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All Together Now · Rotgrind - Narrative Declaration

• We're doing this right now. Attention Rotgrind workers. Attention Rotgrind workers. Are you ready to play in our excellent tabletop RPG adventure called Rotgrind in World of Decay? No! Zorducat. Yes, Zorducat and everyone. Let's get ready for another episode of Rotgrind. It's Ben. That was the worst thing. Do the show. Long time to spell for a little bull today. Rotgrind. Rotgrind. Rotgrind. You know what I want to know? Like if somebody's in their car and they're like, hey man, you like Pathfinder? And they're like, oh man, yeah, you told me about the game. Well, I found these goobers on the internet and I think you'll like them too. And every start is this. Every start, the guy just looks at them, sidelines. You know, you're showing your friend this video and you keep looking at their reaction, hoping they like it. This is the show, just summarized. You're going to like it, right? True. We get our money's worth here. We're screaming. I will endeavor to sabotage this endeavor at every endeavor. And the polls are in, by the way. Oh, yes. Oh, well. Congratulations. Satisfied on the pyre. We put a poll on Twitter to see which of us would you cannibalize? And at 6% is Hulky. 6% is Arendelle, with even voting. 17% is Speaker. 23% is Thurston. And I'm apparently at 49%. Yeah. They would all eat me alive first, so. Well, you are a bear. Since you are the chosen sacrifice for our appetites, I would give you the option of telling us how you would like to be prepared. Can we? Can we not? Bit over. Assume the bit, streamer. But along with the bits and everything else, this show and everything else, all the funnies, all the everything else that comes together cannot even happen without all the amazing players we have here today. And one of them, we'll start from left to right, as we usually do, is Odo Roshi Rider. Hello, it's me. I'm Odo. I play Vali, the sylph swashbuckler. And today, I'm in your backyard, playing with your dog. I don't have a dog. You do now. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Dog-shaped animal. Speaking of where that thing song came from, where a bunch of people are now too young to remember what that is, Hulky Crow, the elder tour. I don't think I have that title. I think that belongs to somebody else we were. But all the same, hello, it is me. I'm Hulky Crow. Today, I will be, as I often do, playing the Kanrasu cleric, Rahua. I guess he's a bit eldritch in his own right. And I want you to know that all of this show, this everything we offer you, could be yours. If you have enough rupees. Do you have enough rupees, John? Do you have enough rupees for your listeners? But of course, the one who might just have enough to pay the pay Hulky Crow is our, who's next up, is Erendil. Yeah, my name is Erendil. I, the reason I might be able to pay that much is because not only today am I playing Baldrick, but in the last episode, they also freed my other alternate character, Victrix. And they combined have many dollars. And that's very good. Both are humans, by the way. Oh, I wanted to quash that real quick because everyone seems to be confused as to the ancestry of the characters who you can't see their faces. They're humans. I'm sorry to disappoint you. They're humans. They're apes. Allegedly. They're apes, but not the NFT kind. We all know that Victrix is like three or four kobolds stacked on top of each other. She will gut you. I've let her. She will gut you with the blood end of her glaive. I've let her. You remember that like either like the Mandalorian thing of the little like dudes that like help make the little robots or Men in Black where like he opens up the head and there's like the little guy piloting inside with the whole human body. That's that's currently our next one. Speaker D. That's true. The galaxy rests on Orion's belt. Hi, everybody. I'm Speaker D. I play Tanhauser. He's a magus. He's a robot. He's everything in the fucking world right now all at once. And I'm so delighted to be here with all of you. Have a blessed day. You know what's really funny Speaker? We were discussing behind the scenes that was on the other groups of like, oh, man, we can play this class and this class and nearly every single person always falls into a magus going, well, I want to be a warrior and cast magic. And I'm like, we already have a magus in nearly every other show. So everyone's following. It's good to be the king. Oh, well, I guess in this case the chairman of the Revolutionary Committee. And of course, the next one that we have, the one that will tortures us all, the one who will lead us through the rotting of grinds and make our adventure super grim and super dark is our resident game master, Thurston Nielman. Hello. Sorry, I heard chairman and I just remembered us playing. Oh, the chairman. The glorious chairman. Yeah, the glorious chairman. Never forget the chairman. Hi, everybody. It's me. Yeah, it's thirsty. We're going to play games. I'm very excited. We're getting to the end of the second adventure. Oh, my God. Maybe their time in the swamp will be at an end or maybe the entire third, fourth and fifth adventure will just explore more of the swamp and the party will forever be trapped in this swamp. Oh, God. Thurston, pay me five dollars. My end game is to become a bog body. You will be. You will be. I will keep my five dollars. Thank you very much. It's the new swimsuit line. Bog body. You got to get your body ready for the swamp festival. Come on, girl. Let's get it. But I am your host. I'm not really your host. There's the host. Sorry. I'm the one who does all the shit in the background. I'm Zoran the Bear. I'm currently playing the strict steward Orin and we're all level seven for people who are listening on podcasts in which we appreciate it for people who do listen to some podcasts and stuff in which you can always listen to us on audio forms and stuff in the description of every single video we have. We have the podcast versions there. But of course, to really help us out, you can always watch us on YouTube and get a narrative declaration or watch us live on Twitch to interact with us live. We do these live. We don't do it prerecorded. In fact, I can reach out right now. I know Cabal's in there. I just saw Whitechapel just tie times and discuss the moisten the shirt contest. That shit gets said in Twitch. You can all come interact with us live and help us out live with the Hero Points system we have. We do exclamation point Hero Points in chat. You'll see that your bit donations on Twitch go to fill up the bars here. They're not our HP bars or our levels. They are our Hero Point bars. They allow us to re-roll D20s and just a little bit of that always goes to Thurston's bar, which is the villain point bar where he gets to re-roll all the D20s and stuff that creatures do. So it's always a case of oh noes any time it happens. And of course, you can support us on Patreon at patreon.com forward slash narrative declaration where you can submit complications that messes up when we roll a natural one that we cannot re-roll along with getting exclusive MP3 stuff and video stuff before it goes live on YouTube and a bunch of other goodies like amazingly professionally produced PDFs that Thurston and his partner to tell stories bust their ass-offs making. So thank you to everyone for that. And now, Thurston, what adventure do you have for us today? Well, you see, before that, I want to see who wants to recap last week or last session. I can do that. Or a Hero Point. Someone else wants to. There's a Hero Point on the line. I'll do it. All right, you do it. All right. Remember, what's the conditions? Do we want to do a condition or just let them try? I believe I will. I will hear what speaker yarn has to weave. And I will I will judge if it is worthy of the Hero Point in question. Very good. Very good. Very intently. If I may give my oration. I'll give you music. This recap is told from the perspective of Cousin Bilimus five years after the events. Well, boy, I tell you what my good old my buddy would tell me all about this big old event that was going on down in the middle of the swamps. You see, he was on an adventure with a bunch of folks in the middle of the swamps and they went up into this big old place that was full of Children of the Blaze and they had this big old confused weird little game that they were doing where they would be sticking these bombs on the back of this frog man and putting it underneath all the bridges. So they did it. They were sneaking around in the marshlands letting this little frog man plant the bombs and when the bombs were planted aboard let me tell you things went crazy because all of a sudden the big attacks started happening. Everybody started moving very, very, very, very, very fast and tactically. You see, Tan has a he was the robot fella well he went and got a grapple gun and he shot it at a tree and he zipped right up to it. Well, Vali, she was this blue little swashbuckler well she went right up to the big tower that was built there built out of swamp juice and bamboo and stuck in there and found an elf an elf named Dushelf an elf named Prince Dushelf the elf who they got into a fight about because at one point this elf had betrayed our good friend Vali by killing her killing her dead stone dead so at that point the fight got brutal and everyone started doing crazy things all of a sudden this big old tree fella they got named Rahua all of a sudden a bunch of a bunch of creatures started coming down and lifting them up because like he was some kind of king or something he was king of the sorcerers and so when he went over there then that's when it started getting crazy because then we took out Prince Dushelf we started taking out all of those other little fellas by we I mean they this is the point of the story and at one point Prince Dushelf the elf met his end but it wasn't quite the end because then he caught on fire and the second phase of this big old legendary battle began and at this point I gotta tell you son I gotta tell you from what I hear it was legendary let me tell you something he started running around like a bat on fire and it had to be one of the most brutal battles in the warrior's entire life I'm not talking about the warriors that are here so the story though I'm talking about Prince Dushelf the elf who was on fire and it was brutal and it was painful and he was not very good at anything else other than screaming and running around and eventually all the rest of them fellas was turned into toasty s'mores I'll take your hero points away thank you I was about to say um speaker you're rotten too now thank you thank you finally somebody else can I put you negative hero points I can't I seriously speaker did you enjoy watching knives out recently I'm very very curious listen I didn't watch any knives out what I do watch religiously though are Cajun cooking channels oh my god yeah that checks out that checks out chat I'm sorry I just had an aneurysm what just happened I gotta ask you fellas I gotta ask I do declare where are my hero points where are my hero points 99 wow 99 oh wow yeah that number does go off okay shit oh my god hi cat fuck holy shit jumped on the desk the entire time remind me I can't remember the youtube channel but there's like this uh like old western ranch guy who does like like cooking videos now and everything he's like well out here well out here in the country we got ourselves uh you know cowboy steak this is how a real man and a real cowboy make steak not like any of those people wearing ponytails they're like all right man he's like the uncle who goes too far this is a weirdly offensive guy but he makes a damn good hamburger what's the guy he's like a stale cracker or something and he's just like dude I got something for you I'll put a cracker on that and it's just like holy crap dude you are you are you are the most cajun cajun i've ever caged that's ever cajun i had to work with a guy who like who was so thick in the accent i learned over time his language he was so thick in it i'm just like okay i eventually now know what you mean i became his translator his translator i have nothing but respect for the good people of louisiana how many how many uh how many here points does it get i'll give him two for that oh all right you're at negative 97 very good i think you're kind of you're at two anyway shall we do our thing uh well i was going to ask was there any addendums anyone wants to add on to uh bill and mrs story you're still on fire right no i think he's dead the shelf was dead there there was however one other person that had survived the fight oh yeah bill and miss chooses not to remember victrix we had a we captured a hyena yeah we captured a hyena didn't we yes the hyena that we did the hyena yeah the doll yeah sorry i was i was about to get to that part but uh you know but you missed it yeah but you missed that vital information you want to let our prisoner get away that's why that's why that's why speaker didn't give three here oh yeah i guess i did forget like half of the plot stuff that happened fair enough it's okay these things happen they're fatal but they happen we'll kill you for that oh no all right so we we return right back to where uh right back to where we left off uh prince du shelf has collapsed in like combusted into complete ouch that sort of sifts in the boggy air here as all of you take a moment to breathe the slain foes lying across the area um it's a pretty pretty intense moment how's everyone kind of kind of feeling after that like what's what's the thought here is it fucked up to think that that was pretty funny no it was very funny all right good i'm just gonna go kick his ash into the swamp okay um oh wait hold on did he drop a glowing artifact no no you get no remembrance you get no essence from the flaming elf man man no essence of the douchebag anyway this mini boss sucked you didn't want to leave the stink of that fool lying around anyway that is true but maybe the essence would be funny to like tack on to somebody else you know like if you equip it you immediately just burst into flames that sounds very useless i could think of a use or two what does this essence do oh it just gives you like permanent persistent fire on yourself sorry it gives you fire shield but you're also on fire exactly exactly very good uh i don't know if we're the map or not but um i'll take no i'm trying to move but for some reason the scene is being a bit jank and i don't know why i'm trying to fix it it might be a forge thing today so yeah um you know orrin definitely wants to uh start investigating the hut start looking around inside of it find any clues various little bits and bobs and uh i don't know if we want to yeah uh vick's just gonna like loot the the cabin to get her money back uh yeah tanhauser's probably going to be walking about um the different uh slain foes are they all dead or are some of them just unconscious oh no they you have you have quite uh quite assuredly murdered most of these individuals tanhauser's then gonna be going around each dead person uh generally looting them and then afterwards cutting off their heads and sticking them on bikes normal what alignment are you uh chaotic good oh that's gone now that's gone now alignment's gone so yeah uh free plug for the uh the recently announced pathfinder second edition remaster alignments out the door so in that case i'm lawful anything i want lawful you say yes um okay so you're gonna start looking around uh awesome okay for whatever reason yeah it's loading at 98 percent hundred percent yeah i have a i have one of our maps that is completely just not loading right now which is problem close down your browser redo the browser and try to go back in i i have done so i'm trying one other thing and we will see oh there we go oh there we go great okay cool all right cool uh so we're back to here yay okay perfect oh yeah i guess the squiggly lines the fiery the the greatness okay um so for those of you who are looking around uh just a couple couple little bits i'm just gonna add this into the uh into the the party the party uh fund fundage here one sec every time i like bring up the pcs folder now i have like the the b team and you know the warhams pcs where is the the people honest to god we know what we're doing guys trust me yeah absolutely production yeah yeah production we are so good at video games okay while you do while you do all that stuff oran will look to victories and go in like hi i think we haven't met my name is oran do you need help i can heal you you're right we haven't met and she's going to continue rooting around for loot she wants her money back do you need any medical aid sure if you want okay sure he starts scooping up mud he gets a couple more worms or grind them in his mouth you immediately hear the the soft ching of the fucking glaive immediately hovering towards your nose it's good dirt yeah it's it's quality healing materials watch he goes and he like spits it on himself i would like to um i like the first aid myself i okay okay you know like see safe and he's like rubbing in his wounds like it's okay make the roll first to see if that's actually correct yeah that's a good thing they have to open up oh that's the wrong uh i have to click the folders chat to look at my character sheet it's like looking under my clothes don't look at me i thought it had opened before and i was ready and then it like just went away i am i'm gonna use my heels because i get my bonus and i'm not gonna assurance this one i'm just gonna flat roll it and i got a 19 for 35 is that a crit nice um that'd be like a quadruple crit it doesn't that doesn't work that way i'm sorry yes it does no so as as victrix is uh looking about and collecting i will assume victrix collects personal loot but also you know tanhauser you're looking about kind of going through the bodies while putting heads on pikes um and then certainly or and you're metting yourself up um you discover first of all and i've added it to the people's loot uh 420 uh gold coins scattered about in like various you know denominations and whatnot so i've just kind of simplified that put it into uh there's i have a question wait hold on i have a question about that gold amount yep yes was that intentional i'm just i'm just saying the children of the blaze um do we find any do we find any scores of hashish call back to me the state king the children of the blaze symbol is 69 now it's 420 it all coming together oh no this is the worst blunt i've ever seen we can't ask them to leave roll's worst blunt ever asked um to burn to cinders there is also a salve that you find inside of the former domicile of uh one prince well we love salve here salve yeah uh vic is the one finding the salve yeah does the salve say anything on it uh no no it just looks to be like some alchemical kind of self that you could apply uh orin your ears are mildly rent asunder as vic leans over her shoulder and shrieks baldrick how much damage do i take uh i could cast intimidate i'm gonna cast an intimidate on you i'll take two i'll take two i hurt mental damage good he's like ah jeez lady i'm just trying to help like here it kind of gets out bandaged like like these like leaf bandages they look clean and nice and everything it's like i'll help out with your wounds if you want see i'm all good she is waving she is like the glaive pointed directly at your nose like she's about to do some very funky surgery on your face look look just trying to like fine have your way just leave you touch me with that and you're dead that whatever flaps away baldrick is going to identify the alchemical thing after being called down by she's supposed to be in the house right i mean yeah yeah you're you're kind of like walking around looking around oh god damn it now i can't see baldrick fuck what the weird thing is is like i when i moved into the house i could no longer see baldrick oh it's probably because you had that character now there's a wall there yeah if you have the character selected you only get the vision of your character that's selected so you have to like how do I select baldrick just escape like hit escape and then it'll click off to the side and then you click reload application oh well then i don't know there we go we're good we're good we're good we're making it okay so a couple other things as we're kind of going through this um what you what you find is a you know the the salve that you can have baldrick come in and analyze um there is a scroll and what appears to be a um a metal wand that has a piece of wood that kind of curls around it almost like driftwood that's like grown grown around it um yeah yeah and then then the the money and you find this like scattered about here let me identify a chemical item uh yeah that's a word i'm rolling to identify the salve yeah the salve i roll an 11 plus my 19 that'll be 30 yeah uh so you are able to properly identify that it is a um salve of anti-paralysis um so this is something uh that you can use to help someone overcome magical paralysis uh basically like you get the effects of a third level remove paralysis spell by using this on someone hey baldrick hey this will be perfect for that stick up your ass fuck you and he will leave the building to go back out to get some fresh air away from her away and uh odo you're still like kicking it ash in the air is that correct yeah yeah i'm just gonna like uh shuffle all the ash into the swamp and just say well rest in piss and i'm gonna go back can you uh can you give me a perception check please oh i would love to he reforms that's not very good that's a 15 okay cool blind as a bat so i don't see anything no you really don't you're like kicking up ash and you're just like this is stupid this is all stupid as you're kicking up ash all right i guess that's what i'm doing yeah although i do oh sorry i was gonna mention just so they're gonna keep that or moves to help rahua with his uh captured person and uh okay so so let us let us finally cut over to rahua rahua rahua so we did manage to make a non-lethal takedown of this big beastie gnoll yeah like like regular sized medium sized humanoid beastie gnoll yeah i thought they were i thought they were in the large side at least larger than so you just assumed that yeah they just assumed that they're like yeah they're they're they're they're like similar similar scale to you yes okay if i recall the end of last session through a combination of chasing this person down as well as crisis of faith they're basically in a a godless frenzy at the moment like oh god everything i know is wrong and also this giant tree is going to kill me yes so as opposed to just wasting this person like the everybody else who is in the swamp but us rahua will instead move to this cowering individual and cradle their head in his hands eh my friend well not friend yet but you need not fear it's okay you're safe now you have made many many mistakes in coming here and following such an aberrant path as you have but let it be known i'm here to offer you something far greater and as brua is talking to this individual you see i guess orrin is the only person who's near him is orrin uh we'll see the air kind of thicken a bit with little pricks of light an odd kind of astral fog is enveloping this surrounding area now i'll toss a hero point you need to do this for narrative reasons okay yeah toss me your hero point sure go and mark me don't yourself it's turns markers dude you're at zero now thank you this'll i guess this'll cover whatever it's going about to happen my friend you worship gatharim but his fire is but the transformative imprint of something far greater the anarchy sees a path where you burn not with fire but with inscrutable impossible gyre of raw purpose bear your ambition like a blade one cast in ignorance but now tempered in understanding yours is both the killing edge and the fickened plow cutting down what stands idle and sowing the seeds of new life yet to begin and as Rahu was doing this just this fog intensifies he's just digging psychically into this mind of this creature just impressing the words upon them of this is this is who you are now i've shown you the area of your way i wish you now before the yawning void not reborn as a child of flame but as an auspice of anarchy and i don't know if i have to use a spell for this but i'm just gonna burn a little symbol of anarchy into their skin to brand them is this a baptism i don't i don't know it's something like that that's water yeah we don't need to dunk him we don't need to do like the whole baptism just like what skill check do you think is appropriate for this thing you're doing i think yes religion would probably be appropriate for this i think i think that's pretty reasonable i will allow you to give me a religion check here i'm gonna i'm gonna do it big i did not do it big it's a 16 okay okay oran you said you were helping is that correct yeah that's a question you're asking the one character with no trained religion with a plus four so well you know like you take stock of the situation you're seeing what appears to be some kind of religious ceremony occurring here look every time i've tried to help it's gone a disaster i've always fucked this poor guy up oh and it's okay hold on we're helping a new friend i need you to help me make their faith anew oh okay i want to try to make it a good presentation do everything in my power i would um if you want me i could try to do some spells whatever but i just want to be i want to cast heal on the person and if you want i could do like a nature check or a medicine check or something else like that uh they basically try to sell as if like they are being reborn as their like flesh is being sewn together and everything else and i'm just adding and chanting in the background with the whoo they even sell the moment a lot more you know to drown their senses as if they're being you know converted peacefully encourage them to want to go in for this so i'll pump in like a a cleric font heal if it'll be i was i was gonna say i'm reborn given this uh oran do you want to give me a nature check here because that's kind of your like spell casting shtick here yeah yeah do you also want me to spin the wheel oh well roll the nature check first uh oh all right 28 28 okay now you can roll me to heal okay he'll comes through he'll go through like hey don't worry the you know there's no mat no masters where we have to go from all we have to do is just worry about ourselves and our own ambitions and we can not be bound by you know by a way but only your one self and i heal him for 42 okay cool um so you heal this gnoll and she kind of like looks up at you and then over to you and back at oran and there's like there is this there's this moment here as the as like the flesh reenits and they're just like and that's like that as this like energy is going through i'm gonna give you an opportunity because of oran's work here i'm gonna give you the opportunity to to re-roll your uh not so stellar religion chick okay i will i will do it's happened a bunch of times let's let's try one more time much better a 32 in fact double what you rolled last time um as as you do um as you continue your baptism here under the the rotted broken tree and oran has come in and used the healing magic you can see that as the gnoll emerges from the water her face no longer has the the milky eyes her eyes are restored and she kind of just looks like what what what's what's happened what what i didn't see you were touched by the fires of gathering but i have remade you anew a child of the anarchy the old ways give sight to the sightless suffer no more i saw fire so much anger and fire it's all i saw for so long and now you will see something far greater no more wanton destruction with them this is your new lease on life i would advise you take heed to not fall into the same patterns yes of course yes like nodding vigorously the hyena head like almost bouncing up and down let's let's bring this one back to the rest of the groups maybe past all the vision and the cloud and judgment and stuff what this person's been under we can you know identify what we're going to be coming up next you are a hundred percent you are you are a hundred percent correct or and let's let's bring our new friend to our group all right come on and then orin will start returning back and then come on pick turn he sees pick turn there on the pick turn is like sitting on like the side of the rock in the swamp sort of like looking out in the distance kind of aimlessly pick turn pick turn like snaps in front of him oh hi there hi there or i just you know that was that was a lot you know i saw some things there i saw a man burn to death on fire and it's nothing really stopped it until he until he was killed yeah yeah yeah he was a douche it's okay oh okay all right let's move on come on pick turn and he kind of like grabs his wrist and kind of brings it back to the group yeah sure remember pick turn it's okay to kill people so long as you don't like them true need to get off this topic now it's okay pick turn he was an elf moves on wow damn damn orrin we never knew the tricks deep-seated um all right so as you turn to pick turn be like thank you for uh coming in clutch there pick turn i really do appreciate not dying i hope my tunes help i know you know that they sometimes help and you know people like them i know back on the farm you know i used to play all the time your tunes make foundry lag holy shit you know sometimes your music does help and other times it clouds the inner workings of the cosmos such that i cannot act as fast but you know what i appreciate you either way because there cannot be change without some form of stagnation first right well you know i'm i'm just i'm just here to help you know the family farm it was a good place though i have real good acoustics you know the the sound of my of my pops it just went all around there so many people from all mr tanhauser this is your role-play moment now hey i we brought this prison uh person they've uh they've been uh cured for the cloud of judgment of that uh basically what all these people the orn has no fucking clue still has not pieced together what's going on with the children one second they were really did some cool stuff and then now their guys are okay oh yes i tied their being to the astral plane now they are one with the fundamental powers they are they are witnessed by the anarchy they are they are like me in a way but not exactly like me they they've seen the light and they are ready to help uh tanhauser just looks at you with a like his head slightly to the side he's just like and then finishes staking the last head before putting it to the ground will then allow me to be one of the first to welcome our new comrade and allow me to also be the first to interrogate you i'm going to embrace our newfound friend or we grab tanhauser's arm it's okay gently tanhauser you know it's like they're good now they're with us now they're good now gently use this use the soft mallet i'm always gentle i say gesturing with my gore covered hair as fires burning around me severed heads in the background aldrig is watching this happen and boy he is uh he is not liking what he's seeing what is your name yeah game master yeah gamer my name is eith i'm eith welcome eith i have one very important question for you where is your former leader eith looks around there and there and there at like kind of kind of sniffing the the ash on the wind all right perhaps a different question what were you hoping to accomplish here we were brought here the elf prince he he led us here we set up camp we ambushed the shipments from the city did he ever mention why no no he just told us which boxes to destroy and and and which which ones to take and our great glorious nemesis the leader of the children of the blaze what was his name again elort mr elort and where is mr elort i i do not i do not know i see he was never here i think he's still in in big city that can't be so we saw him on our arrival here unless he left right after very well then an additional question and i'm going to kind of lean in close do you know anything about the experiments that were being run on the dragon to the south of this swamp dragon what no no no dragon there are no dragons here scientists experimenting with the rot what rot no no no no we we destroy the rot is what we do i see can we give me a perception check yeah okay you got it i will give you a perception except on victor's because she's still in the fucking house warren got a 25 out of a 10 and we got a 32 17 i got oh 28 okay volley and warahua you start to notice a figure uh moving in from the west somewhat silhouetted by the bonfire and it's almost like until he's reached the the stones to the to the immediate west that you you see this figure come into light um and you recognize it as the fellow you had met previously the dwarf known as the dude the dude oh you're late to the party uh fashionably late as usual uh man i'm not sure how you managed to get through this swamp with all this uh makaba barely up to my area we're just that good and uh we have resources i like swat at a stray saucer it just appears yeah that's who was subject don't hit him true yes don't bully him he helped me get across the swamp he's friend his accent i noticed that i noticed that he did you uh you seem to clean up well pretty here yeah you know made it through in one piece yeah comparative to looking at the staked heads and bodies on fire uh comparative to the lord of them but yeah it's how things shake out nowadays yeah well gotta send a message of course not sure what it is but i'm sure there is one what's the message tanny the message the message is exactly what happens when you subjugate the people of this swamp yeah what he said what happens when you oppose the revolution you know we need to set our enemies high upon a stage is the message you're sending hello it's me it's uh it's certainly a message i'll give you that orn puts a hat on one of the heads on the stake yeah see he's got the spirit that's just lovely so did you see anything odd on your way in it's uh well i should hope that this is the last of the children of the blaze but knowing our luck there's another camp about a mile off or something uh that's a great question thurston should i uh did dude happen to see anything on the way in dude only saw the the fellows along the western edge of this encampment that uh the dude expertly ambushed and took out on on their on his way here um so dudes had like a couple run-ins with people who he has uh efficiently gunned down including some during the prior fight nah uh it doesn't appear to be any further belligerence in the swamps this time uh actually looks to be the only ones i've come across since uh now neatly tucked beneath the muck so yeah good on you there's uh no more children out here it seems as dude finishes that all of you also start to hear this this sound coming from the east this like rhythmic like clapping sound but it seems muffled somehow is it someone sneaking um it's not so much that um based on the the light move on no okay no one got it it's okay i know i get you now i get you now i didn't whoosh above my head um but yeah so so as you're sort of like looking from the the fire around here you you see a figure coming out through the swamp above it it's a figure you've seen before well we're seeing all kinds of friends yeah yeah it is the silent the silent figure that you have have known as mr alert the sort of like overtly garbed fellow with like tattoos of flames around him i throw something at him and he's like just kind of clapping in the muck oh very good very good so glad you enjoyed the show can we help you you know to an acid bomb or something i just came here to say that i believe i detente as at an end i will be leaving this place i have done what i can here and i just wanted you to know that i bear none of you ill will and i shall leave you be i don't believe that what do i roll uh perception if you want to sense motive yeah i'd like to do the same sure hearing hearing i don't believe that for a second step out of the fucking cabin now i believe him that's hey molly hey molly molly crudad i don't believe him for a second and that natural one you just rolled never mind i believe him you you you got crudad again i like that molly has a character trait of extremely gullible and susceptible to suggestion the dice would indicate that oh but that's a complication too i get struck by lightning again right if you want to make things terrible when they happen to be a natural one go to patreon.com and you two can submit a complication we can't re-roll natural ones because we do the hero point system here thurston yes yes yes with vick re-entering the thing here noticing that we've got now two other voices happening uh she's gonna like turn to the rest of the team and just gonna ask who the fuck's that guy uh the glorious leader of the children of the blaze oh hey asshole hello what was the point of all this crap and i'm going to roll and intimidate okay sure also the the thing now i'm going to use uh this uh this one here i think it's a pretty good one uh it's just entitled the old squelch foot uh the volley you begin disassociating from the present conversation uh carrying on about something tangentially uh or totally unrelated some personal anecdote or story no this one makes me do a bit yes be funny all of a sudden intense story moment that is now ruined thank you gz rods wow isn't that one from vic as well the ones are back no one we got it you know mr lord's outfit sort of reminds me of this time when i was uh when i was with my old crew you know we had just looted this like noble party and there was there was this guy in this this really gaudy top hat and we started playing like like have you ever played disc golf before i'm gonna preempt this and i'm gonna have baldric puncher in the side for the other fail um this one is brought to you by toad killer dog um and this one is this complication for our dear friend erndale who i think is extra deserving is entitled dupe oh come on remembering a prior experience immediately reminds you of an incredibly terrible song you could not get out of your head um you become stupefied and must repeatedly hum the most annoying song you can think of come the fuck on all right she hums it there you go wow it's like i'm really there i i need you to understand i was not trying to extend the length of this scene that's fine it's what they want we're giving you your moment yeah yeah complication this is your moment now i'm gonna go get a drink see it i look forward to the new wave of comments on the dupe by dupe video on youtube i don't know why you acknowledged it i'm gonna kill you we out here we out here duper dupe heads rise up duper maniacs forget it forget it just carry on with your business please so so at this point like a lord has appeared uh victrix has come out immediately in an attempt to intimidate and then suddenly been distracted by by some annoying song from their past volley has just disassociated entirely and the the ominous figure of mr alert stands still in the swamp to the east of you uh offering this this peaceful gesture to all of you man he must be really confused i'm gonna wait till you end with all like this is happening this is happening in the proms tomorrow yeah i'm i'm i'm i'm checked out now see ya i'm gonna i'm gonna use a hero point and re-roll my perception okay let's get a one so we can waste more time you're very welcome uh yeah let's rock uh that would be a 24 you got two ones on the die yeah um like it the the delivery of this seems seems as genuine as you can take it like you you certainly know there's like ulterior motives for this person but like they seem so smug about this and the fact that they've walked out like on their own weren't present before seems they're not like really worried by anything and i suppose that you all you wanted all along was a detente is that correct mr lord oh oh i i i i just simply wished for you to be occupied a while well well my my associates here did their business which is now concluded so as i said i'm i'm done in this swamp for some time so i i leave it to you to carry on i do hope uh mr oran that uh my my information gave you some some closure on your situations you were dealing with debating what oran would do because immediately i was like like oran would like shoot a bow or so he does have a bow now yeah i do have a bow but he just tax his ass but uh instead he'll just he'll just be quiet just kind of stealing a little bit but he's very quiet so would you like to tell us how you got this information or where these individuals have gone or is that a little out of your pay grade oh information is is my speciality he sort of like nods his head like takes one hand touches the brim of his top hat but but but i will say that the perpetrators of that affair i believe are back in your your large city of outset and perhaps if you were transparent about what it is that you are doing here we might be willing to allow a peace to reign betwixt us well i believe my former associate there uh madam earth has already given you the information i thys like looks terrified at this you know small statured human who sort of leans down a bit and then just kind of like look gives gives a nod to the oh oh do do not worry i understand that not all people can maintain their um how should i put this their allegiances permanently and that some things are mercurial and change i do not begrudge you that but i will say that our time together is at an end and i trust you to find a new path in your life but as i said to answer your question mr tan hauser life is correct in that i had certain enterprises that i entrusted the elf uh known as prince douche elf to manage which he so admirably did and then he almost like chuckles as he looks at like the ash that's still on the wind here prince stuchel claimed immortality shortly before combusting and it became clear that his state was not one of his own division clearly explain what your goals are and if they do not intercede with ours perhaps there may be peace i simply had my agents here inspecting some of the shipments from the city i was curious as to their contents what were you expecting i truly do not know what i was expecting but i will say that we found some very very shall we say disturbing atoms in some of those crates destined for the poor twang folk of this region such as well clearly you may have noticed them already have you not i would like you not to speak an implication i understand that your high fluting riddle smith persona may earn you many accolades among your warriors but to me it just makes you imminently irritating well then i think with a social faux pas such as what you have just bequeathed upon me that this conversation is at an end sir if you are not interested in the detente you may go assured in the inevitability of our antagonism but if you would think of yourself more as a warlord and less as a thespian perhaps some diplomacy could be accorded well to be quite honest i have very little to gain from you at this time i simply wish to state my intentions you are free from my interest at this point i'll depart now i know you have so many important things to do and as he says the i know you have important things he specifically looks to volley and oran cute a final word before you leave then oh oh of course of course and like as you say this rather than give you his attention his eyes just kind of focus on picturn carry on the experimenters give us information on them and perhaps we shall apply your detente oh he finally like looks back to you and just shakes his head no i i believe i will let you discover that on your own return to outset i'm sure you'll find all manner of interesting things in the city since you have departed it oh so much has been going on looks over to baldrick i hope your house is in fine repair sir i love thinly veiled threats especially when they come with some ponce and a top hat well again i've been insulted quite a few times here i simply wanted to say that there may be interesting things for you in the city once you are ready to return but at this point i shall depart it has been quite quite a fine reunion i suppose y'all come back now you hear he turns around and takes a step and then another and another and another and after maybe 10 feet of walking the lord disappears in what can only be described as a combustion of ash and smoke that goes on the wind man that's one scary fella you know he reminds me of the local burgo master you know they they were the tax men where i was from in the inheritor lands not wait wait charge on pick turn hold on pick turn i hate clowns you say that he reminds you of someone well just he had that feeling of one of them like you know the person who came and collected all our all our taxes and you know when you're on a farm like me the tax man's not not quite the nicest person you want to be dealing with now my cousin bill he got into a little scuffle he did you know pick turn suddenly is dwarfed by a tall woman who is just steadily humming shut up oh whoa that was a beautiful rendition i think you have immediately targeted pick turn very good i can see the little target dot over pick turn thank you i was gonna look up how to barreling charge at him hold on pick turn i couldn't help but notice a good friendly lord couldn't take his eyes off of you once he realized that you were less than amenable oh you wouldn't happen to know anything about that would you my friend i assume that's because you were talking and then he wanted to look at me as some kind of insult to you to not recognize your position in the conversation because you know you were doing all the talking and he didn't want to acknowledge you again it's kind of not a nice person that one i don't think someone would do that no one would ever not acknowledge me in a conversation look how many heads i chopped off you're so right tanny he has to look at me you are denser than a brick of peat but yet i love you if he was a real gang leader he would have challenged me upon a roaring engine and not looked at picturn i'd like to roll perception though i want to understand the truth of picturn's words a suspicion has generated itself within my bosom sure i won oh yeah um so as you regard picturn's words um you realize you realize you realize that like yeah like picturn is obviously distraught by what he has just seen he's fairly upset um there there's certainly like he's couching things closer to the chest but also that he genuinely thinks that that person was looking at him just because that person was kind of being a jerk to you um but like picturn's very shaken up by events like the you've realized he's become fairly despondent in the past while too picturn yeah i can't help but feel as if our constant voyages headlong into danger have had something of a negative effect upon you well i mean i did just see a man on fire screaming for you know a good long while what about it and all those heads on the pikes there that's traumatizing i guess what doesn't make any sense and then then there was then there was the whole thing with orange dragon and that was just awfully sad and um yeah then then there was you know all that stuff inside the cube that was that was just that was there there was all sorts of horrifying things there and then you know then there was the the wraiths on the beach and that was that that was just awful too and it's it's just been a lot it's been a lot i'm not gonna lie it's been a lot he sort of like walks away a little bit picturn buddy hey hey we appreciate you you've done a lot to help us out here and you are a true blue member of our crew here i promise do you have anywhere to go after this well yeah i got the farm i gotta go back to you know i gotta gotta tell everybody about what's going on i gotta write ballads i can't wait to write all the stories about our adventures here you know trying to make them a little less sad and you can tell them all about how heroic you were so why don't you come with us we'll get you back um we can probably get you transportation closer to outset so you can get back to the farm safe and sound oh yeah yeah that that'll be great um yeah and if ever you need more adventures or more stories to tell i assure you many will soon be coming from the city of outset should you ever wish to make our acquaintance again i i i i i i i'd like to stay with you a bit longer i know we gotta we gotta go back to the to to the kabu and elder eighth on there and get get volley and orrin all patched up right that is correct true oh good oh good yeah good because because you know that's i gotta i gotta i gotta have some good come out all this right orrin would like to roll a perception check on uh on pick turn okay pretty much determining that uh he seems frazzled but he wants to know why okay roll it up uh that is a 23 yeah okay so the 23 you you absolutely get like he seems even more frazzled the second tanhauser insinuated that there would be a time pick turn was not adventuring with you like the second it was like oh you can come back and meet us like he was like but i want to stay with you oh oh okay orrin nods and and and that'll be it um to save time orrin at this point would also just just help heal everybody because it's maintenance if we just want to take the time or just heal everybody up the full yeah like we can assume everyone's back to yeah instead of me rolling five million times max everyone's hp yep yep based based healing i suddenly grow all of my skin and back and i'm now for no longer replaced by bark well pick turn why don't you play us a song on your beautiful bagpipes all right i guess we're all going back to the caboo there's a lot of us now i can't wait oh this is gonna be fun yeah oh yeah let's go pick turn let's mosey play the one that goes that one oh i know the one you want okay i'm getting ready all right let's let's get in a big old fancy line together you know okay there's a lot of us now start marching yeah so we all head back there uh and start leaving yes indeed i yeah i the one thing i'm gonna do just as we're all getting ready to go is i'm gonna examine the big old bonfire yeah i won't try to understand what the fuck kind of rituals actually i doubt i'm gonna get a full grasp on the situation but i want to get as much as i can as i am a master of arcana after all yeah you can give me you can give me an arcane check here all right all nanite surge for it just making sure my my brain is working extra extra thickly um a 26 does that get me a substantial amount a 26 is enough uh for you to tell that there there is like some kind of ritual though it's it's more of like a primal ritual in nature um you know more like associated with like druidic kind of backgrounds or you know like nature themes so like old powers definitely um but like at its basic level the 26 like that's high enough for you to tell like they were just using this as a conduit to summon in like elemental help uh which would be some of the tiny little or tiny but some of the smaller elemental creatures that attacked you during that seems to be fairly inert now oran yeah understand much about the old powers yes he looks around no oh what do you know about the only thing i know about is the greening way well is this do you can you just just take a look at that fire tell me if there's anything neat there oh yeah cool he goes you know much about the old powers yes uh i mean not exactly most of my purview is in the fundamentals but i mean why don't you just go and help oran over there just just you know it's on it's on fire i am a great leader you are yeah i would i would like to uh roll see if there's anything anything important about this bonfire man mr taz are telling me to go check out the fire man looks to skull in the sky can i roll an issue check yep smash cut to oran as anakin in episode 3 just fucking on it i rolled a five seconds later for a 21 total okay how would you like to spend your souls here um i i i like doing strength builds okay you know you're a caster max faith no faith is bad no i can only spam pebble you fuck you fucking i'm a shield bro motherfuckers out here i'm gonna run strength meanwhile running around with a handmaiden's ladle just beating people to death uh with a 21 you were able to tell that it is a slightly magically enhanced fire but the magic has been dissipated out of it assumedly it like could spawn elemental creatures but then once it did the the the power is now depleted you want me to put it out that alzer you want me to put the flames out what that's storm you just hear pitter patters as it comes all the way back he is so fast do you want me to put the flames out oh i mean you don't have to i guess okay his back starts buffeting well buffeting the flames and increasing more of the oxygen anyway he puts the flames out he just swamp shit so fast look at him go look at him go he's just a little guy to move the bit along we have our picturn's bagpipe start playing and scene transitions to the world map as the party continues i was like i'm feeling dead air i thought that was the point is that we didn't interrupt people when they're doing stuff yeah all right so uh picturn is leading the way um with his pipes and you are heading back to the kaibu is that the plan yes indeed yeah i assume so okay um so as this is going as you are making making your way there um back to the kaibu and elder aethon you you realize that um things things in the solitude seem a little less oppressive all of a sudden like the sky is not constantly raining down on you there's little even like small sections of sunlight that are visible during your daytime of travel it takes you you know a couple days to head back but as as you do so um you find that you don't have any like difficult encounters with wildlife or you even any threatening moments as you travel back to the kaibu um you're all like fully restored you know your your preparatives and everything spells and all that are back but yeah you you find that like for the first time in a while there's just like not a lot of stuff threatening you it's like the whole world is just just vibing i could get used to this you get back to the uh to to to the kaibu village um where you know there they're there the various like buildings and huts and whatnot that are are set up here with the sort of central one for for elder aethon uh waiting you you get there around midday hmm oh all right well hey elder aethon are you just like shouting yeah hey dingaling we're back yeah oh yeah talking about my dingaling oh hi oh hi welcome back he comes out never mind we're leaving we're gone i'm gonna go walk into the swamp it's all around us try not to drown yeah yeah no i think i'm gonna drown myself thank you okay bye didn't didn't we have to go talk to a frog guy yeah it was some of the wanted to bring up at the back there it's fine we were running back to camp i thought the frog guy was in this direction well the fact is you don't know where the frog guy is because yeah because aethon wouldn't tell you until you dealt with the attacks on the caravans yes indeed i bet he's the frog guy uh we dealt with the children of the blaze for you if you want somebody to check uh it's kind of well you'll know it when you see it oh don't the birds told me the birds well the the sawsaurus some of them came by oh you're friends with them we exchange jokes all the time they're lewd little fox oh somehow that that doesn't that doesn't surprise me so yes indeed the children of the blaze have been dealt with we've kept up our end of the bargain now it's your turn bestie best oh what i haven't been called bestie in a while he kind of kind of comes out from the the entrance of his hovel like you know like he's got that like old man kind of hunch waddle as he approaches oh oh this is good well all right i i can certainly have tashty take you over to to to the to the grotto and oh then then ribius should be able to get you done fixed up that sounds wonderful also i know that it hasn't been a very long time but do you have any more booze i'm dying i i i i don't in fact i i told you that i i liked yours because you know that i had just kind of been hoping just shot in the dark that you guys had gotten a shipment uh no i did we haven't we haven't got any shipments that's been the whole point that's why that's why we said to deal with the blaze we just dealt with them you know we dealt with them and listen man it's been a really long day i need some rum well i i can't just make rum trust me i'd be a whole different person if i could just make rum happen out of nowhere all right let's go see a frog does he have alcohol i don't know i've never asked the incarnate avatar of my one of my favorite deities if they're they're a rum entity maybe you should next time wow that's oh can we go see ribius now i'll get tashed give me a moment you will thank you thank you figure your stuff out he turns and kind of walks away oh boy this is gonna be good i think i think we're gonna have a good time in this grotto you know i'll meet in a meet in a entity type thing like like an avatar of so that's what that's what he said it sounds exciting what do y'all think Victor's just like eagerly looking at all of you now most avatars of entities tend to be incredibly irritating so we're going to find out how many have you met well we met uh let's see the fire zombies do those really count those count those count is the lord an avatar i maybe i don't know uh let's see we met um ah the labyrinth with all of the different things that had the mural with your face on it well i suppose we didn't meet anyone there those guys were chill there was there was this one time back in the sands where someone attempted to proclaim themselves uh coal invictus but uh they just turned out to be a strange man in a large cape so yes i guess i haven't met very many but i assume they would be irritating or looks at tanhouser going that's nice mr tanhouser can we discuss this over a nice warm soup and rest and everything we would go through the swamps for a while and and i need a breather you know and uh i am mentioning can we can we all go rest for a little badass anthony figure stuff out and everything else and take a quick break yeah how about we take our break here yeah yeah we'll get right back take our real break here yeah yay yay everybody take a quick nap yep all right we're back all right we did it we have returned good job good job we returned in anger real quick why the fuck you playing wallpaper engine the video game yeah can you explain that yeah oh it just it runs in the background whenever i have something going i'm not sure why there's a discord overlay for it why are you discord saying that you're playing i don't know i have no power over it actually that's my favorite game what's your wallpaper is it anime yeah uh no is it destiny i'm not gonna tell you i'm not gonna tell you about my free frame porn gif hold on let's do my wallpaper gets ass blasted just like the rrs does to me oh no wait what i'm here when i'm suffering let's see i want to see yeah oh okay we're all oh that's cool i would show it on stream but yeah that's showing his desktop oh that's that's fancy to describe it for podcast people going who uh i encourage you to watch the live streams or videos when you can that uh that basically it's just a cityscape it's all vaporwave kind of style pastel pink colors and a little swimmy bit i like how it does have emitters out of the city as if like it's radiation from all the bullshit the city has like it looks pretty but in reality if you see that in a city something's wrong yeah it's not good the people who make stuff for this are super cool like some of these the ones i have are like audio synced so you'll see different effects like come to life there's a cool ultra cool one as well it's just so bright so i can't actually use it oh damn it now i gotta play wallpaper engine you gotta play wallpaper engine but we're back hey everybody thurston we're in the village um oran has fed everyone a delectable soup you are all sitting around eating this soup having uh having a moment together it's my specialty i try my best to follow baldrick's recipe of the spider legs i even have hot sauce where the hell did you get spider legs he looks around like don't worry about it eat up pushes ball nah i trust him i'm gonna just consume this soup i'm going to uh i'm going to inspect it with a crafting check using season to make sure he did it right okay those aren't like a month ago right all right here we go rolling can i near to declare that the soup is like really good i mean you have to you have to roll a crafting check first oran you've got assurance right assurance only works when you pre-select into a certain skill you can't put on anything oh no i'm gonna die just come on zoran you got a plus zero to crap i believe i believe all you need is a nat 20 could you add nature instead yeah can i do nature instead because i know the good ingredients and i know the models i think you will find that no one in volley gets like some awful food poisoning it'll be good welcome back to rot three excuse me i think you will find that you must roll a crafting check i am the gm now for one second okay here we go i'm rolling crafting hold my hand hold my hand speaker i'm holding you i'm holding you i love the addition intelligence plus zero don't fucking make fun of me god damn it it's really really good why do you have nothing in crafting because he doesn't need to craft anything he just nature provides um yeah i've been watching a lot of uh hell's kitchen lately so baldrick uh your opinion is is that like this is one of those cooks who like has some raw talent like if they actually applied themselves they could do well they might make it halfway through the season but you're gonna have to cut them because they just don't have the chops overall what do you think mr baldrick i think you've been chopped you're gonna like take this scarf and tears roll down going you mean i won't become a good cook like you i'm sorry at the end of the day your soup was nice but it's lacking the piquancy of a good stew that's necessary to keep people going on this kind of mission and so at the end of the day we had to make the decision and i'm afraid yours is the one that has to go please pack up your knives and go then we do a rack focus on on oran as he's leaving and he's giving like this really stinks yeah oh yeah we do the camera cut to like oran being kicked out of the party it's the interview thing but he's not like miserable and sad he's just kind of like well it's really unfortunate that i had to be removed from my own show but you know yeah it's like i really try my hardest but you know i was just the unfunniest one of the group and so by public photo it's finally gone you know i want to improve it i'll improve it by getting someone better the chat the chat decided the youtube comments were right and now antonio bandera is now an intervention zoran you're very funny and people like you i know i'm what is your fucking problem here's my thing i know i'm funny i'm just not funny that those people that's fine you killed them the youtube comment section is a place yeah i'm not funny to everybody i'm pretty fucking funny and so are you yeah they're the the thing i've learned over time is that we're not for everyone and if i try to appease everyone it's going to fail so there are going to be people come up going i fucking hate you you're not you're not funny with no talent i go that's true but other people think i do so bye correct though the chat will now consume you yeah see at this point this is the point in the gordon ramsey show where baldrick allows you to keep your chef's jacket though you're kicked out but you still get to keep your jacket now you have to go now you have to go fist fight robert irvine you gotta go beat bob anyway we haven't eaten soup yeah and you're like elder aethon's gonna be gonna be approaching uh but you have some time to sort of like discuss your plans now oh god he's approaching he's getting ready he's getting like he's finding cash he's charging he's approaching up this is the monty python theme you just see his little legs keeps getting pushed back every time we need more time but um you know or like over over dinner or i'm gonna go like so what guys what are we gonna do well after we meet with ribius i imagine we probably head back to outside there's a problem with that notion actually problem what kind of problem baldrick well you guys all heard a lord he was kind of making some vague threats about our little base you know my house you guys have a base i'm so glad that you called it our base before you called it your house we love you too baldrick you do like us if you start projecting you're gonna turn into a ghost well i've already got a foot in the grave baby let's go darn i can't be past social don't worry we're gonna fix that valley then you won't have a foot in the grave wow he's gonna hold up a fucking finger to silence the the gaveling to wit i'm probably going to actually start heading my way back now so i can at least take a look and see what the damage is and hopefully it's nothing too major or at least get some contingencies in place but you'd have to go through the swamp alone uh that is a problem i'd really rather not leave you guys shorthanded when it comes to actually figuring this stuff out but unfortunately we can't exactly just go all in on one direction we will have to divert our attention here can i uh propose uh for thurston is there any i don't know if this is something you're okay with i'm willing to spend a uh my hero point for this one is there a way that i could try to provide baldrick a guide you know for being a druid and commune with nature try to get like an animal companion for him you know and that'll hopefully lead him back to camp like maybe like a bird or uh don't the animal companions only stick near you no i'm saying that like druid wise i can at least commune with animals and ask one to help you out like with the promise of something or like i can talk to like a commune with the wildlife and stuff like i'm not doing the spell i at least talk to something like hey man uh i got a deal here you know okay i would absolutely let you narratively declare and have some like cute disney animated animal accompany baldrick absolutely it's a frog yeah how would you how would you like me how would you like me to proceed uh well um i'll get you to roll me a nature check okay mr baldrick i have an idea i can um i can ask some animals of the forest and have one of them be your tour guide to help help you safely more safely navigate it i mean it's still to be dangerous but at least you have a solid heading of where you're going that'd be helpful i might need someone else who can provide muscle in that regard uh and um it's like oh should we get a souvenir for crunch yes souvenir absolutely well uh and doodle pipe up perhaps i can be a bit of assistance to you baldrick was it yeah i know these swamps pretty well if you're gonna be mucking about out here then i might as well tag along i've still got business left to finish and ostensibly if you're gonna head your way back towards outset in due time uh you might need a crack shot to cover your back out here no man's an island as it were that'd be definitely helpful wouldn't mind someone beefy though hey vic you busy you gonna pay me no fuck you then well there you go what if what if i go i can i can i can accompany you i i don't have all of my powers anymore since i've been baptized in chaos but i could learn them while traveling with you i'm not sure yes i think that's a wise idea meanwhile we will continue to progress on as one unit yes i see the wisdom of each all right oran give me your nature check please awesome all right that's the level of your level of your role will determine what animal you can give me plus 17 nature let's go let me put my stuff down here point as well because i'm doing it i get 11 for 28 total that is a solid uh like disney inspired creation don't come at us why does it have to be disney because it has to be one of those disney animated movie like like hand animated why couldn't we do it legally distinct yeah why can't we just why can't we just make it an animal from like i don't know fucking fritz the cat or something that's good or an indie animator you know we'll we'll go that route all right all right tell me the name and type of creature that is accompanying all right uh chat what animal should it be oh no and while involved and while chat's giving suggestions like well mr bondrick i can call for the animal at least it'll be your guide you know try to help you that might not help out in combat situations but at least it'll do stuff and i think to avoid fighting yeah but chat so far has uh that's a lot of animals t-rex a wendigo absolutely give him a wendigo tugbert it could be tugbert no we don't have time to go over the contract yeah yeah no a tugbert is not an animal it is a fey um comically large beef make it make it a turtle so it's slob baltricle just hold it like a football and then it'll guide him usually a compass it just points his head where you need to go yeah very good yeah you know what let's do that turtle okay well we'll do a turtle okay thanks chat for your suggestions um thank you for turtle turtles can haul ass if they need to you know or it just kind of comes up like to some water and some trees and go and it is like and then all of a sudden he starts singing and stuff and all that all the bits and uh a little turtle comes out and he kind of like he's like and the turtle's like and then it kind of waddles up to you ball jerk he's like here you go here's your guide just follow him baltric picks up the turtle and tucks it under his arm i guess that's useful yeah just it'll point it he says he'll point his head you know to wherever you need to go uh and remember feed him leaves every so often and and and rub his back it feels good for him and don't feed him after midnight yeah if you do he'll kill you with a knife right with a knife just falls out like a little bit i'll stab you i'll win this race all of these very conflicting and unusual pieces of advice now noted in my brain good i'm gonna go get my stuff booked together and then i'm gonna get heading out dude you coming with yeah i'll take a load very good i'll come too yes i sort of follows all right good luck mr baldrick we'll we'll meet back with you once we're done here please don't bye baldrick he's back to my place no promises bye baldrick goodbye goodbye goodbye hey baldrick baldrick and like picture and sort of like runs out after you i just i want i want to say thank you for for listening to my stories i know they're they're hard a lot of the time but i just i i i i just feel like we never got off on the good good right foot and i'm just i'm just glad that you know you you you got this far with me and i can't wait to come and see your house baldrick is biting his tongue very hard behind his helmet like blood comes out from under the helmet no no no you don't see it but he definitely does make his tongue bleed for a moment right well you uh keep them going yeah kind of pointless if they all die out here i was gonna say but since you're kind of the smart smart one in the group here assholes he sort of like leans in you got any advice on how to how to keep them you know going like ways i could i could take on your role well you're gone not that i could take on your role but you know aldrick looks at all of them as they're returning to their soup uh probably just try to keep people from putting raw food into the you know soup that's good at mass raw chicken it was okay okay well thanks and he while holding his bagpipes under his left arm he reaches out his right arm to shake your hand he'll reach back he'll reach down and shake his hand all right good luck on your journey and he turns and like heads back to the group as baldrick turns to hey don't be putting a raw chicken in that soup before he returns back he looks down into his hand and sees that baldrick has left him something in his hand but he's closed his fist do you want to open your hand and see what it is oh no it's an alchemist fire okay what is it you find you find a lesser smoke stick he erupts into a cloud of smoke and he leaves wow but any like like picture and emerges from the wall of smoke back towards the group shouting at orn about the chicken but also shaking his wow baldrick's so so cool he just disappeared in a wall of smoke man i wish i could do that at all he's just fine yeah yeah he's gone now i changed the overlay goodbye he's gone he'll never come back he's dead he died i can't believe baldrick died yeah and now and now replacing replacing baldrick on the overlay is uh bitch bitch that bitch pardon 200% true true now that baldrick has departed from the scene with dude and f if or f ice ice ice thank you uh back to the party big still eating the soup in terms of the remaining people here the rest of you so uh so you guys need uh need muscle i got nothing else to do right now well if you're not doing anything else i suppose we could tolerate it provided you don't go about goring individuals that we are engaged in conversation with that's right just just know that there's a little bit of a pecking order here now you're the you're the new kid i understand that uh so thurston what happens next is uh are you familiar with left for dead are you familiar with there's a little there's a little special infected called the hunter from left for dead uh she pounces and begins strangling pick turn hold on hold on pick that's our guy that's our guy let him go that's our little guy i'm not gonna deal with being mouthed off to like that i'm sorry can i breathe now he he she gets off of him and then like drags him up by the back of his shirt i'm still the new guy i'm still you want to roll me intimidate no absolutely yes poor boy don't talk bitch anymore this is gonna happen uh that's deception not that intimidate do i get a bonus for intimidating prowess have i killed anything recently i'll give you a plus two circumstance bonus great attacked pick turn attack pick turn bonus destroy him 27 i'm sure that there's there's actually a good reason that i'm i'm still the newest member of the group you know i guess because you've always been here in spirit and i haven't so yeah yeah i'm still the new person she she gets up dusts herself off and goes back over to the campfire all right sure yeah i can tag along as long as you guys actually get me somewhere after this and don't ditch me in the woods like the rest of those bastards did the rest of those bastards you mean your mercenary company yeah so we had a funny we had kind of a plan going on where they were gonna hang back there's a long story but basically that elf you know the guy who got set on fire who i so graciously as she bows towards volley let you kill question mark uh dubiously you you got the last shot on him so we'll count that even before he burst into flames yes yeah we can't really count a victor there that's that's a bit too vague but yeah he was looking for me and he well i put it bluntly he paid us an awful lot of money or paid them an awful lot of money to go elsewhere but took me with him for some reason actually i know the bastard hits me with a blackjack and stuffs me in the stupid shack like he didn't spend my goddamn money or money or well he was always a bit of an untrustworthy douchebag yeah don't i fucking know it all right what's your what was your specific beef with him blue oh he killed me she just looks you up and down oh you don't look too worse for wear nah yeah i got better yeah whatever horn gets up it's very interesting what else do we need to do because he's put all the dishes away yeah what were we supposed to be doing out here you guys are gonna go see some big dumb frog or whatever what are you why don't you tell me what the fuck you guys are doing baldy decided to not tell me too much about that and you know and i'm sitting here is he actually bald under the helmet no his name's baldrick i don't know if you caught that wow you know what i really didn't thank you so much victrix you were so helpful i'm so glad you're here with us no problem someone's got victrix is a valuable part of this party poor victrix just pipes up she points a finger at picturn and don't you forget it i won't i never will as a rubs neck wound go on oran oran gets up and is like well i guess now is never to go meet with the big frog thing let's go as you say that appearing at the door is uh the the element touched tashti who looks in um hello hey tashti how you doing i've been given the location of the grotto and i'm going to take you there okay cool um how are you all doing well we just ate breakfast yep and uh it's the most important meal of the day after all don't lie to her bitch what anyway we get back to the road map we're run out of steam man this is fucking good i sleep over a hot stove all morning just you tell me what i cooked you is not the most important meal of the day i don't even fucking eat it and i cook it over you if it's not the most important meal of the day it will be your last meal of the day of your life it just tastes like bark all the time tashty joins the group and you remember that i need to have like a texting in the top right of the overlay it's like it's always time someone will remember that yes all right tashty leads the way this journey only takes you about two days of continuance through the swamp as as this occurs tashty leads the way uh occasionally talking um trying not to get on the nerves of victrix um the rest of you are kind of you know like somewhat energized but also somewhat sullen given all of the recent changes you you make your way through the solitude swamps uh accompanied by you know your trusty pictor now victrix as well tashty leads the way um eventually you come across a stream uh tashy indicates to the stream sort of motioning uh to the downward current this stream leads to the grotto it goes to a small cave mouth that's really not accessible for anyone to to go through but then there's a larger cave mouth that's the proper entrance um can y'all give me perception checks sure i would love to i'm afraid of what would happen if we fail an obvious or in front of or or or doesn't have to worry about that oh nice i see into the other dimensions i got a 17 yeah cool um i will just assume that uh oh oh oh he's doing it here he is here here he is here here he is here here he is here here he is coming in last coming in i'm passionately late 22 it's cause it's cause i uh i like saw victrix's intimidation check and i was like what the fuck are we all rolling intimidation checks we're all gonna intimidate pick turn now uh volley uh sorry yeah volley and um oran you notice along the banks of this uh this stream that sort of like widens out to to a small river it's kind of an in-between state uh you notice that there's like broken pieces of wood uh but oran with your success you notice that it's the same type of wood that belonged to the boxes that you saw in the cube the boxes that you saw at gorgamongers and some of the boxes you saw along like the the with the children of the blaze camp interesting yes like look here rubs tree you saw the same wood what of of the of those boxes and stuff we found you remember those boxes and like the cube that was filled with all the rot stuff yes i do it is quite interesting frankly i was worried you were going to make some thinly veiled racist joke but you know that's okay wow i always expect i always expect you know bigotry in my rock grind there's one thing we love here at rock grind let's start saying our slurs all together now all right chat this time you get to participate no stop what i just want to say all the nasty words let me say them i said one all right so orrin orrin's tap it over don't post a lore emoji you damn it hey that's a really good thing i'm considering uh giving you some nastiness for that one mister almost actually said a slur in the chat yeah it's not an invitation to actually do it use your brain cell god damn it anyway yeah so basically orrin will tap the tree uh and be all like like there has to be something important about the this type of wood and stuff must have some properties that could that could resist the rot even to maybe help transport and everything and it's been the same for here and the cart and transporting and everything else so they must have gathered the wood here well those those the stream here is where we send our supplies dashdi says once we get the the ones from from the city the medical supplies those boxes we we put on the stream they go through that that first cave i mentioned the then they drop down into the grotto for storage in case we need them since we're constantly moving the only place we have that's a safe harbor is as ribious as grotto the game master told me i'm stupid all right there am i i got a question for you rocky yeah don't call me rocky right sure okay stony oh geez powers preserve me okay yes why do you guys send all this crap down to a cave filled with some deity thing does he really need that much ribious protects it for us for when we do need medical supplies and others of the type that outset provides for us we've been blessed for a few seasons that we haven't had to take from the supplies but and you're just sure he's still got all of it there right he doesn't eat any of it i i i don't think so i've i've never met great ribious before i i'm i'm not worthy not yet my friend i think the only person who eats bandages and uh peroxide here is you what that was a mean thing to say voli don't don't don't like tugs at voli's side picture she's like don't don't you don't want to you don't want to say bad things about vectrix vectrix is a good person she she leans on she leans on her it's only good fun like it's like it's a leaning cane it's like no no no she can say it she's cute i'm getting such mixed signals here that's how i roll you know what i respect that let's go see a frog yeah right frog mr tannhauser yes i miss baldrick that's the point he gets it he finally gets it all right all right so um you carry on along the stream until you come to this um like large outcropping of rock that juts out um but the stream goes into this this outcropping of rock but it's only like a foot um of a like slit in so like someone could fit but it would be very very precarious and you're you're assuming like it well it does go under right away so tashd sort of leads you around it um indicating you know by pointing to to the little streamlet and that's where the the crates go down but will come this way and they sort of lead you down along the side and you you realize you're kind of at a like slope going down um as you do this however um you start to notice in the west there are like further large storm clouds that have now formed um kind of as you're going through some of the tree cover in this area you see them and to the west is this vast storm similar to the one you saw before um just this this crackling electrical storm far off in the distance not enough to like come down on you and it's not coming towards you by any by any stretch but but the same one that seemed like or the same type i should say maybe even the same one that had fallen upon you earlier and certainly given volley a piece of its you know weather based mind um yeah it yeah it it it just hangs there uh to the west almost towards what you would guess to be like the the western coast but how she noticed like notices it it's uh it's it's certainly following you around you know so long as i don't get electrocuted again it it it can follow us wherever it wants oh it's gonna be okay it's scared of rahua very true he's not scared of me we simply came to a mutual understanding that now is not the time what what what what is the time gonna be are you saying you're gonna fight that storm later on oh not necessarily all i can say pick turn and he'll just loom the shadows behind him yeah yeah anime you will know it when it happens okay old old old tree yells at god yeah uh tashti then uh approaches towards a sort of like scooped cavern entrance out coming out of the the this rocky outcropping which at this point rises up a fair way um there is like lichen and moss and and some like you know strange vines that come down giving almost obscuring the entrance entirely but but tashti sort of waves their hands all right that's that's the cave i'm not allowed to go in all right well thank you all way out here and please try not to offend the great one oh wait victrix you should stay outside hang on a second wait a minute i thought we were coming here to fight something no what the what the what the fuck is my point then we're here to get cured of the rot you're just here because i don't know you you're here in case something does is really good and important we're here in case it does happen right right yeah just watch our back you know you could you either you know just watch the entrance or make sure it doesn't eat us all right very true all right makes sense so you succeeded yeah there you go you succeeded with the player so you uh are going to head in um what's your light sources that you've got going on tanhauser i know he doesn't wear it's me yeah it's i am no longer grossly in camp uh vick's got a torch hey anyone else are you just going by by vick's torch light yeah sure i have light as a cantrip it's fine okay no i was like are you gonna cast it or put the two tanks up front that's okay so you're just gonna let vick okay cool cool cool cool all right you just hear the like you hear the metal clank of the glaive and then also the wooden clack of her fucking peg leg as she's walking along with the stupid torch tell me again why i'm leading the way you have the torch you both have you all have hands right well then give me the torch you want me to carry the torch carry the torch no it's my torch oh okay oh wow why are you doing it no it's mine i was it was a question jackass the the moisture in the air strikes you as you enter this cave strikes me yeah you you feel it like there's like slime on the walls uh you like in little growths and like as you're carrying you just hear the constant like rush of water and then drips of water there's like kind of broken sort of rocks along a fairly narrow five foot wide uh passage that like snakes through along the walls or like small carvings that you can see have been made um which none of you except for oran can recognize but oran you read them as the the druidic language i could read these they are praises to the various old powers um in particular they are they are giving praise to the the deity auntie drown i relayed the information okay okay auntie drown that's that's a good sign we're we're we're all we're good with auntie drown as far as i remember how the hell do you know that uh it's a long story yeah how the hell did he fall in with you guys he is you guys do not strike me as the kind of people he'd associate with oh we aren't we're just very persistent yeah desperate times make for strange bedfellows we have we live near each other who just sighed because vic will point her fucking glaive at that as you as you go to point the glaive like it seems to resonate off the walls that sounds like a frog let's go or something undead or worse well let's hope it isn't or maybe he's just depressed i can solve all that with my glaive if you want yeah you're just communing with it now me too buddy it's also the sound i make when i get up from the recline sound i make when i wake up in the morning the sound you make when you eat one too many cheese curls relatable vick is gonna lead on because we are sitting here talking to the cave walls yeah so so traveling a short way further maybe about 10 minutes of walking through winding caverns uh vick's torch yeah vick's torchlight then illuminates to a large chamber about maybe 50 feet in diameter the torchlight barely even reaching the far edges of it in its dim illumination there is the rushing of three waterfalls along the back all of which seem to go into this this pool um there's a path that snakes off to the east as you come in kind of carrying on the cave system but then you see a gargantuan figure that seems to rest inside this this pool here um it it is a it is a utterly massive frog that stares up at you with two eyes and like it's covered in just lichen and moss um but it has this lethargic tone and it's like mouth just sort of opens and closes and just does this brrrr brrrr brrrr uh anarchy in the air that thing is ugly or almost a quickly cover like like just like just go like uh uh it's it's good to see you he wants to talk in the drinking language you know just everything you know just just talking in juridic language saying like it's like um revidus was it rubius rubius as i said i am i am i am more i'm more of the greening way high from the fjol mountains far away from this land uh we've come to beseech thee if you have the time and its mouth keeps making these sounds but then it rises up and as it does so you see that this thing this entity has three mouths and whilst the first one continues to to like relay these grunts and groans a middle mouth rises up out of the water and begins to speak well hello there it says in like a thick common welcome to my grotto i hate you i love him i love him so much this man is my friend that's that's very nice nolvik is still pointing the glaive at him like what the fuck what am i looking at why oh a judah cutest group to come here in a while oh my god it's frog the jam he thinks we're cute the top mouth continues to grunt so thank you for your time sir ribius then the second mouth oh yes sir no problem at all i'd come out to greet you proper but i'm kind of tired you know what we all understand that that is what the kids call a big mood what just assume the top mouth is doing that unless i say otherwise so i don't have to you don't have to keep it up exactly well we were informed that you possibly have abilities that allow you to cleanse the rot is that correct is that what you've been told who've been telling you that kind of stories you've been finding them on the sides of cave walls and talking to talking to old aethon there yes aethon speaks very highly of you of course he does of course he does i've known him since he was a young whippersnapper i do really you you don't look a day over i don't know how long frogs live not very long just say a large number are you asking how old i am that's very very direct of you child of the storm it's really rude to ask a frog its age you look as fresh as you as you were as you were birthed from the from the spawns of after being a tadpole you look no different than your prime when the first life sprang forth in the swamps mr frog that one who's better we're so good at this oh oh well and like there's just like this like resounding just like mer sound coming um well yeah i am i suppose the correct would be 1600 of your years old yeah write that down you certainly possess great wisdom i know uh i don't i don't leave this grotto that often so i don't know much like tucking out of your ass blue like the central mouth is now laughing whilst the top of continues it's like exasperations it's like exasperations so you came here for a cure for the rot yes we myself and my friend or in here have come into contact with the rot more than a simple affliction it's something that's worked its way into well deep in we were sponsored you see and both of us have met our end oh i know my mama the auntie she thinks highly of all of you except the one in the rags and the little one there you was all in her eyes she watches you like i do now we're very grateful for her blessings and unfortunately you're lucky too because since she since she watches you since the auntie watches you since ing taos watches you then there is a chance to be cured you see that's the that's the rub of the situation you see only the sponsor can walk back the affliction of the rot and we wish to continue to prove ourselves in the eyes of the auntie drown can you give me a diplomacy check i'm sure would like to finally a skill just for her well i'm better at deception but that's fine it's better than literally everyone else that's not bad at all 29 well i like you and want to want to help you but there's a problem you see and what would that problem be well in order to speak the soothing song to cure you of your ailments my third mouth must speak but my third mouth is so tired it cannot open what can we do to help well i think there is something wrong in the deeper grotto i i would go and look at into it but i'm too big for those other places and he like sort of like leans his head towards the passage that continues on i sometimes have the folks from the cabos come but they have been so prosperous lately they have not needed to but now that you are here you can go in you can find what's wrong in there and when you do find what's wrong in there then you can make it so make it so that my my lower mouth can speak the soothing song of course anything hey pardon me for weighing in on this this isn't really my bit you uh you got those guys up topside the fellas from the kaibu the twang folk you'd say they don't want to help you because they're too prosperous right now don't they aren't you their god you know that thing i want to point something out to you little one look at the cave behind you look at the cave to the side does it look like i can fit through that how the hell do they speak to you then they have to come here but they only come when they're not prosperous they only come when they need something and they ain't needed anything so i've been here all alone well maybe it's the communication literally one of them just said that they're not allowed to go in so maybe we could send i'll relay a message that you want people to come visit well i don't want him to visit all the time i like sleeping as he says that the top mouth is just again like fuck me sideways fuck it we'll just do it ourselves well we'll we'll put a bell or something so you can ring it if you want company that's a good idea yeah yeah ring the bell for company otherwise so basically to help you do this earling song to help us clear the rot we need to go help take care of the stuff of the grotto which i'm good for we can help out right he looks at everyone else of course of course we can help what do we do but help i'm here to kill shit picture i like turned away from the entire conversation and is just like looking towards the grotto like you know the ominous cave mouth entrance just staring at it despondently or we'll see that we'll put a hand on picture shoulders yeah we get the cure of the rot picture and then we can continue to go have adventures together yeah yeah yeah that's that's that's good i just yeah adventures together right i thought it'd be a bit different here so all that's that's all i just you know thought we'd come and get everyone all fixed up what the fuck's your problem now we're almost there picture we just gotta do this thing and then we're good yeah yeah that's right we're just gonna go in there and get everyone all fixed up yeah let's go come on guys we're gonna go down there and fix whatever's wrong with ribius and then it's going to be smooth sailing we'll be eating hand pies at granny's sweets and outset in no time yeah that was just one more job picture and just one more job i think my teeth are gonna fall out of my head i hope they do holy shit base trahua coming at vick the way he says that misogyny misogyny god forbid she can do anything god forbid women do anything or start moving forward is pick turn moving is pick turn moving at all he's still like staring at the cave like like just sort of waiting for someone to take the initiative vick is going to pass him the torch and then she is going to get out her 10 second hourglass okay this empties go on pick turn it's it's okay we'll go together i don't want you to get smushed down there by something big and scary like a rot frog rot frog you think there's a rot frog in there no there's definitely not probably not i mean it can infect everything but it's probably not if i'm gonna take the torch and i'm gonna start walking there are scarier things in this room right now pick turn i will uh i will follow my uh my blue companion blue okay so voli voli has the torch okay very good vick will be right behind uh tanhauser okay i'll be behind vick okay you know tanhauser you were gonna say something i i'm just gonna lean on lean and davali and i'm just gonna say you know i get the feeling that we're not giving this frog the respect it deserves hmm well we are doing this uh errand for him and i'm doing my best to be respectful deferential do you think that you'll need me what but what's about to happen because if not i may have a plan to guarantee the favor of ribius hmm well let's deal with whatever his problem is first and i imagine that will endear us to him he didn't seem like he disliked us especially since auntie drowned school with us that is true yes yes lead the way and you know not being disliked is kind of the best our little band can hope for it's almost like being liked yes it's very close to being liked okay you carry on um the the cavern here expands a bit to you know about almost like a 10 foot wide passageway uh which is spacious but still nowhere near enough to contain the five by five square ribius um but you will you make your way through for for quite some time again about another five minutes through winding passages and hearing the sound of water ripping eventually you come across like an open uh area that sort of cuts um there's like paths to the north to the south and on the wall is a um is an inscribed symbol of uh balance saws of auntie drown like cut into the rock here and you see alcoves on the walls here as well just individual small little alcoves that appear to have uh like tiny offerings in them as you approach bring up a map get the map get the map items you say offerings things to take you say no don't take from ribia's um you may need to zoom out hopefully do you all see the map the map it's it's bloating it's bloating okay if it's like a big old high resolution map then it usually does it sometime i tried to preload it which is well fine it will load eventually but yeah you see the symbol um the sort of like dry um try swirls oh there we go um a little refresh once I get oh okay but yes as you uh as you sort of begin begin your your approach and you see this and then several boxes to the south of the area as well there we go yes and then volley holding the torch has kind of this uh this this this beautiful light sort of illuminating the way incandescent yes you're orange true what would you uh what would you like to do um i am curious about the boxes hmm because you said that the boxes were similar to the ones we had seen in the lab space okay these ones like these ones appear to be a bit different they look far more um like far less manufactured like there's been some like personal care and love put into them but they're also like some of them seem to have you know like you know water pooled on them or like like kind of like layers of like dust and debris that have fallen on them in that case i'm going to keep an eye out for disturbances i'm gonna step a little further up like here ish kind of where the tunnel starts splitting off gonna lean around okay so yeah you you begin to head up um as you do you can kind of get a sense of like that this cave is incredibly dark um so i'm just going to very quickly readjust your light sorry i had it on daytime when it is absolutely not daytime okay um yeah so so vali you you carry on up you can see that the passages continue on to the north it appears like there's a there's like a section of water and you can see the edge of it like water lapping up against a stone that's sort of starting to decline down to the east there's a similar area it looks like this place has got a lot of water in it wow i guess that checks out because it's anti-drown uh well who's the best swimmer here orton raises his hand oh that is true you can't turn into a sea animal i can sort of did i give her underwater no i did and thurston gave me a cool item that we you know that allows give you swim speed okay can i say before this episode i told jamie it was going to be a coin flip if you remembered that but very good thank you for being on the side thurston is it based on athletics swamming swamming um yes is based on athletics uh who else got a good athlete not me i literally i literally have a swim speed i know because of that essence yes yeah and i have i'm kind of i'm kind of fleet-footed not gonna lie um yeah uh i guess orn will go up and investigate the water it's like well i'll go take a look at it valley godspeed all right captain goes up this way you'll like to i'll like to perception check the water make sure like no giant alligator it's gonna go right i want to perceive the water sure yeah so you go up to the water do you want to give me a perception check sure can i i rolled a 10 for a total of 25 do i see the bodies 10 for a total of 25 you do not see any bodies instead you see that the the water is sort of like dark i mean you're kind of at the edge of the vision that valley's giving you with the torch from where she's standing but like yeah you can tell that it seems just like lapping water in here yeah if it seems deep enough orn will uh look back at the crew and be like like it's like you want me to investigate inside or leave this alone let's get a look around the rest of the place and then uh we'll explore the bodies of water after okay start investigating the rest of the the room with everyone else and yeah so as you start to kind of pull around whoops uh apparently my game just uh i wanted to ask before we like all disappeared out thurston would it be possible to reach the bodies with vix gaff or are they too far away what bodies you said bodies no that was a joke that was a bad i'm gonna bring i'm gonna bring it back there's actual bodies in there narrative declaration there are corpses that are bloated and distended they're narrative declarations to make shit worse on themselves chat yeah um we're just at base i narratively declare that there are poison ghosts in the water okay so i lose my limbs oh well shit what is this the alpha musa role playing game i'm infected yeah as you uh as volley as you sort of like walk around with with your torch sort of like kind of walking around this central uh pillar of stone that rises up you can tell it kind of like the ceiling here isn't too high it's only about like 12 feet um but you see that there's more lapping water to the east and like northeast uh southeast and then there's more niches and alcoves to the south with more boxes and and such set up there but it looks like you're only available uh continuing points or places with water beyond like investigating the boxes and the the alcoves hmm well those of us who can swim should probably swim uh the rest of us could stay behind and pick through the boxes see what we find yeah i'll split the party he goes over to one of the bits of water okay i mean it's not like i can follow you it's fine you'll be fine i'm sure everyone's sure of things don't worry or and i can swim good too i'm sorry everybody oh pick turn it's all right it's just a cabin doesn't help in this situation well your presence does oh okay well i'm gonna hey uh yeah hey picture do you have anything to help with water breathing i don't i'm sorry it's okay your bright smile makes my day every better i look forward to seeing it when i come back goes under the water okay all right okay besides we need you here to keep us alive if something eats our legs off yeah all right you can help but honestly you've earned a break you can just take a breather unless something goes horribly wrong um given that volley has the light source and you're going into like pitch black and water um rohua are you like lighten yourself up with a light spell oh yeah yeah no i cast light okay i'm also going to manifest my soul forged armaments i'm gonna manifest the armor as rohua's frame splays apart and crystalline cruces weird space astral magic manifest around him and he just starts walking into the water as the water kind of wraps around him since he has an equivalent swim speed his walk speed is on i love it when rohua whips out the weird shit okay uh tanhauser what are you doing um so first up the way to proceed forward appears to be swimming through this water right it's not just for the blessed for the rotted uh it yeah it appears the only ways out are the southeastern passage this northeastern passage and then the north uh passage of water those are the ones you've you've explored and those appear to be the only exits here i'm going to i guess splitting up 222 isn't the worst idea um uh so uh our good friend picturn can swim right he'll be swimming are you asking him this our good friend good friend picturn can you swim i'm gonna walk up to picturn picturn yeah yeah yeah i have a mission for you it's very important and i didn't want to tell the others what's that i'm gonna reach into my back pocket take out my backpack and i'm going to unveil a powerful artifact i've had on me for a long time i don't give this away easily but given that there is likely strange esoteric dangers within this cave i think it's best that you handle this and i'm going to reach up and i'm going to raise up my fishing rod and fishing tackle see if you can catch anything down here up there up there where where should i fish you should use your fisherman's instinct to be able to divine where there may be fish this is like world of warcraft all right i'll go fishing he takes your fishing and tackle this is very important i love fishing the rare the rare spawns here macabre make sure he gets a size two fish all right well with this this colossal waste of our time done i'm gonna go in the water okay so you're going in the water or and you're going in the water rahua you're going in the water of a sort what is okay elaborate what you mean by of a sort you don't get to say that and not tell me what you're doing well because of adaptable persona i get an equivalent climb or swim speed equal to my land speed i'm choosing swim because i'm manifesting it but i'm flavoring it in that the water just kind of parts around him like he's hydrophobic because he's just fucking weird like that he's technically swimming just in his own weird way okay he's in a bubble okay so both of you are gonna get your your uh swim speeds which i think oran for you is what does that essence give you when it's affixed to you it is a 20 20 feet yeah um and then tanhauser okay what's your baseline speed tanhauser um my baseline uh speed is 25 but it can increase with laughing shadow and various okay but you're not you're not like 40 feet right now because basically how this works is you're you move through water like without this is calm water you don't even have to make an athletics check here um unless you know things go you know like oh it's turbulent water or something um but basically you move five feet plus five feet for every 20 feet of your land speed so that's gonna be like you're gonna move 10 feet in the water oh damn that's pretty slow yeah yeah yeah that's why i suggested that the two swimming boys uh kind of report back what they see in the water and we divide and conquer our efforts with everything back here just to kind of see if we see anything yeah that makes sense you know what let's do that instead of whatever the fuck i was going for he wanted to swim okay so oran and rahua are you going to swim through this area together yes are you going to like one one okay cool um so i assume you're just gonna like buddy system stick together and go through you've always been diving cave diving is dangerous cool so you start making your way through um are you like i yeah yeah so so you make your way and eventually find like a little islet um at the opposite end of the chamber which you realize this this area is like a giant like horseshoe that comes around to the the southeastern um as you come up um back onto this little little islet here no more than like 10 feet from the wall you can see more alcoves there's some some objects inside of those alcoves and in fact something in one of those alcoves that looks you know particularly interesting but before you get a chance uh for that can each of you give me a perception check all of us just the two who are there or yeah i was like each of you i got you yes i see you into the water or enrolled an 18 for a total of 33 15 and then 30 in your dice knocked my dice over and put it on a one thanks thanks that's the way the cookie crumbles or and i don't make the rules beats you up throws dice so both of you both of you see something happening on the walls um very quickly you can tell that there there appears to be some sort of um some sort of like growth on the walls like a a oily like inky blackness that seems to be spreading along the stone even coming out of some of the alcoves um to to give you an idea you have both succeeded at like detecting this just as it's starting so given the given the rules you have or and i'm gonna let you get to pick to go first here you see this like inky growth happening what are you doing uh hmm what i usually identify as something similar i've seen before it has some similar appearance to the rot just in a very small form yeah and it's not approaching me or anything right just slithering on the wall there it seems to be slithering on the wall that you on the islet you've come in it's like rahua you can't have to touch any of this it seems to be yeah it seems most of this place infected by the rot it's probably what the frog's been concerned about like men rightfully so this is thankfully pretty small in comparison to what we're used to okay stop we're technically in a combat style around here so that's about the extent of what you can say what are you doing with your remaining actions oran uh oran as he's turning around and backing up will kind of mention the hood like let's swim back and he's going to start swimming backwards so if i'm going to do that so enter in this is what i'll just do 20 just for the movement stuff in total so 20 swimming in and then i still have one action left yeah okay i'm going to start swimming back i was like get out of here what are you doing so it's all over this back wall it's like it's growing out of the wall spreading along the wall okay i am going to unveil the mossy mace and i'm going to go to where the vestiges of this growth are and just trace the mace along the wall near where the ends of this blight is spreading and seeing if it starts to you know fizzle out and recede sure um can you as part of this because you're sort of using like natural elements here can you give me a nature check please sure yep oh 32 19 on the die cool um you are able to successfully um disrupt this effect before it occurs so you you trace it along you you recognize this as like a vestigial element of the rot um and with the use of the mace you manage to repel it back as you do so you can see the the alcoves are clear and as you sort of finish this you you realize uh with your check that this was a type of hazard um it is a type of hazard that is unique to our setting um called a corruption a corruption is different from say a haunt or an environmental hazard um in that a corruption is is the alien influence of the rot manifesting in the real world so it's similar to like a haunt but a rot haunt ah and you've managed to dissipate it this was not a complex hazard this was like a very simple would have like one and done probably like try to influence your mind or damage your mind but by doing the incantations you did you you managed to stop that oh so is this now as opposed to just kind of pushing it back slightly just dissipated outright from from this area yes but you realize it's it wasn't like a direct like appearance of the rot like the rot that you saw didn't actually exist there it was a mental like kind of like overlay of reality from probably a source of rot somewhere in the area uh interesting so it's like corrupting the what could be any potential future manifestation of it's ejecting outward like it's bleeding over into the real right now yes like it's like there's a source nearby and what it's doing is it's influencing reality in other places and rahua would have picked up on this like that the nature of that oh i love that um but as as you sort of like pick up on that too and you you you repel back this this vestige as you hear the splashing of ore and like gtfoing um you can see that the alcove that is left um has some some like gemstones that appear to be some like um some aquamarines and fine gemstones and then what appears to be a rune um that like glows and you can tell it's magic um there's like a magical rune with the symbol the the sort of symbol you saw on that entry pillar as you came into the grotto probably like you know a paul like palm-sized uh rune um that you recognize as as a type of like rune for like armor weapons oh can i divine the nature of this absolutely uh religion in this case oh yeah that makes sense he's doing the opposite of losing his religion well maybe not oh well maybe uh 19 uh you're able to study it and with some of your your other the like other knowledge as you've as you've you know investigated this you can tell that this is a weapon rune this is a weapon property rune uh for a frost weapon so um real quick so so people know what that is um a frost rune uh is something you can slap on it's an eighth level rune you slap it on it's worth 500 gold pieces if you're to sell it um anytime you attack with your weapon you deal an additional 1d6 cold damage on a successful strike and if you crit a target the target is also slowed one until the end of your next turn unless it succeeds a dc 24 fortitude save cool so it is like raw extra damage on all of your attacks but it does extra cold damage so well nice well i guess then i will pocket these items okay assuming you just like take the take the the gems as well or i can just put them in the the people's loot should you wish absolutely yeah okay perfect i want to check the previous before we leave though i don't want to kind of take his stuff worshipers left it here all good it's about um it's about 150 gold per pieces with the gems in rough value so i've just added that to the people's loot nice uh so oran you like come ashore but as you come back uh ruhu is nowhere to be seen behind you wait oh i'm sure he's getting here hey guys we found something weird what did you find uh basically it looked like some of the rot was trying to come out of the wall why is there rot in the wall i don't know man i didn't put it there this is supposed to be the place where there is not a lot of rot yeah well you know the frog couldn't squeeze through and you know he couldn't clear it out so that's probably why we're here but uh oh hey there's rahua he's points over i'm assuming like the lot like uh like the swamp monster of old just coming out of the water oh it's like it's like that art somebody did if it came from the swamp he's just rising out of it with his light that was that's awfully prophetic but okay but uh yeah but rahua was like it was like you stood a little too long you're good oh yeah everything's fine so fun cool fact that wall back there in the grotto was covered in rot but get this it wasn't actually the rot but what was it what is the rot but also isn't the road the the raw the raw it's a question it was really what i yes the root the root is out there in the group the group rose what was there was what one might call a corruption it is a vestige of the rot itself there is some greater blight nestled into this cave system or probably close nearby outside but it is not the blight itself it is if that subsection of the rot this element that has wormed its way in is bleeding over not just into the surrounding area and the fauna and wildlife but as if it is intersecting realities like timelines where it might be or it might not be but it's influencing the here and now as if it is trying to manifest further the infestation goes beyond something like well infection like you two it's like it's trying to manifest without touching anything in actuality but it responds to the moss just the same and well it is gone at least for the time being oh no we're getting metaphysical my brain hurts so you assume this is some sort of holographic or perhaps imaginary rot well not quite it it without knowing more about the rot and studying it more than what we know now it would be safe to assume or at least operate on the side of caution that the rot has some kind of ontomorphic effect that is to say reality affecting beyond well blighting everything around it but i'm assuming we'll know more in time hey red i got a question for you am i red yeah you are you know this up here she you know points to your hair and stops just short of touching it all right what do you want yeah you said a really funny word there what's holographic holographic it's a projection uh imagine a two-dimensional object that has been projected as if it had the qualities of a three-dimensional object for instance a illusionists are fond of these mystical holograms they're more common in zescoran but most of the time the illusionists will call them phantasms she's just nodding and nodding and nodding and then she just kind of pauses for a moment as you finish oh so you mean like fake in a way but this rot is clearly real i meant in the way that it's a projection of something beyond forgive me i had to vacate a part in my mouth cough in my face who lifts up like a silo from his mouth but smashing it back in anyway as i was saying it could be an imprint from the other dimension it could be a key into where this rot comes from or it could be the residue of a thousand transfers of rot i don't know i only have theories okay essay answer good so if you prefer a less intellectual one sure it's fake real rot tldr shit's weird let's keep looking for more evidence well we were gonna go this way she points the glaive into the room with the crates yep yep all right in that case we uh the two of them we're gonna go and look at boxes yeah so the alcoves here are covered with various offerings they appear to mostly be like little like bone tokens some uh like stitched together in the symbol of the old powers some in the symbol of you know perspective powers though primarily those of uh auntie drown balnasas um as you are kind of going through these the boxes themselves appear to be uh like preserved foods um there's also like some alchemicals in here that you're finding uh though not many it doesn't match up with like medical items at all it seems to be more like preserved foods um very like local cuisine you're guessing in some cases uh some of the food here is spoiled like it was just put here as an offering and nothing else if you have a religion you can give me a check yep nope okay cool nope who do you take that for who do you take her for i'm not a religious woman neither am i i mean actually what about that one uh religion that you're part of yeah thank you oh that is true that is true sniff or crawl down on us get bill sniffers in there hey rahua you wanna go and help them out they seem to be having trouble they're staring at that box real hard oh they always stare at the boxes but they never ask how the box is i'll help out yeah so inconsiderate all right what do we got here uh we got boxes and crates with uh things dedicated to the old powers all right i feel like we brought in an expert okay how much they're worth stand back gamers i got this vick is while he's doing that vick is like picking up some of the good mick is picking up some of the very aged food and just like sniffing it before like dragging down her mask a bit to take a bite no yeah it's a 17 um it if you had to guess like you would guess that this is off like offerings like this would be a place where just things would be offered to the old powers with with no expectation of like you know them being accepted they're just here can so so yes it would be okay to take this stuff because like it's kind of just offered here to the old powers if someone were to take this stuff back then it would be like oh it's assumed that clearly the old powers wanted them to get this yeah so so basically we can just take this this is fine oh my god just take it i don't know if we could take it well yes get that out of your mouth they're just offerings why it's a kind of like it's a catch-22 if we don't take it it's assumed the old powers wanted us to not take it and vice versa if we come back with the supplies oh yes thank the gods wanted us to have these things so i mean if you need them by all means let's let's pick them over and see if we can get something to go back safely uh thirst i'll let you decide what the fuck is she eating now what what what is what is remotely edible in here um there's yeah there's like there's probably like some like preserved foods that were like canned outset foods that have been like placed here um that have some taste to them um probably with i don't know some kind of like crunchy element like nuts or whatnot abusing the glazed as a can opener good yes um yeah okay so um taking that uh like i assume you'll just spend some time going over this stuff and seeing what's usable yep um i'll i'll spare us like a lot there's not much here that's going to be of actual use to you like you don't need any of this food stuff your food stuff's going to be better like there's just a lot of you know things that are overall going to be you know eh but there are three potions hidden amongst these that don't match potions you've seen before um they appear to be uh not alchemical but like magically created so any of our um nature like a nature check or a uh religion check to identify them you can take that sure i can take that one moment one moment pop up let's do a little bit better this time 28 what are the 28s yeah so these are uh three potions healing potions moderate healing potions uh remember that like healing potions tend to be a bit more effective than like elixirs of life um in this case like moderate healing potions uh restore 3d8 plus 10 hit points when you drink them there's three of them i have put them in the people's loot along with the still identified scroll and uh wand object in there i think thurston's mad at us that we didn't identify no i'm just oh hey why don't i identify that scroll why don't i identify that wand why do i do that why not just how about um how about you know uh speaker you give me a king check and uh or and you give me a nature check just because you know oh that's so crazy dude yeah i'm glad we took the initiative yeah you're i'm really proud of you yeah i rolled an 18 18 for a total of 35 all right so you identify you rolled a 7 for a total of 24 for yeah you identify both of these so i've added it to people's loot uh the primal item was a scroll of wall of fire neat um and then the wand was a uh wand of third level fireball this is probably nothing it's just a twig it's just a twig arms holding up the wand uh it's just it's just a wood from from a tree ten hazard i mean i mean it's not like from trees unless it comes from i mean it would be pretty cool if this held magic of mass destruction yeah i agree well i guess it's useless i might as well just try and cast it on my position right now in this enclosed area yeah here we go hold hands together we're going out together wait hold on a second get the barn over here for whatever reason i'm thinking of four lions i i think i will keep the wanda fireball okay man i'll take the scroll you may drag them from the people's loot because i have the overlay could you drag it for me please i will allow this i need to do it because i can't look at all this shit right now here is your scroll of wall of fire very good i assume because i'm here tan hauser would also just like me to do this for him that would be so nice also because i can't find the people's loot for some reason why we yeah i couldn't find it either holder actually do you not see it under the you know what i think it's because i put it under friends i'm just gonna put it under pcs now oh yeah yeah the people the people's loot the people's loot the people that's about all you you find from the objects and items here okay vick will now put up another can with her glaive and eat it okay no it's fine game hey let's go check out picturn yeah let's check the other area yeah i hope he's caught like the biggest fish can i near to the clear well i don't have any of the hero points oh well i narratively declare wanted to actually catch a fish so as you uh as you get closer uh volley and and like with the with the light of illumination of you and rahu as you get closer you see that picturn has like the fishing rod but it's like like it's like two feet out into the water he's just kind of holding it limply in one hand oh my little guy everything okay picturn i don't think there's anything in this water nothing seems to be bad no fish nothing no not even little ones no well well good job sorry go ahead what's the matter buddy nothing it's just there's no fish here and i was told to fish and it's just another thing i failed at i guess no picturn buddy come here come here tad tad how's your tricity like yeah like like like has the hug tad how's your trusted me with this and it just didn't work picture picture we he asked you the to fish not to catch any so you did great you did exactly what he wanted you to do i guess and you did perfect you know what you did you know he did big turn because you because you put the rod and the line everything in there you confirm that there's nothing in the water which means it's safe for me and rahu to swim oh does that mean that i mean yeah i'm out of that fine absolutely so now you help scout ahead good job pig turn or we'll move up and try to offer a high five thanks he like half-heartedly takes your half i appreciate it no problem skillet dives in the water okay so in the water who are you going are you going to buddy system again uh yes because now that i know that there are vestiges of the rot in the cave i don't want to turn going in by himself okay stop moving oh yeah please don't move them don't move them fucking pausing what do you mean don't move them both of you give me perception checks as you're like going through the water no oh okay thanks everyone for another exciting episode 24 okay 24 and or i apologize sorry i got a 10 with a total of a 25. cool cool so you you both continue on into the water uh eventually like you're kind of i'm assuming staying a little bit above the surface just to sort of get a sense of what's in the cave here yeah um but you see that it sort of branches off uh you're you're you're you're making your way more and more forward um however as you reach this point where you can see the cave sort of splits off the waterway splits to the east and you're in some deeper water you can tell it kind of goes even beyond the light at this point um and to the north there's like it carries on but um as as you're doing this something happens um something something lashes out from the water and it lashes out at both of you something jets and yeah um so the first one like this thing jets out i'm going to uh just uh do a little thing here you know no no reason at all just get reason you know rolling some dice here you know you're trying to strike me just try me a little trap or ruin you put me in this can't be picked turn fished yeah picture cleared away the key master why um so oran i'm oran yeah you are um you take uh 17 points of bludgeoning damage uh yes as you are also very suddenly uh feel something like like rack on your chest as something comes around your chest in fact it snakes around your chest and um grabs you and pulls you away from rahua as you see as you see this rahua rising out from the water is a set of large sucker ended tentacles not the cave octopus no that's supposed to be here i i just why sulky has to speaker eight octopus i i was about to say i had to bite my tongue a little bit when we started this episode there was there was a bit of talk about octopi but um something that looks awfully like a giant octopi tentacle has now wrapped itself around oran and pulled him away from rahua or into the dark of the water and that is where we're going to end today oran is screaming i'm too twig to be in this situation and he's just clamoring canceled canceled he's been he's been taken and dragged into the deathly embrace of dr octagonopus i know what i know what's gonna dominate the fanart channel today no good blocked blocked blocked none of you are free of sin yeah you're gonna have you're gonna have to work hard on the fanart this time y'all i mean there's no jump already like bulgark with the turtle fan art and everything if you want to send your own fan art or go see a whole bunch of it we have our art archive channel everything else you can always visit us discord.gg forward slash narrative declaration i do exclamation point discord here on twitch here and you will find it also in the description of the youtube stuff and everything but uh but of course the ones that bring you the show that bring you who brought you this episode today is starting off with odoroshi hi hello it's 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erndilio and basically nowhere else except the narrative declaration server i've been playing victrix you started with baldrick now we have victrix wow great wow now it's now it's up to the next guy golly g it's also small for some reason very small here's the here's the next guy look at him wow he's speaker e of the d it is i speaker d and i can be found on twitter at super snake kick and you can also find me and erndl and our various evil works on alphabusa's channel including our latest video the gamer podcast and http audio drama so please go and check that out at alphabusa.com and i have one final thing to say and that is excellent and of course thank you so much thurston for game mashing this session today well hello there no uh thank you all this was great i am looking forward to to the uh the continuation of the grotto and what else our uh intrepid band our destined band of uh chuckle fox might find in there but thank you all you can find me on all the things at uncalled gm i 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