Hello and welcome to Roll Bravely, a live play
Pathfinder second edition tabletop role playing
game podcast where five friends bravely roll
dice, battle imaginary monsters, and solve pretend
problems. I am your game master Charles Reno,
but before we get started, let's meet the table.
Hey everybody, my name is Kenny and I play Amaris.
I am a tiefling ranger. My name is Zach. I play
Taldir, who is a Nephilim liberator. Hi, I'm
Sammy. I play Taz, who's a goblin alchemist.
Hi, I'm Michelle. I play Wesley Nixon, an elf
damn fair investigator. And I'm very confused
about all the bath decorations that are in town
right now for Halloween. It's Halloween in the
game, too. Yep. In the cave. There's just fucking
jack -o' -lanterns in the cave. I love it. And
it continues the meta aspect of Wesley somehow
being aware of the outside world and altering
her wardrobe just like mid -day. You gotta stay
fresh. Stay fresh! She has like the pull -off
pants. Instantly just change her cape. Well,
the last one was the bolo tie. It was like, where
did you get? You know what? We're going to roll
with it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, and lace gloves. Vampire. Duh. Oh, okay.
Lace gloves. So, last time, you all decided to
seek out Hilda Onyx Fist, hoping to uncover...
What she may know regarding the mysterious incident
at Mine 616, its connection to your own encounter
in the Blushing Goldfinch, your first night in
town, I believe, as well as the broader connection
to Vale, who apparently has a connection to Taldir
himself. You located, after doing some searching
in the Five Mines area, Two dwarves, Dorf Darkwell
and Gorrent Onyxfist, who were overheard discussing
Hilda and her current predicament. After a brief
conversation, they agreed to guide you into the
five mines themselves. You descended into a tunnel,
moved into a mine shaft, where you were attacked
by these cave creeper creatures. These sort of
mutated over time monstrosities. During the battle,
Dorf met his unfortunate end. But the rest of
you are still alive. And I believe pretty much
ready to go. Although, Taz, you said that you
took some damage. Ah! That's me. I'm leaned over.
Ah! Now, kind of the way I want to run the broader
system, and I like to kind of let people know
this up front, even though characters may not
be aware of it, I think it's helpful in terms
of the game aspect of it all. So you are in this
kind of large cavernous area that formerly served
as an active mine before it was shut down. You
don't know why it was shut down, except that
it was shut down at some point. Hilda is hidden
somewhere in here. And in order to find her,
you're going to have to do a little exploring.
Could take a day. Could take ten days. You're
uncertain. This dwarf that's leading us to her
doesn't know where she is? Well, as... Like the
guy who was like, yeah, I know where she is.
He was lying. Well, he knows that she is down
here. He knows she's down here and knows the
area, right? Yeah, and as the chaos kind of...
Knows exactly what's booby -trapped and all that.
She does, yeah. As the chaos of combat subsides,
you're going to see him just kind of like...
I was hoping they'd been cleared out. These creatures
there. One of the many reasons these mines were
shut down. Still, if we're quiet, we should be
able to avoid them. Please. So there's probably
more? There may be. We use them to suss out gemstones,
things like that. And he points over to the dead
cave creeper whose belly was split open. And
there is an assortment of small gemstones that
have been spilled onto the... cavern floor below
him. Oh, cool. Yeah, I start grabbing some and
shaking off whatever bile or stuff. As I clean
them off, I'm going to wipe them onto Taz's shirt
before putting them in my bag. Alright, everyone.
You missed a spot. Everyone who is doing this,
go ahead and roll a d100 for me. That's probably
the two tens for most people. Does anybody own
a D100? No, but I have the percentile dice, which
is basically the same thing. I don't have one
either. I just use the percentile myself. Oh,
fucking 100! Okay. That's probably not good.
It's just a list. It's still cool because I never
roll 100. Yeah. Me neither, and they're in my
bag. Hold on. This is the... Yeah. Okay, I got
a 20. Okay. Did you roll both 10s? I thought
we were just rolling with this one. No, no. So
you use that one, and then that tells you that
you're in 20, and then the other one that has
only a single digit will tell you the one's digit.
So that one's the 10's digit, and then you have
the one's digit. 23. 23. All right. 40. 40. Okay.
So I'll go in an order that I heard them. Go
ahead, Amaris, and roll a D4. D4. Come on. Those
are always ones. God damn it. Did you roll a
one? I curse you, Charles Renault. Did you roll
a one? Yeah, of course I did. It's a D4. You
rolled a one. It's the only thing they do. Okay,
yeah. You grab a tourmaline that is worth five
gold pieces. I feel like you just made up that
word. I feel like whoever wrote this book did.
Anybody know what a tourmaline is? Tourmaline?
I thought you said tourmaline. Wrote this book.
Wasn't that you? Well, chart doesn't come from
me, but I understand the confusion. Really, does
anybody know what a tourmaline is now? Isn't
it a gem? Dude, it's fantasy. Is it a real thing?
These are dope. They look like Jolly Ranchers.
They're like green and red. Called it. Also,
didn't you say that we could re -roll ones all
the time? Anytime ever. You might have a hero
point. You want to waste that? You know what?
Actually, yeah, I do. Can I? Yeah, sure. Wait,
wait, wait. Is this the amount of gems or is
this just... No, this is just how much money
the amount is worth. Alright, yeah. I'm going
to fucking burn a hero point for this. For rolling
a d4. 1d4 plus 4. 3. Haha. Nice. So that would
be 15 gold pieces with your well -spent money.
You motherfucker, no. Are you serious? Yes. I
told you. It was for how much money they were
worth. The other one was worth 350, it said.
No. Five gold pieces. No. Five. Oh, never mind.
That's a spear. Yeah, never mind. That sounds
a lot nicer than what he said. Some legendary
item. Okay, Wesley, as you're kind of going through
the stones, some of them worthless, you pull
out... This game is haunting me. A crystal barrel?
Does anybody know what a crystal barrel is? A
wheel barrel? Wheel barrel. Crystal? Are you
saying with a G? I am not, although I understand.
Whistle? Whistle while you work? Pick something
else, dude. If anybody out there wants to look
at it. I thought you said you had all this ready
to go and prepared. I had the list. They look
like tiger's eye, kind of. Just say that. Everybody
could spell tiger's eye, kind of. I mean, if
I get lucky. Yeah, but also, why don't you just
write down the four jewels you actually know
and give it a 25 % chance to be anything you
know? That's supposed to be like 1 in 100. Because
that's not the way the player's guide works.
Just trying to use it for random... You did say
15 gold pieces for me. I did. For each of the
numbers I saw, that's 45? No, that was just 15.
Wesley, go ahead and roll a d4. Burn a hero point
if you want. I would. Don't do it. You're just
going to fucking roll a four with your weighted
dice anyways? I got a one. Burn it. So you find
a few of them. They are worth approximately five
gold pieces when combined. Hey, here's one I
know. Taz, as you're kind of going through the
little pile, you pull out a handful of garnets.
Go ahead and roll a d4. Kevin Garner? Anything
is possible. Three. Three. Okay. So, yeah, you
find a couple of garnets, large, uncut, but you
think once they're finished, they're probably
worth about 15 gold pieces. You and me both,
huh? Yeah, we got it. Okay. So, again, you guys
have kind of gone through the stack. You are
in the tunnel with the dwarf. As you're kind
of waiting there, trying to see, you know, come
up with a plan for the next... stage of this.
You guys are sorting through these stones. And
we... Yeah. That's fine. What do you guys want
to do now? How do you want to proceed? I think
before I started looting, I would have been like,
somebody help me. And then I would... I'll use
some... I'll crawl to Taliyah. Help! Like, reaching
out, you know? Dramatic, but almost not dramatic,
you know? Because there's blood coming down.
I want to, like, reach down and, like, touch
his blood pile and just go... His blood pile?
Um, it's a small... It's a little puddle. It's
like taking a shot of Fireball. I'm gonna administer
first aid. And that is useful because... I'll
stick my tongue out. I didn't say CPR. So it
was a 19. A 19? That's fine. No, it was. It wasn't
a 19. It did a kickflip. Ah, fuck that. And it's
like a 1 now. That's a 7 total. That's decent,
right? But that is a natural 1. You actually,
I believe, do harm on a natty 1. I don't know
if that's true. They're killing him. 1d8 damage.
1d8 damage. Oh, yeah, dude. Come on, one. Come
on, one. Let me see. As he rubs his eyes. Six.
This is the number. Did you roll a six? I did.
I was going to roll it, but I also rolled a six.
Oh, okay. Aw, you guys are fucking cute. Are
you dying now, Taz? Yeah, I don't know what you
do to try to fucking fix me, but I... And I just
turned like a pale green. Oh, hang on. Wait,
wait, wait. I know what to do here. I'm going
to stabilize him. Oh wait, I do have a hero point.
Let me try that again. No, you burned one. You
still have more? Oh. Hang on. So I roll a d20
for the first time. Ah, you piece of shit. 13.
It wasn't a 1 at least. Yeah, so that's just
a normal failure. He cannot be treated for An
hour, and he heals nothing. So that's one hour
gone. Oh, look, he's getting better as I hand
him inconspicuously a healing potion of lesser
value. Taz just coughs up blood. I'm like, oh
my god, thank you! And I pop the cork. 2d8 plus
5. 2d8 plus 5? For a lesser healing potion? Yeah.
Remember when he handed him out in the beginning?
Are you sure? I actually went a step higher than
I intended to. That's why I wanted to heal him
and not use the healing potion. That is a fat
healing potion. Cave times all for cave measures.
Hand off the chest piece. So, who all needs healing?
Is it just Taz? I do. I'm down to about half,
so I'm gonna... Do a little yield check on myself.
All right. How is Wesley? Mine says I'm at 24,
so... Nice. And Amaris? Oh, good. Oh, nice. Okay.
Oh, man. I fail my yield check, and I take 10
minutes after that to focus and get my fucking
Leon hands back. I guess I can just keep doing
that. Hey, real quick. Give me a second. Real
quick, does anybody... Oh, never mind. Somebody
else should have had a potion also. I think there
was two. I think I have three on my sheet. I
think that might be level three because that's
what I just thought also. Oh, yeah, you're right.
Yeah, that's why I was like, wait a minute. I
guess I have them all. Okay, yeah, I've got one
as well. I do not have them. I have my own little
baby ones. I think Teldir and I have them. As
far as I understand it, I can do this with, like,
focus points. Like, I just have to take ten minutes
to refocus, but as far as I know, there's not,
like, a limitation beyond that. Yeah, it's just
the time, and I will say, in addition to what
we were talking about earlier, there is something
going on, so while you are not in a race against
the clock, How long you take to find Hilda will
affect what happens when and if you do. Yeah,
so over... Are you telling us? Are you telling
that, like, out of game? Yeah, I'm just splitting
you guys. No, again, I think to an extent there's,
like, a game element to it, right? So just as
the players are aware, there are places to heal
and time to do it, but taking that time, you
know, can affect the outcome of how things go.
I think we give it a go one round and then keep
moving. I think we also know that the dwarves
were bringing in people to hunt her down anyways.
Essentially, with 40 minutes, basically, Taldir
can just focus, cast, refocus, etc. Do that over
and over and get back to full. It'll just take
him 40 minutes. In those 40 minutes after I heal,
if Amaris wants to join me, we'll start playing,
like, a card game in front of Taldeer as he's,
like, focusing. Yeah, that's cool. So he just
hears, like, the snapping of the cards as they
hit the ground. What's that one that you have
to, like, slap? Oh, yeah. Manotazo? Yeah, play
that. Slap face. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. All right,
here we go. What is this game called? Pathfinder?
No, not. I know it feels very much like I don't
know what game we're playing, but... It's called
Manotazo, but basically you split the deck in
half, and then you count, and if the number you
say comes up, you have to put your hand in the
pile, and whosoever's hand is at the top takes
all the cards. That sounds vaguely similar to
Crazy Eights or whatever it is, right? Where
you're throwing cards into the middle of the
pile, and then based on... You have to, like,
match, and if you can't match, you have to take
the whole pile or something like that, right?
Kind of, but, like, you count from 1 to 13, and
then you start over. So you go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
You keep going back and flip the cards over.
And if you say 6 and you throw a 6, then you
slap your hands into the middle of the thing,
whoever's on top takes. You want to get rid of
all your cards. So that's all you hear is just
cards and then counting and then hands just smacking
into the pile. Is there a gambling aspect involved
in this? Oh, yeah. Oh, hell yeah. Well, it's
a game, Charles. I'll bet you one of these for
one of those. Yeah, you're on. How do we do this,
Charles? God damn it. You know what? I think
to replicate what you're talking about. I don't
really know how to do that. You want to just,
well, I'll call it evens, you call it odds, or
vice versa, and Charles will roll. We can just
roll a reflex. Nah. This might be higher. No,
not a chance. Here, we'll just... Oh, you want
to roll a reflex? We can. This is a d20 plus
the reflex. I'm done with that. Fucking smacks
down faster. Yeah, I'm a way to do it. I know.
We're gambling, so I'm going to show my dice.
Oh, shit. I do appreciate that these backgrounds
hide the disaster that is my room at times. I
know. But I also wish I could turn them off for
moments like this. 19. What the fuck? You can't
even see it. It's 19. Kenny's looking like a
weird guy on Omegle right now. 13. Got it. Plus
nine. I got a 28. Oh, yeah. You fucking asshole.
You cocksucker bitch. Hey, what do you know?
Oh, I never would have anything like this. All
right. So as you guys are doing this, the dwarf
is just kind of like leaning against the wall.
One round, I lose my gym and I just walk away.
I was like, man, fuck this. So that was worth
five GP? Yeah. What was the dwarf doing? He's
just, like, leaning over his dead friend. Leaning
against the wall, like, poor dwarf. Poor dwarf.
And just, like, he looks distraught as you guys
are gambling just inches from his corpse. Oh,
come on. Did he die? Yeah, I guess. Kind of close.
They walk over and start going through his pockets.
Trying to recoup their losses from gambling?
Wasn't gonna do that until he wasn't looking.
Oh, shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Alright, so... Uh...
I'll walk up hearing him say that just off to
this side. I'll be like, uh, we should probably...
make sure, you know, they're okay. Quick! Maybe...
Maybe you could give him one of your healing
potions. See if that would do it. Oh, I think
he's dead, though. I think I saw him, like, die.
I don't think that's going to really help. I
poke him with my sword. I didn't even know I
had that one. You poke him with a sword. Just
to see if he's alive. Oh, I went a little too
deep. Yeah, for a moment, he just sits up and
then he's like... Yeah, so you spend an hour...
I'll go and I'll... I'll put, like, something
over his dead friend's face. Just because you're
Taz, I have to ask, is it a bomb? No, no, no,
no. It's like a rag. It's a rag that's way too
small for the dwarf's face, but I use that to
kind of, like, you know, cover his face. Okay,
you do that. You know how they got Nacho Libre?
You know when they... Yeah. Where he puts that
thing in the coins? Yeah. I don't put the coins
there. You're not wasting coins on this. You
just lost coins. The funny thing is neither of
us care about the money, but we like things.
Fuck yeah, I just won. I don't know how to gamble.
What's gambling? I would assume that Taz and
Amaris themselves probably don't have a great
idea how much these jewels are worth. No, not
at all. No, no, no. It's just like they're just
like trinkets, like gambling a bead from a bracelet,
you know? Yeah. All right. Well, you guys spend
an hour healing, getting your stuff together,
looting corpses in front of a friend or in front
of a dwarf whose friend has just perished before
his very eyes. What are you going to do now?
Are you ready to proceed? Yeah, let's go. Yes.
All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's go. Are we
going to leave his friend here? Or do you want
to say a word or something, Taldir? No. Okay.
No prayer? I'll come back for you, Dorf. I'm
not like an actual paladin. I just... I'm a liberator.
He's pretty free, so... Oh, he's a patriot? Not
much for me to do here. That's great. Like a
dark Buddhist liberator? Not really, I just like
the title. Yeah. I have freed you from the shackles
of life. You can continue down this mine shaft
for a little while. It takes some time. And eventually
you come to the end of the tunnel. There is a
cavern entrance. And as you approach it, you
can see into the next room. There's kind of a
bioluminescent glow to the ground. The cavern
itself is wide and circular. You can hear water
kind of trickling from the ceiling. There are
stalactites that point in the accurate direction.
There is a large hole in the center of this room
that looks to have been carved out of it. Let
me go ahead and move us over to this map. I want
to get as close as I can to the floor where the
next... To some of that bioluminescent stuff.
See if I can figure out what it is. Yeah. Like
if it's a fungus or if it's like a thingy. Looks
like snot. It's snot. It's snot. Well, you bend
down and touch a little of it. The room is largely
coated. I didn't say I'd touch it. Hold on, hold
on. I'll get real close to it and see if I can
figure out what it is. Don't sound like those
little kids when they just bend all the way down
and look down at the floor. Yeah, like I have...
My ears are at my ankles and I'm just like...
I'm not touching it. Yeah, I'm getting a real
good look at it. Yeah, it's like this slime that
seems to move in like almost concentric circles.
Like it's kind of patterned out that way. You
can see the ground underneath has been kind of
carved almost like a drill bit has been like
dragged across it or a screw. There's kind of
that like corkscrew motion to the carvings. Go
ahead and roll a perception check. Fifteen. Fifteen.
Fifteen, yeah. That came out so low in Reaper,
Jesus Christ. Yeah, you kind of as you're getting
next to it, it's kind of like slimy and this
kind of pale green color. And while you're examining
it, Gorrent kind of comes behind you and looks
over your shoulder. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Whoa, man. I gotta be so careful. Alright, let's
proceed. Lies over his shoulder. Welcome to my
bedroom. Had to rub one out for my dead friend
back there. That's how we dwarves honor one another.
Public masturbation. You should see the ground
near the Ember headquarters. It's fucking Christmas
over there. Yeah, he starts to approach me from
behind. I go, whoa, man. This all has to get
cut. Oh, that's good. That is rich. Yeah, as
you get near to it, you're not as wrong in your
earlier guess as you may have thought. It does
appear to be a kind of like viscous mucus on
the ground. There's some kind of snot on the
ground, guys, and I think it's alive and it's
probably acidic. Do you see these fucking spikes
above us? What? Like, just completely not paying
attention to what you said. What would be, like,
a relevant skill to identify it, Charles? Like,
nature? Uh, fucking... Or, I mean, I guess I
could just roll... Anything you could tell me
if I know anything relevant about it? Go ahead
and roll a nature check. While he's rolling a
nature check, I want to poke it with a wooden
stick that I got in my bag. I just want to stick
the stick in it and see what happens to the stick.
If anybody else wants to roll nature... Yeah,
I'm going to be off walking off by myself. That's
me aiding him. Staring at the ceiling. and then
just, like, realizing I almost stepped in the
ship, like, oh, shit, you guys see this stuff
on the ground? And then I'm going to take a look
at it, and I'm going to roll for nature. Natural
20 for Talthir. For a 21 total, so. And I'm...
I'm aiding him. I'm aiding somebody. Whoever
wants my aid is sticking the stick in the boogers.
I mean, you can aid me if you want. That would
just make it a 23 if you are successful. Hey,
15. Hey. So that is a success, and it moves you
up one category to a critical success. So as
you kind of observe Taz putting his stick in
it, you hear his stick into the mucus along the
ground. You see Amaris kind of like walking off,
and you recognize maybe the smell or consistency.
potions and poultices out of this stuff. It appears
to be from the mucus membrane of a some type
of worm, although you're not certain. Worm W
-O -R -M or W -Y -R -M? W -Y -R -M. And you would
know that they're basically these large creatures
that kind of burrow through the ground and Maybe
he fought one in an arena or something like that.
Like a spectator kind of thing. Yeah, you would
have... Because he's not very book -learned.
Right, and maybe people talking about it, they
kind of collect this goo for all kinds of things.
Maybe you would have recognized the consistency
or something from somewhere. What happens to
my stick? It's just like, as you pull it out,
it's like when you... have a real bad sinus infection
as a kid, and you get that, like, real sticky,
like, booger stuff, it just, like, pulls up with
it for about three inches, and then just, like,
snaps off. So, as Taldeer's giving everybody
good information over there, I'm just gonna start
mumbling to myself, like, I know what happened
here. They had a wild fucking party, and everybody
got sick from partying too hard. Everybody threw
up here that was in this room. This is the throw
-up room. Oh. I thought you were about to go
to Diddy Party Country. Oh, God, no. No, I just
didn't roll very well, but it wasn't a crit fail,
so. Nice. Nice. I'm going to scoop some of this
and try to get, like, a few vials of it if I
can. Okay. Taz, you rolled a 15 on your perception
check earlier. Everybody else go ahead and roll
a perception check. While we're doing this, one
last question. Do I get the sense, like, from
Taz's fucking around with the goo or whatever,
like, is it, like, would it be, like, difficult
terrain to, like, pass through it? Or, like,
could it be used to, like, offensively adhere
us to the ground? Like, if we were to fight something,
I'd spit it at us. Would it affect our movement?
Yeah, it is very sticky. At the same time, also,
like, weirdly... slick, like where it just creates
a little bit of surface tension between your
foot and the ground. So it's not you know, like
oiled up or anything, but it is somewhat slick
and very sticky. Eleven. Eleven. Twenty? Fifteen
perception. Fifteen. Okay, so as everyone else
is kind of going around the room... Starting
to look on the edge of this space. Wesley, you
are the only one. 20... Not natural, right? Okay.
Dirty 20. Yeah, you hear this kind of like...
Almost like the sound of like a fly, but it's
just echoing off of this chamber. Creating like...
this kind of static noise that's like just beneath
the kind of audible level um where your attention
isn't like drawn to it at first but as you start
to notice it you see these little creatures surrounding
these like pools and you can see their wings
kind of they're like the size of locusts and
they appear to be eating the substance Okay.
Do I know anything about them? Like, just being
an investigator? Uh, roll an age check. My own
knowledge. 19. Plus your 1. 20. Yeah, I think
you would know that these insects, you probably
have them maybe around your home country in the
mountains and the caverns and things like that.
They... are like a ghost wasp is what most people
refer to them as. And they kind of follow these
worms around eating this mucus during lean times.
But they are immediately drawn to living creatures
and the swarms will devour them down to the bone.
Okay. So they haven't noticed us yet? No. Alright,
everyone back up slowly. How much of this do
I get in my vials? I'm going to say go ahead
and roll a d4. The lamest of dice. Can I like
stop him? One. Yeah, okay. You're trying to collect
this. You scoot a little bit into the first vial,
filling it most of the way when Wesley comes
and places a hand kind of on your shoulder. Hey,
hey. We need to leave immediately. Why are you
whispering? Hey, guys. Wesley's scared of some
little bugs. Those are spiders? She's scared
of spiders, guys. He scares spiders. Shut up.
Shut up. I'm going to approach closer to see
what she's whispering about, but I just heard
Taz. I just heard fucking harping on her. As
this goes on, the Onyx Fist dwarf notices Wesley
talking to Taz and sees what she sees. And I'm
mocking her. I'm just like, making a stupid face.
Yeah, and he's like, over there like as quickly
as he can go quietly and he's just like silence
we've got to get through here without alerting
them you scared of bugs too delete the flesh
from your bones and drink the blood from your
veins amorous just goes fucking silent and his
eyes are like no shit and stealth mode is activated
dude On the map, where exactly are these things?
Let me pull up the map real quick because I'm
on something else. You kind of see them scattered
around these various piles. Right now, they're
kind of dispersed through the room. It's hard
to tell. Oh, they're all flocked around the different
piles of boogers. Yeah, there's probably like
eight to ten of them just slurping at each of
these piles of boogers. So once I notice the
bugs, like, how big are they? They're kind of
like large locusts, I would say, somewhere between,
like, probably about the size, maybe a little
bigger than the palm of your hand. His hand?
Or our hands? His little baby hands? Oh, like
a human hand. I would guess probably, like, three
to four inches long. That's big to him. Yeah,
that's pretty big, actually. That's kind of huge.
A lot of people would say that's pretty big.
Those bugs are fucking huge. I'm terrified. I
don't know if I can handle one of those bugs.
If something that big were coming towards me,
I'd be scared. I wouldn't feel confident in my
ability. I don't know if I could grab it. I'd
be like, whoa, that's way too... Impressively
large, even. Really? Yeah. What's the size of
my pinky, I would say. Your pinky is not three,
four inches long. Well, you got long, lanky hands.
Okay. Yeah, she got long, lanky fucking vampire
hands. Yeah. It's just subjective is what it
is. Yeah. That's like Kevin Durant saying, that's
only as big as my finger. Yeah, well, you've
got fucking... Hands in the point zero one percentile.
Yeah. Jesus Christ. Anyways. So, to proceed,
there are five tunnels exiting this room. And
you can see one of them here almost immediately
to the west. One of them kind of to the northwest.
Two questions. Yeah. One, what tunnel, I mean,
presumably this one right next to us, but I was
going to say, what tunnel has the least amount
of bugs between us and it? And also, Taldeer
wants to ask the fucking dwarf guy if he has
any idea of, like, where we should go, considering
he's supposed to be our guide. He's going to,
like, kind of lead you back to kind of walk back
into the tunnel that you just left. Kind of,
like, urging you guys to follow him quickly so
that you can kind of redirect from there. Are
you going to follow him? Yeah. Okay, so as you
kind of walk back through the exit, he's going
to just tell you, I was hoping we'd miss him.
No one knows how active the worm has been since
we abandoned the mine, though. I knew it was
in here still. As to Hilda, no. She ran this
mine before, well, her first disaster, which
freed the worm and brought ruin to the mine.
Effectively, disgracing the Onyx family. He's
a fucking failure. Why are you so scared of a
worm? I don't... It was brought... By the king
himself. All the way from Aelor. Oh, King Gorn.
What we dwarves refer to as a Jormungandr, or
a worm that eats the world. We keep them as symbols
of our power and prestige, but... Somehow, this
one was set free and grew beyond our ability
to control. As to where Hilda would be hiding,
I don't know. Only she knows these mines intimately
any longer. But I know she would seek a safe
place of refuge to try to work out her next move.
And this is the one place she knows no one from
Ember would follow her. Do you have any idea
of the history of this mine? Are there any passages
that were more recently carved out or more thoroughly
carved out than other whatevers? I'm going to
cut him off. What if I just fire an arrow with
something noisy on it and shoot it across the
room and then we make a run for it? We could
try to do that, but we still need to make a decision
about which tunnel we're going to go into first.
Oh, we're not going to go down that big -ass
hole? Where the trunnies are? I thought it was
obvious. No. That's not obvious. I don't know
what Hilda would do, but the tunnel was bored
out by the worm itself. As to any knowledge I
have regarding the tunnels, the four tunnels
on the edges, they lead to other shafts, which
were at various stages abandoned. The... tunnel
to the north leads to the quarry. I don't really
know what each entails, only that the quarry
was the main dig with the four branch shafts
serving the purpose of trying to establish new
element heads. Zach is just dying with the mention
of shafts. You're just seeing shafts and heads.
It's impossible not to laugh at this. I don't
know. Just so everybody knows, in case we have
any new listeners, Zach is 12, by the way. I
think you'd be weirder for playing with a 12
-year -old than I'd be laughing at you. Yeah,
he's not 12. I don't want to play with a 12 -year
-old. Why do you guys keep saying play like that?
Diggy jokes, dude. Fucking weirdos. We are in
serious danger of making the entire English language
weird. It is weird. It's already weird. Yeah.
Also, I don't think it's... It's not like a giant
leap to move from shafts to... You know what
I mean? It's a cax. Like... Come on now. Mineral
deposits. Is that better for you? Somehow, somehow
worse. I dare you to make deposits dirty. Oh,
I'll make a deposit. Please don't. I'll show
you a dirty deposit. I'm going to go to dap up
Tau Deer. It is impossible to know what is happening
in the meta and what is happening... It's all
meta, bro. Alright, so real quick. You guys know
about the bugs. Can we just burn them with the
torch? I think there's just too many. Do I know
that? I think it probably would be able to be
burned, but I think it's just... I think we're
going to cause a lot of damage or maybe attract
even something. So Wesley would know that they're
not any more flammable than any bug. They definitely
can be burned, but they're not like... Especially...
What's the most flammable bug you've ever seen?
They have wings, right? Yeah, I mean, they're
burnable. They're not, like, fireproof, but they're
also, like... The way I figure it is if we burn
at least 50 % of the wings... You're not going
to, like, set a bug on fire and it's just going
to, like, flit about, lighting all of its friends
up. Right, but if I hold fire between me and
bugs that are flying, they're not going to fly
through the fire is kind of where I was... I
feel like a bug would react like a person. This
isn't a horse and cart situation. Is this bioluminescent
stuff flammable? Roll a nature check. Beautiful.
Nature, one. Sixteen total. Yeah, that is the
threshold for this episode. gross stuff. It is
highly flammable. Also, this looks like a butthole.
I'm sorry. You know, I thought about that while
I was building it. I couldn't make it less butthole
-y. I mean, really. I mean, honestly, you probably
could have if you put the hole to a corner, but
just right in the middle. It's just... I think,
look, if you want to see a butthole, any hole
is... I don't want to, bro. I don't... It's just
so wrinkly, you know? Kind of feels like Charles
is gaslighting you right now. Yeah, dude, that's
actually really fucked up. That's crazy, bro.
Is it? He's trying to make you sound crazy. I
mean, also, this is a very wide cavern. It's
like 30 feet by 30 feet. Wide cavern in a wide
hole. Yeah, bro. I don't know about everybody
else, but he usually doesn't just hang gaping
wide for me, so I don't... Can't expect to get
ashamed for that. That's crazy. Alright, does
anybody have a torch? I have fire bombs. I mean,
I don't want to set off bombs. I just was thinking,
like... Oh. Yeah, I have a torch. We've definitely
got means of fire. For sure. I'm gonna hand you
a bomb. But, like, pretend... Yeah, I got torches.
And I'll just hand you a bomb. You know, I gotta
roll on this, because... note has and i've seen
the things that he lights on fire before they
go boom oh you mean like dozens of dwarves yeah
though can i roll to make sure that i know that
this is not a torch and it's a bomb i mean yeah
yeah perception or what am i sure yeah roll a
perception check i'm basically handing you you
can roll it if you want but instead of handing
you a torch i'm handing you basically a mason
jar oh okay I rolled a 15 and I'm going to take
that as a pass. Yeah. Thanks, buddy. I'm just
going to put that in my bag because I'm not going
to break his little heart right now. This will
come in handy. Continue looking around. Yeah.
People usually react emotionally super well to
being condescended to. Go ahead. No, I wasn't
condescending. I was pretending that it was going
to be helpful. Oh, okay. How do y 'all want to
proceed? Do you guys want to try to sneak past?
Whatever we do, I think we should decide which
path we are taking. Are we just going to light
it on fire, then jump down the hole, light it
on fire, go down one of the paths? I say we go
the opposite direction of the bugs and just try
to sneak past them. If we catch their attention,
just fucking run. And if we have to, then we
have some oil we can pour on the floor and light
on fire in the doorway. I feel like if we're
going the fire approach, we should just do it
proactively. We should just set it on fire and
kill as many people as possible. This also might
sound super crazy, but there's like five doors,
right? Yeah, basically there are five tunnels
leading out of here. Okay, wouldn't it, like
if I was running away from a bunch of people,
I would go to the deepest tunnel, right? Like,
the furthest away. Maybe. Or you would go to
the one that you could disappear into the quickest.
Yeah, I was thinking the quarry probably made
the most sense, because that's probably where,
like, the most... Like, essentially, you wouldn't
be in an actual tunnel at that point, and there's
probably, like, some kind of structure there
for when people were actually working the quarry,
and, like, seems like that would make the most
sense to me. Personally. Makes too much sense,
but okay. yeah a little too rough makes sense
dangerous sense um okay so you are uh sounds
like the group uh michelle i think i heard you
agree as well so with the quarry yes yeah sounded
like the group is wanting to head to the quarry
which if you look at the map not that it matters
we don't have to like go step for step while
we do it but that is Is there a sign that says
quarry? The dwarf knows that much. He can't give
you a lot of real detailed information, but he
did tell you that the quarry is kind of this
pathway over here. Over here? Yeah, it's all
the way like the most northeastern little area.
Yeah, so the furthest tunnel away. Yeah, okay.
Yeah. Yep. Oh, there's doorways. Yeah, these
little blank spots are like different entrances.
I was zoomed in. I didn't see any of that. Oh,
okay. All right, cool. Look at that. And in terms
of the insects, are you looking to stealth or
are you going to try to use fire some way? They're
kind of like right now they're just spread into
these like different pools. So each of the pools
probably has like 10 to 15 of these little bugs
just kind of like. Basically, wherever we move,
you're going to tell us that there's some bugs
there. Oh, there's bugs in all these little piles.
Alright. I think we try fire. I don't think the
fire's really going to do much to us. Presumably,
the bugs aren't going to want to fuck around
with fire. How about this? Does anybody have
another rag or something? We could do a flaming
arrow. I'll shoot it into a pile of bugs. Or
even maybe through one pile and... Just straight
through our path and just fucking book it. Yeah,
I can make you a flaming arrow. I'm pretty sure
I can craft one. I mean, if they're very flammable,
just a flaming arrow shooting through them would
probably set off the bunch. Yeah, I think that's
a good strategy. Okay, never mind. We're not
doing that, guys. GM's agreeing with us? No.
I'm just going to find a piece of something in
my bag or something and see if I can rip off
a piece of shirt. I have sap and stuff too. Quick
cue. Our knowledge check that told us these were
flammable. When you say flammable, do you mean,
like, can be ignited? Or do you mean, like, is
explosive jelly? He said highly flammable. With
a... Highly. With a highly. With a warning sign.
Yeah, I don't want to get accused of... If anybody
has listened to episode five, you will know that
I was vindicated. But... Hang on a second. I
don't want to be accused... I don't want to be
accused of burying the lead with how explosive
this goo is. This goo is like gasoline levels
of explosive. The goo is explosive? I thought
bugs were. No, we were talking about how all
bugs are basically the same amount of flammable.
Oh, shit. Name a flammable bug. That's dangerous
as fuck. Let's wait until the warm is in here
to light that shit on fire. I think. The worm.
Why are you guys worried about a worm? Daz is
confused. It's a worm with a Y. It's like a tremor.
It's like the king earthworm. It's got to be
at least like two feet long. You guys thought
I was going to do it. I'm like three feet tall,
so I could just wrestle that thing. But it doesn't
have any... With a Y, Taz. Just because you're
misspelling it doesn't... make it any different?
It's like a dragon. Oh. I was thinking a dragon.
I'll say for clarity. He's nuts. Taz is going
to grab his fucking... You can go for another
high five. This is like, the group is awful punchy
for like, we actually got a really good start
tonight. We got the recording going in like two
tries. We jumped right into the game. But it's
also like the end of the week. It is. Yeah, we
don't have to wake up early tomorrow. It's not
a Tuesday. We should probably edit out some of
this 40 minutes we spent talking about the jelly.
Yeah. No, that's what people want to hear. The
jelly. How flammable is the jelly and can these
bugs explode? Or the bugs because that's what
some of us thought we were talking about. I got
to keep it because I got to edit out all the
dick jokes. I can't. Let's use the gel, just
a little bit of it, to create a fucking... Taz
is going to put on his fucking goggles. Torch.
Yeah, or no, a torch. Well, that's what I'm saying.
We could make a torch out of stuff. Yeah, out
of this guy. If you guys want me to burn this
place down, I will. And Taz is going to put on
his goggles. Say no more. Oh, fuck. Say no more,
baby. I haven't ever burning torch. Okay, but
like the... I think the problem isn't that we
don't have access to fire. The problem is, is
this jelly so explosive that setting it off is
going to create a cave -in or something and then
bar our access? Yes, maybe. So what I'm saying
is, just run like hell until we get into a doorway
where there's no more gel. And then fucking light
that thing and just basically wave it around
until we burn all the bugs. Or we can, like,
Taldir can go in there, grab one of the bugs,
and, like, hold a knife to its neck. And then,
like, we can just slowly make our way, you know,
to where we need to be. Yeah, Taz could do that
while I'm... Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's his. It's
gonna pull, like, a fucking, like, the school
of fish in Finding Nemo. I just want to say...
Yeah. Sorry, I just... The dog's still outside.
So, Charles, earlier when you said you knew everything
that was going to happen... Well, I knew all
of the things inside the mine. I frankly designed
this to be like a five -minute problem. I didn't...
Oh, that's awesome. Hey, hold on, guys. Let's
take a pee break. Sure, yeah. Don't tell me what
to do, dude. Okay, my bad, dude. My idea was...
I thought it was still, like, just me and Kenny
and Charles, and then I look up and, like, oh,
Zach's here, Michelle. Fuck, all right. I've
been here, bro. Oh. All right, so my idea was...
I was just like, I just asked Charles, we just
came out of this doorway that is very pronounced,
the dark gray one? Mm -hmm. That I'm peeing in
here? What? We can just fucking try this one
that's right next to us. And you asked the DM?
No, I didn't ask him anything. I just asked him
if it's a doorway. Yeah, we could try that one.
But, I mean, like, if our goal is to find this
woman, shouldn't we try the one that has... we
think has the highest chance of finding her?
Well, somebody needs to fucking get... Well,
by all means. It's only a few steps to your right.
Yeah, I'm... no go ahead trust so players is
that how uh yeah i i guess let's regroup now
that we've uh taken a minute to like figure it
out and uh kind of is there a plan being formed
here as everyone's talking amongst each other
you guys see a torch fly by you guys oh no i
ran into the i run back to i'm just kidding I
mean, that was the other idea I had was that
we just fucking make a lot of noise and try to
get this worm up here and then fucking blow the
room. But now that I think about it, if it's
a dragon, it's probably immune to fire, right?
It's not a dragon dragon. It's going to be like
a big maggot probably. But like worm with a Y
is because it's like tangentially related to
dragons. But I actually like that idea. Like
try and... Make enough noise to lure the creature.
Won't the bugs come to us too? If we make enough
noise, they're going to be like, you know, food.
And then we're going to have to deal with these
fucking bugs and then the worm. Ultimately, I
think the question is, do we want to try and
blow up the room or do we think that that's too
dangerous? I think we blew it up. We could blow
up the room and win the worms in it. Yeah, but
if we try to get the worms' attention, we're
going to draw the attention of the bugs. What
if we just try to sneak by the bugs? What do
worms like to eat? Goblins. I'm going to step
back. I'm going to take all of this planning
and just put it on 2x speed. That'll be the bonus
edition. Do we want to blow up the room or not?
No. That's a lot of explosions. Not yet. Don't
completely... Yeah, no, I mean, just not right
now. Not yet. What if we just take a peek in
the other room to see what's going on over there?
Maybe she's just sitting in there thinking that
we're going to go into the furthest tunnel, but
she's actually in that tunnel. Yeah, we can do
that. I'm down for that. Okay, let's go. Everybody
roll a stealth check as you try to move from...
Which one are we going to do? The one right next
to us. Someone should have a torch ready, though,
because I am not stealthy. To the southeast.
Should I have a torch ready? I mean, if you want
to give me the ever -burning torch, I'll... Oh,
that does not produce any heat. I'll have a torch.
I'm... I know how to handle fire. Okay. As you
can tell. Yeah. I'll point at the side of my
face. If anything, that proves that you don't
know how to handle it. What happened, Wesley?
I don't know. What happened? I was counting.
Oh. Never mind. But it's not great. But I'll
be as stealthy as possible with a 14. 14? Okay.
Holy shit. Okay. Sick. Yeah, really no need for
anyone else to roll. That sounds like a pass
to me. I think everybody should still. No, no,
no, no. That sounds like a perfect roll. Wesley
might be able to carry Taz, but I think everybody
else has to. I think that's probably just like
blew it out of the water, so we don't really
need to talk about other people's. 13 for Ambrose.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, Taldir? No,
those are two good rolls. Those are two good
rolls. Yeah, two good rolls. What did Taldir
get? Five. Total? Yep. Plus zero, baby. Okay.
And Taz. Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm.
Eight. Eight. Total. So, you all... Plus six.
Plus six, by the way. Total, but, you know. I
have the torch. I'm just curious, because I thought
that Wesley and Amaris had pretty good bonuses
to stealth. What was your bonus? My bonus is
a seven. Mine is a six. Not a good old meta.
So, not bad. You come out of the tunnel that
you entered in through. Oh, yeah. And I got to
roll a bill check for the little dwarf. They're
stupid and they're eating. They're dumb. They're
bugs and they're eating. They're not going to
notice us. Say that. Well, I'm really glad. They
can hear you. They should be happy with what
they got. I'm really glad that I didn't do this
to you because despite the incredibly low DC,
there were two failures as you enter into the
cavern. Don't we got hero points? Am I going
to burn it on this? I honestly don't know if
I do or don't. Thanks. Because I don't know how
we game them anymore and I can't remember the
last time I rolled a natural 20. Yeah, you think
Taldir's any left? He hasn't rolled a 20 since...
I don't know, ever. you walk out and I think
like Taz you probably do that thing where like
you like flat tire the guy in front of you and
you just like step on Taldir's like ankle as
it like drives his boot into the ground and you
hear as like the metal just reverberates through
the room and there is a moment where it all goes
quiet And then there is a furious buzzing as
hundreds of these insects rise from their piles
and begin moving as one swarm toward you. And
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