Latest / Rotgrind - Narrative Declaration / What Sacrifice Will You Make
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- That sounds like something a vampire would say. ASL, doesn't that stand for... Ah, scream loudly! Baldrick's the main character, you heard it here first. I am going to lop off my left hand. Oh my god! I only speed Draconic, Strix, and Radical. As the 11th level Mega Party is defeated by a f***ing door. Who's ready for another exciting episode of Rock Rhymes? It's okay, Speaker. I didn't leave you alone that time. Yay. I didn't. The apartment walls will hold today. Hi, everybody. Welcome back to another exciting episode of Rock Rhymes. Just quick things, as you're listening to us. First off, thanks for sharing the show around. Thanks for that. Thank you so much for going over to your buddies and shoving your phone in their face. Like, you know, there's people who are like, hey, look at my kids. And you, like, shove their phone in their faces. Like, now you do that with our show. We appreciate that. Thank you so much. We're the kids. That's just for the word that we exist. But, of course, we have a bunch of our amazing players here. We have to go for time because we had a bunch of technical issues before our stream today. But, of course, we have Odo playing Venus Washbunk. We have our awesome Hulky doing Rahula. We have Speaker doing Tanhauser. We have Salty Bank playing Stont. Also, maybe an old favorite of yours is now coming back, you know, maybe later. Then, of course, I am playing Ornn, the Strict Summoner. We got our amazing Game Master Thurston here coming back with us for another amazing adventure. And, Thurston, what adventures have we been on and what do you have in store for us? Well, in this arc of the campaign, you've gone to the strange land of Golgotha, the wasteland origin homeland of Tanhauser. There, you had a brief stint as retail workers before venturing off into the wasteland to take on one of the great citadel, I guess, city-states, citadel states of Golgotha to wrest it from control of its leading general. Which you did at the end of last session, after a momentous attack on the citadel, after raising, essentially, an army of people and dregs of society and revolutionaries alike. You besieged the citadel, eventually fighting the totally not Baron Harkonnen leader that you, that I blame, that I blame Speaker and Zoran for their dune fixation at that time. I'm sorry. Speaking of jokes, it's so funny. We had to keep doing it. See, I don't get any blame, even though I did three dune references in that run by making Ornithopter fall in and all those. Oh, you don't get to blame for the, because you added to it. You were fine. No, no, no. These people just, yeah, you get a thumbs up. They, they just were like, this character, this, this boss, it's just Baron Harkonnen. They made me add, like, a little nothing burger secondary boss to it. Say it, Zoran. You know you want to. You know you want to. Piter. Piter. They killed me, Piter. I would never love my Twinks again, Piter. Or it's Titer. We need him Titer. For tub guy. Sorry. Titer. But the guy's my parent. No, that's all I had to say. Okay. I'm going to show you. I'm going to show you the floor. I'm just, I refuse to take the blame for, for, for Titer, right? I was, I was part of that, but I was not the progenitor whatsoever. That was all you. I will take, I will take credit for Titer. And, of course, there was tub guy. Titer. Titer. I love Titer. I need you to stop saying that. I'm going back into muting now. I was wondering. I was like, how long can he hold? How long can he hold? Really testing his willpower here. My best. But of course. And, and, and following the defeat of the general, Tannhauser had a, a raw emotional feeling, knowing that the object that you're searching for here, that sort of elemental conduit item that you know you need to collect from across time, it, it is in this area, but it is deep below, deep into the earth. Which was convenient, because there was an elevator, which you stepped on. And that is where we begin our session. Stepping onto an elevator, into the darkness. Tannhauser, I'm scared of the darkness. For how long has this been a character trait? We've been in plenty of dark places, and you've never expressed this in the past. But I, you know, I would just be trying to, you know, be, be brave in front of you. Don't have to pretend to be Oren. I know you're Oren. You just, it's just like we've been, when was the last time we were in darkness? I was. Actually, every single time we've been in darkness, whenever you turn on your flashlight eyes. Shut the hell up, Oren. Okay. Yeah, really, honestly, you're detracting from everybody else here. I'm going to cast light from my eye, Tannhauser, and I only have one of them. Listen, it takes a lot of power. I can only do it for a little bit. It doesn't. You just do this. Rahua just snaps his fingers. I cast light. It's that easy. Can you please have Dark Souls elevator sound plays this whole time? Kachunk, kachunk, kachunk, kachunk, kachunk. Can you have Rahua have, like, that beaded, like, string, like, coming under, like, out of his mouth and from the bottom part? So he just, and then you just turn on the light. That's his uvula. That's his uvula. How many pulls does it require for you until the fan stops in Rahua's head? It's never one. It's never one pull. It's deterministic. It might happen on one. It might happen on three million. You just kind of have to see what happens day by day. If that fan stops, he dies instantly. No, you cannot rush him. I see. He instantly moves on. You should get a new computer. Well, should we get a new cleric? Damn, dude. No. No. No. Our cleric wants to jump a horse. Kachunk, kachunk, kachunk, kachunk. The elevator continues. Keep going. It's not the character. That's because. Oh, I'm sorry, Bodrick. Were you saying something? Yo? Yo. We just had a whole section when we were in a general store. And if you wanted a torch, you could have gotten a torch. And how, sir? Snot puts a long orangutan-esque arm onto his shoulder. It's just a long orangutan. How does that work? She's small-sized, but she has long arms. So she just puts a hand on his shoulder and looks up at him and goes, That was like a month ago. No, it wasn't. That was several... That was a day... How long ago was it? Everything is... It's 14 years. Dude, we've been out in the desert for quite some time now. How long have we been in this elevator? Uh, it feels like it's been about 20 years, but I think it's been about 30 seconds. Oh my god, is that Horace Lupercal? Not again. I was there. Wrong show. No, no, no, that's a Boris fan. Wrong show. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Ka-chunk, ka-chunk, ka-chunk, ka-chunk, ka-chunk. Not again. This is going to be a test for a session where I could just GM by making elevator sounds. Keep going. Well, if you think about it, I had... I got to repair my mech. I got to have a nap. I found a snack. This elevator has been going on for quite some time. Speaking of, Mr. Tenhouser, what are we going to find down here? Well, we are currently plummeting into the depths of the Black Papacy. At least that's what I suspect. These are sub-chunk, ka-chunk, ka-chunk, ka-chunk. Yeah, shut up! These are subterranean. It's actually a guy on the side operating the elevator who's making the ka-chunk sounds. He does. What's your name? Ka-chunk. Ka-chunk! First name is Carl. Ka-chunk, ka-chunk, ka-chunk, because he falls down. Last name, Chaunk. These are subterranean vampires that lead an insidious cult to keep the slaves of Golgotha in line. And we are likely plummeting straight into the midst of the true rulers of this citadel. I thought that was a myth. No, they have an embassy. They're everywhere. It's not a myth. I thought it was a myth. Yeah, I've never seen a real vampire before. Well, you're going to. Wait, yes, who did? Well, you did. Well, actually, technically, it was a fake vampire that you saw. When we went to... You know, back when we were under the... The last time we were underground... Yeah. ...and weren't scared. Yeah? I mean, I'm always scared. Well, you should really... At this point, why are you scared of anything? You killed so many people. I'm scared of losing you guys as my friends. Oh, well, now I feel like the bad guy. You kind of are. I'm sorry, Tannhauser. That's why my archetype for this party is healer. I didn't want to hear it from you, snot, but you know what? I'm sorry, Ruhua. Wait, you're not. I mean, apology accepted. Kachunk, kachunk, kachunk. Why? I'm fucking sitting here with my head in one hand. I'm just sitting here like, did you fuckers miss me? Like, has it been this bad? Who's that? Who's that voice? Nippy Nights. He's not revealed. His voice is... His voice is... You know what, Tannhauser? I forgive you. You made me waste a spell slot on you a couple sessions ago, and you know what? I was really chewing on that for quite some time. Why aren't you a horse anymore, by the way? I don't know. How could you do that whole horse thing? Ruhua looks down at his hands. I'm a horse where it counts, Tannhauser. Don't ever say that. On the inside, I wish I was still a horse. You think I'm talking about... Kachunk, kachunk. Here's a new idea. Why don't we all stop talking? None of you deserve sponsorship. Wall. No, even me? Well, you're pretty cool, Veena. Yay. This elevator is tearing us apart. We all can't complain to your address. Wait a minute. Is that a feature of the Black Papacy? Is there some kind of gas in the air that makes us argue? No, we finally got to talk to each other, and now it's not working. Wait, you know, Veena, that's actually a very good point. I think that's why they call it Argon. Oh, I push Ruhua off the elevator. Ruhua, you fall two feet as the elevator finishes. It's the center of Kachunk. I don't care. Oh, damn. Fight yourselves. I told you, wait. Wait, wait. I need to get stuck on that. Veena, that was really fucked up. You could have killed that guy. Nah, he's been through worse. Also, it's the captain. That guy. It's true. What's his name? I was a horse. Well, that's Ruhua. So, that's the captain. Ruhua sticks his eye on him. Hello, I'm Ruhua. Yeah, he says. Hi, I'm Kachunk. I push Kachunk. How are you alive? Been here the whole time. I make the sound effects and I rotate the thing. That's fantastic. Then you can tell us. Where are we? We're on a very serious and dramatic mission. Oran raises a hand. Can I ask him a question? Yes. Mr. Kachunk? Yes? Do you think elevators should be ran by man or machine? I'm going to get you. I'm going to get you, Burrboy. Oh, that's a good question. As a person who operates an elevator on my own, I do think that sometimes an elevator should be operated by a person. Or at least regularly inspected by one to ensure that it won't just kill people randomly. That's a tragedy. Can I use a hero point to declare a narrative declaration? Yes, sure. I don't even know what it is. I'm already excited. Awesome, cool. Kachunk is a flesh warp that is pressed underneath this elevator. Oh, yeah, 100%. Yeah. He's like a giant ring. Yeah. No, no. He's like an ooze morph type thing. Yeah, and he extends. Yeah. And shifts down. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's like a massive human worm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like in Dune. I better go get a scotch. Like in Dune. Like in Dune. I guess worms in Dune don't talk. Wait, hold on a second. Who's talking anymore? Oh, God. I don't know. I don't know. It's some kind of flesh elevator. After getting his answer, Oren will come up to the rest of the party and be like, well, I've never faced any vampires before, but I don't know what quite to expect, but I just want to make sure everyone's all topped off. During this time, I'd like to assume I've helped heal everybody and bandage everyone up and give them worms and make everyone all healed up and ready for the next encounter. Oh, Zoran, real quick. Chat's reminding me I have to take a hero point away from Rahua. Please do that. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you. Oh, why am I losing a hero point? Because you did something in a prior session in chat's reminding me and I trust chat implicitly. Hey, what did you like to know, horse boy? Damn. You're not recovering from that one, okay? I would like to posit. I raised my little stump arm. Take your solid legs. I would like to posit that people really like to gaslight me and I think chat's lying. Ooh. Chat, are you going to take that from this fucking, from this, this fucking asshole? Wow. Law and order, Dun-Dun. All right. Speaker, I think Rahua has neither of those. Neither of what? Fucking her asshole? Yeah. True. Well, he did, he, he, confirmed. He did that, that sentence earlier that, did imply the presence of horse-like on the inside. On the inside. So it's internal, but that doesn't stop it from existing. No, he said it. Rahua turns away from the party. I want to shut up. No, no, no. Chat's reminded me. You brought up something to do with the fucking cutie mark last session. You, yeah, you're, yeah. That's, that's what chat says. It sounds familiar too. I don't remember that at all. You know what? I'm trusting this one person in chat. You know what? You know what? Yes, in my notes here, um, Rahua, we discussed what Rahua had as a cutie mark, and I know that I did, uh, exclaim that it should be, uh, the anarchy symbol. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I really just have to imagine in my heart of hearts that Salty, as you said, uh, in my notes, we were, we discussed what Rahua's cutie mark would be, but that's the moment Erndel sat back down and started pouring the drink. Almost certainly. Absolutely. That's. Well, Erndel can have all the rights to complain. He shouldn't have left the campaign allowed me to slip in here. I was overseas. I had no say in the matter. He didn't leave, he was on vacation. I was on vacation, and the thing I learned from this vacation is I should never take vacations. What is a vacation, if not a tactical leave? Yeah, one might say that, Hulky, you know what I'm talking about. Yeah. I'm looking at you. I'm looking at you, boy. You know what I'm talking about. I know you're looking at me. I told you that you were going to have a good time in Serbia, but no, you just didn't want to listen. Togo is on your head. I don't think we're allowed to talk about Togo. We're not. I don't think we are. I think he should be shot. I agree. Speaking of getting shot. We're going to get shot by some vampires. So, what can we expect from this Black Papacy? And especially, where do you think they have the stake for Papa, or not Papa Storm, that's a different one, for Uncle Blaze? Well, if I had to guess, we are likely to be facing their hordes of deranged acolytes. We can expect numbers, most likely. What a single powerful entity at its circle. I admit, I did not interface much with the Black Papacy, and any who are wise in Golgotha will do the same. They are dark, mysterious, and tolerated only by the whims of Lord Golgotha himself. That sounds like something a vampire would say. Is this real? Is this real? Are you doing this? It did bring us to the vampire's air. Where on my body? Where on my body? Where on my body? I take off the hose. Orin, like, takes his hand and, like, shoves the mask back on. I was like, let's not do that. Oh, yeah, I'm just saying. I'm like, oh, where do I suck the blood? I don't, I don't have that. Suck! That's a myth. Vampires scrape and then they lick. What? I, well, where's my tongue? Dude in the hall will presumably, I don't want to know. Suck! Suck! Suck! Suck! Suck! Suck! Suck! Suck! Suck! Suck! Suck! Suck! Suck! Suck! Suck! Suck! Suck! Suck! Suck! I just turn her helmet around the other way so that the eye holes are on the back of her head and then I keep walking. I have been forsaken. I'm gone. The light! The light! Around, around you is a, is a stone sort of facade here. It looks like it's been carved expertly with dark stone. However, up ahead is what can only be described as a fluorescent pink glow that permeates through cracks in the walls and what appear to be windows installed at regular points to admit light in. Where does the light come from? She says as she corrects her helmet. That's a great question. Uh, are there any, like, fluorescent, like, mushrooms or anything nearby? Any alternative sources of light? A nuclear radioactive sight? No, it just, it just seems to be glowing from within the walls. Ornn might to do a perception check along with Gorgomonger. Sure. Can I do a crafting check? Yeah. It's awesome. Ornn rolls and gets a 30 on the die and also, if you're wondering, by the way, what, there's no 3D dice rolling, I decided to break it. So, we'll get that fixed next episode. Don't worry. Yeah, everything went wrong today in terms of tech, so we do apologize. Uh, so if you're watching this, going like, why is it just stuff as it was? That, it, everything broke, so we do apologize. And Gorgomonger got a 20 on the die. Or got a 20 total for perception. Ornn, as you're looking at this light, what you're able to detect is that it's, the light isn't constant. It's like there's movement in the light as though the light were being strained through, like, a fluid or something along those lines. Can I, um, like, suddenly want to do a crafting check. I don't want to stop that first. Uh, after a salty crafting check, I would like to do a nature to kind of determine, like, are we in a fluid tank of some sort, you know? Okay. Give me, give me that crafting check. Yeah. Uh, yeah. So I also have, just in case it might be useful, I have a crafter's appraisal allowing me to identify at least magical items, uh, with a crafting check if need be, in case you want to fluff that in some kind of way. I also remember have Lord Goblin, Golgoth, and Warfare, uh, but I will roll my crafting check and I roll a total of 29 because I got a 7. It's, it's enough to, to confirm that whatever this substance is, which you can't quite identify, there is some kind of fluid moving through the walls here that's emanating this, this illumination. Wall. As Oren's looking around, he's like, I think we're, I, I think we're in a ball of goop. That's a 23 on the nature chain. If we all had an alchemist or something around us, that would be super useful. 23 is not quite enough Oren to let you know what this is. This is, this is incredibly weird and off-putting. Like, yeah, and the, the way that it's moving, it's, it could be a natural phenomenon in the walls, it could be like part of some, some larger sort of apparatus here that's not natural, you're just not sure. Yeah. Or at least the, but it's very off-putting now that you know that the light is like, has this filter in, like, you can almost see the, the light undulating. But I take a, take a look at it with a, um, uh, arcane. Or absolutely. Uh, occultism would be. All right, let's rock. That is a 32. There is often a, a, a thing associated with Golgotha, a, a, a resource, a lifeblood, if you will, um, which is used as a trading commodity. Um, it's, you know, thought to be more akin to gasoline. Or, you know, the black blood blood of Golgotha, um, this might be the progenitor of that truth. This almost takes some of the, sort of, embellished versions of, like, Golgothan oil, and makes them strangely real. I see. So what I'm staring at right now is earth blood. No way. That's right. No way. I've seen things called people car over flood. That stuff's, like, that stuff's burns. That stuff burns. That stuff's put in fuel tanks. It doesn't move like this unless something's in it. part of me is curious enough to want to fling a match into this. Uh, the other part of me is smart enough not to, uh, do that. But I do think about it at least. It would be really funny, right? A related question. Uh, what's your backup character like? Yeah, uh, well, you know, I'm sure we'll figure out if I fling a match into this. Hey, thanks for playing Rucker and everybody. I can see the comments already. God, who would have thought that they would have ended their show in a message about fossil fuels? God. True. Then it, afterwards, it will just be Balin, a Baldrick adventure where all of us play support characters to Baldrick. I don't think, I don't think Baldrick can carry it on his own. I need other, I need people who are convincing and entertaining people to be around the void of charisma that is Baldrick. They're all just other characters with different shaped bucket helmets. Yeah, all those wanted posters actually were real. There was the triangle guy and the circle guy. I'm going back to the cellar. Get me out of here. So, Oren kind of like begins to walk forward at this point. He's kind of like in wonderment looking all around. He's like, wow. You know, since he hasn't detected any vampires with his Gorgomonger and Orenvision, he's just like, he's like, I wonder what they do down here, Mr. Chanhouser. Nothing good. I can tell you that for free. You know what? If this is really his earthblood, she walks up to one of the windows and just puts a hand on it, is it like warm? It's not warm, but you can almost feel like a pulsing sound. Or sensation, I should say. She pulls her hand away really quick and goes, if all of this is real earthblood and I don't know the purity of it, but if it's like real, real good stuff. She turns to like, Oren and then to Veena and then she doesn't look at Chanhouser for too long. She understands that he knows. Like, this amount could like, buy a city-state on its own easy and then fuel it. This is like, not life-changing amounts of it for one person. This is like, life-changing amounts for thousands of people. perhaps once we've eliminated whoever dwells down here, we can send this to the rebels and use it to fund our various revolutionary activities. Who knew that fracking would be the hero of this story? That's what I'm always saying. Yeah. Is it? Yeah. I think it odd there's nobody inside that's basically a place of worship that it seems. Oren approaches the altar itself, motioning everyone forward. So to give some background as you're traveling through here, it's not like this is just a single large area. This is multiple tunnels. You're passing through various sort of open sites that appear to be worshiping areas. So there are stone pews, but it's not one central area. You're going down a hall and there's dozens of these empty, almost church-like mega rooms. So, Tanny. Yes? Are there supposed to be people here? I would imagine so, but there isn't, is notable and disturbing. Should we call out? Hey, Tannhazard, give me a fortitude save. Yeah, you got it, boss. Thanks. Here we go, 37. Nice. You feel this, like, slight chest pain. You kind of recoil a bit. Doesn't hurt, just like a sudden shock. As you feel a similar sensation to when you arrived in Golgotha, this sort of pull from the main arterial hall that heads further into this sort of fluo-pink dark-lit darkness. But deeper down, you can sense something is pulling at you. There's something in this room. Something pulling at me. Something dark. Where in the room about, do you think, I can, can I sense this bullshit happening? It's, it's like, it's like down this main arterial hall. So all of these little sub-chapels and whatnot are off of this hall. Like, going down the main hall, which is going far off into, into darkness, um, is, is where you feel this, this pull. There's something waiting for us down the end of that hallway. Oh. All right. like good or like bad? Like bad. Oh, no. I don't like that. No, I'm not a fan of it either. Well, regardless, we're all here, well, we're all here together. We can take it on. Well said. Let us away and I will, uh, begin, uh, leading the charge down the evil hallway. All right. You very quickly dip into one of the side rooms, the like offshoots of the main arterial hallway. Um, and it's going to try to be a little stealthy with it. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Give me, uh, give me a stealth check. That's a, I'll give you a 23. That's not very good. Yeah. You have this weird feeling that even though you're alone in these, these like these side rooms that you're kind of maneuvering through, you, you feel like you're being watched. EBG peace. Tenhauser, you continue to lead the way until you find at the end of the hall. And this, this site sort of sets you back because you're not sure what to do. there's a vast stone door that is sealed shut. It's probably 20 feet tall and perhaps 15 to 20 feet wide. It's engraved with tiny sigils and then sort of a mosaic around it that depicts what appears to be like a darkened sun. The doorway itself doesn't have any of the sort of pink neon glow, but around it does, which sort of almost by proximity illuminates some of the crevices and runes in the door with side light that makes them seem to glow even though they aren't. is there a is it legible what's engraved in the door? Um, it is it is some kind of ancient like runic form some magical script perhaps. Um, I guess do any of you speak necrol? Ooh. Necro? No. Not in this campaign. Yeah. Absolutely. not. Okay. I only speak draconic strix and radical. Radical. Radical. Crackatola, dude. Crackatola. Hell yeah. That's what happens when he's kicked the table at night. Well, you know what is what's noting? Oh, no, mate. I got that finally. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, nothing in the background. I'm like, fuck you, dude. Hey, good job being on point on that, by the way. There is no stop. Good job. Bruh, get a hero point. Let's go. Get a hero point back. It's not a break. Thank you. Go. No, you're fine. I will say at the start of this campaign, I asked Thurston, hey, what languages are like common to Golgotha? And he said, you don't need to worry about that. And I have like five unallocated languages. You know, speaking of unallocated languages, I do have two other unallocated languages after I recently. This is like the third time you've pulled this at this campaign. Well, you've never made me allocate them. Takes off glasses. Stares at you. Stares into your soul. I'm looks at speaker D. I'm going to be on speaker side, actually. Yeah. Because the problem I have with Raku is because by the time you get to that point of like what language should be affected, you're like, ah, fuck. Yeah. I will also say it's hard to be predictable. If he is studying these guys, if there is a language that he should have studied, it is the language of his enemies. That's true. At that end, Dinosaur, which I did learn at the beginning of this. I mean, knew all along. That one, though. That one's already been, that one's, I'm sorry, but you can't take that away from me. Yeah. Thurston, kill this guy. Yeah. True. Then resurrect him as a vampire. Then kill him again. The fuckers have hero points. The creases J's. Yeah, but we don't want to use them. Okay. Well, then don't read it, though. I get back, and I have to endure watching this. You don't get back! You're not back! People pay for this! I grab Speaker very tightly, and his head turns into a crushed match stick. I need you to understand, I can't do this. I'm going to explode. I have to say something occasionally. And head over. Goodbye. Press the button. Erdil, I pass you my iconic Rahua crack pipe, and I encourage you to take a hit. What did that look like? You need, you guys need to just, you guys need to just, you would kill. So, statistically, most of the party has been at least once. I fully apologize, Thurston. We're out of the, looking at the door with Necron on it. He gets back on track. Sorry, I'm sorry, not everybody has died. I think that Death's George, Vina over here, is an outlier and should not be counted. Oh, shit. Oh, fuck. I misread how the spell works. I actually can't use it at all. Uh-oh. Never mind. What? Okay. I was gonna use safe passage, and I was like, oh, cool. I'll use safe passage and make it 10-foot-wide, 10-foot-tall, 60-foot-long section of terrain that's safe to travel through. But I realized it just makes that section of that safe to travel through, and it doesn't make a little hole in the wall like I thought it did, so it would not help in this case. Yeah, you're gonna need some way to get through this door. An explosive expert would have been really useful right here. Yes, if only we knew someone like that. And like someone with alchemy could probably figure out what all this earth blood is all about, right? Probably, yeah. I hand snot a pickaxe. Time to get chipping. Okay, boss, and I start chipping away at the door. Do I see if there is like a, like, is the door locked or is it, like, sealed shut? It's, it's sealed. There's not like a lock on it. It's just like closed shut. Could I, could I use thievery to look for a place on this door where I could find an angle, you know, find a place where I could slot something in or just a place to push to open this door. Yeah, roll. Can I do the same with crafting? Yeah. Can I roll the stair at the door? I have not rolled above a 10. That is a 26. Welcome back, Odo. I also got a 26. You know, I'm, my luck's reset. Hold on. Rolls George is coming through. Ask God for help. If it's not a crit, you die. That's true. Don't worry. I believe. I got the crafting check. Hold on. Here we go. Craft it. Oh, you die. Okay. It's all coming together. It's all coming back to you. That's what I know. You know, the whole program boomerang, when they said the catch rate, it's all coming back to you. It took me so long to go, that's what that means. Yeah. Five person I stopped you. Go ahead. I just like, this is the scene, right? Is four people like, I don't know, hands on their chins, like, looking at this door, like, heads going side to side, debating how best to, how best to handle this, this situation, you know, 11th, an 11th level party stopped by a door. It's a big door. Welcome back to Rock Grind, everyone. It's a door here. It has words on it. I'm picking away at it. Yeah, we'll get to it. It's not, give me a check. Yeah. Got you, boss. Arrow total 25. Give me a fortitude safe. Heck yeah. All right. Fortitude safe for total 32. You're, like, very industrious at this, like, you're, you're, you've got, like, a good, maybe four inches off of this door, maybe. Is there any machinery this deep in? Or is it, like, just stone? It's just stone. And the rest of you that are looking at it now with your various checks are like, hmm, there's probably some kind of magical trigger or some magical, like, inlay in the door. And there's probably some magical way to open this. That couldn't possibly be true. Snot turns around and goes, can I make a, you're going to, you're going to say something first, Snot. Go ahead. Yeah, you want to magic this up, buddy. I could magic it. Can I, can I make a crafting check to determine the thickness of the door? Put your hand in the hole and it will be so much better. All my work is not for nothing. And she walks out of the hole and starts coughing up her black lung. Oh, I, I, damn, does the door mean I have coal? It's all fuel. It's all fuel. It's all fuel. If one, if one piece of fire damage is done in this area, we're all dying. it's, it's, it's, it's not her, it's not coal. Her lungs just did that. Oh, okay. That's fine. That's, I can live with that. Thurston, can I attempt to glean how thick this door actually is? What kind of check are you going to give me? Uh, I would like to give you, you think crafting would apply here? You know, you already gave me a crafting check. What about, what if I gave you, okay. Now it's, it's, it's all, it's all earthblood all the way down. And in a way, it's part of the world. And I could gauge relative density and thickness because it's more natural. Could I get a nature check perhaps? Sorry, sorry, I need to prove the point. Can I do a backflip? Can I do a backflip? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Give me an acrobatics as a fucking door defeats all of you. As the 11th level like mega party is defeated by a fucking door. I, to be fair to us, we've been rolling really bad. Oh, so bad. Thurston, please. Thurston, it's a massive, cool, magical vampire door fueled by room for the vibes, not the obstacles. Exactly. Okay. Okay. Okay. Anyway, I need to point this out. I need to point this out. This is, this is me being like a petty catty bitch, right? Yeah. Okay. In Starfinder. Yeah. Yes. There's a cantrip that exists. Yeah. It's called measure. It's a one action cantrip where you learn the approximate measurements of creatures and objects you can observe. That's awesome, Thurston. That's great. Hey, what does that have to do with the door? Yeah. Everyone online is like, this thing is stupid. And meanwhile, like, Hulkie's like, how can I figure out the dimensions of if I only had measure? That's right. Could I try a solution? Sure. All right. I just want to make sure I'm not stepping on anybody's toes. Everyone's kind of tried the first things that came to mind, right? I agree. Please save me from picking my way through the door. Yeah, I'm going to spend a hero point to find the service entrance. The service entrance? We need Balderback. Take the hero point. Take the hero point off the board, please. Hey, guys. I assume, I assume Tannos are at this point, you're going to, you're going to start like going in through some of those like side chapels being like, there's got to be something I miss. We can't be actually, I would prefer it just kind of be in the same room, just a giant glowing sign maybe that says like papacy staff only. It's like the OSHA mandated exit sign over the emergency exit. Yeah, yeah, there's like lights actually drawing our attention. We just, we just first looked at this door and it kind of captured us. Okay. Okay. This is the worst, best game ever. It's, the monkey's paw curls. Oh, we are so good at Pathfinder. We are so good at Pathfinder. There's also a door on the service entrance. I hope it's thicker. Hey, Thurston. Mm-hmm. Can I, can I step in for a moment here? Please. So, Tannhauser, you find the service entrance door, right? Yeah. You see that it has a similar door locking it from the large door, correct? Yeah, someone will have to use their hero point to get rid of that. No, see, because that door opens from the other side. You, you know, you, if you figure this out, because on the other side of that door is Baldrick. What are you doing here? I thought you were dead. What? No. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were back at the airship. Sorry, it was the other one. Who's this? Orin knocks loudly on the door. Which door are you knocking on? The one that opened? The service entrance door or the main one? The main one. I don't know about that. That's up to Thurston at this point. Like, very loud. You can knock on the that's what Baldrick you walk out to see is the loud service entrance being banged on by Orin. Is Baldrick here? Yes, he walks out from inside the opening service entrance. Oh, thank God, Baldrick. Yeah, you guys kind of left me on the ship for quite a long time. I had to try and find my way down here. By the time I caught up to you, the elevator was already gone. So, I left it up to some of the other people on board. Hey, yo, you're a goblin too? No. Who are you? It's not a goblin. This is new Baldrick. I know why? Wow. My name is not a goblin. Yeah, the ships should be fine for now. I'm just down here for a quick jaunt because it, well, I figured you guys might actually need some assistance whatever's going on down here and well, he turns around and motions to the literal closet-sized service entrance that exists here and the room itself is like maybe a 5x5x10 foot-sized room. And there is a single vent duct that is lying on the floor from inside. Well, unless you are some kind of alchemist specialist or an explosive guy, I don't know what help you're going to be. None of us can figure this out. No, I could do that. What? Yeah, one side. What? And Baldrick steps a little bit past snot at this point and he begins rooting around in his bag. What are you guys stuck on here? I can hear you through the door. I was just kind of waiting for one of you to approach it. The big door. The door, yeah. It's a pretty pernicious heavy door that is barren enchanted by ancient vampire magic that frankly it would be difficult for anyone to crack. You really can't blame us at all. That's true. All right, so I'm going to clarify something here. You got held up by this door. Massive door, yeah. I know it's a massive door, I can see it's a massive door. The problem is it's did you not bring anything with you guys to open anything down here? It doesn't have a lock, so I'm I'm a limp pass. We just came here from having to kill a general. It was a lot of work to get here. I almost died. These are the valid questions though. Okay, okay, I can, you had a hard time, I'll make this easy for you. He crouches down and opens up his pack and he begins cobbling a few things together. So what does this guy do? He's an alchemist. It's pretty cool. Why? I can hear you talking, you know, this thing does not render me deaf. It doesn't? Oh. Why didn't we have that guy? Wait, who has just been doing ASL for the entire series of rock grind for nothing? His idea, his idea, like, to his face, he couldn't hear me through the helmet if his flap wasn't facing me. His idea of ASL is just speaking. I mean, you know, it works for most people. Why wouldn't it work for the deaf? That's what I think Rahua thinks. Well, yeah, doesn't ASL, doesn't that stand for, ah, scream loudly! I love you, Hulky, you're the best. Thurston, I would like to craft a coring charge, but I'm noting that this door is probably a fair bit thicker than usual. Can I do something to sweeten the deal and perhaps craft some kind of better coring charge? Because I think the normal one probably won't cut it. Also, we are surrounded by a bunch of flammable goo. How do you know it's flammable? They said it was earthblood, which is flammable. Baldrick, do you want to give me a crafting check on the earthblood? Earthblood this, earthblood that. Let me take a look at this crap. Baldrick will stand over next to the wall, the window, whatever we're calling it, and he's going to very carefully inspect the thing. I have a question, Thurston. Yes. what bonus, do I get any bonuses for knowing anything about this kind of stuff? Probably not at this juncture, because if it is whatever earthblood is specifically, I'm just going based off of crafting, right? Yeah, not off this one, but give me the check. Let's see how it. Let's see. Let's see how my first roll in several months goes. Yay. Oh, no, 27. You stare at it. Can I roll it? Actually, I'm going to use a hero point to reroll that. You can. Yeah, absolutely. Thanks. He's got to roll above a 20. 38. Nice. You stare at it. You see the undulating movements. You recognize the consistency inside. The illumination throws off lesser minds, but Baldrick is far spirited. Don't say that. You can tell that the the equations dance to the air in front of your bucket visor. Don't turn me into Benedict Cumberbatch Sherlock. I'll punch you. At that point, Rahua gets a text message and it pops up on the screen. And then we cut back to you. Yeah, thank you. And Baldrick, you recognize that a few things. This substance is magically infused and generally a lot of magically infused chemicals aren't particularly flammable. And if they are, they're sort of just like immediate combustion. It's not like it would spread through everything and explode the whole underground system. That would be a very big defense flaw for them, so it probably wouldn't work like that. because the second someone throws a single match in. Yeah, exactly. But you can also tell that the door and the construction of the door, as you know, you've got like triangles now coming into your equation, the construction of the door showcases that none of this substance is entering into it. So setting up a courting charge near the center of the door to build a passage for all of you to go through wouldn't even hit any of this liquid anyways, and even if the liquid were to be contacted, it's not like the whole installation would explode. I was kind of hoping everything would explode, but I guess I'll do that. That works for me. It sure would solve one problem to blow up this entire place, but I feel like it would create a fun new problem. Veena, Veena, Veena, Baldrick just took toughness. He can take it. You know what? Causing a massive earth-shattering nuclear, nuclear level explosion can in fact be negated by just being a tough guy. I understand. That is true. It's true. I went from having 112 health to 140. It was incredible. Yeah, sure, sure. Anyway. Alright, in that case, I will prep a single couring charge and just cobble everything together using my usual reagents and infused goods until there is just a simple sack filled with all kinds of small bottles and catalysts that Baldrick kind of just walks over to the door after looking it up and down left to right, knocking his knuckle against it for a moment and then just squarely planting it in the center. You guys might want to get behind something like usual. That isn't me or Bruhua. I missed you, Baldrick. I get behind Bruhua. I just said not to do that. Well, but I thought it was reverse psychology. No, I'm saying get behind something. I'm not structurally sound enough. I'm saying get behind something so the blast doesn't knock you on your ass. Alright, I'll get behind something. I get behind Bruhua again. It's gonna be bad. Those were you two, Snot. Alright. Well, it's not going to be colossal. I've only messed with it a little bit. Corring charges meant for taking down buildings and blowing holes in walls. Orange starts going behind something but then he kind of quickly pitter-patters to Baldrick and gives him a hug going, I missed you, Baldrick. He's like, thanks for catching up with us and he scurries back behind like one of the altars. Yeah, you guys didn't make it easy on me. Well, we didn't exactly have it easy up until this point. Let's go that you're at least back along with the gang. You're gonna have to do some explaining to do. I got no idea what you guys have been up to this entire goddamn time. I was a horse! Snott walks away from Baldrick, walks up to Ruhua and goes, You kept away the guy who can make alchemy shit, blows up buildings, and in general, looks like that. She points over to him from me. Baldrick raises a hand and waves at the two of you. To be fair, he is also the most qualified among us to keep the airship functioning properly. It's true, he's only real mechanic. He knows what to do. Yeah, speaking of, have any of you seen anything that could suffice as a coolant hose? Because one up there ruptured. Hmm. I've had to hold the thing together with bailing wire, and if it doesn't get fixed soon, it's going to, well, probably be really bad. I don't know what happens when a core made of souls overheats, but. I can fix that. Oren panics and begins skittering back to the airship. Wait, Oren, no! I don't want the answer to explode! You need a hose first! Wait, hold on, I have one. Wait, you could always, you could go buy one at the store that we worked at. I'm sure we still get an employee discount. I'll go find one! Oren skitters away to the airship. Is he going to fly up the elevator shaft with his big wings? I mean, he'd probably just make the elevator go back up. I mean, it went back up for you. But then you'd make us wait for the elevator to come back down. I'll just press the button to make it go down. There he goes. Looking for hosts. There he goes. Fuck you, Salty. He's a real one. Proud of him. Proud of him. All right. As we prepare the door, we're briefly going to go over to Oren. Chunk Chunk. Hi, Mr. Chunk. Would you like to go up? Yes, please. Oh, God. Thank you. Chunk Chunk. The elevator begins rising. Oren stands on it alone. This is like a big picture of a big elevator and just a little guy. This is just like Dark Souls when my fucking friends would send it back up when it's like, hang on, I need to get out of the swamp and it's in Dark Souls fucking three and it's like, I gotta get up on the elevator. I need to get out of here. Oh, well. Chunk Chunk. Yeah, that is good. That is a good question, chat member. Hey, Mr. Kachunk, how do you open the big stone door down there? You should have asked that before you turned the elevator on. No, this is funnier. This is funnier because I'll know the answer and go, oh, I guess I'll figure it out. And I'm not even going to answer it to you vocally. We're just going to cut back to that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, opening that door is so easy and then it just smacks back to us sitting and staring at it. The frame goes where it's like a pan out and goes, oh, that's how you do it. And then he's gone. Perfect. You just cut back. No, here's the smash cut. Oh, so that's how you do. And you are cutting back to Baldrick literally injecting the activating agent into the one jar like, all right. He's going to look back and see everyone hiding behind the pews, I assume. This looks like the pews. Yep. All right. Do you want to give me one more crafting check here to see your souping up of the bomb? Sure, I'll give that a shot with a 37. Woo! I am. Listen, I lucked out because at a level 11, I was like, give me one more skill. I was like, all right, I'm an expert of crafting now. Do you happen to have the number for coring charge, by the way, Thurston? Because we don't have it anymore because the swap over removed the ball. Uh, one sec. However, Baldrick will shout out, fire in the hall, and he will immediately leap over and mantle whatever pew is closest and land on top of snot. Ah! Roll me 10d8. You got it. 54. That's a good roll. All right. I also have demolition, so that will go significantly higher. I just need to demolition charge. Yeah. Yeah, it just allows you to ignore more. Okay, yeah, ignore more. I get you. I get you. All right. there's a kind of hissing. It's a contained blast. Yeah, shape charge. I wish we had a big explosion noise, but it's fine. I'll have to. As the explosion sort of dissipates, you see something strange coming through the hole. From the hole, you see that there is like an orange light that penetrates. It's just coming from is it like wafting through or is it just light? It's light from the other side. Uh, so what's with the light? no clue. By the way, that was beautiful. Thanks. Could you get out from under me, please? Of course. Squishes herself from out from under him. Hey. The liquid. The liquid. Crawls along the floor like the grudge. The grudge. I do have, uh, like, I do have, let's see if I actually do have it. I think I did pick it. Uh, no, sadly not. Ah, fuck it then. Snot will start to scamper towards the orange light. I'll, I'll, I'll check it out. Hey, where the, for fuck. Come on, you three. If they didn't already know we're here, they definitely do now. I, I, I just assume, um, Snot, that your, your, your mech suit construct, like, can, can be deployed via pokeball if you need to. That's the assumption I was going off of as well. Yeah, no, like, yeah, I imagine the idea that she's always dragging it behind her, like, she's at the airport with her luggage. Like, it's in a compact form, and, yeah, then you, like, kick it, and it goes, she's like a transformer. That's a feat for everyone who wants to play an inventor back at home. Yeah. Is it? Yeah. That's so funny. Snot says, I'm going to turn into a truck now. Burk, church, church, church. That is literally what her mech is. Tannhauser, as the, as the door is blown, like a section, I should say, but a five-foot section is blown, but you feel a, just like, overwhelming attraction to enter. We must move forward. Something in my bones is telling me this is the way. I'd certainly hope so, considering we just blew a hole through it, but I got no idea where we're going. I'll move forward. I'll, I'll, I'll find the path forward. The path is clear. You, you go through first, Tannhauser, followed by your allies. As, as you, as you enter this chamber, you find that it is bathed in this orange-red light. The orange coming from the far end of, of, of the chamber, which itself has stone pews. Unlike the other, um, off, off sections you've seen, though, this place has a fine red carpet, though you can tell that the carpeting in here is, isn't red from color, it's red from blood, stained. The, the pews here are similarly stained, as there is sloshes of blood that have been spattered around the room, and at the far end, opposite the way you're entering from, past lines of pews, are two things. one, a robed figure that has almost skeletal fingers and looks up with an emaciated face, something, an appearance you've seen before long ago, and behind it, floating almost impossibly in the air, behind an altar that separates it and the, the robed figure, it appears to be a miniature sun. And as you enter and see all of this, as you enter and you see all of this, the robed figure looks up at you, and in a rasping voice, you haven't heard for some time you hear I have been expecting you. Oh! And, uh, let's, let's, uh, let's take a break here. Let's, let's go stretch our leggies. Oh, okay. Now that is a guy we haven't seen in a while, huh? The guy from the start, from the, from the start. That's our old guy. I remember that old guy. We end as we began. You ever wonder how we could afford all this amazing art and keep the production going in Narrative Declaration? Well, it's because of you. Either you're a member of Patreon, a YouTube member, or a Twitch subscriber, all the way to just someone who's just willing to watch the shows whenever they come out for free, and then telling people that we exist, it's thanks to you that Narrative Declaration is able to grow to the size it is today. 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Because I'm actually intrigued as to what he has to say. That sounds like a good idea. Yeah. He stands there at the opposite end, like beneath this sort of smoldering sun that kind of burns behind him, giving the room this strange orange glow compared to the fluorescent pink you've been deluged with since entering this subterranean realm. identify yourself. You know me as I know you. Dan Ozer, you remember that temple we fell into? Yes, I do. I've got that eerie feeling now as I did then. Spoke with him before. I know that. He's just rather far away. I wanted to make sure. Why don't we get closer? Manifestation of what, Papa Blaze? Uncle Blaze, but yeah. Why don't we get closer then? Hey, Thurston, do I know this guy? No. No, you have no idea what this is. Like, this is just like a charred flesh humanoid in robes. This thing is incredibly strange and out of place. Like, it's not even a member of the Black Papacy, so it wouldn't be in any of your like children's, you know, I don't know, children's novels about the Black Papacy. So from Snot's perspective, not only did Baldrick come in, push all this through, saved us essentially, went through this, and when we enter the door and this thing goes, I know you as you know me, and then Baldrick explains it, Snot has realized he's the captain. Oh, fuck. He's the guy. We're the side crew. No, don't tell me. Baldrick's the main character. You heard it here first. Fuck. Don't do this to me. Grow up. Don't do this to me. I have no charisma on Baldrick. He has no charisma at all because I deferred it to go to Vena because I was tired of playing the face. A load bearing charisma character. Fuck me. I literally hid my face with a bucket. Fuck. fuck. What? Can we talk to this guy? Who is this guy? Well, don't expect enlightening conversation. I mean, he's in the light. This is likely an aspect of one of the elemental gods sealed away. When last we spoke to them, I received a vision, if I recall correctly. Snot leans against her mech and looks at him like, huh? Hmm? You just said some shit, Tenhelzer. Have you been keeping things away from me? Have you just not mentioned that? There's a lot of things that have happened to me in my life. I mean, I'm mostly robot. Yeah, but you could have mentioned like, you know, locked away deities and stuff like that. I'm pretty sure we did mention it at least once. Look, we're ignoring the important thing in the room, which is to say, and Baldrick points over to the fume congregant, him, and also he points his fingers slightly further upward at the giant glaring orb that is filling the room with a horrible orange light. I'll begin moving forward to go meet with the flame man. How far up can I go before you start combat, Thurston? I'm not going to run all the way up to him, but I will try to keep pace with Tannhauser. Move where you need to. Move where you think conversation would be fine. No. What? Tannhauser being 70 feet away from me. This is about probably where I'd be comfortable speaking with this guy. With the sun in your face. Assuming like I don't begin catching a flame and like thousands of evil gargoyles begin picking away at my flesh. Give me a fortitude to save Tannhauser. I'd love to. That's going to be a 34. Your flesh is intact. You feel the heat though. Like this thing is is radiating. Not as much as it probably should but definitely hot. What has brought you here? Speak now and clearly that I may free you. I was always here. as I left you a message so I waited here for you to come and fulfill it. I see. when we are here now what would you have us do? Behind me. Like and you could tell obviously like referencing the sphere of molten energy. that is what you will need an essence to brave the flames but to take it you must sacrifice. what must I sacrifice? What will you sacrifice? the strength of the flame is dependent on the amount sacrificed. What you give is what you will receive. Should you offer something paltry the defenses offered will be equally paltry. I don't like saying it but kind of happy that the paltry boy ain't here. What's up? That's different word different word he said paltry not paltry oh I must sacrifice something of value must only I do this it is yours your choice to take this waited for you as each other waits for another must this thing be tangible what is tangible for such sacrifice let me show you I am going to reach into my jacket and I am finding actually that I am lacking an accoutrement for this which I don't believe is true I mean I even have a sword on my on my art but it seems like I don't have one in my inventory Ray um I'll turn around Vina can you take your old character sheet it probably is my old character sheet I need to borrow your blade for a moment sure Vina's gonna you know turn it over and pass the handle to him excellent I'm going to place my hand on the pew and I am going to lop off my left hand oh my god all right all right we want to help him with that um okay run cook there's a there's a kathunk as the as the blade goes deep and through it doesn't hurt as much as the old one used to and I suppose I could always find a new one to replace what I've lost but a hand is still a hand my body is still my body even enmeshed in steel I'll present the severed hand to the fume congregant yeah um so you walk closer I I'll I'll not walk closer just yet I'll hold and I'll say is this a worthy sacrifice if it is what you choose then it is what you choose but is it paltry I can get another hand I would only be losing it until I found another one I need to know how much do you need of me that is what I'm willing to give to take what is needed to fight the foe that I must if you question it is it worthy he makes a good point I'll drop my hand uselessly on the floor makes like a sickly wet sound as it thumps onto the bloodied carpet as it happens as though like explaining this room the remaining blood fluid that pumps into your hand is almost sucked up immediately by the ravenous carpet adding to its crimson stain these damn fools what is this place it is a temple older than the bones built around it these are the places you must seek the temples to upend the stakes but it waits still what will you sacrifice i offer a pledge then that shall be my sacrifice for years i have toiled as a murderer in these sands i have brought death i blade by axe then i will swear an oath as my sacrifice by the light of this shackled sun never more shall i take a life with blade and hand my hand is gone and never more will i grip a sword in my palm that is my pledge that is my sacrifice that one who lived by the blade shall no longer wield it now grant me your protection come come and seal it in the blood that flows from your stump i will do this be another fortitude save sure thing egg shield whoa yeah you just sneezed a lot of yeah congregant it's like when you look into the sun randomly and you like get an overwhelming sensation and you need to sneeze is that only me that is only you i'm afraid oh no my damage i was about saying go to the doctor but i know you've already been going to the doctor salty added to the notes for your doctor tan hauser as you approach you like the the the sphere begins to flare um all of you in the room feel the heat but but tan hauser you you manage to to move your way kind of trudging through it and as you do um you take no damage but it's it pushes you um and you you see the hand skeletal hand of the fume congregant like reaching out one one finger sort of dancing in the air um your allies who stand behind the pews um behind you see this intensity flaring up and as they see it they also would see on the ground your your hand your severed hand crisps and turns into dust flying back on the air some kind of extra intensity placed on that as you make the final step towards this disrobed figure whose single finger is outstretched what must must i do you have done what you will do we shall see if it is worth and his hand taps the stump you have and you feel this blinding sharp pain go through your body you feel all of what remains of your nerve endings alight and on fire it's probably the most alive you've felt since your accident that transformed you but with that comes something else some other something something wrong that like this fire that is burning through your body now is unnatural and shouldn't be there and as that happens there is there is this moment where it sets in and you you can recoil back breathing slightly and immediately at the at the end of that the congregant crumbles into dust the same as your hand dissipating before you and as it does so your severed hand reconstitutes but does so only as a skeletal bone that you seem to maintain control over there is no flesh on it it is simply bone that is now animate to your will almost in mockery to the metal components of your body and the full flesh with which you have and as that happens almost like going through the fume congregant the sphere channels itself through him and into you and into your body and in a sudden almost seismic shake the sphere simply disappears what a is hey game buster i have super cool cooling gloves on me and my mech can now that the big ball is gone can i run up and cool down tan hauser as much as possible yeah absolutely awesome uh she's gonna run in with her mech like as quickly as possible and try to cool this guy down as we saw him be fucking lit a flame are you good are you good yes yes yes i'm i still stand that pain i haven't felt anything like it in quite some time brother that was the most cold gulthin shit i've ever seen and i've seen so much sand thank you i now look and i realize i now have a cool skeleton hand you're like the skeleton warrior i need to invest in a glove i think i think you're gonna need to explain to me what the hell you just did i saw some sort of oath for protection i tried to give them my hand they wouldn't well i had doubt unless it wouldn't have been a worthy offering so instead i am now seemingly to gain protection from these scouring flames i am now obligated to no longer wield a weapon whoa like you can't kill people anymore well obviously yes but never again shall i do it with my hands it must not be done with a blade that's so sad as long as they find it appropriate i guess i don't really i guess i don't really care you still feeling all right over there yes but the conflagration it did bid me base that the rest of us are likely to be called upon to make this sacrifice not you snot though you're great still whoa what well if you do find a weird god that requires me to do a sacrifice you you can tell him that i'm not here okay well i mean well if the god tells me to get you i'm gonna i'm gonna let you know about like i'll come and get you that would be weird and like i don't fuck around with gods for a reason you know heresy i didn't say anything it's all those guys hungering for snot baldrick now i'm gonna preempt this baldrick's gonna pull out the grenade launcher three figures float into the room oh those guys look so sick yeah back yeah yeah yeah yeah um they they they float into the room they have strange almost mechanical backpacks that pump this neon pink fluid around their bodies their faces are this emaciated gray ash and they wear steel plates of some manner their hands are outstretched like claws and their bottom where the robes should touch the floor is instead like a smoky color um and snot and tan husser you recognize them congregants of of the black papacy oh that looks so sick that's fire this place is sealed sealed you should not be here we close this for a reason heresy all right these these three figures float into the chamber and uh they don't look too happy with you everybody why were you keeping this sun in your deep catacombs um they look up and as they sort of make eye contact you you hear them speak uh off from each of them slightly this is not ours we sealed this place it is not ours it is older not ours you must not know they must not know we are the oldest that is what they must think who must die after you scum i think they're mad about their door i'd be mad too it's true i think the existence of this place hints at the fact that they're they haven't exactly been truthful with their congregants we got speaker coughing we got roshi roshi i think so i might just roll some perception initiative and i you know other people can roll maybe some appropriate initiative scores dms there's yeah roll i'm going to roll i got you that's for what people roll initiative yeah let's go from the top of the order down vena what did you get i got 25 and then rahua what did you get i got a 25 yeah but your tech sucks you suck balder what do you get shut up 24 and then tenhauser i got a 20 and then it's not a goblin i got a 20 like an og it's a dirty 20 filthy 20 and with and with that as as you see these creatures floating towards you the first one raises its hand and that's what we're going to call for today okay that makes sense sorry for sudden fucking rapid death cough oh my god it is i had that happen i had that happen during an interview i had at gen con it was like the most embarrassing thing because i'm just like let me shove water in my mouth and i'm like i swear i'm not sick there's just something in my throat that is not going away thanks you guys are cool um i did i scared people that during uh during my vacation to where it's like i have a perpetual cough that just won't go away and at the start like cough cough don't worry i'm not sick but then i secret but the covid secretly was on the way so the covid got through and using cough as a disguise so i got everybody but thank you guys so much for watching this lovely episode of rock ryan please follow everybody on the socials down below and stuff like that so we can save them for time for this here uh because there's so many technical issues if you really want to support the show please uh come uh come over and help us out at patreon.com or slash narrative declaration or being a member on youtube 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