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C1 Ep9 "The Journey Continues"
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After a run in with some gnomes our adventurers continue their decent down the mountain, heading towards Aelawyn City
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Introduction by Dean Balter, the Dungeon Master
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A viewer discretion is advised.
Axon's Homeland and Leadership Challenges
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Welcome to the world of Aaron. My name is Dean Balter and I'm going to be your DM for today. And I am joined by. Hey everybody. I'm Chase Dixon. I am the voice of Axon of the Golden Fang. And my fun fact for this week is we're so about the homeland where Axon comes from.
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ah So he's from Antara. It's a land to the north of our current setting. And as opposed to normal lion tribe or prides, ah you which numbers only really go from like 10 to 15. The Leonin's prides are much, much larger, specifically the Golden Fang at its like lowest after um some battles that the the pride had been involved with was as low as 90. But they usually sit anywhere between 150 members to 200.
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The pride is made up of multiple families and the head of these families all have political sway within the pride to make decisions on the, what the pride does moving forward, where they go, what they do and stuff. However, Accent's father Brekson is the head of the pride and he has a majority vote. He is 51% owner of this pride.
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insane yeah um which was supposed to be Axon's position, uh, three years ago, but he made some mistakes along the way. That sounds about right.
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so Yeah. 51%, 51% gang, you know? ah yeah It's interesting.
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Yeah. This is to like present the pride as less of just like a group of lions that's just fucking around in some field out there and basically like an entire village of Leon and that, um, that just travel. Nice. Cause they're lions. They don't build shit. Yeah. So they did you like most of their, I'm assuming that you just go around hunting and stuff, right? For food.
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ah Yeah, but weirdly enough, the only government body that has been constructed in the Golden Fang, at least, is a ah tax organization that comes in and and takes a percentage of everyone's ah hunt. I was going to ask if they had like a wildlife conservation branch where they're like, hey, no you guys have hunted too much here. We've got to move to the next spot.
Vexos Nightshade's Assassin Techniques
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no thing If anything, there's a ah there's a wildlife extermination a facet where they're just shwacking everything. because they Imagine 200 axons that are always hungry. That's a lot of meat. Damn, that'd be a but a lot of chickens.
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A lot of chickens. Hey, everyone. I'm Kent Rawlings. I'm playing ah Vexos Nightshade, a rogue Warlock multiclass. ah Fun fact about Vexos today is ah he actually extremely loves opera music.
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ah He ah when he became an assassin a long time ago and became very, very good at it. And to kind of keep things interesting, ah he would start ah timing his assassinations up ah right with the ah the climax of ah opera music just to keep it interesting.
00:04:33
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Is he basically D&D John Wick? That's the vibe I'm getting. I mean, yeah, he's similar, you know? That's badass. That's badass. Would you be upset if I started calling him the Baba Yaga? No. All right. When you said climax, I just thought he was jerking off while he was like holding on crossbow, like, ready to trick someone. Just like... What a... He's edging his kill. Jacobson's on some other shit today.
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ah What's his favorite opera music? um he yeah He really loves the ah the Lord of the Rings opera track. No, um I don't know. he He doesn't really know opera music too well. He just loves the sound of it. So he just like puts some random shit on and fucking he's like, all right, cool. And then right when he thinks it's about to just And then that's when he does it, but sometimes he miss times it. So it's, it's taken a little while to kind of get down. and You know, you know, when you're at the party, you know, when you're at the party and the beats about to drop and you're like, Oh, and you start going into it, but the beat doesn't drop. Sometimes that happens. I think every time you go to make a stealth kill, I'm going to make you have to roll this. If you get it like on the fucking face drop, he's ah he's just ah opera music, just playing in his head 24 seven. Yeah.
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I just imagine he's behind some dude about to slit his throat and he goes to cut it with the fucking with the the climax and then he mistimes it and after as the body drops, he goes motherfucker every time in his head. It's more. He's like very subtle. He's like, like you said, very John Wick. He's just like,
Bruce the Bod's Past and Identity Change
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we'll do it it next time. We'll get him next time. Hey, I am ah Zach Balter. I play Bruce the bod.
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And a fun fact about Bruce is his name used to be Jonathan Slithers ah But he ah he was part of a ah guild and after his father was assassinated He was in fear that he might be targeted next so he changed his name to ah Bruce the by Bruce Teabard Esquire You ever ah go by your your first name your given name? oh No, nobody knows it. That's a That's a thing of the past besides family's is there Is there anyone in the in the world at the moment that would know you as Jonathan Slithers? I guess that's up to the DM. everyone Everyone knows you as Jonathan Slithers. You just changed the character's name. the Next significant NPC. Jonathan, what's up, man? I haven't seen you since college.
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Oh, I'm writing that down.
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Hey, I'm Matt Jacobson, and I play Noct for Tinnabricks. An issue that Noct for has being out in the wilds of the social world is he has a huge distrust oh due to personal issues with his family. And he has slowly been regaining trust with Vexos. They've done a few missions together. um But most, most other people in the world he does not trust. Hell yeah.
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I think honestly, like, at least for Vexos, Vexos just loves Noctifer because he's just very, like, super calm down to earth. He's just like this big fucking paladin that just kind of minds his own business with, like, and, like, he just he just buys with him really well because that's the same way that Vexos is. Yeah. Well, he really just doesn't know how to like act. Yeah. So he's so he's autistic. That's yeah. No, it's more like.
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Yeah, he he doesn't like definitions of right and wrong. like He his definitions of right and wrong don't align with everyone else's. Mm hmm. Like sociopath type of thing like he doesn't understand social contracts and. Social norms and cues like like if a girl were to hit on him, he wouldn't pick up the he wouldn't pick up the the signs and then he'd leave empty handed like Bruce the part nonsense.
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here say. Allegedly. ah yes sir We have you on recording. nope here right here's Objection your honor.
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Hey everyone, ah Dean Balder, and i'm ah today's DM, I'm going to be playing everyone except for the PCs.
Morning After Gnome Encounter
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ah Interesting fact, I have been looking for a motorcycle for a while, and I think I found the one I'm going to buy. It's ah it's a Harley, so super excited. Dean doesn't wear helmets, crucified. Helmets are bad for you.
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He only wears pit vipers and banana hammocks when he rides. And as a little second fun fact, ah Germany's weather sucks dick and it is almost May and it's snowing right now. So this is going to put a real damper on getting to ah ride a motorcycle that's true after after it was recorded to be the hottest temperature ever recorded in April earlier this month. So yup I don't know. Germany just doesn't know what it wants to do. Yeah.
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And then next week, it'll get back to the high 70s. Neil, last episode, you guys were talking to these gnomes that ah that you just murdered a lot of their buddies. And after having some conversations and partying with them, you guys got a lot of rest. And we're all able to get a long rest in. Bruce, you are now normal sized.
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um and And also, now your giant mouse is a normal mouse. He was a rat. He's a rat. Rat, mouse, same thing, same, same. They're both gross. Not the Vexos. And now you guys are kind of like waking up in the morning.
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probably a little bit hungover, but pretty, pretty relaxed and about to go start a ceremony for the burial and, uh, and then after the death of all of these, these gnomes you just murdered. So as you guys are waking up, one of the gnomes is going to walk over to you, uh, Bruce, and he's going to, he's going to come over, kind of tap you on the shoulder.
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and say, oh, hello. Good morning. I see you slept by yourself. There are a couple of loans that were pretty interested, but hope you have a good rusper restful
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Yeah, I knew they were interested. I just wanted to, uh, you know, play, uh, play hard to get. So that's, that's what happened to nothing else.
00:12:04
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Very, uh, very interesting. Well, if you want to go get all your friends and by we can start a ceremony i dog and, and then you guys can go leave us alone.
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Yeah, I'll go do that. I'm going to walk over to like the group or find everybody where they're at and just be like, Hey, you guys want to get the fuck out of here? Like, I don't want to stay for this fucking ceremony.
Exploring a Mountain Passage
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This is going to be creepy.
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I've never seen the burial of anyone I've killed. I don't know how that would feel.
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Won't that upset you, Axon? Like, they're just gonna bury perfectly good food for you.
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We, we cannot, I cannot be here for this ceremony. Have you ever gotten hunger pains before? I feel like you always have hunger pains, Axon.
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yeah it's like i get they Well, I get them really bad in the morning and really bad when I'm looking at food and I don't and I think the DM might make me take damage. If if I have those hunger pains. I look over at an doctor for I'm like, Hey, do you want to stay for this or?
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You want to bounce? I'm completely indifferent to watching their ceremony. We yeah give we' all this usually we have thing to do. All right, cool, Bruce. You lead the way. All right, and that is this way, I think. I just follow i follow Bruce.
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the Roll a d4.
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I forgot my dice. Hold on. Oh my god. I have a question. Uh that's a one. Oh yeah. No, it's not a bad thing. The same direction you guys are going. Oh, sick. Well, so I pull out the map and i I want to kind of still just look at it again, but I want to see is it is it detailed enough to see like where we're at now in conjunction to where we need to be going, like where the X's are. There's not like. Or is it like an overview of like the whole fucking world?
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Yeah, so it's it's mostly like an overview of the world. um There are you can see kind of a little pathways that go through the mountains, but you can't really tell some of the pathways are probably above ground. Some are probably below ground. It's not like a super detailed map. um But from the amount of walking you guys have done, and just kind of based off of like the direction you guys have been going, you're probably about like a quarter of the way down, like the full mountain. I got you. is my ah Are my land nav skills polished enough to ah kind of like, you know, figure out where I'm at on the map? are you goingnna take This man's trying to dead reckon us right now.
00:15:35
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Yeah. So I'm going to check the map and just see if, uh, if I can figure out if we're going in the right direction and, uh, if there's potentially other paths leading us. Give me a nature check in, uh, excuse nature, nature check. Yeah. You're looking around. Yeah. he yeah You're navigating there or survival. Wasn't expecting that. Oh, I got a nat 20. Yeah. I got to say.
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I got to say, for whatever reason, our group gets a lot of Nat Tonys. I don't know why, but I speak a lot. You speak for yourself. I get a lot of Nat 1s. Well, that is true. You know, somebody has to take the hit. You know, me acts on it. It's the weakest guy in the fucking party, too.
00:16:24
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ah So within that 20, you can notice that while Bruce is leading you, he's bringing you the right way ah down towards this mountain. And within that 20, I'll say that you guys can see, you can see there's a little passageway that you guys are following. You can kind of tell them that that's the passageway you're supposed to be on. And there seems to be,
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like ah a ah detail on the map, not quite a like a room, not quite a cave, but you just see a little opening with not even a door. if There's nothing really there. You just see that there's an opening behind a wall, ah but it's coming up towards the way that you guys are walking.
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All right. So I'm going to tell the girl and be like, Hey, Hey, Hey boys. Uh, hold up real quick. Uh, I got a map check. And then I walk up to Bruce and and bring everyone together and I tell him, I'm like, hey, one, great job, Bruce, you you actually went the right way. And two, I look at the map and I show everyone that ah this is, a ah I would show them roughly where we are and ah the pathway that we're going. And then I also point to them ah this little hidden ah kind of area behind the wall. And I say, do you guys see that?
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see what yes and i point to him uh can we tell ah about roughly how far it is from us so if you guys want to keep walking it right now is probably about I don't know. ah Half a mile away from you guys. It's just in the direction you guys are going. On the right, you can notice there's like a big open space somewhere in this wall, according to the map. But ah it doesn't show like a door or anything on that on the map or like a way to get into this open kind of cavern.
Solving the Secret Wall Riddle
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um But as you guys are walking there, you guys can discuss it or you guys can walk all the way up to it and and try to look at at the area.
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Yeah, I i tell him I'm gonna be like, hey, I think we should definitely check this out. It might be some sort of trap or it could be something that someone someone hid some stuff in there that might be interesting. So ah I'm just gonna keep, i'm going to tell Bruce to keep walking.
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Alright, I'm way ahead of you. Just walks. Literally way ahead of us, like by like 50 meters. Just starts walking. As you guys are walking, you do hear behind you. Oh, let's go in! Oh! I'm gonna choose to ignore it, like I don't hear it.
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I'm going to start back and tell them that there are other communities that need our help. like I'm sorry, but we we we must carry on with our mission. most soon and thing you can say I'm going to reach up and grab my tunic and pull it over my ears and just walk like this with my hands over my ears. Like I'm ignoring them. I just take off sprinting.
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Well, as you guys are are just ignoring or or sprinting away, you hear some solid music going on behind you as they start this ceremony without you. ah And we did our we did our part. you hear ah We provided the bodies for the ceremony. yeah yeah It's the most important part. You can't have a ceremony without bodies. That is true. And you hear the wailing of of women crying and of children crying as they start. What does that sound like in Gnome Boys, Dean?
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he It's like a dying cat. just So yeah, you guys, you guys keep going down this corridor. What do you guys do? You guys stop at this area? You guys talk about anything and do anything on the way there? Vexels, does it look as if this path will shorten our journey? No, no. So It's not even a path. It just looks like ah there's like a open hole almost in the wall, but it looks like it's sealed. Like there's no entrance, no door, nothing. It looks like it's like a secret, something like behind the wall. I am willing to enter. Just don't pick up any books. I can't promise that, bud.
00:21:10
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God damn it. Especially if it's abyssal, I will 100% pick it up. No, I think we'll, so I think we're just going to continue walking. I'm going to keep checking the map, making sure that we're ah getting closer and closer. But before we get to it, I'm going to tell Bruce to like stop and we should definitely inspect it before we just go, go in blind.
00:21:39
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when you When you're doing these map checks, are you pulling your whooby over your head and turning on your red lens, like exercising light discipline? It's daytime.
00:21:49
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Don't crush my dreams, okay? You guys are in a cave. but yeah I just walk, I walk under Axon's legs and check my map. Is that better for you bud? Yes, it is. That makes more sense. I do not have my summer fur yet. So you guys walk up and then do you guys go up to it or what are you guys doing? You can walk straight up to it.
00:22:20
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know my god right yeah You guys walk up to it and ah you die. now um so you You get up to this wall and barely visible, you see some writing on the wall, almost like this was done a long time ago, and then it's been fading and the the carves into the the wall of the writing is deteriorated.
00:22:46
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um Does ah someone give me a roll? a investigation or insight. Sixteen. Sixteen. All right. So you can kind of just you can see even though it's kind of faded and it's a little messed up, it's a riddle. And on the wall. Is it in common? What language is it in? It's in common. And it looks louder. It says small and sleek.
00:23:20
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Yet mighty and grand, I fit in your hand, but open worlds unplanned. I am not alive, but I have teeth. In turns and twists, I grant access to unseen. What am I? It's a key. So you say that, and the wall starts to crumble.
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And as it crumbles, you start seeing blue light start shining through. And once the wall completely falls down, you see three giant statues ah with blue light shooting all around them, almost like gargoyles.
00:24:16
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and I've seen solo leveling. I don't like where this is going.
00:24:21
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And these three gargoyles have giant wings sprouting out from the back, horned heads and giant teeth that are just almost like a shark's teeth with rows and rows of teeth and they're out there, their mouths open.
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And all around them, the there's writing, like inscriptions and ruins that are glowing blue, and ah bright red and bright blue flames that are on torches all around them. And do you guys walk in? Yes. All right, you die. ah No, you guys walk in.
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and You guys see that there's more writing one above each of the gargoyles like Can any of us cant yeah, can any of us read it? Yeah, it's tough It's all in common All right. I'm gonna read the one in the middle gargoyle. I'm gonna read it. I'll read the left gargoyle All right so The one in the middle. I read shit. so Yeah. The one in the middle. It says I am not alive. But I grow. I don't have lungs. But I need air. I don't have a mouth. What am I? Fire.
00:25:56
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fuck you. And fire. It was me. I said it. We're talking to an actual pyromaniac. i'm So as that's getting cut out, as you yeah know, it absolutely is the yeah the mouth starts to shoot out some blue flames. And when the blue flame stop, there is a obsidian ah gemstone sitting in his mouth.
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And you can see it's almost like obsidian, but on the inside, it is hollow. And you can see little flames dancing inside of it. Before anybody can do anything, I go, mine. And I just take it. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, who answered this riddle? It was me. I said it. I said it before. Yeah, to be fair, you didn't read the riddle, Dr. Fur. I read all of them. I didn't pick a single one to actually commit to. I read all of them.
00:26:54
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Oh, yeah. So what's the left one say? That's a good question. the d what did the love ones on So you grab you see you grab the emerald or the obsidian? Yep. All right. So you grab this emerald or sorry, you grab this obsidian gemstone and ah you feel a really warm, touch like it's really warm to the touch. It can kind of feel like some type of warm flow through you for a moment.
00:27:24
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And then the warmth stops. And you know that there's some type of really good energy that's coming from this stone. ah You can either give me an arcana check, or you can try to bring it somewhere else for someone else to look at it. Nope, I'm going for it. My terrible rules. Two. Fuck. 13. 13. So with a third tyranny, 13.
00:27:53
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um You pick it up and you're kind of like messing with it. You feel this warm flowing through you. And as you kind of like put your hand out, a little bolt of fire shoots out of it. And with this ah but this information, you can tell that while holding this, you can use the firebolt cantrip using the kill of so many people.
00:28:26
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oh yeah right If, if chase is going to, if axons reading the left one, I'll read the right one. All right. So on the left, you see, uh, the gargoyle, uh, above the, it says the more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
00:28:53
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Nothing. No. After you say that, a bolt of fire shoots out of the mouth of this gargoyle. And does a 13 hit? ah It does not.
00:29:12
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But I'm going to, because I haven't used this yet, I'm going to deflect missile. Oh, all right. Well, he shoots this flame directly at you and as you look at it, you kind of just deflect it off. You shoot it off with your hand and it kind of hits the ceiling. Um, and.
00:29:35
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The words glow again, just stating the same thing ah and the same
Rewards and Magical Items Unveiled
00:29:42
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riddle. The more you take, the less you leave behind. The more you leave behind. The more, the okay, the more you take, the more you leave behind. Stupid riddles.
00:29:55
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I hate riddles. Tell me what you want. The more you take, the less you leave, er, the more you leave behind. What was the right one say? And the right one? Yeah, we're going to come back to that one. The right one says, boundless depths within my grasp, yet no bottom do I keep. I hold the weight of worlds, yet in your hand I sleep. You guys got the hard ones, bitches.
00:30:35
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I'm gonna keep it honest, I didn't listen to the throw I want, I'm too busy to really think about the left one.
00:30:44
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Say the right one again. Oh, the left one is footsteps. And as you say footsteps, flames start going around the mouth of the gargoyle. When the flames go away, you see a pair of sneakers. But They're kind of like, like ninja shoes. You know what I mean? Like they're like, they're off. Are they Jordan threes? Yeah, they're Jordan threes. i change knock your horse or three they're They're converses.
00:31:15
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Sponsor us, Jordan. not us Yeah, please. the Yeah, um um I'm going to grab them and just check them out. All right. ah Put them on. Yes. or Do you want to put them on or do you want to?
00:31:33
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I'm going to do an arcana check on it. I want to see ah what it does and who would be best for. Okay, yeah. um Give me an arcana check. Alrighty. oh That's a 10. With a 10, you can't quite tell what they do.
00:31:54
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um But they're surprisingly light. Like these, these shoes almost feel like feathers in your hand. Interesting. I'm gonna look at Axon and Noctifer and be like, hey, these like, there's something weird about these. They're, they're like, super fucking light. Like, can one of you guys check it out and see if a you can figure out what these do?
00:32:20
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Yeah, I'm gonna take them and try them on. See if my big gigantic lion feet fit in them. This man just breaks them. Fucking just runs right out of it. He's got balls, like what? Yeah, the fucking claws just rip a hole in them. Okay, okay it's sick axe up. Wait, do they actually do that? though No. Alright, cool. As you go to put them on, they kind of like morph to your feet. um And While you're kind of like walking around, there's no noise at all. I'm going to jump as high as I possibly can and see what happens when my feet hit the ground. All right. Roll.
00:33:04
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Roll a d10 to see how high you can jump. In my head, he jumps like a total of five inches and thinks he's super high. I rolled an eight. You rolled an eight? Yeah. So you jumped eight feet high. Put me in the Olympics. Oh yeah, you're a fucking lion. You jump eight feet high, you try to stomp on the ground, and as soon as you hit the ground, no sound comes out.
00:33:35
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I like these shoes. They are mine now.
00:33:42
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Okay. Yeah, don't give it to the stealth guy. I am over 400 pounds. You're already quiet. know We need him to stick around though. You're fucking about to get in the front and just start cleaving people with Paul. yeah you're you're You're not the sneaky one. You charge into goblins.
00:34:04
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that's facts but it's okay it's okay no no no you are making sense here have the really cool shoes
00:34:18
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I'd say we will find you some nice shoes. and in the Yeah. i've got worse I would prefer something for my fists, but um not time stone knuckles, but maybe Giga stone not the always yeah stone knuckles. You say and first you had my curiosity. Now you have my attention. Giga stone. You still.
00:34:47
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Thank you. and and i and yeah and And in the hopes of one day having something really badass to beat the shit out of my enemies with, I'm going to drop the the shoes in the hands of Exos. I feel really bad because honestly it was really awesome kind of watching a lion in converse. so And now just umload upload number a i ma sure yeah I just, that. Just took that away from me, but honestly, I kind of need these shoes. So I take the shoes and I'll put them on. Well, as soon as you put them on, they, uh, they morph your feet. And now every step you take is silent. Um, real quick. Just want to point out when I, the, I Googled AI imager and the first image that popped up, I swear to Christ.
00:35:35
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was a cat wearingar sneakers i swear to god but I'm i'm not kidding that they they did listen to us they fucking are listening bro they know obviously his is viewers and not me but can you repeat the third one yeah dog of asked the same thing all right so the third one says are you um'm sorry, my cat just started like drooling for no reason. Oh, my God. Cats can drool. He's yeah, he's well, he tries to sleep.
00:36:07
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hello
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so The third one, it says boundless depths within my grasp. Yet no bottom do I keep. I hold the weight of worlds, yet in your hand I sleep.
00:36:27
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I'm gonna look at the group before saying this to the statue and go, it's space, I think. I think it's space. Fuck it. Just be ready for a fireball, bro. Yeah. Yeah, I think somebody beefy should take this space. But how would you hold space in your hand? All right. I see flaws in my logic here. No, I'll say it's space to the statue. All right.
00:36:54
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So you say space, and does a 19 hit? Jesus. Yeah. So you say space, and a blue lightning bolt shoots out of its mouth ah directly at your face, doing four points of damage, and gives you a ah good old shock. I'm going to just kind of like when it's like, all right, it's not space.
00:37:24
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Yeah, you big dumb line. Why would you think that? All right, read it again.
00:37:35
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yeah so whether Zach's been killing it. Yeah. Boundless depths within my grasp. Yet no bottom do I keep. I hold the weight of worlds.
00:37:50
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Yeah, in your hand, I sleep. See, it's that last part that's fucking me. Yeah, way of the world. You guys are thinking way too hard about this. Well, yeah, but it does have riddles. Riddles do. Yeah, power's still on the back. that's that's ah It was a good riddle, all right? Yeah. Hey, Dean, if I Googled this real quick, would the answer pop up? I don't know, maybe. Probably.
00:38:16
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It's probably like a super common riddle. Yeah, and we're just idiots. Boundless depths, huh? Real, real deep hole we're talking. Yeah, but no, there's no bottom that it keeps. It sleeps on a fucking thing with space there. Falling, falling forever. What was the, what was the part about, what does it do when you hold it in your hand? It sleeps. It sleeps. Well, there goes my idea.
00:38:42
Speaker
Yeah, this it's the last part that's throwing a wrench in every idea. As you guys are sitting here, the ground beneath you starts to tremble a little bit. Nothing too crazy. Oh, man. Not another rock. Not another rock. Not another rock. Good.
00:39:08
Speaker
I'm not even trying to help with the riddle. Vexos is actually just running back and forth, just testing his new sneakers out. You know, like little kids do in a fucking shoe carnival when they, their mom tells them to go go see if they can run fast. I have no idea. I suck at riddles. Always have. Yeah, I'm not, but I'm one for one. We cannot leave this. We cannot leave this place until we, I know. we I know. a Lion man. Think right.
00:39:37
Speaker
I am going to go into a meditative state and try to look within myself to find the answer. Give me. Give me an insight check. Do we have a cell phone? Can we phone a friend?
00:39:51
Speaker
bound the head and There's no fucking way you can. You you can try to phone fucking a friend. Damn wise. Natural 20.
00:40:05
Speaker
Oh my God. I swear to God, I'll take a picture of it if you want. Yeah, you don't take a a fucking picture. Jesus Christ. There's been like four Nat 20s in this episode.
00:40:18
Speaker
I hit one. ah Right before I rolled, I was like, you know how cool it would be if I rolled a natural 20 right now? These obsidian dice are my my lucky dice. Okay. It's actually funny. One more time. Not the last time. being Say the riddle again.
00:40:36
Speaker
Well, well, I just rolled a natural 20, so hold your fucking horses, bud. All right. Well, you rolled this natural 20. Fuck you, dude. I see a picture now. yeah Yeah. Um, so you look within yourself and even though the floor is trembling and you know, everyone around you is kind of like racking their brains around this and Vexus is running back and forth and back and forth. And.
00:41:04
Speaker
The world starts to go quiet as your brain starts to focus. And while your eyes are closed, you see the face of another Leonin. And this Leonin looks at you and doesn't say anything, but he still tells you the answer deep within your mind.
00:41:29
Speaker
And you see him, you recognize him, but as soon as you get this answer, his face, his face flees from your mind and you realize it's the bag of holding. God damn. All right. So to read my character sheet. There's, I don't know what this is, but I, I,
00:41:54
Speaker
I have words I am going to say, I do not know if they will make sense, but I'm going to say them. And I look i look at the statue and I say, the bag of holding? Blue flames and electricity go around the statue's face and mouth. And there's a one hit, no, I'm kidding. And as soon as it evaporates,
00:42:20
Speaker
a small silver bag made of metal with a little bit of electricity kind of floating around it, sits in his mouth. I will reach up and grab the bag. Nothing happens. I mean, you pick it up, but it doesn't hurt you or anything. Do I? Axon, if you would like, I would, I would. You, one of. ah For it for you. Yes, please someone got magical sneakers that make them completely silent and another person got the ability to shoot fire out of their fucking hand But I get a fucking bag As as as as i like magic on this knocked as as I look at it and like try to like figure out what kind of magic item it is I i got an 11 All right ah so
00:43:11
Speaker
The only thing you can tell from this is that this bag is one of the rare and elusive bags of holding that can hold, uh, I think it's 500 pounds worth of, worth of equipment. something Yeah. i need to put a force in there Yeah. You can pretty much put anything into it. And I'm assuming you kind of like open it up.
00:43:34
Speaker
Yeah, I'll open it up to like make sure that that's what that is. Yeah, so you open it up in this this metal bag. ah The top of it seems like it's just like, I don't know, maybe.
00:43:48
Speaker
a quarter inch around, but then as you start opening it, it just keeps expanding and expanding. And you look inside and it's almost into like another world. Like there's not another world, but there's an endless amount of space as is what it looks like inside of this bag.
Gold Distribution and Bag of Holding
00:44:05
Speaker
A dimension. Exactly. And you see a tremendous amount of gold.
00:44:14
Speaker
I'm gonna look at axon.
00:44:19
Speaker
I like well, there's a lot of goldenness. There is a lot of taking that and I'm gonna attach to my belt. And then I'm going to look at my hands and say and what the fuck did I see in that vision? Who was that Leonin? What the fuck is going on? Vexos.
00:44:44
Speaker
Yeah, we have to talk later. Okay, I just continue running. but silently You never stop. Yeah, you never stop silently. yeah You guys have no clue what I'm doing. it's sneaky my ah ah I am however going to open like little, just slightly open the bag, reach in to see if What Noctifer said was true, pull out a handful of gold, say, I can't eat this and give it to Bruce. ah For me, please. Why Bruce? ah Thank you. ah I'll make you a trade. You give me the bag and I give you nothing.
00:45:32
Speaker
brought you I'll give you something else. I give you pain. You give me your teeth. You know, I don't like that trade as much. i want to I'm going to try to persuade you yeah into sharing the gold with the whole party. No. i I from the background just say, hey, Axon, I'll give you the right shoe.
00:46:03
Speaker
You've taken off and you're just hopping on one foot. like i guessibility just The way I see it is I have no use for material gold, except to buy chickens and food. However, the three of you strike me as the type of people that are driven by such material gold, and this gold may be able to help us in the future.
00:46:28
Speaker
I think it is safest on my hip. That's fair. That's fair. I'm completely fine with that. I don't really care. I mean, my entire life has been driven by gold, but that's fine. In hopes that I get to keep my teeth, I'm going to agree, but reluctantly. Bruce, you know all of you. I didn't mean that. Yeah, I have my right shoe back on. If you're not going to use the gold though, like what is the point in you holding on to it?
00:46:54
Speaker
It's fine. we because we to minutes three d Because the amount of gold will not go down if it is on my hip. It's not going to go down for a while anyways. We're in a cave. It's fine. It's fine. He can hold on to it until we come upon something where we might need it. and like a shopkeeper we Like a shopkeeper selling giga stone knuckles. Yeah.
00:47:19
Speaker
Yeah, I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna literally just check out and be like, he's paying for it and walk out. a
00:47:27
Speaker
All right, so we grab, ah we grab all these items, super, super awesome. ah And then is this, ah is this room just like that's all those and it just like kind of enclosed little secret area with the three statues and rules?
00:47:45
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, you guys can do an investigation check if you'd like, um, but they yeah kind't like noticeable. I kind of do. Yeah. Yeah. I'll do an investigation check. Just, uh, just check. Ooh, that's six. Yeah. I rolled an 11. Yeah. That's it. Cool. All right. Sick. I'm gonna, uh, I'm going to turn back, uh, around and go to the, uh, the main pathway again.
00:48:12
Speaker
And I'm also before I like step out onto it. Is the ground still shaking? The ground is still shaking while you guys are still in there. Yeah. Hmm. Is it shaking on the main path as well? No. Hmm. I'm going to turn back to the party and be like, hey, ah I don't know why, but the ground is not shaking out here, but it is in there. Maybe we should leave.
00:48:42
Speaker
Yes, and and I don't want to stay here for i'm in the gluter coming the ground. Yeah. Oh God. All right. Yeah. I fucking just go out to the main path. I turn ah the way that we are. We're headed before when we came up on this and ah continue walking down.
00:49:03
Speaker
Yeah, I'm going to follow, for sure. Yeah, I will do the same. All right. Well, I'm assuming Dr. Drew does the same. I already said I was. Oh, OK. So you guys you guys exit the room. And and as you guys are starting to to walk out, you start to hear the room rumble a little bit more. And eventually, as you guys are making your way, you hear kind of a huge crashing noise.
00:49:29
Speaker
um but As you guys were walking, you couldn't really see exactly what was happening back there. um And as you guys were walking, ah Bruce, you hear behind you. And wise is slithering really fast ah up to you. And he's like, I was looking for some place.
00:49:58
Speaker
Shit. That's all I'm about to say. I was looking for some, some mice and he left me back there. I didn't even realize he had left, to be honest. You got to tell me things like this. Come on, Tamwise. We've talked about this. This is ridiculous.
00:50:18
Speaker
And Tamwise is going to slither up onto your shoulder. Has anyone seen Ricky? No.
00:50:32
Speaker
Where is the rodent? Listen, it is. I just turned to the group and I'm be like, listen, we have such a big rat that we just continue to lose. I am not keeping track of him ever. He didn't do much for us anyways. he He's probably better off wherever he is. He'd need to walk. him that He can be with them. He can be with. What?
00:51:00
Speaker
Didn't we put the shrink ray on Ricky?
00:51:05
Speaker
Oh, no, we didn't. Don't gaslight us into thinking that. You're saying if you know, no, no, no, no, we no we we would have took it it off before because we we used to get off. And then we shrunk and then we we took it off to shrink Bruce. Yeah. So but I know yeah we were kind of keeping it on him.
00:51:30
Speaker
Okay. So the question asks is who does have a shrink ray? Who should I use? I used it last. Okay. Hey, someone look at my ass. Is it attached to my belt buckle in the back? I can't tell. It's actually in your asshole. You are using it as a butt plug. Oh, that's crazy. Time to check. Yeah, I turned and pull up my cape and there it is right on my back belt buckle. This is D20.
00:52:01
Speaker
Roll a D20. You guys remember to grab the shrink ray off of Ricky before he shrunk down. 16. Yeah. You guys, you turn around, you realize that you've had the shrink ray just on your back the entire time, just attached to a belt loop that you just totally forgot about.
Exiting the Shaking Room
00:52:25
Speaker
um I think we have a better place for that now.
00:52:30
Speaker
It's true. Hand to me the shrink ray.
00:52:36
Speaker
i And I open up the bag, and I put the shrink ray in the bag. And it fits. No problem. You'll put it up again, close it up, and the bag is still a pretty small bag. Well, while this is going on, I'm going to look at them lies, and I'm going to be like, be honest with me. Did you eat Ricky? search Third. Third. I'll tell them.
00:53:01
Speaker
He was really good. I'm going to turn to the group and just, Hey guys, uh, them wise ate the rat.
00:53:10
Speaker
Good for him. He needed a snack. I'm going to say, hell yeah. hate that Damn wise. How fast do you digest? He doesn't speak snake. Oh, I didn't know this was snake talk. Okay.
00:53:28
Speaker
ah Bruce, how how quickly does your snake pet digest food? Fast enough. All right. We're not playing this game.
00:53:43
Speaker
I will take you at your word. I was about to milk that fucking snake like a tube of toothpaste. As there's a huge lumpiness. Yeah, I was about to say. They take a few days to digest. Yeah.
00:53:59
Speaker
Um, okay. Let's uh charlie mike lads yeah Yeah, what do you guys want to do? We're already walking away texas is leading us Let's keep let's depend on this path. This let's let's actually get to to the city Yeah Yeah, I agree. Um I want to do another map check and see if there's any other ah kind of interesting things or also how long and far until we are at least like towards the ah like the back end of this cave. So you look at this map and give me another check. A map nature. Yeah.
00:54:46
Speaker
map check nature 16 plus one or survival. but Yeah, I just did nature. It's fine. Okay. So 17 plus two. Yeah, 17. Okay. Yeah, no problem. So you you look at the map. And especially since you were able to tell where do you guys were kind of already at now that you just left that the room, you have a pretty good understanding of a map works. um And Yeah, yeah, that is your job. And you notice that there's a pathway coming up that leads to above ground. And above that area, you see these lines, some type of above ground pathway that seems to be a straight shot ah towards the bottom of the mountain.
00:55:45
Speaker
Hmm. Okay. Uh, I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna look at the, um, the map, but I'm not really going to tell them until we just kind of get walk up on it. Um, and yeah, so I, I lead them to where those little tunnels are. And then I tell them like, Hey, uh, it looks like there's a, uh, a ladder.
00:56:06
Speaker
that leads to the top ah aop side, and then we can go straight down the side of the mountain. ah guys You guys want to do that or continue taking the cave?
00:56:22
Speaker
but I think it'll be quicker if we go topside.
Discovering the Cable Car System
00:56:25
Speaker
All right. I'm going to climb up the ladder real quick and then just kind of peek my head ah up and out. So initiative.
00:56:39
Speaker
you climb up to the ladder, you take a quick peek up, and at first the the sunlight blinds you for a moment since you guys have been down in in the tunnels for a while. And the leaves start listening. You can see birds chirping. Or you can hear, not see, what the fuck. You can hear birds chirping. Whoa. They're chirping really loudly. I'm hearing all the colors.
00:57:08
Speaker
uh, what I didn't tell you is those shoes give you magic, uh, mushroom kind of stuff going on. Um, so you peek your head up and you start hearing birds chirping in the sunlight and it feels kind of warm and you see trees all around and you look up and you see kind of like, ah you know, those fire like towers in the middle of like, forests and stuff like that. You know, I'm talking about. Yeah, so like those lookout towers. So you see one of those. And it's enormous. It's the size of
00:57:50
Speaker
almost like the Empire State Building kind of tall and attached to it, you see like seven giant cables that are going through the top of that and the cables are seemingly to go down towards the mountain. You see the cables ah going down that direction. All right. I'm going to just climb up and out and then I'm going to tell ah everyone below like, hey, come on.
00:58:19
Speaker
I'll follow him up. I will expeditiously climb this ladder. I'm gonna slowly climb the ladder.
00:58:29
Speaker
Uh, and then as soon as everyone gets topside, uh, I'm obviously going to point out the, the cable tower. Uh, and then I am going to tell them it looks like, uh, it looks like they have cable cars in this side of
Conclusion: What Lies Ahead?
00:58:44
Speaker
the land. So, uh, I'm going to just walk in the direction of the, uh, the cable car. All right. And then, at oh, you're saying something? Oh, no, no, no. Okay.
00:58:59
Speaker
ah Because that's what we're going to end today's session. Oh, man. Damn. What will happen next? What's at the cable cars? The world may never know. Who the fuck was that lion? Until next week, and then.
00:59:16
Speaker
Till next time. All right. Well, deuces. Lighter. Cheers.