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 in between googling gemstones? Oh my
god, you bullshit. It's a gemstone. I am your
Game Master, Charles Reno. Before we get started,
let's introduce the table. Did you say Game Master?
Hi, my name is Kenny. I am playing Amaris, who
is a Nephilim, Ranger, Tiefling, Shackleborn
character. That last part's new. Shackleborn?
Oh, is it? I read my character sheet recently,
and I thought I would spice it up a little bit
and add some more detail. My name's Zach. I play
Taldir. He's a Nephilim liberator. Hi, my name's
Sammy. I play Taz, who is a goblin alchemist.
Kenny, you got up to, like, move something, and
then you sound like you ran to your house and
back. Not like that. Hi, my name is Michelle.
I play Wesley Nixon, an elf damn fear investigator,
and in today's episode, she's wearing a witch
hat. Oh! Oh, it's Halloween? Bro, it's like January
or some month. Yeah, that's kind of wild. I'm
not even going to try to figure out where we're
supposed to be on the calendar. I know, you gave
us like a cycle of the moons and I... Oh, yeah.
We have the fake calendar, the real calendar,
and then when we're actually doing this and none
of them agree. The thing about the fake calendar
is you can just say when it is. Just make stuff
up. Nobody else sees it. It's always Monday.
I like that. A tabletop role -playing game podcast
where we Google rocks, talk about keys, and apparently
make fun of each other's cardio fitness levels.
Where we last left off, our party had infiltrated
the five mines. They had gone underground, battled
these cave creeper monsters who had kind of been
let loose, recovered some, we're going to call
them precious stones, and had proceeded into
the main chamber of the mine where they were
confronted with these ghost hornets. who were
consuming this kind of mucusy refuse left by
the worm, which had escaped and was ultimately
the cause of this mine's closure. Attempting
to sneak out of the room, I believe Taldir and
Taz accidentally drew the attention of the hive.
Which now sort of swarms toward the party. Let's
all go ahead and roll some initiative. Frick.
And I think... So... What I do like about Pathfinder
2nd Edition, and we have not taken advantage
of it very often, and hopefully look to in the
future, but... They've kind of streamlined the
initiative process. So for today, we'll roll
perception, which is your typical initiative
roll. But in this circumstance, we really could
have just used the stealth check that you guys
rolled in order to determine initiative. That's
kind of conceptualized by the game itself. But
for today, we're just going to go straight up
rolling the initiative because I like hitting
the dice. Me too. I got 23. 23. Hey, I got 23
as well. Copycat. That's strong, but does that
beat a 10? Yeah. Oh. Twice. That's, like, by
a lot. Okay. Yeah. So we got, oh, 10 for amorous
and 13 for talia, right? 14. Amorous. 14. And
then 23 for Taz and 23 for Wesley. So I'll let
you all decide. The initiative tracker put Taz
in front of Wesley. But whichever of you wants
to go first, you kind of see this swarm kind
of rising from these piles. I've organized them
into two tokens right now. What are you going
to do? I'll hide behind. You can go. You can
go. I'll go first. I'll go first. Taz is going
to scream run just right now. Run! And then you
can go ahead and go. Okay. I want to devise a
strategy. You know, I'm realizing every single
time we play, but defy the stratagem and then
strategic strike. Yep. Nat 20. Ooh. Hero point.
That might hit. Take your hero point. Make your
attack. And then next time you'll have a hero
point for the stealth. Hey, Tez, you too. Shut
the fuck up. Five. Oh, but I used two, right?
Because I got... Yeah. Six. Okay. Eleven. Eleven
points of damage. As you kind of shoot into this
mass, you see several of the insects kind of
fall from the sky, but it is still moving toward
you. That is... What is that? Two actions? Yes.
Can I also use known weakness? Yeah, let's check
that out real quick. Yeah, if you had it, it
would be under your feet. Whenever you devise
a stratagem, you can also attempt a check to
recall knowledge. Okay, yeah, go ahead and roll
a recall knowledge check, which I believe is
a DC 15. Probably be a nature check on this one.
Okay. Three. Plus four. Do I get any information
with a four? With a four. You know that these
are bugs about the size of the palm of your hand
that can fly. Huge bugs, even. Huge bugs. Massive.
But that is it. It's bugs. Okay. Then I will
just... I guess arm myself. Do I have a shield?
Am I able to grab my shield? You can raise shield
if you have a shield. You have a shield. You
have a shield? Yeah, I have a steel shield. Why
the hell do you have a steel shield? Nice. I
don't know, man. I made this character like a
year ago. So don't fucking ask me. I'm about
to just start adding shit to my character sheet.
That's the trick. You just find things you want
and you put it on. They've got a whole catalog.
Are you not? No. And we did, we talked about
this last time. I don't think it applies here,
but I did want to tell the group real quick that,
because there was some confusion in terms of,
I think it was Wesley trying to switch from her
bow to her short sword. They actually, in the
remaster, introduced a swap action. So you don't
have to just drop your weapon and draw another
one. You can swap it with one action now. Oh,
neat. Super cool. Yeah. Nice. Did I have an extra
action to do that? Well, you raised your shield,
so that's... I don't think you have to swap it,
but you'd be fine. Yeah, because I was... Yeah.
Okay. Could she have used her shield if she was
firing a crossbow? I'm going to say it's fine.
I guess we can look that up, but... Well, it
just matters if it's a light crossbow or not.
If it's a one -handed crossbow, it's fine, but
if it's a two -handed crossbow, I don't know
how you could hold a shield and use a two -handed
crossbow. Well, let's see if it's even a problem.
Is it a light crossbow or a regular crossbow?
I believe it's a regular crossbow. Oh, just swap
it out for a light one. No, I'm just kidding.
Zach is down there like, oh, you motherfucker.
I use two hands. Alright, I don't get my shield
right now. Okay. But, um... I just take a step
back behind Taz. I mean, I think we're trying
to, like, run. Like, run. I'm going to look at
you again and scream. We're running away? Okay,
then I run. Run! As far as I can. I like the
scene. Wesley shoots into the, like, crowd of
insects, and then he's just like, Huh? Huh? Huh?
Shield? No? Run? Okay. That is your turn. You
have plenty of distance to make it into the hallway.
So you will be fine. Taz, you are up. Because
I lit torches, right? And we started walking
through. Yeah, you have a torch, yeah. Yeah,
so I want to hold my action so that people can
get past me. And then if the bugs come, you know,
then I'm going to start lighting shit. Okay,
awesome. What is that? Yeah, you can hold your
action, which means you hold your entire turn,
and then you can take your turn kind of whenever,
just not interrupting someone else's turn. Or
you can ready an action, which takes two actions.
And if you do that, you can interrupt someone
else's turn if they do something which would
trigger it. Okay, I'll ready. Yeah, I'll have
it ready then. That way, yeah. Once the bugs
start getting closer, I'll just start lighting
shit on fire. Okay, awesome. So Taz kind of moves,
holding his torch out, trying to act as sort
of a defense to the rest of the group. Sounds
good. Who is next in initiative order? Oh, it's
going to be the swarm. I'm sorry. Chat. One sec.
Yep. Perhaps, so since readying an action, you
can only ready one action and it takes two actions,
it might make sense to just, like, move into
the tunnel, like, with Wesley, and then ready
the action that you're gonna throw the fucking
torch once everybody else has made it to safety.
Does that make sense? So that way you're actually
already in the tunnel, essentially, and then
you just throw the torch once everyone else is
in the clear? What if we don't throw the torch
into the highly flammable room and just try to
hold the torch in the doorway to burn things?
You told me. Yeah, I think throwing the torch
was our plan. It was not our plan. Yeah, man.
I think it was trying to sneak past, but I get
it. I'm not going to go in the tunnel. I'm going
to go like right here. Okay. Yeah, that works.
And then I'll do that. And then once I see this
swarm starting to come. Pause. I'll throw the
torch at them to light them on fire. Okay. It
is their turn. So this one actually explicitly
in their creature stat block. They will hold
back from. Fire. And they will fail that. So
they kind of approach Taz, but they can get no
closer. Kind of warded off by the flame. Oh,
nice. So I don't even have to throw the torch.
Oh, this is way easier. Yeah, I'm just... I'm
doing that whole Salt the Snail from Always Sunny.
Yeah! Salt the Snail! Let me see how much movement
these guys have. How much movement do you get?
Awesome. Are these like... Like, mechanically
swarms, Charles? Yes. Like, occupy the same space,
automatic hit, bullshit, super high resistance
to damage, etc. Yep. They are mechanically a
swarm, and they have just enough range to get
to Taldir. You will take, as this swarm kind
of, like, envelops you. moving around you like
a living tornado. You take two points of piercing
damage and two points of persistent bleed damage.
However, you do get a DC 20 reflex save. Okay.
I made it. 22. 22. So you're not going to take
the bleed damage. You won't have persistent bleeding,
but you will take the two points of piercing
damage. Okay. That is the Swarm's turn. Up next
is Taldir. I think he's just going to fucking...
Yeah, I think he'll just run into the tunnel
with Wesley and try to get behind Taz. Awesome.
Yeah. I can't really... It's kind of weird on
the map, but he'll be just inside or whatever.
So that way, if necessary, he can step up and...
Stand in front to take some hits. Okay. And fair
to say he had his weapon and shield out or no?
Uh, yeah. Anytime you're in a dungeon, I assume
that you'll have whatever you want to use out
to start the combat. So, like, for instance,
Wesley wanted to take a ranged attack. I'm fine
with the meta narrative being that she had her
bow out. Like, if she wanted to do short sword,
I'd say that too. I think within the fiction,
it makes sense that you would be ready for action
in these scenarios. So I'm kind of willing to
let that slide a bit. Cool. Then that'll be my
turn. Okay. That is Taldir's turn. You guys want
to... Well, I think this is actually good. Kenny,
it's Amaris' turn, but you want to take a break
to run real quick? All right. All right, it is
Amaris's turn. Amaris, what are you going to
do? I'm going to fucking run. Because I don't
think I lit a torch. Even though apparently everybody
was talking and planning that out. I was not
paying attention, so I'm just going to... And
then just run my ass into that cave. I think
the fact that we spent an hour last night on,
are we going to light a torch? Let's light a
torch. Let's not light a torch. Are we going
to light a torch? We definitely talked about
it. And we arrive here this morning, still not
sure if we lit a torch. That is the level of
professionalism we are bringing to the table.
You can only get it here, folks. You can only
get it here. Okay. Amrys flees the room. Let's
see. Oh, you know what? Before ending my turn,
can I, as I get into this hallway, Can I make
a perception check? See if anything's going on,
make sure there's no traps, etc. Yeah, you would
have the action economy to do it, so that's fine.
Go ahead and roll a perception check. I'd say
21. Yeah, 21. I assume everyone's just here probably
in the first 15, 20 feet of the tunnel. That'd
probably be about all the movement you had anyway.
Taladir, I think, probably even closer, first
five, ten feet. So, yeah, in that range, there
doesn't appear to be anything that's immediately
noticeable that you would pull together. All
right, cool. All right. Go ahead. I'm just going
to push forward a little bit more with my movement,
but not so much that I'm out of the reach of
the party. Okay. You're trying to get some range.
Okay. You see, like, Taz, Taldir, those of you
still near the entrance to the tunnel, as you
kind of, like, Amrys runs past, going a little
deeper into the tunnel himself. This swarm then,
like, surrounds Gorrent Onyxfist, and you see
him just, like, like, swinging around as they
continue to, like, move about him, and in moments,
like, the flesh is just stripped. from his face
as he collapses onto the ground. The swarm diving
on top of him, gorging itself on his flesh. We
got rid of the second dwarf. We got rid of him.
Sounds like somebody got tired of doing a voice.
It felt like an executive decision. I don't know
what this we is. He panicked. I don't know what
to do. Oh no, I forgot I have legs. We're not
all adventurers, guys. Apparently you took an
arrow to the knee. So he's fucking dead? Yeah.
From the hallway, or from the cavern way, however
you call it, you just hear the screaming subside,
the buzzing of wings come to a near stop as it
just kind of echoes down this chamber you find
yourself in. For anyone that does turn to look,
Who has dark vision in the group? I think everybody,
right? Everybody except for Taldir, I think.
No, Taldir hasn't. Don't play my character for
me. Oh, excuse me. Sorry. Good point, good point.
Sorry, I thought as a... Oh, never mind, you're
not a human anymore. I was thinking, I think
of the other guy that you played. The other Taldir.
I've never played a human Taldir. But he was...
What was the other guy? Uh... Uh... Asimar. You
know, we don't need to ask a bunch of questions.
I was just trying to get myself out of the dumb
comment I made. Let's move on. Fair enough! Yeah,
you kind of enter into the second hallway and
you see that it is lightless, descends, kind
of... almost straight down to the degree that
you can walk it, but it is a steep incline, like
to the point where you would be like holding
on to kind of like the wall around you to steady
yourself. What are you going to do? All right,
I'm going to take a moment. Oh, not my turn.
I'm just going to grab one of my sling bullets.
You know, the little round one, I'm just gonna
let it roll all the way down. Yeah, and see if
we can, how far it goes. You just hear, like,
if it goes, it's a... Listen real hard. Just
to clarify, are we still in combat or not? Like,
is this, like, initiative order, etc.? Are the
bugs following us? Do we... Yeah, so I would
say... What is going on? We'll stay in initiative
order for now, but the bugs seem to be satisfied
with eating the corpse of Goron on its onyx fist.
So for now, you're out of danger, but let's continue
to move in initiative order for the moment. Okay.
So we'll start with Taz, who drops the ball,
and as you... Or the bullet. I didn't drop the
ball. Drop the ball. And as you listen for it,
and it's just like... Seems to go on for some
time before you lose track of it. Drop a baby,
drop an album, but I never drop a ball. Wesley,
I think that it'll be your turn. Yes. Real quick
before anybody goes, does anybody have any pittance
or anything that we can stake into the ground?
Or stakes? Pittance. What's a piton? It's like
climbing gear. It's like a stake you stick in
the ground. I knew that. I have... Adventurer's
pack? Does somebody not have that? I have an
adventurer's pack. I think an explorer's pack
has it. I have an adventurer's pack. I have a
spy pack. Just kidding. Maybe the dwarf. I do
have an adventurous pack. What do you need? We
can walk down it. It's fine. It's not actually
rock climbing. It's just a steep hill. It's just
steep. Are we going down or is it going up? We're
going down, but it's really... Going down, down,
baby. Can I... Am I... long enough to go like
this on either side of the hallway? Probably
not the length of the hallway. In this area,
it's about 15 feet wide, but you could definitely,
like, there are areas to hold onto along the
wall if you choose to do that. Yeah, I'll probably
start going down carefully. Yeah, I'll do, like,
you know when you, like, kneel down and just
kind of, like, scoot? Okay. Like that? Okay.
That's what I'll do. I'm gonna look for my fucking...
bullet as I go down to see if I can find it.
You're not going to find it. Isn't it a sling?
You can just pick up any rock off the ground.
No, man. This is specific. I want to find his
bullet first. Everybody's looking for this bullet.
Roll a perception check. It really is just a
rock, but it just says sling bullet. That's a
24 for me. Three. Eight. Yeah. I feel like Taz
is just like, there it is. Oh, a pebble. There
it is. Oh, a pebble. The same pebble. I throw
the pebble in front of me, and then if you walk
in, I find it again. Hey. Fuck. But Amorous,
you are able to locate the bullet first. I pick
it up, and I... Shoot a look at Wesley. Just
kind of like, yeah, you motherfucker. I found
it first. And I hand it back to Taz. I'm going
to throw it. I was like, this ain't it. Throw
it. Just going to do the fucking palm to the
face. And then it rolls back past us because
he threw it behind him. It rolls past us going
forward. eventually the party I had a whole thing
for this cavern and now I don't want to do it
because the bullet is just better than what I
had planned so eventually you're playing this
game of like tossing the bullet down this cavern
as Wesley kind of like scoots down and continues
to descend and Taz is like rifling through every
little rock along the way I don't know what Taldir
is doing while all this goes on But I imagine
just wondering how he got stuck here. Not exactly,
but I think he's just kind of trying to be in
front, like, leading while they're fucking around.
Like, he's just trying to get where they're going.
Because the back of his, like, he gets hit in
the back every now and then with a rock. Not
on purpose, just... Eventually. Like, clinks
off his fucking breastplate or whatever. Yeah,
like, clink, clink. Fuck. Frickin' Christ, dude.
Eventually, this little bullet rolls between
Taldir's feet, just bouncing on the stone, and
rolls out the other side of this cavern. Inside
of the tunnel, you can see just a bright orange
-red light glowing from the next chamber. That
would be crazy if this is where she is. I'm going
to walk and be like, hey, my bullet. Clean it
off a little bit. Good job, buddy. Perception?
Taz walked into the chamber already? Oh, it went,
yeah. So I'm going to be like, hey, my bullet.
And then I'm going to walk. Taz, you walk...
But I see the light, right? Yeah, you walk into
the chamber, and the light is a lava flow erupting
from the western side of the room, moving along
the length of the chamber, and then exiting through
a lava tube to the east. Walking on the opposite
side of this river of lava is an enormous humanoid
figure made entirely of stone, and sand it like
grabs a rock like a piece of like collapsed ceiling
and like picks it up it's just like like looking
it over and then tosses it into the lava river
just sending magma splashing off to the edges
as it continues pacing about this floor space
i'm gonna get as low as i can and then just crawl
backwards relevant knowledge check to see what
the fuck this thing is? Yeah, Taldir, as you,
uh, if you kind of, like, sneak forward as Taz
is coming back into the tunnel, you can get a
glimpse of it, and I assume, uh, nature, arcana,
um... Let me look at what the other options are.
Well, what do you want to roll on it? You tell
me, and then I'll let you know if that makes
sense, and we can set a DC. What kind of information
are you trying to get? I just want to know if
I know what it is. I don't have nature or arcana.
I've got gladiatorial lore, if these maybe would
be fought. Well, we have all those things. You're
just not good at it, is what you mean. Yeah.
I don't have those things. Just rely on the die,
bro. No thanks. Trust the die and they might
reward you. One thing I'm really bad about and
I'll admit it up front is that some of these
skills you're supposed to only be able to roll
trained or you can only roll certain things untrained.
I feel like in general the bonuses speak for
themselves. If you've got a plus one in Arcana,
even if you're not trained, you're probably going
to fail that check. I'm pretty sure Recall Knowledge
is always untrained. Like, there's no... Right.
But there are some skills, or like, each skill
has trained and untrained actions. I have a...
Can I roll the Arcana check? Yeah, Arcana makes
sense. Go ahead and roll a Recall Knowledge on
Arcana. Ooh, 25. Society. Would it be an overkill
if I devised a stratagem? No. I think that's
an appropriate use of that out of combat. So
I just look like a stone person. So I'm going
to see if maybe I've read about something like
this from Dr. B. He had a book or something.
Okay. 25 Arcana. Yeah. You would know that this
is... You've never seen one quite this large
or that looks exactly like this? Give me one
second. Might have never even seen one before.
Oh, man. That stuff is hot. I think I heard about
this before. And I can tell you when I heard
about it when I was a kid. I've always wanted
to pee on it to see what happens. I'm saying
this in character. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Are you
talking to me? I'm just talking. You want to
pee on me? No. What? No. We won't confuse your
pee fantasies as Ambrose with me. No, it's completely
separate. No, you can't pee on that thing, dude.
That thing is fucking lift up that rock like
nothing, you know? No, no, no. I mean the lava.
Oh. The important thing. What's that stuff called?
Lava, right? Magma. Some people call it magma.
Magma. Magma. What's magma? Sharks with fucking
lasers on their heads. Is there a place in the
room where I could kind of like not just be peeing
and staring directly at this thing in the lava?
Yeah. Can we get, like, is there a map, a representation
of, like, how big the room is? Or is it the same
butthole map that we have? Man, you know what
would fucking suck is some lava splash with their
pants down. It is a different map. You know,
we're going to go kind of... Actually, just give
me five minutes. All right. So, Taz, with a 25,
you would know. You've probably read something
about similar creatures. This creature seems
somewhat unique, but you have a strong inclination
that it looks like some kind of earth elemental.
Do I know anything else? From reading? Yeah.
Like, maybe... Disposition? Weakness, yeah, something.
Give me a second. With its... Yeah, I would say
you would know that in general, these kind of
elementals are not especially aggressive. They
usually are, like, they are born from a specific
location, and they tend to, like, guard that
location from harm, but they're not necessarily,
like... jealously territorial. That said, their
motivations can be inhuman. So, it's not certain
what could set them off or make them angry, but
by natural disposition they aren't inclined towards
violence or murder by default. Murder. Murder.
Murder. Do you share this information? No, I
hoard it. No, I'll tell everybody that I read
a book at Dr. B's about elementals and this one's
Dr. B. Yeah, he's an earth elemental. Probably
not aggressive. Still scary. Talnir will. Approach...
Him... Then... And... Slowly... Be like... Hello!
Oh, he's also... Might be... As you walk away...
Like, he's also probably protecting the... The
territory. Yeah, well, we... Just don't... Disrespect
him. Looks at fuckin'... Taz and... Amris. What,
me? Yeah. Just don't talk. Just don't talk. Just
let... Just let... me talk, and Wesley, you should
also be fairly charismatic. You can talk, too.
I ready my bow. So, you approach the creature,
and you see he's, like, very, uh, I assume everyone
in this room has seen, like, the Iron Giant.
He's very Iron Giant in, like, his motion. Just,
like, kind of lurching, like, forward and back.
And as you approach, uh, he's gonna kind of,
like, hmm? Taldir is specifically not going to
have his hammer out, but he will still have his
shield. He's not going to put his shield on his
back. He'll still be holding it, but he will
have his hammer sheath to give a non -threatening.
I'll have my hands up in the air. He's going
to stay on his side of the lava river, but look
at you and kind of squat down so that his elbows
are on his knees and just say, No little ones
come in for some time. What are you doing here?
We are looking for someone who is in danger.
A small female dwarf. Have you seen anyone? Heard
anything? What have you gotten up to? You come
here often? Grumblestone from here. Born before
the little ones come. Little dwarf woman. Yes.
Do you know what a dwarf is? Grumblestone have
friend who call himself dwarf. But he is man.
Who? Have you seen? Have you seen a pickaxe?
And he kind of turns over another stone, just
knocks it over, looking underneath it. Have we
seen a pickaxe? We haven't seen a pickaxe, right?
Really quickly, four pickaxes? Yeah, perception
check. I'm going to just start going through
my backpack. I'm going to be like, wait, do we
have a pickaxe? Did we find a pickaxe? Roll a
perception check. 14. 24, baby. Ninety -nineteen.
Twenty -four. Ninety -nineteen. As you look around,
you feel that this room, you can see like the
stones have been broken kind of into these smaller
chunks as he is canvassed to this cavern, overturning
them again and again. It is unlikely that there
is anything in this room that he has not seen.
Uh, do I see a pickaxe? No. Okay. Ask him where
he saw it last. Yeah, what, uh, what do you,
no, we haven't seen a pickaxe. Is it his size?
Is it your size? Is it for little people? Tell
Deer! Tell Deer! Tell Deer! Yep, I got it. Thank
you. Ask him. Thank you, Amaris, yep. Okay. Yep.
I'm still going through my bag. I'll pull out
a little hammer and I'll be like, will this work?
Taldir, will this work? Taldir! Let's just see
what he says. Let's just give him a chance to
reply, maybe. Just see what he says. He's looking
around while you guys are shouting because he
can't figure out where the other voices are coming
from. He just sees Taldir and hears all these
other noises echoing off the chamber. peering
around he goes to like scratch at his at his
chin and he like scratches the fucking earth
elemental like equivalent of like a pimple and
just like a little bit of lava pops out of his
face um he uh he's like not for me dwarfend he
bring pickaxe by he tickle my feet with pickaxe
In exchange for protections. In exchange for
protections for who? And how? And where? For
him. Says these. And he like goes and places
a big rock finger like beneath the kind of golden
kind of vest that's covering his chest. And he
like scratches at something and like a red kind
of sphere falls almost like an uncut ruby and
like hits the ground. He presses against it with
one stony finger and holds it up. And you can
see like it glows with like a faint aura from
within. And he's going to say like, he say these,
let him dig deep. He my friend. So we make trade.
He scratch my feet. I give him this. And he,
like, holds it up. Hmm. Hmm. That's interesting.
I think he die in cave -in. Where? Cannot smell
him anymore. How long ago do you think that was?
Do you have a concept of time? Oh. First, there
was me. Then little ones. Then only me again.
I do not know what you mean by time. Grumblestone
has always been and will always be. And he like
coughs. And you see just like a little bit of,
again, magma shoots out around his hand. And
he like shakes it off onto the ground. Do you
know where this cave -in might have, like, taken
place? Or do you know any, like, safer places
of the mines? This is Grumblestone Home. But
I do know he mine to the west. He say he find.
The shining rock they seek, which I warn him
against, is full of evil. And you see he, like,
inhales deeply, and he, like, looks in the direction
of the tunnel opening, and he's like, Smell of
stone. Remind me of that one. And he, like, points
in a general space, but obviously it's impossible
to really tell what he's pointing at. Is this,
like, the reason that the blighting happened
or whatever? Like, is this guy older than that
and he's telling us, like, what happened is these
people were digging and, like, unleashed something
via this, like, stone that they were looking
for or whatever? Or uncovering the stone that
held the darkness or whatever? Um, are you asking
him? Uh, yeah, I mean, I guess I will ask him.
Yeah, I didn't think he'd know, but I was kind
of just musing out loud. But, yeah, it's hard
if he doesn't have a concept of time. I guess
I could just ask him, what happened after they
found the stone that they were looking for? The
stone is filled with evil poison. Land was clean.
Then the stone came. And he coughs again, spitting
a little bit of magma onto the floor. It make
rocks sick. But dwarf want it. Say it's valuable.
Say they can build future around it. I don't
know what to build. Find a river, I tell him.
Sit next to it. Look into its waters. Be alive.
But he insists on dig. So I protect him. So you
protected him or you protected the jewels? I'm
still a little confused. This is maybe just for
you, Charles. I'm kind of confused. Is he saying
he protected the dwarf or the dwarf gave him
gems to protect or both? Yeah, so these gems
that he's able to provide the dwarf functionally...
From his feet. Yeah, protect him from the...
And you can kind of piece this together. This
is information he's very willing to share. Like,
they protect him from the heat, allowing him
to mine in areas that other dwarves are not,
as he kind of seeks out these imbued stones.
Okay. All right. Okay. Do we... I don't know.
Actually, Taz, maybe that hammer will work. Or...
Something. But we probably should try to get
some of these stones for some heat protection.
Sounds like a good idea. Yeah. So I guess Taldir,
I'll just ask him, like, can we treat with you
for similar protection so that we may find this
woman that we need to find and protect her? We
are protectors as well. I am, at least. I don't
know about these fucking guys. Yeah, I am too.
Okay, so the rest of you come out into the chamber.
Where are we? I'm like behind this boulder and
I just peek out. Like, hey. Yeah, I mean, Taldir's
as close to the lava as he can be without it
being unbearably hot. Also, the grid is off.
It's not aligned. Yeah, the grid is not aligned.
This is just a quick upload to give us a sense
of space. Yeah, so as you all come out, he's
going to stand and he's going to look at you,
Wesley, and he's going to just say, She smells
of rock. Are you here for stones? Yeah. Can I
speak to him? Can I use pointed question? Yeah.
What does that do? Give us a little... You ask
a question that charms or needles someone in
just the right way. Ask a question of a non -allied
creature that you can see and have been conversing
with. Attempt a diplomacy check against the creature's
will to see. The creature is then temporarily
immune for an hour. Wait. Do I need that? If
he passes, I guess. Yeah, what does it do if
they don't pass? The target can refuse to answer
you as normal. So either I persuade him to answer
us, be on our side, or not. Gotcha. So it would
be, so it's against his what, DC? Will. Will?
His Will DC. Okay, yeah, go ahead and roll that,
and then let me know what question you ask. Did
I ask guys? I don't know, he's pretty open. Yeah,
I was going to say, you probably don't need to
try anything, I'm just asking a question. It
doesn't sound like there's a downside, though.
Oh, that's true. This isn't like charm where
they're like, hey, I see what you're doing and
it pisses me off. This is just like... Yeah.
So it's, I roll this plus my diplomacy? Yeah.
25. 25, okay. Will DC at 17, so you are successful.
Probably should have held that in my back pocket,
but fuck it. What do you want to ask him? Um...
If he will help us find a way out. Yeah, if he
can help us find a way out through where we came,
because I'm pretty sure we have to go right back
to where the bugs are. Or if he knows anything.
Or any other... Anything? What do you mean? Like,
anywhere... I don't think he has answered yet.
Like anywhere that might be like kind of safer
parts of the mines or someone like the person
we're looking for might hold up or somewhere
someone could hold up essentially like within
the mines. Yeah. So I think combining those questions
a little bit, Wesley, it sounded like you were
looking for a way around going back into the
main chamber. You like wanted to know if there's
another way to navigate it. Is that? Yeah, because
I feel like that's going to be the only way through.
Okay. He's going to... Good question. He's going
to, like, sit and scratch at his chin again.
You seem nice, but smell of death. There is...
I suppose things to learn still of the world.
I like you. That chamber. And he points to a
wall that's partially collapsed behind him. Dwarves
go in. Dwarves go out. They rarely stay in here
for much time. What I let them know, this space,
they cannot break apart with their picks. I think
he's dying, man. You go through. You go through.
There must be way around. For. I do not always
see same. Come in as same go out. As for. Which
way? Sorry, did he point in the direction yet?
Yeah, he just pointed like kind of behind them.
So directly to like the. East, basically. And
he's just gonna say, like... I do not leave this
chamber. And only know little bits I overhear.
Dwarves... They are obsessed with going deeper,
finding more. But they awaken the enemy. I can
make deal with you. You kill... Snake. Which
eats my stone. And I'll give you this. And he
opens, like pulls open the stonework that's like,
looks to be protecting his chest. And inside
you see like a glowing, beating heart made of
chambers of rock that kind of glow different
colors as magma pumps through them. Deal. And
he closes his chest. You scratch my feet, I give
you small stones. Much like Varamyr. And he holds
it out to you once again. Protect from heat.
Uh, can you cross this river? Because I don't
think I can get over there. Also, those bad stones,
are they making you sick? I don't... No, I feel...
Death spread to the stone. And I am of the stone.
So death is spread to me. It sucks. How do we
stop that? Is there a way? Just kill the guy
that's eating your stones? Just kill the worm.
The snake that eats the stone. He spreads the
death more and more. Deal. And he's gonna...
We'll deal with the worm for you, but also...
Can you give us the heat protection stones first?
Since that will likely aid us in defeating the
worm. We gotta scratch his feet, bro. Yeah, I'll
scratch his feet. I'll be like, I don't gotta
take that, but I got this hammer. I can give
you a little scratch. I come to you! And he kind
of, like, stands up and, like... Like jogs over,
stands at the edge of the river of lava and just
like starts wading through. It's like about waist
high on him. And as he steps on the other side,
he just like brushes off the magma as it begins
to cool into stone, kind of chipping it away.
And he just like falls down on his butt with
like his feet just like angled straight out in
front of him and his hands kind of like behind
him. And he's like, please. For stones, you scratch
feet. Anyone who's willing to try, make an attack
roll. Yeah, I'm going to use my short sword.
I'm going to pull out my dagger. Oh, wait, wait,
wait. We've got four hammers. I'm going to take
one of those. I'll take a hammer. Yeah, I'll
hand a hammer to Taz. Anybody else want a hammer?
Tal Daryl just used his hammer. All right. Wesley?
You're going to hold one up to Wesley? Um...
Why shouldn't I use my short sword? Because you'll
probably damage it. It's magical. Even worse
to damage. Okay, I'll use a hammer. Well, it's
also less likely to be damaged. I think magical
means it's got higher break thresholds and stuff.
Yeah, but also I figure if we have four hammers
that we're not doing shit with and if we break
them while we're scratching his feet. But, hey,
you do you. I'm going to use a hammer. I'll use
a hammer. I roll a 14. I don't know what the
bonus is, but probably nothing, right? I'd probably
crit this guy's fucking feet, by the way. Natural
17 with plus 8, so whatever that is, 25. What'd
you get, Wesley? I got 18, but what are we adding
to it? Just your normal, whatever your attack
bonus would be with that weapon. If you're not
proficient, you may not add anything. Yeah, I'm
not going to add anything, just a 14. I think
I'll just do an 18. 18. Amorous. Working on it.
Working on it. Yeah, it shows that I'm proficient.
It's just a light hammer. Yeah. 13. 13 total.
So that is two successes. And again, anytime
we do these kind of things, I don't try to like...
trick players so like if the point is to scratch
his feet i'm not gonna be like ah you crit the
giant broke his foot he's pissed like you're
succeeding at what you're trying to do right
so i would say taldeer like you get right in
there that little weird space like between the
ball of your foot and the arch where it's just
like You're almost like a dog when somebody gets
it. And he's just like, oh, yes. And Wesley hits
the other foot. And he's like, ah. After a few
minutes, he just kind of like leans back. And
he's like, very good. My feet get so sore walking
around this ground. I feel much better now. And
he. scratches. Taldir, go ahead and roll a d4.
And Wesley, you as well. Or I'll say you credit.
Taldir, roll a d6. Sixes. Hey, I did roll a six.
And a two. Six and a two. Eight. He's going to
scratch. I don't even think you need eight of
these. He scratches under his metal shield, his
vest that he's kind of wearing, and he pulls
out eight of these little crystals and hands
them to you. He tells you that they will work
for some time. They should protect you from the
worst of the heat. And you get eight Blazing
Souls. Are these actual items? Yeah, you can
find them on Demiplane. Yeah, and the only change
that I will make for our game is because I wanted
to make them consumable. So anytime you activate
it, you have a 50 -50 chance of it being destroyed
following the activation. So I'll just roll a
D100 whenever you use it, and I'll let you know
how that works. Oh, I see. This is like a...
This is like a... Like a boon, almost, normally.
Not, like, not consumable. This is, like, a...
Right. Okay. Um... So, yeah, it's the same item,
but we're adding, like, a consumable element
to it because it's not a... Yeah, like you said,
it's a usable jewel instead of, like, a trait
that you gain or something like that. Yeah, yeah,
okay. But, I mean, this would be worth, like,
a shit ton of money, like, if we have dupes.
Presumably. Mm -hmm. Like a ridiculous amount
of money. We can come back and scratch his feet
more after we save the day. Oh, I probably shouldn't.
No, it's an item, though. Yeah. Okay. Cool. Sorry,
I'm just reading it again. So I'm just going
to be like, thanks, buddy, and I'm just going
to fucking take another couple of whacks with
a hammer at his foot. We'll try to catch you
on the way back out after we take care of the
snake. You are good friends. Freak, huh? We can
edit it, but I always think these things are
fun. I literally envisioned that you were either
going to have to hide Wesley somehow to avoid
combat with him, or he was going to be so enraged
by her presence. Because she reminds him of these
stones that he was going to attack you when he
noticed her. But she came out with the diplomacy
check, killed it, and I thought, like, you know
what? Let's, uh, now they're friends instead.
Oh, that's right. That's right. That's right.
Because that was fucking Dr. Dr. Me. Said the
same thing or whatever. Yeah, she's got freak
blood. Yeah, it's like void energy or whatever
the fuck, right? Yeah, I think they did. Me?
What was his name? Freak blood? His name is...
Grumblestone. Grumblestone. Such a unique name.
Did he name himself? If you ask him, he will
tell you that he was given the name by Vomrir,
his dwarven friend. Vomrir. Do we know that name?
Society check? Roll a society check. 20? I'd
say with a 20, yeah, you are confident that you
do not know that name. It has never been mentioned
as an important name before. He's just a miner
who worked in here and befriended Grumblestone.
Yeah, he's just a miner who released the blight
on the world. Miner. With an E, not on Drake's
dating app. Remind me of this Blazing Soul thing
again. How did you say it's going to work as
a consumable? Anytime you activate it, it has
a 50 -50 chance of being totally drained and
dying. Okay, but does that mean that we have
the fire resistance 10 permanently? And when
you say activate it, do you mean like the triggering
effect? Yeah, I would say it's kind of a more
advanced item than we should probably be dealing
with at this point, but I wanted to kind of temper
that with the idea that it is consumable and
that it does take activation. So I would say
that the entire thing has to be... No, I would
say as long as you're holding it, you're going
to get the fire resistance. Okay, cool. Yeah,
that's... Really, I'd be happy if this item just
said you gain fire resistance 10 while holding
it. So, like, I'm good with that. Yeah, I would
say as long as you're holding it, you gain the
fire resistance. We may tweak how that interacts.
Like, maybe we'll, you know, also roll the consumable
on an application of the fire resistance. But
we can kind of tweak that as we go along. That
sounds good. But also, Taz could do some fucking
nuts things with it. With, like, a fire bomb.
If they... If he crits with a firebomb and then
uses the reaction to deal 66 all around the creature
he hits. I will end some more dwarvish lives.
Could you imagine if you had it earlier? You
would have just burned the whole city down. I'll
drop a second bomb. Okay. Hiroshima wasn't enough?
Okay. Okay, so. Okay. Back into it. That's fucking
shit, dude. So how are we going to get across?
We're resistant to fire now, and I'm going to
start walking towards the... Wait, wait, wait.
No, that's caved in. We need to go back. No,
he said to go east. Yeah, he said... That's past
him. He said there's a little thing past him
that we can go down. Yeah, it is caved in a little
bit, but looking at it... Can you move it? He's
a big dude. Yeah, how tall is he? He is... Huge,
so I imagine... I'm thinking somewhere between
15 and 20 feet. I'll ask, can he carry us across
the lava to the other exit that he mentioned?
Yeah. You give me best foot scratch since Vamrir
last visited. For that, I carry your little buddy.
And he will hold out his hand and like... He'll
want you to step on it. It's kind of like stepping
up into a stool. He's not quite like hold you
in the palm of his hand size, but when you do,
he can kind of like hold you like a popsicle.
Yeah, okay. I'm going to activate my heat resistance
because I think even being 10 feet in the air,
that shit's going to burn the shit out of me.
Fair enough, actually. Yeah, well, as long as
we have it on us, we get the... fire the heat
resistance i don't need to activate it for it
so yeah oh okay cool yeah it's way more work
than i wanted to figure out sounds good once
i get on top of him can i just like when it's
clear when i am able to can i just like jump
off because i'm still a little weary of him because
it isn't like death yeah and that's me that's
kind of my jam i don't know what i do i feel
like he's like holding uh And Taldir and Amaris
and then, like, Taz and Wesley are just, like,
riding on his shoulders as he, like, kind of
wades back across this, like, river. And once
you're about five feet from the edge, you can
safely just kind of, like, leap from his shoulder
onto the shore on the other side. Cool. Can I
also just... I don't think I have... Can I just
do, like, one... Oh, no, we did do, like, a general
perception check on the room when he was asking
about the pickaxe. And we didn't see anything
of interest? Do I need to do another one to,
like, fully scope the room? No, I would say you're
well above a 20. You feel confident in your not
seeing anything. Okay, cool. I'm going to use,
like, all this time. I'm going to take some of
those blazing souls, and I'm going to craft,
like, necklaces for everybody so we can just
have it around their neck. Nice. That's sick.
Thanks. And they're really tight, though, so,
like, when you put it on, like, it's, like...
Like fucking chokers. Like a choker? Yeah, it's,
like, up right on your neck, because... Yeah.
Because you just can't conceptualize that people
have bigger necks than a goblin. Yeah, so I'm...
Yeah, exactly. So I'm just, like, all right,
cool, and then... That's even better. Yeah, you're
just always testing it on yourself. On my neck?
Yeah. On my neck? Yeah, I'm, like, all right,
cool, and then... I'll just, like, double it
up and put it on my... On my... As a bracelet.
There's so much slack. Yeah, so you might use
it as a bracelet. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Or, like, hang it on my shield or something.
Let me fucking see. I like that Taz is building
this. Well, if you drop your shield, don't put
it on your shield. I'll just tell you, don't
put it on your shield because you dropped your
shield, you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that
makes sense. That makes sense. I won't drop my
shield, though, so. Yeah, yeah. Don't ever disrespect
me again. I mean, you did drop it that one time,
you know. I've never dropped my shield. Just
don't sleep with it, because I'm not weird. I
remember you dropped something. You were like,
I can't pick this up, so you dropped something.
Was it your shield? No, it would have been my
hammer. Yeah, sometimes I do drop my hammer,
because I'm more interested in protection. And
look at you. You're welcome. I've soaked a lot
of damage for you. I literally fucking died.
Like an hour ago, I died. Yeah, and who healed
you? Not to get sidetracked, but I was like 38
years old when I realized the... What a condom
was? No, but the line, you've got to bag it up,
was a reference to wearing a condom. I'm 38 years
old. Yeah, those songs from when we were kids,
man. Yep. I said a lot of shit I didn't understand.
I can tell you that much. They play those songs
like at our middle school dance. I remember playing
to Next Too Close. That's what I was going to
say. Listen to that fucking song. Whoa. I had
no idea. Nobody was listening to music back in
the day, you know? They're just like, whatever.
The kids like this. Sounds like good advice,
honestly. I still remember the first song that
I danced with a girl to. Champagne Supernova.
Fantastic. They don't make them like that. Women
or the songs? They don't. Take your pick, buddy.
Can I go through that area that he was talking
about? Oh, yeah. Are we keeping going? Oh, that's
right. We're playing a game. I mean, he's big
enough so I don't think Wesley has to squeeze,
right? He can start moving stuff, right? Yeah,
the entranceway is collapsed. Many of the stones
can be moved easily. You assume with a little
bit of time you would be able to at least clear
a passage that you could crawl through should
you choose to do that. Okay, so Wesley, you wanted
to start moving some of these stones. Go ahead
and make an athletics check to try to clear a
path. So I was really trying to persuade our
golem friend here to move them. Oh, okay. Go
ahead and make a diplomacy check. Hey, friend.
20. Let's go. A natural 20? Natural 20. Take
your hero point. That's my second hero point.
Do I get a hero point for figuring out it was
the Blighting? You know what? I don't know that
you figured that out, but I do think you're on
a good run, and I do want to reward some more
meta lore stuff, so yeah, go ahead and take it.
Can I get one because I was next to him? No.
I think I was hiding at that point, so yeah,
same room. I made everyone necklaces. Oh my god,
you guys are teacher's pets. Yeah, the hero point
stuff's getting out of control. Great, he turned
the feature back off. Look, I am never gonna
get one if it's only on natural 20s. So, like,
I gotta get what I can. You gotta bargain when
you get a shot. I do actually like it and please
feel free to ask because I do think not only
for the game and making my soul feel better about
spending all this stupid fucking time on it,
but also for the listening audience, I think
it's good to engage with the lore some. If there
are opportunities to do that and you see them
and take them, those should get you hero points.
They sure should. Yeah. So it might be the pointed
question again, because... Right? Yeah. Is that
why I'm rolling? Yeah, just another diplomacy
check. But I would say, you know, with that roll,
your background, I assume that's like a plus,
what, eight for you or something? Plus six. Plus
six. Okay. Yeah. So either way, critical success.
He's going to kind of look at Wesley and just
be like, You have grown my horizons today, expanded
what I thought was possible. At first, I thought
I hated the smell that you produce, but you are
not so bad. I will help you out. And he, uh...
I use my witch's hat and I do this. I tip my
hat to him. And he's going to be like, oh! And
he'll reach his hand into the river and slap
some lava on his head so that it just creates
this weird little bowl hat as it drips down.
And he'll kind of return the motion to you. Fashionable.
That is very nice, yes! I craft this myself.
And he points to the kind of golden vest he's
making or that he's wearing and he's like, And
now I have had two. I thank you for the ideas.
You're welcome. You should get gloves. You should
make a necklace so you match us. Yeah. And I'll
show him the necklace that I made for everybody.
He's just quiet. He's like, no, I'll just go
fuck myself. You bring back chain for me? I make
necklace. Oh, okay. I was bringing back a chain.
Yeah, I don't want just, like, lava drippings
all over chest. It's weird. Only on his head.
Yeah, only on my head. And his head is just going
to be like, for you I make path. And he'll, like,
go towards the door, crouch down in front of
it, and just, like, start grabbing at the stones,
some of them large, some of them small. He's,
like, clearing it almost like cotton fluff. And
just, like, boom, finally. He pulls the last
handful. The wall collapses so that you are able
to step over it into the next chamber. Nice.
Thanks, buddy. Please, return any time and kill
that worm. I give you gift. I'm going to put
my fist out to give him a fizz bump. This is
not the direction of the worm? He's going to
hold his fist inches from you. Because he doesn't
want to hit your little goblin hand. Yeah. These
worm travels. But through this door you can find
pathway to rest of mine system or, I believe,
exit to surface. Whichever you look for. Thanks,
buddy. Yeah, thank you. Oh, is there anything
else in particular that we should watch out for
down here? Friends? Foes? Since dwarves left,
there are many evil things which sneak in. Even
normal things. Bats and snakes and other crawly
things become poisoned by the sick earth, mutate,
and become monstrosity. When they enter my chamber,
I smash them. And he, like, smashes his hands
together, sending little pieces of stone and
sand flying. He's going to say, but not so many
come in now. Still, I smell them through the
cavern. Be careful, my friends. Thanks. Catch
you later. Bye. Bye. I'm no good at goodbyes,
so I go lay in the river where you cannot see
me, and we talk next time. And he just jumbles
off. You see him just get inside the river, and
he's just rubbing the lava in his armpits and
stuff. Nice guy. Nice guy. The mechanics of this,
we don't have to think about too much. You kind
of walk through this narrow cavern. It's about
10 feet long. And on the other side is an almost
perfectly square room, obviously created by the
dwarves who occupied the space. In the corner
to the north, there is another cavern entrance
that goes... Back into the mines. You can see
this part actually still has, like, track and
things laid, where carts can come in and out.
In the northern, or sorry, the eastern edge of
the room, there is a ladder that ascends up the
pathway. And in the very distance, you believe
you can see, like, the faint hint of light. On
the wall to the south, as you look, there appears
to be an altar of some kind, an empty iron bowl
in the hands of a dwarf. And on the ground, you
see six bodies, basically skeletons in tattered
robes. And as you kind of take your first breath,
In the frame of this cavern way, the bones begin
to move and pull themselves from the ground in
kind of this chattering, like, broken motion.
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