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The Man Child · Rotgrind - Narrative Declaration

• are you excited for another exciting episode of rock grind welcome back everybody to another exciting episode of rock grind so good to see everybody here today we've been busting our butts off all behind the scenes we're so glad to be back and seeing how everyone's doing of course you can always help support the show at patreon.com for such narrative declaration how is the door plugs kept helps keep the lights on and helps tan hauser stay constantly lubed i don't like that you're welcome so we're gonna introduce all the people that bring you rock grind starting off with odo roshi hi hello it's me i'm odo i'm playing vena the sylph swashbuckler and uh i don't have a bit after that my brain was just kind of like shunted out of my ear i gotta go find it the one who found the brain shunted out the ears is hulky crow that's me i am hulky crow i will of course be playing the kanrasu cleric rahua and i understand your woes odo lube hauser is hard to get off the brain the one who understands our woes is our one and only erndel i don't understand the woes of this fucking chat what are you talking about hi my name is erndel and i'm playing the human alchemist baldrick weathers and he is prepared today to be in the aftershock of defeating old man the one who's not quite the old man but definitely feels like it it's speaker d hi i'm speaker d i'm not the old man but i feel like it why is that because my birthday is this week it's your birthday technically my birthday is on a monday but i'm celebrating my birthday today chat sing it now happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday to you the man won't listen to grab by the ghoulies but he'll play the one song in real life that will get you assassinated that's a good point well we did do it all as a group episode we'll be back in 10 everybody we're gonna start off we'll go through all of our bits again bye well we might be safe because with all the discord stuff all the garbling it together it might not get copyright shrugged so we should be fine we should be fine if something happens and you see this episode's delayed for five years you know why yeah if you were here first yeah if you don't see a quick edit of happy birthday and then it goes away then we're fine i'd like to think that the company that owns the happy birthday song has developed an advanced ai that is constantly scouring the internet for anything that sounds remotely like it and it's just like i'm going to fucking assassinate you now they don't just send you a cnd they just straight up kill you second of starting up killing you we have our illustrious game master thurston hillman hi i feel safe here hi it's me it says thursday i'm looking forward to running another exciting episode of rock ride you ever want to whoop so high pitch it turns into a little like fire alarm beat my beep if you get your whoop just right the echo but of course the weird one is you're one and only i am your host for this evening uh i am zon the bear i'm playing or in the strict strewed here for rock rain and welcome back everybody hope everyone's had a lovely time we do apologize for last episode lbs exploded we don't know why i still haven't figured out why all the other recording things i've done in the past nothing crashed so yeah if it crashes again my bad we'll edit it again i guess so we do apologize for that but uh uh do remember we have a lot of awesome stuff going on our patreon we have a whole bunch of new patrons and stuff uh thanks but thanks a bunch of awesome stuff that's going on there so you can head over there narrative declaration or patron.com forward slash narrative declaration and of course one thing i have to thank for twitch chat specifically twitch chat youtube chat you're already cool so you can you could you could chill but uh but twitch chat we hit partner plus thanks to you guys you know like twitch change some of the stuff or whatever but that means all of your subs no matter what now uh i think i think twitch primes are kind of restricted on it if i remember right but still all your twitch overdue now goes more to us which means instead of 50 50 split it's now a 70 30 split meaning the 70 goes our way so excellent job chat thanks chat it means it means we can afford energy drinks to keep doing this yeah with our new with our new sponsor i it's always feels weird because we have so many other uh like friends and other content creators and stuff who have like like gamer drink subscription stuff sponsors and i am i'm holding out because i don't want i don't drink them and i'm not a huge fan of them so it's always awkward because i'll be like i'll chill for you man just send them to my house i'll like like i don't just drink water yeah you know just drink water doesn't have the poison that my brain needs okay actually no i lied the my brain has the poison that my brain needs the water is slightly less so so gamer stuff actually might be the healthier option not enough people drink water shame that it's true water sponsors this show we're sponsored by water big water yeah water is actually pretty heartless and awful maybe we shouldn't be sponsored by big water yeah yeah all the people water is killed now we're getting canceled we support every natural disaster absolutely you know that hurricane they were sponsored by that i will i will say i've always been fond of the natural disaster that is an airplane so true best day but of course uh i'm ready to play some rock right please follow that up with but of course but of course another natural disaster that's coming up thurston what adventure do you have for us today well chat recapped so chat gets a hero point yay they don't people listening don't know that but that's in the intro part but they can get it pitch.tv for the declaration if they watch live and or on youtube there's a minor promo for gamer subs okay anyway i'm so confused now we're gonna start our session much like how our players are all very confused having defeated um the brain and the face and the wall uh with a cataclysmic electrified boom uh from the final strike that was made against the brain by the impeccable critical strike of vena good job it's me that's right yeah that first try uh definitely i didn't get any help on that one uh all you horn plaps up hey good job even though he's dead this is out of care thanks yeah yeah he's unconscious he's unconscious um as as that occurs um suddenly the the room begins to reverberate slightly as as the brain recedes and melts into a puddle of steaming black ichor that quickly dissolves into the air and as it does so you can see that the face sloughs off the back wall revealing a simple wooden door behind it however as as this occurs in the the steaming mass of the brain dissolves entirely uh there is something that floats in the air it is a book a book that floats above where the brain was crackling with lambent blues and and almost synaptic violets uh as lights move around and dance in this floating book uh um pan hauser you know how to read the best of all of us yes i will attempt to peruse its literature but first before i go opening it up and reading it is there a title or any markings on the book no uh in fact as you as you look at it uh from from a distance the pages are blank and in fact the sort of leather bound cover is equally blank the only notable thing is that the book itself floats in the air um and has this sort of energy crackling about it i will reach for the book and try to grasp it yeah sure uh you touch it as you do you you realize that it's it's small like it's it's less than the size of a paperback um the writing in here would have to be like incredibly incredibly concise or just this is more of like a token um i'm gonna cast object whispers yeah sure yeah do you want to give me a um do you want to give me a arcana or a cultism check yeah yeah whichever whichever you uh whichever you think you know best here i got a 38 on an arcana project oh it's pretty good it's pretty it's pretty okay i guess i would agree with that oh uh all right all right all right all right all right yeah so you begin to cast object whispers on this this is this is taking some time obviously to to like like investigate this item so while you're doing that i just want to get a sense of what everyone else is doing especially given that um you know orin is unconscious on the ground yes we should maybe have someone tend to orin uh baldrick is already on it and he goes over and dumps a uh healing bush one moment do i have any actually i do i use lesser healing potion on orin waterboarding him come on it's over doing all right bud he looks at his like his his legs are like broken in another direction his wings are all crumpled and frilled he looks at vena he's like with puppy dog eyes go no oh come here bud you need a piggyback ride yeah come here pours healing potion on the broken legs it is immensely painful and orange screams loudly thurston hero point though narrative declaration is very painful you have no hero points with which to narratively declare denied can i use one of your villain points to make sure it's very painful yes he's considering legs never gonna be right again oh no oh no he'll just have to fly true damn it it's true that's fine that's fine listen i'm gonna i'm gonna pick up my little bird friend he's got hollow bones how heavy could he be but he's like a little it's only that is your character uh zorn tell us how fat you are he's pretty lightweight he's a bird just a little guy what's heavier 50 pounds of feathers or 50 pounds of bird actually not not to like derail heavier than feathers not to derail too hard but the more i think about it because birds and their bones like the meat and on the bird is this like it's very intertwined with how the bone works it's lightweight yeah as well does this mean that orrin is technically white meat oh we could cook and eat orrin he is the white boy of the century they're gonna eat me if i lean like a horse and that means abuse sister girl excuse me this is horrible maybe that boss should have killed us maybe we're going to send orrin to the dream catcher factory oh no oh no remember that remember the bit i call orrin a tyson's chicken bag it's becoming the reality now we're going to be donating you to a pillow orrin no um so as this is going on um ten hauser yeah you finish your your analysis of this this is another essence which you know you could impart into an item you even with with the role you you you know you'll be able to identify it in time but you're actually given the complexity of this you're probably going to need a a couple days maybe to analyze what the essence can be done if it's affixed to an item but the object whispers that you use um it does reply back with the records of the mind of cademan deckland all that remains of the old inheritor of sacristy manor that which is not subsumed by the rot is doomed to study it hmm well as if there were any doubt we've just vanquished cademan that's reassuring at least i guess there was a non-zero chance that we hadn't it's a shame we couldn't talk to him though perhaps once i finish my study on this book this remnant of him we might have a pathway to learning more and maybe there's something else around here um can we search around see if there's any other uh bits of uh interesting information or perhaps objects so as i mentioned when the face sort of sloughed off the wall it did reveal that there was a wooden door behind the face on the wall very good that is currently closed yes but that way is progress we know not to do that just yet it's fair that's that's that that that tracks make sure all of you are ready to go we don't know what's behind that door it might be answers or it could be trouble i've had a little bit of a burning query since we had since i noticed it before uh i'm gonna approach the stained glass window that was in the in the in the area previously because i was concerned as to what that even meant and i find like a loose stone or something hanging around yeah absolutely waldrick throws a rock at the stained glass window uh yeah you you toss a rock and like it instantly shatters like the section you hit shatters uh tumbles of of colored glass you know descend to the floor as you do you can tell that behind it um is is rock and in fact once you break it the lights that streamed out team seems to stop entirely and in fact the the shards that like land on the ground are painted glass uh but there's there's little else to them almost as though someone had set these up but they were set up wrong probably just some lingering memory all right my curiosity's been peaked let's go i'm gonna drink a health potion first real quick absolutely yeah or it's gonna heal himself yeah good idea which camp out here orin i can help you out yeah yeah mr he looks at we're hood all disheveled bleeding big wet eyes yeah all this in venus arms all right come here come here you wretched little thing and rahua will voiced orin out from venus arms why am i why am i wretched mr because you're covered in dirt you're just a dirty rowdy boy but you did a very good job you did a very good job thank you mr just just slap your hands on my chassis a couple times if you would he just packs that just okay uh how many healing points are you gonna get first activation oh 24 oh second activation nice and 17. you get all those healing i gotta do math math how dare i can't do math i'm very slow that way okay fine fine here i'll let's do the laser there we go there you go okay okay study three total for me oh thanks mr huh now i'll get eaten do your legs work uh he kind of does a little bird hop and stuff like yeah no thanks to the villain that's what i'm talking about and i'll get to the point they don't um he kind of crutches one leg up like kind of you know like how animals do and they kind of like keep it up or whatever oh his little bird leg just like kind of like into himself a little bit he's like he's a flamingo he kind of like hops around a little bit he uses his staff like a crutch if if you can't walk just you can climb up on my back and there's enough room for you he just flutters up and it roosts uh on top of rahua and he's like he kind of points his staff for like forward and rahua will just stop there for a second he'll look back at oren kind of quizzically look forward look back double take just gives gives a shrug to the rest of the party and starts walking forward he's so excited well you heard the man so i believe we will now travel forward indeed who's opening the door i'll open the door sweet roll uh electrocuted like all the other doors perception check for me all right i will roll wait wait wait that is going to be a 29 not bad there's absolutely nothing wrong with this door and as you open it it leads into a large uh stone chamber that is of a different work it's almost like kind of cozy um it's it's stone worked stone um and it's a library there are books lining walls and bookshelves that are built into two walls there's a kind of a globe of the world of time that sits idly there's a lectern upon which like a larger tome is open um and you just see that there is like an immense sort of uh repository of knowledge here nice fascinating horn's like wow that's so much paper i'm excited is this the real library or is this another illusion um taking a look around with my magic site would i be able to tell uh so detecting magic you are detecting there are several presences of magic in this room okay sort of scattered about as far as you can tell oh um if if i may interject please do if this is a rot illusion we may still have some duration left on mossy weapon we could use those as words to kind of wave around the area just like if if it is rotten likely it would recede at the presence of moss that is a fair summary i i does that hold water thurston i mean yeah like like for who you can like go up to weapon and sort of wave it over and as you do so uh you see that nothing is receding and in fact if anything as you come into this room and each of you start to to to walk in and begin to take a peek around you notice that the chamber behind you that that immense large chamber um light seems to be like warmer light similar to what the light is in here seems to take over like lanterns you didn't even see in the last chamber seem to flicker on and suddenly that large chamber before almost seems smaller as though some semblance of reality is reasserting itself not true to what you had said tanhauser and it looks like capon really is gone whatever spatial warping had occurred overwhelming presence of rot it seems how things should be are beginning to write themselves excellent then quickly let us seek about the information here find what might be of most import see if there's anything worth taking absolutely um taking tanhauser's lead rule will start to look through the books that are available if not the one that is currently open on the lectern yeah for okay so give me a perception check check for who absolutely what was that that was a natural one for an 18. and everything gets set on fire first roll of the session were we supposed to be relaxing i don't think so no there's no relaxing it's suffering well it's time to soften up um that was beautiful thank you all right um so um um rahua you go up to the book that is on the lectern almost instinctively drawn to it um you begin to hear down at the the words that are inscribed they're on um and like you have this instinctive connection with the words as you read them in some kind of like right primordial um like connection as you as you see these these runes that start dancing on the cover of the pages that just like says i prepared explosive runes um and the uh the the book uh explodes out with a blast of force that hits you for 19 points of damage for hua as the book like rips apart and shatters um excellent as you as you get uh as you read that a classic spell for a classic classic um thing um but of course this uh this triggers the uh another complication um that is uh very applicable here as you're looking good i've got one i've got we'll go ahead go ahead i was going to say i don't know if you've been fishing for time the entire time mr rahua watch out for the explosion yeah of course what well you know explosive runes is a is a pre-remaster spell so this will trigger the copyright infringement complication um as it belongs in another uh similar style of game uh thank you jc denton 2012 um you are so angered by this discovery and and also uh orin that you lash out at orin and will make a single attack roll against orin rahua mr rahua what did you find rahua with like a sooty smoke covered face just lets out of and he'll reach out and punch orin in the face and flutters away and i'm so happy do i meet your ac though no good good you know that like it takes a lot of time for birds to build trust with their owners oh no all the trust like was severely damaged that day and or like flutters away for bro kind of crutched over looking extremely hurt and betrayed and he's like mr baldrick like why why why didn't we try to punch me and he kind of looked for balgic for any reassurance i don't know you don't know you always know all right there's only one thing i can do in this there's only one there's only one thing i can do and i have to be so tactical of the use of this chat but this was a double hulky crow complication so if ever there is a time to use this complication the curse of zedek what does the complication do thurston oh no tell me not the overused joke oh no chat chat no no there is the sound of bark parting and that is all the sound of i don't i don't know how that happens thurston you didn't you didn't rip his pants you tore you gave him a new butt that's different then it didn't do that ancient me i'm turning into a zardoz skeleton as we speak i swear to god i'm gonna make this library look like the big sale again who are calm down we are in a potentially ideal situation to finally gain intelligence on our enemy don't allow such a simple setback to no what am i kidding we're going to set this entire place on fire just grab a card fill it with all the things you think we'll need i really want ten houses to be like don't don't worry don't worry i've got this and then speaker rolls another one please roll to arson we'll run the tan house mr tan has we we can't part all these and he kind of like like you know camera pan upward and boasting to all the books it's like we can't like as much as the people who've owned this perception check oran it's like can i willingly fail to think it's all real no no no give me a perception check okay uh or and perceives for a total uh four on the die for a total of 21. okay um that's enough for as you're like waving up you notice that like the stairs lead up just to to to something you can't see and it's not a library section and in fact as you kind of start looking up in that direction you you hear some some like bubbling sounds like like some kind of like well you've you've definitely heard these sounds before some kind of alchemical sounds um or we'll first finish the thought of the the tan hauser be like we can't we can't burn all these books mr tan hauser you know like when just imagine if we can eventually you know as the revolution gets more and more support so if we could send people down here to learn more and more about the world around them and gain even more knowledge which will empower the people mr tan hauser if we burn the books we burn knowledge and for us to kind of supersede everything we we need these books you know for good or ill we can learn from it into the mistakes of the past and help the revolution be even stronger mr tan hauser don't kill knowledge kill the government you make a captivating point but this entire manner is rot infested leaving it as it is even if we don't destroy it the ones who manipulated us to bring us here they certainly will that's why i suggest we take what seems the most important find these books that are deemed essential enough to be trapped disarm the trap and bring as much of this back with us as we can well we're going to be able to carry a whole lot mr tan hauser books are heavy it says any gamer who's ever had to move houses dude i wanted so badly to interject there on tan hauser's behalf and just say like you raise a compelling point or however i'm a communist and i love burning books so you're getting the dunce hat and you're gonna have to renounce that in front of a crowd just whatever tankhauser well mr tankhauser it's like it's up to you it's up to you but i think we could steal things away and try to salvage even more down the line but i do agree we should bring things that are more important first but if we can just steal this place away with only us able to access it then maybe we can come back to this later but if you think it's best to burn everything and not risk it i'll i'll follow you and uh we won't be burning anything oren will nod and uh as he kind of he's in the kind of perks his side side of his head up a little a bit and he looks up and he notices all the bubble or notice of the sound of bubbling and everything and he looks to uh baldrick oh like what's baldrick doing as he looks over well baldrick is uh trying to inspect four traps specifically in this case granted they're arcane so he's kind of out of his depth but he is hearing thirst and would baldrick be able to hear the alchemical sounds from above yeah like once some of this discourse is like died down a bit you would start hearing it from above yeah oren points out to him like mr baldrick bubbles and he points up yeah i hear them i'm i'm trying to think this is not a real particular reason why this library should even be here unless you know old man was keeping himself busy this whole time could be something in here not sure though i'm not exactly keen on stumbling over books looking for explosives i'll go do what i do best and he's gonna start climbing the stairs towards the alchemical noises okay okay um you begin making your way up the stairs uh as you do baldrick you see upstairs uh what is very clearly a basic alchemical workstation um there there there's scattered uh things around boxes alchemical supplies vials um most of the vials seem to have burned out the bubbling sound is actually from from some kind of compound that is currently undergoing it's like last little little bits of being uh superheated by by a burner as as as you you you sort of see all this you your eyes are attracted to some crates that you have seen before uh with the telltale like sigil of the of the medics guild on them medics guild stuff up here they are the same crates that you saw during your time in the solitude i imagined are they empty as well or are they sealed uh they appear to be sealed one of them uh the one that's kind of pulled out furthest has its lid sort of cracked open uh is there hang on no i have uh i have a tool for this hang on one second i have to remind myself what it's called it is the traveler's any tool and i am going to extend it into a somewhat long pole and use it to open up the top of the opened crate yeah uh from afar you probably yes i'm going to kind of like knock the top yeah yeah not a problem as you do so um there's like a little dust cloud it looks as though whatever in there underwent some kind of like hyper accelerated desiccation and you just see like gray particulate matter on the air as though whatever was in there like very quickly dried up in that case he's going to get the any tool in position and he's going to try and pry open a different one yeah you're this one this one of course requires you to like crack it but as you do it's the same thing and in fact it's like almost a a layer of dust on the bottom of it as though these were filled with something but all of those things dissolved can i give me a crafting check i was about to say i'm gonna throw a crafting at you to see what i can discern uh may i use alchemical savant yep okay uh this is for crafting so i can't use that that's fine okay good here we go here we go still very low with a three but that's 24. um it's enough to tell the the the substance in here whatever it was um um dried very quickly um and and in fact probably recently just based off of what you're seeing on the side of the box and whatnot there's like a dampness to it something that was maybe liquid or gelatin was in there um you're guessing it was probably like boxed contents of the rot sealed away but it's very thoroughly dead like it died suddenly and very recently can i ascertain how recently um possibly in the last like like 30 15 to 30 minutes aldrick is piecing it together can i roll a medicine to see if it is overly common for so the thing with rot and this is something i need to fully understand i suppose when something that is rotten is bested somehow whether that's with moss or if it just ceases to be rotten by way of whatever right what typically happens after something ceases to be rotten it dissolves is your experience so far so much like what you saw happen with the brain in the other room it begins to bubble and dissolve leaving little to nothing left um you know laws of transmutative properties and whatnot uh mean that sometimes there's still some particulate matter that's left that's probably what this like dust is is just the like matter remnants of it but you you like the as far as the the like wider connections you could certainly give me a medicine check just to just to maybe try to piece something together as part of it yeah actually i'm starting to think of it myself because if that's just a head that was down there medicines 21 okay um it's enough to indicate there's like certainly connections and you've you've seen enough of these before to know that you know whilst the rot seems to have some alien and unknowable agenda as a substance and that's fairly noted throughout the world um from a medical standpoint you know you've seen it have connections to stronger sources of rot as though you know a rot infestation that grows can can almost have like a focal point it's not a focal point for the whole rot but like you know have have a have a potent rot creature and you defeat the rot creature that can cause it to dissolve in in an immediate area thank you baldrick's just kind of muttering to himself at this point because no one else is up here i presume i think it most like orin was looking to pop behind but that was about it yeah i didn't want to interrupt i didn't know i was waiting for you to call somebody or something else no he's he's just quietly investigating while you guys are opening up books and exploding that is we are exploding that is that is my favorite part of reading i think one is a hard but you've got a library we've got a library we find the different on the hearts in here before maybe the rest of his body and and or and like are you kind of like walking up as baltrix doing the analysis here yeah yeah or you you see those those medical crates um and you you recognize that the last time you saw them was you know in in the cave in the um the grotto in there as well as you know one of those was very close to the uh the ruined temple where you fought uh gorka bunker you find anything mr baltrix orin kind of hopples over nothing but a bunch of dust whatever was in here was probably tied to the rod at some point and probably within the last hour probably within the last 30 minutes it wasn't right anymore it was dead he's going to just prod some of the dust aside with the any tool my bet is that given that the rest of him was downstairs the rest of him was probably in here orn nods in agreement and he looks around like i assume the stairs continue to go up right yeah they they continue to go up they seem to to ascend to a higher level uh where there is a another door uh orn will kind of like wave down uh everybody else you either still going through books or collecting whatever and go guys there's a door up here we can get through i don't know if we want to stay here any longer though what is what is the group down on the bottom level doing now because you know certainly we've seen baltrix starting to do some investigations what are the rest of you doing down there i think uh is there perhaps a cart nearby um there is like a a small cart yes just for you know shifting small numbers of books maybe a dozen or so i i must ask the group does anyone have a hero point i got two i do tan hauser you have a hero point yeah i do yeah in that case you have thurston hillman yes yes are you gonna make like a new vehicle are we are we the bookmobile i'm going to send a hero point oh no on the fold the portable dirigible from my backpack okay oh no and i'm gonna set i knew it it's the people's derivative the only way i can improve this is if it could launch caltrops um or an account hobbles down guy i knew this moment would come i'm a genius i'm a genius okay but seriously though uh and i'm going to as the dirigible slowly painfully inflates in the middle and it has like this sound like like a child who's like crying that's what this thing sounds as it comes into existence yeah baby noise it's like it's like a blocked c-pad machine it's terrible and um next is a c-pad machine and a vacuum cleaner and uh i'm going to find the books that are that are um mined and i'm going to see if i can unweave them with my own cutting expertise okay so make him roll to disarm the mine books give me it first of all give me a perception you got it what is this cursed session by the way all the officers that was like our 19th natural one rolling low may suck but it makes it entertaining there's no reason it does it's like how's the game going roll roll i i roll one to read a book well um but his library killed us his library just fucking dunked on us um what so okay sitting there who submitted a complication since 2021 going well this is going to be the time i've reached foundry to make sure that my complication comes this time okay um let's see here oh yeah this one's great let's use this one you you are you are inspecting oh god i'm gonna yep yep yep okay thanks to uh total killer dog um i'm gonna regret this but this complication will derail our session for a while um you find a a tome a dusty tome entitled the history of the clown wars yeah my my my slow pan to my face is like this burst of just wind blows past and the power in this novella courses through the room there's echoes of hawks and and artillery strikes and and just echoing in like our ancestral memory we'll never let him take this land in time you will come to know the travails and the glories of him first without equal jangle's clown wait wait wait wait wait is that is that gonna be your your character for when we inevitably do the one-shot clown wars special episode i'm okay with having like a clown character one day just just this murderous clown like i want to i kind of want to flesh out the clown wars like are there different types of clowns and are they all the different factions i want the clown wars to be like necromunda like oh my god it's lower decks part two they they take place on uh the the clown wars are on the uh the western continent of uh of terlim uh which is basically mad max land um it's it's uh barbarians meets mad max meets now clowns i like the idea of like careful you're my placement fellas you guys are going back a bit too much i love the idea of like oh commander it's no good they took out the apc the apc oh damn how many men did we lose 300 hell yeah we got a lore hype train there was my entire bulletin's heart welcome to recover from these losses you can do that way better than me commander i've got to write 300 letters now i have to do them all in comic sans i need a honk sound effect we have to have a soundboard somewhere yeah someone's gotta have it hold up no not that one's gonna be the clown horn there you go there you go i just i've been playing so much space station 13. oh what the fuck in this door why is all of alpha soundboards a fucking cursed hellscape oh it's all the worst isn't it hello mrs padu i hate to tell you this but your son passed away in combat i was there when he died holding his entrails into his body like so much colorful ribbon i write to tell you that he died honorably but not really but for god know that that your insurance will cover the whole thing i love airline phone i need you to stop like that was a beautiful letter thank you but all right now now give me all the information for suffering through this indignity wait one more bit if i'm gonna be doing the voice for someone that i can't do the voice uh one of them sounds like they take the uh their enemies entrails and make balloon animals out of them a voice for that don't worry about it it's a cadence okay you lost me don't worry about i'll so much someone would improv that anyway how much is uh how much damage the tin house would take yeah how much how much damage how much how much mental damage oh no the complication was like the the complication setback was like the 15 minutes of section time that fucking cost excuse me gm how much mustard gas do i inhale tell me now enough no forget how about laughing gas oh you're such a silly little war criminal gentlemen you go to war not because it is easy but because it is you're not so enjoyable you're welcome patrons if you do want to make us suffer with more clowns which i'm pretty sure we get a bunch of like i want more clown bits like it's good it's good for the first few times after the 50th time we're tired of the bit i don't get tired of doing jalo's voice are you kidding me we've got it i love that loser uh so can i make a can i make a can i make arcana check maybe yeah yeah yeah let's yeah yeah sure let's let's see if you can do the double one too oh it was dancing on that one um it was we were damn close i was getting ready to cut for like like three more hours of jalo oh yeah all right um you begin going through the books ten house are trying to to find out what exactly is here trying to catalog it um using your arcane skills you see that um certainly some of these are magical focus do you have a cultism as well i do have a cultism give me a cultism as as another uh skill here um you you're able to tell there are various tones here that are that are detailed about arcane uh occultism though with a 32 it looks like there yeah um with multiple nanite surges you're nanite surging all over the place i should have only had the one nanite surge my apologies so that's good you're good you're good um so so with all of all of this this sort of research what you're able to tell is that there are you know various detailed histories here pertaining um to the city of outset throughout it's it's many many iterations um things that you've known about eras of you know fey dominance in the the in the city that have been cataloged uh times you know the shining beneficite some notations into that era of the city's past even older back to when you know representatives of the old powers directly uh ruled the city there's just a lot of history here related specifically to outset um some of the ones that catch your eye the most is like the vague um intonations uh of the city's like long association with the mysterious beings known as the entities these sort of other worldly uh beyond space and time um divine if not more level creatures that have had an association uh many of those books appear as though they've been looked at a lot of the the books that detail um notes on the first people who were the people who you know settled in outset when the old powers originally made their decree that the city you know would be a protected space as long as the people within the city didn't expand beyond the city's natural boundaries you're finding lots of books that have been analyzed and at least like in the last few months compared to some of the other tomes been looked at however as you do do so um you find a you find a letter that has been very meticulously placed between two of the books um specifically books that detail that more of outsets history with regards to um the the rule of the shining beneficite and then into the modern era so you're seeing that sort of um notation there with with different different different tomes but then this this paper sticks out and what what draws you to it as you see it is that it is written in the same handwriting as the entries of the journal that you saw uh throughout the manor earlier i see i will uh i will certainly take it and read it i have shown you a handout and if it would help your if it would help your brain uh i will uh i will show you the the raw text of this nice let's go for chat uh can't really do that but good luck chat yeah or or you know you can read it aloud journal 10 text it doesn't say journal 10 text that's just the name of the handout shut up this guy he started doing pop out x close search pages it started just texas speech fucking like all right shut up the other one who started this cloud works okay if you find this i am hopefully dead if i am not then i am dead in all but the most technical sense i feel it spreading through my body and my mind the words i write here are the last words that i can co-inherently apt and die the words i write here the last words that i think i can coherently apply to paper even now the paper begins to look like a membranous mass of flesh and unachieved dreams dreams you know i certainly didn't know that it dreamt but it does it dreams of escape of a vibrant world to learn of let be known that i have reached too far into things that should not be known that my hubris is my downfall into whatever wrapped torment the rot has in store for me my benefactor mysterious as they were set me on this path even though it was one of my chosen that was the thing about them they knew how to make the request seem so innocuous but it made perfect sense to follow the crumbs a foolish mistake on my part but again one of my own choosing sander will have the gifted airship once it's complete i had asked for its construction as additional payment for access to my library in hopes of appeasing the vain child though my benefactor took great delight in its construction i see it a little more than a token token item for a token child that's my benefactor i am certain from the notes they haphazardly left in my study that they focused their efforts on the smoldering city screwy the lich pit of whatever apotheosis they seek to enact whatever they want it culminates in that place perhaps if someone finds this it may provide some clue to what they intend i will not be alive to see it certainly not in any form of life that begets understanding kateman deckland the smoldering city what do i know about the smoldering city you can give me a society check and it's got an anti-search for no reason it's a 33 and not a 30 oh yeah all right so the smoldering city is a settlement that exists out of outset um except it is long since abandoned and and gone it was an attempt uh in prior generations to construct a second uh settlement near to uh outset it is a city now that remains only as dilapidated ruins and known as the smoldering city for the sort of latent embers that float in the air it is a city that was directly responsible for a a massive and rather seismic shift in the area it was the sort of hubris of the people of outset at the time who went on to think that they could disregard the the orders of the old powers who instilled in them that they could like that that outset couldn't go beyond its established boundaries um and so you know what what ended up happening was the the old powers ceased their squabbling saw the people of outset had denied them um and then they turned their ire towards outset at this point papa storm battered it with ceaseless winds that ruined farmlands mama decay crap cracked open the earth um uncle blaze laughed fire and burned the edifices that had gone beyond the old powers uh borders the city and it became known as the smoldering city sometimes known as the smoldering berg uh and then auntie drown uh brought her fists down into the seas which permanently flooded the land turning it into the swamp or swamps round outset that currently exist and broke a permanent land um connection between the continents of perdoma and terlim if you look at the um the the actual uh globe map on the background here uh you can see sort of that central continent is uh perdoma uh there used to be a land connection between it and the continent to the west but as part of their sort of arrogance that uh that was was entirely placed underwater and that is you know the cataclysm that led to a lot of the area around outset turning to shit i see i'm going to uh to share this information with the rest of my party uh and let them know what i find especially oren horn just eyes just kind of go a different direction just just word dumping well oren uh it seems as if well zorin the bear the quiz is happening now look look man well i'm trying sorry i wasn't trying to end it at well oren he looks at his paper there's no notes it's just the pretty looking he looks at ten hauser nervous it seems that the people behind this operation behind even caitman and the medics guild are seeking something in this smoldering city caitman in the end was merely a cat's paw to something greater something seeking apotheosis formal nod and and as he gets more of a serious look as he looks at ten hauser and goes well that just means i have a lot more hunting to do mr ten hauser i suppose so mr dick oh go ahead oh no no you say your thing mr deckland you know took my friend away and caused me to lose friends and everything along the way and he kind of looks back at the door that they kind of came in from after they dealt with that uh it's like you know like and i've practically done everything i needed to but heck then it i don't think it's ever really simple mr ten hauser usually after you've hunted for so long that you know which when you find something you feel elated after it but but for me seeing what he's become and everything else i he kind of ponders for a bit like i guess we have to keep on finding the real cause to everything try to uncover it all mr ten hauser because if this is going to happen to even the gorgamonger and a whole bunch of other people then this is deeply rooted than we thought i believe you're exactly correct and vena it seems in our future we might have eminent need for an airship pilot are you up to the job i think i remember a thing or two well then we just have to get the thing from sandal wherever he's ended up yes i can't believe i'm saying it but i'm looking forward to meeting with sandal deckland and i'm going to uh move up and try and catch up with uh well actually no we need to keep putting books in this shit so i'm just going to take the most important looking books yeah so just grabbing like smattering some books yeah yeah i can i can leave all of this shit float them up with your dirigible and yeah yeah yeah yeah or he tries to help it float like by fluttering his wings and kind of like putting a little produce flame in so it gets like a little hot air just helping it uh baldrick you're still upstairs uh investigating sort of the the this alchemical area correct correct um do you want to give me just a a crafting check just to take a look rather than like at the medics box but just like the entire like setup that's here yeah i think that would be my next maneuver perfecto will i also use that chemical savant for that yeah absolutely okay i'm rolling again with a freaking three 24 though okay um it's enough for you to get a sense obviously there was uh experiments that were going on with um what appears to be human flesh it looks like there was like flesh and then whatever this desiccated dried out stuff was was there were attempts to like graft or insert and analyze the effects thereof um you also see um there were effects that were like using um like mediums so rather than like trying to graft this substance into human flesh they might have layered the human flesh with something and tried tried a thing you notice like dragon scales that have been meticulously laid out here and in fact recognize the the the texture of some of them from your prior engagement in the solitude yeah as expected um can you also give me a perception check as you're up there yeah is there any sign that this was at all effective or was this just a waste um you can like there are there are some alchemical notes here that you can grab but they're going to take time to go he'll take them because he may as well try to see what this whack job was up to and if he learned anything of value more important there's very likely formula as well um as you as you go to collect those give me a perception check uh first though uh 26 okay two things of of uh important note happening here first of all as you go to collect that um you grab one of the formula books and as you do um several like there are several like torn notes that are underneath the um the formula book they look like they were intentionally stacked there but they are torn out and they are written in a different um a different word mark than the the like the journal entries you saw except for one of the journal entries you you would recognize this as matching another um um like another one of the the entries that you saw um from from your journeys there was one that was not you know cademan's writing uh but here i will show you these notes that are underneath yeah these there aren't many they they look fairly um they look fairly like like they were they were clearly assembled and placed under here if you would like to read those for the class i can also provide you the text version if that would help i'd say bodrick would just be like quietly reading them himself so if you want to quietly read them for the uh for the audience i now know three of the four dispatch agents to each of the three they are handled confident the smoldering city is the fourth and where the last act must occur the splinters are in place and only intervention in the ritual could halt the plan the spark in the city shall beget the greatest flame a new era of freedom begins soon free from the shackles that imprison us and baldrick will just sort of think to himself i either tan has a crib notes from him or the other way around and and the as as you circuit you you also hear it's not coming through your mind you hear this like mumble like like someone's like shouting and it's coming from that door above uh i've gathered everything i can here i've got the i've got the alchemical notes i've got the formula that i'll look at later yeah uh baldrick will ascend the stairs to the door okay so so you you begin making your way up uh as you do like you can kind of see like all of your your squad mates below uh around the dirigible getting it ready with books you got it man yep uh then you come up to the door where the sound is is much louder and certainly sounds like the muffled voice of someone like shouting shouting like how far away like behind it like like behind the door but it's muffled somehow like strange baldrick will click the latch and open up the door the door goes off into a hallway uh that connects to a set of spiral stairs however there's like a a a segment of the wall that pushes in further that's uh looks to be a storage area of crates but there is also a cage um it's a human-sized cage with with like a hay bottom to it uh and there is a man who is in the cage with like their mouth covered in like what appears to be loose bandages can you describe who it is sandal deckland who is in the cage oh terrific uh i like looks up at you with like wide eyes kind of like puppy baldrick is going to look around the rest of the room while sandal sits there yeah um and you can tell that the box here is like storage goods of like basic food preservatives like rations and like water like this would have been if someone wanted to work out of that lab and that library they would really have all the facilities they needed here there's even a small latrine that is like off to the side of the cage that could be used as well mm-hmm so he was being kept up here then curious considering it hadn't been that long since we had left the party mm-hmm it'd been you you'd you'd had like a day or so two two days i believe between coming here and that can i do a quick inspection of the area to see how well used this cage area is sure like how long has it been this way i presume he's still in decent condition himself right oh yeah as you look at him like he's not been like he's not been here like super long um oh my god five or 19 yeah it's it's enough just to just to know that he has um he's probably been in here maybe a day if that curious that went fast interesting baldrick is thinking all this to himself by the way he's not saying anything out loud and this is also in her inner voice because baldrick does not if no one's around that he cares to talk to he doesn't say a damn thing mm-hmm baldrick what's up that up there will leave to go back down to the rest of the group as they're doing the dirigible is beginning to float upwards doing fucking shenanigans for reasons beyond his reckoning orrin will uh dirigible well on the way up he will grab the dragon skills that are left behind yeah absolutely and he will pocket them and hug them interesting person up there uh-huh person yes raccoon back in a cage no in this case it's sandal deckland and he's in a cage oh oh this is our chance well yes but i'm more curious as to why he's even in there that's also a problem i suppose but i mean hey now is i mean the airship's without its owner we could just leave them we we don't know where the airship is he told us the uh dock it was at do we have permission to take it well do we need permission yes but sandal deckland could give us information about who exactly tied them up yeah yeah the mysterious puppeteers behind the caitlin family that getting the official paperwork paper thing that says it's ours in our name instead of his dumb name without what help we'll see what happens let's get when you guys are done with and he's going to motion to the renewed presence of the dirigible this meet me up there uh yeah and i i think once we finish we will go up there sure um as this is going on um just a couple things um one there's a car by the way oh yeah car excellent um i'm going to assume baldrick you're you're collecting a bunch of the alchemical items that are around here of of use so i'm just dropping those into the party stash please um so what's really funny your audio never picked up the car but i just like to imagine for podcasts who have no idea what the that is like everything is like we're all going up and everything is like he's like oh yeah the dirigible yeah yeah we're up the stairs oh and there's a car it's just like a honda civic just behind us all the thing is i saw my i wouldn't have commented on it if my little light didn't light up and i saw it light up for the duration of the fucker driving sometimes it's so low and it gets filtered but just like a little inkling gets through and activate it because the threshold is so low so yeah yeah so you you never know which is okay don't worry i'm just finding it really funny yeah um you and vena have been pretty quiet during this uh escapade stuff i am assuming you have been uh essentially claiming anything that's not like you know nailed down and is useful yeah anything that looks interesting for people who are not brainiacs i suppose yeah you're able to find like several pieces of jewelry and and gold gold coins that are like scattered about i have moved those over it is without going into like the like the silver necklace with the the the jade monkey brooch um you get like 2 000 gold pieces worth of just goods from this place um which you also find um a section um like a very unworked area kind of underneath the set of stairs that looks to be not an armory but like a like a magical um like some kind of like magical workbench which i'm sure you would point out to tanhauser uh and you find that there are a total of four weapon runes that have all been etched onto rune stones here um for reference and again like it'll take you some time to to move these but um you know tanhauser can can very quickly identify them um with with obscene checks so i won't even you know waste our time with that but you find a plus two weapon potency rune so that'll upgrade a weapon to a plus two weapon uh a plus two armor potency room um a greater menacing rune so what that is is um you get a plus two item bonus to intimidation uh checks to coerce others and uh what you can also do is use it to cast the fear spell uh innately when you like place it on onto something uh and then there is another one that is uh the swarming rune um this is a allows you to make a copy of the weapons many time over you can put it onto a um a single weapon um and essentially like allow you to shoot your weapon out in a 30 foot cone uh that will damage like everyone in that cone uh huh that's very interesting um i've put those all into the into the party stash but you're you're you're basically discovering all of these as as you're going through stuff i got rune stones uh there's also a workbench back here i don't i don't know if that's of interest to you tanny um what could i do with a workbench um you can tell that it's more like this was just where the the runes might have been created and they're they're pretty old so it's it's it's clearly not like even cademan who did this work okay interesting it's an old it's an old building it's old the place is old um is there any help i could maybe do with the runes perhaps uh now we have them we're good yeah you have them and i gave you i didn't need to like have you make four different arcana checks i'm just i'm just reflexively like i don't need to but i look at all the ones i could roll you start snorting them or they're gone yeah that's magic uh did we get uh or did we put in the 2000 gold or are we putting already dragged it in okay it's all in the party so at this point we're all just coming up the stairs to the door where yeah and you just see baldrick like walk past the the what did you find like what's up there mr mr baldrick in order to hobbles over not quite getting i already mentioned what was up here it's all right sorry mr bodrick i'm well you know he's just a little guy yeah a little and a guy okay yeah i can't really contend with that anyway there he is and he's going to motion to sandal deckland in the cage all right all right all right i guess we can take the gag off which i will do oh thank you thank you so much i didn't know what was going on what a problem bud why don't you tell us how you got here did you see who hit you i i think it was one of those cool assassins that my my my grandpa hired for me did you see anything else uh you want to give me a diplomacy check oh yes diplomacy and like he's just like like he's like more liquid than man with like the snot and tears and like spittle coming out of his face oh do i get the plus one bonus for my high fashion clothes yeah absolutely yes done hundy p i i see i see that on my my little tick box of bonuses holy shit why did the dice you uh you have a you have a you have a hero point you have a hero point here is a 20 not enough god all right i mean it could be better you know i'll spend the hero point and if i not want it then you know that's middle deckland down here and no one else knows about it exactly exactly we we just say well diplomacy has failed and shoot him full of holes yeah there we go oh no oh yeah there we go that's a 30 yeah yeah yeah um like it's very clear like you just asking basic questions is um is very like reassuring to him so it's like he's kind of becoming more coherent as you just ask basic things and he's answering basic things just as like out of out of like getting some semblance of normalcy so you may continue asking your basic questions all right how long have you been here i think like like a year i mean i woke up then i slept once twice i think a year i don't know there's no clocks i don't have a clock i how do you tell time without a clock you slept once you said yeah so it's probably been at least a day or two oh okay you last remember you said you came home and somebody knocked you out there was the party and then i went home and i went home and i no one came home with me so i was alone that's right i read i read some fairy tales and then i went to bed all right wait you read some fairy tales i like fairy i've liked them since i was a kid they take me away from my life oh how old are you what how old are you um i'm i'm 27 all right all right well i was going to be generous since he's so pathetic but i think that he actually is just like this i thought that he might have been i don't know the real sandal declin and that other sandal declin we encountered was uh tulpa created by evil i don't know oh i wasn't gonna get i wasn't gonna redeem that are you kidding oh my god i was that was kind of where i thought this was going all right well okay well he's not a tulpa boys he's not a tulpa investigation has been investigated we have not proven any conclusion also tulpas are the best episode of the x-files ever if you ever watch the x-files episode with the homeowners association who conjured a tulpa to defend their hoa it is the greatest x-files episode ever anyways carrying on yeah it's it's an episode i can't wait for that plot in rock it's so good yeah oh yeah it's coming it's coming all right how long has the house been like this you know how long has your grandfather's health been bad how long has the rot been festering down here the rot yes it's everywhere what what do you mean the whole basement have you just not been down there there's a basement oh my god i need to know i need to know yeah yeah i need to know yeah are we getting are we getting just deceived is this guy just like really good at pretending to be pathetic is this real give me a perception check speaker it is time for me to assure you of my favorite ism which is hanlon's razor never assume malice where someone could just be an idiot 21. you remember that there was a secret door and this this individual does not seem like someone who would have the perception to ever find a secret door in his life oh my god hold on i don't want to be here anymore is it was it has it always just been you and your grandfather you've lived in this house and you haven't known about all the rot underneath your feet the whole time i didn't get to live here i have a bachelor pat it's a pretty cool apartment i mostly live there and you remember when you went into the room that like had the like fairy tales um like it it had been used but like only occasionally like it it it has seen use um and you can tell actually vena give me a perception check uh i'll do my best yeah yeah yeah please please please 22. okay that that's good enough um you're able to tell as he's sort of like like blathering on about this you think i live in my own place uh there's like an omission he has like he does come to the house but he's not saying why why were you in the house sandal why were you in this house if you have a bachelor okay my bachelor pad isn't as cool so i i sometimes because my grandpa's been away i bring women here but you said you didn't come home with anybody from the party tell me the truth sandal i didn't not that night it's been about a day yeah i sometimes i sometimes pay money they come here where is the airship but but even if i pay them it's i feel bad bringing them my apartment so if my grandpa's not around i bring them here tell them that i own the place all right uh can i hit him with another perception to see i mean we've already checked to see if he's lying he is not a mastermind this is this is a depletion of our energy i think you are being so detracted that he's so pathetic that you can't accept that he's this pathetic i would accept that he's just this much of a loser that that he's just a piece of shit and he's just been trying to act cool by not being cool i think i think everyone's suffering does not accept how pathetic he is like i i think that like we need to okay all right but i need i need us to remember this okay i need to know i need to know i'm i'm insane okay okay okay okay okay does this guy or does this guy not feed women to the poop monster he does right we know that he maliciously you know this we would do we know this for a fact we need to know the shack said it but we don't know if he's a liar the shack fat both of them are full of shit but i think i trust the house more than i do sandal but but yes the the shack did say that that like occasionally women would come over and they would go into the courtyard and then the shack would eat them yeah so he he's involved in multiple murders but was it was it was it negligence or malevolence that's it nope i'm cutting the gordian nut thurston i'm throwing the alchemist fire at him i'm done no too late too late no it's not too late everyone's grabbing balder's arm thurston what's his armor class tell me right now thurston tell me it right now oh my god it's an automatic failure yeah it goes no i will not accept nice oh god you critically fumbled oh god oh yeah i clearly fumbled on my joke it's all right i want it like like if you're gonna allow us to employ the complication i like to propose that we're all i'm not attacking stop you no no you have to attack him now no i'm not it's a ring you i rolled we rolled the dice all the time for comedy you fucking all right i can't say period okay okay just to clarify let let erin do a talk what are you actually doing nothing baldrick is just standing by while you guys are humming and hawing over whether or not we're killing sandal deckland if we believe sandal deckland or if we think sandal deckland is the greatest criminal mastermind since kingdom okay no no no complication the problem is like speaker it's like i refuse to believe that a human being could be this sad like but it is an important point like i'm sorry to talk about you i don't want to kill him anymore like we we do want to know that information did he knowingly send them to their deaths or did he just not know and thought they all just left them then then i invite the women over to my grandpa's mansion and we'd we'd we'd be in the bed and i'd show them my fairy tales and then they'd say they needed fresh air and i'd never see them again i can't stand all right all right you know what hold on i can't stand what thurston does sandal deckland i'm gonna level with you here i want your airship and you're going to give it to me and in exchange i will let you out of this cage and i will not tell anybody about the fact that you brought all these women over here for them to be murdered by the outhouse murder whatever oh my god okay you're going to sign over the airship to me okay nod your head yes do you know how to sign your name um oh yeah uh-huh do you have the paperwork for the airship no i'll have to get it i think it's in the rooks pull pull a plaster okay but but but it's not done being built yet there's like another week something about the engines not ready okay so you're going to show me where the papers are sandal okay and then you are going to sign it over to me okay my party here and then we are going to let you out and you're going to continue on with your miserable life oh why did you say it was miserable oh okay i'm going to choke him until he passes out okay okay as you're choking him oran will just kind of be at the doorway the lights silhouetting as he's like you know his town house is going and if you try to tell anyone of what of what's happening and that we're trying to take your airship the bodies and the bones of all the women that you have and you had involvement with all of them that you've sent to their deaths are still in the mimic's tummy we'll find we'll find the bones and we'll show and we'll show you for who you really are a mimic all right you know what you know what thurston yes okay crow yes say hypothetically yep through our conversations with the elder of outhouse yep and the checks that were passed would i have learned what the primary damage type of amount house would deal would be uh let's find out together everybody oh boy we are attempting to threaten a guy you guys need to understand you're just continuing to threaten a guy who is at most as thurston is quite characterizing him negligent and stupid it doesn't we could just we could just be like we get sim my point is we can just take the airship and go yeah but if we can like send him down forever then that's there is no catharsis in this at the moment it's not just useless um uh rahua to answer your question um it's um jaws do piercing damage and its pseudopods do bludgeoning damage um if it's if it swallows someone it essentially constricts them to death so bludgeoning bludgeoning yeah okay interesting hey chad is this grim dark enough for you yeah yeah this isn't this isn't grim dark this is silly as we make the plans to uh spare accidental serial women murderer sandal declan uh i assume i'm able to strangle him unconscious yeah yeah yeah he's he's like his last words but what and then he yeah turning off he's turning off he's turning off okay um all right put him in the blimp he can't handle that much idea i'm i'm not confident the blimp has that kind of air power i'm going to i i don't think you thought this one through i'm giving it all she's got and i'm going to make a craft check yeah yeah you're going to make a craft check to make your fucking dirigible capable of holding the bulk of sandal declan that is correct the books and it says my specialty crafting all right what's everyone's rolls today i know what the holy shit oh that was a two that was a two it was two at least you can reroll it all right he has no hero points oh never mind all right i tried to design it i put sandal on it it doesn't work it makes like this sound like it's groaning like i pick it back up all right someone hold this orange looks at his broken leg um can i make a crafts check out of like curtains and like just fancy accoutrements around no no that was the two you were trying to craft and you could not craft no no no no i'm not touching the dirigible okay i want to create like a body bag sled just to drag behind us and to and make a bag to put sandal deck linen and just drag him out in a homemade bag from the curtains we don't have any strength characters do we we're really just ask for who to carry the guy who is our friend he's not our pack mule you could ask him all right i'm gonna gunder go i'm gonna make the crafting check and then i'm gonna ask him so we know it doesn't matter okay here comes the one here we go almost that's a three oh my god all right the the bag rips uh no it's you like yes you can make a some kind of like demeaning stretcher like cloth thing to drag the the sad sobbing fat man who is unconscious because you strangled him up the stairs hello rahua would you like to carry sandal declin what and you see a green glow go off for who his hand uh thirst into creatures that are unconscious immediately fail uh fortitude saves no cool what are you doing i do i do this i do seal fate uh what was that dude you did you gotta put the ability in chat i don't know what anything oh hold on what is it yeah and podcast people don't know what you're doing yeah my apologies seal fate you utter a curse that a creature will meet a certain end a death by freezing stabbing or another means you devise choose one type of damage from the following list and the effect is based upon their forward to save oh okay okay okay i'll uh just let me let me let me roll this check cursing his ass he fails uh is that enough for a critical failure with a dc25 uh uh with a dc of 25 yes yes that is enough for a critical failure excellent have great yeah so because of that uh sandal declin is now fated to die by bludgeoning damage and it does not end good oh okay hi that's fine by me said texas tanhouser for some reason i'll tell you when we started this revolution i didn't see i see i see our 70s that's the team houses brother and go go the dominion go go the dominion is officially texas now josh brother ranch handhouser we have we have small louisiana now we got it now we got desert texas what i first what i saw this here boy sitting on a little pick-up so you want me to just toss him on the sled then i don't care what you do at this point we've spent way too long on this we can like we could just take off his legs and just put him back on later i don't maybe we can no that takes too much time let's just go i've got a pick so uh are you making your way we're making our way up okay yeah can we go the stairs um eventually the the spiral staircase that you ascend uh sandals head hitting every like fourth step thump thump thump um you you you make your way up um and the the spiral staircase after approximately several stories worth of spiraling up and up ends at a wall with a lever i'll pull the lever as you do so the wall kind of clicks and some kind of mechanical mechanism causes it to move which well yeah um as it as it moves back um it reveals a uh chamber that you remember in fact it was like one of the the first chambers you entered after uh entering the basement and you know that if you just take a take a sharp right and go up some more stairs you will be back in the manor all right we're here in the manor yeah so you carry on uh where you return to uh the dekland the sacristy manor i should say uh as you do so everything is as very much as as you you left it coming back up into that sort of hidden area where exactly are you going do we have any more business here or do we head back to uh baldrick's house well is there anyone that's still alive in here that we need to get out everybody else seems to have run all right i don't see any reason for us to stick around oran will bring out gorgomonger uh because the dirigible might not be able to last the long journey and uh he'll get away and gorgomonger will will help carry the books and will help ferry them along and uh and oran proposed like we should probably go back to the home base and figure things out unfortunately we can't we don't know where his bachelor pad is but he did say the rook's plaster so we could go to the rook's plaster and by the time he wakes up he can bring us to his place and we can get the paperwork squared away so we can save ourselves some sneaking around and and dealing with officials just so we can get out scot-free with the airship instead of you know killing for it we can find the bachelor pad get the paperwork get him to sign it all over to us and if he doesn't we'll shoot him dead and take it anyway yes or not i like this plan i like the path of this resistance as well it's funny uh all right who wants to come with me to the rook's pilaster to go and find this thing me me me me me me so as you exit the front door and enter into the courtyard having this discussion all of you get the telltale whiff of smoke um but as you've all smelled smoke before but it's it's kind of permeating the air um and like in a place like outset a lot of fire and smoke would not be a normal thing that you'd want to let go there is also a din like almost like the air is reverberating like there's distant checkouts that's um that's bad that that sounds pretty bad let's go find out what's happening it sounds like a fire this yeah we're let's go uh take a look and see what's what's going on okay so you make your way back um i'm assuming sort of into some of the the the tunnel areas those sort of lower levels that's connected to here and into the city streets um you're still in the prince's pilaster um and you're moving about as as you do so though the the shouting is intensifying you go through subterranean passages making your way and eventually eventually um you start seeing like people running and shouting uh you see a group uh looks to be like a huddle of six people um a human man an elven woman and some mixed ancestry um teens all sort of rushing down one of the halls looking haggard they're kind of like running past you oh i'm gonna try to catch one yeah the man's some kind of some kind of revolt some kind of revolt it's not it started in the started here either either but the pawns spreading everywhere oren perks up and looks at tannhauser his eyes are wide and slightly watery and he's like how's there it's happening yes yes are you ready uh yeah he's just grabs the sky where tell me what you know everything you know he started he started killing people the government officials just just killing them uh they they they're taking over guilt places it's it's it's it's panamonium all right everyone great job high fives everyone we helped make this happen let's go group up your group hug i could have vena baldrake or in unconscious sandal declan i couldn't have done it without any of you what about rahua rahua too i just forgot him because he was carrying sandal declan and sandal declan is so big i couldn't see you remembered sandal declan but not rahua rahua will remember this flashes and you literally have no way out of that that makes you look good reputation no that's so fun that's real i fucked up tannhauser would never make that you just put that over rahua in the uh yeah yeah oren excitedly you're like like come on let's go see what's going on and oren will uh bring him and gogabunger and all the stuff in tow and you you you make your way out eventually coming to to like an upper balcony area because the prince's pilaster is um certainly certainly raised uh compared to the other pilasters in the city and as you finally come out to see some open sky uh you can you can hear shouting you can hear panic uh people like there are people who are literally scared in the streets just like huddling trying to find cover but as you see it there is something else that takes your attention out in the distance out in the distance a ways beyond even the city walls which you can only see over because of your your current status inside the prince's pilaster the elevated pilaster um you see a column of flame that rises off in the far distance miles away from the city that gives everything outside a uh a strange like orange lambent glow as you you see this something else occurs a shadow falls over all of you briefly um and you hear the the sounds as overhead an airship flies off not towards the pillar but off towards another distant horizon and as it flies off towards that horizon uh vena you recognize the ship oh my because it's yours and it seems to be flying off towards like a dark looming storm cloud further to the to the southwest of the city you you motherfuckers hold on hold on hold on hold on how low to the ground are they oh like like well above you you can only recognize it just because airships are such unique constructs fuck shit what's going on that's my fucking ship what's going on you hear like some old man shouting who's like crouched by underneath like a section of of the escarpment here end of the bloody world is what's happening people went crazy after that thing happened pointing off towards the column of flame say the smoldering cities woke up we're all gonna die i guess we found out where the benefactor went what do you know about this smoldering city is there a prophecy what no just there's a column of flame it's the old powers hey hey right up this part of the world where this last happened everyone went insane some kind of revolt just people just breaking things it's coordinated like someone's it's organized but no one knows what they're doing they're just breaking the world breaking things i see then now is the time now is the time for the revolutionary vanguard we must quickly make it to our council we must take control of this riot before it goes any further we must take control of this riot before it goes to our council we must take control of this riot everyone else just pauses i mean it's kind of a thing is i think at this part we're like god yes it's like orange like yeah yeah we have to try to help things get out of control and you know help out people where we can but and he looks at uh our our cargo that we have oh unconscious sandal deckland we need to regroup at baldrick's house and we need to get that ship up and running they said another week but fuck maybe we can motivate them to get it done sooner that's my ship i don't know why they're here i get the sense that we're about to get quite a few answers to quite a few mysteries but for now we must gain control of this situation we want a revolution not a riot well if anyone ever needs a voice now mr tenhauser i think it would be yours very good uh orange kind of like looks around and he looks at gorgamonger and uh do i still have that bullhorn spell no i would have to like switch it out or so but um like oh god i have no spells that i can like bullshit we did just fight a boss yeah that would like to give you any advantage stuff uh but he goes like you can like gorgamonger can carry you you could use gorgamonger to fly around and try to rally people and and everything else and and we'll try to do what we can to get him and whatever books that we can back back into safety you know and then we'll try to make a plan there and meet meet you back at the uh at the people's home yes a fine idea very well uh baldrick's gonna sneak back off to his home just batman he wants to make sure his house is fine sure i roll a stealth give me one moment okay 31 oran will uh oran will come up to rahua like mr rahua yes oran could you take to the dirigible with all the books on it and try and uh i keep forgetting the guy's name like uh the guy the big guy uh and be like could you get the handle yeah he's like could you get these and try to get back to our home and try to get this secured well i let me and gorgamonger try to get mr tannhauser where he needs to go sure should i should i meet everybody somewhere in specific is there a landmark we're meeting back up at that bodrick's house oh that's where all right we're trying to meet up that's fine i'm i'm the people's pack mule it's it's okay no the architect of the revolution can't even remember my name what what spells do you have oh i'm almost entirely tapped i can't even fly anymore because my armor's already manifested he can't even fly can't fly no more doesn't fly so good uh i can walk faster i can make things slower and i can stop somebody from dying yeah i'm trying to think of other stuff yeah because of the fast-paced situation like if anyone else has any suggestions feel free um but i think that's that could be the plan that basically i'll i'll leave uh like orm will be there for gorgamonger to instruct him to help tannhauser as tannhauser flies around try to rally people and then so you're going you're going to sort of split this up yes okay nervously now saying but it i think the plan is to basically help uh is to help tannhauser because we have all this stuff like if we all want to stay together i'm still down for it i would i would prefer it so everybody gets a chance to do stuff but uh i'm just trying to think of like efficiently we have all this stuff now and and a personnel that we might want to keep alive so yeah it's like we can do two birds with one stone as long as one group stays together and the other group goes fast you know because remember it's like on foot it's like a couple hours to get to yeah to to baldrick's house from here yeah and then at least for flying around you know program i can go really fast so it's like hmm what's this fly speed so we have to still figure him out because technically he's using the template of the burr we've been so busy so technically he's fast as fuck yep so we're doing role play flavor here okay okay okay because if we go if we go role play wise he's still a large large dragon what's orange saying is uh he's bullshitted some of these stats but that's okay we'll go we'll figure it out we'll figure it out i'm using the burr template mechanically in combat he's fine okay okay okay okay okay he is correct mechanically i'm gonna cast kill kill burb on him and it'll work and then the dragon falls dead uh no okay um so so it's my understanding then that baldrick has already fucked off and headed home uh rahua and veena are going to take sandal and the the books and the dirigible back to the home uh tanhauser you are going to go on to gorgamonger's back to fly and try to rally people yeah i'm going to try and get uh to the pawns pilaster and organize the revolution now that there's like this huge thing i want to maintain so you're all going back to the pawns pilaster you're just trying to get there faster yes that is correct okay okay okay um all right all right so so tanhauser and oran you're going or sorry sorry tanhauser and gorgamonger are going there as quickly as they can that is correct okay okay yeah because oran can't quite keep up with that i don't think i mean i would also ride on with gorgamonger and stuff but um large creature only fits one of you yeah you can just hold the tail or it's a story damn it okay okay okay i'm just trying to make it work with them i know i negatively declare hostile hostile gm hostile gm hostile i'll do it i'll stick with her and and vena and uh tanhauser just takes gorgamonger okay okay okay okay um all right um tanhauser we'll start we'll start with you very good uh you do you have any let me check your skills here let's see oh you do okay good good good good good um i'm just seeing specifically any do you do you have any great skills for um managing a mount um like i'm curious if like riding a dragon will be new to you warfare okay i i probably have had to uh i mean i do have uh my crafting war machine i'm probably used to war on top of a machine um so being on top of a uh on a on a beast it wouldn't be the exact same but many of those skills would transfer okay no no i'm just getting getting like a getting a sense if this would be something new for you or not but it seems like it's it's nothing too bad so yeah you're able to to to begin flying and as you you sort of soar a bit overhead you can see that there is like there is a just just devastation below fires are being set mobs of people are running around looting um it's kind of disorganized chaos i see i see uh are there any any semblances of um my my general revolutionary council anywhere like any any like uh uh banner like waving revolutionaries or is this just like mass hysteria give me a warfare lore check you got it i i so badly want this to be both of those things it is it is his revolution but no one's crediting him yeah my revolution my intellectual property that's an accident you're given a hero point by the way by chat all right 25 i'm gonna go with what erndell said of it is uh but no there's no banners of your face or anything but it's as though someone has taken your like what you've discussed and kind of unhinged it um as as though they've taken your sort of like all right and this is how you know the people's revolution should start um but took off restrictions there were restrictions in place originally yeah okay um can i find just like uh as i soaring over the city like remnants of any like large like red fabric yeah yeah absolutely you can uh you can see leaflets floating around as well all right i'm gonna grab a huge red fabric i'm going to have it kind of be like a flag i'm going to raise it high and i'm going to uh steer gorgamonger over like the center of all of this give me a perception check you got it that is 833. okay a couple of things one um that's enough for you to immediately recognize uh there's no center of this right this is like this is just pandemonium throughout um but with that perception check you also start noticing some of like the pamphlets and documents um and as you pick them up and begin to to peruse through them you start recognizing that yeah these sure had similar formatting to the that the stuff that like you you designed at baldrick's house and worked with but the text is sure been altered a lot what does it say um with your prior warfare check you can tell someone has taken your revolution and co-opted it that the text is very very much about you know yes the people need to take power um but it's almost as though it's left out the final parts of your plan as though someone wants to use the revolution just to cause chaos in town i crush one of the pamphlets i'm going to fly over the largest congregation of this and i'm going to try and get their attention sure yeah you can see like they're breaking through buildings and and just absolutely rampaging down streets crushing businesses you you just hear shouts for the people the people the people get the guilders round them up speaker before you begin your speech as a friend to you speaker d yeah is there anything you can take that increases your armor class i think you're about to need it oh yeah i i wouldn't be surprised if i get lee harvey oswald did lee harvey oswald nothing you're gonna get jack rubied that's it jack ruby that's the one yeah but uh you know what i guess i can cast shield okay okay yeah sure just kind of preemptive measure yeah yeah i'm gonna fly into the largest element of them i'm gonna try and get their attention and i'm just going to call out i am tannhauser leader of the revolution vanguard of the people unbeloved of the tyrant's guild and i require your attention and observance and i'm going to try and uh call out perhaps instill some semblance of order in the proceedings okay okay do you wanna do you wanna give me intimidation i'm assuming i would like to give you society okay okay society though like it's not a people adjusting skill so it is more like again knowledge based right oh that is so but i do have i'm gonna see my my feet courtly graces okay pretend to be a noble person yeah okay maybe this is not uh in my best interest um okay also also yes yes thank you jerzen chat what society is there right now this is uh this is if you had an anarchy role you could make yeah could i perhaps argue warfare if not i will take intimidation um yeah you can you can give me warfare lore to try to uh organize troops that seems that seems uh an interesting option i'll allow it very good yeah i want to get these guys in good order these guys are acting these guys have are operating uh without guidance this is not how it needs to be so i'll roll it and i will get a 27. a 27 is enough to to start you know causing the people to pause and and do what you ordered which is pay attention to you with their leg like like there's just shows we're doing it it's happening yeah order there must be order what you are all operating as rioters that's why i'm done with systems yeah the revolution will fail if we are not targeted if we are not organized you can get all of us i want leaders i want leaders to emerge make themselves known array yourselves kill their leaders i i'm i'm going to try and uh by um conflating perhaps my own uh sense art sense of personality these guys have been buying into my idea these guys have been reading my literature i want to try and get these guys organized i'm not saying this with point of view right now of no no guys please you gotta be nice to the ruling class i'm trying to take control from the point of view of no stop we are forming into chords this is going to fail listen to the leader yeah uh and as you're trying this what you're seeing is just like whatever literature has been going out to these people it's not matching your vision that that may be so but even if these guys are co-opted and not operating under my vision they will still be looking out for someone in this circumstance to help lead them they're they're looking for uh i ideally um someone that can take control of it without me man this is just a riot someone who's saying what they're thinking you know yeah this guy's making good points we should listen to what this guy's saying yeah yeah because the revolution has been co-opted i can take it right back by taking advantage of this and having the hopefully the vanguard party that i've established uh begin to uh take control of localized segments of this you try you're trying to divert the waves not force yeah yeah yeah yeah for sure for sure for sure so so this is definitely like a your force of personality thing this i think the best social skill you have here is intimidation to coerce them because you are not a diplomatic character absolutely totally fine let's rocks on the intimidate yeah oh that is a 26. okay so you're getting these people in line um and they're like well okay um yeah there's some there's some people here like yeah bill bill did did my taxes once um and there's like some folks who are starting to emerge but you were you were definitely like able to tell tannhauser these people are listening to you because you're a fucking metal man riding in on a goddamn dragon that's fine all that yes and so so you are starting to like put this together and get like a semblance here um but more shocking is just this like revelation of you know what has been allowed to be done in your name because you are seeing the raw damage and this is like this is not even the the noble areas this is people who've just been fucking tearing apart the regular people's districts yeah yeah this ain't the best um but you you managed to like put an end to this and like we kind of have this moment as you as you do put an end to to this side of things um that you know you could tell there's a lot more work to be done but this has spread quite a bit and whilst you're able to like simmer things down here this is a city and this is not looking good so we kind of like move away from your scene as you've like regained control in like a small section of the pawns pilaster but you you have this realization in this moment now of just understanding the breadth of this um but then we cut back to baldrick's house baldrick you were the first to get there uh-huh your house is as it has always been is there anyone around not outside i mean beyond just like that's what i mean is there and like around no no it looks like this area is actually generally pretty like low-key that was part of why you picked the house too is it's like not a major neighborhood or a thoroughfare or anything like that to win on that uh he is going to go into his home and he is going to lock the door and then he's going to barricade the door yeah you go in you lock it and as soon as you lock it like there's a oh thank the gods as do hakus is there hakus barricade the other side too i i don't think they're coming here the old gargoyle like comes forward there they're there i don't know what's happening out there tessin seemed to say it's happening and then went out the the the the i think it's the i think it's the pillar of fire one thing at a time where the hell is everyone i don't i don't know crotch left tessin left i just mama valine left everyone everyone just just left and why didn't you because i'm not stupid do you see what they're doing out there yes i do they're doing exactly what tan hauser wanted yeah yeah and then they're gonna ruin the city when the problem is over there in the smoldering city they have to did someone has to deal with that or it's all gonna go to pot one thing at a time one thing at a time look here she's like pointing at this tome he's looking at the tone look at this look look she like starts like going through old pictures and whatnot that are like you know clearly like look at this photograph and like like like from baldrick's perspective you see like the like the establishment of a city um and then like the hellfire that rained down the cracking all this stuff that you know but tenhuser and somewhat mentioned if someone's starting to do things in that city it's gonna piss off the old powers right good okay and what am i going to do here exactly you're chosen that's the whole fucking point of you the old powers invested you with powers to fight evil right this is evil points like figuratively off towards you know outside that fucking pillar is evil noted i'm going to do something about it i need to get things okay okay good just just just making sure because because i thought you weren't gonna do anything and that wouldn't have been really good because i don't want the world to end i live on the world and i like it thurston yeah is this you yelling at us i mean do hawkish has always kind of been me yes i don't know about you man i was gonna take their ship and fucking bail i was gonna leave you can stop streaming it you can we could just be the three of uh four of us and then we just figure it out destiny is for pussies i'm out of here our cameraman ditched us guys there's no stream anymore continuing to barricade there is uh a thump on the on the door from what i can only assume is oren veena and rahua catching up thank you mr and thank you vena you're both doing super well and he tries to help get all the books and just throwing them in the living room he's like the door is barricaded and locked you're not getting in you have the other door i barricade that one no thurston roll to construct the third door i would like to create a door yep uh what should i roll for this you want to make an attack roll or crafting uh you you know what let's let's do a where's your johnny pickaxe scene again we haven't had a good one of those with rahua in a while for who it does like to make whole i love making holes stop so good at it guys oh no if there ain't one then i'll make one rahua don't take from eleven yeah so so i don't know why it's a parenthetical curiosity there but sure um there's like a kathunk on your wall as they are very clearly trying to break down the door baldrick okay can you just let them in they're naughty well i they're they're destined to they need to help you i love that she corrected herself they're not evil and yet their first inclination is when the doors shut to blow through my wall but you said you weren't gonna let them in i didn't say that i not in character oh okay i thought you fucker you fucker um all right so so i'm assuming the three get into baldrick's house uh then the re-barricading commences okay okay okay so good you're all here with miss tanhauser probably enjoying his little revolt him and gorgomarker were trying to rally people and try to drag them more efficiently and uh orange is still stacking books trying to get everything organized but that that's an old one we found these in the library under uh uh uh the guy's place oran can't remember names save his life like it is not you i have suffered with names all my oh no i was i was just crying his sandal as he's you know on the couch just you're not sorry i don't remember your name you're choking to death again okay we are the good start strangling him so i'm not there but i'm laughing anyway oh god you know what okay no that that's where we're ending today's session that's the perfect end point that's it thank you everyone for coming to another exciting episode of rock grind good job guy it's the shocking end of the world 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