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MATT: Hello everyone, and welcome to
tonight's episode of Critical Role00:00:02
where a bunch of us nerdy-ass voice actors
sit around and play Dungeons & Dragons.00:00:05
ALL: (singing and hollering) We play Dungeons & Dragons!00:00:09
MATT: Just like that.00:00:11
Before we get into tonight's episode,00:00:12
we do have some announcements to get through,00:00:14
beginning with the first of our two sponsors, Cortex.00:00:17
Sam, if you don't mind.00:00:18
SAM: This episode is sponsored by Cortex,00:00:20
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of the federal tax code and file your returns by April 15th00:01:05
before evil audit monsters garnish your soul.00:01:09
(laughter)00:01:11
I'll demonstrate.00:01:12
Oh, wait, I'm rolling too early.00:01:14
Oh no!00:01:15
(laughter)00:01:16
Oh no.00:01:18
I'm making up my own rules of the stupid game00:01:20
and I've already broken my own rules.00:01:22
(laughter)00:01:23
Oh no!00:01:24
A CPA aboleth is trying to shred my form 1040.00:01:27
Time to file an extension.00:01:30
A seven?00:01:31
My deductibles weren't itemized,00:01:33
so much red tape, no problem.00:01:35
I'll cast a 4th-level fixed asset cash flow spell.00:01:39
Nat one, I'm insolvent!00:01:42
(laughter)00:01:44
So my question to you guys is, does it need some more work00:01:47
or can Darrington Press publish this, like, right away?00:01:51
TRAVIS: I mean, a little more play testing.00:01:52
LAURA: I think it's great.
ASHLEY: I think it's ready to go.00:01:54
SAM: Or is it too spooky?00:01:55
Is it too scary?00:01:56
ASHLEY: It's terrifying, my god.00:01:59
LIAM: Great commercial read.00:02:02
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LAURA: Woo!
MARISHA: Ey!00:02:18
SAM: Ey!
MARISHA: Ey!00:02:19
TRAVIS: Nice job, taxman.00:02:21
MARISHA: Good game.00:02:22
LIAM: Physical copy.
SAM: File early!00:02:24
(laughter)00:02:26
MATT: Awesome. Thank you very much, Sam.00:02:28
And thank you, Fandom friends and Cortex.00:02:32
Our second sponsor for tonight is Hocus Pocus the game.00:02:37
That is a thing that exists, like the OG,00:02:39
awesome Hocus Pocus classic of the era.00:02:42
In the game, players must match the color of the ingredients00:02:44
on the game board to stun the Sanderson sister and stop--00:02:48
sisters-- or stop their sinister plot.00:02:50
LAURA: There's three of them.00:02:51
MATT: That's what I said!00:02:52
Well, it's a singular on the page.00:02:53
TRAVIS: Black flame candle.00:02:55
MATT: The sisters-- which I knew--00:02:57
and stop their sinister plot.00:02:58
The game's packaging is designed to look like a spell book00:03:00
to reflect the theme of the original Disney movie.00:03:03
And it makes a wonderful addition to bookshelves.00:03:05
We're going to have to get one for ourselves.00:03:07
LAURA: I want it!00:03:08
MARISHA: I had such a crush on Billy.
MATT: Hell, yeah.00:03:11
LAURA: Me, too!
MATT: It also includes beautiful artwork faithful00:03:13
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for more details.00:03:31
SAM: Can I just say that I watched that movie00:03:33
for the first time this Halloween season?00:03:35
MARISHA: Wait, for the first time?00:03:37
SAM: I had never seen it.00:03:39
It's really good.00:03:40
Sarah Jessica Parker's so good!00:03:43
LAURA: She's so adorable. We were just talking about this.00:03:45
She was, like, the most beautiful
thing I'd ever seen in my life.00:03:49
MARISHA: My lucky rat's tail.00:03:51
She's so good! I love her.00:03:53
Why didn't we watch that?00:03:54
LIAM: With the Looney Tunes humor too she was like--00:03:58
MATT: I still think she was better00:03:59
in Fight of the Navigator, but anyway.00:04:02
So we have a few other announcements we have here.00:04:05
We are excited to announce our next project00:04:07
with our friends at Dark Horse Comics,00:04:10
the Mighty Nein Origins.00:04:12
TRAVIS: Let's go, fam! Let's go!
(cheering)00:04:15
MATT: It's a series of hard cover graphic novels00:04:18
that explores the origin story of each member00:04:20
of the Mighty Nein.00:04:22
The first two volumes that are scheduled00:04:24
for release are Jester Lavorre due in June 202100:04:28
and Caleb Widogast in July of 2021.00:04:30
LAURA: Oh my goodness!00:04:31
MATT: They're both available for pre-order now00:04:33
at your local game shops and other book retailers.00:04:36
And they're fantastic.00:04:37
We can't wait to be able to announce the creative team00:04:39
helping put this together.00:04:41
And to learn more about the creative team I'm talking about,00:04:45
go check out our announcement article at critrole.com.00:04:49
Marisha, you got an announcement as well.00:04:52
MARISHA: Oh, I do!00:04:53
I should really read these before we get started.00:04:57
TRAVIS: Professionals!
MARISHA: Oh, man.00:05:01
Oh, yeah we're back for another episode00:05:03
of Narrative Telephone Round Two this Tuesday,00:05:06
November 17th at 4:00 PM Pacific00:05:09
and our storyteller is the one and the only Brian W. Foster.00:05:15
Buckle up for this one.00:05:16
LAURA: The cabbage man.00:05:17
MARISHA: Buckle up, it's special.00:05:20
MATT: Yeah, yeah.
TRAVIS: That's a good word.00:05:22
MARISHA: Yeah, yeah.
MATT: Definitely. Thank you, Marisha.00:05:25
MARISHA: Don't watch, it's-- I'd say not safe for work.00:05:27
Not that any of us are at work, but not safe for work.00:05:32
MATT: Brian definitely kicked us down that alleyway.00:05:35
Thank you, Marisha.00:05:36
Thank you... Brian.00:05:39
And Laura, you have an announcement.
LAURA: Oh, I do!00:05:42
So you guys know our Vox Machina d20 set00:05:45
that we released before, but I'm excited to let you know00:05:48
that we're doing full sets of dice.00:05:52
So right now we have available a Vex set,00:05:57
a Grog set, and a Vax set.00:06:01
They're in the store. These are the pretty, like,00:06:03
leather bags that they come in.00:06:05
They're lined all beautifully.00:06:07
They're so lovely.00:06:08
LIAM: They are beautiful.00:06:09
LAURA: Yeah, I love them.00:06:12
They're with our friends at Diehard Dice.00:06:14
So yeah, go check them out.00:06:16
LIAM: Good looking set of dice.00:06:18
TRAVIS: Natural 20.
LAURA: No, shut up!00:06:20
MATT: Right out of the gate.
TRAVIS: The mug came up.00:06:22
LAURA: Oh, I got a n-n-nineteen on mine.00:06:24
SAM: What the--00:06:25
ASHLEY: Oh, I got a natural 20 on the Vax one!00:06:29
TRAVIS: These are weighted properly, we swear.00:06:32
They're correctly weighted.
LAURA: They're fancy, I love them.00:06:34
MATT: You guys better not be using those dice tonight.00:06:36
They're already rolling way too high.00:06:38
TALIESIN: Ooh, it's got a liner.00:06:39
MATT: All righty, then thank you so much, Laura.00:06:41
TRAVIS: Why, what happens tonight, Matt?00:06:43
MATT: Well, let's find out shortly because...00:06:46
with that I believe we are done with our announcements.00:06:49
Let's go ahead and jump into tonight's episode of00:06:53
Critical Role.00:06:56
(water bubbling)00:06:58
(thunder rumbling)00:07:03
(explosion)00:07:05
♪ Role ♪00:07:06
♪ Critical Role ♪00:07:10
♪ Critical Role ♪00:07:14
♪ Mighty Nein, Mighty Nein ♪00:07:17
♪ Roll the dice, roll the dice ♪00:07:21
♪ The adventure begins ♪00:07:23
♪ They were always beside you ♪00:07:25
♪ Your nerdy best friends ♪00:07:28
♪ And the the DM to guide you ♪00:07:30
♪ And they rise from the flames for the battles ahead ♪00:07:34
♪ Villains beware 'cause you're 'bout to be dead ♪00:07:42
♪ They got magic and flair ♪00:07:44
♪ They got falchions and cunning ♪00:07:47
♪ They don't see over there ♪00:07:49
♪ There's a monster incoming ♪00:07:51
♪ Inspiration is waiting ♪00:07:53
♪ Rise up, don't think twice ♪00:07:55
♪ Put your fate in your hands ♪00:07:57
♪ Take a chance, roll the dice (roll the dice) ♪00:08:00
♪ Role ♪00:08:01
♪ Critical Role (roll the dice) ♪00:08:06
♪ Critical Role (roll the dice) ♪00:08:08
♪ Can you answer the call? ♪00:08:10
♪ Dig in deep in your soul ♪00:08:12
♪ As the legend unfolds ♪00:08:14
♪ Now it's your turn (your turn, your turn) ♪00:08:18
♪ To roll ♪00:08:23
(flames whooshing)00:08:27
(dragon roaring)00:08:32
MATT: And welcome back.00:08:33
So, last we left off:00:08:36
the Mighty Nein, making their way north00:08:38
into the realm of Eiselcross, hired by Vess DeRogna00:08:41
of the Cerberus Assembly to help bring her and protect her00:08:46
towards the ruins of Aeor on the region of Foren.00:08:51
Unfortunately, Vess was murdered by,00:08:56
by the previous ally-- or at least the body00:08:59
of the previous ally-- Mollymauk,00:09:02
traveling with other individuals northward00:09:04
on a similar path.00:09:06
You discovered Vess' dead corpse, covered for it,00:09:09
so nobody else would discover it as well,00:09:12
and made your rapid escape from Balenpost00:09:16
along with your scout, Dagen Underthorn,00:09:19
who has been leading you through the icy frigid realm00:09:24
towards the first location on the map00:09:25
which you've decided to explore.00:09:27
Dubbed A5 on the map, it is one of the numerous00:09:32
early excavations of fallen Aeorian debris.00:09:36
And after making your way across some mysterious encounters,00:09:40
some strange weather and making some allies00:09:44
out of possible enemies in the shape of intelligent Yeti,00:09:48
you discovered the outside of this excavation site.00:09:53
As you found a number of long frozen bodies left00:09:57
in the surrounding debris in ice and stone,00:10:00
you begin to approach the entrance to it.00:10:02
And so picking up where we left off00:10:05
as Dagen once more goes,00:10:09
"All right so, got ya here.00:10:12
"That's what I'm being paid for.00:10:14
"I'll just set up camp out here.00:10:15
"And if I see anything strange I'll,00:10:17
"I dunno, shout loudly down the hall for you.00:10:20
"But stay alive."00:10:23
TRAVIS: For sure, but also don't feel like you need00:10:25
to just remain outside; if there is trouble00:10:28
you'll come in, won't you?00:10:30
MATT: "Well, yeah, I mean-- but I'm not going to go00:10:32
"super deep in there.00:10:33
"I don't know what kind of dangers are in--00:10:35
"to be honest I'm not being paid quite enough for that, so."00:10:38
TALIESIN: Fair.00:10:39
SAM: Do we have any sort of communication rock00:10:43
or anything that we can give-- do we--00:10:45
we don't have anything like that in this campaign do we?00:10:49
TRAVIS: We just pierce his ear for no reason.00:10:52
Hold still.00:10:53
LAURA: But I can send him a message.00:10:55
SAM: Yeah, yeah maybe, maybe like,00:10:58
well, I can send him a message00:10:59
unless we go farther than 150 feet away.00:11:01
LAURA: Which I think you might, yeah.00:11:03
SAM: All right, well, I'll send you a message00:11:06
right before we get 150 feet away.00:11:08
MATT: "Fair, and if things get real dangerous or,00:11:13
"I dunno, if you find yourselves being suddenly attacked00:11:17
"by a bunch of terrible beasts that are climbing00:11:19
"their way to the surface and you're not going to survive,00:11:21
"if you could just let me know in advance so I can skedaddle00:11:23
"that would be great."
LAURA: I'll try to remember that before I die.00:11:26
MATT: "I appreciate it.00:11:28
"All right then, stay safe.00:11:29
"See you on the other side."00:11:31
SAM: We have a rule in the Mighty Nein.00:11:33
If we don't come back within seven days,00:11:35
you have to hold a funeral for all of us.00:11:39
MATT: "How elaborate are you thinking?"00:11:41
SAM: I mean--00:11:44
TALIESIN: Pretty elaborate I feel like.00:11:45
SAM: We gave you a thousand gold, right?00:11:46
So at least a thousand gold worth of stuff.00:11:48
MARISHA: For sure you have to--00:11:50
MATT: "How about I pay for the funeral00:11:52
"out of the extra I was paid when we took this journey.00:11:56
"That sound like a plan?"
SAM: That sounds good.00:11:57
MATT: "Perfect."
LAURA: Yeah.00:12:00
MATT: "I'm going to go ahead and cook up a meal. Good luck."00:12:02
He goes ahead and makes his way away00:12:04
from the initial alcove where you guys00:12:05
are currently standing at the precipice00:12:07
of the entrance to find a safer space00:12:10
to set up his small camp out of sight.00:12:13
TRAVIS: I had See Invisibility up when00:12:17
Mollymauk or Admin Profile or whoever was talking to Jester.00:12:20
That's down now, right?00:12:22
It's been, like, an hour plus, right?00:12:25
MATT: I'd say it's probably--00:12:27
because you guys did begin looking00:12:29
through the bodies and stuff and that was--00:12:31
I'm trying to remember when you did that.00:12:34
I would say yeah. I'd say it's down by now.00:12:35
TRAVIS: Okay.00:12:39
LIAM: So... now what?00:12:43
TRAVIS: I think we agreed we're going to enter?00:12:47
But, be open00:12:50
to hearing a story before we kick shit off?00:12:55
Yes?00:12:56
TALIESIN: I mean, there's no surprise happening here.00:12:57
LIAM: No.00:13:00
LAURA: Yeah.00:13:01
SAM: Is there anything that we
can do to surprise them?00:13:05
Like, they'll expect seven00:13:09
people walking down a hallway.00:13:12
Should we make ourselves look like six or eight?00:13:15
Or should three of us hide00:13:18
or be invisible?
LAURA: I just have this weird feeling00:13:19
because Lucien could see me scrying,00:13:24
he can probably see00:13:25
if one of us is invisible or, you know,00:13:29
if we're disguised or something.00:13:31
LIAM: So he can see through our usual bullshit.00:13:33
TRAVIS: Yeah, I feel like those nine eyes will flare up00:13:35
at different moments to activate something.00:13:38
Didn't you say when you scrying00:13:40
an eye lit up and they turned and could see you?00:13:44
LAURA: I can't remember.00:13:46
Maybe?00:13:47
SAM: Yes, but two of--00:13:50
two of you can be,00:13:53
you know, worms or cockroaches.00:13:55
They can't-- they can't see through that, right?00:13:58
TALIESIN: I think we save our tricks
until we know what we need.00:14:01
TRAVIS: Didn't we do that once before and the cockroach00:14:03
was a little on the (whistles).00:14:05
LAURA: I was a moth. TRAVIS: A moth, yeah.00:14:06
And you weren't super with it, right?00:14:08
LAURA: I don't know what you're talking about.00:14:09
TRAVIS: A little easily distracted, maybe not just yet.00:14:12
SAM: All right.
TRAVIS: I think you ate a curtain.00:14:14
ASHLEY: Wait, what did the stone in the arch say?00:14:18
That had markings? Did we not-- did we figure that out?00:14:21
LAURA: What stone?
TRAVIS: Oh, I don't think we looked.00:14:23
MATT: Ah, so as the entrance to this, you can see00:14:27
there once was solid ice that had just sealed it off00:14:30
and has since been worked away. You saw signs of00:14:33
large chunks of ice and rock being chiseled00:14:35
and broken to expose the entrance that leads00:14:38
further down beneath the surface.00:14:40
But it doesn't look like
there were any markings, necessarily,00:14:43
or script or writing or glyphs on it.00:14:45
It's just the sign that this was a space00:14:47
that was intentionally dug and excavated00:14:50
to delve within.00:14:52
ASHLEY: That's what that means. That's what I wrote down.00:14:55
It didn't make any sense.00:14:57
TRAVIS: Translated it says, "days since last accident."00:15:00
MATT: I mean, possibly.00:15:04
So, you make your way in?00:15:07
LAURA: I guess so.00:15:09
LIAM: I think we are just going in and having a discussion.00:15:10
LAURA: Is it super duper dark?00:15:12
MATT: There is no light inside there.00:15:14
TRAVIS: (laughs)00:15:15
I'll take out the Star Razor and say "galas-var"00:15:19
and it'll put out that 20 foot--00:15:22
MATT: As it ignites the air around with bright divine light,00:15:25
you can see immediately in the first few steps00:15:27
within the entrance, it pincers a little bit00:15:30
and it opens up into a smaller chamber00:15:32
maybe no more than five feet within the interior.00:15:36
LAURA: I come up right behind
Fjord and I go: "galas-var!"00:15:39
Does it turn it off?00:15:42
MATT: No, unfortunately, the wielder has to say the phrase.00:15:44
LAURA: Too bad.
MATT: That is pretty funny.00:15:46
TRAVIS: That's very, very clever, though.00:15:48
LAURA: I was just trying to see.00:15:49
SAM: I'm going to just power up a bolt00:15:52
with a spell. I'll Voltaic Bolt a spell-- a bolt.00:15:57
Just so it's ready to go.00:16:00
MATT: Okay, how long does it last?00:16:01
SAM: It just says until I use it.00:16:05
MATT: Should be concentration.00:16:07
SAM: Oh, you're totally right.00:16:08
I don't do that.00:16:09
MATT and TRAVIS: (laugh)00:16:12
MARISHA: And how many sets of footprints do we see00:16:14
going into the cave?00:16:15
MATT: A number of sets.00:16:16
There are fresher ones you can see,00:16:19
but there are older ones that come in and out so00:16:21
you know a lot of people have been through here00:16:23
and who knows how many sets have been wiped out00:16:26
by the weather and then been left behind in recent times.00:16:30
It's a smattering, but there you do see a number00:16:32
of sets that are at least within the last a day or so.00:16:39
MARISHA: All right.00:16:40
SAM: Do you want me to scout ahead and check for things?00:16:44
Trappies and stuff?
TRAVIS: Yeah.00:16:45
MATT: And the marching order would be preferred.00:16:47
SAM: I guess I'll go first.
MATT: Okay.00:16:51
MATT: Veth up first.00:16:53
TRAVIS: Walk in the park.00:16:55
MATT: Who else is coming up after Veth?00:16:57
TRAVIS: Nobody for at least a hundred feet.00:16:59
MATT: Okay, so.00:17:00
(laughter)
LAURA: I'll follow Veth.00:17:03
LIAM: If you're going to message Dagen, now's the time.00:17:06
SAM: Dagen, we're 150 feet away from you.00:17:09
(laughter)00:17:11
MATT: All right, so.00:17:15
You, go ahead and roll a stealth check00:17:17
as you enter into darkness.00:17:19
Do you have darkvision?00:17:20
SAM: I do. My stealth is 25.00:17:25
MATT: Okay.00:17:27
Halflings have darkvision?00:17:30
SAM: Who ha?00:17:31
MATT: Halflings have darkvision?
SAM: Uh--00:17:33
LAURA: Ooh, that's goblin.00:17:36
SAM: Let's see here.00:17:37
Racial traits, is that where it would be?00:17:40
MATT: Yep.00:17:42
SAM: It doesn't say it in racial traits.00:17:44
MARISHA and TRAVIS: Uh-oh.00:17:45
SAM: Do I not have darkvision?00:17:46
TRAVIS: I think you did.
MARISHA: I think that goblins did.00:17:49
MATT: Not as a halfling.00:17:50
SAM: Whoa!00:17:53
I didn't know they made characters
that didn't have darkvision.00:17:56
(laughter)00:17:57
But seriously, don't all the characters00:17:59
have darkvision except for humans?00:18:01
MARISHA: All but two.00:18:03
MATT: A lot of-- a number of them do, yes.00:18:05
And even darkvision, you still can see in pitch darkness,00:18:09
but it's considered very, very low light.00:18:11
And it's still very limited, so.00:18:14
SAM: I can't see shit!00:18:15
(laughter)00:18:17
MARISHA: Do you want to borrow my goggles?00:18:19
SAM: Sure, do I have to attune to them?00:18:21
MARISHA: I don't... think... so.00:18:23
TRAVIS: (laughs)00:18:25
What do we know?00:18:26
(laughter)00:18:27
TALIESIN: How does darkvision even work?00:18:30
MATT: About 30 feet away on the precipice
of an ice cliff Dagen's going,00:18:34
"My god."00:18:36
MARISHA: It's been a while since this has been relevant.00:18:39
MATT: "Well, glad I got some pay up front."00:18:41
LIAM: You guys got something on your mind?00:18:42
MARISHA: It's not. It's not.00:18:45
SAM: It's not? I can wear them?00:18:46
MARISHA: Yeah, you can just put them on.
They're just night vision goggles.00:18:48
SAM: All right, gimme.
MARISHA: Yeah, but I want them back.00:18:50
But I want them back?00:18:51
But I want them back.
SAM: Oh, this is weird.00:18:55
MARISHA: Will you, will you acknowledge
that you're going to give them back?00:18:57
SAM: Yep, yeah, I got it.00:18:59
MARISHA: They don't make you-- look straight,00:19:01
They don't make you cross eyed.
SAM: I am looking straight.00:19:03
TRAVIS: That's the wall Veth, that's the wall.00:19:05
SAM: This is how I do it.00:19:06
All right, let's go.00:19:07
MATT: Roll a stealth check.
MARISHA: You might need to go see an optometrist.00:19:09
LAURA: I'm going to Blessing of the Trickster him-- her.00:19:14
MATT: Okay, you got it.
TALIESIN: Oh, my god what the hell?00:19:15
SAM: That is a dainty ring.00:19:17
TALIESIN: It is, and it should be off.00:19:19
LAURA: What is happening right now?00:19:21
(laughter)00:19:23
TRAVIS: Molly!00:19:24
MARISHA: Pure chaos.00:19:26
MATT: All right Blessing of the Trickster00:19:27
means you have advantage on your stealth check,00:19:30
which you would have already.00:19:31
But now you're blessed by the Trickster,00:19:32
so there you go.
LAURA: Oh, wow nevermind.00:19:33
SAM: So roll again?00:19:35
MATT: Yes.
SAM: Okay.00:19:37
MATT: Sure.00:19:39
SAM: Slightly better than before, 29.00:19:43
MATT: 29, okay.00:19:44
So as you vanish into shadow,00:19:47
all of you wait for a moment.00:19:49
You make your way inside where
it begins to open up slightly.00:19:52
It kind of--00:19:54
you enter a sort of kidney-shaped00:19:57
slightly curved antechamber of natural rock and ice.00:20:02
It's about 15 feet wide maybe 25, 30 feet long00:20:06
and-- make a perception check for me.00:20:09
SAM: Well, those are my specialty.00:20:15
Twelve.00:20:16
MATT: Twelve.00:20:18
What you do see within this room,00:20:21
are signs of an abandoned encampment.00:20:25
Small, but you can see there is an old frayed rope00:20:30
that is partially coiled in the ground00:20:32
and discarded at the side.00:20:34
You see heavy tools that have been--00:20:37
like pickaxes and elements that are used00:20:39
for simple excavation.00:20:43
You see a pile of rags and burlap, sacks and stuff.00:20:47
Two different black soot-marked fire pits in here00:20:50
that currently are just in disuse.00:20:54
But it looks like this was a resting place00:20:57
or a temporary encampment or a rotating encampment00:20:59
for those who are coming to excavate this location.00:21:02
And then the chamber continues on.00:21:06
You can see it goes deeper and deeper and00:21:07
becomes a steady decline into darkness below.00:21:10
And it pincers into about a wide enough space for00:21:15
single file travel.00:21:18
SAM: And everyone else is like 30 feet behind me?00:21:20
MATT: Yeah, they're still at the entrance.00:21:21
So they're about 20, 30 feet.00:21:23
SAM: Let me just go and look and see how--00:21:25
if those fire pits or whatever00:21:29
are recently used.00:21:31
MATT: All right, make an investigation check for me.00:21:35
SAM: 23.00:21:36
MATT: 23, looking at the fire pits,00:21:40
one of them looks like it hasn't been used in a while.00:21:43
One of them looks like the recent ash and soot in there00:21:47
puts it somewhere neighborhood for the past week or so.00:21:50
It could be a day ago.00:21:52
It could be a few days ago, but it's relatively recent.00:21:55
SAM: Okay, I'll take some soot from there00:21:57
and just do this, get ready for battle, you know?00:22:01
TRAVIS: Oh, yeah.00:22:03
SAM: And I'll just message back to the friends.00:22:06
Okay, first room's clear, nothing here.00:22:08
I'm going to keep going down, but come,00:22:10
come up and then I'll go down.00:22:13
I don't know how to-- go!00:22:15
(laughter)00:22:17
TRAVIS: What was that?00:22:20
Of all the movies you've seen, did you ever see?00:22:24
That was like do re mi shit in choir.00:22:27
SAM: Okay, let's go.00:22:29
That's what the SWAT teams do.00:22:32
MARISHA: That was the cutest thing I've ever seen.00:22:35
TRAVIS: OSD is no longer going to take our support.00:22:40
TRAVIS: Stop, ♪ la. ♪00:22:43
SAM: Serpentine, serpentine.
TRAVIS: ♪ Ti, do. ♪00:22:48
SAM: All right, I'll continue down.00:22:49
MATT: Okay, you all still staying outside?00:22:51
LAURA: No, we're following 30 feet behind.00:22:54
MATT: Okay, so you follow in after Veth00:22:57
and you, too, see this small encampment here00:22:59
with the scattered elements and piles00:23:03
of disused tools and rags and things00:23:05
that lead you to believe that people stayed here00:23:08
at some point.00:23:09
And the tunnel continues on beyond that in a very thin,00:23:13
maybe six foot tall, two and a half foot wide opening00:23:17
that itself looks partially broken into the ice and rock.00:23:19
Like, it may be at once point-- at one point itself00:23:22
was just sealed, solid ice.00:23:27
MARISHA: Can I check to see if there's
any markings on the walls?00:23:30
Any codes, anything utilizing my cant?00:23:34
MATT: Make a perception check.
MARISHA: My thieves' cant background?00:23:37
Perception?00:23:42
No, not good, eight.00:23:46
MATT: Eight?00:23:47
MARISHA: That wouldn't be an investigation?00:23:49
MATT: Well, either way, either way00:23:54
you don't see any markings, you don't see any writing,00:23:57
you don't see any symbols.00:23:59
It looks like this is just simple bare rock and ice.00:24:03
MARISHA: Okay, so nothing directing miners00:24:05
or anything like that, or any of excavation--
MATT: No.00:24:08
LIAM: Miners or minors?00:24:09
MARISHA: That's-- miners.
TRAVIS: One second.00:24:11
TALIESIN: Minor miners.00:24:13
Minor minor miners.00:24:14
TRAVIS: Can I go up and just put hands on the wall?00:24:17
Just drag fingers across it00:24:19
and just make sure it's actually real?00:24:21
MATT: Yeah, so you work around one side00:24:24
and drag your fingers through and as it does,00:24:26
you hear the grinding of ice crystals00:24:29
and then, occasionally, the slick elements of smoother ice,00:24:32
stone. It's all solid, cold to the fingertips,00:24:36
but thankfully you have gloves.00:24:37
LIAM: Before Veth takes off, I apparate Frumpkin00:24:41
and scooch Frumpkin into the hood of your cloak00:24:45
so that he crawls in a bit like a mink stole.00:24:48
SAM: It's warm.
LAURA: Like Sprinkle.00:24:49
LIAM: Yeah, a little weightier.00:24:52
A little more healthy.00:24:54
MATT: Okay.00:24:55
ASHLEY: Can I check the fire pit that has been used00:24:58
to see if there's anything in there other than,00:25:00
you know, ash?00:25:03
MATT: Sure, make an investigation check.00:25:05
SAM: Some old insects you can eat?00:25:07
LAURA: Guidance.00:25:08
LIAM: Ooh, just in time.00:25:09
LAURA: You get an extra d4.00:25:10
ASHLEY: I do?00:25:13
ASHLEY: This would be-- ooh.00:25:15
Okay,00:25:18
what's my investigation?00:25:20
15.00:25:21
MATT: 15. You see within the ashes that remain here,00:25:27
some of it's wood-based burnt carbon,00:25:30
some of it is melted fats.00:25:32
It looks like with a lack of nearby timber,00:25:36
you know, the abundance of timber is00:25:40
not available here.00:25:41
So you would-- you see, there
are various different materials00:25:43
that were used to start and maintain a fire.00:25:46
That's what you acquire from that.00:25:48
Beauregard because you have a super high00:25:50
passive investigation, you also glance over00:25:55
while she's looking at the fire pit.00:25:58
The pile of rags and burlap that rests off to the side,00:26:01
you can see some of it looks like long discarded00:26:05
bedroll elements.00:26:08
And you see the edge of a boot under it.00:26:12
TRAVIS: They left their shoes here.00:26:14
MARISHA: (laughing) Does this--00:26:16
take your shoes off before we go any further.00:26:21
Does this look shaped, you know,00:26:24
like there's a body that goes with that boot?00:26:27
MATT: It's a large enough pile where
a body could fit under it, but...00:26:31
MARISHA: All right. I'm just going to look at it fast and go00:26:37
towards the pile of clothes.00:26:40
SAM: You mean you're going or do you want me to?00:26:41
MARISHA: I don't know. I'm just following.
SAM: I'm going!00:26:43
MARISHA: I don't know your language.
SAM: I'm going to go there, too.00:26:45
(laughter)00:26:48
MARISHA: And then we go.00:26:51
But before I pull anything off, can I00:26:53
poke with my staff?00:26:54
MATT: Sure. You poke the boot and the boot shifts00:26:57
when you poke it.00:26:58
MARISHA: Did you see that, did you see
that, did you fucking see that?00:27:00
MATT: Not on its own.00:27:01
MARISHA: Oh.00:27:03
MATT: But when you push it, you push it.00:27:06
It gives.00:27:07
MARISHA: I'm going to poke the--00:27:11
SAM: The bear.00:27:12
MARISHA: The bear. I want to poke the mound.00:27:13
MATT: Okay.00:27:15
(low impact sounds)00:27:18
No reaction.00:27:20
TRAVIS: Uncover that shit.
LAURA: Just look and see what it is.00:27:22
MARISHA: You think he's dead?00:27:27
TRAVIS: Is that another military hand sign for...?00:27:30
SAM: Yeah. Two. Body.00:27:33
LIAM: Doggy paddle, doggy paddle.
SAM: Doggy paddle.00:27:35
(laughter)00:27:38
TRAVIS: General sense of tension here.00:27:41
MATT: Pulling back the scattered elements00:27:45
of forgotten and tossed aside material, you uncover00:27:49
indeed a frozen corpse.00:27:52
MARISHA: Oh, it's frozen.00:27:54
MATT: It appears to be a rather tough-looking drow00:27:56
in heavy leather armor.00:27:58
His face aghast in terror with trails of frozen blood00:28:02
against his face, heading from his eyes,00:28:06
his ears, his nose, his mouth.00:28:08
SAM: Do we recognize him?00:28:10
MATT: You do not recognize this individual specifically, no.00:28:14
TRAVIS: Dynasty-type attire?00:28:16
MATT: Indeed. The blade by his
side and the armor he's wearing00:28:19
does bear distinctly Kryn dynasty design.00:28:23
LAURA: Can I do a medicine check to see if-- I mean,00:28:25
obviously, this has to be within the last--00:28:28
if it's in the last week or if maybe this is much older?00:28:31
MATT: Make a medicine check for me.00:28:36
LAURA: Guide-- oh, I didn't say it beforehand. Gui-- 24.00:28:40
MATT: Twenty four?
LAURA: Yeah.00:28:41
MATT: Yes, in fact, this body, the elements of it00:28:44
that are currently cold are beginning to freeze over,00:28:48
let you know that this was probably
within the past few days.00:28:50
MARISHA: Oh, can I inspect the body?00:28:54
Any special markings?00:28:55
Any eyeball tattoos?00:28:57
MATT: Sure, make an investigation check.
SAM: Eyeball tattoos?00:28:59
LIAM: I'm going to kneel down next to her with small flames00:29:02
in each hand and bring it close enough to start--00:29:05
MATT: Thawing?
LAURA: Guidance!00:29:07
MARISHA: Thank you.00:29:08
This is an investigation check, you said?00:29:10
MATT: Yep.
MARISHA: Fucking shit.00:29:12
Okay, 18.00:29:15
MATT: 18. So looking at the--00:29:18
there are no distinct wounds on the body.00:29:21
Between both of your checks,00:29:23
it looks like the trauma was internal.00:29:26
And the wounds, or at least the pattern of bleeding00:29:28
is identical to how you found Vess DeRogna,00:29:31
but you do not see any, eye-like markings on the body.00:29:35
Nothing akin to what you found on hers.00:29:37
LAURA: When we-- I can't remember when we were in00:29:42
the chamber with Avocado and we got the vision,00:29:45
did our ears bleed?00:29:47
Did our nose bleed with that?00:29:48
Or like, or was it just a bad vision?00:29:50
MATT: It was just a bad vision.00:29:51
LAURA: Okay.00:29:54
TRAVIS: The sword next to his body, plain-looking?00:29:58
I mean, not plain. It's obviously a Kryn sword.00:30:00
MATT: I mean, it's well made, you know.00:30:02
TRAVIS: I'll take it and I'll put it in the Bag of Holding.00:30:04
MATT: Okay. MARISHA: Searching through his clothes, pockets any notes?00:30:07
Any messages, any ordinances?00:30:10
MATT: The blade left behind remains,00:30:12
everything else on the body has been taken.00:30:15
MARISHA: Okay.00:30:16
LAURA: Can we talk to it?00:30:17
TALIESIN: I don't have that today.00:30:18
I didn't think it would--00:30:21
I thought we would have trouble today.00:30:22
So I packed for trouble.00:30:25
LAURA: That's totally fine.00:30:26
Should we take his head?00:30:27
TALIESIN: I mean, it couldn't hurt.00:30:31
LIAM: Pull that back out, please.00:30:32
TRAVIS: The sword?
LIAM: Yeah.00:30:33
LAURA: Take out my axe.00:30:36
Is this fucked up?00:30:37
TALIESIN: No.00:30:38
TRAVIS: What are you doing, what are you doing?!00:30:40
MATT: You watch as Jester cleaves the head00:30:42
from the drow corpse.00:30:43
It rolls about three or four feet before coming to rest00:30:46
at your feet.00:30:47
TRAVIS: Why did you do that?00:30:49
SAM: Is this a thing that we do now? We desecrate the body?00:30:52
LAURA: No, it's just so Caduceus can talk to him later!00:30:54
TRAVIS: Oh, just clue us in first.00:30:57
TALIESIN: Well, we were talking,00:30:58
I assumed everyone was listening.
TRAVIS: I thought you snapped00:30:59
and we were going to have to turn on you now.00:31:01
TALIESIN: Hold on.00:31:03
Casting Decompose on everything but the head,00:31:05
just to get it going.00:31:06
Whatever the hell is going to grow out here.00:31:08
MATT: Okay.00:31:09
TRAVIS: Caleb, do something with this sword.00:31:10
What did you want?00:31:12
LIAM: Well, he's holding two flames and I shake one out00:31:14
and then I cast Detect Magic on the sword.00:31:16
MATT: Okay, the sword itself is inert.00:31:19
It is a mundane weapon.00:31:20
It is well-made, but it is a normal weapon.00:31:25
TALIESIN: That does the full radius, though, to the--00:31:27
MATT: Correct.00:31:28
TALIESIN: Anything else around that's glowing?00:31:29
MATT: Nothing else that catches your attention.00:31:31
TRAVIS: What about the head that's on my toe?00:31:34
MATT: Not magical, but a little ghastly.00:31:36
TALIESIN: It's frozen, it'll keep.00:31:37
LAURA: Just take it and put it in the bag or something.00:31:40
TRAVIS: Don't we have a bag of colding?00:31:42
LAURA: No, that was another person.00:31:44
LIAM: Ja, ja ja.00:31:46
TRAVIS: You do?
LIAM: Well, this.00:31:47
TRAVIS: Oh, it's okay.00:31:49
SAM: Wait, what is that?00:31:50
That's not the thing that shattered?00:31:52
That's a new thing?`00:31:53
LIAM: It's a new piece. LAURA: You can put multiple bodies in it?00:31:56
TRAVIS: Takes a minute, doesn't it?00:31:57
LAURA: I mean, it can just be the corpse holder, you know?00:31:59
TRAVIS: I just toss him the head.00:32:02
LIAM: I put the flames out.00:32:06
TALIESIN: No, no, no, we need that.00:32:07
LIAM: Not in time.00:32:09
After catching it.00:32:14
Okay, I need a moment.00:32:15
So I need 10 minutes to put this on ice.00:32:19
(like Mr. Freeze) Ice, everybody freeze.00:32:21
I'll put down--00:32:22
SAM: I'll go scout ahead while you take your 10 minutes.00:32:24
So, you know.00:32:27
TALIESIN: I'm going to, before you head off00:32:29
I'm just going to really quickly give you some Resistance00:32:33
just in case, tap.00:32:35
SAM: Oh, thank you.00:32:36
TALIESIN: Tap Resistance.00:32:37
SAM: I'm tapped.00:32:38
MATT: Okay, so you go to scout ahead.00:32:41
Roll a stealth check for me.00:32:42
LAURA: You've still got, for an hour.00:32:45
SAM: I always have advantage.00:32:46
LAURA: I know, but now you've got an extra, extra.00:32:48
Nevermind, I cast Guidance as concentration,00:32:51
doesn't matter anyway.00:32:52
SAM: 30.00:32:53
MATT: Okay, so you continue on ahead.00:32:55
LIAM: 20 minutes.00:32:58
MATT: You do see00:33:01
through this space, there's a shift in the ice patterns00:33:06
as the tunnel gets smaller and smaller.00:33:09
The ice seems to take on strange shapes around you.00:33:12
The hanging icicles bending at odd angles,00:33:15
and it almost appears organic at a flash from time to time00:33:19
giving you the faint sensation like you're stepping00:33:22
deeper and deeper into some massive creature's gullet.00:33:25
It makes you feel a little anxious and nervous.00:33:27
And as the tunnel tightens and tightens,00:33:30
you reach that point rather rapidly where00:33:31
only one person at a time could pass through.00:33:35
You curve around and follow it down at the steady decline.00:33:39
At some points, it's slippery and you have to00:33:41
put your hands up to keep yourself going00:33:43
and not begin to slide downward.00:33:45
The slick ice here will continue to be an issue00:33:48
depending on the steepness of the area ahead of you.00:33:52
But as you continue forward and forward down00:33:55
for a good hundred or so feet,00:33:59
it comes to a wall.00:34:01
It ends at just a stone wall--
SAM: A sheer wall?00:34:04
MATT: A sheer wall, where you can see there is a crack00:34:07
at the base of it, a little bit to the left.00:34:10
There is a a large, heavy crack in the stone00:34:12
that heads from floor to ceiling00:34:14
and where it meets the edge corner00:34:17
of that stone wall to the floor.00:34:19
There was an opening where a person00:34:21
could probably squeeze through00:34:23
SAM: Oh, it's that big.00:34:25
MATT: Squeeze through very uncomfortably.00:34:26
We're talking, like,00:34:28
like The Descent, you know.00:34:30
Having to squeeze through.00:34:32
And you don't quite know how far in it goes.
TRAVIS: Underground, too?00:34:35
(unhappy) Mm-mm.
MATT: Yeah.00:34:38
SAM: I scritch Frumpkin and say:00:34:41
Wow, this would be a good job for you,00:34:43
but I can't command you, so.00:34:47
I guess, go!00:34:52
MATT: (hissing)00:34:56
SAM: Shoo, go, go in the hole.
MATT: (unhappy cat chittering)00:34:58
SAM: Go in the hole, go!00:35:01
MATT: Make an animal handling check.00:35:04
LIAM: (yowling)00:35:06
SAM: Eight.00:35:07
MATT: Eight?00:35:08
Frumpkin runs through your legs and heads back00:35:10
to the rest of the group.00:35:12
(chittering snarls)00:35:16
SAM: All right, all right.
LIAM: (yowling)00:35:17
MARISHA: I think Frumpkin has rabies.00:35:19
(laughter)00:35:22
LAURA: (drawn-out yowling)00:35:23
SAM: I'll peek through the crack00:35:26
and see if I can see anything.00:35:27
First, I'll check it for traps.00:35:30
I'll check that crack for traps.
MATT: Got it.00:35:31
ASHLEY: Oh, long Johnson.00:35:33
(laughter)00:35:36
LAURA and TRAVIS: Oh don piano.00:35:39
SAM: 23 for traps.00:35:41
MATT: Why my eyes-- yeah. Sorry.00:35:45
MARISHA: Oh, internet.00:35:47
MATT: Oh, classic internet.00:35:49
All right, but now Frumpkin is waiting.00:35:53
Didn't go completely back, but is now just waiting00:35:54
at the edge and letting you do your thing.00:35:59
Looking around the entrance here,00:36:00
you rolled a 15, you said?00:36:01
SAM: For traps, 23.00:36:03
MATT: Rolled a 23 for traps. No traps visible around this.00:36:07
SAM: Then I'll peek my head through the crack00:36:09
and see if I can see anything.00:36:11
MATT: Okay, you glance through and the stone00:36:15
opening seems to progress for about five or six more feet.00:36:20
And then you just see darkness beyond that.00:36:24
TRAVIS: No, problem.00:36:25
Not a fall at all.00:36:28
SAM: I will take a piece of wire and send a Message back.00:36:31
I know that Caleb is otherwise occupied right now,00:36:35
so I will send a message to Caduceus.00:36:39
Mr. Clay?00:36:40
TALIESIN: Oh, yeah?00:36:41
SAM: There's there's a void. There's a crack and a hole00:36:44
and a void that keeps going for forever.00:36:48
TALIESIN: One after another or all together at once?00:36:51
SAM: What? Oh, hold on.00:36:53
What?00:36:54
TALIESIN: What?00:36:55
TRAVIS: Oh no.00:36:57
MARISHA: (laughing) Caduceus doesn't
know how answering machines work.00:36:59
SAM: Hi. Hi, it's me again.
TALIESIN: Oh, hey.00:37:02
SAM: I can only hear--00:37:03
(laughter)00:37:06
SAM: Hi. I can only hear you after I'm done talking00:37:08
and then that's it. You get to say one thing,00:37:11
so say it now.00:37:12
TALIESIN: Now.00:37:14
SAM: Okay, great.00:37:16
So there's a void.00:37:18
Should I keep going or should I wait for you. Now talk.00:37:22
TALIESIN: I would wait if there's a void.00:37:24
Void sounds like a lot.00:37:25
You should wait.00:37:27
LAURA: What?
SAM: Okay.00:37:28
LAURA: What's going on?00:37:29
LIAM: ♪ There's a void, in the crack, in the wall ♪00:37:31
♪ at the bottom of the sea ♪00:37:33
TALIESIN: Trying to remember,00:37:34
it was a very confusing message.00:37:36
Oh, there's a void and a crack and a tunnel.00:37:40
Veth didn't say if there was all together00:37:42
or one at a time, but it's up ahead00:37:44
and I told her to wait.00:37:46
LAURA: Oh, that's probably pretty smart.00:37:47
TALIESIN: Yeah, it seems like the thing to do.
LAURA: Yeah, yeah, yeah.00:37:51
MATT: So what's the marching order here?00:37:53
TRAVIS: To meet up with Veth?00:37:55
LAURA: Yes.00:37:56
TRAVIS: Oh, right, we're going down the slippery shit.00:37:58
MATT: Yep, one at a time.00:37:59
LAURA: I'll go.00:38:00
MATT: All right, so Jester's up first.00:38:02
Who's after Jester?00:38:03
MARISHA: Do we have light?
TRAVIS: I'll go after Jester.00:38:05
LIAM: I can have lights.00:38:07
MATT: Who's after Fjord?00:38:08
ASHLEY: I'll go after Fjord.
LIAM: It's pitch black down here, ja?00:38:09
MATT: All right, Yasha after Fjord?00:38:11
TALIESIN: I'll go after Yasha.00:38:13
I'll turn on a light, too.00:38:14
MATT: Then Beau and Caleb, who's last?00:38:17
LIAM: I will not go last.00:38:18
MARISHA: I'll go last.00:38:19
LIAM: Yes, you will.
MATT: All righty.00:38:21
So. Pardon me.00:38:25
TALIESIN: Do we want to rope this, by the way, or no?00:38:28
MATT: As you all carefully make your way down the tunnel,00:38:30
which is a little tighter for the rest of you00:38:32
in comparison to Veth's first go, but you use the walls00:38:35
and you can find little finger holds00:38:37
to get yourself through.00:38:38
Occasionally, one of the icicle handholds00:38:41
snaps off and you have to drop it.00:38:44
Elements are fragile, some elements are actual stone00:38:46
and well solidified in the environment.00:38:48
But nevertheless, it's a little disconcerting.00:38:51
The variations of the topography.00:38:55
Frumpkin is still waiting back from Veth00:38:58
and you can see Frumpkin's acting a little strange.00:39:00
This is like00:39:01
(yowling, growling)00:39:04
Hair's standing up a little bit.00:39:06
LIAM: I see this now?00:39:07
MATT: Yeah, as you enter the room.
LIAM: Well, I ask him:00:39:09
Here, what is the matter?00:39:10
What has got you on edge?00:39:11
MATT: You get the sense that Frumpkin just senses00:39:14
strange magical energies,00:39:19
and it's making him uncomfortable.00:39:21
LAURA: Uh-oh.00:39:22
LIAM: Okay, go with her. Go with Veth, go.00:39:25
MATT: (meows)00:39:27
Trots up next to Veth.00:39:30
So you are all now at the end of this tunnel,00:39:32
after making your way down the curved and descending slope.00:39:36
Veth, you watch as they all approach,00:39:37
and you see Veth now there at the cracking opening00:39:41
at the bottom of this large wall,00:39:43
and just sitting there looking back at you all.00:39:45
LAURA: What's the plan?00:39:47
SAM: I mean, I don't want to volunteer anyone's pet,00:39:49
but it seems like this is a job for a pet.00:39:53
TRAVIS: What can you see?00:39:54
SAM: There's this crack and through it about six feet later,00:39:58
there's nothing.00:39:59
It could be a fall,00:40:00
could be gateway to the Abyss.00:40:04
It could be just very dark.00:40:07
LAURA: Caleb?
LIAM: Ja, okay, okay.00:40:09
LAURA: Can you send Dancing Lights00:40:12
down the little hole or something so we can see?00:40:15
LIAM: I could do that.00:40:16
We could do either that, or we could send the cat in00:40:18
first to look?
MARISHA: Yeah,00:40:19
TALIESIN: I can put a Light spell on the cat's tail.00:40:22
LAURA: Ooh.00:40:24
LIAM: Well, I really don't feel like we're going to00:40:26
surprise anyone, but perhaps we just let him go take a look.00:40:29
TALIESIN: All right.
LAURA: Does he have darkvision?00:40:31
LIAM: A cat?00:40:33
Probably not.00:40:35
SAM: Cats can see in the dark, that seems--00:40:38
TRAVIS: Yeah, they're of the devil.00:40:39
They can see in the dark.00:40:40
(laughter)00:40:42
TALIESIN: Wow, oh yeah.00:40:44
MARISHA: Don't piss off the internet, Travis.00:40:48
TRAVIS: (deep voice) This is my domain!00:40:53
LIAM: "-- rely on smell." Perception check on smell00:40:56
doesn't say one way or the other.00:40:58
LAURA: I would put light on Frumpkin's tail.00:41:00
TRAVIS: Yeah, let's do Frumpkin light tail.
TALIESIN: (whistling)00:41:01
MARISHA: 'Cause you can see through Frumpkin,00:41:02
but you can't see through the darkness.00:41:06
LIAM: Little golden globules float up to the party00:41:11
and the Fey King returns as he enters the crack in the wall.00:41:13
MATT: All right. As as the globs one by one00:41:15
vanish into this small squeezing tunnel,00:41:20
Frumpkin heads on inside.00:41:21
And you're looking through Frumpkin, you said?00:41:23
LIAM: I was about to, yeah.00:41:24
I put my hand behind me and grab onto Beau's shoulder.00:41:28
MATT: Okay.00:41:29
Watching Frumpkin slowly curl through this tunnel,00:41:32
it does come to an abrupt end, and there is00:41:35
about a three foot drop into a new chamber.00:41:40
And as the globes slowly begin to drift outward00:41:43
like faintly glowing balloons00:41:46
that illuminate the immediate vicinity,00:41:49
you see a new chamber.00:41:52
Here you emerge--00:41:55
well, actually you wouldn't know that00:41:57
because it's just Frumpkin.00:41:59
Shards of broken stone litter the floor in front of you.00:42:03
You can see smooth shapes that are left00:42:06
jagged and broken, things have either impacted00:42:09
or just been completely broken,00:42:11
thrown asunder across the floor here.00:42:15
You can see now the floor has unique00:42:18
intricately carved decorative patterns00:42:21
that resemble simple geometric fractals.00:42:26
But it is a very, very large chamber.00:42:28
Just from what little bit of light you have00:42:30
here in the vicinity.00:42:31
You do not see any other walls immediately.00:42:34
You'd probably have to send the light out further00:42:37
and continue to explore.00:42:38
But as Frumpkin steps down and looks around,00:42:41
you don't see a ceiling yet.00:42:43
You don't see a wall to either side.00:42:46
It's just this weird00:42:48
broken stone surface before you00:42:51
LAURA: Does it looks safe, Caleb?00:42:54
LIAM: It's very big in here00:42:57
and there's stones everywhere.00:42:59
I need more of a look around.00:43:01
I don't think Frumpkin's too far away.00:43:03
I tell him telepathically to hook to the left00:43:06
and start going along the perimeter.00:43:11
TALIESIN: Probably get the ropes out.00:43:12
MATT: Okay.
LAURA: Yeah.00:43:14
SAM: Is there a big drop?00:43:15
Or was it--00:43:16
LIAM: No, he jumped down three or four feet.00:43:18
MATT: Yeah, just a little drop.00:43:20
As Frumpkin curves around the left side of the chamber00:43:23
roughly 15 or so feet later comes to a corner00:43:27
and you could see there is a--00:43:30
looks to be another wall,00:43:31
though it is a little smoother and the designs are different00:43:34
and a little more disparate in comparison to the floor.00:43:37
And also looking to the left, the same pattern00:43:40
that's on the floor is on the wall behind Frumpkin.00:43:44
The wall where you pass through and out of.00:43:47
Heading along that side, Frumpkin heads on00:43:50
for about 50 or so feet walking the perimeter.00:43:54
You can now see similar design, similar patterns,00:43:57
but the broken bits of stone also now throw in00:44:01
elements of shattered furniture.00:44:03
You can see stone sculptures00:44:05
that themselves are in seven, eight different pieces.00:44:09
And then hundreds of small bits just thrown around00:44:12
in the vicinity.00:44:13
LIAM: Before you go any further, do the patterns00:44:15
mean anything to me? Are they at all00:44:17
resembling dunamantic patterns or anything?00:44:21
MATT: Make an arcana check.00:44:25
LIAM: Natural 20.00:44:27
MATT: Okay.00:44:29
The patterns, you gather00:44:31
nothing dunamantic about them.00:44:35
There are elements to them that remind you of simple,00:44:40
rudimentary glyphs.00:44:42
We're talking beginning of school00:44:43
when you're first learning to write,00:44:46
copy and understand spellcraft.00:44:49
But these are not functional.00:44:51
They're artistic interpretations.00:44:55
They are--00:44:57
they are implicitly made to be decorative.00:45:03
LIAM: But related to--?00:45:04
MATT: Related to.
LIAM: Arcane glyphs, so--00:45:06
MATT: Like if you were to see the letter M,00:45:08
but there was so much unique scrolling00:45:11
and design work around the M that it just becomes00:45:12
this beautiful piece of art that is based on an M.00:45:16
LIAM: There is a decoration inside that is meant00:45:20
to emulate and embellish and revere00:45:26
the arcane.00:45:29
TALIESIN: That worries me, but okay.00:45:30
MARISHA: I mean, that tracks.00:45:32
LAURA: I mean, it's a magic city.00:45:37
Can we go, is it safe?00:45:39
Should we go?00:45:41
LIAM: I will send him further.00:45:42
MATT: All right. Make a perception check with him.00:45:47
LIAM: One.00:45:48
MARISHA: Sometimes it's just
about expression and storytelling.00:45:51
TALIESIN: Why not use paint?00:45:52
MATT: Continuing on for another 50 or 60 feet00:45:55
comes to another corner.00:45:57
LIAM: What shape are we talking about?00:45:59
MATT: So you're entering, and there was a wall behind--00:46:01
LIAM: So flat?
MATT: -- and a floor; flat.00:46:03
LIAM: Flat, okay.00:46:04
MATT: And then eventually there was a corner here00:46:06
in which the surface area changed.00:46:09
But the wall here and the floor is the same pattern.00:46:12
And then the corner hits here00:46:14
and there's another edge to it.00:46:15
You can now see the opposite wall about 60 or so feet00:46:18
beyond where you first came into the chamber00:46:20
and there, the floor pattern continues again on this side.00:46:23
LIAM: Okay.00:46:24
Looking for other passages out of here, doors.00:46:28
MATT: Indeed. Frumpkin goes around, seeing nothing.00:46:32
LIAM: Nothing, yeah.00:46:33
I think we're going to have to go in.00:46:34
I don't see anything immediately.00:46:39
It looks like ruins, old ruins.00:46:42
LAURA: Can we fit through the crack or is it?00:46:44
MATT: You can, very uncomfortably, but it's doable.00:46:46
MARISHA: Does there look like any sign00:46:48
that Molly & Co. have been through here?00:46:51
If this is the direction that they went?00:46:54
MATT: You can check the ground, if you'd like to.00:46:55
Investigation or perception, your choice.00:46:58
MARISHA: Why not?00:46:59
Not rolling great at all tonight.00:47:03
19.00:47:04
MATT: 19, still pretty decent.00:47:07
Unfortunately, you don't see anything that specifically says00:47:11
Molly's crew or Molly, but you do see a number of footprints00:47:15
going in and out, some of different ages.00:47:17
Some that might've been your group's at this point00:47:19
since you've all been in here waiting.00:47:21
Just can't quite see anything that00:47:24
definitively tells you that.00:47:26
MARISHA: Cool.00:47:28
All right.00:47:29
TALIESIN: I say we run a rope.00:47:30
SAM: Run a rope?00:47:31
TALIESIN: And you go first,
put a little weight on it so that00:47:34
if somebody gets stuck, they can pull their way through.00:47:36
LAURA: Oh, smart.00:47:37
TALIESIN: And then the last person
will just take it with them.00:47:39
LAURA: Yeah.00:47:40
SAM: Sure, who's got rope?00:47:43
LAURA: Fjord?
SAM: Give me a rope.00:47:46
TRAVIS: (tossing)00:47:47
SAM: Ugh!00:47:48
(laughter)00:47:50
TRAVIS: It's 50 feet of rope.00:47:51
SAM: It's very heavy.00:47:53
50 feet of rope is, like, 100 pounds.00:47:57
TRAVIS: It's like one and a half, but yeah, sure, okay.00:47:59
(laughter)00:48:01
Nah, it's heavy.
You're right, I'm sorry.00:48:03
TALIESIN: Really, it's too much to add to this conversation.00:48:05
SAM: All right, I will00:48:08
defy everyone's advice and I will turn invisible.00:48:11
MATT: Okay.00:48:13
SAM: And carry the rope in.00:48:14
MATT: All right.00:48:16
So you squeeze through, and for you--00:48:17
for Veth you can get onto your hands and knees00:48:20
and make your way through without much of an issue,00:48:21
holding the rope as you go invisible.00:48:24
The ones that'll have the biggest issue00:48:25
getting in here will be probably Yasha and Caduceus.00:48:29
And even Fjord, to an extent.00:48:32
It's not a huge challenge, but it does make you feel00:48:34
a little claustrophobic in having to push through00:48:36
this six, seven-foot period where you are having to00:48:41
exhale at certain points to force your body00:48:44
through the next few inches.00:48:47
But one by one, with the rope's aid,00:48:49
you all eventually make your way into this chamber.00:48:53
TRAVIS: Just getting vague flashbacks to when00:48:56
someone followed us into a place00:48:57
and let us open a thing--
MARISHA: Uh-huh, and we did all of the work for them?00:49:00
Absolutely.00:49:01
ASHLEY: Can we make this bigger?00:49:02
You know what I mean?00:49:03
It's like if they already made an entrance00:49:05
they should carve out a bigger.00:49:06
TRAVIS: I agree.
ASHLEY: This is stupid.00:49:07
TRAVIS: Lazy.00:49:08
TALIESIN: Is there any way we can00:49:10
put an alarm or something on this00:49:12
so we know if someone--00:49:13
LIAM: Sure, we could do that.00:49:15
But I send the four globules spiraling slowly up00:49:18
into the room and I want to get00:49:20
a better picture of the room we're in.00:49:23
MATT: Go ahead and make a perception check for me.00:49:24
LIAM: Ay yi yi yi.00:49:28
20.00:49:29
MATT: Okay, so.00:49:32
You can now see that fractal pattern00:49:35
that you recognize along the floor, the wall behind you,00:49:38
the wall on the opposite end00:49:40
and now the ceiling above you, it continues.00:49:43
And the more disparate pattern00:49:47
and marble-like texture is on the wall to left00:49:51
and the wall to the right.00:49:53
You do see two different openings00:49:57
that exit this chamber.00:49:58
On the opposite wall and it's fit against00:50:02
the far right side and it's coming out at an angle.00:50:05
Just an opening.00:50:08
And then on the ceiling, you see another similar00:50:12
arched opening that is affixed to where the ceiling00:50:17
and the far right wall meet.00:50:19
SAM: Does it look like we are in a room00:50:21
that's been turned on its side?00:50:23
MATT: That's exactly what it looks like.00:50:25
You also see, on the far right wall,00:50:27
there is a large stone circular structure that looks00:50:31
like it's splintered and broken and numerous pieces00:50:34
of the shattered stonework that you see all across the floor00:50:37
appears to have originated from00:50:40
mostly whatever was once there, whether it be a fountain00:50:44
or an art piece or numerous art pieces.00:50:48
All the things that you see scattered across the floor here00:50:51
that aren't just broken structural pieces of stone00:50:55
and other materials are bits of shale00:50:59
and shattered pottery and elements of wooden furniture00:51:03
that has long either frozen over or left00:51:06
dried and forgotten amongst the rest of the debris.00:51:09
But you do see around the room, beyond just those elements,00:51:13
what you now recognize to be a sideways doorway00:51:15
on the opposite wall.00:51:16
And then one in the ceiling.00:51:17
LIAM: How high up is that ceiling?00:51:20
MATT: Roughly 40, 45 feet.00:51:22
LIAM: Okay.00:51:23
MARISHA: Can we get any type of idea
of what this room once was?00:51:29
MATT: Make an intelligence check.00:51:35
SAM: Guidance.00:51:37
MARISHA: Not-- I'm rolling horribly, nine.00:51:41
MATT: Nine?00:51:42
TRAVIS: Nein!00:51:44
MATT: It's hard to tell.00:51:45
I mean, based on the size of it,00:51:49
it's not incredibly massive,00:51:51
but where it would be, the ceiling would be high.00:51:53
It seems to be well-decorated00:51:55
and there's intricacy to the interior, so.00:51:59
Whatever it was used for, there was definitely a--00:52:04
it was intentionally aesthetically pleasing.00:52:08
TALIESIN: What kind of furniture is still left unbroken00:52:12
or recognizable other than a couple chairs?00:52:17
MATT: It looks like splintered elements of a table00:52:20
or a bench of some kind.00:52:23
There's not a lot of wood. Most of it's stone00:52:24
or clay.00:52:28
TRAVIS: The two exits in the room,00:52:30
the foot traffic that we've been seeing00:52:32
outside of this room,00:52:34
majority of it heading to either of those two exits?00:52:37
MATT: You can go ahead and check, if you'd like.00:52:38
TRAVIS: I'd like to.
MATT: Make an investigation check.00:52:41
And the room is still cold.00:52:42
It's not as cold as the previous entrance00:52:47
and the exterior of this.00:52:48
But the interior of this chamber itself,00:52:50
while you do see an element of ice in some places,00:52:52
it seems to have gotten warmer since you've entered.00:52:55
TALIESIN: There's a stone table?00:52:57
TRAVIS: 25 on the foot traffic.00:52:58
MATT: There are elements of a broken stone table00:53:00
in, like, 17 different pieces.00:53:02
TALIESIN: I'd like to find a
couple of pieces, not touch them,00:53:04
but I want to look to see if they're stained at all00:53:06
or off-color.00:53:09
MATT: Okay.
TALIESIN: I have a hunch.00:53:10
MATT: Okay, while you're doing that, you rolled a what?00:53:13
TRAVIS: 25.00:53:14
MATT: 25.00:53:18
You're hard pressed to find specific footprints00:53:20
since there is no dirt or sediment here,00:53:23
but you see some patterns of movement through the debris00:53:26
where plainly things that should have been00:53:28
left undisturbed had been moved.00:53:31
It's hard to tell exactly which ones have00:53:35
been most recently turned, but there has been traffic00:53:39
to the previous doorway and back.00:53:41
As well as some areas where you can see a lot of the00:53:45
local debris has been broken into smaller pieces00:53:47
from an impact from above.00:53:50
So there's been traffic to both.00:53:52
TRAVIS: Okay.00:53:53
LAURA: We could just levitate up, right?00:53:55
SAM: I can levitate up, if you want.00:53:56
LAURA: With a rope and hook it on00:53:58
and we can all climb up.00:53:59
SAM: Sure, should we check the one that we can see00:54:01
down here first?00:54:04
ASHLEY: Can I-- LAURA: That one seems more interesting.00:54:06
SAM: I agree 100 percent.00:54:07
By the way, I'm over here.00:54:08
MATT: Nothing stained that you can tell.00:54:10
The stone chunks that you can find have themselves00:54:15
intricate carvings, not quite as intricate as like00:54:17
the walls that you see around here00:54:19
and of a different design.00:54:20
It's more just for aesthetics.00:54:22
Grooves and--00:54:24
TALIESIN: No, weird stains or anything?00:54:25
No sign that anything weird was used on it?00:54:30
SAM: Shine a black light on it.00:54:31
MATT: Not to that degree that you can discover.00:54:33
ASHLEY: Can I, this is so stupid, but I'm going to go over00:54:38
and does my foot stick to the floor of the wall?00:54:43
and does my foot stick to the floor of the wall?00:54:45
Like--
SAM: Like Spider-Man?00:54:47
ASHLEY: Like, you know, if we maybe--
if we can start walking.00:54:52
Yeah, it's like a--00:54:53
MATT: So you walk over, put your foot on the wall00:54:57
and then go to lift your other foot.00:54:59
And there's no purchase there.00:55:01
You catch yourself.00:55:03
A good idea, but--00:55:04
TRAVIS: Yeah, that'd have been gang busters.00:55:07
TALIESIN: That would have been cool.00:55:08
TRAVIS: All right, so help me out
on the layout of this room.00:55:10
So we're in a room that looks like00:55:11
it was turned on its side.00:55:12
MATT: Correct.
TRAVIS: There's a wall behind us, two on--00:55:14
LAURA: Which is the ceiling.
The wall behind us is the ceiling.00:55:17
MATT: It's a mostly cube-looking chamber on its side.00:55:20
You have an entrance across the way00:55:22
and an entrance above.00:55:23
TRAVIS: Okay, so one in front of us and one above us.00:55:25
MATT: Correct.
TALIESIN: I feel like the one above us is the way out.00:55:27
TRAVIS: So to the back and to the left and to the right00:55:28
are just flat walls.00:55:29
MATT: Correct.00:55:30
LIAM: And the doorway that's relatively level with us00:55:34
is sealed or open?00:55:35
MATT: It's open. They're both not-- they're both archways,00:55:38
on their sides.00:55:39
They're just open. There's no door.00:55:43
MARISHA: So the one, the upstairs one00:55:46
would theoretically be the one that was00:55:49
going down, maybe, right?00:55:51
TRAVIS: No, I think it went like this.00:55:54
MARISHA: It was like this so it would go, I don't know.00:55:56
MATT: They both would have been level, right?00:55:58
Like, so if this was here00:55:59
and then the room is now like this.00:56:01
LIAM: So one door is lying down--00:56:03
LAURA: So it's just a horizontal doorway in front of us.00:56:04
TRAVIS: The hole that we crawled in from is in the ceiling?00:56:07
MATT: It's on the wall behind you just a few feet.00:56:10
It wasn't intentionally.00:56:11
LIAM: I'm walking over to the one that is lying00:56:13
on its side because that's easy, and I'm going to peer00:56:16
into whatever is next.00:56:17
MATT: Okay, it's about, this one that you see00:56:19
is about 10 feet off the ground.00:56:20
So you would have to climb up a little bit00:56:22
to look through.
TALIESIN: Or send the cat.00:56:24
SAM: Are you guys talking the floor ceiling00:56:25
or the ceiling floor?
LAURA: I lift Caleb up on my shoulders.00:56:28
LIAM: All right, I am on top of Jester's shoulders.00:56:30
So walk me over.
LAURA: I'm pushing him up so that he can look00:56:32
through the doorway.00:56:33
MATT: Okay.
LIAM: Easy does it.00:56:34
MATT: All right, so as you both make your way00:56:36
over to the edge, you lock your arms onto the outer rim00:56:40
of this archway and pull yourself and look in.00:56:43
There is no light in the next chamber.00:56:45
If you'd like to move your globules in there as well.
LIAM: Oh, yeah I'll bring the globules--00:56:47
Oh, I grab hold of Jester's horns.00:56:49
LAURA: Ow!00:56:50
LIAM: And bring the globules over.
LAURA: They're more sensitive than you think.00:56:53
LIAM: Vroom vroom, vroom.00:56:58
TRAVIS: Moped.00:56:59
MATT: All right.
LAURA: I take off.00:57:02
(laughter)00:57:04
TRAVIS: ♪ The leader of the pack ♪ Vroom vroom.00:57:07
MATT: So looking into this next area.00:57:12
There's a brief hallway that continues on00:57:16
that is broken and shifted.00:57:18
So whatever this chamber you're in right now,00:57:21
it looks like it dislodged and is at a different angle00:57:24
than the next chamber ahead of you.00:57:25
LIAM: Interesting.
MATT: The next one00:57:27
looks to be mostly righted,00:57:30
but it still begins to go to a decline.00:57:33
It's at an odd angle and downward.00:57:36
LIAM: Okay, and any doors or archways of any kind00:57:40
along its path?00:57:41
MATT: Make a perception check.00:57:42
LIAM: Just because of the darkness.00:57:45
That is 25.00:57:47
MATT: 25, dang.00:57:48
MATT: All right, looking in, this is a larger chamber.00:57:51
As the globules make their way in,00:57:53
you immediately can see the glittering around you00:57:55
of numerous ice crystals everywhere,00:57:58
the floor, the wall, the ceilings.00:58:00
The temperature is much colder in this room.00:58:04
And you can see along all surfaces00:58:06
it is just a coating of ice.00:58:08
You can see some elements of jagged rising crystal00:58:11
that has just been building up over time.00:58:13
Some small-- actually, the entire ceiling, as you look up00:58:17
itself is covered in icicles.00:58:19
It looks almost like just row after row after row of teeth,00:58:22
as they all ominously make their way down00:58:24
from this high ceiling.00:58:26
Glancing inside, you can see00:58:29
four stone braziers,00:58:32
five feet tall, that sit00:58:34
in the middle of the chamber.00:58:35
And then as it slides down00:58:37
to the very very bottom of the opposite edge, as you00:58:41
will the lights to make their way further in,00:58:44
you can see a set of double doors00:58:46
on the opposite end.00:58:47
A different coloration, but also themselves00:58:49
glittering a little bit from the nearby light00:58:51
with it looks like ice that has coated the vicinity.00:58:53
LIAM: So, a long, icy path, lots of icicles coming down,00:58:57
four stone braziers in the center00:58:58
and then it keeps slanting down00:58:59
with two sealed double doors.
MATT: Correct. Yes.00:59:01
LAURA: Do you see footprints, Caleb?00:59:02
LIAM: Do I see footprints is a great question.00:59:05
MATT: From your angle here, looking up into the tunnel,00:59:08
you'd have to get closer to really inspect the floor.00:59:10
You don't see anything at this distance.00:59:13
LIAM: This-- you know, I just wanted to take a peek in here.00:59:15
Maybe we want to figure out--00:59:17
Fjord, you were poking around underneath00:59:19
the hole in the ceiling?00:59:22
SAM: The wall door.00:59:23
LIAM: The wall door? The wall door...00:59:25
TRAVIS: Which one is that?00:59:26
LAURA: The one in the...
LIAM: The other one.00:59:27
The one that's not this.00:59:29
LAURA: That was in the ceiling.
TRAVIS: The one that's 40 feet in the air?00:59:31
SAM: No!00:59:32
Wait, yes?
LAURA: Yes.00:59:33
MATT: Yes.00:59:34
LIAM: Yes.00:59:36
So we could go in here, but you seemed interested00:59:39
in the one above us.00:59:40
So maybe we want to-00:59:41
TRAVIS: (laughing) I was just generally interested in the00:59:43
structure of this fucking hamster cage!00:59:46
I'm just trying to get my bearings.00:59:47
LIAM: Well, I think we should take a peek into both00:59:51
and make our decision after we've peeked into both.00:59:53
So, I relay everything that I just saw.00:59:56
But let's work on the harder to reach.00:59:59
LAURA: Can you float up, Veth?01:00:00
SAM: I could.01:00:03
Is that-- yes, I can.01:00:04
Anyone else prefer to?01:00:06
MARISHA: That would use a spell?01:00:08
SAM: Yeah, that's okay.01:00:09
LIAM: I could also use my boots--
SAM: That's what they're for.01:00:10
LIAM: -- if you don't want to go alone.01:00:11
LAURA: If you can do that without using a spell slot.01:00:14
LIAM: Yeah, I can.
LAURA: Yeah, sure!01:00:15
TALIESIN: Take the rope.
ASHLEY: Take the end of the rope.01:00:16
LIAM: Yeah, of course.01:00:18
Okay.01:00:19
MARISHA: Is this a situation--
LAURA: You could just use your boots to lift, okay--01:00:21
MARISHA: -- where my movement would be useful?01:00:24
LIAM: I can only do it once a day.
MARISHA: To run up a wall?01:00:25
LAURA: Okay, okay.
ASHLEY: Oh, I didn't need to do it.01:00:27
MARISHA: My wall and...01:00:29
TALIESIN: Technically...
MARISHA: My walls and water?01:00:32
TALIESIN: Technically, the door would be--01:00:33
MATT: For your movement?
MARISHA: My unarmored movement01:00:35
that I have as a monk?01:00:36
MATT: It's-- unfortunately, because the doorway01:00:38
is not flush against the wall,01:00:40
it's flush against the ceiling,01:00:41
you would run up the wall01:00:42
and then have no way of running across the ceiling01:00:45
to get there, the way that gravity01:00:47
and physics work.
MARISHA: Just didn't know if there01:00:48
was a chandelier for me to swing on, you know?01:00:51
MATT: Not really, unfortunately.01:00:52
MARISHA: Okay.01:00:54
TALEISIN: Once there's a rope, though, you can--01:00:55
MATT: That's true.01:00:57
So what's doing what? Who's doing what?01:00:58
LIAM: I take the rope from Caduceus,01:01:01
and say, look at me, I'm Yasha! (whoosh)01:01:04
And I use the boots-- the Stormrider Boots01:01:07
to launch myself up through the hole.01:01:09
MATT: Okay.
LIAM: The door.01:01:10
MATT: How far can it take you?01:01:11
LIAM: Oh, very far.01:01:13
90 feet.01:01:14
MATT: Yeah, so you guys watch as Caleb,01:01:17
like an electric rocket, suddenly just (whooshes)01:01:20
takes off. There's a circle of dust01:01:23
that goes (boof) around the base, clearing out01:01:26
a lot of the shards of nearby rock and shale.01:01:29
Just (whooshes) shoot out from the sides,01:01:30
leaving this little circle of clean floor beneath him.01:01:36
As you rocket upward--
LIAM: Coming through!01:01:38
MATT: (zooming sound) It's about 40
or so feet up, you go through it01:01:42
and then quickly realize, the next ceiling is shorter.01:01:45
It's only about 25 feet.01:01:47
LIAM: I'm in control of distance.01:01:48
MATT: Correct.
LIAM: It's not 90 feet, splat.01:01:50
MATT: Right, no, I know.01:01:51
LIAM: Okay. That'd be cool.
MATT: I'm letting you know,01:01:52
you realize you haven't--01:01:54
you realize as you go upward01:01:55
to slow and you would have to01:01:58
arc a little bit so you don't plummet01:01:59
back through the entrance you came with.01:02:01
So, you do so.01:02:03
You land with a bit of a heavy hit,01:02:05
catch yourself on your knees01:02:08
and look within the surrounding chamber around you.01:02:10
It is dark up in here.01:02:11
You wait a moment to go ahead01:02:12
and bring the lights--
MARISHA: Up in here! Up in here! (laughs)01:02:16
Sorry.01:02:18
LIAM: Up in here!01:02:19
(laughter)01:02:22
MATT: You are met with a partially collapsed chamber.01:02:27
About 60 or so feet from side to side,01:02:31
and then 30 feet wide across01:02:33
and only about 25 feet above.01:02:35
It looks like what would have been a wall or a ceiling here01:02:38
has collapsed in at an angle,01:02:40
and a majority of this room is under rubble01:02:42
on the opposite side.01:02:44
It would've been larger but now,01:02:46
much of it is just under debris.01:02:49
Large 10, 15, 20-foot slabs of stone01:02:53
are partially broken and over and blocking01:02:55
any sort of other exit on the opposite side of the room.01:02:58
And if you look behind you on the other end,01:03:02
you can see other elements of broken stone01:03:04
and other pieces of furniture,01:03:05
actually more furniture in here than there was01:03:07
in the room you just came from.01:03:09
But also, similarly shattered01:03:11
and sent scattered all across the ground.01:03:13
This room also does contain a similar glitter01:03:16
of just a general sheet of ice over everything.01:03:19
And as you exhale a bit into the low light01:03:21
and your breath clouds around you,01:03:24
you can see there's odd striations01:03:26
in some of the ice in certain edges.01:03:29
And there are a lot of these tall stalagmites01:03:33
that seem to have risen up and gathered01:03:35
from stalactites that are reaching down01:03:37
and haven't quite connected in the middle01:03:38
in certain places, but some of these are extremely long.01:03:42
LIAM: Have some of them met in the middle?01:03:45
MATT: I would say maybe two of them,01:03:47
but many have just been--01:03:49
they haven't found enough moisture at a certain point.01:03:52
LIAM: So I will find a column of ice,01:03:55
the thickest I can find to start tying the rope01:03:58
tight so that the others can climb up,01:04:00
and while I'm doing that, I'm looking around01:04:02
for any possible exit out of this chamber that I'm in.01:04:05
MATT: Okay.01:04:06
You guys watch as the rope gets pulled up01:04:08
and then you get the signal that it's been tied taught,01:04:12
and who's going to climb up first?01:04:14
LIAM: Hurry up, slowpokes!01:04:15
SAM: Is that-- is up-- is this the way we want to go?01:04:18
TRAVIS: Yeah, I'll go.
SAM: We're doing this?01:04:19
MARISHA: Yeah, are we going this way?
TRAVIS: Yeah, I'll climb up.01:04:20
MATT: So Fjord is climbing up.01:04:21
Make a perception check while you're doing that.01:04:23
LIAM: Perception check, that is 15.01:04:27
MATT: 15. Okay.01:04:30
You do not see any signs of exits01:04:34
or egress from this chamber.01:04:37
That odd striation once again01:04:38
catches your eye and you look01:04:40
to the edges of these icy corners.01:04:44
And it looks textured.01:04:46
Almost like some sort of material.01:04:50
Some patterned material is heavily bundled01:04:54
in some of these corner regions.01:04:58
ASHLEY: Underneath the ice?01:04:59
MATT: Mm-hmm.01:05:00
LIAM: Not within ice, but hidden below it?01:05:03
Like it was part of this chamber to being with?01:05:05
MATT: Possibly, yeah.01:05:08
LIAM: (sighs)01:05:09
Detect Magic.
MATT: You get up.01:05:13
SAM: Is that a SWAT team signal,
Travis, that you were doing?01:05:15
TRAVIS: Just climbing a rope.01:05:16
SAM: Oh, cool.01:05:19
TRAVIS: Go, go. LIAM: Go, go, go.
SAM: Go, go, go, go!01:05:21
(chuckling)01:05:23
MATT: So, detecting magic, you do not get01:05:24
any specific magical auras localized around you,01:05:28
but there is a general film in the air in general.01:05:31
There's just a faint, ever-present, magical aura01:05:36
that fills all space around you.01:05:40
MARISHA: And it's making patterns in the ice?01:05:43
Almost like when you put a speaker next to water?01:05:47
Is it that type of a thing?01:05:48
Where you can almost see the...?01:05:50
MATT: And at the distance where he is right now01:05:51
towards the entrance, that's what it looks like,01:05:53
but it's still low light--
MARISHA: Oh sorry.01:05:54
MATT: -- and those are at the far edges of the chamber.01:05:56
MARISHA: Climb.01:05:57
LAURA: What do you see?
TRAVIS: Milk the cow.01:05:58
MARISHA: Milk the cow? Milk the cow.01:05:59
MATT: There you go.01:06:01
MARISHA: I'm up.
TALIESIN: All right.01:06:02
MATT: All right.01:06:03
LIAM: I'm going to wait 'til everyone's up.01:06:04
LAURA: Are we all going up?
LIAM: I'm not going to poke at anything.01:06:05
ASHLEY: Yeah, okay.
SAM: We're not going to01:06:06
do the other?
LAURA: We all fit in here?01:06:08
MATT: Yeah.01:06:09
It's...01:06:12
Yeah, you'd all fit in here.01:06:13
LAURA: Okay, is it like being in a attic?01:06:15
MATT: Certain edges, because it is a a slanted ceiling01:06:17
and it's a partial collapse,01:06:19
and the chamber is, because of that,01:06:20
smaller than it was originally built to be.01:06:23
But you all fit in here with various levels of comfort01:06:25
and the floor, since it is a lot of broken rock,01:06:27
you can't all be clustered together in one spot.01:06:30
You have to separate out a little bit01:06:31
and make your way into a more01:06:34
open pocket to feel comfortable.01:06:36
TRAVIS: ♪ Making my way. ♪01:06:37
MARISHA: Are we going this way or
are we just checking it out?01:06:40
TALIESIN: I'm looking around,01:06:41
seeing anything weird.
LIAM: We can decide.01:06:42
You were poking about01:06:43
and it looked like there was movement beneath this archway.01:06:49
In the ceiling.01:06:51
Is what Matt told you.01:06:52
TRAVIS: He did?
LIAM: Yeah.01:06:54
MATT: Movement?
MARISHA: Movement?01:06:55
LIAM: No, earlier,01:06:57
people asked if we could tell where people had been01:07:00
and you had described it looked like there was01:07:02
scattered stuff underneath the hole in the--01:07:05
MATT: Signs of individuals dropping down from above.01:07:07
LIAM: Hmm.01:07:09
LAURA: Can we see an exit in this room?01:07:10
Any kind of cracks, like there was01:07:12
in that stone that we all saw?01:07:14
MATT: Right, if you'd like to follow up,01:07:16
make a perception check as well.01:07:17
TRAVIS: Yeah. I'll assist you.01:07:19
LAURA: Guidance!01:07:21
Whoa.
TRAVIS: Wow.01:07:22
LAURA: Oh! Natural 20!01:07:24
MATT: Nice!
TALIESIN: Never mind, we're good.01:07:25
LIAM: Guidance.01:07:26
MATT: Glancing around,01:07:28
you don't yet see01:07:30
another opening, crack, tunnel.01:07:34
This chamber seems to be, through its collapse,01:07:37
for the most part, locked off.01:07:40
But you do catch that same kind of striated bunches01:07:43
beneath the ice in the corners.01:07:45
And it reminds you of finely-wound silk.01:07:50
And you look past some of the tall stalagmites,01:07:55
some clear, some clouded with imperfections01:07:58
in the moisture that have gathered01:08:00
with other elements that may have been brought forth01:08:02
or just gradually dripped through the ceiling01:08:05
with the water that gathered and froze over.01:08:10
And you see, some look almost like they're attached01:08:14
at odd angles.01:08:17
Like tall, angled limbs.01:08:21
LAURA: Ice spiders?01:08:22
MATT: And you see a,01:08:25
up until this point, very well hidden,01:08:29
mostly translucent and white arachnid beast.01:08:33
About 12 feet from side to side.01:08:36
TRAVIS: What?! LIAM: 12?!01:08:38
ASHLEY: Under the ice, or...01:08:39
LAURA: Or out, just hiding on the ice?01:08:41
MATT: Just clustered in between all the stalagmites01:08:44
in the corner.01:08:45
LIAM: We're in the hive. We're in the nest.01:08:46
LAURA: We're in the spider nest!
MARISHA: Just watching us?01:08:50
MATT: Just watching.
LIAM: Yeah,01:08:51
it wasn't people jumping down from here.01:08:53
MARISHA: Yeah, it was spiders. Should we go?01:08:54
TALIESIN: Make our way out?
MARISHA: We should go, right?01:08:56
TRAVIS: Just pretend like you didn't see it.01:08:58
Just pretend and just, no, there's nothing in here,01:09:01
perhaps we should...
LAURA: Do you see there any openings01:09:02
in here or should we maybe just get out of here?01:09:04
MARISHA: Yeah, I don't want to fight this thing in here,01:09:06
so why don't we move really fast01:09:08
so we can fight it down there?01:09:09
LAURA: Go. Go, go, go.
MARISHA: Go, go, go, we go down.01:09:12
MATT: One by one, you all begin to descend the rope.01:09:14
LAURA: I'll go last so I can--01:09:16
no, what am I doing? Beau, go last so you can jump.
MARISHA: I'll go last.01:09:20
MATT: Okay, so all begin rushing down.01:09:22
You keep an eye over at it.01:09:23
Doesn't appear to be moving or reacting to any of you.01:09:26
MARISHA: Just staring at it the whole time.01:09:27
Untie the rope.01:09:29
Jump down.
MATT: Okay.01:09:30
TALIESIN: Is there a way to seal that off?01:09:33
LAURA: I have Stone Shape prepared.01:09:36
I could try to do that?01:09:40
TALIESIN: It's not a bad idea.
SAM: Or just keep going01:09:41
through the other door.01:09:43
TALIESIN: There is no other door up there.01:09:44
ASHLEY: It didn't come after us.
MARISHA: Yeah, why didn't it01:09:46
come after us?
ASHLEY: That was weird.01:09:48
SAM: What's wrong with us?01:09:49
LAURA: Did it look like it was looking at us?01:09:51
MATT: You watched it for the time that you noticed it,01:09:54
and before the fear,01:09:55
it didn't seem to react or move.01:09:59
It was just facing loosely your direction,01:10:02
hunched there in the back corner.01:10:04
TRAVIS: Still?
ASHLEY: Was it alive?01:10:06
MATT: It didn't move.01:10:09
LIAM: Maybe it was some sort of ice automaton, or01:10:14
maybe it was not-- maybe it was dormant.01:10:17
SAM: Maybe it doesn't eat things01:10:19
unless they fall into its web?01:10:21
MARISHA: We saw those striations01:10:23
on other icicles other than just up there, correct?01:10:28
MATT: No, that was the first you've seen.01:10:29
MARISHA: That was the first we'd seen, okay.01:10:31
TRAVIS: Well, we haven't seen a web, right? No webs?01:10:33
LIAM: No.
LAURA: Just frozen webs.01:10:37
TRAVIS: Have we seen frozen webs?01:10:38
LAURA: That's what those things were.01:10:41
MARISHA: Frozen egg sacs, maybe?01:10:43
LAURA: Tightly wound--01:10:44
TRAVIS: Silk. Right.01:10:46
LAURA: But, like, it seemed like some of the ice--01:10:49
oh no, the icicles, the bent icicles01:10:50
were the limbs of--01:10:51
MATT: Were the limbs of the spider.01:10:54
TALIESIN: Well...01:10:55
MARISHA: Why you didn't it come after us?01:10:57
LAURA: Maybe it was nice.01:10:58
Maybe it was friendly and just lonely.01:11:00
MARISHA: Yeah, maybe we just didn't attack it, so it's fine.01:11:02
ASHLEY: Yeah, but it wasn't moving.01:11:04
TRAVIS: Let's check out the other room!01:11:06
MARISHA: Yeah!
SAM: (laughs)01:11:08
MARISHA: Let's do that.01:11:09
LIAM: With eyes on our six.01:11:10
TRAVIS and MARISHA: Mm-hmm.01:11:12
SAM: Yeah. Eyes--01:11:14
MARISHA: In fact, I'm just going to walk backwards01:11:17
while we walk in that direction.01:11:18
MATT: Okay, keeping an eye up there.01:11:20
MARISHA: See if it follows.01:11:22
MATT: Okay.01:11:23
So keeping an eye out, you all make your way01:11:25
towards the other exit of the chamber,01:11:26
where you had previously looked before. Okay.01:11:29
LAURA: You think I should seal it?01:11:32
TALIESIN: Be prepared to--01:11:33
SAM: Feel it?
TALIESIN: Seal something.01:11:34
SAM: Oh, seal it.01:11:37
TRAVIS: 12 feet across? (laughs)01:11:40
ASHLEY: That's a big boy.01:11:41
TRAVIS: That's a big boy! (laughs)01:11:42
ASHLEY: Big boy!01:11:44
SAM: I guess we'll go into the other chamber?01:11:46
TRAVIS: Wait, should we seal it?01:11:47
Can you just seal it that easy,01:11:49
40 feet in the air?
LAURA: I don't know, let me look.01:11:50
I don't use this spell very often.01:11:52
TRAVIS: Yeah, take a quick gander01:11:53
because that could be, you know, smart.01:11:56
SAM: I'll climb into the other chamber while she's sealing.01:11:59
TRAVIS: You get snatched by another fucking one!01:12:02
TALIESIN: Is the doorway big enough
for the spider to get out of?01:12:07
MATT: You didn't get quite a look01:12:08
at the entire spider's body.01:12:10
It's possible.01:12:11
LAURA: Probably.01:12:12
Spiders can crawl through little spots.01:12:14
TALIESIN: Yeah, that's fair. MARISHA: Yeah, they can get weird their legs.01:12:17
TRAVIS: What does it say?
MARISHA: You know?01:12:19
LAURA: I have to touch it.01:12:21
TRAVIS: Have to touch the stone?
LAURA: So I'd have to get up there01:12:23
and touch it in order to shape the stone.01:12:25
TRAVIS: And then what happens, can you close off a doorway?01:12:28
Like an archway?01:12:30
LAURA: I can touch a stone01:12:33
no more than five feet in any dimension01:12:36
and form it into any shape that suits my purpose.01:12:39
TRAVIS: Five feet in any dimension?01:12:41
LAURA: Five feet in any dimension, so,01:12:43
I could...01:12:44
TRAVIS: The archway is like, two people wide?01:12:48
LAURA: No. Was it that big?01:12:50
MATT: The archway was about...01:12:53
I'd say about eight-foot tall, its actual size01:12:56
and about six feet wide, so it'd be about the size01:12:59
to let comfortably a person or two people01:13:01
walk through it, yeah.
LAURA: So I could seal it01:13:02
to where there was only a foot of space in the doorway?01:13:06
MATT: Yeah.01:13:08
LAURA: I mean, it might be able to fit through still,01:13:09
I don't know.01:13:11
TRAVIS: Does it cost a valuable spell for you?01:13:13
LAURA: It's a spell.01:13:15
TRAVIS: Huh?
LAURA: It's a spell, but I can try it.01:13:16
But I have to be up 40 feet in the--01:13:18
I can't get up there!
TRAVIS: What level spell?01:13:21
LAURA: Fourth.
TRAVIS: I cast Fly on you.01:13:23
LAURA: But now you used a spell, Fjord!01:13:25
TRAVIS: (noncommittal noise)01:13:26
LAURA: (distressed noise) I fly up.01:13:28
MATT: So, Jester, you now, for the-- how long does it last?01:13:31
TRAVIS: 10 minutes.01:13:32
MATT: 10 minutes you can fly.01:13:34
As long as he maintains concentration.01:13:36
TRAVIS: Yeah. The sword pulses.01:13:38
And you go up.01:13:39
LAURA: Thanks, Fjord!01:13:40
MATT: Without issue, you float up to the entrance01:13:43
and, what faint, since the light has been removed,01:13:45
it's just a dark lightless interior01:13:48
of the upper chamber.
LAURA: Can I have some globules?01:13:51
LIAM: Do you want some? Yeah.01:13:53
I send up two.
LAURA: Okay.01:13:55
I'm going to touch the side of the doorway,01:13:56
so I can shape it and try to block off the doorway01:13:59
as much as possible.01:14:00
MATT: Okay, you begin to press against it01:14:03
with your hand, much like it's wettened clay.01:14:06
You watch as this detailed ceiling,01:14:09
this extremely carefully carved,01:14:12
artistic, Aeorian wall01:14:16
becomes shaped like a kindergartner's mug they made01:14:20
for their adult.
LIAM: Papier-mâché.01:14:22
MATT: To cover the majority of this entrance.01:14:26
But functionally, seems to be blocking the majority of it.01:14:28
TRAVIS: You're talking nicely to the spider01:14:30
while you're doing this?01:14:31
LAURA: Yep. Yep, yep, yep. Stay in there.01:14:33
(to the tune of Brahms' "Lullaby")
♪ Go to sleep, little spider ♪01:14:38
♪ Don't come and attack us! ♪01:14:42
(laughter)01:14:44
MATT: All right. Once you complete that--01:14:45
LAURA: I just keep, I just fly around01:14:47
as long as I can.01:14:49
LIAM: In the time that she's taking to do that,01:14:51
I ask Yasha for a hand up into the doorway,01:14:54
the other doorway that's like 10 feet up.01:14:57
And if she hoists me up, I'm going to try01:15:00
to climb myself up into that area.01:15:02
MATT: Okay.01:15:03
LIAM: And ritually cast Alarm.01:15:05
I'm going to pull silver thread01:15:08
along the length of it01:15:10
so that I can know if anything is coming behind us.01:15:12
MATT: You got it. And Veth, you've already climbed01:15:14
your way up there, you said?01:15:15
SAM: I don't know which door he's talking about.01:15:17
MATT: The only other door.01:15:18
MARISHA: The floor ceiling door.01:15:20
SAM: Cool, cool, cool.01:15:22
Yeah. That's the one I'm going into.01:15:25
MATT: Technically, it's the floor wall door, but yeah.01:15:28
MARISHA: Semantics.01:15:29
(laughter)01:15:30
MATT: No, it's actual layout.01:15:33
MARISHA: Whatever.01:15:34
SAM: Agree to disagree.01:15:35
(laughter)01:15:37
TALIESIN: Potato, potahto.01:15:38
LIAM: Guys, we broke the fourth wall years ago.01:15:40
(groaning)01:15:43
TALIESIN: Boo. SAM: Get out!01:15:45
(laughter)01:15:46
LIAM: All right, I will.01:15:47
(laughter)01:15:49
SAM: Oh no, he's leaving!
LAURA: No!01:15:50
SAM: I have that kind of power? Wow!01:15:53
MATT: Do not empower him. It's too much to give him.01:15:55
SAM: Marisha, get out!01:15:56
TRAVIS: He's like, I have to pee anyway.01:15:58
MARISHA: No.
SAM: Oh. It doesn't work.01:16:00
MARISHA: No, it doesn't! (laughs)01:16:02
MATT: All righty, so.01:16:05
He's-- okay.01:16:07
MARISHA: Taking the opportunity to go pee, I think.01:16:09
MATT: I respect that, I respect that.01:16:12
So, Veth, you're the first to climb in there,01:16:14
the little bit of light that's beginning to peek inward.01:16:17
You get up over this entryway01:16:19
and you see that hall where it's broken01:16:21
and shifted to the side.01:16:22
It's now this triangular-shaped space01:16:24
that you would have to peer through and step.01:16:26
And as you get to that point,01:16:28
you can see where the jagged stone meeting part itself01:16:31
has been disjointed and shifted to the side.01:16:33
But it is still large enough for a person to go through.01:16:35
Roughly one, maybe two small figures at a time.01:16:40
MARISHA: So not a Caduceus size?01:16:42
TALIESIN: One Caduceus.
MATT: One Caduceus.01:16:43
MARISHA: Okay.
LAURA: I'm going to float down01:16:45
with my ability to fly and land softly,01:16:49
next to Veth.01:16:52
And then I'll lean over the side01:16:54
and try to hoist everybody else up.01:16:56
MATT: Okay.01:16:57
You all eventually make your way back up01:16:59
into this odd joint portion of the hall.01:17:05
Looking into the next chamber,01:17:06
the one that Caleb had already seen once,01:17:09
the decline is steeper than his perspective01:17:12
allowed him to really see.01:17:15
It's probably not quite a 45 degree angle downward,01:17:20
but it's pushing about 35.01:17:23
MARISHA: And it's smooth? It's like a hall?01:17:25
MATT: No, it's not smooth.01:17:26
Elements of it are smoother than others01:17:27
and there are some where you can see01:17:29
rocky shapes that have ice sheets over it01:17:31
that are fairly smooth,01:17:32
but some of it's broken rock, too, and broken ice.01:17:34
But regardless, it is slick01:17:36
and it is precarious.01:17:37
MARISHA: We don't want to hit anything01:17:38
as we potentially slide out of control.01:17:41
TALIESIN: Grab the rope, and I hand it to Jester.01:17:43
TRAVIS: Yeah. She can fly through it.01:17:44
MARISHA: Perfect.01:17:46
LAURA: Ooh, yes. Do I still
have the ability to fly? Probably.01:17:49
TRAVIS: 10 minutes, yeah. Make good use of it.01:17:52
LAURA: Right?
MATT: Yeah, you have01:17:53
maybe a couple more minutes of it left, yeah.01:17:54
LAURA: Okay, I'll lift up01:17:56
and fly down,01:18:00
and land at the bottom.01:18:02
MATT: Okay.
LAURA: Is there anything01:18:03
to hook the rope onto01:18:05
or is it just me holding onto it?01:18:07
MATT: It's just you holding onto it at the moment.01:18:10
The room is freezing cold.01:18:13
The temperature significantly dropped01:18:15
when you stepped through the threshold.01:18:18
And now looking inside this chamber,01:18:19
as you fly through with the light granted by Caleb's orbs,01:18:23
you can see it's beautiful.01:18:25
The ice crystals refract the light01:18:27
in hundreds of thousands of different facets,01:18:30
like a room of diamonds surrounding you.01:18:32
And as you coast through holding the rope,01:18:34
you get to the opposite side.01:18:35
How long is the rope that was given?01:18:36
50 feet?
TRAVIS: 50.01:18:38
MATT: You cannot get to the-- the rope is not long enough01:18:40
to reach the other side of the chamber.
TALIESIN: Do we have a second01:18:42
to double up the rope?
MARISHA: Yeah, I do.01:18:43
Here. I pull out my rope.01:18:45
Toss it Caduceus so he can tie the end.01:18:47
TALIESIN: Knot, and a knot, and a knot, and should, yeah.01:18:49
MATT: That puts you at your final minute01:18:51
of your Fly, just so you know.
LAURA: Okay.01:18:53
MATT: But you head back, fly to the opposite side01:18:55
and you see there are the double doors.01:18:56
And as you get there,01:18:58
there's no handle.01:19:01
There's no knob, there's nothing to grab the doors with.01:19:04
They're just there.01:19:06
And you can see a thick sheet of ice01:19:07
that has slowly built around the edges of them01:19:10
that fill the gaps01:19:11
from where the rest of the stone walls01:19:13
currently would meet with this door.01:19:15
LAURA: I'm going to pull my little mittens up over my hands01:19:19
and touch the doorway.01:19:21
Does it feel like there's anything?01:19:24
Like, is it safe to lean on01:19:26
and brace myself against the door?01:19:27
Like, it's just a wall?01:19:29
MATT: You touch it and it's very cold,01:19:30
but it doesn't react in any unexpected way.01:19:35
LAURA: All right, I'm just going to stand here01:19:36
and brace on the wall and hold the rope as tight as I can01:19:39
for everybody so they can descend01:19:42
as slowly as possible.01:19:44
MATT: Okay. Who's going first?01:19:45
MARISHA: Before we descend,01:19:47
can I get to the threshold of this door that we're in?01:19:50
MATT: Yes.
MARISHA: Kind of step out into the main chamber01:19:53
and step back in.01:19:55
Is the temperature difference noticeable by the threshold?01:20:01
MATT: It's not like you're stepping into another room01:20:04
and it immediately shifts. It's gradual01:20:07
in that little in-between area,01:20:08
but it is noticeable.
MARISHA: Okay, so no serious drop.01:20:10
SAM: It's like when you step into the01:20:11
frozen room at Costco,01:20:13
like where they keep the milk?
MATT: Yeah.01:20:15
Like that.01:20:16
MARISHA: Like the ice spa, Wi spa?01:20:18
The ice room?01:20:19
LIAM: I'll slide down the rope.01:20:21
MATT: Okay.01:20:22
LAURA: It's really beautiful.01:20:23
MATT: So it is who going down the rope, then?01:20:25
If we already had-
SAM: Caleb.01:20:26
LIAM: Caleb.
TRAVIS: Do we need to set a thread01:20:29
in case ice spider finds a way?01:20:31
LAURA: He did, Caleb said that.
LIAM: I did that.01:20:32
SAM: That spider's sealed up.01:20:33
MATT: Are you going one at a time01:20:34
or are you guys going with a distance between each other?01:20:39
TALIESIN: I think one at a time will be the way to go.
MARISHA: I think so, too.01:20:40
LAURA: Yeah, plus I'm holding it,01:20:41
so I don't know if I can support more than one person.01:20:44
MATT: So Caleb makes his way down--01:20:46
MARISHA: It's like water-slide rules.
MATT: -- to the base. Who's next?01:20:48
MARISHA: One kid at a time.01:20:49
TALIESIN: I'll go next.01:20:50
MATT: Okay.01:20:52
Caduceus steps down.01:20:54
About halfway down the rope,01:20:57
the temperature noticeably gets even colder.01:21:00
You find your teeth01:21:02
chittering against your jaw.01:21:04
And you feel this numbness01:21:09
beginning to hit the outside of your skin01:21:11
by just the sheer drop in temperature.01:21:13
You, because you have a very high passive perception,01:21:17
glance around and from the cavalcade01:21:21
of teeth-like icicles above you,01:21:23
you see this strange, pulsing, faint blue light01:21:27
that has a number of crystal-like ice protrusions,01:21:32
just floating around it.01:21:33
Like a small orb of jagged jewelry01:21:37
just hovering towards you01:21:38
with this faint mist01:21:41
drifting off of it.
TALIESIN: That's a thing.01:21:42
That's a thing, there's a thing, and, wow,01:21:45
this is-- oh, yeah.01:21:46
MATT: You guys hear him say this and look up and you see,01:21:50
maybe a half dozen or more of these,01:21:51
all descending from the ceiling towards Caduceus.
LAURA: Uh-oh.01:21:53
MARISHA: Oh, they're all coming towards us?01:21:55
Oh, I think they're elementals!01:21:56
Oh, I think they're ice elementals.01:21:58
MATT: Let's go ahead and get out the battle map.01:22:00
ASHLEY: Oh no!01:22:01
SAM: Oh, god, what's happening?
LIAM: Oh no!01:22:02
We're being attacked.
LAURA: Oh, and it's like an incline,01:22:04
so you can't stand on it.
SAM: I don't know what's happening,01:22:05
but whatever it is,01:22:06
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LAURA: Ooh!
TRAVIS: Oh we got a slab going on!01:22:17
ASHLEY: Oh, god!
LAURA: Oh, this is so cool!01:22:19
SAM: A raked stage?01:22:22
I love it.
MARISHA: It is totally01:22:23
a raked stage.
TRAVIS: Yep.01:22:25
MARISHA: Aw, this means we can call downstage and upstage.01:22:28
LIAM: Yeah, yeah, yeah.01:22:30
MATT: Now the rest of you are all up here.01:22:31
TRAVIS: Or we could, if we were stupid enough.01:22:34
SAM: Ashley, get out of there.01:22:36
Get out!
TRAVIS: I'm going to be downstage.01:22:38
Downstage right.01:22:39
ASHLEY: Got to figure out our order.01:22:40
MARISHA: Can I please enter stage left?01:22:42
It's closer to my dressing room.01:22:45
LIAM: And I, Medea!01:22:47
(laughter)01:22:49
MATT: Oh my god.01:22:50
SAM: I love your movies, Tyler Perry movies.01:22:52
TALIESIN: Why did I not know this? Of course!01:22:55
MATT: Okay.01:22:56
So, I don't have a piece of cord I was going to use01:22:58
to set the rope-like protrusion here.01:23:02
What I can do is use this power cord--01:23:05
LAURA: What?
MATT: -- to make it work. Why not?01:23:08
Little iPad cord.01:23:09
SAM: But won't your iPad die?
MATT: Nope, it's good.01:23:13
There we go.01:23:14
(laughter)01:23:16
Mostly works!01:23:17
SAM: Amazing map, and an iPhone charger.01:23:19
(laughter)01:23:21
MATT: I didn't know you guys were going to be putting a rope01:23:22
through here when I set it up.01:23:23
It's fine.
SAM: I love it.01:23:26
TALIESIN: Are those cauldrons?01:23:28
MARISHA: He mentioned there being braziers.
LAURA: I thought it was a narrower--01:23:31
I thought it was like a hallway.01:23:32
I didn't realize it was a full room.01:23:35
MATT: Keep the sides. So.01:23:38
If I could have everyone roll initiative, please.01:23:39
LAURA: Oh my god.
MARISHA: Yeah, braziers.01:23:40
LAURA: Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.01:23:44
LIAM: Yep.
MARISHA: Son of a bitch...01:23:49
SAM: Guidance.01:23:50
LAURA: (laughs)01:23:52
MATT: All right, so 25 to 20?01:23:54
LAURA: 20.01:23:56
MATT: 20? All righty.01:23:57
(background drums)01:24:00
SAM: ♪ (sings with background music) ♪01:24:01
MATT: 20 to 15.
SAM: Heist music.01:24:03
ASHLEY: 15.01:24:04
MARISHA: That's pretty good.01:24:06
Oh, man.01:24:07
SAM: Bye! Get out of here!01:24:11
MATT: 15 to 10?01:24:12
MARISHA: 13.
TALIESIN: 11.01:24:15
MARISHA: Ugh.01:24:17
I haven't rolled above a 10 this whole game.01:24:19
LAURA: Switch your dice!01:24:20
MATT: 10 to five?01:24:21
LIAM: Nine!
SAM: Nine!01:24:29
MATT: And the rest?01:24:30
TRAVIS: Four!01:24:32
LIAM: And I'll form the head!01:24:34
SAM: Fjour!01:24:36
LAURA: Fjour.
TRAVIS: Fjour.01:24:38
MATT: So, you see about...01:24:42
half a dozen of these entities01:24:43
floating down towards Caduceus.01:24:45
MARISHA: Half dozen, ouch.01:24:46
LAURA: Geez, look.01:24:47
MATT: So they're about here.
TRAVIS: It's fine. It's fine.01:24:50
LAURA: Oh, cool, though!
MATT: And you see numerous01:24:52
other ones floating above. I'll go ahead01:24:54
and get a few placement markings here,01:24:57
so you can see where they are.01:25:00
SAM: Icy.
LIAM: How high is the ceiling01:25:02
from the floor?01:25:04
MATT: It's roughly 20 or so feet.01:25:05
LIAM: 20 feet. Okay.01:25:08
LIAM: (mouth sounds increasing in pitch)01:25:16
SAM: Oh boy.01:25:17
How do you fight ice?01:25:19
TRAVIS: With a Ring of Fire Resistance.01:25:21
MARISHA: Yeah. (chuckles)
LIAM: ♪ How do you fight ♪01:25:22
♪ a problem like ice crystals? ♪01:25:25
SAM: Oh no...01:25:27
MARISHA: Apparently, there's a lava river01:25:29
at some point in time, somewhere in the world.01:25:31
MATT: All right. Jester, you're up first.01:25:35
LAURA: Okay.01:25:38
Since I'm stuck at the base,01:25:44
I'm going to Invoke Duplicity as my action.01:25:48
MATT: All righty. Where are you placing her?01:25:50
LAURA: I'm going to place her close to Caduceus.01:25:54
MATT: All right, so you're here.
MARISHA: Should we light01:25:55
these braziers?01:25:56
LAURA: She's going to stand in the middle, yeah.01:25:58
MATT: Here?01:25:59
What's the range you can cast on it? 30, 60?01:26:01
TALIESIN: I meant to, but somehow I forgot.
MARISHA: Oh no!01:26:05
LAURA: Invoke Duplicity, 30 feet of me.01:26:07
MARISHA: They're still carried over from last game, too.01:26:09
MATT: So you can do it here,01:26:11
like either right next to him there or right here.01:26:12
LAURA: That sounds good. Right there's good.01:26:14
MATT: Okay, you got it.01:26:16
MARISHA: It's a bitch.01:26:18
LAURA: And...01:26:20
Man.01:26:21
MARISHA: What is it? Sacred Flame?01:26:22
TALIESIN: No, it's a...01:26:23
LAURA: The only other thing I can do right now is dumb.01:26:28
MARISHA: Oh, like a resistance?01:26:30
TALIESIN: Kicking myself.01:26:31
TRAVIS: Is dumb!01:26:32
LAURA: None of my spells are bonus!01:26:38
I can01:26:41
cast Spiritual Weapon.01:26:43
MATT: Okay.01:26:45
LAURA: I'll just do it at 2nd-level.01:26:47
MATT: At 2nd-level. Where are you placing it?01:26:52
LAURA: Right...01:26:54
Wherever I can hit one of them.01:26:57
MATT: I'll say here.
LAURA: Yeah, sure, right there.01:26:58
MATT: Okay.01:27:00
LAURA: And I'm going to try to swing at it01:27:01
with my Spiritual Weapon.01:27:02
MATT: Go for it!01:27:06
LAURA: That's a 21.01:27:08
MATT: 21 definitely hits.01:27:10
LAURA: Okay.01:27:11
TRAVIS: Have we tried talking to them?01:27:14
MARISHA: Diplomacy first. Diplomacy first.01:27:17
LAURA: Seven plus five is?01:27:20
MATT: 12.
LAURA: 12!01:27:22
MATT: 12 points of damage to that fellow there.01:27:24
As it cracks-- and it does radiant damage, you said?01:27:27
LAURA: Yes.
MATT: Okay.01:27:28
Hits the ice and you watch the crystals (crack)01:27:31
to the side scramble from the impact01:27:33
and reform without issue.01:27:36
So, that finish your turn?01:27:38
Okay. Now, they go.01:27:42
MARISHA: Now they go. Uh oh.01:27:44
MATT: This one flies down to there.01:27:46
SAM: They rolled very well.01:27:47
MATT: This one goes to here.01:27:48
TRAVIS: Just put ice as the enemy01:27:50
in the initiative order.
MATT: And this one goes to here.01:27:53
LAURA: Oh my god! TALIESIN: Didn't get two of you.
MATT: They are drawn01:27:54
to the warmth.01:27:57
LAURA: Yeah, I don't know what that's about.01:27:59
LIAM: It must've been your head cresting a height.01:28:02
TRAVIS: ♪ Cold-hearted snake ♪01:28:04
MATT: And you watch as from above you,01:28:06
as you're all focusing on Caduceus,01:28:08
one heads towards you and three more drift down.01:28:11
LAURA: Oh man, there's a lot of them!01:28:14
SAM: It's just ice!
TRAVIS: You guys are in trouble.01:28:16
SAM: It's ice!
LAURA: Uh-oh!01:28:20
MATT: As soon as they begin to swarm,01:28:21
the air around you becomes sub-zero freezing.01:28:25
LIAM: Gulp.01:28:26
MATT: Immediately, your skin begins to grow numb01:28:28
from the proximity of these strange elemental-like spirits.01:28:34
We're going to have right here--01:28:38
all those are going to be attacking--01:28:40
actually, those four are going to be attacking Caduceus,01:28:42
and then there's--01:28:46
three are attacking Caduceus and two are attacking01:28:48
your duplicate.
LAURA: Duplicate? Yes!01:28:50
TALIESIN: Thank god.01:28:54
MATT: It does not give off warmth, so no,01:28:55
they're all going after Caduceus. I'm sorry.01:28:57
LAURA: Sorry.01:28:58
MATT: It's a good try, good try,01:28:59
but look at the logistics there.
MARISHA: All going after Caduceus?01:29:01
Is that what he just said?01:29:02
TRAVIS: Mm-hmm.01:29:03
LAURA: Four, five, are there five of them01:29:05
or four of them going after Caduceus?01:29:06
MATT: Five of them going after Caduceus.01:29:08
TRAVIS: We want to fight Molly and Caduceus.01:29:10
MARISHA: (laughs) Yeah, yeah, yeah!01:29:12
TALIESIN: You brought, like,
a healing spell, right? Like one?01:29:15
LAURA: I did.
TALIESIN: Okay.01:29:17
MATT: 22 to hit?
(laughter)01:29:18
TALIESIN: 22 to hit definitely hits.01:29:20
LAURA: I brought--
TRAVIS: So understanding.01:29:21
LAURA: Caduceus, I brought multiple ones today.01:29:23
TALIESIN: My god.01:29:26
I did not bring the spell I meant to.01:29:28
MATT: You take 20 points of cold damage01:29:30
and your movement is halved.01:29:31
TRAVIS: Whoa.01:29:32
MARISHA: Oh, yikes!
MATT: Next one.01:29:34
TALIESIN: Oh no.
MARISHA: Wait, that was one?01:29:36
MATT: That was one. 14?01:29:37
TALIESIN: Misses.01:29:40
MATT: 13.
TALIESIN: Misses.01:29:42
MATT: 24.01:29:44
TALIESIN: Hits.01:29:49
MATT: That is 17 points of cold damage.01:29:51
TALIESIN: Mm.01:29:53
LAURA: Uh-oh.01:29:55
MATT: And that is a 12.01:29:59
TALIESIN: Misses.
MATT: Misses.01:30:01
TALIESIN: Ow.
MATT: As they all swarm in,01:30:02
you feel the heat in your body being siphoned out.01:30:05
The cold beginning to oppress you01:30:07
and already at the edges of your face,01:30:08
at your eyes, any point of moisture in your body,01:30:11
you can them beginning to freeze01:30:13
and crystallize and harden in the proximity.01:30:16
There are now two attacking you, Jester.01:30:20
That is going to be a 24.01:30:21
LAURA: Yeah.01:30:23
MATT: You take01:30:29
27 points of cold damage.01:30:30
LAURA: Halved.01:30:31
MATT: Halved to 13,01:30:34
and your movement is halved until the end of your next turn.01:30:38
The other one against you.01:30:40
That's a...01:30:42
25.01:30:44
TALIESIN: Weird question, if one of them missed,01:30:46
would I be able to bounce it off the shield?01:30:49
MATT: You would've. These are attacks on you.01:30:50
TALIESIN: Oh, is it okay to do that, then?01:30:52
I know that I should've called that.01:30:54
MATT: It's still during their turn,01:30:55
so we'll do that in a second. I'll resolve this.01:30:56
TALIESIN: Sure.01:30:57
MATT: And the other hit hits you for...01:31:03
26 points of cold damage, reduced to 13.01:31:06
TRAVIS: Wow. 26?01:31:08
Are these considered melee hits or spell attacks?01:31:11
MATT: They're considered attacks.
TRAVIS: Okay.01:31:13
MATT: There's something about their essence01:31:15
that reaches out to you and draws the heat from you.01:31:18
TALIESIN: It's not-- okay, it's not a melee attack.01:31:21
MATT: It is considered a melee attack.01:31:22
TALIESIN: Okay, cool.01:31:24
SAM: Oh boy.01:31:25
TRAVIS: (laughs to the tune of the Super Mario Bros theme)01:31:28
MATT: And two against you, Caleb.01:31:29
LIAM: Yeah, good.01:31:31
MATT: 18?01:31:33
LIAM: Shield.01:31:34
MATT: Shield. (booms)01:31:35
As it tries to reach out with its energy,01:31:37
the shield protects it and cuts off that element01:31:40
of its reach, the other one is a 20, which--01:31:43
LIAM: Which down to 15, still hits.01:31:45
MATT: Still hits at a 20, yeah.01:31:46
LIAM: Yeah.
MATT: So you take...01:31:50
15 points of cold damage and your movement is halved.01:31:53
LIAM: Okay.01:31:54
SAM: Oh boy.
LIAM: Yeah, yeah, yeah.01:31:57
SAM: Tonight's forecast.01:31:58
TRAVIS: Fireball!
TALIESIN: It's one of the ones01:32:01
that missed, I'd love to try01:32:02
and hit the one that already got hit01:32:03
by the lollipop.
MARISHA: Everybody, chill.01:32:06
MATT: I'll allow it, yeah.
TALIESIN: All right.01:32:07
LAURA: Chill out!
TALIESIN: So.01:32:09
SAM: Let's kick some ice!01:32:10
TALIESIN: That's a strength saving throw.01:32:14
And, ooh, six.01:32:17
TRAVIS: Tonight's forecast.01:32:18
TALIESIN: 15 points of force damage.
TRAVIS: It's cold.01:32:20
MATT: Okay, it definitely,01:32:22
definitely takes the damage, it fails its save miserably.01:32:25
TALIESIN: 20 feet back.01:32:26
MATT: 20 feet?
LIAM: Revenge is a dish.01:32:27
TALIESIN: Yeah, directly away.01:32:28
SAM: Served cold!
LIAM: Cold!01:32:31
MATT: As it dodges, you bring the shield up01:32:32
and you guys hear this loud impact cracking sound01:32:36
as this wave of force energy blasts01:32:38
one of these elemental creatures backward.01:32:40
And you see it gets jammed off01:32:41
and then catches itself in the air01:32:42
and slowly the crystals begin to spin around it once more.01:32:45
LAURA: Is that the same one that I hit01:32:46
with the Spiritual Weapon?
MATT: It is.01:32:47
LAURA: Okay.01:32:48
TALIESIN: Does it look damaged at all, or?01:32:49
MATT: It looks damaged, yeah.01:32:51
That brings us now to Yasha's turn. Beau, you're on deck.01:32:55
TRAVIS: Dude, one of us have gone.01:32:56
One.
ASHLEY: So I will make my way01:32:58
into the room.
MARISHA: ♪ Making my way! ♪01:33:00
ASHLEY: How much of this do you think I have seen?01:33:04
Like, is the opening pretty big?01:33:06
MATT: You were right towards the opening here,01:33:07
which is about 10 feet wide-ish.01:33:09
And you have a clear view of all these things01:33:11
swarming in on Caduceus in the middle01:33:13
and in the distance, Caleb.01:33:14
You have the globules of light01:33:16
throughout the chamber from Caleb,01:33:17
so you have a clear view.01:33:20
ASHLEY: Okay, so I will make my way in01:33:22
to the closest-- ♪ making my way into! ♪01:33:26
(laughter)01:33:29
♪ This cold room. It's so cold. ♪01:33:31
So, I'll go to the-
MARISHA: Ashley sings the classics.01:33:35
ASHLEY: Whichever one is closest.01:33:38
MATT: That'd be the one right
across you towards Caduceus there.01:33:40
ASHLEY: Great.
MATT: Okay.01:33:42
Are you going carefully for half movement?01:33:44
Because it is slick, or you going full bore?01:33:49
ASHLEY: Yeah. I mean, might as well go full bore.01:33:50
MATT: All right, make a
dexterity saving throw for me, please.01:33:52
ASHLEY: Yeah, okay.
TALIESIN: Raging?01:33:55
ASHLEY: Yes, I am raging.01:33:58
MATT: So as you rage, you go running across the ice.01:34:01
TRAVIS: Ragé!
TALIESIN: Thank you.01:34:02
MATT: You do have an advantage on it01:34:03
because you are a barbarian, so.01:34:06
ASHLEY: Okay.01:34:07
Ooh...01:34:08
That's a one.01:34:11
That's not much better.01:34:13
Okay, so,01:34:16
seven.01:34:17
MATT: Seven.01:34:18
You go raging and charging towards Caduceus01:34:21
and as you do, you pass an area of slick ice01:34:24
and your feet (whooshes) out from under you.01:34:27
You slam and fall prone on your back and slide.01:34:31
LAURA: Oh, all the way down?
MATT: All the way01:34:32
to bottom of the chamber.01:34:34
ASHLEY: Can I kick it on the way there?01:34:36
SAM: Can I kick it?
ASHLEY: As I land?01:34:38
LIAM: Yes, you can!01:34:39
SAM: Can I kick it?01:34:40
LIAM: Yes, you can!
MATT: I'll say you can take01:34:42
your attack on the way, if you'd like,01:34:44
but you're still prone.01:34:46
You could use, I'll say about half your movement.01:34:49
So you would not be able to move past this01:34:50
if you get back up.01:34:52
LIAM: Damn it, Yasha. MATT: Or you can take the attack as you go,01:34:54
but it'll be at disadvantage because you're01:34:55
prone during the attack as you're sliding.01:34:59
ASHLEY: Okay.01:35:01
Oh, man, I want to try to get up.01:35:02
I'm going to just, yeah, I'm going to get up.01:35:05
I have to get up. I have to get up.01:35:06
MATT: Okay.01:35:08
Now, as you get up,01:35:09
frost has gathered around you.01:35:10
As you tore through a number of their frozen auras.01:35:15
MARISHA: Oh.01:35:17
MATT: You take...01:35:20
LAURA: Uh-oh.
ASHLEY: Brr!01:35:23
MATT: 16 points of ice damage.01:35:26
As you just coast through a bunch01:35:28
of their freezing auras and flash frost01:35:32
just begins to burn into your skin.01:35:35
But you stand up and you're there now01:35:36
at the bottom, right next to Caleb.01:35:41
Four of them.
ASHLEY: Okay, that is my turn.01:35:45
MATT: You can still attack.01:35:46
ASHLEY: Oh my goodness! That's not my turn, then.01:35:49
I will attack.01:35:51
MATT: All right.
ASHLEY: Yeah.01:35:52
MATT: You have two right now that are swarmed around Caleb01:35:54
and you have access to each of them.01:35:56
ASHLEY: Okay, so whichever one is closest to me,01:35:58
which I think is the one right in front.01:36:02
MATT: Right there? Okay, go for it.01:36:03
So roll for an attack.01:36:04
ASHLEY: Okay.
TALIESIN: Light them on fire.01:36:06
ASHLEY: Ooh!01:36:08
24.01:36:09
MATT: 24 hits. Go ahead and roll damage.01:36:10
ASHLEY: Okay.01:36:15
MARISHA: I bet he's going to make lighting them an action.01:36:22
ASHLEY: I'm going to roll that again.01:36:25
Not much better.01:36:27
TRAVIS: Caleb, do you have the Glove of Blasting,01:36:29
or do I still have it?01:36:30
LIAM: You have it.01:36:34
ASHLEY: 28 for the first hit.01:36:36
MATT: 28 for the first, 28 to damage, you mean?01:36:39
ASHLEY: 28, yeah, sorry.01:36:41
Yes, damage.01:36:42
MATT: That's awesome, all right, great.01:36:44
ASHLEY: And then second hit.01:36:48
Is 18.01:36:49
MATT: 18 hits.
ASHLEY: Okay.01:36:57
SAM: ♪ (sings with background music) ♪01:37:01
ASHLEY: 13.01:37:02
MATT: 13. All righty.01:37:04
So after you slide down,01:37:06
slamming your feet against the wall,01:37:08
barely kick yourself back up01:37:10
and use that momentum, you take the blade01:37:11
and swing once, twice heavily down upon this creature,01:37:14
the first strike, it's like cutting through01:37:16
a piece of frail brick.01:37:18
It impacts and breaks and then crumbles a bit.01:37:21
The second swipe, you cut through01:37:23
and you actually feel the resistance of the cold energy.01:37:25
And as you pull back, the blade itself01:37:27
now has a layer of frost across it.01:37:29
And as you look up, it's holding itself together,01:37:32
but you see it shaking a bit01:37:33
and the ice crystals on it01:37:34
are partially broken and chipped.01:37:37
So it's taken some heavy damage.01:37:38
ASHLEY: Okay.01:37:39
MARISHA: To one?01:37:40
MATT: To one of them.
MARISHA: Wow.01:37:41
And you said there's 12?01:37:43
MATT: There's nine.01:37:44
MARISHA: There's nine.01:37:45
LAURA: Nein! Nine...01:37:48
MARISHA: Yeah.
TRAVIS: Look at that.01:37:49
MARISHA: He always brings it around.
TRAVIS: Look at that look.01:37:51
LIAM: The Nonagon!01:37:52
MATT: So.
LAURA: ♪ The Nonagon! ♪01:37:53
MARISHA: Can I get there?01:37:55
Oh, sorry. Are you moving on?01:37:57
MATT: No, is that the end of your turn?01:38:00
Now it's your go, Beauregard,01:38:01
and Caduceus, you're on deck.01:38:03
MARISHA: Can I get there with my speed, 50?01:38:06
MATT: Over to here, you mean?01:38:07
MARISHA: No, that brazier.01:38:09
MATT: With your speed, you can.
MARISHA: Can you see me hitting that brazier, yeah.01:38:12
MATT: Four, five...01:38:15
50, you can get there, yeah.01:38:16
LAURA: Just think about how pretty this fight is,01:38:18
with all the diamond reflections on everything.01:38:20
MATT: It's beautiful.
LAURA: Fucking gorgeous.01:38:22
MATT: Make a dexterity saving throw for me, please.01:38:26
TALIESIN: I was going to say, you want to be on that side.01:38:27
MARISHA: Let me roll better. Let me roll better.01:38:29
(laughs nervously) 29.01:38:31
MATT: 29.01:38:32
You actually use it to glide a bit.01:38:35
You get a few steps and then can slide.01:38:37
You see frost shooting off01:38:39
the back of your heels until you hit a bit of stone01:38:41
and you kick off of it to slow your momentum01:38:43
and then dodge around the side,01:38:45
right up against that one piece of ice01:38:46
on the side of the brazier there.01:38:48
MARISHA: Cool.01:38:49
MATT: With your passive perception,01:38:51
you do see, at the base of the brazier on this side,01:38:54
there is a small cubby about that big.01:38:57
MARISHA: Oh! Yeah.01:38:59
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get to the cubby.01:39:01
What's with the cubby?01:39:02
MATT: I mean, you're adjacent it, you see it.
MARISHA: Oh, I'm adjacent to the cubby.01:39:04
Okay.
ASHLEY: Get to the cubby!01:39:06
Can't do it.
MARISHA: What's in the cubby?01:39:08
MATT: You do take...01:39:11
LIAM: There's some pencils and a point eraser.01:39:13
MARISHA: Yeah!
MATT: You take eight points--01:39:15
eight points of cold damage as you enter01:39:17
the frozen aura of the elemental to the left of you.01:39:20
MARISHA: Okay, okay, okay.01:39:22
What's in the box?01:39:24
What's in the cubby?01:39:25
MATT: You glance inside.01:39:27
You look and it just looks like an empty,01:39:29
like an empty shelf space.01:39:31
And you can see it opens up on the top,01:39:34
like it's leading up higher in the pillar.01:39:37
But there's nothing else you really see in there,01:39:39
unless you want to use your action to investigate.01:39:41
MARISHA: I do.01:39:42
MATT: Go ahead and do that,
roll an investigation check for me.01:39:45
MARISHA: All right. All right, all right, all right.01:39:47
25.01:39:48
MATT: Okay.01:39:49
25. You glance inside as you feel the frost01:39:51
gathering around your ears now.01:39:52
You can't even feel that side of your face.01:39:54
But as you look inside,01:39:55
with what very little light you have,01:39:57
and you don't have your goggles on you01:39:58
because you gave those to Veth,01:39:59
but thankfully so rolled pretty high,01:40:00
so you managed to still meet the DC.01:40:02
You can see in the opening that heads up,01:40:03
at the base of it, there is some sort of01:40:05
a series of circles, like small,01:40:08
concentric circles that get smaller and smaller01:40:09
that are connected with various lines.01:40:11
MARISHA: Series of concentric circles, right?01:40:12
MATT: Yes. Some sort of a glyph.01:40:14
MARISHA: A glyph?
MATT: Mm-hmm.01:40:17
TRAVIS: That's in the bottom of the brazier?01:40:20
MATT: Inside of it at the base of that opening.01:40:23
MARISHA: Any type of glyph that I would recognize01:40:25
in this quick glance?
MATT: Make an arcana check.01:40:28
SAM: Know your glyphs.01:40:30
MARISHA: Name that glyph!01:40:32
17.01:40:33
MATT: 17?01:40:34
Vaguely, at this angle, it's kind of tough.01:40:38
You're getting either Transmutation or Evocation.01:40:41
LAURA: Oh god.01:40:43
MATT: Somewhere in that space.01:40:44
MARISHA: All right.01:40:46
Can I take whatever left action that I have01:40:49
and shout to Caleb?01:40:51
MATT: I'll let you shout something.
MARISHA: Or to people?01:40:53
All right.01:40:55
I'm just going to say:01:40:56
I think we need magic to light up these glyphs.01:40:58
These, sorry.01:40:59
I think we need magic to light up these braziers!01:41:03
Glyph in the brazier!01:41:05
Brazier glyph!01:41:06
TRAVIS: And just to be clear, you said columns somewhere?01:41:09
MATT: These braziers are about five, six feet tall.01:41:12
And they're just these columns in the middle of the ground.01:41:14
And they look just solid01:41:16
except for on the opposite end.01:41:18
There's a slight opening, like a tiny oven,01:41:21
like a clay oven entrance.01:41:23
SAM: ♪ (vocalizes horn wail in background music) ♪01:41:24
MARISHA: Do I have a bonus action still?01:41:26
MATT: You do.01:41:27
MARISHA: Patient Defense.01:41:28
MATT: Okay. You get ready.01:41:31
MARISHA: That's my turn.
LAURA: What's happening?01:41:34
MATT: Caduceus, you're up. Veth, you're on deck.01:41:35
SAM: Bad ice.01:41:38
TALIESIN: It'd be a bad thing to find out01:41:40
if these guys get an attack of opportunity.01:41:43
MATT: At the start of your turn.01:41:44
TALIESIN: Goddamn it.01:41:46
MATT: Because you are standing within the frozen aura01:41:48
of four of these creatures.01:41:49
LAURA: Oh no!01:41:52
MATT: Rolled pretty low.01:41:54
You take 11 points of cold damage.01:41:56
TRAVIS: Fuck!01:42:00
TALIESIN: Don't like that.01:42:02
Oh boy, okay.01:42:05
That certainly changes things.01:42:10
MATT: Yasha, because I almost forgot.01:42:12
You take an additional eight points of cold damage01:42:14
from striking it with a melee attack.01:42:16
ASHLEY: Eight points?01:42:17
MATT: Correct.01:42:20
MARISHA: I can maybe move and like, tank for you.01:42:24
Maybe draw them away.01:42:25
LIAM: I'm surrounded.01:42:26
MARISHA: I know, but...01:42:28
TALIESIN: I'm going to cast Spirit Guardians at level three.01:42:32
MATT: Spirit Guardians, all righty.01:42:34
MARISHA: Can you cast from a distance?01:42:35
You don't necessarily need to get up to them.01:42:37
LIAM: No, I know, that's probably01:42:39
what I'm going to do--
TALIESIN: 15 feet.01:42:40
LIAM: But I'm like, is it going to light them up01:42:41
or is it going to damage?
MATT: 15 feet radius, you said?01:42:44
TALIESIN: Yep.01:42:45
MATT: So 15 feet radius would be this.01:42:46
MARISHA: Evocation or Transmutation?01:42:48
LIAM: Yeah, I mean that's either hit it with fire01:42:51
or dump some transmutation, but it's probably fire.01:42:53
TALIESIN: Let's see.01:42:54
LIAM: That's what I was going to do01:42:55
before you even got there.01:42:56
TALIESIN: So I'm going to just try and curl my way around01:42:59
where Jester's duplicate is and I'm just going to see01:43:02
what happens when I step away from one of them.01:43:05
MATT: Try and step away from--01:43:06
SAM: ♪ (vocalizes horn wail in background music) ♪01:43:07
MATT: From one of them?01:43:08
TALIESIN: Yeah, I'm going to stay in the--01:43:10
MATT: Right there?
TALIESIN: -- attack realm of, yeah.01:43:11
MATT: Okay.01:43:12
So as you move back that one as a reaction,01:43:15
you feel this energy lash at you like a frozen whip.01:43:21
That is a 13.01:43:22
TALIESIN: That does not hit. MATT: So you manage to move aside.01:43:24
TALIESIN: Shit.01:43:27
All right, can I do anything as a bonus action01:43:30
or am I just?01:43:37
Nope, there's nothing I can do as a bonus action01:43:40
because all of my spells are01:43:43
bullshit at the moment.01:43:44
I can't cast Healing Word01:43:45
because I just put up Spirit Guardians, right?01:43:46
MATT: Correct, yes.
TALIESIN: Goddamn it.01:43:48
MATT: Sorry, buddy.
TALIESIN: (blows raspberry)01:43:50
Is that your turn?01:43:51
TALIESIN: Yeah, that's my fucking turn.01:43:53
(laughter)01:43:54
MATT: Okay!01:43:55
ASHLEY: Oh, I hate that feeling.01:43:56
MATT: Veth, you're up. Caleb, you're on deck.01:44:00
SAM: Jester's still holding the rope, right?01:44:02
LAURA: Yep!
MATT: Yep.01:44:03
SAM: I'm going to jump on it and run down the rope!01:44:05
(quick footsteps)01:44:06
MARISHA: Oh, ninja!01:44:09
LAURA: I let go of the rope. Just kidding.01:44:11
SAM: (screams)
(laughter)01:44:13
MATT: What's your speed?01:44:14
SAM: 35.01:44:15
MATT: 35 gets you right there.01:44:16
SAM: You know what though? I think I'll stop early.01:44:20
It seems dangerous in there.01:44:22
And also, I don't know who's engaged with who.01:44:26
So I'll stop even earlier, maybe just outside01:44:28
the Spirit Guardian range.
MATT: You got it.01:44:30
SAM: And I'm going to whip out this--01:44:33
somewhere I got this, but I have it,01:44:34
so I'm going to use it.01:44:36
I'm going to whip out this scroll and read it.01:44:39
And cast Flaming Sphere.01:44:41
TRAVIS: Ooh!01:44:42
MATT: Okay.01:44:44
LIAM: Bowling.01:44:48
MATT: Where would you like to place the Sphere?01:44:51
SAM: The one next to Caduceus, but, you know,01:44:53
in a way that doesn't hurt Caduceus.01:44:55
TRAVIS: It'll roll downhill.01:44:56
MATT: Right, so right here?01:44:57
SAM: And, I don't know,01:44:58
I've never cast this before,01:44:59
I can roll it around, right?01:45:00
MATT: You can.01:45:02
LAURA: Cool! MATT: In fact.
LIAM: Like a bowling ball.01:45:03
TALIESIN: Maybe there's three in a row, or.01:45:05
SAM: Yeah, I mean, it doesn't have to be01:45:07
a straight line, right? Like, I can go around with it?01:45:10
TRAVIS: Bend that shit?01:45:11
LAURA: Do a topsy-turvy ball?
MATT: I'll show you.01:45:12
LAURA: What are those little raccoon balls with the tails?01:45:16
MATT: It appears anywhere in 60 feet.01:45:19
And any creature that ends its turn01:45:21
within five feet of it has to make a dex save01:45:23
or take 2d6 damage.01:45:25
So anything nearby that ends its turn01:45:26
next to it takes damage.01:45:28
Also, as a bonus action, you can move it01:45:30
up to 30 feet and ram it into a creature.01:45:32
In which case, that creature also has to try01:45:35
and make the dex save.
SAM: But it can't just go,01:45:36
pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop and hit them all?01:45:38
MATT: No.
TALIESIN: But if it's next to two?01:45:40
MATT: You can ram it next to a creature01:45:41
and then other creatures have to move away from it01:45:42
or if they end their turn next to it they take damage.01:45:44
SAM: Well then, in that case,01:45:45
I'll make it appear between two of them.01:45:48
Because it has a five-foot, I guess,01:45:50
radius or something, right?01:45:51
MATT: You can put it next to...01:45:54
You can put it here and get it next to three of them.01:45:56
SAM: Yeah, that!
MATT: But it'll also be01:45:57
next to Caduceus, so you'll have to move01:45:58
out of its range next turn, your call.01:46:01
TALIESIN: Put it on the other side, maybe?01:46:02
SAM: Yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe I'll just go for two of them.01:46:04
I'll go for two of them.01:46:05
MATT: Two of them. There you go.01:46:07
So as you finish reading the scroll,01:46:08
as you're holding onto the rope01:46:09
and grabbing it, the scroll burns away01:46:12
and you guys hear this strange whining sound01:46:14
as this little opening seems to open in the air01:46:18
and (whooshes) this ball of fire emerges from it,01:46:21
slops onto the ground and begins rolling.01:46:25
So it lands there.01:46:26
You can use your bonus action
to ram one of those, if you'd like to.01:46:28
SAM: Oh wow. I will do that.01:46:30
I will pick a random ice thing to ram.01:46:33
MATT: All right, so the one directly--01:46:34
which of these two would you like to hit?01:46:36
SAM: The ice-y one.01:46:38
They're all the same to me.01:46:39
MATT: Sure!01:46:41
SAM: The better, the more attractive one.01:46:44
MATT: You got it.01:46:45
(laughter)01:46:49
It does not make its saving throw.01:46:52
So go ahead and roll 2d6.01:46:54
SAM: Okay, okay, okay.01:46:55
I assume it's vulnerable or--01:46:56
Oh, come on, double ones?!01:46:59
Poo.
MATT: Aw.01:47:02
SAM: Two points!
MARISHA: Double ones? Oh my god.01:47:05
MATT: So the sphere attempts to ram into it01:47:07
and it dodges out of the way,01:47:08
the flames lick past and it takes a little bit of damage.01:47:11
SAM: Does it double the damage because it's made of ice?01:47:13
MATT: You don't know, you barely hit the thing!01:47:15
SAM: But does it say,
"Argh! I'm so attractive, not the face!"01:47:19
Or anything? MATT: You have no idea.
SAM: All right.01:47:21
MATT: You rolled double ones, yo.01:47:22
All right, that finish your turn, Veth?01:47:24
SAM: Yes.
MATT: You got it. Caleb, you're up.01:47:26
LIAM: I have a question about the spell01:47:28
that you and I worked out together.01:47:30
Web of Fire, it says "flame crackles out around the caster01:47:34
"and streaks of fire rapidly snake along the ground."01:47:37
It doesn't say-- we didn't write in stone:01:47:40
straight lines, arching, curving?01:47:43
What kind of control do I have on them?01:47:45
MATT: We said you have control over01:47:46
to hit the certain creatures you want to,01:47:47
you still have control of that.01:47:48
LIAM: Okay, well then I'm going to try this.01:47:50
I'm going to pull out the cat's cradle01:47:51
crusted over in phosphorus01:47:53
and then slam it down into the ground01:47:54
and send all five of them forward01:47:57
along the line of the rope01:47:58
and then splitting out01:48:00
and sending one to each of the braziers01:48:02
to erupt at each brazier.01:48:04
MARISHA: Oh, get it!
LIAM: And one01:48:06
on the one that is hurting Ca--01:48:09
the one closest to Jester's duplicate.01:48:13
MATT: Okay. What's the range on that?
LIAM: 60 feet.01:48:15
MARISHA: Please work.
MATT: 60 feet?01:48:19
Okay, so.01:48:21
You watch as Caleb, first at the top of your turn01:48:24
because you are in range of three of them,01:48:27
you immediately take...01:48:32
21 points of cold damage.01:48:33
LIAM: Okay.01:48:34
MATT: From the auras burning into you.01:48:36
And right now you begin to lose feeling01:48:38
in your fingers and arms,01:48:39
but you've practiced this over and over again.01:48:42
So even without feeling,01:48:43
you still go through the motions.01:48:44
And as you slam your hands down,01:48:46
you watch as this arcane energy sparkles01:48:48
at the tips of his fingers.01:48:49
And as it hits the frost and stone,01:48:52
they spider out into these little burning,01:48:54
web-like filaments, like you'd see five separate elements01:48:57
of black powder paths, or--01:49:01
what's the word I'm looking for?01:49:02
MARISHA: Fuse?
MATT: Fuses, thank you.01:49:04
Snaking across the ground, they (whooshes)01:49:06
up to the middle of it and then01:49:08
spread out to all five of them.01:49:09
Where do you send them on the braziers?01:49:12
LIAM: Well, Beauregard's at a little hole, a cubby, right?01:49:16
So I will do my best to aim, if I can see those,01:49:19
to the side, to hit the sides01:49:22
where those ports would be01:49:23
to erupt along the side of it.01:49:25
To try to fart fire01:49:27
into the little port.
MATT: I understand.01:49:28
I will say you can see all of them.01:49:30
The one that Beauregard's at is a little obscured.01:49:32
Make a perception check for me.01:49:34
LIAM: What if I just aimed where Beauregard is?01:49:38
MATT: Then you might hit Beauregard.01:49:40
LIAM: I know.01:49:41
MARISHA: I've got Evasion.01:49:43
LIAM: Yeah. That's what I do.01:49:44
TRAVIS: Wreck her!
MATT: Okay. All right.01:49:46
So...
MARISHA: Do it.01:49:47
MATT: Go ahead and roll damage.01:49:49
MARISHA: I approve of this message.01:49:55
LIAM: 26 points of fire damage.01:49:57
MATT: 26 points of fire damage?01:49:58
LIAM: Yeah.
MATT: Okay.01:50:00
Make a dexterity saving throw.01:50:03
MARISHA: I get to do Evasion, right?
TRAVIS: Higher than a 10!01:50:06
MATT: Evasion is if you succeed.
LIAM: Half or zero.01:50:10
MARISHA: If I succeed. Right, right, right, right, right.01:50:13
17.01:50:15
MATT: What's your DC? LIAM: Oh, higher than that.01:50:17
MARISHA: Yeah. I rolled terribly.
LIAM: 18.01:50:19
MATT: Yeah, so you take01:50:20
the full brunt of it.
TRAVIS: What are you doing today?01:50:21
MARISHA: I rolled a seven again. I've rolled so many sevens.01:50:24
LAURA: Are you changing out your dice?01:50:26
MARISHA: I am! This was supposed to be the Beau die!01:50:29
LIAM: Evasion makes it-- it's been a while01:50:30
since I've been a rogue, but half damage, right?01:50:32
MATT: It's half damage on a success01:50:33
and then no damage on a failure.01:50:37
Sorry, no, sorry.
MARISHA: The reverse.01:50:38
MATT: Half damage on a failure.
LIAM: If she succeeded,01:50:40
she would've taken zero.01:50:41
MATT: Correct. Sorry.
LIAM: If she failed,01:50:42
she takes half.01:50:43
MATT: Yes, so you take half the fire damage01:50:44
that was there.01:50:45
MARISHA: Which is 20, sorry, 14?
LIAM: 26 halved.01:50:46
MATT: So, 13. 13 points of fire damage.01:50:49
MARISHA: Oh, shit, shit, shit.
MATT: You suddenly,01:50:51
as you're like defending against01:50:52
this weird crystal, you see this,
out of the corner of your eye,01:50:54
this little red (whooshes).01:50:56
And right as you notice it, you burst into flames.01:50:59
You are on fire!01:51:01
TALIESIN: Yeah, you are!01:51:03
MARISHA: By all mathematics, I should've been able01:51:05
to dodge that, so...01:51:08
SAM: That's hot.01:51:11
MARISHA: Just rolled terribly.
TRAVIS: You are on fire!01:51:14
Hey, we got fucking fire!01:51:16
MARISHA: ♪ This girl is on fire ♪01:51:20
LAURA: Oh god!01:51:23
MARISHA: Worth it. Worth it.
TRAVIS: (sings)01:51:26
MATT: So you watch as the majority of these streak off,01:51:29
up inside of these small little open spaces.01:51:32
And then (whooshes), the top of the pillars01:51:35
suddenly burst into arcane flame.01:51:38
As it does, immediately you see01:51:40
all these ice entities seem to shiver and quiff,01:51:43
quiver at the immediate reaction, you know what I mean!01:51:46
TALIESIN: Yeah.
(laughter)01:51:47
Carry on.
SAM: Queef?01:51:49
MATT: Quiff! You know, quiff!01:51:50
(laughter)01:51:53
It's been a long day.01:51:55
TALIESIN: My last laugh, Matt, for the day.01:51:56
LIAM: Too dry in here for that.01:51:57
MATT: Indeed.01:51:59
Too cold in here for that!01:52:00
(laughter)01:52:03
Quiver and shift to the proximity of the fire.01:52:07
MARISHA: The shivering queef! (giggles)01:52:11
SAM: You're a child, Marisha. A child.01:52:15
LIAM: That's the Big Bad. That's the Big Bad.01:52:18
TALIESIN: Man, I haven't snorted in a while.01:52:19
(laughter)01:52:24
MARISHA: Oh, it's the exhaustion.01:52:26
TALIESIN: I know.01:52:28
LAURA: Okay.01:52:29
MATT: And then one of them hits the one01:52:30
that's by Caduceus, on this side, you said?01:52:33
LIAM: The one that's smack-dab against Jester's duplicate.01:52:35
MATT: You got it.01:52:37
It does not succeed on save, so it's 26 points of damage.01:52:43
As it (whooshes)01:52:46
shoots up and ignites and bursts around it--01:52:50
Jesus!
(laughter)01:52:54
You watch as the fire consumes01:52:56
a majority of its exterior and as the flames burn away,01:52:59
it's barely holding on.01:53:01
The crystals have mostly now melted away01:53:03
and its small pulsing blue energy01:53:06
is barely maintaining cohesion.01:53:10
That finish your turn?01:53:12
LIAM: Yeah. I'll stay put.01:53:13
I will get hurt if I try to move.01:53:15
MATT: All right, that finishes Caleb's go.01:53:17
Fjord, you're up.01:53:18
TRAVIS: Can I try and pull myself up this rope01:53:21
to the top of the entrance?01:53:25
Because I'm outside.01:53:26
MATT: Up to here, yeah.01:53:27
TRAVIS: Yeah, and then can I see01:53:29
any of this happening down below me?01:53:31
MATT: You've been able to see all this happen. You're like--01:53:33
at this point, everyone had pulled up inside01:53:35
and there was a bit of tunnel before the entrance.01:53:36
So you've seen everything in front of you.01:53:38
TRAVIS: I think I'll just hold onto the rope01:53:39
and I'll unleash some Eldritch Blast at that01:53:46
one that's nearest to Caduceus, closest to me.01:53:48
MATT: You got it, go ahead and roll an attack on that one.01:53:51
LIAM: I got this one move. It's crazy.01:53:53
TRAVIS: Yeah!01:53:54
(laughter)01:53:57
MARISHA: Stop, I was just getting better!01:53:59
ASHLEY: Me, too. I got the giggles.
TRAVIS: 19?01:54:03
MATT: 19 hits, go ahead and roll damage.01:54:05
Ah, I'm going to
fucking murder all of you!01:54:08
(laughter)01:54:10
TRAVIS: That's...01:54:11
(laughter)01:54:14
15 points of force damage.01:54:15
MATT: 15 points of force damage.
SAM: 50?!01:54:18
50?!01:54:19
TRAVIS: One five, one five.01:54:20
LAURA and SAM: Oh, 15.01:54:21
MATT: 15.01:54:23
TRAVIS: 19 to hit?01:54:24
MATT: 19 hits.01:54:25
TRAVIS: That is 12 points of force damage.01:54:27
MATT: 12 points, you got it.01:54:28
TRAVIS: And then the third--
SAM: 200 points?!01:54:30
TRAVIS: Yep!01:54:31
And another 18.01:54:33
MATT: Yep, hits. TRAVIS: Okay, great. Last one.01:54:36
Is 13 points of force damage.01:54:38
MATT: 13 points of force damage, nice.01:54:41
You fire them off. As they impact the sides of it,01:54:43
you see it hit the ground with a clatter01:54:45
and then lift back up.01:54:46
TRAVIS: Okay.
MATT: It looks hurt,01:54:47
but it's still fairly hearty.01:54:49
TRAVIS: I'll stay where I am.01:54:50
MATT: You got it. Finishing that, brings us to the top.01:54:52
Jester, you're up.01:54:53
LAURA: Okay.01:54:54
MATT: Beginning of your turn.01:54:55
SAM: Okay.01:54:58
MARISHA: (laughs)01:55:02
MATT: 19 points of cold damage, reduced to nine.01:55:03
SAM: Oh!01:55:06
LAURA: Okay.01:55:08
Oh my god.
MARISHA: You got this. (laughs)01:55:10
LAURA: Okay.01:55:12
I'm going to...01:55:16
Would I know-- does radiant fire damage--01:55:21
that's not like fire damage?01:55:22
MATT: No, it's a holy burning, but it's not considered fire.01:55:26
LAURA: It's not fire, okay.01:55:28
Okay.01:55:30
Cool. Cool, cool, cool, cool.01:55:32
Then I'm going to follow in Caduceus' footstep01:55:35
and I'm going to cast Spiritual Guardians.01:55:40
MATT: All righty.01:55:41
LAURA: On...01:55:44
I'm going to cast it on where I am.01:55:49
On my real person.01:55:52
MATT: All righty.01:55:56
LAURA: And that's at 3rd-level. Ooh!01:55:59
Yeah, 3rd-level.
MATT: Okay.01:56:02
LAURA: And then I'll use my Spiritual Weapon01:56:04
to attack the ice crystal that I attacked before.01:56:07
MATT: Okay, so you shift it over here.01:56:09
LAURA: Ooh, natural 20! (laughs)01:56:11
MATT: Great! So that's double damage on it.01:56:13
So go ahead and roll and double the dice.01:56:14
LAURA: Great.01:56:17
Ooh, 14 plus five, 19!
MATT: 14 plus five's 19, nice!01:56:23
So as it moves towards the edge of Caduceus' radius,01:56:26
it slams into the--01:56:28
(laughter)01:56:31
SAM: It's still bouncing around!01:56:33
MATT: (laughs) Apparently! This is--01:56:35
TALIESIN: It's like The Wave,01:56:36
making its way around the circle.
MATT: It really is. It keeps making its way01:56:38
around the circle, yeah.01:56:39
LIAM: No eye contact, no eye contact.01:56:42
ASHLEY: But the thing is, guys,01:56:43
I love that we're all laughing about farts right now.01:56:46
MATT: Yep, yep.01:56:48
I love it. All right, so yeah. You swing past the barrier01:56:51
of spiritual guardians that are swarming around Caduceus.01:56:54
As your giant serrated lollipop swings01:56:56
through the blanket of celestial beetles,01:56:59
it crashes into this elemental.01:57:01
It takes a heavy hit.01:57:02
It's starting to look pretty hurt.01:57:03
LAURA: Whoa, okay. It's taken three hits already01:57:06
and it's still only-- jeez louise!01:57:09
MATT: All right. That finishes your turn?01:57:10
LAURA: Yeah!
MATT: It's now their turn.01:57:12
So at the beginning of the round--
TRAVIS: (fart noise)01:57:14
MATT: Go ahead and roll your damage for both of your--01:57:16
TALIESIN: And they have to all make wisdom saves.01:57:18
MARISHA: For my on fire?01:57:20
MATT: Here we go.01:57:21
TALIESIN: Boo!
LAURA: What is it?01:57:24
3d8.
TALIESIN: It's 3d8.01:57:26
LAURA: 3d8.01:57:27
TALIESIN: Boo, boo.
MATT: Success.01:57:31
Failure.01:57:32
And failure.01:57:34
So the top two over there are success.01:57:35
So what was the damage roll?01:57:36
TALIESIN: Seven.
MATT: Seven, all right,01:57:38
so not great, but that's okay.
TALIESIN: No.01:57:40
LAURA: 17.01:57:41
MARISHA: Don't look at me. Don't look at me.01:57:44
LAURA: Oh, wait, no. It's not plus anything.
It's just 3d8, right?01:57:48
TALIESIN: 3d8.
LAURA: 3d8 flat, 12.01:57:51
MATT: All righty.01:57:53
SAM: (laughs)
MATT: (sighs)01:57:56
TALIESIN: And the fireball does damage on their turn01:57:58
as well, right?
MATT: It does.01:58:01
And then 12, two, fail.01:58:04
MARISHA: (cry-laughing) I don't know why.01:58:06
MATT: Success, no, fail, actually.01:58:08
LAURA: Oh. (laughs)01:58:10
MATT: What's your DC again, 17?01:58:12
LAURA, TALIESIN, and MATT: 18.01:58:13
MATT: Fail, and fail.01:58:16
So 12 for all of it.01:58:17
TALIESIN: That was it.01:58:18
Do I have any other d4s to use if I'm conscious long enough?01:58:22
MATT: The one that Yasha had struck last round is assaulted.01:58:26
by a swirl of tiny pink hamster unicorns,01:58:30
and you watch as it shakes01:58:31
in place and then (explosion) shatters01:58:33
into frozen moisture and crystal ice upon the ground.01:58:37
LAURA: I want them to look like inferno unicorns now,01:58:40
so they're-- they look like they're on fire.01:58:43
MATT: Okay. Angry, burning red eyes?01:58:44
LAURA: Yes, yes.
TRAVIS: Nightmares?01:58:45
MATT: Perfect. You got it.
LAURA: Yeah, nightmares!01:58:47
MATT: The two that are next to your--01:58:48
SAM: (surprised noise)01:58:49
MATT: -- all fail.
SAM: Do I roll?01:58:52
MATT: And-- you roll 2d6.01:58:55
And success.
SAM: This time, it was01:58:56
a one and a four!01:58:57
MATT: There you go.01:58:58
SAM: Five points.01:59:01
Doubled, I'm assuming.01:59:05
Because they're ice.01:59:07
MARISHA and SAM: (laugh)01:59:09
SAM: They're vulnerable to fire, maybe?01:59:11
MATT: So you watch as they burn in the proximity of it.01:59:14
Not a high fire damage, but nevertheless, it hurts them.01:59:17
It hurts them.01:59:19
All right, so now, it's their turn.01:59:22
That's two against you, Jester.01:59:25
LAURA: Yeah.01:59:27
SAM: Two against you.
MATT: That is 20 to hit.01:59:29
LAURA: (scoffs) Yeah.01:59:31
MATT: And 21 to hit.01:59:32
TALESIN: Mm.
LAURA: (dejected) Yeah.01:59:34
SAM: Aww!01:59:35
MATT: As they swing towards you,01:59:41
16 points of cold damage01:59:42
reduced to eight, and...01:59:47
17 points of cold damage reduced eight,01:59:50
so 16 total on that one.01:59:52
TALIESIN: Ah, fuck, man.01:59:53
MATT: These all swarm in on Caduceus here.01:59:56
LAURA: Let's all just go to sleep01:59:57
after this!
TALIESIN: They're also half-speed,01:59:59
if that matters.
MATT: Indeed,02:00:01
but it doesn't matter, unfortunately, because you're02:00:03
still pretty close.02:00:04
TALIESIN: Yeah, I know.02:00:06
MATT: And he flies.02:00:07
TRAVIS: Where you at, Cad?02:00:09
TRAVIS: What number are you at?
TALIESIN: 67.02:00:12
TRAVIS: Okay.
TALIESIN: But this is about02:00:13
to be brutal, unless he rolls really poorly.02:00:15
SAM: ♪ (sings to background music) ♪02:00:19
MATT: 12. That misses.
TALIESIN: No.02:00:23
MATT: 15?
TALIESIN: No.02:00:24
LAURA: Wow, you got the shitty ones around you.02:00:27
MATT: 21?
TALIESIN: Hits.02:00:29
LAURA: Shit. Sorry!
TALIESIN: Shh, you did that.02:00:30
MATT: (laughs)02:00:32
SAM: Don't worry, he's fine!02:00:33
MATT: 23 points of cold damage.
SAM: Ooh.02:00:36
MATT: And natural 20.02:00:38
(groaning)
TALIESIN: I cancel!02:00:39
MATT: As a reaction, you do cancel it.02:00:40
TRAVIS: Oh, lucky!
TALIESIN: Yeah.02:00:42
LAURA: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.02:00:43
MATT: Oh, and it's a good thing you did!02:00:46
24 points of cold damage.
TALIESIN: Yep, that would've02:00:48
been the end of me. TRAVIS: Wow!
SAM: Whoa!02:00:50
LAURA: You're down? You're down?
TRAVIS: No!02:00:51
LAURA: Caduceus is down?
TRAVIS: No!02:00:52
SAM: He's okay. He's okay.02:00:53
TRAVIS: Would've been.
TALIESIN: Yeah, I would've been02:00:54
if I had not canceled that.02:00:56
LAURA: Okay, okay, okay, okay.02:00:57
TRAVIS: Definitely would've been--02:00:58
MARISHA: But you're not looking good.02:00:59
MATT: Beauregard.
TALIESIN: When it hits my turn,02:01:01
I might be down.
SAM: You're a cleric! MATT: You do have Patient Defense, so it has disadvantage02:01:03
on it's attack against you.
MARISHA: Correct.02:01:05
Am I also on fire, you said?02:01:06
SAM: ♪ This girl-- ♪
MARISHA: Or was it that I just burst02:01:08
into flame?
LIAM: ♪ Hotter than a fantasy ♪02:01:09
MATT: No, no, it was a burst--
TALIESIN: I could use a heal--02:01:11
MATT: -- of flame, then.
TALIESIN: -- on your next turn.02:01:12
MATT: So it rolled a natural 20 and a two, so it misses.02:01:16
MARISHA: Awesome.
LAURA: So the one02:01:17
that you hit Beau with didn't even catch on fire?02:01:19
SAM: ♪ This girl is on-- ♪02:01:21
MATT: She caught on fire.02:01:22
LIAM: I bet she absorbed it instead.02:01:23
MATT: Exactly. You said he was sending it towards her.02:01:25
If she would've--
LIAM: Well, I was...02:01:27
I did great.02:01:28
MATT: You did great!02:01:29
(laughter)02:01:30
She had a high chance of dodging it with her evasion,02:01:33
so if she would've managed to succeed and evaded,02:01:35
it was going to go and, so,02:01:37
that was my--
LIAM: Makes sense to me.02:01:38
That's why I said nothing.02:01:39
MARISHA: I rolled like shit.02:01:40
MATT: So, that finishes their go.
MARISHA: Terrible.02:01:43
MATT: Now that brings us to Yasha.02:01:44
ASHLEY: Okay, so--
MATT: Yasha, top of your turn.02:01:46
Because of the aura of there,02:01:48
you take five points of fire damage.02:01:50
ASHLEY: Okay.
TALIESIN: Mm.02:01:54
ASHLEY: Okay, so what I'm going to do--02:01:58
I'm going to start with letting out a battle cry,02:02:01
and everyone within 60 feet gains advantage02:02:05
on attack rolls and saving throws.02:02:07
SAM: What's that? What's that now?02:02:08
ASHLEY: So I don't know if it'll
reach. Bonuses on attack rolls--02:02:12
I'm sorry, advantages on attack rolls and saving throws.02:02:15
MARISHA: This is your battle cry?02:02:16
ASHLEY: This is battle cry.02:02:17
MATT: It reaches you. It does not reach you.02:02:19
SAM: Yeah!
MATT: And everyone else02:02:20
gets advantage on attack rolls and saving throws.02:02:21
SAM: Woo!
TALIESIN: Fuck!02:02:22
ASHLEY: Okay, and then I'm going
to attack the one closest to me.02:02:27
MATT: Go for it.
ASHLEY: Okay.02:02:31
Ooh, 25?
MATT: 25 hits!02:02:33
ASHLEY: Okay.02:02:38
Savage Attacker.02:02:39
SAM: ♪ (sings to background music) ♪02:02:41
ASHLEY: That's a little better.02:02:48
28 points of damage02:02:49
for the first attack.
MATT: 28, nice.02:02:51
You take seven points of cold damage
as the energy blasts back02:02:54
from your melee attack against it.02:02:56
ASHLEY: (exhales) Okay, second attack02:02:59
is a natural 20.02:03:01
MARISHA: Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo!02:03:02
MATT: Roll damage.
TALIESIN: End it.02:03:08
Seven, so 14.
TALIESIN: Bonus dice for that?02:03:10
Oh, wow, losing my voice. I'm going away.02:03:12
ASHLEY: So just the dice, or--02:03:14
MATT: Just the dice double.
ASHLEY: Okay, so...02:03:21
LAURA: At least we [inaudible].02:03:23
ASHLEY: Okay, so 27 total.
TALIESIN: Yeah, I may go down hard.02:03:25
MATT: 28 and 27. That's over 50
points of damage in one round.02:03:28
That's great.
ASHLEY: (exhales)02:03:29
MATT: You do take eight points of cold damage02:03:30
from the second strike.02:03:32
ASHLEY: Oh boy.
MATT: And as you,02:03:33
with the second blow, the sword swings wide,02:03:35
and you (grunts) feel the pain,02:03:36
but look up and watch as the creature is no more.02:03:39
It is scattered in a spray of snow and ice chips02:03:42
in the direction of Caleb,02:03:44
(whooshing) spraying the front of him slightly.02:03:46
TRAVIS: Ice chips.02:03:47
MATT: You can still move if you'd like.02:03:48
ASHLEY: Yeah.02:03:52
Boy, I feel like there's a lot going on02:03:55
over by Caduceus and Jester.02:03:59
Wait, which is the real Jester?02:04:01
Which is the duplicate?
LIAM: The one by the door.02:04:04
LAURA: The real me!
LIAM: Downstage.02:04:05
SAM: Ask both a question that only Jester02:04:06
would know the answer to.
ASHLEY: (laughing) That's true.02:04:08
LIAM: One of us only lies!
ASHLEY: I'm going to move02:04:10
a little closer to, but right out of range02:04:13
of the little ice creature, just ready to attack.02:04:16
MATT: So stay put?02:04:18
ASHLEY: I'm going to stay put.02:04:19
MATT: Okay.
(laughter)02:04:20
All right, that finishes your go, Yasha?02:04:23
ASHLEY: Yeah.
MATT: Beauregard, you're up.02:04:24
Caduceus, you're on deck.02:04:25
MARISHA: I don't think I can do anything02:04:26
to light this brazier, so I'm going to02:04:27
turn around and--
MATT: You do take three points02:04:30
of cold damage from being in the proximity of its aura.02:04:32
MARISHA: I take three points of ice damage,02:04:36
and then I'm going to do just big-- two sweeping swings02:04:39
with my Belaborer.02:04:41
I have advantage on these, don't I?02:04:43
MATT: You do.
MARISHA: Thank god,02:04:44
because one's a one.02:04:46
So 26 for the first one.
MATT: That hits.02:04:49
MARISHA: And 28 for the second.02:04:52
MATT: That hits. Roll damage on each.02:04:54
LIAM: Try to get him out of there.02:04:56
SAM: How do we get Caduceus out of there?02:04:57
LIAM: And we lift him out, he's going to get hit--02:04:59
TALIESIN: I think I'm going to be dead next round.02:05:00
SAM: Do you have a transportation type of spell?02:05:03
TALIESIN: I won't have time. I'm going to drop instantly.02:05:06
SAM: But it's your turn! TALIESIN: I'm going to drop immediately on my turn.02:05:09
MARISHA: 10 and 12 damage.
TALIESIN: I'm out.02:05:11
MATT: 10 and 12?
MARISHA: Yeah. LAURA: --before they get to go again.02:05:14
TALIESIN: I'm in aura. I'm out.
MATT: You do take02:05:17
an additional eight points of cold damage02:05:18
from the two strikes, but--02:05:20
MARISHA: Even with my staff?02:05:21
MATT: Even with your staff, but you do destroy02:05:23
with those final hits.
MARISHA: Oh!02:05:26
MATT: They'd taken quite a few hits previously,02:05:27
so as you slam it both with the staff,02:05:29
a second one sends it flying into the far wall,02:05:31
where it (shatters) just breaks into a thousand pieces.02:05:34
MARISHA: In that case, I'll move, and bonus action02:05:38
Flurry of Blows the one that's harassing Caduceus.02:05:41
MATT: Over here?
MARISHA: Whichever one feels02:05:42
like it's most harassing Caduceus.02:05:44
MATT: They're all pretty much most harassing Caduceus.02:05:47
All right, moving into that aura is a new cold aura.02:05:49
You take another one point of cold damage.02:05:51
MARISHA: Okay.
MATT: Bonus action:02:05:52
two more strikes against it.02:05:54
MARISHA: (grunting) Pop, pop, pop!02:05:57
Still at advantage?02:05:58
So 21 for the first one.02:06:01
MATT: 21.02:06:02
MARISHA: And 21 again.
MATT: Both hits.02:06:05
MARISHA: No, sorry, 22.02:06:08
Whatever, never mind. MATT: Well, so the first one--02:06:11
those are to hit, right?
MARISHA: Yeah.02:06:12
MATT: Roll damage for the first one.02:06:15
MARISHA: Okay. Wait, not those, not those.02:06:18
For the first one?
MATT: Mm-hmm.02:06:21
MARISHA: Okay, 13, 14.02:06:25
MATT: You take four points of cold damage from the impact,02:06:27
but this one, which was already barely holding on02:06:29
because of Caleb's spell earlier, shatters at the blow.02:06:32
TALIESIN: I may live.
MARISHA: Great.02:06:34
Four damage? So my second one,02:06:37
can I attack the one that's02:06:39
on the other side of me?
MATT: You can continue to move02:06:40
and come in for this one if you want to, or this one.02:06:42
MARISHA: Yeah, I'll do that one
that's on the other side of me,02:06:44
the one that, yes, yes, yes.02:06:45
MATT: You got it.02:06:47
MARISHA: Just full-on superhero-style punching through ice.02:06:52
Yeah, that's a natural 18, so 30.02:06:55
No, sorry, 28, 28.02:06:56
MATT: Go ahead and roll damage.
MARISHA: I'm not attacking with my staff.02:06:58
MATT: Because you're not moving, you're technically02:07:00
not moving more than half your movement,02:07:02
so you don't have to make a dex save to try and maintain your footing.02:07:04
MARISHA: Terrible damage, seven on that one.02:07:06
MATT: Seven damage on that one, all right.02:07:07
MARISHA: And Extract Aspects.02:07:10
MATT: Good call. You do take four points02:07:12
of cold damage from the impact.02:07:13
MARISHA: Okay.02:07:14
MATT: They are resistant02:07:16
to nonmagical slashing and piercing.02:07:18
MARISHA: Okay.
MATT: They are immune02:07:20
to cold and poison damage and vulnerable to fire damage.02:07:24
MARISHA: Yeah, you know, that all tracks.02:07:26
SAM: Oh, fire damage was just doing so much more!02:07:30
MATT: It was doubling. You were just rolling really shitty.02:07:32
(laughter)02:07:34
MARISHA: Fire is bad. Everyone knows that.02:07:36
Everyone knows that!02:07:38
MARISHA: Okay.
LIAM: Hey.02:07:40
MATT: Okay.
ASHLEY: But it's really helpful to know!02:07:43
MARISHA: Thanks. Thanks.02:07:47
That's my turn.
SAM: Come on, Caduce.02:07:48
MATT: All righty. Caduceus, beginning of your round.02:07:51
SAM: See what happens.
TALIESIN: Mm-hmm.02:07:52
MATT: You take02:07:53
one point of cold damage from one aura,02:07:56
eight from another,02:07:58
and then six, so one,02:08:01
then eight, so nine total.02:08:03
Are you still up?
TALIESIN: Yeah.02:08:05
MATT: Then the six addition to that, so 14 total.02:08:07
TALIESIN: I am still up.02:08:08
MATT: All righty! TALIESIN: 14, thank you for knocking that out!02:08:11
MARISHA: Just the one made the difference?
TALIESIN: Because that02:08:13
would've fucking done me.02:08:15
I'm at six hit points. So yeah.02:08:19
Okay.02:08:25
MARISHA: Wow.02:08:26
TALIESIN: I'm going to-- okay, the wound closure,02:08:29
do you use-- I can't remember. If I use Cure Wounds,02:08:32
that doesn't use my healing,02:08:37
the-- oh god, sorry, hold on.02:08:40
MATT: Look at your parapet again.02:08:41
MARISHA: Your parapet situation?
TALIESIN: Yeah.02:08:44
This is my brain. That doesn't use my--02:08:48
MATT: No, when you roll a hit dice, you get hit points.02:08:49
That's during a short rest.02:08:50
TALIESIN: Okay, so that's just--
MATT: So it doesn't affect02:08:51
actually magical healing.02:08:53
TALIESIN: Okay, that's okay.02:08:55
I'm going to cast Cure Wounds at--02:08:59
LIAM: Periapt.02:09:01
TALIESIN: Let's do a 4th-level Cure Wounds.02:09:04
MATT: Sure.
TALIESIN: For fun, so.02:09:06
MATT: 4d8 plus five, go for it.02:09:09
TALIESIN: Maybe I'll roll a better 4d8 than I have been.02:09:15
Eh.02:09:20
I'm 20 points back, so a little better than before.02:09:23
MATT: There you go.02:09:27
TALIESIN: And that's pretty much what I can do,02:09:30
so I'm just going to-- I ain't moving anymore.02:09:32
I'm just going to stay put and hope this all ends.02:09:35
MATT: Fair enough. If you could, make three concentration checks02:09:38
for me, please, to maintain02:09:40
your Spirit Guardians.
ASHLEY: You have advantage02:09:41
on saving throws.
TALIESIN: Oh, yeah.02:09:43
Oh, I already have advantage on concentration checks anyway.02:09:46
TRAVIS: Good thing.02:09:47
TALIESIN: Saves or checks?02:09:49
MATT: Checks, or it's a saving throw, so whatever02:09:50
your constitution saving throw is.02:09:53
TALIESIN: 13.
MATT: All right, you maintain.02:09:58
TALIESIN: 22.02:09:59
MATT: Maintain.02:10:02
TALIESIN: Nine?
MATT: No.02:10:04
TALIESIN: Fuck!02:10:08
LAURA: Fuck.02:10:11
TRAVIS: Oh, boy.02:10:13
MATT: All right, that finish your go?
MARISHA: Dang.02:10:14
TALIESIN: I mean, in more ways than one, yeah.02:10:17
(laughter)02:10:19
MATT: Veth, you're up. Caleb, you're on deck.02:10:21
LIAM: Yes, sir.
ASHLEY: Wow.02:10:22
MARISHA and TRAVIS: (laughing)02:10:25
SAM: So, before Caduceus' next turn,02:10:28
they're going to get a go,02:10:31
and Beauregard's going to get a go.02:10:34
MARISHA: Mm-mm.
SAM: No.02:10:35
MARISHA: Jester will get a go.02:10:36
And then they--
SAM: Is that real Jester02:10:37
or fake Jester?
TALIESIN: It's fake Jester.02:10:38
SAM: Oh, and Fjord.
LAURA: It doesn't matter.02:10:40
I can cast spells from my fake.02:10:42
SAM: Okay, I will-- just because I--02:10:46
MATT: By the way, is your duplicate concentration?02:10:52
LAURA: Yes.02:10:54
MATT: Much easier to keep track of
which one the real Jester is02:10:57
because with the Spiritual Guardians up,02:10:58
the duplicate is gone.02:11:00
LAURA: That's a good point.02:11:03
MATT: Sorry.
LAURA: That was a--02:11:04
TRAVIS: Still good, still good.02:11:05
SAM: We're fine. We're fine.02:11:06
LIAM: Absolutely.
LAURA: Fuck!02:11:07
TALIESIN: You could eventually run over here, too,02:11:08
and then--
LAURA: I will, if I can.02:11:10
TALIESIN: You can't.
LAURA: I can climb the rope,02:11:12
maybe, and get uphill.02:11:13
It's uphill, so it'll be difficult.02:11:15
TALIESIN: It's a slope.02:11:16
SAM: I will-- just because I like02:11:19
this rope so much, I'm going to hang on it with my knees.02:11:24
MATT: Well, who's holding the rope up here, by the way?02:11:26
TRAVIS: What's up?
MATT: Are you holding the rope up there?02:11:28
TRAVIS: I'm staying up at the top, yeah.02:11:29
MATT: Yeah.02:11:30
SAM: Sure, I'm going to hang on it with my knees like that,02:11:33
upside down, and shooting the thing.02:11:36
MATT: Okay.02:11:38
LAURA: I like that we're battling all these things02:11:39
and still, like, I'm-- (grunts)02:11:41
(laughter)02:11:42
SAM: Hold it steady, guys!02:11:44
And you know what, I will throw a knife instead of02:11:49
the thingy.
MATT: Okay.02:11:51
Who you throwing it at?02:11:52
SAM: I'll throw it at the one closest to me.02:11:53
MATT: Right there? Go for it. Roll for the attack.02:11:55
SAM: With advantage.
MATT: With advantage. (whooshing)02:11:59
SAM: 18 plus stuff, so it's got to hit.02:12:01
MATT: That hits. You can go ahead and roll damage.02:12:03
SAM: And--
MATT: And it is sneak attack02:12:04
because you had advantage on the attack roll.02:12:05
SAM: Yeah.02:12:06
MATT: And next to Caduceus, regardless.02:12:09
SAM: Okay. (counting)02:12:15
25 plus02:12:19
six is 31, plus I will pump02:12:23
an extra 3d6 into it.
MATT: Sure.02:12:25
LAURA: (whispering) You're still good.02:12:30
SAM: 38 points of damage.02:12:32
MATT: 38 points of damage.02:12:35
The dagger strikes it, and you watch for a moment02:12:37
as it lodges itself in the center02:12:39
of this throbbing blue energy,02:12:41
and the crystal just shatters02:12:44
all across the chamber floor.02:12:45
The dagger plummets, then slides02:12:48
down the bottom of the floor--
SAM: Oh no!02:12:50
MATT: -- towards the other door.
SAM: No, no, no! (laughs)02:12:53
TRAVIS: (hissing)02:12:55
MATT: That's your action.
SAM: On bonus action,02:12:56
I'll charge with my Flaming Sphere02:12:59
at the other one.02:13:01
MARISHA: Get it.
MATT: Hit a side there.02:13:02
As it rolls across the ground,02:13:04
slamming into the crystal entity, it fails its save.02:13:08
(laughs) So 2d6.02:13:10
SAM: Four points of damage!02:13:12
MATT: Up to eight.02:13:13
TRAVIS: Yeah! (laughs)02:13:16
TRAVIS: What is it, 2d4?02:13:17
SAM: It's 2d6.02:13:18
I just keep rolling terribly.02:13:21
MATT: All righty. (laughs)
SAM: Does the Flaming Sphere--02:13:24
does it catch the USB cord on fire, or am I okay?02:13:28
MATT: It will in a couple rounds.02:13:29
SAM: Okay, cool. (laughs)02:13:30
MARISHA: It's insulated, you know.02:13:32
It's got, it's good, yeah.
TRAVIS: Latched in.02:13:34
MARISHA: It's great.
TALIESIN: You could move it.02:13:35
No, never mind. Oh, okay.02:13:37
MATT: All right, so, that finishes your go.02:13:39
Caleb, you're up.
LIAM: I'm going to finish what I started.02:13:41
I raise the cat's cradle up, and I spin my finger around02:13:43
and wrap it up tighter in string and bring it02:13:45
right back down and cast at 5th-level,02:13:48
and I will send one of the snakes to the final brazier02:13:51
and hit every last creature on the map02:13:54
because there's four of them.02:13:56
MATT: Okay.
LIAM: That's five targets.02:13:57
SAM: (poofing)02:14:00
MATT: That one alights, and then roll damage for the other.02:14:03
LIAM: Yep, eight, so that's 9d6.02:14:05
MATT: Failed save.02:14:07
Failed save.02:14:10
Success, and success.02:14:15
LIAM: It's 28 total.02:14:17
MATT: So they both take it.02:14:19
LAURA: So that's what, 52?02:14:22
No, 56?
LIAM: 56.02:14:27
LAURA: Wow.02:14:31
MATT: Both of them just shatter and melt in midair.02:14:34
You hear the explosion, and there's just a mist left behind02:14:37
as immediately, the ice is turned to vapor02:14:39
and this small cloud of fog, where they both02:14:40
just shriek.02:14:42
No longer exist to the right of you and Jester.02:14:46
You did at the top of your round02:14:47
take one point02:14:48
of cold damage from proximity to one02:14:50
of them, just as a note.02:14:52
The other two impact02:14:54
and are extremely hurt.02:14:57
They are barely holding on.02:14:58
They have no seemingly intellect of their own,02:15:00
so they're not looking to flee.02:15:01
They don't have a sense of self. They are just hungry for heat.02:15:03
As the last brazier lights, (whooshes)02:15:05
the doors behind you and Jester (whooshes)--02:15:08
LAURA: (gasps) Uh oh!
MATT: -- open up, the two02:15:10
that you are leaning against.02:15:11
I need you both to make dexterity saving throws for me.02:15:14
LAURA: Oops!02:15:15
LIAM: Okay.
LAURA: Oh, advantage!02:15:16
TRAVIS: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.02:15:18
MATT: Yeah, you do have dex saves.
MARISHA: Tight, tight, tight, tight.02:15:20
LAURA: Okay, okay, okay.02:15:23
21 for me.
MATT: All righty.02:15:25
MARISHA: Remember that scene in the Titanic?02:15:27
TRAVIS: Oh, yeah.
LIAM: 15 for me.02:15:28
TRAVIS: (imitates violin)
MARISHA: (sliding)02:15:31
LIAM: If I fail, I'll succeed it with the ring.02:15:33
MATT: You do fail.02:15:34
LIAM: Okay, so I use the Ring of Evasion.02:15:35
ASHLEY: Is there any way I can--
MATT: So you do succeed, okay.02:15:38
You both barely manage to move to the sides.02:15:40
LAURA: Well, I'm holding onto the rope,02:15:41
so I'm assuming (laughs) Fjord probably gets yanked.
SAM: (yelping)02:15:45
TRAVIS: (yelps)02:15:46
MATT: Oh god, there you go.
TALIESIN: Yay!02:15:49
TRAVIS: I'm strong. I-- (shrieks)02:15:51
MATT: You both--02:15:53
LIAM: You just clench your glutes and hold the rope?02:15:55
MATT: Just shift over to the side.02:15:57
You hold the rope and pull off the end,02:15:58
and the door opens to the left of you.02:16:00
You both manage to prevent just falling02:16:02
into the next chamber.02:16:03
LIAM: (laughs) That was close.02:16:05
MATT: All righty.02:16:08
That finishes Caleb's go.
LIAM: Yeah.02:16:10
MATT: You can move if you'd like to.02:16:13
LIAM: I will move just maybe five
or 10 more feet to the left,02:16:17
so I don't fall in.02:16:18
MATT: Fair enough. That brings us
to Fjord. Fjord, you're up.02:16:21
TRAVIS: Yeah, my dexterity's not so great,02:16:23
and doors are opening and shit at the bottom of the room.02:16:27
You know, like when you go tubing,02:16:28
you can kind of aim where you want to go?02:16:31
MATT: Yeah?
LIAM: Yeah!02:16:32
TRAVIS: Can I try and, like, jump and slide,02:16:34
so I'll slide right towards where Caduceus is?02:16:37
MATT: We can certainly try.02:16:38
TRAVIS: I will try and kaplinko my way down02:16:40
to Caduceus.02:16:42
MATT: I dig it.02:16:43
To get right where Caduceus is, you will be passing by Veth.02:16:45
TRAVIS: Yep.
MATT: Okay!02:16:47
SAM: You've also dropped the rope,02:16:48
I assume?
TRAVIS: Yeah, fuck that rope.02:16:49
SAM: (surprised yell)02:16:50
(laughter)02:16:51
MATT: So you don't need to worry about that.02:16:52
Veth, make a dexterity check for me.
SAM: Check?02:16:55
MATT: A dexterity saving throw. I
would say with disadvantage02:16:57
because you weren't expecting it,02:16:58
but you have an advantage, so it's just a straight roll.02:16:59
SAM: Natural one.02:17:01
MARISHA and ASHLEY: Oh!02:17:03
MARISHA: No!
MATT: Veth. (whooshing)02:17:06
SAM: (screams)02:17:09
LAURA: I've still got the rope on the other end!02:17:12
MATT: You do, but she's now just gliding off like this02:17:15
because you're holding one end of the rope.02:17:16
SAM: (screams)
MATT: So are you holding on to--02:17:18
she holds onto the rope, so you go falling out the side,02:17:20
but are you still holding the rope?02:17:22
SAM: No!
LAURA: No, you're not02:17:23
going to hold onto it?
MATT: You let go of the rope?02:17:24
SAM: I was never holding the rope. My legs were on it.02:17:26
TRAVIS: Yeah! (laughs)
LAURA: So you're still, like--02:17:27
MATT: That's right. Then, I'll tell you what:02:17:28
as you and the rope go sliding by,02:17:33
roll a d20 for me.
TALIESIN: Oh no.02:17:35
LIAM: And the rope is going-- (whirs)02:17:36
LAURA: Yeah, just tangling back up.
SAM: Two! (laughs)02:17:40
LAURA: Yeah, I know. Can we try to catch her?02:17:41
ASHLEY: Or grab her on the way down?02:17:43
LAURA: That's like a reaction.
ASHLEY: Because I'm right there?02:17:46
MATT: I can't give you guys 16 different reactions,02:17:48
and when it's, like, three rolls have failed in a row here.02:17:51
LIAM: (like Sean Connery) Indiana, let it go.
MATT: Yeah.02:17:53
TRAVIS: Let it go.
ASHLEY: Let it go.02:17:55
MATT: Veth just slides into the next chamber.02:17:58
SAM: (surprised shout)02:17:59
MARISHA: (laughs)02:18:00
SAM: Do I catch my knife on the way? (laughs)02:18:04
MATT: We'll get to you in a second.
SAM: Okay.02:18:05
(laughter)02:18:06
MATT: Fjord, what are you doing?
You trying to scoot this way?02:18:08
TRAVIS: Yeah, I'm trying to slide
right down to where Caduceus is.02:18:09
MATT: Okay, make a dexterity check, not a saving throw.02:18:12
It's not a reaction.02:18:14
TRAVIS: Okay. MATT: But I will allow advantage02:18:16
on this because you are doing this
intentionally, and it's just sliding.02:18:19
TRAVIS: A dexterity check?02:18:20
MATT: Yes, you add your dexterity bonus.02:18:21
TALIESIN: With advantage. Everything should--02:18:22
Well, but, like, we have advantage on a ton of stuff.02:18:24
TRAVIS: 18, just an 1802:18:26
with no modifier.
MATT: Yeah, where you want to go?02:18:27
TRAVIS: Straight down to Caduceus.02:18:30
MATT: (whooshing) All right, so you are sliding past him.02:18:33
You will either bowl through Caduceus,02:18:36
or you can try and stop or go with him.02:18:38
TRAVIS: No, I literally want to give him a big-ass hug.02:18:41
I'm going to hit him, and when I hit him,02:18:43
I'm going to cast Thunder Step.02:18:44
LIAM: Boosh!
MATT: All righty!02:18:46
You do enter the frost radius02:18:48
of two of them when you do so,02:18:50
so you do take 14 points of cold damage.02:18:52
TRAVIS: Okay.02:18:53
MATT: As you slide into their space, but02:18:55
as you're scooting down, sending up ice bits02:18:57
and bits of rock and pebbles behind you,02:19:00
you reach out, scoop up Caduceus.02:19:02
You both go about to tumble as
you finish the spell, and then--02:19:04
TALIESIN: Oh boy.02:19:05
TRAVIS and MATT: (explosion)02:19:07
MATT: -- explode outward.02:19:09
The flaming sphere, I will say at this point02:19:11
because it's no longer in your sight, will dissipate.02:19:14
SAM: Sure, sure.02:19:15
MATT: So where do you two want to go?02:19:17
TRAVIS: I'm going to go to the
corner, down over here, right here.02:19:22
MATT: You both manage02:19:23
to stumble a bit and land against the wall,02:19:25
catching yourself, not quite falling completely over,02:19:27
using the edge of it to stop your momentum.02:19:30
It hurts. That shoulder's going to be sore in the morning.02:19:32
TALIESIN: Yep, everything's sore.02:19:33
MATT: But you're okay at the moment.02:19:35
How much damage do both of them take,02:19:37
and what's their save?02:19:40
TRAVIS: 21-- 21, 24,02:19:43
24 points of thunder damage, and it's a constitution 18.02:19:49
MATT: No,02:19:51
and yes.
MARISHA: Yes, damn.02:19:53
MATT: 24 to 12.02:19:55
They're already both pretty hurt,02:19:57
and so regardless of making its save,02:19:59
as you both vanish from sight,02:20:02
there's a brief moment where just, they go (whooshing),02:20:04
and the space where they were,02:20:06
suddenly (whooshing) impacts and then (explosion)02:20:09
detonates outward in this shockwave that sends all02:20:13
of their ice shards and essence just scattering02:20:16
across the room at enormous speed.02:20:18
The rest of you in the chamber have to protect yourself02:20:21
as you're suddenly pelted with tiny bits of broken ice,02:20:26
and with that quiet moment, you realize02:20:28
that nothing else in the chamber beyond you02:20:33
seems to be moving, reacting.02:20:36
TRAVIS: Would I have hit you?02:20:37
LAURA: Yes!
TRAVIS: Would I have hit you also?02:20:40
MARISHA: I think you would've.
TRAVIS: Okay.02:20:41
LAURA: But what if you, like--02:20:42
MATT: That is within five feet, so yes,02:20:43
make a constitution saving throw.02:20:45
LAURA: You slid just down with Caduceus
and bamfed out when you were out02:20:48
of close range?
MARISHA: I still have Battle Cry.02:20:50
MATT: You do.
TRAVIS: What?02:20:53
MARISHA: Natural 20.
ASHLEY: Ey!02:20:55
MATT: So you take 12 points of thunder damage.02:20:56
I think that's right, 'cause it was 24?02:20:58
TALIESIN: Maybe we should get into
the next room and take a minute.02:21:01
MATT: So Veth.
SAM: (yells)02:21:04
MATT: You slide into darkness, and where you are expecting02:21:07
a floor to meet you--02:21:08
LAURA: (gasps)02:21:10
MATT: You're free falling.02:21:11
TRAVIS and MARISHA: Oh, shit!02:21:13
MATT: And falling and falling.02:21:18
I need you to make-- just roll a d6 for me.02:21:21
SAM: Okay.02:21:24
Two.02:21:25
MATT: Two, okay.02:21:27
LAURA: Do you have anything?02:21:28
SAM: I've got stuff.02:21:30
MATT: You fall for 50,02:21:33
60, 70 feet.
LIAM: What are you doing?02:21:35
MATT: You don't really see much around you02:21:38
because you don't have darkvision--
but you have the goggles on still, right?02:21:40
SAM: I do. I will at some point cast Feather Fall.02:21:43
MATT: Well, up to you.02:21:45
You've fallen for 70 feet at this point,02:21:46
and looking around you, all you see02:21:47
is bits of jagged ice and stone-- (whooshing)02:21:50
SAM: I will cast Feather Fall.
MATT: Okay.02:21:52
(poofing)02:21:54
LIAM: No, better be sure.02:21:56
Wait another minute.
MATT: And you just slowly02:21:57
begin to drift for 80,02:22:00
90, 100,02:22:02
10, 120, 150,02:22:05
200 feet.
TRAVIS: Oh, boy.02:22:07
MATT: 250 feet.
TRAVIS: Oh no.02:22:09
SAM: It doesn't last forever.02:22:10
MATT: At about 270-- you fall pretty fast, though.02:22:13
At about 270 feet, you begin to just barely see,02:22:16
rising up to you, the floor of this pit.02:22:20
LAURA: Oh my god.
MATT: You see broken02:22:23
bits of jagged stone walls and pillars02:22:26
that are like a spike trap at the bottom.02:22:29
Debris and elements of fallen architecture02:22:32
just litter the floor at the bottom of this pit,02:22:34
and you land on your feet gently, taking no damage.02:22:38
LAURA: (relieved) Ah!
SAM: (laughs)02:22:39
TRAVIS: I thought he was going to say lava.
"You took 75--", yeah.02:22:42
TALIESIN: If that had been literally anyone else--02:22:44
TRAVIS: Toast, toast.
MARISHA: Dead.02:22:45
TALIESIN: -- and done.02:22:48
Anybody else.
MATT: As soon as that rope went,02:22:49
I was, like, okay!02:22:51
LIAM: Spider-Man slide into dark.02:22:52
MATT: Yeah, hey--
SAM: No worries.02:22:55
ASHLEY: (shouting) Veth, are you okay?02:22:59
LAURA: Veth!
TALIESIN: Kay, kay, kay.02:23:00
SAM: I don't know. Can I even hear them?02:23:01
That's far! Yeah, I can still hear them.02:23:03
MATT: You can hear them, yeah.02:23:05
SAM: (yells)02:23:07
ASHLEY: Are you hurt?02:23:08
SAM: (yelling) No, I'm okay!02:23:10
LIAM: I start sending the globules down02:23:11
just to get an idea of the space.02:23:14
MATT: No worries.02:23:16
As you peer over, you can see now a mostly collapsed chamber02:23:21
with jagged rock and ice punching through the top02:23:23
of what might have been once a beautiful structure,02:23:27
some sort of ceremonial interior,02:23:29
but the majority of it has tumbled inward,02:23:32
and the floor has bottomed out from underneath.02:23:35
This 25 by 30-foot chamber area has no floor.02:23:40
All of it, all of whatever structure was there02:23:44
has fallen into this pit into endless darkness,02:23:47
and as you hear the faint echoes of Veth calling up to you,02:23:51
we're going to take a break.02:23:52
SAM: Ooh, good spot!02:23:53
TRAVIS: I'm going to hit you with a Cure Wounds.02:23:55
TALIESIN: I'm going to do a-- if we can take 10 minutes,02:23:57
I can also heal, give everybody who took damage02:24:00
a little bit of--
TRAVIS: Okay, we'll wait for that,02:24:01
after the break.
LAURA: Okay.02:24:02
LIAM: Fjord is the master of the drive-by Thunder Step.02:24:05
LAURA: Yep.02:24:06
MARISHA: Yeah, it's great.
LIAM: Moving target.02:24:07
MATT: I love it so much.02:24:09
It is, like, the hottest use of that spell.02:24:11
LIAM: (zooming) (poofing)02:24:12
TALIESIN: Oh, boy!
LIAM: (zooming) (poofing)02:24:14
TRAVIS: Heads up, heads up, heads up, heads up! (impact)02:24:16
(laughter)02:24:18
MATT: All righty, be back here in a few minutes,02:24:20
and we'll pick up from this scenario,02:24:22
and see where it goes from there.02:24:23
So see you guys in a minute!02:24:24
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It's a shame you can't go swimming right now.02:26:34
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with my X-Men for-
Yeah, that's true.02:26:41
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Hmm.
Fuzzy.02:26:46
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you can see something.
Okay, all right.02:26:52
I'm trying to get this to attach here02:26:54
but I can't grow hair on my neck right here.02:26:56
Can you guys?02:26:57
I think you need an adapter for that.02:26:59
No.
Get like a nice thyroid mustache.02:27:01
I assume that your chest hair is just,02:27:04
is just manicured into the same shape as your goatee.02:27:08
With like a hole in the middle.02:27:09
Yeah, but it's upside down.02:27:10
Okay.02:27:11
So it's an upside down kind of smile on my chest.02:27:13
So when I look down, I'm smiling at myself via my hair.02:27:16
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(laughter)
MATT: And welcome back!02:42:37
Wow, you all, you all came in hot on that, all right!02:42:41
(laughter)
TRAVIS: Oh, fuck!02:42:44
MATT: You make one quiff.02:42:46
(laughter)
All right.02:42:48
TRAVIS: It's all over.
(laughter)02:42:50
MATT: So.
TRAVIS: (tiny fart noise)02:42:51
(giggling)02:42:54
SAM: Oh boy.02:42:55
MATT: Fjord suddenly slips-- no.
(laughter)02:42:58
TRAVIS: Yeah, 275.
MARISHA: Oh god.02:43:00
MATT: We come back within the frost and ice-coated chamber,02:43:04
where you saw Veth vanish down the extensive pit02:43:08
into darkness below.02:43:10
Seemingly survived because you heard her shout back02:43:12
up to confirm that she is indeed alive.02:43:15
But as you all now glance into this floorless room02:43:18
around the rubble, all you see now below you02:43:21
is the endless expanse of dark, dark pit below.02:43:25
TRAVIS: There are no sorts of stairs working its way02:43:29
around in this shaft of darkness?02:43:32
MATT: Not that you can see, no.02:43:33
TALIESIN: What's above?02:43:35
MATT: A very low ceiling of broken, fallen stone, ice,02:43:39
and looks like elements of broken pillar02:43:42
that have buckled and are being pushed against the wall.02:43:44
Most of this room collapsed.02:43:46
LAURA: Veth, are you okay?02:43:47
SAM: I'm fine. I'm going to look for a way out.02:43:50
I don't know if this is the way or what, but--02:43:53
TRAVIS: Are you-- are you alone down there?02:43:56
TALIESIN: There, there, there.02:43:57
SAM: I don't know!02:43:58
LIAM: So hard to understand.02:43:59
SAM: Am I-- am I alone?
LIAM: (high-pitched noise)02:44:04
MATT: Make a perception check.02:44:06
TRAVIS: (growling)
SAM: 20!02:44:10
MATT: So here at the base of this ragged cavity,02:44:13
you do find two frozen, extremely broken bodies.02:44:18
One appears to be human at first glance.02:44:20
One appears to be halfling at first glance,02:44:23
and they lie amongst the shattered shale02:44:27
and fallen litter and debris.02:44:30
It's about 20, 25 feet wide, and the chamber walls itself02:44:34
are a little oblong and strangely shaped02:44:35
from the naturally formed tunnel that you plummeted through.02:44:40
But, I mean, that's what you see at that glance around you.02:44:46
SAM: I will look over the bodies real quick,02:44:49
see if I recognize them or if they're fresh,02:44:51
or anything like that.02:44:53
MATT: Okay, make an investigation check.02:44:57
SAM: 23.02:44:58
MATT: Okay, their bodies have been picked over.02:45:04
They look like they've been frozen02:45:06
and broken here for a while.02:45:09
SAM: Okay, then I will set about making my way02:45:13
through the spikes and trying to find02:45:15
some sort of wall or exit.02:45:21
MATT: Okay, make another investigation check for me, please.02:45:24
SAM: Okay.02:45:25
I don't know why I rolled twice, but the one02:45:27
that I would count is a natural one,02:45:29
but with all sorts of things, it becomes 23.02:45:33
MATT: Right, okay.02:45:36
You glance around at the interior here, and it is--02:45:41
the pit is solid, but it is cluttered here, and02:45:47
you can't seem to find any give,02:45:50
any entrance, any weak way here.02:45:52
It's hard to get through because there is little light.02:45:55
It is very cluttered.02:45:57
You do pick up a weird acerbic smell02:45:59
in the air that wasn't there previously.02:46:01
SAM: Acerbic smell; from my--
LAURA: What is "acerbic"?02:46:04
SAM: -- my alchemical knowledge, do I pick up any--02:46:08
is it acidic or any, or, or--02:46:11
MATT: It feels acidic, but you
can't quite pinpoint specifically02:46:14
what the smell is.02:46:17
ASHLEY'S TABLET: -- scientists were able to--02:46:18
(laughter)
ASHLEY: Sorry!02:46:22
(laughter)02:46:28
ASHLEY: I'm so sorry.02:46:30
SAM: I don't think that you are.02:46:31
(laughter)
TRAVIS and SAM: (yell)02:46:37
SAM: We'll post that later on.02:46:39
(laughter)02:46:42
MATT: But you do, after a moment of searching,02:46:44
following the smell, find what you think02:46:46
is the source of that scent.02:46:48
SAM: Okay?
MATT: As you glance02:46:49
in this one section, and there is, like, an oily,02:46:53
tar-like substance that is between a couple02:46:56
of these broken slab elements.Description:
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