Shadowdark! The Corsairs of Anon-Thuun Ep4

The castaway heroes trudge towards the more inhabited part of the cave/temple complex they find themselves in.  Roke gets caught up in a net, they encounter new foes, the strange woman accompanying them leaves them behind...

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SPEAKER_02 0:00

This week on Retro Rollcast. You guys head towards the rightmost passage. It goes up about 10 feet, curves off to the left just a little bit. Up ahead, beyond actually where your torchlight plays out, you see the reflection of a bright light. Sorry. In the distance.

SPEAKER_01 0:21

No, sorry. Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light. Your head grew heavy and your sight grew dim. Sorry, just a second. I mean, it was like literally like you were doing the lines of the song to describe this corridor.

SPEAKER_02 0:36

Warm smell of Kalitas.

SPEAKER_01 0:39

Rising up through the air, yes.

SPEAKER_02 0:40

Sorry. Carry on with your description. Carry on my wayward song. Are we getting into that one? There was a shivering now. There will be peace when we're done. Later. Our heroes have survived their encounter with the tentacled lobster beings, and they are journeying to see if they can find a way out of the place in which they find themselves.

SPEAKER_01 2:00

And we're on an island without a boat. And we know how to get out. We just have to go all the way back to the beginning and go back through the tunnel and go across the surface of the land where all the pirates are. I mean, we can totally get out. But we're looking to steal a boat, right?

SPEAKER_02 2:16

I assume that's what better reason would one have to go crawling through a cave. Treasure? That's where boats are. In caves. In caves, right. If I did put a boat here, you guys would all think it was a mimic.

SPEAKER_01 2:31

Only if it was a canoe. Canoe. Right. Like get into my giant mimic mouth. Good lord. I'm going to use that. But roque, start us off. Well, I think we should probably head down one of the tunnels we didn't go yet, right?

SPEAKER_02 2:48

Well, you're coming sort of from the southwest. There's one going off to the other, to the right, also to the south, and then there's a left and a right tunnel, both heading sort of north. Well, we wanted to continue inland, right?

SPEAKER_03 3:03

That was as best we can figure. So go left.

SPEAKER_01 3:06

That would take us back west, though. Right.

SPEAKER_03 3:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 3:11

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 3:11

Correct. We'll go right.

SPEAKER_01 3:13

We'll go right, right?

SPEAKER_03 3:14

Correct. Right. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 3:16

Right?

SPEAKER_03 3:16

Right.

SPEAKER_01 3:18

I'll go to the right. I'm so glad I'm not. No, me either. So forward and right or backward and forward and right. Always. Well, how do we know backward isn't where we want to go? I don't know. Do you? But the GM said forward, and that's better. Why are you playing devil's advocate? Sean's not here. Yeah. That's why somebody Yeah, we would hope that this we would be like getting this moving.

SPEAKER_02 3:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:45

Oh, sorry. I didn't mean to be an anchor as we're continuing with the nautical terms.

SPEAKER_02 3:50

So you're continuing with, I think, union in the front. Correct. Dirk, is there anything that you want to do while we're in this room?

SPEAKER_01 3:59

Gee, when you put it that way, I feel like there should be something I should do. No, I'm just going around while we're in the room. No, but let's make a proposal real quick here. We have two corridors to choose from, right? Forward and back, and backward and forwards? I don't remember. But the point is we could stay in this room and send union down the hall to just like maybe 50 feet each, and just to see if there's something real quick, and then we'll take the path we've already decided upon. Maybe something changes in. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm getting looks from union that says stop being a dickhead and move it forward. So just go on down the corridor. We already decided. Everybody knows the look of stop being a dickhead.

SPEAKER_03 4:48

Whatever you need me to do, that's fine. I just don't want to end up stop using fish food unnecessarily.

SPEAKER_02 4:53

All right. Any other actions while we're in the room with the union or uh Noyov before we continue forward? And your guys are going to the rightmost corridor in the crack ahead. Okay. So we're good. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 5:05

Except for the mic messing here. Yeah, what's going on? It's this has got a front and a back, and I gotta like it down. There you go. That's it. Does that mean we can turn it down now?

SPEAKER_02 5:15

No, it's fine. All right. Okay, so you guys head towards the rightmost passage. It goes up about 10 feet, curves off to the left just a little bit. Up ahead, beyond actually where your torchlight plays out, you see the reflection of a bright light. Sorry. In the distance.

SPEAKER_01 5:37

No, sorry. Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light. Your head grew heavy and your sight grew dim. Sorry, just a second. I mean, you were it was like literally like you were doing the lines of the song to describe this corridor. Warm smell of Kalitas. Rising up through the air, yes.

SPEAKER_02 5:56

Sorry, carry on with your description. Carry on my wayward so are we getting into that one? No. There will be peace when we're done.

SPEAKER_00 6:07

It's a dumbest podcast. But anyway.

SPEAKER_02 6:10

I mean, if they haven't figured that out, yeah. That's why you're here. Right. Although we probably do have new listeners because we've got a new game. We've got uh to those new listeners, we apologize. And thank you.

SPEAKER_01 6:24

Yes, apologi thank you for clicking button on something. And subscribe to whatever that stuff is.

SPEAKER_02 6:33

But on the right-hand wall, as you're going through, you see uh like a large pile of very smelly stuff. Remember, I told you there was a smell that was sort of off. Uh-huh. This appears to be where it's coming from. So it's oh full. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:48

It's a garbage pile. It's their bed.

SPEAKER_02 6:50

It is very like there's like an ammonia tinge to it. Oh, it's the bathroom. As you get as you get closer, look down pungent ammonia. Like your eyes are all watering at this point. Cat peas. But it's a but it's a large pile and you can see it, and you can inch your way around it.

SPEAKER_03 7:08

I'm going to take some cloth and cover my mouth and nose, and yes, do exactly that. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 7:14

Where we're not in somebody's sewer.

SPEAKER_00 7:18

There could be treasure in the sewer.

SPEAKER_01 7:20

Who flushes their treasure down the sewer? Who's searching the pile? Not Aaron. There you go, buddy. Who's in control? All right. Yeah, I guess we'll inch our way around. I mean, it's not like this pile of poop is gonna jump out at us, right? Don't give them any ideas. That'd be kind of shitty. Mimic pile.

SPEAKER_04 7:40

Stop.

SPEAKER_01 7:41

All right. So you continue on past the yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:44

Well, I mean, it where is it coming from? Is there a hole in the ceiling? Yeah, I mean, up above, you see a little bit of a reflected daylight. And your torch light does play out the into nooks and crannies in the ceiling area.

SPEAKER_01 7:59

Toilet. Well, that's what I'm getting at. Not to get too specific, but is this human waste or is it crabstrosity waste? I mean, what are we looking at here? You don't think it's human in nature.

SPEAKER_03 8:10

That makes it even worse.

SPEAKER_04 8:12

Fish people.

SPEAKER_03 8:13

Are you an expert on the spore of various critters? Well, I know what my own.

SPEAKER_02 8:20

You might be then.

SPEAKER_01 8:21

I never know. Are you a scatmaster?

SPEAKER_02 8:25

That's how we knew lyrics.

SPEAKER_01 8:26

All right. So we're in the toilet. Right. We're in the sewer pipe. Let's go make your follow union around the pile. I'm going to continue forward.

SPEAKER_02 8:36

Okay. And the passageway gets narrow down to about one or two feet in width. It's still okay vertically. Two feet wide? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:48

That's good and tight. That's pretty tight.

SPEAKER_02 8:50

But then it widens back out to about eight feet as you as you keep going. And you find yourself in like sort of a kidney-shaped room. Probably the width horizontally of the room is about eight or nine feet, and it's about like 14 feet in length. Sort of on the right hand side seems to be where the light is bathing in from.

SPEAKER_03 9:15

Is it brighter than what it has been?

SPEAKER_02 9:17

It is very yeah, it's fairly bright.

SPEAKER_03 9:19

Have we been going uphill at all? Are we going up an incline at all? Are we staying pretty flat so far?

SPEAKER_02 9:25

You've been going it's been flat since you've gone back into the big room.

SPEAKER_03 9:31

Okay. So where this light is just coming in from the ceiling in general? Correct. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 9:37

Like multiple spots, or is it like a dome or well the light ahead is coming from the level that you're on. Oh, okay. The light from the ceiling is behind you now. Okay. So I move towards the light. As you as you sort of round that corner, you see that there is a small and very narrow passageway to the left. And then a larger passageway with the light spilling out of it to the right. But as you're moving, the brightly lit part gets dimmer. Like there's a shadow going in front of it.

SPEAKER_03 10:13

Like movement. Like movement, yes.

SPEAKER_02 10:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 10:16

I I hunkered back down and moved back a little bit and motion for the part the dirt and everybody to move forward a little bit more so that I could see a little better.

SPEAKER_02 10:27

Okay. And you hear a couple of sloshy footsteps and then it stops.

SPEAKER_03 10:33

So sloshy footsteps but not skittering. Sloshy footsteps. Okay. Is there any extra scent of fishy?

SPEAKER_02 10:41

No. You wouldn't. I mean, in fact, you make me a wisdom check. What's the wisdom of your nose? Isn't that good? I mean, it's been burned out by that pile of lobster poop.

SPEAKER_01 10:56

So all my voice will be in whispering ears. Okay. What do you see?

SPEAKER_03 11:02

There's shadows moving across the light. I don't know if it's a bipedal, it is not skittery.

SPEAKER_01 11:08

One, two, many?

SPEAKER_03 11:10

More than one, less than many. What do you guys think? How about we all be quiet for a minute? I'm going to attempt to listen to see if I hear voices or any kind of murmuring or anything.

SPEAKER_02 11:22

Okay. You guys quiet down for a minute. You don't hear anything.

SPEAKER_03 11:28

Do I hear any more splashing or any more smashing? Nope. Okay. Has it light any lighter? Has the light moved?

SPEAKER_02 11:34

No, the light has not moved.

SPEAKER_03 11:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 11:37

Hasn't gotten any brighter. So it's still dimmed.

SPEAKER_03 11:40

It's still dimmed, so either they're there waiting for us. And then there's and then there's a voice. A voice from the darkness. I know you're there, friends.

SPEAKER_02 11:49

I know you're there. Your journey is at an end. Is it cragshag?

SPEAKER_01 11:55

This guy sounds a little bit more uh pirate-like. I don't like being threatened. He wasn't really a threat. He could have just been saying, hey, this is the way outside, man. You're very positive. We'll have you on my side.

SPEAKER_03 12:10

I doubt it, but he could be a nice guy. Pirate? Probably. How about you guys stay here? I'll go first. Alright. I will step step into the light. Okay. How many phumanoid creatures are there?

SPEAKER_02 12:27

So you step over to where you can. And beyond the darkened figure that you see in front of you is like a kaleidoscope of color and light. Ow. It almost looks like I mean, you've spent enough time at sea. You you've gone swimming in the ocean. Like as if the room behind behind this figure is like a coral reef. It's underwater. You can see crystalline structures. There is light of different color reflecting off of gemstones that are set into the walls ahead. But you can see that there's like coral features and everything beyond this figure. But there is a dark, scraggly figure standing in front of you, robed. Robed. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 13:20

I come in peace.

SPEAKER_02 13:21

Ah, there you are. Bring your friends out as well.

SPEAKER_03 13:25

They're I don't have any friends.

SPEAKER_02 13:27

Hey! That's as may be, but you're traveling with a few, aren't you?

SPEAKER_03 13:31

I make a lot of noise. I splash around a lot. Makes you seem like there's more of me than there really is.

SPEAKER_02 13:36

Oh, come now.

SPEAKER_03 13:37

There's five of you, I believe. Is anybody keeping an eye on me?

SPEAKER_01 13:42

No, no. We turned around and we're heading down. I'm already past the pile of poo. You're on your own buddy. You stepped into some shit. I'm stepping into some shit in the other direction.

SPEAKER_02 13:55

But you've come here to see what can be seen. And he like waves behind.

SPEAKER_03 14:00

I'm kind of blinded by the light right now. I've been underground in the dark for more than a couple hours.

SPEAKER_02 14:05

Oh yeah, you're definitely like I can't see shit. Nook man! And the figure backs up like a few steps, and you can see light starting to my eyes were adjusting a bit. Like he's got scraggly hair and a beard. You can't make out a whole lot of features in his facial area because his the light is still mostly behind him.

SPEAKER_03 14:24

Maybe we have a shadow dark book. You seem to have me at a disadvantage, sir. How many of I I can only see your figure kind of out. Is there anybody else here? Oh, you can meet all my friends.

SPEAKER_02 14:36

We have a welcome planned for you. Oh, and you are? And we will set you free. Great.

SPEAKER_03 14:43

Yeah. The truth shall set me free, is that what you're trying to say? Come. Perhaps we can make a deal even. Well, now you're talking. Sure. Let me guess. That's a deal I can't refuse. Anyway. Follow me.

SPEAKER_02 14:58

And he like turns around, and you you can see him slosh up and onto. Then he starts walking on dryish land. Dryish land.

SPEAKER_03 15:07

Fair.

SPEAKER_02 15:08

And he walks into, and you can see the light now bathing over his dark robes. He's got very straggly streaked with gray hair.

SPEAKER_03 15:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 15:17

Do the robes And he walks around to the left and disappears from view. Right.

SPEAKER_03 15:22

Was there any color to the robes at all other than they were just dark? Just dark. Alright. Well, you'd say like it's a brownish black. Alright. Not necessarily the garb of the pirates. No. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 15:34

Garb of a wizard.

SPEAKER_03 15:37

Or a sheaman or a priest or whatever. I don't know. Anyway.

SPEAKER_01 15:41

Well, look, I'm a priest. I'm an upstanding guy. I live in the light. That guy is more like our wizard. What? Excuse me. In 10 years.

SPEAKER_03 15:50

All right. I'm going to start splashing forward. So if they're listening at all, they'll hear me moving forward. Okay, you should. I'm sure we heard the whole conversation.

SPEAKER_01 15:59

There's only one of them, or we could always just go back the other direction. We have like six corridors we could go down and explore. The whole point of going down here was to not talk to pirates. Well, I don't think he's a pirate. Oh, you don't think he's a pirate?

SPEAKER_03 16:12

No, I don't think he's a pirate.

SPEAKER_01 16:14

You can be a pirate and a wizard.

SPEAKER_03 16:16

Well, do you guys come out and are talking to me or no? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. All right. I don't think he's a pirate. He didn't have the right colors. He wasn't wearing the right colors.

SPEAKER_01 16:26

Oh yeah, didn't those pirates have like their faces? They were painted white. Yeah. Did this and he didn't have a white face? For sure.

SPEAKER_03 16:33

Yeah, scraggly beard, grayish hair.

SPEAKER_01 16:37

So alright. I followed the come on. I don't know about this. Be on your guard. I'm always on my guard. What's in this room? Gems and light. Wait. That's it. Which room? The one that we're going into, not the one that he walked out into.

SPEAKER_03 16:55

No, the one I walked out into is got looks like we're still kind of underwater, coral reefying.

SPEAKER_01 17:01

Are we? I guess we must walk forward to find out.

SPEAKER_04 17:04

We are walking forward.

SPEAKER_01 17:05

Yeah. Okay. Don't speak for me, friend.

SPEAKER_04 17:08

You stay in the rear with the gear.

SPEAKER_01 17:10

Yeah, we're gonna get we're gonna get a turn initiative if you want to start talking for me. You get back here with around. Hello. Yeah, I go with them.

SPEAKER_02 17:18

Okay, so you you walk into this, it's like a large, like 20-foot probably in diameter, fairly roundish room. And the walls are all lined with coral, different rock structures that look like they've been polished. In set in amongst the coral is numerous like gemstones that are flashing, and you can see the light is coming from the ceiling area. It's natural like bathing, bathing, and then it's refracting off of all of the different faces of the gemstones in this room to create the kaleidoscope effect. When you move around the room, the the effect of the light is that almost like you're underwater in like an amazing coral reef, and the gems are fish. In the center of the room, rising up is another large coral structure. It comes to a point and it is also inset with gems and coral structures and everything of that nature. The room's floor is hard yet sandy. There's a little bit like a little sheen of sand on it. And you can see the like footprints of the person. Now there is a there is an exit to the left. And if you go around the main pillar, and you can see that there's an exit to the north as well. How pretty are the gems? They're very pretty, they're very large, and they're very inset in the large as the gem you're already carrying.

SPEAKER_01 18:55

Right, which I was about to remind everyone of. Suddenly we're in a room full of gems, and there was a gem, and now we're here with this guy.

SPEAKER_00 19:06

Right. Is that what it said?

SPEAKER_01 19:08

When I cast detect magic on it, I learned that it was a piece of something. Right.

SPEAKER_04 19:13

It was a piece of something.

SPEAKER_01 19:15

And they were carrying it on the ship, and now we're suddenly shipwrecked in a place with a room full of gems, very similar to the gem that we confiscated. You confiscated there? Was handed union? I was handed handed acquired that I took by the captain given the gem.

SPEAKER_03 19:36

Do any of these spots happen to see like there might be a gem missing? Gem-sized hole?

SPEAKER_02 19:42

So you take some time, you look, but it doesn't look like this room has been messed with at all. Okay. Other than nothing, there's no like holes that where one was. Okay. Now, as you're doing all of this, the girl walks around you and heads towards the exit in the north.

SPEAKER_01 20:02

Oh, now it's time to take the initiative. Oh, follow her. Hell hath no woman. Okay, so she's a hell half no woman like a fury scorned something. Yeah, no. I think you were close.

SPEAKER_03 20:14

I think that's probably accurate at this point. Hell yeah. Depending on the fury's involved.

SPEAKER_01 20:19

Yeah, yeah. I know the saying. So we're gonna let Red lead. Yeah. Follow her. Aaron. Aaron's following her.

SPEAKER_04 20:26

I'm following her.

SPEAKER_02 20:27

We will follow her. Okay, so you're you're you're now Naryov, you're following the girl. Yes. Okay, she goes through, and there's another smaller circular room beyond this one to the north. Are you guys all tagging along?

SPEAKER_01 20:41

Yeah, but now I'm last.

SPEAKER_02 20:43

Well, she like breaks into like a little bit of a trot. So the room beyond is probably about a 10-foot round room. There is a door to the right, there is a door to the left. Both large stone doors, like you've been seeing. On the floor are some intricate inlaid swirled patterns. It looks like there's a round center, and then there's crescents coming off of the it's almost like it's a sun, but it's all in like Mother of Pearl abalone inside in the floor. Very well done, very fine make.

SPEAKER_03 21:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 21:23

She heads straight for a passageway into the north, which is collapsed and choked with fallen rock.

SPEAKER_03 21:34

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 21:35

And she starts scrabbling at that rock, and like she gets like small bits of rock, and she's just starts throwing it over her shoulder. She's like almost frantically scrabbling at that rock.

SPEAKER_03 21:46

And the guy is nowhere to be seen now. You don't see the guy. Is there any more sand on the floor? There is not. This is a smooth paved floor. So I have no idea where which direction he went.

SPEAKER_02 21:58

Well, you think he went off in that? You saw him go to the left.

SPEAKER_01 22:03

She went the other direction.

SPEAKER_02 22:04

She went straight. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 22:07

We're gonna have to restrain you there, lady. She keeps going.

SPEAKER_03 22:14

You know what? Leave her to it. Let's go back the other way. I want to see what I want to go talk to that guy.

SPEAKER_00 22:19

Yeah. He was very intriguing.

SPEAKER_01 22:22

Was there more to this floor than the circle with the wavy patterns coming off of it? Or is it like one big symbol, or is it what that's one symbol amongst many?

SPEAKER_02 22:33

It's well, it you think it's all one work. It takes up most of the diameter of the room.

SPEAKER_01 22:38

Of the room. All right. So like the center of a circle would be like a two feet, and then the patterns coming off are all stand in the center.

SPEAKER_02 22:47

And it shimmers, it shimmers in the torchlight.

SPEAKER_01 22:49

Right. Which we don't need here, or we do. The room behind you is lit, but this one is not. Alright.

unknown 22:57

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 22:57

And there's no other exits other than the closed off one that she's trying to break through.

SPEAKER_03 23:02

Correct. Okay. You said there's two doors, one to the left, one to the right. One to the left, one to the right. But those are closed doors.

SPEAKER_01 23:09

Correct. Okay. Oh, so there are doors. There's doors, doors. They are closed doors. What did that dude say? Did he say go with him?

SPEAKER_03 23:17

Yeah, he said follow him, but follow him.

SPEAKER_04 23:19

Yeah, we could go back and see what he's doing. Leave her to her digging.

SPEAKER_03 23:22

It keeps her occupied and out of the way.

SPEAKER_01 23:25

True. Not that we were worried about her. Yeah, obviously. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:32

Just follow that dude.

unknown 23:33

All right.

SPEAKER_03 23:34

I'm going to go back into the room with the pillar and then follow his footsteps in the end.

SPEAKER_02 23:41

Corridor. I mean, I mean it gets dark. The room behind you is lit, but it but ahead of you you see only darkness. You go about 10 feet, and then at 45 degree angles, there's a passageway to the right and to the left. There's a soft greenish light on the passageway to the left.

SPEAKER_03 24:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 24:01

Any footsteps here? You can see that they go off to the left. We'll go left.

SPEAKER_00 24:07

Towards the green light. Okay. Sure. Not cool.

SPEAKER_02 24:12

All right, and you come into a room after about another 10 feet. You can see it it widens out, and you can see that you're about to enter a large room with about 20 foot high ceilings. It is lit in the center by a large crystalline structure that glows with a dark yet slightly greenish light. And you can see like undulating waves of that greenish energy reflecting out and playing on the walls. You can see large classical pillars reaching up from the floor to the ceiling in ordered row, in two ordered rows around the crystalline structure. And next to the crystalline structure, there is a post upon which is bound a figure. A live figure. It is writhing in some sort of motion. But you see the figure in the room next to that crystalline structure structure step out and look towards you. That's it, friends, just a bit more. And you also hear some noise behind you. Roll for initiative.

SPEAKER_01 25:26

God damn it! I knew it. I get for following a thief. 10.

SPEAKER_02 25:31

Do I have my next bonus?

SPEAKER_01 25:32

Yes. Add, yes. Or subtract in my case.

SPEAKER_02 25:35

21. Okay. Union 21. You're a union goes first, sort of guy in this camp in this game. Alright, so who's after 21? Everybody. Everybody? 19. Naryov, you have a 19? 10.

SPEAKER_04 25:51

Aaron has a seven.

SPEAKER_02 25:53

Roke has a 10. Ron has a seven. And Dirk? Three.

SPEAKER_01 26:00

Sorry, Dirk. That's alright. That's actually triple my last roll. The only reason my last roll wasn't it was a negative one the first time. Or two. Negative two, if that's possible. So at least it's a positive number.

SPEAKER_02 26:15

Okay, so Union, you were in front, I assume Ron is at your side. Then we've got Naryoff, Dirk, and Rogue, correct?

SPEAKER_03 26:25

So who's taking who's taking Aaron this time?

SPEAKER_01 26:27

I got a 17 for that meat head. Wait, did you just say Rogue was in front of me? Yeah. I was assuming Roke was behind you. Oh, you mean in walking order, not Aaron? Okay, yeah, no. Okay, whatever. Yeah. It's fine. I am not Aaron.

SPEAKER_04 26:43

I got a four.

SPEAKER_01 26:44

Oh, is this for Aaron? Yeah. I'm gonna get a natural 20. 13.

SPEAKER_04 26:49

I'm him.

SPEAKER_01 26:51

Which is good because he's right there in front of you.

SPEAKER_02 26:53

Okay, so uh Union, you go first. You uh hear some noise behind you, and the in the figure says you see reflected in the light, there's some other figures in the room, but you can't make out details yet. But there's also sound behind you coming from the direction of the corridor that you didn't go down. How shadowy and how big is this room again?

SPEAKER_03 27:13

It's it's probably 30 by 80. Oh, it's big. All right. The figure that's writhing on the in is in a pedestal or on the pedestal. It is looks like it's bound to like a post. I'm going to run to that. I'm going to run to that post and try and cut them down. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 27:35

You run up to the post with your dagger out and you slash at the bindings, and what you see on it is a horror. It's it you think it was a man not very long ago. But it's been it's wearing sailors clothing, rough seaman's uh attire, but it's its face is blistering, and you can see bulbous eyes starting to break out behind. You can see blood and icker pouring around from around the eye sockets. Yeah, definitely. And you and you hear him kill me as you slash, and you're able to slash his bindings, and his arm like hangs weakly down, and you hear a soft laughing from the figure in the robes.

SPEAKER_03 28:21

Okay, that's my turn.

SPEAKER_02 28:22

But as you get closer to this crystalline structure, you feel a vast malevolence coming off of that crystalline structure. That's unpleasant. Break it. If we can. Naryov, your turn.

SPEAKER_04 28:39

How far away is the guy in Rose?

SPEAKER_02 28:43

About 30 feet. You can make it, it's near.

SPEAKER_01 28:47

Yeah, so it's close, near, far, I think, right? Yep. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 28:51

I'm gonna throw a dagger at him.

SPEAKER_01 28:53

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 28:54

No, I'm not.

SPEAKER_01 28:55

Oh, you grew the dagger.

SPEAKER_00 28:57

Didn't hit him.

SPEAKER_02 28:58

The dagger whistles through the air and strikes two feet in front of the uh the man in the robes who continues to chuckle. It and you hear a clang on the floor and as it ricochets off. You'll struggle for him now, but it'll only be a little bit.

SPEAKER_04 29:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:16

Alright, and now it is the baddie's turn. From behind. Because we just freed. Ooh. Oh. Oh. Natty 20. Oh man. Nice to know you again. It was good that it's only a net.

SPEAKER_01 29:32

Who is that at? You. Anette? Me. Annet. To capture him to put him on the torture pillar. Who's a net? In the back. You shouldn't even have noticed me. If they come up from behind, you're in front.

SPEAKER_02 29:45

So damn it. You don't take any damage from that. Okay. But you are completely snared up in a net. You will have to make, because they rolled the natural 20, you're gonna have to roll an 18 either on decks or strength to be able to break free. Sorry. I am super dexterous. And another fish thing stabs with a harpoon at Dirk. Nice knowing you, gents. And drops the rusty harpoon on the ground with a clatter.

SPEAKER_01 30:22

Oh, St. Tyragnus, thank you for imparting your protection upon me.

SPEAKER_04 30:28

Praise Theragnus.

SPEAKER_02 30:30

From behind the figure in the robes, steps a large mannish thing, but with one lobster claw and one longsword, and advances towards union and swings it. This appears to be like one of the creatures that you saw from afar on the. And that is a 10. I don't believe that hits you. Wow.

SPEAKER_01 30:55

We're beginning to think it might have been a mistake going this way.

SPEAKER_02 30:58

Yeah. And could be clearing rubble.

SPEAKER_01 31:01

We should have cleared them rocks out. Shit. Should have stayed clearing rocks with red. Never leave red.

SPEAKER_04 31:07

I'm telling you.

SPEAKER_01 31:08

Red left us. She did. She didn't give two shits. We walked right by a room full of gems and didn't even look at them. I mean. I did. Well, yeah, we looked at him. Okay, but we didn't put any effort into that. We didn't give him a really good look, you know what I mean? Trying to pry him off.

SPEAKER_02 31:23

We are terrible. And the the figure in the robes begins to rise. Of course.

SPEAKER_00 31:29

Okay, well.

SPEAKER_02 31:31

And he comes to a hover about 15 feet in the air. Got it. Above the crystalline structure. We have no range lights. He's cackling maniacally. What did I do?

SPEAKER_01 31:40

What are you gonna do? You're stuck in a mesh.

SPEAKER_05 31:42

Get me out of this fucking net.

SPEAKER_01 31:44

I don't have time for that. I gotta save the world. Well, I gotta save our asses. Broke, it is your turn. Dex check at 18, right? Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 31:53

I'm plus one. So that's not a hitman. Okay. You struggle against the bounds of the net, but you can't break free. Aaron.

SPEAKER_04 32:02

He uses his crossbow and shoots at the guy floating above the Oh.

SPEAKER_02 32:07

Yeah, I guess one of you does have a missile weapon. Ooh. Is that a 20? It's a 20. It is a 20.

SPEAKER_01 32:14

2020. Nice. Now we know who's not rolling dice. Five and a six.

SPEAKER_04 32:21

Plus three in this.

SPEAKER_02 32:22

I don't know what he gets in this.

SPEAKER_01 32:24

No, no bonus for me. No bonus for.

SPEAKER_02 32:26

Cool.

SPEAKER_01 32:27

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 32:27

And that's D6 for a crossbow? I don't know. Yeah, it is D6. Alright. It's nicer than regular DD. Okay, so that was a total of how many?

unknown 32:36

Eight.

SPEAKER_02 32:37

Well done, Sean. The laugh turns to a snarl. You hear a grunt of pain. You'll pay.

SPEAKER_01 32:46

That's what they all say. Usually they're right. Does he fall?

SPEAKER_04 32:50

Does he lose concentration?

SPEAKER_01 32:52

Yeah, get an extra D6 in there, baby. That's true. Hang on. Is there concentration in this game?

SPEAKER_04 33:00

Yeah, I'll roll a I think for an actual 20 it pins him to the crystal.

SPEAKER_02 33:05

Just impale him on the crystal.

SPEAKER_05 33:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:08

All right. He comes floating down from his levitated perch, and he's like kneeling on the ground next to the crystalline structure now. He's breathing in heavy and in pain. Dirk. Man.

SPEAKER_01 33:21

I was gonna do something different. I think that was the most damage Ron ever did. No, I did I did 12 earlier when I when I rolled a natural 20 with him. Jesus, two twenties in a row?

SPEAKER_02 33:33

You can tell Sean's not here.

SPEAKER_01 33:34

Right, because there's two twenties keep out of this character. Maybe two. Well, I was gonna cast holy weapon and bash the crystal, but now that the evil wizard who lured my poor ignorant friend Union to follow him is on the ground. I'm gonna smash his skull. Yeah, Union. What was it? I got a 12. Did that do any skull smashing? Yeah, you can roll damage. Nice. It's gonna be a one. A five. Woo! Okay.

SPEAKER_04 34:09

He's a bleeding.

SPEAKER_02 34:11

Yeah. Get thee back to hell. Okay. We are back around to Union. That's gonna be a while before I get. Oh, you guys want to roll for our run this round?

SPEAKER_01 34:20

Oh, yeah, sure. 11. 15. 18.

SPEAKER_04 34:24

19. Damn it.

SPEAKER_01 34:26

Wow. I'm gonna pretend next time I roll to attack, I'm gonna pretend I'm gonna tell my dice, you're rolling to be Aaron. And it's gonna roll like a 20 or something, because every time I'm way high.

SPEAKER_03 34:39

How far away is the crouched wizardly figure away from me now?

SPEAKER_02 34:43

About six or seven feet, but you have the crabstrosity upon you. Oh. The humanoid with the sword and the oh he's okay.

SPEAKER_03 34:53

Well then I will deal with him first.

SPEAKER_02 34:55

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 34:56

That would be advisable. You're gonna deal with him by stabbing him? Or running away. Pokey. I don't know what you're doing.

SPEAKER_03 35:04

Yeah, I'll try to stab him.

SPEAKER_01 35:05

Poke.

SPEAKER_03 35:05

I rolled 19. Okay. No backstab. No backstab. Full damage.

SPEAKER_01 35:11

Barely. Can't backstab him in the face. Four. All right.

SPEAKER_03 35:14

No, five, I guess. Plus one for a strength, so five.

SPEAKER_01 35:17

Man, the dice are in our favor all of a sudden. Five damage. Keep it up, everybody. Except for Rose. Listen here.

SPEAKER_04 35:23

Should do some burning hands in those.

SPEAKER_01 35:25

You can't. I can't. He lost that. I forgot that one. It's kind of tough to cast with a hands in the net.

SPEAKER_04 35:31

Yeah, when I'm like, so what takes away the wizard spell when he misses? How does that work?

SPEAKER_00 35:36

I just forget it. Just forget it. Yeah. Gotta memorize it the next day.

SPEAKER_04 35:41

Alright, Naryov. I uh go up to the uh wizard priest leader and hit him with a long sword. Fourteen, fifteen.

SPEAKER_01 35:51

Okay, that will hit. Smashing this guy. Four. Okay. So you rolled a one.

SPEAKER_04 35:57

No, I rolled a four for me.

SPEAKER_01 35:59

Oh, this is your character hitting me. Oh, I'm sorry. I just oh, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_04 36:04

It was mine. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 36:04

Forgot that you could hit things.

SPEAKER_02 36:06

So you threw a dagger last round. You threw a dagger last round. So you ran up along with him. So this guy's being attacked by two priests.

SPEAKER_01 36:14

Yes. Okay. Seems reasonable. Does this guy's totally a heretic? And a and an irate fighter.

SPEAKER_04 36:20

Bad man, bad man.

SPEAKER_01 36:22

Right. But now that Roke's in charge of the fighter, he's gonna get him out of the net. Okay. No, Aaron wouldn't do that. So Sean wouldn't help me. I don't know what he would do. He would kill himself before he helped me help everyone.

SPEAKER_02 36:38

So Roke, you can see the two creatures that attack you from behind were like those fish people you saw that were hammering the caulking into the in into the door. They both grab hold of the net that's containing you and haul. So you are being dragged out of the room with the combat in it, and you're being dragged into the darkness down the other corridor. Got them just where I want them.

SPEAKER_04 37:05

Got them.

SPEAKER_02 37:05

What do I is it still a DEX check at 18 to get? They haul you 20 feet. You got a few rounds before you're totally gone. Dex Dex are strength before to break free still.

SPEAKER_01 37:15

I'm gonna use my token. If you need to.

SPEAKER_02 37:18

I'm not done with the baddies yet. Oh. But that's the ones that were on you right now.

SPEAKER_01 37:21

That's what happened to you. That's your baddies. Okay. You got two to deal with. I'm kidnapped at this point. Right. Let us know if you need help. I need help. Safe to assume. Yeah, well if you need anything.

SPEAKER_04 37:32

Union.

SPEAKER_02 37:33

Yes. The crabstrosity strikes at you with the claw. Wincing. Miss. And that is a 16 to hit. Well, sorry, man. Just let us know if you need help. He does. And that will be six points of damage. He needs help. And you are make a decks or a strength 15 check. I'm dead.

SPEAKER_01 37:59

Oh, you're limb. Okay. Right. He rolled a D4 to tell you how many rounds he gets. I'm dead. Roll a D4. I did. You got a one. I rolled a one.

SPEAKER_03 38:10

Okay. I have negative one on my con.

SPEAKER_02 38:13

It is a minimum of one. So one round. You still have a one round. All right. Well, hey. Get used to the second.

SPEAKER_04 38:22

I shouldn't leave your side. At second level.

SPEAKER_01 38:25

Well, yeah, but he's got con minus one for every level. Yep.

SPEAKER_04 38:29

Possible your character would drive forwards created.

SPEAKER_02 38:32

You're not dead yet. Uh-huh. I'm not dead yet. Not yet. But you're very close. And the man rises up with the robes and misses his spell check. Oh, he lost that spell.

SPEAKER_01 38:48

Spells. Oh, St. Tyragnus. Thank you for preventing this evil wizard from casting his spell.

SPEAKER_02 38:56

He rolled a two. He was going to do something truly awful to you guys.

SPEAKER_01 39:01

No, he wasn't. Truly awful. But he didn't. Worse then? Yeah. Worse than the ambush we walked right into, like a bunch of that we were told about.

SPEAKER_02 39:10

Yeah, I don't know if I could have telegraphed it. Oh, the torch goes out.

SPEAKER_01 39:13

No!

SPEAKER_02 39:15

We're in the dark. This room is lit up by the foul crystalline structure in the middle. Okay. So your torch winks out though. And you throw it out of the wood. Isn't that the best way? You don't really want to see your end, right?

SPEAKER_01 39:32

So that's if it happens, I'm not gonna know because I'm gonna go down like a union.

SPEAKER_02 39:39

Okay. We are down to rogue. You are being dragged through the darkness by some fish people.

SPEAKER_00 39:45

So decks check at 18 to get out, is that correct?

SPEAKER_02 39:48

Or is it worse now? Well, it's probably since you're being dragged, it's back down to its usual 15. All right.

SPEAKER_01 39:55

You can do it. Let's see. You want to use your chit? Um using my chit? Are you lucky? Oh, right. Do you feel lucky, Pipe?

SPEAKER_02 40:04

Okay, summoning an inner reserve of strength or slipperiness. I don't want to get it. You redouble your your efforts and you wriggle free of the net, and you feel it, it goes flying as the as the two figures keep pulling it. But you are now free on the floor. In the dark. In the dark. Good.

SPEAKER_03 40:25

Ron, who was from where he was at, he shot at the guy, and then he fell down. So right, he's on the floor next to you. He'll take another thing.

SPEAKER_01 40:39

Are you trying to stab the wizard? Yes. Or you were already stabbing at the wizard before, and the other guy was stabbing you. The claw guy was stabbing you while you were stabbing.

SPEAKER_03 40:49

No, I was stabbing the claw guy. Claw guy caught me in half.

SPEAKER_01 40:52

Oh, gotcha. That's right. I'm forgetting, I'm confusing your characters here. That's alright. Fair enough.

SPEAKER_03 40:56

So a uh 15 hit the wizard guy.

SPEAKER_02 41:01

15 does hit, yes. Another five points of damage from the crossbow. Oh, you hit him with a crossbow. I did.

SPEAKER_01 41:07

Okay. Yeah, he never did move from his original location.

SPEAKER_02 41:12

Okay. That makes it interesting.

SPEAKER_01 41:14

Only if he's dead. That would be interesting. Yeah, that's interesting.

SPEAKER_02 41:17

No, that wouldn't be interesting. Death is interesting. Depending on your point of view. You hear the crossbow quarrel, and you hear and you see like blood forming at the mouth of this thing. This thing is almost like like a quarter down the way towards Fish Hood himself.

SPEAKER_03 41:34

No, Aaron shot at the wizard guy. Right, right.

SPEAKER_02 41:37

Yeah. So wizard guy's wizard guy is.

SPEAKER_03 41:39

Oh, he's also fishy. Fantastic.

SPEAKER_00 41:42

Very fishy.

SPEAKER_02 41:43

But for the first time, you can see fear in this wizard's eyes.

SPEAKER_01 41:46

Right. Bit off more than he could chew when he messed with retro roll cast. Dirk. Oh, yeah, Dirk's turn. Uh well, I'm standing right next to the wizard, aren't I? Yeah. And I'm also standing right next to my bleeding out, soon-to-be very extra dead friend. Correct. Oh man. What should I do? This is a real choice here. Do I attempt to cast a spell and fail and he dies anyway? Or do I attempt to smash the wizard in the hopes that we can win the combat before it gets too deadly? Are you a nurturing priest or are you a kill it priest? That's a great question. I'm a kill it priest, honestly. Swing away. There you go. I'm a kill it priest. But he gets one round, and that round is next round, because he only went down this round, right? Correct. So he'll get next round. Yes. I'll game metagame this out a little bit where I smash the priest in the face. An 18. Ooh, look at this guy. Saint Tyragnus is definitely behind killing evil wizards. That's right. Three points of damage. Oh! He's still kneeling down, right? Yep. I bring a big overhand blow from my mace, calling upon the strength of Saint Tyragnus, smashing the wizard's skull and beating him into a fishy pulp on the ground.

SPEAKER_04 43:01

Tyragnus. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 43:03

That's whatever.

SPEAKER_04 43:04

Right.

SPEAKER_01 43:05

I'm just chanting Tyragnus.

SPEAKER_00 43:07

I don't even know my God's name.

SPEAKER_02 43:09

And at that, the crab man spins around and fixes its beady eyes, upon eye stalks upon upon its future doom.

SPEAKER_01 43:18

Can I stall?

SPEAKER_04 43:19

A future doom. Come on, you just come on.

SPEAKER_01 43:21

Yeah, give it the old. Give it the old.

SPEAKER_02 43:23

Ring it the old matrix. Ring it. And we are back around to Union's last round, where you are unconscious upon the floor. I bleed on 21. Do you want to uh see who is it? Aaron, or do you just want to give it a few? He's unconscious. So Auron is you. Okay. Possibly permanently. Temporarily permanently.

SPEAKER_00 43:43

That'll be weird to figure out when it's back.

SPEAKER_03 43:46

So can Aaron close to the Krabby guy and strike with his long sword?

SPEAKER_02 43:52

Uh you could, yeah. Right. Well, it's it it was Union's turn. Right. I I just wanted to see who was taking him this round. Naryov as a. Actually, up next, and then it's the baddies before Roke and Aaron.

SPEAKER_04 44:04

Okay. Well, I'm going to cure wounds here. See if we can get him up.

SPEAKER_02 44:07

Okay, so you're rushing over to a union. There's enough space that you don't have to squeeze by Crab Guy to do that. So I will allow it. But if you if you had to squeeze by, you'd have to make a dex checker in order for permission in order to move through. I get it.

SPEAKER_04 44:23

All right. So I run by Crab Guy. Which is the one that's going to be. You're doing an arc on the left.

SPEAKER_01 44:29

Touch union. 14. Oh, look at you go healing things.

SPEAKER_04 44:34

And you're back to full.

SPEAKER_01 44:36

Yes. How many hit points? What's your max? Three. Three. Did you like lose hit points when you went to second level? Yeah. Negative one con. So you rolled a one and got no hit points. That's awesome. Isn't it always a minimum of one or no?

SPEAKER_04 44:51

Not the way he did, which is fine.

SPEAKER_01 44:53

I'm going to start picking up you.

SPEAKER_02 44:54

We're rolling with it. Yeah, yeah. I didn't know that at the time because we were all of you were creating characters at once, but I think it is a minimum of one.

SPEAKER_04 45:02

Because I'm so good at casting spells and I'm allowed to cast another spell, doesn't it be the same? No.

SPEAKER_02 45:08

I mean, not this round, certainly.

SPEAKER_01 45:10

You can just cast that spell again. You don't lose it like other systems.

SPEAKER_04 45:13

No, what I'm saying is I've successfully done cure wounds. Correct. Now I could cast that again. Yes. But can I cast a different spell? Sure. Just not this round. Not this, not now. The only spells you can't cast are spells that you have failed. Right. I just I have to keep casting cure wounds if I'm successful.

unknown 45:32

No.

SPEAKER_03 45:32

I can't. No, no, no. You can switch spells the next round if you have something to do. No, I think you got a feat or something.

SPEAKER_02 45:36

So let's say you have like armor of say you have armor of faith and cure wounds and bless.

SPEAKER_04 45:41

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02 45:42

Okay. You could cast any of those at any time. If you cast cure wounds and fail, you can't cast cure wounds anymore, but you could still cast armor of faith and bless.

SPEAKER_04 45:52

But in a turn I can cast one spell. In a turn you can cast one spell. Oh, I thought it was more if you were.

SPEAKER_01 45:57

And then every turn, like next turn, you could cast something different.

SPEAKER_04 46:00

I would have thought it was much better than that. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 46:01

No, this is actually pretty good if you succeed at your roles, which you've been doing. So no, you're I want more.

SPEAKER_02 46:07

If this was second level OSE, you'd be done. I get it. Right, right. You'd already have as much as I can get.

SPEAKER_01 46:12

More spells. I would be out of spell.

SPEAKER_04 46:14

Because now I'm doing shield of faith and then protection of evil.

SPEAKER_01 46:18

Well, but you could every round until you fail. Yeah. Until your faith is used up. Used up.

SPEAKER_02 46:24

Okay. Crab guy is going to attack Dirk in a rage. Oh, Dirk.

SPEAKER_04 46:31

Oh, Dirk.

SPEAKER_02 46:32

And but doesn't 11 hit you?

unknown 46:34

No.

SPEAKER_02 46:34

Of course it does. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 46:36

I have negative two to my dex modifier.

SPEAKER_02 46:39

So even though I have a shield and armor. And this is with the long sword. Ooh. I'm down. That is four. Alright, I'm still up. We are pathetic. And speaking of pathetic, yeah. Back to me and the kill up in the dark. There are two spear attacks on you in the dark. Oh, well. Nice growing your pals.

SPEAKER_04 47:01

But you're not going to see coming. Just dodge them. It's all right.

SPEAKER_02 47:04

I'm good.

SPEAKER_04 47:04

Use your intuition.

SPEAKER_02 47:07

Oh my god. My cat-like reflexes. I rolled a three and a one. Good. Wow.

SPEAKER_04 47:13

Well, it's dark.

SPEAKER_02 47:14

They can see in the dark. I am a ninja. You hear activity in front of you.

SPEAKER_01 47:19

I intuitively dodge. It's the bulky robes. That's what it is. Right. They weren't sure where he was inside of him. Sweet. But we are down to rogue.

SPEAKER_00 47:30

I'm taking him out hand to hand. Where am I? I'm in a dark tunnel and I don't know. Yeah, you're in a dark.

SPEAKER_02 47:36

You sort of know in which direction you have been dragged. Can I see light playing anyway? A little bit behind you. Okay. Like from the coral room. That's right. I think the coral room. Okay. Right. And I can't see it. You can't see shit other than a little bit of light from the coral room.

SPEAKER_01 47:56

I'm going to.

SPEAKER_00 47:58

Can I move and cast a spell?

SPEAKER_02 48:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 48:01

Okay. Move and moving towards the light and casting mage armor. Okay, so you're okay. And I made it. So you now have a 14 AC.

SPEAKER_02 48:12

Alright, so you can make it back to the junction where the two corridors are. And then you can see into the dark greenish light room and then the coral room behind you, but then there's the uh the dark corridor. Well, I'm just going to the idiot fest if I can. Alright, well, you can't win over here.

SPEAKER_03 48:31

And now we are at uh Ron. As before, he was going to take the long sword to the Krabby Guy. Okay. A 10 does not hit, I assume.

SPEAKER_02 48:41

It does not. These things. Actually, in addition to the Carapace, appears to be wearing some chain mail armor. Cover the non-krabby bits. Did not cover the formerly human bits. But it does not hit. And now we are down to Dirk. Alright.

SPEAKER_01 48:57

This thing attacked me, right? Oh, yeah, it sure did. I have two hit points left. Yeah, it did. I'm going to cast Cure Wounds upon myself, calling upon the power of St. Tyragnus to heal me so that I may continue to fight in his name. Okay. That is a 14. Okay. I believe that. That definitely does it. So is Cure Wounds really 2D6? Or is that some special feature? I think it crits. If it's a crit, it's 2D6. Well, I think you might have rolled in advance. I think I got a thing or something. Yeah. Because I have written it down 2d6 here. Or maybe that's always just that. Anyway, I rolled seven. So I'm back up to maximum hit points so that he may bash me back down, and we will continue the vicious circle of healing and death.

SPEAKER_02 49:45

And Union, you come to feeling the cool healing touch of Naryoff upon you. You feel you can probably crawl.

SPEAKER_04 49:53

Makes it sound weird.

SPEAKER_02 49:54

That was a little awkward.

SPEAKER_04 49:58

Healing touch.

SPEAKER_02 49:59

Don't make it weird. No weirdness. Don't make it weird. Without Sean here, we don't have to make it weird. Exactly. I was thinking we could have made it past that this time. Almost, but apparently not.

SPEAKER_00 50:09

I was real close to throwing my flag there.

SPEAKER_02 50:11

Far away. Okay, so you can crawl sort of away from the crystalline structure.

SPEAKER_03 50:17

Far away from the Krabby guy and everything else.

SPEAKER_02 50:20

Okay. And Marioff, it is your turn. You will you see your friend that you just healed crawl out and towards the he's like hiding behind one of the big pillars in the room.

SPEAKER_04 50:29

What? No thanks.

SPEAKER_02 50:30

I said thanks. I gave you a thumbs up, said thanks, and crawled off.

SPEAKER_04 50:34

I'm out of here. So there's a bigby carpacious thing here.

SPEAKER_02 50:39

And you have no idea what happened to Rogue. Who? Noted. One of us.

SPEAKER_04 50:45

Where did he go? Where did you go? Okay. I'm gonna. I don't know. I'll smack the large hideous creature with a long sword. No, I won't. I won. I do try to smack it. Okay. Natural one.

SPEAKER_00 50:59

Did you throw that long sword at him?

SPEAKER_04 51:01

Oh, okay. I'm gonna I'm gonna do a I actually think I grabbed it by the blade end.

SPEAKER_02 51:06

I'm go I'm going to do a good bad roll. Good bad. And I rolled a two. Good. No, that's it. Everyone else. But nope. You get up and you take a wild swing at the Krabby guy. I do. Agree. But you hit the crystalline structure. Okay. And an arm a big arm of that crystalline structure breaks off. Good. This is good. And there's a flash of green light that fills up the room. Green flame. I was gonna do that anyway. And your arm explodes in pain. Oh well.

SPEAKER_04 51:42

Oh, it just in pain, not explode. There's a big difference there.

SPEAKER_02 51:46

And you take Delta. You take three points of necrotic energy in your arm, and it sort of hangs down limply at your side. Goes limp. And then your sword clatters to the floor.

unknown 52:00

Shh.

SPEAKER_04 52:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 52:01

I'll tease you.

SPEAKER_04 52:02

Yeah, I'll never do that again.

SPEAKER_01 52:04

Bad job, priest.

SPEAKER_04 52:06

Where are you? Stick the casting. Stick the casting spells. Yeah, stick to casting spells. Stop trying to wield weapons.

SPEAKER_01 52:13

And after Naryoff is the baddie's turn. This is the crab guy and the two stabbers of Rook. My fish buddies. Stabbers. Well, what did you do? Did you leave? Yeah. Yeah, he ran away. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_04 52:28

Try the wrong way. He armored and ran. Well, we don't know that, but moved.

SPEAKER_01 52:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 52:33

Alright, so Krabby Guy is going to. So you're not there, you're not there. I think he's probably gonna focus on Dirk. Dirk killed his boss.

SPEAKER_01 52:45

Soon I'll kill you.

SPEAKER_02 52:47

And that will be a 12.

SPEAKER_01 52:49

That hits. It's really not hard. Now you die. I might be able to take a whole hit there. Four points. Oh yeah, that puts me in that window of do I heal or not to heal? Dodging bullets. Don't heal. But he's really he's swinging a D8 at me. If I can keep healing, I can stay alive.

SPEAKER_02 53:10

And let's see what happens with Rogue. Okay, you don't hear any sounds down the corridor in the in in the blackness.

SPEAKER_00 53:18

I'm taking that as a good sign.

SPEAKER_02 53:20

And it is your turn.

SPEAKER_00 53:22

So I am in the main room with them now? Correct. And we have one Krabby Patty guy left. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 53:32

Ah Krabby Patties.

SPEAKER_00 53:35

Well, I'm going to shoot him with a magic missile in the face. This is I missed.

SPEAKER_02 53:42

Wait. Oh, you missed your spellcasting role.

SPEAKER_00 53:46

No, wait, no, wait, yeah, plus five. I'm 12. No, I didn't make it. Cool. Good. It's 11. I need to beat. Okay. So that's gonna be a big fat four points of damage.

SPEAKER_02 53:56

Wow. Okay. The bolts of arcane energy sink into the chitinous part of the shoulder area. And it seems to affect him. But it does not fall. Dang it. And we uh run is his turn now.

SPEAKER_03 54:15

Eighty nuts. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 54:19

Plus three. So this is against the crab guy with the sword. Correct. Take him on lunch money. So that'll be seven points anyway.

SPEAKER_02 54:26

Okay. How would you like to end this crab person's life? Off with his head. Okay. Alright, so your strike severs the uh the human portion from the crustacean portion of his body. Correct. And green blood sprays on the floor as the thing falls. And there's silence in the room. Are we all accounted for now? You have noise.

SPEAKER_03 54:52

We kind of missed you there, Roke walks into the room.

SPEAKER_01 54:55

What took you so long? I had to take shit. Did you find the opening that ever there all the rest of them were used?

SPEAKER_00 55:00

That starts went there.

SPEAKER_02 55:02

But now that the adrenaline has worn off from combat, as you catch your breath, you feel the throbbing energy pulling from this crystalline structure in the center of the room. Like draining us, kind of? Yeah, you probably don't want to spend a whole lot of time in here. Well, first thing I want to do is But now you can notice other features of the room other than the people in it that were trying to kill you. Yeah, it's usually the first thing I notice. And there is a door to the north and a door to the south.

SPEAKER_04 55:30

I pick up my sword. Can you? I can.

SPEAKER_01 55:33

With your necrotically damaged.

SPEAKER_02 55:35

Yeah, he flexes his fingers and motion back.

SPEAKER_01 55:38

Getting motion back into it there, a little blood flowing. You need any healing? Can you heal yourself? Anybody need any healing? No. Fine. I mean, I kind of need healing, but I'm afraid to cast elephant.

SPEAKER_02 55:48

Yeah, why not take the chance to cast your spell?

SPEAKER_01 55:51

Because I don't want to lose it. I don't want to know it's gone. I want to keep it there just in case I can fail later when I'm desperately needing it. What about the guy that I took off the those posted up?

SPEAKER_03 56:06

The guy I cut from the post. Oh, yeah. Is he still like writhing on the ground or looking at the cloud?

SPEAKER_02 56:11

Yeah, he is barely sort of hanging on to life. I think we should have poor soul. He is still pleading with you to kill him, but he is well on the way to fishdom.

SPEAKER_03 56:21

We can all go up and poke his throat. Okay. Union.

SPEAKER_02 56:25

Yeah, actually cut his throat. And you almost see that there's a bit of gratitude in his eyes as they stare kill. Make the transition to staring sightly.

SPEAKER_01 56:40

Well, that sucked. Is that enough for you? Good job. Does it start going dark in here now that the dark crystal is unable to pull life energy from this guy, or vice versa? If it doesn't get any darker, okay. I think I need to pat that wizard down.

SPEAKER_02 56:56

But it might still be pulling life energy.

SPEAKER_01 56:57

A coutre move. Well, I got plenty to give. I can keep casting spells. I can feed this thing lots of life.

SPEAKER_04 57:03

I wouldn't suggest hitting the crystal with anything.

SPEAKER_01 57:06

Actually, that's what I was going to suggest earlier. I suggest we do it with a rock.

SPEAKER_04 57:10

Magic missile it?

SPEAKER_01 57:14

Do I cast magic missile? Oh, yeah, that's right. I did not lose. Let's go back. I'm gonna get a little further away from this crystal sub. I'm gonna drag the corpse of the wizard out of the room so we can go through his pockets and look for loose magic items. Loose magic. Just extra any extra he has. Right, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 57:33

Let's drag him back to the room that the red is in.

SPEAKER_01 57:36

Well, let's go back at least to the room where we can got all the gems in the wall. Where we have light. Yeah. And gems light room.

SPEAKER_03 57:44

Go back to light room.

SPEAKER_01 57:45

Right.

SPEAKER_03 57:45

Yes, that is what we do. I help him drag the button back.

SPEAKER_01 57:48

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SPEAKER_02 58:02

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