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Ep. 7 - "The Kyles" - Camp Do Anything · Theater of the Mindset

• 0:00
  Kayla (Evandria): Theater of the Mindset. Theater of
• 0:05
  Justin (DM): Theater of the Mindset.
• 0:09
  Justin (DM): Last week on Camp Do Anything, the summer's in full swing and our camp staff are doing their best to train the future adventurers of Bennethaw. While the campers are searching for leystones hidden by Bunkie, Avandria encounters ex camp Stellshaw staffer, Astrid, casting strange magic in the woods. Eleanor and Bunkie draw beaves on Wendell and Lady Valentina discussing the corrupted leystone in the bucket. Finally, Mazzy and Pat have a quiet moment as they watch the fragment of a spiritually taken to ex camp spell shawl and discuss the difficulties of camp and its implications, ziklag, and the mechanisms of war.
• 1:09
  Justin (DM): Later in the evening of the first day, after all of the campers have finally made their way to their cabins, the older campers have gotten their extra snack and time with Annalor in Hearth Hall. The counselors once again have an opportunity to meet up in their campfire and Mala is able to indicate which one of them has hall duty for the evening.
• 1:40
  Evan (Mala): Guys, I just wanna say that I know the schedule says of Andrea every day, but she's not doing it every day. The campers are just terrified of her, and so they're following the rules when she's around. I'm putting Eleanor on.
• 1:53
  Jamie (Eleanore): Hey, Yankster bride. Yeah. Did you like doing hall monitoring last night?
• 1:58
  Justin (DM): I got a lot.
• 1:58
  Jamie (Eleanore): You did a really good job.
• 1:59
  Justin (DM): Yeah. I got a lot of extra pages in my book read.
• 2:02
  Jamie (Eleanore): Can you do that again tonight?
• 2:04
  Justin (DM): Give me a persuasion check.
• 2:05
  Jamie (Eleanore): Can I get advantage by saying that Evandria said she wants him too?
• 2:10
  Eric (Bunky): Yeah. 17.
• 2:13
  Justin (DM): I do suppose that I did get a good nap in today and I'm feeling pretty well rested, so Yeah. Yeah, I think I can grab this, my book and I might I'm I'm like halfway through this. And he shows you that he is like pretty much halfway through and he opens it up and inside you see that at the bottom of the page that he is on, it's gonna get pretty spicy.
• 2:36
  Jamie (Eleanore): Oh, and I I actually brought you something from the bucket.
• 2:39
  Justin (DM): You did?
• 2:40
  Jamie (Eleanore): Yeah. It's from the library section that the campers don't have access to. Woah. And I hand him a complete smutty little book.
• 2:51
  Nick (Pat): That's in the camp library? Listen.
• 2:54
  Justin (DM): It's Why all wouldn't this be in the camp?
• 2:55
  Nick (Pat): Why wouldn't this sorry. Be That's that's a big surprise.
• 2:58
  Jamie (Eleanore): It's all bird related, so I think it's Wendell's.
• 3:00
  Evan (Mala): Woah. Yeah.
• 3:02
  Jamie (Eleanore): But I figured wings.
• 3:04
  Justin (DM): Why does this one have like a hard hard page on both sides?
• 3:09
  Jamie (Eleanore): Oh, it's because it's a whole book. Like, you just have half of a book.
• 3:13
  Justin (DM): He looks over at Andrea. Where's the other half of my book? Know this was a half book.
• 3:19
  Kayla (Evandria): That one's supposed to be a half.
• 3:21
  Eric (Bunky): Give me a deception check
• 3:23
  Justin (DM): with advantage because he so thoroughly trusts you.
• 3:27
  Kayla (Evandria): 18.
• 3:29
  Justin (DM): Oh, okay. That makes sense. I Do I need to do anything to get the other half? Is that like a like a thing I have to like subscribe to or
• 3:37
  Kayla (Evandria): I think it's just maturity related. When you're old enough, you'll find it.
• 3:42
  Justin (DM): So this is like a less mature book, this one? This book about birds?
• 3:47
  Jamie (Eleanore): It's more mature. Eleanor. I feel like he's ready for it. And I think I'm ready. Yeah.
• 3:52
  And he's really helping me out because I gotta stay up late to go I gotta go get the Drow Kids.
• 3:57
  Kayla (Evandria): Helping you out.
• 4:00
  Evan (Mala): Did you have the Drow Kids yesterday?
• 4:02
  Jamie (Eleanore): I have them every night that nobody else volunteers to take them.
• 4:05
  Justin (DM): Could I
• 4:06
  Jamie (Eleanore): keep
• 4:06
  Justin (DM): watch and take them? Well, yanks, you know.
• 4:09
  Jamie (Eleanore): No? No. You're not a counselor, so you can't you can't
• 4:12
  Justin (DM): Oh, mean, like like a staff member. It's like a weird Yeah. Made me like a weird role. Massey and I had like a half
• 4:17
  Jamie (Eleanore): hour long conversation about it the other day. Yeah. I I think what you're doing is very important. I think you're a really good asset.
• 4:22
  Justin (DM): I do too.
• 4:23
  Kayla (Evandria): Yanks, if you have any questions about the book that you will read though Yeah. As I'm sure you will Yeah. You can go ahead and ask Bunky, he'll he'll make sure he answers.
• 4:34
  Justin (DM): Okay. I'll ask Bunky any questions I have about this new book.
• 4:38
  Eric (Bunky): I'm especially good with diagrams.
• 4:41
  Justin (DM): Okay.
• 4:42
  Kayla (Evandria): And then
• 4:43
  Justin (DM): You're both good with diaphragms? Diagrams. Diagrams. Okay.
• 4:46
  Kayla (Evandria): Incredibly honest, so you could ask Mala as well.
• 4:50
  Justin (DM): Do should I post up at the same place or a different zone tonight? I didn't see anyone last night.
• 4:56
  Evan (Mala): Bunky, can you just do that thing that you do where it, like, tells us if something moves, but, like, around the cabins?
• 5:02
  Eric (Bunky): Yeah. I can absolutely do oh, well. What what's the capability of having multiple alarms in place at once? You only have one. I can't because I need to use my alarm for protection around the entire camp as opposed to just the individual cabins.
• 5:18
  Jamie (Eleanore): I think you can just stay where you were last night.
• 5:21
  Justin (DM): Okay. I can see all the cabins from Yeah.
• 5:23
  Kayla (Evandria): Perfect. And I'll stay with you for the first chunk of the night.
• 5:27
  Justin (DM): Oh, wonderful.
• 5:29
  Kayla (Evandria): Yeah. I think we have some things to talk about.
• 5:31
  Nick (Pat): Okay. Can I do an insight check to see how well last night went? If if Yanks didn't see anything last night.
• 5:40
  Justin (DM): Yeah. You should absolutely do that.
• 5:41
  Evan (Mala): That's what I was
• 5:42
  Kayla (Evandria): gonna ask.
• 5:42
  Justin (DM): You can do it too.
• 5:43
  Evan (Mala): No. I was gonna ask.
• 5:44
  Justin (DM): Let's say 18 on the die plus two twenty. Thirty twenty. 100% Yanks thinks that he kept a good watch. Yeah. And he did an okay job.
• 5:59
  Sure. I think you absolutely know that Yanks is not doing as good of a job as any of you could do.
• 6:04
  Evan (Mala): Sure.
• 6:05
  Nick (Pat): Well, I'm sure he's doing great. I'm sure this is fine. I'm sure no ramifications could come from this.
• 6:12
  Kayla (Evandria): Well, I'm gonna watch a little bit.
• 6:13
  Nick (Pat): Yeah. It's fine. I'm cool.
• 6:17
  Eric (Bunky): That starts Bunky starts the ritual to reset the alarm for the night.
• 6:21
  Justin (DM): And remind me again what your alarm is doing?
• 6:24
  Eric (Bunky): The alarm is setting a barrier so that if anything enters apparently all of camp Mhmm. If anything enters camp, it'll set off the in Bunky's head and to alert him of where there is an incursion.
• 6:42
  Justin (DM): Alright. Then, I think we will proceed to the night Eleanor, you head off to the bucket with the three drow students. Correct? Mhmm. And Evandria and Yanks will hang out and keep watch.
• 6:56
  Rest of you are going to bed?
• 6:57
  Evan (Mala): Molla will do a patrol around camp with the master key and make sure everything's locked up and like secured.
• 7:04
  Justin (DM): Okay. Give me a investigation.
• 7:09
  Evan (Mala): Five. I'm throwing for fuck all day.
• 7:12
  Justin (DM): All of the I mean, you are just like going around buildings. It's not terribly difficult. All of the like, the the bucket will remain unlocked because Eleanor is there, but like the craft cabin is locked, Hearth Hall is like appropriately locked, all of the pavilion The pavilion's an open air building, but Evergreen is locked. All of those buildings are like appropriately locked.
• 7:33
  Nick (Pat): Pat's actually gonna be at the pits for a little bit before going to bed and Pat is working on a project for himself that after last year's questing ritual, saw Pat saw himself in the future. Eleanor kind of alluded to this telling story time to kids. Pat saw a version of himself that grew up to be working at his parents store, The Overland Outfitters, and Pat also saw a version of himself that was a knight. And, as Pat has been considering what he wants to do for the rest of his life, he's leaning towards figuring out this knight thing, and so he's trying to turn his, like, issue, great sword into something that looks a little bit more familiar to that future vision. But looks save save the actual role for downtime, but that's where Pat is.
• 8:21
  Justin (DM): Yep. I love that. After you make your checks, Mala, you go to your cabin and head to bed. And I think you were probably just getting familiar with the Yeah. Foundry and the blacksmith area.
• 8:35
  Kind of rests evenly between the junkyard and the pits because I think Tiesel uses it pretty frequently as well. You have enough, I think, as is typical at many camps for youth, bedtime is like 09:30, 10:00. So it's not uncommon for these staff members to hang out a little bit earlier, but you have had a long day. So I imagine you might hang out for a little bit Yeah. Longer For sure.
• 8:59
  Before you head to bed. And Evandria and Yankshur Braid find themselves, relatively alone. They can see off in the distance that the lights of the bucket are still dimly lit as Wendell, Eleanor, and the three drow students are kind of up still and about and moving. And Yankshur Braid kind of sits his book down and says, Evandria, I are you a little bit concerned about this competition that Mazzy talked about at at dinner time? I mean, going up against ex camp Stelshaw, they're training in the Thunderdome.
• 9:34
  They're gonna be pretty tough.
• 9:36
  Kayla (Evandria): Yeah. I never like to say this, and you can never repeat this, but we will lose if we don't start training hard.
• 9:45
  Justin (DM): Yeah. That's what I'm concerned about.
• 9:47
  Kayla (Evandria): If we don't start training like Pat has been training each morning, but all of us, we will be losing.
• 9:55
  Justin (DM): I I heard that some of the campers, like, create crafts and things to to support the people that they think are gonna win. I heard some of the campers saying that they might make crafts for ex camp staff members.
• 10:07
  Kayla (Evandria): Oh, no. They won't.
• 10:10
  Eric (Bunky): Like, some of
• 10:11
  Justin (DM): the ones that applied to go to ex camp, they are they are rooting for ex camp staff members. Do you want me to point them out tomorrow to you?
• 10:18
  Kayla (Evandria): Yeah. I'm gonna need names, faces, socials.
• 10:22
  Justin (DM): Well, their names are kinda hard because I think I just know them by the names you call them, like one and two. Oh, well, that's great.
• 10:31
  Jamie (Eleanore): That's how I know them.
• 10:31
  Justin (DM): Yeah. Okay. I'll call them by the names that you call them.
• 10:34
  Kayla (Evandria): Okay. Perfect.
• 10:34
  Justin (DM): I don't know a lot about, like, how this all works, but it might get pretty tough.
• 10:39
  Kayla (Evandria): Yeah. I based on how they do it at x camp, in my experience, I I wouldn't be surprised if someone died.
• 10:48
  Justin (DM): Like Cassius died? Everyone keeps talking
• 10:51
  Kayla (Evandria): about Just like Cassius. Yes.
• 10:53
  Justin (DM): I heard some of the campers talking
• 10:54
  Kayla (Evandria): about accidentally had her warble, warble, warble on the same channel as Eleanor, like, just switch to that right as she said that.
• 11:03
  Jamie (Eleanore): I got kids here
• 11:04
  Evan (Mala): and you can't
• 11:05
  Kayla (Evandria): oh, shoot. Oh, damn it. And then she switches it off.
• 11:09
  Justin (DM): Eleanor works really hard. When does she sleep?
• 11:13
  Kayla (Evandria): Yeah. I'm not sure. I'm a little scared for her levels of competence in battle, against these camp Xers if she doesn't start actually taking care of herself. You know, as my mom always says, beauty is half the battle.
• 11:30
  Justin (DM): Yeah. And your mom's pretty beautiful.
• 11:32
  Kayla (Evandria): Yeah. She is.
• 11:33
  Justin (DM): Is there anything I could be doing to get ready for this?
• 11:36
  Kayla (Evandria): Oh, man.
• 11:37
  Justin (DM): I know that, like, we have the the attack where we the thorns attack where after you shoot them and they're kinda really bleeding out and hurting, I come in from the other side and stab them with my needle. What if that's not good enough?
• 11:49
  Kayla (Evandria): I mean, yeah. Anything we could do together would I just I don't know if I can do it, Yanks. It it would require magic. No. Well, together?
• 12:01
  Yeah.
• 12:02
  Justin (DM): Why? We've been working together this whole time without magic.
• 12:06
  Kayla (Evandria): Yeah. Of course, we have.
• 12:08
  Justin (DM): Why do you say it like that?
• 12:10
  Kayla (Evandria): Say it like what?
• 12:12
  Justin (DM): You say it like how you say things when you talk to campers that you don't really like, and I know that you don't mean it, and so
• 12:17
  Kayla (Evandria): Yanks, I'm gonna be honest with you. I've been using some magic.
• 12:23
  Jamie (Eleanore): Like? In battle.
• 12:25
  Justin (DM): In battle, you've been Like It's one thing when you're like coffee is cold and you wanna make it hot. That's like a different kind of
• 12:32
  Kayla (Evandria): Well, like when you stabbed that one dragon Yeah. And you went around with your with your
• 12:38
  Justin (DM): Yeah. I was so strong. I like stabbed it through its scales. I mean, a lot of the scales did not break, but I was like really going hard at
• 12:44
  Kayla (Evandria): I helped you a little bit.
• 12:47
  Justin (DM): Yeah. It was like encouraging words. Magic. What?
• 12:55
  Kayla (Evandria): Thanks. I think I think we can work something out together, but I don't I think at a certain point, my knife and and star throwing skills won't be enough, and I need you to be okay with me helping you.
• 13:07
  Justin (DM): I'm magic is what kept me inside of that that stupid like pixie pond.
• 13:14
  Kayla (Evandria): But don't you think maybe magic could also be a way for us to both break free?
• 13:19
  Justin (DM): Absolutely not. I am not interested. Magic is a trap. Every person I know that cast magic ends up either getting stuck in something or trapped inside of it or ends up in a gem. It's it's just crazy.
• 13:34
  Magic is bad, Evandria. I like, that was like like our pact. We've like talked about it a lot and I wrote that poem that one time about magic is bad, it makes me sad, I wish it away. Well, you So long. I It was bad poem, admit it.
• 13:49
  Kayla (Evandria): I forgot I forgot some of it. Would you do like the last seven lines because they they actually The last seven lines? Yeah. They were really good.
• 13:56
  Justin (DM): Like the full limerick?
• 13:58
  Kayla (Evandria): Yeah. Believe it had a Shakespearean rhyme scheme to it as well.
• 14:03
  Justin (DM): Give me a persuasion check.
• 14:08
  Kayla (Evandria): 19.
• 14:08
  Evan (Mala): I hate this.
• 14:11
  Justin (DM): You mean this poem? Spells are tricksy, bendy, elastic. The outcomes are always tragic. No spell I'll cast. This promise will last.
• 14:22
  I'll never cast bad magic.
• 14:25
  Kayla (Evandria): Oh. Well, we have to say the last part again.
• 14:30
  Justin (DM): Which is why I'll never Overcast
• 14:32
  Kayla (Evandria): bad magic. You heard the bad magic. Right?
• 14:38
  Justin (DM): Yeah. I kind of assume that encompassed like all magic.
• 14:40
  Kayla (Evandria): Yinx, what do you think if we try and make it good for us?
• 14:45
  Justin (DM): Give me another persuasion check. Nine. Yankster Braid, I think, for the first time since you've met him at the pond last summer, gets this serious continence on his face and says, Evandria, you freed me from magic. Don't put me back there. And he grabs his book and he says, I think I'll have a better view from the Southwest corner and flies away.
• 15:18
  Are you going to watch for a little bit longer? Yeah. Okay. Go ahead and give me a perception check as you wait out a little bit longer. You can see that Yankshur Braid is perusing his book frustrated and half reading.
• 15:38
  Give me a perception check. Three. You see Eleanor and three Drow walking out towards the pits and the rest of your watch goes smoothly.
• 15:58
  Kayla (Evandria): Ugh.
• 16:01
  Justin (DM): In the middle of the night, there's a knock at Maala's door.
• 16:10
  Evan (Mala): I will instantly jump out of bed, grab my shield and sword, and just kick on the door. Like, who's there?
• 16:15
  Justin (DM): Oh my gosh.
• 16:19
  Evan (Mala): Mala? Yes, little one.
• 16:21
  Justin (DM): I I mean, I wasn't supposed to tell you, but they've been gone a long time.
• 16:26
  Evan (Mala): Who's gone and where? And I'll instantly look to the North Northwest Corner for Yanks. He's not there. Who's gone where? The Kyles,
• 16:36
  Justin (DM): they they they they they said that they were gonna just sneak out real quick and they took this board that had a bunch of letters on it and they said they'd be back and they haven't come back and they they changed themselves to look like the one of the counselors and some of the the people that the that the counselor takes out at night and then they went out and I haven't seen them and that was a couple of hours ago.
• 17:02
  Evan (Mala): Mikaela, it's okay.
• 17:03
  Justin (DM): Uh-huh. Where did they go? I don't know. They told us that we had to lay in bed and be really quiet.
• 17:08
  Evan (Mala): No. But which direction did they go?
• 17:12
  Justin (DM): They went towards the woods. The great Woods? Yeah. Yeah. The great woods.
• 17:16
  Evan (Mala): I'll pull up the warble, Marble. Everyone get up immediately. We have campers that have exited camp.
• 17:22
  Kayla (Evandria): Campers? I've been watching.
• 17:24
  Evan (Mala): That is a lie because I don't see you and Yanks is not here and we're gonna have to talk about that.
• 17:29
  Eric (Bunky): Does the alarm work in and out or just alert coming in?
• 17:33
  Justin (DM): You will recall that your specific wording was entering camp, not exit.
• 17:42
  Evan (Mala): Can someone grab Pat too because I know he never his Warble Morble. Actually, I'll get Pat, and I'm just gonna walk over to Cabin 1.
• 17:49
  Nick (Pat): Pat instantly kicks up.
• 17:51
  Evan (Mala): What's up? Oh, we got lost campers.
• 17:52
  Nick (Pat): Pat opens the door. The Kyles. In his underwear.
• 17:55
  Eric (Bunky): Kyles. It's always the Kyles.
• 18:00
  Jamie (Eleanore): Was it actually me and the Drow Kids
• 18:02
  Evan (Mala): walking No.
• 18:02
  Jamie (Eleanore): In the bucket? Okay.
• 18:03
  Justin (DM): They shape shifted
• 18:04
  Jamie (Eleanore): to Okay. Look like I wanna make sure before I start Yeah. Yeah. Being in character.
• 18:09
  Evan (Mala): Everyone meet in two in the center of the cabins.
• 18:12
  Jamie (Eleanore): Okay. Alright. Wendell. Oh, yes. I am so sorry.
• 18:17
  We have some campers that have gone missing.
• 18:20
  Justin (DM): Oh, my gosh.
• 18:21
  Jamie (Eleanore): It's fine. I'm gonna go I'm gonna go help my team.
• 18:24
  Justin (DM): Okay.
• 18:25
  Jamie (Eleanore): If you don't mind staying here with the these kids.
• 18:28
  Justin (DM): I need to alert Analor, she can begin casting the locate person spell.
• 18:32
  Jamie (Eleanore): I think Mal is already on it.
• 18:33
  Justin (DM): Okay. We we have a protocol for lost campers. Okay. Okay. I can alert Analor.
• 18:39
  Okay. Do it. He gets on his warble marble and contacts Analor to begin casting the locate person's spell. There is a a protocol for lost campers and you guys searching the Great Woods covers a portion of that protocol. So Okay.
• 18:52
  There are other people. There are not just you all responsible for looking campers. You looking for lost campers. Mazzy will begin like looking on the beach and other professional staff are going to take other zones while you guys look in the Great Woods, which is frankly the largest zone. So you guys are taking on a lot of the responsibility in this moment, but they will like handle the like the the lake, which is also a pretty big zone because if you have a drowning camper, that's pretty scary.
• 19:17
  The camp is going to go in pretty much high alert at this point.
• 19:21
  Jamie (Eleanore): And we've told them that we were told they went towards the Great Woods.
• 19:24
  Justin (DM): Do you know which campers you you were told they went to the Great Woods, but we can't assume that that's where they are.
• 19:29
  Jamie (Eleanore): Well, we were told that they were changelings, the Kyles.
• 19:34
  Justin (DM): Oh, no. That's gonna make this difficult.
• 19:36
  Jamie (Eleanore): And they I was told that they were pretending to be somebody else and I assume it was me and these kids because we're out and about.
• 19:45
  Justin (DM): Who was in charge of night duty?
• 19:48
  Jamie (Eleanore): It was supposed to be me technically, but I did get help because I needed to be here. I did get help from Evandria and Yanksha Braid.
• 19:56
  Justin (DM): We'll sort it out all that later. I just It was an instinctual question. Great. We need to
• 20:00
  Jamie (Eleanore): Am I good to go? Can you watch these kids?
• 20:01
  Justin (DM): Yes. Okay. I will take them I'm gonna take them with me, but we're we're gonna we're shirts the bucket and start doing circles around here, so they'll be safe.
• 20:10
  Jamie (Eleanore): Take take wart with you.
• 20:14
  Justin (DM): Okay. I he Is there a reason?
• 20:17
  Jamie (Eleanore): Just to bring up the rear.
• 20:18
  Justin (DM): Okay. He grabs the toad from the Roomba lily pad on the on the little pond. Alright. We've got this. Please call us on your warble marbles when you find them.
• 20:30
  Jamie (Eleanore): You can put him back on his lily pad.
• 20:32
  Kayla (Evandria): He'll
• 20:32
  Jamie (Eleanore): Okay. Follow you guys.
• 20:33
  Justin (DM): Oh, wonderful. I forget that it can go on land.
• 20:35
  Jamie (Eleanore): Yeah. Yeah. He is super anxious, so the minute he sees something that makes him uncomfortable, he'll start making noise.
• 20:40
  Justin (DM): Wonderful. Great. Lily pad, disengages from the thing that holds it down to the actual pond itself and it ramps up onto the ground in here like a Sorry. As it starts to engage in its land mode and he follows along behind Wendell and the three drow.
• 21:01
  Evan (Mala): Cool. Alright, guys. So we are gonna spread out in 30 feet spacing and we're gonna walk through the woods. And if you see something, use the alert sound on your warble morble.
• 21:13
  Kayla (Evandria): Well, I also have traps. So in my spacing, I I can check the traps to see if they might have stumbled upon them.
• 21:20
  Evan (Mala): Are these paint traps?
• 21:21
  Kayla (Evandria): I set them up this afternoon.
• 21:22
  Evan (Mala): That may help us find them because they may have footprints.
• 21:24
  Nick (Pat): How long have they been gone? Do we know how many hours?
• 21:27
  Evan (Mala): I don't know. Mikayla didn't tell me. She just knew that it was it was long
• 21:32
  Nick (Pat): ago. Okay. Would it make sense to take the dune buggy out far and then close back?
• 21:39
  Kayla (Evandria): Oh, yeah.
• 21:40
  Evan (Mala): So we
• 21:40
  Nick (Pat): comb double. So a couple of us can go really far out of the great woods. So a couple of us can start a camp and then comb through. Meeting in the and meet in the middle to try and find them.
• 21:48
  Jamie (Eleanore): I think that's a good idea. Perfect.
• 21:49
  Eric (Bunky): And Evandria, you and you and Yangszke probably didn't see anything?
• 21:53
  Kayla (Evandria): Well, I mean, other than, you know, Eleanor with the drow campers, no. Oh, did you come to the bucket? No. No. When you guys were headed to the pits.
• 22:01
  Jamie (Eleanore): We were not headed to the pits. I look at Pat. We didn't come to see you.
• 22:06
  Nick (Pat): I was at the foundry.
• 22:07
  Jamie (Eleanore): Yeah. And we have not No. You walked
• 22:10
  Kayla (Evandria): to the pits with the drow campers.
• 22:12
  Jamie (Eleanore): God. Evandria Yeah. I don't know anything about the pits. How would I Hold on.
• 22:17
  Evan (Mala): The pits are the opposite direction from the Great Woods. Maybe they're not in the Great Woods.
• 22:21
  Jamie (Eleanore): The fuck was Mikaela talking about?
• 22:23
  Nick (Pat): I'll head to the pits first.
• 22:24
  Kayla (Evandria): She's like seven. Let's head to the pits and spread out from there.
• 22:27
  Eric (Bunky): Okay. We'll head to
• 22:27
  Evan (Mala): the pits,
• 22:28
  Nick (Pat): grab the buggy at teasel shop, and then hit the Great
• 22:31
  Evan (Mala): Woods. The buggy, if they're trying to not get caught, would be very loud and tell them where we are. Yeah. But if
• 22:37
  Nick (Pat): we go way past them and come walk back is what I'm saying.
• 22:39
  Kayla (Evandria): Perfect. You're gonna
• 22:40
  Justin (DM): leave the bug there?
• 22:41
  Eric (Bunky): Yeah. We'll go get it later.
• 22:42
  Jamie (Eleanore): It'll be fine.
• 22:43
  Kayla (Evandria): And then
• 22:43
  Evan (Mala): It's gross.
• 22:44
  Jamie (Eleanore): I'll start from, like, at camp and Yeah. Get
• 22:47
  Nick (Pat): Okay. So we'll meet in the middle.
• 22:48
  Jamie (Eleanore): Because I cannot fit in that dog. Boonduggie. Doon buggie.
• 22:51
  Evan (Mala): Who wants to come
• 22:51
  Nick (Pat): with me in the buggy and the pits first? Bunxton?
• 22:54
  Kayla (Evandria): I would love another buggy ride. Hell yeah. Yanks, are you coming with?
• 22:59
  Justin (DM): No. I think someone should stay here and watch the cabins.
• 23:03
  Jamie (Eleanore): I'll take I'll take Yanks.
• 23:05
  Justin (DM): Okay. I'll go with Eleanor.
• 23:07
  Jamie (Eleanore): You almost forgot my name, didn't you?
• 23:09
  Justin (DM): It's better than saying the wrong name.
• 23:11
  Nick (Pat): Pat runs towards the pits to see if they're there or see any signs of them having taken anything.
• 23:16
  Justin (DM): Give me an investigation check. Oh, give me a perception.
• 23:19
  Nick (Pat): You had to you had to do
• 23:21
  Justin (DM): I'll accept. Accept. I'll accept either.
• 23:23
  Nick (Pat): Investigation. What about insight? Definitely. Investigation is a 15.
• 23:28
  Justin (DM): Someone has used lock picks on the the actual sharp weapon container and taken weapons. With a 15, you see that they've taken two scimitars and two longbows. Kyles.
• 23:45
  Nick (Pat): Okay. They've got sharp weapons. Don't know what they're after. Don't know what they're trying
• 23:48
  Eric (Bunky): to do. We gotta get going.
• 23:49
  Jamie (Eleanore): Any arrows missing?
• 23:51
  Justin (DM): I will also Yes. There are arrows missing. I will also point out that there are only three Kyles. Okay. And there are four people
• 23:58
  Nick (Pat): people missed. Okay. Can you send
• 24:00
  Nick (Pat): a message over? One of you guys send a message address them, let them know that. I don't have my marble.
• 24:07
  Eric (Bunky): What? Oh, what what happened to you?
• 24:09
  Evan (Mala): I just don't
• 24:10
  Nick (Pat): have it on me.
• 24:13
  Kayla (Evandria): Hello?
• 24:15
  Eric (Bunky): There are missing weapons.
• 24:18
  Evan (Mala): They're armed.
• 24:19
  Eric (Bunky): Also, Pat doesn't have his horrible marble.
• 24:21
  Nick (Pat): That doesn't seem pertinent.
• 24:23
  Eric (Bunky): It feels important to know for later.
• 24:25
  Evan (Mala): They're they're they I mean, they survived last year, so at least they have weapons to defend themselves. That makes me feel a little bit Yeah. But they
• 24:31
  Kayla (Evandria): also down though.
• 24:31
  Evan (Mala): Didn't pass their questing rituals, so I don't if I trust them. Yeah. But they survived. Which means they can survive until we find them, and I think we should go immediately. Do you have the Doom Buggy yet?
• 24:40
  We're heading that way now. Oh, you do have your Warbo Marble.
• 24:43
  Nick (Pat): I'm just yelling over his shoulder. Oh. I'm assuming Buggy's on my shoulder, and we're sprinting.
• 24:47
  Evan (Mala): Correct. As we head to the Great Woods, I like to stop by the Evergreen Center and pick up my phoenix to do help me with search and rescue.
• 24:54
  Justin (DM): Absolutely. You see that Jar is asleep as it's nighttime but wakes up when you arrive.
• 25:01
  Evan (Mala): I throw a bunch of like charred fruit and vegetables at him that are like crumbled. Like, sorry buddy. We we got we got some work to do tonight.
• 25:11
  Justin (DM): The phoenix immediately gobbles that food up and then perches on your shoulder. So remind me again of the groups.
• 25:16
  Jamie (Eleanore): Me and Yanks.
• 25:17
  Evan (Mala): And Mala. Ken?
• 25:19
  Jamie (Eleanore): And Mala.
• 25:19
  Eric (Bunky): Yeah. Pat and Monkey and garnishes with us And Evandria. Oh, and Evandria.
• 25:24
  Justin (DM): Great. Blitzville. Describe We'll start with the three of you, kinda describe driving to the back of As far back into the woods as you wanna go and we'll go from there.
• 25:34
  Nick (Pat): Yeah. We get in the we get in the buggy, pile in, and just start taking off down the main path out into the great woods. Evander, you can get in the front seat if you want.
• 25:43
  Kayla (Evandria): Oh, no. I I actually liked it up here last time. Heard. She's in the same position, full squat, arms in between the legs.
• 25:51
  Justin (DM): Just weird waiting. It's fine. Okay.
• 25:54
  Kayla (Evandria): And she's keeping a lookout for any of the traps to see if any of them have gone off with paint splats as they drive.
• 26:02
  Nick (Pat): So we're flying through the Great Woods on the main path trying to get kind of a couple miles out about what we think even if they left right at bedtime, how far they could get so that
• 26:14
  Justin (DM): we could start heading backwards. Okay. You head out a couple of miles. It takes maybe twenty minutes. I think they're At first, the trails into the Great Woods are pretty wide and it's pretty easy to
• 26:26
  Evan (Mala): go Yeah.
• 26:26
  Justin (DM): Through. But once you get deeper in there, it's pretty much off roading and you really have to slow down Sure. To make it through some of those passes. There's a couple of tight turns and things like that. Go ahead and give me a perception check for checking your traps as you go.
• 26:43
  Kayla (Evandria): 19.
• 26:44
  Justin (DM): It does appear that some of your traps have been triggered. That doesn't confirm that like all four people are covered in paint or anything like that, but you can tell that some people have trapped triggered your traps and there is
• 26:57
  Kayla (Evandria): In the general path they took. Yep.
• 27:00
  Justin (DM): For at least a portion of time. Been gone, as Mikaela said, for hours.
• 27:08
  Kayla (Evandria): Yeah.
• 27:08
  Justin (DM): So the trail dies off before you you do not find them at the end of the paint trail.
• 27:14
  Kayla (Evandria): So the first paint explosion that she sees, she pulls out her warble warble, and as the wind is, like, whipping as they're trying to get through this forest and it's incredibly loud and, like, jostling and everything, she's like, hey, guys. How are you? How are you? Just wanted to lay the the paint trap over here. And and she wants to give the location, but it's a little jumbled.
• 27:45
  So she's not sure that they got it, but that's all she can manage on the top of the dune bug.
• 27:49
  Evan (Mala): I heard the word paint.
• 27:50
  Jamie (Eleanore): Okay. I think she was saying, like, the traps.
• 27:53
  Evan (Mala): Did she tell you the traps were? Because I didn't
• 27:55
  Justin (DM): know Oh. Where the traps
• 27:56
  Evan (Mala): Oh. Oh, I forgot you're with us.
• 27:58
  Justin (DM): Yeah. I know where the traps are.
• 27:59
  Evan (Mala): Okay.
• 28:00
  Jamie (Eleanore): Let's some of them were so yeah. Maybe show us the general direction Yeah. And that's where we can start.
• 28:05
  Justin (DM): He will take you to the general area of the traps. He starts the Evergreen Center, and sure enough, you guys are able to find footprints of, at least three of the people get pretty thoroughly doused in paint. And you start to follow them. It does not take long before you can tell that whoever was shape shifted to look like a centaur drops that shape. And they take on a more humanoid bipedal shape.
• 28:35
  And they After doing that, the paint starts to really taper off. You're going to need to do a survival check to continue to track them.
• 28:46
  Jamie (Eleanore): Did Mikaela tell us who the fourth person was? Or did she just think three people three Kyles
• 28:50
  Evan (Mala): were gone? She said she just said a group and then she said the Kyles.
• 28:56
  Jamie (Eleanore): Okay. That makes me think that she doesn't know there's a fourth person.
• 28:58
  Evan (Mala): I I might have checked in a chain an extra change link during registration, but I don't there's a lot of kids, and I was tired that day. So there might be a fourth changeling changeling this year, which is terrifying. I'm gonna look at Jar and ask him to help, scout out. Yep.
• 29:15
  Justin (DM): That'll give you advantage on your Can I use
• 29:17
  Evan (Mala): his instead? Because he has advantage on perception checks that rely on sight.
• 29:20
  Justin (DM): Yeah. That's fine. 18.
• 29:26
  Jamie (Eleanore): Five.
• 29:27
  Justin (DM): I do think I would be surprised, correct me if I'm wrong, if centaurs have night dark vision. We do not. So I definitely think that's a big hindrance to you being able to track this. I imagine you have some sort of light source.
• 29:42
  Jamie (Eleanore): I have candles and a torch.
• 29:44
  Justin (DM): Which definitely lets you see directly in front of you, but if you're tracking, you can't see much farther beyond where the candlelight is taking you. Right. But, Zhaar is much more capable of seeing far and ahead. You start to track where these campers have taken this route and you are headed in a direction that you have not been in before. This is not a part of the great woods that you took for your questing ritual.
• 30:14
  This is not a direction. I don't wanna say that you've necessarily never gone in this direction before. You've spent a lot of time at camp, but this is not an area that you have gone probably this summer thus far, and you're getting pretty deep into the area. This isn't towards the weather perch, or this isn't towards the castle or the pond. This is pretty just deep into the forest itself.
• 30:38
  Now that you are kind of in the thick of the woods, it is that eerily quiet space. You can tell that the just by the gate of these steps themselves that you are tracking as Jarre kind of make sure that you're following the right path that the campers themselves are starting to get worried. The distance between the steps are getting shorter and sometimes they kind of stand still and you can see that the footprints kind of shuffle around like they kind of stood in spot for a little bit and looked around, kinda got their senses. And you all eventually come across a space where it looks like there was something kind of hidden underneath brush. Like, this was like a preplanned.
• 31:31
  They had clearly put something in these bushes and had retrieved some sort of large fox or it it must have been at least four or five feet long, whatever this was. And they have retrieved it from this underbrush that they had hidden it under, and they've gotten it out and are now kind of trekking forward. You get the sense that you are getting close to you're getting significantly closer to where they are. However, it is getting dark and quiet. Go ahead and give me a charisma saving throw against the frightened condition.
• 32:13
  Jamie (Eleanore): And can we see Is it something that's heavy that they are dragging? Do we see dragging trails or
• 32:19
  Eric (Bunky): dragging.
• 32:19
  Jamie (Eleanore): Okay.
• 32:21
  Nick (Pat): 11. Three.
• 32:25
  Justin (DM): I'm not outright giving you the frightened condition. You have failed the first of three to get to the frightened condition. If you've ever been in a forest completely at night, it just feels darker and scarier and quieter than it should be. And I think you all kind of get into your heads a little bit. Yangshir Braid is like, surely they didn't go out this far.
• 32:50
  Right?
• 32:50
  Evan (Mala): If you knew the Kyles like we do. But, like, why? Obviously, they were trying to run away or they might be running away to Axe Camp,
• 32:58
  Eric (Bunky): you think?
• 32:59
  Jamie (Eleanore): I don't know.
• 33:00
  Eric (Bunky): But I
• 33:00
  Justin (DM): think with your survival check, this is not even the direction of ex camp.
• 33:03
  Jamie (Eleanore): I don't understand, like, what was hidden here. Oh god.
• 33:07
  Evan (Mala): It's four or five feet long. I mean, they grabbed weapons from camp. Is it part of the spirit tree? Did they find something from Teasel's?
• 33:14
  Jamie (Eleanore): I don't know.
• 33:15
  Justin (DM): Go ahead and give you an investigation check to see if you can determine what they grabbed.
• 33:20
  Jamie (Eleanore): I haven't even seen the Kyles since they
• 33:22
  Justin (DM): Seven. Do wanna give me an investigation check?
• 33:27
  Evan (Mala): I know we say low rolls are interesting, but when all you get is low rolls, it starts to get less interesting.
• 33:34
  Justin (DM): 14. With a 14, it looks like they've hidden shovels. We'll pick up the dune buggy. You guys have gotten a couple of miles deep into the Great Woods and you park the dune buggy. And in sharp contrast to when you've been kind of riding the dune buggy, the just roar of the engine, the wind, all of those factors.
• 34:00
  The instant you park the dune buggy and turn off the engine and the ringing in your ear finally cuts off, the silence of the forest hits you.
• 34:10
  Nick (Pat): Can you guys see anything?
• 34:13
  Kayla (Evandria): No. I can't. Oh, I'm so sorry. I was used to the top of the dune buggy.
• 34:19
  Nick (Pat): Bunky, can you?
• 34:20
  Eric (Bunky): No. I can't see anything.
• 34:21
  Nick (Pat): Okay.
• 34:23
  Eric (Bunky): Is this too far to be able to use the the prestigitation to add some lights?
• 34:28
  Evan (Mala): Yep. Okay.
• 34:29
  Eric (Bunky): No. I can't I can't see anything at all.
• 34:31
  Kayla (Evandria): I can I can make some light for us?
• 34:35
  Nick (Pat): I Pat's gonna click a couple switches on his goggles and put night vision on and start rummaging through the dune buggy to see. I like, don't know.
• 34:42
  Nick (Pat): Do have a torch
• 34:43
  Nick (Pat): or something? I'm not sure what else I
• 34:44
  Kayla (Evandria): have. Can cast
• 34:45
  Nick (Pat): Yeah. You can. Yes. You can.
• 34:48
  Eric (Bunky): Do it. That's so cool. I thought you would
• 34:51
  Kayla (Evandria): thought do you think I should?
• 34:52
  Eric (Bunky): I I think it if we can't see out here
• 34:55
  Kayla (Evandria): Well, I can see at least for a little bit. But
• 34:59
  Eric (Bunky): I think if you're comfortable with it, you should do it. Do it. I think you can do this. You can absolutely do this, Evandria.
• 35:07
  Kayla (Evandria): Okay. So she uses, the one cantrip that she knows, which is light, and ends up touching Bunky's armor. And even though it hasn't expanded and it hasn't actually done the original firefly light up, her light is specific to the light of a firefly. And she has only ever practiced doing it on bunky type armor because that's how it feels safest to her. So she first was able to give him that light in the armor.
• 35:46
  So she does that and it gives us 20 feet of light.
• 35:50
  Justin (DM): The faint glow gives you enough range without kind of giving you that light that will ruin your night sight. You now can see a little bit better.
• 35:58
  Nick (Pat): Okay. Why don't you guys take that side of the trail? I'll take this side of the trail and we'll start moving that way back towards camp.
• 36:04
  Eric (Bunky): Efandrea, hold me above your head and then the light will reach a little bit further.
• 36:09
  Kayla (Evandria): Okay. She takes Bunky very gently and lifts him up to now a total of six feet tall between the two of them.
• 36:19
  Justin (DM): As you guys start moving down, all of you go ahead and give me a perception check.
• 36:24
  Nick (Pat): I get advantage because of the goggles?
• 36:26
  Jamie (Eleanore): Yeah. How much does Bunky weigh?
• 36:29
  Eric (Bunky): Approximately three pounds.
• 36:31
  Kayla (Evandria): Oh, that's not bad. Okay. She feels fine about carrying him.
• 36:35
  Nick (Pat): 16. 13.
• 36:37
  Kayla (Evandria): 13.
• 36:37
  Justin (DM): With a 16, I think it takes a minute especially I think the night vision goggles help you at first and then you have to point it out to your compatriots. There begins to be a repeating pattern that you see. At first, it was nothing. I mean, you see flowers all the time in the forest. And then you notice, wait, there's like more of these flowers.
• 37:04
  I've seen that one flower before. It's not a tall flower, no more than four or five inches from the ground and it's got a small slender stem and at the top, the purple petals almost like weave in and out of each other. They're like tubular in shape and they create this crisscross pattern and fill out the top of the stem itself so that the petals cover the last inch or two of the flower. And you see the flower, but it isn't until you take off the night goggles that you see the purple color of the flower. And at first, again, it's one or two.
• 37:46
  But eventually you notice that there's like a bundle of five or six. Over there, there's maybe five or 10. And you start to see more and more frequently these flowers are appearing across the forest floor.
• 38:03
  Nick (Pat): Evander Bunky, you guys are a little more evergreen centered. There's some flowers over here. I have no idea what they are. Purple, crisscross leaves, petals. You wanna head this way and come take a
• 38:16
  Evan (Mala): look?
• 38:16
  Eric (Bunky): Yeah. On our way.
• 38:17
  Nick (Pat): This looks weird.
• 38:18
  Eric (Bunky): Bunky kinda like steers as best he can. He like tries to shift his body to show Evandria. Well, then you have
• 38:27
  Kayla (Evandria): Evandria can see 40 feet farther than what Bunky can see right now. So Pat see anything additional?
• 38:36
  Justin (DM): Pat grabs one of the flowers. You grab a flower. Yep. Give me a wisdom saving throw.
• 38:43
  Nick (Pat): 17 on the die minus one. 16.
• 38:46
  Justin (DM): You feel the lightning come over you and almost like you've had the day off and you've not really got any cares in the world, you feel lackadaisical. You don't need to hold this flower. Actually, why don't you put that down? And what what were you doing out in this forest anyway? And the two of you just kinda see Pat put the flower down and just start to walk off into the woods away from the light Pat.
• 39:25
  And deeper into the forest. He does not respond. Pat.
• 39:28
  Eric (Bunky): Pat. Not again.
• 39:31
  Kayla (Evandria): I immediately run after him.
• 39:34
  Jamie (Eleanore): But Catch up to him.
• 39:37
  Kayla (Evandria): Pat, and I start tapping him and I'm like circling around just tapping him from all angles.
• 39:43
  Justin (DM): The instant you kind of get in front of him and shake him, you kind of come to.
• 39:47
  Eric (Bunky): Oh, shit. What the fuck?
• 39:48
  Kayla (Evandria): What were you doing?
• 39:50
  Eric (Bunky): So much easier than last time.
• 39:51
  Kayla (Evandria): You're supposed to stay with the group.
• 39:52
  Nick (Pat): Well, you're I was The flower. What's the flower? What's the I touched the flower. What happened?
• 40:00
  Kayla (Evandria): Yeah. You touched the flower and then you walked away.
• 40:03
  Nick (Pat): Well, there okay. Do you know anything about these flowers? I don't know anything about these flowers, but I the last thing I remember was trying to show you these flowers, grabbing one and showing to you.
• 40:15
  Eric (Bunky): Can Bunky take a nature check on the flowers?
• 40:18
  Justin (DM): You may. 12. These are forget me nots. Forget me, k n o t s. They are a rare but powerful spell component.
• 40:32
  They can be, by themselves, have kind of momentary hallucinatory effects, but they are borderline carnivorous in large amounts. And the funny thing is they're not carnivorous in that they will many carnivorous plants have ways of trapping creatures. And this one kind of magically traps a person and lulls them into a sedentary state that they eventually just kind of decompose. And that is what feeds the flower itself. But it doesn't just stop there.
• 41:18
  You don't know much beyond that information though.
• 41:24
  Eric (Bunky): Yeah. We should probably not be touching these flowers. Just stay clear of them.
• 41:29
  Nick (Pat): What are they?
• 41:29
  Eric (Bunky): Forget me dots.
• 41:31
  Kayla (Evandria): Mine. I've heard of those.
• 41:33
  Nick (Pat): Yeah. Isn't it like a Valentine?
• 41:37
  Eric (Bunky): Similar. It might be where they got the idea from, but less romantic.
• 41:40
  Kayla (Evandria): Could, without touching them with our hands, maybe take a couple?
• 41:47
  Nick (Pat): Pat produces gloves.
• 41:48
  Kayla (Evandria): Evandria grabs the gloves and puts them on and immediately goes and picks a couple more of the flowers.
• 41:54
  Justin (DM): Give me a Christmas saving throw.
• 41:56
  Kayla (Evandria): I have disadvantage on this.
• 41:59
  Justin (DM): Two. Immediately, you grabbed several of them?
• 42:03
  Kayla (Evandria): I grabbed two.
• 42:03
  Justin (DM): Yeah. Immediately, you have the same effect.
• 42:07
  Eric (Bunky): You don't Why are you
• 42:08
  Justin (DM): holding these? What are you doing out here? In fact, why don't you just lay down? And it's nighttime. Shouldn't you be asleep?
• 42:18
  And you both see Avandria just kinda put the flowers down and just lay down and begin to go to sleep.
• 42:25
  Nick (Pat): Okay. Okay. I'd like to unarm strike slap, Avandria. Yeah.
• 42:31
  Justin (DM): You don't have to roll for it. They slap you away.
• 42:33
  Kayla (Evandria): She immediately jolts back up and pulls two of her daggers out in fighting stance.
• 42:39
  Nick (Pat): It's not a skin thing, as it turns out. Not a skin thing heard.
• 42:42
  Kayla (Evandria): Oh. They got it's just you guys? Oh, okay. Oh. So I grabbed the flowers.
• 42:49
  Nick (Pat): Not a skin thing.
• 42:49
  Kayla (Evandria): No. So we can't take them.
• 42:53
  Nick (Pat): I mean, we go for the hat trick and see if it's
• 42:55
  Jamie (Eleanore): I mean, Bunky, you could try. You don't.
• 42:57
  Evan (Mala): You can try?
• 42:57
  Nick (Pat): It's weird.
• 42:59
  Eric (Bunky): I'm gonna regret this, but, you know, I could use a break if it doesn't work out. Sure.
• 43:03
  Justin (DM): Give me specifically what you're doing.
• 43:05
  Eric (Bunky): Bunky is going to grab just a single flower. Okay. Just a single flower.
• 43:11
  Jamie (Eleanore): Does he put on the gloves?
• 43:13
  Eric (Bunky): He did not say he did. Bunky does not put on the gloves.
• 43:16
  Justin (DM): No. Give me a Christmas saving throw.
• 43:19
  Eric (Bunky): Three. However, a nat one.
• 43:23
  Justin (DM): Ah. Bunky grabs them with his little pipe cleaners and Bunky, so much you immediately begin to forget. All of the arcane information in your head begins slip away. With a one, you lose a spell slot. As immediately this information that you kind of hold and the two of you see as Bunky holds it and being a much smaller creature is much physically closer to it in general as what looks like glitter just like poofs away from Bunky as he his his little popsicle face goes straight into the dust.
• 44:10
  Nick (Pat): Oh, I lost the
• 44:11
  Jamie (Eleanore): sea legs.
• 44:11
  Kayla (Evandria): Phantom immediately, like, dives down to, like, grab Bunky as he falls and just pull him away as she does like a tumble roll.
• 44:22
  Jamie (Eleanore): Great.
• 44:22
  Eric (Bunky): Where did that glitter come from? To clarify, lost a spell slot like I one of mine is expended or I you
• 44:29
  Justin (DM): you expended one. Expended. Okay.
• 44:31
  Kayla (Evandria): Yep. And so she grabs him and then like launches up onto the tree and holds him up in the air away from the flowers as she realizes that they're charming or whatever it is to all three of them
• 44:43
  Evan (Mala): You
• 44:43
  Kayla (Evandria): and that Bunkie is not immune.
• 44:44
  Justin (DM): You come to and realize that you didn't roll extremely well on your nature check, so you don't know exactly what it is. But this is not like a pollen, like, oh, or like a touch thing. Like, these are magical flowers. And because you are a magical creature, the impact on you is simultaneously it still impacts you and might even be more severe because of that.
• 45:15
  Nick (Pat): Gotta say, Mike, that's on me. I thought for sure it was gonna be the other way. I thought for sure it was not gonna do anything.
• 45:20
  Eric (Bunky): I I thought I I don't I don't feel good. Yep. I
• 45:38
  Justin (DM): Let's pivot to the other three of us. Yanks, Mala, and Eleanor are continuing down the path that Jar is pointing out to them and eventually come to a hole in the ground. The hole is not more than four or five feet deep. There's a pile of dirt to the right and left. You see the two shovels now confirmed next to the hole.
• 46:13
  And next to the shovels themselves is a small board. The board is maybe a foot and a half wide and has on it a bunch of letters in a pattern and numbers and in the corner a yes and no. And sitting beside it is a piece of glass inside of a wood circle, almost like a planchette.
• 46:42
  Jamie (Eleanore): This is a Ouija board. A what? It's a Ouija board. This is for contacting the dead.
• 46:50
  Evan (Mala): Isn't this necromancy?
• 46:52
  Jamie (Eleanore): It's sure close to it. Is this a grave?
• 46:56
  Evan (Mala): Evandria said that Astrid was talking to the birds and that there was three of them, and there's three Kyles, and now there's a fourth of the group.
• 47:03
  Jamie (Eleanore): That's right.
• 47:05
  Evan (Mala): Do you think this is what she was investigating? If Andrew was over here, if her traps were here. Right?
• 47:11
  Jamie (Eleanore): Yeah. I bet you're right.
• 47:13
  Evan (Mala): Do we message them now? Do we get the the other ones here?
• 47:17
  Justin (DM): The glass piece moves from the c to
• 47:19
  Jamie (Eleanore): the a.
• 47:20
  Evan (Mala): This next The letter.
• 47:21
  Justin (DM): I'm not doing that. I promise
• 47:23
  Evan (Mala): doing that. I'm gonna I'm gonna look at the board and be like, keep going. What's the next letter?
• 47:28
  Justin (DM): From the a to s.
• 47:31
  Jamie (Eleanore): Fuck. Cassius. Cassius.
• 47:33
  Evan (Mala): I knew it was Cassius.
• 47:35
  Jamie (Eleanore): So Astrid knows about Cassius. Everybody Everybody knows knows about about Cassius. Cassius.
• 47:38
  Evan (Mala): But do you think this is Cassius talking to us or something else telling us Cassius is here?
• 47:43
  Jamie (Eleanore): Is this Cassius?
• 47:44
  Evan (Mala): Oh, that's got a yes and a no on it too. Yeah.
• 47:47
  Justin (DM): I think you all know how this needs to work. Okay.
• 47:52
  Evan (Mala): I put Yanks, you need to do this too. It's everybody.
• 47:55
  Justin (DM): Do what?
• 47:55
  Evan (Mala): Put your hand on the little bead thing. What's it gonna do? I think Cassius is talking to us. Eleanor, this is what you've always wanted. You wanna know.
• 48:04
  I'm freaking out
• 48:06
  Kayla (Evandria): right now, you guys.
• 48:06
  Eric (Bunky): I think we have
• 48:07
  Evan (Mala): to put our hands on it, but I don't like this. Can I Yanks, is it okay if I cast something on us? I know
• 48:12
  Justin (DM): Let me
• 48:13
  Nick (Pat): how you are.
• 48:14
  Jamie (Eleanore): Before we put our hands on this though, Eleanor pulls out a candle and lights it and holds it over the hole and drops it in the hole to see if she can see how deep the hole is.
• 48:26
  Justin (DM): As the candle falls, the light gets dimmer and dimmer and more distant and further and further away until eventually it's gone. You're looking down trying to find it and a hand withered and gray shoots out. Everyone roll initiative.
• 48:59
  Nick (Pat): Thanks for listening to Can't Do Anything by Theater of the Mindset. Your actual players this season are Eric Marquis as Bunky, Kayla Tennyson as of Andrea Kalwin, Jaime Rich as Eleanor Shadowmane, Evan Caliber as Malagora, Nick Traeger as Pat Patterson, and your kind and generous GM, Justin Girardeau. If you're enjoying our show, you can help us out by sharing it with a friend, subscribing on your favorite podcatcher, following us on social media, talking about us on Reddit, or pitching in for coffee on Patreon. Theater of the Mindset is entirely made by humans with original art by Christina Valdez, original score by Willis Miller, and audio post production by Nick Kreger at Studio three six zero seven. Thanks for listening and stopping by.
• 49:51
  Can't do anything. We'll see you next week.