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Ep. 89 What Goes Up, Must Come Down - De Profundis
101 Plays3 years ago
Gravity takes its toll and Robin learns the true power of books.
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Transcript
A Warning in the Library
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Speaker
Leave this place, and if any of the gods exist, let them guide you safe from harm. You'll need it. P.S. Don't touch any of the books.
Strange Discoveries in the Main Room
00:00:37
Speaker
We find ourselves to begin with in the dim light of the main room. The main room with a large overgrown statue, oversized statue of armor in the middle with two fallen massive deer heads slumped to the floor, blood bleeding out of them, one of which that nipped Halina's legs and the other that Drago had fisted. The stairs are covered in these blocks that block the way further upstairs, and we see Karsten and Claude hobbling out of the kind of library room towards Folly Fizzabang the ninth.
00:01:07
Speaker
There are shaft thin beams of light coming in through the now blocked out windows of the bright sun outside, but the air is still cold and stale on the inside. You three, what would you like to do? Castan? Yes, yes Claude. Get Drago, it's important. Okay, well let's try and...
The Spell to Save Elfie
00:01:29
Speaker
Drago, Helena, where have you gone? Claude's not in a good way.
00:01:36
Speaker
And you guys can hear that because the sound kind of echoes through the now open door towards the stale air of the three coffins that you're standing over, all of which are now decimated on the floor in front of you. As you hear Karsten's voice from behind. Shall we just go? Yeah, I think so. Sounds serious. Right. Just turn about face and walk in to where Claude is and co.
00:02:01
Speaker
I'm just going to scramble up from being fallen on the floor trying to recover and just brace myself against Karstan. I've got it! I've got it! You've got what? It worked! What did? What worked? The spell is going to save Elfie!
00:02:25
Speaker
What? What? I did it on that teethy man then that was hurting everyone. It's the same thing that can... We can save him. Hold on. Wait. A spell to bring Elthir back to Elthir. Well we find him. We can break whatever it is that's taken over his mind.
00:02:46
Speaker
Of all the things I expected walking into here, that was the last thing probably in my mind. First off, are you okay? You look like shit. Yeah, I'm hurting a bit, but we went over that. It's fine. He's... I mean, I've given him a healing potion, but he doesn't look in a good way. What did he find? Yeah, if we could keep it down to like two teeth, he'd be bad baddies in the next one. That'd be great. How bad are you hurt? Oh, a little bit, but it's fine.
00:03:14
Speaker
Can Joago, using his newfound love of gods, do a medicine check by looking over his friend? Yeah, I roll a medicine check, please. Something I'm not positioning. Yeah, no, wow. So with my newfound love of Akiva and looking over Claude from a distance, I rolled a four. Okay, he looks fine.
00:03:44
Speaker
Awesome. Well, there's not much I could do. But you look okay. Yeah, I'll manage. But... I mean, we're just... That was a hard fight. But what I've learnt is invaluable. Okay, where's Robin? He went into that way and I'll point to myself. Yeah, he went through another door.
00:04:07
Speaker
We didn't find anything back in our room, just coffins that these creatures, I assumed, slept in.
Debating the Vampire Lore
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Speaker
I thought one of the spirits or whatever they were, vampires, went into this room with these coffins, but when we entered, there was no sign. And we obliterated the coffins to be sure that no one was in. Was there anything in the coffins?
00:04:38
Speaker
No. Yes, well I'm pretty sure there were bodies.
00:04:42
Speaker
Sorry, out of character note, I'm pretty sure there were bodies. I was looking at Mark for confirmation and he went... That was me going, I don't know. Yeah, I think it was right. One of them had no body because it had been banished. Two of them did have bodies within it that you basically stabbed through. Thank you very much. Okay, so we smashed through them and one, didn't have anything in it and two, had the bodies of...
00:05:10
Speaker
Well, the vampires, I assume that we were fighting just now. Oh, good. We need these then. And the Carson's going to pull out his steaks that he's put in a pocket in a satchel. Medium rare, please. Oh, go on, Buffy. I mean, if you want to... What do you mean you need those? What are you planning on doing with a bit of wood? Well, all the books say that you've got to make sure you stab a vampire through the heart with a steak.
00:05:39
Speaker
But we stabbed them anyway and there was nothing, there was no sign of any living thing. Yeah, but they're not living. I stabbed them with my sword. Yeah, but they're not, they're not living. They, it's in the books. Oh, go on. Yeah, but you can't kill them. Okay, go on, Carson. You go and stab them in the heart, did you say? Yeah, okay. I mean, do you need a hand? It sounds pretty fun. Sure, if you want to help.
00:06:07
Speaker
So I want to support Claude here because he's pretty heavy. Yeah. OK, you go and stab the dead guy in the chest. Take care of her. Come here, Claude. OK. Helena, we'll go with Castan. OK, I'm going to go hammer some steaks into the vampire's hut. You're going to hammer some old dudes. Yeah, Castan. Folly, what are you up to? Folly, you're still going to stay in the main room at the moment. You're still kind of
00:06:33
Speaker
He's basically staring at Claude because he probably
Robin's Discovery and Trap
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Speaker
recognises that he's not too well, but he's just very confused about why.
00:06:42
Speaker
And as Carstan and Helena make their way into the other room with the coffins, we're going to quickly skim over to Robin. Robin, you stood at the end of this long table with a note in your hand, a note which is containing the last kind of words of someone who was in this house. You know, if it's the owner or not, but the last people who were in there and how the numbers dwindled and how they were the last one and how then they were no longer.
00:07:05
Speaker
You hear muffles and you hear the shouts of Claude, sorry, Karstan from the other room echo through, but it's muffled, it's quiet. You hear the clanking of Helena's armour moving away and then you hear quiet and stillness for a few minutes. Is there anything you want to do in this time?
00:07:23
Speaker
Yeah, I'm very, very excited. This is Darren, by the way, because this is the first time I get to play Master Thief in the time that I've been Robin. So I've got the note in my hand and immediately sensing that this house has been abandoned. Robin's going to turn to the food and the bowl on the table. He's going to put his hand in it, take it to his nose, smell it. How long has this food been here? Let's try and establish how long the house has been empty for. The food.
00:07:52
Speaker
is about a week old. Okay, so the food's about a week old, so the person we were looking for has been here within the last seven days. There is no reference on here to Frumpkin Fredbear, is there?
00:08:11
Speaker
fine okay i'm going to immediately then turn to the chester drawers to the north of the room or whatever kind of stand that is to the north of the room it's like a series of bookcases stands i don't know what they are correct yeah they're bookcases yeah okay
00:08:26
Speaker
Knowing that bookcases are potentially hidey-holes for where you might put precious belongings. I'm going to scan for a book that looks out of place. Anything that looks like it might be hiding a looped hole or anything like that. Give me an investigation check please.
00:08:48
Speaker
Fuck you all, before I say it, I rolled a natural 19, which is a 29. A 29. I'm gonna have to give you it with that. Yeah. As you scan across this bookshelf, you see almost every book looking identically old, academic, but not in an interesting way that would interest Robin at all. Save one book.
00:09:14
Speaker
same colour, same spine, same everything except you notice a very light absence of dust up on the top of it only slight though that sets it apart from the others and as you reach out and pull that book out you start to hear a crack and as the book pulls out you hear a bit louder crack not from the bookshelf but from somewhere else do you want to continue pulling it or would you pause or what do you want to do?
00:09:39
Speaker
Robin is now going to hear his mother's voice in his mind and it will say to him, beware of traps, my son, and he will step back and he will just send the mage hand out to pull it the rest of the way. And as the book pulls out, you hear a loud, as a large crack seems to spin round in the room to the north of you. Helena and Carstan,
00:10:06
Speaker
You have just entered into the room with the coffins. Could you both please make dexterity saving throws, please? Amazing. Yes, I can. Oh. Uh-oh. That was a face. Listeners, just so you know, that face was of horror. I got an 11. I got an 18.
00:10:35
Speaker
Okay Robin from your perspective as you pull the mage handout you get a slightly good vision through the alcove just to the north to the left of the bookcase which you can see into the room uh away where is where kastan and helena currently are you see what looks to you like the entire ceiling collapse almost in an instant
Chaos and Tensions Arise
00:10:58
Speaker
Karstan, you get trapped in a portion of this falling masonry as it falls. You try to dive out the way of it towards the coffins, but unfortunately don't quite make it far enough away from that. Helena, you manage to sidestep just as you're following Karstan. You're just like a half step behind and you're just that bit clearer of the masonry and don't take any of the damage. This is the almost what looks like the entire ceiling collapsing down in almost one single thump.
00:11:28
Speaker
The crack you have is that of the ceiling robbing in the room to the north collapsing. Cast down, you take 31 points of bludgeoning damage. Your leg is trapped.
00:11:41
Speaker
under the rubble at the moment, okay? There's a big plume of dust and smoke that fires up into the air as well, slightly obscuring a vision, but nothing will treat for anything. Robin, you've just seen this happen, and you've probably, I assume, Karsten might have made a noise, maybe? I don't know. Karsten screaming. So, yeah, everyone's hearing that. How? How does Karsten scream like this?
00:12:09
Speaker
I broke my headphones! Shit! Shit! Shit! I'm coming, carbon! And I'm gonna run. No, don't run, you're hurt. Folly is sprinting over. Folly's coming. Carry on taking his weight and trying to run over as well. I'm just gonna run like a child with like paint and stuff all over his hands and just run a touchcaster and heal him quickly for...
00:12:39
Speaker
How many spell slots you got left? 19 points of healing. Helena, can you give me a hand with the masonry? Yes, I'll try. Drago, grab one side.
00:12:53
Speaker
Although, Mark, sorry, I just want to ask, and I might throw myself under the bus here. Obviously, I've got a bit of a bad leg. Am I meant to be doing some of these roles with disadvantage on? No. Is this from the elk bite or whatever it is? Yes. No, that's just, I just did, I gave you the ankle bite for flavour. It's just normal damage. It's not supposed to constitute a specific injury. It was a specific injury, I'll let you know. But no, that's just general HP off.
00:13:18
Speaker
So if you're taking the lead on this, do you want to roll this strength check with advantage? I haven't rolled a strength check for a while. It's not a saving throw, is it? It's just my strength plus your modifier. Yeah. So roll 20 with a modifier with advantage. I've got a 20. I get advantage on strength checks anyway. So I can't double double advantage.
00:13:47
Speaker
Yep, so it's 20. You get under it and both of you are really trying to pull at it. You're straining, straining. You feel a little bit of it start to kind of break away slightly, but actually a bit of masonry in your hands falls away. The remainder of it is still there on cast and unmoving. You maybe lift it like a centimetre or so before it kind of jolted back down as a bit of the masonry breaks off. Ah, shit.
00:14:16
Speaker
Get out of my way! Get out of my way! Get out of my way, for the sake of witness! I mean, you can see it. You could just levitate it right now. I know, but I'd like to be dramatic.
00:14:29
Speaker
Folly's actually making an excuse at the moment because he's currently out of spells slots to cast Levitate, so he just needs to take... Folly, there's no time for any more drama. Could you just hurry up, please, Folly? And Drago, at this point, in the time that you're taking, Drago's taken Dengon's Deception and he's trying to push it underneath the masonry to create... No, not the leg! Don't take the leg! I'm not gonna take your leg!
00:14:54
Speaker
I'm just trying to take the mercenary. I'm just going to convert some of my spell slots. That's all I'm going to do. I just need to double check.
00:15:02
Speaker
how much it's actually going to cost me to gain the right spell slot level back you've got thousands of source reports mate yeah man just just make it up that's what you normally fuck you all seriously i know my god it's a it's one of our memes for you calum yeah we all got them man there is no meme in
00:15:28
Speaker
Ian says, I like to rage. Darren says, anything to do with natural 20s or abacus'? Math. Math. Yeah. Danny's his names for characters, but that's on purpose. I mean, Danny hasn't got one. We need to get one for Danny. Well, he did try and banish a vampire and forget the charisma save. Ah. Well, no. Yeah, but that's not really a meme. That's not at all what happened. I didn't cast that spell and I was successful in everything I just did. It was good and evil, wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. It wasn't banish. No.
00:15:58
Speaker
I misread it. It's something that's reoccurring. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Folly, what are you doing? Seriously, you just stood there right now. Counting. Oh, God, the pain. I can't help but laugh at this because I can't find it. I'll be carried to sheep for fuck's sake. Where is it? Suddenly, suddenly, Tali appears. Folly, do something, you bitch. And she jumps out the window and she runs off back to the half of him.
00:16:22
Speaker
If he doesn't do something soon, Kastan's going to do something. I've got a really bad idea. I'm willing to do Kastan's thing. I've got another idea. Come on, Folly. I've converted me to Awesomeness points now, so I've gained back a second level spell slot. How many have you spent? Three.
00:16:41
Speaker
So I have a pool of how many? I have six remaining now. Actually, no, I have eight remaining on my sources points. Actually, no, I've got 20 remaining. Sorry, I've got 12 more. No, I have eight remaining now. But yes, I converted myself so I can just get there a bit dramatic.
00:17:00
Speaker
Wiggles his hands a bit, points his core to staff at this big rock and just casts levitate on it to gently lift it from Karstan's leg. So just quickly check, the spell levitate, does it just give you the absence of gravity? Or does that allow you to control its height? I can control its height.
00:17:19
Speaker
Okay, ah, that's a shame. So, Drago, what you notice from your perspective is as you're pushing on Dengong's perception into the ground to lift it, suddenly the sword gives away very, very quickly as the large bit of masonry that's currently sitting on Karstan's leg is lifted up. How high is it lifted? It naturally aims for about 20 feet as soon as I cast the spell. Okay, so it smashes into the ceiling. Can everyone else make that? No.
00:17:50
Speaker
This is Mark's way of saying rocks fall, you all die. It lifts up and basically is almost in line with the roof itself. It's quite a high ceiling place. No, it's not. It's above actually. Sorry, it's above. It goes above the ceiling space into like the
The Mystery of Staking Vampires
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Speaker
floor above. Remember, this is two-story mansion. So it goes into that floor above, not causing any more damage. A few little rocks fall, but nothing of damage. A bit of dust maybe in your eye cast iron.
00:18:12
Speaker
but your leg is now free. Drago and Helena are probably the closest to you at that point as well, just FYI. Can we burn the house down yet? Are you okay? Car's down. Is he getting up? Are you getting up or do you need a hand? Drago's holding out a hand. Oh, no, Car's down. We'll take it. It's fine. I'm just a bit legless. Oh, drop him.
00:18:39
Speaker
Drago, let's go. Oww, oww. We've got the spell folly. Yeah, spell's gone. Christian with a rock again. That's it. Okay. Drago just pulls, I assume, Helen as well, just pull you out there. Yes.
00:18:54
Speaker
Okay, I feel worse than... Can we just burn the place down and find the bracelet afterwards? What did you guys do? I swear you just entered this room, didn't you? We did nothing. We were walking in. I've got my instruments. I'm sure it's broken.
00:19:17
Speaker
Are we doing it musical or otherwise? Hang on, hang on, hang on. Cast and checks. No, no, everything's in place. It's okay. Or four there. Oh god. Hang on a minute. Feels a bit further down his leg. Yeah, it's fine. There's an image. Can you stand?
00:19:41
Speaker
Not with your third leg. Can you just stand on your two legs? Yes, I can stand. Okay. What the fuck's going on here? I don't know. What caused... I mean, I have the right mind to agree with Carstan and we get the hell out of here. What caused all the rocks to fall down?
00:20:04
Speaker
Robin has appeared in the South doorway with a book looking quite sheepish. Get that book away from him! Get that book away from him! Get that book away from him! Are you serious Robin? Did you go through books again? Nobody touch anything.
00:20:20
Speaker
What are you doing, Robin? I may have started trying to find the bracelet and I think, and you're all going to be quite angry about this, so just remember that I'm choosing to admit to this, I think I may of course the ceiling to collapse. I'm really sorry, Castan. Oh for fuck's sake. Okay, so Robin doesn't touch anything. I mean, hopefully there are no more vampires, right?
00:20:45
Speaker
Well, I don't think this is it to my touch, Folly. I think, if anyone, I think this house is rigged. Are there vampires under the rubble? No, they are just clear of the rubble. It basically was about five feet away from them. It wasn't the whole of the ceiling. It was a good chunk of the central portion of the ceiling, about 20 by 20 foot section of it collapsed on the floor, right in the middle of the room. Drago, can you finish staking the vampires, please?
00:21:12
Speaker
yeah sure okay so um that wood in the heart right got it yeah yeah steak through the heart and you've got to leave it there you have to leave it there right okay so there's two right um anyone else want to take the second steak i'll do it yeah sure no robin you you rest robin yeah maybe you've touched enough more more head and acting as someone who's who's proficient robin you look like you've worked up a real sweat here i can take a steak yes i suppose i have um
00:21:40
Speaker
Dolly good. Yes. I'll just, uh, I'm going to stand here, lean on the wall slightly. And then there's a rope where Robin's just kind of holding his breath with his arms out. Okay. Perfect. Okay. Okay. And then Drago hands one to Helena and, um, and it goes over to a vampire and
00:22:08
Speaker
Well, tell me what I need to do to stab this thing in the heart. You've got to take the steak, hammer it in into its heart and leave it there. Don't remove the steak, but stop the vampires from coming back. I'm strong enough just to push it in. Yes, I don't think we're going to need more than one move to steak it out. Take the steak in your hand and just slip it in. Right.
00:22:28
Speaker
Okay, I'll take the wood and slip it in. No, this is borderline necrophilia. What's happening? We need to put a warning at the beginning of this episode now. So Dragga, as you pull back your steak and plunge it into the chest of this vampire, it does twitch for a second. Let out a noise and its body seems to almost...
00:22:57
Speaker
kind of like crumpling on itself until it's almost like this gaunt skeleton that's left in the, it's still got kind of flesh and bones, but all this kind of essence seems to have been sucked out of it and therefore it's left this kind of gaunt figure. Helena, the one you got to, how do you want to go about it? She'll just go about it like she knows what she's doing. She'll get the steak from Drago, walk straight over to this one and just plunge it straight in the heart. Badass. Could you dexterity check, please? Check, check.
00:23:27
Speaker
Just not saving throw, but just add your modifier if you've got any. At 15. Okay. As you bring the steak up and as you go to slam it down, just as you reach close to it, a hand comes out and grabs it. And it's one of the hands of the vampire has just grabbed your wrist for a second. And as you struggle for a couple of seconds, it opens its eyes, his eyes flicker. And in a second.
00:23:50
Speaker
It just turns to kind of this mist and the steak you have slams into the bottom of the coffin, causing a hole and puncturing through as the mist kind of mis-envelopes over and around your face. And all of you see this, even through the dust, this ethereal dust moving up, up, up, and it disappears up through the gap, the hole in the ceiling that Robin caused up into the darkness beyond.
00:24:14
Speaker
Well fucking hell. Did you miss? We were trying to stop. Excuse me, I didn't miss it escaped. Yeah, the book says unless you state the vampires that they come back. Thank you, I think that bit much is clear. We killed him before we can kill him again and you still got the steak.
00:24:36
Speaker
Well, two out of three ain't bad. Are you okay? That seemed to evaporate around you. Are you okay, Eleanor? Yes, I'm fine. And Helena's just going to grab hold of the steak from the bottom of the coffin and rip it out so that she's got hold of that for when she sees it next. Okay, sit, Bretman. We've got two injured, Castan, Claude. Are you both okay to carry on? I'm fine. I mean... Folly, how are you doing? Yeah, I'm peachy.
00:25:03
Speaker
If we could rest for an hour or so, that'd be great, but I don't think that's a... In a spooky house. You've had better ideas. Robin, over there, how are you doing? Not touching anything. What I was about to say is that Robin is now starting to freak out, because he's only seen one of them. He's just going to go, there were three of them.
00:25:24
Speaker
Where's the other one? Where were you? I was in there, the kitchen, fighting one of them. I only saw one of them. You've killed one. Where's the other one? The other one ain't coming back. Don't worry about him. How do you know? I know. That. How do you know? No, no, no. How do you know? I don't like this house.
00:25:44
Speaker
Well, basically, right, what I did is I extracted every bit of evil out of him and sent him to Akiva, and Akiva's got a pretty good jail cell, so he's looking after him and he ain't going anywhere. Okay, so... He ain't getting the VIP treatment. No. So, all right, I can... Robin, you seem quite terrified. You're the one that's been going around taking books.
00:26:05
Speaker
Yes, well, forgive me, Helena, I wasn't aware that removing a book from a shelf might cause such an event, but now I am, now I am, and I won't be touching any more books, I can assure you. However, I did find this note, the person we are looking for is not here.
00:26:20
Speaker
Wonderful. Let's leave now. I thought we were looking for a bracelet. We're looking for a bracelet, not a person. The person who has the bracelet or believed to have been given the bracelet is not here. I mean, the books I read in there were written by someone, is it not? Are you sure? There's food on the table in there that's been there for about a week. I am quite the confident that whoever was here hasn't been here for at least seven days. And they didn't leave the bracelet anywhere. There are places we've not looked yet.
00:26:50
Speaker
There are places we've not looked yet, but I just touched a book and the ceiling came down. You can surely understand my trepidation. But this is a two story house. Surely there's something above us.
00:27:01
Speaker
Yeah, maybe just walk with us and don't touch things. Well, I've been trying to warn you about books for a long time now, Robin. And look, you just haven't listened to my warnings. You almost kill cast down with your stupidity. Consider me warned. Yes. But no, the note thing. That was good. You have been suitably chastised by Claude.
00:27:27
Speaker
Yeah, fine. Does anyone else like to read this apart from me? Yeah, go on. Okay, fine. I will read out the notes post verbatim as Mark described at the start of this episode. I've got the note here if you want me to read it, but I assume that may just be regurgitating information.
00:27:46
Speaker
Um, maybe we reread it. Remind us. Okay. My notes just say that. The experiment is a vampire note. Now, Robin is going to take the note out and just clear his throat. The experiment is close. Tarry Longer and Al Folly will reach us. Desmond and Pelham have returned with the necessary supplies from Clearguard. Jennifer did not make it. The Blight took her. Robin's then going to look up at them all and go, I especially don't like that bit.
00:28:15
Speaker
Nonetheless, her sacrifice will not be in vain. If I can successfully transmutate these elements into their formative form, a complete replication of what I have seen in the past will allow for a volatile state powerful enough to tear through. While I don't know what it will tear through, only we free shall know. All time is out of joint, a rip, a tear has occurred.
00:28:41
Speaker
My experiments have failed to an extent insomuch as they did not complete their purpose. But found another. This is a tear through the fabric of existence. This will allow me to plane-yard travel. A feat not successfully contained in the millennia. Yes, I'm aware of the gravitas of that description. Plane-yard travel. He did it. Looks like it. Quite an achievement.
00:29:11
Speaker
Wow. These beings have arrived. They are free. They are not meant to be here. Their presence offends nature and I offend their presence. They are powerful, so very powerful. Their energy binds the mind to their will. I have secluded them in the retiring room for now, but I feel that physical detriment will not subside the storm that approaches.
00:29:38
Speaker
It's then a few lines, and then he continues. I assume this is a few days later. They have broken out, passing through the door as easily as wind through an open window. They are formless. Their will is revolute. Desmond has gone. He is no longer of the living. However, he is not one of the blight. He is something more arcane, more anachronistic, more dangerous. I searched out the servants to aiders. They have perished.
00:30:07
Speaker
The door was jammed by a fallen piece of masonry. The house seems to be working against us. I feel our fate is tied with this old mansion. Pelon has disappeared. I am sure that he is alive somewhere. I'm going to explore the kitchen for supplies before looking further afield. No sign of them. No sign of anyone. I have one last chance. Just enough powder left to leave this place.
00:30:36
Speaker
I leave this here with a warning to those who enter here or find this letter. Leave this place and if any of the gods exist, let them guide you safe from harm. You'll need it.
00:30:49
Speaker
P.S. Don't touch any of the books. It doesn't say that. It doesn't say that. It doesn't say that. I mean, I mean... He... He planeshifted. So it says... And that's how he escaped the vampires. Something to do with Powder. He's obviously used something he's got here to... I wonder if I could find it. I mean, he mentioned those vampires... And there's no mention of a bracelet. And there's one sort of out.
00:31:15
Speaker
Well, we managed to kill two vampires and Claude's done some sort of... The bracelet could still be here. I'm just very reluctant given the... to touch anything, really. I think that's what I would say. I'm very reluctant. I'd say your instincts are correct right now. What is that last chapter you said, Robin? The gods said go, don't stay around? Yes, they did mention that. I say we go.
00:31:46
Speaker
Yeah, I'm not leaving yet. But what about the vampire? I know we're not very well and we're a bit beaten up, but if we let that vampire go, won't it try and feed on people in Goldview? Probably.
00:31:59
Speaker
Okay, so we have two things to accomplish here if we're all in agreement a little bit of vampire hunting number one and Bracelet finding number two, which we need to end the blight. I'd be really convenient if the vampire was wearing a bracelet I mean actually that's a good point and Jago is gonna look down at the vampire that he just staked Is there a bracelet on him? There's no do an investigation check. Yes, please. Oh
00:32:26
Speaker
That'd be funny. Another bracelet's right there, all along. Investigation, did you say? Yes, please. Ooh, one of my many low talents. 13. There is no bracelet, but you do notice something interesting with the cape that this creature is wearing. It's a deep blue with a gold trim. Could you give me an arcana check, please, dry guy?
00:32:52
Speaker
Oh, yeah, that works well for me. That's a natural one. Choo-choo. Add your modifier to it. Three. As you look at the cloak, you think that's a pretty cloak. Oh, no.
00:33:06
Speaker
Would I get any sense of magic from this item out of curiosity? That sounds a bit metagamy, Callum, but yeah, sure, why not? Don't let him do that! He's the one near me! I'm right behind... In all fairness, I'm in the same room as you. That cloak looks nice, Drago. It might make up for my dusty clothes. Yeah, okay, the cloak looks nice, but more importantly, there's no bracelet on this. Yeah. Are you grabbing the cloak?
00:33:35
Speaker
No, the cloak looks nice. Why would I glab? I don't have any need for the... Paulie, you want to look at this cloak? By all means, if you want to pass over, skip over this, I'm more than happy to, but... No, I want the cloak. Okay, I've been through with that kind of shit. Fine. Fine.
00:33:52
Speaker
As you grab the cloak, the other two of you basically recognise it as a cloak of protection. So it's plus one to AC and plus one to saving throws that the vampire has. So you now have that in your possession to divvy up or keep however you want. That's good. Mark, may I please take this time as well to cast gentle repose on the body of the vampire so it will not turn undead and come against us. Absolutely. It's already undead. Right, it stops it from being undead.
00:34:22
Speaker
May I just point out, it looks like you're all still touching things. Just gonna throw that out there. We've not made ceilings collapse, Robin. No, you haven't yet. You haven't made a ceiling collapse yet. There are, I count, three more ceilings that could still fall down. Robin, you're panicking more than you usually do. Oh, he did almost kill his friend, loosely.
00:34:42
Speaker
But he was on about killing Karstan like six times in the last week. That's very true, in fact, has this been the plan all along, Robin? I'm going to level with you. I've apologized to Karstan. It's been an emotional time. This that I do, it's a facade, OK? OK, I like to pretend I'm cool, but actually I'm just a normal guy. I don't know what's real anymore. I'm going to turn with my back to Robin and just say to Helena and to Drago,
00:35:11
Speaker
Um, shall we? He seems a bit stressed. Shall I send him back to Tali for a few minutes? No. No, I think he's better off with us. Okay. And that would piss him right off. Robin, if you don't want to touch things, I could polymorph you into something small and you could sit in someone's pocket. Okay. Definitely does want that. We have vampires.
00:35:31
Speaker
to kill and bracelets to find, so let's take point. Anyone? Are we all good to travel around this house? Do you need to take stock? Is anyone dying? Or are we good to carry on? I mean, we're all dying really, Drago. It's just a matter of time. It's a shame the masonry didn't fall on your mouth a little bit.
00:35:55
Speaker
OK, so what haven't we explored? There's a door I saw. What were you saying, Princess? I'm OK to move on. I just wanted to bring to the attention of yourselves that this talk of planar travel, what would have happened if my parents are on another plane, you know, if somebody's figured out a way to do that? What if they've sent them away to somewhere that I'll never find them?
00:36:21
Speaker
Well, it is very hard to travel in planes, as the chicken wizard said to me. But it can be done. We can learn the way to go get them. I mean, I have no idea where they are. I just thought perhaps if this is another place that they could be, it's something a little bit more tricky to understand. Yep, that's true.
00:36:45
Speaker
I can speak for me and Robin that we take a great deal of interest in plane travel so if it indeed ties in with your parents you won't be alone in investigating what's possible. It dawns on me that I should point out I have the exact same worries about my sister and
00:37:08
Speaker
Claude is quite right in what he said. It's led me to being quite irrational and angry at lots of you at the past week. Wait a minute. Are you from different planes? I don't know. I don't know where my... This is a discussion for another day. Drago is saying things that sound like it's going to get us out of this house quickly, and I'm all for it. I'm all for pushing forward.
00:37:32
Speaker
So we should keep searching the house then. I think there's at least one door. I saw a door that Folly was looking at. Does anybody want to go straight up, can I ask? Nobody interested in upward? We tried that, Folly. There is a considerable amount of debris there. I think Folly is suggesting that he's going to levitate somebody through that hole in the ceiling. Not me, please. Actually, I could fly three of us up there quite easily, you know.
00:38:02
Speaker
let's just do downstairs first and then if that doesn't lead to anything fly us up let's stick as a group here don't touch anything especially any books try and watch out for any weird
00:38:21
Speaker
As Drago is giving that warning, is that some like firewood and whatnot that's next to the fireplace? Correct it is yes. Folly is going to wander over to the air and just try and pick up about...
00:38:35
Speaker
10 pieces of wooden stake size objects that he's just going to put in his, well, just going to kind of carry around with him a little bit. So he's kind of got under one of his arms. I thought you were going to go and hand us out those stakes, you fucking selfish prick. He's going to make them all animate objects. That's what he's doing. Really? I don't know what you're talking about. That's pretty dope, that thought actually of you just walking around with these sticks levitating around you.
00:39:04
Speaker
As Drago said, especially any books, there would have been punctuated by Robin just throwing down the one in his hand. And there's another crack. No, I'm joking. There isn't. Right. OK, so we've got at least one door. Were there any other doors that we've not been through? Let's try the door. Just the one in the main room. Could you all give me perception checks, please? Yeah. Yeah. Mark, do you want my passes first or do you want me to roll? Oh, fuck you, Will. Give me whatever's highest. That's 26.
00:39:33
Speaker
Okay, let's go. Thank you, Drago. Hellema? Oh, nine. Fantastic, well done. Danny? 17. Sorry, not Danny. Claude, is it 17? Robin? 17 plus two, which I'm not going to say the total because I'm going to say it.
Gruesome Discoveries
00:39:51
Speaker
It's the fact that you have to say plus. I dare him. Show us the abacus and we'll be happy. Folly? Eight.
00:40:01
Speaker
Okay, so this is only for Drago and Karstan. You both here, because the only ones are all high enough, the bear in mind the DC was 23. That's what I set it out for this. DCs are all getting higher now. You both here, a distinct scuttling coming from above. And Karstan, I hate that it's you. I wish it was anyone else. You here a quite distinct clock.
00:40:33
Speaker
Chicken man's upstairs. I heard something upstairs. I did not hear a chicken. Sorry, what's going on? Who's the chicken? I definitely heard a cluck. Maybe... I could eat chicken. I could go for chicken too, but maybe later. But Carstan's friend, the chicken, apparently is upstairs, Princess. Well, he could be. A chicken is upstairs. Carstan's chicken friend is upstairs, yes.
00:41:01
Speaker
Should we get out of weapons? Should we attack your friend the chicken, or is he a friend of yours? Hold on, are we saying he's definitely up there? Because I hear something too, but I don't hear a chicken. Look, look, look. We're not going to kill Ogrimorff if it is him. OK. OK. There you go. Don't kill him. Right. If you've met a chicken called Ogrimorff, don't kill him.
00:41:23
Speaker
I met a chicken called Bill once. Yeah? I ate him. I mean, are we going upstairs? There's a room downstairs first. You said... Ogrimorff, are you around here? If you are, can you come down, please? What is going on? They're talking about a chicken. Yes, Robin, your name is Robin. We're shouting for someone called Ogrimorff. We are the... Ogrimorff!
00:41:53
Speaker
I'll grab off! You get no response. Why would he be here? I don't know. Planar travel? Two and two, mate. Four? Sometimes. Well, we can't ignore the fact that our biggest clue so far happened upstairs. But let's clear downstairs first. Claude is going to open the door in the northwest part of the mansion. Okay, fine.
00:42:22
Speaker
as you open that door you oop i've just hit double hidden it let me just unhiddly hidden it uh you come into a small kind of holding room which seems like kind of the back back area uh storage area with some barrels a couple of boxes a long large table that seems to be where items might be held from visitors at some point although it is currently bereft save that there is um
00:42:46
Speaker
two strange items on the far left of this long table. The passageway does also bend around to the left at the end of it as well. You notice at the end, with a thick layer of dust over it, a blowgun with a number of needles, probably about 20 needles next to it. And you also notice underneath the table that sticking out quite obviously, it's like it's fallen off the table, is a scroll of paper. This isn't a stock magic scroll, this looks like a regular magic scroll.
00:43:15
Speaker
I will go up and I'll say, Karsten, here you go. I've got you a straw and some chopsticks. And there's a bit of paper here as well to wipe your face afterwards. I wish to investigate these items, please. It's a spell scroll beast sense. And it's a regular blowgun with its normal stats with regular needles.
00:43:38
Speaker
Thanks. Okay. Sounds like good material for a Friday night. A blowgun. A beast sense. A needle. Mark, I will just continue around that room then to a passageway that needs some following, Claude. Is anyone else apart from cast? I'm assuming we're all following.
00:44:00
Speaker
So you come to a long long corridor that seems to stretch the entire length of the house with one door on the left but then also the corridor does twist to the left at the very very end.
00:44:13
Speaker
Along this corridor are a number of windows. These windows are the same as the previous ones, mostly covered with some black thickened tar probably put up by these vampires you can infer to keep out any waning sunlight. It lanes itself to strange sheaths of light stabbing through the dust into the space. The dust stands very still but as you move you almost notice a ripple effect of the dust moving through
00:44:38
Speaker
the long corridor. There seems to be a doorway to your left at about 20 feet, but the corridor continues along. It's still day. Correct. Right, great. Okay. Folly's going to be cleaning the windows as we're going down. He's going to cast Prestitiation on him and I can basically instantly clean an object. Are you cleaning windows? Well, it's rather filthy. I just think light looks nicer.
00:45:07
Speaker
I never knew you were that kind of person. What kind of person? A clean one? Yeah, you've never cleaned windows before. Never really? Well, we have seen windows, but I've never seen windows this filthy. Folly, this is a dead people thing, because it's a dead people thing. I'm all for it, Frankie.
00:45:30
Speaker
Well, it is possibly a dead person thing. I've never actually practiced using light on such undead creatures, so it could have an effect, but I'm not too sure.
00:45:43
Speaker
I can't do any harm. Moving on everybody just uh let's go in the door still in the house let's try this store that is um in this corridor please okay and as you open the door you enter into what seems to be some kind of uh servants quarters where there are five beds lined up in rows uh three to the north two in the center of the room with some space around it where there are some haphazardly thrown items some clothing
00:46:10
Speaker
some bits and pieces, scraps of paper, etc. Each of the beds contains within them, though, a highly, highly, highly rotting corpse. The smell of the room is rancid. It makes your mouth salivate in a bad way. Your eyes water slightly. There's been no air movement, so you just hit in the face with this absolute stench of rotting flesh.
00:46:41
Speaker
How many bodies did you say? Every bed is filled. Like they've been killed in their sleep. Because the covers are up over them. Something has been stabbed through the covers of each of these, quite obviously, to be seen. What the fuck did you just open? Disgusting! I would like to just go and cast the same on all five of these and give them eternal rest.
00:47:07
Speaker
And as Claude enters into the room and continues to do that, what would the rest of you like to be doing? There is a small alcove that a continuation of this room down to the south that enters into another space below, by the way. A cast and sort of like pulled like his shirt or whatever up over his nose to cover sort of the smell and he's sort of just letting Claude do his thing and he's going to hobble over to that gap and see what else is down there.
00:47:34
Speaker
OK, and as you look down in the gap between that, you notice this must be some kind of recreation room for the servants, those unfortunate souls who have died in their sleep. You find a room with four wooden kind of relatively dilapidated chairs around a crate in the center of the room. There is also a low, long crate with a burnt out candle and some very, very rotted food upon it. A chair in the corner and some crates in the far corner as well. Upon the crate in the middle with the four chairs around it are a number of cards.
00:48:04
Speaker
and a number of items that seem to be either resting on chairs or on the centre table itself, almost probably used as bargaining chips for this card game that was taking place. Upon closer inspection, as you look around, there's a number of items probably of worth value to you and the party cast down. You come across tucked away in the corner chair, underneath the chair, a dark red satchel.
00:48:34
Speaker
Do you want to give me just a kind of blanket Arcana check, Karsten? Yes, and just for reference, my passive investigation is 26 as well. That's why I'm not making any role for investigation, I'm just giving you these items at the point. Arcana, that would be 13. Okay, fine, it's pretty much me, it's a beat, so it wasn't supposed to be hard. You've found a bag of devouring. Okay.
00:49:03
Speaker
You also notice tucked away underneath one of the central chairs, a silver intricately designed broach, which is a broach of shielding. On the center of the table, there is a topaz, a almost perfect topaz on the table used, they're obviously paying cards to bet against.
00:49:34
Speaker
And on top of the crates at the far bottom left corner of the room, there is an additional scroll that had been pinned up to the wall. And this is a scroll of mending. Next to it are a number of broken glasses and cups and vases. Obviously they've been trying to use the spell scroll to fix these items, but have not been successful. Okay.
00:50:00
Speaker
Thank you very much. Karstan will wander out of the room having picked up the various items. And as he rejoins the main group, he'll sort of have the toe pads in his hand and he'll say, Folly, you're a sort of things kind of person. Maybe this will be useful for you. I like things. Hmm.
00:50:29
Speaker
I'm going to give it a nice bit. Yeah, they're very much appreciated fine fine specimen. I think I kind of hope you get a little magnifying glass and like pop it in your eyes. He doesn't get out a magnifying glass. He has one of those like weird Bionicle things that he keeps turning and the lens just keeps getting longer and longer and longer.
00:50:51
Speaker
which is kind of part of his eyes. So it's not a magnifying glass, it's more of a mechanical device that he's got. He's a tinkerer, so it's his own design that he's actually made it with, just to get really close. I am a teeny tinkerer.
00:51:09
Speaker
Kind of a disgusted look on his face because of the stench of the dead bodies, but he is going to, as Claude's going around and he's performing his Akiva special ability, resting dead or something. This is horrible.
00:51:30
Speaker
We'll apologize to Claude. Sorry about this, but needs must. And he's going to pull the covers back on each one of those beds just to see if anyone's wearing a bracelet. Wow. Okay. Give me an investigations check. Investigation check, please.
00:51:49
Speaker
Drago's totally uncomfortable doing this the whole time. 13. You don't find a bracelet but you do manage to come across seven silver pieces. I wouldn't take them. Okay. So when you think over there that's not a bracelet Drago would just leave on on the body. One by one as the each prayer is said for each one they're actually protected from decay so the smell should go quite quickly.
00:52:14
Speaker
We'll take a few seconds for the air to dissipate, but yeah, it would eventually. That initial shock of the smell as we open the door is starting to dissipate anyway, so you get used to it. Helena isn't going to be entering these rooms at all. She's going to have walked straight past, noticing the smell. It's just not going to be her thing, so she's going to walk straight past and go to the end of that corridor to turn right. I'll follow Helena. And as you two take that...
00:52:42
Speaker
As you two take that path down and turn the corner, you notice the corridor extends east along the southern wall of the mansion and there is another door at the end of it. As you push open that door, Robin, you recognise this as you enter into the kind of long narrow kitchen that sits at the back of the house with its
00:53:02
Speaker
unlit stove, multiple tables with elements of rutting, unfinished, unprepared food and boxes of crates, barrels, etc, lining the sides of the room. You also know, Robin, that the door to the north takes you back into the library room and the door at the end and then to the north takes you into the kind of dining room area that you were previously and where you found the letter. Robin will glance at the kitchen
00:53:28
Speaker
before turning to Helena and looking back at the note and saying, he was in here, that man, whatever his name was. Who? I don't know, the old guy who we came to get the bracelet off. I said his name a minute ago, Fredbear, Fredbear, whatever his name is. Oh, yes, don't name Fredbear, sure. Him. He was here in this room? He came in here looking for supplies before disappearing.
00:53:58
Speaker
When you say disappearing, where do you think he went? I don't know. That's the last the letter says of his whereabouts, was he was here. He was in this room. So he had something to do with these people that live... Just a sort of a end, guys. Isn't Funkin' Threadbear the chappy wane's threadbear's discount store the old man that you were talking to? Yeah. So he's not necessarily missing. He sent you to retrieve a bracelet.
00:54:28
Speaker
Someone that was mentioned as the foreseer in some of the library books maybe, I don't know. So we don't know his name?
00:54:36
Speaker
No, we don't know who stole the bracelet. Frunkin is just like, all right, I will give you the location. In exchange for going to get me this bracelet. You need to go and get this bracelet that was stolen upon me and then he gave us the location of the mansion. There was no more information. Well, he didn't give you that, did he? He told you what it looked like and you used locate object to find it at the mansion. Yeah. Okay. Sorry, just to clarify, apologies. Carry on. No, thanks. Which means you'll know it's still here because the locate object will tell you it's here. Yeah.
00:55:06
Speaker
Just to retcon, not Frank and Fred, but he's the one who sent us here. We're looking for something, but Bloke, who is here, who has the bracelet, was last in here. It could have been a person, it could have been a creature. Do we know for sure? I'm going to level with you, Helena. I have no earthly idea. Right. Shall we make our way back to the entrance then? Find a way up to the second floor?
00:55:36
Speaker
Well, the stairs are still blocked, but I think Folly has the means of getting us up there. Well, yes, maybe we should just wait by the hole in the ceiling. Just before we go, I'm going to have a quick glance to see if there's any powder blocking around, if there's any residue of someone doing something in here, our car, Nick. Give me an investigation check, please, Robin. Sure. Eighting.
00:56:04
Speaker
You don't notice anything of arcana in here. You notice an amount of powder. You can assume these are herbs and spices used in cooking that have seemed to have gone hard in jars near preparation tables. None of them seem to give off any other iconic properties and there's nothing that seems out of place in a normal kitchen of the affluent. It's, yeah, fine. I'll follow Helena. I'm sorry, just before we do, Mark, what's the door on the map to the south? That's the back door.
00:56:32
Speaker
Sorry, yes, there is a large kind of oak panelled back door to the mansion as well. And so we could access that from the entrance, like before we went in, we could go all the way around the property. You could go, in theory, if you could get to the backside of the mansion, you could enter into the mansion from that door, yes. But is this the only way into this backyard or whatever this is? Don't know, we haven't been around the back, so we wouldn't know.
00:57:02
Speaker
Can I open this door? You can try, it's locked. Can I give it a kick? Give it a strength check, yeah. Or athletics, give me athletics. Rage, feel the rage. Channel, you're in a driver. Fucking. Fuck. That's a nine. You're short, do you give it a kick?
00:57:28
Speaker
yeah kick you kick a square on the like the the lock of it as well really giving it a good thud but the door just doesn't even wobble really it's quite a thick oak door anyway it barely moves it does make a loud bang though that echoes through the kitchen and when you hear that just like to reaffirm the no touching no touching
00:57:54
Speaker
Meanwhile back at the Carstan and Folly. Mark, do we go back there? We'll DM everyone. The camera pans out on that scene. It comes back to... Let's talk about the two interesting characters. It's more with the viewers seeing one of them, Carstan.
00:58:20
Speaker
Obviously, I'm picking up this bag of devouring from my Arcana and that lot. Do I know what it is? Yes, you've read about it. Okay. Folly, we need to put this bag somewhere safe. I just don't know whether it should go in your bag or whether I should keep hold of it. It's a bag of devouring. It eats things.
00:58:43
Speaker
When you say devouring, Folly has quite a petrified look on his face. He's aware of what a bag of devouring is. If you want that casting, you can look after it. I'm not going anywhere near that thing. I mean, what to do with it? Well, for me, leave it here. I have nothing to do with it. Okay.
00:59:10
Speaker
I'm just going to bundle it up and put it in a pouch on his own. Yeah. You never know when you might need one. You know. Barred. Have you laid all the bodies to rest? Yep. They'll be safe now.
00:59:35
Speaker
Cool. Okay, unless there's anything else here, looking over at Carstan and Folly, should we find Robin and Helena? I think we've got to find a way upstairs. We've made sure that downstairs doesn't have any things that can come and attack us from behind. That was the important thing. I don't know about you guys. Those guys went down a corridor. I don't know where they ended up. Well, they'll be fine, right? Robin? Helena? Let's just go after them, I think. Come on. Yes. Oh, good. Just checking you were still alive.
01:00:06
Speaker
in the kitchen, walked off and he's gone down the corridor to find.
01:00:10
Speaker
Robin and Helena. We're in the kitchen, we've not touched anything. We are the worst, worst hero party right now. We are not healthy, are we? You hear the voice, the slightly worried and perturbed voice of Robin echoing along the corridor is saying, we're in the kitchen, we're in the kitchen. You all end up in this rather long, awkward kitchen. It's not really wide enough to fit you all in a circle looking at each other. It's a bit awkward shoulder to shoulder with all the stuff around. Yes, you all kind of coalesced into the kitchen. What would you like to do?
01:00:40
Speaker
So, anything here. We found nothing. I tried kicking down that door but I think I nearly broke my ankle.
01:00:48
Speaker
Yeah, let's not hurt any more limbs, people. So we can either try and clear the rocks on the stairs or maybe climb the furniture through that little hole that Robin used to try and kill Castan in the living room. I didn't try to kill him. I accidentally dropped the ceiling on his head. There is a... Ah, a potato patata. Let's... Probably the hole in the ceiling. Let's go. We could pull some furniture, make a little ladder thing.
01:01:13
Speaker
To be fair, that sounds, yeah, I'm in. And whatever this chicken man is, maybe we'll see him if we get through the floor. Folly, wasn't there a thing that you could do? Well, I was just going to fly some of us up there, but I'm afraid I can only do three at a time for the spells. Some people may have to be carried. What about rope? If we could fly in and climb better, we can climb the rope.
01:01:40
Speaker
Yeah, I suppose that's a fair point, actually. Yes, I'll go and do that. That'll be a lot easier. Yeah, Folly will just cast Fly on himself while he's in his main room and just go fly straight up into the second floor.
01:01:57
Speaker
OK, let's all go. We've done it. We've got him out of here. Let's all go. And you enter a room of six vampires. They all get surprised around. They all get surprise attack on me and follow you down. You fly up into the air and the air becomes still and slightly moist as well. It smells slightly different up here as well. As you enter into the room above, you realize this again is a very large open room.
01:02:23
Speaker
but it seems the ceiling is even higher.
Folly's Arcane Encounter
01:02:25
Speaker
You get an intense crackling of energy and you notice as you pass through where the ceiling, where the floor of the second floor, the ceiling of the first floor would be,
01:02:35
Speaker
you see almost a thin, iconic energy that you pass through as you enter into it. And as you look around the space, the first thing you notice, Folly, because of your natural propensity for Arcana, is that every wall and ceiling seems to have this almost shimmering, iconic property across the ceiling, across the wall, across the floor, across everywhere in this room, not on the surfaces, but on the walls and ceilings. The room itself is strange.
01:03:05
Speaker
there are a number of pillars in the room with ivy growing up them a number of lit sconces and torches around the space rubble but rubble and grass
01:03:17
Speaker
broken carts, some kind of vats in the corner of three large glass cylinders that sand and empty but bubbles passing through them, a huge number of large tables with books and vials and other chemical ways of holding liquid upon them.
01:03:42
Speaker
In one corner of the room, there is a fire pit, but not necessarily like a fireplace, a fire pit. You notice a series of broken barrels. You notice crumbled and decaying statues, many of which seem to not match each other. They seem to come from different times, different places, different eras and cultures. The bookcases are empty. They looked once busy with books and now bereft.
01:04:12
Speaker
As you hover around the room, you also notice that two whole sides of this room are mainly window. This was the area where upon entering the house, you'd seen a figure. It looks out to the front of the house and out to the side, and two large sections of this are large panes of glass and open windows. And as you kind of turn yourself around, you see something that takes you back
01:04:42
Speaker
you see a large red portal. It seems uncontrolled. It seems sparking with energy. It's a large red portal, not similar to the ones you've previously seen that contain the blight, but something different, something odd, something more tinged in madness. And in front of it, you see the very clear outline of two figures stood in front of it. You see one of a humanoid stood
01:05:10
Speaker
nodding his head to the other figure. As you look down, you see the other figure to be nothing bigger than a bird, stood with a small pointy hat. The tall humanoid figure looks back towards you. You can only really see outline, but you can make out pale gaunt features. This looks like your foe from downstairs. He looks directly towards you, his eyes piercing as he steps back into the portal and disappears.
01:05:40
Speaker
The chicken turns its head, damn it, I've said it, the bird turns its head, and you see two bright eyes staring back at you, and slowly this figure starts to shuffle towards you, taking his time to shuffle towards you, closer and closer. You notice he literally got a small wizard's hat up on his head, and two ones attached to his back with a piece of string around his tail, as it starts moving towards you. Anything you want to do while this is happening, Folly? You get any others up, or are you just gonna chill?
01:06:10
Speaker
Folly is actually just going to take a moment to absorb all of this in before he turns, and he's kind of just doing his own little investigation check, which is definitely not what he was expecting when he went up here. Would I be kind of familiar having used certain plane shifting spells before? Would I recognize the barrier that I've gone through is possibly moving to a different plane, or is it some other kind of
01:06:39
Speaker
Like secrecy thing. Give me an Arcana check please. I think it's the secrecy thing. My terminology is brilliant. It's a trap. Roll for secrecy. Roll for secrecy. 18. No, it doesn't come across as a secrecy thing. It doesn't seem like you're travelling to another plane. It feels like... You have shields, don't you? The spell shield.
01:07:04
Speaker
I have had it. I have used it. It reeks of that kind of energy of protection in some way. Internal or external, you cannot tell, but it seems to be something internal. Either something is being kept in this room or something is being kept out of this room as it's cast on all walls, all six walls, ceilings, floors, et cetera. Okay.
Ogremoth's Urgent Message
01:07:31
Speaker
The chicken gets closer and you notice the hat sits low. It seems to also have two earrings hanging from its ears, these kind of weird like almost dream catchers on its ears as these topaz eyes kind of stare back at you. It gets close, it seems to almost kind of sell for a second and looks at you, kind of looks up. Greg Grossum, and hello to you, good sir.
01:07:55
Speaker
Because thou the words of common, or must thou regale a form of a tongue most foul?
01:08:02
Speaker
Dear, dear, I speak common. How are you, sir? Folly Fizzlebank, the Knight. Pleasure to meet you. And Folly's going to offer a hand to, well, the chicken. Just unaware of any kind of response he could do by offering a wing or something like that. He's going to peck at your hand, back like that, and peck at your hand, causing you to recoil. And he quickly looks down with one of his eyes and sees the others below and comes a bit closer and whispers quietly,
01:08:29
Speaker
You must decide fate falls to you, soon, for far, long or now. Bring friends, yes? Well, that was my intention. I'm assuming that's okay.
01:08:49
Speaker
Up! Up! I'm confused. Bear with me one second please. I need to do something to get them up here. I saw him put them out! Bring friends up! Don't wait down! Come up!
01:09:05
Speaker
of all he's kind of almost in a little bit of fear at the tension that seems to be coming across in these clucking noises very similar so we're going to take the rope out of his backpack just tie it around one of these pillars and chuck it down hoping for the best
01:09:23
Speaker
Mark, can we have all heard the chicken talking? You heard the bits that he previously said out loud. The bits that he kind of came up and whispered to him would have been quieter, but Carson, you would have heard it anyway. When the rope comes down and Carson's heard these words, I'd like to acrobatically scale this rope really, really quickly. How's that leg?
01:09:48
Speaker
So do it with this, like, vantage. It's fine. There's no lasting damage in this dragon. It's fine. It's a legless rope climb. I've been healed. He's actually a crossfit athlete. Yeah. Yeah, so it's going to get you all up there, one, one, one, one, one, as you get up. And this chicken is now standing in front of this small, this red portal that's behind. And he's just going to look at each of you one at a time, give a slight nod to Karstan, and then continue looking at them all. And we'll just say,
01:10:17
Speaker
Grandstall Barnum. Want very many good things to meet in you. Many time wait for you. Yes, things to say, places to go. Everybody, this is Ogremoth. This is the chicken. Well, I'll be fucked.
01:10:41
Speaker
That's who we're gonna leave this week's episode of the finished episode. That's great. That's validated. Yes, the chicken exists. You'll know it. Folly is so fucking confused right now.
01:10:56
Speaker
So much love for this episode. It's unreal. That was epic. Well done, guys. Well done, everyone. Everyone was on that A-game tonight. You know what you could have all done, though? You know when you were there and the ceiling had collapsed? You could have just looked up. I could have told you so much that you could have seen, but no one said, what do we see?
01:11:13
Speaker
None of you. All right, listeners, well, we ignore that kind of cheat sheet where you're playing D&D. We explored like heroes. We don't look. We trot the path we want to trap. We grab books what we want to grab and kill our comrades. I want to kill my friends. I will kill my friends.
01:11:33
Speaker
I had to say I feel like Robin losing his shit in this episode was the MVP. It was very good. It was Robin's math that he's built the pseudo math that consumes his personality. It doesn't drop much, but when it does, it's dramatic. I loved it. I hope it drops more. That was pretty cool. Yeah, well, that was sexy. I loved that shade. Hopefully, you all at home listening in on us loved us too.
01:11:59
Speaker
Thank you very much for tuning in, listening to us and making us a party every day. We fucking appreciate you, all of you, every single one of you.
A Light-Hearted Farewell
01:12:07
Speaker
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01:12:48
Speaker
He used to come to do those days, but I would go all the way.