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Hermit Chronicles Ep. 15 - Finale ( We Are Spies ) Part 3
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Our spies put the plan to action and Wil-I puts his life on the line again and again. Enjoy!
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Transcript
Introductions and Banter
00:00:26
Speaker
Number one.
00:00:42
Speaker
Hey everyone, welcome back to Rollie Press the Pond. We are doing Hermit Chronicles today. I'm your GM Jesse, and I am... I'm okay. I'm doing good. I don't know. I'm usually, I have some sort of eclectic thing. But yeah, today I'm just chill. Maybe it's because later on in the day. But yeah, I'm me today. It's cool. Hello, I'm Isaac. I play your friendly neighborhood, Willie the Owl Bear.
00:01:11
Speaker
And I'm definitely not twirling my mustache right now. They have a plan to derail today, so we'll see how that goes. Hi, I'm Luke. I am at least top 10 in your players in Rolling Cross the Pond. Sure. Is that in debate? Sure. I don't know. Is it? I don't know. There isn't even 10 of us. I know, exactly. So I don't know. Why is it in debate?
00:01:39
Speaker
The poll is now up on Patreon. No, I'm just kidding. Yeah, we're gonna do that. We're gonna do it again and make sure Luke knows how bad it is. I'm trying to think if there... It would be funny if we just happened to have 11 and it just happens to be at the bottom. Yes. I can create new random people. It's just... It starts getting filled with NPCs. Yes, exactly. You're just like, Uber ranked higher than me. What? Probably would actually.
00:02:09
Speaker
Jesse, Davida, Chabita, Jesse. Yes, this is
Mission Planning and Strategy
00:02:17
Speaker
us. We are in a mood today. Does anybody, does our announcer know anything that happened before? Do you remember? Not an announcer voice, but I remember Caesar got into trouble. Another, what was the rooster's name?
00:02:37
Speaker
Austin Austin Austin did too. We all met up at a secret hideout. We knew that they were coming. I had a super cool smart idea to give them the slip but no one trusted me because I rolled bad. So then they forced me to go with them and go with a different plan.
00:02:56
Speaker
We went to another city and I've been staking it out as a different person each day using my beast form. Yes, and Reader is also helping you every so often with just like keeping an eye out for things and getting hearsaves and whatnot.
00:03:15
Speaker
So you guys, let's say you're back at the hideout, which is another underground location that is specific to Caesar's knowing and only Caesar's knowing.
00:03:29
Speaker
So bags are over a head kind of not knowing or? At this point, it's all gone. Like the agency's gone. So he's just like, look, let's go. Let's go. This is this. You know this now. It's like another it's another one of coffee and coffee and daggers shops. It's it but it's in the golden kingdom. Coffee, coffee and coffee.
00:03:50
Speaker
No, no, it's still coffee coffee and daggers. It's just a branch in the golden kingdom. So you guys are, I don't know, let's say, what would be a normal time for you kind of go going out? I would go out like midday to just kind of like, yes, I'm a different person each day, but it helps when there's actual crowds, you know? So I usually go out like I'm out there when people are going to and from work or like the busy times of
00:04:18
Speaker
and shops and stuff like that. Great. And I believe you rolled really well with your investigation, if I'm correct. A lot of it. Yeah, I was I was doing pretty well. So in that, it's kind of asked to your last patrol and your today's patrol. And so you're kind of let me see. Caesar has made dinner. It's a mediocre dinner. Slaps of meat or veg or whatever you guys eat. This will be better with mushrooms.
00:04:48
Speaker
It's a decent, it's not horrible, but it's okay. And he's like, so Willy, how did today go? Did you find anything out? Are you getting closer to knowing the whereabouts of my mom? I can't get inside of
00:05:05
Speaker
the prison, but I'm thinking that there could be a possible way of me disguising myself in order to either be a janitor or like a like one of the guards themselves, which could be nice.
Infiltration Begins
00:05:20
Speaker
Yeah, and I could probably go into notice as well. And then we could take somebody out and make and get reader costume.
00:05:28
Speaker
No, it's fine. I could probably just, if one of you guys are willing to be spawned, I can stay here, but keep my eyes out. We don't have a lookout anymore, so it makes sense. Yeah, actually, let me roll for that, too. Yeah, there's still nothing. Still no word from Pixie or Clive about the rest of the gang. Yeah. Is there somebody we can send to go look for them? Pixie and Clive.
00:05:55
Speaker
Yeah, but is there another bird around? Yeah, there is another bird around. Just Austin. Austin has become the slave of Willy's. He's like, yeah, anything else you need, Willy? Yeah, I've slowly growing feathers back here, like he like lips his arm where you've been pulling him out one by one.
00:06:22
Speaker
The little baby feathers put there. And be like, oh, Cesar cooked real hard for us. Be real nice if someone would volunteer to clean those dishes.
00:06:30
Speaker
Yes. I would love to, I could, Caesar, could I please Clemens, please, please, please let me do it. And he's like tearing up. He's like, hey, yeah, okay, okay, yeah, it's fine. I don't, I don't, mate, I don't want to be a part of this. It's fine. Just, just go do it. This whole relationship dynamic, I'm not fully okay with Willy, just letting you know that. Oh, oh, no, I trust him.
00:06:54
Speaker
He's the one that fears me. Well, you did take up like 40% of his feathers. He would have cooperated. It's true, I guess. Yeah, sure. It's for the greater good. With the sense, does that mean I lose my senses so I can't see, but you can see through me. I was thinking about the telepathic messages and emotions. No, it just seems to be like a link.
00:07:22
Speaker
And you're willing, so I feel like it's... Yeah. And I presume your intelligence is greater than four. Yes. Okay. I guess this is just a recon just to see if she's in there. But if anything happens to us, reader, will you immediately come in or will it just be a go find reinforcements just so we can prepare for what's to come, if anything?
00:07:46
Speaker
I'm sorry, I did look at Beast Bond and I have Beast Sense, but it's just I can use my actions to see through your eyes and hear what you hear. OK, so it doesn't get in the way of my senses.
00:08:00
Speaker
At least it doesn't say so. God willing. Jesse, if you'll allow it. The only thing bad for Reader is that he becomes blind and deaf into things happening around here. Do I? I thought it was just that I have to keep using an action to uphold it.
00:08:21
Speaker
While proceeding through the beast's senses, you gain the benefit of any special senses possessed by that creature, though you are blinded and deafened to your own surroundings. Oh, okay. That might now be great because, you know, Austin's here, but he doesn't have to know.
00:08:39
Speaker
you just find out I feel I think what we could do is I don't know it's this is a recognition I think I don't know if we're just gonna run in there and try and get her but once you find it so me and you Caesar could go in I could dress as a guard you just do your invisible thing hmm reader you can stay close by if I tell Austin
00:09:03
Speaker
to protect you. Will he do so? Austin, are you done with those dishes? Oh, oh, oh. Just one second. Just give me a minute. When you get time, come over. OK. Got a special task for you. OK. You know what? I'll just throw these out. And he's just like throwing up the broke, like the really dirty ones. He just throws them out the window. And he's making, uh, yeah. What is it? You see my beautiful friend here, Rita? Yeah. This majestic moose.
00:09:31
Speaker
Sure, isn't it okay? You see that vibrant color of plaid on his shirt? Yeah. It's immaculate. Okay. I got a mission for you. Oh. Can I trust you enough with this mission? I have no choice. All right. Now, you are to protect Reader at all costs. I have to protect him. If everything goes to plan, you won't have to do anything. We're just gonna be some eyes and ears, okay?
00:09:58
Speaker
Now something does happen to my friend. I'll reciprocate that to you. Okay. This man means the world to me. Okay. He is my brother from another mother. Okay. Sure. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. That sounds good. But like I said, everything's going to go to plan, right? So, uh, yes. Yeah. Okay. This is like, mate, you can calm down. It's okay. We're cohesive. We're, we're, we're,
00:10:25
Speaker
he will salve you know we're good yeah like i said as long as he does his job right nothing that's gonna happen yeah yeah right okay thanks i will do that tomorrow right okay yeah it seems like okay sounds like a good plan i will give you access reader stay nearby-ish don't don't walk around well this is probably just stupid advice but
00:10:52
Speaker
I want to get some of my leftover like hemp burlap sack material and make like a giant shawl that goes over his antlers. I'm just going to be like, roll, roll, I don't know, performance or sleight of hand.
00:11:09
Speaker
With advantage, because it's his, like, occupation. Yeah, yeah, yeah. With advantage, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's a 14. It's decent. It's not, it's not like, like, if somebody really looked at it, they'd be like, yeah, those are antlers under there. We could rip holes. I don't mind. I just want him to be kind of, like, covered in the face, because I was going to say Austin is going to be ushering him around, kind of like a, like a literal blind and deaf man. Okay.
00:11:33
Speaker
Okay. So it makes sense that the rooster's hanging around. Austin's gonna kind of be like his caretaker. Cool. Sounds good. Okay, great. So the next day happens, the night happens.
Maintaining Disguise and Gathering Intel
00:11:45
Speaker
Do you want to do anything before tomorrow, reader?
00:11:48
Speaker
So the next day happens and instead of going patrol you and Caesar are I would say near like a side entrance like where where you know like the guards go because you've been like staking out for ages
00:12:09
Speaker
so you know the guards come and go from there so you can kind of deuce that's kind of nearish the um actually no you can even go to the barracks so you know where the barracks is it's not in the castle like the the place where they go there's always has to be one guard there but yeah you know that they come and go through the side entrances so what i want you to roll is stealth do i get advantage with that yeah what's that knowledge sure
00:12:35
Speaker
Okay, my question as well with that, in your disguises, have you befriended any people? Well, I'm a different person every day, so it's kind of hard to be a friend. Sure. But I know, I feel like with the knowledge I've gained, I know who's supposed to be at work that day, so I can disguise myself as that person. Yeah, yeah. Okay. I'm like, all right, I know this person isn't going to be back in this area again so I could be there.
00:13:05
Speaker
So, let's say, what, what do you, what animal do you use? What do you use today? A bit of Mongoose. Mongoose, okay. Okay, Mongoose it is. Okay, so you transform into a Mongoose.
00:13:17
Speaker
you have advantage with yourself or performance performance. That's a 21. Nice. For deception or for performance or yourself? Performance. Performance. Okay. So yeah, you know, people are like waving to you. Hey, good morning. I'm a mongoose. Of course, that is you. That's your old Billy. Signature catchphrase. Yes. Billy's signature catchphrase. That's right. Billy the Mongoose guard. That's me. Dave.
00:13:47
Speaker
cool uh definitely not an owl bear why would you bring that up okay i didn't bring that up uh you know he always says that of course yeah you know and it's like these like other guards that are talking around like all that billy okay you know you're stationed at you got your
00:14:07
Speaker
Oh yeah, just, you know, union mandated break, hidden inside. Sure, sure. Okay, cool. Okay, thanks. And I'd say you make it through and you see the guard outfit that's laying next in there on his, it says Billy, the Mongers. It has a discard outfit right there. Done the outfit. And you head back out and head towards the palace area where it also holds the captives.
00:14:35
Speaker
Now, another performance, and I will roll. Not necessarily stealth for a season. I will roll. What is it? I would say dexterity. Make him not touch it. Yeah, I was thinking dexterity. Exactly. Dexterity. I was thinking of that or sleight of hand, but yeah. Dexterity. He has the thing in, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not Bluetooth. So if I catch something or I can help him with something, I just need to decide where to move. Yep.
00:15:02
Speaker
Caesar. I move as the blind moose, that Austin moving around. That was a 10. Let's say we're just entering the side entrance. Wow, I can't believe that's the case.
00:15:21
Speaker
Yeah, so we get into the building. Now you see, we've gone through the side entrances. So you see basically as you enter, it's pretty elegant still. The walls are totally elegant because they're still in the palace. But yeah, it's a staircase that
00:15:40
Speaker
So to your left, there's the door, but then to your right in front of you is like the staircase to the left. So it like entrance staircase going above the door and then it carries on up. Enroll, I don't know, history or insight to see if you can recall what you've learned. A dirty 20. Dirty 20, nice.
00:16:06
Speaker
You know that the jail cell, the captive area is not on the first, the ground floor, but you need to go to maybe the third one. And then it's really self-explanatory from there. So
00:16:22
Speaker
we head up and every time we enter a new room, we'll roll again. So as we get to the third floor, you see the entrance way, the doorway to that. Do you want to, so in this there's the door and then there's bars on the door, like as a window, not necessarily on the complete door, but like as a window. Do you want to look through it first and do some perception or do you want to just
00:16:50
Speaker
go for it. I'm just gonna be like, hey Billy Mangos here, here for my duties. Pro persuasion? Or performance? I'm not sure. Or deception? Deception? Yeah. With advantage with deception, obviously, because the orb and performance, I guess. For the deception as a 19? Dang, man. Okay. A panther walks up to the door and he's like, Billy?
00:17:15
Speaker
Hey Billy, why are you here? That's what I said on the schedule is I come over here and do my duties. Right. Okay. Yeah. I didn't realize that. Okay, cool. Just following orders, you know? Yeah. It's a good day to learn a new skill with the job, you know? Right. Cool. Crossing my paws for a promotion.
00:17:37
Speaker
I think you can get it, definitely. I mean, you're doing so well. I mean, you're taking double duties. I heard you were supposed to be on the other side of the city, so... Oh, well. Yeah, I work hard. Yeah, definitely. Great. Yeah, come in. Come in here. I'll lock the door. So, how's the kids? Ah, you know them, the little ones. They're little mongoosey things. I feel like they're maturing fiesta and fiesta every day.
00:18:03
Speaker
Of course, yeah, definitely, definitely cool. You know, I blink and I'm just like, you didn't have that much hair or that big of claws last time I saw you. You know, but you know what? All this double duty will be worth it when I put them kids in college.
00:18:19
Speaker
Yeah, you know, you're making a lot of goals. I appreciate that. I appreciate that a lot. Yeah, hopefully, hopefully one day I'll find that special somebody. Oh, I believe in you, pal. Thanks. I'm like a pat on the shoulder. Thanks. Actually, Billy, I'm gonna take it five to take it five minutes. Is that right? You know, I got your buddy. I think you're good. Cool. Yeah.
00:18:45
Speaker
You know, I may be working hard, but, you know, a little R&R goes a long way for the soul. Yeah, definitely. So he kind of like walks, walks past Caesar and you walks and he's like, oh, wait, hold on. And he like takes one of the keys and he puts it in his pocket so he can always come back in. But then he like tosses the rest and like, you know, you know what to do. Oh, I gotcha.
00:19:12
Speaker
Great. And he walks through the door and he's like, dude, mate, that was incredible. I can't break character now. I'm sorry. I'm in too deep.
00:19:23
Speaker
I understand. It's great. Keep going. Keep going. Let's have a look around. Roll investigation. Oh man, I got a 10. But we have plenty of time. So we can roll again. Technically, aren't I supposed to just be standing there watching Garb while he's away? Yeah.
00:19:46
Speaker
Can I just slowly just look around and investigate? Yeah, you can roll again with advantage. But what's Reader doing right now? Do I have to roll with disadvantage because I'm not actually there? To do investigation? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, kind of. Because you only see... Technically, Reader doesn't know what he's doing. Yeah, it's true. Does...
00:20:12
Speaker
Austin have one of our crystals. No. No? Okay. Unless, unless Reader gave him his. No. I, I can relay a message though. Oh, that's true. Um, I look at Caesar. Oh, but he can't hear. He's blind in death. But he's hearing what you're hearing. So if I talk to you, he hears that. Yes, that's true. So I just want to look at Caesar and just be like, how's it going, Reader?
00:20:39
Speaker
trying to think of the least weird way for the sake of Austin and those around me to say nothing much. But I'm good. Yeah. What's up? Wait, I can't hear that, though. No, I say he says what's up. Yeah, he you can. Oh, no. Yeah, you can hear it. So you have you have the earpiece too. Oh, yeah. OK, so I could hear. OK, you're talking to Caesar, but I'm talking to you. Yeah, correct. But like not directly. All right. He's he's Austin still there.
00:21:09
Speaker
No. Roll a sleight of hand or dexterity? I don't know. He's gonna be in so much trouble. Eleven, I guess. Disadvantage? No. Not necessarily, because he should be close to you. Would you say eleven? Eleven. Yeah, he's right there. I do feel his... His bald patches.
00:21:37
Speaker
Yeah, he's here. All right. Just making sure nothing. I'm guessing you wouldn't really know, but I'm guessing since you haven't been hurt, nothing bad has happened.
00:21:48
Speaker
Yeah. All right. So what would you get for disadvantage, reader, the investigation? Oh, 15. 15. Yeah. 17. Wow. So you see reader through Caesar's eyes that the cells like, like we're in like, like the surveillance area, but like the actual prison cells are like,
00:22:12
Speaker
through another set of doors, through another set of cards. And that's, you just see the door like further out that we couldn't see. Yeah. Can I look at the key ring? Yes. Roll investigation for the key ring. Or insight, I guess. No, I shouldn't stay with the investigation. Wasn't that one? Oh no. Okay. Um, how do, how does this go?
00:22:36
Speaker
you are looking through the keys and oh man okay I'll give you two options you are looking for keys and because he slipped out one of them it's like it's easy slip out the rest um so as you're looking through them they're actually falling on the floor and just making a whole bunch of ruckus that's option one the other option is you are convinced that one of the keys is for the door that
00:23:04
Speaker
on the other side to the gate to get to the prison cells and you use it, but it's not working. I'll go with option one. Okay, so I'm gonna need, hold on, hold on, I need to make a roll. Okay. Okay.
00:23:23
Speaker
So the other two guards are like, strange noise, but they don't move. No one kind of comes after you. Yeah, same. Even the one that went out for a five minute chill time is like, that was weird, but okay. It's fine. I just want to slowly pick them all up and just like check each one before I put it back on the keyboard.
00:23:45
Speaker
Okay, roll the investigation with advantage this time. No, just roll the investigation. And I'll say it does kill your time. So after this, the guard will come back in. All right, that was a five. Yeah, you're not getting anything from these keys. Do you see anything, Caesar? No, I don't see any. I see keys and I see that they go to different doors, but obviously I don't know where. And then the panther comes back.
00:24:14
Speaker
All right, thanks. Thanks, mate. Any any awkward things? But what was that noise? Oh, you know, I just was grabbing the keys off the desk and you know, Mrs. Mongoose is butter rolls. They yell and I guess a little sum was on my hands from breakfast. So, hey, hey, I promise I'm going to bring you some next shift. All right. I'm holding to that. I'm going to hold you to it.
00:24:38
Speaker
I will eat you if I don't get it. Oh, yeah. So, so shall we just chill? I mean, usually it's just one of us right here, you know.
00:24:51
Speaker
It is true. It's all new to me. You know what? I'll be honest, you know? He doubts nothing, knows nothing. So how about you just run me through how things go around here? You know, I know the basic hay in our garden, but you know, this is one of the concerns when they put me over here was like, I don't know everything. So, you know what? I'm learning from the best and that's you.
00:25:18
Speaker
Thanks. I appreciate that. I felt so. That's awesome. Did they say I was the best as well? Yeah. I think that's why they have the confidence to send me today. Right. Okay. Yeah. Let's do a breakdown of like, okay. So, you know, it's basically, uh, the way it works is we have this bell and it's like one of the major bells. And then this, this is like, okay, this is, we need to leave the building. There's been this convict.
00:25:46
Speaker
and we need to try and look for them. This one is for dinner and then this one is for... That one's my favorite, Bill. Yeah, me too. But it's not for dinner for us, it's dinner for the inmate. And then this one is if we've been trapped and the disguised animals come in and trapped us all into one room in this room, that's when we ring. If we've been held captive, again, and then we know it's not a disguised person, that's that one, Bill.
00:26:15
Speaker
And it kind of just goes through all the bells and all the things, the different that they do. And basically it's alert everybody in that room. And you can kind of see, and he's like, okay, over here, you can kind of see the, the yard. And it's like just one little hole that kind of pulls out. And it's like a, it's big enough for like a crossbow to go through, but not big enough for an animal to go through. Or a large animal, any of the cards really.
00:26:47
Speaker
I'm making up what you're putting down. So we can, you can see that in there and if anybody gets out of high end, we just take out a crossbow and you know, take a shot or two, calm down. Wow. Looking through this crossbow hole gives you good advantage to see who's out there, huh? Yeah. Sometimes, sometimes, sometimes I want to like, shoot a quick glance at like, at like Caesar would be like, you know what to do, look through that hole. Yeah.
00:27:17
Speaker
And he's like, yeah, no one's out there right now, but it's because that's, we didn't ring this bell. And he like rings the bell and it's like, yeah, you know, recreation time. Why not? It's nice to feel the sun on your face every once in a while. Yeah, exactly. Even if you are a prisoner, you know, we're not monsters in here. Yeah, exactly. We're just trying to make a, you know, make payments and make sure everybody's safe. Don't want any of them criminals or delinquents out there on the streets. Yeah. Strange how
00:27:46
Speaker
things would be if, if they were just running around rampant. Yeah. Yeah. This is nice. Yeah, it's really good. And that took about maybe half an hour, 45 minutes to do, by the way, all of that up to this point. Now we just sit here and wait really until we're told what to do. Do you want to play a game? You know what? That sounds fun. Right. And he'd like, he'd like, okay, how about
00:28:12
Speaker
And he's like thinking, what game do I have? Oh, Rock Paper Scissors. Let's do that. All right. And he just played Rock Paper Scissors because he doesn't actually have any board games or any dice or anything. I mean, literally, he's just like, I'm bored and you're here. So usually I just talk to myself. Doesn't time go by great when you're surrounded by good friends? Yeah, definitely. It was good. It was a good game. It was fun.
00:28:37
Speaker
You know what? I feel very confident in my workplace skills. Right. Do you need me to sign anything? Is there, uh, you know, just at the end of the day, when you clap out, you don't see the big boss and just be like, you know what? He knows his stuff. Okay. And I think, you know, I think this was kind of like a spur of the moment thing. They just want to make sure we're all cross trained into different areas. Oh, and as you say that,
00:29:04
Speaker
So I've been rolling different times for different things. As you say that, Darren walks through the doors. Oh, hey, guys. What the? And he has like a good six cards with him as well. Did he have his own key? Yes. OK.
00:29:28
Speaker
I just want to make sure, cause I'm like, isn't that the point of our guard station is we're the only ones that allow people in and out? Not him. No. I want to turn around and just be like, Oh wow. Look at the big boss, man. I'm just finishing my training with my buddy Panther here. He's so good. Nice to see you, sir. You're training. What? Well, yeah. Yeah. I'm just putting in double shifts, you know, trying to work hard for the family.
00:29:52
Speaker
Good. I'm glad. What was your name again? It was Barry. Barry the Mongoose. No, Billy. Billy the Mongoose. Billy the Mongoose. I'm sorry. These double shifts are getting to me. Readers like frantically being like, it's Billy, it's Billy. Billy Mongoose here. Actually, Caesar's not looking over there. He's hiding. Oh, so I can't hear. You can't hear it. So he said Barry. You said Barry.
00:30:18
Speaker
Did I see Barry? Oh my gosh. I'd forget my own name if it wasn't right here on my uniform. And even then I did. You said Barry. You're Billy, right? Yeah. Yeah. I got you to see it. Putting in double shifts. And time gets a little honor against us on our brains. I don't seem to mush. Especially when you have little kiddos. Deception with syringe. Suck the brains out with disadvantage. Yes.
00:30:48
Speaker
Oh, 21. Ooh, nice. One of those was a Nat 20. Oh my goodness. Yeah, it was a Nat 20 and a 19 with a plus two. He rolled a 19. He's like, yeah, you know, sometimes we do make mistakes like that. That's cool. Yeah. You here to train me on the other stuff too? They heard I can relearn a bunch of things. I feel confident on this area. Yes. Do you feel I have the skills to take over? Yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah, I think, yeah, you're doing well.
00:31:17
Speaker
Oh, right. I didn't come here. Don't even need it. Yeah, he's a good guy. Billy Barry, Bob. Call you and call me whatever you want, sir. You're the boss. Yeah, I will. And I am going to be calling you Billy. Billy. Yeah. B-I-L-L-L-I.
00:31:40
Speaker
And that's not a family thing. My mom was just, you know, she was a little loopy after the, after, you know, 17 hours in labor. I was a fighter. I didn't want to come out. I think that's why I'm so strong-willed now. Right. And he's like, oh no. Okay.
Confrontation and Chaos
00:32:00
Speaker
And he's like, right. Okay, Billy, I'm gonna need you to follow me. Oh, so I do get to learn new things?
00:32:08
Speaker
Yeah, in a way, I mean, unless you've done this before. I don't know. I just usually do the patrols and now they're bringing me further in. The miss is going to be so happy. Do you like butter rolls? I already told about Panther. I'm bringing butter rolls. I'm bringing you butter rolls, too. And he just shut up and follow me. No, I can do, sir. OK, and reader role perception.
00:32:31
Speaker
quick question. Does reader get Caesar's perception? No, I don't think so. No, because he's seen because the v senses you see through their senses. Oh, right. Possibly. But I think reader senses are good or better in perception than Caesar. We can put it as that. That's fine by me. Oh, it is. He gets perception wisdom. So he's plus two.
00:32:58
Speaker
And I am, I mean, yeah, in that case, it's a 12. You notice that Caesar's been made. That's Darren sees Caesar.
00:33:10
Speaker
And Caesar knows this. Yeah, Caesar knows this as well. He's like, it's like, guys, I'm afraid. And Darren walks you, Billy, over and the panther, which his name is Jack. So we have a guest in here, I assume. And follow me, if you would. You're not you're not talking about me, are you?
00:33:35
Speaker
uh no and i told you to be quiet didn't i oh you did sir you know what you're right you're still talking i will you know what i'm i'm happy to for you so i don't know any other way to respond to what you're saying just leave before i kill you i gotta finish the rest of my shift mrs will be mad if this check doesn't come he's gonna hate you he's gonna throw he's gonna go for it and he misses he's like like he goes for claw attack and he just he misses completely
00:34:04
Speaker
And he gets angry, so he's gonna go again. Does a 16 hit? Yes. Okay. Okay. 28 damage. Yeah, that's a heavy hit, sir. No wonder you're the boss. No, you'd be quiet. Now leave. Do you want me to be quiet or do you want me to leave? And he goes for it again. Can I suggest to Willy that he leave and come back as Jack?
00:34:33
Speaker
No, I mean, you don't roll perception. Isn't Caesar like right there? No, he either walking, they weren't walking to Caesar, but now he's doing that. So then he's getting there. If not, I'm sorry. So he goes again and he did a 20, no, 20. It was a 19. Yeah. 19. Okay. That's gonna knock me out of my wild shape. Yeah, I'm sure it is.
00:35:03
Speaker
only 24 this time yeah I'm out of my wild shape so anyway what what kind of animal is he he's a lion okay so he hit this small animal and when I turn back my cheek I'm looking down on him as an owl bear
00:35:20
Speaker
So yeah, he hits you, you fly back, but as you, it's not like you fly back. You like fly back, but you're actually flying out as well. So you're like, you're- It's almost like he punched me bigger. Yeah, exactly, exactly. Oh, what? Billy, did I create you? What kind of magic is this? These punches. What'd you do to me?
00:35:49
Speaker
What did you do to me? What do you mean? I don't I don't know what role persuasion with advantage. That's a 21. Oh my goodness. I want tears to start going down my face. What did you do to me? So yeah, he believes he's like, oh man, I'm sorry.
00:36:11
Speaker
Didn't mean to turn you into a bear. My uniform's so tight now. What is this? I'm surprised it didn't pop. Me too. It's some good fabric. Yeah. The buttons are so it on tight.
00:36:24
Speaker
Let's deal with this. You and me, go take care of this. I need to bring you to some people. Yeah, this is a mystery. You just stopped talking. Okay, I gotta close my beak. Okay, you successfully got embarrassed away from Caesar.
00:36:46
Speaker
It's like, Billy, I apologize. I can't. I mean, how am I going to explain this to my wife? How do I explain this to my kids? I don't know. At that moment, as you're leaving, he sees a mongoose. Look at his face. Fantastic. It's incredible. And I'm just doing roles. It's not like I'm here.
00:37:14
Speaker
Um, yeah, and he hears Billy's voice and he's, uh, uh, who's that? Really? Who are you? Uh, and I'm Billy.
00:37:28
Speaker
I'm suspicious. It is suspicious. If you're wearing my uniform. I am wearing my uniform. No, it's my uniform. I showed up to work on time. What are you doing coming in late? That's suspicious if you're so-called Billy. I've got like 20 children. That's why I'm late. I am Billy. I'm a hard worker. I may have a lot of kids, but I put in the time of this work. Why are you an elevator? He punched me into one. You're supposed to meet new elevator?
00:37:57
Speaker
I don't know what's going on. I need this whole situation to just be roll. Roll deceptions. Dirty 20. My goodness. You're doing amazing. I'm Billy. I'm Billy.
00:38:19
Speaker
Are you me for Albert? Maybe, sir. You punched me so hard, it became a parallel. Like you just split me in twain. I am Billy's inner beast. But I don't remember being punched. Yeah, it's hard. Ain't that right, sir? Yes. Okay. Billy's following me. This is hurting me in my head. I'll tell you what. How about you, other Billy?
00:38:44
Speaker
We'll call you Billy Prime. Since you look like us before I got hit. Okay, that sounds good, yeah. And Terrence, just continue to follow me, both of you. Yes, sir. Do we get paid both for this? Because we do got kids, or is this still just one chick? Actually, that's a quick question.
00:39:06
Speaker
We could bring it up to HR. I don't need to worry your head with that. Are you both parents now, or is one of you the actual parent? That is a deep philosophical question. The other question is, now that there's two of you, I only need one of you. Well, I've already been on the clock for a while. So, other Billy, do you want to go home to the kids and take care of them, and then we could switch out at the end of the shift? Sounds like a good idea for me. You're all preservation. 19. Oh, does that mean I can go home?
00:39:36
Speaker
No, I don't. Well, you said that you only need one. Yes, I just need one. Basically, I need you to fight each other. Oh, I don't want to hurt myself. You know, I feel like I've asked you to fight each other. I will make you fight each other. My children just got a second papa. You want me to take that away from them? Because I'm trying to hit you again.
00:40:05
Speaker
You're all the natural one. This is perfect. You like?
00:40:11
Speaker
He just goes for you and he accidentally thinks you're smaller than you are, but he basically goes for you and he slips on the tile that's below him and the rug that's below him, and he just tumbles downstairs the rest of it. Just tumbles and takes the damage.
00:40:41
Speaker
I'll be late. You all right on there, sir? I'll come help. Leave. Just wait there. I'll be right back. Okay, sir. You're the boss. And so we're going to transition to Reader. So, yeah, Caesar and I have just been like, here? No, no, okay.
00:41:01
Speaker
Yeah, just because everyone's so distracted with what's happening with Willie and Billy and just here. No, we just. So Caesar's going to roll investigation and he rolled an 11. So he doesn't really get anything. He goes, Oh, right. That was close. I think I need to get out of here. Yeah.
00:41:23
Speaker
Oh, man, our captain has fallen over all the way down the stairs. If only someone had time to investigate or or do something, man, this would be an awful time for that to happen. But, you know, with Billy, the mongoose, now a owlbear on the on the prowl, no one's going to get past me. OK, so I think I think it will leave the door in. Hopefully, you know, what would be really funny is if Billy showed up
00:41:52
Speaker
and that would have confused everything. I think that would be hilarious. I think, hopefully, that doesn't happen because, you know, Willie could get caught, but... Well, Billy's with me. Oh, he is there. I'm by side myself. Oh, really? Yeah. Wow, with it, it's hilarious, as I was thinking. What are the chances of that? That's so crazy. Yeah, that's a good assessment.
00:42:14
Speaker
Maybe one in 20. Okay, he's gonna do another investigation. Okay, he rolled a 15. Investigation is wisdom. Intelligence. Oh, intelligence, perfect. Yeah, what's the modifier for if I'm gonna help? Not 20, nevermind, not 20. Oh, nice, perfect. Caesar is like, I think there's this like, not crack, but just a small dumb waiter door thing that he can use that actually is,
00:42:42
Speaker
a way for them to deliver the food to the inmates that no one talked about. But, Reeder, I think it's time for you to kind of come up here because it's getting a little bit dicey. I don't know what's going to happen with Willie. And we're separated, so I don't know what's going to happen. Wait, like me, me? Me to show up? Yeah, I don't know how you're going to get in here. I think you need to go help Willie out because I don't
00:43:06
Speaker
the thing I'm closer to the entrance right now hanging out with you know me myself in a line that fell down some stairs are you still good down there sir are you still making your way up I'm coming it's taking a while I really hurt my back well I'll use I'll use readers speed to disengage from that and then just book it is a limited time don't want to face down
00:43:31
Speaker
Let's say another like five, 10 minutes ago, yeah, five minutes ago, but no 10 minutes, it's been a while. How far is it from where I am? Probably in the middle of town, right? He was just- Well, you were supposed to stay close, but it depends on where you're at. Then yeah.
00:43:46
Speaker
How far? I would say like maybe you were like a street over or something. How many steps would it be? Like in terms of five feet intervals? It might take you to like, it might take you to do a dash. And then I'll just be at Caesar. And you'll be there, yeah. Sure. We're in this beautiful castle, correct? Yes. Castles made out of most castle-y things? Yes. Okay. Castles made out of castle? Yeah.
00:44:12
Speaker
Um, and so Caesar goes down this dumbwaiter and is like, all right, mates. I think I have an idea. So I can see, I can go to the different cells to see which one she's in. I think we need an escape plan after that, or I need an escape plan after that. Oh, I sure love to help. Right. And so, yeah, I got away. Okay.
00:44:39
Speaker
All right, well, you know what, Billy? You keep an eye out. I'm going to look down the stairs and check on our buddy here. When I lean in to like the stairwell, I want to like touch the ground and mold all the stairs into a slide.
00:44:54
Speaker
So he slides all the way back down. But not the first kind of set of stairs that you see going down. That way he still thinks that they're stairs. But it just shifts. Nice. I love it. He's going to roll a dexterity save. He passes with flying colors. He kind of grabs the sides. He's like, what just happened?
00:45:19
Speaker
What's happening now, sir? I need you to roll maybe performance or sleight of hand, because... Well, I'm just leaning up against the wall, so there's... Yeah, but Billy's there with you, and so... And Billy's looking the other way, keeping an eye out, like I told him. Oh, I'm gonna need persuasion, or...
00:45:40
Speaker
something for you to get away with this. But Billy has shown nothing but kindness towards me. Yeah, well not really. Why wouldn't he trust himself? He's a bit confused still. There's no situation. I need persuasion or something. I need a role of some sort. 17 for performance.
00:46:01
Speaker
I'm still performing as Billy. Billy has nothing and Darren's nothing. So Darren's still climbing up from the side of the building.
Escape and Tactical Maneuvers
00:46:11
Speaker
Hey Darren, what's going on down there? I don't know but somebody did this and I'm gonna find out who.
00:46:17
Speaker
They did what? You come down here and see. I want to take like a couple of steps before it becomes a slide and be like, Oh, well, no, come down here. I don't, I'm a, I don't know how to work this new body that you gave me, sir. I'm going to be honest. I'm kind of scared. Oh, persuasion. I was a four.
00:46:39
Speaker
I mean, it doesn't matter, he's got over four. Get over here now, it's not a question, it's an order. Is the thief down there? No, come down there. But you told me to stay up here and we're keeping guard. If the two of us leave, no one's watching the entrance. With no one watching the entrance, like a moose could straight up walk up behind me.
00:47:00
Speaker
I'm not saying a moose is doing that right now. I'm just saying metaphorically, they're big creatures and it could easily sneak behind me right now. I've been with him long enough to know that that's that's a hint.
00:47:15
Speaker
Do you want me to roll stealth, or? Yeah, roll stealth. And Austin is still with him, right? No, he took off. He didn't tell Austin anything. So I don't know what's going to happen to Austin, but he's not with Rita anymore. I just messed up. Unless, Rita, you do say something, but you didn't say anything when you ran off. Well, I did give him instructions to be his character. Yeah, but Austin runs at like 20 feet per second, like 20 feet per turn.
00:47:43
Speaker
30 feet. He's still catching up. Reader runs 17,000 miles per hour. He doesn't know what Reader is doing. You may have followed him. I'm going to roll perception for him.
00:47:57
Speaker
Nope, not a clue. He followed him for a second and then he just, he's lost now. He's just sitting there. He's sitting in the middle of town. He should know where the entrance of the- Wait, does he get advantage with context clues? Like, Oh, you want me to come right now? Oh, maybe. No, he has no idea. All right. But he should know from all of our intel gathering, like, Hey, we're at the prison. He's going to- Wait, wait.
00:48:23
Speaker
He doesn't know which entrance, he doesn't know. None of this has been reproduced to Austin. And it was semantics, but it's true. 13 for stealth. 13, let's see. So Darren finally climbs up to the top and he does not see you eating, but he grabs you, Willie.
00:48:47
Speaker
Oh, sir, please don't touch me. I don't want to turn into another animal. And he tries to throw you off the stairs. So I need you to roll a strength. Strength? Save? Oh, that's an eight. Oh, no, because that's a 24. So he throws you off the stairs. Like down the slide? Yeah, down the slide. Just want to go whee!
00:49:13
Speaker
It's fine. And then he gets the other Billy. Billy did not roll very high and he throws Billy, Billy prime off the stage. I want to be at the bottom so I can, I can hear the other Billy coming. I just catch him.
00:49:28
Speaker
Billy's got to stick together. Yeah, thank you. All right. Does that mean I can go home? Well, I was trying to take over our shift, but he got mad and then he fell down the stairs and then he's every time he touches things, things go weird. Look, these were stairs and now it's a slide. I don't know why he's touching things.
00:49:48
Speaker
Somehow they turned into it. I don't know what's going on. Something's happening. So you're telling me that this slide became a slide before you touched him. You said you were coming up the stairs, you touched it, and then it became a slide. It's not my fault. No. Billy, I think he might be the imposter. None of this magical stuff happened. Where's that bail? Where's that bail?
00:50:10
Speaker
Speaking of bells, I gotta go and he goes and talks to Jack. And you do hear a bell going off. And Billy's like, oh no, the chaos among the prison bell and intruder bell? Oh, at the same time. Well, we better get up there and help. She had a whip to see and try and get at the spot. I'll be like, oh, look, now that he's not touching it, there's stairs again. And I'm older. Roll sleight of hand.
00:50:40
Speaker
or detection. Great, that was a nat one. A nat one. A nat one. But yeah, nat one. Billy basically makes you, and he's like, hey, you, you did that. I must have had residual magic from when he punched me and made me an owlbear. I don't think so. I think- How would you else explain this? I am flabbergasted and I'm having a real bad day. I think you're an apostate.
00:51:07
Speaker
Well, I would know that. You are smart, Billy. Yeah, I am smart. And I made you. You're coming with me. And you made me? How did you come? He takes out his sword that he's carried. And it's like a family heirloom sword. I have him, Boston. I've got him. I've got him. He's down here.
00:51:27
Speaker
I want to grab him and just like muffle his head. Just just kind of like just just like just a strangle like sleep hold. Yeah, you're welcome to do that. He has a negative strength modifier of three. Three. Wait, Willie does?
00:51:44
Speaker
Yeah, I was using the Badger stats for him, since there isn't a Mongoose, and they have a negative three. But he's no longer a Mongoose. No, no, but... No, but real Billy is. Yes, but he rolled a 19, so, yeah. So, he basically holds you at sword points, like, you stay here. And at that point, Reader, where are you, Reader? I thought I was caught up with Caesar at this point, but...
00:52:12
Speaker
No, you have to go down a dumbwaiter. Caesar went down the dumbwaiter? Yes. Okay. Okay, you're going in there. I need you to roll stealth again, because you're entering a different room as well as there's alarms going off. So with this event? No, just regular flat. Okay. Not great for 20 or not one. Really?
00:52:37
Speaker
So the panther didn't notice you run by them. And so you can get in the dumbwaiter just fine. But, Willy, you have been made, let's just put it that way. And other guards are now coming towards you from both sides. And you have a sword point. You have another four guards, two guards from the stairs. They're already showed up? Because you said they're on their way. Are they there now? No, I said they're showing up. They said other guards are showing up.
00:53:07
Speaker
Okay, yeah. I want to look Billy in the eyes and walk forward into the sword so it slightly stabs me. Okay, take one damage. And just looking at him in the eyes and just say, you have a loving family, be ashamed if something happened to you. Is this job worth losing that right now?
00:53:27
Speaker
Roll deception with, you know, just a flat deception. That'd be, how was that deception? Wouldn't that be intimidation? Intimidation. Intimidation. That's right. Intimidation. Just apply intimidation. Five. It's okay. I could roll lower a bit of five.
00:53:39
Speaker
I think the text is loaded. I rolled another three. So he like, no, no, but I, I, I don't, but I could, I mean, the king could kill me. And I'd be like, hey, hey, hey, you're a good man. Don't ask me how I know this, but you are. You have good intentions here. Thank you.
00:54:05
Speaker
I know a way that you're not gonna get hurt. That there'll be no repercussions if you let me go. Okay, I'm listening. I sock him straight in the eye. Roll an attack? What's the rule for unconscious? You just have to do enough that would kill them? You just choose? Yeah, non-lethal. 24. That hits. Is that a natural 20? That was a 19 plus 5. My goodness. I'm strong. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you hit. It's just a flat 4 damage.
00:54:34
Speaker
Well, that's not necessarily gonna knock him out. He just says- Well, he'll at least have a good shiner and I'll be like, why did you hit me in the face? Because I out fought you. You fought valiantly. Oh, oh, oh, you got me. I'm dying. I'm dying out.
00:54:57
Speaker
And I'm rolling so bad. I want to start taking off upstairs. Well, there's two guards coming down the stairs. Oh, I'd suck if they were hit with a thunder wave. I'm going to need initiative time now. Initiative time? All right. I think so. That'll be an eight for me. Just to paint the picture, there's only the two guards at the top. No, so there's two guards there and then two at the entrance. Yeah. And he did fix the stairs?
00:55:26
Speaker
Yeah, apparently. Yeah, I did fix the stairs. So I'm able to go up. That's how he made me was I tried to like, oh, look, the stairs work for us again. Okay. Willy, you do not go first. All right, that's fine. Basically, all the guards go before you because you roll the mates. You are going to see that you hit Billy and he passes out and dies.
00:55:48
Speaker
at the entrance. They're gonna rush you and they're gonna take out their bows and shoot at you. So there's some that still have to go up a flight and a half to catch me. No, well, they're just gonna shoot at you. They're just gonna like, but they can't necessarily, they can't fully see you, basically. Okay. Yeah. One of the missus, yellow missus, and then the two that are coming at you are gonna, first they're gonna shout. That's Jack!
00:56:14
Speaker
Darrin! Help! Billy's down! And it's Albert punched him in the face and he killed him. They hear that you only see Jack come out because Darrin's like, well, I told them. I told one of them needed to lose, so he's just thinking that. So he didn't come out. So they're going to take out their swords and the 19 damage. And then the other one missed. It's my turn. Yes, it is your turn now. Oh, and he's a flight of stairs above you.
00:56:42
Speaker
I'm gonna run. I got 40 feet of movement. I'm gonna go past these two guards, turn around, and cast Thunderwave. Okay, if you're gonna run past them, they get opportunity attacks. Totally fine. Does a 13.8. Yes. Oh, really? Okay. 2d6, first move, only 3. And then, second one...
00:57:03
Speaker
11 doesn't 8. Does it? It does? Oh my goodness. I don't have much armor. Okay. My AC is 10. Right. Wait! Wait, wait, wait. I still have my others. Hold on. I never added it, but it did add.
00:57:19
Speaker
No, technically, I'm a 12. Okay, that's fine. The 13 still hit, but... Yeah, the 13 still hit. So we miss it, and you carry out, and so you can do Thunder Wave. They need to beat a Constitution of 12. One of them does. Let's say Guard 1 does, and the other one doesn't, so Guard 2 does not. Alright, so Guard 2 takes a full 12 damage and flies 10 feet down the stairs. Gone. Dead. And the other one takes 6 damage.
00:57:46
Speaker
Okay. And he's just staggered. He doesn't get the phone. Okay, cool. New setup again. And as I'm passing... What was the matter? Jack. As I'm passing Jack, I want to throw my arms up in there and be like, I won the fight. I'm now Billy Prime. I'm going to tell the boss. And I just keep going. Because he doesn't know about me being me. He just knows that we had to fight to the death. And the boss even told him about that.
00:58:14
Speaker
I need to roll a deception, not to be semantics, but I don't know if you use your voice or not. What? You didn't use this, I didn't use this guy's voice. Oh, right. Five. Five, okay. He's like Billy, Billy Prime now. What's wrong with your voice? Why? I don't know if it does some things to you and I think I'm fully changing into this out there now.
00:58:46
Speaker
Let's go talk to Darren. Yeah. That's where I'm going. Okay, great. Okay, cool. I'll go with you. Okay.
00:58:55
Speaker
Okay, great. And the other guards are still chasing after you. So the panther is about 20 feet behind me. Not for his turn. No, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, yeah, yeah, because it's different, different. Because you said each one is about 10 feet. Yeah, there's only one ahead of me. Yes, because you did 30. Actually, no, yeah, so 40. No, 40. So it's on 30 feet ahead of you. Yeah.
00:59:18
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you're basically in the room with Darren. Oh, you rushed off. Basically, that was like a passing moment when you're already passing him. And he's like, OK, I'm behind you. As I get up there, I'm going to close the door behind me. OK, sure. I still have the key ring. You never took it away. Sure. And Darren's like, uh, what's going on? I'm the new Billy. Yeah.
00:59:46
Speaker
Okay. In as much of a Billy slash macho man Randy Savage voice. And as you're saying this, the jack goes, Hey, hey, why is the door closed the lock, Billy? I thought you wanted me to get back to my post. My job is to stand here guard, not let people in and out. You're the only other person with the key, correct?
01:00:08
Speaker
yeah it's true and jack he said that he's going to a little boy's room and okay as you say that jack is opening the door because remember he took the key off the key ring to say i need to come back in here hi hey welcome back yeah why you go to the toilet right now this what what this is escape criminal we need to stay here we need to be in monitor what's going on with you
01:00:32
Speaker
And he's like, wait, I didn't go to the toilet. I was just, I went, there was a, somebody was shouting for us. And then you said, Billy, does Billy say I went to the toilet?
01:00:41
Speaker
Well, if he didn't go to the toilet, you would have been up here with me at the exact same time. I'm going to need deception. I feel like that makes a lot of sense. I think it is also like creating an alibi for him to just be like, yes, you didn't leave your post, you just went to the bathroom, right? To just be like trying to help him out. So disadvantage with help. Or not disadvantage, sorry, rolled with help.
Prison Riot and Diversion
01:01:03
Speaker
14. That's the flat roll.
01:01:06
Speaker
Yeah. Oh my goodness. He has the role of 14. So it goes to you, right? Or is it the... I think it's the one with the greater modifier. Oh, he has a no modifier. Plus two. Okay, great. I'm not saying that's what the rule is.
01:01:23
Speaker
uh so you you say that and he's like but i didn't and then king darren basically rolls an attack on him and he's like you need to stop lying i'm done with today i'm just anybody talk to me i'm gonna punch them i'm gonna eat them and be like
01:01:41
Speaker
He hits both, and he basically kills, uh, Jack. Okay, now we need to find this imposter. We need to find whatever's happening. Billy Prime, or Billy now, that you're the only Billy. No, I'm the Prime now. There's no other Billy, so there's no Prime. So it doesn't matter. Just, just go look for, for
01:02:01
Speaker
this thing. Do you have any idea where it went? No, I have no idea. Just look, go. All right. I grabbed the key off of, I'm just like, you ain't gonna need that anymore. And I start heading through. Okay. What is Rita doing at this time? You go down the dumbwaiter. Yeah. Basically all the way to the bottom. Is there anybody there except for Caesar?
01:02:24
Speaker
No, just Caesar at this point. Okay. So, yeah, just the cut between the major fight between all of the guards and then it just cuts to just Reeder casually walking out. I can imagine like Reeder like in between each hit and like it just smash cuts to Reeder and it's like him just slowly going down the dumb way and it's just like little elevator music.
01:02:52
Speaker
Is it like a dumbwaiter or is it like an elevator? It's a dumbwaiter. So it's just like a cramped moose in a box, casually just sitting there, be like, I can, I can. And you do see, you open at the bottom, you see Caesar kind of just standing there like, okay, I think I don't hear anybody anymore. So I think I can, and then he sees you and he's like, where are you there, mate? Howdy. You're supposed to be with Willie. Why are you here? You told me to come find you.
01:03:21
Speaker
No, I thought just go get Willy. He was in trouble. I should have explained it to Austin too. I messed up. I'm so sorry.
01:03:32
Speaker
Oh, here I am, the new Billy, looking through to find the intruders. I wonder where I should look to find said intruders, and especially now that I have the keys to go anywhere. What are we doing? Did you find it? Well, I know. It seems like everybody's leaving here. So I figured I'd wait and see if the coast is clear, and then we just kind of look around. It seems like these alarms are making them go somewhere. I see a call up to Billy.
01:04:01
Speaker
Be like, are we are we good to come up? Like, how is it up there? Really? So there's nothing down there. I mean, there is this is the food area. This is where they get their food. So oh, I should go. The first place I'm going to check is the food area downstairs. I'm calmly walking. But but like a but like a like a suburban mom walking down the street with like weights.
01:04:26
Speaker
Just I'm just power walking because you know, actually, you know what? I'm running. I'm running because there was a sense of urgency told to me by my boss to go find the intruders. So I run. I run through those stairs to the prisoner area and meet up with them. Do you have all the cells and everything? And then.
01:04:45
Speaker
here in the kitchen slash food area. It's basically like the cafeteria area. Yeah, kind of like cafeteria, but it's more completely separate to the cells. So it's not like cells around the food area. It's literally separate. Everyone's gone.
01:05:02
Speaker
Yeah, everyone's gone from here, because they're all heading to the control area. But not the people in the cells? No, no, no, no, no. Because those people in the cells are the criminals. They're not taking advantage of nobody, no guards being around to just escape. Well, technically, they're... Oh, let me roll. I didn't think about this. Who's in the closest cell to me? What's in the closest cell? Wayne, because you've walked through the whole thing. I walked back to the closest one.
01:05:30
Speaker
a pig that is actually super buff. Like it's got a tattoo of like heart mom, but he's like quite like buffed out. I want to walk up to him, rip off that uniform and like grab my grandmother's totem and I'm going to go up to him and be like, you love your mom? I love my mom. What about you? Why are you in here?
01:05:57
Speaker
Oh, yo, my mom. Oh, pretty sure she deserved it, am I right? She didn't accept my life choices, so. Hey, you know what? Everybody wanted me to be a lawyer, man. Hey. Or a therapist. My mom wanted me to be a farmer and look at me. I'm out here adventuring. But you look like a nice guy. What's your name? Crunch. Crunch? Nice to meet you, Crunch. I am Willie. You know what? You may have had a bad mom and she didn't accept your choices.
01:06:25
Speaker
Right. She just wanted me to have a good life. My, uh, my friend had an actual loving mom and accepted his choices in life, but she got falsely imprisoned here and I'm here to break her out. Do you have any other friends here in the prison? I need you to roll persuasion.
01:06:40
Speaker
How was that, that's just asking a question. To get his help, that's persuasion. Dirty 20. Ooh, he starts crying. He's like, yeah, I know a few other guys here, yeah. See this, and I just jingle the keys? Yeah. Sounds like, you know what that sounds like? Keys. No, it sounds like freedom, my friend. Freedom sounds a lot like keys. Freedom sounds like king, keys, because freedom rings, jingle, jingle. I want to let him out of this, and he's like, as a sign of me trusting you, I just unlock his cell.
01:07:10
Speaker
Okay. He just takes off. You're in that freedom, buddy. I walked to the next cell over. I think at this point, a reader is, or a CZ is going to poke his head out to where the inmates are. And he's going to take a perception while you do it. He doesn't see anything really so bad. I'll take a perception to do the opposite, B.
01:07:35
Speaker
There are two. Encourage Willy to be like, yeah, we can see him. Okay, I can see him on my own. Yeah, you can see Willy kind of talking to people and inmates. Okay, I'll go and be there with friendship. I would say you're welcome. I'm just gonna look around, okay? You guys go do that. You look for your mom. I got an idea over here. I'm gonna do that, okay? Okay, cool. I just wanna... All right, what's in the next cell?
01:08:02
Speaker
It is a Python. Python? Yeah. How's it going, sir? Or ma'am? Or they? Whatever you want. I am a they. They? All right. Thank you. It's nice to meet you. What brings you in here? I eat a lot of mice. They seem like pests, let's be honest. You know, you're just doing your job and they punish you by putting you in here. Yeah, I go into their homes and I just eat them. You know what sounds real delicious right now?
01:08:31
Speaker
Like, because I know it's chaos up there and you're not going to get your lunch. Oh, I want to be I want to be unlocking the doors and I'll be like, there's some delicious guards who are already beaten and battered. I tend to rise that meat for you. She just tries to escape. OK. I'm telling you right now, I want to repeat this because if I cause a prison riot and they just go chaos over there, that's less eyes looking on us. I can literally amass an army of chaos.
01:08:59
Speaker
So no one bothers us.
Misunderstandings and Search for the Cow
01:09:02
Speaker
I'll see if I can get people to say, sorry, were you going to say something? Oh, no, exactly. Like you're there, my buddy. We're, we're, we're like a, we're like a door to door salesman.
01:09:13
Speaker
Yeah, but like on the other side, more so like, can you tell me where do I know what animal she is? Yeah. Oh, she, I think they said she was a, I want to say cow, but I'm not sure. I, I, she is a cow, but I think I said the cow before.
01:09:30
Speaker
Who would be on the other side of Willy, like if there's on the other side of where Willy is, if there's like prison or prison or prison, and then myself to be on the other side, who would be there? Oh, can I just do like a straight as I'm walking up?
01:09:47
Speaker
just if I happen to see her. Sure. Twenty-four. Twenty-four. I mean, it's not. She's not in that area right now. Can I have a step for this? It's a 2-can. Yeah, you go Royal Perception for it too. That's an 18. Yeah, she's not in this area. Go ahead, read her. It's a 2-can. Hello. How are you doing? Come here. Hello. How are you? Hello. Hello. Hello. What? What?
01:10:15
Speaker
I don't want to say hello to many. I'm sorry. Hi. My name is Rita. Yes, it's very annoying. Who cares? Why are you here? Do you want freedom? Do you want to go? Do you want freedom? Yeah.
01:10:39
Speaker
Do you know who else we want for a cow? There's a cow around here. You're looking for a cow in a bank. In a bank? In a bank. You want to bang a cow in here. No, what? That's what you just said? No, I want to find a cow. Just want to see a cow. Have you never seen a cow before? I have. Have you seen a cow before?
01:11:03
Speaker
Yeah. Cool. Small talk. We're all persuasion. Persuasion to find. To see if you get help. Great. Well, that's on par. I believe, you know, it's not going to be anything. I want to walk up behind him and kind of do a help and like jingle the keys and be like, will this help? Okay, so the advantage. All right.
01:11:30
Speaker
So the first one was like three. The second one is 20. So how I would imagine it going is that the toucan does not care anything about what I'm saying, but the instant there's like the keys and freedom, they're like, oh, okay, yeah, sure, let's help. Yeah, I'll help you. What do you want? His eyes are like so big now.
01:11:58
Speaker
Cow. Where would I find a cow? Like to bank. At the bank? To bank? To bank. Where? Sure. Yes. Where's the closest cow? Is there a cow inmate here? Jingle jingle. Ah, yes. Where would I find her? Oh, her. Oh, no. No, her. Progressive. There's no female. Wait, what? Not that I didn't know. Wait, there's no such thing. That would be a bull. Is it a non binary cow?
01:12:28
Speaker
Was it born a female? Are you talking? Is in transition or goes by? Look, I don't I don't know a girl cow. OK, one last question. There's a cow there over there that like down there to the left. You're in yourself some freedom. Yes.
01:12:48
Speaker
and he flies away. I guess I'm gonna say hi to the cow, see if she knows, or see if they, I guess I'll go with they. Leader, I'm gonna keep causing chaos by releasing them. If it is her, tell me and I'll run over so we can unlock it for her. Okay. I'm just slowly greeting each person and letting them out. Roll a, I don't know, a D-time Willy, but you approached this area, Reader, and you see that it is a horse.
01:13:18
Speaker
That makes sense. I roll like perception just to see if Martha's there somewhere. I want to be looking for her as well while I'm causing chaos. Also, how's Caesar doing? Is he just sitting in the corner? No, no, he's looking. He's looking around.
01:13:35
Speaker
Okay, go on. Kara, what did you roll? 17. 17. 23. 23. But what did you roll with a 10? Oh, 4. 4. So you release another 4 during this time. And so 17 and 23. So there's no one in your area, basically.
01:13:53
Speaker
And you still can't find it, but you see Caesar trying to, like, smelling for her and, like, looking for her, like, remembering. I'm not gonna lie, I was gonna be like, do you remember the smell of your mother? Yeah, yeah. So he's, like, he's, like, smelling for her. He's, like, running through this entire place. And he's, like, she's not here, but I know where she is. I can smell her.
Mystical Door Dilemma
01:14:17
Speaker
She's close. Does each, okay, I was gonna say, does each animal have their own different language?
01:14:23
Speaker
Yeah, in a way some some might not use anymore because this is a progressive area So the like the but like if I were to speak how would she be the only one to know not necessarily know It because it's kind of old language now the new language is the common language. Yeah, I
01:14:43
Speaker
So it only worked with Sabi because he was old. Exactly. So he, like, takes off through the door and... Did you find her? He knows exactly where she is. Does he say that into the... Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's like, I know where she is. Guys, follow me. Come on, come on. Can I go? Let's go really... and then book it. I want to unlock every single sale back going, don't I? Just like not even talking to anybody anymore.
01:15:12
Speaker
okay cool cool great so he uh you guys like go through like four different hallways going like three different flights of stairs and you end up getting out of the keys on guys yeah yes uh you end up and you know no one is around because there's so much going on it's like it's just mad
01:15:33
Speaker
And you end up in front of this door and he's like, and it's like a massive like wooden door frame with like metal framing around it and stone and has an arch to a point and then comes down and he's like, she's in here. I know she is. And it just looks like solid gym.
01:15:54
Speaker
uh no necessarily you just can't see past the door it but it looks like a very heavy duty door but not locked it's just heavy well we don't we have no one's tried the door but he's like he's just touching it and it's just like time to go time to go through my keys okay uh go ahead and you know what i'm gonna tell you right now many of your keys uh describe this place
01:16:18
Speaker
This is like the corner of a castle where there's nothing around, there's like nothing in front of it. It literally ends here. What's the door made out of? Wood. Oh, okay. Big, heavy duty door, right? It looks like heavy duty door. Again, he hasn't touched it, or he's just touched down the outside. He's not done anything to it. So it's flammable if I use my, if I have it, I use my lighter.
01:16:43
Speaker
Oh, we don't need that, buddy. And I'm going to mold the stone around it to make it come loose. And you try. It doesn't work. Well, you know what? I see a great guy with a great axe and I see a wooden door. And then I pull out my hand axe, be like, together, friend, Caesar, do you want to help? This is your mother on the other side.
01:17:05
Speaker
I just feel like something's going. There's something wrong with this door, guys. We gotta figure this out. We can't just burst in there. We don't want to scare her to death. Mom, we're coming in. Also, I don't want to shoot you down, but my great axe is stuck in a tree back up. I'm sorry. Yeah, that's hilarious. I mean, you can give it a go, Willy. I don't want to keep shooting at your ideas. Just kick it. All right, Riza, kick it. Do you want to kick it? Go for it. Roll an attack.
01:17:35
Speaker
That's an honor. What?
01:17:38
Speaker
Wouldn't that just be a straight? Is that just straight? Oh, yeah, sure. It's just a d4 damage. A d4? Yeah. Not one. I mean, it's d4, so you get one damage. Not one to hit, right? Oh, do one to hit. Ah, right. So roll d4. Do it twice. With my strength or not? No, just the d4. Six. Six, so you take six damage.
01:18:07
Speaker
Was that because he missed and hurt himself or the door hurt him? It was because the door hurt him. How do you think we should go about this, Caesar? I think we need to investigate. We need to find the rooms. There's something, or the object, there's something here that's making this door this. Let all of us investigate then, all three of us. Between all three of us, we could all do this. Okay. Investigation.
01:18:34
Speaker
Or we're looking around for the runes, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I perceive for 22. 22. Nice. What about you, Reeder? If 23 helps. I mean, Caesar only got a 13, so.
01:18:50
Speaker
Caesar's kind of getting emotional because he's like, my mom's on the other side of this door. Yeah. So you do see that the actual handle of it has certain runes scratched into it. But in that, you also see that there is a, like a safeguarding for the handle. So if you're, if you damage it, if you receive the damage,
01:19:16
Speaker
It's an absorption and push. So that's what you deduced from one of the runes. The other with the 23 is you note that only blood should be able to open this. The one who locked it, the blood of the one who locked it should be able to open this.
01:19:42
Speaker
Oh, also you read... So you need Darren's blood. Yeah, of some type. What do you mean of some type? Caesar, maybe. Maybe. Or his acryl blood. So you're saying if I literally cloned myself into him and just used any of the blood for my open wounds I have now, that would work since it is a recreation of him.
01:20:01
Speaker
Yeah, definitely. You also read in there that as soon as you touch the door, an alert goes to everywhere in the castle, calling everybody to this door. I want to relay that to Cesar and be like, Okay, we need to go do your thing. Let's see if it works.
01:20:22
Speaker
Yeah, as he's doing that, I would say it's easier. You want to get on my back so we just book it, find the right place. I was going to say, we don't even need to find, because this is the only magical area. I've been able to bolt the rest of the castle at will. Yeah. And that's a cantrip. So I just, we got to leave this area and I could tunnel us out of here easy peasy. But I don't want, I need to be here for her.
01:20:46
Speaker
Well, that's why we opened the door. Get her and let's go. OK, we'll do it then now. All right. Do it. Go do your thing.
01:20:52
Speaker
All right. So I become him. I become Darren. Okay. And, uh, I just take some blood out of one of the wounds I have. And so you do it and you see it flicker. And then, and I think that's where we're going to end today. Thank
Session Conclusion and Fan Interaction
01:21:07
Speaker
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01:22:13
Speaker
Number one.