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- 0:10Skylar: Hello, weary traveler. I'm not sure what
- 0:13strange magic must have brought you here, but you have
- 0:16stepped into a realm of my creation. A
- 0:19ah, sprawling city filled with danger and
- 0:21glory and most importantly, lots of
- 0:24gold. I call it Isan
- 0:27Numis.
- 0:28Skylar: Who am I, you might ask?
- 0:29Skylar: The name is Jariv, and I'm the patron
- 0:32deity of gambling. Long story
- 0:35short, this group of idiots, or as
- 0:38you may call them, heroes, made a bet with me that
- 0:41they had what it took to make a mass trove of gold,
- 0:44but left some.
- 0:45Skylar: Of the key details blank.
- 0:47Skylar: So I filled them in myself. I sent
- 0:50them to this pocket dimension into the city I
- 0:53had created with with brand new bodies they'd
- 0:56have to attune to.
- 0:57Skylar: Can these fools pass my test?
- 1:00Skylar: Or will they be trapped here forever? So experience
- 1:03my world of trials and tribulations and
- 1:06join alongside this posse of pitiful
- 1:08people. Or as I like to call them, the
- 1:11criminals of Isan Numis.
- 1:15Skylar: Welcome back to another episode of Criminals. Ah.
- 1:17Of Isa Numis. That was a
- 1:20dramatic sound. crisp soda there. You've got your ad
- 1:23popping. Yeah, that's right. Left the pop filter. Don't
- 1:26do.
- 1:27Cameron: I didn't go wrong.
- 1:28Skylar: That's all I've got. I just. Just mountain here. All right. Welcome back to another
- 1:31episode of Criminals Violin Numis. My name is Skyar. As
- 1:34you should know by now, today
- 1:37I am joined with me by a group of players,
- 1:40all of which are playing characters, all of which in
- 1:43a game that we call Dungeons and
- 1:45Dragons. Specifically the fifth edition of said
- 1:48game.
- 1:49Cameron: You know, oddly enough, we haven't been in a single dungeon, nor
- 1:52have we seen a single dragon.
- 1:53Skylar: That's true.
- 1:54Cameron: That's not true.
- 1:55Cameron: I guess you could consider this room a dungeon.
- 1:58Skylar: That's true.
- 1:59Cameron: On a very like, archaic level.
- 2:00Cameron: But in this campaign that we've
- 2:03recorded, we haven't seen the dragon. But that'shit
- 2:07Two of our characters. I've seen a
- 2:09dragon, so.
- 2:12And who knows what you'll go. That is Roari and
- 2:15Keto.
- 2:16Skylar: When SK says Ah, crap. I didn't think through enough
- 2:19situations to make sure that you guys get to a million gold. I'll be
- 2:22like.
- 2:24Cameron: Dragon Queen.
- 2:25Cameron: I didn't even think about that.
- 2:27Skylar: Why didn't ithing about a drag and Mai3.
- 2:30All right. Wonderful. All right, let's go down the line
- 2:33and have everybody introduce themselves, starting with
- 2:36Dave.
- 2:38Dave: Dave here. I'm playing
- 2:40Maky Maki, the
- 2:43former human monk.
- 2:47I to remember what? Yeah, he was a monk
- 2:50once upon a time, but now he is a
- 2:53cancinku sorcerer.
- 2:56Skylar: Yeah, yeah, that sounds about right. Fantastic.
- 2:59Next to him we got quin.
- 3:02Yep.
- 3:02Cameron: playing feather mearer, AKA little
- 3:05sauceuce. You know, pretty decent with his
- 3:07magic, not so decent with his golf swing.
- 3:11Skylar: That's a fair point. Classic wizard. Like, the second you tried to
- 3:14do, like a non magical thing, it was like, nah, that ain't
- 3:17working for you. But the magic stuff you were doing was pretty dope. That was
- 3:20all working out. So, you know, take that as you will.
- 3:23Next to him is Jack. See, I said
- 3:26jack this time because every single time I say Jacks, and you're always like, hey, I'm
- 3:29Jack. And it's like, ah, man, you slapping me in the face.
- 3:32Cameron: Oh, man. I met a kid
- 3:34and his parents introduced him and they were like, this is our
- 3:37son, Jackton. a T
- 3:40with a d. A d. I just said, oh, hi.
- 3:43My name is S. Jackson, too. And he goes, no, not
- 3:46Jackson. Jack Dun.
- 3:49Cameron: Jack.
- 3:52Cameron: He spells it J A x D O n.
- 3:55Which is not only is J A x o n.
- 3:58Like the worst way to spell Jackson, he spelled
- 4:00it completely wrong.
- 4:02Skylar: J A X D O, N. That's like, I don't even know
- 4:05how to handle that.
- 4:07Cameron: I digress. My name is Jackson.
- 4:10Skylar: I played Des.
- 4:12Cameron: He was a trident fighter turned cancanku
- 4:14ranger. coming into some of those difficulties
- 4:17of not having a second attack anymore.
- 4:19Skylar: That's true.
- 4:20Cameron: fun fact about Desz is he
- 4:23was not really thinking about a fun fact today.
- 4:25Skylar: So. Y. Fair enough.
- 4:27Cameron: Some days he is just empty brain.
- 4:29Skylar: Yeah.
- 4:29Cameron: Floating in the wind.
- 4:30Skylar: No, that's fair. That's fair. Fantastic.
- 4:33Next to Jackson, we've got Fatty
- 4:36Lumpkins. Who the heck are you playing
- 4:39Fatty Lumpkins?
- 4:40Fatty Lumpkins: Fatty's playing the
- 4:43cobld Echo Night. And in
- 4:46formal life, he played a
- 4:49elvish druid.
- 4:52Skylar: Maybe someday he'll return to that.
- 4:53Fatty Lumpkins: Played a complete 180 from Magic
- 4:56to mail it.
- 4:58Skylar: Ah, nice. I like that. We're gonna have to make a
- 5:01shirt for. For keto that says from
- 5:04magic to melee. That's actually kind of a cool thing right
- 5:06there. fantastic. Awesome. I'm the Flip when I. That's true. You
- 5:09are the Flip. Tell us who you are and why you're the Flip,
- 5:12Cameron.
- 5:13Cameron: My name is Flip Heyip. No, I'm
- 5:16Cameron play formerly played ro fross beard.
- 5:18Skylar: A.
- 5:19Cameron: A melee, but..er. Barbarian ratherepep.
- 5:22And now I'm a magical rogue
- 5:25named Fizle Fingers.
- 5:27Skylar: I, thought you were gonna say silly freely, Willie.
- 5:29Cameron: But now I. I'm
- 5:32the most transitioned character, so Far
- 5:35I'm a new character named Silly
- 5:38Frilly Willy who really wants to who
- 5:41Willie wants to tickle.
- 5:46Skylar: So much guy. But I
- 5:48love play with
- 5:50menn play. Do
- 5:53we want to co you? Whoa.
- 5:56Come here. All right, enough
- 5:59a cringe asside. Let's jump into the
- 6:02episode
- 6:08algh where you guys last left off. You had gone into
- 6:11the clock tower after Silly Freely Willy, who you
- 6:14found tied up in a mass
- 6:17of puppet thread or puppet string, you
- 6:20might say. you broke him out. You also
- 6:23found a number of the children that were all hanging from the
- 6:26ceiling scattered about. Also, there's a couple
- 6:28instances where somebody tripped over something. I should have said it was one
- 6:31of the children's, like, unconscious bodies that
- 6:34had been cut down. But that's okay.
- 6:36Cameron: We won't kind of skew around the place.
- 6:38Skylar: Yeah.
- 6:39Cameron: A miracle.
- 6:39Fatty Lumpkins: We didn't hurt any.
- 6:40Skylar: That's true. Yeah. You think of the hail of thorns coming down.
- 6:43There was a kid.
- 6:44Cameron: O man, we didn.
- 6:45Skylar: That's an automatic zero on that dexterity. Sa already
- 6:48killed one kid.
- 6:49Cameron: Goodbye to our monetization.
- 6:50Skylar: I, yeah, yeah. You guys were gonna get, like, money per kid,
- 6:53you say, but hopefully it was one of them that didn't offer a
- 6:56reward. Whatever the case, you guys had found the
- 6:59children. You'd found your friend got your friend down,
- 7:02had an intense fight with a series of strange,
- 7:05mysterious clockwork dolls that were coming out of the
- 7:08darkness at you like the zombies in the first
- 7:10Resident Evil movie. Love that. It's great. I know. It's,
- 7:13like, way off from the story, but I digress. It's a good time
- 7:16for whatever the case. As you finished
- 7:19off the last of these dolls, the mysterious figure that
- 7:22you've been hunting all this time started to lower
- 7:25himself on a thread like a spider from the
- 7:28ceiling of the clock tower. And,
- 7:30Roric thought quickly and fired an
- 7:33arrow at the thread that was kind of he was coming down on, which
- 7:36caused him to fall below. But instead of hitting the ground,
- 7:38did Sillyillly Willy.
- 7:41instead of hitting the ground with a thud, it seemed to
- 7:44teleport. And inst. Inst is now up on the scaffolding
- 7:47alongside Roick. And that is where we left things
- 7:50off. Now, I think the probably best thing to do here is
- 7:53probably once again. Actually, I'm just gonna. It's probably best to
- 7:56just keep the initiative order that you guys had. O Nice.
- 7:59Cameron: I want to tickle him.
- 8:00Skylar: I'm not saying you can't. I'm just.
- 8:02Cameron: I'm justnna to wait youa have to figure Out.
- 8:05Skylar: When was. Do you guys remember? Who was that?
- 8:07Cameron: When slowly walking.
- 8:09Skylar: Actually start from the top. The order is probably the best.
- 8:12I'm slow walking.
- 8:14Cameron: Do 10.
- 8:17Skylar: No. GRD.
- 8:18Cameron: I am Moles in the initiative order.
- 8:21Skylar: All right.
- 8:22Dave: Greater pleasure than a tickle delayed.
- 8:29Skylar: All right, fantastic. So we're gonna jump to the top of the order, which,
- 8:31once again, is, Quinn.
- 8:35Qu.
- 8:35Cameron: Where's he in the order? Do you know, Jll?
- 8:38Skylar: yep.
- 8:38Cameron: Okay, now we know.
- 8:40Skylar: Pretty darn high.
- 8:43Cameron: But not higher than Quid. Hu.
- 8:45Skylar: Not wayite higher than Quinn. This wizard is quick on
- 8:48his feet.
- 8:49Cameron: what can I, Is there anything I can ask him to kind of figure out what he actually
- 8:52is?
- 8:52Skylar: Yeah, I mean, with your bonus action, you could kind of, like, use that to
- 8:55talk and chat. I mean, the key thing is that, like,
- 8:59normally, it's six seconds
- 9:02of, combat, but all things considered, you guys aren't really
- 9:05attacking, per se, right now, so I'll give you kind of some free time
- 9:08to do whatever. Discussing it.
- 9:10Cameron: You want what I use? Like, can
- 9:12I ask him? Ask him, obviously. What
- 9:15is he?
- 9:16Skylar: Well, do it in character.
- 9:17Cameron: Right? I'm. I'm thinking here, but would I use that here?
- 9:20Like, what would I roll for?
- 9:22Skylar: Oh, you just do it.
- 9:23Cameron: Is there anything I can.
- 9:24Cameron: There's persuasion, but you would have to, like,
- 9:27say something.
- 9:28Skylar: I would say. Start with saying something, and I will
- 9:31ask you to roll or whatever when the situation
- 9:34arises.
- 9:34Cameron: You're not. You're not McGrill. What are you?
- 9:37Skylar: What.
- 9:37Skylar: What am I?
- 9:38Skylar: You want to know what I am?
- 9:40Skylar: How is it so hard to believe that I am, in
- 9:43fact, mingriddle?
- 9:45Skylar: Hmm?
- 9:46Cameron: Min Griddle wouldn't do this.
- 9:48Skylar: Wouldn't do what?
- 9:50Skylar: Hurt children?
- 9:51Skylar: Well, maybe McGriddle needs the life Force in
- 9:54order to fully become what he once was.
- 9:57Did you ever think of that,
- 10:00old friend?
- 10:03Skylar: Hmm?
- 10:06Skylar: Maybe McGriddle is simply trying
- 10:09to regain what was
- 10:11stolen from him by what he thought
- 10:14was a close friend.
- 10:17Skylar: Couldn'cut it with a MC.
- 10:19Cameron: McGrl told me to do it. You are not McGriddle.
- 10:22I'm gonna throw a, fire bolt at him.
- 10:24Skylar: Oh, all right. Jumping right in.
- 10:26Cameron: 11 plus. so 16.
- 10:29Skylar: 16. That hits.
- 10:30Cameron: I need a D10.
- 10:31Skylar: D10.
- 10:32Cameron: that's the one that's, to ask.
- 10:36Skylar: sorry.
- 10:37Cameron: Two, I think.
- 10:39Skylar: Is that. Yeah, Two. Okay. And then is there any
- 10:41additions to that, or is it just two? Okay,
- 10:45you fire. You point up into the air. kind of
- 10:47angered at this creature that's claiming to be your
- 10:50friend. A bolt of Flame shoots towards
- 10:53it, slamming into it. He looks somewhat infuriated,
- 10:56but quickly brushes it away.
- 10:58Skylar: Oh, choosing to betray me once
- 11:01again, my friend. I see how it
- 11:03is. Well, don't worryuse. I've got
- 11:06plenty in store for you.
- 11:08Skylar: And he leaps across the scaffolding very
- 11:11nimbly, teleports to the ground and he just kind
- 11:14of drops something. It's just a black orb that
- 11:17as soon as it touches the ground, everything instantenly
- 11:20goes dark all around you.
- 11:21Cameron: You hear it distant. Before. After you teleports. You hear it distant.
- 11:24Aw.
- 11:26Skylar: That'S right. I was getting so close. You hear that
- 11:29Justice? Everything just goes pitch black around all of
- 11:32you. you are now surrounded by a magical
- 11:34darkness that encompasses the
- 11:37entire area. And you just hear from one of the guards,
- 11:40well, the only one that's still conscious, he just says oh jee.
- 11:43And now it's dark.
- 11:44Dave: Oh, it really is my worst nightmare.
- 11:48Cameron: I love a guard that's scared of the dark.
- 11:52He sleeps with a little night torch plugged into his
- 11:55wall.
- 11:55Skylar: Plugged his. He just has like a tiny torch
- 11:58that he light. It's just like. It's just like a match match that's.
- 12:01Cameron: Mounted on a sconce on his wall.
- 12:03Skylar: Just until he falls asle next to his best friend.
- 12:07That's right. Steve and Henry I think it
- 12:10was. All right. Fantastic. so that's his
- 12:13action. Actually, he techn he has another one. You just hear
- 12:15as he. You know, the sound that he makes when he kind of
- 12:18teleports. that's his action. We jump over to
- 12:21Fatty.
- 12:21Fatty Lumpkins: So Fatty's incompl complete darkness.
- 12:23Skylar: Yes.
- 12:23Fatty Lumpkins: And it is magical darkness. So his dark vision does
- 12:26nothing.
- 12:27Skylar: Correct. Well, shucks, nuggets.
- 12:30Fatty Lumpkins: How about since he's a lizard, can he do his little
- 12:32tongue flick and east the rainbow?
- 12:35Taste the rainbow. That is just the
- 12:38rainbow colored smell
- 12:40mannequin.
- 12:42Skylar: I absolutely go for it. do a perception
- 12:45check. Do you have keen. Whatever is it
- 12:48keen? I guess I'd be keen sight or keen
- 12:51hearng? Not keen?
- 12:53Fatty Lumpkins: No, I don't think so.
- 12:54Skylar: Do it at disadvantage then, becausee. Yeah, this.
- 12:59Fatty Lumpkins: 1313.
- 13:01Skylar: All right. you can taste
- 13:05the air around you and
- 13:07you'such a strange thing to
- 13:09sayry. You can.
- 13:12And with that and in the addition of your hearing,
- 13:15you can kind of make out where your allies are
- 13:18around you. and you can kind of get a mental picture of the
- 13:21floor. But you don't really taste the
- 13:24the enemy figure anymore. As if he's
- 13:27not within the immediate Area around you,
- 13:30which is about the distance that you can taste
- 13:33o.
- 13:34Fatty Lumpkins: Well, I think that's about all he's got in him for the
- 13:37turn.
- 13:37Skylar: No, that's fair. Jumping over to dave.
- 13:40Dave. mai
- 13:43is to some extent Familiar with the shadows, I would
- 13:46assume. Does he have any bright
- 13:48ideas?
- 13:52Dave: monkey's just, hey, you turned out the lights.
- 13:56But he does feel like a kind of a
- 13:58whoing within him. Like, this
- 14:01darkness isn't so bad. Like, seems a little bit
- 14:04familiar.
- 14:04Skylar: Almost too familiar. I't know.
- 14:08Dave: It's kind of comfortable.
- 14:10Skylar: It's like.
- 14:11Dave: Like a warm blanket. where'd you
- 14:13guys go?
- 14:14Skylar: Why don't you. Given. Given your specialty
- 14:17within shadow related magic and darkness
- 14:20related magic. Give me an arcana check.
- 14:24Dave: That's gonna be a, seven.
- 14:25Skylar: Oh, man. Yeah. Ah, you're a little surprised
- 14:28by the darkness. Nothing's coming to y so
- 14:31there's something that I have that I can't give you.
- 14:34Dave: Puppet boy did something. You sure it's not
- 14:37mcgriddle feather?
- 14:40Cameron: Mcgriddle wouldn't act like this. This doesn't like
- 14:43him. And if it is, still needs to
- 14:46be the same result.
- 14:47Cameron: In case you didn't get that, in.
- 14:49Cameron: Case you didn't get it, we got got.
- 14:51Skylar: We got killed.
- 14:52Dave: so mai's gonna try to walk
- 14:55edge,
- 14:57okay, Just to see as far as he can go.
- 15:01See if it's dark all over place.
- 15:03Skylar: Okay, you definitely can do that. you know,
- 15:06obviously, given that this is kind of like a circular room, Any direction
- 15:09that you go, you eventually hit a wall fairly quickly. you have your
- 15:12hands out in front of you, so you manage to dodge some of the
- 15:15scaffolding as it comes towards you, so it doesn't just slam right
- 15:17into your face. And you feel along the wall. given,
- 15:21as you make your way around kind of the circumference of the room, you,
- 15:24cannot find a spot where the darkness
- 15:26does not protrude Roc.
- 15:29Dave: He's just gonna put his back to the wall then.
- 15:31Skylar: And elen.
- 15:34Okay, sounds good. I'll have that
- 15:37on you, and then we'll jump over to
- 15:39roick. You are in a bit of a precarious
- 15:42position because it is dark around you and you are
- 15:45in the air on the scaffolding.
- 15:47Cameron: Mm Ye. That's true.
- 15:49Skylar: That is true. What would you like to do in your
- 15:52career state?
- 15:54Cameron: Can roke hide?
- 15:57Cameron: Yeah, just stand
- 16:00still.
- 16:01Skylar: Just t posesus.
- 16:03Cameron: I don't think the caster can't see in
- 16:06u, darkness either, can they?
- 16:08Skylar: That's a Great question. I'm gonna double check, but that's
- 16:11a fair, no question.
- 16:14Cameron: There's your answer.
- 16:15Skylar: I believe not.
- 16:17Cameron: They have a way to see.
- 16:18Skylar: Yeah, right. Right.
- 16:19Cameron: In a ro Just shoot.
- 16:21Skylar: Right.
- 16:21Cameron: He'snna just shoot an arrow randomly oay
- 16:24into the dark.
- 16:26Skylar: All right, go for it.
- 16:29Cameron: Oh, my word.
- 16:30Skylar: I mean, obviously, it's a disadvantage. I
- 16:33don't know what you just rolled, but it sounded good. And I'm not just saying
- 16:36that because, All right, so you fire an
- 16:38arrow. you're unsure. The only thing that you're sure of is that you're
- 16:41standing saw him sure.
- 16:43Cameron: So I just wildly at.
- 16:45Skylar: Okay. Okay. The only thing that you can really sense is the
- 16:48ground beneath you. So you kind of just fire an arrow into a
- 16:51direction of your choosing. As you do, it
- 16:54hits something you can hear and sort of
- 16:57glance off of it. You hear it one more time going from
- 17:00to your left, and then you
- 17:03instantly feel a sharp pain in your shoulder as the
- 17:05arrow returns and gets full,
- 17:08say, D4. Since it's ricochet damage, I don't think it would be
- 17:11quite as impactful.
- 17:16Fatty Lumpkins: To be fair.
- 17:17Skylar: I rolled, like. Because I was like, oh, it's hitting somebody. And I did
- 17:20make the enemy one of the options, and I
- 17:23rolled. And it just rolled you.
- 17:26Dave: Ow.
- 17:29Skylar: H. Okay.
- 17:32You kind of. Not a good
- 17:35high.
- 17:38Cameron: No, it was a bad high.
- 17:40Skylar: Hey, you know what? That makes a lot of sense, though, all things
- 17:43considered. Awesome. Jumping over to
- 17:45Jackson. Sorry. Apologies.
- 17:47Cameron: Do I smell him?
- 17:49Skylar: Ah. that's true. Because you have. I would say,
- 17:52do a regular.
- 17:53Cameron: Non disadvantage rul
- 17:56just of, like, what perception.
- 17:58Skylar: Yeah. Oay.
- 18:00Cameron: 16.
- 18:01Skylar: 16.
- 18:03Cameron: Up.
- 18:05Cameron: Up for what?
- 18:06Skylar: He's up for good.
- 18:10Cameron: I climb.
- 18:12Skylar: Okay. Just grab ono. You feel
- 18:15your way over, and then you just grab ono a piece of
- 18:17scaffolding.
- 18:19Cameron: I'll just start climbing. I just started climbing.
- 18:21Skylar: You justiming? I would say, say, probably
- 18:24Athletics Decline.
- 18:26Cameron: Yeah, sure.
- 18:27Skylar: Let's go for it. And I would say as long as you're taking it fairly
- 18:30slowly, it's not really disipating
- 18:33before you grab ono something.
- 18:35Fatty Lumpkins: It's not like you're okay, per
- 18:37se.
- 18:38Cameron: Yeah. 17.
- 18:39Skylar: Seventeeny cow.
- 18:40Cameron: Yeah.
- 18:40Skylar: You make yourself or you make your way up the scaffolding. You
- 18:43end up onto the platform above you or kind of
- 18:46the stairway or whatever you want to call it. and then I guess you
- 18:49probably just head to the next scaffolding and you just start climbing up that.
- 18:52As you make it, just past
- 18:5415ft, your head kind of pops
- 18:57up over what seems like a cloud of darkness.
- 19:00you can see below you it's just pitch black. But everything above
- 19:02you is not.
- 19:04Cameron: It is.
- 19:05Skylar: I mean it's kind of darkened obviously, like mentioned before, but it's
- 19:08just shadow darkness you can see
- 19:11regularly. and you can see kind of perched
- 19:14up there. You see the strange colorfully
- 19:17dressed doll and he sees you and he
- 19:20goes, well, how?
- 19:21Cameron: Well, I lock eyes, lick my lips
- 19:24and just do that. Two fingers.
- 19:26Skylar: Two fingers back and forth.
- 19:29Skylar: Well, aren't you alive?
- 19:30Skylar: One. With that we'll jump over to
- 19:33Quinn now. So you are up there. You're above
- 19:36the proverbial cloud of dark.
- 19:38Cameron: Where he. Where is he? He's not gonna be able
- 19:41laer me.
- 19:44Skylar: Don't. I don't. O ye. Oh wait.
- 19:46Cameron: Let me see if I have one. I'm sorry. This is gonna take
- 19:49out of the.
- 19:51Cameron: I just sit there. Isz he up here?
- 19:53Down there. Left or right?
- 19:57Skylar: Ah, yes. All the controls from a regular game
- 20:00controller. Up, down, left or right?
- 20:02Cameron: O I just spaw a tank.
- 20:04Skylar: It's a platform game.
- 20:07Do I need to hit right trigger or left trigger
- 20:10or the bumper? 3rd person
- 20:13mod and then you'll see just fine.
- 20:16Cameron: Okay, have one.
- 20:22Skylar: go into your control panel and adjust.
- 20:24Cameron: I've never played Warzone, but is this what the gulag
- 20:27is?
- 20:29Skylar: Yeah, I mean, kinda just a
- 20:32pit.
- 20:32Cameron: Of darkness or you just wildly run around in it?
- 20:35Cameron: I don't have anything. I don't have anything. I just
- 20:38looked.
- 20:39Cameron: Just say anything.
- 20:41Cameron: Construct. I With all the anger in me, I open
- 20:44my mouth and just.
- 20:47Skylar: You kill. You
- 20:50hear?
- 20:50Cameron: Do I hear this?
- 20:51Skylar: Sure. All right.
- 20:52Cameron: Like I gotta start climbing. So I
- 20:55spider climb.
- 20:56Skylar: Oh, okay.
- 20:57Cameron: I'm just gonna start grabbing out coming and stick to it and I'm just start climbing
- 21:00like Spiderman up to.
- 21:02Skylar: I'm pretty sure Spider Clan gives you your full movement speed, doesn't
- 21:05it? Awesome. So you. You immediately make
- 21:08it up 15ft. A little over
- 21:1015ft. And you pop out from the cloud of
- 21:13darkness as well. And you can see him standing there. You can
- 21:16see Des, hanging off some of the
- 21:19scaffolding, like climbing his way up.
- 21:20Cameron: And I'm just hanging one hand because I'm Spiderb.
- 21:22Skylar: Right. Because you use Spider climb. Right. and I would say
- 21:25that's probably your movement at this point. But you still have your
- 21:28hack.
- 21:28Cameron: what can I still do with.
- 21:29Cameron: Like mying spider climb action?
- 21:32Skylar: Oh, I think you're right.
- 21:33Cameron: Is that good enough?
- 21:34Skylar: Okay, so you're up there as well basically. I forgot about that.
- 21:37Sorry. But good job. Yeah.
- 21:39Awesome. So, the puppet
- 21:42is next. he sees the two of
- 21:45you up there, and he says, well,
- 21:49this.
- 21:49Skylar: Is an easily solvable situation.
- 21:52Skylar: And he lunges towards. He lunges towards,
- 21:56probably towards you, Jackson first, just because you
- 21:59popped out first. And he's just kind of like throwing a punch
- 22:01towards you. Oh, that's a high one.
- 22:04Is a 23 hit.
- 22:08Know I asked dumb questions.
- 22:11Cameron: I heard the S sound.
- 22:12Skylar: I was about to say. No, no. he
- 22:15hits you with L11 damage,
- 22:17man.
- 22:19Cameron: We might be in trouble, mama.
- 22:21Skylar: And then, he. So he slams into you, and then he turns
- 22:24over and he sees, feather McGregor poking
- 22:27up amongst or from above the darkness as well. And he's sort
- 22:30of like. It's funny you bring up Spider man because he's also
- 22:33very much doing Spider man things. He throws a
- 22:36thread, of this sort of puppet string into
- 22:39the air. you can see on the end of these threads,
- 22:42there's, like, the. The crisscross wooden piece that
- 22:45you always see with, like, marionette puppets. And so it's got that
- 22:48on the end, and it works kind of like a grappling hook. And it
- 22:50catches around one of the chunks of scaffolding. He sort of swings
- 22:53over and he does another punch towards your direction as well.
- 22:57And that's like a 25.
- 23:00you take eight damage
- 23:03as he slams a punch right into you as
- 23:06well.
- 23:09Cameron: No, I stabbed you.
- 23:12Skylar: right. I just meant, like, the pain in general, but whatever.
- 23:15The metaphor is lost.
- 23:16Skylar: And then we jump over to.
- 23:18Cameron: I'm just in pain.
- 23:19Skylar: Yeah, yeah. Just like. Like, leaned against, the
- 23:22wall, trying to hang on. Although for you, it's a lot easier than it probably
- 23:25was for Deathad. I just got one finger on the.
- 23:27Fatty Lumpkins: Yeah.
- 23:28Skylar: jumping over to Fatty.
- 23:30Fatty Lumpkins: So Keo is still in what I assume is complete
- 23:33darkness.
- 23:33Skylar: Yes.
- 23:34Fatty Lumpkins: But he does hear all this commotion going on up above.
- 23:37Skylar: Absolutely.
- 23:38Fatty Lumpkins: And so his, instinct is to
- 23:41find the nearest scaffolding and make like
- 23:44the geckoes and start climbing.
- 23:46Skylar: Sounds good. Roam me an athletics check.
- 23:55Fatty Lumpkins: 15.
- 23:56Skylar: 15. Yeah, absolutely. You start making your way up. it
- 23:58takes you a little while, but sure enough, you're able to p. Poke your
- 24:02head up above the darkness cloud as well. and you
- 24:04can see. Yes. You see, Des is
- 24:07probably pretty close by you actually hanging from the
- 24:10scaffing. He climbed his way up. He's looking a little dazed. He's got a big
- 24:13old red spot on his face from where he just got punched. And
- 24:16then over, across the way you can see against the
- 24:19wall. Feather McGregor is
- 24:21kind of holding on by one arm. Just looks like he's
- 24:24stuck sticking to the wall, in a sense. and he
- 24:27also has a big old red spot and kind of right
- 24:30next to him. They seem to be kind of locked in like one
- 24:33of those swatting fights. Is the evil,
- 24:36puppet that you're dealing with how
- 24:39farai? this
- 24:42puppet is probably a good
- 24:4620ft away. There is a
- 24:49platform close by you. You could crawl onto the
- 24:51platform just to kind of put yourself so that you're not
- 24:54hanging off of some scaffolding if you want.
- 24:56Fatty Lumpkins: Do I still have my attack or whatot?
- 24:59Skylar: Yeah, I would say so. No, I
- 25:02would say the bonus action was probably combined with m movement to get the
- 25:04climbing going. but you can have your action for sure,
- 25:07I guess, if you have a ranged attack, I
- 25:10assume.
- 25:11Fatty Lumpkins: Yes, probably. Pull up his
- 25:13crossbow.
- 25:14Skylar: Are you getting onto the platform? Y okay. All right.
- 25:17Caus otherwise, I don't know how you're gonnaw crossbow and
- 25:20hang on quite a bit.
- 25:22Fatty Lumpkins: Darkion take things.
- 25:23Skylar: Sure.
- 25:24Fatty Lumpkins: See as if it were day.
- 25:26Skylar: Yeah.
- 25:26Fatty Lumpkins: So he takes same with his
- 25:28crossbow'the.
- 25:30Skylar: 1919 does hit. Nicely done.
- 25:32Fatty Lumpkins: And TW at his
- 25:35crossbow.
- 25:39Skylar: Five, six, oh, six, hol damage.
- 25:42Fantastic. You pull out, you climb up on there,
- 25:45pulling your crossw with your other arm as you do. So
- 25:47I think you're kind of like hanging on a little bit, but you're, like,
- 25:51focused on trying to get this shot off. As you're climbing up, you
- 25:53fire the bolt. Just as you're doing that, the
- 25:56puppet seems like it's reaching down towards, feather
- 25:59McGregor's face. And just as it does, your bolt comes flying
- 26:02out, slams it into its hand, pushing him, away
- 26:05from hurting your ally.
- 26:09Well done. Then you climb the rest of the way onto the
- 26:11platform, and we jump over to D.
- 26:15Dave, make me another arch.
- 26:19Dave: I got a 15.
- 26:21Skylar: 15. So, you, spark of
- 26:23magical knowledge kind of enters your brain as it kind of
- 26:26has along the way here, where, you know, you're kind of remembering
- 26:29these spells that whoever had this body before
- 26:32you and was learning these things. Ah,
- 26:34new. And one of those things that you kind of recall to
- 26:37memory about darkness and your experience with shadows and things like
- 26:40that, or your previous existence beings,
- 26:43whatever you want to call it, knowledge of shadows is that
- 26:46the darkness is actually kind of attached to
- 26:49sort of an object itself. and if that
- 26:52object is covered up, it will diffuse
- 26:55the magical darkness that it emanates.
- 26:58So in a similar way to if you Lit a
- 27:01candle or any sorce of like, light. If you were
- 27:04to cover that up, it covers up the light. This works the same
- 27:06way. Dark.
- 27:15Cameron: Mo.
- 27:15Skylar: you hear the commotion going on? Yeah, I'd
- 27:18say he definitely probably hears the occasional
- 27:21thud and shout. Maybe even some
- 27:23of the words echoing down sort of the
- 27:26cavernous spire missing.
- 27:29Dave: The a. I gotta hurry
- 27:31up. Gives
- 27:34himself a magical burst of speed casting
- 27:38tedious retreat.
- 27:40Skylar: Ohash.
- 27:45Dave: Thirsty. He feels around the room trying
- 27:48to find the stairs.
- 27:49Skylar: Oh, yeah, yeah.
- 27:51Dave: And once you make sure he doesn't bump his head on, he gives
- 27:54himself a mag speed.
- 27:57Skylar: All right. You would have double movement. So it's
- 28:00like what, 60ft probably.
- 28:02Awesome. So, yeah, you quickly rush up
- 28:05the stairway, carefully feeling to make sure that you don't fall
- 28:08off the sides. but thanks to your expeditious retreat,
- 28:11you're able to do so at a heightened
- 28:14speed. And eventually you make
- 28:17your way above this cloud of darkness with everybody else.
- 28:19And you can see the scene before you. And then I'm
- 28:22assuming'expeditious RET2E. That's probably an action.
- 28:25Dave: That was a bonus o Bonus.
- 28:27Skylar: All right. You still have your action.
- 28:28Dave: Then I see you've
- 28:31bloodied my friend's beak.
- 28:33Skylar: How are you all so capable at
- 28:36making it through my darkness? It's a bit
- 28:39infuriating, I will admit.
- 28:42Skylar: I agree.
- 28:45Dave: Fleet a feather underoot. Now die.
- 28:50I reach out in a skeletal hand
- 28:53appears and grabs him.
- 28:57Skylar: Just make a sa.
- 28:59Dave: I make an attack. Oh, that's gonna be a
- 29:0210o.
- 29:03Skylar: Your hand lunges towards him and he jumps
- 29:06onto his sort of string. Spider man rope,
- 29:08whatever you want to call it. And swings away nimbly,
- 29:11avoiding your hand.
- 29:12Skylar: And he says, I saw what you did to my
- 29:15dolls with that hand. You won't get me
- 29:18the same way.
- 29:19Dave: Oh, no.
- 29:21Skylar: Black shadow.
- 29:22Dave: And my goes back down the stairs.
- 29:25Skylar: Just disappus into the shadows.
- 29:29I caess darkness.
- 29:35Awesome.
- 29:35Dave: He's like a headst still.
- 29:37Skylar: Poop. Pomon
- 29:39disappears. You start doing like, the fake
- 29:42elevator thing where you like, kind of crouch ever so slightly
- 29:45as you walk. And it makes it look like you're just going down a
- 29:48set of stairs or something. awesome.
- 29:51We jump over to Jackson. I'm not forgetting this
- 29:54time.
- 29:55Cameron: I'm just gonna whip out my longbow
- 29:58and just pop a shot at.
- 30:00Skylar: Are you hopping onto the platform? Ye.
- 30:02Cameron: I'll stand up on the scaffolding.
- 30:04Skylar: Sweet.
- 30:04Cameron: And I'll shoot my. My longbow in.
- 30:07Skylar: Okay.
- 30:09Cameron: 16.
- 30:10Skylar: 16. That hits.
- 30:11Cameron: Cool.
- 30:1411 damage.
- 30:16Skylar: Damage. Your arrow comes
- 30:19flying forward at this point, you can
- 30:21see. You can see clearly now the rain has
- 30:24gone. And you see this, this puppet who's kind
- 30:27of like swinging through the air on his strings. And you follow
- 30:30his movements, letting forth an arrow which
- 30:32slams kind of into where is like waist would be, and
- 30:35sticks into it. you hear kind of a wooden thud.
- 30:38As you know, the arrow kind of shanks into what is
- 30:41essentially wood. But, you know, you're
- 30:44kind of used to that given that your're figgerite enemy is constructs
- 30:47anyway. So this isn't super obscure to you,
- 30:50but it's something that you're definitely useful or used
- 30:53to and it is successful.
- 30:55Sweet. Well done, Camero.
- 30:58Silly, are you still in the darkness, right?
- 31:01Fatty Lumpkins: I'm the only one.
- 31:02Skylar: You're the only one left in the darkness.
- 31:03Cameron: Silly fairly will. He's gonna start climbing up.
- 31:05Skylar: Okay.
- 31:06Cameron: Up to all the commotion.
- 31:08Skylar: Fair enough.
- 31:08Cameron: And then once his head clears above the darkness,
- 31:11the clouds.
- 31:12Dave: Oh, it snuck upon me.
- 31:14Cameron: He's going to see and go, oh, what's all
- 31:17this then?
- 31:20And then he's go, oh. And he sees,
- 31:24the doll, the puppet, and he's justnna pull out his
- 31:26fingers, wiggle him and let me.
- 31:29Skylar: Come here, come here.
- 31:30Cameron: He's gonna run across the room and grab him to tickle.
- 31:33Skylar: Well, before you do that, you need to give me an athletics
- 31:36check to see if you get climbed up. I would
- 31:38accept.
- 31:39Cameron: I'm not atletic. Oh, I hacr I gonna
- 31:42say as 18.
- 31:44Skylar: 18. Okay. Yep. Okay. You get up there. All right. So you're chasing him,
- 31:47wiggling your fingers as little.
- 31:49Little strokes of lightning kind of
- 31:52shimmer through your hands. And you rush
- 31:55up to him and you're trying to just give him a big o hug. I am
- 31:58shing grass sh him as he's swinging through
- 32:01the air. yeah, yeah.
- 32:01Cameron: and I'm shocking grasping them, but thematically, they're
- 32:04tickles.
- 32:05Skylar: Yes.
- 32:05Cameron: And also the last time I shocking grasp him, we made a decision
- 32:08because of his make model.
- 32:10Skylar: We l it up in the year.
- 32:12Fatty Lumpkins: Like 5, 8,
- 32:1574.
- 32:16Cameron: Anyways, I get advantage on this attack.
- 32:18Skylar: Okay.
- 32:18Cameron: That's what I roll. Two
- 32:21threes.
- 32:22Skylar: So he swings past you. I mean, you're
- 32:25just like o giveme, giveimme. M giveimme. And then as he just swings past
- 32:27you, you don't get anything.
- 32:29Cameron: So I wonder how long this fight will take. Either
- 32:32he's gonna die first or Willy's gonna
- 32:35tickle him.
- 32:36Skylar: Sure.
- 32:36Cameron: One of these two things will happen.
- 32:38Skylar: Firstnds the whole fight
- 32:41is you just running
- 32:45back. You.
- 32:46Fatty Lumpkins: What'that from?
- 32:47Cameron: What was that? Is that Madagascar or, that one little girl
- 32:50chases the tith monstro.
- 32:53Fatty Lumpkins: Is it? Or Boo is chaseasing?
- 32:55Cameron: Yeah, it chases him the whole time. Just trying to tickle him. Yeah, pet
- 32:58him.
- 32:59Skylar: That sounds right.
- 33:00Fatty Lumpkins: Just chasing.
- 33:00Skylar: That's all.
- 33:01Cameron: The whole fight. I'm just goingna be Che 23:19. Try to tickle
- 33:04him.
- 33:04Skylar: All right, awesome. Well, we will come back to your tickling here
- 33:07moment.
- 33:08Cameron: I want to imagine that he was trying to
- 33:11be, like, this thing of dread and fear. And, he's deadly
- 33:13afraid of this guy. Trying to tickle him, a
- 33:16childle
- 33:20him, and he's running away.
- 33:22Skylar: we jump over to feather McGregor. You're hanging there
- 33:25from the wall, watching as this,
- 33:28creepy figure posing allegedly as
- 33:31your dead best friend, swings through the air
- 33:34nimbly.
- 33:35Cameron: I'd like to shoot Ray of Frost.
- 33:37Skylar: Ray of Frost. All right. After he punches you, you
- 33:40slide down the wall a little bit. but you manage to catch
- 33:43yourself, given you're standing on some scaffolding
- 33:45or. Yeah, you catch yourself. Yeah, I was gonna say, but, spider climb
- 33:48would be deactivated at this point.
- 33:50Dave: Right.
- 33:50Cameron: So I'm on scaffolding, but I can't find. All right, so I'm going to shoot the
- 33:53Ray Frost.
- 33:54Skylar: Okay, so you climb back up, like, you climb onto the platform. You
- 33:57make your way back up where you can stand, and then you. Yep.
- 33:59Fire the 15.
- 34:0215. that hits
- 34:055. 5. All right.
- 34:07You fire this at him, hitting him with
- 34:10this burst, this beam of ice.
- 34:14you can see the joints and such start to kind of
- 34:17freeze up on this, being a little bit slowing him
- 34:20down. As he kind of, like, comes down the next swing,
- 34:22he kind of hits the platform, comes to a
- 34:25landing on a platform about like, maybe 5,
- 34:2810ft above, you guys. and he definitely
- 34:31seems like he's trying to, like, break through the
- 34:34ice that is now kind of, encasing some of his,
- 34:36limbs. And then we jump over to
- 34:39his action. He scowls at
- 34:42you, specifically Feather, and.
- 34:45Skylar: He says, you haven't got
- 34:48me just yet.
- 34:49Skylar: And you see him just kind of like, hold out both of his
- 34:52arms with his hands outstretched as if he's, like,
- 34:55grabbing onto something that's not there. And you see him
- 34:58just kind of pull up. And as he does, the darkness
- 35:01that was below you guys actually rises up. and now
- 35:04it re. Encompasses you. And just as he's
- 35:06pulling it up, you see him kind of release and Then
- 35:09just see him jump off the side as he disappears
- 35:12into the darkness. A moment later you just hear
- 35:15Jers and then.
- 35:18Cameron: No, he's fine.
- 35:20Cameron: Wouldn't Maggy see him all of a sudden he ran
- 35:23back down?
- 35:24Skylar: No, he just went down a little.
- 35:26Cameron: Is it's still dark down below now?
- 35:28Skylar: No, no, no, no. That, that darkness got. Well, I mean,
- 35:31know. But the darkness that was below you rose, up to
- 35:34your level.
- 35:35Dave: We're all on that level.
- 35:37Skylar: Whatever the case, we jump back over to Fatty.
- 35:40Fatty Lumpkins: Fatty is a little annoyed by this newfound magical
- 35:43darkness. Isn'that newfound y
- 35:46this reappearing magical darkness. But
- 35:49this time so he recognizes that the darkness came
- 35:51from below.
- 35:53Skylar: Yeah. And that, because you all watched it rise up and
- 35:55re engulf you guys. Basically.
- 35:57Fatty Lumpkins: Okay, so he's going to kind of retrace his
- 36:00steps and lizard crawl down
- 36:03said scaffolding thatkay just climbed up.
- 36:05Skylar: Sure. You don't have to roll anything for it. Oh, I mean,
- 36:08you're on the. Or do you say you're going down the
- 36:11scaffolding or you re just going down the platform? Like the stair.
- 36:13Fatty Lumpkins: Yeah, he'll do the stairs.
- 36:15Skylar: You don't have to do that.
- 36:16Fatty Lumpkins: You.
- 36:17Skylar: The only thing is that, you know, you might move little.
- 36:20What I'm jo
- 36:22a little bit slower just because you have to like make sure that you're still
- 36:25walking, you know, you're notn toa just walk right off the side of, the
- 36:28stairway. But otherwise, yeah, you make your way down and sure enough,
- 36:31as you go down about 15ft,
- 36:34you find yourself below the darkness. There's like an actual
- 36:37cut offff which is very kind of strange to look at
- 36:40to see. Like just above you is just kind of pitch black
- 36:43and you can't see through it or anything like that. But
- 36:46below you, everything's kind of back to normal.
- 36:49Fatty Lumpkins: And you see these.
- 36:51Skylar: Oh, yes. You see the, puppet
- 36:53figure standing over the guard, and he seems to be
- 36:56like absorbing some sort of life force. There's like a
- 36:59glowing green magic that seems to be coming out of the guard who
- 37:02has this kind of scream on his face, but
- 37:05there's no sound emanating from him. And then the guard just kind of falls
- 37:08down, seemingly unconscious, possibly dead. You're not
- 37:11sure.
- 37:24Fatty Lumpkins: You said how far away is this little puppet?
- 37:27Skylar: probably another 10, feet down.
- 37:30Fatty Lumpkins: Okay, so Keo sees
- 37:33this guard all and unconscious
- 37:36and a newfound rage
- 37:39or a newfound determination andomass it
- 37:42and you might mess with me
- 37:44to get down there as soon as he can. And his
- 37:47entire consciousness is focused on
- 37:50that one area right behind the
- 37:52puppet.
- 37:53Skylar: Okay.
- 37:54Fatty Lumpkins: And almost instinctively and
- 37:56somewhat surprising to him, he sees
- 37:59this echo of himself.
- 38:02It'right behind him.
- 38:04Skylar: Interesting.
- 38:05Fatty Lumpkins: So as a bonus action, he has manifest his
- 38:08echo.
- 38:09Skylar: Right.
- 38:09Fatty Lumpkins: And then he is, going to slash
- 38:12with his blade.
- 38:14Skylar: It'new version.
- 38:16Fatty Lumpkins: Surprising to him. It doesn't. The attack
- 38:18does not come from where he is. His echo is making
- 38:21this attack.
- 38:22Skylar: O so when you were talking about echo nightights,
- 38:25it's almost like a cloning thing.
- 38:27Cameron: Yeah, it's like astral project.
- 38:29Skylar: Astral. Oh, that's cool. Very cool.
- 38:33All right. And I have to.
- 38:34Fatty Lumpkins: He's going to make his attack.
- 38:35Skylar: I'm gonna have to throw in a creepy lady in a black
- 38:38wedding or, funeral dress now like anep
- 38:41insidious.
- 38:43Fatty Lumpkins: So does first of all
- 38:46guard like considered an ally
- 38:49still?
- 38:50Skylar: He's not, he's not a conscious ally, that's for
- 38:53sure.
- 38:54Cameron: Would the puppet guy be
- 38:57surprised?
- 38:58Skylar: Yeah, I'd say he's probably surprised.
- 39:02Yeah, I'd say that's fine. Yeah. Do it again.
- 39:05Fatty Lumpkins: Need another one. San
- 39:07Roll ten.
- 39:09Skylar: Ten. Ah. Does not hit. So, as
- 39:12your echo version of yourself appears
- 39:14behind him and goes to slash, you see the puppet kind
- 39:17of like there's a slight twitch as if he senses something
- 39:20behind him. Then throws his string out and then pulls
- 39:23on it to pull himself out of the way again. I'm kind of
- 39:26mimicking everything after Spider man here, so hopefully that gives you a
- 39:29mental picture. Pulls himself out of the way just as thislaveve
- 39:32comes down and slashes past K.
- 39:35It's all about interpretation. this
- 39:38is what jonahn thisames Jon
- 39:40Jonman'out there takinging kids.
- 39:44Dave: Mary Jane was in high school, right?
- 39:49Skylar: Peter to fair kids.
- 39:52Kids total even now. but anyway, whatever the case,
- 39:55the glaive misses and he looks behind him and he looks very
- 39:57confused.
- 39:58Skylar: How did you get down here so quickly?
- 40:01You didn't just jump, did you?
- 40:04Fatty Lumpkins: Further clarifying question.
- 40:06Skylar: Yes.
- 40:06Fatty Lumpkins: So with his little spider man like zip, zip
- 40:09zooie.
- 40:09Skylar: Sure. Yep.
- 40:10Fatty Lumpkins: Does that for a,
- 40:13opportunity attack since he left the.
- 40:16Skylar: Yes.
- 40:17Fatty Lumpkins: Becauseo that's a fair.
- 40:20Skylar: All right. Yeah, yeah, I would say yes.
- 40:21Fatty Lumpkins: what you do with opportunity attacks, you just roll.
- 40:24Cameron: it's just another attack.
- 40:27Fatty Lumpkins: If it's another five, it is a 21W.
- 40:30Skylar: Well, that on the other hand does hit.
- 40:32Cameron: Get him.
- 40:33Fatty Lumpkins: So the echo raises its attack or its
- 40:36glaive and hits with eight
- 40:38damage.
- 40:39Skylar: Eight damage. Awesome. Okay, so good as he
- 40:42is sort of dodging that first attack, pulling
- 40:44himself in a different direction just to get out of the
- 40:47way. Your echo swings down and immediately does,
- 40:50like, a twirling attack and swings behind him, catching
- 40:53him as he's kind of, making his movement out of the
- 40:56way, slashing it across his wooden chest.
- 40:58And that's after that. That's when he says his line about.
- 41:01Skylar: How did you get down here so quickly?
- 41:03Skylar: Except this time, it's a little bit more angry because you actually hit
- 41:06him. So
- 41:08fantastic. Well done. you are now standing there
- 41:11with your. Your echo version of yourself short distance
- 41:14away, both glaring. I don't know if he's noticed your
- 41:17original self, but he sees your echo, and he's very confused, for
- 41:20sure. So, Dave, it is now your turn.
- 41:23Dave: Soki, maybe hear'a Keido
- 41:26walking down the stairs next to him.
- 41:28Cameron: Here's the yelps of the guards.
- 41:31Dave: O. I're going back down again.
- 41:33Cameron: Okay. What?
- 41:35Dave: so gingerly walks down the first few steps and
- 41:37then gets into, the light.
- 41:40Skylar: Yes.
- 41:41Dave: Like, ah, that's better. And sees the
- 41:43scene before him. O. That guard's not looking
- 41:46too good.
- 41:47Skylar: He is not looking good. Neither is the other one. But, yeah, they're
- 41:50both just laying there.
- 41:51Dave: And he's gonna try the hand attack
- 41:54again.
- 41:54Skylar: Okay. All right, all right.
- 41:56Dave: Third time's the ch.
- 41:58Skylar: You see, the puppet is kind of huddled in
- 42:01one spot with a big old slash that kind of cuts through
- 42:04its clothing right across its chest. And he's glaring
- 42:07at what looks like your friend
- 42:09Keto on the ground already
- 42:149. That is not gonna hit. Once again, you.
- 42:17You throw this hand towards him. he seems to be a little
- 42:20bit more on edge at the moment, having seen one of you
- 42:22get past his shadow, his magical darkness
- 42:25once again. And he's ready, seize your hand and once. Once
- 42:28again pulls on his string to, pull him
- 42:31out of the way of this attack.
- 42:33Cameron: Guys, I think he's immune to tickles.
- 42:37Dave: Just let us touch him.
- 42:42Skylar: We jump over to Jackson.
- 42:44Cameron: Des is in darkness. Des does not like
- 42:47the darkness.
- 42:48Skylar: Hello, darkness. Des doesn't like.
- 42:51Cameron: I am one scaffolding.
- 42:53Skylar: Yes.
- 42:54Cameron: So just to make it easier'just like.
- 42:57Skylar: The stairway or whatever.
- 42:58Cameron: Yeah, I'll just walk down the steps until I'm, like, peeking
- 43:01through the darkness.
- 43:02Skylar: Yep.
- 43:03Cameron: and then I'm gonna shoot my bow at him.
- 43:05Skylar: All right, Sounds good.
- 43:07Cameron: I'm just. Good. I'm just gonna shoot him.
- 43:10I'm gonna miss. A7 is not gonna hit
- 43:13him.
- 43:14Skylar: Your arrow comes flying down. It just hits the wall kind of
- 43:17nearby him. He, Kind of just like
- 43:20tilts ever so slightly. He doesn't pull out of the way like he has with the other
- 43:23attacks this, time. He just kind of
- 43:25sidesteps it, basically, as the arrow hits the wall next to
- 43:28him.
- 43:28Cameron: That's all I can do that I can think of. Did you guys
- 43:31know that if you could see where the point of
- 43:34darkness was cast at and you were to put a
- 43:36bowl or a helmet or something over the point
- 43:39of darkness, it negates the darkness spell?
- 43:42Skylar: That's what I was basically trying to said that
- 43:45toi. Yeah. I'm sorry. Oay.
- 43:48Cu. Yeah. Basically, it works like a candle or like
- 43:51a parrot, for those of you that would know which. Macky
- 43:54knowse. And that's. Yeah. Macky
- 43:57Jackson.
- 43:57Cameron: Ah, knows. Does. Does not.
- 43:59Skylar: That's fair. Yepah. whatever the case, we jump over to
- 44:02Cameron.
- 44:02Cameron: Is there a center to this room?
- 44:04Skylar: Yeah, that's kind of. So basically, theway there,
- 44:07the stairway kind of goes up to ``
- 44:10ye. The center is kind of like a pillar that kind of just
- 44:13goes straight up to the top. The.
- 44:16Cameron: The staircases in the center.
- 44:18Skylar: The staircase goes around the center. The center itself is
- 44:20like a, big pillar that goes all the way up that kind of
- 44:23like, holds everything. It's sort of like the main standing
- 44:26structure and then the staircase and the scaffolding go around it
- 44:29to allow somebody to get to the top.
- 44:31Cameron: Oh, fun. Okay. Roke's
- 44:33just gonna clamber down the metal.
- 44:36Skylar: Okay.
- 44:36Cameron: And then once he gets about to where he can
- 44:39see, he's going. Can you see if once he
- 44:42clambers down?
- 44:43Skylar: Yeah. I mean, once you get to about, like, 15ft down, you can start to
- 44:46see below the darkness. Cool.
- 44:48Cameron: he's just gonna be like, all right. And he puts his
- 44:51fingers together. Like, he's, like,
- 44:54trying to, like, he wiggles his fingers and, like,
- 44:56electricity starts forming between them.
- 44:59Fatty Lumpkins: Yeah.
- 44:59Cameron: He goes, all right, time to take this up a
- 45:02step. Distance tickles. And he
- 45:05gonna shoot his hand at the target.
- 45:08Skylar: Like, look at these. Point a finger, point a gun, and.
- 45:10Cameron: Like, pull the trigger with his thumb. And he's
- 45:13gonna shoot a w ball at.
- 45:14Skylar: Oh, ball
- 45:1726. Heck yeah. That's gonna hit
- 45:21o. It crackles with, like, a
- 45:24green lightning as it flies towards.
- 45:26Cameron: I'mnna use the ability to fear the small, which is for goblins.
- 45:29I just add my level to damage.
- 45:32Skylar: Oh, okay.
- 45:32Cameron: So I do seven damage.
- 45:34Skylar: Seven damage. Awesome. your bolt
- 45:37flies towards him. He's just kind of side.
- 45:39Cameron: It is lightning damage.
- 45:40Skylar: It is lightning damage. That's right. So, it's. He sort of
- 45:43sidesteps that arrow that came flying at him. But what he
- 45:46doesn't realize is that you're basic because, you know, with D and
- 45:49D combat, it's all happening within the same six seconds or
- 45:52whatever the case. So as that arrow just misses him,
- 45:55he turns, but. But it's already too late as your. Which bolt comes
- 45:58flying down, slams into it, knocks him into the
- 46:00wall, dealing that seven damage. Does which bolt do
- 46:03anything else?
- 46:04Cameron: Well, it links to him.
- 46:05Skylar: Oh.
- 46:06Cameron: So it stays linked to him as long as I
- 46:09don't cast another action.
- 46:10Skylar: Okay.
- 46:11Cameron: And, I can always see him. A total
- 46:14cover from me.
- 46:15Skylar: Okay, so does it work like fairy fire where you said you
- 46:17can always see him?
- 46:18Cameron: No, no, no, no.
- 46:19Skylar: It.
- 46:21Cameron: It goes away if he ever has full cover
- 46:23from me.
- 46:24Skylar: Oh, okay.
- 46:25Cameron: So it's like a link, but if I can't see him. because he
- 46:28has full cover. But
- 46:30basically, I imagine after he connects.
- 46:32Fatty Lumpkins: With the finger gun. Yes.
- 46:34Cameron: And it's got the link and there's like, electrical link between
- 46:37him. He's now wiggling his fingers and going tickle,
- 46:40tickle, tickle.
- 46:41Skylar: And you see these sort of like. Yeah. These lines of
- 46:44green electricity that kind of wiggle with your fingers as well
- 46:46that all kind of like shoot and sort of attach
- 46:49themselves to this character. we
- 46:52jump back over to Quinn
- 46:56Feather McGren.
- 46:56Cameron: How far of a drop is it from the scaffolding?
- 46:58Skylar: It's about 15ft.
- 47:00Cameron: It probably hurt me, wouldn't it?
- 47:01Skylar: Probably.
- 47:03Cameron: All right, so can I just go run over to find some
- 47:05steps? Yeah, all right's do that.
- 47:07Skylar: I mean, I think you already were when you caught yourself. You pulled yourself up
- 47:10on.
- 47:11Cameron: I just follow him and run it down.
- 47:14Skylar: Okay.
- 47:14Cameron: Can I do Thunderwve again?
- 47:16Skylar: U. Is that once. U. no, you. As long as you got the speill slots for it.
- 47:19Yeah, yeah.
- 47:20Cameron: I'su Thunder Wave.
- 47:21Skylar: Okay. And he.
- 47:22Cameron: You're just kind of making it sae.
- 47:23Skylar: Yep. Which dexterity. Right.
- 47:26Constitutionitution. Say
- 47:28he only gets an
- 47:3112. He's not. All right, give
- 47:34me a rundown what's going down.
- 47:36Cameron: Then do Thunder wave. And it's 2D8
- 47:39thunder damage. And he's gonna be pushed
- 47:41away another 10ft.
- 47:43Skylar: Okay. there's a wall right behind him. Like he's against the wall, so he
- 47:46doesn't really get pushed away. But I'll say that he gets knocked prone.
- 47:48Cameron: 65 and 11 damage.
- 47:51Skylar: 11 damage. Nice. Algh. So
- 47:54you slam into him shooting this wave
- 47:57of force. In his direction, which slams him up against the
- 48:00wall and just kind of like, it's like multiple waves
- 48:03reng. So you had two D8. So it's just two waves.
- 48:06The first one slamming against the wall, the second one slamming into him while
- 48:09he's against the wall. And you can just see cracks
- 48:12starting to form in the, wood that makes up
- 48:15his body. As he falls to the ground after that
- 48:18second wave, and has to kind of like slowly
- 48:21pick himself up. He uses the majority of his movement to
- 48:23do so. And then he disappears.
- 48:27And you guys don't see him. the darkness is still above you
- 48:30at the moment. Does not move in any direction. But
- 48:33the figure seems to have disappeared from sight.
- 48:36And we jump back over to Fatty.
- 48:38Dave: Where are the children?
- 48:40Skylar: they're just kind of. The ones that you cut down are just
- 48:43laying wherever you set them. M and then the rest of them are just kind of hanging there.
- 48:46Fatty Lumpkins: FY's just kind of
- 48:49looking around. Dumboundunded again.
- 48:53Does he?
- 48:54Cameron: Classic fat no.
- 48:55Fatty Lumpkins: Notice any thing?
- 48:57Skylar: Rol? A perception check.
- 48:59Fatty Lumpkins: 14.
- 48:59Skylar: 14. you can hear
- 49:02sounds coming from above you. So can hear
- 49:05like the slight sound of sort of like,
- 49:08cloth moving through the air. Just kind of.
- 49:12It's very faint, but you can just barely make it out.
- 49:15Fatty Lumpkins: He's going to take a moment to ponder his surroundings
- 49:18and then kind of annoyingly look back
- 49:21up the stairs and start climbing up the stairs.
- 49:24Skylar: All right. Sounds good. You m. Make your way up
- 49:27the stairs. you pop out above the darkness and you can see him.
- 49:30But he is a good probably, let's say probably
- 49:3260ft in the air at this point. He is near the top
- 49:35of the clock tower. And you can
- 49:38actually see, there's like a little trap dor that once you
- 49:41get to the top of the scaffolding, you can pop yourself over
- 49:44through the trapd dor. There's like a whole room up there where the
- 49:47main controls for the clock tower are and the clock its.
- 49:50and you can see him starting to climb inside.
- 49:53Fatty Lumpkins: Okay. And just with the
- 49:55last brief glimpse of him entering the
- 49:58trapdoor, he tries to take a pop
- 50:01shot with his bow.
- 50:02Skylar: Absolutely.
- 50:04Fatty Lumpkins: I'll be, 22.
- 50:06Skylar: 22. It's not an at 20, right? No. Okay. Yeah.
- 50:09That's absolutely gonna hit. He's got one
- 50:11foot that's still hanging out. You can see that shoe,
- 50:14that same shoe that made that foot footprint that you guys were
- 50:17following earlier that just kind of sporadically popped up.
- 50:20Fatty Lumpkins: And that does 10 damage.
- 50:21Skylar: 10 damage. You fire this
- 50:24Arrow slams into his
- 50:27ankle. It severs or kind of cracks
- 50:30the wood, causing the foot, his left foot to just
- 50:33completely fall off. and into it just
- 50:36goes. It drops straight down. It flies right past
- 50:38you into the darkness below you. And then you can.
- 50:41From, from above, you can hear as it kind of
- 50:44hits the ground and rolls a little bit. you hear a
- 50:47loud screech
- 50:50as, the figure above you seems to be quite
- 50:53angry as he enters into the trap
- 50:56door. As, like, the severed ankle
- 50:58slides, into the trap door and it
- 51:01closes behind.
- 51:04Fatty Lumpkins: And, the one clarifying thing is, well, this is
- 51:06happy. He's kind of dismissed his oh, yeah
- 51:09echo.
- 51:10Skylar: So sure.
- 51:10Fatty Lumpkins: The echo is no longer okay. Creep the people
- 51:13out down below.
- 51:14Skylar: Okay, well, probably it might creep him out a little
- 51:17bit because the rest of you guys are looking at Fatty, and then all of a sudden, he
- 51:20just dissipates like, endgame.
- 51:24whatever the case, Dave, you're up.
- 51:25Dave: No, he got Fatty.
- 51:29Cameron: Very nice.
- 51:30Cameron: He might have put on a few counts.
- 51:34Dave: Keino. Curse your
- 51:37vile magic, you sideshow
- 51:39freak.
- 51:42Anybody see where that guy win?
- 51:48Fatty Lumpkins: Can I hear any of this and say he.
- 51:49Skylar: Oh, you absolutely hear. Here. He's up here.
- 51:53Goodness.
- 51:55Dave: Getting my steps in today.
- 51:57Skylar: When mo lear tele. Yeah. When
- 52:00did Keito learn to teleport?
- 52:02Fatty Lumpkins: He's calling to us from the dead.
- 52:05Skylar: He said he went into the dark.
- 52:07Dave: carefully. He could be using Keto's voice as a
- 52:09trap.
- 52:10Skylar: That's Spook. He's using his body as a trap.
- 52:16Dave: So the darkness is, like, halfway up the stairs
- 52:18still.
- 52:19Skylar: Yeah. So it's about 15ft above you, monkey.
- 52:21Dave: Just, he runs up the stairs.
- 52:23Skylar: Yeah. All right. So you, as you. As you make
- 52:26yourself, pop out, you're just your head pretty much from the
- 52:29darkness. You can see
- 52:31Keto's head as well, also popped out from the
- 52:34darkness. It's just as head. It's.
- 52:39It's almost right next to you, actually, because you guys are both climbing
- 52:41the same set of stairway, so your two heads are just
- 52:44looking at each other.
- 52:46Dave: Oh, there you are.
- 52:47Fatty Lumpkins: As he sees Keto, Ketonn do typical lizard
- 52:50things. Lick his eyeball.
- 52:53Skylar: The usual lizard thing. Awesome. jumping over
- 52:56to Jackson.
- 52:57Cameron: I guess I will also climb the stairs.
- 53:00Skylar: All right. Sounds good. There's three heads now poking up
- 53:03aove the darkness, looking somewhat comical.
- 53:06Cameron: Do I see him up there, or is he still
- 53:09gone?
- 53:09Skylar: Since he's gone? Ah, yeah. He went through the.
- 53:11Cameron: Yeah.
- 53:11Skylar: Ah, yeah.
- 53:13Cameron: Why did you say he's up here?
- 53:14Fatty Lumpkins: You can communicate their door Closed behind them.
- 53:17Cameron: Oh, so that. Okay, I'm gonna keep
- 53:20climbing. All right, we're gonna keep going up the steps.
- 53:23Skylar: We'we'll come back to that next go around because that
- 53:26would been about 30ft to get up past the darkness.
- 53:29Cameron: So Cameron, I was
- 53:31right at the halfway point.
- 53:33Skylar: Right.
- 53:34Cameron: So I just go up.
- 53:35Skylar: Okay, so yeah, you go up a little bit further than everybody
- 53:38else. yeah. So you're probably
- 53:41maybe like 10 there s feet.
- 53:42Cameron: Fe I hear him say there's a door.
- 53:44Skylar: Yeah. Trap. Trapd Dor. Yep.
- 53:46Cameron: Oh, can I get to it?
- 53:49Skylar: You're close. Not quite on this turn, but you're.
- 53:51Cameron: Close if I use a bonus action to caash.
- 53:53Skylar: Oh, sure. Okay. Yeah, fair enough. Yeah, you get to
- 53:56it.
- 53:57Cameron: Yeah, I do that. I dash and I run up to the trap door and I
- 54:00swing it open and peek my head up.
- 54:02Skylar: All right. As you peek, up, you see this small little room lit by
- 54:05a single candle. And you can see sort of
- 54:08the figure, of this puppet with his colorful clothes on
- 54:11his got this little stocking cap on, you know,
- 54:13and he's hunched over one of those wrapped up bodies
- 54:16of one of the kids. And you can see him holding his hands over it as
- 54:19a green misty seemingly come
- 54:22out of this child. And he says you can hear him.
- 54:25Skylar: Whispering, must feast on the
- 54:28souls. I must grow my power
- 54:31back. They try to keep
- 54:34me here. I must return to
- 54:36my full power.
- 54:38Cameron: Can I get overone no more?
- 54:40Skylar: You spent so much of your action already, I
- 54:43gave you a little extra with that bonus action.
- 54:46Cameron: Action.
- 54:47Skylar: Yes. I suppose I can't get that. As a
- 54:49rogue you would have your action.
- 54:53Cameron: Excellent. does he know I'm here?
- 54:56Skylar: No, he doesn't.
- 54:57Cameron: Oh, excellent. I'm going to
- 55:00rise up into the room and go, hey,
- 55:03you can't get away from me. I'm
- 55:05just you.
- 55:07Skylar: As you say this, his head just without, you know, the rest of his
- 55:09body moving, his head just circles all the way back around like,
- 55:12like an owl. And he looks at you and goes.
- 55:18Cameron: And then Roke just flashes his hand on we
- 55:20like Naruto hand and then
- 55:25and does the finger gunning and shoots him with another
- 55:28lightning bolt. Okay, that misses.
- 55:32Skylar: How bad was it though? Oh, but it wasn't an
- 55:35that one. I mean there's a kid in there.
- 55:38So we've had kids as
- 55:41collateral damage so far. So it's not fairar if I stop
- 55:44now.
- 55:45Cameron: Collateral damageving.
- 55:49Cameron: So he does this weird hand thing and he fires the
- 55:52thing and he pulls the thumb again to fire the lightning bolt like
- 55:55he did before. But unlike last time, it just goes.
- 56:00Skylar: It just powers down and it just.
- 56:02Cameron: Stands there goes o He starts pulling his
- 56:05collar and go oh. He says
- 56:08a little I messed up.
- 56:12Skylar: It looks like someone's run out of juice.
- 56:15Skylar: And then the rest of his body like sort of turns
- 56:17itself around to match his head
- 56:20as it faces you. we jump over to
- 56:23feather mcgregor.
- 56:24Cameron: I so I hear all the quot I'mnn go the steps too.
- 56:27Skylar: Hey guys, what's going on? You pop your head up and you can see that
- 56:30the hatch is now open thanks to so that's like one move,
- 56:33right? That's your movement.
- 56:35Cameron: Yeah, I can't really do much else.
- 56:37Skylar: I mean unless you got a spell or
- 56:39summit you want to throw a rock in. I mean.
- 56:43Cameron: Yeah, they throw a rock of the.
- 56:44Skylar: Trap or you'll hit me. That's true.
- 56:47Raku, the mysterious puppet
- 56:50creature. He is facing you now.
- 56:53He lunges towards you with his hand
- 56:56outstretched. Does a
- 56:59added 20 hit I'm gonna assume. Yes.
- 57:02Dave: Yeah.
- 57:03Skylar: 1012. 12
- 57:05damage. Yeah.
- 57:06Cameron: One conscience.
- 57:08Skylar: All right, so you're standing there in
- 57:11the trap doorway. He rushes forward,
- 57:13he slams into you, sort of like an open
- 57:16palm strike hitting you straight in the face. And you
- 57:19fall backwards. And as you do, he throws his
- 57:22strings forward and slams the door shut behind
- 57:25you.
- 57:26Cameron: Oh, dear O dear, he says.
- 57:27Skylar: Time for some privacy.
- 57:29Cameron: Oh, I don't like that.
- 57:31Skylar: That sound really weird. Really weird.
- 57:33Cameron: Still f summach kid.
- 57:39Skylar: You fall backwards
- 57:42and you begin to fall freely from.
- 57:45Cameron: Oh, I fell to the trapd door.
- 57:46Skylar: Yeah.
- 57:47Cameron: Oh, I thought he was keeping me up there.
- 57:53Skylar: and you, you start to free fall. You kind
- 57:55of fall backwards off and slide off of
- 57:58the platform and start to free fall down.
- 58:02We jump to Fatty fyo.
- 58:04Fatty Lumpkins: He'a limp goblin.
- 58:07Skylar: You see him suddenly get slammed by something and he kind of
- 58:09just falls out, slides off of the platform and
- 58:12start falling towards a spirral set of.
- 58:14Fatty Lumpkins: Stairs leaning up to this or how do he. Yes.
- 58:16Skylar: Okay. Yeah.
- 58:16Fatty Lumpkins: So he's'm falling down kind of rolling down the stairs.
- 58:19Skylar: No, no, no, he's falling like off the side of where the
- 58:22stairs exist. He's free falling.
- 58:24Fatty Lumpkins: Okay.
- 58:24Cameron: He don't realize. Oh wait, that's just the dwarf and
- 58:27just keeps going.
- 58:31Skylar: I didn't like him before.
- 58:34Fatty Lumpkins: So how far away is he? how much?
- 58:36Skylar: I mean he's falling towards you. So he's basically gonna fall right past
- 58:39you. It if you know, you wait.
- 58:41Fatty Lumpkins: So I will try
- 58:44reach my arm out and then att to
- 58:47catch him.
- 58:48Skylar: Okay, do me. Do. Ah. A strength saving throw.
- 58:51Fatty Lumpkins: Okay, 21.
- 58:53Skylar: 21. You reach out and
- 58:56grab onto your friend just as he's falling past you. He's not
- 58:58incredibly heavy. He'a. He's a child size. He was able to
- 59:01pass for silly frilly Willy, and so he
- 59:04doesn't weigh that much to a strong coboalt fighter like
- 59:07yourself. And so you catch him with one hand, pulling him onto
- 59:10the platform. He's still unconscious, but at least he's not falling to
- 59:13his death. Awesome. So you've got your friend there, Set him on the
- 59:16platform. What do you do next?
- 59:18Fatty Lumpkins: I think I'll just kind of tend to him and
- 59:20say fizzle fingers. Roric, are
- 59:23you okay?
- 59:24Skylar: Do, me a medicine check.
- 59:29Fatty Lumpkins: Oh, suddenly I am a
- 59:32near doctor.
- 59:33Skylar: Hey.
- 59:34Fatty Lumpkins: 2020.
- 59:35Skylar: All right, sounds good. You are now,
- 59:38Roick, you are now awake. You have, one health problem.
- 59:41Cameron: Oh, wow, look at that.
- 59:42Skylar: Jumping over to Dave. What is Machki
- 59:45up to?
- 59:46Dave: So Ro fell from the sk. The ceiling?
- 59:49Skylar: Yeah, yeah, he did. But thankfully, your friend,
- 59:51Kito caught him and slapped him across the face. And
- 59:54he woke up.
- 59:55Dave: No time to be sleeping, Roick.
- 59:58Get back to the fight. And then I run up
- 1:00:01and climb up through the trap door.
- 1:00:03Skylar: All right. You peek through the trapdoor, and you see the same thing
- 1:00:06that Roric had seen when he peeked through
- 1:00:09the. This evil puppet is. Is hunched over this
- 1:00:12child, sucking the life force right out of him.
- 1:00:14Dave: Hey, chill out,
- 1:00:16weirdo. And I try to cast
- 1:00:20ch touch again.
- 1:00:22Skylar: All right.
- 1:00:25Dave: One day 15.
- 1:00:28Skylar: That's exactly what you needed to get.
- 1:00:30You finally did it.
- 1:00:32Dave: Maki says, ah, got you now.
- 1:00:34Skylar: The hand it grabs around the back of his
- 1:00:37neck.
- 1:00:42What's the damage?
- 1:00:45Cameron: I didn't think I'd get this one. I didn't think
- 1:00:47I.1.1.
- 1:00:53But he's a little cold.
- 1:00:55Dave: It does prevent him from
- 1:00:58regaining hit points.
- 1:01:00Skylar: Hey, there you go. As your. As your
- 1:01:03creepy bone hand grabs around the back of
- 1:01:05this puppet's neck once again, he twists his
- 1:01:08head to look.
- 1:01:09Skylar: At you, and he says, what you don't
- 1:01:11realize is that I'm into this sort of thing.
- 1:01:14Cameron: I thought you were into kids. I'm so lost.
- 1:01:18Skylar: And it is your turn, Jackson.
- 1:01:21Cameron: Yeah, I'll go in that trap, Dor.
- 1:01:23Skylar: All right, so you make your way up. You. You kind of. It's not a
- 1:01:26very big trap, Dor. So you kind of, like, peek up. You're like,
- 1:01:29what's going on? And it's getting a little bit crowded
- 1:01:32in this trapoor. But thankfully, the puppet seems to be being
- 1:01:35held back by a spectral skeleton
- 1:01:38hand.
- 1:01:39Cameron: Okay, I'm gonna jiggle myself up
- 1:01:42into the.
- 1:01:42Skylar: Oh, you climb into the room. O into the room.
- 1:01:45Cameron: That way I'm not gonna hit a Roarg situation.
- 1:01:47Skylar: You guys are all pretty small, so.
- 1:01:49Cameron: I think y work.
- 1:01:51Skylar: Yeah, that work.
- 1:01:52Cameron: Ah, I have this great X of the Minotaur, and
- 1:01:55it's got a power word to, like, extend
- 1:01:58it, right?
- 1:01:59Skylar: Yep.
- 1:01:59Cameron: I never heard the power word, so that's
- 1:02:02useless to me. Hilarious that I have this
- 1:02:05power word grade X that I cannot use the power for,
- 1:02:08but I will use it to cut at the
- 1:02:11the big guy.
- 1:02:12Skylar: I could. Do they not tell you what it was?
- 1:02:14Cameron: They would have told you.
- 1:02:16Cameron: You told me.
- 1:02:17Skylar: oh, okay. But nobody told.
- 1:02:19Yeah. What? I Skyller told you.
- 1:02:22Cameron: You Skylar told me.
- 1:02:24Skylar: Okay.
- 1:02:24Cameron: Nobody told Des.
- 1:02:26Skylar: Nobody told.
- 1:02:30Cameron: Specialicky.
- 1:02:34He.
- 1:02:36Skylar: Yeah, I think he did.
- 1:02:38Cameron: Would be the guy giving.
- 1:02:39Skylar: She would know. I'm pretty sure he. Yeah. And, that
- 1:02:42word was Megaar.
- 1:02:44Cameron: Yes, that's right. I have that written down.
- 1:02:46Skylar: yes. Oh, is it just like you were like. But why did I write.
- 1:02:49Cameron: Yeah, I was like. I don't remember anybody, like,
- 1:02:52explicitly saying as.
- 1:02:53Skylar: I think there was a little bit of a convoluted whatnot when
- 1:02:56we. When you first got it. It just kind of threw things off. But yeah,
- 1:02:59I think youkay.
- 1:03:00Cameron: So I'm gonna throw it.
- 1:03:02Skylar: Okay.
- 1:03:02Cameron: And, yell in the announcer's voice.
- 1:03:05Me guitar muroc ext ###s
- 1:03:08yes. We'll go at him.
- 1:03:10Skylar: Okay, go. all throwing weapons
- 1:03:12today. Yeah.
- 1:03:15Cameron: Un.
- 1:03:15Cameron: You count an arrow as a weapon? That was Throw
- 1:03:18that. Listen, I've got one, two, three
- 1:03:21weapons.
- 1:03:21Cameron: That do not have.
- 1:03:22Cameron: I've got five melee weapons on.
- 1:03:24On my body. So I've got five ranged weapons.
- 1:03:27Skylar: Right.
- 1:03:28Cameron: Kind of heavy.
- 1:03:29Skylar: Yeah.
- 1:03:29Cameron: Probably not. So nine. Probably not gonna happen.
- 1:03:32Skylar: Yeah, no, that's gon miss. So this giant GR
- 1:03:35flying in and slams and beds itself in the
- 1:03:38wall next to the skeleton, hitting nothing. And now you've got
- 1:03:41this giant protruding handle that's all
- 1:03:44like, freaking five extra feet
- 1:03:47long in this room. Just kind of
- 1:03:50like filling it even more. we jump over to,
- 1:03:53Cameron, who has been awoken by his
- 1:03:55ally, Keto.
- 1:03:57Cameron: Roick sits there.
- 1:04:00He looks up at Keto and he's got. His eyes are
- 1:04:03wide open.
- 1:04:04Skylar: Yes.
- 1:04:05Cameron: And he just starts
- 1:04:08hyperventilating.
- 1:04:09Skylar: Oh, okay. Roll for
- 1:04:11hyperventilate.
- 1:04:14Cameron: An 11.
- 1:04:15Skylar: Oh, okay. Yeah.
- 1:04:15Cameron: Pass out again.
- 1:04:16Skylar: A reasonable job, but not enough to Cause any sort
- 1:04:19of actual harm to yourself.
- 1:04:21Cameron: So I'm on the stairs, right?
- 1:04:22Skylar: Yes.
- 1:04:23Cameron: So he starts hyperventilate and like starts
- 1:04:26grabs his bow and he starts just aiming it
- 1:04:29at the, the trap door opening.
- 1:04:30Skylar: Okay.
- 1:04:31Cameron: But he is, his arms are. His hands
- 1:04:34are very shaky as he's trying to aim this bow at
- 1:04:37the door.
- 1:04:38Skylar: Okay.
- 1:04:38Cameron: That's what he's doing.
- 1:04:39Skylar: Okay. Sounds good.
- 1:04:40Dave: At the moment.
- 1:04:41Cameron: Contains the rumps
- 1:04:43youct to
- 1:04:46explain what's going on. Roick has
- 1:04:49never unconscious before in a combat.
- 1:04:51Skylar: Okay.
- 1:04:52Cameron: So he's actually has no idea what this feeling is of
- 1:04:55being bested.
- 1:04:56Skylar: Right.
- 1:04:57Cameron: So now he's actually terrified for the first time that he
- 1:05:00could die.
- 1:05:00Skylar: Wow. We'll see how that manifests going forward.
- 1:05:03It's a new realization of your mortality.
- 1:05:05Dave: Little goblin bodies.
- 1:05:08Cameron: Same as his rough and tough barbarian body.
- 1:05:11Skylar: That's right.
- 1:05:11Cameron: That auto healed itself.
- 1:05:13Skylar: Every turn you have a bonus stuff going
- 1:05:15on. Quint jumping back over to you. All right.
- 1:05:18Cameron: Yes. So I'm gonna head back up, you know, climb up there
- 1:05:21myself.
- 1:05:21Skylar: Yep, yep.
- 1:05:22Cameron: And do I have any move I can do?
- 1:05:24Skylar: Yeah, you. You poke your head out. You're kind of
- 1:05:27like butt to crot with. I've used
- 1:05:30machi.
- 1:05:30Cameron: Right, yeah, sure.
- 1:05:32Skylar: Inside the trapoor. Yeah.
- 1:05:34Cameron: I've used under wa twice and Magic.
- 1:05:36Skylar: Missile once and I'Spider
- 1:05:39climb as well.
- 1:05:39Cameron: Yeah, that sounds different.
- 1:05:41Skylar: Oh, that's a different spell slot. Okay.
- 1:05:42Cameron: Yeah, so I got one more left.
- 1:05:44Skylar: You got one last spell.
- 1:05:45Cameron: I'm gonna do magic missile. All three towards him.
- 1:05:47Skylar: okay, sounds good. Roll me three d fours.
- 1:05:51Cameron: Two. Three.
- 1:05:55Fatty Lumpkins: Two.
- 1:05:56Skylar: A two. A three. Okay, so six total. All
- 1:05:59right. You peek up. He seems a little bit surprised to
- 1:06:02see another person poking through this opening. And
- 1:06:05you just immediately point, point towards him and three
- 1:06:08bolts of energy come flying out of your fingers
- 1:06:11and slam into him.
- 1:06:14Skylar: You were damn me back to
- 1:06:16hell.
- 1:06:17Cameron: Yes.
- 1:06:18Cameron: See, I knew you were't Big Griddle.
- 1:06:21Skylar: Fine.
- 1:06:21Skylar: I'm not McGriddle.
- 1:06:23Skylar: I am the demon Raku. And I
- 1:06:26will be set free in
- 1:06:29this realm.
- 1:06:30Skylar: I prefer you weren't.
- 1:06:33my bad.
- 1:06:34Cameron: All right, see ya.
- 1:06:34Cameron: I'll go.
- 1:06:36Skylar: He, jumps forward. I'm gonna say that you were probably in
- 1:06:39front of Mafi. So he aims for you. That's
- 1:06:42definitelynna hit with his punch. And
- 1:06:44that is a eight damage. And as he
- 1:06:47slams into with his fist, he leaps backwards
- 1:06:50and disappears. Once
- 1:06:53again.
- 1:06:54Cameron: We got a seven hour episode for you today,
- 1:06:56folks.
- 1:06:58Skylar: We jump over to Fatty Lumpkins. Your,
- 1:07:01friend is.
- 1:07:02Cameron: I'm crouched, like crouched against There's a wall that
- 1:07:05the staircase, right?
- 1:07:06Skylar: Yeah.
- 1:07:06Cameron: So he's, like, on the stairs, crouched.
- 1:07:09Skylar: Leaning against the wall. He's shakily holding
- 1:07:12his bow out and hyperventting.
- 1:07:14Cameron: Yeah.
- 1:07:14Skylar: Hyperventil very much here. Yes.
- 1:07:17Fatty Lumpkins: He doesn't see any puppets manifest
- 1:07:20in this area.
- 1:07:21Skylar: No.
- 1:07:21Fatty Lumpkins: All he's guys is a coward. The goblin.
- 1:07:24Oh, I hate when it comes to my turn
- 1:07:27just after the guy teleported because I got
- 1:07:30nowhere to go.
- 1:07:32Cameron: does he not teleport down?
- 1:07:34Skylar: Doesn't seem like it.
- 1:07:35Dave: As far as you know, he's in that room.
- 1:07:38Fatty Lumpkins: Yeah. So I guess I'll continue my way up
- 1:07:41to the trapoor.
- 1:07:42Skylar: All right. you find yourself blocked because there are two figures
- 1:07:45currently standing inside the trapdoor seats.
- 1:07:48Skylar: T.
- 1:07:51Skylar: Who'S in these two?
- 1:07:52Cameron: Those two.
- 1:07:53Skylar: I was like, hey, you start
- 1:07:56tickling.
- 1:07:59Dave: Can't climb here.
- 1:08:02Fatty Lumpkins: so, yeah, he seems to have found his path blocked.
- 1:08:05Skylar: And, I mean, you could just
- 1:08:08lift one of them in. You sure have
- 1:08:12do grab and kind of just push the rest of the way into this
- 1:08:15room'nna the poo through this.
- 1:08:17Fatty Lumpkins: Take a from his ball
- 1:08:20crossbow would just poke at it like a chimney
- 1:08:23sweep.
- 1:08:25Skylar: Either one in particular.
- 1:08:27Fatty Lumpkins: The bigger bottom between min
- 1:08:30or I guess in this
- 1:08:32case, whoever has the, more brilliant plumage.
- 1:08:35Skylar: I would say that you. Yeah, you push little sauce
- 1:08:38up into the room so that you can then peek your head
- 1:08:41inside. Do see,
- 1:08:44you see, Des is standing on the. On the
- 1:08:47actual floor of this. This
- 1:08:49room. you see the child that's kind of wrapped up
- 1:08:52in the strings over off to the side with a candle nearby
- 1:08:55that's lit. You can see all the controls and such for
- 1:08:58the clock as well as you can kind of see, like, the light coming
- 1:09:01in through where the clock face
- 1:09:03is on the outside of the building. Obviously, you just push
- 1:09:06Feather McGregor into the room. So he's standing kind of more
- 1:09:09sitting there, like, surprised that someone just
- 1:09:12poked him up the butt and into the room. Yeah.
- 1:09:15Dave: What happened to my skeletal hand, that
- 1:09:17was clinging to him.
- 1:09:19Skylar: And it holds on to him, right?
- 1:09:20Dave: Yes.
- 1:09:20Skylar: It's actually still visible. And it's just floating there
- 1:09:24in the room in. In a spot. And you can
- 1:09:26actually see it moving. Hand floating.
- 1:09:29Wait a minute.
- 1:09:32Fatty Lumpkins: So'm glad you made.
- 1:09:33Skylar: I forgot about that. But, hey, this is what he did.
- 1:09:36Fatty Lumpkins: So he. Is he, like, stuck in this trapd
- 1:09:39dor is he expended you.
- 1:09:41Skylar: You can. I'd say you can climb through so I can make it through the
- 1:09:44trip y very crowded. You awkwardly, like,
- 1:09:46push up. maki's face and, like,
- 1:09:49climb, like, on his beak. Using his beak is like a way to
- 1:09:52get in.
- 1:09:53Fatty Lumpkins: And Kido again focuses on the area
- 1:09:56right by the floating hand. And
- 1:09:59again, almost like a mirage,
- 1:10:02an image of himself manifests.
- 1:10:05Cameron: O.
- 1:10:06Fatty Lumpkins: And he will slash at the
- 1:10:08air underneath the hand.
- 1:10:10Skylar: Yeah, I'd say with the hand, you don't take disadvantage because
- 1:10:13it's kind of signaling something.
- 1:10:14Fatty Lumpkins: Ye 23.
- 1:10:16Skylar: Holy cow. Yeah, that hits. You
- 1:10:19slice through, and sure enough, as you slash at this,
- 1:10:22this just air, you cut something,
- 1:10:25and it does 13 thenage.
- 1:10:28As you slice through, the camouflage dissipates.
- 1:10:31And you can see the figure
- 1:10:34of this puppet just, you slash, basically,
- 1:10:37his legs. He falls to his knees, and he's just knelt
- 1:10:39there, below your blade, essentially. And he
- 1:10:42just looks at you and.
- 1:10:43Skylar: He goes, please, please,
- 1:10:46I just want to be here
- 1:10:49in. I don't want to be back in
- 1:10:52hell.
- 1:10:54Fatty Lumpkins: Seeing this success of his
- 1:10:56echo, he is going to unleash the
- 1:10:59incarceration. Whenever you take it the attack
- 1:11:02action, the echo makes an additional attack.
- 1:11:04Skylar: Oh, okay.
- 1:11:05Fatty Lumpkins: So the first attack came from you,
- 1:11:08myself and I. And the second attack will come from.
- 1:11:11Skylar: Your echo, my, yourself and
- 1:11:14he and ``self, in Hitip. Yes, There we go. I
- 1:11:17like it.
- 1:11:18Fatty Lumpkins: All right, so that will be
- 1:11:20a 21.
- 1:11:21Skylar: 21. That's stillo.
- 1:11:25Fatty Lumpkins: And that will do 13 damage.
- 1:11:27Skylar: All right, so you slash. The
- 1:11:29camouflage of the invisibility dissipates. It falls
- 1:11:32there in front of you, pleads for its life, and then
- 1:11:35your echo suddenly appears behind it and
- 1:11:38slashes it across the neck, decapitating it.
- 1:11:41And the puppet's head falls to the ground and
- 1:11:44rolls to your feet, and the rest of the body
- 1:11:47falls.
- 1:11:48Fatty Lumpkins: And I step on his head like a cool soccer ball.
- 1:11:51Skylar: Ball. Nice. You do all
- 1:11:54right. And basically all of you, except for Roick are up
- 1:11:57there in the room at the moment. And because it's
- 1:11:59getting late, I think we'll end things there with
- 1:12:02the dead puppet.
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