[UNKNOWN]: Thank you for watching!
[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back to Dark Nexus.
[SPEAKER_01]: Tonight, it's Act 4, Chapter 166.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're picking up this week.
[SPEAKER_01]: Back down on the second floor of Man's House of Hars, back amongst all the paintings laid face down on the floor inside one of which.
[SPEAKER_01]: Contablic?
[SPEAKER_01]: Almost hear the sound of their friends screaming Crying out desperately for rescue don't wait save us surely not that must only be their imagination
[SPEAKER_01]: But just to recap our process in Mon's House thus far, we cleared out the first floor of the first hollow one, version of Mon, and after a quick eye cast over the four rooms filled with books and paintings and knickknacks, we found a scroll of Ray's Dead, cleverly concealed behind one painting, and noticed the absence of a map of the nation of Kadirah in the lounge.
[SPEAKER_01]: But we pretty much left a thorough search of that floor for later.
[SPEAKER_01]: On the second floor, we put down a second hollow one, and then systematically removed all the paintings from the walls, again, to be dealt dealt with later.
[SPEAKER_01]: On the third floor, in months gruesome laboratory, we put down two skin stitches, and the hell wasps warms that they contained, but we did leave poor, tormented, number 61, floating in his jar of fluids,
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, to be dealt with later, and then on the fourth floor in the place of skin, we put down a third hollow one, and we tangled, with a legit, dero, crime lord and her chief lieutenant.
[SPEAKER_01]: Both have fallen now, but it did take its chase back down to the second floor, but uh, Twain finally finally, finally went down.
[SPEAKER_01]: So what?
[SPEAKER_01]: What remains?
[SPEAKER_01]: Aside from all the stuff that I've noted to Paul, that's been left for later.
[SPEAKER_01]: We know that there is a dark young of Shubna-Gorith in the attic, likely months so-called anomalous friend.
[SPEAKER_01]: and whatever lies in the basement surgery and the sub-basement caverns, both reachable by the elevator bash has temporarily jammed in place.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're still on the placebo effect clock that's keeping the hillwalks preventum from trying to kill Pandora, nine minutes in counting, and there's about eight minutes left on Bash's final gravity gun of the day.
[SPEAKER_01]: Bash and Pandora are still flying, I believe, and all those hours per level buffs like Hunter's Blessing and so forth, they're still going.
[SPEAKER_01]: Groups down some hit points, but I believe still well above the bloody point, right, Robert?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I am just above the bloody.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just above bloody.
[SPEAKER_01]: Alright, so resources are dwindling, but not quite gone.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm assuming that we're pressing on.
[SPEAKER_01]: What's the plan, my friends?
[SPEAKER_06]: Real quick, what do we actually have still going for us?
[SPEAKER_06]: Like, who's out of spell slots, who's out of, like, what are people down to?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I'm out of fifth level spells, my fourth level spells, I don't know what kind of effect they're gonna have on the dread coat tree.
[SPEAKER_05]: that lives in the attic.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm really down to maybe one offensive spell and going to be support with a wand.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's about it at the best I can do.
[SPEAKER_04]: Are you done with someone's for the day?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have no fourth level slots left, I have only three, sorry, fifth level slots left, but my fifth level spells are better used at probably as fourth level spells.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have one, third level spell.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have five second level spells and two first level spells, but to be honest, I'm saving those for burst of adrenaline for when I have to start making saves.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: Against the poison.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm I'm not in great shape.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I'm full of hip points.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: But as far as usefulness goes, most of my useful spells are third level, and I have only but one slot left.
[SPEAKER_00]: If we keep going, I'm going to have to keep casting placebo effect, which is the second level slot, which takes away from a burst of adrenaline slot, depending on how many saves I have to make.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, right now, I'm completely focused on what's going to happen when the placebo effect runs out.
[SPEAKER_00]: slot for teleport if we decide going back to town to deal with this is the thing to do, but I, uh, Pandora understands how the world works, just as much as Katie does, which is this place will not be the same when we return, and it may be more challenging.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's where I'm at.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's all about how West Poison.
[SPEAKER_00]: It don't want Dora to die this way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, she can go out and play as a glory, but this is not it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm- Beasting.
[SPEAKER_00]: And serving resources.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is not my girl.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to go like that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: With the Druid's shop, Ashgroge's shop in Adnol's fan, would he carry neutralized poison?
[SPEAKER_05]: Or is that too high level for him?
[SPEAKER_01]: He might, it's also, you know, it's at night right now, right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the next day the world's your oyster.
[SPEAKER_00]: Temple.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's yeah, it's also after that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's Abbedar, though, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a number of temples.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's temples to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Basically any of the good gods you could think of any of this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right, so which is the most like an emergency room?
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like where we could go, and yes, I know it's night, but we need to get in because we have an emergency and need this thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sure, I think that would be that probably be a knowledge local check from Dab's to to come up with a solution for that and so so what time what time a day is it right now?
[SPEAKER_01]: Morning And no, no, no, it's it is right after Nightfall because Dab's dead there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's Dab's is morning, but at the end of the day.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: You all so it's always gonna mess me out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it it sounds like
[SPEAKER_04]: trying to get that that makes it closer to like it's probably closer to six so things things would be open sure if you want to go back good find something but it's so but in my right and it sounds like Pandora trying to rest before solving the poison issue is not it's not it's not a issue it's not a thing we can do timing wise that's not gonna happen and grip I was grip doing with some healing I'm I'm good to go for a little
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm at full hit points and I literally have one single extract remaining, otherwise everything else has been used up.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I am also down to a single point of inspiration, perfect.
[SPEAKER_04]: Those are, that's a daily replenishment.
[SPEAKER_06]: So, do we stay or do we go?
[SPEAKER_00]: Pandora's feeling is let's deal with the poison the way we were talking about dealing with it, which is letting the placebo effect run out or I guess dismiss it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, yeah, if we can do it, do it right now to see if it works and if not, and if, or if you just let it run out when nothing comes in attacks you, that is a period of time during which grip could actually be written here to stand on a bat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, I mean, you want to hunker down for nine minutes and then make some sails.
[SPEAKER_04]: So you can mix some rolls on the wandering monster table.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to check the table.
[SPEAKER_00]: Roll the bat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Leave all over the back of the book.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's
[SPEAKER_01]: And over here where I'm pinging down on the south east corner, there is a five by five cubby underneath the stairs.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a well out of view of both stairwells.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you could easily put one or more of you there just to keep them, you know, totally out of sight.
[SPEAKER_04]: I can move Twain into there.
[SPEAKER_01]: If we done the looting of Twain, we have not.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have not.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right now, time is still paused.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because we got a lot of things taken down, but if we're gonna take a little bit of time in this room, is that the plan?
[SPEAKER_01]: Do we all agree to this plan?
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, if we're doing that, then the bash is probably gonna be like, having door lay down and, you know, start to tend.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, start to tend that stuff.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I agree.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then have, Dab's keep an eye on one stairwell and grip an eye on the other.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_01]: Who's gonna watch which one?
[SPEAKER_05]: I'll watch the one on the north.
[SPEAKER_01]: This deer's down, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: Great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Before this begins, do you want to do any little bit of healing on the gripper there, Dab's?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, let's do a couple.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's what we've got time to load you right up.
[SPEAKER_05]: No reason not to.
[SPEAKER_05]: How down are you?
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm down in even 40 hit points.
[SPEAKER_05]: 40 hit points.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're about to, okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: for more hits from the wand and you are back to form.
[SPEAKER_04]: Sweet.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you, thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then what so then we know that
[SPEAKER_01]: What's your character's name?
[SPEAKER_01]: We know that Bash is going to do the same thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's like, wait, which means?
[SPEAKER_01]: Which her name?
[SPEAKER_01]: What's my name?
[SPEAKER_01]: What's your character name?
[SPEAKER_01]: So Bash is gonna tend to Pandora.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this will involve the heel check to set her up with a bonus on her saving throw.
[SPEAKER_01]: Once you go ahead and roll that up, Johnny.
[SPEAKER_01]: And unlike a lot of these heel things where the DC is a set easy to hit number, this is actually going against the difficulty class of the poison.
[SPEAKER_01]: What do you get there?
[SPEAKER_01]: 37.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, yo.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's good.
[SPEAKER_06]: Come on, come on, come on, come on.
[SPEAKER_06]: Actually, 39, using the plus two circumstances bonus if using the healer's kit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Success, so Katie, you will get to add plus four on the next save you have to make against this and I sounds like you're gonna do a First of it right now they're plus three great.
[SPEAKER_01]: So this will be and we're gonna let placebo effect wear out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, great So Robert you get nine of your stamina points back during the course of this period of waiting This period of waiting which ends up being absolutely silent in the building
[SPEAKER_01]: Dabs here is nothing moving around or coming up from below and grip here is no sound or any evidence of movement from above and then Katie alright so when you froze this save with the placebo effect you were at the
[SPEAKER_01]: second level of the track with one successful save so this first save coming back if you make it you will go up you know you will end the poison and you'll be stuck there at at this second level until you can get the poison removed from your system.
[SPEAKER_00]: Does that happen naturally over time?
[SPEAKER_00]: Or does it have to be a neutralized poison?
[SPEAKER_01]: It would take a full day of bed rest or two nights of normal rest to naturally go up one step.
[SPEAKER_01]: However, this is something that particular kind of recovery is something that Bash can help with and with the successful heel check over the course of one night's sleep you would go up one level on the track.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm down too.
[SPEAKER_01]: You are on the second level.
[SPEAKER_04]: So making this save doesn't make it a save.
[SPEAKER_01]: Make it a save.
[SPEAKER_01]: It just stops the progression.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Which is absolutely vital.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's a little different than diseases.
[SPEAKER_01]: Diseases, you know, the saves will start to move you up and get your healthier.
[SPEAKER_01]: This all, all she's trying to do right now is stop the gut.
[SPEAKER_01]: The gut.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's, that's spiral.
[SPEAKER_01]: Horrified.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Alrighty, here we go.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ford save.
[SPEAKER_00]: 29.
[SPEAKER_01]: success.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, buddy.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you are the poison is out of your system, but you're going to stay at this stiffened level of the dexterity poison track for the time being.
[SPEAKER_01]: You are flat-footed, denied your dexterity bonus to AC, can't make a tax of opportunity, and minus two on basically everything decks related.
[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to success, I guess.
[SPEAKER_03]: Jesus.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right, so where does that leave us for what we're doing now?
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a horrible plant creature upstairs.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Is it a plant?
[SPEAKER_01]: No.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is in a real life form.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: That looks like a plant.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right, but you would assume it to be an aberration of some sort.
[SPEAKER_05]: So my blot spouts not gonna do much.
[SPEAKER_06]: We should go through this place and see if there is anything useful in it.
[SPEAKER_06]: We could look and see if Althiel has anything useful.
[SPEAKER_06]: If Twain has anything useful, we should like literally go through.
[SPEAKER_06]: And see if there's anything at all that we can use that will be of help to us.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some little tech magic here, Deb's on the second floor.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think the, I mean, this is Mun's bedroom and personal library, so so many things in here are glowing to Pandora's site.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's probably a number of small trinkets that either came from you or
[SPEAKER_01]: made him think of you that seemed to resonate and glow with a particular heat to you, and then there's just this throbbing pulsing light that feels almost like tied to dab-wick psychically from one particular painting that's down near the southeast corner near that cubby.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, so you figured out at least which painting you're gonna have to deal with?
[SPEAKER_01]: In terms of magic in this room, Twain's Vembraces are glowing, few potions, her studied another armor, her ackless, her short sword, all those are upstairs, but you'll find them in a moment, and her cloak, oh winter, and her haversack, I won't fuck around with a handy haversack, there's another one for you all, whoever doesn't have one, can have one to their sheet.
[SPEAKER_01]: We just bought two wears that.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that like gripper?
[SPEAKER_01]: Gripp?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'll take free hand you have a sack for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Give me some spellcraft checks their poly.
[SPEAKER_05]: How about an 18?
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't know what the van braces do.
[SPEAKER_05]: How about a 27?
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, the potions are, it's three potions of pure serious wood.
[SPEAKER_01]: Stied it leather.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nope, 16.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Ackless.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nope, 13.
[SPEAKER_05]: Life it up, life it up, y'all.
[SPEAKER_01]: Short sword.
[SPEAKER_05]: 29.
[SPEAKER_01]: Plus one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Short sword plus one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Cloaker resistance.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I just told you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, there you just got it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Cloaker resistance plus two.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think we have any of those in this party yet.
[SPEAKER_01]: No.
[SPEAKER_01]: How much?
[SPEAKER_00]: My saves suck.
[SPEAKER_00]: Guys.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm good with Pandora having the focus on this piece, let's do.
[SPEAKER_04]: What's the weight of a handy haversec?
[SPEAKER_04]: Five pounds.
[SPEAKER_00]: and it holds 120, so we put it in parentheses.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so we've got some unidentified van braces, unidentified, unidentified, studded leather, unidentified ackless, oh, 30 gold pieces, she had honor, if you want to add that to the list.
[SPEAKER_01]: What's your unackless?
[SPEAKER_01]: That is the hooked throwing club with the long cord.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they're pretty cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the three potions of curious serious wounds did you distribute those already?
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh my gosh.
[SPEAKER_06]: serious.
[SPEAKER_04]: That's nice.
[SPEAKER_04]: 38 plus five.
[SPEAKER_04]: Anyone mind if I hold one of those?
[SPEAKER_06]: I think that those should go to grip Pandora and bash.
[SPEAKER_06]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then head and upstairs into lab and casting to take magic up there.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm gonna put on the van braces.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't notice anything.
[SPEAKER_06]: Does Twain also have anything like, I don't know, formula book?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can somebody who crafts extracts use a different formula book or do they have to copy it into their own before they can use it?
[SPEAKER_06]: both.
[SPEAKER_06]: You can use it, but you have to make checks as you do it every single time.
[SPEAKER_06]: You learn every single time.
[SPEAKER_06]: You craft your extract from someone else's formula book.
[SPEAKER_06]: It's, you could fumble it.
[SPEAKER_06]: So you basically have to make lots of checks to do it.
[SPEAKER_04]: But if you copy it into yours, then it becomes yours.
[SPEAKER_04]: Which, yeah, which is a takes time.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, takes time in some money.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's a great way to learn new extracts.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Kill other all of us.
[SPEAKER_00]: We murder them.
[SPEAKER_06]: Take their loot.
[SPEAKER_06]: You could just take their stuff.
[SPEAKER_06]: You don't have to actually murder them.
[SPEAKER_06]: We're not full murderers.
[SPEAKER_06]: Tomatoes to motto.
[SPEAKER_01]: So as, as Dab's cast-to-tech magic on the lab floor, it turns out there are a total of six of these elixirs of fire breath.
[SPEAKER_01]: I believe Bash already identified one or two of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: These pop up immediately to Dab's senses.
[SPEAKER_01]: These are the bubbling potions that allow the drinker to spit gouts of flame.
[SPEAKER_01]: Three times, 46 points of damage to a single target up to 25 feet away.
[SPEAKER_01]: The target can make a reflex save and it'll last for an hour.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you drink it for one full hour, you can breathe up to three times.
[SPEAKER_00]: And every time it's the same, it doesn't diminish over time.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's correct.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, it's 46 each time.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just the reflex save is very low, 13, 13.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'd like one just for fun.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's better than that flame sphere than
[SPEAKER_01]: and I'll feel also has... another plus one short sword seems to be similar make to that of Twain.
[SPEAKER_01]: Magical Elder Armor and a potion.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why don't you let Johnny roll on the potion?
[SPEAKER_01]: I will roll on the potion.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no bother, cure Lightwoods.
[SPEAKER_01]: And give me a roll on the armor there, Paulie.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nope, unknown.
[SPEAKER_00]: Magical Elder Armor.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry, 46 on the firebrake.
[SPEAKER_01]: 4D6, you can you can single target up to 25 feet.
[SPEAKER_00]: I took one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Five remain.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I'll happily take all of them if nobody wants them, but...
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, I'll definitely take like two, two or three I could use them.
[SPEAKER_00]: People would better ducks.
[SPEAKER_06]: Anybody else want?
[SPEAKER_06]: It's not really my favorite.
[SPEAKER_06]: Dabwick.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I'll take one.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right.
[SPEAKER_06]: There is also Blade Guard that we didn't actually give out.
[SPEAKER_06]: There are how many of the Blade Guard were there.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think there was like...
[SPEAKER_06]: The heck is that?
[SPEAKER_01]: Three bottles of Blade Guard.
[SPEAKER_01]: This will protect weapons from oozes and rust monsters.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anything that would dissolve weapons.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, I feel like I'll take one.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that's probably not it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And since we're taking the time here to go through the room, there would be a total of 16 more acid vials.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, since everybody has a handy haversac, if we have 16, I see no reason not just to divide it either.
[SPEAKER_06]: Everybody takes four.
[SPEAKER_06]: Everybody takes one inch away.
[SPEAKER_06]: Great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Partiful of handy haversac's is an odd thing.
[SPEAKER_06]: It really is.
[SPEAKER_06]: I mean, it's a great thing, because that's awesome.
[SPEAKER_06]: Everybody can always pull stuff from it as a move action that doesn't provoke is
[SPEAKER_01]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nine more flasks of elchemist fire.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will take two.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll take a couple of times.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'll take two.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'll take three.
[SPEAKER_01]: Twenty two alkali flasks.
[SPEAKER_00]: The hell is that?
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the thing that acts like acid against acid creatures.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you throw it against a just normal creature, it acts like a normal flask of acid against usas and other acid-based creatures, it deals double damage.
[SPEAKER_01]: You said 21?
[SPEAKER_01]: 22.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll take five.
[SPEAKER_06]: Who wants to have six?
[SPEAKER_06]: I'll take six.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right, I'll take six.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're pretty cool, they're pretty cool item.
[SPEAKER_06]: Good if you can have five.
[SPEAKER_06]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And while we're pouring through the disarray of elchemical items, objects, and ingredients on the counter, how does curious dab look back at number 61 That's right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that week is fascinated by this swirling skin complete and whole skin of the humanoid creature and it's looking up at the shopper right let me out let me out and trying to talk it's moving its mouth
[SPEAKER_01]: It looks like a weird C in Manny inside there, but it's skin.
[SPEAKER_01]: Somehow seemingly sentient.
[SPEAKER_05]: If I roll a one or two on a four side of die, Dad wakes curiosity gets the better of them than they.
[SPEAKER_03]: With I love her one single looking elsewhere.
[SPEAKER_05]: Rolled for it, that like was able to hit their pants to themselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll get on the way back.
[SPEAKER_06]: Did we make any kind of role on what the skin was?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you did.
[SPEAKER_01]: You'll be sure it was a failed attempt to make a hollow one.
[SPEAKER_05]: So it's my acne and skin.
[SPEAKER_05]: No.
[SPEAKER_05]: Try to make a hollow one out of something else.
[SPEAKER_05]: Maybe.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hard to say.
[SPEAKER_06]: Until we actually pull.
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, I mean,
[SPEAKER_00]: And I hope it's not mine.
[SPEAKER_04]: So our knowledge of those hollow ones is telling us that everyone that was a, my acne and moon hollow one was made from a full set of his skin.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is that right, or just a full set of skin?
[SPEAKER_01]: It was made from his skin.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pandora thinks of the way Mun would talk about this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, he probably would spend years slowly skinning parts of himself to add to the hall.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, maybe the reason why so far on these floors, there's only been a total of three thus far, and not 20 is because what an excruciating thing to go through, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: So this is either he skinned himself fully or this is somebody else's skin entirely as maybe he was beginning his research and to how to do this.
[SPEAKER_04]: But all the skin in the skin place was not all mumskins.
[SPEAKER_04]: Those were those were various human ones, right?
[SPEAKER_04]: Correct.
[SPEAKER_01]: Different sizes, different colors, different make-ups, different consistencies, different textures.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like that's just a room full of like legitimately kidnapped people that he has skinned.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the girl I know, I'm so my skin is crawling.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, this guy is probably crawling off your body, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: This guy is foul.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the great philanthropist of Kazimire y'all.
[SPEAKER_06]: Part of this kidnapping ring, who's then taking the people, killed them, skinned their flesh, or not killed them, and skinned their flesh, and used it for experiments.
[SPEAKER_01]: for various purposes to make hollow ones maybe to make things that these Darryl could wear so they could walk in the sunlight.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I was thinking for reasons.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay, it's just, I'm not having it.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is so gross.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right, all right.
[SPEAKER_06]: I have to know I opened the jar with the skin in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: God.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_04]: Didn't even roll on that.
[SPEAKER_06]: I know.
[SPEAKER_00]: It interacts with your Vembracers in a way you don't expect.
[SPEAKER_06]: This is all just an attempt to not go up and fight the goat tree.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's true.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're all stalling.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then what to do it?
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe we can talk.
[SPEAKER_00]: If I get beaten up badly enough by this, then we'll be forced to teleport away.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the thing, it's definitely going to be immune to the fact that you just keep talking.
[SPEAKER_06]: So that's like, bash walks up to this jar and, like, taps on it.
[SPEAKER_04]: Grip a stand in there with his jaw, hanging over.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was so fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: But do not touch the glass.
[SPEAKER_06]: And might have information.
[SPEAKER_06]: If any opens it up.
[SPEAKER_01]: The face part of this unbroken sheet of skin like rises up to the surface and crests out the top and then the lip start moving and when it's out of the liquid you hear this so, so faint whispery voice.
[SPEAKER_01]: And like it uses itself to turn it like itself into kind of a pointy finger, and it points at this large blue substance that bash would identify as a particular kind of caustic liquid that destroys flesh.
[SPEAKER_02]: Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please,
[SPEAKER_02]: Stop talking, stop talking.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's not going to kill you if you think you haven't made it!
[SPEAKER_02]: And recently, what you want to know, what can I tell you, what can I tell you, please kill me, please kill me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right, right.
[SPEAKER_06]: You're not monsters anymore.
[SPEAKER_06]: We'll help you.
[SPEAKER_06]: Who are you?
[SPEAKER_02]: What's the bottom time?
[SPEAKER_02]: I called myself Devon.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do you have anybody, any people?
[UNKNOWN]: I don't.
[SPEAKER_06]: No, no, no.
[SPEAKER_06]: Who were your people?
[UNKNOWN]: There was.
[SPEAKER_02]: Brother.
[UNKNOWN]: Charles.
[SPEAKER_02]: Charles.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Charles older than me.
[SPEAKER_06]: How old were you?
[SPEAKER_06]: 50, something.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: What did you do?
[SPEAKER_02]: I was sick of it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Come on though.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: Did you have a shop?
[SPEAKER_06]: I bought it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: Any part of the city?
[UNKNOWN]: Shut up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's not prolong this after a thing's to bash.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think that his family would want to know what happened to him that he's at peace, at least.
[SPEAKER_06]: What can you tell us about, Mon?
[SPEAKER_06]: What was he planning?
[SPEAKER_06]: Why did he leave?
[SPEAKER_06]: He's gone to the mysterious.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know who was going, but that's where they are going.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's where the purpose being out.
[SPEAKER_06]: Anything else you can tell us about, who we were planning on going with, or when they were going, or...
[SPEAKER_02]: There was a friend who been stressed, someone from his past, there were the nurse.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're pretty clear, but they travel with them now.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're all over.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're all in the building.
[SPEAKER_06]: Downstairs.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: The one with the many arms never travel so long.
[SPEAKER_02]: The route to court appears open.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do I recognize the name Corgonbeard?
[SPEAKER_01]: Corgonbeard is the Terrible Dero City Underneath Kazimire, where Dabwick briefly visited, got it, got it, and for there to be a entrance to this is horrifying.
[SPEAKER_01]: bad news.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like the the entrances that are known are clocked and watched and very carefully tended or I'll sealed off.
[SPEAKER_01]: Dad book does not recognize this as a.
[SPEAKER_01]: This seems actually a little far outside of the city for their two-be an entrance so it seems uh yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: The great flound at the bridge has yet another secret.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ask that creature upstairs.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do you know anything about the
[SPEAKER_06]: The tree upstairs?
[SPEAKER_06]: His friend is a nameless friend.
[SPEAKER_06]: Got a name?
[SPEAKER_02]: It was per secret story.
[SPEAKER_02]: You've been setting a tell to everyone and it's too low.
[SPEAKER_06]: What does he feed it?
[SPEAKER_06]: People.
[SPEAKER_06]: You've been around month for years.
[SPEAKER_06]: What makes him crazy?
[SPEAKER_06]: What hurts him?
[SPEAKER_06]: What is he scared of?
[SPEAKER_02]: A loss of control.
[SPEAKER_02]: He is the master of every element of his life.
[SPEAKER_02]: The perfect makes and nightmare of a failed experiment.
[SPEAKER_02]: A surprise to follow him into a failed project, or an unexpected visitor.
[SPEAKER_06]: We plan to stop him.
[SPEAKER_02]: Say my name.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's the last score of it as hard as it is.
[SPEAKER_06]: I will.
[SPEAKER_06]: And he picks up the blue bubbling liquid and pours it in.
[SPEAKER_01]: And with extreme rapidity, this sheet of flesh dissolves first and two, kind of a sticky slime, and then into just particles.
[SPEAKER_01]: Disappeared in all sense of motion and life and light inside jar 61 goes out We can make a check On the Mysterio Knowledge history 28 35
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's talk about the Mysterium.
[SPEAKER_01]: What is most commonly known knowledge, though not necessarily common in this part of the world, is that the Mysterium with Air Quads is the modern sort of colloquial name for an ancient library, originally known as the Khakhar Mini-R.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's located on the continent of Kazmaron in the city of Kthir, which is the capital of Kadira.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was built over 3,000 years ago in the early decades of Cathier's founding had a ton of prominence and prestige in its early centuries as one of the great libraries of the ancient world, and as this very important place of study and instruction.
[SPEAKER_01]: But as time passed, and Cathier grew and the world moved on, it eventually became just one among a long list of fascinating libraries and institutes of study in a city that eventually grew to be one of the largest in the world.
[SPEAKER_01]: Kazimera is feeling pretty big as a real-world city for y'all right now, but kithir Dwarfsit Five or six times the size of the city Anyways, so today the church of Nethis apparently oversees it and it's got a reputation like I think like think like this I don't know how much of a thing this is anymore as we move further and further into the internet
[SPEAKER_01]: and disinformation era, but when I was younger, every place I've lived had that one second-hand bookstore, dusty, impossible to navigate, feeling some weird warehouse space, floor to ceiling with endless halls and tunnels of books with a quirky, weirdo of an owner who always knew exactly where every single book in the place was, that's sort of how the Mysterium is thought of today.
[SPEAKER_01]: This oddity, not an attraction for the average person.
[SPEAKER_01]: but those in the know would think, yeah, yeah, that's really cool, it's interesting, it's a neat relic that funny little old building with all the angel statues.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's probably what Pandora recalls of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: What Bash knows?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, the Church of Nethis did eventually take over the stewardship of the Mysterium.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nethis, as a reminder, is the God of magic in this world.
[SPEAKER_01]: And for just a little reminder of his story, he was once mortal and it was obsessed with gaining of knowledge.
[SPEAKER_01]: And at some point, he actually achieved his goal of knowing everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he witnessed simultaneous, simultaneously, what was happening literally everywhere in the universe at once.
[SPEAKER_01]: and he went mad.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he's a god of magic and a god of knowledge, but he's also a dual-edged or dual-faced god equally obsessed with destruction and protection.
[SPEAKER_01]: Most of his worshipers as mere mortals tend to be drawn
[SPEAKER_01]: to one or the other of these two extremes more predominantly, for example, Katie and I are playing a game.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right now, what we've had a number of run-ins with the death and destruction type of net this worshipers.
[SPEAKER_01]: But, the good news here is that the specific sect of Nathizians that run the Mysterium are called the Stewards of the Vault.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they have dedicated their lives to protecting the world from the knowledge that could destroy it.
[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, they took over control of this particular library because they found out that it was wildly more complicated, enchanted and worded than anyone in the modern era actually knew.
[SPEAKER_01]: To such an extent that they turned it into a secured depository for rare and dangerous books.
[SPEAKER_01]: Books that need to disappear, books that must never be opened or opened again.
[SPEAKER_01]: At the heart of this library, there is an extra-dimensional space known only as the soul, S-O-U-L, and the stewards of the vault have placed every dangerous book that has fallen into their hands, into the soul, and dedicated their lives to maintaining and protecting it, all while keeping a
[SPEAKER_01]: So they manage the Mysterium like a run of the middle quirky little library and they let scholars peruse many of its floors and they like to give the impression of being kind of out of touch nerds who just like they're a little low building and it's dusty old books but deep inside this building they keep a secret vault and no one knows exactly what's in it except for the
[SPEAKER_06]: So I have two thoughts, so this is basically like a prison for like dangerous magical secrets.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, highly worded, highly guarded, highly secret, yep.
[SPEAKER_06]: So sometime in the future, there's going to be a heist.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, yo.
[SPEAKER_06]: And then my second thought is that this comes from a memory that a memory of the triangle man's of Man-let's slip one night like he overheard him talking to.
[SPEAKER_01]: When Mun was unaware that you were listening?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, and he heard him talking about this going like... With Loles or something?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Talking about...
[SPEAKER_01]: I've got this secret dinner, what's really going on with the Mysterium.
[SPEAKER_06]: And Loles being like, oh, it's that stupid bookstore and stuff, it's not a bedeal.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: But actually...
[SPEAKER_06]: So, I think that's where that comes from.
[SPEAKER_06]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: So knowing you do not know anything about the particular kind of wording that this place has, but I think this would scratch those of you with, you know, 20 some intelligence of like, huh, it's very, very likely that just like the necronomic on itself, this entire building itself, maybe worded from,
[SPEAKER_01]: teleportation and or divination and or like it might they might make it impossible to learn about it or see it by magic.
[SPEAKER_06]: Which means that if our friends are there, they might be inside it.
[SPEAKER_06]: They would not be able to be seen or heard from or anything.
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do we go up or down?
[SPEAKER_06]: Because I'll tell you what, I thought we were going to take on the tree goat, but I don't want to have Darrell on her tail.
[SPEAKER_05]: They can't get up here if you've launched the elevator.
[SPEAKER_05]: They have no way.
[SPEAKER_05]: You sure about that?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, there are no stairs leading.
[SPEAKER_06]: They can't just climb up the walls of that operating room.
[SPEAKER_04]: There's just this fucking goat tree up there.
[SPEAKER_04]: It doesn't sound like that's likely to come down the lateral after us, but we, I think, bash might be right and we don't know what was fucking dero are going to do.
[SPEAKER_04]: So maybe that is a more pressing concern if we're trying.
[SPEAKER_04]: If we don't think we can do both before we rest, maybe... Why do you sound like one encounter?
[SPEAKER_00]: that will be very difficult.
[SPEAKER_00]: The other sounds like it could be multiple encounters that simply don't have the resources for.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just Darrell.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're not here.
[SPEAKER_04]: Does anyone any for many checks that were made on Darrell or anything like that?
[SPEAKER_04]: Do we have a sense that like Twain was an exceptionally tough Darrell or is Twain an example of a Darrell?
[SPEAKER_01]: Twain was a highly leveled Darrell.
[SPEAKER_01]: you would think of just your standard one of the milledero being, you know, like a gnome.
[SPEAKER_01]: That can sneak attack.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so even if you don't want this sunlight.
[SPEAKER_01]: What's the other guy, um... All the deal was also a leveled mesmerist.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right, okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: And so most likely the thing that will change if we go away is what's coming from below.
[SPEAKER_06]: Uh, that's probably true.
[SPEAKER_06]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_00]: So... For more... We have the resources to handle all that is below.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_06]: That we do.
[SPEAKER_06]: I don't know, but...
[SPEAKER_06]: But we...
[SPEAKER_00]: If we don't have some higher out, Dabs becomes a healer, and I become a barred that can give you plus two to one attack.
[SPEAKER_06]: If we know we're gonna have to come back and fight more things anyways, would we rather somehow close the door downstairs and stop them from being able to come?
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, more so than we have now with just debilitating the lift.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think it's worthwhile to check out.
[SPEAKER_00]: I guess there's an argument to be made
[SPEAKER_00]: with all feel and twain, not reporting back downstairs.
[SPEAKER_00]: They might think something is wrong, but right now, I'm not sure why they would come up.
[SPEAKER_04]: Without mum here, feeding it things.
[SPEAKER_00]: We think we'll just starve it to death.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I don't know, I mean, do we have a sense of...
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not, I'm not joking.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is it going to come out looking for food?
[SPEAKER_04]: Like, does it have...
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_04]: Can it climb down a ladder?
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it terrible to you?
[SPEAKER_04]: Like, what do we know enough about it to know?
[SPEAKER_04]: No.
[SPEAKER_04]: Like, is it, is it a danger?
[SPEAKER_00]: You said it was an alien?
[SPEAKER_01]: It is not of this world.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I have one thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh-oh.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have a swirl of dismissal.
[SPEAKER_01]: uh, it is of this plane.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I'm asking.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, yeah, this campaign is when we got to get a little used to a lot of the freaky plate things from other places are actually from this universe.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's no
[SPEAKER_01]: No, but it's it is a good reminder for us all because we spent the last book bouncing back and forth with another plane of existence Like a lot of which will be facing here Is actually from here just not from here My list is about you're like, please don't take this Like you will regret it.
[SPEAKER_06]: I just I literally just had the thought that if we'd had dismissal in the last book We could dismiss each other from the plane of dreams
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, if I hadn't forever been using my Namanic vestments or no way, actually no, because you used the ritual.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, you couldn't.
[SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't work.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, if anything, I might have broken your connection and you might have been stuck.
[SPEAKER_00]: Could we have dismissed Chester?
[SPEAKER_01]: No, because he had the, well, hmm.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe so.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what I would have ruled.
[SPEAKER_06]: But Dennis is so.
[SPEAKER_06]: Dennis is of laying that are on the prime material playing.
[SPEAKER_06]: They beat this mystery back.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, 100%.
[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, that's good to know.
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, at every level, the dismissal scroll that I have becomes less and less useful, because it's a castor level seven, and it's not gonna dismiss where a lie.
[SPEAKER_00]: It almost never works even when you're casting it as a full on at your castor level.
[SPEAKER_06]: So, all right, so it seems like right now we have three choices.
[SPEAKER_06]: We can leave now and just say, fuck it, and go back to the city and heal up and then come back.
[SPEAKER_06]: we can try to go upstairs and fight the goat tree and then leave and go to the city and then come back or we can go downstairs and try to stop plug up this dero hole and then possibly leave and go to the city and come back I don't think that we have the resources to finish off everything agreed unless we choose to like stay here in this place not going back to the city on all of those options is also
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, if we decide that we're going to like camp and try to like hold out here But I think if we do that then we're better off going down and trying to clean up the mess downstairs Before going upstairs.
[SPEAKER_04]: I feel like if all was was the tree upstairs I would feel a little better about trying to rest here I don't feel good about trying to rest here if if there's if there's a dero hole.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, yeah What he what's what's that looks thoughts?
[SPEAKER_05]: Dabic loves the idea of being rusted before we go for the goat tree.
[SPEAKER_00]: The thing is.
[SPEAKER_05]: But Dabic needs a whole day to wear the goat tree.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Dabic needs 24 hours.
[SPEAKER_00]: The rest of us need 12.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: So resting for 12 hours and getting three of us back.
[SPEAKER_00]: is also a variable.
[SPEAKER_06]: My vote is to go down to the to the dero hole, but I'll second that vote.
[SPEAKER_06]: So far we're at 50, 50.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, it sounds like you feel better about going down to the dero hole.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ah, dero hole.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't feel great.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't feel great about it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't feel great about it.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think I think that I think there's greater potential risk at waiting on the dero than there is waiting on the thing.
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh yeah, I guess I guess I'm I guess I agree the anomalous friend mail
[SPEAKER_04]: And also, you know, we can hold out a little hope that with, with twain and, um, I'll feel, uh, perhaps what's left aren't, you know, they'll be easier to deal with than those two were.
[SPEAKER_04]: So that's, that's, that's, I hope we can hold out.
[SPEAKER_04]: I should, I should, I should be on a loud and front of.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll say that honestly that Pandora's only, uh, hesitation here is that her home reclass is seven.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, and these things are more likely to be, you know,
[SPEAKER_00]: Harder to get away from if there's more of them like then one thing where maybe if she can stand in the doorway like it you know She can't get her but she'll do as the majority Once downstairs Oh, I'm gonna say a fuck I love it when it's not at all what expected to happen So we make our way you think you would expect that by now
[SPEAKER_06]: You said you said that you loved it, but it didn't sound like you loved it when you said that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can handle.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can handle what's coming up.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got discovered.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing to see here.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do you want us to pick the other thing?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's pick the thing he's less prepared for.
[SPEAKER_01]: Alright, let me take you back down to the ground floor where you can stand in front of the elevator and contemplate the rest of your short lives.
[SPEAKER_01]: Alright, everybody back down on the ground floor.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, all right, and so in the south west corner of the main lounge slash library there
[SPEAKER_01]: is the elevator that Bash has jimmyed shut em in mobile.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've still got that open hole that 10 by 10 hole that looks down into the surgery below.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can see the operating table there.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's been a few weeks in our timeline here, but just a reminder that there's all sorts of brightly colored light spilling into that chamber from all sides.
[SPEAKER_01]: Around the hole, but no matter where you stand and angle up there, you can't see what's generating that light But there's like organic like it's Fungle or no, and it is non-moving and it's not magical Um, we have not cast a tech magic here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, we didn't cast a tech magic in we did not all right we moved through this from very quickly to tech magic The light is not magical Is there anything else magical in the room?
[SPEAKER_06]: at a certain point like looking, looking at each of us literally we would just be like glowing brightly.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so do you want to un-Jimmy the elevator or do you want to jump down the hole into the surgery?
[SPEAKER_00]: We're climbing down on our 45 feet of rope.
[SPEAKER_06]: I was going to, that's what I was going to say.
[SPEAKER_06]: Tably, Tably, do you want me to lower you down into the surgery, you don't go around?
[SPEAKER_04]: What?
[SPEAKER_04]: Why would we?
[SPEAKER_04]: Why do we want to do that?
[SPEAKER_04]: Then we'll lower me down first.
[SPEAKER_04]: So we're trapped down there and don't have an easy way to get out.
[SPEAKER_04]: Is that the idea?
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, but lift isn't really an easy way to get out.
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me
[SPEAKER_01]: We're trying to do anything here, except for a continuum.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we're totally scared for some reason.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know, you all are.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's been a long time since we had to adventure on low resources.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's true.
[SPEAKER_00]: Really, really, really long time.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's true.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, almost two years of your actual lives.
[SPEAKER_01]: We just have to remember that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, even in like the other games.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it's true.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, we have to do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this is really...
[SPEAKER_06]: I think that I still have PTSD from that steer.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, when we're all still in Fort Hill, of course, yeah, that's a lot of the way a part of Earth is it a number and all of our say he's yeah Okay, so what I hear is we're gonna lower lower tab with down and blindfolded down into the surgery like we're like we're fishing.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, sure Bait Let's put bait wick on the maybe pile bait wick I could while shaping to a bird fly down there take a look around and fly back
[SPEAKER_00]: Is that's up, but that's a what?
[SPEAKER_00]: How many times a day?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's a right way.
[SPEAKER_05]: Twice.
[SPEAKER_04]: Maybe, maybe save it for, because we might need, we might need a beef eat.
[SPEAKER_01]: We might need to turn into a bear or something.
[SPEAKER_06]: All right.
[SPEAKER_06]: Being serious.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do you have invisibility still?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a slot.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very, very few slots.
[SPEAKER_06]: Do we think that it would be worthwhile for either?
[SPEAKER_00]: Would rather have an invisibility sphere or would you rather have haste?
[SPEAKER_06]: I wasn't asking about invisibility sphere.
[SPEAKER_06]: I was asking if you have invisibility.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to use spell slots for reconnaissance if I don't have to.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_06]: How many people can fit in the elevator and go down at once?
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll technically you can all squish in there.
[SPEAKER_06]: Great.
[SPEAKER_06]: Let's do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Debwick can hide and play in a building.
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_06]: Debwick, do you want to go down the elevator or go down the whole?
[SPEAKER_05]: I'll go down the elevator and I will stuff my way ahead and be the scout.
[SPEAKER_05]: Love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: We all still have the urban environment thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yep, right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Which is awesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, put just stuff down by where you want to be either in relation to the elevator door or to the open hole down to the next floor.
[SPEAKER_01]: Alright, so, bash, undJimmy's the elevator, and Dabwick alone stands inside of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now there's a series of chains in the, as you're standing inside looking out sort of the left corner there that you have to hand over hand over hand, very slowly move.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you close the accordion gate on the door.
[SPEAKER_06]: Wait, if they're it it makes noise going up and down no matter what, right?
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, yeah So it's all go Yeah, I mean, oh And then we I mean, Deb could still Do the the hide and plane site and scout a little once we once we get down there and see if that draws anything to us But then we pulled this as a as a yeah first first dealer out sure, but then but then we're all down there, you know That's what I vote for
[SPEAKER_04]: Squeeze in, everybody, squeeze in.
[SPEAKER_01]: Such close quarters.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Take us to the map.
[SPEAKER_01]: Where is this map?
[SPEAKER_01]: There is that map.
[SPEAKER_00]: This episode should be called anxiety.
[SPEAKER_00]: Totally noted.
[SPEAKER_06]: Or we will do anything else except for fight the ultimate Big Bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: All but fight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's start with A.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anything but here?
[SPEAKER_01]: So we cram ourselves into the elevator and with just barely enough room to move his muscles and work the mechanism, grip in the corner as creek, creek, creek, creek, hand over hand, chaining, moving the chains to operate this elevator, which moves at a painfully slow rate of 10 feet per round.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it takes like 12 full seconds of creaking and groaning to get down to the
[SPEAKER_01]: And then you have the the creaky old accordion door to move out of the way Okay, stab was very small.
[SPEAKER_01]: So double can duck underneath it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So double duck's underneath and into this surgery space It's a little bit smaller than the tower above 25 feet by 35 feet It's a wide open space
[SPEAKER_01]: with a surgical table at the center.
[SPEAKER_01]: Debeck immediately can tell what has been casting this light.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are three stained glass windows, one on the east wall, one on the west wall, and one on the north wall.
[SPEAKER_01]: Each of them depicting an angel with her hands inside the body of a patient.
[SPEAKER_01]: whose face is contorted in an expression that is impossible to tell if it is agony or exaltation.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there is a shining light erupting from the wounds.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, three of these fucking things, something behind them is casting light.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right, because we're underground.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're underground.
[SPEAKER_01]: So there is something behind each of these.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's stained glass windows casting light through them to fill the chamber with that creepy imagery.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are neat rows and tables of alchemical and surgical gear lining all the walls.
[SPEAKER_01]: In the southeast corner of the room, so right in front of Debwick as they're sliding underneath this accordion door and into the chamber, hiding a plain sight.
[SPEAKER_01]: There is a towering glass cylinder about five feet wide and nearly 15 feet tall.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's going almost all the way up to the ceiling.
[SPEAKER_01]: That seems to contain a sickly yellow mass of protoplasm.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is, it looks kind of like a,
[SPEAKER_01]: Like a yellow lava lamp, but 15 feet tall.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come here, come here and still check their play.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a 31 on the stove.
[SPEAKER_01]: So blending into the walls of this underground chamber, somehow vanishing from sight, even though there's light cast everywhere, the first thing you notice, as you step out in terms of the things I have not yet mentioned, is there is a 12-foot tall,
[SPEAKER_01]: In a roughly humanoid shape, with a brain and two eyes of float at the top of this figure's body standing right next to the elevator opening within easy reach of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me give you a picture here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't just slinks back.
[SPEAKER_03]: We chose it poorly.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's, uh...
[SPEAKER_01]: So each of the fingers on its left arm and in filled syringes.
[SPEAKER_01]: How did I know you were going to say that?
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's right arm and in a giant filled syringe.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here is, uh, oh my god.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here's this thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, you see a third half?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, you're easily within its reach, but even though it is very clearly with its two floating eyeballs in the glass jar atop of its towering body, staring right at the entrance to the elevator, it seems to see nothing come out.
[SPEAKER_01]: I relay that information to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world to the world
[SPEAKER_05]: No, that's not just me.
[SPEAKER_06]: The good news is it does have a brain.
[SPEAKER_06]: So I mean, yeah, can we make any kind of knowledge check?
[SPEAKER_01]: Just do you waste all the?
[SPEAKER_01]: So dabble because dabble is desperately describing this thing to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Those of you that can make knowledge are conno.
[SPEAKER_05]: Is there any check to make on the vat of yellowed?
[SPEAKER_00]: I wrote the four.
[SPEAKER_00]: I wrote the three on history and a four on this and you still got a 29.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I got a 31 And yes, you can make a knowledge I guess it'd be dungeon nearing check on the Giant level app of yellow high rules to do that.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, I wrote it to that time as well 13 14 15 29 Okay, so the alchemical gallum
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a proper gallum, which means it is entirely immune to magic.
[SPEAKER_01]: Entirely immune to spells or spellic abilities that allow spell resistance.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you would know about this particular kind, you know, all of the gollums have like one kind of thing that can work on it.
[SPEAKER_01]: In this case, it is spells with the sonic descriptor can work on this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Otherwise, yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, so many of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Otherwise, it is a construct, so you know, with immune to mind-effecting effects and all that long, long, laundry list of stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know that every time it attacks, it as it stabs you with its syringes, it does
[SPEAKER_01]: I've got a random list here of things that it can possibly do to you, no way to predict what kind of damage or effect may affect you.
[SPEAKER_01]: It can reach inside of itself and pull out bombs that operate like a high-powered alchemists bomb.
[SPEAKER_01]: So ton of damage, random energy type, and a little more splash damage than you might be expecting.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_01]: What else?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, if you attack this thing with a non-reach melee weapon, you will, of course, take some kind of damage.
[SPEAKER_01]: As the shit inside of it splashes out on you, and it requires adamantine weapons or bludgeoning weapons to effectively damage it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not too late to go to the three.
[SPEAKER_01]: So as the two of you are sharing that information around the party, Bash is also eyeing the giant lava lamp, is like, I think that's an okay jelly in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: which is we could get them to fight each other.
[SPEAKER_01]: Perfect.
[SPEAKER_01]: So what Ogre Jelly is a gigantic ooze that secretes acid that dissolves only flesh and if you damage it, they're immune to each other.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you deal any slashing or piercing, or electricity damage to it, it splits into two identical
[SPEAKER_00]: Each would have the hit points though, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Sure, yeah, but the same size and the same deadliness.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's susceptible to that alkaline.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so frozen moment here is that's all being shared telepathically.
[SPEAKER_04]: Can I equip?
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm petrified into an action.
[SPEAKER_00]: I cannot fight either of these things.
[SPEAKER_01]: You could also, Deva could just go back in the elevator, and you could continue down the next 120 feet down to the basement if you wish.
[SPEAKER_01]: At the moment, it seems to be waiting for someone to come out of the elevator, but not moving from its position.
[SPEAKER_01]: And right now, it sees nobody coming out of the elevator.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I've over that.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, if this is a thing we don't have to fight, let's maybe not fight it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, believe me, I'm always on board with that plan, but what the fuck worse is below?
[SPEAKER_04]: Darryl, we don't, I mean, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is, let's go, let's go.
[SPEAKER_00]: That sounds fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: Get back on the elevator.
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to make another stealth checker.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, please, thank you.
[SPEAKER_06]: Question about the lava lamp container.
[SPEAKER_06]: Does it look like this sort of thing like that ooze is trapped in it?
[SPEAKER_06]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is contained within it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, where I'm sure the gaulim is.
[SPEAKER_01]: It cannot, it cannot dissolve glass.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or metal.
[SPEAKER_06]: Does that thing look like it's movable?
[SPEAKER_01]: the lava lamp?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: No.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's not a wheels or anything.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is a giant industrial glass vat.
[SPEAKER_06]: Is it the sort of thing that grip could pick up and move?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh no, it'd be thousands of pounds.
[SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: 15 feet tall.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you would know that the Oak Ridge Hillies themselves weigh upward of 2,600 pounds.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh really?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Should be birds.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're incredibly dense.
[SPEAKER_01]: Would you get through the road?
[SPEAKER_00]: Just keep slashing it until it fills the room and suffocates.
[SPEAKER_01]: Perfect.
[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't breathe.
[SPEAKER_01]: Would you go in your stealth check there?
[SPEAKER_01]: I got a 30 on that stealth check.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so as if no one ever entered the room Devok just backs like Homer into the hedge and into the elevator Going down going down Let's shop for some more bad guys Lower level losers and gollums
[SPEAKER_01]: Creek, Creek, Creek, Creek, Creek, 10 feet by 10 excruciating feet, Creek, Creek, Creek, down deeper and deeper and deeper into the earth.
[SPEAKER_01]: Until finally, after 120 painstaking feet, the elevator reaches the bottom,
[SPEAKER_01]: like 100 foot deep, like 30 foot wide cavern where you all fought the little grumlin a hundred years ago with the tiny hammer.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the room looks much like dab-wick remembers it except for the things standing inside of it, watching the elevator and at the bottom, which is
[SPEAKER_01]: Two fucking gigantic centipedes over 20 feet long covered in patches of glowing blue fungus with syrupy blue venom dripping from their mandibles and right next to both of them is a
[SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna flight some Darryl and giant set of beats next time.
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