And that was Knife Trick with our theme song,
Beginner's Luck. And hi, everyone. This is Larry.
Welcome back. I am the DM for this podcast, Beginner's
Luck, and I am currently joined with my lovely
players. So let's start from the top. We have
Bella, I play Annie, the Storm Goliath. I keep
forgetting what to actually say. I haven't finished
my coffee yet, so that's a problem. Anything
you want to say about... About Annie? Wait, my
mind actually completely blanked. I don't know
what to say. And next we have... That's fine.
It's alright. It'll only take us about 192 episodes,
but we'll get there eventually. Hello? My name
is Robert, and I play Godar Sevrok. The pleasure
is all yours. Nice. And up next, we have, well,
lastly, but not least, we do have... I'm Avia.
I play Rainer, the elf who is a bard. Cool, cool,
cool. All right. So before we begin, I do have
a question for the three of you, well, specifically
your characters. Now, if there is, if any, sport
games... Or leisure games that your character
would either partake in or follow? What would
it be? Let's start with Annie. That is the most
nerdy thing I've ever heard. Any sport games?
Sport? Shut up! I do the sport. Do you like the
sports? I like the sports ball. I like the ball
games, son. The FIFA? The NBA? Just so you know,
I'm the kind of person who, like, if I don't
have anything to say in a conversation with new
people I've just met, I'm the guy that says,
so... How about them Knicks? That's the thing
I always say. Anyway. Go team. Respect for nobody
to the weather. That's true. That's true. Annie.
I like to play chess. Something competitive.
I've tried to get into Shogi, but no. Just chess.
Interesting. Now, is Annie the type to seek out
opponents or is it something that she's... uh
done like sort of like she does solo play where
she'll play both sides well i used to play competitively
with people i worked with you know people in
the workshop whenever we're on our break we would
just play in the break room but then if i lost
i would just go back home and play by myself
try to replicate their moves see what i can learn
from it what was annie's win rate Honestly, not
that great. Was it a forced 50 -50? That is an
interesting point. Honestly, I think for Annie,
it is hard to say. I don't think she would be
very inclined to say it. You just kind of see
Annie like retract in her seat. Okay. Goddard.
Oh, well, yes, I have tried many sports and naturally
I am good at all of them. Perfect. Wow. But I
did enjoy racquetball. It was quite an invigorating
game. And who did you compete against? This is
something that you play. It sounds like something
that you've played competitively. Uh, there was
a local club with some of the other nobles, sons,
and daughters that I used to play with. You see,
and your win rate? Oh, I didn't bother keeping
track of one too much. Alright, fair enough.
Alright, Raynor. Don't want to have too many
tickets on myself. Raynor. Yes, so I think it
would be horse racing. Yes, horse racing. Okay,
so I'm just gonna put the question out there.
Is Rainer the type to be riding said horse or
placing bets on said horse? Placing bets a hundred
percent. Yeah, he would be the type to go like,
okay, this one's gonna do it. This one's gonna
do it. Why are you so slow? Why are you so slow?
What's Rainer's track records of winnings? Like
how often has he won at the tracks? I would say
he's lost more than he's won, but every single
time he's gone on a loss streak, he's won one,
which has got him back into it. Oh, so he breaks
even. I would say he's just about broken even.
OK, all right. One more and he would have broken
even. Just before the arrest is heading towards
the track, then he gets arrested. That's how
he got arrested probably. I was like, you didn't
declare that. Okay, that's thank you very much
for the three of you for those answers. Love
every each and one of them. All right. So Mr.
World. Yes. What about you? Me? I mean, personally,
as a DM, okay, for me, I used to follow a lot
of basketball. Being a Filipino, it is ingrained
in our blood to follow the basketballs and watches
them shoot it at hoops. Into the goals, if you
will. Oh my god, please stop. Thank you. To follow
the balls and watches them shoot it at hoops
into the goals, if you will. But yes, no, basketball
was something that I did follow in my younger
days. Now, not so much. I don't really follow
that many sports because it's something that
just doesn't interest me at all. Like, I don't
understand the team loyalty, the celebration
of almost godlike status for someone who can
throw a ball really well. So I'm not going to
get all somewhat political on this. I'm going
to stop. So I'm about to stop. I'm going to stop
myself. Let's go ahead and just jump straight
into the recap. What should have been a well
-deserved rest for our daring derelicts shifted
itself into plaguing nightmares that served as
a reminder of what they're fighting for. Perhaps
those nightmares also serve as a glimpse of what
is to come. Mademoiselle, deeming her chosen
worthy, decides to impart with them a few gifts,
first being pampered and cleaned at Flo's Beautification
Salon. Our misfits were also granted a visit
to a place of their choice before leaving the
city proper. Godard, visiting their dear sister
at the Mistletoe Cafe, learned that their father
has exchanged him for his own freedom and hasn't
been seen since. With a heavy heart, the worried
sibling had to let Godard go. Annie, having her
warehouse burned down during the arrest many
years ago, she has, in secret, a hidden workshop
still standing in High Street. Taking every plan
and draft that remains, and a single photograph,
a reminder of days of yore. Rainer's request
is to return to a place he once frequented, the
look of opulence and lavish fancy, a family home
in Antilly proper. He is met with a woman who
leaves him with a rather heartwarming parting
gift. And just as quickly as all that came, they
are soon given directions to an encampment where
they will be given instructions pertaining to
their mission, by their handler, a fish of well
-renowned Samson. Here they also meet the encampment's
foremen, Sasha Blackburn and Chad Salad, both
charged with running the expedition. Their first
task is to head to an old and tealy settlement
within the expanse known as Briar Rose. There
they will be accompanied by a mousekin, gimbal,
one shoe who will serve as a diligent field guide,
studying, examining and documenting everything
along the way. What the future may hold for our
three convicts is uncertain, especially now that
their task includes the safety and security of
their field guide. And this is where we'll pick
it up. Okay, and now we return to all of you
in your little tent with the three beds that
have been arranged for you. It is now night and
you're all taking your long rest. So if you could
just go ahead and do a long rest and also if
each and every one of you get one inspiration.
So that's perp. Unfortunately, I can't get to
inspiration because I'm a human so I always get
it anyway. Oh fair enough well Rainer and Annie
you both get inspiration with the events that
had occurred last last episode so It was a lot
of fun. So you guys get inspiration. Yay Yippee
So instead of that inspiration, can you just
put my AC to 20? Please. Please. Or can Gordar
just be innocent now and no one have to be out
here? To be fair, Gordar is... Yes. The corner
is just a little bit looser. But yes. Gordar's
been saying this since the get -go. Yeah, he
has been saying it from the get -go. And also
as well, like... Well, anyway. Just for someone
who's not D &D knowledgeable, what does inspiration
do? So... inspiration is good question from in
the new 2024 rules it is something completely
different compared to before if i remember correctly
but let me go ahead and pull up our uh we call
it our trusty 2024 player's handbook. And for
me to look up inspiration. Inspiration, here
we go. I totally put him on the spot. Yes, you
most certainly did. So I'm going to go to page
368. For those of you who do have the book at
home, you may follow along. 368. Hold on a second.
This just turned into like an online course for
D &D 2024 edition. Three six eight. Where are
you? I totally asked cuz I knew Yeah, yeah rap
best All right, let's take a look here So, if
you, a player character, have heroic inspiration,
you can expend it to reroll any die immediately
after rolling it, and you must use the new roll.
If you gain a heroic inspiration but already
have it, it's lost unless you give it to another
character who lacks it. There you go. So you
can, you just basically use it for any of your
rerolls. And if you want, you can also give it
to another player who had... Rolled poorly and
so let's just say Annie rolled a one in something
that is vital for them to have And you could
simply say hey, and you can take my inspiration
so she then gets to reroll that die of which
she will then roll a two Okay, of course and
that is ladies and gentlemen what inspiration
is in D &D 2024 Sweet, thank you Okay, so You're
all taking your rest, but Raynor, you once again
wake up and you're surrounded by glittering gold
and pristine gems and jewels, food, you know,
food abound, dishes that you've never seen before,
but smell exquisite. And you hear that voice
once more that you had the previous night. All
this can be yours. No, this again. Free me. Free
me. You could be a lot more useful and tell me
free you from what, but OK. As you mutter that
sentence within this dream, you find yourself
awake. A bit of a... You don't have that moment
of sort of like having that little sleep in and
you look towards your compatriots and they seem
to still be asleep. I'm gonna kick their beds.
Why? No, no, no, stay away! What do you want?
Oh, uh, there was a spider on your bed. You woke
us up for a spider on each of our beds. I didn't
know if you're allergic. What? Allergic to spiders?
Yeah. I have snakes for hair. Yes, those snakes
can take care of the insects like no problem.
Also - I'm pretty sure they were - yeah. Why
would you wake us up like this? Also, I think
the goldfish wants to talk to us. the as you
are now all awake, you take a moment to refocus
yourselves and find and hear that the encampment
already is busy. You can hear shuffling outside
and people beginning to like sort of move things,
just general work on what is needed in this encampment.
And not a moment too soon, the the flaps of this
tent. Gimble walks through. Hi. Hello. Good morning.
Hello. Hello. Gorah looks exhausted. If anyone
was awake throughout the night, he was tossing
and turning. He did not sleep much at all. So
I'm going to take a level of exhaustion because
you are now somewhat exhausted. Yes, he didn't
he like he got maybe like two hours sleep an
hour sleep properly like it was just tossing
and turning and crying Silent crying in those
moments when you do look up over your other companions
With Rainer in particular there seems to be a
while he slept there seems to be a a look of
peace and somewhat contentment in whatever he
is slumbering on. And he just, you're not sure
what to make of her. Like her deadpan expression
in her awake time is reflected upon her rest
time. Exactly the same, just with eyes closed
and you're like, I can't get a read on her. He
wouldn't have spent too much time staring at
them. It's more self -absorbed. Just sort of
taking in of the situation and what's happening.
Yeah, pretty much. Gimble comes in. Oh, good
morning. I think today is when we're going to
leave, yes? I think so, yes. Do you have your
things prepared? Yeah. Goddard's kind of just
like not meeting anyone's eyes, kind of just
slumped on the bed, just pulling himself out.
He didn't get... Changed or anything still wearing
his full outfit the metal braces and everything
just gets up and just slowly walks out the door
Perhaps we should have something to eat before
we leave as he's sort of like trying to follow
you out and also addressing the other two to
go see to head to the mess hall well what pastas
is a mess the mess hall itself is one giant tent
and inside is the like rows of tables and seats.
And it's like a continental breakfast. You can
see that there's a section that's been set up
for like, you know, for there's like toast and
jams and some fruits. uh and uh a little uh little
coffee maker and there's also a pot that's boiling
with hot water uh you also have like you know
teas and everything so what is everybody having
for breakfast um probably goda is a pescatarian
so mainly i'm assuming would be mainly vegetables
and stuff uh We're pretty inland aren't we where
there wouldn't be much? Yeah, that's what I was
that's what I was about to ask pescatarian is
someone who eats fish primarily. Yes. Okay Yeah,
because those scaly things should not exist.
Okay, um So pretty much. Yeah, just vegetables
and whatever you can get like Whatever stew vegetable
thing that there is that doesn't have meat Any
what's any having for breakfast as any looks
at the wide array of different breakfast foods
she's really like apprehensive about grabbing
one she just wants like the simplest looking
thing one that she can devour in like maybe two
to three bites just something that's like straightforward
has no intricacies something where she doesn't
have to think about what she's eating she can
just be done beans and toast I do not like beans
I don't like beans either but um Toast it is.
Yes, toast. I imagine because of her experiences
for the last, what, 30 odd years, me, you know,
food is actually hard to come by, but she still
makes a choice of simplicity. Oh, yes. It's like
a few pieces of toast and then she goes over
to the coffee machine, prepares herself. um,
a shot of espresso. Okay. And she sits down.
Uh, Rainer, what's Rainer having for breakfast?
Um, just a question. So is the table that we're
towards, is there other people on this table?
Uh, yeah. So imagine, um, almost like, uh, almost
like - Like a Hogwarts table? Yeah, almost like
that. Just not as massive. So it's like a cafeteria
sort of setting. Okay, cool. So Rainer is gonna
take a look at what most of the people are eating
and He's gonna get something similar, but he's
not gonna get any coffee. He's just gonna get
water. Okay Yeah, so for the most folks see they're
like a variety of choices Some are having beans
and toast some of them are having cereal that
you have guy a guy who's having oatmeal Someone's
having a toasty anything that you'd expect then
you'd find at a continental breakfast I suppose
but generally they it's a lot of the folks here
They don't look downtrodden or anything like
that. A lot of these porters, they it looks like
they're not looking for excitement in their food.
And it's more like sustenance. Okay, you see
Gimble move up and he gets himself just a few
gets himself a bowl of fruit. And he sits along
with you. And he stares at the three of you as
you eat, and he's eating his fruit. So I imagine
that you guys haven't had a nice meal in a while.
You do know him correctly. He's like mid -bite
of like his thing. He's like, he's not closing
his mouth, so it's just he could see the food.
He's like, yeah. And he's silent. She just continues
taking bites of her toast. You see him as you
guys sort of just have your breakfast. He's pulled
out his he's pulled out a book and as he's eating
his fruit, he's just beginning to work on this
book. He's like what he's doing. He looks like
he's like taking notes and he's making some primary
sketches. What are you working on? Oh, this and
he shows you and what he's written thus far it's
almost like a journal entry and he's gone into
detail in describing the three of you from his
own perception and the sketches that you see
are sketches of the three of you can we tell
what he's written yeah it's what from what he
describes uh of the three of you so ray uh He
has observed with Rainer it's in his in his little
notes. He's described you physically, you know,
like it's very methodical be the right word or
not. He's written it in a way where it's like,
oh, OK, so he's Rainer. uh, ancestry, height,
you know, and then the description of like, uh,
you, you physically, um, and that's how he's
written, uh, about the three of you and just
like sort of a one line small comment of, in
terms of his observation. And for you, Rayner,
he's written something along the, uh, he would
have written, uh, observant and, uh, observant
and also one who tries to blend in. and you look
over yours and it makes uh has the same sort
of statistical um information that from his own
observation and the line on you is hard to read
and then Godard you look over and you can see
that he was very succinct in your description
and in the comment section he wrote like probably
stay away might eat me. Not bad. So yes, and
like he's you can see that he's done like sketches
of the three of you, which are very, very accurate
for sketches. Are you an artist or something?
No, I'm the field researcher. I will be Tate,
I'm out here to see what we can learn about Matucia.
If it is useful or not. Interesting. I've never
been. I don't think anyone has in a long time.
No, I don't believe so. This will be useful for
future expeditions. I bet it will be. So what
kind of things have you... discovered, say, you
know, materials or things that originate from
the land. What kind of details do you write down?
Well, everything that we see that is out of the
unusual, out of the usual, are we taking notes?
I don't know what we'll find. And to be fair,
this is actually, this is my first time outside
the university. This is... My first gig, so to
speak. Yeah, I could tell. Your first real expedition.
You could tell I'm green? Yeah. Oh. Anyone could
tell you're green. I mean... I see. Your backpack
is way too big for what you need. Well, there's
supplies that could... we could possibly need.
And he begins to like list all these things that
he does have in his backpack. And it's just an
array of, yeah, they're useful things for situations
that might possibly come up. But you are right,
Rainer, it is excessive. He has almost prepared
for any sort of incident. Yeah, that's right.
He seems to have, like from your observation,
you can tell it's something that he may have.
overthunk it just a little. Yeah. Miranda's not
going to add anything else. He's just like, yeah,
you did that. You see Annie have like a little
sly grin. Like one of those like she, um, what,
what's the phrase? Like she points once. Yeah,
smirks. That's it. Sorry. Um, she's like smirking
and she looks over and she leans over to... What's
his name again, sorry? Gimble. Gimble. I thought
it was Grizzly for some reason. I don't know
why. She leans over to Gimble and she's like,
I like you, pipsqueak. You're prepared. I like
that. Thank you. No, do you have a piece of paper
and a pen I could borrow? He... hands you the
pen that he's currently using, and then he rips
out a page on his book and hands it to you. Oh,
thank you. You are too kind. You're welcome.
She proceeds to put it in her own pouch. Oh,
okay. Interesting. I thought you were gonna write
something here and now. No, no, no. I might use
this for later. I will return it once I'm done
with it. You can keep the pen. I have a few.
If you're sure. Thank you. And once you're all
done, I suggest that you go see Samson. And once
he'll have a few words before we leave, I'll
see the three of you there. And you see him sort
of just... pushed a bowl of fruit he seems to
have stopped consuming and he leaves. He almost
has like this, the way he moves almost has a
sense of rejection as he patters away. Pipsqueak.
So we heading off soon. Got out of this point,
he's just pushing. leftovers of food on his plate.
Why aren't you eating? I have eaten. Here's a
question, Gordar, because obviously I wasn't
there. But yesterday, with the bakery that you
visited, what did you do in there? What I did
in there is none of your concern. That is very
true. I did not ask about what you did in yours.
Your location? Hey, you could ask. Go for it.
Ask. I don't care. Okay, here's something I kind
of want to make sure that you understand. We're
not going to get saved by anyone. Not by Papa,
not by Mama, not by anyone. We're here on our
own. We're gonna die if we don't take care of
ourselves. Reina, that's enough. Nope. He needs
to understand. I know that. You think I don't
know that? You think I don't know that we're
in the edge of nowhere? That at any moment we
could all die of syphilis or something? Syphilis?
Both of you shut up. I don't know. We have a
job to do. Let's get prepared and let's do it
so we can get this over and done with. And with
that Annie's gonna like slam her fist onto the
table and walk out. Uh, some of the porters have
now sort of just like... perked up and are just
like watching the three of you. A few of them
that are in within close proximity, you see them
slowly either shifting away or have just stood
up and moved to a different table. You pick the
intro, you see, you pick the interest of Chad
Salad, who is just looking and watching. Whatever.
Let's just get moving and get this done with.
Okay. Okay. Do you think she's gonna go to the
the blacksmith? Wasn't she trying to get to the
blacksmith yesterday? Or is she gonna like head
straight to the person we need to go to? I don't
know. God I just gets up and just walks out of
the tent. Okay so I imagine where is everyone
going? And you will go over to the blacksmith.
Okay, and the two of you God I was just trying
to get some air try and compose right off He's
gonna move to the table where all of the porters
are. Okay, let's start here where the porters
are Okay, so you see with these porters they
They seem Someone, well, people who not exactly
run in the same circle, but they seem to be people
who see who come from the same economical background.
Yeah. Basically, they're poor is what I'm trying
to say. Yeah, I can understand. Red between the
lights on that one. And you can see them, you
know. Most of them don't seem to interact with
one another. There are a few who seem to know
each other and would just have friendly conversations.
But for the most part, a lot of them are just
sort of, what's the word, keeping to themselves.
They have their breakfast and they leave, which
what you would assume is to do today's work.
Okay. Is there anyone who looks older? Yeah,
I guess we could say that there's a guy there
that looks to be in his late 40s Okay, so Rainer
is gonna sit opposite him and Just like without
really putting any pretense. This is come like
how long have you worked there for? This is I
was hired for this expedition. This didn't start
till a few weeks ago All right Pay good? Yeah,
decent. Sent to the family. Any risk? Well, if
- Hazard pay? If the rest of you come back from
beyond there, uh, the risk is us going in there
after. You see. Okay. So, so they're expecting
us to come out then, because they've hired you?
That's the hope. How many of them are - How many
of your team is there? there's about 50 of us
and you're just carrying things over there or
are you trying to mine something we're here to
if i understand correctly we're just here to
help with the uh the the labor of whatever is
needed we're not told many things yeah that makes
sense all right thanks mate good luck You good
luck, too. If we make it out, you've got the
hard job. He just nods and he continues eating
his beans and toast. This episode is called Beans
and Toast, ladies and gentlemen. Lovely. Gorar,
you step outside the mess hall. And now that
little time has passed, the encampment is a bit
more busy. You can see people attending to the
Beasts of Burden. You can now see a few folks
who are now beginning to check on the supplies
on the larger carriages that they have, ensuring
that everything is either strapped in properly
or if everything's still in order. You can hear
the... You can hear noises from the blacksmith,
repairing things that need to be repaired, and
yeah, the place is just generally busy as it
would be. The occasional, ah ah ah ah, from the
livestocks, and such. What are you doing? He...
Godar is just going to walk around. Not really
paying attention to what is happening around.
them, more fixated on what is happening in their
mind, running through the whole scenario, everything
that's been happening, the brutal truth that's
been shoved towards him that he doesn't want
to believe, just kind of just mulling in his
own thing, probably not really paying too much
attention, just following pathways, just walking
around. So this encampment, it looks like it
was set up within the ruins of an old settlement.
So there are sort of older buildings that were
once here that's like torn down and like tents
put over them. And but as you said, you're not
really paying that much attention, just not even
hearing the noises or the general conversations
that people are having. And you just Wander aimlessly
to you for and you know having this weight upon
you and what has been thrusted upon you and you
now find Samson's tent right in front of you
face to face and you almost get that That that
sense of dread and the And it's now fully dawning
upon you and what you may have to face in these
coming days Annie. You go straight to the black
myth. The black myth. The black myth. The black
myth, Sasha. And you can see her working, doing
menial repairs that some of the porters have
asked for. Broken tools and... Asking, you know,
repairing barrels that need to be repaired and
such. Sasha. Oh, morning. Good morning. How can
I help you as she's like working on whatever
it is that she is working on? I mentioned last
time that I might need someone else to look at
my arm. Yes. Are you able to do that for me today?
She sucks what she's doing. And did you try using
the oil yet? Not yet. I wanted to have you in
front of me just in case there was an urgent
matter that needed to be taken care of. Alright,
let's take a look. Annie's gonna remove her arm
from her shoulder. Puts it down on her lap and
just uses the oil to lubricate the elbow joint,
the fingers and the wrist. I imagine that there's
like some sort of workshop table here, makeshift
table, and you've been performing your oiling
of the arm there. Sasha moves in closer and she
begins to inspect your prosthetic arm. This is
some real intricate work here. You made this
yourself? That I did. Your own design? Some time
ago. This is your own design my very own I see
and you just see her like she's turning it at
some points and She looks at it. Okay. So what
is it exactly you want me to do with this? So
I've been thinking I've Aged since I've lost
weight this it does not suit me anymore. I wanted
to open up the palm. Okay Wanted to have a mechanism
where it just unfurls itself leaving the palm
entirely open, you know for magical casting and
such She picks up the prosthetic arm and she
looks at it closer to the palm area and I imagine
that you've already drawn up plans for this or
It's not something I wanted to I wanted to hear
your thoughts. I mean I can look at it and it's
possible, but it's not something that I'm well
versed in. I can make it, but without plans,
that's not something I can do. And do you expect
me to do this now? No, no, I just want to hear
your thoughts. That is all. And she looks even
closer at the palm area, inspecting it and...
Do you have the original plans for these? No,
those are lost a long time ago. Well, what we
can do... I wish I did, but the plans are technically
in my head already. I see. Judging by, and she's
looking closer again at the palm, the space that
you do have available in the palm, we might need
to rebuild the entire hand itself. Give you a
perfect hand and what is it exactly that you
want to store in the palm? I Just wanted to have
some empty space so that I can engrave something
on the inside I see and she takes a moment and
she With this tools that she has she undoes the
palm itself to inspect it it even deeper getting
an understanding on how the fingers connect and
how all of this works and once she closes it
up once more she looks at the wrists and she
looks at the connection between the wrist and
the palm and she states so what I can do and
if I understand your request is will make you
almost a hollow hand? Yes, exactly that. A hollow
hand. I think I can make something for you. It
will take me some time. Take all the time that
you need. If you give me a moment, I'll just
need to take some measurements. And you see her
pull out, um... bunch of papers and a pen and
It's measuring tape and she begins to make measurements
in regards to not only the hand itself but everything,
you know the circumference of the wrist and The
length of the arm and everything and she used
to just see her making the notes regarding regarding
the details of this prosthetic arm now apart
from the hollow hand. Is there anything else
that you want? This being made of porcelain,
while as beautiful as it is, may not be suitable
for the expedition. Precisely my thoughts. I
was hoping you had some spare aluminum available.
I'll have to see what we have in our stock. But
Just something light. So you want these platings
replaced? Not all of them. Even just a few small
scraps that you have. Just the main parts. I
see. You see her just furiously writing notes,
and she's done a quick rudimentary sketch of
the prosthetic arm. And there she's also made
notes, you know, with Aras replace this with
so and so and all that sort of thing. Sasha,
tell me something. Yes. Have you worked by yourself
these past couple of years or have you worked
with other people? I've always worked with others,
but this is the first time that I'm working in
a scale such as this. I see. So have you? Ever
worked for someone by the name of Skinny Pete?
Not that I don't know a Skinny Pete, no. Interesting.
Okay. I was only curious because someone of yourself
doesn't seem like the type to work alone. You'd
be right. I do have my own workshop and from
time to time I run a fairly... well off business.
But when I was approached, well, I received a
letter, an invitation for this, and compensation
was very, very good for this job. It was something
I can't say no to. I see. Do you ever partake
in the creations of other things? Well, I am
a blacksmith by trade I do also have my hand
in carpentry and some stone masonry That made
me the foreman of the crew here. So I do a bit
of everything from repairs to constructions As
you're speaking she comes closer to you and places
the prosthetic arm back in its place and She
begins to work on it. Now this prosthetic arm
hadn't hasn't been well fitted since you've put
it back on considering of how long it's been
since you last wore it. And she's been making
some minor adjustments. And go ahead, give that
a try. See if that feels a little better. She's
going to raise her left arm straight from the
side of her body and just twist her elbow and
her wrist so that they kind of snap in place.
she's gonna raise it above her head and do the
same thing and then she's gonna do um what do
you call it like when you swing your arm front
to back and then back to front that kind of thing
just trying to make sure that all of the joints
are coinciding with each other my god i don't
remember porcelain being this heavy yeah so um
it's rough and but It still feels a lot better
than what it did prior to when you had taken
it off just then. So it still, it feels better,
but it's not at its best capacity because of
your body just simply has changed over the years.
So it's the best I could do. That lubricant really
helped. Sorry. It's the best that I could do
for now, but I could have, we could have done
something if you had the original plans. uh without
the original plans the makeshift changes that
i'm going to do may be a bit difficult so oh
no no no that's quite all right the lubricant
helped significantly uh not to worry though the
original plans they'll they'll come back to me
eventually i'll work on that okay i hope to work
with you soon sasha yes i hope so too So after
you've spoken to Sasha, she has gone and continued
with her task on whatever she is working on.
And with that transaction coming to an end, where
do you go? Annie's going to make her way over
to Samson. Okay. Let's return to Raynor. You've
now just finished your conversation with this
Porter. I imagine that you're just still enjoying
your breakfast. Is there anything else you want
to do? He's going to kind of walk out and he's
going to try to look for Gordar. Like if he could
just see him, like just basically, he's not going
to look too hard. He's just going to kind of...
Scan the surroundings when you do spot Godot.
I just they're approaching the tent Samson's
tent Okay, um Yeah, he's just gonna walk towards
Samson's tip Okay, the three of you well you
move forward and you still see they're sort of
As you arrive you find that Godot is just like
sort of standing. They're almost lost He's just
gonna put like he's not gonna put his hand on
his back, but he's kind of just gonna let look
at him. He's gonna be like Alright, look. I was
a bit out of line. I'm sorry. No, you're not
out of line. You're just stating it how it is.
I'm not that naive to the world. You're making
this really hard to apologize. Um... Good. God,
I walked into the tent. Wow. That was rough.
Yeah, you see that, Annie? That's just... I swear
he's gonna die first. He's gonna walk in too.
Do not jinx it, what's wrong with you? Beautiful.
We taking bets, going off our sleeve. Ah, for
those listeners, let us also take bets, who do
you think will die first? So, the three of you.
As a perfect time to say, please leave a review
with who you think is going to... Die first because
reviews really help small podcasts gain traction
and people like to look at things that have reviews,
please Review it when you can. Oh wait, they
can't see that folks. I just I just put my thumbs
up with a big smile do that, please We are still
adjusting to a audio only podcast You guys are
really missing out you can see Rob acting out
what Gordar is doing is gold Which is a shame
But maybe one day we get to see him being gold.
In campaign 3? Streaming on Twitch? That would
be pretty cool, actually. One day. OK, come on,
people, give us those good reviews. So the three
of you enter the tent and you can see there already
Samson is now sitting on that... that big chair
with his gorilla like body. And you can see him
just sort of like his bowl is like face down
on papers and you just seem like writing. Gimble
is also there, just sort of waiting as well.
Ah, yes, I think we are ready to hit the road.
Oh, hello! Good morning! How are we all? Ah,
it's this guy again. Yes, your handler. I'm re
-handling you in all and every which way. Please
don't. Yeah. I would much prefer you didn't handle
me. I still have marks on my neck from yesterday.
Thank you for reminding me. Yes. And a little
shock comes through the three of you. I hate
this guy. I hate him. This is why fish should
not be able to talk. Know your place and know
who sits on top of the three of you. And that
is me. Samson. So, your task, allow me to remind
you, you are to now head towards the small settlement
known as Briar Rose. Over there at Briar Rose,
ensure that everything is okay. See if everything
is somewhat livable and then return. It's nothing
more than a day's march from here to there. So
I expect you back tomorrow evening. Right away,
sir. No sarcasm. I like it. And it gives you
another shock. Idiot. Learn your place, little
one, he says, as he stands and now towering over
the three of you. I suggest that you go collect
some supplies that you need for your travel,
rations or anything of the sort. But if there's
anything else that you need, make sure that you
see either Chad or Sasha. Once you're there,
Raya Rose, just check everything out, if it's
okay, and come back. And if we assess you and
see that you are physically healthy, then the
encampment will make our way there. Now go! Is
it safe to assume that due to the fact that we
are prisoners and do not have income of any sort
that these rations will be just provided? And
the resources we need? Well, of course! We're
not monsters! God, I turned around and just walked
out. We're not monsters as you walk away! It's
so dramatic. Eddie, please. Let me help. You
see Reina's on the ground from the pain of all
the shock that he's been getting. Jeez. And he's
going to walk over to Reina and sort of like
pick him up. from the back of his shirt and just
drag him forward. The shirt's expensive. You're
fine. And again, you'll be accompanied by Gimble.
You must keep him alive. Anything happens to
him will certainly happen to you. Don't forget
that. Is that a threat? Gimble's like, oh, OK.
Yes, it most certainly is a threat. Lovely. Now
go. You have very little time. Okay. And he's
going to, uh, like finish getting out of the
tent. That was a weird sentence. I'm sorry. And
he's going to get out of the tent while still
holding Reina by the scruff of his shirt and
scuff of his shirt, scuff of his neck, shirt
by the scruff and sort of pull him back up. And
she's going to ask him there is your shirt. Okay.
I think so. Gimble walks out. Oh, I'm gonna kill
that fish. We all want to kill that fish, but
please do not antagonize him. Where did Gora
go? He's just outside the tent. He's still there.
He's waiting for you. So let us get supplies
and get on the road, shall we? Gimble, I'm sorry
about that. So what supplies will you all be
needing? Well, we will need the finest of foods,
the biggest of tents. We only need the basics
to survive. We don't need anything fancy. And
with the fancy, Annie's going to roll her eyes
and look at Godel. That is not fancy. That is
the bare minimum. Right. Look at him. He's carrying
everything already. He can carry a few more pounds.
That's what he deems is necessary. I don't think
a big tent and lavish food is necessary. Oh,
it's like a bug, isn't it? It can carry much
more than its size. That's what I'm seeing here.
This is all I can carry. And like, it's kind
of like a Samwise Gamgee imagery, like with pots
and pans on the side of his bag. And he's got
like a bread roll, not a bread roll, sorry, bed
roll, not a bread roll. Bag of bread? No bags
of bread. But a bed roll just at the bottom of
his pack. No, sorry, at the top of his pack.
And then you can see like a lantern just sort
of carefully hanging off the pack itself. And
yeah, he's very well prepared. But anything else
that to be added to this, he would not be able
to handle it. Well, you, Annie, you're Goliath,
aren't you? You can carry much more than it seems.
I can try, but I am around 50 years old. I'm
a bit old. Ah, age is just a number, is it not?
You'll be fine. Don't say that in the wrong context.
What? I, okay, no. Whatever, let's just get our
rations and continue. So, uh, in terms of, uh,
let's do a little bookkeeping here now. So let's
say, uh, what supplies are you after? Is a tent
something that is almost definite? Gordar is
going to want everything. but obviously that
is not uh functional so this is to the rest of
the party to pretty much just be like no we're
getting this so because he's gonna want an individual
tent for all of us like each of us that has like
enough space to fit like three or four people
like thick mattresses like he's gonna want the
works and like the finest of foods and he's just
asking for all of that and uh most Definitely,
he's not going to get what he wants. Let's go
ahead and go ahead. Let's say that you the three
of you head to Sasha. You see as you three of
you approach, you see her continuously working,
you know, with these porters who are just coming
and going, bringing things that need to be fixed
or modified. Oh, the three of you are back. I
take it you haven't left yet. seeing as you're
still here. Debservant? Yes. How can I help?
Alright, what do we need? We need bedroll. We
do... We need everything. We need four tents,
at least. We need the thickest of woolen or feathered
bedrolls that you can muster. We need, um...
I do not care for steak, but I'm looking at the
big one here. I'm assuming she wants some kind
of meat. Fish, if available, that would be perfect.
And it just starts, like, going. She looks at
you, and you're going to be carrying all this?
Oh, I'm not going to carry this. I'm assuming
you have a wagon or something for us? No available
wagon for the three of you. Vader is just...
kind of gonna look at her and she's like gonna
be like what do the porters have just give us
that plus whatever you deem necessary for an
expedition of this sort obviously we don't know
what we're dealing with but you would have a
better idea therefore each um each of the porters
don't have their own pack um they're traveling
with the group so everything that they need is
within and she within the way she points and
you see like it's not a regular size wagon this
thing is like massive and you can see it it's
stopped up with crates and barrels there's actually
four of these four of these and then you see
another one that's just like full of lumber and
metal and it's they have an array of supplies
so whatever that they have planning it is most
likely for rebuilding construction and everything
of the sort. Oh, perfect. We could take one of
those. No, you won't. But are we not going to
be going out and ensuring the survivability of
everyone out here and reclaiming things? Why
should we not have the best of what we need?
We cannot lose those, not ours. That wagon there
is specific to what it is currently carrying.
Oh, well. I think we're deemed to fail, but okay.
She calls over one of the porters. Get these
three a pack. One of those carry packs that we
have. And you wait for about 10 minutes and a
porter comes back with this crate, which comes
with like these three backpacks. packs in them.
And essentially, explorers pack. Is that still
a thing in this one? Let me double check. I believe
so. Yeah, pretty sure it is. But let me just
get it and let you know the contents of explorer
pack. It is page 225. So in your explorers pack,
obviously you've got the backpack you have a
bed roll. I was gonna say bread roll again. It's
just sorry Bed roll you got two flasks of oil
You have ten days of rations. You have rope a
tinderbox ten torches and a water skin And as
you inspect the the backpack that you have and
the contents of it. Sasha turns to the three
of you. Now, is there anything else that you
would want beyond those? I want a... I want calligrapher
supplies, a forgery kit and a disguise kit. Okay,
so two of those things are very illegal, which
we don't have. And I can give you some paper
and a pen. So, alright, so it's illegal, but...
The success of this mission depends on the criminals.
Obviously, I'm gonna say something illegal. Against
whom? You understand this isn't a criminal organization,
right? Who knows what we'll come against? And
he's like side -eyeing Reyna right now and like
an eyebrow is raised at her piqued interest.
Yes, well, unfortunately, we haven't carried
supplies for any sort of criminal activity. Okay.
Alright, just give me the papers and Annie, I'm
guessing you want Smith's tools? Smith's tools,
woodcarver's tools, and a small table. Sorry?
We can build the table, don't worry about it.
Again, let me just express on how would you be
carrying these things if you wish to have a giant
tent, these mattresses, these large supplies
of food. Don't worry about what he said. And
a table. A small table, one of those tables that
you just put on your lap. So she pulls it out
this it's almost a table that's like a square
table with the two feet on each side. Maybe about
Five feet high, isn't it? Damn you, Americans,
and your weird measuring ways. And we lost both
American viewers. Great. But the table sits to
about maybe just about a meter high. So that's,
what, roughly a feet and a half? Yes, exactly.
So, well, it's fairly big because it's two feet.
wide. So you I guess you're going to be carrying
it. And you and she points at you Godard. You
can have this and a bunch of porters return with
a tent that can house a number of people and
then a few of these fluffiest of mattresses and
barrels of food of you of your request. Now there
you go. Let's go ahead and see you take all these.
Oh, perfect. Um, Annie, would you be able to
pick those out for me, please? I said please.
She's now sitting there with a smirk on her face
looking at the three of you. And he's going to
like, side eye Godot the entire time she's going
to like bend down, pick up. The tent. That is
a massive tent. It is the same tent that you
are currently housing, and it is not something
that you could just carry on your back. You expect
me to carry this? Well, yes. Alright then, pretty
boy. And she's gonna, like, let go of the handle
to carry the tent. Go on. You try picking it
up. You wanted it. You can carry it. Oh, I don't
do that. I'm not a commoner. I don't do that.
So what are you trying to say? You think you're
better than all of us? No. I think that you are
a tall goliath who can carry heavy things. I'm
also around 50 years old. Pick up your shit.
God, I guess to like, grab it? Yeah. Um... Looks
like we're sleeping under the stars. Just as
I thought says Sasha and then you see some of
the porters return to take these things away
like you have like four guys trying to carry
the tent this massive tent thing and then a few
taking the barrels away and everything and What
about those tents then points like Is there any
smaller ones or is it just like just a large
one? There's no individual tents. The closest
individual tent that you have is probably Samson's.
But that still is fairly big because it houses
like the table and everything. So. Don't worry
about it. There's nothing wrong with sleeping
under the stars anyway. Unless it rains. Hardly
an issue. Or you get eaten by a creature. Sure.
What do you mean eaten? She looks at you. Gimple
looks at you. Goddard all worried after you saying
be eaten. What do you mean eaten? Well, sometimes
creatures in the night get a bit snackish. The
snakes just start tasting the air. What does
it look like? Oh, geez, Rick. As the snakes are
like flicking their tongue, like tasting the
air near him. He sort of takes a few steps back
and is like rather nervous. And Sasha gets up,
slams her fist down on the table. Enough of that.
Do not tease the boy. Protective, aren't you?
Yes, I'm sorry. Do you have everything you need?
Not everything I need, but everything I'm getting
by the sounds of it. Well, let's get on. OK.
And we're going to be taking and he points to
around north of the encampment. We're going to
take this road and it should lead us towards
the wall. Very well. Off we pop! Okay, so you
all now find yourself at the north of the encampment.
You're all standing on this old road, paved.
It's nothing, you know, so backwater that it's
just a dirt road. It's a nice concrete road.
And Gimbal begins to adjust himself and he just
takes... and he begins to take his stride as
the three of you watch him walk forward you can
now well you can always see but there just beyond
you is the the wall that is separated you and
the expanse or old matuxia and the wall itself
towers it is the biggest thing that you have
ever seen, taller than all the skyscrapers from
the Diamond District back in the city. It's taller
than the Tower of Commerce itself, and this thing
is massive. It looms over you, this almost concrete
-like wall. Oh boy. I'm not looking forward to
this. I don't think any of us are. Hey Gimble,
can you not walk in front? You know, if you die,
then we're all dead too. Oh, sorry. Just a little
excited. Why are you excited? Yes, this is a
very bad place. But no one has stepped in here
in - decades. Surely there's some sense of excitement
to it. No, it is exciting. It's exciting. We're
gonna have our names like etched in journals.
Imagine the amount of research you can get out
of this. It's gonna be insane. Exactly. I mean,
your names are already in journals and like he
pulls out his book. No, yes, the book that will
be lost when we die out there from magical poisoning.
Okay, let's not get too excited about the way
that we're gonna die. I'm not excited about it.
You sounded excited. You see, yes, the magical
poisoning. I did prepare for something, but we're
still a bit ways off. It'll take us maybe about
an hour to get there to the gate. So have you
done your research on this area? So you would
probably understand what magical sickness is,
right? It was, well, the papers that I've read,
the research notes from the previous expedition,
which happened maybe 70 years ago, the expedition
returned and they all caught illnesses and had
growths and tumors and died within the week.
Tumors. Lovely. Exposed to raw pure magic. Tumors.
Maybe. Okay. So what do you think about it? Like
maybe it's some sort of like augmented healing
that causes your cells to rapidly multiply and
as a result causes tumors and cancers? I'm no
medical student, so I don't know. Didn't do as
much research as I thought. Okay. No. Okay, so
maybe we should make some headway. It will take
us about an hour to get to the main gate. Annie?
She's gonna like tilt her head towards you. Yes.
Can you chuck us all over there? If you speak
for yourself, I'd prefer to be carried than thrown.
Okay, carry us in. You see Annie just kind of
rummage through her bag looking at some pieces
of paper that have like any sort of design plan
for like, what do you call it? Not a cat - what
do you call that thing again? Catapult. Catapult,
that's it. Like anything for a catapult or like
an elastic band sort of thing. Pretty comedic
way of throwing someone, but no. An acne slingshot.
I'm afraid I don't have anything like that. I
could work on one though. What are you all standing
there for? We're hard at work discussing the
best way to travel. By foot? Alright. Not exactly.
Are you scared of heights? Yes. He's scared of
everything. Let's just go. Alright. I agree with
Reina. I think we should just The sooner we get
there, the better. I can try making a bazooka.
What's a bazooka? A what? Don't worry about it.
It sounds hard. Now I am worried. As you ruminate
on new devices that you could possibly construct
and create on modes of faster travel, you're
now approaching the wall itself. Even at this
distance, you're maybe about 30 meters away from
the gate that Gimble is referring to. But from
this distance alone, being this close to the
wall, it is daunting, to say the least. This
thing stands at... wrote it down on how tall
this thing is. Give me one second. I have a quick
question. Yeah. Because like I'm imagining this
wall to look like, like when you're playing Elden
Ring and you're trying to enter... a new place
this cover just like that foggy very dense looking
wall yeah so this um so as this let me go into
it again so this tower that stands before you
is so daunting it is one well the largest structure
that any of you have ever seen this thing is
standing at almost from high, like it almost
blurs to the sky. And for those that want to
know, it is roughly 2000 feet high, if not higher.
Well, I had read about this. It looks big enough
to keep any titans out. Indeed. Look at that
glass. glassware, you know, made at like a museum
or like some sort of penthouse thing, you know,
skyscraper. Guess we're gonna see what's on the
other side. Should we do rock, paper, scissors
to see who goes first? Yes, let's. Okay. How?
What mantra are we singing here? I will go one,
two, three, and all of you say what you are drawing
at the same time, okay? Okay. Okay. All right.
One, two, three. Scissors. Did you all say scissors?
All of us said scissors. You all said scissors.
Damn it. Oh my god. What did Gimbal do? Yeah,
what did Gimbal do? Gimbal... He doesn't realize
you guys stopped to talk. He's still walking
forward. Hey, Gimble, get over here. Well, looks
like he, um, volunteered himself. Let's continue
behind him. If he dies, then we die too. Maybe
we can just go in together. How about we volunteer
someone? I volunteer Annie. Why? I also volunteer
Annie. Why? Well, you're the big one you can
take more hits than us That's a good point. That's
not the point. This is oh my god. This is a highly
dangerous area You think I want to go for I don't
want to go first that you volunteered. I did
not Well, you were group Lee volunteers. Yeah
And he's like looking at all of you in a stomach
even like a gimbal Gimbal we told you to wait
If you don't wait, we're going to eat you. He's
just standing there now just waiting. But as
you're like walking towards the gate, the ground
around you, you now notice that the side of the
road when you've been walking, there's like grass
and everything. And you can see slowly see that
the grass in itself is it dies out and it's dirt.
And then as you're moving closer and closer,
the dirt itself looks almost the best way to
describe it, like corrupted. It's like streaked
with black and sort of a lightning like pattern
that is emanating from from beyond the wall itself.
Gimble, I will let you know that not all of these
snakes will kill you if they bite you, but they
will paralyze you and make your veins feel like
they're on fire. OK, OK. Pay attention when we
say to stand still. Enough. I will go. I'll go
ahead. Just. Just before you do. I'm just ensuring
that this little one doesn't run off, otherwise
we're all dead. That is a good point. But Gimble,
do you see this grass over here? Y -yes? D -do
you have samples of this? Because you probably
want samples, right? Not samples, but he pulls
out his journal and he's now beginning to take
notes in regarding of the gradual change that
and also the lightning streak marks coming from
beyond the wall the black markings and He's taking
some time to make his notes and also making these
sketches of what he can see And once he's done,
he's closed his book and he goes, oh, that's
I prepared for the magical sickness, he says.
And he puts his pack down and he opens and he
pulls. He's beginning to rummage through his
things and he pulls something out and you see
him beginning to wear this suit. This entire
bodysuit, and he also pulls out like a helmet
and then he puts that on and then the pack. it's
not do you know those old diver suits oh yeah
he's got one of those on and he's got his backpack
and now he's moving kind of like a marshmallow
man as he's moving towards the gate and um you
can see now the gate here it's it's almost like
a board up uh a border a uh checkpoint Mm -hmm.
So it's quite open and you can see beyond this
a wall inside with a with a large double door
and you can just see gimbal sort of like Sort
of what's the word he? Yeah, what like thank
you one one link towards the checkpoint Okay
gimbal and he's going fast they volunteered I
did Oh, fine. Beyond that door is still...it's
offices and doors and a labyrinthian of...I need
to lead the way to the exit. And he, out of the
side of his bag, he pulls out like this map of
the compound and he's made a route on just...
to the next exit. Thank you. One of us is prepared.
Lead the way and then Annie will take over when
we on the other side. We just get through this
map and you see him holding and then he's like
waddling, holding this map. And then as he approaches,
you see this huge double door and he tries to
open it. Tries again. And he looks back to the
rest of you. I think it's locked. Hand on forehead,
just like, dude, were you not told on what to
do here? Because we certainly were not. But it
seems like that you know what to do. Oh, I forgot.
And he's like puts his bag down once more and
like tries to rummage through his things with
great difficulty because of the suit he's wearing.
But then... he pulls out this ring with keys
on it. They gave me this. All right, let's try
it. And one by one, he's trying it till eventually
he's gotten the door open. And yes, yes. Who
gave you those keys? Samson. It's for this checkpoint.
Right. As the, as he's opened the door, air just
sort of flows out and almost as if this has,
well, it has been closed for such a long time
and the air inside smells stale and dusty. And
he says, We just need to - and he's holding up
the map, Annie, and showing you the direction
of which to take and the best route on the way
to go. This is where - best way for us to head
to the other end of this wall. Okay, doesn't
look too difficult. All right, okay, let's go
What's the lighting situation? You find that
it is now No, what actually happens is the moment
Annie you step in right into this dark this perilous
darkness Some lights begin to turn on that's
a really good 10 effects thank you thank you
thank you all right not too bad you two get in
she got up behind you kind of just like wondering
why you've stopped like come on let's keep going
as you all step in you see um you see gimbal
pushing the door close behind all of you and
he proceeds to lock it once more and he puts
the keys away that feels like a terrible idea
but okay It's just to make sure nobody comes,
follows us afterwards. Yes. Oh, he points to
the map, Annie, and can I take a look at that
for a second? I need to show you all something.
And. on the way on route from here to the next
end, he actually, he points out to this one room,
we need to stop here before anything else. We
can stop here now, or we can stop here on the
way back. This ensures that we can open up those
larger gates so we can bring in the wagons. So
we can go stop there now if you want, or we can
just do it when we come back. Well, if we open
up the gates now, wouldn't things be able to
get in and out? Well, we need to at least know
if they work or not. But we can decide on - you
can decide on whether we can check on those gates
now or not. Well, we can check if they work now.
We just won't open them now if they work. As
long as we keep moving, it does not bother me.
Okay. So you make your way through this compound
till eventually you end up in that room on which
Gimbal was pointing out. Sorry, let me do that
again, because I was clicking. So you make your
way through this compound till eventually you
find yourself. at the door of this room on which
Gimble was referring to, to where you make a
stop. Can you all give me a perception check,
please? Perception. You know what? That's fair.
Gordar, go to three. Annie rolled an eight. Reina
rolled 15. So, Annie, Gordar, everything seems
to be just normal as it was. when you first enter
this place. It's eerie, simply because that it
doesn't necessarily feel abandoned, but the emptiness
of the place where it feels like that people
should be here and there isn't is almost a chill
down your spine. Rainer, you, as you're coming
closer to this area, you do notice that while
along the way everything seems to be in order,
so to speak, the closer you get to this room,
the density of cobwebs have increased. Density?
So Rainer's just gonna repeat, he's like, huh,
cobwebs seem more dense here. Cobwebs? What cobwebs?
Ow! Yeah, that one. Ew. Ew. You're not allergic
to spiders, are you? No, I'm not allergic to
spiders. Just disgusting. Ugh. And just like
trying to drag, like get them out of these, out
of these snakes. Just like, ugh. Oh, oh my girls.
Oh, I'm so sorry. Oh, oh no. Oh no. And he's
just going to wipe her face from her forehead
to her chin, clean of any cobwebs and just like
flick her hand to make the cobwebs go away. Top.
Density of cobwebs. What could that mean? It
could mean that there is less people reaching
this area. It could mean that there's a monster
that would create spiders. Could really be anything.
Did you just say a monster that creates spiders?
Yeah. Are there actual things that can do that?
I've never read anything about that. Neither
have I. I mean, there's things that can create
anything really, right? Like, spiders have to
get laid somehow. Why did you word it that way
if you just meant there was a mama spider? Rather
than some, I don't know, like a tube that spits
out spiders. Hey, I didn't figure out how you
saw that. It's not my fault that you said a creature
that creates echoing now. Yeah, always. You create
you said a creature that creates spiders. That's
not birth. That's creation. What? Birth is creation.
What do you mean? He's like echoing back. Maybe
we should open the door or shall we come back
later? He's now like full nervous with the discussion
that you two are having of this theoretical monster
that creates spiders. Any? Better to know than
to be in the unknown. And she's going to walk
towards the door and open it. She can. It's a
bit of a struggle at first, but then with just
a little bit of strength, you manage to push
this door open and this room itself. You can
see that there's a panel with sets of valves
and levers and almost everything in this room
is covered in cobwebs. Looks like no one's been
in here for quite some time. When I say cobwebs,
I don't mean like hanging in the corner sort
of cobwebs. It's like densely packed. One could
put it like a nest, perhaps. One could put it
that way, but it is a densely packed room of
cobwebs. You can see the console and everything
of where the controls are, but they are engulfed
in these webbings. And beyond that, you can see
a window which shows what is beyond, which looks
like the road itself, but enclosed in this area.
And this window itself is... broken. It's shattered.
Um, Mouse Boy, do you think anything of importance
will be in this room? I think, yes, the gate
controls. Well, I'm sure they can deal with a
very small amount of embers as I sorcerers burst
fire, the two fangs turn into little bits of
fire as it throws it in just to like... Burn
away some of the web so some of the webbing's
do let's see I Do not want to mess with any spiders
nor touch any of this and Hey throws out a little
bit of any you're taller than all of us. Is there
anything up there? And he just kind of points
up to the roof She's gonna crank her neck upwards.
What does she see? more webbing's but about On
the ground area here, closest to you, about 40
% of the webbings have been burnt off. And now
you can see, as the webbing has burnt off, you
find old bodies, as in drained. And you also
find these large sacs. I guess one could describe
it in like... corners. There seems to be multiple
of them. But as of any creatures, nothing seems
to be present here. Well, that's a sight, a really
disgusting sight. So who wants to go through
the bodies? God, I was going to pick up his dagger
and cast light upon it in a pale green light.
emanates as he puts his arm through the door
to try and highlight things to see. Yeah, okay.
So as you're doing this with your dagger, the
lights in here did not go on much like the rest
of the place. And you're assuming that you're
all stepping in, yes? Goddard will be very hesitantly
walking where he's burned the webs away, just
kind of like... Perfect. Looking around straight
away up and then moving more downwards. Sorry,
just real quick. The bodies that you find, Rayna,
the clothes have been worn through time itself.
They're tattered, but they're all very uniform.
So if... you could surmise that the bodies you're
finding here are most likely people who had worked
here previously. Did I seem very old? As in 70
years ago? Yes. Okay. And he's gonna stay by
the door frame. He's not gonna move inside. So
the bodies that you do find, they have been almost
mummified. And in a way, some of them are in
position with their mouths open. Some of them
have their chest cavity split open as well. There's
about three bodies that you see. Goodness Mouse
boy, where are the controls you see gimbal? He's
already made his way towards the console and
he's trying to sort of rip through the in his
marshmallow estate trying to rip through the
The webbing's on the console first fire He falls
over uh as the flame hits and he's fallen on
his like on his backpack and he now looks like
one of those turtles on their backs and he did
tell you not to run off without talking to us
do you want to help him or should i i'm not helping
him he doesn't want to listen And he's trying
to pull him so he's trying and he's rocking himself
now back and forth Trying to sort of get some
sort of purchase on to get back up Help I've
fallen and I can't get up Then over him and just
say do you want me to help or are you gonna make
this like a motivational thing? Well, you can
do it. I Would like some help, please He just
kind of leaves his head just slightly out of
his range He's trying to rock back and forth
trying to reach your hand. Don't worry, you can
do it, mate. Okay. And then he's going to do
it, yeah. Gordar has turned away and is just
burning the rest of the webs. Sorcerers burst
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you you see this humanoid figure with spider
like spider like appendages and features multiple
eyes and it is snapping like these mandible like
mandible mouth towards your face and you just
hear a voice that comes out of it food food oh
god it's now your turn all right um what so the
gimbal is below me right laying on the floor
or is he up now No, he's still down All right
What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna try to grab his
leg and just chuck him towards the door where
Annie is Interesting. Okay Go ahead and give
me a Athletics Okay, we'll say because you're
being pinned down the DC for this is 16 Arena
got two. Oh, I see. So you attempt to reach at
Gimble, who is somewhat looks like he's freaking
out. But this thing that is on top of you, it's
almost very difficult for you to sort of do anything.
You just see like in that brief moment, you just
see something that crawls out from the side and
there's through the window. immediately leap
towards Rainer. And this gangly, four armed,
three armed, sorry, four, six armed. I don't
remember how many legs. There's lots of arms
just sort of pressing now itself onto the legs
and then six arms. Oh, okay. Okay. So I thought
it through. I had the six and I was like, Excuse
you? Thought it through. But yeah, you can see
this six -armed thing that is now just pressed
upon Raynor. Is it my turn? Yes. OK. Oh, oh,
disgusting. Going to pointer and ring finger,
little beads of fire that turn into snake fangs
and whip a sorcerer's burst at them. That's going
to be a total of 20. Is it a hit? Unnatural?
Uh, that is a hit. And it's going to be five
points of fire damage. So you whips these little
beads of fire that's spinning around each other
like a helix and collide into them. Cool. All
right. So it hits it on the shoulder of its multiple
arms and immediately jumps off. jumps off Raynor
and it sort of stands up tall, looking at you,
Gordar, and where it came from. And this gangly
beast is just chittering and it's snapping its
mandibles. And he charges straight towards you
with its claws, claws at the ready. And he's
going to go ahead and take a few slices at you.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. So the first slash
as he brings it towards you is an 8 verse AC.
That does not hit. Okay, so as he misses with
his slash, you see him turn to the left and his
mandibles come down and tries to bite you. 16
verse AC. That does hit. I see. All right. So
the mandibles press hard and goes through and
you can feel the sharp pain that goes through
your shoulder. And you're going to take five
points of piercing damage. And you're also going
to take four points of poison damage. Oh, goodness.
Ah, as you like. heavily hurts Godar from this
hit. Alright, Annie, you've just witnessed this.
As you're standing there by the doorway, you
see Gimble fall over and then Raynor goes to
assist him and this thing just now pounced down
on him and has made its way towards Godar. It
now has a mandible on Godar's shoulder. What
do you do? Ah, shit. And Annie's going to reach
for her rifle that's strapped to her back. She's
going to point and aim it at this disgusting
mother spider. Okay, let's roll to attack. Does
a 21 hit? Most definitely hits. Why don't you
go ahead and give me a damage roll there. Oh,
good. The damage is five. Thank you. Okay, so
as you take your shot towards this creature you
fire it away and you see it hit this this thing
and As you pull away as you raise your rifle
once more You see another one coming through
the window and it's aiming and it look it's looking
straight at you Just looking at its things here
and it seems interesting on one of this thing
it can do so no boy Let's see here I want you
to go ahead and give me a Dexterity saving throw,
please. Why? Dang it. Okay. All right. And he
just sees the second spider go down from the
ceiling and just goes, fuck. So go ahead and
give me a Dex saving throw. 17. You success.
This was a success. So you're seeing this second
creature and it's shoots out. webbing from its
mouth as it fires it towards you and it just
hits the side of the the side of the wall next
to you by the door entrance there. Ugh! Disgusting!
And you now see it moving towards closer to you
at the side of the walls and is now very much
closer. OK, Raynor, you are up. Yep. So he's
gonna be kind of like holding his injuries. He's
kind of just looking around and he's gonna be
Like he notices now there's two of them. Yes,
there is two of them now. So he's gonna He's
gonna use aid on all three. So on Annie on Gimpo
and on Koda Perfect. Tell me what that does again.
So it chooses three creatures within range each
targets hit points maximum And their current
hit points increase by five for the duration.
So everyone gets five hit points. And is that
an action or a bonus action? It is an action.
Okay, is there anything else you'd like to do?
Yes, I would also like to use... Healing Word
on Gordar. Perfect, go ahead and do that. Awww.
Eight. Damn. All right, go ahead and recover
eight HP, Godard. And with that, with this creature
that had taken a chunk, well, didn't take a chunk,
but had bitten you on the shoulder with its mandibles,
has taken a step back, and then you feel this
surge of power within you, almost as if now your
wounds are just, it closed up, it sealed up,
and it seems to be fine. But this thing is looking
at you. and is staring. Food! Food! Oh, don't
worry. I don't taste that nice, but you might
taste better. Ugh. It is your turn, by the way.
My turn? Yes. All right. Bonus action is going
to Innate Sorcery. The snakes just like hiss
up the crown. Each of their eyes glowing green.
Gordar's eyes going to completely like glowing
green. And you see there's two creatures? Yes,
one is engaged with you and the other one's in
within five feet of Annie. Alrighty, I'm going
to twin spell sorceress burst to hit both of
them. Perfect, go ahead. Oh, and I attack with
advantage because I'm in my innate sorcery form.
Sure. So the first one on the creature in front
of me is a total of 11 to hit? Does not hit.
and then for the other creature is a 12 to hit
unfortunately does not hit two sets of advantages
top of the of a 12 that is all Gordar can do
at this point okay so as you fire or even with
this surge of um this almost feeling of second
wind uh both your shots miss and this this creature
that's in front of you now lunges towards you
once more and he's going to go for another swing
and it is a with this swing it is a total of
uh 24 is that here 24 not 23 23 i want to use
cutting words to distract it okay describe to
me what you do This should be interesting. I
kind of just like I'm holding my wound in like
and I'm like just kind of peeking out of this
like behind over the console and just kind of
going, you kind of look fat. Give me what cutting
word does. So it uses your wit to supernaturally
distract, confuse, otherwise sap the confidence
of others. So when a creature within 60 feet
of yourself makes a damage roll. or succeeds
on an ability check or attack roll you can take
a reaction to expend one of your body inspirations
and roll my body inspiration die subtracting
the number okay go ahead and roll that um that
die for me please so the total the total is uh
23 not 24 okay it's i just realized as i did
it that it's not going to help that much puts
down to 20 Three. Okay, so it's a total of 20.
Does the 20 hit? Slightly. It slightly beats
an 11 AC. Okay. Oh, okay. Understandable. So
this thing, as you've said this, it turns to
you momentarily and eyeballs you as it brings
its claws up and swings it towards you, Godar.
And you're going to go ahead and take seven points
of damage. Could I use a three on that and not
on the attack? Sure so make that four four points
of damage and as he's and Now as you see as he's
taking his this slash towards you Gordar. It's
bringing its mandibles back down towards the
same shoulder It had originally bit into and
he's going to try and bite you once more be original
There's a eight hit an eight does not hit. Okay,
so seeing as it's doing the same thing previously,
you managed to sort of just slip past him, causing
him to miss his bite. Okay, Annie, you're up.
You can see one of these creatures on the left
hand side crawling towards you on on the wall.
You can see the other one is now engaged with
Godard and is continuously trying to take chunks
out of it. What do you do? Lovely. And Annie's
going to aim her rifle at the creature that is
on Godar right now. She's going to take a shot.
Perfect. Go ahead and take that shot. Yes. Okay.
Does a 10 hit? Unfortunately, no. Is there anything
else you can do? You take your aim once more,
but because of the way it's moving, it's a bit
more skittery compared to earlier. And you take
your shot and you miss completely your shot going
straight outside the window. The snakes divide
as it whizzes through. It's like, you nearly
hit me! Wasn't trying to. And Annie's going to
use her thing of inspiration to reroll that attack.
Oh, sure. So let's just go ahead and roll it.
Okay, please hit, I swear to god. Rewound sound.
Does an 11 hit? Unfortunately no, so you take
this second shot and completely whiff it. The
snakes again dodging all your bullets. It's technically
the same shot. It's not two shots. She doesn't
have extra attack yet. I know but because I've
flavored it in a way where she's taking a second
shot. She's like a grunt of frustration just
emanates from herself. Let's see. I'm just gonna
see if this takes an action or not. It is a magic
action. Okay. No, that's it. And he's just going
to stay within the doorframe. She is not wanting
to enter this room. As you're doing that, you
see that one on the left -hand side of you that's
crawling up against the wall has now leaped towards
you and is now bringing claw down towards you
to take a swipe. Great. Does 18 hit? It does
hit. Okay. Okay. Okay. So you're going to take
five points of damage Okay, and then as it's
taken that slice towards you you see its mandibles
Just trying to go straight for you to take a
bite aiming for your shoulder Hate you there's
a 17 hit 17 hits. Okay interesting. So you will
take a piercing damage, a total of, oh, that's
nasty, about eight piercing damage. And then
with that, you're also going to take some poison
damage. Excusez -moi? Of three. You know you
don't need to do this, Larry. You don't need
to do this. And since I don't need to do this,
the creatures just shrivel up and die and you
guys can walk away. And we all get milkshakes.
Yay. We did it. Gimbal is no longer wearing his
suit. He has milkshakes at the ready and he's
beginning to hand it out to you one by one. Thank
you very much. As we're all laying on the ground
in a coma, this is our fever dream. We're all
getting wrapped up by the spiders. Reiner, you're
up. Alright Rainer is going to use Tasha's hideous
laughter on the one that is attacking Gordar.
Okay, so go ahead and just tell me what that
does so I know what I need to do from my end.
Yeah, so one creature of my choice that I can
see has to make a wisdom saving throw. On a failed
save it has prone and incapacitated conditions
for that duration, whereas uncontrollably It
laughs uncontrollably because it's laughing,
obviously. And it can't end the prone condition
on itself. Alright, so what is the DC? 13. Okay,
he got a 10. So you see, what you can only surmise
as a laughter from a creature such as this, it
doesn't sound like a laugh to any of you, but
it just falls to the ground. and it's almost
like that sort of deal. Do you do anything else?
I use Healing Word on Annie. Alright. Six. Annie,
you feel like the surge within you, knowing that
is your good friend Raynor who is doing a little
healing. Godar, you are up. Oh, I hate spiders.
No, why is it always something trying to bite
or eat us? And Gordar is going to once again
the little beads of fiery energy on ring and
pointer finger and then once again is going to
twin it by putting the other hand up and like
pulling that apart the magic and then just whipping
them out towards the two creatures. Perfect.
Go ahead. attack with advantage because of innate
sorcery so towards the spider attacking Annie
or the creature attacking Annie it's a 17 that
one definitely hits so that's five points of
fire damage yeah and then towards the one uh
that is attacking him is a actually it's a 15
because of negative two because of exhaustion
so okay yes so go ahead that 15 definitely hits
damage fire Give me an eight, give me an eight,
give me an eight. That's a three. That's an eight,
right? Let's just fill out the rest of it to
make an eight. It's half. It's half an eight.
It's fine. Three points of fire damage. OK, so
these two spells are now, you're now making contact,
hitting both these creatures. The one one of
the the one that's in front of you is still on
the ground Which whatever with whatever it passes
off as a laugh. The other one is still engaged
with Annie and It is now the one that it's the
first Creature that came about so does he do
a save at the end Gorda's gonna move away a little
bit, too Yeah, he does a saving throw again and
since he was damaged he is advantage. And does
he do the save at the end of his turn or the
start of his turn? Okay, so since he can't really
do anything, this will essentially be his end
turn. And you said this advantage, correct? He
gets advantage. Oh, he gets advantage, okay.
So he rolled a total of 15 for wisdom. Saves.
Saves, okay. It now gets as it's so you see this
creature, the hissing ceases or whatever passes
for a laughter and it slowly ascends and stands
back up staring at the two of you. Um, that's
not good. That was good. I had like moved away
like about 10 feet or so, like kind of backing
up. Annie, you are up. The creature is still
biting onto Annie, isn't it? Yeah, it took a
bite, but it's not latched on Yeah, okay Any
Sort of holding the same shoulder with her right
arm. She's just going to like Sort of lean back
not take a step. This is not my movement. She's
just gonna lean back away from the spiders Mouth
I guess yeah, and she's just going to aim her
rifle with one hand her left arm and just point
blank shoot the thing. Okay, so you'll have to
roll this at a disadvantage. Yeah. Because it
is a point blank range and according to rules,
range weapons and point blank is disadvantage.
Does a seven hit? So with the pain that you're
experiencing and you trying to fire your weapon
with your left arm. You're finding it difficult.
It has been a long time since you've been able
to fight with a firearm in itself. I mean, last
time was just a day ago, but even then you're
still struggling with this thing. And as you
try to take that shot, it sort of swerves in
a way where it distracts you and your weapon
goes off and completely misses. Do you do anything
else? She really prepared the wrong spells for
this. I'm not going to lie. She's just going
to cast a shield. It's a reaction. It's not an
action. No, shield is a reaction. So that has
to occur when it attacks you. Okay. We'll just
do that one next. Okay. All right. So with this,
it is now that thing's turn. And I need you to
give me a Dexterity saving throw, please. Yep.
13. So you can see this thing, it's almost like
puking into its arms, and it begins to try and
shoot webs towards you, trying to, in essence,
trying to wrap you up. But with that, you manage
to sort of Swivel your way just out of the way
as he shoots these webs into hits the wall behind
you. Oh disgusting Rainer you're up. Okay There's
not much I can do in this situation He's going
to look at the one attacking Annie and he's going
to use vicious mockery Sure, so he's just gonna
be like you have terrible taste in food Okay,
so that's an insult on Annie. So give me a DC.
Yeah So it is a wisdom saving throw. Is that
correct? So that is a 12. Thank God. So go ahead
and do what needs to be done. D6, D6. Yes! Six.
Total of six. Perfect. Now, is there anything
else that you want to do? I want to use Bardic
Inspiration on Gordar. Perfect. Gordar, you've
got Bardic Inspiration. And it is also now...
Is there anything else? Nope, that's it. Alright,
and it's now your turn, Gordar. Alright. So,
let me just double check on what the Bardic Inspiration
can do. Okay, cool. So I can use it on attack
rolls. That's nice. Yep. Gordar is... Now you're
seeing him... While not physically tired, uh,
archanically tired, as he is very low on sorcerer
points, I'm going to sorcerer's burst fire once
again. The one that was attacking me, so I have
advantage. That's going to be a total of 19.
Alright, that definitely hits, and you're firing
it towards the one that was engaged with you,
correct? Yep. Alright, go ahead and give him
the damage. Give me Nate, give me Nate, give
me Nate. That's two points of fire damage. Yay!
Alright. So with that shot, why don't you go
ahead and describe to me what happens to this
thing. Oh, yes, okay. Uh, pretty much like...
His magical essence of like, his sorceress side
is quite... drained at this point and it's kind
of half chucked it towards it and you see like
the the helix of like the fire fangs just whizzing
through before um colliding with the the center
of the carapace in the chest of this creature
before it just kind of like cinders in burns
and you just smell the like the acrid burning
of like the insect flesh very cool drops down
it is dead skis all right annie you're up Ugh,
that is a horrid smell. Good job, though. Disgusting.
I'm about to puke too. That wasn't the sound
of a puke. Alright, that's enough out of you.
Oh, sorry. I'm kidding. Siren's gone. God, that
was disgusting. Alright, any... man this is i
really did select the wrong spells for this for
this day okay um is the creature still within
like point blank range yes so it's still within
engaged within you so it is still within five
feet of you okay um i really hope there's nothing
behind any and he's going to take a few steps
back from where the creature is in front of her
So you're going to move away from its own range.
Is that correct? Yes. All right. So it's going
to take an attack of opportunity on you. All
right. So it's going to take a free swipe. Yep.
So that is a 23 swipe. Okay. Well, in that case,
sorry. Does that hit? It does hit. However, reaction
shield. Okay. So with your shield, does it meet
the 19? That's not 90. Sorry the 20 does it give
you enough protection? I don't want you to use
this because it did roll a 23 Because it would
just shatter your shield It does not so in that
case. I just read the description was plus five
not plus more Yes, so I will go ahead and allow
you that one mulligan for this session. No, no,
no, no, don't think it's okay Don't give me that
mulligan. I'll just do giant ancestry reaction
instead No, he already, well, he did roll his,
he already did the attack of opportunity. And
then you said that you use shield, right? So
you don't want to use shield. You're going to
use the reaction to do the thing. All right.
So let's just do the damage for this first, for
that slash. Let me see here. You're going to
go ahead and take nine points of damage. Okay.
Okay. Go ahead. Yep. I'm gonna use cutting words
on that. Sure. And he's just gonna be like, oi!
That's literally all he's gonna say. Oi! Oi!
So you can take four. Four. So take four away
from the damage. Yes. So it'll be a total of
five instead. Okay, and that was initially nine
damage, was it? Yes, that's correct. Okay. Cool.
Oh my God. And you said you wanted to use your
reaction? Yes. It is the giant ancestry. When
you take damage from a creature within 60 feet
of you, you can take a reaction to deal 1d8 thunder
damage to that creature. All right, go ahead
and roll that for me. They don't need to roll
anything. They just take that damage. Is that
correct? They just take that damage. Sure. Go
ahead and roll that damage for me, please. That
is eight damage. Okay. Why don't you go describe
me on what happens with your ancestral feet?
So with this ancestral feet Annie is still clutching
her shoulder from That wound and now the wound
I'm assuming is on her abdomen. There's something
just from where the creature struck You have
to see it glow dimly a white sort of sorry a
light violet color. And then as it continues
glowing to her skin, it turns pure white. And
it's just like little strings, I guess, that
just kind of flow through and in the distance.
Yes. You can hear like cracks of thunder. And
then? You've killed this thing. So describe me
on how this thing dies. Oh, I didn't realize
it was dead. Okay, so. As strings of light violet
and white come from Annie's skin, it sort of
connects to the spider's limb that has struck
her, the creature's limb that has struck her.
You can just kind of see it quickly, like within
half a second probably, all of the strings just
go over the creature itself, almost like covering
it. Okay, you fry this motherfucker. that's my
one um you fry this mother effer and this i feel
so lame saying that this mother effer you fry
him completely and that is the end of combat
you see gimbal shift and finally made his way
up oh that was frightening yeah frightening is
a word for it yes we told you not to run off
why did you just walk into the web The controls
are right here as he's moving towards the controls.
You now see him like almost... He doesn't say
anything. And he's just beginning to work some
of the controls. And then you can just hear a
gate open. I mean it. If we go through a mansion,
you better not just run off all the time. Yes.
And he works on the machines again, and you can
hear the gates once more, which you presume is
closing. The gates work. We can probably continue.
Give me a minute. And Annie's going to like collapse
on the ground, getting down on one knee and just
sort of... casting upon herself cure wounds.
You see her prosthetic arm illuminate that very
same light violet as it's also just kind of what's
the like like covering areas of the skin that
will lead directly to the wounds on her body.
Okay. You can just kind of see this the wounds
slowly seal up. That's cool. All right. So, what
is everybody else doing? God, I was just burning
the rest of the webs. Well, it's nothing to do
with this. And he's giving the mouse a very stink
eye for keep running off, even though he's been
told multiple times to stop doing that. You see
him like just standing by the door at this point
now, almost dejected, like there's no facial
expression or anything because he's in this marshmallow
form and he's just like standing there. Werner
is just exhausted so he's just kind of like breathing
like he's leaned on this console as he's just
kind of holding his wounds that like he got from
this and he's just like just like clenching his
fists as he's just trying to like stabilize himself
as you all take this moment of reprieve you see
Gimbal just take a seat on the ground and he's
now writing on his book Great he's taking notes
that he notes on how we almost died because he
couldn't stay still Seriously, we can only assume
that the rest of the expanse is gonna look like
this And he won't you use a flamethrower you
used against the oh my god This plate this place
is too small. It would have done more bad than
good. That is a good point. I'll give you that
I Mean if we opened up with a flamethrower, I
think it would have been fine That's what I was
just thinking, too. But you know what? I can
do that next time. You hear Gimble, like just
in a very low voice, trying to join into the
conversation. Hindsight 2020. You shut up. You
didn't do anything. What do you mean 2020? I'm
sorry. And he just goes back to his book. This
little pipsqueak is starting to piss me off.
It's fine, he deserves it. This poor kid. I mean,
if we don't traumatize him, the rest of the world
is going to very quickly. He's going to end up
dead. That's very true. We die. That's very true.
So... Yeah, what did you think was going to happen?
A child to criminals. That's their problem. They
knew this was going to happen. There's no...
We might need to talk to Samson after this. He's
gonna be like, you guys traumatized my kid. Shock.
Well, you sent him into a radioactive wasteland.
What do you think was going to happen? It's almost
like you wanted him to die. Side eyes. What are
you all doing? Well, if we've collected ourselves
as best we can, let's get out of here. I say.
Say we agreed we take a moment because Look we
don't have enough information and quite honestly
we nearly died there Let's think about this yeah
What do you know Actually, you might what do
we know about this area gimbal You said these
people are from 70 years ago, right? Surely you
could see something from that. Well, the last
expedition was 17 years ago, yes. Their notes,
the notes that they had was due to a high raw
magical... Hold on, let me think of the right
word here. It is raw with the... They described
it as the air itself was permeated with pure
magic, very raw, and it's something that has
never been seen before to this extent. Using
magic, I understand it is controlled, contained,
and they described it as something untamed and
wild, and it had almost assaulted them in a way
that they never even noticed. Do you have a tool
that can like measure the amount of magic in
the air right now? I don't think one that exists.
If there is, I don't know about it. This is the
best thing I can do. And like he's showing off
his diver suit. Which at this point now you think
probably isn't going to be as effective as he
might think it is. Yeah, it definitely isn't.
I mean, if it's magic, magic... Would it work
with a diver suit? It's not physical. Yeah, that's
right. He's just very religious. Yeah, right.
It's just gonna be like As you're talking about
this device got up turns around and Snake tattoos
starting from underneath his clothing and start
to wrap around his arms and As the snakes flare
up his eyes go completely white as I cast Detect
Magic. Beat me to it, Goda. Beat me to it. Okay,
so. So for the next 10 minutes, he's just observing
the magical essence in the area. Okay, so in
terms of as your eyes glaze over and becomes
white, you're now seeing the area that you're
in in a completely different light, like everything
is still there. And you can see just off on both
Annie and Rainer that there's these these wisps
of blue and yellow and purple, which you know
is some magical auras that they they possess
and In the air itself, there's a faint traces
of raw, this particular raw magic, but it is
not thick. It doesn't seem to engulf any of you
or this area in itself, but it's there and it's
very light. Well, I can see that there is ambient
magical essence in the air at this moment, but
does not seem to be clinging to us nor condensing
upon any... particular location. If anything
changes within the next 10 minutes, I'll let
you know. But I think we should get moving. We
don't know if there's any more of these spider
things. If we stay here, we could be ambushed.
No, thank you. And Annie's gonna immediately
get up and head towards the door into the hallway
where they came. Rest will be good, but I don't
want to stay inside a nest. Gimble quickly gets
up. closing his book. Yes. Annie, you have the
map. Just lead us towards the next exit. It shouldn't
be too far from here now. Let me see. And you
can see that he gimbals right. It's just a few
corridors down till you hit it. Is this Detect
Magic sort of constant? Yes. For the next 10
minutes, he's concentrating on this. Okay, so
the closer that you guys get to this the exit
door you notice that the the raw mad the raw
magic in the air is thickening It's almost has
this appearance of like fog like Just above you
and it begins to sort of descend and it's almost
the closer you get to the door. It's even thick
as so. It does seem to be condensing near this
door. So once we open this door, everything will
just come in, basically? That or we will be definitely
experiencing the expanse from now on. Great.
Raynor, what are your thoughts? Well, I think
we're bound. There's nothing we can do. We have
to keep moving forward. Gimble over here. Yeah,
I think he wants to do it. Yes. As he's like
put this bag down and he's pulling out that ring
of keys once more. Would you like to open the
door, Annie? Sure. Why not? He hands you the
keys. She's going to take the keys and click.
Turns the key. and hopefully the door opens.
The door opens and immediately you are all assaulted
with these webbings. No. Don't do that, man.
No. It's just not done. Not again. As you open
this door, you are assaulted, but by bright light.
Your eyes adjust to the lighting outside, since
it had been somewhat, even though it's well lit,
it's still somewhat... dark and as your eyes
adjust you can see just beyond you can see the
road the paved road on to you towards your left
there and you can see the ground and it is everything
seems to be muted in terms of color it's very
close to a like gray scale sort of sensation.
I mean, there are colors that you can see, but
it's drowned out by everything else of white,
blacks and grays. Pleasantville, gotcha. What,
sorry? Pleasantville. I'm just gonna put my thumbs
up because I don't know what that is. Yes, this
is pleasant. I wouldn't. Are we in charge of
naming the new areas? If we are, you get full
authority. Well, I am most definitely not choosing
Pleasantfield for our first place that we name.
Yeah, I can agree with that. Okay. And he's going
to turn around. Is everyone like already out
of the door? Well, I assume that you still haven't
walked through that threshold. Okay. All right.
And he's going to walk through. Okay. God, I
will wait 10 seconds to see if she just dies
and chokes over and then goes... What are you
waiting for? Um, well, you two very horribly
die. Classy. Well, yes. Gimble's just right behind
you, like just waddling. It's good to have a
canary, is it not? And he just waltz her eyes.
As you say that canary comment, you see Gimble
turn around to face the both of you that's still
inside. Where are the canaries? I know that,
but it's good if a canary has a canary. Oh, god.
Isn't that a little redundant? Push. Go on. No,
he's already outside with Annie. Well, not really,
because if I don't need to go there and die,
because you've died, then I can go back and tell
them that no, it's not good. So it's not redundant.
But if he dies, we die. So. You don't need to
actually do anything like that. You let Annie
do it. Why me? Because you volunteered. We already
went through this, Annie. I seem to be OK. And
Annie, you yourself, you feel fine. Annie, are
you OK? Are you OK, Annie? I'm going to make
that joke every session, I swear. Well, I seem
OK. Hurry up, you two. We don't have all day.
Your skin does prickle however. It is not often
that you're exposed to such magic that's so raw.
Magic is again normally contained and it's uh
but unfiltered raw and almost untamed magic is
something that none of you have ever experienced
and as the rest of you um even with the door
open you're feeling these tingling sensations
on your skin and it's it may be it's almost a
sense of comfort that it's familiar this magic
but at the same time it has a sense of foreboding
and danger to it. All right be careful. You especially
Gordar. Why me? Because you're detecting magic
Okay Yeah, it's your detect magic at this point
now. It's As you're looking out to the outside
you are assaulted with Colors and auras and it's
to the point where it's almost blinding, you
know where you wear a night vision goggles and
then you wear it in the light, it's almost that
same sensation that you get when you're looking
out here. Oh, goodness. Just going to march on
forwards. Raynor is going to follow, but hesitantly,
and he's going to be like, guys, I think we forgot
the bread in the carriage. The bread. Oh, the
bag of bread. Yeah, we left it in the carriage
we did we should go back You got this from here
gimbal Yes, that's true. Come on guys. Let's
go. I don't I don't I don't I can leave But oh
god close the door behind you I Will do you want
me to lock it like you did before? No, it should
be okay from this end Okay And he's like pretty
suspicious of that because he was so adamant
about properly closing and locking the door,
like the first door, and now he's like less...
I mean, he wasn't adamant. He wasn't adamant.
It was just like he just did it. He wasn't challenged.
He didn't stop you guys to go, wait, I need to
lock this door. It was just like he just did
it. And he's going to lock the door anyway. Yeah,
fine. And she'll give the keys back to Gimbu.
Okay, you take he takes the keys and he puts
it back in his bag. You see he now just by the
road and you're beginning to take your march.
The grass sometimes appear green as normal and
then then it's almost as if its colors have been
sapped away trees. You feel the wind blow across
you but no trees or the grass. None of them dance
with the wind, if you will. They stalk still.
And occasionally you will spot animals just out
and about. You see a deer with two heads as it
gallops off. You can see like... like rabbits
like four times its normal size with red eyes
and fangs as sharp as hell and you continue on
and you've been walking for maybe about the like
30 minutes at this point now and as you're moving
just off the distance you can see the remnants
the skeleton of a dragon something that those
of you who've ever been to McKinley Park, there
is only one dragon that sits there. It's been
slumbering since the war. But this one in looking
at this, its size, its sheer size is more than
double on the dragon that you all see at the
back in the city. And it is just the remains
of it, its bones. And you have almost these Wouldn't
say sheets, but like it's old skin sort of just
like hangs off some of the bones and it's just
there and As you're moving closer and closer
you find Remnants of bodies skeletons which looked
like that they were running towards towards the
direction that you all came from and it's like
just Maybe looking around you're looking at there
at least a hundred two hundred just bodies either
Frozen in place as skeletons or some on the ground
Just reaching and you see some that it's like
sort of almost like a palm page sort of vision
Mm -hmm of what you're what you're seeing here
God I just keeps to himself just staring at what
is you see okay you see gimbal takes a moment
wait wait a second and he's taken out his book
and he's now beginning to take notes once again
and he's making sketches of what you are all
seeing from the trees, the discolourization,
these strange animals and also this scene that
is before you of these bodies just frozen in
place, these skeletons. All right, well it's
not vaporisation. Well, let's go. Let's hope
there's not any more like it. It's not fire because
if fire was it then it would have burnt the skeletons.
It's not... This is not good. I don't think we
should get that very close to that flesh or those
skeleton bones because I think they're oozing
magic. Along this road now, as you're walking,
you do see old carriages and skeletal horses
that once drew them. You see other carriages
where had been upturned and the horse on its
side also skeleton. And you just sort of move
your way past through all these remnants of what
was. Does it look like in the circular motion
like an epicenter and then like circular out?
Or is it target? No, it's almost like a triangle
like almost Where the point is the top point
is from where you came from So it is spread out
through the road past beyond the road and it's
all converging within this road itself Mm -hmm.
Okay good. Ah, yes your magic. You said that
you... How's it going? What does it look like
as Gorda's looking near this skeleton? Which
skeleton? Oh wait, how long have we been traveling
for? So, it has been 30 minutes since you've
left the checkpoint, and you're presented with
this scene. I no longer have... I cannot cast
that for longer than 10 minutes at a time. I...
Do it, um... I can't do that again, unfortunately.
Fair. Do any of you have any magic? Like, something
small. Really small. Like... I can try and create
something, but I don't exactly have good materials
on my person. Do you mean like casting a cantrip?
Yeah, like fire or something. Sorcerer's Burst,
fire. Okay. Just step towards the thing slowly
and see if the fire grows. I can't exactly keep
this in my hand. This is... it needs to be sent
somewhere. Okay. Send it towards the... towards
the thing, the dragon. Yeah, so little bits of...
Fire the turn into Fangs and he's gonna watch
it towards the dragon. The dragon skeleton. Okay.
All right. So you fire this thing and it hits
the, uh, your target on where it is. And give
me a second. Oh. Oh, fuck. We're gonna have an
extra bomb go off. We just threw fire in a gun
barrel. So as you send this. this burst of flame
towards the skeletal dragon, you feel the sensation
within you and it's warm and comforting and whatever
pain that you had previously experienced, it
almost seems to reverse itself and you are going
to take some healing. So go ahead and roll me
2d10 and you regain that much HP. Okay. Seven
points. So go ahead and recover seven HP. How
long does aid last? Sorry? Reina, how long does
aid last? Uh, aid. Aid lasts for eight hours.
Oh, that's different. Not like your healing magic,
Reina, but it seemed to... healed me. I feel
vitalized. The ground begins to rumble as you
speak. Oh, that's I'm sure that's perfectly fine.
It is rumbling and you look for forward and you
see the skeletal dragon now beginning to move
it is rising up from the dirt as all these dust
and uh dust and debris comes right off it and
it rises up and you just hear a booming voice
coming from this thing Is there anywhere to hide?
What have you done? And that's where we're going
to end it. What? Oh no! Oh no! Good night, everybody.
No, I'm sorry, but that's where it all ends.
Are you serious? Yes, I'm very much serious.
We don't get gnomed by undead dragon. No. Do
any of you speak draconic? We'll find out. We
will find out next episode. Say goodbye, everybody.
Bye. Bye. Send guys. Bye. Send reviews. Send
reviews. Good night, Mrs. Akmonik, wherever you
are. Huh? Why? Who? Hello all. Once again, this
is Robert here, just jumping in at the end. Don't
go anywhere as we still have Table Talk part
of the episodes. So if you want to hear about
us talk about this current session, things we
liked, and all that kind of stuff. Stick around.
See you there. We are going to just have a quick
recap or maybe a quick discussion on just that
episode. How dare you? How dare you? Yeah, honestly,
what the fuck? Now I'm putting you all on the
spot. If I could just get a highlight from each
and every one of you, just a favorite moment
in that episode. Let's go ahead and start with
the regular order. So let's start with you, Bella.
Okay, uh my personal favorite moment was when
gimbal fell onto his backpack and you described
him as like Rocking back and forth like a turtle.
That was my personal favorite because gimbal
is so cute to me Annie's personal favorite would
have been talking to Sasha Just that whole interaction
she has not spoken to anyone like that in ages
Yeah, and also just getting some kind of idea
as to what to do about not only her arm but also
for future projects. She's finally feeling really
reinvigorated in terms of ideas and creativity.
Yeah, it was almost like they were talking shop,
which I really liked. Okay, Rob, highlight for
you. I like... I like just exploring the world
like I like us slowly moving towards more and
more of the expanse And I'm excited to like that,
you know, we've started to actually be there
and starting to see Like the storytelling of
just the world like I'm excited for that and
I'm enjoying that cool For me my favorite moment
was us pulling gimbal Cuz you yet going ahead
I think Rainer favorite moment probably would
have been I Don't know if he would have a favorite
moment. I think he would have really enjoyed
though when He was talking to gimbal about like
the lightning and like Trying to figure it out
Yeah, yeah I need I think because of the experience
that I had in this I think I need to facilitate
him more with a bit more knowledge because originally
I just had him as just some guy who is going
to be with you doing these field notes creating
this new guide for those who might take expeditions
in the future but because you've opened up all
these questions I need to make him a bit more
of a facilitator of information which I think
would be pretty good. And it adds to the, I think
he adds a bit of dynamic to you guys. Getting
pushed around. This motherfucker has a death
wish, I swear. Like, you turn your back on him
for one second and you just like, no, no, no,
no, get that out of your mouth. Like, it's just
like happening like ADHD toddler. Like this dude's
just sprinting off towards anything and touching
everything. Just like, stop. What are you doing?
I mean, he does, to be fair, he doesn't sprint
ahead. He's just been walking calmly, right?
And now at this point, he's marshmallowing his
way through, right? Yeah, dude should just chill.
Like, the fact that he fell on his back and then,
like, Raynor's trying to get him up and then
boom, spider in his arm. And I was like, Raynor's
not going to be happy about this. How do you
guys feel about those creatures? Fuck you. Was
that an antica? Yeah, so I obviously described
them a bit different from what they are. I mean,
they don't generally speak. I had this idea of
people who have turned into spiders, so to speak.
Yeah, I kind of assumed that was the case. He
felt like that. Yeah. I did have a bit of an
alien reference there as well with the chest
cavity burst open and I really liked that I was
just like always love a good alien reference
yeah I enjoyed that so much I did I did tone
them down a bit. I didn't want them to be like
super deadly or anything like that. So I messed
around with their stats a little bit. But other
than that, they were okay. And I do like this
imagery on where you guys are at of just like
this moment frozen in time on moment in time
of just people like escaping. whatever it was,
and then you just have this dragon skeleton rise.
Awoken dragon skeleton, fuck you. I did not think
that you were going to fire at the skeleton.
I did not think you were going to do that because
he was actually going to. wake when you guys
would just relatively work right and he feels
but boom and it's just like the reasoning I had
for that was that you can track the fire and
fire went bigger than you would be able to tell
some more mana and then all of that and then
I was thinking as we kind of progress to tumors
the like things I was like you know what it could
be radiation and that was Yeah, so think of earlier
on, earlier on from when the initial sort of
cataclysm, the raw magic that I described, it
is just radiation adjacent, right? And if you
recall, like, you know, when that, that, I think,
let's call it an incident, that the elephant
foot, I think it's called? Right on her. Yeah
that and I just and how much radiation it had
been exposed the Exposed there and it just created
like this elephant foot thing and So that was
obviously 80 years ago when the war ended so
you don't know what it's like now But so far,
you know ten years after there those who entered
and then came out in a tumorous and ill and but
thus far you guys seem to be okay, so Who's to
say? Who's to say? You guys come back and you're
all just like... I'm expecting that to happen.
I'm expecting like a new limb. A third arm somewhere
on your back. I was expecting to bully Gimble
more about it and be like, Gimble, alright, what
do you think about this situation? Where are
your tests? And Gimble's like, I've got a journal
and I've got a pen. i will draw and i was like
what this place is safe So a lot of his notes
there are fairly detailed so he would like say
for example the tree, right? Like he wouldn't
recognize what tree that is and then he would
list okay But this is how this is different from
me Same with the deer that I mentioned and also
the rabbit like he goes Oh, but this rabbit for
some fucking reason is four times the size I
mean obviously wouldn't write it like that, but
and he's taking sort of intelligent way But yes
like that I enjoyed that session a lot. It was
very good. I liked, I think we did fairly well
in timing as well this time around, so it's a
lot shorter. And you guys got to that point where
I wanted it where to end. Face to face with,
well, not face to face, but the awakening of
that skeleton, which is very cool. Their faces
will be so funny. Like, they're just shooting
this thing and they're like, alright, it's dead,
great. Gora, like, Gora's like, I feel so powerful.
And then... Like, they just hear the weird thing
rising and then, like, dust, debris all falling.
And then he's just speaking and they're like...
Annie, did you... You locked the door, didn't
you? Oh, shit. No way out gimbal trips over he
drops his bag But yes, I think as well in the
future if like in these sort of talks I mean
there's opportunities for you or others who want
to know like for questions in terms of the setting
or even like characters or whatever this is sort
of like the perfect place to sort of answer them
as well so so anyone listening if you want to
put it in the reviews even or send us a message
at this point just wherever send do so Ask us
questions and we may answer them in table talk
Yes, which you can go over to our patreon page
and pay $15 a week That's fine So In saying that
I would like to open up the floor to the three
of you and the three of you may ask a single
question that I could answer as a DM. So think
on it for a second because I know I just sprung
it on you guys just now. It's difficult because
I don't want to like spoil the story and that
kind of stuff. If it's if if it is a spoilery
sort of question then I'm gonna be like that's
kind of like spoilery but almost maybe like a
question generally about the setting or About
what you have already experienced. I made a joke
about Like Titans, you know attack on Titan wall
and all that kind of stuff. But yeah Titans in
D &D are just ridiculously large creatures like
the terrasse and there are various other Titans
are there Titans in this world Something that
I've could that's not something that I've considered
Right. So if there are going to be Titans I think
that I would need to tie it in terms of well,
is this going to be part of the story is this
going to tie in somehow or if Even a reference
to them is the there's a reference to them need
to be made if if that's the case then that's
something that I would then sort of shed more
light into it something to consider and But I
don't know how long how long how tall a Titan
supposed to be in like D &D verse I mean really
they can be whatever they are the highest like
the largest size In D &D, which is gargantuan
and then it can be like that or like there's
no like upper limit It's up to you where you
decide. Interesting. Because the height of the
wall, I based it off the tallest man -made structure,
which is, I don't know where it is. Where is
it? I'm looking at it here now. It's in Dubai.
And it's the Burj Khalifa. I think it is. Yeah.
So it is 2 ,716 feet tall and six inches, right?
So that's... So think of that and that's the
height of this this wall and it's this solid
almost stone concrete like thing. And the fact
that the city of Antille was able to create this
wall in such a short period of time to also like
speaks of its not only its resources, but its
power, you know, and influence on the world.
So. But yeah, huge ass I had a question So how
different are that in your how different is the
initial idea of your characters like your NPCs?
From what they turned out to be So a lot of the
NPCs thus far that you've encountered I always
just have a general idea of Who they are or what
they're supposed to facilitate Personality wise
more than half the time. They only come through
through play for me anyway, so Samson for example,
all I knew about him was he's he's your handler
and In terms of Samson his character his characterization.
I knew that that he would have had a particular
attitude towards you guys where he kinda is lauding
over his position over you showing that he's
in charge and I think that came through greatly
just trying to push that idea is like you are
beneath me you can't do anything about it and
like but if in reality if you did not have the
if you weren't prisoners I don't think he would
have the same mindset and I think I think that
I've I've been playing that off quite well with
Samson. It's just the way he speaks, of course.
Oh, you're all beneath me now, aren't you? And
Gimbal... Gimbal is... Gimbal Wonshu was a guy,
an NPC that I had in a different game a million
years ago, but he wasn't, he was very underutilized
then. And I just, the reason why his name was
Gimbal Wonshu was because he was a, well, he
worked for a cobbler. Is that right? Cobbler?
Shoemaker? Shoes. Yeah. Yeah. And he, in that
setting, like mouse folk or rat folk were slaves.
and much like the elves in Harry Potter by giving
them a gift frees them and his owner gave him
a shoe which then freed him but he decided to
stay because he liked in that one he liked making
shoes he enjoyed the he enjoyed it and that's
why he always wore the shoe as well hence giving
him the name gimbal one shoe but in this one
I made him a lot younger and I wanted him to
be a bit naive to the world around him fresh
out of university and this is a big task that
was placed upon him like he has general knowledge
of like you know botanical knowledge and wildlife
and I wanted him to be someone who is going to
sort of make that comparison on what is already
established and known to see all these new and
different things or even things that have changed
and to be able to facilitate that. And I think
as well, springing this kid on you guys is an
interesting dynamic as well because you're all,
well, I say you all are criminals, one wrongfully
accepted. I am innocent. Yeah, just to see like
on how you would all treat him and So far it
is very interesting to see on how you guys are
treating him. So for me back to your original
question the characters They're not much that
different from how I've written them because
it's very basic on what I write and who they
become a shown in play so if they do have a particular
mannerisms that I do want to sort of express
that sort of thing I will write down but other
than that it's just like general information
about that about the NPC this is what they do
this is the role that they're going to fill in
this story and then I just play it off on however
I deem fit in in the moment yeah Bella Give me
one question. You had all this time to think
while I was yapping away. Good point. I suppose
my question is. Did you intend for this campaign
to be set in the prison for like a little bit
longer? Or did you like actively want the characters
to get out into the world and venture? I didn't
want to stay in the prison longer than it should
be. The initial setup is I wanted immediately
for Glimmer de la Croix to have her pick of people
to send out here. The main campaign is a to be
being out here, out in Latushia, out in the expanse.
There are a few things that I did want to do
in the prison, just other combat scenarios and
other tests that they were going to put you through.
But at the same time, it's just like, okay, that's
gonna take up too much time where the chunk of
the actual story is going to happen out here
and not in there. So. while I have written, well
not written, but while I do have lore about the
prison in itself and how it functions and how
it works and how it was created and all that,
that's not something that I heavily wanted to
explore in -game. So anybody's more than welcome
to ask about it and I'm more than happy to answer
questions because I don't think it's spoilery
considering on what that prison is like. But
again, It was there to facilitate a purpose,
and it had filled that role. Okay. It was the
jumping pad. Very true, very true. The tutorial
level, if you will. One last question. I'm gonna
ask the question that every DM loves. Sure. Levels.
When are we gonna level up, Larry? You know what?
I completely forgot about the process of leveling.
I completely... It's right. If we can kill this
dragon, guys, if we can kill this dragon, we
get to level up. Oh my god. I'll be honest with
you. But only one level up. So, the way I do...
The way I distribute leveling, it tends to be
through milestones. Yeah, then that makes sense.
It within story beats that that you've done this
this and that but now that you mention it I will
say that you guys can level up. Oh If you'd like
to do it right now But yes, I think that's it
for table talk ladies and gentlemen while these
folks sit around and figure out their own level
their unprompted Unexpected and we'll catch you
all next time. Goodbye. Bye See ya. Bye Good
night, Mrs. Lachmonic, wherever you are. Again,
why?