PREVIOUSLY - CAMPAIGN DIARIES 79 - Noska and the Pit

13 Nightal - Day 167 - Fourthday 8:00AM - The Deepfires Inn

The Owlbear League was at the Thrown Gauntlet trying to make a connection with Noska Urgray of the Xanethar Guild. You met with Skurrin, the pit boss, and Dain talked his way into a fight with "fluffy". Fluffy turned out to be a ferocious drider. They had an amazing battle where Dain used his shield bashing techniques, javelin, leaps up with mid-air stylish tricks, and ultimately defeated the arachnid. This impressed Noska, and they were invited to fight the following night in a battle in the Xanathar's private arena. They agree to meet at the warehouse near the monster market tomorrow at end of work bell. They return to the Deepfires Inn to lick their wounds and hatch a plan. 

Immeral says "Yes, we meet at the Xanathar warehouse, and walk in the front door.  K'ronk should be invisible the whole time that way he doesn't just disappear into thin air. Do you think any could see invisibility?"

K'ronk doesn't think so.  "The only one I am worried about is Nihiloor, he has seen us, although dressed a bit differently, and we no longer have our cloak of gender disguise."  

The others nod, thinking about N'arl who "likes it."

Nowhere adds "It would be good to kill Nihiloor since he had his pets devour Floon's brain."

Immeral says "Stick to the mission. We have disguise self and alter self spells. K'ronk, you should have time to copy my disguise self spell."

Nowhere adds "I can trade that black drug for a disguise."  The others glare.

"Or just buy some clothes at the market." Nowhere corrects.  

Atlas says "Dain can't be in disguise, so he just has to play it straight if he gets questioned, like he left us and set out on the Riptide, but he stayed for fighting and gambling."

Nowhere asks "Seraphina, how do you feel about a haircut? We can boy you up a bit."  Seraphina nods.  "You can use Dain's belt to grow a beard!" nowhere adds.

"SICK!" replies Seraphina, although Dain says, "losing the belt will weaken me a bit. It makes me...  heartier, tougher."

I will also, per usual castage armor at the start of the day. Gotcha. I actually took that off the list. I'm just thinking that the blue for that one now. How long does that last? Uh, I believe it's eight hours. Okay, so you wouldn't do it at the beginning of the day, would you? Uh, probably, like, when we're getting ready to go. Like, not.. Yeah. Like, not as we're, like, arriving, but right before we leave to go, I'll just be like, okay. Okay. Cole have 4 p. Yeah. Okay.. And then once we're like partway there, like when we're getting close, that's when I'll disguise myself as a wood elf. All right. With like a kind of head scarf hood thing Cool going on. So that All right the hair. So the day passes, you get your disguises going on, you have a meal, take care of San and Trevin. Are you taking them with you? Uh. And what's with this cat Kozu? Where's he hanging out?. Oh, yeah, Where's your cat? Um. Fucking cozy.. Can I bring a cat? Did I leave it on the. I don't remember. I thought you brought it with you, but you left it, like, in our hotel or something. I' seeing that though. Where did we get the cat from? I don't even remember. It's, uh. The pet shop here down there? I from a barn. Oh, that way back. Al. Let's assume the cat is back in. So the cat isn't.. The cat knows where he can. Yeah, isn't the cat like the mouse like chaser now in the tavern? Yeah, the tavern. Okay. In tavern, yeah.. Okay, so Kozu's not even here. I was like, I think that I bro. I don't think I would have brought Kozy the undertog. I'll bring down with because he's just been in snake form hanging out like under my clothes. So... Undercl. Is that a snake in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? Oh, I cannot my pocket. And Trevin? What's Trevin doing?? Uh. I sent him away. I send him back to his little pocket realm. He sent him to his pocket dimension? Yeah, because I have the Vind familiar things so going in, which says I can just send them back to a little bit. Parentheses away. Yeah, I'm just like, all right, bye. Well, isn't that weird to have a little dragon on your shoulder here? You could have just bought him at the illegal. But you have to cast the spell to get him back, so, yeah. Or do you want to use them as part of your, you're hidden, so whatever. Okay. Yeah. Gotcha. Okay. He could be your A crowd is forming at the Xathar warehouse of different. dogs of people, all different races, all different types. Not a huge crowd. Disguise and invisible. Yes, I am disguised and invisible. Okay. And what happens is, while you guys are hanging out here at Area 16 here, let's do this. A door opens in the rock face of the wall of Skullport, where you see this S. And guards all the ku guards are all kind of around here. and there's guards that are all along the hall. various humans, kinku, dwarfs. It looks like, and they start letting people in. to the Xanar lair. I take an email in with the rest of the craft. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Can't we blend? Okay. You pass one room and it's a guard station. You can kind of see there's no guards in there because they're all in the hallway. And you get to area where it says X23. I Sorry. Oh, we're by the Kata. No. Whoa! Don't encourage them. Don't encourage. Whoa! It's funny. Sorry, I have lots to screw on here.. And there is a bunch of Kuatoa hanging out in the southernmost part of this area. And you also notice a ghostly eyestalk protruding from the ceiling in the middle of the hall. And if you look on your map, that aligns to there. And the Kuatur are coming in and out of this kind of area that you can't really see into too well And the floor over here is covered in some sort of slime. that you're not quite sure what gross's going on there. But the slime seems to be coming out from this southern area. And over in the slime area, walking past and going down this way, you see Niobar. At Casual, we do not know this man, but he's not really paying attention to you all. He's just going about doing something else. And you pass through X22 It's a hallway. with the staircase going down. Well, we're about to go into the bottom. And more guards are here in X17. So was that? X17? Where all of the bomb charges are arms. Yeah, it's a promenade. And as you turn, this door is opened, and you catch a glimpse of the beholder in his chamber there. No. Oh, my God. Guys, let's just go. Let's just do it. Leroy! My chicken!! Oh, my God, he just went in. stick to the plane. Stick to the plan. And the guards lead you into this doorway where you head down. Leroy, you fucking suck. And there is a... arena.. And alongside up waiting at the front of the arena, is. Noka. And Noka is welcoming people, and he sees Dane and he points at Dane, and he's like, you're looking great. I hope you're ready for a fantastic battle today. You coming on me? Shut up. And he says there's a short stairway here. And he goes, head down to the the staging area and pick your weapon. If you're not going to fight with that fantastic Shield and javelin again. Say that again.. And D, I take it you follow his direction and go off down to the cages? Yeah. Okay. There's a lot of different creatures down there, a lot of different beings down there. I see some of the creatures and be like. Yeah, you're not.. psych out. You're like, this is the easiest plan ever. I don't have 10 psychic damage from D. Like. All of them take 10 psychic damages. Incred D. And there's a band up here on the stage. Oh my God. And the band is playing some kind of crazy music. How crazy? Is it like Star Wars jizz? That took me a second. Star Wars shit. I forgot what's what the fucking song. Stupid. control! You claiming you reacting like you had acid on you. I's no distinction. There's no distinction in my mind between a dice falling out of my bag and me getting hit with a glass of asses. Man, what a way to come back for five week break. And you guys take seats and the crowd mills in and after a little bit, you're kind of all waiting around. It's taking a little, you're like, what's taken so long? No looks a little nervous in finally, floating into the arena. is the beholder. Oh, fuck. Xanar. What's good And he takes a position and he floats in and takes a position across from you. To not to show me what you've got. Show what you got And fucking wordy, but that is unirically so stupid. It makes me laugh. And he's followed by the entourageolution. This is what you glanced when you glanced into the room there, by the way. I love this picture so much. I got to pull it up. Not this one. It looks like. No, not that one.. I'm like. He looks like it. It looks like the old picture Don's. This is what you saw when you glanced into the room there really quick. That was in his chamber in there. It looks like those like 90s McDonald's live action movies. Yeah. Okay. I know what you're talking about. That's a deep pole, Alexa. That's a fucking deep pole. I'm just saying. And so he is open to mentioned.. So we've got. Oh, that's.. Look at how tiny I am. Yeah, so that that's Suzanor guy. I like this one better. It's so much. What if you, while you're snooping around being all invisible and shit, what if you get that poison, that what's as fuck was talking about? Do you need a shrink? No, no, no. You just go to the kitchen and, like, fuck up his food. It's like, I wonder which food is the beholders and there's the one that just looks like a.. Okay.. It's labeled for the Xanor. It's so fucking funny. This one's the Xanor. You can see the label. this. It looks like that dog. If I have time, I can I don't know why at it. I can get the poison because it's in the room. Look at it. The poison for the Xan is Xan is poison. I like that. That one's pretty good, too. Oh, it's Sunday. It It's! How that you mean it. That is. I understand, but what's sitting across from you guys, floating the room, by the way, is lit with a magical dome that's lit from the ceiling to make it really bright in here. Somewhere in the back of his mind, Meryl says, how are we doing this at level seven? Yep. Um And. There is an initial fight of a couple Now that the Xenor is in place, Dooska kind of takes it over. He's got a full horn in a cone, and he has everyone settled down, and there's a fight before you, a couple of interesting creatures, but, you know, details of beyond me right now. And now it's time for your fight, Dean. Oh, shit. And you come out and you're introduced to the arena, the shield fire day shield fighting dwarf Dane and you guys do. God. Yeah.. I love It's a little bit different vibe, because there's not gambling per se going on like at the other shop, you know? Yeah. This is just pure entertainment. Right. It's real quick. And then Dane's opponent. Fluffy! Fluffy That's a scary name, actually. I'm terrified remember something's saying that. I was about to say, it's going to be some, like.. I'd rather I' fight. It's going to be like an owl bear. There's a difference between, like, Gargoth the Blood letter. I was going to say, I'd rather fart Garlo Gargoth the blood letter than fluffy because. And then, yeah, and then. The Fluffy's ironic. They know the Fluffy's scary. And they had to give it a weak ass. And they and the crowd goes wild when they say Fluffy. Oh, they know who this is. This is bad favorite. Uh-oh.. I. You got this Dane. Be their new Fluffy. Yes. Yes. Let me put my business voice on. I am Mariaanna. You what? Aard? Iard. Did you watch the game Cheers? I have not watched the new game changers, but I'm excited because she's going to be in the next season of Crinkle Rule. The new Game Changers is great. Do you have a dropout subscription, Clay? I do. Josh has logged into it right now. Well, my roommate does. So I can give it to you. Yeah. Because we can use as many. I know, because you want. That's awesome. Dad. Dropout is awesome because they are like, yeah, uh, share your passwords. Just do it. It's logged into Josh's TV. Drop out is. It was like the college humor. They're like Netflix, basically, that they do all their shows on, like Dimension 20 and all that. Okay. Game changer, play it by year, which is one of my favorite on Drout. But, yeah, and sheer passwords. They're like. That's what I was thinking. They're like, yeah, please share your passwords. and then we can share everything. We don't care.. And then they, so yeah, they encourage it. They say share it with as many people as you want. And then actually they did a thing where they were like, we're going to have to bump our prices unless you're already a member. Then we'll just keep it the same for you. It's like, what, $3 a month or something like that? Is that? I think it's six.op out. It was $5 a month. Now it's six. Which is fair. Oh, yeah, dimension 20. I got you. But again. I love while you look out, Drop out, both of the pictures of people are Brennan Lee Mulligan. Not Sam Reich, the CEO, and person behind Game changer, one of the most popular shows. Nope, it's friendly M. Twice. We all know why. We all know why. Come on. Dick Michaelis is my favorite. She's so funny. I love I love Brennan, and I love.. Oh, fuck. What's his name? I'm like blanking out. Jake? No. Jake is. Well, Jake is also a hilarious.? I's okay. Fuck. What's his name? I'm so stupid. Do you know what? Also on Dimension 20. fans online and I'm like, oh, I' bet I feel about that. If he does? Yeah. There was one a while ago where somebody basically just like mentioned this Lou. Lou Wilson. Gray. I was a fan of this one Reddit video that if he was on. And then if he, like made an entire, like 10 minute video, basically being like, you're so parasocial. And she was just like, dude, I was just coutiquing that one episode because you guys had some, like, weird take on things and like, the girl who was also on that episode had this one take on, like a story that ended up being like a complete opposite of something that she had said earlier in that episode because earlier she had said that like certain milestones, you don't need like certain, like, you can be any age to reach certain milestones. Like you can like it's not like you have to move out when you're 18 and stuff like that. And then like, later on she made a comment about like, if you're still 23 and living at your parents' house, what are you doing? It's has always been my favorite. I've been a fan of Katie since like, college humor. I was just looking at, I'm sorry, I was I got distracted looking at the list. Oh, you? It's kind of frustrated. Yeah, it was just like a weird take where I was just like, you know, I agree with it being on a lot of things, but all this, I was just kind of like, you kind of just look like a jerk iffy. Paul R. By calling out this random person, just because she basically was like, hey, I didn't really like this one episode because they had some takes that I didn't agree with. And then he turned it into, you're so parasocial and you're freaky and weird. Mood. Yeah. That's just like a personal thing, though. I also know that there was like a bunch of stuff happening recently with dropout with like some of like Serena and what's his face? Ryan. Ryan. Steve Ryan's not a good person. No. I don't know the full extent of it, but I did get bits and pieces from it and sayage Ryan's just not a good person. Oh, yeah, I heard a couple of different stories and I was like, you know what? I never liked her and I'm glad that I feel like been validated now. She always seemed really fake and she would always laugh and was like, really like fake, like. like voice that was very obviously fake. And nobody would, like, be like, oh, that's a weird laugh. All right, so Does someone have a band-aid? I picked a scab on. Yeah,. There's one up the stairs. I got you. So, question one. Yeah. Cronk. Yes. Are you sticking with your group in the are and waiting for Dean to start or are you leaving on your. So Kron came in invisible. Yep. And disguised. Yep. Are you following to the arena? Or did you peel off early? I.. 'Cause I think it would be smart to peel off early with the thought of like, the Xanaur might come watch this. We didn't know for sure. I guess my only thought is, is that was that something discussed originally, though. As soon you discussed it, so, what do you want to do? I might kill off, though. Okay. So, you're in the hallway here. You're about to go into the arena. Do you go somewhere else? Are you going in the audience chamber with the Xanar in there? Or I take it not? Uh, I think. And you do know where the kids are, and you do know there's a secret passage here, Although it is under the eye of the Penoptus. But you could take those guys out too, if you want to try to... So I believe what was discussed and like talked about was that I need to try to get to Cackl's room to start planting stuff.. Plant the stuff to frame him for the death of Sund death. Yep.. Including the beheaded body of Sund. Yeah.. Did we talk about like a bag of folding stuff like, is that the only thing? You should put the body under his bed? Yes. Will the body fit under the bed? Some death was a big dude. He can chop it up. Yeah, he's too big to fit under a bed. What? It's too big. What if we, like, what if I? Because the body's in the portable. Punch him really hard and, like, break his bones now the whole bit. You're trying to turn him into, like a pancake? He'd be a giant It's like a subway guy. You in. You're not comparing something that was once a living being to a flattened subway sandwich right now.. So for the sake of this mission, should I have an empty bag of folding? Like, there shouldn't be anything in here, because I had to transport people anyways. If if there's a way to have an empty you're going to leave all the stuff in the portable hole that's bigger, I think I need to have an empty bag of folding right now, so I would have left stuff in the portable. I think here's my proposed plan of action. Yeah. You drop the shit off and cackles room. We. After you're done, maybe see aboutcause, what's as fuck, Narl told us about a poison that he had. Maybe grabbing the poison and fucking with the food in the kitchen. Okay. And then last piece would be getting the kids. I know they're under the eye of the whatever the panopticon is. but figuring if there's a way to get the kids out of there, maybe using the portable hole once you empty it, because it can fit all three of them and they'll have a shit ton of air. Okay. their kids. I'll actively, I have a horrible hole on. I don't have a fold We drop the shit off, so all that's in there right now is the body of some of the treasure. That way there was more probable cause, like for looting and stuff. Like if there's stuff that we aren't going to use, like, I think there were multiple, like, brow priestess head pieces or whatever that weren't magical or something. Someone was keeping track of that loop. Who kept track of that loop, just so we know? I think I. But if there is like a piece or a couple pieces of loot that we could also put in there, so there was more probable cause and not just the body. Yeah, there was a whole bunch of beast trophies, which you were kind of interested in. There was weapons of armor. various suits of suits of scale mail, some still bloody. Maybe if there were any non magical weapons that none of us have used for. Because capital, the whole point of capital not liking sunde is Kel wanted Sund death's job. So maybe collecting some of the arms so that way he's like preparing to take that mantle. Can I ask a question? Yeah. How you're making an assumption in your plan that someone is going to know that it's Sund death's treasure? Like, I think? Do you think the way I think there's a lot of thievery happening in this bitch to begin with, so. I think the way that we've worked it out, though, is that we would take his iconic wear, like, his helmet and his. His where? Okay, got it. His own. The body will be in there, but also, like.. Will, you said the treasure and I think what you mean is his helm that he was wearing. Yeah, his helm and, like a sword of his that, like would notably be his. The things that someone who's a very powerful spellcaster would be able to easily cast identify on. Yeah, I think he had a helm of feather falling with the great horns, which is very iconic. Yep. And his weapon was the plus three great sorts. I think we should have both of those sitting out with his body. That way, it is like, if you want for one. Yeah. Okay, so there's no questioning like, oh, this headless body is definitely on death because X, Y, and Z, and also here is his helm and his weapon. So the portable hole that's on me right now? Yep. Yeah. I have three things. I have some death's, headless body. Come up. Helm Feather falling. Okay. Plus three green sword. Love it. And then I leave the rest of his face empty if I'm going to grab anything else and if potentially I do grab the kids. So that is what I have on me. My bag of folding is not with me because I don't want to make an atom bomb right now on. God. Differe sue. All right, soon. So where are you going now, Kon Okay? I'm. S slots, where Right there. Yes. Can we have the post note somewhere? We need one for the disgu self, right? Whoever gets this guy's self, I need spell slats. So I'm going to pay you. Here. There's nowhere. Do you There's a Merl's. Mm hmm. Do you have. post note I could steal Tom? It was someone on the table. That's I know. It was definitely somewhere earlier. Are? I was gonna becauseorvin's kind of out of the. So I was gonna do kind of what I went with... Here, I've got a couple of g and just say it comes out of the picture. Yeah, I wonder what happened all... I just opened four more ps, so there should be some on this table. All right, Tom, I'm gonna pay you four small slots. Oh, I want some. I cast this guy cell on myself from the beforehand, and I'm, like, S fly on myself, so I'm kind of worried about.'s got on. Sounds good. Don' be on them though, because it'll bleed right through. Oh, yeah. There's not much room to fly in these. I just want to be able to go's the thing, so I'm not actively bumping into. It's like a fail safe. So you don't. You're gonna like spider ceiling one? I feel like it's like on the ceiling. Something is gonna, like, get on my case and be like, How long does flight last? One hour. Okay. Gotcha. It works. Yeah. Super. Kron has disguised self. I know. Wait.m. And then then who else has disguised self? Oh, sorry. Fly last 10 minutes. I was reading something else that said hell. I have a duration of 10 minutes. So let's not do that? Noah. How about I keep it on sand by? You't be able to hold the kids then. Can you retest yourself? I can. Why don't I leave those three up there? 'cause I might need to, but right now I'm gonna sneak around I'm not and just do it if I. Okay, here's these back. Three back? Yeah. For what? So I will just. I will keep them, I have fire. He did not talk. Thorvin did not talk about any sort of plate or anything that you could bump into. Okay. All right. So you go to the north, you open the doors here, near the eye stalk. It's looking upwards towards the north. Okay. Guarding the entrance to the. And you do make your way to where Thorven had marked a secret door. Okay. Do a perception check. You got it. with advantage. Sweet. That's going to be 14. That is a What kind of bonus do you get on perception? Oh, plus three. So 17. You do find it. Sweet. You're able to kind of push it tile on the wall here. and head into a hallway. You remember in a new halloint, Obi- One is going across the little pillars and he's like just a random stuff? The 45s fer. Yes. Yeah, I feel like that right now. I'm just slow low guy. sneaking around. Sneaking in the.. eye carvings on the wall that blink at you, which is a little unnerving. solid face, solid face. And you had to the tiele you pressed was one of these blinking eyes. So kind of creepy. But you're in the hallway. Good job, son. Yes. Nice. I. I look to my right. And you can see, here's your up on the screen, here. Here's your reminders from, it's supposed to be cackle o, the kids, barracks. and the Popticon. Yeah. Bring out where my hands, and I cast detect magic on the castle door. This 20 foot wide hallway is magically lit, so you do detect that from the ceiling. And life like human statues dot the hall. Oh. Hmm. The Cecil is not a fan of that. Am I But they are not magic. They are just. They're very lifelike, though. Oh, okay, so And you hear you hear a noise around the corner here. footsteps, something, a little bit of laughter. I amm just going to move quick then. Mm hmm. This cat close door, it's closed right now. It is. Okay. In the spirit is just moving. Oh, in the spirit of moving quick. I has a knock on the door. get my ass in there. Nice. Because the door was locked. And you move into capital room. It's got a bed table. I relock it from room inside. It's got a whole bunch of weapons inside. I go, "Wow." Uh. Reluck it once you're inside. There's smart pretty good. And then I will go. And in the water? It has a spellbow. It's It's a bomb! Shit, it's gonna explode. I I feel the temptation. It is real. I've got things to do, though. Well, if you can grab it on the way. I am a thoughts. As long as you don't turn into a bomb, I do not want to repeat that. Listen. I listen to shit. I got shit to do, though. I'm like.. Okay. another time. So you pushed the.. portable hole on the floor. Yeah. It opens a six foot opening. Yeah, and I.. And I take his body out and I go, ew. and start grabbing helmet, sword, and I sit it there. I love crumps stealth mission segments. I like to do it a little comically, but that's just me. So you manage to pull the corner with much effort, you manage to pull the headless corpse of Sund death. Yeah. And you stuff it where? Okay. So we specifically describe this. We're going to describe it that if the door is open, you could actively see it in there. So I'm going to like position it. like, slumped over on the ground kind of? What else? If there is a way to frame, because there's a bunch of weapons in here that seemingly belong to Cackle. Uh. Just for extra measure, just fucking stab one into the corpse. Well, here's the thing. I grabbed one of those swords and I explode, so that's the only problem in there. What I mean you explode? I'm just thinking back to the spell book. The Now it's interesting. I wonder if in your invisible state, if you attack a body. Do you become visible? Does it ruin your invisible body? I think it's like if I take an action to attack. Oh, okay, then maybe don't. Until you attack or. I mean, here here's my thought, though. And this is just using D&D logic. Attacking is something you do to a creature. A corpse is no longer considered a creature. It's considered an object. That is not true.t is something that you can do to any object as attacking a door or attacking a chest.s is an action. I wouldn't consider Unfortunately, if I'm going to smack a bookshelf, I'm not attacking the bookshelf. I'm hitting a thing. The reason that it's like that, though, is because if you were going to in combat smack a bookshelf or break down a door because somebody slammed it behind you, you would be using your action to attack.. So, if you were if you were like in combat and somebody ran into a door and slammed the door shut and locked it, that's so that it can't be like, well, because this isn't an action to attack it, I can just unlimitlessly smack the door until it opens and then run in and take my action. It still feels scuffed, but I understand. It has to be greater and visibility for me, so it's hacks something. Oh, a dead body is an object, so it ends in visibility for tax on a person or object. Yeah. So, greater invisibility would not end. Yep, that's what Josh says said. I will Why don't we do have the Ring in Invisibility so you could always just recast it, I guess. Okay, so you want to prop up Cackles's Sund deaths B. somewhere like across the room where it's visible to anybody who passed by the door. Yes. And specifically, does it look like that he has a nightstand? Yeah. I'm putting the helmet on the nightstand.. And then the sword, I'm putting it in the collection of weapons. So it's all set up that like St is spread around the room. He's an egomaniac that's having the dude's helmet on his nightstand that he can look at while he goes to sleep every night. I'm so proud of my a. I love killing., I love murder. Okay, so, as soon as. There's this little meat. You've got the whole setup going on. You've taken about. You've taken about five minutes. Yeah. Okay. So I will roll the thing back up and get back together.. And I will, I'm going to specifically just put my ear up to the door and see if I can still hear those people. You hear a little pop pop something, but you're not sure what. little pop pow. I hear a bagbang. It's like a t. the fuck is this? T. You sure I won't? Oh. Something is like activating things to. You don't know. It's like. uh. We're going to have an Indiana Jones type situation. I'm running away from a giant boulder. Okay. Oh, wait, wait, wait. What. Is it the Is it the panda. The Penopticon? Yeah, is that the Penoptic? The security system? Yeah. Is it searching right now? Maybe there's just rat on the ground. Little shit. The rat on the ground. Could I possibly make like, an insight check if it sounds like it's something that's actively like. checking surroundings, I guess is a good way to put it. see if it if it sounds anything. It's actively checking surroundings. I don't understand. Like this sound, does it sound like something that is like moving to areas to checking things? Is it just like it basically sounds like almost like a power source running up and down? like more. I don't know power source, what you mean by that, but it. It's just kind of random. Okay. If I don't hear that anyone is around. It kind of fades off a little bit. Okay. What I'm going to do is is this door one that you open it, you can lock the handle, close it, and now it's locked like in the moment you close the door? No, it's old style keys locked the door. Okay.. You could leave the door open so somebody walks by and maybe seizzles some that stuff. True. I So it's not locked now. Okay. Josh said that he locked it when he went in.. He doesn't have the key. Oh, from the inside? Like, not like our door, where from the inside, you not. Oh, okay. Okay. Um. What I'm going to do then is uh is like an important stuff right now. I feel like having the store locked, you know.. Why does it need to be lock? Don't you want to leave it open so if it's discovered? But if Tackle gets to it first, though? It doesn't matter, then he'll be trying to clean it up in this entire place. And will ever see. Yep. All right. I will. I will open the door. step out, leave the door. Okay, as you step out into the hall, still invisible. a little fella. Uh oh. Oh, it's a K. That's not. No, that's that's right. That's That's. No, that's yeah, hold on. I'm trying to get A little fella in parentheses O? No. Nope. It's the letter K., not this episode. Albert League is brought to you by the letter. I' Squidley. It is F.. Finico Dare from the Hunger Games. Oh, my God. Uh-oh, he's red. That doesn't mean anything good. Um. You see. It's spot. garishly dressed, deep gnome, It's phialore. Doing cartwheels. in the hallway. Oh, Oh, God. A deep no. Hold on. Hold up over. Is this somehow And one of the Cobal's other cousins? Shit. Oh, no. He looks like.. What was, uh Siizzle? What was Sizle's cousin's name? Fizzle. Fizzle. Oh, that's a go. Actually. And he is doing cartwheels and such in the hallway, practicing his. acrobatic routines. I think I know what I need to do. I'm. I got another child. And he's like spinning his staff. He has to be a loose child. And he notices the door open up. Ooh, I. And he goes, cackle and he looks. And he goes, I say nothing. I love that this is the kind of fucking discovered. I say, body! He screams out. And he starts running. You got to get the fuck out of. He starts running down the hall. And his body! Headless body!! He cross his body. I'm. I'm not part of the problem at this second. I don't. I get to myself, shit! Where do you go?. He ran around the corner now. club. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Which room did I hear was the the poisoning? What's that? The one when Garl told us about the poison, he said he had a poison to use on the... So that would have been in Garl's room, which is down. Oh, is he downstairs, Narl? I think he's downstairs. Let's see. Hold on, hold on. Oh, he is. He's next to the crypt. He's downstairs, yeah. But that's right by the kitchen. All right. I'll give you the fucking nap. Why am I holding it? No worries. Do I... I feel like I gotta stop for the kids. So you you either have to go down their stairs here that gets you down to the lower level. There was stairs here, stairs here. Well, that wouldn't probably be good in the arena. Could I get, like, a view from like the conversation that we talked? It's like getting the kids as the priority right now or poisoning the food as the priority right now.' Because I need to help a little bit of decision making. You don't know where the kids are. I was about to say, don't right now. You don't know where the kids are. We know where the poison is. Okay, then I'm gonna go start for the poison as I actually don't know where the kids are. Okay, so you're going to go which way? This guy can scream and help us find him. And he's yelling in the barracks. Random children. My children! I am going. He's going for the B. Fuck. I am going back in the secret route that actually. Okay, you go back into the secret route.. It's you. No. What? You can't prove that. Uh, I don't have like to prove that. Where are you going next? it? Try. I am going to go down the hallway, that a little like half moon crescent.. I'm going to start going down there. Now, the audience chamber is still full because I'm going backwards in time a little bit. We're still, people are getting settled in and seating, and the Xanar has not made his way to the arena yet. Okay. I think I got, like, stay hit right now. Yes. And just, like. I have a moment to not do anything and not start anything, so I'm just going to, like, pause and just not do anything. Shit, you know what? I'm actually gonna, uh. Should I come back to the arena and be with everyone? Yes. Yes, so that we can be your alibi? Yes. I'm going back to the. I did. The steairs down is right here. That's right. I was going to say the stairs down to get to the poison. Okay, I'm going down the stairs thing because that's. I won't be near the L Xana B. All right. So you go down the stairs. Yeah. And you kind of come through the little pier and then there's there's an I stalk looking around in the hallway. Yeah. But Narl's room is to the right. Okay. I will I will move towards the area and I'm going to fire off another detect magic. You detect magic from the eye stalk, but nowhere else. Cool. Uh, nowhere else? I'll test the door I can see if it is unlocked. It is locked. All right, I am going to Cas not. Hold on one s I need. Damn. Once you get back to the arena, you should try to get an alibi from the spectator. just like, ask them a question or something to make it seem like you've. Yeah. You' like, what is this fucking thing starting? Literally, because then. is this guy Then people who aren't could be like, oh, yeah, I saw him. He was asking me about this fight. Oh, yeah, this guy was kind of me a rude ass, asking everybody when things gonna stop an asshole. This guy was heckling the entire time. Yeah, what about it? This guy was throwing tomatoes that day. I hate you. You get super. You cast the Knox Spell, you go into Narl's room.. and two open crates rest against the north wall, a stone desk in the southwest corner is completely free of papers, the chair behind it carved with a spider motine. Bare stone bookshelves stand against the east wall. It's the way my stupid ass misheard for a second, and I thought you said with a spider monkey, and I'm like, "What the fuck?" You see a spider monkey in the room? I don't see. Yes. A spider monkey named Motif. Whoa.. Did Naros specifically tell us what we would be looking for if we were to get in the room? If you asked him, do you think you asked them? Yeah. Okay. Yes, he mentioned that they're behind the bookshelf as a secret room. A secret room? Yep. Let's The manifesto. God. The manifesto. All right, he has it all written down. All right, I'm going to close the door behind. All right.. No way to lock it. Fold door. Nope, it's a key door. Oh. And I will I will start getting the work on moving that bookshelf. It's not on your drawing because.. Thorven didn't know about it, but there is a secret passage behind the bookshelf, you find it, and it's a to another room right over here on the map from like, square, basically.. Yeah. And inside the room. Is a tiny disco ball? It's unlit and choked with dust and cobwebs, but obviously you can see with your.. I chew something, something, it just got small. There are a bunch of kegs of ale and wine. beer. Yep, drink another beer.. And there is on a table a vial with a skull on it. And a big arrow on the ceiling that says the poison. Yes. There's also actually like raspberry syrup, which is his favorite, so he knows that if someone's trying to poison him. Wait, a poison cold gooseco the b. Oh, yeah. Yep. It's all cook together. There's also a crate with 30 onyx trophies. What? Oh, my God, it's detonators. No, it's all of his middle school trophies? No, it's the statues that you can throw and activate and make a friend, a helper. Well, with this horrible hole that I got, I will.. Okay, crunk I bad news, you just turn the. And there's another... Why did you still lava bushing? There's another crate with 50 stuffed beholder dolls in. What the. What the fuck? Like, M dolls? He's merchandising. Oh, my God. I'm gonna come back and be like, plushy's for sale. Come and get a plushy. No, no, no. They don't. Mak makeshift is making Dane plushies now. So you have the you've been another five minutes. Yeah. And you now have the jar with the blinding poison. Nice. All right, I take that. I take the onyx shoes, I take the beholder plus she. Okay. You put those in the portable hole. I promise you, I have a legitimate reason for this. I'm not just collecting something. For the kiddo? Okay. No. I' Here's a push of your kidna. Hey, remember I take it, you head to the kitchen? Yes. Okay. And there's. strangely, there's two kitchens here. The first kitchen. Hold on, I got to make sure I got the right one. Just you want the rest of this way, I feel like I'm very sugared out after this week, so I' No, no. I'm kind of. Just take it and throw it in the fridge and you can always reheat it later when when you want it. I think I'm going to go on a little show break. You got one of those air. Okay, so what they told you, Thorvin told you is that this kitchen is the common kitchen. but this kitchen up here is the Xanor' special gourmet kitchen. So the other kitchen, black smoke flows follows the stench of burnt meat and bread down the hallway. This magically licked kitchen has the following features, a haggard male halfling frantically tries to meet kn, simmer sauce, and mixed spices all at once. He's kind of moving around. So you're having to kind of dodge him to And an iron stove stands against the south wall and cooking utensils hang from hooks just beyond the haling's reach, which he sometimes jumps up and cries to get. So that's it. He's he's trying to cook a meal for everybody here... I.. And you hear laughter from down the hall. I let him suffer and his cooking, and I go. I let him suffer. Okay.. So you go to the gourmet kitchen. D. Yeah, I go to the other kitchen. And I would like to say, in like my outfit, I have like a little v basically like sitting right here. It's not in the portable, so I can just. Exactly. You have it on your person. Yeah. All right. I'm a mighty thirsty. Put the glass yards in there too. The scent coming from this kitchen improves drastically, and there are seven kobalts wearing white hats dashing between tables, frantically preparing meals for the Xanar and arranging food on fine silver platters. And there are two gazers as well overseeing the cobulbs, and they seem to be using their telekinesis to over and move some of the food platters to get them ready. And there are two iron stoves standing against the east wall with a slender spice rack messel between them. they're in food prep mode. All right. All right. I guess I'm looking for, like anything that's maybe like liquid. There's lots of saucy food, but the gazers are kind of moving the platters up onto high shelves near the stove to get them as they're being prepared to get ready. And they're over the stove so they stay warm, you know? Okay. When I' be able to reach them, like, just with like my hand, basically, or when I have to like tall? I am tall, but I'm wondering if I can, like, reach it, basically. They're really high up, so you'd have to kind of get up on some sort of chair or stand on the stove or I have those flying standby. I will I'm looking to complete this. I will use three spell salots. I have like five left point. You just levitate on the Yeah, I'm just like yeah, I'm going to use the fly smell. just because I want this to really work. Okay. Whichever food looks like they just has like a good amount of sauce, I will just look. ever so slightly just. Yeah. And important. Yeah. Okay. You are able to get the poison onto the Xanar food. Oh, All right, I need to get the fuck out of here now. You start heading out, you use your fly to avoid everyone. Yeah, that's. And you're back on the stairs. And you kind of head back up. Yeah. Okay? Do you go back with your companions or where are you. I stay by to see the fight that Dane's going to be in or are you staying away from there? Is there anywhere on the map that could give you a clue of where the kids might be? I... While you're in the hallway.. Yes. From around, you're kind of like, right here. Yeah. Or here, let's say. Yeah. And you're kind of thinking about which where you should go, should go back or whatever, and Naihalor comes in to the hallway and he puts a special stone in the little niche in the wall right here. Oh. And he steps into this circle. and he teleports away. Oh. This is storm story away. The stone is. That's a good question. as it work. Is the material consumed? No, it kind of set the destination and the circle lit up, and then he took it back. It's like a key. Okay. duly noticed. Did the other thing that I just? Yeah. It's it was like a little statue. Oh, that he like a little, like a figurine. He put it in there. Wait, it don't like on it? dolls Yeah, No. If I compare it to like the on statue, it'. No, it's. No. I At that point, we'll just take that as a duly noted. Now, Josh, you know, I can see on the map and says, like, the kids, Barry so yada, yada, yada. But I think right now is the time to kind of just let things happen, so I'm going to return to the. You return where? To the group. All right. So you go back to the group, and the fight hasn't even started, so you're back with them. Yes. And now they announce, you know, Dane comes out, yeah, because you only took about 15, 20 minutes. Yeah, 20 minutes. You see him like standing over and I start making conversation I like, what is this fucking fight stuff? Wait, you're still invincible, right? No, I dropped it like the moment I go. So I am like, Ivisible here. You're just hear me yell, where is this fucking fight gonna start? I don't actually yell because someone that is there might zap you out of existence. I know. I' just... Stop making a ruckus.'m in a peaceful around.. So you squeeze in with your companions and, you know, the time you guys tell me to like shut up and be And now, and they and they announce that he's going to fight. that that Dane is going to fight Fluffy. And Fluffy comes out. described. Yeah, Fluffy's going to be in Shine Night. Chloe's been, like, shitting himself over there. It's like a young black dress. And here's Fluffy. Oh, I. Let's go! It's aera.a, are you dead? Yes. And by the way, Clay, just so you know, I pulled out my big steel D20 to fuck you up right now. It's initiative. 18.! Come on! Oh, well, 11 plus 15. And he has, do you have any pluses? He has no pluses. That is the pluses. That is the pluses. So he gets initiatives. So Fluffy flies up and he shoots his fire breath at you. In a 15 foot cone, he shoots it. So you must make a DC 15 deck saving throw. take damage. 19. You save, so you only take 15. points of damage. Oh, my God! Although it looks like I get it. 15, thank God. 15 points of damage from the. Hold on. God damn. Well, I'm so hungry.. Once again, you guys now, you're in the stands, and you're like.'s disguised self-f. All right, so, Dane, you're lost 15, so 15 damage. Hold on. Is this You were at 63. Is there a roof over? Yeah, this's like a big dome, but it's up high. So it's like I' just wondering I'm going far 30 feet. He can't get that far up. So, yeah. It doesn't But the crow cheers as he's like, throws flame at you, and you hide under your shield, you know, It's only of dodging height. He's always within range. Yeah, within shave range, yeah. Which is all I need, anyway. One sec.'s the way to. Well, can I use, like, I can use ring of jumping. Wait, there's no bad.. You have your boots of Ring of jumping on, right? I can jump up and try to like, ride like a horse. Yeah, he is. Right. How high can you jump with Ring of a? I think it's 30. What are we holding for, here? I was gonna see if I can walk Dane a little bit. Standing? Oh, wait, hold on. It's long jump 51, Stand long jump 25. So I can do 51. No, no, that's one. That's distance. Here we'll go. It's a ring of jumping. Yes. I got it. While wearing this ringing a kiss, the jumps spell from it as a bonus action at will, but you can only target yourself. Well, that's not really. It's a cleric bolst. The jump spell going to it on. Guidance? Your jump distance is tripled until the spell ends. Resistance. Yeah, and now I'm getting your jump distance. Jumping, long jump, high jump. When you make a high jump, you leap into the air. It's number of feet equal to 3 plus your strength modifier. So 8, 16. So 15 times 3 plus 3 No. Wait, you're stri modifier. I know my modifier. Five times 3 plus.. Wait, start start with what is your strength modify? Five. Okay, so five, six, seven, eight. So eight, 8 times three is 24. Okay. So you jump 24 feet in the x. So effectively is he's probably not all the way. Yeah, he's not all the way up. So basically he can't get away from you with your. But it does cost you a bonus action every time. Can serapoen cast bless from the sidelines? One moment, where he goes first. Oh, okay. Yep. I thought he already. Okay, so, no, he didn't go yet. So what's your move, Dan? Well, I'm going to enter mode. Okay, so day you rage up on this first term. Is he coming through like a door? Is he Has he flown up at all? He's up in the air. straight through with fire, and now he's turning around for his next attack. So it's your turn. Okay. Let me. I have an idea. I don't have any good weapon. I want to like, jump up and like hook him.. Like grapple? Well, kind of. I like I'm trying to take of like a sickle work. It's just like fucking.. So with Rage Again, plus two bonus to the damage roll and you have resistance on bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing. Cool. All right. Go for it, what's your move. Let me see if I can jump up and try to swing at them. All right, so you take swinging them with the javelin, you try to stab them? I'm gonna say, let's see, if I jump up 24 feet with a five foot range, that is mostly. is that there for a five foot range for You totally have it. He's not right at the top, so you can time your jump and get him. I'm gonna try to do that. I'm just gonna try to jump up and take a swing at him. Okay. So, aiming for the closest head that's happening. Roll it. He's only AC4. Well, so that is 18, DC. You hit with the javelin. All right. You got the fucking V2 Teen to borrow one? No, I haven't. It's. There we go. Four plus six plus two, so 12. You do some damage, but he is still quite up. You have your second attack. I thoughts my jump is my donut. You can only, right, you only get one attack in the air because it's unless you throw the jump. Well, I use my. I was using the blood letter. You can't. No magic weapons. Oh, fuck. Yeah. Uh, shit. yo, I wouldn't have had to use my javelin, so let me.. Yeah, you could stab with your javelin at the air, and you could throw it, but then there's a chance you don't have anything in hand. You could But you have your shield. I say, you have your You didn't want to do your shield? I do my shield. your b bunk shield? Because that is, well, that's 26 plus five. Okay. Plus, that's what, like, they know you for. Let me re-roll damage on that then. If that's the same. That would have hit anyway, because that's just. Let's just keep it 12. Keep it moving. Okay. We'll do that.. So, you hit with the shield, you could throw the jave in a few more. Yeah, fuck it. I'll throw the javelin at them too. surfing night. Yeah, 19. You hit, and this time it goes right through part of his wing and his wing is bleeding and it kind of goes off a little bit. But within the space you can get a hold of it. Is it stuck in his wing? No, it goes right through. Okay. So it kind of pierces it. Damage, please?. Five plus five. Ten. Ten points of damage. Nice. So wounded, but still up. And he looks mad. Now, the rest of the Aber League, are you guys doing anything? Now you're You're with a crowd, they're all screaming already. The beholders got all his eyes like looking at everything. I'm gonna Serapina cast Bless on Dane. Okay. I can bless up to three creatures of my choice within range whenever a target makes an attack roll or saving throw before the spell ends, which is 10 turns of combat one minute. You can roll a D4 and add the number to the attack roll or saving throw. God, rolling it six. It's just where you can see it. Why does this take me so long? Oh, you see pictures. Ma, this way. Ma'am. less of whenever a target on target can roll a D4 and add the number roll to the attack roll. Or saving. Oh, so you get up. Got it. You're basically a four bonus to attack from the rest of the.. What's that? Bardic inspiration, basically. But every turn for ten. And how long is 10 turns? Got it. Okay. One minute. One minute. Okay. Which is.. 10 turns. Right? Or eight rounds of plumbus? Six. Six. Whoops, I thought I was sorry. Right.. Yeah, it's six. No, ten. Next, Konk, you do anything? Yeah, I..ia, you good? Yeah. Now, you are not under the same scrutiny that you were on the gambling hall, but you still could be noticed. Right. Casting a spell. You do not look headless because all your hair was sticking out. Yes, you because a distraction. from you guys. Skilled. think my issue is, I don't really have a lot of, like.. AI spells. Well, Spina has a ton, but... Yes, she's Claire. She's don't like that. Did you have a grenade and a tornado? A Meryl Kron. Atlas, any action on your part? Serafina? I really can't do anything. Otherwise I would offer to try and help. Oh, I I don't have any spells. It would be. love. I was going to say, I wear my hug. If there's a way I could cast it suddenly, I do have haste. Sure. You don't need to cast it suddenly. Well, I'm saying you could be noticed as a cheater. Yeah. I think. But you are in a crowd, so... Don't have a subtle spell? That's a source. That's a sorce thing. Oh, I thought that that was a ward thing. No, so nice. Willing creature within 30 feet until the target's speed is doubled and it gets plus 2 to AC and it has advantage on deck saving throws. Wow. Y. Yeah. And in. Oh, when the spell ends, oh, I don't want you to be lethargic. Never mind. I'm not doing that. Sorry, D. Yeah.. I don't want you to be exhausted after. Well, when the spell ends, how long is the spell lasts, duration up to one minute? Oh, well, that's not. That's 10 rounds, so at the end of 10 rounds, he'd be toast. But don't have to use it now, you can try to use it when..muggling. I was going to say, I'll hold off until. Hold a little bit. Okay, so no other action by any is as they're like fighting right now, is there any like dust coming up from the ground or anything like that? Yeah, it's a dust. It's a dirt floor arena. Okay, if there's a little bit of dust coming up then, then I think, because it's only vocal is the spell, is I do have blindness deafness. And I like trying to say that it's like it's dusty around and dust is getting in the eye.. I don't understand. Basically trying to give an excuses as to why the Camara would be blind other than someone in the crowdcasting it. Yeah. But I think I't. I' asking the people in the crowd either. I'm sure they haven't seen that before and there's been plenty of fights, but So, yeah. Okay. Next goes the Cama. And this time, he is diving down on you, Dane, and he is attacking with, let's see, one with its bite. Oh, he misses. One with his horns. Uh, 12 plus seven is 19. And what's your AC? 17. He hits with his horns doing 10 points of bludgeoning, but you have resistance to bludgeoning, right? So you only take half damage. So you take five points of damage. because you were in range mode. So you're down 20 to 58. And the third attack is with his claws, and that's a 15 plus seven, so 22, he hits with the claws. But again, that's slashing damage. So you're resistant, you take half, so you only take five more points of damage. So you did get your 10 points of damage this round.. You were at 53, yes. Next, Dame. Okay. And he is on the ground at this point. You on the ground point because he came down to you. Well, see, I'm going to just try to run into him and bash his can I see the picture again? Yeah. A little inspiration here? The lion head is the one that. I think you shoots for the lion head? Gotcha. I feel like the dragon head is the. Well, the dragon head has the fire breath. I'm not sure you can do. I'm not worried about the goat that much. Yeah. Or the ram. He did hit you just now. That's true. I was going to say, I feel like the bite and the fire are more of an immediate threat. Totally. Well, the fire is the one that you're not resistant to right now. Yeah. So I'm going to try to see if I can go for the for the dragon head specifically if I shield bash. Gotcha. Hell, yeah. Okay. Go for it. Roll it. It says the head was. No. Oh, right. 14. 14 is a hit. Okay, cool. I didn't think that would hit. Yep, that's incident. It's huge. 14 AC is in Spain, right. And doesn't have like any worn armor. It's just a creature. Yeah. All right, well, Natural armor. It's 2 6. 9, 9 plus 5 plus two, so that is 16 damage. And you got your rage in there? That was the two? That 16 damage, nice. So it is. Six. It has hurt, but still up. You draw blood and the crowd goes wild with the smash. Second attack. I'm going to smash again, and I'm gonna get the crowd a little wild. Okay. You're swing your shield again, your spike shield, roll it.. That one. Have you been adding your plus four? That one, huh? I don't I've not been adding a plus four. Qulay! Uh, but I don't know if that will help me as much as that one. It won't help when the net once. Because I would have already. I mean, I got the last one, so. Yep. So net one, you just basically, like, managed to kind of hit your leg with your shield as you're swinging you wildly. So you just take a point of damage. Nothing crazy. But you were still up. No bunk fumble. Does the 26 down? Do I have some like blood going down my life? No, you kind of stumbled. Yeah, a little blood on your leg, but nothing bad. Any action for the rest of the owl Bear League or is it all Dame? I'm still going to hold off. You're going to hold. Got it. Okay. And you had the blessing the bless spell going on, right? So you've got that as well. So that's concentration? Yeah, but the only reason you would need to roll a contract is if you took damage, which I assume you. Or if I cast a different concentration. Well, if you cast a different concentration. Yeah, so that one is always a gnat. But with a plus three or what is it, plus 14 is the extra. Okay. Add it to the attack roll. Next time. Okay, cool. are you looking at the point? got less than, hey, stop this reminders. All right. Wait, how are you looking at pointswise? Hit points? Hit points I'm at 52. Oh, okay. I'll do nothing. Camaro attacks again this time with a fire breath from the dragon, 18 Oh, no, so it doesn't have to roll. You just have to get the deck saved. Oh. Would you have a banded on right now? I haven't been. I do not give it. Okay, so you take 30. points of damage from the fireplace. Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, y. Oh, and I have no, yeah I don't have any resistance. You were down to 22. And then it also has. It misses on its horns. And it misses on its claws. One more of those, I'm down. Yeah, I think we got to start interfering at this point. He didn't pay me. I tried to. I was one goal. That for you 10 and Copper. Game Chuck a gold. Dane gets roasted by the fire breath. Do you guys take action? What are we going to do? Oh, we can take action now? Well, I'm just suggesting you could do something. Yeah, I think I got. We' come together for a few partnership. Don't target them. L chimera. It' going to be okay. We're going to make sure you're He's going to be down if he takes another attack like that. We take another. If we find a way to neutralize the fire, I think it'll be a lot. What's a healing spell that doesn't mean touch? H wounds?aling word? Here to some of healing word is the one I meant. Thank you.. It's got to be surreptitious. Thank you. Yes, you're welcome. Huh? Yeah, it's an instantaneous, and it's only a bonus action to cast. A creature of your choice that you can see within range regains hit points equal to one. Oh, wait, wait, wait. Sorry, Back up. I'm going to back up that last turn. I screwed up. The fire breath needs a recharge time of five to six rounds, so he could not do fireb. Ah! So I'm gonna change that to a bite. And we'll make the bite that he did hit. So the bite damage is 11, but cut in half. So instead of 20, you have 5, so you're You're you're instead of down 56, you're down 41. Holy crap. So you're still at 37? Okay. No, I'm at 47. I have you. I'm sorry, you have down 311. What? Oh, yeah, I think I had a 10. So, gotcha. What's up, huh? I'm looking for Super Bowl. Well, I have, um. I have some in the garage. I can't even get that old. I know. It's a big be. I have... This is.. There's none in the drawer? No. The original superbu adhesive. I think this one you need to put it on, and then wait, like, ten seconds for it to get tacky and then hold them together for 10 seconds. All right. I don't think that's a regular superg though. It just says super glue adhesive. It's super glue is a brand. But I don't think that's a criminalized, whatever. super glu. Did you stop my wash? Nope. No? No. Did it just stop? No, somebody opened it. Oh. Um, do you Mom, since the text is about this big, do you want me to read it to you really quick? Yes. Woody's fling, on? Myial bees wax. Okay. Oh. Okay. Oh. Directions, Must be Pier before using remove outer cap. .2ube away from face and body. Do not squeeze tube or puncturing. Here's tube with point on cap. I already did all that. Protect work surfaces, blah, blah, blah apply fix all adhesive to both surfaces to be glued. Let dry for 10 minutes then press parts together. That is not regular super glue. Do you want regular super glu? Yeah. Hold on. I might have more. Is it, like a lot that you need? No, no, no. I I'm just. I'm fixing the numbers for your tables, because they. Oh, here. This is. Give me a moment. I'll take it. I got crazy, superlue. Oh, you got it. C. 10 second dry one. Yep. Thank you. Cool. No problem. Okay. So, back to, you guys are not taking action and the K now it's back to Dean. Dane, how much are you done now? He is down 31 down to 47. points. But that does mean that I got a really find a way to neutralize the Dragonhead. I'm actually going to cast.. healing word the I'm going to healing word. I think. Stupid question. Does it work if I don't hear it? Yeah, that has nothing to do with it. A creature of your trish within range 60 feet, regains hip points. Spell has no effect. Okay. I am I am going to who's a Serfina? Uh huh. It's only verbal. So I have a feeling she could.. cover her mouth. Well, or she would Leah, like, do this or, like, put her, like, kind of sit like this for a second while she catches in. Well, if it's verbal and somatic and material, then it's harder to hide. Yeah, no. It's only verbal. And it's only a bonus action, so out of your six seconds, I think bonus actions take three. Yep something like that. Literally, she could yell it in the whole crowd and probably no one would. The Raven Quinn's blessing upon you. It's like random w. There's one person next door that's just like. What the fuck? Could it work over an announcement? She hands up a vial of black salts to What's the effect? Take some crack. Uh. a creature of your choice you can see within range Reagan's hip points equal to4 plus your spell casting ability modifier. However, I think I'm going to do this at third level. So it's 3D4. Okay. roll it. I fucking dice over here. Hold on. Um.. Is my spell casting ability modifier. 14. Okay. So.. You regain 14 hip points. Awesome. So that means you're down. I just drop that. 17, right? Up to 61, is that right, Clint? Correct. Okay, cool. Dean, you're up. Is this still on the ground? He is still on the ground fighting you on the ground. Well, I'm gonna keep going for that dragon head until Okay. I wish I had something I could like shove. You're jambling., you know, you know now that he can't do the fire breath or he hasn't tried to do the fire breath again.. Yeah, but like go for it he's still my biggest fear. So I'm just going to keep attacking that because he can't. Okay, go for it. What are you? Shield Bash? I'm doing Shield Bash. Nat 20. Hey! Yay! Nice. There you go.lay. What was our rule on net 20 again? We had homeber rules. full damage, plus another rules. Is that what it was? House rules, combat, conscious conditions, special texts.. My o's back in coming. Jesus wise. Probably Big Daddy Bass is ghosts 'cause I'm all about the business. What's your Amazon wish list? Spending all the money on a quick pick. I'm broke I get. Like, she's sponging all my bob ment. All right... That's kicks up for the story. Sure. You roll the attack damage dice twice. Plus normal damage modifier for extra damage. Oh, my God. All right, so a total of 11 when you're rolled twice, plus the five plus the two, so that will be the 6. Does your modifier go into a fight twice? 18. Fucking! Hold on one second. Seven to 10 inches. What the truck? Plus normal damage modifier. So what was your total? It would be 18 total. Nice.. Good it, good hit, it, good. He. So you managed to kind of jam your shield into like the mouth of the dragon and rip sort of the inside of his mouth apart. Oh, awesome. And he's bleeding out of his mouth now and the crowd would like loves it. Nice. Next, you got another attack. Well, then I' Does it look like you be able to use Fireball or do you think it like self-destruct his mouth? I think you got a few turns where he is not going to be able to use the fibr. I'm going to go for that lion head. Okay. Let's see. 19. 19 is a hit. Boom. Look at this. That's. I'm Sheield Bash. damage. 8 plus 5 plus 2, 15, 15, Rage mode is still making you win, so he is. He is definitely hurt now. The lion is bleeding from his paws as he tried to claw you, but he is still up. He goes. First attack, the bike from is a miss. The second attack is the horns, and that's plus seven. So what's your AC? 16 17. He misses. You defend it. And the third one is a miss. This guy is a dud. I'm not going to use that again. No use. No way. The dye is total dud.. So you, you managed to fend off all of its attacks and the crowd's like, it's like, Fluffy, you suck. Alb League anything? We're just going to start. Yes! Grill. J, J, D. D, D,. The Xanithosaur sees are only a raptured and his eye is wide open, his eyes are wide open. Time to cast blindness. Yeah. And, and then, so Dean, you're up. I'm trying to see I'm trying to see what I could do to like.. You haven't done your jumping attack. That's true. I just want to hype up the crowd right now. He looks bad, but he's not like ready to go in one round, I don't think.. You could do your jumping attack in really hype up the crowd. Yeah, you haven't done your. I do your kick off you want to do like a like a jump up with my shield and to pass my feet into twirl down into him. Let's do it. Or, you know what you haven't done before? What's that? You haven't done the jump with a javelin down. Oh, I got three heads to go after. I'm thinking like. Oh, yeah, you are doing the, like Scrooge. I. I kind of want to try that. You know what? You got two attacks, could you combo that shit? I. I want. Well, I'm imagining, like, I'd jump up, stabbed the dab and I grab it out and just stab again. Because I don't think I could double jump. double jump? I don't think I can jump twice with that, you know? No, you can jump once per turn. I want to try, you. The Javellin sounds interesting. Okay. Can I do like a twirl in the air, try to spin myself? Yeah, totally. Like try to like a flip and then stab screwdriver. Yeah, I like it. Go for it. Roll it. All right. Do I have disadvantage on that or No. Just wriggle and I have a 23 That's it. So you managed to skewer one of the heads. It is, but it is the goat that you wound up getting as he moved. So you steer the javelin and the goat head and the goat head kind of dies off a little bit. It's like,. I'm interested in how they' damage.t Well, that is 8. Ten damage. Ten damage. It is wounded, but it is still up. The goat is all sorts of fucked up, though you might not even have a attack this round. We'll see. It goes. He rolls a one. for his first bite attack. plus rat plus I'm going to make it to the his. Moving around, the j javelin is stuck in the goat head. Can I twirl it around? No, you kind of had to kind of come off. You had to kind of come off of there. So you were in the ground without your javelin, but they wound up hitting the, and it caused them another two points of damage. So the javelin is kind of constricting it. Hold on. Second attack is no good. He fails to bite you and then last is the claw attack and claw attack. You said you're 16, K? 17. It misses again. You bounce off with your shield and managed to fight off, but you don't have your javelin now. Damn. I was going to say possibility I dance around the javelin like a dang stripper fole. You would have to jump up as an action and try to retrieve the job javelin out of the goat head. I'm. What's that? I just gonna wait to try get my javelin back until I jump up again. So Itack. I'm I'm gonna go for that lion head again because I's to go ahead that doesn't have any significance. damage on it next.. Seriously. a mark. That is a 111. 11 is not good enough, 1, so you miss, and the second attack. Thank you. And that is really cool. 19 is a hit. Oh. Shield Bash. On the Lion. Boom. All right. Okay. I've been 18. 18 points of damage is really good. He is down to, he's hurting now. He's bleeding out from all of the heads. The ram is definitely seems unconscious. And any action from the league or, no. I want to grab him by the tail the bombs. Here we go. First attack is a miss, so he misses with his bite. He goes with two claws. The first claw hits for 10 points of damage, but that's half because of your rage resistance right now. So we' only gets five, so you're down 22. and then the last claw tack, it hits for another five points of damage. Oh, no. So you're down to 27 to 51 points. And the crowd's loving it, you know? They like that you got Clawed, but you're still fighting on. Next, Dame. Oh, they're loving that he got clawed? Yeah, they like the fight. They don't, they don't have favorites. Oh, I grab some of my own and just like sme across my face. Okay, you've got it. You wipe blood across your face. You stand back, and now what's your attack? I Can you just scream, that's it. I scream for the entire turn. I am going to.. I'm gonna keep passionate, you know? I mean, actually, I want to jump up in screwdriver into it with my shield and trying to shrew my javelin. All right, you do the flying leap jump. Exactly. Okay. You jump up, you kick out, you flip over, and come down onto the beast with your shield or try to, roll it. Not 20. Not 20, Holy shit. So you land on the you land on the lion's skull, you smash its skull open. Bl and brains fly out everywhere from the attack and the beast falls silent. You've knocked at least unconscious. If not dead.. Can I survive Like one brain splattered out? Like, it is a magical beast of some sort of monstrosity. What is the roll the damage for me. I'm just curious if you killed it or not. I mean, it'll bleed out anyway, so it almost doesn't matter twice. plus five plus two's 15. Wait, you roll it twice because you c. Roll it twice. So basically.. So 12 plus five plus two, so it's Yeah, that's 19. Yeah, 19, he is unconscious, but on the side where he'll bleed out. So And the crowd goes nuts that you've killed Fluffy. Some people are mad. They're like, oh, you killed Fluffy. I'm kind of mad. And then the beholder in the corner is like just chortling like, eh.s. The Xanar? Yeah, the Xanar is just kind of chortling at the show. but likes what he saw. Okay. Cool. I can't even cr the X. You did it. You did it, Clay. Let's go, let's go. One on one. single handed with a little help from your friends. I don't even think you have. There's a little help from the team. Well, the healing, maybe. I think the healing he could have even survived. Yeah. It's's like a movie where Santa Claus winks at the end, like, I did all about it. I can't believe this happened. He's a good roles there. Okay. I can't help. So, as you're kind of celebrating and you, the nosa hands you a trophy, it's a, what's the Obsidian? No, what's the Oyx trophy. Like a war. Oh, I got video. Yeah. Yeah. Um. Ural celebrating any sort of looks at you funny K. Like, where did you come from? No? Yeah, he asks. Oh, 'c Noka's the one that brought us here. Like, oh, he comes to me and asks me, where. Has he hands you and you guys are surrounding him? He said, where do you come from? Oh, I had to go take a whiz. I'm sorry if I was coming for a second. Or else are you kind of funny. And he's like, yeah. Oops, sorry. Yeah, like, I'm just saying, like, oh, sorry, AP didn't far I had. I take a list. Um. He, he looks at you front of me, but he steps away. And now, as you guys are celebrating, there's another fight going on.. And. What? A bunch of guards come in, and they run over to Nooska. and they start talking to him. We're leaving. That's our cue. We If we've been congratulated to leave, then. No one else is leaving the arena. Oh, okay. Then just, yeah, we' tight. Probably just be like, good job, bud. Just don't seem suspicious. Yeah, yeah. Don't suspicious. Yeah. I' I'll probably like start like saying like, okay, dude, you did amazing! How does it feel? I'm I know it improved, I'm always mad around the spots.? Yeah, you're the one that took the improv classes, Clay. Yeah, it, I guess. Yeah. Oops. How does the blood feel on your hands? Clay, you have to do a yes and in D&D. Yes.. yes and. How do you feel? Yes and.. So while. While the rest of the next fight is going on, you see we watch Noka walk over and start to have a conversation with the beholder with the Zan. Wait, I'm sorry, I missed what you said. You have a conversation with? Noka. Noka. Here, I'll put Nooska on the map here. So he's over talking to the Xanata right now. And they look over in your direction. Uh oh. Kind of light. Yeah, they got to go pity. Are they looking at anyone else's direction or just It seems to glance at your direction. Oh, they glance, but they're looking at other people now, too. No, they're having a conversation. We're going to act natural. So you just watching the fight? Yeah. Okay. Watching the fight maybe keeping an eye on them subtly, not trying to like hardcore stare. Right.. And, uh the Xanathar announces in the middle of the fight. A fight is over! Oh, dear. And we're gonna go, like, "Oh, what? 'Cause I'm assuming everybody else is like, "What? No!" Yeah. That' Why? That' for this. And Nooska comes over to you all and says, I want to talk to you in the Xanathar wants to talk to you.. Okay. Why? For like a future match with our guy? Something like that. Oh, dear. Oh. So, people are milling out the guards in the hallway are kind of guiding them out the way they came. And Noka says, followollow me, and there were like four extra guards kind of following. Oh, cool. Oh, shit. Do you follow? I think we have to. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we're still figuring everything out. And the Xan is following. Okay. He leads you into the audience chamber of the Xanar. Are you going? Oh, like, we have to. There's nothing else to do. We can't I'm just asking what you guys are doing. Yeah, we are going to them. Mentally preparing. Yeah, I am I still just like in the, it's just like, No, you're with the rest of us. Yeah, you can't get out of this one. Nice try them. Let me find the description of the audience chamber. Oh, where is this? This is a 40 foot high domed chamber. The circular floor is tiled in black marble and bears of gold mosaic of the Xanatar. Judutting from the ceiling is a bronze bell shaped returbance. displayed against the curve walls or a dozen lifelike statues. You realize that there are the petrified remains of those that have crossed the beholder. Oh, shit. That's what I was about. When that When the Xanaur comes into the room he turns invisible. Oh, ew. We see him enter the room, though? Yes, he is in the chamber with you. Okay. And there are ten.. underling, 10 guards. I'm sorry, 12, Two doer guard ten humans. Oh,. And they're drinking worm with's ale. Why is everyone drinking worm piss here? Worm with. It's just called the. Worm piss. God going to think a piss to drink? They're in a hot worm piss, please. Yeah. And so now you're in the chamber with Yep. No. Yep. And invisible. And Xanar. Yep. And the Xanar's voice kind of echoes around, but it seems like it comes out of whatever that strange device is. Do the people the people in here that are drinking worm was, they don't seem concerned at all. They seem just like they're drinking, they're having good time. Yeah, they don't really even know what's going on. Oh, okay. They are gone. And but there is Nooska says, where did you go to the bathroom at the arena? He's asking me. Yeah. You didn't come in with the group? No. See, I was trying to exit and leave Alan trying to find a good spot to piss. I. And I can pay if there's eight damages with it, but I kind of just had to find a random corner at this. I'm sorry. That's disgusting. Does the Merrill say that? No. That's a Cecil that's. I think nowhere would say that and be like, ew.. And I like, I don't. trying to make this seem like a totally normal, like, really a big. looks like embarrass. He's like, I'm sorry! I just couldn't find a bathroom. Oh, my God. I don't know this place. And then there's the disembodied voice of the Xanathar, wherever he is in the room. says, "That's a nice ring you're wearing. Oh, fuck all the way up. Diosca see it. Which ring The ring of Invisibility. If you have a ring of children.. I'll be like, yes, was a family gift, and I'm going to just You hand it to N? I will say that, like, yes, it is a family gift and I will pass it off. Okay. takes it. It was my father's.. It was the last little bit that I had of him. Oh, you saw story? I was going to say. It's very fragile. His soul is and grave. No, I That's what I say., I'm going for my character. I was like, it was just last bit of my dad. I. He. One thing I've left. Yeah, yeah. I'm just crunches it. Yeah. He eats it. What do you know about, what's his name? Sund death. I much as we probably said. I've only heard tales stories. Well, tell It sounds terrible. Dos is looking at the ring right now. You can tell them when we came. Oh, was he asking all of us or just cry? He's kind of you're standing all together, so. Oh, when we came in, we got charged at the door. Is that usual, or were we being haggled? Who charged you? Who was it? Was it like his words that? It was like one of Sund death's guards. Yeah. Yeah, it was one of his guards. They seem like they charged a lot to get into the city, though. Yeah. You ask about that. Into the city. Skullport? Right? Am I sorry, is Lauren remembering that right? You're in the. I guess so. I don't know what you're communicating to them. You got charged to get into the.. And I was just telling him, like, the entry fee, it seemed kind of high where we getting haggled. as if like that's the biggest of our problems. Like, isn't entry feel like that normal or. while he's kind of mulling about your mulling over your answer,. Nyhilor comes in. Oh, shit. From the From the side, and he steps over to the side here. I'm gonna use a U for Nooska erre So the mine flaer enters Yeah, because that's what we needed right now. Sorry I need a moment. You're good. You hear the disembodied voice says, where do you come from? How do you know each other? Uh, the city. Wait. Is that what you say? Any technically not wrong, we wouldn't be lying. So we played this game called D&D, and these are our fictionaliz. We destroy their perception of reality. What Clay, Nylor did just come in and you know that he knows you.. Well, he doesn't know you know you, but he knows that you are part of the Elber.. If he recognizes you. If he recognizes.. If he could not recognize you. That's the other part of that. Has he seen seen again? Has he process me yet? You're kind of facing away from him. So he hasn't quite processed. He's just standing silently off to the side here. I've got a back here. We've got this, folks. Nah, it'll be good. Thanks, Alexa. I got you. So you just know each other from what city?. Water team? Yeah, I'll just like point out and be like, Waterde. What brings you to sculpture? You hear this echoey voice. Yes. Well, and I'll pull out of my pocket all my vials of black salt. It's kind of hard to get up there. I was in here for a good drink and a good bite. I heard tales of the silver powder. I had heard that there was once a time that my family had used something like that whenever they needed to fight. I couldn't get it. Black powder? Black powder. What do you want black powder for? I wanted to have a chance to return to my family and maybe not be seen as a failure by them. So that I could just be like them and smoke powder will get you this. They were never really one for conversation or getting to know someone. emotionally, I feel like, is the best way to put it. Their show of might. And knowing that, that's one of the ways they have foughts was with black powder. I thought I could show them that if I came back with it, they would maybe see me as their family. Hmm. Where's Cackle? What? I don't know. I don't I don't think they were asking us. I think they were just asking like the reason. No, you just hear the voice. So you don't know you can react either way. He's been talking to you guys. Are you Are you guys? I didn't say.. What is your business? Here? Well, first. Do you guys answer the question about where is Kackle? Well, I said. Are you asking us?. Yes.. No, would we have we have any idea who Cap is? In the context. In the context of people that are in this city, do they know who Kackel is? Just people that live here. You think so? Because he's, like, famous in the Xanators. Okay. Yeah, I'll probably turn to you and I I play is like the guy? Yeah, the guy, he's always bossing people around outside, uh, Right? I think he hassled me once about getting out of his way and not talk to him.. Yeah. You have nothing to Are you doing business with capital? No. No. Not unless he's got some black salt. for a cheaper price than. Hold on one sec. Sorry, I'm having trouble with. You this site. It is literally hanging fuck. Yeah, I'll kind of just say, not unless he's got wax alt, I'd better price than what I've been getting offered. Do You have this I just hung up on me, crap.. I have so much anxiety right now. I really don't want to get into a fucking d dirt bike today. No? It's not on your agenda? No, not really. today. Round two. Round two. B., y, y. Um. Is Xanar says to Nooska? Where is Narl? Where is cackle and Noska says Cackle is out in the city. And the Zenithar says,Anaral and no says Narl is missing you hear this voice. How long has he been gone? Just a day or two, Zanathar. The Xamathar says to you all says how come no one saw you come in? He says to Croc, how come why is it that no one saw you came in come in? Sorry, man. I just tried to find somewhere to use the restroom on my own. I may have walked off from other cities. I apologize. That's gross. I know what embarrass too, you know? Whatever. Sund death is dead, and I suspect you were involved. I don't know this. Let's see how you react to this. And a trap door opens beneath you, and you all fall. shit. Shit! Into a chamber. You feather falling, trunk. I mean, how deep is it? You don't know yet. Well, I mean, can we look down? I need Kronk to decide. He's saying, let's see how you react to this. I feel like this is a test. I'm going to make the choice of no. Ooh, interesting. Okay. I think that's a great spot to end to that. Nice. Well, I think through what the heck to do with you guys.. Oops. I expect this to just block the

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