[UNKNOWN]: You
[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome back to Dark Nexus.
[SPEAKER_03]: Tonight, it's Act 4, Chapter 164.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're picking up in Mun's Third Floor Laboratory.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thanks to her false life spell, Pandora is still at full hit points, but the rest of the party is hurting.
[SPEAKER_03]: Everyone else is down at a minimum of 30 hit points covered in burning red wasp stings and splatters splattered Paul in acid burns.
[SPEAKER_03]: The wreak of chemicals is in the air burning your nostrils scratching at your throat
[SPEAKER_03]: You're all surrounded by this maze of countertops, covered in books, jars, and glass containers of a wide variety of sizes, all containing chemical, sludge, body parts, slime, mold, and or fungus.
[SPEAKER_03]: bash and dabs have already spotted some useful alchemical weapons and such amongst the disordered mess and they're probably more to be recovered if one wanted to take the time.
[SPEAKER_03]: And you know what?
[SPEAKER_03]: For such a large lab.
[SPEAKER_03]: with so many organized and detailed drawers and shelves underneath the countertops, it does seem a wildly messy situation up here, like not a situation in actual practicing alchemist would conduct work in, almost like somebody came through in a hurry or something, maybe pulled everything out, spread it all out on the counters and only grabbed the stuff they
[SPEAKER_03]: or needed.
[SPEAKER_03]: And over by where Bash is standing, having just recovered vanity after dropped it early on in the swarm fight, there is still, of course, this table with a bunch of larger containers draped over with a thick brown cloth.
[SPEAKER_03]: So all of that is super interesting, of course, all the wounds and the alchemy, but there are some other even more potentially pressing things to deal with.
[SPEAKER_03]: Number one,
[SPEAKER_03]: MUN, or another hollow one, version of MUN perhaps how many times did he skin himself?
[SPEAKER_03]: His upstairs, banging his feet on the trapdoor down to this level, holaring at you to leave his lab alone.
[SPEAKER_03]: 2.
[SPEAKER_03]: You do know that two floors up in the attic, you also have the tree with hooves covered in mouths, the dark, young of Shubnagura.
[SPEAKER_03]: And number three, even though Pandora feels okay right now, hit point wise, thanks to her placebo effect spell.
[SPEAKER_03]: In a little under 11 minutes, her poison condition from being bitten by the hell wasps is going to come roaring back and she'll be making a bunch of touchy fortitude saves again.
[SPEAKER_03]: Choices, choices, choices, choices.
[SPEAKER_03]: So why don't?
[SPEAKER_03]: Why don't we?
[SPEAKER_03]: Remind yourselves and me of the spells you do currently have active.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's review durations and then let's figure out what's next on the agenda.
[SPEAKER_03]: What you got going on, Dab's.
[SPEAKER_04]: Dabwick has Slate's skin and Major's armor both going and they're long, long lasting spells.
[SPEAKER_03]: What about a feather step?
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, right, and then feather step mass was what they cast on the on the gang for all of us to have that ability to move through difficult terrain and then we cast hunters blessing, which gives us a bonus to terrain and in this case constructs awesome and that basically lasts for the rest of your natural life right.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's gonna last the rest of the day.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a 10-hour graduation.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a good fucking spell.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: And what about the gripper?
[SPEAKER_05]: No buffs of his own going on, but he's currently benefiting from the feather step and the hunter's blessing.
[SPEAKER_05]: And he's down 40 hit points.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, boy, boy.
[SPEAKER_05]: Bash.
[SPEAKER_07]: Bash has dark vision, bloodhounds, seein' visibility, which are all hours per level.
[SPEAKER_07]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then tears to wine, and then hunters blessing and feather step from dabs, and then gravity gun, which is only minutes per level.
[SPEAKER_03]: And but you just cast that one.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just cast that one.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that's like, what is that nine minutes for you?
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, it's like another eight minutes right now, essentially.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, awesome.
[SPEAKER_03]: And Pandora.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have May-Jarma, FeatherSap, Hunter's Blessing, and one remaining temporary hit point from falsely, which will expire after an hour.
[SPEAKER_07]: Okay, I'll write, and I am also down 31 hit points.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm down 37.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, boy, oh boy, so we are in full on dungeon crawl mode here, which is fun.
[SPEAKER_03]: Am I keeping us in a loose initiative here?
[SPEAKER_06]: Dora, do we try to go on?
[SPEAKER_06]: What do you need?
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't need anything for about 10 minutes.
[SPEAKER_06]: What do you guys think you want to try to keep going?
[SPEAKER_01]: But, after 10 minutes, I'll need help.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: What kind of help?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll need help from a bash to fight off this poison.
[SPEAKER_01]: Alternatively, I can tell the port is back to town.
[SPEAKER_05]: Did you just say you could tell a pirate us?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I can't tell the port is back.
[SPEAKER_03]: today or ever.
[SPEAKER_01]: Today.
[SPEAKER_03]: So we got a new access to you have access to that because of the role.
[SPEAKER_03]: The month investments and the necotic manuscript.
[SPEAKER_03]: The necotic manuscripts.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, yes, yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, so you're saying there's a.
[SPEAKER_01]: So as long as I have a fifth level slot left, which at the moment I do.
[SPEAKER_05]: I mean, I'm fine.
[SPEAKER_05]: I could down a couple of potions and go on a little more.
[SPEAKER_04]: I could do the same.
[SPEAKER_04]: I've got the ones we can wound up and go up another level.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, sorry.
[SPEAKER_05]: We got, oh, should we use wand or potions that'll want?
[SPEAKER_03]: Depends on how much time you want to take.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, because we don't want to spend a lot of time I don't think we want to spend more than like a minute.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, I'll down this potion and well, that'll be my start.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll down my mod and then we'll start with it Take a round everybody take a round of doing something Group is drinking a potion.
[SPEAKER_04]: Dad looks tapping themselves with a wand of kermod great I will drink one of my kermods
[SPEAKER_03]: Katie does purify body work on somebody else?
[SPEAKER_03]: It does, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, but it's a fifth level spell slot.
[SPEAKER_01]: There we go.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have very few left and I could use it in combat.
[SPEAKER_04]: To do something this round, you want to look around.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's kind of what I was, I'm not good at identifying things, but if there's a hell-wasp antidote in this place, it might be working around for it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I also could collect throne weapons which I can use.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'm just going to be grateful that that role wasn't on the savings poison.
[SPEAKER_03]: 19.
[SPEAKER_03]: Grabble by you this round.
[SPEAKER_03]: You do spot two flasks of elchemist fire.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that's one round.
[SPEAKER_07]: the tree with hooves, did we remember doesn't it have like certain immunities?
[SPEAKER_03]: The dark, young of shove into Gourth is immune to acid electricity and fire and requires slashing weapons to effectively hurt us.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm gonna look for acid the next round, which is also immune to acid electricity and fire.
[SPEAKER_03]: So just cold.
[SPEAKER_01]: for anti-toxins, it has to be against a specific thing where it's not just all poisons.
[SPEAKER_03]: For an antidote, it has to be against a specific thing, but anti-tox and does add to all saves.
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you make us anti-toxins in the dreamlands?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but that stuff takes time.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, not asking if you can make it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm asking what I recognize what it looks like.
[SPEAKER_03]: They all look different, you're not trained in craft alchemy, right?
[SPEAKER_03]: No, look, yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, you can think that, and I can certainly.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's what I'm thinking.
[SPEAKER_03]: So that's one round during which there's more pounding and stomping.
[SPEAKER_03]: What sounds a little bit like crying?
[SPEAKER_03]: Like frustrated, why won't they leave this place alone?
[SPEAKER_03]: This trapdoor is invisible.
[SPEAKER_03]: So the latter up to it is invisible.
[SPEAKER_03]: The latch mechanism is invisible, but the door itself is just cutting the head.
[SPEAKER_05]: So we have no, you're seeing invisibility, right?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_05]: Can you tell, is it locked?
[SPEAKER_05]: Is there a central unlock that's keeping it from opening?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, why doesn't he just come down?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, what you're getting at?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it does not seem to be locked or latched.
[SPEAKER_03]: At least right now, but...
[SPEAKER_03]: It is lockable and latchedable from this side.
[SPEAKER_03]: It does not seem to be locked or latched from this side.
[SPEAKER_03]: Mm-hmm.
[SPEAKER_03]: Are you taking another round?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Great!
[SPEAKER_03]: Roll the up, whichever you're going to do.
[SPEAKER_03]: I will do the same.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, fuck you, potion.
[SPEAKER_05]: way back at you, Robert.
[SPEAKER_01]: 28 perception this time.
[SPEAKER_04]: I got 17 more points from the wand.
[SPEAKER_04]: Great.
[SPEAKER_04]: I got 8 points from my potion.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, I mean, yes, Pandora is seeing like the things that I know should immediately recognize our flasks of acid and vials of alchemist fire.
[SPEAKER_03]: There are at least 20 of those in this room.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you want to spend round by round, going through and grabbing those up, you can grab a few each round.
[SPEAKER_03]: Otherwise, I just don't know without any training in this that you would recognize some of the other stuff that's around here.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm almost teeled up and another round I'll be able to start looking round.
[SPEAKER_03]: But if you want to grab another two in any combination of acid flasks and grab a couple of acid.
[SPEAKER_03]: Why not?
[SPEAKER_03]: Another round here?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, roll it up.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I'm healed up.
[SPEAKER_07]: Where are you at, grip?
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm at 81 of 104.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to hit you with the cure mod.
[SPEAKER_04]: Pond.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'll take it.
[SPEAKER_04]: For 10 more points.
[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_03]: At this point, the pounding on the floor upstairs stops, and you hear mon...
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't...
[SPEAKER_03]: I think on.
[SPEAKER_03]: What are they doing down there?
[SPEAKER_02]: They still there.
[SPEAKER_02]: I go down.
[SPEAKER_02]: I go down with the still alive.
[SPEAKER_03]: Another round?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep, roll it up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Does anyone answer again?
[SPEAKER_05]: No, no, we don't hear another voice.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not us.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do we hear another voice?
[SPEAKER_01]: You do not hear another voice.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, we're still down here.
[SPEAKER_02]: What did you just give us?
[SPEAKER_03]: We're healing up so we can fight you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, stupid fuck.
[SPEAKER_07]: Fash will start looking around making craft alchemy checks to see if there's anything down here that would be of use to us or of use to helping heal Pandora.
[SPEAKER_03]: Give me a perception and a craft alchemy.
[SPEAKER_05]: Grip didn't do any healing this turn.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's just standing under the door looking straight up at it that's a thirty five perception check The thirty five alchemy check So Taking around here to look a little more carefully Through the mess Johnny bash
[SPEAKER_03]: Does see, okay, all right, so what was left behind is a lot of ingredients, a lot of components, a lot of acid vials and alchemist fire, as though he maybe didn't need those, or he already had so many made that he had as many as he needed.
[SPEAKER_03]: There are a number of elixirs of firebreath left behind.
[SPEAKER_03]: If you drink those, you can breathe fire three times.
[SPEAKER_03]: 46 points of fire damage to a single target up to 25 feet away.
[SPEAKER_03]: They get a reflex save for half.
[SPEAKER_03]: Otherwise, in terms of already pre-made things, you see some alkalife flasks.
[SPEAKER_03]: which is a caustic liquid that reacts with an oozes natural acid.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can throw as a splash weapon against non-oose creatures.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's basically just like a flask of acid.
[SPEAKER_03]: But against oozes and any other acid-based creatures, it deals double damage.
[SPEAKER_03]: You also see some flasks of a substance called Blade Guard, which is a clear resin that protects weapons from harmful attacks made by oozes and rust monsters, as well as any similar effects that corrode or melt weapons.
[SPEAKER_03]: Other than that, looks like everything that had been made in this room was taken.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's kind of what you see like what's what's been left behind.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay after this rating of this stock without lifting up the sheet and looking underneath the correct.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah All right, you hear some whispered chatter from this mon up above Talking kind of frantically and urgently sounds like to himself still asking a lot of questions What's up the next round?
[SPEAKER_07]: Bash is going to take a standard action to drink an extract of fly.
[SPEAKER_03]: Done and done.
[SPEAKER_03]: Any more healing or would be good?
[SPEAKER_04]: We're good with the healing.
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know that I've got any buffing I want to do.
[SPEAKER_04]: We're not going to look underneath that sheet thing.
[SPEAKER_05]: Does it look like other similar things on the table just covered by a sheet or is it thick enough that it is not masking like what the shape is?
[SPEAKER_03]: No, the shape is not masked and everything, all of the containers in that table looks significantly larger, like torso sized or larger like a third like another skin stitch or another hollow body No pieces of, I don't know, I have a look at that.
[SPEAKER_04]: What a curiosity due to the cat wake.
[SPEAKER_05]: Enlightened, I think.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, so wait.
[SPEAKER_07]: Is everybody healed healed up?
[SPEAKER_03]: Sounds like it.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'll throw this thing open and look at it real quick.
[SPEAKER_07]: If that's the thing we're on the next round.
[SPEAKER_03]: Where would stable is it?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a bite so one bite that he's standing by.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's this one.
[SPEAKER_03]: In the northwest corner.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah And do it again.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's clear to the other side Tabuk's curious.
[SPEAKER_05]: Tabuk's very curious.
[SPEAKER_03]: Removing the filthy brown cloth, you find a number of large covered jars containing eviscerated and dissected remains, a number of old human men in pieces, in many, many pieces, the complete upper torso and head of a ghoul, not moving.
[SPEAKER_03]: a spine blobby head and kind of like gummy rubbery wing that seems to be made entirely of fungus and then a very large jar labeled number 61.
[SPEAKER_03]: And inside this large jar labeled number 61, it's filled with liquid and floating in it is what seems like a massive paper thin
[SPEAKER_03]: sheet caught in an unseen current resembling some sort of strange amorphous sea creature.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, and then, as it moves around in these unseen eddies inside of the jar, you do see passing by you a humanoid face.
[SPEAKER_03]: and then fold back in the self-portrait.
[SPEAKER_03]: And like just stopping for a second to process what you're looking at, it appears to be the full and complete skin of a humanoid creature.
[SPEAKER_03]: And about the third time the face goes past the front of the jar, you see the mouth.
[SPEAKER_03]: moving.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then a little sort of like tugging as if they're if they're had been eyeballs inside the eye holes like they were looking up at the top of the jar.
[SPEAKER_03]: And then this was just endless sheets of flesh folding out itself looking kind of like a jellyfish or something.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are 40 more
[SPEAKER_05]: He doesn't know, he doesn't see one.
[SPEAKER_07]: Is there any kind of check to be made in terms of spellcraft, Arcana, Alchemy, anything about what these things might have been used for by an Alchemist?
[SPEAKER_03]: Based on the check that you made a few sessions ago about hollow ones.
[SPEAKER_03]: Your first assumption would be like maybe this was an attempt to make one like maybe this was a attempt number sixty one
[SPEAKER_03]: to create a hollow one.
[SPEAKER_03]: But what is left is the entire complete skin of somebody who was skinned alive and now still seems to be alive and so in some fashion.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's not months faces it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's impossible to tell because it's kind of like perfectly flattened out.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's like stretched and flattened to such a degree.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, I can take a knowledge dungeon nearing Kshhhhhh From anyone who's looking at this stuff, Dab's right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, Dab's parent right right right around you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'll give you that check.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, curious Dab's.
[SPEAKER_04]: Ooh.
[SPEAKER_04]: 33.
[SPEAKER_04]: 26.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're you're looking at the the so the jar that contains the spine Flabi head and part of a wing you're looking at a piece of an alien life form.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a part of a me go
[SPEAKER_03]: What you learned about back in Iris Hill, you were called them being sort of alien air quotes scientists who study living and dead things often quite violently.
[SPEAKER_03]: They are the creators of confabulation-play technology.
[SPEAKER_03]: They would look to the glary and native eye, like a roughly humanoid
[SPEAKER_03]: insectoid arthropod with a kind of preponderance of spiky clod legs, spiny insect wings in a big bulbous lump for a head, but you do recall that in truth they are actually composed entirely of fungus.
[SPEAKER_03]: some very specific insane fungus from another planet in the universe that has evolved into this particular shape and functionality.
[SPEAKER_03]: They communicate by clicking their pincers and rapidly changing the coloration of their head, that's their language.
[SPEAKER_03]: You know that they are devout worship as a species.
[SPEAKER_03]: They are devout worshippers of Shabnagurath.
[SPEAKER_03]: They travel from planet to planet
[SPEAKER_03]: They are highly intelligent, able to make techno-magical items that can replicate just about any spell effect you could think of, such as, for example, the confabulation plates.
[SPEAKER_03]: They take something that on this planet is done with magic, and they find a way to do it, are they with technology or some sort of psychic trickery?
[SPEAKER_03]: He's got a big chunk of amigo in a jar there, floating next to number 61.
[SPEAKER_03]: The face floats by the front of the jar a few more times, and is desperately gesturing the best way it possibly can towards, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, can we keep him?
[SPEAKER_05]: Is that what Mon is talking to?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think that you would think that his explosive yelling just seemed to be directed down and then this last bunch of whispering were quiet talking seemed to be directed either to himself or as many things other people are like no noticeable correlation between when the face floats by and we see it moving out in response like a response or anything I got no awesome idea that's not what is happening at all.
[SPEAKER_04]: If we don't talk to this thing now, can we please talk to it before we leave?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_04]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: So this is about six seconds of all of you staring at that, going, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
[SPEAKER_03]: Babook will follow grip and I can be the one flying and and checking for traps on this thing and popping it open beautiful All right, so bash source over to the trap door on the ceiling give me that perception check there Girl Tip to me around these dead It's getting stitch on there's so huge you did grow that is a 37 All right, it is definitely open definitely not trapped
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, definitely unlocked, definitely not trapped.
[SPEAKER_03]: Are you casting fly, Katie?
[SPEAKER_07]: Just take the fly spell, take the fly spell.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm going to cast fly on myself.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_07]: You will not regret being able to fly and move.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to remember that you said that.
[SPEAKER_03]: Excellent.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, how do I handle this?
[SPEAKER_03]: I think.
[SPEAKER_03]: What's your uh, described to me?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, Johnny.
[SPEAKER_03]: Your strategy for getting through this trapdoor when you know very well someone is either standing on it or next to it.
[SPEAKER_07]: My thought was to first place my hand on the trapdoor and see if it actually has resistance.
[SPEAKER_07]: And if it doesn't, then to jam it open and basically fly slash tumble through.
[SPEAKER_03]: Why don't you give me a stealth check to see how stealthily you can do the little check check?
[SPEAKER_03]: Love it.
[SPEAKER_07]: That is a 31.
[SPEAKER_03]: carefully moving your fingers across all the boards, testing.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, all that seems slightly a little loose right there, don't press there, don't want to creak.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's hard to tell, is it?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's because it's so cunningly made that there seems to be no resistance or is there actually no resistance?
[SPEAKER_03]: Push, push, push, push, push, push, push.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, with just a little moments worth of careful checking, to no response.
[SPEAKER_03]: To the best of your knowledge, there's nobody on top of it
[SPEAKER_03]: It's go time.
[SPEAKER_07]: About to probably eat like a hoof to the face, but that's two floors up right?
[SPEAKER_07]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_01]: No.
[SPEAKER_07]: This is that's this floor.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_03]: The hoof.
[SPEAKER_03]: The hoof tree is two floors up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, all right.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, then there you go.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right.
[SPEAKER_07]: So you're throwing it open?
[SPEAKER_07]: Throw it open and go in through.
[SPEAKER_03]: Roll initiative.
[SPEAKER_04]: Make sure your terrain is clicked on for that.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_04]: Initiative bump.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, that's much better than what I've been rolling.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: The top of the ladder would get their bash.
[SPEAKER_03]: 19.
[SPEAKER_03]: And the gripper.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's innate there.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, oh, dabwick.
[SPEAKER_03]: 17.
[SPEAKER_03]: Okay, and Pandora.
[SPEAKER_03]: 14.
[SPEAKER_03]: So surprise round is the hurling open of this trap door.
[SPEAKER_03]: No immediate response, Johnny.
[SPEAKER_03]: It seems like Bash has got the jump on.
[SPEAKER_03]: If there's somebody there, it seems like he's got the jump on it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Top of round one, you are the first to act.
[SPEAKER_03]: I zoom through.
[SPEAKER_03]: You emerge in a room.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is another single room that comprises the entire floor.
[SPEAKER_03]: So 30 feet by 40 feet.
[SPEAKER_03]: The smell of chemicals and flesh.
[SPEAKER_03]: fills this room, and it is filled all around with what first seems to be numerous like maybe a couple dozen, a couple score maybe strange curtains hung all over the room which after you just
[SPEAKER_03]: An unimaginable agony judging by the looks on the faces that waft eerily in the breezes passing through this chamber.
[SPEAKER_03]: So there are sagging ropes tied through rings in the walls and ceiling all around this room forming a lattice work from which hang all these humanoid skins.
[SPEAKER_03]: They are sickeningly whole, mostly opaque and standing right next to
[SPEAKER_03]: The trapdoor, as you soar up through it, is, indeed, another Myakni and Mon, who is standing right next to another ladder that goes up to the attic, but you've got the jump on him.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let me take you to the fourth floor map.
[SPEAKER_03]: Shit's getting gross.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a room full of skins.
[SPEAKER_05]: Which smells worse.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm guessing this, but how does it compare to the pickled punks?
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, really?
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, the pickled punks.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, man.
[SPEAKER_03]: I think it's the preponderance.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's the sheer volume of chemicals and flesh up here.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, but maybe like In my larger sections of flesh.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, too Mm, okay, it's not our first gross place true.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is pretty disgusting though
[SPEAKER_03]: This is you have not seen a room full of Flayed people give me a give me a world's safe.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's check out any of them.
[SPEAKER_07]: I mean that that feels absolutely a hundred percent what it should be because that is awful
[SPEAKER_07]: 22.
[SPEAKER_07]: All right, no sanity damage.
[SPEAKER_07]: So was I able to push up the trap door and move through it?
[SPEAKER_03]: The trap door was opened in the surprise round.
[SPEAKER_03]: You were now five feet into your first move in the first round.
[SPEAKER_07]: Excellent.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm going to move all the way up and over to here about sort of center of the room.
[SPEAKER_03]: and how high off the ground?
[SPEAKER_07]: How high are the seals?
[SPEAKER_07]: 15 feet.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm going to go to the top, I see no reason not to.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, so all of these flesh curtains, and are they showing on the map to you?
[SPEAKER_03]: They are.
[SPEAKER_03]: So all of them extend up to about the 10 foot mark, and then the five feet above them up to the ceiling is a web of ropes and stuff, also difficult to pass through in those squares where you see them marked on the ground floor.
[SPEAKER_03]: But you are effectively above the flesh.
[SPEAKER_03]: You are above the flesh.
[SPEAKER_03]: So.
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, good, uh, two thirds of the way to the north side of the room there, at the any of your first move.
[SPEAKER_07]: And then as a standard as a swift action, I will study my acne and mung and make them my study target.
[SPEAKER_03]: And this one, so the one down the ground floor seemed extremely polite and put together, but did not seem to have much information that started talking to him.
[SPEAKER_03]: The one on the second floor just kind of seemed to be a rage monster.
[SPEAKER_03]: very intelligent and very concerned.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's actually been crying Johnny.
[SPEAKER_03]: You don't want to shoot him man.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's crying.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't, but, but, but.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's because zero compunctions.
[SPEAKER_07]: Take a shot.
[SPEAKER_07]: Point blank.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's a 28 touch hit.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a hit.
[SPEAKER_07]: 16 points and I'm going to go ahead and and use my studied strike now to add another
[SPEAKER_07]: another 10, making it 26 points, and my acting in mine can no longer take attacks about fraternity.
[SPEAKER_03]: Cartridge slams into him, blasts him back against the wall where smash his into the ladder, leaving open a gaping hole on the front of his chest through which you just see, of course, nothing on the inside.
[SPEAKER_03]: So creepy, he's looking down at the wound, and he looks up, he narrows his eyes, he was supposed to be dead, you are.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's up, he unleashes, and otherworldly scrimm, and you feel supernatural terror Cursed through your body, could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it could be ahhh, it
[SPEAKER_03]: is actually a a construct construct and another two more damage to that I will put that on my uh... she's right thank you more hit points thank you Paulie thank you Paulie for two more points let's see gripper was below bash so five full feet below yeah mon grabs the trap door throws it back shut again and stands on top of it no problem dab look you're up
[SPEAKER_03]: You got eyes on nothing, and Bash is alone on the fourth floor.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just like we started the fight on the third floor.
[SPEAKER_04]: That book starts casting a full round spell.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_03]: Pandora.
[SPEAKER_01]: Would you like remove fear or dimension tall?
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, speaking personally, I think I'd like the remove fear.
[SPEAKER_01]: Good enough.
[SPEAKER_01]: She gets very calm and she recalls ascending the stairs and sarneth to face.
[SPEAKER_05]: Nice.
[SPEAKER_05]: Everybody except for bash.
[SPEAKER_05]: It's got remove fear going and that gives us what on the
[SPEAKER_03]: Gripper you're up next.
[SPEAKER_03]: I want to try to push that door really really hard.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I know you do.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll right give me.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let's see how I can lift 300 pounds over my head.
[SPEAKER_03]: I understand.
[SPEAKER_03]: Give me a strength check.
[SPEAKER_03]: Just so we're clear.
[SPEAKER_03]: I understand.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the Hunter's last thing applied to ability checks.
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't believe so.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, it's not.
[SPEAKER_05]: Eh, it's a 12 on the dive for a 16.
[SPEAKER_05]: Keep in it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Threw y'all this time, so it's a way.
[SPEAKER_05]: I've got it already used six of 10.
[SPEAKER_00]: You used six of 10 already?
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes, I have.
[SPEAKER_05]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I don't know that I'm gonna use it fair enough on this particular thing so no I'm gonna let that stand
[SPEAKER_03]: Good call, my friend, because the thing that you experience is, because this thing is literally only made of our single-layer rescue.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's really, really, really light.
[SPEAKER_03]: So, I don't do I injure myself, but I'm still not doing it.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, but you definitely send a hurtling off of the trap door as you open it up.
[SPEAKER_05]: Let me make a little ashamed of myself for not thinking of that fact myself.
[SPEAKER_03]: I had to try to draw those resources out.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to give him a reflex, say if you're to see if he can keep his foot, if you've had already been so successful, it's my effort.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, so that's a standard action to bust him off the thing and then you want to move up on the next floor.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep, let's get that out of the way.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_03]: And Johnny remind me, is it that he can't take a touch of opportunity until his next turn or your next turn?
[SPEAKER_03]: Till the beginning of my turn, so fucking awesome.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, so the whole round.
[SPEAKER_07]: So fucking awesome.
[SPEAKER_07]: I think if it was normally on a melee weapon, it would be not as powerful, but since I went through all of this trouble to make study combat work with a ranged weapon and had to jump through so many hoops and so many feats.
[SPEAKER_05]: And that's any time you damage someone with your studied combat.
[SPEAKER_07]: Any time not even studied strike, just studied combat.
[SPEAKER_07]: So anytime I have studied them and injure them, they cannot take attacks of opportunity.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's so cool, damn.
[SPEAKER_07]: It is awesome.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, Robert, I put on the map here.
[SPEAKER_03]: You could go to the north or south.
[SPEAKER_03]: Pick a square that you want to end up in the square.
[SPEAKER_03]: To the south is where the ladder going up to the next floor is, but it is an occupiable space.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is that a wall right there?
[SPEAKER_03]: That is a wall of skin.
[SPEAKER_03]: Every place that you can't see through is because it's covered.
[SPEAKER_03]: That square is covered with a giant sheet of flesh.
[SPEAKER_05]: So the occupiable space you were talking about is this one that would the ladder.
[SPEAKER_03]: Correct.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, I will move to that one so I can still see the fucker.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, that is the end of round.
[SPEAKER_05]: Do I. I'm going to kick myself, but do I owe you a will save?
[SPEAKER_05]: Give me this can, man.
[SPEAKER_05]: Right, man.
[SPEAKER_05]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're honest, people will be rewarded.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we'll send any damage.
[SPEAKER_03]: We'll see.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's a 16.
[SPEAKER_07]: Seeing Curtain Subskine is horrifying.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's okay.
[SPEAKER_05]: It is and I feel like All it takes is just a whiff of madness for me to Whiff of yeah madness for me to get a new madness Because right now I don't have any right you're yeah you're fine, but all it takes is one point of sanity day one single point and you have a madness
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, don't, don't, don't.
[SPEAKER_07]: No?
[SPEAKER_07]: We didn't come here not to have maduses from us.
[SPEAKER_01]: So like, how often do we just say for half?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, yeah, you're gonna get a point.
[SPEAKER_07]: We'll all be joining you momentarily.
[SPEAKER_01]: We know we don't.
[SPEAKER_07]: We know we don't.
[SPEAKER_05]: We know we don't.
[SPEAKER_05]: So I'm gonna let that 16 stand and we'll let them deal with it.
[SPEAKER_03]: That is a save and you take no damage.
[SPEAKER_03]: What?
[SPEAKER_03]: This is obviously awful, and had you been first level, you probably would have filled it with what you rolled and you would have taken a little bit of damage But you have you know, you've seen some shit And maybe this is also a reflection of all that that entire lifetime of committing torture and murder Seeping in just going like all right, I have I have seen some shit.
[SPEAKER_03]: I have done worse than this you hold your shit together
[SPEAKER_03]: Has he done worse than skin 20 people?
[SPEAKER_05]: I don't know, but I don't know.
[SPEAKER_05]: If he took a, if he took sanity damage from it and we had to start thinking about a new madness, um, should I tell you what it was gonna remind him of?
[SPEAKER_05]: No, because there...
[SPEAKER_05]: It might happen later.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
[SPEAKER_07]: Oh man, all right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Well, I will spend a point of inspiration making my acting in fun.
[SPEAKER_07]: My study target once again.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_07]: He's just staring at you, gripper.
[SPEAKER_07]: You know, you're not supposed to be here.
[SPEAKER_07]: You're not supposed to be here.
[SPEAKER_07]: Rapid shot.
[SPEAKER_07]: Point blank range.
[SPEAKER_07]: Here we go.
[SPEAKER_07]: That is a 28.
[SPEAKER_07]: Touch.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't even know why I would go up.
[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe you don't need to.
[SPEAKER_07]: That's 17 points of damage.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is that include your plus few?
[SPEAKER_03]: Awesome.
[SPEAKER_03]: Pulse blasting through the hollow one.
[SPEAKER_07]: A 30?
[SPEAKER_03]: Your touch?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_03]: 17 points of damage.
[SPEAKER_03]: Bang!
[SPEAKER_03]: Crypto watching bash systematically below this thing away.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, natural one!
[SPEAKER_02]: Ms. Fire!
[SPEAKER_03]: Take it on the last one.
[SPEAKER_03]: With the action account of making you fix that this round, you do have to do it next round.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, because it's a full round.
[SPEAKER_07]: I was doing a full round attack, so no.
[SPEAKER_07]: There's nothing else I can do this round.
[SPEAKER_07]: That is my turn.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, you can take a five-foot adjustment somewhere.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's take a five-foot left.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right.
[SPEAKER_07]: Did this happen?
[SPEAKER_07]: This happened with the other my acne in mind.
[SPEAKER_07]: This happened when I was literally a cross from him.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I think it's just something it's under.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's like, I think I think that it, I think it is something really unnerving about firing and this thing is not responding to being injured in any way shape of what it's like looking down that these holes in it.
[SPEAKER_07]: And it's like arm is just barely attached, but it's still moving as if it was a real arm and stuff.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: And something about like the, I aimed wrong, you know, I loaded the, the, the alchemical ammunition incorrectly.
[SPEAKER_07]: I, I did something.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_07]: Just, I don't think this was the, the machine not working, this was me.
[SPEAKER_03]: the moment when you would normally have done one of them, I balled down to make sure you got the thing set in right.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're stuck watching it just a one second longer because it's behaving so weirdly.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, that's a great slow motion shot picture.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: Single eyeball.
[SPEAKER_03]: Look, don't fucking gun explodes in your hand.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is not canon that the gun exploded.
[SPEAKER_03]: I need a perception check from a bash and grip please.
[SPEAKER_07]: And remember, I do have bloodhound.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_07]: And see invisibility going.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_07]: That is a 38.
[SPEAKER_07]: 21 for me.
[SPEAKER_03]: Johnny.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Bash catches a very, very brief glimpse to the south.
[SPEAKER_03]: behind this wall of skin of a small-sized humanoid, poke their head out and case the situation out in the center of the room, it is a female
[SPEAKER_03]: Darrow.
[SPEAKER_07]: I was gonna ask it was a Darrow.
[SPEAKER_03]: So this is like a blue skinned gnome ish looking creature but incredibly thin long white hair for fingered hands.
[SPEAKER_03]: But this one just got eerily cold and dead eyes and
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh yeah, she's got a third arm sticking out of her exposed abdomen that arm with a hand with five fingers on it.
[SPEAKER_03]: She's got a wicked looking short sword in her top right hand and a hooked throwing club in her bottom right hand with a long leather cord attached to it in her left hand.
[SPEAKER_03]: invisibly, cases the joint, and then slips back behind the flesh and out of sight.
[SPEAKER_07]: I relay that information letting grip especially know that based on where the curtains are, it looks like she could be heading towards you.
[SPEAKER_04]: What was the, there was, there was a
[SPEAKER_03]: She is, she was the head of the kidnapping ring that I lost cold theory took you to go scout out.
[SPEAKER_03]: Now it was her lieutenant, Al-Thiel was the one that you briefly skirmished with.
[SPEAKER_03]: The mesmerist.
[SPEAKER_04]: But that's what keeps having reoccurring nightmares of.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is...
[SPEAKER_07]: his boss this is for uh oh that was who was this this is an alchemist yeah this is an alchemist and then was twister something what was it twain twain I knew it was this from is this from your uh from your past past stories so this is a this is evil daryo freaks
[SPEAKER_03]: Head of a kidnapping ring, they steal people from the surface and ring them down to experiment on gruesomely in Corganbear, which is the underdark city right beneath the city.
[SPEAKER_03]: Maybe perhaps as it turns out, somehow affiliated with my Akni and Mon, the great philanthropist.
[SPEAKER_03]: Alright, so, Grypper has been psychically, has been telepathically warned by Bash.
[SPEAKER_03]: Devil has shared their shock, Paul has waved his hands in the air, a little bit freaked out.
[SPEAKER_03]: Not expecting to fight Twain in this room.
[SPEAKER_03]: Up next is the hollow one.
[SPEAKER_03]: Can't effectively reach Bash, just gonna go to town on the Grypper.
[SPEAKER_03]: Here we go, Gryp.
[SPEAKER_05]: Better swing hard, ya great fucking balloon.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're not supposed to be here.
[SPEAKER_03]: 39.
[SPEAKER_03]: 39!
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's me.
[SPEAKER_07]: Remember, they're real strong.
[SPEAKER_03]: 16 points of damage with the first hit.
[SPEAKER_03]: Second slam coming at you.
[SPEAKER_03]: In the high 30s again.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, 17 points of damage with the second hit.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, it's supposed to be here, you know, it's supposed to be here.
[SPEAKER_02]: He said you were dead, he said you were dead.
[SPEAKER_03]: Dad's your up, what appears, my friend?
[SPEAKER_04]: So, right in front of Dabwick, right at the bottom of the stairs.
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: A... Inormous.
[SPEAKER_04]: Forearmed gorilla.
[SPEAKER_04]: white matted fur massive shoulders.
[SPEAKER_04]: Really bad attitude on its face appears.
[SPEAKER_04]: And this is spacing wise, right at the base of the of the.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, big is the creature.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ladder, remember?
[SPEAKER_03]: It's a five foot wide trapdoor.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I can't input it on the other side.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you got range and you have an airline of effect.
[SPEAKER_03]: You could have it appear in a spot that you could see in the room above.
[SPEAKER_03]: So basically right in the middle of the grip and hollow one fight if you
[SPEAKER_03]: A corralian explodes into the room right next to Grypper and MUN.
[SPEAKER_04]: So the Gryllian appears in Dabot Castle Spell on it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, give to touch it.
[SPEAKER_03]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_03]: Awesome what's the spell?
[SPEAKER_04]: It's called Gird Ally.
[SPEAKER_03]: Gird?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_04]: gives a deflection bonus to AC, so that really and just came up with plus two to their AC.
[SPEAKER_03]: Outstanding.
[SPEAKER_03]: What was the last time we saw this?
[SPEAKER_03]: Was it in the forest when you were saving the senator?
[SPEAKER_03]: Is that right?
[SPEAKER_03]: Was it that fight?
[SPEAKER_03]: Like you were hidden behind a tree and the thing popped up and took up like an archer and half-work archer pieces or something?
[SPEAKER_04]: That's right, right?
[SPEAKER_04]: Before Dabwick was about to be eviscerated.
[SPEAKER_03]: Alright, so this manifestation that you caused to come into existence in this room of flesh is looking down, down, on top of this hollow one, this thing that looks like a man but is filled with holes, it can not go to town!
[SPEAKER_04]: It's going to make a number of attacks.
[SPEAKER_03]: I believe that.
[SPEAKER_04]: 18 on the die for a 30?
[SPEAKER_03]: Hit!
[SPEAKER_03]: That's the bite attack?
[SPEAKER_04]: That's the bite attack.
[SPEAKER_04]: for six points.
[SPEAKER_03]: It takes no damage on number one.
[SPEAKER_03]: You did learn that these require magical weapons to damage them.
[SPEAKER_04]: So the Gorillan still tries to attack and tear this
[SPEAKER_03]: So, gripper you watch as this beast goes to town on this version of Mun, claws raking teeth biting, and none of it is doing any damage to the crit to the hollow.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, that sucks.
[UNKNOWN]: Gosh.
[SPEAKER_03]: Pandora, you're up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Can I get up there?
[SPEAKER_03]: You can see...
[SPEAKER_03]: Grip and a hollow one and a gorilla.
[SPEAKER_03]: I can see the hollow one.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'll fighting around where I am.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I'll fighting around the open trade.
[SPEAKER_01]: I spend some like a pretty points and cast magic missile at the hollow one What do you look like out?
[SPEAKER_03]: They're not they're glowing white.
[SPEAKER_03]: No white right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh 77575
[SPEAKER_03]: Holy crap.
[SPEAKER_01]: 31 points of force damage.
[SPEAKER_01]: 31.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, there we go.
[SPEAKER_03]: The hollow one takes a pounding from magic missiles, and I can see grip.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, they're like right over that door.
[SPEAKER_05]: Good.
[SPEAKER_03]: I Just get in there, tear it off, and then stepping out from a curtain of flesh right next to gripper my turn
[SPEAKER_03]: There is another, Dero.
[SPEAKER_03]: This one a man, I have very, very handsome, with wild entrancing eyes, dancing wickedly in his head.
[SPEAKER_03]: He's in leather armor, wielding a short sword.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's Alfield.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
[SPEAKER_03]: bash sees.
[SPEAKER_03]: As El Thiel steps out from around the curtain of flesh sees him stare deeply in gripper's eyes and gripper go momentarily limp and then kind of shake it off.
[SPEAKER_03]: Gripper has no idea that this just happened but you recognize that some sort of
[SPEAKER_03]: Some sort of gaze attack of some sort has been used on to the gripper by Alfield.
[SPEAKER_03]: Someone else did this before.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_07]: We had a mess, a mesmerist in...
[SPEAKER_07]: Very sad.
[SPEAKER_03]: A mesmerist, doppelganger.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, that's true.
[SPEAKER_03]: Again, the laundry room who was pretending to be dead.
[SPEAKER_03]: Right, I forgot that happened to you.
[SPEAKER_05]: Right, I forgot what the... Goal.
[SPEAKER_05]: I forgot what the effect of that was.
[SPEAKER_03]: When they hit you they do more or when they or someone else hits you they do more damage kind of like a sneak attack like a prepped setting me up for a sneak attack type of a bad thing All right, so stepping up recovery that is a 24 against your flat footed armor class That might be a miss 25 flat footed armor class Oh Look at that So he does indeed miss oh That's the forgot
[SPEAKER_03]: There are six of him dancing around inside of his square.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is a hell-feel.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is El Thiel.
[SPEAKER_03]: Got some mirror images going on?
[SPEAKER_05]: Great.
[SPEAKER_03]: Why not?
[SPEAKER_03]: El Thiel has entered the chat.
[SPEAKER_03]: Gripper, you're up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sandwiched between a hollow one and a dero.
[SPEAKER_05]: uh... he were going to do a quick dual crack as a swift action crack crack crack crack slacks like back back uh... and we're going to take uh... use use to uh... uses to take grudge fighter and remind about that plus one morale bonus on attack and damage rolls made against any creature that has attacked you in the current combat so right now that would apply to both yes and then i am going to take
[SPEAKER_05]: weapon specialization, I don't know how to strike.
[SPEAKER_05]: Great.
[SPEAKER_05]: So, and then he'll do a full attack full unarmed strike flurry.
[SPEAKER_03]: On.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, he's starting with.
[SPEAKER_05]: We're going to start with the hollow one.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_05]: So, I can make use of the, oh, yes.
[SPEAKER_05]: The combat advice.
[SPEAKER_05]: Here we go.
[SPEAKER_05]: From Pandora.
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay, so that's, um, that's a 22.
[SPEAKER_05]: Keeping it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm going to use five stamina points to make it a 27.
[SPEAKER_05]: 14 points of magical bludgeoning damage all of which goes through.
[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, one X. I did not add the I didn't add the grudge fighter So there one extra damage to what I just gave got it second attack That's a 15.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's probably to God.
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, dodge is out of the way third attack That's a 30 that's good
[SPEAKER_03]: 4 9 plus 8 is 17 points of magical blood journey still ticking nothing but air and flesh holding it together Final attack That's another miss you want to blow an action point take another test not just right now all right That's the end of round two
[SPEAKER_03]: top around three bash we're up with you floating again up near the ceiling the the situation is very different when we last saw you we now have a clearly in we have and at least two dero have entered this fight only one of which you can currently see you've got a you've got a you've got a line of sight to all the all right from your token I do great all right so you can see the gripper is surrounded by my acting in monon all-feel
[SPEAKER_03]: Standing next to that open trap door and the three armed Darrow has disappeared to be behind the flesh.
[SPEAKER_07]: I am going to keeping my alchemical torch vanity in one hand.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_07]: I reach into my pack with my other hand and pull out an item and then I ready an action to throw it as soon as I can see
[SPEAKER_03]: understands that this giant forearm gorilla cannot hurt it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's gonna attempt a duck and faint on the grip or I'm gonna try to faincha out there.
[SPEAKER_03]: So DC here, Robert will be 10 plus 10.
[SPEAKER_03]: your BAB plus your wisdom modifier.
[SPEAKER_05]: 10 plus my BAB is 10 that's 20 plus uh what is that zero?
[SPEAKER_03]: Alright so successfully fainting against you so you are flatfooted against this attack.
[SPEAKER_03]: Oh yeah 37 mm.
[SPEAKER_03]: twenty-seven points of damage to the gripper.
[SPEAKER_03]: Is this fist?
[SPEAKER_03]: This fleshy fist being held up barely by anything else any more riddled with holes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Slam's into gripping.
[SPEAKER_03]: Gripping knows how light this thing is.
[SPEAKER_03]: There's no substance to it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And he's still punching, punching, leathily.
[SPEAKER_03]: You're not supposed to be here.
[SPEAKER_03]: The Gurellian is up.
[SPEAKER_04]: There's Althiel within reach.
[SPEAKER_03]: The geralion can see where all feel is, which is all the way across the room and through both the hollow one and gripper.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's so big, what's its moose bean?
[SPEAKER_04]: 40 feet.
[SPEAKER_03]: So it could rampage to the south tearing through fleshy curtains as it goes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Do you think it would do that?
[SPEAKER_03]: Would it touch the skins hanging in this room wreaking of chemicals?
[SPEAKER_03]: Just check and ask me for a friend.
[SPEAKER_04]: I think the way the skins are treated, there's no context as to what they were before.
[SPEAKER_04]: People.
[SPEAKER_04]: People does the... ...Gralian care about people?
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[SPEAKER_03]: going on a rampage all right it tears down to the south it's gonna have to take a couple curtains as it goes i'm gonna say with the use of its full move action and its standard action is down to the south adjacent to all feel with a number of skin curtains removed which blessedly do nothing when it removes them so let me get some of these things off of light layer here i gotta keep you honest my
[SPEAKER_07]: attacks about opportunity at this point.
[SPEAKER_03]: He certainly will.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_03]: I appreciate it.
[SPEAKER_03]: And to keep me honest at this moment as that last curtain of flesh is torn down by the rampaging predator.
[SPEAKER_03]: Johnny, I'm going to ping a square here.
[SPEAKER_03]: You get sight on where Twain is waiting invisibly.
[SPEAKER_03]: At that point, my ready action goes off.
[SPEAKER_07]: So I'll read you what it is that I'm trying to do and you tell me whether or not I can do this.
[SPEAKER_07]: So what I want to use is I want to use a consumable that I've been holding on for some time now.
[SPEAKER_07]: Little thing called Dust of Appearance.
[SPEAKER_07]: This powder appears to be a very fine, very light metallic dust, a single handful of this substance, flung into the air, coats objects with an a 10-foot radius, making them visible even if they are invisible.
[SPEAKER_07]: It likewise negates the effects of blur and displacement.
[SPEAKER_07]: In this it works just like the fairy fire spell.
[SPEAKER_07]: The dust also reveals, figments, mirror images, and project images for what they are.
[SPEAKER_07]: They creature coated with the dust takes a minus 30 penalty on its stealth checks.
[SPEAKER_07]: The dust effects last for five minutes.
[SPEAKER_07]: That is everything within 10 feet.
[SPEAKER_01]: You lack you line those.
[SPEAKER_07]: No, it's within a 10 foot radius.
[SPEAKER_07]: So what I'd like to do is I want to throw it so that it ends up basically trying to hit both Altheal.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I'd like to hit there on the street.
[SPEAKER_07]: So that it gets all those.
[SPEAKER_03]: So you're targeting a square knot at them.
[SPEAKER_03]: So yes, you will be firing through cover, but against an DC-5 to hit a location in space rather than their actual armor class.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: Take a shot.
[SPEAKER_03]: Excellent.
[SPEAKER_07]: Let me click off some different buffs here to make sure that I'm being come from.
[SPEAKER_07]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's literally been on there on my sheet forever.
[SPEAKER_07]: And I was like, well, this is a perfect time to use it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like that it reveals mirror images.
[SPEAKER_03]: Outstanding.
[SPEAKER_07]: So powerful.
[SPEAKER_07]: That is a 23 ranged.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yep, you're golden both all-theal and twain are fucked as twain is now visible and all-theal no longer has any visible Mirror images.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let me move her to the token layer All right, so as the Gurellian is moving rampaging through the chamber tearing down flesh the hollow one will indeed take attack opportunity Oh, natural 20 probably
[SPEAKER_03]: up with a 33.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a hit.
[SPEAKER_03]: A critical hit.
[SPEAKER_03]: 27 points of damage.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, so the grilling has moved around, cleared open, cleared open a bunch of paths and cleared visibility, so that bash can now reveal these folks.
[SPEAKER_03]: I got to move bash in the initiative here to write the floor at the grillion.
[SPEAKER_03]: To have a cure up next.
[SPEAKER_04]: Any problem with climbing up this ladder with a wand in hand?
[SPEAKER_03]: No, you can do that, but you can see that there is a hollow one threatening up at the top who will most certainly take an attack for opportunity on you if it still has one.
[SPEAKER_03]: Correct, it has taken one.
[SPEAKER_07]: I can't remember, did we know if they had combat reflexes?
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think that was demonstrated.
[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, the view for tabs, Paul, is the fight is happening right around the mouth of this trapdoor.
[SPEAKER_04]: Right?
[SPEAKER_03]: All of the combat is happening in the squares around it.
[SPEAKER_03]: It looks like a very dangerous place to move into.
[SPEAKER_03]: Might have to do what you have to do.
[SPEAKER_07]: I will also say, don't forget, you can always be moving stealthily at half speed.
[SPEAKER_07]: And since you have that awesome ability to hide in any urban environment, you can simply hide.
[SPEAKER_07]: It's going.
[SPEAKER_04]: So, yeah, can I make a stealth check as I try to get up onto the next floor?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, you may.
[SPEAKER_03]: Are you going half speed?
[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_03]: And it's half speed to climb, so that is, boy, that's your turn.
[SPEAKER_03]: You'll end up at the top of the ladder.
[SPEAKER_04]: I'll end up at the top of the ladder, and I can roll a stealth check to see if I, yep, avoid it.
[SPEAKER_03]: So roll it as you go.
[SPEAKER_04]: Okay, that's a 38.
[SPEAKER_03]: You successfully make it in to the chamber of flesh.
[SPEAKER_03]: Ugh, oh, sorry, the actual name of the room is the place of skin, which is actually worse.
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, I didn't think that it was going to be worse, but place of skin is worse than chamber of flesh.
[SPEAKER_03]: It is actually worse?
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_03]: All right, probably.
[SPEAKER_03]: One place for you left to go, as all this fight is happening around the gaping mall of this open trap door.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to play on this map.
[SPEAKER_03]: Here comes Paul.
[SPEAKER_03]: Jim Jam.
[SPEAKER_03]: Juke, do you see?
[SPEAKER_03]: You see, I see.
[SPEAKER_03]: There you go.
[SPEAKER_03]: Bandora, you're up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Can I still see?
[SPEAKER_03]: You can see the hollow one for sure.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can see the hollow one.
[SPEAKER_03]: You can see probably catsy dabs.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can see your first levels bells.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was nice to know you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Bro, there's another training point.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: 21 forced damage Do you have 22 left?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not gonna fuck around.
[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, damn it It's okay, thank you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I can still see grip you can see grip Just one bit
[SPEAKER_03]: I'll feel brushing the fucking dust off of him turns eyes up to you bash and gives you a wicked little stare and you feel all of the muscles in your body lock up He has successfully cast a psychic spell.
[SPEAKER_07]: I need I need a will save from ya That is a 20 but I'm gonna go ahead and spend a point of inspiration to add to it
[SPEAKER_07]: That is.
[SPEAKER_03]: 24.
[SPEAKER_03]: You are not held, immobile.
[SPEAKER_03]: Casting that spilled in provoke.
[SPEAKER_03]: He cast defensively.
[SPEAKER_07]: Fashmiles Adam and Winks.
[SPEAKER_03]: Gripper, you're up.
[SPEAKER_03]: Gotta, should I dare to go to the south and a hollow one to the north?
[SPEAKER_05]: Well, we're gonna go to that hollow one first, because we want to just get that out of the way.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hit, hit.
[SPEAKER_05]: Attack number one.
[SPEAKER_05]: 24.
[SPEAKER_05]: I hate it.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm going to spend another five stamina points to make it a 29.
[SPEAKER_03]: That's a hit.
[SPEAKER_05]: 14 points of damage.
[SPEAKER_03]: The hollow one falls, and we are left with two incredibly big boss under World Daryl left to go.
[SPEAKER_03]: We're gonna pick up the next chunk of this fight, that's the end of chapter 164.
[SPEAKER_03]: Let's get sucked!
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[SPEAKER_07]: You are, you are a big part of our story telling, as well, and we love it when you know this.
[SPEAKER_01]: You are, in fact, the antagonist.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm also a pop-in-all.
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm a pro-tagonist.
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, the story pal.
[SPEAKER_03]: No, you're a story pal.
[SPEAKER_03]: Everybody.
[SPEAKER_05]: My name is Rob.
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm the story pal tonight.
[SPEAKER_05]: Protagonist, antagonist, and lover.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right?