Its All About Family

Brug's daughter Thalia is missing. His house is torn up, her bed cold, her hair in the brush. The cat-fur smell leads one way, the blood leads another, and a ruined tent next door watches everything. Whoever took her wanted the stone at her throat, not the girl — and a tentacle-father is still looking for its son.

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System: Pathfinder Second Edition

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What is Rotgoons - Narrative Declaration?

By the Narrative Declaration TTRPG group: Four adventures try to make it big within the decrepit streets of Outset's Pawn Pilaster. Catch this comedic but grim dark Pathfinder Second Edition TTRPG adventure and watch them all suffer!

welcome to another exciting episode of the rot goons
you probably did you close the window that had your obs ninja
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there he goes again he's dead now he's gone
anyway welcome back everyone to another exciting episode of the rot goons i'm so glad everybody is
back today thank you everyone for returning welcome everyone to the twitch stream hope you're having a
wonderful time you're listening to this on the road in like on the road at your job maybe you're just
sitting around waiting for the airplane to show up whatever you're doing however you're listening
however you're watching we greatly greatly appreciate you in your time but of course we're
gonna have a fun adventure for you today and i'm gonna bring you everyone around the table starting
off with minerva oh that's me hello everybody my name is minerva aka party demon s i am a uh
variety streamer over on you on youtube i almost said youtube no twitch
i don't go to youtube that's stinky uh over on twitch and you can find me over on twitter under the
same name uh yeah i play gray crocus the level five null ranger
of course next up we have our ever ethereal cabal hello i am cabal i'm your local horror
streamer voice actor artist you can find me on uh twitch youtube twitter threads instagram
everywhere just google me um it's easier
you're at the point where you can just say google me
it's easier it's convenient
and i am and i am playing talim shabura the ghost mages and local spirit of capitalism
of course next time we have our resident little guy froggy lock good time zone everybody i hope
you're having a wonderful weekend so far uh i just realized you could be listening to this not
on the weekend uh i hope you're having a wonderful insert day here so far uh i'm froggy lock i am a
professional artist and live 2d rigger and also a variety streamer here on twitch but you can find
me on all sorts of other social media platforms under the exact same handle froggy lock and uh today
i will be playing petelzebub the level five kobold investigator thank you so much
there's someone with their airpods in or something you're just
and just toss them down
of course we have our ever ever starwart salty job
that's me everyone it's me snotty snub you can follow me at salty job on twitter and on twitch
i do funny art you're gonna probably see some funny art from me today on today's episode
uh and i play heart he's a big lad with big hands and he punches people big and small
and i has cracked open a cold one
and it's just like it's time to good
of course i am your host and game master for the evening i am zora the bear you can also google me
it's a lot easier that way and and so i'm going to go ahead and take the recap away from everyone
and you will not be gaining one this time just to save us a little bit of time but you all remember
brug right
you all have been preparing your carts uh last episode and trying to get all your materials
maybe coordinating with hollick the elmas lauren everybody else in there uh then basically go
around and try to plan what materials are you bringing on your cart how you're gonna dress up
your cart all that other stuff but you all decided you might need some security a strange individual
approached you on your cart uh offering to sell what you eventually found out to be uh pretty much
pick spider eggs and so that might be bringing some things afoot over at the parade some things
might be going wrong so you decided to go and find brug for security um definitely you guys might
need to understand where he might be you guys know that he lives in the pond pilaster but you also
might be wondering god where exactly you know he lives somewhere near the sinkhole and he rents an
apartment somewhere near it and from the place that he described after some conversations you may have
had with him you know during downtime activities and stuff like that you might have a good idea where
it's at but you might want to think about you know where with the brugs affiliation with crocs gang and
um pretty much like areas that he's describing to be lots of rubble kind of rough and tumble type of
area um where he might be living so who here would like to roll to try to figure out where he might be
now society could work out for this um you can recall knowledge and stuff maybe you can call
recall knowledge for this maybe with a survival check if you have anything about underground lore or
anything anything about criminal activity uh that will also be applicable here or if you want to be
inventive with a role i'm up for it oh i have underworld lore so i'll use my um knowledge of the uh the the
the criminal elements of uh the pawn's blaster to uh make a role for it awesome go ahead and make me a raw
would anybody else like to give a try i have keen recollect i have keen recollection because i am an
investigator can i use this absolutely
you can roll society for me if you like or any other skill you think is applicable
well my under for my underworld lore i rolled an 11 and i rolled a 5 with a plus 11 so i got a 16 on
that hell yeah i'm gonna roll my society apparently i get a modifier of plus whatever my level is so
it'll be this roll plus 5 so that's a total of 17 plus 5 15 19 21 22 awesome got a 16 22 would hearts or gray like to make a roll
uh i'd like to try and uh roll for survival using her memory to uh kind of remember where uh everything
needs on the map maybe got you maybe got a smell somehow maybe you're like oh you smell like this
region of like maybe a lot of crap you smell this particular smell of shit it's exact same of
shit in this area of town i know where you sleep insert tape asmr
i rolled a 7 for a total of 16 what is happening actually okay okay so i will also roll a survival
based on the few notes on brog about dirt on his shoes and similar things like oh yeah what's
level of the sinkhole do you live in my buddy um so let me know i survival i roll the same number
16 16 is for everyone i think this is an omen yeah i'm scared this this is going to be
we have so much in common oh my god oh my god oh my god we're all the same we're practically besties
we're all the same
um but you guys will then uh because i've going to do or what i'm assuming so you guys want to start
looking looking for brog right yeah the brogster we're gonna wind up in the sinkhole
oh yeah why is everything bad it's so dark two sessions later when we come back up brog is standing
there by the entrance to the sinkhole
as you guys begin to journey around near the sinkhole area you you start to kind of start
mostly where you think he would be in with uh like the thing here uh with uh with beetle's role
that was a side you kind of like okay okay you know you and with talim's role of a 16 and 17 or
years of 22 i believe uh you're like okay well brog's still fully with the crocs gang so probably
through those connections probably found an apartment complex here but normally gang activity wants you to
monitor an area normally especially where you live so if that's where you're asleep you're still
you're still taking stock of something really so you think of there's a couple like more rundown
apartments where you think they might be with the help of uh gray and heart you guys are able to kind
of get an area that kind of helps out but of course you haven't pinpointed where he might be it's really
hard to find one individual person in such a vast city like the city of outset so who would like to
go around and start asking people it's like hey have you seen a guy named brug and how would you
describe him to people and such who would like to initiate that and go around asking
uh off still on topic to that but something different that i'd like beetle to try is because
i rolled for keen recollection can he remember any previous conversations he had with brug where maybe
brug was talking about oh yeah i repaired you know this fence with my neighbor or oh there's a big
hole blasted in here this house near mine which might help narrow down the area just like through
small talk you know out of our our plumbing busted in this area with this that could help further
narrow us down uh with your investigator skills i'll definitely give you um i'll give you two things
i'll give you two things the one thing will be that you are aware that brug does help people kind
of get settled in this area um you know that the buildings are very run down so brog kind of helps
you know kind of like get like tarps put up or like kind of put a blanket over a hole in the wall here
and there you know like he helps out with that and you know that brog is also like he says like yeah
they kind of wanted me there to keep an eye on something i'm not quite sure what though you know uh but he's
definitely there to keep an eye on you know folks snooping around a bit too much yeah okay
can't you also use pursue a lead to get a plus one check on all investigation checks on brug
if he's your if he's your if he's my lead yeah yeah if if he's your investigation yes
i think you're still investigating crock's cane so it does kind of work out but those pieces of
information really does help you out but would anybody here like to ask around how else would
you all like to try to help narrow down brug in your own way gray is sniffing around specifically for
brug like she knows what he smells like as weird as that sounds she has she's very good at sniffing
thing she has a good sniffer every time you hug him
no i remember the smell i'll put it in my camera i hate this i hate this i remember you brug
you're all weird so weird i hate this
um can possibly go around the market areas and if people aren't too put off by the fact that he is a
ghost uh he can use diplomacy to possibly gather information absolutely uh roll um
i'll let you help set the scene uh cabal all right you see there's a variety of residents around in the
area they're in it's really run down i'm talking big cobblestone has been only tops turned and dirt
dirt and gravels kind of on the ground um you see people like with like temporary tents and like
taking ruins of buildings and just throwing whatever scraps of material they can then try to make it a
home uh we'd like to approach somebody and basically be like hey what's that like how do you approach
someone uh uh if it's not a market setting that makes it more difficult um i mean you can look for
a sort of like rundown market area where it's like oh i see these people trading here you know
because uh yeah like to roll me a perception see if you can find one uh you know you know
can you can you can always spend uh oh sorry you can always make a narrative declaration yeah you got
three of them she said the thing i don't i uh i might be able to help you beetle will bring up hey he's got
a sick daughter so maybe she's interacting or playing with the other kids if we could find a
parent in this area they might know brooks so if you see someone with children we should we should maybe
ask them i i'm sorry but it's just it's it's the it's like hey he's got kids other people have kids
they must know each other all the kids must play together and know each other but an impoverished
area in a packed urban center all right all right yeah okay you can shot you can shoot beetle down
that's just his suggestion i i'm sorry like i grew up i grew up around like the the metro atlanta
area and like i'm just like ain't nobody no way everybody knows everybody if he is involved in
helping people with their houses and stuff if he's involved in the community that's my trade of
thought you can always give it a try i was just trying to help go ahead um so i rolled a uh 26 um to
find the uh like a market area or anything like that um where there may be like even like
uh some form of you know like trade going on like whether people are selling wilted vegetables
or you know like little trinkets or whatever yeah yeah uh do you also accept beetles help to come with
you or you want to take it alone beetle is more than welcome to come along if he decides like
taleem isn't gonna try and stop him or anything like that does beetle beetle follow taleem uh huh uh
uh not if
so not if to leave thinks that beetle's idea is a bad idea which it sounds like he does
i mean like taleem never expressed that or anything like that like that was that was that was like my
thing yeah yeah that was just me like taleem hasn't said anything about it uh he's just like i've
suppose he looks around he's like that's a lot of he's like that's a lot of children you could ask
maybe he seems doubt he seems doubtful but he's not gonna shoot the idea down yeah the bill goes with
with him little do you know there's a kids next door organization in this city and they all know
each other like a neighborhood watch i'm gonna steal all of their fucking root beer
i don't know if you know what we're talking about froggy you know the show kids next door
yeah yeah okay okay so basically you you head up to sort of like this kind of market have you ever
seen like um more kind of impoverished settings where people just throw down like a piece of cloth and
just kind of put whatever out there to try to grab everyone's attention and you kind of go in where
people are barring around you know there's not like a huge amount of people but it's a it's a crowd
and as you're going around uh you see one guy kind of snapping at you going like like hey hey hey
hey no no one's gonna say anything to you you're already dead you don't already need any material
but position but i got something for you come i got something you could possibly use come on man
come on man just come right here right here i got something for you just a couple couple get you good
come on just right here yeah i look over at the cloth that he's got on the ground like what is he
selling uh what it looks like jim looks like jim shiny shiny uh shiny uh ornaments and stuff and
everything else um uh just like bits of jewelry here and there all kind of piled in in a bowl like
just random ornaments here and there do they have do these do these shiny rocks have numbers carved on them
or a narrative declaration they can
that would be silly
so he's like come on come on come on just come on by
you look like you look like you know you want something you want something you need a little
bit more on your fingers they only got a couple rings there come on come on
hey fast talker hey what do you mean by that hey huh you can't just go open up on my friend like
that and be like oh you're you're dead so you don't need anything else from anybody else but
we i got these rocks i got these freaking rocks right here hey watch your tone hey hey hey i'm
compliment the dead man okay okay like not a lot of people like my like my mama's gonna be able to
come back to come put on some jewelry but he can look fashionable you know he's got a second chance
oh yeah oh yeah
like just like let's uh let's beetle handle it he kind of hovers there like with his uh hands tucked
behind his bag just looking you know ghostly and you know imperious and he's just like
come on you'll stop dressing yourself come on like i got this piece i got this piece right
here and he takes out this chain uh he takes out this chain and there's a large just rock
at the end of it you know it's just like a rock it's not like a gem or anything it's just a rock
it's just a rock you know and he kind of and he's like see it holds stuff and he opens up the rocks
and it's like there's like geo gemstone things inside or so when he closes it say see come on
come on come on just five five copper five copper for this one come on man he's like he's like you
want to look good you want to look good look it goes me look it goes you no we'll we'll smash the
parties out there in queens come on come on and you just kind of like push it over how much yeah i
like the geodes how much he's like five copper five copper come on okay okay okay at that point
in time like to lean like leans over beetles like perhaps a little bit of information in exchange as
well all right yeah i like those geodes look at the funny shape of that one looks like a little
point finger it looks like it's going hey you every time the necklace opens i like that
he's got the merchandise you're with them now to lean but like how how would you like to get
information out of them um i would like to use diplomacy to inquire if he um knows somebody uh like
describe brunk to him and uh ask if he's uh he knows somebody and perhaps where uh that
it's that description of where they might be okay sure go ahead and roll me diplomacy yeah it's not my
strongest skill but fingers crossed no i get the complication chart
as he's doing one of those streams as he's doing this he sees you closer and and he's like
he looks at you because he just sees the rotting bits of you and everything else a lot closer he had
bad eyesight you're imagining like you know and he looks over uh is gray and heart uh kind of nearby at
all uh gray is doing her thing she's just trying to get a lock on any kind of scent
yeah a heart is nearby okay he looks over at you gray who are sniffing around and in hearts go like
get away from me hey i got something nice for you oh hey hey good good shiny shoulder pad there you
know got a nice little design on it those bracers you can brazz those brazers up you know we can get
something more on your wrist something more prettier you know a little little something get you
somebody to love you oh my friend and as he's sweating let me see if i can get the thing
my the complication feet there it is i'll look for something okay so you failed diplomacy i did i can't
believe it let's see okay this might work out uh i took this scale for nothing i i think this might work
out this is from draconic ballad whose complication is called vibe check while interacting with a new npc
the party must prompt this respond to the discretion of the game master the npc will produce a thickly rolled
joint of any color and proceed to light the light and take a hit the npc will then offer the blood to all
attending party members pc and npc the recipients will have two options uh they may make a diplomacy
check or similar to excuse themselves from the offer or anything else i'm just gonna say we're
gonna change this a little bit a little bit thanks jaconic pal for your complication um and we're gonna
edit this a little bit to kind of fit the scene a little bit more he kind of goes like look man look look
look i i didn't mean to insult nobody okay like just we've all been on edge here you know no we're
all just trying to make some money i'm trying to get some like let's i got something to calm us down
i got something to calm us down and you will see that he will take something out and take something
out like a little pouch he'll take like this little kind of like crystalline rock or so and he'll kind of
grind it up or so you can take his hand or whatever and he'll bring his hand out and offer it to all
of you going like come on come on just just help us all calm down and then we can make all make some
money and i'll get happier here what do you say
i'm calm buddy are you okay
don't we need to roll the diplomacy thing yes okay you could roll a medicine
to maybe see what if he has a problem that's a total of 24 oh this guy's got a problem i don't
gotta do a check for that i cannot i i will not imbibe i have to look for someone right now and i
don't need my senses clouded okay roll me diplomacy oh please
oh that's an 11 for total okay okay
claim to lean will uh like put like a hand up it's like unfortunately due to my ethereal condition i
will have to politely decline it's like he will he will he'll kind of go like okay okay roll me a
diplomacy check oh god here we go again
it was an omen i'm never diplomatizing ever again i i i i'm gonna yeah yeah yeah
deception is your new best friend oh my god
hmm i'm all yorts
let's see
all right here's one from death itself hey jesus oh my god from death from death itself thank you so
much for your complication at patreon.com force life narrative declaration so finally i crave sweet
release this complication is called motor mouth curse thanks a pc who fails a verbal check uh
becomes extremely motor mouth for some reason be it by curse poison or extremely or extreme anxiety
but the next five minutes they must talk fast to the point of not being able to be understood
anyone they intend to communicate with verbally must themselves we get dc 15 diplomacy check to
understand that would be deception we're trying to deception um because of how it'll might affect your
role play and stuff are you okay with this complication or should we alter it i'm gonna be
completely honest i am not okay with talking rapidly for like multiple we will not use that
one i'll find another one it's a big ass to ask someone to do that so that's why i'm not going to do
that that is that is not my skill it's not my forte i would do it badly it would be bad for
entertainment this other one is a lot but there will be a lot better for the situation so sorry death is
up thank you so much for that complication we'll change over to acolyte of pooksy the target mpc
is incensed or the thing is called well i never the target mpc is incensed by the player's poor choice
of words said mpc becomes unfriendly and slaps the offending player for one bludgeoning damage
don't you have damage resistance to that i have damage resistance to versus all things non-magical
so the guy gets super offended that you're not that you haven't purchased anything of his like
only one type of cell came through that beetle was coming in for but like he was trying to get you
first and now you've spooked him and now people come up to him now he's nervous and he just
gradually blashes out like yeah and he tries to slap at you and just goes
heart holds out his hand i'll imbibe
unfortunately all the dust is now in talim's head
just put your head in there
so all of that like he seems kind of freaked out a little bit he sits back down
or so and he's like he's like look look i'm sorry okay we built all on edge okay like it's
look i'm sorry you want to buy anything
yeah man hey listen uh actually this necklace i i want to buy it uh i we have a friend who's got a
little girl who actually might like some of this this is very stylish you've got wonderful taste
taste yeah have you do you know a man by the name of a a brug he's kind of a dirty fellow big stocky
uh hard working does a lot for the community you might see him i think his daughter's a little sick
right now he might have talked about her and you know we'll just give a full rundown and ask
he's a little dirty he's a he's a man man he's a working man he's covered in dirt and dust and
sweat he's a sweet dusty greasy man and also as beetle is making this conversation as casually and
calmly as possible he is already taking out his wallet like he's he's making it see like he's gonna
buy something okay um you see the guy kind of calm down a little bit roll me a diplomacy if you don't
mind you got it oh don't let it be one that is a total of 27. that's awesome he seems to that
would be a critical success and he basically calms down and he's like he's like okay okay he likes
this in you kind of exchange he exchanges about five copper you know for the for the necklace and
stuff and he goes all right yeah we know we know brug he comes by here every so often you know just kind
of getting stuff little little things here and there you know and i think he lives somewhere uh
how do you keep going down you know this way go go a couple more ruins you know past the five tarps
you know past uh uh uh broken sewer pipes kind of dumping all the toxic waste you know in over here
past the pack past the mutated lake uh you're gonna find you'll find uh probably where brug hangs out
or whatever it's a little cold as that but we probably pretty much called the rubble the rubble corner
a rubble town so oh thank you thank you he's like he'll he'll nod you can minus five uh copper and
you can add to your treasure geode necklace
and the as you have the geode necklace you can hold one very tiny item in it because it has a little
uh closing little treasure geode necklace
well thank you kindly sure as i heal nod and you guys can be on your way
so as you guys assume uh as you guys are heading on your way gray and heart
as you guys are kind of moving in for you're you're doing your very best to follow the
directions so i'd like to ask you guys to kind of make a roll for me if you don't mind
i can help better fine-tune bugs location okay absolutely i go ahead and roll me either
survival or perception on your way there all right roll me a survival
i'll roll the perception so we can cover both
total of 13. i rolled a total of 14. okay i'm writing stuff down all at the same time
okay so you guys have finally made your way
over pretty much where you would identify as rubble town
nice transition over and
there we go pretty much as you guys kind of make your way there you notice that it's a
bit run down tons of ruins a lot of buildings have collapsed uh you see boulder boulders just kind
of strewn about everywhere you see really just obviously run down places tarps are put up everywhere
bits of cloth are kind of strewn about they're trying to keep this place area along with a broken
sewer pipe just kind of flooding the area you see one guy just drinking from it or whatever you see
another resident fishing and uh but what you see in front of you all is brug and he seems to be
helping a guy kind of move some rubble away from a building uh to the south of him and you see him just hard
you see him kind of see brock kind of pop up when he's like he kind of like grabs his axe on the side
a little bit he's a bit freaked out he goes hey hey it's you and he kind of and he waves you guys over
hard way like great great great plaps her hand on top of beetle's head again she's like stop spooking
the locals stop and she she uh waves with the other hand
i didn't scare the last guy
just stop yelling hey brock do you need help with that
it's just screaming across the way going yeah that'd be appreciated and you see that he's been
trying to move some rubbles and beams and stuff on the side of this one one house you see a guy
there guy they're a bit kind of definitely worse for wear wearing rags like and he goes like oh thanks
brag i uh you know i wouldn't be able to do this alone i'm starting to inconvenience you on your way
home he's like oh it's no problem it's no problem and uh he's like here at heart could you lift the other
side of this please and you see it's like uh the stone that's kind of like wrapped around like
this like big like like uh like just piece of wood basically there's like a structural piece
i'm great at lifting rocks you know in a fast jerking twisting motion you can help lift so you can do an
athletics check for me and try to help out brock hey soren is this object more than eight bulk yes
i rolled a 10 for a total of 24. okay you help out brog like it's a it's a tiny bit of a struggle
but with you and brog's brawn you're able to move it off uh you're gonna kind of line it up to the side
of the building which could very much act it's like a slightly more structure to it than how
messed up it already is yeah yeah uh with that you guys drop it uh wipe off your hands and go
uh thanks for that heart i appreciate it it's like uh what are you guys doing here i am surprised you
you know found me here honestly and you see what bro will kind of pick up a sack
or so that was left on the ground well a heart holds out a signal whistle
and uh and gives it to him we want you to work with us like work yeah
i was like oh well we kind of work i mean good thing you're gonna stand around
he he looks over and he he looks at to lean hoping for an explanation
so like to lean kind of uh uh floats over and he's like more security um we're going to be doing a
cart venture of selling products during a parade and you are a well-built individual obviously experienced
you're obviously observant uh we could use your skills
uh as you float over one of the reds go
and he rushes off
like into the santee
we just like kind of like it like looks at the guy runoff and just like follows him with like with
like the turn of his head it's just like
he's probably used to that by now
i'm gonna put his uh hands on his on his hips and look at you till i'm like ah don't worry he's not
used to dead people yet
he's like but uh carvenger huh is this uh
uh he's like uh what do you want me to do for it honestly just security
ah you want me to protect your cart yeah make sure nobody comes up with banks full of spiders
that sort of thing oh he'll he'll nod and he's like all right yeah yeah i could do that um
um much as i would love to do it for free and all but i like to leave like raises a hand like turns
his head to the side he's like no no no no
you're getting paid
he nods he nods and stuff and uh he looks at y'all i was like uh i don't suppose you any any of
y'all have any uh any of those little red vial things again um i was on my way but only thing
i was able to get was just a couple um yeah and he kind of like he opens up his bag and he shows
like just a couple herbs and stuff or so he's like i've never been go down the wife's been a lot
better at making these things and i'm trying my best to make medicine but you know i i don't really
got the stuff for it i've got one you can have one of mine like he'll he'll nod and and take it and
uh and he'll kind of look around be like god do any of you know kind of how to make this type of
stuff like like this stuff mixed with that usually kind of helps her out a lot more you know to leave
is really good with mixing things i could craft a lesser tincture if that would help i'd be great uh
uh he's like he's like uh what do you need what what can i do to help make that happen you know
it's like like i i i can if you help me out with the medicine or so i'll be more than happy the bodyguard
for you um uh so clean will actually uh he'll like reach into his robes and he'll pull out um a small
booklet and uh like small transparent booklet because everything on him is ghostly and i kind of flip
through it and um he'll get to where he has the recipe for a uh lesser potion of healing and he'll
start to like list off like some ingredients and everything like that and uh you know it's it's about
12 gold to to make one and um but you know if brugg already has like herbs and everything like that
uh you know he can uh well they'll see how much it uh will cost to uh to to make another
or to make one with you know the materials that are already there yeah um you know how limited
and stuff okay with it being like half cost or so uh but sit well since you technically have the
materials here it's just the action of doing at this point okay so if you if you believe you can like
like crush it up real quick right then and there and you might have the tools to do so
uh you can roll me a crafting check and just actually not only have the tools with me but i can use
assurance to uh basically um uh get a 23 on the uh check all right go ahead and do the assurance that
pretty much guarantees that and um describe me how you whip it up and stuff this is your this is
your bid how do you like put this thing up for him so to lean will actually be like give me one moment
and he'll actually like reach into uh like the the pack of like stuff that he carries around and he'll
pull out um what is basically a ghostly uh what is it the thing that they use to crush things up mortar and
pestle yeah like mortar and pestle um a couple vials and he'll be like would you please hand me
those herbs oh yeah um hand the bag and so uh he'll kind of like mage hand them over until he will
focus on them until they turn you know like ghostly you know put them in his little uh ghostly mortar and
petal uh pestle uh crush them up um and uh basically pour the powder uh into uh the various
files and use uh like produce flame and stuff like that to heat it up add a little bit of uh water or
liquid um until it starts to take on a kind of more crimson hue and uh swirl it around uh mixing it until
he's kind of like happy with it like holds it up like looks at it you know like through the light
you know swirls it around a little bit more and it's like uh and be like it should be
adequately mixed for the purpose
good after you've done so you've done assurance for it he'll he'll hold it up and in uh beetle with
your position or so you see hope in his eyes oh you see you see you see a bit of hope in his eyes and
he will go it's like he kind of like me kind of a little bit and then he'll he'll put he'll put it
uh in his pocket after you hand it to him and stuff he's like thanks uh uh would you like to meet her
yeah it's like you're here calling out i was just uh delivering all this stuff and try to get back
here i'm here and come with me and um he will lead you ball if you guys like to follow him uh he'll
lead it all to his home yeah as he kind of goes by the the cul-de-sac and stuff here uh you'll see
he'll start kind of waving to some of the people the one guy who's fishing over there like he's like
hey ted he's like hey you see can i narratively declare ted to be a zombie just so it's ironic
that that guy is afraid of dead people absolutely
i'll bring you down oh my god thank you ted the zombie is now a guy or for uh for an apology uh the
chat like at the beginning because our bit bars broke a little bit i'll i'll give you a hero point
and then which you will then use uh to it and i will give beetle one everyone else is full unfortunately
i'll give you one there you go because chat contributed and i had no way to gonna bring that
back so my bad so with that he just he turns around like hey ted he's like good good he's like
hope you're doing well over there and he turns over and then it turns back and bring it up more of the
line uh another guy is like just stacking rocks you know it's it's like it's like like hey do
a thing hope you're doing okay he's like just all just just making sure all this place is nice and
clean just gotta he kind of dusts off he looks around it he's never gonna get his work done
he's doomed and he goes like well nothing else to do
oh no oh my god can you see them no it's a never-ending battle yeah frog will come out to
his home and he will open the door for you all and he goes like step inside it was like
you know trying to be a good host in the middle of the whole frog's house he said feel free to move
your tokens aside if you'd like um you have to kind of angle it in there as you enter inside brog
so the outside is compared to a lot of people's homes this one seems to have walls like actual
stone wall stacked up or so the roof itself is very scraps of wood and things like this but you you can
tell brog has tried his very best to make this as homely as possible inside are scraps of wood just on
top of gravel and rock but when you all enter inside or kind of peek inside you see that as
much as it looks like chaos or so it's organized chaos for the most part but what you've noticed
is that there are there's a bit of emotion that seems to have happened inside um you see like bit
of the table like what chair was knocked over and a bit of the bed and everything like this pile of
pillows that kind of like form like a circle area has been kind of disturbed um furniture and pieces
are broken and and such and as you guys come in and brog looks inside he kind of drops the bag
and everything and go and looks around going hell yeah no hell yeah and he starts looking around
frantically just go looking left and right and everything else and you see that brugs just
having an issue right now to where he's like thalia and he starts just ripping boards just looking
around just going thalia oh no uh beetle immediately sponges up every ounce of that panic himself and also
turns around and starts like throwing smaller rocks and lifting boards would you like to roll a perception check
yeah and what particularly are you trying to look for beetle what are you investigating basically
uh feet feet feet scratch marks finger marks in the ground drag marks okay okay uh you got a 27 what
is everyone else doing i'll hold you for there you're seeing that brog's just not having a good time
uh gray gray knows this panic very well uh she's going to do everything she can to start pulling
things around and like see if anything is hiding anywhere if anything is anything she can notice
okay okay uh what would you like to do would they do a perception check to kind of check things out
would you like to use survival to kind of look for tracks or anything or uh use survival that's worked
about so well so well so so far that is a 19 for a total yeah that's a really good roll uh specifically
what are you looking for
i am looking for any kind of
clues of like an altercation a struggle see if anything went down okay okay um or what are you doing
there's a door here there is hard is gonna walk up to this door and he's gonna open it and look out
through it absolutely you can walk up and go ahead and open the door for me
outside of this door it's a bit of an odd shaped building overall yeah um it does have like windows
and area but it pretty much has like things like these wooden bars that you know brog has put in
in and out yeah uh on the outside to the back what you see are piles of rubble you see that there is a
sewer pipe uh with with grates and stuff on it but they're kind of like like you know keep things
going in and out of it uh water is pouring through it and it has a little wooden bridge uh that kind of
goes off across the little waterway uh it just seems like a shoveled backyard really with just refuse and
things behind yeah soren yes first can i roll a perception or survival to uh see what like if
anyone is running far away from here which path would be like the best one to run down
absolutely uh you can go ahead and grow my perception or if you want to try to get a different type of
result and challenge here you can give me survival because you're looking for tracks and stuff
i'll roll a perception i rolled a two for a total of 13. no i am i'm just looking excellent okay so
that's going to be your roll there for 13. Talim what are you doing so the moment um it seems like uh the
little girl isn't there and everybody else starts to uh panic uh Talim sees Art go and look out the
back door Talim like instantly whips around um and he steps back out and he's basically doing the same
thing that uh Heart did but in the opposite direction or to uh see if like any of these
neighbors quote unquote are looking nervous now that there's a ruckus coming from uh uh from Brugg's house
like if anybody's looking guilty yeah yeah uh roll me a perception check all right
fingers crossed all right that is a total of a 19. okay what you noticed Talim um is that as you were
passing by through here you saw that there was a tent sort of like even the top right of the bottom
mat you saw like there's somebody living in a tent kind of deal uh you saw that there was like kind
of like a wildly old man looking guy like kind of looking by a little bit as he kind of sees your gaze
coming up you know and he kind of pops right back you know and kind of goes right back into his tent
you can float over to Ted and be like hey what up and and just
suck out his brain power and knowing if this if the song if the zombie has seen something and he goes
like yeah I saw that guy over there so um dead people sticking together uh Talim will pump back
in and uh and he'll look over as uh as Brugg is losing his mind and he'll just be like Brugg what's
the deal with the old man in the tent yeah he's a new resident I haven't quite met him yet but I
was told to at least keep an eye on him but I haven't approached him yet I just got here you know he's
still looking around but to that's what he'll respond with but for everyone else's role to give
them their information uh for you beetle your role of a 27 you're looking around for any evidence of like
struggle hallmarks things like that like people's hair people's anything and uh as you're gonna come
through you notice that there was a slight struggle with something um over where the broken table is
in the knockdown chair um but you see that it's basically like you do see like bits of blood there
and but you see no evidence of we'll see they see like bits of boots and stuff like that over in that
area um the weird thing you'll also notice that near Brugg's bed and the pile of pillows is that you
see her in the bed but also around in the pillows okay on the pillows in gray you kind of find the same thing
uh the same thing as beetle uh you more but but for you because of your snout and your your sniff and
everything else uh you go you start sniffing around and you smell something feline
huh it's like like it's it smell it's it smells something like it's fur and things like that and
as you smell closer to like like the pillows and so that make a circle it's it's more of a
like you you recognize the smell rug do you have a cat or anything like that this is
oh why yeah there's only thalia who lives here what is this fur yeah there's fur uh he he looks at it
and uh and you see that it's uh it's orange fur uh it's orange fur and he looks like it's like that
that's thalia that's where she sleeps and he keeps looking around and he keeps like looking up and above
stuff all right can i follow this scent absolutely um now for you let me get the hearts uh more give
heart more information for for her for where you're seeing you notice there's no trail you
notice no trail no evidence of anything the only thing kind of weird you would notice like you notice
when things settle you know when things haven't been moved for a little bit and in all the rubble and
everything else it's really hard to see what is new you know because of just how mismatched and noisy
everything is um only thing you know is it's something kind of just off about this rubble like
something just too conveniently there uh with that piece of rubble are you saying that hearts uh
adhd has started to kick in and he's starting to hyper focus on rubble oh which rubble
um hey soren yes since since everything has settled uh art turns around to look back when when
talim comes in and starts talking to brugg he sort of meets with talim's face and nods
and takes one step outside closes the funny door
and uh i he only assumes that uh talim knows what he's about to do next
talim do you know what hard's about to do next
i assume either he's going to check something out or it's going to be extreme violence
uh he's going to walk over to the tent where the weird guy is
okay uh i'll have you to talim um just to kind of morph this together because i think we're going to
split into two different groups here in a bit um do you hear what brock said right and uh what would
you like to do in response um so while uh beetle and uh gray are conversing with brugg uh limo you
know like he's standing he's floating in the doorway he's like i'm going to go
ask some questions to see if anyone has seen anything yeah yeah and uh yeah talim will just be
like uh he'll you know gently close the door and uh he will also start to head towards the tent but
on the opposite side of the water excellent okay so you two i'm going to say you two can kind of move
yourself closer to the tent and stuff um i'm going to now kind of shift focus back to beetle and gray
for a little bit heck yeah great as you're as you're snoofing around a little bit with your role
i'm not going to ask you to re-roll again because your 20 was a critical success um as you're going
along the trail of things and beetle uh with your role you did a really good role um you'll also kind
of be following along with grace trail as well you're going to kind of come into the same conclusions
here uh you mostly more beetle because what gray finds is like there's like a bowl of stuff it has
like some your liquid in it or so that you can't notice within the light and everything and you notice
that it's a you notice that there is like under the some of the floorboards that frog was ripping up
uh you notice that there's a brush it has orange hair in it but you know that dust has settled on it
and all that a while ago yeah and you both will notice that on the little table that he has
where like food and just a bunch of stuff is there uh and all there in the other table
that stuff is knocked down you know it's a bowl and you both can tell that had milk in it
uh beetle will hold up the hairbrush and is the orange hair the same as the fur or is it like
long orange hair it's it's slightly longer orange hair okay uh he will approach rug with the brush and
hold it up is is this yours is this your daughter's you see brog or freeze for a moment he'll kind of
kind of take it from you he's like no that was that was that was my wife's sorry this was this fishness
sorry uh okay well don't worry we're gonna help you with this and we're going to find her this is this
ordinary this bowl of the bowl of milk beetle gestures to it would she have drank this or offered
it to someone no that's uh that's worth that's normally worth a thottie's bowl probably where she
uh drank her breakfast uh okay okay is the bowl of milk full or does it look like it seems it got spilled over
okay it got spilled over um you know we'll look at gray are you able to uh feels a little intrusive
asking but could you put this hair in your nose and smell it well i've been smelling this entire time
i'm pretty sure we could follow the path yeah she'll take in she'll any she'll just give
give it all you know just get all up in there a big a big old schnip schnorf
no one has any reason do anything to her right he looks at brog no one has a reason to brog
brog shakes his head like unless there's a noble who remembers my face or someone's got a vendetta i i don't
really know you know like i don't remember vishna having any enemies either and body is too small
for this you know that's good that's a great answer that's a great response you're doing great
you're you're doing great we're gonna find her everything's good everything's fine hey everything
okay uh great go ahead and roll me a perception check or uh if you want to recall knowledge a nature
check i'm gonna use oh god where'd it go perception
use perception that's a 17 for a total of 26. there's nothing at you it's definitely feline
in nature so you don't have quite the information for a perception check and nature probably got you
a little bit more uh context of it because of your high role of a perception um you know this is
definitely from like the from the brush and everything it's old it hasn't been best within
a while the hairs of obviously you know um you know it's from a cat folk um like someone who who's
a cat folk origin so you imagine you know from that point
i don't mean to be i don't want to pry or be rude but your wife she wasn't human was she
the obvious answer is no yeah he kind of he's like no she was uh hey i've never seen anyone like her
or so here in south sense but i'm sure there's somewhere else in inside the city like she
it came from far away from trade caravans from a world yonder but when she arrived here they called
her a vishnam and we soon detect that name so from there uh you know it's and she brought her child with
her and i you know we married and offered to help take care of her all right gray's gonna try and
follow the sniff snore scent yeah yeah we'll follow gray as you guys are sniff snoring stuff we're now
going to transition over to hart and talim who are approaching the tent so you two are approaching
i assume you guys you two see each other going like yeah yeah we're gonna we're gonna you know
it's like are you like get them you do you do communicate with each other in any way you both just
relying on each other funny nod and talim will basically you know i do like a like a subdued hand
motion of like you know like go around the back and uh talim is floating towards the front of the tent
heart um broadband perception nice uh yeah as heart appears around the corner you have
i rolled an eight for total 19. you vaguely got an idea but talim just hand signaled
he he he he signs very obviously i got you
he signs very obviously i got you
okay uh feel free to approach the tent
art will stand here
he will float over here and act like he's looking around
um before he turns around and looks directly uh at the tent and starts to uh starts to
float towards it cautiously okay you approach the tent
uh so do i just see like heart just towering over the other side yeah
heart gives talim an okay sign what's what you're seeing in this area to help describe the scene for
you and in podcast listeners thanks by the way wink wink walk walk that um you see you see like
rubbled wall like this used to be a house or so you see some of the groundwork but it has been
torn away destroyed something has happened here to make this house just explode
and you see the person here set up a kind of residency with a very kind of cheap torn down
tent you notice uh without just being rolled by passive perception that this is a kind of run down
as if somebody threw this away tyrant's guild tent somebody has repurposed and you see just you know
rubble planks all the other stuff you know very run down area and uh you see that the flap and
everything is you know obviously not open you see a little bit of string that would kind of help
close it or keep it together
uh so talib is like so unfortunate that a resident is reduced to such
it's like
to not have any walls around i bet someone could see a lot of things that are happening and like he
kind of floats to the uh he floats to the front of the tent and he leans close to the flap of the
tent and he's like dear resident you wouldn't have seen anything would you
do you hear silence
cyanide pill
fucking brillo dude
his cover's blown he's out
jesus
oh i thought of something real dark it's so fucked up that like a citizen
talib approaches the 10 you hear a little oh my god oh god i i'm going to hell don't worry about it
anyway
uh
so um when talim uh doesn't get a response um
does he give a signal he doesn't give a signal yet but he'll stand up straight um
and he'll be like
you know part of being a ghost is you can very much tell when someone is guilty of something
i would prefer not to give into my more deadly nature
please if you have seen something
i would like if you would share it
are you trying to
like to intimidate
intimidate yeah just a little bit go ahead and roll me intimidation
oh i'm not good at intimidation
heart would you like to assist
yes
or grabs all right start shaking it
all right
is there a way that i add on um you roll and then heart will do a thing and then i i mentally have it
here so don't worry
no fingers crossed i'm gonna use the hero point to re-roll that you roll the six let's see if
you can do better
yeah uh
clench
let's roll it again if you don't know if you don't remember uh
nice
so it is a crit success but depending on how badly heart rolls it could go away
so how would you like to assist okay so when he says that his more deadly nature uh heart
sees that ah the sign uh and heart uh towards this nearby wall right here uh heart wants to just
break down this wall
uh outwards
yeah outwards
so there's a bunch of rubble and whatever is flying
and a lot of sound a lot of uh whatever nearby ooh scary okay okay roll me uh athletics
athletics all bonuses you would like as well
i wanted to roll intimidation very so good i rolled a 26.
that is so good
this dude's gonna crap his pants
with that
you see uh do you guys remember
uh that old man you guys met at the checkpoint does remember what happened to him
wait
that guy yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna write this note guy
that guy the rich guy the invent the the the guy whose job it was to come by that day and see
if everything was running well that guy the rich guy
he pops out oh my god
just don't don't do anything
he looks worse for wear last time you encountered him it was at the checkpoint and said you guys roughed
him up pretty good baldrick did a quite a number on this guy as well really messed him up but of course uh
survived his encounter from you all and uh
imagine he's one of the reasons that uh cause you some more mischief and stuff but of course you come
out and he is
like any finder he had is ripped up and everything else he's wearing bits of rags just trying to like
keep whatever nice coat that he had on before his ring portions all the gyms have been ripped out of
it or so his hair is dirty and he's got smudges everywhere you see greer von dwell in front of
you kind of come popping out from the tent he's like i don't want any more involvement with you
you know he coughs in a snobby way
sithleen kind of like tilts his head uh was like any more involvement with you and he'll look at heart
and he's like do you know him i didn't know this guy in my entire life never seen him
hey master smiles
so he'll um
helene will like uh
basically hover as high as he can just so we can look down on this guy and be like
i think at this point you don't really have a choice
he looks at you to lame and you see he's trying to keep his composure but he's seeing a dead man in
front of him oh a haunting ghost or so and he's like
wait wait wait what do you want
i want what all merchants want information and he'll um bring a uh he'll bring a finger close to
man's face but not touch him it's like you seem like the type who is very observant am i correct
oh yeah you look like a smart guy heart starts like just putting back the wall
that he broke down
no it's construction
i can build walls
roll me a crafting check heart
okay
i rolled an 11 for a total of 18. i mean it's not as good as it was before but you know you're
making a wall
oh my god
so uh this this guy's shivering he he shook he's having a bad time with you talim and knowing heart
is there knowing what heart did in the past but of course talim you have no context you weren't there
you know you were long gone or so but so this guy's a bit of a stranger to you uh he's like
what when do you want to know
i would like to know if there have been any individuals around our associates dwelling
particularly ones that may have left with a little girl
uh when he says that the uh the hand that is near his face talim will like
lift his hand up like yes but i also know what happens when they don't and he will
lick his wrist up and um from one of his gauntlets a blade will pop out from underneath it at the tip of
the man's nose
roll me intimidation can i can i help absolutely can we can we turning this into a coercion
absolutely nice poor guy i would say 19. i roll a 7 for a total of 15. excellent so as you do
it's like no
fine fine fine i'll tell you i know just just put that away
okay and talim will uh will flick his wrist back and the blade will retract he's like i do enjoy
cooperation uh oh yeah you should listen you should listen to that guy uh heart says
as he breaks a rock in two to like fit around the corner he's still just building the wall
the arch is over there it's like look talim i made rock dust
starts eating the rock the approval point
oh my god this could be your bones
so basically what well to save my throat uh he will explain uh that he saw a uh this haunting type
of figure not ethereal solid but this figure kind of entered the house but there was like a resident
who attempted to stop this this person and met with a terrible fate and the person went into brugs home
and exited out and went through and he points through the sewer pipe
which is impossible but it's been barred off the entire time
you sound that hard you notice that he sounds a lot worse for wear possibly have caught something
good thing you're not in front or else you'd catch a disease super easy but uh you know sounding much
worse for wear
so he just like described the figure as like intimidating there was no like um
a pretty big
didn't know the distinctness of wait a second
uh
chaleem will specifically ask uh it's like this large individual you didn't happen to see a
or the hint of a tail did you it didn't have a tail and a long snout
i see
thank you very much for your cooperation i hope you recover from whatever it seems that has come upon you
and uh to limo actually uh will take a silver piece out of his bag and uh flip it to the guy
and he'll look up at heart and it's like i think we know who has her we should return to brug
oh yeah yeah big time
you look a little bit worse for wear there buddy uh good luck with that as he coughs
and uh like yeah yeah tell him oh oh uh
give me me alone
you got what you want
i'm nothing now because of you and your sniveling weird dog too
and he goes back in his tent
his his accent has completely devolved
when when heart and mali and talim meets up again he goes you know that guy
wait uh i think he's like the man in the tent the destitute one
it's funny mostly you hard when he was mentioning that yeah yeah no heart knows that
but he's like i've never met him in all of my own life
ah perhaps from when i was alive
yeah likely not
uh almost killed that guy uh
i don't know who he is actually uh beyond what what he did and all that but you know almost killed
them it didn't do it though
as you guys are coming back we're gonna switch back to the scene with beetle and gray you guys
could feel free to enter in at any point um for beetle and gray as you guys have been discussing
with a brogger so are you looking for any more clues any more context of things you want to ask
brog any more questions
i don't want to speak for great but i believe beetle and gray were both going to try and follow
the scent so maybe yeah oh my bad sorry no it's okay uh maybe as they're opening the door to go out
then it's like oh and they bump in with it yeah okay yeah yeah um you guys are getting ready to
leave the door at least the doors of the north because that's where you're hearing this uh the
bit of scent gray um along with the scent you're kind of going with and beetle if you're attempting
the entire time um uh you do smell something a bit off you know as you're going gray something a bit
just not quite together i mean you want to say rotting but not quite frank is probably something
like spoiled but not entirely like it's on the way yeah something doesn't smell right i this place is
ripe with a plethora of scents but this is wrong it's off broggle i'd look at you too he's like if
if you don't mind could you please take a look for her she's about yay high you know and he starts
describing to you a cat he describes you a like an orange cat still like still like like a teenage
cat like a kitten that's you know on its way to growing up a little bit like orange fur white stripes
you know stuff like that very adorable well they'll have a collar around her neck with a uh and you'll
you'll identify her with a very uh like shiny kind of round jim uh come on it's usually it's usually
dull but of course like he said like this is said it'll protect her or so gray will put her hand on
bug's shoulder just like just um we'll find her i promise he he nods and uh usually oh i'll check with
the others and and see what they know and see if they maybe seen her or else doing stuff splitting up
might be best for us and you'll see brog will begin the exit and if uh clemen heart by this time you
guys are probably reached back at the house at this time at this time there's probably getting ready to
go ask the other people so um like the the heart or not heart um it was like brog go to like exit first
or uh you you guys enter inside first and brog will fill in all right so um
yeah harken uh clean will let heart go in first because you know like heart is very large and occupies
a lot of the um a lot a lot of area are all all real estate yeah so um after heart exits uh
enters uh clean will float in and he'll look at everyone um and he'll be like i believe that
brog's employer has paid a visit
what and he'll look at uh he'll look at brog and he's like uh
we think croc has your girl
you see him open his eyes fairly wide or something he's like that does it make sense like
for what reason how to smooth things over with him like there should be no reason for all those jobs
and and you see him just trying to rack his head over the idea of why croc would do something like this
let's not waste time we let's we should get there we should get going we should go find him uh we've got
the scent yeah we've got the scent and uh if you can track him we could track her
great kind of like a tuft of her
from what we know it seems that he exited through the sewer pipe
do you know where he could be going brog
it's like he he shakes his head he's like even i haven't even been in there
then it's already graded off so i can't imagine what's gone there and i don't even think croc could
get through those bars
let's take a look at the pipe maybe there's a way to unhinge them like a gate or something
let's let's go take a look and veto will trudge off
i walked into the wall
it's the wall again
every time every time
gray's gonna follow but just not not through the wall
i'm a ghost i float through the wall because of anime powers
probably say in case this is a wild goose chase or so he's gonna he's gonna check around town
yeah or so and you'll see him kind of walk off and everyone splits away
before before he leaves heart
door uh before um
brog leaves heart will put a hand on his shoulder and stare at him and go brog
take care of yourself we will take care of this
rug nods and thank you
like at least i have is there things called friends here it's town
he heart puts uh the little alarm whistle that he already brought forth before and he puts it in
brog's hand if you ever need help
and then he runs away towards the rest of the party
see brog will rush the opposite way
go take care uh to go look around more and you guys uh see the pipe to the sewer pipe there
and you see that without the greats people would be able to fit in there
pretty easily but it is definitely great at all with iron bars you know going up and down it
it could prevent like any big creature or any normalized person getting through
what the dog water how
is
we can move the uh the bars out of the way see if they can actually like slide out
who would like to get up there and give it a shot
cracks knuckles
yeah beetle stops short to let somebody else go up there and do it
uh how would you like to handle this heart
uh with my bare hips uh how rusted is this uh you feel like it's got rusty parts to it but you
know it's still fairly sturdy is it clogged the fuck up is there a lot of debris oh actually it
looks pretty clean okay that's weird um in that case uh he will look at the rest of them do you
want to take a first look at it if there's like a small contraption or something to open this
um are there any obvious uh locks or any latches or anything on this or
for those who want to look around for a mechanism or something to perception check to find one
for those who want to look around and be like oh hey is there like a thing we're missing like a
little latch somewhere to open up the great great or anything i'll give a roll for that
i rolled a uh i rolled a 10 for a total of 17. i rolled a three for a total of 12 grandma's eyes ain't so
good okay i'll roll two because if beetle sees them looking around for like a something other than
the moving the great itself he'll catch on and he'll help uh do a perception
yeah i rolled a two for a total of 13. i'll do it uh oh i'll fail but you know that's look at that
as you're as you're looking around uh you notice uh nothing there's no contraption no nothing
or you're not just not finding it yeah you and and for cluster inspection at least for you to lean
uh you're noticing that these are like i would say welded but these are part of this pipe
oh my god oh this is not meant to be a door
oh
hmm hey zoran how's that scent that off smell that gray was smelling is it stronger over here
all right roll me survival
it's your tracking
is a total of 15. you still smell it in the air
okay all right when there's nothing being produced as in oh pull that funny lever or something
uh heart will grip onto these bars and he can break these cuffs as he starts pulling on them as much
as he can uh soren is it an athletic shake yes nice he is very strong but i wish to re-roll that i rolled a
four so i wish to spend my hero point to re-roll that for a better result hopefully i rolled a 19 for
total 33 baby that will be that will be such a good roll that you tear through the thing just
and you basically do it so well that you notice that the rim portion of this pipe just boom just
comes right off you tore the metal off the whole front kind of protection bit falls off you toss it
to the side and i assume everyone goes inside i found the entrance
and with that we will be right back nice
another exciting return to the fracko
he says five feet away if not more from the mic
or just on the other on the other side of the room
yeah froggy's dealing with stuff
oh wait hold up hold up hold up she's not going to hear us all the way from whether she's over
there here
okay we need you over here
we're over here froggy we're this way froggy you're miles away
froggy welcome back
gosh darn it bully go golly jean willikers to be there
you just you just you just make it too easy he did ask if you were ready and you were like
yeah i thought i could tie it i thought i could tie it way faster than i actually could
see if i could tie it way faster than i could tie it way faster than i could tie it way faster
so that the help of this uh to continue on uh you guys are heading into the pipe mario style
what's your marching order because as you're going to the pub you notice only you can go in like
a single file and you can't double stack uh you know left and right of each other who's going in
first well i am big and i am wall shaped i think i can go first to get the whole circumference of
the pipe just just going across there's like a fleshy fleshy squeaking sound of heart's shoulders
like bowser going through one of the green pipes like mario's like oh i feed and bowser's just like
heart goes into mountain stands while in the while in the pipe and you see us like ships of
of the pipe just becoming into little ignition points along the lines so you see scraping
dragging a cinder block down a metal sheet uh beetle will go last because fuck that
yeah grail go after heart yeah colleen will i guess be third in line and have a uh
porch out so everyone can see the ever burning horse is ever well actually no what no um hey
heart has like a big like uh belt buckle right yeah he do yeah lean cast slide on the belt buckle
it's actually it's actually his lifting belt and his corset shape but he does have a belt buckle okay
perfect now you got the crotch font line amazing nice thank you talim now i will never die
so to make sure i have the order right just because i misheard it is heart's beetle talim gray or is
a great second gray is second okay yeah beetle is last heart for for when the ambush happens beetle
beetle is in the back for when the ambush happens no you all head in to the pipe
thank god mentally mentally i was like in my head i literally said
i was like if none of them make the mario pipes out i was gonna be real fucking sad and
we we we see it is confirmed that it's croc in the in the tunnel and we and we just hear
it's here we die in the sword it's like oh my god we find a staircase we can't find the end of the
staircase you all you all enter inside but
as you're entering in you see that there's a sort of black fog in front of you oh no
so that's disgusting as you enter inside further in front of the pipe you you you stop because you
can't see further down the pipe this black fog is preventing you from well you don't want to
potentially risk it as your instincts kind of scream at you um what would you guys like to do
and light is casted on hearts and i uh let me let me apply thank you so much actually uh
i'm doing that i'll just put a heart oh there you go oh
guys i have a great idea before we go any further beetle's gonna take out his rope and throw it forward
let's all hold on to this you know what that's actually a good idea yeah
i can always count on you for being smart bro yeah yeah just attach that to yourself somewhere uh
sorry to leave i guess sorry
eat shit ghost but to leave it just like stands there like hands up with the shrug it's like what the
fun art ties it to his belt yeah it smells pretty bad in here i don't know if the gas will i don't
know let's tie it to ourselves be safe and he'll tie it to his own belt gree's gonna try and listen for
anything deeper down in the pipe okay so rope is secured uh granny go ahead and roll me a perception check
perception roll let's go that is a 12 for a total of 21.
you hear nothing you still smell the smell though is it stronger in here or is it consistent uh you
were mostly listening for stuff this report give your information but for the smell it still lingers
here you feel like you're going the right way i mean i can i can live pretty well but i know that you guys
aren't that great at he turns back towards the dark luminous fog
going into weird places except usually no offense right does anyone have any paper can we make a fan for
your heart to blow around it through all this gross where's my deck you leave what the fuck
you know pats himself but he doesn't have any paper on him
after this gleam is going to invent the uh uh the what is it the um
like the desk fan fan yeah portable fan with runs off a sterling engine
gust wand just saying uh
okay i guess if we this is the best we could do we we go forward i guess hey soren yeah uh how mighty
of a fortitude uh roll or whatever do i need to do to breathe uh in and breathe out as much of the fog as
possible
oh
what
what steve engine are you trying to fucking hoover up the fog you're walking forward it's going
do me a favor yeah i'm not gonna say shit because knowing anything it'll bite me in the ass just
roll it yeah yeah okay art wants to use his legendary lungs oh my god good thing i didn't say
shit nothing happens okay thank you i was gonna say if you're all the natural 20 i was gonna scream
yeah so much you fucking ear jumps rupture uh can great would gray be able to like take off her
her cloak and like try to like fan the uh like yeah like yeah you do so you take off your cloak
and you begin to like do it away it swirls a bit but it stays consistent she rounds at it
park stands up against the wall hey talim do you want to have a look at this
uh believe can it will kind of like float up like half passing through um
gray like as he you know tries to shuffle forward and uh take a closer look at it you know trying to
examine it from a uh from an arcane standpoint yeah what the fuck is yeah uh you don't have to move
your token you'll be okay where you are okay um go ahead and roll me an arcana check
is that magic stank i rolled a 19 for a total of a 30. oh god dang this even though it's a super high
roll uh you know this is some powerful magics uh it's a very generic thing to say i know but still
it helps get the point across um you know this is an obscuring mist and you know what it is it's not
going to be simply dashed away um you would need something you need some something a powerful bit
of magic to kind of like dismiss this uh i'll kill you do you understand me not even in minecraft
in roblox yeah the worse worse her face
some deviant-art looking character design is going to come up and shank you in your in your roblox house
i hate this this is gonna be legend is all the shadow temple vibes that's my least favorite temple is so
scary so talim as he kind of exam this uh examines this um he'll be like it seems that someone has
used magic to cover this area um i don't think it is something that i can disperse myself i don't have
the means to um even with your fancy torch i yeah why can't you magic the torch the it's the magic
this is an ever-burning torch it is not a big saw you know it is simply it's a heatless torch
yeah i i i trust talim with the magic i uh i would like you to not not believe you can't do anything
about it talim um if you if you want to be inventive with it maybe use some of your spells or maybe just
think of something off the fly uh you you're confident with your 30 roll that you there is a
way to do it but you know it's going to be difficult with whatever you try here you know so whoever put
this here knows what they're doing i i'm gonna be completely honest i'm looking at what i got and i see
nothing in my toolkit that i'm like i could fix obscura miss with this it's like okay like if
you don't if you can you don't have anything that's okay yeah like i i have i'm a so the the
one thing he's a war mage he's not a utility the one thing i always encourage at least for spell
casters to do on this thing is it's okay to use your spells in an inventive way uh but if you can't
think of one that's okay yeah i can't think of anything that would what if you captain america
your shield down there i'd i then i would just throw my shield down a dark corridor
i cast my shield into the darkness i cast i cast shield at the darkness throw 10 feet
i'm just throwing things at the wall i so do i know that it's obscuring mist at least or do i
even do i even know what the spell is uh you don't know exactly what the spell is but it'd be close in
that nature i i would say hold your breath and continue forward okay oh all right
oh i breathed it it's fine and heart and heart takes a step forward okay you enter into the mist uh
your the light spell gets eaten it's still on you are so radiant you can only see just a little
bit in front of you heart but it just like the mist just does not allow light to go
heart disappears oh gray's getting pulled forward because they're all like holding that rope yeah
i'm still here we know gray will just like walk right into his backside just
all right go ahead uh just uh just to save us some moving of tokens and stuff all the time
uh who everyone enters in yeah yeah yeah yeah okay so here's something i like for both of you to do
or all of you to do for me please uh no pre do not communicate this in any way shape or form to each
other yeah don't say a word don't make a hint not anything okay pre-type in the foundry chat there
pre-type left or right do not submit it do not submit it only you left or right because as you feel your
way and i'll tell you when to press enter to submit it in the chat there can't we do it as a private
gm thingy no uh it does it won't matter okay uh so as you guys are going down the pipe um you notice
that you kind of like there's a bit bit rougher sharper so you notice the pipe that the pipes here
that you're feeling around the walls you can't quite notice where your friends are at least but you notice
they kind of go either to the left or to the right uh i'm gonna just check like don't give me your
answer and don't submit it yet into the chat thing there uh but i'll check uh gray do you have your
thing ready yes clean yep beetle yep and heart yeah all of you press enter and submit your directions
so for people to know heart goes left to lean goes right beetle goes right and gray chose right
oh no so as you all are going oh bye
a moment oh no heart
bye heart
do we still feel the pull on the rope even though heart isn't there anymore
only three of you are connected via that rope
yeah it was it was oh wait all right i'm with you sorry there you go okay you guys exit out
by there there you go heart there you go you guys exit through and three of you have lost heart
heart heart she's gray's gonna start crying out heart heart you hear nothing heart is talking as if
everyone is behind him so he's he's saying things like so um when we meet up whoever it is that it's
probably croc right so yeah so what i'm thinking is that when we meet him that we should try to have
some kind of some kind of war cry or something you know for for morale as he is walking down this
road on his own i wish to know to everyone that heart's greatest fear in the world is to be alone
what where did he go this makes no sense we were following him did he look he was right there
he was right there he's gone like gray just like holds up the rope and it's just like he's not there
yeah
like talim is like sitting there and he's got like his arms crossed and he's like thinking is like maybe
some sort of a transposition trap or something they've already employed magic once i don't see
why they wouldn't do it again he may have been oh god he could have been teleported to anywhere
let's keep heart look let's let's keep going heart
okay so to save you struggling through going through pipes in the grid system i'll just tell
you if you go forward i'll move you um thank you yeah so you don't have to you don't have to move
your tokens so you're good just stay together okay okay saying beats you so
so i'm now going to choose eyes again i'm gonna i'm gonna check on heart heart yeah you have just
found yourself to be alone no one's behind you there's no rope and the mist is behind you
and in front of you you see the pipe continue to wind away now i know the map doesn't show it
because i i'm learning the new tool and stuff uh there is a trickle of water going in but it's
really nothing to really worry about but um you see it just winding forward in front of you
oh um
ito
taleem
ray
he looks backwards towards this mist uh and he looks at the rope by his side i take it that
it's cut off in some way uh he takes it off he unloops the the rope from his belt and drops it
on the ground as he walks down does he see anything except for the smoke you see the swirling mist
that is uh standing there at just a bit of an edge there
you can either try to go through or continue down the pipe he starts breathing a bit heavily
but he remembers something that beetle told him and he pulls out a piece of shock and he goes
always turn right always turn right and he puts the shock towards the wall and he starts walking
no
okay start making a mark
and continued your way down um big question Clem
yeah
you casted light right on heart
yes
did you try to cast it on yourself as well
no i have uh i have my ever burning torch out
okay okay
that is
i was about to say like you can cast onto both yourselves i want to have like and heart
your life
boom goes away oh no i just drag drag the the light effect on myself because i'm like i can't
find the torch button uh it's okay if you ever need uh oh well you don't have the torch button
probably because it's not counting as a torch thing uh please give me a moment uh family
oh wait yep no no wait no never mind sorry my father was calling me and of course for family
but he called and it stopped so i'm going to assume everything's okay yeah if it's a board
he'll call again okay um so for that we're gonna go on to other team for gray talim beetle um
heart is missing as you guys have already explained and found out you can either try
to go back into the mist to look for heart or you can continue down the pipe
he was in front of you guys yeah it would make no sense to go backwards because he was in front
um gray's gonna keep going forward cautiously still calling out hard's name
and she's actually raising her voice she doesn't do this very often so there's a bit of panic
heart heart
beetles do the exact same thing beetles following holding on to his rope and screaming for heart
down the pipes
you hear nothing in response
yeah talim is uh basically holding up his torch and he's just
looking both you know he will like look behind them look in front of them you know like further
down the pipe however far the torchlight reaches you know as they both uh call out um to heart
so great great smells everything but like she she's been focused so much on that rancid sniff snorfy smell
um did heart smell just disappear entirely yes oh that's awful actually
oh no
oh yeah she's gonna keep going down
okay so heart you're continuing down uh other teams going down so chat
chat i got a uh i got a i got a question for you
oh no
hmm let me see
let me see i'm looking up i'm i'm reading my notes that i put in for
myself
i'm scared
uh okay
chat give me a number between one and twenty
let me know if there's any funny ones
first one who says a number
okay got it thank you chat all right
i use chat as a d20
basically whoever the first one did it got me a result all right thank you for that
so um as you guys are going down
heart you make it
heart as you can heart is continuing down the pipe
and heart you see you get to another crossway
he will follow the
uh he will follow the tips uh that he was given um and he will keep going right uh the shock still rubbed up against the wall um giving an active trail as to where he is
um if he could write he would have written uh i am this way heart on the wall but he can't
um and i uh does he hear anything from any of these two
pretty silent except the trickling of water
mostly over to the right
to the left you hear nothing
he keeps on going right then
he keeps on going right then
all right
you're deserved that
other team you all continue down the pipe if i last remember
correct
yes
i'll begin to get you two
meet a crossway
up you guys here
there you go
thank you
there's another
you two meet a crossway
do you go left
or do you go right
oh
this is great
it's gonna listen
i'll listen for uh any sounds
roll me a perception check
i'm gonna listen
that's an 11 for a total of 20.
that roll is actually a two
as light begins to shimmer
around you sort of a rainbowish light
begins to come in
all of you there
roll me
a will save
thanks chat you turned a 20 to a two
and i will minus me a villain point
okay
total of 24.
i rolled a 12 for a total of uh 21.
i rolled 11 for a total of 22.
that could be worse
could be worse
pretty good right
what have we done you know what you did chat
as you're in there a guy kind of starts popping down on the other side of the pipe here and he's like
hey
look uh what you what you folks doing in here
he seems to be you know kind of limping a little bit he comes up to you all saying like you are
like it's kind of weird for people to be coming to my home this way
your home yeah yeah my home the tubes the tubes of my life you know
uh we uh gray looks flabbergasted
we lost a friend in the pipes we're looking for some
i lost a friend too
it was with the tubes
oh
oh
uh-huh
we all live in the tubes
oh
you live in the tubes
well no we're we're just looking for our friend we don't live in the tubes
well your friend's that way and he points to the other side
he's that way
how do you know
uh uh actually to lean uh you're slightly suspicious of this guy gray with your role
you just got it this is horse shit like you from the magical effects everything you can tell
this is a fabric of your imagination for everyone else though guy likes his tubes
i don't believe you at all what do you mean your friends that way you're fake
you're fake gets mad
your jays they're fake
cut the shit
i don't cut my shit
but yeah because you're fake but you don't shit i she's just gonna walk through him
i don't shit i i don't shit and he disappears as you walk through him
it looks horrified
salty's electricity died so
oh no
that kind of works out because at this point uh heart is lost in tubes
okay no
heart is lost in tubes so this actually kind of works out but when salty comes back don't worry
oh boy he's lost the tubes the tubes have taken them are you friends with the tubes i was crazy once
the pipes are calling
the tubes are the tubes calling technically
we all live in the tubes okay which way do you guys want to go left or right
well in the exact opposite direction of where he was pointing i i advocate also for this course of
action okay that was behind you so left or right forward so yeah oh shit we're still left or right
uh you're gonna make it always go right always go right yeah but what if that's what what if that's
what he wants us to do what and what if he was actually what if he okay so this is some kind of
strange uh phenomenon either we're all collectively losing our minds and sharing a dream or there's more
magic stuff happening and okay hear me out if there's someone's with us yeah yeah yeah they're
fucking with us and they're pointing that way because they know we won't go that way
and what if he actually does know where heart is what if he took heart
gray will pick up beetle and put him in front of her choose
beetle's gonna go the way he was pointing okay all right you choose left
which is left you all you all continue down
you all continue down the pipes oh no the tubes moved me
oh you moved yourself in a glitch yeah oh no he's gone we lost to leave too oh no the tubes they're
calling
do you remember how croc had those magic guys the magic eaters the word eaters
that was croc right yes he was like i prefer not to remember they are strange lot yeah but you do
you do remember so what if this has something to do with that what if he's had them set something like
this up if it really is croc we should just keep moving forward i'm just trying to explain all this
silly stuff that's happening as you uh guys feel free to move up the pipes if you'd like but as you
continue forward i'm saying i think you notice you notice that there is you start to hear kind of
humming as you're going down oh not this again it's charles you're here oh yeah
but instead you're hearing uh forgive me if this sounds is terrible or no
it's like um no no there it goes it kind of works he makes like
it's like someone some kind soul is just just humming something to sleep but the kind soul that you see
is this horrific looking creature
at least to your eyes and you see that looks something like this
oh you see a crocodile type person rotting away with mummified wraps around it in robes
have a cigar in its mouth just puffing away and it seems to be kind of sitting down uh legs crossed
onto the floor of this kind of broken away the sewer pipe breaks away a little bit to reveal sort of like
this kind of like rocky chamber you see that where it would have connected straps of like uh perhaps
of metal and stuff were on the ground where it would have connected uh water seems to be pouring out
on the other end of the pipe where it should be connected and you see this thing just kind of like
in this kind of whole cavern like area just rocking back and forth just simply going
and you all hear like a little cat meow just meow and you see it's petting
it's a cat as it's rocking back and forth
is it an orange cat is it a cat cat or is it a cat folk cat see it's an orange cat
is it a cat cat with a collar on with a gemstone
no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no
gray quietly
quietly steps forward just slowly it doesn't look like he has eyes in his head right
he have he he doesn't have eyes in his head right
to leave a like whisper um to uh the beetle it's like do you think that stops skeletons
i don't know
can we throw a small rock or something
perhaps it's not to throw things at it not at it but like pick up a rock and throw it at the far
wall over there maybe he can't see
looks like he doesn't have any looks like he's got no skin on his head yeah or eyes
what if we go in there and we startle him and he does something to her
that's the last thing we want
i have no good solution for this my chest is tight
the beetle unbuttons his shirt
my chest hurts
beetle has a heart attack in the middle of the tubes
i look around is there a doctor is anyone a doctor
our doctor is the one having the attack
grace gonna look around for like a pebble or something to toss
okay um you probably find some refuse uh down kind of like the sewer thing yeah like a thing
stick or something yeah yeah oh you got some yeah
toss it
you toss it it lands in the middle you see this thing kind of like stop humming
and it looks up sharply i like its head's turning if it's like trying to like catch the audio like a
little bit better like
it's like snapping it's just trying to like just grab something you know and uh
um as it's doing so
just looking around just like trying to listen so you hear it going
you know it's just smelling the air and going just just smelling for something
he'll keep quickly lifts an arm sniffs under his pit
zoran is this the set the the source of the smell
roll any perception or survival
oh no uh let's do survival
that is a total of 18. yes
he seems a bit gone i'm not sure if that's you know obvious
how did he get through the pipes how did he get out how did he get in here
it doesn't look like it wants to hurt her
i think perhaps if we were to distract it further i don't know
hey hey you're a ghost he looks like he
yo bro you dead
looks like he could not be um maybe you could maybe he will be less startled if
if you try and you don't make footsteps
don't make footsteps
it might not people might not be able to hear you whispering you gotta get real close to the mic for it
you got a little dangly feet people might not you might he might not hear your little feet you
had a little dangly hanging feet
kalim like looks down at his feet looks back up and looks down at his feet then continues to look down
and beetle looks back to his feet and then like narrows his eyes at beetles is like
float over there with your little wind chime feet
i am back
so the limo like do like his is fine he's like it's fine fine i will try and sneak in there
best i can and like he'll like do the thing where he like dusts himself off like he's trying to get
sand off his robes and uh i will actually use stealth to try and float into the room and to the
side undetected sure thing talim roby a stealth check oh boy i'm scared oh boy i can't wait to see
what type of roll you're gonna get all right so i roll a seven plus ten for a total of a 17. oh boy
you float in and you see and you see this creature just kind of like just snap it stalls a little bit
but the catch is like just like just having a good time uh you see what light on you uh yes that is be a
detriment
i'll be a merciful game master and assumed you took off the light
yeah i put the torch up and just like pass it back there yeah yeah there you go
there you go it's okay it's okay yeah yeah don't worry it's of course what you would do
of course absolutely exactly what i would do sweats all right so you kind of float in and you get a
much closer look at this thing you know um you know last time you saw croc croc was very much alive
yes but as you're getting uh closer to this thing you're starting here
so pretty so wonderful so soft oh it's okay it's okay all we need is a thing and then you can go away
and you see this thing is uh just kind of like claws on its its hand claws are just picking at the
at the neck piece going oh just a little we might just wear away maybe if it expired i can take it anyway
and it's just it's picking at the necklace uh that the cat has or the collar
so um as it makes its uh little rhyme uh
uh clean uh like reaches a hand into one of his pouches to pull out a uh pull out a uh a coin
and hold it between uh his first finger and his thumb and uh he'll look at back at the other two and
he'll like make like a like a draw a line across his neck and he's like shaking his head he's like
it's not good it's not good it's bad
so i want to give time for y'all there just for soli were you able to get back to the game and
everything or uh yeah yeah i'm here okay and i was following everything separately so i know how
does that happen okay um just to give time a little bit uh for you heart just to kind of pause things
you are lost in the tubes yeah right now uh you are lost in the tubes and you you will enjoy when
you're called upon just to give you a heads up if that's okay if there's a thing you want to do just
let me know feel free to interject but you're lost in the tubes right now you're going which way that way
everything he he just keeps on walking he legit keeps on walking and when he finds nothing um i
have one final question in regards of this yes um how long is the reach of the light spell uh it's 60
feet i think off the top of my hair but it could be wrong but it goes it goes a good way you see down
most of the tubes like long longer always yeah uh and that is great uh it's awesome
um so he's not alone in the dark that would fuck him up uh but when he legit finds none of them
he starts going faster and he just starts running through the tubes as fast as possible
um just to try to close a loop so he can start running back and everything uh but that's him
he is just uh humming some song to himself uh because he can't stop if his friends are somewhere
he needs to find them okay okay good good so talim beetle in gray
gray you see this thing just kind of talking sweetly to the kitten just kind of picking at the
necklace what do you all do liam is floating there stealthily
i'm totally panicked that's what i'm doing
gree's going to slowly carefully shuffle out of the tube
just holding her breath the entire time because that's what i'm doing right now uh-huh
i'm scared sorry are you stealthing yes i will use stealth yeah roll me a stealth roll please
i will stealth that's a load for total 22. okay okay it's pretty good to me able to crawl in there
just all nice and sneaky lie blending with the sound of the water beetle what's up
oh beetle has an idea i will also roll for stealth because i'll i know i'll have to move forward
beetle will hold on let me roll for the stealth because beetle's gonna move forward to try
and brush uh against gray's haunch to try and like move her or signal that she should move out of the
way of the pipe yeah so she's not standing in front of it so that's a 17 for my stealth
okay that's good yeah so beetle goes up there makes sure both of them are away from the front
of the pipe and then backs up gives them both a look and then he spins around and starts smacking
and drumming on the pipe and running and he's going to run away he's going to start like making
a bunch of noise and smacking the shit out of the pipe and take off down it back into the tube yeah into
the tube with a snarl
the cat is left behind yes okay yes and once you see this thing do going it's mine it's mine it's
my pressure and you see and you see this thing just charge at you and it turns it turns beetle
into
a bunch of worms have you ever seen princess mononoke before yes and i hate this
yes and i hate this imagine those wiggly little worm things with teeth at the end of it
snap snap snap snap snap snap snap snap just going at it just and it surges after you beetle
okay so beetle what i'm gonna do just to keep this easier a mass of angry worms following you right now
i'm gonna i'm gonna throw you this way and what you hear down the tubes as it's chasing you
is is that i want my revenge my stun will pay and you won't take my victory from me
and it's just it's a cacophony of the worms all together screaming to you and it goes through the
pipes hearts yeah you hear it huh you know where to go do you go
he's lost in in the middle of nowhere and he hears anything but his own footsteps and the trickling of
water he starts he drops the shock and just start running and he starts screaming after beetle
gray and talim as he just starts running the fastest he can good good good so you begin to run
you begin to run let me see uh let's try this one show this bit of music
yeah that'll work this thing is going through it all we're gonna do a little bit of a narrative
running away on this one if you want to take care of this one because we we feel like we know where
this is going um gray and talim you both are there also this token doesn't need to be here uh you're
there the kitten the kitten or brug's daughter is right there going meow
so this is brug's kid i pretty sure hello
what's up to you we're here to take you back to your dad meow
okay that's not a no so she just she just leans over and picks her right on up yeah
hearts uh yeah uh sorry well i'm sorry talim first and then heart no i i was gonna say uh uh if uh
gray has that then talim starts to uh fly down the pipe uh after beetle and the worm monster as
is chasing beetle and focused on uh on him uh gray's gonna quickly like tuck the uh the cat into
like her her little like shawl and she's gonna start booking it down
okay good good okay uh you go ahead and move yourself on now on the battle grid here heart
and talim and gray at least you hear
you've been going through all these pipes heart and you pop right out of one of the side ones here
right there and you see talim and gray rushing through uh the pipe
i run up to them easy as pie
he just slides out a uh when he escapes the the pipe it's like he breaks with one foot into the dirt and
it just piles up as he slides out here and he stares at them as if he his eyes are those of a person of
15 uh years older than he is uh and he goes you guys you're still alive grail look over her shoulder
we found the cat worm monster let's go
he just races his uh his eyebrows like what yes yes
okay so what i'm gonna ask everyone to do now is to roll for initiative uh okay yeah
that's a 10 for a total of 19.
i rolled a uh 12 for a total of a 19. okay
i rolled a six for a total of 17. okay
beetle do you remember do you remember how or sorry sorry say again sorry we're rolling for initiative
right right right right sorry i got distracted by a text from my mammy so uh that is a 16. okay good
uh i want to roll for the thing it rolled very low it rolled very low but it got a 21. yeah he's got a high
initiative so this pile of worms um is it still in the shape like does it move like it has four legs
uh it move it's it's moving as if like there is like a creature in the middle of just like hands and
legs just grabbing onto the side but it's just a swarm of these things yeah that makes it worse yeah
it's going straight for you beetle so what it's going to do because it is a swarm it goes over you
and it will just to kind of help out with targeting and stuff i'll do that first uh
uh h will ask you to uh make a reflex save please click that uh click that button there in the chat there
for the uh reflex save
nice you click the thing i don't think you did oh i i clicked the dice sorry see here
that's okay don't worry i'll take your 27 don't worry uh you succeed okay okay
i thought you succeed so basically let's see uh you will only take half of this damage oh my god which is
half of 13. oh okay you only take six points of damage okay with all of its stuff all of its turns
basically was going up to you to lame you see a lot of like all these worms and with your uh i'll say
you can have your ever burning torch out now if you needed light again or so um but this thing is
just swarming over beetle what do you want to do uh can i can i actually choose to go after beetle
has had a chance to move uh you can you can just delay your turn if you like yes okay yeah and i'll
do that yeah i know there's i know somebody was like oh it's official ruling to do this or this like
i'm okay with people delaying their turns waiting okay normally it takes like two actions then you
do a thing but i'm okay with it you can house roll okay uh great it'll now be your turn okay so
this is a different kind of enemy we haven't had this kind of enemy before yeah um because using a
crossbow i have shot one worm yeah if you need to learn more about a creature uh you can try to do a
nature check on it or any applicable lore skill to recall knowledge on it and gain information
about that creature to help help so you can tell your friends hey this is the best way to take care
of this thing uh i would like to survival or nature uh uh not uh survival they'll give you different
things of uh knowledge i'll say nature is best applicable for this yeah yeah uh gree's gonna try and
study this thing real quick uh while it's trying to have a feeding frenzy on beetle um
that's a two i'm i'm gonna re-roll that i'm gonna use a hero point and re-roll that nice
use one of my many hero points goodness gracious
thank you chat that's an eight for 12 15 that's better okay uh unfortunately you don't
quite get enough information about this thing but the one thing that you do know which is the obvious
thing about this is a swarm um and you know you can still hurt it if you just keep shooting into it
might not be as effective but uh of single of single targeting like attacks but it might not be
effective that way but you know all right well she's she's uh probably flustered she's uh you know in a
dark tube uh so this is her haunted prey now i'm declaring that as haunted prey and uh we're gonna shoot
with the uh the concier uh the concier crossbow all righty and that is it for me and i failed i missed
entirely with a total of 18. that was all your action you took one action to look at it hunted prey bam heart your turn
uh heart uh only knows that uh he can't see the thing yet uh so all he hears presumably
is the writhing stomping sound of the creature and beetles screaming and that he was hurried by his
friends so in a cloud of smoke he's gonna uh use key rush uh to transpose himself uh through his
friends awesome so i cast key rush as one action and i transpose myself here wow
or well over here rather uh and now i am concealed as a heart appears out of a veil of smoke as he
stops himself because he sees the fucking thing right in front of him and he goes
deep behind it worms coalesce into a mouth and right back at you
heart is going to instinctively just uh freeze up into mountain stance and as my third action i'm gonna
start punching it
and rather than just punching uh fighting a swarm easiest way of doing it is uh by wide sweeps so
as he hardens his body like rocks he's gonna do a lariat with a uh with the side of his hand
so he's gonna just slice through this with his with his karate shop hands
are you trying to bullshit me for a slashing effect on the sword no no no no no no no no no thematically
yes thematically don't worry about it it's still it's still blunt as a freaking brick uh flurry of
blows on the funny mound okay um yes uh so i'm gonna use two strikes on this body
uh so strike number one
oh damn i forgot the target i forgot that is anyone here nice and uh the damage
is 13. and then as flurry of blows allows me to strike an arm strikes twice for one action
uh that is sadly a miss however i have one hero point left that's my last hero point i'm gonna
re-roll it because here's the coolest thing okay no i rolled a three for another miss sadly
the coolest thing is that flurry of blows combines into one
damage source for overriding uh damage resistance uh very useful uh when you fight big and scary
things uh however uh this is a writhing mass of worms it doesn't matter if you kill one of them
there's hundreds more big of hundreds more beetle all these worms are biting and snatching and you're
like he's already ripped off bits of your little scaly flesh and bit into your wings and everything else
what do you do well uh i move the maximum movement speed as far as far as i can in two turns
uh away just start keep running i go over here yeah and i'm still i'm screaming i'm smacking the
tube i'm like trying to be as boisterous yeah yeah conquer conquer conquer yeah yeah
conquer conquer conquer conquer just screaming little wormies so you want to move for two actions
right i'll allow you for one action to continuously try to taunt this enemy uh how how would you taunt
there along with the banging of the pipes uh well uh so he's screaming and smacking the pipes and as
he's getting bitten maybe he's like ah careful where you bite i got your cat i got your cat i took it i took the cat
and on my last turn i want to use my winglets to do a long jump just to get an extra five feet away
from it so the thing i'm doing is that i'm allowing you to taunt it for an action yeah so you're moving
twice and then that so yeah um and long jumping requires two actions oh i see yeah so it's okay uh
roll me you're trying to intimidation or deception yeah definitely deception okay go ahead and roll that
for me attention through the cat uh sorry i misread my description of my winglets i thought if i
moved first moved first and then i could jump uh so that is a total of 13. it's not very good
sorry well i was addressing the situation so with that okay all right we'll consider that
aleem you know what can i could i use a hero point your thing
nice that's a total 28 excellent that's a great thing let me mark you down
i will note there is one single jumping uh feature that you can perform as one single action and that
is a leap and leaps are only uh 10 feet uh in horizontal space but since you have the funny winglets
you increase that by five yeah that's what i was trying to do i was trying to run 10 feet
and then do a long jump and get an extra five feet out of my movement but i misread the description of
the winglets yeah don't worry about it there's long jumps high jumps and leaps leaps are the ones that
you always succeed at and long jumps are the ones that you need to roll for i gotcha i gotcha
so with that thank you so much for your patience my stupid yes it's your turn all right um i will move up to
uh here along the edge of the pipe and that will be my first action and then i will actually um
um so it is focused on um
on beetle yeah it's focused on beetle does it look in any way shape or form that the uh heart has
befinned it in the least with his attack oh you feel you feel heart has smashed into it a good chunk but
like you definitely know it wasn't as effective as heart wanted it to be all right and this is the
roiling mass of worms like it's yeah it's a all right big old thing so helene will actually scooch
up into this corner of the pipe he will uh look back at um uh look back at gray and uh
uh uh look at her it's like you might want to brace yourself a bit and he'll actually crouch down
put a shield in front of him and i will spend two actions uh to actually cast blazing dive as uh
he basically assumes a sprinter stance and he hurls himself uh uh hurls himself forward uh
to the others wait hold on wait let me look at this um
like right here i don't know if you can see that
yeah yeah basically gonna put yourself in there i yeah i'll allow it even though it says you fly 15
straight straight up into the air you would just bonk yourself on the head or so i'm okay with you
angling yourself you know and doing all this stuff basically he he cannonballs himself through this
boom and that's why he puts the shield in front of him you know it's cool to me
it's cool to me and i'll allow i'm sorry other game masters like no there's a ceiling you know
yeah i figured it was worth a shot i like cool shit well let it happen go ahead and place yourself down
there because you basically move yourself and um we will go ahead and make him roll his reflexive
yes
it succeeds he'll take half damage so go ahead and roll damage for me
here we go that is that'll be half of 13 and that'll be you'll see it'll just
whoosh and you and you notice that because of you're doing such a wide area effects of a lot
more worms get hurt so a bunch of them just go and just like basically just like a lot of them just
are just dissipating like uh like one of them trying to form a hand to kind of grab you but you're
and a lot of them just singe away and disintegrate you did 10 points of damage instead of your 13.
you still feel that was that's pretty good for what you did there all right um and that is the
end of my turn because i've used all three of my actions excellent this thing still trying to get at
beetle will move past you for one try to bite you along the way as it does so so it'll do one at one
action uh to move on to you i'd move it over just to make it a little bit easier uh please click
this for me in chat for to do a reflex save they'll do all the math and everything for us
and i rolled an 18 for a total of 30. you are good you're only going to take half of this
only take half of 11 you only take three points of damage along with all your undead resistances so
hell yeah so i only take one point of damage yeah it's not already calculated you know i'll calculate
everything you only took three okay so you did all that this thing continues to move forward after
beetle but it's very slow uses last action to do that gray it's your turn gray kind of looks at
this thing constantly running away and like squirming away and she's just like i'm getting too old for this
and as you say that i'm too old keeps clawing for beetle constantly screaming just going like i need
it i need it you can't take it from me where's my what's my max uh distance i can go again it's been
a hot minute always look at your character sheet and you'll see speed uh on your main tab there it
says 25 so 25 each square is five feet do these because she's realized that crossbow ain't gonna do
anything so she's gonna run up to this thing and she's gonna dive into it and start tearing at it
start biting into it and stuff yeah biting and tearing and just ripping and tearing until it's done
uh with the cat in your arms no it's in her it's in her it's in her hood oh okay oh with the cat
in my hood okay noted it's in the uh can you unarm them yeah yeah uh if you want to punch it uh if you
want to punch it which is bludgeoning yeah you can do the unarmed attack uh okay you have your bite thing
there i do have bite i could use bite yeah i could use blight my whichever one you want to do
you that is 18 for a total of 31. you do critically hit it roll the critical damage for me critical
damage that's a total of 18. that's an excellent roll but as you're biting into it you're notices you're
not making good way you're trying to you're not quite able to chomp on them as well as you would
hope it only takes four damage instead of 18. all right well that's it for me heart it is your go
he slides up like a rock across the ground just uh sparks flying from his feet as he just slides up
at this creature and uh with the final momentum of him running up and sliding uh he is going to
uh he's gonna scream out at this thing don't you touch him don't you touch him
uh and i want to try to intimidate this creature okay you know how to do the prompt thing at all or
all right uh i rolled i rolled a 20. sorry for the prompt
so we'll click that heck yeah the demoralize action here so basically uh there you go i'll take your higher
number uh you succeed and you make it a bit frightened heck yeah and then my final action
i will flurry of blows for making me allowing me to do let's strike two actions come on let's go
let's go baby i believe that's a crit that's a crit baby oh crit damage heck yeah
uh my damage is 22 however it could be more uh as i also have a secondary attack against it
which is a tool sorry uh it could have been more but uh heart just flies into this uh like a and with
his lariat he does a second turn since it's a critical hit he does a second turn he and he becomes a
little bit of a mixer uh for the meat of these worms you are pulverizing this thing with all of your
attacks you just see like there's a lot less worms around okay you'll have to smash the sewer some of
the corpse warm corpses are floating down the stream beetle you're hearing behind you going give it to me
give me i need it you're not taking it from me and my son will die i will get my revenge
does it it has it so is it still coming after you it seems like it okay uh you made it madge okay i'm
okay uh i'm gonna take a turn to pull out my giselle and uh
i don't have a clear line of sight on it at the moment so i'll just use a turn to pull out the
giselle and then i guess what you can do is that you can set a condition if you want to stay where
you're at where you want to like kind of like aliens movie in the in the vents get a gun pointing
down going if it keeps there i'm gonna shoot you yeah exactly exactly so i they'll take two actions
to do and you're basically setting up like i'm preparing this action and then whenever it comes
around in your side you can go kablam and then shoot at it yeah that's that's what i'm doing awesome
okay so you're gonna get that ready uh now it's gonna be fleam's turn all right um
uh to lean will pull a coin out of his pouch and extend an arm forward and uh he'll look at hard
he'll be like he's like hard get down and i will spend two actions uh to have uh basic electricity
crack along along fleam's arm and fire that coin off like a rail gun by uh magnetic acceleration uh
targeted at the uh the big squishy monster all right let's see and so i need to first off to arrange
attack roll and that is a 24 in total you hit it and the damage of it is
uh 17. your thing goes and it smashes into it it tries to pierce through it there and you see a good
chunk of some of the damage kind of goes through uh but some of the other bit of it just doesn't seem
to be doing so hot with it um but you do damage it for five points of damage tons of worms just kind of
kind of just kind of fly off where you just see them and just pierces right through it
and uh as my last action i will move up
behind heart and that is the end of my turn now at its turn it tries to
basically what it will do try to move up and try to follow beetle and gets to here beetle
you can target it and shoot at it now yeah oh boy that's so big mamba jabamba okay would you count
this as a part of their investigation soren yep then you don't need to do an action to discombobulate
you get to do it for free oh yeah yeah i did i okay excellent i'm devising a stratagem i'm taking aim i'm
block his forward jab you shoot it you hit it the bullet will hit so i'm going to shoot
the bullet that is 12 point ease of damage he knows it takes no damage oh no what it does is it
it rise and it screams and it needs to make a
it basically royals from you proggy or beetle rather and it goes
basically you see that there's like little bits of the pipe that aren't fully complete
it takes all of the worm it hears pow like the large sound you're in an enclosed space
yeah everything it is all loud and this thing all the worms convulse or so and you see it just all
to squeeze into for the rest of its move or or pretty much for its uh rest of its mood it just
squeezes away from you and just just swarps into the wall
hurry everybody and what you see kind of left behind is a soggy cigar right inside the sewer pipe
it went into the wall hurry run hurry over here and uh if if i can beetle's gonna
shoot again but like just until people get past him and like are on their way like he wants to
make sure it doesn't come out of the wall while they're coming it has uh did you like just shoot
in the ceiling yeah if he could like just shoot in the fucking the little crevasse that he
orped into if he could just like shove the barrel of his gun down there just shoot i'ma spin a villain
point um you shoot into the ceiling and you just make a hole and water starts pouring on your head
did you defeat it no it went up there leave it to zoran to be a wet blanket oh my
boo boo let's not stop let's not stop everybody go and beetle is ushering them with urgency to keep
going hard following beetles we try and get through the back to the pipes yeah so with that you guys
begin to head your way down the pipes find your way out oh you guys remember where you came through
right yeah yeah go for it to move your tokens yeah yeah yeah yeah i remember remember you came out
right right yeah you come down here from here and stuff yeah yeah yeah it's fine
as you guys continue on your way out left or right yeah left or right
you find your way out of of the tube network
they weren't tied up you're able to get out just fine and as you come out um you see brug
you see brug on his way back up to meet with you all saying uh you see he seems frazzled and worried
and he's like i i couldn't find her anywhere no one's no one's seen her no there's no sign of
her anywhere else did you find her gray's gonna root around in her in her hood where she she knows
she put the cat she knows it's there she's gonna yoink cat like huh
and you see he starts crying and he rushes up and grabs the cat from you uh he just takes her
and you know nuzzle her and everything else hold her the cat is happily meowing you know
you know does all of that and everything else she says thank you thank you so much for helping
beetle collapses onto his side catching his breath
like rapid hyperventilating there was a monster in there that had her
it's a bunch of worms it's a bunch of worms it's a bunch of worms a swarm of worms that were in the
shape of a croc folk croc folk like well i talk about its side it was a bunch of worms
frog tries to rub his chin or so i was like well i
like i don't know much about that i mean there's croc folk all around the
the pond's pilaster here and there it wasn't croc's gang croc it's just uh
we we should block this pipe you should put stones up in front of it maybe leave a little
no not a tiny hole oh you gotta block this pipe i'm going to be honest bro i don't think you and your
family are safe here
and i have another question it's about talia's color
he nods like he's waiting for you to ask the question yeah okay um it seemed unusually interested
the tone around her neck you know if it is anything special
he he looks down at it and he's like well i a vision i gave it to her that's a way to protect her
she used to wear it when she used to go delving but whenever she gave it to her it was the day when
she died but if it's going to bring more danger to her and if things like that are gonna be that
attracted to it i don't think i need it anymore are you sure he nods and says like i've never been
a fan of magic no offense but anything that gets magically involved usually there's trouble
and they walked me and my daughter far from it
i'm kind of solemnly nods it's like we can hold on to it in that in worst case it comes after us
best case we can find out why it wants it and if we can take care of it we can return it to you
he nods and uh he will unclash the color from it and uh you'll hand you'll hand it over to the group
and uh he was like i don't know what it does but it will uh i think it'll serve you better allow me to
now we're gonna grab my things and let me try to ask if elmas have a spare room for me until i
can find a better place and uh hey that that whistle that uh beetle awkwardly like toes through the
disgusting super water
duck walks through it here you could it could give her this in the meantime in that whistle you could
you could put it in there and he takes the geode necklace out and holds it up to him it opens up
it's got a little finger-shaped jewel inside he'll he'll nod what he'll do is that he'll replace uh the
gem on the collar and hand it to you guys to put the geode on the uh collar instead and uh it goes like
thank you yeah i'm so glad she's safe that's cute oh my and a parent should never experience losing a
child yeah we got you bud he'll uh he'll nod and go like all right i'll uh i'll meet you at the parade
i'll uh well i'll be keeping an eye on things and so let me let me get her safe first i'll meet you
there yeah do what you have to he'll nod he'll nod and he'll head back into his home you know uh taking
care of her and he's like let's get you some food i bet you're hungry and go in response and he will
go and take care of her that any last words fellas
beetle collapses again
we'll see you at the parade be safe zone to the jewel and he just kind of looks at it he's examining it
like to inspect it identify it sure yeah probably our chronic check or if anybody else has a cultism
i can roll a cultism i don't have trained but i have the funny feet that lets me do it anyway
never mind oh my god that's money that's a nat 20 yes it is what you do to lame is that as you're
investigating it um the first thing you'll know is that or first thing they'll happen to you and
is anybody else looking at it yeah yeah we're getting a look-see okay everybody who's looking
in a silly image you're doing magical stuff they're trying to figure out what it is
you you all just like flash of memory and and like experiencing from someone else's uh pov seeing
someone with fiend line features fairly someone tall like leaping to and fro uh in a cave system you're
seeing like an underground city of stuff with large large lactites and psych mites and such
kind of just on this big underground area with an old city as this person is going to and fro from
rooftops and cavern ways and maneuvering her way throughout stuff a torch even though it's lining
over she looks back and sees a large like a large orc person just kind of punch through a wall for her and
everything else like just as if someone is delving but of course things flash again did you see combat
of like these uh horrific kind of like viscous creatures boom it flashes again it's someone
adventuring and it's someone delving and you only and you can surmise from the feline features of the
person like their hands and everything else that it is rugs now unfortunately deceased wife and you
also see her death but there is a large sort of scaly like creature oozing this black viscous uh with a
long tail with a kind of bladed thing at the end of it and it has kind of like a wyvern like wings
thing but all the webbing has been shredded and it's turned into like this kind of claw mantis like kind
of structure deal and you see that it and it pierces through her you all kind of feel it a little
bit it's not real but you know a little bit as if you were there and then you're out as soon as she
activates that thing and it allows and you feel like kind of like a surge of something within you
and allows her to cast one little bit of magic and unfortunately it didn't last enough last long enough
you see her memories of her clawing her way back handing it back to the orc as the orc tries to
say no but then eventually runs away and the creature tries to pursue but isn't able to fit through a
passageway
and so if you talim you know that this is a gem of refocusing you spend a reaction to gain back one
focus point once per day
huh
gray is very quiet
green kind of sits there and he
looks at the gym uh like have been held in place by the mage hand and he kind of cups it between two
hands and it's uh uh uh he looks up at the rest of the party and it's uh
just kind of looks from each one of them
and he looks back down at it and he's uh
he kind of nods and it's like
he died how she lived
it's
but she still has a legacy
we will do right by bro by keeping this safe
yeah
yeah
wonder what was up with those i really think we should seal this pipe off
i i think the best is to
make sure that uh berg and his family are safe
and should that thing continue to come for this
we'll make sure it never comes for it again
and worms do all of that
not normal ones
yeah there was a lot of stuff happening in there
oh it was screaming
let's go get ready for the parade
yeah i i i'm tired i want to go away from here
who gets the stone
i'll take it pose oh
i'll take it
yeah he'll uh tell him we'll hand it over to uh hand it over to gray
she'll add it to her uh necklace that has like it's it's a necklace that's got teeth and like bones on
it and stuff okay i'll uh i'll get it all stat blocked and everything
everything for you everything for the next thing and uh with that you guys level up you're now level six
you're all level six now and that is where we're going to end it today
normally you're supposed to be like a yippee but now it's like
uh finally it's like i'm tired i was i had all these like pre-planned things that i was gonna do for the parade i was like oh it's gonna be a fun happy parade episode
oh my heart
my adrenaline
i can't believe this is the third time to lean has to leave has had to experience death from a first person perspective
this can't keep happening i can't believe salty got so into the character of like getting lost that that her internet at no sorry her whole power went out
yeah yeah i'm lost to the truth it's so immersive
yeah it was such a awesome move on my part right yeah yeah good bit streamer good bit
yeah yeah yeah thank you thank you chat i hope you had a good time players i hope you had a good time
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