00:00:30: There's a lot of things

00:00:30: that I don't get

00:00:32: about cultures and clicks,

00:00:35: especially on the internet.

00:00:36: But there is

00:00:36: one thing i will never understand... ...and i dont' get why anybody would gatekeep anything ever!

00:00:45: Have you seen it where when somebody

00:00:47: says

00:00:48: oh im a

00:00:49: fan of Bethesda

00:00:51: games?

00:00:51: And then someone says

00:00:52: oh yeah

00:00:53: name the boss in this area because

00:00:57: they want to make sure your

00:00:58: like true fans or something

00:01:01: Just you.

00:01:02: they don't know about

00:01:03: you.

00:01:03: Yeah, but I'm better than them

00:01:06: So he just won't live up to their standards.

00:01:09: Try telling him

00:01:10: that.

00:01:14: I mean do you know who the second lead visual effects artist was on?

00:01:19: Or wind or not?

00:01:22: Give me five seconds.

00:01:23: I don't even know

00:01:26: You're gone.

00:01:29: well all I knows Todd Howard is God.

00:01:30: okay

00:01:31: Howard some come to your house and take all your games

00:01:35: is also named

00:01:36: god howard for that reason.

00:01:39: I have no idea what if you are talking about.

00:01:45: It's like.

00:01:47: it's like somebody was talking about final fantasy.

00:01:49: in the stop and start by a good game,

00:01:55: You play League of Legends, you don't know what a good game is.

00:01:57: I

00:01:59: was like that's not me!

00:02:00: That's my wife!

00:02:02: Not gonna lie it's the only game i know.

00:02:04: for fact he played in the past.

00:02:06: so...

00:02:07: It's the ONLY target he has

00:02:08: to shoot

00:02:08: at?

00:02:08: I don't think they got to shoot him.

00:02:12: Have any

00:02:12: guys ever

00:02:13: dealt with people gatekeeping stuff?

00:02:15: because let me put this way if somebody all of sudden was like

00:02:20: hmmm..I've never heard of

00:02:21: D&D

00:02:22: or tabletop role playing games.

00:02:23: I wouldn't be like,

00:02:24: well you know

00:02:26: it's a little exclusive.

00:02:27: i'd be like when

00:02:28: do you want to play right now?

00:02:30: tell me what.

00:02:30: tell me when you're available right now because it's like...i want people to be in the thing that i like because i like it and i want to share the experience..and i don't get the opposite

00:02:39: of that!

00:02:39: That when somebody says-I've never heard of it or have been interested in it or this sounds interesting then they immediately just

00:02:45: shut that person

00:02:46: out and say no

00:02:47: bad stop it.

00:02:49: I mean, are we kind of handicapped with whenever somebody's like you know what?

00:02:52: I really love tabletop RPGs.

00:02:53: It was well it is Pathfinder thing.

00:02:58: Everybody normally starts at D&D.

00:03:00: so

00:03:00: oh yeah that i think dnd Is just the name.

00:03:03: its like Band-Aid right?

00:03:04: Its

00:03:05: a blanket

00:03:06: named for.

00:03:06: but

00:03:07: thats why when people say

00:03:08: dnd Im like What about this game?

00:03:10: and Ill talk

00:03:11: about Pathfinder or Shadow Dark because Thats A Really Simple Game to get into.

00:03:16: But Yeah

00:03:16: That's The Thing too Even if there is a complicated game because a lot of people

00:03:20: think that like Pathfinder second edition.

00:03:22: It's pretty

00:03:23: complex and it only as, If you want to

00:03:26: be kind-of thing but

00:03:27: even if somebody interested

00:03:29: in the

00:03:30: type of game we're playing

00:03:32: There are always

00:03:33: introductory things to get into the hobby And I'm just no reason to gatekeep.

00:03:39: What do mean

00:03:40: by gatekeeping?

00:03:41: Who keeps people from playing D&D?

00:03:44: The kind of exclusion I see in the TTRPG space usually has to do with whether people at the table are

00:03:53: safe

00:03:54: participants and that they respect other peoples' beliefs.

00:03:58: No,

00:03:59: no.

00:04:00: That's

00:04:01: our problematic.

00:04:01: like it I've never I don't think i've ever seen gatekeeping and being Like.

00:04:05: know you can't You're not good enough to play D&D with me

00:04:08: now?

00:04:09: It is III

00:04:10: think II think D&E was probably was probably not

00:04:11: Not the like a good example of it.

00:04:13: Well

00:04:14: guys haven't been on the internet's like I have them because I heard some horror stories.

00:04:19: Oh dnd

00:04:20: horror stories

00:04:20: are pretty funny.

00:04:21: oh

00:04:22: Yeah

00:04:23: mostly

00:04:23: against women

00:04:25: Yeah,

00:04:25: and it's usually just some you know.

00:04:27: Some fedora wearing

00:04:29: that is what I mean?

00:04:30: There's like.

00:04:31: there's the two people who want tables to be safe And then there's The People Who Want To Like Be Shitty To My Minorities Of Women.

00:04:38: So That'S What They Gatekeep Each Other.

00:04:42: But Is That Exactly Gatekeeping?

00:04:44: Or Is That Just Being A Shitty Person?

00:04:47: Because I Feel Like Gatekeeping?

00:04:49: Yeah, gatekeeping to me is something like oh you can't enjoy this unless.

00:04:53: You know?

00:04:54: This and that's in this

00:04:55: exactly.

00:04:56: well I mean

00:04:56: That's what the per like.

00:04:57: if it was a stories that i've read Like that's What kind of The things they were saying Was just like Oh you don't Know how To use attack with your character.

00:05:06: Why are we even here?

00:05:08: yeah Exactly

00:05:08: that

00:05:09: sort Of thing that spell works.

00:05:11: why Are We Even Here?

00:05:12: right?

00:05:12: Those are some of the Stories i've seen.

00:05:14: And on the person Is literally Just like i'm Literally here to learn

00:05:18: Right.

00:05:19: And like you're gatekeeping me because I didn't, like read everything ahead of time?

00:05:23: Like...

00:05:24: I mean, honestly, I've never played the game.

00:05:26: so but i know that.

00:05:29: what was it?

00:05:29: I think John might know this But League of Legends wasn't that?

00:05:33: one people even if they are just trying to start out They immediately get shutout by anyone else Because their'e like You don't know how play and your like Yeah!

00:05:42: I'm trynna learn.

00:05:43: No Don't Even

00:05:45: Right, yes it's a terrible community.

00:05:47: Yes

00:05:48: don't

00:05:48: even try to play

00:05:49: like yeah you want me to play the game

00:05:51: your playing

00:05:52: what?

00:05:52: Yeah I would say most of time for gatekeeping that i've never personally seen it.

00:05:58: but its namely if someone is listening to certain band or something and they're like oh please.

00:06:05: there was saying Oh You Don't Get It or something like that, and you're like no I don't know.

00:06:09: Like this album?

00:06:09: And they were like oh!

00:06:10: That was the shitty album.

00:06:12: Oh yeah.

00:06:12: They didn't even like it at all.

00:06:14: And there are people who say to me kind of more gatekeeping than anything else but just very condescending

00:06:23: about

00:06:24: it.

00:06:24: Yeah... I guess i dont interact with so many other people because i dont like them too much.

00:06:32: So i dont try to join

00:06:35: them in any way.

00:06:37: Wait, wait hold up a second.

00:06:39: It's like me being super into espresso and good coffee?

00:06:43: Am I the gatekeeper or am i trying to shut people out?

00:06:47: Tim

00:06:48: you're assuming that we would take your advice.

00:06:51: When you see someone enjoying a crappy cup of coffee do you judge them?

00:06:57: Do

00:06:58: even know where those beans came from!

00:07:01: Yeah specifically go in to wallow and stand by their coffee so they can just shout Wow,

00:07:07: wow.

00:07:08: You get a wah-wah?

00:07:09: Okay I mean Royal Farms is right there.

00:07:14: Oh i see you enjoy drinking cat piss.

00:07:16: interesting.

00:07:17: There are very many peepee enjoyers around here.

00:07:21: Enjoy

00:07:23: the sour taste.

00:07:25: Peepee enjoyer's...I like that.

00:07:28: I'm having a hard time keeping the piss enjoyers.

00:07:30: now.

00:07:33: That's our new word for a gatekeeper peepee enjoyers.

00:07:43: Instead of calling it like a piss kank, I'm just gonna call it peepee adjoirs

00:07:50: Makes us seem less taboo weird reason.

00:07:53: It really does lighten what that is

00:07:57: Disgusting

00:07:59: once disgusting the other one funny.

00:08:01: hey don't think shame Jake We may have, we might have PP enjoyers listening to us right now.

00:08:08: You're gatekeeping

00:08:09: this podcast.

00:08:13: Don't gate keep my PP

00:08:18: Please!

00:08:19: My pp needs it?

00:08:22: Oh my god

00:08:23: Is that what you intended Jake for this conversation ago?

00:08:26: No no I'm just curious.

00:08:27: No, I

00:08:28: don't know.

00:08:29: What what uh...I don't Know what

00:08:33: i saw.

00:08:33: that even made me angry

00:08:35: or something getting geeky but it was just one of those things and It's like

00:08:38: how is he gonna enjoy Something?

00:08:39: And

00:08:39: then go no one else can enjoy it

00:08:41: only

00:08:42: me.

00:08:43: You sure you just didn't see a gate and Just got angry at it.

00:08:47: I

00:08:48: think it is kind of a problem with people like checking nerddoms.

00:08:51: It's somebody tries to get into something and immediately you have all the mega fans being, well do you like this or that?

00:08:57: Yeah!

00:08:58: Its just... its very asshole thing to do.

00:09:00: And i think

00:09:03: theres no prevalent.

00:09:04: there are

00:09:04: memes about

00:09:05: it.

00:09:05: thats like oh you're

00:09:07: like Warhammer Forty K. can you name others?

00:09:09: thirty

00:09:11: nine thousand and that's why

00:09:12: we're all the other three nine thousand more amateurs.

00:09:14: I'm

00:09:16: like, That's funny but it just shows us at Lake

00:09:18: It so common

00:09:19: that

00:09:19: we get their reference

00:09:21: of

00:09:21: that conversation.

00:09:22: you

00:09:23: mean to get online and suppose i liked The Last Jedi And if

00:09:29: you call yourself a star wars fan that would happen immediately.

00:09:35: Well

00:09:35: as well You know Star Wars fans

00:09:37: are famous for liking the

00:09:38: thing.

00:09:38: does there a fan off?

00:09:39: So

00:09:43: Star Wars fans are really bad sometimes.

00:09:46: Yeah, yeah

00:09:48: what

00:09:48: do you mean?

00:09:48: they're famously level-headed and kind?

00:09:52: I mean the famous thing of star.

00:09:56: Star Wars fan hates.

00:09:57: no one hate Star Wars as much as Star Wars Fans.

00:10:00: because yep

00:10:03: And i understand that like

00:10:05: You have to love

00:10:07: something

00:10:07: in order to criticize it But at a certain point it's like, do you even like this thing anymore?

00:10:13: Do we even like the things

00:10:14: that you want

00:10:15: so much.

00:10:16: I don't know because...I

00:10:18: watch those and go oh yeah okay i get that.

00:10:21: you know visuals

00:10:22: are good

00:10:23: no matter what It is but its like.

00:10:25: You dont have to like

00:10:26: everything.

00:10:27: There are some parts of Star Wars That aren't meant for you or

00:10:32: any

00:10:32: other type Of media trying to cater more people into it The opposite of gatekeeping in order To Get More People Interested In It.

00:10:40: That's why there is a whole crossover

00:10:41: between

00:10:42: Dungeons and Dragons,

00:10:43: the Wizards of The Coast umbrella where it's like Magic

00:10:45: the Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons.

00:10:49: There are

00:10:50: even board games that

00:10:52: focus

00:10:52: on the Wizard of the Coast IP because they want people to enjoy

00:10:57: that sort of umbrella.

00:11:02: That's called the IP pump, OK?

00:11:04: We're Hasbro is just trying to milk that cow for all.

00:11:07: Oh I know

00:11:07: definitely they are.

00:11:08: Let's

00:11:08: not conflate the two of encouraging people to join The Fandom and literally just squeezing a cash count till it tribbles and dies.

00:11:15: Right hold

00:11:16: on.

00:11:16: Paiso

00:11:17: is really good at making things... There you go!

00:11:19: It's gonna

00:11:20: get people into it.

00:11:21: Well i would say the counter-ethnic is like understandably accepting people in there but also for people scared of enchantification of like.

00:11:31: you allow a lot people into something and then it becomes kind of worse in some way, depending on what your actually just saying.

00:11:39: You're trying to get everyone involved but lessens the actual content or original movie so that they feel betrayed.

00:11:53: I

00:11:57: think the point of this whole band is that if you actually play Dungeons & Dragons, The Brand.

00:12:01: You're wrong and shouldn't do

00:12:02: it anymore.

00:12:04: You are RPGing wrong!

00:12:07: I have a totally better game for you.

00:12:10: It messes with me on Discord, find me on social media...I'll introduce ya'.

00:12:13: I will play the beginner box with you..you

00:12:16: can catch that in.

00:12:18: but today we aren't playing the beginner

00:12:19: boxes We are playing more of the Age Of Ashes adventure path.

00:12:25: It's been two hundred some episodes.

00:12:27: I think it's two hundred

00:12:28: six.

00:12:28: Can you believe that guy?

00:12:31: I know Kelly's kids are in college

00:12:33: now.

00:12:36: They eat so much now, like they used to leave leftovers and now they just get everything

00:12:40: out.

00:12:42: I got them McDonalds tonight all right have some fries a couple leftover nugs knows gone and like Five minutes.

00:12:49: I'm like, well what happened?

00:12:50: These kids used to not eat all this food and now they're eating everything.

00:12:53: It's terrible

00:12:54: Nothing but desolation afterwards.

00:12:56: Yeah

00:12:57: They even ate the bag.

00:13:00: Then they asked for more!

00:13:01: They made more chicken nuggets in an air fryer after there were none Because...

00:13:06: My god

00:13:07: I have a ten year old boy.

00:13:08: He started just turning into monster.

00:13:10: Yeah,

00:13:12: we're.

00:13:12: you are about to find

00:13:13: out what our parents suffered with us as ten-year old boys

00:13:18: My mom just being like stop

00:13:19: fucking eating

00:13:22: Stop eating.

00:13:24: I'm not buying you any more shoes.

00:13:27: Well there's

00:13:34: one guy who is never

00:13:35: gonna grow older

00:13:36: and that the

00:13:37: two dwarves in our party.

00:13:39: Uh, we got to see John's new character Sandor.

00:13:45: You say two dwarves in the party?

00:13:48: Yeah

00:13:48: Oh

00:13:49: my

00:13:50: I only know

00:13:51: one.

00:13:51: oh my god he's gay.

00:13:52: keep

00:13:53: out all right

00:13:56: but

00:13:57: Sandor is not a dwarf alright like that's.

00:14:01: Wow.

00:14:01: That's

00:14:01: Garn and me talking, all

00:14:03: right?

00:14:04: Wow!

00:14:06: Well I was going to ask how did you guys like

00:14:08: seeing Sandor display some of his magical prowess

00:14:12: last episode?

00:14:13: You know... I think

00:14:14: pretty cash money honestly.

00:14:17: Garn had the impression that it is tip-of-the-ice burger.

00:14:24: There were a lot happened in combat but we have heavy hits really quickly And I know Sandor was a part of that, but it kind like one those things where its feels this guy is.

00:14:37: you haven't seen my final form.

00:14:40: You've

00:14:40: not yet seen the true form?

00:14:42: Yeah

00:14:43: yeah he's just let me...it seemed like Sandor has kinda tested in waters almost and seeing what we could do and not like really showing off what he can do.

00:14:54: Which Garn thinks is pretty badass.

00:14:56: Yeah, see all I know is that Sandor arrived... He cast a spell then Kezra was tearing himself apart!

00:15:05: It's just THAT good.

00:15:06: This your first

00:15:08: real

00:15:08: encounter in the haunted city Sagarok?

00:15:12: Yeah those doors don't count.

00:15:16: Um, you know the?

00:15:19: if

00:15:19: this is what you encounter

00:15:21: You

00:15:21: guys really need to make sure that your prepared

00:15:24: Whenever you

00:15:25: get some like liquid light or something.

00:15:26: my Sun sunlight spells and we can just like bomb Like you know there's.

00:15:31: I think they make alchemical bonds.

00:15:32: Just throw on a ground And they become lighter something.

00:15:36: but we need have a couple pocket those in case We need to escape.

00:15:40: Escape a mistaken escape.

00:15:46: Well, let's bring it back now to you guys.

00:15:52: The lightning bolt has

00:15:53: shot

00:15:54: through the air and shot through this creature

00:15:57: Which I see.

00:15:58: I don't know if you guys got the name of it but

00:16:00: i'll

00:16:00: tell you It was just called

00:16:01: a devourer

00:16:04: And it fades into

00:16:06: nothingness in.

00:16:07: you see the souls

00:16:08: Crawling.

00:16:09: we're

00:16:09: crawling out of his chest.

00:16:10: Just

00:16:11: go off into

00:16:13: Into the ether and just are now set for me.

00:16:17: So Pick it up from there.

00:16:23: Yes, sir was a confused dragon on the roof so I guess he kind of snaps out of it after a

00:16:30: little bit

00:16:34: And you just like gives send these old dragon but he liked give him like a

00:16:38: nod leg.

00:16:39: He's like.

00:16:40: that was awesome.

00:16:44: So, does he do that often?

00:16:46: I mean just point up to the giant dragon.

00:16:48: He's a big... You know, Ozmodeus' star

00:16:51: on him!

00:16:52: On his chest.

00:16:53: So you mean turning into a dragon or scratching his eyes out?

00:17:00: Well i was going say the Dragonport.

00:17:02: Oh no

00:17:03: he did it before.

00:17:05: That is one of his repertoire.

00:17:06: Yeah

00:17:07: very

00:17:07: hard.

00:17:09: Yeah, you

00:17:10: really had so much damage.

00:17:11: Like I literally was clawing my eyes out and there's just like blood running up from right in front of me face and like rips at my chest.

00:17:17: So

00:17:17: whatcha saying is your

00:17:18: week?

00:17:20: The

00:17:20: thing

00:17:20: got on my

00:17:21: head...I

00:17:22: couldn't-

00:17:24: I have no control

00:17:24: over myself!

00:17:27: Can you speak common while you're dragging for

00:17:29: him?

00:17:29: Yeah.

00:17:31: Damn that's actually cool.

00:17:33: He's just shouting into a conic and then you are just like oh my god he speaks very well.

00:17:37: killing

00:17:38: Vagans are famous or

00:17:40: more infamous

00:17:40: actually for never shutting up, in fact.

00:17:46: Just

00:17:46: like me.

00:17:48: Garn does rush over to Kezra who is dragon form bleeding profusely and kind of he pulls out the med kit doesn't really quite know where you're at.

00:17:59: I don't even kinda talking but it holds that up.

00:18:03: my safe tool approach.

00:18:05: Yeah kezra jumps off a

00:18:06: roof

00:18:14: Shoot lightning straight down

00:18:15: on you.

00:18:19: Honestly though, I just need a breather.

00:18:21: You'd probably die.

00:18:25: Yeah

00:18:27: Whoa there big guy son's getting real low.

00:18:31: Yeah, I'm at one-third of my health.

00:18:33: I only have fifty seven HP left.

00:18:34: It

00:18:34: did a lot

00:18:35: of damage.

00:18:35: You can hold that to yourself too.

00:18:36: That is fantastic.

00:18:38: Use of the confusion.

00:18:39: spell My god

00:18:43: Sandor's going.

00:18:43: take look around this area and see if there anything we could get.

00:18:48: I don't assume this creature has any remains.

00:18:53: No no it fades

00:18:55: into nothingness.

00:18:56: Did the ghouls run away or would they all die?

00:19:00: You killed

00:19:00: all of them.

00:19:01: We purged him.

00:19:03: if you when this thing came down, I'll tell you that uh the There might have been some ghouls That were coming up behind

00:19:11: The ones he killed.

00:19:12: but when this think came down they scattered.

00:19:14: oh so those things are freaked out by To devour i guess like

00:19:20: mean there's always a bigger fish?

00:19:22: I get that just was like.

00:19:23: well They're on dead i guess I don't know not like kinship, but like oh they wouldn't care because They don't have souls.

00:19:32: Oh no do ghouls have souls shit.

00:19:34: Hmm thinking about it

00:19:36: hmm Do ghoul's have?

00:19:38: so let's get a question.

00:19:39: yeah Because i thought there were like undead.

00:19:41: So

00:19:41: they are

00:19:42: undead But

00:19:43: i think i but their driven

00:19:45: by hunger?

00:19:46: So i believe that they still keep all of Their like old Yeah retaining marshal skill.

00:19:52: These powerful ghouls are not afraid to meet their foe and open.

00:19:54: Feeding a flesh of their fallen opponents, they learn their combat abilities.

00:20:00: Sounds like a macabre children's story.

00:20:02: Two ghoul have souls.

00:20:06: Chicken soup with the ghoul soul?

00:20:08: I know husk zombies can have their soul be retained because that is the prerequisite for getting The zombie like dedication

00:20:19: for a player character.

00:20:20: Tim's been

00:20:20: doing

00:20:21: research.

00:20:24: For what Tim?

00:20:24: For what?

00:20:26: Nothing, dick.

00:20:27: Like Garn dies

00:20:28: and comes back.

00:20:29: I'll text you later.

00:20:30: Garn gives back...I'm back!

00:20:36: You guys are the only spells i have.

00:20:38: It is gonna be so funny because

00:20:40: they led Jon's character

00:20:42: in as a Hringar,

00:20:43: they're absolutely never going

00:20:45: to let an undead player character

00:20:47: walk into it.

00:20:48: Come on!

00:20:50: He got the blood of God coursing

00:20:51: through him.

00:20:54: Blood of god.

00:20:54: he is undead... The whole thing is just weird.

00:20:57: It works.

00:21:00: God

00:21:00: does treat wounds like Tezra, and thankfully I chose the...I chose like let me choose lower DC so i can crit on it.

00:21:10: And I'm glad I did because I rolled a nat too.

00:21:13: but that still is a success!

00:21:18: So you're not going to get the crit which actually now that im looking at it.

00:21:21: its better just go for higher dc.

00:21:23: But glad I didn't cause wouldn't have gotten it.

00:21:26: Look Im not

00:21:26: veterinarian idk

00:21:27: what im doing

00:21:31: And I only gave you seventeen hit

00:21:34: points.

00:21:35: Gee, thanks!

00:21:35: But i

00:21:36: think...I could try again in ten minutes.

00:21:38: so that might just like roll a bunch and then tell you about

00:21:40: this?

00:21:41: Yeah Again it's an hour walk.

00:21:44: So oh yeah plus there was one woman female dwarf There.

00:21:47: Oh

00:21:47: ya I can treat multiple at once as well

00:21:53: but either way I mean like Ambrose is going to approach her.

00:21:58: You know Just Caught your sleep just barely.

00:22:01: yep seems the threat has been.

00:22:04: maybe why?

00:22:06: I believe he'll safe now.

00:22:09: And do you just kind of gesturing around?

00:22:12: there's no other goals.

00:22:13: They're all gone at this point.

00:22:16: Yeah, they're all going and so

00:22:18: she yeah She is just

00:22:20: that like to see.

00:22:21: she looks like an

00:22:22: adventure of some kind.

00:22:24: She has just like a humongous crossbow

00:22:29: But

00:22:29: she's all beat up.

00:22:31: The one attack that they

00:22:32: got on her was

00:22:33: not

00:22:33: the first

00:22:33: one because it Kesar walks up you like What the hell are you doing out here?

00:22:38: I'm all by yourself.

00:22:40: So, she's got a crossbow real

00:22:42: tight to her chest and she's holding

00:22:44: in.

00:22:44: She just looks around and she

00:22:46: says oh he came out here adventuring how.

00:22:50: II am from the surface time III.

00:22:53: I'm not even from Kovlar.

00:22:55: I need to leave right

00:22:58: now.

00:22:58: Hold on, hold on... Not in this shape at least.

00:23:01: and he's going do a medicine check on her as well.

00:23:05: Okay

00:23:05: yeah because like if anything alleviates the pain makes it little

00:23:09: bit

00:23:09: easier when someone is not like freaking injured all of the

00:23:14: time.

00:23:15: Yeah bleeding out just about again.

00:23:18: So i mean that was a thirty for medicine.

00:23:23: Yeah, you're able

00:23:25: to patch her up easy

00:23:26: enough.

00:23:27: Some bandages on there and cover-up

00:23:29: for midsection

00:23:29: that got cut open stuff like this.

00:23:31: So see these fans.

00:23:34: sometimes she's able to calm

00:23:35: down.

00:23:37: You can see some of the ghostly spirits sort of hovering around but they seem

00:23:43: to be

00:23:44: keeping their distance since you've just killed something very big.

00:23:47: so it seems as if they are staying away.

00:23:51: And so

00:23:52: through the

00:23:53: ten minutes that it would take, or I guess twenty now

00:23:55: for

00:23:56: you guys working on yourselves.

00:23:58: She

00:23:59: reveals her name is...

00:24:02: My name was Doar Axpoe!

00:24:06: I came down here knowing

00:24:08: there's this

00:24:09: haunted city and they let adventurers in to try their best.

00:24:14: I completely underestimated everything down here.

00:24:21: And when you see a shadow move, she quickly points the crossbow at it... All

00:24:30: right!

00:24:30: You'll be safer now.

00:24:32: Tell me what you say from this surface.

00:24:33: From where do you hail?

00:24:35: No..I'm form a small town in The Five Kings Mountains.

00:24:42: It's a family thing.

00:24:43: i sort of get away for my family to come hear but I just want to go home.

00:24:52: Well, you know of a wizard with great magics that might be able help out.

00:24:58: but aside from that we need at least take you back to Kovlar.

00:25:02: Yes

00:25:03: please!

00:25:04: Did you have any companions?

00:25:07: None left.

00:25:09: there were three.

00:25:11: There was two humans and they're gone.

00:25:18: The one

00:25:19: And

00:25:20: she's kind of like her eyes go

00:25:21: wide for a second.

00:25:22: She goes,

00:25:22: the one he was night?

00:25:26: I thought it'd been invincible!

00:25:29: His head was removed... One fell swoop and there wasn't anything!

00:25:37: At this

00:25:37: point you are

00:25:38: fine with us You're safe here.

00:25:41: So do you know how far back that was?

00:25:47: It was only maybe

00:25:49: few

00:25:49: blocks away but I can't stay here.

00:25:52: Can we go back now?

00:25:52: Oh, yes of

00:25:53: course.

00:25:55: Wait!

00:25:55: We should need to go back and... Go back the wizard.

00:26:01: Cannot leave him alone at

00:26:02: gate.

00:26:03: You know he thinks he

00:26:04: is invincible

00:26:06: But his ignorance in his unawareness will be as undoing

00:26:11: And all likelihood He's fine by himself.

00:26:16: If you want i can go back.

00:26:17: Now i can meet you Back In The City.

00:26:21: Stay together

00:26:23: Very well.

00:26:27: So

00:26:29: How long

00:26:30: Would it take to go back?

00:26:32: To the wizard.

00:26:33: I guess at this point

00:26:34: or where is there was

00:26:35: close

00:26:36: because remember we heard the scream like news with an earshot.

00:26:39: Yeah, so we're talking like minutes.

00:26:41: Okay

00:26:41: exactly

00:26:43: that's why say We Go Back to Archmage Haram gar no longer food

00:26:48: plus.

00:26:48: i think i

00:26:48: really did not forget his name.

00:26:51: John unfortunately had as cool teleport spell reveal ruined.

00:26:55: But yeah,

00:26:57: it seems like getting around is going to become a lot easier.

00:27:02: Yeah!

00:27:03: Just do little bit.

00:27:04: I almost took teleport at one point with Casarobot because they couldn't fit in and...

00:27:10: I think i mentioned that.

00:27:13: well you know i'll talk

00:27:14: about later

00:27:15: but that didn't happen in game.

00:27:17: to clarify

00:27:18: right exactly

00:27:18: okay

00:27:22: Okay, so you guys get to

00:27:26: where he is.

00:27:26: You go past the

00:27:30: Hall of Giants

00:27:32: and then it goes through

00:27:33: the crack or well actually its pass wall.

00:27:35: now its just all

00:27:36: hallway.

00:27:37: Past the

00:27:39: rotting corpse of the Purple Worm again And when

00:27:45: you walk up see that he has

00:27:48: set

00:27:48: this entire encampment pretty much tables and chairs,

00:27:55: all sorts of workstation equipment.

00:27:58: He looks like a

00:28:01: new age wizard

00:28:02: just experimenting on stuff.

00:28:04: he has things that are taking chalk or

00:28:09: the charcoal rubbings

00:28:13: of the doorway...he's got things working

00:28:15: automated okay?

00:28:19: And when you walk up

00:28:23: A piece of ground or a piece of rock that is completely smooth.

00:28:27: That

00:28:27: looks like it was sort of raised off

00:28:32: to the side, and then there's a

00:28:34: drawing doorway.

00:28:35: right here

00:28:41: Looks like you made yourself quite

00:28:42: comfortable

00:28:42: after me.

00:28:45: I want be comfortable until they figured this whole thing out.

00:28:48: This absolutely marvelous.

00:28:51: You plan on staying here long?

00:28:54: How

00:28:54: how long has

00:28:56: it been?

00:28:56: It's only been a couple minutes.

00:28:58: You've actually made quite quick work this place.

00:29:01: I have so much work to do.

00:29:03: Look, and he starts like flipping through up bunch of notes stuff Like a book that was writing itself.

00:29:09: the guards head starts to hurt

00:29:14: And you can see that he is

00:29:16: preparing a spell called liminal doorway.

00:29:22: So if you draw chalk doorway in an unbroken

00:29:25: surface, so that's where he

00:29:27: like raised just a brick of

00:29:28: stone

00:29:30: which opens into an extra-dimensional space.

00:29:32: Any creature treating the drawing as

00:29:33: actual door

00:29:34: can interact to touch the doorknob and pass through The

00:29:37: warped chalk.

00:29:38: drawn

00:29:38: room beyond the doors is twenty feet in width depth

00:29:41: and height.

00:29:42: The space is

00:29:43: unadorned and empty with chalk lines indicating the corners or walls.

00:29:47: So this was his private room.

00:29:51: You could

00:29:52: take shelter here if you need it.

00:29:54: Wow, so you get to escape into this place.

00:29:58: Yeah essentially Yeah,

00:30:01: I mean do have any of those stones that can be spoken through?

00:30:11: I'm asking the Archmage.

00:30:14: Oh Like like The Eye Of The Wise

00:30:17: Because

00:30:18: You Have You're The Eye of The Wise That Can Do That.

00:30:20: So the eye of the wise is Is This Stone That We're Talking

00:30:23: Through

00:30:24: Back

00:30:24: at Pre-Show?

00:30:25: yeah

00:30:27: Yep.

00:30:27: So this is like some sort of legendary...

00:30:29: Hey, can you make another one?

00:30:31: Just curious man!

00:30:31: Can't he just do another

00:30:32: please?!

00:30:33: I mean Garn really doesn't know that so he's asking.

00:30:35: He said my companions have their stonelet they could talk with.

00:30:38: it seems quite useful.

00:30:39: i would like to keep in contact

00:30:41: With You.

00:30:43: Oh if only I Could Make Something Like That

00:30:45: Right Here right

00:30:45: Now That Would Be Impressive But I Would Have To be An Ancient Elven God To Make One Of Those.

00:30:53: Oh Really?

00:30:54: And It Is Gonna Cricks His Head Like.

00:31:01: Maybe Garen didn't really understand the full gravity of this situation.

00:31:08: Yeah, can you just make another one on those health gates or probably take about five minutes?

00:31:13: You want to come fix that

00:31:13: one?

00:31:15: Let me get some spittin' some WD-Forty

00:31:18: and be right up in there!

00:31:22: Wait, badassly

00:31:23: is an interesting point Kesara... If you configure THIS one out do you think YOU could fix a broken

00:31:28: one?!

00:31:35: What?

00:31:41: He was pondering his orb, all right.

00:31:44: I have so many orbs to ponder!

00:31:46: Well maybe i'll ask him later

00:31:51: If you guys

00:31:51: want to just teleport back.

00:31:53: he's more than happy to work

00:31:56: with

00:31:56: Sandor To make a teleport.

00:32:02: This is our new

00:32:02: friend.

00:32:03: We found her.

00:32:04: She was about to get eaten by some grotesque monster that he... That's not important.

00:32:12: Well, good to see you all

00:32:14: still alive

00:32:16: Archmage.

00:32:17: I'm going to head back to town with these Good people.

00:32:21: for now i will return to You in a short amount of time.

00:32:27: Oh bring this.

00:32:29: When you returned and it hands

00:32:31: you a folded

00:32:31: piece of paper

00:32:33: He hands me what?

00:32:34: It is a folded pieces of paper.

00:32:36: No right

00:32:36: grabs it

00:32:39: suspicious

00:32:43: says about three pounds of blow.

00:32:47: we need a lot more cocaine to do this investigation.

00:32:51: i'm only

00:32:51: just something.

00:32:52: great

00:32:52: man I don't want to sleep for a minute.

00:32:57: if I sleep,

00:32:58: I lose.

00:32:59: I dont eat sleep!

00:32:59: I need hensers.

00:33:04: so

00:33:05: that's why he's so

00:33:06: spacey.

00:33:09: So you guys go

00:33:11: through the teleports.

00:33:12: How many of how many have you guys have teleported

00:33:14: before as your characters?

00:33:19: Dimension door.

00:33:20: Yeah,

00:33:24: maybe it may be a quick hop but nothing like this.

00:33:28: yeah definitely not

00:33:30: This level.

00:33:33: yeah I think the limits of my

00:33:35: particular

00:33:35: spouse is like a thousand miles.

00:33:37: right now

00:33:38: She's

00:33:39: only

00:33:40: a thousand miles.

00:33:43: Yeah, well so

00:33:44: teleport

00:33:45: at spell level six is up to a hundred miles.

00:33:48: Oh that's

00:33:49: right

00:33:49: Yeah.

00:33:50: So

00:33:51: now when you get a height into seventh which it will be of the seventh level spells Will Be available To You

00:33:56: Guys.

00:33:57: Next Level

00:33:58: Seventh Rank.

00:33:59: That Is When It Goes To About God.

00:34:00: It Makes My dick Hard.

00:34:03: Yeah Wasn't Like First Edition.

00:34:04: There Was like Pretty Much Teleport.

00:34:05: You Just Teleport Wherever You Visited

00:34:08: Yeah, and I think it was like a higher level or a higher

00:34:12: rank spell anyway.

00:34:14: So if i remember correctly that they kind of shifted

00:34:18: it down so the way

00:34:20: is more easily

00:34:21: accessible but not as powerful.

00:34:23: kinda grew with you

00:34:25: since playing Pathfinder...I don't have ever cast a Seven Puzzle Spell.

00:34:29: I think sixth is the highest I've

00:34:30: ever gone.

00:34:31: Wow Maybe we'll

00:34:35: uh maybe keep them alive.

00:34:37: Vento next level.

00:34:38: He'll

00:34:38: never die!

00:34:42: You guys teleport

00:34:43: back

00:34:44: to just inside the gate of Kovar, so all of a sudden

00:34:53: you stand in the thing...

00:34:54: A bunch of magic

00:34:55: surrounds you

00:34:58: and then as the

00:34:59: magic fades your all-of-a-sudden end kovar

00:35:05: And

00:35:11: There's somebody there.

00:35:13: Who is it?

00:35:13: Oh, oh It's Sandor the apprentice and his friends.

00:35:16: And you

00:35:17: realize that to people on like on the wall You just teleported behind them.

00:35:22: Yeah

00:35:23: So

00:35:24: they're like

00:35:25: hey what the fuck.

00:35:27: Just me guys don't worry.

00:35:30: Um so th-their that you'd

00:35:32: see him all

00:35:32: wipe some sweat from their foreheads.

00:35:34: Kessler looked at Sandor.

00:35:36: he was like.

00:35:37: That was

00:35:38: awesome.

00:35:40: In this shit sack

00:35:42: Little

00:35:43: insulting they still refer to me as the apprentice.

00:35:45: I'm more powerful than like, eighty percent of the wizards that have lived in this world?

00:35:48: But you know what...

00:35:51: All i knows is i need learn that spell.

00:35:54: Oh..i can help you with it.

00:35:57: It felt like bits.

00:35:58: my body and soul rearranged and placed back together but unfortunately we unshapen chest are still the

00:36:06: same.

00:36:06: I

00:36:08: like to think of it as kind of tunneling in between places.

00:36:11: If you take a map and fold it, that's how i envision it.

00:36:19: Well whatever they're teaching you at school is working.

00:36:23: That

00:36:23: makes sense!

00:36:25: I'm used to just praying for things when great stuff happens

00:36:29: Loser Wait

00:36:32: actually Garn when he was a war priest He did have a teleport spell.

00:36:37: It was like a divine teleportation, but it's short distances.

00:36:40: Oh yeah!

00:36:41: So

00:36:41: he's...

00:36:42: I

00:36:43: prayed to my god and we got places.

00:36:47: He just took me there?

00:36:48: I

00:36:48: prefer to think that is a wormhole.

00:36:54: When you guys kind of get your bearings And realize just how cool

00:36:58: this was

00:36:59: One of the guards approaches you.

00:37:01: Uh,

00:37:02: Hammer Song wanted to see you.

00:37:04: He wanted me let know when he got here that they're looking for ya.

00:37:10: Thank-you but we have brought along a stray someone from the deep of Forsaken City who needs safe passage to their surface.

00:37:21: Is it something that you all can provide?

00:37:24: Yes!

00:37:24: Yeah I could take her right now into the barracks and

00:37:28: get

00:37:30: patched up and then

00:37:31: we can

00:37:31: give her an escort back home.

00:37:33: Yeah, Garen grabs his hand, shakes his hands... And very much like crazy old man style pulls up a sleeve trying to look for the mark of the Scarlet Triad.

00:37:45: Good man!

00:37:45: Guys are

00:37:45: like

00:37:48: what?

00:37:50: Don't think I didn't check my other hand?

00:37:53: This is lumpy door frisking me

00:37:57: But I be dinner first.

00:37:58: So he said yeah,

00:38:03: they take

00:38:05: a door

00:38:05: expo.

00:38:06: They take her and you know like I said take your patcher up in everything Like that.

00:38:10: so do you feel?

00:38:11: Yeah.

00:38:12: You feel

00:38:12: as though she's she's in good hands.

00:38:15: And then Do what?

00:38:18: I was just about to say Sandra as they are walking her away.

00:38:21: It's like it.

00:38:21: in a way, it's a bit of tragedy their open policy to let adventurers come through.

00:38:26: i see What They want To do.

00:38:28: Get As Many People In To try To Clear Out As Much Undead As Possible With The Promise Of Treasure.

00:38:32: That Way They Have To Spend Less Money Doing It Themselves But people Very Rarely Come In Prepared Enough To Miss with This Stuff.

00:38:41: Yeah Wonder Is Like that.

00:38:43: is it A Thing If They Let?

00:38:44: Or Is There Something That You Just Kind of Can't Stop?

00:38:47: Because I mean um

00:38:48: Adventurers dying in the city is not really good for Koflar.

00:38:51: Yeah, because then you got all those adventurers.

00:38:54: well

00:38:55: yeah

00:38:56: That's that's a double it

00:38:57: sort of.

00:38:57: but

00:38:58: also I you know Adventures

00:39:02: want to come here too try to get good treasure.

00:39:04: You know defeat big monsters or

00:39:05: whatever.

00:39:06: so they're sort of like

00:39:07: we can't stop them.

00:39:08: So let's at least

00:39:09: like give them passage

00:39:10: and let them stay here.

00:39:12: set up an information desk.

00:39:14: Is actual

00:39:16: purpose of koflar?

00:39:18: appeared that was built next to the city, to scavenge it?

00:39:24: Yeah.

00:39:24: So like they were like... The original purpose is because of how it started and so I thought there we're

00:39:29: surviving.

00:39:31: They just start out as a survival.

00:39:32: Did this start at us?

00:39:34: Blunder?

00:39:36: Well its little bit about here but what's turned

00:39:40: into now

00:39:41: is that this

00:39:42: Kovlar is

00:39:43: just

00:39:44: small city on the very

00:39:46: bottom of Sakharok.

00:39:48: Any day now, they're gonna come through.

00:39:50: So let's just send a few adventurers in to start it.

00:39:52: You know whittle their numbers and stuff like that

00:39:55: And the adventures

00:39:56: get you know The high-risk high reward right?

00:40:00: Some of them do come out

00:40:03: with some battle wounds

00:40:04: but also some treasure.

00:40:06: Those are ones that end up on the posters.

00:40:08: Exactly.

00:40:08: Honestly Kovlar is very wild Westy.

00:40:11: I love

00:40:12: it.

00:40:12: It is!

00:40:12: Very much.

00:40:13: so You know what it kind of reminds me if you are reading The Way Of Kings, the Stormlight Archives?

00:40:21: The battle

00:40:22: camps

00:40:26: that feel from this city.

00:40:28: Yeah exactly and so like... That's how it feels is that they're constantly

00:40:31: on the brink

00:40:32: of something happening.

00:40:33: but

00:40:34: economy has built up because its lasted so long.

00:40:38: So It's a very strange place to be.

00:40:42: So

00:40:42: some people say if you delve into the undead city as an adventurer You might find open booster packs of Pokemon cards.

00:40:48: truly great treasure.

00:40:50: My god all the scalpers would be down there a second.

00:40:55: Yeah.

00:41:00: So hammer song wants to

00:41:01: see you

00:41:04: Sando.

00:41:04: we're kind of involved with something in this city and the council not short.

00:41:11: You had planned if you were gonna go back to the Arcanarium, but that's where we're headed now.

00:41:16: I can follow you for a bit.

00:41:20: Tell me what do know?

00:41:21: These council members use it your work under one of them.

00:41:26: It seemed very standoffish.

00:41:28: hard too To get read on

00:41:31: aren't we all?

00:41:32: little standoff ish down here I Mean more kind of constantly on a teetering precipice of death and destruction in pain.

00:41:41: well

00:41:43: That's understandable, reasonable.

00:41:45: I've really only worked with the Archmage.

00:41:49: Let me see...

00:41:51: I'm not terribly popular outside of that!

00:41:54: And he doesn't seem like it takes many visitors either?

00:41:58: Oh The Archmages.

00:41:59: no good lord.

00:42:00: No.

00:42:05: By the way while we walk can i thumb this paper open and See what He gave Me?

00:42:11: Yeah It's just a

00:42:11: Chipotle Order

00:42:12: Nice.

00:42:16: What is the Dwarven Chipotle Called

00:42:22: Chipotle mushrooms?

00:42:25: This is the the fresh Fungi

00:42:29: Fresh funds.

00:42:30: Oh,

00:42:30: yeah fresh Funky.

00:42:31: he always

00:42:31: goes for tacos.

00:42:32: You know you got to go for a burrito.

00:42:33: that's how you make you get more free money.

00:42:39: So when you guys get two hammer zone He we need walk in.

00:42:43: he just goes up and starts shaking your hands In his loud, boisterous manner.

00:42:49: Oh!

00:42:50: My friends... You did a great job finding and rescuing that person.

00:42:57: Yes but

00:42:57: it cost us one of our number.

00:43:00: Any looks around he goes.

00:43:02: yes where is the big one?

00:43:05: I liked

00:43:05: him Nahh just actually joshing you.

00:43:09: He left on his own accord had some business to take care from this surface.

00:43:12: Ah i knew nothing could kill him.

00:43:15: He seemed pretty stout.

00:43:19: Indeed indeed, well I know that there was a rough start.

00:43:25: they were the council but you all have shown yourself.

00:43:28: um i want to ask for your assistance in something here.

00:43:35: so food is not easily come by here, but we have made do with the fungus farms down below and also the lake to the east of the city.

00:43:50: So let me bring you guys to the City

00:43:53: of

00:43:53: Kovlar!

00:43:55: By the way this map I went took

00:44:03: naming all

00:44:03: of the different

00:44:04: quarters around here.

00:44:05: So, The Barricade

00:44:06: is

00:44:06: the wall.

00:44:08: There's the Earthfire District on the Northwest, the

00:44:11: Commerce which is like the center area

00:44:13: Travelers' Quarters Which are just like hotels

00:44:15: and stuff That's in the south.

00:44:17: And then Farm Bureau Is

00:44:18: where the giant mushroom farms Are On the bottom right or southeast.

00:44:25: If you look if he

00:44:26: zoomed real

00:44:27: close they actually named three of these streets here in Kovlar.

00:44:32: So if you zoom in real close, there's Steel Luke

00:44:33: which goes all the way around the

00:44:34: city.

00:44:36: Earthfire Avenue Which is west

00:44:38: to east

00:44:39: or East West whatever and then Kovlar Way which goes

00:44:42: north

00:44:42: south.

00:44:44: so it was pretty cool that they actually just named them yeah Yeah Um...so he explains

00:44:50: over their own lakeside.

00:44:52: Many of my

00:44:54: many

00:44:54: other people have been gathering fungus on the side Subterranean Lake here at Kovlar.

00:45:03: They also do crabbing, but they've noticed crabbing numbers are way down.

00:45:09: What I would like all of you to try and find out

00:45:13: if

00:45:13: something is happening to them.

00:45:15: Crabbing has been quite prolific here But their number's going down makes us worried not only for the ecological impact... ...but food in general.

00:45:28: If we need to start outsourcing food now, We want make sure do it as soon as possible before we are in dire straits.

00:45:36: This seems like could truly be the deadliest catch!

00:45:41: Are you

00:45:41: considerate of possibility that as coblast population suddenly increases You might prone over fishing?

00:45:50: Yes and thats is why we have

00:45:52: made

00:45:52: sure

00:45:53: nobody

00:45:53: goes through far side

00:45:55: of the

00:45:55: lake.

00:45:56: Everybody here stays

00:45:57: to west side.

00:45:59: But

00:45:59: I want you

00:46:00: To go to the spawning pools on a far side of the lake and see if anything there is disrupting any other spawning that might be happening in

00:46:07: the crabs.

00:46:11: I don't know.

00:46:11: this day Good use about time.

00:46:14: we did come down here for our purpose.

00:46:17: We are searching for the scarlet triad, i dont know investigating Crabs.

00:46:24: it gets us where we need to Go.

00:46:29: They're right

00:46:35: If Cove Law goes under because something as simple as our food sources being waned down to be tragic.

00:46:44: Therefore, I just need you two go out there see if something is disturbing the Spalding Pools

00:46:51: and come back.

00:46:53: You notice anything?

00:46:54: Just write it down And make sure that

00:46:56: we know.

00:46:59: Perhaps i have a

00:47:01: eleventh level consumable ready for when he returns.

00:47:07: Where do we sign up?

00:47:12: I guess Kezra remains skeptical, but he's looking to Glean.

00:47:23: Where are we starting our investigation into the Scarlet Triad?

00:47:28: We don't really have a place of start so just exploring Kovlar and what not could help us stumble upon it.

00:47:36: But he is trying get at

00:47:39: that.

00:47:40: You

00:47:41: ARE the commander here!

00:47:42: Are you

00:47:42: not?!

00:47:43: I am.

00:47:44: That's why it was also going to let you know that, um... ...I have somebody cracking the code.. ..that i believe we found on a piece of paper.

00:47:52: If

00:47:53: what is seeming to come out this there might be some civil unrest here

00:48:02: But!

00:48:02: We need make sure they're what were seeing in the papers correct.

00:48:06: So im having double verified and making sure their reading is accurate Therefore will just take time.

00:48:14: That is understandable that there must be time to crack the code.

00:48:18: I think what i'm getting at, if we do this investigation for you... I am sure my party members especially who are interested in a high-level magic item What im interested in?

00:48:35: access your barracks?

00:48:40: Oh!

00:48:40: I

00:48:40: want to see with my own

00:48:42: eyes

00:48:42: things that might be unseen to those who are used to seeing things every day.

00:48:49: Well, you should know that here in Kovlar

00:48:51: and

00:48:51: he leans down

00:48:53: any kind of whisper... He whispers but loudly

00:48:56: where even better than those up there?

00:48:58: And he points to the Five Kings Mountains above

00:49:01: at crafting good weapons!

00:49:03: So he's kinda like

00:49:04: pumping his own

00:49:07: craftsmen up ya'know?

00:49:08: I think what i am insinuating is As our conversation was earlier, it is hard to trust anyone here even your own men.

00:49:20: What I am saying as i'm looking To see if there's any one who is untrue and disloyal to you?

00:49:28: I think access to your barracks would help us confirm that It is a tall ass.

00:49:33: we are outsiders.

00:49:34: however Who did something for you?

00:49:37: maybe let us have access.

00:49:40: You're more than welcome to do that But this is a starting to be oppressing issue now, with the spawning boos.

00:49:49: I will arrange for you have full access... ...to the barracks and speaking of people in what not.

00:49:59: Very well!

00:50:00: Let's see if he

00:50:01: puts out hand.

00:50:02: shake on it.

00:50:04: Make party handshake

00:50:05: from two of ya?

00:50:09: Do you check his sleeves?

00:50:17: Guard doesn't even know if that's like a thing.

00:50:21: He just assumes

00:50:21: an all evil.

00:50:22: secret society is brand themselves in some way.

00:50:25: You pull up your sleeve and see the tattoo of

00:50:29: naked dwarf

00:50:29: lady, he's like...

00:50:36: Things get a little nailter!

00:50:40: Don't have to tell me brother.

00:50:43: So crabs right?

00:50:50: Yep,

00:50:51: so they've arranged for you guys to Take a small boat out there.

00:50:55: It's it's a large

00:50:57: open

00:50:57: area.

00:50:57: obviously There was no wind so those might need to you know.

00:51:00: Uh, take a sailboat or like a large vessel out there.

00:51:04: Got

00:51:04: it so don't cue the wind and sail noises please.

00:51:08: Yeah.

00:51:09: Do you

00:51:10: have like cave drippy sounds?

00:51:13: I do actually.

00:51:15: Get

00:51:18: that drippy.

00:51:19: Please never say that

00:51:21: again!

00:51:21: Hey Tim put

00:51:23: on full drip.

00:51:28: Alright, you guys make your way down to the lakeside

00:51:32: docks.

00:51:34: You can see that

00:51:34: these docks are pretty simple for the most part.

00:51:39: like I said it's a lot of smaller boats.

00:51:42: there is nothing too

00:51:43: large since

00:51:44: people were just going out and

00:51:45: getting subterranean fish

00:51:46: or crabs then picking up any mushrooms on the side.

00:51:50: so... Pretty simple

00:51:54: in terms.

00:51:55: operation here.

00:51:58: So when you get down, they have a boat

00:52:01: ready for

00:52:02: you.

00:52:04: I don't

00:52:06: want to say it's a dinghy because its

00:52:07: big enough

00:52:09: more than four of them

00:52:11: but It is pretty small.

00:52:14: Let me get to

00:52:16: Westlake.

00:52:17: There we

00:52:17: are.

00:52:18: This whole thing was just called Westlakes.

00:52:22: Let me move over to

00:52:24: the map.

00:52:26: Are we rowing this boat?

00:52:29: But

00:52:30: this is just

00:52:31: us.

00:52:31: There's.

00:52:31: no you are on the boat crew now.

00:52:36: It was a long but that's it.

00:52:39: Yep, yep

00:52:39: like I said pretty pretty simple vote, but enough for You guys.

00:52:44: and then?

00:52:47: I Imagine Luca not out, but

00:52:48: he could definitely fit in.

00:52:49: Oh Yeah

00:52:51: He's out right now.

00:52:53: Like obviously you can fucking row.

00:52:55: yeah,

00:52:55: he's ruined.

00:52:57: I want

00:52:57: to ask before we go What kind of dangers are on this lake

00:53:01: like

00:53:02: oh, yeah.

00:53:02: Yeah definitely

00:53:04: Are there creatures in here?

00:53:06: Like we're gonna be attacked or should we make it across fine

00:53:12: um Could maybe

00:53:13: a diplomacy

00:53:14: check to ask some of the somebody people out

00:53:17: here There's

00:53:17: some fishermen and stuff like that.

00:53:18: so let's do.

00:53:19: I

00:53:19: was about say like at that point Members can also do that.

00:53:23: quite well officially.

00:53:25: I rolled like

00:53:26: yeah, so my only world lemon

00:53:28: I think, you know how i mentioned earlier about picking up like some bottled sunlight?

00:53:35: Like can we like retcon and see if that's something they sell.

00:53:39: Oh!

00:53:40: You could absolutely

00:53:40: buy that.

00:53:42: yeah so... If you don't want to buy it on the side your more than welcome.

00:53:44: Alright,

00:53:45: I'll spend some gold get a couple.

00:53:47: Amorous will chat-up like a fisherman.

00:53:50: he rolled at thirty four years.

00:53:51: So what exactly is it else besides crabs in this lake?

00:53:57: Oh!

00:53:59: So many crabs, but not so much anymore and that's what we're worried about.

00:54:02: But if you want to hear the legends do ya?

00:54:05: Oh please do tell.

00:54:10: There are legends of some sort of serpent out there.

00:54:14: It is as big as me...as big a boat

00:54:16: And he points at

00:54:17: your

00:54:18: boat.

00:54:18: You guys are in.

00:54:21: Last spotted I think ten or fifteen years ago.

00:54:27: it was when some little prankster kid decided to take his friend out.

00:54:34: Apparently, they were hunting for something and I forget what the story is now but this creature came up and knocked him out took a little prankster down to the bottom.

00:54:47: His friends made it back But that serpent he said was as big as the boat They were in.

00:54:54: Do you know what type of serpent?

00:54:56: It wasn't like a snake or was it a dragon?

00:55:02: Oh, no.

00:55:03: No is it?

00:55:04: No dragon just Some hungry serpent of some kind smart enough to knock over a boat though

00:55:12: Suppose we have to keep an eye out for that.

00:55:14: I could be possibly why the crabs are disappearing.

00:55:18: who knows?

00:55:22: He's at least know how deep this lake is.

00:55:24: um

00:55:28: i mean How.

00:55:29: i'm hoping he doesn't actually come up For why.

00:55:33: i would need to know this but i was like It's underground Cavernous lake, so I'm thinking like what is that?

00:55:40: Like a hundred feet deeper.

00:55:42: You know?

00:55:44: um i'm gonna say like fifty

00:55:47: like

00:55:47: fifty to six.

00:55:49: when

00:55:51: When we

00:55:52: were up in god where was the?

00:55:55: What did you ever do?

00:55:56: and then be That Lake park that we stayed at for vacation one time And like, remember all the trailers?

00:56:02: Oh yeah.

00:56:04: So we went to a humongous

00:56:07: lake kind

00:56:08: of wish.

00:56:08: I remember

00:56:09: what it was called

00:56:10: but at one point

00:56:11: when were out there just paddle boating whole time and i remembered being how deep is this?

00:56:15: because

00:56:16: its

00:56:16: fresh water lakes in the mountains.

00:56:20: oh this clearly looks like a

00:56:21: valley between two mountains.

00:56:24: How deep does he go?

00:56:26: He's about fifty, sixty

00:56:27: or seventy feet and I was like holy

00:56:29: shit.

00:56:29: It

00:56:30: was like,

00:56:31: can you imagine the catfish

00:56:34: that are down there?

00:56:37: I mean it was when i went to The Finger Lakes up in New York at one point and then we took a boat out of there.

00:56:43: And they were like yeah no its actually pretty deep here!

00:56:47: Like you get decent size ship

00:56:49: could just...no

00:56:51: issue..at all And I don't know why that freaks me out more.

00:56:55: It's like you got the ocean, and yeah it understands deep but then your'e like oh thats a deep lake or something living down there.

00:57:03: Yeah There are certain points.

00:57:05: when water is as muddled up When its kind of calm The

00:57:09: light can go deeper because this silt

00:57:12: doesn't clouded-up

00:57:14: the water.

00:57:15: You could

00:57:15: see

00:57:16: a little too

00:57:19: far.

00:57:19: How far down?

00:57:19: What

00:57:20: was my shadow?

00:57:22: Yeah, exactly.

00:57:23: So that's why I was like... You know the biggest thing in those lakes is probably a catfish

00:57:28: but they get a cat fish.

00:57:31: In this

00:57:32: case sea serpent!

00:57:33: I mean lake serpent

00:57:35: Lake.

00:57:39: As you guys are going to see

00:57:40: there were a ton of

00:57:42: smaller tunnels cut off from

00:57:45: massive lake area

00:57:46: and just sort of cut into

00:57:49: subterranean walls.

00:57:51: Some of them are super small, you can see a few crabs here

00:57:53: or there.

00:57:55: You could see some other smaller subterranean

00:57:57: creatures and fish

00:57:58: that they're swimming

00:57:58: about.

00:58:01: They seem to use these things, these cracks for full tunnels as

00:58:08: little

00:58:09: homes, nooks and crannies where they take shelter

00:58:12: in.

00:58:13: But this thing opens up so wide eventually.

00:58:16: you guys cant really see the ceiling.

00:58:20: It's just

00:58:21: so huge.

00:58:24: And so the scariest as it is,

00:58:25: it's cultivated an ecosystem

00:58:27: where

00:58:27: people can

00:58:29: farm crabs in this place

00:58:31: because they're so

00:58:32: big.

00:58:34: So are you guys on a map yet?

00:58:37: We are

00:58:38: Okay!

00:58:38: As

00:58:40: you guys

00:58:41: are

00:58:41: swimming out here...

00:58:43: You guys are

00:58:43: rowing out here.

00:58:47: Let me see if you guys can't

00:58:48: actually

00:58:49: see that.

00:58:49: Oh okay Over to the east side, there is what appears to be a large

00:58:56: pool of

00:58:57: glowy bulbous

00:59:02: bubbles

00:59:04: that are sort of like floating around and you can see

00:59:07: where it kind of gets

00:59:08: shallow at certain point.

00:59:09: You can see these

00:59:11: things just look like egg sacs

00:59:14: And theres

00:59:14: thousands of

00:59:17: them

00:59:17: down here And you can tell that this

00:59:20: is where

00:59:21: one of the spawning pools

00:59:22: is.

00:59:24: As you could see, there's

00:59:25: a few crabs

00:59:27: floating up saying what was going on and then swimming back down.

00:59:33: So yeah...you're

00:59:35: near a spawning

00:59:35: pool.

00:59:39: What

00:59:40: would do guys like to

00:59:40: go?

00:59:40: We are just supposed to investigate these pools right?

00:59:48: Yeah, yeah.

00:59:48: So they're just looking for if there's any sign of something that might be disrupting

00:59:53: their their spawning bait patterns.

00:59:56: I can detect magic Anything

01:00:00: else?

01:00:01: I mean perception.

01:00:02: I mean the problem.

01:00:03: my guess being is I Guess we would need a major check for this Just to people will be like oh, yeah This looks normal.

01:00:10: why man?

01:00:12: i've never seen subterranean crabs before.

01:00:16: Oh Something I wanted to do before we left.

01:00:18: actually, that i hope isn't too hard.

01:00:21: Um...I wanted to like go down the fucking flea markets and see if I could find myself a wayfinder from some off of some street vendor.

01:00:33: uh because it can cast light And I need a life spell.

01:00:40: Oh that's cool.

01:00:42: Yeah yeah all

01:00:44: pathfinders

01:00:45: in The Pathfinder Society they get a Wayfinder.

01:00:49: So I mean, so many adventures come down here.

01:00:52: Imagine somebody's got to pull a wayfinder off the corpse at some point.

01:00:56: Yeah you see this guy.

01:01:00: he is walking by and like,

01:01:02: I wish i'd ever joined!

01:01:03: And then he throws it into the ground and walks away.

01:01:05: How about that?

01:01:06: Dang!

01:01:07: Why are you

01:01:08: looking at

01:01:08: me?!

01:01:10: I take my

01:01:10: Wayfinder up...I flip it like a big quarter grab it and walk of whistling.

01:01:18: So you, so

01:01:19: yeah.

01:01:20: You're

01:01:20: able to find

01:01:21: a way to find her.

01:01:23: But uh...so you have your light source now?

01:01:27: And like I said with the light

01:01:29: Uh..you can see down and some of the crabs swimming about tending

01:01:34: their spawning

01:01:35: pool.

01:01:40: Go ahead and roll perceptions as you

01:01:42: are

01:01:42: up here To

01:01:43: see if there's anything

01:01:45: out of the ordinary

01:01:49: Or if you want to do a nature

01:01:50: or survival check,

01:01:51: You can kind of see

01:01:52: If there's anything Amiss.

01:01:54: I'll...I will do Perception.

01:01:56: Um...Thirty-six!

01:02:00: Okay um So you uh Yeah

01:02:05: i'll... I Can Do A Nature Check As Well.

01:02:08: Oh yeah okay Go

01:02:08: and do a Nature Check.

01:02:09: We'll

01:02:10: See Who Does Better.

01:02:12: I did pretty dang well

01:02:14: Sorry What Skills Did You Say We Could Use?

01:02:17: Uh..You Can Do Perception Just To See If There Is Anything Amiss Or If You Want

01:02:20: To Do Nature

01:02:22: For like more specific stuff.

01:02:26: that twenty for your perception

01:02:29: Damn nice.

01:02:29: Well, there we go

01:02:32: All right What was your nature?

01:02:33: They're

01:02:33: my nature was thirty six.

01:02:37: Okay so Well

01:02:39: you guys are

01:02:40: looking.

01:02:40: You

01:02:40: can see that some of the some of The crabs

01:02:43: Are swimming just fine

01:02:44: and others seem to be swimming

01:02:46: kind Of weekly likes.

01:02:47: it likes.

01:02:48: their back fins aren't working quite well or late early.

01:02:51: It looks like since some of them have like Like some of their

01:02:55: limbs,

01:02:56: like aren't

01:02:57: formed correctly.

01:02:58: It looks there's something going on

01:03:00: with them specifically and you would know

01:03:05: that this doesn't just

01:03:06: happen.

01:03:07: like

01:03:07: crabs are pretty

01:03:08: resilient

01:03:08: then they regenerate really well.

01:03:10: so the fact is what these seem to be

01:03:11: debilitated makes

01:03:12: me think

01:03:13: theres something

01:03:15: going

01:03:15: inside of the spawning pool itself or something in water perhaps?

01:03:19: Um, but there's nothing out here just like smashing eggs.

01:03:22: You know what I mean?

01:03:23: It seems to me that something is going on a chemical level almost.

01:03:28: Perhaps it some sort of infection.

01:03:37: Who was gonna go down and check?

01:03:38: Well which one of us has asked my question exactly.

01:03:41: Supposedly would be me.

01:03:42: I'm pretty adept at swimming

01:03:48: Trynna.

01:03:48: see if i have any helpful magic here.

01:03:51: I know theres an awesome quentrip That wish ive

01:03:54: had.

01:03:55: It's like air bubble or something.

01:03:59: If John has it, then you can tell him

01:04:02: Hold on I actually might.

01:04:04: There is a really good cantrip

01:04:06: for

01:04:07: just this situation.

01:04:10: Talcan had projectile!

01:04:14: I pick up the eggs and chuck them.

01:04:17: For some reason i have warped step twice in my cantrips That supposed to be there.

01:04:29: The spell is called deep breath.

01:04:35: You take an incredibly deep breath and can hold

01:04:37: it

01:04:38: for the spell's duration, which at our level is eight hours.

01:04:44: You don't lose breath when hit but you do loose all of air you inhaled if you speak including casting spells.

01:04:50: The spell doesn't create air.

01:04:52: If you don't have air to breathe...you won't get that

01:04:53: benefit.

01:04:55: I remember reading this note

01:04:56: Eight hour!

01:04:57: Okay

01:04:58: Hold breath Amazing

01:05:00: Damn.

01:05:02: Unfortunately he can't cast a

01:05:03: man.

01:05:04: Yeah, I think it's a self-spell.

01:05:09: There is no way they'd make a cantrip that powerful.

01:05:11: Oh God No!

01:05:12: That

01:05:13: ass cantrip...

01:05:16: I also didn't know if we did have something in our

01:05:19: items?

01:05:20: I've been trying to look through our items so many different like potion of this scroll or this scroll

01:05:26: and that.

01:05:27: Well

01:05:29: when you decide what everybody will do Casra can He's gonna take to the air and he'll get an aerial view.

01:05:38: But I will wait until everybody knows what they're going to

01:05:43: do.

01:05:43: Okay, gotcha!

01:05:45: So Sandor since

01:05:47: you can

01:05:48: cast that are you gonna cast it on yourself?

01:05:49: Yes...I

01:05:50: mean i cant cast for anyone else.

01:05:52: Yeah so okay all right..so you cast this deep breath on your self

01:05:59: and then you take a

01:06:00: wait a part of your go and I pull out some rope, then I tie the

01:06:04: rope around him.

01:06:04: I thought you were coming with me?

01:06:05: What

01:06:06: are y'all up to?

01:06:07: Oh

01:06:07: well... All right!

01:06:10: Yeah we'd show

01:06:10: the wizard in by himself if i can tell.

01:06:13: Somebody

01:06:13: would be like- And I tied this rope to them..and drop an anchor.

01:06:19: Good bloke!

01:06:20: But I do want a tire ropes off

01:06:24: on the

01:06:24: boat and tie it us so that when he gives us a couple of swift tugs start pulling.

01:06:31: Yes, of course.

01:06:32: And I mean Luca can easily pull people proof or confessed.

01:06:36: Oh yeah oh yeah we're lighter in water.

01:06:39: i know he's a heavy solid thick dwarf but Yeah

01:06:42: so yeah um okay uh So you guys um uh because do you take to the air?

01:06:48: well?

01:06:49: Well these two dwarves sink

01:06:51: to the bottom.

01:06:54: You guys go down.

01:06:55: Um you're able

01:06:56: to easily

01:06:57: get down to the spawning pole.

01:06:59: And like I said, you

01:07:00: can see that on this like mound there's just all of these eggs and all these tiny crabs and some of these larger crabs are tending to smaller

01:07:08: eggs and stuff like that.

01:07:11: but You Can See That There Appears To Be Just Like

01:07:14: Something In The

01:07:14: Water.

01:07:15: It

01:07:16: Is Like Merkier Here.

01:07:20: If You

01:07:21: Taste It At All it Doesn't Taste.

01:07:24: I don't know what subterranean freshwater would taste like, but it tastes worse than we you'd expect.

01:07:28: There's a very slight

01:07:30: hint of something gross in the water.

01:07:36: Does there seem to be place where its concentrating?

01:07:40: It looks like its murpier.

01:07:44: Yeah

01:07:46: around this spawning pool

01:07:48: is where

01:07:49: it seems to be.

01:07:50: Okay sure yeah so i'll just go down and start inspecting.

01:07:55: So yeah, you can see that some of the as You get

01:07:58: closer.

01:07:58: Some of

01:07:59: the eggs appear to be

01:08:01: infected with something

01:08:03: Like.

01:08:04: they're not The right color compared To

01:08:05: like the other one?

01:08:06: Some Of

01:08:06: the egg's here are like vibrant

01:08:08: But there seems to Be a lot more than you'd expect That.

01:08:11: it seems to be like Infected and They seem to have Not been growing correctly Or at all for that matter.

01:08:17: Can I do a medicine

01:08:18: on them?

01:08:21: Yeah

01:08:21: Yeah, yeah.

01:08:22: You want to do a medicine

01:08:22: on it?

01:08:23: Could I also possibly acknowledge nature?

01:08:28: Uh...yeah absolutely about that too.

01:08:29: Alright so that will be a thirty-three.

01:08:34: He beat my Nature Check by one

01:08:38: Okay.

01:08:39: So

01:08:41: when you go down here the taste of your lips and how they look at these crabs something feels like was put into water.

01:08:50: This doesn't feel

01:08:52: natural.

01:08:52: This doesn't feel like something that would just happen, everything here is sort of

01:08:56: excluded.

01:08:57: so not really anything will come in and

01:09:00: introduce into the ecosystem like

01:09:02: this.

01:09:03: it seems as if

01:09:03: something was put into the spawning

01:09:06: pool.

01:09:06: somehow It feels on a chemical application.

01:09:15: So

01:09:15: I have kind like crafting alchemicals, so maybe outside of my expertise.

01:09:26: So I know a religion...so i would know if it's cursed or i could maybe get a vibe with this curse-I don't medicine

01:09:32: but i

01:09:32: do not know

01:09:34: the alchemical.

01:09:35: Right!

01:09:37: But you can easily

01:09:39: take sample

01:09:41: and see if there is something.

01:09:42: That's

01:09:44: good idea..

01:09:45: I mean If its Alchemical?

01:09:46: Could make a crafting check?

01:09:51: You may

01:09:52: but self-respecting wizard doesn't have a great crafting.

01:09:58: It's got to make them scoot chemicals for himself.

01:10:00: thirty six

01:10:03: All right.

01:10:06: So

01:10:06: you

01:10:08: the you

01:10:10: Open your mouth just a bit in order

01:10:11: to sort of like taste the water you take away.

01:10:13: A little lick of it.

01:10:17: You know They got a taste

01:10:23: of

01:10:23: it.

01:10:24: I was watching some geologists thing and they were like, we're exploring this mountain!

01:10:29: And he's here with his world-renowned PhD.

01:10:33: He's spelunking the cave, lowering down to get a seventy foot drop... This

01:10:37: is incredible,

01:10:37: this is incredible!

01:10:38: National Geographic.

01:10:39: The scientists are like,

01:10:41: lick

01:10:41: the walls!

01:10:43: But then

01:10:44: he licks

01:10:45: it and he's like, it's salt!

01:10:50: Look sometimes you gotta lick it.

01:10:52: So I've

01:10:52: been like, okay geologists to just.

01:10:54: I actually saw a little cartoon on Instagram Like i'm gonna dip my finger in this poison wine and taste It so I can get a better fact here at description what the poison may be?

01:11:03: That's like thirty seconds later.

01:11:05: It was wyvern poisoned.

01:11:06: he's dead.

01:11:11: So this is not some sort of wyvern poison luckily but there is an obvious

01:11:16: alchemical

01:11:19: seeing as an aspect to what's happening

01:11:22: here in the water

01:11:23: that you know That it some

01:11:25: kind of

01:11:26: poison.

01:11:27: Oh, I was introduced here into this body.

01:11:29: Yeah All

01:11:29: right, I

01:11:36: kind of just point up Okay So we think I'm trying tell him yeah look

01:11:40: at a couple swift tugs because I feel like I probably run out of breath Here cuz were just kind of moseying around

01:11:47: Yanks and pulls off.

01:11:52: The two dwarves get whipped through

01:11:53: the air

01:11:54: as they breach the surface

01:11:56: Hit the boat, go right thru the boat Boat sinks

01:12:00: Everybody died

01:12:02: because we're just flying watching all this shit happen.

01:12:04: I mean do you want

01:12:04: an athletic check?

01:12:10: So you guys can get pulled up and

01:12:13: your

01:12:14: waiting in the water there.

01:12:17: And it's a moment that you

01:12:19: insinuate, but they're

01:12:20: some sort of

01:12:20: poison.

01:12:21: Poison?

01:12:23: Poison!

01:12:26: It seems quite up the alley of particular organization...

01:12:34: Oh yeah just the poison feels familiar at all because I was probably hit with alot different crazy stuff under

01:12:40: my eyes.

01:12:40: I

01:12:40: had some crazy shit in the sixties.

01:12:42: Oh, this

01:12:43: seems like captivation.

01:12:46: So it doesn't... I wouldn't say that it feels familiar.

01:12:50: It's just that it-it feels outcomical or it doesn' feel the

01:12:53: natural

01:12:53: sort of taste.

01:12:55: Now here is a thing

01:12:57: Is while you guys

01:12:59: are talking about this

01:13:02: Kezra

01:13:03: You're flying abou and you see something in

01:13:06: water.

01:13:07: Oh boy!

01:13:12: You see Something go under the boat.

01:13:15: Lookout I'm sure it's friendly

01:13:20: and It goes from

01:13:22: the.

01:13:22: he goes from

01:13:23: this south to the north, and then you see a turn around And start heading towards the surface.

01:13:28: It looks like that.

01:13:31: It's Chessie.

01:13:32: Oh

01:13:32: my god, it's so big.

01:13:34: God i'm gonna hit show the players.

01:13:38: oh my god

01:13:39: That is one hundred percent Chessio.

01:13:42: That's

01:13:42: what

01:13:43: our sea serpent looks Like.

01:13:44: it

01:13:44: Is A gargantuan Sea Serpent.

01:13:49: This is a in fact a gargantuan.

01:13:52: Oh my god, this thing

01:13:54: breaches the surface with its Serpentine

01:13:57: head and these fangs

01:13:59: And his tail is whipping

01:14:03: And then it

01:14:04: roars at you.

01:14:06: Luckily Kezra sees

01:14:08: another

01:14:08: shadow coming from the far southeast that looks to be about the same

01:14:12: size

01:14:13: And I'll

01:14:15: see guys next time.

01:14:17: Oh my

01:14:18: god.

01:14:18: Hey, maybe they're friendly.

01:14:19: Jesse's got

01:14:19: a friend!

01:14:20: Water combat...