarya)] Waxing gibbous, I think. That's the phase that it's in currently. Waxing gibby.
01:55:23 [DM (Aarya)] On the far side of the room is a lever, and, like, sticking out of the ground. You're not sure what that is.
01:56:26 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm gonna go and pull the lever.
01:56:31 [Mercurio (Gui)] Does Iridel react to this at all?
01:56:34 [DM (Aarya)] Iridel, you don't react to it. Although, you do find that the moon is, like... You think it's honestly, like, gorgeous.
01:56:34 [DM (Aarya)] You're, like, kind of entranced, but... Similar to the effects you're feeling in your dream. Um, but yeah.
01:56:34 [DM (Aarya)] Sorry, I like it too much.
01:56:55 [Irredel (Sav)] I'm pulling the lever.
01:56:57 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. You're gonna pull the lever soon. All right, so, Sildur.
01:56:57 [DM (Aarya)] As you're pulling the lever, you find that it has quite a bit of resistance. So the lever doesn't, like, flip over, like, immediately. It kind of just, like, slowly creeps.
01:57:13 [Sildir (Tris)] Can I see what's happening as it's slowly creeping?
01:57:15 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, as you do so, you see the light shining from the top kind of shifts over to more fully encompassed the moon.
01:57:28 [Sildir (Tris)] Like, it's increasing the moon? Yes. I thought it would turn it off.
01:57:28 [Sildir (Tris)] Can I push it the other way and see what happens?
01:57:35 [DM (Aarya)] If you push it the other way, then the light shines off the moon.
01:57:39 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, I want to get it off the moon. I want the moon to be gone.
01:57:43 [DM (Aarya)] That's my goal here.
01:57:44 [Sildir (Tris)] All right. I will use my brain to achieve this if I can. If I'm a big dum-dum, then okay.
01:57:44 [Sildir (Tris)] I'll just go thick side down somewhere.
01:57:53 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so let me move this thing over.
01:57:57 [Irredel (Sav)] All right, I'm not gonna be able to help myself. Is it working? Like, is it decreasing?
01:58:02 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so you move the lever all the way over to one side, and the light completely moves over. So it's no longer shining on the moon, and the moon is completely in dark now.
01:58:13 [Sildir (Tris)] That's...
01:58:14 [Irredel (Sav)] Stop! Why would you do that? It wasn't hurting anyone.
01:58:24 [Mercurio (Gui)] Irdel, I'm doing it for you.
01:58:27 [Sildir (Tris)] I want you to think about what you're saying. Audit yourself.
01:58:34 [Ember (Spurthi)] You're...
01:58:34 [Irredel (Sav)] you're right. You're right.
01:58:39 [Mercurio (Gui)] You're not being yourself right now.
01:58:45 [Sildir (Tris)] You're not you when you're hungry.
01:58:49 [Irredel (Sav)] It's just... have you ever looked at something and thought, if I could possess that, if I could have that, it would complete me?
01:59:06 [Saturno (Steph)] I think that's what Mercurio says every time he looks in the mirror, honestly.
01:59:13 [Sildir (Tris)] I think I heard him say it about a red dragon crush.
01:59:21 [Mercurio (Gui)] And it was true. But Irdel, I mean, listen to yourself. Like, if you had the moon, like, it doesn't even make any sense.
01:59:21 [Mercurio (Gui)] I mean...
01:59:33 [Irredel (Sav)] No, it doesn't make sense. It's just the best way I can describe this, like, pull.
01:59:39 [Sildir (Tris)] Well listen, we're gonna get you through it. You have to resist as much as you can.
01:59:43 [Irredel (Sav)] It's tugging at the very fabric of my soul. I've never wanted anything this much.
01:59:54 [Sildir (Tris)] You know, this might be good practice for tomorrow. So I'm kind of glad that we stepped in here. We saw this.
01:59:54 [Sildir (Tris)] We know what to expect. And obviously you need to take the potion, I think, a little bit before the moon comes out. But it's good that we're seeing in a more controlled environment what could happen.
01:59:54 [Sildir (Tris)] But for now, keep an audit on yourself here, Irdel. We have to keep moving. We have to find V.
01:59:54 [Sildir (Tris)] We have to kill this mistress. We have to get the heck out of here.
02:00:27 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah, let's get moving.
02:00:29 [Mercurio (Gui)] Our primordial instinct.
02:00:33 [Sildir (Tris)] Our primordial instinct beats the GTFO.
02:00:35 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah. Well, Ember, Saturno, come on. There's no time to waste.
02:00:45 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, do I feel anything on the other side of the door now? Or anything anywhere?
02:00:48 [DM (Aarya)] 60 feet? Let's see, let's see, let's see.
02:00:52 [Mercurio (Gui)] I think we came this way already.
02:00:54 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, there's like a circle now.
02:00:56 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah.
02:00:57 [DM (Aarya)] So over in this direction is the same group of undead that you're detecting earlier. The six? Yeah, but they haven't moved at all.
02:00:57 [DM (Aarya)] And in fact, you notice now after like detecting the other, the one that you encountered before, like that one was kind of like shifting around a little bit as you approach. But this group is perfectly, like almost eerily still.
02:01:23 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, I'm just gonna roll one dice to see if Silder would realize this. Nope, he wouldn't. What?
02:01:34 [Mercurio (Gui)] I was gonna say that those are probably just a bunch of lackeys in coffins.
02:01:41 [Sildir (Tris)] Yep, that's what I was rolling for.
02:01:46 [Irredel (Sav)] Well, if you were to tell us that information, like, you're like, oh, are they moving?
02:01:50 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, Mercurio said it's just as well. So I believe Mercurio.
02:01:58 [Mercurio (Gui)] So then we should probably chase after the two that were moving. I guess your instincts were right before, so maybe we should go back up that path from before.
02:02:09 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, we could try. You mean back where we just came from with the barrels? Or you mean north from where we started?
02:02:18 [Mercurio (Gui)] It was like, we sensed them like around here, right? So we, but then they started moving east. So maybe there's like a room here and a path east there.
02:02:29 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, let's go for it. You lead the way. I think Iridel is definitely right, though, that there's probably, probably some wolves in here, considering this moon.
02:02:29 [Sildir (Tris)] So the collusion theory is probably true.
02:02:48 [Irredel (Sav)] I'm gonna inspect this device, actually. Is this artistic or is there any indication that it's magical? I guess it'd be Arcana.
02:03:00 [Sildir (Tris)] My impression is that it is a perfectly placed lens that actually takes in the moon from the outside.
02:03:07 [Irredel (Sav)] Okay, so like basically like a device to turn people, like expose them to the moon down here so that they could be turned into wolves down here without having the moonlight touch them or whatever.
02:03:19 [DM (Aarya)] All right, so with those Arcana checks, Mercurio with an eight Arcana check, you don't really detect much of anything. You do get an, like, it is like intriguing to you. Like you can, you get the sense that there's something about this, but you aren't able to like glean anything with your Arcana check.
02:03:19 [DM (Aarya)] Oh my gosh, Ember with your Arcana check, with a 20 Arcana, non-natural 20, um, you can tell that, uh, this device, uh, imitates the light of the moon when it is like shown on. And you get the sense that when it is fully lit, it's, um, it kind of, it will do some, like some kind of effect will occur. Um, though you're not certain what.
02:03:19 [DM (Aarya)] And let's see what else. Saturna with a 19 Arcana check, you get the same sense as, um, Ember, you kind of feel like fully shining it might reveal something. And Iridel with an seven Arcana check.
02:03:19 [DM (Aarya)] You don't, you like try to like inspect the nature of this device, though you're honestly still like entranced by the moon. And before you realize it, you find yourself wandering over to the lever and your hand is now on it.
02:04:44 [Irredel (Sav)] Oh, okay. How fast am I?
02:04:50 [Sildir (Tris)] Um, where's Iridel?
02:04:52 [Irredel (Sav)] Iridel?
02:04:52 [DM (Aarya)] You're not like walking particularly fast, but yeah.
02:04:56 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay, okay. Iridel, jump on it.
02:04:59 [Ember (Spurthi)] I try to block her.
02:05:01 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Whoa, whoa, whoa. So Iridel rolled a five sleight of hand.
02:05:01 [DM (Aarya)] So yeah, you, they all see you starting to creak the lever, like over, um, the light begins to shift over onto the moon.
02:05:22 [Sildir (Tris)] Is this like just a wooden lever?
02:05:24 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, like, like wood and metal. Yeah.
02:05:28 [Ember (Spurthi)] Can I use my stealth, can I do a stealth shift to move her away?
02:05:32 [DM (Aarya)] Um, it wouldn't be stealth. You can try to do like, um, just sleight of hand.
02:05:40 [Speaker 7] Okay.
02:05:43 [DM (Aarya)] So 11.
02:05:45 [Saturno (Steph)] Difficult to like disable.
02:05:48 [DM (Aarya)] What do you mean?
02:05:49 [Speaker 7] The lever.
02:05:50 [DM (Aarya)] Like, I'm just going to try to dismantle it, but with an 11 sleight of hand check Ember, you're able to like, um, like basically just like bat Ember's hand off the lever and stop her from pulling it.
02:06:01 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay. Oh.
02:06:04 [Irredel (Sav)] Iridel, you have to watch yourself. Let's get out of this room.
02:06:08 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
02:06:09 [Saturno (Steph)] Because I was going to say, if they use this for something, like maybe we can disable it so that in the future, if there is a moment where they have to use it, they can't.
02:06:20 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah. Is it a light on the roof? Just there.
02:06:23 [DM (Aarya)] It's shining down from a porthole basically. And like, the lever is basically like shifting a lens in the porthole that like moves the position of the, where the light is coming down.
02:06:34 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, someone's going to break that lens. Well, it might make noise.
02:06:39 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah.
02:06:40 [Saturno (Steph)] Because I was thinking about shattering the whole thing.
02:06:44 [Mercurio (Gui)] Let's just get out of here. Yeah, I think time is of the essence.
02:06:50 [Sildir (Tris)] Yep. I'm walking. To the right is the six people.
02:06:56 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um, yeah.
02:06:57 [DM (Aarya)] So that group is still further over. Let me double check the distance. Yes.
02:06:57 [DM (Aarya)] So that six is still in exactly the same spot. They haven't moved an inch.
02:07:08 [Sildir (Tris)] I feel like this hallway leads to them. So I'm going to keep walking.
02:07:12 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah. Do you detect the two yet, Sildir? Do I?
02:07:19 [DM (Aarya)] Let me get one sec just to measure positions. So as you walk over here, Sildir, you would once again detect the two coming like further out here. But they are now, they've since moved from their northern position and now like, it seems like they're patrolling down southward.
02:07:19 [DM (Aarya)] And to your right side where you detected the six, you can tell like now that you're a bit closer, your range is extended and you can tell that there's two more along with them. So there's now eight that you're detecting. All sitting perfectly still.
02:07:57 [Sildir (Tris)] All right. They got a little army, guys. The two seem to be on patrol.
02:07:57 [Sildir (Tris)] I think if we go up to the right, if we can, we'll keep out of their range for now. I'm going to do just that.
02:08:11 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Okay. So one sec.
02:08:11 [DM (Aarya)] Let me just double check measurements again.
02:08:18 [Sildir (Tris)] Using speedrunning tactics.
02:08:20 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah. So the eight. Everybody make sure you keep up.
02:08:23 [DM (Aarya)] The eight is like over here, Sildir. You just moved past them. Okay.
02:08:23 [DM (Aarya)] They didn't move like the whole time. And now that you're moving more north, you're now like leaving them behind, basically.
02:08:36 [Sildir (Tris)] Cool. Excellent. Wait, everyone.
02:08:36 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah. Good point. Where's Aragel?
02:08:51 [Irredel (Sav)] Right here, Triss.
02:08:56 [Sildir (Tris)] That was speedrunning. I like it. All right.
02:08:56 [Sildir (Tris)] So I go this way. I think... Do you want to see what's behind this door?
02:08:56 [Sildir (Tris)] It feels... Based on where we've been so far, I think this is going to be a short exploration. All right.
02:08:56 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm going to pop open the door. Ember, maybe take a duck behind the wall real quick and...
02:09:19 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. So in this room, you basically see what... At first glance, it seems almost like a church room.
02:09:19 [DM (Aarya)] However, considering the state of the room and the decorations that are hung around, it seems to be more like a much more, say, profane ritual place. There is an altar on the far end, upon which there is what appears to be like a corpse. And there are stone pews arranged in front of it.
02:09:19 [DM (Aarya)] All around, there are shelves that are worn down. They don't really carry much. They're just like piles of bones here and there, strewn about.
02:09:19 [DM (Aarya)] And cobwebs hanging in the corners everywhere.
02:10:03 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm assuming your explanation took no time in-game?
02:10:07 [DM (Aarya)] Yes.
02:10:08 [Sildir (Tris)] What's this? It's a corpse, I believe. Is that right, Diem?
02:10:15 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, that's correct.
02:10:17 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, guys. I don't think we have any time for this room. It's not what we're looking for, and the two are running around.
02:10:17 [Sildir (Tris)] Where do I feel them at right now? They're south.
02:10:26 [DM (Aarya)] This whole time, they've continued to move further down south, patrolling until they left your range.
02:10:31 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, I think they're gonna go south and then back up. So we need to leave. I don't think this is what we need.
02:10:31 [Sildir (Tris)] You can come back for this.
02:10:39 [Saturno (Steph)] There's a door at the end where Iridyll is.
02:10:41 [Mercurio (Gui)] There's a door at the end, though.
02:10:43 [Sildir (Tris)] Do you guys want to look?
02:10:44 [Mercurio (Gui)] I think it'll be a circle. Well, it's just to know. Can we do an instant back?
02:10:44 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay, yeah, it's a circle.
02:10:53 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, let's keep going.
02:10:55 [Mercurio (Gui)] We might have missed a room that way, though. But yeah, let's go this way.
02:11:00 [Sildir (Tris)] We probably did. But I don't want to meet with the guard right now.
02:11:04 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
02:11:06 [Sildir (Tris)] All right. Well, this looks interesting.
02:11:10 [DM (Aarya)] So as you approach the end of this corridor, this door here seems to be more grand than the ones you encountered elsewhere. The others are pretty simple reinforced wooden doors. And this one, however, is set into what appears to be a marble door frame.
02:11:10 [DM (Aarya)] And the door itself is a bit more intricately carved wood. Yeah.
02:11:40 [Mercurio (Gui)] No sense behind it.
02:11:42 [DM (Aarya)] You don't sense it.
02:11:43 [Sildir (Tris)] Do I find anything? Yeah.
02:11:44 [DM (Aarya)] You don't sense anything behind this door.
02:11:49 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, let's do it. Let's do it.
02:11:54 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. So out into this room, you are met with a brightly lit room. On one end, there is an altar with a burning brassiere atop it.
02:11:54 [DM (Aarya)] The flames are illuminating the entire area. You see at the base of the altar, there is a plaque installed onto it. It is blank.
02:11:54 [DM (Aarya)] The floor here appears to be carved limestone. There are patterns of bones and skulls etched into the floor. And on the opposite end of the room from the altar, you see five pedestals.
02:11:54 [DM (Aarya)] And there are different objects placed on each of them. Let me get my notes up here. In order, you see on this top one, there are what appear to be pine needles.
02:11:54 [DM (Aarya)] Here, there are a bunch of flowers. Here is a cup, though from where you're standing, you can't really tell what's in it. Here is a pile of bones.
02:11:54 [DM (Aarya)] And on this last one is what appears to be a cut of raw meat.
02:13:14 [Saturno (Steph)] Like materials for a ritual?
02:13:17 [DM (Aarya)] Something like that.
02:13:19 [Sildir (Tris)] And what is this glowing orb?
02:13:22 [DM (Aarya)] That's the brassiere. You're on mute.
02:13:29 [Irredel (Sav)] I'm not walking into this room. This is what... This must be the way the werewolves do the ritual to stay wolves.
02:13:29 [Irredel (Sav)] We heard it has to be a profane, terrible ritual. That must be what's happening here. This feels like a trap.
02:13:29 [Irredel (Sav)] Why it opened for me.
02:14:06 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, certainly it doesn't have what we need in any case. And I think you might be right, Iridel. And I turn to leave.
02:14:06 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, maybe we should go in the circle then. What do you guys think? I bet the guards are now at a point where they are coming around and we'll need to keep ringing around the Rosie with them.
02:14:06 [Sildir (Tris)] Let's do it. Maybe we can examine this corpse while we're here. Hopefully it's not V.
02:14:42 [Saturno (Steph)] Can we do like an arcana or anything before we get too close? While we're literally close to it already, yeah.
02:14:50 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, you can roll whatever checks you want to do to try to detect anything or learn anything.
02:15:00 [Irredel (Sav)] Gonna do a religion check?
02:15:08 [Saturno (Steph)] Um... Maybe a history check would have been cool.
02:15:12 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so with a 14 arcana check. And 14 arcana check from Saturno and a 10 arcana check from Ember. You don't detect any magic coming off of this corpse or anything or anything really in this room.
02:15:12 [DM (Aarya)] Iridel, with a 26 religion check. You don't sense anything from the corpse or the room itself. However, you hear a voice in your head.
02:15:12 [DM (Aarya)] And it says, You will soon need to choose.
02:15:49 [Irredel (Sav)] Is it Tyr?
02:15:51 [DM (Aarya)] Um, it- Do I recognize the voice as Tyr? The voice is unrecognizable to you. It is not Tyr's voice.
02:16:00 [Irredel (Sav)] You'll soon need to choose? Um...
02:16:04 [Mercurio (Gui)] What was that, Iridel?
02:16:05 [Irredel (Sav)] What was that? It's... Something...
02:16:05 [Irredel (Sav)] Something bizarre is happening in this room. Something religious in nature. God or being or something just spoke to me.
02:16:05 [Irredel (Sav)] Said you will soon need to choose.
02:16:27 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'm going to use my... Okay, sure. And I want to just do my instant cast of detect magic.
02:16:40 [DM (Aarya)] Sure. Um... Detect magic, so within 30 feet.
02:16:40 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so yeah. 30 feet within this room, you don't detect any magic. In and around this room.
02:17:01 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay. Well, it's not magical. And I got 10 minutes of this, so let's- I want to investigate this body.
02:17:09 [Sildir (Tris)] Did anyone do that yet? No.
02:17:13 [Speaker 7] No.
02:17:13 [Sildir (Tris)] All right. My investigation is not my strong suit, but see how it goes.
02:17:18 [DM (Aarya)] So, 11 investigations from Zynder, 19 investigations from Ember. You investigate this body and you can tell that this corpse hasn't been dead for that long. Like maybe a week at most.
02:17:18 [DM (Aarya)] And you can tell that it has been completely exsanguinated. Which does that mean? It means it's been drained of all its blood.
02:17:41 [Saturno (Steph)] I don't know. Would the face be recognizable?
02:17:46 [DM (Aarya)] Um, you unwrap the like the wrappings on the face of the corpse and it is completely desiccated. You can't recognize who this is.
02:17:56 [Sildir (Tris)] It does seem old though, so hopefully it's not V. Let's keep moving.
02:18:03 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, keep going.
02:18:07 [Sildir (Tris)] Anything? Can I keep moving?
02:18:12 [DM (Aarya)] Um, yeah. So, at this point, where you are- Yeah, you can see my curses.
02:18:22 [Sildir (Tris)] Just kidding, I won't do that. I'm not gonna troll you.
02:18:23 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, that's so funny. Um, yeah. You don't detect any presence.
02:18:23 [DM (Aarya)] The two that you detected earlier have not swung around or anything.
02:18:34 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, I'm gonna move a little bit more. I think we should go left here. I'm pretty sure.
02:18:34 [Sildir (Tris)] And down. And down a little more.
02:18:49 [Saturno (Steph)] Isn't this- this is the barrel. This is where we came from.
02:18:52 [Sildir (Tris)] Is this the barrel room?
02:18:54 [DM (Aarya)] I feel like- No. Yeah, that was the barrel hole right below. All right, so at this point, where you are still there, you detect the group of two from earlier, now moving out further out east.
02:19:11 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay, I'm all the way- I'll just walk backwards to you guys for role-playing purposes. Well, we are successfully wringing around the rows of you guys, but I'm not sure where to go next. Any ideas?
02:19:32 [Saturno (Steph)] So this is- the room below us is the one we already went into.
02:19:39 [Sildir (Tris)] I believe so.
02:19:42 [DM (Aarya)] Sorry.
02:19:44 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, I was muted. Uh, so was it like- is it this east path over here that they took?
02:19:52 [DM (Aarya)] They were like down this way.
02:19:55 [Sildir (Tris)] I wonder if we could trail them, guys, just from 60 feet back.
02:20:02 [Irredel (Sav)] They noticed us. That's pretty close.
02:20:05 [Speaker 7] Yeah, that's true.
02:20:06 [Saturno (Steph)] I wonder if they noticed someone played with the moon.
02:20:14 [Irredel (Sav)] Are we sure the room was down this way? Oh, yeah.
02:20:18 [Sildir (Tris)] Here it is. Here, come this way, everybody. To the- towards the entry to the barrel room.
02:20:18 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay. Stay together. There you go.
02:20:18 [Sildir (Tris)] See what's over here.
02:20:31 [Irredel (Sav)] Isn't there another door down this way? Another path?
02:20:36 [Mercurio (Gui)] This went to the moon room.
02:20:38 [Sildir (Tris)] Hmm. Maybe we should go further north from the barrels. I don't know.
02:20:38 [Sildir (Tris)] That's where we came from, isn't it?
02:20:44 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, that's where we just came from. Or is this like an intersection we haven't been to? Right here?
02:20:55 [Sildir (Tris)] You could try it.
02:20:58 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh shit, where did everybody go?
02:21:00 [Sildir (Tris)] Um.
02:21:00 [Mercurio (Gui)] Are you up here? I'm here. We're split, we're split, we're split.
02:21:00 [Mercurio (Gui)] Chill, chill, chill.
02:21:05 [Sildir (Tris)] We have Saturno.
02:21:07 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um, come this way. Uh, Ember, I think. Or, yeah, up here.
02:21:15 [Speaker 7] Yeah, I'm right here, right here.
02:21:18 [Mercurio (Gui)] We met back up. Yeah, so this connects back. Yep.
02:21:18 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, okay.
02:21:25 [Sildir (Tris)] Let's maybe go this way.
02:21:28 [Mercurio (Gui)] Which way?
02:21:30 [Sildir (Tris)] Uh, the way I'm going, I guess. Yeah. We have everybody.
02:21:30 [Sildir (Tris)] Wait, I got lost. Hold on, hold on.
02:21:39 [Irredel (Sav)] It's dark.
02:21:41 [Sildir (Tris)] Um, I'm going to give you my torch.
02:21:44 [Mercurio (Gui)] It's also hard, there's the diagonal walls.
02:21:46 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah.
02:21:48 [Mercurio (Gui)] Make it hard to see ourselves sometimes.
02:21:50 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
02:21:53 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um, so this is the way. Can we go up? We went up?
02:22:03 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah.
02:22:03 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, maybe just zoom out for a sec.
02:22:06 [Sildir (Tris)] This is the exit.
02:22:09 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, where did we come from? Oh my god.
02:22:12 [Speaker 7] Did we go north?
02:22:14 [Mercurio (Gui)] We've been north.
02:22:15 [Sildir (Tris)] We've explored everything then, actually. Except the coffin room.
02:22:20 [Speaker 7] It's a road.
02:22:21 [Sildir (Tris)] You guys want to look in the coffin room? I feel like that's a pretty bold choice.
02:22:28 [DM (Aarya)] So, Sildir, when you were standing in this position, you were detecting the group of eights directly on the other side of this wall. Okay. They haven't moved, still.
02:22:39 [Sildir (Tris)] They never really moved, right?
02:22:41 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
02:22:41 [Mercurio (Gui)] Wait, on the other side of... Of this wall, where I'm at. Yeah, so the east must go up into, like, a room.
02:22:41 [Mercurio (Gui)] I think it goes like this, goes down this way, and then up into, like, a room.
02:22:57 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, you guys want to...
02:22:58 [Mercurio (Gui)] I mean, we can see if it splits, but yeah.
02:23:00 [Sildir (Tris)] Be brave.
02:23:03 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um, hold on a sec then, Sildir.
02:23:05 [DM (Aarya)] Just give me one sec, sorry. Just checking positions. Yeah, you're good.
02:23:10 [Mercurio (Gui)] Sildir, you're the only weak one, right?
02:23:13 [Sildir (Tris)] I am.
02:23:14 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay, I'm gonna use my, um, my healing hands on you. Thank you. Why is it...
02:23:14 [Mercurio (Gui)] This thing is always broken. Uh, number of d4s equal to your proficiency bonus, so I'm just gonna slash r2d4, six healing.
02:23:46 [Sildir (Tris)] Cool, and I will, uh... Do you guys think it's worth it for me to lay hands on myself? I guess I will.
02:23:46 [Sildir (Tris)] I'll do it.
02:23:55 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'll do it for 15. Maybe keep one point in case you need to, like, cure a status effect or pick somebody else.
02:24:02 [Sildir (Tris)] I kept, uh, five points of it, yeah.
02:24:05 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay, cool. Are you healthy then?
02:24:10 [Sildir (Tris)] Uh, I'm too short of max, so pretty good. All right. I'm gonna be in tip-top shape here.
02:24:10 [Sildir (Tris)] Everyone stay huddled. I'm gonna take one step at a time.
02:24:24 [DM (Aarya)] Beep.
02:24:26 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm assuming I'm just kind of keeping appraised of where these coffins are.
02:24:33 [DM (Aarya)] All right. So as you enter this room, this appears to be, to once have been, like, a kitchen, dining area of sorts, though it has long since fell into disrepair. Um, on the, like, on the back side of this wall still there, um, that's where you're detecting the eight.
02:24:33 [DM (Aarya)] Um, however, as you get closer to the wall, you detect, uh, another group. Up to, in addition to the eight, so there's now ten that you're detecting on the other side of this wall.
02:25:06 [Sildir (Tris)] Wow.
02:25:08 [Speaker 7] You got a prayer badge?
02:25:11 [Sildir (Tris)] I saw Nightingale said this was diminished. Maybe it is. I don't know.
02:25:11 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, let's continue on. Just a little bit. Oh, guys, look.
02:25:11 [Sildir (Tris)] There's a way south.
02:25:31 [Speaker 7] Let's check it out quickly.
02:25:36 [DM (Aarya)] Um, as you go along further this direction still there, you're detecting the patrolling, too, from before, like, out in this direction. Uh, to your southeast.
02:25:48 [Sildir (Tris)] We might have to, uh, play it cool with the patrols, guys. I think disguise strategy first and then fight if we have to. But we're approaching.
02:25:57 [Irredel (Sav)] We just turned back.
02:25:59 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, this is a dead end. What? Can I investigate anything on the walls?
02:26:04 [DM (Aarya)] Um, you can roll, like, something to see. You can do, like, investigation, perception, something along those lines. Okay, so nine investigation from Mercurio, five perception from Saturno, um, 17 perception from Sildir, and 20 investigation from Ember.
02:26:26 [Sildir (Tris)] Everybody roll.
02:26:27 [DM (Aarya)] So with those rolls, um, you can tell that this is a dead end. There isn't, like, a door or anything or, like, something that opens and gives way to, like, a deeper passage here. However, considering the previous areas that you've explored and the positions of the patrolling pack, um, you can tell that there's likely something on the other side of this wall.
02:26:27 [DM (Aarya)] There just isn't a path from here to it.
02:26:59 [Sildir (Tris)] All right. Let's keep finding a way. I guess, uh, we could go to the right here.
02:27:13 [Irredel (Sav)] Let's investigate what's in this room. Do I notice anything weird out of place? Any blood smells?
02:27:18 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so you, like, look around. You can tell that, yeah, this area definitely was, like, a kitchen or, like, yeah, dining area that was in use at one point, though it has long, long since been abandoned. Um, almost as if its residents don't need to eat here anymore.
02:27:43 [Mercurio (Gui)] Uh, do I get anything with a 23?
02:27:45 [DM (Aarya)] Oh my, 23 perception from- that was a nat 20 perception from Mercurio. Um, yeah, you don't gain anything, unfortunately, aside from what was already revealed. Actually, hold on, hold on.
02:27:45 [DM (Aarya)] I'll say with a nat 20 perception, you detect- not here, but you recall seeing footsteps from where you were before when you retraced along the path going down here in the direction of the moon room. Yeah, so somebody, since you've been there, has passed along that direction. How many- We really are Scooby-Doo gaming.
02:27:45 [DM (Aarya)] A pair, so two, two- A pair.
02:28:40 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah. Maybe the way further east is in the moon room.
02:28:50 [Sildir (Tris)] I thought we saw all walls in there.
02:28:53 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, but maybe it's a hidden door, maybe with the lever, if you pull it.
02:28:59 [DM (Aarya)] And also, I'll say, Sildur, now that you've moved along, like, around enough, you can detect that in this room beyond, like, beyond this wall, um, you get the sense that you've detected all of the undead entities that are lying within, um, all perfectly eerily still haven't moved an inch this whole time. And there's a total of 14.
02:29:26 [Sildir (Tris)] There's 14, guys.
02:29:27 [Irredel (Sav)] Okay, I think we need to leave.
02:29:33 [Mercurio (Gui)] I think we should leave, but I think- Maybe we take out the two patrols? We check out the moon room, and I think there's- there's something there, like, there's- there's, like, maybe that's the path to the- the jail cell where they've got our friend, you know, where they've got, um, vengeance. Yeah, the hallway right here.
02:29:33 [Mercurio (Gui)] We- we go back and we report back. Wait, there's a pulley here?
02:29:59 [Sildir (Tris)] There's a hallway right here, I said.
02:30:01 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, a hallway.
02:30:03 [Sildir (Tris)] And at this corner, it goes downward. I don't know if you want to check this and then the moon room.
02:30:10 [Mercurio (Gui)] Let's be quick.
02:30:13 [Sildir (Tris)] It goes up, be careful. That's where there's 14, uh- Oh, wait, no, no, I think- Don't go.
02:30:18 [Mercurio (Gui)] I think- I think don't go there. That's the danger room. That's got to be the way to the danger room.
02:30:23 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, let's go back. Let's go towards the moon room. Where am I feeling the patrols at?
02:30:30 [DM (Aarya)] Um, they continue to going along east, um, in this direction. They are now, like, they've passed out of your range. Okay.
02:30:37 [Mercurio (Gui)] But, uh, like, east, like, like, which east? Southeast?
02:30:42 [DM (Aarya)] Like, southeast, yes.
02:30:44 [Mercurio (Gui)] Then they're- they're in the secret- Okay, hold on. Moon hall.
02:30:48 [DM (Aarya)] Um, you- It's opened! You enter the moon room.
02:30:51 [Mercurio (Gui)] We said the moon thing.
02:30:53 [DM (Aarya)] You tell- you can see that, um, the lever has been pulled all the way to one direction so that the light is fully on the moon. And now that that is lit, there is an opening here that has, uh, given way. Um, peering into that opening, you can tell from the angle that it is just darkness.
02:30:53 [DM (Aarya)] Um, you can't tell what's there without getting a bit closer. Um, Iridel, give me a wisdom saving throw.
02:31:22 [Speaker 7] Okay.
02:31:31 [DM (Aarya)] 19. Okay. Bliss.
02:31:31 [DM (Aarya)] So with a 19 wisdom save, um, you kind of, like, feel a burning, like, hunger building up in your stomach. Um, you feel a prickling sensation going down your arms and your spine, almost as if you're, like, about to sprout hair, like, fur. Um, you feel an aching in your bones and your muscles as they, like, ripple and bulge a bit, but you're able to get a handle on it and, like, stop anything from progressing.
02:31:31 [DM (Aarya)] However, you are, like, pretty entranced by the sight of this lit up moon.
02:32:12 [Irredel (Sav)] So I'm going to, like, start walking towards the moon.
02:32:14 [Ember (Spurthi)] Yep. Slowly.
02:32:15 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'm gonna, I'm gonna grab, uh, Iridel and I'm gonna put my, um, like, hands on her shoulder.
02:32:23 [Ember (Spurthi)] I'm gonna snarl.
02:32:24 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'm gonna, I'm going to just- You're gonna what? Like, Iridel, Iridel, you're, you're better than this. Like, you, you have more self-control.
02:32:24 [Mercurio (Gui)] Look, I, coming from someone, I, I'm an expert in not having any self-control, but you, you are an expert in having self-control and you can beat this, okay? And I'm gonna give, um, Iridel a bardic inspiration.
02:32:45 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, let's fucking go.
02:32:47 [Irredel (Sav)] Okay, and yeah, and I'm just gonna, like, kind of, like, be, like, snarling and, like, struggling a bit. Um, and then, like, Mercurio is able to kind of, like, soothe and be, like, I'm gonna be, like, oh, god, I don't know, it's coming over me. I mean, I know it's coming over me.
02:32:47 [Irredel (Sav)] Lycanthropy. I'm turning into a werewolf, but it feels awful. I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin.
02:32:47 [Irredel (Sav)] It's just, I've always been so starchy and bunged up and wool wearing and, god, I just want to rip it all off.
02:33:26 [Mercurio (Gui)] I, I don't know how to help, but just, I, I just know you're strong enough to beat this.
02:33:34 [Irredel (Sav)] Let's just, let's keep moving. I need to get away from this. I, I really think this is a device to force people to transform.
02:33:44 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, let's get away. I agree. Let's go.
02:33:48 [Saturno (Steph)] All right, let's take, let's take her away quickly.
02:33:50 [Irredel (Sav)] I mean, actually, that's probably exactly what this whole thing is, that they are allowed, are able to get people to start the transformation and they spirit them away to that room up north and have them complete the profane ritual. Yeah, and then they come here. Vampires that run this court of wool build up their little werewolf army.
02:33:50 [Irredel (Sav)] I have the wolf bane, like, on me, like, in a pocket. By the way, I'm announcing that.
02:34:29 [Sildir (Tris)] Why is this room so dark in the floor?
02:34:32 [Irredel (Sav)] Let's inspect it. Like this room, I don't know.
02:34:34 [Sildir (Tris)] It looks weird. Is this a pit?
02:34:38 [DM (Aarya)] Sorry, I was muted. Let me clarify. So you step into this room and you see, like, extending out to the east is a pit.
02:34:38 [DM (Aarya)] It extends pretty far down, far enough into the darkness that you can't quite see the bottom. And on the far side is another landing, like, over here. Um, yeah, like, right here is the landing that leads to another tunnel.
02:35:08 [Mercurio (Gui)] Hmm. This is holy schmoley 50 feet.
02:35:15 [Sildir (Tris)] Almost like you need to turn into a bat and fly across.
02:35:25 [DM (Aarya)] Notably, the ceiling in this area isn't that high. It still extends like 10 feet above you, like, even over the pit.
02:35:32 [Mercurio (Gui)] Are there some monkey bars?
02:35:35 [DM (Aarya)] Uh, no. I mean, it just looks like a cave ceiling. There is, like, um, it's, like, uneven and rough.
02:35:35 [DM (Aarya)] But yeah, no, like, monkey bars or anything.
02:35:44 [Saturno (Steph)] The only thing I could think of is... Oh, sorry.
02:35:51 [Ember (Spurthi)] I mean, can't we fly?
02:35:55 [Mercurio (Gui)] Do you have, like, any heavy crossbow bolts or something, like...
02:35:59 [Sildir (Tris)] Maybe if the lever's in the other position, something happens in this room.
02:36:03 [Ember (Spurthi)] Oh, I should have a grappling hook, but I have, like... Hmm. What was your curious thing?
02:36:14 [Mercurio (Gui)] Behind us, does it seem that the wall is, like, there? Is there, like, an illusory wall there?
02:36:23 [DM (Aarya)] So you can tell, like, as you cross over the threshold, there was, like, some kind of mechanism that basically, like, retracted the wall, like, upward. Okay. To reveal, like, a hidden passage.
02:36:23 [DM (Aarya)] So it was a secret door, is what you can tell.
02:36:43 [Sildir (Tris)] Um, I wonder if the lever's in another position, if something happens in this room.
02:36:52 [Mercurio (Gui)] It's worth a shot. Uh, just... Iridyll avoids looking at it.
02:36:59 [Sildir (Tris)] Um, yeah, I guess some of us need to stay and some of us need to go, right?
02:37:03 [Irredel (Sav)] I'll stay here.
02:37:08 [Sildir (Tris)] All right. Uh, maybe... Eh, I'll go pull the lever.
02:37:08 [Sildir (Tris)] You guys hang tight. Do I detect anything?
02:37:15 [DM (Aarya)] Um, no, you don't detect anything.
02:37:18 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, I go and I shift the lever so it's not shining on the moon any longer.
02:37:22 [DM (Aarya)] All right, so you move the light off of the moon, and as you see... As soon as you... As the light is completely off, you hear a click, and the hidden door slowly begins to descend from the ceiling and start to close.
02:37:37 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay, I'm gonna let it happen fully this time.
02:37:40 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so the door shuts completely. Um...
02:37:46 [Sildir (Tris)] Now I'll move the light back on the moon.
02:37:47 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so you move the light back on the moon, and the door slowly creaks and rumbles and raises up once more.
02:37:57 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, I go to the party and I ask it what they had seen.
02:38:01 [DM (Aarya)] Um, so they have... didn't see any change in this, um, the pit room.
02:38:06 [Mercurio (Gui)] So it just opens the door, I guess.
02:38:09 [Saturno (Steph)] I was gonna mention that, uh, we have, like, flight for 10 minutes.
02:38:17 [Speaker 7] What?
02:38:18 [Saturno (Steph)] Like, with our thing, with our asthma...
02:38:22 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh yeah, we could fly across if we use that.
02:38:25 [Saturno (Steph)] Asthma, celestial revelation, it's like a bonus action. We could do heavenly wings and sprout wings on our back temporarily. Until the transformation ends, we have flight speed equal to our speed.
02:38:42 [DM (Aarya)] And also, Ember pointed out that she has a grappling hook.
02:38:46 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, so I guess those are our choices.
02:38:49 [Mercurio (Gui)] I don't think we should waste the flight. Plus, if we take too long on the other side, we're stuck.
02:38:53 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah.
02:38:55 [Mercurio (Gui)] All right, well... Let's try the grappling hook, yeah.
02:38:57 [Sildir (Tris)] See if we can land that thing.
02:39:00 [Ember (Spurthi)] All right. Don't you roll anything for that?
02:39:04 [DM (Aarya)] Um, yeah, describe to me how you're using... So you have a grappling hook, you can affix rope to it, and maybe shoot it with, like, your bow or your crossbow. It's up to you.
02:39:12 [Ember (Spurthi)] Yeah, I'll do that. I'll do that.
02:39:14 [DM (Aarya)] All right, um, yeah, go ahead. So you can rig it up with your... I'll say, your crossbow, did you want to use?
02:39:21 [Ember (Spurthi)] Yeah.
02:39:22 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, and yeah, just go ahead and shoot with your crossbow. Just roll an attack with it.
02:39:28 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay.
02:39:31 [DM (Aarya)] And just be the 10, and you'll be able to secure it on the other side.
02:39:36 [Speaker 7] Okay.
02:39:47 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, 16. So at the 16, the bolt with the grappling hook affixed sails smoothly across the pit and secures itself onto, like, a crevice on the, in the, like, on the wall on the opposite side, like, within the tunnel, basically. You tug on the rope a bit to make sure that it's secure and confirm that it is taut, and you're able to, like, tie off the, like, your end of the rope onto, like, basically, like, a piece of rock or something jutting out of the ground here.
02:39:47 [DM (Aarya)] So there is a rope now, like, securely spanning the pit.
02:40:29 [Ember (Spurthi)] All right, it's good to go.
02:40:32 [DM (Aarya)] With this rope, you can tell that it is able to support the weight of one person at a time, and to cross, you'll have to do, like, an athletics or acrobatics check and beat a 10 to successfully make it across the rope.
02:40:53 [Ember (Spurthi)] Maybe I should stay back until, maybe I should stay back until everyone is on so that, like, if it crumbles, I can reshoot it. Yeah.
02:41:11 [Mercurio (Gui)] Who's going first?
02:41:15 [Sildir (Tris)] Um, you said athletics.
02:41:19 [DM (Aarya)] Or acrobatics. 24. Okay, so with a 24 athletics check, Sildur, you are quite able to easily just, like, swing, like, basically, like, kind of, like, monkey bar along the rope to make it over to the other side.
02:41:34 [Saturno (Steph)] I'm so scared.
02:41:38 [DM (Aarya)] Satorna with a 17 athletics. You two are able to make it over.
02:41:44 [Ember (Spurthi)] This time.
02:41:46 [DM (Aarya)] Not quite as easily as Sildur, but you're able to make it across, like, pretty, like, smoothly. Okay. So Erdal's using guidance for whom?
02:41:59 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, technically, she could use it on everybody. True.
02:42:02 [DM (Aarya)] Sorry.
02:42:03 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah, yeah, so I guess I could use it on anyone, but I'm gonna need it for myself, probably, depending on what order we go in, because you said, is it athletics or acrobatics?
02:42:13 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, that's correct.
02:42:13 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah. So is there anyone who really struggles in those things?
02:42:23 [Mercurio (Gui)] I have plus three, so it's fine.
02:42:28 [Irredel (Sav)] Okay, but I'll cast guidance on you anyways, if you want to go. Sure.
02:42:32 [DM (Aarya)] All right, I'll go for it.
02:42:36 [Saturno (Steph)] You think you need the guidance?
02:42:37 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, that was a nine acrobatics. Yeah, with a nine. Okay, so with the guidance, I turned out to be a 13.
02:42:37 [DM (Aarya)] So Mercurio.
02:42:45 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'm gonna fly anyways, guys, don't worry.
02:42:47 [DM (Aarya)] Mercurio, you climb onto the rope. You're, like, basically, like, hanging from the rope, like, clutching on with your hands and your legs, carefully, like, inching along the rope. You kind of slip a little bit a couple of times, but you're able to make it off, like, along without falling off.
02:42:47 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, my eclipse.
02:43:05 [Saturno (Steph)] You did it, Mercurio. We help you up on the other end.
02:43:14 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, I need a drink to stop my shaking hands.
02:43:22 [DM (Aarya)] Here, don't you go, I'll go after you. Um, let me actually... Give me one sec.
02:43:22 [DM (Aarya)] I want to, like, actually move your tokens over. So...
02:43:30 [Mercurio (Gui)] Why, Aria? Why do you want to move our tokens?
02:43:33 [DM (Aarya)] No reason. Why is it relevant? No reason at all, don't worry about it.
02:43:33 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
02:43:43 [Sildir (Tris)] Bing bong, bing bong. Guys, there's rocks over here. Oh, my.
02:43:52 [Speaker 7] Me.
02:43:55 [Irredel (Sav)] Oh, it's the acrobatic. That's a four. And I cast Guidance on myself.
02:43:55 [Irredel (Sav)] Oh, fuck.
02:44:01 [Sildir (Tris)] You have Bardic Inspiration. Yeah, you have both.
02:44:03 [Speaker 7] Oh, true.
02:44:04 [Irredel (Sav)] Okay, I'm gonna do the Bardic Inspiration. Yeah, okay, so re-roll, right?
02:44:09 [Sildir (Tris)] Well, you have Bardic. You don't have to use your normal Inspiration, I think, or...
02:44:12 [DM (Aarya)] It's not a re-roll. Bardic Inspiration adds a d6 to your whatever roll.
02:44:17 [Irredel (Sav)] Oh, okay, so I will add a d6 and a d4, because I have Guidance and Bardic, yeah.
02:44:24 [DM (Aarya)] Bardic, okay.
02:44:25 [Sildir (Tris)] And then use your real Inspiration if you have to.
02:44:27 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, my God, that's a five, so your total comes to nine.
02:44:34 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay, so you still have your Guidance, right?
02:44:37 [DM (Aarya)] No, that's with Guidance and Bardic, so that's a nine total in everything.
02:44:40 [Mercurio (Gui)] Do you have regular Inspiration?
02:44:42 [Sildir (Tris)] Yes, she does. So she just has to burn everything.
02:44:51 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, my God. Oh, my God, so that was a ten.
02:44:55 [Irredel (Sav)] Am I allowed to apply Guidance to that or no?
02:44:59 [Mercurio (Gui)] You made it. Yeah, you made it.
02:45:01 [DM (Aarya)] Ten was good. Yeah, so I'll say, as you're making it across, you're kind of shaking a bit. You're kind of shimmying across in a similar fashion to Mercurio with your hands and your legs wrapped around the rope and your body hanging underneath.
02:45:01 [DM (Aarya)] As you get halfway across, your hands slip and for a moment, you're caught dangling by just your legs, like holding onto the rope. But you're able to swing back up and grab onto the rope and shimmy across the rest of the way.
02:45:36 [Sildir (Tris)] This is a diabolical pit.
02:45:39 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. Okay, so let me move you across, actually. Oh, yeah, that works, too.
02:45:50 [Sildir (Tris)] So what would happen if we fell in this pit?
02:45:55 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, my gosh, Ember. Mat 20 acrobatics. So, Ember...
02:45:55 [DM (Aarya)] Tightrope walk, tightrope walk. Ember, yeah, I was going to say. Ember, you don't bother climbing or shimmying across the rope.
02:45:55 [DM (Aarya)] You simply jump onto the rope and tightrope walk across with ease.
02:46:12 [Mercurio (Gui)] And you... Tightrope run.
02:46:13 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, tightrope run across the rope. Run is crazy. So quite easily, you're able to make it across.
02:46:24 [Ember (Spurthi)] Yeah, well, I got like desperate shoulders off.
02:46:30 [Mercurio (Gui)] Well, I feel a lot safer with Ember here now.
02:46:33 [DM (Aarya)] So, Ember, you could take an inspiration for that. That was pretty cool.
02:46:36 [Sildir (Tris)] I guess we'll never know what happens in the pit.
02:46:41 [Ember (Spurthi)] How do I take inspiration?
02:46:45 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, there you go.
02:46:52 [Ember (Spurthi)] Yeah.
02:46:52 [DM (Aarya)] Cool. All right.
02:46:56 [Sildir (Tris)] So, Aria, I want to slightly metagame with you.
02:47:00 [Speaker 7] Sure.
02:47:02 [Sildir (Tris)] Are we, like, getting ready to close bad boy out?
02:47:05 [DM (Aarya)] Or do we got a long ways to go? There is more. You did enter a new area just now.
02:47:15 [Sildir (Tris)] I guess, like, should it be a stopping point? Or, like, are we gonna kill this thing within an hour or so?
02:47:23 [DM (Aarya)] It's feasible. I think there is, we could still go. Unless someone, like, any of you, like, anyone has to, like, get off sooner than later.
02:47:35 [Sildir (Tris)] I mean, I'm fine to push a little more into it. Cool with me. But, yeah.
02:47:35 [Sildir (Tris)] Cool.
02:47:56 [Mercurio (Gui)] All right, well, press on. Okay. What's in this room?
02:48:04 [DM (Aarya)] Rocks. A freaking cave?
02:48:10 [Sildir (Tris)] A proper cave.
02:48:11 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so, in this area, you have walked into a huge open cavernous area. The ceiling extends pretty high up. There are, like, long stalactites jutting down from the ceiling.
02:48:11 [DM (Aarya)] The tops of which are kind of, like, obscured by shadows. You can't make them out very well. And from the ground, jutting upwards are stalagmites in a similar fashion.
02:48:11 [DM (Aarya)] Around this time, Silda, your Divine Sense peters out.
02:48:46 [Sildir (Tris)] Um, I don't know, guys. I just burned out my abilities. I have it in me to do it again.
02:48:46 [Sildir (Tris)] I think it's worth it. It might worsen me in a fight later, but I feel like it's been invaluable to us so far.
02:49:04 [Mercurio (Gui)] I mean, if it avoids us just one fight, then it's probably worth it.
02:49:11 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, so I'm gonna juice it again.
02:49:14 [Mercurio (Gui)] I will say, well, maybe we can, if we want to really mid-max it, we could, like, how far away were they last time? Like, maybe we could wait a few minutes.
02:49:25 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, what did I feel like right after it?
02:49:28 [DM (Aarya)] They had moved, like, out of your reach well before you made it across the pit, basically.
02:49:37 [Sildir (Tris)] So which, well, I guess I wouldn't even know which direction at that rate.
02:49:40 [DM (Aarya)] You felt them, the last time you detected them, they were going further out east.
02:49:45 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, I think we have maybe a couple minutes where I'm comfortable not using it. Let's just see. All right, let's explore a little bit, guys.
02:50:03 [Mercurio (Gui)] What's up here?
02:50:07 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, I don't know. The speed we're moving, I wonder if I should just use it.
02:50:11 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, maybe. Maybe just...
02:50:13 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm gonna pop it.
02:50:14 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay.
02:50:20 [DM (Aarya)] You pop the Divine Sense and you don't detect any undead presences in your range.
02:50:28 [Sildir (Tris)] It's okay. It's what we thought before, but we can proceed now with information. There's a pool of water here.
02:50:35 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so as you come up over here... Hold on. So a couple things.
02:50:35 [DM (Aarya)] You see... Hold on. To your right, on your east, is a pool.
02:50:35 [DM (Aarya)] Considering the position of where you are right now, at least in proximity to Lake Saravich, you kind of get the sense that this pool here maybe connects out to the lake somehow. To your west, on this side, you see a smooth obsidian door set into an archway framed with skulls. You don't notice any handle or anything on the door.
02:50:35 [DM (Aarya)] It's perfectly smooth. Sildur, you're detecting the large group of undead on the other side of that door.
02:51:32 [Sildir (Tris)] That's the 14er?
02:51:35 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh boy. I think good thing we stopped where we did, because if you zoom out and look, we were about to go there.
02:51:48 [Sildir (Tris)] Like this is the 14er room over here.
02:51:51 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yep. Yeah, yeah.
02:51:53 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah. And that's the door to it right here.
02:51:55 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yep.
02:51:58 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay.
02:51:59 [Mercurio (Gui)] Over here. Seems north, there's maybe something. But we might want to make our exit to the lake.
02:52:10 [Sildir (Tris)] I think so. Maybe it's time to get out of here for a minute.
02:52:14 [Mercurio (Gui)] Wait, there's quite a bit over here. Let's see.
02:52:21 [Sildir (Tris)] Are we all staying together?
02:52:23 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, I'm pretty behind, but I'm on the way up. It's a turtle!
02:52:29 [Speaker 7] Get over here!
02:52:34 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay, I think there might be a passage over here. There is. Do I detect anything?
02:52:46 [DM (Aarya)] Um, let me check.
02:52:48 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, a wonderful DM of mine.
02:52:51 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, hooray. So you detect a single undead presence over to the east in this direction. Somewhere beyond the east wall from where your current position is.
02:52:51 [DM (Aarya)] Notably, this presence feels stronger than all the other ones you've detected before.
02:53:13 [Sildir (Tris)] Guys, this is absolutely bizarre. I mean, I don't know how we would get over there, but I think our mistress is that way, and I point to the wall.
02:53:30 [Mercurio (Gui)] Was there anything in this little thing here? Wait, sec.
02:53:35 [Sildir (Tris)] Where are you?
02:53:36 [Mercurio (Gui)] I went back down for a sec. Can I like just inspect here? Like, is there...
02:53:36 [Mercurio (Gui)] I just want to make sure there's no secret door to the east.
02:53:47 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so with an 11 perception check, don't detect any kind of like secret door or anything like that. Okay.
02:53:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] I also have detect magic on this whole time still. Oh, okay, cool. I think like 10 minutes, so.
02:54:03 [DM (Aarya)] Um, yeah.
02:54:05 [Sildir (Tris)] I don't know if we should check in the lake or... Let's explore here first and then go.
02:54:11 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah.
02:54:13 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, there is a passageway down here. I don't think that's what we're going to be looking for, but maybe we could find V. We could also find a group of 14 baddies, so proceed with caution.
02:54:13 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, yeah. That is right where they would be.
02:54:29 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, this is where... I thought they were like over this way.
02:54:33 [Sildir (Tris)] Would I be right to kind of feel them? Oh, yeah, I guess that's true. Yeah, let's just check.
02:54:39 [Mercurio (Gui)] We won't get too close. Oh, wait, I think we're C disconnected.
02:54:44 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, let me see.
02:54:46 [Sildir (Tris)] Give her a second.
02:54:47 [DM (Aarya)] Yep.
02:54:51 [Mercurio (Gui)] She's moving in the game, so.
02:54:54 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, there she is. Hello. Hello, yeah, I don't know.
02:54:54 [DM (Aarya)] Well, there is a way south.
02:55:04 [Sildir (Tris)] I don't want to go that way if we don't have to. Yeah, I want to try north first because I don't want to walk towards the big bad room.
02:55:15 [Irredel (Sav)] Whoa, what's our route? Hang on.
02:55:19 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, back to the main hallway here.
02:55:22 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah.
02:55:23 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay.
02:55:23 [Irredel (Sav)] And what's this over here?
02:55:25 [Sildir (Tris)] We could check south.
02:55:28 [Mercurio (Gui)] Wait, that was the ritual room. It looks like the ritual room also could unlock a path this way.
02:55:35 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so Mercurio, as you get closer to that far wall, you're detecting some magic coming from here. There is some kind of magical contraption on the other side tied to opening this passageway.
02:55:55 [Sildir (Tris)] I think it's time to go north. Neatures.
02:56:01 [Saturno (Steph)] Do we open this?
02:56:02 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, do we want to do this door?
02:56:08 [DM (Aarya)] Do I detect anything here? Um, you don't detect anything, no.
02:56:13 [Sildir (Tris)] Ka-chow. Oh god, this is going the right way.
02:56:16 [DM (Aarya)] I don't like that.
02:56:17 [Irredel (Sav)] So I have calligrapher's tools.
02:56:20 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
02:56:21 [Irredel (Sav)] Can I be taking notes in terms of like mapping this? Sure, yeah. Okay.
02:56:21 [Irredel (Sav)] I'm really sick of my notebook and stuff.
02:56:37 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay, this is the way.
02:56:38 [Sildir (Tris)] How am I feeling about where we are with the mistress, potential mistress?
02:56:42 [DM (Aarya)] You're still detecting that presence like over east here. They've kind of been just milling about there. You are, yeah.
02:56:42 [DM (Aarya)] You are getting, in the direction you're going, you are getting closer, yes.
02:56:55 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay. Well, it's a shame we haven't found V, but I think we're about to find our mistress.
02:57:03 [Mercurio (Gui)] Maybe we should find V first.
02:57:08 [Sildir (Tris)] It might be nice.
02:57:12 [Irredel (Sav)] Are we still getting closer?
02:57:14 [DM (Aarya)] You are getting closer.
02:57:14 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, let's slow down. Slow down, people.
02:57:17 [DM (Aarya)] So in this room where you are, you guys are, uh, Sildur and Mercurial and company.
02:57:22 [Sildir (Tris)] We found an assassin.
02:57:23 [DM (Aarya)] Um, sorry, give me a sec. That, I meant to move that elsewhere. There, this guy's not there.
02:57:23 [DM (Aarya)] Sorry.
02:57:28 [Mercurio (Gui)] I was like, why did we not detect him?
02:57:30 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
02:57:31 [Mercurio (Gui)] Dork. So, and he's not dead.
02:57:33 [DM (Aarya)] It's V, this guy is dead. In this room, you see, True. what appears to be like a dilapidated storage room of sorts, um, sifting about.
02:57:33 [DM (Aarya)] You, you don't really find anything of use. Um, it's just empty chests and crates, um, filled with dust and cobwebs.
02:57:53 [Sildir (Tris)] Can you ping the strong presence real quick?
02:57:55 [DM (Aarya)] Over here.
02:57:57 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh my god.
02:57:58 [DM (Aarya)] That's so close.
02:57:59 [Sildir (Tris)] Guys, we are, this is the last room. We're not going to find her. All right.
02:57:59 [Sildir (Tris)] Are we ready? Or are we going to find V?
02:58:11 [Irredel (Sav)] Find V.
02:58:12 [Mercurio (Gui)] Find V. The only other place in this. Yeah.
02:58:12 [Mercurio (Gui)] The only other place is this little.
02:58:18 [Sildir (Tris)] The coffin room. I feel like.
02:58:20 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, oh no. Like there wasn't there. We didn't finish exploring.
02:58:23 [Sildir (Tris)] There was a little pathway south. Yeah. We could try it.
02:58:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] This last path. Yeah. Oh, was it south?
02:58:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] I thought it was, I thought like north. This way.
02:58:32 [Sildir (Tris)] Maybe we're talking about two different ones. Oh, okay.
02:58:35 [Irredel (Sav)] Oh, this way here. This. What is this?
02:58:38 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah. Let's go see what that is.
02:58:41 [DM (Aarya)] When I find it. Spooky. Oh, you don't detect any presences here.
02:58:46 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm not locating anything.
02:58:48 [Irredel (Sav)] Nope. What the fuck?
02:58:51 [DM (Aarya)] Um, okay. Hold on one sec. So as you step into this room.
02:58:51 [DM (Aarya)] You are detecting. One undead presence coming from up north here.
02:59:09 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay. One up there. One undead to the north guys.
02:59:09 [Sildir (Tris)] But this is kind of a dead end. Yep.
02:59:18 [Speaker 7] Yeah.
02:59:19 [Sildir (Tris)] So it would seem.
02:59:20 [Mercurio (Gui)] Who designed this place? Why is there so many dead ends?
02:59:26 [Sildir (Tris)] Do you guys want to check that one little path? No, I don't want to. Let's go see what's up north here.
02:59:26 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay, we have a door.
02:59:37 [DM (Aarya)] Um, so from this door. Further out to the west is the undead presence. Yes.
02:59:37 [DM (Aarya)] The one?
02:59:45 [Mercurio (Gui)] The one. Yeah, not like the strong one.
02:59:48 [DM (Aarya)] But it's one.
02:59:50 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay, let's go. It might be like a guard or something though.
02:59:56 [Sildir (Tris)] We get our last outfit.
03:00:00 [Mercurio (Gui)] That's true.
03:00:01 [Sildir (Tris)] You know.
03:00:02 [Mercurio (Gui)] Let's check this real quick. Sure. Kind of over the table.
03:00:02 [Mercurio (Gui)] Like trying to save some time possibly.
03:00:11 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, yeah.
03:00:14 [DM (Aarya)] So this is a door.
03:00:15 [Sildir (Tris)] Anything behind this door that I feel?
03:00:17 [DM (Aarya)] One sec. So you don't detect any undead presences beyond this door. However, Mercurio, as you approach this door, you're detecting quite a bit of magic coming from the other side of this door.
03:00:17 [DM (Aarya)] Notably, there's a lot of enchantment and necromancy.
03:00:39 [Mercurio (Gui)] Necromancy magic behind this door.
03:00:42 [Sildir (Tris)] Maybe they're trying to mess with V though.
03:00:44 [Mercurio (Gui)] It could be him back there. It could be.
03:00:49 [Sildir (Tris)] Do you hear any Batman music?
03:00:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] All right, I'm opening the door. Okay. I don't sense it on the door, right?
03:00:59 [DM (Aarya)] No, not on the door, no. Just beyond it. Okay.
03:00:59 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. All right. So within this room.
03:00:59 [DM (Aarya)] Hold on. Holy shit. So in this room, this appears to be some kind of magical like slash alchemist laboratory.
03:00:59 [DM (Aarya)] This is a fucked up place. There's all sorts of tables strewn about with alchemical ingredients, scripts, like, sorry, scrolls, tomes, strange arcane devices. On the north side of this room are two, what appear to be two large like tanks.
03:00:59 [DM (Aarya)] With portholes affixed into either side. And they are half full of, how do you say?
03:01:45 [Sildir (Tris)] Juice.
03:01:46 [DM (Aarya)] Glowing blue liquid. And there's, you can tell that there's something submerged within them. Though you can't quite make out what it is unless you get closer.
03:01:58 [Sildir (Tris)] Is it a humanoid?
03:02:00 [DM (Aarya)] You can't tell from where you are.
03:02:02 [Sildir (Tris)] I want to get closer.
03:02:03 [Speaker 7] Okay.
03:02:04 [DM (Aarya)] So you get closer, you press up, you get up closer to like the portholes that appear inwards. And you see that there are humanoid bodies within.
03:02:20 [Sildir (Tris)] They're not undead.
03:02:21 [DM (Aarya)] They're not undead.
03:02:24 [Sildir (Tris)] All right. Where's the access point for these tanks?
03:02:28 [DM (Aarya)] There is like, on top of the tanks. There's like a, what's a hatch that you like crank a wheel to open up.
03:02:38 [Sildir (Tris)] How could I drain this tank if I wanted to?
03:02:41 [DM (Aarya)] Give me an investigation.
03:02:44 [Sildir (Tris)] Maybe someone smarter than me can do that. I'll roll it.
03:02:50 [DM (Aarya)] I'm not smart, but I have strength.
03:02:53 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, I'm very smart.
03:02:54 [DM (Aarya)] 17 investigation from Sildir, 10 investigation from Mercurio. So yeah, Sildir. You like look around, scanning the area in the immediate vicinity of the tanks.
03:02:54 [DM (Aarya)] And you note on the wall next to, on either side of the tanks, there are what appear to be like some kind of switches. And you get the sense that if you fiddle with those and like mess with some settings, you can drain the tanks.
03:03:22 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, I go and I'm like, all right, if we fiddle with these, we could probably drain the tanks. And I start fiddling. All right.
03:03:22 [Sildir (Tris)] And I say, maybe you could, someone else could fiddle with the other ones.
03:03:31 [DM (Aarya)] Um, you're able to do so. And the tanks slowly start draining of their strange liquid.
03:03:39 [Sildir (Tris)] All right. And now that they're draining, I'm going to go on top and open the hatch to get ready to like help the person. If, uh, they are going to be helpful to us or, uh, maybe fucking Roy down near them.
03:03:39 [Sildir (Tris)] Otherwise. Okay.
03:03:53 [DM (Aarya)] So you open up these hatches and you peer within and they just, yeah, they're just like bodies. They're just laying knocked out. You're not sure if they're dead or alive.
03:04:09 [Sildir (Tris)] All right. Um, I want to get my body out of my tank. And if the other person on the other tank isn't going to do that, I'll help them as well.
03:04:20 [Ember (Spurthi)] All right.
03:04:21 [DM (Aarya)] So you're able to bring out the bodies and you lay them out on the floor in front of the tanks. Um, yeah. So you can tell here, actually give me medicine.
03:04:21 [DM (Aarya)] Is there any of them father Bryce? Um, they, they, you don't recognize them now. These are just like some people that you've never seen before.
03:04:41 [Mercurio (Gui)] Who's good at medicine. Do they seem like, do they just seem like random people that were abducted? Okay.
03:04:50 [DM (Aarya)] So Erdal with a 24 medicine check, uh, you can tell that these people are alive. Though just barely. And now that they've been, now that they've been removed from the tanks, they are starting to fade.
03:05:06 [Irredel (Sav)] Okay. I'm going to continue to spare the dying.
03:05:09 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. Um, you cast spare the dying on both of them. That's a cantrip, right?
03:05:18 [Speaker 7] Yes. Yeah.
03:05:19 [DM (Aarya)] So you cast spare the dying on each of them and their conditions stabilize, though they don't wake or move or show any other signs of, um, life necessarily.
03:05:30 [Speaker 7] Okay.
03:05:30 [DM (Aarya)] You know that their heartbeats are well below what would be expected of a healthy human being. All right.
03:05:41 [Irredel (Sav)] Okay. So they are stable. Do I, would I know how long that they're stable for?
03:05:48 [DM (Aarya)] Um, you get the sense that it would be for the duration of however long the spell lasts.
03:05:53 [Irredel (Sav)] Okay. Which is what if we, oh, there's no time limit.
03:06:01 [Sildir (Tris)] I think they're just stabilized. Um, all right. I'm, I am detecting that we're going to, oh, go ahead.
03:06:14 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah. I don't know. How many bodies is it?
03:06:14 [Mercurio (Gui)] Like how many people? Two bodies.
03:06:19 [Irredel (Sav)] Okay. I'm going to go look at the notebooks real quick and try and figure out what they're doing. Okay.
03:06:19 [Irredel (Sav)] Now that we know that they're stable.
03:06:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah. It seems like they're trying to preserve them.
03:06:29 [DM (Aarya)] Just like, this is their, like, these are their preserved meats, you know, like, With the five investigation checks, they're like, like rifling around all these different desks with all their tomes and notebooks with random scribblings. You aren't able to really get a sense of what's happening here. Saturno with a 15, you kind of put some pieces together that there's some kind of necromantic ritual happening here.
03:06:29 [DM (Aarya)] And Ember with a nat 20 investigation check. Um, you like, yeah.
03:07:06 [Speaker 7] Holy.
03:07:07 [DM (Aarya)] You're like, look around. Oh my God. Yeah.
03:07:07 [DM (Aarya)] Actually though, you look around all these different notebooks and tomes and you're able to like piece together a very disturbing puzzle. It seems that this, uh, laboratory like research area is dedicated towards one cause. And that is for converting living human beings into undead thralls.
03:07:36 [Mercurio (Gui)] This is where they're making them.
03:07:40 [Ember (Spurthi)] Returning living human beings into undead thralls. But we need to- Is it willingly?
03:07:50 [Irredel (Sav)] Or are they kidnapping them?
03:07:53 [DM (Aarya)] Um, yeah. So from the notes with a nat 20, you can tell, yeah, this is what's happening to the people that are being kidnapped. All right.
03:08:02 [Irredel (Sav)] It's time to do terrorism. Would my healing spells work?
03:08:06 [DM (Aarya)] Um, you, from what you can tell, you are able to stabilize them. However, you, you can tell with, um, Ember's nat 20 and her investigation of the notes, these people that you just removed from the tanks were mid process of being converted and you don't know how to undo it. You suspect that a high level of restoration spell might be able to do it, but that's not something within your capability.
03:08:31 [Sildir (Tris)] Um, well, I wonder if one of these guys is the old priest thing.
03:08:49 [Mercurio (Gui)] This, yeah. This, we could try to maybe heal one with like one, maybe you could put one point of your Leon hands into one and we can see what happens. Um.
03:09:08 [Irredel (Sav)] Well, I think we learned that it takes a high level restoration spell and I don't. Yeah. Have that.
03:09:14 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm not a high level restoration guy.
03:09:16 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay.
03:09:18 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm a sword guy.
03:09:21 [Mercurio (Gui)] Um. We're gonna.
03:09:22 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah.
03:09:22 [Mercurio (Gui)] You know, we're going to just drag these bodies out of here. Is that feasible?
03:09:26 [Sildir (Tris)] I think we can either come back for them or consider them for what they might be, which is kind of just living dead.
03:09:35 [Mercurio (Gui)] I think we should just destroy the bodies and try to destroy these contraptions too.
03:09:41 [Sildir (Tris)] It might be the best we could do for them. I mean, at least they won't spend who knows how long being zombified.
03:09:49 [DM (Aarya)] Notably, you can tell, like, given the states of what you got from the notes and how far along in the process that you can pinpoint, and with the combination of your Divine Sense feature still there, you can tell that they aren't undead. However, they also aren't quite living in the traditional sense. They're somewhere in between.
03:10:11 [Sildir (Tris)] I don't think with the state they're in that we would be able to get them anywhere that could help them in time. I think they're close to dead as humans and close to undead as trolls.
03:10:22 [Irredel (Sav)] Clearly, we've gotten in here once. We could just grab them and leave and take them to someone who has greater healing abilities than me.
03:10:35 [Sildir (Tris)] I think the only person we know that can do that right now, though, is V.
03:10:41 [DM (Aarya)] Give me one sec. I'm going to take a quick potty break.
03:10:53 [Sildir (Tris)] I also think we probably have, like, a good two hours left in this dungeon with our group.
03:11:00 [DM (Aarya)] I don't think so. I mean, I think you're getting quite close to the end and still there. You're detecting the powerful presence, like, right over here.
03:11:15 [Mercurio (Gui)] I think it's powerful presence time, guys. I think we did everything else.
03:11:20 [Sildir (Tris)] We did all the minigames.
03:11:22 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah.
03:11:23 [Sildir (Tris)] Where's the powerful presence?
03:11:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] We did all the side quests. Give me one sec.
03:11:27 [DM (Aarya)] I'm going to take a quick potty break. I'll be right back.
03:11:31 [Mercurio (Gui)] I think we got all the lore. Like, all the lore unlocks. Except V.
03:11:31 [Mercurio (Gui)] Except V. I mean, maybe V is go to the next castle, Mario.
03:11:44 [Sildir (Tris)] True, or V is the powerful presence, you know, all along. Bryce Batman is evil.
03:11:57 [Mercurio (Gui)] Fucking Bryce is going to be fucking... We've been playing Ring Around the Rosie with him, too, in this place. He's just running around, probably.
03:12:08 [Sildir (Tris)] Maybe.
03:12:09 [Mercurio (Gui)] Or maybe he's in the room with the 12 guys. He's probably just not here at all. He probably just fucking started side questing.
03:12:21 [DM (Aarya)] I am back. The powerful presence, Sildur, is right over here. They've been kind of like...
03:12:21 [DM (Aarya)] What's up?
03:12:31 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm back. No, sorry. I stepped away.
03:12:31 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, let me see. Oh, hello.
03:12:43 [DM (Aarya)] Hey, what's up? Oh, okay, okay. Sorry.
03:12:43 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so you're detecting the presence from right over here. They've kind of just been milling about in that area. Yeah.
03:12:43 [DM (Aarya)] I think...
03:13:07 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay, so I guess there's two schools of thought to this. One, does it really make a difference where we leave off? But two, we could just blitz this.
03:13:07 [Sildir (Tris)] So I'll let the people decide.
03:13:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] Let's go fight the boss. This is... I mean, I'm guessing through this door, it's just another path to her or something.
03:13:33 [Sildir (Tris)] So... All right, let's bullshit Blaze. Come on, now.
03:13:33 [Sildir (Tris)] I don't know.
03:13:37 [Irredel (Sav)] I will say that combat inevitably takes two hours.
03:13:43 [Mercurio (Gui)] I mean, yeah. We could cliffhanger on the combat or something.
03:13:47 [DM (Aarya)] I mean, that isn't how the music fight went, if memory serves.
03:13:51 [Mercurio (Gui)] That's true. When there's only one bad guy, it doesn't take very long. Usually when there's a lot of bad guys.
03:13:51 [Mercurio (Gui)] But I don't know. We'll see.
03:14:04 [Sildir (Tris)] We say we grief this room.
03:14:07 [DM (Aarya)] What? We grief this room. Grief?
03:14:10 [Irredel (Sav)] Well, I'm going to take some evidence of what they were doing.
03:14:14 [DM (Aarya)] Are you trying to, like, look up around?
03:14:17 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah. Break some supplies. Like, break some of the sensitive equipment that's, like, glass and stuff.
03:14:22 [Irredel (Sav)] Okay. And I'm going to grab the notebooks.
03:14:24 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so... I'm going to bring this down. You, like, go around.
03:14:24 [DM (Aarya)] You kind of, like, destroy things. Turn things over. And...
03:14:32 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm going to poke holes in the tanks if they're, like, thin enough to shoot metal.
03:14:37 [DM (Aarya)] Also, let's say, Iridel. While you're going around, like, kind of turning things over and, like, picking out, like, notebooks to take, you take one notebook with you that seems to carry, like, a lot of the important notes and details. And you also find what you recognize to be a pretty old and slightly frayed bag of holding.
03:15:07 [Irredel (Sav)] Amazing.
03:15:08 [DM (Aarya)] Wow.
03:15:10 [Irredel (Sav)] Thanks. So I found something to, uh, put the stuff in.
03:15:14 [DM (Aarya)] And also...
03:15:14 [Sildir (Tris)] You can put the bodies in there.
03:15:15 [DM (Aarya)] And also, as you're going around, turning the room upside down and kind of, like, destroying things, Sildur, you detect the presence getting closer.
03:15:25 [Sildir (Tris)] Uh, guys, I don't think they're, like, that we're destroying this lab. It might be hearing us. It's coming our way.
03:15:25 [Sildir (Tris)] I mean, fuck it. Let's keep destroying.
03:15:37 [Mercurio (Gui)] Is it about to come through this door, then?
03:15:40 [DM (Aarya)] It's getting closer to that door.
03:15:43 [Mercurio (Gui)] All right. Maybe everybody...
03:15:45 [Irredel (Sav)] Is there anything that looks, like, violent? Like, anything that could be a weapon? Like, a chemical that I can throw?
03:15:56 [DM (Aarya)] Um... Give me...
03:15:57 [Irredel (Sav)] Is there, like, Athens somewhere?
03:15:59 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. 20. Okay, let me see what I can get for you.
03:15:59 [DM (Aarya)] Let's do...
03:16:10 [Irredel (Sav)] And is there anything in the bag of holding already?
03:16:14 [DM (Aarya)] Uh, I'll tell you in a sec. So you're able to loot one flask of alchemist's fire. And...
03:16:14 [DM (Aarya)] Like, rummaging about in the bag of holding. Let me see. Hold on.
03:16:14 [DM (Aarya)] Let's do... Yeah, you don't find anything in there.
03:16:38 [Speaker 7] Okay.
03:16:42 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, so we're gonna take our positions, right?
03:16:44 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so I'm gonna pause here for one moment. At this point, Sildar, you're detecting the presence rapidly approaching the door to the south. I'll say you guys all have enough time to position yourselves.
03:16:44 [DM (Aarya)] And if you'd like to prepare any kind of action, and then we'll continue with the start of whatever happens. So, yeah.
03:17:07 [Irredel (Sav)] I'm going to move here. Or actually, maybe here. And pitch that alchemist's fire as soon as the door opens towards...
03:17:17 [DM (Aarya)] Are you going to... Is there a radius on that? Say that again?
03:17:21 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh, is there a radius on, like, the alchemist's fire just to be out of range?
03:17:28 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, what does it say?
03:17:31 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm gonna cast the shield of faith on myself.
03:17:34 [DM (Aarya)] I'm gonna tank the alchemist's fire. The alchemist's fire doesn't... Yeah, so it won't spread enough that it'll, like, affect, like, necessarily anyone except the target itself.
03:17:34 [DM (Aarya)] That is assuming that her aim is true and she hits.
03:17:49 [Irredel (Sav)] Got it. Actually, is anyone good at throwing?
03:17:54 [Ember (Spurthi)] I think I am.
03:17:56 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, Ember's good at throwing. Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and move that.
03:18:04 [Mercurio (Gui)] Can I use this as, like, cover?
03:18:06 [DM (Aarya)] Give me a sec. Sorry, I'm moving around inventories. Okay, so Ember, you should have the alchemist's fire in your inventory, and I'm going to remove it from Theradell's.
03:18:21 [Irredel (Sav)] And so instead, my prepare action will be casting Bless, and that will be for Ember, Sildur, and Saturno.
03:18:33 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. And, um, Markaya, what were you saying?
03:18:37 [Mercurio (Gui)] Uh, could, it could, is, does this, could this serve as cover?
03:18:40 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, you can use that as cover.
03:18:43 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay.
03:18:43 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, I casted Shield of Faith, and if it's okay to do this much, I would like to prepare an attack, I guess, with the, if I can do it all, with a divine smite on it as well.
03:19:01 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
03:19:03 [Irredel (Sav)] Interesting, it's not letting me add all three of you.
03:19:09 [Ember (Spurthi)] There we go.
03:19:15 [DM (Aarya)] What was, uh?
03:19:15 [Ember (Spurthi)] I don't see the shield of fire.
03:19:17 [DM (Aarya)] Uh, alchemist's fire? It should be under inventory.
03:19:20 [Ember (Spurthi)] Alchemist's fire, okay.
03:19:23 [Mercurio (Gui)] I wonder if an alchemist's fire is even better than one of Ember's attacks.
03:19:28 [Saturno (Steph)] Wait, I have a question. Would it be funny if I threw oil on the floor and then we do the alchemist's fire?
03:19:38 [Irredel (Sav)] It's more that alchemist's fire, like, it looks like it sticks to someone, and then it gives them 1d4 fire damage at the start of its turn. Got it, so it's like, you really like- Like napalm, basically.
03:19:53 [Sildir (Tris)] Napalm?
03:19:53 [Mercurio (Gui)] Like, well, I guess it already sticks.
03:19:56 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah.
03:19:58 [Mercurio (Gui)] It's already oil fire. Exactly, yeah. Um, okay.
03:19:58 [Mercurio (Gui)] Uh, can I, I'll prepare a hold person.
03:20:17 [DM (Aarya)] Um, yeah, hold on, give me a quick sec, just so I can add a couple things. Um, sorry, one sec. Okay.
03:20:17 [DM (Aarya)] Um, yeah, so is everyone in position to do what they want to do?
03:21:36 [Speaker 7] Yep.
03:21:37 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
03:21:37 [Speaker 7] Yep.
03:21:38 [DM (Aarya)] So, um, through the door you see a figure step forward. Um, you see this person is a, what appears to be a undead, an undead woman. Um, she's wearing a tattered yellow ball gown, and it appears to have been torn at the hem so that it comes down to just past her knees.
03:21:38 [DM (Aarya)] Um, she is wearing a mask that appears to be made, like, carved out of a human skull. And as soon as she steps through, um, so anyone who has their readied actions, you can go ahead and do that. So remind me again what everyone was trying to do.
03:22:21 [Sildir (Tris)] I was ready to, yeah, maybe Mercurio first.
03:22:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay.
03:22:26 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, I'll let you choose your order. Like whatever order you want to do your stuff, you can send that.
03:22:33 [Mercurio (Gui)] All right, let's fucking send it. Please, please, please, please, please, please.
03:22:38 [DM (Aarya)] Hold person.
03:22:40 [Mercurio (Gui)] All my rolls, everybody makes my save today, fail this one time.
03:22:45 [DM (Aarya)] That was, sorry, that was a 17. You're a lie, you're a lie. Yeah, I meant to make that public, but that was a 17.
03:22:45 [DM (Aarya)] So she, um, passes your save. Who's next?
03:23:01 [Sildir (Tris)] Um, well, I was gonna do a sword attack with a divine smite if it goes through.
03:23:09 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, you can do that. Um, but just, just to make sure that anyone else wanted to do their action first. Okay, you can go ahead.
03:23:09 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, you can go ahead and send it then, um, Sildur.
03:23:23 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, so I guess the plan was to step forward by one. Rip and attack.
03:23:34 [DM (Aarya)] A seven.
03:23:35 [Sildir (Tris)] I don't see what roll.
03:23:37 [DM (Aarya)] Since you're surprising her, I'll say you can roll it with advantage. So roll it again.
03:23:44 [Sildir (Tris)] Hey, my rolls are not, I'm not, did you see that roll or not?
03:23:47 [DM (Aarya)] I saw it, yes. It was a seven.
03:23:49 [Sildir (Tris)] What did it say? Well, I got another seven or, I rolled again. I don't know if you saw it roll again or not.
03:23:59 [DM (Aarya)] I didn't see a second roll.
03:24:00 [Sildir (Tris)] I'll just try doing it this way.
03:24:02 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. Okay, that's a 10. Damn.
03:24:02 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, unfortunately a 10.
03:24:08 [Irredel (Sav)] No, you're blessed.
03:24:10 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, I'm blessed. True. It's a d4, right?
03:24:13 [DM (Aarya)] Yes. Yeah. Three.
03:24:16 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, 13?
03:24:16 [DM (Aarya)] 13. That just barely hits. Yes.
03:24:16 [DM (Aarya)] All right. So go ahead and send this damage. Bless up.
03:24:16 [DM (Aarya)] Damage.
03:24:25 [Irredel (Sav)] I'm helping the party finally, woo!
03:24:28 [Saturno (Steph)] I also wanted to, like, prepare an attack. Just with my halberd.
03:24:36 [DM (Aarya)] Um, okay, cool.
03:24:37 [Sildir (Tris)] Um, why is nothing rolling? Did my damage roll? Do you see it or no?
03:24:42 [DM (Aarya)] I see a six for damage.
03:24:43 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, six. Okay, okay, cool. And then...
03:24:46 [DM (Aarya)] For what it's worth, I haven't been able to see my attacks or anyone's attacks. Yeah, I don't know what happens, honestly. Oh, it's probably because we're not in combat.
03:24:56 [Sildir (Tris)] Then I'll do divine schmite.
03:25:00 [Mercurio (Gui)] I see everything in the chat.
03:25:02 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, I can see it in the chat, but just not, like, the dice.
03:25:08 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, oh yeah, no, because we don't have, uh, that module anymore. Because that was actually what was breaking a lot of the rolls.
03:25:17 [Saturno (Steph)] That's it then, yeah.
03:25:18 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah.
03:25:20 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, casting divine schmite. Damage. Rolling.
03:25:28 [DM (Aarya)] That was 12.
03:25:29 [Sildir (Tris)] 12. And I got another one, I think. Another d8.
03:25:39 [DM (Aarya)] For...
03:25:39 [Sildir (Tris)] Is this a fiend or an undead?
03:25:41 [DM (Aarya)] Yes. Oh, yeah. She's undead, so you got another d8.
03:25:46 [Sildir (Tris)] I would imagine. She looks pretty undead to me. So that's going to be 19 plus 6 damage overall.
03:25:46 [Sildir (Tris)] 25.
03:25:53 [DM (Aarya)] Cool. And Saturno, you can go ahead and roll your, um, prepared attack.
03:26:01 [Saturno (Steph)] Is that it? Yeah, that's it.
03:26:07 [DM (Aarya)] I don't think that hits. A 9, unfortunately, does not hit. Um, you do have advantage since you're surprising her, so you can roll a second one.
03:26:20 [Ember (Spurthi)] Got it.
03:26:22 [DM (Aarya)] So that was an 8.
03:26:23 [Ember (Spurthi)] Can I use my alchemist fire?
03:26:25 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, you can use your alchemist fire. Give me just one sec. Um, so that was an 8, which does not hit.
03:26:25 [DM (Aarya)] And however, since you have... Oh wait, no, that's the halberd, it's cleave.
03:26:35 [Sildir (Tris)] Imagine she's like, I was just bringing you tea.
03:26:40 [DM (Aarya)] Um, yeah. So Ember, you can go ahead and throw your alchemist fire.
03:26:45 [Irredel (Sav)] I mean, she's wearing a mask made of a human skull.
03:26:50 [Sildir (Tris)] Uh, you know, she's just an edgy lady. She got that skull on Amazon.
03:26:57 [Ember (Spurthi)] Do I roll damage?
03:26:59 [DM (Aarya)] Uh, not yet. I don't know why it's not letting her do the dex save, but I'll just do it manually. So this is gonna have to be a 14.
03:26:59 [DM (Aarya)] So that was a 5. So she fails to save. Um, so then...
03:26:59 [DM (Aarya)] Oh wait, I know who... Uh, so this is... I know what you're thinking.
03:26:59 [DM (Aarya)] A...
03:27:23 [Irredel (Sav)] Oh, fuck!
03:27:24 [DM (Aarya)] This is a d4, okay. You're in trouble.
03:27:26 [Irredel (Sav)] Fuck, fuck, fuck, run! We need to leave!
03:27:29 [DM (Aarya)] So this is a 60. Uh, let's see.
03:27:31 [Ember (Spurthi)] Why, what's going on?
03:27:33 [DM (Aarya)] So she took one damage of fire.
03:27:39 [Ember (Spurthi)] Who's Volanta?
03:27:41 [DM (Aarya)] And... yeah. And with that, we will start our combat initiatives.
03:27:49 [Sildir (Tris)] Are we all gonna die? Nah. Remember the plan, guys.
03:27:49 [Sildir (Tris)] We kill ourselves.
03:28:01 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay. Okay.
03:28:03 [DM (Aarya)] Arya doesn't. We do. Let me say...
03:28:03 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so as she enters the room... Um... You all unload your attacks onto her.
03:28:03 [DM (Aarya)] And she just looks to you all and seems utterly perplexed. And she says to you all, Is that any way to treat your hosts? Um...
03:28:03 [DM (Aarya)] Let's see. And she'll roll initiative. Um...
03:28:03 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, Arya, yeah. Go ahead, everyone, if you haven't already, roll your initiatives. And let me see if I have funny combat music.
03:28:42 [Ember (Spurthi)] Funny combat music.
03:28:44 [Saturno (Steph)] You can take the ultimate load.
03:28:50 [DM (Aarya)] Here we go. Okay, so... Help me!
03:28:50 [DM (Aarya)] Uh, I think it's just Mercurio that we're waiting for initiative on. Is that right?
03:29:04 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, uh, sorry.
03:29:06 [DM (Aarya)] Cool, 17, nice.
03:29:07 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, okay. At least we got good initiative.
03:29:11 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, let's begin combat encounters. So, Sildur, you start. Start us off.
03:29:11 [DM (Aarya)] All right.
03:29:21 [Saturno (Steph)] Well, um... Oh, we got three 17s.
03:29:24 [Sildir (Tris)] I guess I'll, uh... I don't know. What can I do special here?
03:29:24 [Sildir (Tris)] I feel like I can't really do much. Um... I will...
03:29:24 [Sildir (Tris)] No, that's another concentration. Okay. Okay.
03:29:24 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, I'm gonna hit her with the sword.
03:30:00 [DM (Aarya)] All right, that's it.
03:30:03 [Sildir (Tris)] Yum.
03:30:06 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
03:30:07 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, I did it again.
03:30:09 [DM (Aarya)] That hits. Go ahead and roll your damage. Yippee!
03:30:14 [Sildir (Tris)] It's all right. Eight damage. Okay.
03:30:14 [Sildir (Tris)] Get out of here.
03:30:21 [DM (Aarya)] Uh, eight damage. Okay, cool. Why does it keep selecting you as the targets?
03:30:21 [DM (Aarya)] That's so annoying.
03:30:29 [Sildir (Tris)] Should I just smite Max, guys? Like, what do you think? Yes!
03:30:34 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yes, all in. All in. I'll spend everything.
03:30:34 [Mercurio (Gui)] Hold nothing back.
03:30:41 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm smite Maxing.
03:30:43 [Irredel (Sav)] I see the name in the chat. This is a bride of Strahd.
03:30:47 [Speaker 7] We need to get the fuck out.
03:30:52 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay, so that was...
03:30:58 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, but we're gonna do another one. 3d8.
03:31:01 [DM (Aarya)] This stuff's powerful, I'm dead.
03:31:04 [Sildir (Tris)] 18. 18.
03:31:06 [DM (Aarya)] That was 18 damage total?
03:31:08 [Sildir (Tris)] Plus 8. Plus 8. 26.
03:31:12 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so that was pretty good damage there. Um, yeah, so that was pretty good. Um, she's bloodied.
03:31:12 [DM (Aarya)] Get fucked! Continue.
03:31:32 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh my god, then she's... But no. No, I don't trust her.
03:31:35 [Mercurio (Gui)] Someone hit her with the holy water. I remember the last time we killed a boss and then he fucking had a second phase. Holy water.
03:31:45 [DM (Aarya)] So, Iridel's doing, uh... 15 wisdom.
03:31:48 [Irredel (Sav)] Oh, it's not my turn yet, sorry.
03:31:51 [DM (Aarya)] Did you end your turn, Scyther?
03:31:54 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, sorry.
03:31:57 [Irredel (Sav)] Cold person!
03:32:01 [Mercurio (Gui)] Please, we're pulling a slot machine. Oh my god!
03:32:05 [Irredel (Sav)] What the fuck?! Bonus action, bonus action. But what else do I got?
03:32:05 [Irredel (Sav)] Quick, what do I got? Fuck.
03:32:15 [Sildir (Tris)] Can you hit her with the radiant cantrip? It's pretty good.
03:32:19 [Irredel (Sav)] Nah, because I just cast cold person.
03:32:23 [Sildir (Tris)] Which is an action. So that's an action and an action. Okay.
03:32:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] You hit her with radiant damage though, so we're comfortable with that for the round.
03:32:31 [Sildir (Tris)] That prevents healing for the round?
03:32:33 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah.
03:32:35 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay. But holy water will do it more long term, right? Uh, I don't know.
03:32:42 [Irredel (Sav)] So if I cast cold person, I can't cast another spell, right? Um, that's correct.
03:32:48 [Sildir (Tris)] Unless you have a bonus action spell.
03:32:50 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah, but I thought you could only do one spell. Yeah, that's correct.
03:32:54 [Sildir (Tris)] One leveled spell. I'm not a wizard. Yeah, only one leveled spell per turn.
03:32:54 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm sword guy.
03:33:01 [Irredel (Sav)] All right, yeah, then I don't have... Any... Wait.
03:33:01 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah, none of my channels have it either. Bonus to actions. Yeah, shit.
03:33:01 [Irredel (Sav)] Ain't got anything else. End my turn. Where is the end turn thing?
03:33:01 [Irredel (Sav)] There we go.
03:33:18 [Sildir (Tris)] I'm really afraid, honestly.
03:33:21 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'm afraid too. Okay. Shirley.
03:33:21 [Mercurio (Gui)] Shirley. Her name's not Shirley.
03:33:34 [DM (Aarya)] What do you got? Cold person? Okay.
03:33:34 [DM (Aarya)] Let's see. 14 wisdom save. That's an 11.
03:33:34 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, shit fails.
03:33:43 [Speaker 7] Let's go. Let's go. No, fair lies.
03:33:43 [Speaker 7] I'm crazy.
03:33:48 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'm crazy. That's a good voice line, whoever fucking dropped that. Shit.
03:33:48 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay, what else can I do? Holy water. You could eat a holy water, maybe.
03:33:48 [Mercurio (Gui)] That's not a bonus action. It replaces an attack.
03:34:08 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, okay. Pepito is here though. Don't forget, Pepito.
03:34:12 [Mercurio (Gui)] True, true. Although we don't even need advantage anymore because she's paralyzed.
03:34:18 [Sildir (Tris)] Just have Pepito go poop on her.
03:34:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] Just walk in her ear. I am going to bonus action. Haste.
03:34:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] Bonus action. Where is the thing? Mantle of inspiration.
03:34:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh my god, this thing always bugs. There we go. And I'm just for the spicy temporary hit points.
03:34:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] So four people within range. I'm going to do it for me, Saturno, Saturno. Sildir and Iridel.
03:34:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] Hell yeah. So we will each get, um, what's the die? Rolling a bardic.
03:34:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] Two bardic dies. So 2d6.
03:35:30 [Sildir (Tris)] Okay, let's go.
03:35:32 [Mercurio (Gui)] Come on, give me 12. Give me 12.
03:35:34 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, nine. That's good though.
03:35:36 [Mercurio (Gui)] We're not scoffing at nine. All right, so everybody give yourself nine hit points.
03:35:40 [DM (Aarya)] Tempate.
03:35:41 [Mercurio (Gui)] Nine temporary hit points. Yeah, which are even better. Those actually protect your concentration checks.
03:35:41 [Mercurio (Gui)] Uh, but, um, yeah, and you can't hit points.
03:35:52 [DM (Aarya)] Nine temporary.
03:35:53 [Mercurio (Gui)] No, nine temporary hit points.
03:35:54 [DM (Aarya)] I don't think they protect concentration, do they?
03:35:57 [Mercurio (Gui)] They do. If it doesn't hit your hit points, then you don't roll concentration. And also like, uh, for the, for calculating for like big hits.
03:35:57 [Mercurio (Gui)] It's like, um, I think cause you have to roll like the damage, right. To save or 10. Like, so if you roll, like, you know, it only the hit point stuff matters.
03:35:57 [Mercurio (Gui)] Right. So potentially instead of having to roll like a 12, you might only have to roll like the minimum, which is like 10. So I'm going to do that.
03:35:57 [Mercurio (Gui)] So some people can move their full movement right now for the reaction if they want.
03:36:39 [Sildir (Tris)] Uh, I like where I'm at, I think.
03:36:44 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay. Provided she stays paralyzed. Yeah.
03:36:44 [Mercurio (Gui)] And then I will.
03:36:50 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah, I'm moving.
03:36:52 [Mercurio (Gui)] You're moving? Okay.
03:36:54 [Irredel (Sav)] Um, I'm moving.
03:36:55 [Mercurio (Gui)] Away?
03:36:55 [Irredel (Sav)] Moving over. Yeah, away. Over by Ember.
03:36:59 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay. All right. What, how much, uh, what's range?
03:36:59 [Mercurio (Gui)] Range, range, range. Um, what's the range of my spells? Let me quickly check the range of my spells.
03:36:59 [Mercurio (Gui)] La la la. 60 feet. I got a lot of 60 feet spells.
03:36:59 [Mercurio (Gui)] I might, I might want to get 60 feet away. Let's see. Let's see.
03:37:31 [Saturno (Steph)] How does this make you feel, Sildir?
03:37:35 [Mercurio (Gui)] I'm just like usual. I'm supporting from the optimal range.
03:37:41 [Sildir (Tris)] It makes me feel like I farted and was clearing the room out. Except for this zombie lady.
03:37:49 [DM (Aarya)] Um, so.
03:37:51 [Sildir (Tris)] Iridel wants to leave too. Give her the Scooch DM. She can't move right now.
03:37:55 [DM (Aarya)] Um, so that's his mantle of inspiration that you're letting people move with, right?
03:38:00 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah.
03:38:01 [DM (Aarya)] So how far can she move, her full movement?
03:38:03 [Mercurio (Gui)] Her full movement in exchange for her reaction.
03:38:06 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so Iridel, yeah, where are you trying to move?
03:38:10 [Irredel (Sav)] Further over on this wall.
03:38:13 [DM (Aarya)] Like over yonder. Okay, I'll Scooch you all over here.
03:38:17 [Irredel (Sav)] Yep.
03:38:18 [Sildir (Tris)] Have I detected anything else or just her?
03:38:21 [DM (Aarya)] Just her for now.
03:38:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] Ominous. Uh, okay, and that's my turn. Doryaha.
03:38:25 [Mercurio (Gui)] And I'm gonna look at Satorno, I'm gonna be like, Satorno, give it everything you've got!
03:38:42 [Saturno (Steph)] I'm gonna cast Booming Blade. And I'm going to...
03:38:51 [Mercurio (Gui)] Use your angel thing.
03:38:54 [Saturno (Steph)] Should I use it, you think, yo?
03:38:56 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, give it everything.
03:38:57 [Saturno (Steph)] Really, really give it everything?
03:38:59 [Mercurio (Gui)] Really, give it everything.
03:38:59 [Speaker 7] Throw it all on the line.
03:39:00 [Mercurio (Gui)] No, hold, throw the kitchen sink! Throw the kitchen sink! It's all, it's, it's all crits!
03:39:07 [Saturno (Steph)] So maybe I should do...
03:39:10 [Mercurio (Gui)] Who knows if the, I don't, who knows if the, uh, old person is gonna last, like, another turn. Because she goes after you. So...
03:39:19 [Sildir (Tris)] Fully send it. Firmly grasp it.
03:39:22 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, I think use literally everything.
03:39:25 [Saturno (Steph)] Should I do Generations? Grapefruit it. Grapefruit it?
03:39:25 [Saturno (Steph)] Say less.
03:39:33 [Mercurio (Gui)] Grapefruit it.
03:39:36 [Sildir (Tris)] You get a grapefruit, yo man. That's a crazy one.
03:39:43 [Speaker 7] I'm sorry. That's crazy. That was good.
03:39:43 [Speaker 7] Excited.
03:39:49 [Mercurio (Gui)] I loved it. It's crazy. The, uh, yeah, Celestial Revelation.
03:39:54 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, but I'm thinking, because Inner Radiance does, um... Get the...
03:40:01 [Mercurio (Gui)] Bright light as well. Oh, yeah.
03:40:05 [Saturno (Steph)] And then each creature within 10 feet of you takes radiant damage equal to your frequency. The other one, Necrotic Shroud, gives you, like...
03:40:16 [Mercurio (Gui)] No, that's not, that one's not gonna be good.
03:40:20 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, so I'm thinking Inner Radiance.
03:40:23 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah.
03:40:26 [Saturno (Steph)] I'm gonna use this.
03:40:27 [Mercurio (Gui)] And you, you, yeah, you get, um, proficiency radiant damage on all your attacks with that. Like, just with Celestial Revelation in general.
03:40:41 [Saturno (Steph)] So now when I attack with my, I think I'm gonna attack with my Grape Sword. I'm gonna get closer. It's like, what?
03:40:41 [Saturno (Steph)] Five feet, yo. I think that's... Okay.
03:40:41 [Saturno (Steph)] Here.
03:41:04 [Speaker 7] So...
03:41:04 [Saturno (Steph)] Hey! I guess we sold that.
03:41:07 [DM (Aarya)] Funny to hear you here.
03:41:08 [Speaker 7] Hey.
03:41:11 [DM (Aarya)] All right.
03:41:11 [Saturno (Steph)] So, when I do attack, do I do advantage?
03:41:16 [DM (Aarya)] Yes, but since you're attacking from within five feet, your melee attacks will automatically crit. Because she's paralyzed.
03:41:24 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, yeah, and I'll, sorry, for the advantage, for the help, I'll give it to Satorno too in case of a miss.
03:41:31 [DM (Aarya)] Well, she has advantage already because she's paralyzed.
03:41:35 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah. Oh, true. It's advantage and auto-crit.
03:41:39 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, so I'm gonna attack, and then I want to attack with my Stand. And then action surge to repeat it.
03:41:46 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so let's fucking go. All right, send it.
03:41:50 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, yeah.
03:41:51 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, so first one is advantage.
03:41:55 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, yeah. Well, that hits regardless, but yeah, roll a crit damage.
03:41:59 [Saturno (Steph)] Crit damage. I'm noobest.
03:42:04 [Mercurio (Gui)] 22. Oh, my god. It's three more of those.
03:42:10 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, okay.
03:42:11 [Sildir (Tris)] I think it would actually kill or, well, get through phase one, probably.
03:42:16 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
03:42:17 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, so again, same thing.
03:42:20 [DM (Aarya)] Are you doing your action surge first or your Stand attack first? Stand attack first, I think.
03:42:27 [Saturno (Steph)] So I just need help switching to that.
03:42:30 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, I'll just let you move them over. So where are you trying to move them?
03:42:34 [Saturno (Steph)] I guess between Sildur and I, I'd say.
03:42:38 [DM (Aarya)] And then roll your regular attack. You can do it from your character. It's the same.
03:42:42 [Saturno (Steph)] Got it.
03:42:44 [DM (Aarya)] Advantage. And then do crit damage. 21.
03:42:44 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so that was 21 from Saturno and then 22 from Saturno and then 21 from Memphis. Okay, so with that, that knocks her down. Well, we're still going.
03:43:14 [Saturno (Steph)] We're not stopping. I don't care if she's down.
03:43:16 [DM (Aarya)] Hold on, hold on, stop. Just give me a second.
03:43:18 [Saturno (Steph)] No, I'm attacking through the phase, you understand?
03:43:20 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, hold on, hold on. Just one moment.
03:43:24 [Saturno (Steph)] Like in Bloodborne, you can't stop.
03:43:28 [DM (Aarya)] So she falls to her knees. She's panting. She's coughing up blood and she looks up to you and gives you like a wicked grin and she says, not bad.
03:43:28 [DM (Aarya)] You'll make a fine thrall. And she is going to reach into her. She's going to reach into her dress and pull out a, let's see, a gun.
03:43:28 [DM (Aarya)] She pulls out what appears to be a charred black wooden stick and she cracks it and it releases a thick cloud of opaque smoke in a 20-foot radius.
03:44:09 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, but I have, um, what's that? She's still held person though, yeah? I got the bright light around me.
03:44:09 [Saturno (Steph)] Does that like help at all?
03:44:21 [DM (Aarya)] It's a 10-foot radius.
03:44:25 [Saturno (Steph)] And an additional dim light.
03:44:27 [DM (Aarya)] So this, this cloud of, this 20-foot cloud of smoke is completely, it counts as like, like if you're within it, your vision is okay. You can't see. And you see her like dart into the smoke.
03:44:40 [Sildir (Tris)] Um, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold person. Hold person.
03:44:46 [DM (Aarya)] Crazy, right?
03:44:47 [Saturno (Steph)] And booming blade.
03:44:49 [Sildir (Tris)] So she can just pop damage.
03:44:52 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, she takes damage.
03:44:55 [Saturno (Steph)] Resistance. Taking damage.
03:44:56 [DM (Aarya)] Are you booming blade? How much is booming blade?
03:45:00 [Saturno (Steph)] Hold up. It's like you're in it.
03:45:05 [Mercurio (Gui)] Oh, she also, uh, took four additional radiant damage from. Um, from my attack.
03:45:13 [Speaker 7] So let's do a revelation. Yeah.
03:45:17 [DM (Aarya)] Um, okay, cool.
03:45:19 [Saturno (Steph)] I'm just trying to check if it's 2d8 or 1d8. No. Well, she's a boss.
03:45:19 [Saturno (Steph)] It's 1d8 thunder. Okay.
03:45:29 [Ember (Spurthi)] Do I do normal or crit?
03:45:31 [DM (Aarya)] Um, I think, I guess it would be crit. Yeah. Two.
03:45:31 [DM (Aarya)] Huge crit.
03:45:37 [Mercurio (Gui)] That's crazy.
03:45:39 [DM (Aarya)] That's crazy.
03:45:39 [Mercurio (Gui)] Okay. One. Um.
03:45:45 [Sildir (Tris)] And boomer blade though.
03:45:48 [Mercurio (Gui)] That was boomer blade.
03:45:49 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, what about the extra four radiant damage then that you tacked it on?
03:45:54 [DM (Aarya)] Uh, yes.
03:45:58 [Saturno (Steph)] So now she's just.
03:46:01 [DM (Aarya)] Hiding in the smoke.
03:46:04 [Saturno (Steph)] Wow.
03:46:05 [Sildir (Tris)] Fart gas.
03:46:07 [Saturno (Steph)] Can Pepito like scope out the area?
03:46:10 [DM (Aarya)] Um. Or can Memphis? You, I mean, you can kind of like move them around.
03:46:10 [DM (Aarya)] And kind of scope it out that way. You'd have to detect her by like running into her basically.
03:46:26 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay. Then. I will go here.
03:46:34 [Mercurio (Gui)] Is it Thelsa Turtles turn then? It is.
03:46:36 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah, cause I was doing the double. Which I would keep attacking her while she's doing the stick shit, honestly. But, ping.
03:46:36 [Saturno (Steph)] Um, I'm gonna run here. And just try to swing to see if I hit anyone.
03:46:56 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, um, roll an attack with disadvantage and like, yep.
03:47:01 [Sildir (Tris)] Would I have gotten an opportunity attack disadvantage or no?
03:47:04 [DM (Aarya)] No, she avoids opportunity attacks with her feature.
03:47:09 [Sildir (Tris)] My god. Devs, nerf it.
03:47:15 [DM (Aarya)] Devs.
03:47:15 [Sildir (Tris)] This is broken.
03:47:16 [Speaker 7] This is broken.
03:47:18 [Sildir (Tris)] Um, my game is bugged.
03:47:20 [DM (Aarya)] So with a 10, uh, great start attack, you unfortunately miss.
03:47:27 [Saturno (Steph)] Got it. And then Memphis would follow me.
03:47:33 [Sildir (Tris)] Oh, you found her though.
03:47:36 [DM (Aarya)] Um, not.
03:47:38 [Sildir (Tris)] Maybe not.
03:47:42 [Saturno (Steph)] And then I want to move Memphis. Since I guess I can't do anything else. But do Memphis's attack.
03:47:42 [Saturno (Steph)] And Memphis will come right here, ideally. I just can't move them.
03:47:55 [DM (Aarya)] Oh yeah, uh, right here you said?
03:47:59 [Saturno (Steph)] Um, yeah. And then, or maybe like, wait, one more up.
03:48:04 [Speaker 7] Here?
03:48:04 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
03:48:05 [Saturno (Steph)] And then they'll swing around to see if they could also hit.
03:48:08 [DM (Aarya)] Sure. Do it with disadvantage. Um, so with a 15, that also will, um, hold on.
03:48:08 [DM (Aarya)] Let me check. Let's check AC. Um, yeah, that hits.
03:48:08 [DM (Aarya)] Uh, roll a damage.
03:48:28 [Saturno (Steph)] Normal?
03:48:29 [Sildir (Tris)] Hmm. There's a new AC maybe?
03:48:33 [Saturno (Steph)] Normal attack or disadvantage?
03:48:35 [DM (Aarya)] Normally, normal damage.
03:48:45 [Saturno (Steph)] I did it, but I didn't do it.
03:48:48 [DM (Aarya)] Uh, is that showing up?
03:48:49 [Saturno (Steph)] I hit the button.
03:48:51 [DM (Aarya)] That's weird. Let me try. So weird.
03:48:51 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, so that was 10. Got it. Plus two.
03:48:51 [DM (Aarya)] Plus two, I guess. Yeah. Cool.
03:48:51 [DM (Aarya)] And that was, that plus two radiant damage, right?
03:49:14 [Saturno (Steph)] Yeah. So she can't heal.
03:49:18 [DM (Aarya)] Cool.
03:49:18 [Saturno (Steph)] And can we, do I know where Memphis like attacked?
03:49:23 [DM (Aarya)] Um, it was right here.
03:49:26 [Saturno (Steph)] Got it. Okay. So, okay.
03:49:26 [Saturno (Steph)] That's the end. Can, can I do like a bonus action?
03:49:36 [DM (Aarya)] Uh, do you have a bonus action?
03:49:38 [Saturno (Steph)] I don't know.
03:49:39 [DM (Aarya)] Well, I guess your Memphis attack was the bonus action. Because the Echo and the Echo Fighter uses bonus actions.
03:49:45 [Saturno (Steph)] So I can't throw the holy water at her. Because that's like an attack. Got it.
03:49:51 [DM (Aarya)] Okay.
03:49:53 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, cool. Well, I'm done. And we found her.
03:49:57 [DM (Aarya)] All right.
03:49:58 [Saturno (Steph)] We have a coroner.
03:49:59 [DM (Aarya)] That's pretty good. Um, okay. So next, uh, let me update some tokens.
03:49:59 [DM (Aarya)] Um, so does this actually highlight her position? Because that'd be really troll.
03:50:28 [Saturno (Steph)] I don't see anything.
03:50:31 [DM (Aarya)] Okay, cool. That's fine.
03:50:33 [Saturno (Steph)] What would it look like?
03:50:34 [DM (Aarya)] You would see a token or like some kind of icon in front of you. Um, okay. So let me see what I got on this stat block.
03:50:46 [Sildir (Tris)] I don't even know what her turn is.
03:50:51 [DM (Aarya)] Um, you're a mutatrix if you're talking.
03:50:54 [Sildir (Tris)] Do we not even know what her turn is now?
03:50:56 [DM (Aarya)] Um, you'll find out shortly. It's her turn currently. I'm like, her initiative is still the same.
03:50:56 [DM (Aarya)] Uh, give me a sec. All right. She's going to go for two attacks on Saturno.
03:50:56 [DM (Aarya)] And let's see. Let's see. This will be...
03:50:56 [DM (Aarya)] Well, it's going to be with advantage because she's attacking from a position you can't see. So that was a 23. But I assume that hits.
03:50:56 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. Okay. So that's going to be how much?
03:50:56 [DM (Aarya)] Six damage?
03:51:52 [Saturno (Steph)] Yes. So I take it away from my temp?
03:51:54 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, I'll subtract it. I think it hits your temp first. Okay.
03:51:54 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, it does. Yes, it does. And then second attack, 13.
03:51:54 [DM (Aarya)] That doesn't hit, does it?
03:52:10 [Saturno (Steph)] No.
03:52:11 [DM (Aarya)] Okay. And then she's going to use... Can I ask her a question?
03:52:11 [DM (Aarya)] You can try.
03:52:17 [Saturno (Steph)] Like, do you wear that mask because you don't moisturize?
03:52:20 [DM (Aarya)] Oh my. And then she's going to use a bonus action.
03:52:25 [Saturno (Steph)] Okay, so I saw something right now. I don't know.
03:52:30 [DM (Aarya)] What did you see?
03:52:31 [Saturno (Steph)] The floor keeps highlighting for me. Like this whole thing, like this. I don't know if that's on purpose if you're doing it.
03:52:37 [DM (Aarya)] I'm not sure.
03:52:39 [Mercurio (Gui)] That's your movement when you hover yourself.
03:52:42 [Saturno (Steph)] Oh, shit. I'm so funny.
03:52:44 [DM (Aarya)] No, you're good. I'm a boomer. No, it's okay.
03:52:44 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, so then, let's see. Cool. Now it is Ember's turn.
03:53:06 [Speaker 7] Okay.
03:53:17 [DM (Aarya)] What was that?
03:53:19 [Mercurio (Gui)] Ember, use the gun.
03:53:21 [Ember (Spurthi)] Use the gun?
03:53:23 [Mercurio (Gui)] Use all the bullets.
03:53:25 [Ember (Spurthi)] Use all the bullets. Wait, did I do something? Okay, we need Mike.
03:53:25 [Ember (Spurthi)] Is my light crossbow better or my short bow better?
03:53:40 [DM (Aarya)] I think the crossbow does a little bit more, but you also don't see where she is currently, so you have to guess her position.
03:53:50 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay. All right, I'm going to use my light crossbow as usual. Can I like shoot it near where Sepulchral is?
03:54:03 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah.
03:54:04 [Ember (Spurthi)] See if she's there. Oh, no. Okay.
03:54:07 [DM (Aarya)] So like ping like here? Is that where you want to shoot? Or just move your mouse where you want to shoot, basically.
03:54:07 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, look right here. Okay, go ahead and roll the attack with disadvantage.
03:54:22 [Ember (Spurthi)] Advantage?
03:54:23 [DM (Aarya)] Disadvantage.
03:54:25 [Ember (Spurthi)] Disadvantage? Oh, wait, okay.
03:54:27 [DM (Aarya)] That was disadvantage? 21? My goal.
03:54:27 [DM (Aarya)] My goal.
03:54:33 [Ember (Spurthi)] Can I do my sneak attack?
03:54:37 [DM (Aarya)] Oh, two people did it.
03:54:39 [Ember (Spurthi)] I'm sorry.
03:54:40 [DM (Aarya)] It's okay. Holy hell. What were you saying, Sepulchral?
03:54:44 [Ember (Spurthi)] Can I do my sneak attack?
03:54:46 [DM (Aarya)] One sec. So you win a 21 disadvantage that unfortunately misses. What?
03:54:53 [Ember (Spurthi)] What?
03:54:55 [Sildir (Tris)] You did the wrong spot.
03:54:56 [Ember (Spurthi)] Is it? It was the wrong spot. Okay.
03:54:56 [Ember (Spurthi)] Can I do a sneak attack with my mouse? Yeah, where did she shoot?
03:55:05 [DM (Aarya)] You have to hit the attack with... Yeah, where did you shoot? She shot right here.
03:55:05 [DM (Aarya)] Got it.
03:55:13 [Ember (Spurthi)] Yeah.
03:55:13 [Saturno (Steph)] I don't know why, but my vibes are here.
03:55:17 [Speaker 7] Okay.
03:55:19 [Mercurio (Gui)] I don't know why, like... I'm confused. Didn't she run away?
03:55:25 [DM (Aarya)] When you hit her, Memphis, you...
03:55:27 [Speaker 7] Yeah.
03:55:28 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, you hit her here.
03:55:29 [Mercurio (Gui)] When Memphis hit her, she moved?
03:55:31 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, but you don't know. Presumably she moved, maybe. You don't know.
03:55:37 [Saturno (Steph)] We don't know. I'm guessing she moved down here. Why?
03:55:37 [Saturno (Steph)] Just like off of my own silly vibe.
03:55:44 [Ember (Spurthi)] This is so annoying. So I can't do sneak attack anymore?
03:55:48 [DM (Aarya)] You have to hit the attack to do sneak attack, basically.
03:55:51 [Ember (Spurthi)] Oh, okay, okay, okay. Got you. All right, I think I'm done.
03:55:51 [Ember (Spurthi)] Okay.
03:56:06 [DM (Aarya)] But yeah, for reference, there's still like a cloud of black smoke just like covering this 20-foot radius. Kind of just like hovering in place, basically. Yeah.
03:56:19 [Irredel (Sav)] Are we starting a round right now?
03:56:23 [DM (Aarya)] It is. Yeah, as Ember ends her turn, it is the start of the next round. Okay.
03:56:32 [Sildir (Tris)] Bada bing. All right.
03:56:36 [Irredel (Sav)] Yeah, I'm also going to be probably like ceding character control as it was held to Tristan just because I have to work.
03:56:45 [DM (Aarya)] Ah, okay. Sorry. No worries.
03:56:50 [Irredel (Sav)] It has been like over four hours.
03:56:51 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah, I mean, do we want to feel like we want to stop at this point or how are we feeling? We can pause here. Okay.
03:57:00 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, anyone have notes for me then about their current state? So I think I am blessed. And I have magic armor on or whatever it's called.
03:57:00 [Sildir (Tris)] Only spell I have. Attempt health should save. Um, who else is, uh, blessed?
03:57:26 [Mercurio (Gui)] That should save. Should still hold over.
03:57:32 [Sildir (Tris)] All right, I guess, uh, just looking to note it. And then big fart cloud activated. Just don't forget that one.
03:57:50 [Irredel (Sav)] All right. And then don't forget the mantle inspiration stuff.
03:57:56 [Mercurio (Gui)] Yeah, the tempid points that we have.
03:57:58 [Sildir (Tris)] Yeah, that'll hold that pretty sure. I'm more confident in that one. Tempid points I've held for like sessions before.
03:58:06 [Speaker 7] Okay.
03:58:07 [Sildir (Tris)] It was like a number on your sheet rather than.
03:58:09 [DM (Aarya)] Yeah. Okay.
03:58:15 [Sildir (Tris)] And then V appeared out of nowhere. RKO.
03:58:26 [DM (Aarya)] Um, yeah. All right, uh, good session everyone. It is a slightly awkward place to pause, but yeah, that's okay.
03:58:26 [DM (Aarya)] We'll pick up and continue the fight next time.
03:58:38 [Sildir (Tris)] It's a crazy session. Also, we've made it so much further.