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Flour for the invisible. Antidotes for the poisoned. A soul jammed into a rapier. The crew descends into Sacristy Manor — a noble estate sunk ninety feet beneath the Prince's Pilaster — where a helpful skeletal butler warns them about a fountain that kills. They cross it anyway. Four ice elementals rise from the water.
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It's everyone excited for another exciting episode of Rotgrind!
Rotgrind is the game that is known as Rotgrind is the game that I am here to play.
It's spooky! It's spooky! It's spooky-mine!
Let's be ghosts now!
Hello, it's me, John Lennon.
I didn't leave you in the wheel!
I've been reading this really interesting book called The Catcher in the Rye,
Oh no.
Shut up, you.
It's spooky, they're shutting up you.
Hi, I'm Zoran.
Welcome back, everybody, to another exciting episode of Rotgrind!
Just as a quick thing, if you're listening to this or watching this at the beginning,
we are now able to stream on YouTube and Twitch at the same time now.
So yippee! You have an option!
In case anyone's confused and stuff, the YouTube VODs kind of do the same thing we do on Twitch.
She goes behind a membership thing and then does the whole thing and blah blah blah and everything else.
So don't worry, Patreon folks, it's still all the same stuff and everything else.
That we've been normally doing.
But, of course, we have an amazing episode for you today.
And the amazing people that bring it to you are all here.
Starting off with Oda Roshi.
Hi, hello, I'm Oda.
I'm going to be playing Vina, the sylph swashbuckler.
I briefly forgot what fucking race she is, despite saying it this many times.
Uh, and, uh, if Vina were to dress up for Halloween, I think she would be a cowboy.
And speaking of cowboying, we have Hulky Crow.
That's me, resident cowboy, Hulky Crow.
So, today I will be playing the Kanrasu cleric, Rahua.
And if Rahua were to dress up for Halloween, I think he would go as a giant cube because there's nothing scarier than perfect geometry.
Bro.
That's true.
Along with the spooky trick-or-treater, we have Erendil.
Hi, I'm Erendil.
I'm playing Baldrick, the, uh, the human alchemist.
He is, he is here to blow things up.
And if this were Halloween, uh, he would give children explosives to attack people with.
As a trick.
His house is the favorite on Halloween.
And, of course, everyone's favorite treat is Speaker D.
Aww, that's such a sweet intro.
Hi, everybody, I'm Speaker D.
I play the murderous Tanhauser.
Uh, and if Tanhauser were to dress up for All Hallows' Eve, I believe that he would be dressed up as Lord Humongous.
And, of course, we have our amazing Game Master, Thurston Hillman.
Hello, my name's Thurston.
I'll be playing the skeleton wizard monk named Skelly.
Wait, no, that's not how any of this works.
Hi, um, it's me.
You've heard my voice a billion times.
It's me.
Of course, I am your host, um, for this evening.
I am Zoran the Bear.
I'll be playing Oren, the level eight Strix druid.
I don't think Oren would go for Halloween as a, uh, Tyson's Chicken's Bag.
Not the Chicken Nugget Bag!
No!
Not my perfect little chicken nugget boy!
No!
Taking him out to slaughter.
And so, with that, thank you all so very much for coming over to watch us live.
If you're watching us live on YouTube or Twitch, thank you so much for watching us on YouTube
or for the VODs and stuff, either on Patreon or listening to our podcast.
Thanks, everyone, for kicking ass with us.
We've been doing this for a while, and I think, like, nearly as, like, uh, I think we
passed our third year anniversary.
It's two years, like, a while ago or so.
Two years.
Two years.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it's like, it's like, vaguely, like, if we go for, like, the first episode, we've
been doing this for a while, so, so, kick ass, everybody, and, uh, speaking of kicking
ass, Thurston tried to kick our ass last time.
It's true, I did.
Little rat bastard.
And, um.
I think I succeeded, in fact, pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty well.
But, and speaking of kicking our ass, Thurston.
Yeah.
What exciting adventure do you have for us that is completely fun-filled and has, like,
cushy walls and won't hurt us in any way, shape, or form adventure do you have for us
today?
So, in our last episode, our destined band of Shucklefucks found themselves ambushed in
their own tenement.
Uh, a group of tongueless assassins known as the Guadul visibly crept into the home and launched
a vicious attack that almost resulted in the death of several party members.
Almost.
Uh, knowing the assassins operate in the employ of the disgusting noble Sandal Declan, our
heroes have narrowed down their options on how to investigate to one location, Sacristy
Manor.
Located in the Princess Pilaster, the manor is home to Sandal's ailing grandfather,
Cademan, and is believed to have some answers to the growing mystery of the Declan, uh, family
influence on city affairs.
However, before we get to that, we're actually going to jump right back into where we left off
last session.
Um, everyone's, uh, maybe, uh, maybe not feeling so good after the last of the, uh, the
Q-Duel assassins in, uh, Baldrick's house have, uh, have been dealt with.
I am, uh, going to pass it on to all of you to sort of role-play the aftermath as you were
all breathing and having a sigh of, of, uh, momentary relief after what happened.
Quick thing for me, could you, uh, could you just fuck me up again real quick, Thurston,
because I pre-healed myself, because I thought I was just going to just medicine heal everybody.
It just, you just, you just, just, you know, do your thing.
Thanks, buddy.
Zoran, I think you have a problem.
I do.
Anyway.
Thanks out for Zoran.
I think you have a problem wanting to be hurt.
I think I'm sitting talking to a therapist about it.
Zoran's eating dirt.
Is everybody awake?
I've all been, uh, I need you to do me a favor.
Uh-huh.
I need you to get up and cut off all of their heads and put them on pikes, because I'm too tired to do it.
All right, I'm ready.
Belay that order.
We're not doing that.
Hello.
I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm ready.
Are there more of them?
No.
No.
I think we're good.
Thanks for the assist, neighbor.
Well, I will, it takes a full minute, in fact, several minutes to put on this armor.
It's, it's very delicate.
Baldrick is going to sigh extremely hard to the point where his fucking helmet begins to reverberate.
And you can, you can see it shaking on his head.
Oh.
You good, Baldrick?
You guys head to the back.
Just go over there.
Help Rahua up.
He looks like he's still unconscious.
Oh, shit.
Hold on.
I'm still hungover.
I'm going to go to the sink.
I'm going to, uh, evacuate the contents of my stomach, and then I'm going to go help, uh, uh, Rahua up.
Oh, oh, hello.
Oh, oh, oh, okay.
As, as Tessin sees you dash down towards the, towards the basin.
Ah.
Ah.
You Tessin.
Why?
Do you have any healing potions?
What?
No.
No.
They were about to, they were, they were about to kill me, remember?
That's right.
I, I, I.
I don't think they would let me keep a healing potion when they were about to kill me.
Listen.
Thurston, I'm going to, um, uh, reach into my pocket.
I am going to pull out, uh, ten gold.
I'm going to hand it to him.
Get as many healing potions as you can and bring them here.
Okay.
Hey, Thurston, how much, how many healing potions will ten gold buy?
We'll find out.
Oh, no.
Can you, can you tell me?
Well.
Could you say that, Mom?
Um, yeah, please, can you do that before we send him off with, like, enough money to
buy a shot of healing potion?
He could buy two and a half minor healing potions.
I'm going to give him a hundred gold out of the people's loot so he can buy healing potions.
We don't have to use, well, well, no, orange unconscious.
Sorry, I won't help.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
As, as Tannhauser presses ten gold into Tessin's hand, Baldrick will immediately grab Tessin by the scruff of his neck and place another 90 gold pieces into his hand somehow.
A bag.
Yeah.
He's going to stack them in a small tower.
It's all about the bag.
Tessin runs out with a hundred and ninety gold.
No, two hundred gold.
That poor guy's going to get mugged.
He'll figure it out.
He's a small guy.
He's a rat.
If he dies, he dies.
I'm sacrificing for the revenues.
Hey, Thurston, I need to ask, what is the status of the individual who was last seen burning in my gamer fire?
You're a gamer.
You're a gamer fire.
Is that what we're calling it now?
Yeah.
Literally, he literally, I had this set up in a way that it would be entertaining because it's like, yeah, it's a neat little thing that could be entertaining.
It's a chemical fire.
Fine.
Cool.
And then it's like, all right, I have to turn it into a stage hazard.
There you go.
In any event, is it, what is the status of the corpse in the, in the fire?
Um, the status of the corpse in the fire is that it is like, like the skin is, is charred and burned and there's just some like, um, oddly preserved clothing and what appear to be some hand wraps that are oddly preserved.
The rest of them are going to wait in the back, unless you guys have anything of particular note you want to do, because Crunch, you get to help me with the exciting part of body burning.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, that sounds very, oh, oh.
If not, you can go in the back with them.
I'm going to handle this one way or the other.
What a waste of good bodies.
Uh, okay, hold on.
I have a comment to that.
Of course.
As much as I love the idea of putting the bodies outside of our place, I feel like that's going to draw, like, way more attention than we need right now.
Especially if we're literally about to go on some kind of assassination with this Medic's Guild guy.
Well, I mean, again, why do you think I have this fire?
It's not exactly just for looks.
Have any idea how many people I burned in this thing?
Seven.
Eight.
Oh.
Nine.
Oh.
He was back unconscious.
Sleep talking numbers.
My remaining ability to conjure alchemicals.
I think I had, like, one left last time.
Yeah, I had one left.
Great.
Can I make the fire in my fireplace hot enough to burn these corpses up more effectively after we strip them of anything valuable?
Um, gosh.
Um, yeah, you know what?
Like, I could do it.
I could do a crafting if you'd like.
Yeah, you know what?
Just give it to me.
I mean, like, I'm, I'm fairly certain you have some, you know, skills with burning corpses in the past.
It seems like something you would have done.
He has.
Uh, can I make a narrative declaration that Baldur has lore corpse desecration?
No, this would, this would be lore war crime because you're not allowed to do that.
There's lore warfare and lore war crimes.
We do a little of both here.
I'll do, I'll do a crafting for you, Thurston.
Just, just, just to give you the gimme.
Thank you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Aye, aye, aye.
Aye, aye, aye, I am lord.
Aye, aye, aye, yep.
What do we got?
Uh, 26.
Yeah, you, you can dispose of these fairly, uh, you, you, you have various methods that you can employ for this.
Owing to Crunch's squeamishness, I presume that, uh, Baldurk is doing it alone.
Uh, yeah, oh yes.
All right, fine.
Like, Crunch stands far back and is like, oh, yes, you, you dispose, yes, oh.
Like, the corpses are being twisted up and knotted up and tossed in the fire, just like with a big chimney poker or whatever.
And Crunch's just like, oh, yeah, absolutely, yeah, yes, yes.
He's just, he's just cheering you on.
You're not even cheering me.
This is like, this is like a kid watching his dad, you know, perform, like, do laundry.
And the kid's just standing in the doorframe, just kind of like, yeah, yeah, he's, like, not tall enough to reach the washer.
And the dad's just standing there dumping detergent and everything in.
It's just awkward.
Uh, yes, awkward is a correct term here, yes.
So...
And the Munger starts eating the other corpse.
Well, he can do that if he wants.
He's a good boy.
So what do we, what exactly do these guys have now that we have, uh, Oblivion looted everything off their bodies?
Okay, okay, okay.
So, uh, there are a couple things.
I'm just, like, getting that all ready for you now.
But, um, as I pointed out, two of them had, um, a, a, like, strikingly well-preserved hand wraps and, um, like, cloth, uh, cloth armor.
Um, like, not even cloth armor, but more, like, cloth clothing.
Um, that is, again, very, very oddly preserved.
So...
Well, it's perfect if we had a monk.
Yes.
Uh, so I'm sure we could sell it to a monk.
Correct.
Did you kidnap a monk?
No.
I think we're done having people in my house.
I think we need the people's monk.
I think we might be done with this house.
No, you can be done with this house if you'd like.
But it's, but it's our house.
Yeah.
I rolled to coup de grace to, uh, Tanhauser.
Okay.
Knock, knock, knock at the door.
Oh, fuck.
I'm gonna check the people.
He's going to withdraw the, uh, the poke, the fire poker for a moment and amble over to the door, holding it in his hand like a club.
Because I have no grenades left.
Like, I'm fire poking this corpse.
And then you're like, ah, I have to take a break from my corpse deconstruction to get the door.
It needs a moment, okay?
It's hot, but it's not that hot.
Okay, yeah.
Um, does Vina want to join me or is she okay being collapsed on the floor right there forever?
I'm good staying here because I have, like, three HP.
Uh, Baldrick will point to the other side of the door for crunch, like, over there, over there.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Actix, yes, of course.
I open the door and it blocks crunch.
yes exactly um you uh you open the door and like the void well it's the void um and you see tess
in there holding like a bunch of potions like hi he bodrick will point with the poker over to the
gravely injured individual sprawled out on the floor go to it okay uh i buy i i bought a lot of
a lot of potions we're all were they healing potions oh oh yeah oh yeah um well i got um a lot of a lot of
a lot of a lot of potions i got let's see here you gave me 200 i got scooting him in while he's
speaking about them i got one big one and then i got 10 of these ones
so i'm gonna add these to i'm gonna add all of this to the people's loot
i'm presuming we're not gonna get to full rest our health back to normal considering we're just
full resting hold up yeah i want to make sure you're not going to do a fucking thing hold on
what what what what what what what just put them in there put them in there okay okay you didn't make
him unidentified oh yeah wow that would have been the best dick move just like here i have this soda
soda soda soda soda um but you also would like realize pulledrick that like this was incredibly
fast like you've you just started moving bodies in testing has been gone maybe 10 minutes i will ask
him about that later uh because i have bodies to burn before someone comes by okay i mean is it is
it pressing that i ask him thurston can i do a sense motive to determine if it's pressing no i'm just
telling you like he was really fast with that what should i all there is there any way i didn't say this
and then later on like it became a plot point you'd be like well thurston you should have told us that
mr man so mr man i'm trying to meet you halfway give me a moment please please please please fight
fight fight kiss hostile gm hostile gm hostile thirst that i'm trying to meet you halfway is there any way
i can do this without directly asking him or will i have to ask him no no no no it's it's more just
like a point of like okay where did you get these would be like a interesting question in your mind now
you might just be like fuck it i'll find out later and that's a okay i'm just pointing out this fact
to you you can't you can't you can't point that out to me expect me to gloss over it fine
esen yeah you were gone maybe five minutes oh yeah where did you go to get those so quickly
um her and he turns around and points to the still open door as standing there is a dwarven woman
with a veil uh covering the lower part of her face uh holding some alchemical goods staring in and you
see cousin ginebrin who uh you remember from from a very very long time ago uh when you had uh
all come out of your first adventure together uh in in the in the ruined temple and needed some
healing after the fact oh hello jenny
hello i heard explosions and explosions that you did if you're coming in wipe your feet he's gonna step
away from the door at this point and begin shoving the corpse back into the fire that oh
okay monger will wear at her
oh by the first house what's happening ginebrin comes in and starts like just just like coming
over to all of you and like performing some basic medicine is like tessin's got all these
no no you don't use potions for this it like pushes tessin out of the way pushes him into the fire
yeah um no no no no saving throw but she like she uh she manages to to to to use a medicine to
stabilize a lot of you and like bring you all back to consciousness
okay so what's been happening here
nothing good
i will shut the barn let crotch leave by assassins in the night
oh just that
they were the the mute assassins ones and the employee of a particularly unpleasant nobleman
oh there's there's there's a lot of unpleasant noblemen yes but how many of them employ the
quanshire i don't know so are you okay looks over at vena she's away right now oh yeah
unconscious deeply asleep deeply deeply asleep unconscious okay
um then she kind of looks back okay she might need some help but that's all right um
right right mr bodrick yeah do you have any dirt
got some ashes in a second if you need them oh yeah that'll those will work oran will go over to
the fireplace oh no he will cast natural medicine my cantrip that basically the subsidy of a healing
kit i basically get to use natural stuff body ashes are natural so he will start
and start mashing it all together and start slathering it on his wounds and stuff and start doing uh
like pretty much nature healing on himself oh oh oh oh by the gods everyone returns to nature mr crotch
even you anyway i like to roll
is going to take his fire poker and scoot oran out of the fireplace it's going to move him back back back
what final boost getting him out of the fireplace
it's like he will uh i'm basically just going to start menacing people pretty much
good everyone's being patched up by gina brennan do you want me to summarize it just by getting
everybody up or do you want me to roll for each person no no you don't have to roll for each person
not at this point it's you know like you you are you are a dash okay to get people going uh based off
of your your current medicine being enough that you can't fail to check on a natural one okay anything
but a natural one i'll just i'll just heal myself to full and stuff like that but he's going over
everyone going like he's like uh like mr tannhauser i can get you up lickety-split and i assume mr tannhauser
has not seen oran around the corner collect the ashes all he sees is like this green like kind
of viscous kind of slightly green glowing goo and he presents it to him go like i can help
heal you up mr tannhauser yes oran use your natural healing magics to cleanse my wounds
can i roll over this one yeah of course okay yeah yeah yeah yeah i just want to see what happens
i just want to see if i get a natural one in this one particular person can you give him a plus
one because uh these are chemically purified ashes oh my god just roll the friggin okay what did
you call it baldrick oh no they're chemically purified ashes chemically uh purified ashes there we
go we invoked alpha busa earlier and now it's that energy i can't do it as a circus bonus i'll
make it an item bonus so the the the purified ashes i write do you all right
i rolled 11 on the die for a total of 32 i think i crit
sirus purified ashd
i think it's 48 plus 10 and then all the other yeah you're healed 10 elzer you're fine
just i would roll but we could just summarize it but oran starts just rubbing it on your wounds and
stuff it's like here here take this he just removes your mask puts them in your mouth puts it back
this tastes like human ash it is
that's pretty cool oran and i give him a high five he high fives go it's metal they high five and his hood
comes down gets rocker hair like yeah there's like a like a and then i'll take another scoop full
of the ashes this is why i don't like the
outside medicines
you're taking a dead body and blathering and whatever whatever wait this is great oran come
with me let's go give rohua more dead people oh okay it's like oran comes out uh with tanhouser he's
still unconscious yeah i can't fix a tree oh wait all right so i'm i'm fully healed is that correct
yeah yeah yeah like i'm not gonna have us go through a bajillion minor checks when you have
all the healing you're good you're good wake up just shake rohua rohua uh can i can i make a dexterity
throw a what a what but just no i think will we actually because uh really went unconscious trying
to fight so he might still be in fighter flight mode obviously i'm sorry it's a will saving throw
yeah there you go there you go there okay you're good you're good okay i'm good you're not going to
attack you you're not going to wake up and attack it like chat do i even have to to run this and like
are they just going to fight themselves for the whole session thurston you have the magical gm
power of just saying to someone no i'm not going to let you do that get up yeah but that's that's
yeah but i would like to serve a declaration to make my role fail
hey spend your points how you want to man i'm just i'm just suggesting yeah yeah yeah i attack
tanhazard okay i die uh wait am i okay am i getting attacked actually for god's sake
in summary uh uh rogue question does does is who is i uh glass or not like is it solid uh
uh or is it squishy no his eye is solid okay orange i like waking you up he's like
ting ting ting ting miss rahua uh rahua throws a sharp right go ahead you hit me i'm okay with it i
give you permission all right that's fine i have to target you i want a reaction for for like an
ancestry or class that's just reaction sharp right that if something yeah makes you you get a reaction
to hit him god luckily enough you do not hit or with your 16. okay that's fine i would like to hear a
point it i'm not actually i'm not actually gonna do it just yet that'd be funny as fuck though
pvp pvp if you want to get hit you can get hit you can just say this is the episode where we dive
into the depths of ptsd for our party members or kind of backs up a little go wow look out
you know i kind of push this tanhouser could watch out mr president as we're here with swinging
thank you for look out sir tenhouser yeah ah i will i will be i will be saved from the pernicious
grasp of a tree what are you doing we were going to feed you dead people yeah here you go with a
hiss of digital static but oh oh you're not dead oh that's great yeah where's that also
creation is going on here it's a rock rocket i was trying to sleep
do hawkis now appears in the door to the north standing over i do hawkis we bird people we're
healing each other with it look and i saw the gray goo
you can go back to sleep now
uh yeah yeah she closes the door
oh
oh well we're not dead that's such a pretty great start oh we're just recycling bodies now are we
yeah okay and rahua will keep up and look for any remaining bodies in the hallway oh no i got them for
you oh you do yeah here you go here take a taste gives a bit bit please clarify a bit of what you're just
giving him ashes right now no i have coalesced it like i've like oren has spit into it combined like
just like naturey stuff into it everything else to make it all like like a like a like a clay goo thing
oh and this is this is ashes yeah from our enemies i learned it from mr tanhauser he looks at tanhauser like
getting all the impression from you i didn't teach him this but it's pretty cool that i still get
a credit i learned it from him he points that's pretty cool i agree tanhauser man i'm really glad
i don't have an actual organic brain i probably get a prion disease from this and raul to slather on
his cores and just like seeps into the blackness a what ah don't worry about it you won't have to worry
okay that's uh i'll tell you when you're older moment i'll tell you when you're older and firm
from your encephalopathy uh i'm gonna roll nature check on you and do and add my plus one uh uh
uh baldrick's stuff bonus i think how it's progressively got more basic and what you've put
there that's a nine on the die for a total of 30. it's like i crit again
it's a crit yeah yeah you can feel it in the full i just wanted to see if it killed one just in case
just in case yeah i'm sure there's one pathfinder player sitting there going you never fucking roll
so i may never roll here they're all the yeah so orn will will pass some of the gray goo the
tanhauser and go can you help me can you help me apply it just put in those holes all right sure
thing and i'll just i'll just kind of start just taking this horrible gray goo ashes and i'll be
smearing them on him like it's war paint he's gonna wind up looking like the uh uruk-hai that killed
baromir uh fellowship of the ring this bit is going on spoilers do i didn't watch it yet
his name was lertz yeah lertz yeah thank you character yeah lertz age 60.
let's just throwing it out there deep lore that is true only only remember lertz yeah
uh everyone's healed back to full except for except for vena who's
i still just just just uh dissociating yeah she's yeah she's a cardboard cutout right now well
i'll basically i'll summarize i'll heal vena and then um and that's what orn's doing right now
so we can change scene we had our fun it was a good bit everybody good bit
so so so what what are you going to um to do now i mean certainly with the the dangers of the
assassins should we should we relocate might be wise but before that i believe we must counter attack
oh oh i see i see i see non-combatants to do hargis or little tessin we will have to organize an
escape route a new safe house and we are abandoning the the people's tournament
will they show me a vote that is voted on but i believe there won't be much dissension
well i don't think there's much of a vote to have i think that's the correct answer
perhaps i could yes everyone quick to my house
steps in the wall it would be exactly that would be like what's a harrowing retreat thirst and i have
a question where the fuck did these guys live before this was literally every person we talked
to homeless before this um i mean i mean you've never quite asked with some of like you know you i
have no reason to ask these people you know my lean has a house uh do hakas was was out of the
cackling jackass um crunch was a new arrival in the city uh tessin was a noble who lost everything
and was about to be hung so yeah okay okay okay and as far as your fellow party members that is up to
them to answer no yes we'll deal with them in a minute i want to get the npcs sorted out we
draft up a fucking agreement hang on but i certainly uh i could i could spend my time
fortifying this position and making sure it's impenetrable for future future assaults you can
focus on your side of the house if you so desire i'm gonna start drafting up something right now so
that people can go to places and not be all in here oh oh i'm all right i might have customers
okay seal up the damn hole he points to the hole in the wall he just sit in his
fucking chair and see the gaping hold upon itself
customers fuck you sit there angrily
i didn't ask you to blow a hole in my wall
i i i i wasn't the one i it was a request from who was it a request from me
actually it came from tad house hmm interesting i uh it's about orrin
or doesn't know what that means oh i need you to come with me oh okay it was like orrin finishes
healing uh video you get you paused the game by the way there's some oh well there we go sorry
there comes over yeah mr tannhauser there are no doubt a substantial amount of abandoned buildings in
this pilaster especially after the recent raids that have been ongoing you and i will scout out a new
location
this will be our new safe house oh and coordinate with the revolutionary committee we will have our
resources moved there and then we will move on the manor
he's just liking it okay oh yeah okay yeah homeboy because you are much better at seeing things than me
on account of my eyes melted in my skull once and now i have these cool glass ones
but if they're cooling glass ones why didn't you get better eyesight
because beggars can't be choosers oh
i can fix it for you he'll go i'll just cloak and start rubbing your eyes no no no no you're not
supposed to do that you're not supposed to do that if i was in the audience he'd yell at you
oh this will never work oh i seem so much clearer now yeah now you can see now you can find all sorts
of vantage points wow this is a whole new way of viewing the world i have a question
mm-hmm dear for tannhauser at least for anything i have an idea i don't know i don't it's like if you're
gonna allow this train of bullshit uh oren goes mr tannhauser idea plan potential execution i like
these words i could turn into a bird yes or actually you could actually ride on gorgamonger
but we're gonna scout first so gorg yeah shut up then we can basically do stuff
together so if mr baldrick he looks at baldrick mr bodrick do you know how to make a potion to
make someone smaller i actually don't think i have because that would be that would be a poison
wouldn't it because i don't think i don't think that's a positive effect to make someone smaller is
it uh i believe like i believe like the only way to do it is like a reduced person's spell
um that's about it um well baldrick's doing a pretty good job reducing people already mostly to
ashes yeah get in the fire uh well that's not really within my wheel welcome back hoda hi
like ah okay mr tannhauser do you know when you imagine i'm thinking about it and hmm
what i was just thinking if if you're abandoned in this this place the uh the couch might be salvageable
that couch yeah now you're thinking you all can abandon this if you want i'm going to go back to
turning this into my hideout once people are no longer here we can't leave the couch behind that is
not a wise idea baldrick
if assassins made it into this house then they can likely do so again there are things i can't exactly
move we can move them provided we have a revolutionary movement what do you have a
uh uh belay line here i can't i can't show the object yet it's not done this isn't fair
uh
i i have i have no real argument because i've again i've been forced out of my home including
the thing that i was preparing so i'm kind of mr tannhauser just think about it that if the people
know that the people who attacked us will think that we would have moved away so if some of us go
they think that all of us would have left but if this place gets fortified and mr cronches over there
you know we can make it look like that this place was just collapsed or something so that
means mr bulger can stay and so it'll be bulger's hideout again but they'll track us instead are we
are we fortifying things hold on oh the primary issue before was all the people coming and going
from the same place if it's just me moving quietly and not a whole lot of people knowing that i'm here
how things used to be it should probably be fine
good work i believe that in truth seeking out a new hideout right now may be premature it will be
necessary most likely for us to begin organizing a better headquarters than a single-story tenement
but for right now our adversary might not even realize their assassins have failed
that's true that's right good morning in fact they may be expecting a report from them
at any moment i look at orin did you burn their clothes as well oh uh i didn't burn anything but i
could still get some of their clothes from gorgamonger's stomach gorgamonger bulgic literally has
a pile of clothes that he stripped off of he has all of their loot basically the unsorted loot that
is oblivion looted them yes the the the clothes that are in surprisingly good condition despite the
fact one of them was thrown into a fireplace a thing i can also do uh i am able to um wild shape into a
humanoid shape wow you could look like a human wow i can look or i can look like them to be a real
person wow before we did wait let's worry let's take one thing at a time because i think we're kind
of spread out among three different activities let's focus on getting one thing squared away please
that's that's fair that's fair um so uh tenhauser is going to take a look we must immediately begin
planning our counter-attack time is of the essence we should rest and then prepare for the raid on the
manor afterwards we can discuss matters of accommodation and land right yeah baldrick's
going to go to the door he's going to look at the he's going to look at the sky to determine what
time it is um it's it's like the like lightest shade of coming into morning like it's still
almost completely black out you can however see like little telltale signs that also it's like
going to be more exactly yeah four in the morning oh it's probably a little too late to go back to sleep
but fine you are you are in the process you could like have finish your rest basically over the
course of like three four hours um to get you know abilities and stuff back yeah well why don't we
why don't we do that and then we can plot out the uh the move on the the estate that we will
presume is not only his grandfather's but also mr declan's own house so we could presumably kill two
birds with one stone presumably yeah makes sense to me so we sleep and then we uh and then we plan
our uh glorious vengeance i think that's a good idea yeah i think i think that is also wise um they
might know that the jig is up but that's that's fine that's not the end of the world i mean what are
they gonna send another squad in the next four hours they're like oh fuck they they obviously died i
can see them coming out of the fucking the chimney if i was a evil gm
you're fine you you can you can fucking rest i'm not gonna yubi yubi yubi yubi yubi
i'm about to say brother like are we or are we not we're already putting a lot of time in this part
um no you're good you're good you're good um don't worry if photo took much longer my next plan was to
do a whole thing of trying to get the couch out but dodo came back so we're good thank god
sorry about that no no you're good you're good you're good you're good um all right so you can
all rest up uh reset yourselves i will go through your character baldrick is going to grab uh vena
under the fucking armpits and drag her to the foul couch and throw her onto it sleep this time
oh you need to throw this couch out i didn't exactly intend on a bunch of damn birds crapping
on it uh huh well it's not the worst place i've slept
ignore the shes long over here i don't know i mean i would have yeah you know
orn will offer a girl like you could sleep with me a gorgamonger gorgamonger's pretty comfy
where yeah i'll curl up with gorgamonger he's a good boy aren't you buddy where where
one sergeant is like you can fly scoggle yes i fucking hate you all
yeah you might want to you might want to duck out of here and and you he's gonna point over at crunch
i might have customers i got full night's sleep i feel well rested no that's fine just when you can
put a wall here oh all right can i uh uh as you wish um build a wall mason man i i i just imagine
like all right fine fine fine everyone goes to sleep venus like all curled up against gorgamonger
right there bang bang bang bang all right now he's he's repairing the building like a peasant
from warcraft yeah no i want just a wall i see people in chat be like don't put a door there's like
no wall we're not doing this there's no wall i could go outside if i want to enter his house
he he has built a wall thank you thank you team fortress to engineer
wrecking on a wall here all right well i'm just gonna head back and prepare all of you all of you
rest you can all restore yourselves to full hit points uh baldrick you go back to your room um you know
oh boy four hours of sleep i know what this feels like
feels like victory all right
only restores 16 just edit your thing to be completely full you're good ah
very very smart idea i should have used this before baldrick
baldrick is going to come out and he's going to see crunches in his house again somehow oh yes
the dresser is moved oh well you see there was this this thing i found it when i was sleeping
uh i'm going to start welding the wooden door shut
what are you doing it's perfect
as as you see this like 10 foot wooden walkway that connects the two sides literally leading to
where crotch's okay i have to ask is this visible oh yeah like there's like no no no that's a pit
that goes down into darkness oh yeah like you you you step onto this like this this wooden makeshift
bridge and then look over the edges and it just goes down i have no idea where that goes but but
it is a sturdy bridge it could hold me in a full set of armor
like imagine as he says that like baldrick's like just sawing the bridge on his side no no no
fine we'll keep it put a door there i'm not having a i'm not i'm not losing listen i there is one
afford weather stripping that good look look look there is one there is one terrific
it's a secret door and he like leans through as you walk away
terrific glad to hear it he's going to go inside and shut his door behind him he's going back to bed
all right all of you for the record chat no he doesn't sleep with the
fucking helmet on it's just like it's easy to put on because it's it's you just put it on your head
theoretically his face is out right now yeah but you're not gonna know that true uh can i roll
a perception check to see baldrick's face thurston castrate hulky now what okay all right i'm
rolling initiative for castration go back to bed everyone sleep now i've given you the enfeebled
condition everyone everyone everyone rests there is the final fantasy take your pick one through six
the only true one in in sounds and then you all wake up the following morning i'm gonna just like
teleport you through walls because at this point i'm forcibly just moving all of your tokens for
you yeah before we get into any more tom foolery you're saying yeah exactly it's only been on the
on the way to the uh kitchen as you move all of our tokens orn uh presents his gray goo to vena
i go like i was like i turned people in the medicine wow that's are you proud i am proud of you
orn here's the fucked up and get sad i say fucked up like it's sick like it's awesome oh righteous he
wants to fist bump oh of course i i fist bump my boy yeah fist bump the goo he does a little burning
like puff up feather thing of being all proud oh ruffle his little hair manoogie oh you scamp oh you
scam using people's product converting corpses into medicine what a that's my boy
just like i always taught him
didn't know you guys were teaching order to be a war criminal well you didn't yeah he learned it from
you it was implied i heard it from you fodmer i learned it from watching you we're all at the table
and uh orne's excited to see everyone at the table is heading heading at the head of the table is baldric
then to baldric's immediate left is marlene who's returned then tan hauser marlene is of course taking
revolutionary notes for tan hauser um rahua then cousin ginebrin at the opposite end of the table
along with duhakis and then we have vena um oran who for some reason the token just refuses to get rid
of the sleeping animation so that's just gonna be there for forever and then little tassin he is so
easy crunch is participating but is currently um at the far end of his store um and so you can actually
he cannot participate anymore because the wall has been sealed up so he can no longer doubt his
opinions across the domiciles that's really sad i know can we bring this wall down that's really sad
can we kill crunch i don't know if i want to do that that's our boy yeah i don't want to kill him
either we but he can't talk anymore so i guess we should yeah that's true let's get him
anyway goblins okay yes
all right you've all rested now is your your time to discuss your your plan so we can't let
declan and his grandpappy get away with that so we're gonna go to his house and kill him right
that's the plan that is sort of the plan though it could be such that declan isn't responsible
i doubt it though those were his guys i don't know if he was directly responsible but somebody in
his family definitely hired them let's get some answers from grandfather shall we then we'll know
what next to do and then we'll kill him right most likely
sounds like a plan or at the very least rob the guy blind the robbery is always allowed
i thought his grandfather was old and firm and on the verge of death anyway we're going to
deal with all of them anyway all right then yeah but can we at least dismember him focus what do we
know about this declan well which one the old one
well we know he's a big shot in the medics guild so likely he had a hand in what in a brain like looks
was was cageman used to be a big name bit before even my time but he's
he's came came a recluse after the the death of his uh his daughter okay how did his daughter die
anybody now i don't know yeah okay so maybe he didn't have anything to do with what was going
on the swamp or maybe he did either way we can obtain answers but let's be sure not to immediately
eviscerate him if we eviscerate him if we don't have to he could be an ally would he old people are wise
we've also met his son
and assassins yeah i was about to mention yeah yeah we met his grandson and well
if his grandson takes anything after him then you know i i think that he's better off dead
we will soon find out i assure you you won't have to bargain hard for me to kill someone who has it
coming
right
so we get answers from him hey you're just gonna go there and break into an old man's house and
get answers i like it it's forthright direct works for you so we should probably handle things
we're pretty straightforward we should probably also assume that he has more of those assassins
crawling around the premises as well though indeed how do we expect to draw them out maybe we could
cause a distraction no i think that we will just have to take our chances we'll know better when
we see the mansion does anyone here have any familiarity with this mansion
got any uh appropriate lures i uh probably some i have lore i talked to sandal and so i i think i
deserve to have uh uh some kind of buff for having to endure sandal decks wow wow okay okay
baldrick's going to like look through his visor at marlene
oh oh yes would you know anything about this mansion where it is anything else um um let me um
oh well um
you're you're talking about um sacristy manor right i presume so
yes it's it's in the princess pilaster it's a it's a large uh large estate um has a bit of a
reputation though um it's it's it's lower in the pilaster it's like
uh it's a bit of an uh an anomaly among the architectural side of things
how normally in outset um speaking as a member of the the architect's guild of course um
everything builds on top of each other you know this building has buildings on top of it that have
buildings on top of it and so on and so forth uh the sacristy manor's built around there's
buildings that soar above it uh stories 20 stories some some points you can barely see see light but
light does shine down because there's nothing above the manor itself huh how mysterious there's a
there's a courtyard i think it's a two two primary floor estate uh there might be some under levels to it
but no one's really gone in there as far as i'm i'm aware of who isn't a noble or someone someone
high up on the social chain
huh yeah i mean somebody who has the like
influence to not have anybody build on top of their house gotta mean they're some kind of
big important people i'm gonna roll a society see what i can find out about sacristy manor yeah i'll
allow that oh 20 winked at me but it's only 16. it's only a 16 with a with a natu on the dice um
you have not really heard of sacristy manor which which means like beyond like you're you're meant you're
hearing mentions of it from you know story related beats uh the manor itself uh like this this noble
must have like flown somewhat intentionally under the radar because like i assume tanhauser has like
a list of like important places to blow up and this isn't on there yes i i do definitely have that it's like
like a bucket list but you know it's more important yeah
well it's likely then for something so unusual we aren't dealing with your average everyday noble
family we're going in blind don't suppose we happen to know any architects do we
bodrick again side eyes the person from the architect's guild
oh oh like yes i've i've given you most of what i know i mean i'm only an adept in in the in the
guild um do you have access to any helpful have no fear you have access to any records i could
see about getting them but that would take time it seemed like you were under a bit of a
up the up on the gun under the under the under the under the under the i don't know the saying then he
is correct we we do we need to go into this blind i mean it's it's it's a noble's manner um
it's also probably safe to assume that if if the saddle had those those tongue-less things then they
probably have more of them there oh almost definitely and i don't want to
fuck around with an even larger group of those guys well you'll be okay because i i bought a lot
of i bought a lot of potions you got a lot of potions now huh you may want to start spreading
those out amongst yourselves no reason we're not getting caught flat-footed this time either i'm
actually going to have some things ready instead of just getting jumped in my house you know i've
been i've been going through your your people's loot a bit and you know there's there's some
interesting stuff in here you're looking through our things well yeah that's a bit of an invasion
of privacy don't you think i mean you you you needed you needed the you needed someone to to start
managing your stuff so i started managing it for you and i think there's some investments you could
be making with some of this gold and and treasure too i you know i just thinking about that you may
use a purchase i get the hand i get okay oh oh okay well i'm trying to help surely that's a good idea
what sort of investments were you thinking well you gave me 200 gold which i used to to buy some some
small curatives now they're they're they're they're they're minor curatives thank you cousin
gonna burn like gonna burn nods but they're there enough to get you through trap but you know uh
they're through through a little struggle but you might wanna you might wanna maybe uh punch up a bit
get some get some get some bigger things going on just in case because you know it's uh seems like
you're going into something real dangerous you might want to have i don't know a couple more things a
little little little pick pick me ups and helps yes probably i was thinking that we should all scout out
on antidotes in addition there was something i wanted us all to do baldrick may i use your pantry
for what to create something is it food no
uh okay that's that's really awkward um i will take the silence as permission
and i am going to go to baldrick's pantry and i am going to take several burlap sacks which i assume
are here yeah one for each of us okay in fact i'll take two for each of us and i'm going to fill them
with salt i don't have that much salt that's a lot of salt i will fill them with flour
okay okay and then i will come back and hand everybody two bags of flour
terrific in case they're invisible indeed and even if we suspect they're trailing us
we can put this on the ground should we evade them we should be able to track them by their footprints
well i i just i just yeah yeah okay that's uh yeah okay okay cousin ginebron
you know if if it's magical uh invisibility flower doesn't just bypass that you'd need some kind of
beseechment declaration to the gods to make that kind of plan work normally
hang on baldrick is doing a think thurston
would it be possible to have this flower blessed
if we can can we pay to have this flower flower blessed we have a cleric
and not his god his god wouldn't like us
i i mean i mean okay so you're you're essentially trying to look for something that could just like
disable invisibility not disable it give us a give us a bonus to detecting it yeah yeah yeah yeah i i
like that i'm not gonna say give me an item that will dissuade that will stop you from doing this
it's can you give us a hand with this we'll pay for it i i thought it was a clever work around
invisibility it's what i do in dnd sometimes it's it's a clever work around but also like
you cannot spend like five copper to disable a spell speaker d i will come at you why not
as you said so because he's the gm move on yes and and also because if
shit like that happens i can i could do that with like anything right like it's it's an arms race
uh i'm underwater and alchemist fire can't hurt me fool we'll get wrecked um but that being said
like there are like you could you could spend a little bit of extra gold to like get some you know
maybe maybe some like a clinging style powder to work with that um something that might have like
a bit more of a a tangible effect like remain through magic um because you know like invisibility
anything that's on you including your armor and stuff also gets like turned invisible if you pick
up an item it gets turned invisible the flower would be like that it would also get turned invisible
but you could do something like that that maybe has like a counteracting um effect with that so there's
there are certainly um some effects and i'm just like you know pulling up the spells there's some
um oh gosh what's the what's the classic the glitter dust-esque but maybe not having to buy like
a full glitter dust thing right and you could buy something cheap and that like not crazy that would
let you do this uh sure yeah i'd probably say just let me uh let me check here
oh i totally forgot in that entire fight i wasn't completely honest with my combat capability because i
forgot i have perpetual infusions bomber which means i could have access to lesser alchemist fires and
acid flasks as necessary forever hey uh if there's yeah one of your own devs is pointing you out on
stuff oh no who's who's who's pointing me who's pointing me out i can't see more luck how you doing
yeah yeah there you go there you go grand bizarre lets you pinpoint invisible creatures there you go see
that's nice that's that's that's that's fine see grand bizarre there we go see i was just i was
trying to find it when grand bizarre does it yeah i mean uh yes no that is that is absolutely correct i know
thank you tan hauser
while we're while we're all selecting things to do thirst and i have a question
is my is my freaking formula book set in stone once i put something on it i can't swap it out for
anything else right because i've got a lot of shit in here that i am never going to use
well yeah but you're you're you're like uh you're like a wizard you prepare it at the beginning of the
day you can just go out and buy new formulas and stuff can i go can i have that be done yeah of course
okay then i would then i'm gonna have baldrick look into having some alternatives because i found
some i found a couple alternative bombs that i can use that could be usable yeah straight damage is
probably far more useful but some of these are at least interesting we like interesting
we do we do we do oh that's why and can't use it again okay yeah all right so yes you can use a
bag of flower flower all right fine speaker d but it doesn't actually like it makes them like
visible they still get the concealment and then it disappears like almost immediately so you can do
it but it's like a temporary like if you know where they are thing there you go and you have to
that's more useful than you know yeah exactly absolutely thurston can i get a bonus for throwing
fire at them because flowers all right that's synergy right there anyway uh yeah so that's what
baldrick is gonna go try and find some alternative uh formulas from around the city to try and find
something more useful i already have a couple items in mind thurston if that's fine yeah of course of course
course course you may you may go to make your purchases of that uh what other preparations like
and again this can apply to to any of you so like rahua you can change your spell selection for the day
as as you would like um as a divine i'm gonna prep all my bombs once i get these formulas so just you
know we'll do that at that time but i i think a point of order uh just just so it is mentioned
now um i have exchanged uh fly for stone skin for today okay that's the only spell change i'm making
well how vertical is this place are we gonna need fly i i feel like we may maybe swap out a different
spell i'll keep fly just in case so i can put you on someone else i don't want us to start at the top
of the building i feel like we should go in from the bottom well there's only two floors like okay
there's only there's only the two yeah yeah so like it's like a manor with it's a two-floor manor
again from from what you know marlene has has expressed to you
okie dokie uh i don't have to prepare anything so i'm gonna i'm gonna just spend the day taking a
big nap i don't know can i can i farm panache in advance i'm just gonna be doing backflips outside
yeah have i have a panache montage um i guess my question would be if there's like anything like
i guess you're you're kind of a character who has been keeping up with your equipment vena so i think
you're i don't think there's anything equipment wise you're even like oh god um yeah i think you're
pretty good i don't think i'm of a level where i can get a plus two right here yet so
not really runes uh yeah not not not not crazy today out there they are
i'm gonna go there and shoot them
what no don't do that in minecraft it doesn't work zoran it doesn't work
um yeah no you gotta be like 10th level so you're you're a bit of ways the the one upgrade some of
you could like potentially look at would be tossing resilient onto some of your armor now
um but that costs 340 gold pieces so it's it's it's pricey but it does grant you a
a plus one item bonus to all your saving throws so
yeah that's pretty cool that's pretty cool pretty useful pretty cool it could be fun
we fun oh boy everybody oh boy uh do you need the cost for formulas by the way uh i do i have
i have a couple that i will can i do i sell them to say them to you or should i message you them uh
here i'm gonna save us some time and i'm gonna shoot you the uh here's how much they cost based
on the level of the formula you're purchasing okay so i think it's the level five formula is what i'm
looking at here i will trust you you can like you can add the ones and then just take the gold out
that's fine we don't have to hold everything up for the purchasing oh no no no no you're good you're
good you're good um and then yeah um yeah i think this is a good idea this is a four interesting so as
as as baldrick does the arandil does all of that um you want to round it about as he figures that out
oh yeah what else yeah anyone else have any prep they want to do purchases uh whether those be
consumables or whatnot that you think might be useful before i say what's up with potions guys
like seriously we i can't produce anything useful no i can produce elixir of life but it's not as good
a healing potion as a healing potion i'm just swapping out my spells right now i'm trying to find which
one yeah can i grab um and i i spent i had 11 gold on my person and i gave 10 of it to uh
uh stuart medium um and uh as a result um i am uh going to be taking everything out of the people's
uh was loot because i'm very generous like that um and i would really like um two antidotes for
everybody ooh okay so uh antidotes now antidotes of course have um have different levels to them
right so it depends what version of an antidote you want to get like and pull that up here um how do we
feel about antidote moderates they're 35 a pop for a plus three uh given how crazy that anti-spellcasting
potion was on you i would honestly focus on getting those for yourself i don't think that poison would
be as insane on the non-spellcasters no but that would be really uh oran okay yeah fair enough so on
the spellcasters then so i'll grab uh uh two for uh me two for oran two okay um and also subtract that
from the popples loot please absolutely that's gonna be uh oh i want to point this out by the
way who here has a weapon that has not been given an essence yet i know someone has the essence of
the martinet on one of their weapons yeah right because honestly we took the essence of the martinet
off because it's too conspicuous because it glowed oh so it's just gone gone then uh no i just i don't
think it went back in the people's loot it might actually just be in canhauser's yeah better say if
someone wants to take the essence of squelch foot you know select which of the two rules you wish to
take instead of the re-rolled result you can re-roll something effectively i do have a hammer i can hit
it we could give that uh fucking vena how to say you might benefit the most from it and he also
liked you the most it is categorically correct oh i i suggest you take that one yeah yeah all right
okay crunch is like oh i shall take the essence of this this sweet child who i never met i will
stuff him into this sword um i would also can i recharge my magic wand
yeah oh really i it's so it's not a one and done no once once are not one and done no when do they
recharge um well there's no such thing as a long rest in this game uh once i think there's like uh
yeah it's like a once per day thing i've had a level three fireball in my pocket like this entire time
no but i thought it was i thought it was a one i thought it was like a scroll like
no wands and wands and scrolls are different bruh all right all right great to know um so i don't have
to do anything special there uh what i will do however is i would like to potentially um
in fact i'll regret saying this you can also overcharge a wand and cast it
an extra time per day but risk destroying it you will regret saying that i always make the gamble
i know what i'm doing i'm a gambling man what can i say um okay other thing i'm gonna do is i'd
like to get enough equipment to upgrade my grappling gun um uh i would really like it to be um better
uh and um uh potentially uh maybe wrist mounted uh i know a wrist grappler is 25 gold pieces uh to
attach to my wrist but it's 50 feet as opposed to 100 um also if there's anything i can do to make
the reloading easier i mean the wrist grappler would probably be the the like the the upgraded version
here okay um just because like yeah there isn't there isn't much more beyond that but you could
probably you know go beyond go further beyond with some narrative declarations or something if you
wanted to do crazy stuff with it all right in that case uh could i uh spend so a wrist grappler clockwork
is 40 gp could i spend 20 and roll a crafting to see if i can uh make uh a clockwork one out of the base
components um yes but that would basically be all you could do today um this is the final thing i
wanted to do so okay okay okay and if you and if you uh roll uh a nat one you get nothing okay sounds
good okay okay okay roll it not 20. there you go there you go actually you only have to pay 20.
yay there you go yay all right uh thirst and i have decided on the things i wish to purchase if you
can throw them in my alchemical book please
okay uh let me pull up your thingy widget
yep where is baldrick it's a baldrick pulling up your formulas gonna get some formulas i have to
ask can i purchase uncommon formulas as well or just the regular ones uh uncommon formulas are you
have to ask permission and they have to be available so um generally speaking uncommon purchases should
be made outside of session because then you put me in the awkward situation of having to like
argue them i didn't i didn't realize i could buy more alchemical formulas was the annoying thing so
like no no yeah i've known that i would not have been just exclusively using this i'd have been like
ah damn it this is all the spells um all right what do you want uh can i have crystal shards moderate
uh okay got it next may i have skunk bomb moderate oh uh got it bottled lightning
moderate yes please sorry i forgot about it there you go again uh and then following that i will also
take uh do i want yeah i'll take frost vial moderate as well so that is uh that is nine
plus five so that's 14 gold i'll deduct that from the people's loot yeah uh oops i i tried to drag
the frost vial effect there we go there's your no ah no you already did it i'm already poisoned with it
good good kill you with frost vials to deduct 14 gold not 14 platinum
yes yes all of your money is gone so we have 900 gold left plus a whole bunch of stuff in here all
right uh i might steal a little bit from the people's loot for um some potions of quickness
because haste on a swashbuckler is incredibly good can i in addition to buying the alchemical formulas
thurston uh craft uh some quick uh quicksilver mutagen to just have to give to her
um yes but again you don't have like a lot of time like that crafting items takes like days right
okay wanted to make sure yeah in that case yeah then i'll take that and i will begin formulating the uh
the things that i actually want to produce give me one moment yeah i think grabbing a couple of
haste potions maybe one for me and one for tan hauser because i know that uh i believe which one
of our casters has haste i have haste i have you have haste i have haste oh three people have haste
yeah but it costs us now hold on because you still probably want them so that i was actually
going to ask is we have two people already who can take haste uh i can also take slow
ah yes put that on vena what does slow do uh reduces the target or well rather gives them the
slowed one condition for one round on a failure it's slowed for one minute and on a crit fail it's slowed
two it reduces the amount of actions they can take by the level of the condition
oh so they only get two actions as opposed to three or at a crit fail one action and does it
only affect one person if i once i get six level spell slots i can affect up to ten creatures
wow so one for now yeah one for now yes and i assume you have to like concentrate on haste
no no you just do it it just happens this is a thing but but but if you do a quickness if you
do a quickness potion this is something to keep in mind because everyone's like i ask quickness
potion i just quaff it remember you have to draw and quaff so it's basically two actions to do it
unless you're holding the potion uh the benefit of the quickness potion is it doesn't like sap uh
actions from other spell casters in the group however a potion of quickness does cost 90 gold pieces so
just keep that in mind as well but you have a lot of money so uh that is true in that case i will
just i will just rely on my friends to make sure that they're giving me buffs right you're gonna
give me buffs right sure sure bestie your volley i'll buff you actually
speaking of buffs because that's what a lot of my prepared spells are geared towards not what's
currently on i was thinking about swapping out radiant beam which again reduces another ranged
attack have i can either throw on implement of destruction or radiant heart of devotion
now implement i can target myself or an ally well specifically their weapon and then an enemy uh
on a success well assuming they have to make a will save if they succeed they take 2d6 mental damage the
first time that weapon hits the target if they fail they take an additional 2d6 persistent metal
damage and if they're critically hit by the weapon the enemy is doomed one for as long as it takes
the persistent metal damage and on a crit fail it takes an additional 4d6 persistent metal and same
thing if it's crit or it does a crit it's doomed one damn and then there's radiant heart of ocean which
i speak a prayer to the heavens who assist you in your righteous allies your heart begins to glow with
radiance that fills the arena with bright light the spell has the following effects on the creatures
in the area based on their alignment so good creatures get in the emanation get plus one
status bonus to attack rolls and their strikes deal an additional 1d6 good damage neutrals that begin
their turn in the emanation have to succeed a will save or be dazzled for one round and evil creatures
that begin have to succeed a will save or they are blinded for one round well it's good that alignment
still exists uh and we haven't switched to the remaster yet
also uh one other uh option as you were debating the hulky thing just to further answer your earlier
question odo um you cannot get like big bigger weapon upgrades yet but one thing you could purchase
um though it is darned expensive as you could spend 400 gold pieces and get a uh a greater oil of
potency um which lets you turn one of your weapons into a plus two greater striking weapon um for one
minute oh that's but it's 400 so it's pricey that's a lot that's a lot of one user and it's also 12th
level so that's why it costs a lot because it's like a consumable for a higher level so i think i'd rather
save the money for the permanent upgrade later on that's fair uh because when when do we get to go to
the next tier of upgrades level 10 uh yeah so if you're like thinking about like runes and stuff
um for like armor it's um generally your armor your next armor upgrades at 11 uh resilient is this level
and that's the 340 and that's the basically slot resilient into your armor and you get plus one to
all your saves um weapons they're uh they're scaling is uh level four is the one you got level 12 is the
striking and level 10 is going to be the the plus two so
also the important thing about getting the plus two on your weapon it means you can put in another uh potency
rune so like right now you've got your like frost rune in your weapon once you get a plus two weapon
you could put like frost and something else into your weapon so oh man i can do frost and fire for
that weird mmo shit yes um but like you could also i don't know go like stupid and get like keen so you
crit on a 19 or something oh yeah well i i guess that's useful i can i mean oh my god
anyways but i think every single point i am now equipped for battle good and i think at this
point as we are finishing up the last of the the purchases and thoughts on that how about we take
our break everybody and then we come back we will see what the match is
we'll be right back chat and we'll also do our little q a session as well from patreon and also from
chat itself a little bit so we're gonna do that for that for the break and don't go anywhere
all right now we're back thurston how screwed are we now well i believe uh where we left off you at
all uh made your preparations for the travel to sacristy manor um eventually taking information you're
you're provided by uh marlene uh you're able to make your way out of the pawns pilaster to the the
the more austere princess pilaster in the center of the city which you have been to before um so just
a reminder for everyone here um here you are in the lovely like reaches of the pawns pilaster and now you
have made your way inwards towards the the prince's pilaster and sort of the um the the district of
the city that is far more um built up than some of the others while everything in in outset sort of
builds upon itself and there's there's layers of buildings between everything it's truly the prince's
pilaster that that stores above it all uh as as the structures of this pilaster district rise above
everything else you make your way in through this district and as you do you eventually come
to sacristy manor the area of this uh manner is as marlene said actually requires you to travel
down in a sort of strange way through twisting twisting corridors and different passes as as you
continue on following this you can see there's less and less people available um eventually you're
kind of just crossing the the sort of like one-off person moving through these tunnels or even just
mindless undead performing maintenance or routine tasks eventually you can make your way towards the
the entrance to the manor proper which is about a 15 foot wide stone bridge that leads to a large exterior
courtyard um the courtyard is noticeable or notable because of the prevalence of plants in it along with a
large central water feature um buildings store above this area we're talking like hundreds of feet
above you so it's almost like you're kind of like in this claustrophobic area despite the fact that like
the the courtyard itself is like 80 feet wide but it's only about five feet on either side from large
soaring buildings so you're in kind of this like 90 by 60 foot area that is depressed while everything
else is soaring above you the the manor itself probably a structure that's maybe 100 feet wide
looms at the opposite end of the courtyard um but you find the bridge in the walkway towards it
um you can like you can start making your way along the walkway there but if there's any preparations
you can tell that now would probably be a good time to do so
sounds good um
yeah you know usually if we weren't attempting to take prisoners i should say that in character
shouldn't i boy it sure is a shame we're not burning down this mansion is it orange like oh yeah
oh man snaps i wish i'd remembered but unfortunately this old man might be innocent
mr tenhauser yes do you want me to fly around and maybe look for and kind of scout around and also kind
uh mentally remember any exits so in case we need to or anybody any um anti-revolution people want to
leave they're called reactionaries or in and while i don't know why you would need my approval i most
certainly do approve this is a good idea okay uh oran i would like to basically scout forward with a
wild shape into a soaring shape and um i'll take a form of a bird and basically also for context i
pet catch corgamunger uh they come with me and stuff and um i like to soar forward and just kind of like
fly around the area just kind of getting an idea of like what's the mansion like it's like is anybody
outside like what's the state of things kind of peek through the windows yeah um you're having some
difficulty um getting to the windows because of how close this is to other structures but i can give
you a bit of like info on the manor the manor is about a hundred and 20 feet wide and then about
gosh like 80 feet long um there's it has two sections not including the front courtyard that are
outside one of them appears to be some sort of um some sort of like back um back garden area there's
like a wooden shed there's a bench um and it has various like trees then there's a a smaller courtyard
uh in like further inside the building that that's open that has some like hedgerows and
another smaller water feature and then like a stone bench that's overlooking otherwise everything else
is um is kind of built built on itself you can see that there's like risen up um areas there's a room
to the back um a larger section that only appears to be on the first floor it doesn't connect to the
second floor so it's kind of like a an addition on the back or at least something that's not
doesn't doesn't go up to the second level um the the second story itself has you know a smaller
a smaller a smaller footprint so to speak but like various rooms are there um you can see that there
are you know like windows that you can somewhat peek in but they appear to all be um like shaded
somehow like they have frosting on them um so you can get close but you can't quite peek into them
properly but you get a sense that this is a very like large structure there's no one on patrol like
the outside uh that outside courtyard um the secondary one that i mentioned that's sort of
in there um the water feature looks to be fairly like stagnant and unmoving the the the trees and
whatnot in the back garden are you know like kept but nothing like that hasn't had an arborist here for a
while um there's there's doors that like enter in from various various places but you know you'd have
to land in wild shape for that let's go but at least it looks lived in oh yes like it looks like
there there are people here probably not like a great amount of maintenance but
there are people here okay it's not abandoned okay uh orton will fly back and report all that information
right and he will transform back that's what i found out what do you all make of this
thing in this situation i'm following your guys's lead because i'm just going to be heraling things
of whoever comes in so you know the fact that there's no patrol that we can see probably means there
is a control that we cannot see that is entirely true especially how upper ranking members of many
of the established factions in the city or well at least the chamberlain had invisible very large cohorts
so i think there might be more inside there could be some out but not that we would see or certainly
not ones that they would like to let their presence be known all right so how good are you guys at
sneaking anybody baldrick kind of just leans to the side and raises his hand all right sure
i'm possible i am almost eight feet tall i cannot sneak very well arm raises up
uh i feel i could be pretty sneaky do we want to have a whole bunch of people go in and be stealthy
like this is me to the players like we do this every time and invariably someone bungles it and then
it's like ah there it goes this is true however the alternative if some are sneaking and some are not
is to split the party then one would assume that the person who is split off can go back into stealth
and then leave yeah let's let's just go in together you know he might be it might just be a friendly
guy you know let's go in do a little knock sell some cookies you know what you guys go in i will be
stealthed i'll split from the party there easy are you advancing are you staying behind i'll advance
stealthily okay okay maybe if we want to split up then the people who can stealth should try to go in
and find a way to open up a way for oran and rahua to get in i gotta be real with you i do not think
we should split up yeah yeah we need to stay yeah every time we split it's bad so i don't love our
chances of sneaking past invisible centuries yeah so maybe what we do is we scout the exterior try to see
if we can locate the room that grandpa's in uh and then i mean can go can gorgamonger fly yes
thurston i have to ask is there any way that i can sneak in a way that takes into account that someone
who i can't see might be watching me i i i mean sure like like if i just take extra time to prep my
stealth can i just do that because i have a 17 in stealth yeah you're you're incredibly stealthy but
it's a dice game right so like i'm aware by perception checks and other things so you can
you can go ahead and stealth but i think what like what the thing is is you would be you would be
advancing on your own there is a chance something goes horribly wrong if you are alone exactly so
i'm thinking that maybe we scout around the outside try and be as careful as possible with it locate
grandpa's room and then see if we can find a way to just get directly in there we've got flying we've got
magic uh i think fighting our way through the building is gonna be dicey
by that by that logic i will also point out like odds are we're not just gonna get into grandpa's room
any easier than going through the rest of the place i assume he's got a window
there will probably be guards that are also invisible in there that's true but knowing
knowing the way to go is important that's just why i'm proposing that i go in quietly for now
and then i can just quietly leave
that is fair it's it's again it's the the worry of if something goes wrong and of course if you do
somehow bungle a roll like against a big invisible sentry you might just get mollywopped and end up
in a fountain i have many materials at my disposal but it's it's what arendale wants to do he really
wants to stealth and go forward i mean everyone else take group and arendale can if we don't want to do
this just say don't do this and i'll just fucking go with it but like we we all it's whatever i mean
with a plus 17 you have a pretty decent chance of making sure that you are not spotted but that's fair
all i need to do is fine i'm not doing this to like go through the whole fowls and do this all on
my own i'm doing this to like give advance information for you guys not do everything
myself see if there are any blind spots that we could all kind of uh kind of exploit i am not i am
not doing this to assassin's creed hitman blood money this i am literally just going in to take a look
it would be really funny if you were but i understand oh yes this is now the baldrick
game you see that's the it's baldrick's game you you go in to kill grandpa you smash an alchemist
fire over his head unfortunately it didn't work because grandpa is magically enhanced grandpa's
power increases in shadows there is no place to hide grandpa is hungry all right
so realistically is there any way i can prepare to go in under the assumption i will be looked at
from different angles that i can't see i mean that's what a stealth check is right like your
stealth check is you doing your best to remain hidden okay figured i'd ask yeah like if i have to
something else in advance just to be like hey uh even if i can't see the guy who's keeping an eye
out for me i would be harder to see
i i mean that that to me is just stealth right like your your your stealth check is
is yeah you just using your abilities to remain hidden from all targets
in that case i am going so before you do this i want to clarify exactly what is happening here
so baldrick is going to scout ahead the party is going to stay back baldrick's goal is to scout
through the courtyard towards the entrance of the manor and then sneak into the manor is that
the plan yes i'm going to just understand what the layout of the place is so we don't blunder
into a place and not have any idea what it looks like okay so there is there is this courtyard here that
is like 70 feet across and then the entrance to the manor um so where is the party going to be in
relation are you all walking into the courtyard together and getting up to the door and then
like solid baldrick's going in what's the or are you all sort of staying back far far past the courtyard
like how are you all approaching this um beyond just baldrick's gonna sneak in what are the rest of
you doing how are you going to position yourselves how far away are are you going to be i think we're
just gonna scout around kind of like like you said there's a wall around the outside yeah here i'm going
to show a map so that this will will help you a little bit visually isn't isn't the isn't the courtyard
publicly available yes yeah oh if the courtyard is publicly available then i think we can just
wander the perimeter a bit there there is a gate that is open but there is a courtyard and then
there are the twin double doors to the manor further up to the north right
so we can assume we could knock
okay that's what i propose go in just say hi it's like it's not like the guy thinks we're hostile
okay i mean we did definitely kill some of his you guys hyped me up like we were going in
here fucking guns blazing and now it's we're going to talk to him i'm we've been we might as
well exhaust our options of diplomacy before we resort to a straight-up assassination i was i i i
literally said before we came here it's a shame i i couldn't justify burning the mansion down yeah
and i just check things just in case and then i also propose oh let's just go up there and not
do cookies we could go just go i just i'm done i'm done formulating go and knock on the door
right i just assume that they know that they're that we're hostile let's let's just go or he gets
his ashes cookies out um all right so so to to set the scene there is this this like wide open courtyard
with the various hedges um small like small plants that have been set up there is a large water um
water feature in the center it's sort of like a multi-tiered thing is spewing out sort of a gurgling
water um the the house itself is kind of offset a bit you can tell that the door doesn't even like
perfectly align so anyone with like any kind of architectural knowledge this like unnerves you
that the path doesn't perfectly line up to the door um but as as this is as as you take all of this
in you can see there's a large door um there are some frosted windows on the wall but again it looks
like everything here has been set up to be frosted um there is sort of the gate that is that is
currently like partly a jar which you are coming up to as a group you sort of like push push on it
lightly um there is a small wooden sign on it um that as you get close has sort of a like longer go
etched in you can tell by discoloration on the wood it like reads private property
all right so assuming we're trying for diplomacy all right am i gonna knock on the door and say like
hey we have an appointment like what what's our excuse gonna be for seeing grandpa near the alley we
could just ask to see him
regarding his son or regarding pertinent information regarding the medic's guild it's not even a lie
well they they they did say that he's no longer technically affiliated with the medic's guild
or exactly he was exactly it could be related to his tenure
huh or we could say that uh we're we're we're here with a doctor aldrich does is technically a doctor
it's true but he is well he does live in a private residence and he would expect a private doctor
that he knows personally exactly um i think like just to step back ahead of ourselves a little bit
as we figure out our alibi to go say hi um i would like to propose because oren is dog garbage at
diplomacy and it's better that he kind of stays hidden for stuff i propose that i wild shape into a mouse
and basically just kind of hide in someone's sleeve or just someone's like
paint leg or something and so whenever the door opens and depending on the situation it looks like
they're gonna let us in and we just kind of go and then at some point i deploy and then i go try to
find the person we're looking for and then try to like find where it is in the house while you guys are
are socializing yeah that i can that's fine by me yeah i want i want to propose it yeah i want to
propose it instead of randomly doing it towards like oh no um is that that's what orn will do um
basically he'll prepare all his focus spells just to maintain a mouse form for a while
and um he will turn into a mouse and uh chill out with uh who wants to carry orn
uh i will because i imagine i'm gonna be doing the diplomancing unless anybody else is trained in
diplomacy nope you know you're the face face it up face i'm facing
there orn's now mouse hey that's what i'm doing so orange chilling with veena
and then the plan is to sort of like walk together as a group up to the door
yeah so what what is our alibi if we're going with diplomacy what are we saying to get in
are we saying we just have pertinent information for him we are here to see him he should be
expecting us what what's what's what's our angle sure we can say that we've got information for grandpa
we had to speak to him right away because it concerns his shitty garbage son sandalwood
oh okay so we're we're gonna be we're gonna subtly imply that maybe somebody is going to try to
blackmail sandal and we're trying to trying to get ahead of it i'll be quite honest with you
if this person has the same guards as sandal he might already be aware of what's going on
let's play it by ear all right so i am going to imply
that sandal deck one is uh that that we're here to try and make sure he's aware that there's some
blackmail material out on sandal deck one
uh why is there this big dude oh he's a big lad he's a big lad he was very large
for podcast listeners as thurston's sitting things up sometimes when you spawn tokens in
depending on the size and thing or whatever just makes them fuck all huge
yes that's all there was a large token that appeared on the map briefly ignore it move on
for a second i just thought there was a giant skellington i'm like all right happy halloween
let's go skeleton appears all right gang let's go knock on the door
squeak squeak all right so you begin making your way through the courtyard um as you pass through
the gate um are you kind of all like grouping together i'm guessing and just kind of like
yep group select us and move us through thurston okay i will do this uh let's do dude uh you begin
making your way up as you do um there is a like rattling sound that comes from the uh the fountain
and within a few moments um a a skeletal figure appears in the fountain uh the bones sort of clanging
together as this skeleton who um has the the appearance of like a skeleton um but then as they
as they sort of assemble in the fountain and step out of it there is this moment where
they get like a almost like a a spectral semi-corporeal um suit like it looks like
they're they're they're dressed and anyone who has society even trained would recognize like this is
like a servant's outfit uh like a butler um and this like skeleton sort of steps out uh and stands
there in front of you and there's like a droning voice that somehow comes from this you know breathless
uh undead welcome to the sacristy manor do you have an appointment
no i'm afraid we don't is there any way we could get in and see the master
the master is occupied and is taking no visitors you should leave now
yes but we have some very important information that i believe he would be very very interested in
knowing are you with the guilds
we're affiliated with which guild are you affiliated and can you show me your marker
uh let's see man i should have stolen that from pawns i'm going to uh take out my escoria turge
um i'm going to nudge uh vena and hope that vena picks up on the implication of me presenting a tyrant's
guild weapon oh
yes we happen to be affiliated with the tyrant's guild
the tyrant's guild the tyrant's guild has no place in this pilaster
they are banished from this place per city edicts you should definitely not be here
well we said we're affiliated not that we're necessarily with the tyrant's guild
we're messengers and i'd like to potentially assist with a uh uh deception or diplomacy role
maybe you got a good bluff there vena
out i have a plus 16. give me give me that sweet deception please i will can i assist with society
sure knowing that you know the tyrant's guild would send messengers
19. okay natural 20. not 20. or it helps by speaking
your association is understood
the master is inside however he is not taking visitors i apologize that i am not able to facilitate
a meeting his methods are quite clear in this i wish i could help you more
but the master has only set me here to be a messenger for those coming in
you can proceed of course to the entrance and the skeleton like turns and waves towards the doors
however note that should you traverse any more through this area you will trigger
the man's immediate defenses i cannot disable them myself i would if i could but i cannot
the master is quite clear on that oh of course well thank you so much for your help uh what should
we specifically avoid triggering what sort of things uh you know where should we avoid just to make
sure that we don't spring anything or inconvenience you in any way it is not a matter of springing
it is a matter of this courtyard is entirely a entry point for the manor you would need to
travel to the main door however should you proceed beyond the median and like the points to the the water
feature in like the center of it basically like doing like a line like if you travel past the fountain
if you travel past it you will conjure forth the defenses of this courtyard which would need to
summarily be defeated in order to access the manor i apologize i am unable to provide you with access
myself but the master has not given me such permission and you can tell that like this this this mindful
undead absolutely believes you but like hey i i i just work as a cashier here i i can't give you
this this is a wendy's yeah but like hey if you go beyond this point you're gonna trigger trigger some
defenses and uh you should be ready for that of course is there any way for guests to bypass these
defenses is there any way we could possibly go inside and pass on a message to the master
no the master does not take messages except from those who have been pre-approved in his dealings
such as the tongueless ones or the whelp the whelp would that be sandal
yes there's like a tone of disgust in this undead's somewhat rasping voice
i put a hand on his shoulder he's the help and i'm just like i get it i've met him too that's
actually why we're here
however i do not suspect the defenses would be much of a threat to a group of you if you were
prepared for and ready for them when you trigger them especially if you have access to shall we
say flammable items indeed so one last question if you'll permit me are the tongueless ones present
yes there is a host of them within the manor at present they are becoming more and more
disconcerted with the establishment
oh do you mind too terribly elaborating on that you have been so much help so far they are
they are unfamiliar with the
own of the manor and of our ailing master's work within
i see
sounds like sun's making a power move and dead
i know and it sounds like we could possibly yeah rush in and save them
these guys because they're definitely doing shit with the rut probably maybe
i would suggest you prepare and then you handle yourselves with the defenses at which point you
may enter the manor and accosted beyond the tongueless ones he starts walking like doing
a circle around the like sort of the internal like foliage planters
i wish you luck in the struggle to come and he sits on a bench
oh thank you well you're an absolute bro and we'll just make sure you don't get caught in the crossfire
oh expanding so
at the sound of that sounds like oran doesn't need to be a mouse anymore so we just kind of
just animorphs back out and uh just stands around
all right well i turn to the crew looks like we don't really have any choice but to start uh
you know beating the shit out of people what we do best all right well that's what i've got all my
equipment for he's going to reveal the fucking bandolier of multicolored explosive bottles that he has
and one more question before we go in especially now knowing that the tongueless ones are a little
disconcerted has anybody kept anything that we got from the swamp any of the evidence of the tyrant
skill or the uh medic's guild miss misdeeds oran uh heck cashes gorgamonger out to stand behind him
he's evidence
okay is does he show any physical signs of what happened to him in the swamp looks at thurston
no because you had him healed yeah i had him all purified and reborn so
but um is there any way rahua you can do projections with your lens right i mean it does emit light i i
don't know what you i thought i i thought you've made little uh little little don't you have like a
this is once again this is like another example why fucking fantasy games can no longer deal with
the concept of not having a cell phone all the time no cannot just be taking video for no more
just show kind of uh uh uh his memory of the things we've seen if you had something like an old-timey
or even just a if a slide projector if you had something like that that was transparent you could
put it over his lens and i could cast light but i can't regrettably in this you have no like minor
illusion okay nobody nobody took anything of particular note that is actually permissible
as evidence of their misdoings damn it i i thought we could i thought we could turn the homies against
him all right well we'll see if diplomacy works if not we'll fight again we'll beat the shit out of
them let's let's just because i'm not able to actually make use of it i will take this moment to
drink one of my two bottles of pure water take a sip nice a little sip i can sit babe all right
bonus please all right since you are going to combat do we want to pre-buff now for this fight
or pre-buff potentially after for the uh dudes it sounds like these guys are gonna be a cake walk
all right no i mean why don't we buff for it whatever right well if there's assassins inside i don't want
to die that's true we'll say that's what i mean if we buff now and then go inside we will be fighting
them well we know that something's going to pop out before we go inside how long does the antidote last
after you take it
sorry i'll do the same thing you you do which is pull up the thing uh six hours six hours yeah sorry
the thing i was pulling it up and didn't have the duration on um we should all take an antidote
yeah so we'll all take an antidote or well the three wizards will take yeah you guys will take
it all right so that was an antidote moderate yes okay so and that would be on tanhauser
mm-hmm oran and rahua yeah okay cool please please destroy those potions now excellent i will then uh
cast stone skin on myself right that should last for 20 minutes which should hopefully be in
game the amount of time this dungeon takes um all right and uh let's uh let me see how long mirror
image lasts real quick uh duration a minute never mind lol okay um that's what i got how long does this
last a minute matter yeah okay that's all i got i'm ready okay all right let's do it to it um before
we go in actually i think we'll be okay oh no i lied uh rahua is going to
just explode out in a wonderful little spray of cosmic energy uh as space itself aligns with
this party members and i cast vital beacon for the next minute nice okay
now i know you want to you want to cast that spell oh yeah it probably should to spend the spell slot
put it in the thing so you know it's there you know hey yeah you're dragging on yourself i think
yeah i think yeah i'll drag it on bam look at that bam you got a little bile beacon on you
yay all right you ready to rumble once again you you know you know the you know the the thing is
once you pass this this here center line uh this is this here center line that bad stuff happens so
you can like set yourselves up accordingly whatever you want to do okie dokie position yourselves i'm gonna
i'm gonna kind of kind of lead with the melees i have gorgamonger get ready just to jump over
be like go go go go go okay stand bye vena there you go
everyone does want to position stand up
everyone good where you're at i think i'll just give up okay you'll give it up
don't you don't want to move up that'd be a great idea yeah hold up
don't cross the line don't cross the line i'm sorry i didn't mean to i didn't cross the line
that was a miss click miss click
miss input miss input miss input miss input tenhouser accidentally breaks into a full sprint and runs
speaker d speaker d triggers something for the third time
uh i guess oran will point forward and go gorgamonger go seeing everyone's ready and i'll have him
basically just right there i will stealth into this bush okay so one sec real quick here
i'm gonna do some stuff do some stuff do some stuff okay i've put you all in combat um you can pick
whatever appropriate skill like stealth for baldrick in that case since i'm guessing it's
better than perception all of you can roll initiative please all righty i wasn't being
particularly stealthy i should have done that or enrolled a 25 on perception well you like i i
vena you could have stealthed up that's a-okay if you wanted to that's a-okay yeah unless unless i
could use my stellar deception as my uh initiative role as i was walking my way through this
this uh skellington i would allow it yay is fully arrested 28 want to tan hauser
i will i will follow suit um
sorry i received i received an important message from someone uh and i had to very briefly answer it
uh what am i doing uh initiative oh yes i should roll that shouldn't i
yes we should roll initiative
that is a 26 perfect all right so as soon as gorgamunger flies over um you you all notice
something it's like gorgamunger's shadow kind of like glides over the water feature and as he passes
through that halfway point all of you take note immediately that the water feature stops it freezes
in place as gorgamunger flies over it um which is you know disconcerting to say the least however
a moment later you realize that it's it's not that in your brain takes a moment to process this it's not
that it's frozen in terms of the water has just stopped it is actually frozen as in some kind of effect
has caused it to freeze in place and as that effect occurs you can see that the area begins to to
almost immediately fill with an intense snowfall
as fog fills this area and there is just this absolutely intense set of snow that almost
drifts down out of nowhere into the area and as this all occurs you all take note and see
that they're the the um the creatures that are in the fountain like the the the sort of the water
in the fountain turns into creatures that's kind of coil out of it um and so i'm just gonna set this up
real quick here and these four entities appear rising out of the water as this area becomes
filled with ice and cold
and these like these ice these these ice sculptures rise out of that water uh that water feature and as
i was saying the the entire area just just begins to to fill with this this thick like tangible snow
fog and it becomes the visibility to you and all of your allies is cut
um and the first person to get to go in this situation is rahua who will get to go first in
combat in our next session yay oh defy was there for a little bit
they didn't tell me we were inside oh you are now want to go to that special place that's right
oh true can't wait for that remake but of course in my in my restless dreams i see that place image
of sandal deckland on the couch oh no i unfortunately also see him in my restless most restless dreams
he lives in the room
skullless dreams
of course you'll see our asses get iced next episode along with these amazing players starting
off with odoroshi i was odo i was playing vena the self squash bucklist uh and uh you know diplomacy
really it's it's such my strong suit and i'm so glad i made a single good role for it this game
uh it saved you a lot of hassle yes yes it did those buffs are going to be real important here
and of course next uh we have the other starboard hulky crow that's me i'm hulky crow you know me
you can find me at the usual places on twitter but now also twitch has started streaming yeah what's
your twitch thing my twitch thing is at hulky crow it's the exact same everywhere i go
oh my god we got some funny stuff coming up and be sure to go watch hulky go see how to his dreams
and hulky is something happening on halloween it is something spookily oogly is indeed happening
i haven't put out an announcement for it yet but i will believe a few of us will be playing phasmophobia
on the spookiest night of the year yes indeed so tune in to hulky stream for that nice
at the course next up we have erindel hi my name is erindel and you can meet me at twitter
at erindelio and nowhere else except on discord unless you got me thanks for being here folks
we're working on stuff for uh ogre popening i swear we are i genuinely swear we are we really are i swear
it of course one uh over an ogre pokemon name game master for the major ascension play play through
they're doing over there is speaker d that is right i am speaker d you can find me on twitter
for now at super snake kick uh i'm also starting to dip my toes into streaming a little bit i haven't
got a schedule up yet but that will likely be coming in the next few uh weekly coming days um
um and uh uh you can also watch my game um as of right now uh on uh there's a link to the
animated test for one of our awakenings on alphabusa's patreon and in addition patreon.com
for slash alphabusa i believe that is correct and in addition we also have
the norfolk wizard game first four awakenings up on spotify they will all be animated later
but four of them are up on spotify it's the norfolk wizard game i think it's uh everyone
here except me i think frederick uh is a person took over me so a bunch of awesome amazing players
please go check that out over at patreon.com for slash alphabusa but of course the one who has
been making us torturous but also makes it awesome every single weekend we get to play
is our illustrious game master thurston hillman hello um yeah you can find me at all things at
on call gm um i don't have much to say because i madly got to get prepped for tomorrow because
oh gosh we're doing starfinder you know maybe part of the reason it's a bit of a shorter session
today so we can give our you know let our players a little time and stuff a bit you know
give them some time anyways uh yeah you'll see me okay no i was gonna show you no i thought you're
in it go ahead oh no no all right uh otherwise yeah you see me on all the things on called gm i'm
currently uh madly working on starfinder second edition stuff which we will have more to talk about
in the near future but oh gosh it's so exciting starfinder is super cool can't wait to do more
starfinder yay okay that's it for yay of course i'm zorn the bear you can find my all my things
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