People! Just want to say real quick, the obvious,
thank you so much for being here right now, listening
to this show. You're the best. You, individually,
right there, the one on top of two, me and you.
You're the best. Enjoy. as written by one Hitzman
Del Prado. Hitzman's work on this current iteration
of the Marvel Ironworks Armored Guard is nothing
short of amazing. I am in equal parts impressed
with his design and stupefied by the severe shortcomings
of this model. How could he have ignored the
sheer potential of these armors? To cut costs,
this is why businessmen should not involve themselves
in the art of invention. The Armored Guard's
magificial intelligence is something that has
been praised time and time again by my crystal
network. Bah! It yet pales in comparison to the
intelligence of a learned sapient mind. Sloppy.
The AG -5 cannot work together and have no true
command structure outside of following the verbal
commands of a designated master. They also have
no ability to work the weave in spellcraft. Did
Itmin never consider Mataki's principles of soul
transference? Had he avoided a necromantic touch,
Elder Shirk cowardice? A surprise, considering
his allegiance with the fractured horn. Well,
the genius Kecha Gumball is certainly no coward.
And he... I will see his potential realized as
he rots in the sky prison. You're very welcome,
old friend. I made a choice many episodes ago
with the voice of Keja Kamal. And there are a
few things I regret more than that. One banana.
One banana. Two banana. It was instinct. I was
like, what does this guy sound like? I don't
know. I just started talking. It's like, fuck,
I got to commit to this. It's a character. I
don't know why, but I was quite tickled by magificial
intelligence. I mentioned it once before in a
commercial for the AG5, but yeah, it's like,
I don't know, I think it's fun. We're doing AI
now, I guess. I don't care. Yeah, magic. Am I?
Am I? Am I? Doing Am I? We don't know how it
works, but it's, yeah. So the results of our
school time special are in. Oh, yeah. And Jeremy
is the winner of a shiny new button. Yeah. And
the thing about this is actually that I'm not
mad. I'm not mad. You're just not. No, I'm not
even mad. You're just not. Did you know that
your lips never touch when you chew on a butt?
I thought you were going to say poop. Sure. Thanks.
Just take it. Just take it out of my hand. I'll
take the pile. I'm not even mad. Just take that.
It's fine. David voted for himself in the poll.
I saw that. I saw that. I was ethical and I did
not vote at all. Oh, oh yeah. That's, you know,
that's really good of you. And I'm not mad. No,
this is the first time in a long time where I've
had three buttons. Oh, you have three buttons.
You're maxed out. Okay. Well, let's see what
else. Cause there's a wedgie in the last fight.
Uh, kind of interesting one. Um, uh basically
that the the scorpions while they had blind sight
they could actively see apart from that and i
did say warding bark didn't work on them but
i think given the fact they could see uh there
was some uh andy and the discord had some uh
thoughts on basically if they can see the flashlight
still hits them like a stun grenade would and
it should still affect them that makes sense
to me so you know what i will call that a wedgie
I'll call that my bad. It was recommended that
I give you guys a button or reset Akio's warning
bar for the day. But it looks like Jeremy's already
got three buttons and I'm not even mad. I'm really
not even mad. Akio's not Jeremy's. You were explaining
that looking at me while you were talking. Akio's
not mine. No, I'm not even mad. So let's move
on. Steven, get a button. He's so petty. Not
even petty or mad. Not even petty, he says. You
guys want to get back into it? Yeah, sure. Let's
get back into it. Here's the thing. We've got
to talk. Top of the show. We've got to talk about
this, right? We've got ourselves a little conundrum.
That was a pretty good spot, I think, last episode,
to swing the swag on over to the other group.
We have pressure on us because we switch over
to dialogue. I want to be there for a few episodes.
We're going to see these guys. We have a good
old, big old sting. Really good episode sting,
right? And now we got to do one more episode.
I'm doing this because I want a pacing. I want
to have more progress here. I want you guys to
explore this library. But we need a sting to
end all stings. We need to find the motherfucker
of the stings. Can you guys find the best? Yeah,
exactly. That's how serious I am. I'm offended
by his language. I'm not even mad, though. And
I think we need to find a good sting. I think
it's up to you guys to find the sting tonight.
I think I'm going to be, now what I'm going to
do, I'm going to let you guys do your thing.
You go in your rooms, you do your silly little
quest and I'll narrate. And what's going to happen
is at one point in this episode. You set up this
quest. This is your quest that we are on. Hey,
shut up. So we're going to go around and when
you guys want to add this thing, you drop some
big cool lines. All right. You find that moment.
You drop some lines and you do this. Okay. Do
that to me. And I'll say the, I'll say the thing.
Or I just do this. And we'll call it there. No,
no, you can't do that. No, wait, hang on. No,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
That's illegal. I have to say that. If you say
it, it doesn't count. And we keep going. We just
keep narrating shit. And we're out. This episode
doesn't end until you find the best sting we've
ever had. All right. Now, the pants people can
look at the timestamp on this episode and see
how long it is. Yeah. We're going to keep going
until you find it. I want you to sting them like
a scorpion stinging a keel last episode. Oh,
my God. All right. Yeah. There's something wrong
with you. Yeah, something wrong with me. I'm
not even mad. Let's start. Let's start the episode.
Blanche, you. have defeated. This is the first
time you've actually fully committed and defeated
one of these things. In that last moment, as
your shadow blade struck, creating this sort
of psychic link between you and this armored
guard, the armor of Ozen now crumpled at your
feet, spilled down over the shelves and clanging
on the library floor, you saw this almost spectral
figure, an image of a very young man. bearded,
haughty, and sort of royal garb. He said that
he was a prince of Senza. And you actually have
a name to put to this face. Because way back
when, when you talked to Prince Simbon, he mentioned,
kind of offhand, that one of the top five students
is his royal, uh, sort of, uh, rival. A prince
of Neba named Carina. And now Carina is gone.
This figure. Made zealous with the teachings
of Kejau Kamal. Obsessed with continuing his
great legacy is gone. Dispatched by your blade.
But you had no choice. Maybe it's not final.
Maybe it's not death. You don't know. You don't
know fully, but I think you're starting to think
that it is. All the evidence points that direction.
Though you did come to this library seeking necromantic
volumes. And now this place is quiet. Your enemy
is dispatched. You have one of the four stone
fragments you need to place upon the pool or...
Yeah, there was a pool of the faceless. You haven't
found that yet. I mean, I guess, you know, yes.
Blanche is upset by the fact that she maybe just
killed, killed this guy. I mean, there was certainly
no... reasoning with him it was kind of kill
or be killed she's trying to malice there's malice
there he tried to kill a keo yeah and that's
just not allowed to happen so she's trying to
compartmentalize but she wants to search through
the armor because you said that we found one
of the tokens yes but we believe that this suit
this guy killed The first suit that we saw in
the gymnasium. Yeah. Yeah, all the evidence points
that way. Definitely, now that you've fought
these scorpions, you know it was their stinging
tails that punctured that armor. Their venom
that was running down it. Probably not doing
anything to it because it's armor, but the stings
were enough. The figure had been webbed to the
floor, essentially, from what you saw and just
stung to death. Punctured, speared repeatedly.
Horrible. So Blanche was thinking that we would
find two of them. You don't see one here. No,
no. And the armor's falling apart all around
you. You're looking at all the pieces. And maybe,
like, Akio bursts back into the room. I'm back!
And everything's kind of still and quiet. And
he starts running over to investigate. Sees the
pieces on the floor. Just sort of sniffing around
them. Knocking pieces around. And just, you know,
booting black armor. Pauldrons and grebes. No.
Nothing on the floor. nothing else carried but
as you're standing up high in this library you
do look to the south and you see there's one
door that is closed to the south there's a sort
of a there's the the office of or the office
slash um dwelling place of miss rochelle the
library's you know keeper oh and next to another
door since she's sitting there totally shut you
don't see what's in that room There's a little
nook beyond that, but you can kind of clearly
see into there. You can see a lot of the library
from where you are now, and nothing really stands
out. There's also a door up beside you and a
door to the north. You haven't seen beyond these
ways yet. Perhaps he has somewhat of a nest nearby
while he was hiding the other token. I will also
remark, Dresden, you were about to start investigating
Miss Rochelle's quarters when you were drawn
out. Do you want to finish that investigation?
Yeah, I think so. We can't stop. And Dresden
will turn and walk toward the room. All right,
so you're heading south. You're going into the
room. You step back into Miss Rochelle's office.
We'll say Jean kind of moves up behind you. Kind
of somewhat looking a little battered and just
kind of wary, staring around. But everything
is calm. He sets himself and follows you in.
Golden spirits are ready to guard against any
other sudden attack. While you're going in there,
what are you doing, Blanche? Blanche is going
to... Hand the token to Akio and ask for him
to smell it. Ooh. Oh. Are there any waftings
of something similar to this nearby? Perhaps
one of the other offices to the south of the
library here? He smells it, moves to the south,
as you said, sniffs at this door. Yes, right
here. Magic. Gold. And magic. And he goes to
that southern door right beside the office, Mr.
Shell. Blanche is going to call out to Dresden
and John. Dresden, where? We're going to enter
the room next to you. Blanche wants to, like,
try to, I don't know, check for traps on this
door or something before opening it? Yeah, give
me a... Gosh, what role would that be? I guess
an investigation, right? Should I just see if
you notice anything? That's a great idea. Will
her eyes of minute seeing work for this? They
will, yeah. You're looking for any little detail.
You're staring all around the fray, looking for
a trip wire, an inscription. Hold on. What? I
just crit everywhere. What? I rolled two ones.
Oh, dude. I rolled two ones. Dude, I thought
you were making a good crit. No. Wow. Wow. I
really hope there's not a trap. There might have
to be now. Dude. I don't have to make a trap.
Two ones? I've never done that before. You didn't
crit ever, Ray. You just made a giant doo -doo.
Dude, for real. She's, like, slipping and dancing.
Oh, my gosh. I don't know what to do with it.
I mean, you certainly don't see anything. You
think there might be a trap. You, like, touch
it. You're like, no. There's resistance to the
door. I'm super paranoid, but I also don't see
anything. So I guess I'm just going to open the
door now. She announces to Akio. Okay, Roof.
Do that. Wait, no, Roof. You have taught me how.
I will open the door, Roof. And he gets up and
opens the door. Swings over. And he does not
explode because there is no trap. Okay, that's
great. But you do trip and fall over. Okay, that's
fair. Let's open this room up. You're looking
to just like another small, it looks like just
a kind of a little office here. Maybe it's a
second office for her. You notice a few things,
right? You're looking at this office. Yeah, I
hate to tell you, there are a couple of yellow
circles that I don't think I'm supposed to see.
Nope, you actually can see those. Oh, I thought
it was like stuff that you, like important things
that you had circled. Nah, you're good. You don't
do anything important. Let's start with, who
to start with here? What? Hey, how dare you?
Hey, the thing is, I'm not even mad though, so
it's okay. What you see is immediately there's
an office desk next to you, right? This desk
also has that plate that says Miss Rochelle on
it, which is kind of weird. And you notice there's
a couple of books stacked on this desk. This
is Blanche, by the way. We'll get to you in a
second, Dresden. One looks to be a short stack
of high -level sort of divination texts. And
there's a place on the desk in the orderly manner.
There's a few arcane elements along with them.
There's a tray of tiny bones, a crystal ball,
just items that might be used in spells and rituals
of the divination class. And you realize you're
looking at perhaps Mr. Shell's pulling double
time. And this is actually also the office of
divination. Beyond that, what's much more interesting
is there's a table. deeper into the office and
sort of scrawled on the table and almost like
it's this you have to look top down over it right
it's kind of this magical inscription that goes
down the legs of the table and continues all
over there it's this weird looking um three ringed
arcane circle or three rings connected by a singular
central ring and all inscribed with golden chalk
into the stone tiles of the floor within each
ring you can see is an image of a scorpion surrounded
by magic script Summoning circles unlike any
you've seen before, but they seem, based on what
you've seen, to allow conjured beings to last
far longer than they should. Another discovery
of the incredible Kejo Kamal. You recognize that
golden script as something that I think you would
have seen, or at least heard of, from the Shrine
of Storms. All the elementals that were used
there had similar magic circles summoning them.
The Zappies on Tythos had similar magic circles
summoning them. This is definitely Kejo's magic,
probably passed on to one of his writer students.
And in the middle of that circle, that central
circle, right in the middle of that table, is
another stone fragment. And we'll call it there.
No, no. Come on. It's not good enough. It's too
early. It's an art. It's an art. Let's see how
many ending points we can have. You're going
to be like, oh, this is easy. We've had so many
stings. I am not even going to be mad. So there's
a large circle in the middle with three smaller
circles around it. And those three have the scorpion.
So it's all one big summoning inscription, but
the three seem to be identical. outside are identifying
like the shape and form of the creatures what
you're figuring and that middle one is just like
the kind of main oh okay for a second i thought
i thought that like placing another stone and
it was gonna take one of the other circles away
and this was like the way into kejo's no no this
okay this just seems like it was scrawled here
by the armored form you just bought that's the
impression you're getting the circle was placed
here this is like well you think about this if
you were to say have gone in here and disturbed
those rings Would you have, in essence, just
ruined the whole fight? Maybe. Where else would
you want to hide something like that stone fragment?
Behind all these enemies in a safe place where
you wouldn't just wander in. This had to have
been the work of the armored guard you just fought.
Okay. Well, Blanche is going to pick up the stone
and she'll walk down the hall just to poke her
head in as Dresden's doing whatever Dresden's
doing just to announce that I found the other
stone. We've got two of them now. Nice work.
Dresden. It's good to you. Yeah. You're going
through this room. You're doing a good thorough
investigation. I think Jaune's helping, and you're
kind of moving things around. You see a few things.
Now, the desk I think we mentioned doesn't have
a whole lot on it. It just kind of looks like
the head librarian desk, but you kind of move
around to the bed, and there's like a number
of stacks of books kind of off to the side of
the bed, and there's also a nightstand with a
drawer on it. And you look at those books. You
see that all the ones next to the bed are of
a more personal nature. It looks like there are
a lot of comedies, as well as one book detailing
the great pranks of history. Maybe this librarian's
a bit of a prankster character. Okay. And this
actually, that book has a number of color -coded
bookmarks sticking out of it. Like, we gotta
remember this prank and this one. Just some silly
stuff. But then you pull open the cabinet of
that nightstand, and you find this little brown
book. You pick up. There's no title on it. It's
a little different from the others. You flip
it open. It's a ledger detailing various requests
for books that are not in the library stock.
Oh, shit. And we'll call it there. Shut the fuck
up. Remember, you got to do the thing, too. You
got to wave your arms and point at me. If you
don't do that, I won't say anything. And you
can't say it. You can't say it. I can say it.
No, it's not allowed. It's illegal. It's me.
They're going to be so mad at you. But I won't
be. You flip through the pages, I imagine, of
this ledger. You're just kind of scanning, scanning
with your one eye. You get to the last sort of
end points of it. There's more blank pages beyond,
but you see the last part of the writing. Most
recent titles requested. And you see that these
ones were written with maybe a tremor in the
hand. The handwriting just a little different.
And all of them seem to be books on necromancy
from various authors and eras. You see fragments
of the mortal soul. You see the nameless text.
You see made to linger. You see Mathakis Explorations
of Undeath Volumes 2 and 3. And you see one called
Beyond Flesh and Blood. All titles. All of them
requested by the same person. And there's a note
underneath them that just says simply, to be
delivered to Kejo Kamal personally. Whoa. Blanche
is just outside the door? Yes. I think Dresden
will turn over to Blanche. Get a load of this.
And he'll toss the book over to Blanche. Blanche
looks down and reads it. Simbon told us that
Kejo had a room here, just like the other staff.
Do you think he would have... Left his books
in there. We didn't see it in his classroom.
I suppose we could double check now that we know
what we're looking for. The clock keeps ticking
faster. Maybe. Maybe you're right. Maybe we should
forge ahead. I had an idea I want to run by you,
Dresden, regarding the armor, the AG -6 out there.
How would you feel about using it to set a trap?
I like the way you think. If we can move the
armor together as one piece and throw it into
the room with the ropa, pull it in, and maybe
one of the other students coming by thinks that
there's a free stone for the taking, and we can
shut them in the room and let them fight the
ropa and deal with what's left. I like it. Might
buy us a little time to take a rest as well.
I hear you need one of those. I could use a couple
of spell slots back. I think our sidekicks both
took a couple of hits as well. I'm fine, Roof.
No, you are much better now. I think I gave you
some potions. Yeah, he's 52 out of 76 now. He's
doing okay. I don't even hurt, Roof. Let's keep
going. So do you think that's a feasible... Yeah,
I think so. I mean, it's at least something that's
working while we're resting. Maybe working while
we're resting. Right. It's better than resting
and not having anything else going on. Yeah.
Yeah, that's a good idea. What the heck? Give
it a shot. David's too encouraging. I will say,
the one thing that might work against you...
Go ahead and roll me... Gosh, roll me... Either
insight or straight intelligence with advantage.
Who? Either of you. Insight with advantage? Yeah.
Shit. Okay. Now I did a real crit. Okay. All
right. 21. 25. So you're thinking about this.
You have this plan to draw the enemies out, to
have them essentially go and face the roper.
But you've noticed one thing. One thing has become
a straight fact to you as you've kind of explored
this place. This final exam has turned into a
standstill, a sort of, what's the word here?
Stalemate? Stalemate. I was going to say checkmate,
and I was like, no, it's the opposite. Stalemate.
Everyone seems to be hunkered down, bolstering
their defenses, utilizing their own sort of magical
tricks to get the edge on their opponents, and
everyone would probably expect the same from
everyone else. People are going to be very wary
of traps set by you because they're all prepared
for traps. That's what their expectation is.
Any room could be. This place has been divided
into territories from what you've seen. There
has been fighting, but you've been here for some
hours now. You've heard nothing. You've only
stumbled into combats that have been waiting
for you. You heard explosions before. There were
fights, but perhaps people were hurt, went to
lick their wounds. set their own machinations
into play, you don't know. But it's still worth
a try. I suppose we could at least set the trap,
throw the armor in the room, leave the door ajar
if we come back by there later. Like checking
a fish trap, see if any bait has crawled in.
You and your analogies. We got nothing to lose
by it. Yeah, you grab the plate legs. I'll grab...
It's like pieces. You're just gathering them
all up, armloads of this thing. Take a few trips.
Are you exploring any new rooms as you make your
way over there? Or are you just going to go back
the ways you've already cleared? I think for
now, we would just go back the same way. Out
into the hallway between the two library wings,
to the north, to the private study chambers,
and then cutting to the west. To the closed door.
Yeah, you heard, when you walked away before,
there were pounding tendrils against the door.
Now you hear nothing. Uh, let's see. Should I
open the door? Be tossing it in? Yeah, while...
Okay, I finally found a reason to use this spell,
and I can cast it as a ritual. So, during the
time it took us to gather everything up, over
the ten minutes or so, Blanche... cast floating
disc to gather all of the armor pieces on so
she's just going to open the door and let the
floating disc go in and dispel it to drop the
armor on the floor in front of the roper so if
you could do that in the first place why did
we carry the whole thing over here you guys have
done that the whole time okay well maybe that's
maybe that's what i meant So when they leave
the room now, they'll just leave the door ajar.
Okay. As the thing goes in, I think you see that
eye opens. It clatters. You see tendrils come
out, snap out, almost like greedily reaching,
pulling. I think you hear metal and grinding
on stone as it tries to bite and spits it out.
Just like a horrible cacophony of sound as you
kind of slowly kind of keep the door, close it
a little bit, keep it somewhat ajar. And that
sound just keeps echoing, tries to feast. I believe
the faculty rooms were in the northeast, same
as the dorms. I suppose we could head that direction
and try to find Kejo's room. Okay. As we're walking
Dresden, do you mind if I... I'm sorry, this
has been bugging me. See your potato book? Don't
let him have it. Here. After some reflection,
I found it strange that the DM sought to make
note of it and how it was the only book that
was open in the whole library. No, no, it's too
late now. You go to the library, the doors are
all locked. As we're walking, Blanche just wants
to thumb through this potato book. You thumb
through it, and it's just a book on potatoes,
but there's that one line highlighted about the
wonderful things that can happen if you just
take care of inanimate things. But you see nothing
else. That's the only thing of note in this book.
And yet, something is bothering you. There's
something wrong here. You come to that whole
room and just something, something is bothering
you. Dresden, do you mind if we detour through
the library on our way to the teacher dorms?
This is really going against the idea that we
were going to take a freaking rest. We can find
a time to rest. I thought that's the way we were
going to do it. Well, maybe we can rest in the
library. I was thinking we would try to get to...
Kejo's room and maybe rest in there. He's got
a really nice bed. He's got a really nice big
bed. I mean, at this point, Justin's following
Blanche. He's still healthy as hell. He has no
concerns about arrest. I'm thinking that if we
can... I think we should maybe try to fight one
more of these guys. Before taking a long rest.
Famous last words. I know. But I'm down some
spell slots. We've got enough potions. We can
pass them around. Yeah. Dresden's not all that
hurt. Okay. He doesn't need to recover anything.
Yeah. I'm going to guess that we maybe get one
long rest in this whole thing. And if we do it
now, we still have potentially two AG6s and then
Kejo to fight. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you can take
as many risks as you want. I'll be counting hours.
I won't tell you why. Sure, right. So, heading
back to the library. You were by the rope before.
I like to imagine you head to the south, move
to the short -term containment for the beast,
move into the spell training ground, move past
that AG -6 corpse with the mixing sort of stirrer
still in hand, and maybe you just... Obviously
it's not anything more than an impression you
have, but it just feels like this armor is resting
more peacefully now. The murderer dispatched.
And you press into the west wing of the library
once again. A room you searched before and found
nothing out of place. And yet something is bothering
you. Near where the book was, are there like
any lamps? Or... There's lamps in all the tables.
Okay. Well, okay. Blanche wants to start at least
at the table where Dresden found the book. Okay.
She wants to give the tables and chairs and lamps
by that book a once over. This is tough. Because
you already rolled investigation check in this
room and you failed. So what I'm going to do
is I'm not going to give you any new information.
But... Something is bothering you because nothing
was out of place and it just seems like something's
wrong here. You don't see anything. Not by the
table, chairs, the lamp, nothing. Okay. You also
mentioned that there was a library section on
agriculture. I did. Can Blanche go scan the books
in that section? Yeah. Yeah, you go through,
you scan it again. No role. I'm not going to
give you that role. I'm not going to give you
any new information, but you see the same thing
you saw before. Nothing out of place. Did Dresden
investigate anything? He just walked around,
right? I don't think he investigated, no. Can
Dresden investigate? I'll allow it. Cool. I'll
allow it. You see Blanche looking around. Cool.
Button for advantage. Okay. Whoa. Okay. 19. It's
not the best I was hoping for. I love this because
it keeps telling the same story. Blanche gets
stuck up on something because it's almost too
dumb for Blanche's mind to become. Because nothing's
out of place. So why is there a book in your
hands that doesn't have a spot on the shelf?
That book ain't supposed to be in there. Oh,
okay. Yeah, so where did it come from? Or...
what's in its spot if there's nothing out of
place and you have the book this book was not
returned to its rightful spot but there's no
spot that you can notice for it so something
is wrong you're hitting it's hitting you like
drives into you kind of look and you kind of
note this you guys have to realize there is something
wrong here We have to learn the Dewey Decimal
System. Bench knows that. 20 Intelligence, you
got this. Your brain is a library. We literally
had an episode about that. Do you want to go
to the spot? You look at the book's cover. You
kind of consider where it should be. Trace the
shelf. Do you want to find the spot the book
should be? You're right, Dresden. Every book
has a spot, but this one. So yeah, she'll go
find the spot. Does Blanche have an idea enough
where she could point out a direction and we
could send Dresden's Echo to the spot? Yeah,
I think you could point it out pretty easily.
I like it. Okay. We'll do it that way. Maybe
I can find this in my notes. I thought you were
never going to come back here again. And Dresden
can see. He can see through his eyes. Okay. You're
seeing Dresden's eyes. You move down and... You
follow Blanche's exact coordinates, and you're
pointing suddenly at a book that is called The
Root of the Issue. But that book isn't where
it should be based on title. This is where The
Art of Potatoes should be. So you grab the book,
and you slide it out. I think you're the one
that was in the room, so as you're pulling this
out, you're thinking, this is so stupid, it's
almost like a prank. And that librarian had a
sense of humor. You pull this book out. Jesus.
Do you want to open this thing? You want to look?
Yeah. You realize the spine on this book is sort
of a hastily made fake. Once it's pulled out,
you can see that only the part that was sticking
out from the actual shelf really looks professional.
The rest of it, as you slide out, just looks
like a totally different book. And the cover
of this book simply says, Thank you for caring.
Maybe you open the cover to the next page and
there's an inside cover that says, Now you've
earned a little mischief. You flip the page,
Dresden, and you have no idea what you're looking
at. No clue. Because you could not possibly read
a wizard's spellbook. And we'll call it there.
Oh, yeah. Holy shit. You want to give this thing
to Blanche? You want to keep it? It's yours?
Blanche, you're going to want to get over there.
I mean, we did say the next cool thing was yours,
but... This school has nothing for me. It's true.
You got a dagger. It's cool. This is why I dropped
out. Yeah, Blanche will... politely hold her
hand out to the echo. Can't believe you went
back for this. Oh, I re -listened and I was like,
it's really weird that he just, just the way
he mentioned it. You were, I was going to be
so happy to tell you about this after the arc.
Oh my God. And watch you cry. Watch you crumble
to the floor like the loser you are. Ow. Weep.
Holy shit. Ouch. All right. Now that I'm here.
You open this book. And you scan it. You take
a moment just to scan through the spells. You
don't have them in mind yet to put them in your
own book. You don't understand them, but you
know what they are. You get the gist of them
just by looking. Inside this spell book, you
find the spells. Unseen Servant. Magic Mouth.
Gaseous Form. Stinking Cloud. Here's a really
weird one. I took this from the Unearthed Arcana
7 book, which is known as Modern Magic. I think
this one kind of fits for our settings. It's
kind of Unearthed Arcana. It's a little bit loose
in the official territory. It's a wizard spell,
but it's more put out for a modern setting. But
I think this is cool. I think this is insanely
cool. It's a spell called Invisibility to Cameras.
It specifically works on diamond recorders. Holy
shit. Amazing. Yeah, that's okay. Whoa. Now we're
getting some cool shit. That's going to be super
useful. Yeah. Whoa. Okay. Well, maybe now there
is another reason to take a long rest, but I
can't help but feeling, Dresden, that I think
we should at least just push on to Kejiho's office,
his rooms, I mean, and see what we can find there.
Blanche is like, we might find an episode ending.
The pressure's on. I'm right with you. So, right,
David, are we correct that Simbone said in the
northeast was both the student dorms and the...
Simbone said that the more eastern part of the
northern side is staff. East and north is staff
dormitories. Okay. Students are kind of more
in the northeastern section. And at the very
kind of top north area is where the... faculty
have their more exquisite bedrooms. The hallway,
you have looked down a hallway at the end of
where these private study chambers, that long
hallway doors spread out, and given Cimbone's
instruction, you think maybe you're looking actually
out towards the faculty, at least whatever's
pressed against that northern wall. I think that's
where Dresden probably would prefer to go next.
His thinking is he wants to stay as far away
from the main grand entrance for as long as possible.
Hell yeah. Okay, yeah. So we've kind of come
up to the side of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.
Yeah, we did like 6 o 'clock to 12 o 'clock.
And now we'll just continue on 12 o 'clock. I'm
going to need you to bring your tokens up over
here. I need to know exactly where you're going.
You get to the start of that hallway again. You're
looking down. This long hall. All these doors
set. And I'm not going to make you open every
individual door. As you kind of go to areas,
I'll basically unlock it in sections to make
it a little easier. But we're still going to
take it one section at a time because who knows?
Do we want to each take a side? And just bam,
bam, bam? Or do we want to go slower? Let's go
a little slower and just have Blanche follow
Dresden. Okay. Just because I'm a scaled. Yep.
Hell yeah. Cool. Okay. Yeah, I think Justin's
going to first just go on the first one on the
right here. First one on the right. Looks like
that connects to the east wing down below it.
Sorry, which one's right? Hang on. Okay. Down.
I have a problem with those. Thank you. Down
is so much better. I have a thing with that one
right. That's fine. That was big. I have a quirk.
I'm a quirky fella. And I'm not mad. And you
go to the washroom. Sorry. It's a washroom. You
open the door and you're just looking into just
looks like a showers kind of area. Nice, you
know, gilded sort of faucet running over it.
All right. White porcelain tile. Nothing too
exceptional here. Cool. So, yeah, unless Blanche,
there's nothing of interest to Dresden there.
And unless Blanche says anything, he's just going
to move on to the next door. I need to do some
laundry. You take a short rest. Hey, if you guys
want to not be stinky, you could always just
like do that. I mean, it's there. Go to the next
door. Go to the next door on the right. Yeah.
You open it and you just see it looks like a
dorm. As you open this one up, it's totally cleared
out. Okay. But given that there's two bedrooms,
it's a lot smaller. You're thinking, okay, we're
maybe the southern side. It's the student side.
It's the student side. Okay. You're looking at
two beds in a small student dormitory. Sure.
Worth a rolling investigation. I'll tell you
no. Okay, cool. Going to the left. Going to the
left, you open this door up, and what you actually
see is a hallway leading down. There's a door
on the end that you know leads outside, and there
are two doors on either side. I'm going to give
you all of them. Okay. You open them all. One
of them is a toilet, a shared toilet for this
area. And you see three much nicer dormitories,
single bed, wide bed. They're definitely on the
smaller side, about 20 by 20 foot, but they are
definitely much nicer than what you saw down
south. Yeah. You know, the staff here are well
taken care of. You're moving in. You can tell
by context clues, maybe a couple of, like, books
still on a shelf or some, like, homework that
was unfinished and just kind of left ungraded.
One of them is the bardic arts instructor. One
of them is the alchemy instructor. You also,
on the other side, see the artificery instructor.
You see the name Ross Cujo, which I wrote down
because I said I made it up a few days ago. And
here, go ahead and make a check. I'll tell you
where. There's a lot of room, so I'll tell you
where. Okay, cool, cool. Just save some time.
21. 21. You're looking in. I think maybe it's
like you're searching the bed. You reach under
the pillow. Your hand touches something, and
you pull out a little key. Oh, so that's what
that word key is on the map. I was waiting for
you to stop saying it. No, thank God. Stop it.
That's illegal. You cheaters. Well, then when
you said the name, I thought you put key there
as like refer to key for the name. Oh, that's
so funny. Nope. Instructor. Nope. There's a key
in that room. That was a GM letter. But I didn't
want to like interrupt you again because when
I did it earlier and I thought you made a mistake,
you're like, no, I meant to do that. I never
make mistakes. That was awesome. That was awesome.
He's not even mad. Look at him. He's not even
mad. Look at Al. All right. Get out of there.
Get out of that room. You're done. You want to
keep going? Yeah, I'm going to keep going. What's
that key for? I don't know, but he wants to peer
into the Barter Constructors room. Hell yeah.
Are there any books in there? I will say there's...
Boy, does music do books? I don't know. Does
music do books? There's not necessarily books.
I just said, I don't know, like it was an actual
thing. There's like sheet music. There's like
composed sheet music for various instruments.
Yeah, it'd be so nice if there was like a convenient
way to carry all of that sheet music. Cool. In
a book. Yeah. Damn it. Okay, cool. He's going
to grab whatever books he can. He's starting
to get mad. He grabbed the books. Yeah, he's
bringing the books with him. He's got his buddy
in mind. Yeah, nice little gift for Jules. Yeah,
he's got his buddy. You guys are characters.
Go ahead and roll intelligence. Oh. Because you
guys have gold degenerates. Your characters might
not. Wait, what? Yeah, go ahead and roll. Straight
intelligence check, both of you. See if you're
right or something. Okay. Ten. Five. And a lot
going on. You have no idea where that key goes.
Yeah. All right, so. Cool. Now, David, now you
have to figure out what is all in that stuff
that I'm going to be giving to Jules when I see
him next. Okay, sure. That's your homework. Ooh,
school joke. It's all hot cross buns. Just in
every. One a penny, two a penny. All right, let's
keep moving. All right, keep moving. Going down
the hall. Next right side room. I'm going to
give you the next two right side rooms. Cool.
Nice guy. Boom, two more student dorms. Again,
this place was cleared out. All the students,
well, supposedly all the students were made to
leave. And so there's nothing really there. Beds
are made. And you see, again, two apiece, these
two student rooms. Another door on the left.
Hold on, hold on. Sorry, real fast. The key room,
which instructor was that? That was the artificiary
instructor. So it's right there. Yeah. Oh, you
can see that because I didn't. I'm going to leave
that when I put the map on Discord. The key just
sitting there stupidly. I'm mad. Okay, that's
fine. That's fine. We'll deal with it later.
Okay. You got any thoughts over there? Well,
I was wondering about the, like, roper cage or
something. I was trying to remember what, if
any, locked things we've come across. You're
going to be so pissed. Well, I mean... It's probably
something in the Artificery Workshop or the Artificery
Supplies Shop or Spell Supplies. I'll just tell
you. Is it the key to the box? Oh, there's a
private... Is this the key to the box? There's
a box in the Artificery Supply Room. Yeah, yeah.
And you saw that when you first... It was a million
episodes ago. You first saw it and you were like,
oh, we might need that. So there's a key. And
you might think, hey, that goes to that. I'll
give it to you. Your characters would remember
that. It's only been like a couple hours from
then. It's been a month for us. No longer. Yeah.
Hold your horses, Blanche. We'll get that loot
on the way out. You going to go to the next block
of faculty dorms? Yeah, I think so. I'll open
up the four. Boom. Another toilet. You also see
rooms for... The Abjuration, Enchantment, and
Illusion Professors. You can kind of make it
out again. Okay. Homework, sort of utensils used
for spellcraft and personal stuff. These are
also largely, like, any personal items have been
taken because the empathy is also gone. Okay.
Yeah. Not worth a check? I will say, I'll tell
you no. Okay. Cool. Yeah. Unless Blanche has
any other objections. Yeah, I mean, we're going
to get to Kejo's eventually. Hell yeah. So, on
the right. Let's go. Keep on going. Oh, that's
the next Catholic block on the right. Okay. You
see you're entering what looks like there's also
an L in the floor here. Can I get closer? You
can see that the hallway moves down towards,
you know, two more doors on the other side. Probably
student dorms. And another door that looks like
it seems to go out into another district of the
school. But you take a step into that sort of,
that spot between, you know, where the door leads
to the north into more faculty dorms, maybe Kejo's
room, who knows. You're like right in the sort
of exact northmost point in the school, the sort
of central point. Hey guys, hey fellas, can I
do a take you back, C's? Can I do a take you,
can I do the sting? He's got a sting. Can I do
the sting? I got a fucking sting. I got a sting,
all right. Can I do a sting? I can do a sting?
Oh, that rules ass. And we'll call it there.
Oh, no! You might stop it! No! I love the show.
That rules ass. So we stumbled into somebody's
trap. Yeah, we did. Be very honest with me. What?
Now, Dresden was in the lead. Blanche, you were
right there. I could see you on the map in the
square right next to it. It means Keo's going
to be right beside you, which is what Keo does.
And Jaune, right beyond you. Sure, yeah. Okay.
All of you in a line, Dresden in the front. You
take a step there. Mm -hmm. Blanche, you see
it the moment before Dresden finishes that step.
Down the hallway, the door opens, and a figure
half steps out. The plating of Ozen's armor,
black, and the light. And you see the... gauntlet
of this armor is crackling with energy as it
turns to point towards you. As this happens,
as you see this, as Dresden finishes that step,
the floor beneath you flashes to light with a
glyph of warning and all of you just explode.
It was all a thing! Baby!