WEBVTT 00:00:02.650 --> 00:00:10.250 Hey fans people, it's Jeremy. You all kick ass. 00:00:11.050 --> 00:00:59.549 That's all I wanted to say. Enjoy the show. Talking 00:00:59.549 --> 00:01:01.170 on this show about the big people wandering around 00:01:01.170 --> 00:01:03.409 our worlds. The luminaries, the leaders, the 00:01:03.409 --> 00:01:05.650 legends. The commonality that a good portion 00:01:05.650 --> 00:01:08.730 of these figures have is, well, spending time 00:01:08.730 --> 00:01:10.790 at a particular academy of the magical arts. 00:01:11.170 --> 00:01:14.069 Anissa Academy. Looming high over the city -state 00:01:14.069 --> 00:01:16.290 of Anissa on Senza. This prestigious palace of 00:01:16.290 --> 00:01:18.090 proficiency pursuing is populated by the most 00:01:18.090 --> 00:01:19.709 precious and polished holds of potential in all 00:01:19.709 --> 00:01:22.280 our worlds. Going far beyond the loss of simple 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:24.400 instruction or spell work, Anissa Kelly places 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:27.000 an emphasis on a wide, varied instruction. From 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:29.079 history to artificery to political theory to 00:01:29.079 --> 00:01:31.739 the inner workings of monstrous wildlife. Even 00:01:31.739 --> 00:01:33.799 now, the lofty future position of some of these 00:01:33.799 --> 00:01:36.040 students in the school just boggles the mind. 00:01:36.340 --> 00:01:39.680 We're talking Cesar's old Prince Carina of Nebo. 00:01:40.079 --> 00:01:43.140 We're talking Asher Lagiatis, second son of Consul 00:01:43.140 --> 00:01:46.159 Marcus Lagiatis of Delmira. We're talking Princess 00:01:46.159 --> 00:01:48.540 Ji -Yun of the Dragon Clan, eldest daughter of 00:01:48.540 --> 00:01:52.859 Queen Ji -Mi of Yanido. Just amazing. And who 00:01:52.859 --> 00:01:54.920 can forget this academy was built and is helmed 00:01:54.920 --> 00:01:58.780 by Kejo Kamal himself. The master of conjuration. 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:02.079 The master. The one who was the prolific magical 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:04.180 architect and the very founder of the Crystal 00:02:04.180 --> 00:02:06.939 Network. I'm speaking to you now on. All I can 00:02:06.939 --> 00:02:09.039 say is, with Kejo Kamal and his chosen faculty 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:12.379 instructing tomorrow's leaders, our future is 00:02:12.379 --> 00:02:17.599 certainly looking bright. My god, Oren is a pro 00:02:17.599 --> 00:02:19.379 at alliteration. How do I do that to myself? 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:21.400 That was impressive. I can't believe you did 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:23.800 it the first time. It's because honestly, I get 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:26.180 bored when I'm writing these and I just start 00:02:26.180 --> 00:02:30.560 doing alliteration to make it more funny. I don't 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:34.340 know. It makes me laugh. Well done. I'll be typing 00:02:34.340 --> 00:02:36.879 and just be like, and just go back to typing. 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:40.199 It's stupid. Let me ask you guys a question. 00:02:40.460 --> 00:02:44.020 What? You feeling... Grabby? Feeling gobliny? 00:02:44.259 --> 00:02:46.000 Grabby? Yeah, I'm feeling grabby. Feeling goblin 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:48.520 grabbity? Come here. Oh. Oh, goblin grab. You 00:02:48.520 --> 00:02:52.520 know what time it is? Oh, oh. You want to ruin 00:02:52.520 --> 00:02:54.479 that? Do it again. Take it to the top. No, I 00:02:54.479 --> 00:02:56.280 think it was perfect. What time is it? You guys 00:02:56.280 --> 00:02:59.099 ready to play? It's second episode time. It's 00:02:59.099 --> 00:03:01.280 episode two. Episode two, baby. We're playing 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:04.159 some goblin grab. So everyone take a die of any 00:03:04.159 --> 00:03:06.560 size, any die. Okay. Just whatever you want. 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:09.770 Don't grab the D100, though. That's... I got 00:03:09.770 --> 00:03:13.710 to 100. You said any. Okay. I have to check with 00:03:13.710 --> 00:03:15.009 Andrew because I was thinking about that. I was 00:03:15.009 --> 00:03:18.789 like, okay, so David rolls a 70. I guess it's 00:03:18.789 --> 00:03:23.210 fine. All right. So the rules. So we each roll 00:03:23.210 --> 00:03:27.090 a die simultaneously. And it's any size die. 00:03:27.229 --> 00:03:30.030 I guess that counts. It might count as D10. Stupid. 00:03:30.930 --> 00:03:33.310 I'm just kidding. It doesn't matter. It doesn't 00:03:33.310 --> 00:03:35.710 matter. So whatever the total is of the numbers 00:03:35.710 --> 00:03:37.810 that we all roll, we add up. That's our target. 00:03:38.169 --> 00:03:40.909 Okay. And then... Oh, I think we were supposed 00:03:40.909 --> 00:03:42.229 to be... Hold on. I think it was supposed to 00:03:42.229 --> 00:03:45.770 be a secret whatever die we grabbed. Oh, shoot. 00:03:45.830 --> 00:03:47.810 Sorry, Andrew. We did it wrong. No, it's fine. 00:03:47.949 --> 00:03:51.409 It's... No, you got to pick one of the... No, 00:03:51.490 --> 00:03:54.349 I got one of mine. Okay, whatever. Fine. Loser. 00:03:55.189 --> 00:03:57.669 Okay, so we roll them. We add it up. And the 00:03:57.669 --> 00:04:00.030 total is our target number. Okay. And then we 00:04:00.030 --> 00:04:04.830 each get to pick... any number of any size die 00:04:04.830 --> 00:04:08.509 to try and match it. And it's Price is Right 00:04:08.509 --> 00:04:11.909 rules. You go over, you lose. So whoever's closest 00:04:11.909 --> 00:04:14.629 without going over wins the pot. I love that. 00:04:14.949 --> 00:04:17.449 Wait, no, I don't use one of my die. Yeah, that's 00:04:17.449 --> 00:04:19.050 the thing. Yeah, you don't want to bet. I mean, 00:04:19.089 --> 00:04:21.329 at least not right now where Andrew gave us probably 00:04:21.329 --> 00:04:24.110 literally at least a hundred die. Did you see 00:04:24.110 --> 00:04:27.509 what I grabbed? No. It's a secret. Good. Cool. 00:04:27.709 --> 00:04:32.930 You ready? Ready? Roll. Okay. I guess you're 00:04:32.930 --> 00:04:34.670 going to know what die I got because I rolled 00:04:34.670 --> 00:04:42.209 a 19. Three. Three? Five. Five. All right. So 00:04:42.209 --> 00:04:46.629 now we get to pick our whatchamacallit. What's 00:04:46.629 --> 00:04:52.569 the total? 21, 27? 26. 26. Ah, 25. No, 22, 25. 00:04:52.689 --> 00:04:56.709 Yeah, never mind. You're right, 26. Math. Who 00:04:56.709 --> 00:05:01.160 said 26? I read it. I still think it's 27. It's 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:04.199 27. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my God. All right. We got 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:07.920 this. Okay. So now. So any die you can choose. 00:05:07.939 --> 00:05:09.680 Any amount of die you can choose. Yes. You can 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:12.040 choose. It's the same type of die. I don't think 00:05:12.040 --> 00:05:14.819 it has to be the same type. Can I play as a knight? 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:21.339 Shut up. Secretly choosing any number of any 00:05:21.339 --> 00:05:23.839 size die. Cool. Okay. All right. So I think it's 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:26.480 whatever. So Jeremy, why don't you grab die first? 00:05:27.339 --> 00:05:29.139 And then roll them in your dice tower. See how 00:05:29.139 --> 00:05:32.480 close you get to 27. Stand by. Am I going first? 00:05:32.819 --> 00:05:33.759 I'm going to do all the same dice. I'm going 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:35.860 to do something fun here. We can either go at 00:05:35.860 --> 00:05:37.480 the same time or however you want to do it. I 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:39.939 don't know. Let's go at the same time. A bunch 00:05:39.939 --> 00:05:42.180 from here. Yeah, you got to take it out of the 00:05:42.180 --> 00:05:44.639 chest, man. That's the game. All right, let me 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:46.860 hit the chest. I'm not looking at what you're 00:05:46.860 --> 00:05:50.560 getting. Okay. David, don't look. You're not 00:05:50.560 --> 00:05:53.459 supposed to know what he takes. Yeah. Clattery. 00:05:53.459 --> 00:05:55.420 Click, clack, click. Uh -huh. That's a beautiful 00:05:55.420 --> 00:05:58.149 sound. Can I put one Fullmetal Captain's die 00:05:58.149 --> 00:05:59.970 in this block? I'm putting one Fullmetal Captain's 00:05:59.970 --> 00:06:04.889 die. Yeah, I used one of my other die, too. And 00:06:04.889 --> 00:06:07.410 one Zeela die. You guys want to say what you 00:06:07.410 --> 00:06:12.350 picked before we roll or after we roll? No. All 00:06:12.350 --> 00:06:18.329 right. I'm banking on something. Oh, no. It's 00:06:18.329 --> 00:06:22.209 a lot of high numbers. I think I'm fucked. Yeah, 00:06:22.569 --> 00:06:28.920 same. 29. Jesus. So, so close. They were rolled 00:06:28.920 --> 00:06:33.300 really high. Dude, I got 43. Holy fuck. What 00:06:33.300 --> 00:06:35.560 the hell did you do? How many dice did you roll? 00:06:35.579 --> 00:06:40.000 I rolled 96. Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. Well, 00:06:40.060 --> 00:06:44.540 I win. I rolled 19. Damn. I had a D20 and a D6. 00:06:45.100 --> 00:06:51.600 Nice. Oh, gosh. Jerry's strategy was to hold 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:54.160 off while we goofed. No, I rolled. I rolled. 00:06:55.890 --> 00:06:58.329 Three sixes, two fives, two fours, and I don't 00:06:58.329 --> 00:07:00.610 remember what the other two were. I was like, 00:07:00.730 --> 00:07:02.990 yeah, you guys are grabbing a lot of dice there. 00:07:04.149 --> 00:07:07.810 5d8 and 1d6. Well, hang on. I got the pot. Oh, 00:07:07.810 --> 00:07:09.610 sorry. I'm kidding. This is our community pot. 00:07:10.529 --> 00:07:12.889 Dude, this is so many die. Fantasy pants. This 00:07:12.889 --> 00:07:16.350 is so many die. All right, yeah. Please go check 00:07:16.350 --> 00:07:19.449 out Andrew's game at Goblin Game Co. on Instagram. 00:07:20.410 --> 00:07:22.649 Hopefully by now he's got his Kickstarter up 00:07:22.649 --> 00:07:25.350 and running. If not... follow his page stay tuned 00:07:25.350 --> 00:07:27.449 because i think it's coming i love that i love 00:07:27.449 --> 00:07:29.269 the whole like it's like the old school trading 00:07:29.269 --> 00:07:31.970 cards you know and you do a big duel and you 00:07:31.970 --> 00:07:34.269 win like the big card at the end of it it's like 00:07:34.269 --> 00:07:36.810 like winning the die is a cool feature i love 00:07:36.810 --> 00:07:39.990 i love the gambling dice yeah it's truly it is 00:07:39.990 --> 00:07:42.350 the perfect dice goblin game it gives you a reason 00:07:42.350 --> 00:07:44.629 to use all the dice you're collecting folks pogs 00:07:44.629 --> 00:07:51.200 man pogs this guy pogs yeah and his pogs Pogs. 00:07:51.200 --> 00:07:53.779 Hey, if you missed out on playing Pogs, I... 00:07:54.509 --> 00:07:56.930 I feel so sad for you, man. I think my brother 00:07:56.930 --> 00:07:58.810 had Pogs. I don't know if he even had some. To 00:07:58.810 --> 00:08:05.930 Jurassic Park! Pogs was the pinnacle of elementary 00:08:05.930 --> 00:08:10.029 school gaming in the 90s. It was the pinnacle 00:08:10.029 --> 00:08:11.970 of elementary school gaming. You sit out on the 00:08:11.970 --> 00:08:14.310 playground on the basketball court. The whole 00:08:14.310 --> 00:08:16.050 court was filled with a bunch of kids fucking 00:08:16.050 --> 00:08:18.350 sitting down playing Pogs. Anyways, let's get 00:08:18.350 --> 00:08:20.990 started. You know what we did a recess? Stepped 00:08:20.990 --> 00:08:23.819 on mustard packets. Did we do that? And you're 00:08:23.819 --> 00:08:27.360 mocking me for pogs. Some kid got hit in the 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:30.860 eye with mustard. Was it you? No, it wasn't me. 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:37.919 Holy shit. All right. Speaking of pogs, this 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:41.519 is going to be poggers. I mean, you could have 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:42.879 just rhymed it and said something about Akio 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:45.519 with dog. Speaking of pogs, let's check in on 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:49.620 our dogs. D -A -W -G -S. That's this party. That's 00:08:49.620 --> 00:08:54.320 what we call them. I really miss my dogs, man. 00:08:55.139 --> 00:08:56.759 I'll ask you to set the scene for me, because 00:08:56.759 --> 00:09:00.039 I don't know. You have entered the city. We can 00:09:00.039 --> 00:09:02.440 skip forward in time a little bit. I'm not interested 00:09:02.440 --> 00:09:05.259 in you dawdling around here. If you want to take 00:09:05.259 --> 00:09:06.980 a rest, you can take a rest. You made your checks 00:09:06.980 --> 00:09:10.679 for each day, and this is part of that day. What 00:09:10.679 --> 00:09:15.460 I want to know... is how and when you approach 00:09:15.460 --> 00:09:17.919 the Academy proper. Am I supposed to see all 00:09:17.919 --> 00:09:19.679 the people around it? Yeah. I'm seeing a bunch 00:09:19.679 --> 00:09:21.259 of people. I'm seeing tokens down the hallway. 00:09:21.340 --> 00:09:24.159 You may see that for now. Okay. Although I guess 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:25.720 you should probably have scouted first, but you 00:09:25.720 --> 00:09:27.100 already mentioned you have a bat on the loose, 00:09:27.159 --> 00:09:29.220 so I imagine your bat's going to do a sweep. 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:31.600 Oh, okay, okay. You kind of already seem like 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:34.220 you're edging that way. Well, we're not going 00:09:34.220 --> 00:09:38.480 to that southern... The Academy is risen up, 00:09:38.500 --> 00:09:40.000 kind of. And don't worry about that crowd. That 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:41.120 crowd's not there yet. We'll get to that crowd. 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:46.440 Ignore that crowd. The Academy is, as I mentioned 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:49.620 before, on this sort of like totally shaved down 00:09:49.620 --> 00:09:53.620 peak of a mountain staying just behind the city 00:09:53.620 --> 00:09:59.759 of Anissa. It is just this, I mean, kind of magical, 00:09:59.940 --> 00:10:04.080 wondrous thing to look upon as you move through 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:07.730 the city. At the base of the mountain, there 00:10:07.730 --> 00:10:10.370 are lifts, magical, that can carry you. There 00:10:10.370 --> 00:10:14.409 are stairs carved in and up, switchbacking to 00:10:14.409 --> 00:10:17.330 reach the top. There are bridges from the nearby 00:10:17.330 --> 00:10:19.149 mountains that have their own access points that 00:10:19.149 --> 00:10:21.210 will reach the top. There's many ways to access 00:10:21.210 --> 00:10:23.809 the academy grounds without having to break out 00:10:23.809 --> 00:10:26.789 the fly spell or the rod of flying that we all 00:10:26.789 --> 00:10:31.190 know Stomp has. So I don't care how you got here. 00:10:31.830 --> 00:10:35.759 I want to know what time it is. And how you want 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:39.480 to proceed. Are you staying the night and coming 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:41.240 in the day? Are you coming up at night? When 00:10:41.240 --> 00:10:43.679 you reach the city, the sun had fallen. If you 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:45.399 pushed right through it, you'd be reaching the 00:10:45.399 --> 00:10:48.480 academy somewhere around 9 o 'clock p .m. Before 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:53.779 we make any decisions, can you give us a micro 00:10:53.779 --> 00:10:59.240 lore dump reminder as to what we know going into 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:02.850 this? You know. Nisa Academy is a prestigious 00:11:02.850 --> 00:11:05.870 magical academy that teaches you all the arts. 00:11:05.909 --> 00:11:10.370 It is heralded as being the birthing place of 00:11:10.370 --> 00:11:14.009 the leaders of tomorrow. You know it is founded, 00:11:14.269 --> 00:11:17.330 literally built from the ground up by and run 00:11:17.330 --> 00:11:20.629 by one Kejo Kamal, the founder of the Crystal 00:11:20.629 --> 00:11:24.129 Network, and someone who is intimately involved 00:11:24.129 --> 00:11:29.250 with Atash and the Sapphire. One that was old 00:11:29.250 --> 00:11:32.559 friends with... Ozen Yoshikatsu, who tried to 00:11:32.559 --> 00:11:34.059 get Ozen on the fold, and he's the one that kind 00:11:34.059 --> 00:11:36.000 of tipped Ozen off and brought him into what 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:38.740 eventually ended up being his death. You know 00:11:38.740 --> 00:11:42.860 that Keijo Kamal has a code phrase. He founded 00:11:42.860 --> 00:11:45.080 the network, and he knows a phrase you can use 00:11:45.080 --> 00:11:49.659 to basically take it back. You'd have to use 00:11:49.659 --> 00:11:51.440 the phrase deep within the networks. Like, it 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:53.159 wouldn't be something you could just keep, right? 00:11:53.340 --> 00:11:54.639 Because when you get in there, when you do this 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:58.019 thing, likely you're going to cause a stir. But... 00:11:58.429 --> 00:12:00.090 You'll have the chance to broadcast to the world 00:12:00.090 --> 00:12:03.250 anything you want for whatever time you can hold 00:12:03.250 --> 00:12:06.169 sort of the network headquarters. But you need 00:12:06.169 --> 00:12:09.730 this code phrase. And only Kedro Kamal has it. 00:12:10.600 --> 00:12:12.500 Okay. You know, he's somewhere within the confines 00:12:12.500 --> 00:12:13.799 of the school. You know, the school is currently 00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:17.399 closed down. It's closed down because of an Aurum 00:12:17.399 --> 00:12:21.200 Vorax infestation. Weird little gold -eating 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:24.320 weasels. Yeah, they are eating away at all the 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:26.860 gilded ornamentation of the building. And so 00:12:26.860 --> 00:12:29.220 the building had to be closed down for both reconstruction 00:12:29.220 --> 00:12:34.200 and for extermination efforts. And you can assume 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:35.700 that there's probably a lot of people. I think 00:12:35.700 --> 00:12:37.320 even from far away, you can see a number of tents, 00:12:37.539 --> 00:12:40.720 clusters of tents in various locations, not close 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:42.799 necessarily to the actual main building, but 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:47.879 dotting the sort of grand grass laden school 00:12:47.879 --> 00:12:51.740 grounds where you assume the exterminators and, 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:56.779 you know, construction workers are. Okay. Thank 00:12:56.779 --> 00:13:00.899 you for the mini lore dump. Yeah. However, Jeremy. 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:05.360 Yes. I think we gave him a pass on Archipelago. 00:13:06.379 --> 00:13:08.779 But are we really going to let Harald go by? 00:13:10.700 --> 00:13:13.299 No, hang on. No, we're not. Don't do this to 00:13:13.299 --> 00:13:16.799 me. Stop it. Fuck you. I thought I was the only 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:20.720 one there. I guess not. Harald. You're paying 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:22.899 for this. Thank you. Oh, my God. You're going 00:13:22.899 --> 00:13:31.139 to. It's the better way of saying it. How dare 00:13:31.139 --> 00:13:34.299 you, sir? What was the one that we fought about? 00:13:34.419 --> 00:13:36.779 Fuck you. No, no, no. Shut up. I don't think 00:13:36.779 --> 00:13:38.940 it was you that said it differently. Okay, that's 00:13:38.940 --> 00:13:40.700 fine. I think I said it differently than the 00:13:40.700 --> 00:13:42.600 two of you. Was it during like Babies and Broadswords 00:13:42.600 --> 00:13:44.679 or something? It was so long ago. Point and laugh 00:13:44.679 --> 00:13:48.080 at the loser. He said something different. No, 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:49.600 wasn't it like you said something different and 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:51.299 I'm like, no, I think that's wrong. That's not 00:13:51.299 --> 00:13:52.500 the way you say it. I think it's this, but it 00:13:52.500 --> 00:13:55.059 turns out I was wrong and you were right. Hold 00:13:55.059 --> 00:13:56.919 on. It was the SpongeBob thing. SpongeBob was 00:13:56.919 --> 00:14:01.049 related somehow. What? What? You said you learned 00:14:01.049 --> 00:14:03.769 how to say conch. Conch. Conch, conch. Yeah, 00:14:03.769 --> 00:14:07.509 that's both the same, yeah. Conch is for fools. 00:14:09.629 --> 00:14:16.590 My fizz went to herald my presence. My coming. 00:14:19.049 --> 00:14:23.809 Knock that smile off your face. Okay, oh my god. 00:14:23.909 --> 00:14:27.149 Punch that ponytail to the front. Oh god. So 00:14:27.149 --> 00:14:33.320 we... Jeremy, I'm getting the impression. What 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:35.080 are you doing? I'm getting the impression we 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:37.240 can't just walk in. Yeah. No, of course not. 00:14:37.980 --> 00:14:39.639 I know, but it scares me to go at night, too. 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:41.940 Do you want to? Are you scouting? Do you want 00:14:41.940 --> 00:14:43.539 to actually, like, you can take time to, like, 00:14:43.539 --> 00:14:46.460 scout, have your bat check things out. Turbo's 00:14:46.460 --> 00:14:48.740 definitely flying around. And I think if Turbo's 00:14:48.740 --> 00:14:50.799 flying around, I think it's got to be dark out. 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:54.000 If it's, like, noon and this bat's flying around, 00:14:54.100 --> 00:14:55.059 someone's going to be like, what the fuck is 00:14:55.059 --> 00:14:57.879 a bat doing out here? Okay. Let's do this first. 00:14:58.940 --> 00:15:01.139 You, let's say you're holding out somewhere nearby, 00:15:01.460 --> 00:15:04.500 you know, some shaded spot, an alley, as Turbo 00:15:04.500 --> 00:15:06.740 flies out, the rest of the party, Dresden, the 00:15:06.740 --> 00:15:10.279 Keoghan, guarding as Blanche is fully kind of 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:12.500 becoming Turbo. You can hear and see, correct? 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:16.399 I'm pretty sure, yeah. Okay. I'm almost positive, 00:15:16.500 --> 00:15:19.820 but yeah. Turbo flies out. I'd like you to make... 00:15:20.220 --> 00:15:23.700 investigation checks before you make those there's 00:15:23.700 --> 00:15:26.720 one thing that's very very obvious as turbo takes 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:29.500 the sky as it's like it's it's getting late but 00:15:29.500 --> 00:15:31.919 it's not like late late late night yet we'll 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:34.500 say it's like it's at nine o 'clock you notice 00:15:34.500 --> 00:15:39.220 there is a commotion of sorts at the front gate 00:15:39.220 --> 00:15:41.820 uh number of guards you see like a very notable 00:15:41.820 --> 00:15:46.100 torch lit uh you see looks like five guards and 00:15:46.100 --> 00:15:50.419 one other figure are uh Moving up towards, again, 00:15:50.460 --> 00:15:53.399 a different group of guards. Four guards. You 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:56.360 see kind of a mess. Two groups of guards coming 00:15:56.360 --> 00:16:00.100 together? Yes. One group you see heading from, 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:01.820 it looks like they just arrived up the stairs 00:16:01.820 --> 00:16:04.120 and moved up the academy grounds, heading towards 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:07.899 the main door of Nisa Academy. You see a small 00:16:07.899 --> 00:16:10.679 group, five guards and one other figure. Guards 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:12.480 are in light flowing cerulean garb, wielding 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:14.830 long curved swords at their hips. They stand 00:16:14.830 --> 00:16:16.769 at attention behind a man in a striking blue 00:16:16.769 --> 00:16:19.850 coat of the same bright blue, embroidered by 00:16:19.850 --> 00:16:23.289 braids and bands of gold. This man is young, 00:16:23.389 --> 00:16:26.529 maybe 17 or 18. You see his dark skin with notably 00:16:26.529 --> 00:16:28.710 sort of the big bright white teeth and a shaved 00:16:28.710 --> 00:16:30.389 head, and the quartz lights kind of catching 00:16:30.389 --> 00:16:33.649 it all, gleaming. He is gesturing wildly and 00:16:33.649 --> 00:16:36.509 angrily, his every finger adorned with gold and 00:16:36.509 --> 00:16:40.470 jewels that again gleam in the light. I don't 00:16:40.470 --> 00:16:43.940 care what you say. I know Z is in there. You 00:16:43.940 --> 00:16:45.779 think Kejo Kumal will get his favorite five out 00:16:45.779 --> 00:16:48.379 of his sight? Even with the school closed? Of 00:16:48.379 --> 00:16:51.659 course not. She did not return to Zing. I checked. 00:16:52.039 --> 00:16:54.919 And besides, my rival Prince of Neba has also 00:16:54.919 --> 00:16:56.580 been notably absent. Do you have an answer for 00:16:56.580 --> 00:17:01.059 that? Prince Sembon, we... Kejo Kumal may have 00:17:01.059 --> 00:17:02.919 gotten away with expelling me for distracting 00:17:02.919 --> 00:17:05.380 her, but he will not stop me from seeing her. 00:17:05.460 --> 00:17:08.960 He has no right! I am the crown prince of Anissa, 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:12.079 and Kajol Kamal will not bully me. He does not 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:16.500 hold the power here. Right? You see, this figure 00:17:16.500 --> 00:17:19.079 turns around, the guards behind him, they kind 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:23.160 of shuffle. Your Majesty, if Kajol Kamal has 00:17:23.160 --> 00:17:26.960 restricted all access, another speaks up, I don't 00:17:26.960 --> 00:17:29.400 know that we have the authority to... Can we 00:17:29.400 --> 00:17:31.640 perhaps receive a writ from the Empress? The 00:17:31.640 --> 00:17:34.319 Empress is the authority of the Crown Prince 00:17:34.319 --> 00:17:37.200 of Anissa, not enough. Shall I ask the faceless 00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:39.180 prophet permission to enter? Or does Kedra Kamal 00:17:39.180 --> 00:17:42.420 outrank her as well? Kedra Kamal is a nobody, 00:17:42.619 --> 00:17:46.039 and I will not! You see, just like he, like, 00:17:46.039 --> 00:17:49.460 stops breathing hard, all the faces around, the 00:17:49.460 --> 00:17:54.220 guards on either side are horrified, silent. 00:17:57.920 --> 00:18:02.529 I will. CZ. I'll return with whatever authority 00:18:02.529 --> 00:18:05.950 I need to see her. And if I have to go to Atash 00:18:05.950 --> 00:18:08.490 himself on the Sado, I will do so, and you will 00:18:08.490 --> 00:18:11.750 all be sorry. And this prince kind of spins around 00:18:11.750 --> 00:18:14.869 on his heel and marches away, the guards nervously 00:18:14.869 --> 00:18:19.309 moving in tow. That's the obvious thing you notice. 00:18:20.430 --> 00:18:21.750 Do you want to roll an investigation check to 00:18:21.750 --> 00:18:24.869 learn more? Absolutely. Hell yeah. Can Dresden 00:18:24.869 --> 00:18:27.910 get in on this? Uh, no. Unless you want to go 00:18:27.910 --> 00:18:29.849 scout the grounds. This is only because... Oh, 00:18:29.869 --> 00:18:36.809 this is turbo. It's not a crit, but it's a 19 00:18:36.809 --> 00:18:41.829 on the die. Nice, nice. Yeah, 24. Oh, yeah. 24. 00:18:42.309 --> 00:18:45.650 Okay. You note, as you spend some time watching, 00:18:45.750 --> 00:18:49.269 that there are guards all around the premises, 00:18:49.329 --> 00:18:54.700 and they are, you realize, truly guards. I spoke 00:18:54.700 --> 00:18:57.160 guard before, but the garb they wear, the clothing 00:18:57.160 --> 00:18:59.420 they wear, seems to be that of, again, like simple 00:18:59.420 --> 00:19:02.339 exterminators or contractors here to fix the 00:19:02.339 --> 00:19:06.000 school. They're not fixing anything, and no one 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:08.599 is stepping inside the building. No one's deleting 00:19:08.599 --> 00:19:11.480 any kind of extermination efforts. They're just 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:13.380 standing at attention, moving around, looking 00:19:13.380 --> 00:19:16.460 busy, and they're spread all around the perimeter, 00:19:16.660 --> 00:19:19.160 very carefully trying to keep an eye on every 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:22.640 entrance. Every once in a while, you note the 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:26.779 turbo's ears, a sound of a boom, some kind of 00:19:26.779 --> 00:19:31.980 explosion or sound of something inside the confines 00:19:31.980 --> 00:19:34.539 of the building. But every time there's a loud 00:19:34.539 --> 00:19:36.400 bang or any of this noise, any kind of ruckus, 00:19:36.519 --> 00:19:40.339 the guards around just ignore it, stand at attention. 00:19:40.519 --> 00:19:42.519 I think one time you might, turbo catches like 00:19:42.519 --> 00:19:44.819 one person kind of looks back almost nervously 00:19:44.819 --> 00:19:47.319 and a hand falls on their shoulder. You know 00:19:47.319 --> 00:19:52.920 the rules. We ignore. Any sound? Perfect. Nice. 00:19:53.160 --> 00:19:58.000 That's so perfect. Thank you. Don't be happy. 00:19:58.279 --> 00:20:00.579 That's a bad sign. What's going on in there? 00:20:00.700 --> 00:20:02.480 I don't know. Could have prepped the knock spell 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:05.259 or something. I don't know. I actually didn't, 00:20:05.259 --> 00:20:08.960 but. You see there are many entrances inside. 00:20:10.139 --> 00:20:13.440 There's one entrance to the southeast, six to 00:20:13.440 --> 00:20:15.779 the northeast, kind of ringing around the upper 00:20:15.779 --> 00:20:18.819 corner. There's the central sort of main entrance 00:20:18.819 --> 00:20:20.660 where that commotion happened at the front. That 00:20:20.660 --> 00:20:23.559 seems to be the most guarded, clearly. And there 00:20:23.559 --> 00:20:25.759 look to be some other faculty entrances, one 00:20:25.759 --> 00:20:27.519 to the southwest, one to the northwest. There 00:20:27.519 --> 00:20:31.519 are ways in all around this school. The question 00:20:31.519 --> 00:20:34.059 is, which one leads to where? Where would you 00:20:34.059 --> 00:20:38.460 want to go? Wouldn't possibly know. Nope. But 00:20:38.460 --> 00:20:41.819 I think I have a weird idea. Oh. Clearly you 00:20:41.819 --> 00:20:45.279 know something's happening. This is, you know, 00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:46.980 as you probably kind of already realized, this 00:20:46.980 --> 00:20:50.119 is a ruse. The Aurum Borax, Bordegard mentioned, 00:20:50.180 --> 00:20:51.980 is a creature that was extinct and suddenly they 00:20:51.980 --> 00:20:56.319 just returned now. They're just back now. You 00:20:56.319 --> 00:20:59.029 do see chewed metal. All around the place. Like, 00:20:59.029 --> 00:21:01.009 there was something that had been eating away 00:21:01.009 --> 00:21:04.509 at the metal around the school. You catch no 00:21:04.509 --> 00:21:07.009 sign of these weasel -like creatures. Maybe they're 00:21:07.009 --> 00:21:09.549 inside. Certainly no one's going in to deal with 00:21:09.549 --> 00:21:14.309 them. How high is this school? It's a single 00:21:14.309 --> 00:21:16.670 -story school standing about 30 feet high. Okay. 00:21:17.309 --> 00:21:21.829 All the windows you see look to be entirely shut 00:21:21.829 --> 00:21:25.000 off. Like, something has been closed. on the 00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:27.980 inside of them in some form of security. I think 00:21:27.980 --> 00:21:29.380 I mentioned before, this building is like made 00:21:29.380 --> 00:21:32.319 of just like reinforced, like magically reinforced 00:21:32.319 --> 00:21:34.799 mud and the windows be covered over by the same 00:21:34.799 --> 00:21:36.759 actual, you see the impression of them, but no 00:21:36.759 --> 00:21:39.119 actual like means in. What does Turbo see on 00:21:39.119 --> 00:21:42.400 the roof then? The roof is, there's, you don't 00:21:42.400 --> 00:21:44.339 see any access points, I suppose. You just kind 00:21:44.339 --> 00:21:48.420 of see, you know, long, I think it would stand 00:21:48.420 --> 00:21:50.400 like, probably like, you know, crenellations 00:21:50.400 --> 00:21:52.519 along the edges, but a flat expanse across the 00:21:52.519 --> 00:21:56.309 top. Anybody on top? Roll a die for me. Okay. 00:21:56.430 --> 00:21:59.190 Roll luck die. What do you want? I don't know. 00:21:59.509 --> 00:22:06.750 20. I'll say 15 or higher. There's nobody stationed 00:22:06.750 --> 00:22:09.490 on the roof. No one thought that was necessary. 00:22:10.069 --> 00:22:15.730 Okay. 18. There's nobody stationed on the roof. 00:22:16.170 --> 00:22:19.009 Trouble is, how do we get to the roof? Dresden 00:22:19.009 --> 00:22:22.109 can teleport with his echo up there, but I don't 00:22:22.109 --> 00:22:24.759 know how anybody else can. Can he teleport with 00:22:24.759 --> 00:22:30.440 them in the hole? But there's no access on the 00:22:30.440 --> 00:22:32.880 roof, though. Yeah. Unless you can find a way 00:22:32.880 --> 00:22:36.200 to make access. No, but that... But yeah, no, 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:37.660 no, no. I mean, you take all your items with 00:22:37.660 --> 00:22:39.119 you, right? Or there's nobody up there. That 00:22:39.119 --> 00:22:40.960 means we can get anywhere around the building 00:22:40.960 --> 00:22:43.380 that we want to. True, true. At the very least. 00:22:43.380 --> 00:22:48.400 Okay, I think we can pair... Well, let me give 00:22:48.400 --> 00:22:51.319 you my idea first. Sure. And then you tell me 00:22:51.319 --> 00:22:57.740 if we can make them kiss. Okay. Quick, quick 00:22:57.740 --> 00:23:01.519 theology lesson, David. Yeah. What's the, what's 00:23:01.519 --> 00:23:03.759 the name of this God? The faceless what? Faceless 00:23:03.759 --> 00:23:06.799 prophet. Faceless prophet. Okay. You know, the 00:23:06.799 --> 00:23:13.309 ancient prophet of Senza, her. bones are locked 00:23:13.309 --> 00:23:15.650 in the tomb of the faceless uh it's kind of a 00:23:15.650 --> 00:23:17.269 whole thing that like no one's supposed to know 00:23:17.269 --> 00:23:18.930 what she has ever looked like she's supposed 00:23:18.930 --> 00:23:21.650 to remain faceless to them it kind of what grants 00:23:21.650 --> 00:23:24.769 her this mystique and this power you knowing 00:23:24.769 --> 00:23:27.049 what you know might assume that this faceless 00:23:27.049 --> 00:23:30.930 prophet was a dracon was one of these serpents 00:23:30.930 --> 00:23:33.920 cool That hails from a very ancient time. Just 00:23:33.920 --> 00:23:36.660 like the Shrine of Storms held the bones of the 00:23:36.660 --> 00:23:39.779 great Sage Umizu, the great prophet of Senza 00:23:39.779 --> 00:23:42.940 likely is being held in its own shrine. All right. 00:23:43.619 --> 00:23:46.440 Plug your ears, David. Not really, but you want 00:23:46.440 --> 00:23:49.160 to hear my crackpot idea? Yeah. I bet we can 00:23:49.160 --> 00:23:53.299 talk this prince into, like, helping us with 00:23:53.299 --> 00:23:56.299 a distraction. Blanche is already dressed up 00:23:56.299 --> 00:24:01.119 as a follower of the Faceless Prophet. Huh. Ooh. 00:24:02.809 --> 00:24:05.289 So here's what I'm imagining, and you tell me, 00:24:05.309 --> 00:24:06.750 Jeremy, if you think it's a good idea or not. 00:24:07.190 --> 00:24:12.410 As this prince is going down this winding path 00:24:12.410 --> 00:24:16.990 away from the school, Blanche just stands in 00:24:16.990 --> 00:24:20.230 the center of the path where they would have 00:24:20.230 --> 00:24:23.569 to walk by her, and they engage in some sort 00:24:23.569 --> 00:24:25.309 of conversation, and she tries to convince him 00:24:25.309 --> 00:24:30.299 that we can help him. Okay. Okay. Want to try 00:24:30.299 --> 00:24:34.500 it? Okay. Want to try it? Yeah. I like that better 00:24:34.500 --> 00:24:38.200 than just trying to sneak in or brute force in. 00:24:38.299 --> 00:24:42.720 Well, so I think we can do both. I think we can 00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:47.420 use the hole to sneak us in, and I'm hoping that 00:24:47.420 --> 00:24:49.160 we can talk this guy into providing a distraction 00:24:49.160 --> 00:24:52.819 for us to actually get in. Yep. Yeah. I like 00:24:52.819 --> 00:24:54.720 that a lot. All right. So Blanche is standing 00:24:54.720 --> 00:24:57.680 solo. Their hands crossed in front of her in 00:24:57.680 --> 00:25:02.480 the path as this attache rounds the corner. I'll 00:25:02.480 --> 00:25:04.539 say you like watch the Turbo's eyes and you see 00:25:04.539 --> 00:25:06.720 them get on one of those great sort of magical 00:25:06.720 --> 00:25:08.900 lifts. And as it falls, you probably leave Turbo's 00:25:08.900 --> 00:25:11.440 vision, move out to the street at the base of 00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:13.500 the elevator where you know they have to pass 00:25:13.500 --> 00:25:18.500 by you. It lands. Street's very clear here. Only, 00:25:18.539 --> 00:25:20.279 you know, people going to and from the academy 00:25:20.279 --> 00:25:22.859 are going to be in this sort of region. And no 00:25:22.859 --> 00:25:26.799 one is currently. So as Prince Simbon, the name 00:25:26.799 --> 00:25:30.559 you heard, and his retinue begin to move, they 00:25:30.559 --> 00:25:35.059 suddenly stop. You see the guards all kind of 00:25:35.059 --> 00:25:38.359 like take this sort of prayer pose and deference, 00:25:38.400 --> 00:25:40.680 almost like putting their fingers in the shape 00:25:40.680 --> 00:25:43.599 of a circle and holding to their chest and bowing 00:25:43.599 --> 00:25:49.579 their heads. But Simbon simply steps over, faceless 00:25:49.579 --> 00:25:54.220 one. You see very jockey, very like arrogant 00:25:54.220 --> 00:25:57.180 air about him. He's very thick, muscle bound 00:25:57.180 --> 00:26:01.099 up close. Blanche repeats the gesture and bows. 00:26:02.259 --> 00:26:07.099 I'm here to answer your prayers, my lord. You, 00:26:07.099 --> 00:26:15.559 you've heard. She told, what do you know? I know 00:26:15.559 --> 00:26:17.799 only what the faceless prophet wishes me to know. 00:26:18.220 --> 00:26:21.650 She has heard your plight. and has sent me to 00:26:21.650 --> 00:26:28.450 help you. Take that, Kejo! I got the faceless 00:26:28.450 --> 00:26:31.269 prophet on my side. I knew it! I'm sorry. Does 00:26:31.269 --> 00:26:35.170 the letter Z mean anything to you? Z. Yeah, yeah, 00:26:35.170 --> 00:26:41.349 Z. Songwen Z. She's my girlfriend. Look, I used 00:26:41.349 --> 00:26:45.329 to go here, Tunisa Academy. You know, but Z's 00:26:45.329 --> 00:26:47.789 one of Kejo's favorite five. They're the top 00:26:47.789 --> 00:26:50.329 students, and he doesn't like anyone... talking 00:26:50.329 --> 00:26:52.450 to them or distracting them, as he would say. 00:26:52.549 --> 00:26:55.230 I wasn't the best student, but I was a prince. 00:26:57.049 --> 00:26:58.750 But even that didn't save me when he saw that 00:26:58.750 --> 00:27:01.269 me and Z were together, so he gave me the boot. 00:27:01.329 --> 00:27:04.109 I got expelled. Then the school closed. Everyone 00:27:04.109 --> 00:27:07.069 left. But I know, I know Z didn't leave. All 00:27:07.069 --> 00:27:09.529 right? She's in there. The favorite five, they're 00:27:09.529 --> 00:27:13.109 still in there. My rival prince Karina of Neba, 00:27:13.230 --> 00:27:17.049 he's in there. I know this. Love is a powerful 00:27:17.049 --> 00:27:20.279 emotion. I can see why the Faceless Prophet was 00:27:20.279 --> 00:27:25.119 moved to help you. What can we do? Kejo's not 00:27:25.119 --> 00:27:26.460 going to let anyone inside. He's got that place 00:27:26.460 --> 00:27:31.160 locked down. I don't know. I don't know. What 00:27:31.160 --> 00:27:34.140 I need is very simple. I need a distraction. 00:27:35.859 --> 00:27:40.940 Distraction? If you give me enough time to set 00:27:40.940 --> 00:27:44.299 up, and if you can get the guards away from a 00:27:44.299 --> 00:27:48.849 door for only a few moments, By the blessing 00:27:48.849 --> 00:27:52.410 of our faceless prophet, I can sneak inside and 00:27:52.410 --> 00:27:56.309 find your Z for you. You see just this bright, 00:27:56.569 --> 00:28:03.009 bright, wide smile. Just all teeth. Yeah, all 00:28:03.009 --> 00:28:05.150 right. Yeah, no, anything, anything. What door? 00:28:05.369 --> 00:28:07.490 You want to go staff entrance? You want to go 00:28:07.490 --> 00:28:10.690 with a beast entrance? Supplies, kitchen, front? 00:28:10.829 --> 00:28:14.470 What are you looking? And you realize this guy 00:28:14.470 --> 00:28:18.180 has been here before. He knows. A lot more about 00:28:18.180 --> 00:28:20.940 this location than you do. If you have any questions... 00:28:20.940 --> 00:28:23.940 Yes. He's not, like, the brightest bushel of 00:28:23.940 --> 00:28:28.259 beans over there, but... Well, Lord Simbon? Prince 00:28:28.259 --> 00:28:33.019 Simbon. Prince Simbon? Sorry. I suppose... You 00:28:33.019 --> 00:28:35.920 can come whenever you want. I suppose even I 00:28:35.920 --> 00:28:38.579 have been blessed this day to meet someone with 00:28:38.579 --> 00:28:42.460 knowledge of the building on the inside. I would 00:28:42.460 --> 00:28:45.380 graciously take your suggestion for an entrance. 00:28:46.140 --> 00:28:50.440 And perhaps even deign to ask you for a rough 00:28:50.440 --> 00:28:59.000 layout. Ooh. Nice. Okay. I like that a lot. He 00:28:59.000 --> 00:29:01.299 kind of scratches. Oh, it's been a minute, but... 00:29:01.299 --> 00:29:03.140 Well, there's, of course, the main entrance hall. 00:29:03.180 --> 00:29:05.640 That's kind of center in the south, right? And 00:29:05.640 --> 00:29:07.839 then... I was getting north and east mixed up. 00:29:08.799 --> 00:29:11.880 He holds up his two hands to make up the L's. 00:29:14.220 --> 00:29:17.869 So, um... Never eat soggy wheat. Yeah, that's 00:29:17.869 --> 00:29:21.029 the one. So the southeast side, that's the kitchens, 00:29:21.109 --> 00:29:23.049 right? Entrance there, you go through, kitchens, 00:29:23.130 --> 00:29:25.289 cafeteria. If you push northwards, you're going 00:29:25.289 --> 00:29:28.950 to be reaching the dormitory area. Staff are 00:29:28.950 --> 00:29:31.069 kind of fully focused on the east side. When 00:29:31.069 --> 00:29:32.789 you get further in, you're going to see student 00:29:32.789 --> 00:29:34.609 dorms. And to the north, that's going to be all 00:29:34.609 --> 00:29:38.589 the faculty, right? Going around to the sort 00:29:38.589 --> 00:29:40.990 of west side of the school, the northwest, that's 00:29:40.990 --> 00:29:42.869 where they bring in magical beasts. You know, 00:29:42.869 --> 00:29:45.769 sometimes they like to... do some combat training 00:29:45.769 --> 00:29:48.769 or biology lessons or just taking a look at them. 00:29:48.829 --> 00:29:49.789 I don't know. I think they just want to spend 00:29:49.789 --> 00:29:51.930 money. But that's the main entrance they use 00:29:51.930 --> 00:29:54.569 for those. And if you cut down into the sort 00:29:54.569 --> 00:29:56.809 of southwest side, that's all the classrooms 00:29:56.809 --> 00:29:59.910 and a lot of supplies for, you know, alchemical 00:29:59.910 --> 00:30:02.470 and artificery sort of classes come in that entrance 00:30:02.470 --> 00:30:05.869 there. That seems to be a safe place to enter. 00:30:05.970 --> 00:30:09.650 There are a few guards there as well. No mythical 00:30:09.650 --> 00:30:13.509 beasts to deal with. I think they're all in cages. 00:30:14.490 --> 00:30:17.990 Still noisy, perhaps? Anything else, my lord, 00:30:18.069 --> 00:30:20.710 or my prince, that you think we should know before 00:30:20.710 --> 00:30:26.609 entering the building? No. Something about this 00:30:26.609 --> 00:30:30.730 usually gets very grim. What do you know about 00:30:30.730 --> 00:30:34.009 Kejo Kamal? I know he's probably some kind of 00:30:34.009 --> 00:30:36.289 holy figure or something to you guys. Everyone 00:30:36.289 --> 00:30:38.309 thinks he's some kind of holy figure, but what 00:30:38.309 --> 00:30:40.150 do you really know about Kejo Kamal? Because 00:30:40.150 --> 00:30:44.039 I was a student. I only know what the faithless 00:30:44.039 --> 00:30:48.000 prophet has led me here to learn of him. Perhaps 00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:53.039 you could shed some light. He's a maniac. His 00:30:53.039 --> 00:30:56.559 ego is everything, and he's crazy, I think. I 00:30:56.559 --> 00:31:00.259 mean, he's smart, sure. He knows damn near everything, 00:31:00.400 --> 00:31:03.859 but they say when you get older, you get wiser. 00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:07.519 You know, my dad and my grandpa, they're wise 00:31:07.519 --> 00:31:14.400 rulers. I'll get there. But... Kejo Kamal. I 00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:17.000 don't see wisdom in him. I never saw wisdom in 00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:19.019 him. And his students, they worship him like 00:31:19.019 --> 00:31:22.460 he's some kind of god. But when I look into his 00:31:22.460 --> 00:31:26.700 eyes, have you ever gotten real close to a spider? 00:31:27.460 --> 00:31:31.920 Scorpion looked at their eyes. It's just blank. 00:31:32.940 --> 00:31:35.880 I've seen many devils in my service to the Faceless 00:31:35.880 --> 00:31:40.339 Prophet. I wonder if you've seen any quite like 00:31:40.339 --> 00:31:46.240 Kejo Kamal. Maybe I'm talking crazy, but he scares 00:31:46.240 --> 00:31:49.279 me. That's all. He really, really scares me. 00:31:49.640 --> 00:31:52.059 Where might he keep the students? Where might 00:31:52.059 --> 00:31:57.720 he keep Z? They have their own room in the dormitory. 00:31:58.059 --> 00:32:00.220 Makes them all sleep in the same spot together. 00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:01.960 He wants them to be their own clique, you know? 00:32:02.039 --> 00:32:03.839 They gotta hang out with each other and nobody 00:32:03.839 --> 00:32:07.680 else. They gotta strengthen each other. He wants 00:32:07.680 --> 00:32:09.900 them to be the brightest lights of the future, 00:32:10.019 --> 00:32:13.650 whatever crap he sells. And Kejo's office itself, 00:32:13.890 --> 00:32:16.190 is that in the north with the rest of the staff? 00:32:16.750 --> 00:32:18.329 He's got a room there, like the rest of the staff, 00:32:18.450 --> 00:32:21.430 yeah. He's the conjuration master. There's one 00:32:21.430 --> 00:32:24.029 for every sort of art, except for necromancy, 00:32:24.049 --> 00:32:26.769 of course. They don't get that dark, at least 00:32:26.769 --> 00:32:30.170 not that I know of. If that's his office, I'm 00:32:30.170 --> 00:32:33.450 not sure. He spends a lot of time in the school, 00:32:33.549 --> 00:32:36.869 but to be honest, no one really knows where. 00:32:38.069 --> 00:32:39.970 Some people say it's kind of rumored that he's 00:32:39.970 --> 00:32:44.240 got secret spots there, you know? and who knows 00:32:44.240 --> 00:32:47.940 what. Well... He built the place. I'll be sure 00:32:47.940 --> 00:32:51.099 to keep my eyes out. If you see me traveling, 00:32:51.339 --> 00:32:55.359 Prince Simbon, I won't look like myself. It might 00:32:55.359 --> 00:32:58.779 not be myself. We of the Faceless Prophet have 00:32:58.779 --> 00:33:03.200 many allies, many secretive allies. Of course, 00:33:03.259 --> 00:33:06.440 of course, yeah. Yeah. I trust you'll help us 00:33:06.440 --> 00:33:12.180 get in, and if you wish to see Z when we... Exit 00:33:12.180 --> 00:33:14.720 the building. I hope you'll help us escape as 00:33:14.720 --> 00:33:19.599 well. Is there a way you can signal me how long 00:33:19.599 --> 00:33:22.819 you'll be in there? It's a big school. Pausing 00:33:22.819 --> 00:33:26.640 to look at spell list. What? I didn't say that. 00:33:26.779 --> 00:33:28.480 What'd you say? I didn't say that in character. 00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:32.779 Wait a minute! He pulls off your hood. Ah! Guards! 00:33:33.180 --> 00:33:35.980 Killer! Dresden from off somewhere. She didn't 00:33:35.980 --> 00:33:39.259 say anything. Oh! We don't have the stones on 00:33:39.259 --> 00:33:41.960 us, I don't think. This prince doesn't have the 00:33:41.960 --> 00:33:51.720 stones. Perhaps, my prince, if we are blessed, 00:33:51.940 --> 00:33:57.119 a bat may carry my message. A bat will herald 00:33:57.119 --> 00:34:06.579 your return. Stop. Cut the mics. Stop. He's out 00:34:06.579 --> 00:34:10.690 of control. I'm going to tell my friend Harold 00:34:10.690 --> 00:34:23.730 on you. God. All right. So I don't think we want 00:34:23.730 --> 00:34:25.630 to drag this out any further. I think we have 00:34:25.630 --> 00:34:28.389 a pretty decent plan. Yeah. I would like to jump 00:34:28.389 --> 00:34:30.530 to executing it. I want to do that. I love that. 00:34:30.570 --> 00:34:33.369 I love that. Let's get in the scene. I think 00:34:33.369 --> 00:34:37.670 Jeremy has the perfect idea. Put us in the hole. 00:34:38.349 --> 00:34:42.469 Wrap it up in this little bag. Do the fucking 00:34:42.469 --> 00:34:46.369 zoopty -doopty on the roof. That's the mechanical 00:34:46.369 --> 00:34:51.469 term. Zoopty -doopty. Okay. Zoopty -doopty. And 00:34:51.469 --> 00:34:54.010 then wait for the distraction to hop into that 00:34:54.010 --> 00:34:59.809 southwestern door. Hell yeah. You find a quiet 00:34:59.809 --> 00:35:02.769 corner where you kind of move in. Give me just 00:35:02.769 --> 00:35:04.610 a stealth check with advantage there, Dresden, 00:35:04.730 --> 00:35:06.809 because you have a means of moving up to the 00:35:06.809 --> 00:35:08.469 roof very quickly, so you just got to move in 00:35:08.469 --> 00:35:15.289 in the dark and just vanish. Sure. It's a good 00:35:15.289 --> 00:35:17.610 thing I had advantage because the first one was 00:35:17.610 --> 00:35:19.750 a natural one. Oh, my God. Could you imagine? 00:35:20.269 --> 00:35:23.579 Oh, my God. Second was a 16. Hell yeah. With 00:35:23.579 --> 00:35:26.360 a 16, you go to move in. The natural one, you're 00:35:26.360 --> 00:35:31.179 moving in. You just brush over. There's a little 00:35:31.179 --> 00:35:33.059 hole in the ground. You see a little badger thing 00:35:33.059 --> 00:35:36.400 peep out, pop out. It's like, yeah! It tries 00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:38.739 to nab at you, and you slip out of the way. A 00:35:38.739 --> 00:35:40.659 little sound is made, and you see a guard. What's 00:35:40.659 --> 00:35:42.519 going on over there? Spins around, and they just 00:35:42.519 --> 00:35:47.000 see vapors of nothing as you're already on the 00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:50.179 roof. Nice. Guard just kind of turns around, 00:35:50.280 --> 00:35:54.250 and you're... Can I also retcon that as Blanche 00:35:54.250 --> 00:35:59.889 and Dresden were debriefing, she instructed Akio 00:35:59.889 --> 00:36:03.230 to don his armor? I don't know if Dresden wants 00:36:03.230 --> 00:36:05.090 to yet or not. If Dresden does that, that stealth 00:36:05.090 --> 00:36:08.230 check would not be... Oh, fair. Okay, fair. We 00:36:08.230 --> 00:36:10.050 can don our armor on the roof. You can do that. 00:36:10.150 --> 00:36:12.230 Or when you get inside or something. Yeah, yeah, 00:36:12.269 --> 00:36:15.719 yeah. But Akio in the hole. And he's putting 00:36:15.719 --> 00:36:19.019 his armor on. Sure. He's got no arms, so he's 00:36:19.019 --> 00:36:22.699 kind of... I don't want to walk in the door or 00:36:22.699 --> 00:36:25.139 something and be caught by surprise and be like, 00:36:25.219 --> 00:36:28.139 no, you didn't don your armor. Yeah. From this 00:36:28.139 --> 00:36:31.199 point forward, any second is go time. Yeah. Hell 00:36:31.199 --> 00:36:34.739 yeah. So yes, Dresden does put on his armor once 00:36:34.739 --> 00:36:36.489 they're on the roof. So you're looking at the 00:36:36.489 --> 00:36:38.250 southwestern entrance, the one that leads into 00:36:38.250 --> 00:36:40.489 the classes, the supplies entrance, and you see 00:36:40.489 --> 00:36:43.789 there is only a singular guard. The guards around 00:36:43.789 --> 00:36:45.550 are kind of far away. This one is stationed right 00:36:45.550 --> 00:36:47.610 in front of the door, though, not even a pretense 00:36:47.610 --> 00:36:50.510 of doing work, just full -on guarding, standing 00:36:50.510 --> 00:36:53.510 around, you know, large, looks like a Sensen 00:36:53.510 --> 00:36:57.909 figure. I think it's a dwarven man just kind 00:36:57.909 --> 00:37:03.079 of hunkered down. Looking out one way, looking 00:37:03.079 --> 00:37:05.219 out the other, you guys sort of creep up overhead 00:37:05.219 --> 00:37:10.300 and peek down. And you see, in the light of his 00:37:10.300 --> 00:37:13.719 torch, he kind of glances up, stiffens, as a 00:37:13.719 --> 00:37:18.280 figure of Prince Simbon steps out. Hey there. 00:37:19.619 --> 00:37:22.980 Who? You, you, you were at the front. We told 00:37:22.980 --> 00:37:26.059 you we can't. Hold on, hold on. He puts his hands 00:37:26.059 --> 00:37:29.340 up like, look, all that. I'm sorry about that. 00:37:29.420 --> 00:37:32.400 Just, I got a quick message. I'd like you to 00:37:32.400 --> 00:37:35.780 tell Z when you see her. Can I? It's a little 00:37:35.780 --> 00:37:38.699 personal. So I'm going to tell you real quiet. 00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:41.980 And the guard sort of puts a hand down on his 00:37:41.980 --> 00:37:45.099 weapon, curved sword. He sort of eyes narrow 00:37:45.099 --> 00:37:47.760 and Simba steps forward like, whoa, hey, I am 00:37:47.760 --> 00:37:49.539 a prince. You don't want to put your hand on 00:37:49.539 --> 00:37:51.599 your weapon in front of me, right? Guard looks 00:37:51.599 --> 00:37:54.420 nervous. Does he want to do a few more steps? 00:37:55.400 --> 00:38:00.019 I just wanted to tell her that I'll see her soon. 00:38:00.219 --> 00:38:03.449 And you see, he just like, full -on tackles into 00:38:03.449 --> 00:38:06.449 this guy who grabs around the neck with a stranglehold 00:38:06.449 --> 00:38:09.190 and they both just go rolling off to the side 00:38:09.190 --> 00:38:13.670 you see kind of in the darkness they're like 00:38:13.670 --> 00:38:16.110 fighting they're making some kind of commotion 00:38:16.110 --> 00:38:17.489 but like no one seems to be picking up on it 00:38:17.489 --> 00:38:19.409 quite quite yet but you got to make a move you 00:38:19.409 --> 00:38:22.909 drop down teleport right back down okay you're 00:38:22.909 --> 00:38:24.909 in front of me you drop down you hear the strong 00:38:24.909 --> 00:38:29.289 good go go go uh What's going on over there? 00:38:29.349 --> 00:38:30.909 You hear guards in the corner. Door in front 00:38:30.909 --> 00:38:34.070 of you. What do you do? I try to open it. Locked. 00:38:35.150 --> 00:38:36.550 Oh, fuck me. Oh, come on. You think it's going 00:38:36.550 --> 00:38:39.230 to lock the door? Yeah, I know. I'm mean. I know. 00:38:39.349 --> 00:38:41.969 I'm mean. Hold on. Hey, we need battle music. 00:38:42.369 --> 00:38:45.949 Wait. Hold on. Wait. Now it's this. Choke point. 00:38:46.070 --> 00:38:47.429 That sounds good for a guy getting choked up 00:38:47.429 --> 00:38:51.530 next to you. Fuck. So we don't really want them 00:38:51.530 --> 00:38:54.879 to know that we went in is the problem. Yeah, 00:38:54.879 --> 00:38:57.260 I'm trying to decide. We didn't really talk about 00:38:57.260 --> 00:39:00.820 this. No. Is Blanche in the hole still? I think 00:39:00.820 --> 00:39:03.619 so. I don't see why she would be out at this 00:39:03.619 --> 00:39:05.980 moment. Yeah. You guys are pulled out on the 00:39:05.980 --> 00:39:09.519 roof, I say. Everyone drops down. Oh, okay. Okay. 00:39:13.599 --> 00:39:17.000 Well, the funny thing is I literally did not 00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:22.280 prepare knock. You can break the door down. What 00:39:22.280 --> 00:39:24.269 do you want to do here? I don't want to. That's 00:39:24.269 --> 00:39:26.030 the thing. We don't want them to know we're in 00:39:26.030 --> 00:39:29.269 there. Right. But the only thing that I could 00:39:29.269 --> 00:39:31.269 potentially do to get this door down is something 00:39:31.269 --> 00:39:34.190 like if you would allow me to use the dash action 00:39:34.190 --> 00:39:38.289 to try and break it down. You can make an attack 00:39:38.289 --> 00:39:40.869 on it. We can make an attack on it. You can do 00:39:40.869 --> 00:39:42.309 either a strength check or an attack to kind 00:39:42.309 --> 00:39:43.889 of like... Could I take the end of my war pick 00:39:43.889 --> 00:39:46.710 and try to pick the lock? You could try to break 00:39:46.710 --> 00:39:50.289 the lock. Is it magical? Is it a magical lock? 00:39:51.030 --> 00:39:53.840 Or is it just the mechanical... Do you have a 00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:57.719 means of telling? I don't think I do. I don't 00:39:57.719 --> 00:40:01.719 have detect magic. You drop down. Time is ticking 00:40:01.719 --> 00:40:03.420 away now. We're going to start counting it out. 00:40:03.500 --> 00:40:05.199 You drop down. Do you want to take some time, 00:40:05.260 --> 00:40:07.539 a second to read the door, see if you can give 00:40:07.539 --> 00:40:09.099 me an arcana check or an investigation check 00:40:09.099 --> 00:40:13.719 to get information? Is there a crack that Turbo 00:40:13.719 --> 00:40:17.679 could fit through? No. This is a highly secure 00:40:17.679 --> 00:40:20.500 location. Yeah, I'll take the time for an arcana 00:40:20.500 --> 00:40:29.530 check then. 25. 25. 25 is fun. You're looking 00:40:29.530 --> 00:40:33.909 at this door. The lock seems to be mundane. Was 00:40:33.909 --> 00:40:36.130 this Arcana or Investigation? Arcana. Arcana, 00:40:36.130 --> 00:40:38.710 perfect. The lock seems to be mundane. You just 00:40:38.710 --> 00:40:42.289 need to, like, break it or unlock it. But as 00:40:42.289 --> 00:40:43.570 you're taking a look at that, you realize something 00:40:43.570 --> 00:40:46.409 strange. The lock is mundane, but the door itself 00:40:46.409 --> 00:40:48.630 seems to have magical inscription weaving into, 00:40:48.750 --> 00:40:53.130 like, the fibers of its wood. Fuck. You're not 00:40:53.130 --> 00:40:56.349 sure what that means, but there is some magic 00:40:56.349 --> 00:40:59.349 to this door. See, like, even Counterspell I 00:40:59.349 --> 00:41:02.909 don't think would work here, though. Yeah, Dresden 00:41:02.909 --> 00:41:07.610 has nothing but just Brute Force. So anything 00:41:07.610 --> 00:41:11.090 apart from that is unblanched. I don't know that 00:41:11.090 --> 00:41:13.230 I have anything but Brute Force in this instance 00:41:13.230 --> 00:41:17.110 either. Hold on. Looking, looking, panicking, 00:41:17.269 --> 00:41:22.710 looking. This is a tough spot you're in. What 00:41:22.710 --> 00:41:26.050 are you doing? Come on! Simone's just wrestling 00:41:26.050 --> 00:41:27.969 this guy. And the guards aren't even here. The 00:41:27.969 --> 00:41:29.449 guards did not want to fuck with Kedra Kamal. 00:41:29.570 --> 00:41:32.590 He came on his own. He ditched his whole retinue 00:41:32.590 --> 00:41:35.650 to do this. Yeah, if Blanche doesn't have anything, 00:41:35.750 --> 00:41:38.070 then Dresden's going to just try and attack the 00:41:38.070 --> 00:41:40.869 lock with his pick. Go for it. Yeah, Blanche 00:41:40.869 --> 00:41:42.869 is sitting there. She's got her fingers on her 00:41:42.869 --> 00:41:44.829 temples, and she's looking at the door. She's 00:41:44.829 --> 00:41:47.889 like, no time. Break the lock, Dresden. I'll 00:41:47.889 --> 00:41:52.989 think of something. It's a 17. 17 will hit. Okay. 00:41:56.510 --> 00:42:00.829 For nine. Nine points of damage is enough. The 00:42:00.829 --> 00:42:04.150 lock caves in. You see, like, I think where you 00:42:04.150 --> 00:42:06.070 said the lock is on the door, you just break 00:42:06.070 --> 00:42:07.829 right through it. And, like, the entire, like, 00:42:07.829 --> 00:42:11.070 sort of carved out portion of wood locks in is 00:42:11.070 --> 00:42:14.110 just vacant as the lock goes back into the school. 00:42:14.550 --> 00:42:18.389 For a brief second, everything is quiet and paused. 00:42:19.130 --> 00:42:21.659 Dresden looks down at the broken lock. Looks 00:42:21.659 --> 00:42:24.420 over to Blanche. Time's up. Do you know what 00:42:24.420 --> 00:42:27.699 that says? Fuck. At this point, you don't need 00:42:27.699 --> 00:42:30.980 to know. Because you're about to find out. Because 00:42:30.980 --> 00:42:34.139 a very familiar to Dresden thing happens. Fuck. 00:42:34.139 --> 00:42:37.800 As the door begins to rattle. Oh, come on. Oh, 00:42:37.800 --> 00:42:40.000 come on. It comes to life to attack you. This 00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:41.920 is the guy that made the Shrine of Storms defenses. 00:42:42.119 --> 00:42:45.980 Come on. We're fighting the doors again. Oh, 00:42:45.980 --> 00:42:49.079 my God. Classic door fight, Oni. Come on. Let's 00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:54.079 do it. Let's do it. Oh, no. Guards charging around. 00:42:54.340 --> 00:42:57.980 I almost prepped dimension door. Dimension door 00:42:57.980 --> 00:42:59.940 would have been able to go inside, open the door. 00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:01.460 This door is about to send you to a dimension 00:43:01.460 --> 00:43:05.280 of pain, baby. God. Let me get the mouse up. 00:43:05.340 --> 00:43:07.820 Let me get Simbon over here with his guy he's 00:43:07.820 --> 00:43:11.539 choking out on the ground. either they're stumbled 00:43:11.539 --> 00:43:14.519 over here you see they're like about uh 15 paces 00:43:14.519 --> 00:43:17.320 south of the door they're just kind of uh rolling 00:43:17.320 --> 00:43:19.579 around the ground simone's got just got him come 00:43:19.579 --> 00:43:24.239 on come on uh what's that you guys on the map 00:43:24.239 --> 00:43:28.599 this is so bad i feel like we did so much work 00:43:28.599 --> 00:43:31.239 to actually get in and then we were like in front 00:43:31.239 --> 00:43:33.340 of the door like oh wait a minute there's a door 00:43:33.340 --> 00:43:37.239 here it's locked who do you think i am All right, 00:43:37.260 --> 00:43:38.400 you guys can place yourselves where you want. 00:43:38.440 --> 00:43:41.179 I'll move your tokens closer. Where are we? I 00:43:41.179 --> 00:43:42.579 think we're right in front of the door, right? 00:43:42.780 --> 00:43:46.599 Yeah. We just drop down. This map is so gigantic, 00:43:46.639 --> 00:43:50.719 it's really hard to move across it. Yeah. I know, 00:43:50.760 --> 00:43:54.039 it's big. There you go. Put you guys on. Yeah, 00:43:54.139 --> 00:43:56.440 that's exactly where we're at. Let's roll for 00:43:56.440 --> 00:44:01.480 initiative. Oh, God. Oh, God. Fuck. John's... 00:44:01.480 --> 00:44:12.389 Ten for Blanche. 15 for Akio, though. Eight for 00:44:12.389 --> 00:44:17.690 Dresden. 17 for Jean Franklin. Hell yeah. Okay. 00:44:18.070 --> 00:44:20.449 Oh, wait a minute. I always forget Akio has advantage 00:44:20.449 --> 00:44:25.429 on... Oh, that's better. 19 for Akio. Guards 00:44:25.429 --> 00:44:29.449 are on their move. In one round, they're probably 00:44:29.449 --> 00:44:32.500 going to be on top of you. Oh, great. Yeah. Oh, 00:44:32.519 --> 00:44:35.719 my God. You have one round to clear this obstacle 00:44:35.719 --> 00:44:39.639 and get inside. Thankfully, my door was a little 00:44:39.639 --> 00:44:41.539 slow to activate. It rolled very bad initiative. 00:44:41.739 --> 00:44:43.900 So this thing kind of shudders itself. And you 00:44:43.900 --> 00:44:46.039 see, like, the hinges fall away. So they're meant 00:44:46.039 --> 00:44:47.739 to just fall once the door kind of activates. 00:44:47.860 --> 00:44:51.179 And it sort of rises up, kind of pushing itself 00:44:51.179 --> 00:44:53.559 out of its spot and tries to go to swipe at Dresden. 00:44:53.960 --> 00:44:56.340 But you've got the initiative on it. And it's 00:44:56.340 --> 00:45:00.300 going to be Akio to start us off. Oh, what is 00:45:00.300 --> 00:45:06.369 Akio going to do? I guess Akio is going to draw 00:45:06.369 --> 00:45:16.010 Ichigenka and go for a hit on the door. 21 on 00:45:16.010 --> 00:45:19.949 the first, 14 on the second. Okay. It's going 00:45:19.949 --> 00:45:29.090 to hit on both, actually. 21 points of damage 00:45:29.090 --> 00:45:33.400 on both hits. Holy shit. That's pretty huge, 00:45:33.440 --> 00:45:36.599 okay? And that's it for Kyo. Okay, but there's 00:45:36.599 --> 00:45:38.739 two attacks. I imagine you're just piercing. 00:45:38.860 --> 00:45:40.519 He just has his weapon. He's trying to plunge 00:45:40.519 --> 00:45:42.519 it right into the door. We're not trying to break 00:45:42.519 --> 00:45:46.699 it down too bad. Splinters flying into the darkened 00:45:46.699 --> 00:45:48.880 inside of the school, and the door kind of seems 00:45:48.880 --> 00:45:52.800 to shrink down a fair bit. It's not crazy strong. 00:45:53.480 --> 00:45:56.960 You guys are heroes. That's going to be Jean. 00:45:58.320 --> 00:46:02.409 Take that, you stupid door! I can open you on 00:46:02.409 --> 00:46:07.070 my own now. Oh, my God. So this is my first time 00:46:07.070 --> 00:46:09.190 ever playing John Franklin. Oh, yeah. Bear with 00:46:09.190 --> 00:46:11.550 me. Bear with me. He's going to go in with his 00:46:11.550 --> 00:46:14.070 King Spear. Hell, yeah. Golden Spear of Kondor. 00:46:14.090 --> 00:46:17.849 He gets two attacks, correct? Yes. Cool. Cool. 00:46:19.909 --> 00:46:22.989 Oh, shit. That is only an 11 on the first hit. 00:46:23.130 --> 00:46:25.869 Does not hit. Goes to hit. The doors are up. 00:46:25.989 --> 00:46:28.119 Weaves out. Yeah. This is not what I'm used to 00:46:28.119 --> 00:46:31.900 fighting. Second one is a 27. That will certainly 00:46:31.900 --> 00:46:34.900 hit. Would it be stupid just to use a smite point 00:46:34.900 --> 00:46:37.300 on this one? You have one round to get this thing 00:46:37.300 --> 00:46:39.480 out of the way. Yeah. Okay. There'll be a notably 00:46:39.480 --> 00:46:41.639 flash of light, but at this point, shit's happening. 00:46:41.679 --> 00:46:45.019 So I have three numbers. Yeah. Smite slots equal 00:46:45.019 --> 00:46:48.559 to the level, which John is nine. So I'm going 00:46:48.559 --> 00:46:53.460 to expend three. Holy shit. Hell yeah. I want 00:46:53.460 --> 00:46:54.920 to get this thing down and in. Dude, take that 00:46:54.920 --> 00:46:59.980 door out. So that gives me, what, 3d8? That gives 00:46:59.980 --> 00:47:07.139 you, yeah. 3d8 plus the regular 1d6 plus 4. All 00:47:07.139 --> 00:47:10.239 right, so for just the regular, it's going to 00:47:10.239 --> 00:47:16.139 be an 8. 8. Cool. And then 3d8. 3d8, maybe. And 00:47:16.139 --> 00:47:17.579 you also did damage this thing when you used 00:47:17.579 --> 00:47:26.719 your pick, too. Yep. That is another 22. It was 00:47:26.719 --> 00:47:29.920 eight and two sevens. John tries to hit the door. 00:47:30.860 --> 00:47:33.840 Rises up out of the way. And he braced himself 00:47:33.840 --> 00:47:37.260 down low beneath it and hurls the spear upwards. 00:47:37.360 --> 00:47:39.280 The door kind of moves over ahead of him. As 00:47:39.280 --> 00:47:41.519 the spear tip strikes right into the center, 00:47:41.719 --> 00:47:45.800 light flashes through every fiber of the wood 00:47:45.800 --> 00:47:49.719 of the door. And you watch this thing just explode. 00:47:50.219 --> 00:47:53.619 Oh, no. Yeah. Wait, does the door have to explode? 00:47:53.760 --> 00:47:57.480 Yeah. Can't it just be like a dead door? Fine, 00:47:57.900 --> 00:47:59.960 it can be a dead door. You're all really good. 00:48:00.059 --> 00:48:01.739 I'll give you that. He hits it and he kind of 00:48:01.739 --> 00:48:07.300 burns it out. It looks a little crispy. In the 00:48:07.300 --> 00:48:09.739 dark you can't really see it It's like all the 00:48:09.739 --> 00:48:11.519 inscription all the magic on the door is just 00:48:11.519 --> 00:48:15.340 expunged in one clean blast of radio That's gonna 00:48:15.340 --> 00:48:17.579 work out perfect. Yeah, the flash of light guards 00:48:17.579 --> 00:48:20.360 are You see they're moving for it's dark where 00:48:20.360 --> 00:48:21.760 you are the torch I think like there was one 00:48:21.760 --> 00:48:23.199 torch but the guard was holding but it got put 00:48:23.199 --> 00:48:25.079 out when he's being pressed by Simba on speaking 00:48:25.079 --> 00:48:33.230 of Simba you kind of hear of like Go on, guys. 00:48:33.809 --> 00:48:37.670 Go find her. Holy shit. At least nobody heard 00:48:37.670 --> 00:48:42.210 him say that, I guess. Holy shit. Hell yeah. 00:48:42.250 --> 00:48:45.030 What do you do? I don't know whose turn it is, 00:48:45.110 --> 00:48:48.809 but the goal is to get inside ASAP and everyone 00:48:48.809 --> 00:48:50.789 pulls the door back up and Blanche is going to 00:48:50.789 --> 00:48:52.530 cast a spell when the door is in place. Honestly, 00:48:52.949 --> 00:48:55.309 at this point, you beat the guy. You guys are 00:48:55.309 --> 00:48:58.019 moving. You're casting a spell inside when the 00:48:58.019 --> 00:48:59.599 door's in place, so you guys all slide in. You 00:48:59.599 --> 00:49:01.800 get to hear Simbon just kind of, hey, ha, I broke 00:49:01.800 --> 00:49:04.519 your stupid door and took this nerd out. Hey, 00:49:04.539 --> 00:49:06.820 hey, yeah. And the guards are, Simbon, what are 00:49:06.820 --> 00:49:09.099 you? You hear him scream as you guys move in. 00:49:09.239 --> 00:49:11.380 Close the door behind you. What do you cast? 00:49:11.760 --> 00:49:18.119 Arcane lock. Oh. I love that. Yeah. You fear. 00:49:18.340 --> 00:49:20.300 And I think, like, a guard, did they just? And 00:49:20.300 --> 00:49:22.599 someone just goes to, like, hit the door to open 00:49:22.599 --> 00:49:27.269 it. No, it's secure. No one got in. Simba, what 00:49:27.269 --> 00:49:29.230 is the meaning of this? You hear, like, screaming 00:49:29.230 --> 00:49:35.989 outside. You hear, like... As the prince of Anissa 00:49:35.989 --> 00:49:39.869 is dragged away into the night. Oh, my God. Dude, 00:49:40.070 --> 00:49:46.510 what the fuck? And you are inside Anissa Academy. 00:49:47.010 --> 00:49:51.989 Let's reveal some map. The, um, the password 00:49:51.989 --> 00:49:56.210 on this door. It will last until the spell ends. 00:49:56.949 --> 00:50:03.030 The password is, um... Justice Undying. Ooh, 00:50:03.289 --> 00:50:08.869 super original. If that password is spoken within 00:50:08.869 --> 00:50:12.469 five feet of the door, it will suppress the arcane 00:50:12.469 --> 00:50:15.289 lock magic for one minute. Okay, Chesnan looks 00:50:15.289 --> 00:50:17.570 back. Okay, Kuder, we're about ten feet away 00:50:17.570 --> 00:50:22.780 because you just said it. Good call, actually. 00:50:23.179 --> 00:50:29.300 That's pretty smart. Let me change the music 00:50:29.300 --> 00:50:35.059 up. The darkened corridor hallway of a school 00:50:35.059 --> 00:50:38.739 that has been shut down. No windows. Everything 00:50:38.739 --> 00:50:41.260 goes quiet outside as whatever activity has been 00:50:41.260 --> 00:50:44.119 moved away and you are standing in this place 00:50:44.119 --> 00:50:49.880 in silence. A place that should be filled with 00:50:49.880 --> 00:50:53.460 the chatter and laughter of students this first 00:50:53.460 --> 00:50:56.260 hallway you're entering into uh basically just 00:50:56.260 --> 00:50:57.460 kind of widens up i'll give you the i'll give 00:50:57.460 --> 00:50:58.820 you a picture of the entire thing as you want 00:50:58.820 --> 00:51:02.300 to look around but you'll see that it kind of 00:51:02.300 --> 00:51:05.000 creeps up slightly to the north where it curves 00:51:05.000 --> 00:51:10.059 into a long corridor with three doors two doors 00:51:10.059 --> 00:51:13.500 uh ring around a another hallway expanse leading 00:51:13.500 --> 00:51:15.719 to the south now you were told this is where 00:51:15.719 --> 00:51:19.420 the classrooms are and a single door On the northern 00:51:19.420 --> 00:51:22.079 side of the hallway as well. Opposite of that 00:51:22.079 --> 00:51:25.179 corridor. So you're kind of standing at the top 00:51:25.179 --> 00:51:29.940 of the edge of a T shape with doors on each arm 00:51:29.940 --> 00:51:35.159 of the T and one on the top. Everything is deathly 00:51:35.159 --> 00:51:38.960 silent in this school. You see... Like, like, 00:51:39.039 --> 00:51:41.900 gilded ornamentation running along the walls. 00:51:41.980 --> 00:51:45.260 You see floors where the dried mud of the floor 00:51:45.260 --> 00:51:47.519 has been, like, carved in this intricate tile 00:51:47.519 --> 00:51:53.260 pattern. It is beautiful in here. It is perfect. 00:51:54.820 --> 00:51:58.460 The first thing we need to do is determine if 00:51:58.460 --> 00:52:01.659 anybody's in any of these rooms. These classrooms, 00:52:01.760 --> 00:52:07.250 I assume. Akio, with your... keen hearing and 00:52:07.250 --> 00:52:10.730 smell you have advantage on perception checks 00:52:10.730 --> 00:52:17.969 that rely on hearing and smell that's damn okay 00:52:17.969 --> 00:52:22.150 yeah could you perceive at each of these doors 00:52:22.150 --> 00:52:29.130 determine if anybody's inside i shall do so go 00:52:29.130 --> 00:52:41.550 ahead and roll Thirteen. He moves to the first 00:52:41.550 --> 00:52:46.769 door in the tea. First arm of the tea. Oil and 00:52:46.769 --> 00:52:55.070 powder. Weird smells. He moves to the next door 00:52:55.070 --> 00:53:03.190 to the north. Slight. Something strange. Not... 00:53:03.769 --> 00:53:09.349 A person with something strange, pungent, magic, 00:53:09.710 --> 00:53:19.190 and metal. Magic and metal. Perhaps one of those 00:53:19.190 --> 00:53:24.070 animated robot god -bot things that we fought 00:53:24.070 --> 00:53:27.630 before. You two think back to San Satyan. To 00:53:27.630 --> 00:53:31.550 the armored guard of Itzman Del Prado. Dressed 00:53:31.550 --> 00:53:34.429 in you and Jean, standing beside Ramin, nearly 00:53:34.429 --> 00:53:37.329 overwhelmed by them. You remember an army of 00:53:37.329 --> 00:53:39.030 them coming to strike at you. You remember certain 00:53:39.030 --> 00:53:44.110 death. Could this be what Kejo's working on? 00:53:44.170 --> 00:53:47.869 Is he creating more? He was there. He was on 00:53:47.869 --> 00:53:49.369 Settlestone. He was speaking with Itzmin Del 00:53:49.369 --> 00:53:53.269 Prado. And you know Atash made way with Itzmin's 00:53:53.269 --> 00:53:58.210 research. Maybe. Maybe there's a way to find 00:53:58.210 --> 00:54:04.130 out. What about the last door? Goes a sniff. 00:54:04.309 --> 00:54:06.510 Also, can we see down that hall now that Akio 00:54:06.510 --> 00:54:08.269 has passed it? Oh, yeah, I'll give you that. 00:54:08.429 --> 00:54:11.670 I'll give you that hallway. Cool. You look down, 00:54:11.690 --> 00:54:16.710 and the tea drops down a very long ways, about 00:54:16.710 --> 00:54:21.730 70 feet. He appears down there. He goes to the 00:54:21.730 --> 00:54:25.610 other door on the other side of the tea. Shakes 00:54:25.610 --> 00:54:28.789 his head. Doesn't smell anything. And he stops. 00:54:29.929 --> 00:54:34.670 I don't hear anything, Master Blanche. Just smell. 00:54:35.630 --> 00:54:40.150 What do you smell, Akio? Nothing here, but... 00:54:40.150 --> 00:54:44.269 And the guy just looks at the other door. Something 00:54:44.269 --> 00:54:49.369 strange. So the first one was like oil, powder, 00:54:49.789 --> 00:54:52.150 strange smells he couldn't really fully put his 00:54:52.150 --> 00:54:54.349 finger on, and the other door was metal and magic. 00:54:55.530 --> 00:54:58.230 Well, I think the metal and magic door seems... 00:54:58.730 --> 00:55:02.190 A little too dangerous. The oil door could be 00:55:02.190 --> 00:55:08.650 just a chemistry classroom. And the third where 00:55:08.650 --> 00:55:13.489 he smelt nothing is both reassuring and concerning. 00:55:14.929 --> 00:55:18.650 Well, soldier boy, which door shall we breach 00:55:18.650 --> 00:55:23.949 first? It can't be nothing. Let's go to the far. 00:55:24.809 --> 00:55:29.519 The last door where he smelt nothing? Yes. Okay. 00:55:30.179 --> 00:55:33.460 Who opens the door? Either Blanche or Dresden. 00:55:33.460 --> 00:55:36.039 I think Dresden will go. Okay. Blanche will be 00:55:36.039 --> 00:55:39.980 in the space behind him. This interior door is 00:55:39.980 --> 00:55:45.179 not locked. You push it open. You're looking 00:55:45.179 --> 00:55:48.219 into a classroom. You see a nice, fine, like, 00:55:48.219 --> 00:55:51.119 blue and gold -weaving carpet covers the floor. 00:55:52.139 --> 00:55:54.619 You see there's, like, standing desks along the 00:55:54.619 --> 00:55:58.670 edges of the room. You see charts along the walls 00:55:58.670 --> 00:56:00.309 that Blanche, as you're kind of like looking 00:56:00.309 --> 00:56:02.530 at them, you realize, you see like lifts that 00:56:02.530 --> 00:56:06.449 would be used in enchantment spells and workings. 00:56:07.030 --> 00:56:09.150 Looks to be some kind of standing classroom that's 00:56:09.150 --> 00:56:13.530 focused on the enchantment school of magic. Okay. 00:56:13.590 --> 00:56:16.550 If you were to guess at a glance, called motivational 00:56:16.550 --> 00:56:22.969 posters. You can dominate. Blanche wants to put 00:56:22.969 --> 00:56:28.599 on her. Eyes of minute seeing and just quickly 00:56:28.599 --> 00:56:33.679 investigate the room. See if there are any hidden 00:56:33.679 --> 00:56:39.079 passageways or something that might be overlooked 00:56:39.079 --> 00:56:43.159 at a glance. Yeah, go ahead. I'll just tell you 00:56:43.159 --> 00:56:46.719 in this case, you take your time. You see nothing. 00:56:47.119 --> 00:56:51.699 Okay. Maybe in the first room where Kia smelt 00:56:51.699 --> 00:56:54.780 the oil. Maybe there's something in there that 00:56:54.780 --> 00:57:00.619 can help us disarm whatever lies beyond the metal 00:57:00.619 --> 00:57:05.420 and magic door. And as Blanche looks at that 00:57:05.420 --> 00:57:08.440 door, is it like you said before, where there's 00:57:08.440 --> 00:57:12.840 no way that Turbo could squeeze under or around 00:57:12.840 --> 00:57:16.039 the door or through a... I'm going to say no. 00:57:16.119 --> 00:57:17.820 I'm going to say they're built to try to avoid, 00:57:18.059 --> 00:57:20.699 you know... pests and critters moving through. 00:57:20.780 --> 00:57:23.320 It's a very, very carefully constructed academy. 00:57:23.659 --> 00:57:26.400 Even though they're under lock and key on the 00:57:26.400 --> 00:57:29.800 guise of an infestation. Well, there's none here, 00:57:29.860 --> 00:57:31.760 right? There's none here, yeah. That's not really 00:57:31.760 --> 00:57:35.500 good. Mostly I don't want to say to the president 00:57:35.500 --> 00:57:37.139 that you can just turbo into every single room. 00:57:37.159 --> 00:57:41.219 Sure, fair. It's like, no. You open that door? 00:57:42.340 --> 00:57:45.239 I'll cover you, Dresden. Yeah. You open into 00:57:45.239 --> 00:57:48.530 a room filled with... what looks to be like tools 00:57:48.530 --> 00:57:51.949 and supplies for the workings of artificery uh 00:57:51.949 --> 00:57:55.030 like a lot of metal working tools and objects 00:57:55.030 --> 00:57:57.070 there's like there's like these little uh sort 00:57:57.070 --> 00:57:59.349 of heat metal platforms one might use to like 00:57:59.349 --> 00:58:02.650 try to you know pulled out of this room potentially 00:58:02.650 --> 00:58:05.289 to smith objects in some sort it makes metal 00:58:05.289 --> 00:58:10.440 way more manageable you see just like bags of 00:58:10.440 --> 00:58:13.159 various powders hanging. Actually, there's probably 00:58:13.159 --> 00:58:15.619 one bag hanging that has some diamond dust that's 00:58:15.619 --> 00:58:17.880 used in a lot of artificery and magical item 00:58:17.880 --> 00:58:20.440 creation. If you want to take it, you can claim 00:58:20.440 --> 00:58:23.860 300 golds worth of diamond dust. Ooh, yeah, baby. 00:58:25.480 --> 00:58:29.320 Let's take that. You're taking your time and 00:58:29.320 --> 00:58:33.219 looking through? Yes. You also would see, kind 00:58:33.219 --> 00:58:35.460 of in the back, sort of off to one side, almost 00:58:35.460 --> 00:58:38.619 like... I think it's almost like a part of the 00:58:38.619 --> 00:58:40.420 wall that juts out just a little bit, and you 00:58:40.420 --> 00:58:42.260 realize this part of the wall is actually some 00:58:42.260 --> 00:58:47.099 kind of, like, case or stand. And it seems to 00:58:47.099 --> 00:58:50.219 be almost like a lockbox inbuilt, just like the 00:58:50.219 --> 00:58:53.119 dried, hardened mud, like everything, just this 00:58:53.119 --> 00:58:57.000 gilded design around the top. You see there is 00:58:57.000 --> 00:59:01.219 a slot for a keyhole. Blanche will try it anyways, 00:59:01.320 --> 00:59:04.880 even though there's a keyhole. Locked. Can Dresden 00:59:04.880 --> 00:59:09.079 roll an investigation? I will say you took your 00:59:09.079 --> 00:59:10.300 time to look through the room. No key in this 00:59:10.300 --> 00:59:13.300 room. You could try forcing it open if you want 00:59:13.300 --> 00:59:17.760 to do something like that. Nah. I really wish 00:59:17.760 --> 00:59:20.940 we had detect magic as a cantrip in this party. 00:59:22.480 --> 00:59:25.420 You should have picked that. I don't know that 00:59:25.420 --> 00:59:28.199 it was on my spell list. David put it on his 00:59:28.199 --> 00:59:33.639 spell list. I think, Dresden, it might be smarter 00:59:33.639 --> 00:59:36.989 for us to... continue down the hall before we... 00:59:36.989 --> 00:59:38.530 Well, that was going to be my next thing. Like, 00:59:38.530 --> 00:59:40.409 do we really need to go into every single room? 00:59:40.889 --> 00:59:43.070 Probably not every single room. If one is, like, 00:59:43.110 --> 00:59:46.610 sitting quite dangerous, like, right at the edge. 00:59:46.730 --> 00:59:50.150 Right. I don't think it's... I mean, I think 00:59:50.150 --> 00:59:54.989 we can use Akio's advantage at perception at 00:59:54.989 --> 00:59:56.969 pretty much every door. Sure. And if we think 00:59:56.969 --> 00:59:58.829 it's a dangerous room, maybe we don't go in right 00:59:58.829 --> 01:00:01.849 away. Yep. So we start to walk down. Make it 01:00:01.849 --> 01:00:04.829 real hard to give me an ending sting on this. 01:00:06.170 --> 01:00:08.650 What if we just checked out everything that wasn't 01:00:08.650 --> 01:00:13.349 exciting first? I'll think of something. Think 01:00:13.349 --> 01:00:17.309 of the fly, David. Okay. Well, Akio goes up to 01:00:17.309 --> 01:00:22.530 this door and does his advantage perception. 01:00:29.920 --> 01:00:35.579 Eighteen. He looks to you. Stiffens. It's faint. 01:00:36.239 --> 01:00:43.099 But magic. In metal. It's same. Perhaps dormant. 01:00:44.079 --> 01:00:46.739 Why are we trusting the dog anyway? Perhaps just 01:00:46.739 --> 01:00:51.199 pots. Because the dog has advantage, Sean. What 01:00:51.199 --> 01:00:55.019 do you think, soldier boy? Fuck. Is it worth 01:00:55.019 --> 01:00:58.059 the risk? It might give David a pretty cool ending. 01:01:01.760 --> 01:01:06.059 We have to check it. You looking in? Dresden's 01:01:06.059 --> 01:01:11.639 looking in. You're looking into an artificery 01:01:11.639 --> 01:01:14.699 workshop. You see desks along the end with various 01:01:14.699 --> 01:01:17.780 tools of metalwork and sort of inscribing all 01:01:17.780 --> 01:01:51.130 set out. Hmm. You see he stiffens his fur, bristles. 01:01:52.909 --> 01:01:58.829 Master Blanche! Master Blanche! Look at it! He 01:01:58.829 --> 01:02:03.190 moves closer. You see tools are all around it 01:02:03.190 --> 01:02:05.489 as if it's been, like, worked on. Someone was 01:02:05.489 --> 01:02:10.590 messing with it. You see it's been cut, severed, 01:02:10.590 --> 01:02:13.170 metal, broken. You see tools here that must have 01:02:13.170 --> 01:02:16.409 severed it. Someone took this arm, this metal 01:02:16.409 --> 01:02:20.039 armored arm. Broke it in this room and we're 01:02:20.039 --> 01:02:22.239 tinkering with it for some strange reason. But 01:02:22.239 --> 01:02:25.599 Blanche, that's not what phases you as you come 01:02:25.599 --> 01:02:29.039 closer. As you really take a look at this thing. 01:02:29.920 --> 01:02:35.320 No. What bothers you is that you know this arm. 01:02:36.420 --> 01:02:41.239 You know this armor. Because it's Ozen's armor. 01:02:42.059 --> 01:02:44.400 Oh no. And we'll call it there.